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Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01
Hartford Fire Insurance Office.

<e July "a. lS45, 3
THE recent destructive fire in New York will of
course excite sol;cude in regard TO its effect the
sovency of insurance companies in that city and the
neghborng places. The Directors of the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company happy TO the
customers and the public, that they prepared II
adjust and pay maturity, all losses sustained by their
office'fro their surplus funds and receipts
without DELAY, and without Withdrawing their perma.
nent investments. Their capital remains ample for
the security of all who insure with them; and they
invite of desire bic property obtain Policies
favorable terms, both the Home Office and at their
several agencies. Their mode oftransacting business
which for 35 years past has secured the public conf
dence, will remain unchanged. z-' rost
By order of the Board of Directors. tr
JAMES g. Bolts. Secretary,
NORRIS & FOLLETT. Agents.
Ypsilant, Michigan, Aug. 6.
Look Out For Fires.
The late destructive Fres in different places through
country should all to be prepared for the
devouring element. The subscribers as agents of the
Hartford Fire Insurance. and the Columbus, (Ohio)
Fire and Marine Insurance companys are prepared
issue policies without delay upon all descriptions of
property both in The Village and County, and goods,
Wares and Merchandise in transu upon Lakes, Ca.
nal and Rivers
NORRIS e. FOLLETT.
Yrsilanti AVG 6 104S. 29f
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

Dear Doctor-Jnstice requires state, that
have sold your University Pills for and half years
last past, and that / sell others while have
them hand. They have superseded the sale of all!
thers--thecffect is truly wonderful. ]. w. MILLER.
The above Pills are for sale by TEAL andALLEN
|, e. SAMSON, and also by Nm. A.HEARTT, &
10. Ypsilanti,. -
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

IT ARD OIL superior article of Lard Oil just
Toledo, Ohio. 4w
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

Hartford Fire insurance Company. 6
INCORPORATED 1910. Charter Perpetual-Cap
a tai $l50,O09, with power increase $3.50 900
This long established Company, with an ample cash
capital, offer to insure Houses Stores. Merch andise,
Mills, Furniture. &C. very favorable terms. Losses
shall he equitaby adjusted and promptly paid. Own
ers of pro perty in Ypsant and vicinity who wish to
obtain insurance against loss damage tyfre IN
ved to apply directly to the subscribers, who
thorzed to issue Policies without delay. 81, 80 & era
NORRIS 81 FOLLETT,
Ypsilanti. Ju'v 20. 1874. dgtn;s
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

DROKE into the enclosure of the subscriber on or
ID about the 9TH day of June last, nine ten YEARS
old Chestnut Poney Mare. with white face, both fore
legs white the knee joint, and one hind leg white up
the gambre also spots both of her sides and had
sore back when came probably caused by the saddle,
t- JAMES ANDERSON.
Sumpter, Wayne co. Sept. II. 1916, "a sw
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

hlSOOLU IIUN.--Ine partnership here'o-
IL fore existing between Levi. Hull and Asa
Martin, of the town of YpsiIanii is this day dis
solved by mutual consent Of parties. All those
having unsettled accounts with said firm, will call
and make settlement.
LEVI j. HULL.
ASA MARTIN. =,
Ypsanti Dec 10, 1874
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01
CHARLES NOBLE.
B. +. FYFIELD.

Shiawasse Town, Mich. June l, IA. Thus Icer-
tify, that inhe month of September last attack
ed with Bilious Fever(whe away from home at o.
wasso to build water wheeD and with dose of
Smiths University Pills, / broke it up, and as many
others sick there the tme administered thes
pills them, and in ali it broke up their fe-
vers. have used them ny times since, and with
great success. Theyare the best pills ever used.
a RIAL b. CHASE. Millwright
Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-10-01

Ypsilanii. November II 1914.
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sEorsthe sale oil the above.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
BEWARE OF COLDS.

A large proportion of our constructive cases arc
either excited or aggravated by colds The phil
osophy of taking cold is but little understood and
the causes of this frequent but unhappy complaint
for the most part overlooked.
We cannot discuss the subject freely or fully in
short essay like this. 1t is sufficient perhaps, 10
say, whatever gives permanent check to the natr-
raj perspiraion may produce those effects which we
call cold, or in the language of the books ca
tarrh
This permanent check may be accomplished in
several ways. 1t may be induced by a large guam
tty of water taken suddenly when we are deb-
tated by fatigue or excess of heat; by currents OF
cooler air falling upon the body, when in very
warm place and inactive; by similar currents fall
ing upon part of the body for some time in warm
room,-as when we sit by a raised or broken win
dow by going out of heated rooms, perhaps ia
tigued, into the night air, especially without suf-
hcient covering by the application of cold, though
1t should not be inordinate after have been long
exposed to high temperature and by cold itself,
when continued for long time, as in travelling too
long in stage coach during cold weather, sleep
ing too cold during the night, sitting with wet
feet, etc.
! To avoid taking cold then, we must avoid these
and the other causes which lead to it. But we may
do something more than merely exert ourselves to
prevent the exciting causes of cold we NAV har-
den ourselves against its effects so that these ex-
citing causes will not operate. To this end we
should be accustomed, from early infancy, to much
exposure in the open air. at all seasons. The prac-
lice OF daily sponging the breast with cold water,
fresh or salt, is also of great value and should be
adopted by all persons Of delicate constitutions at
all seasons of the year. Sponging the whole body
with cold water in the early part of the day, par
tcularly at rising when the practice is followed by
warmth, increase of strength and keen appetite, is
still better as means of hardening ourselves, than
local bathings. Cold, when so employed as to pro-
duce the re- action we have lust spoken of ia n now
eriul tonic TO the whole system and whatever in
this way gives tone to the whole system goes SO
far towards preventing our taking cold, or suffer-
| ing, in fact from disease of any kind.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
VOL. XII, NO. 6.--wHCLE NO. 2O45.
CUTTING HAY FOR sToCK.

Mr.. Thomas w. Ward gives in the Massacbu.
sets piowman, some important facts in regard to
the utility Of cutting hay for feeding cattle. lie
says ne has for years pracsed Cutting hay for his
horses, which, mixed with meal, he thinks far the
best and cheapest feed they can have. He slso
finds great advantage in cutting coarse hay and
straw, which he says cattle will eat readily If cut
fine and mixed with only third part of good hav'
He says, to test the value of the cutting in point Of
good economy, adopted the following method, viz:
After having kept four oxen on long hay for some
days, weighed hay enough to keep them "a hours
AT the expiration of which l weighed what hay
was left, together with what little remained in their
CRIB, and found they had eaten l04 1-2 lbs of hay
Their excrement evacuated during the same time
weighed 179 1-s lbs. exceeding the quantity of
hay by "a lbs. They were kept in the barn ali the
time except being driven to water, after which thew
were Immediately put in the barn. While out, on
~ one OK voided, OF this no account was made.
81 then kept them "a hours on cut hay from the
same NOW, thinking that in this time they might
empty themselves OF the long hay. | then weigh
ca io4 i2 IDS, the same quantity they ate of long
hayy,) from the same now kept them in the barn
and watered as before. With them there was no
difference except in this instance thew all return
ed to the barn without having anything pass from
them.
AT the end of the "a hours weighed the hay
that was left, and found they had eaten S6 lbs. on
ly; and their excrement during the same time
weighed 20S Ia lbs, exceeding the weight of cut
hay eaten, by 100 Ia lbs. 1t was my purpose in
each instance to let them have what they needed,
and no more; in neither case was there waste Of
hay, and in each case the oxen were comfortably
filed. They had done no work for several days
before being put on trial. nor did they do any while
on trial. nor during the intervening "a hours.n-
These facts show saving in this instance, of a.
bout l8 per cent in favor of cut hay, and also an
increase IN weight of the excrement, of Is per
cent. Thus, says Mr.. W., eve spend less hay and
make more manure, which is the farmers capital"
He thinks the cattle did as well when fed on the
cut hay, as when fed on the long, He says he will
not attempt to solve the mystery in regard to least
hay making most manure.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

their shoes, upon negro, instead Of upon them
selves. they grow up worthless in energy, and
helpless, and when their parimony is squandered,
as 1t s almost sure to be, from the habits of idle
ness and extravaganza engendered by the existence
of Slavery, they become drones here or emigrate
to the West to seek the fortune they rarely or new
er find, and never deserve to find"
For these sentiments, the Wing "expects the
Remuneration OF those who vndicate Slavery upon
South Carolina principles. Let it comet" exclaims
the Wing, tive despise it now as we did in 1881 :"
when we proclaimed them and when they
were backed by the people and Legislature. They
were the sentiments of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, and all the great and good of that age.
They are the only sentiments which, put into exc
cution can render Virginia the first and greatest
Commonwealth on this continent. Without this,
she may make violent efforts to restore herself but
she will continue to sink sink. sink in the scale
of nations: not for the Stare but for our own race
the WHITES, do we wish to see them practically
carried into execution. Pay The o,cner, however,
or let Slavery remain. Require the emancipated
slave to leave the State or let the blacks continue
asslaves rather than as free negroes, collectively
the most worthless and least available of all class
es. Above all, let the execrable tribe of Northern
Abolitionsts keep hands off, and not presume to
interfere IN what does not concern them. We would
not take even good itself of their dictaton. Their
interference, in 1882, ruined every thing, as from
the first they have proved blight to all they touch
ed"
This is bold language for Virginia at the present
day, and shows that the present agitation in that
ancient Commonwealth is no trivial movement.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
THt, HOP MARKET

Hops have been hops this year--hopping up and
hopping down again with wonderful celebrity. The
price commenced this year at % cents, run up to
80 and 35, and is now down to from 90 to 25. 1t
is estimated that the crop in the United States this
year exceeds last years by 1870 bales, while in
England the duty last year was but f143O0O and
is now el60,000. We are not sure about this du-
ty: probably hops are placed upon the "sidng
scale," and bear higher duty if the crop is album
dant, and lower if the crop is short. If so, the
duty of le45 shows better crop in England than
in 1874, and the recent reduction in prices on this
side of the water is reasonable. In 1884, the deal
ers of this country exported their hops invoced at
IA cents, but they realized only about half that
price. These facts are gathered from the Boston
Atlas of Dec. H.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
SHORT MAXIMS.

We must not contradict but instrust him that
contradcts us; for a mailman is not to be cured by
another's running mad also.
Avoid all harshness in behavior; treat every
one with that courtesy which springs from mild
and gentle heart.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth dong
well but it is impossible to do any thing well
without attention.
How readily should we forgive those who offend
us, if we consider how much our Heavenly Father
has forgiven Us
Men in no respect approach so nearly TO God as
in comforting well-being on men.
The proudest man on earth is but panper fed
and clothed by The bounty of heaven.
BE slow in forming intimate connexions they
may bring dshonor and misery.
Manhood is disgraced by the consequences of
neglected youth.
Idleness is the great fomenter of all conuptons
in the human heart.
1t is honorable TO be friend to the unfortunate.
Slovenliness and indelicacy of character, COM
monty go hand in hand.
That time is partly lost, which could have been
better employed
Idleness brings forward and nourishes many bad
passions
We must stand or fall by our own conduct and
character
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
CALIFORNIA TOO!

1t is asserted on plausible grounds that the new
American Minister to Mexico has been instructed
to purchase of Mexico her claims to Texas and con-
tguous territory to the amount of 34,076 square
leagues, including Texas, which contains 81 ,526
square leagues-and also New California, nclud-
ing the harbors of San Francisco, Monterey and
San Pedro.
The New-York Tribune SAYS
And now, gentlemen offenders of the area of
Freedom two words with you. You have gone in
1t seems, for the requirement of California. We
hear that said country is chargeable with heavy
British mortgages and that England is intent on
acquiring it. How this may be we do not know
but 1t Is probable enough, for England has land
enough to want more, and she is not conspicuous
for modesty. Now if we are in for race with her
for California, let it be good-natured one if we
get it, very good; if she gets it, let us take the re-
buff as pleasantly as her agent, the man in the
white hat" did his defeat in regard to annexation
last summer. If we win, we keep: so if we lose,
let us not complain of Z" cheating all round the
board" and get in passion with our ill-fortune.-
Om attempt justi6es Great Britains, far that zoe
cannot object to it.
And again: If we are to acquire and pay for Cal
itorna, ii MUST NOT be q Siaue-hoiding REGION
There is no shadow Of apology for planting Slavery
there, and 1t must not go there. FREEDOM must be
It's fundamental law from the moment it becomes
ours. 1t is now Free,--so far as Human Bondage
is concerned; it must be kept Let public at
tention be seasonably attracted to this point; let
public sentiment be set right with regard to it. No
Slavery in any territory may be acquired beyond
Texas! What citizen of Free State objects to
this What Representative of a Free State will
vote against it?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

CHEAP CoNTRIvANcEs-SpLITTIN Woop. A
cheap and simple continuance, costing but few
minutes labor and used every day in the year, is
often worth more than the complex and ostentaous
machine but rarely needed in practice.
Every man who splits up stove-wood knows that
by the usual way, he has to spend twothrds of his
time in setting up the block ready for the blow of
the axe.
To save this time, we have adopted the following
way, and found it to save at least two thirds the
tme equal to at least several dollars year to eve.
ry who has to keep one stove going.
A large fiat block of wood, six or eight inches
thick, and nearly two feet wide, has large hole
cut through the middle about eight or nine inches
square. The block Of stove-wood is set on end in
this hole, and quick and repeated strokes of the
axe splits it up finely, without once touching it
with the hand.
If such block is not easily to be had, take two
crooked logs and pin them together. -CuHipator.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

A Convention has been ordered by the Legisla-
ture, TO revise the Constitution of Virginia. Efforts
will be made to extend the right of suffrage, equal
ize the representation in the Legislature and abo-
ish Slavery. In fact the two first reforms will soon
effect the last The new Locofoco Governor [" Ex-
ira Billy" SMITH is ia favor of this Convention
On the Wing side we find the Richmond Wing
speaking boldly against Slavery.
From the Boston Mail
SLAVERY IN VIRGINIA.-We find in the Rich
mond Wing of the 18th Dec. some bold declara-
tons on the subject of Slavery in the Old Domin-
ion-elicited by an able communication signed ga
Citizen" commenting on the propositions lately
broached for new system of Education in Virgin
ia, and urging the people of that State TO strike al
The root of the various and manifold evils under
which they sulfer-to wit, SLAVERY. The Whig
says, it has rarely, if ever, published in twenty
years, an article SO exactly coincidng with its own
sentment--th those sentiments were held before
the rise of the South Carolina schooD by all Vir.
ginia from Washington, Madison, Henry and Mon
roe, down to the humblest citzen-that learned
them in boyhood, and has not learned how TO an
learn them-and that it was then universally taught
and believed that Slavery is a curse TO The land hat
is cultivated by IT,
Because no community can greatly flourish and
prosper where its youth are brought up in deness,
and to regard manual labor and the mechanic trades
as dishonorable, because slaves are employed to do
the manual labor of the community This is the
great and clinging curse of Slavery 1t eneryates
and effeminates the youth of the Republic 1t
causes them to rely at every turn even to the bring
ing of pitcher Of water from the WELL or brushing
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

WEATHER.'-U the lst of December no frost
or snow obstructed the operations of the pillow. Up
on that day however the snow fell about one foot
and has been since somewhat increased. We have
not been informed of its depth upon the line of the
Central railroad route.-1hddlebloy GALAXY
When Middebury had foot of snow, Montpe-
lier had only half that quantity. Flowing will do
very well for the LIST December, but it is not worth
half as much to Jrag about as is the fact that The
men are nOw digging The earth "upon The line ofthe
Central Railroad" Are you digging, Mr.. Galaxy
-digging2
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25
POETRY.
WINTER AND AGE.
Ely MRS. LYDIA Il. sIouoRNEY.

BY MRS. LYDIA II. sIGUoRNEY.
Grey Winter loveth silence. lie is old
And iketh not the sporting OF tho lambs,
Nor the shri song of birds. 1t irketh him
To hear the forest melodies though still
lie gveth license to the ruian Winds,
That, with black foreheads and distended cheeks,
Mutter hoarse thunders on their wrecking path.
He lays his finger on the lip Of streams,
And they are ice, and stays the merry foot
OF the slight runlet, as 1t le0peth down
Terrace by terrnce from the mountains head.
He silenceth the purng Of the brook,
That told his tale in gentle Summers cor,
All the day long reproachess, and doth bid
Sharp frosts cbastise and chain it, till II shrink
Abashed away.
lie sits with wrinkled face
Like some old grundsre, i'll at case, who shuts
The noisy trooping of the children out,
And, drawing nearer to the pleasant fire,
Doth settle on his head the velvet cap,
And bless his stars for quiet, once again.
Stern Winter drives the trunnt fountain back
To the dark caverns of the imprisoning earth,
And dead'noth with his drfed SHOWS, the sound
of wheel and foot-tramp.
Thus it il. with man,
When the chill winter of his life draws on.
The ear doth loathe the sounds that erst it bowed,
Or, like some moody hermit, bar the door,
Though sweetest tones solicit ii in vain.
The eye grows weary of the tatnished scenes
And old wiud-shaken tapestries of time,
While oil the languid senses antedate
The Sabbath of the tomb.
The echoing round
of giddy pleasures, where his heart in youth
Dsported eagerly-the rushing tread
OF the great, gorgeous world are naught to him,
Who as he iourneyeth to a cline unknown,
Would to the skirts of holy silence cling
And let all sounds and symphonies Of earth
Fall like faded vestment, from the soul.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

LoUIsIANA.-The new constitution of Louisiana
has been adopted by majority of about ,OO0-
The New Orleans Bee OF the Cd inst, publishes
the proclamation of Gov. Mouton, ordering an G.
lection on the third Monday in January, 1876, for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of the
General Assembly, and all other officers whose c.
lection is provided for pursuant to the provisions of
this new constitution, which from the date of the
proclamation is in force as the organic law of the
State,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

AGRICULTURAL SoCIETIEs.-Dr. ]. w. Thorn
son. OF New Castle Co.. Delaware, who has for ten
years been an officer of the Agricultural Society
OF that county, states that within that time the crops
of the county have been more than doubled, and
more than one million dollars has been added to
the value of stock and real estate
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

BENEFIT OF AGRICULTURAL PAPERs.-A cor
respondent of the Albany Cult!vator, hailing from
Otsego county, states the benefits of agricultural
papers within the last ten years as follows:
The operation of blowing is more neatly and
thoroughly performed; more attention is paid to
the making, preserving, and application of manures,
and an increase in the crop equal to 20 or 30
per cent
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

To CURE FooT Rot IN SHEEP.-E P. of Bird
port, VT, states that Copperas half pound, Alum
half pound Blue Vitrol one pound dissolved in
two gallons of strong tobacco water, will effect an
entire cure if thoroughly applied.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

The Boston Journal contains the following joke
which the Editor says sea-iarng acquaintance OF
his played upon himself Being in place where
pckpockets abounded, he lined his pockets with
fish hooks, ingeniously arranged so to catch and
charm, for it caught his own hand, and tore all the
flesh from his fingers, in less than an hour after he
set his trap to catch rogue!
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

o. The American Mission on Mount Lebanon
(Syria) has been broken up; in fact all the Franks
English, French and Americans,) have been order
ed off
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

He that is good, will infallibly become better,
and he that is bad will as certainly become worse ;
for vice, virtue and time, are three things that
never stand st.-Lacon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

INCREASING THE MILITARY FoRcEs.-It is ex-
pected that Mr.. Benton will forthwith report a bill
in the Senate for the immediate organization and
equipment of 100000 volunteers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

a Provident Mon. A gentleman called at one
of the New York hotels and asked for room with
four beds in it. He said he usually retired SO drunk
that he could not find the bed unless there were
several in the chamber
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-25

Mich Cows.--Recollect that, unless your pro-
vide your mich cows with generous slops, or sue
cuent food, you cannot expect them to yield liber
ally in milk, cream aud butter