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.
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it
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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.