in 1861, but 5,798,967. This gives a decrease of nearly two and a half millions of people in twenty years.-Merchant's Mag. THE MINER. Lake Superior Silver Lead Discovery. The Houghton Gazette says that the excitement consequent upon the first report that silver lead had been discovered in the vicin age of Marquette has assumed the phase of reality. Specimens of the ore have been brought in by two or three persons, and an analysis made which proves beyond doubt that they are unusually rich in silver. The lowest return from the assays was an average of about eight pounds of silver to the ton of lead. The highest was twenty-five pounds. These are extraordinary yields, and the only question remaining to be solved is, whether the veins containing the ore are of sufficient size to warrant mining. Both of the gentlemen who made the explorations and obtained the specimens, aver that the veins are of greater width and length than is necessary for remunerative mining; in fact, they give a width which would be double that often found and opened to a profit. The location of these deposits is around a small lake, in the Northwest quarter of Town 49 Range 28 West. The formation is granite, and has long been considered metalliferous. The veins are either fissure or gash, though most probably the former, as the explorers state that they have traced them for a considerable distance, and find they have a regular course between North and East. There are now four companies organized on the land entered in the vicinity of the lake, now called Silver Lake, two of which are organized under the laws of the State. As to the value of these lands, but little is really known beyond the fact that the Eldorado was located by Mr. Martin, the explorer, and a large share of the stock is held by him and his friends, which is presumptive evidence that it is the best he has seen. The silver lead was also entered by Mr. Smith, the explorer, who is largely interested in it. The Silver Lake embraces eight or ten quarter sections scattered around the lake, and, when the country is explored, can hardly fail to be equally rich with the rest. Some fine specimens have been brought in from these lands. EDUCATIONAL. Agricultural Colleges of the United States. AS SEEN BY THE EDITOR. NO. IV.-AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MARYLAND. This institution was incorporated in 1856, by an act of the Legislature which provided for an endowment of $6,000 per annum: provided, that within two years-or before the first day of February, 1858-$50,000 should have been raised by subscription, that the farm should have been purchased and the college edifice erected. The farm was to consist of at least fifty acres, and the building to be suitable for the beginning of the work of education in accordance with the proposed scheme. The $50,000 was to be suscribed in shares of $25 each, and the trustees, twenty-two in number-one from each county and one from the city of Baltimore-were to be elected by the stockholders; the first board to continue in office for the term of five years, their successors for two years. This law was subsequently amended, reducing the shares of stock to $5, and providing for the appoint ment of three additional trustees-one from the District of Columbia, one from the Eastern shore and one from the Western shore. The college was located ten miles north of Washington City and within half a mile of the Washington and Baltimore Railroad, on a handsome farm of over two hundred acres, and within full view of the railroad above It is likewise traversed by the Washington and Baltimore turnpike, and is, therefore, easily accessible, both by public and private conveyance. named. We had heard it spoken of as located at or near Bladensburgh, and so got off the train at that depot instead of at the college station, immediately opposite the college edifice. This blunder necessitated a walk of some two miles and a half, a task which most visitors would probably be careful to avoid. The silver product of Nevada territory will this year, it is estimated, amount to $15,000,000, and in two years more, it is thought, it will be fully $30,000,000. A writer in The San Francisco Bulletin, who has studied the subject on the spot, holds that Nevada is the "richest silver-bearing country in the world. Unlike California, her wealth is not where The college building already completed is you find it,' but her 'silver runs in veins.'"but about one-third of the whole, according to the plan, and cost $45,000. It enjoys a com-ture. The plan undoubtedly embraces such manding site and seems to be well adapted instruction, but it is far more comprehensive. for the intended use. It is substantially built, It claims for the farmer or mechanic, or for measures 120 bv 54 feet on the ground, and whomsoever its care may be sought, first, his is five stories high. When the edifice is com- development as a man, trained and fitted, to pleted the present building will be the south- the full extent of his capacity, for all the ern wing. The basement, which is light and duties of a man and a citizen. To this end, dry, includes the kitchen, dining-room, pan- it offers him the advantage of the most aptry, wash-room and the laboratory, while the proved systems of moral and intellectual culupper stories furnish apartments for the Pres-ture, and superaded to these, for his physical ident's private use, for recitations and lectures, for libraries and literary societies, and dormitories for the pleasant accommodatlon of nearly two hundred pupils. Every part of the building is so constructed as to insure good ventilation and to afford the necessary facilities for warming by steam or hot air. The broad and well-lighted halls give cheerfulness to the whole interior; which, although it is so important, seems not to have been sufficiently regarded by many under whose direction our college edifices are designed and built. training, moderate and systematic exercises in the field and in the workshop, as the best means of laying the foundation of future health and energy, in a well-developed, robust physical constitution." [The italics are ours.] A preparatory department is embraced, and the curriculum of study includes the various branches commonly taught in all the higher colleges of the country. Pupils are received from twelve years old and upwards, and are classified according to their advancement. Terms for the scholastic year, including all the expenses, except for books and medical attendance, $250. Thus planned and thus established, this institution has been in operation since Septem In addition to the building above described, there is a comfortable brick dwelling for the Director of the farm, with suitable barns and other out-buildings; also three pleasant cot-ber, 1859, with an average attendance of tages on beautiful elevations near the college, for the families of Professors. The farm of 200 acres presents a variety of soil, and is mostly well improved, though not yet, by any means, a model farm. The apple and peach orchard, in the rear of the college grounds, appeared to be in a thrifty condition, and has probably yielded much fruit the past year. The vegetable and flower gardens showed that horticulture and floriculture were under the direction of a competent professor, and were not without friends among the students. EDUCATIONALLY CONSIDERED, the Maryland Agricultural College accords very nearly, in plan, with the People's College, already reported, except that it attaches less importance to the regular, unfailing manual labor of the students, as a means of practical instruction. In the language of the Board of Trustees, this college "aims not merely at professional instruction in agricul some fifty pupils. At the date of our visit, June last, there were sixty-eight pupils in attendance, and the work seemed to be going on prosperously, notwithstanding the distracted condition of the State and country. The Faculty, with President, Henry Onderdonk, A. M., at the head, are men of ability and high attainments, zealously devoted to the interests of their respective departments, and all anxiously and hopefully looking forward to the good time coming, when the war shall have ended in the vindication of the constitutional authority of the Government, and when the great industrial and educational enterprises of the country shall again have unimpeded progress. In the popular Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, English Literatue and Political Economy, we were pleased to recognize our old-time friend and editorial brother, Nicholas B. Worthington, A. M., late Secre tary of the Maryland State Agricultural Society, and Editor and Proprietor of the American Farmer. We found him altogether at home in his new field of labor, and certainly very agreeably so in the midst of his amiable family. Prof. Glover, of the Departmet of Natural History, Botany and Pomology, is also Entomologist for the United States, and is probably the most thoroughly scientific Entomologist in this country. His splendid collection of models of fruit-the same that used to be in the Patent Office-together with large collections of insects beautifully classified and arranged for the use of the student, are in the cabinet of Natural History at the College, and afford unusual facilities for the study of these particular branches of science. The laboratory we failed to see, and are not, therefore, able to speak of it from personal knowledge. Prof. St. Johns, who presides over the Department to which it belongs, is zealous in his work, and has the reputation of being well qualified for his important position. All in all, we were pleased with the condition of the State Agricultural College of Maryland, and shall expect it to prosper yet more and more, as the people of that State come to appreciate better than now the spirit and high value of such an institution. Massachusetts Agricultural College. MISCELLANEOUS. "Stonewall" and His Sister. BY MRS. HOYT. Two and two make five. Don't you believe it? Well, I do, only I would place a dash after the five and write-sometimes. But I ment of a fact that, all our theories to the will not stop to argue this particular statecontrary, faces us from every scene of observation and page of history. It is to the credit of human nature that we are not, after all, so much surprised to see this two and two, that usually make up the substantial four of common people, now and then standing out in the unmistakable five of a great genius, as we are shocked to note the contrasts of honor and dishonor brought out in the lives of children of the same family. As a general rule, I would count it a violation of good taste, if not of honor, to give publicity to either the name or the incident in the life of any one without asking approval. But when a person has forfeited all right to public or private consideration, as did Gen. Jackson by his treason, and at the same time commanded the admiration of both friend and foe, as has no other upon either side of this struggle, the case seems to be changed. And the sister of this great, bad man, has she not, in the signal contrast of her course with his, become, also, an inheritance of the people? During the summer of 1862, I found Mrs. The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agrictul- Arnold, only sister of the famous Gen. Stonetural College met yesterday for the purpose of wall Jackson, living at her home in Beverly, organization, in accordance with the law passed at the last session of the Legislature. His Randolph county, Virginia, the wife of a Excellency Governor Andrew was chosen Pres- wealthy and conservative Unionist, the famiident, Hon. Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton Vice President, and Charles L. Flint, of Boston, Sec-ly upon both sides being Virginian. To my retary. Among other business transactions surpriso, I found her upon our side, and, from was the appointment of a committee of five, friends who had known her before the war, to take in charge the raising of subscriptions to the fund required by law to put the Agri- learned that this was not the subterfuge of cultural College in operation, and to consider interest, or the necessity of circumstance, the subject of a location, to receive proposals but that which she had maintained previously, concerning the same, and to report to each meeting of the Trustees what progress they and had adhered to during all the trials that may make from time to time. This commit- came to those of that unhappy State who did tee consists of Marshal P. Wilder, H. H. L. Whiting, Phineas Stedman, Nathan Durfee not approve of the madness of secession. and Henry Colt.-Exchange. Circumstances of accident and ill health His age, dignity of character, this persistency of inoffensiveness, with the fact of his near relationship to the greatest of rebel Generals, made him and his property comparatively safe amid the ravages of the Southern tion, provided no out-breaking treason was thrust before the authorities. detained me for several months in the place and then for the third time Federal, arms had where I had the opportuity of observing her possession of Randolph and the adjacent devotion to the cause which, sacred to us all, counties lying upon the border of that stouthad become doubly so to her through the fire ly contested question of Virginia one, or eastof sacrifice. In addition to the hospital, ern and western. His age protected him which was the object of her faithful attend- from bearing arms, and whether held by ance, her own home was open to those requir-Union or confederate troops, he sat amid his ing special care and that tender nursing that vines and read the papers. Did his negroes only a home can furnish. So well was Mrs. run off, his crops fail, or somebody else gather Arnold known, and so large the generosity of them? he was busy reading the news, saying time and means with which she met all cases to neither side, Why do you? or, Why don't of need, that no courier was dispatched to you? know if this or that one could be received; but to Mrs. Arnold's or to the hospital was decided on the spot, according to the preference of the wounded or the urgency of his case. Many a night did that royal woman remain during all the weary hours, from twi-mob. From our forces, all alike had proteclight to dawn, in the hospital beside the bed of some dying soldier who, in the delirium and dimness of his last moments saw, in the angel at his side, a mother, sister or wife, and was comforted. I shall never forget how gratefully she learned that I was so much better that my sister, who, with myself, were temporarily there, could accompany her upon one of those missions of love. She told me that this was the first time any lady had shared with her these vigils between the liv-spoke of her brother save in response to ening and the dead. Yet in Beverly at that quiries; but as our ripening friendship made that time, and all the time, were scores of it admissible, he frequently became the subladies who, with their husbands, had secured jeet of conversation. the protection of Federal bayonets by swearing themselves into the faith of the Union. In this, as in many other instances, I had occasion to note the dfference between the allegiance of an administered oath and that of adherance to a principle. Mrs. Arnold was, as are all really admirable persons, modest and unpretending. She was the only native Virginian in whom I never detected the slightest vaunt of the F. F. V.s. This, with the fact of her aristocratic family connections and the independence of her position, was remarkable. To the many with whom she came in contact, she never One fact, quite different from any that has been publicly reported of him, thus came to my knowledge. When the war broke out, he was filling a professorship in the military school of Lexington, East Virginia, and during the time previous to the secession of the I have spoken of the husband as a conser-State, he wrote frequently, and with the logic vative Union man. At the time of the greatest peril, when the ordinance of secession was pending and the hot blood of both sides at its height, Mr. Arnold went, with his life at stake, and voted against it. No man's vote could be folded and dropped in silence, viva voce being the law of the land. Since that time he had slept, wakened, and read the newspapers, regularly. Twice had the rebel, of strong argument and an earnest soul, to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and other friends in Western Virginia, which was his native section, urging adhesion to the old flag and the government of the Union. So clearly and so ably was this duty set forth, that it carried with it conviction, and being much loved wherever he was known, he thus exerted a large influence in that section of the State. In this, as in all things, he was a devotee, avowing his faith that, continuing to seek divine guidance, he should not fail to be led aright. Quite suddenly those letters stopped, and after a time of painful suspense, Mrs. Arnold learned with dismay, from rebel papers, that this almost idolized brother had taken a command in that infamous service. From that event up to the date of our acquaintance, no personal explanation in regard to his course had reached her. The career of mad devotion to the rebel cause, which to the last he pursued with such eminent success, proves one of two things: Either Gen. Jackson was mistaken as to the sincerity with which he supposed he was seeking the right, or, this once, God was on the side of the devil. LORD BROUGHAM. The joy with which I heard of the death of this leader of the traitor hosts, was tempered During our late visit to London, on occasion by but one sad thought-that of his noble of the Great Exhibition, and in the course of sister, disappointed in the hope of seeing him our travels in Western Europe, it was our restored to a sound mind and the country and good fortune to see, and in various ways come family he had so madly betrayed. But I love in immediate contact with, many of the most my country more than I do any friend, and I distinguished personages of the old world. was glad, and am glad to see the enemies of And inasmuch as neither the natural scenery my country perish. No hero-worship, of of the countries through which we passed, which I have my share, can cloud the heaven nor the wonderful products of human indusof my rejoicing when a man accessory to the try gathered at the world's great business slaughter of the brave sons of the Union goes centre, may be supposed to be more interestdown in the red surge of the battle he has ing to our readers than the notable men and led. The sister and the brother. What a women of the age, it has occurred to us to contrast! Honor to whom honor, and to publish sketches of a number of those whose whom shame, however sternly, let it be justly lives and personal characters promise the most entertainment and profit. The series will include characters essential and characters accidental; the first class embracing such as have enstamped themselves upon the history of the age by virtue of power inherent in themselves; the second class notable persons who are mere creatures of circumstance, such as kings and princes. written. NIGHT. O night! most beautiful! most rare! For this I love thy hallowed reign; For more than this thrice blest thou art; T. B. READ. The story of even the greatest man's life may be briefly told, but it is very rare, in the history of the human race, that a single man Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is has been permitted to grasp, within his own not to be picked in a stranger's garden. life time, so many events of great importance |