Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1, 1859.

The Commissioners’ Court meets next Monday. We are obliged to Mrs. Asa Porter for some early garden vegetables. They were an acceptable present. A letter from Brigadier General Clark, dated Los Angeles May 2, says that Lieutenant Colonel Huffman’s expedition against the Mohave Indians was a complete success. Erastus Hammond requests us to say that his brick yard is in full blast, and that he is prepared to deliver brick in any quantity. His yard is two or three miles southeast of town. The Premium List of the Jasper County Agricultural Society is in type, but believing that there is a material mistake in it, we have laid it over for next week, until we can see the Secretary. A meeting was held at Arizonia City on the Bth ult., expressing strong disapprobation of the course of Congress toward Arazonia, and urgently requesting the co-op-eration of thq citizens throughout the Territory to establish and maintain an independent government. 1 oO”The Messrs. Laßues advertise in an- * other column that they can furnish the Lunar oil and lamps. It makes a good light’ I and is said to be twice as cheap as candles. They offer to talle the lamps back and refund the money to any one finding this not to be so. A fair proposition. CO" A citizen of this place—by the way, a particular frientUef ours—last Saturday topk a worthless dog of his into the country I to poison; but thej dog “played sharp, ’’ came back to town to ‘‘kick the bucket,” and our friend had to procure a wagon to haul the dog out of the corporation limits. His neighbors had many a laugh at the expense of the patent dog-killer. The President and Secretary Thompson left Washington last Monday afternoon for North Carolina. They were accompanied from the White House to the railroad depot by the members of the Cabinet. Buchanan chooses rather a warm season to travel southward. Perhaps he anticipates a cool reception, and will thus be enabled to keep up an euqjuilibrium. The telegraphic reports from Virginia indicate.the election of Letcher (Democrat) as Governor by some 2,000 or 3,000 majority. Governjer Wise was elected by 10,000. As the Slate Journal aptly remarks, “slavery understands too well who are its friends to abandon the true and tried Democracy for the uncertain love of the Opposition. Slavery and Democracy, now and forever, one and inseparable.”

EXPLODED HUMBUG.

We pretend no power of prophecy, being neither prophets nor the son of a prophet. But somethings can be foreseen and foretold by a mere exercise of the ordinary faculties which constitute the quality known and denominated as Common Sense. We unhesitatingly placed the stamp of humbug upon the foolish Pike’s Peak gold reports, from the very beginning, and our prediction has been verified with remarkable exactness. The very tenor, appearance and style of those reports, bearing upon their face the marks of exaggeration and falsehood. convinced us at once of their fictitious character and speculating design. But credulity holds a large place in the popular mind, and hence the majority of people accepted this apocryphal gold story as fact, and thousands were induced to pursue the ignis fatuus, which has led them to wretchedness, and some to destruction. Like the “South Sea Bauble,” which ruined its thousands, the delusive welcome that came from the plains of the West, to the seekers of gold, has changed into a most heart-rending wail of woe. Thousands of the poor deluded are on their return, and scores are starving on the road. The reports that continue to reach us of the sufferings of the emigrants, and of the straights to which they are driven to keep from starvation, are in the highest degree pitiable and horrible. The cruel and heatless swindlers of St. Louis, and the border towns of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, are endeavoring to keep up the fraud, pretending that those who are returning and who give the discourageing account., did not reach the “mines,” but turned back disheartened before they had accomplished half the journey. This is all nonsense, and is only designed to prop up still longer an exploded, cruel and terrible swindle. We publish in another column a graphic, and, we believe, a truthful description of the sufferings of the good-seekers, and the impositions practiced upon them by unscrupu-

ious men. Their hardships are so intense that the government ought to take the matter in hand, and send out provisions to the starving thousands between the Missouri river and Pike’s Peak. -----

FOURTH OF JULY.

Mr. Editor: The undersigned, in view of the approaching Fourth of July, would respectfully suggest to the citizens of Rensselaer and vicinity, the propriety in taking some immediate steps in the arrangement of a plan by which it is to be celebrated; and we would also suggest next Saturday evening as the time, and the Court House as the place for a meeting for that object. Thomas Clark, D. I. Jackson, James E. Ballard, Turner A. Knox, J. W. Duvall, Ezra Wright, W. W. Wishard, E. T. Harding, R. G. Howe, C. W. Henkle, J. Thompson, Jr., E. P. Hammond, C. B. Barnes, J. Welsh, J. M. Austin, W. J. LuRue, R. F. Goddard, A. Thompson, P. Dunlap, C. D. Stackhouse, J. C. Kerr, W. V. Snyder, W. H. Huber, H. M. Babb, Thos. J. Spitler, T. S. Peacock, J. B. Spangle. [For the Rensselaer Gazette.

THE “LAND SLIDE.”

r . Newport, R. 1., May 25, 1859. To the Editor of the Rensselaer Gazette: I noticed in your paper of the 18th inst., received this day your notice of the “Land Slide,” on the south side of the river in Rensselaer. The apprehensions alluded to in the article are based upon a misapprehension of the facts respecting the laying! out of the south addition. In the original survey of that addition, in the draft of the plat thereof, and in the description of the same on file in the Record Office, no mention was made of the Lafayette road; and the which addition was laid out without reference to the fact of its existence. This was from the simple reason that my surveyor informed me that the said Lafayette road would be covered by the contemplated line of Washington street. Acting on this information. I ignored its existence entirely. The description of the plat of the south addition commences, “at the intersection of Washington and Front s treets, on the northerly side of Front street, in the town of Rensselaer; thence south 38 degrees west, 30; rods and 13 links, to the north-w esterly corner of said addition; thence south 38 degrees east, 1,410 feet, to the north-east corner of or said addition: thence -south 38 degrees west, 300 feet ; thence north-westerly parallel with the first line 1,410 feet; thence north 38 degrees east, to the place of beginning.” It was laid out at right angles with Washington street continued on a straight line across the river, and entirely independent of the old Lafayette road The only probable inaccuracy must result from a mistake by the surveyor of the course, “south 38 degrees west,” from the point of starting. This was taken as the true compass direction of Washington street, contintied on its south-easterly line. If my surveyor was mistaken in the compass direction of the old Lafayette road, and its true course-lies more southerly than the line of Washington street, the simple remedy is an application by the parties in interest to have that part of the old Lifay tte road running through the south addition,vacated. The plat of the said addition was recorded June 1, 1853. The deed to Mr. Odell, Judge Milroy’s grantor, was recorded June 21, 1853. The description of the property conveyed thereby contains no allusion to the said Lafayette road, but bounds him strictly ; by the westerly line of Washington street on the south of the river, as by reference to said deed on record will appear. Even if the letter of the conveyance which forms Mr. Milroy’s title could carry him beyond the westerly line of Washington street — which it cannot and could not in the face of the prior recording of the plat—Judge Milroy, I think,knows that the intention was to limit his grantor to the said westerly line of Washington street. He is the last man to take advantage of a technicality. An intimate personal and business acquaintance with Judge Milroy, of many years standing, has so satisfied me of his entire integrity of character, that I, without hesitation, guarantee all parties in interest immunity from any trouble in this matter on the part of Mr. Milroy. J. C. Van Rensselaer.

Tornado Near Jacksonville, Ill.—Sixteen Reported Killed.

Springfield, 111., May 27. The Jacksonville correspondent of the Stale Register says that a most terrific tornado occurred twelve miles south of that city on the 26th. The violence of the whirlwind is described as exceeding any thing of the kind ever witnessed, except in the West Indies. Sixteen persons were killed and many others seriously wounded—some fatally. Houses were demolished and blown to atoms. There is an incalculable amount of damage done to property of every kind. We have not as yet been able to learn the names of those killed and wounded. Southern Convention voted to to m.'et at Atlanta, Ga.,on the second Mun day in November, IB6o—a week alter »! Pre-ideriti: I elect ion. /J’he members e. - pect. the election ot a Republican Bret .dent I will give them afresh reason for war against the Union,

[From the Missouri Democrat.

MR. McGINNIS' LETTER. -----

The Gold Mines Stated to be an Infamous Swindle—Suffering and Losses of Life and Property on the Plains. ST. LOUIS, May 25,1859. Mr. Editor: Having seen in your columns of the 24th inst., an article taken from the Leavenworth Times, containing “highly favorable reports from the diggings” about Cherry Creek, I am induced to write you this letter in the hope that it may be instrumental in saving some from being mislead, and falling into what I believe to be the most gigantic humbug that was ever perpetrated upon the American people. I left my home in the State of New York on the 20th day of March last, for the purpose of going to the gold mines. I visited most of the river towns in Kansas, and spent about one week in Leavenworth and three weeks in St. Joseph. During that time, I had a good opportunity of seeing vast numbers of emigrants start from all these points, and hear the arguments of the inhabitants of all the different starting points, trying to prove that their town was the best place to buy an outfit, and their route the best. I became satisfied that the old California road starting from St. Joseph, was the best, and, in company with a friend, bought a good; outfit, viz.: Three yoke of good cattle, a good wagon, six months’ provisions, consisting of every necessary article that we could, think of; also, carpenter’s tools, nails, butts and screws, window-sash and glass, and all the articles necessary to build us a good log house on our arrival at the mines. We left St. Joseph on the 20th day of April, and traveled west about two hundred miles. When we reached the Big Blue we began to meet the tide of emigration flowing back toward the East, with very unfavorable news from the mines. This did not make much impression upon us at first, and we came to the conclusion that come what would, we should go through. We continued to travel on for about six days after we passed the Big Blue, and every day the emigration to the East doubled, and finally we came to a halt for consultation. We had united ourselves to several other parties, so that we had about nineteen men in our company. Mr. John DeWitt, with a party of five, from Perry, Illinois, a party of six young men, some from Jackson, Michigan, and some from Minnesota; also, a party of six from New Haven, Connecticut. We pitched our tents, and after consultation, came to the conclusion that we should go through and see for ourselves. The next morning we took an early start, calculating to make a good days journey, but had not traveled far when we met a company returning that had been through and worked in the mines. Among them were three old acquaintances of our friend, DeWitt, from his old town in Illinois. He said they were men of truth, and could be relied upon. We had the most implicite confidence . in their statements, which were substantially as follows: They had prospected the country around Cherry Creek, and traveled ten miles up in the mountains beyond where they could find the color, and prospected all the way. They gave it a thorough, trial, and the rnost they could make was <three cents a day to the man>. They visited all the different diggings, and did find a man that pre-: tended that he could make more than from three to twenty cents a day. They also stated that almost all the emigration was turning back, and advised his friends and neighbors, Mr. DeWitt and party, to return to their homes. This was too much for them. The party began to move. Some were in favor of returning, and some of going ahead. We traveled on that day, but did not make much headway, as we met thousands on the back track, the road lined as far as the eye could reach with long trains, nine-tenths ot which were wending their weary steps toward the East, we concluded to go into camp again for consultation. We pitched our tents, and there we found a gentleman by the name of Vaness, from Jackson, Michigan, who, with his party, were on their return, after having spent some time prospecting in the mines. Mr. Vaness is a gentleman of truth, and was well known by several in our encampment. His statements were substantially as follows:

STATEMENT OF MR. VANESS. I started in March, with mule teams, and arrived at Denver City early in April. On my arrival the speculators in town lots swarmed around me and tried to induce me, to take some shares in their new town. I told them I did not wish to speculate, but wanted to engage my party in mining. I asked them if they knew where there were any diggings that would pay. They say: “Oh, yes, we can show you rich diggings not far from the town.” I asked them how much it would pay to the pan. They said they could show me diggings that would pay me ten cents to the pan. I told them if they would do that I would give them ten dollars for their trouble. So they agreed to go and show me the next morning. I called on them in the morning, and reported myself ready to go to the diggings, but they said they could not go that day and made a great many excises. I was I satisfied they were humbugging me, and offered to pay them ten dollars if they would show me where I could find dirt that would pay even five cents, then three cents, then one cent. They could not do either, for the I very good reason that there never had been diggings found in that country that would pay one cent to the pan, not even one-fourth of a cent. I prospected the country all around, visited all the claims and diggings, and positively assert that no man has ever made more than twenty cents per day in the best diggings in the vicinity of Pike’s Peak or Cherry Creek. Gold does indeed exist there. It can be found anywhere about Cherry Creek and all the streams, but the particles are so minute that it is with great difficulty they can be collected, and mining can never be made to pay there. Dever Ciiy and Auraria consist of a few log houses or huts, and there were less inhabitants there when I left than when I arrived. The towns are being deserted by all except those who own the lots, and they are hanging on in hopes of selling them. Mr. Vaness was present at the burial of Bassett, the bogus postman. He states that Mr. Bassett had been, engaged in writing fraudulent letters East. He said there were a large number in his possession and that all the letters coining form that country, giving glowing account's of the mines,

are fraudulent and downright lies. The statement of Mr. V., backee [sic] up by all his company who were with him, was a hard pill for his Michigan acquaintances to swallow, and many ot them came to the conclusion that they should retrace their steps to the East.

STATEMENT’OF A BROTHER OF ONE OF THE COMPANY. That day I saw two brothers meet on the road—the one on the return had been to the mines, had spent the winter there, went out last fall, had prospected everywhere, had given it a thorough trial, and said that there was no gold in paying quantities to be found anywhere in that country—that from three to fifteen cents per day was the most that could be made by any one—that the country is a barren waste—that it never can be a good agricultural country—that it is not fit for a white man to live in—and that if gold could be found there in quantities that would pay five dollars per day, it would bo nonsense to go there and dig it, as there are only about four months in the year that a man can work there; but, as it is, it is nownright [sic] madness for a man to go there, expecting to make money by mining, when he can have no hope of making over twenty cents per day; and if he has to pay board, it will cost him three dollars per day. A conversation something like the following took place between these two brothers. The one on the return said: “My God! where’ are you going?” “I’m going to Pike's Peak.” “What in the world are you going to Pike’s Peak for? I wrote you not to come.” “You wrote for me tome [sic] immediately, and stated you were making from five to eight dollars a day, and here’s your letter,” producing one that purported to have been written by him, and was mailed at Auraria, but was a fraud. The brother outward bound returned. I traveled in company with one who spent the winter at Cherry Creek, two days, and many an interesting talk with him. I also met a gentleman, whom I knew well in New York, who has been sutler to Fort Laramie, and has spent fourteen months there. He is on his way East. He has just come down from the mountains, and is well informed respecting all that country. He pronounces the whole thing a most <outrageous humbug>, and says that they have tried mining there years ago; that he has seen old sluice boxes lying rotten there that have been abandoned because they could not make it pay. He says that this is well known by the officers in the army and others that have traveled in this country. Same of his clerks left him and went to the mines last fall, but after their vain efforts, were glad to return. Well, after having heard all the evidence, and having seen a large number of others who had been through to the mines, and all telling the same story, we were overwhelmed with the evidence and returned.

SUFFERING ON THE PLAINS. There has been a great deal of suffering, sickness, starvation and death of men and animals on this journey. It was no uneommon thing to count the carcasses of more than fifty oxen in a single day. Hundreds of men started off' with no better outfit than a carpet-sack, others with hand-carts, and some with wheelbarrows. They got ahead of the emigration with teams, and after having passed Fort Kearney, the only alternative for them was robbery or death. They banded together in strong parties, and robbed many a man of horses, mules oxen and provisions, and many from incessant fatigue, privation and exposure, have left their ' bones to whiten on the distant plains of Kansas. THE GETTERS UP OF THE SWINDLE. There have been three or four different classes of men engaged in getting up and promulgating this infamous swindle, which has caused tens of thousands to leave their families and homes, and spend their last dollar to reach what they supposed to be a new Eldorado. A lot of land sharks who went out there and laid out towns, and then, by lying and writing back false reports to the East, made some believe that gold, in paying quantities, was found at Cherry Creek. Then these rascals were backed up by those interested in the frontier tows [sic] of Kansas City, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Atchison, St. Joseph and Omaha. They raised funds in these and other towns, to send, as they did, drummers East, for hundreds of miles, to spread their infamous lies, and to publish maps, charts and pamphlets, giving glowing accounts of what I have reason to believe they knew were false reports of the Kansas gold mines; and, strange to say, they yet persist in publishing reports of this kind, when thousands are returning daily to tell them otherwise.

THE EMIGRATION AND THE RETURN. The emigration has been very large. It must have amounted to at least an hundred thousand. I have stood upon a hill top and counted fifty teams in sight at one time, in a distance not exceeding five miles. There was an average of about five men to one team, and all the different roads were lined for hundreds of miles. At the same rate nine-tenths of that vast emigration have, or now are on their return Then these sharpers have another lick at them. They go out : and meet them, perhaps fifty miles off, with reports that there, are so many thousand returned to all the towns along the river—that their oxen, wagons and provisions are not worth anything, consequently the disheartened emigrants sell their property for a mere song. I have seen oxen that cost a hundred : dollars a yoke, sold for $30; bacon 5 1/2c @ lb; flour, $1,50 @ cwt.; rice 2c. j@ lb; sugar 4c., etc. Wagons that cost from $75 to $100, for $30. The suffering and loss that has been caused by this infamous humbug is incalculable, and it ought and will react upon those who have knowingly aided and abetted its promulgation. Respectfully, J. MCGINNIS. Of Lockport, New York. ----- ---->A party in Chicago—a commission merchant—contracted with a farmer in the interior of'lllinois, for the product of seven hundred acres of wheat which the farmer has in growth, at $1,50 per bushel, to be delivered at the depot in Chicago by the first of September next. Of this wheat, three hundred acres is spring and four hundred autumn. The party purchasing enters into bonds, with good and sufficient security, to forfeit $2,000 in case he declines the wheat at the time stipulated.

Farmer's Department.

CONDUCTED BY AN AGRICULTURIST. BAD LUCK WITH BEES. The Cause of it Illustrated. Some people never have any good luck with honey bees. Well, what of that? Some people never have good success in anything. Some men have been to California, and returned without having been able to find any gold in that State, and believe to this day, that all the stories they ever heard about gold there are false. But the neighbors know that in that special bump such a fellow is touched with mania. But we are told the bees die, or get cross and sting-the cattle. horses, poultry, and the children. They rob or lay out and won’t work, and after watching them the whole season, never swarm—or, fight and sting like blazes, when they do swarm; and after staying an hour or two, in the top of a tree, or all round the body of the tree, and being whipped in a “gum” or“scap” work a day or two, and cut up the deuce, generally,then all at “wunce” they start out and “gwoff. l ” “I never have no luck with ’em, no how. They never like me nor i ’um.” Now hear how my neighbor manages his bees. Mr. Max is a wiseacre, full of saws, a very knowing man—a man of industry, attentive to farming, knows by the looks of- the new moon how. much it it is going to rain that month, plants in the sign, and docs his work generally as nisi ‘•four fathers” did before him. Mr. Max bo-ght two swarms of bees which he paid for in feheep, “kuze he'd hern it sed that bees never did well when paid for in money.” lie took them home where the broiling heat of summer, would strike with scorching rays directly on the hives, “kaze, il theys put where the first raze of the suu would strikb.’em tliade ginter work airlier the morijin." As if sipping dew, would be making noney! On Friday, earlj’ in June Mr. Max told bis wife, he' rather thought the would swarm pretty soon and yes must’keep a sharp look cut fo.r fear they’ll “gwolf.” Sure enough about eleven o'clock, while he was at work in the liv'd ■. little distance from the .house, his wife call' d to him, in great escilement, to come quick “here bees swurmin.” “Get the l\c-11, wife,” shouted Max, “tis an cislucky d ;-. . I'm r r-J. thee ”1 gwoff.” By the time Mr. Max had :;r--;ved at the' house, the young swarm ln.fi nearly all left the p went hive and were looking round for a convenient place to settle on. But alibis-; interesting moment, wile was fully engage-! in amusing them with the jingle and dong of a cow-bell. Suke had a tin pan hammering on't w itii a spoon. Jim had a small brass kettle which he was pounding with a. sad-iron. Nat had the shovel and tongs. Mr. Max ran to the barn for a string of sleigh bells. Tom, who had been left back to hitch the horses, now came-up with a hoe and clevis, which he was slamming with all his might; Mr. Eck’s, the hired man, now joined the melee, with a double barreled shut gun. which was fired into the thickest of the bees which, as he said, made a hole in them as big as a hogshead. At this juncture, frightened and maddened with the discord dire and horrible din, and treated as hey hid been not only with much mu sic but with lead pills, fire and brimstone, the bees commenced a sort of dizzy, irregular whirl, rapidly ascending till they brought up, seventy feet from the ground, on the uttermost twig of a tall oak, some three feet through, about thirty rods from the house. “I’m feered we'll lose um arter all we’ve did to save ’em” said Mr. M ix despondinirly. “They’s mighty cross” replied Ecks, “they’s stung me like hujas.” “They’ve banged up one of my eyes lather,” answered Tom. “They’re proper tetchy, an itnm i,”said Suke, “three or four of ’em got into my hair.” “Yes,”-said Tom “an’ ’twus well for ye, your hair was all down over your face or ye'd got yer blue eyes bunged up as tight as I haye mine.” “And yer pretty cheeks would have been redder than they'r now,” rejoined Mr. Ecks. “Well John Max what’s to be done!” asked the wife. “Spose we have to cut the tree,” j answered Mr. Mux, but Mr. Ecks suggested I i that they send to one of the neighbors and get a long ladder and he would try to climb ' the tree and cut the branch. This being done, the swarm was pitched off', and when half way down, it burst apart, when many of tfie bees caught, their wings and settled about the body of' the tree just below one of the i largest limbs, but the main part of the swarm fell to the ground, where a bucket of cold water was dashed on them.- This application somewhat cooled their ardor. Those that were not mashed in the fall or d owned with the water, crawled moodily and sullenly up the side of a “gum” which had been placed near them, and after infinite teasing, were driven into it, and at night were taken home and placed near the old ones. Next day was cool, and true to their instincts, the new bees went industriously to work as if nothing had happened, only they were a little cross and stung the team and drove Suke into the house, from which she took a dislike to bees because they never liked her. And ever after, she was afraid of them. But on Tuesday the sun rose, red and clear; and long before noon the bees, of both the old swarms <'ra'> led out r 'n th*' shaded sifio

of their scalps, in a noisy, disturbed and threatning posture, indicating anything but good humor. Now and then a bee, heavily laden, would come to the new swarm, dance around the bench, now hissing hot, as if doubtful of scorching his feet, then suddenly dive in. A while after dinner Mr. Max. Tom and Ecks sat resting themselves in the refreshing shade of an apple-tree, a few paces from the bees, watching their movements. All at once a loud roar in the midst of the new swarm, indicated that they had been holding a public meeting, in which they had been debating ami passing resolutions—a public meeting, which was now breaking up with enthusiastic cheering. In a moment thev came pouring, like water, out of the hive, and before cow-bell, tin-pan or musket could be brought effectually to bear on them, they were sailing high up over the tops of trees, and in a line for off. Three or four flakes of comb, cups filled with honey, bee-bread, and young larvae, were left behind them in the hive. “Well, ’ said Mr. Max, after his unfeigned surprise had somewhat abated, “I did not spect nothing no better on ’em when they swarmed out on Friday. Friday's onlucky day for bees anyhow, as I've always hear’n;” and then, after a thoughtful pause, he added. by way of consolation. -It’s not our faultwe done all we could to save 'em, anyhow.’’ “I never though bee were very profitable.” replied Mr. Ecks. “N w and then a feller can do something with ’em, but on the whole . they cost more nor they come to.” . At night, when Mr. Max came in from work, “Pappa,” said Suke, “Mr. Peek’s folks sais, that widow Fable told them the reason our bees went off, was kaze, EsqNott, that you bought ’em of, didn't put any mourning on his scaps, four years ago, when his grand-daughter, Diana, died.’-" “That 'counts fo-’t,” responded Mr. Mrx. . “Woml.T sum j of the hadn’t<told !me that afore 1 bought ’em. Old Nott will ■ never sv, ..-idle me again in this way. Here is me andTom, and Mr. Ecks and the team lost our day’s work Friday for them are bees. I'll sell 'em first chance I can get my money back.." 5 tol'r-u in Jan. “mother said she woitlua t hud Suke battered up her thilver spo in ow c 'uip- a, for a i the bees were ion n r say nything, Jimmy,” repin. I >uiie, her blue ey-s contrasting brilliintly with her red c!.. eh-, “M..t!,er said -yus m-. ‘ s;p >;led th--hrass k -ttle h immerin r -.viili t’m if “ “Fl! t. !! E Nolt .a’ this swimlie. fira time I se ■ bi sighed Mp. M ix. iii .1 tool: t'l. 1 bees -do not i irtake of thy su I'er-1 ition. "laey khew nothing of the death, of Mr. Nott's gruud daugl-ter, and i; had no more influence on t.heitn than that of the goddess Diana of the Epli -si ms, as v >u might easily see if you were not as stupid aa donkey. They began to wiork well after all your abuse of them, and were reluctantly forced to leave their comb and young brood, as you would have found to your cost if vou had attempted to drive them, simply because the heat was .so intolerable they could not 'Stay there and live. With them, it was only a choice between death and a better location. Their instinct readily cecided that. The reason tlnw chose the high branch of a lofty' oak to settle upon at first, was, not because it was Friday, but because you assailed them with that direful clatter and hostile shotting. You confused them. You. made them angry. Finally you frightened them with the siilphurious smoke of gunpowder, and their instinct led them to ascend out of your reach, for a secure place to alight. Even then they showed no disposition to laave their native home fora distant land. You compelled them to leave by placing them where they could not comfortably live. Not one swarm in five hundred will ever go away from the place where they are reared, it treated with common prudence and common sense. Bees are readily provoked and easily frightened. They ought to be aipproached without excitement or violence, and without unnecessary noise. Time of Cutting Wheat.-—Hundreds of bushels of wheat were lost the past season by not cutting in time. In wet seasons like the past, spring wheat wants watching daily. When trie head of the wheat is saturated with rain, and the scorching sun pouring <lown upon it, three days will ruin it if not watched and cut down. It wants cuttingthe very day it is out of the milk. Go into the field, squeeze the kernels between your lingers, and if the milk is not visible, cut it down immediately. In a good season, it is well to let it stand until it is in a doughey state, such that you can but just squeeze the sides together. All wheat wants cutting in the doughey state. Cabbages.—To secure true solid heads on those stalks th.-.t manifest a disposition to grow to what is known “ns long shanks,” take a penknifeand stab it through the middle: insert a small piece of wood to keep the incision open, which will check the growth. A Goon Law. —By a lawj>f Prussia, every child be’ween the ages of seven and fourteen, is required to go to school arid learn to read and write. In 1845 there were but two persons in a hundred who could neither read nor write. 2,228,000 children of the 2,900,000 between seven and fourteen years, attended scliool. In the standing army of 126,900 but two soldiers are unable to read, in case of her taking part in the war, Prussia can bring into the field 300,000, in one sense the best eduentod military force in the •verb'