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2Clw Jfttlnirn I t3f. TAN BLYKE, PuBUsra. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. MEFUBLICAN H ATIONAL CON YEN- / T10N. Ihe sixth National Convention of the Bepnb- Uean party met at Cincinnati on Wednesday, the 14th of Jane. The hall where the meeting held--the Exposition building--has a seat- ng capacity of about 7,000, but scarcely a third Of those who had gone to Cincinnati n«lmil«f.ing to look in on the convention, were able to se­ cure tickets of admission. At ten minutes past 12 p. m., E. D. <rf New York, called the "Convention to order, J!?118!11688 was kegtm at once. On motion of Mr, Morgan, ex-Oongressman Theodore M. Pomerov. of New York, waa mail A temnorarv Chairman. tempor&i-y secretaries. the report wae adopted. John T. Ensore, Chairman of the Committee on Credentials, re­ ported that full delegations were present, ex cept from North Carolina and Nevada, when •acli was one short. He recommended that the delegates present be allowed to cast the whole vote. There were no contested delegations ex­ cept from Alabama, Florida, and District of Columbia. In Alabama the committee recom- meuded the admission of the anti-Spancer dele­ gates, headed by Jeremiah Haralson ; in Flor­ ida they recommended to admit the Conover delegates; in the District of Colombia they recommended the admission of Bowen and Green. Mr. Harris (Nevada), from the minority of the committee, presented a minority report in the Alabama case, claiming that the Spenoer delegation was the only legitimate and truly representative delegation from that State. After considerable discussion the majority report was adopted. The Chair--The next business in order is the report of the Committee on Resolutions. Mr. HawJoy--Mr. President, you mnst be aware that vour Committee on Resolutions, upon assembling, found itself constituted by men of somewhat differing sentiments and inwiliHwi snd Hsostly strang­ ers to each other. We have, in general, agreed upon the statements we are about to present to On motion of Mr. Adams, of Wisconsin, L were appointed yon#"and respectfully submit them for your con sjderation, and for your amendment, if *you •thi* contention a majority Buch as will entitle her to oontiwue to be what she has long been, and I say- it with all respect, foremost in the Republican party. [Applause.] The Chair is ready for business. Mr. Loriug, of Massachusetts, then «amA forward aud read the following report of the -Committee on Organization: President--Edward McPherson, Pennsylvania. Vice-presidents Alabama, M. W. Gibbs; Califor­ nia, George 8. Evans; Colorado. Henry McAllister ; Connecticut, Martin J. Sheldon; Delaware, David W. Moore; Georgia, R. L. Mott; Illinois, John Trin- aker; Indiana, James S. Eraser; Iowa, W. T. Shaw; Kansas, William Martindale; Kentucky, E! R. Weir; Louisiana, George Y. Kelso; Maine, J. B. Brown ; Maryland, James A. Gary; Massachusetts! P. A. Chadbourne ; Michigan, Henry P. Baldwin ; Minnesota, L. Bogen; Mississippi, M. Shannessee: Missouri, G. A. Finkelenburg; Nebraska, II. s. Ka- ley; Nevada, T. Wren ; New Hampshire, E. A. Straw; Hew Jersey, Wm. A. Newell; New York, Marshall O. Brooks ; North Carolina, James H. Harris ; Ohio, Benjamin F. Wade; Oregon, J. H. Foster ; Penn­ sylvania, J. Smith Futhey; Rhode Island, Henry Howard; South Carolina, R. H. (Heaves; TenDes- tsee, Horace H. Harrison; Texas, A. B. Norton; Ver­ mont, George Howe ; Virginia, R. H. Carter ; West Virginia, W. E. Stevenson; Wisconsin, James Bink- llff ; Arizona. DeForest Porter; Dakota, Alexander Hughes ; Idaho, Austin Savage ; Montana, Benja­ min H. Tatem; New Mexico, Samuel B. Axteil: Utah, James B. McKean; Washington, El wood Evans; Wyoming, William Hinton. Principal Sec­ retary, I. M. Bean, of W isconsin, and one assistant for each State. Adjourned to Thursday, June 15. SECOND DAT. President McPherson called the convention to order at eight minutes after 11 o'clock. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, presented Ihe memorial of the National Woman's Suffrage association, and, on his motion, the convention agreed to hear Mrs. 8. J. Spencer in behalf of -the memorial. She proceeded to present, in a concise form, the claims of women citizens to 'practical recognition, and criticised the failure of the speakers yesterday to plead for them. The conclusion of her brief speech was re­ ceived with applause. . Ei© Committee on Rules and Order of Busi- made their report. After some discussion was to be purged of human slavery, ana when the strength of the Government of the people, by the people, for the people, was to be demonstrated, the Republican party came into power. Its deeds have passed into history, and we look back to them with pride incited by their memories, and high alms for the good of our country and mankind; and. looking to the future with uufaltering courage, hope, and purpose, we, the representatives of the party in Na. tional Convention assembled, make the follo^eig declaration of principles: ^ 1. T.>e United States of America is & nation, not a league. By t he combined workings of the Na­ tional and State Governments under their re­ spective Constitutions, the rights of eveif" citizen are secured at home and protected abroad, and the common welfare promoted. 2. The Republican party has preserved those Governments to their hundredth anniversary of the nation's birth and they are now embodiments of the great truths spoken at its cradle, that " all men are created equalthat they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; that, for the attainment of these ends, Governments have been instituted among men, de­ riving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Until these truths are cheerfully obeyed, or, if need be, vigorously enforced, the work of the Republican party is unfinished. 3. The permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union, and the complete protection of its citizens in the free enjoyment of all their rights, are duties to which the Republican party stands sacredly pledged. The power to provide for the enforcement of the principles embodied in the recent Constitutional amendments is vested by those amendments in the Congress of the United States; and we declare it to be the solemn obliga­ tion of the Legislative and Executive departments of the Government to put into immediate and vig­ orous exercise all their constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any class, anu for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of all civil, political, and public rights. To this end we imperatively demand a Congress and a Chief Executive whose courage and fidel­ ity to these duties shall not falter until these results are placed beyond dispute or recall. 4. In the first act of Congress signed by Presi­ dent Grant the National Government assumed to remove any doubts of its duties to discharge all just obligations to public creditors, and solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period for the redemption of United States notes in c. in. Commercial prosperity, pub- lio morale, aud the national credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a continuous and steady progress to specie payments. 6. Under the Constitution the President and heads of departments are to make nominations for office, the Senate is to advise and to consent to appointments, and the House of Representatives is to accuse and prosecute faithless officers. The best interests of the public service demand that these distinctions be respected ; that Senators and Repre­ sentatives, who may be judges and accusers, should not dictate ippointnients to office. The invariab.e rule for appointments should have reference to the honesty, fidelity, and capacity of the appolutee, giving to the party in power those places where har­ mony and vigor of administration requires its pol­ icy to be represented, but permitting ail others to be filled by persons selected with sole reference to the efficiency of the public service, and the right of all citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to their country. 6. We rejoice in the quickened conscience of the people concerning political affairs, and will hold all officers to a rigid responsibility, aud engage that the prosecution and punielim cnt of all who betray official trusts^hall be speedy, thorough, and ufceparine. 7. The public school system of the several 8tatea is the bulwark of the American republic, and with a view to its security »nd permanence, we recom­ mend an amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institutions under sectarian control. 8. The revenue necessary for current expendi­ tures and the obligations of the public debt must be largely derived from duties on importations, which, so far as possible, should oe adjusted to promote the interest of American labor and ad­ vance the prosperity of the whole country. 9. We reaffirm our opposition to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the national domain be devoted to free homes for the people. 10. It is the imperative duty of the Government so to modify existing treaties with European Gov­ ernments that tke same protection shall be afforded to the adopted American citizen that is given to the native born, and that all necessary laws should be passed to protect immigrants in the absence of power in the States for that purpose. 11. It is the immediate duty of Congress to fully investigate the effect of the immigration and im­ portation of Mongolians upon the moral and ma­ terial interests of the country. 12. The Republican party recognises with approval the substantial advance recently made toward the establishment of equal rights for women by the many important amendments effected by Republi­ can Legislatures in the laws which eoncern the per­ sonal and property relations of wives, mothers and widows, and by the appointment and clectioa of women to the superintendence of education, chari­ ties and other public trusts. The honest Jeiiiands ufthia class of citizens for additional rights and privileges and immunities should be treated with respectful consideration. 13. The Constitution confers upon Congress sov­ ereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and in the exercise of this power it is tho right and the duty of Congress to prohibit and extirpate in the Territories that relic of barbarism, polygamy, and we demand such leg­ islation as shall secure this end, and the supremacy of American institutions in all the Territories. 14. The pledges which the nation has given to our soldiers and sailors must lie fulfilled - a grateful people will always hold those who periled their lives for the country's {.reservation in the kindest remem­ brance. 15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling and tendencies; we therefore note with deep solici­ tude that the Democratic party counts as its chief hope of success upon the electoral vote of the united South, secured through the efforts of those who were recently arrayed agflkiht the nation ; and we invoke the earnest attention of the country to the grave truth that a success thus achieved would reopen sectional strife and imperil the national honor and human rights. 16. We charge tte ikmooratlc party as being the game in character auS spirit as when it sympathized with treason; with wfcinx its control of the House of Representatives tjft triumph and the opportunity of the nation's recefel foes ; with siHserting audi ap­ plauding in the N atlanal Capitol the sentiments of unrepentant rebellion; with sending Union soldiers to the rear and promoting5 Confederate soldier® to the front; with deliberately proposing to repudiate the plighted faith of the Government; with being equally false and imbecile; with overshadowing the ends of justice by the partisau mismanagement and obstruction of investigation; with proving itself, through the period of its ascendency in the lower House of Congress utterly incompetent to administer the Government. We warn the country against trusting a party thus alike unworthy, recre­ ant, and incapable. 17. The National Administration merits com­ mendation for its honorable work in the manage­ ment of domestic and foreign affairs, and President Grant deserves the hearty gratitude c' the Asueri- York moved that the Secretary call the roll of States in alphabetical order, and at the cull of each State it should present its candidate if it had any. The motion WM carried, and the Clerli had got as far in the list as Connectiont. when Hon. Stephen W. Kellogg arose and, in a brief 8P®e°J1' presented tho name of Marshall Jewell. Richard W, Thompson, of Indiana, nominated Oliver P, Morton. Gen, J. M. Harlan, of Kentucky, nominated Benjamin H. Bristow. Robert G. Ingeraol], of TlHKnfa nominated James G. Blaine. Stewart 8. Woodford, of New York, nomin­ ated Roscoe Cotikling. Linn Bartholomew, of Pennsylvania, nomin­ ated John F. Hart ran ft. Ex-Gov. C. W. Noyes, of Ohio, nominated Rutherford B. Hayes. The Chair announced that it was unnecessary to call the remaining States, as there were no other candidates. On motion, the convention then adjourned at ten minutea p*st 5, till 10 o'clook Friday morn- , THIRD DAY* ! convention met promptly at 10 o'clock, and immediately proceeded to ballot for a can­ didate for President: Blaine Bristow.... Morton X Blaine ... BHstow....... Morton.. . . Conk ling fiBsx, on MROFIWAR. BALLOT. 39 ..*•....113 Blaine. Brirtow. Conkling.... feartranft,... mo. ow, E.W *HhipW S: H,owa*d' of M°hlgan,aen. They are ̂ follow8. x Morton ... J , " unanimously elected Seryj When. In the economy of Providence, this lan<i4 Conkling' or geani^at-iirmB of the convention. / ^ ^ . ••••••. The committees on credentials, permanent dganizaticn, rules and order of business, and resolutions, consisting of one from each State Territory, were then appointed. A. J, DittenbefFor, of New York, on behalf ef the National tterman iiepnblictm conven­ tion. recently in session in Cincinnati, pre­ sented a series of resolutions, three of which he desired to call particular attention, the first advocating, in view of the recent decision of the Supreme court of the United States, de­ claring State legislation on the subject of the protection of immigration unconstitutional. that tho national Government legislate on the subject: secondly, demanding a revision of the treaties between the foreign Governments, affecting naturalization ; and, thirdly, demand­ ing ron-sectarian schools, and the taxation of ehurch property, as recommended by the Presi­ dent of the United States in his message. The resolutions were referred to the Com­ mittee on Resolutions, Mr. Mason, of New York, offered the follow­ ing preamble and resolution: WHEREAS, We still remember with gratitude the eervicee of the loyal women of our country during the late war. their devotion in the hospitals of the North, and their fidelity to the Union iu many of "the disputed districts of the South; and. WHEREAS, The Republican party has always Advocated the extension of human freedom; there­ fore, Resolved, That we favor the bestowal of equal, -civil, and political rights on all loyal citizens of the United States, without regard to sex. They were received with great laughter and applause. George William Curtis, of New York--I hold in my hand an address of the Republican Re­ form party of the city of Ntw York, which I have been requested to lay before this con­ vention, and to ask that it he read. I there­ fore move that the address which I have the honor to submit be now read to the conven­ tion. The Chair--Is there > any objection to the reading of the address ? Objection was made by a delegate from South Carolina. The Chair--Objection is made. General cries of "Read it." The objecting delegate withdrew his objec­ tion, and the Chair asked if there was any fur- ther objection to its reading. Objection was made by delegates from Louis­ iana and Delaware. The Chair then put the question whether the address should be read, and the motion was carried by a decision of the majority. Cries of "Take the platform," " Go forward to the platform." Mr. Curtis then proceeded to ¥ead the ad­ dress and resolutions of June 6, which had already been published in the papers. The last resolution is an indorsement of Bristow. A delegate from Missouri--I move that the dooument just read by the gentleman be refer­ red to the Committee on Resolutions without debate. A delegate from Montana--I desire to amend that motion. I move that tho address be adopted as the sense of this convention. [Cries of "No! no!") The Chairman--It is referred to the Com­ mittee on Resolutions without debate. A delegate from Maryland--As none of the committees are now ready to report, I move that the convention take a recess until 4 o'clock. [Criesof "No! no!"] The question was put, but the ^motion was •not agreed to. Loud calls were then made for Senator John A. Logan. Mr. Pierce, of Massachusetts--I move that all addresses, memorials, and resolutions be referred to the Committee on Resolutions with­ out reading and without debate. The motion was agreed to. After listening to speeches by Senator Lagan, Gen. Hawley, Gov. Noyes, Rev. H. H. Garnett, .(colored) of New York, Gov. Howard, and Fred Douglass, the convention again got down to business. The Chair--The first business now in order, and the only business, is to surrender the chair to the permanent Chairman named by the Com­ mittee on Organization. The Chair therefore names Messrs. Orton, of New York, Downing, of Iowa, and McCormick, of Arizona, as a com­ mittee to conduct the permanent Chairman to the platform. Mr. McPherson came forward, accompanied by the escort, and was greeted with cheers. The retiring uiiairman said: " I take pleasure in introducing as your permanent President ihe Hon. 21cri-0ia0n, of Fcnr^ylxaida." ^Cheers.] Mr. McPherson spoke as follows: GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVKWTIOH : No one of you knows better than myself how entirely un­ worthy I am of this high honor. It has come to me not only unsought, but with a feeling of absolute and uncontrollable surprise, but I have been reared in the school of duty, and in the politics of Penn­ sylvania it is a fundamental doctrine that every Republican shall do his whole duty [applause], and therefore I am here to accept this honor tendered by your committee, and ratified by yourselves, as .an honor tendered to the great old Com­ monwealth which has sent me as one of ts delegates to this convention. Since 1858, in no one of the great contests has she ever f alter­ ed [applause], and in this Centennial convention she has turned an inflexible, defiant face to the enemy. She says: No truce with treason, malig­ nity, and everything that is not national. [Cheers.] 8he has determined to roll up for the nominees of Hayes , Hartranft Jewell WhceJar............. SBOOXI> BALLOT. 298! Hayes;.......,....,, 114 Hartranft........... 111 Wheeler.. ........... #3]Wartiburne TRIED BALLOT. 15ayes......'. ......... <J7 Morton..........!....113. Wheeler..... 9 Wftshburne 1 ...... AS 108 293 .123 . . . . . 9 0 «P FOUBTH BALLOT. «......292iHayes.. •-r"""*"" • • .;12fs|Morton.' .iuo OaMsling Ml Wheeler-. 2 Htetranft.i.>..v,.-... 7I|WashUmtne........... :i FIFTH BALLOT. Blaine. 2881 Hartranft.......7a Bristow. Ill Kaves 104 Morton.......... 9£ wheeler 3 Conkling TO| Washburne..*., 3 SIXTH bai.los^* Blaine 80ft I Hayes u# B'totow Ill Morton 89 Conkling 91 Wheeler 9 Hartranft 20| Washbone 4 Whfin ths roll 7fnS called for the geTsnth ballot, it was evident that the crisis had come, and that it was now a choice between Hayes and Blaine. Then came the disagreeable necessity of withdrawing favorite candidates. Blaine's strength was increasing among the Southern delegates, and the Indiana delega­ tion held a hurried consultation in a committee room, when it was determined to transfer their votes to Hayes. The call progressed, and when Kentucky was reached Gen. Harlan withdrew the name of Mr. Bristow, at the same time returning thanks to the States that had supported him, aftd .an­ nounced the solid vote of Kentucky for Hayes. At this stage the New Yorkers retired for con­ sultation. While they were absent Mississippi voted solid for Hayes, Nevada ditto, South Carolina ditto, each followed by prolonged ap­ plause. New York returned and cast sixty-one votes for Haves and nine for Blaine. Ohio, of course, voted for Hayes, and Pennsylvania was divided--thirty for Blaino and twenty- eight for Hayes. This determined tho hesitating and weavering delegates of South Carolina, Tennesseo, Texas, and the two Virginias to make Hayes their candidate. 'Hie remainder of the roll was called, and the result announced that Gov. Hayes, of Ohio, had received 884 votes, Blaine 351 votes, Bristow 21 votes, and the great struggle was over. When the vote was announced, Mr. Frye, of Maine, moved that the nominated be made unanimous, which was carried amid great en­ thusiasm. The convention then proceeded to ballot for candidates for tho Vice-presidency, and the following gentlemen were put in nomina­ tion : wm. A. Wheeler, of New York; Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut; Stewart L. Woodford, of New York; Joseph R. Haw­ ley, of Connecticut, and P. T. Frelinghny- sen, of New Jersey. The call of the roll proceeded rather languidly. Half a dozen men cast the votes of heavy delegations, and the crowd grew thin. When Tennessee had been reached Mr. Wheeler had received over 300 votes, and it was apparent that he was nominated. Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, withdrew the name of Mr. Jewell, and moved that Mr. Wheeler's nomination be made unani­ mous, which was accordingly done. Four yearn ago all the intw--t in th$ fight for Vice-president, and the members of the convention remained in their seats to the close. ThiB time the second oflioe of the Government was given away almost without a contest. The National Committee was selected and announced, as follows: Jerry Haralson, Selma, Ala.; Powell Clayton, Arkansas; George C. Gorham, California; Mar­ shall Jewell. Connecticut; Samuel M. Harrington, Delaware ; William J. Purman, Florida ; James G. Devol, Georgia; James P. Boot, Illinois; Will Cumback, Indiana; John Y. Stone. Iowa: John H. Martin, Kansas; William C. Goodloe, Kentucky; V. B. L. Pinchback, Louisiana; William P. Frye, Maine; Charles C. Fulton, Maryland; George F. Hoar, Massachusetts ; Zachariah Chand­ ler, Michigan ; John T. Averill, Minnesota; G. M. Buchanan, Mississippi; Chauucey I. Filley, Mis­ souri ; L. W. Oshorn, Nebraska ; John P. Jones, Ne­ vada ; George A. Halsey,New Jersey ; A. B. Cornell, New York; Thomas B. Keogh, North Carolina; A. T. Wikoff, Ohio; H. W. Scott, Oregon; Nelson W. Aldridge, Pennsylvania; John J. Patter­ son, South Carolina ; William Rule, Tennes­ see ; M. S. Colburn, Vermont; J. D. Sener, Vir­ ginia; John W. Mason, Grafton, West Virginia; Elihu Euos, Wisconsin ; Newton Edmunds, Dako­ ta ; Sayles J.' Bowen, District of Columbia : Thomas Donaldson, Idaho: A. H. Beattie, Montaua; Stephen B. Slkuis, New Mcsico; John B» Mclsride, ; Orange Jacobs, Washington; Joseph M. Cary, Wyoming; William E. Chandler, New Hampshire. After the usual resolutions of thanks, etc., th« uoav^ntion ad jonrned. AGRICULTURAL ASD DOMESTIC. The Old Home With Father awl Mother. There's one hallowed place in Whe« we ever feel free from ill_!™fl* Where the sweet, holy hush of the twilight • ' seem* a whisper of "Peace be Rtill » ? fond mother's kind, gentle teadtiBM Fall tovlngly then on °ur ears, *3: .* ££?lrB (kj,?r "miIe affection la a balm for all Borrows and tears ^ K * MwttMOteV Mrfhlr. e "ld Home. "Kb Father and 8T!2l£l?,w? ̂ of thp way* -r- i L i s robms that flit the wSr r,n<l suns.'?, We think its broa<l highway the best; So we leave a good-by with the homeJtead, And fly out where gaiety sings. But we find there s a world full of danger For poor little unfledged wings. But one path seems brighter to us than another-- The path thatleadg homeward to Fatherand Mother. The years as they come up to meet us. May furrow our brews with their ca>*. Btrt they cannot blot out from our meinoBr The touch of a mother's kiss there* An^tho'Time may resell out his old'ftngsj*, \rcsvc in our hair siiver thread. Yet he never can mar our first blessing-- A father s dear hand on our head. * what? 8ttU above every other, ^^ Mother 0,d Homo, with Father and --Mrs. Baltic F. Bell. Cape Diamonds* Since Maich, 1867, when the first dia­ mond was found at the Gape, it is esti­ mated that diamonds to the value of twelve million pounds sterling have been brought away from there. As stated by Prof. Tenuaut, of London, about ten per cent, of the Cape diamonds may be clas­ sified as of the first quality, fifteen per cent, of the second, and twenty of the third. The remainder, under the name of bort, is ̂ employed for cutting dia­ monds and for the various economic pur­ poses by ̂the lapidary, the engineer for rock drilling, and so on. Many dia­ monds containing specks and cavities can be manipulated by skilled workmen acquainted with the cleavage, who are able to remove these blemishes. Some two _ hundred years since the work of cutting and polishing diamonds was principally done in England; since then this has been mostly carried on in Hol­ land, but the English stonecutters seem now likely to regain their early reputa­ tion. One stone from South Africa, de­ scribed by Prof, Tennont, weighed in its original condition 112 carats; it has been cut into a brilliant weighing sixty- six carats, and tliiss it is stated, exceeds C.D people tor services in war and in peace. - ~'he resolution in regard to Mongoli&n/jm- migf&tion gave rise to considerable discuaaion, bnt was finally adopted. The Chair--The question now recurs on the adoption of the financial resolution to which the minority of the committee, the Hon. Edwin James, of Texas, offers a substitute, as follows: Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress |o pro­ vide measures for carrying out the provisions of what is termed the Resumption act of Congress, to the end that resumption of specie payments at the time fixed by said act cannot be further delayed. After some discussion, the question was put on the adoption of the substitute, and it was rejected by a decided majority. * The whole platform, an reported by the com­ mittee, was then declared adopted. The chair announced that the next business in order was the nomination of a candidate for Pres'dent of the United States. After two or three motions to adjourn had been put and rejected, a delegate from New thousand pounds sterling.--Harper. A HAN, his wife, and their four chil­ dren, tried to drown themselves together in St. Louis, but were rescued by a boat­ man. They were destitute, and the parents, after a deliberate discussion of the subject, had decided upon suicide. The oldest of the children, a girl of thir­ teen, had acquiesced ih that determina­ tion, but the younger ones did not seem to comprehend the importance of the event. • ELECTRICITY has replaced gas in light­ ing a railroad depot in Paris, and the ex­ periment is satisfactory as to practicabil­ ity and cheapness. Around the Farm. as it is usually found tinder old wooa-piles, is always worth spread- mg upon cultivated fields, or if shoveled oyer driogl. and freed from coarse material, makes a valuable absorbent for the stables. How ARE the cellars--have they been cleared of vegetables and all rubbish, such as beards, barrels and boxes? The health of the household depends much on having pure air underneath the rooms. Detroit Tribune. A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Parmer states that he kept a plum tree from curcnlioe by sprinkling the ground un­ der the tree with corn meal. This in­ duced the chickens to scratch wad search. The meal was strewn every morning from the time the trees blos­ somed, until the fruit was large enough to be out of danger. The consequence was that fowls picked tip the curculios with the meal, and the tree, being saved from the presence of the insects, was wonderfully fruitful. THE introduction within the last few years of improved drying-machines h<m given impetus to branches of farming long neglected. Pumpkins well dried and packed bring a good price, and corn-fields will this season have the old- fashioned look as to vines and pump* kins. The ease with which corn is dried for market, with the improved appli­ ances, turns attention to sweet corn as a profitable crop, and much more of tl>i« will be planted than in previous years. --Chicago Tribune. SHOULD wasps or robber bees attack a hive, the only plan is to narrow the en­ trance, so that only one or two bees can pass at the same time; this enables them the better to defend their gates and gen­ erally to hold their own against all in­ vaders. A very Bimple and easy plan of doing this is to saturate a piece of wool­ en rag with spirits of turpentine, and put it into the on trance of the nest; leave it there for the night and the next morning every wasp will be dead. A wasp's nest, when removed unbroken, is very extraordinary and beautiful in its construction, and a curiosity quite worthy of preservation. IT is a good plan to make boxes, say twelve inches square and eight inches high, without bottom or top; these placed over the cucumber or melon hills, #nd covered with glass, give»an impetus mi the pl*nt eovly ia the reason that nothing short of a hot-bed will eff jet If very early, place a little fresh mannre around these boxes to keep the contents warm. It is astonishing what effect this simple contrivance will produce; and not only is it Valuable for protection from the cold weather, but it is equally valuable as a protection from the melon bugs and other predatory insects that seem to watch for our choicest esculents. --N. Y. Tribune. NEST-BOXBS should be movable, so that after hatching, and occasionally when used only for laying, they may be conveniently cleaned. One way is to whitewash them; but another, preferred by some, is to kindle a fire inside and char them. This process will effectually destroy vermin and their larvie, and will thoroughly purify the nest by leaving a coating of charcoal inside. This sub­ stance is one of the best antiseptics, and a perfect deodorizer. Boxes made of seven eighths staff--pine, hemlock, or spruce--will outlast a number of these purifications by fire, as the process tends to preserve the wood.--Botton Culti­ vator. MOTHERLESS YOUNG ANIMATJS.--How. to mother motherless young animala-- foals, calves, or lambs: Bub the palm of the hand full of gin on the nose and mouth of the dam; rub a little of the same bottle along the back of the young animal to be adopted, place them to- ?ether, and the relationship is complete, he advantage of this simple process will be complete to those who have to do with long-wooled sheep, where, as is fre­ quently the case, a ewe diest leaves a pair of fine . lambs, while probably an­ other awe loses her lambs, when ex­ change erf maternal affection is instantly brought about by the gin, to the saving and successful rearing of what oth­ erwise would be two troublesome pets at best. When a ewe has three lambs and another ewe one, the disparity can be effectually remedied in the same manner. About the House. NICE CHEAP PUDDING.--One quart of milk ; four tablespoonfuls of flour ; four eggs ; six tablespoonfuls of sugar ; nut­ meg. Steam three-fourths of an hour. A WRITER in Harper's Bazar says: To get and retain beautiful hair you must attend to daily brushing it, occa­ sionally washing it, and periodically trimming it, and striving at all timwi to keep the general health up to the aver­ age. BACHEXIOR'S LOAF.--Four eggs, beat yelks and whites separately; one r^uart warm milk; add one-fourth of a pound of butter. Stir in one pint of corn meal and add the eggs after they are well beaten. Bake one-half hour in a mod­ erately hot oven. APPIIE PIES.--Take nice tart apples-- Spitzenbergs are best, although pippins, greenings, russets, etc., are excellent. lice them ; fill the under crust an inch thick ; sprinkle water over them ; add a spoonful or two of water ; cover with a thin crust, and bake three-fourths of an hour in a moderate oven. SPONGE CAKE.--Ten ounces of flour, ! one pound of powdered sugar* Stir the yelks and sugar together, beat the whites t# a stiff froth, grate the rind |of one large fresh lemon, and add the juice while mixing; a little salt. Mix all as quicklv as possible, not stirring too long, and instantly put into a mod­ erately hot oven. PO«KETBOOK ROLM.--Take one tea­ cup yeast, one pint new milk, one egg well beaten, three tablespoons sugar, one-half cup lard. Flour stiff enough to roll out; then put in a warm place to rise. When light, roll into a sheet, spread butter as for pastry, double it over and cut with a round lid. Bake in moderate oven. CENTENNIAL BISCUIT.--M»1TA good corn mush, just as if you were croinc to eat it with milk. When it is lukewarm, take a quart of it, work in flour enough to make a stiff dough, make it into bis­ cuits, put in your bake pan and set in a warm place over night; bake in a very hot oven, and you have the best and sweetest biscuits you ever ate. TEat while hot for breakfast. CABBAGE SALAD.--One small cabbage or a half of a large one ; one cup crf yine- gar ; twelve teaspoons salt; one|ol pep­ per ; one of mustard; six tablespoons sweet milk ; two full tablespoons melted butter ; one egg : a little sugar may be added if you like ii Chop the cabbage fine, and scald with vinegar and spices; add the milk and eggs last, and bring all to a boil, though do not let it boil. Serve hot or cold. WHEN elderberries are dried they are much superior in flavor to fresh or can- ned ones. To make pies, the dried ber­ ries should be soaked over night and cooked in the same waters having v>lenfrv of it, sweetened well and thickened. Then let them cool. Prepare the crust and put in the elderberries and a spoon­ ful of vinegar and a teaspoon fnl of lemon extract to each pie. Bake with two crusts. MUSCLE. C»pt. Burnaby's Great Strength. Among many exploits that are chron­ icled of Fred Burnaby, the exception­ ally strong English guardsman, it is related that when he was Times corres­ pondent at the Carlist headquarters, he captivated the heart of Don Carlos by throwing a donkey over the garden wall of a convent. The animal fell among the nuns, who naturally conjectured it to be the evil one, a surmise which was for the moment strengthened by the tremendous braying of the creature and the rapid vibration of his ears, which gave its head the look of a windmill. Returning to England after getting tired of the hardships of the Carlist head­ quarters, he took up the study of Rus­ sian and Arabic, doubtless with some reference to his contemplated eastern journeying. In the interval between his return and his winter journey to theOxus he made a dash into Central Africa to lurci uuiuuu Of OUUllcJf, juuiIltJV- ing as far as the Sobat river, where he met the former. It was at this place that he lifted a hippopotamus on a wager, exciting the natives to such a degree that he was immediately proclaimed king of one of the most warlike tribes of the in­ terior, the existing sovereign having his hat promptly mashed over his eyes and his person thrown into the river. Capt. Burnaby had some difficulty in convinc­ ing his new subjects that he declined the honor thus unexpectedly thrust upon him, but he finally did so, whereupon they fislied out their old monarch, rein- flated his hat, and set him on his throne again, dripping like an otter. He re­ turned on a camel across the Berber desert, giving the amazed Arabs oc­ casional exhibitions of his strength. At Korosko, in the presence of a great num­ ber of sheiks, he broke in two the musket of the oldest and most powerful of those chieftains which had been handed him to experiment on ; but instead of admiring the feat, the sordid Arabs pronounced it black art, and insisted on payment for the ruined weapon. This proposition was finally acceded to, the captain telling down the stipulated number of ooins, twisting the last one asunder as if it had been a macaroon. He desired to retain a broken half of this as a souvenir, but the penurious sheik refused, insisting stubbornly on both moieties. The Arabs thought their visitor possessed, find seemed joyful at his departure. His iliiivan jouriu,?, just llnisii&l, winds up the tail of his achievements and brings him back to the metropolis and the cav­ alry barrack a full-grown social lion of the smaller sort, who will be heard of and seen in all the fashionable salons of the season, but who by the next will very likely have shed his claws and mane and relapsed into an enormous and prema­ turely worn-out sub officer of the cavaky service, with little of achievement to fall back upon, except a few daring and fool­ hardy escapades, undertaken -"nth no sufficient purpose, and carried through with the force ©f a restless and uneasy vanity which would rather astonish the world than serve it. This greatly jgifted young man seems to have overdone every­ thing, and it will be a wonder if he does not learn that he has wasted his rich patrimony of strength and vigor almost before he arrived at its full inheri­ tance. A "Company Suit." A writer on "Old Times in Califor­ nia," in the New York Sun, relates the following : " When I lived at Indian Bar, after it had been ravaged by the copper fever, there was but one good suit of clothes in camp. It was a com pany suit. One man owned the boots, another the trowsers, another the vest, another the coat. When any one wished to attend a lawsuit, a funeral or a con­ vention at Sonora, the county seat, he would start from his own cabin without being much encumbered with clothes, go to the boot owner, put on the boots, thence to the trowsers proprietor and draw on the trowsers, thence to the vest owner, put on the vest, lastly to the coat man, put on that coat, and then he would walk away the only well-dressed man in Indian Bar City." All Sorts. MASK TWAA has taken to KENTUCKY is eighty-four years old a State. FIVE thousand dollars rent for a oo#* tage at Newport. A MAD womaa, named AMM* Bad-> cliffe, claiming to be a Countees of Der| wentwater, has been turned out of her ; house in England. | DOM PEDRO has given a firm in New Haven, Conn., an order for ten lawn, mowing machines, to be faJr«n to BrasaS,-,' v as models. feK-""- THE Philadelphia Common Council isj§* ^ trying to compel the removal of telegraph ' poles from the streets, and the laying of * wires underground. | THE fern which lawyers get from people * who don't know any better than lo quar- j relin court, annually amount to^5^00,-s » 000 in the United States. 1 ^ IT is gratifying tolearn that Gov. F' die has appointed Auxencius Maria Pina1 Venezuela Hildreth Dickerson, of Salem, ^ N. J., to be a notary public. * * a . A GUARDIAN was appointed for a woman in Bridgeport, and she illustrated the dangers and hardships of his office by * whipping him in the court room. • - ̂ THIS Hoyal Theater of Munich has Is- sued an edict forbidding actors who die i, k - on the stage to come before the curtain > and bow " before the close of the play." ^ ' IT is thirty-six years since Fanny s, Elssler made her first appearance in the United States at the Park theater in New f York. She still lives in the enjoyment of excellent health. HENRY WEU»MAN, a rider in a circus, cruelly whipped his horse in Gnat Bar- rington, Mass., because it would not readily learn a trick. He was sent to jail for six months. A NEWFOBT (R. L) man refused, the other day, to admit a younger brother to the funeral of another brother, and there was a mild scrimmage before the funeral was allowed to go on. . IN public speaking, a low voice, utter- ing each word and syllable with a clear- cut" enunciation, is more distantly and distinctly heard than a tone of thunder, without a break in a whole sentence. BYRON MOAUIJTFE, of Waterbury, Conn., carried beer in his stomach so un­ steadily that he fell on the bottle, which he held in his hand, cut his jugular vein on the broken glass, and bled to death. IT is asserted by an eminent English physician that by the timely administra­ tion of the hypophospliites of lime or soda, consumption can be stamped out as thoroughly as small-pox by vaccina­ tion. THE Somerset (Ky.) Reporter says: " Samuel Pollard, charged with attempt­ ing to smother his wife to death, had his examining trial last Saturday, and was acquitted, it appearing evident that the wife had the nightmare." THE St. Louis Republican, oonfound- ing Isaac Watts and Sir Isaac Newton, says with tho gravity of an owl: " Isaac Watts is one of the Centennial judges. He'll have a chance to locate precisely the center of gravity--among the Quak­ ers. THE following appealed in the London Guardian: A widow, a great invalid f wishes to place two of her daughters, aged twelve and thirteen years, under the charge of a lady who would, when necessary, administer the birch rod, as they are extremely troublesome. Terms liberal. Address . MIKE LANGUEY was a stiokler for good it.. '!•: • order in the variety theater widest h# managed in Denison, Texas. One night several spectators persistently * stood when he told them to be seated. He went out, got a gun, and returned v with the presumed intention of firing upon them; but he himself wasshot and . killed. 7 AN old-fashioned robbery by high­ waymen was attempted only a few miles from St. Louis. Charles Buck, while riding on horseback at night, was as- sailed by three men, who demanded his money or his life. They took Ms life without the money, for they shot him as he rode away, and he subsequent­ ly died of the wound. FOUK months ago a party of divers started from San Francisco to recover treasure from the steamer Golden Gate, which was wrecked in 1861 off the coast; of Mexico, and from wMoli $771,000 were raised in letii. Sand had buried the vessel so deep iiuii. ihey- could • /' rcach any of th3 $4.00,000 winch are sup­ posed to be still there. AN extraordinary incident of a coal-oil accident is reported at Mewport, Ky. A young lady dropped a lamp, whioh ex- • ploded and burned her badly. The ao» . count says : " After Miss Jones" injuries h a d b e e n d r e s s t e d i n o i l a n d c o t t o n , a n d ' ' most of the persons had left, Mr. Ben 'rt , Britton picked up what he supposed to be her gloves. As they were very stiff , they were examined and found to be the akin of her hands and wrists, with the nails, which she had rubbeoff in there frantic attempts to quenchd he flams." A DECKED dory is nearly ready for sea at Gloucester, Mass., in whioh a single seaman proposes to cross the Atlantic. The boat is fifteen feet long, five and one-half feet wide, and two and one- half feet deep, and is sioop-rigged. Her deck is laid with a view of saving rain­ water. The sailor is a foreigner. He intends to sail by night and to sleep by day, because vessels will not be likely to run his dory down in daylight. At night he calculates to look out fer him­ self, and keep out of ham's wtiy, if • i i wt THE lawyers of Ireland are indignant at a barrister who advertises in the newspapers. The ancient etiquette of the legal, or of the medical, profes­ sion is to starve rather than publish one's business in the same column with announcements |of dry goods and gro­ ceries. A tteftUonftu. A gentleman is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Whioh of us can point out many such in lus circle--men whose aims are generous; whose truth is constant and elevated ; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal, manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners, but of gen­ tlemen, how manyf Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make his list-- Thackeray. THIS is the situation in Dallas, Ttfxas, according to the local paper: "The gentle snap of the frolicsome revolver is becoming quite promiscuous, and the gentle buzz of the bullet rivals the bee that bumbleth and the mosquito thai hummeth." V"S.