BURG
CHRONICLE
BY 0. N WORDEN & J. It. CORNELIUS.
TWELFTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER, o87.
Jrihi)5 ot ftmhxQ, Men County prnnsi)lt)oni(i.
II. C. IltCIvOK, CoRnESroxmxG Editor,
$1.50 tkr Year, always ix Advantk.
CJf froisbnrti (Cfttoniclr.
FRIDAY, Jll.Y 13, 1SV.
(.The author of the following bold,
manly, and truly eloquent speech, is a
native of Virginia, and knows whereof he
affirms. His positions are well taken
full of marrow and had marked effect
on the assembly of dough-faces and of
slave-drivers by whom he was surrounded.
Renewal of the Missouri Prohibition.
6peech of Thomas H. Foid, of Ohio,
ticu Council, Assembly Uuililiiigs, 1
Mr. President : I feel much embar
rassed when I reflect that I rie to repre
sent the views of the mighty West on this
vexed question of Slavery now under dis
cussion. I would to God that some gent
leman more competent to the Usk had un
dertaken it Gentlemen from other States
have shown a strong disposition to discuss
party politics in this debate. With the
dirty details of party politics we have noth
ing to do in Ohio. Our principles are pa
triotic and pure, our purposes high and
boly.
The gentlemen who preceded me have
all mistaken the policy of the founders of
the Republic. They never intended to to
lerate Slavery, or even to be responsible
for its existence. With the framers of the
Constitution, Freedom was the rule, Slave
ry the exception ; Freedom national, Sla
c.rc soMi.mnl Itut tlipsn patriotic pontic-
men from the South are desirous of chang- j
in .! . ,. tn ,,!.- Slav nation.
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1, and Freedom eectional j to extend over
territory now free the soul-withering, God
dishonoring curse of human Slavery. We,
on the other hand, are desirous of sustain
ing the policy of our forefathers a Bible
based, law-loving, liberty-built policy.
And here we take issue.
The honorable gentleman from North
Carolina, pointing to me, tauntingly says :
"You of the North refused to extend the
Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific !
when we offered it to you." To this I re- j
ply, we aid so refuse, ana lor mis reason ;
o .1
we are aesirous ui cxicuuiug me uiv ui
freedom, instead of the curse of human j
bondage. The honorable gentlemen from i
Tennessee and Alabama have said that we, .
at the North, were generally opposed to
the establishment of the Missouri Compro
mise line at the time the compact was ent
ered into, in 1820. "On what pretext
can yon base yonr opposition to its repeal ?" j
In answer to the gentleman, I say that the j
people of the North tcere opposed to the
establishment at that time, and for this
obvious reason: It was a base surrender
of territory to Slavery that had been by the
God of Nature and our laws consecrated
to Freedom ; and this moment, instead of
the voice of Freemen ascending to Heaven
in ardent prayers for the perpetuity of this
Union, thousands of human beings are
clanking the chains of abject Slavery there.
Those men who were in Congress from the
North and voted for this Compromise, lie
fonrotten somewhere thtir memories hav-:
ing perished with them. So have we sent j inasmuch, notwidistanJiwj, ncvcrthjrss, at. born in the cause of Freedom and in
those who voted for its repeal to their po-1 1 have got in now, let there bo do disturb-, Ohio your children have resolved to carry
litical graves, to be remembered no more j ance between me and thee I I both fear 0ut your will by seeing to it that Slavery
by us, except in the long living annals of i and dislike agitation. Let us just settle j never does exist there j and wo are pre
iofamy. The gentleman over th way asks ! this difficulty. You just step out and let i pared and determined to resist its encroach
raeto reconcile that position. I will, Sir. j me keep your house and the money too '" j meets upon soil consecrated to Freedom.
The territory of the South acquired by ' Loud cheering and laughter. This is Yes, Virginians I remember this j that
virtue of that contract is already niggered j the ridiculous light in which we view you with warm hearts and strong arms your
yes, niggcred all over. The crack of the :
driver's lash (to the disgrace of humanity
be it said) is this day heard on its every
acre. The voice of Freedom is not beard
there, but Slavery, dark and damning, cur
ses that otherwise beautiful country, hav
ing territory sufficient to make an empire
of freemen. That is the reason we oppos
ed its repeal and now ask for its restora
tion. We cannot recall Slavery there now
'tis too late 1 If we could place that
territory ia the same situation it was in
1820, there would be no trouble from our
State about the repeal of the Missouri re
striction. No : we would like men, enter
the area and fight manfully tbe battles of
Freedom. Yes, Sir 1 we would see that
Freedom, nur inheritance, was not turned
to strangers aad our homes to aliens, and
Liberty left desolate in the land of our
forefathers. But the dark and danininc
deed is done ; and regarding the rights of
we states nnder the Constitution we can
not change it now.
And now, after our submission for thirty-four
years to that iniquity, you come
forward and inflict this renewed outrage
upon us. Yoa say, "It ia true, north of
that line was set apart by solemn compact
to Freedom ; but the contract was uncon
stitutional, and consequently null and
oid." I care not from what point you
Tiew it ; you have taken under that con
tract, and of course are bound by it. Yoa
now come to us whiningly and say : "Thii
contract ia void, do not attempt to enforce
it" Suppose you give your note to a
.friend for one hundred dollars borrowed
on the Sabbathday, and afterward, to avoid
the payment, set up for defence that the
ote was given on Sunday and consequent
ly void, and you would not pay it. Ia
what light do you suppose all honorable
tten would view it f In no other light
than as consummate villains, unworthy tbe
confidence of 11 honorable men. In this
light Ohio and the teeming million of the
mighty West, whom I feebly represent
here, view yoa, gentlemen, in relation to
this Kansas-Nebraska iniquity !
I appeal to Representatives from the
South, in the name of all that is honorable
in the name of God to be once influ
enced by the mere promptings of right aud
justice, and restore this compromise liue,or
from this day hide your deformed heads
and make your appearance no more among
intelligent beings. Hut I am resolved to
place the gentlemen- these chivalrous
Southern gentlemen right oa the record.
Many of them do say that the repeal of the
time-honored line, (to use their own words)
was a wrong, an injury, aud an outrage,
and that it ought to be restored. I say
many of you have said so to me : and in
asmuch as every gentleman from the North
has been challenged to give the name of
any Southern man who has dared to even
breathe one word in favor of Freedom,
therefore, to avoid being asked so to do,
come up to the confessional, or I shall
without hesitation name the gentlemen to
this convention cheers aud laughter.
(At length the Hon. Kenneth ltayncr
of North Carulina arose aud stated that he
had so said, and took this occasion to say
that he considered the repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise a wrong and an outrage
to which the North ought not to submit.
He said if he had been a member of Con
gress he would have had his right hand
. .......
sevcred lrum b' bod DeI.ure. ae
uaT0 consented to the iniquity.
would
Gov.
UlUSUj VI ACUIII.331.C I'll. I1U uai. ot .v.
that it was wrong and unjust to repeal that
act ; but inasmuch as it was passed, he was
opposed to agitation on the subject of re
Four or five more at this j
instating it.
point took the floor at once, Ford remark
ing pleasantly, "Keep cool, gentlemen;
we are going to have an interesting class
meeting here, but come up to the confes-
! sional one at a time I" (Laughter long
and louJ A nunibcr of gentlemen con-
,(:seu ,u
mr t- i t a. .i. tt
fir. r ora proeecaea iy saying tuai -au ,
uieu vouieosiuu tm gwuu ui cum , j
and he hoped the gentlemen would learn
another truism : The only way to get rid j
of guilt was "to repent and sin no more. ' I
All we ask of you, gentlemen, is to do ;
right, remembering that there are eternal !
and unchangeable principles of right which J
no circumstance can vary, and which God
himself may not disturb. By your con-
fessions this day,coupled with your action,
I you place yourself in the condition of a
j thief who having broken into your house
and got possession of your money, you do-'
I tcct and arrest' You say to him : "You j
villain 1 what arc you doing, thus invading ,
my most sacred rights?" The thief comes i
! ! up to the confessional, as our friends havo
this day, saying : "I know I'have invaded t General Government of the North-West
your most sacred rights : I confess I have J Territory, you Virginians expressly stipu
committcd and indicted a great injury Jatcd that neither Slavery nor involuntary
; upon you : I have broken into your house j
! and stolen your money. 1 have done tins
mean thing. I regret, I deplore it j but,
Southern gentlemen out in Ohio. (Ucre i
a Mississippiau interrupts Dy saying:
"This line was worth nothing, of no value !
to any person.") Ford proceeded by say-1
ing: That is beautiful 1 you will steal I
our property, and fof excuse say : " 'tis '
valueless." Return the stolen goods, and I
let the owner fix the value. If it were I
but an old jack-kuife, 'tis not yours.
Come up like men and do this great thiug.
Confess your wrong and do right always
remembering that to do the right and avoid
the wrong is the great end of our being.
Don't you, gentlemen of the South, shrink
away from this contact with truth ; don't,
I entreat you, through falsehood or hypo
crisy, meanness or fraud, attempt to hide
yourselves from the open eye of lofty Ho
nor. Long continued applause.
Yoa Southern gentlemen have said
many pretty things about the Union. We
too, are devoted to this Union first, last,
and all the time ; and we do not make
Slavery a condition precedent to our at
tachment to this Union, either. Can you
say as much ? Thank God I we of the
West have higher, holier and more patri
otic motives. Wc are devoted to this
Union, because ere long, by its perpetuity
and advancement, we expect to become an
Empire of Freemen everywhere 1 Cheers
long and loud. Every public demon
stration I have attended here, patriotic
gentlemen have attempted to turn into a
Union-saving machine, until I am sick of
the endless prating about the Union be
ing fully satisfied that they say Union
once and mean. Negro three timet. This
Union, rest assured, is in no danger. We
of Ohio do not intend to go out of the
Union, nor let any body else do so Loud
cheering. And if yoa fillibnstering South
Carolina gentlemen think of going oat of
the Union, please take a retrospective
view of yonr past live?, and you will find
this is not the first time you have tried to
kick out of the traces. And if you make
the trial, it will not be tho first time you
are kicked back 1 Remember Old " By
the Eternal" brought you np standing
once, and we of the Central Northern
States, and Western States, havo deter
mined to do so whenever ncccssaryi
The gentleman from Virginia asks if
wo are so devoted to the Union at the
North,how it conies (o pass that we return
such men as Hale, Wilson and Chase to
the Senate f I will answer him fully and
fairly. It is tho South that brought such
men into notice politically. At the North
i the continual agitation of the peace of tho
I Union for the purpose of extending Sla-
very, brings into notice tuo men ot the
North of giant intellect and moral force.
Docs he understand ? A mote, like the
gentleman or myself, floats very comfor
tably in a still and quiet atmosphere ;
but it takes the wild tornado to move the
imbedded rock. That political tornado
has been raised by yourselves by your
determination to extend, by fraudulent
and unconstitutional means, the area of
human chattledoiu. Do you understand
me, Sir? Yes, we thank God we have
tueh men as a Wilson, aSeward,a Sumner
and a Chase men who, knowing the
right, have the ncrro to contend for it ;
men of undoubted integrity and ability,
whose patent of nobility comes from hea
ven. Aud mark ye, gentlemen of the
South,the days of fluukcyism at the North
are numbered. The Northern fiuukcys
are all dead and damued I and if ever an
other one appears to your vision, rest well
assured he is illegitimate. We have elect
ed twenty-one Representatives from Ohio,
all pledged for the repeal of this Nebraska
inWuif J and you will find when they
arrive there you will have an accession of
just twenty-one Hales and Wilsons on
that question, icith not a jlunkry among
them. We in Ohio do not threaten them
with political death only ; but have re.
solved that if they do not stand up for the
right in opposition to the encroachments
of the Slavery propagandists we will hang
J r
tbcm ,iigh ,Iaman Long cont;nucdap.
plausej.
A gentleman from Alabama cries out,
" Douglas was from the North I" Ford
replied : " So was Bendict Arnold 1 The
British took the traitor, and wo retained
the territory. Our Southern brethren
havo taken tho territory, and ll ut the
traitor. They ought to protect if they do
despise him Applause and laughter.
Now, Mr. President, wc of Ohio protest
against this plank in your platform as un
just and unrighteous. The majority of
our delegation aro from Virginia, the sons
0f her soil ; and Virginia, in the purer j
days of her Commonwealth, taught us the
lessons of liberty. You will remember
by the cession your State made to the
servitude should ever exist therein,execpt '
fur the punishment of crime. We, then,
under tho ordinance of '87, are the first
50ns will stand up for Liberty and th
nigut ; and utno,ccnicnteo; as sne is wun
tho mighty West, is irresistible as the
armies of Israel. Striking for tho faith
once delivered to the Saiuts, we strike for
Human Freedom and Human Bights,
Cheers and cries of "Go on 1" A voice
in the crowd, " You had better como to
Virsinia and seo our condition." Ford
answered : We have been in your State
and all over it. We knew tho situation
of your population, both white and black.
We know that Virginia, in this age of
advancement, has retrograded that the
white and black races both suffer under
the scourgo of Slavery. I have been on
some plantations where from one to two
hundred negroes were worked, who in the
course of the year, like the locusts of
Egypt, eat up everything, and the owner
was compelled, so as to make tho two ends
of the year meet, to send a few human
chattels southward. Ia addition to this,
ignorance and superstition, mighty mon
sters, brood over your land, shrouding it
in darkness indescribable. We of Ohio
have no wish to return to your State.
That white-headed old gentleman before
you spent half his days in Virginia. He
has known your peculiar institution long j
and he knows that the genius of liberty
having been driven out from among you,
has come to take her abode in the wilds of
the Western world, where she may build
up for herself institutions and laws based
upon the immutable principle of right
tremendous applause.
Much has been said about New York
and Sewardism j and inasmuch as her
delegates are hero I will say nothing about
that State, but will, I hope, be permitted
to speak of our own State. Sewardism,
gentlemen, at this moment has its heel on
" Sam's" neck in Ohio ; and unless yoa
give us a liberty-loving, justicc-lik. look-
ing platform, tho idea of October next
will find Scwardisin standing with both
feet on the political grave of every " Sam"
in this landi Already tho voices of Free
men arc heard marshaling their forces for
tho contest. The fires of Liberty are
now burning on every hill-top and in
every valley throughout tho length and
breadth of the land J and may they con
tinue to burn until Liberty shall be the
birthright tJ every American ; until tec
have o Government without a Dtrjntitm,
a Rtliyion without a Pi'Jie, and an Em
pire without a Slave !
Tor th Lewisburg Chronicle).
Note3 oa the Wing Wo. IV.
Allabolt, July 3, 1S33.
Moving mania.
One thought is ever in my mind when
passing through some of tho excessively
"thriving" towns of Southern New Y'ork,
and that is, " Is this apparent prosperity
real and healthful Fifty or a hundred
shacties, plank houses half fiuished, or
elegant mansions, are erected every year
in A, B, C, Sic
The mansions are generally well built,
and permanent ; but are they not on a
scale too extensive for tho means of our
people ? A corresponding style of living,
will require greater outlays, and annual
expenses, than any honest business affords
to even a large class of its participants ;
and wc have not, and I hope never will
have, a rich aristocracy able to live and
flourish without some kind of personal
employment.
And the shanties and plank shells which
sran up ukc roau-siuoi, wuai are mey i
Too often, mere temporary abodes make-
shifts passing places for broken down,
discontented, migratory, or do-less men,
I ii r . i .i
wno iouow every iffnus-iaiuus. aoou:
growing piaces in new f.ldorauos 5
having no stability, they wander over the
. i , .i
earth, dragging a worn-out family with
them,and dying as they began pennyless,
and comparatively useless. Many of them
are men of good morals, good manners,
good minds, good education, good hearts ;
but a want of thoughtful and self-denying
perseverance, makes them their own poor
est friends. The first year past, the first
depression of business, the first repetition
of that ever-new cry of " hard times," the
first intelligence of higher wages, better
health, or less cost of living, in some
Fogtown, will start up flocks of these un- had described his overcoat as having fast
easy spirits,and away they go to the newly enings of a particular description, but
discovered promised land, sacrificing any- when the article was produced, it was very
thing they may have done to secure a
permanent home, and relinquishing their
certainty for half a dozen unccrtaiuties.
The other day I saw a very houcst man
and good mechanic who had removed letrn-
tecn times in tixteen years, and was again
about to be " off," full of hope of making
a good living and alighting within a
" flourishing village." In 1G years, 18
removals I Let us here sit down and "cal-;
'late" a little. In these eighteen removals
counting the time in hunting up a new
place, preparing to remove, removing, and
getting ready to renew his work he
must have lost a month a " tour 1" Eigh
teen months is one and a half years of
clear loss-. He can earn $ 1,50 per day.
Say 300 working days in a year. The
450 days would have brought him SG75
enough to have bought him a snug house,
and by using his leisure hours and other
opportunities, he could have improved it
with fruit and flowers indefinitely. But j
this is not all. The sacrifices made in j
compulsory buying and selling, in fitting j
and rcfittine.thc expenses of removals.the !
increased sickness and other disadvantages
attendant npon each new location to him
self and family these would at least
double the above sum ! and the man has
at least lost, in addition to the comforts
and home-happiness of bis family, 81-00
to S1500 in property. During the same
time he has also paid $800 to $1000 in !
rent, which is also all gone j and his vig
orous arms bavo seen their best days.
And what has ho gained f Alas 1 noth-
ing. Ho is no better, or healthier, or
happier, or richer man ia any particular
except in some useless branches of knowl
edge taught in the very hard and excess
ively " dear school" of Experience.
Givo me tho place that grows surely, if
slowly ; whose houses are permancut,fixed
abodes, designed for rational comfort by
those who earn and enjoy an honest living;
whose mechanics, laboring men, and all
others " scttlo down" determined to earn
and to keep a pleasant home for themselves
and for their families.
tame crow.
St. James speaks of all creatures being
tamed by man. I recently observed a fine
coal-black crow doing good service for a
gardener in a field containing as well corn
as divers other vegetables. He was quite
docile, and accompanied the plowing, hoc
ing, and weeding of his master with
highly praise-worthy industry and a seal
worthy of the cause removing grub
worms and all similar infestcrs of garden
prosperity. He touched no corn, but
was somewhat bellicose towards anything
else of tbe winged kind.
MUSICAL T II REE DATS1 MEETING).
Among tho grand old woods of Sus
quehanna county, are many who have a
soul for ausio, and are endeavoring tolls a thriving Tillage of nearly 10,000 j
train their tongues and ears for all man
ner of melody, vocal and instrumental. A
three days musical convention was held in
the Baptist Church-house in Jackson, last
month, conducted by " Professors" Con
verse and others. A lady from Waverlv,
l'a., attended with a juvenile choir, which
commanded especial admiration for their
training. The expenses were small when
divided among the many present, but the
zest was great. It is impossible to esti
mate the sum total of acquisitions to the
pupils ; but its beneficial tendency, in
directing the minds of tho youth in the
purely agricultural neighborhoods, can
hardly be doubted. This is not the first
electing of the kind at the same place.
INHARMONIOUS.
A man jogged by me on Sunday,tnoun
ted on a rackabones of -a horse, whose
apparel was seedy, thin and primitive, his
hat venerable fur ago only, his hair tin-
kempt, beard unshorn, and no stockings
i on his decidedly earthy feet. But then he
' had an unsmoked cigar in his mouth, a
flaunting watch-seul in his fob, and on his
pedals a pair of patent leather " shoon"
bright enough to see to shave in. The
next time I read of a " missing horse,"
that grotesque figure will be to me highly
" suggeBtivo" of a very poor horse-thief.
'o. n."
In the woods on the long hill leading
to Susquehanna Depot and Lanesville, I
j formerly saw whenever passing, the letters
! U C TT " it. ,l Mint Tn...A
The stone is now removed,but two poplars,
the barks of which are covered with names
-u uai, mu mar iUB -pui, wuere.some
SO cr S3 years ago, Oliver Harper, a young
j man from Windsor, in the adjacent por
tion of York State, was murdered. It is
1 .L-. 1. - I- . 1.
nui'uoseu iuai uu was uieu ui imsianc,
; auu mai a man wuo was nut a lew rous
i i i i. : i. . r -I . i -
I behind him, on his return from down the
Delaware, with returns for lumber he had
taken to market, was the one intended to
be killed for his money. Jason Tread
wll was taken up and tried for the mur
der ) he had been seen, with a gun on his
shoulder and his face blackened, cn the
roaJ by two persons, one that day, who
identified him by his hair, complexion,
clothing, and general appearance. Tread-
well was a threwd and subtle man, and in
one point threw discredit upon the priuci -
Pl testimony against bini : the witness
different amj although the change had
recently been made, tho counsel for prog.
ccution did not notice it, and the fact of :
error was a strong point of defence. Tread
well admitted that his gun, in the hands
of a man he named but whom nobody
j knew but himself.had committed the fatal
1 deed j but few if any doubted his own
j guilt- His is the only case of Capital
punishment recorded in the history of the
county, and his scaffold was until recently
j if it is not still preserved fur use again if
required.
HOW LONO HftT.-FROdS tlVE.
An intimate acquaintance of mine as
serts that a " loud-mouthed" frog in the
I rivpr hprrahnnt iq tho identical uiss rhan
that kept her awake when nervous, or
soothed when convalescent, ten years ago.
In nothing had he altered, save perhaps a
deeper sonorousness of voice such as might
be expected after ten years of practice,
(no doubt retiring to rest in his slimy
abode during the frigid season.) It is
moreover alleged that his haunt is still
under the same tree where he then almost
nightly serenaded somebody unknown to j
the deponenti No natural history handy
to investigate the matter, but the old fel-
low is fairly identified as ten years old at
any rate, and, as ho shows nothing of a
cracked voice, lack of wind, or any of the
usual iufiruiities of age, he may last ten !
or twenty years more t Provided, that
no cook tempts him into the dinner pot
Jt,
and no unappreciative-of-age-and-musie
boy proves as good as David ia slinging
stones at him,
COtXTIXO CP.
In New York State, they are taking a
census of their population, which they do
every ten years 1885, 1845, 1855, &e.
Tho National Government also takes a
census every ten years 1830, 1810,1850,
io. Thus, New York enjoys a statistical
harvest every 5 years. The State Census
is not so full as the National, and reports
have como in from a few towns. Bath,
the county seat of Stcuben,counts 2,012
just tho Lewisburg figure in 1850. Athens
(Pa.) hasalso taken an enunicration,which
lacks about threescore of being 1000,
having Increased over 200 in 5 years. It
was mado by one man in about one day.
(Lewisburg might count up very easily,
and ascertain its progress.)
EXTRA ACRES,
In this way many thousands of bushels of
eatables will be obtained, to drive away
the late boding figure of gaunt famine.
Economy and industry thus displayed are
very commendable and remunerative.
ELMIRA
On many of tho railroads I havo past ! 'e P'nt, called the frrmiwi bud, and tue ; t'u:t wi-h was drilled. Our readers may
the last month, have seen patches of pota-1 buds inserted should all be wood buds. Oadn their own con8laions.-..uiiS
toes, 4c, wherever the nature of the land j BumD' w j banner.
.1 :j-.u :i. -u .Ar-.t t ; 1 buds unsuitable for working; thoso at the ,
souls, and supports two daily and three
weekly papers. A splendid edifice is be
ing erected for a Female Seminary, and it
also boasts several hotels of city-like size,
atyle, and prices. The Delavan House,
immediately in front of the main Railroad
landing place, I found a very respectable
and quiet house, with reasonable charges
for which you obtained a better equivalent
than a mere look at splendid furniture,
silver forks, and plates with next to noth -
ing In them. The country around Elmira
supplies it with choice marketing, and
Strawberries were plenty as " huckleber -
ries" in Tunfchannock. The next New
Y'ork State Fair, you will all pleao re
member, is to be held in Elmira, and Gov.
Wright of Indiana will talk to the farmers.
The Mediterranean Wheat is almost
entirely uninjured by tho Weevil, and
some of those who towed slacked lime
when the wheat was heading out also pr
' Loun-e this very beneficial. The Moditcr-
ranean is not regarded quite as good as
! other varieties of wheat, but the lime
seems to be a universal preventative.
TUB FASTEST TBAVLLINQ
I have as yet found, was coming down the
Lycoming Creek. Indeed, to get from
Philadel. to Niagara Falls in a day, 500
mile3 in 1G hours, sometimes at the rate
of twenty-five miles in twenty-eight miu.,
requires all hands " to be up and doing,"
and the jumps of the locomotive on the
downward grade to Williamsport are sub
lime enough to " satisfy the most san
guine." Near Canton, however, the
j locomot-lve ot dissatisfied with the flow
j matil)n of ,Iie Hi,.,!!
' partnership by breaking the coupling,
and ran off with the baggage car as though
in a tre-men-dous hurry but after runing
. ,. . . i,.(k .
stopped fur n3 oatch n . and j gupnose
-- ' -
that delay caused a little more acceleration
to our after speed, which sufficed for the
summer's ramblings of Iscod.
Snso of Locusts. The. Athens (Ala.)
Herald stated that a youth, In the neigh-
j boring county of Lawrence, while ont fish -
ing, a few days ago, was stung in the
j head by a locust, from the effects of which
j he died immediately. A man in Kelly
Tp., Union Co., being stung on a finger
1 by a locust, cut off the finger immediately.
j Lewitburg Chronicle.
Wealth Well
Used. Amos Law-
rence, a wealthy citisen of Boston, who
died recently, gave to various benevolent
purposes during his life time tbe munifi
cent sum of seven hundred thousand dol
lars. THE FA KM :
Tbe Garden -The Orchard.
A few Hints oa Baddies.
T..4.i: 7 .- : - ,1
j.uuu.ug, or inocciwwH, is one 01 lue
most general, and, ia this country, by far
the most important method of summer
; i r"Paga,ion. This operation consists in
propagated, and inserting it on another
which is called the stock. Its success de -
:uo ,J""J
ponds upon the following conditions : In
the first place, there must be a certain dc-
gree of affinity between the stock and the !
parent plant from which we propose t I
propagate Thus, among fruit tr.es, the j
Apple Crab, Pear Quince, Mesp.lu,, and ,
Mountain Ash, all belong to the same na.1
tural family, and may be worked upon
rinc, Peach, and Almond, form another
natural division, and work upon each oth
The Cherry must be worked upon
some kind of Cherry, and Currants and
Gooseberries go together. Ia general
practice tho Apple is worked either upon
Applescedings.which arc called free stocks,
or upon the Dincain. or Paradise, which
dwarf growing species, and aro used
o purpose 01 maaingsman trees, lue
1 ear is woraeu euner upou 1 ear sceuio,,
which aro called free stocks, or upon the
Quince, to make dwarfs ; occasionally it is
worked upon the Mountain Ash and Thorn.
But it must be borne in mind that while
all varieties succeed on the Pear seeding,
a certaio number fail entirely on the other ! Wheat. Wo wish to record a fact which
stocks we have named. Lists of such as J seems rather remarkable in regard to dril
succeed particularly well on the Quince ; jjng ja wheat. We sowed about nine acres
will be found in previous numbers of the j this fall, with one of Ross's Drills, and
Horticulturist. The Cherry is worked either
upon seed ings of what is known as the
Maztard, a small, black, sweet Cherry,
that form a very large, robust tree ; or, for
dwarfs, on the Mihab b, or perfumed Cher
ry, which is a small tree with bitter fruit,
about as large as a common pea.
In the second place, the buds must be
in a proper state. The short, or scion Lad-
l..1 frnm Tnlit tin thft tfppnft Btntnn'i
-v.. . , - r 1
growth, and it should be mature that i., j
j it snould Lave compieiea ltsgrowtn,wUicn j
i is indicated by the formation cf a bud nn ;
t t-.:i . .:.it ,l...-.-!.m.vI- are li-
ZZZIZZZ. the
topMri The!
rirLning m. nriug c.h. buds, must
rl So period f budding, so that the
Iff. .t .Inch anv eiven tree, or cl.ss of'
trees
season, the soil, and other circumstances
which control the ripening of wood. Ia
our climate Plums usually complete their
growth earlier than other fruit trees, and
are, therefore, budded first ; we usually
i havo ripe buds by the middle of July. Ia
sotn! cases, when the stocks are likely to
, stop growing early, it becomes necessary
to take the buds before the entire shoots
have completed their growth, and then tha
! ripe buds from the middle and lower parts
are chosen. Cherries come next, and are
, generally worked about the first of August.
! The buds niu4 be mature, or a failure will
be certain.
Ia the third place, the stock must be ia
the right condition that is, the bark must
lift freely and cleanly from the wood, and,
there must be a sufficient quantity of sap
between the bark and wood to sustain tho
inserted bud and form a union with it.
Stocks, such as the common sorts of Plum,
Pear, and Cherry, that finish their growth
early ruust be worked early ; while such a
the Peach, Quince, wild or native Plum,
Mihalcb Cherry, &:., that grow late, most
be worked late. If these stocks that grow?
freely till late in the autumn be budded
early, the buds will either be covered up
"drowned," as it is technically called-
by the rapid formation of new woody sub
stance, or they will be forced out into ft
j premature growth.
I A very great decree of sappiness, in
either the stock or bud, makes op, in part,
for the dryness of tho other. Thus, in tho
fall wten l'm bu(1' ttre 1uite dry wa
i can work them successfully on stalks that
are growing rapidly. This is a very for
tunate circumstance, too. Young stocks)
with a smooth, clean bark, are more easily
and successfully vorked than older ones,
and when it happens that the latter hava
to be used, young parts of them should be)
chosen to insert the bad on.
In localities where the bods are liable to)
injury from freezing and thawing in tha
winter, the buds are safer cn the north
t dide of the stock, and when exposed to
j dancer from wind, thev should be inserted
' ca the side facing the point where the most
dangerous wind blows from. Attention to
this point may obviate the necessity cfty
j ur)) which, in large practice,ia an item
' 0f some momcut.
Ia the fourth place the manual opera
tion mast be performed with neatness and
i dispatch. If a bud be taken off with rag.
ged edges, or if it be ever so slightly bruis
ed, or if tho bark of tbe stock be not lift
rd clean without braising the wood under
it, the case will certainly be as failure.
The budding-knife must be thin and sharp.
A rough edged raxor is no more certain)
to make a painful shave, than a rough
edged budding-knife is to make an unsuc
cessful bud. It takes a good knife, a stea
dy hand, and considerable practice to eul
i j ' w
ff t.,, h-njmpi -.ll .A nu.L. A
tQ mt the patticl6 of wood ltUcne(1
: . it matter, if the eu.
I . nJ not t0Q d In ont
j wood, great care ia necessary to avoid tak-
t iruuu, steal, tuia is ucucaaai j u avwu w
- th(J f the bnd wilh it The0
' t, .u :,. ,i. 1. .. i
WUCU IUO null 1 in ia j.iatv., 1. iuiu. vt
wcI, tied up gmootb) gtrip8 o(
fcari narrow ribbo m the
mos conTenicnt in .e. ETery
part of the cut mU:rt be wrapped so firm as
,Q aif letdj , and tLis AoM
be done ick, iUe M the ,if
,he inner snrfaM of iU
bark and ,s the fect anion of
new parts that are placed in contact.
We have thus stated briefly, for the be
nefit of beginners, the chief points that re
quire particular attention in budding, or
inoculation. Amateurs, who have little to
do, should choose the mornings and even
ings, or cloudy, cool days to do their bud
Afingj but nurserymen must work in all
weathers, and in all hours of the day ; but
their superior skill and quickness renders
;t ,eM haMrdjUJi When only , few;stock
are tg mg
worked, and the weather happens
to be dry, a thorough watering or two will
be of great service ia making tbe bark lift
freely. The Horticulturist.
A Fact is Regard to Priluxo)
some three acres among corn, with a thre
shovel cultivator. Of the former, we havo
not noticed a single plant heaved out wi.'h
the frost during the winter, though a part
of it was sown on the poorest clay land oa
the farm, with but one plowing. It was
sown immediately before that among tl
corn, and presented in the early winter ft
1 decidedly poor prospect. Jiirt taat aowa
m
m, C3rn is badly killed wuo. wiuier,
mtnj plants lyiugon top the ground,dead.
n - -
jn soina places, it seems almost cuureij
ru;nPd. It is the same kind of wheat a
aid offers to stake its reputation for vcr
city that Cour will be down to 5
barrel ia Z0 days. It says the crops never
looked better in
that the Fro,pt that thero will be th.
CROPS IX ViUO. liie V-ieveiaua mr-