Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — Page 4

The Case of Fitz John Porter.

It to TOtoMlunl that kfalH ends should wish to reonh the case < Mr. Fits John Porter. Thi family none I* involved in the heavy ceGhrt under Which the late General resQrW the facts are hi miliar to the country, judgment of the court has been long efllrmed by public opinion. No soldier had ever a. er trial. He was patiently heard, tab TkrtF were carefttTly weighed, and the verdict was so decided that (t is genaraUy understood the penalty would have been very much severer exoept for the interference Of President Lincoln. . lidbody knows, said a ye»y distinguished General in the service, What envy G, if he baa not been in the army; ana it is not too much to **y that the presumption was ' against from the first. When it was alleged, after the misfortune of General Pope, that General Porter had virtually refused lo hasten to the rescue in obedience taordecs, Use epos try had seen enough to feel that the assertion was not., improbable. It was the misfortune of Mr. Porter to belong to that class of officer* who did not believe in, the cause, and who half hated to ba obliged to obey the administration. Their personal friendships and professional sympathies were very mueb with their opponents, and neither the mornl enormity nor the po]itical fully of tbs rebellion were ever com preh ended by them. GeweTaU McUioilsn and Buell were of this kind; and had the first remained in command in the Easf Wsri, jkl* notdifficult tb psrqtiw what itje result tor t|ie war must inevil* bl f hrrs be# ni D anybody *dr>-ftr I 'fr’fr’jHF*" did Sis-best So 'aribdtoo' th* tKb'dliOJi ;Hhat he wfrWla*m*«toucMwtaw hi<rt» and hopes are fixed upon And iri it St-we supposed that General Porter, Who was au intimate friend nf McClellan's, who had been MtfUy *apwseded.by Pope, was bo tritent trpMi the defeat of the rebels that his personal jealousies would not affect hl* action? if McClellan had been in Pepe’s place, would nrtt General Por ter’s conduct have been materially different? ' ’“rTri-i;-;-. —-1.... Buch doubts as these, founded upon knowledge of disposition and sympathy, created the general presumption against Mr. Porter. But the verdict against him was rendered not upon presumption but upon evidence. Aboard of soraiers were sati.-fisd, after the most careful hearing of testimony and elaborate argument, that he had failed in his duty, and failed intention ally. He was tried, indesd, during the war; but for that wry reason he Vjps more likely to be fairly .tried, for the feelings which gave their character to facts ware than fresh and mtelligihlc, as they are not naw. He was tried, at a time when a mete technical defense was useless, and when the spirit of hi* conduct was fully appreciated, a* it might not be now. . r It is not likely that the case will be reopened, as it certainly is not desirable that it should be. It is not improbable, however, that at some future day, if the Democratic party should obtain power, it nsftn* grant Mr? Bortyrt-. request. But should that day ever arrive, there is no saying what may not be'dime. We shall have the merits of Robert E. Lee, as “ a Chris tain gentleman,” and a “great captain," fully recognised. The much-in jurid Tonpey will M restored to his lofty niche in the Pantheon of Patriotism. The arms-dispersing FJqyd will be celebrated *s a minister of peace and fraternity. Our own Fernando Wood, who bewailed his Inability to dispatch ammunition and weapons to Toombs, will have a medal struck in his honor as the model Demo.cratic Conservative National Unionist. The miWtew of slander will be wiped from the precious name of Twiggs; and Admiral Porter must not be surprised if the glory of the truest patriotism be awarded to Raphael Semmes. When that day ..comes, but not before, the loyal people of This country will believe that Fitz John Porter honestly and heartily did all that rhe possibly coidd do, to obey the spirit as well as the fetter of his orders, to help General Pope to win a victory.— Haryer't> Weekly.

A Year Ago.

A year ago to-day, Andrew Johnson abdicated his throne and started for Greenville ria Baltimore, denouncing the administration that was to succeed him, and. . hurling parthian execrations over his shoulder as he went. A year ago to day, General Grant took theffietnrdr state without any ostentatious trumpeting, and only announced that he ■would try to reduce the national debt, and do hie simple duty in all things, * A year ago to day, thcffe wont s up a maligaant cry of rage from the baffled Democracy; a declaration that Grant’s election meant national distress, and a savage prediction that it would be followed by a, plunder of the people, official diss.duteneas, and an increasehf the debt. A year has passed. One-quarter of Grant’s term has expired. Has a single one of the predictions of the flatulent oraeteartf the Democracy beeq realized? Has,lbe American tsanison been shorn of any of his locks? Has personal liberty been narrowed down? Have popular franchises diminished? Has our honotf among the nations suffered any decline ? Everyone of the-modest promises, of the incoming President has been redeemed. Our revenue for the year is twentysix millions greater than in and our national expenses are sixty millions - lesa ’ Our debt has been largely reduced. Our taxes also are about to be diminished at those points -where they are the heaviest burden to indus'ry. The national credit is improving month by month and week by week, under the unconditional and unanimous assurance of the Republicans, “The debt shall be paid.’’ Credit is the blood of the national life, and,burs is assuming a new color day by day, judging by the Infallible pulses that throb in Wall street and Lombard street. The popular verdict rendered to-day is—Grant’s first year is a success!— Chicago 'Pont, March 4.

The Last Crack of the Plantation Whip.

Ths harangues of Democratic Pens-’ tors on the subject of admitting a negro; duly elected by a reconstructed State, to a seat in the Senate, are doing a fine work for the Republican party of future years. Not only does the candidate for Senatorial honors patiently hear these impotent gnashings of teeth, on the part of defeated and spiteful rebels and their allies, hut the futgne voters hear it also. The revilenspf the negro have made their record in the hearing of the race they have oppressed, degraded, and insulted. As the Democratic party gained the abiding good will of the emigrant population Of the United States by its advocacy of liberal naturalization laws, so the Republican party has forever joined to itself t£e votes of the rate It has liberated and ennobled. Had the Democracy been a little wiser since’Jhje war, it might have conciliated at least a portion of this now large element of po-. litical power. Butthat is now impossible. To the very last the organs and orators of that vile, treacherous and wicked party , have poesued the negro with their per-. •eartioM, sneers and- iasqlfS. When , the negro bad no political power, they could insult Mm with impssity. Timfes have changed, however. The contest between ■Me iwafle, «nfl’ US despotic, mis-j named Democracy will not be so heretofore. And fog.M&'ifate.pf infamy and defeat which is before it that party mwr blame Its own vindictive, arrogant and short-sighted leaders Toledo Blade.

Too Finely Drawn.

The Hamilton (Nev.) Inland Umpire tells the following good story: “Mining claims sent to the East tor sale are usually Sjtnied with well written reports, forth In glowing colors the great of the property offered. Lately ,wc beard of a case where a well known tuning expert! and as well a collator of news, was engaged to report on a Treasure Mill juine. Which was to'be put on Ike Chicago market. Everything else being in readiness, ye “ local" put in his biggest lick* on bis report, and succeeded, doubtloss, in getting up the most voluminous and highly colored document that over descended from Pogonip. In due season the papers were dispatched to the agent "In the lake city, who, unfortunately, was a gentleman that had never seen the Pa-ciAc-ooa*) elephant Op examination of our local expert’s report, he weakened; saw in imagination immense mountains of the shining bullion going for a mere song, as it were, and after jpature deli aeration utterly refused to act. He wrote to the owners of the property here that to sacrifice it for Jhc nominal figures ■demanded would be a piece of •wanton recklessness, to which he did not desire to be a party, and for this reason dismissed negotiations, which otherwise wohld have culminated in the early sale of the property. In fact, he would like -tobitvT a tinner In the pie himself. and if the proprietors would only AcJdJSn' «nt|l next tfummenm- fall he wiJula come but hmT takri a look Mghe mine, with the view of purchasing iVat greatly btoriasefl rates.- ‘prtin) a moral’ln a single line, our local friend’A report‘struck’him, and in this manner an important eale was defeated."

"The Victory is Ours."

Oi n confidence that New JJatmpshite would stand firm to the principles she so signally indorsed two yeajs ago, and to the National Administration alieassisted to place in power, has been abundantly vindicated by tbo result of Tuesday’* vote. At no time ha* it been problematical whether the Granite State would havtl -a • Republican Governor; the J only doubt, arising out of the formation of the Labor Reform and Temperance organh zations thus Tntfoancmg two new ticket* as disturbing influences upon the old parties, was that, an election before the people might fail, and the choice between candidates fall, into the hands of the Legislature.'This was dbnbtless all that the Democratic to accomplish. Over sheh an event, our political iflemies would have sent up shout after shout of jilbilpJitfo "presenting the result to the country as'sifetfal evidence oftfee decline of Republican popularity, and as an !n----dtiaJiOft- tkd. disintegrating ntpfiences at work upon the Republican party. ity of the Oonstitution of , New Hampshire, that a majority, not a plurality,.must elect.. The Labor Reform and Temperance organ Rations therefore encouraged by the Democrats, with a view|itf>- draw off enough .vote* to make the required' majority'impracticable. In this attempt, the ingenious plotters ha>e been completely and disastrously foiled: The result, though showing a diminished Republipap votu ready magnifies the Republican triumph, for tricxhrbits-Vhe vital strength, abiding loyalty and cohesive pertinarfity of ti Republican. organization. If it could beat its old enemy, aided by bushwhackers hanging upon its flanks, some' of them deserters from Its own ranks, what woujd it not have been able to -wifotwir in a square fight? If the result of the New Hampshire election is to be ta£*fi as forqsbtqlpwing the result of the Congressional elections next fall, not only there, but in other States, then a Waterloo defeat safely awaits the dead-issue, stand-, still, Botirrron. nld fogy Democracy.— Chicago llepuUiran, MarchAO.

Spicy.

There was a knot of sea captains in a star win Honolulu, the keeper of Iwhich had just bought a barrfl of black pepper. Old Capjain ,of Salem, came in, aid seeing the pepper took up a handful of it “ What do yon buy such stuff as that for?” said he to the storekeeper, “ it’s half peas.” “ Peas!” replied the storekeeper, “there isn’t a pea in it.” Taking up a handful as he spoke he appealed to tho-com pany. They all looked at it, and plunged their hands into the barrel, and bit a kernel or so, and then gave it as their imiverijal opinion that there Wasn’t a pea in it “ I tell ye there is,” said the old captain, again scooping up a handful, “and I ll bet a dollar on it.” The old Boston argument all over the world. They took him up. “ Weft,” said he, “spell that,” pointing to the word “P-e p-p-e-r," painted on the side of the barrel—“lf it isn’t half p’s then I'm no judge, that’s all” , The bet was paid.

-r t - yr. - Tux nessou of the superiority of jhc watches made in this country by machinery over the foreign watches made by band, is self-evident. It is an impossibility that the hand should be controlled and guided with the exactness of. a. machine. In Europe the dhlwrutit parts of a watch are made by different persons, perhaps a Jiuudred miles apart. One whole' family, father, mother and children, arc all cngpgfdin the process of making <>nr of the live Wheels of a wateh ; another fiunily make another wheel, and so on. These different parts are purchased -by tho Watch-makers, and the watch is put together and made ready for the market. Perhaps it is sent to this country, and after being sold, a part becomes broken, and the watch is useless. IV can be taken to a Watch-maker, and he can make by hand a new piece, but the cost of repairing will be great, and where the parts have passed through so many different hands in their construction and repair, it will be a miracle if they are all made with that curacy andLadjwted to each other with the nicety that is indispensable to the correct running of a wateh. In contrast to this crude and disorgauizefk system of manufacturing, the mind turns with relief to the method we havo adopted in this eountrv v us developed at the factory of the National Watch Company, at Elgin, 111. An immense building is erected, a corps of the finest mechanics that can be obtained is employed. A Bupetratandetit of unrivalled inventive reni»s is pitied in charge. Machines are then invented.and constructed for the manufacture of every plate, wheel, pinion and screw used in a watch. The different parts of the factory" are filled up with these machines. Men and girls are employed to operate them. The wheels, the pinions and the screws a re. turned out.by thousands, every part exactly alike. Those are brought together, under the same roof, made into complete watches, and sent out into the market. If after purchase, a wheel breaks,the dealer has but tosend tothe factory and purchase its duplicate, and the wateh is as good as new. Surely this brief comparison is sufficient to convince any reflecting parson of the superiority of the American mechanical swatem. It is superior in theory and fad. The Elgin Watchas ire soiling in «dl parts of the country, and are fecOg“ea'crs an< l exparts as surpassing in durability and correct time-keeping their foreign and other competitors. , Jn an English court of law lately a witness was called to attestto a person’s insanity. “ I know he’s mad,” said the witness, “because the poor fellow imagines himself to be the prophet Jeremiabt” “ Doyon consider that to be a proof of - Mental derangement ?” asked th® examining counsel. ?* I should rather think so,” confidently replied the witness*, “.seeing that I myself am the prophet < «- A MoxrpjtLiXß, VL, school teacher was recently Sued for damages (or punishing an unruly youth, and the damages awarded amounted to one cent and costs.

P MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. * |l#y« Volume*— OquM LadWThf chlirc> bell(e). “1 y, w SoMETiitNft to weepver—A bushel of onion*. v Whk?( that rings, does she do It on pur pw»» V —.... -J Pleading at th* Bar—Begging for a drink. , The most difficult thing to remember—the poor. The moaning of the tied—A husband's grumbling. Troubles aredike bfibiea; they grow bigger bytn arsing. When is the most suitable time to get married ’—April 1. What ship is always laden with knowledge ?—Scholarship. An actor ought to be a happy man; his work is all pliiy. / ' A social glass to which ladies are addicted—The mirror. Be contented with your lot—especially if it is on a corner. When are gloves unsaleable ?—When they are kept on hand. High living that doe* not produce the gout —Living in a garret. Every Stockholder is interested in the success of the Washington Life. Who is the largest man?—The lover; a man of tremendou* si|hs. A good protection against misfortune — A Policy in the Washington Life. War do thieves lead a comfortable life? —Because they take things easy. Men of regular habits—Those who get drunk every morning before breakfast. An exchange paper says: “ 1 Truth' is in type, but it crowded out by more important matter." ' Why would Sampson have made an excellent actor’—Because he could so easily bring down the house. How do people manage to sleep on a spring mattress all through the winter?— Judy. The old gentleman whose memory carried him a long way back is requested to return to his disconsolate friends. A riiT onoe asked a peasant what part he performed in the great drama of life. “I mind my own business,” was the reply. “ Is that clock right over there ’ ” asked a visitor the other day. “Right over there,” said the boy; “ 'taint nowhere else.” As continued health is vastly preferable to the happiest recovery from sickness, so is innocence superior to the truest repentance. “ I.et us remove temptation from the path of youth,” as the frog said when he plunged into the water, upon seeing a boy pick up a stone. A near-siouted man walked off the bridge into the Kennebec river, and upon being miraculously saved, was “darnation glad he didn’t lose his cane and specs.” . An exchange says that the only people ip Wasliingtou whoinind their own bustness arc such young married pairs as happen to be spending the honeymoon at the hotels. There is an okUady in Lynchburg, Va., who says she made a pair of stockings-last fifteen years by merely knitting feet to them every, winter, and legs every other winter.

A schoolmaster asked one of his scholar*; in the winter time, what was the Latin for cold. “ Oh,” answered the lad, “ I forget at this moment, although I have it at my finger ends.” A Setting Speech.—A lady wished a seat. A portly, handsome gentleman brought one and seated the lady. “Oh! you’re a jewel," said she. “ Oh! no,’’ he replied, “I am a jeweler; I have just set the jewel.” “It is a sad moment in life, y -said Cynic, “ when you find that love, glory, happiness, are, altogether, not worth a good cigar." “It is a sadder moment still,” replied his friend, “ when you find that the cigar itself is bad.” An urchin, hearing his father read an article in the paper in relation to a new invention of bricks of glass, exclaimed : “ Glass bricks? I know what them is.” “What are they?” inquired one of the family. “Tumblers of liquor,” said the juvenile. '■' Eva—“Mamma, what is a gosling?” Mamma—“ A little goose, dear." Eva—“Anda duckling?” Mamma —“A little duck, dear. I’-Eva—“ 1 ’-Eva—“ Then is an inkling a little ink? Because if it is I’ve got an inkling on my apron."— Fun. The father of Dorabella recently found that little girl’s chubby little hands full of the blossoms of a beautiful tea-rose, on which he had bestowed great care. “My dear,” he said, “ didn’t I tell you not to pick one of those flowers without leave ?” “Yes, pipa,” said Dorabella, “but all these had leaves “ Jostr,”l inquired a new importation from the ol\ country, “does the sun never rise in the Wests” “Never,” said Josh. “You don’t'Say so, Josh? Well, you won’t catch me\going out West, if it’s always night there. I have a cousin out there who is always boasting how pleasant it is there; but I suspect it’s all moonshine.” Liver and Lights.— • Two friends' were riding by a hous® Fast tumbling to decay. Whose open doors and broken panes Revealed no face of clay. Said one. -'the liver has gone out; I judge from all tbeae sights.” “Ays.” cried the other, merrily, ‘•The Lirerland the Lights!” < Since the story has been told of how Judge Breckinridge married a girl whom he saw jump over a rail fence with a pail on her head, the girls in Orange county, N. Y., are said to spend their time in watching the road; and whenever they see a carriage approaching with a man in It; they #eist their pails and go for a fence. Alexander T. Stewart says: “He who invests one dollar in business should invest one dollar in advertising.” Robert Bonner says, “ My success is owing to my liberality in advertising.” Barnum say* liberal advertising nrtde him a million dollars in ten years. Stephen Girard said, ‘‘ Constant and persistent advertising is a sure prelude to wealth.” , Up Train and Down Train.—* 1 What do you mean by an 'up train ?’ ” inquired a rural passenger. “ A train whose engine explodes and blows up the whole concern, of course,” replied the conductor. “Then what do you mean by p, ‘down train?” inquired verdant “ What else could it be blit a train whose engine gets off the track and plunges down the bank or» into the river, with the carriages after it,?” “To which of the two doe* this ’ere belong s “We can answer no such question in advance.” A GENTLEMAif who was going to New York from Albany relates that just opposite him in the ear sat a lady and her child, the latter a beautiful little girl with wonderfully bright eyes and a sweety winsome face—the very picture, in miniature, of her mother. She attracted much' attention, arid won many smiles and tended glances, as she moved about the seat. An elderly gentleman, walking through the oar,'looked into the witching things eyes, and was fascinated at once. Stopping, He lovingly patted her cheek, and toked; “ Won't you give me a kiss, pretty one? I like to kiss little girla.” She lobketr at him very archly for an instant, and then propounded the rather embarruring question: “Wouldn’t you rather' kiss mamma?”

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

It is true wisdom to speak but little of the injuries you have received or the good deeds you have done. Mice become a great nuisance sometimes in and about farm building*. A novel method to destroy them I* to saturate a piece of cotton with chloroform and put it in a bafrel with some grain.” People who are troubled with sleeplessness, should secure a good bed, sufficient exercise to get tired, fresh, and not too warm air, a lightly loaded stomach, and an easy conscience. The different grains produce, when ripe, nearly the following quantities of meal, or household flour anil bread per bushel, viz: Wheat, II weighing 60 the-flour, *8; bread, 64. Rye. If weighing... 64 Via-flour, «; bread, 66. Barley. If weighing.4S Ibi— flour, 874; broad. 60. Oat*, if weighing. ..40 tba—flour, Siq ; bread, 30. A Correspondent of the Kain« Farmer has a new use for cats. He says: “My way to cure a sulky steer that lies down when you first yoke him, is to take a cat and let her put her paws on the end of the steer’s nose, and, if necessary, hold her rather hard. My word for it, ha will be on his legs quick.” Mr. Quinby, of Irondequoit, said at the Rochester Farmers’ Club recently that during the past three years he has drawn 10,000 bushels of leached ashes on his farm and spread them at the rate of 200 or 300 bushels per acre, and has threshed forty acres. He thinks the application lias doubled his wheat crop. His land is light; had seen ashes applied to heavy clay land with little benefit. Etiquette is the art of behaving yourself. Manners not only make the man, but the woman, too, what they ought to be—ladies and gentlemen—whether they roll through life in their carriages, or trudge along the pavement in the lowly Blucher. True gentility is the exercise of a due regard tor the feelings of your neighbors, and etiquette is the essence of gentility. To purify glycerine which has been for some time in use, add ten pounds of iron filings to every 100 pounds of the impure liquid; occasionally shake it and stir up the iron. In the course of a few weeks a black gelatinous mass will collect on the bottom of the vessel, and the supernatant liquid will become perfectly clear, and can be evaporated to remove any excess of water that may have been added to it. In France they have a somewhat novel method of treating tomato plants, which produces fruit of an excellent quality, whiah ripens early. The gardeners cut off the stems of the plants down to the first cluster of flowers which appears on them, thus forcing the sap into the buds below; and this is deme five times successively. By this means the plants become stout dwarf tmshes, not over eighteen inches high, and they are kept ereet in rows by sticks or strings. Edwin L. Gage, of Deßuyter, N. Y., gives the following remedy for eye-lashes of sheep growing in their eyes: “ Take a long darning needle, threaded with cotton wrapping yarn—run the needle through the iotetop close to the skin just forward of the eyes, and then back just back of the eyes, inclosing a strip of wool about an inch in width; take oil the needle, tie the two ends of the yarn in a single knot, draw it up till the upper lids are raised sufficiently to clear the eyes of the hair, fasten with another knot, and the work is done. A writer in the Ma»»aehuKtt» Plowman gives the following method of cleansing pork barrels:—“Chemistry famishes an agent in the permanganate of potassa, which fully meets this want. A pint of the permanganate turned into the most nasty, filthy cider, beer, or pork barrel, and rinsed about a few minutes, will entirely .dgcfijnpose all fungoid growths and fermenting matter, and render the cask as sweet as those that are new. The onlyway to remove immediately the odor of carbolic acid from the hands, is to immerse them in the liquid permanganate.” The Country Gentleman says of tarring seed corn;—“lf the coating with tar is done there will be no difficulty. The process consists essentially in giving each grain a fine thin varnish of tar, which may be varied by first heating the corn with hot water, pouring it off, and then applying the tar at the rate of half a pint or a pint to the bushel of seed, and stirring rapidly and thoroughly. Some dry powder, as ashes, plaster, sifted coalashes, etc., will prevent all sticking together. If the tar is applied too copiously, or on dry seed, the result will be less favorable?’ '- - ; ’ 1 Knife ob Shear* fob Pbunihg.—On“ all plants where it is desirable that the wound should heal over, a..sharp knife should be used in pruning. With grape vines it make* but little or no difference whether a smooth cut is made or not, as all the wood left beyond the last bud remaining on the shoot dies, whether cut with knife or shears. This is also true with many specie* of ornamental shrubs, such as Syringa, Deutzia, and, in fact, all' plants that have a large pith in the young stems. Shears are the most convenient implement with which to prune vines, and may be used without danger of doing any damage, even if they do not make as clean a cut as a knife.— Hearth and Home. A Turkish receipt for a cement used to fasten diamonds and other precious stone* to metallic surfaces, and which is said to unite even surfaces of polished steel, although exposed to moisture, is as follows: “ Dissolve five or six bits of gum mastic, each of the size of a large pea, in as much spirits of wine as will suffice to render it liquid. In another vessel, dissolve in brandy as much isinglass, previously softened in water, as will make a twoounce vial of strong glue, adding two small bits of gum ammoniac, which must be rubbed until dissolved. Then mix the whole with heat. Keep in a vial closfely stopped. When it is to be used, set the vial in boiling water.”

Preservation of Fence-Posts !

Any kind of timber, when employed for fence-posts, will be more than twice as durable if allowed to become thoroughly seasoned before being set in the ground. The durability of seasoned posts may be promoted, so as to make them last an age, by the application of a heavy coat of coaltar to; the portion buried in the earth, and a few inches above the surface of the ground. Borne farmers set the ground-end tn hot tar, and let it boil’ fifteen minute*. When cool, cover with coal-tar, thickened with, ground slate or ground brick. The boiling stiffens the albumen and causes the pores to absorb tar. The coating prevents the action of moigturp. But this treatment es green post* would do very little good, and, perhaps, mischief. A boiling m lime-water is also beneficialTimber that is first water-logged and then well dried, lasts well; because the water soaks out the acid that hastens the decay. Others contend that the better way is to season the post well before setting it; and when the post-hole is filled within ten inches of the surface of the ground, to apply a heavy coat of tar and fill up with earth.

As fence-posts always decay first neat the surface of the ground, it is only necessary to protect the post a few inches above the surface, and about-a, foot below it. The timber begins to 'decay, usually, on the surface of the posts. Therefore, if the surface can be protected by some antiseptic material, posts will last a lifetime. Many kinds of timber will not last .five years if set in the ground while green.— Manufacturer and Builder?

Pollen for Bees.

Giv« all bee* floor for pollen as soon as they begin to fly in the spring; it is as essentisJ for then* to hare it as honey. They will live on it*and water for weeks, if the weather Is so they can fly out every few days, if they have no honey. Pollen and water constitutes the chief food the queen eats When she is laying eggs. A queen in a well stocked hive, as to honey and bees, would not lay hut few, if any, eggs if she did not have pollen. Hence, the necessity to supply the bees with it in early spring before they can gather it from natural sources. As soon as bees begin to gather it, thpy feed their queens with a certain prepared food, which is constituted chiefly of pollen apd water. Bees do not feed their queens unless they are laying, or they wish them to. They then tend her regularly, and offer her food every few minutes. (At other times the queen helps herself to food as any other bee.) Hence, the necessity of furnishing them with a substitute for pollen, so as-to have them strong and populous early. For herein licsthe secret of bee-keeping. Take oats, rye or buckwheat, (either will do), I prefer oats ; get itground fine—it need hot be bolted; I feed in baskets, aS they are handy to set oat or take in at night, or if it should storm they should be set in a warm, sheltered place out of the wind. To get 4he bees to find it readily, drop a few drops of “oil of anise” near the basket and it will attract them to it.—Cor. Ulusirattd Bee Journal. w s An old man from the country was recently robbed of a satchel containing 110,000 in bonds at the New York SubTreasury. He had laid it on thd floor of the rotunda and was reading the bulletin notices, when an unknown person walked off with the bag and contents. A portrait of Mr. Gladstone, the English Premier, espied from a late photograph, 1* given on ths first page of Evixx Satvbdt for March 12. Four full-page illustrations—Kabyle Orange-Sellers, A (London) Street-Plug during a Frost, Girls Painting Tiles, Racing the Tide—and a comic illustration, entitled " Croaky," complete the excellent engravings in this number. Single number, 10 cents; Yearly Subscription, $5.00 in advance; 00 a year to subscribers for any other periodical issued by Fiilds, Osocod A 00., the publishers, Boston, Mass. Messrs. Gbo. P. Rowell A Co., Advertising Agents, No. 40 Park Row, New York, are authorized to receive advertisements for this paper at our lowest rates. We have just received from the well-known Agricultural Warehouse ot Messrs. R. 11. Allen A Co., of New York, their new Catalogue of Seeds for the Farm and Garden. This has numerous illustrations of the novelties and specialties in Seeds, and, though a handsome and expenrive Catalogue, it is rent to all applicants on receipt ot stamp to prepay postage. By their advertisement It win also bi noticed that they deal largely in Agricultural Implements and Machines, and Small ;Too's of every kind for Farmers, Gardeners and Stock Raisers' use. Indeed, they are the oldest established house in New York, and their assortment contains many articles that our Western Farmers ought to have, which they cannot buy at our local stores. So that we feel we are doing our readers a service by recommending them to send their orders to these gentlemen. See their advertisement elsewhere of their large Catalogue which every Progressive Farmer ought to have in his library. • !

Chromos !

Extbaobdinary Inducements.—We are determined from this date to give better terms to those who will canvass for our chromos, “ Little Nell, the Glpsey,” and “ Making the Kite,” than are offered on any other in the market. Teachers can double their wages; boys and girls can make money in this bn siness, which offers a chance for everybody Send for descriptive circular to Wx. Gabdnbb Cogswell, 48 Crosby’s Onera House, Chicago, 111.

Occupational Ailments.

Fresh, pure air Is a vitalizing elixir. Whoever is debarred by circumstances from unrestricted access to this invisible but powerful stimulant, needs a medicinal luvigorant of some kind. The great object should be to choose the best. Popularity is a pretty good guarantee of merit in this scruti nizing and intelligent age, and tried by this crite rion Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters stands first among the invigorating and regulating medicines of the present day. To the wants of persons engaged in indoor employments, especially in crowded factories where even with the beet possible ventilation the atmosphere Is always in some degree polluted, this salubrious vegetable tonic is peculiarly adapted The nature of the ingredients is no mystery. It consists of an absolutely pure diffusive stimulant, tinctured—or rather surcharged—with the fluid extracts of sanatous raots and barks and herbs. The pharmacopoeia has its tinctures, but what are they? The juice of only a single root or bark or plant is present in each Not one of them combines the three properties of a tonic, an alterative, and an aperient,- AU these elements are blended In the Bitters; nor are these the sum of its medicinal recommendations. It is also a blood deponent and an antispasmodic. The baleful effect which air that has been partially exhausted of its oxygen by frequent breathing produces on the vital organization, is notorious, and when to tnis devitalized atmosphere is snperadded the mephitic vapor of hot air furnaces, it becomes deleterious and depressing in the extreme. To enable the system to bear up, even for a few hours each day. against the debilitating Influences of a vitiated atmosphere, a wholesome tonic and alterative is urgently required. Thia grand desideratum fs supplied in Hostetter’s Bitters, which as a strength-sustaining, health-pro-tecting agent has no rival either among officinal or advertised medicines. Db. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy no Patent Medicine humbug gotten up to dope the ignorant and credulous, nor is it represented as being “composed of rare and precious substances brought from the four corners of the earth, carried seven times across the Great Desert of Sahara on the backs of fourteen camels, and brought across the Atlantic Ocean on two ships." It is & simple, mild, soothing,pleasant Remedy— a perfect specific for Chronic Nasal Catarrh, “ Cold in the Head?’ and kindred diseases. The proprietor, R. V. Pierce, M. D.*oFßuffalo, N. Y, offers a reward of SSOO for a case of Catarrh that he cannot cure. For sale by most Druggists everywhere. Sent by mail, post paid, for sixty cents. Address the proprietor as above. A Universal Remedy.—“ Brown's' Bronchial Trochee" for Coughs, Colds, and bronchial Affections, now stands the first in public favor and confidence; this result has been acquired by a test of many years. Its merits and extensive use have caused the Troches to be counterfeited, and we would caution purchasers to be on their guard against worthless imitations. In numbers there is safety. It was upon this principle that the formula of Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills was nreparod. Dr. Judson, intending to spend • fortune la advertising his pills, submitted hie recipe to the revision or the most intelligent and learned physicians of the age, and the result is a simple but most efficacious medicine —the Judson's Mountain Herb Pills. They Sthe blood, remove all obstructions, cleanse in of all pimples and blotches, and are persnre and safe in their operation. The Judson’s Mountain Hubs Pills cure Bilionsness, Female irregularities. Headache and many of the diseases arising from Impure blood and a deranged digestion. Dae the Judson’s ..Mountain Hkbb Pills, and when you have proved their virtue recommend them to your friends. They are both sugar-coated and plain. For aaiyevery where. To Curb CONSUWTroN.rvTtss remedy should be used when the disease Win the incipient stages, and when it first appears in the system, such as a hacking Conch, Pain in the Chest, Difficulty of Breathing. Cold-Night Sweats. Before the system is too much disorganized. Allbn s Luno Balsam will be found to give immediate relief. For sale by all Medicine Dealers. Tnb purest and sweetest Cod-uver OU NiMwosid Is Hazard a CaawetPs, wade Oaths sea shore, from fresh, selected livers, by CASWELL, HAZARD * CO, New York. It Is absolutely jram and PaUentawho have once taken It prefer It to all others. PbyalclaM have decided It superior to any of the other oils In Quinn HANDS, woe, rough akin. pimplee, ringworm, salWUenm. «"* <xfcM trataneovj effectlona cured, and the skin made soft and smooth, by name the JONVKBTAB aOAP. made by CASWELL, HAZARD »OO„ New York. B ls more convenient and easily appßM UWN other remedies, avoiding the trouble thenreaeybompdundsnowinnse. <»

Tin LaClxdu Hotxl, Cxrcaeo.—TMa la one of the very beet, and at the name time cheapest, first- : class bouses In that city. It la situated at the corner of Madland and Canal streets, opposite the Alton 4 St. Louis and llttsbnrgh. Ft. Wayne fi. Chicago depots, and its proprietor, Mr. Hnowirn, Is one who knows how “to keep-hotel." Bistable contains every luxury, the rooms are large and well furnished, and all the attendants are poll to and ——w^KSßmsnmMn^ bi Seeds and Agricultural Implements. Special (,'staloat.e. as REEDrt, either■ Wholesale or Retail, sent to applicant on receipt of Maine. Our large Catalogue of Agricultural meats. Machines u.d Small Tools Is a handsome volume of aboat SUU pages, containing nearly UOo Illustrations of in- nr.eat and beats r Farm and Household use. a"d Is scut, post-psl i by mall, on receipt ot *ll (ml tee will refund Into on receipt nf tile fleet order for 9ur goode. Add ess all letters to *• K. 11. ALLKN *• CO. t , F. O. Box 376, New Y oris. N. 8.-If yon want anything for nsa on your farm, send a stamp to us and wo *lll either write yon the deal rod Information, or send you a Special Circular of which we Issue a large number. BIG xi articles In the world. No capita 14MIEV ! required. Address. STANFORD A l <y>.. AS Ravpoliliißlncli. cnlaaro. SB Agents—Canvassing Bonks bent Free. SECRETS OF INTERNAL revenue, Bu a Prominent Officer of the Treaetu. Service, showing up the eecrete end Inner workingi of the Revenue Department. the Whisky Ring, Cold Ring, and Drawback Frauds, Systematic Robbery, Depredations, Conspiracies and Raids on lhe Governor tr, Malfra since, Tyianny and corruption of high Olßctals. The mote narthnu and fmoortunl book pi Miehnl. Con’alnIng about 5 <lO well-filled pages, spfrltedly lllsstrati d. Agents Wanted, cunraicnp book and iwmnlHe • Mill *ent free. Address WM. FLINT, Publteher, Philadelphia, Pa. -, Chicago, 111,, or < luclnnall, Ohio. QflQ DDI7CC Worth front 81.50 to UUO iniLLu $lO6 its Greenbacks, awsrded to subscribers and agents for Wood’s HowsenoLD MiOszims, the largest and beat Dollar Monibly Inthewnd. Similar prizes to be repeated >oon. Full particulars in March number. For sal* by all News dealers, or sent with Catalogue of Premiums on receipt of looents. Address 8. 8. WOOD, Newburgh, N. Y. HOW TO CET PATE NTS IS FULLY EXPLAINED In a Pamphlet of 108 pages Just issued by MUNN A CO., 37 Park Bow, New York. SENT FREE. . , MUNN A CO., Editors’ Scientific American, the best mechanical paper In the world, (25 Yiaxs ExrEuuxca), PATENTS.—have taken Mure Patents and examined More in ven liens, than any other asency. Send sketch and deScriplion for opinion. ' No CHARGE. 5) S) ’Ej SOMETHING NEW! BEAD THE FOLLOWING. WHAT TUB City Missionary of Boston SAYS ABOUT ALLER’S LUNG BALSAM. There Certainly can not bo Found a Better Lough or Lung Remedy. As an Expectorant it has no Equal. Boston, M ass., February 18,1869. Messrs. P. Davis & Son-GentUmen; The paqksjje of Allen’s Lung Bal Ram you seat me to use among ibe afflicted poor in my city missionary work has proved very acceptable and useful. It has gone into several families, and with remarkable effect In every instance. One woman has been restored from what her physlclans pronounced consumption, after several months’ sickness with cough, great pain In the lungs, and prostration, so that she is able now to do housework and assist In the support of her fanvly, and with care and continued use of the Balsam she expects entire restoration. Another person, a young woman to whom I gave one bottle, has received great benefit, so that her co ugh, which was of months'standing, Is getting bet ter, ano she has purchased the second bottle, and has every indication of a s, erdy cure. A young man who was raising blood, agd quite weak and sick, Jias, by the use of two bottles, been much improved, ano Is able to do a little at his work. A young man to whom 1 recommended atrial of it, who has had a bad cough, and much'pain in his lungs lor months past, ano unable to get rear ch sleep, has commenced taking it, and Is now using the fourth i otfe with great benefit. He said to me on a recent visit, he would not do without It. He Is hoping (and reasonably it seems to me) to be able to resume his work again. Very respectfully and grateful! vy ours, CHARLES A.BOUNDT, City Missionary. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Sole Prop’s, nvcnwATi, ouio. "WARRANTED GARDEN WEEDS -Sent by »» mall to any KO. In the United States. Illustrated Priced Catalogue* for IS7O. mailed to applicant*. EDW’U. J. EVANB A CO., York Pean Q*9 0004 YEAR AND EX.PENURS to I/V agent* to sell a new Shuttla dewing Machine, the best and che mast machine In the world, “ Htitch alike on both rides.” Sample machine on trial. For particnlare address J N BOTLAN, Detroit. Mich. AHIOVtI TV ! GRANT CIGAR TIP.nUVKLI I I Samples 50 cent*. A. GRANT, Box 2438, New York poetolfice. AGENTS WANTED! For ZELL’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, published In 60 patta at 50 ceutaeach. A complete Encyclopedia. Lexicon and Gazetteer of the World -, a Biographical. Biblical, Law and Medical Dictionary, with over 2000 Illustrations. ASO cent specimen number sent for I O cents. Address ZELL’ftw ENCYCLOPEDIA, 90 West Randolph St,, Chicago. , . BLOOMINGTON, ILL., IST TJ JFL JSEIZFL Y-■ 10th Year I SOO Afafbat 40 Greenhonaea I Lnreest, best stock and shipping ft ctlltlea. ATTLES 1,2,3 yr., I.WI fins 1 yr, »35. APPLE ROOT GRAFTS, choice NURSERY STOCKS, Seeds, Oaage, apples, P»aqli, WILD GOOSE. PLUM OSAGE HEDGE. ll>,0C0.il«. EVERGREENS, ROBES. 1,0101100. Dahlias. Gladiolus, GREENHOUSE, BEDDING PLANTS. Send 10c. for Catalogues. F. K. PH<ENIX._ A SILVER Watch for ft. Send stamp for specimen. Dollar Agentar-rply. Ad Iress“pastime. it*OPS A DAY l—id new articles for Aeenta. Samples/ree. H. B. SHAW, Alfred, Me. nnnrOilin’P) Ask your groce- for PrusriSg’a I nil do HI U O Cider Vinegar—warranted pure. 1 iiiarieelVrT V • palatable, and to preserve UINtI.AU pickles. First premium awarded VIHtUAn. J at the U. 8. Ah, 111. State Fair, and Chicago City Fair. Largest works In the United States. Established 1648. qHAB.G. E. PBUSSING, 339 and 341 State 8t„ Chicago. 111. $732 IN 31 DAYS Made by one Agent, selling Sh.vmb'b P.Ti.-rr Enana Baoox. Over 50.000 now In use. Recommended by Hon. Horace Oreel-u and Atneri'xm AprlculturUt. Ono county reserved foreach Agent. C. A. Ci.Bdo * C0.,38 Cortlaruu. At-, jy. Y., or TM WluMngton St., Chleago, 111. LORiLLARD’S “Yacht Club” SMOIINU TOBAHCD. r The beat jndgee everywhere declare It to be the beat. fo> many reasons. ’ * It la made of the finest ekxatgrewx. It has a mild and agreeable aroma. SBNb It la anU-aervoua In Ita effects— ■ The Nicotine having been extracted— And Is perfectly free from dragof It leaves no acrid, disagreeable after-taste, M Does not burn or sting Ute tongue, ffiswy And leaves no offensive odor In the room. Being very light, one pound will last as long AstwotothreepoandsofordlnarytobnccM S Orders for ELEGANT MEER|M| schaum pipes Are being packed dally In the variona Sized Bags In which It la sold. BUY IT, Try It, and ConjKjgA vinee Yournelf eWKW That It hue all the advantages we claim tor ftSLJI It. K yonr dealer doos not keep . ILnakbUh togetJW LORILLARD’S JSiwtel&n Smotcing Tobacco. a SOOD bmokxng TOBACOO pKTnAL The “Eureka" Tobacco la likewise an excellent arttch of choice Virginia Tobacco of a heavier body than the former, an I bonce muchcbMper In price; nevertbdeaa It makes an excellent smoke. Order* for lUeenschaom Pipes are alar packed dally In tgla brand. Lorillard’s Snuffs MTCiroußXßantcaamUaaflon. i ' ■ Pa LOEIUAM. New XRkK.,

jiESTNixconiio vn>ooWMiu\Nm) mlssw SIX-CORD. For sale by all dealers frT DRY GOODS & NOTIONS. KANSAS FARMS! Neosho Valley Lands. 1,300,000 Acres for Bale , —TO ■ZLctvictl Settlers. Union Paeific Railread Co. BHTHEHN BKANCTI. The Laitfs now oft red by this Company am si Infix'd mainly within TWBWVY MILKS on each side <0 tba road exteudlnr ONR UUNDiqsp AN!) MILES along ttM'NKOStty VfiXLEY. the rtcheat, finest, and most inviting valley for settlmucnt tn the One-third of the labor required at the Fast tn the cub tore of farms will insure het* dQuhJc.tbc amount of crops. For orchards, grape coUute; and small fruit In general, it Ls unetjaalefi. BUILDING MATERIAL AND FENCING of every variety and In great abundance, within convenient distance of almost every quarter section, ate the finest Sinarries of limestone, mrutahUig the best ot material or house, barn, fences, &c. * 2 a STOCK KAIBING. -The rich native grasses of the f»ra rtes and bottoms, with the largfc aroraf ntwcpunled ends in connection with Live dry. mild, and open Win tert, present uneq naled adyaimges for the fusing off oatllu. sheep, and horses. It la a region better adapted to the growth of live stock, and the jna'dbg-, of- butter ana cheese, than any other in tne same Tant use. DAIRYING.—In snob a country, with ranges for stock unrestricted, and pasture HmitleM, the productk>n of buttei 1 and cheese must be profitable. FRUIT GROWING Is one of the as de monstrated Vy the Gold Medal awarded to the State of Kansas nv tne Pennsylvania State Horticultural Society for r ‘ A COLLS TION OF fBUITS L’MSUUI’ASSJCD FOB 81ZB, HBATTTY, ANO FLAVOB.** THE CLIMATE AHD HEALTH of Kansas are unequaled These, Indeed, are among its entef excellencies, and are recomnjundatlob ß lor settlement. j Fo country In the world furnishes a larger number of days in lhe year in which on|*4oor work can ne done. SCHOOLS AND CHTTKCHRS XThd Common and Higher Schools of the State are endowed with lands to tlie value of millions of dollars, a portion of which have been sold and Invested, yielding a heavy Income. Churches of all denominations are common, and liberally supported and attended. PRICES OF LAN D.<Our lands vary tn price, usually from $2 to S 3 per acre, and are sold upon the credit of ten (10) years' time, and <?n more favorable terms than any other company In the State. It Is our pur dom to prevent, a* fin* as possible, any specula in<r in the lands of this Company, and to encourage sales to actual tteUlcrt alone. TERMS OF SALE.—One-tenth down at time of purchase. No payment the second year, excent the inirrest. One-tenth every year after until completion or with annual Interest. Anyone wishing to save the Interest can have iho privilege sf paying up at anyM S , IIB HBAB LANBOFFUIE. • Izloc.tKl at JUNCTION CITY, to Which all Im mlgrants and persons desiring to see tMe lands of this ompany should purchase tickets. Larg e mans or the road and the lands cad be.een, and hnpp.'laut information gained, not possessed at any other point, and to an purchasers of lands free tickaU from ttilp nonxi are given over the Road. For further Inform atty u address ISAAC T. GOODNOW, Land CommlMloner, JTTNCTfON CITY, - - KANNtS TTARWELL J. V. ffi. »«»., Importer, M 106, 108, 110 and 112 WabaMi Ave., Chicago. A- Jonoere m Brv (ioo<l« and FISK •. B. k «•.. I» k 56 Lake bl., Chicago. Wholesale Dealers la Millinery aad Straw Goods, Ladlea Fttmlahtog and Fancy Goode. Ordara aollotted and astndaction guaranteed. 9 - w -4 1 I—f «2 South Oaaal St., Chicago. JLA Fire and Burglar Proof Safes At Loeb.--A—l -- I LIPPINCOTT A BAKKOUg Sole Makers, Pittsburgh Pa. None genuine unless stAKnood TAnnincohj’fcCo A MJCBICAN PATBNTGO. . . l\ For Introducing and Negotiating Valna--LA. hie PataUta. Sffloe 162 Lake St.. Chicago. 111. HT Send Sir Circulara. etc. t.. r. vlswwtj. a. a. (EHTA Hl.It»HEb IB3<K) WEJLCIT At GRIFFITHS 4AWBI AXES! KAWSI QA W 8 ot all descriptions. AXES. BELTING and MILL FURNISHINGS. CIRCULAK SAW S with Solid Teeth, or with Patunt AnrireTanut PotJITa. tuperlor lo till Bixerlat Teeth Sauv. tir Prices Reduced. _<l UF“ Bend for Price List iw.dj Irculars. _*l ■ WELCH dk GRIFFITHS, , Boston. Mass, or Detroit,J™*’’* l - nil gents ! ae ad This ! TETE JYILL PAY AGBNTB A HALAKY W ot S3O per weak and expeneea. of allow * lp r ß° commission, io sell onr new wondenal inventions Address. M. WAGNER & CO., Marshall, Mich. “THE Ol4> RELIABLE.”—*Over 10,000 1 machines in use-rsold mostly by canvas Ing agents. Ths only kind that knits circular and flat work of all sfrcfi and narrows and yMens on both. Senator Circular and Sample StoOkliw. LAME MACHINE <O. OA Wauhlngton "t f hicnuo. AgenlsWanted THE ILLUSTRATED HORSEJDQCTOR, Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the Various Diseases, their Causes, Symptoms, and the LATEST MODE OF TREATMENT. WITH ALL THE REQUISITE PRESCRIPTIONS. No owner of a horse can afford to be without it. Addrta. Al ‘ D AMERICAN SAW CO., No. 1 Ferry St., cor. Gold, New York. AOIW " WAWT<1 j Foll Ladles of the White House. :B T mm. Laviu. Caxtxb Hou.owat. An autti® tic biography of every lady who has nr> sided aaWlstresa of the Presidential Mansion from wishtazton’s administration fo'wn to the present time, Showing ilbt 'anry the beantlfnl, but the sad ana shadowy sides it their histories. Illustrated with numerous steel-plate engravings. For circulars and terms addscss if. K PUH_ IKIHNG CO , 130 S Sark BUCMeaao.HL.or IT, w. 4th 8t .(Tnclnnatl Maoxoix when 522 will buy one that has nMandard reputation, Isdonble thread, complete with Ta’ le, constructed upon etitfrelv new and practical principles, runs hy friction, and exc-is.all out rsf These celebrated Machines, Mu llcfnte i, are Intended for poor people Trite want tg save time. Jabor and money. Agent* wanted. Machines sent to Agent* and airen a wav tb needs families. For circulars and reduced prices, address J. O. Drrrn A Co., or Franklin and Diamond S. M. 10., box 397, Boston, Mass. W. $ U W.. These Extracts are matte frortr ca-efn’y setec'od rna-xD terlals, under tbs dlrapt suner/lrion of th» proprietor. Each ponnd contains all the medicinal properiles of onep.amdol the material from which It 1s obtained. It IS rtbr fixed purpose t iftlrnlsb Fluid E; tracts of the a, Iwetuna’lty and to maintain their repu’a I n. 1. e. of belngnn'formlnatrengtftand.eiiaracter. The Extract* are positively sure. Ten per cent, allowed agnnta fin selling. 288 BO OF THE WORLD.” OVNROMI TBOUXaJfD HAiUariLaflONe. Tbs largest, MX lOSL and amt aStrsctlve anbairipuon book averpubUabM. Bend ibc Cfrcuhqp, with term a once ANAmm U. X PUBLIBHUIU CO., 130 8. Clark Bt. Chicago, HU or ITJ W. ♦*» St., Cincinnati, Ohio.