Marshall County Republican, Volume 11, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 April 1867 — Page 6

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PLYMOUTH, IXDTAXA.

KOMN '.'KTl'K.N. There's not a ji. . olade rot Wrawfth breeze could play; Thr bare brown earth ia wet With the ralu ol yesterday ; Cat oat ou the apple-bouica ' A sound mow vreet than raiu ! Hark to the overflow Robin's corns again. Snow on the mountain side. Never a leaf on tre, Nver a prsy..tq hide A nook whire a nest might be ; Only a hint, 'tis true. That hope is not iu vain, A sky more oft and bineRobin's come asin. U. Kobin, he can sing Where not a flower can thrive ; Musician of th Spnnc. The blithest thing alive : The March winds softhcr blow Dvcr the dreary plain, A eannitr day or to Robin's come again.' The while he carolcth. Our hearts are lighter grown. We almost leel the breath Of violets new blown ; lie in?8 the songs we knew. The earlieet. glkddtft strain ; Oh, old friends are the true Kooin's come a.'ain. . From the London Society, for ApriL ' IIO ATI (J LIFE AT OIFOllD. As few people, in all probability, know what is meant by a "Torpid," it may be as well to begin with a brief explanation of that rather unattractive term, there are two jeriodä of the year at which races regularly take place between ' ie eight-oared boats of the various collet s in Oxford, namely, March and May. In May, crews formed of the best eight men that can be got together out of each college, and caned ixtr rxcetttne. the "Lights, race against cachjotber for the headship of the river, or strive- to come as . near it as they may. In March the racing of the second best boats takes place : these boats are the "Torpids." Why so called none can tell; the origin of the name is Veiled in mystcr), which it would seem to the present writer sacrJcge to attempt to penetrate. 2o one who has rowed in his colWe eight of the previous year is allowed to row in a Torpid, so that the Torpid crews are forme!, chiefly of the fresh blood of the year, and, as showing what is the new ma terial in eaca college, the lorpid races possess a peculiar interest for the rowing community of Oxford, bo much f jr explanation, which, however necessary, is likely to be dull. I shall now proceed with the his- ; tory of the St Anthony's Torpid for the year IS . We had always been proud of our Torpid; I say M we," for, though at the time I speak of I was but a freshman, I felt myself heir to all the traditions of the college, and a . good Torpid was one of the oldest. Whatt e tp r our pick of men might be, whatever bad lack we might have and we had our share we had always worked hard and made the best of it; and we could, and often did say with pride, that never since we put on a Torpid had we fallen so low as to take it ofL The year before I came up to St. Anthony's our boat had moved up from ninth t "fifth od the river, and the prowess of the crew was well remembered at every festive gathering of the college. This year, however, our prospects were not of the brightest; our beat man had been drafted into the eight, and the freshmen of the year were not of a promising lot; or, according to Baxter, who, like most big men, inclined to a desponding view of things, 41 no gosd at all." " Why, look here, young 'un," I heard him say to the more sanguine Tip, "1 coiched that big lubber Wilkinson every day last term to try and make something of him, and all he does now is t- put Lis oar in deep, and pull it out with terk." "Well but, my dear fellow," returned Tip, "all that Lone and muscle mtut b got to work somehow, and I'm 6ure the man's willing, enough ; besides, just think what an awful duffer you were Jourself when, you began to row ; by ove, I shall never forget your plaintive old face when Thornhill was pitching into you for not keeping roar arms straight !" " No more of that. Tip, or I'll scrag you," replied Baxter, as Tip began an imitation of his first essay, in nming ; " I'll have another turn at the big duller, but it my belief the boat will be bumped Ihres times with the crew we've got at present. Come along; it is time we were down at the barge." From the time when Thornhill resigned, and said good-bye, the boating spirit had entered deeply into my soul, and I made a strong resolve that, if perseverance and hard work could do it, 1 would some day be a good oar. I Lad learned something about the handling of an oar on the river near my own home, and by dint of hard practice and plenty of coaching achieved at last what was then the dearest wish of my heart, a place in the St Anthony's torpid. Wingfield, being by far the lightest man ia the college, and possessing that quickness and seli'-confidence which Is indispensable in a coxswain, was learning the art of steering, and was pretty sure to keep Lis position in the stern of the boat. It wanted now three weeks to the first day of the races, and I wa3 seated in the window r.f my rooms, which were on the ground floor, pegging away at Euripides for the 'smalls'1 that loomed in the distance, when was aware of Ilallett and Baxter, talking at a short distance from me. " Hare you considered, old man," began Baxter, " that it only wants three weeks to the races, and the Torpid is not made ud yet!" -: H " Yes, I know, replied Ilallett, " it's an awkward state of things ; the men ought to go into training to-morrow, but it's no use without having the crew settled, and especially stroke." "Just so," said Baxter, rather indistinctVfor he Qa1 a ci?r his mouth. Well, what's to be done ? We must try somebody ; there's Wilkinson will do well enough for five ; I must say he's turned out ;-5M4 uu cer a expecieu, ana vere is p-. pretty good at six, nd Hilton make a. fair V twtVc' none of tDn would do for stroke." ii - Wei.- there's young Haynard,'" ob- ; serred Haltt, 'reflectively , at tt I ? prick?; up. my -ears, and Euriökle and " smalls vanolwd into thin air. .4 He' not the best oar in the, boat," continued Hal- ' :iett rbttt he" has the inobt pluck and go about him of .any ; suppose we try him today: 'Whereabouts does he hang out? Hallo !" he went on, in a lower tone, Msn't j that his name overuhe äoorf.z ir-heS in, he must have heard all we have been saying v With that he knocked, and both entered. " Good morning, Maynard ; Texpoct you heard what Baxter and I were talking about outside." I turned rather.; red, and confessed I "Lad. M Well,"' . said ' Ilallett, rjyou see we want you to row stroke to- . day, and if you, get on all right we'll begin training lo-morrow" ? You musn't be surprised, you know," said Baxter. " if vou're sent ba-k tr - old place." . " Oh. of course not' replied I, meekly, "'but 1 n do the best 1 can to keep my place at stroke." .. - F 3 v j . " All rights returned Hallett ; "mind you re down in time three o'clock sharp, yon know, and he and Baxter left the room. , rtetaembeiCaa if it were VesUrckvl th pride adVb withwhichl stepped into the boat that . afternoon to .row stroke. I fdt as if J1 the river wouldl patching every tun of my oar, and, as lha boat went swimming down the stream, 2 fancied I could hear tfce men on the bargemying to each other, "Here

comes St Anthony's ; so they've got a stroke at Tast; wonder what he's like."

Baxter's voice on the bank called me to mv senses. "Not so quick, stroke!" " Ileep your leather down !" " You're missing the beginning t" and so on, at inter vals, all the way down. At Iflley we turned and began to row up, Ilallett and Baxter, nut to be shaken on, kept up a raking lire from the bank. " Put yo'ir back into it, live." " Mind the time, three" " Slowly forward two." "Hallo, Wingfield, mind what you're about; look ahad, steer in shore ; by Jove there'll be a smash !" " Look ahead," said Wingfield, su ldenlv jumping up in the utmost excitement. '-Easy, all! Hold her!" In another second we felt a shock all through the boat; there was a crash of oars, and we were pncneu ncaa nrst inuj the water. " I can't swim," pautcd Wingfield, as he came to the surface, and, before I could seize him, disappeared again. In a few seconds the small head rose once more, and this time I managed to grasp the little man by the collar, and, with some trouble, got him astride of the boat, wldch lay bottom upward on the water. The rest had by this time sot ashore, and I now followed th?m. leaving little Wingfield, by no means sure of his scat on the boat, the water streaming from him ou all sides, and altogether looking the most comical picture possible. He was soon rescued by a punt ; and then we all ran back to our barge to ch inge our wet flannels and keep the cold off by a nip cf brandy at the Boat-House lavern. "Well. Wincfield,' you made rather, a mess of your steering just now," said Ilallett : "yon and the cox. of the other boat both lost your heads. Wingfield lookM very crest-fallen. 44 Well4 never mind," said Hallctt; "how are you now " " Oh, all right, thank you. You see, I can't swim, so I was rather in a funk at the time," " Yes, anybody could see that," remarked Tip, who had enjoyed the whole thing immensely. " When jou were safe astride of the boat, you looked just like John Gilpin when horse ran away." " 1 hate that fellow Tip," said Wingfield to me immediately afterwards, "don't you ? No, of course you don't, j'ou never hate anybody, why should you? It's only small men who've reason to hate ; they're obliged to do it in self-defence. But, old fellow, I haven't thanked you y et for pulling me out of the watery grave ; you may be sure I sha'n't forget it, and I'll pay you back some day when I get the chance. I could tell by the tone of his voice that he meant more than he said, and I felt that from that day the li tie "Torpid" coxswain was the firmest friend I had. As we walked up from the river, Baxter said, " Maynard, we've settled that you'll do for the stroke, and the crew is to go into training to-morrow. Breakfast in Hallett's rooms to-morrow morning, and mind everybody has a good walk first Wingfield, you'll have to see that all the crew arc off to bed by half-past ten." And so the business of training began, and beef and mutten twice a day was our food for nearly a month. I shall not now enter into the'dctails of that training; how " bow " was ill or fancijd he was, for three days, how Vere was nearly turned out of the boat for being out of bed at midnight : how Wilkinson turned sulk-, and spread a spirit of mutiny among the crew : and how Hilton once ate buttered toast for breakfast, and caper sauce with his boiled mutton, all which particulars however momentous in the eyes of St Anthony's Torpid then, would doubtless be tedious to the general reader. Suffice it to say, that the first day of the races found us in excellent fettle and high spirits, and even Baxter was fain to confess that we had improved immensely iu the last week, and might make a bump or two. Does everybody know what is meant by a " bump ? " Very likely not. So, at the risk of being considered a bore, 1 shall take the liberty to CAplain. The Torpid laces are conducted in the manner following. At the part of the river where the stait takes place a number cf post3 are placed along the bank 160 feet apart, and by one of these each boat taks its station according to the order of the previous year, the head boat being the highest up the river, the second 1GU feet behind it and so on to the last. To each post a rope is made fast one end of which, having a large bung attached, is held by the coxswain of the boat . When the ttirting gun firci. the bungs are dropped, and each boat starts in pursuit of the one before it. Any boat overtaking another, so as to touch any part of it, makes a "bump." Both boats lay out of the way of those behind, and on the following day the "bumping" boat takes its station above the " bumped," and tries to overtake the next boat and so on through the six days of the races. With this explanation the reader will, I trust understand the particular race3 I am about to describe. At two o'clock on one of those damp, " muggy " days, which are only too common in Oxford, the St Anthony's crew, clad in white flannel trimmed with the college colors, walked down to the barge for their "preliminary paddle." Flags flying on all the barge-, and the new uniforms of the various crews, made the scene gay in spite of the sombre hue of the sky, but the faces of the men anxious even to paleness, showed that there was some serious business on hand. "Now, then, tumble in you fellows," shouted Baxter; "You'll want time to breathe between the paddle and the race." That paddle did ns a world of good in keeping our thoughts off the coming race; but when it was over, we had still a uuarter of an hour to wait before rowing down to the start It was a terribl quarter of an hour for me, for being stroke of the boat, I felt as if the whole responsibility lay on my shoulders, and as the minutes hours they seemed went on, the deep red spot in my cheek grew deeper and deeper, and a sort of shuddering came over me, till my teeth seemed to rattle in my head We all tried to laugh and chaff as usual, but it was a ghastly attempt, and we gave it up by mutual consent. "Time to start," sung out Tip at last, and out we came to the boat's side with right good will. -" Where's Number Two 1 Tha.N fellow's always late; has anybody seen turn?" . . ' " He was loafing down the bank five minutes ago," said Hilton. : " Then why the deuce didn't you brin him back ? You'll all be late at the start and have to row up in your coats." : ; Two or three . men were dispatched to find the missing one, but minute after minute went by, and he did not come. Hallett and Baxter had gone down to the start, and Tip, left in charge was wild. -- " Ten minutes to - three ; you won't ,be down in time ; the first gun nres at three ; all the boaU are off, except Brascnose, now. Confound that fellow Vere t " and Tip was proceeding to use still stronger language when Vere, looking wonderfully unconcerned, made his appearance. " , " I'm afraid I'm rather late " be began. -"Late! I should think you were; where the deuce have you been? But never mind now ; jump in and let's get off, we've no time to lose." And off we went. We had to row pretty fait, for it was nearly a mile to our starting-post, and, as Tip said, there was no time to be lost The first gun fired just before we reached our post, and when we did we had still to turn, and it is no easy thing to turn a boat fifty feet long without a ketl, and with no room to spare. At last we were safely round, and lying under the bank, a good deal out of breath from the row down and the fear of being too late. . . . " Two minutes gone," sung out our time

keeper on the bank, and the words were echoed all along the line of boaU. " Plenty of time," said Hallett, who held the sternrope, ready to pay it out at the last miuute. "Krcpyoui heads, and do exactly what I telt you, and mind, no one else says a word. Baxter, be ready to shove her off in the bows." ' It tok a great deal to make Hallett nervous. " Three minutes gone." " Take your coats off " said Ilallett again. We flung our coats to the men on the bank, and made ready fur the struggle with scarcely a word. " Now shove her out and pass her up a little ; steady, that will do. The wind's blowing on shore; mind you keep those stroke oars clear of the bank, Baxter." " Four minutes gone," shouted the timekeeper, and at the same instant came the crack of the second gun, that sent the blood back to my heart. " Steady now, all ; don't look out of the boat." " Five seconds gone." " Keep her well out, Baxter." "Ten seconds cone 15. 20. .25. 30. 33.

40." "Paddle up, all gently steady " " 45, 50." " Look out, Baxter, she's drift ing in again."" 51, 52." " Get forward, all, and look out for the fla3h. Shove her out, Baxter, for heaven's sake!" "55." and the bows of the boat were pointing in shore. Baxter, in des peration, plunged into the water, and, seteimr one of the oars, shoved us out only just in time. "58, 53." 1 heard no more. Wc were off, that was all I knew, and the race had brun. For the first few strokes I was unconscious of ev erything, even of the shouts on the bank, but my senses soon came back, and I began to realize the work cut out for me. The shouting on the bank was tremendous, lullin sometimes for a moment, and then swelling again into a loud, confused roar. " You're saining now," was the first clear sound I heard. It wa3 Baxter 6tentorian voice. 'Quicken up, stroke, and you'll catch them under the willowa. I quickened, snd the shouts on the bank told me we were getting nearer and nearer; but Oriel put on a fresh spurt, and though we continued to gain, it was but slowly. "Well rowed, bt Anthony's! You're training again! Oiv it to her! Well rowed!" Still there wa3 no bump; the excitement that had stimulated us was cooling now, and the work began to telL My wind seemed utterly gone, and I fell a3 if I could give up the race anything, rather Jhan go on at this killing mce. We were under the willows now ; my arms seemed giving wa-, and my heart died within me, as I thought of the distance we had yet to row.' But then came the thought of the glory of a bump, and I said to myself, "Now llanyard, my boy, only three minutes more ; die rather than shut up ; and with that my wind seemed to come back, and I put on another epurt with all the strength I had. The crew picked it up well, and little Wingfield ;n the stem weed us on with all his might " Stick to it ! You must do it now ! Lay it on i JNowror it! he cried, and then stuck his whistle between his teeth and blew with a will. That was the signal for our final eflort. I set my teeth and tugged as I had never tugged before ; the voices on the bank grew louder and more confused, our oars went slashing through the water, and our boat tossed like a cork in the wash of the boat before us. " Three strokes more and vou're into them!" shouted Wingfield. There was a loud roar on the bank, ind a slight shock through the boat, an " Easy all " from Wingfield, and all was over. We bad made our bump, and were happy. I would not have exchanged places that minute with any man you like to name. Never before, and never since, have I felt anything like the calm, triumphant happiness of rowing back to our barge with the Oriel behind U3, and the cheers of half the river ringing in our ear3. And then what heroes we were as we stepped out of the boat ! The cheering, the patting ou the back the almost hugging that we got ! Oh, it was worth millions! "Stroke, my lad," said Hallett, "you -owh! like a man." " Like three men, vou mean,' put in Baxter, wno was greatly cxcittd. "It was a grand race; your spurt at the top willow ..was simply splendid. Come along, old boy, you must be awfully pumped ; come and sit down ; you're the pluckiest little brick I know." That night, when dinner was over, a ciowd gathered on the hall steps, and Hallett, with a huge silver cup in his hand, that one which reminded us of our triumphs at Henley, came out and drank "To the health of the gallant Torpid"; and then such chcer3 rang out a3 would have been worth your while to hear. And so the first day of the races came to an end. That was the great day for us ; we bumped two more boat6, but neither of them cave us such a race a3 the one I have described, and we ended second on the river. "By Jove!" said Tip, triumphantly, as we walked up to College after the last race, "we haven't been so high on the river for five years ; won't we have a rattling bumpsupper, and no mistake ! " c i The Red River Country. The French semi-ofiicial paper of Mon treal, the Minerte, gives the outline of a "memorandum" which is being passed round in the House of Lrds and House of Commons for signatures, praying the Queen to cause the Red river settlement to be erected into a province, so as to prepare It for entry into the Confederation. TRANSLATION. " There is being signed in the House of Lords and House of Commons a memorandum on the Red River Settlement, which now has !a population of 12,000 souls, 7,000 to 8,000 of whom are Catholics. "The considerations of the memorandum are: , "That the Settlement of the Red River Is the seat of a Catholic 'and Protestant bishopric, and that the people are given to agriculture. " That explorations have proved that in the valley of the Laskatchewan and elsewhere there are lands of great fertility. " That a great and rich colony may be formed there. " That the great river of Laskatchewan, which takes Us rise in the Rocky Mountains, empties Into Lake Winnipeg, and is navigable for a iistanre of 800 miles. , " That the settlement offers great facilities of transit between the English possessions on the Atlantic and those on the Pacific. , ' That the adjacent territory belonging to the United States is regularly erected and represented in Congress.. "That, up to the. present time, the dependence of Red River upon the Hudson Bay Company has been a cause of weak: ness, and prevented the development of the settlement , " Therefore, it Is prayed from her Majesty that Red River be orjanucd Into a regular colony, under the immediate dependence of the Imperial Government. " There ia no doubt that this step will lead directly to the entry of Red River into the British North American Confederation." " Lovers." A- touching : picture of Love'i jonnf Iretm ; ' They w t tittas tide by tide i And ska cUrbed aod then he mis hed. , . baid bo. " Air darUng idol ! " And he Idled and he idled. 44 Yoa are creation's bell ," ' - ' . And ah hello wed aad he bellowed. : " On my coal there ' ach a weirht." Aod he waited, und then ohe waited. it if a - - . - i our nana i ui, so Don I m grown. And ah groaned, and then he croaned. - ion enau Bare a Drtvmte rsr. And ahe fieeled, and then he rir?leL cam buo. f jit aearesi mice. And be lobked; and then ahe looked " I II hare thee. If rhoa wut," And he wilted, and than aha wilted. Said iha. VMy dearest Luke.'1 t A, man in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. recently got a neighbor into the lunatic asylum, and then married the neighbor's wife. (

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Taint all tools exposed to the weather, an I if with a light-colored paint they will beat, warp and crack less in the un. ViiiTKWASiiiNO. A correspondent of thu Northwestern Farmer advises adding a pound of tallow or lard to each half-bushel of lime used in hitewashiug. Yield ok Potatoes. Among the large yields of pototors recently reportfxl, is one from Canada, to the effect t hat two peach blows, cut into sets, produced two bushels of large, sound potatoes. Mr. P. DonAld, of Berlin, üends us thej following : To keep a cow from leaking her milk, take an India rubber cord and tie it up small enough to compress the teat and place it on near the cud. ' Exploded. A correspondent of the American Stock Journal contradicts Üie story which has been copied into many agricultural papers, that the South American shepherd dogs are brought up by being suckled by ewes, and that they arc very well trained. He says the only care the dogs iu that country give sheep is to kill one occasionally. Steam Plowing in Enoland. The Steam Cultivation Commiseion appointed by the Royal Agricultural Society, find thit some 400 steam cultiTatois are at work on 2o0,000 acies ot arable land, displacing 2,r00 hoi.e3. The machine eats only w hen woiking and thus saves in that item at least o00 a year to its employer, while doing its work deeper and more thoroughly and rapidly than it can be done by animals. J. R. Glover writes to the New York Farmer'3 Club, that he has not had his clothes off more than two and a half hours in any one of the twenty-four, for the last three months. The ieult of Iiis peiäcvi ring labjrä he sums up as follows : " I have Uaed up about 1.Ü00 egsrs, and I have now on hand, in good condition, sixteen chickens jut one chick to 100 eggs!" Still he believes the thing can be done if we only knew now. Try It. A correspondent of 77) Country Gentleman asserts that red cedar twigs bound around the bodies of fruit trees, bent upward, will effectually protect the tree from insects. And if fruit trees, why not shade trees? Col. Dewey of Hartford writes The- Horticulturist that in his vineyard, grapes trained upon red cedar posts and trcllices are free from mildew and insects, and those growing closest to the posts have the most healthful appearance and are the most productive. Frozen Fruit Trees. A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer gives his experience to the effect that shaking apple trees when trozeu by untimely frosts, destroyed the trees. Six trees thus gathered never leaved out again, while others of the same varieties that were not shaken received no injury. The cJl'cct of vibration if that were all upon the frozen vcius of the tree, is conceivable, but extraordinary. Violent winds at a similar juncture would distroy the whole btock of apple or any other kinds of trees. Sediment in tue Stomach of a Horse. At a late meeting of the Chemico Agricultural Society, of Ulster, in Belfast, Ireland, Dr. Hodges exhibited a large mass of heavy, bolid substance, taken from the stomach of a honse which had died from inllamation. It weighed seven pounds, and was almost round, resembling in shape a wieat cannon ball, and on examination it was found to be composed principally of puospnate or magnesia and the hairs on the husks of oats. The large btone, as it may be called, wa3 the cause of the horse's death. Beet Sloail Some 20,000 pounds of beet sugar, manutactured at Chattswoith, in Livingston county, arrived in Springfield, Illinois, lately, and will be sold in competition with Southern 'sugars of the same grade. It is a superior article of coffee or " C " sugar. Almost 100,000 pounds Urt.w ntannfactlirod ntthis DOiut dur ing the past season, which is but a meie sample of what the company expect to do the coming caon There U very reason to expect that at a period by no means distant the manufacture of this staple will become one of the leading branches of industry in Illinois. A Convenient Table. The f jllowing statement is given by an exchange as a cuide fur estimatine the auantitv and cost cf nails for a given definite piece of worK : .r 3-pcnny 1 loch '. . .M7 nails lb. 4 penny yt Inches ..rr.... 353 nanV 5-peuny 1 inches 2. nail " 9-pennjr a Inches Iö7 nail 7- penny 3 Inches 141 nails " 8- penny 2mnche 101 nails " 10- penny 2 inches fiS null " 11- pcnny 3 Inches bt nail " 20 penny. 3'i Inchas 31 ustls " Spike 4 inche li nail " fcplkee 44 inche 12 ualla " Spike 5 inche 10 nail 44 Spikes tt Inches 7 nails " bplke 7 inchea 5 nalla " SruTTOco Rails. Every rail-splitter knows that it h often very limcult to get the first, or entering wedge, to "stick." By using a little tine sand the difficulty vanishes. Have a little sand in the pocket, then start the wedge with a good blow of the maul ; when it flies out, put a little sand in the split or hole thus made by the wedge, and drive the wedge in. A slanting cut is better for this operation ; if the end of the log is square, clip a little off the upper corner, and then the sand cn be easily put in the wedge or axe inane. This simple remedy saves both time and patience, particularly on a cold morning, when long tinkering is vexatious. Correspondence Iowa Homestead. Draikaoe. The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission of London compute that for every inch depth of water drained oft and which would otherwise pass into the air as vapor, as much heat is saved per acre as would raise eleven thousand cubic feet of air one degree in temperature. A farmer was asked the effect of some new draining, when he replied, "All that I know is that before it was done I could never get out at night without an overcoat, but) now I never put one on." A physician took one ot the Sanitary Commissioners to a hill overlooking his district. " There," said he, "wherever you see those patches of white mist I have . frequent illness, and if there is a ces pool, or other nuisance as well, I can reckon on typhus every now and theu. Outside these mists I am rarely wanted." Western Hop Culture. II. H. Stark?, Iowa county, Iowa, writes J. Kayner, Wisconsin, "I am engaged in the hop growing business. , I am raising them on poles and strings, and like it first rate. I had four acres last year, and had from them about three tons, and sold them for 51c per pound, making some $3,000. I am selling roots for $20 per acre, and have contracted 65 acres." S. F. Newman, Sauk county, '.V-sconsin, had five acres of hops, which produced the year he set them (1865) 305, and In 1ÖÖG the prodacts. Including hops and set3, exceeded $4,000. ' Charles 8. Andrus, Sauk county, "Wisconsin, says hi3 two acres of stringed stakes produced more than 4,200 pounds of fancy hops, sold at packing for 52c per pound, $1,150 per acre. Basil Case, of the same county, picked from six acres in 1SC6, $5,000 worth of hods, and after picking, rented his yard fir five years for $5,000 The death of the Earl of Brownlow is announced iu England. The deceased was worth a hundred and . thirty thousand pounds a year, and used to -ask thirty or forty poor people who were invalids like himself to snend the .winter with him at Madeira, he paying all the bills.

Opinions 1 u Farmer, I am near fifty years old, was always a farmer, as were my ancestors, as far back as I can trace them. My opinions are foruiedon experience and experiments that satisfy me, whether they do others or not. Qpimon I Hay should be cut when in full bloom, as all plants contain most bac(iiarinc matter then and consequently, arc more nutritious, if used for food. If hay is left later, the sugar turns to woody fibre. Wood and sugar arc chemically the same. II. All heavy or clayey soils should lie plowed in autumn, no that the fronts of winter may pulverize them and kill the germs of insects deposited in th". soil for the next season. III. The best way to raie calves is to take them from the cow ad ßoon a3 dropped ; if possible, never let them suck, as they learn to eat or drink sooner, and there, is no sore teats from biting, and the task of weaning the cow from the calf issoon over. I put them in a place where they will be sheltered trom the sun and rain, give a good bed of straw, and feed three or four quarts of new milk per day until three weeks old, then feed skim milk warmed. Let them have access to hay or grass. By this method I have, raised calves every year since I can remember, aud never lost one in my lite. IV. Nine-tenths of our farmers do not tow enough hay-seed to the acre. I have kept increasing the amount, and have not found a stopping place. The more seed the more and bcltei hay ; if timothy and clover, up to half a bushel each per acre. If the Eui face of the ground is completely covered, the hay will be fine, and no weed3 can grow. I have choked out Canada thistles with timothy and clover seed sown as thick as " hair on a dog,'' so as to form a good, firm sod the first summer. Sow early in spring, or in Febi uary. V. Oats should be sowed very early, as early as possible. I 6aw a goodciop raised that was i,owu in February, and wa3 not harrowed but snowed and rained in. VI. Cooking food for hogs is better than doubling the same amount if fed raw, if you wish to fatten. For breeding, feed lightly. VII. Potatoes arc worth more, for all kinds of btock, than most farmers think the are. If you can have them frozen and theu cooked before they thaw, the starch is changed to sugar, aud I know of no food that will fatteu faster, or give a better flow of milk. , , VI U. In fattening beef cattle with'jji u meal, never feed so high that you can sec or smell the cflcct of it in the excrements, or if you do you may be sure you are losing your feed," as the cattle do not assimilate all the nutriment there is in the giaiu. IX. I believe corncobs, ground with the corn, useful as residual matter, and they also contain sugar enough to pay for feeding, if cooked or tcaldcd. In Chicago, 111., they make a good vinegar frwta sweet extracted from corncobs. Wit and Humor. Why is a prosy preacher like the middle of a wheelr Because the fellow around him are tired. " Good blood will alwaysshow itself," a the old lady aid when he i truck by the rcdncs of her nose. Why, does a person who is poorly lose much of hi eense of touch ? Because he doten't feel well. Why will Russia go under if Russian America la ceded to the United States T Becaaee her Bebrings will be gone. "Capital weather, Mr. Jones, capital weather. My wife' pot uch a cold he can't epeak. 1 like f uch weathtr." A husband, on being told, the other eeiiiii. that his wife had lout her temper, said he was 4i glad of it, for It wa a very bad one." If we were to have two Mayors, one to officiate by day and the other by night, w wonld nominate our neighbor of the 'Democrat tor nlghtMayor.LouUcilU Journal. The excitement of sal mon-fishing may be Judged from the feeling of the Scot mentioned bv Mr. Francis, a recent English piscatorial writer, t'he fisherman, whilo pUvhifr a maqnlflceut pame salmon, waa apprised that hi wile, in the cottage hard by, was dyinr. 44 Ah. mon, ye dinna sayco Rin back and tell her to hing on till

i ve Kinea tue men. Various instances have been cited n nrove how lazy a mm can be and live, bat it ro main ior a hkiu; tn rp the climax. One hot day during the heated term last timmr he was observed to throw himself down on tne grar. under the spreading branches cf a t hade tree, aad exclaim empnaucaiiy to nimEeu. "lhcre! breathe ix you want to is nan t." In a suit in Georgia, in regard to the oenvery oi some corn, aircraman gave the following cxf. nsive evidence : I know no mor n dia. De ptrtractora, de commanders and de aneinander Mt me on for to antr to the corn. I delivertd dc corn at William' stable, and disclaimed Here'a Maccovey'a corn. Dey eent oa de answer an ngnt, ana aits au de prefixes of de circamstan eta kaow d by de drayman. " In a iovtol company, each one asked a queUon. If It waa answered he paid a forfeit ; or. U he could not answer it himself h3 paid a forfeit An Irishman' question was: 44 flow docs me mile ground hog make hi hol without showing any dirt about the entrance C" When they all gave it up. b aid, " Sure, don't you see, he boius at me oiuct ena oi tue noie. Jne of the ri'fct exclaimed: "But how doee he eet there?" ,4Ahl"aid Pat, 44 that's your question-can you - ,1 Ali j vunu . The following is said to he the pri vate recipe or a W abho editor : 44 Take one pint ui nuisKy, iir n wen nua one spoouiui OI wnisicy, then take another pint of whisky, beat carefully with a spoon, and keep poarinp in whisky. Fill a large bowl with water, and make the servant set it out of yonr reach. Take a 6mall tumbler, pour in two spoonful of water; pour out the water, and fill np with whisky, anil add to the above. Flavor with whisky to your taate. A dose : three 'finders' every half hour." A young man iu Illinois was greatly smitten with a ne lhbcrV daurhter, and wanted her for his wife. In order to win her unsophisticated heart he invited her to go with him to a circus that waa showing in the vicinity. She accepted the Invitation, and a they neared tie ticket wacon the young man rushed upon hi fate by asking her suddenly if she would marry him. "No, I thank you," sac replied. "You won't, eh f exclaimed the ardrnt youth, "then bay your own ticket V She took his advice and enjoyed the show greatly, but he didn't. The Tate of Or. Livingstone. The Times tf India of March 13 states that the intelligence received from Zanzibar now leaves no' doubt of the death of Dr. Livingstone. The statement of an Arab named Moosa, one of the heroic trav eler's most trusty followers, who, with a few others of the expedition, returned to the East African coast in December, confirms the news that their leader was murdered. It would appear that Dr. Livingstone had crossed Lake INyasaa about the middle of September last and had advanced a few stages beyond its western shores, when he encountered a horde of savages of the Mafite tribe. lie was marching, as uaiul, ahead of his party, haying nine or teu personal attendants, rincipally boys from Nassick, immediatey behind hhn. The savages are said to have set upon them without any provocation, and with very little warning. Dr. Livingstone's men fired, and before the smoke of their muskets had cleared away their lcadtr had fallen beneath the stroke of a battle-axe, and his men speedily shared the same fate. Moosa, who witness! the encounter and the death-blow of his master trom behind a neighboring tree, immediately retreated, and, meeting the rest of the party! they fled into the deep forest, and eventually made their way back to Lake Nyasta, whence they returned to the coast with a caravan. When the news of Dr. Livingstone's sad death reached Zanzibar, the English and other ' European Consuls lowered their flags, au example which waa followed b3T all the ships in the harbor, as well as by the Sul- i tan. It may be worth while to remark that Dr. Livingston himself had a strong ! presentiment that he would never return from the expedition which has terminated thuo disastrously ; and this presentiment he frequently express2d to the officers of ller 3Iajesty a ship Penguin, who were the last Europeans he saw before starting for the interior. Dr. Abrahams, of New York, who died suddenly a few days ago, left nearly his whole fortune $300,000 to varioua chartable institutions. . . ,. .

HOT MARY OF XIII) WUEU.

(Jeneral iew. During the present winter the demand for political pardons waa less than at any other period since the publication of the proclamation of amnesty. Negotiations are pending for the purchase of British America by the United States, Mr. Seward proposing to give the Alabama claims in part payment. The Japanese who called on the President, and who have been dignified by telegraph into Ambassadors and Commissioners, prove to be simply a company of performing jugglers. The executive sesskui of Congress closed on the 20th. Its acts were chiefly confined to confirmations of appointments and treaties, of which the Russian was the ouly one of importance, and to resolutions regarding mediation between the belligerent or threatening powers of both hemispheres. The hall at Washington is now ready for the reception of statues, in accordance with the act inviting all States to provide and furnish statues in marble or bronze of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic re nown, such as each State may consider worthy of national commemoration. It has been conclusively ascertained that the gold captuied by General Giant at Richmond, w hen that place fell into hi3 hands, was the property of the rebel Government instead of belonging to Richmond and New Orleans binks, as haä been claimed. This being the case, of course the goU in question, w hich amounts to a considerable sum now becomes the prop erty of our Government. President Johnson has accepted an invitation from the citizens of Kaleigh, N. C, to be present at that place about the mid die of May at the laying of the corner stone, ol a monument to his father, whose place of buriul has only recently been dis covered. He. will be accompanied by Mr, Seward and one or two others of his Cabinet. He will go ti Richmond, and may extend his trip further South. The Senate discussed the Austrian mission question ou the 18th for over an hour, Mr. Sumner taking the ground that there was no vacancy, and that no one could be appointed until confirmed by the Senate. He made it so clear that his motion to lay the w hole subject upon the table prevailed by a vote of 8 to 23. Had a direct vote upon Mr. Raymond been reached, he would have probably been confirmed. The HerakT special says : " Pane Ragley, formerly a missionary to India and Japan, a few days since called on Jell. Davis and endeavored to induce him to apply to President Johnson for a pardon, believing that, with the names he could get to a petition for a pardon, it would be granted. Davis declined to make the ap plication, as it would be a confession of his guilt, and would prejudice his case at the trial, which, he understood, was close at hand. Mr. Bagley, however, went to the President to ascertain if a pardon would be granted on petitions alone, but he learned that the President granted no par dons without an application from the cul prit." Foreign Intelligence. The British Minister has flicially uoti tied our government of the birth of a royal baby, the child of the Prince and Princess of "Wales. The Emperor Napoleon, in his preparations for war, is said to be engaged in an endeavor to purchase arms in the United Kutcs. The Congrcsa of the Columbian States met on the 11th of March. An amicable settlement of difficulties with the United Stcs was anticipated. No progress ha? yet been made iu the matter of the Alabama claims. Mr. Adams has been instructed to respectfully decline the proposition made by the British Government. Spain promises to give England full sat isfaction and indemnity for the seizure of the Victoiia, but her replies to the de mands in the case of the Tornado continue evasive and unsatisfactory. The Hcrahli Queenstowu, Ireland, cor respondent says there is an almost general exodus to the United States. The class of people emigrating is generally of the com fort able fanning class. The Red River Settlement of British America knocks at the door of the Canadian Confederation for admisslion as a Province. A. petition to the Quesen to that effect is being circulated in Parliament. Letters from the Liberal camp at Queretaro, Mexico, say that General Diaz shot six general officers and ixty-onc of a lower grade, who were captured at Pue bla; it is alleged in retaliation for the Octo ber decree. A Cadiz telegram states that the Spanish Government has released the Captain of the Tornado, but that John McPherson ha3 been transferred to the interior of the country, as a Chilian prisoner of war. McPherson is included in Lord Stanley's peremptory order. It is report edthat the Great Powers of Europe have renewed their appeal to Prussia, in the hope of avoiding a war which now seems imminent. Meantime Napoleon and Bismarck continue actively preparing for a war, which if entered upon will involve nearly all Western Europe. The latest Mexican rumor is that Juarez had given orders to grant Maximilian an escort and honorable treatment to any point on the coast which he may select as a point of embarkation provided he is captured. Money was becoming scarce in the Imperial cofler, and the Finance Minister has thrown up his portfolio in disgust. . The Revolutionary Committee of Hayti have issued a decree banishing Geflxard, his family, and all his Ministers, forever from Haytian territory, and confiscating tbeir property. All officers who did not take an active part in the revolution are lisinissed from the service of the new Gov ernment. General Salnave lias been elected President and it is anticipated thai he will immedialfcly declare war against St. Domingo. . Late Mexican advices say that Maximilian attempted to retreat from Queretaro on the 26t'n of March, but was confronted by a strong force of Liberals, and compelled to retreat. The capture of Puebla by the Liberals, with a loss of 2,000 to the Imperialists, is reported, and it was expected that Vera : Cruz would capitulate. Mr. Seward's messenger, charged with the duty of interceding for Maximilian, has been heard from at Brazos, where the. vessel

bearing him was compelled to put in for

coal. The Great Eastern is not likely to prove a good speculation this time. Her char terers expended 140,000 sterling to refit the vessel lor passenger traffic, basing groat expectations upon the Great Exposition. They pay 1,0K) sterling per month, besides, ot course, all running cxnenses and port charges. The port charges at Incw lork, this late visit, were ?0,:f' (cold l. Iw-sith's tuir boat, commissions, ad vertising, etc., airtl the entire proceeds of thr; voyage was tmly $20,028. Each trip should produce eighty or one hundred thousand dollars to pay expenses. The. New York Legislature adjourned abut die on the 20tb. The large paper mill of Randolph .t Dupois, near Manyunk, Pa., was partially burned on the 20th. Loss about $00,000. Henry Ward Bcccher has been nominated to the New York Constitutional Convention by the Republicans of the Second Biooklyn District, but ,va defeated by 74 1 votes. The New York Riot Relief Committee have :iit to the Police Board $3,000, to be divided among the officers wounded ia suppressing the liot on St. Patrick's D;.y. Governor Ward, of New Jersey, has vt toed a bill for stationary to members of the Legislature, amounting to about 130,000, having been informed that the money was never expended for the purposes indicated, but paid direct to individual member?. The Eight-hour Labor bill passed both Houses of the New York Legislature. There was a strong pressure by manufacturers and capitalists 011 the Governor, to induce him to veto it, but he pledged himself in its favor during the last political canvass, and will undoubtedly sign it A grand horticultural fair, lasting two weeks, is to be held at Philadelphia, commencing May 2'Jth, which they expect will le the most superb ever held iu this country. The proceeds will be devoted to docorating and furnishing the new hall. A paper, called the Flower Basket, will be published during the fair. At 2 p. m., on the 20th, the New York 5w Erie elevator, at Buffalo, owned by George Tift, was totally destroyed by fire. The buildii-g was vahi at $DO,000, and insured for f 30,000. It contained 143,000 bushels of oats, corn and rye, valued at over $130,000. The fire, it is supposed, originated from the friction of the machinery. The total loss is $250,000. Three men were killed at the fire by the falling of a wall. The express car of an express tram, on the ldth, on the the Eiic road, took fire near Chemung station from sparks from the engine, and was totally defclroyed with its contents consigned to parties in the West, in care of the United States and Merchants' Union Ex presses. Loss $ 30,000. The safes containing money packages vere saved. The express messengt rs had a narrow escape. The Soutli. At Memphis, on the 20th, a ucgrcs named Ella Garvin was arrested for poisoning three negroes by mixing arsenic with flour. The cstinialed loss to the United States Internal Revenue ou account of the destruction of this year's crops of cotton, sugar and molasses in Louisiana, by the overflow, 13 beUveen eight and ten millions cf dollars. Au associated press dispatch saye a colored individual named Ash w aa elected one of the Commis jioner of Plymouth, North Carolina, at an election held there recently. He is considered one of the best selections that could have been made, aud as part ot his policy he has declared that he will oppose the arming of negroes, for fear they might shoot a negro, accidentally, instead of a white man. The Wot. The Cosmopolitan Hotel, the finest in Sin Francisco, aud valued, with furniture, at $1)50,000, was partially destroyed by tire on the 23d. Loss $150,000. The Straits of Mackinac opened on Monday, the 22d, six Jays earlier in the month than last year. The ice in Lake Pepin has also broken up, and the Mississippi is open and navigation resuflhed to St. Paul. About ii o'clock p. m., on Wednesday the 24th, an earthquake was felt with more or less severity nearly all over Kan -as and Missouri. It was reported as extending us far cast as St. Louis, and as far" west as J unction City. The citizens of Fremont county, in extreme Southwestern Iowa, having lately hung two horse thieves, have now organized a Vigilance Committee to capture buch thieves, who are " to be dealt with according to circumstances." Lookout Station, 270 miles east of Denver on the Smoky Hill route, was destroy ed by the Cheyenne Indians on the 15th. Three employes of the United States Express Company were killed and scalped, and eight of the company's Worses stolen. m t m Music at Home. Every woman who has an appetite for music or singing, should bless God for the gilt, and cultivate it with diligeuce not that she may dazzle strangers, or win applause liom a crowd, but that she may bring gladness to her ownhreside. The influence of music in strengthening the affections is far from being perceived by many of its admirers ; a sweet melody binds aU hearts together, as it were w iih a golden cord; it makes the pulses beat in unison, and the heart thrill with sy mpathy. But the music of the fireside must be siniEle and unpretending ; it does not require rilliancy of execution, but tenderness of feeling a merry tune for the young a more subdued strain for the aged, but none of the noisy claptrap which is so popular in rmblic. It is a mistake to suppose that to enjoy music requires great cultivation. The degree 01 enjoyment, wm 01 course, vary with our power of appreciation, but like all other great influences, it is able to attack even the ignorant. And this is what the poets taught when they made Orpheus and his brethren the civifizers of the earth. . Savs a London letter : " The Fenians in Ireland have really behaved like irenllemen, and arc a credit to their fupposed American origin and training. The other night a party went to a country mamsion and demanded arms. They were refused. Excuse me,' said the leader, but it is absolutely necessary that we should have them, and it you do not open the door, I shall be under the disgraceful necessity of breaking it in; but I will iniurc the lock as little as possible.' On this the door was opened, and one of the men, carwully cleaning his feet on the scraper and -door mat, went in and helDed himself to the arms, when the party quietly left."