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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 29 January 1870, Page 6

Advertisers are wide awake at Omaha (George Francis Train's city in the far west.) One enterprising individual is printing an edition of the Prayer Book, which he intends to give away to every attendant at church. The right hand page contains the usual prayers, but the left hand page is allotted to advertisements. Another is trying to purchase the privilege of using the outside of the pulpit for posting the merits of his patent babyjiimper. At a meeting of the Board of Education in Cincinnatti, 22 votes were for excluding the Bible from the public schools ; 10 of these were republican, and 12 democratic. Three professed no religion, 10 were Catholic, 18 free-thinkers, and 1 Jew. Of the 15 votes against excluding,. 2 were republicans, 3 democrats, nominal religion; 13 Protestants, 1 freethinker, and 1 Jew. The champion of the party for exclusion was the Eev. Thomas H. Vickers ; the Liberal champion for retaining the Bible was the Eev. A. Mayo, Unitarian minister. Eesolutions were also passed forbidding religious exercises and singing of sacred son-s. Judge Stover, of the Superior Court, afterwards granted an injunction restraining the Board of Education from carrying into execution their resolution prohibiting the reading of the Bible and religious books and sacred music in the public schools. The ground on which the petitioner prayed for the injunction is that the framers of the Constitution, by declaring in that instrument that religion is essential to good government, denied the Board of Education the right to exclude all manner of religious instruction. From the following remarks in .the " Sydney Mail," it would seem that meat preserving for exportation is already beginning to tell most favourably on the prices of stock in the Melbourne markets : — "We note the sale of Mr. J. de V. Lamb's cattle on Wednesday. After travelling from Bullioo, in Queensland, to Melbourne, a distance of 900 miles, 278 head of them realised £8 17s. 9d. each, in a depressed market. The same cattle, weighing about 7001b5., would not have fetched much beyond £5 here. This is referable in part to breed, the brand being well known in Melbourne ; but it is mainly due to the existence of a much more active demand there than here for meat of fine quality for shipment. On looking at the market returns of sheep, it- is evident that the sales of the 29th were nearly double the local demand, and it may, therefore, be fair to suppose that the balance was absorbed by the meat preserving companies. If this is so, these companies have 'the credit of keeping the market firm at lls. per 54-lb. -wether. Is not this consideration worth the attention of gentlemen in New South, Wales, who are making 6s. or 7s. a head of sheep of better weights ? Appliances might be instituted in Sydney that would relieve us of 15,000 or 20,000 sheep a week, a^J raise the price of all ; but no one &;-e:ns to have spirit enough either to zbzz'c or support a company, besides tho3e who are interested in the Clarence Companies* and Mr. G-eorge Loder, of Singleton."