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Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. J.A.J. BUCHANAN. WM. C. LINDSEY. BUCHANAN & LINDSEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Office on the BSouth side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 1, 1862. W. DOWNEY. SAMUEL MONTOOWERY. DO ET d INZONTOOMILear ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, 117•0ffice in Ledwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M'CONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. i 211PCONNALL & utrrraTAN. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS 4T .L.RW Waynesburg, Pa. DOrOffice to the "Wright House," East Door. Collections, &c., will receive prompt. attention. Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFCID, literacy and C';ountellor at Law. Office in Sayers' ! Building, adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 11. 1881-Iy. O. A. MACK. JOHN PHLLAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW. Office in the Court House. Waynesburg. I Sept. 11,1661-Iy. PHYSICIANS DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his aervices as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre damn of human life aad health, and stria attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. MGT IIII4PECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity. as a Physician and urgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. Ile hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention 1 so business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. I April 9, 1862. DR. T. P. SHIELDS. PRACTICING PHYSIC AN. Office in the old Roberts' Building, opposite Day's I Book store. Waynesburg, Jan. 1, 1801. DR. D. W. BRADEN, Physician and Surgeon. Odice iu the Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept ii, 1861—Iv. DRUGS DR. W. L. CREIGH, Physician and surgeon, ♦nd dealer in Drugs, Medicines. Oils, Paints, &a., Ste., Main street, a few doors east of the Bank. Bept. 11. 1861-Iy. M. A. HARVEY, erriggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. 1t361-Iy. MERCHANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Doinee Ms Dry Goods, Grocer'es, Notions, ate., Main street. Sept. 11,1561-Iy. GEO. HOSKINSON, Opp°.ha the Court House, keeps always on hand a 4irge stock of Seasonable Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and Notions generally. Seq. 11, 1861-Iy. ANDREW WILSON, Dealer In Dry Goode, Groceries, Drugs, Notions, Hardware, Queensware, Stoneware, Looking Glasses, Iron and Nails, Boots and Shoes, nazi and Caps, Halo street, one door east of the Old Bank. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer to Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite itte Court House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1881-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers trt Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, (ITO owles, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite ilbe Green House. Main street. Sept. 1 t, 1861-IY, CLOTHING N. CLARK, Dealer In Men's and Boys' Clothing, Cloths, Cam& wires, Satinets, Hats and Cape, et.c., Main street. op. panes the Court House. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. - A. J. SOWERS, Dealer in Men'a andßoys' Clothing, Gentlemen's Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hata and Caps, Old Bank Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-4 m BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, n.arly opp , isitel the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style of Dor and Shoes constantly onliand or wade to order. sept• 11, 1861-Iy. J. B. RICKEY, fleet and Shoe rstaker,Blechley's Corner. Main street. Stotts and Pilules of every variety always on hand or slade to order on short notice. Sept. 11. 1861—ly.• GROCERIES & VARIETIES JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notion', Mestieines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of -*liaises. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. or-Cash paid for good eating Apples. Sept. 11, 13131—1 y. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Anode General/y, Wilson's New Building, Main street. Sept. 11, 1661-Iy. BOOKS , &c. LEWIS DAY, Dyer _I and Mieeellaneonn Books, Station ory Tallt sad rapers One door gut of /*net NOW grant Rortg. BY TEN LATE REV. E. YEATEE REESE, D. D "Slowly enter—softly tread"— So the whispered words were said— He is dead ; the lovely child ! Hush'd his laughter, load and wild ; Mute those lips, whose softest words Charmed us like the songs of birds ; Pale his cheek, it once was red ; Cold his eye—the fire had fled— "Slowly enter—softly tread"— So the whispered words were said— =1 Dead the youth of promise fair ; Lo the dark luxuriant hair, Falling o'er a forehead fraught With lineaments of noble thought— Visions bright! where have ye fled And in whispered tones they said— "Slowly enter—softly tread," So the whispered words were said— Dead! but yesterday his name Fill'd the sounding blasts of Fame, He, the man whose deeds were sung, By the aged—by the young, Open now his narrow bed ! Plant the marble at his head ! "Slowly enter—softly tread !" So the whispered words were said— Dead ! the old man full of years, Who shall count his fallen tears Many a long and fearful storm Beat upon that trembling form ; Now, at last his couch is spread, Where the weary rest the bead— "Slowly enter—softly tread)" So the whispered words were said— Mournfully the tidings spread, As the living joined the dead ! Maiden, matron, youth and age— All who tread life's pilgrimage ; Tears of sorrow will be shed, And the whispered words be said— "Slowly enter—softly tread"— Will the whispered words be said— iortilanttruo. THE POOR OF NEW YORK. The writer of this paragraph has seen much of the Poor of New York—has fre quently visited the Five Points and other localities noted for the destitution and deg :adation of their denizens,and has witnessed in mid-winter, when the snow was fifteen inches deep, the painful sufferings and want of the children of penury and misfor tune. No pen can describe the squalid wretchedness, the gloomy surroundings, the moral and physical degradation of hull dreds and thousands of these miserable creatures. The story of their poverty, and struggles, and woes, if it could be told by a ready writer, would challenge the belief of the least skeptical of our country readers. Indeed,the condition of the poor of our great commercial city can only be understood and appreciated by those who have mingled much with that large class in inclement seasons of the year and in times of great monetary distress and derangement, when trade and business are in a great measure suspended, and employment is either ex ceedingly precarious or not to be found at all. This was the case last Fall, and in the early Winter months, and we are not stag gered at the paint'ul recitals we have en-, countered in our New York exchanges of the sufferings of the poor of that great city. A correspondent of the New York Ob server, who seems to be connected with some of the many charitable enterprises for the relief of the destitute of chat city, thus details some of the benefits resulting from a barrel of oat-meal which had been dis tributed among them :—[Ed. Messenger.] littooKityx, Friday, March 28th, 1862 The barrel of oat-meal has come, and now I will record its benefits. At our mothers' meeting, one woman wept much. I told her I was going home with her. "Me no speak English," was her reply. German Rosa said, "She cry so, cause she no-ting eat. Her husband no get work ; it make my heart ache to see good ehristian man cry like little child, cause hisfamily hungry ; he Norway man; they good christiaus, read the Bible, keep God's law." I brought Mrs. Oleson home: gave her three quarts of oat-meal. "Now my heart glad, tank God," was all she could say. I asked her on the Sabbath if she bad enough for dinner, "Oh yes, the beans and oat-meal." Martha came in the evening, had no fire, her baby sick, her husband looking for work all day, but found none. She seemed to forget all her troubles when she saw a pail of oat-meal. Her hushand came back for a basket of coal : wanted a Bible and a good beak for A DIRGE. "He is dead r "He is dead !" "He is dead !" "He is dead !" "He is dead !" "He is dead !" "He is dead !" “He is dead !” "He is dead !" " He is dead-!" "She is dead !" " He is dead 1" "She is dead !" WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862. the Sabbath: lent him Dr. Edgar's "Irish Revival." When he returned it, found in the leaves these verses: "Hail heavenly light, illume my soul, And guide my erring ways. Prolong my life on earth awhile, That I may sing thy praise. "Too long have I in darkness at Uublest by God above ; Nor the sweet joy of Jesus felt, Nor sought his pardoning love, "0 guardian angel, guide us through This dreary vale of tears, Unstained by sin in tuture time, If granted longer years. "And when my earthly race is run. And I beneath the tomb, 0 grant me through thy glorious Son, A happier, heavenly home," When asked are these the feelings of your heart ? "I want a sure hope of heaven," was his reply: He has been sick since late in the fall, had money in the bank at Norwich, Ct., and a comforta ' ble home, but all is gone. Thomas Smith, an aged man, put in coal for me: begged for work; wife and one delicate boy of 15 ; appears to be temperate : rooms very neat, but lit tle in them ; said he hail been doing pen ance all his days, was now no nearer heav en than when he began; wanted a Testa ment with large print: would read it and try to come to Jesus; was so grateful for some oat-meal, 'twas better than tea and sugar; brought the pail back directly to tell me how thankful his wife and sick boy were ; had not fixed the coal quite well enough for the money ; must put it farther in. Poor Ellen came in her husband's coat, and a tattered shirt, bloated, and her face blackened; the demon whisky marking every feature. She "had heard madam was sick, and could not stay away ; had ! not touched a drop for five weeks, since she promised she would not, and never would again," if she could only have work and buy food and clothes. They were French: once had their nice house and kept boar ders. A child scalded to death broke her husband's heart. He was kind and good then, but drink ruined him. She worked and earned all she could, but it did no .good. Her husband beat her when he was drunk, because the little girl was scalded. Then she drank ; she could not. help it, she had so much trouble. Now they live in a room twelve feet square, have not one piece of furniture, only old pieces nailed together, and father and mother and three little girls of 13, 11 and 3, sleep on a sack of shavings, with one old quilt over them. I never lay my head upon my pillow but I ask my Heavenly Father to give Ellen a nice bed and a new home, and above all a new heart. The oat-meal brought tears to her eyes. "It is almost as goad as bla,nc monge." Poor Ellen, my heart yearns for abetter life for her. She will give us her children till she is reformed. We hope to find them a re- fu ge Mrs. M. C. came Tuesday evening.— "Can I do the work for you to-morrow, ma'am ?" was her only request. "Come to the fire, Ann, and we will see. You are so hoarse you can hardly speak: you can not wash windows." "1 must work," was her only answer, choked by tears. It was raining and very cold ; her shoes had large openings on each side ; she was poorly dressed. Her husband has the consump tion ;—her younger child water upon the brain. She unwillingly acknowledges they have no coal, no money, no friends. "Rev. Mr. L. was my friend ; I lived a long time with them, and they would do anything for me, but I cannot find where they are gone. The L. family, too, would help me, but they live in the country. I cannot ask strangers: I'd rather work ; my husband will tend the children." Some oat-meal was cooked for their supper, and she was told to come for an order for coal in the morning, but she did cot come, and upon going to them they were found still without fire. The sick husband had gone out in a chill east wind, to hold the chain for a sur veyor ; was unwilling to take the coal when he could work for it. The child of four years was gasping with that fearful malady, the croup. Hunger and cold was doing its work. Now the poor man consents to stay at home ; is reading the Bible daily, and seeking that preparation for death which removes all fear. He has oat-meal three times a day, and 'tis all he wants. The love which sent the oat-meal may lead him to heaven. God bless that bleeding heart. A German woman has her first babe, three weeks old, in her arms. She cannot find where her husband enlisted. He says, in Brooklyn ; tells her the place. "Must come right home, if she does not find it, and bring money to her." The place cannot be fourid. She is starving, and the poor baby is almost dead. The oat meal nourishes her. "Don't feel troubled for Mrs. D.; she has food for her baby now, and is so thankful for the oat-meal." A modest, pretty German woman begs for the cinders. They came to this coun try alone—no friend to go to. Her hus band worked for a farmer in Flatbush, the first summer, for $1,50 per month f Woe unto those that "oppress the hireling in, hie wages." Is not this oaf pf the eine of our land for which we are now` suffering ? Alas! we know not the sufferings of the strangers among us. This providing work for the poor, at a proper compensation— what a work it is. It must be done.— "Work, work," is the cry we constantly hear, notwithstanding the army absorbs such a multitude. This worthy family have almost starved have had sickness and death in conse quence. The oat-meal has made their hearts glad. Now they have hope for the future. They are not without food. Another German family of five children often go hungry to bed. The father is in the army, He has had no pay for three months. The money drawn here is not enough to feed them, and the rent must be paid. "God sent the oat-meal to us, and we will ask blessings for her who gives it to us." A feeble black man, who has one little boy in consumption, wants something nourishing for the child. He will not take the rum the doctor directs. He loves !...Jesus, and wants to go to heaven, and lie don't want to take what makes so many people bad. The oat-meal is much better for him. The man is a brother of Dr. Pennington, was liberated from slavery seven years since. Another starving family are supplied with the precious oat-meal. The father is sick. They are Germans, and hide their sufferings rather than beg. Mrs. Bauer, a German woman, is full of gratitude for some oat-meal. Her husband is in the army ; is dissipated, and sends her no money. He left her with five small children, and only her $2,70 per week, for rent, tile!, food and clothes. The children have all had the small-pox ; none of them had been vaccinated. A fine, bright boy of three has lingered through the winter, till nothing of his fat, rosy cheeks and plump limbs were left but the poor skeleton. The poor child had no proper nourishment, and when he died and the sorrowing mother went to the City Hall for a coffin and a man to bury him, she asked if she could go and see where he was buried, and was told, "No; if yon pay you can see." Now she has 30 cents less a week for her hungry children. Poor Rosa says there is a blessing in the oat-meal. She and her husband never knew want, but last Fall no work could be procured. For seven long weeks not one cent could they earn. They were just mar ried. Ile was a clerk in a German store; could not speak English. "Poor Rosa," he would say, "if I only could suffer all— for I once turned out a poor widow for her rent, and I deserve it ; but it breaks my heart to see you suffer." Now he is in the army before Yorktown, and poor Rosa says ; "I try to trust God ; but I think he may let, my husband die on the battle field, and I would not say a word if he could lie down in his bed and die, and I take care of him, but now I cannot stop my tears." April 14th.—Martha called. Wanted books for her husband, who has been sick a week. She also had a severe cold, and her baby was sick. "We should have starved but for the oat-meal, and my hus band could eat nothing else." They read the Bible with great interest, and I have some hope that their hearts rest upon Jesus. The man in consumption, too, is very earnest in seeking the dear Saviour; says he wants to feel his love in his heart. He takes care of the two children, while his wife works out whenever she can.— His Bible is by him constantly, that he may read every moment when he has quiet. Is it strange that the crushed poor feel that God has forsaken them ? It is a blessed thought that Jesus will make "the poor rich in faith." Oh, how much they need that blessed "rest for the weary." April 15th.—The father of the little black boy comes to tell me that his child• is in heaven. Ile died in perfect peace; felt the presence of Jesus, and had no fear. The poor German woman. whose child was buried—she knows not where,—is broken hearted. She sits with her children and weeps, refusing to he comforted. They want nothing to eat, only to know where the body is buried; she thinks its little body has been taken from the coffin and thrown into a deep hole with others who bad "no money to bury." Is this so?— Shall the poor suffer so? My heart is fast wearing out. What shall be done to re lieve the worthy poor? AN AFFECTING SOENE IN OOURT. A woman was sentenced to death in Dumfries, Scotland, on the 7th ult., and the scene in the Court is thus re- I ported : The Judge said: "It now only remains for me to pronounce upon you the last sentence of the law." The prisoner, in an agitated tone : "Oh, my lord, it never was me." Jud g e: "The time of all of us in this world is short. With the most of us it is uncertain. In your ease your days are numbered." The prisoner, in agony: "No sir." Judge: "They must be few." The prisoner: "No." Judge: And I would recom mend you —." The prisoner : "No, my lord, let the Lord send for' me." Judge: "I recommend you to use the short time which you have still in this world in making peace with God." The prisoner: "No, my lord." Judge: "I should betray my duty, and hold out false hopes to you, if I gave you the slightest hope that the sentence of the law might The following touching stanzas are from not literally be carried into effect." the Ballad of the " Old Chapel Bell," by The prisoner: "No, my lord, give me John G. Saxe : forever a prison; dinna, dinna dae Ah well I mind me.of a child, that !" His lordship then put on the A gleesome, happy maid, Who came with constant step to church, black cap,.and formally passed sen tance of ti xecution on the 29th of , In comely garb arrayed, April. The prisoner, when he had And knelt her down full solemnly, concluded, said, in the most heart- ; rending tones: "Oh, my weans! My And penitently prayed. lord, dinna dae that! Oh, dinna dae that! not go out. Oh, my weans! Oh, my weans ! Diana dae that !" Here the unhappy prisoner, with her eyes turned beseechingly towards his lordship, was taken from the bar, led down the trap. crying, "My • weans, my weans !" The scene was harrowing in the extreme, and affect ed many to tears. A STIRRING- INCIDENT. A correspondent of the Tribune, describing the battle at Williams burg, at the moment when eight thou sand of our brave fellows stood like a wall of rock to repel the assault of twenty-five thousand of fresh troop of the enemy, relates the following incident : "Brigadier Berry of the stout State of Maine—wading through the mud and rain at such speed that he actu ally overtook and passed three other regiments—came in sight. Heint zelman shouted with gratitude. He ran to the nearest band, and ordered it to meet the coming regiments with Yankee Doodle, and to givethem march ing time into the field with the Star ,S'pangled Banner. A wild 'hurrah 1' went up from the army, and, with a yell that was electric, three regi ments of Berry's brigade went to the front, formed a lino nearly half a mile long, and commenced a volley firing that no troops on earth could stand before—then at the double quick dashed with the bayonet at the rebel army, and sent them flying from the field into their earthworks, pursued them into the largest of them, and drove them out behind with the pure steel, and then invited them to retake it. The attempt was repeatedly made and repeatedly re pulsed. The count of the rebel dead in that batter) - at the close of the fight was sixty-three. They were principally Michigan men who did this work. The equilibrium of the battle was restored." HALLECK'S ADVANCE ON CORINTH. The manner in which HaHeck's forces are advancing against the ene my's camp, writes a Pittsburg cor respondent, is calculated to make a tremendous crash when the proper time arrives. Let me briefly state the relative positions of the different parts constituting his army. Grant's troops advance directly on the centre, in a southwesterly course, Buell on his right, evidently with a view of seizing the railroads on the north toward Grand Junction, and. Popo on his (Grant's) left, and in ad vance with a view of getting around on Beauregard's right, seizing the road south, and thus hemming him in. This will compel him to defeat HaHeck, retreat westward on foot, or surrender. Which of these alterna tives he may decide to try, is a little uncertain, but my own opinion is he will make a virtue of necessity, as ho did on Monday at Shiloh, and retreat. But with such an overwhelming force so near, this will be no easy operation. Reteat would seem to in involve a total disintegration of his bosatedly large army. And indeed so skillfully has the snare been set, so far has the work of closing it around him progressed, and such is the mighty force brought to bear against him, that escape by any means with in the scope of common minds ap pears next to impossible. He may be able to extricate his army by some adroit manoeuvres, or cut his way through all the coils that sur round him, but to do either will re quire not only the possession but the exercise of all the qualities of a military leader of the first order, that his friends have claimed for him. GREAT STAMPEDE OF SLAVES. Marylanders say that a few days ago 1,000 slaves, as if by a precon eerted movement, simultaneously left kind masters and happy homes, in Prince George's county, Md., and came to the District of Columbia, where they still are. Marylanders, says a Tribune dispatch, complain that the inconveniences growing out of this emigration to the whites of the country are groat, free labor—in many cases naw necessarily per formed by persons entirely unaccus tomed to help themselves—being the only kind to be had. Some have in voiced the aid of the fugitive slave law, but complain that the soldiers are all Abolitionist and will not al low the process to be executed with in their camps. Heavy as was the fruit crop in the West last fall, the coming season promises even still greater abundance. The trees are covered with bloom in all quarters. In Central and South ern Illinois, 'prospects are exceedingly good. In the Eastern States, the indications for a full fruit crop wore wryer wors favorable. A BEAUTIFUL PIOTTIRE, "And oil when church was done,l mark 'd That little maiden near This pleaeant spot, with book in band, As you are sitting here,— She read the Story of the Cross, And wept with grief sincere. " Years rolled away—and I beheld The child to woman grown ; Her cheek was fairer, and. her eye With brighter lustre shown ; But childhood's truth and innocence Were still the maiden's own. " I never rang a merrier peal Than when, a joyous bride, She stood beneath the sacred porch, A noble youth beside, And plighted him her maiden troth, In maiden love and pride. " I never tolled a deeper knell, Than when, in after years, They laid her in the church-yard here, Where this low mound appears— (The very grave, my boy, that you Are watering now with tears l) " It is thy mother! gentle boy, That claims this tale of mine-- Thou art a flower whose fatal birth Destroyed the parent vine 1 A precious flower thou art, my child— Two LIVES WERE GIVEN FOR TRINE I "One was thy sainted mother's, when She gave thee mortal birth ; And one thy Saviour's, when in death He shook the solid earth ; Go! boy, and live as may befit 'fhy life's exceeding worth " The boy awoke as from a dream, And thoughtful looked around, But nothing saw, save at his feet His mother's lowly mound, • And by his side that ancient bell Half hidden in the ground. agritultural. A TALK ABOUT SHEEP. At the Massachusetts Legislature Agri cultural Club. Mr. Flint occupied the chair and opened the discussion. Re believed that the raising of mutton can be made profitable to the farmer. In the western portion of the State, sheep have been raised considerably with a view to improving pastures, and with somo success. Mr. Howard spoke of the keeping of sheep in a national point of view. The poets of Great Britain have sung of the glory of the realm as coming through their flocks. In England, sheep are kept upon almost every farm; whereas in France you may travel almost a day without seeing a sheep. In Great Britain there aro some 50,000,000 of sheep. So many are kept, partly because much of the land is good for nothing else but for sheep to range over. On most of the land no fertilizer is put upon the soil, except that dropped by the sheep. Tho pastures thus managed, have become better, and so have the sheep. The same facts aro genbrally true in this country, where pastures have been fed by the sheep. Mr. Fearing looked at the subject in .a moral point of view. Young men hasten to the city to thrive.— But we have too many merchants, lawyers and physicians. The true policy is, to encourage young men to stay at home, and cultivate the land. At Hingham we have been troubled with dogs. But wo united as a body of sheep owners, and proper laws were enacted against the dogs, and we have not been troubled since. His pasture for sheep contains twenty-eight acres, and it has been improved by the sheep. His sheep have aided him in getting rid•of the briars from his pasture. Mr. F. could not speak definitely on the profits of sheep. They need a warm barn, protection from the storm, and a plenty of nourishing food. He likes the South Down sheep best. It gives good mutton enough for any Massachusetts man to eat. He has never lost a sheep by disease, and scarcely a lamb. And their success: has bo. owing to the good care he gives his sheep. His t 1 )31c. gives him six and one-half pounds of wool to a sheep, on an average; but they were not all South Downs. His new sheep barn is forty feet long by twenty wide. It holds hay for sixty sheep and it is arranged so that there is little waste of hay. It can be built in the interior town for $250. Mr. Andrews, of West BoxburY7 said summer before last be raised mash cow-cabbage, and aeop. after NEW SERIES.--VOL, 3, NO, 50. bought seventy sheep. They eat the cabbage and but little hay. He sold most of his sheep the next winter for fifty dollars more than they cost Eight sheep will not consume more food than one cow. These wiltpro. duce lambs that will sell for fifty dollars. So he regards sheep raising profitable. lie quoted a strong article in favor of sheep raising, written by Mr. Har ris, of the Genessee Farmer, which goes to prove that in no country can the fattening of sheep be made so profitable as in this. Mr. Wetherell spoke of a farmer in Hampshire county, who had ex perimented with Leicester and other sheep. He keeps them in a yard be tween two barns. He boils potatoes for them, which he mixes with grain for their food. His prospective view is encouraging. Heretofore he has been a diary farmer. Mr. Grennell, of Greenfield, has succeeded with the Oxfordshire sheep. He prefers them for raising mutton to the South Downs. Pastures are improved by keeping either cows or sheep in them. Sheep do the pastures the most good. Many towns, away from the Rail roads, are rather going backward.-- In such towns, where the land is rath er poor, the people may be enriched by sheep husbandry. Mr. W. does not believe in the ad vantage of giving so much encour agement to the growing of forest trees. He would grow mutton, in stead of wood, upon the poor lands, Dr. Lorin g , of Salem, said there can be no doubt as to the profits of sheep husbandry. Formerly, there were many sheep in the State; now they are but few. In Berkshire, fine wooled sheep are kept profitably.__ The same is true in Vermont. Farm ing a few years ago began to decline in this State; and sheep husbandry was the first to feel it. The secret of a want of sheep in this State is because other branches of farming were thought to be more profitable. Mr. Roberts proceeded to exalt the Oxfordshire sheep. His bucks shear from nine to twelve pounds each, and his lambs he sells from $3,75 to $4,50 each. His pastures aro much improved by keeping sheep ; and he believes that sheep husbandry can be made profitable in the State. A REMEDY FOR OUROULIO. The New York Observer publishes the following as a remedy for the curculio, which is so . destructive to young fruit—plums especially: THE MIXTURE To one pound of whale oil soap add four ounces of sulphur. Mix thor oughly, and dissolve ii ten gallons of water. Take one half peck of quick lime, and when well slacked, add four gal lons of water, and stir well together. When settled and clear, pour off the transparent part and add to the soap and sulphur mixture. To this mixture, add four gallons of strong tobacco water. Apply this compound when thus incorporated with a garden syringe to your plum or other fruit trees, so as to drench all parts of the foliage. If no rains succeed for three wes, one applioa tion will be sufficient. If washed by rains, it should be renewed. In preparing this mixture, some are troubled to obtain whale oil soap.— Many do not know what it is. Ev ery drug store in the country of any extent, should keep the article for sale. It can be obtained in quanti ties of all whale oil bleachers. This soap is the result or deposit, from mixing pot-ash lye or soda-ash with whale oil. The alkali has an affinity for the discoloration and impurities of the oil, and the precipitate from this combination constitutes whaler . oil soap. Whale oil soap can be obtaine&At Drug stores in this city. Another remedy, which has bees tried with success, is to raise a smoke under the trees, by the slow combus tion of some damp substances. If to bacco stems are used, and a slight sprinkling of sulphur, we shoed think it would be very effective. Burning a lamp, suspended over a bucket, or pan of water, during the night, is very effective in capturing the little Turk. CROP PROSPEOTS. Accounts from the West are variable, the heavy rains in some sections having retarded the planting of wheat. This is true of parts of Illinois, Michigan and In diana. The fall wheat is everywhere-ape. ken of as in excellent condition- The Cincinnati Gazette of Tuesday sayer. "In regard to the small grains.. -'wheat, oats and barley—Ave have a right to ea, pent full crops. The wheat never went through winter iu a better condition. The oats and barley will mostly be planted this week, in ground favorable to rapid growth. The great danger, if any, to be apprehend ed is drouth. But that cannot be . 3eriolte. till July and August. The crops of wheat and oats will then be safe. It is the core only for which fear is to be entertained and as that is not y . et. , . • nothing as yet be predicted of • th p e es of the coarse sesame, are rope
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