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First of all the lecturer read a. letter from a pioneer in sugar-beet culture, originally a ship-owner. He became a. convert to the beet sugar industry while going to France in his own ships, but since the decline of the American shipping interest, he has taken to farming and does it more thoroughly than‘ one who has been a farmer all hil life-time, J any, is net profit ? In most places in the United States, the common saying is, “The me flieatl farmer tries to grow, the poorer he will gnaw." It must be accepted as a prhdple,‘that what one former does under ordinary conditions, another can do, and what ten farmers can do, ten, twenty and hundreds more can do under the same con- ditions, if they will only try. What then has been the result obtained by many farmers who have tried to raise sugar-beets during the last year ? In giving these figures, I will be very careful to give the full name and ‘ post-oflfice addgess of the parties to enable any ‘ farmer to apply to them for more particular information than'l am able to give in this short address. ‘ ' Tia-Jot“): wu ruck How then is the state of farming in coun- tries where the beet sugar industry flourish- es 7 We can find in Europe no state or even district where beet sugar had not brought with it remunerative well paying farming in general. We find this in every country but perhaps in none more so than in Belgium. To say nothing of all her other industries, the beet sugar industry in Belgium is in the most flourishing condition. Thougha rather mountainous country. of which the iron and coal industries give best evidence, she exports large quantities of sugar besides supplying her own needs. The state of New York, if out up, could be turned into half a dozen Kingdoms,“ Belgium. We find here the hoist sugar interest the most prosperous farm- ing in Europe. According to statistics, to every two acres of land under cultivation, there is kept in Belgium one head of cattle or its equivalent in sheep or swine. Afarmer who cultivates eighteen to twenty acres of land there not only makes a good living, but he accumulates money. How many can say so here in America ? Many American farmers may shake their heads and think farm pro- ducts must underlie a different law in Europe from what they do in America. Farm pro- ducts bring fibout the same price the world over, adding freight to transport them from one point to another. If wheat is worth one dollar a bushel in America or Russia, it is worth no more in England, France or Ger- many with the addition of 20 cents for freight and other charges. Statistics show that a yield of forty bushels has been the average of many years together in all the wheat produc- ing countries in Europe, and we may say safely {51.20 cents has been the average price. If then the European farmer finds it more profitable to raise sugar beets and sell them to the sugar factories at from $3.60 to $4 per ton, where they average a crop of wheat amounting to 848, how much more profitable it must be to the American farmer, when all ‘ the gross income he has from an acre of ‘ wheat is $11, of which the smallest part, if any, is net profit ? In most places in the ‘ ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1879. At the inatance of the- State Agricultural Society Mr. Ernest Th. Gennert, Manager of the Maine Beet Sugar Company of Portland, Me., delivered a. lecture here to-day on that industry. George W. Hoffman, Esq., occu- pied the chair and introduced the lecturer, whose discourse elicited hearty applause and commendation. THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY. Address ofErnest Th. Gennert, Esq., Before the State Ag- ricultural Society of New York. INTRODUCTORY. Mr. Gennert said that the beet sugar in- dustry has, since it assumed the proportion of an industry at all, developed to such an extent wherever it has been introduced. that it is considered in most countries in Europe the most important industry, and as the con- sumption of sugar not only increases with the increase in population, but also with the progress of civilization, it cannot be surpris- ing that this interest has assumed in less than fifty years such gigantic proportions. In order to understand the difficulties which we find we have to meet in introducing this industry on the continent of North America, let us look at the exact nature of this im- portant industry. THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF SUGAR. Sugar is an organic substance containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and, as it has never been produced in any artificial way, not even in minute quantities, it cannot be denied that it is a product of the soil, It is an agricultural product, and as such it has long ago been acknowledged. Sugar has to be produced in the field, the farmer has to make it, the manufacturer only extracts it from the sugar-containing plants which the farmer produces. The principal plants which contain sugar in large proportions are the sugar-cane and the sugar-beet; all the rest together, such as the sugar maple, sugar palm and others, form but a small fraction in the sugar supply of the world. In former years the su r-cane was looked upon as the only plant cm which sugar could be extracted; and wherever, in former times, this has been the case, the industry was invariably allied with human or negro slavery, and wherever slavery ceased to exist the production of sugar also ceased, to a large extent. We have seen this on the different islands of the West In- dies, later in Louisiana, and still later in Peru, where, in order to produce sugar on a large scale, the very worst form of human slavery was introducedâ€"that of the Chinese Coolies. It is therefore but reasonable to ex- pect whenever slavery ceases to exist in Cuba, the production of sugar will cease to exist also or be immensely decreased ; and as Cuba so far has supplied a large proportion of the sugar produced from cane, some other country willhave taoome forward to take its place. Beet sugar, on the other hand, has been an ofispring of science and has been ever closely allied to it. The production of beet sugar only assumed the proportion of national in- dustry after science had become the handâ€" maid of agriculture. Wherever we find the beet sugar industry flourish, we find it com- bined with scientific, with national farming, from which it is inseparable ; one can not exist without the other. This compels us to investigate the state of our agriculture, to understand what the beet sugar industry has to expect from it. As the whole beet sugar industry is decidedly of an agricultural nature, we have to treat it as such, and we will soon find what is the greatest and in fact the only difficulty to be overcome to the suc- cessful production of one hundred million dollars worth of sugar in the United States. This difficulty, this obstacle, lies in our low state of farming, in farming land by the quantity instead of making less land, with less labor applied, very productive. It lies in the mistake we make to consider ourselves a prosperous agricultural nation. when we ship year after year the fertility of our land to Europe, until we will find ourselves face to face with the Pacific Ocean. It sounds very deceptive when our daily papers tell us that we have shipped so many million bushels of corn, wheat and other grain to Europe. We ship so many million pounds of meat, butter and cheese to foreign countries ; but it sounds quite diflierent when we learn that the average crop of wheat per acre this year in Tennessee has been four bushels ; in Ohio, which was once the garden of the United States, ten bushels ; and in the whole United States it has been for many years eleven bushels. It is ~und0ubtedly gratifying to learn that we can make as good cheese as any nation in the world, Holland, Switzer. land and England, not even the celebrated Limburg, excepted. but it is quite another thing when we learn that nearly one half the year our cows stand dry, simply because dry hay and ice water will produce neither much milk, nor cream. A DIFFICULT‘Z IN THE WAY. AN Impommr QUESTION. Before the introduction of the beet sugar industry the arrondisement of Valenciennes produced 695,000 bushels of wheat and fat- tened 700 oxen. Since the manufacture of beet sugar was introduced, the arrondisement of Valenciennes has produced 1,157,750 bushels of wheat and has fattened 11,500 oxen. On a public occasioll, the following inscrip- tioll v_ms placeid‘onfi. trlumplml arqh :â€" “ Mr. K. M. Chrysler, of North Hector, N. ' Y., reports that he has raised of Lane’s Im- : perial and Vilmovis sugar beets 40 tons per acre. Mr. Richard N. Bailey, of VViscasset, Maine, reports 40 tons per acre ; Mr. Albert Fehring, of Hingham, Mass. reports 50 tons ‘ per acre; Messrs. Smith & Powell. of Syra- cuse, New York. report 60 tons per acre. I could give many more names, which have raised from 35 down to 15 tons last year, which was very unfavorable for any root crops. W. W. Harris, of Cumberland, Me,, raised 26 tons per acre, on which he applied $18 worth of Stockbridge Fertilizer per acre ; he is president of the State Board of Agricul- ture, and will give information to any one who applies for it. He expresses his con- viction if he had doubled the quantity of manure he would have doubled his beet crop. Mr. Libby, President of the First National ‘ Bank of Portland, had 25 tons raised on his farm. The manager of the farm belonging to the Reform school in Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, raised two acres which yielded fully as much as either of the former. With proper cultivation and manuring, there is no good reason why every farmer who tries should not raise twenty or more tons per acre. The influence this would exert on American farming in general can hardly be estimated in dollars and cents. A twenty ,ton beet crop would not only give the farmer $100 in cash, but would give him besides from seven to eight tons of the very best of green feed in the form of tops and leaves, which may be kept all winter and fed to cattle with fine out straw, making a most ex- cellent feed for milch stock. The proof that these pictures nave not been overdrawn is best furnished by the facts ascertained as to what the introduction of beet sugar has done in other countries. There is an illustration, which, though old and often repeated, is like an eternal truth, always new." . My plan work'is much behind, but within a fortnight I will try to take off my memor- anda on the sugar beet culture. The exper- ience of my neighbors shows widely different results. All the way from nothing to 11, 24, 30 to 40 tons to the acre. This last. by Mr. Rich. N. Bailey, I am getting the exact date of and meansio investigate very closely and thoroughly. He spares no labor nor manure, has excellent soil and is very prompt in sewing, weeding, thinning and cultivating between the rows. He feeds out his beets to his cattle, allof them, hogs and even hens, to each and and all. He thinks he can’t sell at $4 a ton ; might sell for $5, deliver at railroad station, three miles distant from his farm. He growls over the transportation cost only, and considers the crop worth more for his cattle. They all do. (I sold my own for 30 cents per bushel of 60 pounds.) They say if all the sugar, 12 per cent, and all the water, 80 per cent., is extracted from the root, the 8 per cent. left can be of no great value, and so they very much prefer the entire root, without costly truckage, for their stock. At the same time they all admit that there is more reliable cash value out of the beets at twenty tons to the acre than from potatoes, corn, grain, hay, or any other crop they can raise, and that if good friable land is chosen, well-worked, fined and manured, promptly thinned, and kept posi- tively clean of weeds, the very day they can be detected in the setting sunlight, greening the grornd, there is no trouble or uncertainty about a good heavy crop every time, worth from a 8100 to 3125 per acre. So they think, and so I know, after some years drill at rais- ing beets, I was all alone in this town at beet raising for some years. beating every- body of course. But I beat it into them, and now they begin to beet meâ€"and I am heart- ily glad of it, and so are the cattle. Mr. Bail- ey says that water in the beets at a reasona- ble temperature is better than the cold water in the brook or spring in winter. and the shivers that go with it. and that they don‘t drink near as much when fed regularly with roots as they do on dry hay and other such fodder. The crops of corn, hay, potatoes and all the cereals are subject to great loss through many contingencies. Heavy winds, pouring rains, blight, rust, mildew, rot, bug, worm, and beetle league together sometimes, and down goes the whole in quantity, quality and value, faster than one can breathe, far below the cost of production. The humble beet, firmly planted in the ground, laughs at the wars of the elements, the bugs. beetles, weevils and the thousand unnamed skip-jacks, each requiring some separate sort of ’pothe- cary stufi to circumvent, and goes steadily on renewing its broken foliage, and quietly gath- ering up the sweets of future reliable useful- ness. It cannot be long ere farmers will realize these facts and plant one acre at least With a crop, which ordinary brains and prompt labor will always conduct to a satis- factory issue. It is a crop which utilizes thoroughly the handy fingers and perfect eyes of children, who can do great things in a beet bed, for a small reward. This is the place for all, old or young, on the farm, who can do no hard work on most crops but can very ably take care of this. It is a crop that yields more absolute money to the household than any other I know of~â€"per acre â€"-no outlay but the seed, perhaps two dollars. Two dollars out in the spring, one hundred back in the fall. Please show us the crop which yields so large areturn for the land, manure and labor on so small cash outlay. There must be 50,000 farms in the State of Maine. Almost every one can raise the sugar beet. Suppose 20,000 of them raise each one acre of beetsâ€"â€" say 20 tons. They would grow then 400,000 tons yielding $2,000,000 to the farmers. This crop would make at least 40,000 tons of sugar, or eighty million pounds, worth six million four hundred thousand dollars. They can do it beyond all possible doubt, and if they do not within the next five vears, then are their owners blind beyond redemption. There is no experiment about it; the raising of the beets and the making of the sugar are well established facts. I hope to live long enough to see an end to imported sugars in Maine. and the hard earned money of the Maine far- mer stop at home where it belongs. A farm of 882 acru, the product of which “ The crop of Mr. Albert Fehring, of Bing- hampton, Mass., was sixty tons of roots, and if the tops were in the usual proportion of one-third they weighed twenty tons more giving the enormous yield of eighty tons of green feed. from one acre of ground. The crop raised on Deer Island. in Boston harbor. was about seventy tons to the acre. with a like proportion of tops ; the total yield must have been over a hundred tons. In the sew- age farms of England eighty tons of roots have been raised on one acre of land. Fehring applied 15 loads of manure to his acre of ground ; of the quantity of the Deer Island crop I regret not to have dates.” ANOTHER EXTRACT I YIELDS 0F BEETS. Here is an extract from the Register at Rural News : “ Messrs. Smith & Powell, of Syracuse Nursery, have given us the mea- surement of a crop of beets raised in 1876 on one acre of land. The variety is known as the yellow ovoid. The variety was thor- oughly sub-soiled and well taken care off. The crop weighed 118,400 1133., or about 59 tons, or at 60 lbs. per bushel would amount to 1,973;- bushels. Successful nursery men who know that a deep, well prepared soil IS the best for trees. often furnish some of the finest specimens of profitable farming, in the heavy crops which they obtain from vacant portions of their land, which should encour- age farmers to give up superficial, and adapt thorough, culture. James H. Gregory makes in a treatise on root gplture theA {o}10vyipg stfitgments. EXTRACT FROM LETTER OTHER AfiTnomeEs. MR. a.’s FACTS Yetâ€"11‘s. etc., ALEX. JOHNSTON. anNmeHT v. SIENRIGHT.â€"MI‘. Boyd Q. 0., and Mr Smelling for the plaintifl moved on notice for an injunction restrainingthe defen- dants, Louisa Sienright and William Sien- right, for entering or interfering with the dwelling house. Mr. Moss and Mr. Wilson ‘ for the defendants. Order to go referring it to the Master at Chatham to set apart the house and furniture so as to give to the plain- 1 tifl and defendants apartments in ecurity if possible until the hearing or further order, the parties to hold the apartments set apart by the Master free from molestation from either party, the Master to have access to the house for this purpose, Coats reserved. Re WELLA‘ND CANAL ENLARGEMENT.â€"Mr. Spragge. on behalf of the Minister of Public Works, asks for an order directing the issue of an advertisement directed to the parties interested in the portion of land taken possession of by the Crown for the purpose of the enlargement of the Canal. to come in and prove their claims under the statute. Order granted. In the Court of Chancery, Toronto, on Tuesdgyzâ€" The delivery of Mr. Gennert’s lecture elicited hearty cheers, dealing as it did with points on which information was wanted, or on which misunderstandings existed. If any sensible man can show a reason why American farmers would not be benefited by the beet sugar industry, as all the European farmers have been, I am one who would like to see the proof, and if any farmer can tell why it would be a disadvantage for him to try to raise an acre of sugar beets, I should like to hear it. Every American farmer will have hard work and very small returns until he cultivates root crops in regular rotation on his farm. The progress of civilization will force the introduction of the beet sugar in- dustry; a hundred millions of dollars will soon be insufficient to pay for the annual importa- ‘ tion of raw sugars; but large as this sum is, it is but small compared with the general improvement the introduction of beet grow- ing will bring to general farming; wherever introduced the sugar beet has proved herself the queen of farm crops, and sooner or later the United States has to acknowledge her suBeriorityt with ordinary farming amounted to $8,000 per year, with six years of beet sugar culture produced $44,200 per annum. INFERENCES. Considering these facts well, it cannot be surprising that many countries have ofiered assistance to the introduction of the beet sugar industry, foremost among which we find the Province of Quebec, the State of Maine and even Australia. I have laid be- fore you, continued Mr. Gennert, the advan- tages which necessarily must accrue to the farming community at large and to each in- dividual farmer who can muster courage en- ough to try a hundred dollar beet crop on at least one acre, instead of a eleven dollar wheat crop. Allow me to allude in a few brief words to the technical or business part of the beet-sugar question. Although the most important parts in the manufacture of beet sugar are sugar beets. these alone are not suificient ; otherwise it would have been long ago a flourishing in- dustry in the Dominion of Canada, where sugar beets have been raised by the hundreds of acres, and have been offered by the thous- ands of acres if parties could be induced to establish a sugar factory there. But the manufacture, refining or handling of sugar requires large sums of money, and in the heretofore uncertain state capitalists are very shy to invest money in any enterprise. es‘ pecially where, as in the beet sugar business, agriculture forms an indispensible and large part of the success. The Maine Beet Sugar Company has solved the question. " will it pay to raise sugar beets ‘2" most effectually. Taking it for granted that every farmer that tries an acre of sugar beets will, at least, put this one acre into proper and thorough culti- vation, the figures quoted will convince any one that he can count on a gross income of $100 from that one acre. THE SACCHARINE CHARACTER OF U. 8. GROWN BEETS. The next question asked and to be solved is : Do beets grown on American soil contain as much sugar as those grown in Europe, and do they contain some ingredient or sub- stance which Will make the profitable work- ing of the same on a large scale into sugar. These questions have been conclusively an- swered by the success which the Maine Beet Sugar Company has met with in its working. On the 215:. day of October the Company began the work of manufacturing sugar from beets, and within nine days after having the first beet go into the machinery, the company turned out of all grades of sugars from stan- dard granulated common concrete or melado 94.467 pounds. The quantity of beets con- sumed to produce this amount of sugar has been 450 tons, and as they were used with tops and even dirt on, many having adhering rotten leaves to them, it must be admitted that the result so far obtained has been fully as good as in the best sugar manufacturing countries, and better than in France. It is one of the peculiarities of the American beet that the heads or leaf-crown contain almost as much sugar as the beet itself, and more than the average beet of France. The ques- tion of the complete financial success of the Maine Beet Sugar Company therefore was and is centered in the supply of beets. Had this company had but sixty days aupply of beets, it would have earned s profit of not less than fifty per cent. The quality of the sugar and the quantity extracted were satisfactory in the highest degree and the ease with which it was done could not have been surpassed. But as every new industry, which has to start on a very large scale and cannot be worked with small or cheap machinery, and which requires large quantities of raw material to work, has to overcome extraordinary difficulties not only in the working itself, but most of all in the procurement of raw material, the Maine Beet Sugar Company adopted. in addition to the process of working green or fresh beets, the somewhat old method of working A drying establishment has been erected in the most northern part of the State of Maine where the beets have been sliced and kiln dried preparatory to transporting them to the sugar factory in Portlav i. Beets treated by this process are reduced in weight, five to one, so that an ordinary good ox team can haul ten tons of beets after they have been dried. The drying process has been adapted to the peculiarities of our country. In Europe, the drying of sugar beets is done with cokes, while here in this country, far away from communication, where wood is plenty and cheap coke is not only very expensive but impossible to pro- cure, wood is used for the fuel. After some little experimenting the success of the drying apparatus can be best under- stood by comparing figures. According to au- thentic figures one ton of beets converted into dry ones costs in Germany $9.12. This has been the average of four years, and includes everything ; while the beets dried in Aroostook County, in the State of Maine, cost the Maine Beet Sugar Company, delivered in their sugar works at Portland, $7.15. I do not mean to assert the working of dried beets to be the best method to be adopted in America, yet it certainly facilitates the drawing of beet sup- ply from a large territory, enables farmers who live along distance from transportation to avail themselves of this way of raising sugar beets. It cannot be denied there are objections to this method of sugar making ; yet it is calculated to facilitate the introduc- tion of the beet sugar industry into America. The Maine Beet Sugar Company has dried this season five hundred tons, and when the whole season’s work has been finished they will be converted into sugar, producing pro-‘ bably an additional 125,000 pounds of sugar: and bringing the whole production of the i Maine Beet Sugar Company during the first! season up to a quarter of a million of pounds] “'EB’TEI‘N ,LEGAL NOTES WAYS AND MEANS DRIED BEETS MITCHELL, Feb 1.â€"On Thursday a daugh- ter, aged eighteen, of Mr. Thomas Mutton. a well-to-do farmer of Fullerton, died under the V following circumstances. On Wednesday afternoon she was seized with vomiting, which continued at intervals all the evening and during the night. About one o'clock on‘ Thursday morning she asked her mother for some water. and, shortly after drinking it, she expired. search showed that a package of Paris green had been opened, and some of. it mixed in a cup. There were also traces of ‘ its having been spilled. A letter in the deâ€" ceased’s pocket named six young gentlemen whom she wished to be pall-bearers, and closed by bidding “ good-bye to all.” Two youths stated at the inquest that she had asked them on the Sunday previous if they would carry her to the grave that week, and, thinking she was joking, they laughingly an- swered that they would. Their names were on the list of pail-bearers she left behind. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that death was the result of a dose of Paris green administered by her own hand. No possible ‘ cause is known or can be thought of for the ‘ poor girl committing the rash act. She was ' good-looking, intelligent, bright and lively I and generally beloved. I A Young Lady Selects Iler Pall-Bearers and then Takes Poison. Our esteemed correspondent at Woodstock, writing on Saturday last, says: “ At the con- cluding meeting of the first session of the County Council. the report was received of a Select Committee appointed to inquire into the existence of dams on the river Thames, to the effect that, havmg taken such evidence as could be obtained relating to the matter, they found that there are several dams not properly constructed, and that by reason of these obstructions fish, which are known to 'be in great abundance at the mouth of the river and for many miles above the same, are prevented from reaching that portion of the river which passes through Oxford county, and Where, up to within the last ten years,: they were known to be in large quantities. } The Committee, therefore, recommended that ‘a committee, consisting of Messrs. Burgess, Cook and Totten, be authorized to make such representations to the Fishery Superinten- dent as Will tend to remove the evils com- plained of. The Committee on Roads and Bridges reported in respect to the Cedar Creek and other bridges, stating that they had taken local legal opinion on the matter, but not being satisfied with that opinion they recommended that the matter be laid over to June session, to afford an opportunity of get. ting other opinion, and that in the meantime the Cedar Creek bridge be paid for by Wood- stock and West Oxford. The report was adopted." (From the New York Herald.) No respectable newspaper traducea private character except by inadvertence or misinfor- mation, and for its own sake as well as for the sake of the person injured every respectable journal cheerfully makes the amende honor- able as soon as it is convinced that it has fallen into an error. LIBEl; SUIT! AGAINST NE‘VS “'IIOLE5031EAJIUSEMENTS. PAPERS. â€" The law of libel perhaps needs some slight amendment so far a:- it relates to the public press. A perfectly equitable law would ex- empt the press from damages for truthful statements published in the exercise of its ordinary functions. A member of Congress on the floor or 8. lawyer speaking in court fre quently makes libelous statements, and yet is not subject to prosecution, because such freedom is a necessary incident of his duties. A great deal of the news necessarily printed by the press touches the character of indi- viduals, and the press ought not to be pun- ished for things which are incidental to the ordinary discharge of its duties if the pub- lication is made in good faith and without malice. Still we have little complaint to make of the existing law of libel when it is administered in a spirit of equity. It would be insufferable for the press to destroy private character with impunity. But in cases where it promptly corrects errors of inadvertence or where injurious truth is printed without malice, there is no justice in awarding dam~ ages, and it is satisfactory to know that up- right courts and honest juries are more and more inclined to take this equitable view of thesubject. Francis Paul Jules Grevy, who has just been elected President of the French Republic, in the place of Marshal McMahon, who has resigned, was born at Montsous Vaudrez, Jura, August the 15, 1813. After being graduated from the College of Poligny he read law in Paris, and was a student there in the days of July, 1830, when Charles X. threw away the crown of France over a game of whist at Versailles. He flung himself ardent- ly into the revolution, and was with the corps which stormed the barracks of the Rue de Babylone. Like most thorough-going Repub- licans he was soon disappointed by the rule of the Citizen King, and he earned distinction early as a defender of those members of the Radical party who were prosecuted by the Government. He made his first famous plea in the case against two companions of Barbes. Throught the monarchy of July he remained faithful to his connections, and after the flight of Louis Philippe, in 1848, he was made a commissioner of the Provisional Government for his department. He fulfilled the difficult duties of the post with such tact and moder- ation and so carefully avoided compromising himself in the quarrels of the Republican fac- tions that he became the most popular man in the Jura. In the election for members of the Assembly he was made a Vice-President and a member of the Judiciary Committee. He spoke often and made a high reputation as a debater. He took anindependent position, but as a rule voted with the Extreme Left. He proposed that the Executive should be chosen by the National Assembly and hold office at its pleasure, with the title of President of the Council of Ministers, but the proposition was defeated by a vote of 643 to 158. After the presidential election of December 10 M. 3 Gravy opposed the policy of Louis Napoleon ‘and especially the expedition to Rome. He ‘was re-elected to the Corps Legislatif. and ‘ without making common cause with the ,Radicals. became one of the principal oppoâ€" nents ‘of‘th'é" Government. He protested ‘against the law of May 31 and opposed the revision of the constitution. After the coup d’etat of December, 1851, he gave himself up entirely to the practice of his profession. and in 1868 he became battmmicr of the Order of Advocates. In the same year, and again in 1869 and 1871, he was elected a member of the Corps Legislatif. The elec- tion of 1868 was the first since 1852 in which the Government had been complete- ly routed, and M. Grevy was then returned by a majority so decisive that at the ensuing election no official candidate was opposed to him, and he received eight-ninths of all the votes cast. He was chosen President of the Assembly in March 1871, and held that posi- tion down to April 1873, when he declined the invitation of President Thiers to serve longer in that capacity. Ever since the es- ‘tablishment of the Third Republic he has ‘ been looked upon as the natura; head of the Conservative Republicanism of France. The greater portion of libel suits against the press are instigated by shysters for the purpose of extorting blackmail. It is ex- pected that a newspaper will consent to pay a few hundred dollars to save itself the trouble of a lawsuit, and if the trick does not suc- ceed the suits are seldom brought to trial. It is the duty of the press to Withstand all such blackmailing operations, never consent- ing to be bought 01f, but relying on thejustice of courts and juries. lmporlun; Action by llm 0xlonl County Council. FISH IN THE RIVER THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. FBANCE'S NE‘V PRESI DENT. Interesting Skelch ofhls Camel" Some years ago Inman had occasion to visit Buffalo, and as a suit in law was in pro- spective he want prepared for a siege. En- tering one of the leading hotels in Bufialo, the old gentleman wrote : “Best room. No meals. I burn wood. thought you might not have enough, so I breught some along.” The big trunk, packed with wood, was taken up to his room, and it sufficed to keep the eccentric warm and cook his simple meals during his sojurn in Buflalo. Kerosene oil was a pet aversion. His theory was that the glare strained his eyes, while the oil left an unhealthy taint in the atmo sphere. He was The following year his first child was born. When that interesting event was approaching a. near climax Inman rode seven miles in the night to Fort Herkimer in quest of a physi- cian. He carried slate and pencil, wrote a statement of the situation, and returning with the medicine man, received the announce‘ ment of his paternal responsibilities in silence. The following yearâ€"in 1812-â€"-When the yeoman of Central and Northern New York were summoned to the defense of Sack- ett’s Harbor, Inman reported for duty at a. post near Adams, Jefferson county. riding alone nearly 100 miles through the forests to the recruiting station. Producing his slate, he wrote : “ I come to fightâ€"not to talk.” UTICA. N. Y.. Feb. 3.â€"Asael I‘. Inman, whose funeral took place two miles east of Utica this morning, was a highly eccentric character. Seventy years ago he built a log. cabin on one of the hills that slope to the Mo- hawk River. He was then sixteen years of age, had a Wife and 330. Some time during the first year of his wedded life Inman in- formed his wife that he intended to preserve silence for the remainder of his days. This conclusion was the result of an excited dia- logue which Inman overheard between his father and a near relative.Expressing a belief that more harm than good was wrought by speech, he announced his determination to place a permanent padlock on his lips. This was in 1810. A lecture on “Amusements,” delivered by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher last‘ evening, at the Lexington avenue Opera House, was a source of amusement to a very large au- dience, and of profit to the Northeastern Dis- pensary, for the benefit of whose treasury it was given. Mr. Beecher commended the ball field, boating, running and billiards as means to amuse and make happy the tired man. Woe be to the man, he said, who refills from the cup 1 God gives us the wine all around and above us with which to refill the exhausted fountains of vitality. Frivolity was a good thing at times. He would rather have it than the saintliness which is like a heavy wagon body that presses down upon the axles, and is heavily jolted by every small pebble over which the wheels roll. Frivolity may, then, be likened to springs put under a wagon body. Returning to his discussion of exercises, he said each man must choose the one adapted to overcome the weakness caused by his business. It would be absurd for a; letter-carrier, after his day’s work, to take a long “constitutional.” What he wants is‘ company, cheerfulness, pleasant surround- ings, while he rests. It would be equally absurd for a man engaged all day upon some abstruse problem to engage at night in a game of chess, taxing his mental faculties still more. For him should be the ear, the walk, the dance. Men ought to choose their exercises, the amusements, as they do their food. What disagrees with them must be avoided. Mr. Beecher believed in the theatre, the opera, and a hundred other forms of amusement, but each of them is not adapted to the use of all men. Dancing is good, when a man also does something else be- sides dance, and card-playing is a healthy amusement if one does not make a business of it. Billiards he also believed in, and he would like to have a billiard-table put in the household of every well-to-do family. What are wanted are more billiard-tables in proper places and fewer in improper places. He gave an amusing account of his visit to the first billiard tournament held in this city twenty years ago, and of the wonder caused by his appearance thereat. Referring to the con- troversy which has been carried on by advo- cates of the pulpit and of the stage, he wished to heaven it would cease, and that both pulpit and stage should be permitted to go on and be judged by their results. No man should be allowed to carry a conscience for his fel- lows. In conclusion he pleaded for home pleasures, and warned his hearers against compelling young people to go clandestiner in search of amusement. Mr. Beccher’g Plea for Base-Ball Boulâ€" ing, Dancing, Theatres and Bil- lizards. l He” ye the young woman’s father's permission 7" said the magistrate, ; quite formally. “ Well, no, not ex- l actly,” stammered the young man. :“ Weel, men, I con na’ gie ye the license," firmly replied the magistrate. A hasty whis- pering between the now wretched pair then followed, when suddenly their countenances lighted up simultaneously, and as they passed through the open door each looked at the other and smiled. About twenty minutes later a closely Covered hack was seen driven on to the ferry Fortune, but no one knew that safely seated within the carriage were Mr. McLeod and Miss Fraser. Three hours after- ward they walked up Sandwich street as Mr and Mrs. McLeod. having been united in the bonds of holy Vvedlock by a Justice of the Peace in Justice alley, Detroit. It is said that the wrath of the irate parent knew no bounds, but it is hoped that ere long he may be in- duced to look with fever upon his son-in-law. Mr. McLeod isa steady, industrious and highly respected young man and much thought of in the society in which he moves. His bride is a handsome brunette, 18 years. highly educated, and endowed with many excellent qualities. The Remarkable Cnrerr ol a Man Who “ Hwore ofl ” 'l‘alkig. The Detroit Tribune, 5th, says: “ Yester- day afternoon Windsor society was shaken to its very foundation by reports of an elope- ment in high life. The principals in the affair are Pascal McLeod, co-proprietor of the Great Western Hotel, corner of Sandwich and Goyeau streets, and Miss Fraser, daughter of Capt. Fraser, for years one of the most popular and widely known captains on the lakes. The circumstances of the affair are woven into quite a pretty little romance. For the past six months Capt. Fraser has been staying at the Great W'estern Hotel. of which Pascal McLeod and his father are proprietors. His only child, a daughter, has for some time past been attending a convent in Chatham. Her va- cations were spent with her father in Windsor, and it was during these ‘visits that a feeling, first of friendship and then of love, sprang up in the heart of young McLeod, and he wooed the idol of his being with all the persistency imaginable. She gradually succumbed, and a short while ago, on graduating from school, she consented to become his wife. The old captain, on being consulted in the matter. refused point blank to give his consent. As- tonished at the blunt refusal, the unhappy pair set about seeking the causes of the worthy captain’s antipathy to their union. They finally learned that his opposition was mainly based on religious belief. He is a Romanist ; his daughter had been reared under the care of the Romish Church, and he had, therefore, firme resolved not to allow McLeod, who is a Protestant, to obtain her hand. The young lady and her lover at last grew desperate, and yesterday morning they called at Justice Bartlet's office, in the Town Hall. and applied for a marriage license. Au Elopemeni and its Happy Denou- emeut. ASAEL INMAN’SSILEN'I‘ LIFE A \Vl NDSIIK RONIANUE [From the New York Times.] â€"“ Oils and pomade are no longer used on the hair.” This is a. sensible edict of fashion. Hereafter a young man can help a young lady to say nothing in particular on Sunday evening without having his vast soiled. Ex-Speaker Sloan said that the deepening of the channels of the rivers mentioned in th resolution was palpahly needed in the inter- est of commerce. The resolution was then passed by a unanimous vote. Erastus Brooks said the resolution was important, inasmuch es the Welland Canal would be completed in 1881, and then vessels of large size could go unchecked from Chicago to Montreal. The Welland Canal would compete seriously with the Erie Canal for the commerce of the West, and every precaution should be taken by residents of the United States to retain their trade. ALBANY, J an. 30.â€"In the Legislature, Mr. Hurd, of Buffalo, called upon a resolution introduced by him several days ago, request- ing the Representatives of New-York in Con- gress to urge the appropriation of sufficient money to deepen the channels of St. Mary’s ‘ River and the Detroit Riverâ€"connecting the great lakes. He then said that obstructions in these rivers would not permit the passage of vessels drawing more than fourteen feet of water. Shippers were desiring to dispatch larger vessels, carrying the grain of the West to Buffalo and other Eastern ports, but _ the obstructions rendered this impossible. Sev- eral valuable vessels had been lost on these shoals during the past- summer. In the in- terest of commerce Congress should make a large appropriation toward the work of deep- ening the rivers named. never known to sit by a coal fire, and always avoided gas, and his son, from whom I gather these details, assures me that rather than sit in a. car heated by a. coal fire, the old gentle- man preferred to ride twenty-six miles on the piatform on a bitter cold day in winter. His wife, who survives him, says that no woman ever had a kinder husband. The re- lations between the couple were always plea- sant, and Mrs. Inman has remarked to her neighbors : “If Asael talked as much as I do, the Lord knows what might happen.” Mrs. Inman is 88 years old, and vigorous, She states that during the first few years of her husband’s silence he would frequently mutter in his sleep. Some of his writing replies to the questions acquaintances curious to know why he prefer- red silence to speech are worthy of mention. One retort frequently used was : “A good lis- tener is to be preferred to a poor talker." An< other was : “ I want to prove that a. man can be happy and hold his tongue.“ Another: “I am trying to think of something good enough to say out loud.” A clergyman once asked him Whether he didn’t think the Lord gave him his tongue to be used. The pencilled reply was : “The Lord gave me a. mind that tells me when to use my tongue.” In 1842, while traveling with his wife in a stage between Syracuse and Rochester, the vehicle was halted in frontlof a. small country tavern. A child was sleeping on the porch. Inman looked out, sawa. large black snake crawl to the side of the infant. Grasping his wife’s arm he shouted : “See I" and, pointing to the snake, sprang from the stage, pur- sued the reptile some distance, and finally killed it. He leaves a carefully written record of his life during some sixty years of his silence. Portions of these diaries are quite interesting, but as a rule he enlarges upon the absurdity of giving utterance to frivolous thoughts. He seems to have regarded speech as a sacred gift, to be indulged in only when it promised benefit to the human race. Here are some of his “axioms ”: “ Most lives are produc- tive noises.” “As one million is to one, so is sense to sound.” “He who talks most feels least.” “The fool talks while the Wise man thinks.” Inman leaves a snug fortune, which his son inherits. His last writen message was : “Silence is golden.” His oft-pencilled admonition to his son was : “ Keep your mouth shut." A large list might be made out of eminent men who have died from not eatingluncheon. Pitt ruined himself by long fasts, while im- mersed in aflairs and oblivious of all else, and to come nearer home, it was in the same ‘manner that President Orton, of the Western ‘Union, did himself incalculable harm. If the , machine is not kept well oiled it will inevit- ‘ ably run down. When we see men long past ‘middle life able to cope with those in their ‘ prime, we may rest assured that they have i not been negligent of their physical needs, Pitt died at 47, Byron, who played tricks with his health, at 36. Palmerston who be- gan official life nearly as young as Pitt, but played a noble knife and fork, died in har- lness at 80, and rode twenty miles the year ‘of his death. And as for Bismarck’s appe- ‘ tite, his biographer has given us ample infor- lmation as to its marvellous excellence and the extraordinary care which, whether in peace or war, the prince takes a cater for it. No luncheons are omitted there. Some of the hardest worked business men in London largely add to their days by keeping hunters at a point a few miles distant; and taking a “ ride to the hounds” once or twice a week; and now that we have rapid transit, New York business men might easily do some- thing of the kind by keeping a saddlehorse in some neighboring village, and getting a ride in the surrounding country every other day. This is far better than pounding per- petually around the Park, and by keeping a horse a week or two in one place, and a week or two in another, they would command va- rlety, and get acquainted with a large range of the delightful country which surrounds us. Nature is sternly revengeful, and those who will not take trouble to please her may rest assured that they will always have to pay the penalty. That this fact should not, even in the nineteenth century, have been thoroughly realized by man is a strong proof of his being still deeply impregnated with that feolishness which Solomon so constantly harps upon and bewails. New Yorkers afraid oi the “’elland Canal. SNIASHâ€"UP (ON THE C. S RAIL‘VA‘I WELLAND, Feb. 2.â€"This morning about 5:15 freight train No. 13, C. S. B... mostly empties, bound west, was left standing on the Lyons Creek bridge, about one and aâ€"haif miles east of Welland, when the engine ran to the tank near Welland station for water. While there No. 119 special, also mostly empty cars, ran into the rear of the former train. causing great destruction of property and the serious, if not fatal, injury of Geo. Tyler, brakesman on No. 13. Eighteen cars were entirely destroyed. The locomotive of the rear‘train ran into the caboose of the other and both were burned so as to be entirely useless, nothing being left of the caboose except the trucks. The fire occurred about the middle of the bridge, which was also considerably burned, being saved only by the exertion of farmers living in the immediate vicinity of the col- lision. One car of clocks was so smashed up as to be a total loss, and a car of dry goods was badly damaged. The escape of the engineer and fireman of 119 was almost miraculous, as they knew nothing of their danger until the engine was stopped, having been almost telescoped into the caboose. The usual signals were not seen. By eight o’clock a. m. Superintendent Skinner was on the ground and a telegraph office established in an inverted car. Timber, rails and other ma- terial were brought, and by well directed ex- ertions the debris was removed, the bridge repaired, and traffic resumed by five p.m. The brakesman Tyler was attended by Dr. Cook, of Welland. His leg is badly broken near the ankle, and it is feared that amputa- tion will be necessary. About six p. In. he was removed to St. Thomas. LAICE AND RIVER NAVIGATION THE GREAT BENEFIT 0F LUNL‘HEON. New York Paper â€"The ice trade, which is strictly an Ameri- can enterprise, began about seventy years ago, and from a. small beginning has grown to a great business. The exportation of ice was first undertaken by Frederick Tudor of Boston. who sent a. small cargo to Martinique in 1805. 100 was not shipped to Now Orloanl until 1820. â€"â€"Lord Carhsle, so favorably knowu in this country as Lord Morpeth, having passed lhere the greater part of 1844, kept a very accurate journal of. his days’ doings from 1843 to his death, which has been edited by his sister, the Hon. Caroline Lascelles, and printed for private circulation among his family and friends. His intimate friendship and constant association with the most emi- nent persons of his time of every country give to ita special charm and interest. Lord Carlisle gives an interesting account of the funeral of Campbell, the poet, at Westmin- ster Abbey. The poll bearers were: Sir Robert Peel, Lords Aberdeen Brough am, Campbell. Leigh, Dudley Stuart, and the late Duke of Argyll. The Macallumore, while putting on his scarf, observed in shocking taste : “There never was a greater farce. He was an old drunkar .” There was an im- mense crowd, honorable to his fame, but many men of note, among them Maca uley. Sheil, Hobhouse, Milfies, were shut out from all near approach by Brougham, fr om a jealously of Campbell’s having been the first progenitor of the London University. He was buried in the middle of the transept, not far from the statue of Addison. There we. s a. large attendance of Poles. â€"Mistxessz I think you will suit me very well, but I wish to know if you have a fol- lower? Maid: No, mum, I ’even’t at pre- sent, but I really can’t say as to how scan I shall ’ev one.â€"Fun. "â€"A Justice of the Peace at Hochelaga, a suburb of Montreal, is also the villagelamp- lighter. --The proprietors of the London Telegraph print several copies of that- journal on special paper for the royal palaces. â€"â€"-In China one of the delicacies at the tables of the rich consists of halflhatched eggs._ â€"Prof. David Swing will not have to preach in a theatre next year, as his Chicago friends are going to build for him a lecture hall cost- ing $150,000. â€"“ A Guzzling Preacher " the New Cova- nant (Universalist) calls Mr. Spurgeon, being unaware that Neal Dow’s story has been thor- oughly refuted. â€"An attempt is being made to reopen the edifying Bagot will case at Dublin, the oppo- nents of the Widow denouncing the original trial as a miscarriage of justice. â€"In spite of all that was said about the popularity of the new Earl of Leitrim a force of forty police has just been marched into the Fannet portion of the estate and the old bar- racks are being put In order for permanent occupation. â€"The Edinburgh Town Council, as well as the U. P. Presbytery, adopted resolutions re- cently in favor of legalizing marriages with the sisters of deceased wives, though the or- thodox minority in the latter august body vehemently quoted Leviticus xviii., 18. â€"Px‘of. L. S. Arnold reports that of sixâ€" teen oleomargarine factories known to him in this country, thirteen had failed, though backed with an aggregate of 31.800.000 to begin with. He thinks that the remainéer aremnning ona very small profit, if any. â€"A solar telegraph is used in communi- cating with the Faulkner’s island light-house, off Guilt’otd, Conn., combinations of quick and long flashes forming words and convey- ing messages. The keepers of the light are sometimes shut off from the shore for months during the winter and find the telegraph handy. â€"The papooees at the Indian village of Pashawba, Minn., slide dovgnr hill barefopt. â€"Fra.ncis J. Oliver of Somerville, Mass” kept acandy store. and about the sweetest (thing in it was Grace MatheWs, the clerk. Although Mr. Oliver was 77 years old, and she only 20, he thought she meant it when she promised to marry him. He gave her 3550 to buy a wedding dress and she went out as though to make the purchase but never returned. â€"Rev. Dr. Jeter of Richmond told this story at his own expense : Many years ago an art- less stranger, whom I casually met, said to me: “ I hear you preach every Sunday. You are the gratest preacher I ever did hear.” “ h," said I, “ you have not, I suppose, heard Mr. M. preach.” (At that time Mr. M. was attracting great attention by his ser- mons.) “Yes,” he replied, “ 1 have heard Mr. M. several times. He is a great preacher; but he is not so great a. preacher as you are. You have the mournfulest voice of any man ever did hear.” â€"London Truth :â€"â€"“One day, as he was musing on these things in sore perplexity, he entered his Wife’s dressing room and saw a. box of pastilles on the table. The lid was marked ‘ Lavender drops.’ Mechanically Jenny's husband opened the box and put one of the pastilles in his mouth. They were large White things like dragies, but instantly John Ameroy had crunched one his mouth was filled with undiluted alcohol of fearful strength. So again he had his wife‘s secret. She got drunk ofi the pastilles, specially pre- pared by a roguish chemist for persons like herself, and innocently styled 'Lavender Drops.’ ” ~During the lifetime of Lady Augusta. Stanley, Her Majesty was a. frequent visitor at the Deanery, and there on several occasions met Mr. Carlyle. Mr. Carlyle, (who, by the bye, refused the Grand Cross of the Beth at the same time when Mr. Tennyson declined a. baronetey) is no courtier. and his unsophisti- cated manners more than once amused the Queen. One day, being perhaps “ hard of hearing,” and Wishing to hear Her Majesty’s remarks distinctly, he came close to her, dragglng a chair after him, and having made himself cosey by her side, proceeded to ques- tion her rm to her historical likes and (lislikes, instead of waiting till he was himself ques- tioned. Presently, suggests a. critic, these people will get beyond praying, and will sing : I was pmying, Now I'm having, Surely having all I want. -â€"When the daily occupation is monotorn ous and unengrossing, a. full supply of {excite ment for the leisure hours may be desirable, but where the mental powers have been taxed to their utmost through the hours of labor, it is absolutely neccessary to health and hap- piness th at they be entirely released for at least a portion of the time that is left. It is not enough that the usual amount of time be spent in the absolute rest of sleep, it every waking hour be filled to the brim with eager, serious occupation. It is not enough that certain hours be secured from absolute work, if they are still permeated with energetic thought, intense feeling, or exciting pleas- ures. The mind needs rest from effort in its waking hoursâ€"a time when it may rightly lay aside its activity and enjoy being acted upon by calm and gentle influences. â€"-â€"The Christian Mirror has a note from the Rev. C. D. Crane, who was surprised by hearing sung in the church where he was worshipping a. hymn in which Toplady‘s “ Rock of Ages” is parodied and disowned as no longer expressive of the advanced Chris- tian’s experience. Instead of singing “ Simply to Thy cross I cling," the new be- liever says : To that cross I cling no longer. Doubts and fears no longer feel, Faith and hope and love are stronger. Jesus' blood doth fully heal Now my song is not, “ I’m c]quing,"â€"â€" That to me would now be loss, When mind, heart and soul are singing, “ I am resting at the cross.” Ch 0rus~I was clinging, Now I‘m resting, Sweetly resting at the cross. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.