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It A liberal dedaction made to yearly adyert isers. lir Jon PRINTING, of fen h.lnde, executed in lira, best style; and ott reasonable ri'rlite, at the ••Messenger' Job Orrice. Enottsbarg llsintss (arbs. ATTORNEYS. 1!/11:1 PURDIII.A.N & RITCHIE. ATTORNEYS AND tOENSELLoRS Al' LA W Waynesburg, Pa. AlirOtqi,v.— :t e ed, one door cast of the old 13 - ink ,usi»ess to Crt-eno, Washington, and Fay rite Counties, entrusted to thew, ti tll receive prowp attention. N. II —Particular attention Wilt he eivt-n to the col lection of Pensions. lion tity flack Pay, and other claims against the Gttvei nivent. Sat. 18131-1 v. R: A. lIITONNELL. J. J. HUFFMAN. M'CONNXLL dr, riurrinAN, iirrORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS Al' LAW Way nesburg, Pa. B:roffice hi the ''Wright 11. se," East Door. Collections, &c.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April trl, DAVID CR A W FORD; Attoiney and Counsellor at Law. Office h 4 the Court House. Will attend promptly to all husihess entrusted to his cale."• WaYnesbors. Pa.iirly 30. 1563.—1 V . __ I=l BLACK. & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND couNriul.i.ortz AT LANA Office in the Court !louse, Way tier Lurg. 11,1801-Iv. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS! D. R. P. HIKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 11 AVNESEIERG, N.NNA., fj AS received from the War Di partment itt Wash y" ingtoti citr. P. 1 . .. oltietal comes of the veveral laWs passed ( . 01,1t•SS, Mid all the iiiiemzsdiv Forms Ana Instructions thy rtie all voll. tioll llt PENSIONS, B 0 r Y IC 21 Y. tie ei.,,- citargell and disci , 4e.l solitieri , . their cl children, widowed mothers. timbers, sisteis Moth. efli, which bliSilieSS. Llll.ll ,1111 . 11.1it•el Will lie all , 11:!. edto promptly met iteidirateh if 1 , . ' 6, care Office, No. 2, Camphella itow.— April PIEYSICIANS Dr. T. W. Ross, phytsioiau cfc Stxx-igtacsm3, Waync. ,- ;lntig, Greene Co., N. OEFICt: ANTI RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET, east, and nearly Oppoiiile the Wright house. Waliteihtt:g, &.t. 2311563 DR. A. G. CROSS W.)111,1) very respectfully Pinter not services as a PHYSICIAN AND tqlitrll3ON, to the people 01 'Waynesburg anti vicinity. Ile hopes by a due appre ciation of human 116. :to health, :wd sire L at , entiotl to bllB eNS, to uterita oli to of11 , ;1):;( . pat r.lit4te. t.rWayagsburg. January ti, Pa..ERC2ANTS * ' • %%TM. A. potrrEn, Wbia.es'ale and Ito ail Denies in Foie- ign and Doilies r Irry Gnotg. Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Oept. H. lzki! —v, MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and boniest it Dry Cowls, Oro series, Queensware, Ilardwnre and Notions, tippositti the Green House. Mail, street. 1861-Iy, BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS GEES J. D. COS6iiAY, Met and Shoe tua l lier, Main street. u , arty yretsite "Parmer's - and I rover's !lank." Every style ot illoots and Shoes constantly' on hand or acute to order. Sept, 11, 1861-Iy. GROCERIES & VASOLIETIES. JOHN AIUNNVI _I -A _,,lJicater in Groceries and 4 :444irvetiosiaries, and Variety G*1111 . 6 Generally, Wilson's \ctv ItuiLliug, Main street. , tier. WATCHES AND JEWELRY S. M. BAIII7, Mein street, opposite the Wright Mese keeps idways on hand a large and elegant assortment of Witheheii and Jewelry. urs e p g a r ieg of Ch o ke, Watches and Jewelry wil trier.lve prompt :Mention I V , I•11. 15, INCA— lv BOOKS, &c. LEWIS DAY, Peatizz in School and Misi-eli•ineous Hooks, Station en,, ink, Magazines and Papers. One door east P 1 Poifife store. Main Atrovl.. Sem 11. Iv. SADDLES AND HARNESS. SAMUEL M'ALLISTER, Saddle, Ilarness and Trunk Maker. old Bank Build ag, Main street. Sept. 11, Itlid—ln BANE. j ': :' : , • • - _DROVERS' BANK, :-:, ' . '-'"esburgi. Pa. EA Ft, Cashier 44 t 6' ..-- " ..'-1 • . O UNT DAY . y ' -,,,e,_,,,-,-_-,,5,„ A •- --,.; ...16.1._. • , znbing. A OA AQUA' MAUI HACK REITLINER. THE undersigned respectfully informs the generous tbitt having the contract for the carrying ...film Z o between the above points, he has placed .n the two new and commodious Hacks for the ac . 4.111,111100415ti0n of the traviillng, ( hie wil 'Dave the Adam's Booze, W ayrwburg, every morn :, flandaya except..., at 7k O'clock, and will arrive lie N tat Landing in time • for the Boat to Pittsburgh, r will leave tikes' Landing at the same time grgbro in Waynesburg at noon. No pains will be ...Mrd for the accommodation of passengers, TIMOTHY DOUGHER, Proprietor. • -.sagesst7tb, 1861. no. 9. NICZ=II=I3O IWGERS res'oecefully inform his friends and Aillephlie that he has lensed the NEW aff En Y • akientbuig. FIE where h e will alwaY4 be y'oactOltialftdater AU who mak cell on the • . Iflelenditiginene hit the eau* tenon In 4,9t18, 4ud FEND keik continuity , .10 , either stn beien at die Miller a sly°6 ' ' 2one )elect gottrg. Dean Alford's Harvest Hymn. tome, ye thankful people. come, Raise the song of harvest home: All is safely gathered in, Ere the win'ter storms begins God our Maker cloth provide For our wants to lye supplied: Goole to God's own temple,. conic ; R a i se Ole song of hatted homef t)urseives are God's ow n . fi e ld, Fruit onto his praise to yield:: Wheat and tares together sown, Mit° joy or sorrow grown: First the blade, and then the ear, Then the full corn shall appear: Grant, 0 Harvest-Lord, that we Wholesome grain and pure may be .1 0. PITCIII6 For the ball our God shall come, And shall take his harvest home: From his field shall in that day All offences purge away; Give his angels chargeat last In the fire the tears to mkt; But the fruitful ears to store In his garner evermore. Then, thou Church triumphant, come, Raise the song of harvest home: All are safely gathered in, Free from sorrow, free from sin: There, forever purified, Jr. God's garner to abide: Conic ten thousand angels, come,. Raise tirslgh;rions harvest Lome: I=l Gently, nwtl,•c.r, gently, Clii[le thy little me 'Tis a toile,ome jo.irney It has just begun: Many a vale of Sorrow, Many a rugged step, Lieth in its pathway, ALA full oft 'twill weep, 01, then, gently, gently, Kindly, mother, kindly, Speak in tender tone; That dear child. remember, Echoes back thine own, Teach iii gentle accents, Teach in words of love, Let the softest breezes Its young heart strings move— Would'st thou have the setting Of a gem ino:4 fair, In a crown of beauty It were thine to wear? Mother! train with caution That dear little one; Guide, reprove, and ever Let the work be done Gently, mother, kin dly, niutliaittiouo. The Bishop and the Battle-Flag. The recent session of the Pittsburg Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was characterized by an incident of patriotic and thrilling in terest. Bishop Simpson followed the introductory exercises with a speech an hour and a half long, without manu script, in which he held his vast audi ence of cultivated Christian gentlemen spell-pound under his discussion of the four questions—" Shall our Government be destroyed and swept from the earth ? Can we be divided into two or more Governments? Shall we have a new form of Government? Is not the na tion to rise out of its present troubles better, -firmer and mire powerful ? ' During the whole of the address of this wonderful orator the assembly, in deep ' silence, hung upon his lips, save when applause was struck out of them as with ; blows of magnetism. But a scene en sued in the - delivery of his peroration that will make this Conference memora ble to every one who attended it. An eye-witness says: " Laying his hands on the torn and ball-riddled colors of the 73d Ohio, he spoke of the battle-fields where they had been baptized in blood, and de scribed their beauty as some small batch of azure, filled with stars, that an angel had snatched from the heavenly canopy to set the stri e es in blood. With this description began a scence that Demos thenes might have envied. All over the vast assembly handkerchiefs and hats were waved, and before the speaker sat down the whole throng arose, as by a Magic influence, and screamed, and shouted, and saluted, and stamped, and clapped, and wept, and laughed in wild excitement, Colonel Moody sprang to the top of a bench and called fbr the Star Spangled Banner, which was sung, or rather shouted, until the audience disperse . 1, as it had to disperse." REMEMINIANCES.—The memories of childhood, the long, fir-away days of boyhood, the mother's love and prayers, the voice of a departed playfellow, the ancient church and schoolmaster, in all their green and hallowed associations, come upon the heart in the autumn'time lite, like the passage of a pleasantly remembered dream, and cast a ray of theit own Otrity and sweetness over it • WA Speak Gent!y SBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1864. Talks About Health. DRESS OF OUR EXTREMITIES, BY DIO LEWIS, IL D During the damp and cold season deficient dress of the feet and legs is a fruittUl source of disease. The head, throat, and liver are perhaps the most frequent sufferers. The legs and feet are far from the central part of the body. They are not in great mass, like the trunk, but ex tended and ,enveloped by the atmos phere. Besides, they are near the damp, cold earth. For these and other reasons, they re qurie extra covering. If we would se cure the highest physiological condi tions, we must give our extremities more dress than the body. We men wear upon our legs, in the coldest season, but two thicknesses of cloth.— The body has at least six.' Women put on them four thicknesses under the shawl, which, with its various doub rings, fitrnishes several more—then over all thick, padded furs: while their legs have one thickness of cotton under a balloon. They constantly come to me about their headache, palpitation of the heart, and congestion of the liver. Yesterday, one said to me, "All my blood is in my head and chest. My head goes bumpety-bump, my heart ( - roes bumnety-bump." I asked, "flow are your feet ?" "Chnnks of ice," she replied. I said to her, "If you so dress' your legs and feet that the blood can't get down into them, where can it go'? It cant go out visiting. It must stay in the system somewhere. Of course, the chest and head must have an excessive quantity. S.) they go bumpety-bump,' au l so th-y must go, until you dress your legs and feet in such a way that thev snail their share of blood. In the coldest s . :l 4) ori of the year, I leave Boston 14 a bit of a tour before the lyceums—going as thr as Philadelphia, and riling much in the night without an overcoat : but I give my legs-t wo or three times their s ell dress. During the coldest weath er, men may wear, in addition to their usual drawers, a pair of chamois-skin drawers with great advantage When we ridelia a sleigh, or in cars, where do we suffer' In our legs, of col.r.se. Give me warm legs and feet, and I'll hardly thank you for an overcoat. "My dear madame, you have a head- ache, a sore throat, palpitation of the heart, congestion of the liver, or indi gestion? Wear one, two, or three pairs of warm woolen drawers, two pairs of warm woolen stockings, and thick warm shoes, with more or less reduction in the amount of dress about your body, and you will obtain the same relief per manently that von would derive tem porarily from a warm foot-bath." I must not forget to say that .a thin layer of India-rubber cemented upon the boot-sole will do much to keep the bottom of our feet dry and warm.—ln tkpendent. We Never Drink A correspondent of the Bangor Whig nar rates the following incident, which recently came under his observation : 'On the stage were seven or eight soldiers from the Bth Maine regiment—civil, well be ha-ed, intelligent men, as was apparent from their conversation. While at the stage house in Lincoln, there came into the office a poor old blind man—stone blind—slowly feeling his way with his cane. He approach ed the soldiers and said in gentle tones, `Boys, I hear you belong to the Bth regi ment, I have a son in that regiment.' 'What is his name ?' 'John —,' 'Oh yes, we know him well. He was a sergeant in our company ; We always liked him. He is now a lieutenant in a colored regiment, and a prisoner at Charleston.' For a momeat the old man ventured not to reply ; but at last slowly and sadly, he said : 'I feared as much. I have not heard from him for a very long time.' Without waiting for another word, these soldiers took from their wallets a sum of money, amounting to twenty dollars, and of fered it to the old man, saying at the same time: 'lf our company was here we would give a hundred dollars.' The old man replied, 'Boys, you must put it in my wallet for me, fin• lam blind: But mark what followed. Another indi vidual in the ro wn who had looked on this scene as I had, with feelings of pride in our citizen soldiers, advanced, and said : 'Boys this is a handsome thing, and I want you to drink with me. I stand treat for the com pany.' • I waited, with interest for the re ply. It came—`No sir, we thank you kind ly. We appreciate your offer, but we nev er drink !' The scene was perfect—the first act was noble, was generous ; the last, was grand.' Tits SEA A GREAT CEMETRY.—The sea is the largest of cemeteries, and its slum berers sleep without a monument. All other graveyards, in all lands, show some symtiol of distinction; between the great and the small, the rich and the poor; but in that ooqau-cemetery, the king and. the clown, the prince and the peasant, are alike undistinguished. se-What eaii you get by bad com pany? If yoAairtruly "obd, they kPrill either-taont yo 4tiii despise •you. Milton's Account of the Mann* in Which he Lost his Sight. In the works of Milton there are many affecting references to tne loss of his sight : a calamity which must have been extremity painful to a man of his literary taste and habits. In regard to the immediate cause of this affliction he says : "When I was publicly solicited to write a reply' to the defence of the royal cause ; when I had to contend with the pressure of sickness, and with the apprehension of soon losing the sight of my remaining eye ; and when my med ical attendants clearly announced, that if I did engage in the work, it would be irreparably lost ; their premonitions caused no hesitation, and inspired no dismay. I would not have listened to the vo ce ofl , ]sculapins himself from the shrine of Epidattris, in preference to the suggestions of the heavenly monitor within my breast. My resolution was unshaken ; though the alternative was, either the loss of my sight, or the de struction of my duty." In a letter addressed to Leonard Philaria, the Athenian, and written in the year 1654, he thus describes the manner in which he lost the power of sight is now, I think, about ten years since I perceived my vision to grow weak and dull. In the morning, if I began to read, as was my custom, my eyes instantly ached intensely; but were refreshed after a little corporeal exercise. The candle which I looked at seemed, as it were, encircled with a rainbow. NOt long after, tile sight of the left part of the eye (which I lost some years bofore the other) becam'e quite obscured, and prevented me from discerning any object on that side.— The sight of my other eye lia-; now been gradc.illy and sensibly vanishing away for about three sears, Some n1: 1 / 1 11!,'., LyiOre it entirely perished, though I :.:ood motionless, every thing which I looked at seemed in motion to and fro. A still cloudy. vapor seemed to have settled on my iltreheal and temples, which usually occasions a sort of somnolent pres:ure upon my eyes, and paqicularly from dittn?r till even it'll:. So that I often recollect what is said of the poet I'hineus, in the Argon anti et : A stapor tIL-:1> honn,l , And when lie walk'd, he seeni'd as whirling round ; Or in a feel ~le trance he sleeple6s lay. Is Man's Stature Diminished ? Sh:u•h observers notice a tendency in city life to diminish the size of the hu man tbrm, but there seems no founda tion f br the common belief that men have deteriora'ed from earlier ages, The Scottish Guardian says: It is a very common opinion that in the earlier ages of the world men in general possessed superior physical pro portion, and were of a greater size than they are at present, and this notion of diminished stature and strength seems to have been just as prevalent in an cient times as at the present: Pliny observes of the human height, that "the whole race of mankind is daily becom ing smaller,"—an alarming prospect if it had been true. Homer more than once makes a very disparaging com parison between his own degenerated eonl emporaries and the heroes of the Trojan war. But all the facts of the circumstances which can be brought forward on this subject tend to convince us that the human form has not degen erated, and that men of the present age are of the same stature as in the begin ning of the world. In the first place, though we read both in sacred and pro lime history of giants, vet they were, at the time \ellen they lived, esteemed as wonders, and far above the ordinary proportions of mankind. All the re mains of the human body (as bones, and particularly the teeth), which have been found unchanged in the most ancient urns and burial places, demonstrate this point clearly. The oldest coffin is in the great pyramid of Egypt, and Mr. Grcaves observes that this sarcophagus hardly exceeds the size of our ordinary cottiMs. being scarcely ,slx feet and a half long From looking also at the height of mummies which have been brought to this country, we must con clude that those who inhabited Egypt two or three thousand years ago were not superior in size to the present in habitants of that country. Lastly, all the facts which we can collect from an cient works of art, from armor, as hel mets and breastplates, or from buildings designed for the abode and accommo dation of men, concur in strengthening the proofs against any decay in nature. That man is not degenerated in stature in consequence of the effects of civiliza tion is clear, because the inhabitants of savage countries, as the natives of Amer ica, Australia, or the SJuth Sea Islands, do not exceed us in size. CURE FOR .t FELON.—As soon as the part begins to swell, get the tincture of lobelia and wrap the part affected with cloth saturated thoroughly with tincture, and the fellon is dead. An old physician says he has known this to . cure in scores of cases, and -it never faibif applied in season. ikeourtrtirry OR PRAYER---A man may pray ten times and be denied; and „yet, by praying ten times more, obtained the blessing. _Had the Syro pinecioian woman ceased after making three applic4tions to Christ she world have gone sway anty; but; by applying once more, she Obtained all she asked: Profanity. Why will men '•take the name of God in vain?" what possible advantage is to be gained by it? And yet this wanton vulgar sin of vulgarity is evi dently on the increase. Oaths fall up on our ears in the cars, and at the cor ners of the street. The North Ameri can Review says well: "There are amongst us not a few who feel that a simple assertion or plain statement of obvious filets will pass for nothing, un less they swear to its truth by all the names of the -Deity, and blister their lips with every variety of hot and sul phurous oaths. If we observe such per sons closely, we shall generally find the fierceness of their profanity is in inverse ratio to the affluence of their ideas. We venture to affirm that the pro fanest men within the circle of your knowledge are all afflicted with a chron is weakness of intellect. The utterance of an oath, though it may prevent a vacuum in sound, is no indication of sense. It requires no genius to swear. The reckless taking of sacred names in vain is as little characteristic of true in dependence of thought as it is of high moral culture. In this breathing and beantiffil world, filled as it were with the presence of the Deity, and fragrant with increase from its thousand altars of praise, it would be no servility should we catch the spirit of reverent worship ers, and illustrate in ourselves the sen timent that the Christian is the highest style of man." The Conflagration of the World a Scientific Possibiliiy. If we know the velocity and weight of any projectile, we can calculate with ease the amount of heat developed by the destruction of its moving force. For example, knowing as we do, the weight of the earth. and the velocity with which it moves through space, a simple calculation would enable us to determine the exact amount of heat which would be developed, supposing the earth to be stopped in her orbit. 'We could tell, fur example, the number of degrees which this amount of heat would im part to a globe of water equal to the earth in size. Mayer and llemholtz have made this calculation, and fbund that the quantity of heat generated by this colossal shock would be quite sufficient not only to fuse the entire earth, but reduce it in great part to vapor. Thus by the simple stoppage of the earth in its orbit the —elements" might be caused to "melt with fervent heat." The amount of heat thus devel oped would be equal to that derived from the combustion of fourteen globes of coal, each equal to the earth in mag nitude. And if after the stoppage of its motion, the earth fall into the sun, as it assuredly would, the amount of heat generated by the blow would be equal to that developed by the combustion of 5,601 worlds of solid carbon. ZgrindturaL The Life of the Farmer. [From an address at the Annual Fair of the Agricultural Society of Greene county, Sept. 30, 1861. By Rev. Charles Rock well, 1). D., of Catskill, Y. V.] The highest hope and ambition of multitudes of those in large cities is, that they may live to see the time when they shall have a home of their own in the country; if nothing more, at least A little barn, a little farm, A little horse to till it ; A pretty yard, a pretty house, • A pretty wife to fill it. The farmer, on the other hand,' has no such wish to gratify. Erom his own land and dwellin: , , he may ever freely gaze on the broad and living page of nature, with lessons of heavenly wis dom everywhere around him. No -close confinement of workshop or of study shut him in. No thick dark clouds of city smoke and noxious vap ors overhang and surround him, pollu ting the air, and obscuring the bright sunlight of heaven. No lofty dwell ings with narrow streets hide from him the fare face of nature around. No dust-laden, heated, stifling air of busy, crowded rooms weakens or exhausts him. No noisy din of hammers, nor whirl '3f wheels and spindles, confuse the brain, or drowns the voice of reflec tion within him. For him, more than others, the sun shines, the pure and healthful breezes blow, the night dews fall, the rain descending from the clouds feeds the mountain springs, and sends ' the leaping rivulets to enrich the plains below, soothing the spirit by their gen tle murmurs, or rousing to joys effort by their ceaseless activity and motion. For him the glittering rain and dew drops on the leaf and plant of flower, like unnumbered gems of brightest ra diance, dance and tremble in the morn ing sunlight, as if full of life and joy. For him the brilliant glories of the rainbow are painted, by the hand of God, on th 4 misty curtains of the even inn- sky. The joyous singing of the birds of spring is his. For. hini the flowers breath; their sweetest fragrance, and the golden fruits of autumn yield their richest stores. • For him the fields of summer wave in graceful beauty be -heath the breath of mourn. and the rust ling leaves of autumn sing their plain tive song of ruin and decay. It is farther true, that he who tills the earth, as the minister of God, stands be tween his Maker and his fellow men, to convey to them rich bounties of Provi dence. Thesis he the priest at the al tar of nature, who receives and spreads widely around him the gifts which God is ever placing there. So too should the constant growth, and no less constant rain and decay which the farmer sees around him, lead him deerly to feel that man is frail and mortal, lowly bending, and quickly hastening to his native dust- We live on the ruins of the former generations, and like the grass which withers and the flowers which fade, shall soon be mingled with the earth be neath us. Death is the price of life, and men, and trees, and plants moulder and decay, that other men and plants and trees may live where they died. Sin has brought us into sad cemmu nion with the dust on which we tread, and the monuments which mark our graves look out upon the fields our hand. have tilled. By war, famine and pestilence too, the earth is thickly strewn and mingled with the dust of the dead, and the blood of the fallw has enriched the soil of a thousand battle fields. Soon we too, like those who have gone before us, must mingle with our native dust. The clouds of the valley will cover us, and those undying spirits which now give us life and mo tion, will ascend to Him who gave them. God grant, that i t u the Harvest Home of Heaven, the angel reapers, as a shock of corn in its season may Bath ' er us in, and with us, many whom we shall have turned unto righteousness ; for sure indeed is the promise of God, that "What a man soweth that shall he also reap ; that "He thaegoeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, steal: doubtless come again with rejoic ing, bringing his sheaves with him." A Few Maxims for Farmers. 1. The Eirmer who does not return to his field a dressing more than equiv alent to the crops gathered therefrom, is as unwise and thoughtless as it he would neglect to feed the horse that was to carry him on a journey. In both cases diminishing the ability of a faith ful servant to minister to his wants. 2. The husbandman who obtains from a field not properly mannred, a small yield of grain, when by sufficient manuring he might have obtained a large one, is selling his labor at halt its value. 3. In all cases keep the best pro ducts of your farm, whether of grain or stock, for your own use, that improve ment iu each may result therefrom.-- If three poor sheep will bring as much as one good one, keep the one and sell the three. 4. Do not permit the remains of animal or vegetable substances to decay about your dwelling, but incorporate them with.the soil or the compost heap, thereby securing the comfort and health of your family and adding to the attrac tiveness of your home. 5. Having things "near enough," often causes much trouble. The head board to farmer se's cart was a little too short, but it was "near enough," con sequently it came out in passing aver a jolt; and with it half the potatoes. The keys to Mr. Rs wagon thills were rath er small, but they w ere "near enough" —so they worked loose, the thills came out and the wagon and horse got wreck ed together in going down hill. The bar to Captain Cc cow pasture was too short, and yet he thought it "near euongh"—but it dropped out one day and the cattle got through and destroy ed his grain. It is better and cheaper in the end, even if it does take a little more time, to have things just right.— Maipe Farmer. What Grape Vines to Plant. A gentleman says: "I want to put out '2OO vines to raise grapes to sell l i p the most profit." We advised 20 Creve lino-, 25 Hartford Prolific, 80 Concord, 30 Delaware, 20 Union Village, 10 Diana, and 15 Allen's Hybrid, and for the following reasons: The Creveling is a fair grape, and being one of the earliest, will sell well on this account alone. The Hartford is the next earliest, very prolific, of fair quality, and will therefore sell well. The Concord will yield more pounds than any other for the same trouble and number of vines, and is also of good quality, so that most people will buy it also. The Delaware grows slowly, and does not yield largely at. first, but its superior quality will command a good price from a considerable class of persons. The Union Village is very large, of fair quality, and will sell well for its size alone. The Diana is of peculiar flavor, light color, and will suit a particular class of buyers who will pay more• for it than for the black grape. The Allen's Hybrid is the most promising hardy white grape we have, is delicious eating —the fruit will sell at a high price. The above list we submitted to a large meeting of Fruit Growers, and it met with almost unanimous approval. Two or three objected to the Diana; with us it does very well.—Am. Agm'cultarist. a Agriculturel feeds u‘; ; ti a great degree it clothes us; without it we could not have manufactures, and we should not have commerce. These all stand together, but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the center, And the largest is agricul ture.—{Daniel Webster- NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 22. "Ten Acres" devoted to vegetable culture near a city may be a miracle of plenty, but in the ' outlying rural dis tricts it is not quite "Enough," though infinitely better than nothing. A man with 10 acres of anywise decent land, need never feed the poor-house, if he works it well. His family may out number the nine digits, but there will be . corn in Egypt for all that. , Now we hold that fifty acres of good land, or that which can be made good, is enough; unless a man wishes to shams out his whole life in toil—digging till his old back is as crooked as a rainbow —till 11;s muscles crack with the - dim - : matism, and his joints snap with artchy- I osis. Some penetrating genius has dis covered that man has but one life to live on cart h—wliy toil incessantly cat' the bread that perisheth .? In the. sweat of our brows are we to 'get our bread, but don't let's sweat iramoder ately for mammon. ' Enough is all we can use. We know a snug little from of 34 acres of cultivated land, and 1.1 of rocky pasture, which yields a preftt 'much larger than any 1.50 acres .we know of. It upholds a snug little cot tage of eight rooms, a large barn with modern useful improvements, 3 acres of splendid orchard of all valuable fruits, • half an acre of excellent garden, an acre and a hall more devoted to carrots, turn nips and onions—the fences are all post-and-rail, bushes and reeds are in external exile, and the whole • place ri* exceedingly fair to look upon, and to live on. This man is getting rich by being thorough in everything. His hen-house is perfect, his hens lay, and no droppings are lost His pig-sty is well supplied with muok and the house slops run into it. After taking -the first premitun he puts about six acres of corn into pork, which makes manure— his carrots and turnips he puts into. Led. which makes more manure. Alas: !lure and thorough tillage are the grand secrets of ail farming—in New England at least. This man lives Ivell—no pork . diet for Lim—he eats turkeys, eats eggs, eats lambs and the first of his fruits and herd-, , . He dresses well, rides in a car-; . ' riage, has a good pew in church, and sends his children to the first institu tions of learning. His wife isn't work ed to death, and has a piano iu the par lor tie pays about ~;, : 30 a wear for help—visits his neighbors and know* how to fish. No rich uncle ever, left him any property—he began life by owning about half his firm, without any 'buildings upon it, and ;;,;',5,000 . would not buy his real estate to day.— This farmer is no myth ; we know him, and more m-nute statistics might be h gi ven to show that 50 acres isenoug h— e , enough unless a man desires to dig and scrub over a large farm of half-tilted acres, and perhaps not be any better or in the end than my easy friend with a small farm. It is a fact that a 200 acre farm might be made equally good, but it is anothev fact that they seldom arc. Thorough tillage cannot usually extend over multitude of acres. Ffty acres of rich land (it may be made rich if poor now.) with a sling house in a spacious -yard, with an abundant fruitage, and every thing as perfect as a man can make around it, is a working man's. paradise. There is a vine wreathed arbor in which to read his papers or a Summer day eve, an I behold the sun sink down through the golden gateways of the West the while—there is everything beaatitul and bright around him in the house and out of doors, and why is it not all the paradise earth can give? We hold that a man who makes an acre of this earth more beautiful or pa9ductive is doing heaven service, and if he has not over fifty acres, he can make it all shine with fruition and beau ty, ane never ask discount besides. Why Bees Work in the Dark. A lifetime might be spent in inveati gating the mysteries hidden in a bop hive, and still half of the secrets wottel be undiscovered. The formation of the cell has long been a celebrated problem for the mathmatician, whilst the changas which the honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Every one knows what honey fresh from tlte comb is like. It is a clear yellow syrup, without a trace of solid sugar in it.— Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline appearance,it 'wa dies, as the saying is, and ultimately be nomes a solid mass of sugar. It, has not been suspected that this change was due to a photographic action; that the same agent which alters the molecular, ar rangement of the iodide of silver on the excited collodion plate, and detennines the formation of camphor and iodine crystals in a bottle, causes the itnney syrup to assume a crystalline= form.— This, however, is the case. hi. &hear ler has enclosed honey stoppered, thadts, some of which he has kept in, perfect darkness, whilst others have, been ex posed to the light. The invariable ,r,e suit has been that the sunned portion rapidly crystalized whilst, that kept in the dark remained perfectly liquid. We now see why bees are so °arena' to work in perfect darkness, and 'Why 'they are so careful to obstnre the glass windows which are placed in their hives, 'rho existence of the young depends on the liquidity of the sacharine food presented to them, end ifliglit were allowed.nceeso to this, the syrup would gradually, ac quire .a more or less solid exmaisteney i would seal up the cells, and,in all probabit ity, prove fatal to the inmates of thehive. fence ; Fifty Acre& Enough. El
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