Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1874, Page 10

i t v e CANADA Tho Scason of Departmental Reporis and Financial Statements, A Teeaf 6r Two from o Long-Looked- for Consus Report, Immigration: Returns, Chureh Property, Vital Statistics, and- Ontario Finances, A Province with a Surplus of Over Six Millions of Dolfars. Tho Late Moctlng of {he Dominion Board of Trade---The * Reformed Epls- copal Church.”” From Our Own Corresnonent, OTTAWA, Ont., March 0, 1874, THE DAY OF DOCUMENTS, Now is the appointed time for tho appearance of roports, tho delivery of tho roaults of months of cogitations on the parb of our overworlad, undorpaid ofiicials, Tho statisticlan looks for- ward to this season of tho year with: the eager- ness of the dovoutly-minded on’ tho appronch of tho Exoter-TIall May-inectings, and o soneation of joy, equal in intensity to that with which the unregenorato savago hajls thoe appearanco of tho well-fed missionary. 'Tho general public does not share tumnliuonsly in tneso fool- ings, and looks with affmght on the columus after columusof fignros which, at this time, the loyal Canndian editor Is npt to spread out for tho doloctation of hia reudors, Tho **canny- Beot” partof ourpopulation, inthe intervals be- tween businoss-hours and attondance on tho sorvices of tholr church, are vory fond of study- ing statislical tablos. oy consider thomaelves {ho groat baokbono of this conntry; aud it must ‘e admitted that thoy do control its destinies to an oxtont that must always bo appatling to tho trno, native-born Conadinn, Most of our editors- aro Scotel, In addition to the NAT'IAL LOVE OF FIGGERS inhoront to Scotch naturg, alroudy reforred to, thoy lvo tho nequired tnsto for such stndy * in- cident to n long aud sevore struggle for exist- onco, They publish papors—for cach othor to rend, and run races, ono with the other, 18 t0 who shall inflict tho Tongost and most distressing numorical arrays upon his fellow-sinnors. Tt i with somo tropidation, thorefore, thnt, a8 sorrespondont for 'us FRbUNE, I undertako to summarizo somo of those reports, with a view of placing valuablo information ‘boforo tho peoplo of Chicago and tho Btatos of the Northwost. Thio roports have beon propared with care, and 2an Do rolled upon. Let us 800 what intoresting wattor cun bo extracted from thom. TUE IMMIGRATION REFORT, Tako tho roport of tho Commissionocr of Im- migration for iha Yrovince of Outario—tho Inrgest, most densels-populated, nud most prosperous, of our lnlf-dozen Provinces—for the year 1873. '"I'hao rosults shown aro regarded hore, in this day of small things, as being very satisfactory. T'ho nmmbor of immigrants that settled in this Provinca during tho year was 45,000, of which number 89,184 reported to tho Provincinl Governmont, and wero troaled o8 Blato charges, Compared with provious yoars, thovo is an increaso shown, by theso figures, over tho mnnmler in 1872, of 11,055 ; in 1871, of 19,842 ; in 1870, of 13,801 in 1869, of 23,201, The cost of the movenient of thexo immigrants to this country, including tho 6 bonus paid in o great many Cusc, avernges only £8.95 per head, I believo Amerieans esli- mato the valuoe of every immigrant at £800, Tho Immigration Dopartmont, during the yoar, has went acrosa tho water, from porsons living hero, over 822,600, to aid in brnging ont others ; and, iv addition to tiis, the society formed in this district, and known os the Ottawa Vulley Tm- migation Ald Society, has cxpended tho sum of £10,630 in aiding porsons to muko the ‘Transat- fanfic trip. THE WON. ARCAY M'KELLLAR, who talks in Gaclic, prays in Gnolie, #wears in Gaolic, nud will dio'in Guolio, is tho Immigration Commissioner, 1fo is one of tho oldest poli- ticians loft in tho Province, 1o hield a respon- siblo position in the old duys bofora Confedera- tion, and has fmlfhfi under the banuer of tho Grity over since tho great Grit party was organ- Ized, In cortain countics in tho Provinco, where lj1o Gaolio olomont predominates, hio iy ivrosiste ble. o is as mild ns & sucking dovo in his ap- pentance, but ng wily a8 o sorpont in bis movo- ments, IHedistinguished lumself a8 tho advo- eato of tho Canads Bouthern Rtuilrond at the timo Col, Thompson, its original promoter, was endenvoring to secure o chartor from tho Liogis- Jature, Sinco it suceess 8 Auo, iu & great meRs~ ure, to tho elorts of Mr, McKellar, ho desorvosa niclio in tho estoem of the Weetorn favmer aud ehippor, 1n s Teport on immigration, Mr, Me- Tellur traces the boneficial offect of tho uprising ‘agricultural Inborers going on in England, and of tlie visit during tho yenr of M. Josoph Arch, ihe Inborors’ representative, to tho L'roymce. "'his visit, it is hoped, will leud to a larga incur- sion of nble-bodied luborers during tho present yeur, COLONIES TO COME. Thon we_look for = Meunonito colony from Southern Russin, ‘Lhey liko our climute, the udvance-ngents said, It is fuvorable, in wintor- timo, to tho awallowing of coul-oil aud tho s ticntion of {allow-dips. And wo ulo are flgur- ing on recoiving o colony of Swiss, to sottfo in the noighborhood of Lnke Nipigsing, and o Fom- prerance colory, to bo located, far away from the abodes of Kiug Borleycorn, in tho Parry Sound dintsiot. Woliope, by tendy uitontiori o b~ ek, to pooplo our wnste places sowmo time bu- fore the arrival of the Millonnium. THE CIURCH QUESTION rcoms to bo oxciting much attontion in_Chicn- go. The following stulistics respocting tho churchos of this country will ho vond, in consequenco, with tho greator intarost. 1t is to_bo confessed, however, Lhat thoy aro omypiled from the roports of tho consus, taken in 1871, but wlich bavo ouly just beon pliced in Posscesion of tho public. The Cunadiay peoplo wro indiguant ot tho gross delays which huvo recompunied the publication of tlio information obtnined at tho consus of 1871. T'he volumo Just issucd is the socond of a sories of five to bo publishad ; #o that, with extraordinary hasto in 1ho isknanco of the succeoding volwnes, we may oxpact to ot tho last roport just about the timo it will bo in order to take tho noxt consus, Thero is pcshivul{' no oxcuso for Lhis wrotehed buugling, for which the lnte Government, ond especinlly Mr. Dunkin, Cousus Ministar, is wholly rosponsible, ‘'ho flgures rolating to tho growth and sup- }mrl of churches aro tho moro important to uy, iving a8 wo do in such intimato connection with n cuuntry in which the principlo of a Stato Chureh “ia _ still maintained. Tho _total pumbor of churchos in ihis _Trov- inco in 1870 was 4,008; In Quobee, 1,075 In New Drunswick, 650; and in Nova Beotin, 897, OF ‘tho total'of 1,717 churchos, tho Baptiats'own 771 ; Romun_Catliolics, 1 Clurch of England, 044; Mothodists, 2,425 ; Trosbytorinns, 1,008 5 and' 483 bolong 'to othor donominntiont, A DOSE OF VITAL STATIRTICH, From tho auma roport, tho following informa- tion respocting bitths, ‘doaths, marriagos,—wo conmot add ongagomtonts or’ divorees,—is ob- tnined: Tho entiro numbor of births 'for tho faur Provincon during the your was 117,561 ; but it appears that more than "25 per cent never at- tain over the ago of G yours, OF tho total pop- ulation of 8,185,701, only 10,518 wero undor 1 yonr of nge,—u keavcity of bnbes that should Yender liis country th favorito rokort of lesty old bucholors, ‘Thioro woro 87,487 widowors und 0,874 widows ; of the latter 7 waro undor 16, und 65 nbovo 160 yeats of ago, The numbor of'donths was_47,014,—tho lowsl fatal moutl, wingularly, boing dismal Novombor, 1is tho four Provinces, 209,576 porsons aver 20 years of ngo could not raad ; nud, In Queheo Trovines aloo, 216,000 porsons could’ ot writo, 1 our go-aliealt Provinco thero wors over 57,000 y:ersons who could not road, Tho record shows 0,430 fneane and 2,670 ilud poopls -in the aountry, WIAT WE DO FOI BIEAD, AND FOR LOVE. Tn this Provinee, Lhora woro 228,00 purons omployed in agricultucad pursiite ,000 fomalo studonts* 408 nuny; $11 “art " H & clorgymen, 4,490; clorks, 10,0003 nunw, 3,007 agriculturals, 479,512 ; commercial, 76,2011 and 0,104 domestic slaves, In the Dominlou, are supported 6,717 churclios, 98 hospitals, 23 or- phanagos, 7 funatic-naylums, 80 othor neylums, 5 unlvoraition and classionl collogas, 162 young Indiow’ sominarion, and 94 gools. But o truco Lo thono fignres, which onls sorve 1o show what n poly lob of peoplo wo aro, T.ot mo give Tk Tumuse aomo figutes in rolntion totho financinl status of this prosporous Com= mouwenlth of Ontario, They nro planeantly au\rumli and agreenbly unoxpeoted, Thoy are ominontly satisfactory,” and, boyond quostion, glvo much eauwo for rofoloing. Thoy mnko n, good shiowing for tho Heoleh Province of the Domiulon: ONTANIO'M FINANCIAT, CONDITION, Tho catimnted rovonite of this Frovinco Inst yonr was 3,000,801, but tho nctual roceipts amountad to ovor $220,000 moro than that mun. 1n only one respect did the rovonuo of tho yenr Tall sliort of Ity ostimatod figuro. Lu tho Depart- mont of Woods and Forests, tho Financial Sco- rotary of tho Covernmont anticipated recoipts amounting to 800,000, but nctually rocolved only %049,034, - Whilo tho rovonuo thus pnusod 1ta an- ficipted point, tho expondituros fell considern- by balow tho. figuros miticipatod. Tho oati- mated oxponditures amountod to within a fow dollars of $3,000,000; tho nctunl oxpondituros to Dut $2,460,212, ‘Bubtractifig the nctunl oxpondi- turo from the rovenuo, and tho oporationa of the yoar 1873 loft tho Government in possession of a nent surplus of £854,2041 * - Probnuly fow Principalitios, States, or Prov- fncos rojoice in the possosaiort of B8OOI A MAGNIFIOENT SUNPLUS 08 doea thin Provinco of Ontarlo, Itenlly, wa should consider ourselves 08 among the elito of tho world ; 110 ono ean donbt our cannynoss, nor suspoct tho honosty of our ofiicinls, whon #uch splondiid resnlls aro shown ng those, On tho 18t of Junuary, 1874, this Provinco onfored upon tho business of n now yoar with a surplus of aix million fifty-nino thousand one hundred aud in thoe common wators of tho ant Bt. Law'ronco route, Upon tho questions of BECIPIOUAL TADE-REATIONS, both with tho Unltod Bintes nnd the West Tn- dies, tho Bonrd toole thut notion which n body of morchinnts, anxlous to do as iarge a businosis ng ponsiblo, might nndurally bo oxpected to tako, The Amoriosn delogation, amoug whom wero Mr. MeLnrou, of N(lwankoo; Mr. Dusby, of Philadolphia ; and Oapt, Dorr, of Buffalo, #poko on this subject, and. wero instrumontal in culti- valing o most happy flow of brothorly sentimonts from all purtios. A. commitioo of ton membors was suggostod to tho Excoutive Council, for tho purpose of collocting nformation ns to tho bnals of Bnoh a tarift hatwoon tho two conntrics ns would bo honolicial to tho mercantila intorosts of Lot A motlon was aleo carriod, favoring tho -con- struction of n cannlat tho Snult Sto. Marie, bo- twoon Lnken Iuron and Superior. ‘Tho mooting of thie Bonrd was very hnarmoni- ons, and eannot but rosult in good offoct on the logislation of tho coming I'arllament. Tho Doonrd will convena next July, at 8¢, Johus, N. B, to talk ovor mntlora ospecially connoctad with tho Maritimo I'rovincos, TILE UEFORMED EPISCOPAL CNUNON, I cannot closo this lottor without brielly stat- Ing that tho Oummins-Chenoy movemott— in which Chteago talces n porsonal intorost, I sup- poso—Nhns cropped out in this oity and othor iinrts of the Dominion, It sooms likoly to_boar considorablo fruit, tog, The Protostant Lpis- copnl Bishop horoe denounced tho supportera of tho now movoniont, in one of his recont pulpit- philippiess but, Ko far from provonting tho spread of the movemont, it has, go far os this clty is concornad, given it n now impetus, Tho supportors of the Itetorm movomout horo would hoil with dolight n.visit from your Bishop Cheney, ~ The movoment could” bo made o powerfil ono hore, L have no doubt. CANADENSIS, ninety-five dollors! Ono likos to writo suchn fact out ut full longth, us it wero, Do you want to know the itoms on which this amount ia tot- tod up? Ioro thoy aro: In investod funds wo have $2,747,805; in doposits, S1,646,720; in drninngo-dobentures, £63,010; cnsh in_ bank, £977,98;_reduced indobtcduess on tho Munici put Lon Fund, 31,082,764 ; aud prosont improv- o matkot-valuo of Dominion securitios Lold by thio Govornmont, 8250,000. Nor ia this all : Tn addition to thoitoms stated, this Provinco owns s valuavlo assot ju tho shapo of Lho difYorent School Funds held in the hands of thio Dominion Government, and on whicl this Trovince recoives intorost amonnting annually to 3149.601. Thoso funds_ nggrogatd 92,600,407, And there ire also ront-churges on monoy ad- yaoood for droluuge-purposes Ly tho. Govom- moent, * THE OTHER BIDE, Tho Provinco hes udor tho following obliga- tions in the disposal of the above grand uurFluo: I'lia money voted to ba disbursed for tho ald of railways, amonnting to €1,100,672; Lwo_install- monts of $100,000 ench, tho spproprintions for rnilrond-nid for yenrs 1872-1873; and tho amauuts duo under tho act passed two sessions ngo, granting roliof to municipalities indebted to the State, and disburaod under the Municipal Losn Tund Adjustmont act, smounting to 3,116, 786, This makos n total of liabitios of 84,416, 308,—leaving nt the end of tho present year, irrospecttvo of any bulance of tho curreut years, aud after providing for overy existing liability, o surplus of $1,043,8871 And yot thofo ure those amongkt us who'aro not buppy. Noed it bo statod that they aro technically kuown as the outs"? THE PRESENT YEAR'S FIOURES. The Provincial Lroasurcr, the lHon. Adam Crooks, who, from being & chancery-lawyor, has dovolopod into a first-clars finangior, bas Lind the tuct usual to oll such ofliinls, to ovorcstimate tho reccipts. This %‘am‘ ho scems to have beon moro ronsouable. 1lin catimate of oxponditures figuro up o total of 82,637,495; Lis rov- onuo, £2,672,805. Of tho former, €323, 000 is to bo oxponded on public buitd- 18, —869,000 going for nn Incbifato Asylum at Hamilton, and 394,000 for n Normal | School at this placo. On.cducation the sum of £500,200 Is to bo exponded, and $133,464 on im~ wigration. Publio works will absorh_$173,000. Of tho estimated receipts, the Crown-Lunds Do- partmont will, it is supposed, supply ©684,998; and 160,000 will bo received ag interost on tha deposita aud investinonts of the Province. The big bone is, howover, in tho subsidy recoived 1rom the Foderal Government for tha purnosos of carrying on tho public business of tio Proy~ inco, 'This subsidy, with allowanco, will amount, this yoar, to the sum of 31,333,568 1 TUE FINANCIAL CROAKER'S RESORT. Of coutso, no matter how splendidiy prosper- ous s State may be,—nor how cerlninly thero is xrowing up, wiile wealth i8 nccumulnting, “n oncst pousnntry, thoir country’s pride,"—thoro will al¥nys bo #omao chronid grumblers, Wo Dave a supply of such gontry loro. Thoy sco disaslor in ovory dircction, aud desolation ap- proncling on overy liand; under tho {utlucnco of tno third bottlo, thoy oo ** horror on horror's hend nccumulates” aud, bo they Torics .in polities as well a8 hypochondrines in sontiments, they gronn {n spirit over tie maelstrom of revolution towards whichthis ““un- hiappy country” is silontly but swittly hastou- ing. 'Cho obiof point on which these misorablo curmudgeons bago thoir shouts of alarm 18 tho sure aunihilation, within o' short spaco of time, of tho most valuablo source of revenue, npml from the Fedoral subsidics, possessed by tho Drovincial Government. ‘I'hie returns from the Deportment of Crown Lands cannot nlwngfl maintaln their prosent figuro, becauso, in the sure and cortniu process of ovents, tho Crown- Lands will one day bo exbausted: and very specily the timbor upon them, that now con- stitutos thoir chiofost valuo, will buve ail beon cnt down and dostroyed. *¢What, thon, shull wo do, oh yo Griws?" is TILE AGONIZING CRY that fs proceoding Irom Lory thronts. Without wailing for a reply, the opponents of tho pres- cut govornmental policy have suggested o plan which thoy think would be likely to meot tho difliculty. Thoy propose that a certain percont- ago of tho rolurns reccived from this sourco should bo Inid aside, in & separate fund, not to Lo touched. By this moaus, they Lope, by the time the forests of Ontario finally confess them- selves worsted, thore will be gatherod together such n noble surplus fund that tho intorost from it will moro than_sup “Y. yoarly tho vacuum in tho anuual recoipts of the Provincos left by tho failuro of the Crown-Loands Dopartmont, T this tho Grits mako ono very alisfctory answer: ‘I'ho oxistouco.of such a fund would always bo a contaut sourco of temptation to parties. No finality ogislation coutd bo passed concorning it ; aud, overytimo nu elcetion took placo, the par- tica onteving tho contest wonld bo foreod into outbidding cach othor {1 tho maltor of the dis- position of this fund.” Beaides, it_would_bo a ineans of corruption that ovon' a Beotch Prov- inico could not look_upon with satisfaction, nor Tier rulers allow to Jio unused, Should the To- Tios over again gain tho-control of the I'roviico, or of tho Dominion, it i8 nltogothor likly thaf they will yepeat tho trick which has bocome his- torfeal with their party in tho Mothor-country, of, when elected, - * barking up anather treo” 10 t[mt around which they yelped whilo 1 opposi- ion, THE DOMINION IOARD OF TRADE. The Dominion Bourd of Trudo havo rocontly Tl thoir nnnual sossion in this city, und, while taking no very deardod action in_auy purticnlar, havo yot mado u still docper impression on tho publie mind of tho utility and valuo of their an- ntin! assomblagos. Tho now Covernmont was'| ospecially attentive to tho deliborations of the body. At overy session, somo momber of tho Administration ‘was in attandunco ; and, towards tho close of tho dehiberatlons, tho on- tiro Cabinob unitod in offerin & ban- quot to the delegates, Tho pros- enco of an Amorican delogntion, wave an in- tornationnl eharacter to tho assombly, and, on cortuin mattors, vendared the dircussion vory in- tereniing, Among thoe subjocts disoussod was TIE QUESTION OF PIOTECTION, At prosent, our munnfacturers receivo an Inei- doutal protoction of 16 por cont, nd_valorom, on thoir goods ; and an offort was tado to iuduco the Board to pass o resolution fuvoring an in- oranso 0 20 por cent. Boveral motious were mude, and a long discussion took pinco. Thoro #eomed Lo bo n genoral fooling in favor of niin- twming w slight rato of protection, as tho only mothod posuble to presorve our liome-munu- fugbnrors from boing swamped by American- mundo goads, The nocessity of presorving Jer- munonee I, tariffeurangements wan strongly urgod 3 and it lougth the' following rosohtion, proposed by Mr, ‘Uhomans White, oditor of tho Montroal Gazelle, wis enrried 3 “ht, dn view of the Jurgo ohligations already ns- aumed by 1o Domtndon, ind tho fact that, during tho first holf of Lo present facal year, tho oxpendituro s oxceeded (o revenio by u corisldotublo sum, It 13 probe ublo thit kore reviston of the fiscal policy’ of the Do. miujon will Beeomo nucomary durlug the approsehing sésion of ho Dominlon Lurllament,” Do It “Rewoleed, 'What, in the opinion of {iis Doard, tho principlo of protection to “the mannfacturing induas tris of the cotntry should bo ombodied fivieh re- vielon of the tnrlfly us for i tho W eun by eareled. ot conststontly with the commurelol sud revonuo ro- quiroments of the cauntry, . ‘I'ie Board also passod & resolution fuvoring tho entablishmont of o Caundion Lloyds, and lis: toned to w very intorosting - disauinition outhe stutoof ship-nuilding in the Marltimo Provinces, “Piagn it agrood to do what Mr, Itaudolph, of the smumge e T THE RAILROAD LAW. An Argument for Tty KRRepeal or Mods scati To the Iiditor of The Chicago F'ribune * Bim: I had supposod the foundations or first principlos of law to o, that, througli its boneflts, oqual justico should b bostowod upon ull; and that, for this purposa, the Inw-mnking power of States was vostod In Logislaturos, composod of members dologated from all parts, that onch partioular district might be representod by ono who, boing ncquaintad with its wants, conld, in this maunor, guard and protect the Intaroats of hin copstituents; and that, throngh an ns- somblago composed of such membors, oppros- sivo logislation would becomo impossiblo, And I hiad supposed that, it from any causo what- ovor, an act shonld bo passed which, undor its operations, was found to baar with an unjust or oppressive wolght upon any particular businoss or lending intorost, tho samo power which en- aoted tho Jaw would, whon positive proof was produced of such discriminations, promptiytake steps to relievo thin opprossion, eithor by roponl or modifications, a3 the goneralintorosl demand- od. And Ihad not supposed it possiblo that, after anch a lnw had beon in force six months, and its overy act, duriug that timo, was known to bo both oppresslvo and destructivo to tho bost intorests of a Stato, that a Tiegislaturo could ro- main in session two months without nffording any roliof whatover, But such a speetacle is to- dry oxhibited to tho citizens of the State of Illi~ nols. L THE RAILTOAD TAW. 2 whilo attempting to establish and enforce pro- rata ratos, and making all ronds not adopting the tariff published by tho Board of Commisgion- ora linblo to prosecution ns extortionists, hag donomoro to Injure aud rotard the growth and dovelopment of our Stato than all tho ncts of tha so-called monopolists put togothor, ‘This Inw attempts to doprive railroads of tha right to eatablish tariffs adapted to the wants of tlioir district nud separate lines, or to adopt such schodulen a8 the business of a particular road mieht roquire; and attempts, irrespoctive of thoir intoreat, to gronp or classify the workings of tho entiro rallrond business of this State to two or threo separato sohedules ; when it i well known tounll convergant with the workings of Tailronds that ane rond may ho eporated profitn- Dly and successfully on a tariff that will bankrupt another. Tu tho operation of o law just to tho intorost of n State, which, by its oflicial tariffs, shall nt- tompt to compel a road to charge two to threo timea tho amount for {ransportation that is charged for tho samo nrticle hoyond this Stato? TIs tho operntion of a law just “which sball at- tempt to erect arotind its bordors a barrier in tho form of & toll-gato? And i the oporation of & law just, which stall attempt to DESTROY TIHAT VITAL, PRINCIPLY, of commerco, compotition, by requiriug all ronds, in tneir daily business, to confortn to cortain pro- rato rates ? : Tho Bocrotary of the Illinois Central Railrond, in'liis report of Teb. 6, 1874, uscs theso words When our raflway was_projected across tho open prairlo to timber-lands of Southorn Iiifnods, fhoro wan still Govornment Innds open to purchaso at 13)¢ ccnts peracre, 'Tho valuation of ronl and personal eatate in Tliiuoly, in 1830, was 15,305,006, Ouly twonty yeara had clapsed, and in- 1870 this valuation, ns_&hown by tho Government-report, ind ndvsnced 670, Your Dircctors etiovo thut the dovelop thio manufactures of Tllinols will, within n very few Jears, liow o moro remarabl progeess oven than has cen obtained from the cultivation of its soll, ‘Tho conl-measures of Illinols_aro sid o cover an oxtent of 10,000 square miles, This abundant supply of coal Is nearat biund to tho fnoxbsustible iron-ores of Lnka Superior and of Missourl, Alrendy tho trans— portation of coal, of fron ores, and of manufuctured products, are Important tems of revenue, Tho manu- factures of Illinois, B0 insignificent in 1850 (only £16,604,279, nrostated, in the ninth consus (1670), at $203,620,672, WIIAT A OANGE thero fow vears huvo wronght: lands, from 1214 conts to £25, $50, and $100 por acro: popula- tion, from & fow thousand to 2,680,601; manu- factures, from $16,634,272 to $205,020,672. And all this in a littlo ‘moro than twenty yonrs. Wonld immigration flow to lands ihat woro. to romnin n wildorices ; and could thoey multiply 500-fold 2 Wanld tho product ot this soil find o market at remunorative prices? Wonld manu- factures multiply and flonrish without somo sure and rapid means of transit? Yot nll this' has been accomplished; and well may hor citizons fool proud of the result, for to-duy * Tho State of Illinois conmpicuously londs tho Westorn Btates in numbors and resonrcos," Ttizht horo the question i# portinont, By what sgoncies havo theso wondorful results been ne- complished ? Tho answer must be, Tho bulld- ing, multiplying, and oxtonding of railronds, And what will continue this dovelopment, and maintain this Stato in tho front rank of progress, oxeopt tho auccesaful operation of tho oxisting lines of traflle? For, if tho rule of Mr, Dolmar i8 correct, this State produces yoarly of corenls, * abovo what in_required for homa-consumption, 210,365,744 bushols, that principally mustba EXPORTED TO FIND A MARKET, Tronco it in n logicnt deduction thnt tho valuo to | the producor depends largely upon tho coat of transportation, and the apidity with which this praduct can bo put into market. Would the en- forcemout of pro-rata_ratos tond to enhance Yalues to tho producer ? 1t i ensy of proof that, sinco 1870, and up to thio prasago of thia law, manufactures wors in- ereasing in o more rapid ratio than any other entornriae within our Btato; and it is a demon- ntrablo fact thut to these, in e grant meaknre, n 8tato must lool for it prosperity. And, inpropor- tion tjint this branch of industry is foatored, de- ~volapod, and protected, in tho samo ratio will othor entorprises flourish. Can mannfactures in this Btate, Just strupgling into existenco un- der netivo com* g'ition fraom oldor States, suc- consfully benr %ue additional burden of pro- rata ratos? 1f {he coal-deposit of this Biate coyors an arcn of 19,000 squara miles, doposited in bods and atrntn voady for tho wants of man, yet without dovelopmont, what is it worth to commerco? And what aro the iron oros of Lako Buperior and Missonrl worth to this Stato whilo the conl Ties whoroe Naturo plreed it? And of what bonefit nro all thoro advantages to n Btato whilo itw vital onovgion are crippled by unjust logisln- tlon? ‘rue, the dovelopment of the conl intor- anta can_bo mado ono of the londing, it not Lho principal, entorprises of our State; but to ac- gomplish’ this Toquires large nesocintions of capital,—in tho mattor of transportation, tho most unrotrioted compotition, Tho popular ory from the masscs now boing, ‘¢ a1vis us onEAr FOIL," would the onforcomont of the present Railroad Inw tond to such vesnlt? ‘This muttor is suc- cosufully anuwerod by Mr, Tutllday, of Du Quoin, who wnys that Pittuburgh conl, boaring & trans- portation of 820 milas, Is now salling In Cairo at i Jowor figure than hocan soll his gonl, which in only 60 milos fistante—that, owing to (haso dis- orminntions, threesfourths of the mining popu- lnslon of Du'Quoin mo thrown out of omploy- mont,—thnt industry lnnguishon, and entorpriscs ara riined by law ; and ‘it In fosrod the mines will bo closed, unloss tho lnw s nmendod vo that #noeinl rates can Lo made, And yot what I trun of this is oquully true of overy. other mining lo- culity of our Ktato, What & ‘snd commontary, that onr law-makers having, theso facts belora ankruptey, without 1ifiing. h.and or voicoto af- ord vollof | Ty e quostion hins boon many tvmen aaked ¢ 10W CAME SUOIL A LAW T0 DN PABSED ? think tho auswor iy onsy 1 It was framed fn 0 Intoroat of an organization thon fust Apring- into aexistongs, and. which to-Xay hng ita [gow and_ mombors In almost if ot ovory onmly in the Siate,—brought into oxlstonae, ni Ispllood, by ™ causos which may bo sumumod up inln »h:]ull; \\‘oz‘xdx l}[om;]mllluu." ) 6 declnration of pringiples published by 0. WiFlags, Prosidont, wo mnt‘l g Palln\vn; “l:‘lvrwt. thrallway monapollos must bo , subdued; sac: ong wa should alro alm to froo ourselvon from othyr forms of bondago,” Biarting out with a docpration that mononolles must bo subdund, whig hing this organization accomplished? Iis firatact tos up, ripplas, and, it atrictly onforood, woull dostroy, the best intorosts of our Stnto. Its rrcond crontes ono of tho worat and moat ar- Ditraty monopolics over projected, by dictating to iti membors whero, low, anfll of whom all “ithoir purchases sball bo made; and its third i an attompt, through its oftijinl action, to Ao influgnco logislation that acts prsed in {ta concoived intorcat shall not bo repaled. Truo, this orgatlization han now becomd formidable, both in tnumbora and in- fluoncay truo, its momiors, 8o far, ack tultedly on all mopsuros that aro concelved in their inter~ caty and, from this causo, perhaps, thoso dolo— gated tooflicinl posltions by the people, in the nbaoneo of auy organized offort of opposition, feol & dolenoy In bringing up Fieso manstires for ‘roponl, Tlis rosult, 8. M. Bmith, Becrotary, probably had in view whon, in one of his spoechos, he fikes theso words: * Think what o power.yau havo! Init any wondor that thoso follown are rendy to Low right down to us whon they think of tho En\\*ur wo hold” ag voters 7" by Mr. Swmith mut not forgot thnt, 8o far, the grent mannfdeturing, mining, and businoss ine torosts of this Stato have hold aloof, hoping that tho blind antsgonism . manifosted by this orgunization, would, /becoino Bpont. and ronsou ngain nsnm} it sy 5 but, it it bo- €£omos neceAsary Lo ndst organizatio rgans {zation, thon il 8 ki = THYRHE OREAT INTRRFATA MURT COMRINE, for tho fair famo of this Stato must not bo djmmed, orits Bun of. yrospority st undor a ulriud of llnll!mtlclfim.b i nm glad to see business-mon bey hold of this matter, ond forward pmg{::{nfn ly Although Into in tho tossion, I earucstly hopo that avery conuty will forward to its membors somo form of {mllflon protosting against tho continuanco of this odiow nnd opprossive law, I'hls dono with rnytbing 'like o vigorous and unitod offort, aud, in_my- opinion, & Toponl or modifieation will soon follow. C. C. Menniox, . A SEA-SIDE IDYL, (IN WO PARTS,) PARY I, The Sun, that wintor-morning cold, Suffused tho East with tints of gold, And as, brighl-burning, ho dvanced, 1tin beama acroes tho erlsp mnow daneed ; Oer bl and dnl, o'er frothing sca, Xis march was oho of majoaly, Tin dally cironlt he had mado Qjor mountafigbeak ond ovorgiados Thom, lowly dipniig, stk teom alght, In ficodsof mellow, golden ghts = * Tl clitf-top canght 1is farowail biushy~ Baptized §t atoad with rosy fushs Aud slanting boams to Ocean len Th tinting of tho Oceldent, Tintcising Moon braught syunll of snow;— Wild did tio Sotith Witid forcoly blow Tt night, and scotbing billaws leap Trom out tho caverns of tho dnep,— “As'when, toward tho Borenl Zole, Tho watérs of the Ocean rall, Obicaient to ficreo Austor's heck, As forecastlo to quurtor-deck, A little hamlet on the coant,— A vilingo rnda 1t was, at most, But sthl a bomo it was to me,— A welrd, wild home * down by the sea ;" On Jorscy’s low and tide-kiscd fnt, * Closo down to stormy Barnegat, Whitto Iny tho beach that wintor-dlay § Long miles of coast-lino stretchod awagy Describiug many o circling cove, ‘And bidden nooks with trossuro-trovey Tho burled wealth of nrgosics, Tho treasuro-vaulls of piracies, Itere, on {hia wildand barren shorgy 8o rich In legendary lore, My mind grow in fullsympathy With Ocean-tinted phantasy,— With rotting bulks strown on the atrani, IMalf-burled in tho drifting eand § Upon hia beach Iny many o satl ‘Madosbipwrock by o winter-galo. Tho stormy petrel of the const Marshals et {ribo in myzind hoat 3 Thoy eport In tunnela of tho decp, An nngry waters, roused from slce, Landuward plungig, tosa whito foos, Kud Droalcars i it conteat com Tho bird of Jovo nends out shrdll criss, Anlo o tal whito lir o fla o musky wang np o'er its peake— 1o rends tho alE with Sovous i Tu larmony vith Ldn Wl Arosvencs of ferror always To us thoro came, that traglo night, Wlien off Absecom sauk from sight o sehiooner ** Hope,” wrocked ou tho reof, A summons {0 send quick ralief = Bho thint had been so wont o toy With diinpling waves snd breezes og,— Bho that hnd weathered many n gale, Now bracod hor yards and shortenied ‘sall, For coming conilict stood arrayed, Heroically undismazed; But shrioking winda in ‘terror boro for inupon tho dread leo-shore, Tho bravo had called for bravo men'sald, And promptly was tho call obeyeds | o life-bont manned by fearloss crow, ‘Thelr gallant hoarta bent on reacue, They hend thelr willing oara of aeh, And through the ecothing brewkers dash, Thua was it that, one stormy night, From Feaegirt tover tho bearon-light Bliono forth fn guldoics of tho way, o whero tho foundored bark Aid lay, Ont on the reef {n sullen gloom, Awaiting hor fimpending doo; FErosiuking to Lo Ocenn-sleo Jler timbors roa with mortal hpasm, ‘As, on tho hrink of openlug chnsin JHavering, alio plungea to to gravo Tropared for Ler 'ncath Ocean-wave, Saved from tho wrock wera but a fow OF that, thoughs brave, 1ll-fated crew ; Tho remunnt sunk 'nenth durksomo wavo Fro aid could atrotel 118 urm to save; With fanoral honora they went dow 3 Thofr Bprita Boon wero outward-bound Tpon o crulso to distant scas, ..A Journoy full of myaterica L fufe winds waro oy awifly vorno From Earthly night to ITeavenly dawn, ‘Aud welcomed woro to Bpirit-Lind By manya waiting Augel-band, And thus it was, that sinternight, The hoacon wlenming, land fu Aight, Wild ahipwreck made sweet Magglo Moy My father™s winsomo profeae ; And {hus the Storm-King gavoto me A sistorly soclots,— Alitdlo sprite with golden hatr, With mateliloss form, and braiity Tare, And ovea fo blue, tlioy seomed fo mo To cateh thelr eolor from tho Sea, Wo plucked her from » floating apar, Tawlied, auil storm-foseed on tho bat Ttmp, drenchiod, and motonless glo fy, A oler ier brolio tho loy Apra; Wo horo hier with 6 Raving cla From Qccan's cold, insatinto grs D ‘Wo called Lo lIfo tho ebbing blood, Tt it flowed at s full flood, And gave hor pallid cheek the flush. ©F carly mornfug’s rosy Lush, Ierroseata elieck ita colar Inat Whien sho hiad learued ot what o cost TWor lifo was ransomed frant tho wave, ‘And that e fatlior failed to snvo tiuself from grim embruco of Death ¢ Bpecehless sbostood s her quiv'ring bresth Gave symptom that the barbed durt Tiad fonnd o Todgment fu hor heart 3 Qavo tokon of thy pent-up grief Thnt, struggling for a kind reliof, Finds solaca Intho happy thougli Of precapts /e hind eurly tought,— Of wlato yiolding {0 ovonte,— TTho mysterles of Providenco, Ior tongue unloosed, hier remor flod Bio 1iftod up bor volco and naid 3 “0h Lord { who rulost Jand and wave, Stroteh forth Thy potent arm to saya “Chin aching leart from koon despalr, From mikery and firrowed cara Pt muko an indox of tho hrow o norrowing lieatt, O vouchssfonow Bwoet peaco tuto my stricken soul, And bid it wurging Wators roll Tackwark to plaaldity : Qrant graco {hut I may find in Theo Surceano from griof wnd worrow hord; Siueo In Thy wisdom Thou didat. beat Mo frams tho perils of {ho So: A et of Thy sealod mystor Douhly beratt, 1 atand alono, Whilo éiro aud mothor, round Thy throne, Aro ainging chiofcest pralmody, 'n atraing of richeat uelody : Tlinow, O Tord 1 with itying oyo “Fioy 1ok upon mo from On 1hih ; 1 oy thit thtoy will hover near e who on Earil wus evor dear s And now my {rust 2l vlaco b Tthea TFrom iclus BOFrow Kep 1na frue,” THOMPEON A, M, Prous, 1l —A now connty, to e known as * Lingoin," has hoon organizod {n Wikconsin, ombracing all THROUGH WHE BREAKERS, BY M.ARY OECIL MAY, 1 ‘Wo woro alatora only by adoption; yob I know that tho love bofrvaon us fu thoso old dnys ws a8 gront as it could have beon if the mothors, ot whom ouly twoud memories had boen loft us, hind been one, an 1 ns- if my father hiad boon Lislo's fathor, too, insto.sd of having pititally adopted thio orphan ohild, and brought hor from o poor and homoless lito to share our happy homo. .My fathor, whon his cwn health failod, porsnnded his young partnor (‘to whom tho mills would on- tirely bolong aftor sbls denth) to como and’ live with us {n our great’, houso upon tho hill, at tha foot of which the milla Iny, So ITorago Capon cnmo,-and tho whole nctive manugemont of tho mills foll into his hexads, and, although ho wns & young mou, my fathor folt tho utmoat confidonco in him,. Tho :mostor waa mafo in relying on Mr. Oapon, tho men would somotimes say to us, when wo wandered, s e ltkod to do, over the buny, nolsymills; hoxwas ono to bn trusted. Wo uscd to smilo at the ox- pression, which scemnd to them to moau so ‘mualy, and, when Horaces would join ua from the officos, what wondor Is it i wo s o now powor in bis handsomo face, and in his tono of goninl yob irresiatible authority.? And could ,wo warn onch othior of tho foolingy which was growing oqually IN DBOTI OUR IIEARTS ? Could wo always remompot tunt for one of us this focling must ond {i bitter sod humilinting poin ? It was to mo that tho pain camo at last ; vory gradually, becnuso it-took such o long, loug timo to beliove it after it wns told. I forget how.it was that thove first dnwned on mo tho knowledgo of one of my father's motives in having Horaco Capon to livo now in the houso which hio was ovontually to cccupy as mastor of tho mills, Ithinkho toldma himaolf, ono dny, saying. ‘that Horaco was evem now ns a son to Dim, tho ono man in all the world to whom ho could most willingly give his dunghtor, and ndd- ing thot ho know Elsie would nlways findn Liappy home with us. From that hour, whon my dvoams lost. their voguenoss, aund this ono lay marked out in Drightest hies before mo, I wag consclous of n now sliyncas in my maunor to FHoraco: o tim- idity quite new to mo, yot tho most natural re- mult of that dream which was buried now so deeply nnd eo fixedly in my honrt. I thought Elsio was teo thoroughly wrapped up in hor own bright thoughts to notice this, yot I know that our levo for each othor then was truc and unsuspicious. But tho day.como st lnst when, sdter one flash of namoloss pain, 3 TIAT CLODD FELL slowly and honvily down botween 1, I had found Elsio sitting in tho' morning sun- shine, watching Horaco ; so I stond above her, watoliing too, in stlence. ' Ho turnod at tho gate for & momont, to raiso his hat with » amile, thon hwrrled on down the hill, and disappeared throngh ona of tho groas doors of tho mills, Elsia roso then, but I wns dreaming still, just as I had stood, o little ways back froin the win- dow, my oyce upon the spot where Horaco disnpponred. ” “Rlurgm-ar," sald Elsio_goftly, pausing as sho faced ms, “ your oyes look warm and glad now; snd—because Horaco could not sco-—-you, an- sweradghis smile with ono as bripht "as his, ?lm;;-'w iy have you been cold to hitn, and dis- an * Cold 1" T echoed in & whispor,. and I could not bring my oyes back to her faca 3 * Elsle, dear, you donot understand." Slio had both bior hands npon my shoulders now, and hor eyos wore rending mino eagorly -nh,’ with uch pained nud brenthless engor- ness . © O, Margazot," slfb eried, catching hor breath in a great toarloss sob, “tolime I am wroms! Bay that I canuot road that m your fuce! O, M0, No, 10 ; it is not that /" i ik ono arm around ber, wondering that she should be so moved to READ TITE SECRET which I must have gunrded 8o much botter than shio hind guarded hors, * Elslo, doar,” Y enid, laying my cheok npon Tor bxlz]'“hz bent hend, “thore was nothing in my faco which need hivo givon you this sudden pain, 5 0 yes” alo arid, O Durgarat yoe, T suw.” rer oyos 8ho was weoping gorely, there with hidden on my breast, and. clw{v"lng me oven to pain. *+ Iilsto, what grieves you so0?” Iasked; £ cannot undoratand it.” “I—Lmust toll you, Margaret; but—I nover guossod—" “Tell mo,” I whispored fondly, when she aused. - 3 * Hornoo—¥Hornce says—" sho was uttecin tho words very rapidiy below. her broath, anc with her bead drooping” so upon my breast that it was not casy ta hear thom—* Il’vamca snys—L moan ho neliod me—only yestorday—only yastor- day, tobe— A or trombling fingers s Wire! 0 Margnret, I love lim moro than all the world ; and yot I wish—I wish —" I think I put her géutly from mo, aud made & foiut of smiling; ani I think that—groping Dlindly in my grentmisoiy—I spont that day just 18 I hnd'spent other daya which had beon crown- ed with love and hopo and yleasure. I think that 1 gavo Horace my hand tha night mnd told him o would bo vory happy with Elsie ; aund I think that it was only Elsio who cied whion wo bnde onch other good-night. But Sam not sure—I am suro of nothing save tho augnish ed aching of my heart andhiend, snd how, whoy ¢ 1at had been mine for many, many days, s grost, Jonaly cold- ness came and \mpgad itself abioad, my hoart. It was o Lhappy and unrufiled coautship, that of Horaco's, My father gave his frcdgonsont to the marringe, and breathed no word of that dis- appointed plan of Ius; and my* fathy's men, who ali loved Elgio for her brighe face aad win- ning ways, made her young lovea's heartvojoica with their praises of tho wife whom ha had choson, - And day by day it was my lot to Watch this huppy courtship, living ontiircly apart inny own inward lifo, and 2.day by day moo gilont and moro cold. < A DITTER SOLITAT:Y TINIE, it wns, and what hopcleras and despaiting tucfimh?ts possessod mo! Why had he boen givon to hor: . Bomotimen I told myself that if he had loved me best, only for ona day, I woald have mado it grow to such a strong and all-ongrossing love thut it could nover chango ; n love beside which this happy and untroubled nffection that 1o bore to Elsio wonld bo n shadow only—if only thp love had once been there to take root. g Novor could Lio guess at any of theso dreims whioh hauntéd mo, but Inoticed that Lo often now looked at mo with o now and curious in- tontneas, which warned mo ihant this hidden solflsh prin was_changing oven my ontward golf. It must bave been this change which prompted thom to plan for Elsio and mo_to travel to the sonside, and stay thero until the summor wanod. It they had lot mo go alano—thero or anywhero —T thought I wight havo gained henlth and strongth and bottor thoughts; but Elsio would not leavo mo, TLoft alone with her, and hearing her con- rtantly spenk of Hornco in thattono of confident, childiiko lappinces, it could nob bobut that I soon must hute hor In my heart, £ 1. My fathor and Ifornco wore to e with s _In the Afternoon, and in tho moraing Elsio ayd I went out i TO DATIIE TOGETIIER, Thore was no suushino on the sos, but the water was frosh and full'at motion, juat as wo liked it; 80 wo laughad when wo wero told that there ws dangor of & sudden squall, that -day, that very fow ladies had venturod out, and’ even thoy wero roturiung now. +'Not that tliere’s any danger, miss," the man wnld, a8 ho hooked, Lis liorsos 'Lurncss to tho enravan which Ilind choson; *ounly don't you \hln’lz. you'd bolter tukio one of tho wonon with on 2" " “Wo aro not afraid; aro wo, Margaret?" amllmll F#ulu; “and wo holp encls othier quito enough.’ Thon shie [.invo ordors for ker own maghino to bo whealed eloso to mine in the soa, and ran up tho slopa with & il und uod b me. How well X romember tho look‘or tho soa that any, s T atoppod into it, and_Elsio camo up to @ With her danclng etop and Iaughing oyos | Ioyw wide and secrot tho sen*was ! aud what & littlo thing ehe lookod thoro, battling morrily with ite wators, so sirong n{:nlnnb or littlo shiclding handn ! and what o horrible Tonging Pflnuuunud mo, yot_what au overmastaring fear, Fear of what? Tour of thl wulors wiioh I loved? Teur of Elsio's tlny power? " Ah, noj what fonr I'ind wps foar of myself, Wo woro atanding quite stlll; tolling oach other Bow ealn the o lind growh ull in & minuto, and L1l with that distanco hotiosn us whios I kopb s carofully Whon thomeolven above us, then mwooped down and daglied un holplgesly upin the s “ Margarot | Margarot!"—1 could henr Elslo's eall ns tho gront wavo rolled on—* Your handsl ,—%lrl)hl n‘u;‘: hold mo . ) " onght my wiy to iar and took her handa, ttian T lookod wildiy omds T, bashing mr- chinos seemad to bo miles nwny from us now, and ono was thrown upen its sido by that strong rush of wind and walor, If wo conld ronch it wo tight support oursolvos, porhaps, uutil holp camg. 'Lho shoro Jooked liko anothor world Lo my 'hot anguishod oycs, o far away, 8o fur awny. What wna this_singing fn my onrs ? Was 1t tho wator still? T wns atrong nid fonre loss now; no wavo, owover floreo und strong, would swallow me.” "Tho waler waa but shallow aftor all.. # Margaret, whoro hieve the waves carriod w ? O,m\tv?" 810 lost, wo ute lost1—holp gne, Mur- i Iputmy orms about hor—this girl who ind won from mo all thab 1nadoe life preclous—and i hold hor closoly, vory closely, Bho lookod up from my arms, hor oy.a8 enfinrly sooking comfort from mino, Lior lips parted for tho quostion to comg pantlng forth ¢ 2 © HITALL WE I LOST 2" Thon, a8 if she hed rond u hopeloss answor in my faco, & plorbing cry wont up awoug thoe clouds : 10 Horaco! Itorscol” Moro closely still I Loln hor now, but held ber where tho wators must pass ovor hor i theirt rush, My lips wero tight and firm; my oyos upon that socond mighty wavo that camo so flu‘\:crnly uln n]n lnlr us. i am holding you, Ilsio! Closa your oo for it s coming o0 A Tent and frail, sho stood in my embraco_ with lier oyes closed, while tho huge wave, which [ could ealinly stand and watch, camo rolling o bebiud her,” Then I held hier down firmly il stondity boueath tho wator, battling tho™ whils Tor my own lifo aud breath. When at lnst tho sen grow calm ngain, and wo wero tossed ne longer et ite-wild, strong will, I had still my hinuds upon hor shoulders, aud under the wators 1 conld soo A WILITE, DEAD FACE. And my strongth had not falled me even yet, for I was Lolding hor ‘so_whon thoy fouud s and lifted uw togathor ; whispering cugorly .th ono waa living, but'that tho othoer hm? boen for o long timo dead. IIL T did not seo Moraco, for & long time, &0 that whon ut last tloy lob 1m0 o0 him tho Avst bittor- nowy of Liiw griof wus pnst. 1lo askod mo many {hings about that day, aud I told him all—snva tho horiblo tath that I had killod hor, him hiow Elsie hnd elung to mo in hor fear, whon that awful witid swopl 80 suddonly ncross tho aeay but liow sho Lind grown ko wonk at Ingt nud dospniring, thntshe fall with tho nocond wavo aud novor roso again. o ant bosido mo whila Ttold bim this, and thon it scomed to grow natural to him to_wsit besidomo; and nt last I—walching lis faco—sn its sorrow fado, and thie old look of_conlont roturn to It Au fitat 1t was In silonco that ho sat bosido mo, aud this silonco I could undorstond und shave; bub gradually bo would win mo on to talk to him, and Iis oyes would brighton s ha listeied. S0 Wwo grow : DEATt FRITNDS AGAIN, donrer than wo liad over been ; und I forgot that whito drowned faco which lny now sido by gido with my own mothor undex tho old codar in our churchyard on the hill, Ono night wo hnd strolled there togetber £ lny gome autumn blossoms on tho prave; andso long ho lingored thoro in perfoot silonco that ull my fears and my despair cama back tome in overwhelming forco. Why he bud broughts me hero where I could oo the whito drowned faco, just ne I saw it look whon T bhold it still Lolow tho wators, aftor tho nngry donth hud passod # Shnl\lllrtlg bo obliged to veo 'it thus boforome sl my lifo ; Bilently, as wohad stood thero, we tnrzied from tho gravo side u( sida ; thon snddor:ly Horaco clasped mo in lis arms and kissed m'e. So'tonderly, nud yot 80 prssionatoly, ho issc d mo, undor tho quiot stars, that at that momon't I know ~ 1ITAD WON what I liad 8o long eraved for yainly. IIe had loarned to give & stronger nnd more forvout love thun hoe had ever given to Elsio. 1V, Horace and I had boon married nearly a yoar, and this was Christinns ovo, My husband hnd vbeen away far two or threo days, but 1 kuow ho would return for Christmas Day, and so I sat watting for him. Always I longed for his return when ho had loft me, but hardly overso in- tonsaly a8 I lIonged for it this night. 'Tho wind was blowing fitfully ; now rising in suddon gusts” which brought back to mo that horribio morn- ing in the son ; und now lylug Iulled and_calm, a8 ib_bad beon upon that mght when Horaco sud I had stood beside Elsic’s grave in that strango silenco whioh he broke at lnst to toll mo with what strongtl and tondornoss e loved mo, 8o struuqoly nervous and so timid I Lad grown, that whon 1 Lioard my lusband's stop at lust, I ran to meos him just nsif ho camo as o deliv- aror. The moon was ridivg gloriously through tho rmulr sly, when we startoil out togethof for a gtroil. Iloraco Lind bimself fastenod tho soft furs around my neck, kissing ma s, ho_did so, and my honrt beat joyously and proudly ns I loaned on his sirong srm, and folé that™ I was vory precious 1o bim, o enruestly aud Lappily wero we talking, so porfoct wus tho benuty of tho night, that I had not noticed where wo were gonfi; until wo stopped boforo o gato I know, aud Horaco bent to open it. B #Wo have wandered liors almost unconscions- 1y, my darling,” ho snid; “ but wo will go in and stand a momont in the quiotnoss bosido - ELSIES GRAVL. Inow own intense happiness, we would not forgot hior upon this boantiful Christmas uight ; and ‘cb ga ber birthduy, too, you. remembor, Mar garot.” Torneo gontly led mo on, until wo stood onco ‘more togothor boside_that grent square stono Dboneoth the codar. Why had ho brought me horo, whon wa hnd botl learned to forgot, and Liad grown so happy 2 If Lo would but spenk ; if ho would but talk to mo sud chuso nway theso haunting momorios which Lad. not visited me sinco, in this vory spot, lio had told me how ho lovedmo! It ho would ouly toll mo so again —loudly, that tho words might drowu this monn- ing in my ears, this rushing of tho son nbout my Tond, this cry of n faint aud dyiug voice ! Why hiad lio brenthed hor..namo at ull to-bight and raisod this awful memory ? 0 Horaco, Horaco, soo the white dond face!” [\ My cry bad not brokon his long silence, so I ‘ftnow 16 was uttored only in my hoat. I lookod uly, cagorly, tha the glanee of is kind oyos ngfibt give mo courage ; but that drowned faco Liad Qo betweon us. 0 ornco,” I criod, gropimg with my hands, “tako it awny s take it awav! Sho would bave you savd herund lekmogo®” “ Margnrot, my dyrling, aro you ill I hourd "tho x\ucntion in. wy husband's soft, Lind tonos, 't thoro was omothing elso T hoavd far more distinetly. *trsTEN 1" 3 T cried, turning to faco the blust of wind which camo u\vimplxlg ovar tho valley below; * liston | —liston 1" 4 . I waited for ita ccming with r‘\n‘y arms ott- strotolied, ond when thie stovm had*passed, and loft mo standiug so, I fanciec] death hnd spaved o onea ngain, a8 it had done \ut koa, and I knaw why, ‘That ptory was to be talid to orace § Liore, Dby tho grave whero tho voicos njoaned ; now, b foro thut sooond gusb camo sw;eoping by which Lind brought daath Lofore, and might bring death agai. Tho whita dead fice Lendath thut stono oried out for justico mow; I voicos of tho wind and ‘dea .crled outl sfoud their scousation. I hud . a task to\do in the lull of that groat storm, and I \uust do it I drow away from my husbaud's sidey, and stood opposito bim in_the slindow of the \ cedar; my oyod fixed steadily upon him, and my \vords slow adolonr. Quito still ho 6tood to liaton, whils X told him all; quite still until X had fiishod 3 th\e, ufter an utter torvible pause, he fell 'on his k\ices be- #ido the ntono, aud hid bis faco upon ity Idid not sponk or mova until bo rose, nftor g\ long, long timo; thon I eagorly aud Pllcn\\uly gelnned his Taco, that I might gloan only a ray “of \lope, l:g:'xrxl i:n&heluhmln!w—n;z ho hwuu llcnnm now 6t 1ho treo—T conld woo how rigld colid- 1 ihito bl fugo Td grown, o B 2 ot *0 IHoraco,” 1 cried, fulling on tho grass \vo- fore him, and'sppenting to hum with my purni\ug hiands outatratohod, O my busband,,all tho s\ {.(l}x::mn“y hu\c? boon, you éaused. I¥ X hed now Coldly and stornly he intorrupted mo, bid me conto away frans borlue tans peavar”! Lding 0 Horaco, tuke mo back! We ean bo happy still—wo kmnow it ; wo huve proved it; yon have ofton snid it,. You can fovgat this, 7 had for- gotton nnkil you brought.wo hero to-night, and that wave came rolliug Lo us and loft hot fagne— Horaco, Horacn!" the words wore an eager, hur- riod whispar now—"* tako moe up, Horasco! Iam yiug horos dying ut bor foot und yours; or—or am—I—mad 7 1io rnisod mo from the grass without s moves lml:.n} ol“hm k\\-lum ntml rig| hm«:u. will take you to yonr howo,” ho said, “and attor that I wish I mx."'m d L NEVEN LUOK DPON ) Ttold ;| soparatod—yonand I; wo aro matried, you know s thoy eatmot soparato fs.” ** Weo aro soparatod aom," ho ansvzbrod slow= Iy o noparatad wtlotly an foravor.” T aoald noo hin faco fn tho mooulight nowsand Tknoss thoro was no hopo for o, “Iforacol” I oriod, with such o cry as might havo renched to tho cold dend aronnd us, * Iore neg—forgivol . Coldly "o drow back from mo, mnd thon—I Inughod.; laughed loudly and shnilly, there in tho silo nco'of tho calm and boautital night. Bat whon L saw his storn, white faco grow coldor stitl, I wondored why I hnd laughed.. z “Nothing can soparato us, Jornco," I whise pered, trving to flx my vacant geze upon him, and siniling, a8 I thought, that my giad, low whispor must comfort hin. —*“ Nothiug can soparato us now. Don't bo fll;ihlnum'l, Hornco 3 }m\ nrp my husbaud, aud I will 1ot loave_ you, Did yau dream thiat I could bo o cruel? 1°wag not holf 8o cruol to hor as that wonld bo," 1o turued from mo, shuddering through all lifs frume, and thon I know that thie love whiol had beon my very life b WAB DEAD FORRVER, T s in nll its fallest, darkost horror fho long angnlsh of the Jifo to which bo doomed mo} and stauding utill I took my burning head within my Tiunds nud unttored shriok on shrick, until tho sllenco of tho wintor night was all allve with wound, and the benuty of the moonlight vane ishiod {n & gront black darknesy, V. I liavo boon very, very fll. I:wake to the Tnowledgo slowly, a8 I Ho and listen to tho Lushed breath and softencd footstops in my room. I wako to it vory, very slowly, dreaming & wonderful dronm tho whilo,’ Iam lying In my own room nt homo, and Elsio slts bosido my bod, just ns sho did when I ws, ill once In tho old past—so many yonrs ngoj ancl my fathor comea for tidings ofgls ohild, with bis eyos dim and anxious, just ¥s I used'to se-a them in that far-back timo, Hornco Is livin with us iu thisdroam'of mine, just as ho dlfi thon; and ho, too, walts for tiliings, ‘and comi to look upon mo with a soft, slow stop, Ab, if this dronm moy last o littlo longer ; hecat o, when I awalo, my husband's faco will mect nig storn and cold, ad it must be through oll thoreat of my sin-shndowod lifo; and matond of this bright faco boside my bed, will bo- tho monaciry of that drownod hoad I kaw bouenth tho wuters, It Is far bottor to bo dying, and to droam this dronm than grow quite strong and woll, and 1.ncot 1y miory ngain. It is such n * BEAUTIFUL, DEAUTIFUL DREAM | Iam lying now tndor tho boech uport the Jawn, aud tho goldon leaves fall &oftly o mo ono by ono; vory softly, ns if thoy foll n long wny—pnrln\fs from heaven itkolf, 1 darty nog speak, lest I should break my drenm, I seo my fathor standin beech, and watching mo with tho old look oI love upon his faco, Elsio s boside mo_still, w1 sho has been all through this peacoful dronm, 1ind in compnsuion, that I cannot even trugt mytielf to maot it, lest it should bring tho tenrs, for- tears would waken me. Aud now, across tho lawn, comos Horaco; his faco tho’kiud and p) onsgub fuco of Jong ngo, the fuce I loved whon {".\'lm iu- nocont—so long ago! e comes up {0 me— #oftly as they all coma in _this droanm of mine— and I road tho old fricudship in his o5 os, and somothing moro ; not hatved and contorapt, ah, no, but a greal tondorness nnd & great come passion, and somothing that looks niw.ost like awo. I remombor tho difforent faco which [ shall oo whon I awnko, mid silently I'pray that it may bo God's will I' dio bofore tlvs waling comies. My handa are very woal and_thin arid wasted, and whon ho takes ‘ono into his, and_kneels bo- side my couch, I can soe the pity auil the fenr which durken's Elsio's ayes, Ay voice is low nnd faliing, but ot Just thoy understand my quos- Lion, reading it moro from .my eyos than from my lips ; and Elslo answers it iu_a whipor, hor warm lips touching my'cheek aud forchend bo- tieon tho words; NO DREAS, MY DARLING § no dream, We hinvo 'yon with us, and wa ara vursing you bael to houlth again,' 1f cara and love—tho truost, fondest love, my dear—can givo yon strength, thon you will soon be your s onn ;uu ngnhll."r e were a leal npon the beach above me, at the fixst fuint brenth of wind ITshould fall just wo—softly and slowly to tho ground. Margarot,” Elsi whispers, when her swoet faco conies botweon fhoso. reddening loaves and wny wido, upturned cyos, **<o you remembor that ciay wo wero togetheriiu tha son, when tho wind 80 80 suddenly? Iwaut to tell you, O, my 3 what tha momory of that duy hns beon ta mo, 1 am awaliing now—awaking with an icy shiv- or. ' In ono moment my drean: will bo over—my boautiful sunmer dream. oli mo slowly—slawly,” I plead, my broken words most engor in their uttor woukness, * No —lot Horaco toll;, then I shall bo—awake, Tsll me all, Horaco." 1ty too much to tell to-day,” he whispers, wrappibg o #hawl about me tonderly, for ha doos not knaz Iam awaking; *how can I tellina. fow simplo words that | DRAYE, UNSELFISIL ACT of youra? How can I Bponl calimly, ovon sat, of Liow you raved my darling at tho risk of vour own lifo; of how, when sho fainted aud fell, you resened lier, and hold her safe above the water until hielp cume ; thon how you put her in safoty and—your strongth oll worn—sank down your: self, oxhausted and unconscions; of how the fiercost wuve of all camo then, aud wo—rwa wore barely in time to savo you! How can I toll this; and of our gratitude and lova ? " * Thig is truo, thon 2" This tha—tho other was the.drenm ? " * ANl this s true, my dnrling; and wo aro truo ; und tho Bunshivo and tho' flowors, they eroall truo. Everything is true, oxcopt those torrible delirious fancics which have beon with Jou i your fovor. Tliat was tho dream ; but it 0 passod now, and all the fancics havo possed too. A, thero is a littlo ' look of returning hiealth ut last, You are comiug baclk to _us from tho gates of death—0, my doar, my dear,Wwo shall bo bappy once again"~New York Graph- v, & —_— THE BATTLE-HYMN OF THE CRUSADE, On tho plafne of bloodless Luttlo they aro gatloring truw and strong, All tho hero-liearted women who bave wept in silence is truo, and loug At the terrible oncoming of this Raven-wingad wrong 3 Now God {s leading on, Chiorus—Glory, Glory, Hullelujah, cto, They have sallied forth to conquer, and will nover beat rotreat Wilo tlie banner of the rumefiend fa siilt flaunted on ho utreot, Aud bis hellish anares aro waiting for the. sll-unwary oot § For God will Jead them on, They will plerco thobending hcavend'with ‘united pray- ers aud erics, i i1l the strongholde shull bo shaken and the foo defeate od ok, ;: Who lias slufh bl many thousands of tho strong ones and the wise, 4 For God will lead them on, Thoy havo loaked to law'a enforcement, for the holp that never enmo: Now Gad huth surcly kindlod in thelr hearts undyiug ilumo, Aud, rolying on fis spirit, {hoy shall conquer in HMix nuwo B For Io is leading on, Yor tho future of thelr dear onos, for thelr country'a power and pride, Onward tioved by billor nitmories of thio pst, whose ‘puins bid, They nee vorking, weopiug, praying in thelr weakness sido by wide; . For To ia leading on, Tt oh tGguo of Gavler bo strong, ol enet, of a ear | 4 Beo you not, the cloudy pillar that 18 evor hovering near otan car is opon that willnot refuse to Tear ¥ Tor God s leading on, Ol (he teanty and the blessing when th o curse s awept 2way, ‘Tuat o sl to. midught-darkness so meny & golden dug, And tihrowing "weaty] shadows oor many a Ufe-long ™5 por Clrlat fa coming near, All o deaert nud tho wildornesa shall blos jom with N Y lonty, In this blessed land of onrs, ry s plonty, e of Gt Guatiited. shall como. dwa in gentlu showers : For Heaven will bo bogun, e, Ewily J, Buglies i tho Cincynati Gazetts, Al cholorn Remaodions . Tuin stntod that, a8 8 ulo, French phyniciany hold to tho fungid theory of. eholarn, utd ong of thelr numbor is said to huve exporiiacnted \vith earholute of stapionin {n onsos of, thin dis- duno, with onconraging success, It ovon nopeurs ‘Wt Dr, Declat looks upon carliolic acid us o provhylactio, to bu wsud i tho- ordinary way wf dialy duning epidonrics—thnt 1, tuken in the form of & sirup, Whon n patient Is uttnakod; with ra, the 8irup, neeording to thin systow, ig to bo yulministored, il o ditiitod sokution of tho nold in\jestad, 1n novere wusos, Dr, Dovlut oure Ploys, adgirup of carbolate ot wmmonin, with sub- ontanoo x’\;nj(-uliunn af tha saue, sud ho is'vo contidont\of the ofjuney of the romody that, in ngansk tho gotden| hier eyos I shining such o look of loviug! ) itiful. ¥ 1 " e vivate means,” | Chicago Boavd of ‘Lrade, dosired, dn the mattor | them, can for two manths ocoupy thei ti in | of Morathop County north of 'Town 80, 1o TUE BQUALL CAME, your faco agaln.” . cntos wh dissolution I8 hupending, ha injogts } lxux“{lx:n: r;lx,nl'l ll"ri%xu?:::lt}m“t‘gtlunl: l;:n,x: '::: }L’fi‘é'li‘ of recommending the dovornugéut to loolk aftor ,u:n Asgombly, pnd neuln;mm:r‘ lx’l‘fa ,l;:ln:l“l:l\']'mh connty-spas will be n{ Jonny, 'Thore are now 60 | A suaden violont rueh of wind swopt apross the “ Whij, Horneo?" T '\\'lflumrud, with s yaoant | w «:lu;}‘:fi "r tho uarboluto ol ,nuluwn'nn dxroy.gy i Lawyors, 2,212} artinty’ and Uttoratours; 5905 | tho obatruotions, dungorous to Jifo sud propusty, | tant intorosts'of our Stato drifting to dgouy nd | couutio in tha Biatp. 3 1 wators lowaedy the, shore; the wavos voarod | eaullg upou wy, pardhing ligni., V' we eaunot be | into the voly o ¢ * 4 |4 s &£