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IS IR hava pever been more extensively sown fhan in {his pressnt 7, yet we are sorTy to say that tho crop is not promising. The weather has baen cold and dry, or at least has uot been L ia the condition meeded to give n rauk [ Bey 29, on the Orassl Banks, berk St Clovd, from Liverpool for Kew- i oik e Disnsters, Haver Moy k Argean. Lind teans, | warm and wet, whic itm the-aiget of ihe 1k sad wasBlied | gromin. Yo we have seen the Beariast crops of grain fn Juss Velance of her eargo will be commenced to' | such seosons, wlheo the straw was all sbort. The rame cordition ero which hiss provented {he rank growth of oats, bas kept the grass back, anl yives all the mowing fields an appoarauce of a short erop, buough, us a general thing, the grase ia thick at bottom, and bas ample tine with warm weather to make a full crop of Lay. Tha harvest, towever, will be later thau usual, Indien corn bas boen extensively planted—probably more acres than i3 any previons yoar—and although smell o this section, it cannot be said to be unpromising. It Las a good stand, eod & kot July and August will make a good crop saud prevent sll possibility of want of food for man or beast. ‘The prospecte for fruit ave favorabie and unfavorabie sccord, ing to locality and sovte, Peccles in this vicinity are un sl phin for Porte: ried eway Lovd he. 0. M. Pettit, (of Bodon), from P! wport Tin irat., havh 1, wia fook below eromirees, on o — e Memorand ureat Veritss publishes a list of the lowses of mezola arteid duing (he wor th of Apri The total number of wuct 129, eomprising 90 English, 19 12 8 werican, 9 1 [ by 2-sce Teporicd 110 April 30, 1+ French ) 1D e Notice te Mariners. vwaL—Nave Bav.—The iron screw stoausisip Fu- i tuis barbor_on the 34 of Avri nd is dengere 5, 80 W ant one mile. 1t o wnile. 3220 T o9 A "The wrock bare frow ligh ) fant. Bears from Foint Tor . L A ey s cuteriog 02 | most universsl failare, Strawberries will bo o light ercp. 1 the dovits ere | Blackberries are very promising. Appler, pears and chorries of wreck. A suisll portion of (i 2. The wreek livs N aud 8, head to s of water. A largs red broy is auciured wi us welgit, directly over the ater: aro thickly sot. 80 they were last yeur, but falied to make o good erop. Of frait prospects at the Wost we olip tie followirg item from n letter putlished in The Rural New Yorker. 1t ds dated Indianapolis, May 14 “Tlaving travelad quito extensively in the Western Etates during the last fow weels ) am able to give you nn estimato of (Lo prospect Lit erop iu Bome portiors of the West. The cold lust Wi fruite, ospecially Port-Warden's Notice. Srare oy Nxw-Vonk _ Porr-Wannxx: , Ne. 23 Wil J OTICE is horeby given, in accordan s, thon 4 of A 1857, entitied ' An A i P Fof New- Lotk the more tendor fer, Which are almost s total f Phiere will be, uo pesches orth of C T, and T have ineyards of two aud turee acre n this State in which f the vines were killed down to the ground. I the past fow weeks had nearly runed we chorries of this region, and thers will be s the small fruits genuernd ra Tl Wo Wecks G0, Very prom rooent eold weath ore grody i that 1 scotion told me th resident of that 000 to i from 10, T t o™ i lus orop of peachios wum of §20,000. e poaches ' Tt {6 00 eatly yot to form 6b estimate of the ough there are uo very suoouraging b divations.’ srospects in the Southers flates we give the follow- | ing extracts from numerous Bouthern papers, We bope the | people wili be able to grow all they need. and & ttle to ape: which several gentlemen in New-York will be glad to receive, on secounts of lovg stunding: VIRGINIA, The Winchester (Va.) Temes says: The lote rains huve fo improved the wheat crop that there is every prospact of (here being o mnoh lurger vield than was i « o fortnight sicce, that looked hopeless at 1 that time now present t ree of 80 ondiniry 6rop, | while the opinion bt farmers eenerally is that bat few of the will exceed (ko smount of coin tast wiil be planted bure and other exchanges fornish moet eratifving of the whent snd corn eraps, According to a writer in 7h¢ Richmond Ezeriner, who o bias Lees over the tobacoo growing regions of Virginia and North 5, there will be a small sud uferior orop of tobaoco THAS. C. § STHAM J & ( ds, Posters, CYUNDEY PRI e can 4 RESSWORK do. he 2 H WM. EVERDELL® BONS, No. 104 Fuiton-st.— | £RS CEAM JUB PRINTERS ssd LABEL MANUFACILR THE CROPS OF 1866. i What are the farmers' prospects? is & question to & enst many peopls beside the farmers. Tt is & question of equsl importance toa vast numbor of cousummers. If the farmers’ prospects aro those of abundant crope, they generally rejoice, never toking futo sccount that a half crop often produces the most money or greatest et profit. If the prospects are favor wble for low prices. ie consumers are apt torejoice, witbout stopping to consider that Jow pricos are nuoi elways most favorable to thel interest. But whetever the proepects, there are tumerous persons slways auxious to anticipate certainty bw guessing at probabiiities; for, after all. it ia but guesaing® | or 18 said about crop prozpects, at least so far es re gards future prices. Our country is o large; our oulture so | diversificd: our etuple food crops so various, that whenever wn¥ particular condition of the aiwosphere is unpropitious to e, it s apt to be favorabie to avot ides, there are | svery yoar @ muttade of e.opcroakers, who are morally certain that the great year of fami e Lus arrived, who tell ue of the total faiture of seed-time anl harvess, aud consequent ruin of mankind geveral'y. “fuy TrBUSE is not & croaker, Tt Las, with but tions. withbeld fiom publishing tie guess whor particnlarly .Lose of the so-ealled g at Wes' ington. Dut as some of our fr iy asking the question—'*Wkat are the crop « (ils year I we pro; 03e o anever, 80 far as we have ¢ T ¢ lutormasfoo in Sbriaf menser, basad. (oo simq tioe od: | Socomee, ¥ e o e & day way b | with zes] nad ou people &t tae beging made. NORTH CARULINA, The Wadeshoro A Most of the early lanted ootton seed in tuls country is tursiug ous very bad, his s owing more, 1t 18 said, to the rather coul weatlier we have had s ® tus seod Was pul in the ground than o the seod. 3lany piantcrs Gro piowitg up end re- Tt in feared (hat the cool 4 i for the pest ten A fuir yield is, ifent ng crop of eut Ti prospact i *Until w orib coutinue: cent T h improved the «ppearaice.” aleigh Progress, of ibe 1w inst crop of the Stata is suid to are plauiing large crops of © The Rlanford New v “The wheat Thoe farmers resta to those who have heon making predietis yield of cottan to revias them, and take off 25 per cent for bad sned. Tl in despair. Their orops bave died ont whe high, and it is useleas to pisnt wgein unless they obtais bite seed, whioh 5 Beat Lo 8U imj ty. From Greeuvillo we iearn that the continued demp, cool wenther have Which were planted, to such an exte can be wade this season, 4 it s 00 to rajse even hull n cron, if seed shoukd ite. As it is, Iande, too, have been waal too hoggy to be plowed. The juilowicg s from prospects of our pla fored with by heaty rains, snocecd and planted snd pprost infared by the former, whilst (he ateer b rolliag and fonoe-ma withs{anding theec wh . r heavy rafne end 4 the oortan kel httle cotton The low «d wod overflowed, snd generally ke excep: he Sumter W Yman :=The work and ori. 4 teaders that wo maa cas tell what th, GEORGIA, rocent letter from Clark Cou shows o marked failing off in the J crop of cottan, A rocent detfer fhom Palaski € are well satisfled that the Winter wheat the State of New Yerk and ral otber Bt tes, is ceriain to boa very a crop. Of tiat we have trustworidy informatior. The | oder 1he maticr no longer says: “ Every pects of the nest “1 hear great onty says sessn s 50 far advanced as t - int # the i S ot i e By d g complaint frow the faraers on_neout ilore of the shess work. Yet there ave lovalit .' whire the crop bids &8 | o o0d 10 germinate, snd I do o wiil be helf Tale 4 evor it 03d ot 11ic soason, and (ke prescat couk weather | » ade,” is tavorable. The best feld of whest tuat we have seen this We take tbe foll wing from a letter to The Macin Mrassenger: “Sinee I have been Western Georgly, T have leartied thrauehant this much of tho p d olicr dimpedia and amm sorry to eay (hat the likey 10 destroy muek The LeGrange I error last we stand of cotton, jaint thet recd Lisve & ¢ eottoi Lus Come ¢ e best ¢een by u somy’ 0f wWhom was seun 6t Atlantic Cou wing has 4ge saprcsel to be imp wre. Indeed, Juis field of 100dcres was ia the vory reat wildeFutws—" the barren sunds of West Upou the * trao whest jends” of that State, Penn- sytrauin. New-York, Obio, Mickigag, In s, &c., revell ag ured that the Wiiter wheat prospect is unfa shle. yeur T hppears that we 1 £ st our planters i bave hourd considers 1ol well, sad, fu was 3t died after pitiing out (%0 oF tisee w leaves. v on Journal says: “The o cotton e, W 3 thin wis 1oqul up pouss i fru ¢ yorgiivn rain of the past and wheat have bad plaint of cotton seed r, aad farmers ook inna, zota papers state th t a much lirger amount of ¥ sing thao usual, and tie prospect of o large 0 of the Spring-sow sua, cays wany farme:s ylowed up tieix Winter whe towed Spring varieties, Te estimated that ta s wide ruuping ecro o indeed. ert conin Ilinols, there would no g » Winter wheat. Scven-el btk sk that tuere will be le ia s Clover was el:0 badly iilied out, S A goutlonan who Las irs | Seral oompl West givesdt as his opinion that thero wi | and corn e vory psilefac average crop of Wister wheat in Il Oliio, Tudiave and | uwo Nortiern gentl : 700 weren of Iand fn the Sprin Kot muck more than one-quarter of a crop in Ohio | Lirge, iarghia 1 oo rers O s Jocaing slees, aud 1 o, owing to Win er-siit. Me says that extensive | introduced ull e fmproved jtplowents for planting and oul- sowings of Spring wheat weve made in soverc) of the Western | Uvatiog, wich to the Amuseont of mauy of tLose wedded to \ongue und shovter, and 1 aw iniormed thot ¢ the westarn part o Kliucis, up the valley | cro, in the Bneat i all the retion, avd ihat. with no future of the Lilingis River from Aiton, the Wister wheat nevor was Ie ‘they will make encugh 1o yay foF bhe farm this year, betfér, though ne rly desro;ed in tern part of the | 7» thern Owltivator for Jtve hias come to Land sines the Ptate. In sowme po 5 ke farmes did ot ex- | “UH1e e O e hiaat rop s\ ougbon pect to get mach moreYian tielr seal, mud where lubor could A full ouc, It w .;nhu-..‘,-..un.u. be bnd plowed it up Speing crops. 'Lle prospect is st, esldes the injury sus- fair for a good yield i Maryland, Delaware, sud parts of = e i Thy. the stias Pl ‘c‘.,,;f'x‘"'" groatly Peunsylvauia; but :8 & whole, the pr t of a full crop of | ward, jooks well Wister wheat in all the Northern States is eertainly unfavor. | Wisler Uats were Dadly ¥ilied ont Just wister, whie, What it isin the late Retel bescen by tho | gTt SrOp I e e aecount extacia frem Southern journals, w u b, seed, plavted in ot weal Of Spring wheat it ls entirely too roon to begin to guoss. tions, ball sto:10s and besting raius mase o Corans hiE Iagd Tea il TRasy” Secmptws, MG 35,208 | s 0l THT B moany enciies between this aud the last o July or 1st of be barvested, ucd even after that we bave kpows from 1010 30 per cont ¢ lost by Lad T'e Federal Usion soye: Farmors io thie seotion had a gond time all of the past week weather and bad sieckisg. Oune of (1o greatest epe 1o fight General Green, We still Lear 8 bad report about the cotion erov, Liie freedmen are, generaliy, in this con uing well. Wheat Is not promistug, yet & falt crop ey ho made. This crop slmost always turns cat beiter thau wes auticipated, and way oo the presout seston. Potatoos sre lovkivg well, Lttlo animal called myriads, dovouring, Uk thivg i its way, U time and favorable gro De always uncertain. ’ aud corn, though kx A subseziber, writ ADoctar Sherman of Tllinols hopes that he has made the iscovery that will get zid of theee peste, 1o 2018 Co., on the 26tk ult, ed by the inces “The obineh bug hieving destror ! my wheat crop lor a num- Yer of yoars, 1 was anxions 10 gei ol of it and 1belove ty 5 ably less thon ibe Sonth by d pet &b back- are avery wheateprowers is that W comes in countless the Egyphiau lucusts, cvery gren & emody fa foand for taie post, soed ing tme zasy come, but hervest will 11, looks bealtliy. ing to The Mecon Telegraph, from Talbot s * Crops in ipper Georgin are wach suins— corn looking hedly. And, on ace and dofective roed, very few plenters of eotwn. 1 bave not mok, n alovlating plunter ko exti ool oed 1,500,000 bal s—and to moke hine snd o late Fall.” lo wiitten by & Mitchell nt onuit of the beavy reius | huve over ope-hulf u stas o five weeks' absence » the present erop Wil rx: will require timelylstov ers, waim sus We ciip the fullowing parsgraph froz an a1 ‘aditar of Tie Macor. Messcnger, on Lis vei & ‘ul.od it Lome, snd cgi desiroy §t, root and branch. “The prospect of crops, now in cultivation, fe the absorbing 1 that if the farmers will follow my sivice, ther ey | ope. chell County 18 pot considered rs * the grain growiog ralse 8 good ciop of wheat, urd not lose i b el £ the | country,” but we saw sowe very fire ficlde of wheat aud o Ers of the bug, This§s the in woeret. My nves- | which ere then being cat, and without any ign of rost or e to belieie that the & .t of Kernel was | other injury, Some complaint of this iy made in Dougherty as & sort of * foster Yy el and 11ad by | County, 1 does not exist to & possiderable exte ¥ tion through & wicrosco, €. @t grown upok | though In some places tbe crops do Lot prescut & very favor. the blow or fuzey | eble wapect. ‘L'bis may Le generuily aitritnied to the guality \hore there 4re bugs, Loe: in dy of the Jaud and waot of cultivetion. 'Wiih the Tevesso of this, ich prodace the the orope of corn cotton 1n all that section are very prom- ¢ acroel of seed whoat L that | daing, The land pianted is probbiy thre foartin of that of o ogalar'y | the better duys of freeduen (now pas wud & Feasonabie a5 they bave their wheat, ard it follows th ench §s the | awount of it is in provision crops. Sane, the erudication of tho hag will be easle acoumplished— | A correspoudont of The Savanueh Kopullicar, rlilug from eitbor by sowing bo Wheet that has been iu contact wiil tie | Beriven County, under date of the ZRi iguature bug, OF by slecping the & in seme aclution betore gowing, | of * A Planter,” says wulch will dostroy the o, As far a8 T can hear, thare is a Lowl for cotion md—-vnn; Fovery mun bow piantod his crop, and ha ers are iu despair, beex waiting for the seed 1o coine 4 of May, the fuct it demoustrated ¢ | been in’ thelirt unginaed ), minnte, or, if it does, the fintshed plasting, snd 10 15 1 this theory is correct it will dd wany millions of bushels of wheat to the supply of future years. It cen rove no effect upon the presont year's supply furiher thgu to enalle Western Surmers to sell off eloscr thay bexetofore; for, with the power to stop Sowing und growing chiuck bugs, the proirie formerds | yuce any cotton 1o come up. Ihe pretiy eertain of & crop of Spriog wheat, desd. No more seed s 10 be kisd ui | frow ot 3 We i that the Bouth hos discovered 8 vew euciay of the whest growers which, fuons the description, s uslike any of the Northern pests, Toe Avianta Iuclligencer, i descriii from G writin H and, from per- rop of Whaut this yens hat Fe shall not be snrpriscd to see 1 in the months of July and A cor Webave takon sonul observation, predict it says ;‘ A 7. E‘rlrgyer}o!nv{u hias mode its appearance in the | %0 0 whent ficids in the sbape of & small insect, which appeare on | S E Ae Atlanta Nex weiting from Dal- he'biede, Yatping fron g four o st iox and Stk | A SR TUEIRARALSE TR SRS Bre, welting o Dl producing sad havoe. o nt of Mr, Embry was first | “Ps 00! o K0 g 4 P S Al 1o a) o 4 5 the couiee Uf twQ We ast I bav and eonyersed SAQVEED Kl spPrimaniot Ehe amect andl s deatr ietive po: with many gewtleraen from di ot pe ay e ! . : f e swme county, AL that not wore Uy nnother obd ol 2ud 1 feel quite s of Bummerlin, The two together bave watched tho progre: e will wo il fusect, and what o present nppesrance of the wheat | O 1€ ¥ A5 erop i this viciait uctive powers of the insoc FLORIDA Lat great atmsge wiil | Souaty if it be ot totall s, Las noves fcar that the that region of the lteols, Lisve coma 10 erver Xpress P oo to Lo Wieat crop Qestroyed. Tl fusec wade it appearance in i Of other grain crops, it 1 too 5000 Lo Lugin to guess, except of rye, wiich § pretty largely grown in New-England, Eax ein New Yok, and port of Peansylyasia end New. 894 ne u general thing bids falr for o good crop. Bailey is vot a food nor feed crop fn fhis country. and its sondition prinoipally coucorue the brewers, aud for their con solation we gan state that 1t s not likely 1o bo nu abundant e, te., Té Marianna Crurier says that 1 | ure of the cotton sesd o gerui pisaters, want of fre ad designed for cotton. [romlisg. an n 0% quence of the fall. ‘e toamn s weak, sud will be abun- was 63 out the samio d afficiently advanced. ¢ {nstances sbort; grass usa COTSe;Ue dant. The hired men alt n{; I " Led~losing about on s i the manner in w Tie Gaineeviile New E Ve bear of very maany 6o oot which nte about the stas pla For the good of (g Lorses, wg are bappy to say tiat oaty Tt eppowte thet the faalt is groutly 1o (e seed, Wos ather it ®¥rom Tibiwe to Artesla, & di NEW- o Lope, however seable cuange, YORK DALY at the pecent raine will roduce ALABAMA, The conmtry in the vicivity of Tusealoosa was Wo see it statod in, 7he Demopo the f ip vep to the cotls wrrior River lest week, and serious y of eeed op in that weather tbe crop. A grest eea tantirg, pped o that fhist saction of red with paio. Of course cotton bes suflered (0 & very serious extent, s New Era that the recent Loavy ratns heve seriously jojured the crops—especinlly i the slough I ds. The craw the FUBig CoLLOD Crop. Yor the prat ten <Ini bave Lad fully ** in the gross.” The ol suflering for went of hot, suns One of borough Boacy etreams will dnwage t! £ 8 grow produc will pera Bder the mest favorsble cireamstances, tao injury will be s planting over s, ral an cxces tho Leavies m of the e 08 bigh » seu do hat b eal. Much of the cotto ,bulduuzlbu fo of Cuhilnt ung plants st ed in The Lin ho Lust éwo e #vod erop w <1 s dotig considerabie (ainnge 1o sayn The Licingston Messen we 5, Whioh, we fear. will pt crps aw- o on all low lands s wircady ny wentber, s Wo over witnessed, says The Green , baa falien this ‘morning, The a they inve been this sewson. The e (0 (Le lauds aod the crops mast b will 1o foubt Eave to be ro- und diffie il not impossivle, to wgs Times writen: On 10 sen that the un prot og. From Diek’ cliee to Montgomers, there were onl o the Tosd upon bich there mre goo verally teplanting, end in mao Cotip'aints of bad stands aie genax il dving out, vom Jowrnal that tbe extraordinary bave dous much dam 1o the crops i that section, Along the crocks mnch ground That war pianted has been ornciowed, apd wiil only bo made ik ol The ¥o v Luis yesr by Teplsuting—providiog tie weather ousg coitou uns suflered groatly, aad matertal, The scareity of good saed will prevent repiautivg in many § The prospeot ustauces w ONTGO for a o Hayrovite s excneding! orain, that they will ot make more than half what they ex- ted o el wh one bale and ke Eufaula News say The crops i this » already we bavo enjor The freedmen are condueiin 10 & bighly creditabie maoer appreciat contracts eounty, o erop prow Tuciudes what we Ons of culton. boen eom and will henenforward and good lack, be he of cotion —grasa b A plan ability to wcres in Tearied t says ho will so owving Oktibhelia County, wa learn toat o sandy Jaad ji the dat of Apri! crop of coth a t e their position, they bave mod MISAL alf to the b @ 11 wou'd otherwise be resoried to. ¥, Alc., 7 hureday, Moy 24, 1868, pof sitin trom Montewnery to d. "Tbe feeling Amony the plant- 111 did not kuow thal no mes aa a will do, T would place the sacont at L Gro. W. Grosir. on are looking remarkably well and Guito a variety of garden vegetables, # themselves, &y & general thing, and we now begin to thark they anf wil labor [witutully under the rrL. From The Columbus Scotinel, May 29, Whila at Tibhee station, in the western pert of this few da; peots of the pi the_ersters [oi grthered stnee, we made mizate ji uiries as to the srs fu that nelghborhood—which 9t of Oktibbehs County, sud this is our friends in Oltibbehn, bad planted 260 nores i Owing to heavy r i 1o abande t th Lough &t it No , aud # Hiod 1o A, Las ing the g avy, Labor no of Ia work through otton, wid % 0: 1 L o w rpe means, and also of la ud the grow th of grase, he has yn the caltivation of 10 of these acres, 1f favored with s good season, pes to Taise 100 baled pressnt his crop * dooke very bad. * corn is doiug very weli and prom trouble with his isborers, to whom Le 100 for WOen, POT auBum. 00 meres in cotton, 8 part of which ahandon to sare e remaining por- sced. Corn prosnest flne. working some 10 bands, aud whose lands # fine cotion prospect, Ho bes sne rase d i haviug planted now extent of bis labor- ‘ar peighhor plaated 200 moree i cotton—prospect bad uastworthy ge confidence in his akes, {\lx\nwd £9 1 60 hauds. We rp Tibbee, s producing cotton fnely—Le baviag plan acros—all of which, bowever, Will nob be caitivated iu that Cory, proapect execlient, ero Apoiie eud plost i in eotton—of new ed £00 acres proapect ns good a t exoellent, nod 1f e are oarrecily 1aiormed, he worke of the oron, pianted 4% acres 4 lbor d k. Tie proap Lites are negroes With labor, the coin s fine ou thm plantat T prant avily in th pg. Co Ans oid reaide ting rid of all pegre L plan from his Nro of the et From A exor lie we b tationd the a plow ba On Sar bood o T Qumotishin was folow must be 1 accareto intorioe do ot ow seed fu pic Ma yiwid. he very mue ard onts, Planters { and corn, The cots tral Missh taken «0 8trol bec remarkably wel bility of 15 0 90 rorer i cotton—he aays be Will not save 3 ba and plan he 18 litiie tov despond. oy, raiitonl. Thes i are Gides ¢ + ok be insd A you y Wi bi g fehera ae It argely v cottos, 1 the difr that the ¥ - (M ' 1 T b, 1a verv luge T e pp, 8976 inters i that seouon of the Stata. 1 Lave kopl the soil #o wel bact to work it would have Thjarions, it mot impossible. Lotd in me ing ex ured 1 ,wa have had 2.0 0pp n sowse places sy that they have s good ¥ A correepondent of The Mcmphis wou' w, but the cutber prevents truyed by ove: fow. Y save someilsg e oorn s des e oan pather, the whant 1 this section of the lestroyed. Wiide the eorn crop looks L will { iie erop, the proba- b2 wo labos w0 miles, on the dla considerable damag prostesting the young o of mor n o is 00 w duys longer, Prowpes i Gud Wem: © erops e upos this 1s c1oaot dv £ hor os arw &l which the middle of ith thie destru ands o ¢ up sumy of ey wie poor, and wy low that ol pluatiog COnmCqueie o mlserabie atands | ity of gestiog good seed. T wia 1966 aud 1507 will be satber ) Sentined Vearun thet the county sre more promssiug than wes Loped for & 3 in that 6 the late Waskiogton County, Miss., oorre- sged the erops and kept them back n 7 of cottor cotn 5 the labor employed. u lean out their 10ro thas kuee high. L t nd, 01! look 10T & ide crop. Balietin, writiog from C last two weeks Lave been wholly ) Incessant and exe rapUtioy Grass han cousequently farme that there fs but listle ed. The cotton from new secd | of usfavoruble weatler ad Lo long but It s not so with that from the old. All bottom lands have been deluged, and the crops almost cutirely destroyed. ever known before. ummisent Laving pac The for m: awey, Wo Great di conntry on o cotton, Just protiuding frow the earth, b weriously in be fmpossid! quired ir the montis of the freeds obliyrations, dl lepidated o ar ham to work, | heavy raius Interests of the planting community, the orops plaated, but readering t 1t 35 liverally estt age, Wi be produeed this yea time to come. ver « wey wet weat cusnot now mwak T'he Therville South of th rospect efforts wer bailed and stormed; wasued out of the ground; on b . The Lee A f and Noxuboe heve been bigler suan feilure of the cotton crop is rendered LOUISIANA. ook w see bu iseourage me ‘nmfl. and us ton thus far 1s not ver, 21 10 erops g it in speak of the y atinel _says A plauted bas germinated, nod what Is up e to roplant much of the ood, wud the projer season for pluat ing has wiready pussad away. A planter from Lafourche thus: We have had ' ehaving ¥ A very small por- ell, owing to the heavy beating ruiss ked tie ground ahoat it before us, ipg wm<biog this ¥ of onr river phantations under w itile encou: . 1t exists among planters fn the Oaackita count of the wi propitious weather, The youn ays The Lowisiana Southeestern, rre gloomy fudoed. With most s the hill places waliod sent for our p an been, 1t is foar ‘tha wood s neariy exhadsted, 1t w nd. The stand of eot writes to The Creseent of the 30th ahandant rairs recently, which have been enerally, The eorn crop i good. . a8 T huve remarkod, is backward; and a8 for cane there iy not much o some, and hope tu to plant with the jresent s, our parish, but most planters Lave year or t0o to be eble to Lave as wuch yatem of labor, This eumen. 1 might v,l{ucnmnl Vepisel ves vnu& A : We have deliberately in- fre lipencer woye 1o the condition of thie cotton crop in this parich, 1u Tanuary and Fep-nary the wenther was go men o) with cuerpy the and st t roughont t parishes are ai veat § expected from g 0T W her. Thef re 4 and i ared wil ‘ithough most of the plantations were in a ling to contract and stard to thel o planters were bopeful, und begau Wien pianting timo came, the raius d to be Cefeotive, oud wlmost euper- wie 1o get the orop in, but it raiued sod ‘cotton on the hill lands was geaerally the botsom lands it was too wet the weck—when the weather found themselves wish fuditierent tensive pastured. fact, such & gragiug rospect sy 47th states that the recent Le country have greatly dameged the ot only in wasiiug up w0 land notitlabio for s shoit ted that only s kalf erop. oa wone even doubt this. clowed, and Litle or ning of st ontirely o a1 guarter. of the heary r planters ure unable to do orking their crops on account of it sypears to us that our plauters all crops this season, th During the past woek and Ascension for the plan- ver ten eut year iu any kisd \ Tour oF five days il make & peor | cotion | TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JUNE I1, 1866, searclty of lshorers, the promise of erops bfrmhn!‘l J I3 Usily beeoming small by dagrees and distressingly less A correspondent to The New Orles . { buyes 1t by raived more here thls Sprivg than I have w | bewsed for more than forty years, The crops are i 4 worse | eondition than J ev Frase nnd weeds, doge, waw crops. They are almost taken with the fields 16 £6 80ft 5O POWIng CaB ug to g0t ibe weeds and grass 0d dering (be stand bad, ward, io & recent Yook o And o 813 lied up. | Lorgo, ut fow | Qispened with them en 3w 1o Inhorere Lot the piaiters thetmselves, their aons, o A few fnstances, White gasistants, All were in the fields, plow- ine, hovtng, bar rowing or planting—iaen, women i They are, m pleasaut, intelicent, | geutiomeu, whom would pat to shume some legisiators W6 have seek. rops Wwere generally in fine order. Every ficld sue ke n garden, so clean was it kept & Tirhe 3ys of the prospe from_eouversatio &t the jommencement of tie aearon, o have mipped ia th. The groatbesroily of fres: of the piaaied soed, will compel ir protensions of raising a Jargo cotton cause of the increass of the corn orop. | ensous to hope that thcre will be picked s 0wy fiakes next fall. Faoen The Laton Nougn Advoeate, May 35 Of Bast Louisiaan we can speak knowisgly. Sot one-baif of the 1and usially ploated is in cotton this weason plmnter bas wasted sive, soed cost'y labor on the hill fats aud tojs that consticie S great proportion of tie inclosed fields of antion of every ose hus been_dirccied o the hottoms and new bill land. Yo addition, 1t is now aluiost ceriain that i the planting of oli seed, un- favorable weatler aud (ne lastlonsness of the Dagroes, not more than two-tidrds of o crop will bo made on the Tnuds Liat are now under cultivation. Oar best inforaed plenters tay one half 8 crop Is the most that eau be m: Paken all 1n uil there is & poor and foriorn prospoct ahead. The crop is pitehed, is up, and safe caloalations can now be mede. Lenv- Tog ont all oniculations of the dreadful arny worm, whoes visit thits serson is not expeeted, uud there in o chance that Lon- istana will prodace o erop of coiton this year exceeding one. thirg of the erop of 161 Oae-quarter would bea closer aud probably s more jnst ealentation. ®pien Red Kivem OVik Hitackes Times, of r six days heen ;nin; “The river bos for five has been no & ovorfluw is 0o lon estion, river is folling sbou 3, oud that (he Mississips hllm{. bt it i still rist pidly at tifs polut. yery fw pluces on the FHou Dica tint are above water eatirely at the prcsent thme, and the chatces are that all wil b under in five days wore. Vrery planter on the Spavial K obis Lakes is overflowed, nud but few of them have beeu able o get other suitable places to try the nrrlmentol planting so very Inte in the seaon. This overtlow, taking tato considers- tion the cireumstances of the poople, is the greatest calawity, exeept Baok's taid. that has ever befallon us.” Chops AND Hiot WaTeR Ur RED KIVER—The Shreve- says: The river contivues fo s all alung the Bayou heve heen usce, and fome of them are uow six feot is :::onud ebove. We may the ook for disastrous times ab o 5 The Alszamdria Democras of the 230 says: Our levoe still Bolds good and 1s being repaired hourly aud w good i poing on with old Red." " The levee, i¢ miles below wave way ou Friday. Tho whole country in covscquence submerg. d, 1hus reinlg o laniers in that séction. The New-0/Teans Creseen! We would svzgest o thoce who have been making predictions of 8 large ¥ield of col to rostsn them, aud take off 25 per cent for bad weed. planters in Missiseippi, Alabama and Louisiane are in dospair, T heir erop- bave died out when s couple of inches ki wil it in useless to p! obtained, as they, of vouree, do not ste ed q vise at this point. T compelled to guit thelr -} camying on n; trocte, A ris i sgaln unless botter lantod the besi toey had. how they areto help themseives jusi iow, Forlunatelr ou the Seon 1 we huve net beeo obliged to leave our cotton i | tha v it wne rained, and tserofore buve had s good aad quality. Teras alvices state th Eflwnnmllynrsn\-! in & prowising coudition, The continued weather, heary raing and cold bave cansed o matesisl change. To many places cot- ton bae heen weshed Up, ‘Kb stand is bad and seed for re- planting ts senrce. 3f 1t should coutinge wet, cous.dernble will hava to be turnod oat t from Middie Texea says: In (his region, ror this senson %as coul and latierly very ury. was backward, bat s now all fuisted, Wister- 8 favorable appecrance; wheot, especially, tter than nsual. ‘There is tair promise of Bay and oa Al fr tienitaral Department tuk e of the growing oro to mention thet the lort crop over & | laree part of the country, Euch are not, Lowever, 14 Juulcw Sic s in ¢ e sention of the conntry, 7% Summit (Texas) Commercial says: A gentleman who bay d through iko Niute suys that be Qreates et e proise of an abuidant orop in this vicia vt inw er portion of the State throogh which he has traveied. Hosars the freed a poueral thing, are con- amsives better bere, o slo Uvelibood shan 10 of A Gaive er soys: A corres | from San Angustin, Teias, says: I | yust Buisbing plauting theis erop of colton, ive week the usual thge of plautlag. The whoie State Las been literaily covere ! with water, and thers cannot be more thai made at be b, oW iz to bad dl o ma to what was raliy. assun @5 that unless the eatiec Lutorvene, *tue crops mekiug preater exertions tiog th v portions of the Stute. for an Lonor ted ane in the largest ARKANSAS, Janters throughoul Arkansas bogan work early on, with esersy and spirit, and_(helr laboreis ' s general thing; bul the Ligh bopes witl » have been most eruslly dashed to the and those who now man 10 pay c1pe i} | s uf thecotton erop which been oomupietely killed, one-balf way uiake ot the reowinder will bo poot indesd. A great a | or & thime, and although 18t killed d s 0ot # fax advaiced by Cally o wdeed. OF the two-tl of tais wa Vio wtand i badly stapied. s It ehould be a8 thie arned frop: meveral ge hat whilo a falr portion of the ecteon Isnde of Phillips and St Francis Counties are Gnder cuisivation, but a fow plaptations bave what | 0% # good siand. The seed pianted has in too magy fustances | tarned out badly, bolng very delicie 0 essential vitality | necessary to germinations besiies, the late cold weaten bas in- | firionsiy aficoied even the hewiy ylaits. azd King Cotton | Just now lofks v abdication. “The peo- | o rever v, aad ook forward to better thises anead. ik TENNESSRE. ester (Tenn.) Home Jourmal of the 26th h . whest aud cotlon ciups 1 : The Manphis Aralanche of eayn: Crops fn Toonosee eve Yk ard, Wheat will be nboat balf a crop. Corn and sing, The eut worm hiny heen very destructive portons in Samuer Consty, We ulso Goar that the Attacked the wheat fn wany see askeilia Gazoute of n i | committing greot Teviges on the CHON CIop in Tho plant is destroyed jmmediately on its ap tlowan fram Colutabia gives & roady adverted u taten the following: The 2 o craps it onr couuty are growing well, wnd prowias o fair yield. et Moot farmors satimete the vield of wheat at from one- ibird 1 one half a crop. Outa and corn are | romarka- No coiton up yet. LAW INTELLIGENCH, —— A %1 'p Wrecleed by ¥ler Captain-¥To Charges the Col nees with Complicity. The Atlantic Mutnsl Insurance Co. agt. Henry J. Murrls, before Cowmissioner Betts on Saturdey. The com- pialnasts flled their libel against the master of the Dritish brig 1. Alberty for barratrously wrecking that vessel, The de- fendent allowed tho eass 10 go by default agalnst him aud tte onne s referred to the Commissioner to take gproofs, Qhe captain door not deny the wrecking, hut says thai he was di- rected by the consigrees to put ker ashore on the Dermudas, but Lo preferred to put ber asbore on Long Tsimd, Tutwes W. Booth, the mate of the vowel, testifind that they satled t:om this port bouad for Point Petre, Gaadaloupe: when they took thoir departure from Sandy ook, the weather was cood, the wind i the southern board; of 10 o'clock thoy tried b 1 umps and found about 1o feet of water; at that timo they were off their course; later the wind bouled to (ho west- ward, which wouid bave enabled them to Joy ¢! course for Guudalonpe; instead of that they kept on with the wind free 10 the sastward; the pumps werv trind, and thore no difli euity 10 keepiny Ler froe; the uext duy the wird wus Light, aud Lheg took it tote Tight sail on nocount of the rulitng; Mot-ia represcnted to bim that the vessol would never reach Ber port of destination; be satd that bis oonvigaees had made advances on tho vessel, and that ho had 8300 against her for fold bim the only way to got it was to strand the vessel; he suid that they bad epoXen of Bermuda to bim, and that it was bis inteution 1o lose tig vessol there; the brig was flusily put aehore oa the south befcli of Long leland, saven tailes to the wostward of Moutauk Folut; the weathor wes good all (hat morul yh- was pat ashore: it was just be- fore surriae on the th of December; some of the light snils 2 the wind was ou the westorn board, which made it & rec; our port-tacks were aboard; el bad about three foet of water in ber; upto that time there bud boen no difficulty in ¥oeping ber froa by the pumps, The brig bad in this voyage been Jlurieer east thon M ontauk Point, some twenty 1uiles betwesa Montauk and th t part of Block Island Chaunel, We did not go rouud Block Laland, The weather then was o Shis was some four days heforo the vessel was put ashore. When the fog elecred up the wind cane strong from the northwest. We could thon have gono knto Newport ha VLor if there bud been any necessi'y. ‘Lbore was no nocess! Trovious to this the Captain had shown me & chart of the Bor- mudas, Tho Soutk side of St. Georgo, one of the Bormudas, was ore poluthe spoke of to destroy the brig, Hoalso spok of tho North Rock as a place to make a fotel smash of her, wasied po trouble with the cergo. 1 told him ii-was 3 poor y 1o get bis T was on deck when the veseel was put I on store. Csptaln Morris nsked we if I knew a good place, O toka it T wae scquainted through the reef, Ho asked 100 how 1o steer, and Le told the man at the wheel to steer 80 and s, 1 mever signed tho prote Captatn Morris after- Words toid me they had got & man to sigy the protest, who fmitated my handwriting to & sheving. I saw tie Cuptain drive out sbout four Incies of the oukum of the brig on the 24 1d kim the men would see the caulking iron 'y were on the forecastlo. e soid ho didn't wages, aud that they she would cut & ecaper snd wight go on hee bewm ends, i said o wanted her to get esough to fecl It After she was Deached, be said Lo wanted the wind to como on sbors, that thero waen't balf enougl to break Ler up. Mr, Jones and Mz Lough, the cousiguecs, were also ax- amtned aud testified to the amount of lusuraico on the vessel, ey denied absolutely any direction or nathority or hint o the aptain (0 wreck the veasol. The Captain eross-oxamined Mr, gh seustely on this potot, but failed to shako big testimoiy, case was adjoursed to Tuesdoy ui 13 1. et SUPREME COURT—Cnaxpeee—Juse 9.—Telore Justice GROVER. DECISIONS. The Hon. H, Hubert agt. Legrand Lockwood.— Motion deaied with costs. Beforo Justice INORARAM. ©. D. Myers agt Joku Voo Waguer.—Motion granted with costs "I P. Richton et al. agt Johu Godamier.—Motion grauted without costs oa defondeat shvalasng uvl o sue, | 20s, 177, 178, 183, 186, 188, 197, 1¢ .\::h McCartasy, &o. sgt. . C. Murray.—Motion grauted ith costs. Jobn E. Von Eisenberg agt. Samael M. Pettiogor.~Motion is grauted o couditons. SUPEEIOR COURT—SPECTAL TREM—JUNE O—DIFORE JUS- TICE_JONFS. izabeth T. Schenck agi, Jobo A. Scbenck,—Refurred to ‘eree to Lear and report. &c. Bexton agt. O'Dononne.—Jndement for defendant with coste; defends cpure findings aud give ove day's zotl b theroof for & day mot laier than Thursday oxt. COLEK OF CoMMON PLEAS,—CITAMBERS—JUNE 9 BEFORE s JVDGE CARDOZO. ‘Anron Brinckerhoff ot al. agi. Robert Stewart et al.—Xo- tiow depied without costs. Jfi.‘ . Troti agt. C, W. Goddand.—Default opesed on e l' e e ——— SURROGATF'S COURT—Jvxg 9.—Before Surtogate TUCKER. p WILLS PROVED. b Duning the past week the Surrogate hae admitted to probate the wills of the foliowing-namad parsons: ! . Wortman, John H. Raywor, Gabriel Van Cotty rrill, Edward Cutter. Jobn Gallagher, Curl Fres ary 8. Smith, Garrett J, Hopper. None of the above wills contilu sy provisious of pubiic importasce. B INDAR—THza Day. —Nos. 373, 150, COTRT CAL Sperine CoOURT—CIROUIT—PART L U3, 1115, 3019, 003, 477, €79, U1, BAL, 1471, 1337, 425, 1069, 1090, 107, 1072, 1073, PaRt IL-—Nos. #20, 614, 170, 14, 124, J224, 1316 1396, 1J74, 602, 866, 1998, 10, 1456, 1456, 1438, 984, 1906, 9340, ErRoiAL TEaM-—Te wurrerv—Nos, it Lsstion of 1aw and fact.—Nos, 191, 1 201, 203, 101, 169, 17 2 i 1 7. 4 £ 184, 210, 211, SuperioR CourT.—PART L.—Nos. 1799, 2145, B, 9517, T2, 9089,.2081, 1dsi, 2205, 71, 15, o8, 134, 239, 9430, 9404, 2180, 1308, 2486, COMMON 551, 1303, 1566, 1577, 1504, B0, 1533, 1533, 1504, &1 IT,—Nos 1400, 1604, 1607, 1608, 1385, 529, 1563, 65, 1326, 11175, 1429, 30, KROCIAL SCIENCE, e THE REFORMATORIES OF EUROTE. ¥rom Our Special Corvespondrt. BostoN, Jane 5, 1864, An instructive paper on (he present condition of Euro- pean Reformatories, a3 cotmpal »d with those of America, comumunicated by the Rev. E. C, Holle, was reud in the Socinl Science Convention to-lay. The revolutions of the earlior pat of this century, and especlally tho rovolution of 1343, r.vewed or aswakencd 8 goneral or deep interest in the ' condition of the peorer clusses and the causes of erime. Reformatory iustitutions have sprung up rupidly siuce that time. In Bavariaalore, for example, 87 institations of a distiuctly reforwatory charncter bave been established since 1848, and, in Prus sia, 18, Thote were, in Larope, more than 100 Honses of Refuge of the churacter of the Ravhe Faus in 1818, whereas, 8t present, there are fiom $00 to 1,000, over two- thirds of which are Protestant charitics estublished und almost wholly supported by privete individuals, societies, aud churches, This list includes diferent asyiums, insti- tutions for idiots and cretius, agricuitural ecionies, aseo- cintious for the eare of vagrant children, and the like; but it is wholly exclusive of Orphan Asyluras, Houses of Cor- rection, thousands of Ludustrial Schools, Ragge d Schools, sud siuilar establishments, which the Governments con- trol. A list of over 600 of the private chusities accom- pauied Mr. Holle s peper. IN GREAT BRITAIN. Thoe first reformatory institution for juv in Great Dritain was establisked in 1778, iu London, by the Philantoropic Society, 3 here are now about 120. In 1801 these Refurinatories were capabls of accomwmodating 15,000 childion; but were gu te inadequate to the demands, Tliere was an iuternationsl exlubition of the different brauches of industry carried on in Reformtories beld in Loudon in May, 1865, 1N FRANCE, AUSTIIA, AND PRUSSIA. The agricultural colonies or furw schools in France en- jv’v the iibernl protestionof the ll'l‘llpfliu! fumil y—especicl! of the Empress, Tho sgriculturai colony ut Mettruy c s betweon 700 aud 50 inmates, The Catholic chads ties are numerous end beneicent in their iuglucnes. 1o Austria, the Reformatory justitutious aie oll under the contro) of the Catholic Church or the municipal au- thorities. Little is known of themw. We know of but four Protestaut iustitutions for orphiuns and vagrant chil- dren. In Pruesin, tutiof enile eriminals ore are now about 225 Reformatory Insti- Prucain atan ds f t among Prc greut cause of E tory aud Preventive Edncation. Neatly all thet tutions have been established since 1848, and a lurge pume ber are in charge of Brothers of the Ranke Flans, Besides s, there are quite 8 nomber of are vagrant children: Weste 5 cight, which have churze of ghout 400 ren, Th ssoctations do not place the clilidren in mgsanstallen, but put them out to private fumilios, oue of them. IN WURTEMPURG. are 36 Reformateries and Orphan Asylums Among them ere Rettungsons of which 15 bave st present 1dren in their ca support of these 15 fustitut in 1564 ta 69,000 florizs, or about $34 per he Commitied of e for the kingdom, esteblished in 1816, Teport. 180 Infont Asylums with 10, n, 1,400 Industrial S th £5,000 children; 2oLtungsanstelten, 18 Pr Y e, 1 Israelitic, 200 ohiliren; 11 soclotics for the care of va. itute for Juvenile Delin- © Retts With about 1 grants hq‘ o familics, 1 Tust! Guents; 5 Deaf and Damih A 5 2 for the blind; 5 hospitals for stitution for Lpilepties; 1 Douconess lustitution; ing achool for servant girls; 1 as pr jon of ers, and 1 trais ool for fomuls s. The agricultural schools of Wurte: rg begn 0 Reformatories hare labors sfter their work en crites Mr, Holle, “say fro and put ticm eltlier on ome fuam belon erment, or into the family and . The fit of their wi ¥ n. y 8l80 get reg ery upportunity to become pood farmers, IN BAVARIA, SWITZERLAKD, &C. The reformatary iustitutions in Bavaria ero supported partly by the State, Beforo 1848 Bavaris bad only thres Rettungsanstaiten; in 1554, 90 reloruatory institut and now 11 Beside these, there are 170 ind schools; in 1858 thore were )8 only. In 1851 the Retorma- tories were divided thts: Catholic, 61; Protestant, 18; und * Mixed," 5, d there are 51 reformatory institutions and In Switzerlan agricuitural colonies. They contain t, about 1,%00 children. 1o almost every can largo number of industrial sehoodls for the poorer lasses, 11 other countries in Europa refonuatories exist—ibus in Hauover there are 11; in Holland, Qtaty, in Kussia, 8; in Baden, 215 ¥ ilectorate und Hesse Darmstact, « r inmates, o wust clothe and tion and bave e n_ Saxeny, in Donmark, 75 5 in Ger- Hesse ) in Sweden and Norway, 1o; in the Free wan States othor thay those already natwed, THE METHOD OF GOVERNMENT, By fur the larger number of sl the i stitutions enume- rated here eatablished on the family principle, Tho Government Institutions, Houses of Correetion, State or City Orphan Asyluns and the like, in most of which the congregated system is atill edbiered to, are not ineluded in this number. "Fhe Germun fawily system has no room for ley classes of honor, Norare the clder brothers military drills masters. Much less doos the spirit of the Raube Huus admit of suy public exhibitions in which the clildren are Tooked &t o8 80 mauy cariosities. The wmark system of dis- cipline, secording o Mr. Holls, would be entirely adverse to that spirits 1t will bo coneeded, ho says, by all who heve ever been enggaged in the education of vicious youth of both sexes, thut 1t is not this or thut system, classification, or amrenge- maent, but the epiri¢ which pervades the whole institution, which will give o character to it. Most of the European Reformatorios were commenced on a small scalo, aud con- mently had a natural growth and a wore hoalthful do- velopmaiit. The individual or sqmeiy b which they have been establisbed take n more di and lively intorest in their weliare than is the cese o State fustitations, which are mansged 10re or less toless official forws, rules or regnlations, Kuropean Xufo matories desorve to bo entirely independent of the Staty, snd by far tle lareer gions or number receive nO support w er from the public treasury; much less do they everappls lor cny such sup- port. ‘Theso Reformatories huve bo.a oessful and are still progrossing. ‘After speaking of the Central € toe of Iauer Mis- gions in Germuay—a sort of cocic 1 social science associntion—3lr. Holle enys that ono ot the most striking foatures of the Europoan Reformatory Institutions, both Protestaut aud Catbolic, is the presonce of a latge number of malo or female assistants in the largo establishments. These young men and woren belong to the differont fusti- tutions of brothors and to the Deaconess Institutiovs of Germany andother countides, They aro prepared, theorot- jeally eud practically, to fill the posis of tho differont branches of tho Innei Missions; as, for instance, suparin. deuts of reformatorics, warders in prisons, managers or houses, city wissionaries, superintendents of orphan in s/ luins, nurses io hosyitals, teachers o infunt schools, & DEACONESS INSTITUTIO: The whols number of thessiustitutio world is ut this time 3t—in Prussia, Bevarie, 3 each; in Switzerland, Baden Statos, 2 cach; in Great Dritain, Wustemberg, Hanover, Hollend, Russia, Hesso Electorate, Messe Darmstadt, Saxony, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, other Germpn States and Freo Cities, one each, Tho nuwber of Deacons esses in active service ot the close of 1864 was 1,600, They 11 the Protestent 10; in France and and the United were engozed at 390 different stations throughout the world. Tl contributions-for the support of these 34 1u- stitutions amounted to $259,000 in oue year. B 'nx.unlll)t_wlgocu.s.h Sinrit, esiden the Deaconces Institutions there are abou institutions for tho ‘raining of female teackers for infant Behools, and nurees in hospitals for children. There aro in existence 16 Institutions of Brothers ur}.m!ninf schools for young wen for the work of Inncr Missions. Probabi; froiu 1,200 to 1,500 young men have becn thus properc 1ot tho work, and aro all more or less ia acll 3 ®}ys, there are gome €0 institutions in Y young men and Wemen are trained for future duty with in- fants, orpbans, vagraut, viclons and eriminal yonth—with tho sick and thie prisoner, with the idictic and the feeble- minded. [Tuere are in Europe sbout 30 institutions for idiots, ereting, &o.] Of theso 60 establishments, with eli are Protestant institutions, snd one or two exceptions, d eutlrely dependent o private cadty, “QOut of them,', oy and stren; fim 1abor wif will reveal their work, w! spent their life in serving those in and sick and o prisoner. - Looking around us, with these faots before o, us obey :"vwh of our blessed Suviows, — OUR JUVENILE REFORMATORIES—IHE CONGRRGATS _AND TRE FAMILY SYSEEMS—THK STRRET CHILD- REN OF NEW-YORK. : Oar Spacial Correspondent. TosToN, June 6, 1808, An able papor was resd by B, K. Pierce, Chaplaio of the New-York Houss of Reformation ou the adoption of the Congregate System for juvenile ofkenlers in dense come nupities. It was very long, but the great interest takes :nl s topic lll)_vl u;m-ll! men ‘rv‘-qhwlum. lu'mnflm -.‘.h Y ve all its leadin, ute the - rh’awr&l implifications. REPES. A family syrtem for reformatories hus been in Lurope aud America, It secords more with of natnre. Private reforwatories founded by men have had a gemias for this work, hus nlways been succoss- ful. Such persons, when found, shoild be libermlly sided. Local charitios might profitably be aided in part Lo public tund, learing the remainder to be raised by voluse tary benevoledee. aixd careful inspection of the wholo fi ‘Juvenile neglect, and nwaken and attract the sympathics sid energies of the :n-n:vnh-u:‘ in‘nu e of The Biste, Orphan -&:'1:: Orplian Asylums, dalen sud Temporary News Boys' Lnlgt gl{:f-o-,uudxhnmi fonof childrem [ l’lh‘ :‘flll, are ?‘vl}'lv:mpl';l}l an untold -;;mnt of q ut the L ux of foreign poor, wi low moral rfi’n , habits of indolence, and 'm’:l'-l. continue to increase the nwnbers of Juvenile offoudees aftor all these ies have dono thelr utmost 1o ssve ordee who them. These children, first brought to onr mtice e fendors, must bo cared for in some way or the the sourees of erime will never be closed. Of thiose arroste] vicre will be boys of 16, aften of 18, Lut stiil wearing o youthful , sud giviog some promuse of redcioption under whoiesome influences; some of 12 and 14, who have commitied quite serious crimos, such as grand lurceny, burglary, arson, forgerr, and ase sault with daugerous woapons, ~*T'o send these boys to Le! Penitentrary s to delibe give thom over to yuing' 10 ewdal wpow the commu iby ihe frightful taz o_ru,pu erime.” They canno! be seil to”a family st ouse. Theg would escape il wdmitied, Pocitive restraint i to prepare the way for the discipline of love, education piety, The arratgement of virious divisions readily see cured in large es'sl gor and boys from tha possiblo th those L confirmed in eriminal bab frow the Congregated K iuge to a suffering of iis penuliies; but the oveis of even thes matire boys turn out well. on this point is voluminois and Anotier vory coustderable not tinding I boys of from bec lod into positive or these unmnnagoabie boys, helin [ Th . Ciiionon decisive, - “un ol: fin:enfla offendors, iniate discipline in other instt 4 1o 18, of Preapu--ubhr wrenmfim are imes by vielous eow ons. Te tho humblo garb, tue plain fare, the daily Isbor, the positive diseipline, have in o large namber of yery trying cascs been exceedingly eflicaous. Ayear of such Craning with coustant ol influences operating upon the mixd, kos ofton resulted in o peruase. nent refornation. ? Another nud large class affording subjects for con, fustitutions is the foreign childhood fhat floats s'ong e stroets and docks ' of the city—vagehondish, thie - familiar with (b3 vicious ways aud pluces of the town, 128, hiviog in dirty and often vile mpm‘lhnhg 10 odue cotion, knowing no Sebbuth, aud with Lips friondl; osths, but steangers to preyers. Thelr nawme is They pass the mght, meay, of them, in boxes sheds und wherever they car find o sbelier, Ahe m they caru or stel i8 cxponded in low theaters of in ing saloous, aud boys, of & most mmature e, are found bearing the warks of vices that seom oply posulle @ adults, Bomethiug more than shelter 1s necessary. Twoe ew-York) city boys bave, gt seve & availed thomselses of the opportunitios of the News Lodgings. Family instituticns cannot be wmuliipliod witly safficient rapidity mear dense popilations to mect e ree quircrients of this clase, These form the breeding wniwes of erime, but wlen these festering rags are shaken ater @ period of discipline, often brigitt, capable, nud t worthy boys are found to have beou iu theu. Many of Beve uo love of conutry hfe, and would ran away if on & farm, but do well When sent to & trade. Themajoridy are Astriboted over the eountry and placed in the v best ingtitution on th family system—iu a farmer's bn= with this eno by to be traived in it. Tha records of the largest institution in the country, and probably in he world, whoee inmates hace all beem stved througli the country, show that the vumber of {hose known to do well after their discharge far crcoeds the nuniber that do il At this time, when its numbers are 50 per cent greater than beretofore, there are wore pege ceptible evidendes of the ;nee of & strong woral iss fluenee among the inmates thun for MANY years siuce. ™3 all this time there §s no recorded instanee of one dali his ruin tointimacies formed i thllore, or of combings tions to commit crime after discbarge. Tuls plainiy shows that what way be considered the ivcident et gregato ipatitution be very lurgely conbrolie !, 1t is not, Lowever, denisble that boys should remais lomg. In Furope they are expocted to ‘learn the'r tradg I but in Americs, where the demand for sven ume skilled Inbor is 8o grest, they should be intrusted to farme ers and others wii are reld‘) to recoive them 48 <008 a8 their Labits are suficiently formed—cspecially whea, by the terms of the indentures, mo{.m be at A:g iime. When children are intractable, e long stay in an institution rather confirms them in the temper cores them of #. "Ihey should bo given repeated chances oflmpmvemnlm‘ Dbeiog tried in different families. Institution Nif+ she Do as limited in all coses as it can ennrenlwl‘:{ be, coms pistertly with the resulta it seeks to accomplish, sud them the chiidren should be sent forth to the best Boucs that can he securcd for then. 1 the family systom aftor all is 8 make-beliove fami- 1¢ the introduction of s step-faiher into a family cisle ks ita power of love over o chill, wo cam w almost impossible it h,n:iy artiicial prrapgoment, exaetly to renew the natural relation. ] fon Vife should not banade so dsirable that i should be preferred to an ondinary Christisn home. A Touse of Refuge skould be to the eLild what New LI shire was to Webster—a zood plios to emigrate fiom, and a delightful place afterward to visit, The pos.tive advantages of s targe reformatory i 8 REEY that from its extensive resonrees- ¥, edu industrial, aad mois'—to reccive & ime, & great diminition of jus 1in that vicinity; that'it eas. n found, to bave & lamge od that it oflors » Iy. 50 oftes b readily soe tar large number at wny given t venile crimo may be secured o whe blee the reforming gonius, fleld for the esertion of b wor at opportunity for syste abor. ‘r:\‘lr. n‘:n o calarged on cach of these three ady; ; tagea, but 1 bave no space to present n larger abstmet. Oue of two iudex sentences must suflice. “ If you give these boys simply & higher form of eduae jon, you Lave only ipcreased Their whility to improve hensalves aud the commuzity; but if youbieak up that terribie hubit of iudolence (which they afl have), start inte life the sl blood in thei: veins, and tarn the face and heart toward the Heavenly Father in payer, .{w have sne- younded them with the best defouces against temptation. Phore ure certain rulsoushabits that prey like wolves upos this class of children, that yield to no treatment so seom ulurnhu aud uard woik i connection with moral and religlous instruciion, Hard labor subdues the appetise and makes sicep welcome in the justaut thet the weary body wackes tho bad, Tt alove oflabor i aot forued experiment of reform Las faled.” e a Bvor o€ 50 Bl gentlemen Grgu Y vor of the rought to nh:" that iemann lished every the congregate system, while it also avol o At e spaakors e of xparioaoo i ove the couutry. 0 men of ex n;l;\hfle err‘{, ‘nnlt«l in Indl\;m&u r:‘ axml‘lun ol r 88 o refonuatory ageney, It came “'B,"" notions” put inta u.r{ hcua? of Reform-School e lm‘-)gu flu-xut;; "fflnbonal‘;h&" nn!d kh:n I 1!0 thew subsequent ruin. - e eminent icability o!nm'n:ivgjuwenfla oflfluno{nflcw.m = To-duy the Convestion went to the Boys' Reform el at Westhorouglis Liridging Brondway. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen to-day, {he Special Committee of the Board appointed to receive pre- osals for bulldiag an aevial bridge over Broadway sad Wob Lon il by thefr Chairinap, AMerman Loew, submit Gueia Pon ot on £ia natis:, which has boen before the Committen for bver‘l’l":'- wonthe. Tho gnn::mzn‘v.lumvu Iarge pumber of plans and snggestions, Lave, it i us agreed np::. ons whioh will bo'uomm» weat snd J::Ifio "Below we give & plat of the bridge which the Commi have scleo Thore will be east-fron ou each e four corners of Broadway and Fulton-st., i dinagter, v ith orunmental bases, &e. Hj : it g /5 g 3 H i HH J i g E i : i i E i 2 Eg& ik E = E £ H islature o De inserted in the Tax L"i for this werk given tbo matter a loog aad earcful consi Tewaing now s for the Common Consell to forward rapidly. Dismosest Crerg.—Ludolph Friedman w i : i g i 5 i& i £ I i 2s 4