DI _.____... . .. --- -.0 1 1 ltr - ( ittitirt4)tctittrltit[Lk 1 ...,,-,, _........_ . , fautilp piper--Oda to 3griculturt, ittraturt, Art, foreign, flomestir onb uncial jutelligentif ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, Pt BURIED BY E. W. JONES & JAMES S. JENNINGS, WAYNESBURG, GREENE co., PA ("Tr - OFFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. -Ili 'X a a lit a 3 VIZINIKVIIPTION.—StiA in advance ; $1..25 at the ex piration of six months; $2.50 after the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMSNTS inserted at $1.25 per square for three insertions, and 23 eta. a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or lees counted a square.) Mir •A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. PRISTING, of all kinds, executed in the beat style, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger:' Job Office. niqueshurg Yiusintss Cubs. ATTORNEYS. WC!). L. WILY. J. •. J. BIALMANAN, D. R. P. lIVBH WYLY, BUCHINAN & HUSS, Attorneys A. Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. NV ill practice in the Courts of Greene anti adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on th'e South side of Main street, in the Old Stank Minding. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, ♦. ♦. rVRMA PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. pr'OriteE—Main Street, one door east of the old Al Ink Ii ~usiness in Greene, Washington, and Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt. attention. Sept. 11, !Stiff—ly. R. W. POWNET, ATTORNEV AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Uj - Office in tedviith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. M . CONNELL. BT'CONN'ELL & 47TORNE I'S AND COUNSELLORS AT LA IV Waynesburg, Pa. UT - Office In the "Wright IL se," East Door. Collections, ace.. will receive prompt attention Waynesburg. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 0111.-e in Sayers' nodding. adjoi kk ;; g the l'ost ()trice. (lent. = BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Oftiee itt the Ctsutt Rouse, Way ttetburg. Sept. tiosm—lv. SOLDIERS'*AR CLAIM': R. 3E ) . 31E1C1T1E575, ATTORNKY AT LAW, W NESBLEG, PENNA., jj AS received from the War Department at ington city. D. C., official cornea of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSION'S, BOUNTY. BACK MY, due dis charged and disabled aoldiera, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, sisters and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice] will be atten:!- ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to his rare. Office, in the old Batik Building.—April 8, 1863. PHYSICIANS B. M. BLACHLEY, M. D. PHYSICIAN di. SURGEON, Office—Blackley's Building, Main St., J gsrECTFIII,I7 announces to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity that he has returned from the Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac tice of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 1362.-4 . DR. A. G ORM WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or ‘Vaynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a Share of public patronage. Wayneatioce,,lannavy DR. A. J. ECK}Y 13 Ed PECTIFT LIN offers his services to the citizens I t of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and I4urgeon, Of f ice opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human Zito aud.hcalth, an native medication, and strict attention rn husiuses,to merit a liberal altars ofpublic patronage. April 9, ten. DRUGS M. A. IiARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary. and dealer in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Kept. It. IS6l—iy. WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and hornet if , Dry Grinds, Groeeriem, Notions, &e.. Main street. Sept. 11,1P61-Iy, R. CLARK, Dealer is Ply Goods, Groceries, Hardware, queens ware ;poi MOODS, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court. House. Main street. . Sept. It. MINOR & CO., Deelets in Foreign and Dotneatie Dry Goods, Gro eerie( qtteettsware. Hardware and Notione, opposite the Green House, Main F treet . Sept. 11, 11381-Iy, BOOT AND SNOB DEALERS .1. D. COSGRAY, nr , ot and Slane maker, Main street. nearly opmtsite Itte "Punter's and Dmver's Dank." Every style of Roots and Shoes constantly on band or made to order. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. <<~;~•l•t~'ii.f~ JOSEPH YATER, . Dealer in Groceries sad Confectioneries, Notions, !Medicines; Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware; Sze., Glass of all sines, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. tiWa -- Cash paid for good eating App!es. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, D. ler in Crocarigis and Confectionaries, and Variety 000ds.Gencrally. Wilawa's w linitding, Main street. 'Sept.- 11. 1851-Iy. HOOKS• &c. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in School and Miscelleneous Rooks, Station ( rv. Ink, Magazines and Papers. One door east of Porter's Store, Main Street. Sept. 11, 1861 ly. 154118 AND.IIKAMIMISS SAMUEL M' ALLISTER, sop., Ilarrwss aid Think Maker. old gook' n t, lainetreet. " loq/s. 11. 1961-71.- 1121110 1 0 1 003n 8 TS. :MlPPtat lk HAGER. iiiiimip4,lolol_lllllloe,iiii4 WWI ileaterstn Tobaccii4 00 *NA lisps Caws, Pipbs, WHOM" Nam Wain wrest. Sept It, 1---Iy WORKING WOMEN OF FRANCE. The great misfortune of French villages is the degration of the wo men through labors which belong to men. In their earlier years they tend the flocks and gather in the harvest. As young girls, an instinct of coquetry, and the foresight of their mothers, remove them from the rude fatigues of husbandry ; but no sooner do they marry, than all is changed; they abandon the house and follow their husbands into the fields. You see them bowed to earth as laborers, or laden with enormous weight, like beasts of bueden. There are districts in France where they are harnessed to carts with the ox and the ass. From that time the skin becomes shrivelled, their com plexion like coal, their features coarse and homely, and they fall into a premature decrepitude, more hide ous than that of old age. But while thus performing the labors of men, their own labors—those labors which sweeten and refine all others—re main neglected or unknown. Noth ing can be more filthy, nothing more unwholesome, than the interior of their cottages. Fowls, ducks, pigs, contending for a meal ; the door opening into the mud, and the. xin dows, where there are any, serving only as vent-holes to carry off the smoke. It is there, nevertheless, in a holy miry as the hut of a savage, amid the gruntings and fetid emana tions, that every evening, two human beings, male and female„ repose from the fatigues of the day. No body is there to receive them, noth ing to flatter their regards, the table is empty, and the hearth cold as ice. There, lastly, other labors await the women, and, before thinking of her husband's supper, or the care of her children, she must think of the sta ble and of supper for the beasts. If asked for examples for these things, we will cite whole provinces, the richest as well as the poorest, of France—Perigord, where the women live in a state of filth and object flees, which reacts on the whole fam ily ; Picardy and Limousin, where, degraded to the lowest rank, and as of an inferior race, they serve their husbands at table, without ever dar ing to take a place by his side ; Brescia, where they are mere labor ers. mere beasts of burden ; lastly, Lower Brittany, where husband, wife, and children, reduced to a state al inoiet savage, live all, poll moll, in the same filthy chamber, and eat black bread in the same trough with their sheep and hogs. Everywhere is the degradation of the women a sure proof of the brutishness of the men a necessary consequence and reac tion from the degradation of the wo men. Do not offer them comfort or well being ; 60 1 Y would reject it as something useless or strange. To desire comfort, it is necessary for them to know what comfort is, and ages passed over their cabins with out leaving there any other thoughts than those of labor and wretched ness. IZ=I J. J. HUFFMAN =I Don't be afraid of a little fun at home, good people. Don't shut up your houses lest the sun should fade your carpets; and your hearts, lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the old cobwebs them. If you want to ruin your sons, let them think tlutt all mirth and social enjoy ments must be left on the threshold without when they come ho eat night. When once a home is regard ed as only a place to eat, drink, and sleep in, the work has begun that ends in gambling houses and reck less degradation. Young people must have furr,_anzi relaxation some where ; if they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be sought at other and, perhaps, less profitable places. Therefore, let the fire burn brightly at night, and make the home-nest delightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly understand. Don't repress the buoy ant spirits of your children ; half an hour of merriment round the lamp and firelight of home blots out the remembrance of many a care and an noyance during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the unseen in fluence of a bright little domestic circle.—Life Illustrated. -be - Nathaniel Filmore, filther of ex-President Filmore, died at East Aurora, Erie county, New York, on the 28th ult., aged 95 years. lie was a man of most temperate bob its—making it a rule through life—. long before temperance societies were known—never to use intoxi cating liquors as a beverage, or offer them to others. .He enjoyed almost uninterrupted good bealthi.atd was so well at upward of eighty years of age, as to able to visit his son at Washington, that being the only when a President of the IJoi ted S tates ever received a visit from his father at. the executive Melasion• , ,_ Do4th at ~ p ue's NogloSet L . lasfayette;aflao&hter died sit Turin a abort time , mace. She wee the Countess fie la Tour Iltanbourg. rlizttitaittnu,s.. FUN AT HOME WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1863. LIFE IN A RICHMOND BOARDING HOUSE. A few days ago one Mrs. Fulgum, from Richmond, Virginia, was arrest ed at the outposts near Murfreesboro, and a number of letters for rebels in Nashville were taken from her per son. From one dated Richmond, February 6th, written by Mrs. Anna Hays, the wife of a notorious ex member of Congress of the United States, and a member of the present Confederate Congress, we take the following extract :—"We are board ing at Mrs. Johnson's, on Governor street, just opposite Governor Letch er's mansion. It is a large boarding house, high, prices, and starvation within. Such living never was know before on earth. Tell grandma the poor est hut in the Western Distriet.of Tennessee is a palace compared with this, so far as fare goes We have to cook almost everything we eat in our room. In our 'larder' the stock on hand is a boiled bacon ham which we gave only eleven dollars for; three pounds of pure Rio coffee we gave four dollars per pound fur ; and one pound of green tea, seven teen dollars per pound ; two pounds of brown sugar, at two dollars and seventy-five cents per pound; one bushel of fine apples, about the size of a good common marble, which were a present to me by a member of Congress from Missouri ; one pound of butter about six months old, at two dollars per pound, and six sweetpotatoes at fifty cents. We have to give a dollar for a very small slice of pound cake, at the confec tionaries. I forgot to say 1 had a present of a fine jar "of pickles and a piece of cheese from a member, also. Well, so much for the way you live. You see the board is three dollars, each, per day for Mr. F. and I, and half price for the servant, and then we get nothing on earth to eat. 'Yesterday, for dinner, we had nothing on the table but two eggs and a slice of cold baker's bread and a glass of water. Well, linen sw'h as we gave one dollar for at home, when I left, sells here at six dollars, and the commonest domestic two dollars, calico two or three dollars per yard of the most indifferent kind. You may well believe I get but little. Richmond is strictly a Jewish city—all making fortunes out of the war, and having less sym pathy for our dear old Tennessee, and Nashville. in particular. than some Yankees have; for they have learned to respect us, whereas these Virginians aro the most horridly envious creatures that ever called themselves men. The women are far below the standard of Nashville ladies either in elegance or refine ment. There is seldom a lady seen who shows the gift of high-born gen tility here. Such have generally abandon d this city and retired to the country, or keep recluse, su that the mongrel race reign supreme on the street and all the more frequent ed parts of the city. 'Mrs. Jeff. Davis is not pretty, but a fine looking woman—dresses ,badly, in no taste. She is not much liked hero, and is said to control 'Rifle,' as she calls her husband She has several children. She takes but lit tle notice of them. They go about with their clothes tossed on in any and every style. 'She has the public affairs to attend to.' The President looks careworn and troubled. He is very thin, and looks feeble and bent. He prays aloud in church, and is a devout Episcopalian." Sleep Overcomes all Men. • The most violent passion and ex citement cannot keep even powerful minds from sleep. Alexander the Great slept on the field of Arbela, and Napoleon upon that of Auster litz. Even stripes and torture can not keep off sleep, as criminals have been known to give way to it do the rack. Noises, which at first serve to drive it away, soon becomes indis pensible to it existence ; Thus a stage coach stopping to change horses, wakes all the passengers. The pro prietor .of an iron forge, who slept close to the din of hammers„forges, and blast furnaces, would wake if there was any interruption to them during the night; and a sick miller who had his mill stopped on that ac count, passed sleepless nights until the mill resumed its usual noise.— Homer in his Iliad, elegantly repre sents sleep as overcoming all men. and even the gods. PfLEPARATIONB TO DRAFT. It is asserted in quarters entitled to credit that the draft will soon be made to fill dp all regiments, now in the field and decimated by the casu alties of war, to their proper stand ard. It is not yet known how many it will require, but probably near two hundred thousand. The draft ed men will be sent at once to the regiments, where they will be taught military tactics ulna the field, and not to camps of instruction, as has been proposed. A FAT Orfloo;—According to th© Van Wyck report, the income of Collector of • the port of New York Ineyear wilt be over $114408,51. 2no, oat to. Marlow? to , •sorlipe &Ong" with sod, an income. THE CULTIVATION OF FLAX. The most essential condition for the profitable growth of flax, is good drainage, either natural or artificial. It is a waste of labor and money to sow flax seed on land where water stagnates round the roots. The next is, to plough the land deeply, and to pulverize it thoroughly. The roots of the flax will, unless prevent ed by a hard subsoil, penetrate full half the length of the straw into the ground, and the length and size of *the straw, other things being equal, will depend upon the length of the root. Hence, if the farmer fail to fulfil .these conditions, he will incur a heavy penalty. i The seed should be of the growth lof the preceding year; plump, heavy, glossy; of uniform size and color; of a clear brown hue. If there are many seeds of a light drab, chocolate color, the lot should be re jected. The manurial substances most likely to be required by the soils of this state to•fit them for profitably raising flax will be the Earthy Phos phates. As each ton of straw bears ten bushels of seed, we see from the above table that seventeen pounds of the earthy phosphate will be with drawn from the soil by each crop. After all, the great majority of farmers will most easily understand the kind of soil best adapted for flax raising, when they are told' that the soils best adapted for barley are the best also for flax ; and where maximum crops of the former are found to grow, maximum crops of the latter may be certainly calcula ted on. Weeds, which are well known to be injurious to all growing crops, are peculiarly so to flax. No pains therefore should be spared to purify the flaxseed from all foreign admix tures, and with a view of burying the seeds which have lodged on the surface of the soil beyond the reach of germination, the ploughing should be done with a Michigan double plough, which more completely in verts the surface than any other. It is also desirable that the sowing should bo suspended long enough after ploughing to give the seeds of any weeds which may be in the soil time to germinate; they are then to be killed by the cultivator, when the seed should be evenly sown and har rowed, once in the line of the fur rows, and once angling with them, so as to diffuse the seed more equally. ' The field then is to be rolled smooth. Many good farmers think it is for their interest to weed the field by hand after the plants are from four to five inches high : this is done al most universally in Belgium.-- Where weeding is resorted to, care should be taken by the workmen to %void any rotation of their feet; they should be set down and taken up perpendicularly, and the weeding should be done facing the wind, which will then assist in raising the trodden-down plants. It is necessary that the land should be level, for if thrown between the ridges the straw matures unequally. It should be smooth, so that the crop flan be gathered with a reaping machine. Soon after the bolls are formed, the lower leaves begin to fall off, and the straw becomes yellow from the bottom, about half its length up ward, when it should be pulled or cut with a reaping machine, very close to the ground. If it is suffered to stand much longer than this, the straw is materially injured. The seed is then to he separated from the straw by means of a rippling ma chine. It is very desirable that the seed should be completely separated from the straw, because if any of them are left on, they are crushed in the breaking machine; and where the oil comes in contact with the fi bre it is almost impossible to separ ate it from the shove. It is very de sirable that the connection between the farmer and the flax should term inate at this point, as the remaining process can be much more beneficial ly conducted by others.—Rural Sew Yorker. How Fortunes are Made and Lost. The New York Journal of Com merce gives the following instances of the hazard of mercantile transac tions during war times:—Au in voice of 690 bales of cotton was con signed to this market, on English ac count. It was sold at 95 cents per pound, and the seller at once en gaged his exchange for remittance. Before the transactions were conclu ded, the turn came, and both cotton and exchange came down, The buy er of the cotton was not able to take it, but the buyer of the exchange was made to fulfill his agreement, so that he was compelled to pay 8102,- 000 on his part of the transaction while the cotton still remained un sold ! Take another instance ;A. celebrated manufacturer bought of.a very clever speculator 800 bales cot ton for forward delivery at a high price, say 813 cents. Cattoon went down. downy down, every day, and the mahufactutor wallas iota a pan ic. So he aeatioiribio ntract by paying over to the fortunate opera tor a check for $84,000. From Galignani's Messenger MARRIAGES AND CONSANGUINITY Dr. Devay, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the School of Medicine at Lyons, bas just published an in teresting work on the disastrous ef fects of marriage among relations.--- He shows that in fixing certain pro hibited degrees of consanguinity, the church in point of fact was only favoring the observance of one of the most important laws of nature, the infringement of which is punished with inevitable degeneracy. Unions' within the limits of con sanguinity are not only hurtful to the human race, but also to animals . It is true that such unions among the latter may be promoted by breeders for profit's sake—the Risley and Durham oxen, so admirable in the eyes of the breeder, are instances of this ; but sterility is the usual con sequences of the practice. Among the human race, two circumstances have continued to favor marriages among relations. The first occurs where a small population is pent up in some remote hamlet not easily accessible. in such places consan guinity betwoen married people is the rule. The second case is ',nal of families desirous of maintaining their rank in society, or preventing the dispersion of their fortune by marrying within their own. Dr. Devay states that out of 131 marriages of this kind, observed by him, 22 were barren.— Only four of the number were mar riages between uncles and grand neices; the others were between cous ins-german or the issue of cousins-ge man. When sterility does not occur, the issue is diseased, or afflicted with blindness or deafness; also in many cases affected with irregularity of con formi ty. Of all these irregularities, polyda cilism, or a multiplicity of fingers, is the most frequent. Dr. Devay has observed this in 17 out of the 121 cases above mentioned. lie states that in a certain secluded spot, where the inhabitants had no com munication with other populations, the being born with six fingers had become quite endemic ; and that this strange anomaly disappeared some time after a new road had been cut through the place A FAIR START IN MARRIED LIFE. For a young gentleman just turned twenty-one, and a happy bridegroom at that, the Prince of Wales has fall en heir to an exceedingly pleasant little fortune, immediate as well us prospective. According to the offi cial report, which has just been laid before parliament, the net proceeds of the revenues of his Duchy, of -Cornwall, now placed to his credit after the accumulation of twenty one years, amount to no less a sum than £584,075, or within a fraction of three millions of dollars in our cur rency. This sum has been invested as follows : In consolidated three per cent. annuities, £282, 969 Bs. 11d., and in reduced three per cent. an nuities £289,106 4s. Id., making to gether a sum of £672, 075 13s. of stock in those funds. There was al so a sum of £l2. 000 reduced three per cent. annuities derived from another source, which the Council directed to be transferred to the Prince's trustees. • With a clear cap ital of three million . dollars, and a cr reular annual income of five hun dred', and fifty thousand dollars be sides. the Prince and his wife may he said to have a very fair start in the world.—New York Post. VAGRANT CHILDREN in NEW YORK. The multitude of vagrant children living in the streets of the city is a matter of fearfid import. Mr. Halli day of the Five Points House of In dustry estimates that there are five thousand boys alone, in Now York, whose chief home and only school is the street. There they learn all kinds of vice and are in rapid train ing for lives of wretchedness and Crime. They may he seen at any time in every place wsbere boys should not be, but never where there arc lessons of good to be learned.— As many as twelve hundred have been found at one time' in the vit of the Bowery theatre. Many of them have no comfortable homes, but the greater portion of them are on the streets by preferen.,e. When we add the probable number of vagrant girls, the amount of vice with which the community is threatened as the result of such training, becomes ap palling to contemplate. A gloomy future is before these beings ; to have them grow up as they are now growing will be a ter rible misfortune to the city. The benevolent institutions in the "Five Points" and other quarters have done much to improve the meral condition of the homeless class, but. they cannot reach the other and larger one, which rejects the good influences of home and schools, and socks vice for its own saki). p7wlmmiwmpi, The Prince~ of Wales to his school teachers handsome Bible and a church living worth , $8.600 per annum as a wedding present. A LARGE FARM. Michael D. Sullivan, of Champaign County, Illinois, owns the largest farm in the Northwest. Ten years since, the farm he now possesses was a dreary- waste and its vicinity a solitude. He entered, in 1852, more than 20,000 acres, expended $lOO,OOO ia permanent improvements, and now farms rising 9,000 acres. The remainder is under fence, and will, in time, be farmed. "GROW MORE WOOL." This cry is heard throughout the land. A gentleman writes from New York to the Cleveland Wool Grower and Manufacturer as follows : The manufacturers of wool in this country requires more of the raw material grown here than is done.— Is it not a singular fact that while we are exporting food to all quar ters of the globe, produced in the West and brought here for shipment at great expense, we are importing wool fourteen thou Sand miles trans portation as well as from Great Brit ain, where the annual rent of land is as much as a freehold per acre is in Wisconsin and any other great State. We shall consume this year sixty million pounds of foreign wool; at the same time the home grower never prospered as highly and his prospects f?r the coming crop are brilliant. Good farming requires an abundance of sheep, and in my ob servation, of too long a period be written, 1 have never known a skill ful woolgrower who did not make it profitable. Mutton is as dear in this mar':et as it is in London. Cannot you stir the great firming interest of this country to give double the at tention to sheep husbandry, and re lieve ourselves of the burden of pay ing so many millions away for an ar ticle we can so well supply ? The Destitution In the South. There is no longer a chance to doubt that painful destitution, if not actual famine, threatens all the . east ern portion of the Confederacy.— Governor Bonham has called a spe cial session of the South Carols a Legislature to tonfer upon measures to provide food for the rebel armies and people. Governor Vance, of North Carolina, • wants immediate measures taken to increase supplies, and requests that distillation of grain be stopped, and that slaves and free negroes be put on short allowance. A swarm of starving slaves might he troublesome if such a step should he taken. le also recommends "all who have to spare to divide liberally with those who have not," and to sell to County and State agents after their neighbors are supplied, and not to wait for it to be impressed, as it eel% tainly will be." lie adds, "above all things, avoid mob violence. Broken laws will give you no bread, but much sorrow." The Georgia Legis lature, having voted down a bill to restrict cotton planting to one acre in a hundred, has re-considered its vote, doubtless under instructions from Richmond The Death of Col. Kimball The circumstances attending the shooting of Lieut. Col. Kimball, of the Hawkins Zotu says a Norfolk letter, are of a very melancholy char acter. Col. Kimball had command of the outer picket-guard, and during the evening Gen. Corcoran approach ed the post and was properly chal langed by the guard. Instead of giv ing the countersign Gen. C. simply said, "I am Gen. Corcoran." Under the circumstances, with a rebel force in close proximity, an enemy migh., have said the same thing, and Col. Kimball refused to let Gen. Corcoran pass without the proper word. Gen. C. attempted to ride on, when his bridle was seized by Col. K In the excitement of the moment Gen. Cor coran drew a pistol and fired the fa tal shot. There is deep feeling on the subject, and Gen. Corcoran is generally censured for his hasty act„ Lieut. Col. Kimball was a very popu lar officer, and universally respected in his department. STRAWBERRIES. A strawberry bed may be made perpetual by the right kind of man agement. First cultivate in rows, keeping down the runners till the fruit is gathered, when the vines will extend and cover the whole bed. In the fall or early spring, turn under the old plants with the spade, leav ing rows of the most vigorous new sets between the old rows for the next crop. in this way proceed from year to year, occasionally working a little of well rotted ma nure, and keep down weeds. Spent tanbark, sprinkled along among the rows liberally, is a good special ma nure for strawberries, and a mulch of straw in winter is good, according to the ancient practice which gave the name—strawberry. When General Hooker was last in Washington, he, was asked how soon he would probably disturb the inlet of Lee on the other side of the Rap pahannock. Hie reply was, "Don't ask when I will move. I have been waiting for the weather sixty days." NEW SERIES. --VOL. 4, NO. 46. THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLE FIELD. We find in an exchange a letter from an army surgeon, written to his family, from which we quote the following: "1 will tell you of one of these wo men—a Miss Barton, daughter of Judge Barton, of Boston, Mass. I first met her at the battle of Cedar Mountain, where she appeared in front of the hospital at 1Z o'clock at night, with a tour mule team loaded with everything needed ; and, at a time when we were entirely out of dressings of every kiwi, she supplied us with everything, and while the shells were bursting in every direc tion, took her course to the hospital on our right, where she found every. thing wanting again. After doing everything she could on the field, she staid dealing out shirts to the naked wounded, and preparing soup, and seeing it prepared in all the hospi tals. I thought that night, if Heaven ever sent out a timely angel, she mus t be one, her assistance was so timely. Well, we began our retreat up the Rappahannock. I. thought no more of our lady friend, only that she had gone back to Washing ton. We arrived on that disastrous field of Bull Run. and while the bat , tle was raging the fiercest on Friday, who should drive up in front of our hospitals but this same woman, with. her mules almost dead, having made forced marches from Washington to the army She was again a welcome visitor to both the wounded and the surgeons. The battle was over, our wounded removed on Sunday, and we were ordered to Fairfax Station. We had hardly got there before the battle of Chantilly commenced, tnd soon the wounded began to come in. More we had nothing but our instru ments—not even a bottle of wine. When the cars whistled up to the station, the first person on the plat form was Miss Barton, again to sup ply us with bandages, brandy, wine, prepared soup, jellies, meal, and every article that could be thought of. She staid there till the last wounded soldier was placed on the cars, then bid us good by and, left. "I wrote you at the time how we got to Alexandria that night and next morning. Our soldiers had no time to rest after reaching Washing ton, but were ordered to Maryland by forced marches. Several days of hard marching brought us to Freder ick, and the battle of South Mew tain followed. The next day our army stood face to face with the whole force The rattle of 150,000 muskets, and the fearfut thunder of over 200 cannon, told us tlitt the great battle of Antietam bad com menced. I was in a hospital in the afternoon, for it was then only that the wounded began to come in.- , - We had expended every bandage, torn up every sheet in the house, and everything we could find, when who should drive up but our old friend, Miss Barton, with a team loaded• down with dressings of every kind, and everything we could ask for 1. , - She distributed her. articles to the different hospitals, worked all night making soup. and all the next day and night; and when I left, font days after the battle, I left her there. ministering to the wounded and the dying. When I returned to the field hospital a day afterward she was still at work, supplying -think' with delicacies of every kind, -azid administering to their wantsoall of which she does out of her own pri vate fortune. Now, what do you think of Miss Barton T In sly fee ble estimation, Gon. McClellan, with all his laurels, . sinks into insigaifti (sauce, beside the true heroine of the age.--'The angel of the battle field.'" Another Riot Feared. A refugee from Richmond says that another bread riot is feared, and precautionary measures for its suppression have been instituted; but great uneasiness is felt through out the city, and merchants are add ing to the strength of doors and shutters in every possible . manner. The effect of the late riot upon the troops about Richmond was very demoralizing. The authorities are much exercised over it, and time greatest vigilaroo is enjoined' upon the police tOrce.. The leading men . of the city attempted to teireulat• the report that the wonting were "Irish and Yankee hags;" endeavor ing to mislead the public °mown ing the Amount of loyal .sentiment in the city, but miserably Ailed.— The fact of their destitetion and respectability was too palpable, end the authorities are forced t 0 demi& the conclusion that starvation Mono incited the movement. Estate of stephen The inventory of this patsp has been filed in the County Court by G. P. Rhodes, executor. • It covers a large number cf pieces of real estate, valued in the aggregate at several hundred ,thowld dollars ; but there are ineumbrances upon it equal tO the appraised value of the entire property. The appraisers appoint, ed by tho Court to enumerate the personal estate report that they Oat n ot fi n d a ny . personal property be longing to said estate. 4
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