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THE SABBArH.-We copy the following,
which we find in our exchange papers, to
let our readers see how closely war is con-
nected with an utter disregard for The Sab
bath:
The battle of Palo Alto was fought on
Sunday the 9Th day OF May.
The American army arrived and took posi-
ton in front Of Monterey on Sunday, the
10Th day of SepIember-the battle CON-
menced the next morning.
The battle of Del Norte. New Mexico, was
fought on Sunday the Dist day ofFebruary.
Tile surrender Of the city and castle Of
Vera Cruz was made TO Gen. Scott on Sun
day. the 2Srh day of February.
The battle of Sacramento. chihuahua,
was fought on Sunday. the 25th da of
March.
The battle Of Ceno Gordo was fought on
Sunday the 18th day Of April
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THE Crops. Wa cannot refrain in our no
tees Of exchange papers, from saying that in
those from Virginia. Michigan, Ohio. Yves
tern New York and Northw estern Pennsyl-
vania, there appears to be local congratu-
larion as to the improvement caused by The
late rains in the prospect Of the coming
crop. The idea Of short crop Of wheat IS
generally looked upon as being got vp by
both the timid ones aud spectators short Of
supplies for delivery, and the impression has
had its effect, to the degree that all asked
for is seasonable weather until harvest
time and then all will be well.'-Uniled
States Gazette.
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FINANCIAL. MATTER

In our last weeks article, we remarked
t.la' business was then suspended in expecta-
u1n oil the news TO be received BY the Brit
'sh steamer. That steamer has since arrived
ana her intelligence has surprised even the
croskers. Contrary TO ali eaIcuIa,inn r.
would seem that the scarcity of food in C;rea,
BIitaln Is again raising the price with rapidi,v.
Inc impression is general in thar conn,rv
lhat Inc entire crop Of last year hash cen con-
sumed, and that from tie present moment nm
III ,ne harvest is gathered reliance must be-
mad upon foreign supply. The impulse
mus gwen TO prices has completely prostra-
TED she - stem adopted by the Bank of Eng
land to check the drain Of the precious met
ais: More money must 60 TO pay for bread.
whist The pressure created upon all Jepart.
menis oil industry only narrows the means of
employment in those occupations the truirs
OF which alone can be relied upon to furnish
any substitute for money. 1t is obvious then
mat this measure which may be considered
as elective IN ordinary times OF overriding,
IS worse than useless before the evils OF FAM
inc prices.
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Col BENTON has been making a long speech
at Jefferson City.NIo. 1t occupies eight columns
and discourses on many of the prominent topics
Of the day. After speaking ut length on the Ore-
gon matter, he proceeds to say:
-One war has been avoided without loss Of
rights or honor; another has fallen upon us-and
now the question which met him at every step
was, "hen a'W Il be tiRiai,d! Alas. he could rive
no answer. There was time when he had an
opmlon-the President approved that Opinion-ir
was founded upon a combined movement of arms
and of policy; two anncs-2OOOO under TavIor
10000 under ScOtt-with Il mission of peace in
company-and the sword to he effective If the OIL
i've branch failed. Polirv and arrls were to be
combined, and policy relied upon more than arms;
and If that plan had been adopted. he fully believ-
ed that peace would have been restored in the
month of April past. or this month Of May: and
peace. not the mere cessation of of fighting but
restoration of friendship. commerce. social inter-
course, and all the sympathcS ofrcpublican broth
erhood Congress refused the the appointment in
diSpcnsable to the success Of that plan, and now
he was without any means offorming any opinion
upon the probable duration of the war
He denounced the present mode of elccting
President by nominating Convention and the
House of Representative. and urged change in
the constitution, as to elect BY districts, and
second election between the two highest ftLe first
one failed
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CHAPTER III.

sorrowing group was standing on the
mountains brow watching the receding form
of their husbands and father. whom they fear
ed they should never behold again. The
sufferings ola soldiers lie rose before them.
and they forgot their own lonliness and for
saken homes in anxious foretodings. Enrol
led in the Militia OF their native State, our
heroic sons OF the mountains. were soon en-
gagged IN the exciting scenes Of war. They
fought side by side through most OF the war
unframed, for kind Providence in whom
they trusted. preserved Them. During the
battle Of Yorktown. in which Gen. Pike.
gallant officer was wounded, our friends tout
with intrepid zeal, 'unshaken,' as Chandler
declared in letter 10 his wife, until the en-
emy's magazine blew up with tremendous
explosion, scattering showers of stones and
timbers in the midst Of our ranks. This was
the first time ie.t any fear
II was amid scenes Of carnage that PEilo
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A NEW KIND OF CHEESE.

An esteemed friend, in whose receipts We have
great confidence, has kindly furnished us the fol-
lowing for making cheese:
boil good white potatoes, and when cold, peel
and mash them till not lump is left To five
POUNDS n thus prepared add, pint and half sour
mix and as much salt as may be deemed neces-
iSaIy 10 season the mess. Having worked it well,
.et II De carefully covered from two to four days,
~ocoruing to the state Of the weather-then work
.Eaih-nake the cheese the size you like, and dry
o ,e. IN the shade. After they have become suffi
III snuiy ory. place them in pots or pans, and let
Chez ieHlaln fortnight or more In this way
wbs, u the most excellent quality is made, and
vears IN u no small consequence, it will keep for
The efso, UNCUT the slightest deterioration from
who hos bod Se, provided it be kept dry. A friend
ed in hi, ne pleasure of eating cheese prepar
Maine Farmer 'PeAAs Oi II IN nign TERMS
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AGRICULTURAL.
Written for the Olive Branch.
THE EFFICACY OF SALT AS a MA
NURE.-WHEAT-A HEAVY CROP.

THE EFFICACY OF SALT AS A MA
NURE-WHEAT-AH HEAVY CROP.
A Mr.. S. NJ Brown, of Elbrige, Onondaga Co,
New York harvested the year is46 upwards of
four hundred bushels of fine white flint wheat the
most approved VARIETY from eight acres. This is
doing we'll, being, as our readers will perceive,
more than fifty bushels to the acre This wonder
full Weld Is ascribel in great part by the prOprie
tor, TO the salutary effects produced by SALT-an
application of which, 10 the amount of three bush
els 10 the statute acre, was made before sowing
the grain. We have long been fully aware that
no substance ran be more decidedly and obviously
cffectual in It's application to soils invested by
slugs and WORMS, than common salt. Highly as
we appreciate lime we vet regard it inferior TO
salt, and we have 10 doubt that were it more fire.
quently used, our field crops, both as regards
quantity and quality, would be appreciaby in
creased. The idea, not long since promulgated
in some of our Agricultural papers, that salt, in
order to prove eficacious in eXpeling worms, &C.
from the soil, must be applied in sufficient quanti-
ty to kill is of piece with numberless other the
cries of the day. When worms or other depreda-
tors detected an ungenial or noxious principle in
the soil, they once forsake it the warnings of
instinct being sufficient, without the agency of
death. in this matter, to effect their expulsion,
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j AN GLAD TO SEE YOU

There are more lies contained in these
words than 10 all written speeches of law
shop, and yet the expression is on the tip
end of almost every ones tongue.-Take an
instance: Madam has pickles or saussges TO
make and is upto her ears in pots and ket-
ties, when Mrs. Somebody enters with her
six little ones, all dressed off as neatly az il
they had just been for six months imprison
ed in band box. Bless me, I'm exceed
ingly glad to see your Its a whapper-il's
a downright lie. In her heart she wishes her
aud all her brood TO the. We like to
have said it. When we heai person say,
Do call again and see me- it sounds so
much like John show the gentleman the
way CUT There is no such thing as polite
ness. To be what the fashionable world
calls polite, we must necessarily be hypo-
critic. The true characteristic Of sincerity is
bluntness. and sincere man will never have
the backache. II is our vanity that makes
the vanity ofothers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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SINGULAR ExpLosros.-A very unhapp

SINGULAR ExPLosIoS.-A very unhappy
occurrence in stacking lime. Mr.. John Ha-
zen of West Hartford, attempting few
weeks since to..slack some lime for whitewash
with hot water in boiler on the stove, had
reduced the whole, as he supposed. to liq-
mid, but on adding another clipper foil oil wa
ter. the whole exploded with loud report
and scattered the whole mass about the
room. throwing some of it with great force
against the ceiIing-and into the face and
eyes of Mr.. Hazen, destroying both Of his
eyes and so badly burning him that ns
lie was despaired Gfat the last accounts: 1t
Is supposed that some Of The lime must have
remained dry at the bottom OF the boiler.
thus causing an explosion BY adding the wa
ter when the lime had been heated.-Wood-
stock Mercury.
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SUIcIDE.-A story is told of man in Bal
rimore who had made four attempts to de-
sIroy himself by hanging. His wife discov-
cred him in each attempt and cut him down
three times. The fourth time she had made
up her mimi it was useless longer to oppose
his determination. lie hung until he found il
rather hard breathing and then cut himself
down! This reminds us Of an affair that oc-
Cured in neighboriDg western county few
years since. A man of d0mineering and
violent temper had frequently, in his bursts Of
passion. threatened to kill himself. Al last.
in u gust OF passion at the table lie seized
his knife and started for the door. declaring
he would cut his Ihroat.-His wife called
him back-'Here John is the butcher knife :;
don't mangle yourself with that dull case
knife He swore-he roared and stamped
aud then finished his meal II Troy Tel.
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MATRrMoNY.-'You ought TO marry

MATRIMoNY.-'You ought 10 marry
Never
q know good girl for you,'
Let me aloGe.'
But perhaps you-pshaw-you don't know
her-she is young
Then she is sly
Beautiful
The more dangerous
OF good family
Then she is prond.'
Tender hearted
Then she is jealous
She has talents.'
To kill me-
Aud one hundred thousand dollars
i will lake her.
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CLEAN OFT YOTrR CELLARS.

Almost the first thing the farmer should attend
to, as soon as the weather becomes sufficiently
warm TO permit the opening of his cellar doors
and windows is the removal of every thing calcu-
lated to engender noxious and unwhoesome gases.
Let everything be removed, or cleansed, and the
walls coated with white-wash, and the. bottom
strewed with caustic lime. Rotten potatoes cab
bage stumps, beets, carrots, &C., should all be
cleared out before the weather becomes warm.
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TRIMMING TREES.

The editor of the Massachusetts Ploughman
regards the months of MAY and June as
the best seasons for trimming fruit and forest
trees, as wounds then made heal sooner than those
made earlier in the season. He saws: Trees and
vines cease TO bleed as soon as the leaves appear
and from this time till autumn they continue to
make sapwood, (albunum.) and this is the pro-
cess that serves to heal wounds in trees. Very
little wood is made till the tree has full leaf for
the leaf is important to change and mature the sap
that rises in the trunk and spreads through the
branches
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Operations have been commenced on the
Portsmouth and Concord Railroad, $780,
900 having been subscribed 10 Portsmouth.
The Portsmouth Journal says the distance
from Portsmouth to Concord is about As
miles yet it is found cheaper and safer to
transfer merchandise first in Massachusetts
to Wilmington, then into and through New
Hampshire to Maine. at Berwick, then again
into New Hampshire 10 Portsmouth, dis
lance of over 100 miles-than to convey
merchandise by team, As miles.
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Hon: Abbo, Lawrence has made magni-
hcent donation to Harvard College of $50
Ooo Tor establishing prOiessorships and the
means Tor the practical application Of science
10 the prosecution OF The useful arts. {. to
educate young men practically in Surveying,
h'n'ng, including Meualurgy and mechanics
generally.
Captain Edward Webster has been ap-
pointed Aid to Gen. Gushing. He is nov ip
New Orleans, but wiFreturn without visiting
Boston.
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~ The St. Louis Republican says that
tremendous meeting-such one as has
never been known in Lexington, Mo.-was
held few days since. The largest church
in the town was insufficient to hold the mass
Of people, although no unusual pains was
taken TO assemble such crowd. Extraor-
binary enthusiasm was manifested in favor
ofihe Hero of Buena Vista nor was it con-
fined to the Wing party, hut Democrats par
ficipated in il, and united in the resolutions
which nominated Gen. Taylor for the Presi-
dency. One orator saw in the VISTA which
that battle presented, the White House, and
The brave old General marching into il, as
some reward for his services, his patriotism,
his generosity and his love of justice, shown
by every act of the war. The meeting ere
ated deep sensation AMI The elpquence Of
the ablest men in that section of the Stale
was called into requisition.
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actually wrote the above, by holding the
pen in his mouth, or what is nearly the
same, by holding little instrument in
which the pen was placed, which he calls
his pen holder.
1.-The original manuscript may be seen
by calling on the publishers, who have it
in their possession
Concluded in our next.
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LINES TO DEPARTED JANE.

LINES TO DEPARTED JANE.
Thou art gone from me, my gentle one,
And am sad, and lone,
For let me wander where l will,
l feel that thou art gone.
miss the music of thy voice,
Its low, sweet, earnest tonei
miss the sunlight of thy smile
From earth forever flown.
As shadows vail the evening sky,
When sinks the orb ofdav,
So darkness DER my soul hath come
Since thou hast passed away.
The summer comes, with all sweet SOUNDS
Borne on each passing preeze;
The happy voices of the birds
Ring mid the vocal trees.
But every breeze that wanders by
Bears, on its wing some thought
OF early, spring-time hours, when love
With blissful hope was fraught.
And all the happy sounds 1 hear
Have learned a mournful tone
To thrill upon my heart chords now,
Since my Beloved has gone.
Thou vert the brightness of my life,
The JOY of my fond heart,
And from a soul so linked with mine
IT'S hard indeed to part.
Twill be a lonesome path, my Jane,
To travel this world through,
Without thy love to share its pains,
Thy love so deep and true.
But still must bear hrmbly on
Through all life's thorny way,
While long beneath the mountains shade
Shall sleep thy mouldering clay
And vet sometimes a cheerful thought
Lifts up my sinking heart,
That where thou art, soon shall be
And we, no more shall part.
Then we will strike the golden Tyre,
And, with that bright, scraphic choir,
in one united song
The heavenly strain prolong.
Middlehury, June ID ls47.
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The belief that corn is to be permanently
introduced as an article Of food I'D Europe,
has caused the farmers Of the great West to
plant great quantity Of corn this year.
Many Of them have planted FIVE times the
amount Of former years.
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Moral Suasiou.

a great deal is said, nowadays, about the
wonderful effects Of moral suasion-the loudest
talking being, we believe, by those who know
least about either It's character or it, efficacy
1t is one ofthe chief and most Wanted weapons
in the Arsenal of Third artyism. The pecullar-
~ about it, however, in the hands and mouths OF
these supcr-sublimated rclormcrs, is that the eN-
preston is used in a sort of generic sense, ana Is
made to include all kind of suasion, from that OF
the Nurse to the sick child to that oCthe bully in
the ring An amusing instance of the more ro-
bust species of moral suasion' occurred at
Brandon, during the recent sitting Of the Third
Party State Convention at that village. We
have it from an auditor that a certain Champion
Of Third partyism in that Conventional sece-
ding Methodist minister who had found himself
Obliged to denounce and mathematics and en-
communicate the whole body OF the Methodist
/ Episcopal Church because they were unwilling
/ to adopt his particular notions, took occasion tC
set forth his views Of the kind of"moal suasion'
that must be used with the clergy of all demon
nations who decline TO unite with the Third par
". They must be shown the errorot their WAYS
said this meek and charitable seccder. Tn,
power of moral sUoSioH must be brought to bea
upon them. The Clergy of the land are like
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American Review

The number of this excellent and flourshing
Wing Journal for February has been received
by Mr.. EDWARDS. We always look it over
with pleasure. because we are sure to meet we'll
chosen TOPICS discussed with ability and Judge
mcnt We are right glad to learn that the Re-
view has steadily advanced in public confidence
and favor until it is placed, By the reputation
and character oft contributors and the length
of its subscription-list, beyond the fear of fa-
lure-of course these considerations increase its
raipe to the reader Being firmly established,
and of approved authority in political matters,
it has multiplied inducements, as it has multi
piled means, to make itself fell in the two wide
realms of Letters and Politics.
The number before Us is unusually interest,"
| ing and able The article on the " Military con-
duct of the War" is a digniiiel just, and pow
erful examination of that unfortunate stroke Of
polkocratic policy, the Invasion of Mexico, and
the article on England and the United States
by Mr.. OGDESisa very thorough and concu-
sive vindcaton of the doctrine Of Protection
against the dreamy theories of the American
Free Traders. We wish both these articles
might be read by every sensible man in the
Country.
The Literary articles, so far as we have had
time to look at the n, possess especial interest
particularly the concluding paxhan which Mr.
ilrDsoS has fred into that rchly-aden argosy,
: |" FEsTUs." We think (privately) that Mr..
Hudson has not written so much abom Festus'
a. At this article is little too ferocious to be
! really just. We can show him good deal
2 js4sr passages than he has quoted. bat none
poorer, which leads us to infer &c. &c.
5 The following are the contents Of the Review
c for February;
Military Conduct of the War The Happy Pair
! From the 'rn1n OF GJr.he. The Castle by the
shore, From the German Of INLAND fcstus Par,
@ H. By II y Hudson. General Winfield Scott
The SEA and the Slipwrecked, By Earden The
I; Hack Hors, Woi Wouldn't Go. Music in New ork
By G. W. Peck. Short Chapters OH Rare AMI FIX
otto M"trcs-C napier III. Classical Lyric Metres o.
The Maid of Lehiah. Letters the lroquos, b.
: Shenandoah, The Meeting OF Segiried and Chrrm
hilt. The Life and Opinions Of Philip Norck. Esq
e England and the United States By J. De prysr
10 Ogden. Essays of ". A Jones. Foreign M..cri
ANY. Critical Notices
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considered. CurratttreS, arrangement oi grani-
ents. amount and character of business, &c. must
modify the calculation; but OF these
the Waterman loses sight, and we will not ds-
turb him with an array of "open questions' con-
tentng ourselves to conclude this article ana 'ho
discussion, Of the Waterman chooses by quot
inr the following from recent able letter TO the
Boston Atlas by EDWIN T. JOHNSON, Esq, an En-
ginccr ofqutc as high reputation as the Natch-
mans "oiliccr in the L. s. Patent Office -
With respect to the effect Of gradients or depart
ures from level upon the capabilities o rarouos io
transportation, the opinions ct the better liiiolicu VI
the profession to winch ntiohs, nav u,,a'' IN !"
very considerable change within tew years oo.h Ill
this country and in England 1t was. Tor some tine'
supposed that gradients were inadmlsslne' eNcer"iS
20 10 % feet per mile and great ana unnecessary cA
pcnse was incurred upon very many roads, III oiue u
BRING the Gradients within that limit. But the IN
provcmen in the construction OF roads, ana Increase
IN the power of cnglncs--and yet, most y, az uie
due appropriations OF the fact that the ad 'oi1tu ny
gravity on the defending planes was nearly eual 10 us
resistance on the ascending ones. ana tat Tue power
otan engine varied with its velocity, Wthh certain
limits so that it readily adapted ltscll 10 very consul
cradle CHANGES in the gradients, and also mat inc &c 81
oftucl bcnr the true measure oil the power eXpend-
ed, constituted but small item, moi exceeding one
filth part of the whole expenditure an 'ncs' crcunl-
stances have forced the conclusion uat Iohu iuuy
have gradients otcosidcrablc ACTIVITY ana sun an
syycr in "A very perfect manner, the purpose ior Whlci
it was intended and only soft Is seen TO be very
unwise 10 mt n large amount of fixed capital N the
road itself for the purpos Of reducing the gradients
when the extra power requisite Tor overcoming then
can be obtained at 50 small an additional expense
might here support these views by reference to n
tistics of roads in operation wlth high gradients. II
were important to DO 50 but this hardly n"ces
sarv in the fact that the truth is daily proclaim
r to nil New l,nuan1 bv the example Oi the W ester
Ra Road in Massachusetts, with its gradients iisni
as high as SO feet to the mlie and by the example ais
of other roads in that State the experience upon witch
thus far has been such as to elicit from gentleman
who has done much to promote the cause o rail road
! in New England the declaration that roads wit
gradients OF ~ feet have been run as cheapy as t1os
! more cye"-,Scc Hunts Magazine. January, I, lSlt
" Pro- Rail Roads in Massachusetts,
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Walled City--,ce must "turn our JaHering rams
against Them" They oppose the progress OF
Thrd-partyism--tce must "ride orer them rough
shod!" They are insensble; we must make
them fecl-"we must cut Of their brcadf"
Thus it appears that the approved modern
Thrd-party definition of''moral suasion,' is bat
tering rams. warehouses; and starvation We
hardly think it was through such instrumentai-
ties that the naughty Felix was made to trernble,
and Agrippa led to say to Paul; "Almost thou
| persuadest me to be a christian" The Apos-
ties however, were not, we believe. Thrd-party
men. That distinction was reserved for our
'attcr day saints" who mistake their religion for
partsanship and their partisanship for religion
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An Incorporated Democrat.

One orour most luminous ocoloco exchanges
commences a q" leader " in the following per,pic-
uous manncr:-
We cannot 500 how Dcmocra; can consistently
turn third panyst. Take t0y instance the torn d
NrgGgrd"
We would quote further, but after the towr
of Strar1rd was taken We retired in good or
der from the field