Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1857 — Republican State Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican State Convention.

Bangor, Me., Juno 20.—The State Republican Convention hha nomiilffi ted Lot jyi. Merrill, for Governor, by a vote of BHS against 10. Resolu- : Lions were adopted to advise a strut*j gcr vindication of State sovereignty on the part of the free States, conjdeinning the Dred Scott decision, in favor of electing federal officers b} r the popular vote, and recommending the withdrawal of the liquor question.from the polities of the day. nCT 31 Doesticks recently attend-ed n | surprise party, which he describes. ! He sava he was inveigled into it by ! the arts of a woman who was a ■ wonder of mechanical and cosmetic art. She looked well by gas light, but I have since learned that she takes herself to pieces all over her ■ dressing table, and goes to bed a ' perfect wreck. I r . V _ “Won't you take ray word, sir, when 1 ; tell you I will call and liquidate your demand oa-Saturd ay morning next ?” said a delinquent debtor.toll dunnihg creditor, with whom he had sharp words. “No, sir,” replied the other, “ 1 had rather you would keep your word.” The Lewistown Falls Journal man regrets a typographical blunder in an obituary notice, by which the deceased was made a leading member of the society of soakers. It should have been Shakers. I Tow to Fr.rcn Horses —The Farmer and Planter contains the following letter, which seems to us to possess sufficient .merit to be submitted to our readers: “ Mr. Editor : —Seeing directions in the February number of your excellent “Farmer and Planter,” “how ; to fed young horses,” reminded me that some of your readers may be benefited by learning how, to feed ! horses of greater age. 1 was at the house of a friend last fall year, ! whose little ”son took and fed my | horse, and who, upon inquiry of his i father, reported that he had given him eight ears of corn. I remarked i that he must, give my horse more j than that, which he at once directed 1 ' done, but stated that he fed his horses ! eight ears at a feed, three times a | day and they kept in goodjordcr, that he had not long before traveled some two months -perhaps, on a horse of ! pretty large size, giving him but ten | ears at a feed, and his horse improv- | ed. I teld him mine would not live on that; he replied, try ten eras of good size, 100 of which will make a bush- j el, fed reglary three times a day,: and if your horses are not in good order, bring them to me next fall, and I will fatten them gratis. Well, sir, 1 have done so as near as I could have done it, (my horses occasionally missing a meal for which I added ‘'imthffig to tlie horses'in better condition than heretofore. 1 have now a horse rather ie-on the small order, 15 hands high, which 1 fatten(l on ten cars three times a day, using all the time, and now keep'him in fine condition'on eight ears, night and' morning, and six at dinner. My mules eat six ears night and morning, and four at dinner, and are fat, though they are small and my corn large, such as we grow in. Pickex?. A Beautiful Extract. —The following paragraphs, from the May number of the Wisconsin Farmer were written by Prof. J. W Hoyt, one of its editors. They contain both poetry and sublime truth. The article from which we clip them is upon “The Plant —Source and Nature ol its Food,” and contains more interesting facts on the subject of agriculture than many 'writers condense into an ordinary volume. He says: “To the majority of men, we are satisfied the soil is nothing but di ft but to the chemist who knows its origin, its history , its nature and its •capabilities, it is a wonderful mixture of those beautiful elements which in their ever-varying forms, become the ambient air, the liquid* .ocean, the precious opal, the amethyst, the jasper and the still more precious diamond; or the delicate blue-bell and the violet, the amaranth, helily and the rose-bud, the spire of bluqgrass and the cedar of Lebanon; or again the ruby lip, the matchless orb of the love lit eye, the nobly palpitating heart, and yet more wonderful brain! These are the of which the soil is composed, and out of which the husbaudman so unheedingly strives to force the food his hunger craves. Henceforth, as he turns the furrow of his field, let the sleep of his thought be broken by the reflection. Th'fs earth, thus stirred up by myp loughshare, is doubtldks composed in part of the ashes of ancestral heroes, whose deeds are the history of the past, nnd whose mortal .remains are plasteric material out of which we, are building the bodies of the men of to-day!”