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Our Country.
On primal rocks she wrote her name :
Her tower ■ were reared on holy graves ;
The golden seed that bore her came
Swift-winged with prayer o'er ocean wares.
The Forest bowed his solemn crest,
And open flung his sylvan doors :
Meek Rivers led the appointed Guest
To clasp the wide embracing shores ;
Till, fold by fold, the embroidered land
To swell tor virgin vestments grew,
While Sages Btroug in hoart and hand,
ller virtue's flary girdle drew.
Oh Exile of the wrath of kings 1
O Pilgrim Ark of Liberty !
The refuge of divinsst things,
Their record must abide in thee.
First iu the glories of thy front
Let the er„wn jewel, Troth, be found ;
Ttiy right hand fling, with generous wont,
Love's happy chain to farthest bound.
Let Justice, with the faultless geales,
Hold fast tho worship of thy sons ;
Thy commeree spread her shining sail*
Where ue dark tide of rapine runs.
Ho l'nk thy ways to tho e of God,
So fullow firm the heavenly laws,
That stars may groat thee warrior-browed,
And stuim sptd sagels hail thy eause.
Ch land, the measure of our prayers,
ope i f the world in grief and wrong,
Be thine the tribute of the years.
The gift of Faith, the crown of Song.
■ MIMI—IWUNIMEN—— E
The Romance of the War.
The persuasive power of speech and the
sophistry of the peD must yield in the extre
ity nf nations to a higher umpire. The
sword, roan's oldest appeal, has found in this
■war its original dignity, nnd the master men
that led iu debate, and were iirst at the coun
eil, have c tine at last to decide the issue with
arras.
IS ate F.ights nnd Federal High's have con
tended a long while upon the stump and in
the .Senate; for in the eloquence of the fra
mers of the Constitution our pre.-ent troubles
began. After eighty years rf agitation, their
final adjustment must he left to generals
rather than orators and writers.
We new present the actitudo of continuovs
armies extending across the eoutinent be
tween the sea and prai-ies—thiee hundred
thousand men on either side—to fight out
these rivil issues. And, apart from its ter
rible consequences, aud the immediate sin in.
which it was begotten, this war is a noble
and sublime spectacle. It demonstrates the
heroism and strength of both sections. It has
resolved a race of civilians into a race of
soldiers. It is a struggle ot ideas that do not
flinch from deeds, and ol principles that will
not be yielded but with life. It is a demon
stration of practical independence worth
more than the eulogies if a century. These
armies have been voluntarily gathered, and
they are greater than any that tyranny ever
brought into the field. States that, united,
maintained a standing army smaller thsn the
present garrison of Paris, have separately en
listed forces greater than the entire armies
of the nations of Europe. Citizens whose
wealth and influence would have placed them,
under tyrannies, beyond the reach of con
scription, are enlisted in our volunteer ar
mies, side by side with the toiling and ob
scure, feeling common devotiou in a common
caose. Not men alone, but money, is freely
subscribed to the. Republic. The great man
ufactories are altered into armories. Those
wlo do not wield the 6pear are beat
ing out the sword, and wives, the reward of
whose self sacrifice is widewhood and want,
place the steel in the soldier's hand and
cleer him on to battle!
The whole country is bristling with bayo
nets. When the echoes of Sumpter bad reach
ed New EnglaqtMier children were on the
march, aDd before the sound of hostilities
had broken upon Europe, troops fiom twelve
States bad rallied on the border line. In any
cause but this, we would have hailed tbe
spirit of the South. If bold, bad men, can
thus stir up th people of a seotion, what
oould we not expect of the country, contend
ing for a common right!
The Northerner, quick in a bargain but
slow at a blow ; the Southron, indolent but
when impelled by passion, will exhibit in
this contest their several individualities. It
has commenced with a few slight successes
in favor of tbe hot blood and fierce courage
of the South. It will end in tbe greatest vie-
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Tories of modern times, achieved by the sa
gacity and indomitable perseverance of the
North. The latter brings to its aid resour
ces of art, intelligence, and persistence j the
former an animal courage that everv reverse
will, anu a common malevolense that defeat
will change into l'eud and insubordination.
Upon one side are engaged good instincts
perverted, power without order, and a prin
ciple in itself subversive and ruinous ; on the
other, elements of discipline, endurance, and
integrity, that, having for their motive the
welfare of the nation, and the common good
of man, will neither be intimated by losses
n or unduly flushed by success. Going stead
ily forward, with good conscience and reso
hearts, civilization will go With them, and
the heresy and indolence that slavery has.be
gotten will resign a beautiful and fertile sec
tion to frte industry, a free Gospel, and free
(bought.
Tho crusade we wage has nothing of fa
naticism about it. And while the results
that we prediot were not the objects for
which the war was begun, a greater band
than ours, that is guiding the elements for
the welfare of mankind, will make tuem, if
not intended, not less inevitable.
Our motives have ekenged since the com
mencement of the war. We are almost pre
pared to accept any instrumentality or advo
cate any reform. Constitutional obligations
have restrained us, hut the moet prudent be
gin to assume that those who break all laws
deserves little protection. Each event will
radicalize this contest, and enlist new mo
tives, so that, to the philosophical eye, these
" Spirit!
Of great eveDts stride on before the events
And in to day already walks to morrow."
—Phil a Press.
The Cotton Question.
The perrcnial cotton tree of Western South
America has been transplanted to Maryland,
and has flourished in a most remarkable
manner. The experiment was made by Mr.
Kendall, of that State, who saw the tree in
Peru and Chilli, in 1850. during a mis-ion
in which he was sent by our Government to
collect seeds and plants, and to assist in ta
king observations of transit routes across
the Continent. He found the tree growing
wild, and equally as well in the cold high
lands and mountain regions, as in the sultry
low lauds. This suggested the idea that it
might he adapted to the Northern portion of
the United States, and he accordingly pro
cured seeds and plants, and brought them
to this country. From these he raised a
number of trees on his own farm, with great
success and ease, and he avers that tfjey
withstood, without injury, the severest win
ter of our latitude. lie says that the tree
will thrive and produce abundantly wher
ever corn will mature. In its native condi
tion and in the higher southern latitudes, its
average size and altitude is said to equal
the medium peach of North America, and
the trie most nearly resembles the white
mulberry. The leaves are abundant, the
the flowets profuse, the balls, at maturity,
are twice the size of those born by the her
baceous plant, while the fibre was found to
be finer and the length of staple increased
as the tree approached the cooler regions.—
It may be propagated front seed, but more
readily from cuttings simply thrust into the
ground, and may be planted out as an apple,
peach or pear orchard, in a field cropped
with any of the cereals, until having reach
ed its full growth, the tree should be allow
ed to occupy the land exclusively. It bears
cutting also, as kindly as any knoan tree,
and in field culture may be kept so pruned
that its produce shall be within reach of the
hand. The Crop in South America has
leached two thousand pounds to the acre,
whereas the annual cotton plant of the
Southern States yields but five hundred
pounds to the same area. Peru already ex
ports of this cotton about six thousand bales
of one hundred and fifty pounds to the bale,
and wc are told thai the btaple of the Peru
vian free cotton, even when produced with
out care or culture, as it usually is in South
America, is superrior to the best Upland
staple of the cotton States of the South. In
proof ot this fact, it is said that the cotton
grown in the valley of the Chira sold in the
port of Paita at sixteen dollars per hundred
pounds. Mr. Kendall is to lecture at the
Cooper institute. New York on the perennial
cotton tree of South America, and he propo
ses to show that it may be naturalized in all
our Northern States. If his views are well
founded, then better cotton than than that
of the Southern or Gulf States may be pro
duced, by free labor, North of Mason and
Dixon's line, and more abundantly and econ
omically than that from below the said line.
In such event, Europe may yet derive its
chief supply of cotton from the States of this
Union. .
WE have the official accounts made up in
September, of the nnmber of troops which
four of the Southern States had in the field
in that month, which we give below, com
pared with the statements of the forces
which an equal number of Northern States
have despatched to the seat of war:
New York, .. . 84.398 j Georgia, .. . 19.100
Illinois, 45 000 | N. Carolina, 20 570
Indiana, 30,000 | Louisiana, . 14 000
Connecticut,. . . 4,284 | Texas, .... 20,000
Total, 148,182 Total, . . 73,730
" WE STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE—NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION.
Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, Oct., 31, 1861.
How the Army of the Potomac is
Supplid with Bread.
The great army bakery, carried on in the
exterior vaults of the Capitol, is an establish
ment of considerable interest. It is under
the control of Lieut. Thomas Cate, Twelfth
Infantry, United States army, who served
three months in the Massachusetts Sixth reg
iment which was, for a time, quartered in the
Capitol. When ths necessity of a bakery
was apparent, the lieutenant promptly offer
bis services to build the ovens ; and so well
did he execute his trust that the War De
partment thought proper to retain him as the
superintendent, with the raok of First Lieu#
tentant in the regular army.
lie has employed about one hundred and
seveDty bands—A day squad and A night
squad. They nearly all sleep in ths build
ing and are furnished their meals from an
ample kitchen. Immediately adjoining the
kitchen are the dining-rooms, and shining
tables and clean floors bear teetimony to the
propriety of the arrangements generally. By
this bakery the defenders of the common
country are supplied with pure, wholesome,
fresh bread, the same as obtained from the
city bakers ; and nny one who has endeav
ored to masticate the hard ship buscuir, for*
merly served out to the soldiers, will, in an
instant, see the benefits derived from thip ar
my bakery. In its employ are twelve wag
ons, which are constantly going forth loaded
with fresh bread for the soldiers this side of
the Potomac, carrying daily pome 58.000
loaves. Each loaf, when delivered to the
soldier, weighs twonty-two ounces, amply
sufficient for a day's ration.
The bakery ci nsumes one hundred and for
ty barrels of flour per day, and it is suc'i
flour as our citizens usually purchase for
home consumption. Attached to the bakery
! is a yeast room, where are kept constantly
! employed, eight men who furnish yeast suf
ficient (obtained principal'y from twenty-four
: bushels of Irish potatoes) for the immense
amount of dough daily made up aDd eonsum
i ed. The in'ernal arrangements of this ba
kery must be to be appreciated. The work"
men are quiet,courteous and industrious,and
; a visitor to the Capitol would be unaware of
' the unceasing industry carried on beneath
| him if his attention were not called to the
j fact.
The ovens are large and well built, and
are each capable of bi king about 4,300 loaves
of bread every twenty-lour hours. From per
sonal observation of the munner in which
the dough is worked we can safely recom
mend it as being equal to any bread made in
the district. With such food our volunteers
are well sa'isfied, and, thus invigorated, each
man feels himself prepared for all the perils
of the campaign, and for the victory in pros
pect.— National JnlfHiaenrer
"Clothes Don't Make the Man."
A Washington ccr spondent of the Phil
adelphia Press says:
■' There are so many great men heie that
you begin to have an idea that every body is
grtat. Angels have been entertained una
wares in the olden time, and I have seen an
orderly sergeant stop the carriage of a Cab
inet minister, and a*k him 'o carry a bundle
of letters to the post-office, •• if he was going
that way." You can't go by appearances. —
The shabbiest hat I have seen in town was
worn by a statesman of high position and
great fame—while a certain distinguished
personege is generally attired in clothing
which would excie the disdain ol your
Chestnut street dandies. Some of our great
est men are the least pretending. Do y>u
see that middle sized man, with the piercing
gray eye, ihe light mustache and imperial
wearing a plain blue military blouse, and
with a common foraging cap pushed back on
•his head ? lie wears no insignia of rank,
but you know he is a soldier, and wou'd pro
bably pass him for a junior lieutenant of
infantiy. He goes rapidly along, with a
li tie dash in his manner, and calmly smokes
a cigar as he talks to a gray bearded (fficer,
who listens attentively. The young officer
is General George B. McClellan, while his
listener is Colonel Van Vleit, nf his staff."
John Bigler Turning up Again.
The San Francisco Mirror of the 20th ult.
has the following notice of the California
Bigler, who is the brother and political pro"
totype of our renowned ex-Senator:
" JOHN BIGLER.— It is sa;d that our late
minister to Ctiili, Mr. John Bigler, on the
occasion ot the farewell banquet given bim
at Santiago, made a speech, which was a
Union effort, depriciating war, etc. Mr. Big
ler belongs to that school which still holds to
the idea that the United States is an aggres
sor, and that if the South had been allowed
to go quietly out of the Union, and retaiD
possesion of their property, there would have
been no war. It is needless to say, that
peace on the terms proposed by the Southern
Confederacy would be no pence at all, but
would at once shift the war from the South
to New York. All men like Mr. Bigler will
bear watching."
RULES FOR READING.—Read the best books
which wise and sensible persons advise, aod
studv them with reflection and examination.
Read with a firm determination to make use
of all you read. Do not, by reading neglect
a more immediate or mere important duty.
Do not read with a view cf making a display
of your reading. Do not read too much at a
time. Reflect on what you raad, and let it
be moderately enjoyed and well digested.
[From the London Telegraph.]
The Unseen Poor of England.
On the condition of he pauper classes we
have descanted over and over again. To-day
our theme is once more the needy whom we
have always with us : but we wish to turn
the public gaze neither to paupers indoor
nor outdoor, neither to tramps, nor beggars,
nor houseless creatures on doorstops or on
dustheaps. Those whom we wish the public
to commiserate are the poor who are not
seen, the poor who do not complain, the
poor who do sot cry for alms, who do not
beseige the relieving officers' counting-house
or the work house gate. These are the quiet
poor. They are not given either to gin
drinking or to cutting each others' heads
open with saucepans or bottles. They live
in remote nooks and corners, of which they
strive to pay the rent, and which they keep
as clean as they can. They work when titey
can get work ; but when employment is
scarce, and times are hard, the quiet poor
tranquilly starve and die. We say that
they starve and die, quite meekly and un
murrnuringly, a?, things consequent to their
condition, and naturally to be expected.—
But where are the clergy and the missiona
ries—the philanthropists and deaconesses?
our readers' will ask. Somehow it happens
that benevolence manages to pass by these
quiet poor people. They are not noisy, they
are not demonstrative. .Theirs are not "ca
ses" that would look well in a report.—
They don't beat their children ; they are not
wives who have been jumped upon ; they
don't ask for tracts ; they are not too confi
dent that all their miseries have not arisen
from the intemperate habits of their grand
mothers. They are merely decent, orderly,
working people, keeping themselves in a
curiously secretive way, and lying down to
die—God help them—without making any
fuss ; whereas that drunken Irish bsske
woman, with her callow brats, will fill a
whole court with her yells when bread is
scarce. Sometimes it will occur however,
that the hunger is too sharp, and the misery
too appalling to be endured, and Death will
not come when summoned. Then the quiet
poor become desperate. Then the famished
man thrusts his lean arm through the baker's
window, and, captured with a loaf in his
bleeding hand, he is brought before the jus
tice as a thief—he, poor honest creature, who
until maddened by famine, never robbed a
human being of a half penny ! Then the
gaunt girl who can get no more work, and
has no food, no friend, and no hope, flings
herself into the river or a canal with a prayer
that the daik waters-Will close over her. and
that she may hen-after be pardoned for the
crime of slaying herselt because she can get
no bread to eat save the bitter crust that is
obtained by shame.
Let our charitable readers ponder over the
most lamentable and heart rending case of
Mary
the magistrate at Worship street, charged
with an attempt to commit suicide. She
had been unable to obtain employment at
her trade as a boot fitter for machine work.
The cause given for her inability to procure
occupation is almost inexpressibly painful.
The wretched girl had no proper clothing,
wherewith to seek it. One sees in imagina
tion the dreary catalogue of garments sent
to the pawnbrokers —the gown, the shawl,
extra petticoats, the very under linnen suc
cessively parted with for food ; the pile of
duplicates on the mantleplece ; the dreadful
da)' when there is nothing more to sell or
pawn —nothing left. " Oh, men, with sis
ters dear ! oil, men, with mothers and wives
—nothing left; oh. women with rustling
silks and glossy shawls, but a rag and a
tatter, just enough to cover one's nakedness
not enough to go io the shopkeeper's ware
house in," but sufficient in wh ch amid dark
ness to steal awav to the water's edge, and
fling herself into the Regent's canal, as Ma
ry Ann Hammer did. By Heaven's mercy
the girl was not drowned. She was rescued
by a young seamstress whose window over
looked the water, having seen her body
floating, and called assistance. The pitious
tale she told proved, after she had been re
inanded for inquiry, to be perfectly irue.—
The officers of the police court discovered
her father in a lodging near the city road,
very clean, but destitute of every necessary
The man bore a good character among his
neighbors, but his hand had become paralj 7,-
ed from following his occupation as a "coin
posnion doll maker," one of his two sons
had been run over, and was a cripple; the
other was too young to work, lie was a
widower. In fact, the whole family belong
ed to the l< quiet poor." The mother dead,
the father paralyzed, after " composition
doll making," one crippled and one helpless
child, and a grown-up daughter with no
work and nothing to wear but those unwom
anly rags of which Thomas Hood sings in
the undying '• Song of the Shirt." Let it
not be thought that we regard Mary Ann
Hammer's attempt to commit suicide as en
tirely blameless. Let it not be imagined
that we dissent from the wise caution given
to the girl by the sitting magistrate, Mr.
Leigh, 011 setting her at liberty ; or that, we
deprecate the supervision which he proposed
to esprcise over the subscriptions which
kind hearted persons had forwarded to the
Worship street Police court for the relief of
the family. It is even possible that half the
funds so sent would place the girl, her father
and brothers in comparative comfort; bu'
might it not be possible, with the consent of
the benevolent donors, to use the residue as
a nucleous for the relief of the "quiet poor."
Would it not be worth the while of some
true philanthropist to leave the vagrants
and the cripples to their many friends for a
season, and strive to find out the wretched
who are not depraved ; the meek, unresist
ing and forlorn beings who are not strong
enough to struggle with the battle of life,
and who lie down and die by the wayside,
too often without any good Samaritan to
aid them.
I©" Infidels are generally credulous,—
They believe everything but the Word of
God.
S&" The snake's poison is in bis teeth ;
the slanderer's in his tongue.
8©- The mind, like the eye, sees all things
raiher than itself.
B©* Mr. Kiisha Brown, of Oswego N. Y.
has seven eons in the Federal army.
Secession in Tennessee.
In the course of a recent speech by the
Hon. Andrew Johnson, at Columbus. Ohio,
this eloquent patriot thus described the hor
rors of secession in Tennessee":
" While yet beseeching them to act on
their own doctrine and let us alone, the hoofs
of their cavalry were indenting our plains,
and the tramp of their troops were about
our homes ! And yet there are those who
set up the puling cry—" Let there be no
coercion!" What! A secessionist declar
ing against coercion ! Why, God b'ess you,
friends, they never got anything except by
coercion. They coerced Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama and Virginia out of the Union.--
They attempted it in Maryland; the Gov
ernment stopped it—they attempted it in
Kentucky ; the people stopped it! JCheers
and cries of •' good, good !"] Their whole
career has been one of coercion, of outrage,
insult, blasphemy and crime. Detachments
of their myrmidons, who were sent, as they
said, "to protect us from the despotism of
Abe Lincoln." (?) would pass through our
conn'y, in Tennessee, on the railroad.
" As they went they saw the flag of our
country, the glorious old Stars and Stripes,
floating from the gable of an humble school
house, where the little boys had placed it as
an emblem of their pure and dawning love
for the Union. What did these miscreants
do ? They stopped their train, and, with
hootings and ribaldry, with mcnacess and
execrations a-d blasphemy, they tore it from
the children and trampled it in the mire.—
They would enter private houses, and under
pretence of seeking amunition, would rum
age drawers and desks, robbing the family
of their money, and the females of their
heir-looms. They would order their meals
and lodging in tones of insolence and terms
of insult. They would feed their horses
with wastfulness, and scatter the food reck
lessly on the ground. And after eating to
the fill of their insatiate appetites, and riot
ing and rumaging they would mount, and
with oaths and obscenity, would tell tho
family to charge it all to Jiff. Davis. And
this, my friends, is secession.
•' They came into my county ; they called
at my house. Some of their number came
forward and demanded of my family whether
I was ct home—saying that if 1 was they
had come to lake me, and hang me. Pleas
ant intelligence this for gentlemen (?) to
communicate to wife and daughters ! But
my daughter, indignant at their conduct,
said, " No, my father is not at home ; he is
absent in another county, wtiere'he is making
a speech for the Union ; and this I presume
you knew, or your, cowardly crew would not
have dared to show themselves at this
house !" [Thunders of applause.] They
then sullenly withdrew. As they passed on
through the neighborhood they came upon
the house of a Union family ; the husband
was not at home, but his wife, a stout heart
ed woman, had her Union Hag at the gate
post. They insolently commanded her to
remove it; she would not. They attempted
to seize it, and she seized it; they struggled
for it, but she kept her flag. They then
went into the woods, cut a hickory withe,
and returning, scourged her person with it.
[Hisses, and cries of " shame, shame !"]
"This, my friends, is secession, and these
are the tnen you are to •' compromise with !"
Some of these same d mons, five of them,
fiends in human shape, stopped at the house
of a man named Markham, who, seeing them
approach, and fearing insuit and outrage to
himself if he remained, and thinking that
they would not be so likely to provoke a
quarrel with the family if he were not pres
ent, took his rifle from its resting place and
retired utiobservedly by them into a little
thicket hard by the house, in order to be on
hind in case they offered any abuse to his
family. He had an amiable wife and two
daughters, th= youngest a girl of about
twelve years, and the other just blossoming
into womanhood, about sixteen, as beautiful
as the morning and as pure as the dewdrop.
The secessionists entered and insolently de
manded dinner for themselves and feed for
their horses. The wife told them there was
the crib and the fodder, and they would give
thtm their dinner. They took the hay and
the corn and scattered it about the ground,
and ordered the ladies to hasten their din
ner.
" In due time the dinner was prepared,
and soon greedily devoured. After satiating
their appetites at the table thev began to
address rude remarks to the wife and daugh
ters. One of them attempted to make love
to the young lady, when her young sister,
seizing the tin horn or trumpet, which is
kept in almost all rural homesteads to make
a summons to dinner or sound an alarm to
neighbors in case of any accident, sprang to
the door and blew a blast. At this the hel
lish demon turned, drew a pistol from his
girdle and fired its bullet through her brain,
and with one wild shriek she fell in agoniz
ing death at the feet of her mother. That
blast, the shot, the shriek and scream pierc
ed the ear of the waiting father; he sprang
from the retreat ; he stood at his door—one
glance revealed all; and taking deliberate
aim he sent his rifle's ball straight through
the villian's heart! [A suppressed voice,
" Good God followed by tremendous ap
plause !] The other four, allarmed at the
trumpet's blast, and knowing the whole
> neighborhood would soon be upon them,- at
: once mounted their horses and fled. The
i enraged father, finding thein beyond his
reach, turning to where the slayer of his
! little dai'ghter lay—seized his axe and cut
his brutal body into four quarters and threw
' them out as only fit for the dogs to devour.
" Such, my friends, is Secession at home.
It is robbery, rapine and murder. And it is
! marching towards you, and will soon be
upon you. You must arm for your defence.
I speak not to yon in fables. These things
occurred, not in a remote country, but right
over there in Tennessee. I seeui yet to hear
i the shriek that went up from that young and
innocent heart, as it took leaae of life, so
wild, so clear, so agonizing that even angelic
spirits might come to listen and avenge !
Will you not, then, rush to the support of
your Government and the rescue of your
country from a reign of terror that has no
parallel in the history of' civilized man I"
Secession in Bucyrus.
The Bucyrin Journal , published in Craw
ford county, L'hio is out against the Govern
ment of Ohio, in Bucyrus county, and in
favor of a•* confederacy of her own. The
causes of grievance are stated as follows :
it refused to locate the capital at Bucyrus
to the great detriment of our real-estate own
ers.
It refused to gravel the streets of Bucyrus,
or even to relay the plank road.
It refused to locate the penitentiary at Bu
cyrus, notwithstanding we do as much to
ward filling it as any other county, thus
blightening the hopes of onr free, indepen
dent and patriotic peanut venders.
It refused to locate the State Fair at Bu
cyius
It located the Ohio canal ono hundred
miles east ot Bucyrus.
We never had a Governor, notwithstand
ing we have any number of men as superior
to the hoary old dotard who now fiills that
post, as the bright refulgent sun is to a tal
-1 >w candle.
Ditto, ditto, ditto, a3 to United States Sen
ator.
It has enticed our citizens away, by ma
king them Supreme Judges as soon as they
are out of the county.
It has compelled us to pay, year after year
ur share of the State taxes.
It puts us in the same Congressional dis
trict with Ottowa county.
No citizen of the county has ever been ap
pointed to any place where theft is possible,
thus willfully keeping capital o t of the
county.
<t selected Seneca county men for two
terms for State Treasurer, thus making sure
of having the treasury cleaned out.
It has stigmatised our couuty the " mud
county."
it refused to pay our railroad subscription
and has never offered to slack water on the
Sandusky river.
These are but very few of the grievances
we have submitted to. We could stretch
out the list indefinitely, but these are suffi
cient. We will no longer submit. The
storm is rising. Companies of two-forty
men are being organized in every township.
Our representative have agreed to resign
next March. The independent flag—musk
rat rampant, weasel couchant, on a field
d'eggshell—floats from poles on every cor
ner. Cutofi'from the State, direct Irade
with Indiana follows : released from indebt
edness to Cincioatti and Cleveland our mer
chants will again lilt their heads. We are
in earnest. Armed with justice and shawl -
pins, we bid the hireling tools of a despotic
Government defiance.
P. .—The feeling is idtense, extending
even io children. A boy just passed ur
office displaying the Secession flag. It waved
from behind. Disdaining coneeal.-ient, the
noble, lion hearted bo\ wore a roundabout.
We are firm.
N. B. —We are calm, firm, unyielding.
LATER. —A farmer in the western part
the oounty came in to day to get a gun fixed.
Tremble, ye Co'umbusers ! We are firm.
FIGHT YOURSELF A FARM.—" Vote your
self a farm " was for a long time a clap-trap
phrase of a certain class of politica' dema
gogues. Fight yourselves a farm is now
egitimate and patriotic. The Government
now owns 60,000,000 acres, which have
been surveyed and offered for sale, and ready
for private entry. Beside this, nearly 45,-
000.000 acres have been surveyed, but not
put in the market, which may he taken up
by preemptors. This is exclusive of the
immense tracts of land which have not been
surveyed in the new Territories of Dacotah,
Colerado and Nevada.
A REBEL DEFEAT IN KENTUCKY.— The reb
els under Zollicoffer, amounting to nearly
7000 men, on Monday attacked a Union
camp under Col. Garrard in Kentucky. The
UnioiYforces numbered about 1200. Three
different attacks were made by the rebels,
I but they were repulsed with loss. Our los s
four killed and twenty wounded.
j THE JUNIATA REGIMENT. —Col W. D- Lew
isl Jr., has been appointed Colonel of the Ju
niata Regiment of volunteers, and the ap
pointment has been formally approved by
Governor Curtin. Colonel Lewis will pro
ceed at ooce to Huntingdon, to take charge
of his regiment, in camp.
AGRICULTURAL COLUMN.
How to Choose a Horse.
To become a good judge of horse flesh re
quires years ot observation and practical ac~
| quaintance with the animal. No mere de
! ceptions are sufficient to qualify a man to go
| iuto the market to purchase a horse with
safety, fur in no other article is there so
! much deception practised. Tre following
directions from the Ohio Cultivator are val
uable as suggestions indicating the principal
points to be studied :
"First, notice the eyes, which should be
well examined. Clearness of the eye is a
| sure indication of goodness; but this is not
all—the eyelids, eyebrows and all other ap
! pondages must be also ooneidered, for many
horses whose eyes appear clear and brilliant
go blind at an early nge ; therefore be care
ful to observe whether the parts between the
I eyelids and eyebnws are swollen, for this
| indicates that the eye will not last. When
the eyes are remarkably flit, sunk within
their orbits, it is a bad sign. The iris, or
circle that surrourds the sight of the eye,
should be distinct, and of a pale, variegated,
cinnamon color, for this is a sure sign of a
good eye. The eyes cf a horse are never too
large.
" The head should be of good size, broad
between the ey s, large nostrils, red within,
for large nostrils betoken good wind.
" The leet and legs should be regarded,
for a horse with bad feet is like a house with
a weak o indation, and will do little servioe.
Tho feet should be of a middle size and
smooth ; the heels should be firm, and not
spongy and rotten.
" The limbs should be free from blemishea
of all kinds, the knees strait, the back sinews
strong and weil braced ; the pastern joins
should be clean and clear of swellings of all
kitids, aud come near the ground, for such
never have the ring-bine. Fleshy legged
horses are generally su'ject to the" grcauo"
and other infirmities of that kind, and there
fore should not be choseD.
" The body should be of good site, the
back strait, or nearly so, and have only a
srua 1 sinking below the withers; the barrel
rourd, and the rils come close to the hip
joints, ihouidars should run back, but not
too heavy, for a horse with heavy shoullers
seldom moves well ; chest and arms large.
" A horse weighing from 1 300 to 1,400
is heavy enough for a cart horse; from 1,100
to 1 200 is large enough for a farmers horse;
from 1,000, to 1,100 is heavy enough for a
carriage horse."
Keep the Farm Stock Thriving.
The change from a diet of roast beef &Dd
mutton chops with plenty of vegetables, t
salt pork and hard crackers, such as was ex
perienced and complained of by many volun
teer- in the war, is hardly less great than
that to which animals in northern latitudes
are annually subjected. In a few weeks the
fresh, juicy herbage so grateful to bovine
palates, will have felt the frost's sharp breath
and become withered and tasteless. LoDg
bef.re the cattle and sheep will cease to
graze, if kept confined to the pasture, their
food will be diminished in nutritive value.—
Just this point in a year, without propsr
care, stock will receive a severe check in
their growth. There is danger, in the first
place, tat commencing to feed with an al
lowance from the winter stores may bo de
layed too long. The object in feeding should
be not merely to keep animals alive, but to
keep them gaining in weight, and to do this,
as the quality of food gathered in the pasture
decreases in value, amends must be made
from other sources. The value of root crops
will now be appreciated. First, there will
be a large quantity of the tops, which hre
highly relished by stock, ready to feed just
when most needed. When these are exhaus
ted, the roots themselves will be token gree
dily along with the forkfull of hay which the
provident farmer will olliw to cattle night
and morning, as the grass begins to tail.
If there be no routs raised, then supply
the deficiency with a little corn or oats. The
grain in this case will not be wasted; it. will
be found again in the beef, mutton, or wool,
and thus will only be takiDg a little longer
route to market, while it will pay the farmer
heavy till by grea'ly increoeirg the value
of the manure made. In this way the change
from summer to winter feeding may be male
so gradual that the animals, with their ap
petites stimulated by the increasing sharp
ness of the wheather, will scarcely feel it;
and by keeping up a variety of food, alter
nating with bay, cut straw, stalks, roots, and
gmio, they may be kept in lull vigor and
growing during toe whole winter, and start
off vigorously in spring.— Avierican Agricul'
turut-
Hints to Housekeepers.
A good washing fluid may be made of hot
water and plenty of soft soap.
PleDty of good fresh butter and a good
appetite will keep bread from moulding.
Woolen rags should always be washed in
sweet oil before they are made into flanne
cakes.
Childrens' dresses wear longer by letting
theiu reach to the ankles.
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