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[Written for the Daily Spy.]
At the Grave of "The Little Drum
'rimer Boy," of the Brooklyn Four
teenth Regiment.
Suggested during a recent visit, to the beauti
ful Cemetery of the Evergreens,—the writer be
ing attracted to the spot by the chirping of fair
birdlings in their little nest on a low bush be
side the resting place of the young hero.
.FrvE CENTs
Wandering 'neath the leafy branches,
Where departed pilgrims slumber,
Wid the quiet summer stillness,
Where the f'agrant vines and blossoms
Shed their sweetest smiles and perfume,
Where tile little warblers gather,
Sing their melodies so cheering
Undisturbed—'mul place so sacred,
Rearing here their tender off-spring,
Filling lawn and grove with praise.
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As through avenues I winded,
)3y the resting place of mortals,
Reading o'er the names and ages—
And the letters of inscription—
Telling of the friends departed—
Of the dearly cherished dead ;
I heard sweet sounds maid the st Mness—
Coming from a bush near by me,
Little - voices full of music -
Calling in their baby-bird-talk,
Twittering to their loving mother
Sitting on a twig beside them,—
Little fledgelings—four in number
On their pretty, downy nest.
O'er the spot a while I lingered,
Watched therm in their home so lowly,
AVatched the parent bird so happy,
Perched near by, and so wadding—
Seeming pleased to have me notice—
View her little ones so fair.
Glancing o'er the sweet surroundings,
Grass and vine and flowers so smiling,
Tree and shrub and bushes verdant—
Scattered o'er the scene so hallowed;
Stepping from the nest so cosy,
By my side I saw a tablet,
Reared above a little sleeper
Laid amid the flowers to slumber
In his beauty and his glory—
Sleeping soundly—sleeping well!
" Aged, I.3"—The Little Drummer,
Died upon the field of battle,
Fell amid earth's greatest heroes,
To Country true, for Freedom fighting—
For the land our fathers gave us,
'Oaiust the false and wicked traitors;
O'er many a field of blood and carnage,
Where the conflict raged the fiercest,
There his drum was ever sounding,
Calling soldiers to their duty,
Filling patriot-souls with ardour— .
Worthy comrade of the bravest—
Our gallant—glorious old fourteenth!
E're his eyes were closed in slumber,
As they spoke of friends and loved ones,
Ile whispered. his last,—dying accents—
" Tell them! tell them l—don't forget it!
That I fell the foe still facing,
To my God and Country true!"
Rest young soldier in thy glory!
Thou bast won thy Country's laurels,
Kindred round thy tomb shall gather,
A. grateful people do thee homage,
O'er thy grave bloom dowel's the fairest—
Shedding o'er the sweetest incense,
Round thee, birds shall love to gather,
Build their little nests above thee,
Sing their sweetest songs of gladness
Where thy peaceful ashes rest!
Sunday graing.
ourth of July in Columbia—ln
teresting Religions Services.
Sunday last was the ninety-third anni
versary of American Independence. The
day was ushered in by the ringing, of bolls,
mid flags were displayed in honor of the
event. The occasion was appropriately ob
served in our churches, and we give below
a synopsis of the sermons preached:
SERMON - DELIVERED BY REV. W. H. STECK,
• PASTOR OF TUE ENGLISIT ENAIsIGELICAL
LUTItERAI:
Esther, 9th chap., 28th verse: "These days
should he remembered and kept throughout
every generation ; every taraily,every province
and every city."
[The occasion and circumstances which
suggested our text were briefly these: One
Human, a designing and unprincipled man,
was plotting the ruin of the Jewish people,
when Esther, a Jewess, whose life was de
voted to her nation, was exalted to the
throne of the Medes and Persians. Through
her instrumentality under Divine Provi
dence,:flaman, the traitor, was hung upon
the very gallows he had prepared for the
Jewish patriot, Mordecai, whose influence,
united with that of the Queen, saved the
Jews from the fearful massacre with which
they had been threatened. In rommemor
ation of their deliverance they instituted a
religious feStival of two days' continuance,
which the Jews were sacredly to observe
every year.
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God's ancient people are not the only na
tion that has set apart days commemorative
of great deliverances and great events. We
also have our national holidays commem
orative of great national deliverances,
among which, perluiPs, there is none ob
served with greater enthusiasm and unan
imity than Independence Day; and, con
cerning these days, as year after year
they return, the sentiments and feelings of
a patriotic, liberty-loving people are like
those expressed in our text:
"That these days should be remembered
and kept throughout every generation;
every family, every province and every
city.")
Without any further introductory we
come to the subject of our discourse.
"Independence Day "--the reason 'why
and the manner iu which it ought to be ob
served. As not quite a century has elapsed
since the immortal declaration went forth
to the world which, under God, has made
us a free people, it is not necessary to refer
to the cause and circumstances which lead
to its adoption. Suffice it to say that long
enough had the American colonies endured
unwonted grievances us British subjects.
Like the air they breathed they would be
free; and their brave and stirring words
once expressed in the "Dedlaratiou," they
were ready with unsheathed swords to
maintain to the bitter death, the great prin
ciples for which they pledged their [foes,
their fortunes and their sacred honor. For
their high resolves and stirring words in
Congress assembled, when they calmly de
liberated and nobly resolved for Independ
ence, we honor them. For their sacritice of
blood and treasure in the maintenance of
their rights as freemenove should gratefully
remember them. a
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Because of what they did, and what they
suffered, and what they achieved they
should be remembered, and th'ese days
should be kept.
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The Jews remembered with gratitude,
Queen Esther and Mordecai who, under
God, effected for them a great deliverance.
So should we remember the patriot dead
who periled their all, counting not their
lives too dear, that they might transmit to
us the precious boon of "life, liberty and
the pursuit ofhappiness."
Keeping these days by honoring the na
tion's dead for their worthy deeds, we
should not forget or neglect to honor God,
under whom they became the nation's de
liverers. On our days of national rejoicing
we are not, to forget• how it is written:
"Promotion cou.eth neither from the east,
nor from the west, nor from the south. But
God Is the Judge of all: he putteth down
one and seteth up another."
Following the example of the pious Jew,
these days should be retigiousty obsrved. If
patriots indeed, true to ourselves, true to
our country and true to God, we will re
member and keep them, with praise and
thanksgiving to the God of our fathers.
Not in rioting. and drunkenness, dishonor
ing the names of the patriot dead, but with
songs of gladness, with ringing bells, and
with music's joyous strains let the day be
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COLUMBIA, PA., SATURDAY MORNING - , JULY 10, 1869.
remembered and kept evermore. Let, the
christian patriot rejoice, but let his rejoic
ing bo in the Lord. Let the hearts of the
children be made glad on the return of this
day, but teach them why and how they
should rejoice. Show them that the liberty
they enjoy is not a gross license to do evil
either to therhselyes or to others.
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The God of our fathers and the God of
battles then, He should be the God of their
children and the God of peace now.
Tenderly thinking of those who sleep in
patriots graves, joyfully we'll listen to the
peals or many bells which say by their joy
ous notes—the nation lives though her sons
have perished.
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Having so recently passed through the
second baptism of fire and blood the mem
ories of which still linger with us, our soil
made double sacred ; twice red with patri
ots.blood, with a double emphasis we now
may say,
" The land is holy where they fought,
And holy - where they fell,
for by their blood the land was bought—
The land they loved so well."
Doubly precious should our country and
lier free institutions be to us now since
twice redeemed with the price of blood.
Remembering how Liberty came to us
through agony and sweat and blood, and
prayer and laitb, and knowing how the
blood of the noble slain was poured out like
water ou Freedom's soil, well may we ask,
" Llves there a man with soul so dead,
That never to himself hat h said:
This is my own, my native land!"
Lives there a patriot in all the land, 'who
cannot say in the touching* and appropriate
language of our text: That these days
should be remembered and kept through
out every generation ; every family, every
province and every city." May they be re
membered and kept long years to come; and
when kept no more by us, may others arise
to call blessed the " nations dead," to honor
God and love their country.
EXTRACT "FROM .1. SERMON DELTVE.RED nk
REV. B. S. DOUCiLASS, PASTOR OP ST.
PAUL'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CECTJRCR.
FREEDOM PRODUCED BY THE TRUTH.
"And ye shall know the Truth, end the Truth
shall make ye free." (John VIII: i 2,)
The recurrence of the anniversary of our
National Independence,lays us under deep
er obligations, year after year, to the Giver
of all good furl - Lis pecial mercies. Among
these blessings, it is not a slight one that
the dark cloud which enveloped the desti
nies of our nation has dispersed, and the
bow of promise is seen smiling in the
heavens. The mind is no longer on the
rack, apprehensive of evil, unconscious of
what dangers the next telegram may dis
close; but the dire strife has ceased, and
the fields once red with carnage are clothed
in their loveliest summer garb and aro
waving with the promise of an abundant
harvest:
"Now all Is cairn and fresh and still,
Alone the chirp of flitting bird,
And talk of children on the 11111
And bell of wandering line are heard."
"Ah ! how shall the land forget
How ushed the life-blood of her brave
Gushedwarm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to :ewe." '
For the exemption from the horrors of
war, we cannot but feel thankful, but let us
endeavor, in keeping with the sacred char
acter of the day, to ascertain whether with
all our boasted advantages, we are free
men indeed.
There is a great deal of cant about this
word freedom. No one is absolutely free,
except the great God who made us. He
only is independent of all beings and of all
created things. He is the source and foun
tain of all things, and. on Him all things de
pend.
• Nor only so: we are not only dependent
on God—we aro dependent on each other.
I The eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have
I no need of thee, nor again the head to the
feet, I...have no need of. We are
aroindeed members one of another. The
eye in its sphere is supreme, free to ful
fil its office, and it best fulfils its mission
when it confines itself to its proper work ;
and in subserviency to the needs of the
whole body performs its appointed task.
Within a certain sphere n roan hest+ right
to think,speak and act its he chooses; but be
should choose to think, speak and act with
in the limits marked out by the laws of
G o d an d or the Commonwealth. To assu tne
to do differently would be to make himself
an independent factor in the universe, a
being outside of all law. Even in matters
of taste, he is not to bo envied who pays no
deference to the wishes, or views, opin
ions, or feelings of others. If one chooses to
dress as a Hottentot, or an inhabitant of
Japan be may do so—if he chooses to build
a dozen chimneys to his house where only
two are needed he may do so, but he must
not complain if he becomes the object of re
marks and ridicule. And not otherwise is
it when a man breaks the laws of the land.
lie may hang out his banner on the outer
wall with freedom emblazoned upon it, and
proclaim his house as his castle, but it is
only while he walks within his castle in de
cency and decorum. Freedom is a relative
term. When wespeak of freedom we think
of something from which one is released.
Is it moral freedom—it is the liberty to
think as we choose—without any attempt
at coercion. When we speak of bodily free
dom, we mean a state of release from
bodily constraint or personal violence.
The sphere in which a citizen of the
United States moves is very large, yet it has
its limits. No one is free to injure his
neighbor. No one is free to overturn the
government. No one is free to do wrong.
No one is free to maltreat or enslave his
neighbor. What God has given to inn, he
has given equally to others,so far as certain
natural rights are concerned. There may
be differences in social position, in educa
tion, in natural endowments, in those priv
ileges which are the gifts of the States in
wbieh we dwell or art, the reward of honest
service, but there is a right enjoyed by
every one to breathe the pure &rot Heaven,
to seek his pleasure where he can tied it,
and to better his condition if it is within his
power, and he is under no obligation to
another so far as Hine and labor are concern-
ed. These are rights which oar moral.in- •
stincts suggest, which are needed for our
health, comfort and happiness, and in refer
ence to which we allow no coercion. And
that liberty chichi we feel to be our own
privilege we should cheerfully accord to
others. This is the golden rule. This is the
only condition by which the social compact
is moulded together. Deny to man this, his
bodily or his mental freedom, and he
ceases to be a man and becomes a mere
chattel, a mere thing, a mere machine to be
worked or driven at thei plecemre of another,
without any will whatever in the matter.
But freedom is use, not abuse. The i tots:-
hafted rowdy who longs for his holiday only
that be may spend his wages in dissipation
has no idea of freedom. The young man
who longs to be of age only that he may
break through all restraint, is not his own
master, but slave. Had the youth on enter
ing his imajority really become his own
master, his first act would have been to
ask with meekness of his Saviour and his
God, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do."
Freedom is the unfettered use of all our
powers in the manner in which God has
designed. The eagle is free when lie soars
to heaven on expanded wing. The whale
when it takes its pastime in the northern
seas, and the tiny trout that darts through
the rippling waters of a mountain stream—
these are free, each in its sphere. Remove
them, take them out of water,they tire dead.
Freedom is action, roll, unconstrained ac
tion in the sphere God has given us. The
highest archangel who wings his alight to
distant worlds at the bidding of Jehovah is
free in the highest sense because doing
God's will, arid doing it in the noblest, pos•
Bible manner. For God is one whose ser
vice: to use the language of our Liturgy is
perfect freedom. To love and serve Him is
to be happy and holy, and happiness and
holiness are heaven begun on earth. And
God bath sent his Son into the world to free
our souls from the worst form of bondage—
the tyranny of the world, the flesh, the
Devil. No one is really free who is the
slave of any passion, or lust, or evil habit.
No one is really free whose mind is fettered
with the shackles of childish superstitious,
or dismal forebodings, of dreadful terror,
of tormenting guilt. No one is free who
serves sin,who makes it God of his appetite,
or who secretly cherishes thoughts of mal
ice and wickedness—the works of the Devil.
"If the Son therefore shall mako ye free, ye
shall he free indeed."
Another bait covering a barbed book is con
tained in that fascinating word "free think
ing"—as if to cast away the traditions of the
past, and to set aside everything ancient,
the'llible not excepted; were an essential of
true mental emancipation. Our Lord
thought not so when he enunciated the
words of our text: "And ye shall know
the truth, cud the truth shall make you
free." What truth we ask? .God's truth—
the truth - as it is in Jesus—not mere spew],
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS BEADING, NOR ANY PLEASIIHE SO LASTING."
lation, but the simple doctrines of the cross,
which are able to make us wise unto sal
vation, and to teach us how to live soberly,
righteously, and - godly in the present evil
world. The Divine Master would have us
give proper scope to our thoughts, and give
a reason of the hope that is in us, yen, en
courages us to prove all things,holding fast
to that which is good; but free thtnking is
very far from being necessarily false think
ing, if we think carefully, prayerfully,
looking above for guidance, and not loose
ly and licentiously, supposing that all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge are
locked up within the store-house of our
own minds, or that the light of the world
has never benefited any besides those of
our own generation. When we come to
take the dimensions of scriptural truth,
then do we begin to see our true - relations
to our God and to our neighbors. We no
longer see men as trees walking. Our
confused ideas on religious points are re
moved. The questions - which often puzzle
us are, so far as is good for us, set at rest.
Our doubts are silenced ; but above all, our
conscience is pacified, for in our misery
and unrest, in our guilt and sin, we are
pointed to the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins of the world.
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"Ile is the freeman whom the truth makes free
And all are slaves beside!
SYNOPSIS OF SERMO: , ..7 DELIVERED BY REV
S. H. C. SMITII, PASTOR OF THE M. E
Cnuncu.
Text--" Genesis, 18th Chap., 23d to 26t11 verse
Included."
The points discussed were:
First—The Principles of the Divine Govern
ment.
Second—The effect of Righteousness upoir In
livid arils and Nations.
The history of nations roust be regarded
by every enlightened mind as the history
of the attributes of God,clisplayed in the gov
ernment of his creatures.
We, need no other argument to prove this
than the constant connection which every
age has witnessed between vice and misery,
rebellion and punishment. It is a fact that
in every age when God's blessings have
been abased to luxury and excess, they
have been witbeld and plague or famine
have testified that God is no unobservant
spectator of human actions, When, in
time of peace, men being in no danger
from abroad, have grown fearfully licenti
ous at home; the sword has received its
commission to awake against such as are
sitting at ease forgetful of God. When war
has corrected the vices of a land, the sword
of the Lord has returned to its scabbard.
I and has rested till tae daring crimes of
men have again provoked the keenness of
its edge. When men elated with pride
have trampled upon those whom by their
°thee they were bound to protect, a spirit
of resistance has been raised u p against
them in their own Kingdom and has strick
en down the government unsupported
by the love of the people; and when, on
the other hand, a people mistake Licentious
ness for liberty, and rend the State by
faction and rebellion, heayen, in its anger,
chastises them with scorpions who refuse
to be governed by equity and moderation.
These are events which not only we but
the people of every age have witnessed.
This is the development of the principle of
God Almighty's government. Righteous
ness exalted] a nation, but sin a reproach
to any people. It is was so ill the case of
Sodom, punished as an example. Their
transgression had become obduracy ; their
obduracy had blossomed out into punish
ment, but a chance in the Divine Govern
ment yet remained to them. Abraham
knew that the Judge of all the earth would
do right, peradventure there might be ten
righteous in the city. If there had been
tell righteous there, they would have been
the substance, the essence, the strength of
the devoted nation ; through them the ruin
of the land might have been averted, and
utter the Divine displeasure had passed
away there might have sprung up renewed
strength and recovered glory, which brings
us to• the. second .point of diseussion. The
effect of righteousness +mon individuids
and nations, we may fairly, I think, take
' this as a general principle, that righteous,
godly men in all ages of the world's history,
are the true strength of the nations which,
in God's providence they are permitted to
live ; oftentimes averting calamity, often
times restoring strength and blessings,
which butler them it would haste lapsed and
gone forever. This is the doctrine brought
out of the history with which our text
stands connected. Sodom would have been
spared if ten righteous men had been there.
Pious men, therefore, are presented to us
as the safety of the nation in which they
live. This is the truth for which we con
tend that God preserves nations fur the I
sake of pious men, and I am bold to affirm
nay conviction that the destiny of these
United States is at this moment in the
bands of her pious men. Let piety prevail
and that will preserve the freedom of the
land. Ido not mean that crouching ones- '
milation on one hand, or that ribald licen
tiousness on the other, both of widen have
been dignitied by the name of freedom by
extreme political parties. I mean well or
dered and rational liberty—liberty that re
spects the rights of other people at the suite
time that it asserts and vindicates its 'own
—liberty which with one hand will render
toCeaser the things which are Censer's, and
with the other take care to render the
things to God that are God's; and when
righteousness shall become universal tben
the sons of our common country in their
not unholy pride, may wave their stars
and stripes in the wind, with the motto
emblazoned thereon, Ele is the freeman
whom the truth makes tree, and all are
slaves besides. In conclusion let me say
that it is our altars and not our politics,
our bibles and not bur statute books that
have been the source of our nation's great
ness and prosperity. Prove recreant to
these and our Chief Magistrate will lose
his command, and Congress its lustre. Be
traitors to God and a lava tide of 30801a
lion will sweep over all mat is noble and
consecrated in our country, and the angels
may sing the dirge over a once great but
fallen nation. But he tree to God 111 the
perpetuation of the heaven approved prin
ciples as enunciated on the ever memorable
Foon•rn or Jots, 1776, in our Gee-ap
proved declaratiou, that "ell men are
created free and equal," and there 5111111 be
tio bounds to the magnificence of our be
loved country. But when the fires of the
last day shall burn up all things that are
perishable, we shalt see the light of the
divine counteettnee gleaming harmlessly
above our brow, and hear God's voice ad
dressing us from his throne saying, "
have made thee a little lower than the
angels, and crowned thee with glory', im
mortality, eternal life.
VoETTII O3>JIILY IS TILE U. B. ClitTltCll.,
The pastor, Mr. Keys, announced as a
Theme becoming the day, "God's dealingS
with America ;" taking for his text—lsaiah,
00th ebnpt. and part of 22nd verse:
"A small one, shall become a strong nation.
I, the Lord will hasten it In his Hine."
"God IS!"--IS the voice of nature! "God
Reigns!"—is the voice of history! And the
true minister, linking himself to the divini
ty that pulsates with sovereign power in the
event, in the hour, in the man and in the
nation, will essay in pulpit and elsewhere,
to awaken the God-sense of the human
heart, by which the Divinity which shapes
ouronds, is recognized, seen and felt.
Wemect on the Ninety-third Anniversary
of our American Independence!" And it
is the province of the Pulpit to-day, to exalt
and sanctify this festival occasion. with
something better than the merry-making
racket of squib and rocket, booming can
non, and senseless powder. It has always
appeared to me as a bitter satire upon the
rational manhood of the American people—
this buffoonery of powder, belching of eln
shotted guns, burning of colored lights, and
endless clatter of chinese crackers.as au ex
pression of joy and in the thanksgiving for
a great national blessing! But; lite is full
of these travesties of human nature. It has
been estimated • that in Salvos, royal and
military courtesies, exchanges of official
noise, signals of tiquette, roadside and
citidel formalities, salutes to the rising and
setting sun, every day, by all torts and war
vessels, the civilized world tires each twen
ty-four hours 150,000 useless cannon. At
:31.25 a charge. it would amount to 5157,500
a day, or $08,439,500 per year, spent in
smoke. What a terrible derision lurks be
hind an estimate like this! And now, on
this National Anniversary our people are
panting to spend millions of dollars in tire
works, while they groan with heavy taxa
tion, and the wail of want goes up from
multiplied thousands, by whose sufferings
America is permitted to hail this day. We
frown on it ; we call it trilling; we say it
is a parody on Providence, a gibe at desti
ny, a mockery on earth's manhood and
Heaven's Godhead! But some one remarks,
"It is better that the fool shonld be an in
stitution, than that no one should smile."
The most significant point Is, that all this
senselessness is commemorative of our
National Independence—a foolish demon
stration over the grandest achievement !
`We remember the day,' when the Nation's
destiny hung by a thread, p day that open
ed upon the feeble Colonies years of carn
age and swept their hearths with cannon-•
storms and rifle—bail and bayonet slaugh
ter, until their vallies and hills smoked
with their burning homes and reddened with
the blood of our martyr fathers - we remem
ber this day and to show our deep sense of
its grandeur, and our obligation to the
Providence that 'crowned it with gloriobs
victory—we burn powder, and get drunk!
Ab, this Fourth of July, as we too general
ly make it, is to America what the ancient
"Jester" was to the bloody Kings of Ed
rope; with caps and bells and motley garb
it was his to make comical faces, and en
liven scenes of blood, and hush the wail of
the dying with a noisy buffoonery. Ido
not denounce the joy of the day; Ido not
' condemn its observance; no, but I would
exult it! I would put God in it, instead of
powder. I would enshrine and deify it in
stead of degrading and sensualizing it.
And now, to him that increased) the nations
and destroyed) them again;
that enlargeth
the nations and straighteneth them again—
"To Hint be power,and dentin lomand glory
forever." "A small one shall become a
strong nation, I the Lord will hasten it in
his Mae." Our text shall direct your
thoughts. You are called upon to content
plate—
I. Tax PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN NATION
GIIENTXESS.
(L) Nations, as individuals, exist only by
Divine Sufferance.
The right to existence inheres in no fallen
creature.
By the "ruin of the fall" everything was
forfeited to the race.
Then and thenceforth the claims of man, I
seperately and communistic, were all void,
and their very being from that hour was a
matter of pore grace.
And in the bestowment of National Ex
istence, and in the gift of National Prosper
ity, lie determines which "nation shall
cease and which shall remain before Min
tbrever." When He wills, He Taus out ut
terly the remembrance of Amadei:: trout
under hen ven,and makes Ed oin a perpetual
waste and with equal sovereignty, "He
smites Egypt," and heals it with the return
of His favor, and makes Assyria. even at
blessing in the midst, of the laud. Isaiah
XIX: 22 24, 25.
Does lie choose Jacob for His inheritance
and Israel for His people. Ho assures them
that they were chosen, not because they
were more in number than any other peo
ple, or that He had found excellency in
Judah, but for His own namesake.
• (2.) And yet further: Ile determines as
King of• Nations their local habitations, and
the boundaries of their national sway.
• Men talk of geographic linos and national
boundaries with its much assurance as ifit
was their's to map oir the world, and terri
torialize the nations ut will, forgetting that
"the earth is the Lord anti the fullnetss
thereof, anti they that dwell therein," and
that it is His prerogative alone to plant, to
pluck up, to increase or destroy, to enlarge
or straighten again. and therefore that all
existing boundaries, as well as territorial
claims, whether based on the natural or any
other ground than the Divine Willotre situ
ply Godless presumptions. If these two prin
ciples be well founded—that "nations exist
only by Divine sutferanee,"and that God sty:-
erelgoly determines their habitations and
bounds them according to his own pleasure;
We are prepared to recognize and acknowl
edge Dis dealings itt our own history as a
nation.
IL A. smA.r.t. ONE Iris III:COME A STRONG
NATION.
(1.) Ninety-three years ago the birth
throes of Atnerican liberty startled the
world. The old Quaker City lost its quiet
ude forever, us the State House bell pealed
out its challenge to tyranny and proclaim
ed to the winds of heaven, the birth-song of
Independence. Then we were a little
nation ; scarce nuntbertng 3,000,000 of pets
an‘kthatittualL belt .of territory...nest
ling between thrAlteshames and rho At
lantic, known :Is the "thirteen provinces"
of the King was the whole inheritance of
this new-born child of Providence. Nor
was this inheritance to be enjoyed without
a struggle. The baptism of Liberty, like
that of the world's redemption, was to be
bellowed by the heart's best blood; life
must grow out of death, light out of dar•k
ness. and peace ou t. of strife.
For eight long years the camp fires of a
murderous despotism hearthed upon our
valleys, and the sulphurous clouds of war
hung like the sl road of a nation over all our
land. For eight long years the flag of thir
teen stars trailed its holds in blood, and our
proud eagle with um; (siding eye, and un
faltering wing hovered o'er the eyrie of
freedom, alike unsolved by the tyrant of the
throne, or the Arnold of the camp. Amid
the perils of gloomy and treacherous wilds,
swarfning with disasters and death, as on
the gory held of songeance,where massacre
glutted to its full, the young giant of Liber
ty never swerved, but hurled his deadliest
thunderbolts upon the invading mercenary
foe, until the dripping sword fell front the
palsied hand of aggression and the eagle of
destiny soaring to higher heavens, sot earn
ed the death knell of oppression. The
fledgeling, nestled among the stars and
stripes,eradled by numberless Providences,
then commenced its unexperitnented flight
into regions untraversed before, by other
titan the adventurous wing of angel that
swept the apocalyptic skies in the circuit of
the everlasting gospel. Plucking gent after
gem from the coronet of power, She chroni
cled cacti as a star its the galaxy of the
free.
The American History ie without a par
allel. Our increase langlis at arithmetic!.
It is but yesterday, us it were that the first
pioneer - paddled his canoe across the great
river of the West, and already have we
seen the power of the nation, balanced upon
the ridge of the Alleghenies and then pon
iterating on the other side! Americans, be
hold your inheritance!
- .
1. In its territory,it embraces the startling,
figures Of over 3,010.000 square miles; ex
tending in width .I , .:orth and South. almost
2,000 miles, and in length East and West.
3,000 miles. This can be better appreciated
by comparison.
Take the single State of Missouri and you
have a larger territory than all Denmark,
Holland, Belgium and Switzerland com
bined with their• twelve millions of inhabi
tants. Add Texas to Upper California, Vir
ginia and lilerida. and you have a country
equal to Great Britain, France, Turkey in
Ettrope, and Austria together, with their
more than one hundred and ten millions of
people.
The State of Ohio exceeds either Ireland,
Scotland or Portugal, and equals Belgium,
Scotland and Switzerland together.
Missouri iii more than half as largo as
Italy, and if you add to it the great State of
Illinois, you have in these two States more
territory than all England,Scotland,lreland
and Wales combined.
The whole of our vast country is more
Than eleven times larger than both Britain
and France,and four Canes greater than the
whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia,
Spain, Portugal, Belgium. lfolland and
Denmark together.
"The land of the free," equals in extent
the tier. covered by the fifty-nine or sixty
Empires, States and Republics of Europe,
and is greater than that of the Old Roman
Empire in its Augustinian age, or that of
'• Alexander the Great," when he was said
to have " conquered the world."
And that hallowed 'spot of Israelitish
memories, Palestine, the•.land of a thousand
p ropliecies, whose history was written by
signs in Heaven, and signs on earth, whose
every foot'of soil has been glorified by un
earthly prodigies, and whose every bill
and valley has pulsed with miraculous God
head, Palestine, sacred to the end of time,
was only one 'hundred aild fdrty miles in
Ifilgth, and averaged about forty miles in
breadth, being less than our " little sister,"
tho State or Vermont.
And your classic Greece, the theme of
poets and orators; Greece that holds a larger
share in the world or history than any other
nation, was only two hundred. and fifty
miles long, and one hundred and sixty wide
scarcely equal in extent to Vermont and
New Hampshire.
Were you traveling from Paris, in
France, to - Vienna, in Austria, you would
tread the soil of five empires, and yet would
only go as far as from Boston, in 'Massachu
setts, to Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania. Front
London to Constantinople, across Europe,
(one thousand four hundred and ninety
miles) is not far as front Boston to Nash
ville, Tenn:, (1,590 miles). It is only ten
miles further from London to ROMP, (910
miles) than from Charleston, S. C., to Hart
ford, Cram., (900, miles). It is out so far
from St. Petersburg to Thebes, in Egypt,
( 2 . 800 miles) as from the source of the Mis
sissippi to its mouth, (2,9.36 miles), And
from St. Petersburg to Madrid, though you
pass over eightgreat empires, it is not as
far as front Pittsburg to New oilcans, via.
of the river: So vast is our country that
the mind staggers In its efforts to grasp
its greatness. And this whole mighty area,
with the exception of a desert belt from two
hundred to four hundred miles wide, and a
part_of the mountainous region, is capable
of the highest cultivation;—which leads to
consider the greatness of its wealth.
(2.) And by what arithmetic will we tell
of its treasures? Or by what figures will
we portray its immeasurable riches? It
embraces every variety of soil and climate,
every variety of agricultural and mineral
Wealth, with facilities for every kind of com
mercial, manufacturing and agricultural
enterprise without a parallel in the history
of nations. Our every mountain heaves
with rich ores, and coals, and marbles, and
granites, and groans with exhaustless
forests.
Oar precious metals know or no bounds.
Orators and Poets used to tell of the yellow
sands of Thddekel, and caps the climax of
lavish munificence by brilliant etchings of
Potosi and the Dorado, but America will
fling a richer, golden wealth from a tail
race of a saw mill in her California, than
ever flowed from all the opened sluices of
a world famed Golconda.
Our ploughs turn LIP the Soil of over three
million of farms. And who can balance
the books of American Agriculture? Our
soils are almost magical in their 'strength
and fertility. From the census of 1800, we
learn that our fields produced over 171,000,-
000 bushels of wheat; 202,000,000 bushels of
corn; 172,000,000 bushels of oats; 20,000,000
bushels of rye; 10,000,000 bushels of pota
toes ; 157,000,000 pounds of rice; 429,000,000
pounds of tobacco; over two billions of
ginned cotton ; over 60,000,000 of wool; over
200,000,000 of caned sugars; 460,000,000 of
butter; 105,000,000 of cheese; 20,000,000 tons
of hay • 62,000,000 gallons of nrolasses; over
$10,000,000 of garden stuff; and more than
$10,000,000 of orchard produce.
The two greatest grain markets in the old
world are Archangel having, an annual
market of 9,326,000 bushels, and Ualats and
thralls, with a yearly market of 8;320,000
bushels.
The two greatest in America arc Chicago
with a trade of over 30,000,000 of bushels,
and Buffalo running over 25,000,000.
Thus the energies of the whole globe scent
to have turned themselves in upon America.
The soil, the spindle, and the mountain
shaft, all conspire to make our future a his
tory of, glory and prosperity, before which,
Persian affluence will pale out of sight. Let
eloquence and rhyme continue to paint
their pictures of the olden times and mythi
cal realms where palaces were built of sil
ver, America, if true to herself will bang
them all in solid frames of gold.
(3.) And in the progression of the Arts '
and Sciences, America stands "head and
shoulders" above all other nations. Our
cities, towus and villages contain over
seven million of Mitoses. American Inven
tions; our railroads, our canals, outstrip
the world ! At the World's Fairs of France
and London, her machinery bore oil' the
palm of triumph from the assembled me
chanics of all nations.
And let me remark, that the measure of
a Nation's greatness and power does not
consist in her.nurnerous population, the de- '
liciousness of her climate, the fertility of
her soil, or the illimitableness of her terri
tory. In proof of this, cast your eyes to
Chinn. Persia, or all India, Africa, Spain,
Italy, Brazil or Mexico,and then look upon
those nations,proverbial for their "mechan
ical resources," that are eminently nations
of znechanias and machinery, Great Bri
tain and the United States, and you will
learn that the true source of national great
ness is to be found in the mechitnisin of
educated labor. And were we 'destitute of
the Briarian him of iron which spin,
weave, sew, plant, reap, forge, grind, saw,
plane and hew, America would not be
great though its inhabitants were twice its
numerous and its native resources tenfold
more abundant. The mechanics of Ameri
' ea form the bone and the sinews, and the
life-blood of our national prosperity. Our
steam engines, our locomotives, our tele
graphs, our reapers and our threshers—all
the great inventions that elevate the hand
:mil heart of the toiler above the thuggery
-of his MB, andiiing brain and sou - I-Upward
to heaven, are beyond all comparison.
(4.) And then her People are Free. The
Press, the Palladium of Liberty knows no
restraint. The pulpit, the school, the soul
and body, the heart and conscience are all
as free as God's air, and as full of hope and
comfort as Heaven's sunshine.
(5.) Once more: America is great as the
Centre of Religious Purpose and Christian
Enterprise. God works by Central forces.
From the World's Centre of Civilization
came the World's Redeemor. From the
World's Centre of mind and power up
heaved the Great Protestant Reformation.
And Americans, He has planted you as a
Nation here, with the open Bible, holding .
the Central place in the Commerce and in
terchanges of the world. The gales of
China, Japan, Australia, Bombay, and Cal
cutta, open wide their welcome to our en
trance with "the bread of life."
God's footprints are traced in the whole
of our American History. In its Peace, as
in its Wars, God would make of us, for him
self. a peculiar people, zealous of good
works. By America He would Regenerate
the World !
Let us then awake to our responsibility,
and let no man, let no nation, "take from ti.s
our crown." Think not that we are neces
sary to the Great God for the fulfilment of
his ends. Let America be false to her mis
sion, and God will shake heKout of his lap
as a very littlo thing.
Let her he true to Right, faithful to Hu
manity, and loyal to Heaven and per's is a
Destiny glorious beyond all that mind can
conceive.
Let her be but false, and no curse or
plague of heaven-blasted Egypt, could be
more unpitying in the sweep of its desola
tions, than will be the doom of her ruin.
May God save our Country from the sin of
a nfait hful»ess.
11liwilaucou5 gutting.
An Heiress in Disguise
The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazelle of a recent
date, relates the following, somewhat ro
mantic story :
Seine time last fall a young lady came to
Sl.Joseph front the East to spend the win
ter with a relative. Unassuming,hundsome,
graceful and intelligent, she created a most
favorable impression with those who enjoy
ed the pleasure of her acquaintance, and
formed an agreeable addition to the social
in which she moved. She was remarkably
retired and quiet in her manners, and stud
iously sought to avoid all ostentatious dis
play in her apparel, but at the seine time,
exhibited in her dress the most exquisite
taste, and in her manners the most elegant
refinement. Shortly after the young lady's
arrival, she was called upon by a -young
gentleman (a resident of this county), who
had formed her acquaintance in the East,
and soon thereafter his visits became fre
quent and his attentions marked and devo
ted. It was noticed, as the friendship of the
too ripened into intimacy, that the lady be
gins to Institute, in a very cautious manner,
inquiries for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the gentleman had the least idea of
her history and condition, end particularly
of her financial affairs. These inquiries
were prosecuted for some time, and seem to
have resulted satisfactorily. At least, after
a courtship of some months, she committed
her happiness and fortunes to the care of
the gentleman alluded to, and the celebra
tion of the nuptials was duly recorded in
in the early part of the present spring.
The happy couple immediately started for
the East, and are now residing at the for
mer home of the bride. And now comes
the sequel. :The quiet and—unassuming
youg lady was in reality the possessor of
immense wealth, and undoubted heiress of
an estate worth over $4,000.000---it fact
wholly unknown far the time even to the
gentleman who bad sought her hand and
heart. She had taken this method to test
sincerity of her admirer, and finding his
heart the true gold,"had committed unhesi
tatingly a golden treasure and a pure warm
heart, to his keeping; without even permit
ting the many gallant youths of St. Joseph
to catch the faintest idea of the glittering
prize apparently-,within their reach,
Two blind people In lowa heard a harper
harping with his harp on the opposite side
of the street, recognised him by his touch of
the instrument, crossed over and shook
hands with him. - The three, all blind, were
old friends, who had not met before for
years.
$2,00 Per Year, in Advance; $2,50 if not Paid in Advance.
Little George's Stor3
r AryA Aunt Libby patted me on the head the
other day and said, " George, my boy, this
is the happiest part of your life." I guess
my Aunt Libby don't know much. Iguess
she never worked a week to make a kite,
and the first time she went to fly it got the
tail hitched in a tall tree, whose owner
wouldn't let her climb up to disentangle it.
I guess she never broke one of the runners
of her sled some Saturday afternoon, when
it was "prime" coasting. 'guess she never
had to give her biggest marbles to a great
lubberly boy, because he would thrash her
if she didn't. I guess she never had a "hoc
key stick" play around her ankles in re
cess, because she got above a fellow in the
class. I guess she never had him twitch off
her best cap, and toss it in a inutLpuddle.
I guess she never had to glve up her bum
ming-top to quiet the batty, anti had the
paint all sucked oft'. I guess she never
saved up all her coppers a whole winter to
buy a trumpet, and then was told she must
' not blow it, because it would make a IZOi4C.
No—l guess my Aunt Libby don't know
much ; little boys have troubles ns well as
grown people,—all the difference is they
dare n't complain. Now, I never had a
"bran new" jacket and trowsers in my life
—never,—and I don't believe I ever shall ;
for my two brothers have shot up like Jack's
bean-stalk, and left all their Out-grown
clothes "to be made over for George;" and
that cross old tailoress keeps inc from bat
and ball, an hour on the stretch, while she
laps over, and nips in, and tucks up, and
cuts off their great baggy clothes for um.
And when she puts me out the door, she's
sure to say—" Good-bye, little Tom Thumb.'
Then when I go to my uncle's to dine, he al
ways puts the big dictionary in a chair, to
hoist me up high enough to reach thy knife
and fork ; and if there is a dwarf apple or
potato on the table, it is always laid on my
plate. If Igo to the play-ground to have a
game of ball, the fellows all say—Get out of
the way, little chap, or we shalt knock you
into a cocked bat. I don't thiok I've grown
a bit in two years. I know I have n't, by
the mark on the wail ` (and I stand up to
measure every chance fget.) When visi
tors come to the house and ask me my age,
and I tell them that I ant nine years old,
they say, Tut, tut! little boys should n't
tell fibs. My brother Hal has got his first
long-tailed coat already ; I am really afraid
I never shall have anything but a jacket.
I go to bed early, and have left off eating
candy, and sweetmeats. I haven't put my
fingers in the sugar-bowl this many a day.
leat meat like my father,and I stretch up my
neck till it aches,—still I'm "little George,"
and "nothing shorter ;" or, rather, I'm
shorter than nothing. Oh, toy Aunt Libby
don't know much. How should she? She
never was it boy
Death in the Prize Ring—The Fight
at Cayuga Lake.
The fatal prize fight near Cayuga Lake,
New York, has already been mentioned.
NVe gather the following additional particu
lars front the Ovid flee. The parties had
been boasting of their prowess for a long
time, each claiming that ho could whip the
other,and tinnily they made an arrangement
to light at Farmerville. Constable Gelatin
ver, hoirevoi-.notilied them that they would
be arrested if they did so, and induced them
to shake hands and say "quits."
The saute evening a gamblerand despera-
do, "Art." Wood, of Ovid, who bad put him
self forward as Donlez,os bunker, induced
the parties to change their friendly purpose,
and a fight was made up for ten dollars a
side. On Saturday last the parties with
their seconds and others, went to the place
designated to have it out.
A rope was stretched and the two pugi
lists shook hands preliminary to entering
the ring. For some reason McGraw did not
wait, but commenced the fight during the'
hand-shaking, and dolt his blows so power
fully that Donely,after being knocked down
three or four times, retreated, saying that
he had had enough, But "Art." Wood, his
second, took a revolver front his pocket and
told him he must whip McGraw, and at the
sante time informing the bystanders that he
would shoot any one that interfered.
Donley returned, seized McGraw by the
colhir, and kicked him. The kick caused
McGraw to bend over, and, as he did so,
Donley bit hint on the neck with all the
l'orce be could command. The -blow burst
an artery, and McGraw died in two min
utes. When be fell, and bystanders ex
claimed that he was dead, the notorious
"Art." swore that he wasn't dead,and offer
ed to back up his assertion by a bet of tk.
Directly "Art." started Donley oil on his
own horse, and he gut out or reach an soon
as possible.
Ile went to a ravine near Ovid, left his
horse, and concealed himself. We hear
that he was found in the ravine on Mondoy,
disabled, having fallen from a cliff. Farm
erville is notorious for bloody affrays. Only
two years ago one man was pounded to
death there by another, and afterward ac
quitted on the ground that he did it in self
defence.
"Art." was under double bonds to keep
the peace at the time of the late fight, in
consequence of his brutalities. In one in
stance he had throws a tumbler at the head
of a deputy sheriff, inflicting a dangerous
wound. His ease seems to need particular
attention, and we hope Seneca county jus
tice will put him where he belongs.
A Barbarous Duel
A letter from Italy says:
" The barbarous features accompanying
the practice of the dual in this country have
been frequently brought into notice by the
press both here and abroad. We have now
u fresh case in point. Four ;eoliths, natives
of Faenza, iii consequence. of a quarrel,
which is old as last Carnival, met some days
ago in a field at a short distance from the
city, after having dined together, says the
account, with every appearance of cordiality
and good fellowship. Each was pitted
against his respective adversary, the con
ditions of the light being that after dis
charging their pistols the parties should
continue the combat -with their knives. In
both cases the pistols were fired of/ without
effect, and the second act of the drama be
gan. One pair of combatants fought with
great fury, and in a few minutes both men
were on the ground, one with five wounds
and the other with seven. A fortunate ac
cident put an end to the second encounter,
for one of the knives, coming in contact
with a button or some other hard substance,
was broken in two, and the horrid spectacle
of their friends weltering in blood seems to
have suggested other thoughts than that of
continuing the conflict. A medical man,
called to the spot, gave small hopes of the
recovery of the two wounded men."
TuE: Mormons have a great deal to learn,
When the Utah Central Railroad WIIS re
cently opened, there was not a speech, al
though Brigham Young and many of his
elders were present et the ceremonies. We
Gentiles manage to get speeches, even from
leneral Grant, Perhaps men with a dozen
w ives apigce, hear so much talking at home,
that they are glad of the chance of silence
when they go into public.
ANDY SotittsoN intends to write it history
of his administration.
[ - WHOLE NUMBER, 2,077.
s,arni and mouvhotd Toittnin.
AalllCUL'fli It E is the mo=t useful aname , ,tnable
employment of mitn.—Wisninioron.
COMMITSICATI(MS, Selections, 'Recipes and ar
ticles of interest anti value, are solicited for this
department of the paper. We desire to supply
the publlcwlth the (l e st practical Information In
reference to the farm, garden.and household.
Transplanting* In the Night.
A gentlemen anxious to ascertain the ef
fect of transplanting at night, instead of by
day, made an experiment with the follow
' ing results; Ito transplanted ten cherry
trees while in bloom, commencing at four
o'clock In the afternoon, and planting one
each hour until one o'clock in the morning.
Those transplanted during daylight shed
their blossoms, producing little or no fruit,
while those planted in the dark maintained
their condition fully. lie did the same
with ten dwarf trees, after the fruit Was one
third grown. Those transplanted during
the day shed their fruit; those transplant
ed during the night perfected their crop,
and showed no injury fro m having been re
moved. With each of these trees, he re
moved some earth with the roots. The in
cident is fully vouched for; and if a few
more similar experiments produce a like
result, it will be a strong argument to hor
ticulturists, etc.; to do such work at night.
RECIPE. IVO P.TII ONE. TILIOUSAND DOL
LARS.—The Ohio Gultivato>• says the follow
ing recipe is worth one thousand dollars to
every house-keeper: " Takc one pound of
sal soda and half a pound of unblocked lime
and put them in a gallon of water, boil
twenty minutes, let it stand till cool, then
d rain off and put in a small jug or jar ; soak
your dirty clothes over night, or until they
sic wet through, then wring them, and rub
on plenty of soap, and with water, add one
teacupful of the washing fluid ; boil half au
horn• or more, rinse, awl your clothes will
look bettor than by the old way of washing
twice beforo boiling. This is an invaluable
recipe arid every poor, tired woman should
try it."
TO COOK CCCUMIIIMS.—Pare off the rind,
then cut the cucumber into slices, length
wise, dust either side of those slices with
corn meal or wheat flour, pepper and salt
them to please your taste; this done, fry
them brown, and you wall have one of the
most delicious dishes that you can imagine,
combining in their flavor those of the oyster
plant and egg plant. Of their healthfulness,
thus cooked, there can Le no question, and
of their palatableness, it is only necessary
or you to try them, to say with us, they are
exquisite. .
Piorr.r. E•ltontci beware bow they buy
boxes and trunks at auction, hoping to dis
cover in their purchases something very
valuable. A man in New York bought a
box at a sale of au undertaker's establish
ment, and, subsequently ascertaining that
he had purchased a dead baby (as a bar
gain), he was obliged to have a funeral, and
considering the cost of such ceremonies at
the present day, the pecuniary results were
probably not satisfactory.
To MAKE A J7ALXY Hon Dit
India, when a horse can and will not draw,
instead of whipping or burning, him, as is
frequently the intone° . In' more civilized
countries, they quietly get a rope, and at
taching, it to one of the fore feet, one or two
of the men take hold of it, and advancing a
few paces ahead of the horse, pull their best.
No matter how stubborn the animal may
be, a few doses of such treatment effects a
perfect cure.
SMALL BED Rooxs.—Small bed rooms
are death to those who sleep in them. A
bed• room should be the largest room in a
house; and where it is hot it should be ven
tilated by open doors, dropping windows,
and the chimney. Many a person has sick
ened and died 'without knowing what the
trouble was, from sleeping in small and
tight bed rooms. A single night in such a
place will leave its marks upon a child,who
will rise the morning tired and wilted like a
fading tlower,
PEnsoxs who havo pet canaries willlfind
that they are extravagantly fond of the seed
produced by the plantain, which may ho
found in almost every yard, the leaf of
which is known to every school boy as an
excellent remedy for the effects of a bee
sting. The birds will eat these seeds vora
ciously, when they appear to have a decided
distaste for every other kind of food offer
ed them.
TOAsT Punnixa.—Mix one quart of milk,
three eggs, and a little salt, us for custard.
Cut, a small loaf of baker's bread into slices
half an inch thick, and lay them separately
on platters. Pour the mixture over them,
and let them stand two hours, or until the
milk is soaked up; then fry brown on a
griddle, and serve with sauce.
ITALIAN LEMONADE.—Pure and press two
dozen lemons; pour the juico on the peels,
and let it remain on them all•night, and in
the morning add two pounds of loaf sugar,
a quart of good sherry, and three quarts of
boiling water. Mix well, add a quart of
boiling milk, and strain in through a jelly
bag to clear.
A SUMMER DRINK.—One quarter of
a pound of tartaric acid, four pounds of su
gar, two quarts of boiling water; when
cold, add one half an ounce of any kind of
essence, and bottle it. When used, put a
little into nearly a tumbler of Ice water, add
a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, stirring
quickly until it foams.
MOLASSES BEEIL-Six quarts or water,
two quarts of molasses, hairs pint of yeast
two spoonrulls of cream of tartar. Stir all
together. Add the grated peel of a lemon ;
the juice may be substituted for the cream
of tartar. Bottle after standing ten or twelve
hours, with a raisin in each.
Tite Omaha Herald states that the sec
tion of the country between Wyoming and
Utah territory., known as "Bitter Creek
Region," and heretofore supposed to have
been valueless, has been discovered to be
the repository of untold petroleum wealth.
RASPBERRY TA 31.---Plek them carefully
take equal quantities of berries and sugar
stir them continually: put the fruit first
into a sauce pan, and when the watery
particles are evaporated add the sugar, sim
mer slowly fifteen or twenty minutes.
Ilanvus r with five gallons
of good water, a half a gallon of molasses,
one quart of vinegar, and two ounces of
powdered ginger. This will make not only
a very pleasant bovearge, but one highly in
vigorating and healthful.
Till: New Orleans papers are boasting of
the low price of beef in thnt city, it being
sold for ten cents a pound. In summer
time, during the war, it frequently hap
pened that one scent was enough.
Tun occasional nse of onions, mixed and
Jed to poultry, with other food, is said to be
one of the surest ways of keeping a yard of
poultry in health.
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A half ear load of peat:hos from the lower
end of the Delaware road passed through
this town on Monday, for New York.—
Clayton (Da.) Herald. •