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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1860.
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THE STBUGGLE OF LIFE.
'What la life, father ?" "A battle, my child ,
Where the strongest hand may fail,
Where the warieat eyo may be beguiled,
And the atouteat heart may quail ;
Where the foea are gathered on every hand,
And reat not day nor night,
And the feeble little ones must atand
In the thickest of the fight.
What ia death, father?" "The rest, my child,
When the toil and strife are o'er ;
The angel of God who, calm and mild,
Say we need fight no more ;
Who driveth away the demon band,
Bids the din of battle cease,
Takes the banner and spear from onr failing hand,
And proclaims an eternal peace."
Let me die, father ! I tremble, I fear
To yield in that terrible strife."
"The crown of heaven must be won, dear,
, In the battle-field of life,
Fear not, though thy foea be strong and tried,
He loveth the weak and small ;
The angels of heaven are on thy side.
And Hod ia over all.
TEE DEACON'S DINNER PAETY.
Deacon Goodwin was the very best man that
ever lived. So at least said his friends and
neighbors, who certainly ought to know, and
lor enemies, he had probably not one in the
world. It is true, however, that the remark
above quoted, was generally made as a sort ol
apologetic preface to something liko the fol
lowing : "But then he has such queer notions;
lie ia sounlike anybody else, that we hardly
know what to make of him." Perhaps these
worthy jeopIo were oblivious of the fact that
in order to be very good, it is often a painful
necessity to be different from one's neighbors.
We cannot better illustrate Deacon Good
win's peculiarities than by describing a little
entertainment given by him at his country
seat not long ago. For the Deacon, with all
his unworldly goodness, is a prosperous mer
chant in New York,and the owner (by perfect
ly fair means) not ouly of a brown stone front
in the city, but of a charming suburban resi
dence. The Deacon's wife, though a very
good woman in her way, was a far less pecu
liar personage than her husband. She fell
quite gracefully into an amiable conformity
with the ways of the world, and is not to be
distinguished from the thousands of good wo
men of the wealthy class who throng our
city churches. Their two dangbters,Adelaide
and Miss Ellen, had just left the restraints
of their fashionable school, and enjoyed the
prospect of "coming out" another winter, as
lull-fledged members of society.
"Husband," said Mrs. Deacon one May
morning, soon after the family migration to
the country, "Husband, you know we did not
given that dinner that we were proposing last
winter what do you say to having it here in
utead. We are so convenient to the city that
they can easily come in coaches."
"You gave a large party, did you not, which
included all that should. have been jour dinner-guests.'"
"Dear me, yes! but that was quite a differ
ent thing. Now at this little affair I am speak
ing of, 1 should want only our most particular
sfritjiiwlsa.
"Oh ! if that is the plan, I like it well," re
joined the warm hearted Deacon. "But why
not ask them to pass a week with us ?"
"Ak whom "
"Well,your brother John's family first; the
children would enjoy it and then "
"Oh! you don't understand me at all! I
mean only a few of the best families, whose
acqnaiutance it is most desirable to cultivate.""
"Really, wife, it does not seem quite honor
able to invite guests for our own selfish pur
poses. I can sell hardware with a clear con
science, but the hospitalities of my house "
"Who wants to sell the hospitalities of your
house. No, no, my dear ; that is one of your
odd notions. Everybody in society does just
as I am proposing. And after all.this inviting
is only doing as we would be done by."
"True, true," said the Deacon, with a mer
ry laugh, "but why not do this favor to some
one who will value it ; to whom it will be a
real kindness ? There are hundreds, now,
whom I could name, to whom a day spent a
mong these green trees, in the fresh, sweet
air of the country, would bo an event to re
member for a year."
"Oh, if you mean a charitable visit, that is
very good in its place, but very different fiom
the matter I have in hand. For our children's
sake, my dear, it really is a duty to hold our
place in good society."
The Deacon was always accessible to con
siderations of duty. lie merely said :
"Well, name your day, and give me the
list. I will have the invitations sent from my
office."
"A capital thought ; your accountant there
is such a splendid pensman ; and as to the
names, you know the families to whom we are
under the greatest obligations. I would have
the company as select as possible, and I will
try to make the whole affair pass off finely,"
said the worthy lady, beaming already with
amiable complacency upon her prospective
guests.
The expected day arrived. Mrs. Goodwin
and daughters, their elegant toilets at last
perfected, were seated in the drawing room,
whose long windows looked across a cool ve
randah, and commanded the way of approach
from the city. Though the fingers wery occu
pied, with light fancy work, expectant eyes
.were phincing continually down the road to
niceU be first arrival.
"No, one will come for an hour yet,you may
,be sure," said Mrs. G. "Your father has such
.a, horror of late hours, that he wanted us to be
.dressed and waiting by 4 o'clock."
never saw an omnibus on this road be
fpre," said Miss Elllen as one of thoso plebe
ian vehicles made its appearance over the brow
.of the hill.
"Chartered for some special purpose," said
her mother absently, as she mused upon the
dinner.
"There is another," said Adelaide.
"And another," added Ellen.
"There is quite a procession ol tbem." said
tr.e mother.
"And the first one is stopping at our gate,"
exclaimed Ellen. .
"What in the world can all these forlorn
looking creatures want here 7" cried Adelaide
in consternation.
"Do go and send them away befoie our com
pany comes," said Miss Goodwin.
'I have seen some of them at the Industrial
cool," 8aid Ellen with a sudden gleam of
merriment; can this be one of father's curi
ous tricks 7"
.."rtainly is," replied Adelaide, "for
mere he comes himself out of the last omnibus.
And in fact the good Deacon was now seen
making his way through the crowd of poor
people, who stood humbly -waiting near the
gate, and offering his arm to a withered old
lady, in rusty bombazine,who had been among
the first arrivals. Ho presented her and the
foremost of the guests to his lady, who stood
all in a rustle of astonishment and stiff brocade
on the verandah steps, and to his elegant
daughters, who were half way between laugh
ing and crying at the novelty of the scene be
fore them. Mrs. Goodwin fortunately had
the good sense or philosophy to perceive that
a state of things which was manifestly not to
be cured, had better be endured with tho best
grace possible ; and her innocent guests, tho'
somewhat awe-struck at such undreamed of
magnificence of apparel, were all unconscious
of the strugge and triumph, too of grace
that was going on beneath the studied hospi
tality with which she received them.
There was the old lady in black, who proved
to be a widow, and utterly atone in the world ;
about the supply of whose wants the Deacon
knew more than any other man living. And
there was an old man with, one wooden leg ;
and a blind man, who was strongly Buspccted
to have been seen at the way-side begging,
until some benevolent Individual name un
known bad supplied him wilh a basket of
saleable articles, by meaus of which he was
now able to support himself and family. There
were women, too, with wan faces, who seemed
to have never enjoyed tho freedom of God's
blessed air, and puny children in the arms,
whose heavy eyes brightened at the sight of
green grass and waving trees. The older per
sons were soon seated in the house, or on tho
piazzas, while tho children, under convoy of
Miss Ellen, who entered heartily into the spir
it of the occasion, scattered about'in merry
games on the green lawn. Never was such a
play before ; and to Ellen herself it seemed
that the little birds never sung so sweetly, nor
the fresh summer air breathed so softly, and
never was it so delightful to have a home in
the country as on this very day.
The company once disposed of, a sober sec
ond thought occurred to the lady hostess, more
distressing doubtless than the first. An ap
pealing look brought her husband to the cor
ner. "What in tho world am I to do," she
said. "I have not half provision enough for
them to eat."
"That is all right," replied the Deacon,
pointing to a market wagon which was just
unloading at the kitchen gate. "There is a
bundance for tbem all, and I have given direc
tions to the cook."
Anxiety was needless ; every arrangement
had been completely made ; and the entertain
ers devoted themselves again to their guests.
Happily passed the hours of the golden after
noon. The ladies of the family recovered
speedily from the shock of disappointment,
and could not help admitting that they had
never so thoroughly enjoyed a company before.
It "Was only because the real delight of social
life, that of conferring happiness on others,
had never been so fully within their reach.
It was a lesson worth the learning.
At six the company were assembled around
the long tables, which by the Deacon's direc
tions, had been spread upon the shady lawn ;
and never, probably, did guests more heartily
unite in thanksgiving for the bounties of Prov
idence. Before they rose from the banquet,
theie was a gorgeons sunset, and all in full
view, to be enjoyed by many who,within their
narrow walls, were almost as effectually exclu
ded from God's free picture gallery in the
heavens, as from man's aristocratic ones
on earth. At the same time, the full moon
was rising in the east, and then there was a
delightful evening, with the glancing fire flies
among the grass, and the cool breezes that nev
er dreamed of brick wall and heated pavement
and by nine o'clock the whole party departed
in their train of conveyances for home.
The lady hostess was too tired, too thought
ful to demand explanation now. When the
children and servants had silently assembled
in the sitting-room at the hour of prayer, the
worthy father of the family read from, the
great Bible the story of a feast given of old
at the house of a chief Pharisee; and bis
voice lingered with special emphasis on the
following words :
"When thou makest a dinner or supper, call
not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy
kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors ; least they
also bid thee again, and a recompese be made
thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the
poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and
thou shalt be blessed ; for they cannot recom
pense thee ; for thou shalt be recompensed at
the resurrection of the just."
The Oldest Preacher in New England.
"In tho town of Berlin, Vt., ajoining Montpe
lier," writes a correspondent to the Boston
Traveller, "lives the Rev. James Iiobart, who
is probably the. most remarkable preacher in
New England. He is now about entering the
ninty-fifth year of his age, and the seventieth
of his ministry; and still he is vigorous and ac
tive, preaching every Sunday when and wher
ever he can engage himself. Thirty years ago
his people, over whom he had been the settled
congregational minister since the settlement
of the town in about the year 1790, dismissed
him, supposing he would not hold out much
longer. Since then be has been preaching in
N. Hampshire and Vermont, on yearly, month
ly and daily engagements. He is a great pe
destrian, making nothing of walking a half
dozen miles to preach, and home again the
same day.
Lovely Women srill"stoop to folly"," and fall
into the arms of dishonorable men. A pretty
girl frorri Clarksville, Tenn., who recently at
tempted to commit suicide in Cincinnati, has
the following sad' history to relate. Several
months ago she became acquainted with a man
named White, and three weeks since they were
married. In the innocence of herartless na
ture she gave him her utmost confidence, and
placed in his hands the sum of eight thousand
dollars. After their marriage they came to
Cincinnati, and a few days afterwards the fel
low disappeared,leavingth young girl among
strangers, without a dollar, and located in a
hotel intended only for stevedores. Cru
elly betrayed in her love, and still more cru
elly deserted, she was induced to tho com
mission of suicide.
Tho following answer to tho over-curious
about matters relating purely to God's own
prerogatives would often be in place: St.
Augustine was once asked by some one, "what
the Lord was doing before the creation of the
world ?" to which the great doctor replied :
"Making a hcl! for inquisitive people."
THE "WAE OF THE BOSES.
Jr rom the instant the news arrived that tho
Seceders had nominated Breckinridge and
iane, everybody saw that it was a ticket
"made to kill." In their desire to chastise
Douglas for his revolt against Slaverv Propa
ganaism, they violated, in this nomination,
that clause of the Constitution which declares
that "cruel and unusual punishments shall not
oe mnictea."
Douglas had a right to expect that they would
seieci as tne executioner of their purposes, a
nominee for President who would combine in
his character and conduct personal enmity to
him, conspicuous hostility to Popular Sover
eignty, ana a repulsive advocacy of a Slave
Code for the Territories, ne has' reason to
complain of unusual cruelty in the selection of
urecKInridge, the gentleman, the whilom
friend, for the task of putting him to deoth
X he beadsman of the scaffold was chosen not
more for his unerring eye and vigorous arm,
man lor his hideous visage. The wielder of
the guillotine decapitated his victims under
the guise of a horrid mask. Jack Ketch was
proverbially a vulgar miscreant in heart, garb,
and manners. The condemned could feel the
appropriateness of dyiffg a felon's death by
sucn nands.
If it bo claimed that Douglas cannot oroner
ly be classed among criminals about to be put
to aeath for ouenses against his part', but that
tne tight precipitated upon him is more analo
gous to the duello, then we insist that the
canons of the code required that an enemy who
naa put upon him some peculiar indignity, or,
at all events, a man who had not laid him un
der obligations by a great service, rendered at
a critical period, should have been chosen to
cross rapiers with him. He bad a right to re
quire mat nis loes, inougn snowing Dim no
quarter, should give him an antagonist not on
ly worthy of his steel, but whose hostility to
ward him was of such long-standing and so
malignant a type, that the Little Giant would
have been provoked to put in requisition those
forensic weapons of misrepresentation, vitupe
ration, and coarse personal abuse, in the use
of which he is so skillful.
Now, tested by these criterions, Mr. Breck
inridge is not a suitable person to do the odi
ous work of killing off' Mr. Douglas. For ex
ample, he is a gentleman, distinguished for a
menity of manners and respect for the proprl
eties of life. Cautious in statement, weighing
well his words, rehned in his allusions, not un
mindful of rhetorical embellishments, he is a
respectable debater. He presides in the Sen
ate with dignity and liberality. Now, Douglas
would have been far better matched against,
and would have infinitely preferred to encoun
ter, some focman of coarser grain than Breck
inridge, some vulgar brawler like Atchison or
Green, or some impulsive and imprudent de
claimer like Brown or Toombs, whose utteran
ces could have been turned against him.
Douglas Has won many friends by affecting
the airs, the buoyancy, the hilarity of youth.
He has always relied much upon tho support
of "fast" young men. He is popular with the
"boys." But Breckinridge is the youngest
man by far who ever ran for the Presidency.
He is the favorite of the young Chivalry. In
1856, when Republicans contrasted the vigor
of the "Pathfinder" with the weight of years
that bent down the "old public functionary,"
the yonng Democracy used to point with pride
to the erect form and elastic step of their can
didate for the Vice-Presidency, whoso running
qualities were so much superior to those of his
aged leader, that wags called the combination
"the Kangaroo ticket." because its longest
legs were behind. Breckinridge has the ad
vantage of Douglas on the score of youth by
some ten years.
Beyond all cavil Douglas had the right to re
quire that his opponent should be an early, an
unswerving, an avowed disciple of the Propa
gandist school of the most extreme type. But
Breckinridge could not be claimed with any
certainty, until recently, as a convert to the
dogmas of that school. In 1856 he made a
non-intervention speech of the most unmis
takable bne. In the thickest of the Lecomp
ton contest he was charged, and not without
reason, with "skulking" from the chair of the
Senate for weeks together, lest, on some tie
vote, he be compelled to throw bis weight into
ne scale or the otber of the vibrating Democ
racy. In fact, he permitted himself to be pro
claimed a qualified Anti-Lccomptonite. On
this point Douglas has been treated with rank
injustice. In common fairness there should
have been pitted against him a keen, profound
exponent of the Slave-Code dogma, who has
brought out the doctrine in all its plausible
diabolism, like Davis, the Luther of the Negro
Propaganda ; or, some bold, dashing advocate
of the doctrine, liko Wise, who, emulating
Mohammed, would propagate Slavery with fire
and sword.
But the cut given by this nomination which
Douglas must feel the keenest, is the oft-shown
friendship of Breckinridge for Douglas perso
nally, and his supposed toleration of bis polit
ical eccentricities. The Vice-President treat
ed him with marked kindness, while in the
chair, during the Lecompton struggle, thereby
provoking the hostility of the enemies of
Douglas in the Senate. When battling for a
re-election before the people of Illinois, in
1858, Breckinridge wrote a generous letter in
his behalf, which refreshed the hunted rebel
like "the shadow of a great rock in a weary
land." On that January morning, in 1859,
when, triumphant over the Administration,
Douglas, with long strides and defiant wag of
the head, walked to his seat in the new Senate
Chamber, a crowd of friends in the packed gal
leries receiving him with a subdued cheer,
many Democratic Senators scowled coldly up
on him, bnt tho gallant Kentuckian extended
to him a cordial greeting, shaking the victor
fervently by the hand. Then, again, just at
the close of that session, when Davis, Brown,
Clay, Iverson, Mason, Gwin, and the rest of
the Lecompton conspirators, made their com
bined attack upon him, worrying him like a
wounded stag, and satisfying all impartial ob
servers that be could never be the nominee of
the united Democracy, the Vice President,
pained at tho spectacle, left the chair, retired
to the cloak-room, and occasionally glancing
in upon . the quarreling Democratic Orlandos
and Olivers, seemed to say, like good Adam,
"Sweet masters, be patient ; for your father's
remembrance, be at accord !" Doubtless, both
Breckinridge and Douglas, looking, each for
himself, to a Presidential nomination, intend
ed to maintain such relations toward one an
other that each could have tho support of the
other in his respective section of the coun
try Breckinridge receiving aid from Douglas
in the North, and Douglas from Breckinridge
in the South.
Then, to compel such a man for, unques
tionably, Breckinridge goes reluctantly to the
task to execute the venceanca of .tho Slav
Oligarchy upon Douglas, is the refinement of
crueuy. u they htd deputed Davis, who led
the attack upon him in the Senate, in 1859,
then, as in their recent encounter, haughty,
dictatorial, and affecting a most offensive su
periority ; or Slidell, who, in his clumsy, ma
lignant wav. has alwavs sneered at his Presi
dential pretensions, denounced him as "Chief
or the Thugs" while receiving the hospitality
of Soule in New-Orleans, tried to steal his Cu
ba thunder by his thirty-million bill, and who
despises Douglas as cordially as Douglas hates
him if either of these had been selected as
his antagonist, the Little Giant would have
had a good stomach for the fight. But, to
confront him with Breckinridge, the whilom
friend, apologist, defender ! "Take any shape
but that!" he must have exclaimed when tho
tidings of the nomination flashed upon him.
We have said this nomination was "made to
kill." Breckinridge, however, lacked one el
ement to make the death of Douglas doubly
sure. He has not a grain of rowdyism in his
composition. Douglas has ever relied largely
upon this element to aid his Presidential aspi
rations. He expected in this canvass to make
heavy drafts upon tbe subterranean Democra
cy of the cities and the rough and ready ad
venturers of the frontiers. In sympathy with
these ingredients of society Breckinridge was
sadly deficient. He is a well-mannered man
dresses in clean linen is a scholar and a law
yer springs from an aristocratic family is
said to possess a good moral character, and is
vicariously pious, his father being one of the
most eminent divines of the Presbyterian
Church. To make up for these defects in the
bead of the ticket, and divide the cheers of
"the b'hoys" with Douglas, the Seceders put
Joe Lane on at the tail, who belongs by birth
and instinct to tbe lower tier of society ; is
coarse-grained enough to suit the taste of tho
groundlings ; can swear like a drab, and drink
unmeasured quantities of corn whisky ; is a
backwoods squatter and Western pioneer ; has
fought with bears on the frontiers and smelt
powder at Buena Vista. Tho ticket was made
to kill ! N. Y. Tribune.
Another Moitara Case. The Observateur
of Brussels says : "Another affair, something
like that of tho boy niortara, has occurred at
Cologne, but with a very defferent issue. A
young Jewess, of Reuss, aged sixteen, who at
tended a school at that town kept by some Ko
man Catholic nuns, one day told her parents
that she wished to turn Catholic. As her
father refused to sanction that step, sho clan
destinely left her home and went to a priest,
who immediately took her to a convent in Co
logne. Her father having asertained where
sho was, applied at once to the authorities of
Cologne, and they caused his daughter to bo
restored to him, notwithstanding that she had
been already baptized. The father intends to
prosecute the priest."
Herschel V. Johnson, tho Douglas candi
date for Vice President, is reported to bo
'sound' on 'Squatter Sovereignty.' as follows :
"Slave property stands on the same footing
as all other descriptions of property and neith
er the General Government, nor ant terri
torial government, can destroy or impair the
right to slave property in the territories any
more than the right to any other decription of
property ; property of all kinds, slaves as well
as any other species of property in the territo
ries, stands upon the same equal and broad
Constitutional basis, and subject to like prin
ciples of recognition and protection in the Le
gislative, judicial, and executive departments
of tho Government."
The Locofoco editors pretend to aver that
all the qualifications claimed for Abe Lincoln
are that "be is a good raftsman, and a capital
hand to split rails." Not at all. Wo can
afford to throw in these good qualities, and
prove besides, from his speeches that he is
fully competent to guide the government and
dissect the subtle arguments of the Black De
mocracy. He has mauled tbe life out of the
Little Giant in Illinois, and has now the title
or "Me the Giant Killer," in addition to that
of the "Raftsman and Rail-Splitter."
A traveling Yankee put up at a country inn,
where number of country loungers were as
sembled telling stories. After sitting some
time and attentively listening to their folly, he
suddenly turned and asked them how much
they supposed he bad been offered for tho dog
he had with him. They all rose : one guessed
five dollars, another ten dollars, another fif
teen, until be had exhausted their patience,
when ono of them seriously asked how much
he had been offered. "Not a darned cent,"
he replied.
A SrrNKT Woman. The dwelling house of
an old sea captain in Saybrook, Ct., was enter
ed by burglars a few nights since, when no one
was in the house but his wife and a couple of
infant children. She met them at the door,
with a revolver in hand, and told them if they
advanced one step they were dead men. They
looked at her, consulted together a few min
utes, and then sneaked away. As Mr. Toodles
would say, "Such a woman is handy to have
in the house."
As tar up as thet Go We have just heard
a good 'un. Not long ago a distinguished di
vine of this city was walking with a friend
past a new church, in which another distin
guished divine is shepherd. Said the friend
to tbe D. D., looking up at tbe spire., which
was tall and yet not completed, "How much
higher is that going to be ?" "Not much,"
Answered the D. D., with a sly laugh, "they
don't own far in that direction."
The friends of Mr. Douglas in Kentucky,
knowing they would be in the minority in the
State Convention, have seceded in advance,
and are going ia a gang by themselves to bold
a Convention in Louisville on the 11th of Au
gust. The Louisville Democrat tbe Douglas
Organ advertises this as the "Regular State
Democratic Convention."
Talleyrand, the prime minister of Napo
leon, was disliked by Mme. do Stael. It so
happened that Talleyrand was lame and Mme.
cross-eyed. Meeting one day, Mme. says,
"Monsieur, how is that poor leg?" Talley
rand quickly replied, "Crooked, as you see."
They have a calf in Winona, Minn., with
two beads, two mouths and four eyes, which
is being exhibited to tbe curious under the ap
propriate title of the Democratic animal.'
BUTTER-MAKING.
lho following article on butter-making is
contributed to the Rural Xew Yorker by A. D.
Burt, who has taken many premiums in New
York State Fairs. His views deserve general
attention because a great deat of bad butter
finds its way to market, owing to the want of
correct mtormation In making and packing it.
Mr. Burt says : First, I consider that it is
absolutely necessary to have good, sweet pas
turage, with an abundance of the best grasses,
and an unstinted supply of pure fresh water,
not such detestable stuff as can be found in
stagnant pools, but such as you behold when
you "see the rill from the mountain joyously
gleam," where the cows can slake their thirst
and feel invigorated. Tbe pasture should have
shade trees sufficient to accommodate all,with
out the necessity of disturbing each otber in
the excessive heat of midsummer. Then have
cows suitable for a butter dairy ; not those that
give the largest amount of milk, but the rich
est, yielding a large supply of the rich orange
colored cream. The cows should bo salted
regularly, at least twice each week, as it will
keep them in health and in a thriving condi
tion, which is needful for profit. Always be
sure to drive them carefully to and from the
pasture ; never allow them to be worried by
boys or dogs, as it will tend to heat the milk
and often cause great delay in the churning,
which some will impute to witchcraft, and that
correctly, but the witchery, 1 believe, is in o-ver-heating
tbe inoffensive cow and often caus
ing injurious effects upon the poor dumb beast.
Always be regular in your time for milking,
and let one person (as much as possible) milk
tbe same cow or cows, and be sure to milk
them as quickly and thoroughly as possible,
for you thereby save the richest part, and of
ten save knots from forming in the teats, or
causing a milk feer, or inffamation in the ud
der. A clean, cool, airy and light room (the
lighter the better) is tbe most suitable place
for the pans, and racks instead of shelves, is
considered the best, as the air can circulate
freely around the pans, cooling the milk more
evenly. A common house cellar will very sel
dom be found a suitable place for setting milk,
and the cream or milk in a cellar should never
be placed on the floor or bottom, for if there
is any impure air or gas in the cellar it will set
tle to theground,causing the cream to be bitter,
and a poor quality of butter will bo the result.
After setting the milk away it should never
be disturbed again until it is ready to bo skim
med, which should bo done as soon at pos
sible after the cream has risen and before the
milk has cnrdlcd ; all the gain there is in
quantity after about twenty-four hours' setting
vou must lose in quality. Keep the cream in
stone pots or jars, in a cool place in summer
(moderately warm in winter.) Sprinkle a lit
tie salt on the bottom of the jar. Always stir
the cream from the bottom every time you
add a fresh skimming of milk. Never churn
until at least twelve hours after the last cream
has been put in the jar. After the cream has
been churned and the butter properly gather
ed, it should then be washed in cold water and
changed two or three times, cr until there is
no coloring of milk about the water ; the whole
of the water must then be worked from the
butter, and it should be salted with about
twelve ounces of tbe bestAsbton dairy salt,
well pulverized, to sixteen pounds, or three
fourths of an ounce to each pound of butter.
The salt should be evenly worked through tbe
entire mass. I differ much with many of our
butter-makers in the quantity of salt, but I
have taken the first premium at our county
fair (in the Fall) on J unc-made butter that was
salted with half an ounce to each pound, and
packed Immediately, without a second work
ing, and that butter, when thirteen months
old, was just as sweet as when first packed.
Always pack immediately, as it tends to
make it streaked if it is worked a second time.
It should be packed in jars, if for home use;
if for market, in the best oak firkins or tubs,
which should he well soaked with cold water,
then scalded and steamed by pouring boiling
water in, and covering to keep tho steam in
for a short time, say twenty or thirty minutes.
Then pour off the water and scrub the firkin
with salt or with soda, then wipe out the sur
plus, give it a slight rinse and, when cooled,
it is ready for use. When the firkin or jar is
full, cover the butter with good sweet brine,
to exclude the air."
Don't like Widowers. In endeavoring to
take the census for the government, the mar
shals occasionally meet with such difficulties
as well nigh deprive them of their senses. Tho
following colloquy is said to have taken place
somewhere between a marshal and an Irish
woman :
"How many male members have you in the
house ?
"Nary a one."
"When were you married ?"
"The day Pat Doyle left Tipperary for
Ameriky. Ah well I mind it. A sun-shinier
day niver glibed the day of ould Ireland."
"What was tbo condition of your husband
before marriage I"
"Divil a man moro miserable, no said that
if I didn't give him a promise within two weeks
he would blow his brains out with a crowbar."
"Was ho at tho time of your marriage a
single man or a widower T"
"A which 1 a widower, did you say 1 Arrah,
now, go 'wid ycr nonsense, ls't the likes of
me that would take up with a secon-hand hus
band ! Do I look like a wife of a widower ?
A poor divil, all legs and consumption, like'a
sick turkey. A widower 1 May I never lw
blessed if I wouldn't rather life an ould maid,
and bting up a family on buttermilk and pra
ties.". Mr.Yanct "No Sardine." There are va
rious ways of complimenting people. The
south-western heroes have thought it the bight
of glory to be called balf-horse and half-alligator.
But we think that Mr. Yancy, who has
figured so largely of late, has received a title
of honor which is perfectly unique and new.
We leave our readers to judge what it means.
At a public meeting, held in Calhoun county,
Alabama, tbe following resolution was passed :
- Resolved, That Col. Wm.L. Yancy is no sar
dine no one-horse institution, but a whole, a
perfect team, and justly entitled to our warm
est thanks for his manly, able and eloquent
defence of the rights of the south.
J. B. Brown, of Alexandria, Va., who was
arrested and tried on a charge of circulating
incendiary documents, such as "Helper's Im
pending Crisis," N. Y. Tribune, &c, has had
a fair and impartial trial, although the books
were fonnd in his possession, yet be was hon
orably discharged, ''.
THE FIVE POINTS.
Five Points, says the New York To, com
prises five blocks, bound by Leonard and Bay
ard streets on the north, Mulberry aud Chat
ham streets on the cast, Pearl street on tho
south, and Centre street on the west. Tho to
tal number of bouses is 205; of which 212
are front and C3 rear houses. Tho number of
floors is 883 j of rooms 3,676 ; of tenements
1,065 ; of basements underground, occupied
as residences, 139.
Tho population is, 1,616 families, 7,21S per
sons 4,598 adults and 2,515 children. Of
tho adults, 2,615 cannot read and write, and of
the children only 925 attend school. In 414
families there are no children, owing to tho
terrible mortality which year by year is al
most incredibly destructive. In many fami
lies having children, more have died than now
survive. A large portion of the offspring aro
still-born. The statistics of tho dead almost
surpass belief. Tbe population is fearfully
crowded. Most of the houses aro less thau
three stories high, small inconvenient and un
wholesome. A portion of the inhabitants oc
cupy the sixty-three rear buildings. Tho
threo hundred other houses accommodate
above two hundred stores, liquor shops, gro
ceries, meat markets, shoe stalls, clothing
warehouses, junk and pawn-broker's shops,
coffin factories, ect., besides above five thous
and inhabitants. One hundred and thirty
nine tenements are basements, generally a-
bout nine feot under ground, dark, filthy and
unventilated ; hot-beds lor engendering pesti
lence. Many of these have subterranean com
munications often crossing the streets. In
many of the apartments all the clothinttand
bedding is perfectly saturated with dampness
and unwholesome exhalations.
Tho sanitary condition of the streets, hou
ses and yards absolutely beggars all power
of description. Often two, three and even
four families occupy a single apartment, and
the premises are seldom cleansed. It would
not bo proper here to speak of the domestic
and househald arrangements common in this
part of the Sixth Ward. How can mortals
be preserved where comfort does not exist.
where filth is ubiquitous and decency unattain
able ? All tbo conditions of living, food,
clothing, beds, apartments, neighbors, etc.
are directly calculated to render the people
diseased,and overthrow even the remembrance
of morality and social refinement. The streets
are covered with garbage ; and the gutters
overflow with fluid, stagnant, filthy, and redo
lent of noisomness and the cbarncl.
The Gwin-Bcchanan Qearrel. All the at
tempted explanations of the scene between Bu
chanan and Gwin aro false and fabricated.
They have come together, it is true, but un
der circumstances which reflect discredit on
both. No President who respected himself,
would consent to bo reconciled after the in
sulting language which was applied to him,
and no Senator who valued his position, could
submit to the humiliation of recanting, with
out a surrender of personal dignity. In either
case, tbe parties are not benefitted by the con
temptible explanation which has been put be
fore tbe public.
Three of the choir of young girls who, drcss
sed in white, greeted Washington as he enter
ed Trenton in 1789, on his way to New York
to assume tho Presidency, and strewed bis
pathway with flowers, still survive. One 3et
lives in Trenton, one is the mother of Sena
tor Chestnut, of South Sarolina, and one,
Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides in Cape May coun
ty, New Jersey.
The Democratic National Convention broke
up in a row, Democratic State Conventions
break up in rows, Democratic District, Coun
ty and City Conventions break up in rows, and
Democratic Committees break up in rows.
When before in the world's history was thero
ever such a set of rowdies Lou. Jour.
The Hon. John P. Hale has sued tho propri
etors of the Boston Courier for an alleged li
bel published on the 2d July. The Courier
establishment was on Saturday a-week attach
ed, pending the result. Mr. Hale lays bis da
mages at $10,000. Eminent counsul have
been engaged to defend the suit.
A country mayor promised to attend a meet
ing but broke his engagement. When rcraoiv
strated with he excused himself by saying that'
he had been attending another meeting, and
then plaintively added, "I couldn't come, you
know ; can't be in two places at once, am not
amphibious !
Mr. Redpath states that there is no truth in.
tbe statement that the widow of John Brown
has received $30,000 from Ilayti. Sho has
not yet received a dollar from that country.
Furthermore) that the aid received by the fam
ily in this country is not as large as reported.
Mrs. Elizabeth P. M'Crauey has been arrest
ed at Oneonta, New York, charged with tho
gradual poisoning of her step-daughter, Hul-
dah Ann M'Craney, aged 17 years, and an
unusually beautiful girl. The trial will coma
off in December next.
"Mother," said a little fellow the other day,
"Is there any harm in breaking egg shells ?"
'Certainly not, my dear, but why do you ask ?"
"Because I dropped tbe basket just now, and
see what a mess I'm in with the yolk."
Tho Iowa Slate Register says that five voters
in one family at Rising Sun, near Des Moines,
who voted the Democratic ticket last year,
are now in favor of the Republican ticket.
Thus it goes everywhere.
"Paddt," said a joker j "why don't you get
your ears cropped they are entirely too long
for a man!" "And. yours," repifed Pat,
"ought to be lengthenedr-they are too sbort
lor an ass ! "
A. S. Belt, Esq., one of the most talented'
Democrats of Cedar county, Iowa,1 has declar
ed himself for Lincoln and Hamlin. He de
signs shortly to take the stump in their favon ,
If the old maxim is true, that the idle bead
is the workshop of the Devil, there are locali
ties in all our villages and cities where a large
amount of manufacturing is daily going on.
Tho Republican i Club of Marine, Madison,
county, Illinois,' now numbors 181 members,
of whom 70 voted for Douglas two years ago.
A good beginning, that.
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