Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 April 1869 — Page 4

Good Veu Think About Them. Wu;ii . -i '!' (.March 1 Correspondence of tue S 7 r;icri!e Journal i Radical.) There is' no rise attempting to disguise the fact that there is a ereat deal of feeling nmor.g the leading Republicans at the manner in which the President has given so strong a personal tone to his administration in this, Ifta earliest stage. Even members of the House who voted tor the repeal ot this act, and who would do so again if it was on the tapis, arc not charry of declarations that in their opinion President Gr-.nt's active efforts, and mingling in the fray to secure a repeal, are rot cal- . ited to breed good feeling. Nor are 1 my deemed sagacious and prudent, combined with the cavalier manner in which many persona have been treated who have respect fully tendered an advisory opinion as to the wants of their sections and lories with regard to appointments and other matters. "These things are making m d men sore and irritable. I do not kü.)w that President Grant is so mnch to Mime as is much of the Republican press. It has so industriously bespattered bin with llattery as to perhaps produce a not unnatural conviction that he is a very win hi ! i ; far more so than the men who have s-) largely contributed to save the Cmmtry Groan the rule of slave oligarchy. The family and personal appointments are lesseaiBff these feelings. An old and well eatoemea . irizen of St. Louis, who has known the Dent family weil and long, for more than :!0 year?, told me to-day that James Longstreet, ex-captain and deserter from the United States army, and lately rebel general, was a cousin to Mrs. Grant. the nominee for collector of New Orleans, Mr. Jamea (Vey, is a brother-in-law: as Dr. Sharp, United States Marshal for district K i?t on, nominated for asses--'ir in one of the St Louis districts, was be Common Cour t ilman who voted for n an applicant for the post of f or county engineer. At the beginning of the rebellion Easton was an offl1 rol F. stn militia, assembled at Camp ickf m. Sickness kept him away on the lay tb:if Lyon and Iilair captured that camp. After that be was converted apparently. He was on Gov: Gamble's staff, and I as since been considered a weak sort . i Conservative, whose associates were in sympathy with the M. Louis Republican c'iiue. ExFresldeal Johnson at Kooxville. K rim, Tenn., April 3. . r an t irly hour this morning the city was thronged with the old friends of An drew Johnson, who assembled in groups :..l anxiously discussed Mr. Johnson's former triumphs. Be was met at the train uion.at 11 o'clock, and escorted to the Lamar house, where he was intro tuced to a crowd of about 5,000 persons I j Mr. Nelson, who referred to Mr. Johnton in complimentary terms, alluding to bi3 difference with prominent political gentlemen ptesent, and to his early perse cut ions on ac- uut of his Union senti mt-nts. Mr. Johnson thanked the people for their welcome. He said he had tried to prated the Constitution, and all he asked was a tiir examination of his record. He ruled to devote the remainder of his lift ai a private citizen to the vindication of his oil! i l lifo, and his native State from the obloquy cast upon hem. His b m k, though bent had not I en broken by the Storm which had c iy wrecked Ike ship off state. Since he .ad seen in the paper! his own obituary, e supposed he might be regarded as o . risen from the dead, and he thonght one coming ft mi the crave should be believed. The ( Joverum nt is divided into three parts, and ach department is confined to its phere. I tell you as one speaking from the dead, that there is dinger in the Government, and that danger is in the Legislativ) department The Executive branch in not make laws neither can the Judiciary; but the Legislative branch, under the pretense of making laws, can trample upon the liberties of the people. Yea, a despotic Congress r an e;o on until it take away the liberties.of the people; but I feel that I stood as a breakwater to the Government, and arrested its progress for a time. The time has come to talk about the first principles of the Government. Takeaway the restraints which have held bacK C 'Dgress, and one branch of the Government wiil wipe out the other two Let me tell you, here, that a wise and good Prince is infinitely better than a despotic, arbitrary Congress. Look at the acts ot Congress, and see how they are like the Id '-t Great Britain toward the colonies, u the early days of this country. Look it our condition. The writ of Tiiibotx u.t is suspended, and when a cftixeii appeals to the Supreme Court, Congress takes fr. m hin the riirht to appeal, and deprives him of his liberty. He alluded to the charge of treason to his party, and asked W.here he bad been flse. He then ' "k up the accusation about his being a " Motes," and asked if it was not he who (reed the negroes in Tennessee. Freedom is only the liberty to work. It is not to build a miserable laz.ironi, to be supported by the government. I have never deceived the white men r the black men. Let me say to you, aa I said to my old Mr rent when I came back: "Tom, the only difference between us is that I freed you four years ago. and I was only emancipated on the 4th of March : so, you see, Tom, I am addressing you as a freedman." As an evidence of his loyalty, he showed a paper signed by Gov. Brownlow, acknowledging the receipt ot . 1,500 to help establish a loyal press in Knoxville. He told his hearers t'iat they were all slaves to bondholders, who never shed a drop of Mood. I w -od to God that the CJvern-i-n nt had not the credit to borrow adoiUr t 1 carry on a war. Thank God, my honn have no been gained through blood. The wound'd soldiers cannot attribute ieir wound to me. He called on them to eifrig to this compats, and stand by the C 1 n. IT spoke about two hours, and was lis'ened to with close attention. On retiring from the stand he was heartily applauded, and at once surround ed by a group ot old friends. In conversation he spoke of Grant without reserve, harsch r stne him as a bundle of prrjndieea, and bm Cabinet as a " gift enterprise." Tin pe pie arc heartily glad to see Mr. Johnson among them, and think he will mm eeed tn overthrowing the dominant party in the State. A Lemon Well Sqneezcd. 41 The watch dojr of the Trraaurv," as the Hpubbcans delight to call Mr. E. B. Washburue, displayed a very greedy disposition during the few days be was Secretary of State. 11 recommended to the President forty on,; names far foreign ( wsnlahlps, comprising the most important ones in that branch of the service. Tn before leaving Congress he got the salary of the flecood Aasisfmnt Secretary of Legation to France increased to $2 .'00, and a few days afterward requeste 1 that Frank Moore ahonld be appointed as hi; ( VVashburne'h) Second Assistant Secretary. The facts indicate that the " watch dog of the treasury " is watchful of the pockets of his friends, that he may find an op portunity to fill them from the Treasury It is not the business of Democrats to lrjquire into th causes of Secretary Fish s grievance at Mr. Waahbume, but it is ira possible for Democrats not to be amused and amazed by amnslng and amazing Impudence. So far as patronage was concerned, Mr. Fish r uno into his Secretaryship to find it. as Hurler said Baaki wuld find New Orleans, "i m n ! well Rouowd." Rrehanqe.

Grant's Appointments What

The Tennre-of-Offlce Law. Waehington Dispatch to N. Y. World. When the six conferees assembled, they wantonly wrangled for an hour over the alternative questions of repeal or nonrepeal. Each three were as obstinate as mules, and as intelligent as reliable contrabands, in favor of their respective positions. Butler, Washburn and Grimes being for, and Trumbull, Edmunds and Bingham being against repeal. Nothing came of this except the waste of an hour, and then Mr. Bingham said that a thought had struck him (it appears, in sequence, with fatal effect) that an honorable and satisfactory compromise might be agreed to, if the Senate would give up its present power to try the case of suspended men and should just let the President suspend at discretion, and let the Senate have the whole of their ensuing session in which to consider nominations to be made to the places of those suspended. At first this proposition, that the Senate relinquish the power of trial of supensions, struck Mr. Trumbull anil Mr. Edmunds in the same way that it struck Bingham as being tantamount to making it impossible for a supended man ever to resume office again. Accordingly, Trumbull and Edmunds stoutly combated the concessionsaid the Senate would never agree to It, nor would they, and there was an end on't. This only stimulated Bingham, and Grimes, Butler and Washburn joined him, making four to two. At last the happy thought struck Mr. Trumbull like a meteor, that by not considering any nominations to succeed the suspended man, the Senate could, by a masterly inactivity, restore the latter to office when his suspension should have expired by limitation, at the end of the session. This artful undermining of the proposition Mr. Trumbull secretly communicated to Mr. Edmunds, and told him not to let it out. The tricky two rolled it as a sweet morsel under their tongues, and still maintained a t-emblar.cc of opposition to Mr. Bingham's idea, finally giving in under farcical protest, as if, like Stanton, they were only "yielding to snper'or force." Deceived by their affected surrender, Messrs. Butler, Washburn and Bingham to the House, and Mr. Grimes to the Senate, returned, smacking their lip3 and rubbing their hnds, never seeing, as Trumbull and Edmunds did, the cunnint'lyclawed cat under the mild mass of meal. The result is known. How the House swallowed the pill at once and how the Senate were informed of its potent purgative properties before they took it. To the latter it h most strengthening, and to the former it has reacted like a seidlitz powder whose component parts have been taken one at a time and allowed to fuse inside. Aa said, the Grant men have suddenly been destroyed and that without remedy. It is either this law or the old one. It is cither the frying-pan or the fire. These amendments vetoed, the old one survives. The Senate will never repeal it And the thing is fixed beyond cure. The President is tied, from the beginning of his term to the end, worse than Andrew Johnson was for a part of his by ttfe late passage of the old act. From the New 'ork Evening Port. The amended act is so devised as to embarrass President Grant, or any President who 13 bent on administering the laws in their letter and spirit ; and yet to set no obstacle whatever before one who is disposed to press his own prerogatives, and who will stoop to evade the law. The new bill II a distinct clai.n on the part of Congress that removals as well as appointments by the President require "the advice and consent of the Senate." Mr. Grant, who promises to administer all laws according to their spirit, will be unable to remove any officer, however unfit. He can only suspend him and nominate a successor to the Senate at its next session. Should the one named by him not be confirmed by the Senate, the officer suspended will be restored by its adjournment, for the suspension continues only M until the end of the next session of the Senate." A President who regards himself as bound to respect the law will not again interfere with an officer whom it has prevented him from removing. From the New York Express. The Civil Tenure-of -Office act means that Butler has been beaten out of his boots by Bingham and the crafty Senate. It means in brief Fi ret. That the power of the President over his Cabinet Is taken away; Cabinet officers, liable to suspension, are capable of going back, as Stanton did. Second. Instead of being required, to investigate the facts of a suspension, the Senate can gBON It by forbearing to consider BhmiliialloiH made to succeed those f nspendud, and can thus vote the Mipsaded men back into oflice at the end of tho session. Tnird. For the first time in the history of the Government, n co-ordinate power for the Senate with the President is claimed in the matter of removal, it beinr expressly stipulated that no removal by the President can be made except by and with the advice and consent of the Sna'e. The act of 1S20 is that officers shall be removed at pleasure and this was, before 18G3, held to be at the pleasure of the President; and excepting in the act of 1803, creating tbe fficc of Comptroller of Currency, has always been so construed. Nothing has gone beyond this act or this office till to day, when it is extended over every office in the Government J Fourth. The whole matter of removal from afd appointment to oflice is, declared to bo subject entirely to legislation, uud not to an Executive act or an Executive power. When the report of the conferees came to the Senate, Mr. Trumbull moved that the Senate concur, and declared that "The Bouse had receded from Its demand for repeal, and that it had acreed to the Senate amendments, with the simple addition that the time of suspension had been prolonged to the end of the He-"don, but that If the Senate declined to cot.rirui any nominations to succeed the suspended sflesfS, then of course the suspended officers went back into office at the close of the sessi jn"' The Senate heard with complacency this crafty construction of the law. It wag also insisted, as only one suspension was allowed for by the law, that, when the suspended man waa reinstated at the close ot the session by the failure of the Senate to confirm any successor to him, to re-suspend him would be an excess of the hw and a serious rnisden:eanor. In tbe House the cold-blooded explanations were equal to those in the Senate. Binpham declared that the Senate had rc'inqiiiched its claim that in any case they could r inMa'e the suspended man. Now suspension was m conclusive, as absolute, and a final as removal b - 1 hitherto been. In fart, the word suspension had SS8S i:-ed bJMtSpd of removal only to satisfy the const it uiioualatructnral scruples of some Senators.11 Judges Noah Davis, ofN. V., and Hoar, of MaA, inquired what became of the suspended man in cae the Senate did not confirm any nomination of any man to succeed him. Did h-, in Inst we, go bnrfc into his office ? Butler, Bingham and Lo-

; gan thundered that the office remained in ! abeyance; but Judge Hoar didn't sec it sc, i and then Butler put down with a demand for the previous question, under which the bill was passed. Of the 07 nays IH wer. Republicans, and such men as Noah Da 1 1, Judge Hoar, Mr. Ferry, and that class, while 49 Democrats voted solid against the bill. A greater cheat than this was never acted in Congress, but Grant will swallow it. From the OWsSM Trfbon? . The bill is varioosjv explained by the gentlemen of the Conference Committee, who doctored it, but both sides concede that the bill restrains the power to remove an officer, whether the Senate be in session or not, until tbe Senate gives its consent to the sppointraent of the successor. It is true the President Ifl relieved of the necessity of laying before the Senate actual prsof of the dishonesty or incompetency of a nbofdinatn, but, nsjfi i theless, he cannot remove ..n officer witboat tbe consent of the Senate, even if Lb be detect 1 in ?h grossest corrur 'n An I

officer may, during the recess of the Senate, become a defaulter to the amount of a million dollars, and the President cannot remove him, even though he is convicted under an Indictment, until the Senate shall have approved of his successor. Members m y pretend that the law is practically repealed by the bill they have passed, but it is not The power of removal is not restored to the President, and until it is one form of words is just as obnoxious as another. The people look upon the law as an obstacle in the work of purification, and they do not agree that the President ought to be restricted in the vigorous performance of such a duty by any latent power in a Senator, or any number of Senators, to protect their friends in office. When the President has discovered incompetency, corruption, or negligence, in office, why should a' Senator be empowered to say to him, " Sir, before I consent to your removal of this man I must know whom yon intend to appoint in his place. He is my friend, and unless you appoint seme other friend of mine, you shall not remove this one !" Indecorou? as such a speech would be, the majority of the Senate have obstinately refused to yield the power of its members to make it if thev please. Whether General Grant signs this bill or not it is hardly possible that he can approve it.

Johnson and Grant A Contrast. On the 17th of May, 1865, some twenty of tbe leading moneyed men and firms of New York tendered President Johnson a coach, horses, &c. asking him to "accept the same as a token of tbeir high appreciation of his fidelity to the country ; as a statesman well approved by word and deed in ail the various offices to which he has been called." President Johnson replied as follows : Washington Pitt, May 22. Messrs A. A. Low, Esq., Phelps. Dodgrc & Co.. Hoyt Brothers, J. 8. Shultz. and others Gentlemen: I am In receipt of your very complimentary note, dated New York, Mty 17. l-.'r. wherein you request my acceptance of a coach, ppan of horses, harness, Ac, as a token of your hich appreciation of my piblic coarse. While I fully iipp-eriate the parity f your motives in thus tendering me such substantial tW dence of your regard and esteem. 1 amcompeUed, solely from the convictions of duty I hive ever held In reference 'o the acceptance of presents by thc-e occupying hieb, official positions, to decline the offerings of kind and loyal friends. Tho retention of the pirebment conveying yonr sentiments, and the anthographs of those who were pleased to unite in this manifestation of regard. i! a favor I would ask ; and I assure you, eentlem n. I shall rcpard it as one of the highest marks of respect from any portion or my fellowcifizens. Trusting that I shall continue to merit your conflderic i and esteem in the discharge of the hitrh and important duties upon which I have juit entered, and with the best wishes for your health, etc., individually, I am, gentlemen, yours truly, Andrew Johnson. At the date of this transaction President Johnson, reconstruction policy and all, were heartily supported by the Radical party of the country, and this letter was paraded in the Radical journals and applauded as embodying the true rule of action for all occupying high official positions. A different rule and different views prevail now. The One Great Question. Tite recent speeches of Senator Sprague, concernfng corruption in the United States Senate, and the situation of the couutry as regards morals and finances, have affected the Republican press very much as the valedictory of ex-President Johnson did. The facts stated by the exPresi lent and the Senator cannot be shorn of their power to influence public opinion by attempts to ridicule the men who have, in clear and graphic language, presented thtm to the people. The question is not whether Sprague and Johnson be good men or bad men. They are not on trial. They have charged the Congress of the nation with crimes of such magnitude, and with being control 'ed by motives so venal and wicked, that, if the charges be true, every interest of the Country is in peril every day that Congress remains in session. We have much of political issue and of questions of the hour, and there are many and important ones before the country, but they all dwindle into insignificance In comparison with the one that Senator Sprague has lately pressed upon the attention of the Senate and the country, and that is the prevailing official corruption. Wc say the attention of the Senate, because he has repeatedly, within the last three weeks, stood up before that body and told it that its corruption was so great that it ought to have no voice in the appointment of civil officers, and that all its legislation originated in selfishness and partisanship, and that from its doors there went a contagion which had not only infested all the departments of the Government, and made them a stench in the nostrils of honest men, but had spread from official to private circles, and corrupted the morals of the people. lie said he knew, ef Mmaelf and by his own experience and observation in the Senate, that this was true, and that he could present the proofs to sustain his charges in such a manner as to compel a conviction in the mind of every man capable of understanding them, and who would consider them. The attempts of the Radical press to ridicule Senator Sprague fail, because, in tbe speeches which have brought upon him the maledictions of the party in power, he has proved himself to be a man of Doorage, an intelligent observer, and one who thinks clearly, unbiased by party trammels, jgp Is assailed because he has, in a more impressive manner than some other Republicans who have presumed to denounce the corruption of their party, shown its wickedness, and the littleness of the men who are highest in it. His charges are sustained by the Republican press, although it is careful to make its censures in a manner so mild as not to alarm the great mass (Republican voters, and drive them from the party. It would be as absurd to ask proofs of the corruption and wickedness of Congress, as it '. ould be to ask. proof that Grant is President, or Palmer Governor of Illinois. If the testimony of Republicans and Members of Congress will be accepted, it can as easily be proven that our National Legislature is intent only upon defrauding the people, and perpetuating its power, aa it ran be that " there is ne'er a villain in all Denmark but is an arrant knave." Unless the people can bo brought to the conviction that rottenness is in everything connected with the public service, and made to feel the necessity of instant and thorough reform, it is labor lost to discuss other political questions. Official prostitutior is the crying evil, and the country muut be made to lace the fact. Chicago Timet hth. Dook

Conn, PniKFTUtD & Co., Booksellers, of Chicago, have issued a Catalogue of a large number of Books, slightly shelfworn or faded in binding, which are offered at greatly reduced prices. This Catalogue will be sent by mail, post paid, to all who will write to them for it Books are sent by mail without expense to purchaser. It is said that after the horse is nine years old a wrinkle oomes on the eye lid, and every vsar thereafter ho has a well defined wrinkle for each year over nine. If, for Instance, a horse has three wrinkles be is twelve, if four he is thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles to njne and you will always it As a good many pepic have horses over nine, it is eswilv t:i- ; li true, the horse dentiht mtibi giys uj: t'b' tnide Ohio WwWtt

Shall We Encourage Boys to Stay on the Farm Bt all means, if they want to stay ; if they have a taste for farm life, and take to it more kindly than to any other pursuit. If a boy takes an honest pride in turning a straleht furrow, rearing fine calves and building fine hay stacks, doubtless the farm is the place for him. If he prefers to go to the county fair to attending Dan Rice's circus, if he selects the Prairie Farmer that came in the same mail with the New York Ledger, that boy has a taste for farming that it will do well to encourage. But how about the other boys, to whom farming is an uncongenial employment, and whose only lively step in the field is taken when the trumpet calls to dinner? Shall we encourage them to stay on the farm, with tbe fact staring us in the face that they have no natural aptitude for the business, and consequently will never become good farmers ? Much as we respect and honor the pursuit of agriculture, we think we should not. We cannot see how either the farm or the boys are to be benefited by the procedure. The fact is, we have too many poorly managed farms, and too many poor farmers to hold out inducements for increasing the number of them. It would be a much wiser course, every way, to find out what a bov is good for, if, indeed be is good for anything in particular, before you encourage hira to adopt any particular callir tr If the only good a boy ever did aoout the farm was to repair the pumps, hang gates, make moletraps, put in rake teeth, file the saw, and hang the grind-stone, and he did these things well, obviously the farm is not the place for him, but a machine shop is. If a boy will walk half a dozen miles, after the day's work is done, to hear a political speech, if he takes time from his play to attend trials before a justice of the peace, and sits up half the night, when he is poine to school, to learn declamations whick bring down the house at spellingschool, most, likely he will do the world more good if you put a law book and not a manure fork into his hand. If he earns more money trading jackknives and fish lines on rainy days, than he does hoeing potatoes and "cutting grain in fair weather, give him a chance to handle a yard stick, and not heve him around troubling other boys who are handling horse rakes and pitch forks, and like the employment. A fain, if a boy is skillful in skinninpr small animals and stuffing birds, if he practised making pills of mud when he was a child and extracte l teeth from the jaws of dead horses with pincers when he got older ; if he reads physiologies when his brothers are engaged in perusing Robinson Crusoe, he will be far more likely to succeed with a lancet than with asevthe. It has become very fashionable lately to exhort farmers to encourage their boys to stay on the farm irrespective of their ability or taste to become good farmers ; but we cannot see the propriety of it. On the other hand, we see many good reasons why boys who do not promise to become good farmers should be encouraged to try their hands at something else while they are still young. Because a boy was born on a farm it is no reason why he should always stay there if nature gave him gifts for something else, but denied him the inherent faculties for becoming a successful farmer. In India persons are born into a Caste but can never get out of it. In ancient Ecrypt children were obliged to follow the occupation of their parents to the latest time. But we have never heard ot any good, but heard of a good deal of evil coming from it. The farm is a good place for boys to stay on unless they have an aversion to farm life, and have, at the same time, a strong inclination to go into some other kind of business that is more congenial to them ; in hwich case we think they had better go their way, and the sooner the better. Prairie Farmer.

Sorghnm. A writer in the Wisconsin Ht'tte Journal thinks that the sugar beet cannot be cultivated at the North more profitably than sorghum. " The bect can only be worked up by large establishments, and with much skill and capital. When so managed the best of sugar can be made from it, and we think we may yet see large sugar beet establishments in each State to supply us with our fine sugars, but the great universal want of the people can only be supplied by sorghum. With this every man can raise his own and every neighborhood can have its mill. The expense of starting a sorghum camp is comparatively small, and the skill required in working it is hardly equal to that of making a good loaf of bread." Cultirating Orchards SHOULD orchards be cultivated? is a question frequently discussed among nomologists. There are, however, very few who will advocate dispensing with so important an operation, particularly while the trees are young. Cultivation hastens maturity, inasmuch as it assists growth, and those who neglect it will UfiurJly discover their mistake when too late for introducing a remedy. By keeping the surface of the soil open and loose, we insure the rapid descent of rain to the roots, and the absorption of moisture from the air, both very important considerations in a dry climate or season. That a loose, sponge-like soil not only admits moisture more readily than a heavy, compact one, but will retain a larger quantity and for a longer time, is well known to every one who has examined a cultivated and uncultivated field. As moisture is not only an important element in itself, forming, as it does, the greater part of the bulk of many vegetables, as well as dissolving the plant-food in the soil, and then becoming the medium of transmitting it through the living or ganism, It must be rpparent that a supply is one of the requisites of success in all departments of fruit culture. Too much moisture may be as in jurious as too little, and as a cultivated soil permits the surplus to pass off by percolation as well as evaporation, the importance of cultivation Is evident to prevent extremes In either direction. If we sow wheat, rye, oats, or any, of the cereals among trees, they abstract a large amount of moisture from the soil, and usually at the very time when the trees need it the most ; consequently such crops are more or less injurious. To seed down the land to grass is even a more objectionable practice, bemuse the soil is not disturbed once in a season which would be of some benefit to the trees growing therein. It is not only for the purpose of regulating the supply of moisture, that cultivation is recommended, but frequent manipulation of the soil assists in its decomposition, thereby furnishing the requisite amount of food to the trees. For the first few yean alterj planting the trees, the soil around them should be thoroughly cultivated, and as few peoplo will do this unless an immediate return for their labor can be secured, such crops as beans, potatoes, or other vejretsbles, may be grown in the orchard, but as m i- fertilizing material should be added annually as is removed in the cr p. There are without doubt soils so rieb and deep that they will support trees with' tit any of IhotQ precautions, but they must be eonf-id-'1 ions to the

general rule; but no weeds, grass, or other plants should ever be allowed to grow near the stems of young trees, especially apple trees, because, as is well known, the parent of the apple tree borer will deposit her eggs more frequentlv in trees thus surrounded than in thote not furnished withittch a convenient retreat. Mulching the soil around newly planted trees is sometimes practiced with beneficial results, but if continued for several years in succession, it will cause the roots to grow near the surface, where they are more liable to be Injured in severe winters, as well as in long protracted drouths in summer, than if deeper in the soil. In cultivating an orchard with a plow, some care is requisite to prevent injuring the roots, and the soil should not be worked so deep near the trees as at a distance from them, but if an occasional root or a number of them are destroyed, it will be far less injurious than a total neglect of cultivation. When the trees become so large that they shade the soil underneath them, then cultivation may be dispensed with, and the land seeded down to clover or grass, or, what would be still better, used as a pasture for hogs, but in no case should cattle or even sheep be allowed in an orchard. As a rule, orchards should be cultivated for the first ten or fifteen years, but should circumstances show that this system can be dispensed with in less time, then adopt such a plan and adhere to it for the alternate system of plowing for a year or two, and then seeding down the land among trees is scarcely to be recommended for any soil or location. Hearth and Home.

The Crow's Talne to the Farmer. Whatever wrong the crow commits against the cultivators of the soil may, by a little painstaking, be materially lessened or wholly prevented. The benefits he confers are both numerous and important. During the time he remains with us he destroys, so says no less suthority than Wilson, M myriads of worms, moles, mice, caterpillars, grubs, and beetles." Audubon also affirms that the crow devours myriads of grubs every day of the yeargrubs which would lay waste the farmer's fields and destroys quadrupeds innumerable, every one of which is an enemy to his poultry and his flocks. Dr. Harris also, one of the most faithful and accurate observers, in speaking of the fearful ravages sometimes wrought in our grass-lands and gardens by the grub of the May-beetles, adds his testimony to the great services rendered by tbe crow in keeping these pests in check. Yet here in Massachusetts, regardless of such testimony in their favor, we have nearly exterminated these birds, and the destructive grubs, having no longer this active enemy to restrict their growth, arc year by 3rear increasing with a fearful persistence. We have seen large farms, within an hour's ride of Boston, in which, over entire acres, the grass was so completely undermined and the roots eaten away, that the loosened turf could be rolled up as easily as if it had been cut by the turfing-spade. In the same neighborhood whole fields of corn, potatoes, and almost every kind of garden vegetable, had been eaten at the root and destroyed. Cur more intelligent farmers, who have carefully studied out the cause of this unusual insect growth, have satisfied themselves that it is the legitimate result, the natural and inevitable consequence of our own acts. Our shortsighted and murderous warfare upon the crow has interrupted the harmonies of nature, disturbed her well adjusted balance, and let loose upon agriculture its enemies with no adequate means of arresting their general increase. Ihomas M. Bnictter, in Atlantic Monthly for April. The Manufacturer and Builder says: Steel punches, or other small implements, principally engraved dies, when, by accident exposed to too great a heat, they have become spoiled, or, as a blacksmith calls it, burned, may be restored by the following mixture : Two ounces of bichromate of potassa, one ounce of pure nitre, one ounce of gum aloes, one ounce Of gum arabic, and two ounces of resin. The whole having been well powdered and mixed, the piece of steel is heated to a low red heat, and the powder put on. It is then heated again to a low red heat, and cooled. The steel will then be very hard again. The amount of nitre may be doubled, and that of the resin taken ten times larger; this is said to produce a greater hardnesss. We have little faith in top-dressings of barn-yard manure applied in the spring. Manure ought to be got under ground, or well harrowed in at this season. The temptation is strong to scatter the manure too much. Concentrate is the rule. We manure too much ground, we work over too much, and thoroughness is out of the question in too many cases. The hauling out of manure is attended with a great deal of labor, especially if the roads are poor and the ground soft. Field compost heaps made in the fall, and manure piles laid up in tho fields when needed during the winter, are a great saving. Agriculturist. Magazine Notices. The Nurserv. The April number of this charming " Magaim- for Youngest Readers" contains no less than a couple dozen of neat illustrations, to match a corresponding amount of appropriate reading matter, in the shape of pretty little stories, sketches, poems, etc., all suited to the minds and wants of tie little toddlers. 77i .ur'rj is published by John L. öuorky, 13 Washington street, Boston, Mass. fl.50 per year, with extra inducements to clubs. Specimen co.des furui.-heü gratis. The Atlantic. The Atlantic Montldy Tor April contains: Tart IV of Malbone, an Oldport Romance, by T. W. Iliglnson; The Mission of Birds, bj Thomas M. Brewer; Autobiography of a Shaker first paper by F. W. Erans; Rnn Wild, by Bayard Taylor; A Strange Arrival, by J. W. PeForest; Uow We Grow in theJrat North-West, by 8. H. Gay ; A Carpet iiL'er In Pennsylvania, by J. T. 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plication to the Publishers, Fislds, Osgood A Co., Boston, Mass. fa.00 per annum ; three copies, f5.00 ; five, 18.00; ten, f 15.00: twenty, f 30.0 ; with extra copy. Valuable Medicine. Wc presume no medical preparation ever offered to the public has been more thoroughly tested than PERRY DAVIS1 PAIN KILLER. Thousands of persons, were they called on to do so, would cheerfully testify that they have used it for various ills, with the most satisfactory success. It Is within our own knowledge, that an immense amount of suffering has been relieved by It. Its proprietors, Messrs. Perry Davis ft Son, save no pains or expense in order to satisfy the public. Being strictly honorable men, they observe the utmost uniformity in the manufacture of their celebrated Pain Kifler. The material" of which it is composed are carefully selected aone but the best quality being used. By these means the high reputation which tbe Pain Killer has long since acquired Is at all times triumphantly sustained. In view of these facts, wc are by no means surprised to learn that Messrs. Davis A Bon's sales are constantly and rapidly increasing. While we congratulate our friends generally that so valuable a preparation as the Pain Killer is placed within their reach, we must be permitted to rejoice at the well merited success of its liberal and enterprising proprietors. Providence General, Advertiser. The Age or Miracles Revived. The Messenger of Health gives the particulars of one of the most miraculous cures on record. Isaac Snltzer, of Myeretown, Lebanon county. Pa., a youth, seventeen years old, was afflicted for over two years with the worst form of Scrofula ; hie entire body, face, neck and limbs were literally covered with large running sores, which discharged purulent matter so copiously as to gather half an inch deep in bed during the night ; he was constantly cold, and required a hot fire in his room both summer and winter; the smell was so offensive that no person could endure it longer than a minute or two; Drs. Brldenbach, Bacher, fleckart and Lebvengood, well-known end skillful physicians, attended him successively, without being able to afford the sufferer any relief. As a last resort, he was induced to use the celebrated MISllLER'S HERB BITTERS, and is now perfectly restored to health. The editor of the Messenger of If-alth has in his possession two lsrge glass jars containing five jiO'Tvi of sctbs taken from the body of young Saltzer. The Trying Season. The searching winds, the cold, drizaling rains, the heavy fogs, and occasional warm and moist days of March, render it, upon the whole, the mast unhealthy month of the year. Its depressing mflnenccs are especially unfavorable to invalids, and thonsands of persons with feeble constitutions, who have borne the winter bravely, break down in the first month of Spring. The variations of temperature and cold east winds are a serious trial to the dispeptic and biliouß, whose symptoms they invariably aggravate. Intermittent fever is also rife wherever there Is evolvablc poison in the water or the soil. To enable the system to combat these evils, there is nothing like a good vegetable tonic, and among thia class of medicines IIOSTETTRIi'S STOMACH BITTERS stand supreme. Medical men prescribe it in preference to any of the tonic preparations of the pharmacopoeia. They are aware that the ordinary tinctures and extracts are all based upon cheap alcohol, which is surcharged with an acrid essential oil, and absolutely 5oi-onous. They know, on the other hand, that the rectified essence of the finest rye grown in this country is the sole spirituous ingredient of HOSTETTfiR'S BITTERS, and that the vegetable medicinal elements of which it is composed are of rare efficacy. Hence it has the confidence of physicians, and finds its way into hospitals where no other proprietary mediee Is sanctioned. A course of the BITTERS is especially recommended to persons of delicate habit, of both sexes, at this season. In the fever and aeue districts of the West and South, quinine has been almost universally discarded as a cbologogue, and this invaluable antidote to malarious disorders adopted in its stead. A double gain is realized by the change, for the Bitters, unlike that dangerous alkaloid, are agreeable to the palate, and their curative effect is much more permanent. THE BP OLL. HI S'J CHARLES A. DANA'S PAPER. The cheapest, neatest and most readable of Nev York journals. Everybody likes it. Three editions. PAiyr, Semi-Wkfki.y and Wkrkt.y. at 86, and ft 1 a yenr. Full reports of markets, aerlcnlture. Farmers' and Fruit (Growers' Clubs, and a complete story in ery Weekly and Semi-Weekly number. A valuable prfsnnt to every subscriber. Send for specimen, with premium list, t. v . e.itiL.A. 1, ranimner .-", x,'-w ion, LIVINGSTON k CO., Iron Founders, PITTSBURGH. PA., Manufacturers of SUPERIOR GRKY IRON For AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Fence and Counter IUillnr, Lhrht Machinery, and Miscellaneous Articles Generally, Requiring either a Soli or Strong Iron. Clf- Our arrareemonts for LOW FREIGHTS SO all parts of the We t. enable us to furnish Superior Castings as low as any Works In the country. THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE. PERRY DAVIS' PAIN KILLER. THE PAIN KILLER 1 is both an Internal and Eaternal Remedy. 'PEE PAIN KILLER 1 Should be used at the first manifestation of Cold or Cough. rpHK PAIN KILLER X Don't fail to keep it In tbe house ready for use. TUE PAIN KILLKK Is an almost certain cure for CHOLERA, and has, without doubt, been more succsfnl in curtnn this t rrlble disease than any other known remedy, or evea the most eminent and skillful Physicians. In India, Africa and China, where this dreadful disease is ever more or leas prevalent, the Pain Killer U considered by tba natives aa well aaby European residents in those climates, a sure remedy. IHK PAIN KILLER Each Bottle is wrapped with full directions for its useThe good people of the West should always keep by them a good preparation, and PAIN KILLER Is that preparation . Don't be deceive by the many worthless stuffs offered, such as King of Pain. Pain I'alut," and the like. The Pain Killer is known to be frxxL TIIK PAIN KILLKK 1 Is sold by all Irugglsts and Dealers In Family Modiclues, SOKE EYK9 CURKD. The followlnn letter will prove the merits of Dr. Weav?r's Cerate. It will cure all eruptions and diseases of the skin : "Hajultos, Ohio, An. 17, 19. I have been afflicted with sore and tesrur eye for tha last five years on the recommendation of a friend. I was induced to use Ir. Wearer's Cerate, and hare derived creat advantage from li uss. "JOHN II FALCONER." CERATK SOLD DY ALL DRUQQ18T8. PURE SORGHUM SEED, Put up and for Sale by ' . W. SKINNER & CO., MADISON, WISCONSIN. We Invite the attention of Sorghum Growers to our snpplv of pure send. We hare gathered it with much care from the South. We raoommend the reenlar Chinese Cane as the most profitable and reliable to plant, and we offer it at the following rates: Sent by mall, postage paid, 40 cents per . Delivered at our office, or en i ny expre, 30 cents per lb. To Dealers or Mill owners, Who wish to supp y their neighbors, we Will furnl.h It at still lower rates. To pariles prefenlng any f the lmnhee varltttf. Puch At Siberian White Imphee or Otahettan, we will furnish at H cents per h., by mail, or 0 c ents by express. The recent extraordinary advance In the prie of sugar and srup by reason of the civil corn, motion tn Cuba adds preatly to the Inducements to cultivate Sorghum larue y during the coming season, and the many luuuliics we are receiving for seed ana irr sornhnrn machinery, liow that some at least .pprecate the position, ami ar' preparing to reap the harvest for which we have long neen waiting. Any Inquiries in regard to seed or machinery will be promptly answered. Addre K. W. SKINNKR A- CO., Marnfactnrers of the Cel. brated t Umax bugar Cane Mills and other larm machinery. MADISON. WIS. 83 O 008 HA LARV, Address U. B. Piaao Co., N. T POWELL'S PATENT SLEEVE SUPPORTERS. Unlike tbe Rlastlc Rand, are comfortable to the wear er, require no re adjusting, and are pionounced by all to le " a fr Ott swooea, and turn the thing." Can be worn eithi r under or outside the upper sleeve. Sent by mall, pre-paid, on receipt of 23 cents, threat inducement otic: 'd to dealers. Address C. B. HKSTON AM)., Bristol. Pa., Oen'l Agents for the Cnlted Htatrs. II0H TO INVEST A HOLLAR ! To Invest a dollar profltably, sendttc. fiwa Certlflcat In Packard & 0o.'b Holiday Distribution Of l'lnnoa. .llrlodeona, Watchea. Jewelry. JCc. Valued nt 7."HI.OOn. Frery article disposed of on the l plan, and not to be raid for until yu know what yon are to receive. Certificates and circular, sent on leeelpt of IV. or !t for II. PACK ARO A OQ-. OS West Fourth St.. Cincinnati. . EARLY ROSE POTATO. 0 NK ft. EARLY ROSE sent by mal', uost-naid.fi 4 tS. KARL.Y KOKK, sent by L mall, post-paid, 13 00. Beat Spring Wheat in the world, the. eai Heat and most productive Corn: wonderiul yielding Oata-white snd blac r- elh log 45 pounds to tbe boater, hTnIruf Hat lev: Orsas Ksed F' wTT- Evgs; Hogs-, thejereat Feed ( I Send for the aar Kill Mai I AJL r A KM wMt Mjaiin tW ft thin cotJutv on y 11.80 ner L 1 ARM JUCKN AL nvw

year Subscribe, If yni want to make your Farm psv Address GBO. A. Dkl TZ. Chamlersbunr. Pa $I(U OA V t . aeent. sMnp (Mi rr Patrht I " ' Ki.AMti- Hk'H'M. - "1 pre dict its succ.ss" cl.m.O A CO , :W t oitlandt st. rf DAVIMON TIIOKrll.BftS HA4HKKK PLANTS. For sale h? the piece, dose. hundrd -r thousand. For particulars address, JOHN 14 AOS A p.N. Vlnvlafid. J or Id Detrborn ft.

Chicago Houses. I 7 A It WELL, J. V. Sc CO., Importers. i 42, 44 and 44 Wnbasta Ava. - Jobbers in Dry Coods and Pfonons.

v ISK n. R. A- ro.. M and 56 Lake St., mi Wholesale Dealers In J JL nillinery and Straw Good, Ladies Furnishing and Fancy Good. py Order solicited and satisfaction gaaraatced. HARRIS S. H 3 Soutb Canal St , FlrsandBurglar Proof Safes Locks. STOW Aj KU IT II, 00 Wst Kan'loiPh Ptrwt, VKLOriPKDK WHIRLS, fm.t I lS und Whüoii Vid.wrU. Wasron and Tarriage Makers, we can make i Ho advantage to call and see us when in the city. rsenfi ror price nn. IflUCftAD I Saft y.'ir Grocer for ParesiMu's f IrltUAn I Cidkk ViNKGAt. A most splendid article. Warranted pure aiid to preserve plckl' FIItfiT PREM 'UM at the U. 8. Fair. III. State Fair, and Chicago City Fair. Largest work "i the kind in U.S. Established 1W. 3:tf &31 1 State St., Chicago. Manufactured by the I I IN I I Northwestern Fire ExtlugnlNher ., 133 WASHINGTON ST., Hi AGThe Board of Underwriters and the Fire Com mi sionera of ChlcaLT have recommended their feoeral Introduction. U. P. Harri, La'e Fire Marshaf of tbe city, has placed them on sale In ht warehouse of firemen's materials. 60 Wells bL, as the best thing of the kind in use. John V. Farwell A Co., the Iaret Dry Goods Jobbers In the W eat, have solicited Uäe prlvl lege of selling them to their customers, as fie best means of protection against fire. OFFICE OF North-Western Fertilizing Co., Cor. Lake Jt LaSaUe Äfa., Chicago, JU. This ( ounany having the control of an amount ot BONKS, BLOOD and MEAT, are prepared to offer to Akc-lculturlsta a few hundred tons of the MANURES mentioned below. ftT The standard of each article Is ot?AAWTD. Rnw Rone Super I'hoophate ot l.ime. Frice per 'OOO Iba.. - ft 10 Cash. CUICAKO RLOOD MANURE, Priceser'UUUIss., - - ft34Cneh. CALI MET MILLS BONE DUST, Price per 5000 lb.. - - ft30 Cask. MEAT AND BONE til' A NO. Price per 4UOO lb.. - - -! -h. Dixcount from above prSM to Regular Dealer. THOSE WISHING TO TEST these Manures, are notified that they must order early or it will be impossible to snppiy them promptly. Address all orders to. NORTH-WESTERN FERTILIZING CO., Cor. Lake & LaSalle Ma.. Chicago, in . MACHINERY. C. & J. COOPER & CO, 88 MI h Ig an A to., Chic PROPRIETORS SO, ,1 Manufacture Stattonnry, Portable and Farm Engines ! Of 7 to 1300 Horse Tower. Tubular, Locomotive and Fine STE AJI ROILERS, Circular Saw Mill-. PORTA HUE 2 Grist Mills and Bolts, MVCIIIIN ERY For Merchant nnd t'avtoni Flourtna Mill... FaclorlfM, Klcvntom, nud Fsrini. -. Also. Importers and Dealers tn Circular Ifta-trw, l! Itinc P:i Uin. Howe, Iacinjs:, "1 ill sion. Bolting: Clotli, WHEAT-CLEANING MACHINERY And Sole Agents for lSHIEKSON'S PATENT BBHHl TOOTH SAWS PLANS AND OKAWIVCM exeented. and Mtf Wrights M-nt ulrect Irom the orks, to erec Krtgln -and Mills. All Machinery an ! ; : . !'-.:: give satisfaction. 8end fur circulars. Address C. & J. Cooper & Co.. 88 Michigan Ave., - - tiir aco. III. AliKT WASTKD for the onlr teel encrav inrofOBN. URAST ami !its family, pu'.;:-: with thrlr approval. Blze 15x15. Address, OOOP bPKrD CO.. 37 Park ROW New ork Commends Itself to Every Family ! ! WlCk Kalserand Adjuster KerosCBM Hnrners adaptd! to the prevailing t l- of bltnneys. and fit a 1 I tnt llltri-nt nerton mule und I male Will find tenr: I neratlve employment sellii g this article of housel nccendfy. fretid tmp for circular. K- R. Mm 3.l llu!i!i - tri- i. n. York city. The Patent MAtHC ;OMH contains no poison. Will or Mrey hair a per mir illilw h ulack or Hrown. man on it-, -i r , - - - - Treasurer Magic Comb Company, .-ftlrigfleld. Mass. To TBI WomKiso Cla" I am M prepared furnish all claase with constant empl ment at their homes, the whole of the tliue. or I menu, business new, light and p-o0tablc V cents to P per even'ng. Is cas'lv can d hy p. rsc; either sex, and the boys and girls earn nearlv as nun i as men. Ureat Indi.eements are offered those will devote their whole ttSM to the busux -every person who sees th' notice, may seed me their address and test the business for themselves, I makthe following nnparalleled offer: To all who are n -v well satisfied with the business, I will send $1 u . for the trouble of writing me. Full particulars, dirtlons. Ac, sent tree. Sample sent by mail tor lOceats Address R. C. ALLKN, Aurii'ta, M . a , im w vi t ATT N nilDMfVe C'ATAltltil SXI FKCt'KKSPt UUlf HU V es.- ol the Head and Throat, the worst forms of CAT A K KM ! DrugfWt ke p it . or. a box will be sent prepatd by mall for thirty cent'. four fm me .ioH.fr. hv the proprietor, J. UIT.V No. l.rJXV T. Om New ork Ciu PlBDBtlwRTowx. Knox Co . O . Nuvcmhei i, lf. I LtrriKooTTA Harbwru.-Dsw.Sw-s I received your second Red .lacket ai per express, and r.o ac know led the same. For benefit of all whose desires or necessities make it the business to ehe with an axe, 1 would say Try th. Red Jacket; and. as the Supreme Court have heldtbs a Doctor's opinion without his reasons la of litt' value, I will give ray reasons : FtrsS The Red ' -cuts deeper than the common bit. &cafiJ 11 beiaf roend on the cut. It does not stick in the 7. Kvery chopper with the cosumon sar mu n cover that there is as mnch labor sd m nrth eipeoi ed In taking the axs out of Ui cut as II making I' blow. Ftmrth This with the Red Jacket is all a ed, and from one-third to on .-ball thjAabor Is sat rutting tbe same quantity JTrW-Äy putting la th' same labor that Is Bacasaary with a common axe y can easily make at least thirty-three per ce . wo, m1 tn th asm Urns. Too -re sal" in lettln- ai honest man try your Ren Jacket on th--e ' Ts, and It falls, fWund him his money RespecUuIlj, yours, HARRY BALDWIN For tale by all responsible deflsrs, and the maouis turera, UV11 SCOTT BAKEWKLL. PrmsriSB. Pi ,6.'! owners of Colhurn. r1 R. Jacket Patents. 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