Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1877, Page 12

PAGES. oF, fnease of o slngle person, that it has been s or her home, and jmproved as such,—a patent for the land 13 fasued, and the home- stearder becomen the owner in fee-simple. TIR SOLDIRR'S CLAIN i differs from the homestead only in this: That It t4 for soldicrs who ferved In the Union army and were houorably discharged. It nllows n clnim of 10 acres, whether within or without the limits of railrond-grant, and nllows nll the time served fn the arny to be de- ducted trom the flve-years’ residence required of the homesteader beforea title s filvcn. Thus, aman who served three years in the srmy can prove up and get his title in tivo yeara from the time of setttement. Inall other respects, the requirements of him aro the samnc asof tho homesteader. THE TIMPER-CLAIM is under a law of Congress to encouraze the planting of thnber in the prairie-country, and allows any of the classes of persons above- named to'sclect amd flle upon 160 acres as a timber-clatm, provided that only one auch tin- ber-cinfm of 164 acres can he taken in any one section. The I, ns mow amended, requires that ~ fen wmcres of the lund shall he broken within one year from fillng, amd pianted with trees not more than twelve fect apatt, within two years from filing. In the third year another ten ncres has to be planted, and In the fourth year twenty acres more,~muking forty acres, or one-fourth of the 12 : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER (7, 1877— « 1 1 WESTERN ICANSAS. CI}/E]‘)IT vont, his nominal nsscte and hir actual psects, | art of knocking the gquirrel with a bullet fromn 8 While filustrate most foreibly the extent | the tap of a tafl eak 14 not easy to aciuire, nor 1o whicl credit can be obitafned by any one who | less fascinating beeaise the game {8 small, asks it, they nlso show how extensively u\'r 'Hlm'crl‘|{|[u|l.m|| lmpr[u\'c‘l)n: m:él'k*mflp!"lllh i i ehirinkage of assels = when n business b8 | of the soldiers by requiringe freanent use of the How tho Credit-System Is Ruining the | thrinkiee of sots, 18 et 00 M3 hew of | Fite, awid wil do so when the. fact fy recoenized Business of the Country. these examples will doubtless vrove of Interest, | that tarzet-practice alono wiil make the man and may, norhiaps, cause some thinking busiiioss | equal 1o the arm with which he ts supplied, and men to_exerclee greate 'ullml“lulhr!r drull- ;uure than double the eflectivencse of the 3 R fngs. For instance, in 1 ohn Manuing made | trooops. When Check Takes the Place of Capital, | Joes. Fr Comi ™ iities - amounting to | Ininienso waste will be_saved in time, and Disaster Is Incvitable. £25,0035 his nominal oescts were 4,072 nud | lead, and the wearand tear of arms, Soldicrs these finaily shrank to the insignificant aum of | cannot be better shots than sportamen, and no &MA—all that was left ‘olu ]lm_v ‘n“l Iln- ;mnnmun;houu‘wnll" ;le‘hm&l pnultkiri-.kllnly J 3 debtedness of over $25,000. Tt - wi he | by years of practice did 8ie Samuel Baker ac- Bome Itlustrations Showing Ilow seen from this that on a mnominal capl- | quite the nhlnutumnkc aplendid shots at run- thic Whote Thing Works. tal—ncluding cverything—of lees han | ning game. ftille-ghooting fa n fascinating, £5,000, Manning had obtained credit for over | cheap, and uscful sport s ndeed (b 1s almost the five times that n:mn;uh ;clwlcr & l!u‘hlvllurlnll‘. mll'v ou: wvuln a nr‘n-llnin} nm:n‘cnlh;n. Ilhw-lmtll i HYAN 1.8 HH liaving gesets valued at 343,000, meurred Hablll- [ matms toe players and furnishes fun for sports Rogistor Fitcl's Exbibit of the Qondition | it Aiotin it e s 164,000.” When the bust. | tobet on, and yachtiog answers for men of of o Thousand Insolvents, ness was settied up the asects . had stirnuls il | means and Telsue, tut the former Is daucerous there was only 35,000 left. Edgar Tucker | and the latter too costly for men of moderate wmade an_ussivument, l;h Imhuule-us ,fl,l‘lmlmllhuz mc:malzwhc::u rlllli;u:x;mun‘x. n"nrr.--mul {uly i o | To $214.257, hils nominal assets to $224217, but | a manly sport, and he attention were glven Fatal Discrepancies Botween Liabille | I FEELLG o e ficee nesots o #10,000, | o1t that it desorves, we shoul In time bevone, ties nnd Nominal Asscts. How comes it that this man’s creditors made no | o8 in the days of ths Revolution, a tintlon of investigation of his actunl Dusiness condition, | marksmeu, 4.8 P but continued to trust hin Il be vietimized —————— Interesting Exhibits for Business | them to the extent of a quarter of a mlilion of CATS AND BOARDERS. Men to Think Over. dollarst Dut let me present How They Are Estesmed by the Peoplo of dday, and turns in thore on the outskirts tnellned to tanve too far nw:\f.—rhl(nu from thirty to farty miles cach day when everythiug goes right and the hieed I3 a latze one, “Fhie danger of stampedes from fright {8 not ro great fn the winter as in tho summer. Tut, n & bad sturm, without. great care on the part of herders, and [requently in spite of oll care, they will hieak away amd drift before the storm a8 tonis a3 1L Taats, golng rometimes thirty or forty miles before stopping, when the samne pro- cess of unllmrm‘x in 1 have already described has to be gone through with, “The remler has by this time percelved that the management of A cattle-ranch 13 NO PASTIME or nhollday business, but ncans hard work, rough fare, and exposure to sil weathers. The worse the storm, the more pressinz and anluous are the dutics of the herders, The prifessionnt cow-hoye, though wild, rough, and vlten reck- less, are brave, daring, and generous, ns any one visltiyr * their eamps and shar- ing thele hospitality, which {8 alwavs freely tendered, will testify, [n filelity to the interests of their employers, and endurance of hardships in discharze of their duties, they fur- ulsh an example worthy of ilatiom, and scl- dom exeelled by persons fu much higher-toned employments, The” profits expected and usually realized from the cattte-butsineas are from 30°to 40 per cent per annun on the capital fnvested, were Hively timea In and about Charlestoy 1. Riiortly Affer noon Fort Bumter ammmeg o as. Iy, and It wan feared that nu attempt was o, tolo mude by the enemy to advance, wera enotgh men there, it was tl ht, to h 1, It there wasn deficlency of ammanit - atdl 90 a mule-driver votuntecred to delis ammunition. ‘The only road was the sy, and sandy beacl along the bag, and the distayee Letween the Lwo polnts about b tafle and n ey Half that distance wns within easy range of l-gnl Sumter, and anur.-ryd\v:mmr'u N8 cover, ed all the way to the sand il h was the !l-‘evh;ln[l mmp % belind wiieh am describing this incldent as it a from Lhe shippinit fn the bnv, and whet g attention to it was ‘the sudilen waking.np every wun on the southeast angle of Sinter, Looking to sca the causc of the furlous cannon. ading, cverybody was surpriscd to see n mule team tearing up the beach In the dlrection ne the new work, The driver was lasing the )as, on, and that mule hind ita ears lald um\iim: Lack and was making its legs o, Occasiongt], a shell would touch the beach, bound up, ..,.}' explode, and tho mule would then hesiiate ang try toturn back. But the driver would lay thy cowhlie on with renewed vigor: then the inyle put on anothier apurt, until” at last it beeamg entircly demoralized by the explosion of n- inch shell almost under Its helly. Every clacy in the squadron_was loveled at the spectagle, The driver gut off his snl‘ took the animal by e ont Thery Second Letter from Mr. O. C. Gibbs. All About Cattle, Morse, and Sheep Ranches. How Herds Are Started, and How They Are Managed. The Land-System of the Country~-flow to Obain Government Lands. Pro-cmptions, Homesteads, Soldier-Olaims, and Timber-Claims. To the Edilor of The Tribune, Cmicago, Nov. 15.—From my previous article the reader will readily see that at present wheat and stock are the leading products of Western A FEW OF TILE MOKE PROMINENT ONES umoung these thousand insolyents in tubular Sperial Correspondence of The Tridune, furin: the Dermudn Ialnnds, HORIE-RANCIIES, land.” At the end of clihit years from filing, on | the head, whirled it around once or twl N&w \r;,& .\'mf,"}l_]., a recent letter, come- ANominal Actual Mark Treain {n Atlantic Montdly for December Kaonsas, of which there are acveral fn the western part | making proof that the timber has been ?Inmvd. started it up the beach once more. Furl,ucé:::h = L i the hmprovesl prospects of trade, Names. Z\adilities, asxets. As we cntered the edze of the town [Hamil THE RANCI-MAN of Kunsas, are managed fn prety much the | cultivated, and cared for, as required by 1aw, | ter flnshed and flamed, Battery Wagner Delehied munting upon the fmpre pragped! ? | Imhorst ,fifin,mfim 8 24, mn ton, Bermuda 1slands] that Sunday afternoon, | 18 the ploneer, coverlng the country with his | sauie wayas cattle, Starting with' & drove of g 4 a 1 100k vecasion to say that there was little hope | ypeldman of reaching permauent prosperity until there | Keano.. was sonie reformation [n our methods of doing | Purenverty Lusiness, 1 espedtally referred to the prevalling | Humnhant. practice among manufacturces, Jubbers, and | Geodkind wholesale dealers of giving almost uuliimited | {i0odkind credit, without serlous question, to almost any one who thiooses tonsk for it. One of the prin- cipal causcs of the panle of '73 and itslong chain of subscquent disasters lay in the fact that the whole country was dolng an foflated business on a basis of vredits, every mau, toa and that it is then growing and in an con- dition, a patent I8 issucd for the land, and the plunter becotnes the owner of 160 acres of land, one-fourth of which is in young, growing tim- ber, and would sell for twive ns much ns any otlier forty acres of the tract. A thnber-claim ot less amount can he taken, as of cighty or forty neres, in which case ouly one-fourth of tho amount fs to be planted In timber, The beat metliods of planting, and kinds of trees, 1 will give hereafter, It will be seen from the above that, In case of the homestead, the soldier’s clalin, and the timber-clatn, the Government requires uo pay- meut for the land bevond the fecs at the Land- and thundered, and still that darin ver rged s mule along, though the gy we awept by at Jeast thirty guns, At last he reached his destinatlon, but be could tiot stay there, and fna moment ke way turncd around and exhorting that animal to ¢y its level best. The mule did not need tobe told to step out, for In Its rear there was roae and racket, and nbout its cars_ were flying sand and gernp-fron, which seemed to stimulate jty fleetnese, Down that hard beach flew the mylp, the light eart bobbing and swaying, and tie driver's atm _rising and falling as he' dealt oug lash after Insh, At last lhe{ near the friendly shelter of tho sand hills. In auother minute Amerfean, Californian, or ‘l'exas mares, they are crossed with Perchieron, Cl)'flemln‘c or Amcrieun stallions, produclng o good-sized, hardy, eeryiceable animal, These sell at four ymlr‘i. broke to the halter, for from 875 to. W0 cach, lierds of cattld and flocks of sheep. In saying that he formed the connceting link between savoge and eivllized 1ife, 1 referred only to bis buslness, and not to the mat. The stock-own- crs,0sa class, are lntelligent, shrewd, enter- prising men, many of whom have oe- cupled promiunent positions In soclety, but have been attracted by the wild, free life of the stock-grower, the absence of ail the artileial resteatnts of soclety, and the large profits to be realized from the business. Dut, we atopped at a cottage to get a drink of water. The proprietor, a middle-aged man with a good tace, asked us to sit down and rest. Ilis dame brouzht chairs, and we grouped oursclves in the shadeof the trees by the deor. Mr. Smith —that was not lis name, but it will answer— questioned us about oursclves and our country, and we answered him truthfully, as a general thing, and questioned him in return. It was all very simple, and pleasant, and soclable. Rural, too; for there was o pig aud asmall SIEEP-RANCHES are started by buying New Mexico ewes, and breeding to Mering bucks; or purchasing graded Culorido or Missour! stock. ‘The New Mexico and Colorado stock prove the hanlicat,—tho Mlssouri stock witen sufferiny in the process of acclimatlon, and in the change from Llue-grass and timothy pastures and winter feeding to the : - by donkey umd 8 hen anchored out. close at hnnd, | 0 bis business as a ranchenan, he does nothings | wymmer and winter erazing upon butlalo-grass, | Otlice, Which In each cose amount to 8§14, The | they will be safe, but justos th reran ?l""‘"l' Teaning )ik i "c“f" Pt by o il legs, on_ a spot that purported | {0 tho development of the country, or layin | Wikle sheep will sllow & larger purcentaio uf gr&t‘l;ll)l_or who paya for his land at the rate of ede to tirn aslid ane same ufi.fifil‘{n“,‘:fi Vor, and when the et - grop. was 470,320 to be grassy. Preschtly a woman passed along, the foundations of orzanized civil soclety. lis | profit lizured out on paper, 4 do not think the | $1.25 or $1.60 per Acre, paysa fec of $2 only on | Bumter. Everybody could see the buge muss knocked away from this upsuvstantial business cditlee, the entire structure came tumbling about our cars, and fonr years of hard work have not sufliced to clear awny tbe debris, A foreible aud pointed fllustration of the fallacy of civing HAT-HAZARD CREDITS was bronghit 1o tigght bere during the past week by the arrest of a man for obtaining goods un- der false pretenses, 1L aupears that a few years since Lwo young ten started in the dry goods busiuces in o small way up-town. They ind little capital, it 1 gowd knowledge of the business. Fora time they did a safe and hon- «est business, and sueceeded in winning the con- fldence of some of our largest wholcsale deal- ers, ‘Fhen they began to buy largely on credit, he fact that A, I\ Stewart and other equally well-kuown firms gave them credit conbling them to obtaln similar favors frum other im- porters and Jobbers, This an an for some months, during which tune the young firm bad succeeded in ob- talufug something 1fke §150,000 worthiof goods of various kinda on credit, ¥inally A, T, Stew- wrt & Co. became n little suspleions, began ak Ingz same inquiries, aml eventually their agent risited the store of the prowtsing. youns mer- thants, Henrefved just In tme to find that HOTIL MEN HAD DISAPFEAREN and that their store was denuded of the thou- sands of dollars' worth of grooda thiat they had Tought on eredit. It was then ascertained that actual prolits realized averawe as high us in the cattle business, ‘They are more llable to discase, and loss ~ from bad wenth- er, and require more experienced aud professional skill for their successful man- agement, and persons engaging in the sheep business without previous practical experience und training, or without being able to command the services of thorvuehily-experienced hcll) would be likely to sulfer such_losses as wou d naterlally reduce the profits. To such persons my_advice would be comuence with a smal flock, and carefully study their management, ‘The Increase in numbers of the flock, and in knowledge and experience of the owner, would about keep pace, and cventually lead to suc- ceasful results, y Ellls, near the west lino of Ellls County, Is the point at walch eattlo from the ranchies in the vicinity, and those drlven through from 'l;exu, are shipped. For the Texas cattle, it 1s the ling his deelaration, A person ean hold a timber-claim and EITHER OXE OP THR OTHEK THRER at the sama tiine, but only onc, since each of the threc requires residence upon the land. Thusa pre-cmptorora soldier can each sccuro 320 acres of Guvernment land within raflroad limits,—one quarter-scction as a pre- emption or soldicr's claim, and oneasa tree- clatm. All others can unl{ sceure 240 acres fo- side rafirond limits, viz.: cighty for homestead, and 160 for tree-clafin, Outshle the limits of railroad lands, any of tho above-named classcs can secure 820 ucres,—1600 as elther a pre-cip- tion, homestead, or soldier’s claim, and’ 160 for a timber-claim ; and this Is the largest amount that any one person can now obtain of Govern- ment lands,—the pollcy belog, as 1 have before stated, to KEED TIEM POR THE ACTUAL SETTLER, instead of allowing themn to be bought up In large tracts by speculators, and held for an - ad- vatice, to the detriment of thc best interests of the country. Those who desire larger tracts, so os to carry on farming and stock-growing on a large scale, can sccure them only by buylng one or more seetions of the railroad fands, and taking thelr Tliomestead and timber-clatms In such manner oa to connect thiese aud form o continuous body, as can now in many cases be done, ‘The rail- rond compnuies hold thelr lauds at from 84 to $60 or $7 per acre, according to location and distance from the ratlroad or towna; selling on long umnt (six or cleven years), with Interest ot 7 per cent. et us ree what on 850-ncre farm would cost In Western Kansas: 040 ncres railrond Junds, at $4 B0 ncres homestead fees. Aud fo the lst proceeds with the names of over 1,000 firms and fndividuals who hare failed Auring the past two years, There Is not au ju- timation that these fallires were ALl CHARACTERIZED LY FRAUD, but that many of them were Is apparent on the face of the statement, Dt \whether the sums fnvolved be gieat or amall, the diserepancy be- tween the amount of labilities und nominal as- seis is, as o rule, as strongly marked as in the eximples cited, and the shirinkare of nominal nssets to actual value is equally notieeable, The wonder Is not 8o tmuch at this amazing deprecla- tion In estlmated values,—because the de preciation In real estate and - other prop- erty has been sometbing terribie,— bLut one cannot help belng amazed that o business mon whose assets amount to but a few thousauds of dullars cun obtain credit for hundreds of thousands, It shows Tow carclesaly businuess men do business, when men who are insolvent can continue to buy roods on eredit to such an unlbmited extent, 1t would naturally seem that when a man had un i debt to another $10,000 or 220,050 and was stlll clunorlue for more credit, the creditor would take some pains to ascertaln the actual standing of the debtor. But it Is cevident that, instead of dulng eo, they go on selling bifin thelr wroods, renewing his notes, awd doing all in their power 1o bolster up a business which they must know from the man- ner t which it (s conducted 18 not paying. RO WONDEK TILE TIMES ARE 111D, and that businuss men complain when they do busiucss in acconlance with a system that ‘cane not fail to lnvolve them in heavy losses every year. No wotder that the houest teaders, who Brupose to pay thele indebtedness at tho rate of 1 vents on the dollar, find gt hurd to tattle herdsmen live In rude camps or (dug-outs, culti- vate no crops, plant no trees, build no houses, aid leave the country for the scttler and farmer in thie same condition It was left by the Indinn and buffale. It Is only the actual scttler, the farmer, who makes permanent improvements, grows crope, bullda houscs, plauts trees, establislies schools, churches, and courts of justice, and organizes soclety on a permanent basts. As many prospective im- mlgrants have the stock-business In. view, but have little definite information in regzard tu the modus operandi of operating and managing o ranch, T have been ot some palns to gather in- formation on these points, which may be com- municated for thelr benefit, The ranch-man Is, In most cascs, A BQUATTER, sclecting for his stock-range any unoccupled land supplied with water and natural stock- shelter (ravines or biuffs), and sulliclently re- mote from any other ranch to afford pasturage to hils stock without encroaching on the range of others. A herd s usually started by buying Texos cows with thelr calves,—stock' that lis been driven through fromn Texas, and which will cost from 813 to $15 per head, with the calves thrown in. ‘With thesc as o basls, be commences to build up a herd, using blooded bults, or those of a high grade, to improve the stock. As soon s ne has belfers from this cross, of a of fron as it roared “through thoalr, It struck the beach dircetly In the rear of the wule and with a bound it overlook It and exploded wit) terrific violence. A genoral cxcrnmmlmx Is heard from Dahlgren's flag-ship, where the Admiral and Wsstall are carnestly gazing ot the adventurous mule and his daring driver, Fort Bumter's ramparts are black withmen, they, too, willing witnesses of Ynukee pluch, Alone the swell of Morris Island, and covering every elevation, can bo secn the Unlon soldiers, w(lm stand with I&nccd hrcnm‘, nnxlnlnlu and rul‘ of suspense, nod eyery eye intently toking in the lEEfle. "When the nnelfexnlodm{ a clrclg of smoke hid the nulo forn moment, but when the smoke cleared Mr. Mulo had his ecars lafd back, and, with head down, and legs lashing wildly out, he was making kindilng wood of the cart, which had been bodly demoralized by a fragment of the shell. Presently the driver s seen lhnpling to the mule; in nsccond the myle {'s n‘-::e ln{m ‘l.lle cm;%, nlnld‘km:ll‘ 1:11!: grs‘nnm Lis ack, anid a farewell whisk of hils tal lsappear: behind the cover of the lills, i The thousauds of boys in bluo unite in o long and ‘hearty hurrah; “the sallors wave their hats and shout themsclves hoarse, and, larkl the Rebels have cauglit tho infection, avd aro cheerlng, tvo. —— THE SILVER DOLLAR, To the Editor of The Tridune. MUSCATINE, 1a,, Nov. 15.—I have been read- ingz an article In Tius Tiinune of Tucsdoy last, headed * The Nation and tho Shylocks,” 1t says, * It was not to be expected that the prees of New York, repreacnting the Wall-street Shy- locks, eiould regard with favor the remonetiza. and although she coldly sald nothing she changed the drift of our talk. Sald Smith: “She didn't Jook this way, you noticed! Well, she Is our next neighbor on one side, and there's another fumlly that's our next neighbors on the other sidoi butthero's a general roolness all around now, and we don't spea Yol these three families, one generation and another, have lived there alde by side and been as friendly as weavers for a hundred and 81ty years, till about ayear ago.' “ \Why, what calamity could have been Ve erful enough to break up so old a fricndshipt ¥ “\Vell, It was too bud, but it couldn't be heiped. It happened like this: About a year or more ago, the rais ot to pestering my place n good deal, and I sct up nstecl-trap in the back yard., Both of these melglvors rmn con- siderable to cats, and so [ warned them about the trap, becauss their cats were pretiy roclable around here nights, and they mizht get into trouble without my In- tending it. Well, they shut up their cats'forn while, iut yon know liow it is with people; they got emeleds, and sure enough ono night the trup took Mrs. Jones' principal tomeat into camnp, und tinished him o, In tho morning Mrs. Jones comes here with the corpse fn her arms, and cries and takes on the sune as I 1t was o child, It was o cat by the name of Yelverton,—Heetor (. Yelverton—a trouble- sume old rip, with no more prlnclnlu than an Tnjun, thouw you couldn’t make Aer believe it, I #afd all o wan could to comfert her; but no, notbing would do but [ must pay for bim. Finally, I sald I warn'c (nvesting in cats now ns much as [ was, and with thut she walked off in a hutf, carrying the remains with her. That closed onr interconrse with tho Joneses, Mre, Y DEAD LINE," na 1t s called,—that s, the farihest point east trom which shipmeuts can he made, os the State law prohibits the driving of Texas cattie through tho scttled portion of the Btate, to guard against the danger of domestic stock belng In- fected with the Texaa cattle-disease, From the luat of August_te the 25th of Oc- tober there had been 17,200 head of cattle shipoed from this polnt; and some 18,00 Liead of ‘Colorade and Oregon cattle, which were shipped in Colorado, Were unloaded hera for rest, feed, and water. It was thought the number of both clusses wotthd be doubled be- fore the close of the shipplug scason, which lnats well fnto December, What I have written of the stock business, above relates only to tho ranches which, a3 be- 2,500 =0 ::t::fl‘tl-;ci‘\':mgcmm:ml:: nw:":c:;:c;v;u:lr!:ri;g m'm’rf ’k?&"&”&""'X‘m‘i&'u"fii"fi“ v '“’}M;'m Jones jolned another church and took her tribe | beariog age, he lets his origloal pur- (\‘Cfih ii&'fii’fv‘e‘;'i ollhum':slfl:-fi:: A:'l!nl.é::'ll‘f:l‘x?lllll Augaeresinben poim fers . "m:lo' I:llm;hul %lc?n'lilem;'nr.)"’ Nln,: I';;n“-' 3 e C J y wel mun, hacl Y the e e tanufacturs | + ¢l . o - . S A . ¥ sonting the Shylocks of New York, or the Molly at muction, the proceeds accrufg Lo tho speen- | ers and Jobbers, who do this credit business to with her, She said she would not held fellow- | chase of ‘Texas cows go dry sad get | settler, these have to move farther away, sinee, Totnl o3t Of BBO BCTEH .oonaessssnsseress$2, 688 Y ly ship with nssassins. Well, by and by comes Mra, Brown's turn,—she that wentby here n minite ago, She had a |Ilnfirmlul olil_yellow cut that she thoucht ns much of ns 10 e was twins, and one nfght ho tried that trap on his neck, and 1t fitted him so, and was so sort of satlefactory, that he layed down, aud curled up, and staged with it. - Such was the end of 8if John Balawin," +\Was that tho name of the el “he smune. ‘There's cats around here with names that would surprise you, Marla' (to his wife), * whiat was that cat's name that cata keg of ratabane by mistake over at Hooper's, and started hote aud got strack by lightning and took the blind staggers aul fell in the well and was most drowned before they could fish hlm our?” “That was that colored DeaconJackson's cat. Touly remember the last end of its name, which was To-Be-Or-Not-To-Be-That-Is-The Question Jackson.” *8ho! that aln’t the one, That's the one that eat up an entire Lox of Seidlitz powiders, aud then hadn't any more judgment than to go and take o drink, e wus considered to bu o great Joss, but T never could see It Well, no matter about the uames, Mrs, Drown wanted to le reasouable, but Mre. Jones wouldn't let hier, 8he put hier up to goini to law for damages, to law sho went, and had th face to elalm seven shillings ond sixpence. L All the nelghbors went to court, Everybody took sides. It got hotter and lotter, und broke nr‘nll the fricndships for 400 yards uround—{ricndships that had lasted 1or penerations and generations, W Well, [ proved by eleven witnesses that the cat was of a low character and very ornery, atd warn’t worth acanceled postage-stamp, any way, taking the average of catd hieres but 1 lost the care, What could T expect? The system fs all wrong here, and is bound to make " revolution and bloodshed some -lurv. You see, they give thy magistrate a poor (ittle starvatlon salary, and then turn htim looge on the public to cuuge for: fees and costs to live on. What s the nutural resultd Why, he looks futo the ustice of n cage,~never onees Al he Jooks ut s which ellent hus grob the money, 8o this one viled the fees und costs nud eversthing on to. me, | could pay epecie, don't you seet and he knew mighty well that {f he put tho verdict on to Mrs, Brown, where it belonged, he'd have to take his swage {n currency,’ #Currency - Why, had Bermuda a currency 1" 4 ¥es,—onlone, And they were 40 per cent discount, too, then, biecause the season had been uver as much o three nmonths, So 1 lost wmy or 82,01 per acre. With such o body of land, and a rensonable amount of mouey with whick to make lprove- ments and buy stock, a farmer coulil in a few years, by careful and prudent nanagement, be- come A VEIY KINO AMONG FARMERS} while the man of smull tueans cau sccure his 240, or, if o Union sotdier, 320 acrea, at tho baie cost of office-fees, mnounting to $298,—Ilcaving him his entire capital to uso in the Improve- went of his farm, {u all the four clusses of clalms I have described there can be no valid conveyunce of tho same to another purty until the title ts perfected, Thus the homesteader, after lving on o plavo for thres years, cannof ecll out his right to another party, who con commence where 10 left off, and securc a title In two years more, e can'sell out his chance, but it 1s regurded ot the Laud-Oftice as an nbandonment of bis claim, and tha purchascr will e to o anew, und {nprove [for tive years before aecurlnxi o title. When a clujmant” dics before sccuring s title, his lielrs cun continue the fmprovements aud secure tho title. Tho lauds taken as lomestead, soldler, or timber clalms, are not subjeet to tazation tll the patent I8 {ssuvd by the Government; but the iinprovementa ot the scttler are assessed and taced as persunal property. 0. C. Uipua, e ——————— THE UNITED STATES IN 1880, To the Editor of Tha Tribune. Ciicado, Nov. 16.—A few days since there svpeared In Toe BUNE, & column of figures tuken from the New York Sun, glvlog a de- tailed estimate of the populution of the United States in 1850, which resulted in a total of only about forty-six and a half mllllons, focluding the fulabitants of the orgawzed Territorles, notwitustanding a large oveyestimato for Mass- nchusetts, Penneylvanla, Bouth Caroling, INinols, and Lonislana, ‘16 is due to the New York Sun man, however, to say that heentirely overlooked the proud Stuto of Kentucky, whicki wonld have added at least another milion and o half to hia total, aud maklug it 48,000,000, and atso Col- orado. ‘Ihe followinz is a Western man's estimate, in round numbers, for cach Stato and lm;nnlzcd Terrltory, without giving reasous for its accu- racy, further than tossy that foter-8tate cmigra- tion hus fallen off to aluarked extent in recont years, and hence [eft a lurgor percentago of tho Tutural Increase in thuolder aud more populous Mauulires of any other place, I endeavor to took at these questions with evne degree of candor; uot with the ecye of a politician, it s true, .but at the plan facts of _the ecase. Caolling persons Shylucks or Molly-Maguires amounts to very little, ex. cept with the iguorant; and men rarely resort to calllng umincs until all argument falls them, or whero they wish to appeal to the [guorane and prejudicesof thelr readers. The plain statement of this casc scems to be this: The bonds were fasucd Ly the Govern- ment at & time when both gold and sliver coin were legal-tender, aud wero of equal value in buying, scllivg, or paying debts; but in 1573 a law was cnacted demouctizing silver, and by so doing reduced Its value. This was the the de- liberate act of the debtor, who alone had power 1o enact a law having this effect. Tho ereditor had no power over the matter, and, therefory, cannot be bicld responsible for its consequences, At this time, when silver can be ladata low price, Iu consequence of the debtor’s act, you propos to have it remonctized for the pur- pose of paying the debts of the country and fue dividuals at 43 cents on the dollar, unless you put into the silver dollur a dollur’s worth of siiver, It looks like tlls: ‘Tho Government, bes fup dishonest, coutracted a debt of o Janes amount, the creditors taklug fts paper o roed fafthj bug the dedtor, wishing to repudiate a oriion of it debt, tukes this method todo it, t, h{ its own act, destroyed the very property of mlver thiat made tho colned_ doilur worth a dollar; and now you want to pay its debts with that depreciated siver. Perhaps Tne Trisusa can gea the honesty of such an act, but it Is not quite visible 1o the eyo of an honest observer. It looks “to hbwm mord ke the tricks of o fraudulent debtor. Ona falls to see the pronricty of Tng ‘I'RINUNE, (nan!}unz ita slurs to thoss men of New York amd elsewhero whoare tho creditors, when they object to belng forced to take N cents on thoe dollar as o payinent fu full, 1 do not kuow or_carv what the Natlon savs on this_subject. Neither ‘'RIDUNE nor Nulion can mako one holr black or white fu thisutauer. Jlonest dualing between man and man, aod bes tween tho country end its creditors, can be readlly understood, It has nothing to do with the question what the Goyermnent got for 1ts bonds, It was of age, and of pood under- in a conditfon to sell for beef. IIis Texas steer- calves, bought with his cows, are by this time ready for sale; and, from this time on, he has beel-cattle to sell each year,—tho amount belng yroportioned to the slze of his herd. By ju- diclous course of crossing, hio can in a few years briug his herd UI' TO A WIGK GRADE,— 80 that, Instead of 825 to £30 per head for Texas stecrs at threo and four years old, ho gets $40 to §45 for lils graded steers, with 110 more cust for the ralsing thou the extrs price pald for ninle animals from which to breed. Freguently two or more persons of moderate means will unite in getting up a herd,—sharing the cxpense of the herding aud care of tho stock, Some, fn- stead of buyme cows for breeding purposes. eachh year buy yeuumr and two-year-okl stecrs, genzing them till thoy aru matured and ready for market, Yearlings of Texas stock cost from $0 to 87, and two-year-olds from 810 to 812, Each antmal, when “Lought, Is branded with tho {nitials or tiark of the purchaser; and, this brand Is evidence of ownership, no matter Low far the aufmal has straved. Colorado cattle, which aro all graded stock, cost from 40 to 50 per cent more than Texas, nud aell, when ready for market, at correspond- fngly bigher prices, Tivo or threo young men will frequently foin together to get up & hierd, and do thelr” own herding without biring help. In other v URRDERS, OR COW-HOYS, are cmployed, who have the sole churge of the stock, under the superintendence of the own- ers,—an experfenced man beine employed as foreman or bosa of the ranch. ‘I'ic waces puid to henders rauge from $20 per smonth for ordle nary men to 330 for experienced and rellable men. ‘Thelutter are the cheapest, s it Is casy for indliferent and carcless men to losg in the course of the year stock the value of which would more than make up the diference in wages. 1uall cases, the owner furnishes board for his men, which is couked by thew, ‘The *outtit”" of u cattle-rango consists of o camp, usually a dug-out; a suwply of camp- equipoge, consuting ol Ledding and conk- ing utensils, und o lerd of ponles,— at leust two, and generally more, to eaclh nan, sinee, in herding, the work for tho ponies is so hurd that, after u doy’s serv- fe, they requlre one or two days torest in order tokeep in good condition,” The pontes grazo In tha vicinity of tho camp, und, wheu wanted, are driven upand caught with ‘a lasso, —in the throwing of which cvery cow-boy be a8 before stated, tarming and cattic-ranches can- not exist in the samu vomtmunity sido by side, us the ranchimau cannot prevent hils stock from m{s:mulng upon the unfenced crops of the uew suttler, ‘The new scttler will, for the first few years, devote bis attention malnly to WIEAT-QIOWING, o8 affording the quickest returns for hLis labor, 8uch stock ns he s able to wety, e will put dute o common herd with his neighbors, o bo grazed during the day In ¢harge of a Loy and pony, and brought inton corral at night. In this way he can ne- cumulate quite an amount of stock, for which for some vears ic can secure free pasturaze, and which ho can winter ot bis straw-piles, or with corn-fodder, prairic-bay, millet, and other caslly-grown forage-crops, But it will not be many years before the amount of stock he can keep will be limited to the amount of land he owns, when, if wise, ho will pursuea system of mixed husbandry, In- cluding wheat and otaer winall groins, corn, cattle, pork, horses, wool, and mutton,—haviug 80 tmany ditferent. atrlngs'to depend upon, that, i1 one fuils, o will not be seriously cinburrass- such gn unlimited extent. We have coustant complaints trom our {nporters that their busl- ness I8 belug ruined by smugglers, who place foods on the market at a lower price than can the mporters who pay thu regular duties to the Government, Yet these same men will sell thelr guods to Involvent aud dishonest retatlers on credlit, and thus enable them to undersell the Tegitimato aud reputable retaft-dealer, ‘Uhis prace tice 18 quite as rulnons to tho legitimate retall trade as emugeling to the lmporter, - It virtuale 1y vlaces the manufacturer and jobber (n com- petltlon with the retailer, for the man who uever exoeets to pay for bis goods can atford to seil at auy price. THE GHEAT DISCREPANCY {n the above table between lHabilities and asscts leaves n wide margin for the solvent to mwake & enng provision for the future, If a man huye 30,000 worth of wouds, eitiwr the goods or their equiveient should be found amoniz his as- scta, But M, from the proceeds of thelr sale, e has purchased a nles brown stone luuse for pottier-in-law and keeps apuir of weays for own driviug iu the Vark, the shrinkage in his asscta may be easlly aceounted for, In thesy dJays of lively comoetition and small profits, n business-inan must exercso all the ilea possible, both inthe management of ineas und his houselold, Yet thoe career of many an linxolvent shows, asdoes that of the forger “Gllman, recently convicted, that their moider of lstne are extravagant and way beyoud what they can honestly afford, While GILMAN PREVERRED FONOLRY na g means of aking up the difference between the prolits of hia husinéss aud the cost of bis extravagant living, the general run of Insolvents prefer to eat up the capitul fonned them, in the shape of poods, by the manufacturers and johbers, Now 18 a4 good time to coll o haltin this unintelligent, nnbusinees-like, coats Iv, and fatal el I vouue of giving un- lirited credit to persons sbout whose ailalrs creditors koow little, aml whose honesty snd fair dealing Is not guaranteed by capital ot thelr OW! Until the credit system s brought with- 1n reasonable Hmits, Lhe business of the coun- try cannot be expected to prosper, The debit stde of the ledirer in the account with pront aud luss contalus too muny entrics for cliher o Lealthy or protitable condition ol tiade. Caunort. ONE OF THE LOST ARTS, Ta the Bditor of The Tribune, OcrawA, Il Nov. 14.—~Tho inanufacture of small arms in this country has been carried latwe young merchants, These persous had disappeared, vne of them lewving the country ently L the other remaining concealed, Recently ho retnrmed to New York, was arrest- ed by order of s viettws, wnd s now in Ludlow Strect Jail. Thy luases of the wumecous firms which had given him credt ko freely wil ageregate over ST00,000, 1lad they Leen'ns ditigent i thelr lquines be- Jore trusting him as they were when they bes vame suspiclous of hix_ integrity, they would have raved their roods, for it wus rewhly ascer- talned that the young fieny had bnt slight capl- tal, and that their businees cuterprise wus cone ducted solely € AS A CONFIDENCE OVERATION As these youne fellows niever intonded to pay uny ol their rapidiy-aceumulating indebtedncess, thiy were enabled to undensell tielr lionest plodding neighbors, who expeeted to pay 1 cents on the dollar, The jobhers and whote- salers who trusted the new firm were thus re- spousible for nfleting very serluns injury npon the business of ~ thelr olher custom- ©rs, who do not sympathize with them very extensively [n - thele losses, Had they exercised ordinary business enition, they would not only not have lost thelr gromls, hut lhei’ would have protected the futerests of the honest dealers whose business was In- jured by the contidence operators, Anuther fnstance of this pernleious system of piving credit promiscuonsly happens’ to come within my personal knowledge, A voung man who hud been u salcsman ina bout-und-slioe store far several years became mnbitlous to o into Lusiness 10r himeelf, His entire capital con- slsted of $150, a pleavant addreas, und unlimited cheek. e rented a store, for which he promised to gtve ¥3,0 0 year, and filed it with an ex- cellent stock of goods obtmned entirely on credite He advertised Hberally, sud did a gomd busiiess for n year. At the cud of that time, notes which he bad re- newed two or threa thmes were pressed lor payment, and he fafled. 11is creditors sy pathized with hitn, compromised Diy judebied- ne-s—nearly $100,000=(or 5 ceats on the dol- Tar, takine his notes ot twelve and cighteen months, restocked his store on credit, und al- Jowed him o continue In business, Jie ran an- othier year, and ngaln fatled. "Fhls tue, to use Lis uwn expression, he “ BUSTED WIDE OFEN. 113 entire indebteduess, including the old, Og- ured up to ¥183,000, 11 s wens lis stock ob hand, taully culled over, worth less (han $10,000, fHs mother-n-law, who formerly kept ed, Instead of growlng Texas stecrs tnat will only sell for from $25 10 {0, he will ralso and feeld aninals of o bigherude, which will_brinz hin fromn $60 to 875 per icad, Ilence it is imuortunt that the new-scttler, st the ou wiiile lands are chicap and casily ubtained, should secure such an amount that, when theso lnevitable changes take place, hie will be enabled to carry on his fsrming on o broad and liberal sealé, without belng crumped and clreumseribed for want of room, TIE LAND-SYSTEM of this country is simble and rafe, and yet 1 gpurchend that but few of the readers of Tin TrinuNe in the older States fully understand It, or the stups necessary tu be taken to secure Uovernment land, Lands, aside from thuse uwned hy(})rl\'nu partics, bedivlded into two clusses: Government and ruilroad lauds. Eachof the two trunk-rosds through the Btute—tne Kunsas Pucitie, and the Atchison, Topeka & Sunta Fe—recelved grants of eve ulternats ction for a distanee of twenty mifea on each o of the roud,—~the cven-nuinbered sections belng Government, and the odd-numbered ruile yoad lands, The Qovernment lands within the imits of the land-grant are held at doube the minimuwin price, or §2.50 per uere; while, out. side such limits, ull Government lands are st tho minjinum prico of $1.25 perucre, Formerly co) proticient. the Government used to bring the | Brats atundiag, and sold its bonds for the value re B cheap boaralnz-huttse ou thes Kast Side, now erfe ¢ cuse, | b Lo pay for that cat, But the EeU- | “he “Texua cattle are by nature very wild and i | D cetved,—uil (b vatued the paper worth, ~Noove Gwiia & iandaaine row-atone front in o ele. | MmOt 1O perfection, Rewington sud others | erai trouble tho eass urade was the worst thivic | easily fnfocted with panie, aml n.'qzlru great ol rkop i oLy : can dispute this without accusing ftof stupndity, which the friends of the Governincut snouhd ashamed to do. Al this nonscnse and whiuing of Tns TuinuNE about getting u just cquiva- lent for the Goverument Lotds §s shinply balye ish, uud does not at ull comport with ‘the dis nity of the *firat awt beat paper In the country. or dous |1 make the leaat differcice whether Poputatien Dizve placed iu our Landy and ure supplylog the Celses Y 1 world to-day with matchleds arms at moderate” cost, While the arm itself has been steadily Improving for Gty years, no marked fmproves ment bas been mado in the bandling of it. While there is scarcely a tool used in the arts which it dues not take years of practice to huu- of the wcttlement of the country, hy advertising land-sales of large districis, when the Jand was olfcred to the bighest bid- der—the minhumn bl belog, however, ot B1.25 per nere, Al latuls nol sold ot the duy of sale werc alter that tine M SUIMBCT TO PRIVA that s, auy pe: conld sel rant neighborbood, ber son-ji-law resides with ier, and wmuay be scen daily taking the alr in the Park behind o nice pair of prave, The credite system bus wwde him o comfortable for lte, and he laughs ut the cfforts his creditors are wuking to find soinc property which they can attach, The manuface Lurcrs and jobbers who prave this man—whnose about it. Broke up so much good feeling, The nelizhbors don't socak to each other nows Mra. Brown had named g ehild after e, Bub she changed Its vame right awoy. She {8 a Baptist, Well, in the vourse of baptizing it over agaly, {t ot drowned, 1 was hoplug we night get to be ricndly sizaln some time or other, but of course this drowning the chitd knocked that all out of States and Terri» Jopuiation fonirs, n 1470, care and skill in thelr management, The herd- fugz 1s al) doue on horseback, and the cattle ure accustomed to this, und it is not sale o ap- proach too near a henl on foot. During svriug and suminer CLOSH BEUDING fs practiced. That s, the herd 8 kept pretty ENTRYS" L any umount of o compactly together during the day, and at niglit | such land 23 be desired, and o to th 2 Ssdnun the creditors lent fuL solld gold or solid Imu.}(y ot caial yas 815l nailmlted cesat wora | dle wilh ;lkmi.lxdm‘t. jgout: yuables ol fuuls, the the auestion, It would Lave saved a world ut | brougnt Inlo t bed-grouinl,—a piteoof smooth | Ofice of the district iy Witth ey Ware Jocated Faorn a8 it ucknowledged at the tine tho paper wad i3 rile, Is expecie o I ecution In the fasued, the Government rocelved th sulld valuo of {ts paper; It inakes no nads what ft was 1. Now Ict tho (overnment enact a law that the creditors shall take the silver, worth only % cents an the dollar, for their bonds, vr pay voly that amount, 1o _muatter wheter fu gold, #Hiver, or grecubucks; il is simoly repudiatiug 7 per cenl of the {ndebtedness of the country, and 50 far dishonests and It is ouly less dishonest than to repudiate the whole, i proportfon to the amount repudiated; and the samo spint, lefs 10 ll‘:lmlumuu work, would repudiate all fudebt: edness, “I'hie only honest way in which silver ran bo remunctized Is to Jml 100 cents worth of it iuto smlllu near camp aud water, where they lic own for the nlght, At these times the force Is divided futo dav and night herdera, ‘This is necessary from the llabllity to panic of which 1have apoken. A sudden clap of thunder, or any unusual nolse, and often uo dis- cernible’ cuuse, Wil bring a whole herd to thelr feet fu an instant, und away th'Y goin & atam- pede over the country, down bluils, ucross ra- vines and streams, soimethines twenty to thirty wiies before thuy can be cheeked,—in the neans time breasking up jnto squails, and scattering over miles aml iniles of tcrrlwr(. ‘Fhe nlght-herder mounts bis pony, and all through the night rides arouud the bLent as it and buy them at $1.2% por acre, cush, or could pay {u militars-bounty land-warrants, which could always be bouzht b a discount. This system cnabled capitalists 16 buy up large, solld tracts of Jund in the new Stutes, and hold them on speculation, to be euhanced in value by the mpruveinents of the actual set tler, without themselves expending a doll ar be- i'oml whatthey were compebied to pay lu taxes. u lowa, Minucsots, Eustern Kansas, aud uthee new Stated, there are Large tructs so beld, stand. Ing vizbi in the path ol progress und the do- velopment of the country, Latterly the policy of thu Government has changed ; and the policy adopted of keeping the public dontain fur boules ry 1 knew by the sigh that this was bhon- . All thia trouble snd all this destruction contldence in the purity of the bench on account of 4 seven-shilling lawsult about a cat} Bomchow, it seetned to " size ” the country, At this point we observed that an Eoglish flay hud just bren placed st hall-must on & building” a hundred ysnls awav. 1 and my friends were busy In ab instant trylng to finag- ine whose death, among the island dignitaries, could nl)mm‘:lml such a mark ul respect as this. ‘Then u shudider sbook them and me at the same woment, sud I knew that we bad jumued to one and the rivale in business, sl to thelr own creditors, who tind chanzed to profitand loss o goodly swn which should have been vounted amoug available nascts, Bo long as this perniclous syvetem of unlimited and unbusiness-like credit ir peralsted (o, unscrupulous stiarpers have o devided advantage over Uis honeat partion of the community, sud Just so Tong will these busl- ness ewindies be perpetrated, That (here wust Tie credit n business: thers can be vo disputine, but upon what busiouss principies s unlimited credit given to o man whose capital I8 ub—wlho 1akes o rink, vonsequently, i the busiuess he conduits, wud who s llmnl{ specus lating with goods for which ho hands of an wnateur, No umount of theory can take the place of practice, ‘The soldier fs tought to obvy onlers with alacnty, Al execule Dis movements with pre- ciglon, but while all attention 18 pald to the manual of arms, the welght- er matter of his marksmansiip b8 peelected, Shooting 8 Iika swimining, besutitul {u theory, but dificult in practice. The suliicr §s told, of Luuws of his own iznorance, that the olllf’ requis site of gond marksmanship is o potot his gun at the murk and blaze away, But it is the eoalest thing fn the world to miss: not ove m 047, vALny M AN LB 473 tencan hit o mark the sizeof o man ut ten | by lies on the bed-ground, tatking ond sfugiog to | for actusi settlers. he " \ a dollar, which il done, then the queation rests has mever paid, und, oo frequently, | rods. By sbooting over a rest, wedmng himselt sume conclusion: “yThe Governor has gone 1o | tho cattie,—the sound of the humnan vnlrc.kmul (‘?uvm:'ncn‘teul‘;{lll rafi’. b‘e:‘hl‘;’l:‘e‘r’xn:ry“l:?fv:l’: 1ot on the' expediency of having two differcnt never nteuds topay? Capitalistheonlysubstan- | and bis gun fimmovabiy, a poor shot miay some- | England; it ls for the iritish Adnirall proximity of the berder, secminz to fnupire | individuals, except by the sciusl settler, situm metals as standarda of value, lnstead of ouc, tial basis unon which credie can be wiven, 11 a | times Wit the bull’secye, $ut the ticld of battle | o, Ab this moment dr. Smuith noticed the fAag. | them with confidence thut all s pght. Butlct | There are four methods of obtaning Govern- Joity UNDERWOOD: Iic sald with emution: *That's ona boardiog-house, I judge there's @ boarder dead.” snun bias $10,00 of his uwn which he 1 willing to risk 10 o mven insiness enterprise, the men who enfov his patronuze to this extent can af- 18 uo place for fancy shooting, nor will the ex- LT ant 1Imses citement of action inake a8 good shot of a poar 1t 5 . the singing or tulking stop, aud they conclude nis l.“‘l:‘lll nain there 1s sumething wrong, and will be ou their ——— ment lands: 1, by pre-emption; 2, by bome- dicrciins (ay 4 Clubbed by & Policeman, stead; 3, by soldier-clains (a modificatton of the one. Au fnferlor gun ju the hand I ctly. ad)y ere o 5 - ford to take some whditlonad risk 1 connection | soldler is more infcurf:“- hon A line. tm'nlu'fl:"lll!:: A dozen other flags within view weat to half- 'i'fi,?f.i‘ifl:{. as It seemns to me, there is Lumeitead)i ‘“dlfl::fkl)‘l‘ll::?gx‘:flm.‘ soun i || Preston (Raglend) palicenian has iethy with him. They are xate in assuming that In | bands of a novice, In the handling of artillery | 138t gulshed himaell by the usnem:n-luu of thestatue of a saint, whichi bad been conveyed from ita usual standiug place and set up against o lame- B:n. The ofticer ordered it to ** mmove on,' an. ause it dfd not do so knocked it down—a hob sltogether uncommon hablt of policemen fn Eitr gland as well as the United States, But still A VINK OPENING for our promlalng youny elocutionists and vo- calists who are unable to secure paying au- diences as readers, or positions in church-choirg as vocallsts. As cow-Loys, their talents coull be turued Lo practical account, and to thelr own are made under a law of Congress which has been o Jurce for many yewrs, aud wineh was de- signed 1o protect the actunl sottler in his claun, and give him thne to muke somce improvements before beie required to pay for his land, gave to uny head of a family, or single man, the s unxicty to protect s own capital ho will take good vure of that which they sdvanco him, But if he bus uo captal, his rmf(wn take all the rigk und he the profits, But wmanufucturers ure so exceedinglv ANX10US TO SELL GOODS *1t's n boarder, surc,” sald Smith, # But would they hall-mast tho ags here for o boarder, Mr. Swith” W riululy they would, if he was dead.” . That scemed 1o slze Lhe country agaiu, e and heavy orduance great perfection Lus bee seached, while swall arms’ arc used as buu- glinglv as cannon were n hundred years ago. Soldiers are not the only inen whose profession demands of them better thin, Paolicewen are eNer cracking away with tiele revulvers, but Waaliy Wyomiag. protit. The rendering of » Aly Name s Norval: | rizht to v upon _any usoccupied quarter-seve ) the statuo movea uot, and it was victoriousty mthese dave of actlve competition, that they [ Bifting nobody, unless it be some unfortunate ‘The Owaer of ‘Ten Brovck, on the Grawplau ills my father feods i o 4 s Orand ot $00.000 oossner ‘e g ol ave erown carcless, ‘They wish to fizure up a | who sgns to sce wha f3 the inatter, and mects Indigranainy .lulwnulnr Tiaté ) ll:ch," or **Oft in the .mY,, nluhl.'! a8 lh‘k‘. Sfi’é’e\'ffi’lfifi'fl'i:-’;:%‘f".’:f':’fi”hx’:flfvl.'u'«‘-"uu?;k'lfii The seriter a sire. that 400000 will e L e o et e mou It e . larper, of amount of sales at the eud of the year, rutp thelr goods off Lo whoever asks for them, without much regard to the probability of future paverent, Overproduction has,uoduubt, doue rauh to demuralize trade, but unre- stralied credit hus dune wore, Mr. Yiteh, Resister In Baukruptey, bas recents 1y vounlerred o great benefit upou the busi nunity Ili' exposing thy enor- 3 skare M which occurs in the cstates 11 ey that it bas become - nost the universal practice amony merchauts, Kuowinz thvimeelves o be bopelessly insolvent and bankrugpt, 10 goon makisg purchases oy to wake i titious debis 10 fricnds, then tu exy € un aselgninenl (o some person 10 their owu inferest to cuntinue the business, wherehy tbe ereditors ure swindled out of their a stray bullet. Hardly @ night passes but somu burglar is interrupted ot s tetarious busiocss aud shotat ashe ruus away. An lmproved Colt ought to bu eifective ut fitteen rods, but | the hands which hold thom they are like ratle, goud for nothing but noise. ‘Fhey we crate the burglar's pace und scare him’ gom but when the inhabitants gatber round to what [5 the matter the gume bas fown, When a border ruftivsa draws 4 besd on o roan he hits hit, daylight or dark. What we need is o litls honest,” respeetable marksimanship, to brivg rogues aud ruscals to grief, that when we rcad tbe murniog papers we ingy tlud Lhat zome no- torious cracksnan, caught at bis work, bas hlin self been mude gameof. At prescot it does not take much of u maa to dodge a bullet, Target practice in the arwy uod out of it isa A man of Puritan priue Kentucky, the owner of the horss Ten Broeck. Mr, Lorillard owus Parole, who won the Pimlico purse seceutly, and he wauts (o maks 4 watch with Ten Broeck for §10,000 or $20,000 for u gash of two or three mites. It Is » vulesr, wicked, sinful horso-race which the New-Yurker sug- gents, and so the novie Harper yeplivs thet he will uut wuke a maten or bet a dollur ou any Lorse lie owna, but has agreed to iet Price . McGrath aud other turfuen s Keatucky have qmlrul of Ten Broeek to match him agelust Parote ot auy other hurse i the country for rave on the Lonisville cousse next spnog. A very ticrco wind prevailed fu Philadefphla, aud iu the course of its pranks lifted ths bat from the Lead of @ yenerable Fricud. As be saw it scuddinz down the strect the prey of the ematic stable, in rudely taking hold ol it, was frightets ed nearly out of his wits, thinking he had lald Lold of acorpse, The errunt salnt wus returue to his place i the nelghboring church. EDUCAT) cover all poss tates, and that i is entirely safo t e 4 onulston of 49,000,000 in 1380, BraTISTICH, [We Qisagre. wits toth: eoiiinates as to Il nols aud Texas, 1has Litwiet s uot galning any- thing ke st . it us to 1877; the land Is oceuph @ 3 are not being subdivided to . 4. Tho chief pres- ent growil ol towns. Texa. with marvel well as from th: oo crowding L popuiativn of * Dliuols will et could reuder them, | think conld not fall 1o keep a herd of Texans gulet. Whep a stampede Lakes place, the work com- mences in earnest. The whole camp Ls aroused, and every man mounts bis pony, which ls picketed close by, and away they go. The posie tiun of the herder is now in the frout of the cat- tletaking wdvautage of every lavorable opporto- nity to ead thein off and check the stawpede, 1nthe meautiwe, the berd bas become broken ur. and the herders seattercd, each Keeping along with a ** bunch * of the h Whcn the stampede is finally checked, eawh gsthers up all the vattle he can Hnd, aud returus witn thew roaf at the Laud-Otfice of the district that he made a bona-tide settlement upon the land, and maue the improvements required by law, e was allowed 10 enler (purcnase) the land at the wivimum price, $L25 ‘per acre, or at $250 ver acre If within the limits ot any Jund grant whero land was held at double minimum. Tho law has since been chauged 50 that the pre-cmptor has now, | think, torce years beture be i required to “prove up ™ and’'pay for lus luod. Paywent can be wade [u cash, or in laund-warrsnts. THE HOMESTEAD LAW Rives to ooy bead of u fumily, or single man over 21 years of age, whu 1s & cltizen of the Uuited States or s declared his lutentlou to s RASALSSLRISRIERES o Allen Academy and Polytechnic Institute, Nos. 144 aud 140 R3d-st,, near Mickigan-ar. “The most elegantly and the bty equipped Sehool 1o e eas S Eatta for Dopa. k0 Citls of ail o ¥ivo Lepantments. Aule Facuity. Goud ubrdicé places,” Auexeellehe tiise for ne puplie o sl IRA W, Al l&fl'l.l. Pres.d wlli thy State has the adee o otimate is that -« taan Ohlo, sod CAW) W u.-.'.”m herders are all in, the cattle are . counted, the pumber of issing ascertalved, L res.deurs become a vitizen,—to any widow the head of 8 “Cltcago. % 3 - q aud a part of the forcy detailed to hunt thews up | famlly, vr any single woman over 31 y of K —_———— e just ducs; that e friends bolding fictitious | watter which ouzht to bave the atteution of | Rust bis soul rose within him. “But be nobly | gud bring them In. e oy - that Texas wi i % ; % ; e 9 . ) d e nee,—theright tosettle upon any cizhty s of E ;ffu";‘ii.‘}fiL’L'.fl‘&'f.‘"&i’&.:‘m""’.‘.‘L‘“.'.‘f.i‘é:? 5‘;‘1‘.‘:‘-. Goverumeut. Light rites, equal to avurats | SREPFEOLL it iz alled 3 pewslo standl Each tanchiman. takes up, and Lolds with b1s | Gavcromens lands. withia the Jinits of & lana. | Ve think Kaz J NNINGS SEMINARY ¢ fuzucious tile, und hande: bim 4 hali-doilar of the daddies, with the res wark: ** Boy, dost thou sce toat bhaté Cuas it 50 ceuts’ worth; Ican't profane.’” e e— suooting st abiort range, under the right coudi- tivug, teat the 1narksinan's nerve and skill equal- 1y with hu\'z oues, When the ret 1s doue away, the rils beld at arm's length, as jo suap-shootiug, sud moreover the size of the . owu cattle, grant, or on 160 ucres vutside of such limita, 4 §uF filing at the time of suck selection, in the Land- fur Otiice of tbe district, an attidavit that he or she has mads suckh Jocation for the aud the legtimate creditors are victimlzed, He alivims that the recurds will show that the wtuvaut of which the comwmuuity hay been subbwd by these fraudulent procecdings of pri- AUROMA. ILL A school for bath sexes; 114 iher Tor 6115 wealin boslublng Thee. s 17T drcas e Felucioaty ST ALL STRAYS that he inds on his range till claimed by the owper, In the wcantime, I in want of fresh S . becl, he selects one to kill from the struys,—it ! homestead. Tl a When Datl; / ME. DABILVA AND MRS, BRADPORD'S (LATE rate Dusfices lacu excrds the sutis siolen by | mark reduced, iere are fuand all tho condivons | Mr. Cheerybles wiked his wift, tho other | beiaia rule sauung ranchaieu o thestrurtols | Burose | of B gomestiat 80 ¥ | 1 Chanaton DIl bt Bl Frcocis mi e roten insuraice coiponies uod ewlodlius ave | necessary Lo teat the exe, the baud, wud the | morlue: ©What 1s tic difersuee, dear, be- | own beel. At i ralo b generu, “they prov- [ (he date of such Lot b Which to conmetics e AN e cae K. 17 W, . nerve, ‘The sport 13 Kecner than shootiug over u lovg rouge at @ distant swark. Snutiiog tlie caudlo al Lweuly yards {6 a suore ditlicult feat than Witting u Lz bulltsese at a thoasand. ullalo-hunting La the grauder sport, but the tween bribiog @ wan with « 810 Lt} to keep bis wouth suut, and a mixturo of ludisy weal and water{" lle almoat took ber breath away whvn Le unswered: %Wy, you sve one i3 Lush woney, sud the otlier i3 wuwk, boner.” ubly coue out about even all round. Winter-berding dulers from summer fo that the cutile arv allowed alarger runge wnd arv uot brought e at alght tu a bed-ground, nor pight- fiended. The herder rides round tue berd cachh fiee - postod ov the Cheu dayligut 7d could brivg +du to raio shot il noon there 2 08 Bepl, 34 Applicativn iy houl e Esaaiy aa asuve. VA separata clase for bars Up Lt Lurougbly cowpetent leachers. Lecturesby Prole . Ay AMILY BOARDING-SCHOOL FOR HOY I TN RS D (b Ta s wie teshter then gives o list of OVEL & THOUSAND ASSIONNENTS which bave been made duriug the past two wears, sbowilng tle judebtedunss of Sminmb improvesmcuts upon the land, At the cud of vy years, ot waking proof that the land bas becu” ovcupled, iwproved, and used as u howe- stead; that, Iu case of 3 fuwily, it boy beew, during that thoe, the resideacs of the fumily, Gamo everyg | o bear U aud meu‘mfll:.. P