LEWIS BURG RONICLE BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. Alf INDEPENDENT FaMILT rrom the Atlantic Monthly forJanuMy. The Old Alan's Drcaiu. BT W. BOLUS. 0 for one hour of youthful joy ! Give back my twentieth spring ! I'd rather laugh, abrisht-haired boy, Than reign, a gray-haired king! Off with the wrinkled spoils of age! Away with learning's crown ! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down ! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fouot of flame ! Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame 1 My listening anpel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, "If I but loech thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish has sped. Bat is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay. While the swift seasons hurrv back To find the wished-for day !' Ah! truest soul of womankind! Without thee, what were lile t One bliss 1 can not leave behind : I'll take my precious wife." The angel took a sapphire pen And wrote in rainbow dew : "The man would be a boy again, And be a husband too ! "And is there nothing yet unsaid, Before the change appears ! Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years !'' "Why, yes ; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys ; 1 could net bear to leave them all ; I'll take my girls and boys!" The smiling angel dropped his pen "Why, this will never do : The man would be a boy again, And be a father too !" And so I laughed my laughter woke The household with its noise And wrote my dream, when morning broke, To please the gray-haired boys. TirERQyiCLiE. MODlY, FEB. RJ2 Acceptance of Appointment. Fbof. Loomis has accepted the proffer ed Presidency of the University at Lewis burg, to take effect at the end of the pre sent Academical year. SsSThe defeat of the Buchanan party at the Lancaster City Election, is a hard How at the President his own home against him, where he bad 1000 ma jority!! . Old Journal Rev. Dr. Malcom has shown us an original journal,(found among I family papers which have come into his possession,) kept by some American sol dier preceding and after the battle of Banker Hill. It is an interesting relic, and the Doctor designs presenting it to Horatio Gates Jones, Esq. Secretary of an Historical Society in Philadelphia a pro per depository for relics of the past,which will be more prized as time elapses. B$The following items were prepared for last week's Chronicle, bat inadvertent ly omitted : MiFFLiNBTjua. The basement of the new bouse of the German Reformed church is to be opened on the Cth, and the new pastor, Rev. Mr. Bucher, to be installed on Sunday. The new Lutheran bouse is so nearly finished that the Sunday school meets in the basement. The Presbyterian church has a series of religious meetings conducted by Rev. J.B. Adams and Rev. J. Thomas. Bloomsburo. The new house of wor ship for the Methodist Episcopal church is a very creditable structure, and is to be dedicated on Sunday, Feb. 7. Several Bishops and other eminent men of the church have promised to attend. "History op the Evangelical As sociation, from its origin until 1S45. Translated from the German, by Pres. W. IV. Oawia, of New Berlin." VoL 1. This work embodies a history of the Albright Methodist denomination, which assumed a separate organization within tho memory of many of our readers, and its history can therefore be gathered in a reliable form. The execution of the labor by Pres. Orwig, is highly commended by the two papers of the church. A good portion of the early materials were gath ered by the venerable John Deiesbach, formerly of our Valley, yet living in Ohio, who traveled in the ministry with Mr. Al bright himself. Mr. Driesbach entered the itinerancy in 1807 over fifty years sgo and has lived to see his fellow labo rers in the Gospel increased from 8 to 500, and the membership increased from 220 to 30,000. S?In the U. 8. House of Representa tives, Mr. Zollicoffcr, of Tcnn., offered a resolution instructing tho Committee on Judiciary to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill to regulate or restrain the immigration or importation into the United States of Foreign paupers and criminals. One hundred and thirty-six members voted in the affirmative, and thirty-seven, all Democrats we believe, in negative. J. B. M'Phcrson, who recently died in Gettysburg, was from its formation forty yean agoCashier of the Bank of Gettys-bnrg- Get good, honest, nnspeculating, strait forward men for Cashiers. Such men are an honor to any country, and Ley uu.e Banks safe and useful public institutions. B. CORNELIUS. NEWS JOURNAL. Pennsylvania Common Schools. The Superintendent of the Common Schools of the State, in his annual report to the Legislature, shows that there are 10,950 public schools in the State, exclu sive of tho city of Philadelphia, which is under a different superintendence. They have been opened during the year on an average five months and thirteen days. The pupils attending these schools num ber 541,247; including Philadelphia, the number is 506,008. This number is, however, believed to be considerably be low tho actual attendance. In tho State, there are 9,0G0 waiting for admission into schools, for want of adequate school ac commodations. In Philadelphia, numer ous as our schools are, there are, besides, 4.3G9 applicants waiting for admission. Somo townships havo never put public schools in operation at all, and it is be lieved that there are now in the State 25,782 children not enjoying the privilege of common schools. Including the cost of buildings, the average cost of instruc tion is 65 cents for each pupil, or about $3 02 for the five months and a half1 that the schools are open. The total cost of the system, including all expenses, and including Philadelphia, is 82,232,570, or less than 84 per year to each pupil. The total number of teachers employed, is 13,445. The average salaries of the male teachers per month, is $24 ; female teach ers, $16 60. In the city of Philadelphia, of course, the salaries are much higher, for here teaching is a profession, and not, as is too often the caso in tho coux, merely adopted for temporary support Normal Schools and Teachers' Institutes are doing much to clcvato tho standard of education in the State, and raising the profession of teacher to an independent and honorable position, taking equal rank with other learned professions. The Su perintendent pays a high compliment to the school system, which is acknowledged to be one of the best in the country, and other States are so much impressed with its structure and working that they are endeavoring to shape their policy by our example. There is a vast amount of in formation in the 'Report respecting the operations of the school system in each county of the State, and wo are pleased to see that there is a better supervision, more time bestowed upon the duties, and a gradual and marked improvement in the organisation and operations of the schools. ("The foregoing is from the Ledger of T M i i i- ri't Ml ; . . r ruiiaueipma. 1110 lunowiog extract irom the Report of Mr. Hickok itself, points out, we think, the true policy for tho fu ture : No changes in the school laws are pro posed. What the system meat needs, is to be let alone, until it can have time to develop : for it is peculiarly a thing of popular growth as well as of legislative creation. Constant changes in the school laws embarrass and dishearten the plain men not lawyers who are charged with their administration in the respective dis tricts. Publio opinion will remain unset tled, so long as there is expectation, or fear, of continual change ; but if it is dis covered that the system is reasonably per manent, they will the more readily and cheerfully adapt themselves to it Penn sylvania is emphatically the land of steady habits, and unsuited to the legislative fluc tuations that have been so damaging to the school system of a neighboring State. Stability and habit are cardinal virtues in this connection, and not to be lightly valued. The system has been twenty-five years in attaining its present complete and sym metrical proportions. During that long period, the strong hand of legislative pow er has Dover been lifted to strike down its frame work, or cripple its energies. Through all vicissitudes, its record has been one of persistent progress. Its pro visions are of general application; and, wherever they have been fairly and faith fully carried oat, have never failed of suc cess. The multitude of difficulties con stantly presented to the Department, orig inate in ignorance of the letter of the law, or misapprehension or disregard of its pro visions; and these no legislation can rem. edy. The correction by the Legislature of one local difficulty, would create a hundred others elsewhere, and make confusion in stead of harmony. The most daring inno- vator, who knows anything of the people of Pennsylvania and their institutions, who should watch tho working of the sys tem from a central position in this depart ment, or thread his way from county to county, carefully studying the diversified people and circumstances with which it has to deal, would be led irresistibly to a conviction of its great superiority as it is, and would shrink from any attempt to change its features, or modify its details, until years of general experience had clear ly proved it to be necessary. The use of postage stamps as seals in order to prevent opening letters is sug gested. Burdock leaf applied externally, is said to be an almost infallible euro for neuralgia. LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA. FPJDAY, From Harrisburg. Hay A correspondent of the Juniata Sentinel writes from Harrisburg, 30th ult.: In the House, your old friend, CoL A. K. M'Cluro, stands the acknowledged lea der of his party, and in legislative or poli tical ability ho has no superior in the ranks of either party. He is a rising man,fully conversant with State and National poli tics, and is yet destined to the first honors of the Old Keystone. Gov. Packer's administration docs not work along as smoothly as it might, and, as I intimated to you, begins to find the summit of official honors strewn with more thorns than flowers. Between the Bucha nan and Douglas factions the Porter and anti-Porter advisers, he is in a perfect quandary how to steer. Office seekers are urgent and grumbling, snarling like hun gry wolves at each other over a few official carcasses, and, after all, the fox may come in and steal them all. But few appoint ments have as yet been made. A few mi nor ones havo been announced, but the more prominent ones will be postponed for a month or so probably until after the Philadelphia 4th of March Convention, in which the Porter and anti-Porter factions are to have a free fight for ascendency. I occasionally see your former Senator here James M. Sellers, E.q. and have no doubt he still finds an attraction within the sphere of his Senatorial labors ; for, socially, there is much in that official cir cle to attract. There are many good men in that body now, but it would be graced sense and business capacity of your popu lar townsman. Our town is dull, money tight, and everybody, like the famous Micawber, on the look-out for somethingbcttcr to turnup. From the Phllad. Ledger. Knowledge of the Weather. Messes. Editobs Gentlemen : The public are much indebted to you and other daily papers of the city, for the daily Me teorological reports of the weather and range of tho thermometer in the different parts of the United States and British Provinces, and as the present winter is supposed from its mildness to vary from any other in the recollection of the 'oldest inhabitant,' I herewith send you a copy of the Meteorological table made at Phila delphia in the months of January and Feb ruary, 1776, and which may be found in the "Pennsylvania Magazine" for Febru ary, 1776, published by R. Aitken, oppo site the London Coffee House, in Front street, Philadelphia : METEOROLOGICAL DIARY AT PIIILAd'a. From Jan. 20 to Feb. 20, 1776, at 9 A M. Day. Titer. Uaut. tt father Jan.20,21 w. Fair. " 21, 23 s.MT. Fair. " 22, 29 " 23 57 N.w. snowing. W. Fair. H.W. Cloudy. N.w. Overcast n.e. Overcast, enow the pre ceding day. " 24, 30 " 26, 0 " 27, 17 N.w. Fair,Delaware froze over " 28, 20 N.w. Overcast. " 29, 20 N.w. Overcast. " 30, 22 N.w. Overcast. 31, 33 Foggy ,6uow and rain tho preceding day. Feb. I, 41 N.w. Foggy, rain the preced ing day. " 2. 24 N.W. Cloudy, snow and rain the preceding day. M II i: n it u ft 3, 15 n.w. Snowing. 4, 21 N.W. Fair. - 5, 22 w.w. Cloudy. " 6, 23 n.w. Fair and windy. 7, 20 N.w. Fair. 8, 30 s.w. Cloudy. 9, 40 8.w. Foczy.and rain in night " 1U, &2 s.w. Cloudy, rain tbe preced ing day and night 11, 32 " 12, 26 " 13, 28 14, 35 W. ' Windy and cloudy, frost in tbe night N.W. Fair, w. Cloudy, w. Hazy. Focey. 15, 43 " 16, 41 n.w. Cloudy, rain, lightning, and thunder tbe preced ing evening. " 17, 40 -n.e. Cloudy. " 18, 25 N.E. Fair. " 19, 29 n.i. Fair. The above will afford a comparison with the state of the weather of the same months of the present winter, and will be found with less variation than is generally supposed in an interval of eighty-two years. Respectfully yours, &o. Doylcstown, Jan. 25, 1858. W.C. Col. Benton says : "For one, I ean give no political aid or comfort to any man or party, in any future election, who shall uphold tbe opinion of the Supreme Court in declaring tbe nullity ef the Missouri Compromise ; and in decreeing the self extension of the Constitution to Territo ries, carrying Slavery with it, and pre venting Congress and the people of the Territory from saying yea or nay to its introduction or expulsion." A good plat form. ' ' Breslin, the defaulting Locofoco State Treasurer of Ohio, is a "great brick" in Hamilton, C. W., where he now resides. The Buffalo Express learns that he has recently purchased a church in that city for 8,000, but whothcr he intends to de vote the remainder of his life to repentence, or intends converting it into a theati6,our informant is uncertain. ' ' COLEMAN.I KITTY BT TBI UTS MB. JCMOX (rAST rOEBCSTXE.) An arrant piece of mischief was that Kitty Coleman, with her deep, bewilder ing eyes, that said all sorts of strange things to your heart, and yet looked so innocent all the time, as though conduct ing themselves with the utmost propriety, and her warm ripe lips, making you think at once of the "rose's bed I bat a bee would choose to dream in." And so wild and unmanageable was she ob, it was shocking for proper people to look at her ! And then to hear her, too ! why she actu ally laughed aloud, Kitty Coleman did. I say Kitty, because everybody called her Kitty but her aunt Martha ; she was an orderly gentlewoman, who disapproved of loud laughing, romping aud nick-naming, as she did of other crimes, so she always said Miss Catharine. She thought, too, that Miss Catharine's hair those nice, long tresses, like the beautiful rays of the floating sunshine, wandering about her shoulders, should be gathered up into a comb ; and the little baby was once so really obliging as to make a trial of tho scheme, but at the first bound she made after Rover, the burnished cloud broke from its ignoble bondage, descending in a glittering shower, and the littlo comb nes tled down in tbe deep grass, resigning its office of jailer for ever. Ob, Kitty was a sad romp I It is a hard thing to say of one we all loved so well ; but Aunt Martha said it, and shook her head the while and siehfid-4 "i""! Martha's brother, said it, and held out his arms for his pet to spring into; and serious old ladies said it, and said, too, what a pity it was that young people now-a-days had no more regard for propriety. Even Enoch Snow, the great phrenolo gist, buried his fingers in those dainty locks that none but phrenologist bad a right to touch, and, waiting only for a succession of peals of vocal music, which interrupted his soientifio researches to subside, said that her organ of mirthful ness was very strikingly developed. This, then, placed the matter beyond all contro- j versy ; and it was neneetortn expected that Kitty would do what nobody else could do, and say what nobody else had a right to say ; and tbe sin of all, luckily for her, was to be laid on strange idio syncrasy, JMlnlir mwUl, or a-tkor r ebral conformation, over which she has no control, and so Kitty was forgiven, forgiv en by all but . We have a little story to telL I have heard that Cupid was blind ; of that, I do not belive a word indeed, I have a confirmation strong, that the mali cious little knave has tbe gift of clairvoy ance, aiming at hearts wrapped in the triple foldings of selfishness, conceit, and gold. But people said there was one who had escaped him, a winsome gallant for whom all but Kitty Coleman bad a bright glance and a gentle word. As for Kitty, she oared not rush for Harry Gay, and sought to annoy him all in her power, and the gentleman in his turn stalked past her with all the dignity of a great man's ghost. Bitter, bitter enemies were Harry Gay and Kitty Coleman. One evening, just because a pretty belle was present, Harry took into his head to be as stupid as a block or s scholar, for, notwith standing his promising name, our young Lucifer could be stupid. Kitty Coleman was very angry, as was proper for what right bad any one to be stupid in her presence ? Tbe like was never heard of before. Kitty, in her indigna tion, said he did not know how to be civil; snd then she sighed, doubtless, at the boorishnesg of scholars in general, and this one in particular; and then she laughed so long and musically, that the lawyer, the schoolmaster, the fonr clerks, the merchant, and Lithper Lithpcr, the dandy, all joined in the chorus, though, for the life of them, they eonld not have told what the lady, laughed at Harry Gay drew'up his head with as much dig nity as though ho had known the mirth was at his expense, east contemptuous glances toward the group of nod-waiters, and then, to show his own superior taste, attached himself to the ugliest woman in tbe room. She disregarded entirely the opinion of such a distingue gentleman, but she only laughed tbe louder when she saw that he was annoyed by it ; indeed, bis serious face seemed to infuse the very spi rit, ay, the concentrated double distilled essence of mirth into her; and a more frolicksome creature never existed than she was, till the irritated scholar, nnable to endure it any longer, disappeared in the quietest manner possible. Then all of a audden the self-willed belle deolarcddhat she hated parties, she never wonld go to another ; and, making her adieus in the most approved don't-care style, insisted on being taken home at oneo. Harry Gay wu not a native of our vil lage; he eame from one of the eastern cit ies to spend a summer there ; and Aunt Martha said he was too well bred to have any patience with tbe hoydenisb manners of her romping niece. But Kitty insisted that her manners were not hoydenisb; and if her heart oversowed, it was cot ber fault, she could not shut up ill the glad FEBRUARY 12, 1858. feelings within her; tbey would leap back to the call or her kindred, gushing . from other bosoms, and to all the beauti ful things of creation, as joyous in their mute eloquence as she was. Besides, the wicked little Kitty Coleman was always angry that Aunt Martha should attempt to govern her conduct by the likings of Harry Gay ; she would not be dictated to by him, even though his opinions received the sanction of her infallible aunt Bat the lady made trifling mistake on tbe subject matter of his interference. He did not slander her, and always waived the themo of her follies when her aunt Martha introduced it; indeed, he never was heard to speak of the belle, but once once he swore she had no sonl, (the shameless Mohammedan!) a remark which was only five minutes in reaching its ob ject But Kitty Coleman, though very indignant, was not cast down by it She called Harry Gay more names than he, scholar as be was, could have thought of in a month, and wound up with a remark no less formidable than the one which had excited her ire. And Kitty was right A pretty judge of soul, he, to be sure a man that never laughed ! how on earth ean people who go through the world cold and still, like the clods they tread upon, pretend to know anything about the soul T Harry Gay used to get to 'Squire Cole man's very often, and sit all the evening and talk with the 'Squire and Aunt Mar tha, while his great black eye turned olowlif ft W-41mm IfUtj . . J f UmA Kitty would not look at him. What right had a stranger, and visitor, too, to ! make such a very great parade of his dis approbation 7 If she did not please him, why, she pleased others; and that was enough ; she would not turn over her fin ger to gain his good will. So Harry and Kitty never talked together; and when he went away, (be never went till the con versation fairly died out, and the lamps looked as if about to join it,) he bowed to the old people gracefully and easily ; but to the young lady he found it difficult to bend at alL Conduct like this, provoked Kitty Coleman beyond endurance; and one evening, alter tbe "Squire and spinster had left ber alone, she sat down, and, in very spite, sobbed away as though her lit- tie heart would break. Now it happened .. . . book that evening, which, strange enough for such a scholar, he had forgotten to take with him ; but Harry remembered it be- fore it was too late, and turned upon his li.nl YTa d i. mama mil ln i mnmanft 10- ' fore, and there was no use in ringing, so he stepped at once into the parlor. Poor Kitty sprang to her feet at the intrusion, and erusbed with her fingers two tears that were just ready to launch themselves on the roundest and rosiest check in the world; but she might have done better herself, for her foot touched Aunt Mar tha's fauteuil, and, in consequence, her forehead the neck of Rover. It is very awkward to be surprised in the luxurious indulgence of tears at any time, and it is a trifle more awkward still to fall down, and then be raised by the last person in the world you would receive a favor from. Kitty folt tbe awkwardness of her situa tion too much to speak ; and, of course, Harry, enemy as he was, could not release ber until he knew whether she was hurt. It was certain that she was not faint, for the crimson blood dyed the tips of her fingers, and Harry's face immediately took the same hue, probably from reflection. Kitty looked down until a golden fringe rested lovingly on its glowing neighbor, and Harry looked down, too, but bis eyeB rested on Kitty Coleman's face. If soul and heart are one and the same thing, as some metaphysicians tell us, Harry must now have discovered tbe mistake be once made, for there was a strange commotion beneath the boddice of Kitty Coleman ; it rose and fell, as nothing but a bound ing, throbbing, frightened heart, in the wildest tumult of excited feeling, could make it. And then, (poor Kitty must have been hurt, and needed support) an arm stole softly around her waist, dark locks mingled with ber sunny ones as a warm breath swept over ber cheek and Kitty Coleman hid her face, not in her hands. Harry forgot his book again that night, and rover thought of it until the 'Squire put it into his head the next morning; for Harry visited the 'Sijoire very early tho next morning, and had a private inter view, and the good old gentleman tapped him on the shoulder, and said, "With all my heart !" and Aunt Martha looked as glad as propriety would let her. As for Kitty Coleman, she did not show ber face, not she for she knew they were talking about her, tho sober old people and tha meddling Harry Gay. ' But when the ar rant mischief-maker had accomplished his object, and was bounding from the door, there eame a good rustling among tbe rose-bushes, insomuch that a shower of bright blossoms descended from them, and Harry turned his face, brimming over in joy, to .the fragrant thicket, and shook down another fragile flower in seeking out the cause of the disturbance. Now, ill luck would hiTe jt, Kitty Coleman had ' ESTABLISHED At $1,00 Per I hidden away from her enemy in this very ! thicket, and there she was discovered, ait ... . .. . confusion, trembling and cantins. and , a SCI I am afraid poor Kitty never quite recov-1 ered from the effects of her fall for the ! arm of Harry Gay seemed very necessary to her for ever after. The Power of a Fenny. A penny is a small matter,but tbe power of a penny is wonderful. If Methuselah had placed a penny at interest when he was born, he would have Ceeo worth hun dreds of millions, when be died, from one penny alone. Money at 6 per cent, dou bles in about twelve years. Now a penny will- be at the end of TEAR3 TFAR9 12 2 192 $056 56 24 4 201 1,3!1 12 36 8 210 2,622 24 43 16 224 5,244 43 60 32 240 10,488 96 72 64 52 20,977 92 84 81 23 264 41,955 84 96 2 56 276 83,911 68 108 5 12 228 167,823 36 120 10 24 300 335,616 72 132 20 48 312 671,293 44 144 40 96 324 1,342,586 88 156 81 92 336 2,685,193 76 163 163 84 348 5,370,327 52 180 327 73 360 10,710,655 04 At 400 years of age, Methuselah would have been worth about one hundred mil lions of dollars ; in fifty years more, over a thousand millions, and at tbe time of his death his riches would have been almost beyond calculation all from a single penny. - THE Tbe Garden. FARM Tbe Orchard. (OB TBI UWUKTM OtBHOCU. Grass Seeds. It is still a mooted question among most farmers, whether autumn or tbe Spring of the year is the best time for sowing Timo thy or Clover seed. Some prefer sowing it in February, while others again prefer ploughing up and re-seeding their old worn out meadow and grass grounds with fresh seed in August and September. And these last named persons assure us that grass land may in August or September be "laid to gran again at once without the hss of a, single harvest," as such grass j gded ground will, if top-dressed with fine j barn-yard manure at the time of seeding, ; nroduea a aaaA ma of tbm tha ensninir jci .v.T -n --kr- r-.c season. And tout new practice, wmcn prevails now to a considerable extent in our Northern States, was adopted some years ago and with uniform sncccss.on the i recommendation of a Northern Agricultu- ral paper,called " The Mauachatetts Plough man." They who practice this way of renewing old and failing grass lands, say that tbe ground should be ploughs 1 im mediately after the second crop of hay is cut and removed that the furrows should be ent smooth and turned over flat and well rolled down with a roller the same way it was ploughed to prevent the harrow from turning up the inverted sod that tbe ground should then be top-dressed with fine barn-yard manure and sown with grass seed and harrowed lengthwise of the furrows until the surface of the ground is mellow and smooth. And lands that lie too low and are consequently too wet to bo ploughed and re-seeded at other seasons of the year can thus be easily worked and improved about the last of August or the beginning of September; and this too without any danger of washing away of the soil, as the old roots and turf, so Tolled down, will bold the soil until the new crass gets fairly rooted. And wheat and rye may be sown with Timothy seed to which clover seed and plaster can, if desi rable be added in the ensuing spring. The best implement for imbedding tbe grass seeds into the soil is said to be a lush-drag or banow, made of hard-wooded bushes or limbs of trees aboat twelve feet long and bushy and well-dragged over tbe ground a drag which any farmer can easily make for himself. December, 1857. West Bsancii. The Essentials to Good Farminf, According to J. J. Thomas' prize es say on "Farm Management," the princi pal essentials to good farm management are : 1. Capital enough to buy the farm and slock it welL 2. The judicious se lection of a farm of a size compatible with these requisites. 3. To lay it out in the best mauncr. 4. To provide it with fen ces, gates and buildings. 5. The selec tion of the best animals, and the best im plements that can be procured at a reason able price. 6. To bring tbe soil into good condition, by draining, manuring, and good eulture. 7. A good rotation of crops covering every part of it 8. A sys tematic arrangement of all operations, so that there shall be no clashing or confu sion. 9. Diligence. 10. Good manage ment of business affairs, baying, selling, it YaUfji farmer. Last Cora Crop and Growing Wheat There is no doubt but the loss in tbe corn crop is very great, for all our letters complain of tbe damage arUing from the early frosts, and many farmers will,we are afraid, find it difficult to obtain good seed. Some will heedlessly or ignoraotly plant that which hit teen injured, and the con- sequence will fcehat th-y will hive either IX 1S13....WU0LE NO., 722. o- Year, always is Advaxcs. j to replant, or la much of their crop by i wuure. n luey rcpiaui, iue crop wiu vw . r i i i i 1 -t i late or liable to be injured by ibe aamo causes which produced the evil results of the past season. We would, therefore impress upon the min Is'of our farmers tha necessity of obtaining good seed, which had been thoroughly ripened previous to tha hard weather in November. It would also be advisable to cultivate earlier varieties in preference to those kinds which ripen later, as such will be less likely to be in jured by early frosts. - Tbe wheat in some parts of Ohio looks very well, but in other parts tbe farmers complain of that which has been sowa broadcast, being thrown out by the frost This is not, however, the ease with drilled wheat, as such is more deeply rooted, and has a better hold of the soil. Let farmers take note of this ; it hold! good in all cases ; it is of itself a powerful argument in favor of the universal adoption of tho drill, letting alone the saving of seed, which of itself is no small item. Ohio Farmer, Jan. 16. A Cellar "Up Stairs." H. A. Shel don, of Middlebary, Vt, recommends to those without the conveniences of an un derground cellar, the following substitute: Take a box of any eonvenient size and set it within another of similar form, but large enough to admit a layer of dry saw dust four or fire inches in thickness to bo closely btw a the two, both at the bot tom and sides. There may be a cover on both boxes, or only one on tho outsida box. In a room having fire by day, suck a box will keep vegetables enough for a small family daring a month or so, which will be a groat convenience to those living at a distance from market la very cold weather tbe box may be left open during the day. It will also do for a summer ico chest, by putting the ice in somo water tight vessel. -1 nerican Agriculturalist. Swamp muck,or peat when dry, will take up, without dripping, four times its own weight of water. Hence the necessity of thorough drainage. 9.The opinion of the Illinois Supremo Court, as pronounced by Judgo Skinner, in the ease of a Missoui Slave holder against the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany, who had the presumption to permit a poor runaway black man. the claimed "property" of a Missouri slaveholder, to ride in their ears from Cairo to Chicago, is as creditable to the Judges as it is pre servative of the honor and State Sover eignty of Illinois. The opinion of the Court is, in effect That the Constitution and laws of the State of Illinois recognize all men within the State as free men ; that slavery is an institution of mere local law in the States where it exists, which local law extends t no other State ; that the taws of Missouri, under which the alleged slave is elaimed by the plaintiff, has no force whatever in tbe Slate of Illinois, but is "repugnant to our laws ;" and that therefore, the plain tiff, "under the law of Illinois, has do pro perty in the fugitive, and can here, under State authority, assert no property in or authority over him.'' Decidedly Cool. The following in stance of cool performances is given by the Clearfield Journal: "Everybody knows that onr Jail is a great institution, and occasionally the 'boarders' indulge in some rich perform ances. On Saturday evening,James Curly and Wiu. Miller, who are serving out sentences of imprisonment, having been allowed the privilege of going out into tho jail yard, scaled the wall and vamoosed. Miller left a note informing the Sheriff that he had gone home to attend to somo business, snd that he would be back next evening. Curly cooly moved around to "see what was going on in the town," until about nine o'clock, when he returned to the jjil, aod.all the doors being locked, bad to rouse the Sheriff to get in. On Monday evening, Miller eame back." Killing the Partt. Pres. Pierce, (says the St Louis Aeics,) undertook tho job of breaking up the Dcmocratie party in the Northern States, and gpt along so well as to break its dominion in every free State except New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and California. Mr. Buchanan has taken np the work where Mr. Pierce left off, and if he is as success ful the next three months as he has been in the past, will finish it so completely as not to leaTs a shred of the party north of Mason and Dixon's line. It would not be surprising if he would crowd it out of Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee also, reducing tbe once powerful national De mocracy to a pitiful nest of bilious fire eaters in the Gulf State Another Swindle Extloded. Tha property of the "Cosmopolitan Art Union." has been attached by the proprietors of Emerson's Magazine fon, debt duo them. Some of our citizens have bees swindled by this concern, to the tone of $5 j and we rejoice that they can not blame us for be ing instrumental in the matter. We wero asked to advertise for them, but declined. Harrisburg Telegraph. The Augusta, Ga., Dispatch suggests as the word "telegra:D," is objected to as il legitimate, that "wirsgvam" wouli la yery spprcpriate.
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