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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence to The Republican. ]
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Jan. IL, 1881.

Special Correspondence to The Republican j
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Jan. IL, 1881.
The much discussed subject of pay
ing liberal rates to American steam
vessels for carrying our foreign mails
is again before Congress. and this
time without several of the features
which injured its chances If success
For instance, the bill just presented
does not call for any particular build
of steamer. They may be iron or
wood, side wheel or screw steamers.
1t was urged against former bills
that but one ship.yard in the country
could produce the description of YES
sells required, and that the bills were
in the interest of the parties owning
that yard. The new bill is not open
to that objection. There is clearly a
change of public sentiment in favor
of this means Of giving government
aid 10 our shipbuiding interests and
helping to extend our commerce.
The bill may fail at this session, but
rather from want of time, / think,
than from indisposition to act favor
ably on it.
While on this subject l may quote
a morning paper of the city to the
effect that Senator Blains's accept
ance of Cabinet position under
President Garfield depends on the
Willingness of the President to make
the development of American indus.
tries and commerce leading part of
the policy of his administration.
An important conference was held
yesterday between Secretary Sher-
man and prominent members of the
House upon the funding measure
now under discussion. The Secretary
favOrs three and 0ns.half per cent
bond. The sentiment of the House
is evi lently more favorable to as high
a rate as that than it WAS early in the
session. 1t is likely the bill finally
passed will leave something to the
discretion of the Secretary IN that
point. The refunding. it is begin
ing to he understood, cannot he done
in day. and before it is complete
there may he such changes in general
business as to make low err rate DOS
sibls, or a higher rate necessary than
is now thought of.
The familiar face of Captain Eads
is seen on our streets again. His last
visit was in connection with the Mis-,
sissippi jetties, then just completed.
lie is now seeking government rec
ognitiOn of his. scheme for building
a ship railway across the Isthmus of
TehuaDtepec. He has | believe,
never asked anything of Congress
which was not granted. He proposes
to finish his railway within four
years frem the date of commencing
wsrk on it.
The friends of Gen. Raum, Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue, are
urging him as Secretary of the Treas.
ury under President Garfield. Sena.
tor Logan and most of the prominent
men who were working for the
nomination of Gen. Grant at Chicago
are supporting General Raun for the
Treasury Secretaryship.
Hon. Oliver II. Dockery. of Nsrth
Carolina, is put forward for a place
in Garfield's Cabinet. His hackers
say that North Carolina has equal
claims with any other Southern
State for representation in the Cabs
net, and that Garfield served with
Dockery in Congress and knows that
he is good man.
LOGAN,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

Berryville, Clark county. Va, to the
snow covered village of Paris, reach
ed that place on Thursday, after AN
exhausting journey. They found
the roads almost impossible. One of
their teams of four horses got stuck
in drift and had to be abandoned
and during the long and bitter cold
night they travelled but four miles.
The crust of the snow was not strong
enough to bear the sleigh, which
broke through repeatedly, compel.
ing the hslf-frozen men to get out
and struggle through the drift on
foot. Before reaching the village a
seconed horse was abandoned. FL
nally, they got int the main street,
where net a sign of life was to be
seen, but their shouts were followed
by man showing his head FROM a
hole in the wall of the school house,
twenty feet from the ground. The
relief party, consisting of a doctor
and two other men, were so exhaust.
ed that they had to be themselves
carried into one of the houses, where
large fire was built IN honor of.their
arrival. The contents of the sleigh.
consisting of medicine. soft linen iSr
bandagsa. canned fruits, preserved
meats, wine and liquors. proved an
invaluable addition to their little
store. The doctor who formed one
of the relief party at once went to
work in the hospital, relieving the
exhausted physician in charge, who,
with nearly a hundred cases to care
for, had not been to bed for oyer a
week. The committee expressed the
opinion that they would be able t.
get along for another week without
further aid, provided the snow ceased
and crust formed. This would al
low forage parties to walk without
serious trouble, and they could then
doubtless procure fuel. The stock of
wood on hand had been reduced to
four cords, and only small fires were
kept up in each house, for fear Of
running out entirely. The comnu-
nifty had been in charge of a commit
tee of which a Mr.. Wright was the
head, and he had been compelled to
rule the mon with a rod of iron. The
stock of the two grocery stores had
been seized, and the liquor Mr..
Wright.kept in his own honse. where
it was guarded by himself or one of
his sons, and dealt out to those de-
tailed to make excursions to the
surrounding country for game, of
which they found abundance that
had frozen to death. In returning to
their homes they had to be hauled
into the upper windows, to deeply
buried were the houses in snoNd drifts.
The crust on the snow mad become
harder, and communi cation with, tho
village was comparatively easy, but
more snow may alter affairs there.
The villagers had at first attempted
to4cut channels in the snow to allow
passages from one house to another,
but during the night they would fill
up, and at last that mode was aban.
doned, and the snow was allowed to
accumulate around the houses, the
roof or upper windows being used as
outlets. The women and children
had suffered much, though they were
lodged in the warmest houses and
supplied with extra clothing. There
are about three hundred men, women
and children that have been thus
buried up since the Goth of Dscem-
Der.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

A water panic prevails at Gales.
burg. ILL.,, and vicinity, owing to the
long continued Geld. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co.
have withdrawn some of their trains
and on Sunday paid cut $500 for ice
to melt in order to supply their en-
gines with water. Many individuals
are also melting ice, which is obtain
ed from the Mississippi river. The
cold averages 10 degrees below zero
every night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
SATURDAY JAN. 10, 1881.

An Iowa Republican says that
building school-houses within mile
and a half of one another all over
the State is what has enabled Iowa
to roll up $4,000 Republican majority.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

That very sensible Democratic
journal, the Vicksburg Miss Her.
aid, warns its party not to 60 int a
contest over the counting of the
electoral vote, and intimates that as
the Republicans have elected the
next President they had better be al
lowed to supervise this business
themselves.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

Senator David Davis is said to have
voted regularly with the Republicans
during the present session Of Con-
gress. 1t is to be hoped that he will
be given all the encouragement pos
sible in his effort to get the Demo-
cratic taste out of his naenth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
I'ELEGRAPHIO.
THE CHINESE TREATY.

SAN FRANCISCO, ian. lO.-Tho
CdU publishes an interview with
Hon. John f. Swift, one of the
com missioners to negotiate treaty
with China, whO returned by the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15

The following nominations for the
United States Senate were made Tues
day: Sherman, in Ohio Hawley,
in Connecticut General Miller, in
California General Harrison, in
Indiana. and Fair, the bonanza king,
in Nevada,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-01-15
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

Correspondents must enclose full name and
address. not necessarily for publication, but
as private guarantee of good faith Reject
o communications will not be returned.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
Stable Manure.

Whatisit2 Farmers are apt to overlook the
fact that rich cattle food makes rich crop
food and vica versa, poor cattle food makes
poor crop food. A shovel-full Of clover-hay
manure is equal to two and one-fourth shovel
fulls of meadow-hay, or straw manure; and
750 pounds of clover hay contain as much
nitrogen, potash, ETC., as 1900 pounds Of oat
straw. A cubic foot of fresh horse manure
weighs thirty-6ve pounds, or 4,4So pounds
per cord; cubic foot Of fresh COW manure
weighs sixty pounds, or 1850 pounds per
cord; cubic foot of old manure weighs
forty pounds, or 5,l2O pounds per cord; and
mixed manure weighs forty-fve pounds
per cubic foot or $500 pounds per cord.
An average of several analyses represents a
ton of barn manure to contain Nitrogen,
thirteen pounds; phosphoric acid, seven
pounds; potash, fourteen pounds lime,
twenty-four pounds; magnesia, three
pounds; soda, one pound; sulphur, two
pounds; salt, seven pounds; soluble silica,
twenty-five pounds; woody fibre, $50
pounds, and water, 1924 pounds. Total
1900 pounds.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
How to Make Hens Lay.

A correspondent of the American Culii-
vator, having occasion recently to visit a
friend in Northern New Hampshire, who
has the reputation of making money through
the keeping of hens, found his method of
operations during the winter season some
what as follows. "The hen-house was in the
basement of workshop building, with win.
dows facing the south. The size of the
rooms where the hens were kept was about
fourteen by twenty The fowls were of the
Brown Leghorn variety, and numbered about
sixty birds. Although the room seemed
small, considering the number of fowls
yet, by means Of good ventilation, it an
swered its purpose well. As | entered the
room the odor Of the onion attracted my at
tention DO you give onions to your hens 7
| asked, yes. Onions make good greer
food for hens during the winter. As hat
quantity on hand, unfit for market, an
feeding them out in this way to good advan
tage.' How do you feed your hens during
the winter months 2 In the morning
give them dough made of bran and boilet
potatoes. At intervals of two or three dayl
put cayenne pepper with this mixture
At noon feed such scraps as are left at m,
table, with baked potatoes. In the evenin,
l give my fowls about two quarts Of who'll
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
The Mothers Power.

The writer stood in an honored New Eng
land pulpit, addressing mothers. The pas
tor sat in the desk, with eyes riveted upon
the speaker, until unbidden tears turned
them downward. A strange interest and
sympathy seemed to pervade the assembly
as they listened with wrapt attention. The
speaker felt that something unusual at
tached to the audience, though he could not
divine what There were many fearful eyes,
a deep, impressive silence, and thoughtful
ness that impaired gravity to almost every
face. The service closed, and as | entered
the pastors library near by, in company
with him, he broke the painful silence by
saying: 81 suppose every one of my con-
gregation thought of my dear boy when you
were speaking. For fourteen years wan
derer in the land, God only knows where"
And here emotion put period to a half
uttered sentence; but the sort of mystery
that pervaded the congregation was now
solved. He continued: Last summer he
wandered to his home, with consumption
fastened upon him in consequence of his
vices. The dear boy did not know till he
had crossed the threshold that his mother
survived his leaving home but thirteen
months, and went down to her grave with a
broken heart He died in that room," point
ing to an adjoining bedroom, and we
think he became Christian. Oh, how often
he spoke of his precious mother Il could
never throw off her influence he would say.
8 Go where might, the memory of her love
and prayers clung to me- The last word
the boy spoke, and it came with dying
whisper, was the word mother" We wept
with that father. Whose eyes could refuse
to at such time? And never, never We're
we so impressed with the magic power of a
mother. The son had cast off the restraints
of home, and dashed away into the paths OF
vice, where fathers tenderness seemed
scarcely to be remembered; but the mothers
had found its way TO the deepest recesses Of
his heart, to assert its power when sin had
spent itself in riotous living But for that
mothers power the wanderer would not have
been restored nor his soul redeemed. Hei
influence, like an angelic presence, pursued
him year after year. If he sought the re
treat of wild companions, it was there II
he plunged deeper down into haunts of rev
elry, it was there. Aud If he had made his
bed in hell, it would have been there.
The mother in her office holds the key
| OF the soul and she 1t is that stamps the coin
| OF character, and makes the being who would b.
| savage
| But for her care a Christian mani
| Then crown her queen OF all the world.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02

dogs Of the flock, so there are wolves who
desire the destruction Of our doctrinal formu-
laries that they may make havoc Of the souls
OF men by their persistent heresies Treat
ises on theology, like all human productions,
are imperfect but this is not an available
pretext for their rejection, for on this plea
all our ministries, teachings and missions
must cease, since they, too, are human and
must have their failings. The pretense that
articles Of faith fetter the mind is annihi-
lated by the fact that the boldest thinkers
are to be found among men who are not
foolhardy enough to forsake the old land
marks. He who finds his creed fetter has
no creed at all, for to the true believer a
plain statement of his faith is no more a
chain than sword-belt to the soldier, or a
girdle to the pilgrim. II there is any fear
that Scripture should be displaced by hand
books of theology, we should be the first to
denounce them but there is not the shadow
OF reason for such dream, since the most
Bible-reading Of all nations is that in which
the Assembly's Catechism is learned by
every mothers son. Far more danger Is
there that the readers Of theological specula-
tlons should forsake the simple Word, than
that students of condensed arrangements OF
Holy writ should leave the fountain from
which the cup is filled.-C II. Spurgeon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
Int0xicatIOn at the State Fair.

Our correspondents speak with approval,
generally, of the idea of State Agricul-
tural Society which shall be something more
than fair company. Some think, however,
that jealousies would arise to hinder and
hamper any effort of the society to assume
the functions of the Board of Agriculture
and the Dairymen's Association. There are
no doubt, some men in the state who would
kick and try to make trouble if by any new
arrangement of this kind, however advan.
tageous to the farming interests, they should
become less conspicuous But we have nc
idea that they would in any way seriously
interfere with the work. They bother the
Board of Agriculture, and seriously interfere
with its usefulness by lobbying against il
in the Legislature; but the State Agricul
tural Society, being quite independent,
could go on its course in total disregard OF
such men, who would interfere with its
progress no more than fly on carriage
wheel, If the present Board Of Agriculture
gets knocked on the head, as the old on,
was, and as it certainly will if it rub.
against the bottom of any influential body,
ladder, then it seems to us that public
opinion will demand that the state society
shall assume its work.
One correspondent lady, who seems tc
have read our article rather hastily, take
exception to what she supposes to be a prop
position to hold the state fair ell about tn,
state. The state fair never has been, ant
probably never will be, held elsewhere thar
in the vicinity of one Of half-a-dozen of ou
large towns. Her ground of objection i
that Intoxicating drinks are sold on the fai
grounds. She writes as follows
"Horace Greeley once testified to the absence q
liquor-selling and drinking in Vermont at stat
fair thus So much is said Of intemperance 1
states where liquor-selling Is outlawed, that
have reason for adding that saw no person eve
partially Intoxicated among the twenty five thou
sand lat least) whom met at this fair and sa,
no bottle set out, no glass OF liquor drank, durin
my visit to the state presume one in cage
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
A Noble Gift.

The widows two mites. What more ten
der, more solemnly affecting, more pro-
foundly pathetic, than this charity, this
offering to God of farthing We only
know that she was poor woman and a
widow, of whom there is nothing left upon
record but this sublimely simple story, that
when the rich men cast their proud offer
ings into the treasury this poor woman came
also and cast in her two mites, which made
a farthing And that example, thus made
the subject OF divine commendation, has
been read and told, and has gone abroad
everywhere, and sunk deep into hundred
million of hearts, since the commencement
of the Christian era, and has done more
good than could be accomplished by thou.
sand marble palaces, because it was charity
mingled with true benevolence, given in
love, the service and the honor of God be-
cause it was charity that had its origin in
religious feeling; because it was gift TO
the honor Of God.-Daniel Webster.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
The Habit of Self-COntrOl.

II there is one habit which, above all
others, is deserving of cultivation it is that
of self-control. In fact, it includes so much
that is of value aud Importance in life, that
it may almost be said that, in proportion to
its power, does the man obtain his manhood
and the woman her womanhood. The ability
to identify self with the highest parts of our
nature, and to bring all the lower parts into
subsection, or rather to draw them all up
ward into harmony with the best that we
know, is the one central power that supplies
vitality to all the rest. How to develop this
in the child may well absorb the energy of
every parent how to cultivate it in himself
may well employ the wisdom and enthusi-
asm of every youth. Yet it is no mysteri-
Gus or complicated path that leads to this
goal. The habit of self-control is but the
accumulation of continued acts of self
denial for worthy object; it is but the re-
peated authority Of the reason over the i'm
pulse, of the judgment over the inclinations,
of the sense of duty over the desires. He
who has acquired this habit, who can govern
himself intelligently, without painful efforts,
and without any fear of revolt from his ap-
petites and passions, has within him the
source of all real power and of all true hap
piness. The force and energy which he has
put forth day by day, and hour by hour, is
not exhausted, nor even diminished; on the
contrary, it has increased by use, and be-
comes stronger and keener by exercises and,
although it has already completed its work
in the past, it is still his well-tried, true and
powerful weapon for future conflicts in
higher egions.-Phaadeiphia Public Ledger.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02

quest Of liquor might have found 1t; but no one
else was troubled or tempted by it, II he had
visited the Vermont state fair in 1880 he could not
have given such testimony. It is the testimony
OF every one have met who was there that the
drunkenness and profanity were fearful, and
when you talk about the state fair going about
the state the very thought makes wives and
mothers tremble, that is II such scenes are to be
witnessed everywhere 1t goes as were seen at the
fairs held at our state capital. But perhaps the
new nuisance law will touch even the State Ag-
rcultural Society and oblige 1t to clear itself Of
this disgrace. For which let all good people pray.
ONE OF THE MOTHERS"
The state society unquestionably violated
both the law and the public sentiment of
Vermont in allowing lager beer to be sold
upon the fair grounds. 1t probably also
loses money by the operation; at any rate,
the profit made, if any, will not in the long
run, offset the loss of character entaAed
upon the society in consequence. But we,
who were there through the whole of both
fairs at Montpelier, may be pardoned for
saying that probably lager beer and cider
were responsible for only small portion Of
the drunkenness and profanity. 1t was the
"horse crowd" the gambling, betting, rum
drinking crew that are inseparable from
the race course, who brought in most of the
liquor that produced drunkenness. They,
whose mouths are always foul with filth and
profanity, were the chief sources of the evils
complained Of. So long as the implements
Of gaining, in the form of race horses, are
provided and subsidized by the society, no
efforts can successfully cloak or disguise the
consequences. Whatever specious talk may
be INDUCED in regarding the legitimacy of
"trials of speed" at an agricultural fair,
the truth remains, and is well understood,
that gambling, drunkenness, profanity and
general offensiveness to all decent people are
the inseparable attendants of the race
course. Yet we are soberly told that the
people of this state are so intrinsically de-
moralized that no fair can be pecuniarily
successful without offering such induce
ments to secure paying attendance. Farm
ers who are opposed to this view of the mat
ter, however, have the matter in their own
hands. A dollar makes any one member,
and majority Of the members can put an
end to the horse race at will.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
Noble Witnesses.

1t was faith in Christ that made Peter
and John stand up so boldly before the jew
ish council and confess their Master without
fear OF consequences, saying, "There is none
other name given under heaven among men
whereby we can be saved" 1t was faith in
Christ's words OF eternal life that made Paul
come out from Judaism, spend his life in
preaching the gospel, and say on the brink
OF the grave, al know whom have believed,
and that he is able to keep that which have
committed to him against that day." 1t was
faith in Christ's "words of eternal life" that
made Bishop Hooper go boldly to the stake
at Gloucester, after saying, "Life is sweet
and death is bitter; but eternal life is more
sweet and eternal death is more bitter" 1t
was faith in Christ's swords of eternal life
that made Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Lat
inner endure fiery death in Broad street,
Oxford, rather than deny the principles of
reformation. 1t was faith in Christ's "words
of eternal life" which made Henry Martyr
turn his back on ease and distinction at
Cambridge, to go forth to tropical climate,
and die solitary death as missionary. 1t
was faith in Christ's "words of eternal life
which made that honorable woman, Cath
arine Tail, as recorded in that touching BIZ
ography, resign FIVE children in five weeks
to the grave, in the full assurance that
Christ would keep his word, take care of
them both in body and soul, aud bring them
with him to meet her at the great day.
Canon Rye.