Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1874, Page 4

4 ; v THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 5, 1874--TWELVE PAGES, PRESIDENT GRANT. A Retrospective View of His Administration. Arrant Tnjustice of the Abuso that Has Been Poured upon It The Good Warks (hat Mlave Been Ate tempted and Accomplisheds Noo-Responsibility of o President for il Evils that Mave Cecurred. Tow Our Government Comparcs with That of the Be:t Contempo- rary Rulera, From Our Ouwen Correapondent, ‘Wasmxorox, Dee, 1, 1074, The nowepapors of this connlry aro now en- gaged In a strugglo for comprehonsive monoto- ny. Every sheot opons with the atanding itom « + Anotlier of Graut's mistnkes." mr, That was the general tono during the War, and 1io reached tho rauk of Coneral. It los contin- uod slnco tho Peace, and ho has twico boon Prosl- dont. 1t goes on, in apito of his dominance, and wilt pol prevent his Admioistration from stand- Iog out, intelligible and consplenous, amougsb tha boat reigns of contomporary rulers, and com- parable with Lincoln's work. Tho retnal rulers of modern nations avo thoir Prugoe Ministors. In this light, 7.00% Anotr sl Yhora are Sir Johu MaeDowald, Emile Ollivior, Casteller, Serrano, and Gladstane 2 Canadn hng parecd through a scandal which in- volved MecDonnld's own namo, despito lus long ascondenoy, and tumblod his Minjatry. No Cap- tain-General bos escaped either corruption or de- featin Cuba, though tho ablest mon in Spain have successively rulad the island. Brazil basnot ronlized anv of hier promises as to Blavery. Tho Argoutino Republic, the most progresgive State in South America, though inlerlting all the favors of Harmionto, ity winest Republican, is embroiled in civil war. Tho two Btates which touch us—Cnvada and Mosica—hnvo enjoyed ‘moro porfect peres in Grant'y Lwo terms than for sears, nod largely from tha oxamplo, wag- navimity, and decision of the Uniled btales. On Both bordors, Fonlan and partizan raids have ceased. T'he American railvond-systems npproach Moxican sofl on tho Guif and tho Pacifio eides ; the 8t. Lawrenceis bridsed af Buffalo ; and, but for Congresslonal selitsbness, Mr. Fish would have concluded a Reciprocal Treaty with onr Northern neighbor, which would have made the St. Lavrence nad Lakes o mutual internal high- way from Tiiinois and Minvosota to Montraal. ALNOAD, we 8co nothing to imitate in Mac)Mahon's Re- ‘publio, with 150,060 troops in Paris, French com- meres snd elan deeiepit, the whale policy of admimstration yepressive, tbo colonies full of exiles. tho press eilenced, and the bowrgooisio disheariened, Nor in Gladetona's canny policy of friglitoning bofore obimeras nnd facing dig- gust at the polly, leaving Dritain to s succeesor whoee namo and party aro synonymous with whatever is not Eugland's in prowih and plory. The .0 of discount st {he Bonk ot Englaud to- dav, far out of its wena courno, is, conlempora- peons with American sceunitics, firm, gold low in Now York, and money, on renltics, onsy. Spain bas two Goversments, and none. Neither Bea s policy. The peoplo murder each cher by naval actionn in their own ports; tho ships-of- the-line turn pirates; Cuba is avenged upon ber blcodhounds at home. Iinly and Austrin havo beon in & drag throughont this question, with- out any counpienous Administration. 'Tho rug- ged volicy of Dismarck is poloring ont inglosi- ourly in somo Safe-Burglury foolislmoss to recovor bis correspondonce from Von Arnim. Hollond i at wor for hor remaioing colony, pny- ing dekl for despotiem, The Australasinn colo- pics of Engiand have dropred_out of tha con- tomplation of the Westain Woild. Japan i prepating for war with Chinu, Russio Is jost in Tonetoma Asiatic conquests, inglorious and ob- scurc. A Orag. o glut, is wpon civilization. The ships of tho North Germaws ara in tho market for salo. Tha builders o tho Clydo and the carrying foll of Liverpool begiu to apprebend evil days. Emigration wavers, scarcoly knowing on which Coutiuont to abido. A Whevo is thora more stability than in the American Adunnistration, hedged with nono of 1o glory of n Kinz, und silent and composed in the midst of factiun ay in the midst of batilo ? GRANT TO TH); WORLD, - Nono of tho loud, resontful vituperation which tas beon raised agninst tho Premdent by the reaa of this country hns been ochoed abroad. ‘nt i the seulo of Wlat figure it will make in Iiwtors, Nothing that lics in tho justice of maukind, ot the atandurd of o rightoons patriotism, hos been abused by this President, 1o will meas- ure up, fume_for fomo, with the motives, sell- respect, nd wiedom, of tho combiued pross which is now assailing hia. Povsessing tho powor of retalintion in a dogrea to which no edi- tor in tho curth ecan aspiro, he Lns nover nsed Janguuge hite this, to bo repeatcd by the jour- nalk of every country in ivcredulous oxocration of the journuliem of this: #71 alfonded that editor by retrieving a battle in which he nceused me of drunkenaces, and his oplusonntedness has been trying to outlive my sluracter. “That ono I offended by not rowarding him far elug °a wpy wround, my Leaduortoni; aud ever since he hag filled the” Capital with spios, working on the modely Y)lnn. to abuse my dangh- ter's wedding-tablo, or bring toarm to the oyes uf my wife, Hud such tyrants control of this Gov- ornmeut, what might it bo, sluco they hnvo 80 \‘n;.tly abused the smaller osiato thoy pos- aers 2" As Congress is about to assemblo, and THE BALANCE OF RESUONSINILITY tobostruck bolwoon its work asa Ropubtican bady, and tha excoutive head of tho party, this is 8 gond time ta re-acamino the acts of bolb. T have hived hers all tho wlule since the Presi- dent wes made Sectotary of War by Andrew Joharon. Whon Johneon could not nse Gen. Grant, lio endenvcrod to compromise him in a Atacoment, oxd was mndo aware that bis tactics wers under- stoad, ond that he wos not trusted, Nothing in Grant's Presidency bus been so ofton adverted to uu tho courso ho nade with Johngon, swmg- ing nround tha country, Ho wan thon tho Dresi- dont’s snbordinate, steady aund loyel, without . lip-servico. Mr. Johuson has gone doeper and deoper down from solt-respeet, catoring to the bybrid polities of 'Tennossco, until ho i fling wway by bio new allies, and nothing remains but his old devotion to the Union to bo proud of. Tne first act of the now President, who was elected without pledges, and withs tha promiso that he would havo no palicy to enforce, and do- sirod_chiefly Peuco, civil, olitical, aud sooint, wea tho nominntion of u Cabinet. Tho pivotsl placo was the Treasnry. That wad to be the Ad- wimastration. CONGRES FIGITS BTEWART, e named Alexander T\ Stewurt,—probably the moxt experionced merelant m the workl; w nun without abstrncsions as to what proportion of Government should b hero or yonder, but en- dowed with unequaled powers over details, such as the Treatury systom involvos; with the hub- it of managing thousands of clorks ; aware of Cug- tom-Iousa abuses and tho moden of forplgn in- woicing: and noevor robbod by hiv snbordlustes without detostion, A purchaser in evorv sarkot of Buropo; & manufacturer on hoth sides of tha ocean ; lealing with the greatest morchants of thu interior 3 relnillm]' to the Metropolls i rich boyond greed, and willing to work for the duty anid honar, This childless morchant was re- Jeotod by Congress, Locuusa un old lnw, mnde in the lnfaue ana nplhl‘nllollklvn days of the le- ublio, forbade uny importer to manngo the Cns- omi. 1 vain did My, Stowart offor to asslgn hin intor- esls to other porzong, and conduct hiy ofiico without _any divided allozmance, The pretext waa all Congtess required o rejeet the man, be- oo he was not s partissn, and would manape tho Lreasury on & commorclal systeny, tho per. fection af Civll Sorvice, heesuso every pereon in it, and no mwore, woitld be kept at work, The Benate atood by the law ; the mevohant's name wag withdraivn ; and the pew Iresidont, wholly ab non, wan mibjeotod, for a socontY aholco, to tho intrigues and pertinaoity of politiciang, Con- greas whould hiavo ropealod tho Inys, THE HEQUE. Mr, Doutwell got the plico. Ho wanted it, Tho Tronsury Departmont driftoc! iuto porsonal partisanshiip; Mr. Houtwoll aupired to tho Sen- ato and the Presldonoy, and mnta & conlition with Butler, who could holp him in Manoa- chusetts, Thonco followed Richiardson, Bout- woll's man Friduy; tho ancendeney of Butlor; thio Sanborn contracts ; und the wialo procossion of potty scandals which bavo londod tho patty own. "I'ho Proatdont's cholco would huwo put st the head of tho Trensury & mun too cautions not to robuko tho railrond-lobby and tuo transconti- novtal droams of opthnistle fluanciers, Slr. Stowart would bavo observed the tondenoy to averprotoction in fron, and chastired it by recoms mending foreign competition, baith for “rovenno aud policy. National Banke wonki not have baen cangnt deainad dry by their Direators, An Argus, A Stewart, In the Treasury, might of imsclt hava wardod off this atagnation. Tut Mr. Boulwoll put a stop to Mr, Wells, who Lad fecbly begun to fnquire into the probabili- tico of national decline, Ho wns turned out. ‘I'to port of New York continued to bo a faction- al canous, Intstend of o Imaineys lones, Tho ervorn of tho Tronsury aro the Sanate's wisdom. ‘What it mighit have beon was Qrant's choice. THE ORIGINAL OADINET containod Gen. Jacob D, Cox, of Olifo,—a man of sincerity, but too fominino'in uis natre. Ho was made the victim of a psoudo attemps to cor- rupt him_Dby a claimant ; tho Prosidont ordored o ntay ; Cox went out lnn Loat to repont at loistiro, nud ono of his Inst uats was tocall upon the Proeident and ronow oxchanges of rospact. Iiis atccearor, Dolauo, bus adminiatored the ofiico so that thoro has bocn femy than tho usuul inquiry, and lLoa not serupled to remavo tho Lresidont’s staf-officor, Parken, without roprl- mand, Gonornl poaco esists amongst tho I dians, 'I'ho censun wan takon botior than ever boforo, by one of the Presidont™s proteges, Gou. Whalker, aud would hovo beeu ‘telren botter if & certnin Seuator had notstamped out the now law to resist bim, in rovenge for thie defeat of that Sonntor's nominco. Congrees lat alwo widened tho lint of ponsions and incroasad tho rate. Lho Patent-Oflice hag boen operatad without seandal, and has_returned a proflt to Gowvornment, ‘tho Lond-Oftico lias beon ns woll admiuistored as migliz be oxpevted in railroad-tbmes. WAR Tho Sccrotary of War, a young soldlor of conspicious gollantry ot Atlanta, whore ho pulled a robol Colonol over the breastworks by tha hair of his hond, boo maintained tho War Offico without o stain, The army, reduced and olteotivo, has boon put under tho civil arm,—tho Premdent preterring that tho civil Govornment of tho Secretary should, in timo of poacn, super- oxdo tho military Govornmont of tho Gonoral. Taia is tho only oxplunation, of & public unture, of Sherman's removal to 8t. Louis. No par- tintity has boon sbiown amongnt Generals. ITancoels, n political rivel, bas #ha best Dopart- mont iv the country, with bendquariers in New York; and Crook was promoted to n Drigadior- whip, for servicos in tho flold agauat tho In- duik, vholly eubsoquont to tho War., ATTORNEN-GENERAL.. The original choico for Attorney-Genoral, E. Tockwocd lloar, was of the lighest iypo of Pusitau Ropublioantsm, tho President's own cholce. Again Congross aningomized Judge Honr, deeming bim fao littlo amenable to mero ‘partignasnip, profersing oven Altorman, who liad woryed withont scandal; and the Sennto, aeling under Butlor's infiuence, deferted Hoar evon for n Justioeshin, whilo readily passing Williama, When the Chief-Justicoship camo up, evory sec- tion intorfored. Supmer supported Caleh Cusl ine; Willawe retired from the contost on a count of gross und brutnl attacke upon his fa ity, not limself, Tho Presidovt showed no ob- siiorey for any candidate, aud Nr. Waite took tho seat. Who is worsooll 2 TIIE SUCRETARY OF STATE hias heen vilely ubused for all reasons which aro not decent of thomsolves: for havicg somo roperty : for beiug reapactably connected ; for {:uupimx tho penca ; for the Eoglish treaty ; for reenlling Sickles ; and for tho occupations of Lig sot by marrinzo. Apropoa of this last chargo, I possces & loftor nover yet mado public, nlthongh wna year old. When'ths Arabs wers charmng sthis Secrotary for the occupation of Mr. Sidnoy Webster, his son-inelnw, and, with their vulgar malice, wors ealling him, ab kia vears, of tbo purchaso of Spinish gold, I onblisked au sxamination of the case in Tz Citioaao Timese, and sent 1t to Mr. Fign, whom T did not know,—morely pen- ciled : A Iohemian's justico,” ‘Lo following AUTOGRAPH LETTER wan rocelved : WASHINGTON, Dec, 8, 1874, To ** Gath M DeAr Sin: Thanks for your letter, and for the sc- comprusing one to e GIICAGO TRABUE, 'Cho claxs wbom you designato as * Bohomians,” ‘whila nuwinbering very many of the most high-toned antbiouorable gentlemon, bae, lilio all othr profoa slons aud oullinge, its bluck sheep; aud from thees samo come, without cither provecation or Justifics. tion, the abuse and the crucl insinuetions which you have very gonerously dunounved, As I Lng no personal claims to your {nterposition, your aetion in the matler Iy tho morto nighly approcia- ied, a6 ono of gencrosity ns woll s of Jistico, v, Wobster was coungol to the Spunisl Yepation for ycars bofora I entered tho Departmuat of State; and, tince I have been in the Department, I caunot rocell » single oceasion wiren ho hux, exther by word or by latier, dircetly or indirectly, veferied to ony of 1l relations between tho two Governments, or to his relations with 0o of With 1he most em. pulotis delleacy {hiese matters hnve hren, almost alone of subjects or queations, not ailnded {0in Lis nterconteo with me. Tecetving ny ackuowledgionts, I am, very reapect. fugly yours, Tisdiezon Fisn, AORAL. Tho delicacy of such a rolation between fathier-iv-law 2nd son ought to blister some of onv journslisls who denl in insinuation and mock tho liberty they make o surfeit, Mr. Freh bas won a place nmonget the “sterling peace- keopers of tho world, His Mivistors abrond have won goldon opinions: Washburno ab tho bombardment of Pavis, sbeltering. the German refugeen ; Bancroft in Borlin, securing tho right oxpatrintion ; De Long in dapan, Americzn- izivg the nobility ; Schonck in Eagiand, sotthng tho Alabama claims; and Jay in Austria, coms pelling our tendesion to respock thomelvos, e effort to snpport Castellar m Spain was an enruest desiro to hboralizo that Ponmsula, avd, sines it failed, Spain hos beena elaughter-honso. Nor ara wo io forgol bioxico, whero Fowtor's Tegation Iy the favorito of tho mild and Lian- quil Governmient thery, secured by Auerican in- terposition, Iu M, Fish's - EPISODE WITH XR. SUNNER, sad ns it wan, tho dignity and unity of Govern- went bad to prosail over the heivic rage of a noblo but jmpracticuble Benstor, eccustomed to havo bis will.” T'ho Chulrman of Foreign Afiairs had, by nlong teaure of plnoo, and private cor- rospoudencoe \With foroign statesmen, controlled an undue amount of our diplomacy. His litor~ ary friend, dMotloy, bad been romoved. Unap- Peuesblo, withont aven patriotic iutorconrsa with the Secretacy, it becmmo tho Senate to recon- struct bis Committeo. As decisively was the HMinitter of tho Czar rebuked, though thae son of tho Czar was his guest. Vetwous who would find_ & countorpart for thin nocd only oxamine the Sceretargship of Mr. Mavey, whodo nuthori- tatlvo sntive’ arrested Qon. Scolt in the midet of tho conquest of Mexico, and ruled our diplo~ matle servico with the absolutism of a Gortscha- kofl, Nor, when tho mon of tho day have passed, and tho dinloctic Behirz repents the procision of hin sentoncoe, will all the rumpue over Santo Yomingo bo the mighty crima it way. * Seyo the Black Republio!* will ound bathetic as tho Mussulman cvy of figs in the namo of tho Prophet. And what North Gormany undertook to do with Porto Rico will sgeemn n vory natural pieco of policy for & Domocracy which raidod Houora, Niearagus, aud Cubn, for lows usoful intouts than to coal our vessols and rocruiy onr commerco. Over Bumve's bier, Graut and Tish stood togethor, respeciful muen,—remom- ‘boring, porhaps, that Ta drop on Fox'u gravo a tear, Yewill trickle o'er hiy rival's bler. NAVY AXD POST, Tho Amerlean navy is dilapldated, by the nputhy of Congross and tho people ; but, In tho wolitary nocessity for its omployment, Mr. Rob- agon showed uo want of vigor, and, nlthough a targot for smolt shot, previously hoiled. solt in potsonul spleon, ho attended tho invostigntion of tho Sscor claimy, and his accusers would huvo sold ont for two conts, T'ho Poatmaster-Generalship has always been a Congressional porquisito, mail-coniracty Iu- clnded. In this Administration, the trauking privilegro how heon nbolished by Congrons, only after vigorous abusoe of the Execntive for using tllxln |Lunfl» to fucilitete yublio petitions (bere- about, 1t seorms (hat everybody can potition und bave on orgau oxcopt tho power that is rosponsible, threigh publio opimion, for tho country, Whnt rokponkibility has avy editor for the country ? Its glory moy be & mutlor of ofroulation, orof sensutian, to mast of them, 1 think Lhat tha wenkncts of (his Adminlstra. tion hios heen Jess in afs vituo end vapuelty, than in ity disregard of the modern fntluoncos which ean mako or nnmnske public men as easily by slandor und talschood as by Lruth., * THE PIESH AND PRESIDENT, In England, the two fimnt vrluts, Témes and Teleqraph, are liko the lion and unicorn, fighting ays for the Orown, In Aworles, tho nationsl shisld i tho journale ist's targot, 1Ilo firon polaoned arrows and burn= ing brands, and chuoklos that he is **a powor.” Yot, i€ it ono snot tho Governmont enoourngod & presa, that bocomes **an organ.' "The timo i coming whon, to have publio sta- tlon worth atriving for, the proes must be its shiold. There fa nothing morconary, incondiury, or impropor in an Administration battling for ?tolf-axiutonno by the liborty of tho pross againat 4 abuso, What {s moro_monstrous than that I can, if 1 ¢lioose, llve in this Capitnl, and omploy epice Lo Luwt down tho porsonnl ohnracter of tho Presl- dont and Oatinet, publish the wodding-presents of Bill Twaod’s daughtor bosido tho weddine- f"“ of_tho ruler of my conntey, and fill tho pub- o mind with skopticism and hato of the nuthori- tios of tho Republic, nud sull bo more popular with tho press for this ribaldry than if, ovon onco, I rocoll upon it, and swear that 1 will not do 1t, avon to be popular 2 The I'resident lia stood naked, with A gag in hiis mouth, truating to the good opinion of nion, Ilo may still conquer by that ducility ; but it wea not tho way of Jolterson and Jackson. It was not Lincoln's way, M, Jeforaon ostablished the firat political prosa fu Lhe country in the fliat year of his first Adminiatration. Gon. Jenkson trustod to noth- ing rondy-mado at the Capital to bo Lk blunder- iog exponont. Frank Blair and the Globe ko sob up at his sido,—~talent and foree onough to drive Calhoun and Clay togethor to tho wall, Prosidont Grant hna not & pon at his com- mand, oxcept of that rising filendship which {s boginning to seo that the deoay of the tmieyis quito an nttributablo to sonio of its jourunliom as to anything clso. ‘Iho name of John Wilkas, the aock-oyod termagant of tho day of tho Goorgos. han coma down to ua without lustro, worn bty tho sssnsaln of n Prosidont and Hberator ; whils tha noblo Milton, the dofender of the Common- woalth, rises In famo to tho staturo of Hampdon. BITH, It is tho boast of Lnglishmen for Victoria, that shio 44 & virtnous wife and mothor ; of Nupoleon IIL, that he improved Parix: aud of Wietor Tmonnel, that ho united Italy. 1hoso mwealaco may bo retiewed of a Prosident who has boen all theso to his fomily, hiscapital, and bis conntry. Jtwue ab tho other eud of the Capitul that salary-grabs, Crodit Mobilior, and Butloriem ran thoir courso. Thero tho Hinancial debate mmoved on, liko the reoolicotions of Bhallow nnd Falatafl, until the ago groaned with tho longth of i Tho olopbnut of tho Admintstration hae: been tho South., 1t was tho fault of tho poopln thoro that they did not long nga recover their Governs monts nod Jiberalize _themsolves. Iteconstruc- tion waa the work of Johnson's timo. Iunido of Grant’s pnrty-obligations, hoe lcaned toward those poople. Longstroot, Orr, and many more woro tho mclrluntu of his fovors. An intcler- anco they eould not breast broke them down. But to the last, the Southorn sentiment was, ** If we must hzve a Ropublican, Grant.” FINIS. Theso things have boen sald becauss thoy are fresh, Strauge as it is, to speak weliof tho President is stertling, Docevoy has goy to bo songationnl, Abugo is a poor old drab, eursed out with inherunt malignity, Tnlko this sonsation thon, thou drab, and cutse at me. Gari. THE FARM AND GARDIEN, The Change of Farm-Labor—iyiifers onco in Fivmeands—Eooking Aftor small ‘Things~The Lilact of Water on the Closing of the Scasan-To Correspondents—he Middiomen — No RBuard Timos—Uondition of the Corn- ddor — Distributing Frait from Chicago=—klow 23 Per Cont of the Applo~Crop &8 Lost—"The I'roduco Exchange, From Our Agricultural Corrcspondent, Cuaxratoy, 1, Dua 3, 1874, ‘We are drifting along toward the ragged edge of winter, and have pasged tho long doys of hard work, and are among tho short days of many cares; o constant demand for littlo helps; days of odd jobs and smail chores. This is A TRYING TINE for many furmers aod farm-kands, and many of them {ail at this point. Many farmors ;and farm- bande who can do good days’ work whon they have a steady lino of work for all day, makoa decided failure at this lime, when thay bave to go bobbing around, an bour ot {his, & bafif-hour at that, ond, when all the small mat!ora ave attond- ed to, put the toam to tho wagon and go to Laul- ing manure. Of two furm-hunds equally valuae ble for swmmer-work, ons muy bo good for theso odds and eods of work, aud ihie other of little or no vsine. One waits for you to direct him,—to switch him, like a dopot- engiue, from one littla job to tho other; while tho other koows what s to be done, and sots himself about doing it. And, when worls becomes shuck, and & part of the holp must bo (Jismissed, you have no hesitation i fiziug on 'the ouc to part with, I'he caso is difforent with tho farmey who can do nothing out of long rows of cory, or largo crops that requiro a stoady eflort ; for, with him, it is not wages, but o loss of profits, or of products, THERE 18 FARMER P, of this class, Ilis wife wauted him to get in the beets, carrots, and parsnips ; but tu-day they are in the ground, frozen fast, and willboe a tolal loss, And yot Mr. P isa hard-wor'king man ; but he eaunot comprchond that some things must take precodenco of others; or, rather, when the time comes for action, it must not bo puboif, “ Well, John," snid Mrs. P, o moruing or two ago, when tho moreury was within o fraction of zero, * those beots and things in tho garden oro ruined ; and wo must go without them this wintor, It wonld have taken less than hatf a day to have szved thom, and you shounld have left oft corn-husking when 1 wanoted you to, aud put thom in the coline.” * Voll, Jane, I know that is 50," snid Mr. P, u Hitle crestfallen *“but 1 did vot think that it would freoze that night, and I wanted to finish that tiold of corn that L was at" Yo kwow, _John, (bt freczing of the corn womld nui harm ib; and that the palting off of this work has lost us the vegetables that wo 8o much need, Last year, half of the potato- crop was lost in the esnie way. Tho fuet iv, Johu, yon muat make up your wind to Joak uftor theso smail things ju time, uu I do ot lilk:s to go with- out vogatables during tho winfer,~-at least, af~ ter it ina boeu so muel troubls to grow thom.” And the good wife passod her upron over her eyes and went into tho house, M. P did not mean to nogleot thosa Lhings; but 1t wes mot in - his matura o Iook after emall thinga whon o Lind Jargor ones to look after, as though tho small Lhings did not mako np much of tho comforts of hte, This may account for tho tnany poor gardeus in tho conntry; the (armers caunot tind_timo io look after thom, It is tho capacity to look aftor tha ontiro necds of tho farm that mukes the differ- onco botween ono farmer's succons and that of another; and, in farm-bands, tho difforoseo be- tween constant employment and tie want of it. Thankagiviug ia over, followai by a snow- storm of unusnal anvem{ for tho sonsou, In the early settloment of tho coursdtry, whon the vloughs and ponds were fllled with water, and tho wholo surface was demp with the autumn rainfall, heat was givon off slawly fram this gront body of wator, and mild woather was err- ried far into Decombor, and not infrequontly through tho firet weol fu January ; but now TIEE CANGE UAS BECOME PENMANENT, and wo ey as_well dismiss tho indes of open weathor into Docember, Pastwsnge, mondows, and culiivated fields, all pid ovaporn- tion, aud (hus the old couditions aro wonting, and uothing s loft to givo off heat, Tho old sattlor swouders if the Bortous won't ehange baek agmin. Of courgo not; for now tho wsloughs bave long drains through thom, and, if not planteid to corn, aro in grass; and tho ponds have becn tapped, and grass bas taken the place of tho tall rushes and fiegs, whila the last drop of wuier Lus disnp- peared from tho eurfuce. It ia this that hag Drought our Thankegiving so much nearer winter than formorly, ‘I'ho sumo couso that haetens wintor nleo pro- tracts il. During tho warm porlods of winter, thora ara 1o large hodigs of water Lo tako up and Tiold tho hoat by changing baok uo water, aud tho wiutor it thus carriod forward awiong the days of #pring, sud wo Linvo & weel; or two knbtractod ut that ond of thesenson. Wo niwr count tho two undn of thn soason thus elipped ng nonrly equal- ing o manth, Wa uy as woll make up ourramds to thin now wtato of things, us there in no prospect of amendmont, for it 14 a shango imade permnnont by sho now conditions that uro kmposed ; and, o Jong s theso remain unchangod , 5o long may wo lool: for tho shortening of the scavon, This vhungo 18,NOT LOCAT, WETIL US, but afteats the whole settled nied cultivated por- tion of the Northwest, and oxta ade far inlo the Uotton Btates, whora tho foremm have heou cul down and culture hau ovaporpted thio mojstura from tha soil, t i85 a complaiot, made of late years, that thiy late spring- frosts lhave boen vaarriod further Houth thau formerly,-—thus cndaugeriug the eatly-plantod cotton, aud (ndus kug & lator plante ing, Twenty yenrs ago, {8 was A common prac- tico with the farmors of thin coumr to legin l)]nntlng corn A{n‘fl 23, but now fow think of do- ing 80 boforo May b, ton days lator. 'I'hon all the ponda and sloughs wero filted with wator, and {6 was ditlionlt to got Into our woodlaud on ncoount of Lho bad ronda 3 but now thoro In lttla complafut on thnt seoro, Wo lnve hadn very fine nutumn to do farm-worlk, and yot tho closlng 14 rathor auddon. This will bave the effoct lo draw mora frooly on the rodder-reserve, as tho pasturage {sout off for the proxont, '£0_COURFHPOND 1t is curious how lottora accumulate when ono is vot prompt in dispoaing of them. Many go o tbe waste-banket, and_others are disposod of by printing them or writing a privato nnawor, DBut thera is another class that aro lald by for futuro use, tho subjects to bo writlen up at the propor tito; but tho proper time doan uot conto, or tho matter {s pushod aside, Bomo of theve havo been roplied to incidoutally. 'Co-day I have boon nortiug thesn out, and moking & noto of thoso tbat nand nrtoutton hereaftor; so every porson who bos supposed his or her lotter lost, mislald, or ignored, may know just how 1t Iy, and bo asoured that thoy have not been forgot- ten, 'Thero aro many lottors In rogard to the now order of middlemou,—the ORANGE SELLING AKD PURCHASING AGTNTS— boh aldes of which aro advocated ; but, I regrot to say, in too many instaucos without duo repard to tho righta of all. Thoro is much to bo auid on both eides of this question, and 1 profer to wait and lot tho now systom prove iteolf, which it must @o 1 o shork tiino or fuil, No donbt that many of tho Grango ugenta will prova both honest and capable. At the anmo tline, thoro area lorgo nwaberof such syonls that have beon selosted that havo neither oxporience nor intogrily to commend them, sud have beon soloctod by votes, just as cgco-rmal(nm manuge to got votes by dint of $portunity, and thun folut thomsolves o a confiding people, Lvocy porson who as accaslon to use an agont sbould look to it that tho porson hay business. exporlenco, and that ho makes prompt roturns ; and, a8 a rulo, ho will bo better eerved by sono woll-ectablishod businoss-houso than to put lis goods into the Liands of kome person of whom 1o knows littlo. A small por cont of these new ‘mon suceoed 1 building up & now busiuess, but tho greator uumber fail; and I do not zeo why this rule may not prove as inoxorsblo with the Granger ay with any othor claws, In fact, Wwo oo having proof of this too often already, to shus our eyou ageinst this oft-repoated result, ‘Thua far the Stato and County Aponts of the Farmars’ Asgociation, that started oif 8o grandly two yoars ago at Bloomington, HAVE AGCOMPLISUED BUT LITTLD swhich littlo is growing benutifully loss, while bustuess has gono buok to the old channols with vory Jittle modification, and there is hitlo fonr of any materinl disturbance. Not long since, I waa lstenlug to hnlf-a-dozon mon talking over this mattor of business, Thoy all agreed that it was deerablo to have ono great mn(xf)ly stora ot the couuty-seat, where goods could Lo purchasod at notcost,—somothing on the plan of thio Zion Purclnsing Agoocy of tho Mormon. DBut one of their numbor suggested that this atore must purchaso all the farmers’ eges, but- tor, Lams, poulcry, potaioes, and vegetables, Tho moro they discissed tho mattor, tie miora was it apparent that one store of this kind for & farming pupulation of 43,000 would havo to be youy lack, and Loy ould Lavo to emplog veur- 1y all tho dealers and clerks now ongaged to do the work, and, ns theso must all bo_paid, thers could bo no great goiu. I concluded that thoy were losing faith in this system of co-oporation for a furniers’ atore ; and, tho more that it 18 iu- vestigated, the leasattractive it will appear. It {s woll to talk theso thiugs ovor, toacoif thero aro not somo leaks that may be stoppod. A year ago, my door-bell was wrung daily by 80JIE BENLVOLENT PERSON, who dosired to do the Gravgers good: but, Judging from thoir absenco this year, 1 supposd thoy heve not met with as much encouragomont & they anticipated; honce_ thelr disappanranco to some othor tleld of useful omploymont, At fivat, this county prosented an inviting field to this ofnes Of men, 38 no county took moro firmly to the Farmers' Clubs; but, fortunately, thoy made no great move to chauge the order of business ; aud then our courts Lnd gont sovoral persons to Johet for doing our farmers in the wuy of hayforks and cortaiu patont gemes; oud to-day this wholo oless of Dbonovolout men cppear to give this county n wido borth. The wholegala grocor and dealer in chwap dry-goeds have not wholly abandoned us; but thoy find so littlo encourageniont that thoy bave not prassed snlea. Our would-be leading Grangois huve veu thelr offorts to politics, secing thot busi- nega waa toking care of itsolf; aud in thal mnocent smusement thoy becamo ¢o nbsorved that 2l other things have been left to prosper; and, though crops aze light, we hear little come plaint of hurd fimes. Snow has boea falling for somo dnys, and i3 now about 6 or 7 inches deop,—an unusnal quantity for tho seaaon ; in fact, it 18 roldom that wao have as much duning any port of the wintor. Tarmeys will talkio GOOD CARE OF THEIR FODDER, a8 this oariy sotting-in of winter will admonish them, 'The cora-foddor is filled with the castiugs of chinoh-bugs, au is_shown by tho_discolora- tion of tho incido of the sheath of tho blades ; and Lhis ig o scrioua drawback on it3 value, ns tho insects have abstracted tho gruiu nnd thus lessoncd its value, —Cattlo that are allowed the range of tho corn-fleld should havo at least ono fecdwug of hay daily, in addition, Early in tho fall, considerablo complaint was mada in regard to tho bad offects on stoek that fod on theso chiuch-bug corn- stalks; but, of lato, thin apponrs to have given way,—probsbly on ' sccount of the cold weather destroying the insect, or driving it to the round; but we should keep n good look-out in imo, that it does not reduco our stoclk too ouch, 88 at boat the fodder is Joss nutritive than usual. DISTRIBUTING FRUIT FQI CUICAGO, Some pavties ot Benton Harbor and other fruit-points in Michigan have concoived tho plan of waking Chicago tho central point from which to distribata fruit, Lho machinory for this is 1o be a commercial agenuy of fruit-dealors aud oichardists that shatl control all the poiuts Lo which shipmouts of frait can Le made. Tho orehardist is _to be put in posscesion of the com- morcinl standing ot all these dealors, and, it Lo roforv, ho mny ship direct to any of them ; or, Ee way stup to certaiu honses iu Chicago, snd they mako tho distribution, This, it is supposed, will keep prices at o fair average, and provent & glut in the mavket. It is proposed -to chargo tho orchnrdist §5 as o prelimfunry tes Lo put tho plan into aperation. ‘Thus far the plan has met with little reuponse, a4 the fruit-growers are elow to malo any ohnnge in their relations to their agents, who liave sorved them #o well for the past; aud it mey bo n question if tho proposed plan is nwieh, i€ sny, (o advanes of that puc- wuod at present, The fruit-growers of Alton and the Cobden district had miore difoulty in the propor distribution of their fruit thau the Michignn growers, who lave slu;}mn mainly to Chicago, aud allowed the surreunding points to draw from that ono groat ceutra. 'Lhis has provad to be the true policy; and, as a genoral thing, all froit-growers, after thoy have supplied all thoir local customers, ahip the surplus to tha srand centre, But this is only a partisl remedy, and we NEED RONETIING DEYOND 175 in ghort, wo must have tome Pm“ by which all the suplus fruit may be utilized ; und this a ‘point of tho first importance. Lhnve shown, on a former ocension, that, on an average, at lonst 45 per cont of tho apple-crop istost. 'The greater part of this could bo saved iu vinogar. An orche ardst who malien & part of hin npplo-orop into citdor und vinogar told me, tho other day, that ho mads ovor 3,000 gallons of vinegar, or elder for that: quantity, out of acrop of 2,000 bushols of apples. Alowing 1 galions of vinegar to o bushol of applos, wo have 800 bushels of the 2,000 turned into viuegor ; but this ia not quite true, in ono Bonke b Jonsb, Assuming that ho mado 1,000 bushe's into cider, hie would havo 3,000 gatlonn of eider from wihet is called the thut prensing, and 1,000 gallons of clder for vinegar from the second preesing, ‘This' would leave 500 bushels of waslo npplos for vinogar-mal- ing,—2,000 gnilons, or 25 por cout of the crop. Whon the applea bogan to ripen for market, it was found that guits w lasge poicentage of thom were undor tize, Wormy, or fu_soma way unfit for ehipping: and thoso were saved, ground, aud prossed for vinegar, with tho re- sult an etated. Now, this elder will roquive rbont two yours to bo chungod into fivat-clasy cidor-vinognr, Without having verified tha fuct, 10 ono wonld suppose that there was o large w wadto in tho applosorchurd, and wo wlnplo a remedy ut hand 1o Brve it, Thoro v GROWING DEMAND TOR CINER-VISESAR made from cider, to repinco the stuli’ sold under that nume; and thero 18 no royon why it shonld not ba made, 8 thero is no_lack of (ho fruit that is now golng to weale. T8 ono ks only a few traos, and cannot afford & cider-prosn, ho cun mako n lonch, juss e thoy ava mado to leach ashes for noap-malking, Put tho applos in this from Quy to day, nud lot tho juica run from the dreaying fruit, snd put it into woll-painted, ron- hound cosks, and set then ju tha whado ; and, in {ho winter, put in the eollar, out ot the reech of frost. Wo will suppono thel evaporation, lenkuge, and tho setilings of tho casks, amouni ti one- fourth, the orcnardist wiil hiuvo 1,600 gallous of vinegar, Bupposiug thut o wolly this at 20 Ccona per a;n o, oxclumvo of the casks, it will amotnt to 00 conts & bushe! for this wasto fruit; and, i we allow one-half for the making, stor- log, and solling, wo have 30 conts a bnehel an the not valuo of thono wauto apples, or, in tho oggregalo, $160, as an ndded profit on anm orohard of 2,000 buahols, An a goneral thing, aftor daducting Isbor and other oxpensoe, -1t ju doubtful If tho sound fivat-clnes apples averaygo a not profit of moro than 80 conts A bushol,—tho figuroy that we Liavo aliown for thono turned into vinegar. This would give n wol profit of &000 for the 2,000 buahola of applen as they grow on tho treou. Now, whilo wo aro complaining of low pricos and glitn in the fruit-markot, wo allow this groat wasto to leak away a_largo sharo of the roturns that our own want of knowlodgo or of attention In gonstantly pormitting, ‘Ualiing thio aliove a3 o basls of operation, tho manufacturor of cidor-vinegar could afford to pay tha orchardist 80 conts a bushel for his traoto applos, All of this impliea capitalin ordor toascurs theae yesults,—not only capital, but business tact and babits: and thia will coll into requisition o class of deulors or mauufactuiers, to bo located nmong the orchards, who will work up all of this surplus fruit. It appears to mo that the first move to cqualizo tho salon of fruit #hould bo in this direction. ‘Cho surplus borries, poreh chorrios, ote., should bo cauned or dried ; and, when the prica iy tao low for ship- nient, ihoso entablishmenta would soon regulato tho marltot-domands, TIE PUODUCE EXQUANGE will no doubt do much. toward mgnlnuusf tho prico of fruit in Chicago, aa thoy will know, from day 10 day, tho quantity thrown -on tho merkot, and will bo posted an to tho crop. As & matter of course, it will botho intorost of ity memboys to know the standing of thoir corre- spondonits in all tho towns tributary to this produco-trade ; apd it is for them, not tho urehardist, toinvestigato this subject and know who to ship to. Wa will supposo that an orchardist has oarly apples, oherrios, grapes, ete., to hip from Centralia. It would bp to the iuterest of denlors south of Chicngo to purchirao of him; but, In practico, this has not boen fouud tho most Batiafnctory. In came tho orobardiet uxes his own judgmont in rogard to tho quantity por doy, the market will bo oithor over or understockad, and the prices nover sutis- Inctory. Somo arrangomont nmst be mado with tho groat body of shippors at Contraha, so that o cortain quantity may bo shipped dnl‘y to tho #evoral intormediate points, o oll points bo- yond Ohieago tho cago is ditferent, and tho dogl~ er can order through bis Cnicago houso what ha may need from day to day. 1t will thus be seen thas, 80 for as distributing frult from Chicago, tho grast centro of tho trado, tho system 18 ASSUMING PERFECTION s n3nearas any other comunorcinl mattor ; and that thoe orchardist, ns such, has little need of any now organization to bo created at his ex- povso o order to disposo of hls products, Tho orchardist must beur in mina that his snlos are to bo mnade through othor partios; that Lo canpol, at tho samo timo, be mn orchnrdist end o solosman, and that bho should bo careful to put his goods in tho hands of reliable partios, whone reputation 8 o gueranteo of fair donting. But ho has an intor- estin thoencouragementand building-up ofaclasa of small manufactures for the drying and curing of fruit, and the maktug of ciderand cidor-vine- gur, 1t one orchardist, having 2,000 bushels of Spples, oan maka 1,500 'gallons of cider-vinegar out of the mporrect and unmarketable fruit, and three-fourths of a gallon to 3 galions of cider made, most cortainly othors can do tho saie thing. Pruit-growng, with all other departments of rural econoniy, must bo menaged under general rules, &nd cloge watch kopt on the poluts that aro liablo to lenks, Wo hear much aid in re- gard (o dishonest comnission-mon; but, after an oxpetienco of more than twenty years with this cinss iu Chieago, £ am froa to say that, to my kuowlodgo, noue of them have wronged mo out of o single dollar, and I TIAVE AN UNSHAKEN CONFIDENCE IN TUEM, 1 elways doal with old-established bouses, aud take no gtock in the mon who are ambitions to build up 2 man and bueiness at losa than rogu- 1ar ratos, that the ald housos have found need- fal to maiutain the busiuces in o healtby condi- tion, Tho sconer that wo give up the ides of finmng something for nothing, it will be the oitor for us. To thoso Graugers who com- plain of the oxtortions of dealers, I would say: Sell your ferms aud become dealers, and rmon; tio dealbrs sinud, and bave a happy limo-—is you ean, Tunan, o THE BALLAD OF BETSEY CODDINGTON. Ahout two hundred years ago ‘Whon spring kissed off tho winter snow Under tho royal law, Good William Coddington was made, With all tho oldon-tima parado, ‘Rhodo Island's Governor. A basdsome, courlly man was o, Now Lnglanda arfstocracy, A rich fn gold anid londs, ‘With dlamond buckles, potrdered eue, Eneo brecches, bzoad cutted cont of b And runles 'round his hands, 1o wore s blood-red rignet xing, With coat of arms A quartering Aud old horaldic erest, A sword with rubied, allver hilt, ‘And eurious gold-embroldered quilh Upon bis satin vest, ue, Hila mannore, calm and dignited, Were temperd with n proper pride Of goodlio ancesiry, Tifn gableds quaint old Lotisa was kn With mase{vo chimnoy uilt of stone, “For hospitality, A cantury gono l—at early datk, In sumnior-time, tho old town clork, 1tis dull diy's labor doue, Sputs hia el oilce cresking door § o busts tho honored wsme of yore, of Williara Coddington, Crooked nnd quear, with eyes that blink, And bonds enctainéd with trunt fuk, With pleasunt, dovelllio look, Albelt tho day 18 cold or Lot 116 travels on a littie trot, ‘And lugs n ponderous boaks. Now by his broad wood fireside, Ho chiata with a bofltting prido, Of wills, oud bouds, and deeds: I¥hits Botuog, huadsome talland bright, 18 chftd, b household’ warmth sud Bght, 1l oft-told wiadom heeda, Slie looked and moved a gypsy queen Rare contrast to the quiet scene Aud Jow-browed room was she, As from o silver teaspot old, *Graved witlh dovices munifold Qf * ¢'s” eutwined with gritlius old, fine ponred the fragrant tes, Years glido like ghosta; the old town clerk Bleeps meath a wicte stone, grim aud dark, And sl tho folkn, amased, On Buudny after miceting's done Gather In groups, and ono by ono §ay, “ Betscy, she ds crazed,” *Twas said o ved-cheekod Englishman Stolo her hoart's love, nud with it ray Across the tossing eca, Bo tiat ae't muy, nor wind norsafl Yilled with its suit perfume tho gale ‘That proved his constuey, 8o #bio wont mad ; und whan tho enow Fell giloutly aud soft and slow, 8lio stalked tho narrow siract, A loatlesa Lranci: In hor brown hand, Waviig it Tiko o witch's wand ¢ thoso shio chanced (o meet, Grotesqua aud wolrd hot motioy guise, Liko cgula of firo hor glowlug 6503 And even boys in fun Tauzod o8 eho passed-—ahwaya alono— ‘Aud whispered in an under tone, * Poor Botsey Coddingion I And sa a duy fu wlutor caue, When sunsct lighta its crimson flame Ou Narragensett’s 1l On oaster's Iarbor, cold and white, Thy poor-hoitke khines with evenlng light, Aud Botucy, olie 18 still, Yos, atif, and cold, and sturk, aud dead, Upau a pauper’s narrow bed 3 And on tho whilo wall at hey hiead, Now life’ashort drua is done, Ditero hnigs 4 painting, old 1A rare, Witk costumo ricll, and’ powdozed halr, ©f Goyornor Codulingion, Aud ot 10 paar, worn, weary feat, hat yovermors will trend tho atréet— ‘Hafo from ull atormy 1 barms,— "Thore Is faded eanvas spread, Sitranyge mockery to the punpier dead, Iler aucient coat Of arrm, —Provhtonce Journal, ——— Pm Agin Redomption, From the Loufwille rier-Jonrnal, The new cursoncy purty, just orgauvized b Indiannpolia, propouses Lo goit on the goneral Jdea ot un_olit Croorgian of whom Gen. Robert "Foombs told the Tresidont Inst sprivg. During tha hard times of *37, when motioy was searco and the Stato Bank wus at itn wits’ end, shis astnta finnnclor of the rural districts enmo to Millodgaville and sought his ropredemtative in tho Togislaturo, ** Mr, Toombn,” soys hie, *wo musL hisve more moane o n‘:llp:cfl tn have moro monoy,” *Well,® suya Toombs, in hls Dbrusque way, ** how in the —~aro you goiug to gob Ly Y Oub of the Btato Bund," muys tho finaucier. *¢Bul," snys Toombs, strick by tho cnenestness of his constituent, *how s the Btate Bank going Lo giv L2 < Btamp i, aaye the finuneler, ** Stamp it," roured ‘Loombi; viund hosy in - the —— 8 it going to redecm tho mouoy it stamps?” A glow suffuded the faco of {he fiuancier, *' Why, Mr. Toomho,” says bo, ! that's just what I'm a-comin’ to, Youseo, Mr. Toombe, I'm agin redensplion I* TOLD AT NIGHTFALL. From Peterron's Journal of Popuiar Literature. 1t wag n atormy Hoptomber evoning, Guy Urquobart and my reapected seli—Cliatlea ENingstono, palntor—wero sitting In tho studio- window of hls uolightfal littlo villa at Frascat, noar Romo, high over the rounded tops of woods now lurld in tho red sotting sun. Benoath n ondon aliy the gloomy Campagas ntretehed Miho a dead son, ond vt Itg far rim eut tho diso, & portentous blood-rad ball, slowly, slowly slok- iog. Guy aod I had been old {friends and schaol- follows in Fnginnd, o was Lo or thres yenrs oldor than myself, bub that had mada bis frjond- ship for ma all tuo tonderer, and mino for bim roverautial, Nasidos, I had looked on Guy as n kind of genial young snint, I hal always folb vathor wicked In his company, bocauss ke ronlly sosmed, quilo naturally, uover to do anything wrong, or to inve no much ns & wrong thought, Ho would havo chioson art ns his “profeasion, I know, had ho boon allowed n voico in tho - rangoment of his own future; but the billona old father stho ruled his dostiny made a clyil engiuncor of him, without the slighteat roferonco to any poeeible fancy or protest of tho lad's. Nnturally, bo did not take kindly to his work, though ho buckled to it conscientiougly, Whon I came o Italy to study art, Guy and I kopt up a protty brisk correapondonce for abond n twelvemonth, But fu my second Italinn sum- mer his lotters suddonly consed to arrive. I wroto to bim in vafn hopo of answor for six months, and then lot the correspondonco go with asigh. 1 oneily nscortained that ho was alivo and well, but could find out nothing elsoabout bim that was mora reliable than tho gossip rotailed out hy cortain English military mon,who had flapped thoir lazy flight scross the son ona winter, and porched in Romo, “ Got into n scrapo abontn woman, nnd didn't hohave well to hor, or some- thing of the sort," drawlad out ono of thoss awmifalle geutlomen, And thin was all Icould diecover about poor Urquohart. But at Jast I hoard from Guy nmselt onco moro. To! he lnd inhorited a small fortune from a distant rolation ; ho hed thrown civil en- gincering overhoard; lLo was coming to omo forthwith to study art in oarnest at lasi; and wo must spond tho ensuing summor in Villoggiatura togethor, eating figs at Tusculum, At tho timo my story hegins, ho had boen abont six wooks in Romo, and lLad alrendy painted one or two cap- ital littlo picturon. No villago in tho world drives such n roaring trado in scindnl as grand old Romo. You havoe #con how Urquohart's chioracter sront baforo him, as 8ir Poter Teazla's atayod bohind, for tho com- fort of tho community, and what maroy it met with, Now, when ecircumstancos are sorved up in this mixed way, there aro gonorally certain facts which ono mny trace like pebbles throuch disturbing waves. I felt convincod that I should <lo 80 in Urquehart’s easo, if avor it plensod him to ive mo his confldenco, Eut I could not try to thrust myself into any chamber of bis past not freely opened to mo, could not help gueesing that thero wan n shutb and locked dooy, bohind which lurked the soln- tlon of n mystery. This mvstery was tho grozt and griovons change in my friend, not to ho accounted for by tho mere lapse of two or thres yonrs. And thia chango was all tho more re- mariblo that it wan not slways obvious. No twa mon could be mors unlike_than Urquohart to Urquehart in difforont moods. It seomod to mo asif much ovil had flowed into his heart by somo rent whoro much good had run out, but that tho poison had nevermixed with the healthy Juico of hin life. On this Soptember evening, an wo ant togoth~ ar, Guy had been muttering some very bad son- timents, which wonld have grioved mo more if T had not attributed them in pare to somo unripo penchea and tha stato of his stomach. “Guy," said I, suddonly, **I'va foued n key to much that makes peoplo gasp and stare at you. “\What do you mean?" roturned he, rather roughly. * Moat porsons,” I went on, '‘aro helf-angel, balt-devil, thoysay, Tut your nngel and devil Aeem to alaro theirlodging on tho mest curious torma of mutual forbesrance. Thoy scom to take you turn apd turn about, in watcles, o it woro, Your angel nover tormonta your devil, or intorfores with bis modo of enjoying himself, his Walpurgis nights with his man: and your dovil, with equal politoness, never intrudes him- self on tho angelical prayer-mectines, They could not possibly ecme in contact without dis- tarbing the barmony of {hie eystor ; but they seem to agren to diffor, like certain polito mare rled couples.” Urquohart took his pipe from his mouth, and blew out a long rmoke-wreath. Then ho leanad head and shoulders out of tho window, and stared far away eb the sun, now like a clot of blood on the livid harizon, till even that crimeon specl was absorbed. Thon he bronght himuelf back to his_formor position in a cornor of the rickety old sofs, and from that dusky corner spako. e You hooked & fino fat fish thero, my young friend, with your. moral.critical Your sn- gacity reallv’@nscrves patting for having snapped un such a good hoad of game. , you don't know how the _dovil got into me ; how should you? Ie had hardly sot claw on your friend when wo wore boys togother, and Irather the betterboy of the bwo." “You may well say that, old fellow! At that tima (and what a Jittlo tinio ago it is, attor alll) you really secmed {neapablo of evil, or even of comprohonding it, You trusted overybody im- plicity, becanad you yoursolf yore—-—" *'Au ags!”’ roared Urquehart. " And now liston.” So, aa the night fell, and “the casemont alowly grow a glimmering square™ In tho black- noss, Urquohinrt’s tale waa told, “ Fourteen months aro, I was lodging for tho summer in a farm-honee {nn village, no mattor whera, The only hougo thera helonging to gon- tlefolku, oxcept tho wretohed old parsonazo, was Hquiro Ringwond's. Tt was & big, stupid-looking munsion, on a hill, staring down' _averboaringly at tho poor little tensmants huddlod togother below; and the burly Squire himself was for all the world Hike hin hiouse, 88 hio eat on his tall hortie, aud looked down pompously over his vast walatcost at frighioned crow of villago cinl- dren, Tho Bquire_had an ugly, sickly wifa and daughter, and theyhad an humblo comprnion thot wad nn angol of benuty. Ifellin love with her at church,” Ob, tho liftlo climrch in the west counirie, hid in the howeryorchard hollow ! Oh, tho andden delicious st that littered tho graves with blossoms !—yonr mothor's_grave, Charlay ; has tho dear woman tho violots I planted thero ? or did they die Iiizo the faith and hopo sho set in ma? Ifall in love with Fanny Vale boforo 1 Ynew hor nanio ; 1 learned that from the farm- houso folku with whom T lodged. Fhoy told me, moreovor, that she was a young widow, aud still in woeds when eho oawe to lodge vors humbly in the village six monthg bolore ; that the Scnira’s wifo and danghter had takon n fanoy to hor, and bad ndopted her into thoir family, as a kind of roader and useful companfon of all wark, I nindo hor acqunintanco by & noto which I throw at hor feet ovor o hedgo tho fivat time I epied her walldng alone, I neoil not swoar to you that I nover had an evil wish or thonght about Ler. To me a woman wiH a holv thing, dosecrated by no lowness of condition, doaerving of auy gentlo- man’s lovo and reverence, if endowad with cor- tum qualitis, Thess qualities I now toolk on trust, and, bolog = cnchanted by her beauty, saw nlso the Eurtnunun of moral lovell- ness in her face. Such an nngnllu faco, Charley ! Thers she sat in the Bquive’s pow, beside hor ugly patronesson, with such intolligenco in hor melancholy bluo eyo and fair half-rioon of brow, snch a broutbing sonsibllity in hor silonce ; and whenIcame to know her, whet sywnputhy in hor wmile, what sillenn mannera, so ‘soft, gracofal, curessing, yob modest and £l of guave dlnity| Sbo did not angwer my note; bub whenI wonb to tho copro biohind Ringwood house, whoere I bad implored hor to mcet me, she was there, Sho eaine, sho eald, only to bag nie to comoe, aud writo, no more. 8he wae a poor dependent, und the least suepiclon falllug on her would cast her homaless and_friondless on thoe world, T will not dwoll on this stalo love-story: it was per- foetly commonplace of itu * ¥ind, aexcopt thnt the dupe wuy not, for onco, the humbla Deauty, but tho gontleman from London. Sho consonted to bo miy wifo; nndat the summer's ond, withouk reklng hor & singlo question a4 to hor past, without knowing moro of it than the farm follc lind yolunteored to toll mo tho fivsk day { saw hor, I brought thiy glrl to London, and warrled hor, ‘That's whal cnne of being too good fox, this world, inoapsblo of ovil, or tho womprehonaton of it T had wrltten to tell my tather of my intended marriage to_ (L. frunkly confessed) n perfoetly ohwoure and penniless young wornan, that had of course averythine bul position sud wealtls to recommend hior, 1 ywroto a respootful lotter which I recoived back in o blank covar, Yol my henrt yonrued to the crons- sraliiod old mian, and from ‘tho glory nud joy of v fool's paradigo I omerged volnntarily, botore tho honoymaon wauover, to sookwm reconcillation with my father, “When I got to his door, ho drove me away 1ika a boggar, like & atrange dog, with his hifted atick, with bia mouth full of curses, That is tho Iast Tover saw of him, Ho d - o :}r?mn?al{lo. Ho dlod stz months af. hirrled bagk o town, to ba comtartad by the anqel in my house, I vaturnad saoner tlmz I wad looked for. Y oponed the door by a lateh- key, and went softly up.staics to auepiise my wifo. It was abont2in the afterncon, Oue littls deawing-room had folding doovs, which word " now njar, No ‘one wnx In the front roem, bnt I_ hesrd—I Im?rd.mg :‘vll;u u_volaln iK t&m other, Iheard her vaiga au an'a. nd by nn!dtl 5"“'“‘&" s ut to stop forward, wag quita dark by this timo, and hore volco that had como onk af Urqumhnrz“:’blm carnor suddonty broke [nta an awful aob. * Don’t gn on,” sald T, much distrossod. + Lt mo slonc,” geped Usquohart, envagelys In_losa thon o minuto Lo rosumed, steadlly ¢ * Teaw my wifa with hor arms round n mon'y naek. Bho wan paseionately ntreating him not 0 loave her 3 ho was trying to rolonss himsolf. Tho next momont thoy saw me, and startad anmt, Then, instsntly, my sifs, that tonder angol, flung loveelf at” ma hku o wild. oat, Bho did notb, Reream, b tlrough _bor chut tocth sl mnld, * 1y Kill you, P11 kill vou, If you touch Lim1' Hor blne syes glared much like youdor hiue Nghtning that keops_ flashing out there, and somothing glittored oloss to my face. 8ho hiad enntohed un hor selugors, and I verily holieve would have dny thom {uto my tomple i€ tha than, her lover, ki not como and pullod down hor hand. Bug wat #olug ta falt {nto bis arms again, but Lo put hor from him, not vory gontly, and told her to alt downt, 8ho oboyod him {nstantly, Icannotin thie leant deneribo my stato of mind all this timo, which waa only o minute or two, I suppoge, M: iraprossion in thut I ied consod to feol; that, {f my brain and fieart hnd beon ecoovod oud, I conld not have heon emptler of omotion and thought: that I was not consclons of any vindictive rage, or uny trausport of despoir, Somo_pcople mny_think [ ought to have Idckod that man down-staits. T neither did 80, nor folt any desira to hurt him. It was he wwho took tho initintive, and mado mo a sign to_go into tho front room’ with him, which 1 did, Then, when I stood thato foco to face with lturgi I nmd suddonly, and, as it wore, involun. arily: :: “lWhn are yo;l 2Y P am sorry for you,’ sald be, in a gon! drawl, looking "at mo quito eumfinnulungfislg.| “this wwoman hoa troated you very badly, gtiu, you know, you bave only yoursslf to thank, Your candudt kas heen quita inconcoivably rash, a1 el ; * *Who are yon ? ropeated, staring bluntly, b4 i * % 2t bim ¢ 'am Capt. Edward Ringwood. Thig woman is o actrees, whom I hecamo acquainted with _about_n year or two beforo you firah naw ber. I nssuro you I lmew nothing of your love offalr or proposed marriage, I¢ had koown in time, T should certninly have cousidered it my duty to warn_vou of the awful blunder you were making. an I wont abroad with my regiment, it sooos she choss to g« dewu and” wriggle lowself into my family, Vhat her mative wav, I can’t imagine, “She is s most artful, dangerous perdon, that is clear. Bho paw ms- rotura to England in the papora vea- terday, and sent me a note inviting mo to come and noo hor at his addrens, which £ did, 1 giva you my word of honor I hed not beon hore ton minuted when yon madoe your appearanco. Sha had just told me sho was_marriod, and this wax your bouso; upon which I got up and wisbed hox ood-day.” “1y this time I had found myself unable ta stand, and was sitting on the sofa with my hend batweon my hands. When Capt. Ringwood lofl off speaking, I looked up, moaning to sy somo« thing, but forgot what it was, and only stared ab him silontly. o was & falr, slight young man, shout 80, with handsome, thin features, and )arge, lighte brown whiskers. e stood thora looking at me with the asme good-neturod concern in hia faca that ho had exprossed in words, in his fashionae ble, afectod way. “I¢Iast I recollected what I had beon geing ta 82y, und told him T wished to be loft alone, RH« oilently toolk out his card, laid it on the chimuney« pieco, and went out. 1 don't know how many hours I remained Ising on the sofa, with my oyas shut, in that strango torpor; but it wae night when I opsned thom, nud found my wife standing by me. Sha bad lighted the candles on the chimnoy-ploos, aud was stooping down over me. Sho started upright as my eyes opencd, but she did_npot avoid thom. She confronted me, arching back her nympl-like figure, and leaning one hand on a teblo bohind bLer. I felt no emotion at eight of her, but looked at her as if sho brd been a picture. Hor boauty was splendid. Al her fair goldou hair was turned off her white face in a sort of glittoring aurcola, Her groat Lurquoise-blito eyos flared under lightly contractod browks the nostrils of Lor dolicate, strnight nose and ler infanting .month expressel rage and pain. ++ T nin glad you are nwalie,’ snid she; ¢ I wani yon {o hoar mo sny I hato you!' «+T don't enze,’ Anid I, wearily. ‘Go away. * Her faco flamed out with the fury that wae ‘burnivg her heart, 3 Bat you do carol"’_ghe cried; ‘you shsll oaro! I tell you always laughod at vou and despised you. Ionly married you from pique—Dbocause ho left mo. I got into his family, and toadicd thom, nod made myself thele sorvaut, only to honr of him, aud to feel nearor him, and bo whoro he haod beon—I love him so! Tlove noone else in tho world—L never did, I would kill you, und & doxen like yon, to save him {from a fingorache. I would rathor s thoussod timos havo a blow from him than a kiss from ou—2a hundred million timea ! When I think of him, and that you aro betwoon ug, I hato you— 1 abhor i'oul Row dare you smilo at ma? I'll Il you! 71 was quite unconscious of smiling; but sha dartod ot me, and struck at my throut. canght her hand; this timo sho had o penknita in it, and I folt that sho had pricked mo. That inatinctive act of self-dofonso roused me, and robably saved my wita as well as my life. Whon X'liad masterad her and thrown the kaifo awny, T held her hands in mino till she puc down lier face and bit thom savagely,. I tied hor wrists with my poclethandkerchiof, nnd she sank pant~ ing on achajr. All of a sudden the unhappy croaturo burst out erying as if her hoart wns brolen—ns it woll might be. Probably Ringe wood's aool treatment of her througliout the in- terviow racently passed was at tho bottom of that frenzy of vituperation, that desporate be- havior toward mo. Sho did not hate me, but was simply mad with pain, and raved and struckk ont in hor dolirium. I think sho roaly liked me whon nhe married mo, notwithatunding her assertion to tho contrary, aml meant and wished to lead 2 naw lifo ; but tho sight of Ringwood’s name in tho papors, and the knowladgo of his nonrness, in my nbseove, revived her passion for him, in which her good rerolutions burnt liko straw. X raloased her haods, and brought wator and put it to her lips ; and when nhe was quict through axhaustion, I advisad ber to lie down, and hoped ehe would go to sleop, As I was leaving tho room sho ealled mio back, in a low, broken volco, and whon I stood hosido the sofs on which sha Tay, sho joinod hor hands, and asked mo, withy atroaming oves, to forgivo her. I did o, freely. Of course, Ringwood wag right. I had no ong but mygolf to thank. My infatuntion had boon 5o monstrous, that I could no more complaln of the consequences than a man, sobor, can com= plain of tha consequunces ol some drunken folly, “In the morning I took Fanny away to a farme Tiousn in Kent, a pluce sho knew of, and cliose horself for a rotront, Showas quict nud bumble, and up\mranu‘y broken-spirited. But sho did not remain thers & month; nor do I know whither sho went, or whers sha has been ovor since. Boforo sho loft sho wroto mo o long lettor exprossing Ler rowmorse at hov bohavior toward me; *bad as I am,’onded she, *Iwmil nover trouble you more. Ido implore you to bo suro of that, and to forgat mo, or thinlk of me as dead, “Iamafeaid to thivk of her atall, Imade overy vossiblo affort to trace hor, quite jn vain 3 end I hardly koow wheve wonld bo the good [(31 succooded, “Plat's all,” added Urquohart, afier a mo- niont's pause. ** aud thero's tus history of your friend and tho wife of s hosom; and if “you atill wondoy how or when niy dovil got jnto mo, I don't. IDalieve you lovomoe onough to thiuk ho {8 nat #o black a dovil né ho i paiuted. Ism not tho kind of ma in whoso heart auch a gash could bomado, rud hieal, and louve wo mark. Tor 1 Jong wllo this world scemed, and often does woem, ronlly an Inferno; nothing buk plunglng and breaking one's hoatt In o swamp of mufraring, with intervals of quiot fron mere ox- hauabion und despudr, O Charloy! how I wishod vour mother had boon alive! I wantod somno Jind womuan, that was honost and puro, about m0: wa won all do in onc dark hour, Basial— Iot 18 o down to tha druwing-rooni, and _your trionds, and the tawp, By Jovo, what & flashl “hero’s A mighty storm browing, young follow."” 4 - A @andia opinlon on Boston Newas papors. Hyom the Spriwylell (Muss) Ropudifean, * Plio Journal has many excellent qualitios as & nowspaper, although for wiapplog up o largo buudie, like a poir of ovorshoos, § siill profor tho Adcertise —e Advice to Ntrikorge From tho New York Tribune, There I8 only one way in which any man in this country can fix his own wages,~—and that s by becoming o member of Congrosa,