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AsTuNEE.


sTis the golden glelfn cf al autumn dsFi
with the foft rain raining as IL id play
And tender touch upon everything
AZ i autumn reIneln ijered The eags os Spring
Tn the listening weeds tliesie j ri moi hre8t
folshaks their gold 10 tho s~aae 5sneas +
And glow as u Bunahire pn item HIS
The cocks clear CROW from tha apa0aH
iEhe anlIfited bell issosst "a llat
And faint and dim, from far away,
Come the voices of children in happy play,
Der the mountains the white rain draws its vel
And the black rocks, cRwing, across them sail,
While nearer the swOOping swallows skim
Der the steel-gray rivers fretted brim.
No sorrow upon the landscape weighs.
No grief for the vanquished summer days,
But sense of peaceful and calm repoBe,
Like that which age in its autumn knows
The spring-time longings are past and gone,
The passions Of summer no longer are known,
The harvest is gathered, and autumn stands
Serenely thoughtful, with folded hands.
Over all is thrown a memorial hue,
A glory ideal the real ne'er knew;
For memory shifts from the past its pain,
And suffers its beauty alone to remain.
With half o smile and with half a sigh
1t ponders the past that has hurried by;
SEES 1t, and feels it, and loves 1t all,
Content it has vanished beyond recall
glorious autumn, thus serene,
Thus living and loving all that has been
Thus calm and contented let me be
When the autumn Of age shall come to me.
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ms the past three years
Total........- 27.ssse51 q. .sa7, ,sO5 80. .7sg 4Os

Here we see a heavy decline in the
gross wheat receipts from Russia dur
ing the first nine months of the present
as compared with the corresponding
periods in the two preceding years. At
the same time there is corresponding
increase in the supplies from the United
States. There is this year decrease
in round numbers of 100000 cwts. of
wheat from Russia, and an increase of
no less than 5000, 900 cwts. in the i'm
ports from the United States. The
falling off in Russian supplies is of
course result of the failure of the
wheat harvest in southern Russia, upon
which western Europe is so largely de-
pendent.
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aENERAL.-

The Duke Of saxony, eldest son VI the
late King Jehn, has assumed the succession
10 the throne Of ssxony. His majesty Issued
proclamation, in which he promises TO up
hold the constitution, and announced that the
present ministry will remain IN Office.
-of the i've or six hundred deposiscrs in
the hanking house or Jag Cooke ago.. all
hnt about thirty have signed plan ssFeeing
70 place the settlement in the handa Of the OK
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, Rollins,
These thirty arc either distant from the city 81
eapnot aE pTeeent be reached,
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Freight Charges on the Gulf Route.

Themerchants' exchange committee of
st. Louis appointed for the purpose of
furnishing facts relative to transporta-
ton charges on the Mississippi and
Gulf route, will present IN exhaustive
report, which shows that the lowest
price per busheI for which corn has
been moved from and to New Orleans
is 5 3-5c, ard wheat &c /; that the largest
number of days the river has been
closed by ice for series of thirteen
years has been only twenty, and that
both corn and wheat have been shipped
during the hottest months to Liverpool
via the gulf route, and arrived at that
port perfectly sound. Much other in
formation will be laid before the com
nittee, including a communication
from Gen. Simpson, q. s. engineer, as
serting the feasibility of increasing the
channel depth of the river between
here and Cairo, so that large ships can
run at all seasons.
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THE BRIGHT STDE.-Look on the
bright side it is the right side. The
times may be hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a gloomy and
sad countenance. It is the sunshine,
not the cloud, that makes the flower,
Troubles gives sinew and tone to life,
fortitude and courage to man. That
would be a dull sea and the esailor would
never get skill where there was nothing
to. disturb the surface of the ocean.
What, though things look little dark
the lane will turn; and night will end
in broad day. There is more virtue in
one sunbeam than in a whole hemis-
phere of clouds and gloom.
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Worcester, Massachusetts,

Worcester, Massachusetts,, is
nice, moral, orderly, pious town, but it's
nicety, morality, order and piety COM
bined did not prevent twenty-three
married couples of that place from ask
ing for and obtaining bills of divorce at
the recent session of court. Twelve OF
the divorces were granted on acsount Of
adultery. A few good tracts and mis-
sionarfes seem to be wanted in Worces-
har-
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THE Richmond Wing thinks that if
q Koaciusko '' is properly pronounced
q Kotschewshko," freedom must have
sneezed instead Of shrieked when the
hero Of Poland fell,
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Ignorant Ot what was gong on. WnGl
the young man walked out with lii
sweetheart, it must have been partic
ularly gratifying for him to see him
self pointed out by one urchin to an
other with Il say, Bill, you. see thai
fellow without no hinge Id his back
he's goin' to marry that there gal.
When the thing first began there was
later sitting up than usual, naturally.
And one of tho old ladies stepped in,
one morning, shifting suspiciousIy: 81
say, there amt no one sick in this here
house or nothin', is the. e? I seen a
light burnin' nigh onto u o'clock, last
night, but I don't smell no campfire
nor nothin' round.-John Paul.
The English Wheat Supply.
Advices from England by the late
steamers represent that the chief alarm
respecting the effects of the American
panic in that country arose from the
possible interruption of breadstuffs ex-
ports, in consequence Of the unsalabili-
ty of foreign exchange in New York.
This alarm was quite natural, in view of
the pressing necessity that exists both
in England and on the continent of Eu-
rope to obtain every available bushel
of wheat from all paris of the world,
and obtain it speedily. The margin be-
tween supply and consumption is very
close in England, and any serious in
terruption of American exports would
exercise very important influence on
prices. Fortunately, both for Ameri-
can producers and European consumers,
our export trade has been affected by
our panic very much less than seemed
probable, or even possible, at one time,
and it looks as if the volume of the sea-
sons trade would not be sensibly di-
minished.
The Importance to European consul
mers of maintaining the American sup
ply may be understood when it is sta
ted that there is q considerable falling |
off in foreign arrivals of wheat ships in |
England, although the supply so far
was equal to the demand. At last mail |
dates there were on passage from the
south of Europe and America to ports
IF call, 257 cargoes of grain and seed,
against 339 at the corresponding period
If last year. Of these 121 were wheat,
against IA; II maize, against 80 80
barley, against 80; nil beans, against 6;
| rye, against II; % seed, against ~;
md sundries, against l. There were
llso on passage direct to ports in the
United Kingdom SO cargoes of grain,
against 115 at the corresponding period
asst year, of which 80 we're wheat
chiefly from California, against 60; 81
maize, against 81; and 2 barlny against
ta4- tia corresponding zaAs.ind. in
872. The English board of trade re-
urns show falling off in the imports
# wheat during the month of Septem-
,er as compared with last year; but the
receipts of the current year
o date were about l 1900, 600 cwt. in ex-
ess of 1872. The movements have been
f q remarkable character, as will be
cen from the following statement of |
he imports for these three months dur
no the mast three vaars
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Button-hoIing.

Diligence, tact, quickness and accu-
raoy, good temper, controlled enthusi-
asm, the power to do without sleep and
an imperturbable digestion, all of these
combined in one man, say q civil SER
want, will no doubt save him from be-
ing a failure in his career. But they
will not secure him a brilliant or a rapid
success. They, or some of them, are
among the conditions of success but
they are not the sole or essential condi-
tions. II is we'll that he should be dill
gent but it is better still that the great
man should think he is SO. He may
strive much to be quick and exact in his
work but he should strive more to
catch and keep his chiefs eye. To hap
pen to be always standing just where
that eye happens to fall +; to be ready
with his "Here am ], send me, " when
ever the chief is considering whom he
shall employ on delicate business, and
then, of course, to do the business satls-
factorily to be about his patron to oc-
cur to him; to observe him to oblige
him; and so, as the last and triumphant
achievement, to become the man Of
whom his patron thinks the best and
the kindliest in his particular depart
ment or profession, and whom, there
fore, he means to send to the top Of it
this is the cheapest, the safest and tru-
est art of rising in life and this is what
is ordinarily meant by button-holing.
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Why the Government is Paying Out
Silver.

Why the Government is Paying Ou+
Silver.
The director of the mint makes the
following statement of the purpose o.
the government in paying out silver
COIN: As in other countries where gold
is the standard, or measure Of value,
silver coins are over-valued for the pur.
pose of rendering them inexportable.
They are manufactured and issued on
government account, the law, however,
placing, directly or indirectly, limit
on the issue to prevent redundancy.
IF issued in times of specie payment
beyond the requirements of the public
for change, such coin will not maintain
their. purchasing power with standard
coin. Owing to various causes in this
or other countries, silver has declined
in value to point at which the govern
ment can purchase it with gold, manu-
facture it into small coin and pay it out
at q fair profit. The government has
recently purchased quantity of silver
bullion sufficient for its purposes, at
1924 cents per standard ounce, and will
manufacture it into coin at a fixed legal
rate, at 124 and four-tenths cents per
ounce, the differences between the pur-
chasing and issuing rate being within q
fraction of 12 cents per ounce, or about
ten and half per cent. on gold coin
paid in the purchase. This operation
is believed to be more profitable one
for bire Uroosstsa, eauaSI s.1eos e.1-.Aaa
tageous to the public in the present con-
dition of the money market, than the
sale of gold for legal tender notes, and
is not scheme for the resumption of
specie payments, but simply compli-
ance with the mint laws. A dollar in
United States currency will purchase a
little more gold in the market than a
dollar of small silver coin. The dollar
will therefore soon find it's level, and
uL1CSS JE1CIS U0 IL 4lEC III DObl G11S pIlSGb
of gold and silver, small coins must cir
culate ooncurrently with paper money.
The government has in possession of
the assistant treasurer about five hun
dred thousand dollars in silver coin,
and at the mint and assay offices, in sill
yer bullion and coin, about 50, 900, 900.
This stock is ample for the present. |
This mode of paying out silver coin
will be continued until circumstances |
shall dictate contrary course as pro-
per. The government will exact the
full seigniorage required by law, but
will not undertake to control the dis
position of coin after it is paid out.
Coin will then become the property of
holders, who may do what they please
With it. This course was not decided |
1pon until it had been fully considered
oy the secretary of the treasury, Out
standing legal-tenders, $3.50, ,2s8, ,S88.
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Great takers should remember that
they force others to become great list
eners.
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Great takers are the eSterminators|
Of conversation.
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PPTvATE LIFE IN COUNTRY VInLAsEs
The little villages that nestle down
among the Massachusetts, hills are
charming retreats, but I do not know
that I should care to spend more than
five years of life at time IN any one of
them. And as for being retreats, I'm
not sure of that, since I come to think
aboutit. .You stand cut in pretty bold
relief if you are resident, still more
so if you are visitor. For instance,
there was an engaged couple in vii
liamsburg. not nativea TO the manner
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vas William r. Black, of Madison
soekingham county, and the leader Of
fhe gang known as Blacks. He is
apgllt eighty-five years of age, and
sUns most of the town in which he
Yss Ills estimated wealth being about
s9 600. Black is reported to have had
eee sgsEsi in the "queer his entire life
time, and it is supposed it was by this
means he accumulated his present
wealth. 1t is related of him that he
never failed to take back and redeem in
genuine currency any counterfeits which
might be brought back to him. One
person who found himself in possession
of $50 counterfeit bill-he did not
know by what means-went to Black
and said, "Mr. Black, this $50 bill you
gave me a few weeks since, I find is
counterfeit. " Black, putting on his
spectacles, replied, excuse me; my
eyesight is bad; but here is the money
for it, at the same time pIanking down
five genuine tens. These the individual
pocketed conscientiously, though he
had not received a counterfeit from
Black, knowing that that person would
easily dispose of it in his "queer"
transactions. When arrested he ex-
pressed himself as entirely ignorant of
the charges against him-knew nothing
about counterfeits- accompanied
the deputy marshal without a murmur
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Putting mp stoye-pipe is known
in Danbury IA attending Black Crook
matinee,
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hi Louisiana Cotton Boil.
psstrsnED Evrp4 waDrasDA4, ar
]. ] GILMORE, Editor and Proprietor,
NagmllIlonvIIle, AttakapAsl -.

~ 81 ne Nc9 Orleans, Motsis n Texas.
M tbs New orleans, Opslousas and Shreveport
psgFosdf
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION

.opy each OF the OoTToH-B BoLL and the SuaAR-
scwI furnished for one year for SS, payable in
sdESnce
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Rates of Advertisina.

with nature alsne for moment.
Then he takes up the seed and hbe,
and y line and two pegs, and starts
for the garden. And then she puts
on that awful bonnet, and brings up
the rear with a long. handled rake
and pocket full Of bals aud pstunia
seed and dahlia bulbs. While he is
planting the corn she stands on the Gu.
cunber hills, aud rakes over the seed.
pan. Then she puts the rake handle
over her shoulder, and the rake teeth
into his hair, and walks over the 9th.
er beds. He dent find the squash
seeds until she moves, and then he
digs them ont of the earth with his
thumb. She plants the beet seed her.
self, putting about two feet of earth
and sod upon them. Then she takes
advantage Of his absorption in other
matters, and Puts them down In anoth.
er place. The beans she couseais in
the earth wherever she can 6nd q
place, and puts the bulbs in the Gu.
cumber hills. Then she tips over the
seed.pan again, and apologies and
steps on two of the hest tomato plants
and says, oh my J. which in no wsy
resembles what he says. About this
time sh. discovers better place. for
the petunil seed. bu. having forgotten
where she last put them, she proceeds
to find them, aud within IN incre3i.
BILE brief space Of time, succeeds in
unearthing pretty much everything
that has heen put down. After con.
fusing things so, there is no earthly
possibility of ever uaraveling them
again, she says the sun is killing her.
and goes over to the fence and stands
four hours, telling the woman next
door about an amt at here who was CON.
find tn her he'd for eleven years, and
had eight doctors from the city, but
nothing would give her any relief un.
til an old lady-but you have heard
1t before. The next day a man GENES
to his Office ts &c, the pay for pat.
ent seed sower which his wife hss or.
dered, aud he no more than gets away
before the patentee of new lawn.
mower comes in with an order for tea
dollars, and he in turn is followed BY
n corn shelter man, and the miserable
gardener starts for home to head of
the robbers, and finds his wife at the
gate with his own hat on and just
about to close bargain with smooth.
facet individual .cr two hundred
dollar moving machine, and pearl.
handled, livery mounted hay-cutteY.
He FIRST knocks the agricultural i'm.
plement agent on the head, and then
drsgs the miserable woman into the
house, and, locking the door, gives
himself up to his emotions. a ~,
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a WOMAN OF COURAGE.

The little suburban village of Bust
Teton, near Philadelphia. last Friday
witnessed runaway, followed by acts
Of bravery and presence Of mind on
the part of lady who, with her hus-
baud, says the Press, is we'll known to
our citizens. The stage coach from
Smithfeld to FrankE,rd, in passing
through Bustleton, drew up at the
BustleiHn hotel, kept by Mr.. Robert
Murray. There were three ladies aud
a gentleman in the coach. which was
drawn by two very spirited horses.
aud as the driver .alighted and went
into the hotel for a moment he did
not hitch his horses, but merely laid
the reins on the seat of the carriage.
At this moment the animals took
fright At the sudden emptying Of a
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KICKED BY CLoCK-wORK.

Eliphalet Perkins was one of the Gu.
test men in all Swamptown. He was
a blacksmith, carpenter, locksnith
and jeweler by trade, and also did
something now and then at herse doc
toring aud pulling teeth. He was q
Iack.Rt-all-tFades, and master of them
all. A natural horn genius was Eliph-
alet Perkins, and nothing short of it.
Now Eliphalet took his own calibre.
so to speak, and decided that he Was
capable of doing something-some-
thing in the inventive way that would
startle the world right out of its SEN
ses. Then he sat down deliberately to
decide what he should do. It must
be something excessively novel, that
was certain, TO commence with.
What should it be!
"I've got itp shouted Eliphalet,
after long thinking spell "Tll
make a clock work man that will
walk and run like n human being.
That would bring me fame, and would
be big card for a side-shOw at cir
Gus or fair"
Immediately Eliphalst, his brain
surcharged with the great idea,
brought AL the force Of bic inventive
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pail Of water, and at bound they
we're racing down the street at head.
long speed. The gentleman, who was
seated At the front Of the coach, made
his way to the back and got out. and
was flung heavily to the ground, re.
ceiving severe cuts about the head
and face. Meantime, the coach with
the three ladies was whirled dswn the
street at a speed that Threatened 10.
slant destruction to the coach aud pos
sibly the death of its occupants, but
lady passenger, Mrs. Bushnell, was
equal to the occasion. STOPPING over
the seat she secured firm hold of the
lines, and taking a turn or two Of the
slack around her waist, put out her
strength to check the speed aud guide
the progress Of the animals. She sue.
ceeded in checking and finally turn.
ing the herses around and driving
them up to the hotel, when half
score of strong arms helped the brave
woman out of the carriage amidst the
warmest praises Of the excited crowd
who witnessed the transaction.
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A sCALDING JOKE.

There is a lawyer in San Francisco
who, for The accommodation of his clients.
has q speaking tube leading from the
main entrance of his building to his
Office, which is just up few fights.
For several DAYS past smart young
man named Swarta has amused him.
self by calling for the lawyer through
the pipe, aud then proianely ordering
ing him to set out Oh an expedition t.
Tartarus. For some time this fun
was taken in good part by the legal
expounder of the new code until the
fine humor Of the joke was no longer
appareat. ,s.os
AceaEdingly,. one afternoon. ths
disciple Of Blackstone pnvidsd him.
self wiah aeakettls ef water, heated
to about 2t0' degrees. Fahrenheit, and
waited, alonsids the pipe. Pretty
soon. the old familiar sound came up
shaoreA. the pipe. Say, cap. how's
ticks -
"Tricks-is better now-I guess he'll
get we'll" responded the lawyer, reach
iag out after the teakettle. ...
What's been the matter with hin :"
ale got burnt
"Hhwi"
"lill tell you in a minute"
''Oh, you go to Hades."
The lawyer had finished his last
sentence and then let quart ofscald.
ing water down tho pipe Swartz had
his mouth over it concluding his OBJ.
jurgation. and when, The. wattr struck
il he was somewhat sespvised. Water
was not apt 10 surprise him, but hot
was an unexpected nnvelty.
The man abexs poured in water for
about minute and then looked out
Of tho window. The smart young
man was getting along the sidewalk
at pretty live gate. Having evident.
~ just got up frnm a sitting posture.
He was trying to yell "Polics," but
couldn't aFticulate with much success
About half an hour afterward he
found himself able to speak, and in
quired, "Did. that boiler explosion
hurt anybodyf'