VOLUME 2.
Seventh Annual Fair
OF TIIK
Butler County Agricultural Society,
To in BI TI.K.K, on
The 4th and sth of October '65
The Kntry Books will be opened on the
18tli day of September, and continue
open until the 4th day of October, at 1
o'clock, p. in., at which time they will
positively be closed.
Admission to the Grounds.
Ad-eusfricm to the Grounds to be as
follows, to wit:
Nrnlicnblpiiiut Competitors for pre
mium« 1 9'*
SlnClr *•»
c'iilldre* under IO year* old lO
i>Ki;niin LIST.
OLA SS A.— drain 6'lover, tfv.
Best 2 acres or more of white wheat 84 00
Second best u " " 200
best 3 acres or more of red wheat", 200
second best " " " 1 00
best 2 acres or more of medt. wheat, 2 00
second best " " " 100
best 2 acres or inorc of rye 2 00
second best 1 00
best 2 acres or more of corn, 2 00
seeond " " " 100
l)cst 2 acres or more of oats, 2 00
second best " " 1 00
best 2 acres or more of barley 2 00
second best " " 1 00
best 2 acres or more of buckwheat, • 2 01)
second i>est " " " 1 00
best 2 acres or more of hay 2 00
second best " '• " I 00
best 2 acres or more of clover*. 2 00
second best " " " 1 00
best J acres of potatoes, 2 00
second best " 1 Oil
best J acre of broom corn, 1 00
host } acio of flaxseed, 2 00
best J acre of beans, 1 00
best .1 acre of onions, 1 00
Milton Maxwell, Centre Tp., Henry
Buhl, For word, Tp.. Abncr Hartley I'enn.
The following are the rules under which
competitors for premiums in the above
class must be governed :
Ist. To havo the grounds accurately
measured by not less than two disinteres
ted persons, whoso statements must be
verified by affidavit. A statement of the
kind and condition of the soil, the variety
and quality of the seed planted or sown,
and the mode and expense of cultivation
must be presontod in writing before a pre
mium will be awarded.
2d. The whole amount of roots, grain
or grass produced on the amount of land
specified, must bo measured or weighed;
root crops divested of their tops and esti
mated by their weight—sixty pounds to
Tie considered a bushel—and grain crops
to be weighed or measured according to
the usual standard.
CLASS JS —Seeth, Vegetables, Fruit*
and F ! ')i errs.
Host bushel of white wheat, SI 00
second best " " 50
best bushel of red wheat, 1 00
second host " " 50
best bushel of mediterranean wheat, 1 00
second best " " 50
best bushel of corn in the car, 50
best bushel of oats, • 50
best.bushel of buckwheat, 50
best bushel of barley, 50
best bushel of flaxseed", 50
best bushel of timothy seed, 50
best bushel of kohl rabbi, 50
best bushel of stowe 11 evergreen, 50
best bushel of castor beans 50
bost bushel of sow beans, 50
best bushel of millet seed, 50
best bushel of hungarian grass seed, 50
best bushel of potatoes, 50
best bushel of onions, 50
bost bushel of turnips, 50
best bushel of rutabaga turnips, 50
best bushel of tomatoes, 50
best bushel of parsnips." 50
bost bushel of carrots, 50
best bushel of beets, 50
bost bushel of sweet potatoes, 50
best bushel of summer apples. 50
best bushel of blue stem wheat 1 00
best bushel of winter apples, 50
best bushel of pears, 50
best bushel of apples of any kind, 50
best bushel of peaches, 50
best bushel of quinces, 50
best half dozen of cabbage hvads. 50
best half dozen of common pumkins, 50
best half dozen sweet '• 50
bst half dizen of squashes, 50
best specimen of grapes. 50
dest display, varioty and quality of
flowers, 1 00
best floral display of liviug plants, 100
best floral ornaments, 50
best pair of boquats, 50
best aranged basket of flowers, 50
best display of cucumbers, 50
best display of radishes, 50
best display and greatest varioty of
apples, 1 00
best water mellons, 50
best musk " 50
best citrons 50
Hon. Thomas Stevenson, Slipperyrock.
Jas. Mitchell, Summit, Jas. Norris Clin
ton.
CLASS C—Stallions, Ttrotters d'c.
Best blooded bullion over 4 yr's sls 00
2d best " •' " 10 00
bost " " 3 yoars 5 00
2d best '' " 2 00
best " " 2 years 800
best common " " 1 50
best " " 4 years 5 00.
best " " 3 years 300
bost li " 2 years 200
beat draught " 4 years 500
2d best " " " 2 00
beat trotting stallion of any age, 4 00
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
best racking or pacing stallion uf any
age 4 00
best and fastest trotting horse or
mare. 4 00
second " " " 2 00.
best find fastest rack tig or pacing
htrse or inare, 10 00
second best " " 5 00
J>. R. Kennedy, Muddyercok, Thomas
Moore Slipperyrock, Lewis Reed Zclieuo
plc.
t 'las* !>■ —Il'jri'-s Mures Colts <C- Mules.
Best pair heavy daangh horses or •
mares, 85 00
2d best " " t " 200
best pair light draught horses or
mares, 4 00
2d best " " 2. 00
best pair matchod carriage horses or
in ares 4 00
2d best « « • 200
best pair matched carriage mules, 800
best single buggy horse or mare, 200
2d best '■ " " 1 «»0
best saddle horse or mare, 2 00
2d best " " " 1 00
best brood mare with colt, 5 00
2d best " " " 2 00
best gelding, 4 00
2d best " " 2 00
best three year old horse, 5 "0
2d best " " 300
best three year old marc 5 00
best horse colt 2 years old . 4 00
2d best " " 2 00
best horse colt 1 year old, IS 00
2d best " 2 00
best horse colt, (spring,)
best marocolt 2 years old, 4 Oil
2d best " " 2 <>U
best mare colt 1 year old, 15 (til
2d best " "
best mare colt, spring, 2 00
best jack 2 00
2d best 2 00
best ?cnnet, 2 00
2,1 best " 1 00
best pair of mules over 3 years old, 8 00
2d best " 1 "0
best mule colt, spring, 1 00
John K. Kennedy, l'rospect, John
IWthett, Pcnn, Henry Kohlmayer.
Class I'—Blooded and Grade Cuttle.
Best durhain hull 3 years old, 5?5 00
2d best " " 3 00
best dut'ham bull 2 years old, 4 00
2il best. " '• 2 00
best durham bull 1 yoarold, 8 00
2d b st " " 2 00
best durham bull calf, 2 <lO
2d best " « 1 00
best durham cow 3 years old, 5 00
2d best " " 3 00
best durham cow 2 years old, 4 00
2d best " " 2 00
best durham cow 1 yoai old, 300
2d best " " 2 00
best durham heifer calf, 2 00
2d " « 1 00
('oulter McCandloss, Ccntro, William
Lindsey, Summit, Win. S. Boyd, Butler.
Class F.—Xatire cattle (C' working oxen.
Best native bull 3 years old, 8 00
2d best " '< 2 00
best native bull 2 years old, 2 50
2d best •' " 1 50
best native bull 1 year old, 2 00
2d best " " 1 00
best native bull cailf, 1 00
best native now 3 years old, 3 oO
2d best, " " 2 0
best native cow 2 years old, 2 00
2d bost " " ' 1 00
best native cow 1 year old, 1 50
2d best » » 100
best native heifer calf, ] 00
best yoke of oxen 4 years old, 4 00
2d best " " 2 00
best yoke of oxen 3 yoars old, 3 00
2d best " " 1 50
bast yoke of oxen 2 years old, 2 00
2d best « 1 00
lujgest and best train of oxen, over I
years old, from any ono town
ship, not less than 12 pairs
hitched, 15 00
Samuel Marshal Adams, Thos. Mc-
Nces,Worth ; llobcrt Gilleland, Summit.
Class G.—Slurp and Wiiol.
Best Spanish merino buck, So 00
2d best " " " 2 00
best saxon buck, 3 00
2d best" " " 1 50
best i'rench merino buck, 8 00
2d best" " " 1 50
best leicestor buck, 2 0(1
bost southdown buck, 2 00
best common buck, 2 00
best 3 Spanish merino owes, 5 00
best 3 saxon ewes, 3 00
Id best" " " 1 50
2d best " " " 2 O0
best 3 fretich merino ewes, 3 00
2d best" 1 50
bost 3 leieester ewes, 2 00
best 3 southdown ewes, 2 00
best 3 common ewes, 2 00
best 3 spanLsh buck lambs, 5 00
best 3 saxon buck lauibs, 2 00
best S french buck lambs, 2 00
best 3 Spanish owe lauibs, 5 00
best 3 saxon ewe lambs, 2 00
"best 3 freneh ewe lauibs, 2 00
best 8 fleeces of wool, 1 00
S. G. Meals, Washington ; 1) Marshall
Prospect; J>aniel Converry, Oakland.
CLASS 11.— Su-inc.
Best boar over 2 year old, $4 00
2d do " » _XOO
best boar pig froui 0 to 12 months
old, 2 00
2d best " « 1 00
best and fattest barrow, 2 00
2d best " » 1 00
best brood sow, 4 00
2p bost " " 2 00
best litter of pigs not less than 5, 200
2d bost " " 1 00
Milton Maxwell, Butler; George liei
ber, Butler, Andrew Alber, Centre
"Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"-- A - LINCOLN.
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 1865.
CLASS J-— Poultry and Dairy Ptvditcts
Best pair of turkeys, 50
do pair of ducks, do
do pair of geese, do
do pair of black Spanish chickens, do
do pair of brama pootra chickens, do
do pair of cross breed chickens, do
do pair cochin china cliickeus, do
• do pair dorking chickens, do
do pair shanghia chickens, do
do do bantam chickens, do
do pair poland chickens, do
do pair game chickens, do
do pair sprucy chickens, do
do 5 pounds ofbuttcr, SI 00
second best 5 pounds of butter 50
best a pounds of honey, do
do 5 pounds ot maple suger, do
do 10 lbs of bread, do
do 3 loaves of bread, do
do choose, not less than 10 pounds, do
do galion of apple butter, do
do gallon of peach butter, do
do quart of sugar can molasses, do
do quart of maple do
do six bottles of tomatoes, do
do scap or palace of bees, 1 00
do exhibit 8 kinks of pickets, 5 0Q
do exhibit of preserved friut, do
do cured ham and manner of curing do
do lot of light cakes, 25
do pound cake. 25
J; i Riley, Oakland, John Q. A. Ken
nedy, I'cun, Dr. . McMichael, Millers
town.
CLASS K.— Agricultural Implements.
Best harrow, 62 00
best fanning mill, do
best com shcller, do
best horse rake, do
best corn cultivator, 1 00
best grain cradle, 2 00
best * dozen hay or manure forks, do
best reaping and mowing machine, 3 00
best threshing & cleaning machine, 500
best threshing machine, 5 00
best straw cutter, 1 00
best half dozen hoes; do
best half dozen hay rakes, do
best field roller, do
best stump extractor, do
best two horse plow, do
best one horse plow, do
best seed drill, 2 00
best corn planter, do
Thos. Green, .Jefferson ; John Martin,
Connoquenossing ; Jas. Anderson, l'oiiti.
Class Ij.— Mechanical Arts.
Best two horse wagon, $3 00
best two horse carriage 8 00
best one horse top buggy 2 00 j
best one horse open buggy 2 00
best sulky 2 00
best wheelbarrow 1 00
best double sot of wagon harness 2 00
best, double set carriage harness 8 00
best single set carriage harness 2 00
best lady's saddle 1 00
bijft man's saddle do
best bridle and martingale, 1 00
beet calf skin, 1 00 ]
best side of harness leather, 1 0(1 j
best side of upper leather 1 0(1
best side of kip leather 1 00
best assortment of oastiugi 2 00
best cook stove 2 0(1
best parlorstova 1 00
best common stovo 1 00 j
best photograph 1 00
best ambrotype 1 00
best pair of men's boots 1 00
be pair of lady's boots 1 0(1
best pair of men's shoes, do
best pair of lady's shoes, do
best gent's coats, pants and vest 300 j
best rocking chair 1 0(1 j
best set of chairs 1 00
best dressing bureau 3 00
best stone waro 1 00
best earthen ware 1 00
best tin ware 1 00
best rifle gun 1 00
best blacksmith work 1 00
best marble work 1 00
best penmanship • 1 00
best thousand oak shingles 1 00
best leather trunk 1 00
best steam engine 2 00
best bool* printing 1 00
best card printing 1 00
best portrait painting 1 00
best Grecian oil painting 1 00
best specimen of graining 1 00
best clothes horse 1 00
best hive or palace for bee* 1 00
best mattock do
best washing machine do
best dog power for churn do
best display of cigars and tobacco do
John Humphrey, Worth ; A. D. Wicr,
Buffalo; A. B. Tinker, Butler.
Class J/. Domestic and other Manufac
tures.
Bost 10 yards of cassimere, S2 00
« " « cloth, 200
« " " satinet, 100
" i: " barred flannel, 1- 00
" " " rag carpet, 1 00
" " " woolen carpet, 1 00
" " " flax liuen, 1 00
" pair of blankets, 1 00
" pair of coverlets, 50
" pair of gent's woolen hose, 50
" pair of' ladies woolen hose, do
" pair of gent's woolen mittens, 50
" 5 pounds of woolen yarn, 1 00
soft hat, 1 00
" barrel of wheat flour, 2 00
" ball-dozen linnen bags. 1 00
" linneu thread, 50
" pair of linnen table cloths, 1 00
Robert' Story, Parker, Maj. W.C. Ad
ams, i'airview, Patrick Mcßridc, Murrins
ville.
Class X.— Ornamental and Needle Work.
Bost gent's shirt, SI 00
" ladys' bonnet, 2 00
" lady's head dress, 1 00
" lady's collar. 1 00
" ornamental work, 1 00
" tabic cover, 1 00
" staud cover, 1 00
" ottoman cover, J "0
" patch work, 1 00
" patch work quilt, quilting to be
considered 2 00
2d best " " " " 1 0(1
Best crotchet work, 1 0"
" cruel work. 1 "(I
" artificial flowers, in wax, 1 Ofl
" artificial fruits, iy wax, 1 00
" embroidery on silk, 1 00
. " embroidery on lace.
" embroidery on muslin, 1 00
" embroidered lamp mat, '
" embroidered slippers, 1 00
" fancy chair work, 1 00
" ornameutal shell work, 1 00
ornamental leather work, 1 00
" ornamental pillow-slip,
" fancy basket, 1 00
" pair worked under sleeves, 1 00
'■ tidy, 1 00
" bed spread, 1 00
" cradle quilt, 1 00
J. lledick, Harvey Colbert, Maggie
Campbell, Ella Cunningham, A. W. Mc
cullough, Elvira Breiin.
CLASS ().—TROTTIN T G MATCH-
Fastest trotting horse, mare, or gelding,
of any age and from anywhere (mtry
fee, 810), 100 00
Best stallion, of any ago from anywhere
(entry fee 85), 50 00
The trot will take place on the last day
of the Fair, and the judges on this class
will then be selected from those present.
GRAND MARSHAL.
MILTON IIENKY, Boro. Butler.
CATTLE MARSHAL.
IIK.XRY BUHL, Esq., Forward tp.
MARSHAL FOB SIIKI.I' AND SWINE.
JACOB WALTER, Butler tp.
IM LCS AXD Itl.Ui I-VI IO.VS.
We invite the attention of the public
to our premium list. It has been revised
with great care, and with direct reference
to the liberal encouragement of all class
es of industry and commendable enter
prise. Look over the list at your leisure;
note the premium you wish to draw and
see to itthatsouieof your neighbors don't
go ahead of you.
BAND OF MUSIO.
A good band of music will occupy a
prominent stand on tho grounds during
the fair.
THE ADDRESS.
An address from somo distinguished
.speaker and friend of Agriculture may
bo expecied.
jyCEIVr3B3iI"R,S.
Each member of the society will be fur
nished on the payment of the annual fee
of <>nr dollar, with a certificate of member
ship. This certificate will give the per
son whose name is written thereon, to
gether with his family accompanying him,
free access to the grounds during the fair.
These certificates can be procured from
the President, Vice President, Secretary
and Treasurer.
(NITOHM
will be furnished with single tickets of
admission at any of the ticket offices for
twenty-five cents. Children under ten
years old, ten cents. These tickets must
be delivered to the keeper as you pass
n.
DIRECTIONS TO COMPETITORS
Competitors are requested to enter all
articles for exhibition in the Secretary's
books on or before the first day of the
fair. No article will bo entered after 10
o'clock on the second day. Cards will be
given to each competitor, which must be
attached to the animal or article you may
wish to exhibit.
A committee will direct you as to the
location and arrangement of anything you
may have to exhibit.
There is an abundance of water cpnfe
nicnt to the grounds—liny will be furnish
ed free of charge—other feed to be pro
vided by the owners of stock.
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_ 'i. 1 coMH.t'o,/t/imnH.
Ist. You arc respectfully requested to
report yourselves to the managers' teuton
the first day of the fair if possible, and
in no event later than 10 o'clock of the
second day.
2d. At 10 o'clock of tho second day
your names will bo called at the mana
ger's tout, and all vacancies will then be
filled.
3d. You will receive your class books
atid enter upon tho discharge of your du
ties immediately. The class books will
refer you to the number affixed to the dif
ferent animals or articles submitted for
your examination. In these books ymx
will also write out your roport.
4th. You will not he permitted to serve
on a Committee in any class in which you
may be competing for a premium.
sth. You will in no case where there"
is no competition, award premiums to ar
ticles or animals that are not meritori
ous.
oth. Pay no attention to animals or
articles that have not a numbered card
and class attached.
7th. You will take into consideration
the symmetry, early maturing, s:zo, age,
feeding, and other circumstances connec
ted with the auimal you may judge, but
give no encouragement to over-feixliug
Nth. A majority of the members on
each committee will constitute a quorum.
t)th. Permit no persons to interfere
with your examinations or to be present
at your deliberations.
10th. Eeach member of the Board of
Managers will have the supervision of a
particular Jpcartment on the grounds—
and to this member you will apply for
any instruction or information you may
wlrnt.
(JKMRMIs BXMES.
Ist. Members of the society must pay
the sum of one dollar annually ou or be
fore the first day of the fair.
2d. Competitors for .premiums must
bo members of the society.
3d. All animals or articles placed in
competition for premiums must.be twned
in the county by persons offering the same,
or by members of their family under
twenty years of age—except in class O.
4th. Products of the soil or manufac
tured articles must be produced or manu
factured in the county.
sth. Members of the society will be
entitled to exhibit any number of ani
mals or articles in any class but in ease
the same article is entered to compete in
more than one class, twenty'fivo cents ad
ditional will be charged for each entry
after the first. >
oth. Animals or articles notwithstand
ing they may be exhibited in more than
one class, can draw but one premium.
7th. Exhibitors arc required to have
their animals or articles entered on the
books at the Secretary's office, and arran
ged in their proper places on the first day
of the fair.
Bth. On the entry of animals or articles
cards will be furnished by the Secretary
with (be number and class as entered at
the office, which must be attached to the
animals, or articles, otherwise the judges
will pay no attention to them.
oth. Competitors must exhibit to the
Secretary certificates of membership be
fore he will make any entry for competi
tion.
10th. Stock of all kinds entered for
competitions must remain in the stalls un
til called fir by the marshal.
11 th. Premiums must be called for
within three months after the fair or they
will be forfeited to the society.
12th. The Board of Managers will
take every precaut on in their power for
the safety of the stock and articles on ex
hibition, but will not be responsible for
any loss or damage that may occur.
13th. Intoxicating drinks of all kinds
are strictly prohibited on the fair grounds.
14th. disorderly conduct of every
kind is forbidden; those indulging there
in will forfeit their right to remain longer
on the fair grounds and will be promptly
ejected.
15th. No person will be permitted to
engage in any kind of business on the
fair grounds without a written permit from
the Secretary and Treasurer.
lGth. No carriages, buggies, sulkcys,
wagons or other vehicles will bo admitted
on the fair grounds during tho exhibi
tion except those entered for premiums.
Order of Arrniigoinrnls.
FIRST DAY —General preparations, en
tries and arrangements of animals and
articles.
SECOND DAY. —General ' exhibition ;
examination of blooded stock and fast
trotting and pacing horses; address, nnd
report of judges.
W.O. BItACfcENIIIDGE,
President.
POLITIC ALTROSPECTS,
llcw shall wo vote in the autumn elec
tions ? Every honest man will ask himself
this question, and he will answer itbyde
termining to which party, in so import
ant a national crisis as this, political pow
er ought to be intrusted. For although
no is as yet distinctly made, a very
grave issue soon will bo, that of reorgan
ization—and he uiust look to the antece
dents and composition of parties to infer
what their probable action will be.
The Uuion party comprises the great
body of enlightened American citizens who
have always faithfully striven for greater
justice, for universal liberty rogulated by
law, and for freedom of speech and the
press every whero in tho country. They
have unfalteringly asserted the rights of
the whole people against privilege and ar
istociacy in every form, and have claimed
fair play for all men, rich or poor, for
eigner, whatever their complexion and
condition, and to that end have boen con
stantly zealous for popular education and
every method of enlightmeut. They
hold that tho Constitution is not a com
pact between sovereign governments, but
is a fundamental national law established
by the people of the United States; and
that the Union is not a confederacy but
a nation. They believe that this National
Government is supreme, that the States
are properly subordinated to it, and that
State rights are purely local and seconda
ry. Therefore they have been steadily
faithful in the great and successful strug
gle. They have never tampered with
rebellion. They have never justified
treason nor excused traitors ; and in the
death-grapple with rebellion they have
wisely used every power af the Govern-
conscious that nil extraordinary
powers were exercised by magistrates un
der the immediate supervision of the
people, and whose nets merely recorded
the popular will, as the election of 1861
triumphantly proved.
This is the faith, and theic are th men
who compose the great I'nion party.—
Have they forfeited the confidence of the
country?
On the other hand, the Democratic
party is composed of those who have al
ways excused .the most appalling crime
against human nature, and the most fatal
treason to the Atnciican principle of
equal rights, under the pretenso of State
rights; who persistently connived at the
extension and perpetuity of that injus
tice which has soaked the land in blood
and necessitated the debt. They have
been the assailants offree speech and free
press, and have justified the murder and
maltreatment of citizeus who claimed to
exercise those rights in the Southern
States. Their influence has beeu adverse
to general education and wise progress
and reform; and their predominance ha»
been and is always most marked among the
debased part of the population, and in
the least intelligent portions of the coun
try. Even now their Conventions, vague
ly as iu Maine, distinctly and openly as
in Ohio, reaffirm the principles of the Vir
ginia and Kentucky, resolutions of 'OB
which are and always have been pleadod
by the rbels as their justification, as they
were by South (' irolinia for nullification
in 183.1, and which will always afford an
ambush for treason until they are utterly
and expressly overthrown ; or, as in Penn
sylvania. their Conventions deliberately
declare that the practical recognition of
the truths of the Declaration of Indepen
dence is a high crime against the Consti
tution of the United States. The}-are
those from whose ranks came tho chiefs
of the rebellion; whodenounced the peo
ple of the loyal States as really responsi
ble for the war; who incessantly thwart
ed the Government in its efforts to sub
due it; who incited riots and directed
mobs ; for wlnse success at the polls the
rebel chiefs and editors openly prayed in
the midst of the war; who solicited thro'
a foreign Minister foreign interference in
our contest; who a year ago, in their Na
tional Convention, declared the soldiers
conqured and the war a failure, and who
sneered at President Lincoln as helpless
ly weak, or denounced him as a murder
er, tyrant, and harlequin.
These are they who compose the Dem
ocratic party. They arc now busily en
gaged in praising the soldiers, whom last
year th"y slandered,and in eelebating the
re-estabishmcnt of the Union. They are
even eug;.gcd in the pleasant process of
eating the Chicago platform. 15ut what
has this party, in whose Ohio Conven
tion Vail indigham was chief orator, in
whose Pennsylvania Convention Julge
Black was an applauded teacher, who
said, as Puchnunau's Attorney-General,
that the war would legalizo secession and
dissolve tho Union—what has this party
done to bo intrusted with power by the
American people who condemned it so
overwhelmingly last November? We
speak of a party, not of individuals. We
do not forget with what absolute sacrifice,
widi what blood and money, many Dcm
ocMt.s stood by the country. Put neith
er do .we forget as that party, that tho
Democrats voted against emancipation,
and that in the States which they con
trolled the amendment was defeated. We
do not forget that if the Democratic par
ty had retained power in 18G0 they
would have compromised tho honor o!'
the country without permanently avoid
ing the war; and we remember, nor will
the American poople soon forget, that in
1804 they proposed acquiescence in na
tional disgrace and ruin.
These are the two parties who now so
licit our votes. Lot every man who loves
a Union unobscured by the "resolution
of '08," who loves his country and be
lieves that equal rights for all men before
the law are essential to her permanent
peace ami prosperity, ask himself which
of thes parties ought to have his Vote. —
Harpers Weekly.
—A pretended refugee from Miss
issippi opened a broker,s office in
Springfield. Ohio, married a rich
man's danghtcr, swindled the banks
out of £IO,OOO, deserted his wife,
a was caught in St. Paul in company
with a wife lie married in New York,
disgorged ?2,400 to one of his cred
itors, and put off to parts unknown
with a fast team.
NUMBER 39
A l'laiilerN Gxprrlenre.
"Will the freedmen work ?" is a
question of the gravest moment, now
receiving several answers, much ac
cording to the mood or tho prepos
sessions df the testifier. The thous
ands who have been educated in the
faith of negro worthlessness—of tho
impossibility of getting work out of
the Black rascals withjut the help
of a horsewhip and pair of revolvers
—"will aot be persuaded, though on#
rose from the dead." They must bo
expected to insist for years that the
South is ruined by Emancipation
—that there will be no more Cotton,
Rice or Sugar— that the fields must
rolurn to forests and the "Jiands" re
lapse into tho lowest paganism and
barbarism. He has been hearing and
repeating this for tho last fifty years,and
must not be expected to change his tuna
in a moment, (live him time.
On the other haud, there is danger of
unreasonable expectations. Blacks, as a
rule, arc less energetic, less persistent
than Whites. They are contented with
less than we consider essential to com
fort, provided they may thus live easily.
They have been trained to associate idle
ness with freedom and buna fide hard
work in the field and tho gin-house or
sugar-mill with Slavery nnd its unspeak
able degradations. Tell them they aro
free, and they want to test tho aasuraneo
by taking a trip to the nearest city and
having a few days leisure. And then
there are among Blacks,as among Whites,
many who fancy themselves smart enough
to get their living without work and who
at all events will try tho experiment..—'
We have not those ten years had less
than One Hundred Thousand Whites
in this <Jity who aro without property,
yet who manage somehow to live—by
gambling, pilfering, swindling, keeping
liauuts of vicious resort, receiving stolen
goods, and serving iu one grade or an
other of the quartermaster aud commissa
ry departments of the grand army of Sa
tan. There is prejudice of color iu that
service, but no absolute exclusion ; and
we must expect to see it recruited by
1 Slacks who, so long as they were slaves,
were more usefully and creditably em
ployed.
\Ve must not forget that work is, with
most people, only a choioe of evils. They
would prefer idleness, but for tho fast
that this involves hunger and rags ; and
they prefer work with shelter, to idleness
without. Take away tho pecuniary or
equivalent inducement, nnd how many of
our White artisans or laborers would go
to woik to-morrow?
We assume that there aro negroes who
won't work, sinco we know \\ hi tee 0 f
of that disposition. Any one of wido
odrervation aud experience can rceall at
least one White who, Jthough poor at
Lazarus, has not dono one honest day's
work per week for the last ten years, yet
who has begged or stolen a sort of living,
and who is noisily hostile to Ecmancipa
tion" because "Niggers can't, take care of
themselves." Some, doubtless, cannot;
others will not.
Wo lately invited nny nnd every
hearty, old Abolitionist, who has tried to
prosecute nny industrial enterprise by
negro labor, and been baflled by tho re
fusal of the Placks to work, to favor us
with his experience for the instruction
and guidance of others. Wo presumo
there must be instances of this, though
we never yet heard of one. Wejwill con
sider the first that may reach us.
Meantime, tho following, from ono
who planted ten years as a slaveholder,
is pertinent. It is tho letter of a plant
er iu the parish jf Iberville, Louisiana,
to tho New-Orleans Freeduien's Associa
tion, nnd reads:
''GKNTU'.MK.N : J am a planter of twelves
years' experience; this year lam work
ing twelve hamlsi, nix men and six wo
men ; my laborers are to got one-fourth
of the net proceeds of the crop. They
have a full understanding of the interests
in said crops. Our contract was made on
the Ist of February last, and the result
so far is a comploto success. We havo
to-day 85 arpents of cotton ; 25 arpents of
sugar-cane; 75 arpents of corn—all in
perfect condition. I don't mention tho
vegetable crops.
Under the old system. 10 arpents to tho
hand was considered a fair result, and
more than three-fourths of tho plantations
failed to come to that standard.
Jly laborers are all good people, beha
ving well, having good common sense;
they arc honest and true to their family.
Bcsido the crop ia common, they havo
raised fbr their private account small cropo
of corn and vegetables; they have poul
try, kc., of their own.
Not a single difficulty has occurred
among them since they havo agreed
work on my farm.
Thus in-the whole labor problem solv
ed. Deal justly, give the freedtnensoma
interest in their work, and thcro will be no
trouble. In this ease, 50 per cent, more
of ground is cultivated than tho same
number of hands cultivated under the old
system, and the probability is that the
planter will make that per cent. more.—
It is probably best to ''peg away" at the
old slaveholders till they conclude to deal
justly, and thus "fight it out on that line."
It is nothing but sheer ugliness oil their
part that causes all tho trodble and inflicts
all the distress upon tho freedmcn."
Perhaps this a fortunate experience J
yet we are eonfiilont that most of thoso
who goto work in tho right spirit, under
standing their business, and resolved to
" live and lot live," can match it. Let UH
hear.—iV. Y. Tribune.
—The Butler County Agricultural !
Socioty, holds it* seventh animal exhibi
tion in Butler, ou October, 4th awL SA-'