II! 1 JlJJUTR til T ", a'lVJL Tigs I J r. IDcuotci to politics, literature, Agriculture, Srience, iHoralitn, emit eucrnl intelligence. VOL 18. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, NOVEMBER 24, IS59. NO. 47 aa.s5& Bosessssift 9s885ai sss&ssasfe. apssatt -sssfs-v -.wr saaa mMm mm mm m&m mmm Kaa m&m i -RaosssK fcmsaissr feufswa- Runssrir wsitNg ssasssiw ess ("Lass fca-te8i is raps jf a's JsaKm Jamest MPmJHraew m. WSgmim NSssSa c3k Published by Theodore ScIlOCh. TERMS. Two dollars per annum in advance Tw o dollars and :i quarter, lialf yearly and if not paid be fore the end of ihc year. Two dollars and a half. No papers discoid mued until all arrearages ate paid, except at llie option of the Hditot. rC Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, one or three insertions, SI 00. Each additional inser ton'; 25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOI5 CESNTffNG. Having a general assortment of large, plain and or- cnSn,Jfpe,UC i110 iTop:rcd to execute every le Is3 mm? "PffltXrWiiXf VI Justices. Legal and otiier tti;tnk, Pamphlets- prin, ted with neatness and despatch, on ioasun;ble lerm r?aril."rnirfiiil:ir.'i. Still !hat!s. N'nln's. llhirik nrrnintAS at this office. J. Q. DUCKWORTH. JOHN HAYJi To Coucsiry IJe.-ilers. DUCKWORTH & IIAYN, WIIOLRSALE DEALERS IJf Croccrics, Provisions, Liquors, No. 80 Dey street, Now York.. June 1G, 1859. ly gt AN OVERLAND JOURNEY, XXXI n i-r - m n n -a Califorma Physically Considered. Svn Tose Gil Yu. 7 l-sfl'J JO:sE' LaK' Au' 1"0J- Tbe State of California may be rou-h- y characterized as two ranget, of moun- tains. :t large and a small one with a great valley between them, aud a narrow irregular counterpartsearatinthe mu.iII- r from the Pacific Ocean. If we add to these a Muall strip of arid, but fertile coat-t. and a broad saudy det-ert behiud it, lyiug south west of California propt-r, and likely one day to be politically .sev ered from it, we have a t-uffieiently accu rate outline of the topography of the Golden State. Such a region, stretching from X. lat. 32 lie. 3U iniu. up to lat. 42 deg., and ris-iug from the Pacific Ocean uf to per- prtually enow-covered peak, 15,000 feet high, cau hardly be said to have n climate. ; A?ide from tho Alpine crests of the Sier ra, and the tuhry deerts below tln Mo have and Santa iiarbora, California em bodies almo-t every gradatiou of climate from the semi-arctic, to the semi tropioal. There are green, fertile valleys in the Si erra which only bcoin to b well grassed when the herbage of tho great valley is Ghing as the aggregate of three years' tlrying up, and fiom which the cattle are ' growth of Wheat, 10,G53f18o buh drivca by snows as early as the 1 r-t of 'els from 522,075 acres, or mere than October long before gra.-rf begins to 1 twenty buaheis per acre. I am confident start afresh on the banks of the Sacra-: that tho as-eretjate iield of the Atlantic memo. There are other valleys upon States for those same three years did not aud near tho s. a coast wLerciu fro-t and ; exceed ten bu-hels per "-ceded acre. The miow are strangers, rarely -ecu, and van- average yield of Barley throughout the i.-hing with the niiiht that gave them be- State, according to these returns, is about iDg. Generally, however, we may sav of 1 tei.ty-five bu&heln. and of Oats some ihe Stato that it hns a mild, dry, breezy, j thing over thirty bushels, per seeded 'tcro. healthy cliaate, better than thatof Italy-1 know the majority will say "These are in that the sultry, scorching blasts from j but moderate crops;" and io they may bo African deserts have here no counterpart, j Save in the higher mountains, or in the extreme north-east, t-now never lies, the earth never freeze, and Winter is but a! yield of small grain throughout the At ailder, prceuer, longer Spring, through- j lantic States, the' are lanre indeed, out which cattle pick up their own livin j California though very httlo of herboil far more easily and safely than iu Sum- iad produces good crops of Indian Corn, mer. The climate of tho valleys may be said j u'bt- and the wbut of tea-ouable rains to be created, as that of the mountains is' now grows her own bread, and may modified, by the influence of the Pacific j ea-ily grow far more. Eiinating her Ocean. Sea-breezes from the southwest ! population at Haifa Million, her last in Wi titer, from the north-west in Sum-(year's crop exceeded seveu bushels per wer, maintain an equilibrium of temper jh.-ad, which is an ample allowance; and nturc amazing to New Enjrlauders. Santuis year's crop ia still better, with a lar Francisco situated on the great bay , ger area sown. formed by the passage of the bleuded wa-! ut, while only 756,7.11 acres in all of ters of the Sacramento an 4 the San Jo i-'tue of this State were cultivated last quin the former draining the western ; tar (which still shows an iuproae on slope of the Sierra Nevnda from the a"J former year), there were 1,159,613 Dorth, as the latter do.s from the south Jicrcs of inclosed land with of course a ia thus, as it were, in the throat of the! much larger area of uuinelosed devoted bellows through which the damp galea! to grazing. Cattle-growing, was tho from the Pari (is are cou-tatitly ru-hing to'chi-f employment of the Califoruiaua of cool the parcbed slopes or warm the snow otht-r dasy, and cattle-growing, next after clad bights of the interior. I presume , miuj. the chief business of the Cali there was never a day without a breeze ! foruians of 1850. There are compara at.San Franei-co generally a pretty stiff lively few farms yet established, while one. This sea-breeze is always damp, of- i ranches abound on every side. A corral ten chilly, and rolls up clouds whirh hide(to which to drive his wild herd when the sun for a part, at least of most day.!"-' or security is in quention, and a field Though ice seldom forms aud snow never j or two in which to pasture his milch cows lie in her streets, San Franci-co must be aud working cattle, are often all of the regarded as a cold place by most of her gauche that is inclosed; tha herd i hiu.ply visiters and miuedimjitnd Summer deni-! branded with the owner's mark and turu- zens. I presume a hot day was never known there, and uo uiiht iu vfhich a pair of good woolen blankets were notes teemed a shelter and a comfort by all but extremely hot-llooded people. Thick flannels and warm woolen outer garments are worn througdut the year by all who; ha not blessed my eyes in connection havo or can get them. In short, San with any farm since I left civilized Kan Francisco is in climate what Loudon sas if even there. A Califoruian would would be with her Summer rains trans- , as soon think of cutting hay for thcfeuste fofmcd into stiff and almost constant oanee of his family as that of his herd. breezes : fact,. Winter i,after Spring, his cattle's f n rr . .eL .,; ' bc-t season -that in whioh they can best I tin sAil of llfiliinrnifi is nlmor.r. iini- J formly good. The valleys and ravines rejoice in a generons depth of dark vege table mold, usually mingled with or rest ing on clay; while the less precipitous hill , , i i-t t i i ey loam of good qua ity, asking only ad- J i I equate moisture to render it amply pro- . T . c m i t A .. . . .t,. Kf.inrr (.fr.nirl nt ir:i".r il linnet, t , h .i i i :. a the range be broad enough, cattle which anywhere, save on the naked granite end , - ,uuf3-' " ' . . ' . . . have naoglit to do but forage contrive to vou incite a luxuriant vegetation. - r r i . ju b eke out a pretty fair living. But it were Yet the travclrr who first looks down wpre absUrd tQ guppose that a siuie crop on tho valleys and lower hill sides, of Q dead uerbago can afford, acre for acre, California iu mid-summer is generally eqnal nouri8UIneilt wjtj, lho COntantly re disappointed by the all but universal newed graRSes of an Eastern pasture; and deadness. Somo hardy weeds, a little ffia Lordg suffer from want Qf consider Bdur, coarse grass along the few living n.QU of this fact A(J rancies aTQ multi water courses, some small far-between gardens and orchards rendered green and yet tj,e relurns 0f X858 give a yield of thrifty by irrigation, form striking excep- G20.3-23 bushels from 12,978 acres, of 48 tions to the general paralysis of all annu- bushels per acre here grown. But it can al manifestations of vegetable life. High only bo grown to a profit in limited localities. UP in ll,e mountains, ho has found green II I .1 1 . 1 1 vaiioys wuereon me snow aouoties lin gered till Into in June, leaving the soil saturated like a wet spongo for a month later; and there are swampy meadows when-on the coarse grans grows thick to a hight of several feet; while beds of del- 'icate flowering plant-, sheltered by the tall forests, Uiailitaiu their vitality on the mountain-slopes till late in August; tut ; he passes out of the region of Evergreens into that of Oaks as he descends to a level , ne Passes out 01 lue re,ou r evergreens of SOWG 3,000 feet above tho 0CC3D, aoti . t : j j mountain-glades of flowering plant? still living, salute him no longer. The Oaks .gradually become sparse and tcattered; j their dark foliage contrasts strongly with the dun. dead ucroace beneath between them; as ho descends to the plaius, the Oaks vanish or become like angels' visits, while a broad expanse of dried up pasture-range vies with occa sional strips of Wheat or 13arley stublo iti evenciii2 the protracted fiereene of the Summer drouth. His vision sweepi ovcr mes ucr utiles of ttubble aud range whercou no sin of vegetable life not e- . . h , , U reGD woed-lti Panted; he sees feven-eighths of the watrr courecs abo- lutelj-. intensely dry, while the residue are reduced from rivers to scanty brooks, fr0ta brooks to tiny rivulet.-; and he nmr- n.ur, t0 him.-elf ;,Is this the Arr.ericau Irally ? It looks more like a Sahara or Gobi.'-' Yet this, like mo-t ha-ty iudments. is a vrfy uusound one. The?e slopes, thc-o vales, now so dead and cheerless, are but resting from their annual aud ever suo eersful effots to contribute bountifully to the sustenance and comfort of Man Summer i their sensou of torpor, as Win ter ia ours- Dead as these wheat fields now now 'fr, the ttubble is thick aud btout, iir.d it in-iieatious are more than ju?titied by the harve;.t they have this year yielded. 'The California Slate Register give- the following as thi- officially return ed Wheat yield of the State for the last three ars : Yenrs. Total Acres in Wheat 171,800 157 164.042 Totul'Product 3,a05,484 3.568.G09 185S 180,464. if compared with wnat miAht be grown, ana in particular instances are grown; but if compared with the actunl average j owing to the toolncss of her Summer ed out to range where they will, being looked after occasionally by a mouutcd ranchcrO) whose horse is trained to dex terity iu running among or arcuud them. Stables for horses I have S"en; but suoh a thin as an honest, straight-out bam food. From August to Novemhcr is their hardest time. But the herbage which rendered the hills and plaius one vast flower-garden in Spring is, though dead and dry as tinder, still nutnttoue; its myr- . , J , , :. 1 lad flowers havo given place to seeds, .... it J .... . i WUICU liayc me qualities oi gram; anu. n 1 t l nlinnnn r f system becomes inevitable. , v wuuuv. wj The cattle- plied and herds increased, grower must lencc on a portion ot uis uen planted in well-grounded reliance on range aud sow it to Indian Corn, to Sor- the rains of Heaven not depndent for its ghum, to Turnips, Beets, aud Carrots, very existence on the "saki" or artificial wherewith to supply tho deficiency of his brook, which I am always glad to sec flow Summer and Fall feed. Then he can ing into a field, no matter on which sido keep a much larger herd than is now of the llocky Mountains. 1 believe firm profLable if possible, and may double his ly in Irrigation; but I prefer land that animal product of Cheese or Butter. At there is some crodit in irrigating to that present, I judge this product to be small- whioh must be irrigated or it might bet er per cow or per acre iu California than ter have lain unplowcd and uusowu. in almost nny other State, except what is Of course, it is understood thatlrriga made in the high valleys of the Sierra tiou is exceptional, even here. All the Nevada. grains are grown here without irrigation; Fruit, however, is destiued to be the but the small grains are hurried up qui to ultimate glory of California. Nowhere sharply by drouth, and in some instances else on earth is it produced bo readily or bligted by it, aud at best are doubtless bo bountifully. Such Pears, Peaches, much lighter than they would bo with a Apricots, Nectarines, &c, as load the good, soaking rain early in June; while trrcs of this valley, and of nearly every Indian Corn and most Hoots and Vegeta valley in the State which has had any 'blea cau only in favored localities be chanoe to produce tbem, would stagger grown to perfection without artificial wa the faith of nine-tenths of tuy readersv--- tering. I estimate that, if all the arable Peach trees only six years set, which land in the State, fertile as it undoubted have borno four large burdens of fruit ly is, were seasonably planted to Corn while growing luxuriantly each year, are and fairly cultivated, without irrigation, quite common. Apple-trees, but threo'the average yield would fall below ten years set, yet showing at least a bushel 1 busels per acre. Hence every garden of large, fair frut, are abuudant. I have throut the State, save a part of those near seen Peach-trees four or five years from the coast and within the immediate influ the States which have all the fruit they ence of the damp sea-breeze, must have cau stagger under, yet have grown thren its stream of water or it comes to nothing, feet of new wood over this load during aud various devices are employed to pro the eurrcnt season. Dwarf Pears, just . cure the needful fluid. Of these, 1 like stu-k into tho black loam, and nowise fer-! Artesian wells far best; and they aro al tilized or cultivated, but covered with ready numerous, especially in this valley, fruit the year after they were set, and , But ordinary wells, surmounted by wind thenceforward bearing larger and larger' milln which press every casual breeze in yields with each succeeding Summer, are to the tmrface aud aro often pumping up seen in almost every tolerably cared-for a good stream of water while the owner Fruit-patch. I cannot discover an in-, and all hands are asleep, are much more stance in which any fruit tree, having ' common, and are found to answer very borne largely one year, consults its digui- well; while some keep their little gardens ty or its ease by standing still or growing iu fair condition by simply drawing wa wood only the next year, as is common ter, bucket after bucket, in the old hard our way. I have seen Green Gages and way. In the valleys, and perhaps on tho other Pium-trees so thickly set with fruit hill-sides as well, it is generally held that that I an sure the plua-s vrould far out the Vine requires no irrigation after be weigh the trees, leaves and all. And ' ing eet two years, and the better opinion not one borer, eurculio, caterpillar, apple j seems to be that Fruit-trees, after two worm, or other nuisance of that lare aud years' watering, do better without. J uudelihtful family, appears to be known . have not yet satisfied myself as to the in all this region. Under a hundred fruit feasibility of superseding Irrigation by trees, you will not see one bulb which has Deep Plowing, though my strong convie prematurely fallen a victim to this dc-. tion is that every orchard and garden structive brcod. ; should be dug up and pulverized to a depth Of Grape?, it is hardly yet time to of three if not four feet; and that those speak so sanguinely as many do; for years so treated would thereafter need little, if will be required to render certain their , any, artificial watering. I hope to learn exemption from the diseases and the de- further on this point, vastators kuown to other lands of the! Let me close this too long letter with vine. But it is certain that some kinds . a grateful acknowledgement to an emi of Grapes have been gro-.vn around tbe!grant M. Sheals, I read his name who old Jesuit Missious for generations', withjfound my trunk by the Three Crossings little care and much success; and it does of Sweetwater (uot in the stream, as I not appear that the more delicate va'rie-: supposed it wa) and brought it along o ties recently introduced are less thrifty'ver three hundred miles to Salt Lake or more subject to attack than their Span-j City, where ho delivered it to the Cali ifh predecessors, and Vineyards are bc-jfornia Stage Company, which forwarded ing multiplied and expanded in almost lit to me. Mr. S. writes that he found it every farming neighborhoood; single vines Jin or beside the road broken open; but, as and patches of choice varieties are shoot- j I do uot siiss any papers of consequeucc, ing up iu almost every garden throughout! I presume nothing of much value to mo the Mining region, and there cau be lit-i was tkeu from it. How ft came in the tic doubt that California is already bet- road tho half mile between the station ter supplied with the grape thati any oth- whence wc started that morning and the er State of the Union. That she is des- place where I missed it having been twice tined soon to become largely and profita- bly engaged in the manufacture of Wine, is a current belief here, which I am at once unable and disinclined to controvert. I hat California is richest of all the American States iu Timber, as well as in minerals, 1 consider certain, though tbe forests of Oregon are doubtless stately and vast. Even tho Coast llango be tween this valley and Santa Cruz on the south-west, is covered by magnificeut Red wood some of the trees sixteen feet through, and fifty iu circumference. In; Gotham; aud tbe animal being very stub Soil, I cannot consider her equal to Uli-i born, Johnathan found it quite difficult nois, Iowa, Kansas, or Minuesota, though . t0 accelerate his pace. Ho used the the ready markets afforded by her Mines ; persuasive eloquence of a hiokory stick, to her farms probably render this one ofiDOW(Jver and each blow ho would draw the most inviting States to the enterpri- i 0Qt: "Get up Bony-part! pit up, I say!" sing, energetic husbaudmau. But it munt A littIe Frenchman iu passing, heard with be considered that uot half the soil of Gal- ( with rage, tho name of bis illustrious ifornia can ever be deemed arable; the j oountryinau applied to tbe ugly beast, larger area being covered by-mountains, I auu commenced heaping a volley of abuse ravines, deserts, u n fuc.t w hnn nn.. foutth of the entire State shall have been' plowed and reduced to tillage, I judge j for you call that ogly beast Nap-oleonl that the residue might belter be left to Sair, I shall have dc grande satisfac grow timber and grass. Steop, rocky tion." hill-hides, on which no rain falls from "Git up, Honey part!" was the only Juno to November, can never bo tilled to response. much profit. '.Sairl monsieurl I say vat you call -This persistent Summer drouth iB!dat vagabono borso Nap-oleon!" uot an unmixed evil. ' It is a guaranty1 ;'TG,t !fD' ?art! ', against many insects, and against rust, "ere tho French man b rage boiled o-cven-in the heaviest grain. Grain and, ver? a"(1 ""PB feet upon tbe pare Hay are got iu at far less co-t and frl ! ont he screamed out, Oh, by gar! I much better average condition here than hua11 ,hafe car rvenge. I have one they can be where the Summers are uot llt? hccP JS al uome; 1 R? cloudless nor rainless. Weeds are far less persistent and pestilent here lhan at the East; while tbe air is so uniformly dry and bracing, and the days so gener ally tempered by a fresh breeze, that tho human frame maintains its elasticity in spite of severe and eontiuuod exertion. T r i was novor nciorc in a region wucro so Hp.".. ..UV.U HW in ui u uuuiu ue accom pnsucu to me naua in Summer as iust hero. t. i i u i.t.i j . - - j And yet-and yet my early projudi- pan over the fire, containing hut beef drip ccs in favor of a refreshing showor occa- turnod frcqUBmiJt mey browned sionally aro not fully overcome. I dis- Jj, QVer but never burued. Tbo addition like to look for miles across so rich aud of a HtUo and pt;pp0r while in the beautiful a valley n this of San Jose, and aQ(1 flour dredgod over tbem, is an boo paralysis and death tho rule, green- improvement. ness and life tbo exception. I dislike toi see cattlo picking at the dry, brcwu her-i JJjWlicn you seo a gentleman at bage, and can't help thinking they, would midnight ou the step in front of his house, like a field of sweet, green clover, or thick combing his hair with the door-scraper, blue grass a good deal better.. This you may judge ho has been out to an may be a mistake on my part, but, if so, evening party. if !j nna ti n f n w A 1 1 . I. ! .1 T 111 u vuv. LUUL uuua UlUUIIi IU IUUII UlfCUril- ment aud tasto. And I like to see a tar- ridden over in quest of it within half an hour after its loss I have not yet been able to conjeoture; and I will thank who ever can to shed even a ray of light on , tho subi'ect. If Mr. Sheals will favor me with his address, he will add scusibly to , the debt I already owe him. Horace Greeley. JYjA. tall, raw-bony i aukce was riding a diminutive specimen of the don- k"v tribo through tho muddy streets tff on me neuj or me oucnuintr i anKco. ,,oair! shouted the baul, "bair, vat him Guillaumo Washington, by garl Fried Potatoes. How few cooks know how to fry pota toes. There is nothing so easy to get and yet so palatable for breakfast, with a thick, tender beefsteak, or a mutton chop frying from the gridiron. To fry - . . lll raw uoiaiocs nroueiiY. iuev ouuuiu , , : .. ' PlJ,1. out lengthwise in slice slices an eighth nf nn in nil ill t h I tl lH U llmnnfid UltO a Hifalutin. Perhaps the following may not amuse either yourself or your readers, but it did me. In our drug store I have a fellow clerk somewhat celebrated among his ac quaintances as a concoctor and the utter er of dry jokes, lie is a boyish locking youth, and officiates, when his services are required, behind the soda fountain. A few mornings since, a fashionable drossed, poetical looking young geutle man entered, and seating himself on a stool iu front of the counter, in a choice selection of terms reqested tho clerk to prepsrc htm a scidlitz powder. The fol- lowing conversation, ridiculous iu its earnestness, resulted: Clerk With Syrup T Customer (slowlw and methodically) I require it not as a refreshment. If the syrup vitiate not tho effect of the compound, you may mingle with it such an amount of the substance as will reu dcr tbe potation palatable. Or, to bo better understood Clerk-(interrupting)-I comprehend you perfectly Permit me to assure you mat me tendency ot the syrup will be ratner to enciiaucc tuan dimmish the purgative virtues of the drug. Customer Indignant at observing that hi style is affected by the other) Then proceed, miracle of medical literature and wisdom! Clerk With dispatch, confouudcr of fools. Customer Then if not struck, mo tionless, use hartte. All this was so quietly, so politely said, tun .uiuU0 amu-cu neyonu expression .K. ..1.1 l . .11 i at the conversation, 1 started in wonder at the parties, ihe Clerk evidently felt cut at tbe last remark of tho other, but mixed the powder, which the stranger f V . -. r.linln .nll.. J ? .5 C 1 muu" ua" snailUffeu. pam jor, aou tartcd to leave the store, when Clerk Should you feci any unoasiness in the region of the stofoaoh, within the period of fifteen minutes, illustrious pat ron, attribute the cause to the accidental introduction into the draught ou have just taken of some drug of vigorous effect and painful consequence. Gustomer )A trifle frightened) If I do, d n you I'll punch your head. Clerk I thought I'd bring jou down to plain English; but I gue-s you'll find tbe powder all right.- Exit Customer with his coat tail standing straight out. The Richmond Whig illustrates tho boasted chivalry of Virginia by publish ing the following incitement to kidnap ping and murder: 810,000 KEWAHD. JOSHUA R. GIDDiNGS having openly declared him- self a traitor in a lecture at Philadelphia , on the 29th of October, and there being no process, strange to say, by which he can be brought to justice, I propose to be one of one hundred to raise SI 0.000 for his safe dilivery in llichmoua, or S5,- 000 for the production of his head. I do ment being at hand, to supply all the not regard this proposition, extraordinary wants of the trees. If our farmers would as it may at first seem, either unjust or make it a point to clear a picc of the unmerciful. Tho law of God and tho richest timbered laud a.- often as possible, Constitution of his country, both condemn when they wanted to set out an orchard, him to death. and plant their trees there, the fruit For satisfactory reasons I withhold my would be forwader, and so escape many name from the public, but it is in the of the evils to which they are subject in hands of tho editor of tho Richmond not ripening. They would improve in Whig. There will bo no difficulty, I am stead of deteriorating ia size and flavor, sure, in raising tho $10,000 upon a rca- and probably not be half so much infes souable prospect of getting the said Gid- ted aud iujured by insects. Where this dings to this city. j is imgossible, the object may be secured Richmond, Nov. I. 1859. by surrounding the trees with virgin soil ..-, on planting, or by suitable manures and A Swindler. cultivation. Several of the finest nurse- :V well dressed, oily-tongued knave, ' J c i with sandy hair aud bluisu eyes, has been-nalminf himself off for a duv or twn as D. N. Tousey, aud agent for the great periodical and news dealers, Ross & Tou- j sey of New York He takes subscrip- tious for any of the magaj mgaziuen and gives printed receipts signed by himself as the agent of the firm. A despatch from Messrs. Ross & Tousey pronounces him a swindler and lying rascal, who has been gulling the public all summer. We hope he will be speedily onugut and an end nut. tn Ii is s wl nil lin onor.ltioiis. Frio ml of the Press, pass him round, and put the (it!l-fc' a variety, and it has this advau public on their guard. Scranton Repnb. , Se' lh,at dl1fi0,reut. productions occupy lican. i i , ILj A oler-jyman preached a sormon some short time ago iu , well tis no matter whero, and which one of his audi tors commended. j "Yes," said a gentleman to whom it was mentioned, "it was a good sermon, but he stole it?" 1 This being told to the preacher, he re j Ecnted it, and called upon the gentleman to retract what he had said. "I am not," replied tho aggressor, "ve ry apt to retract my words, but in this instance I will; I said you had stolen tbo sermon; 1 find I was wrong; for on re turning home and referring to the book wheuce I thought it was taken, I found it i-till there!" 05The republicans of Pikn and Mon- ; piece of information: roo counties have concurren with those of: If a child is taken with oroup, apply Wayne in appointing Samuel E. Dim- cold water icu water if possible sud miok,.Esq.. of Honesdale as tho delegate denly and freely to the neck aud chest from this Senatorial district to the next with a sponge. The breathing will ill State Convention. stantl y be relieved. Soon as possible let ; the sufferer drink as much as it can, theu BgyAn In-jin" and a white man wero wipe it dry, cover it up warm, and boon a Dasino- along Broad w"ay. New York, when quiet slumber will relieve the parent's the former espied a window full of wig, anxiety, and leadtjia hrart in thaitkful and pointing to the owner standing in tho nuss to the PowtJ1r.whfch.h35 gicn to tho doorway, said", uUgh! him great man poro guying fountain such Uludieai qual ! tig bravo take many Boalps!" ' ities. From the Philadelphia Lodger. Failure of the Fruit Crop. Tho very great complaint iu tbe interi or of the State of a decline in almost all the established &nd most productive kindj of fruity demands more attention than it has thus far received. Large sections of the interior of the State of New York and of Pennsylvania, that used to be cel ebrated for their peaches, now aro hardly able to raise a crop. The Farmers all complain that the sea-ons seem too short for tbera to rincn, aud if uot plucked green, they rot on the trees. The frosts .kill the buds in spring, or insect or dis ease destroy the trees. This year there has been a tolerable supply of plums in the upper parts of our own State, but for several seasons past till now this has not been the case. Tho apple trees, too, ma ny of them are bearing wor.-e and worso annually. True, old trees are dying out aud the fruit of young ones is thought to be inferior in qualitv. Insect ply upon anJ u theul Suc, multi- Such is the trouble. What aro tho cause" The gun aud shot belt of the boys is doubt less oue cause of the multiplications of insects. But there is somethinL- far back of this. It U a we k anJ rotten state of tho fruit itself which most encouraaes ai.c fosters tbe mischievous insects. And this weakness and rottenness is what must maialy le sought out as to its causes, and cured, if wc would cure the evil. When fruit trees were first planted in the State, it wa in vircin r-oil. In North- a ' umberiand C0UUtVt Dr. Priestly, aud af- tcrwards his son more extensively, im- ported some of the Unest varieties or English fruits, especially the apple. And these not only prospered, but pro- J " duced Bcw and fine varieties. Met of the very best orchard.- iu the surrounding counties were trees of the Priestly-raia-iuit. Some of these continue to bear to this day very finely, where the ground afford them sufn-Meut nourishment. But where the soil is exhausted, so are tho trees. Wo saw an orchard not long sinee where about half the trees were on a rich soil, and the other on a rocky, barren land, but slightly covered. The trees were planted at the ssme time in all, but in ouc case they weie still vigorously bearing, and in tho other hardly an applo could be raised. It is probably the want of sufficient nourishment of the right kind, '.vhich lies at the basi of most of the much com plained of failures iu the fruit crops. M-ny faruor. think any soil good enough for fruit treos, and they raise exhautin crops o? cereals from land and then won der it does not bear fruit. Or they plant trees where the same fruit trees were be fore, or whero the soil is shaliow and sterile, and rock lies clo!e underneath. Ihe rapidity of growth does and must greatly depend upon a bountiful nourish ' r? Zrod Jn thtJ w!ole country for fruit . . r t c xT tree, arc to be found as far North as Ro chester. 1,1 li,ranoc al,nost every production is culvaletl lu a distinct garden. Men dc- . ?oto tuecives to one iruit on one uovrer, hWU a u2- or lUL peacu. or tne pear, or the apple. By careful cultivation tho soil doc not wear out, and there is a scientific tudy of the habits and wants of each trait and flower which must bo pro duced, or our productions will deterior ate. Wc follow the English method of cul- ucuvi iiiu n uuiu uiuc uuu uiu su tur U conmical. There . too. a vast advan- tagc in the rotation of tht oropd. But ; , , , . . 1 .... , , b . variety in our practical tmowioage ana habits of industry. Wo havo not yet ob tained the wisdom which uoce.-sarily en genders iu tho course of generations from cultivating the same soil. In Ireland, we see the potato blight has again ap peared a disease dearly ongeuderod by the exhaustion of some element of the soil not yet known. Simple Cure for CrouiJ.f We find in tho Jmi of' IdLiUf. following simple remed.'forHhis dar ous diea.c. Thoic who havo ased nights of agony at thu bodeftlierof lod children, will treasure it up a valuablo
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