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NAVAL ACADEMY.
The President has signed the act provid
ing tha, the coarse Of instruction at the
Naval Academy for cadet engineers shall
be four years, instead Of Two.
BOSTON coLLECroRSuIP.
A delegation in the interest of Judge
Russell, asking that he be retained "a
collector of Boston, waited on the Presi
den, to day. They were, by request, ac
com panied by Senator Boutwell,. 1t is rep
resented that the President told them b.
vas not iuelioei to withdraw the raue o
, 1874-07-01
Carl Hattensen.

Our own financial system, it is scarcely ne
cessary to say, would bear examination very
badly in such a roll call of nations and, in
deed, would Indicate at once the cause of the
enormous evils and abuses that threaten our
whole republican fabric. Public dishonesty
is so common ana notorious that people laugh
incredulousIy at the fancy that a man takes
office, even the highest, with pure motives,
OPPRESSION never was worse under any tyranny,
ancient or modern, than we have seen 1t in
this city when it assumed the form OF the eXecu-
ton of the laws that were supposltitiously made
to secure revenues to the government. And
the natural result of this is hatred toward the
laws and resistance and bribery, and eventually
contempt for the whole system and a rottIng
away and breaking down of the very founda-
ton that government has in the consent and
respect of the people, and finally a loss OF faith
even in the possibility of a we'll administered and
honest republic. This is the present condi-
ton with the more thoughtful part of the
American people. And if this Republic should
fail either by general disruption and disinte-
grafton, or fall into the abyss of centralized
power toward which it is now moving with
headlong fury, the crime against humanity IN
volved in that failure will be directly due 10
our financial shortcomings, to the organized
ignorance of our Treasury department., and
to the almost ineonceivable ~villanies and
robberies of the whole people and of sections
of the people that are consecrated IN the laws.
It is plain, therefore, and 1T is OF the greatest
consequence that any body who proposes to
improve our condition financially should go
about it with a distinct purpose and with clear
, 1874-07-01
Carl Hattsnsen,

recognition of the necessities of the case, Other-
wise he will go too far and do more harm
than good.
All the errors and wrongs Of our financial sys-
tenn cannot be remedied just now, even if there
were au honest intention to remedy them, as
there certainly is not. Originating in bad laws,
thew have become a part of a general public de-
moralization which law cannot suddenly change;
but the point of greatest moment IN the imam
cial problem-the one, indeed, that gives it ell
its CHARACTERS within easy reach. There IS
on this subject one point that has been effective
" made clear in every mind. Even the COM
mittee which is endeavoring to reconcile the
views of inAationists with those of their oppo-
nents are conscious Of one certain point in their
otherwise uncertain labor-there is a veto in
the way. They must avoid that danger at the
cost of every care, and the veto that they ap-
nrebend constitutes, through that tenacity Of
nurpose for which the President is fortunately
famous, the one pre-eminently positive fact on
the whole financial horizon. It is declared and
believed that General Grant will veto any fnan-
cial bill that does not include in its provisions
some step toward the practical assertion of ma
tional honesty by the redemption of the nations
promises to paw. Any legislation that preteuds
to take note Of our deranged money relations
and does not meet this requirement would be
infinitely more mischievous than it would be to
have no financial legislation; and it is
satisfactory to know that the President has the
power and the will to assert a plain, downright
common sense honesty that is, just now, worth
more than many brilliant theories and dazzling
schemes.
, 1874-07-01
THE DRIFT IN AMERICAN FINANCE.
(New York Herald9

If there is any one thing that above all
others requires the recognition Of fixed points
it is national finance. Governments are good
or bad, and political systems are prosperous
or otherwise according as the legitimate func-
tions of government are performed with the
least pereeptible pressure on the people or
interference with them, and with the least con-
oeivable injury to public morality by tempta-
lions to evade the laws, and by the bad exam
pies of official corruption. All this important
relation Of the government to the people is
within the circle Of national finance. Indeed,
government might be economically defined
as a machinery contriyed to take from the
cultivators of the Soil a certain portion of
their produce and to regulate the distribution
of what is thus taken among the cultivators of
less material products; and in this view a right
organization Of the finances would comprise
the whole of political science. The dollar would
be the bearing upon which the pivot of the
political world turned, and the world would
revolve smoothly if the laws should always
provide that the dollar might find its proper
place. Throughout the world an examination
of governments would respond fully to this
test of an inspection of their financial laws,
All the thoroughly misgoverned countries are
ehronically bankrupt; and in England, where
the political system is more thoroughly stable
than in any other country, where justice is
more strictly and honestly administered, and
property and life are most secure, the financial
system ia the most absolutely sound.
, 1874-07-01
anu August Garde,


GouUerneur for de danSk UeSind1Ske Der, Commander az
Donnebrog Qg Donnebrogsmond,
NJOR V~ITTERLIGT: Paa Finantsministeriets derom
III nedlagte Observation-Disclosures ForestlIing har Diet we'd al
lerh0ieste Resolution at code Mai d. A. behaget Hans Majes-
tact Konren allernaadigst at stadfeste den at Colonialraadet
for st. Croix we'd 3die Behandling den 30te Marts d. a. we'd
tagne Anordning betreffende extraordinaire Foranstaltnln-
ger til Tilveiebringelse af Midler til Dritten at PIantager
paa Gen St. Crolx.
Praesidentskabet bemyndiges til indtl 1ste April 1875
we'd Siden af saadanne directe Forstrekninger, Diet we'd
serlige Bevilinger er eller MATTE blive be~myndiget til
at Colonialkassens Midler at yde PIantere til Drhten at
deres Plantager mod Fortrin8ret i H6sten, paa Colonial
kassens Vegue at garantere Kj6bm9nd oler Andre, som
under Indr6mmelse af den we'd Pakaten af Idle Mai 1923
CTR. Anordning at eide Juni 1919 hiemlede Fortrinsret
H0sten forsyne Plantere med Penge eIer Plantagetorn6-
denheder, Declining af de saaledes giorte Forstrekninger,
mod saadan observation-disclosures fra de paagialdende Plan
tere, som under de torhaandeny@rende Forhold MATTE
ansees fyldestgj0rende.
2.
Gouvernementet for de dansk v~estindiske Der be-
myndiges til, ON f~orn6dent. for Colonialkassens Regning,
og paa saadanne Vilkaar, som de orhaandenv9rend For
hold medf0re, at optage ct Liam at $150,000, Et Hundrede
og Halvtredssindstyye Tusinde yestindiske Daler, til Be-
strdelse at ovenneynte TiIskud og Optyldelse af de
Forpligtelser indgaaede Henhold til ) 1.
Hvorefter ale Vedkommende sig have at rette.
Gouvananentet 70, de dansE yeaindske Der,
st. Thomas den lode JIM 1874.
UNDER MIN HAAND OG GOUVERNEMENTETS SEGL'
AUG. GARDE.
Il. 81
, 1874-07-01
Translation.
Janus August Garde,

Gorernor of the Danish Westmdi0 Islands, Commander Of
Donnebrog and Dannebrogsmand,
A KOWN: On the most submissive representa-
M ton of the Ministry of Finances His Majesty the
King has been most graciously pleased by Resolution OF
goth May 1874 to sanction the following Ordinance con"
corning extraordinary measures tor securing means Tor the
conducting of Estates in the Island of st. CrolX,-passed
by 3rd discussion in the Colonial Council for st. Croix the
30th March 1874.
Besides the direct advances, which the Presidency is
already or hereafter may be authorized by special grants
to make from the Colonial Treasury to Planters for the
cultivation of their Estates, the Presidency is hereby
empowered for the period up to the lst Aprl 1879 70
bind the Colonial Treasury as guarantee to merchants or
others, who may on the security in the crop as established
n +be Ordinance of 14th May 1923, CTR. Ordinance of
21st June 1849, furnish planters with money or other
requisites for carrying on the cultivation OF their Estates
on condition, that the planter concerned give Such
security, as under the existing circumstances can DC con-
sidered satisfactory.
The Government of the Danish West India Islands is
authorized to contract, if necessary, a loan to the amount
of $780, 900, say One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dol
lars, in behalf of the Colonial Treasury OF st. CrolX, on
such conditions as required by the circumstances OF the
case, for the purpose of eAecting the advances and fulfil
ling the obligations mentioned above under l.
To which all concerned have to conform.
Government of tie Danish Weaindto Islands,
ST. Thomas, the 1871 June 1874.
UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF GOVERNMENT.
AUG. GARDE.
Carl HansnseA.
ORDINANCE
concerning extraordinary measures for
securing means for the c%onduction of
, 1874-07-01
ANORDNING

~betreffende extraordinaire FOranstaIt-
ninger til TilveiebringeIse at Midler til
Driften af P~lantager paa St. Croix.
, 1874-07-01
ORDINANCE

concerning extraordinary measures for
securing means for the conduction of
Estates in the Island of st. Croix.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
Against the Tide.

THE Chicago Interior says: 1--WE have
great respect for that large class of the
human family whose energies are given
to bearing up 1t is a fine thing to do
things, but "a finer thing-to just stand it.
Most people are in that defensive atti-
tude. We all start out aggressively;
events push us hard. First we slacken /;
then we halt; then back up against a wall
and bear it.
"The castles in the air drift into dark
ness, and ambitions pictures become dis
solving views and the man finds himself
under the sober skies of forty with
empty hands, bending shoulders, un-
marked days in the present, uncertain
ones in the future. The fame of fortune
that nerved his young life is under
the horizon. The stimulus of hope that
held him up is wasted and gone. Forge
and anvil, spade and shovel, from morn
ing to night. The mortgage clings to the
cottage, and hard work cannot lift it.
Doctors bills take the surplus. Gray
hairs are COL ing, and the monetonous
years wear on. There is nothing ahead
to look to, and nothing in the present to
notch the days save little harder work
a more restless night, and gradually fail
ing strength Under this gathering gloom
the man does nothing fine, thinks nothing
great; he only bears bravely up. If the
neighbors ever give man thought il
is only to say: Poor fellow! things &c
hard against him. But blessed is the
man who can go against things and hold
his way with buoyant heart, under
skies that are ashen and sober over
leaves that are withered and sere.' In
Gods reckoning of the human lives
there will doubtless be a great reversal
of estimates, and for the comfort of
those who make no headway against
wind and tide it will appear at last that
they also serve who only stand and
/
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23

bristles had made the slightest move
ment toward clasping these articles.
A similar result was produced upon
the Droserd rotundJolid. This variety
has longer bristles around the edge of
the leaf, and simply curls its bristles
around its victims, the glands of the ends
of the bristles touching the substance
like so many mouths receiving nourish-
ment. Some bits of raw beef were
placed upon the leaves about ten O'clock
In the morning. In two hours the inner
bristles were curving about 1t, and the
longer bristles at the edge of the leaf
were curving upward. AT nine o'clock
in the evening the bristles of the three
most vigorous leaves were clasping the
beef, almost concealing it from sight.
Nor is this ferocious plant contented
with small insects. Flies of the largest
size, moths without number, and butter
flies, many of them measuring two
inches across, were held captive till they
died, the treacherous flowers and shining
dew Turing them to destruction. The
larger insects, after death, fell around the
roots of the plants, as if to fertilize them,
while the smaller flies remained adher-
ing to the leaves. These curious plants
thus seem to manifest q decided prefer
ence for meat diet, absorbing the animal
substances through their leaves. Mr..
Darwin says that by pricking a point in
the leaf of DrOserd he can paralyZe half
of it, and this indicates the existence of
nerves.--Pr0rtdeBce J0urndI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
Flesh Diet for Plants.

The pretty little plant called DrOSerd
or sundew, develops some strange ami
NAL instincts. 1t is a charming plant,
with its lovely pink blossoms, while the
dew-like substance issuing from its
glands gives it most cool and refreshing
appearance on summers day But
though it looks the very picture of inno-
cence and gentlencss it has a strange
taste for seizing, killing and sucking the
blood of insects, and for grasping and
eating raw beef Mrs Mary Treat has
contributed to the american Naturalist
some very curious observations made
upon this remarkable point,
She found the specimens upon which
she experimental In New Jersey The
plant was in full bloom and growing very
thickly on either side of an extensive
cranberry plantation. The first expert
ment was made with the best known
species, the DrOsera flit0rmis. Some liv-
ing flies were pinned half an inch from
the leaves, near the apex, about ten
o'clock in the morning. In forty min
utes the leaves had bent perceptibly
toward the flies. In two hours the leaves
had reached the flies and their legs were
entangled among the bristles and held
fast. The flies were then removed three
quarters OF an inch further from the
leaves. The leaves still remained bent
toward the flies, but could not reach them
at this distance. The observer thinks
that the action of the flies wings may
have created sufficient force to bring the
leaves near enough to entangle the flies,
for dead flies failed to produce the same
result as living ones,
On the same day bits of raw beef were
placed on some of the most vigorous
leaves of another species of the plant,
the Dr0serd loHgJ0la In two hours two
of the leaves had folded around the beef,
hiding it from sight. Living flies were
also placed upon the same species of the
plant. In a little more than an hour one
of the leaves had folded entirely
around its victim, the other leaves
had practically folded, and the
flies had ceased to struggle. Two
hours later four leaves had each folded
around a fly. The Dr0sera manifests a
very decided choice in regard to its
gustatory fancies. Experiments were
made with bits of dry chalk, magnesia
and pebbles, but the plant would have
nothing TO do with them, and after
twenty-four hours neither leaves nor
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
Boiled Corn for Poultry.

In the breeding of poultry as in all
other pursuits little care and fore
thought invariably return an apparently
disproportionate result. In the rearing
of poultry, where the expenditure on
each fowl is small and the material pro-
vided comparatively inexpensive, we are
apt to overlook the small wastes which
occur in the transformation of the differ
ent grains into poultry, but which aggrc-
gate quite respectable sum.
The opinion that corn is very nourish-
ing food for fowls is so universal that no
further thought is given to the matter.
If any one should suggest that corn
would be easier of digestion if soaked or
boiled he would very likely receive the
answer that corn was nothing hard to
digest for birds, which swallow stones
and other hard substances without detri-
ment. A moments thought, however,
will convince that the millstones and
the grist are very different things, and
feeding hard grain, although not exactly
like feeding the millstones with pebbles,
bears certain likeness to it. The
trouble attendant on the preparation of
food if it is to be cooked, may indeed
seem very dispropOrtiOnate to the advan-
tage to be derived from such treatment,
but in reality little time need he spent, as
before going the rounds of the nests a
little hot water may be poured over the
grain, tight cover put on the kettle,
and the whole placed over the stove,
where, by the time your rounds are COM
pleted, the corn will have become
steamed and mellow, and have lost none
of its good qualities. Remember each
hen has a certain amount of animal force
to be expended every day in some dIrec-
ton and the less she has to give to di-
gesting her food the more she will have
to be expended in reproducing. The
advantages of the warm food in winter
when much food goes toward producing
animal heat to Withstand the cold are
twofold-from the direct action of the
warmth and the slower action of the
food ITSELF to say nothing of the fact that
the content produced by nourishing food
will result in more eggs, for u hen thor
oughly at home will lay many more eggs
than discontinued one. We have per.
formed the experiment ourselves and
know that feeding boiled corn does pay
and it is as result of experience that
we offer this plan to our friends-EH-
| 1liSh FdTJHer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
Horses Suffer by Bad Roads.

Supposing horse can pull on level
road 900 pounds, on road rising one
foot to the hundred he could pull but 800
pounds. If it rises two feet in hun
dred $40 pounds, two and half feet 720
pounds, four feet $50 pounds, five feet
400 pounds, and if the rise were ten feet
in hundred he could pull but 25O
pounds, or only one-quarter the load he
could pull on level road. Then, again,
the condition of the road, whether hard
and smooth, or soft and uneven, has
much to do with the amount team can
draw over it. Experiments made by
NORM show that load of 1000 pounds
will require a tractive force of 1,00C
pounds to move it over firm, gravel
road, newly repaired. On best kind OF
gravel road, 80 pounds On broken
stone road in good condition, 1861 pounds
on good pavement, 1884 pounds. Accord
ing to the above calculations, in the first
case it would require eight horses to dc
the work which one could do in the lat.
ter case. So if both roads were level
and we have 200 bushels of potatoes tc
carry to market, we could draw them on
the best paved road with one horse, while
on the newly-repaired gravel road We
should need eight horses, and if the rise
were ten feet in Il hundred we should re
quire thirty-twO horses to draw the same
load.-N. E. Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
Vinegar for Floating Curds.

A correspondent of the Utica Herald
has been using vinegar for floating curds,
and thinks better quality of cheese
can be made from this treatment than
from any other he has seen. He says
No one ever saw a floating curd made
from sour milk or milk that would sour
quickly after working was commenced.
This thought led me to the experiment
with tainted milk, as it is commonly
called, to use clean, sharp vinegar to
sour it. work vat of such milk the
same as good milk until the curd is hard
and tough enough to admit of running
oil the whey as closely as can be done
with IA siphon, and then | put in from II
pint to "a quart of vinegar to the curd of
1000 pounds of milk and allow it to stand
long enough to spoil curd made from
good milk. The vinegar will, in five to
ten minutes, kill the offensive smell that
is always present with a floating curd y
and he adds, 81 do not claim that such
milk will make the best quality of cheese,
but by such treatment it will be better
than by any other that | have tried or
seen tried" The same result will be OBJ
tanned by using sharp, sour whey-the
whole philosophy of the matter being a
change of fermentation.
There have been comparatively few
floating curds in Herkimer this year, the
season being unusually cool and favor
able for the keeping of milk in good or
der both at the farm and factory-RTal
NelO Yorker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23
-Broiled Mutton Cbon-Cut tbo oh,

--Broiled Mutton Chop.-Cut the chops
from a weil-hung tenderloin of mutton
remove portion of the fat and trim them
into nice shape; slightly beat and level
them; place a gridiron over a bright
clear fire, rub the bars with little fat
and lay on the chops While broilinG
frequently turn them, and in about eight
minutes they will be done. Season with
pepper and salt, lay them on very hot
dish, rub a piece of butter on each chop
and serve hot and expeditiously.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-10-23

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