Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1859.

(jrO The Court of Common Pleas sits at this place next week. o^7* President Buchanan was born April 21. 1791, and will be sixty-eight years old to-morrow. (ffT" The shade-tree meeting adjourned last Thursday night without doing anything, it being thought best to wait until the fence is built before taking anv action. (Kj”Mr. Wright retires from the Michigan City Enterprise. Mr. Jernegan takes his place, and is making it a Republican paper, instead of a sort of “half-and-half,” as it was before.

TO OUH SUBSCRIBERS.

This number closes the second volume of the Gazette. The first number was issued on VVednesday, April 29, 1857. Although the paper was commenced under unfavorable circumstances,’ failure of crops, the croakings of its enemies that “the editor would get his eye teeth cut before a year rolls over his head,” &c., the paper has continued prosperous up to this time; and we flatter oorself that it is an honor to Jasper county, and that the friends of free institutions are not ashamed of their organ. The publisher has not grown rich in the undertaking, neither did he expect it; but during the past two years of universal scarcity the people of Jasper county have not allowed him to suffer. They have paid up as well as could be expected. Our people are struggling through the hard times manfully, and it is expected, that if the crops do not fail the coming summer, Jasper county will be all right again. The terms of the paper are somewhat modified. For the next year they will be {as follows: In advance, or within one mdnth> $1,50; within six months, $1,75; within one year, $2,00. These terms are fair, and will be strictly adhered to. Those of our subscribers who do not desire the next volume, will please request their postmaster to send the next number of the paper back; and all who are Indebted for the first or second volume. or both, are requested, if they cannot spare the money, to se’nd in their notes, or, what we much prefer, call in and have a chat with us when they are in town. If they can’t make it convenient to pay, that needn’t trouble them; they can pay when they can; we know that they are hone t—we don't have any other kind of subscribers.

[For the Rensselaer Gazette. Rensselear, Aprl 15, 1859. Mr. Davies— Str: Some time since, a notice appeared in the'Gazetle informing! its readers that you purqtesed publishing the speech of Hon. Owen Lovejoy, and also the letter in reply by hiis brother—Joseph Lovejoy. In due tiihej the speech appeared in the Gazette, without note or c 'lament, ami it was reasonable to suppose, insomuch as it was claimed that the speech was more than a match for the letter, and occupied considerable more space, that the latter would, i also, appear under like circumstances. It was, therefore, a matter of surprise, with i many of your readers, that you should accompany it. with three co unins of your own j comments—a compliment by no means flattering to the speech of Mr. Lovejoy. I am informed that permission has been solicited to reply to these comments, and that the request is denied unless the article appear over the proper signature of the writer. This, under the circumstances, is an unusual restriction, and. outside the usage of the press. The individual making the request, I understand, is willing to avow the authorship and assume all the responsibility that may attach to his article, and only desires to withhold his proper signature for reasons w hich must be as obvious to yourself, as they are to others. Jt will be regarded as a personal favor if you will state publicly the grounds upon which you impose this r-stricti m. Yours

very respectfully

reply. Friend McCarthy: I will answer your letter publicly, as you request, and briefly, although you, in my opinion, take a roundabout way to seek for information, as the opinions you gratuitously express in regard to Owen Lovejoy’s speech, his brother’s letter in reply, and my comments on the letter, are not pertinent to the request you make. •Since I have learned, by experience, how newspaper controversies in this place degenerate into personalities, I have made it a rule to permit no anonymous writer to criticise or attack, through the columns of the Gazette, the position taken by any person over his proper signature. This rule I have enforced against Republicans, and in favor of yourself, while you conducted the Hanner, and have frequently enforced it on various topic.'). Were all editors to adopt ♦,i. plan, the character of the press would ;ia greatly advanced. in tha estimation pf the

[public. A celebrated writer once said: “T he man who has not the courage to sign ■ his name to what he writes, had better not ■ write at all.” It is another rule with me never to notice, editorially, an anymous communication in reference to myself. I will not trouble myself with a “man oT straw.” If any gentleman desires to join issue on any position I may take as editor, he must publicly ta.k- the responsibility of his own articles, as Ido mine. Is this not fair? Doping this will prove satisfactory, I subscribe myself, Yours truly,

Beaver City, j Newton County-Ind. > April 14, 1559. S Mr Davies: Being called out on the question as to “who stole the amendment,” I will give “Teddy” and your readers such information as I have on the subject. Snider's House Bill No. 257, for the organization >f new counties, came up on its final passage on Wednesday of the last week of the Session, and was referred to a committee t be amended so that no county shall be formed out of another without the consent of ainijorityof all the voters of the county. 1 considered this equivalent to a defeat of the Bill at this late hour of the session. March’s Senate Bill No. 208, for the formation of new counties out of 200 square miles of territory, had passed the Senate; I considered our only chance for a law to organize Newton County was to attach House Bill 257, to Senate Bill 208 as an amendment. So I copied it off and handed it to Senator March. He approved of the plan and gave me a letter to M jssrs. F*ur- * dice and Duval, of the House; and at the night session the same evening, at the silent hour of midnight, while “our member” was sweetly sleeping, Senate Bill 208 was introduced in the House, the amendment as published in your paper attached to it, read the first time, referred to a select committee of Messrs. Duval of Boone, Griffin of Lake, and Austin of Wayne. The committee went out, examined the Bill, and amendment, and reported favorable; it then passed its second reading and ordered to be engrossed. In the afternoon ofthe next day, with a full quorum present, the Bill was put upon its third reading and final passage, when Snyder of Jasper moved it be referred to a [committee to amend it so that no county 'shall be divided without a majority of the . voters of the county consenting thereto. The speaker referred it to the same commit i tee of pie night before. At 8 o’clock in the [evening Duval handed back the Bill, the : committee rep rtang m/ar/isZ this last amend ! ment, and it was then put upon its final : passage, and passed the House, 51 votes in the affirmative, Snyder voting No. The Bill [ was then returned to the Senate, the amend ment concurred in. and signed by the Governor's the journals of the House will [ show. Snyder’s amendment was stolen by ■ no one; neither did it go up through the skylight of the Dome of the Capitol, as it passed from the Hou-e to the Senate, as some have I suggested. The committee reported against it, and therefore never b 'came part of the Bill. T A citizen of Jasper drafted a Bill containng the same provisions as Snyder’s amendment, and had it introduced bv Warner in I the Senate, and it was defeated. Nvbeker of Warren also introduced a simii lar Bill in the House, and it was voted down , in the early part of the session; and it is my I opinion no law containing such provisions, lor tending toward the repeal of the act of 1857; could have passed the Legislature of

1859.

The Sickles trial still produces great excitement. The probabil ty is tint the trial will last some two weeks longer. The following is Mrs Sickles’ confession, but the Court did not allow it to go t > the jury A Washington letter, in speaking of this confession, says: “The whole of the confession is in Mrs. Sickles’handwriting. It is plainly and distinctly written, and bears little, i any, evidence of the nervousness and trebidation natural to the penning of such a paper” The confession bears, throughout, the impress of an abandoned woman. I have been in a house in Fifteenth street with Mr. Key; how many times I don’t know; I believe the house uelongs to a colored man; the bouse is unoccupied: commenced going there the latter part of January ; have been in alone, and with Mr. Key; usually stayed an hour or more; there was a bed in the second story; I did what is usual for wicked women to do; the intimacy commenced this winter, when I came from New York, in that house—an intimacy of an improper kind; have met half a dozen times or more, at different hours of t’ie day,; on Monday of this week, and Wednesday also; we would arrange meetings when we met iri the street at parties; never would speak to Mr. Key when Mr. Sickles was at. home, because I knew he did not like me to speak to him; did not see Mr. Key for some (lays after I got here; he then told me he had hired the lious * as a place where he and 1 could meet; I agreed to it; had nothing toot or drink there; the room is warmed by a wood fiie; Mr. Key generally goes there first; have walked together, say lour times; I do not think more; was here on Wiglncsday last, between two and thr ■<'; I wet t there alone; Laura was at Mrs. Hoover’s; Mr. Key took] and lelt her‘there at my rcquc.-i; from, t here j I went to Fiiteenth street to meet Mr Key;! from there to the milkwoman; immediately!

J. McCARTHY.

D. F. DAVIES.

NEW COUNTY LAW.

A. B. CONDIT.

Mrs. Sickles’ Confessi on.

after Mr. Key left Laura at Mrs. Hoover’s. I met him in Fifteenth street; went in by the back gate; went into the same bed-room, and there an improper interview was had; I undressed mysell; Mr. Key undrqssed also; this occurred on Wednesday, 23d of February, 1859. Mr. Key has kissed me in this house a number of times; Ido not deny that we have had connection in this house, last spring a year ago, in the parlor on the sofa; Mr. Sickles was sometimes out of town,and sometimes in the capitol; I think the intimacy commenced in April: or May, 1858; I did not think-it safe to meet him in this house, because there are servants who might suspect something; as a general thing, have worn black and white woollen plaid dress, and beaver hat trimmed with black velvet: have worn a black silk dress there also, also a plaid silk dress, black velvet cloak trimmed with lace, and b|aci> velvet shawl trimmed with fringe; on Wednesday I either had on my brown dress or black and white wool-len-dress, beaver hat and velvet shawl; I arranged with Mr. Key to go inffhe h ick way, after leaving Laura at Mrs, Hoover's; he met me at Mr. Douglas’; the arrangement to go in the back way was either made in the street or by Mr. Douglas, as we would be less likely to be seen; the house is in Fifteenth street, between K and L streets, on the left hand side of the way; arranged the interview for Wednesday, in the street, I think, on Monday. I went in the trout door; it was open; occupied the same rooms; undressed myself, and he also; went to bed together Mr. Key lias ridden in Mr. Sickles’ carriage, and has called tojiis house without Mr. Sickles’ knowledge, and alter my being told not t i invite him to do so, and against Mr. Sickles’ repeated request. Teresa- Bagiolt. This is a true statement, written by myself, without any inducement held out by Mr, Sickles of forgiveness or reward, and without’any menace from him. This 1 h ve written with my’ bedroom door open, and with my maid and child in the adjoining room, at eight and a half o’clock in the evening. Mrs. Ridgely is in 'he house, within call. Teresa Bagioli. L ijai/ette-square, Washington, ) D. C , Feb. 26, 1859 $ Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton dined here two weeks ago last Tuesday, with a large party. Mr. Ktty was also here, her brother, and at Hny suggestion he was invited, because he lived in ,the same house, iiml a Iso because he had iniviied Mr. Sickles to dine with him, and Mr. Sickles wished to invite all those from whom he had received invitations; and Mr. Sickles said, “do as yo.ti choose.” Teresa Bagiolt. Written and signed in presence ol C. M. Ridgely and Bridget Daffy. February 26. 1859. [From the Detroit Advertiser, 14th.

A Long Series of Bold and Successful Forgeries—Arrest of The Forger.

On the 30th ol November last, a mannamed R. S. Monroe sold a draft ‘o W: L. P. Little, of Saginaw, for SBOO. The draft wasdriwn by the Bank of Galena, lII'., on the M irket Bank of New York. The) draft wis forwarded to New York, and credited to Mr. Little. In due course of time it returned to Galena and was then passed to the credit of the New York correspondent by the Bank of Galena. On the 16th of December, Monroe negotiated another draft for the same am unit, drawn by the same Bank on the M irket Bank, to tile Exchange Bank of Aubtr n. New York, where he formerly resided, and imme-diately-disappeared, no one knew w-hither. This [draft. like the previous one. went through the usual routine, was credited to the, Exchange Bank by tin- New Yo k B ink, and by the Bank of Galena to the M:nk -t’ Bank, without any suspicion on the part of any one whose hands it had passed, that all was not right. But in making up their accounts or striking their balances in January the Galena Bunk discovered a deficiency or discrepency in their cash account, amounting to nearly sl,600. Of course they set themselves about the agreable duly to discover where the trouble was, and upon comparing heir drafts the secret burst upon them. It turned out that some weeks previously they had sold at different, times two drafts of some ten dollars each. A further scrutiny showed that the ink in which the original amount of the drafts was writte >, had been extracted by an injenioui chemical pr.-ci,*ss, and eight hundred dollars substituted in its stead. Sa admirably bad this been do lel that the fraud; had not been suspected even- by th • Galena Bank themselves by whom they were origiDaily drawn.

As soon as the forgeries were discovered, the draffs we-e of course forwarded to the Banks by whom they ha.J been purchased ol Monroe. Immediately upoti receiving notice of the forgery, Mr. Little of Saginaw, repaired to Detroit, about the first <>f February, and placed the whole mutter in the hands of private detective Champ with instruc ions to spare no' expense in ferreting out and bringing to justice the forger. M•. Chimp entered upon an investigation of the subject, and by a proc -ss which none [mt the shrewdest detectives would have thought of adopting and which none others w uld h..ve thought ' f adopting, and which no others would understand were it necessary to explain it, he a length satisfied himself that i man by the n nn ■, or passing by the name of S. M. Hoyt, residing at Waupucca, VV.iupacca county, in the ■ orthern part of Wisconsin, in a comparatively u isettled part of the State, 250 miles or so north-west of Milwau ee, was the forger. Having no doubt hat he’had got on the track of his man, and that Hoyt was the alias of Monroe, Mr. Champ started in pursuit. At Milwaukee he consulted with Chief of Police Beck, who detained Wm. Garlie to accompany Mr. Champ, to Waupacca. Upon arriving there they found Hoyt without difficulty, and arrested him without the slightest resistance on his part. He was taken to the hotel and! given an hour in which to tike leave of his! wife, and make such arrangements as that! brief period permi ted for his long and melan-j choly journey. His interview with his wife, a young, intelligent and innocent women, to whom he[ had been married but a few weeks, is described as most heart-rending, and moved to tears all who witnessed it. She seems to have been warmly attached to him, and hud not the most remote suspicion that he had ever been or could be guilty of any er me. much Jess that of a forger, and a stil, ba-rr one against him, of which more directly. She hung about lijm in the, greatest agony,

and w uld not believe him a criminal, and finally had to be torn fron him and left alone among“strangers in a new and strange country, hundreds of miles f- om her father’s house and far from all friends. Monroe, alias Hoyt was taken to Milwaukee by the officers where they met several bankers, upon whom he had committed his forgeries, and amongst others, Mr. C. Birdsley. Esq., President ofthe Exchange Bank, of Auburn, by whom the forger was recognized, and by I. H. Burch of Chicago. By comparing notes it was ascertained that Monroe had been carrying o.n his operations on an extensive scale throughout the whole Western Country, and ’.y the sam° process as we have described above, that is bj' buying dralts for ten dollars, or so, extracting original amount, and filling in such sums as he thought safe, or as his plans required, and m every instance with the most perfect success, and without exciting th? least suspicion. Amongst others it was ascertained that he had purchased a draft on the Bank of Commerce, New York, for $lO of I. 11. Burch, of Chic go, on the sth of April, 1858, then altered it to SSOO and sold it to the Prairie du Chien Bank; and on the 2d of August he sold one altered in the same wav to the Bank of Milwaukee, on the Ocean Bank of New York. From the information obtained there is no doubt that Monroe’s forgeries a ount to fifteen thousand dollars at least; and as bankers do not like to confess to having been defrauded so successfully, as it is 4in impeachment of their shrewdness and vigilance, the amount may mu h exceed that sum. At any rate Monroe has proved himself One of the most shrewd, skillful, and successful forgers of' the day, and of course one of the most dangerous. There seems to be no limits to his f rauds, except the moderation of his desires. No one ever hesitated to take his drafts, and the forgeries would probably never have been discovered but. for the difficulty bankers who had sold him the dr..lts which he had so ingeniously altered, found in balancing their accounts. His operations might as easily ha'e extended to hundreds of thousands of dollars, as to fifteen thousand. Bankers and the public will therefore understand the importance of the arrest of this most skillful and most dangerous financier. Monroe's permanent residence was tit Walkerville, St. Joseph county, Indiana, where he has a wife living at. the l present time, and several children; and this fact will explain our reference to the crime greater than forgery which he had committed against the innocent woman living with him at the time of his arrest, and to whom he had been married, thus being a bigamist as well as a forger. Alter his forgery tit Auburn, he returned to his family in Indiana, confessed all to his wile, told her he must leave her, and oo to Pike’s Peak or somewhere else, to await arrest. She consented, advising him to look out for himself, and assuring him that she Would endeavor to support herself and the children. B t instead of going to Pike's he went to Jasper county, Indi.in.i. where he became acquaint: d with and married Martha Wilcox, the daughter of Jesse Wilcox, an old a"d most estimible man, and took her to the wild and sparsely inhabited region of Northern Wiscmsin, where his career of crime was so suddenly brought to a close on Saturday last. Hoyt, we understand, before marrying Mr. Wilcox’s daughter, purchased a pieeeot land in his neiglib irhood, expressing the intention of settling there, and thus introduced himself among .unsuspecting people as an honest man. ;

The Prather Family-Four Brothers Convicted.

L ist week, ii, the Cra.vford Circuit Comt. at Leavenworth, J.ickev Prath r, R nsselaer Prather, Pleasant Prather and William Prather, four brothers, were convicted and senten ed to the pen ten’iary for two years each, lor horse stealing. One other brotfier, Thomas, who was also indicted, died some time ag >in the jail at Leavenworth. Jonathan, another brother, was also indicted, but has not been arrested. The father of ibis interesting family, and still another son, are under indictment in the perrv Circuit Court lor the same offence; the old scamp and the lather of scamps being now in j.ii at Rome ! await ing his trial. Taken altogether, this Prather family, consisting of lathe r and 'seven sons, have but lew equals. They i have resided for a long time in the upper I part of Perry county, in a secluded spot, at d : tor a long tune have been suspected of dishonest piactices; but Irorn their number and maliciousness ol their character, the citizens of that portion of country were deterred from instituting legal inquiries i ito their habits of lite, and s a general thin j, avoided their residence and society, whi h enabled i them for a long time o carry on their thievj ish mode of life, by which they amassed a Considerable amount ol property. The lather of this family ol thieves, is a remarkable specimen of humanity. From . some rbeumatic affection he is drawn into I every conceivable ill shape, and has been . confined to Lis bed for the last tiiteen years, [ being unable to use any of his members ex- ! cept his hands and his tongue, the fattei o which lie u.-esvvith great facility. While nis afflictions of the body prevented him from engug ng in the active operations of liis business, lie w s nevertheless the ruling spirit of the lan, and is supposed to have planned every e pedition or toray upon the property and even lives of the peon e; for they are strongly suspected of having disposed of several indi.'du Js for the s.ike o: their money. The persons engaged in breaking up this desperate clan ol outlaws are entitled to the gratitude of the people. Corydon Democrat.

The St. Louis Election.

The Republican triumph in the noble city of St. Louis is an overwhelming one, giving her the post of pre-eminence among the Republican cities ofthe Union. Chicago, heretofore, has enjoyed that distinction, but must yield it. naw to the heroic Republicans of S'. L>uis, who, though in a Slave State, hive won their way to this proud position. Filley, the Republican Mayor, has wuhin a traction ol 3 (JOO maj rity over his Democratic competitor, the exact majority being 2,925; and the Republicans carried all the ten wards for Councilmen t-xcept the filth, which th?'y l ist by but. forty-nine votes. The voting, too, exposes cleariy the irandsof last August’s Congressional election.— South Bend Register.

Farmer's Department.

conducted by an agriculturist.

Seed Wheat. But very little wheat will grow well after being kept over one Summer.

Vineger.

Pure juice of the sorghum, put into a cask, will make vinegar quicker than any other wholesome article, and it will keep pickles.

Cucumbers.

It you will make a box, eight inches by ten, and fasten a pane of glass, or piece of .brown muslin over it, plant a few cucumber ■ seeu's in a good, rich place in your garden, whrre you warjt the vine, then set your box over the hili. You will have that excellent vegi able four weeks earlier than if you wait and plant only in the open air. ‘ Cucumbers for pickling can be planted later. You can get melkms a month earlier this wav>-

Spring Wheat.

In New York State, at the same latitude of this county two kinds of spring wheat have been raised with fair success. The variety called Canada Club is preferred on dry or sandy upland, while the Fife succeeds best on wet lands, and muck. Several kinds have been tried here, and the best crops have been obtained by harrowing the seed in very early in the season, without plowing, on land tilled the year before. 1 The same r • uit seems to have been obtained ir. other places.

Tobacco Seed,

Now is the time to sow it. If it is put into a cloth, and tied up and then dipped into blood-warm water and hung up by the stove brother warm place a couple of days it will start much Carlier than if sowed ! dry <m cold ground. Prepare a bed on soil free from weeds, or where the ground has been spaded in so deep that tbe_vveeds willj m t come up as soon as the tobacco, level the bed down smooth and sow the seeds on top. coverthem with dirt, but press them down hard on the ground and theyffvill grow. I Or sow them on a spot where a brushheap i has been burnt oil, sow on top of the ground i and tread them down. When as large as a dime, select the best plants and set them out on rich soil two and half feet one way and two feet the other, keep down the w'ecds with cultivator or h ie; they need no'hilling up. Or set tliem-on new soil land, if the soil is sandy; jt may be as well for the crop.

SUQAR CANE.

The Sorghum, or Chinese sujgar cane has become fixed as an article ol annual cultivation in this county. It comes to perfection in every part of this county; but the central parts are more particularly adapted to ils growth. Th same seed will grow and ripen earlier on sandy ridges, than on the muck and alluvial) of our rivers. Cane has been raised here for three years, and came originally from one kind of seed. List season, from some cause or other, two species were developed. The one was the ; same a heretofore, growing from nine to thirteen feet high and maturirg in about the same time that common field corn does; the ; : other grows, with the same cultivation, at : least two teet higher—u third larger round; but is two or three weeks later. Sorghum ought to be planted as early as the ground and season will admit in the spring; but wiil ripen if got in any time before the first of June. An acre planted on the first of May is worth an acre and a quarter planted in June, where both grow equally largj ai.d both get ripe, because the cane that ripens before the first of September, makes more and sweeter molasses than if it does not mature till Liter in the s ; is in If three or four of the lower joints of the sorghum are cut off a.nd the sap pres.-ed out and boiled down by itself, it will make sugar, preci.-ely in the same way sugar is made from the maple-trees. The higher joints will not granulate. The juices of the sorghum ought to be boiled and skimmed immediately on coming from the press. A little new milk, blood or eggs, stirred in before going to the kettle, will cause the scum to | rise much quicker and better, and the mulas- 1 i ses will be whiter and clearer, and free from the raw, j'reen taste that injures so much 1 of it. Il the sirup, when half boiled down allowed to cool and settle, the molasses is better by far, than if boiled right down without stopping. Imphee. —This is another kind of sor<’hum or sugarcane. It was raised in this county last year, and gave such abundant satisfaction that it will be extensively tried again this year. Its cultivation ;nd manufacture are precisely like the Chinese cane. It appears to be an earlier variety—the molasses is naturally lighter colored and of better flavor. It is thought to make sugar more readily than the sorghum.

INDLAN CORN.

An acre of corn planted the last of April or first of May is worth an acre and quarter planted later in the season. A bushel of I corn raised from early planted seed of the same variety,is worth much more than a bushel raised from that which is late planted. It is sohder, richer, heavier and mure notrijtious. It makes more pork, more beef, and I more bread. Every farmer and every miller knows that there is ten pounds diflerejnce in

the real value of wheat that weighs sixty one pounds to the bushel, and wheat that weighs fifty-seven. The heavier wheat making more flour and of superior quality; the same is true of corn, to whatever use you put it.-’ Corn brought from the south or south-west does not ripen so early as corn raised here. Corn raised for several successive years on hills will ripen earlier if planted in rallies. Corn brought from the north, will for three or four years ripen earlier than the same varieties raised here. A week earlier planting in the Spring will mike more thin two weeks difference in its maturing-in the Fall, The large varieties are most profitable for this county. I planted the Eastern Flint corn, the twelve rowed, last year, in the same field with the white Dent corn. The ground was prepared alike tor both, on account of the wet, at the time of planting,, both were listed in, and ten- ed with shovel plow one way. Both ripened and were cut up. before the frost, and shocked. The Den? corn produced forty bushels to the acre, the Flint, not above twenty, and, on accoir-W of the small tough stalks ofthe latter, I shonfti rather cut up two acres of the Dent tystkthan one ofthe Flint. This flint is of the King Philip variety. But the seed wae procured from the western pa-t of New York about four years ago, and since, ras.-red in this county. There is a variety of Flint corn, of broad thin kernels, eight rowed, called by some 'l'humb-nail or Fied's corn and other Dimes', recently introduced here, tbai promises to be valuable for late planting. I’liere are several improved kinds of corn which have been successful here, for the two or three past years. We need f r Jasper county, a variety of corn that is hardy, sufficiently early to ripen with safety in common years, with prolific large ears, and stalks large enough to stand ’up throughout the Winter in the field where they grow. Such corn can be cut up and shocked in the F ill, if there is time, or left to be gathered in the Winter. Those who test their seed beforehand may sometimes save the trouble of re-planting.

Facts For Fruit Growers.

We make the following extract from the proceedings of tin- Agricultural i.’Jub at New Brittain, Conn. Our friend, Isaac L. Stanley, will please accept our thanks for a copy of the l\<>rt.h and South containin<? the article. “Dr. ('-.inings spoke of renovating old « by digging trendies from th-- b.idy of the tree outward several feet, and filling them with compost, cr manure, also circular trenches, tin- circle varying with the size of 1 1 ie tree. The H irer ’.hat attacks the peach and apple tree deposits its eggs in the bark near the collar at the surface of the ground while the t ree j> young and the b irk tender at that point. In Die apple tx/e the worm is more frequently i!epos : t din the junction of the l imbs The I-ut erfly deposits the eggs eariv in June, or the ver 1 .st of MA. 'i’iie erub which is hatched in three or four weeks, remains in the tree from two to three years. Its presence is indicated by the du-t and cuttings which it throws out. To protect "the tree the use of sheathing paper lias b en recommend d. Secure by strings. Hilf a peck oi unslacked lime heaped up arouml the body of the the tree, may keep oil' the borer, while it furnishes an im p >rt..nt element for the growth of the trqe. “The‘apple-tree blight’ is a name given to a wooly insect about one-tenth ol an irtcii I >ng. It is d siitute of wings, and is waft--! from tree to tree by its downy coverm r . It is ustucKy found in the crotches of trees and crevicies of the bark. These insects frequently destroy the bark and girdle the limbs. To prevent their ravages, serape the* bark and wash with whale-oil soap, one quart to fi teen of water; or sulphuric acid. "The Aphides, or plant li--e, are frequently numerous, destroying a' times nearly every leaf on the tree. T.iey are more co mon on the peach tree. Washing tiie body and 1 m >s of the tree with the w i He- >ii so ip s<>lutii n. jti t before the bu s open, is said to I revent th ir appearance, <r they m*y be destroyed by throwing this wash on them wit!) a syringe. •• I’he American Tent or B ig worm deposi'es its eggs to the number of from sixty to one hundred on the twigs of fees late in the fall, and coats them over with a kind of gum which is insoluble in water. As soon as hatched, which is about the time the leaves are out, this caterpillar commences its depredations. I’nis is one ol the most injurous insects which infest our gardens and orchards. The tent may be picked from the limbs and destroyed at pruning time, or removed early in the morning alter their tent has acquired sufficient s ze to be readily recogn z -d. “The ovum of the appl..- worm is deposited both in June and August. It soon works its way to the core and destr. ys the vitality ol the apple, which soon falls'to the ground. Scraping the bark o f the tree and washing with soap, early in May, may destroy a portion of the cocoons. The Curculio stings all stone fruit—such as plums, cherries, apricots, and sometimes peaches. It is a small, brown bettie, from one-tenth to one-hu f inch in length, nearly the color of the bark of the plum tree. When disturbed it curls up and is easily shaken to the groujid. 'l’he Curculio may be destroyed by shaking the insect on to a sheet spread on the ground and burning them. Plum trees in hard clay soil or in pavement are not troubled with the Curculio. Salt or saltpeter scattered on the ground about the trees will act as a preventative. ‘The Millers, or butterflies, so common during the summer months, deposit the eggs whiclt produc most of the injurious insects which infest our fruit trees. These may be destroyed by kindling fires near the trees in the evening, during the month of June, or by hanging in the branches open-mouthed bottles tilled with sweetened water. Much injury to the trees may thus be prevented. Governor Hammond nr- ' rived here on las* evening.