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HUSS WYLY, BUCHANAN & HUSS, ttaraeys a, Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. vi in practice in the Comm of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. bffice on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 18, 1863.-13, PURM•N. .1 G. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS W A aynesburg ,ND COUNSELORS AT LAW, L Pa. Per - OFFlrE—Main Street, one door east of the old Bulk Building. fIXLII -minims in Greene, Washington, and Fay eue Counties, entrusted so them, will receive promp. attelltiost. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. • AL. W. INYVVINFET, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. lErOffice in Ledwith's Building, opposite the Court [louse, Waynesburg, Pa. a. A. m'coNNELL airCONVITLIAIa a IrtrIMMLAZir, iIiTTOILWEYS ANT /COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. 117"061ce In the "Wright MI se," East Door. Collections, Sr.c., will receive prompt attention Waynesburg, April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Main Street, East and nearly opposite the Sank, Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1863.—1 y. ITEZECI BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT Office uthe Court liow3e, Wayneeturg Sept. 11,1861-I,v. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS! 30. R. P. M1C13113113, ILTTORNEY AT LAW, WAYNESBURG, PINN•., E. received from the War Department at Wash ington city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and alethe necessary Forms and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PA Y, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, shams and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice) will be attend ed to promptly, and accnrately, if entrusted to hie care. Office in the old Bank Building.—April 8, 1883. a. w. a. 117.ADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, OFFICE in Campbell's Row apposite the Hamilton House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all hinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the laws passed by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions for the collection of PENSIONS, B O UNTIES, BACK PAY, Une discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, &c., which business if intrusted to his care wilt Le promptly attended to. May 13, '63. PNYOZOI.ANES DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people or Waynesburg 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. Waynesburg, January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. DGGY ESPECTFULLY oflere hid services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and urgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to Wainer*, to merit a liberal share of•public patronage. April 9, 1862. DRUGS M. A. fIARVEY, Druggist and Apothecary, and dealer in Paints and Oils, the moat celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. - Iffillacniuurrs. WM. A. PORTER, ;Wholesale and Retail Reale, in Foreign and Dosses c Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. dept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Opus House, Plain street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic. Dry Goods, Giro eerier, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite Mie Green House. Main street. ""slept. 11, isat-4y, BOOT AND MOE DEALERS • J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite the "Farmer's and Drover's Bank." Every style or %oats and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. . zest? Y • GACKMCWIIII & V JOSEPH YATER, Dealer In Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all asses, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. iWr—Cash paid for good eating Apples. Sept. M, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer In Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Goods Generally, Wilsen's New Building, Main street. disid. 11. 1861-1 y. FOUNDRY. DUNN & DOWNEY , At the Waymukurg Foundry, on Grisne Street, keep constantly on hand Cooking and Pallor Stoyes. a raid, Plough easthigt. an d Ilaseinp of all kinds. Sept. 11. t 1 ly. In Turkey, if a man fall asleep in the neighborhood of a -poppy-field, and the wind blow toward him, he becomes narcotized, and would tie, if the country people, who are well acquainted with the circumstances, did not bring him to the next well or stream, and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. Dr. Appenheim, during his residence in Turkey, owed his life to this simple and treatment. Dr. Graves, from whom this anec dote is quoted, also reports the case of a gentleman thirty years of age, from long-continued sleepiness, was reduced to a complete living skele ton, unable to stand on his legs. It was partly owing to a disease, but chiefly to abuse of opium, until at last, unable to pursue his business, he sank into abject poverty and woe. Dr. Reid mentions a friend of his, who, whenever anything occurred to distress him, soon became drowsy and fell asleep. A student at Edinburgh, upon hearing suddenly of the unexpected death of a near relative, threw him self on his bed, and almost instan taneously, amid the glare of noon day, sunk into a profound slumber. Another person reading to one of his dearest friends stretched on his death-bed, fell asleep, and with the book still in his band went on read ing, utterly unconscious of what he was doicg. A woman at Hamadt slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years. Another is recorded to have slept once four days. Dr. Malknish mentions a woman who spent three-fourths of her life in sleep"; and Dr. Elliotson quotes a case of a young lady who slept for six weeks and recovered. The ven erable St. Augustine, of Hippo, prn dently divided his hours into three parts—eight to be devoted to sleep, eight to meditation, and eight to converse with-the world. J. J. HIJEFMAN. Maniacs are reported, particularly in the Eastern hemisphere, to be come furiously vigilant during the Atli of the moon, more especially when the deteriorized rays of its polarized . light Are permitted to fall into their apartments; hence the name of lunatics. There certainly is greater proneness to disease dur ing sleep than in the walking state, for those who pass the night in the Campagna di Roma inevitably be come infected with its noxious air; while travelers who go through with out stopping escape the miasma.— Intense cold produces sleep, and those who perish in the snow, sleep on till the sleep of death. I=l EILS3 A SURE ROAD TO A COMPETENCY. Not one man in five hundred will make a fortune. But a competency and an independent position is with in the reach of most men. This is obtained most surely by patient in dustry and economy. If a man has ordinary talents and ability, in any profession or trade, he can, by pur suing an economical, persevering course, be pretty sure of finally ob taining an independent position in life Let hi 3 expenses fall below his income. Let him live cheap, very cheap, if necessary ; but let him be sure and make his income more than cover his expenses. It can be done in almost all cases, notwithstanding the positive denial of ever so many housekeepers. A man may not have more than two or three hundred dol lars a year, and may have a family as large as that of John Rodgers, and he can find a way to live com fortably, and lay up something into the bargain. There is much, nay all, in knowing how the thing is done. And that is the thing, people who are going to make money have got to learn. it is wonderful how few real wants we have, and how little it takes to give genuine happiness. If we could get rid of our artificial, senseless and expensive way of living, we sbr find ourselves better off in pure prospects and in heart. Lot one who has ambition enough ahead in life, try the experimen year, and see how much there economy. Make your expenses than your income, and see how m you will have gained not onl . money, but in the feeling that are in the condition which the kees denominate "forehanded." it. CHASTITY. How large a portion of chasth sent out of the world by distantli —nodded away, and cruelly wir into suspicion by the envy of who are past all temptation themselves. How often does the utation of a helpless creature bl by the report—which the party is at pains to propagate it be, with much pity and fellow feet —that she is heartily sorry f( and hopes in God it is not true! ever, as A.rehbisho . p.,_,Tillotsou witily observes upon it, is resolviid, in the meantime, to gife the report her pass, that at least it may have fair play to take its fortune in the world; to be believed or not, according to the charity of those to whom it shall happen to fall. • Biorsliantouo. WONDERS OF SLEEP. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1863. A PEEP AT SARATOGA. And so we are at Saratoga. Now, of all places to stay at in the summer time, Saratoga is the very last place for one to choose. It may have attrac tions in winter; but, if one wishes to rest and change and root down and shoot up and branch out, he might as well take lodgings in the water-wheel of a saw-mill. The uniformity and variety will be much the same. It is all a noiseless kind of din, narrow and intense. There is nothing in ' Saratoga nor of Saratoga to see or to hear or to feel. They tell you of a lake. You jam into an omnibus and ride four miles. Then you step into a cockle-shell and circumnavi gate a pond, so small that it almost makes you dizzy to sail around it.— This is the lake,- -a very nice thing as it goes; but when it has to be con stantly on .duty as the natural scen ery of the whole surrounding coun try, it is putting altogether too fine a point on it. The picturesque peo ple will inform you of an Indian en campment. You go to see it, think ing of the forest primeval, and ex pecting to be transported back to • tomahawk, scalps, and forefathers ; but you return without them, and that is all. I never heard of any body's going anywhere. In fact, there did not seem to be anywhere to I go. Any suggestion of mine to strike out into the Champaign was frown ed down in the severest manner. As far as I could see, nobody ever did anything. There never was any plan on foot. Nothing was ever stirring- People eat on the piazza and sewed. They went to the springs, and the springs are dreadful. They bubble up salts and senna. I never knew anything that pretended to be water that was half as bad. It has no one redeeming quality. It is bit ter. It is greasy. Every sprin g is worse than the last, whichever end you begin at. They told apocryphal stories of people's drinking sixteen glasses before breakfast; and yet it may have been true, for, if one could bring himself to the point of drinking one glass of it. I should suppose it would have taken such a force to enable him to do it that he might go on drinking indefinitely, from the mere action of the original impulse. I should think one dose of it would render a person permanent-' ly indifferent to savors, and make him, like Mithridates, poison proof.—Atlan tic Monthly. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND HER SCHEMES. A writer in the August number of Harper's .211agazitte says of the Em press of the French : "The change of character which is so noticeable in EUGENIA is not the only ono observ able in her Majesty. Though but thirty-six years of age, her beauty is sadly on the wane. Her cheeks are now pendent, her hair thin and fall ing, while the nose—formerly so well shaped, so precisely adapted to her style of future—seems far too prominent. This effect is no doubt produced by the falling of the cheeks. Then her Majesty has re sorted to what the French term 'maquillage'—that is, painting cheeks, eyebrows, lashes and lips. Her make up is scientific, but plainly to be detected, and the persons who sees the Empress now for the first time exclaim, 'Why, she is not near ly so handsome as she has been rep resented.' She is not handsome now. Her brow has lost its bright, amiable look , the cares of her newly assumed position have wrinkled its once smooth surface; besides, she is a Spanish woman, and they soon fade. She has become capricious and overbearing—Jealous she has ever been since her marriaze, and with good cause. Her present ex travagance is unpardonable ; in fact, the woman is totally transformed.— The query now is, was she really all she seemed, or was it policy ?—were her amiability and sweetness of de portment but assumed as occasion required ?" DHAM 5.110113.—1 n an account / of parish work at the end of /vmdon, we read : "Go up to this lamp-post ; you can count fifteen dram shops visible as you stand. They have put saw dust outside some of the doors', and sprinkled it with rutp to bait the waverer with its pungsfit fames.". ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. SUFFERINGS OF . THE WOUNDED The condition of many of the poor sufferers was revolting in the ex treme. In the court-house, in the very heart of Gettysburg, we found our own soldiers lying on the bare floor, covered with blood, and dirt, and vermin, entirely naked, hav ing perhaps only a newspaper to protect their festering wounds from the flies ! Their wounds were very severe. Some of them were disfig ured beyond the possibility of re cognition Oh !it is impossible to describe these mangled and marred fragments of humanity. One we saw with a great cavern in his side, from which the lungs protruded several inches. Another unfortu nate, whose eyes had been shot out whilst trying to creep to a fence for shelter, was struck in the body five times ! Of the number above named, eighty-three were shot in the body ; seventy-seven were cases of amputa tion ; the rest were wounded mostly in the lower limbs. And this may be regarded as a!fair average exhibit. The last place we visited that day was a confederate hospital located in a farm-house and barn about two miles out. On our way thither we met a man dressed in the Confeder ate uniform. To my great surprise I recognized him as the son of a very dear friend. whose house had been my home in the second year of my ministry. My astonishment and grief were lightened when the youth led me to the side of his elder brother, who was captain of an ar tillery company in the rebel service. He was m'rtally wounded and in great anguish. Tho meeting be tween us, old schoolmates and friends, under such circumstances, was very affecting. I made him as comforta ble as possible, and prayed with him. Poor fellow, he lingered two days, tt , ^d died professing faith in Christ. JOHN JAY CRITTENDEN. The lion. J. Crittenden died at Frankfort, Ky., at half past three o'clock - on Sunday morning, the 26th, at the age of seventy-seven years. His death was painless, as he was in full possession of his faculties. He was a native of Woodford county, Ky., and was the son of a farmer.— His mother brought up a large fami ly, hie father having died while the children were young. At Hopkins ville, Mr. Crittenden began his ca reer as a lawyer, but subsequently removed to the capital of tl.e State, where he died. In 1816 he was elec ted to the Kentucky Legislature.— In 1817 he became United States Senator, and he supported President Monroe In 1828 President John Quincy Adams nomin‘ted him as Uni ted States Supreme Judge, but the Senate refused to confirm him. In 1841 he was Attorney General under President Harrison, but resigned when Tyler succeeded Harrison, along with all the other members of the cabinet, save Webster. In 1848 he was elected Governor of Kentucky by a large majority, and in 1850 he again became Attorney General un der Fillmore. Subsequently he was again chosen to the United States Senate, and his latest public, position was a member of the House of Rep resentatives of the thirty-seventh Congress. DEATH FROM BE ING OVERWORKED. The death of ayoung female. Mary Ann Walkley, in the service of a fash ionable West End milliner, Madame Elise, a Frenchwoman, from exhaus tion caused by overwork, and the breathing of impure air, has caused a sensation in London. The facts at tending the extinction of this young creature, as they were developed at inquiry before the Coroner, reveal a state of things about which the fine ladies who employ these Court mil liners can know nothing. Dr. Lan kester has made a report on the sub ject. "I found sixty ladies," he says, "working in two rooms, which con tained 3,630 cubic feet of air, and 'tis gives but little more than sixty ;et of air to each individual." It .s been remarked that, in' a sani y point of view, these rc, mis have en less air than the Black Hole of ;alcutta, into which though double le number of people wero tbFust,, :t many of them died a horrible ;ath in the course of a single night. A VAST CEMETERY.—A correspond. ,t of the Philadelphia Press, writing om Gettysburg, says: Hundreds of accessions has the Atysburg Cemetry received in lose memorable days. In one place '0 coun ted over one hundred graves New York volunteers, the names the brave men all inscribed on mple head boards. In close pro tity lie fifty-sis rebels in one trench, id not far off forty-two more, with it a solitary name inscribed. The , ot itself is designated by a board iled against Oa tree, with the in ,ription that here lie so many reb els. Several soldiers are buried within arms length of Dr. Krauth's rear door. The Seminary grounds and Dr. Schmucker's garden contain• a number, and this it is all through the country, within a circuit of eight or ten miles. It is a vast burial ground. • Elements of New York Life. ( The New York correspondent of the Boston Post has come to the conclusion that New York is a very naughty place. An address deliver ed before our Young Men's Christian Association furnishes an "account of stock" of the elements of naughti ness in this city, a few items of which may not be inappropriate ly introduced in this moral corres pondence of Mine. We are told that there are in New York 100,- 000 German Infidels ; 350,000 per sons who don't go to church ; 13, 000 families without Bibles; 60,000 children who never attended school; 15,000 vagrant and homeless children, graduate thieves and vagabonds ; 6,- 000 sailors in port all the time; a floating population of 50,000; all sorts of bad books in circulation, and in any quantity; 99,232 arrests by the police last year, three-fourths of which were traceable to drunken ness; 6,000 places where liquor is sold; nine theaters, having an average attendance of 15,000 persons and ta king in $B,OOO per night : 25,000 abandoned women keeping up their end of the so-called "social evil," (or one to every six young men in the city ;) 2,500 brothels; arrests in 1862 equalling one in every nine, and com mitments to prison one in every twenty-two of the entire citizenship; the cost of crime, pauperism and moral obliquity more than $3,000,000 this year; half a million ogpeople living in tenement houses; 25,000 persons living under ground. Bless us ! talk about riots—isn't it a mira cle that we don't have a riot every few minutes instead of every ten or fifteen years ? QUESTIONS FOR A WIFE. Do you recollect what your feel ings were immediataly after you had spoken the first unkind word to your husband ? Did you not feel asham ed and grieved, and yet too proud to admit it ? That was, is, and ever will be, your evil genius. It is the temper which labors incessantly to destroy your peace, which cheats you with the delusion that your husband deserved your anger, when he really most required your love.— This is the cancer which feeds on those unspeakable emotions you felt on the first pressure of his hand and lip. Never forget the manner in which the duties of a wife can alont7 be fulfilled. If your husband is has ty, your example of patience will chide as well as teach him. Your violence may alienate his heart, and your neglect impel him to despera tion. Your soothing will redeem him—your softness subdue him ; and the good-natured twinkle of those eyes, now filling beautifully with priceless tears, will make him all your own. =I ECONOMY IN WIVES. A young, married woman, who has not had the opportunity of profiting by the advice and example of a good mother, will find some difficulty at first in spending her money to the best advantage; though it is getting rid of it. Some women will keep houses respectably and plentifully on one-third less money than will be re quired by ethers, and without mean ness or illiberal dealing. But to do this judgment, forethought and expe rience are necessary. One woman will be able to tell how much her housekeeping costs to a shilling, while another cannot guess within ten. The former has a method, rule, regularity, and a certain sum assign ed to her ; with the other it is all hap-hazard---it comes and it goes, she neither knows how, uor cares,— And this is almost sure to be the case if the money is doled out by her hus band in a few shillings at a time. VOLTAIRE'S ABSURD PREDICTION.-- Nearly a hundred years ago, -Vol taire resided at Geneva, Switzer land. One day lie said to some friends, in a boastful, sneering tone: —Before the beginning of the nine teenth' century, Christianity will have disappeared from the earth !" Well! in that same house, in that same room where those impious words were spoken. what think you there is to-day ?A. large deposit of Bibles! The sacred books fill the house from the floor to the ceiling ! So much for Voltaire's wicked pre dictilons! CHRISTIANITY overthrows philospbicai scepticism. A NTIETAM ~BATTLE D.—The field of Antietam has lost all trace of last year's desolation, and smiles with golden wheat, scented clover. and luxuriant corn. A close (exam ination may perceive a torn tree, but that is all. 4. little 30 by 30 church or school house still stands, perfora ted with balls, and inwardly defaced. by the rude drawings and senseless, inscriptions of soldiers. KIND PARENT.-A husband and wife in Kingston, Canada, parted some months ago, when the wife in stigated her children to poison their father. The at tempt was discovered and confessed, but the father has re fused to take any steps against his children, and the matter will proba bly rest. LIGHT FLEECES Farmers complain that the fleeces of wool clipped this season are much lighter than an. average, and far be low what they were last year. There are many anxious inquiries in regard to the cause of this—more, we pre sume, than there would have been had wool commanded only its form er prices. Prominent among the causes for this uniform lightness of fleeces, is the fact that sheep were not kept as well through the Winter and Spring as usual. Barley, corn, and other grain brought a high price, and farmers thought they could not afford to feed it to sheep, so they sold their grain, and kept their sheep on dry forage alone, and as a consequence, got from three fourths to a pound less wool per head then they would if they' had pursued an opposite course. By feed ing barley to their sheep it would have brought them more than two dollars per bushel, but they probably "couldn't see it" then, and if they do now, it may. possibly teach them a good lesson. WOOL. The history of the growth of wool is very curious. Fifty years ago not a pound of fine wool was raised in the United States, in Great Britain, or in any other country except Spain. In the latter country, the flocks were owned exclusively by the nobility or her crown. In 1794, a small flock was sent to the Elector of Saxony as a present from the King of Spain, whence the entire product of Saxony wool, now of such immense value.— In 1809, during the second invasion of Spain by the French, some of the valuable crown flocks were sold to raise money. The American consul -at Lisbon, Mr. Jarvis, purchased fourteen hundred head and sent them to this country. A portion of the pure, unmixed merino blood of these flocks is to be found in Vermont at this time. Such was the origin of the immense flocks of fine wooled sheep in the United States. Fair.sosiffr —ln every man's life there sooner or later comes a time when the services of a friend are in valuable, and when the want of them works disaster and sometimes ruin.— No 'man, be he high or low, rich or poor, from the monarch to the beg gar, can afford to lose a friend ; for no greater loss can befit a man to lose, and no greater folly can a .nan commit than to throw off or neglect one whose friendship he has no rea son to doubt. Hamlet says : "The !Fiends thou hut. and their ad Option trien Grapple them by the soul with hooks of steel:" air Lady Lovelace, Lord Bryon's only daughter, who died eleven years ago, was buried in Ifucknall Church. A marble monument has just been erected to her memory, having the Byron arms near tho top, and the following inscription :—"ln the By ron vault below lie the remains of Augusta Ada, only daughter of Geo. Gordon Noel, Sixth Lord Bryon, and wife of William, Earl of Lovelace, horn on the tenth of December, 1815; and died 27th of September, 1852." Baby vE. Bat. The Kinderhook hough Xotes tells of a Dutch baby, in the village, killing a rat which had boldly attempted to rob it of its bread and butter. The baby had a piece of bread in one hand and a hammer in the other, and when the rat seized the bread, the baby hit it on the head with the ham mer, killing it instantly. eW Whatever company we keep, or however polite and agreeable their character may be with whom we converse or correspond, if the authors we read are of another sort, we shall find our palate strangely turned their way.—Shaftesbury. This is our request to you, that you will not lose another hour of your precious time, but spend it as those who have already lost too much, and have but little more to spend in preparation for et9rnity. siir A clear stream reflects all ob jects upon its shore, but: is un sullied by them; so it should be with our hearts--they should show the effect of all objects, and yet remain unharmed by any. air if ye, being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, lioNs much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. v a )-- tiood words and kind • deeds are tho right we pay for the air we breathe, and they make us happy tenants of this mundane sphere. • n• A man of a noble mind and generous heart is happiest when he finds something that ho can do to make others happy. sifir- To love and to labor is the sum of living ; and yet how many think they live who neither love nor labor. *IP Improve the wit you have bought at a dear rite, and the wis dom you have gained by sad txpe rienee. Ser Though few there art that care to be virtuous yet fewer they are that would not deaire'•to be counted so. NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 12. ONE DAY'S WORK ON A DAIRY Thinking it might interest the reader to know what amount of work may be accomplished on a large dairy farm, where everything is systemized, in a single day, we have obtained from Col. Pratt's far mer, Capt Newcomb, the following account of labor performed with ac companying results, on his dairy farm, (which produces 20,000 pounds of butter yearly,) on the Ist day of July. The persors employed consist of three men, three women and three boys, who rise at 41 o'clock, A. M.— The day's work for the men and boys commences, Ist, by driving in from pasture ninety cows, and put ting them in the stable ready to milk; 2d, fading and watering horses, bulls, calves, 49 boa t , 130 -turkies and 120 chickens. Milking cows begins at 6 o'clock and finishes at 71 o'clock. The cows are then let out to pasture, the sta bles cleaned, and everything ready for field work at 81 o'clock, when the weeding of the carrots and hoe ing of corn and potatoes commences. Between 11 A. M. and 2 P. M. three swarms of bees (50 hives) have been hived. Dinner at 12 M.; after din ner the horses &c. are fed and water ed, and all is.ready for field work at 11 o'clock. At 4 o'clock start for the cows and at five o'clock they are are all stabled, ready for milking.— Supper at five o'clock, and at half past five milking commences—milk ing finished—sixty pails.full are car ried to the dairy. At seven o'clock the cows are let out of the yard and driven to the night pasture. The stables are then cleared, the horses, bulls, calves, hogs and poultry fed , and firkins opened. We have, so far, given an account of the men's work done, we now proceed to the female management of the dairy; Three women are em ployed, two in the dairy room and one at housework. The day's work begins by the two skimming milk, while the third prepares the break fast for Half past five o'clock. Milk ing begins at 6 o'clock, and is finish ed-and the milk carried in by half past seven o'clock. The quantity of milk . obtained this morning Was 631 quarts, equal in weight to 1,228 pounds. When the milk is brought into the milk-room it is strained into large cans, then dipped by the two women and the two boys, and put into pans and placed upon the milk racks, and while the milk-pails, cans and strainers are being washed, the churns well filled with cream, two in number, each the size of a barrel, and worked by water power, are sot to work. The number of pans of milk skimmed this day is 509. Near to the churns, and in the churn-room, is a wooden tunnel, in the bottom of which is a trough, leading under ground to the hog pen, and as fast the pans are Skimmed the refuse milk is emptied into this tunnel and by the trough conveyed into a milk resevoir in the hog pen, from which the hogs are fed as required. The cream skimmed from these 509 pans of milk made 123 pounds of butter.— The newly made butter is now salted, the milk-house scrubbed, the _pans and churns washed and carried out to the air and sun to dry. Next in order is the working and packing of the butter churned the day previous. Hot water is now put in the firkin last opened,. and brine is changed from .one firkin to the other, and the empty firkin rubbed with fine salt and got ready to receive the packed butter. It is now five o'clock in the afternoon, and all hands go to supper, and at half-past five o'clork the milking commences, and by seven o'clock has been carried in the milk-room. Then follows the dipping and putting into pans and placing the pans on the rack as before stated, and this by the washhg of the pails and strain ers, and at eightmo'clock the work of the day is done. This day (July Ist,) from ninety cows one hundred and eleven pounds of butter was made.— Pra t tsville News. ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. In 1848, while the Convention which nominated Gen. Taylor, was in session at Philadelphia, a some what noted local politician from Pickaway county, Ohio, was in the city mingling in the muss. As the Convention adjourned over Sunday, he concluded to go to church. We will let him tell his own story: 'i had mounted my best regalia and looked fine; stopped at one door and asked the sexton for a seat; WAS shown a very good one entirely un occupied, in the back part of which I seated myself: In a. short time a very decent looking man, plainly dressed, entered and took the front of the pew. I held my head rever ently, and looked pious. He glanced at.rne several times, then took out a white handkerchief, looked at me again, then took a card, drew his pencil, wrote, 'This is my pew, sir,' and tossed theard to me. "I picked it up, and immediately wrote on it, "It is a very good one. What rent 'do you pay ?' and tossed it back." . FARM.
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