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THE NATIONAL TRIBU2FE: WASHrGTOJS;. D. C. APBEL 2fa 1882.
THE GOLDEN SIDE.
BY 5HIS. 51. A. KIDDER.
TIirc may be a rest in the rond of life,
If we only MotiM op to tleo it;
And many a tone from the iiettcr land.
If tin? garnlouB heart would make it.
To the Minny soul, that i fnll of hope.
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,
The grass is preen and the flowers nro bright
Though the wintry -torm prcvaileth.
Brttcr to hope though the clouds hang low.
And to keep the eyes .-till lifted ; '
For the sweet bluo s-ky will j-oon tccp through,
When the ominous cloud, are rifted.
Tlicre was never a night without a day.
Or an evening without a morning;
And the dark st hour, n the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many a gem in the path of life,
"Which we nis in ur idle pleaMire.
That is richer far than the jeweler's crown,
Or the miner m hoarded treasure.
It may be the love of si little child.
Or a mother's prayer to heaven;
Or only n beggar's grateful thanks
For n cup of water given.
Better to weave, in the web of life,
A bright and golden filling,
And to do God'b will with a ready heart
And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,
And sit, and grieve, and wonder.
Rural I opics.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
"WASHINGTON, D. C.
Correspondence iesolicited to this column. Com
munications addressed to the Rural Department
of The National Tribune, 015 Fifteenth Street,
"Washington, D. C, will be appreciated.
Hedges, (concluded.) For pnrposes of
protection and shelter to gardens, or ns di
viding lines in the 'rounds of country and
suburban residences, hedges arc of the great
est utility. A well-managed evergreen hcdjje
is found to bo as congenial a protection for
the garden as a brick wall. The commercial
value of shelter, in hastening the maturity
of earjy crops, is not so generally known as
it deserves to be; yet it is fully appreciated
and adopted by many of the most successful
cultivators ; and as a means of arresting dry
ing winds and lessening evaporation in level
tracts destitute f trees, no accurate estimate
can be made of the intrinsic value of close
foliagerl hedges.
Among evergreen trees the Norway spruce,
Abies execlsa, is the most valuable where a
high, strong wind-break is desired. It forms
a close and compact hedge when regularly
trimmed; but to produce an effective shelter,
in the shortest time, the plants should be set
four to six feet apart in the row or line, and
allowed tn crow undisturbed by pruning
until the branches meet: and the only prun
ing required then will be for the purpose of
catting thii leading shoots to a regular
height ; any ol the side shoots which may
appear obtrusive should also be shortened,
luit no general clipping of the sides will be
needed, and the hedge will be more beau
tiful than those which are more closely
clipped.
Perhaps the most beautiful and graceful
of all evergreen hedges are those formed of
th hemlock spruce, Abies Canadensis. It is
not adapted to southern eftimrtv'tirid i
grows somewhat slowly at urst,'biit -develops
rapidly atVr it is fairly established.
Nothing can excel the beauty of its pendant
branches of delicate foliage, and no ther
plant will .idmit of shearing into so dense a
uall of .areen. For a dividing line in the
p'drfiMiro ground or garden it is most admi
rai" y Muted.
For gemral pnrposes. the nrbor-vitacs are
the most available plants for evergreen
hedf.es. North of latitude H2, the Ameri
can species, Tliuja occidentalis, should be pre
ferred, but south of that line the Chinese
species, Biota oricnialis, wi!l ghe better sat
isfaction, both in color and rapidity of
growth. Plants of one foot in height, set
about sixteen inches apart, will reach a
height of five feet in as many years.
There is a gieat variety of deciduous
plants which are well adapted for making
ornamental hedges, and for shelter, but
which will not be suitable as fences for
stock. Of these a few may be noted :
The buckthorn, Jlhamnus catharticus, al
though a plant of slender growth, forms a
very good hedge. It has a glossy and lively
green foliage, whih it retains quite into
winter, thus affording protection for a
lengthened period.
The Japan privet, Ligustrum Japonieum,
has no superior in climates where the ther
mometer docs not sink many degrees below
zero. It is easily propagated, of rapid
growth, and is supplied with abundant foli
age of shining deep-green color. Cuttings
may be inserted at once where the hedge is
to be formed, and they will form roots as
certainly as a twig of willow. It is almost
evergreen, even in cold climates, retaining
its foliage even after severe frosts. Far nine
months of the year it is clothed with the
richest verdure.
The berberry is a much neglected hedge
plant; it is also quite formidable, being well
furnished with repellant thorns. The Japan
quince, Qjdonia .Taponica; the evergreen
thorn, Crataegus pyracautha, and the Buffalo
berry, Shcphcrdia argenlia, may be mentioned
as plants fitted for ornamental hedges.
The time is fast approaching when no one
will attempt to raise the finer kinds of early
vegetables, or undertake to grow the finest
small fruits, without preparing for them a
thoroughly protected situation, by surround
ing it with a hedge.
Arrowroot. This is produced from the
tuberous roots of Maranta arundinacca, a
plant of tropical America, but which has
been introduced and cultivated in the East
and "West Jndics for the starch contained in
its roots.
The culture of the plant and the manu
facture of arrowroot is a special industry in
the island of Bermuda.
The culture of the plant is very similar
to that practised in the culture of the com
mon potato; the ground is well enriched
and deeply plowed; drills are then made
about three feet apart, and in these pieces of
the roots are set, about eight inches from
each other. The plants require a whole year
to mature, and economical planters set the
drills somewhat wider apart, and intro
duce an intermediate row of the common
potato, the crop of which is lifted and ship
X)ed to New York before it injures the growth
of the arrowroot.
The mode of preparing the fecula from the
roous greatly influences its value. The roots,
after being collected, are wailied, and their
outer Bkiu completely removed. This pro
cess has to be performed with great nicety,
for the cuticle contains a resinous matter
which imparts color and a disagreeable
flavor to the starch, which no subsequent ;
treatment can remove. After this process
they are carefully washed, and then crushed
between powerful rollers, reducing the whole
to a pulp; this 's thrown into large perfo
rated cylinders, where it is agitated by re
volving wooden paddles, while a stream of
pure water carries off the fecula and dis
charges it, in the form of milk, through the
perforated bottom of the cylinder, from
whence it is conveyed in pipes and passed
through fine muslin strainers into large
reservoirs, where it is allowed to settle, and
the supernatcd water drawn off. After being
repeatedly washed, it is allowed to settle for
some time, when the surface is skimmed
with palette knives of German silver, in order
to remove any slightly discolored particles
which may appear on the top, and retaining
only the lower, purer, and denser portion for
drying for market.
The rollers and cylinders are made of
brass and copper, so as to preseve the purity
of the material. The drying is conducted
with equal care and cleanliness. The sub
stance is spread in flat copper pans and im
mediately covered with white gauze, to
exclude dust and insects. These pans are
placed on rollers, and run under glass
covered sheds when there is any danger
from rains or dews. "When thoroughly dry
it is packed with German-silver shovels into
new barrels, which are usually imported
from this country; these are first lined with
paper which is gummed with arrowroot
paste, and exported on the decks of vessels,
under cover; if placed in the hold the con
tents of the packages might be tainted by
the effluvia of sugar or other freight with
which they might be brought into contr.ct.
Arrowroot is frequently adulterated with
inferior starches ns potato starch, r.rr.zilian
arrowroot, sago meal, or wheat flour. When
the adulteration is made with wheat flour it
may be detected by the foam which remains
wpon the surface of the boiled preparation,
for with pure starch there is no froth.
The arrowroot is grown in Florida, but
not to any great extent as yet
Sugar rrtOM SoursiirM. In a recent
note on beet-sugar which, appeared in these
columns we casually remarked that, ''we
must look to the sorghum cane for a Mipply
of sugar outside of the semi-tropical rangy
of climate. But although many people are
sanguine as to the success of this cam, yet
it must lie confessed that but little has of
late been shown in this production beyond
what was known twenty years ago."' Infer
ring to the above a friend advises us that, the
most important discovery in regard to
sugar from sorghum is the recent one which
shows that ihc best time to cut cane is when
the seed and cane is nearly matured ; that
the crystallizable sugar is then most fully
developed.
This is true, but it is not of recent discovery.
In a report from the United States Agricul
tural Department, September 1$G?, we take
the following extracts :
" Why ihc granulation of sugar docs not
readily take place. The analysis of various
specimens of sorghum molasses show that
there are large portions of sugar in them
which do not crystallize. In eisht specimens,
'most of which had desposited ona-third of
their bulk of sugar, and-..from wii3h." all-
grains of sugar were caiefully excluded,
there was an average of 22 G." per cent, of
uncrystallizable sugar, and HG.fiT percent, of
crystallizable. "Why do these VG.6 parts not
granulate?" "
The chemist answers by saying, that " this
cane sugar is' 'held "in solution by the salts
natural to the juices of the cane, by the
viscous (sticky) character of the molasses,
which in all molasses impedes a free
motion of the molecules (small particles) of
cane sugar seeking crystallization, and by
the presence of gum and other impurities.''
Dr. Jackson, in his analyses of the sor
ghum molasses, says: "Sirup is not liable
to crystallize owing to the presence of acid
matter."
fere, then, we have the causes pointed
out: salts, gum, acids, and the stickiness of
the molasses. The questien is: How can
we overcome or get rid of these? In two
ways: by lessening them in a perfectly matured
cane, and by destroying those that remain
during the process of boiling The absolute
necessity of having the cane perfectly ma
tured is ecen in the analysis of it in differ
ent stages of its growth.
Writers on vegetable physiology inform
us that gum and dextrine are first formed in
plants. These arc subsequently transformed
into sugar. Dextrine is of a gummy char
acter. Every farmer is familiar with these
transformations in the gradual ripen
ing of fruits. Acids and their watery
juices are converted into thick, sweet
juices, as is seen in the gradual ripening of
winter apples and pears.
Analysis confirms these views. Dr. Jack
son says: "Unripe canes, when they began
to blossom, gave eleven per cent, of sugar,
but none of it would crystallize. So also when
they were just flowering, and also when
the seed had begun to form. All these canes
had much gum, dextrine, and acids. But
the ripe canes yielded from 12 to 1G per
cent, of sugar which crystallized. If ere we
see a change. Gum, dextrine, and acids into,
first, uncrystallizable sugar; second, into
crystallizable sugar."
"A comparison of the specimens of sorghum
molasses sent to the Department confirm
these results. One with inferior cultivation
of the cane, and a less favorable soil, depos
ited more than one-half its bulk of sugar,
whilst another of excellent cultivation and
soil deposited none at all. The first was not
cut until the blades and stalks had turned
red; ihc last about four weeks before that time.
The seed of the last had turned black, but
as the roots and evaporation of the blades
continue in full vigor after such ripening of
the seeds, they are no criterion by which to
judge the ripeness of the cane juices. When
the leaves begin to turn red is the only standard
for dete .Ming the ripeness of the juices.
When, therefore, the canes are perfectly
grown, we see that there are far less gum,
dextrine, and acid, and much more sugar in
them.
"But still there will be salts and enough of
gums and acids to interfere with the granu
lation, and they must bo destroyed during
the boiling process."
From this extract it will be apparent that
the best time to cut cane was clearly ex
plained and published nearly twenty years
ago; the best mode of making sugar was
also published at the same time. We may
allude to this in a future paper.
SrcTwEJts from Trees. Some trees" are
much more inclined than others to send up
sucker; from their roots. The ailanthus and
white poplar, among ornamental trees, and
the pear and plum, among fruit trees, arc
more or less troublesome in this respect.
This propensity is greatly enhanced hy dig
ging or plowing among the roots. On lawns,
such trees are a nuisance, aud they should
not be planted where neatness is to be the
ruling element. .Repeated moving of the
young suckers will eventually eradicate
them, if the ground is not otherwise disturbed.
Manuring Vineyards. Advice, Two
Hundred Years Old. If you find your vine
yard p'oor in working, which the poorness of
your crop will soon make evident, spread
good, rotten dung, mixed with lime, over all
.your ground; lot this lie a whole winter,
that its virtue may be washed into the earth ;
and this dunging I prefer much before the
digging and mixing it with your mould.
But to have it in perfection, lay your mate
rials in a large hpap, in a proper place, near
your vineyard. A layer of fresh and natural
earth taken from the surface, and then an
other of dung a good deal thicker, then again
a layer of earth, aud so en, mixing a load of
lime to every ten loads of dung, will make
an extraordinary dung or compost for your
use. But your store will require the matu
rity of two or three years, and to be covered
with tho before-mentioned qualified earth,
and somewhat shaded, that neither the sun
may draw from it nor the rains spoil it. In
the months of December and January dung
your whole vineyard with this composition;
thirty loads will serve for an acre, but lay it
on equally and spread it finely. The English
Gardener, 1GS2.
Cornstalks as Fuel. An Iowa farmer
who has both wood aud coal on his farm
burns cornstalks for fuel to warm his houso,
and claims that they Tiiake the best and
cheapest fuel ho can get. He uses a large
stove, and burns the stalks in tightly-bound
bundles, weighing about forty pounds each.
A bundle burns three hours (without flame)
in an air-tight stove. The large stove offers
so much radiating surface that it docs not
need to be very hot. Five bundles a day, or
six hundred for the winter, suffice to keep
the stove going and the house warm.
The Early Cultivation of Wheat in
Amekica. A late number of the Interna
tional Ilcvicw contains a condensed history of
the first cultivation of grain in the United
States, beginning with the early part of the
seventeenth century. Wheat, it is stated,
was lhst sown in America in 1G02, on Cutty
hunk, one of the Elizabeth Islands, by Gos
wald, when he explored the coast. In Virginia
wheat was sown in 1011 for the fi3t time,
and from that date it increased quite rapidly
until, in 1G48, it is recorded that there wete
several hundred acres of it. In the Dutch
colony of New Netherlands wheat was cul
tivated at an early date, and in 1G2G samples
of this cereal were taken to Holland to show
what could be raised in the new country.
Preserving Fence Posts. A writer in
the Country Gentleman states that he has
adopted the plan of boring a half-inch hole
in his fence posts near the ground, slanting
downwards and reaching beyond the center ;
this is to be filled with kerosene from time
to time as it disappears in tho wood. This?
will at least prevent injury to the wood'
from borers, which hasten the decay of wood
when they attack it, as they frequently do.
Keeping Poultry. In reply to an in
quiry regarding profitable chicken culture in
the American Farmer, a correspondent of that
paper remarks that considerable experience
with the majority of tho different pure
breeds and experiments in crossing have
settled in our minds that were we to select
now -what we should consider the most
profitable breed, we should use Houdan
hens crossed with cither White or Brown
Leghorn cocks. This cross not only makes
an extra good laying one, but the-chicks are
exceedingly sprightly, very rapid growers,
are feathered very early, and their superior
qualities for the table would be recognized
by the most fastidious epicure. Their eggs
are large, pure white and good flavored.
The progeny from the cross should be bred
to pure iloudan cocks or Leghorns a good
plan being to alternate. Regarding food, I
need only say the old adage " variety is the
spice of life '' is very applicable in this case,
and pure water a necessity at all times for
fowl3. I have found it paid, both as re
gards economy and the health of the fowls
and chicks, to always mix tho corn meal
with scalding water wintor and summer,
and to use always sound food no damaged
grain.
Yellows in Peach Trees. In natural
phenomena it is sometimes difficult to dis
tinguish a consequence from a cause, and
this is particularly the case in matters re
lating to vegetable physiology. In the ex
amination of peach trees which have been
attacked by the disease known as "yellows,"
they have been found infested with bacteria,
as well as by fungous growths. Both of
these low forms of growth are abundant in
decomposing organic matter, and are said to
exist only in disorganized tissue, so that the
question as to the cause of the disease is not
answered by tho simple announcement of
the presence of either fungi or bacteria. Tho
real question to be answered is what caused
the incipient decomposition or cell-disorganization
which made it possible for these
destructive agencies to exist? This is the
information which the practical cultivator is
looking for, and post-mortem examinations
seem to be but of little value. These may
locate the presenco of bacteria, but this
proves nothing in regard to the cause of tho
'yellows" no more than would be proved
by maggots in a dead carcass as to the cause
of the death of the animal to which it be
longed. We believe that the "yellows" in peach
trees is caused by attacks of frost on un
ripened shoots. It is a common sight to find
a peach orchard with leaves green and lux
uriant one day, and next day to find them
destroyed by a severe frost during tho inter
vening night. This sudden cheek to growth
is, we think, tho cause of the disease, and
renders possible tho presenco of fungoid
growths and bacteria on the roots.
When peach trees arc cultivated in orch
ard honscs, or under glass, where the leaves
undergo the natural process of changing
color, and gradually dropping off as the
shoots become matured, no case of "yellowa"
has ever been noted, and this is good evi
dence tliat imperfectly ripened wood, when
subjected to killing frosts, has a tendency to
induce this peculiar disease,
A HEROIC INCIDENT REVIVED,
After sixty-seven years of litigation and ex
pense, tho House of Representatives took from
tho Speaker's table, on Monday, the bill for the
relief of the heirs of the captain, owners, offi
cers, and crow of the lato United States private
armed brig General Armstrong. When tho vote
announcing the passage of the bill had been
made by the Speaker, Mrs. Samuel C. Reid
who, with her husband, the son of Captain
Reid, who commanded tho Armstrong, was sit
ting in tho House gallery watching tho proceed
ings burst into a Hook of tears at the joyful
news, which niado her and her husband the
happy possessors of $70,739, the amount named
in the bill. Tho particulars of this most inter
esting bill, and tho circumstances upon which
this claim for relief is based, occurred in tho
harbor of Fayal in tho month of September,
ISM. Scarcely one of the original claimants
survives. Their heroism is conspicuous in tho
history of tho country. It evidently enabled
General Jackson to win tho battlo of New Or
leans, contributing, no ono can estimate how
muoli, to the famo and promotion of that great
man.
From the official documents in this case, tho
facts appear to bo that the General Armstrong,
an American privateer, commanded by Captain
Sam. C. Reid, put into the harbor of Fayal, on
tho 2Gth of September, ISM, for fresh water.
About sundown of that day a British squadron,
consisting of the ship of the lino Plantaganet,
of seventy-four guns ; the frigate Rota, of forty
four guns; and tho brig Carnation, of eighteen
guns, making a total force of 136 guns and
about 2,000 men and officers, under tho com
mand of Admiral Lloyd, came to anchor in tho
harbor. The General Armstrong was a small
brig of only 210 tons, and carried but seven
guns and ninety men, including officers.
This British squadron was on its way to
Jamaica to ro-enforco tho fleet concentrating
thero, under Sir Admiral Cochrane, for tho cap
ture of Now Orleans, and Lloyd concluded to
seize tho American brig to aid in this expedi
tion. The first attack was made by four largo
armed boats, or launches, containing about forty
men each. As they approached, Captain Reid
hailed them repeatedly and warned them to
keep off, to which they paid no attention, but
rapidly pulled alongside and attempted to
board, when Captain Reid opened fire, killing
and wounding a largo number of their men.
The boats returned the fire almost immedi
ately, killing ono man and wounding tho first
lieutenant of tho Armstrong. Tho boats then
retreated; when about midnight the British
renewed tho attack with fourteen boats, con
taining over 400 men, which ended in thoir
total defeat with great slaughter and tho par
tial destruction of their boats.
At daylight on the morning of the 27th Sep
tember, the oncmy's brig Carnation, eighteen
guns, approached tho Armstrong within gun
shot, and opened a heavy fire with all her force,
discharging several broadsides. The Armstrong
most spiritedly roturned tho fire, when the
enemy's brig having received a shot in her
hull, her rigging much cut, and her forctop
mast wounded hauled off Captain Reid,
perceiving that further resistanco would bo
unavailing, then ordered tho Armstrong to bo
scuttled, to prevent tho enemy from getting
her off, and went ashoro with his officers and
crew. The enemy soon after boarded her and
set heron fire, which onded in her destruction.
The loss of the enemy was nearly three hun
dred men and officers killed and wounded.
After a defence unparallcd in naval warfare,
tho Americans lost only two killed and seven
wounded. Tho historical fact seems to be es
tablished that, by the detention of this British
squadron at Fayal, in refitting, and the suc
ceeding delay of tho licet at Jamaica, General
Jackson was enabled to reach Now Orleans just,
four days before tho arrival of the British, thus
proving that tho gallant defence of tho Arm
strong, was tho consequent means of saving
rthat city.
This claim was tho subject of earnest diplo
matic correspondence between this country and
Fortugal for forty years, which finally resulted
in a peremptory demand on that government,
which, not being complied with, our minister
requested his passports and withdrew. Tho
emperor of tho French sat in arbitration upon
it. The Court of Claims heard the great law
yers, O'Conor and Thillips, in its advocacy
twenty-fivo years ago, and Chief Justico Gil
christ pronounced an able opinion in its favor,
afterwards reversed on a technicality, based on
a mistake of the facts, by tho withdrawal of tho
assent of one of the judges.
Senato committees and Houso committees
have many times reported in its favor, and
never against it, and yet it is an unquestion
able fact that the owners of tho privateer
General Armstrong, burnt by a British squad
ron in tho neutral waters of Fayal, in Septem
ber, 1S11, after a defonco by her crow which
won tho admiration of tho world and the grat
itudo of their country, have never been paid
for the property they then lost. Tho bill only
awaits tho signature of tho President to be
come a law.
KEY ON THE YANKEE.
Judge Key, ex-Postmastcr-Gencral, lectured
in Chattanooga tho other evening on tho Yan
kee. He said ho had seen tho Yankee in all
the busy avocations of life, in every variety of
business, political and home association, and of
tho impressions so formed he desired mainly to
speak in tho plainest and simplest manner.
He would go to New England to find in their
town-meetings tho purest democracy in the
world, and contrasted tho Now England town
meeting, whero all tho citizens met and took
part in the local legislation, each township,
corresponding with our civil districts, levying,
collecting, and expending its own taxes, with
our cumbrous county-court system. The speak
er spoko in admiring terms of tho simplicity,
economy, and effectiveness of tho New England
system; its great effect as a capital school for
teaching the principles of practical govern
ment; its freedom from narrow partisan ends,
jobbery, and fraud; its pure business character;
and stated that tho towns system "had done
more than any other agency to infuso into New
England that pluck, energy, activity, and force
which has placed her in tho forefront of tho
Nation in achievement and prosperity," Tho
lecturer had been particularly impressed with
tho home life of tho Yankee ; his good houses,
their convonienco and neatness, thorough re
pair, fresh-painted fences and out-buildings.
Moro especially ho spoko of tho manner in
which tho mistress of tho houso performed her
duties neatness, order, and good taste prevail
ing throughout her domain. "She- is always
prepared for anything, and company cannot
tako her by surprise." Ho told of some pleas
ing incidents in his own experience to illus
trate how women of highest mental power,
educational attainments, social refinement, and
even of great wealth, took prido in "their
ability to enter tho kitchen and preparo a
meal fit for a king or any other mortal." A
wealthy merchant had stated to him that ho
desired his daughter to be independent in her
own household when she had ono; to bo queen
of tho kitchen as well as parlor, and tho lec
turer commented : " In tho multitude of charms
and accomplishments which shono in tho dia
dem of tho Yankee wife and girl whom I havo
mentioned not one glittered less brightly on
account of their practical knowledge and dis
charge of household duties, but, on tho contra
ry, added a luster to the light which caused
all to beam with greater effulgence." In ovory
houso newspapers and magazines woro to bo
found. Tho Yankee reads both sides, and gen
erally takc3 two newspapers of his own polit
ical faith and the best aud strongest of the
opposite party, and is always ready to meet an
argument. lie is good-natured under the
freest criticism. They laugh at the gibes and
abuse of our newspapers and politicians, and
continue to manufacture goods for our markets.
The lecturer denied the common chargo that
the Yankee lacks in hospitality. Whilo not so
diffusive and demonstrative as the Southerner,
he is none tho less earnest, and in his quiet,
noiseless way, most careful, kind, and consid
erate. On this subject the Judge referred sim
ply and appreciatively to the consideration he
had received at the hands of ex-Senator Ham
lin's family, in Bangor, as exemplifying the
careful and unostentatious manner of Yankee
hospitality, in which instance the Senator had
been attacked by a Democratic paper for enter
taining an ex-rebel brigadier, had responded to
the attack at a Republican meeting (it was
during a heated political convass), and had re
ferred to his guest in most complimentary
terms, whilo neither Judge Key nor his family
woro allowed to know of the incident, which
might havo marred their visit, until after they
left; Bangor and accidently saw Mr. Hamlin's
speech in print. Tho speaker stated that no
doubt his hearers thought his opinion of tho
Yankee generally favorable, and would inquire
whether lie had no faults. Yes, ho had his full
share of faults, but ho preferred not to dwell
upon his failings until he had exhausted
the good that might be said of him, and
much as ho had said, much remained to say.
Ho told tho anecdote of tho kind-speaking
neighbor Smith and his bad neighbor Jones,
and preferred to represent Smith. After hav
ing scon the Yankee at his fireside, his tablo,
in his workshop, on his farm, at his counter
everywhere, ho had concluded that he is a good
fellow, and he liked him. " I have grasped his
hand, looked him in the eye, and said to him,
'Our quarrel is ended. We are friends!' My
regard for him in nowise diminishes my re
spect, sympathy, and affection for the peoplo of
this section of the country, with whom my life
has been passed, to whom I owe so much, and
with whom tho remnant of lifo will be spent.
I have but extended the circlo that embraces
my kindred until it includes Our Yankee
Cousin."
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SPECULATIONS IN WHEAT AND CORN.
A recent dispatch from New York says:
The ocean steamship lines arc now carrying
wheat from this port to Liverpool for only a
penny (2 cents) per 100 bushels, and yet are
getting very little. Tho steamers running
from Boston to Liverpool have lately been car
rying free, as ballast, what grain they could
get, and this week a premium of a penny per
bushel has been offered in Boston for 40,000
bushels of wheat for that purposo. It is re
ported from Chicago that even tho offer of a
premium has failed to start a movement of the
supply, tho consumers refusing to pay the
speculative prices at which wheat is now held
thero. Report is also made that somo shippers
havo urged the ollicers of the transportation
lines between Chicago and the seacoast to re
duco their charges on grain, but that these
requests havo been refused, partly upon tho
ground that a very heavy reduction would not
stimulate a movement of wheat under the
present circumstances. A member of a promi
nent firm in tho produce exchange in con
versation said that the movement of wheat
from the West to the seaports had been so light
that the speculators had been ablo to buy up
mostof the supply, and hold it at prices atwhich
it could not he placed in Europe. Last year's
crops of wheat and corn here had proved short
shorter than was at first expected and for tho
last two months the roads in tho West havo been
almost impassable on account of mud. Tho
idoptluofitho mud, in many places was reported
to bo fall the way from fivo feet to the length
,of a 'telegraph" pole," and it was impossible to
get grain from tho country to tho points of
shipment. It was even reported that farmers
in somo parts of the West were obliged to carry
Hour for their own uso from the mills to their
houses upon their backs, as wagons could not
be used in the miry roads; Under theso cir
cumstances thero was really no wheat to bo
moved, except that which tho speculators had
locked up. Therefore, a reduction of railroad
rates by one-half would probably havo no effect
in starting shipments. Tho visible supply of
all the wheat in tho United States and Canada
was not more than 12,000,000 bnshels, against
21,000.000 bnshels at the corresponding time in
1SS1, and 2 1,000,000 bushels in 1SS0. Of corn tho
visiblo supply, was only between 9,000,000 and
10,000,000 bushels, against 14,000,000 bushels
in tho corresponding period of 1SS1 and 15,000,
000 bushels in 1SS0. Tho reports of tho grow
ing crop of wheat wero unusually good, how
ever, very littlo damage having been dono to
it anywhere, either by insects or tho weather.
If good weather continued, we wero likely to
havo a wheat crop which would compare very
favorably with the large growth of 1379, and this
circumstance, together with tho fact that somo
27,000,000 bushels of wheat wero now on the
way to Europe from this country, Rnssia,
India, Australia, etc. would tend to restrain
foreigners from taking' much of our wheat at
higher prices, or even at the present rates.
Tho speculators who aro " long " of wheat aro
hoping, it is said, to hold it at high fignrcs
until tho new crop begins to be available, and,
in tho meantime, to compel tho "shorts" to
come in and settle. It is reported, on good
authority, that a cliquo of speculators in Now
York sold out from 150,000 to 200,000 bushels
of wheat at two cents per bushel below tho
market price, in order to get tho actual wheat
out of port, so that they might manipulato
options to better advantage.
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CORNERS TO BE ABOLISHED.
A petition is being circulated on 'Change in
Chicago which proposes a plan by which it is
hoped to obviate "corners" and render them
practically impossible. Tho general plan is to
require that the settling prico of the thrco
months succeeding the current ono shall bo de
termined by taking an average of the prices
current during tho last three days of tho cur
rent mouth in each caso, and add this figure to
tho ruling prico for each of tho three succeed
ing months, and divide that sum by four. Tho
result shall bo tho settling price for tho then
current month, and ten per cent, added shall
bo tho prico for the next month, and so on to
tho end of the third month.
A CURIOUS PHASE OF SOCIAL LIFE.
Tho appointment of Mr. Chandler to tho
naval portfolio has developed an interesting
phase of Washington social life. It will ho re
membered that when J. Wilkes Booth was shot,
tho picture of a handsome young lady, a reign
ing society belle, was found on his person. Tho
original of tho portrait was Miss nale, tho
daughter of a leading politician and statesman,
and a lady of whom Booth had become deeply
and seriously enamored. What encouragement
ho had received was not precisely known, but
thero was enough between them to form the
basis of a good many romances, which after
Avard appeared in tho public press. Miss Halo
afterward became Mrs. Chandler, and is now
tho wife of the Secretary of tho Navy. The
same whirligig of timo which has brought this
about has also made tho then young son of tho
martyred Lincoln Secretary of War. It now
appears that, according to official etiquette, it
is tho duty of tho Secretary of War to escort
tho wife of his cabinet associato to dinnor on
state occasions. Ho must tako the wife of tho
Secretary of the Navy. Secretary Lincoln, in
short, must escort tho one-time sweetheart of
tho assassin of his distinguished father,
CLAIMS ! CLAIMS I
This Claim House Established
in 1865 I
GKEOKG-E E. LEMOH",
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW,
Office, C13 Fifteenth St., (Citizen's National Bank,)
WASHINGTON, D. C.
P. O. Dba-web 325.
Pensions.
If wounded, injured, or have contracted any dis
ease, however slight tho disability, apply at once.
Thousands entitled.
Heirs.
Widows, minor children, dependent mothers, fa
thers, and minor brothera and sisters, in tho order
named, are entitled.
War of 1812.
All surviving officers and soldiers of this war,
whether in tho Military 'or Naval service of the
United States, who served fourteen (11) days; or, if
ina battle or skirmish, for a less period, and tho
widows of tSiich who have not remarried, are en
titled to a pension of eight dollars a month. Proof
of loyalty is no longer required in these claims.
Increase of Pensions.
Pension laws arc more liberal now than former
ly, and many are now entitled to a higher rate than
they receive.
From and after January, 1SS1, 1 shall make no
charges for my services in claims for increase of
pension, where no new disability is alleged, unlea3
successful in procuring the increase.
Restoration to Pension Roll.
Pensioners -who havo been unjustly dropped
from the pension roll, or whose names "have been,
stricken therefrom by reason of failure to draw
their pension for a period of three years, or by
reason of re-enlistment, may have their pensions
renewed by corresponding with this House.
Desertion
from one regiment or vessel and enlistment In an
other, is not a bar to pension in cases where the
wound, disease, or injury was incurred while in the
service of the United States, and in the line of
duty.
Land Warrants.
Survivors of all -wars from 1790 to March 3, 1S55.
and certain heirs, are entitled to one hundred and
sixty acres of land, if not already received. Sol
diers of the late war not entitled.
Land -warrants purchased for cash at tho highest
market rates, and assignments perfected.
Correspondence invited.
Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected,
Furlough Rations.
Amounts due collected without unnecessary de
lay, Such claims cannot be collected without the
furlough.
Horses Lost in Service.
Claims of this character promptly attended to.
Many claims of thi3 character have been erro
neously rejected. Correspondence in such cases is
respectfully invited.
Bounty and Pay.
r
Collections promptly made.
Property taken by the Army in
States not in Insurrection.
Claims of this character will receive special at
tention, provided they were filed before January 1,
1SS0. If not filed prior to that date they are barred
by statute of limitation.
In addition to the above we prosecute Military
and Naval claimsof every description, procure Pat
ents, Trade-Marks, Cop'yrights. attend to busi
ness before the General Land Office and other Bu
reaus of the Interior Department, and all the De
partments of the Government.
"We invite correspondence from all interested, as
suring them of the utmost promptitude, energy,
and thoroughness in all matters intrusted to our
hands.
GEORGE E. LEMONi
REFERENCES:
As this may reach the hands of some persons un
acquainted with this Hou;e, we append hereto, as
specimens of the testimony in our possession,
copies of letters from several gentlemen of political
and military distinction, and widely known
throughout the United States:
Hocse or Representatives,
"Washington, D. C, March , 175.
From several years' acquaintance with Captain
George E. Lemon of this city, I cheerfully com
mend him as a gentleman of integrity and well
qualified to attend to the collection of bounty and
other claims against the Government. His expe
rience in that line give him superior advantages.
W. P. SPRAGUE, M. C,
Fifteenth District of Ohio.
JAS. D. STRAWRRIDGE, M. C,
Thirteenth District of Fennsyhania,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C, March 1.1S73.
"We, tho undersigned, having an acquaintance
with Captain George E. Lemon for the past few
vcars, and a knowledge of the systematic manner
in which he conducts his extensive business, and of
his reliability for fair and honorable dealings con
nected therewith, cheerfully commend him. to
claimants generally.
A. V. RICE, Chairman
Committee on Invalid Pensions, House Seps,
W. F. SLEMONS. M. C,
Second District of Ark,
"W. P. LYNDE, M. C,
Fourth District of Wis,
R. "W. TOWNSHEND, M. C.
Xinetecnth District of III,
CmzuNs' Nationai. Bank,
Washington, D. C, January 17, 1S79.
Captain George E. Lemon, attorney and agent
for the collection of war claims at Washington city,
is a thorough, able, and exceedingly 'well-informed
man of business, of high character, and entirely
responsible. I believe that the interests of all
having Avar claims requiring adjustment cannot bo
confided to safer hands.
JNO. A, J. CRESWELL.
President,
C3F"Any person desiring information as to my
standing and responsibility will, on request, bo fur
nished with a satisfactory reference in his own
vicinity or Congressional District.
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