Z\u farmers' Department. Farm Work for January. Plans should be now made for the coming year. If not already accom plished, prepare to lay out the farm in regular fields, and introduce a good rotation, which will enable the farmer to carry on all his labor with clock work regularly, to keep clean fields, to preserve their fertility, and to pre vent confusion, so often resulting from too much wprk for the force at par ticular periods. There are a number of points to which the skilful farmer should direct his attention, before the spring work opens. One of the most important is to prepare for farm accounts, by procu ring suitable blank books and arran ging the headings. He should have :i memorandum book to carry alwajw in his pocket, to note down anything that occurs to him, at the moment, and before forgotten. Each field or crop should have a page devoted to it and all outlays and profits should be carefully recorded. His farm should be well laid out, measured and map ped—which will be a pleasant winter's task. And his granaries should be accurately measured and graduated,, to show quickly the number of bush <Ts of contents. A scale for weigh ing his domestic animals will pay for itself every year in the information it will afford him in relation to feeding. lie should keep accurate accounts with all his neighbors, if he would avoid difficulties; and all his accounts lioth with his fields and otherwise, should be a model of neatness, dis tinctness and systematic order. Farm laborers should be hired in season, as the best will always be en gaged early; and it often happens that by paying a dollar or two more per month, a great amount in valua ble assistance will be secured—or, in other words, the best are generally the cheapest. Keep all barns and sheds clean and in order, and prevent the untidy ac cumulations and confusions which some premises witness. Keep tools under shelter, provide a place for everything and let everything be in its place; and do not allow hens to roost on wagons, horse-rakes and car- If corn-stalks be cut very short by liorsc-power, before feeding to cattle, a large|amount of saving will beeffected Let cattle and all otiifr animals be kept perfectly; clean, comfortable and sufficiently warm. If they occupy sheds, great care should be taken to prevent cold currents between the boards, and especially under the sills and high or other screens should pre vent all winds from blowing in the front side. If kept in stables, still greater care should be exercised to preserve cleanliness and to provide sufficient ventilation. Many denounce stables for cattle on account of the foul air and foul keeping they are subject to; while others denounce sheds on account of the cold currents which sweep through them. Use the curry-comb freely and regularly on both cattle and horses. Cellars under dwellings should be ! Frequently examined and kept scrn-; pulously clean ; the walls may be j white washed in winter. Where there is danger of the ingress of frosts at the windows, it is neater to provide double windows (on hinges, to hook ! up,) than the more unsightly stuffings of straw. Pick over apples in eellers and if there is an abundant supply, feed out those which threaten decay, in regular quantities, to milch cows. SHOEING HORSES.—W. Jones, a veterinary surgeon of London, gives ' the followig simple rules for shoeing horses: "Ist. After having taken off the old shoe, shorten the toe, and remove all the dead and loose parts of the hoof. I)o not cut the sole or pare the frog, except when the hoof lias received an injury from a nail or oth erwise, when it must be cut out: "2d. Let the shoe be of equal thickness, or rather thinner at the heel. The ground and foot surface should be perfectly level. The shoe should be light on the heel. Too many nails are objectionable, and should be kept as far as possible from the heels. "3d. For the hind feet there is 110 objection to calks, though they are of doubtful benefit. Horses travel bet; ter without them. The hind shoes are made thicker at the toes tha'n at the quarters, the nails also can be put closer to the heels without caus ing inconvenience. "4th. Side clips should be avoided, they destroy the hoof; the same is the case when the nails are too close together. The feet should never be rasped, as it destroys the enamel of the hoofs, renders them brittle, and causes sandcracks, and consequently lameness. "sth. Expansion is a fatal error which has led to many abuses in shoe ing, such as pairing off the sole and frog, rasping off the hoof, "etc. The elasticity of the foot, which is, how ever, limited, exists only in the upper part of the hoof, principally round the cornet. On the lower part and the toe it is nil." THE LADY APPLE. —This beautiful little apple frequently commands high prices in our large cities, where it is used at evening parties on account of its rich delicate color. We are inform ed that Mr. Straton, of Webster, in this county, has recently sold the produce of two trees for $75. They produced fifteen barrels.— Genesee Farmer. (t-rtucational Department. From the Pennftylrnnla School Journal. Definitions—Explanations. Some good teachers are opposed to me morizing, from text-books, the definations of words, contending that the pupil had better be accustomed to make his own definitions. Others, perhaps equally as good, iusist upon the utility and necessi ty of committing to memory the book definitions, as being better than those which any pupil or most teachers can make fin- themselves. Is it not possible that both are, in a measure, right, and that if they had thought the subject out in all its bearings, they might be found to differ in no very important particular. The full definition of a word, and the mere explanation of the same word as it stands in a given sentence, are two very different things; and the confounding of these two terms supposed great difference of opinion among teachers, when probably little in fact exists. To DEFINE is " to determine or ascertain the extent of the meaning of a word or term": that is, to state with precision yet fulness itsmeaningin every relation which it can possibly occupy in the language. To EXPLAIN a word, is merely " to ex press, in other and more simple words the particular meaning intended to be con veyed by him who uses the word." Now. while few will deny the utility of habituating the youthful mind to both processes, no one will assert both to be equally within the unaided reach of the pupil's own powers. The ability to give full and accurate definitions, must be ac quired either directly from the books of definition, or from such a course, of com parative reading as cannot be completed though it may bo. commenced, in school. The ability to explain one's own meaning is a power which every sane mind innate ly possesses, and can exercise after very little practice. Book definitions which present to mind the whole, but not the required particular meaning of the word, will make tic scholar, but never a thinker. Where as off-hand explanations to suit the con text, may elicit thought and readiness of expression, but never in sufficient degree to c-gnstitue the close-thinker and full minded scholar. But the judicious union of both processes would, probably, correct the evils of each, and confer readiness and soundness of thought, with precision and truthfulness of expression. A teacher of the class of mere book definors tells a pupil to write down the definition of every word in this sentence: " I purchased an arithmetic." Either from his own memorized store or from the dictionary he writes: " I— the persona/ pronoun u-hich denotes the speaker or wri ter ; an — one of an indefinite kind ; arith metic—the science of computing numbers by figures." Now this si all regular and scientific definition; but it is a regular mess for all that. A teacher of the anti-definition class gives the same sentence to one of his pu pils, with this result:."l— you" (point ing to the teacher ;) " purchased—bought; an — a; Arithmetic— ciphering look." This, at first sight, seems better, but it is not really explanation; it is little more than the expression of the same idea in synonymes. Now let the pupil who has been accus tomed not only to study every shade of meaning of each word but to give it the exact meaning required by the context, explain the sentence, and probably he would say : I— the person who speaks; purchased— obtained by paying its price ; an— one; arithmetic— book for instruc tion in the science of number." Here would be manifest a power of discrimina tion. only deducible from a knowledge of book definitions and rendered practical and useful by constant off-hand explanation. Definitions, strictly so called, are oftwo kinds, l.of scientific terms, and 2, of com mon words. The first ought not only to be closely 1 studied but committed verbatim to memo- | ry. They are not merely general explan- i ations of terms : they arc a statement, in the shortest yet most full and accurate form possible, of the nature, use and extent of the defined term, 'as contra-distinguished from all other terms. Hence while every word made use of is significant and ne cessary to the completion of the idea, it also follows, from the very closeness and brevity of the definition, that many of the terms used also themselves require ex piation to the unlearned. We should like here to exemplify what is conceived to be a proper mode of explaining and impressing upon the mind a definition of this class, but have not space. The other kind—definitions, as they are called, of common words—might bejiiade an interesting as well as most useful part of school exercise. It is admitted that the mere repetition of a dozen or a score of words, with all the various meanings of each, is dull work, and generally as un profitable as it is dull. But suppose that each pupil, after or during this repetition, is made to compose, off-hand, a number of simple sentences equal to the number of the meanings of each word, each sen tence presenting the word in a different shade of its meaning, thus: The work RELATION means, I. the act of telling ; 2. connection between things ; 3. a person connected by consanguinity or affinity, dr. After spelling the word and repeating all its meanings, the pupil then manifests his knowledge of those mean ings or various uses of the word, by com posing such sentences as these: 1. John gnve us a relation of his ad ventures during the hoi yd ays. 2. The teacher gave us his viows in re lation to good behaviour. 3. John and James are relations , for they are cousins. Here we think is an exercise stimula tive of interest, of invention, of expres sion—in a word—of mind. It eould not but impart that power of discrimination and selection, which after all. is the great object of the study of words; while it would compel the learner to think of as well as memorize the meanings of the word while committing them. This mode has never been seen in operation, but great confidence is felt in its efficiency. The off-hand practice of explanation, exacted by many teachers, is very valua ble, even by itself; but when conjoined with the more severe and regular study of definitions, its utility is vastly increased. By this union the mind will be made to cease guessing, and will attain, in place ol its own crude and distrusted conclusions, a fullness of knowledge, a precision of ar rangement and a readiness of resource, which, while it is self-satisfying, will also be safe and useful to others. Eighteen Sixty-Three. The year, which has just closed, has been very rich in the materials of history. It has produced us several of the most im portant victories of' the war. The cloud, which at the beginning of the year seemed so blijek and lowering, is now almost cov ered over with the silver lining of the sunshine of peace. Everywhere, almost, our armies have been victorious. The rebellion, which at first extended over nearly half of the territory of the Union, has been driven back into the interior of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Our victories have been important and decisive—our soldiers have nobly done their duty. We point with pride to the great contest at Murfrecsboro', Vieksburg. Morris Island, (iettysburg, Port Hudson, Chattanooga and Knoxville—all of which occurred in the Union. At Murfrecsboro', after several days' hard fighting, the great army of liragg was defeated by Rosecrans. At Yicksburg, the army under Grant, after months of labor and heroic suffer ing and danger, compelled the surrender of that stronghold, with iiO generals, 80,- 000 prisoners, 125 guns, ammunition, &e. At Gettysburg, after three days of bat tle, the Army of the Potomac defeated the invading army of Gen.Xee, and drove it back again into Virginia. On the Bth of July, Port Hudson, the only point on the Mississippi river held by the Rebels, surrendered to General Banks, witn ti,ooo prisoners and 50 can non. This capture opened the Mississip pi River to the commerce of the country. On the 7th of September, the forces under General Gilmorc captured Forts Wagner and Gregg, on Morris Island, in Charleston Harbor. During the last flvcor six days of Nov. continuous battles took place between the armies of Generals Grant and Bragg,near Chattanooga, which resulted in the com plete rout and demoralization of the ene my, and the capture of sixty cannon and thousands of prisoners. After a siege of some duration and a ternhle repulse of his attack upon our fortifications, General Langstrcet wasedtn pclled to fall back from Knoxville. By this forced retreat the fate of East Ten nessee was cast for the Union. Everywhere, as we have said, our arms have been victorious. The blockade is at length acknowledged to bo efficient. Our armies are invincible, and this year will be crowned with the restoration of peace, peace under the Fnion and the Constitu tion.—ilcrcer Whig. CIVILITY IS A FORTUNE. —Civility is a fortune itself, for a courteous matt al ways succeeds well in life, ami that even when persons o£_ability sometimes fail. The famous Duke of Marlborough is a case in point. It was said of him by one contemporary, that his agreeable manner often converted an enemy into a friend, and, by another, that it was more pleasing to be denied a favor by his Grace, than to receive one from other men. The gra cious manner of Charles James Fox pre served him from personal dislike even at a time when he was politically the most unpopular man in the kingdom. The his tory of the country is full of such exam ples of success obtained by civility. The experience of every man furnishes, if we but recall the past, frequent instances, where conciliatory manners have made the fortunes of physicians, lawyers, divines, politicians, merchants, and indeed individ uals of all pursuits. In being introduced to a stranger, his affability, or the reverse, creates instantaneously a preposession in his behalf, or awakens unconsciously a prejudice against him. To men, civility is in fact what beauty is to waman ; it is a general passport to favor; a letter of re commendation, written in lauguage that every stranger understands. The best of men have often injured themselves by ir ritability and consequent rudeness, as the greatest scoundrels have frequently suc ceeded by their plausible manners. Of two men, equal in all other respects, the courteous one has twice the chance for for tune. fiSP There is a spectacle grander than the sea—it is the sky; there is a spectacle grander than the sky—it is the interior of the soul. It is not proper for yon to play school my dear, today, for it's Sunday." " I know it, mother, but it's Sunday school I'm playing." fbtigfotM Jlqiavtmcnt. THE GUINEA CAPTAIN. Lira there a s&vage, ruder than the slave? Cruel a* death, insatiate M thegraYe, False as the winds that round bis vessel Mow, Remorseless a* the gulf that ynwns below. Ia be who toil* upon the wafting flood, A Christian broker in the trade of blood! BoUteroti* in speech, in notion prompt anil bold, • He buys, he tflit, he steals, he falls for GOLD. At noon, when sky and ocean, culm nod clear. Bend rouuu hi* bark, one blue, unbroken sphere; When dancing dolphins sparkit- through the brine, And sunbeam circles o'er the waters shine; He sees no beauty in the Heaven serene. No soul-enchanting sweetness in the scene— Put, darkly scowling at the glorious day, Curses the wiuAs that loiter on their way. When swollen with hurricanes, the billows rise, To meet the lightning midway from the skies; When, from th<- bnrden'd held,bis shrieking cluves Are cast at midnight, to the hungry waves— Not f<r his victims, strangled in the deeps, Not f»r his crimes, the bnrden'd Pirate weeps; lbit grimly smiling when the storm is o'er, Counts his surenains, and hurries back for MORE. The Social Hazards of a Sinful Life. A little more than n centuary ago a young man named William Dmhl, grad uated with eclat at Cambridge Universi ty, England. Iking the son of a clergy man. he had enjoyed the benefits of early religious training. Having the advanta ges of a fine person, a superior mind, a thorough education, and good family con nections, his life prospects were as bright and promising as those of any young man in his class. Who could have predicted that such a fair beginning would lie suc ceeded by on ignoble end ? Yet so it was. For a time this young man's path was sunlit, and bis hopes bloomed out into beautiful successes. Having entered the university, he soon became singularly pop ular. llii fine phis'que, charming voice, elegant manners, and eloquent utterances, led adiyiring thousands to throng bis church. Nobles, wits, and high-born la dies heard him with delight, and tilled bis ears with their flatteries. Preferments followed in the wake of popularity. Lcc turships, college titles, a prebend's stall, a royal chaplaincy, a vicarage, and the tu torship of the young Karl of Chesterfield, were given him. The highest honors of his exalted profession bung like ripening fruit within his grasp. Alas, for this favored child of Provi dence ! His priestly robes concealed a worldling's heart. An insane passion for the society of the wealthier, the titled, and tho nobly born, burne<Hike a consum ing flame in his breast. lie yielded him self to its impulses, and it beguiled liini into a style of living, the expenses of which preyed like locusts on his income, and made him poor in the midst of plenty. Reason pleaded and conscience protested against this passion in vain. It was bis Calypso. Syren-like, it fascinated him, and drew hi in further from the line of du ty, until it bound him in heavy elm nsof impracticable debts. Then came a hope less struggle for freedom, which ended only with his utter ruin. Still listening to the voices of his passion, he tried to break his chains with the hammer of crime. First he sought to win tho gift of a rich rectory by offering a bribe to tho lady of the lord chancellor, lie was repelled with merited scorn, and scourged by the popu lar tongue into disgraceful privacy. Would that this stern rebuke had been heeded, lint it was not. Ilis passion lived. His debts were still unpaid. Then his evil genius triumphed, and in a sad, sad moment, lie forged a bond for over twenty-six thousand dollars ! The" deed was discovered, lie was tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and twenty-six years after his graduation at Cambridge, tho eloquent and popular William Dodd, 1) P., L.L, 1)., expiated his crime on the fel on's scaffold. In this unhappy man behold the type of a class of persons which may be count ed by thousands, as they throng the high ways and byways of society. They may be found in prisons, in alms-houses, in cel lars and garrets, in dens of shame, in haunts of poverty, and in the hiding-pla ces of crime. .Like Dr. Dodd, multitudes of them once stood on no despicable moral and so cial height. The probabilities of a rep utable, virtuous, and prosperous career, were in their case fully equal to those of the average of unrenewed men and wo men. The great social wheel which, in its endless revolutions, is continually re versing the positions of men. seemed more likely to carry them up than to cast them down to the dust. But like Dr. Dodd. instead of seeking their supreme good in their Creator, they sought it in the crea ture. As he chose to feed on the foam of human praise, and to regard the circles of fashionable life as his soul's perishable de light and to find their paradise in the pres ent. Hence like the unhappy Dodd,having separated themselves from their Creator, they became the victims of their own lusts. Their own desires growing impe rious, led them with an imperial arm down to the depths of sorrow, poverty, shame, and crime. "What has all this to do with me?" in quires my reader. You might as wisely ask what the soldier has to do with the clarion's voice ? What the mariner with the bell which utters its solemn warning as it sways over the sunken rock ? Has not the history of Dr. Dodd, and the class of ruined ones ho represents, a clarion voice, a bell's note of alarm for you ? Have you not entered the fatal door by which they passsd into the house of shame and sorrow ? Arc you not like them, seeking your supreme good, not in God, but in the creature? Are you not then liable to share their destiny ? I speak not now of the final loss of your immortal soul, but of the liabilities of your life this side of the tomb. My question js this: you have chosen the world to be your chief good—- ■ your God; are you not, therefore, in dan ger, of falling into the same category with 1 Dr. Dodd and his class, and of ending your life in shame, sorrow, poverty, or crime ? Painfully as tho thought may ' strike you, I affirm that such a destiny threatens you. If yawns, like a fearful chasm, in the path you have entered. I do not assert that you will certainly stum ble into it if you refuse to become a clirist ian, because the restraining grace of God, and the grace of favoring circumstances, may save you. What I affirm is, your lia bility as a worldling to pluck down ruin upon your head, andmakea sad, sad fail ure of your life on this side of the grave. \mi do not believe it ? I presume not. Voting sinners are not easily convinced, because (hey do not nee their danger.— They walk on enchanted ground. They "are in tho "way which," as the All-know ing One describes it, " geeineth light unto a man," though at the " end thereof are the ways of death." Would that 1 could disenchant thee, my beloved reader. When Sisera,the Canannite warrior, fled defeated before the sword of Barak, he sought a hiding place in ihe tent of JAF.L. That subtle lady welcomed him with smiles, and bade him rest in quiet under her protection. Confiding under her friendly professions, the weary soldier, " asked water and she gave him milk ; she brought forttl butter in a lordly dish." He ate and drank, and then sought refugefroui the pangs of defeat in sleep. Then Jael " put her band to the nail and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote ofT bis head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. Alas, poor Sisera ? The smite.of Jael was more fatal to him than the steal of bis foes ; and alas for thee too, young world ling! for although the goddess of sinful pleasure, like Jael, smiles on thee and brings the "butter in a lordly dish," yet she carries the hammer and the nail be neath her vestments; and when thy con science is fast locked in tho slumber of fol ly, she will smitethee adcadlyblow, which will leavethce rolling in the dust of shame, or plunge thee into the gloom of death. To 1.0 continued. The Arms-Bearing Population. The proportion which the losses bear to tho gains in the population subject to serve in tho army, is a difficult question to settle, though an important one. Su perintendent Kennedy has been making some computations, based upon the census of IKOO, and tho statistics of immigration for the purpose of approximating towards a solution. The population between eighteen and forty-five years in the whole country in 1800, according to the census, was 5,024,005. Upon this basis it is es timated that during the year 1801 about 277,500 male whites reached and passed the ngo of eighteen, 128,000 arrived at and passed the ago of forty-five, leaving a difference of 148,'J00 entering upon the military age. The deaths, from natural causes, of the military class of tho population, would amount to 57,000 during the year, leaving the annual home increaseo1,1)00. To this add the gain from immigration in the year 1801—the proportion of arms-bearing populatiou, which was 31,000, and the to tal increase of arms-bearing population of the country is 123,400. This is the in crease in a state of peace, to which must be added the losses in war. This is com j puted at 02,000 for deaths in the service, j and 31,000 for disability and deaths af ! ter service, so that, the total incrcse about j makes up the losses. As the gain from immigration is about one fourth of the i losses in the whole population, the loyal | States have a greater proportion of ij ; crease than the rebellious ones, for the im migration is entirely on their side. A Significant Confession. The Courier de* Etat* L itis, the French paper of. New York, a paper that has been | from the beginning in its : sympathy with the rebels, is compelled to ! confess that the Confederate cause is in a bad way. The odds of battle, it admits | with tears in its eyes, "is in favor of the ; North." Chancellorsville and the first j day of Chicamauga are the only notable ! reverses sustained by our arms, while we ; can"proudly point to the substantial vic : tories of Gettysburg. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Chattanooga. "The victories of the South," it adds, "have been, moreover, sterile and so to speak, negative; those of the North have | secured precious conquests—the naviga- I tion of the Mississippi, the conquest of ; nearly the whole of Arkansas, the princi- I pal portion of Eastern Tennessee, and, j lastly, the gaining of a foothold on the | shores of Texas. With the exception of Galveston, retaken at the commencement : of the year, secession has continually lost ground without regainingany in any quar ; ter." This confession is the more significant from the fact that the Courier has hither to been sanguine in the belief that the South would conquer. Stir " There' s sweet music in dreams," said an old gentleman. " Yes, there may be," said his wife; " but I hear nothing of it, except a snore." .» SSjfTho purpose of an unmarried wo -1 man is generally like herself—single. IJIPORTAXT XOTK'KS. U. S. 5-20>S. ftltlE Secretary of the Treasury has not yet given no- L tire of miv Intentlou to withdraw his oopular Loan from Sale ut Par. nnd, until ten day** notice In given, the undersigned, u "General Bupscrlptlou Agent, will con tinue to supply the public. TliQ whole amount of tbx Loan authorised In Five Hun dred Million* of Dollar*. Nearly Four Hundred Millions I have been alreiwly «übscrlbod f.ir and paid Into the Treas ury mostly within the last seven months. The largo de rffnud from abroad, and the rapidly Increasing hotue dei mand fur use as the basis for circulation by National Bank- | ing Associations now organizing in all parts of the coun- i try, will, In a very short period, absorb the balance.— | R:d« hove lately i anged from ten to fifteen millions week ly, frequently exceeding three million* dally, and as It is will known that the Secretary of the Treasury has ample and unfailing resources In tho Duties on Imp«»rts and in ternal Revenue, and In the Issue of the Interest-bearing Legal Tender Treasury Noted, It Is almost a certainty that he will not Hud It necessary, fur a long time to come, to , neek a market for any other long or permanent loan*, tin- ] Interest and Principal of which are payable ill tJold. Prudence ami self-interest must force the minds of those contemplating the formation of National Hanking Asso ciation*. as well iw the minds of all who have Idle tfioney 011 their hands, to the prompt conclusion that the}' should lose no time In subscribing to this m«»st popular Loan. It Will soon be beyond their reach, and advance to a hand some premium, as w «« the result with the "Seven Thirty" Loan, when it was all sold and could no longer be subscri bed for at par. It is a Six per Cent. Loan, the Interest and Principle payable in Coin, thus yielding orer Nine per Cent, per an- 1 mini at the present rate of premium on coin. The Government requires all duties on imports to be paid in Coin. These duties have, for a long time past, amounted t . over a quarter of >. Million of Dollars daily, a sum nearly three times greater than that required in the payment of tho Interest on all the ft-20'n nnd other per manent loans. So it Is hoped that the Surplus Coin In the Treasury, at no distant day, will enable the Cnited States to resume specie payments upon all liabilities. The loans is called 5-20 from tho fart that, whilst tho Ponds may run for 20 years, yet the Government has a right to pay them ofTlu Gold, at par, at any time after ft The Interest Is paid half-yearly, via: on the first days of November mid May. Subscribers can have Coupon Bonds, which are payable to bearer, and are S6O. SIOO, S6OO, and SIOOO •,or HegMered Bonds of Hame drnomiuatlM-. und in addition, $5,00u and SIO,OOO. For Hanking purposes nnd fur Investments of Trust-monies the Registered Bonds are preferable. These 6-20's cannot be taxed by States, cities, towns, or counties, and the Government tax on them is only one half per cent, on the amount of income, when the income c.f holder exceeds Six Hundred Dollars per annum. 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QTJI ET TOWN of nUTLKTI. , rpiH K undersigned, at X -r-^*| the earnest sollcl- I SH"ES ' . comfort and enjoyment 'ck, "' n about" miller .ft* "-g/V county and elsewhere. In "pursuance < 112 his oppolntment," he left Butler, and during the "rainy sea son," was busily engaged, toiling, taxingevery point of the 1 i max* to order to ncotunplish the ofcject of nit itlntoi I lie has the satisfaction of reporting himself <>nce more at home, accompanied with some of tno tallest specimens of I articles in his line of business, that was ever concentrated I at any point in Butler county, or any where else in this decidedly great country. All he o«ks in return, of his fellow citizens, for his arduous labors, is simply that they will give him a call, and examine foi themselves, his fine stock of Tobacco, Snuff and Cigars. Though republics are generally ungrateful, and tho peo ple. though "sovereigns," are not always exactly in the right track, yet he feels a kind of confidence in them that they will not hesitate to pronounce Judgment in his favor, when they shall have "investigated" his stock. In order to make an intelligent report. It will be necessary for all | interested in tho "use and abuse" of Tobacco, in all its va rieties, to call and try for themselves. Tho committee begs leave to be discharged from further consideration of this subject. GEOIIGE VOGELEY, Jr. ) Dec. y. 1863: :3mo. R. C. SHARP, DEALER I* FRUIT & ORNAMENTAL TREES. fjfc IS now prepared to fill orders for the Spring H| planting on terms with Which no other SWk Fruit Agent can compete foi P FRESHNESS, ' SIZE AND # SYMMETRY His trees will stand tho test with those of the tittt Nur- I *sn'« in the I'nlou. * j He engages to deliver them in proper season, and in GOO I> O It r> ER. All that Is necessary to ensure them to grow thriftily, and j bear abundantly in a few seasons is PROPER PIiAWTIIfO. ! Within the past two years, he has sold in this county THOUSANDS OF TRJCES of every description; nearly . all of which are now in a thriving condition, j Some of his Dwarf Apples and Pears wero this year ! LOADED WITHLUOIOUSFRUIT. j It costs but little to start a new orchard, while in a few ; year* it is the. most profitable spot on the larm. It will ! pay to cut off the old orchards of common fruit, and re flare them with choice selections from the Nursery.— n a few years after, as the farmer looks upon his thrifty : trees,burdened down with blushing fruit, apples aalarge a* Tin Cups. : he will say to himself with a self satbmed expression of 1 countenance, "I've,made one good investment In my life, ! any how." ! For particulars, address, R. C. SHARP, Bntler, Pa. The following well known gentlemen, have kindly per | mit ted him to refer to them, as to his reliability an well as the quality of the trees : I .lodge Stephenson, Centrerllle: John T. Bard. Centre i ville;John Pisor.Wortt tp.: John Bingham, Sllpperyrock; I Wiu. MVafferty. Falrvlew tp.; Wm. Megary, Fairview tp; Ab'm. Zeiglcr, Henry F. Muntx Harmony: Col. A. Lowry, E. M'Junkin.Cap. Jacob Zeigler. I. J. Cuuiming*. Butler; I John Green, John M'Creay, Coylsville, Henry Buhl, For !ward township. Dec. 23, 3*.:m. NEW DRY GOODS. W. H. sfc A. G. BOYD, i rrais firm is pursuing its accustomed plan of do 1. business. They are receiving New Goods almost ! every week, and are now filling up with a large Stock of J New Goods of all kinds. We invite the public generally j to call and examine th«»ftr!Ves. No trouble to show | good,. der- !* OTICKN. i'RRIOniCAIi XOiK IX. Term* rediieetl to Old I'rlct's I GODEY'S In BOOK ~ For 1864. Great Literary and Year I Tli«' nublUber of Godey's Lady's *B(Nik, thankfril to that public which has enabled him to publish a magazine for the last thirijt-fnur years of a larger circulation than any In America, has made an arrangement with the most popular authoress in this countrv— MAIUON HARLAND, Authoress of "Alone," "Hidden Path," "Most Side" " y'einttit,' and " Miriam,' who will furnish stories for the Lady's B«»ok fhr lfiftt This alone will place tho Lady's Boo'k In a literary point of view fir nheod of any other magazine. Marion Har lanit writes fc»r no other magazine Our other favorite writers will all continue to famish articles throughout the year. Tin-; BEST Lady's Magazine in the World, and the Cheapest. THE LITER A TCFE is of that kind that can bo read aloud in tho family circle, and the clergy lu immense numbers are subscibers for tho Book. Tit F MUWQ i« all original, and would cost 26 cents (the price of the Book) in the music storos; but most of it Is copyrighted, and cannot be obtained except In u Godey." Ol'H STEEL EyOBA VIJVGS. All efforts to rival 41s > have ceased, and we now stand alone In this department, giving, as we do. many more and infiutetv better engravings lhan are published lu any other work. GODEY'S IMMENSE DOUBLE SHEET FASHION TLA TES. COKTAINISO From Jlvt to seven full length (blored fbsht'ons on each Other mnfiasints give only two. FAR AHEAD OF ANY FASHIONS IN EUROPE OR AMERICA. THE PUBLICATION OF THERE PLATES COST mio.ooo mo it r. than Fashion-plates of the old stylo, and nothing but our wonderfully large circulation enables us to give thorn.— Other magazines cannot afford It. We never spare mon ey when the public can be benefited. Them- fashions may be relied on. Dresses may bo mado after them, and the wearer will not subject herdelf to rid icule, a* would be the case If she visited tho large cities dressed after tho stylo of the plates given In somen of our so-called fashion mapszlnes. Of ft WOOD ENGRAVINGS, of which we give twice or three times as many as any other magazine, are often mistaken for steel. They are so far supertoi t" anv others. / MIT A TIONS. Beware of them. Hsmomber that the Lady's Book is the origins! publication and tho cheapest. If you tako Oodey. you want no other magazine. Evefvthlng that is useful or ornamental in a house can br found in Godev. Hit A WING LESSONS. No other mn» i/.ine gives them, and we haven enough to fill several large volumes. Of It RECEIPTS are such as can be found nowhere else. Cooking In all Its variety—Confectionery—the Nursery—the Toilet—the Laundry—the Kitchen. Receipts upon all subjects are to hi- found inthepagos of the Lady's Book. We originally started this department, and have peculiar facilities for making it mo«t perfect. This department alone is worth the price of the Book. LA PIES- WORK TABLE. This deparmeut comprises enirravtugs and descriptions of every article that a lady wears. MO UK I, (OTTAOES. No other magazine has this department. TKKMN, € ASH I \ AOV WC I]. TO ANY POST-OFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES. One copy one year. Two copies one year. $6. Three copies one year, Four copies one year, 17. Five copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, *lO. Eight copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club. fl.t. Eleven copies one year, snd sn e*tra copy to the person sending the club, #*>. And the only magazine that can be Introduced Into the above clubs in place of the Lndy's Dts.k is Arthur's Home ' Magazine. SPECIAL Cf.t7Rftl*fl WITH OTfIRR MAO^ZINSS. Gorley's Lady's It'K.k and Arthur's Home Magazine both one year fur ?3,fto. Godey's Ladv's B<>okand Harper's Magazine both one yoar for f4.SO. Oodey, Harper, and Arthur will all three be sent one ve.ir.on receipt of#fl.rs». Treasury Notes and Notes on all solvent banks taken nt par. Be csreful ami pay the postago on your letter. Address L, A. GODEY, :vx\ (he ah ut Street, l'hilad/1 phlu, fk. GERMANTOWN TELEGRAPH. A Family and Agricultural Journal, DEVOTED TO moid: ijtkrati KI; INCLUDING I'oel t'y, NovelfttoH, Tnlc-H, AND MORAL AND ENTERTAINING READING GENERALLY. In thr Literary Department wo shall present the choi cest varieties within the reach of our extended means. The Novelettes, Tales, poetry. 4c.. shall bo supplied from best and highest sources, and be equal to anything to bo found In any Journal or magazine. AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE KMBItACING FARMING, GARDENING, FRUIT-RAISING, Ac, In all their branches, as conducted on tho latest and most np|ir.»ei! Our labors In this department for over thirty years, have met the cordial nppiobation of the public. Our purpose has been to furnish useful and reliable informa tion upon the,e very important branches of induKtrj-, ! and to protect them *» far as within our power against I the fahe doctrines and selfish purposes of the many em ! j pires and sensation adventures by which the Farmer is I incessantly assailed. This portion of the Gkkmantowx , | Tkm.mmph wiil al >ne he worth the whole price of sub ; scription, as every Farmer and Gardner, who has a prop \ per conception of his calling, will readily admit. \i:«S IIEPA IlT.tl K\T. r | The same industry, care, and discrimination, in gath -1 erlng and preparing the Stirring Events of the Day, ex ' pressly for this paper, which hitherto haa been one of ' j its marked feature* and given so universal satisfaction, I will be continued with redoubled efforts to meet the In ' I creasing demands of the putdic. The labor required in this department is never fully appreciated by tho reader. It would be imp<>flsihlc to present, In the condensed and I carefully made up f.rm in which It appears, a corrected | | mass of all the most Interesting news of the week, with ( I out involving much physical labor, tact and judgment. ! | We annex the cash terms, to which we beg leave to I i call the attention of all who think of biibscribing for a newspaper: j ADVANCE CASH TERMS. 112 One Copy, One Year 12.00 One Cony, Three Years 6,00 Three Copies. One Year. ft.oo Fire Copies, One Year, 8,00 Ten Copies, One Year 15,00 Subcrlptlons not paid within the year. $2.60. 9A Club of flve subscribers, at SH. * ill entitle tho person getting It up to a copy for six months; a Club of , t*n or more, to a copy for one year. All Club subscrlp , | tions stopped at tbc end of the time paid for, unless ro ordrrod. 5 I Hi- No order will receive attention unless accompa r I nicd with the cash. Uh' Specimen numbers sent to applicants. PHILIP R. FREAS, Editor and Proprietor. Arthur's Home Magazine * For 18U4. Edited by 1 T. S. ARTHUR ANO VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND. VOLCMES XXIII. A*D XXIV. The HOME MAGAZINE for IM4 will be conducted lt> the same spirit that has distinguished it from the com p meaceroent; and continue to unite in ope peri«siical the y attractions and excellencies of both the Ladien*. or Fssh i<»n as they are called, and the graver literary monthlies. Our arrangements for lwtt include. THREE ORIGINAL HERIAL STORIES, written ex pressly for the Home Magsuine one of these will be by 1 Miss Virginia F. Townee ml, and commence in the Janu * • sry nnml»er. An«»ther will be by T. 8. ARTHUR. And 1 the third from the pen of MRS. M. A. DENISON, a wri *• ter who has long been a fhvorite with the public. - Besides these,OUß LARGE CORPS OF TALENTED y ! WRITERS will continue to enrich the Home Magazine * I with shorter poems, essays, and sketchf* <»f life ' and character, written with the aim of blending literary I exccfenco with the higher teachings of morality and ro- I ligion. 112 ELEG A NT UNO R A VINGS appear in every number, in s, eluding choice pictures, groups and charact<!rs, prevailing j fa«liions. and a large variety of patterns for garment*, i- ! embroidery, etc. etc PREMIUMS FORGETTING UP CLUBS—Our Premi l um Plate* for lH64are large and beautiful Photographs of • EVANGELINE" and THE MITHERUESS BAIRN." I TERMS— S2 a year in advance Two copies for 13. Threw for f4. Four for $5. Eight, and one extra «-opy to getter 'up of club. $ 10. Twelve and one extra, sls. Seventeen, snd one extra, S2O. PREMIUM—one to every $2 sub j serf hers; and one to getter-up of $3, #4. s.*> or $lO club. — ; Both premiums sent to getter-up of sls «nd S2O clubs. Msf In ordering premiums send three red stamps, to pre-pay pontage on same. Address, R. S. ARTHUR t CO., 323 Walnut St. Philadelphia. Mtray Cattle. CIA MB to the rwiileoce mb«crib«r In Cliorry , townnblp. In the month of Jnno lort, »our bead of cattle, one year oM l«t »pfln fc Jwgttjd » follow. ■ One Black an<l White Ball, one Ilrlndle Heifer one Ke.l t Heifer one nwk«l H-ifer. do other p«rcei»able 112 The owner la request.*! to come forwartl pn.Te property , v nav charges and take them away, otherwise they will be v I dispos^oPsccording to law HUGH SPROUL j Jan. fc::3t.
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