balanced fixture, prompt and accurate in 1 he de¬ 
tails of business; and the whole corps of em¬ 
ployes in the ofiice walk in the ways of their 
chief officers. T f success is any test of merit, we 
have it in the progress of the United States Life 
Insurance Company. In comparing the busipess 
of tlie first six months or lSTOwith the corre¬ 
sponding period of Ibis year, we find an increase 
of 400 per cent, in the number of policies issued 
500 per cent, in the amount insured, and fi50 per 
cent, in the amount of the premiums taken. 
The assets of the Company, amount mg to nearly 
*4,000,000. are of the most substantial character, 
at testing tho business ability of its present Hoard 
of Directors, all of whom tiro well known ;ui<i 
respectable citizens of New York. Persons de¬ 
siring employment in this line, arc directed to 
the advertisement of the United Stairs Insur¬ 
ance Company In this paper. 
ed corn crop. When it is remembered how often 
the South lms paid from $1.50 to §2 a bushel for 
corn, it will soon be reconciled to less cotton. 
The »iv Commliisloner of Agriculture.—The 
July report, of the Department of Agriculture 
contains the following notice of the now Com¬ 
missioners, which will bo read with interest: 
The Hon. Frf.dki:ick Watts of Carlisle. Penn¬ 
sylvania. has been appointed successor to Gen. 
Caphon as Commissioner or Agriculture, to 
date from the 1st of August. Judge Watts is a 
nativim>f Carlisle, ami was educated ;it Dickin¬ 
son College, where he was graduated at the ago 
of lb. Immediately after his graduation lie went 
to Erie <’o.. l’a., and there lived three years with 
nn uncle, working dally on Ills farm. Hot,tinting 
to Carlisle, he studied with ANmtr.vr ft isortt krs, 
and wasadmitted to the Bar. He practiced his 
profession until ISIS, when lie was commissioned 
by Gov. Wm. F. Johnston as Presiding Judge 
of tlio Ninth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
Colt i posed of the counties of Cumberland, Perry, 
and Juniata. Tina office lie bold for three years, 
when, it having Iteeti made elective, and the dis¬ 
trict being under the control of the political 
parly with which he was not Ip sympathy, he 
retired from the Bench and returned to the Bar. 
Ho did not. however, actively engage in his pro¬ 
fession, a large portion of his time being de¬ 
voted to the personal superintendence of a 
farm near Carlisle. For many years lie had 
been a farmer, as well its a lawyer, and had be¬ 
come known as one who believed In the applica¬ 
tion of science t« the idling of the wOil. In 1858 
he abandoned entirely the pi action of law, and 
since then has been exclusively a farmer. Dur¬ 
ing the la u t few years ho has resided on his farm, 
giving luall I lie details of its management his 
personal ttl I on linn. Mo Is also the owner of 
another farm, which ho manages through a 
tenant. 
Judge Watts* prominence ns ii fai nter led to 
his election, in 18,y.,as the First President of the 
Pennsylvania Auricult urnl Society, which office 
be held until 18*42, when be declined n re-elec¬ 
tion. He was elected the First President or the 
Board of Trustees of t he Agricultural College of 
Pennsylvania, u position which lie ‘tilt holds. 
He hits never been prominent as ft politician, 
although entertaining at till times positive views 
of public policy, and has never been a candi¬ 
date lor Congress or Legislative honors. He 
was not an applicant lor the distinguished posi¬ 
tion to which lie has Just been appointed, and 
its duties and responsibilities have Lieeu ac¬ 
cepted with reluctance. 
Judge Watts is a practical and scientific 
farmer He inis devoted his life to the prac¬ 
tice ot progressive methods of diversified agri¬ 
culture, and has always manifested a deep In¬ 
terest and genuine enthusiasm in the advance¬ 
ment of the. farmer’s nailing. In his new ofiiee 
lie may be expected lo give to all the agricultu¬ 
ral interest b of the country the same intelligent 
and industrious attention lie has bestowed upon 
the varied operations of his farm and the agri¬ 
culture ot Pennsylvania, 
believe it exists, nor that it ought to exist. 
Every one for him or herself is her creed 
and practice. Looking lit rough the whole 
catalogue of philanthropists and reformers, 
men and women, she could not put her fin¬ 
ger on one whom she believed so self-sacri¬ 
ficing as to abnegate self. If a man gives 
*100,000 for charitable purposes, lie docs it 
for Hie compensation in Die shape of fame, 
gratitude and honor, which lie is certain 
will result, to him. It. is his way of purchas¬ 
ing wUnt will gratify him, just as a woman 
purchases a pndly bonnet, to gratify her 
own vanity and Lhe eyes of her friends. 
A young man, who devotes his leisure to 
philosophical and socialstudies, says he lives 
to take comfort. He nurses selfishness, lie 
has discovered that that sort of selfishness 
which takes the best care of himself is just 
what gives him the most happiness. And 
if he makes himself happy hedoesliiashare 
toward making the whole world happy; 
for the world’s happiness depends upon in¬ 
dividual happiness; and individual happi¬ 
ness depends upon the individual concerned. 
It is nothing that can result from exterior 
application. It is an inner growth; and this 
growth depends upon culture; and the cul¬ 
ture must involve the most complete knowl¬ 
edge of one’s own wants and desires and of 
Lhe best means of supplying the same. Show 
him a man who does not cultivate this 
higher type of selfishness, and w r e will show 
you one who lias no true conception of hap¬ 
piness and who does not know what he is 
living for. 
Another man, scarcely less a philosopher, 
says he is given life for some purpose. As 
near as he can find out, his duty is to do 
what be finds to do with all his might—no 
matter what it. is—ami in the best fray 
he can conceive it should he done. He is 
indifferent about results; they must take 
care of themselves. Tl. is not his duty to 
look to results. His work comes up before 
him every hour. He is under the direction 
of some Infinite law. What he sees to do 
he must do according lo his best ability, 
Here is lhe Master Mechanic of a vast ma¬ 
chine shop. This master orders hint lo 
make a holt or cut a screw, or forge a beam. 
It is his duty lo do it according to specifica¬ 
tions. I le does it with all the skill of which 
he is master, and with all the zeal he can 
invoke. He need not know where the screw 
or beam, or holt is to go; nor whnL the pur¬ 
pose of its creation. If he is to make holts 
all his life he does so. He does not stop to 
ask the Infinite purpose. He is placed in 
the Grand Works! i op lo work. 
His chief anxiety is to do the work given 
him well, and trust to the Settlement Day 
for reward according to his work. He does 
not believe in idling. He does not complain 
of the character of his work. He does it, 
and his duty is done. He is content because’ 
he assumes no responsibility beyond that of 
lining what lie finds to do as lie knows how 
to do it. If (Ii** holt don'! fit in one place it 
may in another; if the screw does not find 
its counterpart in one case it may he equally 
useful in another; if the beam is too large 
for one purpose it mav just meet another 
want. At any rate, so long as lie has fol¬ 
lowed the specifications of the Master Me¬ 
chanic he lias no further responsibility, 
when tlm screw, bolt, or beam is done. 
And so his life, though laborious, is serene. 
Cares are carried as duties, and do not 
canker. Work is done from love of doing 
and not ns ft penance. And to him it does 
not matter what the work lie does, so long 
ns lie finds it to do; and lie is sure of com¬ 
pensation. 
Reader, what do you live for ? 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
A Lndy Farmer.—A lady of Loraino Co., O., 
writes to a friend r—“ I expect to have my wheat, 
threshed next Tuesday, and shall have it put in 
bags and brought to town. Messrs. G. & C. say 
they will give £1.21), or at the outside, $1.25, but 
probably not more Ilian $1.20. Had I better let 
It go at that price, or try to send it to Cleveland, 
I have no plane, whatever to store it. I got the 
Inst load or hay in last night- Sold oleveu tous 
at *14.50 per ton. I have been at the Linn twice 
every day for two weeks; planted out 1,500 cel¬ 
ery plants; sowed carrots and turnips. Will 
have a good crop of oats, probably 1,200 bushels, 
which will soon be ready to harvest, t have op- 
gaged men amt leatns to thresh my wheat, and 
shall have to cook dinner here and carry to the 
field for twelve men. I have been very fort u¬ 
nate in getting the crops taken care of, but have 
lo be on t lie go from four o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing until nine at night." 
EUUtVL, uram am mm sEwmm 
Conducting ICditor nnd ^Proprietor 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
Associate Kditors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y., 
ICnn.iu nr tiici Dn>*HTMKNr «v Sinner Husbankhv. 
X. A. WtllARD, A. M., Little Falls. N. Y., 
Editor i»r tin I)BI»a»itwickt op Paihy Huhhanmiv. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
Tuavuiso Cohjikhpomuxo Kmum. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
Condh-tok »it« Pacific Suore D«t»nTw*sT. 
CHAS. V. RILEY. St. Louis, Mo., 
COVKHOII OP TMK I'AtP.MfiWClCAt fJltl* A HTMICNT. 
MARY A. E. WAGER. 
Eoitof or tub b'.Mumc licosoMY Dbfaiitmbnt. 
Inquiries for Advertisers,— Where can pine 
Mcditerauean seed wheat be obtained? Let 
those Who have it advertise, stating price. F. It. 
—S. M. F., Otisco, asks if H. J. Taylor’s Corn 
Planter. Cultivator, and Corn and Potato Hiller 
is a desirable implement, where they are manu¬ 
factured and the number in use_J. P. Mooke 
wants to buy a young Ayrshire cow from sonic 
one who lias them for sale in lhe West, he being 
in Arkansas ,C. F. K., Angelica. N. Y., asks 
where he etui gel a Hush mere goat, how much 
one will cost, and if they ate very hard to keep. 
[They are hard to keep— where you wnni them 
to stay.] Can you inform me where I can buy 
a pair of Partridge Cochins; one pair Gray 
Dorkings; one do. Silver Spangled Polands, and 
one pairCreve Creurs ? What will they coi-t?- 
H. K. King, 
♦Srneertil Justice.—The Germantown Telegraph 
July 36, contains the following:—“Tim Rural 
NeW-YORKUH says we do our friend Strawberry 
Knox injustice when we hint that he harbors a 
taste for champagne, as lie uses wine in no form 
whatever. Whether lie does or not he is a gonial, 
oa pi till fellow, and we will allow him to enjoy 
ills ol,turn cum (ligniUtic in his own especial way. 
being ready to assault any one who would dare 
to make httn afraid under Ins own * wine and 
tig tree.' 'Y.C shall be glad to have him under 
otic fig tree, without the wine, whenever there 
may be a chance to enjoy the scintillations of 
his beaming countenance." 
Terms.—Only H 1.50 per Volume of 30 numbers, 
Ol per your <U i)2 mnnhers. To Clubs—per F<tt- 
uim Five copies fin f?; Seven, nnrl one free lo 
agent, for $0.50; Ten. and one free, for $12.Ml. Per 
run : Fire copies for f 14; Seven, and one free, for 
SI': Ten. and one free, for $25—only $2.50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rat® to Oninidti is $2.70, and $8.50 
to Europe,-Including American postage, which we 
are obliged to prepay on nil papers mailed tc foreign 
countries. Drafts, P O. Money Orders and Regis¬ 
tered Letters ut our risk. 
The Un ml New-Yorker Is sold by News Deal¬ 
ers generally. Tlie Trade Is supplied by the New 
YORK News <’o., No. 8 Spruce. St., New York. 
Auvehtihing. Inside. 75 cents per line. Agate 
space ; Outside, $1 per line, each Insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display and (.tills, a price and a half. Special and 
business Notices, $1.50 and t'l it fine. No advertise¬ 
ment Inserted for less than $,'l. 
Up she Goes!—That is what takes place when 
the housekeeper puts 11 Dooley’s Yeast Powder" 
into her flour or meal, producing light and 
wholesome bread, biscuit, rolls, corn cakes, 
buckwheat and other griddle cakes, dumpling... 
puddings, etc., etc. Sec advertisement of Dooi.ey 
& Bko., in this paper. 
Ilorsc Exhibitions, Ate.—Those of our readers 
who own or believe in fast horses may be inter¬ 
ested to learn that fimt uugs are lo be" trotted 
out" during the ensuing few weeks as follows: 
Rochester, N. V.. -Aug-1 1; Long BraQoh, N. J., 
Aug. 1 5; Buffalo, N- Y., Aug. s II; Kalamazoo, 
Midi., Aug. 15-18; Springfield, Mass., Aug. 22-24 ; 
Oswego, N. V., Aug. 22 25; Canandaigua, N. Y., 
Sept. 6-8; Nashville, Twin., Sept. 25-2!); Hor- 
nellsville, N. Y., Aug. 10-18; St.Louis,Mo„Sept. 
25 28; Titusville, Pn„ Aug. 22 21; Point Breeze, 
Philadelphia, <>et. 4 0; Rutland, Vfc., Aug. 10 11. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, 
Grnpr Growers' Exhibition. At n joint meet¬ 
ing ol' the executive boards of the New York 
State and Pleasant Valley Grapo Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciations, held «t Hammomlaport, N. Y., July 2a, 
1871, It was resolved that the two unite in lioid- 
ing Iheir next. Annual Fair in that place the 20lli, 
27th and 26th of September next. 
Premium Lints Received—From K. II. Giiky, 
Seo’y.. premium list of the Co (.ton States Mc- 
cliurites&Agricultural Fair Ass’n., of Augusta, 
Ga.—From John II. Kluiakt, Scc'y., f■nhini- 
bus, <). premium list of the Ohio Kinic Rout'd of 
Agriculture.—From ciias. it. Clarke, Scc’y., 
Minneapolis, Minn., that of the Minnesota State 
Agricultural Society. 
Doniphan Co., Kan., Grape Growers \mTii.- 
Juiic 8 th a Society with the above name was 
organized nt Troy. Doniphan Co., Was. The fol¬ 
lowing are the officers elect: f'•>•< *.- Adam Bren¬ 
ner. Vice-Free. -C. Poi rier. SYeaa.—Geo. Bren¬ 
ner. (ice.— Albert Perry. The Association is to 
meet the first Thursday in each month; mem¬ 
bership fee $5. There arc one hundred and 
eighty acres cultivated in grapes in t lint county. 
flCE LS10£ 
Wheat mid Cura the Maine Season. -The Presi¬ 
dent of the Illinois State Agricultural Society is 
a farmer in Sangamon county. His wheat har¬ 
vest occurred so early this year, says an Illinois 
paper, t Imt, ni ter it was over, and the wheat had 
been removed from the field where it. grew, lie 
at once plowed under the stubble and planted 
the ground in corn, which is now up and some 
six Inches high, and he is hopeful of gathering a 
bountiful crop of corn therefrom this fall. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1871 
James Henry Morse, Salem; Edgar Kiiab 
Thompson, llopkltnon; William Wheeler. Con¬ 
cord; i.illcy Brewer Caswell, Fitchburg: Homer 
Lucian Cowles, Hadley; Gao. Porter Strickland, 
Antoshin \ ; Jabez Franklin Fisher, I'itoliburg; 
Lewis Addison Sparrow, Medway; William De¬ 
lano Russel 1, Sunderland; Gideon Hammond 
Allen, Marion; Arthur Dickinson Norcross, 
Munson; William Henry Bowker, Ptiilllpsinn; 
Andrew Lewis Bassett, Amherst.; Emory Alex¬ 
ander EllswOrlh. Barry; Lewis Abel Nichols, 
Danvers; Robert Worthington I.Milan. East- 
httrnpiott; Samuel Howard Richmond, Taunion ; 
Wjjiiu'.l Co mill Ware, Salem; Frank Warren 
Hawley. Iladlcy; Joel Bardwell Page, Conway; 
Frank Lc Pro lei Whitney. Boston : George El- 
wyn Fuller, Greenfield; Edwin Sinead, Green¬ 
field; George Homer Tucker, Spring Creok, 
Pa.; George Lwn-'ja. New Bedford; Wilburn 
Perkins Bltnie, Spring-field ; Frederick Su Clair 
Herrick, Lawrence. 
During the Commencement exercises Prof. 
Agassi/, and Govern .t Ci.am.in addressed the 
graduates. In the afternoon, after the Com¬ 
mencement. exercises proper closed, lion. MAR¬ 
SHALL 1*. WiLDF.u, who, as President of Hie 
Massachusetts Senate, introduced the first, bill 
for the establishment ot an Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, made a historical address, in which he 
traced the progress of agricultural scieuca from 
the establishment til the first Agricultural So¬ 
cieties in this country down to the present 
time. His address was exceedingly interesting, 
eloquent, and was frequently applauded. The 
Boston Journal, commenting upon the exer¬ 
cises and the prospects ol Hie College, says: 
“ The most critical visitors came away with the 
assurance that the College is established on n 
basis which ensures for It a brilliant future." 
“WHAT DO YOU LIVE FOR?” 
Wf. have asked this question a great 
ninny times during tlie past few weeks, and 
(he answers weie*as various and diverse ns 
Hie character of the persons who answered. 
And ns a curious phase of social life, having 
a bearing upon tlie industry of lhe country 
and upon the social well being of lhe people, 
we propose to give some of these answers. 
One man, full of energy and vitality, yet 
without any apparent selfish motive oilier 
than the natural compensation which results 
from service pro bono publico, said he lived 
to be useful, Tie did not know Hint lie hud 
any selfish purpose. He desired the general 
well-being. He wished that, real happiness 
might be universal. He believed the dif¬ 
fusion of useful knowledge would hasten the 
dawn of the inillenium of labor and of life. 
He studies hard, works diligently, denies 
himself what other people call pleasure in 
order to increase the sum of human knowl¬ 
edge and adapt it to the practical wants of 
the people. That is what he lives for. He 
does not seek self-aggrandizement. He wor¬ 
ships til no shrine except that of Truth ; he 
seeks for nothing but Truth; for it lie 
searches as for hidden treasure. And the 
search involves the most profound knowl¬ 
edge of the relations of things to each other, 
of life to life, and of the mutual dependence 
of all human things. 
Another, a religious man, full of zeal for 
the promotion of all moral good, told uslhat 
he lived to develop himself in tlie highest 
degree. He dtd nol, evidently, believe in 
that sort of self-sacrifice which neglects self. 
Whatever added to the sum of his own 
knowledge, lo his capacity to do, to his re¬ 
sources for enjoyment, aud to his intelligent 
appreciation of good, is what, he Jives to 
gain. He believes that, a man’s first duty is 
to himself; and that if he learns to be true 
to himself he will know how, and will he 
true to others. He lives for success; and 
success means to him, not the greatest good 
to the greatest number, but the greatest 
good lo himself. 
A lady said she lived for her family. She 
had no interest nor purposes which did not 
cluster around and center in iheir prosperity 
and happiness. To secure this to them she 
cultivated every faculty of her mind, and 
nursed every good impulse tending to in¬ 
crease her ability to add to the family’s en¬ 
joyment, She believed herself the center of 
a system; and every body in that system 
gravitates toward*Iter. She is the central 
luminary, and it is her province and duty to 
shed light, and give life to all whom she in¬ 
fluences. Accordingly site works with such 
object. Whatever she sees, hears, reads, or 
does, is made to contribute to the fund from 
which she dispenses enjoyment to those 
whom she regards immediately dependent 
upon Iter. 
Another lady said she -was living to get a 
living. She is a lone woman. Site has no 
one to rely upon to support her; no one to 
nurse her in her old age, and she must lay 
aside tlie means to secure for herself the care 
which old age will bring. She laughed at 
the doctrine of unselfishness. She does not 
Bret Nugnr .Manufactory ut Amherst, Mam. 
Ills the announced intention to establish at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College an experi¬ 
mental beet sugar manufactory for the produc¬ 
tion of crude sugar from beets Hiat are growing 
in the vicinity ot the College the present season. 
The purpose is to send the sugar in its crude 
state to refineries already established, just hs the 
raw New Orleans sugars are sent to Northern 
refineries for preparation for family use. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
INVESTMENT SECURITIES 
Jay Cooke & Co. arc now selling, and recommend 
as a profitable and safe investment for all classes, 
the First Mortgage f-BOGold Uunrtsof the Northern 
Pacific Railroad Company. They ba vc .vi years t.i 
run, hear Seven and Tlucc-Tcnths per cent. g'til in¬ 
terest (more than M pci cent, currency j, and are - 
cured by first mid only mortgage on tbo i nti he 
ItOAD AND its r.qt i pm KXi s, and at i.as last, as the 
Rond is completed, on 23,000 Acres of t.iiml to every 
wile of truck, or £00 acres lor eaoli $1,000Baud. They 
am; exempt from l!. S. tux - , principal and interest 
arc payable la gold. DpaorniiiHtloils : Coupons, H 1 " 1 
to $1,1X10 , Registered, $100 to $10,000. 
Northern Pacific T-80'B are it all times receivable, 
lit TI'.N PKIt CENT. ABOVE PAR, ill exchange Ii i the 
Company's lands, at their lowest cash price. 
The proceeds of all sales of lands are required to 
be devoted to tlie repurchase and cancel hi I Ion of the 
First Mortgage Bonds of the Company. The Land 
Grant Of the Road exceeds Fifty Million Acres in 
the most fertile portion of the Northwest, and the 
demand for the Company's lands lor icttlc-mei i al¬ 
ready exceeds the ability oT the Government t" 
complete tlie surveys. This immense Sinking Fund 
will undoubtedly cancel the principal ol the Com¬ 
pany's bonded debt before it falls due. 
Holders of U. S. Five-Twenties, who wish to con¬ 
vert them Into a tlrst-class railroad security, ran do 
so at a present profit, of about 12 per cent., wldle in¬ 
creasing their Interest Income nearly one-fourth, 
by exchanging them for Northern Pacific 7 - Hi's. 
All marketable slocks and bonds will bo received 
In exchange, free of express charges, at their highest 
current price. Full information, maps, pamphlets, 
Ct’., will he furnished on application to any agent 
for the Loan, or to JAY Cooke & Co., New York, 
Philadelphia, or Washington. 
The Farms of I’cnnsyIt anlo.—It appears from 
a table Just prepared at the Census office that 
the aggregate value of farms in Pennsylvania is 
SI,043,500,000, and the vuluo of live stock nearly 
$116,000,000. The estimated value of all farm 
productions, including betterments aud addi¬ 
tion to stock, is $T84,00d,OIK). 
The Fragrant Leaf received from u Southern 
correspondent, does not enable us to determine 
the mime of the plant which bore it. Will not. 
our correspondent favor us with further infor¬ 
mation concerning; it? 
\Y. II. Loomis, long time identified with the 
Indiana Stale Board of Agriculture and like in¬ 
stitutions, at Indianapolis, has been appointed 
Register of lhe Land Office at Fairplay, in Col¬ 
orado 
Canndu at Richmond. —The Canada Farmer, 
noticing the meeting of tbe American Borno¬ 
logical Society, at Richmond, Va., Sept. 6, says: 
It is to be hoped that the Aprieiiltimt] Asso¬ 
ciation ami Hie Fruit Growers' A.-muciatiou of 
Ontario will bo fully and ably represented at 
this gathering, and that there will be such a dis¬ 
play of the fruits of Canada ou the occasion as 
will show the worthy fruit growers of the 
American Rmnologieul Society that lhe Domin¬ 
ion of Canaria can glow us fine fruits as any part 
of the Con tit lent or America. Wo owe it to our¬ 
selves aud to the beautiful land ill which wo 
live, to make Rs resources and capabilities as 
widely known as possible, and to seize upon 
every opportunity, aud especially such an up- 
port unity as the present, tuslmw the world that 
we can raise the host apples that are to lie found 
on the globe. It is to be hoped that the councils 
of the societies, whose charge, it is to foster the 
productive interests ot the-country, will make 
such appropriai inns of their funds as may be 
necessary to secure n full collection of the fruits 
of Ontario nr least, and send them in charge of 
some competent persons to tins GouveiiiJou. 
From wimi we know of the qualify and perfec¬ 
tion ot our Hulls, as compared with those from 
any part of lhe United States, we may safely 
court inspection, and l'eel confident that, we cun 
lead the van. 
We, too. hope that Ontario will take pains to 
makegood thishoast. Wc want to soo Kansas, 
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, New England, 
tbe Middle and Southern States coni paring fruits 
with the Domiuioiiites. We will believe what 
we sec, Gouie on, Canada ! 
Same l.iiiiil. In Ohio the farms are not. so very 
large as they are in some of Hie prairie States, 
but Uncle Billy Wilson of Madison Co. pays 
taxes on 8,701A acres, valued at $254,250. 
BUSINESS INFORMATION. 
The Postage on the Rurnl Ncw-Y other.—A 
subscriber in Delaware Co., Ba., begins a recent 
letter to us in (his v ise :—“ I see by your paper 
that you prepay all American postage, but I am 
called on at our post-office to pay tlie postage," 
&c. Our correspondent is mistaken, (asare two 
or three other subscribers who have written us 
on tlie subject.) AVe only prepay American 
postage on copies of the Kdiial New-Yorker, 
sent abroad—to Canada, Europe, Ac. By refer¬ 
ence tq our terms it will bo observed that we 
add to the usual subseripi ion rate the expense 
of postage on copies sent to forofgn countries— 
and as we have never printed anything about, 
prepaying postage, except iu connection with 
papers sent abroad, it is passing strange that any 
one should misapprehend the matter. For the 
information of all concerned, we will add (what 
we have printed many times before) that tlie 
postage ou the Ruual New-Yorker is only 30 
cents a year to any part ot the United States, 
payable quarterly in advance nt the office where 
received. AVe prepay the American postage on 
copies sent abroad—to Canada, Europe, Ac.,— 
but not on those sent to regular subscribers in 
the United States. 
RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
THIS IS THE SEASON 
of Hie yeitr when tlie system should lie ifianuighly 
purged ut the Imnmrs which create disease. T here 
is no purgative or cathartic so tulld aud efHcaci- as us 
HEI.MBOLD’S GRAPE FILLS, causing neither 
nuuscH nor griping pains—ns is lhe case with the or¬ 
dinary cheap patent pills of the day—most of which 
are composed of calomel or mercury, uml carelessly 
prepared by Inexperienced persons. After tlioroiigh- 
ly purging the system use HELM 1)01.11’' EXTRACT 
SARSAPARILLA, the greatBloodPuritler, imdtliey 
will insure new life, new blood and renewed vigor. 
Try them. 
Another Excursion Burly to the Pacific,— Prof. 
Jas. A. AVhitney, President ol the New York 
Society of Practical Engineering, and Editor of 
the American Artisan, has arranged an Excur¬ 
sion to the Pacific, which includes the following 
gentlemen beside himself:—Rev. Abel Stevens, 
LL. I)., Editor of the Methodist ; Rev. J. AV. 
Tuck, Special Correspondent ot the Cougrega- 
tinnhlist; aud Prot. Gao. AW Plympton, Editor 
of Van Nostrnnd’s Engineering Magazine. This 
parly leaves New York August 7; will take the 
Kansas Pacific Railroad at Quincy, Ill., stopping 
at the Nevada und Colorado mines, visit Salt 
Lake City, Sun Francisco and the Yosemite. 
The object is not pleasure alone, but the ac¬ 
quirement of practical and scientific informa¬ 
tion concerning mines, and mining engineering, 
etc. We shall hope that out* own readers may 
derive some profit from their investigations. 
BURNETT’S C0C0AINE 
needs only to be tried. It dresses the hair beau 
tifully. 
Butler and Cheese Cars.—It is well known to 
those best posted in the trade that the butter 
and cheese product arrives herein bad condition 
at this time of year; and this condition is gen¬ 
erally ascribed to the lack of ventilation iu mil¬ 
way cats. Great losacsresult annually from this 
cause and shippers should combine to secure 
from railways better ventilated or refrigerator 
cars for such summer shipments. Such losses 
do not affect one class of men alone. They af¬ 
fect the interests of lhe producer, transporter 
and consumer alike, us wellnsthe shipper. The 
railway line which (list supplies this need will 
first win Hie recognition of shippers for liberal¬ 
ity and enterprise, and profit accordingly. 
Vacating on the Pacific Slope.—Mr. G-EO. P. 
Rowell, of the great Advertising Agency of 
G. P. R. & Co., is spending his summer vacation 
in visiting California, and the States and places 
cn route thereto. At last, advices he was inter¬ 
viewing Brigham Young and families. A\ r c 
trust he may enjoy the excursion, and ere loug 
return in safety—unconmniinated by the 
“Saints" of Utah or the " Heathen Chinee” of 
California. Our brethern of the Pacific Tress 
will fiud Gko. P. n right genial man, and as 
sound as he is agreeable. If he fills or contracts 
for nil their vacant advertising space, we reckon 
substantial returns will be made therefor in due 
season. During Mr. R.’s absence the clover 
“Co." of the firm, Mr. Chas. N. Iyi:nt, sees to It 
that the advertising business is, like the Ledger's 
stories, duly continued. 
Life Insarnnce.—The growing popularity of 
the Life Iusurauoe business, argues two essential 
things. One is that ttie uncertainty of our life 
tenure in these hurrying times Inis led prudent 
business men to providepn behulf of their fami¬ 
lies against contingencies uot unlikely to occur; 
and i he other thing is, that the leading Insurance 
Companies arc managed in a safe and business¬ 
like way. Among lhe younger ami most vigor¬ 
ous, in the city of New York, is the United States 
Life Insurance Company, located at 201 to 204 
Broadway, opposite City Hall Park. A recent 
visit to the spacious business offices of this Com¬ 
pany, has impressed us with the Idea that there 
is very UcalLhy mul vigorous blood and brains in 
the corps of young gentlemen who nowhave the 
affairs of the Company in charge. President De- 
Witt is a mail who Comprehends the situation 
and gives personal at tent ion to I he tin I ies of his 
ofiice. Secretary Pease is a substantial and well 
We t’an furnish 
ro!limes of the 
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Corn nnd Cotton In tlio South,—The Atlanta 
(Gn„) Constitution says the indications are that 
the cotton crop will be 25 per cent, less this year 
than last, and the corn crop 25 per cent, more- in 
the same States—say Texas, Louisiana, Missis¬ 
sippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and AA r estern 
Tennessee. What is lost in the 1,000,000 bales of 
cotton will be made up and more iu Hie iucreas- 
Thr Season.—For reports under this heading, 
concerning the Crops, Weather, &e., see page 84. 
