Shelby Volunteer, Volume 15, Number 24, Shelbville, Shelby County, 17 February 1859 — Page 1

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, rrlaSHELBY VOLUNTEER, tt PUBLISHED tVtST THCHSDAT rnixcis in. RAXRALL, SHELBYVILLE, IND. Office South $Me of the Public Square ' Term of S (inscriptions One copy for one year, in advance. sl,SO One ropy for six months, in advance 81,00 One copy for three months, - 50 ' Terras of Advertising For one square, (10 lines or less,) one iriOsertion, 75 cents, and for each subsequent insertion 23 cents. y 5 COTL-gal advertisements to he paid in ' advance, or the ttonies bunding them in will he hU responsible. Local notices, tec cents per line. A libera reduction i yearly advertising.

HI VA AT II A LODGE, '"- F.', Meets on Tuesday ttvenirig cf ach week, atOild Fellows Hail. J ' M )L. JOHNSON, N. G. F. M. RANDAL!.. Sec. Shelbvville. Ind. DAVID ADAMS, M . D ' PHYSICIAN V SITItfiEOIV. SHELBYVILLE, IND. Office and Residence on Franklin first house wes I of the. Railroad. street OEO. C. MA.YXARD. WM. IT. SWEETS. ?IAY. lItI V SWEETS C It, li Importer and M'iolix'Ue Dealers in ID IR. OOOIDS 88 & DO Peavl Street, I n42 CINCINNATI OIIIO i. it i. srtnrri cV iikos. : Forwarding &, Commission Merchants, AXT rEALBS IX Foreign and Domestic Liquors, A N D MAITUPACTUEEES OF CIDER. VI N E C A R, C. Louisville, Kentr.cky, n2tf. RAY HOUSE ABNER D. CROSS, Proprietor. North Sins of the Public Square, SSIEI.nYVII.LE, I."D. noOtf. fW- MAGNOLIA liESTAlUAT, ILMSOIS STREET, FIRST DOOR SOUTH PALMER HOUSE, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. II. Df.NIGHT, - . Proprietor. CGF Lager Peer and Choice Cigar3 always on hand.. ft5" Meals at all hmrs during the day nd,evening. Lunch at 10 A. M. and 10 P. -f.l. - . ... ...nil ly.. . IllTl SElM STOHE ItOOM s For S;iJe or Kent. JOHN-LAUGH LIN. bcius about to leave Shelbyville offers for sale or rent, his Brick Residence, toRether with the store room, on Washington Slreet, opposite the Bank. Terms liberal. ALSO Two Vacant Lots, one. situate on Brv.dway, and one on Hendricks stiiet, near Thos McLean s, will be sold very cheap. Cill and Settle. ..All indebted to me are requested to call immediately and settle either by cash or note. JOHN LAUGHL1N. Shelbyville. Dec. 27th, '68. i.I7m.1 II. II. CLIFFORD, WHOLESALE PRODUCE, FORWARDING and C031MISSI0N MERCHANT. sxcLrsivr.T.vJ Xo. 23 Fourth (or Wall) Street. LOUISVILLE, KY. Cr? Consignments solicited, and quick sales with prompt returns made. All Goods consigned to my cure will receive my strict and personal attention. REFKRrSCES. Georse E. West. New York City, F-. W. Benton & Co., N. Orleans. I., Brtlett, Mc Comb ft Co., Si. Lotus. Mc., P. C. Hildreth fi Co., Wheeling, Va., McQuistnri & Co., Madison, lnd., Armstrong it Co., Nushvillp, fenn.. P.T Ham. Toledo. hio. n4l:ly. LIGHT! LIGHT! TITE Citizens cf Shelbyville and vicinity tire bet-by informed thai 1 have just lereived a gemtal assortment of COAL OIL LAMPS embracing all varieties and style trom the cheap bhop lamp to the eiegent Parlor lamp. I have also provided mjself with a stock LARGE AND SHALL BURNERS for the purpose of converting Fluid and Phosgene to Coal Oil Lamps. To all those who have, not yet seen tne COAL OIL LAMPS, I wou'd just say when you come to town, do not go away nntil you have cailed at my store anu seen the great discovery of the age, COAL OIL LAMPS. J. II. SPRAGUE. Shelbyville Dec. IS, '53. n!5m3. notice: r fHE Gudersigned begs leave to inform JL the public that be has purchased the entire stock ia trade, of Joeh Defbez, in the : . INDIANA HOTEL. nd Grocery Store. And Mix will be glad to see all the old customers and as mawr new ones as can make it convenient to call. His bar is well furnished with liquors his table will be supplied with all the substaauals ol the season, his stable is supplied with provender and an attentive ostler. LAST BUT NOT LEAST. The Grocery department is weil filled with all articles usually kept in a family Grocery and provision store,- Don't forget the place the Indiana . House near the ij 6c C. S. R. Depot where Mike, can always be found to attend to tne wants oi ma customers. , . MICHAEL DEPREZ. Shelbrville Nov. 25tb. &3. nl4m6 "1 OB WORK, dose at ibis office oa short J notice. Bring oa.yom orders.

That old Familiar Tune. BT I TAX WrKXLZ." My neighbor's singing all day long, How cheering to my ear; . I lit ten to the simple song, , , And wipe away a trtr; For it reminds of pleasure gone, Of days whoa I was young; "When tinst I heard its merry tone, Where fiirt it notes I sung. At morning, noon, and stilly night I hear that sitnplo ley; It breathes of joy and'uich delight, Of happiness alway. For in clear memory there steals Sweet words of love and praise; That still unto my soul reveals - The joys of other days.

And may that "old fumiliar tune" He sung from day to day; So sweet in life's aii-radiant noon, That simple cheering lay; For it reminds t! pleasures gone, Of dnji whcii l-.ft-u.-i young; Whervfirst I heard its merry tone, Vjt'ea first its notes I sung. Ho" t to Sustain Your Local Paper. t. St Lay asdde your fears that ihe Editor Jl get rich faster ihan his neigf'. w e a've never heard of a man makii'. fp nan a decent Jiving by a publica1 io'K A . . - e i i i country newspaper, eten it he had e uch a good businessr. A case in point in acquaintance of outs, who has been publhing some six or seven years, has had :i!l the buiiness of his own lown and couny, end a l)rge portion of ihst of the suripnding ; but wiih all this he gets in'.o bf ;ht pinciies for money to buy his whito ipr uh as eny other publishers wist ?n we are acquainted. "w- 11 me paper agrees wiih you of thinking, subscribe and pay for peisuade your neighbors of the same mind to "go and do likewise." Do not tell the editor to send youi paper, wi'houl paying, and when you owe two 01 three dollar tell youi fiiends who speak of it, that the paper is of no account, it will burst up one of itese days. The way, under such a stale of the cae, to keep the paper from "bursting up," is for each subscriber to keep the editoi's books free from charges against himself. Once we had to close, and on posting up, found we had booked end outstanding some $200 more than we had capital invested. This thing of applying the credit system to the newspaper busi ness may be likened to a faimer selling out his crop, a bushel to the man' The sum each owes for a bushel does not seem of any account lo tho debtor, but the aggregate of thece bushels may make or break the poor delver in the soil. 3. If yon have a father, mother, broth er, sister, or menu ot p.ny kind, residing at a distance, shJ cie able, subscribe, pay for Bnd send them a copy. 4. If yoo have uny panting you with done do not '-jew" the editor to a starva tion price, end when he comes, to moke 8 purchase of you "spike on the tariff." 5. If you have any. advertising or job wtstk to be done, give it fo your county paper, except perhaps jou wish to advei ise in more than one paper. 6. JJo not run otf to the city to get your h nl bill., I a be I e, cards, ( blinks,) &C. print ed, becauss, fonooth" you can gel a reduc tton of a few cents in price. Support youi own as you wish to be supported. A man who is elway running away from home with his business, little deserve the pationage of ihe cammunity in which he lives; and, as fai as we are concerned, such will receive the ' ccld shoulder." 7. If you have control of any legal ad vertising, send it 10 your friend. This kind of business pay belter than other, and the moie you can send to the editor of your paper, the better for him and it. In propoiiion to the amount of ihe receipts of a paper, is an eiy.tor enabled 10 make 11 use ful, amusing and enterteining to the com munity in which it is published 8. Do not expect much of a poper when an editor is duven o be his own compost tor, prouf-reader, pressman end "devil," and has to run all over town every forenoon in the vain search for a "quartet" lo buv something for his dinner. 9. Do not expect the editor lo make honorable mention of you or your business every Jew weeks for nothing. The space in a psper, Bnd a man's time, aio oitb something, and every notice comes back to the drawer of the recipient in dollars and cents. An editor should not be allowed to go hungry, barebacked or barefooted. They "eat, drink and wear, just like other people." 10 If the editor owes you a shilling do not cbast bim from "rosy morn to balmy eve for it, and when you happen to get the balance on the other side, "cut the gentleman's acquaintance." 1 1. "Finally, my brethren," ifyou wish lo properly sustain your county paper, to live the balance ot your days in peace with God and roan, and occopy a seat in Paradise after death, practice th6 Golden Rule, "Do unto others as yoo would wish they would do unto you," under like circurostances. 0" How cball I cut this mutton teddtewise or not? said a gentleman at whose house Mr. Hook, was dining. 1 think yon had better cut it bridlewise, i-itr--i. l. . rrpueu nooK, Because mere might oa a chance of our having a bit between our teeth. JS3 Memphis, Tenn., bas more than double its population since 1850. In 1840 it hand 3,200 inhabitant; it now has nearly 20,000.

Tho Acquisition of Cuba. The following is a brief synopsis of the bill reported to the Senate, by Mr. Slide!!, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, apptoptiating $30,000,000 lobe placed el the disposal of the President, to negotiate for the purchase of Cuba: Mr. Slidell, frcm the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the bill making appropriations to facilitate the acquisition of Cubs, by negotiation, reported thet it is not considered necessary by the committee to enlarge upon the vast importance of the acquisition of Cubs. Its ultimate acq'jshion may be considered a fixed purpose of the United States, a purchase refoliin? ftooi geographical and political necessities, which have been recognized by all parties and administrations, and in regard to which the popular voice hos been expressed onsn'munsly in favor. The purchase of Louisiana led. as a neces-ary corrollary, to Florida, and both point with unerring certainty lo Cubs. Whal the possession of the mouth of the Mississippi was to the West, Cuba will become to the nation. Oar lending 1 lteJBien have en

deavored with s'eadiness and peiseverer.ee "k - - - 1 - e hasten the consummation 01 im proThe report hfre quotes the opinions Jefferson, Adams, Clay, Van Duron, :non in his dispatch to Saunders, Evin his celebsted letter to Sartiees, Marcv's dispatch to Soule. im these authorities it is manift the ultimate acquisition of Cuba has ;. lung regarded noi only as desirable, Inevitable. The only diffetence is in time, mode en t condition ot ontamThe law of our national existence is growth, whicn we cannot oifoey, wnue we" should not unduly stimnls'j it, and should be careful not to impose upon ourselves a recimen so strict as to prevent : healthy development. England France and Russia pre all expanding by the same law of progression; but their growth is lb absorption of weaker powers, while ours is the result of geopraphical position, high er civilization and greater nptitude fer gov ernment We have neither the right nor the disposition to find fault with this. So !et England purine her annexation in In dia, France in Africa or the Rhine, Russia subdue barbarous Asia, and we shall look on their progress, if not whh favor, si least with indifference. We claim on this hemisphere the same privileee. We repesl that the acquisition of Cuba is but a questien of time; the fruit thai wss not ripe in John Qoinry .Adams day is now mature. The .question is, shall it he plucked by a friendly hand prepared to compensate its proprietor with a friendly guerdon, or shall it fall to the ground? As Spain csnnoi long maintain hergrssp, there are but three alternatives: First, the possession of Cuba by one of the great Eoropecn powers, which is incompatible with our safety, snd must consequently bo resisted; second, he independence of the Island, which would result in protectorate more or less disguised. If under outs, annexation would foll if under European, civil and servile war woui.l resniu Thirl is annexation the question? How this is to be done can only bo answered by conquest or negotiation. Conquest even without the hostile interference of other powers than Spain, would be expensive, and with such interference would involve the whole civilized world in war. Purchase, then, is the only practicsblc course to pursue, but that cannot be attemp ted with success. unless the President be clothed with the powers to negotiate and pay as he suggested in his message. Much has been said of the danger of co filling such powers to the executive, but we have three examples, in the purchase of Louisiana, Florida and Mexico. Much has also been said of the indelicacy, and also that the offer will wound the Lpanish pride Bnd be rejected with contempt. For many years our desire for the purchase cf Cuba has been known to the world, and we now simply say to Spain: "You have a distant possession held by precarious tenure which is almost indispensihle to us for ihe protection of our commerce, and which may from its peculiar geographical position ih character of its population, and the mode in which they ft m po.'jroed, lead at any time to a rupture which both nations would deprecate. This possession yields you a net revenue no amounting nn the av. erage of a series of years to the hundredth part cf the price we offer. True, you have refused to sell hitherto, but circumstances are changing daily, end our offer may now be more acceptable than in 1843," Should war break out in Europe, Spain can scarcely - hope to escape being involved in it, and "he Cubans may leiza the opportunity to proclaim their inderec dence. Further, our minister will not broach the subject of purchase till he has reason to believe it will be favorably en tertained. Spain is a country of cenps d'etats and pronunciamentos the ministers of to-day may be fugitives to-morrow. With the forma of a responsible government, Spain is a despotism sustained by the bayonet; her financial condition ia one of extreme embsriassment, and a crisis may arise whenever the dynasty may be overthrown, snless a large sun) of money can be raised forthwith. The President says he would not, if we could, acquire except by honorable negotiation, and he will not depart from such a course only when circmstences which he does not ent'eipate may render ja departure justifiable under the impera-

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new neotiationTand .uaie antd&Tfee in - - . 1 . M ,,i ;of inn Ht - money witnuvi .... the Senate. This, in point of fact, is ar

its opinion oheV'l of renewflTg Theknart Rrj is very changeable, the iltNPuld weaio S 'W'fl' J,1 " wemey,heel.hy; him iKSneans? tffcll considef it as Ta,nd 'e iLnoi for the unwholesomeness pi intimation that we do not desirethe ec- the Irianvoliien and the feitility of the quisi.ion of Ihe isflf. European women; doctors yould be at

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a has been seld, the Ouoans tmnot cesue a transfer, it would be a very serious objection to the measure; but the Cubsn? would be less than men if ihey were conlented with their lot, and tho report hastlio best aothority for asserting that nearly the entire native population of Cuba desire annexation. T5 report then proceeds at conMercb!e engiK todu'cns fire Warm-of traffic is now confined to Cuba and Porto) Rico, and that Spain could have suppressed it as completely es Lrszil has done, but has not done so; therefore, those who desire to exterminate the rl8ve-trade may find in their sympathy fur the Afiicen an incentive to support ibis bill. Then, turning round, the report proceeds to relieve the mind of southern peml?men oftheir npprehension of peril to their institutions from the different elements Cuban society is made up of; further adding, that annexation would increase the comforts of the slave. Next, the circumlocution of Hispano Cuban diplomacy is recurred to an 1 condemned. Siatistics are cited tu show the value of the island, especially es it would give us the monopoly of the sugar; and finally, the purchase is recommended now as a measure of economy before the price is raised. Since the reference of the bill to ihe Committee, the President has ennounced thai no correspondence Iigs been exchanged, and he takes the occasion to repeat lhat any negotiation shfiuld receive prior sanction of Congress. This emphatic reiteration throws upon Congress the responsibility of failure iT it be wilhhelJ. Indeed the inference is sufficiently clear. that without some expression of opinion by Congress, the President will not fetl justied in renewing the negotiation. How Prescott, the Historian, who was Blind wrote His Immortal Works. The New York Tiibune in noticing the death of Piescott, the historian describes i.lie manner of his composition thus: Hnving thus laid a brad and deep (hun dation for future success, he selected ih3 reign of Ferdinand and Isabella as the theme, which, from its position in tho history of Europe, and iis comparative neglect by previous writers, promised the widest scope to his industry; and the most congenial field for the illustration of his powers. It was during a period of total inability to use his eyes that he received from Madrid the materials for this great work. They consisted of a large msss of authorities, in various languages, the contents of which-were to be carefully collated, transferred to his own manuscripts, and verified by minute reference. Most writers would have shrunk from ihe tssk, as a burden too formidable for human strength. But the heait and hop?, which were inborn in his nature, did not forsake him at this crisis. He procured the assistance of a reader, who, to add to the c'if5culy of the experiment, .ras acquainted with no modern language but his mother tongue, and thus worked his way through several old Castillian quartos, until he was satisfied of the practicability of making the ear do the work if the eye. He soon became so familiar with the sound of ihe different foreign languages that he was able to comprehend ihe reading without difficulty, ..Subsequently employing a secretary more competent to aid hkn in pursuing his historical inquiries, he persevered in this course for several years, consoling himself by ihe thought thai his palh, for the most part, stretched across dreary wastes, where no beauty lurked to charm the eye of the traveller, instead of leading him blindfold through the pleasant walks of literature. As the tetider proceeded, he dictated copious notes. These as they accumulated, were lead to him repeatedly, until he was sufficiently mnstr ef their contents to use them lor ibe parpose of composition. A new difficulty oc-' curred in the mechanical labor of writing, which he found a still more severe trial than reading ptint. This was remedied by a writing case, such as is used by the blind, which enabled him to commit hit thoughts to papei without the aid of sight, and equally well in the dark as in the light. His secretary soon teamed to decipher the hieroglyphics thus pioduced. and a fair copy waa transcribed by bim for the vie of the printer. Tomato Fios. To three pounds of tomatoes add one of sugar let the tomatoes lie in the sugar over night, for the purpose of hardening their. in the morning boil one hour, then carefully dip them out and deposit i.pon plates or platters. Pout the Pqoid over them and plr.ire them in an oven to dry be creful thst they do not bom when ihe juice has evaporated or dried away, they are fit to pack; thenpack them in layers in a stone jar, and you will have delicious figs, far superior to imported ones. Ladies who try this recipe will never fail to make a large supply every fall.

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(VB e letter. wiineW -'-oer 24, by a :nd in resident of "Victoria, I., to a MS fri; San Francisco -- . . The.-climate Ik ihe terrible accounfs which vou will have read Jlf tho suffering of the miners coming down to the river are entirely treys I believe; but I never heard of such rashness 01 stupidity going unpunished. Fancy one parly of nearly for'y men, finding themselves stopped by the ice in Fraser ITiVcr, shout six mile? below Harrison River, and three miles below the steamei Maria, uhich wes lying on a sand-bank, aground, V-hce ther? were plenty of-provi being so j-iopped, and knowUig-' ihereiure ,h8, lheie W8S coU, vvealht 8n1 ,ooki ing like srlow, they made one hearty meal o! their food, landed on ihe left (south) bank of the Fiaser, deserted their canoe, and made Langley, which they thought, being only twenty-five niles off by wcier, was to be reached i.riday. They landed, therefore, in thush it is as tangled a mass of forcsyBS I ever saw without a trail, without a guide, (except the river,) without a rjompass, without one pound of flour, or shyprovision for camping out. It came on to f now heavily ; but had it been ever sofinJi'-end they had had a good guide. it wout'l have been beyond ihe powers of most 'jVjpn to march in a day. But they were 1h1.ee days before they got in, and, even so wefjt carried 10 Cangley bythe steamer Enterprise?whch met ihem a few miles tff, with provisions, stimulents, &c,j but which few miles they would never have been able lo have made out on foot. They had had to camp out w'uhout shelter on thow, and day after day, dizzy with hunger and fatigue, kept plunging on in a maze through the snow, wandering in circles, and with fatigue of ten hours, making an effective progress of ordy half es many miles. Is the weather to blame for this? The lemperatue was never nearly so low as zero. They deliberately exposed themselves to a snow-stoim in the wood, without food, guide or blankets, leaving shelter and provisions a short three miles behind them. Since the burning of the Austria I have heard of no such piece of suicidal folly. compassionate very much the individual suffering two poor fellows lost their lives, and others got frost-bitten, more or less severe. li was iha" Moscow retreat the trendies before Sevastopol. But wis sr. er such self-inflicted misery? -Ate men children that they must be told lhat snoxv and want will slsire them? ''-In point (f fact, the cold weather was over when they reached Langley, Bnd the ice had departed. - - . . Nexl winter, when ihe people shall have been able to lay up stocks of food, (the Lillcoett Road this year was not opened till, 1 believe, ihe end of September or beginning of October, and is in part but a trail, though there are sixty-seven substantial bridges on it,) and when they shall have substantial frame houses, better able 10 resist the cold than the present wretched half-tents and bush-wattle huts, there will be but little inconvenience from the cold, whi:h seems to me to be not worse than is felt in the north of England or South of Scotland. As the frosts are repotted not to last long, they will not so much interrupt the woik of the miners, as intercalate agreeable perioes of holidays, which the b'hoys will not fail, if well aroused and fed, to be able to enjoy. I have spoken with many men returning from the mines several for California and not one has expressed any other intention ihan that of returning next spring. Give ihem comfortable lodging and enough to eat, and they don't care about the bogus excessive cold. A Bot Carried Over the Falls or Niagara. A sad accident occuried at Niagara Falls on Satuiday. An adopted son of Mr. Gibbs, foreman of the papermills, accidentally fell into the river and was carried over the American Fall- We understood lhat the lad was on the ice, near the mills, where men had been running the drift ice from tho flume, end accidentally fell into ihe swift stream. He wa noi seen to fall, but was seen some distance down the river, in the rapids, wken beyond the reach of human aid, and speedily passed over, of course, to rise no moie alive. The child was twelve yee's old. and a lad of much promise, beloved by his adapted patents and ell who knew him. The calamity caused much sensation at the village where it occurred. Evening Rochester (N. Y.) Union, Slst. Coffee How to Maxe it. The following is given as ihe genuine French operation of "getting up" coffee: "It is scorched in a hollow cylinder, which is kept constantly revolving over a slow fire, and not a grain of it allowed to burn. Secondly, it is ground very fine, and thirdly, when it is to be used, a portion cf this is placed in a finely perfoiated pan or cup, which exactly fits into the top of the boiler, coffee-pol, ot vessel you wish louse. Boiling hot water is then poured on, and it percolates gradually through, carrying with it all the essential principles of coaee. As soon as the percolation is completed, the pan is removed, containing all the grounds, and then boiling hot milk is adied to the infusion, and your coffee is made.

A Nlw Rack of Hcmax Beikos.Some tknesince a paragiepiS appeared in a Nrw SouthWales jofriA!-rVfative 10 the discovery, inThe fai interior, of .a new race of blacks, "who had no the top of iheit heads, in ihe place1i?iJ the wool ought to ptow." The account of this most extraordinary discovery, ssys the Bombay Telegraph, has been corroborated by an eye witness, a Mr. Thcmsonr who has arrived from where the aboriginals iuralize. They 8re, he says, of a copper color, and ate tall and athletic, much 'superior in every respect to ;heit,dark-skin-ned brethren. The women crt!so said to have moreaims to beauty." They, however, are alsondeficient of what is generally acknowledged to be the "glory of women." Mr. Thompson, it eppears, wrs at camp on the UppetBalonne, with others on grounc hitherto untrodden by a white man, when he wts suiprisen by a visit from . these belJ-pctetJ, copper-colored beings. They appeared to havo f.iendiy intentions, and as nothing wes noticed in their conduct of an eggiessivc natue, a converse lion of nods and signs ensuenr After awhile, a sovereign was shown to ihem. when one cf . them, picking up a stone, pointed with his finger to the fai west, and intimated that stones of a similar descrip- ' tion to the sovereign were 10 be picked up on the ground in masses es large as thestone hebeld. The place was understood' to be sofjie hundred miles further in ihe interior, bpt they signified their intention of bri.igingh-ome of thee stones at their next visit. Atr." Thomson intends 10 return aeain to the Ralonne, and to await their anival. If the etojy is true, the Bge of wonders trn ly has' noi ceased. Newspaper Borrowers. A "borrowet" if an unfinished being. Ha is incomplete. There is a screw loose in his organization. He is a bad man lhat is enunsafe one. He never comei to anything good, and is always pooi. It is an old -Scandinavian proverb, that when Satan wishes to angle with and finally catch a man, he first sw.-him a borrowing. The whole tribe of " $$vers are utterly mean and the newspaper borrower is the meanest of the tribe. In this country, newspapers ere so cheap thai every man can and every decent man does buy his own. . At any rate, no decent man will borrow a newspaper. It dirties and rumples a paper to handle it, and no man likes to have hia favorite soiled by borrowers'unclean hands. Subscribers to good papers like topreseive . them in good condition; and in order ibat ihey may do ihis, the papers most be kept clean and smooth, and whola. one likes to prcseive a dirty, lorn or rumpled r papei; and one such unsightly copy spoils ; a whole file one number pf a paper lost breaks the continuity of a volume. There fore the newspaper borrower is a disturber of the peace and hsppiness-of families, he . ia n pest a nuisance, and should be permancntly disposed of in e manner that would forever prevent him from annoying honest, decent people, who pay for news-' -papers, and should be allowed to read and preserve them in peace. Feeding Horses. The practice of regulating tha food cf horses by the amount of work they Bre required lo perform is a good one, if piopeily followed. For example; a horse, when lying comparatively idle, as in winter, should have less solid food than amid the hard work of spring and summer. Again, if a horse is about to be put 10 a work of extra labor, it is well to -fortily him for it by a little extra feeoing beforehand.' But the mistake we refer to is the practice of overfeeding him an hour or so before putting him to work. If an extra service is required cf a horse, on any ", particular day, and en extra food is to be given him, let him have it ihe evening befoiehand, rather Ihan in the morning an. hour. or two before being put to work. . Why so? Because, if he is put 10 work so soon efter eating, his food does ni t become digested, and he is obliged to carry about with him a large mass of undigested fodder which is rather a burden than a help lo him. If he is well fed the evening bfore, the food is a similated changed to fleshand blood and sends health and vigorthrough al! the system. At a general rule' a working horse should be fed regularly, both as to the timeanil amount..

New Canadian Decimal Ccrresct. We we shown this morning on 'Change a specimen of the silver coin recently coined for ihe Canadian Provinces. They are neat in design and handsomely executed. They are three in number, and of decimal, value, viz: live cents, ten and twenty. The five cent piece presents a medallion likeness of Queen Victoria, surrounded with ihe following inscriptions : "Victo.ie Dei Gratia Regina Canada," and on the opposito a crown, beneath which "5 cents 1858," soiroonded by two oak spiig. bound together at the stem. The ten ceDts pieces Bre much larger, of the same design as the five cents, with the simple alteration of the figure "5" to that of "10." Tha twenty cent piece in size is apparently as large .as our quarter dollars. It is the same design as the other pieces but tne medallion likeness of the Queen, the crown, end the oak twigs are more bold and stand htndsomely out from the face of the coin. Albany Journal. AVJ jonn Aieoi waya ius rug rontemot for all other birds." Z5T" John Neal says the eagle "ha a ntempt for all other birds." The owl however, is more contemptuous (ttill hoots at everything. he

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