Vol. I. WoodMdge, Middlesex County, N. J., Thursday, September 21,1876. No. 24.AD VEBTISEMENTS.

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Select School for Boys,COMBINATION HALL,

PERTH AMBOY, N. J.

REV. B. P. JOHNSON announces to thepublic that Ms Select School for Boys will

• open on the first Monday in September next.. Acknowledging his indebtedness to his pa-trons of the past, he promises by close per-

. sonal attention to the duties devolving upon. him, to merit future favors.

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MAIN STBEET, OPPOSITE POST OITICE, :

WOODBRIDGE, N. J.

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TQA.YID A. FLOOD,

CLAY MEECHASTsT,

WOODBRIDG.E N. J.

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Beecher Matches, ISc per dozen.Soap Powder, Concentrated Lye, Sapolio,

Stove Polish, Mason's Shoe Blacking,Cocoanut, Com Starch, Mustard,

Spices, Pickles, Sweet Oil, Sea-foam, Broma, etc., etc., etc.,

AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICES.BIRKETT and PATEBSON,

Corner of MAIN and FULTON STS.,sep21 WOODBPJDGE, N. J.

Township Directory.TOWXSHTP OFFICERS.

Asssessor—Jothain Coddington.Collector—James E. Berry.Town Clerk—Ephraim Cutter.

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"P T V McNulty, Pas-•> nd 7:io*P. M.;

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)!>nsc.(H-AL—L.f\. J. E. Ingle, Rector; Ser-vices. 10:"0 A. M.. and i P.M.; Sunday,q,.lu>.-,i s p M

c,-.-.^-r. ..^-.TT^-.-—Rev. S. L. Hillyer,Pastor; S.-vi,:^;, 10: 0 A. M., and 7:30 P. M.:Sunday School, 2:30 p. M.; Prayer Meeting,Wednesday, 7:30 P. M.

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OiBce Hours—Froin 7 A. M., to !) P. M.•"••:<-• ',•,,.= -. 7.3.J \ . M., andGP. II." '• Cki^-7 A. J.I., and 4 P. M.

SI. A. BKOWS, Postmaster.

AitEr.icus LODGE, NO. 83, F. & A. M.

W. M.—Howard Valentine. ,S. W.— C. W. Avmess.J. W.—David Noe.Treas.—E. N. Valentine.Sec.—Samuel I. 'Anness.S. D.— I. N. Hurned-J. D.—I). W. BTOWH.Chaplain—T. G. Ahrard.Sr. M. C—J. C- Vanderveer.J. M. C—David A. Flood.Tiler—Charles Mintel.Number of members, 50.Meets first, third and fifth Tuesday eve-

nings of each month.Adjourned till the first Tuesday in Septem-

ber.

WOODBKIDGE LODGE, NO. 20, I. O. OF G. T.

W. C. T. —John Treen, Jr.W. V. T.—Miss Maggie •Gilnian.W. Sec—Mrs. Geo."V. lielly."W. F. Sec.—Thomas Groves.W. Treas.—Miss Nellie Ensign.W. Chap.—Horace Drake.W. M.— H. B. Mawbey.W. I. 6.—Prank Eomaine.W. O. G.—Geo. W. Dully.P. Yv. C. T.—S. P. Noe. *Lodge Deputy—John Hall.County Deputy—G-. Vf. Dally.

Number of members, 51.Meets every Thursday night.

Iniproi'Gmaitn.

The Ch-urcb. Yard Committee of the FirstPresbyterian Church, have been making ad-ditional improvements upon the premises.The two fronts of the church yard have beenencircled with an iron bar fence with cased andsanded posts to imitate sand-stone, while in-side of the fence a large number of evergreensand ornamental trees have been planted, thewalks gravelled, the street in front graded,and the lawn sodded. When completed theseimprovements will add exceedingly to the ap-pearance of the old ch-nxch grounds.

We understand that Hon. Charles A. Camp-bell has recently contracted for a lot of brick,for the purpose of building two or three newlurases.

The foundation of the Barron Library isvery nearly completed.

Middlesex County Sunday-SchoolConvention. -

Preliminary to the meeting of the aboveConvention in the First Presbyterian church,of this place, on the 20th inst., the Sunday-schools of the Presbyterian, Congregationaland Methodist churches appointed from theirrespective bodies the following several com-mittees :

Executive Committee—L. Q. Potter, W. Y.Frazee, D. "W. Voorhees,' J. M. Melick, A.Sehoder, T. B. KnifSn.

Reception Committee—J. P. Edgar, E. J.Thompson, John Lockwood, M. A. Brown,Dudley S. Anness, S. Frazee, W. Edgar, Fred.A. Solace, Everts F . Randolph.

Entertainment Commitiee-r-Mrs-W. T. Ames,Mrs. J. R. Valentine, Mrs. Frank Clarkson,Mrs. James Birkett, Miss Emma Harned, MissLottie Campbell, Miss Phosbe Freeman, MissKate Earl, Slias M. Thompson, Miss EmmaFowler, Miss Ella Allward, Miss Maggie Prall,Mrs. Jas. M. Brown, Miss S. A. Cutter, Miss.Anna Coddington.

The forepart of the week was busily em-ployed by the Executive and EntertainmentCommittees in making arrangements for thedelegates to the Convention. Notwithstand-ing a great deal had to be done yet the com-mittees had completed their work by Wednes-day morning, and reported: everything ready.

TUESDAY EVENING SEKVICE.

Pursuant to previous notice exercises wereheld in the church on Tuesday evening, con-sisting of a praise meeting led by Prof. W. F.Sherwin, of Newark. The praise serviceswere very interesting, lasting about a half anhour.

S. W. Clark, of Newark, Secretary of theNew Jersey Sunday School Association, thenfollowed with an address entitled "ChildPiety." The address of Mr. Clark whichlasted about three quarters of an hour, wasboth entertaining and instructive, and open-ed a new field of thought for the old as wellas the young.

Following the address of Mr. Clark, Prof.Sherwin favored the congregation with thepoem of "Eock of Ages."

THE CoNVEKTioy.At 10:30, promptly, the Convention was

called to order by the President of the Asso-ciation, Eev. H. F. Smith, D.D., of NewBrunswick. At the opening of the Conventionthe attendance was not very large, but beforethe morning proceedings closed the numbersincreased until the several schools of thecounty were represented by their respectivedelegations.

After calling the Convention to Order,prayer was offered by Rev. B» J. Burtt, ofSouth Amboy, followed by singing, "AVhat afriend we have in Jesus."

Rev. Mr. Doolittle, of South River, offeredprayer, and was followed by the reading of119th Psalm by the President, Dr. Smith.

On motion, Joseph Fisher, of New Bruns-wick, was appointed clerk of the Convention.

On motion, Mr. D. S. Voorhees, Superin-tendent of the 1st Congregational S. S., wasappointed musical manager until the arrivalof Prof. Weeks, of Brooklyn.

The Convention being fairly opened for thetransaction of business, Rev. Joseph McNulty,pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church, ofWoodbridge, delivered an address of welcomein which he appropriately and warmly exten-ded the right hand of Christian fellowship tothe officers, delegates and friends in atten-dance.

Dr. Smith, President of the Association,then delivered the annual address, which wasa clear, comprehensive and able production.The leading point in the discourse was thatthe stndy of the Bible is the chief thing inSunday schools, and this snould be para-mount to all other instruction. At the con-clusion of Dr. Smith's address he called uponthe audience to unite in singing, "What shallthe harvest be."

The following committees were then ap-pointed :

On Enrollment—William Edgar and S. G.Garretson.

On Nominations—C. B. Stout, J. G. Garret-son and B. S. Everitt.

On Resolutions—Revs. J. M. Tnttle and R.J. Burtt and David Gillinur.

On place of next meeting—Rev. J. G-. SyDi-mes and S. G. Morris, and Silas E. Weir.

The several Townships being called report-ed as follows :

No. of No. of No. ofSchools. Teacliers. Scholars.

New Brunswick, 21 411 3,391Raritan 11 59 420Piscataway. 10 97 735Woodbridge, 7 S3 643P e r t h Amboy, 3 50 422South Amboy, 5 64 4G9Madison, no report,

last year's record, 4 24 180East Brunswick, 5 54 350Monroe. 10 114 75SCranbury , 5 62 363South Brunswick 7 76 432North Brunswick, 2 . 22 243

Total, 90 1,110 8,419Mr. Gilbert, the Secretary and Treasurer,

made his annual report. He reported theschools of the county to be in excellentworking order; the sum of S39.51 in thetreasury.

At the close of the Report, at the sugges-tion of Mr. C. B. Stout, Mr. V. M. W. Suy-doiu, Superintendent of the S. S. of the 1stReformed church, of New Brunswick (theoldest Sabbath School in the county;, offeredup a fervent prayer, giving thanks for theprosperity that has attended the Sabbath-schools in the past.

On motion of Rev. S. J. Morris the Conven-tion adjourned for dinner, which was servedin the Sunday School room. We would thattime and space would admit of a descriptionof the dinner provided by the committee ofladies, but a conclusive proof of its excellence

is evidenced by the fact that Rev. J.M. Tuttle,of Perth Amboy, fairly overflowing with grati-tude, rose in his place at the ' 'Dominies" ta-ble and returned thanks to the ladies.

AlTEENOON EXEECISES.

The President appointed the followingdelegates to the conventions of adjoiningcounties.

Monmouth—Rev. B. S. Everitt.Somerset—Silas E. Weir.Mercer—Rev. J. Gr. Symmes.Hunterdon—Rev. S. J. Morris.Rev. J. M. Tuttle, on behalf of the commit-

tee on resolutions, made the following report:RESOLVED, That we would urge a larger at-

tendance upon these county conventions, be-lieving that thereby a deeper interest wouldbe awakened among our people in behalf ofthe great Sunday School work.

RESOLVED, That we favor the appointmentof fraternal delegates to adjoining county con-ventions, expecting a reciprocation of thecourtesy.

RESOLVED, That we will do what we can tocultivate a fraternal feeling among the severaldenominations presented in this organiza-tion.

RESOLVED, That we consider the grand aimof all Sunday School work is the salvation ofsouls, and.we would urge all the officers andteachers to labor for the conversion of all con-nected with our schools,

RESOLVED, That we would, in due form,reiterate our vote of thanks to the ladies ofWoodbridge for their generous hospitality,displayed in the elegant and abundant prep-arations made for their guests.

(J . M. TUTTLE,Committee -! R. J. BUKTT,

[.DAVID GUILMAN.

The Committee on the Place of Next Meet-ing, named the M. E. Church of this town, asthe place where the next Annual Conventionwill be held.

The Committee on Nominations presentedthe following names for officers of the Asso-ciation, for the following year, which wereunanimously elected.

Presieent—J. G. Garretson, Perth Amboy.Vice Presidents—V. M. W. Suydam, New

Brunswick; H. B. Zimmerman, New Bruns-wick; Daniel S. Voorheea, Jr., Woodbridge.

Secretary and Treasurer—Judson H.- Gil-bert, Metushen.

Township Secretaries—Cranbury, Peter R.Bergen, Cranbury; East Brunswick, BenjaminWhitmee, New Brunswiek; Madison, notfilled; Monroe, T. Wilton Hill, Jamesburg;New Brunswick, Silas E. Weir, New Bruns-wick; North Brunswick, John Evans, Milton;Perth Amboy, S. G. Garretson, Perth Amboy;Piscataway, Hon. A. L. Runyon, Dunellen;Raritan, C. W. P. Merritt, Metuchen; Sayre-ville, J. M. Blew, Sayreville; South Amboy,Rev. R. J. Burtt, South Amboy; South Bruns-wick, Charles Everitt, Dayton; Woodbridge,T. Harvey Morris, Jr., Woodbridge.

Addresses were delivered on the "Relationsof the school to the Church," and other sub-jects, by Revs. J. G. Symmes, of Cranbury,A. E. Waffle, of New Brunswick, J. M. Tuttle,of Perth Amboy, H. M. Sanders, of Railway,and others. Mr. Henry Redfield, of Metuchentaught the Sabbath School lesson for the week,the audience acting as pupils, alter which anexcellent supper was partaken of. amid muchmerriment.

EVENING SESSION.

Mr. John G. Garretson, the newly electedPresident, took the chair, in absence of theretiring President.

"What a Friend we have in Jesus," wassung with telling effect, Prof. Geo. S. Weeksleading, assisted by Prof. S. H. Crook, on thecornet, followed by "Jesus Saves Me Now,""Let the Saviour In," and "Come Away to Je-sus," and "Sing a Hymn to Jesus," a duet byProfs. Weeks and Crook, the audience joiningin the chorus. "In the By-and-By," wassung, the whole congregation rising at thelast verse.

Prayer was offered by Rev. S. J. Morris,succeeded by the reading of the second chap-ter of Ephesians by Mr. Henry Redfield ofMetuchen.• Prof. C. 11. Sanders addressed the congre-

• gation, taking for his subject, "Child Educa-tion," and pointing out obedience as the firstlesson to be taught a child. "Waiting andWatching," a solo b}T Prof. Weeks, was thevocal gem of the evening and was listened towith rapt attention.

Rev. S. J. Morris offered the following,which was adopted :

WHEEEAS, The time of holding our annualConvention occurs at a period ot the yearwhen we may expect storms (being the timeof the Equinox), and

WHEEEAS, It also conflicts with other simi-lar conventions; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That our Constitution be soamended as to read: (in reference to the timeof holding the Convention) "the Thursdayafter the first Monday of the month of Sep-tember," instead of the third Wednesday.

Eev. Adrian Westveer, of Dayton spoke ofthe relations of the church to the school.

"Hold the Fort" was sung by the entirecongregation.

Eev. B. S. Everitt, of Jamesburg, delivereda brief address on "the Bible and how tostudy it."

Mr. J. G. Garretson made some feeling andstirring remarks about the great work of theSunday-school in the conversion of children.

On motion, a vote of thanks was tenderedto Mr. Gilbert, the County Secretary.

After the singing of "Happy Day" by thecongregation, the Convention was formallydissolved, Rev. J. M. McNulty pronouncingthe benediction.

Although the number of visitors was not aslarge as anticipated, yet the greatest interestwas manifested by all present, and the occa-sion was pronounced a decided success by all.

The guests, one and all, were loud in theirpraises of the ample preparations made fortheir accommodation and comfort, and weheartily congratulate the several committees,the ladies in particular, on the grand successachieved.

Matrimonial.

Prospect Hill was honored on last Wednes-day afternoon with its first wedding, at theresidence of Mr. Isaac Melick, the particularsof which we could not give in our last issue,as the pages of the "Hour" were being "lock-ed up" at the same time the matrimonial knotwas being tied.

At 2 P.M., Rev. Joseph McNulty, pastor ofthe First Presbyterian ehnrch, pronouncedthe fatal word and administered the pastoralblessing to Miss Susie Melick and Mr. GeorgeHawes, of Staten Island, which united themin the sacred bands of matrimony and sentthem on their future journey of life as oneand inseparable. The briae was looking un-usually well and attired in her modest travel-ing suit, presented the picture of content-ment and happiness. The groom appearedjustly proud of the prize which he had won,and by every action and expression indicatedthe self-consciousness that he was the hap-piest benedict in the land.

After the usual congratulations upon suchoccasions, the bridal party aitd guests retiredto a sumptuous repast, extending their en-joyment to an hour whieh made it too late forthe bride and groom to take the proposedtrain for their Centennial bridal tour. How-ever, nothing was lost for the evening and thenight were turned into merry-making an I so-cial contact. Next morning the bride andgroom departed for the Centennial and afterspending a few days at the Great Exposition,like sensible young married people returnedto their home on Staten Island to begin lifein domestic reality.

But very few outside of the immediate fam-ily relatives were in attendance at the mar-riage, yet there was quite a houseful.

After the ceremonies and later in the eve-ning, some departing friends improvised aGhivarie, which had the novelty of variety ifnot the virtue of entertainment.

When, where and by whom will ProspectHill be again honored ?

Storm, at Woodbridge Beach.The severe storm on Sunday, to use the ex-

pressive language of an intimate friend ofours, literally played "wild •works" at theBeach. The bluff was washed awaj' to an ex-tent unequalled by any storm that has evervisited our coast.

Mr. Howard Tappen reports that the windtore the shutters and doors from the smallhouse near the Landing, and forced him toseek shelter elsewhere. The neat yacht, theproperty of Mr. Chapman, of Railway, andwhich Mr. Tappen has kept for the use ofpleasure parties during the summer, waswashed ashore, and so badly smashed andotherwise damaged as to be nearly valueless.

The rowing boats of Messrs. C. A. Camp-bell and H. N. Demarest, and two Whitehallboats belonging to Mr. Tappen, parted theirmoorings and drifted awaj'.

All the bathing houses upon the Beach, in-cluding those of Messrs. Tappen, Boynton andAcker, were destroyed and the building ma-terial borne away with the tide.

Mr. Acker and Mrs. Weir each lose severalfine boats. The improvements lately madeon Boynton Beach were seriously damagedand will require a considerable expense toput the Beach in its former fine condition.

Wedding Serenade.

As we were passing down Main street onSaturday evening, the sounds of music (base(tain predominating) indicated the fact thatsomething unusual was taking, or had takenplace. Upon inquiry, we learned that a ser-enade, or a "racket," as the boys term it, wasabout to be given to Mr. Frank Romain, whohad been that day married to Miss JosephineHilsdorf, of this place, in New York city.

The boys waited upon the bridegroom, who"said something," much to the delight of themusicians. A subsequent call was made up-on Mr. Birkett, who also "contributed" to thejoy of the occasion..

Bell for the Public School.The bell purchased by the trustees for this

building, landed in this place on Monday.It is a Meneely bell, weighing fifteen hundredpounds. Upon the outside of the bell areraised inscriptions, reading as follows :

"School District No. 24, A. D. 1S7G.Howard Valentine, D. C.Wm. H. Berry, ) T t

Chas. A. Campbell, \Manning & Randolph Carpenters.W. B. VanVorst & Co., Masons.

'Wisdom is better than gold-'"The bell will be placed in postion to-day or

to-morrow.

The Ketv MetJwilist Bell.This bell, manufactured by Meneely, Troy,

New York, arrived at the same time as thebell for the Public School building. Itweighs two thousand pounds, being eighthundred pounds heavier than the old bell.Upon it is inscribed in raised letters ;

"Methodist Episcopal Church, Woodfaridge,New Jersey.

' Let him that heareth say come,' '*This new bell will take the place of the old

one, it is expected, during the week.

LOCAL PEOOF.—Our fellow citizen David A.,Flood, gives incontrovertible local proof ofthe efficacy of Coles' Rheumatic Remedy.

He has been suffering for two years withrheumatism and for a number of months wasunable to turn over in his bed. Within thepast two months he has been using Coles*Rheumatic Remedy, and oonfesses to a rapidimprovement which guarantees a find cure.

HIS JEWELS.

BX Vf. M. L. JiY.

In tlie hush, and the gxay of the twilight,Looking out o'er a shadowy sea,

Half -way between musing and dreaming,In a vision it cometh to me,

When the "Lord makethup His jewels,What some of my friends will tie.

One keeps, in her loving compassion,Wide room for all under the sun;

White hands of strong help she oufcstretchefcliTo captive and poor and undone—

I know she will shine as a RubyOn the breast of the Crucified One.

Another, some wonderful angel,In passing has brushed with his wing;

Her touch has the magic creative,Her words can both sparkle and sing—

As a Diamond catching the sunlight,She -will answer the smile of the King.

Still another so richly is colored,Through passion and longing and pain,

Through the darkness of deep desolation,The pitiless beating of rain—

I know I shall see her as Amber,In the robe of the Lamb that was slain.

As a priestess of Song, one abidethIn her place by the altar side,

And the wine of rich melody poureth,The bread of sweet hymns doth divide—

I think as a Sapphire mast precious, -She will deck the pure brow of the Bride.

Deep under her smile, one pressethSuch pain of bereavement down,

Such exquisite travail of genius,Such rustling of hopes that are brown—

As an Opal, far inwardly burning,She will shine in her Master's crown.

So still and so holy, one otherThe darkest of pathways hath trod,

Yet stained no white hem of her garments—(Lie softly upon her, O Sod!)

Meseems as a Pearl that is priceless,She will rest on the bosom of God.

One's soul is an Amethyst tender;One seemeth an Emerald rare;

And one in the likeness of Jasper,Of a truth, is surprisingly fair—

They will shine as the stars, and forever,In the robe which the Bridegroom doth wear.

[Communicated.]

THE CTTRRENCY QUESTION.

To the Editor of "The Independent Hour:"

I ask pardon of your correspondent"T" for so mistaking his age and ex-perience. I judged entirely from hisstyle of writing. That a man who canremember the times of 1836 can so mis-read the truths of history is one of theproblems we frequently encounter,where age only repeats and confirms theerrors of youth, and experience onlyserves to lead deep and deeper into themazes of error.

Owl Creek it appears was a financiallocality known in the West. I was cer-tain it never had "been a familiar term inNew York.

I shall leave T's experience to tell foritself in regard to the facilities of ex-change in those days, doubting whetherany considerable number of people ac-quainted with the National currencysystem, would desire to return to them,even for the purpose of risking thechances of getting whole by a luckycotton speculation.

Unable apparently to appreciate theexquisite irony of his words "T" says,"Now what a contrast was witnessedwhen the National bank system failed.You could get nothing: people onBroadstreet were frantic because with pilesin their banks they could not obtain adollar to buy what they thought were bar-gains in stocks." How very unfortunate!The money was reserved for widowsand orphans, a most reprehensiblething certainly!!

In my opinion (the officer of) "one ofthe largest National banks" who "coollytold one of their wealthy customers whoapplied for a deposit of greenbacks"that "he was no better than a frighten-ed chambermaid," made a very sensibleremark.

I consider it the bounden duty of theofficers of any bank when the3" becomeclearly satisfied that they are to be runupon to an extent beyond their abilityto pay, solvent or insolvent to closetheir doors at the earnest moment. Byso doing only can they escape doing in-justice to that portion of their deposi-tors who from absence, "want of sharp-ness or business experience, sex or—in-capacity, are unable to make theirdemand, and who if they were able sim-.ultaneously to make it, could only re-:ceive what they "will be eventually enti-tled to, a due proportion of assets of thebank in case of its insolvency. , .:• '.

Before "T" attempts to convict me ofabsurdity he should /be sure of hisground. 'iLshort conversation with anyintelligent banM".officer:; would, explainmany things to him which, at fost, ap-'pear singular. For instance, he calls it:

absurd ariff contradictory for nie to as-sert in one paragraph that the banks.cannot get enough of -their notes, while

in another I say they are surrenderingthem back to the government.

The explanation is exceedingly sim-ple. The teaks are not required to re-turn their own notes, but may depositgreenbacks or other National notes andprocure a surrender of the .due proper T

tioK <of bonds, the Government assum-ing the redemption and cancellation ofthe notes at its convenience,- and in caseof a bank retiring altogether from bus-iness the notes are called hi by adver-tisement. TMs authority was given tosave the endless delay and complicationwhich would otherwise attend the clos-ing up of banks.

Therefore, when in any particular lo-cality a bank desires to reduce its circu-lation, it may avail itself of that privi-lege, irrespective of the return of itsown notes for the purpose, which, as Isaid before, are not sent.in.for. redemp-tion in sufficient numbers, except it maybe at certain seasons of the year.

"T" challenges me to show a singleinstance where a solvent State bank-note ever depreciated to the extent thatthe National bank-notes have. Whilewe have a legal tender currency,, theamount of variation from that is neces-sarily the measure of depreciation, andI do not recollect that the National cur-rency was ever depreciated as much asa half per cent, while notes of Statebanks in Maryland and Rhode Islandwere frequently at a discount of 25 to50 per cent. :

I do not consider that our legal ten-der currency ever really.depreciated tothe extent that would be indicated bythe gold premium in times of panic.Gold was a commodity, not a currency,and the factitious price put upon it in acorner is no criterion.

I have learned one thing in my ex-perience, which if "T" has learned hehas forgotten. It is very unsafe to pre-dict what would follow or would havefollowed any particular course of ac-tion, and it will be observed I haveavoided it in these articles. "T" con-siders it "certain that the original green-back issue would have always kept on apar with the bonds now worth 120."

I may not be inclined to dispute that,but should consider it safer to say thatthose bonds, instead of being at a pre-mium of 20 per cent., would have beenat as great a discount now as the green-back currency. However, I am not in-clined to defend the charge. The con-vertible clause would probably haveworked well. I was in favor of it, andit does not affect the National currencyquestion in the least.

And why should not the owners ofgovernment bonds draw their gold in-terest even though they be Nationalbanks ? Does "T" propose to confiscatethese bonds because of their owner-ship ? Is "T" not satisfied with the re-strictions and limitations which I haveshown surround the issue of Nationalcurrency, that when these banks volun-tarily surrender the exclusive privilegeswhich "T" so denounces, they shall suf-fer the further penalty of past indiscre-tion by being deprived of the right to"lay back and draw their gold interest,"a right which inheres in the humblestcitizen who is able to purchase even a Jfifty dollar bond. Are we a free peo-ple, and is this the Centennial year ?

"T" says, "what we want is the green-back part of the system which costs usnext to nothing," "we can dispense withthe other costing us over twenty mil-lions in gold."

This, as I have shown, is an utter mis-statement of facts to call it by no harsh-er name. The National currency coststhe Govenment nothing that is not in-volved in the manufacture and issue ofgreenbacks.

"T" now proposes, or perhaps ex-pounds, his theory of the issue of green-backs. Let us examine it a little.

Government is to "pay out its certifi-cates of indebtedness which the receiv-er can use to pay away -for what heowes, or, if he owes nothing, can con-vert it into interest bearing bonds andan immense load of taxation will oe takenoff of labor by this plan."

Very likely, but how are we going topay our accruing interest; when shallwe begin to reduce, and when are wegoing to pay our National debt ? Thisis a return to the times of 1863 and1864, prosperous, no doubt, but forwhich we are now paying the penalty.Banks and nations cannot be relievedfrom the same consequences of indiscre-tion and lack of thrift,which follow;them in individualsr The Government:cannot continually; make-its-'^ymerf;s;

in certificates jj>£. it&j .iadeljtecfcqess jepn-verted into bonds without more or lessspeedy disaster.-;. T / I ; :hli; '

-., The, average. savings, /of. individualshave been, shown to .be .in prosperous;times lessTthauthree per cent, per an-,num. There is therefore little, danger;

of much conversion of currency intobonds after It has reached its minimum,in a condition of peace and with awholsome revenue. The dangers to beapprehended are as follows : The in-convenience of distributing, the green-back currency. Large sums may beexpended tj the government in thevicinity of navy yards at times, and atother times work may of necessity besuspended. The National capital mightreceive an undue proportion of the dis-bursements of the government, therebytending to that centralization whichhas been so deprecated. There seemsto "be no adequate provision for the dis-tribution of the currency into those re-mote districts where we desire to pro-mote industry and encourage produc-tion. The railroad interest which hasbeen regarded as such a gigantic foe tolabor (in which regard I do not share)now receives a large amount of govern-ment compensation.

In short I am unable to conceive ofany mode of reaching the masses withthe beneficent advantages of cash ex-cept through the medium of local banks,whose officers, from personal observa-tion and protected by self interest, canselect the worthy and supply them withthe accommodation needed for the pro-secution of their several lines of busi-ness.

"T" asks, "why should we mix it (theGovernment credit) with the less per-fect credit of these institutions ?" I amunable to see any mixing up. Each tubstands on its own bottom. As to de-positors a National bank is as liable tofail as any other, except that the sys-tem provides, at the expense of thebanks themselves and for the j'ublieprotection, a body of examiners, whoshould give early report of any un-soundness, that the loss, if it does fall,may be as light as possible.

The government credit protects thebill holder and the government is se-cured, not by the more or less sufficientresponsibility of the bankers, but by anactual deposit of capital. The credit ofthe banker does not come in questionin this matter at all. Banking is free asair to those who can command the cap-ital, and a decent character, whichought to be, if it is not, a requisite.

Whenever it happens that the Gov-ernment credit can command capital ata lower rate of interest than it is nowpaying, "T" may be assured that it willdo so. The process is going on everyyear, and he may be assured also thatthe National currency system has hada great deal to do with it, by takingand holding large amounts of govern-ment bonds, thus keeping interest andprincipal from going out of the country.

"The question" (I quote) "is not be-tween credit and no credit as some"("T") "would have us believe but inwhat form credit can best perform thefunction of a sovmd and safe currency."

"T" says "the redeemable feature inthe original issues of greenbacks wouldhave kept down any over accumulationof currency, and the wants of the gov-ernment icould hace kept up the supply,and under it no such panic could haveoccurred."

This is a mere assertion—to.the firstpart of it I assent, but not to the other,when the greenback issue by reason ofits abundance at any particular seasonof the year has been so far convertedinto bonds by those whose successfulbusiness has enabled them to do so,that there is no redundancy, suppose anew class of business men comes intoactivity ; (and it can be reasonably sup-posed. )

These men have kept large depositsin bank awaiting the time when theirnecessities are likely to call for its use.The time comes; greenbacks are scarce.They have no bonds, their deposits arein bank payable on demand. They de-mand them. The bank if it holdsbonds enough and they are convertibleinto greenbacks may supply the de-mand, but if I recollect rightly, accord-ing to "T," the bonds were not --to--bere-convertible until all the debt "is con-verted into these certificates of indebt-edness of the small infere&bearing bonds."whatever that last may mean.

Anyhow, suppose the banks do nothold the bonds, they are in the pocketsof the. men who have .done a .successful

'spring business. Now the forwarderswant their money and the 'first- man

"who fails to get it precipitates a riXQ,a panic follows and there-is nq;qur-

be had. . ... jcJ-A • :Ii tHW currency can be devisedJthatw31'puif Aoney into a"man*s pocket jsvh'o has \pot yarned or inherited or stolen, ft. Iput tlie last in to_. forestall\ criticism,!since it is one of the possibilities which.• " T " m a y . s u g g e s t : * • • " • . • " ! : v •-.<•••'- ••••\>a u s .

There are capitalists^ outside of bankswifii'nerve; ability-''aWcl Shrewdness farbeyond the average ;bank officer, ,,,and,

many of them with capital enough tobuy -ap the largest of the banks. Tothese men are due many of the financial•crises of. the past twelve years. Theywork in secret, darkly, !Uid a man needsto be conversant with their movcraepts(as the writer has been) through theirbank accounts, to. see the injury they:are able .todnflict upon an unsuspecting-community. • • • • . • •--:•'

"T" appears to imagine that the lock-ing up of money can only be done bythe collusion of the banks with conspir-ators. That is an error. True, when,the magnitude of a transaction arousessuspicion and notes are compared theirplans are sometimes defeated, "bnt everyone knows that it is the commonestthing in the world for an importer toborrow gold on the pledge of green-backs and vice-versa for that matter.The practice has been then for capital-ists desiring to have greenbacks lockedup, to spread reports through th'eiragents, and every curbstone broker inBroad street is their agent, inducing im-porters and all others intex-ested in goldtransactions to borrow gold, which theconspirators have made plenty for thepurpose. Some fine day the trap issprung, the corner is turned ; the goldcannot be had to release the greenbacks,for both greenbacks and gold are- lock-ed up by the conspirators, the banksbeing entirely innocent parties to morethan two-thirds of the -operation. Amillion of dollars may be easily used inthis way to lock up five millions. Theremedy is only in. the banks keepingthemselves so strong as to impair whatare usually considered reasonable pro-fits.

I have here answered the third findninth paragraphs of "TV second letterin a manner which I trust will be intel-ligible to him.

"T" says "we have known of no cor-ruption under the greenback sysicuj."

That is quite true, and the misfor-tune is, that we are not likely to knowof it. Far be it from me to create dis-trust in the Government, or to intimatethat such gigantic frauds have beenperpetrated, but I do say that thsre isno proof whatever capable of being ad-dressed to the popular understanding.that our issues of legal-tender currencyhave not been double the amount forwhich the Government has publicly ac-counted. There is no test of deprecia-tion which caxi be brought to bear uponthe subject. "We are not able to distin-guish the effect of an issue of four hun-dred millions from that of an issue ofeight hundred millions. There is noplace of redemption to which any ofthis money has tended for the last fif-teen years. The only redemption forit has been its utter destruction or itsmutilation to that extent that its fur-ther circulation became impraetible, inwhich event it has been presumably de-stroyed under proper precautions, andnew currency issued in substitu-tion. But what safeguards surroundthis immense power we know not.They rest entirely in the honesty andgood faith of the ruling administration.I trust I have awakened "T" to a senseof one great danger connected with thegreenbanck issues.

"T" is urgent that I shall, as hethinks I have not done, point out theadvantages of the National currencysystem. I shall recapitulate them inray final article to which I am gradu-ally leading him.

He thinks the power to create papermoney should be kept under the con-trol of "the people." Well, I think sotoo, but this is a republic and the peo-ple only act through their legal repre-sentatives. Those representatives shoulduse their power so carefully that thepeople may be assured it will not beabused. The laws made should com-mend themselves to the popular ap-proval by the plainness with which theyfix responsibility and make it concur-rent with eveiy inducement to honesty.This seems to me to be admirably donein the National Currency Act.

That system is a check or spy uponthose in authority, because every Na-tional note is seen, if not signed, by, theofficers of the banks which issue it, andthey are concurrently responsible for itsissue. I t is a check upon the issue ofbonds, because the bonds are alwayswithin the control of those, efficers forexchange ox return.- The spies-or in-spectors are incorruptible and unbriba-

. ble, because they are incorporeal, not: offlesh .and blood, but silent, and infalli-

..ble witnesses. ., : ;/, • - - ., TJ.-.

THE CATTLE KTJffG OP IHEIPLAESFS..

The experience of Mr. Tliff, the " cat-tle king of the plains," whose greatranche in Northern; Colorado includes

: hundreds" of square miles ". of bottomand upland ranges, is typical of thewhole.. During the severe winter of1871-72 there were deep snows thatremained a long time, and the stormswere incessant. In the midst of them)Mr. Biff visited his ranch and. found.Ms cattle dying and scattered by thou-sands. In sj)ite of all that he could doless than half of them were recovered,and those had strayed at spring timeinto two different States and four, dif-ferent Territories. More than $20,000were expended in efforts to find them.At last, in the ' spring of 1874, fivethousand undiscovered head werecharged to profit and loss. Could thesehave been sold the previous, fall theywould have brought at least $18 a head,a total of $90,000. Yet the Cattle Kingand many cattle princes beside himmake money from cattle raising on theplains, for they learn much by experi-ence, and the demand is great enoughto warrant all their risks. . Mr. Tifff hasnow more than 26,000 head of cattle ofall ages, sizes and conditions. Nearly5,000 calves were branded on this ranchlast year, and he sold about the samenumber of four-year old steers and fatcows. At the average .'selling price of$32 a head net, 4,000 headfbrought him$128,000." He employs from twelve tothirty-five men to take care of hisimmense herds in summer. By tlie

; introduction of thoroughbred DurmuiI bulls the herds are rapidly graded up,J and lie estimates the increase, outsideI of pvnv-'li.^pc nn^l srdes. to l^c TUJGUL-

; seventy per cent, a year. Besides thecattle raised on his ranche he deals

I largely in Texas and Indian cattle, andi last seuson advertised for $v!0.i!0<l }\po,rij of Texas cattle to be delivered during

the driving months of 1878. If liedoes not obtain this number from Texss-lie expects to supply the deficiency

I -with Oregon p.v.d. Montana cattle, whichi are beginning to come east. The Ln-

ramie Plains, higher up among themountains, are a paradise for stock,especially for sheep, and aware over themountains toward the Pacific there arestock ranches that throw even Biffs inthe shade. I n the Humboldt valley,,some five hundred and fifty miles eastfrom San Francisco, one cattle firm,Dunphy & Hildreth, have $20,000-- acresfenced in. I t is seven miles across,from their eastern to their -westernfence. The fences, made of redwoodposts and Oregon pine boards, cost $900a mile, and there are twenty miles ofthem. The firm owns 40,000 head ofcattle, which are mostly shipped to SanFrancisco. The stock is all of goodquality, and some of the best bloodedanimals in the country are annuallypurchased to improve the grades. Thesnow here seldom falls deep, does nofestay long, and the grass makes its ap-pearance early in the spring. Grass,though, does not seem essential to thewell being of some of the fattest cattleon the continent. Further down theHumboldt valley, where nothing butsage brush, grease wood and|alkali-dustis to be seen, the Central Pacific trainshave to slacken speed to avoid maimingheavy heards, for which the greengrease wood bush is alleged to furnishabundant provender.—N. T. World.

• '• Goodhue county,1 Minn., produced as :;mueh ' wheat last --year -as1 alt-the1 six:

New England States combined^ ^'v^ \

Wisconsin- produces -100,000 bushels;of cranberries annually. . . : . ••-, • ;

A LADY ON StEEHKO CABS.—A ladytraveler writing about sleeping cars andher experience on the same, says :

A woman's toilet, to be satisfactorilyperformed, demands some other posi-tion than prone upon the face. Like-wise, it is somewhat more agreeable toperform portions of the toilet unobserv-ed by the multitude. Men either arenot burdened with modesty, or theyhave minds that soar so high above thefeminine that they give no thought tothe embarrassment attendant upon themethod and manner of disrobing one'sself in those quarters. A woman care-fully extinguishes herself behind thecurtains, slyly unloosens the lace, en-velopes herself decorously in a largewater-proof, not daring to lay aside herchignon for fear of a surprise, and pro-ceeds to bestow herself away uncom-fortable and depressed. The strangerin the bunk above leisurely divests him-self of his outer garments, pulls offboots,' loosens suspenders, and bounds-into b6d with graceful ease, .rather en-joying the.situation. I : think if therecould-be a ladies' car for sleeping and

"toilet exclusive of gentlemen,, it. wouldfee a' great 'advancement in. wayfaring

-Civilization. I thought so this morning., especially, fwhen I awoke frozn uneasy

7-slumb&rs to, find the. foot board fallen,.,and a:grpup of serene-trowed men gaz-: ing smilingly xipdn ray sleeping beauty."-Let tis'have separate cars;' good people,if-and we; can ask nothing more of you in

the way of luxury and restful ease.

[Conunanicatea.1

THE IOTANCIAI, QUESTION.

"U's" reiteration of liis determinationnot to enter into a controversy is verymuch like his plan of mating a papercurrency redeemable in gold, workingexactly contrary, he goes on -with hiscontroversy and the plan does not payrfche gold when most needed, and as forthe idea broached in his fifth, paragraph•of giving the banks, after making theirnote promises to pay in gold, the optionof paying them in something else would•do credit to the cashier who told hiscreditor demanding greenbacks, thatlie was no better than a frightenedchambermaid, and should not haveanything.

He asks where the reserve shall bekept, we reply where the gold is nowkept, in the treasury, and experience•will show how rnueli will be necessary,and as we before stated it will requirevastly less, if concentrated in thenational fountain, whence alone a legaltender paper currency should flow, thatit would, if distributed in the vaults ofinnumerable banks scattered all overthe land, besides experience show thesecannot be relied upon to keep any.

Experience has also proved thatnational banks are a curse to the coun-try, therefore we want none whatever,but that banking shall be put upon the.same footing with all other commercial'pursuits with no more control over the• currency than the others have, butmade to operate like the rest on a per-fectly reliable national legal tendercurrency or medium of exchange; notin theh- own lying promises to pay in.something their grasping avarice neverhas, and never will allow them to retain•enough of to meet a demand of anyconsiderable amount.

We are well aware that it is thelength of time the currency bonds haveto run that makes them command morethan the short gold bonds do, and thisis the reason why we suggested in a for-mer article the policy of making the 31per cent, bonds proposed to be given forthe redemption of the certificate curren-cy,run a sufficient length to attract estateand trust funds, which would soon putthem on. a par with British consuls.And would also put the certificate witha known reserve behind them, higherthan gold as was the case with theoriginal greenback issue, consequentlythere would be no necessity tomake the certificates payable in gold,to be cornered by unprincipled Wallstreet gamblers, and the need of

-having them convertible into bonds,instead of gold is to reduce thetaxes, and prevent their ever being•dishonored by protest.

The value of the currency bonds arenow of world wide value, what moredoes "IF want? ''. .

We have before stated that if thegreenback system had been alone inoperation we would have most if not allour debt held like England's at home,-where the gold would have been keptinstead of exhausting the country byshipping it abroad to pay interest toforeigners.

The idea of " U's " giving the banks,after making their ..notes payable in .

;gold, the privilege of paying in bondssmells strong again ,of the midnight .protection policy; why not let every- .body do the same and make a currencyat once of the bonds ? Oh, no, this :would be too gieat a boon to the peo-ple, only the faioied ievt should ha-vesuch a privilege as tins ' The massesmust continue to be-satisfied-with merepromises to pay m gold

Irnpoitei& KLe A T Ste-wa.it L Co,who had collected ard deposited thengold: would be told, when thej come toito pay a foieign dollai, a the green-back depositor ^ as^ " you ought to boashamed oi youiself, you are JIG betteithan a tughtened chamber manlr' Thiswhole idea oi "XT' is simply absurd _

What we said about the systemundulj stimulating e^eij_ branch ofbusiness ' U " confirms in hi& eigthparagidph

We do not see why it vuibt be undei-. stood that thebe banks ha^ e no especialprivileges o"ver individuals, ah " U ' soflatly ast,ei 1% when it is so aotoiiousthat then charters grve them verjgreat especial pnvilege, and among

.others that mighty one of pajmg thenown obligation in. tlieu- promises to pay,besides taxing the people leavily to pajthem mteiest m gold on the same, but

'.what the law allows .them to do is avery chfieieiit thing from Tihat they do

The scarcity oi currency alluded to•hj " U" may be safely attributed to•; the grasping avarice of the system in;not obeying the law and keepingthemselves strong by the requisite re- r

, serve of greenbacks,. the backbone of"the svstem.

No one ever said the people wouldrefuse to take bank notes supposed tobe payable in greenbacks, but thebanks not having the greenbacks refus-ed to give out their own notes, settingtheir creditors at defiance, and it isabout as idle to argue that they mademoney out of the operation as that thestate bank system did by breaking as" U " asserts they did.

As before stated, it was a demand for.greenbacks by some one no better thana scared chambermaid, that brought onthe panic, and that the system totteredand fell, was because like any invertedpyramid it had not sufficient foundationto rest upon.

" U " justly says that no conditionof specie payment is any safeguardagainst panics; a century of experiencehas abundantly proved this to be true,the plan should therefore be abandonedand the proposed certificates substituted,under which we insist no such frightfulpanics could take place.

The fourteenth paragraph of " U " isso specious as not to require an answerand as for putting on more taxes theidea is still more so, because every oneknows it would come out of the laborernot the money man. The lender ofmoney having the power, as things noware, makes the borrower pay all taxesand expenses whatever, in fact all taxesmust necessarily come out of the pro-ducer, thus the evil would be madegreater; capital is withdrawn becausethe system has crushed out all the in-dustries to employ it, and the securitiesthey will now only loan on, commandbut 2 per cent.

Competition keeps the grocery busi-ness straight, so would it the banking,if left free to all alike as the grocerybusiness is, and the grocery, like thebank sometimes, when he can't help it,renews a note.

It is a.funny idea, that of "TJ's," thatthe National banks are more resj)onsi-bletkan the Government! neither Web-ster or Calhoun thought so, and Jack-son surely did not believe in a Nationalone.

Will "IT" tell us what their notes are,if not promises to pay? and do theynot get interest on the bonds whichthey have exchanged with government,temporarily, for these notes to discountwith ? if while they had the use of thesenotes to bank or their bonds did notdraw interest there would be truth in"U's" assertion, but as they do, it is un-true.

Does he deny that these bonds whichconstitute their capital is exempt fromnil taxation ? While the private bankerswhose entire capital may be gold is tax-ed, if so, he again asserts what everyoneknows to be untrue; there is no casuis-try about tins.

There may be only a dozen added tothe army of office holders through thesystem, but we expect the statement ismade at random, like that of the banksbeing taxed on their entire capital, andif the banks do pay the salaries of thisaddition, it does not alter the fact thatthe producer pays it.

We never forgot or denied that thebonds were the property of the banks,and know that they got them at lowrates during the war, but if the objectwas to" keep the interest and pricipal inthe country, it has failed in its objectas it has in doing any other good thatwe know of. : ;

We do not know what improvement"U' might be able to make in the sys-tem, we only speak ol it as it hasHjeen,causing the loss oi the best curiencjevei known, and which, had it beencontinued, would have done what "U"<a"vs the National bank system designedbut failed to do

We w eie not told by the lip of Tiuthto look at the roots of the lice whichdoes not boai good ii'orfc, buu to itppljtile axe to the loot tLeieoi and hew itdown and cast it into the file, onething "U niaj be assmed of, the^ebank chaitc-iffhke the laws for protec-tion ai e framed in the interest -of thefew, not +oi the benefit of the masses,but let linn ke^p coul and recollect thatit is onlv a question between us, it thenational b?nk M atem as estabhsbed wasa benefit to tlie county 3 He thinks itwas, we thmk not, being no impiove-ment on the simple issues of greenbacksledeemable m government bonds andderiving the ciedit thej so unworthiljobtained from being piesumed equal tothe greenbacks, which obtained then*credit and value noni being made le-deemable m gold bearing bonds of sixper cent.

And we trust he will not take us fora savage becau&e we use the plain lan-guage and call things by their -rightname. T.

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DEMOCRATIC COHGBESSIONAL CON-VENTION.

The Democratic Electors of the severalCounties, Townships and Wards, composingthe Third Congressional District of New Jer-sey, are requested to meet at their respectivepolling places for the purpose of appoint-ing delegates to the Democratic Third Dis-trict Convention, to be held at Freehold,on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, the 26th, at 12o'clock, noon, to nominate a candidate to re-present the Third District in. the ensuingCongress, and to transact such other businessas may be brought before the Convention.

Each Township and Ward will be entitledto a representation in said Convention of onedelegate to every one hundred Democraticvotes geast at the last gubematoral election,and one for each fraction of the same, overfifty. A. "W". JONES,

Chairman of last Convention.

DESTINY OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO.This problem is perplexing more

heads in our country than, those whichwag on political shoulders. One phaseof the case seriously and sorely exercisesthe humanitarian portion of ourpopulation. The annual decreasein the colored population of the Southsince the war has exceeded bya large per cent. the annualincrease. In the State of Virginiathat former slave-producing State of theSouth, the decrease has been over tenper cent, per annum in excess of theincrease. In the Gulf and other cottonStates the decrease has been larger.The question arises, are the negroesdying off at the rate of ten per cent, perannum ? This may not be exactly thecase, for a considerable portion of thedecrease may be attributed to themigration of the colored man northward,but still a large per cent, remains tojustify the above apprehension; andthe experience of New Jersey will testifyto the fact that the old slaves and theirdescendants of this State have becomealmost extinct, by natural death orother causes. Nine-tenths of the negroesnow seen about here have emigratedfrom the south since the war. By pastexperience and the depopulating pro-cess bv slentli which is now going on inthe southern States it seems to justifythe belief that the southern negro as ara-ce will "hc-come extinr-t in the courseof a lew years, unless saved by somehumanitarian interference.

Another plinso of flip en«> concerningthe destiny of the colored man of thesouth seriously exercises the Protestantcommnnitv, particularly the Methodistfind Baptist denominations. It is arecognized fact that the Catholic Churchis putting forth extra exertions in winthe cuiorea man 10 iiK* cause <>± Catho-licity. -1 number of colored men arebeing educated at Koine for the Priest-ixuou, Vviio ;Q'e iLueiiueu io i<"ioor umoiicftheir own people in the youth. .BishopSpaulding, of Kentucky, has for severalytcii'8 oueii Uiivc-Ui!. ins o^ni t'ii^r^it'js to

the c',-2!version of the southern negro toCatholic faith. Over three hundredthousand colored children are now be-ing educated in Catholic schools andevery yearthe number increases. Therecan be no doubt of the fact that the eyeof the Vatican and the Catholic Churchof this country have been earnestlywatchful of the progress made in thatdirection, and there can be no denyingthe fact that rapid progress has beenmade.

This religious phase of the coloredman's destiny, of course, quickens theold apprehension of Catholic dominancyin America, and justifies the-belief thatsome of our Protestant wise men intheir day and generation have talkedwhile the Catholics have worked.

Downing, "the celebrated coloredcaterer, of Washington City, in a recentletter discussing this case, uses the fol-lowing strong language:

"All that the poor down-trodden:blacks of the United States haveto do is to 'fellowship' •with thisstrong-, courageous, • r wsU-deeiplinedChurch, and they thereby become notonly a part of her power, but add tothe power which -will protect them."

"We must, in all candor, say that ifProtestant apprehensions be correct theCatholics could not work in a betterfield, because, the universal ballot liasmade the negro population a power inthe land.

Geu. Joseph R. Hawley (Rep;) asnominated for Congress from the FirstConnecticut district.

Pen Sketches of Public Men.lot

ALVAH A. CLARK.

This talented young lawyer, who hasrecently loeen nominated for a seat inthe forty-fifth Congress by the Demo-cracy of the Fourth Congressional Dis-trict of New Jersey, was born at Leba-non, Hunter don county, N. J., on thethirteenth day of September, 1840.His start in life from humble walks, bisstruggle along the pathway of adversity,and his final success in reaching thehigh road to fortune and fame furnishesa splendid example of what nativeability and energy may accomplish,aided by the liberality of American In-stitutions. Born and raised among themasses, and chiefly indebted to them,for Ms present professional and politicalprominence, he is really and truly arepresentative man of that class of hisfellow citizens. Being instinctively aDemocrat in all of Ms ideas and habitshe is in person and principle a genuinetype of that list of self made men towhom our Republican institutions chieflylook for support and maintenance.

Samuel Clark, the father of Alvah,was a sniall farmer near Lebanon, andthe subject of tMs sketch begun life as afarmer boy, turning Ms young handsand energies to a useful purpose uponhis father's farm. His father removedto New Germantown about 1849, andbecame a country inn keeper. Here, asupon the little farm near Lebanon, thesubject of our sketch made Mniself gen-erally useful, sometimes Ms father'shostler, sometimes bartender, and atother times driving cattle or sheep tomarket, and in every way utilizing histime and energies by which he mighthelp his father, and pick up a few dol-lars to buy books and educate himself.TMs period of young Clark's life wasone in wnich his resolution was sorelyand seriously shaken, and is a period inevery poor boy's life in which more ofthem, fall than rise. Young Clark hadno encouragement to struggle on, savethe encouragement of his individualpride and pex-sonal ambition, but beingthus encouraged and by dint of mentaland physical exertion he did strugglesuccessfully to the end. .

At tMs period in young Clark's life,he found a friend in that widely known,benevolent Christian gentleman andscholar, Kev. W. W. Blauvelt, D. D., ofLamington, N. J., with whom he studiedpreparatory to entering college. Hismeagre resources, however, and inabil-ity to earn enough to put him throughcollege prevented him from executingthat part of his plan, and he, therefore,abandoned the idea of going to collegeand entered the office of Colonel Eaf-ferty to pursue the study of law. Inthe several capacities of office boy, clerkitiid student he worked day and nightand until his preceptor removed toFlemington, after wMch time the sub-ject of our sketch finished Ms studies inthe office of I. 1\. Dilts, of Somerville.

In iyiii. he was admitted as an At-toi- v:y, itiid returning to New Gerrnan-town, the scene of his early struggles,he opened an office and offered himselfto the pimple as a candidate for thepractice of lav,'. Here the boy hostlerand cattle driver became the profes-sional man, and by' his strict attentionto business and brilliant talents he soongained for himself many friends andclients. In 1867, he was admitted asCounsellor, and desiring a more ex-tended field of professional action, heremoved to Somerville, K". J., where lieearly established the foundation for hispresent important and lucrative praeJ

tiee. This young attorney and coun-sellor did not find it an easy task toestablish, himself at Somerville, for therehe came in contact with many of theleading lights of .the New Jersey ;Barwhose sharp edged weapons, however,found in him an adversary •worthy oftheir steel. From year to year, by closeapplication and. hard-^ study, lie hasgradually-.•woii.his way to public con-fidence, and now the young counsellorof nine years, ago enjoys a practice'equal in importance and profit to anyone else at the Somerville Bar; while atr

the Bar of the State he ranks as one ofthe coming 23rofessiOIIal"lights• of NewJersey.

Politically, Alvah A. Clarkhasalwaysbeen an advocate of, and an adherentto the principles.' of rfche ;I>enioeratieparty. Born of Democratic, parentage,and raised under Democratic teachings,he at a niaturer age satisfied himself ofthe truth and stability of Ms earlyconvictions.

We believe that his present,,nomina-tion for Congress is the first time heever offered himself as a candidate for

:. the suffrages of Ms fellow. • citizens, foram- office in the gift of the people. Itis also our opinion that he- has never

heretofore received an- appointmentcivil or political. Now for the firsttime Alvah A. Clark begins the careerof a public man, hi a political sense,and if the same energies should actuatehim, and the same successes result toMm which have governed and con-trolled Ms professional career, he willone day become one of New Jersey'sleading political men.

It will be seen that he has only at-tained the age of thirty-six years, andhas not yet reached the prime andvigor of manhood. As a public speak-er he is vigorous, fluent and eloquentboth in the forum and on the hustings.He never fails to impress the jury andhe people with force and effect, and to

carry home to every hearer at least theintegrity of Ms own convictions.If Alvah A. Clark should be elected to

Congress from the Fourth District,(about which there can be no doubt, asthe District is largely Democratic), hewill make his rnark in our NationalLegislature; and notwithstanding thisold "tenth legion" of New Jersey De-mocracy has heretofore been so ablyrepresented in Cong'ress, yet their newrepresentative will not take from, but,in our opinion, add to the laurels of theDistrict. The great masses, irrespec-tive of party, of Somerset, Hunterdon,"Warren and Sussex counties should feelthat in Alvah A. Clark they have a truerepresentative man—one who is ofthem, with them and for them.

SABBATH SCHOOLLESSGSTS.

[These notes and comments n-pon the InternationalSabbath School Lesson and Home Readings are pre-pared expressly for publication in THE INDEPENDENTHoim by the Bev. Joseph M. McKulty, Pastor of theFirst ^Presbyterian Church.]

LESSON" XXvTI, FOR SABBATH, OCT. 1.

STEPHEN'S DEFENSE.

"HE DEBHOK RAILS.""No use talkin', dem Pennsylvania people

am de debil on rails." Thus emphaticallyejaculated an old colored man as lie stoodnear the depot in Railway, as train after trainmet and chased each other •with amazingrapidity through that city. This old negrohad heen stage driver in olden times, had seenthe first train pass through Bah-way, and hadgrown iij) •with the progressive age. The oldnegroe's head in its conclusions was verynearly right.

Over one hundred and fifty regular, localand through trains pass in and out JerseyCity over the Pennsylvania Railroad daily.Add to this about one-fifth the number ofCentennial special trains running in sections,and also about an equal number of local andthrough freight and excursion trains, and youhave a total of over two hundred daily trains.Three-fourths of these trains arrive and depaitduring daylight and the ehtire number, savethree or four between the hours of 5 A.M..and 8 P. M. To run this number of trainswithin this time makes an average lapse ofonly four minutes between every arriving anddeparting train. During the day in themorning and afternoon trains are dispatchedat the rate of one for every two minutes. Allthis work is done upon a double-track andwith such precisive management that one isforced to believe that railroad science uponthis line has been reduced to an exactnessthat approaches a hair-splitting certainity.

Notwithstanding tne above number of trainsand their rapid flight along the road at suchlimited periods, yet the the accidents arefewer than upon any other road in the "UnitedStates; indeed, a serious accident is an excep-tion, and herein lies the beauty and thescience of this railroad management.

We have received a copy of the fourthvolume of the Young Folks' Gem, pub-lished by John A. Clark, "Wadsworth,Medina Co., Ohio. It is an attractiveand valuable journal, especially adaptedto the wants of our juvenile communi-ty. No family where there are boysand girls should be without it. Theprice of subscription is only 30 cents ayear, including postage and a nice pic-ture. Agents are also well paid forraising clubs. A free sample copy willbe sent to those desiring to see it witha view of raising clubs. Address asabove.

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The Maryland Democrats have adopt-ed a platform favoring specie payments,non-sectarian schools, and the constitu-tional amendments, denouncing Federalinterference in elections.

H O M E RE

Monday—Acts, vii: 1-10. The Lesson.Tuesday—Gen., xii: 1-10. Abraham's Call.Wednesday—Acts, vi: 1-15. Stephen's Arraignment,Thursday—Gen., xiii: 1-1S. The Promise to AbrahamFriday—Exod., iii: 1-12. The Promise Fulfilled.Saturday—Isa., xlix: 1-13. The Divine Faithfulness.Sabbath—Heb., xi : 8-10. The Faith of the Patriarchs.

CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.His JEWELS,

is the title of a poem upon the second page,by "W. M. L. Jay, which for beauty of thought Iand expression is unusually good.

THE BATTIJE KISG OF THE PLAINS,is an account of the ranehe of Mr. Hiii, innorthern Colorado, which will open the eyes,of many an old farmer hereabouts.

. A lady makes some pertinent sxtggestions;-as to "Sleeping Cars," which , our railroadmanagers would do well to ponder over.

.THE OUKKEKCY QUESTION,is disenssed by "T" and "U." At- this timewhen it is the all-absorbing question, and one,

, too, which baffled the efforts of the last Con-gress to settle, this discussion cannot fail to in-terest all. ... . . .

WASTED WOEK.;The ubiquitous tramp furnishes the theme

for many humorous articles, and the above,from the Burlington Hawkeye, is among, thebest.

; • - THOSE "WICKED BOYS,is an extract from the "Stray Papers" of John

.Ormsby, .and pictures, an ingenious andlaughable trick often played by the gamins of"London.

SlLVEK IN THE WOULD.A perusal of the a"bove' article shows the im-

mense cpitntity of silver yearly producedthroughout-tie world. . •

N TEST:—"Whose are the fathers, andof whom, as concerning the flesh, Christearae, who is over all, God blessed forever.Amen." [Rom. ix :5.

We enter to-daj- on the last quarter'slessons of the year. The last threemonths have been spent in the OldTestament. Before doing so we traversedthe first six chapters of tile Acts duringthe second quarter, we now return totake up the interesting thread of NewTestament History we then dropped.The aseention of the Lord Jesus, thedescent of the Holy Spirit, the firstpreaching of the Gospel by the Apostles—then- success amid difficulties and op-position, the remarkable divine favorvouchsafed to them, the organization,rapid growth, unity and liberality ofthe Church. These were the thrillingthemes of former study. The presentquarter will conduct us amid scenesequally thrilling in the development ofthe same Church.

In the last lesson of the second quar-ter, Stephen was the subject of consid-eration. One of the seven deaconsap2Dointed to administer the poor fund,so much zeal did he exhibit not onlv inhis office, but in the propagation of thetruth, that he quickly brought himselfunder the ban of the Jews, and all theirfiendish artillery was leveled at once athis devoted head. He was arraignedbefore their tribunal on the fourfoldbut false charge of blaspheming "againstGod," against "Moses," against "theholy place " and " the law " (Ch. vi: 11and 13)... False .witnesses appeared tosubstantiate these, charges. The coun-cil has been hastily summoned together.The place of the meeting was the cus-tomary one called "Gazith" or the"Stone Chamber," close by the wall ofthe temple, partly within and partlywithout the sacred enclosure. ThePresident sat on a raised seat in theless sacred portion of the room, and theseventy judges sat in a semicircle about"him. There stands the prisoner at thebar. Many a time the goodness of hisheart had shown out through his eyesas he ministered to the wants of widowsand orphans, but now before thisaugust court of enemies his face abso-lutely " shines as though it were theface of an angel." Like a beautifulsunset amid dark clouds, he lights themnil up. If the information of shis scenecame from the lips of Saul of Tarsus,who was present at it (as some think),we can readily believe the divine gloryon the face of the martyr left an im-pression which was never effaced. In-stead of being so inrfatuated with thedefence of the by-gone glory of thesecond temple, strange that these dark-visaged men recognized not the trueglory of the great Jehovah raying outfrom the temple of the soul. Chargedwith the assertion that "the templewould be destroyed," and the " customsof Moses changed," in answer to thechallenge of the High Priest, "are thesethings so ?" he stands forth to make hisdefence. After a general salutation ofrespect his rebutal is simply and yetingeniously given by the recitation of afamiliar, portion of Hebrew history.He commences with Abraham andtraces the stream down to the buildingof the temple. Very touchingry headverts to. the divine dealings withIsrael .during, that period. The veryfact, as well, as the, manner, of this ref-erence, at once confuted the idea of awant of reverence for " Moses and theLaw." He showed further that thegreat idea of worship in the divinemind was spiritual and not material; andstill again, that change was not onlycontemplated in time, in the order ofthe divine, worship, speaking as it did of•" a greater prophet than. Moses" tocomej but properly considered, theirpast history had been a history ofchanges in external forms. The divinepurpose was to introduce the Messiah,and elevate the .standard of spirituality,as to all externals, while their sin con-sisted in " dwaysresisling." Such is thegeneral drift of his argument. Thepart of his defence which this lessoncovers is, the call of Abraham, God'scovenant -with him, and his providentialdealings with the tribes. Look a littleat these points:—

I. Tlie.Call of Abraham, (v. 2-3).Under the inspiration of the Spirit a dis-

tinct plan seemed to lie hi the mind ofStephen. He would win their attentionby rational argument, and s often theirhearts. He refers to the lime when, 4heplace where, and the person to whom, thefirst revelation was made, as themselves,the most successful refutation of thecalumny that any true Jew could for a.moment speak lightly of either "Moses"the "Law," or the "Temple." Away offin Ur of the Chaldees, not in Je-rusalem, or the temple, or on Sinai, to-Abraham, not to Moses, God first spakethe word which gave formative influenceto their nationality. So far from enter-taining the idea of "blasphemy," hespeaks of him as "the God of glory;""whose " glory" found its expressiveemblem in the burning bush of thewilderness, the pillar of fire over the.camp, the shekmal above the mercyseat, and the " gems oracular " whichflashed on the bosom of the High Priest.He reminds them by speaking of Abra-ham as " our father," that, in becominga Christian, he did not cease to be a.Jew—nay, rather, that by the inheri-tance through Jesus of Abraham's spirit-ual faith, he became more truly andemphatically a Jew.

The call itself was twofold in its bear-ing, (a) "Get out of thy country,,and from thy kindred," and (b) "Come,into the land which I shall show thee."'In his native land there were idolatrous,surroundings which he must needs leavebehind; other influences he must make,for himself and the future nation, whilehe pitches his tent by faith whither Godshall bid him. Paul reminds us of this,in calling over the roll of Christianheroes and placing his" name at the.head. " By faith Abraham went forth.,not knowing whither he went." (Heb..xi: 8) At first he tented in Charran,until the death of his father Terah,,when the divine direction came to re-move to Canaan. You notice how:prominently Abraham's faith is liftedbefore the eyes of the dark-browed,council (v. 5), and how the simplepromise of God, independent of externaLinstitutions, is the staff on " which thepatriarch is represented as leaning.""(v. 5-7) That promise is both personaland national, and has been denominated.

H. God's Covenant. He is tenting in.a land of which he owned not one foot,but the covenant is that (a) thoughchildless and aged, he shall have as

numerous progeny, and that after the^lapse of four centuries his children's,children should assuredly possess theland, and serve the Lord in it.

(b) A Prophecy antedates the fulfill-ment of the promise. These things aredistinctly specified in it: that theyshould sojourn a long period in a.strange land, that they should be humil-iated by slavery and severe trial, andthat when his purposes were ripe Godwould marvelously deliver them and.mate of them a great nation.

(c) The Rite of Circumcision was theseal of that covenant (v. 8). The divinesymbol that he would never forget his.covenant, and a peculiarly significantsign to them that they, in all their suc-cessive generations, were the divineproperty, God's peculiar people. Afterthe patriarch had received the covenant,Isaac was born, and when eight days-old the ordinance of circumcision wasperformed upon them both. The teachershould not fail to advert to the connec-tion thus intimated by the Lord's owngracious arrangement, between parents,and children in the inheritance of the.precious promises of salvation (GaL iii:.18, and Bom. iv: 9-16).

3H. God's Providential Dealings with,the tribes next engages his attention.(9-10). Having stated the promisewith its covenant sign, the speaker r e -hearses the piarticulars of its fulfillmentsThe remarkable instrumentalities Godused, as envy, famine, grinding bondagethrough which to bring out his perfected.purpose, the image of what he is doingevery day, in one way and another, withus all; then he recounts and brings into •the clearest sunlight the fact that " Hethat kept Israel never slumbered nor -slept. The very singularity of the di- -vine proceedure, yet resulting in theelevation both of Joseph and Israel,,showing the divine mind and hand in.control of it all.

Do not fail, in closing this part of themartyr's defence,to call especial attention.to its two practical thoughts: 1. God's callto every soul to rise up and leave the placeof its sin by nature, and make its wayat once to the Cannaan of heavenlygrace.

2. God's constant, care of his covenantchildren. "Making all things worktogether for good to them that love Himand that are the called according to his,purpose."

The Burlington County Fair will takeplace at Mount Hohy, Oct."3d and 4th.

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THE EQBTNOCTIAX. STOKM.—The effects ofthe storm on Sunday last are visible at allpoints along the shore near this jDlace. Thedocks are very mueh shattered and otherwisedamaged. A number of bogts and sailingvessels are much battered by being drivenupon the shore and against the docks. Thebulkheads of many of the wharves will haveto be almost entirely rebuilt, that of 3. L.Pettit, fronting the Earitan Bay House, re-ceiving the greatest damage. The "Helen,"a large sloop belonging to Mr. Charles Keen,was driven ashore, the bow stove it, shroudsparted, and the vessel damaged very seriously.A small yacht belonging to Mr. WilliamKing, Jr., and a sailing skiff owned by Capt.Jeff Sofield, were also more or . less injured.The float of the Carteret Boat Club becameloosened from its fastenings, but was savedthrough the exertions of the members of theClub. The road below the blnff was muchwashed away in several places, the water hav-ing flooded portions of it, converted the lowerfloors of many of the buildings near the docksinto miniature lakes.

A. Card.Having purchased a large quantity of Teas,

including Green, Black and Japan, at reduc-ed prices, we will sell them in 3 lb. packagesfor SI. 20 per package—single pound packages45 cents.

We guarantee this tea to be equal, if notsuperior to any now sold for 60 cts. perpound.

Small stores, hotels, boarding houses andothers purchasing large quantities "will be lib-erally dealt with. Eesp'y, J. BAEET.

ISELIX.The first sociable of the season under the

auspices of the ' 'Iselin Social Glub" took placeat the residence of-Mrs. A. M. Ta'te. Danc-ing of course was the chief amusement, yet aprominent feature of the evening's entertain-ment was the singing and playing of Mrs.John Kenny, who has recently taken up herresidence in this locality. The music was ex-cellent and thoroughly enjoyed by all present.

lotBOAT RACE.—A four-oared rase, one and a

half miles and return, between the CarteretClub, of Perth Amboy, and the Baritan Club,of New Brunswick, for the championship ofthe Earitan river, was rowed in the latterriver, near this city, on Wednesday afternoon.The Raritans won easily in 20m. 40s., beatingthe Carterets by 58s. • ; • .

School Notes.The Fall session of the Earitan Bay Semi-

nary began on Thursday last, -with excellentprospects. This admirable institution foryoung ladies will no doubt receive the patron-age its established merits so justly deserve.There are many young ladies to be educatedin and aronnd Perth Amboy and no school of-fers better and more assured facilities thanKaritan Bay Seminary.

Johnson's Select for boys opened on Mon-day, the 11th inst. We understand that thisschool has a larger attendance than last yearwith a promise of a still larger increase.

"With two such private schools as the abovefor the education of young ladies and younggentlemen, Amboy niay justly feel proud.

The Public school of this city opened witha larger attendance than usual, and the Prin-cipal of the Institution feels satisfied that theattendance will continue larger during the !session. j

The boys and girls who can should availthemselves of this ailnrirbly managed publicschool.

The census shows a list of over one thou-sand children entitled to the privileges of thepublic school, being an increase of more thana hundred over last year. This increased list•will entitle Amboy to additional school funds,and the sincere hope is expressed on the partof the trustees that the children may availthemselves of the benefits.

PEESO3JAL.—Hon. J. 0, Yan Winkle, of NewOrleans, has been making a short visit • to hisrelatives in this place.Hon. Wm. Warrenberg, of New York, hasbeen visiting Gen. Appleby.

OYSTEBS.—Capt. Thomas Peterson has beenlately offering for sftle, to our citizens, fineChesapeake oysters, shipped direct fromBaltimore.

The Grand Jury of Middlesex eounty cameinto Cotirt on Wednesday of last week andpresented forty-four indictments. The Courtthanked the jury for their attention anddischarged them.

The Middlesex County Eepublican Conven-tion is to be held in the Assembly chamber ofMasonic Hall, on Saturday, the 23d inst., at11 A. M., to nominate a State Senator andCoToners.

Two gray horses have been sent to the Cen-tennial from this city, weighing respectively1,931 and 2,000 pounds.

spoxswoov.MAEETED TOO MUCH.—A story comes to us

from "Texas" introducing a,candidate for ad-mission into the Mormon brotherhood. WifeMo. 1 was espoused in Ohio, and JSFOS. 2 and. 3in this State. We predict that matters will be:rather mixed should the trio of wives meet inthe mansion, and we may expect to hear ofthe speedy departure of this "muchly married

"Centre-Piece Court House" was enlivenedby a marriage last week. The Squire, albeit itwas his first attempt at tying, the hymenialknot, succeeded admirably. . v •!'•

The weekly meetings of the Tiiden andHendricks Club have been changed fromThursday to Wednesday evenings at eighto:clock.

SaiASH-TJp.—-The. buggy of .Mr. John O.Cozzens was badly damaged a few days ago"by the performances of an unruly horse.

The "line" storm did no greater damagethan to despoil the trees of a great quantityof branches.

OLD BRIDGE."YOUNG AMEECA. "—A party of "juveniles"

assembled at Spencei's on Saturday eveningto form a "Young Mien's" Democratic Club.The following are the ages of these youths :John Culver, 85; L. W. Spencer, 71; V. John-son, 71; -Jos. DeHart, 70, and Onpt. T. Peter-son, 62. Total ages, 35D years.

FREEHOLDERS.—The Board met at Spencer'shotel on Monday, for the purpose of makingarrangements for a new bridge on the En-glishtown turnpike. The Board have em-ployed W. H. Cozzens to paint the bridgeover South Kiver.

RABWAX DURING PAKE.—The followingraces were trotted on Thursday last, all beingmile heats, best two in three to harness :

No. 1.G. Sutton'sb. m., Lady Clay, 1 2 1.M. Yanderveev's b. m., Lady Spartan, 2 1 2.Time, 3:10, 3:1G, 3:10.

No. 2.C. Smith's s. in., Kate, 1 2 1.E. T. Tappen'sb. g,, Carter, 2 12 .Time, 2:511, 2:49.], 2:4SJ.

No. 3.J. Seiple's s. m., Gipsey Girl, 1.L. Polhemus' b. k., Nell, 2 drawn.Time, 3:27.

Xo. 4.J. Harper's g., Black Diamond, 1 1.J. Seiple's s. in., Gipsey Girl, 2 2.Time, 2:431, 2:'i8J.

Judges: A. D. Coykendall, Elijah Hewitt,A. J. Bitter.

POLITICAL—The Tiiden and HendricksClub is in a nourishing condition, 56 namesbeing on the roll, all of whom are voters-The Club will shortly raise a fine banner.Meetings are held every Friday evening at7:30 o'clock.

FESTIVAL.—The ladies of the Baptist churchwill give a Centennial festival in the churchon Wednesday the 27th inst.

SOUTH RIVER.A handsome transparency has been placed

in front of Hoffman's Hall, the headquartersof the Tiiden and Hendricks Club. A finenet banner, 22x30-feet, bearing the portraitsof the candidates, will shortly be raised.

Fishers's brick yard ceased work this week.^ "

MHODE HALL.Two raees took place on Saturday last-

Four entries were made for the first race,which was won by Dofcy's black horse, inthree straight heats. The second race waswon by Fair's bay colt in 3 straight heats,aerainst a colt belonging to S. Bennett.

JA.MESBUB.G.The Pastimes defeated ths 2d nine Eagles,

of the State Reform School on Saturday last,by a score of 24 to 16.

The Odd Fellows Centennial excursion isfixed for the 27th inst

3E5. a Iitot

a y-.

The Bloomfield Mills Co. are putting up anew storehotise, one hundred feet square.

Benefit of Charles Mans.The Opera House was filled with an expec-

tant, and pleasure-seeking audience on Tues-day evening, prepared and anticipating to beentertained pursuant to the programme offer-ed. The occasion was a benefit given to Mr.Charles Maas, our well-khown commedian,who was assisted on this occasion by the imembers of the Good Will Club, of this city, jand eminent talent from Newark. |

The curtain rose upon the laughable farce ientitled, "Man's Triumph," in which Mr. ondMrs. Maas and Mr.E. F. Zabriskie appeared.This "being excellently rendered put theaudience into a good humor at once, andsecured the success of the entertainment. |

The Levine Brothers of Newark followed intheir wonderful horizontal bar act, in whichthey were well and ably assisted by LouisGehring of this city. In this instance we areglad to be able to state that home talent fullyequalled the imported article.

Mr. James Ackerson, of Newark, gave someexcellent delineations of German life andcharacter.

Mr. Wm. H. Salt, also of Newark, handledthe Kehoe club as though they were willowwands, closing his exhibitions of skill and Istrength by dancing a jig while balancing the jclubs above his head.

Mr. Charles Maas next followed in his in-imitable magie changes. Mr. Maas' reputa-tion in this branch is too well known to needcomment here, suffice it to say that he outdidhimself, and his efforts w ere rewarded withroars of laughter and hearty applause.

Mr. L. Wingate-danced an American jigvery commendably.

The entertainment closed with : the repre-sentation of Mr. Maas' adaption of the bur-lesque Operetta of "Blue Beard," in whichMr. Maas, as "Lady Emily," was assisted by.Messrs. R. F: Zabriskie, A. T. Kobinson, T.Leavy, A Dore and L. Wingate. This was agrand success, the singing and-acting beingremarkably well rendered. The whole wasto close with a grand tableau representing theGoddess of Liberty, the east of the operetta,grouped upon the stage, were to sing , theCentennial Hymn. Owing to the unaccount-able stupidity of the scene-shifter, and muchto the annoyance of the actors themselves,when the moment came to shift the scene,"and show the Goddess, the scenes were notmoved, and the. company were forced to pro-ceed with the singing of the hymn, minusthe Goddess. Afterward the cua-tain wasraised and:, the Goddess of Liberty; MissMinnie ; Banta. dressed with the • nationalcolors, a,nd. wearing a crown of emblematicstars was disclosed standing upon a pedestal.

The benefit was a grand success financially,upon! which we heartily congratulate Mr.Maas.! -.:" . . . - . - . • -.-. , . : .

The Good Will.Club, of-which. Mr. Geo. W.;

Banta is president, are entitled to a great deal.ibf credit for .their efforts to make everythingXiass of with, eclat.

TEOTTIKG STOCK.—The celebrated stallion,Windsor," who can show a record of 2:30, hasbeen quartered at Crowell's. stables of late.The proprietors of these stables know how totake care of good horses, and understandthemselves thoroughly in all that concernstheir business.

Political,The Hayes and Wheeler Club held a meet-

ing in Washington Hall on Thursday eveninglast, at which Major Z. K. Pangbom spokefor over an hour.

The Tiiden and Hendricks Reform Clubmet on. the same evening at their headquarters,Brokaw's Hall. Messrs. J. W. Savage andThomas J. Kaynor delivered interesting ad-dresses. Hon. Leon Abbett will address ameeting under the auspices of the above Clubat Washington Hall this evening.

The Democracy of the Second Ward organ-ized a Tiiden and Hendrieks Club at Hal-paus Hotel on Wednesday evening of lastweek. About twenty names were enrolled.

STATE NEWS.

The Equinoctial Storm.The storm on Sunday caused the river to

rise to such an extent that the banks wereoverflown in many places. Boats were sweptaway, a portion of the bank of the skatingrink was washed away, and other seriousdamage done, chief among which was thedrowning of a horse belonging to Mr^Shultz.The different campaign banners were takendown to prevent their destruction.

A house in Brick Town was unroofed, andfruit and other trees blown down.

The tide reached its greatest height betweennine and ten o'clock in the evening.

N. V. CoirpTox.—The rooms of this enter-prising insurance agent, in the ExchangeBuilding, are giving evidences of a businesslife which looks as if a revival was going on inthat line at least.

Mr. Compton has recently issued a takingcard, upon the one side of which is the adver-tisement of his business in full, and izpon theother side a list of the several States with theElectors attached, which serves as a pocketmemorandum to score the Electoral vote inthe Presidential Election.

We call attention to Mr. Compton's card inthe first column, first page.

COLES' BHEUMATTC REMEDY.—Mrs. Alice

Berry, of this city, has been using, the aboveremedy with great success, and kindly per-mits Mr. Coles to refer to her. She has beenfor a long time a great rheumatic sufferer,producing lameness, and other serious afflic-tion in the shoulders and back, and herhands were so seriously affected as to producecontraction and swelling of the joints so as torender them almost useless. She states thatby using the above remedy she has becomeentirely relieved, and now has the full use ofher limbs and joints.

LAMBEKTI, THE HATTER.—This new hat andcap establishment recently opened at 123Main street, near Cherry, promises to give toRailway not only every variety and style inthat line of business at economical prices, butalso guarantees a responsible house with whichto deal. In our opinion this opportunity hasnot heretofore been offered to the citizens ofRailway, and it is represented that the open-ing of a new establishment is a source ofgreat gratification to the Rahwegians. 3Mr.Lamberti will get what he deserves, a liberalpatronage.

F. L. SHELDON.—This well-known merchanttailor, whose advertisement may be seen uponthe first page, is prepared to supply all orders'for superior clothing at the shortest notice.Mr. Sheldon, through the clothing house ofJ. S. Smith & Co., of this city, with which hewas long connected, has the reputation bothat the south and at home of furnishing first-class goods. He. buys nothing but tlie best ofmaterials, employs the most skilled workmen;and regulates his prices to suit the times.

RAILEOAD CHANGES.—The storm preventedthe Pennsylvania Railroad Company from,straightening the track on Sunday, which theCompany proposed to do, in order not tointerfere with the regular travel. A gang oftwo hundred men were on: hand, but theviolence of the storm "prevented their proceed-ing with the work. A large force was employ-ed in making preparations for shifting thetrack on Monday, and it is thought the change.will be completed during the week.

" DABK" " DOINGS.—-Mr. Joseph Smith wassurprised to find a colored man in the yardin the rear of his house, on Slain street, at alate hour ori Sunday "evening. He immediate-ly grappled with the'1" culled pusson," -whomanaged to slip out of his grasp, and escapedby sealing the fence. Mr. Smith did notknow what the negro was after, but we pre-sume the colored man knew what Mr. Smithwns after. - ' ] '•' •

- L'AXFEOEE (The 'Morning Light).—

TMs is the name of a. French Protestantweekly newspaper founded in 1866,• and published, in Montreal, Canada, at$1.50. (United States, $2.) per araram.:

It contains articles on tlie importantquestions, of the day;,:.a special. corres-pondence from France on European po-litical and religious matters, as Trail asas general family reading and news, etc.

The Fifth District Republican Con-Tention -will be held at the Opera Housein Paterson, on "Wednesday, 20th inst.

Dr. J. Howard Pugh, of Burlington, !has been nominated for Congress by theRepublicans in the Second District ofthis State.

Ground has been broken in Yinelandfor the erection of the gas works. Themain building, which is of stone, -will be76 by 35 feet,

The Somerset County Fair will beheld on October 4th, 5th and 6th.Among the features will be a mule raceand a tournament.

The seventh annual Fair of the CapeMay County Agricultural Society will beheld on the 4th and 5th days of October,on the grounds of the Society, at SouthSeaville.

The President has ordered only two-thirds of the river and harbor appropria-tion to be expended, which will give$4,000 each for the Passaic river andKill Yon Kull.

The value of the real and personalproperty in Monmouth county is $22,-327,040, a slight increase from last year.The State and county tax is $189,847—a decrease of §30,233 from last year.

The Second District (Atlantic, Bur-lington, Mercer and Ocean counties)Democratic Congressional Conventionhas been called to meet at Tom's Riveron Tuesday, September 26.

Rev. Dr. Terhune. of the First Re-formed Church in Newark, has resignedMs pastorate, and contemplates takinghis wife to Europe for her health. Mrs.Terhune was formerly Marion Harland.the well known authoress.

Mayor Lawson of Salem has gatheredtwo nianimoth peaches, grown on ayoung tree in his garden. They weigh-ed 1 3-4 pounds and, with anothersmaller peach, were the entire productof the tree.

Rev. Dr. Messier, of Somerville, cele-brated his golden wedding on the lltliinst. : Dr. Messier has been the pastorof the First Reformed Dutch Church, ofSommerville for forty-four years, and iswell and'extensively known.

The diptheria epidemic which is lire-Tailing in tlie-neighborhood of TvTiip-pany. is said to be aggravated by thesmoke arising from the burning mea-dows. That has been an unfortunatefire in many respects.

The Monmouth Democrat says: An-other season at Ocean Grove and AsburyPark has closed, and not a single caseof drowning in lake or ocean has occur-red. This is truly something unparal-leled in the history of watering places.

The University Hotel at Princeton iscompleted and in. full running order.It is the finest in the State. I t standsin a central location, on the corner ofRailroad avenue.and Nassau street,about half way between the depot andpost office. Its shape is that of an L,and the building runs on the avenue184 feet, and on Nassau street 152 feet.It has 165 rooms, is four stories high,and built of brick. , . ..,

The. great tunnel through • BergenHill, which cost $1,000,000, is now com-plete, and workmen are cleaning outthe debris and laying track-through theentire length, preparatory to runningof trains. Within thirty days the roadwill be in full operation on the newtrack. The great iron drawbridgeacross the Hackensack river (connectingwith the tunnel is also complete, so thattrains could be run over it now ifnecessary.• At the meeting of the West Jersey

Game Protective Society last summer,$500 was appropriated for the purposeof stocking the streams of South Jerseywith game fish. Dr. Ho well, one of the'State Fish Commissioners, will supplythe society with alarge nnmberof blackbass. Where these fish have been intro-duced they -have done well. The

. attempt, to raise salmon by artificialmeans, from eggs obtained from Maine,has been, a failure. • '

.... ,, ADVERTISEMENTS.- r >.

LICE BROTHERS;' •-

CLAY MERCHANTS,-•- -TOODBBIDGE, S.1 i'

J.,M. MELICE. , .. , , ... P. B.

AD VEBTISEMENTS.

TfRENOH LESSONS.The undersigned, a graduate of the

"COUES STJPEREDRS POUE DAMES,"

at Geneva, Switzerland,

who has considerable experience in teach-ing, tis desirous to devote a few hours perday to giving lessons in (her native) theFrenca language, either at the pupil's or iierown residence on Main Street.

p RATTTEKBERG,

"WATCHMAKER AND .JEWELER.(Established in Kew York City in 1852.)

REPATRING DO2CE,

With Professional skill and- care,

AT REASONABLE PRICES

SepHtf LOUISE D. HAHNEL.

TAYLOR'S

BMJEAD,

In all its Branches.

IOE! OREAM,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

OTSTJEMS in SEASON

128 STREET, TLAHWAY. ¥.. J,

Orders delivered to any part of the city,

Li. Jili %J . jf J

MANUFACTUllEU 01?

•IH I \ i M; I 's i - i -A M.V I IJ\i t VJL JLJL1JU UXUiXJLtkJ 'Ui iXJA

SMOKll'G AMD CHSWIUG 'TOBACCOSABED SMUIT.

MAIN STREET,WOODBBIDG-E, N. J.

T D. DRAKE-,

MAIN STREET, W00DBEIDGE,

begs leave to remind the citizens of Wood-bridge that he keeps the • - . .

First Meat Market ever EstaMisliecl in Xmxn,

and is the only dealer that has his

Stock Slaughtered. at Home.ORDERS

delivered from wagon daily.

"WILLIAM P. EDGAR,

CLAY MERCHANT,

.. "WOODBBIDGE, N. J.. .•'

WOODBRIDGKE; SEMINARY,

ForBoarding and Day Pupils, will- reopen

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1S76.

All the higher English branches taught.Piano and Organ Lessons. Terms moderate.

iliss E. L. MnjGS, Principal.

s

DRUMMOKD,

GLAY M E R C H A N T /

WOODBEIDGE, N. J.

w. , DALLY,.

SCULPT0B, A3TD DESIGNED IE MGNTJ-HEHTS, TOMBS & STATUARY.

FAYETTE SXEEET, PERTH AMBOY.'

r* W. BOYNTOF-& CO.,"

WHOLESALE DEALERS

' VITRIFIED

PIPE

AND

FARM DRAIN TILE,

WOODBRIDGE, M J.

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WANTED WORK.

A robust tramp called at a liouse outon Ninth street, yesterday, for some-thing to eat, averring that he had nottasted food this week.

"Why don't you go to work?" askedthe lady to -whom he preferred his pe-tition.

"Work!" he ejaculated. "Work!And -what have I "been doing ever sincethe middle of May but hunting work ?Who will give me work ? When did Iever refuse work?"

"Well," said the woman, "I guess Ican give YOU sonie employment. Whatcan you do ?"

"Anything!" he shouted, in a kind ofdelirious joy. "Anything that any mancan do. I'm sick for something to flyat. Why, only yesterday I worked allday, carrying water in an old sieve fromFlint liver and emptying it into theMississippi, just because I was so tiredof having nothing to to do, that I hadto work at something or I would havegone ravin' crazy. I'll do anything, fromcleaning house to building a steamboat.Jest give me work, ma'am, an' you'llnever hear me ask for bread agin."

The lady was pleased at the willing-ness and anxiety of this industriousman to do something, and she led himto the wood pile.

"Here," she said, "you can saw andsplit this wood, and if you are a good,industrious worker, I will find work foryou to do. nearly all winter."

"Well, now," said the tramp, while alook of disappointment stole over hisface, "that's just my luck. Only threedays ago I was pullin' a blind old cow ofa well for a poor widow who had nothin'in the world but that cow to supporther, an' I spraint my right wrist till Ihain't been able to lift a pound with itsinst. You kin jest put your hand onit now and feel it throb, it's so painfuland inflamed. I could jest cry of disap-pointment, but it's a biblefact,ma'm,thatI couldn't lift that.axe above iny headef I died-fur it, ami Fd jest, as lief letyou pull my arm out by the roots as totry to pull that saw through a lath.Jest set me at something I kin do,though, if you want to see the dust fly."

"Very well," said the lady, "then youcan take these flower beds, which havebeen very much neglected, and weedthe:;;! v:.:•',• cr.refv.lly for me. Yon t-mdo th-t -77th yor.r left hand, but I wantyou to be very particular with them,aiiu y;A t;:oi:; vury clean, and not injureanv of the nfcits, for they are all veryoliuio=_- iiixCi I ;tiii Yiri'y p r o u d

Tho look of •l

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i urn i led iObQ *iom ai List pi ice I tued to git

v J.L + the -ftoinin of tlie hiii1-0 bet moto v n1 -tttedrn' the gaiden, and Iv»oiked ibout a couple of hours, mon-stious gl 'd to get woikr, not\ jou bet,•an' I pulled up o eij last Lvrn gieentlung m tliat A aid, Hope 111113 ^ i e e*I didn t Pulled up all tho grass. &\ ei3bbde of it Fact Pulled up a vinewuth seventy -fire dollars, t"hat had 1 ootsic?<_hm' clen undei the cellai andinto the cistern, and 13 anked cm lightup, eveiy fibie of 'em "Woman Was soheait bioke -when she come out and fceethe 3 aid just as "biie as fie flooi of abuck %ard that thev had io put liei tobed Bible's truth thej did ma'am,:

and I had to oik for that houso fclneemonths foi notlun'and hnd 1115 boaid, to •pay foi the damage I had done Hope Ito die ef I didn't Jest gumne suthtn' I :kin do, I'll show jofl what woik is, but;I -wouldn't daie to go foolin' around no-floweis You're got a kind lieait,ma'am, gimme some woilt, don't send adespauin' man away liungiy for woii."

"Well," the lady said,""you can beatmy carpets for nie.''. Tney" have : |ust;

been taken -up, and yon can beat themthoroughly and by the time they aredone, I will have something else ready

' for you." .- " . '"' . •'".'-/'The man made a gesture of despair

and sat down on the ground, the pictareof abject helplessness and disappointedaspirations. ..' ' :.

"Look at me, now, he exclaimed."What is goin' to become o' me ? Didyou ever see a man so down on his luck

^ointment thai had ibora chri ?!"! :ri.v:iv lroni the nurasTrious |- - . , , ' - +'., - •"• • • i .- • - . ! - - - x . J l - ; - w - I s - - !

f,:, ,1^. ,-..,!-.,- !« ,.1- iiwucv than fv-'-i- n« I

tii;.- liiilv der-.crihed t h e n e w iob. mi(i <1 1 1 i -t 1 . i ^ i ± - , .. . : . - . ]

Cinir.f. f n v .'' i n n i l 1.-vi if T i p f m v . l i p r o u l i i c o n - ix Itrol iiiK emotion sutiicientiy to speak. ]

::Ii 1 ain't tLts most onfOrtinit man in |A7i'iovi1:2"-." i-o siglied. "I'm jest dyin'for !wo3*J-r. fiv.r'v to tret somethin' to do. and i

T io=;f, love to work rtmono- fiowprs and i

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1 1 ! 1 MllJl t \ ) s I

like me ? I tell you, ma'am, you mustgive me somethin' I can do. I wouldn'tno more dare to tech them carpets thannothin' in the world. I'd tear 'em topieces. I'm a awful hard hitter, an'the last time I beat any carpets was fora woman out at Creston, and I justwelted them carpets into strings andcarpet rags. ' I couldn't help it. I can'thold in ray strength. I'm too glad toget to work, that's the trouble with me,ma'am, it's a bible fact. I'll beat themcarpets if you say so, but I won't be re-sponsible fur 'em; no makin' me workfor nothin' fur five or six weeks to payfur tearm' 'em into slits, 3rer know- I'llgo at 'em if you'll say the word andtake the responsibility, but the fact isI'm too hard a worker to go foolin'around carpets, that's just what I am."

The lady excused the energetic work-er from going at the carpets, but waspuzzled what to set him at. Finallyshe asked him what there was he wouldlike to do and could do, with safety tohiniself and the work.

"Well, now," he said, "that's consid-erit, and I'll take a hold and do some-thing that'll give ye the wuth of yermoney, and won't give me no chanceto destroy nothin' by workin' too hardat it. If ye'll jest kindly fetch me out arockin' chair, I'll set down in the shadeand keep the cows from liftin' the latchof the front gate and gettin' into theyard. And I'll do it well and onlycharge you reasonable fur it, for thefact is I'm so dead crazy fur work thatit is'nt big pay I want so much as asteady job."

And when he was rejected and sentforth, jobless and breakfastless, to wan-der up and down the cold, unfeeling-world in search of work, he cast stonesat the house and said in dejected tones—

"There, now, that's just the wa3r.They call us a bad lot, and say we'relazy and thieves, and won't work, whena feller is just crazy to work and no-body won't give him nary job that hekin do. Won't work! Land alive, theywon't give us work, an' when we wantto'an3' try to, they won't\ let' us work.There ain't a inan in Anieriky 'ud workas hard and as 'stiddy as 1. would/ifthey'd giimne a ehance."—-BurlingtonHavskeye.

THOSE WICKED BOYS.—Mr. John Orms-liy, in hi=> :rolr.-y Papers," fells thefollowing story of the London street-Arabs: "We once saw the Strandthrown into terror, confusion and dis-tress by the unaided wit of two'toys.It was one of those' foggy, dampBt-cuUibcr tvcuiii.as, when the lampslooted like blurred moons, and objectstwenty yards oii' are all-.but- indisting-uirtL-uL;. Tlit:s3 playful youths had-••.'!• :•. suit of "Id clothes and some straw-cm of which they had; made an imagesiujleltiiily like a man to, pass musterin that uncertain -light' With this,counterfeiting the action of affectionatesuns leading home a beloved but in-t xk':if'-•>"! father, they would suddenlyappear in lTont of some passing1 omni-buo, L11.J then, affecting to-lose, allpresence of mind, allow their helpless•parent to fail almost under .the feet, ofthe hoi-riCo. The scene may be imagined.TV-yiT.v .>f il'fi passengers,Horror of thedriver, horses down through havingbeen sharply turned aside or.pulled upon the greasy pavement,, general .agita-tion, wliicli culminated at length whenan .omnibus with more way-;- 011 vhan.:usual actually passed over the body, tfie•Rietched dirvei, ot couiae, suffeiing

the mental 0 gomes of a homicrde untilleheved In seeing the shaw intestines*ot his A ictim "

AD VERTISEMENTS.

SILVER.IN,t THE "WoEtp.—^e . do n&tsthink, in reviewing receVt 'statistics,- thatf*there islnmcli ;pf']a famine 43i-«Ever.The prodvictio%o| silvei";iiivt^ejwlialQjworld." in 1800 was !o5,0Q0,000, whichrose'iii 1851};to' |4S-5GOjOO0, m 18o"4 to$4;7,OaO,OQO..and iffillSfiSi.to about $62,-500,000. The production of. tMs.._grer..cious metal during., the 3r.far 4&7&t;ii9:-subdivided as followsY" England arid-its ;colonies, .§10,000,000 j^drway^Swer,.den and Denmark^ $25(i00,di BufeMa,

i$3,000,000jirance, <§2,0M^Op0;::Spa£i4: $2,000,000;; ^artoia^lSeO.OpQjIIexico,1 §20,000,000;•; Genteal. .and..,-,.Southern.America, $8,0pq,p00-:'GaBada, $8OO,9OO:;itiie United States, §36,500,000,, wiuchgives .a. total of |8o,250,000. Ineludingthe year 1873, it is, estimated thati'rtite

-total production of .silrer,'.sLnce 'th4 dis-••-covery- of the new world by Chii?toplier:Oolumbu^has been .$715,000,000,; thelargest source of accession during lateyears being-due to the Nevada mines.

Defer not charities till death. Hewho does so is rather liberal of anotherman's substance than Ms own.

M. D. VALENTINE & BBOTHEB,

JIAXUFACTUBERS OF

FIEE BRICK,

GLAZED DRAIN PIPE,

AND

LAND

FIB& CLAY,

FIRE SAND,

KAOLIN, &c.

WO0DBEIDGE, N. J .

STATEMENT

Of the Dime Savings JBanlt-,OF W00DBEIDG1, N. J.,

TO JAXUABY IS, 187G.ASSETS.

Bonds and Mortgages ' $14,257 45Temporary Loiin 509 00,Profit and-Loss, Furniture and Fix-

tures 814 17Cash on hand '. . . 2,793 11

SIS, 364 73LIABILITIES.

Amount due depositors SIS,364 73WiL H. BERET, Pres.

JOSIAH 0. CUTTEE, Treas.C. w". DEU3I3IOND,A. D. BKCWTv,DANIEL C. TUBNER,S. E. ENSIGN,

Committee.Sworn and subscribccl to, and before me. a

Justice of the Peace.JEEE^HAH DALLY.

Woodbridge, N. X, Peb. 29th, 1876.

TOHN THOJIPSON,el

SADDLE AND HAEHESS MAKER,

REPAIRING PEOJEPTLI" ATTENDED TO.

Brviik?.*, Gurry Combs, TF/iys.s, Sheets,Blankets, Harw.i-i Soaps, Oils, &c.

CENTENNIAL TRUNKS AND SATCHELS

Of all Descriptions.

M A I N S T . , WOODBEIDGE, N . J .

"OOBEET HUSlTHEEYSi

Roofing, PlumMng & Furnace

Work ;.'•''.

: DONE IN THE BEST MANNER, ' "

; •. By Contract-or'Days'"Work. ..

.Main Street, Woodbridge, N. J.,

MAECUS A. BROWN,

'Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,

'•- JPATENT MEpiGINIlS,

'Pine IToilet" Soaps, Brushes, Comts Etc.

\ P E E P U M E E T IS_ GrHEAT

'Faints,Oils, Varnishes*

;Pure Brandy, Wines .and Liquors, for Hedi-

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Main Street, Woodbridge, N. J.

CTATEN ISIiAND EAILWAY. • ;

Leave Perth Amboy, 6, 6.50, 8.10 and 10.50A. M., and 12.50, 2.45, 3.50 5.50 and 6.45P. M.

Leave New York, G, 7, 9 and 11 A. JI., a n d l4, 5, 6 and 7 P. M.

Sundays—Leave TottenVille, 7, 9 and 11A. M., a n d l , 4 and 6 P. M.

LeaTe New York, 7, 9 and 13 A M., 1, 4 andandJ6 P. M.

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RAHWAT SAYINGS INSTITUTION,

Cor. Main and Monroe Streets,.

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CHARTERED 1831.

ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND SITRPLUS,

Jamiuary 1st, 1876.

Rahwaj' City and Water Bonds, andother Corporation Bonds $293,200 00

Bonds and ^Mortgages, on propertyTvorth double the amount loaned. 344,360 44

Loans frith Collaterals 55,950 00Real Estate 12,570 94U. S. Bonds 50,000 00Interest Due and Accrued 26,440 26Banking House and Lot 39,000 00Premiums 10,083 75Cash on Hand 77,530 63

$909,136 02

Due Depositors SS50.427 01Surplus 58,709 01

$909,136 02Totalnumberofopenaecounts.Jan. 1875, 2,557

" 1876,2,571Amount of Deposits received during

the year ended Dec. 31, 1874 $425,015 91Amount of deposits received dur-

ing the year ended Dec. 31,1875 439,492 50Increase of deposits during the past

year 14,476 59Amount of withdrawals for the year

ended Dec. 31, 1874 3468,709 53Amount of withdrawals for the vear

ended Dec. 31,1875 "... 443,798 4SDecrease of withdrawals for the

past year 24,971 05Total number of deposits during the year of

1875, 4,096.

PRESIDENT :

WILLL1M C.' SQUIER,

•. . VICE-PEESIDENTS :

JACOB E. SHOTWELI,, ABEL V. SHOTWELL.

MAKAGEES:

W. C. Squier,J. R. Shotwell,'A. V. Shotwell,Eden Haydock,Isaac Osbora,Joel Wilson,J. M.'Melieh,Fercl. Blancte,J. J. High,John BoY.'iie,

William Mershon.TT.EASU11EF. :

JOHN BOWNE.

B. A, Vail,Henry Spear,H. H. Bowne,J. B. Laing,A. F. Shotwell,J. T. Crowell,J. H. Stone,Dr. L. Drake,J. L. Freeman,T. AT. Strong,

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J. C. CODDINGTON.

OFFICE Horns: 9 a. m. to = p. m., and onSaturday evenings from 7 to 8.

IJAHWAY MUTUAL FIEE rNSUB-h ANCE COMPANY,

Office in the South Wing of National BankBuilding. Entrance on Poplar Street.

This.Company Continues to insure

Buildings, Furniture, Etc.,

AGAINST LOSS OE DAMAGE BY FIEE,"

ON THE MOST REASONABLE TEEMS,

Either "Hutiially or Annually, as Parties May

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The Citizens of Woodbridge. and the Sur-round ing Country are.Solicited to Avail

themselves of tiie'Facilities and Ad-: 'Vantages offered by this Insti-

. ' .••:. ' - . : . ' • . . - . . . t u t - i o n .

DIRECTORS:.

C P p , i__ ^ ^r. SCHOTWELL,.JOEL WILSON, JOHN J. HIGH,

: JOHX R. AYEE.5, JOHN D. CH-LPIN,GEO: W.JLU\.WEENCE, B. B. MULEK,.

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WOODBRIDGE, TV.

RANDOLPH'S DITGHEES AUD EXCA-VATORS.

SATING FEOM 300 TO 700 PEE CENT, IN LABOB.

S E D U C E D P B I O E S !

Tlie Virginia DitcMng Company offertheir Machines for Ditdiing, teaching,jjevec ilaiong, Eoads, &c, at the fol-lowing reduced price :

POWER

HEQTJntETJ

AX

vionx..

2 Horses, .

2 Horses, .

4 Horses, .

4 Horses, ,

6 to S Horses,

fi to S Horses,

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WIDTH.

3 to 8 in.

5 to 12 in.

6 to 15 in.

8 to 18 in.

10 to 20 in.

12 to 24 in.

H

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26 in.

30 in.

32 in.

3G in

36 in.

40 in.

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OF

MACHINE.

SAT:

1000 lbs.

1500 lbs.

1800 lbs.

2200 lbs.

2500 lW.

3000 lbs.

,g§s

s °

SiS300 00

SioO 00

S550 00

S6uO 00

S7S0 00

S850 00

Extra sizes at. special rates.. There isno other limit t6 the cutting capacity of.Machines, either as to width or depth,except as to the power to move them.

The material of .which the "Ditchers"are made is of the best STEEL or IRON.

They axe constructed with great me-chanical accuracy—very strongly puttogether, and are so simple in construc-tion, that any village "blacksmith canput them up in an hour, and repairthem without difficulty.

They are as easily transported fromplace to place as a farm wagon ; needno especial protection from the weather,and are easily worked by an ordinarylaborer after a day's experience.

They are not damaged by ordinaryobstacles, and will encounter stones androots as safely as plows. Their properwork, however, is in soil reasonablyfree from stumps and large stones.They can dig through all soil down tothe stiffest clay, and are worked uponany surface that a horse or an ox cantravel over.

The sides of the ditch may be left atcompletion, sloping or straight.

The capacity for work depends uponoiVoninstniK"^—snch n? soil Ipno-fli nfditch, power employed, kc.

The "Four Horse" Siadiines havefrequently nit, in r-lny soil, equal to 400feet an hour, 10x20 inches. The cost ofworking one of these Machines shouldnot exceed Five Dollars per day. Thelaigeau Ditcher ("The Centennial'"') yetcompleted, worked by a small tractionor stationary engine, will dig ten cubict/cu'dx of vlui/ a muiule. The siiiitllesfcDitcher made, (on exhibition, Aisle 0,Column IS. Aoricnltnral HnlH is work-

appointed who is not the purchaser ofat least one Machine.

Pamphlets, Circulars and Engravingswill be furnished "by the Agents.

RANDOLPH BEOS.,... . I l l Broadway, New .York.

P. O. Box 2209.

inches wide and 30 inches deep—fortile drainage. The Machine on exhibi-tion at Section C. Machinery Kali—0nr R horse power—will dig six cubic•iio.rds a m-invie.

The "Medium SL^Lm^"—cuttingditches from •'• fr> 20 indies wide, andany depth up to oti inches, worked by4 horses and two men—aro the bestMachines for general neighborhoodwork. They will certainly save from300 to GOO per cent, in labor, and willpay back their cost ($550) promptly.

In order to favorably and rapidly in-troduce these great Labor Saving Ma-chines, the Agents have been authorizedto make the following Special offer :(Good for 1876.)

Any person purchasing Machinesequal in amount to $1,000, shall have theexclusive right, till July 1st, 1878, touse and sell the "Randolph Ditchers"within any County selected, and not be-fore appropriated.

Each purchaser may require the Ma-chine bought by him to be worked be-fore delivery and payment—and thework is guaranteed by the Agent to beequal to a saving of not less than threehundred per cent, over hand labor.

The attention of Contractors, LeveeMakers, Eoad Builders, Owners of Clayand Marl Beds, and Constructors of Ir-rigating Canals, is especially called tothese Machines.

Farmers who desire to substitute per-manent ditches, with embankments forfences, will find these Machines mostdesirable and economical.

They will construct a pemarceni ditchand bank at much less cost even than atemporary fence.

The Virginia Ditcher Company willundertake the construction of Levees,Irrigating Canals, &c, where the workis sufficiently large to compensate them,and the soil is suitable.

Propositions will be received for theexclusive rigM|to sell or use: the,. Ma-chines in States, Counties, &c.

All applications from parties desiringto act as Agents must be accompaniedby suitable references as to characterand responsibility." No Agent wiQ a'e

TESTIMONIALS.

KEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE OF NEW JERSEY STATEAGRICTFLTURAIJ SOCIETY.

The committee appointed to examinethe Ditching Machine and Excavatoroperating with rotary action, salf-feeding anddischarging, report that they consider the ma-chine a valuable one, and especially to suchas have large tracts to drain.

A trial of its working capacity, made in tliepresence of your committee, in a soil notwholly free from stones, showed a removal ofearth of two and a half feet, three inches deep,and six inches wide, per second, inclusive ofstoppages for the removal of stones, and -at arate of five hundred feet per hour, three feetdeep, drawn by fonr horses.

This society having offered a premium .forthe best and most important invention newlyintroduced for farm "use, yonr committeewould respectfully recommend to this ma-chine an award of a GBA^D SELVEP, MEDAL.

N. N. HALSTEAD, Vice-President.P. T. QUINS, Cor. Secretary. -.

{From iheN. T. Evening Post, Sept. 20, 1875.]

THE NEW JEESEY STATE FAIR.—AS TSTERESTINGWhat seemed to excite the greatest attention

was the ditching machine of Governor Ran-dolph, which he operated successfully. It isa novel but simple contrivance.

The machine did good work yesterday, go-ing and returning in the ditch until three feetdepth was obtained. At a moderate calcula-tion it. can dig nearly a mite of ditch per day ofany desired width and depth suitable to thevarious sizes of which the machine is to bemade, and with a steam road engine could domore. The ditch is cut cleanly, the sides be-ing kept packed, and is then ready for thelaying of tile. To THE MACHINE WAS AWARD-ED A DIPLOMA AND GBAND MEDAL.

[From the Jersey Oily Journal.]

A new machine for digging drains anddeep ditches, exhibited by Gov. Randolph, atthe State Fair, attracted much attention, andwas generally commended as a most valuableinvention. It cuts a perfectly smooth ditchto the depth of three or more feet, if required,as easily as an ordinary plough furrow ismade, leaving the ditch or drain with thework as well done as it would be by earefulwork, with a spade.

[From the FUcinnond Enquirer.']

TBIAIi OF THE DITCHING MACHINE.

A large number of citizens and members ofthe General Assembly visited the FairGrounds, by invitation, yesterday evening, towitness a trial of the Ditching Machine. Afull n.ncl fair trial was had, and the opinionsexpressed as to its merits were highly satis-factory. It worked with great ease and shn-plieitT, cutting ditches of various depths, andfulriiliiig all that is claimed for it by the in-ventor.

Among tlie gentlemen present were Gen.W. H. F. Lee, President, and E. G. Lee, Sec-retary of the State Agricultural Society; es-tjuv. Henry A. Wise, Gov. Randolph, of New•T.-rsey: S.-iiii'nrs Meein, of Shenandoah;Slessi's. Fouy'iio, LiL\vson and others of theHouse: Col. Carrington, Judge Ould, MajorAllen. Gol. Guy, Rer. Moses D. Hoge, D. D.,Speaker Hanger. v» m. H. Runner, Esq., Col.Thomas Branch, Col. Frank G. Ruffin, andCcl. H;L.-;;'.c-tt French. Gen. Lee bears testi-mony to the merits oi the rnoehine in the fol-lowing letter to Gen. Lilley, President of theDitcher Company.

General B, D. Lilley:—By your request I to-day witnessed the Ditching Machine at workand am candid to say that it exceeded my ex-pectations, both as to the ease with which itworked and the simplicity and consequentdurability of its make. If it can accomplishin a day the amount claimed by the inventor,I can see no reason why it should not prove agreat benefit to the Southern Farmer.

; (.Signed) Wra. H. F. LEE,Pres't Va. State Agrieu'l Society.

{Norfolk Press.]

AN IINTEBESTING EXHIBITION—DITCHINGMACHINE.

Yesterday afternoon a number of our promi-nent citizens visited Colonel Lamb, to witnessthe trial of the Ditching Machine. Mr. J. R.Borroughs, agent of these machines, was.present, snd courteously answered all in-quiries, and explained the working of themachine.

We examined the "Ditcher" closely, andconsider that, for draining or ditching ordin-ary grounds, it lias no equal.

Mr. Borronghs explained to those present anattachment which belongs to the jiiae/une for cutrting open ditches, by which any slope could be giv-en to the sides of the dilch. The company alsoa TILE LAXEE an important adjunct of the ma-chine. With this layer ten feet or more ofthe tiles can be placed in the diteh, thus'. avoiding the necessity of the workmen gettinginto the drain. A full and fair trial of themachine was given, with most satisfactory re-sults. In fact, it may safely be said that aimore desirable addition to necessary farming pro-ip&iy has Tiever been introduced.

' VlBGINIA AND NOETH CABOWNA i: AGBICUI/TUKAL SOCIETY. >

KOEFOLK, VA., April 17,1873..)_

[ By; request, I this day witnessed an expejri- 'imental test of the Ditching Machine, and donot hesitate to express my entire satisfaction"with its working on an open plain, or fieldrwell cleared of roots, stumps, or other like pb-istruetioixs. I t must prove an invaluable '-tad'fto agriculture as a labor-saving-, invention. I t:does its work neatly,, thorougly, and rapidly.-;

L. D. STABKE, President.""

[Nmfolk Journal, April 1873.]

THE NEW DITCHISG MACHINE.

A large number of our citizens, besidesof the Farmers in the vicinity, were

present on Saturday afternoon at the farm ofCol. Wm. Lamb, to "witness the trial of theDitching Machine. The trial was extremelysatisfactory, and showed that the machine isfully capable of cutting ditches of any slops5H?. of an? ueplii. We may state that theDitcher has an attachment for laying drainingtile, by which much inconvenient and dis-agreeable labor may be saved.

A NEW DITCHEE.

Having witnessed by invitation the workingof the Ditching Machine on the extension ofForsyth Park, we heartily concur with Col.Geo. S. Owens, President Agricultural findMechanical Association of Georgia, in his re-coiainentlation. Tb.e raaclime is simple instructure, easily worked, and admirablyadapted to the purpose for which it is de-signed.

W. S. LAWTON,Vice-Pres't Agricultural and Mechanical As-

sociation of Ga.OcTAvrjs COHEN,

2d Vice-Pres't Agricultural and MechanicalAssociation of Ga.

CHAELES GEEEN,President Savannah Chamber of Commerce.

J. B. JOHNSON.' CHAS. W. TOEEET, M. D., Col.

F. BLAHS,Chairman Street and Lane Committee.

SANANNAH, April 4, 1S73.General J?. D. Lilley :

DEAE SIB—Allow me to thank you for hav-ing given me an opportunity of witnessing theoperation of the Ditching Machine on thePark Extension, on April 1st.

In the sandy soil of that park it certainlyworked very successfully, and if it can operateequally well in stiff soils, and in the variouskinds of land that require draining, it is un-doubtedly a most valuable machine.

I am, sir, very respectfully yours,THOMAS J, WINANS,

of Baltimore.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

[From the Newark Journal, Nov. 17, 1875. ]

CHEAP DITCHING—A USEFUL INVENTION,Governor Randolph, after nearly two years

of constant experiment, has perfected his"ditching or excavating machine" to which wecalled attention during its exhibition at theState Fair in 1872.

The machines used for digging ordinaryfarm ditches require the services of two menand four horses, and "with this force will ex-cavate a drain three feet deep and four thou-sand feet long in a day. This is equal to thelabor of 50 men in the same time. Underfavorable circumstances, in loamy soil, themachine has dug equal to the labor of 75 menat the cost of 12 men.

The machine is patented here and abroadand is in the hands of the Virginia DitchingCompany, of which the Governor is the Presi-dent. This company propose to dispose ofthe right to use the machine to individuals orassociations for counties and townships.Larger machines will be worked by steam-power where excavations are to be made,levees and embankments built, &c. Theserious cost of under-draining, the indispensable requirement of good farming and certaincrops, has been the objection heretofore madeto drainage; but with a machine in a farmingneighborhood, of this sort, Miles of drainageconld be quickly and cheaply done.

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R E C E I P T S FBOSI MAY, 1845, TO JAXTJAEY, 1876.Premiums 564,832,914: 97Interest 16,316,592.79 .

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$42,791,410 458,107,913 05

30,190,184 26

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$81,148,507 76 - 100.0

Life and Endowment Policies, of the usualforms, issued on the most favorable terms.

LEWIS C, Git OVER, President,

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MILTON MILLS FLOUR, FEEDGHR,.AJQSr S T O E E ,

in CHERRY STREET; also, having leased theMilton Mills, which gives him all the facilitiesand advantages for manufacturing Flour, Feed,&x., will give great care in selecting the bestgrades of White and Red Winter Wheat, andspecial attention to the Flour Department.Hoping by prompt attention to business tomerit a large patronage, it will be his earnestdesire to meet the demands of customers, andgive them the very best in his line, and to sellat the lowest possible standard for cash. Inaddition to his own grades of flour, he willkeep constantly on hand ST. LOUIS CHOICEBRANDS, Also, some of the choice SouthernBrands, Hecker's Ever Prepared Flour, XXXBest Family Flour, XX Extra Superfine, XSuperfine, Rye and Graham Flour, ExtraFine and Yellow Meal, Wheaten Grits, Homi-ny, Samp, Oat Meal, Feed, Shorts, Rye Feed,Bran and. Oil Meal.

In connection with the above, will be keptconssantly on hand and fresh, FancjT Articlesin his line direct from the manufactory—Cream Tartar, Rice Hour, Crushed Wheat,Split Peas, Corn Sterch, Arrow Root, &c.

My Feed, and Meal are made of the verybest. No cobs or damaged grain used. War-ranted as represented, or no sale.

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Trains leave New York, from foot of Des-•brosses and Cortlandt Streets, as follows:Express for Haiiisburg, Pittsburg, the West '

and Soutn, with Pullman Palaee Cars at-tached, 9.30 a. ni., 6 and 8.30 p. m. Sun-day, 6 and 8.30 p. m.

For Williamsport and Lock Haven, via Phila-delphia and Erie Railroad Division, con-necting at Philadelphia), 9.30 a. in., forWilliamsport, Lock Haven, Cony and Erie,8.30 p . m., connecting at Cony for Titns-ville, Petroleum Centre, and the Oil Regions.

For Baltimore, Washington and trie South,"Limited Washington Express" of Pullmanman Parlor Cars, daily, except Sunday, at9.30 a. in., arrive at Washington 4.10 p. m.Regular at 8.40 a. m., 3 and 9 p. m, Sun-day, 9 p. m.

Express for Philadelphia, 7, 7.30, 8.40, 9.30 a.HI., 12.30, 3, 4, 4.10, 5, C, 7, 8.30, 9 p. m.and 12 night. Sunday, 5, 6, 7, 8.30, 9 p. m.Emigrant and second ciass, 7 p. in.

For Newark at 0, 0.30, 7, 7.40, 8, 9, 10, 11 a.• m., 12 rn., 1, 2, 2.30, 3.10, 3.40, 4, 4.10, 4.30,

4.50, 5. 5.20, 5:40, 6.10, 6.20. 6.30, 7, 7.30,8.10, 10, 11.30 p. m., and 12 night. Sunday,5.20, 6.30, 7 and 8.10 p. m.

For Elizabeth, 6, 6.30, 7, 7.40, 8. 9 10, 11 a.m., 12 m., 1, 2, 2.30, 3.10, 3.40, 4, 4.10, 4.30,4.50. 5.20, 5.40, 6.10, 6.20, 6.30, 7, 7.30, 8.10,10, 11.30 p. m.. and 12night. Sunday, 5.20,6.30, 7 and 8.10 p. m.

ForEahway, 6. 8.30. 7, 7.40, 8, 10, 11 a. m.,12 m., 1. 2, 2.30 3.10, 3.40. 4, 4.10. 4.30,4.50, 5.20, 5.40, 0.10. 6.20, 6.30, 7, 8.10, 10p. m., and 12 night. Sunday, 5.20, 6.30and 7 p. m. . •

For Woodbridge, Perth Amboy and SouthAniboy, 6 and 10 a. m., 2.30, 4.50 and 6.20p. m.

For New Brunswick, 7, 8 and 11 a. ni.. 2, 3.10,4.10, 5.20, 6.10, 7 p. m., and 12night. Sun-day, 7 p. m.

For East Millstone, 11 a. m., 3 and 5.20 p. m.For ^Kingston and Rocky Hill, 8.40 a. m. and

4.10 p . m .For Princeton, 7, 8.40 a. m., 12.30, 2, 4.10 and

7 p. m.For Lambertville, 9.30 a. m., % 3, 4.10 p. in.For Phillipsburg and Belvidere 9.30 a. in.,

and 2 p. in.For Flemington, 9.30 a. m., 3 p. m.For Mercer and Somerset Branch, 3 p. m.For Trenton. Bordentown, Burlington and

Caniden, 7.30 and 9.30 a. m., 12.30, 2, 4, 5,and 7 p. m.

For Freehold, 7.30 a. in., 2 and 4.10 p. m.ForFarmingdaleandSo;uan, 7.30 a. m., 2 p. m.For Hightstown, Pemberton and Camden, via

Perth Amboy, 2.30 p. m., and via Mon-mouth Junction, 4.10 p. m. ».

For Hightstown and Pembertcn, 6 a. m., viaPerth Amboy, and 7.30 a. m., viaMonmouthJunction.

Trains arrive as follows—From Pittsburgh,6.55, 10.30 a. m., and 9.20 p. m. daily;10.15 a. m. and 7.40 p. m.. daily except Mon-day. From Washington and Baltimore,6.20 a. m., 4.05, 5.15 arid 10.27 p. m. Sun-day, 6.20 a. m. From Philadelphia, 5.10,6.20, 6.55, 10.15, 11.5.0, 11.54 a. m., 2.15,4.05, 5.15, 6.10, 6.50, '8.44, 7.35, 10.27 p. m.Sunday, 5.10, 6.20, ft.55, 11.54 a. m., 7.40,9.20, 10.27 p. in.

Trains leave Woodbiidge for New York, at7.13 and 8.14 a. m., and 12.14, 4.20 and6.40 p. m.Ticket offices, 52G and 944 Broadway; 1 As-

tor House, and foot of Desbrosses and Cort-landt Streets; 4 Court Street, Brooklyn; 114,116 and 118 Hud'son Street, Hoboken. Emi-grant ticket ofiio e, 8 Battery Place.FK.OTS: THOMSON [( D. M. BOTD, Jr.,

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SILLS, POLISHEJ 3 HEAETHS,

WELL STOKES, (J HLMNEY TOPS,&c, &r i> &c.

FLAGGING FOEWALKSDONE AT g ,HOET NOTICE.

WHOLESAL ,E AND BE TAIL,

A T THE I _,0 W E 3 T CASH PHICES.

' . E. T. TAPPEN.

T EHIGH yjajLWL RAILROAD.

16th,and Desl7 a. m,

MawMarWi

t€

COAL, /or* Family S6,

ALWAYS ON HAND.

jMENT or PASSBNGEB TEAINS, APBILi—-Leave, depots foot of Cortlandtbosses Streets, at ' • 'for Easton, Bethlehem, Allen ton,Chunk, Hazleton, Beaver Meadow,

ey dty, Shenandoah, lit. Carmel,,kesbarre, Pittston, Elmira, &c, connect-:' with trains for Ithaca, Auburn,-Roches-'r" Buffalo,' Niagara Falls and the -west. :

> 'm., for Enstpn, Bethlehem, Allentown,iiauch Chunk, Hazelton, Mahoney City,Shenandoah, Wilkesbarre,: Pittston, Tunk-ihannook, &c, making close connection forReading, Pottsvilie'and Harrisburg. ••';• :

•yp.'-'ni.-; fop-Easton,. Bethlelieni,. AUentoivn:- aiui-'Mfwiek Cbupk, slopping, at all stations.:

" G 30 p. m'.^- "Sight, express daily, for. Easton,.ijSetlslMi&n'j'1 Mleatown,.-: .ilauch,_Ghn;nk,:- "Wilkesban:e,r Pittston, -Elniiia, ,.&c. /connect,

"'. ihg'witii lraihs"-foi- Ithaca, A-iiburn, 'Roches^.--tijrjBtifialOr'Niagara Ealls and the we;st.;

Pullman's slseping c.qaches attached.Train's leave" RanVay' for Metuchen', Kew;

jjrooklyn and Ke\y Markfit..at5.a.. m., and 2;_r 4 and 7.30 p,ni. ; . , , . . . s

..;....... •ROBEKT5.; SATIIE, Siipt. and Engineer:; ' CJeneral eastern oMce,' corker Church "andCortlandt-Steeets. '•'-••- '•"••

\ CHAS.H. CUHMISGS, Agent.

AlAENTOWN LlSE TO THE WEST.Pas' senger and freight station ia New York,

foot' jf Liberty Street. Connects at Somervillewith i South Branch Railroad; at HamptonJ u r iction with Delaware, Lackawanna andW estem Railroad; at Phillipsburg with Lehighft' ad Susquehanna division; also, with Lehigh"" Galley Railroad. Direct line to Harrisburg,

Pittsburg and the -west; also to Central Penn-sylvania and New York State.

| WINTER ARRANGEMENT.Commencing December 1st, 1875. Leave

New York as follows:5.30 a. m., News train for Easton, Belvidere,

Bethlehem, Bath, Allentown, Mauch Chunk,Tamaqua, Tamanend, Wilkesbarre, Potts-ville, Seranton, &c.

6 05 a. m., Way train for Dunellen.7.45 a. m., Way train for Flemington and' Easton, connects at Junction with Delaware,Laekawanna and Western Railroad.

9 a. m.,Moring express, daily (except Sun-days) for Easton, Allentown, Harrisburgand the west. Connects at Easton forMauch Chunk. Tamaqua, Towanda, Wilkes-barre, Pottsvilie, Seranton, Danville, Wil-liamsport, &c.

10.15 a. m. Way train for Somerville andFlemington.

1 p m. Express for Flemington, Easton, Al-lentown, Mauch Chunk, Tamaqua, MahoneyCity, Hazelton, Wilkesbarre, Reading Colum-bia, Lancaster, Ephrata, Pottsvilie, Harris-buxe, 3-

2 45 p m Express for Easton, Belvidere,Bath, Mauch Chunk, Wiliesbarre anaSeranton.

3 30 p. m. Way train for Dunellen.4 p m . Way train-for Easton, Allentown and

Mauch Chunk. Connects at Junction witliDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-road. ... ,

4.30 p. m. Way train for Somervilla anaFlemington.

5 p. m. Way train for Dunellen.5 15 p. m. Evening express, daily, for Boston,

Allentown, Mauch Chunk, Wilkesbaxre,Towanda, Reading and Harrisburg.

5.30 p. m. Way train for Somerville.G p. m. Way train for Somerville.6.30 p. m. Way train, for Dunellen.7 p. m. Way train fox Somerfille.S.30 p. m. For Easton.9.30 p. m.-'Way train for Somerville.12 T>. m. Way train for Dunellen.For Elizabeth at 5.30,: 6.15, 6.3,5, 7, 7-30, 7.45,

8 8 45, 9, 9.30, 10.15, 11.15 a. m., 12 m.,12 45 1, % 2.45, 3, 3.30, 3.45, 4, 4.15, 4.30,4 45 5, 5.15, 5.30, 5.45, 6, 6.15, 6.30, 7, 7.40,8.30, 9.30,10.30, 11; 15. 12-p.'in.

. • R. E. RICEBE, Supt. and Eng.H. P. BAIDWTN, Gen'l Pass. Agt.

TEW YORK AND LONG. BRANCH H, R.( CENTKAI- EAILKbAD OF "S. J.

AT4>RAXL LiKi| BETWEEN NEW YOEE,

, " LONG BRANCH AND SGJTAN.

Time-table of July 10th, 1876.—Trainsleave New York from foot of Liberty Street,-North River, 'at 7.45, "9.15;"."11.45 a. m., 3.45,4.30 and'5.30 p.,m. • . ... •

All trains run to Long Branch.Stages toand from Keyport connect at Mata-

wan Station with all trains.Woodbridge for New York at 7.50, a. m-

and 12M4, 4:.O2, S;32and 7;32 p. m. •H. P. BALD-WIN,-'Gen. Pass. Agt,

R. E. RicKER, Supt. and Eng'r.

GENERAL HEWS.

Gen. Butler lias been nominated forCongress by the Eepublicans of Ms clis-tiict.

Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise died atMs residence in Eichmond, at half-pasttwelve o'clock on Tuesday.

There were over 2,000 yisitors at theWhite House in Washington on Wed-nesday before noon, the most of themstrangers bound to or from the Cen-tennial.

A Richmond gentleman has receiveda letter from a Virginian now in Egypt,stating that all the American officersnow in the Khedive's service are to bedismissed.

A detachment of 2,700 Spanish troops•will embark from Spain on Friday toreinforce the Spanish army in Cuba.They vrill be followed by 4,800 othersbefore the end of this month.

Major Frank North, with one hun-dred Pawnee Indians, enlisted as scoutsfor Gen. Crook's command, passedthrough Omaha, bound for Powderriver country, on Wednesday.

The American Team won the Inter-national Rifle Match, with a total scoreof 3,126, leading the Irish Team 22points, the Scotch and Australian Teamseach 64 points, and the Canadian Team203 points.

Robert Barnwell Rhett, Representa-tive in Congress and afterwards Senatorfrom South Carolina, resigning the lat-ter position in 1852, and afterwards re-turning to public life as a member ofthe Confederate Congress, died inLouisiana yesterday.

Thus far in the current fiscal yearthe internal revenue receipts are said toshow a decided increase over the re-ceipts of the corresponding period lastyear. The internal revenue receipts onWednesday were $260,637, and the cus-tom reeeips $554,795.

The controller of the currency statesthat he does not anticipate any furtherdeposits of legal tender notes to securebank circulation,'but that it may be pos-sible the twenty odd millions now heldmay be withdrawn and replaced by4 1-2 per cent, bonds. :

A convention of western an southernrailroad representatives, at St. Louis,have adopted a plan for pooling freightearnings. The pooling arrangementwill apply to both eastern and westernbound freight. The convention willmeet again in Chicago nest month.

A telegram from Washington, an-nounces that arrangements have Wenmade with the five rifle teams now shoot-ing at Creedmoor to have a three days'match in that city. The teams will g<s±o Washing-ton on Sept. 25, and shootat 800, 900, and 1,000 yards on the 26th,28th and 30th.

The thousands of hostile Sioux whocomprised Sitting Bull's army havingbeen forced to scatter to avoid fighting-Crook and Terry on something likeequal terms, are now willing to treatfor peace. Winter is coming, and theyare ready to be fed at the agencies un-til another Spring. I t is probable thatfor once their usual programme will befrustrated. They overdid the thingwhen they massacred Ouster.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

r \ A. CAMPBELL & CO.,

CLAY M E R C H A N T S ,WOODBBIDGE, N. J.

"O B. FREEMAN & SON,

EAHWAY AYE., WOODBEIDGE, N. J.

PHYSICIANS

AND

SURGEONS,

E . B . FREEMAN. S. E. FREEMAJT.

AYLD P. CARPENTER'ST ^

Carriage Repository,MAIN ST,, WOODBEIDGE, N. J.

CARRIAGES, BUGGIES & WAGONS

Constantly on hand and Made to order.

Fainting, Trim? suing & Jobbimj

at the Shortest Jfotiee.

AD YER TISEMENTS.

MO QBE,

DEALER IS

11 A. Al JL/ H A ±\ 111 ,

STOVES, TINWARE,

Agricultural Implements.

Large and New Stock of

CROOKEBI,Head-quarters for

FRUIT JARS AND JELLY CUPS.

GLASS-WARE, LAMPS,AIL SIZES "WINDOW-GLASS,

FITBNITURE,MATTRASSES, CLOCKS,

CARPET MATTING, OIL CLOTHS,

ALL SIZES ROPE.

PAINTS, OILS, COLORS, DRY AND

IN OH. VARNISH OP ALL KINDS.

3?»ixrt 3E5anxsli.es.

EVERY DESCRIPTION OP

Field & Garden Seeds

Large Stock of all kinds of

FISHING TACKLE,At NEW YOKE PBICES.

TORCHES AND BANNERS,For Political Associations, at Short Notice.

Special Attention is called to our

ELEVATED OVEN EANGE,

"<• O XL y ~F* avo r i t e . "ALSO, T H E

NEW CABINET EANGE,The most complete Hot-Closet Range ever

made, and a fall line of cheap STOVES ANDRANGES constantly on hand. Stove Bepair-ing a Specialty.

tot—

NEAR THE DEPOT,

W O O D B B I D G E , N. J .

STORE!

NEW STOCK!

NEW PRICES!

1 B . KNIFFIN & 00.Murray St., N. T.t

Have just opened

A NEW AJQ WELL-SELECTED STOCK

OF

CHINA,, G-LA8S,

AND

OUTL

FULL ASSORTlLESj 0 F

TIWWA

House-Furnlsliing Goodi

114 BROAD STR*]?ELIZABETH. J .

AD YEIlTISEMENTS.

T;HE ORIGINAL WOODBEIDGE

COAL YARD.

William M. Demarest,PROPRIETOR.

LEHIGH,AND OTHEB STANDAED

O O

STOVE

EGG,

and

IsTTTT,

AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

AT THE

Loivest Marl&et Prices.

Lime,

Cement,

HARD WOOD,

By the Cord. Also, Sawed and Split.

ORDERS PEOMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

W. H. DEMAREST

Takes pleasure in informing the citizens

of Woodbridge and vicinity that he has

accepted the appointment as

AGENT FOE THE

State Fire Insurance Comp'y,

JESSES CITY.

TAMES T. MELICK,

(UXDEE SIELICK HOUSE),

Main Street, Railway,Has now on hand a large stock of

MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING-,New Goods, all Wool. PBLNfCE ALBERT

FRONTS made from S10 to $15.Black Cassimere Pants, S3.50 to $6.00.Vests, from $1.50 to $3.00.BOYS' CLOTHING a Specialty.

FINE ASSORTMENT OF

BAGS, TRUNKS, YALISES.

Clothing Hade to Order.

PRESSING AND CLEANING done at short

notice. J. T. MELICK.

A T E ¥ BRUNSWICK HOTEL,

GEORGE E. CRATER, PROPRIETOR,

COB. GEOEGE AND SOKEESET STEEETS.

NSW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

(Opposite the Depot),

LTVEBY ATTACHED.

TSAAC FLOOD & SON,X

CLAY I S E C I A I T ,

WOODBEIDGE, N. J.SAAC FLOOD. A. HALSTED FLOOD.

iHOKTLANDT & E. WAYNE PAEKEE,

COUNSELLORS AT LAW,

750 BEOAD STBEET, NEWARK, N. J.

, COETLANDT PAT.KEE. BICHABD WAYNE PABKEE

The PRICES, the STYLES, ami the

QUALITY of the wares offered by this

firm defy competition.

GOODS PACKED AND SHIPPEDTO ANY PAET OF THE STATE

Without extra charge for Packages or

Cartage.

THOMAS H. MOEEIS,

'

OF DEEDS ASD SEEVE70E.

'enoe and Office:

AVE., WOOD-BRIDGE, N. J.

& LUPTON,

^YS & COUUSELLGES AT LAWE%ANGE. BUILDING,

\ EAHWAY, N. J.

AD VEBTISEMFNTS.

POUND !A REMEDY that will

CURE THE RHEUMATISM.

Ask your Druggist for

0GLZ31 HHEUMATIC REMEDY.

It cures RHEUMATISM in all its forms, re-moving it entirely from the system; gives im-mediate relief, subdues swollen and inflamedjoints; removes aching and soreness—the veryworst cases readily yield to its curative pow-ers. It is pleasant to the taste, and can. betaken by the niost delicate person, always giv-ing a cure.

GIVE IX A. TRIAL,And you will be satisfied by the relief andcomfort it gives that Bheumatism can becured by

COLES' BHEUMATIC BEMEDY,

PEICE, SO cents and $1 PEE BOTTLE.

Prepared and sold by

ID. IP. GOLES,DRUGGIST AND PHARMACIST,

158 MAIN STREET, EAHWAY,if. J., and by Druggists everywhere.

nPHE CITIZENS5 MUTUAL

INSURANCE CO3IPANY,

NEWAKK, IN. J .

PEINCXPAL OFFICE, NO. 443 BEOAD STBEET.

Authorized Capital, - $250,000.

- President.

Vice-1'residait.

- Ircusurer.

JAMES G. DAJJLING,

LEWIS J. LYON, - -

HIEAM M. EHODES,

A. P. SCHAEFF,

AGENT FOE PESTS iMBOI,

R. P. BARTOI,Iteal Estate and Insuftmrc -iyi'itf*

List and descriptions of property forwarded

on application.

"VTILTON LAKE ICE! i I

Milton

Milton Lake(ESTABLISHED 1849.)

I O IE,W H O L E S A L E AND R E T A I L ,

Delivered to any part of the City.

ORDER.!?*

LEFT AT

EEUCK'S ICE CREAM SALOON,

Opposite Post Office,

•will receive immediate attention. Also, an

ICE DEPOT

Will be erected in the rear of W. L Brown'sFeed Stsre, and any quantity can be obtainedthere at any time.

Thankful for past patronage, I remain,A. WHITE, Proprietor.

Eahway, N. J., May 18th, 1876.

HPHOMAS A. BAYLEY,

CIVIL EHGIBEEP., AMD SURVEYOR,(Successor to Thomas Archer,)

OFFICE, 25 CHEBBI- ST., OPP. POST OFFICE,

EAHWAY, H. J.

/CLOTHING! CLOTHING!

LARGE STOCK, HEW GOODS.I would call the attention of the citizens of

Woodbridge and vicinity, to my Stock of

SPUING AND SUMMER CLOTHOTG,

Which in regard to STYLE and QUALITY,cannot be undersold.

KNICXEKBOCKEE WALKING SUITS,Entirely new cut and fabric—$1O,$12,S14,S18.

Fine ENGLISH DIAGONAL AND BASKETPATTERN", in Frock Coats and

Vest to match,S10, S12, $14, 518, S20.

BLUE FLANNEL SUITS, only S10.

Large Line Fancy CASSLMEEE PANTS,S3, S3.50, 84, $4.50, and upwards.

YOUTHS' CASSIMEJRE SUITS,$6,$7, $9, §12.

CHTLDKESTS SUITS, S2.50 to $9.

Large Stock of PIECE GOODS for MerchantTailoring.

Y DIFFERENT STYLES CASSEMEREfor PASTS to order, S5, S6, S7, and up.

BUSINESS SUITS to Order, S16 and up.

Call and examine. Goods shown with pleasure.

GEORGE MILL/EH,

CLOTHIER & MERCHAT TAILOR,

1,43 MAK ST. COB. LEWIS,

RAHWAY, N. J.

AD VEETISEMENTS.

A BEEL & LEONARD,

ATTOBHEYS & COOTSELLOBS AT LAW

800 BROAD STREET,

G. N. ABEEL.F. W. LEONARD, NSWAES, St. 3.

J ^ B. FREEMAN, JE.,

First Druq Store Established in Wbodbridrje.

OOE. XAIHTAY ATE. AKD GEEEN" ST.

DRUGS, MEDICINES, FANCY AETICLES.

pREDERICK EYER,

!ViANtJFACTUr.KR OF

JABEIAGES AND LIGHT WAGOHS,(Opposite the rear of Chamberlin's Hotel,)

CAaiPBELL ST., EAHWAY, N. J.

JtS3~ Eepairing neatly executed.

ESTABLISHED 1864.H. B. ZIMMERMAN,

IMPORTER OE HUMAN HAIR,And Manufacturer of

HATR GOODS OP EYERY DESCRIPTION

Wholesale and Eetail.

30 CHUBCH ST., NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J

X V M . A. MORGAN,

MA?TOFACTDP.EF. OF

SASHES, BLINDS AND DOORS,

CAMPBELL STEEET, NEAE N. J. K. E. DEPOT.

P. O. Box 2t». T-AHWAY, N. J.

CLAY MERCHANTS.

H. CTTTTEK. J. C. CUTTEIt.

QTACY'S PHOTOGEAPEIf. PAELOBSSO

I MAIN ct CHiiiii:i iixc. Entrance on Cherry St.

I Of all kinds iu;uiu in tliu b a t .-itriu and sat-| isfinrtion gunniiitred. A good aaaorttiioiit ofI FHAiiLb.o constantly on hand. Pictures framedI at snort notice at the LOWEST PKIC'-KS.! EAHWAY. N. J. -I. a. STACYI

TSAAC INSLEE. -Ji:.,

CLAY MEECEASx,

WOODBEIDGE, N. J.

E T. HARRIS,9

REAL ESTA.TE,

FIRE AND LIFE

InsuranceAgentIimxcj AKB CHEEKS: STS., KAHWAT, N. J.,

Is prepared to offer for sale, to let, or ex-change, in the city of Eahway and vicinity,

HOUSES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,

LOTS of various sizes, FAEMS of from tento two hundred acres, at low prices and onreasonable terms. All Ttr<yn+vr,g s u o h will dowel1 to rail r.t me t

CENTEMTIAL HOTEL,OE THE EUROPEAN PLAIT,

Opp. the Depot, RAHWAY, N. J.

MEALS AT ALL HOURS.

DUJKEES AID WEDDLWG PARTIES

SUPPLIED AT SHORT NOTICE.

A Public Mestaurant,

I s COKHECTED TVITH THE HOTEL.

THE HOTEX, 3B .I£

IS S0PPIJED WITH THE

JBest Wines, IAquovs & Cigars.

This house ia COSTVENIENTLY LO-

CATED for the accommodation of the

traveling public^ and lias been recentlyenlarged and refitted throughout. Thepatronage of the public is respectfullysolicited. MES. M. LATJTERER,

Proprietress.

J> N. & H. YALENTLNE,

CLAY M E R C H A N T S ,

WOODBEIDGE, N. 3.

T^TOODBRIDGE HOTEL,

Woodbridge, N. J.

FIEST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS FOE

TEANSIENT AND PEEMASENT BOARDERS.

Good Stabling, Driving and Pishing.

CTioiceWines,Liquors & Cigars

A. GEINSTED, Proprietor.