paper—fituottb to 3gricalturt, fittraturt, Art, foreign, ponttstic nub e rat jilitiiiiitlft, ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISHED BY R W. JONES & JONES S. JENNINGS, WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA T_POPPICH NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. .1 WMUtt3Yii23 Ronscairrton.-82.0 0 fn advance ; $2.25 at the ex -dration of six months; $2.50 after the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at $1.25 per square for three insertions, and 25 cts. a square for each addition al (ten lines or less counted a square.) OW A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. BilfrJOE PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the best style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job Office. qutsburg `flusintss curbs. ATTORNEYS. ,e 69,. WYLY. J. A. J. BUCHANAN, D. R. P. Hues. WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, Attorneys A Counsellors at Law, WA YNESB UR G, PA. W ifl practice In the Courts of Greene and adjoining •ecosntielt. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main Street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, •• FORMAN. I II RITCHIE PURMAN & RITCHIE, OATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Iffr Orr'—Main - Street, one door cast of the old Sink Building. ED-Ao , ug i ness in G r eene, Washington, and Fay. rue Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prom' t attention. Sept. 11, 18111-Iy. R. •W. DOWNET, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW "'Office in I edwith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. 4t. A. IeCONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN'. iIIrooNNELL a 11171TSTAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. Office In the "Wright Ilc ' " East Door. ollections, &c., will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' Building adjoining the Post Office. Sept. 111,061-Iy. J. A. aLaca. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW. Office in the Court House, Waynesburg. dept. 11,1801-le. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS! D. R. I'. 13.1:71303, ATTDII AT LAW, IVAYNESBURG, PESNA., inarAS received from the War Department at Wash. ington city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PA Y, due die charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice] will he attend ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Bank Building..,-April 8, 1863. PHYSICIANS __V_M. BLACHLEY, NI, D. .rszerza.N a. SUIWZON, Ocoee 7 -1111ftehley 9 a Building, Main St., tIIHEIPECTFULLY announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from e Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the pmc cidb of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 1362.-ly. DR. AL. G. CROSS POULD very respectfull y tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre vjation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. EGGS!' iutRSPECTFULLY o ff ers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and rgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appre.ciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal shim" of public patronage. April 9, 1862. M. A. HARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MERCHANTS WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Denim in Foreign and Domes tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, Ike., Main street. Sept. li, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goode, Gripries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the amilton House, opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gro Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite be Green House, Main street. Sept. It, 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAY, de Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite' a "Farmer's and Drover's Rank." Every style of "Boots and Shoes comets/ My on hand or made to order. < Dept. 11, 1861-4. . GROCERIES & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, ',Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries. Notions, 111.411gataes, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c.e Glass of allkdzes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. E f t ;Ti 1 74 flr y good eating Apples. JOHN MUNNELL; Doom in Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety anode Generally, Wilson's Nt w Building, Main street. Slept. 11. 1861-Iy. BOOKS , &c. • LEWIS DAY, Dealer in School and Miscelltneous Books, Station- M., Ink, Magazines and Papers; One door east of Porter's Store, Main Street. Sept. 11, 1861 ly. . .SADDLES AND HARNESS SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, fifts. Mrrrnala and Trunk Maker. old Bank tosia:coonutra stftilveß4 ll 4Chras isionimsenns. 441allemln WI; and Welt= 41.1".14"frx" ... .., . , • . • , . . . . ~ , • . . . . . . , - -..- . , ... . . •... . ~ • , o. - Lr, 1 1 1 .- -, -.:. i ; 1 •, ~ , L I. L ~_ .4 , ~. . h .._.....,,,./.,...,, ~_ ...,....„., . i ~. „i"---- ../.''' . i 1 DRUGS Yo ioretlantguo. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND HIS BRIDE. A profane Republican, who ,wit nessed the matrimonial prccession of the Prince of Wales through the streets of London, writes :—Postil ions in liveries spangled with gold, and footmen whose calves were of wonderful development, rode the blooded horses and clung to the foot boards. The trumpet blew, the peo ple shouted like the rising of many waters, and all the handkerchiefs went up. I looked upon Royalty un veiled ! The brothers and sisters of the Princess came first. The Prin cess Dagomar, a tidy little girl, with tine bright eyes, dressed all in white, was mistaken for Alexandra, and she made responses to the cheers by waving her little kid-gloved hand, and blushing nicely. But the Simon pure or legitimate Princess came behind, in another carriage, drawn by sever al horses and emblazoned with the Royal arms. Picture within said carriage, two women sitting on the back seat, and two males facing them. The furthest female is Alexindra's mothei, a small-faced German woman, about forty-five years of age. She has dark eyes, and doesn't seem be conscious of her rank, and, in fact, is considerably frightened ; but she is dressed in rich silk velvet, with a necklace of diamonds falling upon her bosom ; and it is evident, from her furtive glances at her daughter, that she is anxious, if not doubtful, to see her offspring make a good im pression. Prince Christian, the fath er, all in soldier-clothes, looked martial, like a veteran who would have liked to fight battles, but hadn't fought them. I tiled a resem blance to Hamlet, sr., in his grizzled 'beard. The third of these illustri ous persons was the bride, or the affianced. She was pretty, and her pictures don't look like her for they represent a creature with a long neck and consumptive face, who would be going into a decline in the course of a few moons. On the con trary, she was the picture of health, animation and hope. Her eyes look to be hazel, but they sparkled ever so sensitively, and her cheeks were blooming, as if she had cot (ono- been the habitant of this humid island. She was not composed, but shy as a fawn, and as supply knit. Her mouth was run ning over with kisses, and she had a fine, broad forehead, which gave her an intellectual shade—a sort of com bination of the Grace and the God dess. To set the portrait clearer be fore you, take a dear young woman from the greenest of your valleys— Chester, or the Cumberland, or the Brandywine—clothe her superbly, make her the cynosure of two mil lion e)es ; let her feel timid and abashed at her sudden elevation, and, therefore, more winning in her bash fulness than ever, and you have the maiden of Jutland—the rose of Den mark, they call her—who pis to be Queen of England, if the Fates smile upon the nuptials. A cold, sneering foreigner as I. was, with no love for these sea-dogs, Dane or Briton, I melted before so much youth, mod esty and loveliness, and hoped that her heart was as good as her face. But now for her royal partner, whom you know already. He had grown coarse, dull-eyed and sensual of face ; his brow was not fine ; his his stature not imposing. Some san dy hairs sprinkled his cheeks and chin, and, as he passed through the crowd, and ill-humored expression pouted his long mouth. He carried a cane, and sat opposite his lady, who waved her hand as she rode, and the hoarse salutations shook the fog. SHORT PRAYER. The Rev. Mr. Derwell, a pious and curious old Methodist minister went from Tennessee to 'Kentucky, in 1812 to visit his relative,.the Hon. Wm. Bolton. The man was not a relig ious man, but was a gentleman, and invited the minister to have family worship every evening. While he was visiting thcre,Judge Cone and his wife . from Nashville, arrived there to pass the night, and Mr. Bolton, being a lit tle embarrassed, said to the: old min ister, as he brought out the Bible, that he had better be short, as the Judge was probably not accustomed to such things. "Very well, very well," said he, and reading a single verse, he knelt down and prayed : "Oh Lord, we are very poor and needy creatures, -and wo know that thou art able tct supply all our wants; but Cousin William says that Judge Cone an his wife, grom Nashville, are herd, nd are not used to family worship, anti however needy we are, there is no time to spare to tell our wants. Amen." The Judge was taken all aback, and so was Cousin William. They both pressed the old gentlea2ap to conduct the service in his own way, whisk ha did 'to their great edifica tion. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1863. ANECDOTE OF GENERAL SUMNER. The Springfield Republican gives the following amusing account of the turning point in General Sumner's early life : "General Sumner, when a young man, was a stage driver among the Berkshire hills, and this is how ha happened to get into the army. At a time in winter when the roads were dangerous, going down a steep bill, the stage slewed and turned over, but the horses went on. One of the passengers pushed out of the door on the upper &de ofthe coach and climbed upon the box and attempted to take the reins from Sumner's hands. 'You let the reins alone or Fit throw you off !' said the driver with determi nation. The passenger wisely aban doned his attempt at interference, and Sumner guided the team firmly till it was safe to stop them, drag ging the overturned coach along, and so ghved passengers and.team. The passenger who attempted to take the reins was General Worth.— He was so impressed with young Sumner's sterling qualities that he cultivated his acquaintance and in duced him to join the army, and the cool and determined driver made an intrepid commander." A story is told of the veteran Sum ner at the battle of Antietam. his son, young Capt. Sumner, a youth of twenty-one, was on his staff. The old man calmly stood -amidst a storm of shot and shells, and turned to send him through a double raging fire upon a mission of duty. lie Apt. might never see his boy again ; but his country claimed his life ; and as he looked upon his young brow he grasped his hand, encircled him in his arms and fondly- kissed him.— "Good-bye, Sammy ;" "Good-b3e, fatherand the youth, mounting his horse, rode gaily on with his message. lie returned unharmed. and again his hand was grasped with a cordial "llowd' ye do, Sam my ?"' answered by a grasp of equal affection. The scene was touching to those around. THE DYING WORDS 01' A HERO. "Get the ship by, boys', and they may have my other leg I" These were the words of a dying hero, Lieutenant-Commander Cummings, of Philadelphia, and they should be placed among the dying words of the great heroes in history. In the hour of mortal injury the selfish rniln thinks of nothing but his own fate ; he bold man may only resign him self, with becoming dignity, to the fatal dart ; but the patriot and the hero is so filled with the single idea of his duty to his country that he gas no othez self ; his life is but a slight gift to him, and duty makes him cry with Wolfe, "I die happy." Bent•upon the great piirpose of run ning his ship past the enemy's bat teries, prodigal . of his life, the young Commander flies hither and thither, directing, cheering and encouraging his men, hoping, urging, now doubt ful, now sanguine, when, in a mo ment when he is - all a glow with a noble ardor, when, in the words of Bosquet, "the light of battle shines upon his countenance," his leg is torn off by a shot, and he falls stun ned and pouring out his blood at ev ery artery. lie recovers his senses; what is his first emotion, as he looks. upon his mangled body ? Wailing and lamentation ? No ! "Get the ship by, boys, and they may have my other leg !" Brave soul! Thou haat not perished ; thy words, thy noble example, shall fall, like the prophet's mantle, on other heroes, and incite to valiant deeds 11E1 long as we call ourselves Americans. . HIGH PRICES AT JACKSON, MISS. The Jackson Mississippian of the 11th ultimo, says that the following prices prevail in that city :—Board ing $6 per day • lard, per pound, $1; butter, $1 50; dried peaches, $1 per pound ; flour, $BO (it has been $100,) per barrel; coffee, $6, per pound; a pair of boots, sto to have a pair footed requires $4O. Says the wri ter, "To cap the climax, if a man gets a little sick, and feels as if a 'horn' would do him good, (nobody ever takes a drink in Jackson except as a medicine,) he must pay a dollar for the inestimable panacea, or $l2 for a wine bottle of whisky, holding about a pint and a half.' While it is true that one cause of these high prices is the inflation of their curren cy, yet the main cause is the scarci ty of the articles. Famine is se iinowledged to be brooding over the land, and earnest appeals are made to have corn planted that the Con federacy may not starve. From several articles in the paper, we learn that Southern soldier has infinitely worse fare than ever the Union soldier is called on to experience. A private, writing from Vicksburg, describes the sol dier's breakfast as consisting of "corn bread, molasses: rice and beef." The bread is made of meal as coarse as grits. Whole grains of corn are picked out of it and laid aside to pareh. The beef is blue. The sol diers wonder if old buck Jaad fiat enough in him to grease a pair of shoes? The editor says that the soldiers are actually mitering for food at Blackwater. SMALL EATERS. The Bedouins (says Ritson) are a most alert and military- race, and yet it is an uvdoubted fact that the quantity of food usually consumed by the greater part of them does not exceed six ounces a day. Six or sev en dates soaked in melted butter serve a man a whole day. and be es teems himself happy when he can add a small quantity of coarse flour or a little ball of rice. In 1779 an Englishman describes the Russian grenadiers as follows : —"They are the finest body of men I ever saw. Not a . man is under six feet high. Their allowance consists of eight pounds of black bread, four pounds of oil, and one pound of salt per man for eight days. In 1854, when the Russians surprised the world by standing against the at tack of the "Allies," on the bloody battle-field of Alma, were found dead Russians with their provisions in their lin:Lpsacks, and these provis ions xere "black bread crumbs in oil." Dr. Hamlin, who has resided more than twenty years in Constantino ple, says, the Turkish porters in that city cat bread from Hour scar.:ely bkilted, fruits, curdled milk, of which they are very fond, rice cooked with some other vegitable, and about twice a week a little meat at dinner, which they eat soon after sunset, They never drink any sort of dis tilled or fermented liquor. Onions and garlic aro largely consumed by the Turks. GOLD. There aro good reasons for believ ing that gold was the first metal with which man became acquainted. Its peculiar properties render it the best for the purpose of being worked by a primitive people. Gold is the only metal which is found in a me tallic slate, such as we SCQ it used in the arts and manufactuYes. The pro cess of extracting all the other met als from their metrix or ore is so te dious and difficult, that without gold it is probable our forefathers would have had no metals at all to use. We who live at this period of the world's history, can well believe how little advan&ement could he made in civilization without a metal of some kind. As -an assurance to us thitt the supply of gold shall be adequate to our wants, this metal has been found in The ratio of the in crease of the human family. It is diffused over the whole earth, and has acted as a stimulus to man to visit regions previously uncultivated. The wilds ofAustralia and Califor nia have thus 'been peopled in our day in the same that the Spaniards peopled South America years ago. Septimus Piesee. A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. Major Rodman and Miss Budding ton were married at Fernandina, Florida, on the 25th ult., after an acquaintance of only three weeks.— The bride is the daughter of Capt. Buddington, of Groton, Conn., who brought the ship Resolute from the Artie regions some years ago, while the groom is the Major of tne 7th Connecticut volunteers. Miss Bud dington was in the South when the rebellion broke out, and remained with the rebels until four or five weeks ago, when she was forwarded under a flag of truce from their lines to Fernandina, for the purpose of re turning to her friends at home. Ma jor Rodman at once became enamor ed of her; he proposed the lady was not, slow in manifesting her Union proclivities ; and the result was a speedy wedding. FLOUR FROM SORGHUM. Mr. James Newton, of Bowling' Green, Wood county, sends to the Perrysburgh Independent the result of an experiment made in that place during last fall. He says : "I plant ed sixty-two rods of ground in rows forty inches :spar t, from which Mr. H. Fay manufactured eighty-one gallons of good thick syrup. As the seed was all ripo, I saved thirtden bushels, apart of which, after being thoroughly dried in an old house, was taken to the Bowling Green Mills, and there, by an ingenious al teration in the machinery used in grinding buckwheat, Mr. Perry Thomas succeeded in making a very good article of flour. Several of our citizens have tried the sorghum flour in bread, and all pronounces it super ior to buckwheat flour." iThe Richmond papers ftre croaking fearfully over the want of food under which the rebel armies are now suffering. All the contitt7 around the localities where these armies are situated is completely stripped of provisions, and the only resource lies in tho railroads, which are said to be giving out for want of laborers to keep them in order. The Nyood work is rotting and the ma chinery getting out of repair. Ihe Examiner says that "If they are al lowed to fall through from any caus es, government and people may pre pare for a retreat of our armies, and. the surrender of much valuable coun try now tin our poseseilon." - FOR WHAT CHILDREN ARE MOST GRATEFUL. Parents spend a life of toil in or der to leave their children wealth. to secure them social position or oth er worldly advantages. Ido not un der-rate the worth of these things.— Had they not been valuable, there would n2t have been so many provi dential arrangements impelling men to seek them. 1 would not only show that there is something of in finitely greater value, not only to the parent, but to be transmitted to the child. What does the child most to remember? I never beard a child express any gratification or pride that a parent had. been too fond ofib accumulating money, though the child at that rawent was en joying that accumulation. But I have heard children, though their inheritance had been crippled and cut down by it, say, with a glow of satisfaction on their features; that a parent had been too kind hearted, too hospitable, too liberal and public spirited to be a very prosperous man. A parent who leaves nothing but wealth or similar social advantages, to his children, is apt to be srbedily forgotten. However it ought to be, parent are not particularly held in honor by children because of the worldly advantages they leave them. There is comparatively little gratitude for this. The heir of an empire hardly thanks him who bequeathed it. He more often endeavors before his time to thrust him from his throne: But let a child bo able to say, my father was a just man, he wti,4 affec tionate in his home, he was tender hearted, be was useful to the com munity and loved to do good in so ciety, he was a hoiper of the young, the poor, the unfortunate; he was a man of principle, liberal, upright, de vout---and the child's memory cleaves to that parent. Ile honors him, reveres him, treasures his name and his memory, thinks himseif blest in having had such a parent, and the older he grows, instead of forgetting, only reveres and honors and remem bers him the more. lien.; is exper ience and affection sitting in judg ment on human 'attainments. It shows what is most worth, the.seek iiig.--Ephraim Peabody. Sunday Observance. An hour after the fight, Major-Gen eral Crittenden dropped into the General's marquee. Incidental allu sion being made touching Sunday, (en. Crittenden remarked, "I will obey all orders. General.; but I can't help but feel that the Great Master takes care of those who regard his laws.- I never feel right w hen I vio late the Sabbath day. Ours is a sa cred cause and a sacred war." Gen eral Rosecrans replied—"l have just telegraphed General Halleck that we should be quiet to morrow. I will not fight to-morrow unless we are attacked." You may rely un less compelled to violate this princi ple, by inexorable necessity, Major General Rosecrans will not violate the Sabbath day.—Letter from Iffur fteesborough. WESTERN PORK TRADE. The Chicago Times gives a review of the packing operations of that city for the season just closed. The packing of beef shows a decli Re, but in pork Chicago is distancing all bercom petiters, and shows an increase over last, season almost equal to the -vhole of the business transacted in Cincin nati a year ago. The comparison for two years is as follows 1861-2 18144 Advance. 514,110 970,261 450,144 474,467 598.457 128,990 Chicign • Cincinnati The total number of hogs packed last season in the entire West includ ing Tennessee, 2,872,666. This num ber will probably be increased to nearly four millions for the season just now passed. The Eighth (lenses. The eig,th census of the United States is rapidly approaching com pletion. The preliminary report which has been printed will be fol lowed by volumes on population, ag riculture, manufactures, mortality, &o. They are nearly ready for the press. By the resolutions of the two Houses, the publication is placed an, der the direction of the Superintend ent of the Census, who hopes to have the most important portions of the work ready for distribution before the nest regular session of Congress. For the Good of the Cause. In the examination of a paymas ter's account in the office of the Sec. and Comptrollers of the Treasury, the following declaration was set op: posits the name of James Kennedy, Farrier, company 8., Parnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers, on the pay roll as received at the office: 'Will not receive his pay for his services, hav ing joined for the good of tho cause and not for pay." Against which declaration the paymaster had noted "never pald." Loss of Generals. It is stated that during the pres ent war the Union army has lost 19 and the Confederate 21 major gen erals and brigadier generals. ggritulturat. A WORD TO FARMERS. It is known to our farmers gen erally that the extraordinary dry weather of last year prevented farm ers from putting in the usual amount cf wheat—indeed but very little, comparatively, was sown—and the prospect for this season looks at the .present very discouraging. The Oats crop of Isst year amounted to nothing, and the crop of corn was short, and it may be set down as pretty certain that there will be no surplus grain crop to pass over to meet deficiencies next year, should there be any. Farmers ought to make early preparation to put in a large crop of corn and oats, and if the practcaibility of growing spring wheat has not been fully tested, it would be well to experiment with it this season, as the wheat yield, even under the most favorable circum stances for that in the ground, will fall far short of an average crop.— Grain of all ki. ds commands high prices, and there are extra induce ments for farmers to put in larger crops thto usual—it will pay them better. Many of the young men who have heretofore been employed in farming, have gone into the army, and hired help will be more difficult to procure. It will, therefore, be in cumbent upon farmers to be diligent and persevering themselves and by commencing early t o d o their ploughing, they will be sure to ac complish more, and they may rest assured that they will be well re warded. We therefore feel like urg ing our agricultural friends to put in all the ground this spring that it is possible for them to work. Corn at 50 and 60 cents a bushel, and oats :;0 and 40 cents, certainly afford large nrc2fita to to the grower, and margin enough to admit of hiring farming hands at even bigger wages than have hitherto been paid for such labor. Get your plows, and harrows, and harness, and cattle and horses ready for the work, so that no time may be lost in doing this when the ground becomes ready for curtivt tion.—anesville Times. TO RAISE POTATOES, As I have been a potato raiser for several successive years, I con sider myself pretty well experienced in that art, and as I (Ivo found the best and sorest plan for raising that profitable crop, I consider it my duty to make it known to the pub lic by having it published in your ex tensive and well-known paper, so that a:l farmers may have ah Oppor tunity for raising large crops of them in lieu of scanty ones. I tried several plans. At firs; I plowed up a piece of ground in the corner of my cornfield, and harrowed it until it was very mellow; then I drew furrows three feet apart, planted the potatoes in the furrows, and then spread a sufficient quantity of ma nure over them, covering the whole with earth about four inches deep; but that would not answer; when 1 came to dig them, very few potatoes were to be found. I tried several other experiments—planting them in timothy and clover sod, with com mon barn-yard manure and also with several substitutes, such as guano, phosphate of lime, bonedust, and several other compounds, but was never favored with a large crop. I almost became disheartened .at my poor success, when 1 thought of another plan, and that "plan proved successful, although some persons may doubt it. 1 broke up a part of my clover field and planted them, planting in the • first furrow and every third one afterwards, and using for manure but dry cornstalks and straw, and, believe me or not, my potato crop 'was two-thirds larger in _proportion to the ground I had planted than any of the pre ceeding years. Try it, and satisfy yourselves.. Plant, thorn whore the ground is rather low, that being_ine ferred to high ground.—Dollar News paper.- HINTS TO FOOR FARMERS. It is bad management to keep more stock than you can keep well, and to cultivate more land than you can keep in fertile condition. A field of corn that will produce but 20 or 25 bushels peracre, will cost quite as much to till as it would if it pro duced 50 bushels. So it is with all other crops, and 'also with live stock. Mr. John Johnston, whose reputation is widely popular as *sound practical farmer, in a letter to the Secretary of the New York State Agricultural So ciety, says:---"You will see the think ing farmer making fq„ur year-old steers worth from sixty to eighty dol lars, and his neighbor's, at the same age, not worth over twenty-five to forty dollars." The reason why the latter produces poor cattle is because he attempts to raise more than his farm will sustain ; and the consequene is, that his stock is stinted in growth, and greatly depreciated in value. In reward to exhausted land, it is best . to irk tilougli no mcira thaa is in good heart; if or nOodett,paii be prop erly', rn(inairod. Whft airy . soll fails to give paying ittatif Jabot` ta- NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 45- stowed upon it, through exhaustion, seed it down to clover and grass, and. let it rest a few years, when it wilt be in good condition to produce crops again. THE TONNAGE TAX. THE VOTES ON THE SEVERAL PROP OSITIONS BEFORE THE LEGISLA TURE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Feb. 25,1'433. The journal of yesterday was read and approved. REBTORATIAN OF TILE. TO‘:NAGE TAX Mr. HOPK I NS, (War,hington.) I move that the House prodeed to the consideration of: - House bill No 195, entitled An Act to restore the ton nage tax required to be paid by the charter of the Pennsylvania railroad coin pany. Adopted, Yeas 49; Nays 47. So the motion to proceed to the consideration of the hill %as agreed to. On motion of Mr. Homitss, (Wash ington,) the House dispensed with going into committee of the whole. The bill was read as follows: Be it enacted, etc., That the act en tited Au Act for the commutation of tonnage duties, approved the 7th day of March, A. u. be and the same is hereby repealed. Mr HOPKINS, (Washington.) I move to amend the bill by striking out all after the enacting_ clause, and inserting the following section and by prefixing thereto the. accompany ing preamble : Whereas, An act was passed at the session of the Legislature of 1861, purporting to be "An Act for the commutation of tonnage duties," by means whereof the sum of seven hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and eight dollars and forty one cents, or thereabouts, besides in terest then owing to the State by the Pennsylvania railroad company, and in contemplation of law in the Treasury of the State, together with a large annual revenue stipulated to be paid by the said company as the , price of its charter and by way of compensation for the dt:teooration. in value of the main line of the pub lic works, apprehended and actually inflicted, by the construction and operation of said road, which rev enue had already . reached the sum of three hundred thousand dollars and upward, and would ..have amount ed at this time to a greatly larger sum, with the prOspeet of indefinite increase, were wrongfully withdrawn from the sinking fund provided by the Constitution and laws of this State for the payment of the public debt 'thereof, and made sacred and in-- violable.for that purpose, upon sug6 gestion and consideration, . which. were either in conflict with the Con stiution, or utterly illusory and worthless in themselves, a . mounting in effect, under cover of . a pretended contract or commutation, to a gra tuitous donation of all the said mon eys and revenue to a private.corr ration, without any substantial equiv alent whatever, thereby violating the plighted faith of the State and increasing the burthens of the peo ple, at a time when the necessities of the country pre-eminently required the most rigid economy, and the strictest husbandin g of their resour ces: therefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn Sylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the game, That the said recited act of Asiem bly of the seventh 'day of March, An; no Domino one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-one, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the said ton age tax or duties imposed by the act incorporating the said Pennsylvania railroad company, and the supple: ment thereto, is hereby restored, and imposed and made payable to the Commonwealth in the same man ner and upon the same terms and conditions as though the said repeal ing act had never been passed. SEc. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to proceed forthwith to sue for, rfterer end col lect by trustees or otherwise, - the arrears of the said tonnage tywhich were due and' owing at the 'flute of the passage of the said recited act, which is hereby repealed, together with such additional tax • or duties as would have accrued upon the ton nage of the said comlaty until the date of the present MO; and for the proper ascertainment of the amount of the said additional tai, it shall be the duty of the said company to file forthwith in the office of the Auditor General a statement, duly authenti cated by the oath of the president and treasurer of said compa. ny,• of the amount of their - ,business so made taxable for the iquith•e ening pe riod, and also to farnisK tck. the At torney General, Srain ~tiskie to time, such other and ifickitional state ments, and such aneess%o their books as he may judge 'necessary for the purposes of the 'said Isttit orether proceeding hereby 'authorized ; Pro vided, however,. .2. l tuit. theAtotioys paid by the said company en z.ilkecotukof the • said. 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