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IJuc-4 Jal iti ;HeUer" iai-. BV GEORGE D. TRE3TICE. The tn-aiMiRXdewdropsfaU Upon the shuttinRflowera. like ul- at refit, 'i'hfl stars Bhiue gloriously . and all. Mve nu,ar blest. Mother, Hove thy grae; The Ttolet with its bio oms, blue and milJ, Waves o'er thy head; v hen shall it wave Above tiycailJl TlsaewMt flower, set mast Its brichtleaves to the comlns tempest bowl Pear mother, 'tis thine emblem ; dust Is on thy brow. And T could lov e to die ; To leave notated hfe'a dark, bitter streams, Cy thee, as erst in childhood, He And f lure thy dreams. But I must linje r here To ati.n the plumazrof my sinless jirs, And mourn the htpta to childhood dear, With bitter tears. Ave. I mast 1-njer litre, A lonely branch upon awiihered tree. U ho-ielast. frail leaf, untimely sere, V ent down with thee. Oil from life'a withered bower. In Mill communion wuh the past, I turn And mue on tbre, the only flower In mentor '3 urn. And when the evenin: palo Bows, hie a mourner, ou the d im blue wave, 1 stray to hear the nizht winds wail Around thy grave. Take My Hand. My lather, take my band, for I am prono To danger, and I tear to 50 alono. I trust thy guidance. Fathi r. take my band. Lead th caild b ely through the dert land. The way is dark before mo ; tike my hand. For lijrbt cm only come at thy command. riic;in to thy dear love, no doubt 1 know , That love will cheer my wai where'er I go, Father, the storm is breaking o'er ma wild, I leel its bitterness iirotect thr child. The tempest doud are flying through the ir u take my hand ana sa. 0 mc irom despair. Father, as 1 ascend the cnzZS Bleep That leads me to thy temple let me keep M hard in thine, so 1 can cocquer time. And, by thine aiding, totby bosom climb, k atner. I feel the dauip upon my brow. The chill of death is lalling on me now. Noon from earth's flittmr shadow a I must part. My Fat he r, take my hand, thou hast my heart Some Eilrmagant Women. W1IV. 311X1 MPN UOIU M lTi:iMtN-r- nOW MKITIO IOK HKESi M VI STAM IX T1IK MAY OF HOMFSTll' COMhUKT. TVinops Power Cohhc has recently written an elaborate protest against the present ioliyoi woman s tire, u cu-i-liness ami 'inconvenient shapes, ami, above all, its want ol adaptation to the general routine ol every-eliy lile. Mic dwells upon the unhealthlulness of having" such heavy clothing about the hips, and the absurd it v of women, who arv obliged to walk niiirh, elragging a long train through the mire of the streets when it is only suitable (or the carriage and the drawing-room. A century' ago, men dressed in atin and velvet lace, wore jewels, painted and powdered, sometimes putting their whole fortunes in a single t otnine. Tor them the times have changed, thev have reformed in this par ticular Then why should vv omen cling to the ufiages ot a pa-t age, and add an extravagance ol which our grandmothers never dreamed. Klegant dress has im proper place, its fitnes, but the trouble is that Mr-. Smith, whose husband is worth 8 I0,0o0, wishes to dies a well as Mrs. .Tone. whoe Lu-band is a mil lionaire. Whole volumes might be writ ten on the tragedies which have beer, oc casioned bv the insane passion which some women have ior dress; ruining their fathers, brothers and husbands, and wrecking their own lejmtation lor the transient happine?s ot wearing costly clothing. What will not some women do to pos sess a handsome wardrolte; to outshine other women, to ru-tlc in silks, to bedeck themclyes with furs and lace. Xo mat ter how the giver ot these possessions moils and toils down-town, how anxious or care-worn ho looks, her whole little silly brain is orrupicd as to how she may lay new pipe lor romlug fineries and gew gaws. Heisthe pack-horse; she is the princess at home in the castle. Two beautiful American women now in Kuron?. who have more than a doubt ful reputation, were ruined by their love of dress in this city. ISolh had loing husbands, and luxurious homes, and both were mail to ouHiine all other women in -splendor of dress. Iloth were poor gills, whose whole de-ite in lite was to get a rich part tt and when that ambition was gratified, they entered upon their careers of lavish expenditure with such lervor, that the patient e of the hu-bands was ex hausted, and they were lett to their own devices. What Those devices were, it is needless to add. One ot these women said, while in the height of her glory here. "Madame lllank never charges me less than 100 for making a dress. Xo wonder he is getting lich at Mich prices The other, upon one occasion, to be en tirely unique, woieafrtar upon her head during an evening's entertainment. This was contiucted ot small tubes containing gas, which burned tor hours, thus en dangering her lite; but nUmjwrte, had the not done something that no other wo man ever thought of doing? A woman who kept a small hotel at a fashionable watering-place, last season, wore clothing suitable lor a palace. After being snubbed by one ol her boarders who dressed plainly, but v ho could aflord to dress well, she retorted with, "It lam obliged to keep a hotel for a living, there is nobody who promenades in llroadway who dresses better than I do." The devices of respectable women to get expensive clothing, and to spend moie than their allowance will procure, are curious, and deserving ot a better pur pose. At one ot our large dry goods es tablishments, thrc is a recognized sys tem ol swindling by charges of certain sums for "sheets, towels table linen, etc.," which stand for drc-es. cloaks and the like. Our grandmothers were satisfied with a lew fine adornments, one or two elegant dresses and their belongings, but now wo men of moderate mean must have any number ot dresses, bonnets and gloves, all iu the tip ol the mode, and these must be renewed, altered ami changed every six months, or a 3 car at most. A wealthy bachelor ot this city, a beau, a club man, welcomed everywhere, when asked "Why do you not marry ?" said: "Do you seu Miss ? Well, I 'like that girl. "I wish I could marry her; but the has worn three dresses during the past twenty-four hours, which must have cost at lea1-! $150 each; and they were French drosses, too. I can't atlord that." Another bachelor of means said to a lad- friend "lean now marry and retire from business. 1 want a 'little wile and little girls and boys. Tell mo honestly what it would co-t lor the style ot wife"! want, to dress prettily, nicely, so I would not be ashamed of her at home and at Saratoga.'' The friend quickly made an estimate, whkh she said only an incentive women could appear well op, accordingto his desires. This estimate o surprised our bachelor that he withdraw his open confession of wishing to w cd some " nice and fair young maiden,1 and ha? recent 1 died, leaving; his accumulations to a stoic ol relatives. Itisaprobhm how young men of or dinary position and pro-peels daio to marry at the present day, in view of the know 11 spetisiv( nrs d the tires- ot wo men. There iwdto be an idea that when a young man was 1 urly -ettled in bf. In should marry, and when man led, he should take care ot hit wile. Xow, a young man is considered an idiot who undertakes the les-tonsibilHie- ot married life unless he is in good cir cumstances, l.oi e, and mutual attrac tion are out ot date. It is simply a ques tion of money .V. V. tiUtr Twenty Impoijti. Thinus 1. Loud and boisterous lauhinc. 2 Reading when othrtf aie talking 3. Talkinf when otli-r ore reuiMn 4. Cutting ting(r nails iu roiniuiiy. 5. Joking others in comiany. C. Ga7i3g rudely at stranger 7. Leaving a stranger wjlhoutaseat 8. Making jourflf hero of jour own ftory 9. Heading alr.ud m company withontto in afcked. 10. fapittiug about the Iioiim. snicking or che-utig. . 11. Leaving ehnrch before oihlup is closed. 12. Wlminug or laughiug iu the housa of God. 13. A want of recpect and revertneo for seniors. 14. Correcting oldtfrper-ions than yourself, especially jarent, 17. l.eceivinga preheut without an eipros eions of gratitude 1C. Not listening to 1 at one is sajmgiit company 17. Commeiifing to tat as soon as j ou gt t to the table 18. Answering questions that hae been put to others 19. OoiDiuncing talking before others have finished speaking. 20 Laughing at the mintakenof others A 'Fbisco maiden, whoo parents objected to her going out riding with a certain yourjg man. crawled out the window and got stuck on the awning, whereupon she ecreamed and attracted tho Attention of an old man, who hroazht a Udder and rescued her. Then the mother of the girl appcaroi in the doorway to J a-ked the policeman who was ret-trainine the hilarity ol the crowd ' bir, were you ever a mother?" And tho officer, after a lew moments of con templation, was forced to re pond, "No, madam, I never was.' And the lover had his livery hill for nothing. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXIV. From the Toledo Blade. Jack, the Dlur. T11UI1 1.IVi NAliU VTIOX OP DOINGS I'M'KK Tiir. ii:fi 'Jack, says the repoiter, "they tell mcthatvou haca hi-tory, a truly ie markabl'o hi-tory ; will y oil give us the outlines ot it? Aye, aye, sir it 3011 wish' replies the old tar. Reporter "1 hear it said that you arc tho oldest submarine ner now mm, - it true ? .lack "I -uppo-o I am, sir. I am sity-four -ears old, and I hae followed divin forty-five earso my lite, sir." K. ! notice. Jack, that ymir voice i somewhat imjuired; what brought that about?" ,1 "iin -ir. Sometimes. ou know, whin one's been down under wa-mi- 1 lnntr ilnii- the nirmws out, an then ifsan aw (ul strain on a teller's Inn"-. I hac seen -o many o them times that it's made mo kin-l o hoarse. It. -I ippo-et.Iaek, that 3011 arc too oui to everio an inoic unuig. .1. "What's that:-" l: "Ynn pnuhl hardlv stand it now to fnllnw-the iliiimr bu-iness, 1 suppose?" .lackno Inun his st-al. ilrow hiin-eii up to his fulle-t height, and lor a moment did not -peak. It was t-a-v to eo that his inteiloeutor had enluied upon danger ous ground. ''loo old to dive!" said he, with great cmpha-is, "not a bit ot it. As scon as times gets :i nine ueuer 1 11 w iu n. and I'll make more money in one day than the-o land lubbers mako in a month. Hut," continued he, his anger mmg awav. "mui wantetl me to spin a nam about mvelf. Well 1 was born in Dub lin, ould Ireland, in March, lhia. 1 went in -ea when I was between nine and ttn year-old. I si'ded a!mo-t all over the the Ka-t Indies. 1 saw considerable of war. too. I called on the LngliMi gun boat Talavcria. of feptentj-ionr guns in '. I was in the battle ol .loan H'.uc, and recehed a medal for braery while there. 1 sailed on the fiigatu lirandy nine for two year and thiee months. Then I went im a We-t India mail steam boat. Finally I went aboard the Mcamer Dee. It was while 1 wa- on hei that I begun to die. I came on deck one day. and, in lun, said I would like tn Oive. 1 said in spoit, 3011 know that Ididnt belicc there was anthing so great about diin after all. We had several divers wilhusyou know. We were raiif a wre-kinthe I'nirlish Channel. It was ihe wittk of an Kat Indian merchantman that had sunk. She was loaded with all sorts td merchandise. Thry weie raisin her with rutuVr bags. The diver would go down and take with him a big air-tight luhberbag. Kach ot them bags, when filled with air, would laise lic ton. They were fastened all over the essel, and connected with rubber pipe. Alter we had fastened hundreds of them to her, air was pumptd into Vm and they lilted that ves-el out of the water just as ea-y as rolliu" oil a log. It was to la-ten on those air bags that the diiers were hired. I had otten wi-hed that 1 could Lc a dicr, btcau-e they were getting 1" a month, while we sailor- weie making only 3. Hut 1 had nei er thought that I could, be- caie I didn't Mippo-e I had tho grit to leain. ilany a man gets killed while iearnin to die, you know. Iiutas I was telbn 3e, one day 1 came on ilctK ami was say in that 1 would liketodie, when the captain took me up. Said lie, I want you to go below and .-hoi ten up that wheel rone I would lme iritcn most anything to liaie got out ot it, but I wantgoin to back down, becanse it 1 hail I w'ould never have heard the la-t of it. I got on the minor, and in the after noon 1 wmt below. I can't describe to 3011 the leelin that comes ncra man when for the first time he puts 011 the ar mor and gets ready todhc. The great hca. v helmet makes him feel as il he was goin to smother. As I looked at the long rubber nine leadin Irom the air pump to the helmet, I thought what if that should get broke while 1 wai uow 11 ln-low. Njihp carele-s fellow might step on it, and shut off the air, an then what would become of me ? Before I went down I had to learn the signals. ISesidc. the Ion;: ho-e that came down and connected w ilh my hel met, there was a lite-line about my wai-t which a signal man on deck held. That is ol almost as much con:cquence as the hose. I was learnt il I wanted more air I should jerk on the hose once; if less air was wanted, two pulls ; if I wanted Vm to take up the slack on the hose, I was to pull three times on it. Then there weie signals on the life-line. One jerk on the line meant 4 Hold on !' one "pull and a shake, 'Lower Hwav;twojeik 'Pull up p (whatever the tackle may be attached); three pull-, 'Take mo out.'Theie mc .sev eral signals. There's one which every signal-man knows all about, that means Pull me out piick, tor fiod's sake'. Kin ally, after IM got ready, they lowered me down. The minute I struck the water I kit all right. The heavy leelin ot the armor went away, and 1 seemed as light as a leather. As'soonas I strut k the deck ot !lm wretk I began to walk around. I couldn't see ery well, and I had to be cartful not to get my life-line tangled in the ligging. 1 hadn't Iwen down long be fore I wanted more air. 1 felt as if I was smothering. Oh, it was terrible! The mo-t peculiar thing about a man's feel ing, when lor the Iirstlimo he's down be low a 4diin. is the- pain that takes him in the head right In hind the ears. It ieels as if some one was slickm a sharp , knife into him. It put mc in terrible mi-cry, and it was some little time befoio 1 gut over it. I stayed down over an hour, and when I came up I bled pretty bad out of the eyes, ears nose and mouth. lSut I felt big, 1 tell you, because I hadn't ajjowed them to blutl'me off." Jack gave a graphic duciiplion of the appearance of the fhst sunken steamboat into which he ever went. It was about two miles from shore that tho ves-el had gone down. He went into her fur the pmpo-e of recovering her cargo. The bodies were of no consequence, ho stated. "It is a singular fact," .said he, iu sub stance, "that the corpses ol womei iu a sunken es-el always lie face upward, w Idle men are invariably lace downward. 1 ho cabin ol tho es-el presented a horrid appearance. The hloatt d bodies all laid up net the c iling. Some were elasped in ea h other's arm-. ( hie mother had iu her amis h( r baby. A husband and wile weie ela-ped in each theis t mhratu so fit inly that tht-y emildnnt pull theinap.ttt. It's a bad pr:u lu aiimnt; suioe !h t rs to go thnnigb the pnekt ts of eoipsrs ih.it they find, and lake all the valuables 1 have known divers to make thousands til dollars in that way. There is a. soil of a pocket in the armor in whkh they entry their tools, and I have si en divers come (tut of a wieck in which they had been woiking with their ptkots filled with gold watches, diamond rings, and pins, and all soils ot hash. I dove once in Mobile Hiv. wheio I put over Ji'Hlehains under an ironclad. The gieatcst annoy ancelhat we had theie was sh.iiks. They didn't hardly dare tackle us b eau-e with our armor we looked 11101 e like scare- rrowsthan an tilling !-'. They would come siding along and gradually swim up towatd us with their gieat big mouths wide open, but when within a tVw fed us they would .stop and lay there napping their fins and looking.it sec med tome, like tho viry devil hini-elt. I'naltywe devised a way to -eaie them olVthat never tailed to liighlen them so mil iney woum stay away an hour or longer before they d ired to eoiim back. 'I ho ai mor that w e wear is air-tight, vou know. Our iicket- lecves weie fastened around our wrists with an elastic, so that the air ( ould not escape. By running my linger under tin sleeveot myjukit I could let the air out, ami as it rushed into the water it ofuld make a soil id hissing noise and a nlnuie i f bubbles shoot up. So w henev er thosu inleinal sharks would eonie prowniij aiound mo I would holdout my arm U waid them, and, putting my linger under the elastic of my j u ket-sleev e, I would let a lot (d air out and send a si ream ot blubbers into the shark s laee, vvitha hiss- inr noio like steam 1 1 0111 a guago-cock. The way that those sharks would go scooting mi wasiuuiiy 10 nenoiu. "Jack," said the interv iew er, "it is said that tlm submarine diving is very profita ble business; what vas the largest ?iliry tint you ever mide!'" "1 was woiking for Otis Ar t'.iotlicis. getting mit bales ot coltou 1 wastoliave .' a day. woik or pi iy, and ." fur tvery bale oroollon th it I got nut I wotked about six hours one day, ami got out 484 bale of collou My income that day was I tell you, I have made ( nough to buy and sell many a rich man in this town; but, bless "toil! I could net er keen it." "I havo h.id several nirrow e-enpes from dmwning. said Jack, as ho lelight cd his ancient and much tanned pipe. "but about the closest call was when wasworkin'in tin waterwoiks crib in flei-Mnml. You .see much depends having a good signal tender. lean tell wlien'some one vUo beside the regular sli-n.il man stens up and takes hold ol the line. So can anv good diver, lor that matter. There wras thediverthat woikcd for tho I-akc Shore Railroad Company when they were building tlie aijutments of their new biidge heie across the Maumee. He. by the way, was paid $10 a dav lor 10 ilays. llewas working one day shoitly alter he had begun tho job. -inTl 1 icnnt down to see him. The signal tender asked me if I wou'd take hedd of the line. I did so, and gave it three or lour little shakes that a good diver always understands. Ho immedhtely answeied back, and let mc understand that he knew I was there. But I was going to tell you about that narrow escape. I had a ignal tender who didn't hardly understand his business. The mouth of the crib had be come stopped up with dirt, and I was clearing it out. I had ciaw led trough the entrance, which was a soit ot a door, and was outside of the crib. My life-line and hose dialed agioist the top ot the door, and all at once, when I went tn tin 11 around, I pulled my helmet off. Ihern I w. out in tho water, where, in a shoi I time, I knew I would diown. I pulled twice on tho life-line for the signal tender to pull me up, but he didn't do it. I (elt that I was filling up wilh water last, ami I pulled again. But still be did not understand. Ol course all my minor had tilled with water, and as there was no water iu it 1 was held down by tons weight. Suddenly George, who I was telling' vou about, and who had hist come down to see me, stepped up ami took hold of the life-line, shook it, and a-ked me what I wanted. 1 had ju-t strength enough left to give two haul pulls, which meant Pull me up quick. (leorge, I alterward be nd tlu 111 tell, yelled to tho signal man and told Mm, 'Help me pull in that life-line, and pull for all you'ie worth, tor Jack is drowning.' They hauled me up out ot there mighty o,uick, now 1 tell you, and il look lots ot .strength to do it, because mv armor was full ol water. When they got mc to the surface I was clear gone, and it was more than an hourbctoie I came to enough to speak. 'The tleepe-t water that 1 was m was ICS feel. When one is down so low it is hard woi k to get air. I have had tne air- pump manned by m men woiking w ilh ail their might, and still I've been obliged to keep pulling on the ait-line and calling for more air." The old reidenter has a wife and fam ily living in Black vvols Kngland, none of whom he has seen for years, and from whom he has not heard in some time. Out ot his vast earning-he has saved but little a faun of wild land near Maui-tee, Mich., being about nil his pos-cs-ions. But he is happv, and what 11101 e could he desiied ? From the Button lilote Keport.l What urihrMsbt; THE Ft'TrKE OF AMEU1CA RITH WVIDOEM- tnsON t I-VTEfiTItCTritE. Vannlpnn Itrinmuirte affirmed in lslfithat 111 tupntY.i'itu enrti the VniUd StatcH would dictate the policy of Kurope. That prophecy was a little premature, but it is just continu ed. It is prmnl by the tact ot tho vast nu miL'ration into thw countrv from all the na tion., ot Westt rn and t'tntral Europe, and when they have p'untcd tLene-t-htH lu-rc and looked about, they send lack their nmny to bring th.ir friends. Meantime they hud this country just pushing through a great crisis in its history, ai necessary as Uttation, den tition, or puberty to tho human individual. Y nr tin dav settliue tor ourhehert and our descendants questions which, as they slkill be determined in one- way or auothe-r, will make the peace and pror-pt nty or the calamity of the neit ape. Ihe suljetsof education, feocMy, labor, the direction ot talent and character, the nature and habiU of the American people may well occupy our attention. 1 ne new comuuons ui ensiem-c in America are favorable ti profit - to the removal of old restm lions and uueruahtieH. The mind is already belter the more it is used and here it is kept in practice. The humblest cili7eu is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical epubtions. Where so much civil and social fuedom exists each is uselul to provoke common sense. Lodg ing tL3 power in the people a in a republic has ike, effect of moulding things closer to toidmon bense, for a court or an aristocracy which must always be a small minonty can j more .at.ily run into follies thdn a republic , which has too muny observeis, each with a , vote in his hand, to allow his head to bo 1 throttled by any kind of nonsense. One hundred years ago the American people at tempted to carry out the bill ot political rights to its mobt ideal perfection. They have made great stridts in that direction eince. They are now proceeding, instructed by their Kuecefiscs and by their many fail ures to carry out under the bill of rights the bill ol human duties. And look at what a tevolution that attempt involves. Hitherto tho Government has been that of a single person and an aristocracy, and in this coun try an attempt to lehiht these elements must throw 11s into a Government, not quite of mobs, but, m practice, of an inferior class of politicians, who bv means of newspapers and caucuses really thiust themselves into place, lleuce liberal Congresses ami legis latures would ordain, to tho Mirpiise of the people, equivocal, interested and vicious measures, Iho members of thene bodies are suspected and charged with robbing the Government. No measuru is adopted for it self, hut the opinion of thei people is courted in tho firnt place, and the measures are per functorily cairicd thtough uiuhr a seconda ry e-omddeiatiou. A e,IXK)M 1'ICTI I'E We do not choose our own euddidates, no, nor no other man's first hoice, but an available caudidate. Instead of characti-r there, m a studious delusion of character in the selection. 'Iho people aio feau-d and Ilattered. They aio not reprimanded. 'Iho Government is governed in liar-rooms and in the miuels of bar-rooms. Buch rival for power vies with his rival which can step the loutht and depart the widest from the ji'ut. lhis is a bad spectacle, when the gnat party of property and ol education drivel ami huckster away every principle of humanity and the dearest hope of mankind tho trusted of iowerendy energetic when mis chit f e-an bo done , iudneilc when evil is to be prevented, faltering and eomprimiising when the gnate'ht issues ori-e, so that o t'.tnuot depend on them to havo us. Paities keep new names, but exhibit a surprising alacntyin eieeping out of one hiiakeskin into another. The American looks em, and says heiloes not eudaugei anything, lie be liever that what ho hiui enacted he e-.m ir?peal if he does not like it, and does not antie ipato being stiiuusly caught in the meshes of leg islation. But one may lull the nsK. 4ikc Ilh oltfiu 'Ihe people aie right minded enough ou ethical questions, but milbt pay their debts, and must have means of hung and not pinch themselves, ho it is us-less tei rely on them to go and vote if any thck fioiu the imist-havethe-mrne" side arises If any pail looks at a newspaper whieh eou elemns their member of Congress, and be comes aggrieved, they take anolhei newspt. per and vote for another man. (Ijaiithl r.) 'I he ncurieuce of an election every now and then akttius tho eopIe by the almost tin 011 iiious choho of u rogue and a burglar I low was it done? litis was done by the mildest, best-naluied people Tho only ground is that they have been fccaied into identifying the candidate with their tnido and pop-rty-Our (tohtics are coveied with shame. 'Ihe. spirit of cur political mimuiy is low and de graded Mlio individual man exists fur his own sake and not to add to the welfare of the Male. Tallies saciitice no 11 to tlio measure. lhn pailisau on moral questions, even 011 religious se-ets, 01 011 t uqwiance, will hoo a perfect rogim who ran aiiswn the test questions iu pre fen nee toau houtst, allectionale-, 110LW. gentleman 'Ihe partisan revises to be a man that he may be autre Lilian 'I he faults that appear m tho woikingsof oursyntim, however, suggist their own iciu edirs It auy great mist.iko is m ulo, nut of wlmii flisaster giows, theHoplo wait and 1 01 re t it with energy. 'Iho gracious lesson taught by m leneo to this country 1 that the he-t-jiyol nature, fiom hist to last, is amc hnration, nicessaut advance, from le'FB to mine, Irom rude to liuei oru'itnialioits, thus inspiring tho principle etf undying lmpu in man Otll institutioop, of which tho town is the unit, ure all educational UFM'etNSIhlLITT LXircATlS LEST 'I he town meeting is, altei the High Sihtad, n higher school ho Lcgihlature, towlmh eveiy goel farmer goes ouee on a trial, is an academy Ouis is a country ol poor mm Here ispiaclical democracy , litre is the hu man iilco pou led out ot r tlieeontine nl to do itst If justice , he re is all mankind iu its uhirt-shs vrs, not going under false eolois like poor iich im 11 in cities who prdendto be neh. but ready and willing for hard work. when labor is sure to be paid 'Iho hulk of the population is poor. In Maino neatly every man isie uuiium, in j.iinin. iiiii'iifi every twelfth man is a shot maker, and, for the lest, they are luilb rs, sailois and so fotth. 'Ihe result is thatimdead ol the dole ful eipcrience of tho I'uiopean economists who say "In almost all countries the gieat body of the. people aie in a poor and misera ble condition .' here that great body has ar rived at sudden plenty. Ham, coin-rake, a tight roof and room enough have been ob tained. Man is awkwatd and restless in these new conditions, but honest and kind, umbrrdanding his own rights and always ready to maintain them, and disposed to givo hischildicu abetter education than here reived, ihe steady impioTenu-nt of tho public schools in the cities and in tho coun try, enable-the fanner or laborer tnsrcitio better educational facilities than formerly. It is rate to find a born American who can not read and write There are great facili ties by which clubs aio formed by young men lor the dUeusbiou of soeial and politi cal questions, iho people take unintelli gent interest iu Government Congre-ss js a standing insuire-ction. and escapes tho vio lence of accumulated grievances, .lust as theglobo keeps its identity by perpetual change, so emr civil system by perpetual ap peal to the peoplo prest rves its life. The people all over tho country shriek their x e laniatious against the shortcomings ot the Government. And this fact tlut wo area nation of individuals, lhat wo have a highly intellectual organization, that we can see and feel moral ebstiuctions, and have such oigar.i zations that moral laws and foices must bo heard and felt, all these things are our hope But ourpeoplo act for4tho moment ami in ex ternal impulse'. They follow success aud not skill. Therefore, as soon as tho success stops, and an admirable man blundeis, aheady they rt member that long ago they suspected jits judgment, and tiansl.-r tluir contideiie'e to the uet prosperous pt tsou who has not yt blundered. 'Men of thirty years, and eailier, lose all vivacity and, fail ing in their first elite 1 prices thiow up tho game. TUE NFEOS tFTUEUOm Our young men lack iehalisui. A man to be a success must not bo a puro idealist, but he must have ideas, lie does not want to l-e sun-dizzied or sun-blmd, but he must have glimmer enough to keep him Ire.m knocking his head against the wall We antmeued originality, with ideas wider than their na tionality, and taking iu the interests of their race and of civiliatitw We need men of moial ami e la-slic ronuu wno cm mom iuu moment and take a ste p foiward Cetlnmbus was not a backwaid-feehug ciab. nor was Miittm I .nt her. nor l'atruk Henry, nor 'I honias .It He rson. i he genius and the des tiny of Amcuea is not sluggard, out is an incessant advauce, like tho hands on the dial's face and the heavenly body by which it is moved The flower of rivihzatiou is the finished man. the man tif sense, ofai-com-plishment, ot social penver a gentleman. It is cei tain that our civilization is vet incom plete. It is not a questnm eif whether there shall be a multitude of people hero ; that is fettled ; but shall wo be the new nation, the guide and law-giver of all nations, as having cleariy cheisen and firmly hejd the simplest and best mle of society To buy and import much fiom England and Kuroi.M does not make us Letter men. J.veiy town has its cottages, its fashions, its chart h from England America is provincial. H is an immense Halifax Our politics Uneaten England, and her maimers thieatcn us Our tenth ncy is to make men ail alike oua enn- ;uUh tho individual Iho builders ot Lou don give you your houses, and the bishop ot Lonthmyour laith ihus we hud that emeu Ihe passion for Em ope easts out tho piston for America 'these who have maintained iu London ami Paris their own housts can well be spared to retain to those cities I can not only n e room for more genius than we have here-, but formoie than we have in the woild 'The new times med the new men, the commit mental man, whom plainly this country must bring forth. Molality is the ol jeet of pmmiiunt We want a state of ihiiifs in which crime will not imy ; a state of things which allows every m.m the largest hbeity compatible wiiitlue noeuyoi every cthei man I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation 01 servant, imtn nation of served ; wheie every man can say, I serve. I apply my faculty to ll.e whole client of my power to the service ot mankind in my especial place " lie theit by shows a reason for being in the woild.and that he is not a mere encnmbiance lint the helm is given to a letter guidance than our own, and Peeing how that guielauco has itst ed on this Union thus far 1 have good confi dence forlho tutuie. I feel that m all direc tions the light is breaking , that trade and Government will not lose by tho overthiou of the enemies of mankind , that the Useful and the th-gaut aits will be cieicistd within us as a nation . that tho reason, the noblest affections aud the puiest religion will find their abiding home in our institutions. V'Ull'tlONT STATi: 1HA1I1 Ol .14111- cri.Ti hi:. Ilir Mtmlprller "Hrltluj;. The last, aoi in many respects mo-t mic cosfal, ol the lato series id Winter meet ings if tho State Uoird ol Agriculture opened at Montpeh'cr, on Wednesday evening last, and continued throufih Thursday and Friday. There was a noticeable attendance ot prominent men, comprising President Buckham, and Mesrj. Fussett, Chapman, Mead, Paul and Chac of the present Hoard of Agriculture ; Hon. J W. Mevvart, Hon. A. It. Halbcrt, Hon. 0. 11. Heath, Hon. Alexis T. Smith, 0. Horace Hubbard, K-q.. and Ir. T. H Hopkins, rx-mcmbcrs d tho Hoard; Hon. Mcscs Humphrey, ol Concord, prosiJentot tho New Hampshire Hoard ot Agriculture; J.O Adams F.q ,ol Manches ter, secretary ctthe New Hampshire Rjard; Dr. J. II. Walker, Concord, N. H.; Hon, K. I. Mason. prcsiJent, and 0. S HIi-, pccretary, of the Vermont Hairy mens Asso ciation ; Pres. Hulbcrt, ol MidJIcbury Ctd lege; lion. N. T. Spragur, of Hrandon ; Col. W. . (irout.of Harton; Cot. A. B. Franklin, Hon. Crosby Miller, ol Pomfrct ; Prtd Smyth, Professor of Chemistry in the University aud State Agricultural College, Professor V 0. Atwater, I'rofecsor ef Cbeniistry in We-deyan University, Middle town, Connecticut, and others. There was a good attendance of fho farmcra and their wives from several counties, tho audience filling the hall for most of the time. Prof. 11. M. Seely, Secretary of the Hoard, wa-,of course, present, and took tho direction of tho meeting. lVt-(liirsttu l. ritliiu. The meeting was opened by Professor Scely, who introduced Hon. John W. Stewart, who was Governor in 1?7I, when the hill incorporating tho original Board was pa-cd. Kev. Dr Hull, of Montpelicr, reid "omo appropriate selections from Scrip ture. GOVKRNOK 3ThffAHT"s Ul-UlKk!. tiovcrnor Stewart said that he had alwajs been an earnest triend id the Hoard, and (uppoHd ttiat ho had been invited to preside not because he could tell the farmers of Vcruiont much about agriculture, hut be causo it had always been a duty, and pleas ure to him, to contribute Iris mito toward luiwarding the most pominent interest in tho State We do not larm as in old times. New inventions and sharp comnetirion render tho busines, to thoe w ho do not understand it, a precarious one. Km is ra tion has taken a large sharo of tho lilc-bluud ol New England. Tho great West, peopled by our son-, is our competitor in the mar kets ul the woilJ. Kartumtr: in Vermont lias got to be a serious business, aud it must be conducted with judgment, economy and in telligence, in order to mako it pay. In our day brain power succeeds and nothing else. Thoe who sneer at scientific (arming soecr at wise, and judicious fanning. Scientific (arming is s-tomatized larmint;, and will prevail in tho end. Farming gives oppor tunity tor scientific culture---uich as hardly any other occupation can, and thero are always new holds for investigation and study. We are far behind tho ivotch, or hisi,or tho Chinaman, in our economic m an! clinic in (arming. We aro in our swadJIitig-cIothc, in fomp,iri"on witti them. AssDcUtiou and interch mgo ot ex perience and useful knowledge, is our remedy. Governor Stewart then introduced HOST. (II S. 11. llb.VTII, of Montpelicr, who gave an interesting paper on tho development of Homo Industries Kev C. H. Huntington, ol Olyiupia. Washington Terntiry, a brother of our townsman, Samuel Huntington, was then introduced, and read an exceedingly inter esting paper on emigration. RKV C II. IJCMIMlTON'd lU'R. Our American Mj is distinguished ltnn that ol most other Countries by iho unset tled character of tho people. 1 11 tho old countries ol Kurope the homes id fimiltef, liko the thrones of guv crnuicnts.are a future. From generation to generation they aro tho dwelling placo ed tho ynuio lineage, and around them clusters tho memory el the ancestors or a dinner age. 1 11 A mcrica per manence, which gives to homo its chief value, is not t'je rule, but tho exception. Wo are truly a migratory people, and tho tendency seems to setmoroand more in that direction New Status open out upon tho vast doiuaiiii ol nnoe'empiid territory, and HPnd abroad their invition to the people of tho older States to become their denizens, and fharotlie bounties ot a virgin soil and tho hopes and inspirations of new social and political Ido, amid new surrounding-, in a BUli LiJNtXOJN. VT JJ UiJJAI IvltuiltlNlJNl, JYJA.ttLJ.tl W. ia. JN U A1J3EK. 37. new country. Sj prevalent is our migra tow habit that cotrparatively few ftop tj- consider tho Question ol its expediency and vvi'dom, hut only the question of its posi- muty. I will venture an inquiry albeit my words may seem like breath against a fwtliinir wind as to tho expediency ol breaking up New Kngiand homes and seek ing new ones in new icrritorj. nen a man proposes to soil out and move West, he proposes to do a thing in which himst li is not the only interested party. The State and community ho leaves nas an interest in this matter, as well as the State or territory to nvhicb ho emigrates. The Kat and the West aro rival suitors in this matter of population. H it be for the in terest ot the new Mate 10 uraw ttio people within its borders, it U equally for tho in terest ol the old State t retain them in thoir old homes add tho personal interest rf the individual man must decido the con flict. Wr, in Washington Territory (and tho same is true in other new State), under stand our interests in this regard. We have a country foil ol a great variety or natural resources; we have a congenial climate, and tho world is our market; but with all ourratural advantages wo aro poor with out population. Our timber, our coal, our tih, our mines, our rich lands, without population, will give us neither commerce nor society, neither fclools nor churchc, roads nor bride.towns nor cities. We want just what Vermcnt ha, viz: a hardy, in dustrious, thriving peoplo. It wo can de plete Vermont of tho blood, bono and muscle that has reduced her rough moun tain forests to productive JVjr-gs. then wo tan be rich in all that makes Vermont a good State to live in In other words: If vvc can make you poor by seducing your people to evacuato your Stato and fill up ourj, then Washington Territory will bo a good country t) live in. I have hatl aminii to join our side of this debate, ncd at least allow the advantages on your side and the disadvantages on ours to have duo weight. Vi hat, then, arc the advantages and dis advantages on cither side of this question ? Here is a farmer with one hundrcu acres of land. He has lived on it fjr tKeatyyears. liy dint of constant labor and good manage ment he has lived, kept out ot debt, made all necessary improvement-, sent his chil dren to -choul, and taken a good social po sition among his neighbors; but beyond this he has not laid up much money. Ho sajs; "I am tired of hard Work. 1 have grubbed my rocky fields thc-e twenty years tor a baro living. 1 want to go where 1 can live easier, and have a better prospect for tho future ct my family.' 1 want to tell you, my friend, I have lived on the Western frontiers tor a long time. Tho income from n farm thcras here and everywhere, is tho reward ol work. There is no rc!caso from toil with the successful (armer anywhere. Vou havo worked hero twenty years. As tho reward of that work you have a good home house, harna, shed-, well, cistern, walls tencep, gate, eitrything that makes your home and business comfortable. Vou will not find the same comforts you enjoy hero in a new country. If ou d) find them, they will cost more money than you will bo willing to pay. Your policy will probably bo to begin again at the stumps to move into a cabin, and reproduce tho buildings ana improve ments which voj now have by years ot la bor. Vou will realize the saenfico better after experiencing it. Then, again, let it be remembered that it is not all ol lite to acquiro land and en largo your larmirg operations. What we in tho We-t want, and what we do not expect generally to acquire for a long time to come, is that which ou in Vermont hae attained after a century of pro2rcs in tho various processes of civilizi tion. Your systems of education, jour religious institutions, yeur railroad facili ties, your manufactories, your well-ordered society cveiythiug that conspires to mako Vermont a good state to live in, has been growing up hero for ono hundred years. You cannot expect to enter into poes-ion of these advantages for a lorg time to come, it you Faerilice them by moviog into a new country. You say that ou have no lncaos of ex pandintr your bu-iness here ; you are cir cumscribed. You can keep a dairy of twenty cows ; you want to keep twice that number. You must go where you can get more land. I will answer this argument by advising you to double tho producing power of tho land you have This, 1 am qui to -urr, is practicable at far less eost than the expense and sacrifice ol emigration to a new country And this I apprehend, is the very import ant leson that Vermont mu-t learn, in order to check the depleting process which for furty years p 1st has been robbing the Stato of tho be.st of tho population Kven Ver mont, old as she is, is in the A H C c I soil improvement. It your hills could bo given into tho hands of Scottish Highland ers, tho veomanry of Ireland, Kngiand, or (Jcrruanry, and subjected to the modes of cultivation there practiced, more than two blades of gra-s would soon he mado togrow where now 3011 get but one. This is done mainly by work and tho work necessary ti the opening and improving of a new fvrm,ina new country, would doublo tho producing capacity of your land hero. Your agricultural councils are movements in the right direction. Hy nuking tho wisdom of one the wisdom ot all, and tho wi-dom of all the wwlom ofrach,jou will soon learn the secret of making jour lands so productive that no farmer will need to increase his acres in order to iho increase ol his income 1 emigrated from Vermont moro than thirty J cars ago. I lived in Illinois when unbrokcr, unoccupied prairies lay for hun dreds of miles around me, offering the most lUttrring inducements to Ka-tcrn emigrants They came aud occupied thosn lanJs. Souio wero fueceslul ; many wcro unsuccessful Iho proportion of the unsuccessful farmers was quite as great in Illinois as in Vermont. Want c I succe-s drovo them farther West, to newer frontier settlements Irom which again to recede as eiviluvtion overtakes them Men who are sueces-lul farmers in Ver mont will succeed anywhero Men unsuc cessful here, by reason ot shortcoming in judgment, in bus'ricM capacity and good management, will, (or the same reason, (ail in tho Wct 1 know men on tho Pacific coa-t who have been emigrating all their lives living first in New Kngiand or New York, then in Michigar, then in Wisconsin or lMinois, then in lowa or Ktnsas, then in California or Oregon, then in Wa-hington Territory, unsucce-sful men alwas, and always living a hard, up-hill life. Success ful men are doing well where they arc, anl it is a safe rulo to let well enough alone.' Unsuccessful men are not opt to attain suc cess by emigration. They keep themselves impoverished by continual moving, and mako good the proverb that the roiling stone gathers no moss " lc is better to bo content and it they ran not grow rich, they ean at lea-t givo to their families tho benefits o( eivilizition, of which they deprive them by emigration. 1 havo lived long in the Wct. 1 havo seen enacted tho history of a multitude of families broken up, un-rttlcd, unsuccessful, unhappy, (iladwouli bo man) ti di-cour-aged wife and heart-broken mother, in a land of strangers without a home and with out sympathizing friend-, il she could bo re turned to the Itnd other nativity and enjoy tho sv in pat lues and kind olhYcs id the friends ol her chillhuod even though her lot was in poverty and sho ol bged to tod lor daily fjod. Immigration won't euro tho misfor- , tunes ot tho unfortunate. Kconjiny, thrift, enterprise, arc as essential to success in tho West as in tho Kt. Kxtravagancc, indo lence and inattention are fi Mowed by tbo same result thero as hero. Western emigration societies, railroad cor porations and indivitluBl citizens who are, exerting rll possitlo influences to induce emigration, wotl i, of course, pronounco me recreant to my duty asacitizenol Washing tun Territory in saving a word to dissuade the peiq le ol New Kngiand from deserting their uattvo country "tud going West in pur suit ot 11 better home. 1 tfll vou seriou-ly that a Vermont far mer, w t It a good living; a goodwill-appointed homo , with stock, tools buildings tunticr, good water and good sucial sur roundings, n.ns a great risk when he un dertakes to better his condition by pulling up stakes and beginning again in a new country. And I have made it tho rul.j of my life, especially since 1 went to the Pacific Coast, to respond to all apprulsfiom Knst trn pftij li who have asked my advice in tho anm spirit. My unilorm answer has boen : "Let well enough hlmc. If you havo an even chaneo where you aro, you run a risk hy exchanging a certainty (or an uncer tainty. Vermont, as a Stvtc, has a great interest in tho muttt-r id emigration. I'lindcilji ing process has been going on in this Stato for ttio list forty )cars and wtnlashohas Nhownamost wonderlul tenacity ol lilo maint lining nolly her socihI institution, and vindicating tho prestige ot her civibi tion ytt w ho can iv what Vermont would have been in populttmn, wealth and power il nil her pcoi-Ia had stajedut homo and had put the moncv and energies which they hsvo expended in other States into tho bifinoss and institutions ol their native State ? Tho saving was a-enbed to Strphen A. Douliss that " Vermont is a good Stato to bo born in, and a guod tUato to go away Irom." 1 1 is idan ill adsgo that "Tho proof td a pudding is in tbo tasting.' Hav ing been bom here my-elt, 1 urn a compe tent witness to tho first part ol tho state incut , having gone away, and liko the prodigal son returned to sojourn for a timo among the friends of my youth and the scenes of my chillhood, I will modify tho ust part ol tuo statement by saymir mat Vermont is a very good Stato to eomo back to. I A p Iiu.se I At the conclusion of Mr. Huntiogton'src marks. Professor Cellier, Chemist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, was called or, and spoke briefly on general topics. The meeting then adjourned until Thurs day morning. t Continued vn second paged 'iiil: mi.vi:h iuu. r-A-SEDGVER THE PREJIDE.NT'S VETO. Washington, Feb. 28 The Bland .silver bill, which was passed by tin llouso on the fifth of last November by a vote of 101 against 31, 12 members being absent or not voting and which, after being amend ed by the Senate, passed that body by a voto of 18 against 21, was, to-day, by both Senate and House, passed over the Presi dent's vcta, and becomes a law, THE '-RESIDENT'S VETO UE5SAQ1. Tno following is tho President's message to the House of UeprcsentatiTes : Alter a very careful consideration ol House hill 1,093 entitled, an act to autho rize the coinage ol a standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character," I feci compelled to return it to tho House of Representatives in which it originated with my objections to its passage. Holding the opinion which was expressed in my annual message, "that neither the interests of the government nor of tho peoplo ol tho United States would bo promoted by dis paraging silver as ono of two precious metals, which furnish tho coinage of tho world, and that legislation which looks to maintaining the volume ot intrinsic moncv to as full a measure of both metals as their relative commercial values will permit would be neither unjust nor inexpedient,' it has hecn my earnest desiro to concur with Congress in adoption of such measures to increase tuo Mivcr coinago 01 tne country as would not impair the obligation of con ti acts cither public or private, nor in jure, impair or ulTect the public credit. It is upon the conviction thai this bill does not meet these essential requirements that 1 (eel it my duty to withhold from it my approval. My present official duty as to this bill per mits only an attention 10 tho specific ob jections to its pas-age which seem to me so important as to lustily me in asking from the wi-doiu and duty cl Congreas that further consideration of the bill for which the constitution has in such cases provided The bill provides ior the coinage of silver dollars, 1 1 tbo weight of 4124 grains each, of standard silver, to bo a legal tender at their nominal value for all debts and dues public and private, except where otherwise cxpres-ly stipulated in contracts. It i? well known that the mar ket value of that number c f grains of stand ard silver during the past year has been 90 to 'J2 cents as coo. pa red with tho standard gold dollar. Thus tho .silver dollar autho rized by this bill is worth 8 to 10 per cent less than it purports to be worth, and is made a legal tender fcr dtbbs contract cd when the law did not re cognize uch coins as lawful money. The right to pay duties in silver or in certificates of silver deposits will, w ben thev are H-ucd in sufficient amount to circulate, put an end to the receipt of revenuo in gold, and thus compel the pay ment of silver for both tho principal and interest of the public debt. $!, 143,193, 400 ol the bonded debt now outstanding was issued prior to February, 1873, when the silver dollar was unknown in circulation in this country, and was only a convenient form ot silver bullion tor exportation. $53,4 10.350 of tho funded debt has been issued since February. 1673. when pold alone was the coin for which bonds were sold and gold alone was tho coin io which both parties to the contract understood that the bonds would be paid. These bonds en tered into the markets of tbo world. They were paid (or in gold when silver had great ly depreciated and w hen no one would have bought them il it had been understood that they would bo paid in silver. The putn of SSH5.000.OOl) ol th( so bonds has been sold during my administration, (or gold coin. and tho United States received the benefit of these sales by a reduction of the rate of inter est to 1 per cent. During the progress of these sales a eJouot was suggested as to the coin in which tho payment ol these bonds wjuld be made, aad the public announce ment was thereupon authorized that it was not to bo anticipated that anv further legislation of Congro-s or any action of any department of the government would sanc tion or tolerato the redemption of the prin cipal of these bonds or tho payment of in ter! st l hereon, in coin ol less value than the coin authorized bylaw at the time ot the isuc ot the bond, gold being the coin ex acted by the government in exchange for the same, in view 01 these facts it will he justly regarded as a grave breach of public laith to undcrtako tu pay those bond-, prin cipal or interest, in silver coin, worth in market less than the coin received (or them. It is said that tbo silver dollar mado a legal tender by this loll vii't, under its opera tion, be equivalent in valuo to tho gold dollar. Many supporters of the bill believe this and would not justify an attempt to pay debts cither public or private in coin ol inferior value to the money of the world. Tho capital delect ot the bill is that it con tains no provision protecting from its oper ation pre-existing debts, n caso tho coin age which it creates shall continue to be of less value than that which was the sole legal tender when they were contracted. If it is now proposed for tho purpose of tak ing advantage ol the depreciation ot silver in payment ol debts, to coin and make a legal tender a silver dollar ol It ms commercial valuo than any dollar whelhtr oT gold or paper which is now lawful money in this country, such a measure, it will hardly be questioned, will, in the judgement of mankind, bo an act ot bad laith as to all debts heretofore con tracted. The silver dollar should bo made a legal tender only at its market value The standard of value should not bo chang ed without the consent of both parties to the contract. The national proumos should be kept with unllinching fidelity. There is no pow er to compel a nation to pay its just debts. Its credit depends on its boner. The nation owes what it has led or allowed its creditors to expect. I cannot approve a bill which, tn my judgment, authorizes tho violation of sacred obligations. The obli gation id public laith tran-cend all ques tion ol profit or public advantage. Its unquestionable maintenance is the die tato as well ol the highest expediency as of tho mot necessity dutv , and should ever bo carefully truarded by tho executive, by Con gress and by the people. It is my firm con viction that if tho countiy is to be benefitted by a silver coinage, it can bo done only by ttio issue of silver dollars id full value which will defraud no man. A currency worth less than it purports to bo worth will in tho end dttriud not only creditors but all who are engaged in legitimate busi ness, and none more surel than those who are dependant on their daily labor for theii daily bread. (Mgned) K. li. Hates Kxecutivc Mansion, Fet. tW, 1K78. Sic iir ami In hlcitt AIlrntlliiK the l'u ! or Iter lllll. IN T1IK llOL'SK. Although the veto of tho silver bill was anticipated, thero was much anxiety to know tho exact cuaractcr 01 tho mossago. V hen tho speaker opened tho cnvolopo to ascertain tho contents previous to laying it before the House, hut lew moments elapsed before it became known on the floor, tho information soon spreading to tho galleries Thero was much ontu-ion in tho hall at tho time, but the members appeared generally in good humor. Iho speaker was cniriceil several minutes in restoring quiet. Kelore the roll call had ouimcnccd n request was mado that the message ik again reau. Mr. l;ox, 01 INew itirk said, "I beijoct , it is a chargo ot (raud by a fraud." There was great ex citement, and Mr. Met ouk, of New- York, demanded that tho words bo taken down. Tho motion ol Mr. Stephens for tho previous question having been agreed to.alldobito was excluded, when. according to the constitutional lorm, tho tuestion was taken on tho passage ol tho bill, and it was picJ, the objections of tho President t.t tho contrary notwith standing, by a vote ol Phi to 73 14 TIIK SN VTK As soon as the result was announced, hundreds excitedly left tho House galleries forthospol the Cvnate, which woro soon rowded. Many nieudters of tho Housocamo over with a liko purpose. 1'he confusion both on tho floor and in ttio irailenos was so great that the presiding officer re peatedly requested the disturbers ot order upon the floor in rear of tho St-uators dc-ks either to bo 1 seated or retire to tho cloak rooms. Much , interest was in intle-'ted in every dirrctton throughout the entire proceedings. It was supposed that some time would bo aMowtd lor debato in tho Senate, which has no pre vious question lor suppressing debatr, but no senator was deposed to speak, tho features ot the bill having been previously thoroughly dixcusscil. the bill and message having been read, ttio bill was passed over J tho veto by a vote ot 4U to 19. As it re- , quired a two-tuirds voto to pa 99 the Dili, 1 pairs was arranged with one Senator in opposition thereto and pairs were announc ed as lolluws Cameron of Pennsylvania ad Arm-trong, in favor of the bill with Edmunds opposed; Cameron of Wisconsin ana iocth in favor of the bill with Uurn side opposed ; Oglesby and Hansom in favor, with Anthony opposed. Christiancy acd Sharon were ab-ent. oriNioNs or the press. New York. March I. Of the silver bill and its passage, the Herald says; Nobody out so ueprccatoiy an estimateon President Hayes's inQaence as tiprcdict or conjecture so overw helming a defeat of his veto as that which it encountered. Doth the contemp tuous haste and surprising majorities with which the bill was repassed must be mor tifying to the President. An able President in fncd'y relations with Congreas could havo checked the silver lunacy in its earlier stages, and have prevented hi outgrowing tbo power id his veto. It is a singular phenomenon (jr a bill to be stronger altera veto than it was be (ore. With tne great advantage of being on tho right sido of the question, tho President has been foiled and mortified beyond the expectation of those who knew how feeble his influenco had become. Tho hill declares our inten tion to pay the national debt and interest on it in silver dollars worth but 92 cents. The harm it wilt do the country in this re spect consists in the loss of our credit, a stain upon our good name as a nation, a nation l dngraco ; and as a good namo is beyond price, for nations as well as for men. this wo hold to be the greatest injury it will do the country. The Timos says tha President has vindi cated his consistency and his integrity, if not his courage, in thereto of the silver bill. He has taken the only course that could save him from the responsibility and disgrace of partieipatintr, even impliedly, in tho bad faith which this measure involves. If his convictions as a financier were as clear and positive as his moral convictions, his message would havo been stronger and more effective The impression it is most likely to mako now U that it was prepared reluctantly, with a faint heart and an un pleasant consciousness of the fata that awaited it in Congress. The Tribune says the PresidenCs veto is brief but a strong and manly message. The shock, the dishonor abroad, toe disgust at home, tho inevitable revulsion, we wilt have ample tine to speak of hereafter. It is the Preidents own Uult that his message, clear and straightforward as it was, count ed less with Congress thsn ft newspaper editorial It is the fir-t time in the whole history of the country that a veto by the President of the United States has not only been absolutely impotent, but has actually increased the strength of the measure it forbade. For the first time the United States has a President who is thus shown to be powerless, not only with his own party which he has displea-rd but with the opposition party whose goodwill he has not been able to win. The World says the veto message de mands tho praise due to an able and con scientious performance of public duty. President Hayes gives his objections to tho silver bill clearly and tcrely. and there is less effort alter effect and more straightfor ward strength in his mesage than in any previous document that he has written. The Sun says the mcssare contains no new views. I. S. Dlitrlct and Circuit four!. February Terra. Hov. 110 VP II. WIIEKLEi:, JuiW . 11. Shai ley. Clerk. Ueo. V. Fostik, Marilul Friday, .March I. At tho opening of the court ycfctcrdsy morning, the counsel in the c.vse of Mc Carthy vs. Vermont Central TUilroad Com pany et ah, announced that as the case had been settled by tho payment to the plaintiff of a sum which was satisfactory to him the trUl of the cise was di-continucd. Tho trial of the ca-e of Joel II. (iates assjgnco of the llurlington Cotton Mill Company, bankrupt, rs. the Winooski Lumber and Water Power Company, oc cupied the remainder ot the morning. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Mr. Gates as assigneeof thee-tateto recover for tho value ot certain lumber and material which had been procured to build a dam prior to the bankruptcy of the Burlington Cotton Mill Company, and which the plain tiff claims came into his possevion as assignee, and with his consent was sold by the defendant to the Woollen Mill Company tbo payment for whici ivas received by de fendant and which they subsequently re fused to pay over to the plaintiff. Messrs. Whittcmore A Wheeler, W I, Burnap and D, Koberts for plaintiff; K. U. Hard for defendant. At two o'clock the jury brought in a ver dict of $77S.2t in favor ef the plaintiff. The next cause was that of th? National Union Bank ot S wanton vs. C. P. Tavlor. This is an action of trespass on the ca-o for false repreentatiors. It appears that in December, l!-. one .1 N. Taylor, ed btan stettd, Canada, obtained (f iho plaintiff, through his son. the defendant, 1 ur drafts drawn on A. I. Wane X Co., ol Lowell. Mass , the amount ef etch being 1,000, on forty-eight days time. They wero all ac cepted by Waite A Co. but havo never been paid. Tho di-count whs procured by the per sonal application et the defendant, who drew the draft-, his lather having signed them. The ctaiai ol the plaintiff is that tho dralts were discounted on tho special repre sentation of defendant that they wero drawn against property which had been already consigned to the drawees and tint they would be paid Irom the proceeds ol the sale of this property, while in I'ict no such con signment has been mide, but instead that the drawer was in rcalit alre-ady largely indebted to the drawers ; al-si that at the tiiao id the discount a por tiun of the amount was piJ to tbo de fendant in Mht drafts for tb p.irpo-e, as th- detendant allegnd, of mikiug p-ire-hise-i e produce for the drawees, in-tcad ol w bich the drtifts were iiuincdiitely forward ed to the draw cos and by them were enter ed to the credit ol J. N. Taylor to pay his previous indebtedness to them. Tho de fence is that A- L. Watte A Ci, the drawees of the dralts being rxten-ivc couimi"-iou merchants and ot undubt-J pecuniary re sponsibility, made an arrangement prior to lb7iwith J N. Talor to purchase pro duce on their account, aud ship the same to them at Liwell. Mas. Iu this arrange ment it was agreed between them and the plaintiff that Taj Ior was tn driw 01 them through tho plaintiff, which drifts they would accept and pvy and 1.1 this way thou sands yf dollars had been raided t carry on tho business and suhstquently paid. In 1 he Fal 1 ol 1 17-. ii consj- quenco ol the illness of Mr. J. N. Taj Ior, he requested the ilelt-ndint.l P Taylor, his son, who was at5t Albins sa matter ot ac commodation (or him to neiotiito the drafts in question, and fa dit st without making any represent ition ol anv kind, aetini: only as the agent ot his lather In Januiry 1&73, Waits X Co, having failed, tho dratts wero not pud, t:id hence thissuit. Mes-rs. V. A biwles anl K. II. Hard for plaintiff ; (I. C N0M0 and H.S Hoyce. for defendant. On tho offering ot testimony to show parol representations et the tacts chimed by tho plaintiff, tho court held that on the construction ot the Vermont statutes they wero precluded Irom thns showing the same, and the jury were ordered to bring In a verdict lr tha defend int, to which ruling the plaintiff excepted and tho case will be passed to tho Sdpreuio Court of the United Mates. Thero being no other jury cause ready for trial, tho jury wero excured until this morning Iho rem under of the afternoon was taken up wilh court hear ings STiRPvv, March-. Tho entire day yesterday was occupied with putting " the tc-timuny in the cam) of Saturn 1 F. Prnti-, receiver, vs. Jo 1 11. (lAtc, asstgnco ef tho Ituilington Cotton Mill Compar, bankrupt. Thisman action ot ejectment brought by tho luntiff as re ceiver ol the Builington Cotton Mills, a New York corporation, ayainst the Burling ton Cotton Mill Compan.v,a Vermont cor poration, and now in bankruptcy The 1 1 1 in till" claims titlo to the whcleet the cotton mill property near Wimiosii, valued, as heeUim-, at s.Im),ihh, by virtue ot a decree I the Su reuic Court ol the State ol New York, rendered in an action in favor id Jonathan Taj I ir vs 1i orgn B.andJunv than Kail as ehVcrsol both corporation-, and al-H) anainst both corporations as de fendants. Said decre-o purports to set aside thedi-rd of slid property Irom tho Burling ton Cotton Mills to the Burlington Cotton Mill Company dated January '.), 185, un der which deed thu latter corporation held and operated and mills up to tho tune of its bankruptcy, in March, ItVfi, and under which s,iid tiite as as-urnec, held until the property was sdd to F. M. Van tfick len in June, IS77. Slid Tiylor claims, among other thing, that he, as a stock holder in the1 New ork corporation, with several other, holders of a minority ol the stock, objected to tho transter ol tatd prop erty irom the New York to the Vermont corporation, and sitd elecrcc ol tho Now York court orders tho conveyance of said prope'rly to said Prentiss us receiver, and tho smie was conveyed un der said decree hy the Burlington Cotton Mills to siid receiver April "to, 17 l'ho delemlant ites claims that said suit was carried on in New York, without his know ledge, and that he had no notice ot the pro ceedings until he had advertised said prop erty for sale- He thereupon applied to tho District Court of ermonr, and procured an 0 a ' sc'" the mills as property in depute, and to hold the funds ; and under said or der tha property was sold in June last, as above Btated, to F. M. Van Sicklen for $27, 000. He also claims that plaintiff did not give him notice of the bringing of this action, aa reftuired by law. And among other things that holding and being in pos session of said roillf under the authority of the District Court, sitting as a court of bank ruptcy, he ia not divested of his title by vir tuo of this decree afterwards rendered by a State court of New York, or which he had no notice. The testimony was closed Iit evening, and the cae was argued this morning. Messrs. E. K. Hard and C. P. Prentiss for phintiff; Daniel Kobert,Whit temore &, Wheeler, W. L. Burnap and A. F. Wilker for defendant. This being the only caselo be heard, to day, the jurymen not on the present panel were excused until nine o'clock on Monday morning, Benjamin F. Wade, Kx-Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade died, Saturday morning, at his homo in Jefferson, Ohio. Mr. Wado was born in Springfield, Mora., October 27, 1800. He was the son of a poor revolutionary soldier, and had no advantages. Even after reaching manhood, he was still guiding the plow and chopping the forests. For somo months in his early life be plied the spade and the wheelbarrow in digging the Erie canal. At 20 he emi grated to Ohio and began to study law; at 35 ho wad prosecuting attorney of his : county ; at 37 he was in the Senate of Ohio, j and thenceforward his public career was long and honorable. In 1851 he was elected to the United States Senate, and he held that J office for 18 successive years. That period was : ono of the most exciting and important in the history of the nation. It covered the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the extreme aggres sive and intolerant attitude of Southern fire-caters" toward the North and its rep resentatives, the formation of the Republi can party, the rebellion, and the efforts at reconstruction. From the first to the last of the struggle Mr. Wade was a firm and un compromising opponent of all measures fa voring slavery. In 1852 he voted, with only live other Senator, to repeal the Fugitive Slave law. Jle also spoke and voted against the bill to abrogate the Missouri Compro mise, taking a prominent part in the discus sion of the great debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill. In 1S53 he took no less active part against the Lec.oa.pton constitu tion which the Democrats were try ing to force on Kansas. When about the same time a proposition was presented in Congress to appropriate 30,000,000 out of the public treasury for the purchase of Cuba, Mr. Wade poured red-hot shot into the scheme, and the liberty-loving portion of the country warmly applauded him. In all the compromises between the North and South, which were proposed after the elec tion 01 Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Wade was equally firm and unyielding. Upon the assassination of President Lin coln, in 1SG5, and the accession of Vice- President Johnson to the Executive chair, Mr. Wade was chosen president pro tern. of tho United States Senate, and acting Vice-President of the United States. In March. ISC", he wa elected President of the Senate, and held that position during the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 13GS, and would have become President for the unexpired term if the articles of im peachment had been sastained by the Senate. On his retirement from the Senate, in 1SG0 he was appointed a Commissioner for the Pacific Kiilroad Company, and two years later ho was ono of the Commissioners ap pointed to visit San Domingo to report upon its proposed annexation to the United States, a scheme of which he approved. His la?t public appearance was at the Cincinnati Convention, in 137C, where he made a speech favoring the nomination of President Hayes. Among the scores of anecdotes that aro related of Mr. Wade, the following (dating back to ante-bellum times) gives a good idea of his character : As no allusion was made to himself or his State. Mr. Wade sat still ; but when the Senate adjourned ho said openly, if ever a Southern Senator made such an attack 00 him or his State while he sat on that floor, he wooll brand him as a liar. This coming to the cars of the Southern men, a Senator took occasion to pointedly speak, a few days afterward, of Ohio and her people as negro thieves. Instantly Mr. Wade sprang to his feet and pronounced the Senator a Har. The Soutern Senators were thunderstruck, and gathered around their cham pion, while the Northern men grouped about Wade. A feeler was put out from the Southern side, looking to retraction, but Mr. Wade retorted in his peculiar style, and demanded an apology for the insult offered himself "and the" people ho represented. Tho matter thus closed, and a light was looked upon as certain. The next day a gentleman called on the Senator from Ohio, and asked the usual question touching his acknowl edgment of the code. I aoiJierc. he responded, in a double capacity. 1 represent the State of Ohio, and I represent Ben Wade. As a Senator I am opposed to duclilng. As Ben Wade I recognize the code. 'My friend feels aggrieved,' said the gentleman, 'at what you said in the Senate yesterday, and will ask for an apology or satisfaction.' I was somewhat embarrassed,' contincd Senator Wade, 'by my position yesterday, as I have some respect for the Chamber. I now take this oppcrtunity to say what I then thought, and you will, if you please, repeat it. Your friend is a foul-mouthed old black -guard.' Certainly, Senator Wado, you do not wl-h mc tp convey such a message as that?" Most undoubtedly I do ; and will tell you for your own benefit, this friend of yours will never notice it, I will not bo asked for cither retraction, explanation, or a fight. Next morning Mr. Wade came into tho Senate, and, proceeding to his scat, deliber ately drew from under his coat two large pistols, and unlocking his desk hid them inside. The Southern men looked on in silence, while the Northern members enioyed to the fullest extent the fire-eaters surprise at the t-roceedings of tho plucky Ohio Senator. No further notice was taken of the affiir of tho day before. Wade was not challenged, but ever afterward treated with the utuiest politeness and consideration by the Senator who had so insultingly attacked hiiu.'' "Hcforin" riairurin for 10. From the rMUdelpliia Pres". 1. Pay all debts iu coin worth Vi) cents on the- dollar. 2. Place direct taxation on industry, sav ings, and earnings in tho shape of an income tax. 3. hut up our furnaces, khops, and man u lactones by free trade or a low tariff. 4. Pay 5.70,000,000, in the shape of sub sidies, grants, and aids, to the South, rat ing it trom the Northern workingman. r. Take off the tax from whiskey and to baevo, in aid eif the industrious Democratic poor. 0. Kedue'e the army by starvation. It had no right to save tho Union. hat a magnificent achievement of states mtnship this platform is 1 and ctcTy plank ot it has Wen moved in tVngress by Demo cratic statesmen, and some of them carried. "Wlr and Ouiair nt. Nothing can bo said against the new Pope exempt that ho wrote poetry. But that was l-cfore he became infallible. Chhagv Turn. A vvar upon bondholders meaas death to our National credit, destruction of what foreign commerce- remains to us, and pro hibition against its revival and extension. - A. 1 . JhralJ. The h'rpubtmm thinks that Bennett, in sending an expedition to find the North Pole, isrehVeting credit on his profession. That depends on the use ho makes of the pole alter he finds it. ffoston HeratJ. We must not delude ourselves with the hope that this clamor for the legalization of elshoncsty in going to die away. The coming pirty is bent upon a complete social and tiniucial revedution. The sober, easy and sanguine I'jvst will i-erhaps realize tho dan ger when it is too lato - V 1 TttluH Tus list of opponents of the 00-cent dollar in Congress consist of 72 Republicans and 32 Democrats. It includes but five Western men, Christiancy, Ellsworth, Garfield, Stewart of Minnesota, Williams of Michigan; but three from the Pacific coast, Sargent, Mitchell and Horace Davis ; and but ten Southerners, Butler, Lamar, "Whyte, Bls bce, Gibson, Jorgensen, Schleicher, Swann, Cain and Leonard. All of the others are from the Middle States and New England, which furnishes Gen. Butler of Massachc setts, Landers and rhelps of Connecticut. Those who have yoted at every stage to se cure the passage of the original Bland bill are S3 in number 22 Senators and Cl Rep resentatives. Of these, 77 are Democrats, and G Republicans. There are, not count ing Senator Sharon and Speaker Randall, whose name is never called, 180 silver men 30 Senators and 150 Representatives main ly Southern and Western men. A tw SjHttin or Elections. We have before us a somewhat formidable volume of 21C large pages, entitled'Tho Com monwealth Reconstructed." The author, Dr. C. C. 1. Clarke, of Oswego, N. Y., has done a good deal of thinking on the evils of our present political system, a subject which must at times engago the attention of every man, and has, as he believes, solved the problem of effective reform. He devotes four chapters tu an exposition of the ob vious wrongs, failures and rottenness of ihe present system of elections. Ihe unsatis factory working of oar Democratic system on these respects he attributes to there great causes : to the ignorance of the great majority of voters, both as to whom they are voting for and what they are voting for ; to their inability to unite upon represen tative candidates for office ; and to political organization, which, started to help the peo ple, has, by the logic of the situation, become their corrupt master. He concludes that the remedy must he a vital one. He recommends "no surface ointment of deep sores like Civil Service reform ; nochangc ofplaco withoot- out change of pain like a party revolution ; no soothing syrup of statistical displays of the Aation a growth in numDers, weaitnana virtue. He proposes to revolutionize tho system radically, from bottom to teip. HU aim is to present a plan which will bring the business of the voter with in the limits of his probable acquaint ance with the man he votes for. of his sub stantial comprehension of the duties that his candidate, if elected, will have to discharge, and of his ability t unite with his fellows at the polls in the pursuit of a common object, without calling in the agency of politicians. The plan he has worked out in his mind, and Is sure will answer the purpose, is an adaptation of the present caucus system to the whole range of electoral action. Dr. Clarke proposes to divide all cities or towns of any size into sections of registered voters, of 300 or 400 in number, divided by lot, and changed by a fiesh division by lot, every two or three years. This mode of selection and these frequent changes aro to prevent the formation of rings and cliques. Each of these sections is to choose an elector to re present it in the further establishment of authority ; and with this choice of an elect or all action on the part of the voters ends, with the exception that in small towns he would still allow them to choose the local ofEcers. In the larger towns and cities the average voter would once a year help select a suitable man "to represent him. That is all he would have to do. He need not bother his head about parties or polit ical economy or candidates for Pres ident, or any question as regards public men or public queston. The electors, or delegates, thus chosen in any town or ward shall constitute a college of electors for it. These shall elect all the prime functionaries of the yrccinct. These primary colleges shall al-o choose one or more electors to rep resent them and the people in a higher rank of colleges for the appointment of mayors, county ofheers, members of the State Legis lature and the House of Representatives. The members of this second class of electors for any county shall constitute the county college ; in a city, the city college ; in an assembly district, the assembly college. In like manner this secondary college in each assembly district shall appoint oni or more delegates to represent it in an electoral col lege of a still higher grade for the choice of governor and other State officers, the State and national judieiary, ftderal senators and presidential electors. This last class of dele gates, the presidential electors, shall meet in general a-sembly of the whole Union, as do delegates to party presidential conven tions, and choose the President and Vice President. In each college the vote of the elector should have weight nearly as possi ble in proportion to the number of reople that ho might represent. Such, in brief. Is the electoral system re commended by Dr. Clarke. It Is ingenious and original ; but it is not likely to be adopted. It is too great a change to be adopted, in a hurry. In fact. Dr. Clarke does not ex pect its adoption except gradually a city or perhaps a small Suto making a beginning, and others following, after its advantages havo been tested. There is no likelihood that the mass of voters will be as willing to discard all concern about political questions and candidates, as Dr. Clarke is to have them. They will, wc fancy, nowhere care to bo relegated to a choice of delegates who are to do all further thinking an j acting for them. Nor Is it as clear to us, as it seems to be to him, lhat tho influence of rings or cliques and "machines" and pclitieal adventurers would be destroyed under this system. Poli ticians would surely, wc think, be found in the primary, eeondary and higher colleges of electors. The system which is to cure all the evils of our politics is yet to be devised ; and no system devised for the purpose can prove effective without an elevation of the honesty, fidelity and intelligence of the voters. TEv(the Greenback men) demand an in stant repeal of the resumption law, and the establishment of "an American monetary systcn." The Government Is to "create" money out of paper, by stamping it, and to issue such a sum per capita that every citi zen mav have as much as he needs ; all bonds shall be taxed ; all money shall be taxed ; all incomes shall be taxed on a graduated scale; there shall be no great fortunes, for wealth shall be equalized by taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor; there shall be no more exhausted workinguien, for Congress shall fix the hours of labor; there shall be no more banks ; there shall be no more "privileged creditors there shall be no re demption of promises to pay; there shall be no limit to the coinage ot cheap money , every man who has t) worth of silver shall take it to the Mint, and the Government shall stump it, "This is 10. In God wo trust." So " the vat army of idlers who grew rich upon the earnings of others shall te mustered out, and all the people shall " secure a eonipetcmy" except, ot course, the people who have secured ono already, and those miserable and degraded ruffians shall be made to di-gorgo. X. V. T nbune. The Hltrr Bill and Win. COMMENTS OF TIIK PRESS. The reader will look in vain for a clearer and more concise statement of the whole ' argument against a cheap dollar than the President gives in his veto message. It Is a dishonest dollar, and as such it will force tho honest dollar oat of circulation. There is little need to speak of the possible effects of this unfortunate measure. With its pres ent provisions, the Silver bill is rather a wrong and a -shame than a positive cause for alarm in business and industrial circle lioton Journal. Neither the threats of opponents, mr the urging of friends, nor the propcct that his resistance would l futile, "aioved the Presi dent from the position he had taken. What ever judgment the popular excitement ot to day may pas- upon his veto, history will givo it its due rank as a deed of courageous statesmanship unsurpassed by any one of his illu-trious predecessors in thcol5ec he hold. lioston Jverthtr. The evil effects of this measure will not be immediate except in one Tcspect. It undoubtedly gives a shock to Aracriewn credit. Whether that slnvk will pass away, as the interest on our bonds continues to be paid for the most part in gold lor successive quarters and half year, remain tJ be seen Sitrmgfitld lirpu&tnan. Wc are inclined to the belief that it tha silver billj will provo a disappointment to those wLo have so furiously urged it and possibly, ahto, to those who have upperedit. The former will find that tho cheapness of the dollar will not bring more dollars into the hands of those who have nothing to give in exchacge ; and that, by hindering rc sumptiem in gwlJ, they have aetuallj- locked up $200,000,000 of sound currency which would soon have been In circulation. The latter will find that, with tho utmost exer tion, the mints caanot produce enough ot these cheap dollars to cane a ryrevptible ir. flit ion for a long time; while, as the eve now stands. It is in the power of the Secre tary of the Treasury to make the law actual ly work contraction. The great immediate danger tj be apprehended is that which may come from the supplementary legislation, which the cheap money party, flushed with victory and feeling its power, may be in clined to undertake. Boston Post.