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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
ROBERT FULTON.
An Account Of the First Steamboat Trip
Rctween New York aud Albany.

In the Suffolk Gazette, printed at Sag
HarbOr on the east end Of Long Island,
October u, 1907, is letter from Robert
Fulton to Joel Barlow, giving an account
OF the first trip of the first steamboat on
the Hudson river. 1t is as follows:
To JOEL BARLOW, PHILADELPHIA.
New YORK, ODD Aug, 1907.
Ny DEAR FRIEND: My steamboat
voyage to Albany and back has turned
out rather more favorable than | had
calculated. The distance from New York
to Albany is $50 miles | ran it up in 80
hours and down in 30 hours. The latter
is just 3 miles an hour. had light
breeze against me the whole way going
and coming, so that no use was made of
my sails and the voyage has been per-
formed wholly by the power Of the steam
engine. overlook many sloops and
schooners bearing to windward, and
passed them as if they had been at
anchor.
The powerof propelling boats by steam
is now fully proved, The morning left
New York there were not perhaps thirty
persons in the city who believed
that the boat would ever move one
mile an hour or be of the least utility.
And while we were putting off from the
wharf, which was crowded with specta-
tors, ! heard number of sarcastic re-
marks; this is the way you know in
which ignorant men compliment what
they call philosophers and projectors
Having employed much time and
money and zeal in accomplishing this
work, it gives me, as it will you, great
pleasure to see it so fully answer my ex-
pectations, 1t viii give a quick and
cheap conveyance to merchandise on the
Mississippi, Missouri, and other great
rivers which are now laying open Their
treasures to the enterprise of our coun
trymen. And although the prospect o.
{ personal emolument has been some
inducement to me, yet feel infinitely
more pleasure in rejecting with you OF
= the immense advantage that my country
will derive from the invention.
However, | will not admit that it i
half so important as the torpedo system
of defense and attack for out Of this will
grow the liberty of the seas; an object @
infuite Importance to the welfare G
America and every civilized countr!
But thousands of persons have no
seen the steamboat in rapid mOvemen
and they believe-but they have NJ
seen a ship of war destroyed by to
pedo, and they do not believe. We ca
not expect people in general to have
knowledge of physic, or power of mind
combine ideas and reasons from causes
effects. But in case we have war, ar
the enemy's ships come into our waters,
the government will give me reasonab
means of action, | will soon convince II
world that we have surer and cheapt
modes of defense than they are aware o
Yours, etc, ROBERT FULTON.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
THE FAST.

w. II. Chapman & Co., of New York,
fruit importers, have failed, Liabilities
$l75,OOO,
The Portsmouth On. H.) light ar
tillery, organized in 1776, has accepted an
invitation of the mayor of Portsmouth, En-.
gland, to visit that city and enjoy its hospi-
tahties.
The proprietors of the New York
Herald have reduced its wages paid to en-
ployes from 46c. per LOCO ems to 40c. for
night work, and $50. for day work.
Joseph Potter, of Whitehall, a Justice
of the Vermont supreme court has been
adudged bankrupt. Liabilities $4,000
above assets.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
steamer on Silver lake, near Boston, a few
days since, several persons were seriously
injured, but none fatally.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
THE FOREIGN WAR.

The London Times, in leading edito-
rial, offers the following opinion; "lf the
Russians had captured Kars and Batoum,
they would have been strongly tempted to
offer easy terms of peace; but now they have
been SO far ballled, they must strike with
all their might in Europe and everything
tends to show that they intend to strike very
hard indeed"
The Mussulmans are preparing to flee
from the scenes of last years atrocities in
Bulgaria, fearing the vengeance OF the Rus
slams and Bulgarians
Over 10000 Russians have crossed
the Danube at Simnitza, with an immense
train of artillery, comprising some pieces of
very heavy calbre. The enthusiasm of the
Russian troopss very great
Many Turks while working their guns
at Rustchuk, have been killed by the rifle
fire from houses adjacent to the fort. These
mysterious asSassnations are causing bad
blood against the Bulgarians.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has received
the grand cross of st. George for the passage
of the Danube; his son the military cross,
and General Nepokoischitzky, chief of staff,
the grand cross of st. George Of the third
class, The emperor has taken up his resi-.
dence at Drajo, near Turnu-Magurelli
Fifteen hundred Russian cavalry who
endeavored to relieve Bayazid have been
beaten by the Kurds, with a loss Of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer landed
at Corfu, for the Turkish government, one
hundred and ninety-three cases of arms,
which it Is intended to reship for Prevasa,
in Albania, Out the Russian consul protested
to the Greek government against the use OF
neutral territory as depot for the arms of
| belligerent. The government thereupon
ordered the detention of the arms, and the
captain of the Austrian ship in which they
had already been re.embarked, on hearing
the protest, unoaded them into boats. Aus
tria endorses the course of the Greek gov
eminent in the retention of the arms.
The hey of Tunis has requested the
Ottoman government to send him vessels to
convey present of mules from Tunis tc
Constantinople. The British and French
consuls are stated to have recommended tn,
bey to observe neutrality.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
The jew,

The Jew still walks the earth and
bears the stamp Of his race upon his
forehead. He is still the same being as
when he first wandered forth from the
hills of Judsa. If his name is associated
with avarice and extortion, and spoken
in bitterness and scorn, yet in the morn
ing of history, it gathers round it recol-
lections sacred and holy.
The Jew is a miracle among the ma
tions. A wanderer in all lands, he has
been a witness of the great events of his
tory for more than eighteen hundred
wears. He saw classic Greece when
crowned with intellectual triumphs. lie
fingered among that broken but beauti-
full architecture that rises like tomb
stone over the grave of her departed
splendor.
The Jew saw Rome, the "mighty
heart" of all nations, sending it's own
ceaseIcss Iife's thrOb through all the
arteries of its vast empire. He, too, has
seen that heart cold and still in death
These have persisted, yet the jew lives
On-the same silent mysterious, indie
structible being The shadow Of the
crescent rests on Palestine, the signet OF
conquerer's faith-still the Jew and his
religion survive. He wanders Il captive
in the streets of his own once queenly
Jerusalem, to mediate sadly and gloom
lily on the relics of ancient power. Above
him shines the clear sky, fair as when il
looked down on the towers of Zion; bu
now, alas behold. only desolate city
and an unhappy land, The world is hi
home. The literature of the ancien
Hebrew triumphs over all creeds. anc
schools, and sects. Mankind worship il
the sacred songs of David, and bow to TIN
divine teachings Of Jesus of Nazareth
who also was a son of Abraham. Sucl
is the Jew. His ancient dreams of EN-
pire are gone. How seldom do we real
| lie, az we see him in our city street:
that he is the creature Of such a strange
peculiar destiny. Neither age, no
country, nor climate, have changed hin
Such is the Jew, a strange and soitar
being, aud such the drama of his lon
and mournful history.-ChicagO Lsdgc
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
FOR EIG

A Berlin dispatch says that German
fnanciers are alarmed at the large Russian
issues of paper currency. II is stated that
since the outbreak of the war 100000
roubles have been emitted
A telegram from Constantinople an
nounces that decree has been promulgated
authorizing the issuing Of l,0OO,OOO,OOO piaS'
tiers of paper money, redeemable in twenty
years at the rate of 100000 annually.
The Pope's physical condition is re-
ported to be very precarious, drofsy having
set in, in an aggravated form.
Although the difficulty between
Greece and Turkey about the seizure OF
arms at Corfu hes been settled, the tone
then adopted by the Porte appears to nave
given deep oflsnse at Athens, so that any
new difference, however triling, may lead to
n collision.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
WASHINGTON.

The investigation into the losses Of
sheep during the past year shows total Of
nearly 100000 sheep aud lambs were de-
stroyed by dogs and wolves and various
diseases, and the aggregate money value OF
nearly 100000, The average percentage
of loss was nearly s. The proportion is the
highest respectively in North Carolina,
Florida, and Louisiana, and ranges from Il
per cent in the former state to 40 in Ne
braska. The rate is highest in the south
and lowest in states having dog laws.
The public debt statement for june
shows a reduction of s3,229,l99
The following is the letter of the Pres
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
Here it is sure that in 1870 Massachu

Here it is sure that in 1870 Massachu-
sets had nearly six hundred million
dollars invested in manufacturers, and
the three states more than eight hundred
millions, thus invested; while the three
cotton states had but fifty-two millions
thus invested Tennessee having nearly
as much as Georgia, Alabama and Mis-.
sissippi combined. These manufacturing
industries of the three Yankee states
create demand for all kinds of food,
and hence the small farmers and gardeners
there, have markets right at their doors
for everything they or the thousand of
factory.hands need in the way of food.
This constantly growing demand always
keeps food up at good prices, and the
producer is never distressed, as with us,
| for want of purchaser for his beef NUT
ton, pigs, fowls, milk, butter or vegeta-
bles. Everything raised out of the
ground has even more ready sale than
the fabrics of the factories; and thus the
trade among small dealers never Ian.
guishes, even though the mill-owners
may sometimes find it dull. One kind
of goods produces demand for another
and different line. Masons, and carpen-
tiers, and painters are employed in
erecting new buildings for new machinery
| to be furnished by the iron men, and the
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
Who Ate Roger MiIliams!

MACON CITY, Mo-, May 81, 1S77.--What is
meant by the question, Who ate Roger
Williams" Answer in your paper and
Oblige ANOTHER INQUIRER
Last week we did not know Roger
Williams had been eaten, and so an
swered. Since that time friend has
given us information Of the event, and it
occurred in this wise: Roger Williams
was native of Whales, was a Puritan,
and the founder of the colony of Rhode
Island. lie died in Providence 1888.
Many years afterwards, the private bury
ing ground where he was inferred was
searched for the remains of himself
and wife, for the purpose of erecting a
monument over them. Very little was
fonnd. The shape OF the collins could
only be traced by a black line in the
earth. The rusted hinges and nails and
round wooden knot alone remained III
one grave, while single lock OF braided
hair was found in the other. Near the
grave stood an apple tree, the larger
root of which pushed its way to the pre-
else spot occupied by the skull of Roger
Williams, and, turning, passed around it
and followed the direction Of the back
bone to the hips. Here it divided into
two branches, sending one along each leg
to the heel, when the roots turned up.
ward to the toes, the whole bearing q
striking resemblance to the human form
These roots are now deposited in the
museum of Brown university. 1t was
thus found that the organic matter-thC
flesh, the bones, of Roger Williams-har
passed into an apple tree, transmitted
into woody fibre, doomed in fragran
blossoms, and bore luscisus fruit, which
from year to year has been gathered anC
eaten. Those, therefore, who ate tn,
apples from this tree ate Roger Williams
-C6lugbia { 1lO.) Statesman.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
The above table suggests several que.

The above table suggests several ques-
tons First--Why the cold and COM
paratively unproductive states of Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island are 50 much more populous than
the three states of Georgia. Alabama
and Mississippi, with rich soil and gen
ial climate, where everything supporting
life grows in vast abundance Why is
it that rocky, bleak Massachusetts, with
but One.eight the area, has nearly ten
times as many people to the square mile
as delightful, fertile Cfeorgia-both of the
cold Thirteen?" Why is it that cold,
stormy, sterile Rhode Island, with her
five counties, has nearly ten times as
many people to the square mile as fertile
Mississippi? Again, why is it that the
three New England atates, with all their
disadvantages of soil and climate, have
from four to eight times more wealth,
per head, than the named southern
states, with all their superior
advantages of soil and climate ?
1t cannot be on account of any pecu-
liarity in the two people of the two
sections. The south has always equaled
tie north in statesman, jurists, orators,
generals. The answer to the foregoing
question, is found in the following tables,
two, three, four and five. They speak
for themselves, and show what people
can do when resovled to do
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
packing of goods creates demand for

packing of goods creates demand for
boxes, lumber, nails, and additional
workmen. SO of the oil and waste about
machinery, llrequiring men, and women,
and children, and material, and food,
and clothing. the wide.awake Yankees
have not invested all these millions in
manufactures, foundries, machinery, etc,
without feeling certain of good interest
on their capital for this investment has
been steadily increasing instead of dimin-
ishing. Will not like investments here
produce like results?
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
have selected this table because on

| have selected TINS taOle because one
of the largest branches of the Memphis
wholesale trade is in cotton goods. 1t
shows where they are mostly manufac'
tured. A month ago asked two of our
well-known and leading dry goods firms
where they bought their Georgia cotton
goods, and the reply of both was " in
New York" These merchants have a
large and steadily.growing trade with
the retail merchants of Tennessee, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Arkansas, and if
such goods could be manufactured here
the wholesale trade Of these merchants
would soon be quadaupled. Look at
the amountot operatives, and the amount
paid out for the raw cotton, With cot.
ton factories here, would not demand
for other factories, greater or smaller,
spring up? Has not the trade in straw
berries here built upa large manufacture
of boxes, baskets etc, and given an ad-
ditional demand for lumber and work
men? Here is
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
The object in presenting this is not Sc

The object IN presenting THIS Is not so
much to illustrate the great importance
of manufactures as to show how carelessly
we use the advantages we have. Is there
any good reason why the mich COW Of
Connecticut should annually yield sixty
seven pounds of butter, while the COW OF
Mississippi yields but fifteen pounds?
Is there any good reason why the COW of
New York should annually yield eighty
pounds of butter, while that of Tennessee
yields but forty, that of Georgia but
twenty, and that of Alabama fifteen? Is
there any good reason why Massachusetts
should sell l5,OO0,0 900 gallons of milk
from her $4,000 mich cows, while
Georgia sells 10000 gallons from just
twice as many cows? The butter crop
of New York, in 1870, was worth $780,
OOO,O 900 at twenty five cents per pound.
The cotton crop of Georgia, that year,
was worth but 1926, 100000. The butter,
cheese and milk of New York, for that
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
1t is presented because Memphis ha

1t is presented because Memphis has
some of the largest and most reliable
boot and shoe houses in the Mississippi
valley-houses whose constantly growing
trade shows that they possess the
full confidence of the retail merchants
trading here. Massachusetts, had but
$50 900 cattle in 1870, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi had inward of $500, 900.
Yet, the dry hides are sent from the
south to Massachusetts, where they
are tanned, dressed and made into boots
and shoes for the very people who slaught-
cred the animals; and now the hair from
their bodies is often sent back to us for
plastering purposes. 1t should create no
surprise il the bones were gathered up
and sent to the Yankee mills for CONVEX
sion into powder to be used for fertilizlng
the very fields the cattle once grazed
upon. Should we not convert most OF
these hides into boots and shoes? And
would not such an industry start Others
Would it not start other and different
manufactures, and thus add to our pop
ulation by diversifying our industries
TO ask such questions is to answer them
Now let us look at
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
GENERAL NOTES.
A voice From, tho Cologne.

What vas dis bug in mein podado field,
Dat eats so much altho' he is 30 leetle,
what's dat you say McIn Got Mein Got Mein
Got!
Is dis dat awful Colorado beetlcT
Veil, veil, adeau to mein pOdado Neld,
I'll sect me down und likea YANKEE wheetIe,
0r ike A Yankee cut mein sticks und run,
While all Is eat by dis wOraciOus beetle.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-19
ident suspending Col. wilkins from the
Office CT Collector OF the Baltimore District
EyRruTIvE MANcIoN IIuSbjn1fOD ,IuIU @

TNEUUTIVE MhNSIUNl WWWTHy1VH "V'Y %
Sw;--You are hereby suspended from the
Office of Collector of Customsf for the District
of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, in
accordance with the terms Of section ,76S
Revised Statutes of the United States, and
subject to all the provisions OF the lawappli.
cable thereto. r. b. HAYES.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-01-06
RtsGt6er SOB n.

SIN @sorsta mar etnrtal an elmer Brude
fclosnOs 8arnuns a~nseitlassn
.Ner iter ettle8rlde raider als to, S6rt!'
te f1byt. lpa, wenn er elm Bststr II, UNI S.
os(traft usrosn ; 1T ss aber Elm @essr, 70 fOt
er IS @ettfbenbtebe erbaltsn. Die 3dlite
Der CITRATE empidnst BEL. .Inssber."
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RGthfrf.

Hdtbicl.
Gin Sdustetn 1T es, wOblbtfannt,
Nus louter Gen0srn istue @arb;
Dpa Der b'rtn wObnet, crit ermaGt,
@enn rings lumber III Rnf'rt NaGt,
6tebt buv1 bic Tenfer bann f1 uni,
Gebt NIT benz 8iusletn felbt terun,,
@nfl0lnng nss IatbIsls 1T UT. AIT
eva Mre.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-01-06
al ntfrhalteudes

Neues M8G.
Die Nrmuib rG6st bier naebr unb raebr,
Das Subst sebt gang brauf fir's oser.
GnIiurfnrnpf reject 8ismarFs Corn,
Der Hir6e Na&t III tim Elm Corn.
Der Gtlerscq bleibt uimt bsfst'n,
UteI SaQtmentGen rtro man feb'n.
SSt Ct bic ..&ei&ssIod" GebIisu stsb'n
@ie pudt eth 9eftis ,6isbsr Son!
@au3 SsraeI fGreit Iaut: Iu rsib
@ruu cDrs NAL f@aut In 3an3lers Bret.
Zen Orient S9cbl. ben 8tsGart baut,
Ni&t 2ueius, nt&t 3aSter l&aut.
Marpineen mar i0nf unbefdnnt.
Sect tlinet fem Nau' our& ale Qanb.
NuC GIG JttSIutNG- w utWb UVhk-
SOrst man Dur@ @OIi3silptcne.
Die 8reunbIGaft NuBlauos 1T or& tbsusr;
Nas trieb bic Serben mol ms Geuer2
Der Girt' iR's, Der bic 0Gutmer friBt
Der Stuff he rstuls 1tni&ulO 1T.
Sbm bsist. retIs SbH in Sari'n fftsrt,
2StnStbOrf TN &st&stas unssntrt.
e @rinbertsnn' i'd bod nun l@cn,
Dc& tsiner nsnnt f4 .
0Earuut niGt etrpusbers s3ctel fdnstE
gESeil man bic tleinen Dtebe bdn9t
Warrenf&tft)
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uslhe ceutialanS 3ur Yarifsr Bsltausisl'
lung fGift:
Gin Qtbsroler, tpsl6'r mttSsGtmmtbeit an
,uceben rerrnaa, r.l6e @efnnuns er Ibers
Sabr bateu mue.. Gs,a nod 3wetfslbaft,
Oh stn (Oi6ts Nuturfptel seiunbsn nitro.
@ire MaiAine. ben eus'n Deutl6m LANCE
0oIsu au orebsn uub ie bann an esnislben
ts,umsuIabren.
Nldne uuo 3oReuanf6tdse fur tte SUIT
1hl5Nsr, wel6e IT'D Die Dsuti6sn mao Dem
frars0E(tsn Srtese bautsn.
Gin suussr &aRsu uOa @erfpre6unsen
mette Gem goite eemaht. ober ntht ssbal'
ten porten fnp; an benz 3atsn fsblt Der
0rtf gum 9sbsH.
Gin GIas NIT 5euf3ern. wel6e blrerle
@spearuuoer fabrsn ttsbsn. oils bic Staats:
onualt(6Qft onEns, G& NIT Der SauInann'
fAaft 81 bsfaRsn.
sef&eteen u at
rem. Sail II. ron Grqlonb NIT stntatn
6casuten betm frObsn 3s&selase bis ttsf tn
Die 0att btnetn ias, fam piDslsN Som
Stniarer, Ger 6Ofnarr, tsretn.
.Wost ouf!" toate Der 80nts. jest trttf
er mir etne Nrebiat balten uno ontdna'r
BON meirsn Ssblsrn unD 9afern ju tprs'
Gen!"
SOFT b.watre mid tapCr!" meinte S'l'
liarep trs6sn. lid werbe ntsr1als ron ZEN
lpreheu, roscn nos sanae 9ano iprt6t"
Nbaetrumpft. Gin Bauer fant tt
cine @%ut&nRubs. Gintse iunse @sbtlfsr
wputen ibn auu, Ssfsn balten unb faatsn
er 1oae F6 iesea, Obstet& wsber @tusl
nod 8ant pcytanoen war.
Der Bauer laste: $40 fOI i'd bsnn Bin
Ghen? 9ter 1T IS eeroee wte tn eEShsu'
CT, % Gne fstne 8dnts une tstns etuple
oter Tlesel senug.
SOIittf@ss @slsrd@. Maner
Sic @spubttanet tabsn 9Griften son rig
oers Min + uuterl6rtsben etnseseben. bt
f,esn: 81. 8unDorfsr bdttsn ter pom
9tmmen obsebalten, no anss Rtlitdr run
fanD.
@dul,s. Dat Is jsrabs 70 settret@. wl
Grant Ietue 8ottGaft; unter BITE lam aue
isSer Elm poar t t MAIDEN.
MlGer. nnier 8rantuatet tntu en- 0siet
tos feeer prrs gttmmeu erft lsien fam. nue
oter fem @Gretben. unb rrar ODD ales Nef
men vsriObens. 9euAelet tteIt adstn.
@@ulae. go Is ct. WtrO en- Dsutide
u;1t tut Gnalti6 f0nnen. Senn wtrb CT ntt
0tmme en- pnrfen; etn Bigger lsrnt aber bio
Setneu Numen lGretben unb ~brunter-Slot
rstbSo. cSer Saut 8arlina, cber SOuiana :
bat aimmt aliens.
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Hsrfnishsne @runbfdke.

Q Z ] " 7 = W
Qnna: Sore, 91ura Id peree nte etnen
Monu beirotben, Der mid ntdt ltebt.
Qoura: uno Id werbe nie etner Wann
Iieben, csrutt6 ntAt tetratbet!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-01-25
4 Prudent Business Man.

"Look here, Mr.. Elitcr," he said
Il want to- GO to- the State Lunltic .Asy-
lum."
We told him we had nothing to dc
with the matter, that we We're sorry he
had allowed strong drink to get the
better of him. "Not q bit of it," salt
he, "ncver drank anything of the kind
in my life; it's trouble"
We asked him his grievance and b
said: "Weu, last SPRING. got II o.
the Farmers iron stoves at SlS %
Then after a while there came along
man with Calendar Clocks at $40 aud
bot one Of them. Then there followed
a man with pumps at $40 and L DO
n of them too. Here you see [ pur-
chased for $12S what 1 could have bo'
for $I3 at almost any store-and OF
time, too, if I wanted it,"
After a moments pause he added, Z"
am not insane, but I'm a ID foo
aud ought to b8 in the asylum. M,
wife can get along better without me
I counted up my crop, and it Just lack
ed one dollar Of paying for my stove
IN clock and pump"
We told him to be easy and do bette
next time.
Next time I'LL" said he, SO maj
that buys things that way don't hav'
any next time; I'm done-inished III
on the three articles named" W
could not pacify him. Register.