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37T" YEAR.
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PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE.
BY 3125., SlltAll T. BOLTON
Voyager upon life's sea,
To yourbelf be true,
Awl whore'er your lot rna.y be,
Paddle your min canoe._
Neer, though the winds may rave,:
Falter nor look' back, ,
But upon the darkest
Leave a" shining track.
Nobly dare the wildest storm,
stem the hardest gale,
Bravo of heart and strong of, arm,
You will never
When the world is cold and dark,
Beep an end in view,
nd towards ihe beacon . mark
Puddle your plrn ranee
To the Filent t,hore,
From. its sunny source had gone
To return no more.
Then let not an hour's .delay,
Cheat you of your due:
But while it is called to-day,
Paddle your own canoe.
If your birth denied you wealth,
lofty state- and power,
11 °nest fame .and hardy health
Are a better 'dower;
But if these will not suffice,
Golden gaitipursue;
And to w•in the glittering prize,
Paddle your own canoe.
Would you wrest the wealth of faTe
From the hand of Fate;
Would you write a deathless n' e, •
With the good and great ; -
Would you bless your fellow men ?_
Heart and soul imbue
With the holy task, and then
Paddle your 'An canoe_
Would 3•nu crush the tyrant Wrong,
In the world's free fight,
With a spirit brave and strong,
Battle for the Right ;
And - to-break the-chains- that-bind
The many to the few—
To enfianchise slavi,h mind,..'
Paddle your ow•n canoe_
Nothing great is lightly- won,
Is:othing won is lost,—
Every good deed nobly done,
-Will repay the cost.
Leave to Heaven, in bumble trust,
All you will to do;
But if You succeed, you must
Paddle your own canoe.
Zelectllaun.
The Sumner is Ended.
In commenting upon the eventful summer
from which we have just emerged, the N. Y.
Mirror says that "it has been a hard and a hot
one.. Fires, failures, diseage and death, have
brought lasses and mourning to thousands—
the calamity of short crops and high prices
makes the poor man look• anxiously to the
coming winter. Many who began the season
in the fulness of health and beauty, have perish
ed with the' early flowers, and hundreds who
went abroad decked in the gay colors of joy
and hope are now robed in the sombre attire of
grief and mourning. Autumn has come to
limy a heart, even in the spring-time of life,
and the earth has become to thousands'of its
pilgrims literally 'the valley of the shadow of
death. They who have passed through this
trying season unscathed by sickness and mis
fortune—whom the Death Angel has not even
brushed with his wings, should make their
lives a hymn of thanksgiving to:the Infinite
Cod who has dealt with them so gently and so
graciously !—lnstead of looking on the dark
side of the future,, they should look up in grate
ful confidence to the Reaper whose sickle has
left them to flourish a little longer in the field
while thousands, as full of health and
prOise as they, have-been cut down and
withered in an hour."
THE TONGU.-.-1 must confess, says Addi
son, I am so wonderfully charmed with the
music of this little instrument that I would by
no means discourage it. All that lamatis to
cure it of several disagreeable notes—and in
particular of those little jai-rings and disson
ances which arise from anger, censoriousness,
and rssipping. In' short, I would have it
tuned by good nature, truth, discretion, and
si nceri
NEWSPAPERS IN" inE W4)m..6.—The following,
is supposed to be the number of newspapers-in
the world :-10 in Austria. 14 in Africa, 24 in
Spain, 26 in Portugal, :;() to Asia, 65 iti,Bel;
glum, 8,5 in Denmark, 60 in Rus , iia and Po-
land, 3:20 in othei 6ermanic States, 500 in
Great Britain. Ireland and S,;otland, and 2000
in the United States, or about twice as nianv
iNhis country as ali other nations. This
n::::,oiints for tht superiority of our people in
point of intellt_
fzenec to every other pe4le on
the tzlol-e.
Ar Impr - DE.rx FE - I.7.evw —A lecturer dawn
citilues w:do - vis as wives."
3 Sandhi iiirmsga rr--=-Iruntrui to Irilitirs, 3grirulturi, litinturr, ',Arts unt t •krirurrs, T . TIt 31finkrts, diirtrral 'lotourstir ruih*intriligrtrr, 3tturtisina, 3unoriarnt, r.
MEZE
Live Within. Your Means.
We don't like . stinginess. We don't like
economy, when it comes down 'to rags and
starvation.. We have no' sympathy with the
notion that the_poor man should hitch himself
to a post and stand still; while the rest of the
wor moves . na&s-11-u-tylt-o-i-ba-E
-denylimsell every amnsgulent, every_ 1 ttXury
every recreation, every comfort, that lie may
get rich.,‘ It is no man's duty to make an ice
berg of himself, to shut his eyes and ears to
the sufferings of his fellows, and to deny him
self the enjoyment that results from generous
actions merely that he may hoard wealth for
his, heirs
_to quarrel about. But
_-there is an
economy which is 'every man's duty, and
which is especially commendable- in the man
who struggles with poverty—an- economy
which is consistent with happiness, and which
must be practised if the poor man_would se
em-, independence.
It is almost every man's privilege, and it be
comes his duty to live within-his means ; not
u to, latit within them. • 'Wealth does not
make the man, we adltnit, and should never be
taken ;nto the account in our judgment of ►men :
but competence should always be -secured
when it can be, by the practice of economy
and self-denial to only -a tolerable extent: It
should be secured, not so- much for others to
look upon, or to raise us in the. estimation of
as -to sPrnire the consciousness of inde-
pendence and the constant satisfaction which
is derived froin its acquirement and possession.
We should like tb impress this singlefact
upon -the mind of every laboring man who
may peruse this short article—that it is possi
ble for him to rise above Poverty ; and that
the path to independence, though beset - with
toils and S - elf-sacrifice, is much pleasanter to
the traveler than any one be can enter upon.
The man who feels that he is , earning some
thing more than he spending, will walk the
street with a much lighter heart, and enter
his borne with a much more cheerful coun
tenance. than he who spends as he goes, Orfalls
gradually behind his necessities in acquiring
the means of meeting them.
The man who is everybody's debtor is every -
body's slave, and in a worse condition than he
who serves a single master.
Fur the sake of the present, then. as well as
for the future, we should most earnestly urge
upon every working man 'to live within his
means— Let him lay by- something_ evety day
—if but a_penny—itis better than nothing ;
infinitely better than running in debt a penny
a day or a penny a week. If he can earn one
dollar a day let him try fairly and faithfully
the experiment of living on ninety cents. lle
will like it.
"People will laugh." Let them laugh.
"They will call me stingy." Better call you
stingy, than say you do not pay your debts.
"They will wonder why I do not have better
furniture, live in a finer house, and attend
concerts and the playhouse." Let them won
der for a while—it won't hurt you. By-and
by you can have a fine house and tine furniture
of.your own, and they will wonder again, and
come billing and cooing around you iil.e so
many pleased fools. Try the experiment.
Live within your means.
The Philosophy of Rain
To understand the philosophy of this beau ti
ful and often sublime phenomenon, so often
witnessed since the creation of the world, and
so essential Co the very existence of plants „Wild
animals, a few facts derived from observation,
and a long train of experimen ts, must be re
membered.
1. Were the atmosphere every where at all
times of a uniform temperature, we should
never ha\'e rain,-or hail, or snow. The'water
absorbed by evaporaticin from the sea and
the earth's' surface, would descend in an im
perceptible vapor, or cease to be absorbed by
the air when it was once fully saturated.
.2. The absorbing power of the atmosphere,
and consequently its capacity to retain humidi
ty, i 6 proportionately greater in warm than in
cold air.
3. The air nearest the surface of the earth is
warmer than it is in the region of the clouds.
The higher we ascend from the earth the 'colder
do we find the atmosphere. hence the perpe
tual snow on very high mountains in the hot
test climates.
Now when by continued evaporation, the
air is highly saturated with vapor, though
it be invisible, and .the sky cloudless, if its
temperature is suddenly reduced, by cold cur
rents descending from above, or rushing from
a higher to a low latitude, or by the motion of
a saturated air to a aide' . latitude, its capaci
ty to retain moisture is 'diminished, cloud:, are
funned, and the result is rain. It condenses
as it cools, and like a sponge filled with water,
and compressed, pours out the water which its
diminished capacity cannot hold. How singu
lar, yet - how :•iinple- the philosophy_ of rain !
What but Omniscience could have devised such
an admirable arrangement for watering the
earth ! . _
Neht - altali Perklns, of Top311(-1d,
Me., it is said. recently gathered from a singe._
apple tree_upon his farm one hundred bushels
of-apples. -
r.,.'The New Hampshlre PutrirA reports th
since the first of June last, four of the Refire
sentati-resin th - &New Hampshire Lt-zii,lature
have died
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 - 0, 1854.
A Great Shot.
The "best shot ever made," that we have
heard of, was that of an old hunter, who told
us the story, but for the perfect accuracy of
whose statements «•e will not vouch.
Our fiiend, the hunter, was , standing•nn the
ak—of theme iaoa rircr,--r-i-lk in hiuld r _ii_nd!
spied on the opposite shore a noble deer. ciupon
which he fired. At the iristanthe touched the
trigger, an enormous fish leaped from the water
4 ,2 _
and received the ball through the gills rthe
deer dropped dead in his tracks.
The'hcinter took a canoe, which, as fortune]
was in a smiling mood, happened to be near,
secured the fish, which. had ceased to flounce “Wirt was once engaged in the trial of a
and was floating with the current, and,landed cause in which one of the most material wit
at shot where his prize—the deer--had nesses on the other side was notorious for his
fallen. °it . examining the animal he found gulibility. By . way of--ribmwini,pcp_this: trait
that the ball had passed through him, and in the witness, and thus impairing histesti
looking in the direction it had taken, he dis- loony, Wirt asked him if he had ever o read
c it ed a dead deer, also slain by the indomi- Riley's Narrative, and if so. whether be thought
table bullet, and, presently saw that it had it'was true. ,"011,yes," said the witness, "I've
buried itself in an old poplar, and, from the 1 read it, and I believe every word ()fit !"—The
hole it had piei•ced, gushed . a stream of honey on the other side perceiving the advan
as bright as gold. He stooped to gather a stick i tag gained by his opponent, here interposed
to-stop-this waste of sW - Ce'iness, and his hand the question you ever read Wirt's life
rested on - La, rabbit, which he lifted and then of Henry, and it.'so;do you believe iL is true ?"
dashed to the ground in anger, 'when lo ! have read it," replied the simple witness.
smote a flock of quails, killing's number of
Elf I
.41boroughly disgusted with the excess of
success which had come u on him; he took
nod care of his game, and, in due Season, of
the honey also.—Cincinnali Commercial.
A New York pill doctor, who advertised in
a Cincinnati paper, asked the editor to give
him a puff. The editor, good-natured, wrote
a "first rate notice," from which we make the
following extract : •
"One single pill worn in each pocket, will
instantly give ease and elasticity to the tight
' esiNpantaloons. A little quantity create
an appetite in the most delicate stomach, or
physic a horse. They will also be found to
give a. rich flavor to apple-dumplings, and a
peculiar zest to pickled oysters ; they will
thicken soup, redu,ce • ulent person, and
are an excellent it for mouse-traps. One
pill dissolved in a ucket of water will he found
a perfectly water-pronf lining for canal em
bankments ; placed in steamboat boilers, they
will effectually prevent their bursting, and
greatly increase the speed of the boats. As for
-their-medic-al ies, they _j e u.stly_en tit 1
to be called—Mid/amen/um Gracia Probalum,!
e., a remedy approved by-grace—for they
effectually cool St. Anthony's fire and stop St.
Vitus's da^nce ; they purify the pimples in the
small pox, and eradicate the red gum in teeth
ing, they reduce white swelling and cure the
black jaundice, blue devils, yellow, scarlet, or.
any other fever ; they cure also the thrush in
chihlren. and pip in hens, the staggers in horses,
and the nightmare in owls. But further
enumeration is unnecessary ; suffice it to say
that this medicine is a combination upon new
principles discovered by the present Proprie
tor's immortal grandmother, and are an excep-,
lion to all rules of science,.commop sense, and
experience ; 'so that while they are the nfost
powerful agent in nature, revolutionizing tire
whole animal economy, and eradicating • the
mosrineurable diseases, they :are at the same
time a perfectly innocent preparation, and may
he taken with entire safety by the nursing in
fant—powerful all harmless."
AsoTHEM 'MEDICAL PRIZE QI. - ESTION.—The
N. York Academy of Medicine, through the lib
erality of a few of its members, offers a prize
of $lOO for the best essay- on "The Nature and
Treatment of Cholera Infantum." to be pres
ented during the ensuing year. The trial for the
prize is not restricted to the fellows, but is open
to the profession throughout tl try.
_ _
VIOLATING THE LIQUOR' LAW.—Zachariali
Porter, of the Cambridge ( Mass.) Cattle Marke..
Ilotel, has been convicted in the court of com
mon pleas in Lowell, on nineteen cases, for sel
ling liquor, eighteen of which were on appeal.
The fine of and imprisoninent for four
years is thus confirmed. The matter will - now
go before the supreme court on exception.
REsfartfcAßLE.—At the burial of Alarshal do
St. Arnaud the flags of Prince auf.J., of England,
for the first time in. history, covered the same
and-Musselman cannon resounded in sign
of grief at the funeral of a christian general.
NontEEsT.—William Walker. of Lon
don, has bequeathed £l.OOO to the poor of his
native city, Perth,' the income to he expended
In blankets, coals and oatmeal, in the month
of November in each 3ear, forever.
Blum; EN Box Es. --"Mr. Witness. you have
said that while walking with an umbrella over
your head, you fell into this reservoir awl were
badly injured. - 1)i , 1 you break any bones, sir,
at that tiwe ?" "I did, sir." " What iknes?"
"Wiathboncs, sir !" _
When a stranger treats me with want
of respect," said a poor philosopher, -I comfort
he slights, but my old shaggy coat 'and
which co say the truth,„ have no particular
claim for admiration. S 3 if m; hat and coat
choo.e to fret about it, let them Lut
nothing to me."
ter" Don't hurry," exclaimed the man who
was going to be hung, to the crowd w.h - ch
lowed him, "there'll be no fun till I get there."
. -
TRUTU IS AIIgIITY, AND WILL PREVAIL
A Powerful 'Puff.
We find in an exchange paper an anecdote
of the late Win. Wirt, tha.ris too good to be lost.
Wirt's life of Patrick Henry, as every reader
of that biography knows, is excessive in its
laudation orthe great Virginia - orator : in fact,.
'
lived to'whorn such swelling:and varied strains
lof penegyrie could - bejustlfaii4Wd, ns Wit
continindly resorts to in depicting the cliarac•
ter of Henry.
In' illustration 'of this trait the following
-story current in Eastern Virginia, said to be
true to the letter, is told.
"but 1 can't say I believe it ; no, no, that's
I wore tl►an I can swallow !" Wirt was "es-
Em
the recent trial of Portman, at Covington, Ky..,
one of the jurymen returned was asked - by the
prosecution Him had any ‘.conscientious scru
ples about inflicting the death penalty ?"
••Scruples ?"
"Yes, tiir, conscientious svupl. es."
The juryman scratched his head, and thought
deeply for a moment.
"Yes, sir, I have scru
"Scruples," suggested the attorney. ,
"Yes, sir, I have conscientious scruples."
"Will you explain the nature olypur scru
ples to,the Court," said the lawyer.
"My scru ples," . sa id - the juryman, facing His
Honor, "is Martha Dutchman ought in be hung,
and I'm infur
He was ordered to "stand aside for cause."
Co-aPERATON - OF TIM WIFEL—No Mall ever
prospered in the world without the co-opera
tion of his wife. If she unites in nvitual en
deavors, or rewards his labors with an endear
ing smileovith what confidence will be resort
- t - o - itis - m-erc-,h-a-ndise-or-hisfartu i -tly-ever—lantUr
sail upon seas, meet difficulty
. and encounter
danger, if he knows that he is not spending his
strength in vain. but that his labor will - be re
warded-by tho sweets of home ! Solicitude•and
disappointment enter the history of every man's
life, and he is bulshalf pros ided fbr this voyage
who finds but an associate , for happy hours,
- while for his months of darkness and distress
no sympathising" partner is prepared.
LAM; E PRO DUCE Pawl B E ES. —John Ross,
an experienced apiarist of Warren, Mass., has
a hive of bees, from which he has taken during
the past year two hundred and forty founds of
extra honey. The bees were fed upon a pre
paration made liyininself, and by the use of
which they do far be cum than when left to col
lect their own food.
.TIIOROGGIILY PATRIOTIC.—The Paliatna4tar,
giving the incidents of the reee - nt . earthqtmke.•
there, says : ''( - pat iotic individual rushed
to his consul's residence, and.claimed the pro
tection of his national flag. In vain a friend
told him ,he would be no safer there—that
eWrthquakes respect no flag. 'Ell be d—d if
they shunt ours, trough,' he replied. 'lf any
earthquake dare touch that flag, tile Whole
Union would rise to put it down.' "
-117'Life is - a lemonade made up of different
ingredients—fortune, that's the water—misfor
tune, that's.the lemon—and good fortune; which
is the sugar. It is rather pleasant when the in
gredients are not disproportionately mixed, but
it is an unpleasant dose when the lemon is ex
cessive, or the super abundant water makes it
mawkish and pall upon the appetite.
PENNSYLVANIANS FOlt KANSAS.—The Penn
sylvania Company, numbering about' 150 per
sons, left Conneautville on the Ist inst. They
were joined at Rochester, by another branch of
the company from Cambria county.
A CENT) NARIAN.—An old lady. named Sarah
and aged one hundred and seven years,
recently died at, New Liberia, La. She was
born in the city of New York, on the 25th of
December, 17-16.
_rr_7one boy in a shop is as ;rood as a man.
Two boys, however, are worse than none at
all. If there be but. one boy in a room he is
quiet -and sedate as a t-,naker. Introduce
another, and ground and lofty tumbling and
sotnersets over the stove-are in order from
dark.
Ca"-Buys," said a village pedagogue
other day, "what is the tneanisvg of all that
noise in the schor,l!". "It Bill Sikes. sir,
~v-ho-i --:.1;--t-h~ --I
"cmme up here. William. if you have- turned
into a locomotive, it is high time, you were
switched off."
thcni alis.Q now ?
ztrolLin to his teacher.
"Whit fc.ll , ,ws (bo racqui, my der'"
"Why, Pant, and Luke, and Deuteronomy
and them.":
A clergyman who vas in the habit of preach
ing- in different inirt's of the country, was not
long since DA an inn, where he observed a horse
jockey trying totitke in a simple gentleman, by
imposing upon him a broliemninded, horse for
a sound one s The parson knew the bud char-
a , :ter of the jockey, and taking the gentlemal
othe--per.sche
was dealing with.
.The.geutletnan finally de
clined to purchase, and the jockey, quite net
tled. observed—
"Parson, I had much rather hear you preaeb,
than see you. privately interfere in bargains be
tween man and Man, in this way."
replied the parson, •'lf you were
where you ought to have been, last Sunday,
'you'rniEtit have heard me preach."
gyman.
A large collection of rare foreign birds and
poultry, which had been on exhibition at Bar
num's museum, in New York, during the week.
was sold at public auction on Saturday. The
stock was imported by Mr. Giles, of Connecti
cut, for himself and, others, and was brought
over in 'the steamship Washington. Among
the bidders was Tom Thumb, who was-perched
upon the top of a caget.antt attraetAmas melt
attention as the golden pheasant. - A pair of
NM
white swans, and a •pnir of -Japanese peacacts
were bid off at one hundred dollars each. • A
pair of 3lnUdarin docks brought oue hundred
and fifty dollars, and a black swan the stun of
one hundred &Mars. „7tlany very beautiful
fowls, which Were said to be worth forty dol
lars a pair, were knocked down at two dollars
and a half. The entire rot. offered, it is said,
cost seventeen hundred dollars.-
MEM
Trt,Wifscavm; p . A . r.—The. following States
and cities have designated the days named for
the purpose of general thanksgiving :
NOvember 123d.- I .llaryland, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Wiscon
sin. and NUW Jersey, and thu cities of Wash
ington, Norfolk and Portsmouth.,
November 30111.—ANne; New Hampshire,
New :York, Tndiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Massa
chusetts, Ithodo Island, IllinoiS,Aichigan and
Connecticut.
"DIED lti nii. Ilmtsgss."—Rev. Joshua T.
-Russel, a Baptist cicEgytnan at Jackson, Ails-.
sissippl, recently closed a very eloquent address
before the-Mble Society with these words :
‘..llillions who are now around the Throne of
God, singing the song of Moses - and the La►hb,
have been saved by the influence of this Wok."
While uttering these words, ho looked up as if
he had a vit - iien of w hat he descri bed, and paused
a moment, and s!tying, "1 have (lode," sat down,
and was immediately seized with a fatal attack
of apoplexy.
Tickatun Tuttocun.—At present human in
genuity scents to be taxed to the utmost to
suggest means by which the lives of passengers
may be preserved, - even if a vessel goes down
at boa. The last, and perhaps the best,' we
find in the Boston Transcript. ft is the sug
gestion of an (‘ld sea captain, and contemplates
s. suflicieut number of Life boats to accommo
date the passengers and crew, each boat to be
provided with a compass, water and food, and
to he numbered and placed under the cothmnnd
of an officer of a vessel. As each person taketi
passage in the vessel, he is also ticketed for a
position in one of - the life boats, so that, in case
of accident, each one knows where he belongs.
N MIER 01' SLAVES IN THE Woll.l.l).—The
African Institution of Paris—an association for
the diffusion
,of civilization and Christian light
Diu Africa --has recently issued a circular which
shows that dm nurribiz of blacks held in sla
very in different countries is seven and a half
millions, of which 3,095,000 arc in the United
States, 3,250,000 in Brazil, 900,000 in the
Spanish colonies, 05.000 in the l)utch colonies,
140,000 in the republics of Central America,
and 80,000 in European establishments in Af
BM
'"Well, Sambu, is your master a good
farmer ?"
' , Yes, sah, he berry good farrner:makes tvio
crops in one year !"
"How is that, San)lx) ?"
Why,) he stilt; his hay in de fall, and makes
money once ; den in de spring he sells all de
hides ob de cattle dat die for want oh de hay,
and dus make money twice !"
C - 7 - I'hey write . home that there are flea.s
enough in Turkey to darn up the llogpliorus,
The Turks wear them for lining fur their
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_ __ . - _._—___.. -.-_ _ ,' noes and Indiana. and o,lio anl New Ilitinp
:::"^Ladies who have a disposition to punish' shire, the same characters show themselves
their husbands, should bear in mind that a' by uninistakatile signs. They have generally
ori npt histories, sourtempers, 811(1 it 'hatred
said an little , sunshine will melt an icicle much quicker
e
. ,of all politicians wore honest than thk.i.useives.
Ulan ar(vrtilar northeaster.- . some of them ma y succ e d, for a brief pe,iml, ill
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;,/—"Slianghin Chicken," is the t itl e of a ' getting places oiice ims-e at tht‘ paol l c ;. , r jo,
and in satisfying a little their personal resent
new \reel:ly puoliNhed at i...),Jyton, On:a, by the:
medt s ; but they will Ini‘e snore 1.4.411/z, and
i Shanghai Company. - , cub/ pu uishments. —..:::(ha ton ( Maine) drgu.s.
,
sed-ite-ta
“Where was that ?” inquired the jockey.
"Iu the STATE PmsoN," retorted the _cler-
-- Great Sale of Choice Fowls.
ri - "llere, fellow, hold this horse."
"Does he kick ?"
"Kick I no ; take hold of him."
"Does he bite ?"
"Bite I no ; take hold of the bridle, I say."
"Does it take two to hold him."
"So I"
"Then hold him yourself."
MEM
tWO DOLLARS A-YEAR.
We live in an age when the whole world
seems ultra:, and thns'we find Congress spend
ing thousands of dollars for-improvement in
the telescope, and nothing for the
_Our state legislators will vote half a million
of public funds for a geological survey, which
is .ut Temo
t-he-fat-m•
um
ing a much less amount, would be more home
diately useful.
is true that the farmer, from a geological
survey,' may know the rocks, the debris of
v; Bich has formed the soil, and if every farmer
_-
would read it, and every' geologist so write it
as to render it applicable to his use, he might
abstract this best of inforination from it. But
we all know that_ farmers do not read•geolog
kat reports, and we equally well know. that
they are not made in such a manner as to ren
der them suited to' their nsi a '
They are so scokastic in their character, and
so general in their application, that the agri
culturist neither comprehends them, nor. does
he find Sufficient - pertinent matter to call forth
his admiration. -
----. An agricultural survey, strictlyso, would
give " a synopsis of the rocks from which the -
soils were formed, by an occasional analisisof
the soil, and it Would doubtless contain the
I_proper- rectit insfor_the.supply_of_the_deilcien ,
cies. It would settle all the;mooted.questions
f-the-drt-3r=—y kind of soil to
raise every kind of crop, would soon bo known;
'the use of:all known ant ndmhts on-different
soils would readily be understood for each
operator in making - a report of the results of
his experiments, would doubtless, by a refer
ence to such a survey, give 'a detail of the emu
position of his soil with a proximate accuracy,
at least,. which would enable others to judge af:
the value of the amendments used for the crop
raised on soils differing but slightly in their
chemical constituents._ It would soon be
known what kind of soils are test suited to
each of the staple crops, and when 'we received
a report of two .cropii raised with the sawn)
amendments, but. at different depths (if
tion, .we should know why.they differed,in re
sult. Such a survey would furnish all:the ne
cessary .statistics, so that then . amount of Crops
and their relative proportions to each Woiltdibe
known. We,ebould have some basis for far
avers to depend upon in deciding what crops
they should raise. The'effect oftlimate on the
liffere-utarops—tunl the di frerecitki4aSA . rthik,
would be clearly understood, and .cite class'of
implements used in the different districts Would
be knoWn to -all. To the llorticalturist it
would be - invaluable.
. -
We now know that the same kind of (mit
which on on kind of soi lis of superior quality,
failS entirely on another, butt we do not as well
know the caoses why. 'All these would Soon
be arrived at . by the assistance of agricultural
surveys. -
The natural history 'of the country, at least
in its utilitarian application, would be-, fairly
sot forth : for those snaking the survey would
be brought into direct contact with the farmers,
and all facts relating to Eaton could
thus be practically ascertained. Indeed: the
oft repeated question,-llc4 shall agricultural
knowledge be disseminated ?" would be' an.
swered by such reports. We should not long
find that one or more farmers in each district
could raise a hundred bushels to the acre 4 for
the means by which the greater crop could be
raised .would become generally known, and
where it arises from peculiarities in composi
tion of the soil, the amendments necessary to
produce similarity to the degree required,
would be ascertained.
• Indeed,_such reports, instead Op finding their
way to the upper shelves of large and unread
libraries, would be so valuable to the farmer,
that every farmer's boy could use them as a
text book, and instead of being stimulated to
study those things that are of remote useful=
ness, he would apply his observation to the
more useful area of the farm.—Working
Disappointed Politicians.
It is a striking feature of the political cam- '
paign this fidl, that in almost every state in,
Union disappointed and decayed politicians
have enjoyed a kind of jubilee. Those who
have been gorged with office, and allowed to
retire, and men who for any reason have been
laid on the shelf in their respective localities,
have taken occasion this year to emerge from
their hiding-places, and at once to gratify their
private revenges, and make a new effort for a
fresh share of spoils. Wherever the fusion
movement has prevailed these men have been
among its prime leaders ; wherever the secret
order has been organized they hive been
sachems in the tribe : wherever the anti-Ne
braska war cry has .been popular they have
almost split their throats by joining in it. In
the hour of calm and repose they were quiet
as the grave, or, if they attempted to make
mischief, they were restrained by the people,
who knew their histories. But, with the con
fusion and efxcitement of 1854, they have -
gloried in the opportunity to show themselves,
and even claim now to be, _the most pure and
p a tri o tic and worst used persons the republic
ever had., It is unnecessary to call names in
order to describe them. In.thc Morrill ranks
of this State, in the Pollock ranks of Pennsvl
- ' , •: ••a ranks of Phi
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