200 
AMERICAN AGRICULTUEIST. 
[Mat, 
ANOTH E R GR EAT 
REDUCTION 
IN 
TEAS. 
GREAT SAVING TO CONSUMERS 
BY GETTING UP CLUBS. 
And remunerative to Club Organizers. 
THE 
Great American Tea 
COMPANY, 
Have received a fall assortment of 
NEW CROP 
TEAS 
and many more arriving, with which to supply their cus- 
tomers in all eases, and have acain 
REDUCED THE PRICES OF ALL THEIR TEAS 
io the lowest point. GOODS WARRANTED TO GIVE 
SATISFACTION in all ca-es at the following 
L.IST OF PRICES : 
OOLONG. (Black) 50, CO, 70. liest SOc. per lb. 
MIXED, (Green and Black) 50, 60, 70, best 80c. per lb. 
JAPAN, (Uncolored) 80,90, $1.00, best $.10 per lb. 
IMPERIAL. (Green) 70, SO, W. J1.00; $1.10, best $1.20 peril). 
YOUNG HYSON, (Green) 70, SO, 90, $1.00. best $1.15 per lb. 
GUNPOWDER. (Green) $1.20. best S1.I0 per II). 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST, (Black) 70, SO, 00, $1.00, best $1.10 
per lb. 
COFFEES 
ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY, always under our own 
supervision and upon our own premises. 
GROUND COFFEE, 15, 20. 35, 80, best 35c. per lb. 
Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-House Keepers and Families 
who use huge quantities of Coffee, can economize, in that 
article by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DIN- 
NER COFFEE, which we sell at the low price of 25 cts. per 
pound, and warrant to give perfect satisfactiou. 
BOASTED < Ciigronnd >, 20. 25, 30, best 35c. per lb. 
GREEN (Unroasted), 20, 25, best SOc. per lb. 
GETTING UP CLUBS. 
Let each person wishing to join in a club, say how much 
Tea or Coffee he wants, and select the kind nud price from 
our Price-List, as published. Write the names, kinds, and 
amounts plainly on a list, and when the club is complete 
send it to us by mail, and we will put each party's goods in 
separate packages, and mark the name upon them, with the 
cost, so there need be no confusion in their distribution— 
each party getting exactly what he orders, and no more. 
The cost of transportation, the members of the club can di- 
vide equitably among themselves. 
The funds to pay for the gnods ordered can be sent by 
drafts on New York, by Post-Office money orders, or by Ex- 
press, as may suit the convenience of the club. Or, if the 
amount ordered exceeds thirty dollars, we will, if desired, 
send the goods by Express, to " collect on delivery" 
Consumers can save 5CoS jirojlts oy purchasing of 
THE 
Great American Tea Comp'y, 
31 & 33 Yesey Street, 
P. O. Box, 5,<H3. 
NEW YORK CITY. 
SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE. 
HORSFORDS SELF-RAISING 
BREAD WEPARMIQN. 
TJnequaled for making light and nutritious Bread, Bis- 
fruits, PaWrr/,etc., and is used and approved bv Orange Jndd, 
Esq., Editor of this Journal- Drs.M. H. Henry and R. (>. Dore- 
mus ; Professors Ott and Chandler, New York City; Profes- 
sors James V. Z. Blaney and R. L. Rea, Chicago ; Dr. Wm. S. 
Merrill, Cincinnati. 
"WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO.. Gen'l Agent9, 
51 Murray Street, New York. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING.- Robert MorrisCope- 
land, Boston, has 20 years' experiencp, and directs all kinds 
Of Rural Improvements. Send for Circular. 
Thea-Nectar 
is a 
BLACK TEA 
•witii 
GREEN TEA 
FLAVOR, 
and will 
Suit nil tastes. 
Warranted Satisfactory. 
FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. 
And for sale Wholesale only by the 
GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO., 
P. O. BOS 5,506. No. 8 Church St., N. Y. 
Send for Thea-Nectar Circular. 
ENGINES 
Equaled "by none in Combined Merits of 
Capacity, Economy, Durability, Sim- 
plicity, and Perfect ion. 
OUR PORT^BXE ENGINE, 
Mounted on Locomotive Boiler, having fire-box and ash-pit 
entirely surrounded by water space; is set upon legs and 
timbers; occupies little room; needs no brickwork; is 
suitable for use in any place where a power is required— 
in Mills, Shops, Foundries or Printing-Rooms, or in Stock 
Barns, for grinding, cutting, and steaming food for stock. 
STATIONARY ENGINE 
Is complete, with Governor, Pump, and Heater, with con- 
nections fitted. The 
AGRICULTURAL ENGINE, 
Supplied with Locoynotive Boiler, having fire-box and ash-pit 
entirely surrounded by water space; is mounted on wheels, 
with 'pole for attaching horses for moving from place to 
place ; is suitable for. Grain Threshing, Corn Shelling, 
Wood and Shingle Sawing, d-c. 
Circulars, with description and prices, furnished on appli- 
cation to 
WOOD, TABEP. k MOESE, 
EATON, MADISON CO., NE1V YORK. 
HEAHTH&HOME, 
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— full of Reliable, Instructive, and In- 
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Miscellany : just suited to the Wants 
and Wishes of every Family — every 
Man, Woman, and Child in America — 
whether living in City or Country. 
Terms : 
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Single Numbers, - - 8 cents each. 
One copy each of Hearth and Some 
and American Agriculturist will be sent 
one year for $4. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., Publishers, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
NEW LOAN 
OF THE 
United States. 
The subscriptions to the New Five Per Cent Stock of 
the United States now amount to about $60.01X1,000. They 
are confidently expected to reach $200,000,000 by the 
time the New Bonds are ready for delivery in May. The 
proposals of the Secretary of the Treasury will then be 
changed to the following programme: 
First— Bonds to the amount of three hundred millions 
of dollars, payable in coin, at the pleasure of the United 
States, after ten years from the date of their issue, and 
bearing interest payable quarterly in coin, at the rate of 
five per cent per annum. 
Second— Bonds to the amount of three hundred millions 
of dollars, payable in coin, at the pleasure of the United 
States, after fifteen years from the date of their issue, 
and bearing interest, payable quarterly in coin, at the 
rate of four and a half per cent per annum. 
Third— Bonds to the amount of seven hundred millions 
of dollars, payable in coin, at the pleasure of the United 
States, after thirty years from the date of their issue, and 
bearing interest, payable quarterly in coin, at the rate of 
four per cent per annum. 
Subscriptions to the loan will have preference, after 
the above-mentioned two hundred millions are taken np, 
in the following order, namely: 
First — Subscriptions for equal amounts of each class 
of bonds. 
Second — Subscriptions for equal amonnts of bonds 
bearing interest at the rate of four and a half per cent, 
and of bonds bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. 
Third— Subscriptions for any five per cent bonds that 
may not be subscribed for in the preceding classes. 
Subscriptions to the remainder of the $200,000,000 of 
five per cents, which are unconditional, are now going 
on, and the bonds will soon be issued to the subscribers, 
who can receive a scrip certificate, in advance, if they 
desire to pay their gold or exchange U. S. 5-20s at once, 
in the Registered or Coupon form. Registered bonds 
will be issued of the denominations of $50, $100, $500, 
$1,000. $5,000, and $10,000: and coupon bonds of each 
denomination except the last two. The interest will be 
payable in the United States, at the office of the Treasur- 
er, any Assistant Treasurer, or Designated Depositary of 
the Government, quarterly, on the first days of February, 
May, August, and November, in each year. 
The bonds of the several classes aforesaid, and the 
interest thereon, are exempt from the payment of all 
taxes or dues of the United States, as well as from tax- 
ation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local 
authority. 
After maturity, the bonds last issued will be first re- 
deemed by classes and numbers, as may be designated 
by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
The reduction of the public debt since the close of the 
war of the Rebellion, and the relief, at the same time, to 
the annual burden of interest, are as follows : 
Principal of debt, 1865 $2,755,995,275 
Paid under Johnson 265,595,371 
Principal, March 4. lSIH $2,491,390,904 
Paid under Grant 223,063,673 
Present public debt $2,208,31 0,231 
Interest charge, 1S65 151,S32,051 
Reduced in four years by payment and 
funding 25,442,501 
Interest charge, 1S69 $126,389,550 - 
Reduced in two years by payment 12,052,998 
Present interest charge $114,336,552 
The proposed further reduction of the innual inter- 
est charge upon the public debt by refunding, are as 
follows: 
By exchange of $500,000,000 U. S. 6 per 
cents for new five per cents of 18S1 $5,000,000 
By exchange of $300,000,000 U. S. 6 per 
cents for 4y 2 per cents of 1886 4,500,000 
By exchange of- $700,000,000 U. S. 6 per 
cents for 4 per cents of 1901 14,000,000 
Total saving per annum by refunding $23,500,000 
The whole proceeds of the New Loans will be applied 
to the payment or redemption and cancelation of the 
5-20 years 6 per cent bonds, and in addition to these 
preceeds, the 5-20s are now being reduced by purchase at 
the rate of $10,000,000 per month. 
C. C. NORTELt, 
In charge of Advertising U. S. Loan. 
Treasury Office, 
Neio Tmk, April 22. 
