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l can afford to give and bring the horses
here to sell. My advices state that
$4,000 is the number they require.
That looks like business, don't it?
This will have the effect of causing a
rise in prices here for horses of raedium
size, but will not interfere with the rates
for fancy steppers. They are shipped to
Canada direct, and from there sent to
England. This can be done at about SO
less than horses can be brought here for
shipment. It's good thing for the
horse market, which has been very fat
of late"
Some six months ago it was learned in
another quarter that the business of ex-
porting horses was begun here when
thirty head of general service animals
were sent by Mr.. Brockie's steamship
Dominion. 1t costs about $40 a head to
send the animals across the ocean, and
the enterprise proved profitable to the
speeulatUr. They are fed four quarts q
day of oats, besides soft feed and hay,
while IN trdHsitu, and slings are arrange d
for them to rest in. Instead of losing
they generally gain in flesh. T ere have
been SEVERAL shipments of horses from
New York, it is claimed, always with
profit, as the stock of animals is very
small in the old world, on account of the
recent wars I Philadelphia Record.
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CHARLEY ROSS.

The Story Of His Abduction as 1ol5 in Public
BY His Father.
A considerable audience assembled in
fremont Temple last evening to hear the
story of the abduction of Charley Ross
from the lips of the boys father, Nh.
Christian K. Ross, of Philadelphia.
With but slender Inducements as an
orator, and entirely without platform
experience, (this being his first public
appearance), MI Ross was obliged 10
depend solely on the intrinsic interest of
his subject and his own personal con-
nection with l.; but these were sufficient
to engross the attention of most of his
hearers for an hour and half. He sim
ply narrated the circu instances of the
abduction, gave a general account of the
efforts to trace the kidnappers, read
extracts from the correspondence with
them, and finally alluded briefly to the
violent death ef Mosber and his asso-
ciates, the confessed abductors. Since
their death, he said; although he had
continued the search unremittingly,
no information of Charley's whereabouts
had been obtained. He believed the
boy TO be alive, but whether alive
or dead he intended TO seek
him until he knew his fate. Mr.. Ross
announced at the beginning of his lecture
his belief that it was the design of the
kidnappers, in case they were successfulin
extorting ransom for Charley, to make
a regular business in such trade in hui
man life. Nearly every letter from the
thieves Contained evidence of such de-
/ sign. Having this conviction, he refused
for long time to compromise with them,
| feeling that to do so would expose every
mans family to the same terrible danger.
/ 1t seems, however, that at last he entered
/ into an agreement to pay certain sum
OF money, in consideration of which his
/ boy WAS to be restored. The arrange
ment was that he was to take an express
train leaving Philadelphia for New York
at midnight, and on arriving at New
YORK take Hudson River railroad train
ana ride TO Albany. During the railroad
ride be was to stand on the rear platforn
of the last car with the money in valse,
and when he saw a man ON the track
making certain signal he was to threw
off the valise. He took the trip, but
saw no signal, and was afterward in.
formed in letter from the kidnappers
that seeing newspaper report that he
had gone elsewhere to see boy said to
be Charley Ross, they had not sent their
agent for the money. Thus vanished
perhaps, the last opportunity of recover
ing the stolen boy.
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Hints for the Farmer.

MAKE your fences high and strong So
they will keep cattle and pigs out. If
you have brush make your lots strong
and secure and keep the hogs from the
corn.
WHEN rainy, bad weather comes, so
you can't work out of doors, cut, split
and pie your wood, make your racks, fix
your fences or gates, and patch the roof
of your barn or house.
VEGETATION purifes the air-frstly,
because it absorbs carbonic acid sec
ondly, because under the influence Of
sunlight it exhales an equivalent in
oxygen; and, lastly, because it produces
ozone.
FEED your land before it gets poor
Give it all the manure you can make
snd haul, aud it will enrich you. Starve
1t by taking off crops continually and re-
turning nothing and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and it will
feed and clothe you.
MANY farmers think it doesn't pay to
bother with much gardening but good,
large garden, we'll planted and well
worked, will give liberal profit from
she sale of surplus vegetables, after sup
plying the home table the season through
with all the vegetables desired.
De not allow ashes of any kind to be
wasted. 1t will pay to haul leached
ashes several miles, when one has his
own team snd a laborer at fair wages.
Coal ashes, when spread around berry
bushes of any sort, or around grape
vines, will aid materially in producing
large and fair fruit.
KEEP your stock constantly gaining in
flesh. Use the most uufaiiing vigilance
and diligence to secure this. The mo-
ment they begin to go down-hill dollars
are running out of your pocket, even
though you don't feel. hear or see them,
snd it costs much more to get them up
again than it does to keep them up if
properly attended to before they begin to
fail.
THE successful farmer is he who pro-
vides conveniences for the care of his
property and the performance of his
work; he counts time as an important
item in the yearly calculation, and care
of all his various effects as factor in the
annual return. When he puts the horse
in the stable there is a place for the har-
ness where it viii be safe from weather
or any ether damage; his wagons and
tools are provided with coverings to pre-
serve them; about his premises viii be
found little shop or room where he
keeps saws, hammers, vises, augers, and
the various tools that are needed to
mend and put in order the different ma
chimes he uses. These simple articles
prevent days and weeks of delay, besides
adding to the length of time implements
viii last. 1t pays to have .conveniences
and also to get what you do buy of good
quality.-[ Lancaster Farmer.
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nrthe rroat or Ad,cr,i,,.

It is good that we have sometimes
some trouble and crosses; tor they often
make p man enter into himself, and con-
slider that he IS here in Punishment, and
ought not to place his trust in any
worldly thing.
1t IS good that we be sometimes con
tradicted, and that men think III or in
adequately of Us and this, although we
do and intend well.
These things helpoften TO the attaining
of humility, and defend us from vain
glory for then we are more inclined to
seek God for our inward witness, when
outwardly we be condemned by men, and
when there Is no credit given unto US
And therefore a man should settle
himself SO fully in God that he need not
10 seek many comforts of men.
When good man is afflicted, tempted
or troubled with evil thoughts, then be
understandeth better the great need he
hath Of God, without whom he per
ceiveth he can do nothing that is good.
Then also he sorroweth, lamenteth
and prayeth, by reason of the miseries
he sufereth.
Then ne is weary of living longer, and
wisheth that death would come, that be
Inight depart and be with Christ.
Then also he will perceiveth that per
feet security and full peace can not be
had in this world Thomas a Kempis.
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FARM AND HOME.
unpor6tabls Cotton and Rice.

The Charleston News and Courier says ::
"Iti sa settled fact that the sea island
cotton and rice cannot be produced with
profit, at present prices, with our present
system of labor. An exceptionally good
planter, here and there, may continue to
succeed; but the fact that three-fourths
of the sea island cotton lands and one
half of the rice lands under cultivation
in 1860 are now thrown out, proves that
the average cannot make money. On
North Santee alone, as we are informed,
only three rice plantations are now culti-
waited out of eighteen in 1860, and it was
shown in report made last summer to
the agricultural society that, in our four
coast counties, over four hundred thou~
sand acres of land have been thrown out
of cultivation since 1860. Are these lands
to remain idle, or shall we make areffort
70 utilize them again ?" The News and
Courier urges planters in the low coun-
try to raise wheat, and instances proof to
show that that crop can be made very
profitable.
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The Course of Emigration.

The extraordinary emigration from
the north to the westward, especially to
Kansas. has been lately subject OF re-
mark. Kansas papers represent that
settlers and colonies come in battalions'
The history of emigration everywhere
shows that it moves in certain well
defined parallels oflatitude. westward
the star OF empire" has always moved
from the east, and it is in obedience to
this great law that Ohio, Indiana' LII
nois. Missouri, and now Kansas with
Colorado, have received such vast acces'
sions of population. At the same time
there are exceptions to this rule, as is
shown in the case of Texas, which now
numbers a population of two millions
and to which almost every stste and
even European counties have CON
tributed their quota. When the hersage
of the west becomes ort-cropped oy the
multitude moving in that direction, the
living tide will be diverted in larger
stream from the north to the south
There is alre ,dy considerable emigration
/ from the former to the latter section
though not to be compared with the
/ food which is setting towards the west
Il Baltimore sun.
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Health and Learning.

To an article entitled " Learning and
Health" in the Gentleman's Magazine,
DR.. Benjamin W. Richardson earnestly
deprecates the too early forcing of chill
dren's minds. Health" he says, -" is
never at any period OF life so tried as in
the first years. Then it is confirmed or
destroyed; made or unmade. For chill
dren under seven the whole teaching that
should be naturally conveyed should he
through play, if the body is to be trained
up healthy as the bearer of the mind,
and it is wonderful what an amount of
learning can by this meth9d be attained.
Letters of Languages can be taught; con-
versation in different languages can be
carried on animal life can be classified :;
the surface of the earth can be made
clear; history can be told as story and
a number of other and most useful truths
can be instilled without ever forcing the
child to touch a book or read formal
lesson. Under such a system the child
grows into knowledge, makes his own in.
Ventory of the world that surrounds him
and the things that are upon it, and grow
ing up free to learn, learns well, and eats,
and sleeps, and plays well. In child
trained after this method not only is
health set forth, but happiness likewise
a most important item in this period of
life"
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tneanderings of the channel, which is in
this longitude about 200 feet wide, and
containing ten to thirty feet of dark,
turbulent water. The swiftness of the
stream is owing to its great fall, ten feet
per mile, because its source in the great
Llano Estacado is estimated to be
several thousand feet above the sea, and
only 1000 at it's junction with the
Rio Grande. The Pecos runs down
vast inclined plain, titled to the south
east, and its waters are tinctured with
lime and sulphur, so much so, that
coffee made of it is scarcely drinkable.
THE BANKS OF THE RIVER
rise almost perpendicularly as a wall six
feet from the surface to the level OF the
valley, so perpendicular that animals
the buffalo and the providing wolf-fnd
it difficult to drink at the waters edge
without plunging headlong into the deep
and swift current.
There are no bridges out in these vast
solitudes, and the only way to cross this
grandly, darkly rolling river is by swim
ming it, either alone or with your horse.
Having done so, and leaving the Rio
PecOs behind, and turning to the south>
westward you come into a vast arid
trees or grass; and covered with sand-a
complete desert, in fact. Bare as these
plains are all Of vegetation or animal life,
except an occasional village of prairie
dogs, they are not utterly devoid OF
interest to the man of science. Out OF
the level wastes, and at intervals, as you
ride to the southwestward, rise gigantic
and porphyfitic masses, some OF them
shooting up perpendicularly fifty to one
hundred and seventy five feet, and with
sides almost as smooth as glass, showing
as claimed by some, indubitable evidence,
of friction during the Glacial period
Not unfrequently, also the wayfarer see
looming up in the dim distance wha
might be taken for an old fashioned
/ fortress, with its duh outlines of angles
turrets and bsstions, but which, on s
near approach, he discovers to be a vas
/ mass Of basaltic rock.
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Horses for John Bull.

cts a fact, sir, that agents of the
English government are in this country
purchasing horses for the cavalry service
of Great Britain" said Mr.. Charles Fore
paugh, one of the numerous brothers of
we'll known horse dealers and circus men.
/" have received private advices from
nv buyers in Kentucky and Indiana to
the effect that the Englishmen are pur-
chasing largely in that section. The
horses they select are not below 1872
high, and sixteen hands whenever they
can get them. The quality of animals is
about the same as were in our cavalry
SERVES during the war, but I'll warrant
there will not be as many scabs among
them. The agents are paying good
price for the animals; indeed, better than
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HOusehoId Hints

RICE PUDDING.-To three pints milk
add one teacupful rice, teaspoonful
ground cinnamon, small lump butter,
pinch salt, sweeten to taste and put in
hot oven. Keep it stirred until the rice
is soft, then eat hot or cold, hot preferred
DBCANTING.-Wine is often spoiled
while being transferred from the bin to
the table. Great care should be taken
not to shake the bottle, and a wine
strainer with a fine cambria bottom
should be used
To CURE FELoE.-Equai parts soft
soap and quick lime, made into paste :;
apply to feloD; renew whenever dry. II
viii cause pain if the felon has progressed
much. but it is q sure cure.
To CLEAN SMOKY MARBLE.-Brush a
paste of chloride OF lime and water over
the entire surface; grease spots can be
removed from marble by applying paste
of crude potash and whiting in this man
ner.
MoLD.-Ink can be preserved from
mold by putting Glove in the bottle. A
few drops of any essential oil wilt pre-
serve leather from mold and both alum
and resin will keep paste in a pure con,
diticn.
For BURNs.--Strong, fresh, clear lime.
water, mixed with as much inseed oil as
IL vii! cut shakta the hot.la hsf~-e -.r5-
Lying; wrap the burn in cotton waddipp
saturated with the lotion; wet as often
as it appears dry, without removing
cotton from burn for nine days, when
new skin will probably have formed.
Boston DoUGHNUTs.-Small table.
spoonful butter, one tumblerful milk
(warmed), one tumblerful sugar, two
eggs, nutmeg, one quart -four (smali),
one-fourth teaspoonful cream tartar, one
or one-half teaspoonful baking powder
Let it stand two hours before the fire be-
lore frying in very hot lard.
DEoDoRIzERs.-A pail of clear water
in newly painted room will remove the
sckenipg odor Of paint. Coffee pounded
in mortar and roasted on an non plate.
sugar burned on hot Goals, and vinegar
boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the
floor and furniture of sick room are
excellent deodorizers.
PARSLEY SAucE.-Pick free from
stems, wash in warm and cold water, and
dry in a cloth, handful of parsley
throw it into plenty of boiling water,
with salt; after it boils, reckon one
minute, then drain it; chop it fine on the
back Of plate; put it in the sauce
tureen with desertspoonful of hot
water; add buttersauce and stir it up
well.
MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One cup of sugar
three eggs; one-haIf cup of butter; ONE
half cup of sweet milk one and a hall
cups of -four; one teaspoonful of cream
OF tartar; one-haf teaspoonful soda or
baking powder. Very nice nut cake can
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Execution by the GuiIlotine.

A friend once described TO US an exc
cution which he witnessed in Paris, out
side the walls of the city prison, and in
the public street. 1t took place in the
gray of dawn, and at the precise hour
indicated in the sentence. A squad of
soldiers filed out of the gates, and in a
twinkling put together the machinery Of
the guillotine, some of them sprinkliug
sawdust on the pavement while it was
being put up. Before this was fairly
finished the gate swung open, and the
criminal and executioner and the spirit
ual adviser marched out. Whatever
religious exercises were essential had been
attended to within the prison. The
criminal, with his hands bound behind
and a cap drawn over his head, was
led forth, his body bent forward over the
carriage, which, as he pressed it, shot
forward on noiseless wheels, and the knife
fell with a glitter of its keen, polished
edge; the head dropped into the basket
awaiting it, the body was placed in a
coffin, the machinery taken down, saw
dust swept up, and the whole scene was
over. Within ten minutes, by the watch
of the witness, every trace OF the execu-
ton was over. The soldiers, the priest,
the executioner had disappeared, and
there was not even a drop OF blood upon
the pavement to indicate that tragedy
had Deen there enacted Cairo Bulle-
IN
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Nothing New Under the sun.

A novel discovery has been made IN
the library of Lyons, in France. 1t is a
map of the entire system of the central
plateau of Africa, which has been of
late years explored by Grant, Baker,
Livingstone and Stanley. The system
is traced upon a globe which was con-
structed in 1701, and contains in detail
the sources of the Nile and the Congo.
The map was executed by order of
Fathers Placide de Saint Amour, princi
pal of the monastery of the third order
of st. Francis, by Crispurien of Toulon,
and by the monks of Bonaventure and
Gregoire, both connected with the above
establishment. The report does not
mention the names of the explorers.
The modern maps place the source Of
the two rivers slightly to the northward
of that Just discovered.
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The Pyramids.

The immense stones used in the cree.
ton of the pyramids of Egypt were Oh.
tanned from the quarries In the Arabian
hills, and were carried over the river nv
a bridge of boats. They were then
brought by means of causewav. which
of itself took ten years to construct. and
which is said 10 have been fine work
with It's polished stones and figures Of
animals engraved upon them. One
hundred thousand men were employed
at time, and these were relieved bv the
same number at the end of three montbs
a long time was spent in leveling off
the rock on which the ediflce stands and
twenty years for the erection of the
eGifice Itself. The stones were raised
step by step, by means of machine made
of short pieces of wood; and, last of all
commencing from the top, the stones
were cemented together by layers of
cement not thicker than strip of paper
the strength of which is proved by the
age Of the enormous materials.
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Something Concerning a Small Boy

According to the best scientific author
ity, the small boy becomes a boy at the
age of 16. At that age he ought to put
away small. boyish things, and to put on
the bashful awkwardnes4 of semi~intelli-
gent boyhood. At all events, he ought
to know that his presence is not desired
by young men who come to see his sister.
We do not expect this amount of intelli-
gence in the small boy, and it is often
necessary to bride hi n with candy or to
persuade him with clubs before he will
consent to treat his sister with common
humanity; but the 16-year-old boy
usually perceives when an area of court
ing, accompanied with gradually increas-
ing pressure in the region of the waist
and marked depression of the parlor gas,
is about to set in, and thereupon dis
creetly, even il sneeringly, withdraws.-
IN V Times
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Trae Friends.

1t happens not seldom that we are put
to the test, whether we are mere fair
weather friends or friends in need. The
friendship OF the world is but a hollow
thing it often fails just when friendship
is most needed. 1t may last in sunshine,
and may be strong enough to Join people
together in the common intercourse OF
society, but let the day of trial come,
let shame and reproach threaten, let
faithlessness entail losses and sacrifices,
and how stands the Friendship of the world
then To make one sure of a friend,
friendship must have a deeper root than
mere world iys friendIiness has. Faithful
friends are 10 be fouud-faithtul aud
true, kind and liberal and sympathizing,
real helpers and comforters, and most of
all in the hour OF need, and when moth
ing Is to be looked for in return. Such
friends there are, but where Not, in
general, among those who know No
kigner principles or motives than those
of the world, but mainly at least among
those who love God, and, for His sake,
love man. These are the friends To de-
pend III on. Their aim in ali things is to
show themselves children of Him who is
kind even to the unthankful and evil
they feel themselves bound, therefore,
to do good, "hoping Tor nothing again"
If such be their desire toward strangers,
they viii not desert q friend. 1t is one
part of Christian to be a faithful
friend Bourdill0n.
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Extremely Probable.

Some time ago Mr.. Robert Williams,
near this place, says the Owen (Ill.) News,
heard one of his wife's ducks making a
noise as if something were afterit. He got
out of bed and went to where she was, but
could not see or hear anything. He told
mis- wife he guessed the duck had gone
crazy. Next morning he wentto where the
old duck was slit ng upon her eggs, under
a brush pile, and (imagine his astonish-
ment) he saw large blacksnake coiled
up under the duck, his snakeship having
swallowed twelve eggs. Mr.. Williams
cut its head Of, cut it open, took the eggs
and placed them under the duck, and
eleven of that dozen eggs Matched. Mr..
Williams word is as good as his bond.
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HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO FARMERS
The manufacturers of Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders inform US that their pow
der viii effectually prevent hog cholera and
all other diseases in hogs, and that they will
increase the size and weight one quarter
Large discounts to persons owning two tc
three hundred hogs.
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SNIFFLER read in a newspaper the
other day that "every dove has cote,
and every dog pants" And he went
home and told his wife that every dove
had a coat, and every dog had pair o.
pantaloons; and when She didn't sec
any thing to laugh at, and told him so.
he said he guessed she must be influenced
by Mrs. Swisshelm, or had become so
COLL blamed sentimental all at once that
she couldn't appreciate a good joke when
she heard one.