Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — Page 4

The Democratic Party.

Tu recent mult in Virginl» shown iu action In th« Northern SUtea. It hits hitherto Jiekl tenaciously not only to whnt It cells the inferiority of the negro, but to ita refeHltnnteW hin politionl equality. Bnt apoktfc* very peint the pnrty is now divided. In Virginia the Democratic rote is cast solid for negro suffrage. In California and Ohio negro suffrage is denounced. In Maasaciuuotta Judge G. Abbott, one of the chief Democratic loaders, writes to Tammany Hall that reconstruc lion and negro suffrage have been finally settled, however wrongly, and Tammany Hall mponds by glorifying the principle of the rebellion. The New York World urges acquiescence In what Is evidently accomplished, and hopes for the nomination of General HancOck In Pernwylvania. Pennsylvania repHesVny dehohficing the Fifteenth Amendment, which Virginia accepts, and by nominating a typical Copperhead for Governor. The Ohio Democracy virtually declares for repudiation, and the lowa for the strict letter of the contract. The party agrees only in vague denunciations of “ despotism ” and “ centralization ” and “tyranny” and “unscrupulous majorities'’ which, as it knows, mean nothing, and famish ao issues for an election. *

This condition of affairs merely illustrates the old truth that the Northern Democratic party was an instrument used wholly by Southern leaders for Southern purpose**. During the last ten years it has had but one moment of apparent revival, and that was at the opening of the last Presidential campaign. The reason was, that the Southern leaders returned for that occasion from rebellion to the oontrol of the party. The result was its defeat, despite its desperate frauds in New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. But now that the Southern leaders have agaiD withdrawn, the party drifts and drivels among iu old dogmas, wholly unable to confront the situation and to adapt itself to the utterly changed aspect of affairs. It is paying the penalty of its old subserviency to Southern mastery. That mastery forbade independence and rewarded the meanest servility. It humiliated Dix and Douglas, and promoted Pierce and Buchanan. As a national party, professing certain great principles and advocating a distinct policy, the Democratic party does not exist; but as an organization for place and plunder it u still powerful. It is the camp ol all tke discontented and disaffected, ft relies upon ignorance and passion, and watches eagerly for the mistakes of the party in power. While its Northern wing fears to alienee its Southern by accepting equal rights, the Southern wing proclaims them and sneers at its Northern allies Such is the ludicrous and pitiful dilemma of those allies that there can be no doubt, if the Northern conventions had been held after the result in Virginia had been felly considered, they would all have followed the lead of its indication, and have done what Judge Abbott advised Tammany Hall to do. With what profound contempt a man like Wade Hampton mast watch the flabby political feebleness of his old lackeys I Meanwtdle p •rganiMi, patty Intent npon obtaining power at all hazards is to be carefully watched also by those who know in what way it hopes to gratify its daMres. By the stupid system of electing a President, to which we still pertinaciously cling, the most important ot all elections a especially exposed to fraud. The real Presidential campaign is now always conducted in three or four States whose vote U , d e ci *j7 e year the, battle ground of the Presidency was New York, Pennsylvania, .and Indiana: The electoral vote in these States might have decided the result against immense popular majorities Ifcefrhcfc. Thus the election of the President is not necessarily the expression of the popular will. The Democratic managers would hardly expect, under any circumstances, to poll shown, K "y will not scruple to attempt to carry the electoral vote. Mr. < ChVles Francis Adams, Jun., in his striking paper before tonty for the Seymour electoral ticket in New York had the same legal influence upon the result as one hundred and sixty thousand majority for the Grant electoral ticket in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Vermont It is notorious that that majority was frauSiffent The methods are known. The chief, method was a system of dishonest naturalization, of which Tammany Hall was the head-quarters. The Democratic party everywhere opposes any scheme for purifying the ballot-box; and its reliance for the next general election is a concentration and development in a few States of the method that carried New York last year. Do we therefore claim that all honest men belong to the Republican party ? By no means. Bnt we do most heartily repudiate the puerility that one party is as bad as ajjptfcer. .If this were true there would be no Union to-day. The Republican party has questionable members, and undoubtedly makes mistakes. But it is always that party' which strives to protect the purity of the polk, and which relies upon the intelligence and conscience of the country. The great frauds which have been practiced or attempted upon the expression of the honest will of the people can not be charged to the RepnMican party ; they are identified with their opponents. ** a of principles, then, we rcpem, the Democratic party has ceased to be formidable; but as a conspiracy airainst honest elections it still challenges the vigilance of every man who values true popular government. It is to be remembered that all who justify the rebellion and pledge the “ lost cause ’’—all who would repudiate the national debt and dishonor the national name—all who disbelieve in popular government—all who would perpetuate hostilities of race—all who oppose a registry and its striet enforcement—the ignorant and the dangerous part of the population—instinctively ally themselves to the party that is responsible for the vast system of electoral frauds. Is this fee party to which the people of Maine, Pennsylvania. Ohio, and lowa wish to confide the welfare of their States TMarpert Weekly.

The Agreeable Outlook.

One yew ago we were making no progreoa in the reduction of our national debt, had made none for months, and wete jttslr to ®»ke none for months to come, Mr. Alex. Delmar, the leading Copperttead Free State statistician, had recently put forth a manifesto, at the suggestion, and with the emphatic indorsement of Messrs. Wilson Ch Hunt, Henry Grinnell £ Co,, showing,, by elaborate computation* and marshaling of long columns of figures, that there would be a Treasury deficit of $175,000,000 ton the first day oi this present July. And as nothing but a rebel victory ever exhile»‘®d B«™°eraey like surrendereu many coiamns to Delmars exhibit, and the Democratic press had everywhere hailed it with-exnitation as a ■are premonition of fiiture national distress, discredit, and humiliation. One y&r Ms- passed, and with it «hp rule of Andrew Johnson. The wholesale thieves whom be installed in power over onr great Custom Houses, with the lesser TiOiens to whom he largely confided the

collection of Internal revenue, have been diamfcsed to the obscurity for which they should feel so grateftil, and Republicans appointed to fill their places. The laws arc the name as ever—them has been no change calculated to increase the revenue or esentbilty reduce expenditures; yet the revenue it increased, while the expenditures are reduced, so that we are paying off nearly ten millions per month of fee printed of our debt, after discharging every current obligation, including the payment of over ten millions per month of interest Iq coin. Meantime fee guncral thrift Is quite beyond! precedent. We are building new railroads at fee rate of somo thousands of miles per annum. We arc improving and relaying many old ones, in many cases with tteel rails. We are erecting factories and fernaccs by hundreds, mainly in the West and Houth, where they have hitherto been deficient. In spite «f a too prevalent fondness for trade and speculation, we are building many new farm houses, and repairing old ones, as every one who travels in whatever direction must observe, More than this; we are making new homesteads and farms out of wild prairie forests, with unwonted energy and rapidity. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, are growing as new States have Reldom growh, though hundreds of thousands are reaching beyond them to Colorado, Wyo ming, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, and Oregon. In spite of our heavy’ debt, and of the formidable State, county, city and township war debts which wc arc more rapidly paying off, this country, incliidiag her States lately desolated by civil war, is increasing its productiveness and wealth as no country ever did before.— Ne>e York Tribune.

A Story of the War—A Hew Jersey Soldier.

Colonel llbnky W. Sawyek, who ban lately been appointed Superintendent of the lifo-saving apparatus on the New Jersey coast, once passed through a very perilous adventure. He was aiuong the Federal prisoners in Libby Prison, at the time when the Confederate Government determined to retaliate in kind for the execution oftwo rebel officers by one of our Western Generals. Mr. Sawyer was at that time a captain in the First New Jersey cavalry, and was of the grade of officers from whom selections were to be made for the victims to Confederate vengeance. The officer who was in charge of the prisoners at that time was a. kind hearted and agreeable man, and was regarded by them with feelings of gratitude and affection. On the morning in question this officer entered the room where the prisoners were confined and told all the officers to walk out into another room. This order was obeyed with particular alacrity, as the prisoners were daily expecting to be exchanged, and it was supposed that the order Juad arrived, and that they were aDout to exchange their nrispn quarters for heme and freedom. Aftfer tney had all gathered in the room, their countenances lighted up with this agreeable hope, the officer came in among them, and, with a very grave face, took a paper out! of his atold that had a very THe purport of which would be better understock by the reading of the order he held in his hand, whichjbas had Juat. received from the War Department. He then proceeded to read to the amazed and horrified group, an order for the immediate execution oi two of their number, in retaliation for the hanging of two Confederate officers. As she reader ceased, the men looked at each other with blanched faces, and a silence like death prevailed for some minutes in the room. The Confederate officer then suggested that perhaps the better way would be to plac£ a number of slips of paper, equal to the whole number of officer* from whom the victims were to be selected, in a box, with the word “ dead” written on two of them, and the rest blank —the two who drew the fatal slips to be the doomed men. This plan was adopted, chaplain yas to prepare the men and if it proved a blank, taking their places in part of. the room. . The drawing had proceeded for some tame, and fully a third of the officers had exchanged gloomy looks of apprehension, for a relieved aspect they could not avoid showing, after escape from such terrible peril, before a fatal death slip had been drawn. At the end of about this period, however, the first slip was drawn, and the name of “ Captain Henry W. Sawyer, of the First New Jersey Cavalry,” was called out as the unfortunate man. The Captain was, of coarse, deeply agitated, but did not lose his self-possession. He immediately began revolving in his mind some plan for averting, or at least postponing the immediate carrying-out of the sanguinary edict of the rebel government, and by the time that he was joined by his companion in misfortune, who turned out to be a Captain Flynn, of an Jndiana regiment, he had resolved upon his course. The officers in command, as soon as the drawing was campleted, ordered the two men to be taken out and immediately executed. Captain Sawyer, however, demanded, as a request that no civilized nation could refuse under such circumstances, that he should have permission to write to his wife to inform her of the terrible fate that awaited him, and to have her come on and, bid him an eternal farewell Respite for a day or two was thus obtained, and Sawyer subsequently obtained an interview with the rebel Secretary of War, and secured permission to write to his wife, which he did. His object in writing to her was principally for onr government to be made acquainted with the predicament in which the two officers were placed, and to secure hostages and threaten retaliation should the order of the rebels be carried oat.

It turned out precisely as Sawyer hoped and expected. Our government was informed of the condition of affairs, and promptly seized a son of General Lee and one of some other prominent rebel,-and threatened to hang them if the Union officers were executed. By this means the lives of the two doomed men were saved,* as the Confederate government did not dare to carry out their threats. After a few months more confinement Captain Sawyer was exchanged. Captain Flynn, his companion in misfortune, came out of the ordeal with his hair as white as suow —turned gray by the mental sufferings he endured. Captain Sawyer in a week or two was as "good as new,” and served through the war. —Trenton Gazette.

A Word for Local Newspapers.

We clip the following from the New York Tribune ; it is true, and we commend it.to every one who has interest where he re J sides: . Hothing is more common than to hear people talk of what they pay newspapers for advertising, Ac, at to much given in charity. Newspapers, by enhancing the value qf property in their neighborhood, and giving the localities In which they are published a reputation abroad, benefit all Bly if they are merchants or nets, thrice the amount ager som they pay for their ies every, public spirited unable pride in having a he is not ashamed, even Id pick it up in New York ing, tty-rang sheet helps character to locality, and ■ is a desirable public conom any cause the matte*

in the local or editorial column should not be to yonr standard, do not cast It aside and prononnee It good for nothing, until satisfied that there lias been no more lalair bestowed upon It than 1* paid for. If you want a good readable sheet it must l>o sujiported. And it must not be supported in a spirit of charity cither, but because you feel a necessity Ur support it. The local press Is the power that moves the people.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS How to “ turn people's heads"— do late to church. ■ . * ■ '■■■ Tine Central Park at New York is called fee Suicide’s Paradise. If you visit a young woman, nnd you are won, and ahe is won, you will both lie one. Henry Wakd Beecher says that if we want to manage men we must do as beekeepers do when they want to manage bees, wash our hands in sugar and water. The Knoxville Whig says St is estimated that the blackberry crop of Tennessee, if properly harvested, would make 160,000 barrels of wine, worth about SB,000,000. A hoy who heard the quotation, “ A little learning is a dangerous thing,"* wished to stop going to school because lie was afraid be should not live, long enough to get past the dangerous point. Bcrton, while traveling on a steamiKiat, seated himself at a table, and called for beefsteak. The waiter furnished him with a small strip of that article. Taking it upon Ills fork, and turning it over, and examining it, with one of his peculiar looks, he very coolly remarked: “Yes, that is it; bring me some." John Neal once said : “ I usedtodrink; liut one day I took a glass of brandy and found I liked the taste of it. I said tb myself, ‘ John Neal, when you have grown to like the taste of liquor, it is time to stop,’ and stop I did.” Not another drop of liquor passed his lips, and it is believed nothing could have induced him to drink after that, even to the sipping of a glass of wine. Jonathan and his friend Paddy were enjoying a delightful ride, when theycame in sight of an old gallows or gibbet. I his suggested to the American the idea of being witty at the expense of his Irish companion. “ You see that, I calculate,” said he nasally, pointing to the object just mentioned; “and now’ where would you be if the gallows had its due?” “Riding alone,” ooolly replied Paddy.

An exchange well says that there are many persons who either take no paper at all, or else take one from a distant city, and when they wish to see what is transpiring in their own neighborhood, they beg or steal the local paper from some citizen more liberal than themselves. Many men Of this kind are engaged in business, and frequently grumble because people do not patronize “home industry’,” when they practice the very thing of which they complain. ":———*—_ A street bully in San Francisco, who thought it safe sport to knock John Chinaman down, tried it the other day on a Celestial marketman without the customaryeffect. .John, instead of fleeing, knocked the ruffian down and beat him till he cried lustily for quarter. When the fellow regained his feet and was about to sneak away,_ “John” said : “ You speakee Chinaman tic too muehee. You wantee knock Chinaman down ; you comee see nie ; me likee fight; you sabe?" A Jersey genius has invented a device for watering horses when traveling or at work, by which their thirst may be assuaged without stopping. It appears to be more particularly designed for the benefit of fee draught animal of city street cars. The bit of the bridle or head-stall is made hollow, and has attached to it a flexible tube connected with a tank carried in or on the vehicle. By pulling a string, the water is caused to flow into the bit, and thence through a suitable orifice in the horse’s mouth.

Twfi New York ladies stopped their earbfege fin a crossing. One went into a store lad the ofeer remained in the carriage. Two gentlemen wishing to cross the street ordered the coachman to move on. The lady in the carriage told him not to stir. On this one of the gentlemen opened the coach-door, and with liis boots and spurs stepped through the carriage. He was followed by his companion, to the extreme discomposure of the lady within as well as the lady without. To complete the jest a party pf sailors coming up, and relishing the joke, scrambled through the carriage. Two Irishmen stopping at the Island House, Toledo, lit their gas, and, with windows open, sat down to enjoy a chat. The hungriest of Toledo mosquitoes soon flocked in and drove them desperate. The clerk, who was summoned to devise some defense against them, told them to close the windows and put out the gas. They acted on the suggestion and placed themselves between the sheets. Just as they began to doze, a lightning bug, which had strayed into the room, caught the eye of one of the travelers. He roused liis companion wife a punch, and exclaimed: “Jamie, Jamie, it’s no use ! Here’s one of the cratnrs sarchin* for us wid a lantern !” A oood story is told of an amateur agriculturist, in Berkshire County, Mass., who was advised by one of liis neighbors to plant sunflowers with liis beans in order to obviate the task of poling. He followed the advice ? in due course of time beans and sunflowers came tip and waxed strong, the beans coiling around the sunflower stalks beautifully; and he congratulated himself upon the fact that he had discovered an effectual method of raising beans without being driven to the disagreeable necessity of tSling bean-poles 'from the forest. But alas for human expectations, bis beans were raised out of the soil, roo’ts and all, in a few weeks, by the rapid growth of his new-fashioned bean-poles, and there they hung withering between heaven and earth.

While Thad. Stevens was a young lawyer, he once had a case before a bad-tem-pered Judge of an obscure Pennsylvania Court. Under what he considered a very erroneous ruling, it was decided against him; whereupon he threw down his books and picked up his hat in a high state ot indignation, and was about to leave the court room, scattering imprecations allaround him. The Judge straightened himself to his full height, assumed an air of offended majesty, and asked Thad. if he meant to “ express his contempt for this Court." Thad. turned to him very deferentially, made a respectful bow, and replied, in feigned amazement: “ Expienn my contempt for this Court! No, sir! I am trying to conceal it, your Honor,” — adding as he turned to leave, ‘‘ but I find it d—a hard to do it” Marbleizing slate is said to be carried on extensively at the quarries in Vermont. The process is described as follows: The slate is sent to the mill in rough blocks,'* and is there planed down to the thickness of an inch; patterns are then drawn upon the slabs, which are cut into the proper shapes and polished. The mechanical part of the marbleizing process has* been ..patented,, but ‘ the secret consists in a knowledge of the marbleizing composition. The material is prepared in a'vat and the slab is let down upon the composition, which adheres to the surface of the slate. The slab is next baked in an oven for one night, and then receives a coat of varnish manufactured for this special purpose, and after six repetitions of these processes the ■lab is finally removed and polished. It is asserted that the coating is then so firmly united to the slate that it cannot be scaled or clipped off without, taking the slaty particles with it ,

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Farmers, Honor Tour Profession. On the part of many, farming is regarded as rather an ignoble employment; one that is to be followed only by those who are not smart enough to obtain a living in some other way. Even farmers themselves, a large portion of them, it is to be feared, share in this feeling, or at least have an ill-defined idea that their position in society isan inferior one. They have a secret thought that it is less noble to till tlie soil, culling Into being those products, which are in themselves the elements of life, and the basis of all wealth and prosperity, than it is to speculate or traffic in them after they are produced. They seem to think that it is less honor able to live by ministering to the real wants and necessities of mankind, than to the fanciful and oft times fictitious ones. It is not necessary to pile up proofs that the fanner's profession in honorable, for anyone who will givo it a serious thought must admit that there is not, “on God’s gr.-em earth, a” more noble, or more honornblo mission. The farmer’s bands may be rough and stained by toll; his manners may be awkward and uncouth ; he may, aH it is Rneeringly Baid by the moths and butterflies that are dependent on him for the necessaries of their life, “ smell of the soil;’’ but lie is none the less noble and. manly for all that; his care has been not to adorn hisown person, not to acquire the polish and gentility ot fashionable life, but to minister to the real necessities of his fellow men ; he has made himself the instrument to work out their happiness and prosperity. He does not seek to acquire wealth by the tricks and sharp practice of the tradesman ; he does not-resort to the corners, or shortcuts of the speculator; nor docs lie live on the follies, evils and crimes of mankind. What he earns is the product of honest toil; and what lie receives is but the value of the energy of mind and body which be lias expended for the public good. Men may iiave acquired tastes and habits, which render labor in this calling irksome and unpleasant; but it is not to the discredit of the profession; if there is any, it is their own. Education, so called, may lead some to lliihk all manual labor is menial and degrading; but they see things in a perverted light; they measure liopor and dignity by their own false notions. The farming community are in a great measure responsible for this estimate of their profession, and it should be tlicir endeavor to remove this prejudice from the public mind. To do this effectually they must first assure themselves of the true nobility of their calling; then they will have courage to affirm it, and make it felt. They must make their business a progressive one, and then it will command the respect of all. They must add to manual labor, brain work and skill, and it will be esteemed most honorable. They must make it prosperous and remunerative and then it will be worshipped. Farmers must, by union of action, cut off these vampires, middlemen, boards of trade, and monopolies, who, too honorable to work themselves, think it respectable to live by cheating and fraud. They must educate, themselves in all that pertaihs to their profession, from the first principles of natural law, to the influence of social and political economy, upon the productive energies of the country; then their profession will be prosperous and influential, their position in society, not more honorable, bnt more respected.— Western Farmer.

Care of Working Oxen In Summer.

All farmers who are accustomed to keeping oxen for farm work are aware of their value, but a large number of them do not treat the poor animal with that care and kindness that his patience and labor justly entitle him to. A very good day’s -work may lie obtained from a pair of oxen in the warmest weather if they are put to it at the right hours. They should lie put to work at four o’clock in fee morning and taken off at ten. From that time until four o’clock in the afternoon they should be permitted to rest and feed in a shaded, airy place. If fed on grass, it should be cut and brought to them so that they need no£ be compelled to graze in the sun. They may then be worked from four until seven or eight o’clock in the evening, which will make nine or ten working hours a day, leaving them eight hours to feed and rest at night. By dividing*their time in this way they mav be worked every day, and if properly fed and watered, will keep in good condition. This arrangemeut of time may not suit the taste or convenience of the man or boy who has to work with them, as he would like to lay in bed two or three hours longer in the morning and he can stand the lieat of the sun better than the oxen; but the arrangement would be as good for him as them. The only difficuly to be overcome is the habit of a morning nap; and this ought to be gracefully yielded to for humanity’s sake. —American Stock Journal.

How to Break Steers.

Some time since I saw the question .diked through th Farmer, if there was not some better way of breaking steers than yoking them, and whipping and pounding them until they were broken in ambition, constitution, and" everything that goes to make a good work ox. Now, I propose to give a method that I have practiced for thirty-five years. In the tit st place, make a yard forty feet square, with a straight fence, and so high that the wildest steer will hot think of gettingout. Now, put two or four steers into the yard ; then take some corn, and a cord, and pet them until they are not afraid of you. Then take your whip, a stalk five or six feet long, with a lash three or fo’iir feet long, and start one of the steers. He will go next to the fence; when he comes to the corner, put out your whip and cry, “ Whoa!’’ He must stop, for his head is against the fence. Now, pet him a little; then drop your lash lightly on his left ear, and say, “ Haw!” which he lias to do if he goes along. Keep on in this way, and in a short time you can “ Haw’’ him around under the whip. Now, “Gee” him around in the same way, till you can “ haw ” and “ gee ” at will. Then, step off a few feet, and call one by name, and with a motion of your whip bring him to yon.. Then, step a little further oft', and continue to do so until you can fetch hnn to you anywhere in the yard. While at work with one, if he gets excited, leave him and take another. Then take your yoke ; take out the near bow, and tie a rope fifteen or twenty feet long in the near bow-hole; put the yoke on him, and keep hold of the rope, so that he sha)^ not hurt himself or the others. If he is afraid of it, let him work with it till he gets over it. Then put it on another, and let them draw each other around. Let them all have a • turn at it. Then, yoke them together; fetch them to you to yoke; yoke and unyoke, and yoke on either side; drive them in the yard until you can back, gee and haw them at will—which you can do, if you keep cool, and work mildly, with light blows, till he known what you leant. Then, if you have an old yoke of oxen, bring they into the yard; hitch them together, and drive them around the yard a few times; then open your gate, and take them out. They may bound; a little at first, but will soon miifd you as well out of as in the yard. - Try it, farmers, and my word for it, if you want a yoke of gentle, quick, lively cattle (if you are mild, and follow the df- 1 rections), you are sure to have them.— W. C. BoR, in Kantat Farmer.

IREFUL RECIPES ETC.

An Ehglifth farmer clione liis need wheat with such rare, and cultivated It with atlch skill, that his heads increased in from four lo eight inches; the berries, from 45 lo 125 in a head, and the number of stalks from a seed from 10 to 52. The Country Gentleman says it has not yet met the Tanner who could make enough manure to obviate the necessity of using clover as a fertilizer. It thinks manure spread ' on clover sod in the fall is the best preparation of ground for corn the following spring. It is said that cabbage plants may be protected from the cut-worm by wrapping the stems in oak leaves—one leaf to each plant, covering from the roots to thy leafstems. This should be done at the time of transplanting, the. oak-Teavesbeing first moistened with wuter. Roll Jelly Car*. —One cup white sugar and three eggs beaten together, one tea spoon cream of tartar mixed with a cup of flour, a half tea spoon of soda in two table spoons of sweet milk.; mix all these together, stir well and bake in two square tins. When done, spread both cakes with jelly and roll. A correspondent of the Rural World says that an ordinary liot-bed is a capital place for drying fruit. A floor is lain inside, on which the fruit is placed. Then put in the sash, raising both ends to ensure proper ventilation, and to prevent tho fruit from baking instead of drying. Here the fruit is safe from damage by rain, insects, etc.

A French writer states that butchers’ meat may be preserved in hot weather by placing it in large earthen jars, putting clean, heavy stones upon it, and covering it with skim-milk. The milk will become sour, of course, but may afterwards serve as food for pigs, and the meat will be found to have kept its natural primitive freshness, even after eight or ten days. The editor of the Gardener's Monthly says that coal oil is a most effectual remedy against insects. A tablcspoouful of coal oil put into a common garden water pot of water, sprinkled over the seed bed, when the little pumping beetle is noticed, will instantly destroy the whole brood. One great fact in favor of coal oil is, that it acts as a manure to vegetation, while dealing out death to insects. Thistles are biennial. Like the turnip and carrot it takes two years for them to mature; if they are cut down before the seed is ripe this year, and the seed that was dropped off last year and lias sprung up, this should be cut down next year, before the seed is ripe enough to mature. The seed that was dropped last year cannot be destroyed by cutting off this year, because it will not kill the root; but after it goes to seed the root will naturally die of i t sel f. —Exchu nge. To Destroy the Potato-Bug. A writer in Hearth and Home says; “ A sure and cheap remedy is to apply Paris-green to the vines when the dew is on them. It will not always kill the old bugs, but will invariably destroy the young ones while they are yet worms. The old bugs soon die off without our help. A tin box with fine holes in one side, so as to make a sieve, should be used in applying the Parisgreen. Care should be taken not to put on too much, as it may injure the vines. Three ounces is sufficient for one acre.” Often in a fine orchard we find one or more trees leaning over so far as to destroy the beauty of the whole orchard. It is also much more difficult to cultivate around a leaning tree. This may easily be remedied, while the trees are young, by partially digging up and replanting the tree. The roots will usually be found smallest on the side from which the tree leans; and therefore these roots should be loosened from the earth, the tree set in a perpendicular position, and carefully fastened by stakes or guys, and the earth replaced around the roots. It would be well to add some rich compost to promote their growth. If, as is very probable, tbe top of the tree lias become one-sided, it should be pruned so as to restore the balance. In this way we have righted up pear trees six inches through the stem; but tho best way is to look after the young trees, and not permit them to depart from the way of uprightness.—Journal of Horticulture.

The Feeding of Animals.

There are a number of considerations, varying very greatly, by which the feeding of animals should be regulated. To a certain extent the objects designed to be answered by food are the same, all food being intended to meet the demands of respiration and nutrition, but it is for the intelligent stock owner to select and administer those best suited to his particular purpose both in quality and quantity. The very young animal for the formation of bone requires Jtlie phosphate of lime in large quantities which is yielded in larger aortions in milk than from any other , hence the young destined for maturity should be supplied with milk from the dam;until a steady growth can be maintained by the substitution of grain, roots, hay or grass. The growing animal in addition to bone wants muscle, as also a certain amount of fotio sustain their formation, and these are procured from the grain and grass in their seasonable state. Filling to repletion or stuffing should only be resorted to with the animal intended for tire butcher. Allen remarks: “An animal should never be fat but once,” adding that alternately improving and falling back is injurious to all animals, and that as much as starving is to be depreciated, the prejudicial effects of repletion are still greater. No practice is more impolitic than to barely sustain the stock through the winter or a part of the year, as is the case in too many instances, and allow them to improve only when turned on grass in'summer. Besides subjecting them to the risk of disease consequent upon their privation of food, nearly half of the year is lost in their use, or m maturing them for profitable disposal: when if one-third of the stock had been sold the remainder would have peen kept in a rapidly improving condition, and at the age of three years they would probably be of equal value as otherwise at five or six. It is true that breed has much to do with this rapid advancement, but breed is useless without food to develop and mature it. —American Stock Journal

Mulberry Trees in California.—At a late meeting of the California Academy of Sciences, Dr. Gibbons said there were, b 7 estimate, 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 mulberry trees in California. This extraordinary production is the result of a State bounty, intended to make California a silk country. For this purpose, a bounty was offered for cocoons, aiso. By a singular and unforeseen circumstance, the purpose of the State to encourage silk manufacturing h*s been entirely defeated. There is a demand for the eggs of the silk worm, at pripes that indupe mulberry men to abandon the idua of making silk; and the curious result is 20,000,000 trees, and never a hank of silk, nor, so far as we know, any promise that the intentions of the Legislature will ever be fulfilled,— Exchange. Kansas and Silk Raising—ln the county of Franklin, Kansas, about fifty miles south of Lawrence, the pioneers of a French colony have purchased a wide tract of land, anefare making a» large expenditure of money for the purpose of setting up there on the now wild prairie, a manufactory of silk velvet. The colony will ooptain within itself all the forms oT industry necessary to the success of its-en-terprise, from the growth of the mulberry to the last finishing touch on the beaub- | ful fabric. Of course some time must

ekiwe before Ike plantations of tree* will yield leaves enough to feed many worms; but in the meantime, tho few colonists who arc already on the ground will demote themselvts to raising and' feeding cattle, and to tho general improvement" and decoration of their estate.

Keeping a Secret.

The Newport Mercury’ relates a capital story of Btuart, .the painter, which illustrates finely the power which a secret has to propagate itself,.if once allowed a little ainng, and to reach a few ears. Stdart had, as he supposed, discovered a secret art of coloring—very valuable. He told it to a friend. His friend, valued It very highly, and camp a time afterwards to ask permission to communicate it, under oath of eternal secrecy, to a friend of his who needed every possible aid to enable him to riße. “Let jne sec,” said Stuart, making a chalk mark on aboard at hand; “I know the art, and that is—” “ One," said his friend. “You know it,” said Stuart, makinganotlier mark by tbc side of tbe one already made; “and that Is —" “ Two,” cried the other. “Well, you tell your friend, and that will be—making a third mark— _ “Three only,” said the other. -“ No," said Stuart, “it is oue hundred and eleven!" (111).

What is Lost.

A drunken Indian, on visiting the city, having strayed from his hotel, found him self lost on trying to return to it. After looking about in strange lodges here and there, tho Indian exclaimed, in dismay: “Injun lost!" But, recovering himself, and unwilling to acknowledge such shortsightedness, continued, drawing himself up; “No; Injun not lost—wigwam lost —and (striking his breast) Injun here.” This is the present condition of the Democratic party which has strayed front its old Southern hotel and now wanders about in a dazed, fuddled manner. It feels its way along the dead walls of all the blind alleys that lead away from the broad and bustling avenues of progress. It stumbles iu the gutters of repudiation; bangs its head against liberty poles and memorial halls; is tripped headlong by the colored man, and finally fetches up at a grocery corner to beat its breast and declare —“ No; Democratic party not lost —principles lost—old hotel “busted”—Democratic party here." — Exchange. —The National Methodist camp-meet-ing will be held next year at a place near Long Bridge, N. J., cm the Shark river, in the southern part of the State. A tract of 187 acres has been secured, and negotiations are in progress for enough land adjoining to make up 500 acres, with over a mile of sea front. The name of Clark Seminary at Aurora, 111., has been changed to Jennings Seminary in honor of Mrs. Eliza Jennings, who has given largely t* pay its indebtedness and enlarge its library and apparatus.

The World Grows Wiser.

The human stomach has been a shamefully persecuted organ. There was a time when for every dereliction of duty it was punished with huge doees of the most disgusting and nauseous drugs. In vain it rejected them, and (literally) returned them upon the hands of thoee who administered them. They were forced upon it again and again, until Its solvent power was thoroughly drenched out of it. The world Is wiser now than It was in that drastic era, when furious purgation and mercurial salivation were what Artemus Ward would have called the “ main holt” of the faculty. In casea of dyspepsia and liver complaint. The great modern remedy for Indigestion and biliousness is HOSTKTTER’S STOMACH BITTERS, a preparation which has the merit of combining a palatable flavor with such tonic, aperient and antimlious properties, as were never heretofore united in any medicine. It has been discovered, at last, that sick people are not like the fabled Titans, who found prostra tion so refreshing that, when knocked down, they rose from the earth twice as vigorous as before. When an Invalid Is prostrated by powerful depleting drugs, bo is apt to stay prostrated; and the debilitated, being aware o' the fact, prefer tbe building up. to tbe krtoilUng Oman system ot treatment. HOHTETTER’S BITTERS meets the requirementa of the rational medical philosophy which at present prevails. It is a perfectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing ibe three inmortant properties of a preventive, a tonic, and an alterative. ft fortifies the body against disease, invigorates and re-vi-talizee the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a most salutary change in the entire system, when in a morbid condition. Id summer, when the enfeebling temperature renders the human organization particularly susceptible to unwholesome atmospheric influences tbe Bitters should be taken as a protection against epidemic disease.

The Reason Why so Many Die with Consumption, Is because they neglect to use the proper remedy In season. When the system fs first attacked with a cough, oppression of thh chest or seated pains In the breast, Allen’s Lung Balsam will cause the phlogm to raise, heal the Irritated parta, and restore the system to health. For sale by all druggists. Th* But and Original Tonio or Ibom.—Phosphorus and Callaaya, known u Ferro-Pbosphated Elixir of Callsaya Bark. The Iron restores color to the blood, the phosphorus renews waste or the nerve tissue, and the calleaya gives natural, healthful tone to the digestive organs, thereby curing dyepepela lo Its various forms, wakefulness, general debility, depression of spirits; also, the beat proven tire against fever and ague. o>ne pint contains the virtue* of one onaee of callsaya, and dna teaspoonful, s grain oI Iran and phosphorus. Manufactured only by CeswaLL , Hazabd * Co., successor* to Caswell, Mack * Co., New York. Sold by Druggist*.

\ GOOD FAMILY MEDICINE. ALLEN’S CELEBRATED LUNG PAI.BAMCures Colds, Coagln and Consumption. ALLEN’S CELEBRATED LUNG BALSAM— Cures Bronchltla, Asthma and Croup. ALLEN'S CELEBRATED LUNO BALSAM— Imparts strength to the system. ALLEN’S CELEBRATED LUNO BALSAM— Is pleasunt to take. ALLEN’S CELEBRATED LUNG BALSAM—always gives satlsfkctlon or the money will be refunded It Is recommended by prominent Physicians; aud while It Is pleasant to take and harmless in Its nature. It Is a powerful remedy for curing all diseases of the Lungs. Sold by all Dkugoists. SUMMER TONIC! ' Dr. 8. 0. Richardson's nun vim umisi The Celebrated Hew Eaglaad Remedy FOB HABITUAL CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Fever and Ague, General JDeblllry, and all Diseases arising frsas a Disordered ntsnaaeh, Liver er Bowels, such as Acidity of the Stomach, Indigestion, Heartburn, Los* of Appetite, Coetiveness, Blind and Bleeding Piles, DlsSst or Food, Sour Eructtona, Sinking or Fluttering *f > Pit of the Stomash, Dimness of Vision, Yellowness of the Sldn and Eyes, Pain In the Side, Back, Chest or Limbs, and In all eaeea where a TONIC is necessary. J.N. Harris & Co., Sole Proprietors, cinci.watk, omo. OT Far Bale by all Medicine Dealers. rjBN. RUHHKLI.’H SCHOOL, New Haven, VT susnn.—FALL SESSION begins September 18th. Catalogues sent on application. E3OOOBMAI«AMV. AdUrea»Ti7». ClAWQilo.. n 77 AGENTS WANTED TO SII.I, Sights and Secrets, OF THE NATIONAL. CAPITAL. | h&sfisrorK? sfig&aKtsrtistctSbr'cs clerks. Ae.Ac. I* ts beautifully l'lurtreted, end 1* the amclen. most thrilling, en'ettatnlnr, instructive. B ME?N eu * cqt! J dlj Sough Part g&reet Chicago. 111. UUICIId■ I Man. your utucei fur *mmojm<s> TIRUNH I CiDua Viasesa. A moat splendidarticle. Warranted F<ue and to ansa re pieties sessssmx. OrinSubttsflsaim, AM AMI Bt*t*l|t,, Chicago

DR. RANSOITB * ini sum no mu • r ». ■ t «■1 y.f.t, . Dr, Ransom's Hive Syrup and Tola, In addition to Ingredients for ordinary llfvo Syrup, oouUtna Balaam oTTolu, Decoction of Wank Cabbage Banc; LofiiS ana Hopei • combtnation that mast asmmial If jjj every one a* e superior remedy for Croan, WhoopingCough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs and Colds, indeed, tor all affections ol Urn raroat and Loafs Where a cough medicine Is none, a ary. Thu Syrap Umaretaßy prepared under thapereonaTdlTeettonof a regular phypleasant taste makes It aa agreeable madtotaa for children every person should keep e bottle of HaaifcVsß and reaire remedy for snddea attacks or Ohoup amoag Remember that Consumption It cauttd, in most esses, by nag 1 aeries a slight aoagfe. Greatest Discovery of the Age I DR. A. TRASK’S Magnetic Ointment! This remarkable and most Interesting remedy is composed of the concentrated Juices of the mtut powerful and the moat toothing PlanU and Hoots in nature, chemically combined and lusolstodln wail sealed glees bottles, and charged bya powerful Battery: Thus possessing in addition to Its superior medical virtues, strong Mean ana aid Kuomo propertire. profoundly penetrating, and eminently quieting end toothing. It re I lev re Fiala and Inflammation at once, (when frequently applied,) relaxing the strained muscles and nerves, giving new llle and vitality by lta llto glvtng qualities, to Partly xedpurts and Chronic or tong standing Complaints and weaknesses, allaying Nervous pain, (Neuralgia.) Irritation, and Removing Obetrnctfonsllke n charm. Indeed all who-have need It, apeak of It aa truly a wonderful medicine, and esteem It by Oar superior to any and all other extsmto remedies In uae. U applied In teaaeu It la an smelling remedy tor the Crocp, Dlptherta, Hors Throat, Inflammation of the Longa, Bowels, Liver, Kidneys and other Organa, Rheumatism. Spinal Irritation, Agee In the Breast, and at all times cures Nervous Headache, Neuralgia, Sore Byes, Bar Aehe, Tooth Ache. Ague la the Face, Plmnlee and Eruptions of all kinds. Ptttt. Braised and Bpralnad Limbs, Barns, Frosen parts. Chilblains, Indolent and long standing Bores, Wounds, Ao.. Ac. It will also restore the Hair to the Bald Head, and prevents the Hair Bom failing.

Prof. H. Anderson’s DERM ADORI Is tt Liquid Liniment for External Application, FOR; MAW or; BEAST, A bp Its tree application to Inflamed sores, and snrtocvs, on both Man and Beast, In a vary short Urns relievos the pain and soreness, and the hot, angry and red surface becomes cool, moist nod natural, and by one traced application and attention, the part la soon restored to health. IMPORTANT TO HORBSMEN Prof. Andenon'i Dermador is tho beat Liniment la use for norset. This toot la shown by numerous letters Horn all parts of the country. A late one reeds at follows: “ We have been experimenting with year Dermador on horseflesh, and find It a very an rlor remedy) mnrh superior to the famous “Gshgllng Oil," or any otbsr liniment ws ever used In oar Livery Stable. Phase send ns two dosen large bottles by express C. O. D. Yours respectfully, “ WATSON A COOPER. Weverly, Ind." DR. J. R. MILLER’S Universal‘Magnetic Balm Cores, ss If by Magnetic Influence, Neuralgia and all pain, and la therefore very properly termed ‘'Magnetic Babn.” It U purely a vegetable preparation, II has no equal aa a remedy for CHOLERA, CHOLERA MOKBUB, DIARRHOtA, DYSENTERY. COUC,aa4 all BOWEL COMPLAINTS. In tlmeiy use will earn Colds, Croup, Dlptnerle, Quinsy, and nil Throat affections. When properly used. Fever and Agna, *ud other complaints incident to onr western sun southern climates, are easily broken up. FEVER AND AGUE. Cleanse the system; then, sa the Urns for a ohll draws on, cover warmly In bed and take a cupful ol hot Water, with one or two teaspoonfula of the Mag netlc Balm sw etened with brown sugar, also bathe the back and stomach with tbe Baba and remain quiet. Repeat. If necessary. ar All the above Medicine* are Held bF Druggists Everywhere. D. RANSOM & €O., Prop’s, BUFFALO, IN. T^SUICCT V Bwnar Quintus, to warrantOntLl \ M equal—does for dose—tothe OUININE BOSSESas? quinine _ 1 . ( properties, It is the most perPaiAHMKt \ socs ANODYNE and BOOTHoVdDMd IKS. omTK ** r / vm~ Bold by Druggists, oreMfrlbed by the beat Physicians. Made only b Stearns, Farr A Co.. Manufacturing Chemists, New York. The Instinct of the Stomach. Take no medicine that the stomach loathes. The Instinct of that dominant organ may be trusted. It accepts Tariunt’b Eefxrvkscint Skltzkb Afuuxnt—and why! Because in the delicious febrifuge It recognizee a toning, purifying, regulating preparation. I The refreshing remedy assimilates with the system, and Invigorates the stomach, while It gently relieves the bowels, Induces a healthful flow of bile, and restores the appetite. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

1 HUT POLITICAL mil was accomplished by the election of Grant, and a revolution of immense social Importance has been effected by the general substitution of that pure aud hgrmleea preparation, Gristadoro s Excelsior Hair Dye, for the deadly componud of lead and brimstone, of which, according to the Journal of ChemUtry and the Medical Gazette, mere tlum thirty variktieh have been foisted upon the public I Crtstadoro'a Dye is the only one that MAS BEEN ANALYZED, and Professor Chilton, over his own signature, declares I hat his perfectly wholesome, CRIHTADOKOH HAIR PRESERVATIVE, ae a Dressing, acts like a charm on the Hair slier Dyeing. Try it. ■ BOLD BY ALL DRUGOJBTB. JENNINGS SEMINARY, (Formerly Clark Keui'uary,) AURORA, ILL,, G. W. QUERKAU, D. D., Principal, offers good accommodations, a sate and pleasant home, and superior advantages In English, Classical, and Ornamental branches. The twelfth year opena August 90. ONLY ONE DOLLAR 1 CHIB ZION'H HERALD to Jan. Ist. W» A r flrst-clasa Illustrated Religious Journal of 14 pages 200 Contrlbot re; 5 Editors. The cheapest paper In the land. 95.50* year In sdvanoe. Bpeclmeo copies Tree. E. D. WINALOI|fj BrnjTlonbabd. Prea’t. C.F. Brawn. Sec'y. Chicago Elastic Stone Roofing Co., Manutectnrets aud Dealers In Elastic Staaeßaafiag feslHsltlua., Composed of^T^GroujJfe’ A ifamp ami*sool*rertmg aafmaM jsmftcmtfffand Dlaaolved India Rubber. The beat article la market for Sheathing or Hoofing. M to SO Inches wl ie, and S!*uiKl OU and atflerent color* of Mineral Paint ror covering leaky Iron and Tin Roofs. Warehouse and MaunteoxTis- AMwr' a WALTHAM IWm ;■ | ■ W.TNW IMr*b TMMTt Part of the Up tod States, to to pidd^orSdAMvwyl SsAVt