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THE QUIET SLUM3ER.
Lay him gently to his rest—
Fold his pale hands on his breast ;
From his brow—
Oh ! how cold and marble fair—
toftly part the tangled hair;
Look upon him now !
As a weary child he ties,
With the (juiet dreamless eyes,
(Eer which the lashes darkly sweep,
And on his 11p the quiet smile—
The soul's adieu to earthly strife,
And on his !?.ce the deep repose
U'e never saw in life.
Peaceful be his rest, and deep ;
Let him sleen.
No tears for him—he heeds them not ;
Along life's drear and toilsome road
Firmly his manly footsteps trod-",
Stiiving to bear its weary lot,
With such a pride upon his brow,
With such a pain within his heart,
The firmness of the manly will
Veiling the secret smart. •
Oh 1 it is well the strife is oe'r,
That thus so peacefully he lies,
Unheeding now the bitter words,
The cold unpitying eyes.
Fold bis mantle o'er his breast -
Peaceful he his sleep and Ides!,
Let him rest.
No sigh to breathe above his bier,
No tear to stain the marble brow.
Only with tender pityir.g love,
Only with faith that looks above,
We gaze upon him now.
No thought of toil and suffering past—
But joy to think the task is done,
I'lie heavy cross at last laid down,
The crown of glory won.
Oh ! bear hiin gently to his rest—
Oh ! gently heap the llow'ry sod,
An i leave his ho ly to the dust,
■ Ei, pint to his God.
—Southern. Literary Messenger.
TftEtllV WHIGS OF SESTtC&If.
A great eifort has been made lately by our i
opponents in the Southern States, to draw to j
their support the old line Whigs who have j
acted with the Democracy since the breaking j
up oi the Whig part v. The effort has been
especially active in Virginia and Kentucky.
H'fiat success it has met in \ irgima will soon
be disclosed by the ballot box. It! failure in
Kentucky, is made a; parent by the following
interesting correspondence. W not a high trib
ute it is to Democratic principles, that the
CLAY Whigs of Kentucky cling to the
"Democratic party as the only political or
ganization which has the will an ! the. power
to preserve the Union from dissolution."
Oh! Lisip Whigs to dir. Clay.
HARRISO-WILLE, SHELBY, Co., Kv., (
March I9tb, 185 9. J
Hon. Jos. B. Clay, DEAR SIR : We have
all our lives been Clay Whigs, and hive been
such because we have ever believed Henry
Clay the great exponent of Whig principles,
and enemies oj Henry day, as hypocrites.—
.Now, sir, we have every reason to believe that
you Ime as much respect for the memory ol
your noble father as we, or any others could
probably have, and we appeal to you as Wkig;s,
to know what we shall do in the present crisis.
We have watched your course as Representa
tive in Congress, and we are proud of you as the
noble son of an illustrious sire. We believe,
and have reason to believe, that the present
leaders of the Know Nothing party, though
once professedly Whig*, were enemies to your
father, and remembering as we do, their in
gratitude, we cannot choose them a?our leaders.
You have been in Congress, and doubtless you
have watched all the nartv movements in
Washington, and we are willing to believe
what you may say, because we confide in your
honor and patriotism. Please write us your
views in regard to Kentucky politics, and what
you believe the Whigs should do, and we will
thank you. If you wait first to know who we j
are, we refer you to any one in Shelby county
whom you mav wish to consult. A prompt
answer is respectfully desired.
Truly, your friends,
W. T. KNIGHT,
W. E. COOK,
J. N. EASLEY.
Mr. Clay's Reply.
ASHLAND, NEAR LEXINGTON, )
March, 26th, 1559. \
f "'nlleniin : I have received your letter ot
! 'ie l!)th inst. Personally unacquainted with
any one ofyou, you refer me, it f desire to
know who you are, to any one in Snelby
( ■ntv whom I may wish to consult, such
i-ierence is unnecessary ; you write to me as
!, 'd Whigs of the Henry Clay school—your
'y't'T bears the evident impress of candor and
® ncerity. I have never been accustomed to
l! guise nnv of mv opinions, and it gives me
Pleasure to answer you in the best manner
that I am able.
I cannot too highly appreciate the compli
ment which you pay me, when you say "that
you are willing to believe me because of your
confidence in my honor and my patriotism,
fo deserve such opinion has been my aim
through life. [ should deem myself unworthy
°f it did f not respond to you truly, to the best
knowledge and belief.
You say lhat you "have ever regarded those
who professed to be the friends of Whig princi
ples, and were the enemies of fjenrv Clay, as
hypocrites," and "that you have reason to be
j lieve that many of the present leaders of the
j Know Nothing party were his enemies."
In the first ot these propositions, you perhaps
! express yourselves too broadly. Mr. Clay, like
all other men, may have had personal enemies,
who yet agreed with him in political opinion,
and were not hypoct ites. I cannot conceive,
however, how any man, not his personal enemy,
agreeing with him in principle, could be his
political enemy without being a hypocrite.
I agree with you, "that many of the leaders
of the Know Nothing party were his political
enemies." Mr. Clay was essentially a man of
< principle. "I would rather be right than
President," was his motto. No chord of his
heart ever responded to other pulsations than
that of patriotism and of principle ;in the
language of one not [always his friend, "he
was the very embodiment of Whig principles."
Were there in Kentucky any men, who profess
i ing to entertain his principles, were politically
| his enemies ? Let us glance back over the
| page of history and see.
i The last opportunity the Whig party ever
I had, successfully to assert their principles, and j
|to carry them into practical operation, was in
I ISIS. At that time the condition of things
| was such that it was apparent that whoever j
i was the nominee ot the Philadelphia Conven
i lion, would be successful. Mr. Clay was
I almost worn down by services rendered the
| country, and bv the political conflicts for the;
| advancement of his principles through means
| of a party which he had more than once saved
i from utter destruction. Against his own desire,
i he was induced to suffer his name to go before
the Philadelphia Convention. Kentucky, be
yond a doubt, as was well ascertained in the
conventional Frankfort, a short time previous
ly, was for him ; indeed, sincp 1825 there was j
no time when she was not for her own
I distinguished son in preference to any man in
; the nation. Kentucky sent her delegates to
1 the convention. It met, it nominated General
i Taylor as its candidate for the Presidency, and
| it absolutely refused to put forth to the world a
'platform of Whig principles at the only time
when they seemed almost certain ol success.
Mr. Clay's own opinion of the conduct ol that
convention may be gathered from his published
letters. I refer you to his private correspon
dence edited bv the Rev. Mr. Colton. In Ins
'-tier to James Harlan, dated VuTUst f>. tS. I
he says: "How derogatory it is for politicians
to attempt to degrade themselves? in the j
presence of General laylor' And how in
consistent it is to denounce party in the same j
breath in which the Whig party is called on
to support the General, as a V\ hig. that is a
party maul It is mortifying to behold that
one great party descending from its lofty posi
i tion of principle, and lending itself to the
i creation of a new personal party, with a virtual
j abandonment of its old principles."
To Nicholas Dean, August 21th, ISIS, he
; writes : "The Whig party presents an anoma- j
} ions condition—without any candidate who j
! recognizes his obligation to conform to their
j principles, the members of it are called upon
as a party to endorse the no party candidate ;
and I have been urgently and repeatedly
appealed to endorse as a Whig, General ! aylor, :
who while he adopts the name in a modified form,
repudiates the principles of a party ! I need
not say that I have done, and shall do, no such
thing."
To Henry Whitp, September, 10th, ISIS,
he says : "Although I believe that the Philadel- j
phia Convention has placed the Whig party i;i
j a humiliating condition—one which I fear will
| impair its'us-dnlness, if not destroy its existence,
I 1 acquiesced in its decision in not nominating '
• me, and have submittal quietly to it. '
These quotations show that Mr. Clay thought i
| that the Philadelphia Convention of 184-S hail
I virtually abandoned all principle, and had de
generated into a mere personal party, whose
decision as far as he was personally concerned
he acquiesced ir., but whose, action he would \
not endure, lie whose motto was "rather be
right than President," could not admit the
Jesuitical doctrine of availability in preference
to principle. m
And what part in this slaughter-house of
principles, and their old neighbor and friend, ;
did Kentuckians bear? Again [ refer you to
Mr. Clay's own opinion expressed in his letter j
to a committee of Louisville, dated 2Sth June,
I S 13. After te.ling them that the Philadelphia
Convention refused to recognize or proclaim its j
attachment to any principles or measures, and
actually laid on the table resolutions having
that object in view, he goes on to say, "I lost
the nomination , as / firmly believe, by the con- .
duct of the majorities in the delegations from
Kentucky in Congress and in the Convention, ,
and I am called upon to ratify what they did, :
in contravention, as I also believe, of the wishes
of a large majority of the people of Kentucky, I
am asked to sanction and approve the course j
of the seven delegates from Kentucky, who in
violation of the'desire of their constituents,,
voted against ine, and virtually to censure and
condemn the five who voted for me." Well
m i-rht the old statesman exclaim in the bitter- ,
of his heart, "what have I done to lose the j
friendship and confidence of Kentucky? '
Were these members of Congress and of the
Convention, to whom Mr. C-lay alluded when
he said "that he had lost the nomination by
their conduct though professing to be Whigs
in principle, his friends or his enemies ?
Of the seven members of the Convention who
on the first ballot cast their voles against him,
and of the whig members of Congress of that
day, Senate and House, all without an excep- j
tion, who have lived in Kentucky, and taken
prominent part in politics, have been either
members of the Know Nothing party, or have
always given it their support, and some, both |
1 of members of Congress and of the delegates,
have been prominent as leaders. As to the
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE A, 1859.
• f other leaders ol the party, many never even
pretended to be Mr. Clay's Iriends. Their
: candidate for the Vice Presidency in 1856,
made no such pretence, nor did John McCalla,
■ nor any predecessor from the Ashland District.
Most certainly you are not mistaken when you
say "that many of the leaders of the Know
Nothing party were not friends of llenry
Clav."
You appeal to me as Whigs of the old time,
to advise you what you ought now to do. I
do not like to advise others. My own course
has been taken honestly and conscientiously,
according to my belief of what was best for the
country. Although I cannot flatter myself
that very much of my short political career
lias obtained consideration, vet I believe it has
twen plain and without ambiguity. To it I
refer you. I believe that the Old Whig party
is dead past resurrection: that it was destroyed
at the moment when it adopted the doctrine of
availability in preference to right, [have not
t/te slightest idea that the name of .Mr. Joshua.
Hell cm have a spell potent enough to raise a
party which Webster and Clay could not save!
J cannot vote for him for Governor, because by
whatever name he may choose to designate
himself, I have seen him, whilst denouncing
the piinciples of the Know Nothing partv,
with great uniformity supporting their candi
dates for office, thus doing al! in his power for
j the advancement of doctrines which he pro
fessed to abhor; and because, although in his
letters accepting the nomination, he professes
to be independent of the Know Nothing party,
and running on his own platform, 1 do not be
lieve him able to create a personal party , but
regard him as neither more or less than the
leader of the Know Nothings, having accented
~~ 1 O I
the regular nomination of their convention.
You say that, having been in Congress, I
have doubtless watched party movements at
Washington. My eyes certainly have not been
closed to what was passing around m u . In
Congress there were but two parties—Demo
cratic and Black Republican. The Know
Nothings were not a distinct party there, and I
believe that, during the last session, they gave
a united vote but upon one single question—
that ol the admission of Oregon. Upon almost
every other question the members from Mis
souri and Tennessee voted with the Democrats
and sometimes with the Black Republicans.—
In fact, their number in Congress was so small
as to render it impossible for them to have any
weight at all, except by uniting with one or the
Other of the ere*' narties. w- >r*h vere
opposed to each other. It was asserted in
Washington, and I believe with truth, that,
throughout the greater part of the winter, the
Know Nothing leaders were in caucus and
consulting with the Black Republicans, with
the object, by a union of the two, to form an
opposition to the Democratic party. What fate
those consultations finally had I cannot pretend
precisely to know; but this I have seen, that the
parts - in Kentucky, with wonderful celerity,
lias changed its name of "American" and now
s yles itself the "Opposition partv."
In conclusion, gentlemen, I will say that ]
have seen no reason to doubt the correctness o
the positions which I assumed three years ago
I believed, then, that the only great politics
contest m the country was between the Black
Republican party and the Democratic party—
that the stake played tor was the Union itseff,
I believe that next year, under whatever name
the opponents ofthe Democrats may he arrayed,
we shall have the same battle over again.—
Whilst I cannot expect every measure of the
Democratic Administration to accord precisely
with my judgment, any more than could the
measures of an -, other party be expected to ac
cord fully with the opinions of each individual
member ol if: and whilst in the selection ol
men, I shall fee! myself free to vote, according
to mv own choice, if is my intention, by evuy
honorable means in my power, to sustain and
support tie Democratic party, a* the only po
litical organization which has the u-ill and the
power to preserve the Union from dissolution.
I am, gentlemen, with great r spect,
Your ob't servant,
JAMES B. CLAY.
MESSRS. W. T. ICSIGUT, W. E. COOK, J. N.
EASLEV.
THE MISERLY MJMf.
Everybody has a bad word to say of a mi
serly man. The preacher, the moralist, the
wit, and the satirist are equally severe on the
poor miser—whose very name was assigned tc
him by the Romans to signify that he is a
wretch. Miser —miserable. The author ol
the Tin Trumpet says pointedly enough
"A miser is one who, though he loves himself
better than all others, uses himself worse ; for
he lives a pauper in order to enrich his heir,
whom he naturally hates because he knows
they hate him." But an old satirist has put
the case more pointedly still ; yet haully be
yond the truth :
How many a man, from love of pelf,
To stuff his coffers, starves himself ;
Labors, accumulates and spares,
To lay up ruin for his heirs;
Grudges the poor their scanty dole,
Saves everything, except his soul ;
And always anxious, always vexed,
Loses both this world and the next !
TOUCHING —VERY. —A * person following
close behind a couple returning from a juvenile
party, at a fashionable residence in [Pittsfield a
few weeks since, happened to hear the young
gentleman thus address his companion in a
voice of the tenderest solicitude :
"Charlotte Angelina, you must not set your
youthful affection upon me, for I am doomed
to an early grave—Mother says I'm troubled
with worms."
An involuntary 'cough' from the listener
interrupted the self-devoted reply which ol
course was leaping to Charlotte Angelina's lips.
Berkshire Eagle.
and genius have the same mas
ter organ in common —inquisitiveness.
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
AN IRISH-YANKEE TRICK.
Barney B is a resident of the 'Smoky
City,' and belonged to that sharp-witted class
who are generally 'up to snuff,' and not very
ea ily imposed upon. At one period he was
largely engaged in the wholesale and retail
gr >cery business, and among his numerous cus
tomers was a contractor on the Pennsylvania
canal, (then approaching completion,) who by
some means managed to contract, along with
he original one, a peculiar likine for Barney.
During the course of his interesting acquain
tance, he managed to get into the affections of
our hero to the tune of eleven hundred dollars,
which might be regarded as a slight token of
esteem.
The honesty of the contractor had never
been questioned until near the close of bis job,
when it was whispered abroad that he was pre
paring to take 'French leave,' of his creditors,
and for that purpose had collected all his funds,
and, perhaps, in a few days would depart lor a
more congenial clime.
Barney heard the rumor, and gave it full
credit. He saw that he could only secure his
claim by stratagem, and accordingly he laid his
plans for coming the Yankee over his customer.
Passing along the street one day he met Mr.
Buck.
'Pood morning, Mr. Buck an' how are ye ?
An' how are ye getting along wid yer job V was
the salutation of our friend Barney.
'Pretty well,' said Buck, very confidently,
for he did not imagine that his villainous
scheme was suspected. 'Pretty well, my old
friend, I expect the present contract to he
finished in a few days, when I will take a new
one.'
'ls it farther away than this one V asked
Barney.
'No, it's rather nearer,' and Mr. Buck col
ored slightly.
'Art'don't you wish to buy a nice lot of
goods? The ow Id stock must he pretty nigh
sow Id.'
'Well, no,'said Buck, hesitatingly. 'I would
rather not purchase until I enter on my new
contract.'
'Och, man, it's a jokin' ye are ? Do ye think
yer men can live on the wind and drink cowld
watber? Come along wid ye an' let me sell
y.e about §3,000 worth.'
Thus talking, Barney and Mr. Buck reached
the, •.. After some coaxing, Barnev sold
til... a n*t , consisting 01 Rout,"
sugar and whiskey—the latter an indespensahle
article in those days—and the whole amoun
ting to about $3,000. The goods were marked
ana rolled on the pavement. After making out
the bill, Barney presented it to his customer,
remarking :
'Mr. Buck, dear, don't you think ye could
be afther letting me have the amount of that
small bill that's due. This big " purchase will
lave rrie rather bare, an' I must have a little to
begin on again.'
Mr. Buck teeling that $3,000 was better than
$l,lOO with that philosophy so well becoming
the man, concluded to pay the old bill, and still
have $1,900 clear in "the operation. The
money was pas J and a receipt given, when
Barney remarked:
'I will have the goods delivered for ye ima
getly. So ye need give yourself no farther
trouble about thim.'
The place was designated where they were
to betaken, and Buck went awav. No sooner
was his hack turned than Barney to his
porter to lend a hand; and 'quick, presto!' the
goods were rolled into the store, and the doors
locked. Barney remained outside, taking a
seat on an empty barrel, to await the return of
Buck, who, finding the goods were not forth
coming would come back to learn the cause.
After the lapse of an hour, Barney observed
his friend returning in great haste. Instantly
our hero placed his hands over his face, and
when Buck came up' Barney's eyes were suf
fused with tears, and he I inked the very picture
of agony. Perceiving the melancholy appear
ance of Barney, Buck sympathetically inquired
the nature of his sorrow.
Barney looked up, while a tear trickled
down his face, and replied in a piteous tone :
'Och, Mr. Buck, hav'nt you h'ard what's
happened me ?'
'Not I,' said Buck, startling hack. 'lias any
dreadful calamity occurred V
'Calamity,' sighed Barney, 'worse nor
that.'
'lt must be dreadful, Mr. Burns—pray ex
plain.'
'YVhy, bless yer dear sowl, the sheriff has
been here since ye left, an'tuck every dollar's
worth of goods I had in the world, an' wha'"s
worse, an' spites me the most, is, that he talc
yer goods along wid the rest.'
Buck asked no further explanation. He
either believed Barney, or fancied the Philis
tines were upon him. He left instanter.—
And as Barney had secured his money he could
snap his fingers at the rascally contractor. — N.
Y. Mercury.
THE PAST.
When the summer of youth is slowly wasting
away on the night-fall of age, and the shadow
of the past becomes deeper and deeper, as life
wears to its close, it is pleasant to look through
the vista of time upon the sorrows and felici
ties of our earliest years. If we have a home
shelter, and hearts to rejoice with us, andlriends
have been gathered together around our fire
sides, then the rough place of wayfaring will
have been worn and smoothed away, in the
twilight of life, while the many spots we have
passed through will grow brighter and
more beautiful. Happy, indeed, are they
whose intercourse with the world has not
changed the tone of fheir holier feelings, or
broken those musical chords of the heart whose
vibrations are so melodious, so tender and touch
-1 ing in the evening of age.
A SECRET.
"How do you do Mrs. Briggs ? Have vot
heard that story about Mrs. Ludy ?"
"Why, no, really Mrs. Gad—what is it, dc
tell ?"
"Oh, I promised not to tell for the world
No I—l must never tell on't—l am afraid i
will get out."
"No, I will never open my mouth about it—
never. Hope to die this miaute."
"Well, if you believe it, Mrs. Fundy toll
me last night, that Mrs. Trot told her that hei
sister was told by a person who dreamed it, tha
Mrs. Troubles' oldest daughter told Mrs. Nich
ens that her grandmother heard by a lettei
which she got from her sister's second husband';
oldest brother's step daughter, that it was re
ported by the captain of a clam-boat just arri
ved from the Feejee Islands, that the mermaids
about that section wear crinohr.es made ol
shark skins."
REMEDY FOR SLEEP IXC IX
CHURCH.
"My dear Colonel, I perceive you slept du
ring sermon last Sundaj-; it is a very bad hab
it," said a worthy divine to one of his parish
ioners. "Ah, Doctor, I could not possibly
keep awake, I was so drowsy." "Would it
not be well. Colonel, to take a little snuff, to
keep you awake ?" "Doctor," was the reply
"would it not be well to put a little snuff in
the sermon ?"
MORAL SUASION OF A RAM. —When a fiiend
of ours, whom we shall call Agricola, was a boy
he lived on a farm in Berkshire county, the
owner of which was troubled by his dog, Wolf.
The cur killed his sheep, knowing pel haps that
he was conscientiously opposed to capital pun
ishment, and tie could devise no means to pre
vent it. "*I can break him of it," said Agrico
la, "if you will give me leave." "Thou art
permitted," said the honest farmer ; and we
will let Agricola tell the story in his own
words. "There was a ram on the iarm," said
Agricola, "as notorious for butting as Wolf was
for sheep stealing and who stood as much in
need of moral suasion as the dog. 1 shut Wolf
up in the barn with this old fellow, and the
consequence was that the dog never looked a
sheep in the face again. The ram broke every
bone in his body, literally. Wonderfully up
lifted was the ram aforesaid, by his exploit ;
insolence became intolerable ; he was sure
to piICU tutu >, 1.W,.,. ....... n -, ah h ; m „P||
fix him" said I, and so I did. I rigged an iron
crow-bar out of a hole in the barn, point fore
most and hung an old hat on the end of it.—
You can't always tell, when you see a hat
whether there is a head in ifor not ; how then
should a ram 1 Aries made at it full butt, and
being a good marksman from long practice, the
bar broke in between his horns, and came out
under his tail. This little admonition effectu
ally cured him of butting."
A SCOTCHMAN'S SERMON "ON MODERATION."
A Scotch parson once preached a long sermon
against dram-drinking, a vice prevalent in his
parish, and from which, report said, he was
not free himself :
" What ever you do, brethren, do it with
moderation, and above all be moderate in dram
drinking. When ye get up, indeed, ye may
take a dram, and anither after: but dinna be
always dram-drinking. II ye are out in the
morn, yon may just brace yourself up with
anither dram, and perhaps take am ther before
luncheon, and some I fear, take one after,
j which is not so blamable ; but dinna be
i always dram-dramming away.
Naehody can scruple for one just before din
ner, and when the desert is brought in, and
after it is ta'en away ; and perhaps ane, or it
may be twa, in the course of the afternoon, just
to keep you from drowsying or snozzling ;
but dinna be always dram-drinking. Afore
tea and after tea, and between tea and supper,
is no more th?n right and good, but let me
caution ye brethren not to be always dram
dramming. Just when ye start for bed, and
when ye are ready to pop into't, to take a
dram or tua is no more than a Christian may
lawfully do; but brethren, let me caution you
not to drink more than I've mentioned, or may
be we may pass the bounds ol moderation."
HF'Tbe following: notes are said to have pas
sed between Gov. Giles and Patrick Henry ol
Virginia:
"SIR : I understand that you have called me
a 'bobtail'politician. 1 wish to know if it be
true, and if true, your meaning.
VV. R. GILES."
"SIR : I do not recollect having called you a
bobtail politician at any time, but think it pro
bable I have. Not recollecting the time or oc
casion I can't say what I did mean; but if you
will tell me what you think I meant, I will
sav whether you are correct or not.
Very respectfully,
PATRICK HENRY."
'GrNMrs. Partington says, that if she should
be cast away, she would prefer meeting with
the catastrophe in the "Bay of Biscuit;" for
then she would have something to live on.
KF"A yankee recently stepped into an
academy up town, and infouned the principal
that he had dropped in to learn IreDch and
navigation that atternoon, as he was going to
sail, as a male of a vessel, for the port of Mar
seilles in the morning.
did not need to be reminded by an
exchange that Fanny Fern says, "there arc
times when a husband is indispensable." Bui
we did not know there was a country editoi
who could be so impertinently persona! as tc
ask, "What times are they, Fanny I"
K?=Tf a man is happily married, his "rib" i
worth all the other bones in his body.
WHOLE .W'JIRKR 8853.
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CURES FOR HORSES.
For Sweeny, or 11 ig Shoulder. —Two ounces
Liquid Opedildoc, one of Spirits of Turpentine*
two ounces Spiiits of Hartshorn, three ounces
of Alcohol, one ounce Tincture of Spanish Flies
two ounces Oil Spike. It should be applied
sparingly, or it will blister.
For Brittle feet, or Hoof-bound. —Mix equal
parts of tar and some soft grease. Have the
foot clean and dry. Apply it quite hot to all
parts. Let it run under the shoe 33 much as
possible. Jn bad cases apply every day for a
week, unttl the foot becomes strong and
smooth.
Cure for Bots. —Give the horse one ounce
of slacked lime three times a week, for two or
three weeks. Mix it with his food.
Grubs in Horses. —One ounce of vinegar,
one ounce chalk in powder. Mix it well, and
drench the animal with it.
Founder in Horses. —Haifa pint at vinegar,
one gill of black mustard. Mix and administer
it to the horse. Then put him in action for
an hour or two, or until he sweats thoroughly,
Must be used within 36 hours after tha foun
der.
Gull in Horses. —When horses become gal
led, or get the skin knocked off, apply a blister
to the part immediately. Let it remain 15
i minutes, then remove it. Ap ply to the part
| burned leather, pulverized and mixe d with lard
i The application of the blister will prevent the
I inflammation extending and the roolsof the hair
will not be destroyed. The ointment will pro-
I mote the growth of the hair, and ensure its
; original color.
HILLJJVG POTATOES.
Many of our most intelligent farmers are of
opinion that, on lightish land, the practice of
hilling potatoes is less a benefit than an injury
to the crop. This opinion is doubtless predica
ted, in part, upon the fact that, by hilling, we
expose a larger extent of surface to the air and
sun, and, in consequence, expose the crop to
the effects ot drought in a greater degree than
when the surface is kept perfectly fiat and lev
el. Where the latter method is adopted, the
dews and rains, it in sufficient quantity, pene
i trate directly to the roots ; but where hills are
made—and especially if they are high and con
ical—the fluid is conveyed from them. In
planting potatoes on such lands, we should first
furrow, drawing the rows three feet apart, and
-a,l* , tHofiirrnws. so that the rows
may run both ways. By adopting this pian,
almost the whole labor of dressing the crop may
be performed by the horse-cultivator. If the
soil is light and friable, it is conceded by the
general it)* of our most intelligent cultivators,
we believe, that the deposition of fresh, unfer
mented manure, in the hill, is an actual detri
: ment to the crop. When such manure is used,
it should be spiead and covered with a light
furrow, previous to planting or by means of a
harrow. A small quantity of old, well decom
posed manure or compost, may be placed under
the potatoes to give them a start and to sustain
the plants till the lathral roots can extend
themselves sufficiently to reach the manure con
tained in the soil. There are few crops more
generally neglected than the potato. Thorough
cultivation is necessary in its management,
however, as in the management of corn or any
other hoed crop. No weeds should be suffer
ed to foul the soil, and the surface should be
kept tine and loose.— Germantown Telegraph.
BUCKWHEAT FOR HE.\~S.
Buckwheat contains a large portion of lime
and is consequently one of the best articles
that can be fed It > s highly nutri
ous and stimulatiMHwri when fed to barn-door
fowls, never fails highly promotive of
fecundity. By supplying fresh meat, lime, oats,
water, chopped vegetables, and buckwheat to
to hens, they will lay as well during the win
as thev do in the spring and summer season.—
They should be kept in a warm place, and have
good" boxes in which to lay, with plenty of
good straw in which to make their nests,; —
Many who keep hens, complain that they do
not pay expenses. This results from careless
ness and neglect on the part of the owner, for
it has been abundantly demonstrated that the
hen, when judiciously managed and supplied
with suitable food, is not only capable of "pay
in" - expenses," but of becoming a source of con
siderable profit. Eggs and poultry always find
a ready maiket, and sell at remunerating pri
ces.
To f'CLON CUIMSO.V on. PURPLE.—J. S., of
Michigan, inquires how to color Merinoes or
Cashmeres some rich, dark color. It may be
done as follows. If the cloth is dirty, wasli
cleanly in soap suds—it not washed, it must be
wet thoroughly in suds, alter which make
another strong suds. If you wish to color a
dress a rich ciimson, put your suds into a brass
kettle and add one-quarter of a pound of cud
bear, stir well, then put in the garment, set it
on the stove and let it scald for an hour or two.
If you desire a dark purple, add from one
quarter to one-halfof a] pound of cudbear, and
put into an iron kettle, instead of brass—wash
well through two suds and rinse in clear water.
—Cor. Rural JVew Yorker.
Cure for Scratches.— H. Payne, of Lockport,
communicates the following remedy for scratch
es in horses, which we have seen tried with
good effect :
"When the horse comes in at night, his legs
should be washed clean and rubbed as dry as
may be ; then apply good vinegar, rubbing it
well to the skin. Two applications a day are
sufficient. I have always found it a sure pre
ventive and a certain cure. If the legs have
become cracked and sore, apply the vinegar
freely, and add a piece of copperas the size of a
common hickory nut to a quart of vinegar.
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