about $700,000, and in the increase in the nizant. About the year 1830, through third fall, the "Roarer," and then carry five as follows:

1,767,50

Total increase of deposits for the year, $252,883,74 Showing an aggregate reduction in the twenty-seven of about $450,000, the material gain being in the City Savings Bank,

of New Haven.

the kindness of Benjamin Butler, deceas-
$218,281,85 ed who married his sister, he was induced
22082,14 to remove to Oxford, where he has since re-
9,478,70
1,273,55 sided. Mr. Avery was twice married, but
had long survived his children one of whom
was a midshipman in the United States
navy with Commodore Rogers and Deca-
tur, and died in 1819. He voted at every
election for President since the foundation
of the Government, which act was per-
formed by him with a religious sense of
duty. He was one of the "Fathers of the
Nation" and went down to the grave like
a shock of corn fully ripe for the harvest.

There are now in operation in this State thirty-seven Savings Banks, with aggregate deposits of$18,182,820, (including $1,567,536 of Savings Bank and Building Association deposits) which is an increase of $2,212,128 as compared with last year.

The Commissioners recommend a law restricting the annual dividends to five

WONDERFUL INDIAN Waterfall.—

A correspondent of one of our weekly
journals describes a remarkable waterfall
called the Gairsoppa Falls, near Honore.

your eye a little farther down, you will observe another fall, the loveliest, softest and most graceful of them all, being a broad expanse of shallow water falling like transparent silver lace over a smooth surface of polished rock into this same same chasm; this is "La Dame Blanch," and the White Lady of Avel could not have been more graceful and ethereal.But do not confine yourself to any one place in order to view these falls. Scramble everywhere you can, and get as many views as you can of them, and you will be unable to decide upon which

is the most beautiful.

To obtain the most comprehensive view you must proceed two miles up the river above the falls and cross at a ferry, where the waters are still smooth and sluggish,

and a half per cent, and excess of earnings, It is curious that a fall six times the depth and proceeded to My sore side of the falls,

whenever they shall amount to two and a half per cent on the whole amount of deposit, to be paid to the depositors as an extra dividend,-be declared until after a permanent surplus fund shall have been

of the Niagara should remain almost unknown. From the village of Gairsoppa, reached by the river of the same name, the writer was carried for twelve miles established of two and a half per cent, to up the Malimuneh Pass, and reached the Falls Bungalow about three and a half meet contingent losses. This would inau-hours after leaving the top of the pass. gurate a system that would give greater security to depositors, and at the same time tend to keep out from these depositories large sums of money which now seek them for the purpose of evading taxation.

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN-ALMOST. -The Oxford (Chenango Co.,) Times records the death of Mr. Geo. D. Avery,

"An ampitheatre of woods, and a river boiling to a certain point, where it is lost five hundred yards wide, rushing and in a perpetual mist and an unceasening deafening roar, must first be imagined.— Leaving the Bungalow on the Madras side of the river level, you work your way up carefully and tediously over slippery rocks, until you reach a point where

who was born in Groton in this State the a rock about twice the size of a man's

10th of August 1761, and at his death had nearly completed his 99th year. He was a colonial subject of George the Fourth, and a witness of some of the exciting

body juts out over a precipice. Resting
flat upon this rock, and looking over it,
you see before you two out of the four
principal Falls; these two are called the
Great Fall' and the Rocket.' The one
contains a large body of water, the main
body of the river, perhaps fifty yards
across which falls massively and apparent-
ly sluggishly into the chasm below; and
the other contains a small body of water,
which shoots out in successive sprays over
successive points of rock, till it falls into
the same chasm. This chasm is at least
nine hundred feet in depth, six times the
depth of the Niagara Falls, which are
about one hundred and fifty feet, and
perhaps a quarter to a half mile in width.

scenes of the American Revolution. He
witnessed the burning of New-London by
the British, and was a pupil of Nathan
Daboll, Esq., of Groton, whose Astronomi-
cal reputation was so widely disseminated.
On the 8th day of August, 1796, Mr. Ave-
ry took up his residence at Belleville,
on the Ohio river, in the State of Virginia,
after a toilsome journey of 800 miles; he
there undertook the arduous task of early
settlement. He was familiar with the ro-
mantic incidents in the early history of
Herman Blennerbasset, and his island par-
adise in the Ohio, and the strange adven- These first two falls to be visited.-
tures of Aaron Burr connected therewith Then move a little below your first posi-
made so prominent by the eloquence of tion, and you will observe first a turbid
William Wirt in his plea in behalf of boiling body of water of greater volume
Blennerhassett, on his trial for treason, than the Rocket fall, running and steam-
with all of which was he perfectly cog-ing down into the same chasm—this is the

walking first to a point, where you will see them all at a glance, and then descending as near as you can to the foot of these to be drenched by the spray deafened by the noise, and awe-struck by the grandeur of the scene and by the visible presence of the Creator of it, in the perpetual rainbow of many and brilliant hues which span the foot of the chasm."

THE SPEAKER'S PAGE.-At present the main stay of Speaker Pennington is the young page who stands upon the right, a youth of fine appearance, and something near eighteen years of age. This page was first appointed to office by Speaker Boyd, and has ever since continued to discharge the duties of " Page to the Speaker," among which is now reckoned the duty of prompting the Speaker in the discharge of his official business. stands rear the Speaker, and directs him in an undertone how to put every motion and how to decide points of order as they arise. "Thaddeus" is known to all politicians of the country as the most remarkable parlamentarian of his age living.— With the construction of the rules of order he is perfectly familiar, and every precedent he has at his finger's ends.

MARRIED.

He

POETRY.

For the Repository.

LADIES' BONNETS.

of the military force, the entire responsi- and America conspicuous for sixty years,
bility of laying down the basis of the in the most responsible stations, the ac-
Revolution. Is the cool and brave ad- knowledged admiration of all good men !"
CADMUS.
ministration of gigantic power, a mark of
greatness? In all the whirlwind of the

SELECTED FROM GLEASON'S LITERARY COMPANION: Revolution, and when, as Commander-in

Oh! how often I have wondered,

And have never yet defined, Why the ladies wear their bonnets Just clapt on the head behind.

I'm really quite astonished,

(Though perhaps I make too bold.) How theyv'e rubbed through the Winter Without catching their death cold.

But there's a time for all things,

Which we're daily taught to know, And in Spring-time grow sweet flowers, So those ducks of Bonnets grow.

COMMUNICATIONS.

For the Repository.

GREATNESS OF LAFAYETTE.

NUMBER TWO.

In answer to the enquiry whether Lafayette was a "great man," I cannot better present his claims to true greatness than to call the attention of the readers of the Repository to the following brief extract from Everett's eulogy on that distinguished man, delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, in 1834. The orator remarks:

For the Repository.
WHERE IS DR. KANE'S BOAT?

Grinnell Expedition "—were built and furnished by Mr. Rogers, on Mr. Grinnel's order, for both the "Advance" and the "Rescue" (now "Amaret" of this port.) These boats were subsequently taken by Doctor Kane in his famous voyage (following,) in the "Advance." In one of these, he made his celebrated boat-voyage of 1400 miles, after abandon

Chief of the National Guard, an organized force of three millions of men, who, This question rose involuntarily, for any popular purpose, needed, but a prompted by examination and admiration word, a look, to put them in motion,- of a boat for Arctic service, of most suband he their idol,-we behold him ever stantial construction, every way suitable calm, collected, disinterested; as free from for the purpose, just finished for Mr. 0. affectation as selfishness, clothed not less F. Hall, of Cincinnatti, and which is to be with humility than with power. Is the carried out with him in the "George fortitude required to resist the multitude Henry" from this port, and used in his pressing onward their leader to glorious "Franklin" explorations towards King crime, a part of greatness? Behold him William's Land. More especially, as the fugitive and victim, when he might "The Kane Boat" was made by the have been the chief of the Revolution.- same builder, one of our native and most Is the solitary and unaided opposition of respected citizens, Mr. George W. Rog. a good citizen to the pretensions of an ab-ers, whose skill as a builder has never solute ruler, whose power was as bound- been excelled and but rarely if ever less as his ambition, an effort of greatness? equalled. Read the letter of Lafayette to Napoleon The boats for Commander De Haven's Bonaparte, refusing to vote for him as expedition-commonly known as "The Consul for life. Is the voluntary return, in advancing years, to the direction of affairs, at a moment like that, when in 1815, the ponderous machinery of the French Empire was flying asunder-stunning, rending, crushing thousands on every side a mark of greatness? Contemplate Lafayette at the tribune, in Paris, when allied Europe was thundering at its gates, and Napoleon yet stood in his desing the "Advance," so far North, that peration and at bay. Are dignity, pro priety, cheerfulness, unerring discretion in new and conspicuous stations of extraordinary delicacy, a sign of greatness? 'Tis phrase absurd, to call a villain great? Watch his progress in this country in 182 If there is, who, I would ask, of all the and 1825, hear him say the right word at prominent names in history, has run the right time, in a series of interviews, through such a career, with so little re- public and private, crowding on each othproach, justly or unjustly, bestowed? Are er every day, for a twelvemonth, through military courage and conduct the meas-out the Union, with every description of ure of greatness? Lafayette was entrust-persons, without ever wounding for a mosd by Washington with all kinds of ser- ment the self love of others, or forgetting vice; the laborious and complicated, the dignity of his wn position. Lastly, which required skill and patience, the per- is it any proof of greatness to be able, at ilous that demanded nerve;-and we see the age of seventy-three, to take the lead him keeping up a pursuit, effecting a re- in a successful and bloodless revolution; treat, out-maneuvering a wary adversary to change the dynasty, to organize, with a superior force, harmonizing the exercise, and abdicate a military comaction of French regular troops and Amer-mand of three and a half millions of men; ican militia, commanding an assault at to take u, to perform, and lay down the the point of the bayonet; and all with momentous, delicate, and perilous duties, entire success and brilliant reputation. Is without passion, without hurry, without the readiness to meet vast responsibility a selfishness? Is it great to disregard the proof of greatness? The memoirs of Mr. bribes of title, office, money; to live, to Jefferson show us, as we have already seen, labor, and suffer for great public ends that there was a moment in 1780, when alone; -to adhere to principle under all Lafayette took upon himself, as the head circumstances;-to stand before Europe

"There have been those who have denied to Lafayette the name of a great man. What is greatness? Does goodness belong to greatness and make an essential part of it? Is there yet enough of virtue left in the world, to echo the sentiment, that

"the same ice is around her still." It may be remembered that in crossing Melville Bay, he encountered a succession of almost unheard of gales and storms, yet the boat rode them all out, as he expressed it, "like a duck." His "Iron Man" said :—" No one knows how much Doctor Kane loves and thinks of that boat." And when Lieut. Hartstein was sent in search of Kane and his party in the Steamer "Arctic," two other boats were furnished by Mr. Rogers for that voyage, constructed with three keels, for the double purpose of sledges for ice journeys. On joining the "Arctic," Doctor Kane expressed much affectionate concern for his voyaging boat, and it is believed to have been preserved at the New York Navy Yard. If not, there is no harm in asking "where is Kane's boat," around which so many Arctic associations hang? nor, in the hope that Mr. Hall, after a successful termination to his labors of love, and a happy return to his country and home, may be always ready to answer the question, "Where is Mr. Hall's boat?"

B.

국

week.

REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON,
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY.

Day of the

State of the Weather.
Morn. Noon. | Eve.
clear hazy hazy

East.

East.

East.

Tuesday,

52 4

rain

...

Wednesday,

Saturday,

HORTICULTURAL.

DWARF PEARS.

S. E S. E. [S. E.

General remarks, observations, &c. &c.

Warm and pleasant-dry.

clear cloudy Thunder and a light shower. cloudy cloudy cloudyool, blustering winds. cloudy cloudy cloudy Pleasant.

clear clear cloudy Warm and pleasant. clear clear clear Very warm and dry.

a

A little more applied in spring becomes season, at an average of five cents per good mulching for the summer. This ma- basket, realizing $19,801,60. Thousands nure, as it gradually decays, sends down of baskets were sent from the same section The extensive failure of pears on the its fertilizing properties to the roots in a of the country. One berry raiser producquince stock, is leading some cultivators liquid form-just what nature demands-ed and sold from one third of an acre to inquire if there has not been some radi- which is far better than putting gross, ex- over 6,000 baskets, which netted him five cal error in their inode of cultivation. A citing substances directly in contact with cents per basket, amounting to about common practice among those who have the roots. An excellent compost for $300. It is thought that $20 would pay taken special pains with their trees, has pears and other fruit trees may be made of for the labor, manure and use of land. been to dig holes five feet square, and burnt or rotted sods, mixed with stable This is paying well for six weeks business three feet deep, and then to fit them with manure, which, when thoroughly decom- on a third of an acre, and no doubt, will a mixture of rotted sods, stable manure, posed, may be treated with a little salt induce many others to engage in the eultibones, ashes, plaster, night soil, etc., etc, and lime or potash. For a simple mulch, vation of these berries. $300 cannot often Trees so planted have sometimes succeed-coal ashes are sometimes used with good be earned in so short a time. This busied, but very often have failed. Many effect.-American Agriculturist. ness pays better than mining at Pike's cultivators now claim that this is an irraPeak or even in California. When land tional mode of treatment. When a tree can be made to earn $840, clear money, is first set out, they affirm it is in a sufferin so brief a period, a few acres will suffice per acre, with such trifling expense, and ing condition; it has been rudely torn from its native home, and wants time to render the poorest man rich. and quiet to recover itself. Why commence stimulating and over-taxing it at

once? Let it have at least one year to ing glory. He finds that they will climb excellent of all squashes cannot
around a transparent glass pipe just as
heal its wounds and regain its lost
strength. After thie, manure may be ap-most ardent in their embraces when the
well as anything else, and that they are
plied in sufficient quantity.

And then, instead of the deep holes, and the deep manuring, it is now claimed that

pole is warmer than the surrounding air. During the day, the vine is attracted toward the light, but at night, and especialnearly the opposite treatment should be given. Spade or plough to the usually on cool nigh's, it turns to the pole. He depth for good tillage, and set out the learned, also, that the color of the pole makes no difference; the caressing instinct of the vine has no prejudice against any shade. The element of constancy is very largely developed, the vine, after it has reached its pole, showing a much stronger tendency to wind around it than it did to reach it.

trees as we do a currant bush. Put no
manure in the bottom of the hole, and
least of all, animal manures. Keep the
roots near the surface; they will strike as
deep as is required for their good.—
If the roots are set deep, and are
encouraged to strike lower still, the buds
will start earlier in the spring than the
climate will warrant, thus producing
leaf-blight; and then in the fall, the
warmth of the lower soil will continue
the growth of wood so late, that it will
not ripen off well before frost sets in
this will tend to produce frozen sap blight.
The tree ought to be in a state of repose
for several weeks before winter sets in.
As to manuring, it is held that it should
all be applied on the surface in the fall, it
protects the roots from severe frost, and
may be forked in slightly in the spring.

fail

to become a universal favorite for the epi-
periment last year places it at the head of
cure wherever it is known. Our own ex-
the list of squashes now cultivated in this
State. It is somewhat difficult while the
seeds are so rare and eagerly sought after,
to obtain them
We are pleased to
pure.
learn that Messrs. G. Kimball & Son in
our city keep the pure seed to dispose of
at a moderate price. Every garden
should have at least a few seeds of this
fine variety planted in it, as a luxury to
the owners, more particularly as it is one
of our best winter keeping squashes.

berry bush, and since then he has sold in bushes $150, and in berries $100.

A PROFITABLE GOOSEBERRY BUSH.THE RASPBERRY.-Remarkable success To show what economy and care will do seems to have attended the introduction in agriculture, Mr. J. B. Sinclair of Leinto New York State, of the raspberry.vant, states that eight years ago he paid In Ulster and Genesee counties, where its 24 cents for a Houghton's Seedling goosecultivation has been attempted, the result is of the most gratifying character. In Leroy, in the last named county, Mr. David Marsh picked this season, in his garden, from a space of thirty-five by forty feet, three bushels and three pecks of this fruit. From the town of Milton, Ulster county, there were 395,032 of these baskets sent to New York, the present

PRINCE ALBERT PIE PLANT.-This remarkable variety of the Pie Plant can scarcely be equalled. We have it now growing in our grounds nearly three feet high, the stalk of a delicate rose color, and perfectly delicious.

Arrives at P. M.

NEW HAVEN.
Closes at 11 A. M. and 51 P. M.
Arrives at 11 and 8 P. M.

The mail closing at 5 P. M. is the way mail by
which the offices are supplied between New London
and New Haven; matter for offices beyond New Ba
ven, however, is also sent by the mail which loses
90
at 12 P. M. An additional New Haven mail is also
90 received at 8 P. M.. bringing nothing from offices
between New Haven and New London,

Danby Bank, Danby.....
South Royalton Bank, South Royalton.... 90
Stark Bank, Bennington....

........$2.25 Bank of South County, Wakefield...
$2.25 Bank of the Republic, Providence......... 50
.$.50 Farmer's Bank, Wickford.......worthless
Hopkinton Bank, Westerly.

DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

Vol. III:

From the Home Monthly.
LET IN THE SUNLIGHT.

BY J. W. BARKER,

Let in the sun light, morn is advancing,

BY W. H. STARR

Softly it rests on thy obstinate beart,
Like the sweet stars thro' the shadows of midnight
Beauty would rend the dark mantle apart.
See the sweet flower, its petals unfolding,
Roused by the life giving whispers of dawn,
Smiling the first golden ray in beholding,

Laughing outright at the gushing of morn.
What if the floweret, far down in the valley,

Shrouded all night in its darkness and gloom, Scoffed at the first golden beams of the morning,

Closed its fair lips and witheld its perfume?

Thus shall the soul, with its power of communion, Close up its windows and bar out the light, 8corn with the beautiful ever a union,

Draw round its avenues darkness and night. Open the shutter and let in the sunlight'

Wed with the beautiful, wooing thy heart; Morn will arise o'er the darkness of midnight, Sorrow and gloom from thy spirit depart.

NEW-LONDON, CT.

Thursday, May 24, 1860.

can imagine. Black had trout for break-
fast, and well cooked as usual. We ate
with woodland appetites, and arranging
for some future plans with my kind friend,
I called Nora, swung my rifle and rod on
my back, with my small pack, and trudged
slowly into the forest.

The sunshine scarcely reached the ground
in that magnificent temple. Long dim
arches, wherein giants might have wor-
shipped with reverential awe, stretched
away before me, and I became involunta-
rily impressed with a deep sense of solem-
nity as I looked up at the leafy covering.
It was strangely still. The very birds
seemed to be keeping a Sabbath-silence.
After a walk of perhaps two hours, I came
to the bank of a large creek, at a point
where it widened into a broad pond; out
in which, nodding lazily to the ripples,
lay the beautiful lotus flowers. Did you
ever lie and watch them? You can't do
it without growing sleepy.

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

No. 14.

attention from the subject, I sent Nora into the water to bring me a lily.

As I took it in my hand, he stood and looked at it, and said mournfully, "She loved flowers."

"Aye," said I, "And now she gathers them in a land where they bloom in immortal radiance! Think you there are not fairer flowers than a lotus blossom, in the waters of the river of Life?" His eye lit with the glow of enthusiasm as I spoke, and his head was raised, and his hair, long and gray already streamed out on the summer wind as he looked up into the far deep sky, as if to catch a sound, one faint far sound, if but a single note from his seraph daughter's golden harp, falling into the holy sunlight!

Then his head drooped on his breast, his eye dimmed with tears (manly tears! were they not ?)and I saw his lip moving convulsively. "She is not here," he thought-my cabin is desolate, and the door stone will be deserted when I go home to-night!" No, no, old man, she is not here. Her white arms are not around your neck, her kiss falls not now on your wrinkled cheek! Her voice has died away in solemn stillness, and death has set his seal on her eloquent lip!

I threw myself under a large tree, and began repeating to Nora Tennyson's Ulysses, and as I went on with it, line after line, I gradually forgot the place and poetry, the sunshine and the creek, and I was woke an hour later with Nora's low growl, and starting up, saw a man approaching me. I recognized the new.com- And he wanders thus alone, ever thinker instantly, as the father of a fair childing of her in the forest or in the cabin, by whose death and burial took place some day or by night. Lonely and sorrowful time ago, and he knew me also as the stranger who was present when God took his earth idol from him. I had not seen him since, but he sat down by me, and I was astonished at the calm dignity and great intellect of the hunter. He spoke of olden times as of the present, and when I mentioned my employment an hour before, namely, the repetition of Tennyson he took it up and seemed familiar with poets and historians and dramatists of every age and nation, quoting with equal fluency from Homer, Persius, Dante, Corneille and Shakspeare. Proctor would have been delighted at the enthusiasm with which he quoted "Golden Tressed Adelaide." But that reminded him of his child, and the strong man was bowed down with grief. His soul struggled with overwhelming agony, and to call off his

he waiteth for the hour when the voice of God (to him now welcome!) shall call him to join her yonder, At times, as he sits in the night in his desolate cabin, he hears her voice, He hears it as of old in all the melody of her girlish love. The white locks are softly and gently pushed back from his forehead, and a kiss falls on it as a drop of balm might fall from heaven! He looks up and a glorious eye gazes down on him through the gloom, and a white hand beckons to from the Sabbath-shore. His heart keeps vigil like the angel watchers at the sepulchre, with earnest eye fixed on the place where the object of his adoration lay.

I left him. He went toward his lonely cabin some miles westward-I eastward toward the road. I fear me much (I almost said I hoped) wher. I am again at