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37 Th YEAR.
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- ler The Republicau Compiler is published
every Monday morning, bY HENRY J. &CARLE,
at 81,75 per annum if paid in advance-52.00
per annum if not paid in agvance. No sub-.
scription discontinued, unless at the option of
the p ibliSl •11 al'
je — pt _isher. until a, arrearages are paid.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the usual rates.
—Jo 0- WORK:- don3-i-neatlytreaply-,—a-n-d—with
dispatch._
y ci - e ve-Offiee on South Baltimore street, direct
";,:«opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment,
•Wie and a half squares from the Court House.
PUBLIC SALE.
ON Saturday, the 30th of December instant,
at 1 o'clock, P. M., the undersigned,
Executors of the estate of HENRY. Bovvcas,
late of Mountjoy - township, Adams county,
Pa., deceased, will sell at Publtc Sale, by vir
tue of an order of - the- Orphan's Court of Ad
onis county, on the premises,
'l-.C 4 lb:ce atm,a...i-rtrl
Of said deceased, situate in the township afore
said, adjoining lands of John Budy, Melchor
'Wolf, John Bender, and others, containing
NINETY-EIGHT ACRES, more or less.—
. The improvements area two-story
Log Dwelling,
• Ifil with •a Stone Kitchen attached, a
- -r• Log Barn, and all necessary out-
Imildings. There is a well of water near the
-d oer i -and—an-0 RC-HA-R-D - of - ch
all kinds; on the premises. There is a fair
Se-Attendance will be given and terms
made known on day of sale by
J. H. BOWERS,
JOSIAH BOWERS,
Executors.
Dec. 4, 1854,
•kaZltUrfaßlll IdT,TT,
Special 'Meeting.
T the last meeting of the Adams County
Agricultural Society, it was resolved that
subjects connected with Apiculture be discus
sed'at the meetings of - the Society, and that
the first topic for inquiry be, application
of Lime to land." A specal meeting was also
ordered,.to take place at the Court-house, in
Gettysburg, on Me first Saturday in January
next, (being the 6th of the mouth,) at 10
o'clock, A. M., at whiCh time the above sub
ject will he taken up; and it is expected that
there-will bea general participation, particular
ly by those who have used lime in agricultural
processes, and whose. observation and experi
ence have_ furnished them with facts of a char
acter more
or Jess valwahle.. The ineeting will
doubtless be an interesting and instructive
one,_ and all are invited to it.
By order, iNai - McGINLEY, Pres'l.
H. J. STARLE, &C I S/.
December 4, 1854. td
Teacher Wanted.
ATEACHER is wanted to take charge of
"Good Intent" School, in sub-district
No. 4of Straban township. None hut a com
petent Teacher need apply—and good wages
will be paid. Immediate application to be
made to HENRY IT NI OR,
Dec. 4. One (If the Directors.
1217,-.CS'
'eril, - ?) rpy (
NEW ESTABLISHMENT. •
CLOTHING TO ORDER.
r HE onderstgned takeirpleasure in inform
ing the citizens 'hi Gettysburg and the
b _
(fe
a-, '
iriwrally;
GARMENTS of all kinds, for GENTLE
MEN'S WEAR, at the shortest notice, and
in the latest possible style. Having opened
a Merchant 'shoring establishment, in Chant
hersburg street, opposite the Lutheran church,
and secured the services of experienced work
men, he feels confident of pleasing all who
may favor him with their patronage. Coun
try produce taken in exchange for work.
J. S. GRANIMER.
December 4,1854.
TAVERN ticEN SE.
IN THE MATTER of the intended appli
cation of JOHN A. Dtcxs", for License to
keep a public house in Hampton, Reading
township, Adams county—it being an old
stand.
The subscribers, citizens of the township of
Reading, in the county of Ala ins, recommend
the above petitioner, and certify: that tlie..inn or
tavern above mentioned is necessary to accom
modate the public and entertain strangers or
travellers, and that the petitioner above named
is of good repute for honesty and temperance.
and is we!l provided with house-room and con
veniences for the lodging and accommodation
of - A; rangers and,Jravellers.
Thlin Miller, Andrew 13rough, Jr., Samuel
.`Deardorff, D. M. C. White, Jacob Smith.
Michael Hanes, Henry Albilt.t. John Baker.
Cornelius Smith. Benjamin Chronister, Jacob
Miller, Jonas Chronister, Gibson :Myers.
December 4, 1854. 3t
Notice to Trespassers.
TIPS:is. to notify all persons from trespas
sing, on our premises, (being in IlerWick .
and 14-amilton townships,) by Gotiniiiir or
otherwise, as we -have received more or less
damage from those that fear or care nothing.
therepre are, determined to enforce the
full extent of the laws - on all that disregard this
notice.
Adam Steffan, Georte lonrie
11/iNana 1. lid!, Daniel Miller,
Francis J. Wilson, Reuben Wolf,
F. Wulf, blacksmith, Sumac: Wolf. farmer,
Henry Troy, Jacob {YOU'.
Cyrus Wolf, Riman,
George Null, David Mardi,
Geo. Flickinger, Gerirge Jurdy. awl
VTAITTMD.
20.0 00 LBS. PORK . , in December
next, for whicl) CASH will
be paid. Farmers who have the_ article for
sale, will du well by calling and maid— , en
gagements with the subscriber, at his Flour,
13iicop and Grocery Store, in West Middle
streets Gettysburg.
GEORGE LITTLE.
Nuvembel 13, 1851. 4i '
lEFItn.
That so long and so often las water! , us nor
The old farmer rest:: in his hug and last sleep,
While the waters a' low, lamdng lullaby keep.
Ile - has - plough - ed - hhrhed - forms. ltret - reaped - his - laErk,L
.No morn shall awake him to labour again.
Yon tree that with fragrance is filling the air,
Si, rich with itA bloss'oms, co thrifty and fair,
Ity his own hand was planted; and well did he gay.
It would live when ibialanter had mouldered away.
He has ploughed his last furrotc. has reaped his last grain,
No morn shall awake him to labour again,
For "the pitcher is broken." the old man is gone.
He has ploughed-his last- fu-r.ciar.,--has-reaped'his last grain,
No morn shall awake him to labour again.
'Twas a gloom-gicing day alien the old farmer died;
The. stout-hearted 'mourned, the affectionate cried;
And the prayers of the just for his rest dui asrend,
For they all boat a brother, a man. and a friend.
Ire has ploughed his last 'furrow, has reaped Lib last grain,
No morn bliall awake him to laboUr again.
is doe he revered, he respected the laws: .
Though frrtrless he bred, he has gone where his worth
Will outshine like pure gold all the dross of the earth.
le has ploughed his last furrow, has reaped Lis lust grain,
No morn shall awake him to labour again.
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An Eccentric Will.
Mr. .Railing, of New lla.mpshire, :EnglAnd,
cident, .between ,Brighton and London. Ilis
lei" Tirr 't 1 - ir
nears, after having yai,_ nark the customary u
neral honors, did :what all heirs do in similar
cases. opened the will of the deceased to ascer
tain what share each was to have in his pos- .
Ominous liberalities. As he had never given a
penny to either of his relatives, during his
lifetime, they expected to be the richer now that
he was no more. One may imagine the surprise
cawed by the firstling of the will :
"This is my testament. give and bequeath
all my goods, present or future, moveable or
immoveable, in England or on the continent,•
to-that railroad, company on whose road Phave
the happiness to meet with death—that blessed
deliverance from my terrestrial prison."
Further on, the testator gives - his reasons for
his bequest. The idea had taken firm posses
sion of his mind that he was destined 'to die a
violent death and the tnost-desirable one in his
view was that caused by the explosion of a lo
comotive. Be traveled, therefore, constantly
on the railroads in England, Belgium and
France. There was not a station where he was
not known. All the conductors were familiar
with his peculiar costume. He had narrowly
escaped death' several times. Once, he was
shut up in a ear under water ; another time he
was in theThext car to the one that was shatter
ed, and he described with the greatest enthusi
asm those terrible accidents, when he saw death
so near without being able to obtain it. Disap
pointed in Europe, he went to the United
States.. He made frequent excursions on the
Ohio, the Mississippi, the Ontario, and the Ni
agara, but, notwithstanding the frequent ex
plosions, he returned with a whole skin. He
was destined to be crushed under a car of the
mother country. It is said that the relatives
will attempt to break the will, on the ground
of insanity, but i Lis probable that the railroad
will' win the suit in spite of the prover(' that the
murderer never inherits from the victim.
THE LADIES, A ND TEE CENSUS. —The returns of
the ages of the ladies have given some trouble,
and a slight correction has been necessary._
Those who in. 185 1 were between 20 and 25.
must'of course have been between 10 and 15 at
the previous census : but the number of
n rls be tWeen.iftand.ls..M.lB4-1--was-not-large
enough to grow into the goodly company who
in l_t<itsay they are but between 20 and 25.
The retut u, also, between 30 and 35 in 1851 is
too small as compared with the return for the
favorite age of 20-25 in 1841. After allowing
for immigration, and comparing the numbers
with those of men, the Registrar-General and
his assistants are of opinion that about 35,000
ladies who have entered themselves as between
20 and 40 really belong to the next age.4o-60,
to which the body of delinquents are transferred
in the calculations and tables accordingly. The
gentlemen who feel driven to this conclusion
very handsomely suggest that those who made
these misrepresentations may have done so "be
cau-e they were quite unconscious of the silent
lapse of time, or because'their imaginations still
lingered over the hours of younger age," but
they are obliged to add that it may have been
"because they chose foolishly to represent
themselves younger than they really were; at
the scandalous risk of bringing the statements
of the whole of their countrywomen into discred
it."—Landon Tim cs.
Men I:sot - GIL- T it is estimated that the in
come of William 11. Astor, of New York Is 51,-
0t,,c00 per annum. This is reaping pretty
fast the, saving.% of a sagacious and fortunate
father—being about .`:::3,255 per day, per
hour, per minutc, or 4 cents per second,
including nights and: t' indays„
The Astor family of to-day is rapidly con
solidating wealth, but the Astors of to-morrow
will as rapidly scatter it again. Under the en
actments of this. country, family- estates can
not hold together long.
one. p., who is attached to a Parisian
theater in the quality of a physician; expressed
Ins astonishment that MRII and %moan ‘vere
not cleated at the same time, insteadof the latter
springing from the rib of our fir?i,t, parent. A
young, actress standing by, remarkable for the
a ,, r ecru' turn which she ever gives to the ex
pression of her ideas, said : •• Was it not natural.
.1-f —, ,,, , that, the flower should come after the
stern'?"
Q'7 The 'l'ure Haute (Indiana) Express thus
forcibly hit--; the tendency of the age to get
ahead of Moe,. :
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II ON DElt ;LW; [CAL
fos:.il flog: has been cikr.oveied in the al,a-h
•
gIEM
half a dozen strata of mud above him. to the
formation of which. ace , u - ding to wtll-e-uab
lished geological ptinciples, a period of ,is
thousand years ea , tii play he attributed. When
thiSastoundingante-Adamite fossil was brought
tOlight. all the live Fr 0 , ,,, gatlicred around it
and exc;ainitd, ••Retitatuccit Pentfitneoh
Og T. Enoch ! hinielt.c!i Bo'ci; ! Amalck
Arnalek !" Om; their titter db.b e .
lief in the lo ; :aie instmr
ace to C ' , Trove thi, thils - fact in t.citnce bef9rc
they can •,
Qtlpice poettn.
19 The Old Farmer's Elegy.
BY JOSIAH T. CANICe
On n creep crazi ,, w knoll, be the banks of the brook
There's. the welt that he dug, with its waters so cold,
With its wet dripping lmcket_ so mossy and
No more from its depth. by Ow pittriarch drawn,
For upright and honest the old farmer was;
3grirnitnrr, litrrnturr, ".;105 nub krirnm, 4.'4D Varktt, (Priarnt Eumrstir nuh ,furrign inurrtising,mud, kr,
GETTYSBYRG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1854.
Cases like the one I am about to relate are
much too frequent in our country, and they are
such, too, as should be
_guarded against by all
who have an interest in education. The inci
dent was brought to mind by hearing a com•
.
n mad-
am, 4e by the parent of a pool; boy, who
had been grossly neglected by the teacher of the
e-
Hvillagsclool,-fteglected T simplirbecause - he - was
poor and comparatively friendless !
Many years ago. when I was a small boy, I
attended a school in the town of—. Among
the scholars there was a boy named George
Henry. Ills father was a poor drinking man,
and the unfortunate boy had to'suffer in conse
quence. George came to school habited in rag-,
ged garments—but they were the befit be had :
he was rough and uncouth in his manners, for
he had been bro - ught up in that manner ; he
was very ignorant, for he had never had an op
portunity for education. -
Season after season, poor George Henry oc
cupied the same seat in the school room—it
IN - SZ tt back corner seat, away from the other
scholars—and there he thumbed his tattered
primer. The ragged condition of his garb gave
a homely cast to his whole appearance, and
what of intelligence there might have been in
his countenance, was beclouded by the '.outer
covering" of the boy. He seldom played with
the other children, for. they seemed to shun
him ; but when he did, for awhile, join with
them in their sports, he was so rough that be
was soon shoved out off the way.
The -teacher passed the poor boy coldly in
the street, while other boys, in better garbs.
._were_lindlyi-not iced— In ---t-he-schoolyoung
i Ilenry was coldly treated. The teacher
_ .
EfINWTMIMMINIMPIMM • • • • ••••••••• 7..
head," because he did not learn. The boy re
ceived no incentive to study, and consequently
he was most of the time idle, And idleness begat
a disposition to while away the time in mis
chief. For this he was whipped, and the more
idle and careless he 'became. He knew that
he was neglectediiky the teacher, and simply
because he was poor and ragged, and with a
sort of sullen indifference, sharpened at times
by feelings of bitterness, he plodded on his
dark, thankless way.
Thus matters went on for several years. 7—
'ost of the scholars who were of George Hen
ry's age had passed on to the higher branches
of
. study, while he r —poor .fellow, still spelled
out words of one and tivo syllables, and still
kept his distant seat in the corner. His father
had sunk lower in the pit of inebriation, and
the unfortunate boy was more wretched than
ever.
The look of clownish indifference which had
niarked his countenance, was now giving way
to a shade of unhappy thoughts and. feelings,
and it was evident that the great turning point
of his life•was at band. Ile stood now upon
the step in life , from which the fate of after
years must take its cast.
At this time a man by the name of Kelly.
took charge of the school. He was an old
teacher, a careful obsericr of human nature,
and a really good man. Long years of guar
dianship_over_wild youths had given Jilin a
bluff authoritative way, and in his discipline
he was strict and unwavering.
The first day which he passed in the feath
er's desk of our school was _mostly devoted to
watching the inovements of the scholars, and
studying the dispositions with which he had to
deal. Upon George Henry his eyes rested with
a keen, searching. glance. but evidently made
little of hiuLduring the first day; but on. the
second day he did more.
It was during the afternoon of the second
day that Mr. Kelly observed young Henry en
gaged in impaling flies upon the point of a large
pin. He went to the boy's seat, and, after re-
I IfORMIII
the dirty, tattered primer from his desk.
"Dave you never learmLmoreAhan
liii;il;iiTlT?"raed the teacher.
"No, sir," drawled George.
"flow long; have you attended school ?"
"I don't know, sir. It's ever since I can
remember."
“Thor von must he an idle, reckless•boy ,”
said the teacher, with much severity. "Do
you realize how many years you have thrown
away r Do you know how much you have
lost ? What sort of a matt do you think of
making, in this way ? One of these days you
will be too old to go to school. and then, while
your companions are seeking some honorable
employment, you will be good for nothing.
Have you patents ?
"Yes, sir," answered the boy, in a hoarse,
subdued voice.
“And do they wish you to grow up to be an
ignorant worthless man ?”
The boy hung doWn his head and was silent,
hut Mr. Kelly saw too great tears roll down
his cheeks. - In an instant, the teacher saw
that he had something besides an idle. stubborn
mind to deal with in the ragged scholar before
him. He laid his hand on the boy's head, and
in a kind tone he said,
"I wish you to stop after school is dismiss
ed. Do not be afraid, for I wish to assist you
if I can."
George looked wonderingly into the master's
face, for there was something, - in the tone of the
Voice which fill upon his car that sounded
iran,?.',e to him, and he thought. too, as he
looked round, that the rest of the scholars re
garded him with kinder countenances than
usual. A dim thought broke in upon his mind
that, fiom some cause, he was going to be hap
pier.than before.
After the school was dismissed, George Hen
ry remained in his scat till the teacher called
hun to the desk.
"Now." said Mr. Kelly, "I wish to know
why it is that you have never learned any
more. You look bright, and you look as
though you might make a smart man.. Why
is it that I find you so ignorant ?" •
"Because nobody never helps me," replied
the boy. "Nobody never cares for me, sir,
for I an) poor."
By degrees the kind-hearted teacher got the
poor boy's whole history, and while generous
tears bedewed his eyes, he said :
"You have been wrongly treated : George—
very wrongly : but yet there is time for re
r toption. If Lu ill ty to ‘ 4 _ 4l, , : th_ y _ o _ i fr w ilf y
try to learn ?"
"Yes—O. yes," quickly uttered the boy in
earnest tones.— "Yes—l ,should love to learn.
I should love to learn. I don't want to be a
bad boy,' he thrillingly added, while his coun
tenance glowed withr unwonted animation.
Mr. Kelly promised to purchase books for
the boy as fast as he could learn to read them.
and when George Henry left the school-room
his face r‘l.s wet with tears. We ,:ehol.-a
who had remained in the entry, saw him come
out, and our hearts were warmed towards
e Slightecl Scholar
him.- We ,flioke kindly to him, and walked
with him to. his house ; and his heart was too
full for utterance.
On the next day, George Henry commenced'
studying in good earliest, and-the teacher help•
ed him faithfully. Never did I see a change
radiant and sudden as that which took ',bee
in the habits of the poor boy.
As soon .as the teacher • treated- hith with
kindness - an - d - resfeet;tlie - s - e ra s followed the
example; andlhe result was. that• they found
in the unfortunate youth orm, of the most no
ble hearted, generous, accommodating, and
truthful playtnates in the world.
Long years have passed since those school
boy days. George Henry has become a man
of middle age, and in all the country there is
not a man more beloved and respected than he
is.- And all is the result of one teacher's hay
ing done his duty.
You who are school-teachers, remember the
responsikihty that devolves upon you. In this
country of free schools, there should be no dis
tinction between classes. All are alike en
titled to your care and counsel, and the more
weak the child, the more earnest should be
your endeavor to lift him up and aid him.
- . Great Railroad Speed.
TIME. HUNDRED MILES PER. HOT:R.-A paper
was lately read by Judge Meigs, before the
American Institute 'Farmer's Club, at 'New
York, upon the subject of rapid railroad travel
ling. in which he said :
'4 - have, with others, admired the progress
made in velocity on railroads up "to even one,
hundred mills on hour on straitihl rail., which
has-Tbeen — dono - in — Engla nd. Butlen - Waal
views of railroad velocity far beyond an vet
yen ur o e . e_xpresse . e mperor o
Russia ha's' taken the first great step towards.
what I deem the ultimatum of railroad travel'.
"Instead of cutting a narrow alley through
the country; or going. around
has
in the
ivay of a straight line—he has set a broad way
five hundred miles, from St. Petersburg to
Moscow—he has made it all the,way two hun
dred feet wide, so that the'engineer sees every
thing that comes on the road !
"Such is part of the future : the railroad
from point to point a mathematical line : the
rails ten times stronger than any now used
the locomotives on wheels of far greater diame
ter, si.y . twelve or fifteen feet : the gague of a
relative breadth : the signaliand times perfect
lysettled ; the road, walled on both sides, dur
ing the transit of trains having the gates of the
walls all closed. Then instead of one hundred
r ) a
miles an hour: we shall More safely travel
three hundred miles u hour' 1 will not pre
tend to say mo e,--one. hundred seems fast
enough ; so did twenty, a few years- ago ; and
now, on very straight• rails or some straight
runs, we do travel sixty miles an hour in this
State, and in England one hundred miles have
been accomplished.
"Mathematical precision and time will solve
thi's problem—a passage from New_ York to
San Francisco in ten hours !" '
[We have no doubt of one hundred miles
per hour being perfectly practicable railroad
speed, by the building of such railroads as
those described by the Judge; and this opinion
we expressed in the columns of the Scientific
American some years ago. But three hundred.
miles per hour inclines us to the fogy side of
the question. This speed would require a
Piston velocity 33,000 feet per minute, of
eighteen-inch stroke, if the drivingwheels were
twenty-four feet: in circumference, (nearly eight
feet in diameter—whoppers) they would have
to make 1100 revolutions per minute. As the
wheels cannot turn around without steam, the
query with us is, the means' of raising the
steam necessary to perform this feat, as the,
boiler would have •• • • • . , 61 •
water per minute--sixty in an hour. So far
as it, relates to the final velocity of steam in the
_vac uutu.,„the_speed-of-tin ve , -h wad red-i ni les- per
hour could be obtained, but how can such a
quantity of steam be evaporated in a locomo
tive boiler, in this space of time ? , Judge
Meigs may perhaps be able to .answer us.
With respect to the velocity of bodies, our
ideas are bounded by what has been perform
ed before, our eyes—the flight of the swallow,
the pigeon, the eagle ; and when we look to
the heavenly bodies and calculate the awful
velocityw.t.. h
which they are unceasingly
wheeled through - space, the mind is struck
with solemn awe at the mighty power of the
great Creator, who has made huge Jupiter to
revolve once on his axis in ten hours, and
through space at the rate of 4(185 wiles per
hour, or fifteen times the velocity of a locomo-,
tive, running at the rate -of three hundred
wiles an hour.—Scientific American.
Er7The man who is too poor to take a news
paper;-- has bought a slab-sided dog, an old
shot-gun, and a twenty shilling gold watch.
lie educateif his children in the streets, and
boards his Shanghais on his neighbors.
The young lady who let down the window
curtain to keep the man in the moon from see
ing her in her night clothes, has been seen at
with a hole in her stocking !
PRE-PAY YOUR POSTA(iE. —After the 'lst of
January next, all persons will be compelled to
pre-pay 'their postage. No letters will lie car
ried by 'Uncle Sani unless you "sock" in ad
vance. Our readers and the public gent:rally
should remember this....-1 111.
SIMCK INC; Se WNW. -=- . A young girl named
Scluide, living in llethlehi - In township. North
ampton county,committcd suicide last Tuesday
week, by taking a dose of "rat's-bane," which
she had purchased at a drug store in Bethle
hem. While at dinner, the medicine took
effect—she was seized with violent pain, and
vomiting, and in her agony ran out of the
house, and by an almost superhuman effort
foreal herselithrough a pale-fence, breaking it
into splinters. After running about in the
barn-yard for sonic time. she fell and expired.
She was enciente, and doubtless the victim of
some villainous seducer.
,77 - It is noticed :is a, remarkable circum
qauce that during the , •ttintner, while the chol
era was raging in nearly all parts of the com l .
try. ships crossing the Arlintic_mere_ c4i ti 44 .4. 4 .
free front the scourge. But tow that it is
appearing on shore, it has broken out on boat d
ships at sea. many of which give alarming,re
pat; of its fatality.
Iry"Dear sir,'' lisped a great lady, in a
watered silk, at the, World's Fair, ' 'have the
goodness to inform rue if there are noblemen in
the United States 7 /2" "Yes, nia'am,' answer
ed Jonathan, "I 4in one of them."
To prevent dog: 'roan killing ::keep cut
their heads oll':Lnfulc they can un about.
How a Coat-was Identified.
In a justice's court in Boston, a case was re
cently decided in a novel way. A coat was in
dispute. and - the evidence was direct and posi
tive for both claimants : the parties were Irish.
and roll of.grit, "ready to si mad all they had
been carefully examined. and the court *as in
a_±Anamllli!_y!l-not---k now Mg-who-had-the-hes
claim on the garment. however, a moment
before his Honor was to sum 'up the evidence,
Patrick Power, One of the claimants, made the
following 'proposition fur settling the affair.
Said Patrick
"Timothy Sullivan, now you sny that coat
belongs to yourself entirely. I say it is my
own. Now mind ye, Timothy, that both iv
us will take the•coat an' look it all over;an'
the man that finds his name on it shall be the
owner."
"Done," said Timothy. -
"An'ye'll stick to the bargain,"said Patrick.
"To be sure," answered Timothy, and
"yes." rejoined the council on both sides. ..
"Thin look at it,". said Patrick, as he passed
the coat into the hands of Timothy, who vain.
ly searched every part of it for his name, and
passed it to Patrick, boastingly saying,
"An' now " let its see if you can be findin'
your name on the garment."
"Yell stick to the 'greement I" said Pat
rick, eagerly grasping the coat.
"Upon the honor ov a man," replied Timo
thy
"Thin hottld on a bit," said Patrick, as he
drew a knife and opened a corner in the collar,
of the coat, takingthereforn two - yerysuod
peas, exclaiming as he held thetn.in his hand,
"there, do you see that 3",
"Yes, but what iv that?" said Timothy.
"A devil a dale it has to do wid it—it's me
name, to be sure—pea for Patrick, attd pea
for PowerF, be jabers !"•
He lot the coat amid roars of laughter.
To Make Kens Lay Perpetually.
Keep no roosters ; give the hens fresh meat,
chopped up like sausage meat, once a dny—a
very small portion, say half an ounce a day to
each hen in winter, or from the time insects
disappear in the fall till they appear again in
the spring. Never allow any eggs to remain
in the nest fi: what aro called nest eggs.
When the rookett do not run with the hens..
and no uest eggs are left in the nest, the hens
will not cease laying after the production of
twelve or fifteen eggs, as they always do when
roosters arc allowed. but continue laying per
petually. If the above plan were
. generally
adopted, eggs would be as plentiful to winter
as in summer. One reason why hens do not
lay in winter as freely as in summer is the
want of animal food, which they get in sum
mer in abundance in the form of insects. When
the grodnd is covered with snow give them
access to lime and pebbles, frop which the egg
shell is formed._
Pumpkin Pie.
Stew
,the pumpkin dry, and make it like
squash pie. only season rather high. In the
country where this real Yankee pie is prepared
perfectiim, ginger is almost always used
with other spices. There cream is used instead
of milk, which gives tae pumpkins a rich fla
vor. Roll the paste rather thicker . than for
fruit pies. If the pie is large - and - deep; it will
require to be baked an hour. in a hot oven..
(Obbs anb (Enb.s.
The Clinton, N. Y. Courant vnys that
the people of that vicinity who believe the sec,
Stlling their property to pay their debts and
prepare for the event.
- 5. t iFT6iinfemplatiql
Louisville, Ky.iand Jeffersonville, In., and thus
unite both banks, while leaving the navigiiliiin
free—as in the manner of the Thames tunnel.
[r,i'ln Russia it is found that if powdered
charcoal he fluxed the tallow before it is
made into candles, the light is found to be
greatly improved. This is a plan worth
adopting.
g:7 - There is in New York an asylum for
drunkards, where, conscious of their weak
ness, they voluntarily undergo a wholesome
ordeP of discipline and life.
(r — 'i - The Swiss have, comparatively, more
telegraph wires at work than any country in
Europe. They convey thew in leaden tubes,
underground.
It is remarkable that of all knowledge,
the most important, the knowledge of ourselves,
is the most universally neglected.
riVarson ton..of New buryport, an ec
centric divine. was once called upon for a pray
er at a Fourth of July dinner and gave
"Oh, Lord, deliver us frau sham patriotism
—amen."
A . GREAT CA Y.-A cow belonging to Mr.
IVilliant Roller. in Perry township, Berks
county, gave birth to a calf recently, which
weighed, at its Willi, 117 lbs.
r i Ci - The public libraries of the United States
contain near five millions of volumes.
• r7'l little daughter of G. C. I.3nrnap, of
Pittsfield, aged one year, was killed by the
hook of a dress sticking into her throat.
rr,. , 'George A. Leavitt was sentenced to the
State Prison for life, at Manchester, a few days
since, for robbing his father, tinder the threat
to take his life, of fifteen dollars, on the 31st
of September last, at Amherst.
17 - Some people as much envy others n good
name. as they want it 'themselves ; and per
haps that is the reason of it.—Pen.
":ri - lt is said that Dr. Kane, the leader of the
Arctic expedition now in progress, will lead to
the altar Miss Margaretta Fox, one of the fa
mous spiritualists, upon his return from the
icebergs.
'A butcher in Athens. Ohio. has been de
tected in. nabbing th e village cows, making
beef of them, and then selling thew out to the
nwne, sat ten cents per pound. The hide and
liorirs-found-at - a. neighboring-tatmery-betra-yed
him
:;- - The king of the Hawaiian islands has a
new cloak ivhich cost about a million dollars.
.k portion of it is made of feathers. Procured
from birds difficult to catch, and which have
each of them only two of the kind.
1 - Wine culture in Illinois and - Missouri is
very much on the increase. It is now about
twenty wears since the first trial was made,
tune- pro% ed an enti re
but the experiewie sirwe gained enables the
chittu er to obtain a very tit result.
=====;Yl=ii
ZIN tolumn.
Compensation for the Summer's Drought.
We have no - doubt - the long continued drought
w * •si
rinds . of insects, worms, animalculit, &c.,
throughout extensive sectitins—of—the—qiiierti—
w Tell - have hitherto proved highly detrimental
to our valuable crops. A southern paper says
that the joint-worm has been annihilated in
many wheat fields. having become dried to
powder before arriving at maturity, and shed
ding their pestiferous brood for another sea
son's ravages ; This is one way that our far
tners may be compensated 11)r their short crops.
If they are further taught economy in feeding
what they have only to animals that can-best
digest and make a suitable return for their food.
and-in an economical manner, if it will further
teach them to plant early, and have their fields
deeply plowed, well pulverized and manure&
so as to afford a continued though partial sup
ply of moisture from the atmosphere during
even the driest time. then they will have re
ceived -ample compensation for the limited
diminution Of their present season's
american Agriculturist.
' Many farmers. not accustomed to the use of
guano, rely on the statements of the vendor, or
of a neighbor, or any other person who will
give advice as to Om best method of using it,
the best artiaes to: mix with it, &c.: and not
unfrequently are led into very grave _errors.-
c - itliieh — a — little. reflection would have caused'
them to avoid. The advice of ticLmhoio
be full , whr - "
ie followed when it is contrary to the uniform
result of scientific experiments, or to vounnon
sense. No constant reader of the Arm Journal
would ever he guilty of mixing guano with *
class of materials only calculated to set free its
ammonia. But as some of our new subscribers
may not. be posted on this subject, we iiPpend
an extract from a communication by Prof.
Benj. Hallowell to the Virginia 'Sentinel. He
says:
may state, that it is entirely opposed to
chemical principles to mix live.ashes. or
lime, with any animal manure. Ammonia,
.the chief valuable characteristic ingredient of
anithal manures, is usually found. in these ma
nures in 'Combination with some organic ileitis,
and these acids. owing to the generally stronAr
affinity, unite with potash and lime when they
are present, and liberate the email:4lin, thus
rendering the immure of much less value.
' , glut- this is not the only injury. The libe
rated ammonia unites with the acids in the soil,
as the bowie; crenic andapo-crenio acids which
are almost insoluble, and forms compounds
readily dissolved and washed from the soil by
the rains, greatly depriiing it of those cimstit.
cents . upon which its fertility chiefly depends.
"It is the deteriorating effect arising from
the escape of the ammonia,. and , the soluble
compounds it forms with the organic acids in
the soils, that indicate the propriety of mixing
plaster With guano to "fix ' the ammonia; pre
vious to sowing it on the land. The first crop
may
. be none the better thereby,' and. in.eome
rare instances, possibly not'quite so good : but
be
the land will always in a state More, favor
able to the growth of subsequent crops.
will take this occasion to repeat, that I
regard the discovery of guano,_ and its intro
duction into our country, as a great blessing,.
by increasing the fertility of our soils, and al
fording the means of improving many lands,
oiherwise in a state of hopeless sterility. But
Are must not depend upon the use of t h is, as,
the settled policy of farming. to Me neglect of.
our home manures. It is opposed , to every
. • 7 - 7.
lair t le circuit of our globe for guano, and
neglect equally, or even more valuable ma.
-mires- i on our-very-preinisesrand - in - our lietgti;
boring cities."
The juice of the sweet apple, it is probably
known to most of our senders, makes an ex
cellent molasses. The article: when properly
made, is pure, possessing a vinous or rather
brandied flavor, which renders it greatly su
perior for mince, apple or tart pies, to the best
West India molasses. If it is made from sour
apples. a small quantity-of imported molasses
may be added to modify the flavor. - Beer made
with it, possesses a' brisk and highly vapid
flavor, which common molasses does not
tm
part. Four and a half barrels of good cider
will make one barrel of moldsses. costing in
ordinary seasons, about $5.50. One who has
had considerable experience in manufacturing
this article, says :
"I make little cid& ; my apples are Worth
more to feed my hoss, than for cider ; but I
make a practice of selecting' my sweet apples,
those that furnish the richest, heaviest liquor,
and make a cheese from them, using the cider
thus obtained for making apple or quince pre
serves, boiling down for molasses, and keeping
two or three barrels for drink or ultimate con
version into vinegar. When new from the
press, and before fermentation commences, that
which I intend for boiling is brought to the
house, and boiled in brass, to the proper eon-
Sistenee, taking care not to burn it, as that
gives the molasses's - disagreeable flavor, and
taking off all-- the scum that rises during the
process. The quantity to be boiled, or the
number of barrels required to make one of
molasses, will depend greatly on the kind of
apples used, and the richness of the new
f l uor. Four, or four and a half, are generally
sufficient, but when care is not used in making
the selection of apples. five barrels may be
ne cessary, but let it. take niore or less, enough
must be used to make the molasses, when cold,
as thick as the best West India. When boiled
sufficiently. it should be turned into vessels to
cool, and from thence to a new sweet barrel,
put into a cool cellar, where it will keep with
out trouble, and be ,ready at all times.—Re
pub lies J , ,u rn aI.
WIIAT FARM I.: RS 31 IG II T Do.—The New York
Sun says : One of our paper•makers, speaking
of the scarcity of rags, writes thus : our
people would only raise flax, instead of import
ing thiir linsecirarid - oliTo - r - fh - eir own ii we
should soon have paper stock in abundance.
Those farmers in this county who rai-ed flax
this year have sold their crops, standing in Ow
field, at $4O per acre, and - some get more than
that."
CO — rn London lately. 22 pins wire e ' rac!:ed
from the breust and knee of a 01i02.. wom a n
who had swallowed them Sho
had-them-in her mouth v hele taking clothes
from a line, and being 'startled Ity :t young 121 1 / 1 1
in sport, let them slip ciLiwn her throat !"-
- TWO DOLLARS A-,ITSR.-
Mollie of Using Guano.
Apple Molasses;
NO. 1
.1.