• fe t , t ), ik` -4 L! . k\ ti) \A N 1 I I AtAt I ttL 47j 4) • ) dethig *antat,---Pttrotth In Volitits, Agritithrt, fittraturt, *reign, Pomo& anD 05mtral 11 ESTABLISHED IN 1813 T:v WA' :4:llißit'iP.Sixd:lBl FORLISEED BY :at W. JONES AND JAS. S. JENNINGS. Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. 1-IrOPFICE NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. Ix zu atT, Ifluttituatrrtott.-52.00 in advance; $2.25 at the ex plratiou of six months; $4.50 after the expiration of the year. AuvrayssestENTs inserted at 51.25 per square for three insertions, and 37 cts,a square for each addition al insertion; (ten lines or Mss counted a square.) A liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. Er inn PRINTINti, of all kinds, executed in tlie best ktyle, and on reasonable terms, at the "Messenger" Job attire. fiXallutsburg Nusintss ;'arbs. ATTOn.NzYs t C. WYLY. J. A• J. BUCHANAN. D. R. P. HUSS WYLY, MICIIANAN & HUSS, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, IVA IT NES B LTG-, PA. Kill practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining crottnties. Collections and other legal business trill re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in the Ohl Bank Building. Jan. flti, 1f013.-13, 13=1 PURMAN & RITCHIE. ATTOBVEYS AND cOUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. Pir-Orrige—Main Street, one door east of the old 13 - ink fr All ..uslness in Greene, Washington, rind Fay ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive promp attenlion. N. D —Particular attention will he givch to the co leztion of Pensions, Bounty Money, Back Pay, and other Unitas againsttheGoveriinseut. (Sept. 11,18612-iv. a. A. IrCONNELL. /...7. HUFFMAN. IM'CONNELL & ZEUFFMAN, irToRNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Waynesburg, Pa. VaOlilce in the "Wright Ilt t_se," East Door. Upetions, &c., will receive prompt atrenijon. inesborg, April 23, Hif2-Iy. ___ DAVID CR A WFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office th the *lnd 'house. Will mend promptly to all business entrusted to bis care. WaYneshurg.July SO, 1863.—iy. C. A. BLACK BLACK k PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS' AT LAW °thee in the Court Douse, Way neelitrg. Sept. 11,1861-Iv. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAXM. I D. E. P. HUES, ar-3 , ...nev AT LtV. C, tI ' RGSBCRO, PERNA P l ' l B 4l7l z n e ci ty,e'l front the War Depart: co;lL, f r t , NY b a t s , ll :: :awe passed by ongrc s and al/ the isoary forms and Instrt amps for the prosecution and collection of t'Exsrox,t, Boux7 r, SACK PAY, due dirt- Itarired and disabled soldiers, their widows, erih an &Hien, widowed mothers, fathers, aisle's and broth • Afs, othSch business, [upon due notice] will be attend- Mtnpromptly and acunratelv if entrusted to his cart). ()nut the old Bank Iluild , ng —Aprd F , ig6l U. W. G. ViTADDELL, TTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, FriCE in the REGISTER'S OFFICE, Court House. Waynesburg, Penna. Business of all dB solicited. Has received official copies of all the s passed by Congress, and other necessary Instruc t/ens for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, tine discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan drildren.„ &c., which business if intrusted to his rare *RI to promptly attended to. Nay 13, '63. PHYSICIANS br. T. W, Ross, li'harnsicriza - xL da SElhourgocaa4 Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. rtrrics AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET. eqt, and nearly opposite the Wright house. Wars tieAlm:g. Sept. 23, 1663. MM DR. A. G. CROSS 3vOU LD eery tespectfully tender his services as a PICINICIAN AND !SURGEON, to the people of ayneehorg and vicinity. Ile hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to irtiplfiess, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg, January 8, 180. MERCHANTS WM. A. PORTER, wbeteside and Retail Reale( in Foreign and Domes deeds, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. dept. il. 1881-Iy. IL CLARK, Realer In Dry Goods, Groceries, Dardware, Queens mist* afld nodijos, in the liaoition House, opposite 40.0crOrt /louse, Main Street. Sept. it, 1£431-Iy. MINOR & CO., Ginfere hi Foreign and Domestic Dry Goode, Oro. aeries, Queanaware, Hardware and Notiong, oppsity the Green House. Main street. . 11, 1881-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. P. COSGRAY, *Get tad Rho Rinker, Main street, nearly opposite be 'Farmer's and Drover's flank." Every style of &Mao and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1881-Iy. ~. 310013RIES & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries , Notions, riedleistes, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, dm, Glass of e ast , and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass nue& paid for good eating A pities. 11. 186l—ly. _ JOHN MUNNELL, Mgler In Cr()caries and Confectionaries, and Variety Wilson's New Building, Main street. f - . 6mo; 11. 1861-Iy. W+TCEES AND JEWELRY S. X. 1341 LY, Main Street, opposite the Wright House keeps w omaire on hand a large and elegant assortment of Wand Jewelry. pairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wil re prompt attention. Met. 15. BOORS, &c. LEWIS DAY, 01,11111111 r to &boot and kliseelleneous Books, Station ery,tor. Magazine. and Papers; One doer east of pottier' store: mein street. Sent. 11. 1851 d _ LES AND HARNESS. ' - `ICAMUEL M'ALLISTER, &ado ,. Maloney and Trunk Maker. old Bank Bulld og. MEI 11.1101/7t. F*MERW & ' DROVERS' BANK,. iiiwt • `" 41Parhestrarg, p s . C. 4. pi x ect,syst 1. J. LAZatiii, Cub*. w sew. 214 faith Notre. The Sewing Machine Prattically What a moral and social revolution .has the invention of the sewing machine silently effected. Surely peace bath her victories no less than war, and of them all this must be accounted among the chiefestl A few figures will serve to show what this wonderful invention has done and is doing in our own city. One New York firm, engaged in the manufacture of clothing, annually dis -1 burses two hundred thousand dollars to operators on sewing machines, and it is estimated twenty million dollars per annum are paid out by the verions houses in this business in New York kn. sewing machine work. A careful com putation places the aggregate of monies I thus expended by clothing manufacttuers lin the United States at as high a sum las two hundred million dollars annual ' ly. The saving both of money and of "human creatures' lives," • under this new regime, cannot fail to fill with de light the heart not only of the political economist, but of every true philanthro- I pist, Nor is this economy of lite and labor less noteworthy, as we glance at I the shirt manufacturing interest in our city. Shirt bosoms, to the number of ; three thousand dozens per day, are made in this city. This is an aggregate of nine lumdred thousand dozens, ten million eight hundred thousand single bosoms, per annum. Eight dozens of these can be made on a single good ma chine in a day. Of shirts complete, forty-eight millions per annum are man ufactured in the United States. One establishment in this city turns out an average of eight hundred dozens every week ; using four hundred machines, and employing eight hundred families, at weekly wages ranging from three to eight dollars. From these statistics it will be inferred that the "Song of the Shirt" is now sung to a machine accom paniment, and in less doleful strains than in Hood's day. In the manufacture of hats, it is prov ed that the use of sewing machines ef fects a saving, over bindin!Y by hand; of more than theee Ireedred and seventy :lye teeusaud dollars in New York alone. One million five hundred thou sand dozens of hats are annually sold in this city, all of which are now "bound" by sewing machines. The astonishing number of four million four hundred thousand caps are ascertained to be made every year in New York.— , These are, for the most part, made by machine, and not only in a supyrior manner, but ten times as quickly as by hand. Their cost is, moreover, cheap ened at least fifty cents per dozen by the new method of manufhcture—sav ing in this item alone, nearly two him dreh thousand dollars a year. The mantilla and cloak trade of New York is said to amount to three million dol lars per annum. The sewing machine, it is asserted, does nearly, if not fully, one-third of the work in this branch of manufacture—a single machine perform ing the labor of six girls. The machine operators are paid six dollars per week, and hand-sewers four dollars. One machine, therefore, is capable of effect ing a saving of over nine hundred dol lars a year, while doing the work bet ter and more speedily than hand-sewers could possible do it. Few persons arc aware of the extent to which the sewing machine has been made useful in the manufacture of boots and shoes. They are provided to have done as much work in five minutes as could have been by hand in an hour, making a machine equal to twelve per- , sons as respects time and efficiency.— I In Massachusetts, where this branch of trade has its headquarters, over two million five hundred thousand dollars are annually paid out ler sewing-ma chine labor on ladies' and misses' gaiter hoots arid shoes. If performed by hand, this labor would involve a cost of eight million dollars. J. G. RITCIII6 JOHN PHBLAN Curious Debt and Credit Account. A correspondent of the Northwest ern Christian Advocate relates the fol lowing anecdote of an Itinerant Metho dist preacher in Ohio : "At the close of service on one Sun day, a gentleman, not a church mem ber, asked him home to spend the night, and when he left in the morning invi ted him to call whenever it suited his convenience. This the preacher often did, as he passed that way on his circuit, and one day at the end of the year, of fered payment for his frequent enter tainment. The gentleman brought out an account book, where were charged meals, lodging horse—keeping, etc., amounting to near twenty dollars.— Though surpvised, the minister imme diately said he had not so much money with him, but would call and settle be fore leaving the circuit. "Stop," said his host, "let's examine the other side," and then Je showed a credit ()tow, dol lar for every sermon preached in the neighborhood, a sixpence for every blessing asked at the table, and a shil ling for every prayer offered in the fain:- ily, except one where the preacher had knelt - on one knee—for this the credit was a- sixpence. The account shoWed three- or four ' , dollars due the preacher, MCh was immediately paid over, si4 they parted on the best of terms." *Me labors of the body free mou from pains of the Fad. Viewed. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864. Vast Armies and their Movements. There have been vast armies and grand movements belbre these days.— Here is a record of some of them : Sennacherib (the Bible tells us,) lost, iu a single night, 185,000 men;by the destroying angel. The city of Thebes had a hundred gates, and could send out at each gate 10,000 fighting men and 200 chariots— in all, 1,000,000 men and 2,000 chari ots. The army of Trerah, King of Ethio pia, consisted of 1.000,000 men and 300 chariots of war. Sesostris, King ofEgypt, led against his enemy 64)0 ; 000 men, 24,000 cavalry, and 37 scythe armed chariots, 1191 be ,re Christ. liamilear went from Carthage and landed near Pahnerno. lie had a fleet of 2,000 ships and 3,000 small vessels, and a land force of 300,000 men. At the battle in which he was defeated, 150.000 were slain. Ninus, the Assyrian King, about 2,- 200 years before, Christ, lcd against the bactrians his army, consisting of 1,- 700,000 foot, 200,000 horse, and 16,- 000 chariots armed with scythes. Semiramis employed 2,000,000 men in building the mighty Babylon. She took 100,000 Indians inisoneas at the Indus, and sank 1,000 boats. A short time after the taking of. Bab ylon the forces of Cyrus consisted of 600,000 foot, 120,000 horse, and 2,000 chariots armed with scythes. An army of Cambyses, 50,000 strong, was buried up in the desert sands of Af rica by a south wind. When Xerxes arrived at Thermopylae, his land and sea forces amounted to 2,- 641,910, exclusive of servants, eunuchs, women, sutlers, etc., in all numbering :083,220. So say Herodotus. Plutarch and Isocrat es. The army of Artaxerxes before the battle of Ctmaxa amounted to about 1,- 200,000. Ten thousand horses and- 100,000 foot fell on the 1401 field of Issus. When Jerusalem was taken by Titus, 1 100,000 perished in various ways. w‘The army of Tamerlane is said to have amounted to 1,600,000, and that of his antagonist, Bajaret, 1,100,000. Personal Appearance of Louas Na poleon, Louis Napoleon's present personal appearance is thus desribed in a late let ter from Paris :—"The personal ap pearance of Napoleon HI, would puz zle the most accurate observer of phys iognomy. The face of the man with the iron mask is not more devoid of ex pression than is his. One may study it 14 hours without deriving the slightest satisfaction as to the Emperor's mental characteristics. Those fishy, rayless eyes, the parchment-like cheeks, the stiff; pointed moustache, all suggest a sort of artificial face prepared for the occasion, while the real mac, like the priestess of Apollo, lies hidden, and delivers short, oracular responses 'behind it. He is short in stature, though his body is full the average size. Hence he appears to greater advantage in a sitting posture. Of late years he has grown somewhat corpulent, like the first Napoleon and the other members of his family.— His habits at the present .day are said to he simple and regular, perhaps necessari ly so, if the stories told of his early ex cesses be true. His appearance ou horseback does great credit to his horse manship, which is generally allowed to be the most skilful in Europe. He is very fond of horses, and has that thorough understanding of their nature which establishes a certain sympathy between that animal and his rider." The Seven Wonders of the World. The seven wonders of the world were : 1. The Egyptain Pyramids. The largest of these is 504 feet bquare, and 468 feet high, and its base covers eleven and a half acres of ground. 2. The Mausoleum erected to Mauso lens, king of Caria, by his widow Arte misa, It was 63 feet long and 35 feet high. 3. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. This was 425 feet in length and 320 feet in breadth. 4. The Wall and Ranging Gardens of Babylon. These walls are stated by Ilerodotus, to have been 18 feet thick, 350 feet high, and 60 miles in length, and the statement is deemed credible by modern antiquarians. .5. Mei Colossus of Rhodes. This was a brazen statute of Apollo, 105 feet high, standing at the mouth of the har bor of Rhodes. 6. The statute of Jupiter Olympus at Athens, which was made of ivory and gold, and was wonderful for its beauty rather than its size. 7. The Pharos of Ptolemy Philadel phus. This was a light house, 100 feet high, on the Island of Pharos, at Alex ander in Egypt. —.- Silver Discovered in Michigan. There is great excitement in Michigan over the discovery of silver near Lake Superior. Speculation has already com menced. Men who have taken lands at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, are selling out at advances of thou sands dollars upon the original cost of their tracts. One tract hirp been sold for 04. thoii.s4nd dollars ; the owner bought it af;i3w weeks ago from the Govern ment for two hundred doll. The Tedinets Owe liottain uti toes , sefilsotieid sjlver.—Exchanye. The Value of Dead Horses.A Painful Narrative. Some people will no doubt be astou- I ! The followiny is an extract from a let_ islied to learn that large fortunes have ter written by a lady residing at Seaton, been made every year since the coin- near Auxmiuister, England; mencement of the war, out of the dead There is a small fishing village near horses of the Army of the Potomac.— here that is literally plague stricken The popular idea is that when Rosinante with measles, the children are dying by yields up the ghost, she is buried in some dozens. The inhabitants are all sailors field, or left to moulder into mother and fishermen, and at this time ofllie earth in the woods somewhere. Not so. I year always in want. The children do She less male her last, charge and gnaw- inot die of the complaint. but of weakness ed her last fence-rail, but there is from and starvation afterwards. We are all at to klO in the old animal vet. A work boiling soup and -loing, what we contract for the purchase of the dead can for the poor, starving things. They horses in the Army of the Potomac for come over the hill twenty at a time, an,l the ensuing year, was let a few weeks receive a blanket, sheet, 5 pounds of ago to the highest bidder, at $1.76 per bread, 2 oz. of tea and four yards of ilan head, delivered at the factory of the con- nel. The bell is toiling constantly, and tractor. Last year 560,000 were clear- i 5 or G children arc brought over here in - A on the contract, and this year it is a cart to be hurried daily. The village thought 1100,000 can be made on it.— altogether is like a thing you dream of. The animals dies at the rate of about 50 The mothers themselves look like hun per day, at the lowest calculation. dry wolves, without a feeling left for At the contractor's establishment they their dead children. I have only seen are thoroughly dissected. First, the one woman crying, until I said a kind shoes are pulled off, they arc usually word, such as 'the summer is 'coming, worth fifty cents a set. Then the hoofs please God,' and they sob as if they are cut off : they bring about two dol- would go into hysterics from weakness. tars a set. Then comes the caudel ap- In one den I visited there were six chil pendne, worth half a dollar. Then the dren lying before the fire-place, and I hide—l don't know what that sells for. h ungry. Then the woman if they were Then the tallow, if it be possible to ex- 'No,' she said, 'thank God they are not tract tallow from the army horses, which so hungry as I am, for I have nothing to I think extremely tionlittul, unless they give them. I could eat the table-board. die immediately after entering the ser- I can only give them my work and vice. And last, but not least, the shin- strength, and the dead children are the bones are valuable, being converted into best off, poor things. I found a true a variety of articles that many belie-,-e to hearted farmer's wife, who lends me her be composed of pure ivory, such as cane kitchen, and boils the soup for them.— heads, knife handles, &c. These poor children die in the dark, and the mothers have to watch for daylight to see them, not having a candle in the house. It is sad work, and I feel ashamed of myself every night when I come home and sit down to a g o - )o,1 tea. I myself have spent three days cm Beer, and I think the misery beats anything I ever liheld. The Sunshiny Member. Let us try to be like the sunshiny member of the family, who has the in estimable art to make all duty seem pleasant, all self-denial and exertion easy and desirable—even disappoint ment not so blank and crushing : who is like a bracing, crispy, frosty atmos phere throughout the home, without a suspicion of the clement that chills and pinches. You have known people within whose influence you felt cheerful amiable, hopeful, equal to anythinc_,r. Oil fur thatliles3ed power, and fur God's grace to exercise it rightly. Ido not know a more enviable gift than the en ergy to sway others to good—to diffuse around us an atmosphere of cheerfulness generosity, nagnattinrity. It is not a matter of great talent—not entirely a matter of great energy ; but rather of e3rllC - 111C:;S and honesty, and of that quiet, constant energy which ii. like soft rain gently 'tenet - J.-Ili:11c; It :3 rather a grace than a gift; and all kno w where all grace is to be had finely for the asking. How to Prepare Glue. The following receipe for making liquid glue is said to have been discovered by a French chemist. It i 3 valuable, as it does not gelatinize, putrefy, or fit ment and become offensive, and can be used cold for all purposes of glue, in making or mending furniture, or other things that are not exposed to water. In a wide-mouthed bottle dissolve eight ounces of the best glue in a half pint of water, by setting it in a vessel of water, and heating it till dissolved.— Then add slowly, constantly stirring, two and a half ounces of strong aqualor us (nitric acid). iceep it corked, and it will be ready for use. Artesian Wells in the Desert. Modern science is literally making "the desert to blossom as the rose."— In the great desert of Sahara in 1860, five Artesian wells had been opened, around which vegetation thrives lux uriantly; thirty thousand palm trees and one thousand fruit trees were plant ed, and two thriving villages establish ed. At a depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two wells live fish have been thrown up, showing that there is a largo body of water un derneath. ANGEIL—It is said of Julius Cesar, that, upon any provocation, he would repeat the Roman alphabet before he suffered himself to speak, that he might be more just and calm iu his resent ments. The delay of a few minutes has set many seeming affronts in a jester and kinder light ; it has often lessened, if not annihilated, the supposed injury, and prevented scenes of violence and revenge. 'At Philadelphia some days since, a man sold some property - for $90,000, agreeing to execute a good deed fee simple. The deed stamps cost $lBO, and the question as to which party should pay for them was tried before Judge Sherwood, who decided that the purchaser must pay, A clergyman having preached during Lent, in a small town in which he had not once been invited to dinner, said, in a sermon exhorting his parishioners against being seduced by the prevail ing vices of tie age, "I have preached against every vice but luxurious living, having had no opportunity of observing to what extent it is carried in this town." iA young lawyer once boasted to a member of the bar that he had received five hundred dollars for speaking in a cer tain law suit. The other replied, "I re ceived one thousand dollars for keeting, silentin the same ease?. , The Nearness of Life and Death. When we walk near to powerful ma chinery we know that one single mis s-up and those mighty engines would tear us to ribbons with their flying wheels, or grind us to powder in their ponderens jaws. So when we are thun dering across the land in the rail car, and there is nothing but the thickness of a plank between us and eternity.— We imagine then that we see how close we are to the edge of the precipice.— But v,e do not see it. - Whether on sea or on the laud the partition that divides us from eternity is something thinner than 'lle oak plank - or half an inch iron Ilang. The maeldnary of line and deaiii is within us. The tissu .. . s that hold these, beating powers in their places are often not thicker than a sheet, of paper, and if that thin partition were ruptured it would he just the same with us as if a common-ball had struk us. Death is inseparably hound up with lire in the very structure of our bodies. Strugle as he may to widen the space, no man can at any time go further from death than the thickness of a sheet of pa- Per. You Made me a Drunkard. A respectable youo• gentleman of Ed inburgh related a few days ago, a most affecting fact : A religious woman at Edinburgh was set to visit a woman who was dying in consequence of dis ex;e brought on by habits of intemper ance. The woman had formerly been in the habit of - u ashing in ais lady's family, and when :lie caele to the dying woman she remonstrated with her ou the folly and. wickedness of her conduct, in giving way to so dreadful a sin as intemperance. The dying woman said, "You have been the author of my in temperance." "What did you say?" with pious horror exclaimed the lady, "I the author of your intemperance "Yes, ma'am; I never drank whiskey till I Caine to wash in your family ; you gave me some, and said it would do me good. I felt inviloratcd, and you gave me some again. 'When I was at other houses not so hospitable as yours. I pur chased a little, and by and by I fianill my way to the spirit shop, and thought it was necessary to carry me through my hard work, and little by little I be came what you see me." Conceive what this lady felt. The Vernal Equinox. Monday being the 21st of March, was the day of the Vernal Equinox, the moment when the Sun's centre crosses the celestial equator. At this time the days and nights are equal. The Sun then ascends north from the exquator until the 17th day of June, which is the longest day of the year—the Sun rising at fhours and 33 minutes .and setting at 7 hours and 28 minutes. After thli. , day it commences to descend towards the equator, and on the 21st of Septem ber the days and nights again become equal; this is called the Autumnal Equi nox. After this the sun continues to .recede from the equator until the 17th of December, which is the shortest day in the year—the sun rising at 7 hours and 12 minutes and setting at Ihours and 39 minutes. About the period of either equinox it is generally very stormy ; this season, however, with the exception of high winds, the weather has bee 4 re markably fine. siVTLe evening is the time for social de light. The fountains of pleasure, like many springs in nature which stop in the,daytime, haltble up in the bosonis '2l con3paniola,o ft • -.; 1" = • htfall The Surrender of Union City. A dispatch from Cairo of the 23rd says :---Our forces at Union City met with a disaster yesterday. At an early hour on the morning of the 22d, intel ligence was received by Gen. Brayman that Forrest was advancing on Union City with seven thousand men, li e sent Captain Olden, Assistant Adjutant General, to ascertain the truth of the report. The Captain found that the pickets were driven in, and afterwards that the wires were cut, and things looked so unfavorable that Gen. Bray_ man proceeded to Columbia with three thou-band men and one battery, when he was informed that Col. Hawkins, who commanded at Union City, could prob ably hold out until ho could reinforce him. The troops were immediately for warded by train to within six miles of Union city, where they were informed that Col. Hawkins had surrendered with his whole command, which con sisted of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry, numbering 425 men, all armed and equipped, and about 300 of them mounted. An insignificant amount of stores fell into the hands of the enemy. Alter destroying the fortifications the rebels proceeded south, taking their prisoners with them. They numbered not more than one-fourth of what was at first reported, with no artillery.— Gen. Grierson has sent a strong force of !' cavalry trout Memphis in pus* of them. Great excitement existed in Fort Pil low on the night of the 22nd lest they should attack that place. It has been detennined by the commanding Gener al to give up Small Plain, which was held only •by a small force, and hold on ly such places as are of importance, and insure safety to our river commu nications, from the fact that there is a great amount of contraband trade car ried on, and the enemy obtain a large amount of supplies ii•um places of small garrisons and loose trade regula tions. Fretfulness. Fretfulnel , ,s is a great lender of mise ry. It begins its loans to very young borrowers, and there is great danger that it its dehtors, draw on it early they will become sad spendthrifts of misery, and scarcely ever be able to free them selves from the clutches of their hard task-master and creditor: There is nothing more SUCCeSAIII. in rn:iking people unnecessarily miserable than ft fretful, discontented spirit. It works ill in two ways : it causes its victims to think badly of thcinseives,and (what is worse) to think badly of other peoi)le too. Fretfulness and peevishness aro very much under our own control. Men can choose to what extent they will permit circtunstances to have influence over them, and the character of that influ ence. An eccentric person of the John sonian school has made a sort of fable on this subject. Ile maintains that all kinds of weather may be made charm ing to a man if he so will ; that if he will go out in the rain without any de fence, and pretend to know nothing about the showers, the rain will cease for him, each drop exclaiming, "It is no use raining upon that man, he does not mind it." There is a moral to that fable; and we may be sure that if, in stead of allowin: , every slight incident in personal, social or tinnily life to ruffle our tempers and make us wretched, we v: ere determined to regard fewer of them, the wear and tear of life would be much less, and days and hours would pass more plea-zantly. In every house, every clay, there are trivial circumstan ces which, if dwelt upon, will cause trouble for a long time, but which are so small that they should never be no ticed. Said Cervantes, "Bast thou a mind to quarrel with thy with Bid her bring water to thee in the sunshine: a very fair quarrel may be picked about motes in the - clearest water." Yes ; great misery—all borrowed ; none of it necessary—is brought to families by the fretful ; captious, querulous scolling3 that occur every day; by the ridiculous, persecuting, vexing, vixenish notice ta ken of paltry things at home. Fathers and mothers! brothers and sisters ! if our homes are too happy, joyous places, hunt out mere fretfulness nnd make the love borne by one to the other as considerate to mutual weakness as in the courtesy that i is paid by amid to strangers. Terrible Death. Hon. Ezekiel Mowrey, of Meshop pen, Wyotnim, , , county, met his death under the following. circumstances : He . VaS engaged in his plaster mill grind ing corn, and while working about the cracker, his coat coat caught by the but ton hole, on a screw that held the cou pling of the shaft together, just above the cracker, and before lie was aware of his situation had wound so closely up that he could not extricate himself. - In this position he remained until his knit coat, a thick flannel and a cotton shirt, and his vest were torn into shreds, and he - was only liberated when his body had been forced through a space of ten inches between the turning shaft and a post.— From this he fell into the hopper and then to the floor, where he lay about an hour before he was discovered. He died in a few minutes. The deceased was an excellent man and highly esteemed by all who know him. lie - .oeprosetded, Wyoming'cut' ißp,jgoiaotwo r * :49 and 850. NEW SERIES. --VOL, 5, NO. 43 . Every family—in the country at least —should have them plenty by the first of August, and by taking,: rains may begin to use theta by the fourth of July. The first thing to be considered is the soil. It should be a comparatively-dry and sandy er than a wet black loain. A fre.p..,o new soil is greatly preferable—one re cently covered with grass, .or What is still better, scrub oaks, sweet —gin, blackberry and hucklebeny bushes, r - 7 Such a soil, when well plowed and her iowed, will be light, and will abJund with the alkalies and alkaline eirifsi that the potato requires. The situation : selected should be an open, 'but a wit* one—along the side of an, old feneesta wall, where bushes have been growing for half a century, or less, and exposed to the morning sun. On such a soil, and in such a situation, the plants wip t start early and come to maturity *Apr and if the variety planted be Et gote one, the tubers grown wilfintve a MOW and agreeable flavor, Some of the varieties used for early planting are the Jacrson White, White. Chenango, which come quite early, the Early Blue, and others. _Burr says the ! Ash-leaved Kidney is one of the earliest, varieties, and that the Early Blue is one of the earliest of the garden potatoes; of tine quality, aad one of the best for forcing Ibr early crops. If the ground was not prepared last Fall, it should be made ready as soon as the frost is out, so that it can be plowed six inches deep, and the potatoes planted. Planting should take place just As soon as the soil is dry enough to adritit of working it. Plant, if thero is a Azx surface sufficient to cover with, evenV the frost is a foot , deep below. Before. planting, prepare liberal holes and 1111 them with a shovelful of horse state manure. Cover this with a sprinkling of fresh damp mold, and place the "set" or seed on this and cover three ineheg deep. Mr. J. Knight says that if the "sets" are placed with their leading buds upward, a few and veiny strong early stems will be prQduced; but if the posiiion be reversed, many weak and later shouts will arise, and not only the earliness, hut the quality of the e duce be depreciated. The most Profitable Variety of Potato. At a recent meeting of the Farmers' Club of the American Institute, Mr, earßenter gave his experience with Goodrich's potatoes. He said that he had cultivated all four varieties, and he. believed that the Cusco-white, With good culture, would yield 300 bushels to the acre. !fr. Williams said that in 1862 he tried all four varieties in compatisen with the best old kinds, carefully meas ured the ground and the crop, and hav ing his note-book with him he could give the results. The ground, manut. and -culture were the same in cases. The rate per acre of the yield Ai as : Prince Albert 86 bushels 6 quarto Jersey Mercer 9 44 is 44 Novia Scotia 163 " 20 " Peach Blom , 114 " 3 14 Garner-Chili 120 " 3 44 Copperrnino 199 '' 2 :4 Rusty-coat 216 " 6 ..4 Cusco 240 " 7 44 The last I are Goodrich's. Mr. Williams thought that the CUSCO snrpasses all other varieties of potato i 4 the abundance of its yield, and though in quality it was not perhaps quite equal to the Mercer, it.brought the sane price in the New York market. The Best Varieties of Apples and At the meeting of the Fruit Crto4er's Society of Western N. Y., Jan. 28th, 1861, votes were taken on the 14 best varieties of pears for 11'11111y use, with the following result, twenty-one votes being cast Bartlett 21 I Belle Lucrative 16 Angouleme 18 I Beurre Giffard 14 Louise 14omie 17 I Beurre Anjou 14 Sheldon 17 I R,ostiezer 21 Lawrence 17 I Flemish Beauty 12 Doyenne d'Ete 17 I Winter Nelrs 12 Seekel 16 I Beurre Bose 11 Upon the results of the past very fa vorable season, the following vote on the ber4t, sLi varieties of apples for Win ter market was had : 'Tompkins Co. King 18 Roxbury Russet 13 Rhode Island Greenii 13 Baldwin 14 Golden Russet 7 Northern Spy ger•A country editor received a re mittance, with the request to send his paper as long as the money lasted. Ire indulged in a bit of a spree, got broke, and respectfully annotinced to his sub scriber that according to his own terms, his subscription was out. In three years it will be possible to sand a telegraphic message from Pekin 'to lads and. back agiiin in a day. This will by medic ,of tbstimi"vrectini, in tAste 'gent, tft. cat , tilt It Early Potatoes. Pears. Telegraph to China.
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