u v if!! BY S. B. ROW. CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST' 24, 1859. VOL. ,5.-AT0. 52. I WOULD, IT I WERE YOU. What makes you sit so silent, Tom, . At such a time as this ! Look up and smile good brother mine And tell me what's amiss ; You never kept a secret yet From little sister Loo Come get this trouble off1 your eaiad I would, if I were you. Your sighing tells me you're ia love That fact cannot doubt Why, bless me. brother, how you blush 5 Well now the murder's out. Nay, never look so sad. dear Tom . Despair will never do; Take bee J and tell the lady's name I would, if I were you Kate Lee I nw her very well, And know how tie's inclined ; You've only just to asfc and have But lovers are so Hind. Why, Tom. she's jtrst in love with. yoa You'll find my words prove true, Be stout of heart and confident, I would, if I were ye-. What would you sighing luvcrs do, Without a woman's aid ? And what on earth is there in us To make you so afraid ? Sow, Tom, you march nd find Miss Karc, ' And never look so blue ; Fpeak out, and ask her like a tuna - I would, if I were you. fCOPTRIGnt ECCBE&-.J - CLEARFIELD COCNTYs OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST, Kartbansand itslegitimatcoffispruigjFrcwch villo, should here be mentioned. About the period of the late war, the existence of those vast coal measures the anthracite coal ba sins were unknown. It is true that anthra cite coal had been discovered and a load haul ed to Philadelphia, where it had Iain for some years, in a cellar, neglected, its value unascer tained, its qualities untested, and none dream ing that at this day it should form so valuable and indispensable an article of trade, or that the business could ever gain its present gigan tic proportions. Bituminous coal was in great demand, and deposits were sought everywhere. To open new fields to supply the increasing demand, gave rise to the development of the country around Karthaus, and alsooriginated the llrst -trade of any extent, which brought money into this county, enabled the settlers to meet their engagements, and furthered the rapid settlement of the countrj-. For some rears coal had been dug in this region. 'The coal veins were stripped ; that is, all the earth and other articles overlaying the same, were removed, and the coal dug. About 1800 bush els were geneially loaded in an ark, and a ready market found in Colombia at 37 cents per bushel the purchaser paying about $20 for the ark. This trade engaged nearly all of our mature male population, and many are the anecdotes related in connection with it. We cannot forbear giving one. Anthony Kratzer, a very worthy man, now deceased, had reached a well known landing place above Lock lIaT ven Caldwell's and allowed his crew to go to the house to order supper, whilst he attend ed to securing his property to shore. lie soon followed, covered with the dust of the coal. Having washed preparatory to partaking of the meal, for which abstinence and labor had giv en him a keen appetite, he started for the ta ble as soon as supper was announced. There ho was accosted by the host, called to one side, and informed that the gentlemen who were eating did not want to eat at the same ta ble with him. KrMeer's swarthy complexion, and the dimness of the light, favored the trick, and after an explanation and a hearty laugh, the good-natured Anthony was acknowledged to be as good as any other white man, and ate alongside of his crew, relishing as well the joke as the supper. Loss, the agent of the Allegheny Coal Com pany, was the introducer of the scientific mode of extracting coal from the earth by mining. But the discovery of the superior qualities of anthracite coal for fuel, and the risks and ex pense our people were put to by the erection -of dams on the river to feed the public works and yield facilities to local manufacturing es tablishments below, destroyed our growing and profitable trade, and caused our valuable beds of bituminous coal to bs almost entirely neglected. When the Rev. Geiscnhainer came up the river, among those 'who accompanied him, were his wife, his son Frederick W.t of New York, and John Reiter, a practical farmer from Montgomery county, with his family of four children who are now married and live in the neighborhood. John Reiter, junior, married a daughter of Hartwig Buck, a native of Ham burg; he has nine children, three or whom are marj.ied Michael married Miss Ammaman ; tie has seven married and two single children. One of the daughters was married to J. F. W. Schnars, who had H children, two of whom remain single, and two are deceased ; the oth er daughter is tbewjteot Joseph Yothers, of their children six afcinarried, three are sin gle, and one is deceased. Mr. Reiter has been dead for several years. Having found an eligible spot about a mile and a half from the river, nnder the direction of Reiter the opening of the country for set tlers was commenced. Nearly one hundred acres were cleared without grubbing, and im mediately brought under cultivation. Log houses and a barn were built. A four feet vein of coal was discovered within a mile of the river, and a considerable quantity of coal mined and sent in arks, containing about 60 tons each, to market. The rocks rcnctouig the navigation dangerous, and there being a lack of experienced pilots, but few loads reach ed their destination. In 1815, old Mr. Green, who kept a tavern in Milesburg, acted as guide for J. F. W. Schnars, Peter A. Karthaus and his son, who had reached Milesburg on their way to Kart haus. Green travelled on foot. The others had two horses between them. They followed an Indian path, and after leaving the Alleghe nyjnountains, found but two families, those of Samuel Askey and John Bechtold, on the route. Crossing the river, they the same night reached John Reiter's house, where was then boarding David Dnnlap, a mill-wright, engaged in erecting a saw-mill on the compa ny lands, at the mouth of Little Moshannon. These gentlemen, born in the same city, had left Germany together. Mr.Schnars is yet one of our community and eminently enjoys and deserves the respect of our citizens. His has been an eventful life. Born in 178-3, in one of the free-hanse cities, Hamburg, he enjoyed many advantages not the least important be ing the attainment of a superior education. War the world's mad history had played sad havoc with the interests of Germany. His na tive city invaded by the French ; the Elbe on which it lies, blockaded by the English ; all industrial pursuits prostrated ho turned his eyes towards America, and in 1810, having succeeded in reaching the Danish island, Sylt, he embarked in the American ship Grind Sig nior bound for Baltimore. The ocean crossed he was employed as book-keeper by Peter A. Karthaus, who on his arrival in this coun try engaged himself in business as a merchant. .Karthaus was venturesome. In December 1813, he loaded three vessels with flour, pro visions, &c, suitable for the West India trade and cleared them from the port of Baltimore for St. Bartholomew. He gave Schnarrs, who sailed in the schooner Pike, control, and sent him out as super-cargo. The vessels commis sioned by government bore letters of marque. The fleet escaped a British armed vessel then cruising in the Chesapeake bay, and reached its destination. The cargoes were sold and colonial produce purchased. Returning with the Pike and the packet Bordeaux, the latter W53 captured by the British, carried into Ber muda and confiscated ; the Pike reached Phil adelphia safely. In July 1814 leaving St. Bar tholomew in the schooner Thetis he barely escaped capture. The vessel was bound for New York,and when just in sight of the high lands, a British armed vessel was discovered. After consultation it was run into Little Egg harbor. Schnars went up to Philadelphia to enter the goods at the Custom House and re ceived orders to wagen them across New Jer sey to the city. Here he remained a short time transacting some mercantile business lor Kart haus. He was despatched by Karthaus for Baltimore, entrusted with a large package of bank notes belonging to his employer, and safely reached his lesidence on the night pre vious to the day made notable by the fall of vandal Gen. Ross. Immediately after the close of the war. he embarked for Liverpool intending to return to his home, but learning through a correspondence with some relations that his parents were dead and feeling no lon ger any inducement to visit his native land he returned to Baltimore. Since his residence in this county he served from 1829 to 1833 as County Commissioner and subsequently as County Auditor. Wra. F. Barry P. M. Gen. commissioned him as Post-master in March 1832, and the office is yet retained by him. (TO BE COXTlNt'ED.) Another Modern Romance. Over a month ago, an independent farmer named Marwood Gilbert, living at Yarmouth, Canada West, eloped with his wife's sister, on the morning of the day she was to have married one Henry Locke. The friends of both parties were in a terrible pucker, but made no pursuit. About a week ago the truant pair returned, and the excitement in the village grew apace. Gil bert charged Miss Blewitt with seducing him. and she contended the seduction was the other way. The brothers of the girl took her home and kept her under strict surveillance. Gil bert could not see her, and he wrote letters appointing meetings, &c. Finally he was given to understand that he could see his in amorata at a certain hour of the night. He approached the house, a preconcerted signal having been given, when one of the infatuated girl's brothers shot him with buckshot through the body, but not dangerously wounding him. He ran off to a cottage hard by, but the in mates knowing him, would not admit him so he was oblidged to seek succor elsewhere- A l.inomon rloniml him ml m itt Anr.a to his inno- Anion." v. w ...... cent home, but took him to his (Gilbert's) house. The brother who shot him is under arrest, and Gilbert is trying to get well, pro mising toshoot the whole tribe of Blewitts. Romance Extraordinary Two individu als, calling themselves Jack and Charlie were recently imprisoned at Chambersburg, Pa., for swearing. Charlie was soon discovered to be a woman bailing from Somerset, and named Matilda Rusheberger. She says she ran away from Somerset, seven years ago, with Dan Rice's circus. She donned male attire from the time she started, and has been wearing it ever since. Her occupation in the circus was equestrianism and vaulting, and no doubt she figured among Rice's "stars" as "the celebra ted equestrian, Signor Somebody, from Fra coni's in Paris, or Asttey's in London." She says she is not the only female in male attire travelling with circusses in this country. Fuller, writing from Paris to the New York Express, says: "I have come to the conclu sion that the Parisian skirt, as now worn, is made of some more flexible material than steel. At alt events, it yields, more easily and grace fully." Now tbo question is, how docs ho know 1 - THREE LOVERS. ' A PRETTY SPANISH STORY. ' ' A very handsome youth, with more charms in his appearance than money in his pocket, became most desperately in love with the daughter of a rich neighbor. The fattier of Antonio was dead, and the young" man had speedily dissipated the little fortune that then became his only portion : however, his worst enemies never urged anything against Antonio, except a few extravagances and follies, which perhaps, were failings to an otherwise amiable character. Finetta,the object of his affection, was the only daughter of a rich noble, who, perceiving in Antonio, poverty alone, forbade his daughter, under severe penalties, not to think of Antonio, when, in fact, she could think of nothing else. Love is the parent of more inventions than necessity. Antonio put on the humble attire of a gardener, and so got employment in the pleasure grounds of the rich father. Never were the flowers known to flourish so luxuriently, lor were they not to form boquets for Finetta, who was never seen without a fresh one in her bosom ? She took lessons, besides, of the gardener," in his gen tle craft. How haappy they were in such em ployment ! The mother of Finetta complain ed that the embroidery frame had been de serted "When," exclaimed her daughter, "could I hope to equal the beauty of nature's lovely tints ? Embroidery is an Unhealthy employ ment, whereas this balmy air, with the odor of the flowers and shrubs, inspirits my very heart !" The mother looked at her daughter's blooming face, and was satisfied ; but the father was not so easily duped, for it happen ed there was a nosegay in every room and there was seldom a salad for the table. The master noticing the neglect, Antonio replied by pointing to a beautiful bower which he was then constructing. He was abruptly dismiss ed on the spot, and driven out like Adam lrom his paradise of flowers. "In truth," said the mother, "when my daughter thinks proper to give rings to a gar dener, it is time he should go somewhere else and wear them." Finetta took to embroidery very dilligently, and became as pale as the lily sho worked. The father proposed falconry. Love transforms Antonio into the master falconer; he rides by her side; what are the charms of floriculture to that of galloping in the breezy air 7 The rose bloomed with tresh vigror and the chase falconer, in gazing on them, forgot to recal his birds from the flight. The falcon was ta ken from his finder, on which Finetta contri ved to place another jewel as a consolation for his disgrace. After this, there being nei ther gardening nor fowling to amuse her, the languid girl fell into a state of melancholy, that quite disconcerted her parents. They sent for a noted physician, in spite of the fair one's opposition, who understood her own ail ment well enough to know that he could offer no remedy. His visits raised the anxiety of the watchful Antonio, who contrived to way lay the physician and learned that he could do nothing for her. "Be of good cheer," replied Antonio, "I know well her complaint, and if you will let me have an opportunity, she shall soon eat, drink and sleep, and be merry and glad.instead of the poor, moping, pining, patient you pre scribe for in vain." He then confidentially related their mutnal love, and the physician, being a good hearted man, and besides finding bis advice in vain, consented to use his interest in behalf of the an-.ious lover. Behold Antonio as the atten dant of the physician, waiting on the invalid basket in hand. The new medicines had a wonderful effect ; the physician received a rich present from the father; and in taking leave of the attendant,the fair Finetta slipped a third l ing on his hand. So tenderly grateful was the attendant, that he did not perceive tho entrance of her father. Antonio was thrust out of the room rather quicker than he expected, and the fair Finetta was commanded with a stern rebuke to her chamber. The old lady, thereupon, asking her husband the cause ot this sudden change in affairs, he replied "Wife, I fear we have much trouble with our only child, if we do not marry her forth with. Here, I found the Doctor's man on his knees, feeling her pulse. I presume he may steal her hand." "Husband," replied the lady, "thank Hea ven, he was no lower in rank. I heard that she bestowed a ring on that gardner who was fonder of flowers than vegetables ; and it is much to me if she has not bestowed some sweet looks, at least upon our last falconer ; he would never have dared, otherwise to look first, as I saw him look at her one morning." "Ah I" quothshe in grief, "would, that we bad let her have Antonio ; my heart misgives me that we shall be brought to disgrace on her account. If he is poor, he is nobly born, and have we not money enough for both ?" Her husband wisely agreed in these sentiments; but would Antonio be recalled ? The old lady promised to undertake this, after a pro per lecture to her daughter on her indiscre tions ; she expressed her sorrow,and dutifully wrote a letter to her lover, who came joyfully in bis own character as a gentleman, and was most graciously received. When the wedding day arrived, and the company assembled, the mother perceived with surprise, three very handsome rings, belonging to her daughter, on the hand of the intended bridegroom ; be fore she could ask any questions, Antonio took Finetta by the hand "I think, Madame," said be to his lynxeyed mother, "that I cau guess what is passing in your mind. The three rings which have caught your eye, were really bestowed by your daughter on a gardener, a falconer, and the attendant of a physician ; but lest any one impeach the honor and constancy of the do nor, know that I am ready to maintain it, in token of which I have put on these several jewels." 1 he hearts of the parents were so greatly lightened by this confession, that the mar riage was made doubly a time of rejoicing, and the fair Finetta had never cause to regret the tripplo wooing of the gardener, falconer, and tho physician's attendant. . The Pawnee Indian war in Nebraska has ended. Gov. Black, at the he8d of 34 volun teers, followed and attacked 1000 of the Paw nees, defeated them with considerable loss, and compelled them to surrender up all their stock, ammunition, provisions, &c. "Now do take this medicine, wife, and I'll be banged if it doesn't cure yon-,r Ott, I will take it, theny by air means, for it is sure to do good one way or tBo otter." A WIDE-AWAKE YOTJNG LADY. About four miles from Easton, Pa., resides a wealthy farmer, his wife and only daughter. The latter is a dashing rustic belle, of the man killing species, much noted for her dauntless way'in doing things, and quick wit. Having a bill of a local bank for one hundred dollars, and not being able to use it, on account of the inability of his neighbors to change it, the far mer resolved to send it to the bank for that purpose, and selected his daughter as carrier. The young lady mounted a horse and rode to Easton, but arrived there after the bank had closed, and after offering the bill at several stores without success, she turned the head of her steed towards home. She had just passed the suburbs of the city, when "a solitary horseman" overtook her and gave the salute courteous, with a winning air. As he had the appearance of a gentleman, and evinced the greatest respect tor the fair eques trienne, she returned his salutation without fear, and the two were soon riding sid6 by side. The stranger expressed pleasure to find that they were both going the same way, and made such remarks about the landscape as led his fair companion to believe that he was not "na tive to the manor born ; he expatiated on the superb blending of colors in the sunset sky, observed that "God made the country," and dwelt upon the contrast of the merchant's cares and the farmer's freedom of soil. To all this poetical disquisition the maiden did most seriously incline, not dreaming that her com panion was anything but a gctleman. Smoothly ran the horseman's tongue, until they entered a dark wood through which the road wound, when he suddenly reined up his horse directly across the path, and sternly de sired the girl to ''surrender that one hundred dollar bill she was trying to change in Eas ton." Thinking he was trying to frighten her with a trick, the farmer's daughter laughed gaily in reply ; but the production of a pistol convinced her of the true character of her es cort, and she felt that the money must go. But mark how slight a thing will turn the ta bles, when circumstances all appear to tend oneway. The poor girl drew lorth the bill from her bosom, and was placing it in the scoundrel's outstretched hand, when a gust of wind blew it into the road, and the fellow was obliged to dismount to recover it. No sooner had he left his horse, than the quick-witted girl applied the whip to her own horse, and he sprang forward but not alone. The other horse started also, and away went tho span with one rider. With an oath the robber dashed after them and fired his pistol ; but the noise only frightened the animals into a still faster gallop, and the farmer's daughter found herself at home in double quick time. It did not take her long to relate her adven ture, nor was her father at all delicate about examining the saddle-bags of the strange horse. In them he found, besides a large num ber of counterfeit bills, nearly fifteen hundred dollars in good money ! The animal alone was worth more than the amount lost, and the far mer was well satisfied with the exchange. The robber was probably some fellow connected with a gang of counterfeiters that infest Cen tral Pennsylvania, and dogged the girl in her journey from store to store with the bill. He has not yet claimed his horse and saddle-bags nor is there reason to believe he ever will. . Genius and Labor. Alexander Hamilton once said to an intimate friend : "Men give me some credit for genius. AH the genius that 1 have lies just in this : When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in ail its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the eOort which 1 make is what the people are pleased to call the fruit of ge nius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman who pressed him to speak on a subject of great importance: "The subject interests me deeply, but I have no time. There sir," pointing to a huge pile of letters on the tabic, is a pile of unanswered letters, to which I must reply before the close of the session, (which was then three days off.) I have not time to master the subject so as to do it jus tice." "But Mr. Webster a few words from you Would do so much to awaken public attention to it." "If there be so much weight in my words as you represent, it is because I do not allow myself to speak on any subject till I have imbued my mind with it." Demosthenes was one urged to speak on a great and sudden emergency. "I am not pre pared," said he, and obstinately refused. The law of labor is equally binding on ge nius and mediocrity. A Clerical Horse-Thief. A couple weeks ago, a preacher named Elijah Bowen, was ar retted at llarrisburg, on a charge of horse stealing. He is a man whose head is now whi tened by the snows of more than seventy wiu ters. Ue is a Jerseyman and has lor thirty years past distinguished himself as the Dick Turpin of horse-thieves. At camp-meetings he would mount any horse he fancied and hur ry away to parts unknown. While preaching against the profanation of the Sabbath, he would manage to borrow a horse to go to the "next village" and then "appropriate" it without any compunction. It is rather singu lar that in the long catalogue of offences a gainst Bowen, they are all for stealing horses and wagons. He was once sentenced to the New Jersey State prison. From his appear ance, no one would for a moment suppose him to be anything else but a very respectable, honest man. And yet he seems to have a per fect mania tor horses and wagons, and takes them wherever he can find them, for the adven ture, novelty or amusement of the business. Mrs. Partington says that when she was a gal. she used to go to parties, and always had a beau to extort her home ; but now, she says, the gals undergo all kinds of declivities, and the task of extorting them home revolves on their dear selves. The old lady drew down her specs and thanked her stars that she had lived in other days, when men could depreci ate the worth of the female sex. An Iowa editor said bis attention was first drawn to the subject of matrimony, by the skillful manner in which a certain pretty girl handled a broom ; whereupon a brother editor remarked that the manner in which his wife handled a broom, was not so captivating. Whea people apeak of their grief as being so great they cannot drown it, the reason some times is that it is so light that it von' sink ! VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY NO. 3. The penetration of water into rocks 'upon mountains covered with snow is a cause which destroys the cohesion of their elements. It is known that as water passes into ice it di lates and this explains why walls,saturated with water and exposed to intense cold in severe nights, exfoliate and sometimes even crumble down if they contain much humidity ; and it explains also why masons cover recent con structionsi with etraw. Now water in solidi fying in the superficial beds of rocks produces the same efiect, that is to say, seperates their parts, which with the thaw come off, are dis persed and carried away by the waters. But this mechanical and incidental cause of disintegration is not the most powerful ; there are others which act constantly during centu ries, minute by minute or rather second by second, and which not being limited by time, triumph over the resistance which bodies ap-4 parently the most unalterable, oppose to them ; I speak of the combined chemical actions, by which oxygen, water and carbonic acid decom pose rocks and stones. Silica (flint) and the silicates,despite their seeming insolubility, re sist not the slow and continued action of wa ter sharpened with carbonic acid. Porcelain clay (Kaolin) owes Its property only to the sec ular decomposition which had dissolved the silicate of potassa and reduced the stone to the condition of silicate of alumina. An alka line silicate put near water saturated with car bonic acid and in the vicinity of the roots of plants, is decomposed, dissolved in the water and in the end passes in the liquid state into the tissue of the plants. The phosphate of lime is not soluble in pure water, but it is soluble in water contain ing Sea salt or an ammonical salt such as the sulphate of ammonia. It also dissolves very well in water acidulated with carbonic acid ; it is the same with limestone or carbonate of lime which becomes easrfy soluble through an excess of carbonic acid. Since tillable land is constituted of the waste of certain rocks its properties must depend on the principles which predominate In the de bris. If the earth is composed of silica or of pure limestone it is absolutely sterile, but if clay is mixed with it in proper proportions there results a fruitful soil. Clay is the result of disintegration of silicate of alumina and al kalies, (felspar, granite, gniess. &c.) ; its in fluence upon the life of plants is due to the al kalies, alkaline earths and phosphates and sul phates which it contains. This influence is such that a single cubic metre of felspar, (sil icate of alumina and of potash) which con tains seventeen hundredths of alkalies, can furnish potash during 320 years for a forest of oaks containing 2.500 square metres. The alumina of clay takes part in the devel opment of plants only by its property of le tainlng water and ammonia; and it is rarely found in the ashes of plants. A soil as fertile as possible is that where clay is mixed with calcareous matter and sand in such proportions as to give a free passage to air and moisture. The soil in the vicinity of Vesuvius is a type of fertilo lands. They never manure it and they there cultivate corn without returning to the soil that which they take from it, but they let the land rest one year in three. Thus they sulject it to all the vicissitudes of the season, and certain quantity of the alkalies which it contains are set at liberty by the decompo sition of the superficial bed of minerals which constitute the soil. Why is tillage useful? Ouly in this that it seperates the earth and multiplies the surfaces which should be brought in contact with car bonic acid, air and moisture, so that the re mains of rocks constituting the. tillable land shall receive the property of being dissoluble of water. Stirring the soil by mechanical op erations is not the only means of rendering the nutritious principles there contained soluble and fit for vegetables. The employment of lime, spread over the surface, produces the same result. This base combines with apart of the elements of clay and sets free the other parts, soluble and fit to promote vegetation. This explains the efficiency of marls, which are a mixture of clay and lime. The lime thus mixed with clay, favors the action of water sharpened with carbonic acid upon the silica, an action which we have explained. Lastly we shall name another method, more expensive, but not less powerful than the oth ers for increasing the fertility of argilaceous lands, which is, to subject them to a slow cal cination. The silicates then dissolve with the greatest facility. To resume, should we employ the plow or the harrow, should we mix lime with clayey land or should we calcine it, aH these means concur in the same end, that is to say the dis integration of the silicates of alumina and al kalies. If clayey land oilers a compact con sistancy, it will resist the development and multiplication of roots. Then it will suffice to mix with this earth a certain quantity of fine sand, which will render it sufficiently light and accessablej to air and water, that which frequent tillage could not effect. They call fallow that period of culture when the soil is abandoned to atmospheric influences so that it can enrich itself of- certain soluble substances. Fallowing is-then an effort anal ogous to tillage, addition of lime and calcina tion. Since the concurrence of soluble silica and alkalies is one of the principal conditions for the prosperity of cereals, if they are not added to the soil, a greater or less repose should be given to it so that it may regain the mineral substances proper for absorption. If during tho time of resting the land that they wish to prepare for the cereals, they cultivate another vegetable on the same land the har vest of which draws not silica from the soil, this preserves its fertility for the corn which they wish to cultivate later. This suffices to make us comprehend the importance of rota tion in crops by which the agriculturist can draw from the same earth,without adding.ma ny successive crops of different vegetables whieh he alternates according to the difference in the quality of mineral, substances which each of them extract from the soil in develop ing themselves. The Wiv to do it. If you want to keep your town from thriving, turn a cold shoulder to your mechanics, or new beginners in busi ness ; look upon every newcomer with a jeal ous scowl; discourage all you can , last, tho' not least, refuse to take your county paper and don't you advertise. An old lady down East having kept a hired man on liver nearly a month, said to him one day, "Well, John, you don't seem to like liv er." "Oh yes,'' said John, "I like liver well for fifty or sixty meals,but not as a steady diet.' MAKING BUTTER. As this is the season when most butter" is made, some useful directions for making and treating it will hot be out of place. In the transactions of the Ohio State Agricultural Society, we find some remarks on the subject, which ara worthy of wide spread circulation. Churning. The cream should bo brought to the temperature of from. 62 to 65 degrees Fahr. and churned. Experience has proved that such a stroke of the churn dachas will bring the butter in about thirty minutes, makes the besti At a temperature of about 62 de grees Fahr., from fifty to sixty strokes of tho dash per minute will accomplish this result, if care is taken to strike the top of the cream and the bottom of the churn at every stroke. If the churn be filled so that .the dash cannot strike the top of the cream, the operation can scarcely be accomplished at all. Rapid churn ing should be avoided at the commencement,, though the motion may be accelerated after the cream curdles. The butter, when suffi ciently gathered by churning, should be trans ferred with a wooden ladle to a wooden bowl. Making the Bctter. After the butter is taken from the churn, it should be skillfully worked until nearly all the milk is out of it. And here arises the mooted question, whether cold water should be used in the process ; whether the butter may be washed t . Experi euce has proved that if the milk can be ex pelled without water, the taste of the butter will be superior ; but the buttermilk must bo expelled at all events ; and a free use of cold water will more certainly and speedily accom plish this object than any other means; and all other things being right, water-washed butter will be very good. The keeping quality of butter without washing is thought by many to be best. When the buttermilk is pretty well worked out, such a quantity of salt sbonld bo added as suits the tastes of those who are to be its consumers. Some give seven-eights of an ounce of salt to a pound of butter as a rule;', it should be thoroughly incorporated with the butter at its first working. The butter must be subjected on the ensuing day to a second working ; these two may suffice for present consumption, but for butter, . intended to bo kept, a third working on the third day will be necessary. A 'machine butter-worker will very much aid in the second and third work ings. The great cause of butter becoming rancid is milk left in it, therefore unless it is entirely removed, the butter will soon be come miserable in quality. Packing. For keeping butter, for family use, no vessel is preferable to earthenware crocks. In these pack the butter in layers of such thickness as will be convenient for use ; : sprinkling a little salt between each layer, for convenience in extracting the butter foTUse Continue until the crock is nearly full; then cover with a fine muslin cloth, on which placo a layer of salt half an inch thick; then fill with strong brine, and cover with a lid, and' the work is done. Brcpder JonNsoN Goin' Up. A ffiend of ours who once attended a sable "night meet ing" thus reports: Then Mr. Johnson arose and exhorted substantially as follows : "Brud dren, I'm gwine to gib you a sample ob de pious man and de onpious man. Now1, you' are de onpious, and where do ye 'spose ye'll go to when ye die ? I know! Ye'll go down, down into de pit ! (Tremendous sensation, ' Yes, and dar ye'll burn, and burn, foreberr. No use hollerin dar cause ye can't get out f (Shuddering throughout the meeting.) But, bruddren, war shall I go," resumed the speak er, rolling up his eyes. "I shall go np,up,upy and de Lord'll see me cummin, and he'll say, "Angels, make way dare." And de angels'It say, "What fur, Lord, what fur?" : And den? de Lord'll speak up sharp, and say "I tell ye, angels, make way dar, don't you see 1 John son's cummin !' " A Bare-Headed Parts'. On Saturday eve ning, says the Troy (N.Y.) Whig, while some gentlemen were spending a social hour at a highly respectable residence down town, one of the light-fingered gentry entered the hall and carried off their hats, of various qualities, from common straw up to white beaver. Tho hat market "riz" immediately, upon the bare headed procession arriving up town". .- There is a man up in I?eHii, New York, wlit boasts that he never took a newspaper, and the same knowing "critter" says that Santa Anna, if he persists in his struggle with Rus sia, will be sure to lose all the territory of the Bosphorus, and be excluded from the naviga tion of the Amazon sea. ' ' A desperate fight came off some weeks since in Oregon between a noted trapper and an Indian "brave." They fought with knives', aud were both badly wounded, when the fray. per grappled and threw his antagonist, and then cut his throat from car to ear. One of our citizens of "credit and renown," says the Belfast Journal, while ruf'lizjng a few days since, unconsciously sat dowa on a' bumblebee's nest. He had, for a moment, a re alizing sense ot what "the seat of. war" means, about which so much talk is-made: Eighteen thousand sheep an unprecedent ed number were received in New York last week. The extreme drought has parched tbo grass, and induced the owners to' send them to market. Within iUa. l : n. ; t o r Vw "V--b- tv, . ,.' 420 churches. The aggregate salaries of tb;e pastors of these churches amount to $620',000 or aii average of about $1750 dollar fper an num each. . '. ' - The Rajah of Cashmere' has sent a tent of shawls as a present to Quen Victoria wjtb. a bedstead ot carved -gold, the- whole valuecL at 9 150,000. A present worth having, thauTl The Edinburg Witness gives an accountW the recent assemble of forty thousand per-sons-at a protestant prayer, meeting ia the open air, at Belfast, Ireland. , . , , Thft VplIflW fnrar livnlr. . ' ' . ' V. w - vi u k recenuy in two small Mexican towns on the Rio Grande, and in three days two hundred and forty!thrco persons died of it. - ..f ,j - It is a general remaTTthat all clMSe3 of pe- We think the lawyers must be excepted r they sell theirs. - - . Euautiful was the reply of a venoleman" of the liviuj "No, but I am almost thcre!. '
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