■TfIEBEAVERARGDS be Published Every Wednesday 15 MlJryS’ BPLDISGB, ' third st., beavkb, pa., 52,00 per annum in Advance 1 and contjibntions, by mail, " shall h* TO ? rom P t sttent ’° tt ‘ I " quay* RUTAN, Eds. & Pro’rt. ■ POETICAL.. J- ra0 )| IB* UIIMTIC BtOHTQLT. ] / the playmate. \ BY JOHN G SAXE. jie pines Were dark on Bamoth ] dll, , ! The songwas soft and low; . fhe blossoms in the I weal May wind Were falling like t ie snow. | ! , j. Theblossoms drifted at our feet,' ' .The orchard birds sang clear, ! ~ ' Thi sweetest and the,saddest day It seemed of all the-year. . j. for more to mo than birdsorflowora,; • ■■ fly playmate left her homei ' i And tookVifh her the laugbingsprlng, ■' The music, and the bl^om; .-.ghe'kissek the lips of kiih and kin, She laid her hand in mine; ■ i ' What more could aak.tliebashful boy, Who fed her father’s kjno'7 : < 4 1 gho left is in the bloom .jef May— - ; ; The constant years told o’er 1 Their seasons with ap swpet May morns. But shle came back no more; . with htiackfs feet, the round Of uneventlhl years; —j , ; Still o ! cr pad o’crT sojv j.he spring- And reap lie autumn ears. , She lira ivjiorc all the golden year Her summer rosea blotj;; ■ i . The duskyichihlrcn of the snh j ■ Before her come and gO. i . j J * | * j ; j There, hhply, with.her jeweled hands, She smooths her silken gown— No more the homespun lap, wherein I shook lho walnutsdown, | The wild grapes waft us by the brook. .-The brown nuts on the hill, - £ ’ ’ ] . * I - , And stillthe May-day flow’ra make sweet The woods of Follymill. « • ’ The lilies blossom in <lie! pond, . The bird builds in tho kroe; The dark pines sing on Bamoth'hill y ! The slow song of the sea. I wonder if she thikks of tfacin. And how thedid lime seems— If ever the pines of Bamoth’wood Are sounding in her dreams. 1 see her taco—l bear voice— s Decs she remember mine ? And what (o her is now the'boy Wbo fed her father’s trine • | Wist cares she that the Wioles build . I . ’ , t -P j f ; For other eyes than ours; . , . That other hands with nits arc fil' ed. And, other laps with flowers.' ’' ■ !, -1 , t ■ ' Oh, playmate inthcl golden time’' Oi|r mossy-scalds green; j - Its fringing violets hlosaoln yet, Tho old trees o’er it lean. The winds, so swcol wit!i birch and fern, A sweei,er‘memory blow, * And therc, in spring, the yecries sing The song of ■ long j ago. T ; And still the pines of Bamoth wood f Arte moaning likcj the sea— Tho moaning of the sea of change , Between myself and tiicc! ’ Miscellaneoiis, American Nationality- One of the grandest and most endui si ring results of our present war for -the f Unipn _is to bo the; establishment of nationality of the American Pco- VVojane to convince ourselves and. the worljd that we are one nation. The true idea of republican government is to settled be forever.! Other republics have existed and flourished, but they Wore limited and partial in their char a?torv T >>ey hall not! the real elements - Pt united strength, pnd therefore did -PPt continue. It has remained for the Patriots [.of America to establish the tact that'ii gcuuino republic can not only bo per'maucn’t bit univeisal. . ■ The groat national' struggle through ; which wo are passing has, developed ' the following facts: 1 That a well-educated repub "jppss&sos more inherent power than a monarchy. : i -,i Sepond, That such a as owa >n‘America enn bo maintained in , war as well as peace.-: ~ !- • Third, That the. consolidation of the - P Vcfn hl on t by [the will of the people u, ?0 <? 8 ’ B f on, ’ i with the sovereignty 'of •! “e. States.- - j j biK «.?* , tbo concurrent operation of ■ Ko 80 American nationality Has il„ en B( ! curod > and as jlong as{ the}’ con to °P cl ’atP, it will bo! main - tbo °? d of time. -They have 6r n ' boj’ond.all cavil, that the gov aiBtp™ednt:°f . I Mt c( T lc . rightly admin-, on ’,,’ 9 t ' TO - strongest government reati,/ l j anfl the duly government ■ : of '«nj tod | o - obest^a PP inC!5B ty ’ - tbl ? n > |i B American nationally tW f„ - 18 tho piaclicai elucidation, in weiu 8 , 08 ? f f the world, hostile as Araerickn of ! tbo declaration of estabiiau’ tadepondenco. It is forever that wo -«J ?0 ?-. lbo P a « e » history tnay 0 f ri r “ d , Oln S “What any nation 1 ltds proving to all tidn of o-u - a, 'p.not a confedora- Wrs in h„l° n,es; nct » nnion'of part fcay win 8 u neB8 ’ rora Which any one ’ ’plsasure; not a treaty, . = ta Jf,f bauad together by a f° r «'gh lands; but a >»' whiok it . lte 4i’ consolidated nation; I" ■I ’ lEEE El I *r *"r. V ■ ■_ f :1-3ST whole. Secession is thus proved to be “Distinct "treason is.civil war; andcivil i | | One Li. warJjQjgst be put down by the notion, I | r i or tSjonatior ceases to exist. /I Wlp hath not read, the sweetly , It [the present gigantic war of We lowing lines of“B. F. Taylor." lite/. Union •'to maintain; tho Union intact■ * > 4 J.J Bad accompli shed nothing olse.it has ar ? e f ltor > and j f a tin » a 1110I 110 achieved won dors ,in'establishing those wa f■ ; eon cspondnnt of 1 the CM6ago fncta iepublic is seen in, the lu- -Evening Jovmc i.-Wo commend the rid light of oar vast battle fires as it [folio wingpatrio tic was never soon befpre. Never hadour article to the careful perusal of bit national flag each s significance ahlMjmaWi| readers. We bavb'Paply obV has Jnbw. -Never was the Joyetfan article so mucht : ■. j j States Constitution so ordained to bo ; The Roman .knight who rode, “all rational as it is by the thunder of pur accoutred as he was” into tho gulf, republican cannon. Never was the and tho month ot tho hungry .Forum Declaration oif .Independence so illumi- closed; upon him and .was satisfied, rated as it|hhs boon .within the ijast .slejv |in his dying, that great four Jcarß by the valor 6f our ariny on the land and oar navy on. tho Pea. Wohavo proved our patent ot nobility afr a. nation in thd presence of awit* nessing world. Wohavo set our seal of nationality in tho blood ot patriots; and prouder insignias than the stars and ribbons,]tlio sceptres and crowns,■» , tho-diadems and thrones' of hionarqhs, are found now in the annals of Amei ica. • It) nnjy remains for people to‘cultivate and perpetuate their nationality; Wo must snow)by our conduct toward otner nations that wo esteem our The best among -them all. fly idol rig this wo do not preclnde thoforoigner from iovirig bis own] land. lie has the right to dg so;, and (.no American, biit would despise bimjif ho did not. ■ Let it be under stood, however, that what the Eng. lishihan claims for England,thcProijch manj for France, arid other men for their nationalities,thp American claims andjwill maintain tor America. , This is'Ainericari nationality. Wo ask nothing mpre; we will take noth ing-lo.ss.—Fkila. Item, i, . , "She Is a Widow.” . Did you notice that sneer, the tone of contempt with which those'words were uttered ? The Hindoos burn widows on the funeral pile of their husbands, and wo call them cruel. Apiorican Christians,, wjth the Bible in their hands, often trout widows.-, with a moro refiDed, but no loss, real cruelty. Dead readers, did you ever speak lightly of widows, and aid you oyer realize' what the . word signifies ?; A widow ! oho who has loved and been; loved—once the mistress 5f a pleasan t' hopio where clustered tho richest blossoms of afFoption, whor«_ vyas- J sic and gladness, ono who opco had a strong arm to Jean upon,a noble main ly heart to sympathize in all hprjFpr- ; rows, and • to - shield her- from every rough blast; You. know her tlijSnj perhaps you often partook of Vhc ,hos pitalities of that home which jfehc adorned. llow respectfuly you were —liovo lovely she seemed, how lady like— she was a wife then—she had a protector But days of darkneHgjjmd sorrow came—her , husband—-her enthly all, liudiow.and she,[the tenderdy nurturpo'Jtho “precious-oho,” the Joy of thatljnow coltl heart, wks a‘ widow! At fijrst you were.all-kind ness and Sympathy, but days [and weeks, and months wore on, and! you forgot your, friend,—did sb.o forget? No/biit she, must struggle/or bread; she who,had always shrunk from!any other titan household care, must care' fur business jipw; she must bargin with you, and htliers of-y-pur sr -tn>- And now you slrangety fV other days, and yob are ccption if you do not taki of her ignorance of bnsinci a good bargin for ypur! dos S- „ ■■ y If necessity compels hi thp alert against businrts,, . jlfery, then forsooth sho is a woman, and your bachelor friend .is such -designing wid ows ! Shame! Sharpe! where is yottr'i manhood, your sense of right nad jus -tice? You know/bctlor; you know it is almost martyrdom for her. to meet you in the marts of . business arid to talk of dollars and cents; you. Icnow that the memory of the past comes upon her with an almost overwhel ming sorrow, while,-as with calm ex terior, she seems to guard the tempo rial interest of, herself and little ones, you know she is a gentle, true, living woman, one whom the Lord bos af flicted,- —one tyho has' too much rea-, son to thiniffhat aUreal monlintss is buried in the dust* j. Designing! Do von over think when yon speak lightly of widjows, that your.wife may: soon be liable to the same reproach, ; Tour wife is not secure; the wife of your friend was no loss happy than your own is navy; she was.no more self-reliant, no more “strong minded,’' and evert now she shrinks from, contact with .the outer world with just as. much delicacy; but stern necessity heeds no such wo nan ly feeling. 4 ■ Beware, then, O* roan, perhaps pro fessedly Christian brother, bow you forgot the teachings of the blesSed master. Beware how you omnlato tho heathon, by inflicting torture bn!' the sensitive spirit of a refibod woman, barder-io be borne, than the faggot and the fire. Remember that irthe Holy One, forseeing all, has proclaim-. ed himself the widow’s Gpd< and! that bis'oar is open to every sigh of her pained heart, and Ho said to [you, “By your words yon shall be justified, and by your words you shall be | con demned.” Speak respectfully, then, of these afflicted ones. 'The Lordmade them widows, not in wrath, but be cause ?“whora he !lpveth He chas tenelh.”—Cong. Seratd, | l. ; : !■ Philistine, Oblivion,'-which boonot or later |will conquorns all. Wo ' never thought, when Wo used to road his stoty, that the grand classic-tragedy of patriotic devotion would be a thdna* and .times repeated in our oWn day and Hpresence; that the face of neighbor who had walked .by bur side in disguise all the while, should ibe transfigured in the twinkling of ah lj|!fe the face ct an angel; that th‘o old gods who thundered in Greek and lightened in Lilin should stand aside whiltj common men-of plain English speech, upon wb bso shoulders we have laid d familiar hand, should keep lih motion the machinery of that grand* estl epic of,the vforld, the War for the American Unioii. J j.j ; £ut. there is an old story that pj ways; charming us more. In some strjange . land a(nd time—for so the stn|ry|.runs—they wore about to cast a bellfor a mighty, tower;, a hollow, starless i- heaved of iron. . It should toll for dead monareba—“The kingl is dead’’—and make glad clamor for the nejv ptiheo ‘Long live the king!” lit should proclaim so groat a passion [oV so jgrknd.a pride tbati cither would ibo worship;) or, .wanting these, forever hold its peace, f j 1 .. NoW, this bel} was not to bn digged out of the cold! mountains; it was lip to be made of spnieihing that bad boen wi.rnicd with ahuman tone h~ or loved vyilh ahuman Ipve; And sp the pOo phi cimo like pijlgrims to a sbrine.ahd cm-t iheir offerings into a furnace aid, away. There . were links lof ■ cb rins that bondsmen had worn bright* l an 1 fragments of swords lhajt had bro ke :i in ih'erocs’|.hands; . there wbre crosses and rings and bracelets of-fine SV trinkets ~j of silver and; toys of poor rod copper.. They even brought .things that werb i licked an in an ini staAi|by the red longs "of flamef gpp J wprda they had ; written and flowers flWy had cherisbod; perishable things ■ ;that could never bo 4 heard iii-lho rich 1 tppe of the bell. H And ihe.,firo3 pauted like a strong rman Iwben' ho runs a race,-and the mingled gifts flowed down together anil wore lost in. the sand, ami the domojof Iron was difawn out like leym i an ". And,; by pend by, the bell wjas alone; inlbo cbam.feor, and its , four , w indpwsAlpokpu 'forth to the fo’pir qua' ters of hpnvtrn. For many a day dumb; the winds came and wept, htit/they only seti.t a sighing:- -birdsjCamoJind wont and sang linger ilsjoavep; bat an iron horizon o{ r CI l d All the meaner sltafps arid passions of men rippled,ph bcipW it; they ouf.gropad the ants and 0 / u ir'W rc> ught the bees and out watch* :pd J the,, shepards of Chaldea, but the chambeFbf tbo bell waaas • dumb as Urn cave of Maepelah. " ~ i j last _therb''camo' a time when men grdwr grand for right and truth, 'and stood shoulder to sbpnlder ojpr all I'hp.lind, and went dowh; like reapers lo the''harvest of death; looked; into the graves of them that slept, and hei- was something grander IhaiT'living;, glanced on! into the far fu|urp, and discernedtbeio was some- bitterer than dying; and so standing- between the quick and thb doikd.j they “quitted themselves like meh.’| • \. ■ . ■■ j| , Then the bell wpko in its chamber, aud the great waves of roll ed gloribusly out, and' broke thb blbo* jwailsmf tho world like an anthem; and every tone in it was familiar- as a hpusphold word to somebody, and ho heard it and knew it with solemn jdy. Poured into that fiery heart together, thp,humblest gifts were blent in brie great, wealth/and accent feeble as a song : grow eloquent And strong, and 10l a people’s stately mini heaved on the \tehth wave of :■ ja ; mighty voice! \ ‘ ' i [ j )Ve thank God in this, our day, for the furnace and the firp; for the offer* ings of gold and trihkets of silver.and thp-brokon links of iron.Xfor the good sword and the true word; tpr the griat triumph and tbo little spng. Wb thank God for the loyal Ruths who haye takon up the words of , their ejd or sister, and said to this Naomi Of ia later time, ‘‘where thou goest lirfUst go; thy people shall be my people arid thy God my God!” ■ By the, memory ofiheßamah into which rebellion hub I turned the whole land; for the love; of the Rachels now lamenting within! it; for| the honor of fleaven and tho hope of paqkind, let whal stand heirlo, Past !and Present clasping hands over our heads, the broad ago dwindled! io a lire Under our feet and ridged with the graves of dead marty rs—Tot ns do clare before God and those witnes s'*, ■; - !! itfe will finish the work thatth Than thess to iheir.sli ' And these to their w< And one fsith and one flag, for tl ■; Thb greatest part of first years to .ma< miserable. j , , -i :el the Billows,But be the Sea.” ' i s Fetter* began) septng; ; reeping, i the Federal gnu! mankind hat ce \bcir las :' Cities AvcnufA-Uty Oonntyj and the banpa of f Bizinil&k easl <J) drodanijdtwpn* abokt v : with n'eotod oy the S' Atlantaihowrt | aodßeepnty-obo principal street ti nrng ’ parallel ir? over a mile ii» ! le* 'There tire a hai Globe, Staten bjeing the pi latter ijas change' Co nfoijcrate State* ,/ lias v .oDfojierate Su. ty- to ninety thorn per anhnm wort down tpo river,' 1 ai the roaijir leading tied from three to . and bales ahnnally ir ■> Ang’ - hr dpi non AnbastabaS; largo ord nance dpp6t; man ufactories arms material of.jwar., ■..]= * MacoSs, iB thb coniw4(i»al of Bibb county, is situatlodoDtho right bank of th»i <:, , Itriim about in thecontro-of ffio'State anils' incdnntction with Alania, Augusta, cities adjacent, byirailr ti»m ( abbut thirty riffles acjath-west and is a city of Bomosbvois£reigbl thous and inhabitants. Thojrfvoris naviga bio for steamboats to asmco'd in high water, but thdrailroSA we the jjrfn cipal methods of trapSpwtatron. [ litJ had a Urge octton tratk; wtty the gdiw i roundjng towns War', ' .Most | of jthoJhotcls were, at ThoJjabier House ' tel, kepi by Simeon £ffiie)r',wbp ifijrit openedJthe Jjaftrgo House, In iThw York tjity. ■’.'■'"n" .’.’-.j;.’} ■ Cox,ufipiA is - located on the banks of the (t’hattahoocbo rivoii, and issiur rounde'i by, a rich agHouitural nouns try. is at the ban of steambbat: navigation, and i abo* 1 two handled and thirty miles frbr 'nsta by rail. 1 It was |aid out i’n ' * ebris tains a population o, and souls. It is > lanta by 'the Allan railjroayi and will labainaj by river outlet' ‘ nf were amount;of clothing and camp equi page wjia manufactured at Columbia.! It is closely built, and is a tor looking city than ilaion. ic Id iniincae VmnE , the capital of; tho State, fs Bituatod ou the- Qconeo rlvorj and is |the county seat of Baldwin. It is. nqt a very large place—perhaps three thousand inhabitants—apd is built on several hills, and presents' rather an uneven appearance. !The State House, a fine building, shaped ip the form of a parallelogram, [with ‘gothic turrets, and battlements, is said to havej boon recently destroyed by our cavalry—a portion 'of Sherman’s ■ corps—As also some other public build ings. A few good stores, and orio or dinary hotel, to which may be Added, twenty whisky groceries, constituted! tho town proper. . ! Madisok, ,or. the Geprgia railway, is a ptiot-y little .towrt, isixty-soven miles south of the city of Atlanta, aud contains about three thousand in habitants: It is.the section of a-rich 1 coiton region,- which is occupied bj wealthy! A large amount of trade was brought herd before the rex hellion, jsineo which time' it haaj been used ,as a depot fat Union prisoners Thorp were sevoralfine gohools jhoro before the rebellion, one of which tvas'j a military institution, and;, which we learn was destroyed, with other prop erty, by Sherman’s troops, recently. From jDnion Point, a six hoarsride by rail, brings-you to Athens, the county ejeat of Clark. lt Greensboro is about hajlf,way between Union Point and-Athens. Lexington, a email town, comes iiSxt, which is the old residence of the Lumpkin family* formerly so well' represented in Congress ifrom Georgian Fourteen miles or more, you reach Athens, which' is picturesquely situated pii high bills, and .which is the seat m the University of Georgia, or Franklin Uollego. IJhd population ( of Atheija is about fi.OQO, apd the peo ple are of a betterrorder tban mpst of the Southern towns, many of jthem being highly educated and refined Savannah, the,chief seaport of Geor gia, is thb largest city ic.tho Static,and contained- in IB6o,aboatsixteen thous and inhabitants. It ia situated on , a high bluff, On the river bearing Us name, sixteen miles from the ocean, j A heavy cotton trade, ranch of it with foreign ports, formerly characterized this place. A line lof , steamships con nected itl with New York and Phila delphia,also CharlsBton,and St. Jones, while the cities in the interior Jare reached [by lines of The proroineht merchants are men | of Northern birth, .but atlarge number of weaUpy cotton brokers are Jews. PreviouM to tho .war, 'the, volunteer.’ military Sfprca of Savannah was one of ,the mosfi perfectlydisciplined! in the Sooth. Much of tbe military abil ity of the rebel army may be traced: to Savannians, who figure largely, in' the Socessipik Tbe,approaches to the etto sea, by tho river, ohptrftptod,, by chains, bars and I torpedoes, -besides water batteries in profusiop.' \ TheChatrlestoo '’‘‘Mercury” -on 1 [••• v 'J?ho fojiowjhg significant! article Ap peared in the Charleston Mercury of January !&' ‘ / 1- j'"” • pbnJ(ition /of this .military de pannient.as embracedwithin the lim it» cf Qedrgia an dSotrth Carol f n d, is anythiogbut satisfactory to shy man iwhoia'awarCoE £ac|a,ani bas Capacity to aoderatand t^eir/bearing. Wo pre- OT.oe there is no ,onp in the depart* ■Wont to/ jfhom jtho condition ’of dor ‘prMent military organisation'' id -less satisfactory:tbttu to the General com #aodingv Probably,} theteia no:one dOitboroaghly awaro of itho lamonta -Mo diaprganbsatTon that prevails; '.in 'oettain“corps and section'd of bid com mand. : 'it woilld eonrcely be fair to bold him Responsible, fox this condi lion of/things.. .• ./ 1 His department bas /been jiewly turned'into his hands, and' many of the troops are hew to him! and tb this department/ They came fo him un der tbo 'command of imbecileaj.h'e, has received tbem,a herd, of stragglers and What hasbeendone to” erad icate this fatalcvilwe'shall not stop to rnqrntfo.' The time [hM-been 1 short to do muoh, and the forces have been ironch. scattered, Bat the very last moments are arriving, whim ollniaat be done that can bo dohjejl The ehe my docs not intend lo wait upon bur ieasnrb. And there is mnch to do. ' : Before bringing oursesjjves; to. -face the enemy 1 , it is absolutely essential that those? in command ilhripglthem selves to foce the vital/eyitsexistent yrlthin onr bvra lines. -XHSu pathjibe nmo are traveling is straight to destruc tion; The crisis ofthe Confederacy has ,mired infam&rmt. Tbh result of ilho next* aye/months, tvjjl bring.the Confederacy to lho ground,j or wilt ro infttath its power. * ‘Withowrefortn -tCe are doomed. /There istnofothan one department of the Government. in’ which rcformVs importat|t. . r But re form i a our armies is esseptial-r-ia vi tal. Without. it the death tf the Con federacy is already tolled / With the proper reform mad 6, bo is a coward who carries bis heart in bis boots, 'here aro men in the land—there is in the landil It & the imbecile Soart—it is **' loward i.eiwpa. shipped risttfoar /bdthons- thfcirebdl- - --Ui.; X a large since ]iri command must pot ( must not be ! afraid to It; Officers must bekilkd—mtmere privates. Reform \must begin at if At top, hot at ike bottom of the service. ;! To reach the private, captains must 'b'e[ shot. We want no child's play—wdi wantlan ar my. • /,■' What-is h man’s'life |to;;the institu tions the liberty of 1 the -country? Nothing.]-*,'Lot old thirigii.pass away —let'ns 1 have a now condition of things. ]Wo want no more Jeff, Da vis’. foolery; wo want , pjno of brains, one spark of" nefye-j—wp want no more of Buhamisin—twp want not mermaids with heads of nidnkeys and fishy attachments .‘at;.’ the 1 nether ex tremities —wo .want mem,-real men, carhest men—Nprth Carolina,! Geor- j gia and Sokth Carolina are in no mood ] for trifling. They have had enough of this sort of thing. They don’t intend to have much more.. South Carolina don’t intend to bo conquered. She in lends to’fight.- ' ji;' She don’t intend to] bo hampered or turned over to the enemy.. .When she, is tting djealt with,.there will bp reck oning—a roeoniog wliefoilhora yvill be no respecters of person. Wo want im plicit order ahdcafm forecast. [South Carolina is a Commonwealth ofiorder; wel expect order! and wo demand or der. >Vo are accustomed to [order. VVo are not used to lawless ruffianism; wo don’t intend toj suffer it. ■ ! [- A most onerous but imperatiyc duty dcvblvos upon the commander prthis deparment, whoever he isj That du ty—this first and most essential duW —is to cashier and shoot. Without It nothing can ho done, and Sherman conquers us. With-it, hsis a poward who succumbs at heart. ’ Everything is at stake; everything that in in the way must bb faced and .trampled upon. ’ The man who com mands hero mustput his heart! in his pocket, and his liword in hie hand. Ho must know nothing but the gpod of the Confederacy.. [That be most do regardless of official! weakness. The end most be radical reform. j *- It is folly to talk ik red tap s now, we want the-thing, we must havo it— reform, shooting, cashiering, order, subordi nation,soldiers —not ragmuffina. ruffians. Wp want, and we must Have, brains andipluck in tom manders, and implicit Obedience and order, in sabordinates albd soldiers. Six paces : and a steady arm will -do thn business, if repealed! sufficiently often, especially among commissioned officers.- ] .’ .1 j!(•■_. ’ 'i ' If, howpver, commanding officers will hot dp their duty in [this matter, let ail men shut their books, for the end kill have mil nigh come, The time is short —will it be improved? : ' : ! ' 'i i f|| wife of Gen. Grant has been presented by,the citizens of Philadel phia, with a reaidenoe costing 850,000 and the widow of Glen. Ir, B. Birney, with a homo coating BJo,oooij' while .820,000 have been invested for hot benefit. Good ,for,i-fio Oity. P igioui Rell [From tbaPrnbjUriafa Ban Those Fragmeni When the Saviour: had fed thous ands) with fivp loaves and a few fishes,' i miraculously. hp said tp hisj- disciples, “Gatherup the'fragmants that remain, i that nothing heSlost." ir We propose this command os a lea- : son to Christians now.. The same' Jpsos, now ODthorned as King Prov idence, and. Head of thp Church for .: Whose behalf hp is' made head over all things, has mumficiently poured into , theiap of the ’Cpuroh an abandanediof means. Harvests are'’ ample, -pri|es are good, health is Unusual, hopes lire .- brightening. Oat of your abundance,. fellpw-Chustiahe, you ought to ad ministertothoiwanls of the! poor, thp -demands of theiyisible Church, the ne cessities of the dying:heathen.. i|. : : . Buf I propose you to Consider a more special point of duty, and to call attention to a more homely I {specimen of enterprise and effort for the Lord. I propose you to go into yonr.dark . cellars, your ephwebbed closets, and your chilly garrets, above the first days of the neW year; and while yon are there olon£ with yonr God and Saviour, reflect upon, the relations In which you stand to him as yonr Bleni efactpr, conteniplate the 'fragments of all-manner of things that lie . there in confusion and disorder, the food of moths and mice, and consider well what yonr saviour would likely say to you in view thereof. Perhaps you him whisper, “Gather np the fragments {that remain that noth ing be Tost” The article of casUoff apparel,.bo it silk, or wool, or ontton might make warm; and happy Some ipf GodW poor, that'aro all around you . The very brass on that pld<dilapidd tod umbrella, cjr the ivory on that ru ined parasol,orthefragments of glass ware,;Or the tatters bf cirpet, of oil. clpth. and tho ruined remains of other, things, would reach; buy a tract or print and distribute a leaf of the Bi ble, that might sate? a soul! | Thipk not that it is niggardly and mean-to, care for these fragments'and sell them. We would noti havo you limit your * gifts to means ueriyed from such sour ces; but wo ! remind you that they may ' worth as much as the f"agmentsof Ir • andoug’ to v ’bo sav utensils—things which-. one'lorn have served their day, but whoso very fragments cohtain a) value not contemptible.’ From long and ex tensive observation,’' I believe our farmers thus jwasto as r much as they give to the spread of the Gospel. llf the single article-of,old iron w.h'ichi.is tnOwj Jj-ing out |to .bo: ; dovoured’by rust any State which ac quainted,, gath!orod .up and p.Ujt into [ niarket, wo believe it would bring more monefy jthan .is paid by the CUiistiuns of that State for the 'Bible; cause, the Tract cause, and Foreign; - Missions’. |, . I ■ <; , - ' \ /! - Then add to this the unfashionable furniture, the carriage that is out ol style, the pianO that lacks the mode'rn improvements, I the, grain ,and grass, and timber that are allowed to. go ito waste, just because they are plentiful and wo have a . still i more : startling source of supply. i ; i j :In her abundance, truly,iho Chnrcfi ought nqt tocoppl'ain'that she can dp little'for-lier Lord, and shel ought] not to complain of [burdens until isheibash gathered up all, the that re main, that nothing foe .lost.! OxoN.Ti Oxlasempa.Dec. I i Jgy-The Metiodist contains' a sngi gcstive article <jm what it styles “The: Two Forms of the Clerical Life, that ot the Preacher and that of- theiEx hortei/’l which *desoryera a' wider range, than by ihe readers' of ~:that pafr per. Want of space will only; permit a reference to its closing words; Bit on the other hand thei highest artistic form in preaching, thh profoondost argument, the clearest logic, the most gorgeous illustrations hayje ; no pan** gency, they may .exert no,pressure on the fghsciehcei They may carry the citader of reason, or; they 1 may|cap tivate the tastej and the fancy; -they may win applause, they may erect at* tract crowds ofhearers, but unleSs' they inspire the preacher Into an eiy horter, unless tne-thinking process sos pass over ihttf-feeling, and. the;firoa; of the heart sqizeipn the thinking and transform it into exhortation* the fins ishmg tbnch will htill be j wan ting.— Just bore lies a [large part of theLboly ait of tho preaching; To [deliver the truth is preaching, bat to delivefcit coldly, must fall far short of thodnd of preaching* To reach' the i end and fire the heart of the hearers, the, truth must grow hot in the handling*; as it advances itj must be rising in tem perature; it must so carry with it the preacherSs feelings that be will seem to be firing hot snpt.or, to [change the figure, the iron will heatin fthe pro- ( cess of hammering. ! j I ’ ■ I. ; ! Worship. Gop.—Sometin; er makes her care; and att child a reason lor beglectih ship of God, or sets her he more than God. When she of It, God rctnovies the, d dangerous *o lit lanythini; tween u« and (Jodi | , ■ ', , ■*- I • ]■. r WQTICETo'Ai^HmSEi^..; MEM AdTortUement# inserted afcvthe rale of .sl' per Tiiqnftn each subsequent insertion = 50 cents. Überatdisco«iitßA& to yearly adTertisers, «nd A space eqn»Vto rw*i.T* llSes of thlslyjle measured as a sqoaTii. Special notices 25 peripent. additions totefe , V*'---*- r • * 1 VSi. .£ ’ .T r rates. . ; \ . -• ■ i, t ■/- Business'cards, 7& ccnts a . Marriage# and Deaths, Rellgiobe, Eblil?cs3f ■ other Notice# of a pnbllo nature, free. - -'* -’ ,l, 18 3. i i f A.grieTilta Good Tillage is 4?: ior.] »• ; ' Fanners do not generally . realist , the fact, that good, clean - about equal to j»napplication .ofvma* hure tolande ohltivated s|pyeDly, ; \Vp al| know h.ow much larger 1 .nf> realize in the garden than opph' tl)or.> farm, just from the-superior liltontiofi - paicl,to it to cleansing inegroUßd ; ofrolt noxious vegetation arid froquantti hoeing, and otherwise The Genesee Farmer makes usej fnl remarks' on the subject aia iollO wM “We: must, more than! evcirhtfloirij!; realise the fact that is.maaurd —that the literal meaning of the wpjp .‘manure,* is mantis, -BaniflWilitei to _ work, Tq / manure the land Vs’tp Doe, . to dig, to stir the soil/ tb expoiext 'fii '-the atmosphere.' to plow;-to harrow, ■ to cultivate. The ancienu' > Boroane made Steroatius.a god covered that the droppings pi fpniimte . had the samo Ott’ect Tq eririchmgtlie soil as to hoe it; We . .modern method of manuring land'66 our Western farmers* while : we-gp back to the original methodnf,t>tjr ; rips the soil. Mr. Lawbs has raised a gppU ' crop Of wheat every seafon Ibr twdrk. ty years on the same land by- simply ; keeping it thoroughly clean by trim plo.wingain tbefall and by hocingtlrp wheat in spring by hand. The Key.. S. Smith, of Loiß-Weedbn, has ‘lor years raised successive crops of whcliti by a process of trenching .the land with a fork and We do not advocate this system, hut th«- principle is applicable* to ( our-,ca’sp- We cammanure oar land by better tillage." The Apple Borer ;• j<; lir. Asa Fitch.tho Statoenlpmolo gist of Now 15ork, ba4 written, lb® following jaiticle in the Register, of'Ru ral ln re-printing it, we may add that the Doctor is one of. onr first entomologists, as well afi ono of onr . most practical horticulturists. ~ •-.[ i “To repel this beetle from ing its eggs upon the bark,? the , tree; the latter part of May should bo nib bed with soft soap, or other alkaline substance applied td'it..Five years ago I treated half my \oimg trees in this manner, and the fyl|o\y„ ing spring riot a borer scbuld be fbund of them, while of thos&'ito- Was "not applrcd. ths ? ’m*jpr -youngborora, a <pnjrtor -of an inch long in them, fifteen of these worms being found in a single small; tree. 1 how bayelcoritinricd to npj)ly. soap to the same trees each year i si ice, .but have.occasionally found 80-: , rers in apnic of them. lam inclined to think, if Soap' is applied the latteh part, of May, i and repeated if copfbiiis rains opeur/to wash It off before the end I of [June, the frees will tievorbb attacked by the - insect. Busting; tho ■ buttlof tbo.troes thickly with air shjsk" sod, lime bids fair-, from experiments which 1 have recently commenced, to bo more efficacious than the‘soap. If,' notwithstanding these .precautions, any worms become established at the root of thb troe.they should be immo-> diatply ferreted but and destroyed- This can bo done much more easily when-they arc and, small,' as they arc lying in.br directly under the bark.”:: r . j ' • - ‘ li - In hurrying seasons, when thore'iS much bad'weather, it is sometimes lie- cessary to get hay in ‘ when imper- ■ fodtly cured, or not sufficiency made to prevent it becoming musty‘When r moved. When this is the casei the use of salt is found to be highly Bene ficial; it prevents mn s t, and give afino' Sayor to hay that would otherwise J>«> v almost worthless foriordinary purpos- ; es.| From on£ peck to one pbckahdla half to a ton will be found enough *O. prevent mould, unless the. hay -is very :deep, when .the ; application ,of half a bushel; or even w ill be • alowed. Mo ad o w hay may oWt preserved' by the use bf 1 aiM ■ Its/ Value 1 greatly increased ■ thereby-for feeding purposes, especiallyrwhen gjy en to sheep. And'here permirtnejfo remark that the yory ,best .article Of ‘ frihtcr feed that can- he proVj«ro,d if fut|beforo it bccornes dyfer iipe, and properly made, is thccoamc . grass abounding ip our nstdral mvadl ows. • J £.. * I [Renovating; Flower-Beds; If the exhausted beds have n good ; bottom, we . advise removing the tpp ' spit, and replacing it with a. mixture ;ofi virgin earth from an upland ini?* Itnre, well choppedmp with old chippy joow-dnng, and a jgood proportion *of jloafrmonTd— say, lif you iatt l obtain |thjß-,quantities, equal parts,df cacjr'bf thb ingredients. Fill' np the beds with the mixture earty rn and they will be in admirable Ponißtron fob planting as soon as they have sets tlpd. Chippings off. hedges, ref'iipo ' wood, straw, ,&c., built np over a hplo add packed round with flakes of - old turf, and then burned, make a capvtal, dressmg.to dig into tho old Soil, ir.ybia* cdnnbt well get new material to re-> place the worn-bat stuff. If used chiefly iter bedding plants, a .compost of: loaf-mould -and sandy soil from a - coimmon, 1 equal parts, and one-fifth thn whole very old dung, would prove i l a good jmixtiirc^- des a moth ientibulo a ig the worr i art upon it i thinks’not hihlt It is ; sUand bp- i-1 i:v p: J ■-•T* ■ > .•£ t;., Salting Hay.' ; i * ■ii I ‘ ««v.r
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