LEWISBURG
CHRONICLE
BY O. N. AVORDEN & J.
An IsDF.rnxDF.xT Family
yr I. a J I sickening and indiscriminate adula
VLllC VtIjVUlllClC tioas of everything American, which
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FRIDAY, FEII. 1, 1S36.
How lon will our Republic survive? j
m a 17177. '
1
never yet tolerated a free and prospe
rous Republic and the former steal
thy but now undisguised encroach
ments of Slavery, which ever has been
und ever must be a cancer eating into
the very vitals of true Republicanism
often cause the anxious thought to
arise in the bosom of the reflecting
patriot, Will the American Republic
,1. r ,h n,,mPrn.M llonublics ,
whose wrecks are strewn along the
chores of tho past? Th"i3 question
will nirutn rroont. itsplf nn rnnliiv
the opinion of Ex-Gov. Louis Kos- sco(red at b7 Presidents and Senators,
sum-forwarded to the 'Chhoxicle' ad fere h thousands in the pro
by a friend-as contained in the 1 ksscdly Free States. Blood has been
lollowins extracts from a letter to
the New Yokk Times, dated
London, Jan. 8, 1S56.
T 1 , lor om, Bat
musing in solitude at the niiduight hour
of the year 1855 to me a year of hard
ship, friendless, joyless, sad and I have
read the future lu the mirror 01 tne past.
Mv impression is. that the Tear 1S5C
will not pass without great revolutionary j
conimotious iu Europe. The camp of the !
Governineuts remains divided, lu vain (
has Cabiurt diplomacy loaded itself with '
' 3 ,i :, r
one atrocious crime more the crime ot
having sacrificed Kars to the speculation ;
of paving the road for an 'Austrian peace' !
by affording to the Czar the prestige of a
than the Aliies'in their success at Scbas-1
topol just as Saguntum is more glorious 1
by its fall than its victor by conquering it. j
,telbie; Jrirf !
fd treasures of nationsin an aimless war, j
but the nations will awake, and one of,
those tremendous commotions which mark
an era in history, will shake to its very
foundation this our old world. Such is
my presentiment
Out if the signs of time do not belie ns,
the prospects of America are not brighter,
if not gloomier. We have our despots, you
have Slavery. This is the worst of the two;
With us, natious will stand against tyrants,
with you, the nation will stand divided in
itself, and brother will raise hand against
brother, in irreconcilable antagouism. For
the first time in your history ,(which, by its
shortness, should warn from prcGdcnce,) !
will the 1'residential election turn excius-1
ively on the issuo of Slavery that stain :
on your escutcheon, that curse on your
necJrUy. A sore trial it will prove,forsooth. I
Slavery will, in all probability, carry the j
day. The slave-holding interest stands '
compact; not so their opponents; social 1
and material interests divide their tamp
The slave-holding interest is sure of some .
auxiliary supplement from that quarter, j
Their victory is more than probable.
However, the election is not a solution; it !
is but symptom, and nothing more; it ;u j
but fuel added to flame. Thrice already,
since the Constitution was framed.in 1787, !
thrice already this question has been com- j
promised. But compromises between prin- j
ciplcs can not last. It is but a palliative.
The sickness recurs.and either I am greatly
mistaken, or else it will not bear another I
compromise. Either Freedom or Slavery: !
the two can not go long together. May ; jn each council chamber, the Urpitri.i
the Almighty eye watch in mercy over j CAS pABTY will call every true friend
your trials !
Kossi'Tn.
We have never regarded Kossuth i
as a prophet, or as a man of superior
judgment, however much we apprcci- j tion3bcBt orpedandthe' pi ague spot
ate h.s patriotism, his intelligence and, itsclf confincd t0 thc Sutcs whore it
las virtues. But we place h.8 sunni-1 cxi for hcm to . or to guff
interest.
Certainly, never was a people bet
ter situated for carrying out thc great
Republican principle of Equal Rights
and Sclf-Governmcnt, than the Amer- j
ican people. This, however, is no sure
indication of the perpetuity of even
the form of our Government ; much
less does it insure that the true spirit
of Republicanism will be perpetuated.
The Jews as a nation were certainly i
as much favored as we are ; yet they j
relapsed into idolatry, and rebelled
repcatcdly. in their forty years' jour
ney. After their settlement in beau
teous and bounteous Palestine, they
also soon required Kings, by whose
opprcssion and misrule their Union of
States or Tribes was broken, foreign
nations warred successfully against
them, and they were finally dispersed
and blotted from the list of nations.
The philosophical histories of Greece
and Rome illustrate the general truth
that favorable circumstances arc no
security for Repubhcanism.when men
are bent on foreign conquest regard
their personal aggrandizement above
the common weal and live in dailv j
violation of the first principles of the
rights of man. Mexico and thc South !
American Republics (so called) havcj
i,r 1 i i ii.. . f '
abolished personal slavery ; yet the .
general ignorance, depravity of inor- j
als, and other s.gns of Romanism, arc .
demonstrated in their unprosperous, ;
unhappy, and turbulent condition
""And thou, Capernaum, which art
exalted unto heaven, shalt be cast
d'?W)l Q Jjg.?'trVntwilhctanflinor thai
K. CORNELIUS.
and News Journal.
are uucuasmgiv uuciuu up uu uic uui
of national vanity by 4th of July ora-
tors, 'prophesy-unto us-smooth things'
preachers, and editorial demagogues,
iha tiniK ta tliif irf 93 ft nAnnm nrp cA
tho same fallen nature as those Jews
and the Republics which have flour
ished and faded before us. The same
love of ease, of wealth, of station and
of power, which have in all ags
" made man the enemy of man," are
found in a most prolific soil Ameri
can hearts. Those who fought for "the
IXAI.IEXABI.E ri?ht Of ALL MEN to Lib-
tJ. a,c not all dead : yet there arc
already over Three Millions of Slaves
in our land. The principles at the
foundation of Republicanism, arc
lu 10.ICU ""
ling people, and the Supreme Execu
tive power of the Nation ha3 been
prostituted to aid the illegal, outrag
eous, and antt-ivv.ui;o(in crusade to
extend an accursed institution over
territory which had been for one gen-
eraiion ueuicaieu io rruuuuu., iui
ever," by a solemn compact.
Ja the light of the past and view-
in what nov g0;n on before Otir
D . . ...
eves certaiulv our L nion may soon
..- ,. .
be sundered ; Republicanism MAT be
banished in name as it already is in
fuct from iaf tic Confederacy ; and
Oligarchy may pave
the way for a military despotism like
that of Russia, or plunge us into a sea
of jntestiuc warfare liko that of St; I
lningo, or sueh.ns France passed
through before she sought comparat-
lve rest under iron heeled NAroi.EON'
Yet, let "Hope spring eternal in the
human breast." It is the part of Men
and of Christians to desire and work
for what is best and right, looking for
the promised time when
"All Oim. thai) .. and undent Fraud shall fall,
Triumphant Justice lift al'ft her anks
1'eao o'er Ui'' w.irM hrT olive naDti rxUd,
And nuite-robed lnnocrno. trufla hasten deaarnd.'
It is our life-long duty, firmly and
cooly to resist not only the open but
the secret machinations of the Slave
Oligarchy, which lias so long been
strengtheuins itself by the acquisition
of aQV tcri-itorv-, and now seeks to
. in,
blot out all compromises and all laws
instituted to stay the ravages of an
cvjl whose always-changing, ever-new
cr j3) "Give GIVE ! Yield YIELD !"
3lioii f
' . , . ,
resistance to Slavery aggression sho d
be THE 'National' question of the next
call)pain y'e arc aware that the
wire.pullcr3 0f Slavery are carefully
j
preparing to entrap all the voters in
cither its 'DEMOCBATIC' or 'AMERICAN
party net. They expect to mould both
thosc tjC3 to ticir wiUg We HopE
, . ,
thcir Plan3 luay be frustrated by one
or both. But should Slavery triumph
of Liberty to its standard. With it,
mnlliaPnffWfiB:nna-njn:ta.
wa fal.ritilfl HOPE Ulfi ILlfrnE WTllllll iri
And after all, the solution of thc
J J g
great question is with thc omnipotent
Ruler of thc Universe. While we may
Jtly fear that our individual as well
as national ingratitude and misdeeds
may be visited upon us in civil war or
kingly tyranny. ..still let us, as men
and as Christians, hope and pray and
vote that the blessings hitherto enjoy
e(1 l7 ns. ma7 bc continued to tho
ale3t posterity that America may be
in,ieeu lU0 8iar OI nPe ine wo"u
and become an example that may be
safely followed by all the nations of
men.
Literary Tbifles. There are fre-
quently men who get up ingenious
little devices about words or letters,
j The letter " E " is most used of any,
' but the following stanzas has every
; letter in thc Alphabet except "E:"
A jovial swain may rack his brain,
And tax his fancy's might,
To quiz in vain, for 'lis most plain
That what I say is right."
But the following couplet has Es in
! ja abundance, and no other vowel :
(0!, the t com.mei.t.)
"Persevere, be perfect men,
Ever kceP P''" ten"
William OLDYS.an Englishman.left
following for an Epitaph :
In won! and Will i a friend to yon,
And 0nefriendOl0. onh a hundred new."
JoHS concIudcsh;g defcnce
d of k; ; thns:
.wilnes, my ntme, ,( ansis.nmti lt
You'll find ii reads. No auxn is a B.
The following line reads backwards
and forwards the same :
LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY,
For the Lewlabnrf Chronlcla.
A PARAPHRASE.
BV LR BLANC.
Trr imrtb wan taI1, darkDi wu on the dHpt
Knrth, without drm, ww one cb-v.tie li-p.
Till iM own lifrath mnvrd oVr llti mighty tide,
Aud Mid, Lat Ugbt from darkBPM now dif id.
Light ea.11Hl h Put, and darfcnne railed h Niirht,
And hfftTna he mtvlfi. but not for mortal' oigbt;
hry land callil t- Karth, watrrs miiwl h Svuf,
All, all thing with liia firat grvat plan agrm-a.
Th aarth wa nw, IU aurface varra was dry,
When Um1 lrhfld by t;lcin oVr hlx y
That K-ntle n-riliyrn hroui;ltt no ojomiiit wind,
From off the barren hilla which lay behind.
II- spake : Printt f rth, O Earth! tha flow'reti bir,
And till with halmy lr prance all the air;
And , O fruitful Trwl lrimc forth your kind :
Tito fprn forth tree with graoeful tinea entwined.
Two (treat tiwfitn w friran. tor day and night,
(The ont that ruM llw day, the greater IikU :
The yum be mwif, which till the faulted fekica
Far, tar beyond the rvach of mortal eye.
Earth, fviui an ! ky were made at his command,
tea broach t fi.rth ltvinx thinifS as did the land;
He made the mighty wliale, tha wan'a kiug.
The winged fowl, and eery living thtug.
Etith for tha ai he made, and there confined.
To increase and multiply, each tlteir kind ,
The beaxt of the fi-ld, and the hirt of aon
That aiog in ueltiug nutca the air along.
Ttien made he Man to rule o'er land, and era
Aud created thin, whate'er tbone thing might bo
Man he made, hi intake wv like his own.
Of earth created be hiin fleah and bune.
Man wm9 mad a, and in Elen' gnrden placed.
All was icood, for nought by din had been defaced;
lint man wan yet alone, and 'twas not good
To be alone, fur man in silence aloud.
Then made he Woman woman, wond'mns fair,
For Kden's garden, and man's joys to attars;
V bile wraed in sleep profound, from out man's side
Was woman made-mau's helpmeet, and bis pride.
- V- .1P
'Mid orange erore. and wtftiy pviruuieu atrt
No cause bad tley to mourn, no ctuw to weep,
lieaveuly were their dreams, and peaceful was their sleep.
All shrub and flowers in Eden's garden grew,
Some yieliiM fruit, some yielded odors too;
All lbtn?s lent made mot pleasant to the tight,
And fit for fvod, the hungry to invite.
Of all the trees whHi In that garden grew,
ttnt one did (mhI deny the loviug two;
T4-te not it fruit. f-aid he.) hut pays it by.
For fcbouldst thou cat thereof tlwu it surely die.
Then Satan rame. and with the serpent's smile
Kirt from th- rinlit the woman did brsuiie;
Nw est thin fruit, said be.) no uire refrain,
1'bou shall not die. but lasting kuowlcde gain.
Then towards the frail she eaU her lontring eyes,
Next toward- theewil tree r he quick I v Hi-,
Mte plut-k th teniptine fruit fruni off its tough,
fche eats, and gires to man he cats it now.
(Fain wouM I lift my to,. In holder strains,
In harmonious lay, oVr Kden's plains.
Our Parent' dveds rehersa, tht tr dreadful fall,
Aud by some magic power dirpel theu all.)
From Kden's garden they were driven out,
Aud K len's walls were guarded 'round atoot
By cherubim were guarded, night and day.
And flaming swords they wielded erery way.
flod commanded Adam the ground to till.
To sow the ground with seed for 'twas hi will
That man should plant, and reap the substance, now,
Ja which to lire, with swt-at upon bis brvw.
A Good Recommendation.
"Please, sir, Jun't you want a cabin
boy?"
"I Jo want a cabin boy, my lad, but
what's that to you t A littlo chap like
you ain't fit for the berth."
"0. sir. I'm real strone. I can do a
irrcat deal of work, if I aiu't so verv old." i
"Rut what are vou here for 1 You 1
don't look like a city boy. Ran away from i
home, hey V
"O no, indeed, air ; m7 f.thot died, and !
my mother is, very poor, and I want to j
do something to help her. She let me
come." '
"Well, sonny, where arc your letters of !
recommendation ? Can't take any boy i
without those." j
ii - j tv:h:. v.j
thought of iU being necessary to have let
ters from bis minister, or bis teachers, or
from some proper person to prove to
strangers that he was an honest aud good
boy. Now what should he do ?- He stood
in deep thought, the Captain meanwhile
watching the working of his expressive
face. At length ho put his hand into his
bosom and drew out his littlo Bible, and
without one word put it into the Captain's
band. The Captain opened to the blank
page and read :
"William Gbaiiam, presented as a
reward for regular and punctual attendance
at Sabbath School, and for bis blameless
conduct there and elsewhere. From his
Sunday School Teacher."
Capt. M'Leod was not a pious man, but
he could not consider the case before him
with a heart unmoved. The littlo father
less child, standing humbly before him,
referring him to the testimony of his Sun
day School teacher, as it was given in his
little Bible, touched a tender spot in the
breast of the noble seamen, and, clapping
Willie heartily on the shoulder, he said t
"You are thc boy for me ; you shall sail
with me ; and, if you are as good a lad as
I think you arc, your pockets shan't be
empty when you go back to your good
mother
.The Grand Jurors of Monroe coun
ty, at the December Term of Court, made
the following unique presentment t
To the Honorable the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas of tho county of
Monroe.
We, the Grand Inquest for said county,
beg leave, in pursuance of the able charge
of the Court, and in accordance with our
oath, to report : That nearly every per
son in said county of Monroe are passing
and receiving small notes of Banks of
other States, and are, therefore, in our
opinion indictable 'the present Inquest
not accepted.
JOHN DE YOUNG, Foreman.
Capt Abel De Forest, a soldier of tho
Revolution, died at Bingbaintoo, on the
j 24th ult, aged ninety-four years and eight
months. He was for a time captain of a
West India vessel, and he who afterward
became Commodore Hull was one of his
hands.
A citizen of Lebaaon, in Connecticut,
has recovered a verdict against tho town,
of 92,500 damages, sustained to himself
from being thrown down an embankment,
j for want of a suitable tailing along the
The Arctic Hero.
The following complimentary resolu
tions passed the Legislature of this State,
unanimously. Tbcy were offered in the
House by Hon. E. Joy Morris of Phila
delphia :
Whereas, Doctor Elisda Kent Kane,
a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania, by
his explorations and discoveries in the
Arctic Regions, and by the energy, intre
pidity, perseverance and other qualities ex
hibited by him in conducting the recent
Expedition nnder his command, has not
only made valuable additions to human
knowledge, but has attested the benevo
lence which prompted and the skill which
guided said Expedition in such manner as
to call forth official acknowledgements and
honorable mention from foreign govern
ments. Therefore,
Me it Kttohed, That the Senate and
House of Rcpiesentatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, do also recognize
the services rendered by said Expedition,
and the gallant conduct displayed in its
management ; and do hereby tender their
thanks to Dr. Kane and to the officers
and crew under his command.
lietolivd, That we concur with the See
crctary of the Navy in commending the
results of these Expeditions as worthy the
attention and patronage of government ;
and further, that the Governor be reques
ted to transmit copy of these resolutions
io D. Kne, and to the Senate and House
of Representatives of tk United States.
Dr. Kane. Graham's Magazine con
tains a long and well written sketch of Dr.
Kane, by Dr. Win. Elder, which is a well
deserved tribute to the enterprising char
acter and useful labors of this gentleman,
whose romantic adventures and philan
thropic enterprises form an honorable
' chapter in the history of this country, as
well as in his own life. Dr. Kane went a
surgeon in the first American embassy to
China, and while absent explored tho
1'hillippian Island on foot. He was the
first man who descended into the enter of
Tael ; lowered more than a hundred feet
by a bamboo rope, from the over-hanging
j cliff, and, clambering down some seven
hundred more through the ecorioc, be made
a topographical sketch of the interior of
this great volcano. Before he returned
from this trip, he had ascended the Hima
layas, and triangulated Greece on foot ; he
had visited Ceylon, the upper Nile, and
all the mythologie region of Egypt. He
has been in Africa ; was sent to-'Mexico
during the wa with despatches to Gen
Scott ; was employed in the Coast Survey,
&o Gulf of Mexico,' and finally has ;
penetrated the waters of the Arctic Ocean
further north than any former navigator.
His "Tersonal Narrative," published early
in 1853, recounts the adventures of the
Crit oyce nd discovers bis diversified
qualifications for such an enterprise. The
1"' 1 occupied two winters in the
"'gest latitudes, and two years and a half
unremitted labor, with the risks and
reptionaibilities attendant. He is now
preparing the history for publication. Dr.
Kane's Narrative of the Expedition, now
preparing and in course of publication by
Messrs. Childs & Peterson, of Philadel
phia, will embrace the important discover
rics made in the frozen regions far beyond
the reach of all the predecessors of the
American exploring party, and their peril-
ous adventures, crowded with romantic
incidents, which, in the language of the
Secretary of the Navy, " not only excite
our wonder, but borrow a novel grandeur
from the truly benevolent considerations
which animated and nerved him to his
task."
Wolves in Iowa Two Pertom De-
toured. Owing to the cxtremo cold wea
ther for some time past, the wolves in
Pottawattomie county have become dan
gerous neighbors. Poultry yards and
sheep-folds hare been robbed to a frightful
extent, and in several instances the hun
gry beasts have not been inclined to spare
the human species. About three weeks
ago, a man was returning from a prayer
meeting, accompanied by his two dangh'
ters, one sixteen and the other twenty-three
years of age. They were all riding the
same horse, when suddenly a pack of tim
ber wolves assailed them, and being nnable
to escape by flight, they attempted to de
fend themselves. But the ferocious brutes
attacked the horse, rendering him unman
agcable. The oldest daughter Was partly
thrown and partly dragged to the ground,
and instantlv devoured. This enabled the
father and tho other daughter to escape.
Several neighbors were soon mustered, but
upon repairing to the spot nothing was
found but one shoe, and a very few rem'
nants of the unfortunate girl's clothing.
A boy about thirteen years old left his
father's houso to get water at a spring,
which was about half a mile distant, since
which time nothing has been seen of him
Tho nail was found near the spring, also
some marks of blood and a lock or two of
hair. Several persons have been chased
by these savage monsters. Keokuk 1'ust,
nth. j ,
A Usefbi. Himt. The difference be
tween rising every morning at six, and at
eight, in the course of forty years amounts
to 29,200 hours, or three years, one hun
dred and twenty-one days: and sixteen
hours a day for exactly ten years of life
were added, where we may command eight
hours every day for the cultivation of oar
minds, and fox the dispatch of busiscis.
FEBRUARY 1, 185G.
THE ENGLISH AMD
Per (Cnfllisrlj nnh
ADAM'S FALL.
Mr. White, the temperance lecturer, told the
following anecdote in one of bis addresses, to
illustrate the influence of a bad example in
the formation of habits ruinons in their effect :
Adam and Mary his wife, who lived in one
of the old Stales, were very good members of
the church, good sort of folks any way, and
Mary thought a great deal of the minister, and
the minister thought a good deal of a glass of
gocd todily.
Whenever the minister called to make Mary
a visit, which was pretty often, she contrived
to have him a glass of lodJy made, and the
minister never refused the toddy. After a
while Adam got to following the example of
the minister to such an extent that he became
a drunkard drank up everything he had and
all he could get. Mary and he became very
poor in consequence of his following the min
ister's example so closely, but the good minis
ter continued his visits, and poor Mary con
tinued still to give the glass of toddy. One
day he called in and told Mary that he was
going away for a week should return on
Friday and handed her a book containing
the catechism, and told her when he returned
he should expect she would be able to answer
some of the questions. Mary said yes, and
laid the book away very carefully. But Mary,
like a good many other church members,
thought no more of her book until the Friday
that the good minister was to return.
"What shall Hot" says she, "the minister
U u Ym her. tn-Jay. and I have not looked in
the book he gave me. How can I answer the
questions?"
I can tell yon." said Adam, eive me a
quarter and let me go over to Smith's and get
some good rum, and you can answer his ,
questions with toddy." j
Mary took the advice gave Adam a quar-1
trran4a jnft. and off he slar'ed. After get-j
ting his jug filled and on his way back, Adam
concluded to taste the rum. One taste bro't
on another, until he tumbled over a pile of i
rocks, broke the jug, and lost all the rum. I
But Adam managed to stacger home. j
As soon as he got in the house, Mary in !
quired anxiously for the jug of rum. " Where :
is the jug of rum, Adam?" Poor Adam man i
aged to stammer out " that he had stnmbled ,
over a pile of rocks and broke the jug, and I
lost the rum." Mary was in a fix Adam'
drunk the minister coming the rum gone l
and the questions unlearned. But here
comes the minister ! It would n't do for the i
man of God to see Adam drunk ; so she, for '
the want of a better place to bide him, sent
him nnder the bed. By the time he was fairly
nnder, in came the minister. After sitting a
few moments, he asked Mary if she thought
she could answer the question
-How did Adam fall?"
Mary turned her head first one way and
then another, and finally stammered out
' He felt over a pile of rocks .'"
It was now the minister's turn to look blank,
but he ventured another question i '
Where did he hide himself after his fall 1" j
t'irfer the bed. sir !
"There, Adam, you may come out, he
knows all about it."
The good minister retired not evea waiting
for a glass of toddy.
Georgia (the " Empire State of the
South") has increased in population less
than 0,000 the past five years, and is still
under One Million. (We see it stated,
by the way, that the Southern manufacto
ries of coarse cottons, &., are failing, or
forced to abandon their work. Would it
be strange, if we should vjain see the
Southern States coming up and demanding
the establishment of the Protective sys
tem?) r
An Aoed PriscseH. An Italian
newspaper states that a native of Savoy,
who was condemnod at the age of 41 to
the French galleys for life, has just been
liberated, at the ego of 121. It is said
that he has a little property in Savoy, the
interest on which has been accumulating
exactly 100 years. The old fellow enjoys
perfect health, although he stoops so much
that his face nearly touches his knees.
Brought him Back. 'A Mrs. Little
field had her lover, who was going to Nic
aragua, on the Star of the West, arrested
the other day in order that she might not
lose him. Sho did not wish him to be
come an agriculturist in Central America,
He bad a little-field to cultivate at homo.
Mammoth Lovb Lettib. A New
England gentleman in California, who cor
responds with a young lady of Fall Kiver,
sent to his friend a letter, which arrived in
the mails of the George Law, on the 23th
ult, and which comprises one hundred and
forty-six paget of letter paper.
Most of the Democratic Conventions of
Indiana recommend Jesse D. Bright for
President Like Douglass and Brodhcad,
he is allied by marriage to the slaveholding
interest
Nine Irishmen have been arrested in
Cincinnati, charged with being implicated
in a, design for a filibustering expedition
, upon Ireland.
maw."
YEAR XII....WIIOLE NUMBER, C16.
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ADAM'S FAIJ-
Hr. White, dor Temperance Vorleser. er
raelte die folgende Anrkdote, in einer seiner
Adressen, in den Einflnss voa einem btrsen
Beispiele in der Enstehung vod Angewohnhei
ten, die verderblich in ihrer Wtrkung sind.zn
erlaeutern.
Adam und Mary seine Fran, welche in ein
em von den alien Hlaalen wohnten, waren sehr
gute Mitglieder von den Kircbe, eiue gute Art
Leule in jeder Beziehung, nnd Mary dachte
sehr viel von dtm Minister, nnd der Minister
daehtesehrviel von einem guten Ulas Pomca.
Zu jeder Zeit, wenn den Mioi.tcr vor.prach
und einen fiesuch mac lite, welches zieoilich
ofl geschah, machte sie es meeglicb em Ulas
Puusch fuer ihn fertig zu haben, nnd der Min
ister schlug den Punsch auch niemals ab.
Nach einiger Zeit folgte Adam dem Beispiels
des Ministers zu einer solchea Ansdehnung,
dasz er xu einem Trunkenbolde wurde, der
alles vertrank was er hatte und alles was er
bekommen kunnte. Mary nnd er wurden
demzufulge, dasz er dem BeUpiele des Minis
ters zu geoau folgte sehr arm, aber der gute
Minister setzte seine Besuehe fort und die arme
Mary gab fortwvhrend noch des Glas Punscb.
Eines Tages sprach er Tor nnd sagte Mary,
dasz er fuer cine Woe he fort ginge und ban
digte ihr ein Buch, den Catechismus euihalt
end, ein und sagte ihr, wenn er zurueckkehre.
wuer.le er erwarten, dasz sie fashig sei, einige
Fragen zu beantworten, Mary sagte ja, und
legte das Buch sehr sohrfellig weg. Aber
Mary, gleich vielen anderen Kirehen Mitzlie-
acta, aacnie mcht mehr an inr xtucn nix rrei-
tags wo der gute Minister zurueckkehrte.
" Was soil ich ihun," sagie sie, "der Minis
ter wird heute bier sein und ich babe noch
nicht in das Buch gesehen, welches er mir
gab. Wie kann ich die Fragen beantworten ?"
Ich kann dir es sagen," sagte Adam, " gebe
mir ein Viertel nnd lass mich hinueber zu
Smith's genen und etwu galea Ham Uekora
men nnd du kannst se ne Fragen nut Punsch
beantworten."
Mary befolgte den Rath gab Adam cinen
Viertel nnd einen Krng nnd ab ging er, Nach
dem er seines Krug gefuelt gekommea nnd
anf seinem Ruekkwege war. beschloss Adam
den Rum zu versuehen. Ein Versuch fuebrte
tu einem anderen, bis er aeber einen Haufen
Steine stolperte und den Krug zerbrach, den
ganzen Rum verlierend. Adam aber fuehrte
es aus and taumelie nach Hanse.
So bald er ia das Hans kam, fragte Mary
ecngstlich nach derJCrug mil Rum. Wo ist
die Krug mil Rum, Adam !" Der arme Adam
bewerksteiligte cs anszustammeln, "dasz er
ueber einen Haufen Steine ge.tolpert sei, und
die Krug verbrochen nnd den Rum verloren
hxtte." Mary war in einer neblen Lage
Adam betrunten der Minister kommend
der Rum fort und die Fragea ungelernt, Aber
hier kommt der Minister ! Es wuerde nicht
fuer den Macn Gottes thun, Adam betrnnken
k sehen, so sie, in Ermangelung eines bes
seren Platzes,ihn zu vergen, landie ihn nnter
das Betu Zu der Zeit als er vcellig unter war,
kam der Minister herein. Nacndem cr einige
Augenbllcke da sasz, fragte er Mary, ob sie
glaube, dasz sie die Fragea beantworten
kccnneti
Wie ist Adam gefallen !"
Mary drehte ihren Kopf znerst den einen
ilann den audern Weg, zuletzl stammelte sie
aus t
" Er fid ueber einen JIaufrn Sttine .'"
Es war nun die Reihe an dem Minister ver-
wirrt auszusehea, aber er wagte eune anderc
Frages
" Wo hiclt er sich aach seines Falle ver-
borgen ?'
" Infer dem Bttte, lltrr f
" Da, Adam, du magst herans kommen, er
weisz alles."
Der gute Minister enlfernlesich nicht ein-
mal auf ein Glas Punsch wartend.
THE FARM
The fiardrm The Orchard.
New -York Premium Farms for 1854.
The last volume of the Transaction of
the Xeto-Yurk State Agricultural Society,
contains an account of the farm manage
ment of W. P. OttIey, Phelps, Ontario
Co., and of G. W. Corrm, Amenia,
Dutchess County, N. Y., to whom the So
ciety awarded the first and second premi
ums on farms.
Tux SOIL.
Mr. Ottlcys farm contains 100 acres
soil, a gravelly loam and muck, with a
tincture of clay ; subsoil about the same
with a lighter color, and porous. Mr. O.
sayst
"1 consider the best mode of improving
my soil is a three year lay of clover, turn
ing it under about the month of June for
wheat, or the first of May for corn, with
the application of barnyard manure."
Is cot clover apt to die out tho third
year ? and would it not, therefore, be bet
ter to plow it up the second instead of tha
third year, as there would be more clover
to turu under J lt thu is cropping the
land too heavily with grain crops, the bar
Icy, instead of being followed by wheat,
could be seeded down for a year or two ,
with clover. Will our readers give us
tbeir experience on this point!1
Mr. O. usually plows from seven to ten
inches deep. He has used tho "sub-soil
plow," as it is termed in the report, but
which, as we learned by corresponding
with Mr. Ottley, is in reality the Michigan
JouUe plow a very different implement
from the true subsoil plow, which only
breaks np the subsoil without bringing it
to the surface. TU first crop after the
tuboilinj tea unusuallif light, but the suc
ceeding crops were productive, and the re
uU. on tU whili satufaeto Mr. Q.
Year, always in Apyakce.
has not tried true subsoiling, but intends
to do so, and thinks that he will obtain in
this way the benefits arising from a deep
soil without diminution of crop the first
year.
THE CROPS.
Mr. Ottley's methed of cultivating com
is a follows :
"Take a tbreo year lay of clover, cover
it with manure, if possible, break it np
immediately before planting with a doubla
plow, eight inches deep, harrow with light
harrow to avoid tearing up turf, then drill
three and a half feet in width of row, to
gether with ashes and plaster : then roll,
and as soon as up pass through with one
horse cultivator. Continue to cultivate
till the middle of June; hoe once; rat
up about the first of September, five rows
into one, shocks large, as the stalks will
be of a better quality; husk during fall;
product usually fifty bushel per acre."
Is it better to jot corn in drills, as
as above, or bills, three and a half feet
each way, four kernels in the hill, horse
hoeing each way ?
''Barley is sown on corn stubble, plow,
ed as early as possible ; seed drilled in,
two and a half bushels per acre, from the)
first of May. Product from twenty-fire to
fifty bushels per acre."
The method of cultivating land for
wheat is not given, except when it if
sown after barley, when it is as follows :
Plow as soon as the barley is off, with
A oahl- plow, from eight to ten inches deep,
in lands two rods wide : barrow fine just
before the time to sow, drill in the seed,
two bushels per acre ; clean out furrowa
and water furrows. Product usually front
twenty-five to thirty-five bushels per acre.
Clover and timothy seed are sown with
the wheat.
OaU are drilled after corn as soon as
the land can be got in good order, three
bushels of seed per acre ; cut when fully
ripe with reaping saachiue, bind and stock
the same as wheat. Product about seventy-five
bushels per acre.
Potatoes and carrots are cultivated as
follows :
One potato in each hill, split; plant as
early as possible, harvest when fully ripe.
Usually plant but one acre in corn-field ;
use no manure ; hoe once ; produce light,
owing to the prevalent disease.
"Carrots sow thick in drills eighteen
inches apart; plow ground, manure high,
with rotted manure, sow the first of June,
hoe as soon as up ; continue to hoe and
thin out till the weeds cease to trouble.
Product from COO to SOO bushels per
acre."
DRAINING.
Mr. Ottley also obtained the second pre
mium for experiments in draining, them
being none offered which were considered
worthy of the first premium. Surely this
is not a true indication of the estimation
in which underdraining is held in tho
great State of New-York I Mr. O. laid
200 rods of stone drains in nine acres, and
the result was quite satisfactory. lie)
says :
"The increased value of the land, taking
the field (twelve acres) together, I esti
mate at $5 per acre annually, better than
before its being drained. It is safe reck
oning that draining will pay for itsclf with
interest of cost in two years."
Mr. O. also laid down 100 rods of tile
underdraios, from two to two and a half
feet deep, and four inches wide at the bot
tom. The cost was, fur digging, 12 eta.
per rod ; tile on ground, ltt cts. per rod ;
laying and filling, 3 cents ; total, 31 i cts.
per rod. The drain laid with stone, cost,
fur digging, 20 cents, and for laying the
stone and filling, 20 cents; total, 40 cents
per rod, or 8j cents more than the tile
drains. Unnecessarily high as is the price
of tiles, it pays better to use them than
stones in most cases. Genesee Farmer.
Taste of Turnips In Oilk.
Perhaps few things of like slight impor
tance bave produced moro wide-spread an
noyance than the taste of turnips in milk
and butter, from cows fed with this root.
There, is a plain and easy remedy for thin,
which ought to be more widely known,
one which I met some ten years ago, su
ing that "grain fed regularly to milch
cows with turnips wouid prevent tbeir
milk from tasting of the turnips." When
I had occasion to try it, I gave each eow
four quarts per day of wheat bran, wet in
cold water, night and morning, in addition
to the turnips fed them. Perhaps a less
quantity of bran would answer as well,
but it cost us ouly five cents per bifcjicl,
so I fed thus liberally.
Not the slightest taste of turnips could
be perceived, and we sold the butter (care
fully made, of course,) to steady custo
mers in Nashville, for from ten to fifteen
cents above the market price pretty con
clusive evidence as to its quality. And
further, one of thc same cows had, some
years before, been fed with turnips alone,
aud the milk and butter were strongly
tainted with the tajte of them ; now tbey
produce no such effect I fiud on the trial
than any other grain will answer as well
as wheat bran John C. Hoit, na
Fbelbyville, Tenn., November, 13i.-.
Rural Xtie-Verier.
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