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Detngs of the Legislature. the Legislature will terminate, It is the session, and if that statement is correct there is certainly no ground of complaint about the industry of our lawmakers, So far as this city te concerned, however, the Legislature has done nothing of @ positive character. It has done some good negative her | joota; but the measures about which «0 asian will sevure ck | much was said at the beginning of tho ses le, reooived but little attention, The stoam railroad 1s still an uncertain thing. sion bj Tho ertal and other flighty plane ha received their quistus, and the indications are favorable for the passage of the Under. ground bill, but there is @ strong lobby in. ue f fluence operating againat it, and there will | EArt, !.- be no warrant for jubilation until the Go: tare to it, It must be remembered th: ‘underground railroad bill succeeded in g ting through both houses of the Logislatu: once before, but was brought up with» round tara by Governor Fexron’s veto. It {a understood, however, that the Governor rent of ite feoramenciag Jendary | Passage. The proposition to establish « Board of Control to supervise the expendi. ture of the city fands, has not lately been heard from. The plan is not» bad one, for it would serve as @ check to corruption tn the financial department; but it is objeo: tlonable upon the general principle that the people of this city should themselves cor Feot abuses in the municipal government, tter tothe Legislature, ‘Tho East River Bridge project seems to be calmly sleeping, and we presume it will continue to sleep until awakened, next win ter, by emphaticexclamations from patrons | $1,000, the expense of living in i be aby otto, aided by ash | of the ferries. ‘That enterprisn 1s very de ? wuld be § 4 sirable, and the Legislature should not fail | The question is, whether the to authorize 19 before the adjournment of ‘will sign the pending bill in th portant mens, gaihered br a Msle-excepsion of the Journal | Vented ® groat eee Rem et and he crater agaivat PT. but as the Connsotiout poopie | Report of @ Whkewashing Committos. a ota have tho reputation of knowing « thing or nen | clone for concealing wromg. ‘The people having occasion to use the North River fer- ries, have latterly complained eo lowlly that the Legislature was obliged to take 6 matter, A committes was accordingly appointed to investigate id committes came nor he of the “atump;” but DP, T would | "a to the city, stopped at the Astor sof the ferry companies, went to aoe the Diack Crook and returued to Albany with a report that everything was lovely in the North th saying that eee pe ET ma Sees, ine of THE BUN will be found, ambag Cable Rarepene Washington —Mextoas feserd of Important vents seeurring te er : Meetings Warket Meporta—Pelice Mat” In atatiion LAA poopie, TILE BUN te We keep our office open until a but cannot agree to classify them unless Is about two weeks the present session of ted that nearly twelve hundred bills have been offered in that body since the beginning of Atahigh pitoh. The atraggle tor mambe of Congross in tho tloularly oxciting Mr oandidate on t Banxow ia the Demoo in & third Hanxem, wo believe, who is run ning ae ® “atump” candida T Baawum Domooratio politicians ha kroat roany urd stories, and ha two, they are not likely to be deceived by transparent tricks. P.T. would maki nine tonths of the mon who go to Congress. We know nothing about W. H. Ra make a first rate Congressman, and wo ad elect him. The obi Licket are rather in favor of the Radic who claim one thousand majority. If, h deoide the question. ‘very common error to r or the his salary or wages, without giving due im portance to bis necessary expenditures ‘The quoation of income can never be intel ligently discussed a sation of outlay. Amann salary and yet be actually poorer than on: who receives only half as much for his ser vices. Many men have attained tmmenss wealth on the principle, not of making more money than their fellow mon, but of spend. ing lows. It in in this way that misers accu mulate their riches, though n their case economy sinks into meanness and parsimo ny, Other men by speculation or superior energy and akill, succeed in making their incomes very large, but they allow their outlays to keep pace with their profita, and thus flad themecives poor mon at the ‘Tho precise relation of income to expendi ture is of vital importanoe in connection with the question of wages, now attracting 40 muoh attention, thongh it seems often to be overlooked by employers. A comparison, for instance, betwoen the position of the working classes in the year 1860 and tho renta, fuel, provisions, clothing and all that pertains to the economy of ® household, ns Well as the amount of wages re: ccived for “favor, We should find, in tho first place, that the coat of living in tenement houses in this oity is hundred to one hundred and fifty per cent, greater now than it was in 1860, A room that used to rent for ten dollars « month now coats from twonty to twenty fiye dollars, Ineome parts of the city the increase in rents is greater than this, and in certain situations more than three times the former rente are demanded and received. ‘The value of other dwellings has boon anhanced in about the eame ratio, so that the cost of house socommodation may be set down, on erage, a0 being twoand-hslf times greater the present year than it wasin 1860, Taxes may be considered double what they were formerly, ‘The following table, which may be relied as noarly accurate, shows, at a glance, the Spring of difference between prices in 1360 and the present yoar, of the principal requisites for housekeeping. The quota- tions in both cases are the highest prices Houne rent, ratio Corned, 1b. ; hind quarters, ib. .. fore * Ib. Mutton—hind quarters, ib. fore db. Butter, best ib. common Ib, th Diateiot is par the | few; they | ticket, and HL eo nomings, There with the ob: Joct of drawing votea away from PT, Tho | class of the populati concooted io. fuges for uN0 mem ber of Congress of whom any district might feol proud. He is serupulously honest, « hard worker, keonly alive to publio naces- ties, and posseased of more ability than | *™* notice of vieo the voters of the Fourth District to ona upon the Btate ‘vor, they lone in the aame proportion that thoir brethren Iatoly loat in New Hampshire, they will be defeated. ‘The vote alone oan Income and Outlay of, Workingmes.— ‘omparisons betweee 1560 and NUT rd ie mechanic o other workingman as well of verse, according to the amount of present time, would {nvolve the price of oo 35 50 | failure clroulated by oapitali 25 | make @ good thing out of it, as 12 | shown; and it is now high time that the real Yo | owners of this mon 12 | employed for their own benefit. So it may 20 be, If the unpaid office of City Chamber {a | Iain. or Metropolitan “purse holder,” in 30 | worth, to that official, at least one hundred into the State from other snctions, and for | very olearly, by the figures we have quoted. several wooks the political furor has been | that it ia more nearly doubled than ti | workmen's wages, The privations of the comforts working olass are many, t © content with simple fi tion, nor are they given to oom: little rela: certain extent, con! comfort and welfare. investigating committee ‘al thing, may be defined as comm the subject. The Houns, hobnobbed with the offi River, Not aatiatled the ferries are perfect, they slaughter truth and grammar at 9 single thrust, by with @ double super! most porfoct in the world.” It 1s @ noto rious fact that the North river forry boats 4 carelensly; that thay have no ing life in case of accident; that persons are frequently injured and sometimes killed for want of simp goards for ure in gotting on and off the boats, Neithor a legislative investigating committes nor anybody elae could aoe t porfect” feature of tI their visions sharponed by gold ‘The Naval Omeer. ‘Tur porition of Naval Oilicer at this port ia understood to be very lucrative—worth tomewhore in the neighborhood of fifty thousand dollars a year. For that amount of money it ought to be filled by @ person who would give it personal attention, or who, at loast, could live within three thou. aand.milos of Now York, Tho position is now held by General Dre, the Am Miniater in France, General Dix is a good and patriotloman, and if Congress wishes tomake him present of fifty thousand dollars or 40 for hie famous “ shoot him on the spot” order, we shall interpose no ob jection. But General Dix is not in needy ciroumatances, His diplomatio aalary is $17,000 & year in gold, and he dose not need the rich plumb which he now rea from tho Naval Off Besides thi if the latter office is something more than draw the ‘Therefore, it soeme to us that ne’ Officer should be selected. ‘The President evidently takes the aame view, for afew days ago he nominated General SLocum— SueRMan’s famous loutenant—for that po- sition. The Senate, however, rejected Gen. SLocum, we know not upon what ground, unless it be that ho sorved his country dur. ing the war by fighting inatoad of in the contract business, Tho Tainuxe recently criticised the Tresident severely for not making ® new Naval Office appointment, but of course it approves the action of the Sonate in rejecting the excellent appointee im question. THE RENT QUESTION, ede. AIXTH ARTICLE, creation of “Workingmen's Business Funds,” chiefly with @ view to cheapen rente, by the erection of suitable buildings, similar to those prosented to the working people of London, by Gronoe Peanopr, have not discussed this subject impression that it was easy of ac complishment, but have considered it, knowing the difficulties to be encountered. Woe are aware that all innovations upon the established order of things is likely to be met by an army of objections, which we do not propose to discuss, deeming it far bet tor to ervot our own defences, and thon let the aforesaid army destroy the position, if it should be found » weak one, In the first place then, wo assume that the “Workingmen” who desire to establish ® “Busnes Foxp,” have agreed to put their capital into the enterprise, undeterred by the ominous but interested predictions of and savings bank managers, ‘The workiogmen's surplus capital, as wo have proven, is now worked by Bank Directors, The Savings Banks have it to be Mb. 25 | thousand dollars per annum; the people Wipes seite, 1B u rightfully assume that the “ puree Too, Vere 1. 5-49 | holders” oF Savings Banks of the oity are ‘common, 1b. 75 1:00 | reaping rioh rewards by becoming the cham. Sheeting, brown, yd. Aggregate...... manner at the present time would be $1,853. 10 2 FH gov g| The City Chamberiain i not permit Tt will be soon from this atatement that it | 4 to invest the money in business conte nearly twice a much to live in 1867 as it did in 1850, oF, to be more precise, if the total expenses of « family in 1860 were working population have tnoreased in the any thousand depositors. faithful performance of his duty, in reel ing and disbursing the funds of the city. This ts & proper measure of security, the me security being given in @ di Banks, the present session. There are somewhere | same ratio, This wo shall ascertain by | ™i#management. from two to «ix dozen propositions | comparing the ra pending in the Legislature for new | those paid at the present time. commissions in thie city. ~ The duties to be performed by the proposed yim | commissioners cover about everything that an active brain could think of. ‘They have thus fer met with very poor success, and a ghtered when for final action There are two or three embryotic commis. being strongly urged upon the Legislature, and which may potalbly command enough pressure to force them through, in the hurry of the closing there ts ® good prospect that they will n ly all be ignomintously 6! they come up in order sions, however, which hours of the sessidh, Several railway, a one oF two atnect widening schem placed in the to follow the pohoy of killing the specu! tive propositions We want but litt! iislation hore, Connecticut Electior next Monday, the first day of Ajmil Governor and other State oMcore, and a four Members of Gongress, will on that day. parently confident of suc teat will undoubtedly be very elo Rad have r | while the Demoor upon Important accessic may be me catalogue, We hope, however, that the Legislature will conttaue nating from this eity ‘Tux Connecticut election will be held on | to’ where ® number be chosen extremely doubtful. Both parties are ap: and’ the con: | them $1,000 tige of victory, to- | ganeral advance in the pri gether with the emall majority of Si! in the has pot operated in favor of the work | itor! lust election, ae a basie of their confidence; | ing classes, but rather to the! found thoir hopes | disadvantage, It is frequontly sald that | when one of them fail hi o on 0 Oo pli f bigh | people probably lose # portion, if not all, of | tain places would also cause great pain. ee) Ae ee ee i , the young Indy who died, could only lie | are, or may be h hor lower limbs perfectly atraight} the mt oni, her drendful suftering, Daring all her illness | Wop bulge wae uever alower than 1.0 oF 140 | prosouted by oity lite sto their party, ore of but patios Lave boon swarmiug sive mUe wemweU LU FuRU an oY smiths... , with board. $0 | 4 00 | im a fiduciary ompacity will governs “Boa 3 00 | of Trustee” selected to manage the opera d 10 0 Aggregate... It will be seen by ¢ a in partioular om wi hay not kept pace with the advance in the @ pensos of living, To w ‘A| varoust | now earn $l whoreas, in the matter of wages in 1800 with | _Th# peopl 00 | sume of money in their 14 09 O82 atrolli 1 table that al though en more the same illustra. of workinen in the | the manage; jes earned $1,000 in 1860, they | held securely, and the inte household expenses, as quoted above, they | properly ‘The reauit of the election is | have to pay $1.83) for the same neither ie| A “ Husiness Fund” oan therefore be konping twice as much as | tablished upon as seoure @ foundation it was Dofore the war—though i te shown | the Savings Banks of suv wreeent day, With savings in the Institutions of these gentle- mon, from m sense of security, and we pro- pote that the ‘Business Fund” of workingmen sball bo equally secure, ‘The 2 00 | tions of @ “Business Fund,” end all sala. 350 4) 50 | Tied officera may be called upon to give | bonds, or security, for the faithful 0 | performance of their duties, This Board eit oth under x. | who have no voice in the management of | those institutions find very litte fault with t, provided their monoy is at paid y oan of ly, Bo ae the bu eof everything | up according to law. Every depos: ry ir | placing vinge Bank incurs some risk b together with the encouraging result of tae] prices, because their wages are doubled; | thoir money | late ry ‘ew Hamp The cam: | but their wag notMoubled paigh has leon unusually auimated, The beat | the cost of bou . | thia purpose in view, the psopte deposit « plaint onder ciroumstances of ordivary prosperity. Employers and thoss who, tos the fate of this large | Any property purchased w are in duty bound to pay some attention to thelr personal 14 ferries are ‘the important the incumbent} ought to do Haw to Ketablish Werkingmen’s Bustaces Ina previous article we suggested tho ad he gives bonds for the mt form, by the stockholders of our Savings jer stock being liable iv case of ¢ Induced to deposit their he luwa which now control all persons acting ads. This is | about all the voice the depositors will have )) inthe “Business Fund.” If they should de. wine, and wish the right of | went from there to Albany, wh ! circumstances, this | beet sick previously with’ the no honorable or com. | petent man would accept the position of a than doublod,that in the aggregate they have | Trustee, Depositorsin the Sayings Banks oudueter y contide in the “Directors,” but money in auch institutions, and | 44%, the patient would te & great pumber of trom editor | oue who bad — wae million of more of dollars with men composing ® rr body buildings. ‘The duty of the “ Business Fund Trusteos” is thas prosoribed, and they do the work according to their own judgment the doposit ore’ money bolon Basiness Fund, is controlied and managed by the Trustens and the real state becomes the assets of the Fand" whonover it may be necessary to nell the same fur the purpose of ro-dis tributing the money among the depositors. We will now moot the possible objection that a number of the depositors, being poor man, may, from time to time, desire to withdraw their money, or # portion thereof, for the purpose of mocting pressing neces sition, ‘They will be at liberty to do so not only readily w out their money, bat © an interest on their deposits as ia now paid by the Savings Banks, We will show how this could be done, by repeating what wo have exit ins formor article was the practice of Savings Banks, Only s very small number of de- positors would dosire to withdraw their money at any one time; hence the money of @ much larger number of depositors would constantly remain in the “ Fund," funded ‘and under control of the “Truatess.” To meet Payments required by depositors, « portion of the“ Fund” would be thus appropriated in addition to the auma constantly brought in by new depositors, Thus the demands of any depositor wishing to uso the wholo or any part of the money ho has placed ia the “ Fund,” ia met apon the same principle nowin operation at the Savings Banks, whoro itis known that, at no time, unless the; pani, will ali the depositors re quire a return of their money at the same period. The Trusteos of the “ Working ‘s Businoss Fund,” doing men of finan: xperionce, would moot al! such contin joa ne readily as tho Savings Bank Di- rectors now do, Wo will now inveat the fixed enpital of the “Fund,” assuming it to be eighty p cont. of the aggrogate sum of the depos! twonty per cent. boing required to moot the withdrawal domands, expenditures ete. ; no imposing building being Out of @ million of dollars, eight hundred thousand would be fixed capital for the purpose of “cheapening r avowed object of the “ Fund.” The Trusteos purchase @ pisce of property, cause the erection of asultable building or buildings thereon, and proceed to rent the same at current prices; depositore having the first option of hiring. ‘the penta thus coming in would liquidate all the expena taxoa, eto, while any surplus or pretit would be added to the property could be bought and improved in like manner. Or, if the Trustees thought proper they could lower the rente of their own buildings to prices which would be suffi cient to cover the necessaryexpenses of carry. sng © the business. Exery depositor need not necessarily boa tenant in the houses , be longing tothe “Fund.” Nevertheless, the depositors, over and above the regular in- toreat, would be entitled to annual or semi- annual cash or rent dividends, declarod by the Trustees opon the earnings of the Vund" duriag the year. If the Trus tes were not restricted to the business of chuap- ening rents, but permitted to enter into other safe operations, they could earn money for the “ Fund” in ways too nume- rous to mention in detail. Retell Pretts. A grocer has written us to the effect that the profite accruing to retailera are not #0 large, on some articles, aa appeared by our comparative table in the Sux of Thursday. The table in question was made up from the regular market quotations of last Satur- day—the retail prices being, in most casos, the rates currout at Washington Market Ifour correspondent has correctly stated the case respecting the figures to which he takes exception, one of two things is cor: tain: He either pays too much for his goods, or elee is too conacientions to exact the large profite which bis brother dealers se cure. Night Polltionl Processtons. A Dill bas been prosonted in the Pennsyl- vania Legislature, which proposes to pro- hibit political processions in Philadelphia by night, within ton days of an eloction. Tho Philadelphia Inguinee favors the bill. It anys of those night processions: “These demonstrations have of late years led to conajderable | rioting, sooompauied with mi nd lose of property. memory of our readers will eupply several in of loss of life within the last ten yoars, in most of the cases to which we these victims were not particip processions, but more look men get their passions excited, as they do during a warm political canvass, there are ‘always some persons in a large cominunity whose judgments are w d with whom prudence is n ‘Tricking Sptralle ta Springfield, Mase. Six cases of the dread disease known as trichina spiralis have occurred in t «the Rervniican of Tuesday, wit of them. ‘The family of Ransley Hall, living at 49 Hickory street, ‘the victims, at the disease is traceable to « ham, which was purchased few wooks ago, at @ grocery store in ward 7. Thi this ham in its raw state, no part of it be. ing cooked, ina few daya@unploasant symptoms began to manifest themeclves. the second of March, Mr. Hall, feelin very unwell, summoned ® physician, an ut the saine time his son Cornelius was but not 0 se- On the following Ba Ida, aged 17, was taken sick with tho same disease; the nex sister Laura, two years you Saturday, Mrs. Hall; and subsequently, Mre. Hallp fother, Mr. Churob, I 1a no, i the ham and it, was the alcke after a al to the amount of ti propo bam they had 1 the ‘The illest 450 of danger, Mr. Ch th 409 | Of Trustese may be desiguated by the | 00 be Soriaered giek and hes taken fo mode 200] uflrages of those who desire to deposit | icine, but his limbe are ao bi his boote cannpt be removed from bi t. Mrs, T, H.€Dillaber, Olive Robinson, waa with the famil; ham was fen, and helped to Thi pork disease. cau ing upon the mi has proved fal i in Germany, aud hi ome of our w. A's family, the symp . varying only in hh the eyes, whieh soon " the stomach bowel commo: | the very moment anything about a Savings fie the dation and subsistenee that formerly cost | Bank gives ® token that ts not tion aud a | right, depositors withdraw their money; fa limba became badly swollen The | tte plain from those etatistice that the | or, if the concern fails, it is wound | ter the swelling and bloody ein the eyes had “dlsappearod, whi at about the end of the third d y Dogan to be vigil. When lying p least movement of the | terribl int | w | least change from that po ayepon @ sivas . © minate, while during the last four | cures (ae so many persons bells be count: | blessing, hard! the first part of that time, her hands and foot were cold and clammy, | ¢ while the reat of her body retained it armth, At 6 o'clook, yesterday morn foll asleep and never awoke. sician in attendance was not fully antic. fas to tho actual dissase, day; but bis treatmout was the sanve that ‘down in the booke tor triehine apira. ‘and, with the excention of the copious urination, the aymptoma were mainly the The cases have excited fat im the medical profession, aud it is to bo A that a microscopio examination of @ ill be made to Board of Truateos,” who | structed to employ this money in the | ad | ehoaponing of rents, by the ersotion of Hew ganic matter ertain whether present, and thus com he theory held with regard to these singular cases. Recent investigations have placed bayond all doubt the fact that trichinos ite appearance atf Lonia, Mich moacle from the bodies of obildren of the Haight family who recently ected, of thin dissase, been placed under a microscope, and found | to contain over 16,000 of the trichiua spire lia to the square inch, died, an waa # A Weatern Wonder. at wonder in the State of lows, and perhaps any other State, ia w! eall the “ Walled Lake,” in Weight co twelve miles north of the Dubuque and | Pacific Railway, and about one and fifty miles west of Dubuque city. Inke is from two to three feet hb earth's surface. 0 foot high, width at bottom 5, Another fact ia the eize of the t they | many other departments at the « Tn mont places t ‘ying in weight from three t down to one hundred p abundance of stone in W surrounding the Inke to the ton miles thers is none, yeans employed to pot, or who constructe the entire lake is a belt of wo alfa mile in width, e« tla exception thee laced there at the ti a on the Inke bro cinity were ol to prevent iuui According to # ¢ 1a number of the Yale College ( aggregate number of undergraduates in th tion in the Inst | and oat p clentific departmen The order of magni tu | shepl + | inte” Thin wae the: posit | ocenpied in the world, and th nity 190; Willi 2} teem in which agriculture was held by hyp Hoge 120; Boston C Tufts ot; Cott Middlebury University 4; | S, Bid freshmen 63 professional echoola connected with there are five of medicine with & studenta; two of law with 1S%, and two of theology with 45, of students in the colleges Increasing from 2007 in 1807, to 3908 in the present academical year. Asin the number Harvards leads in the number which is reported 47,500, Dartmouth ret 90.000 aud 40,000, Bowdoin Williams 22,000, Galveston Rats it all their own way in G voaton, Texas, if we may oredit the follow ing from the News, which anys It must be apparent to evor obliged to be on the atreste after nightfall feated with r tour city is whore you will path, sometimes running at you as if your body up through in the quietude of not freed from this annoyance; when wi they soamper. W! Inst momenta before sleep, * restorer,” comes to our 6; up the few clothes we po fow weeks since w below us was bitten tleman also informs us that in bed aaleop, ‘The atore in th hia children’s fingers, wh have been bitten city must loose thousands of dolla ally by the mischief they create ri body will aug- ing us of these wo will do our best towards im- Beginaing of Emancipation to Mrazil Some details of the measure which bas lian Government belonging to enter the army. bout three thou- sand. Tho decree sete forth that this eman. cipation ts conceded to the i din extended to the wi them as are married. Two bund: 0 of those treedmen, many of whom are married, and who zt r, had already number of these refused their iberty on theas ‘The Emperor himself the auth extension of Maraubso aud Var PROGRESS AND I mily ate freely of joulture i# the general pursuit of man; it aud, wherefore the most Useful aud honorable," Progross is writt and men and thi ward and not backward, The law of pro- se: | tal application and be: | 29, upon the conatitution gress fs of un longs as much to apirit aa to matte 8 word of fow letters but of great import, and ite tnepiration has led mankind on in ‘ever advancing path from the creation In all departments of human knowledge great progress has been | om way siber calling or oecupt nj rdax, his | the earth, are equal to the task of au nal t Ida, who was fondest of | to the present day. freely of nd it of hie brow, butin nor than in agriculture, conditions of human exist hoped that ni y have been in our day to the most compl contrivances by which we are enal ¢ of the world y striking evt ever been attained ccumulating ay rapid. ly for the last eighteen centuries, Bonides being most ancient, agriont " | calling of mankind. | other matters quite nee of the human rac The | begin to wear corect. | too amall, and will tug at tho J; tion of men in communitins in the 0 | breath becomes short, aud aho iatence tended to ci n, and gave better | frequent opportunities for the Godlike in Hence, the ancients, in their rudeat civilization, held aerioalture in the highest esteem and veneration, had very different views of the character of curred | labor to those which eo many country hold who give ndbloody.” ‘This was tol: | man to appear. ue limba | men of the presont day fectly nt | Up the slower and steadier, aud surer re-| youdo, You may hay ‘no pain, but the | wards which the o by the goodness of God, yields, for the #) more precarious gaiwa of commercial or ureuite in cities, ted for agricultural labor, ‘and oan prosecute it to successful issue ; but fow, very fow men, comps fitted for, or do ai 4 would cause ny, and touching them in eer mauufacturin, coeed in the occu; Von forty vrure of hie tife to | puting na plea rove. Ifit fom of Bi aban In the early ages of the world, when thi fow tribes or tod lived spontaneous aid their tlock OF pastoral life would an oven, Sut in the progress of time and multiplication of the human race, the \uconvenience of thie kind of life could aot but itself upon the attenti mankind, When men, theretore tll the tand, period —ae the Adam was the ca became more fully suit more general and The F avoconate riculture. lect other branches of h Their inv erefore neg: | a0 knowledge. tigations and moquirements in | ne time, challenge our admiration and surprise even to tothie day, Their agricultural prosper ity depended eo greatly upon the periodic overtlowings of the Nile, that the masocia tion of that river in their minds with an in visible deity is quite natural, The ear association of their “oxen and lesser cattl would follow, and in time the deity would be forgotten, and their worship would be transferred to those objects which were the apparent, but not the real, cause of their tuccess. ‘Thus * the rivers and streams, the ox 1 loser oattie, the plows and in struments of iron,” took the place of, God in the aflectious and worship of the Bayp: (ane: and in the * ton plagues” which were brought upou the land in the time of Mow tue vengeance and wrath of Jehoval waa poured out the idoiatrous nation through these vory instruments of Diessing and prosperity. ‘To auch a atate of perfection had agriculture been brought by the Egyptians at this early period, Egypt was ed upon asthe granary of the world, all nations went down thither to buy corn. It was during one of theso annual roeyings of «baud of Isbmaclitos that Joseph was sold by his brothren, and was tha taken down to Egypt, where he after became the savior of his peo It} Egyp- those who preferred to 1 fuch jourt in prefere ising {t thenmelves, and that their dis of those Nomadio tribes waa deep and | Kenuine, may be inferred from the record of the reception of Joseph's fathor and | brethron, whon they went down into Egypt ro for them the richent | in all tho of tod his brethren to owed the avocation to buy corn, To aec ure Las Egypt, Josep say that they bad f phorda from their youth, to which aided (ho siguiticant reimark that “ev wad an avouinat ned shat in timo other Youd Wilurally tlre of going down S egypt avery year to buy corn and would take to tho cultivation of the soil them selves, ‘They did eo, ‘The Chaldeaus, Phen. nicians, Greeka and 1 followed the fe thua aot them and 0 exalted and cultural labor, that their reatest mon in field or forum were taken rom the plow or the hoo, and when the occasion of their country's poril had passed they gladly returned to their former occu: tivation of arma by the verted foultu- was f fy uliure was almost wholly rred to ' cape which it gave gn the approach of an enemy. The savage hi ich overran the fairest portions of Central and Southern Europe know little or oared loss for hus bandr y were willing that other men sould labor while they entored into their Iubors, War and tho chase were their pursuits, and for want of health- ful and noble occupations they iu turn be- came enervated and easily fell @ prey to another and more savage tribe. Idleness begets debauchery, and when these become fixed habits of individuals or nations their downfall is inevitable, Thus, for oen- turies, Europe was little else than » com: mon battleground, where the victors of Ito- day would “become the vanquished of to- morrow. Ite Lette would not be much better now had not its people again turned their attention to agriculture. The acqulsi tion of a family or anational homatead ore- ates an object for the greatest display of moral or physical courage and heroism, and the more aitached men become to the soil the more certain are they to fight to the lant initedofonce, ‘The more general a people engage in agricultural pureuits the more brave and hardy will they become, and the better soldiers, as well as citizens, will they make. It is this which has given’ England her power, and has enabled her by force of Arms to postoss horself of empires, the smallest of which occupies almost as large Mapace upon the map of the world ea ber self, so that her name is the aynonym of military greatness na woll as of coumer- cial properity. Roughly estimated, about one-sixth of the people of the earth and one-sevs * th of the land acknowledge her ay, aud a claimed by ber. With leas than tho territory of France, and one-third leas population, together with many other natural disadvantages, England has kept abead of that country’ in her agricultural products, which she has more than doubled during the last half century. Her rapid decline, however, withim the last decade or two, ia greatly attributable to the concen: tration of the entire er of the realm in the hands of the fow wealthy aristocrats who are thereby causing the nation to re turn to pastoral or commercial or manufao- turing pursuits of life. ‘This concentration of the common domain in the hands of » few, to the exclusion of the many, denies and’ deprives the great mass of the right ‘aud privilege to labor, aud causes dissatia- faction and distress, which will not abate righted by # return to agricultural which will Le attained ere long, peace- ony. or by force, 5 97% fe WH ee The general pursuit of agriculture by the people of these United States hus made it what itis to-day, and given it that proud pre-eminence which it occupies among the nations of the earth. It was our power in war as well as in peace, and by ite inspire: tions, aside from numbers, the section em ‘aged more generally in it'was (and would ultimately even, if the opposing numbers ‘al) victorious; because, as before stated, the better agriculturiat the better citizen or soldier, And whenover the com- parison aball be made, it will be found that the men who “ subdue’ well aa rey equal number of opponents in the fiel ion, other ing equal. Too much attention, therefore, cannot be given to the advance: ment of intelligent aud scientific agricul ture; for, when ® nation gives mp agricul- ture, to engage in commerce or manufac tures or anything else, it will have, like tnson, laid ita head upon the lap of Deli lah, to be shorn of ita locks of strength ‘The new and increasing interest with whic the South is now engaging in thie pu a manifest token of prosperity in the which should be encouraged by all means, The Nonsiwestean CURISTIAN ADY OF ATE makes out @ case against tightlacing follows While we are growing very sensible in deed in the matter of dross, in the way of boots, balmoral skirts, warm stockings and | high necks, we are degenerating in some Important. ‘The cor. Fy part of m woman's| when ® woman does | she will wear thom | till the els it ne ceasary to rofrain from anything like a com. fable meal. We say Lothing axeiuat « wellshapod corset, Worn loo there lies the ‘dificulty. A” ' loose | co injures the appearance, inatead of improving it, and. people wear cor- sete that they may have emall walste All we can may is, don't squeeze, whatever small waists, but Jou are exposing yourself tow dozen’ mis ‘ortuncs which are as bad asa large waist, ret, you Will surely have dyspepsia, and ‘ow yellow and cross, and unhappy; seo- Ondly, your hands will grow red; thirdly, set is not a nee wardrobe; and, ali +, but | your nose ; fourthly, you will be unable ty are | walk # mile at once ; fifthly, dinner will be tions | ® mi ‘That labor is not @ | will inoresse in eize apd altitude: epyonthe® b ‘yj aixthly, your shoulder blade Ny Meter Geld ol ly, your eyes will weak, sighthiy, a . IC'thaes. teathe do nee Fieanctal News, Markets, &: New Youx, Friday, March 2" The afternoon quotations of the generat Btock market, compared with those of yee wos sharp-deckse tm Governments were higher, Gold closed at 131%. The loam market was fairly activ torday afternoo: but more oasy at ir cent. on discounts. ge wae firm. Bille at days on London were quoted at 109% « 109}¢ for bankers’. On ‘Change to-day Flour opened more active and » shad: closed quiet and unchanged. Whoat a shade firmer for Winter, and quiet and unchanged Foreign exch Pork firm, but irregular, Beef steady. Lard Wohiakey quiet GALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE gi fs © getereeg s: ag gustastse3s rs 9? oe 85 2 a FE Seecce: epeet, ier = « S382 268 ersstecer = ‘si2s 2 soraeeszetes a P BS2823: ; = Es essicrts RE CEEER ) 0 %0 400 ” 0 50 oe nee 2235: 10 o'C1008, A. 3 oer d Washington Market Retall Prices. New You, Parpat, March 99. nas hatter, foot ihiterts SPECIAL NOTICES, Free Medical Treatmont at the Koloctie Medical Dispensary, No. 135 Rest 96th street, be tween $4 and 84 avenues, Opemsdrom 9 to@ A Universal Remedy: ehial Troshes™ fer Coughs, Affestions, now stands the first im pablie faver amd confidence; this result has been soquired by a text o many years, Its meriis and extensive Caused the Treches te be counterfelted, and “Browns Brew first forty-eight hours—the prepes remedy for the purpose betug Dr. Jayne's Expew Vorams, old by all druggiats. ines. Kilas Low, sass ee ‘Wheeler & Wilson Lock ftitch Machine and Buttonhole Machine, 636 Broadway. prasad ner Date MARRIAGES. ef the 10h toat, Naif the late David Morr DEATHS. Magta'ene, relict of Abrabi —On Wednesday ( fie dens 6 Bisideay aged’ $4 fourm, ii toenibe od td taken to Cypress i oy if, March 99:h, Bridget Cemetery for tavermenit, mela morn Frleale ot the fasthi are” respenstal fo aitend the funeral,” from he, fea ‘1k tnat, at 1 o'clock, y morning, March 204m, oe win are respe: funeral, from ber lave F ‘afiernoen, at 1 @elock, without dence, 10 Butfoi el Tha: (A Te tates \LSee Leapt Page fer over Deathal: