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A GREAT NOVELTY IN FICTION
TIE MOST ORIGINAL, EXCITING AND START
LING ROMANCE OF THE AGE

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place. and given the world book great II geaer, In
book Of terrible earnestnes Every nne is full Of life
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and yet perfectly natural The characters such
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This wonderful romance, entitled
PERDTA;
OR,
DAUGHTERS VENGEANCE,
win commence in the
SUNDAY MERCURY
or TOMORROW,
for which Journal IL been expressly translated from the
authors revised copy cannot fail 70 create profound
sersssn N sS wO50 s the SUNDAY MERCURY already
issues OF
III ire metropo combines within its hiy six ample
columns ali lie interest Of nrst class daily journal.
aided 70 the varied attractions Of first class literary
weekly.
A BsoLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM DIFF
"a feren for numerous causes legal cycrywhere;
no publicity required charge until divorce gantedi adj
vice free NJ hObSb, Atsotncy ~. ptoauWay.
A BsOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM DIFFER
N for without publicity; legal
everywhere; terms satisfactory. FKEDERICk l. KING,
Lawyer Notary Public Commissioner; No Eighth street,
near Cooper Institute.
rr1uoMAs r. AGNEw. THE GREAT NEW YORK
Grocer, Tea Coffee and Flour Dealer All New Workers
and everybody else should call and rot bargans 80 Vesey
street
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r1uoMAs r. AGNEw, THE GREAT NEW YORK
4 Grocer Tea Coffee aud Flour Dealer. All New Workers
everybody else should call aud barrans SO Vesey
street.
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NASHVILLE RACES.

aner third heat until 10th inst
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YACHTS, STEAMBOATS,, sc.
l~~---- 49,
A FAST SAILING SLOOP FOR SALE At BAR
IN gain, has other business; II
Apply DROHAN ALLEN, l55 West street,
L1OR SALE-SCOw rs FEET, "a FEET BY ) FEET
IL capacity 200 deck In good order Address N.
c., box ia Herald Uptown Branch Office.
ylTANTED-A GOOD SECOND HAND YACHT CHEAP;
w dimensions about Sx20 feet Address f. +. POWERS,
Eansingburg, ". "
WANTED FOR CASH-A LIGHT DRAUGIT SLOOP
w Yacht 40 70 feet deck, with good cabin,
In all respects in good order Address with full
description price &c apply personally HENRY ED
SAIL o4 Market street, Newark, N. J.
MlSCELLANEOUs
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A BsOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM DIFF
ferent States legal cvcrywhere;
no nubcy required charge until divorce Mantedi adj
Wee tree NJ. HOUSE, Attorney, lo' Broadway.
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A BsOLUTE DIVORCES OBTAINED FROM DIFFER
"a ent for without puGlicity legal
everywhere; terms satisfactory FREDERICk l. KING,
Lawyer Notary Public Commissioners No. Eighth street,
near Cooper Institute
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK STATE.

BINGHAMPToN, n. Y, March 4, 1875.
Binghampton with its Is, 900 inhabitants,
clustering in among the hills, has never
been place of much note, except the no.
toriety which Rulloff gave it, and one they
did not appreciate, Judging by the sum-
mary manner with which they disposed of
said gentleman.
In my other letter gave you part of the
history of Binghampton; among other
| things it has four daily and weekly he VS.
papers, six banks, five railroads; four of
them having terminus here.
Through the center of the city is an
unseemingly ditch, which, on close obser-
walton, proves to have been one Gay a
canal; but the advance of railroads has
completely killed this business. Many of
the old inhabitants remember the crack of
the boatman's whip; and in those days
| along the canal bank were numbers of
whisky shops, but they have given place
| to workingmen's shops. But the decay Of
business of the city; they have only come
out from their holes on the canal bank to
other business parts of the city, and the
coming of railroads has brought a class to
build and repair them who sport the pick
and shovel, and whose little pug noses are
suggestive of their nationality, and they
| take the place of the boatman: and SO the
rum business still goes on.
! We recently had very severe cold snap.
| The water pipes froze four feet under
| ground. They that have hankering after
| the Beautiful Snow" should come out
here, as the ground has been covered since
the first of January.
One of the industries we observe that is
fast dying out, is that of the lumber bust
ness. Many of the old inhabitants have
been down to Port Deposit, and it does
one good to get around grandsire's side
and get him to relate some of the good old
stories of rafting days. Coming home they
had to walk, and going through Lancaster
county, they used to try and make sport of
the Dutch farmers, and in one case it was
the bitter badly bitten. Passing Dutch
boy driving a very lean pig, one of them
accosted him: "Sonny what do you feed
your pig on?" Yankees, SIR" was the
reply. This was Dutch sagacity against
Yankee ingenuity.
This section has not turned out any men
of much note, except d. S. Dickinson, who
was loved by all, and early promulgated
those ideas that made Broome county one
! of the most steadfast to the Union.
The Spring elections for county officers
was held recently with Republican success;
but find much discord in regard to Louis
| lana affairs, and which had better be set
tied before the Presidential election.
| Among the wealthy men are Sherman
d. Phelps one of the great bankers of the
city, and man of fabulous wealth, judg-
ing from his palatial residence up Court
street, and Col. Walton Dwight, who has
done much to assist the workingmen Of
the city by building numbers of houses
and renting them on very easy terms. He
is also proprietor of the Dwight House.
the largest hotel of the city. but built
rather as a display of his fabulous wealth
than from a pecuniary view.
! Yours, MARYLAND.
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feared. We have this information from
reliable men, who have within a few months
visited the Pacific border entirely disinter-
estedly. They strongly urge emigrants not
to go too far West, but stop on the rich
lands, where they are sure of being able to
reap support for themselves and families.
The emigration to the Pacific States and
Territories by water, OR on Ship board is
said to quite equal that by rail, which has
been immense and still continues.
Winter is yet lingering in the lap of
Spring, but we are hoping for brighter and
warmer days soon.
Our Legislature has adjourned some ten
days since, much to the qualification of the
constituents of its members. Results-a
constitutional convention and amended city
charter for Omaha, and some relief for the
grasshopper sufferers; and now if Congress
will fully withdraw from the United States
Capitol, our politicians will have few
months to visit foreign lands and recuperate
their shattered constitutions from excessive
labors, as well as lobbyists get home to
attend awhile to the legitimate callings,
some of which no doubt are suffering from
their long absence
Devotedly yours, OCCASIONAL.
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LETTER FROM OMAHA.

OMAHA, Nebraska, March s, 1879.
DEAR WHIG:-Since | last wrote you
we have been favored with visit from the
Rev. Mr.. Earl, from Newton, Mass, one
of the renowned evangalists, or more pro
perly speaking revivalists. Mr.. Earl seems
to be very devout and sincere Christian,
and labors earnestly for the cause of re-
ligion and morality, and made some impress
sion on the stony hearts of the Omahaians.
But on summing up the results of his earn
est and persuasive discourses conducted
on the union plan of all the Protestant
Churches assembling together, the results
Of accession in numbers fall very short
when compared with those of Mrs. Vancott;
but as bread cast upon the waters may be
gathered many days hence, We still have
hope of enlarged results.
The season seems to be opening for emf
grafton with most surprising activity. For
the first seven days of March there has
been transported west of Omaha, over the
[. P. railroad over eleven hundred emf
grants, and this SO early, when Winter is
holding sway to great extent East as we'll
as West. For that class of emigrants who
are intent on agriculture, there is an abund
anca of room without going further than
Nebraska. But from reports from Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington Territories,
the emigration has been far in excess of
the demand for miners and laborers during
the past two years, and much suffering is
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HOW "FIRST FAMILIES" ARE MADE
UP IN A REPUBLIC.

1t is announced as an interesting piece
of intelligence that Madame Van der Wey-
er, widow of the former Belgian Minis
ter in London, enjoys pension of 1000
francs year, which is granted her by the
Belgian Government in gifts to the widows
of literary men in Belgium who happen to
be in embarrassed circumstances, prefer
ring those of Louvain, the birthplace of
her late husband.
The lady whose benevolence is thus
spoken of is of American origin, and her
history illustrates the happy working of
republican institutions. Her mother, says
the New York Sun, was the wife of
Joshua Bates, long managing partner of
the London house of Barring Brothers.
When young man he was clerk to the
wellknown Chilly Gray of Boston, and
through that association he first attained a
place in the house of Earrings.
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LETTER FROM NEBRASKA.
TOME CITY, Platte CO., Neb.,
March 1St. 1874

TOME CITY, Platte CO., Neb,
March list, 1875.
DEAR WH1G:-Imagine dear reader, that
you are experiencing, or enduring, if you
think the word more appropriate, at least
| do, one of those fearful and raging snow
storms peculiar to the Western frontier,
hid as it were, from all the outside world,
by being compelled to occupy the under
ground portion of - by 16 habitation, on
one of those boundless plains in the great
far off West, and then you can, in meas
ure, realize my present position or situa-
ton, as try to write up few notes, which
| hope may be of some interest to at least
a portion of the many readers of TIE Wig.
demonstrating in general, has in its connec-
ton many trials, incidents, privations and
numberless anxieties, but when it comes to
be a matter of special and personal expert
ence, all these varied exercises come home
to ones self, with freshness and vigor,
which brings into requistion all the pa
thence, faith and power of endurance posi-
BILE to possess. Yet, as misery loves COM
pany, there happens to be many in this
young State who are homesteading under
great difficulties, chiefly arising from the
grasshopper scourge. Old settlers made no
provision for their coming, and looking for
ward to the gathering of abundant crops,
they contracted debts, and made many i'm
provements, which, had they known "the
time of their visitation" would have GER
tainly been dispensed with. They har-
vested nothing but partial crop of wheat,
a great portion of which had to be sold to
cancel debts, and the remaining portion has
in most cases been either fed in the family
or fed to the horses and other stock. But
as there was heavy emigration to this
county last Spring, many of whom ex-
pended their all in coming and making
needful accommodations, are in general the
most destitute, as they depended mainly on
what they could raise on the "breaking'
to yield them partial and scanty subsst-
tence during the Winter, but our great
enemy came, and the sad and sorrowful
tale of our restitution had to be told, and
let me here tell you that exaggeration is
impossible. | have been connected with
the "Aid Society," from its commence.
ment, and know whereof | speak Some
have received substantial tokens of love and
kindness from their Eastern friends, which
have caused their hearts to throb with graft
tude, while the greatest number have had
to depend on the Aid Society, which has
done much, but has only afforded partial
and temporary relief. A neighbor of mine
who is over fifty years of age, has been
without shoes all Winter, wrapping his feet
with bags as a substitute. ! tried my ut.
most to get him shoes, but it was impossi-
bic. This is not an isolated case, but one
of many; yet we are hopeful, have faith
in the end. Astonishing crops have been
raised and gathered here in the past, and
we may, with reason, expect it to be so
again. cannot think that a merciful aod
will permit the substance of this rich, mex
haustib!e soil to be devoured by tile grass
hopper. But the year of our calamity is
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THE SEVEN SLEEPERS.

To sleep like the Seven Sleepers is an ex-
preston signifying very sound slumber.
Who the Seven Sleepers were, and what
gave them this sleepy head reputation, l
doubt if all the Nutcrackers know. So
suppose l tell our company the legend:
The story goes back to the time of the
Roman emperors. Under some of the en-
perors the Christians were terribly per-
secuted. One of them, Decius, was most
inhuman. In the year $50, while on tour
through the Empire, he came to Ephesus
in Asia Minor. This was a very great city
in those days. Decius ordered all of the
Ephesians to join him in offering sacrifices
to the gods Jupiter and Apollo and the
goddess Diana. You remember the story
of the great Diana of the Ephesians, which
You have read in the Acts. The penalty
of disobedence was to be death. Among
the Christians in the city there were seven
to obey the decree. Their names were
Maximinian, Malchus, Martiminian, Do
nysius, Joannes, Serapio and Constantine.
When they were brought before Decius,
his threats failed to move them. DESTROYS,
on account of their high standing and
influence. to win them over, the Emperor
left them the time until his second coming
to the city to change their minds.
AS soon as he was gone, the seven hid
themselves in cave in the mountains near
by. Spies tracked them out, and on Decius'
return, showed him the spot. Enraged, he
ordered the mouth of the cave to be closed
by wall. A heather, who admired the
bravery of the young men and desired that
their bones when found should be treated
with respect, wrote on a piece of parch-
ment their names and the cause of their
entombment. This writing, enclosed in an
iron casket, he contrived to drop unseen
into the cave. Undismayed by the fate
before them, when the wall shut off all
light from them, the seven quietly lay
down to sleep.
Nearly two hundred years AFTER man
in search of building material found an
old wall made of large square stones.
These being suited to his purpose, he tore
the wall down. and the light of day once
more broke into the cave where the Seven
Sleepcrs lay. They, waking up, supposed
that but one night had passed, and thanked
God for their deliverance. Machus was
sent into the city to buy bread. Amazed
by the strange sights he saw, he wandered
along until he came to bakers shop.
The baker looked in establishment at the
silver he offered in payment, and asked
him where he had gotten so ancient coin.
This question brought out his story, and a
great multitude of wondering people soon
FASTENED to the cave, where his companions
and the casket were found. Even the then
Emperor, Theodosius, hurried to Ephesus
to behold the wonder. But in the same
hour that Malchus returned the young
men again fell asleep, this time in DEATH
Sometimes the legend is varied by the
addition of the story of their dog, which
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WORKS OF THE MOUND BUILDERS,

About twenty years ago Elijah Cheek,
who during the late war sought the Chief
Magistracy of Arkansas at the hands of
President Lincoln. was engaged in con-
structng plank road from Mound City,
five miles above Memphis, to Marion, the
capital of Crittenden county, ten miles
west of Memphis. In making excavations
and embankments Mr.. Cheek discovered
strangely shaped bricks, of which speci-
mems were sent to the writer of this
memoir. They were made of grayish clay,
nine by twelve inches in width and length,
and four inches thick. Mr.. Cheek sup
posed from the number of ruins which he
found every few rods along the route of
this old military road that Spanards, when
they held the country, built palaces every
where, and grew enormously rich by Guilt
waiting the lowlands. He finally accepted
the conclusion, after hearing a curious
recitation of mound builders history writ
ten by the late Cornelius Mathews of New
York, that the old military road was not
the product of modern but of ancient skill
and toll. He then saw how the ridge it
traverses is artificial, how it is wider where
the richest mound builder built his domi-
cile, and how it is true that these people
lifted up in the lowlands not only countless
mounds and dug countless canals and
aguadas, but absolutely created, by uplift-
ing the earth that constituted them, broad
farms of hundreds and even thousands of
acres. We of modern times are boastful
of the triumphs of engineering skill that
bridges rivers, upheaves levees. and builds
railways. These mound builders achieved
mightier tasks, and constructed road beds
that stagger credulity, and dug canals inf
nitely more seviceable than railways every
where in the lowlands. Floods ruinous 10
civilization and wealth were rendered by
them wholly impossible. Canals were not
only the cheapest agencies of commerce,
but the area of water service exposed to
the action Of the suns rays was not materi-
ally lessened, as would occur if levees could
effect their purpose and wall in the river.
No such changes in climatic or hygrometri-
cal laws resulted as would render, by pro-
ducing wet and dry seasons, the successful
cultivation of cotton impossible. These
mound builders were wiser than we. They
cultivated the lowlands, first regulating the
distribution of water, and making the
country healthful by this useful system of
drainage; and then doubtless there were at
Memphis, as at St. Louis and Louisville,
and other points designated by remains of
the mound builders greatest works, mag
nifcent cites
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followed them into the cave. He is said

followed them into the cave. He is said
to have stood guard over them all the time
without eating or sleeping. Another fable
is more improbable still-it declares that
the sun, out of respect to them, altered its
course twice day in its endeavor to shine
into the cavern.
After hearing this story, you will be
interested in short account of the great
temple at Ephesus:
THE TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHEsUs
"One building at Ephesus surpassed all
the rest in magnificence and fame. This
was the temple of Artemis or Diana, which
glittered in brilliant beauty at the head of
the harbor, and was reckoned by the
ancients as one of the wonders of the
world. The sun, it was said, saw nothing
in his course more magnificent than Diana's
temple. The foundations were carefully
laid, with immense substructions, in the
marshy ground. Architects of the highest
distinction were employed. The quarries
OF Mount Prion supplied the marble. All
the Greek cities of Asia contributed to the
structure, and Cr1sus, the King of Lydia,
lent his aid.
The work thus begun before the Persian
war was slowly continued even through
the Peloponnesian war, and its dedication
was celebrated by poet contemporary
with Euripides. The fanatic Herostratus
set fire to it on the same night on which
Alexander was born. The temple was then
rebuilt with new and more sumptuous
magnificence. The ladies of Ephesus con-
tributed their jewelry to the expense of
the restoration. The national pride in the
sanctuary was so great, that when Alexan-
der offered the spoils of his Eastern cam
paign if he might inscrbe his name on the
building, the honor was declined The
Ephesians never ceased to embelish the
shrine of their goddess, continually adding
new decorations
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The Momentum of Heat.

Heat is one of the modes of motion. The
sun is its source. Vegetation springs up,
natures, and decays as the continued round
of change goes on. Old forms are buried
beneath the new which rise upon their
ruins. Thus have immense beds of fuel
been hidden for centuries beneath the
earth's surface. Born of motion from the
sun acting upon matter, these deposits
represent stored-up inertia, to be changed
into momentum.
All matter is ponderable, or has weight,
whether it be gaseous, or fluid, or solid,
and of course possesses momentum when
under motion.
In speaking of the motion of particles,
which have the highest motion have the
least weight.
The carbonaceous deposits, called coal,
are simply combined elementary particles
of different natures, and, when set free,
give out their force to whatever they may
come in contact with. Phosphorus and
sulphur have their particles easily disturb
ed; for this reason they are put upon
matches. The motion of the hand easily
sets their momentum free; the wood of the
match is next acted upon, then light kind
ling matter, then the coal. On and on
this process goes, increasing in force as
fresh fuel is added.
1t is momentum from first to last, origi-
nally stored in the coal, and set free to be
used for the benefit of man. To apply it
in manner that will utilize it best is his
province. When water receives this trans
ferred momentum, or heat force, among its
own particles, it becomes steam. Steam is
simply water in molecular motion. When
the water has received it's molecular mo-
ton, or when the steam is formed, by its
momentum applied to the piston of the
engine, the wheels are turned, the train is
set in motion, and continues until the mo-
mentum is restrained by outside resistance
or the supply of fuel is stopped. Thus
did momentum begin and end its work,
merely set free by human power, man act
ing only as the agent.
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peared in large letters on the wall of every
work room. Even the Elector took the
oa'h, which the laborers repeated monthly,
and the factory at Meissen became fort
Tess fully garrisoned and armed. This was
in 1715. One man, however, escaped to
Vienna, and betrayed the secret. At once
other factories sprung up, and their num-
bers extended throughout Europe. France
looked on with undisguised jealousy, and
set her chemists hard at work. 1t was re-
served for woman to do that in which the
wise men failed. The wife of a surgeon,
living near Limoges, ran short of soap for
her weeks washing. She was too poor to
buy more, and hence attempted to use
white unctuous earth found in ravine
hard by. Her husband showed the strange
clay to the village apothecary, and he in
turn told the chemists, who recognized in
it the kaoln of which they we're in search.
Thus sprang up the great factory at Limo
ges, and then that of Sevres, both famous
to this day.
To trace the course of the porcelain in
dcSlIy lOI luc last HuuuIeu years WOulu
cause us far to transcend our present lin
it's. Suffice it to say that it is now one of
the first in the world, and that the earlier
products have been made the subjects of
manias which have run their value up to
sums far exceeding the actual weights of
the articles in gold. We eliminate GEN.
tury's labor abroad, then, to come at once
to the introduction of the manufacture into
this country sixty-ti years ago, when we
| find the first record of company being
chartered to manufacture the material from
kaolin found in Vermont. Later still, in
1919, DR.. ii. Mead began porcelain manu-
| facture in New York, and in 1927 William
| Ellis Tucker had established a porcelain
factory in Philadelphia; while another of
considerable extent, employing one hun
dred persons, had sprung up in Jersey city,
Since then the manufacture has been con-
tinued, and at the present time the porce-
| lain produced in the neighborhood of this
city is, in many respects, equal to the best
! imported ware.-Scientifc american.