Rutland Independent from Rutland, Vermont • 4

THE RUTLAND INDEPENDENT, MAR 18," 1870 drank liquor with me in Galena 1 the former managers of die Rutland caring to the public what huso of the financier who would postpone be chosen, and a new code of laws fined, with few exceptions exclusively to the United States courts bnt the judgment awardidg'1 citizenships to the applicant is not to take effect till six months after it is ren the brightness of which shall grow brighter and more beautiful with the lapse of endless ages. Jordan, river of Earth and Heaven, Thou ah alt never be forgotten. So long as angels sing, the story of the crossing of Jordan shall be told For God has said, that heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one jot or tittle of his word shall pass away. crraaea aoaiw- Messrs Editors By yoir per mission the attention of the Rutland champion of "Woman's Rights," Rev. Mr.

Brigham is respectfully called, to the account of election day at Fort Edward N. published in the Fort Edward Record. Thelfollow-ing is a copy Election Pat. Election for town officer was held Tuesday the 1st inst. vote was polled, and some ef the knock-down drag-out scenes were very enlivening, and showed op to perfection the elevated tone and moral' sentiment of some of our cituens.

Whiskey was only tolerably free, but so powerful was it that about noon the first knock-down, a gallant assault upon a finely-drawn, kick-hive iu-tbe bead affair, came to pass. We advise no man to be a cripple in Fort Edward about election and if ho. must te, why, let him stay at home, lest lie be led by bad liquor or the promptings of shekels, (to express his mind more freely, than is proper, aad in such ease, woe be unto him! The chief contest were upon supervisor and collector, and money was i freely spent emewhere. A Nash (Dem.) supervisor, and H. Stonghton, (Rep.) collector, ran ahead of their tickets, and were elected by flattering majorities.

Would you Mr. Brigliam invite women to go where it is unsafe for who ha; en to be cripples? I have just ieen reading, au extract from your, speech in i Danby, iu which I find the following paragraph. "It was designed that men; and wdmea'j should. go hand Ha hand, through the worl which means I suppose, that whatever. is fitting for a man to do, is fitting for a woman, they should go to the polls aad vote Ogether, wash dishes together, together through the' day, darn stockiugs together in the if a man happens to be a farmer, it will be his wifes especial privilege to clean out the stable, as well as to clear away the oflal, and other mat -ler( from the -bare 'and out-buildings, In the I am afraid when this management takes place, however fit woman may be for the or however pure she may be to commence, she will "smell strong of the barn," after working at it awhile, just the same as men do? beg your pardon but this is the only comparison I can make to Fe male Suffrage Women instead of purifying the mass of political corruption will tainted with it, or if woman eould make etter laws, who would be found to carry them into exeoutioo.

Men do not in all cases enforce the laws they make themselves. They do not stop the tale of ardent poison here in Rut land, and men and women are both seeu' intoxicated occasionally, and as for "taxation without representation' gl would like to inquire if women will be required to pay a poll when allowed to vote? and will they vote to tax cats to balance the dog law? for I often hear people owning dogs complain because their neighbors cats are not taxed, besides ooly think how much more it will cost to get into office whe'u the vote of the women is. to be paid for, as well as menu It will take more whiskey too, to pass round the crowd in honor of the candidates, and election at Fort Edward will be enlivened by the shrieks of women in the efiray. Now honestly, Mr. Brigham don't you tbiuK it would te oetter to auow only educated men to vote, and ex clude habitual LliTHIB Lit.

tixnu maixiMSAVsa. I it right and good policy for the town vf Rutland to tax Railroad at the resent time? I belitv Rutland ha bsee enriched by railroads tea (ar greater extent than any othtr town In the Stale, and cannot afford te be the list to strike the blow and act an example which evsry ether town on th He of our roads would feel iutiSd In following. For a long eerier of years' tlie Rutland and Burlington Road wa managed by the Cheshire Road and Hi officers, in th Interest of tb latter Road, which I tit-oatsd la another Stat and during all me year was aot taisd. A soon a th Road easts under the control of the present manager, a large car shop was la er town, ana eunr important lmpreJst mad, Involving a large Increase la th number of resident sjtoaieei bmldlaff aad repairing tnginss and. cars, to' that the avartg xpendltaret a ear Iowa sxatteU twee ty-tf thousand dollar psr month.

This xftadrtare of tare hundred) thousand dollars pet enngm eurmidit, make a burg eosa eaeital le fauiUuks la basin-rM of awr tow. Batiaaa au teea eerielwd by railroad (by thedevtlopaMntef various mineral tod ether rttoarcw,) te a stent of at least a quarter ef million ef dollar pr annual, while tb cenlul lave sled la th mad ha as yet relwd ae rttaruii for this shall we now tu the ftoftif of th roads and thu discriminate la favor ef less inau uirw years ago. I turned and, looking him full in the said 'Ymi are a liar." Said he, 'j can prove it. I said agaiu, -You are a liar, aiiw moment he said 4 Why, Gough, you know y0Ii drank with me, and asked not to tell of it. I then said, Do yon think I would drink with and make a coafideut of such a thing as you He then clenched his fiat and with a torrent of curses struci me, cutting my lip agaiust my teeth.

My mouth filled with blood I gpit it out and looked him in the face for a moment, when ho turned away, and I went up stairs." Prices or Labou Last Ykab The average of farm laborers in this State last year, was, per month for the year without board, $21,40 per month for the season without board $39,00 per month for the season with board, $27,28. From the monthly report of the Department of Agriculture, for January we find that the average rate of wajes of farm hands ner dav in this State in 1869, was? Per day for transient service in harvest, without board. $2.46 Dr dav with board. per day for transient service other than in harvest, without board with board, $1,28. The Frankino PBivitBOB.The Postmaster General during the month' of Januury, as snown oy return! from 400 post ifhces 667,000 free letters, the postage upon which would have amounted to $117,400, and 846,000 cf printed matter costing $42,300 sent through mails.

He estimates the postage on franked matter if returns from ail post office had been receiv-ad, would have been over $200,000 for last month or $2,400,000 for th. current year. He also says that owing to the agitatiou on the subject that sate ot stamps and stamped envelopes for January '70 over the corresDondin! mouth of '69 has in- created $311,830. Th Coal Tbadi. The Maueh Chunk Coal Gated expresses the opiuion that prices touched bottom in the cranio sale of last week.

The decline has led to a partial suspension of operations in the Lehigh coal region, which may become general. But whether a prolonged aud general suspensiou occurs or not, the market will be eased and prices must advance. Coal caonot be sold at cuurent rates at a profit, and operators are becoming tired of work ing for nothing. In view of the prospects of an interruption in production dealers are inclined to hold off for au advance and look for bet ter prices. Coal will certainly be cheaper this years than it was last, but thit winter't prices are no criter ion from which to estimate those of the coming spring and summir.

i Thu Dcclihb in Gold. A York telegram tays that the fall in gold has nearly demoralized all Wall street, aud operators are preparing for the crash, which they believe inevitable. Small operators will, if the downward tendency is continued, go by the board, a fate which but few outside of their own clique will regret. People are already discounting specie payments in advance. Silver has again made its appearance as a circulating medium in commercial circles.

It i stated that the men whose invest ments in gold iu days gone, aggre gated millions, are now declining to purchase more than is actually necessary to meet their obligations. Tim nrniect of a savin? of thirtv- CJ five minutes between New York and Philadelphia by means of a railroad bridge, from the Battery to Stateu Island hat got into a bill before the New York Assembly. The bridge is to be 23,000 feet long, running on piles over the shallow water along the New Jersey coast. The New York aud Brook lyn Bridge, the proposed tunnel under the Hudion to Jersey City, indicate that every disadvastage of communication between the Great Metropolis and the outside world, which human ingenuity and recourse can master, it to be overcome. Whim recently returning from Newborn, K.

to New York, the crew of the ship Louisa Moore discovered a brig in a sinking cenditiou and abandoned. The latter was taken in tow, and brought to New York, and found to coutain 4500 bags of coffee. There were fiv feet of water in the hold, which had led to the abandonment of the vessel. Tht cargo wat divided among tl" crew of the Louisa Moore an I told, yielding $25,000 apiece to them. ri Scene ix Syracuse, N.

Court. Lawyer How do you identify this handkerchief? Witnesi by its general appearance and the fact that I have others like it. Council Thafa no proof 5 far I have pt one just like it in my pocket. Witness I don't doubt that at I more than one of the nme sort A dinar Lioirr. Hou.

Cw M. Clay is introducing the "porpf'-ual candle," a Russian invention, by which a light equal to one and one-half sperm can diet may bo obtainni at the coet of one cent for twr hours. The fluid it called Terrani. -A project before the California Legislature, for a twamp In' drainage canal in the Sacrame" Vtlleyfto cost 14,000,000, the bi to littie bondt for the amount, wa paylhtumeirnmatoxonrtclnm' id7 lands. Th.

Umd. amount to 800,000 acret. The pln Is not favored by tht prett. long been a necessity Passenger and freight tar ills have already been materially reduced, and. there is every reason for believing that the new management will so conduct the road as to meet the wants of the entire community.

The business offices have all been removed from Rutland to New and new officers appointed throughout. I I The Directors of the road, and other gentlemen intimately interested in its prosperity, passed over the line last week, spending a day or two in Rutland, and there is every reason for entertaining the opinion that our railroad matters are now approaching a successful, satisfactory and permanent solution. Bennington Banner. i i WHAT HIXDKBta JtaWUJfl- XIOM. Suppose Congress should to-morrow pass a proper Funding bill as it should have done two months' ago and, that the Secretary of the Treasury, being authorized to fund any part of the National Debt at his discretion, should advertise a sew Loan or Consol, offering to take either Greenbacks) or Coin in pay ment of subscription thereto, who does not see that this would at ouce reduce our verse Currencies to par very nearly eo? The Green backs, bein receivable at par tor the new bonds, would be worth iu coin from 95 to 100 cents per dollar, as the new Loan or Consol should be popular and rapidly taken or the contrary but all possibility of creating a disparity between them of even ten per cent, would be "goue where the woodbine twineth henceforth and evermore.

Sflppose, now, that Congress should make National Banking Free that is, should authorize any person or persons to establish a National Bank in auy part of the Union atid to issue National Bank notes therefrom, frovided that each Bank should make a deposit of not less than $100,000 of the newly authorized bonds te begin with, on which it should be supplied with three-fourths of the amount of its deposit in National Bank notes, and that all existing Banks should likewise be required to deposit $4 of the oew Consol for every (3 of their issues, why would not the Consol find an eager market and why would ntt the Currency expand or contract so as precisely to satisfy the requirements of business, be the same more or less? i We insist that there is no obsta cle to present and persistent Resumption, save only the prevalent repugnance thereto. 1 here is no lack of powers the. ouly lack is of will. Those who assert that the Bunks would break that failures would be universal, impeach the solvency of our people. We do not.

We hold the great mass of our banks and merchants solvent if any are not, uow is the time to ascertain and eliminate them. Expel the dead flies from the ointment so soon as possible. But in fact "the bitterness ot deatb is past. We have gone two-thirds of the way to Specie PapmenU since last Summer, and this without the help that a good Funding act would have given us. By sheer force of collecting the Revenue and reducing our Debt, this progress has been made.

Our Financial ability has been demonstrated. No one need be assured that a people who have paid all tie interest and a full thir tieth part of the principal ot its Debt within the first year of Gen'. Grant's Administration can pay the residue if it will. The interest on that Debt is fully Five Millions of Dollars less than it was one year ago. And.

now that we have proved our ability and onr honesty, it is neither necessary nor right that we should persist in paying six per cent, per annum on loans that we have now the right to redeem. We ought to fund these forthwith in a long bond at a lower rate ef interest that is, we ought to ppt such a bond on the market, and, so fast as we can sell it at par, devote the proceeds to the redemption of our Five-Twem ties. And we ought not to diminish essentially our Income till such redemption shall have been effected. The power to fund on our own terms is based on our ability to buy up and cancel some Millions each month, and on the fact that we do We deeply regret that there has been any talk of funding our Debt at a higher rate than four per payable quarterly the bonds untaxable principal and interest expressly in coin. Even though it had cost us Twenty Million' to fund Five Hundred Millions of onr Five-Twenties in such a we hold that it would have been a great economy to do so.

With Five Hundred Millions so funded in the course of 1870 we should have had. no difficulty in funding as much more in 1871, and an equal amount in 1872. That done, the total interest on our Debt, even though One Hundred Millions of our Greenbacks had run Consols, would henceforth be less than One Hundred Millions, whereat it is now One Hundred and Twenty Millions or over. There Is no parity between the case of a Government steadily reducing iu Debt each month that it seeking to iucreate ill Debt. Ooly ktep paying, and we may make our own terms with lenders.

We ought to have resumed at the close of We were less In debt then than we now are wa owe less now (whether abroad or to eaoh othet) than we shall do after three or four years more of inflation and The ancient, blockhead who waited r.for the river.to ran out before crossing, wat i type Resumption tiU we are ready for it The way to get ready is short and simple HCI fira Iff It is evident that prices are tend ing downward. The process is alow and unequal, aad subject to fluctuations, but a comparison of a whole range of articles with prices a year ago shows a steady movement down ward. Such a movement will in evitably cause losses and individual cases of hardship, and these have been increased by the interference of the Government with the value of gold. It is pleasant to read of a monthly reduction ot the public ueet. but we cannot help thinking that we should be making more substantial progress if the gold were allowed to accumulate in toe to De on band for a basis of circulation when we return to specie payments.

By the artificial cheapening of gold the first things of which the prices are reduced are those which we ex port, as we see in the case of bread stuff which are very low in the West while there bat been lets reduction iu the prices of many things which the farmers buy. Labor it always the last thing to advance ia value, and the first to decline. This is an axiom of political economy proved by experience. We already see it trntb at the present time. Strikes are made now not for increased pay, but against a reduction.

But it is not the reduction of nominal wages that is a hardship. The value of wages in the means of liviag is the real thing. Two dollars a day before the war, brought more comforts withia the reach of the mechanic, than three dollars do now. The steady employment of labor is of more importance, and this can ouly be secur ed by removing the disadvaatages under which industry labors in this country. We can build excellent ships in this country, but our are deserted because ships can be built cheaper in Englaud.

It is the same with many kinds of business, and production is discouraged and our imports are increased, rolling up a balance of trade against us which we pay in gold and bonds bearing gold interest. Tl downward tendency of prices, especially the price of labor, seems hard, to many, but it is the ouly road to a healthy condition of business on a solid basis. Resumption How Possible. Nothing can hasten resumption but the restoration of the proper proportion between the specie in hand and the amount of immediate demands upon the banks and the government. The banks in 1837 failed when specie was reduced to 13 1-2 per ceat.

upon their deposits. In 1857 they suspended when their specie was reduced to 13 per cent. in neither case did they resume uutil by contraction they had so reduced their circulation and increased their Bpecie that the proportion of the latter to the former was 33 per cent. What is the proportion of specie uow held? The government owes for greenbacks, fractional currency, and gold certificates tour hundred and twenty-five millions and holds ninety-five millions of gold The banks owe for their circulation three hundred millions, for their deposits five hundred and seventy millions and bold about twenty-five millions of specie. i In all government and banks, owe thirteen hundred millions payable in coin at soon as resumption is announced, and have but pne hundred and twenty millions in gold wherewith to meet their liabilities equal to nine and two-tenths (say, 9.2) per cent.

If. according to past experience, the requisite proportion of specie must be at least S3 per four hundred millions of gold would be needed. But even that amount would not secure permanent resump tion, which pan only be- effected by' a contraction of the currency to its natural limit, Without such a contraction, re sumption never has taken plac in this or any other country, and in the natsre of things never cnn.Lippin cott't Magazin. Income Tax Decisions. Cora missioner Delano has decided that State and Municipal taxes paid up on homestead are deductible from income'.

Ordinary repairs made on home stead are also deductible from in come. Iotorest paid on money invested in business or in real estate, from which ne income is derived, is not deductible from said income except as it may be offset against inferos! received or falling due to the tax. caver. If a mortgage on homestead were given to secure the payment of money which was invested in busiuess from which incomo waa derived, the iuterest paid thereon would be deductible from income. Where, the mortgage it given to secure the purchase price or any part thereof, interest paid thereon would be deduct iblt except, at above ttated, where it may be offset against interest or falling due.

i I If income were received from the rental of any portion of the mortgaged premises, a ratable, doduction of interest paid should be allowed. 'i'-7- Some important changes in the natnratiailion laws of the United States are comteraplnted by a bill i now before the House of A previous residence 'of threte years only instead of five, it to be required, and tht, noil jo of inttntipn it to be given ouly twenty dayt instead of two yoeat before making cititeat, however, to be con Koad, whore interests were not identified witaoun, aad auw in favor of ether eomnetinf road in our State 1 The Vermont Central is the great competing road as agauut eura. Inat road by its ehartar if exempt from taxation, and the menage of Got. Page, referred to by Hr. Dorr, in hia communication, assented to the juktice of ffnai taxation.

Is it fiud to tax one competing road tii othr is exempt? It well known that the present manager of the Rutland Road represent the interest of the see-and mortage bondholder. Our court have recently decreed payment of the firat mortage bond amounting with the interest to about two million of dollars, and this almott immediately after a lox of at lout one eighth of that (am from a diatrou freabet and while their everr effort i taxed to meet the difficulties of their position, there come another blow. I refer to the lea of the Ogdemburgh and Lake Champlain Railroad to the Central Road thai cutting off one ef the man important source of buune from the Rutland road. It is true that the combinatioa of the Central with the two important New Hampshire Road, in the lea ef the Ogdeniburgh Road, will ultimately tend to the benefit of the Rutland Reao, by aecewiatiag anion or coe aoiidatioa with the Cheshire ft Fitchbarg Road en the south, and the Grand Trunk with its' thousand miles of Track oa tb north, the latter Road earnestly moving in this direction. In the mean, time will our town discriminate as against our road and iu favor of the grasping Uentral and this at a time when the manager of the RutUnd Road are irrug-gling against auch a combination of advert circumstance, and thu erre to give countenance to the aault Maimt the chief manager of our road, to whoae enterprise and sagacitv we are so largely indebted for the high poiition we now occupy a the prominent town of the State.

I will not believe the citizen of our town will place themielve in a poiition to warrant the belief that they sympa thise with those asaaults or their author who raises shout ef triumph at any dis aster to the Rutland lioad, whether from the element ore combinatioa of competing roads. Pats. TUB HAltaLBIoT KXTESieiOS aVAIUMAS. The formal consolidation of the Lebanon Springs and Rutland Bennington Railroad Companies, which we have already mentioned, was authorized by acts of the New York and Vermont Legislatures. Due notice of the action taken was sent at once to the -Secretaries of State for Vermont and New York, and the union is thus formally consummated.

The title of the present corporation is the Harlem Extension Railroad Company, and the Board of Officers is as follows Augustus Schell, Presideut Robert J. Niveu, Vice President; J. C. Buckhout, Superintendent 0. Pinckney, General Freight Agent.

Directors-Cornelius Vanderbilt, Augustus Schell, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Horace F. Clark, Robert J. Niven, W.

II. Turnbull, Wm. Butler Duncan, A. A. Selover, Oliver Charlick, bam-uel J.

Tilden, New York E. J. Phelps, Burliugton H. H. Baxter, Rutland M.

J. Tilden, New Lebanon, N. Y. The office of the company is at Corner 14th Avenne and 26th street New York. The Western Vermont Railroad (now a part of the Harlem Extension) was built with the expectation that it was to connect with the Harlem road and form a direct line to New York, and the' first mortgage bonds were negotiated by parties in the Harlem interest.

The failure of Robert Schuyler preven ted the completion of the line through the Lebanon valley, and eur road was connected with the Troy Boston road by building the Troy Bennington road1 from the State line to Heotic Junction, and the whole line from Troy te Rutland was run for ten years by the Troy Boston company, they having a lease of the Western Vermont road from the first mortgage bondholders. On the 17th of January, 1867, the lease expired, and the Troy ds Boston company refused to connect with our road, for nearly a year and a half. 'From that timo until now there has been a "back up" connection of one train a day for local business only, no through passengers or freight were allowed to pass over the line upon any terms. Our people were compelled to "dig out" oi "dry up." With the assistants of Mr. Park and Commodore Vanderbilt the Lebanon Springs Railroad was completed, and commenced to run ou the 16th ef June, On the 15th of February, 1870, the Lebanon Springs aad the Weslern Vermont Railroads were consolidated, from Chatham 4 Cornen to Rutland, under the name of the Harlem Extension Railroad Com-pany as one line from New York to Rutland.

The President and Vice Presideut of the Harltm Extecslon Co. are gentlemen who have long been associated with Commodore Vanderbilt in his great railroad enterprises, and their names ate a sufficient guarantee ef the success of ths new through line. We congratulate our people upou the final consummation of the long cherished hopes, and have oily to say, give the oew line a hearty support and you will be met in liber al spirit by the new management. Mr. Buckhout, the General Superintendent of the line firon New York to Rutland, is a genthmun of large railroad experience and liber-1 al views, and under his matagement we have the fullest confldeice that our business interests will be en couraged and confidence futy rstor-ed.

ieaeAeter Journal. The Lebanon Spriugs ind Western Vt. Railroads are nor fully in the hands and under the management of the Harlem Railwad Company, and arraugementi will toon be perfected to make the line what wa originally intended should be the great through rout between Montreal and New Yorl. It Is said tba propti undorstaodirg has been had with th Rutland aid Burling-, ton and Vermont Centnl Railroad, whereby passengers wli be trans' ported from New York to Montreal wlthnu change of cart-thereby mast be enacted adapted to the wants and peculiar mission of this remark able people, a Marsballel in the solemn presence of Mt. Sinai they receive their law.

In the midst of fire, smoke and thunder, the Great Law Giver with a loud voice proclaims a system of laws, which for simplicity, conciseness and justice can never be sur passed. The laws of Solon and Ly-cargos, the twelve tables of Rome, the Code Napoleon of France, the Magna Chart of England, and its offspring, the Federal constitution of America, are each in their day and generation monuments of human wisdom. But they affirm no new princi ples of justice jtheyonly seek tore enact the time-honored wisdom of Sinai. The institutions of Israel now established, its grand army of twelve divisions is haulted in the wilderness ofParan. Its commander lo-chie.

calls council, and twelve men are sent to ascertain the strength and resources of Canaan. see the land what it is, and the people that dwell therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many and what the land is that they dwell in, wheth er it be good or bad, and what cities there be that they dwell in, whether in tents or strong-holds and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein or not; and be of good courage and brins- of the fruit oi the land." But slavery has enervated the people, for ten of the twelve, in their report, say "surely it fioweth milk and honey, nevertheless, the people be strong and the cities are walled and very great." So i the people murmur and cry, woujoj we bad died iu the land of Egypt would we had died in this wilder- oess. Forty years of Marching land counter-marching in the wilderness has reared a generation of freemen accustomed to hardships and dan gers, imbued with the spirit oi lib' erty, and daily witnessing the previ idence of God, they are firm, be lievers in their appointed destiny. The men whom Moses led through the Red Sea have passed awy, and the time has now come when this aged veteran shall ascend "from the plains of Moab unto the mountains of Ncbo, to the top of Pisgah, aad behold for the last time "a good land," "a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and figtrees, and pomegranates a land of oQ olive and hooey; lead in which his people shall eat bread without scarceness, and shall, not lack anything in it." Changing the commander of a great army, at any time, is a grave event, but doubly to in the presence of an enemy and at tie passage of a large stream. V- Moses thought so, for he prayed for the appointment of a fit success or, "that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd." In the midst oi the people's mourning for Moses, Josh ua, the new makes ac tive preparations for a vigorous prosecution of the war.

He com mands the officers of the people to pass through the host and order the people to prepare rations, "for with in three days ye shall pass over this Jordoo, to go to possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to pessess it." What a stirring announcement to the children ot Israel. Forty years have they periled the hardships of the wilderness, aad now on the plains of Moab, they only wait the 'for ward march." Walled cities and giants now are of no account, for just across the river stretches the rich and beautiful plain of the oity of palmtrees. It matters not that the titrong walls of Jericho aed: Al are de fended by the once powerful inven tors of purple and glass. The le gions of Israel are eager for the fray. The events of yean, ciowd into a moment.

The onward move ment has 'commsnctd -Jorilaa passed Jericho falls Ai St won, and the armies of Canaan are brash' away at Gibson. Even the name ofCanaaais swept away, and the land of Canaan becomes the1 laud of Israel the Promised Land, aen and history are passing away leaving little to tell of the ravages of TlCM, But these are events, tba record which shall never nariah. but shall survive the long, dark night of Oblivion, and In the morning af the Resarrectloi Wstlve the Impress of life-eternal written In the form of an arch, which likt the rainbow' ahU reach from earth to ktevta, and hibit all the colon of the spectrum as Ulapleyee in the bow of promise tg-W do doi koia ommItm rapwuM ft rirw. or osiniemi zsntHd i Um mw Bud by Imm T. Vim Wfortfctn Weft rwlt Lodge of Goo IBpbn.

Among the many animating and soul-stirring scenes of life, few can surpass that of a great army creas ing a deep and rapid river, -i The steady, tramp of armed men the dull heavy rattle of artillery and baggage trains, the blockading of roals with horses, wagons, and men, the shouts of teamsters, the neighing of horses and mules, the hurry- in? orderlies, and the hoarse, loud a commands of officers make a scene of wild confusien and disorder, which is grand und terrible. History is full of such scenes all the way down from Assyria to America, and they are themes for study and thought to the historian, the statesmen, the warrior, the poet, the philospher. the christian, and the cituea. Let us go to the banks of the Euphrates and there witness the Mssan of Alexander's fifty thousand Greeks, their tremendous battle with seveu hundred thousand Persians and their victory. Then behold the fate of Persia, and a new era in the history of the world.

Again, on the banks of the Rubicon listen to the words fit Cawar before committing an act which has been declared a sacrilege and parricide. "If I pass this river, what miseries I snail bring on my Country, and if I do not pass it, I am undone." Soon after he exclaims. "The die is cast," and plunges into the stream. Then follow the defeat of Pompey, the assassination of Caesar, the total overthrows of the republicans under Brutus and Cas-sins, and the death blow of Roman liberty. Come a little further along and see Bonaparte's rapid marches over the rivers of Europe.

See the men of destiny- defeated: Waterloo or rather, see at century changing Still more rescent are the hittori cal scenes along the rivers of America. There is the Hudson, and its numerous crossings by the armies of the Revolution, and there ate its long line of fortification chief of which is West Point, the birth-place of American Aad there is the Delaware with its cakes of ice, the 25th of December, aad Washington. It was the hazardous passage of this stream that secured the brillaot victories at Trenton and Princeton, raised from the lowest depression the spirits of the American people, and became the turning point in the war for Independence. A little later are the Mississippi, the Potomac, the Rapidan, the Rappahannock, the Chattahoocha, andthe James with all their hallowed and bloody reminiscences. On the banks of these 'stream lay the living and dead heroes whose wounds and blood are the price of 'American liberty.

Each of those scenes contain events which has, and will have, 'a vast and important influence our the aestiny- ot But there a river more1 historic than all other historic rivers of earth, and the re sults of its passage far transcend those of other streams. It is the river Jordan. Crossing it are seen, far back in the vista of time, Joshua and the children of Israel. Israel like every great nation, received its early training in oppression and toil, When its great Liberator demanded of the Egyptian aristocrat the right of self-government for his country men, hi only received 'the tyrants reply that, "Israelites bad no rights which Egyptians wen bound to respect that "slavery their nit-. ural and normal condition that, "it was uot cntlituitonal for them to govern themselves (hat their bondage was" a and all that was necessary to restore peace and harmony was for the wuumcu ly gnujcr nia pwn straw, "wiuie tue late ot orient wnicn they did make heretofore they shall not diminish aught thereot.

But the curse of in all ages, rests on both the oppressed and the oppressor. Fot Cod has skid, with kn outstretched arm and great judgments, He would rid His people, of ri So when Egypt i bad beeu made desolate by famine and death, when industry waa and waul and misery stalked abroad when mourning nuea me una, ana a great cry went up from such as there was none uke it nor wall be like it ad not till then eould he be just But Israel tlie chosen people of God, redeemed, regenera- led and disenthralled, cannot enter once the prenlsed land. A mi system of government matt hi fram ed and set In' operslion rul muat dered. Of soldiers or sailors honorably discharged from the service of the United States only one year's residence is to be required. The Ciicuit and District Courts are to have power to refer applicationi to a District or Circuit Court Commissioner, or a Register in Bankruptcy, to be specially desigtated by order who shall be empowered to take testimony, and report to court with bis opinion.

Tue Gold Market opened Mon- with an increased feeling of depies- sioo, ana the price immediately de clined to 112 3-4. The downward course of gold is exciting the earnest attention of business men, and the principal topic oi conversation on 'Change Monday was the present remarkable decliue ic the premium. There is great difference of opinion in regard to the subject in its bear ings on the final result, but the principal causes are well 1 understood. They are attributed to the great improvement In the Public Credit in Europe, and the cheapness of money there, together with the heavy ex ports of cotton and other produce. The former reasons have led to an extensive demand by capi'alists abroad for U.

S. stocks and railway securities, which have been forwarded In large amounts in response to the request of foreign investors. This outflow of bonds, with the large shipment of cotton, ha9 had important effect on the foreign trade of this country, but the problem to be solved is whether gold is to remain at the present low figure, or again respond to' any reactionary movement not now clearly foreseen. Ac cording to the opinions generally held by the ablest financiers, it is not possible to keep gold at a point uear par with an decree of certainty with out a contraction of the superabundant paper currency, and this view is extensively eutertained among business men in this sectiou of the country. This question now largely occupies the miuds of commercial men and has produced a stagnation iu all the markets.

It is conceded thai the shrinkage in the value of goods now in progress cannot be stayed if gold remains ht presetit rates. Incident in Maine. During the great snow storm of the 15th of Feb. Mrs. Nathaniel Moody left Lewiston with a horse and pung for her home in Auburn on thu westerly side of Taylor Pond.

She had in her arms a child two- years of age. Ou reaching the pond she to drive across to shorten the distance, but lost the track, and after driving around in a circle for an hour or more, it being dark and cold, she decided to stop where she was aad make the best of the situation. Wrapping the child up in two buffalo robes which she fortunately had, she unharnessed the horse and turned hira loose. She then tipped the puug up and made a temporary shelter beneath it, and wrapping the drapery of her couch about tier, she laid down for the night. She made a pillow of her arm for the little child, and with one robe beneath and one above them, and the sheets of snow over and under all, fhey entered on a long, cold and desolate winter night.

The snow drifted against the pung, rendered her novel resting place warmer. Though her sleep was not untroubled with' dreams, Mrs. Moody woke the next morning to find herself safe, And the babe sleep ing as sweetly on the fleecy snow as on downy pillows. A part of her arm had become exposed and had frozen, otherwise shs' was' warm. The horse appeared at the home stead across the pond the next morning, aud his presence revealed the trouble.

Search was immediately made, and Mrs. Moody and her child were soon rescued. Such an exhibition of presence of mind and courage is rare. A Remarkable Incident. The Portland Argm gives currency to a most remarkable incident.

It say that a few evenings since, as a freight train, behind timt, was pass ing Uak Hill Station, iu hcarboro at a speed of thirty miles an hour, it struck agaiust a horse attached to a sled which was crossing the track at the time without a driver. The sled 1 was 1 smashed Into kindling wood, and it was supposed that the horse was instantly killed, but the train sped on for some distance, when the engineer, looking out, taw the horse staring at him from the cow catcher, with a puzzled look, as much as to say, What is all this fuss about? The tram was promptly stopped, and it was found that the horse had been 'picked up by the cowcatcher and deposited oa the platform 1 in l' front of the engine, where, too much stunned or fright ened to move, he laid until lifted off and was fousd to bo comparatively i lie wasted back to his astouished owner, who stood gating at the wrack of his bob sled aud wondering what had become of the Brutal Assault Upon John B. Gnugh describes a recent attack on him at Blooming-ton, Ill.t thutfilcitii.1 ii ti "After the luctuN I went into the office to settle my bill. I had my lecture1 tinder my arm, aud my over coat on. iA croup of young men were seated in 1ht office; one who had bnen driukmg came up to roe and said i 'l)ymi pretend that yrttl do Hot drink I paid no at tention to him, when ho said ''Gen tlemen tlil man is a d-d by pocritt.

I snid nothing. Ho then said You.