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INVESTIGATION. 
No matter whether the motives for legislative 
investigation into the doings of the executive 
and administrative officers of City, State and 
National Government* are purely political and 
partisan, or not, all good citizens must rejoice at 
the cheek it is likely to prove in the fUture upon 
corruptionists. It exhibits 1 lie power ot the peo¬ 
ple. it is an assertion of their sovereignty, 
and of the responsibility of office-holders to 
these sovereigns. More t han any political cam¬ 
paign, with its Yiuntiers and blatant blowers and 
bummers on either side Of 'he “ political issue,” 
it is teaching the people with what system they 
are being plundered, ami what an enormous tux 
they must pay for their Indifference to the per¬ 
emptory dutio*citizenship iuvoices aud imposes 
upon them. 
Let the watch be kept up 1 Let the independ¬ 
ent press of the country continue to sound the 
alarm, and, without fear or favor, point out the 
men whose official action is not above reproach, 
and sustain the men who diligently seek to serve 
the public with honest purpose and ability. Let 
the periodical wrangles for office continue, and 
thereby secure the exposure of venality in both 
parties. But let the people vote for the best men 
—for honest and able men, if they ran be found 
on either ticket, regardless of what is called 
their “ principles." For, in u moral sense, the 
voting for a prlnciplo, by voting for a profes¬ 
sional office-seeker and partisan bummer, who 
professes to represent said principle, and one he 
has not the moral ability to comprehend, is one 
of the most vicious rocks which He concealed 
beneath breakers of political enthusiasm and 
partisan strifo. An honest man, if wrong in 
principle, will soon discover what is rigid and 
adopt it; but a dishonest man in office, no mat¬ 
ter how unobjectionable the platform upon 
which he was elected, is like Jonah in the ship 
—he must be thrown overboard, or the [tarty 
and the Government will perish. 
Let our readers watch the course of, and de¬ 
velopments made by, the various Committees of 
Investigation at work sifting the chuff of corrup¬ 
tion from the wheat of loyalty to the Public 
Welfare. It will help in determining the course 
which they, as citizons, should pursue in the se¬ 
lection of pubUc servants. It will reveal how 
poUticions make the people pay the expenses 
they Incur to influence the votes of the latter. 
It will guage the amount of patriotism which 
enters into the public service. It will help them 
to distinguish the difference between statesman¬ 
ship and professional place-hunting. It will 
teach how low an estimate pubUe officers place 
upon the intelligence, independence and honesty 
of the people—how easily they think them mold¬ 
ed to serve t heir political desires and ambitions. 
To us it seems that there Is no harp having so 
many strings, and which needs to tie played upon 
so persistently, as that which shall arouse the 
people to a comprehension of the dangers which 
surround the Republic in the forms of venality 
and ambition. Let us think about it, and act 
upon our conclusions with unflinching disregard 
of partisan bonds and traditions. ' 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Condition of Southern Cotton Planters.—Tho 
Plantation, in an article preliminary to the Ag¬ 
ricultural Convention which met in Bavannah, 
Fob. 22, has some sensible words. It says: 
The picture which Georgia now presents, in 
common with the other Southern States, is sad 
beyond expression. Ourcondltion is anomalous. 
Our towns and cities arc, for the most part, in a 
flourishing condition. The cotton cron has been 
sold lor tunny millions of dollars. \Yho bits got 
i be money 7 Not tho cotton planters! They are 
now, tiB a general role, more in debt, t han they 
were In Poll. Not the negroes who worked the 
crop. For the most part they have saved noth¬ 
ing. The dealers in fertilizers have received 
their share. The merchants have had t he benefit 
of their trade, and the banks of their discount, 
but the great bulk of the money has gone to the 
West for mules bacon, corn, flour, hogs. See., 
and to the North and Europe for goods made out 
of our cotton. 
Concerning the cause of this condition, the 
Plantation suys: -“It the proceeds of the cotton 
crop had remained among us, we should have 
been comparatively easy. Hut it is gone, and 
gone chiefly to buy articles which ought to have 
been produced at home. Wewill not repeatour 
statistics as to tho amount which has been ex¬ 
pended for mules, hogs, bacon, llour, Ac.” And 
it forebodes the future as follows“ Yet, in the 
face of these stern truths, we fear that more 
Cotton will lie planted this than was planted last 
year. It is tho insanity of the gambler who ven¬ 
tures everything upon a last throw of the dice. 
It will be the lust throw; for as sure as a largo 
crop is planted, prices will go down ruinously. 
The present <lebl will be increased instead of 
diminished. Georgia landed estate, us it conse¬ 
quence, will go to ilie hammer, as lauded estate 
has done in Alabama.” It advises“ Sell one- 
half tlie land to wipe out debt, and afterwards 
raise no more cotton than can be produced 
clear." 
Farmers ns Legislators. — A correspondent 
writes us:—" Is it not a shame that tho farmers 
—the great agricultural interest of the country 
—are not. more completely represented by men 
of their own class in our legislative halls?" Yes; 
but it is the fault of the fanners themselves. 
When farmers become educated business men, 
ami have dear and comprehensive opinions 
upon public policy, and have learned to recog¬ 
nize their true relations to other industries and 
professions, and have had the tuition v. Iiieh 
participation in the Farmers’ Clubs, Agricul¬ 
tural Societies, etc., will afford them, and learn 
to think clearly, express themselves intelligent¬ 
ly, CO-Ope rate with each other, and organize for 
self protection in short, when they learn their 
real Interests, and shall have learned how to 
command attention for them, they will become 
legislators and will secure voice in the State and 
National Councils. Hut they have yet to learn, 
in a majority of eases, thut then: is nothing in 
the vocation of a farmer which absolves the in¬ 
dividual from the duty, nor debars him from the 
privilege of becoming the peer in intelligence ol’ 
any man, or class of men, in any profession 
whatever. 
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•* Arbor Day” in Nebraska.—At the last meet¬ 
ing of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, 
the following resolution was adopted, which we 
trust will impress our readers in other States, as 
it does us, with its eminent propriety, mid stim¬ 
ulate them to urge the establishment of a holi¬ 
day to be known as " Arbor I>ay,” as a national 
institution. Here is the resolution: 
/?ixlin'd. That Wednesday, the 19th day of 
April, 1872. be, and the same is hereby especially 
set apart and consecrated for tree planting in 
the State of Nebraska, and the State Board of 
Agriculture hereby name It " Arbor Day,” aud 
urge upon the people of t he Stale the vital im¬ 
portance of tree planting, aud offer a special 
premium of $100 to the county agricultural so¬ 
ciety of that county in Nebraska which shall 
upon that day plant properly the largest num¬ 
ber of trees, and a taiiii library of $25 worth of 
hooks to that person who on t hat day shall plant 
properly In Nebraska the greatest number of 
trees. 
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Dairy Exhibition In Austria.—The Austro- 
Hungarian Consul in New York city lias favored 
us with a programme of an exhibition to be held 
at Vienna, Austria, December 13-17, 1872, which 
is to embrace ail kinds of dairy products. The 
exhibition will include two groups. The first 
group is designed to be confined to the Hunga¬ 
rian citizens’ products from tnilk. Tho second 
group Is to be international, and include all de¬ 
vices to be used in the manufacture of butter 
and cheese— dairy implements and utensils, 
models, designs and plans of cheese factories, 
milk-rooms, dairy houses, burns, etc. Americans 
who desire to exhibit, must notify the General 
Consulate of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 
N. Y. City, not later titan September 30,1872, of 
their intentions, in order to secure the required 
space for exhibiting their articles. 
Pairons of Husbandry.—The Iowa Homestead 
pronounces the statement published in the Ru¬ 
bai, New - Yorker, Feb. 17 upon which we 
commented—that the Lecturer of the Order in 
Iowa "is advising farmers no longer to commu¬ 
nicate through Agricultural Journals without 
pay,” “ one of the slanders about the Order,” 
and adds, " we have sent one of the paragraphs 
to our State Lecturer for an official denial of the 
charge." 
Since the foregoing was put in type, ,T. c. Ab¬ 
bott, Clarksville, Iowa, has written a letter in 
which he pronounces the assertion relative to 
what the Lecturer is advising farmers, “ a will¬ 
ful falsehood,” and challenges the editor with 
whom it originated to produce his proof. We 
are very glad to learn that it is false. Wo must 
say, however, that the tone and spirit of Mr. 
Abbott's letter might be more dignified and 
liberal, without doing injury to the Order he 
professes to represent- 
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National 8wlne-Brccdrr» Convention.—This 
Convention, proposed at the Farmers’ Club, in 
this city, by Mr. F. D. Curtis, seems to meet 
with favor wherever its objects are understood. 
The National Live Stock Stock Journal, Chicago, 
Indorses the movement, and says: 
“There arc several persons in various portions 
of the country ostensibly selling stock for breed¬ 
ing purposes, who pay no attention whatever to 
the description of stock they send out, and the 
respectable breeders should see that the public 
is protected from this sort of imposition, and 
that the reputation of their own herds does not 
suffer from these systematic and deliberate 
frauds. And it is high time that some cheek 
should be placed upon the operations of these 
rogues, who tiU a half-dozen orders for as many 
different kinds of thorough-bred swine from a 
single litter of a mongrel sow. And if this moans 
Hord Book, or anything else, let us, by all means, 
have it.” 
Fighting Manufacturer* of Vgriculfurnl Im- 
[dementM, In lowu the Patrons of Husbandry 
are moving to reduce tho cost to the farmers of 
agricultural implements. It is asserted that tho 
Granges have, as a general tiling, secured a re¬ 
duction from manufacturers of ten to fifteen 
per cent., and, in some eases, twenty per cent. 
It is also elated that In Howard anti other North¬ 
ern counties the members have resolved not to 
purchase a reaper or mower fur one year, sup¬ 
plying their places by repairing their old ones 
and loaning or hiring them to such as have none. 
The Dallas Co. Grange has resolved not to pur¬ 
chase a cultivator from the ringof manufactur¬ 
ers who are striving to obtain a heavy royalty 
from those manufacturers who refuse to pay It. 
Indenting the Signal Service Bureau.—At the 
February meetiug of the Middlesex Co. Farmers’ 
Club, held in New Brunswick, N. J., upon tho 
motion of Mr. Thompson, seconded by Prof. G. 
H. COOK, t he following resolution was adopted: 
Rrndvt'1. That this Club has full confidence in 
the Signal Service Bureau, and cordially ap¬ 
prove'- of the efforts made by tlmi Bureau to 
benefit i he agriculture of the country in a prac¬ 
tical man tier. 
The Secretary was directed to forward to you 
a copy of this resolution, and request you to in¬ 
sert it, or such reference to it as you prefer, in 
an early issue of your paper. 
Geo. H. Lambert, Sec’y. 
Deferred, —We are constrained to defer over 
two columns of new advertisements, in type for 
this paper, rather than infringe upon reading 
departments. Advertisers who desire to secure 
prompt insertion should send In their favors as 
early as convenient. 
TH E SEAS ON, 
Hampton, Va„ March 2. It has snowed and 
blowcd a perfect gale all day; drifts of snow 3 
and 4 feet deep. Never, in our experience of 
seven yours here, have we had such u day be¬ 
fore.—K, it. o. 
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Salisbury Center, \. V., Feb. 24.—Good win¬ 
ter for business with us. Plenty of snow, and 
weather cokl and dry. No rain since Dec. 31st. 
Water very low in the streams. M olls mostly 
dry. The coldest day Dec. 21st; mercury fell 28- 
below zero. To-day it is 50° above. The average 
temperature baa been a little above zero. Hay 
$18@24 per ton; potatoes, 50c,; butter, 23@25c.; 
eggs, 2a3.25c.; apples, none in market—A Sub¬ 
scriber. 
South Scovtlle, N. J., March 4.—We have had 
an unusual severe winter, particularly the month 
of February. But little snow until Saturday, the 
2d inst., when it fell 10 inches. Snow is melting 
away slowly, and spring seems yet in the dis¬ 
tance. No gardening done yet, and but very 
little plowing. Wheat looks unpromising, espe¬ 
cially late sown. Peach buds areall right; pros¬ 
pect fair for a good crop. Corn is worth 80c. per 
bushel; flour, $8 per bbl.; potatoes, 50c.; sweet 
potatoes, $1; pork, 7c. por lb.; butter, 35c.; eggs, 
25e. Stock is looking poor; cattle arc not suffi¬ 
ciently protected, in this county, from the cold 
storms of winter.—w. n. 
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Middlevllle, Jlarry Co., Mich., Feb. 26.—To¬ 
day is pleasant, warm and spring-like. The 
winter has been the coldest for several years. 
Snow averages about twelve Inches; thermom¬ 
eter ranging in the neighborhood of zero all of 
the time since about Doc. 10th, the coldest day 
being Dee. 20th—at 11 P. M. 24° below zero. 
Farmers are now preparing for sugar-making 
on a grand scale. Fears are entertained for the 
wheal crop for 1872; it. does not look very well. 
Prices of produce are;—Wheat. $l.i0@1.50; oats, 
35e.; corn (shelled), o0c.; potatoes, 75c.; apples, 
7.5c.; butter, 15c. per lb.; eggs, 20c. per doz.; 
dressed hogs $4.50G®5 per cwt.; lard, 8c.; bay, 
timothy, $12@d5 per ton; milch cows, $30®»40; 
working cattle scarce at $1,255/2 per yoke; clo¬ 
ver seed, $5.5tk<2;(5.50; timuthy, $3^,4.—I. f. e. 
MARCH IS 
The Rural New-Yorker is electro- 
typed, and hence Back Numbers can 
always be supplied. Copies for sale 
by all News Dealers; price Six Cents. 
Mureli on During March l—Is what all our 
Agents, and others disposed to form Clubs, should 
do. It will not only pay to enlarge present Clubs but 
to form new ones. It is an easy matter to recruit for 
the new style RURAL, and pays both Agent and Sub¬ 
scribers—and now Is the best time to do " that same.” 
Additions to Clubs are always In order, whether 
In ones, twos, lives, tens, or more. A host of people 
are subscribing ror papers about these days, and we 
hope our Agent-Friends will give everybody an oppor¬ 
tunity to subscribe for tho best. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
DE. STEOKG'S REMEDIAL INSTITUTE, 
Saratoga Springs. N. Y., Is unsurpassed in the treat¬ 
ment of Lung, Female and Chronic Diseases. Turk¬ 
ish. Russian. FIoctro-Thermal and Sulphur-Air Bntlis. 
Hydropathy, Vacuum Treatment, Movement Cure. 
Oxygen, Calisthenics, &o. Terms lowest in win¬ 
ter. Send lor h Circular. Endorsed by Bishop Janes, 
Rev. T. L. Cuyler. D. D., and Tayler Lewis, LL. D. 
A Stubborn Cough that Will not yield to ordinary 
remedies, may be thoroughly cured by Dr. Jayne's 
Expectorant, ar> efficacious medicine In Bronchial and 
Pulmonary Disorders. 
THE WAKEFIELD EARTH CLOSET. 
Get Descriptive Pamphlet at 30 Dey St., New Y ork. 
HOW TO OBTAIN A “COLLINS” 
Solid Cast Cast-Steel Plow for $5. For particulars, ad¬ 
dress COLLINS & CO., 212 Water St., N. Y. 
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“ The Bent,” is aterm always applied to Burnett’s 
Preparations. They deserve the title. 
RURAL BREVITIES. 
If H. G. W. W. will address E. A. Van Velger, 
Oneida Community, N. Y., he will obtain an an¬ 
swer to his inquiry. 
S. B. Alexander tsinformed that H.O.Weich, 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., is the owner or 
"Flora Temple.” 
T. N. SCANLON is Informed that we do not 
know what, If any. inducement the Argentine 
Confederation offers to emigrants. 
Let Herman Smith address any of the New 
York city seedsmen, advertising in our columns, 
for seed wheat, onion seed, &c. 
J. H. H. writes the Rural New-Yorker that, 
if hickory timber is out in June, it. will be neither 
wormy nor grow inelastic. 
A drove of 500 turkeys recently arrived at Mt. 
Pleasant, Iowa, where they were slaughtered for 
the New York market- 
T. G. Williams should address R. H. Allen 
& Co., 189 Water St.. X. Y. city, with reference 
to transportation of stock from England. 
Semi-Monthly market days for the sale of 
daily products are to be established ni Water- 
town. \Vis., by the Wisconsin Dairymen's Ass'n. 
T. G. Wit, LtAMS is informed that ft letter ad¬ 
dressed "Daily Rorut Life,” Rural New- 
Yorker office, will reach the author of the 
Diary. 
It is reported that, Mr. II. E. Bidwkll, South 
Haven, Mich., has 300 tig trees in good condition, 
from which ho has received two crops of fruit 
each year for two years. 
Secretary Bliss of the Vermont Dairyman’s 
Association, savs the St. Albans dairy market is 
a myth that there Is no market day, no organ¬ 
ized’Hoard of Trade, no system or reports. 
John p. Reynolds, late editor of tho Live 
Stock Journal, published at Chicago, has severed 
liis connection therewith, and Is to conduct tho 
Live Stock Department of the Prairie Farmer. 
In response to an inquiry from a Utah lady, we 
reply that vre have never used any of the $5 sew¬ 
ing machines, nor seen them work; hence, can¬ 
not give an opinion us to their comparative 
merits. 
A Californian is Informed that il we had a 
boy in Kentucky that we did notwunt to go after, 
wo should have him forwarded to us by Express, 
unless we knew he could travel in company of 
some<ine who would take good care of him. 
R. p. Main, Oregon, is informed thul Clius. V. 
Rilev, State Entomologist of Missouri, (St. Louis, 
Mo.,1 published a history of the Colorado Potato 
Beetle, in ids first Annual Report upon theNox- 
lous and Beneficial Insects of Missouri. You 
may possibly get It by addressing him. 
OtTR happy and live friend. Wiltjvms, of the 
Horticulturist, seems aggrieved because one of 
the contributors to tills paper made (odious?) 
comparison between the Horticulturist as it was 
and is. Of course everybody knows the Horti¬ 
culturist is the " beat journal of its class "-so, 
what's the use? 
BUSINESS DEFORMATION. 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds.— We are indebt¬ 
ed to Messrs. V. P. Douw & Co., wholesale and 
retail dealers in Garden and Flower Seeds and 
Fanning Implements, Albany, N. Y., for their 
Spring Catalogue; also for a copy of a beautiful 
oil ehromo,entitled “The Ducks," which they 
glvo to ull who order $2 worth of garden or 
flower seeds in packets. The Catalogue is sent 
free to all applicants. Such offers, from a relia¬ 
ble firm, are worthy the attention of all «ur 
readers Interested, aud wc take pleasure in re¬ 
ferring to advertisement in tiffs paper. 
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A Good Exhibit —Is that comprised in tho 
Statement of the National Life Insurance Co. of 
New York, given on page 189 of this paper. The 
figures—showing receipts, disbursements, assets, 
etc.—demonstrate that this popular Company is 
in a very prosperous coudition. 
PUBLISHER’S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
