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Pas'is Letter.
Irregular :Correspondence.)
Paris, November 18th, 1879,

Paris, November 18th, 1879,
The Bonapartists are naturally
much pleased with the result Of the
Senatorial election in the Charente,
and the. Pays, after remarking that
Marshall Canrobert has been nomi-
mated by an overwhelming majority,
adds-that the electors are even more
to be congratulated than the mar.
shall on this result. It asks if the
place of a man like Marshal Canro.
bert is not marked out by right in
the Upper House. Who is more
worthy to sit in it than the great
soldier of Africa, the Crimea, and
Metz! Where are finer titles to be
found than the siege ofSe bastopola and
the splendid defence Of St. rivat, the
tomb of the Prussian guard! The
Republican, National predicts that
the new Senator will vote regularly
with the reactionary coalition, but
without bringing it anything but a
faithful voice and a tolerably dis.
Greet attachment. He will speak on
military questions with facility and
competence rather than with much
authority. He will be heard with
the Difference to which he is entitled:
but he is not considered very zeal.
Gus partisan of reforms the neces-
sity Of which is admitted. It is true,
continues the National, that the re-
tirement Of NJ. de Mac Mahon rem
ders NJ. Canrobert the only marshal
Of France who remains en- cue. But
the political career Of N. Theirs
successor is calculated to discourage
those reactionaries who fattered
themselves that they would find in a
baton the equivalent for a sceptre
Under the thin disguise Of the
Mot a. Ordre the Marseillaise is con-
tinuing its attacks upon the existing
regime. It hopes to-day, that when
it reassembles, the Chamber Of De-
puties will not present the miser-
able pectacle Of . Republican House
accepting depotism in judgements
and inignity in DEGREES. 1t shall
not be said that because NJ. de Bro.
alie has changed his name and calls
himself lie Roger, the reaction IS to
reappear undera Republ ican mask,
and, under this disguise, to work 1t
its ease ut the clifton Of the Re.
public. Some one will have the
courage to remove the mask, to
throw It to the winds, and to Icy
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Comptroller Knox's Report,

WASHINGTON, November a.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has just completed the seventeenth an
nual report Of the operations of that
Bureau, which will be submitted to
Congress at the opening of the winter
session. The following extracts are
taken from the report:
The total number of National banks or.
ganized from the establishment of the Ma
t4ional-6anking system, February q, 1853, to
these a07 have gone into voluntary liquidation
by the vote of shareholders owning twO-thirds
Of their respective capitals, and eighty-one
have been placed in the hands of Receivers
TOR the purpose of closing up their affairs,
h leaning 1850 in operation at the date last
Since my last annual report thirty-eight
banks have been organized, with an aggregate
$50 40 in circulating notes have been issued.
Thirty-ei9ht banks, with an aggregate capital
OF oO0o, have voluntarily discontinued
within the same period and eight
$1,000. 90. The insolyent banks include two,
with q capital of 100000, which failed after
having previously gone into voluntary liqui-
The aggregate capital of the various classes
OF banks has diminished from S7l0 100000 in
1915, to $3.50, SEQ 600 in 1878. and the aggregate
ISL, I" tiss.suoooo in isss-s redSc9ion Of Of
$3.50 90 in capital and $lSl, $780, 900 in depos-
It's during the last four years. The National.
banking capital has diminished 81, lO0, eco, but
the deposits of the National banks are almost
precisely the same that they were in 1870.
Savings banks with capital show reduction
of about one million In capital and the same
an u IN deposits. The capital and depos-
BY seventeen millions and eighty-three mill.
ions, respectively. The greatest reduction,
however, is in the deposits of savings banks
wit aor toll inkN hou r;v~;o =
50J0O0. - - ~.'.'..''.'''Se go
The great war debt of the United States was
contracted in less than four and half years. In
on January /, 1851, the whole debt of the Union
amounted to but $66, 2i3, TIL. During the next
six months 1t increased at the rate of about
four millaons month e being, on the first day
it increased at the rate of more than thtrty-six
millions per month, and at the close of the fis-
cal year ending July ], 1852, It had reached
it was considerably more than twice that
amount, being on July I, 1888, $l,1l9, 772, 1873.
During the following year it increased nearly
the ef Dnrn On the Suy
nine months, to the close of the war, April i.
1865, the debt increased at the rate Of about
two millions day, or about sixty millions .
month, and for the hve months next there.
after, at the rate OF about three millions per
day, or about ninety millions a month, reach
ing fts maximum on August 81. 1855. at which
The sales Of United States bonds since 1871.
under the Refunding acts, have been five hum
7dred millions Of IS, one hundred and eighty
cents; in all, more than one Thousand three
hundred and ninety-five millions Of dollars
There have also been sold for resumption
purposes, since March !. 1875, under the al-
ls!6 Twenty-Five millions Of 8 and sixty.fve
.aR.emium q Is per cent: IS - s.
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Report Of the Secretary Of the Navy
WASHINGTON, November

"ASHlNiTON, november ~.
Secretary Thompson, in his report of
The condition and operations of the
Navy Department, says:
The condition of the navy has greatly i'm.
proved during the past year. There are now
In commission thirty-five vessels consisting OF
cruisers, monitors and torpedo boats. or the
different classes, sixteen can be put in condi.
ton for sea service In a few months, and TWEEN.
" could DO made ready I'm an emergency.
With this done, the fighting force of The navy,
which might be made available in q very short
time, would consist Of eighty-one vessels Of all
classes, and II to this number be added the
four monitors-Terror, Puritan, Amphitrite
and Northumberland eighty powerful tugs,
which can be fitted for either cruisers or torpe.
do boats, our whole effective fighting force
would consist or ninety-three vessels The un-
expended balance Of appropriations which
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appropriations available for the fiscal year
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past year were less than the amount of the
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
Improve Before You Enlarge.

A farmer owning one hundred acres of
inferior land, with poor buildings, poor
fences and poor stock, has no business buy
ing more land. He has no excuse for buy
ing land at any price while he can make
much better investment for his money in
improving the land he already has, in build.
ing fences, repairing buildings, under-drain-
ing, or improving his stock The farmer
who raises one thousand bushels of oats
from fifty acres, should not produce two
thousand bushels by sowing twice as many
acres, but should improve his land and get
the two thousand bushels from fifty acres.
A farmer who works one hundred acres of
land and desires to increase his income, and
attempts to do so by increasing the size of
his farm before he has tried to increase his
income by improved methods of farming,
should quit the business The income of
the farmer should be increased in every
possible manner from his small farm before
he attempts to increase his income by mere
addition to the number of his acres When
this has been done, then, and not until then,
should the farm be increased in extent.
am not inimical to large farms, but insist
that they should be as fertile as small farms,
and thus much more profitable. 1t is I'M
wise for farmer to purchase large tract
Of land for the mere purpose of owning it,
but such seems to be the idea of many of
| our large farmers.-F. X. Moreidnd, in
| Country Gentleman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
Agricultural Papers.

II any farmer who reads an agricultural
paper tries to follow all the counsels which
he there finds, he will surely come to grief.
Agricultural papers never were and never
will be made to be used that way. But if |
did not believe that every farmer can, by
using his own judgment, gain from agricul-
tural papers hundreds of valuable hints
which he can gain in no other way, would
not subscribe for one or write another line
for one. But it will not be by accepting all
their suggestions as gospel. In fact, as
have often remarked, when talking with
friends, ait takes a really good farmer to
get much benefit from agricultural papers"
Such farmers will know what TO reject and
what they may safely adopt, while man
who knows little or nothing about farming
accepts pretty much everything, without
discrimination, and gets badly bitten thereby,
too. And this, suppose, is the reason why
in every community the good farmers are,
as a rule, the ones who take agricultural
papers, while the poor farmers do not. Each
class probably judges wisely as to what is
best. This theory will serve as explanation
why so many farmers do not take any agri.
cultural paper. They understand that they
do not know enough about farming to prop.
ery discriminate the true from the per-
nicious in the agricultural articles which
they readily. j. Fooler, in Country Gen
tlsman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
Productions Of Agriculture In the Census.

The agricultural schedule annexed to the
act of 1850, which also part of the act Of
1870 providing for the tenth census, re-
quires report of the chief productions of
agriculture during the year ending June ].
Now there is no distinct agricultural year
is reason to believe that the statistics gath.
cred for former years embraced portions of
two crops, inasmuch as the enumeration was
protracted through five months. By the act of
1879 the enumeration for the tenth census
must be made during the one month of June,
$780, By this all crops that are gathered
once year will fall pretty clearly on one
side or the other of the dividing line. Thus
the cotton crop will be that of 1870, gath
cred in the fall of this year, while the wool
crop will be that of the spring of 1880. For
certain productions there is no annual har-
vest, such as milk, butter, cheese, meat, etc.,
and it is intended to find the total amount
included in the twelve months from June,
1879 to June, 1880. 1t is urgently recon-
mended that farmers should make notes of
the quantity and value of their crops, and
the number of acres cultivated, in order
that the census may be of the highest pos
sible value.
The following table will show the points
upon which our farmers will be questioned:
OF the crop of 1879, the number of acres
and the amount of crop in bushels, of wheat,
corn, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, peas,
beans, potatoes orchards and small fruits,
number of acres and value of products in
dollars; hay, acres and tons clover and
grass seed in bushels hops, acres and
pounds bees, number of hives, and wax
and honey in pounds. OF the crop of 1880,
wool, number of fieeces and pounds; maple
sugar and molasses in pounds and gallons
OF the yield of the twelve months June /,
1879 to May 81, 1880, butter and cheese
pounds milk sold, gallons market gardens
acres and value of products; value of home
manufactures; of forest products and of
animals slaughtered
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24

chine. 1t looked like excellent grass
land, through the whole valley, while the
fields of cabbages, turnips and beets indi-
Gated rich soil and careful cultivation. Be-
sides these, wheat and oats, potatoes and
some India wheat seemed to have been
raised and harvested. We were told that
potatoes in the region of Quebec could be
bought for about fifteen cents a bushel.
Corn is not cultivated to any extent. The
farmers were generally blowing, and in only
one instance did | see oxen working in the
field. 1.-THE usual team was two horses driven
by the plowman, with long rope reins, neces-
sary from the very long handles of the plow
but in one case horse and COW did service
together at the pillow. Some one waggishly
asked what the man must shout when he
wished to stop his team. The farm houses
were almost as much alike as peas. The IA
vorite model was small cottage, one-story or
story and half high, with the side uni
formly to the street, often with two dormer
windows in the roof and four small windows,
two each side of the door, always in the mid
die. The windows would seem too many
for short house, but each window consisted
of eight medium-sized lights in four separate
sashes. Many of these houses had no ellis
some had small lean-to a few had board
blinds, and nearly all were covered with
plain boards on the outside and whitewashed
The roofs at the caves projected, turning a
graceful curve upward. l saw but one two
storied farm house for hundred and eighty
miles. The barns were small and occasion
ally matched instead of shingled l was
told by native that often the farms had
other barns on the rear end. These farms
were uniformly fenced with rails in mortised
posts, or more commonly with stakes pinned
at the top and withed below. Though some
farms were encountered with heaps of stone,
I did not see rod of wall. In the neigh
borhood of Quebec the houses were built of
limestone and generally plastered on the
outside. My informant gave as one reason
for the long and narrow fields, the successive
division of the land among the sons who sue
coed to the paternal acres. A New Eng
lander would prefer the more commodous
and elegant houses and well-kept yards that
mark his native land. c.M.P
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
A New Way Of Seeding to Grass.

Professor Dole of Mortified writes us
that one of his neighbors turns over a worn
out sod in July, after haying, manures well
on the furrow, harrows, and sows with gras
seed in which one-fourth pound of English
turnip seed is mixed for each acre. This
plan has been followed for several years with
excellent results. He gets heavy crop of
nice turnips and good stock. In this
way no hay crop is lost, the sod is renewed
and made productive, while the turnips pay
for manure, labor and seeds. AS grass is
and always will be the most paying crop of
our larger Vermont farms, any way to keep
up our mowings and restore them quickly
when they become unproductive is extremely
valuable. We suppose the seed is lightly
narrowed or pushed in, and then rolled.
The smoothing harrow, made with light
steel teeth set thick and sloping at an angle
of forty degrees, is just the implement for
such work. Every farm ought to have one.