Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 May 1859 — Page 1

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Horse and Jack Bills.

For single Horse Bill $2—fur each additional lloise on bill $1.

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Where customers can purchase not only every kind of article iu the Boot and Shoe trade but at prices

LOWER THAN ANYWHERE ELSE.

The great inducement we offer in our prices and the beautiful quality and durability of our utoek of Boots aud Shoes are such that every •i-.m, woman and child will tave

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Any of the Dry Goods Stores in town that sell Boots and Shoes. The following comprises a list oY our splendid stock of

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Kip Heeled Shoes: Calf Sewed Shoes Sheep Skin Over-Shoes: Lasting Congress Gaiters Kid Buskins: Calf Heeled Shoes Goat Boots $£. Rubber Ovei-Shocs

Moccasins. Fur and Cotton Lined

Gents' Galf Cork soled Boots Single Doublo "... Grained Boot

Cloth Congress Gaiters Kip Shoes Doubled soled Calf Boots:

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May 13, DAVID KESTErR.

Dissolution.

tl^he co partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers attder tlve stylo of Brown & Wasson is this day dissolved by mutual consent.

J- S. Brown is authorised te settle all the business of the late firm. J. S. BROWtt, "Feb. 11 '59 W. N. WASSON. 1 The subscriber would say that he will continue ill busitrtis at the old 6tand and will be glad to meet his old-customers and as many new ones as ma? find iti-o'their interest to caii on him. -Fed.11 '59.—:6m J. S. BROWN.

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POWERS.

THE COMING OF THE SPRING. The voice of sprins—the voice ofsprinj. 1 hear it from afar! He comes wilh sunligt on his wing.

And rav. of morning star

"Ilia impulse thrills through rill and flood It throbs along the main 'Tis stirring in the waking wood,

And trembling o'er the plain!

The cuckoo's call, from hill to hill, -\-i Announces he is nigh! The nightengalc hap found the rill

She loves to warble by The rush to ring is all athirst, But will not. 'till he see Some si^ns of hini—then out will burst

The treasured melody!

Ho comois! lie comes!—Behold, behold! The glory iu theeavl, Ofburninsj hennu, of glowing gold.

And light by light increased! Already* earth unto her heart Inlinlcs the gonial heat— Already, sen. the flowers start

To beautify his feet!

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AU the above advertisements subject to semi•annual change, at the same rates. All Public Sales, Transient Advertisements. Ac,, £1 per square, for first insertion and -5 ets |pr each additional insertion.

Card and Job Trintiug.

Our- pick of Cards, (50) ,00 Two (100) 3,00 Lottery Tickets, or cards, (100 1,50 eacli addditional hundred 1.00 funeral Invitations, (note paper, enveloped) 3,00 Circulars.on half sheet letter, per hundred. 3.00 Blanks—single quire, $1,50—-two quires... 2,00 ,-ind for each additional quire, "a cents, "Whole Sheet Posters, per hundred each ai«iiiii»i»al hundred lialf Sheet Poster, per hundred.. ^.00 each additional hundred 3.00 'Quarter Sheet Poster, per hundred 3,00 each additional hundred.... Eighth Sheet Poster, 50 or less ,1 Jjail Tinkets, 100 copies", $4,0(*-u be ha:d for invariably before taken from the office.

The violet is sweetening now The air of hill and dale ... The snow-drops, that from winter's brow,

As he retreated, fell,

Have turned to flnwcrs.and gems, and bower? Where late the wind Storm whirled And warmer rays, with lengthening days,

Give verdure to the world.

The work is done hut there is ONE Who has tho task assigned— Who guides the serviceable sun,

And gathers up the wind Who f-howers down the needfull rain He measures in his hand Aud rears the tender springing grain,

That joy may fill the land.

The vouthful spring—the pleasant spring! liis course is foward now Ho conies with sunlight on hit wing,

And beauty on his brow

His impulse thrills through rill and flood, And throbs along the main— 'Tis stirring in the waking wood,

And trembling o'er the plain!

IBisrtUmttous.

THE LAST CONFIDENCE GAME—The SUICIDE DODGE. £uici«le8 are becoming so fashionable and exciting fio much sympathy, that the confidence men are tinning them to account.

On Monday last a well dressed man .-topped at the Phillips llonae, at Dayton, and registered his name, in a handsome hand, as A. V. Lamartine. He represented himself as combining the aristocratic pretensions of two countries.— in other words, that he was a relation of the Frcuch poet, and belonged to the F. F. Y.'s.,

Shortly after retiring to his room he 'sent the following note to the landlord To the Cleik—Dra?- Sir:—I cm very unwell and do not expect to recover, will you be eo kind and t-cnd for Minister to come to my room. I care not of which denomination bo he is a tiue Christian and a pious man.

Yours Respectfully, A. V. LAMARTINE.

A clergyman and doctor were immediately sent for, and when they entered the room found on a table an empty vial, la beled 2 oz. laudanum, and the following note, which i* fully up to the general standard of suicide literature

PHILLIPS HOUSE, April 1"8, '59.

To TUB UM'EEI.IXO WORLD Call me not a self murderer, for it is you that has driven me to this extremity. The public is my murderer, for it has denied me business, and without that I sho'd be cast upon the world—a beggar. God foibid!

Quite out of funds, and no business, what am I to do? To beg? No, I am too spirited. To defraud my fellow man? No, my conscience will not permit me.— Death, then, is a welcome expedient.

Yes, lot mc die and be forgotten. Like poor Byron, 'T do not regret what I have done so much as what I might have done." I have been an easy going, melancholy man—engrossed with books and not with money—"loving not man the less, but Nature more!"

Virginia is my nativity—Cleveland my adopted home. As my name indicates, 1 am of French extraction. My family was good, and I tenderly raised. I am an orphan—few relations.

Bury me here, and should I ever have a tomb, let thin be-ray epitaph— •'Far from home, in a land of strangers, he died—preferring death to dishonor

Broken-lioarted Herbert, gallant aud im mortal Rusk pathetic McClung. (who snng—"O, Death! come soon!")—I leave this cold, selfish ball of corruption and depravity, to join you. I have had this in mind for some time. 1 have many warm friends, to whom 1 tender a last and final adieu! I have recommendations from the best of men, to whom I am grateful.

As to Death, I am not afraid to die. 1 never was calmer than now. I could write much more, but I will 6top. One word, however—the last 1 shall ever write— "Agnes!"

ALBERT VICTOR LAMARTINE. The unhappy young man was nursed, condoled with and prayed over till he recovered and repented, and then the sympathising friends who bad been instrumental in rescuing him from self-destruction, kindly contributed 825 to pay his expenses to St. Louis, and he left on the Indianapolis train, with a free pass, ju6t before the arrival of tho conductor of the Sandnsky train, who informed his benevolent frionds that he had only a few days before, almost committed suicide at that place, under almost precisely the same circumstances and that $40 had been raised for him by sympathizing friends there.

The poor fellow is piobably now lying at the point of death at IndianapoliR, St. Louis, or some other place wci»t.—[Cin. Gazette, 23J,

SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT Shotting the Condition of the Free Banks of Jmliona, as to their Circulation, Securities, and place of Redemption.

V. I: OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE.) IxniANAi'OLIS. April 1, 1859. Banks Continuing under the Law, having Jess than

Fifty Thousand Dollars of Securitie at Market Value. BASK or Gosiirx. Tennessee 5s-/. $9,000 Louisiana 6* 29,000 Indiana 2]^s 52,502

Circulation 59,062 BANK OF MT. VKBNON. Louairtna 6d $2,000 Georgia 7jt 42,500 North Carolina 6s 2,000 Missouri 6a 16,000 Ohio 6s 6,000

Circulation 60,641 BANK OK PAOLI. Louisiana 6s $33,000 Missouri 6s 30,000

Circulation 49,320 BANK OF SALEM, NEW ALBANT. Missouri 6s $71,000 Louisinua 6s 500 Indiana 5s 1,000 do 2s 15,000

Circulation 66,800 BANK OK SALKM, SALEM. Missouri 6a $S6,000

Circulation 69,856 BLOOMIXOTO.N BAMC. Missouri 6J» $100,000

Circulation 77,910 EXCHANGE BANK. Indiana 2j^'s. $133,759

Circulation 70,379 INDIANA BANK, MADISON. California 7s $38,000 Indiana iS^'i 48.077 da 5s 50,500 Pennsylvania 5s 1,000

Circulation 97,550 BANK OF ELKHA&T. Missouri Gs $22,000 ludiaua f»s. 37,000

Circulation, 46,591 INDIANA FARMERS' BANK. Missouri 6s $8,000 Indiana 5.H ...53,000

Circulation 45,810 KENTUCKY STOEK BANK. Missouri 6a 920,000 Indiana 5s 20,000 do 6a 15,000 California 7s 25,000 j.-jCirculation 67,085

LAQRANGK BANK.

North Carolina 6s $5,000 Tennessee 6s 5,000 Kentucky 6s 13,000 Louisiana 6s 21,000 Indiana 5s 14,000 do 2y 22,050

Circulation 60,800 PABKE COUNTY BANK. Indiana 5s $100,000 do 2% 1,000

Circulation 80,365 PKAIRIE CITY BANK. Louisiana 6s $24,000

Missouri 6s.... 26,000 Indiana 5s i. 15,000 do 2£9 10,000

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Circulation 59,273 SALKU BANK, GOSHEN. Missouri 6s $5,000 Louisiana 6s 41,000 Virginia 6s 5,000 Indiana 5g 10,500 do 2^8 8,000

Circulation 53,989 SOCTIIERN BANK OF INDIANA. Michigan 6s $3,000 Missouri 6s 37,000 Virginia 6s. 5,000 Louisiana 6s 2,000 Tennessee 6s 3,000 Indiana £s 70,000 do 2^s 10,000

Circulation 98,999 Banks Which are Voluntarily Retiring their Circulation.

CAMBRIDGE CITY BANK.

Indiana 2i^s $51,334 Coin 7 10,339 Circulation 36,000

CUESCENT CITY BANK.

Kentucky 6s $2,500 Louisiana 6s 9,000 Circulation 10,044

BANK OF INDIANA.

Indiana 5s $15,000 Circulation 11,426 BANK OF MONTICELLO.

Redeemed at Branch Bank, Lafayette. Indiana 5s $500 Circulation 300

CANAL BANK.

Indiana 5s $7,000 Circulation 4,824 FARMERS' BAXX, WKITFIELD. Coin. $13,981

Circulation 13,981 HOO8IKR BAN*. Louisiana 6s. $i,000

Circulation 2,589 HUNTINGTON COUNTY BANK. Indiana 5a $1,000 Coin 140

Circulation 770 INDIANA STOCK BANK. Redeemed at Fletcher's Batik, Indianapolis. Coin $1,902

Circulation 1,902 BANK OF ROCKVILLE. Louisiana 6s $52,000

Circulation 44,615 Banks that have withdrawn their Securities. Scction 52 of the General Banking Law of 1855 provides that at the expiration of two years from the date of notice to go into liquidation, tho Treasurer of State shall surrender to any bank having given such notice their remaining securities provided such dank shall file a bond, to be

approved by the Auditor, for the prompt payment of its outstanding notes on demand. Under the provisions of this section, the following Banks have filed the requisite bond, and withdrawn their securities, redeeming their notes at the places named:

BBOOKVILLK BANK.

Redeemed at the Brookville Bank. Circulation $12,004 BANK OF SYRACUSE.

Redeemed at the Bank of Goshen. Circulation $10,964 MEKCNAKTS* AND MECHANICS' BANK. Redeemed at Branch Bank of the State, New

Albany.

Circulation $1,037 FAYKTTE COUNTY BANK. Redeemed at Branch Bank of the State, Connersville. Circulation $1,688

INDIAN RESERVE 'BANK.

Redeemed the Banking,Hpuaejpf, John Bohan & Co., Kokopjo-t Circulation..

E N I O N IN A N E E N

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, MAY 5,1859,

Suspended Banks Redeemed at this Office. Atlantic Bank at 80 Bank of Albany at 90 Bank of Albion at par Bank of America.... at 87 Bank of Attica at 89 Bank at Bridgeport

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JOHN W. DODD, AUDITOR CF STATE.

Acquittal of the Echo PrisouerS. The Echo prisoners on trial at Charleston have had a swift deliverance. Tho District Attorney introduced as witnesses on the trial Capt. Ma Sat, who commanded the Dolphiu at the time of the capture, Lieut. Carpenter, and the surgeon and coxswain of the Dolphin. A model of the Echo, showing her complete outfit as a slaver, was also produced and exhibited to the jury. The ownership of the Echo was shown to be in Townsend, the captain. who was also proved td be a native of Providence, Rhode Island, where he had married. This fact of citizenship was proved by a witness who had visiteil him while in jail at Boston for the purpose of identifying him: Capt. Maffat testified that he kept Townsend oh bi*rd the Dolphin because his intelligence'Mid reeldcss air had led him to fear that he might prove troublesome if loft on board the Echo.— The slaves, he said, were'sent to Charleston, because he knew there'"were several places there where they could be comfortably lodged, and especially On "accbunt of the facility. of telegraphic communication thence to Washington. On a chart fonnd on board, was traced a continuous line, showing the vessel'* course /torn the coast of Afiicato the point of her capture.— Henery, one of the priaosera, told Lieut. Carpenter that they were forty-three or forty-four days out, and that ho had made signals for landing the negroes jpn the afternoon of the capture, life Ot them as his own property.

No testimony was offered oh behalf of the prisoners, who were?,defended by four lawyers and whom the telegraph represents as having been acquitted by the Jury. They were indicted, we suppose, under the fourth and fifth sections of the act of 1820, which provides that any person being of the ship's company of any vessel owned wholly or in part by an^,citizen of the United States who shall receive on auy foreign shore any nngro or mulatto, not held to service by the laws ot either of the States or Territories of the United States, on board such vessel with intent to make him a slave, or who shall forcibly confine or detain, or aid and assist in confining or detaining, any such negro on board such vessel, shall be deemed a pirate, and suffer death.

We are not yet informed of the grounds on which the defense waa placed, whether the counsel confined themselves merely to denying that a sufficient case had been made out against the prisoners, or whether they were allowed to argue to the Jury that the law on which the indictment was founded was unconstitutional.—y. Y. Tribune, 18M.

The significance of this acquittal may escape many whose memory in the case has worn dim. The case is this: The Echo was caught by the U. 8. vessel, the Dolphin, with all the outfit and arrangements of a slaver, and with slav's on boaid to the number of three hundred, who were sent home in the Niagara nnder charge of Prof. Bainey. Her men confessed that they were on a slave trading expedition.— Tho first grand jury to whom the case was presented tefused to find an indictment, though told directly by Jndge Wayne that they could not avoid it without violating the law. A, second grand jury was more conscientious, or more careful of appearances, probably because they knew the petit jury would make the matter all right, and found a bill. The trial and acquittal above related took place on that bill. Thus a slaver, caught red handed, in the very filth and torture of his awful trade, is acquitted without even the effort to introduce witnesses for him. Such an acquittal means simply that the slave trade shall not be suppressed by law in Sonth Carolina.— Faster and closer comes the issue of tolerating or legalizing the slave trade. It will be upon us in iull size by 1860. And those who are so weary of the slavery question that they aro willing to give it np and say no more about it, and even get angry with these who won't, will find that their love of qnietnde will make them silent accessories to the most infernal traffic ever practised on earth. When the} insist that Republicans shall consent to say no more about slavory, or the slave trade, and make no more political issues on those matters, or they won't let the Repnblicans join them in any party movement, they are giving the veiy best help to such men as Capt. Coriie, Mr.. Lamar arid the slavetraders, that these worthy gentlemen waut. "Let ns alone," is all that is asked. "We are not troubling yon, why should yon interfere with us," is the cry of the slave tr%der.r— "Very true," says the Louisville Journal, and its class, "we won't trouble yori we are in favor of never alluding to the slavery question again or allowing it to euteir any political' Hreu^."'1 WTe'anr not so coinplat-$ant:.--If'the slave tidier likes his busi­

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Bank at Connersville at 87 Bank of Gosport.. 1... .at par Bank of Perrysville .'.j... .at par Bank of South Bend. .'... .at par Bank of T. Wadsworth .J at 91 Buik of North America, Clinton... at 90 Bank of Rockport. J... .at par Central Bank I at par Farmers' Bank, Jasper.... at 91 Kalamazoo Bank. I at 90 Laurel Bank .|.... .at 82 Northern Iudiana Bank. at 83 N. Y. if V. Stat Stock Bank....'».1 at par Orange Bank. ..at par State Stock Bank of Indiana, Feru.f at 85 State Stock Bank, Marion... at 90 Savings Bank of Indiana .at 69 Traders' Bank, Nashville 1 at 92 Wabash Valley Bank at 92 Wayne Bank, Logan3port...... at par

Persons sending notes for redemption will take notice that o# impended bank*, the sotes of which are redcetriejl at this office, are on the above list.

ness, he shan't make ns parties to it by ignoring the laws against it:' And if it were a question of catching fugitive slaves instead of selling free men into slavery, nono of the^e "Quietists" would bo so willing to drop the slavery agitation.— We have little patience with those who talk of stopping the slavery agitation, as if it were a mere school boy debate, which a little discreet silence would cure. Those who talk so don't know what they are talking about, or else they don't care enough to say so, whether the United States shall be a slave or free nation. Is that a matter worth debating? Is it a topic that, must be debated, if it is ever to be settled? And is it a matter to be settled? When one of those "Ignorants" answers these questions they may be able to see whether the slavery agitation is something more than a party hobby.—-Indiana Journal.

MRS. I1ARTUNG.

The Albany correspondent of the New York Times, under date of the 18th inat., has the following respecting Mrs. Hartung: It was one year ago yesterday that Mary Hartung bought the powdered arsenic— ostensibly for her paramour to preserve stuffed birds with, but was used to poison her husband with.' It is a year next Thursday that he died. Yesterday I called to see Mrs. Hartung in the Albany Jail. She was in a large room—which, except that it was within a Jail, was very comfortable. She sat reading the Testament by htr 6ide was a copy of the New York Times—on the wall, pinned up, a copy of Frank Leslie's paper with the illustrations, showing Mr. Sickles in prison, and scene where Key fell. She was dressed in a neat calico dress, with a white muslin sack. She is really a very pretiy German woman, quite tall, young and pleasing in hov way. She was unmoved as she rejioarsed the story of poisoning, but when she came to talk of her children a blush spread over her face and neck, and at last she fell to weeping bitterly.— Wednesday, the 27th inst., is the day fixed for her execution. Neither the bill nor the resolutions concerning her have passed the Legislature. Still those who have taken an interest in her case, hope that Govenor Morgan will respite her nntil after the trial of Reintnan, who also is confined in the Albany jail, and order that his trial be held at once.

From the Fountain Democrat, April 21. DIED. STISSOH ia dead at-last said a little boy as he^assed us on Tuesday afternoon of this week. The impression left upon our minds on hearing this, wa& of the most fleeting character. We thought it akin to the announcement prematnrely made a few weeks since in the columns of onr neighbor of the Friend, particularly when we remembered to have met him but the day before in what seemed his usual health. But in this we were mistaken, as occular proof shortly after demonstrated. "John Stephenson, alias Jack Stinson, Christian Philosopher of tho I9th Century his light had sure enough been quenched in eternal night. Tho indescribable, the incomprehensible JACK has now surely gone to his last court, where no earthly bar enn ever ngain claim his attendance.

Tho subject of our notice arrived in onr town on last Sabbath afternoon, looking as likely to live, as wa were assured by some of our oldest citizens, as he did twenty years ago. But appearances are often deceitful. The old traveler was even then groping his way through the valley and shadow of death. He was taken violently ill on Monday morning, and went to the residence of our fellow towns-man, Mr. George Schneider, and begged for a place to lay his old bones. Ho was kindly received by him the best medical aid furnished him, and Mr. S. and family were united in bestowing upon him every attention he could possibly require. It would not avail. He died about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th instant, apparently without a pang. He was decently buried on the next day by our citizens, a large crowd of whom followed his remains to the grave.

THE GOOD TIME COMING—BETTER DAYS AT HAND. The New York Tribune of Saturday thj notices the departure of "hard times" from the country, and the dawn of a better era which is at hand. It says:

Eighteen months have passed, and all seems changed. Manufactories, furnaccs, and forges, are generally at work again.— Nearly all who can do anything have work if they see fit to do it. Wages are generally higher than at this time last year.— Strikes for higher recompense are quite common. /Trade is brisk and is generally supposed to be healthy. The imports at this point for laBt week exceeded in custom bouse valuation 86,000,000—an amount rarely if ever surpassed—and probably cost at least 88 000,000. Up to Affril 9th, the merchandise entered at this port since Januaiy 1st was invoiced at 865,000,000, although the exports hence were leiss than 815,000,000. And while the imports of the first fourteen weeks of this year exceeded those of any former, and more than double those of last year, our exports were actually less than those of the corresponding portions of either 1857 or 1858. Of course we are not surprised to hear that the Persia took out 81.200,000 in specie, this week, and that even larger shipments are anticipated.

NKW COUNTY.—Under an act of the late Legislature, a new county is about to be formed out of Parke, Putnam and Montgomery counties. The Commissioners are engaged laying it off. It is to be called Bourbon. Russet rills will b9 lbs coaflty seat.Jour. m- ..,

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Weather Prediction.

A correspondent of the Scientific American, named J. Royl, of White Rock, IU.. furnishes that paper with the following weather prediction. Ha professes to be able to foretell the weather one year in advance, for any locality where there is an Almanac calculated. Here is the prophecy: "The first half of April will be wet, the last half fair. The first week in May will be.wet. the balance fair the first half of June will be fair, the last half changeable July will begin and end with a few days of changeable weather, leaving the middle of the month dry August will have a groat many wet days September will set in fair, but the balance of the months will be changeablo, the last part being wettest October, changeablo, gradually increasing in wetnesp November, like the preceding, only commencing fairer and ending wetter

December fair weather."— On this we are told WB may rely, with the exception of September, where theie has "to be added the extra stormy weather, caused by the sun crossing the line." This truly depends on tho prevailing winds at the time if the winds be southerly, the month will be wet if notberly, it will be as dry as if the sun were at his extreme distance from the liner'

Lost in the Swamp.

The PoAtmaster at Jones' Hill, St. Frau cis county. Ark., in a letter to the editor of the Little Rock Democrat, narrates the foflowing story, to prove a position he takes that a "women can stand more cold than a man:"

A few weeks ago Mr. Robert P. Jones and Mr, George'Amor went in the bottom on a hunting excursion. One day, after felling a tree, they heared the voice of a women, and upon proceeding to the place whence tho cries issued, fouud a woman sitt'ng on a log in the cane break and a few feet fiom her lying in the water several inches deep was her husband, scaicely able to move.

Mr. Amor returned to the camp, pro cured blankets and food, while Mr. Rob erts kindled a fire. They noticed that when food was given to the female she carefully fed the man by putting the bread and meat in his mouth, as he was scarcely able to moye. Tho woman stated that their name was Aiken, that they had at tempted to take "a nigh cut" through to Clarendon, in Monroe county, but had got lost in the canc break and had been there three weeks with no food save persimmons and acorns.

The singular part of the story is that though they had no fire during the time, were wet for the whole three weeks, and though Mrs. Aiken had takefl off all her underclothing with which to protect her husband, yet she was not frost bitten, whilo he was, and so badly that he was with difficulty enabled to recover so as to walk. The place where they were found was twelve or fifteen miles from any house in T.3 N., R. 3 W.

Quite a striking illustration of woman's devoteaness and power of endurance.

HOW TO PLANT A TREE. Though an operation that every farmer ought thoroughly to understand, tree planting is still an art and a mystery to many. The principles of the ait are these: The best time is when the tree is at rest the next best when the buds aro just swelling. Never plant, if yon can help it, (except iu a very sandy soil), where the soil is wet and sticky. Shorten in tho top to restore the balance lost by cutting off the fibrous roots if a tree have all its roots it should have all its top, unless badly grown, in which case a part of tho new leaves must be rubbed off, or the whole top more severely cut back. Plant no deeper than the tree stood in the nursery, except iu very light soil, subject to drouth. When the situation is a wet one, it must bo drained, or the trees planted on the tops of high ridges, and narrow lands back furrowed up twice or three time?. Plow the land thoroughly and as deep as possible—the deeper the better. Dig the holes no larger and no deeper than the roots require spread the roots well in every direction, and in just the position they naturally grew in, with the ends inclining a little downwards. Fill in with moist (not wet) finely pulverized top soil shako it in industriously under every large root, aud carefully over the fibrous ones fill till the roots are covered, then tread with the feet, heels out and toes in, and not after the manner of some, who tread in a way that breaks off or strains half the roots leave the surface soil light as possible.

Another good way to plant, especially when they are badly started trees, is to fill the hole full of water let the roots float in a natural position, and gently sift in fine, dry earth leave for a few hours or days, as may be required, and then fill quite full with dry earth. In planting trees in the spring, never moun up, but rather leave a slight basin, so that lile-giving rain can reach the roots.

Mulching cannot be too strongly recomded, but there is one thing that is better— the frequent stirring of the ground, especially as soon as sufficiently dry after hard rains. Don't manure trees in the hole, but make fertile the whole surrounding soil.

Any man who will follow these directions to the letter, will not fail to make his trees live (if alive when planted,) or fail to get a good growth on them the first season, if he keeps a sharp eye on the caterpillars, cattle, borers and bark lice. The last and greatest plague is not known in our Egypt, -which makes it a paradise for fruit-growers. The only proper way to treat "whipstocK" trees is to cut off a planting/ from one to two-thirds of the top. A model prairie tree should have its lower branches within eighteen inches or two' foet of tho ground.

/arWbv is an infant like a diamond?. Because it a- dear tittle thin$: -i

SO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 2 00 WITHIN THE YEAR.

I WHOLE NO. 554

Educational Department

TUtfSttAY, MAY 3, 1859.

UNDER CONTROL OF 8. L. KIIBORN/

STORY FOR TEACHERS AHt» PARENTS. Hon. Salem Towne, about the year 180,0 taught a school in the south-western district of Chariest own, Mass. An inhabitant Of Sturbridge, the adjoining tow* had a boy of whose abilities and general character he appeared to entertain a low estimate. Mr. Towne, notwithstanding parental fore-warning, consented to receive the lad on probation. On tho evening of the very first day, the school agent came to the 6chool, and told thd ie&'cher that tho boy was a bad boy, and would disturb tho school, and must be turned out. Mr. Towne rejected this hasty counsel, and in* formed the agent that he should keep a watchful eye upon the lad, and that he thought it would be titae enough to turn him out of school when he made any disturbance and that be was entitled to a fair trial. When the boy came up to recite bis lesson and had got through, Mr. Towne told him to shut his book. He did so, but instantly rocoilcd and dodged his head, as if he expected a blow. The teacher inquired what was the matter the boy replied, that he supposed he should be beaten and being asked if he were accustomed to such usage, he replied in the affirmative.--Mr. Towne then quieted his alarm, and assured him that be had nothing to fear if he conducted himself well, and encouraged him by commending bis recitation and waB so impressed by the lad*6 manner ot receiving this approbation, that he ventured to say to him, "I believe you are a good boy." These words not only entered the ear, but they reached the heart. The lad told his associates that, although others bad said that he was a bad boy, Mr. Towne had told him he believed he was a good boy, and he was Bure he wished to be a good boy. This youth continued to attend the school daily and profitably for two winters. At the close of the second winter, the father came to the school and said, "Bill says, that you say I must send him to college, and have him fitted in soma private family, not at an academy." The father inquired of Mr. Towne what he had seen in Bill to justify the idea of sending bim to college. "I.see," 6aid Mr. Towne, "a boy that you will hear from in after life." Mr. Towne recommended the Rev. Dr. Lyman, of Connecticut, as an instructor. This course was followed the boy went to college, and the predictions of his kind and judicious primary teacher have been verified. That Sturbridge boy was WILLIAM L. MARCY, afterwards Governor of New York, and Secretary of State of the United Slates. ii A RIT ST DY.

It is a very general mistake, that hard study kills people. It is often written in obituary notices, especially of young men who have died at college, that they were tho victims of hard study—kind of mar* tyrs to literature, and to their anxiety to enter on the moro active and responsible duties of life. None but a weak-minded ignoramus would write thus. Only give the brain seven hours of regular and undisturbed repose out of every twenty-four, and it will be invigorated by all the activities that can be imposed upon it, if the person will only eat plain, nourishing food at three regular times each day, and spend two or three hours of daylight in active exercise on foot or horseback. No in*/ stance can bo found, in all history or biography, where, nnder such circumstances, any amount of brain work has ever been ptoductive of serious bodily inconvenience. On the contrary, brain-work is a positive pleasure to thinking men—it is literally their meat and drink, a pure delight, a labor which brings no weariness in half a century's duration as living instances, there are Piince Metternich, Humboldt, Palmerston, and on our own side of the water, Dr. Nott, and others, all approaching their nineties and of the great dead, Adams and Benton, Clay and Calhoun, and Charles Caldwell, all of whose minds worked with seeming undiminished vigor to the close of a long life. A way, then, with the impertinent falsity, "He died of hard study." "He died of animal indul* gence," as no brute beast dies and the fact of possessing a high intellect, and made higher by cultivation, only adds enormity to the crime of reckless, inconsiderate selfdestruction.

A gentleman writes:—"With a most vigorous constitution, tested by twenty-five years of hard toil as a student and teacher, never kept from my business a day by sickness, and never under a doctor's care' an hour, I am earnest to do what I can f»r the physical, as well as the moral and intellectual health of my generation." This, man, with others like him, as Benton,: Adams, Nott, and Humboldt, who hid moral courage and intelligence enough to* live temperately, and rationally, keeping the animal appetites in subjection, these men live long and study hard to the last hour of life, almost and all who follow their high examples of systematic temperance, may do likewise, and make the world feel for good, the impress of their lives, instead of having their light go out in the/ obscurity of an early grave.

In high bodily health, bram-firork, like body-work, gives an appetite and if t&ht appetite is only indulged iegularly and moderately, aud stndent p|4y 4ive to a good old age, with an hour or tWo *f judicious exercise out of doors, every day and, in the end, save years of e&cieiit' labor it. —[Dn Hall. /V

O" The Washington lotion eay#»thafc.'tifr. Buchanan's position challenges publm admir^*. .,, tibtt.'' We do -not le&t^wbBtln^pobw^&liijte tion is,brave1enougl).$0 fjoiitJour. /"'/1////»/ :/,.~J'!S-*