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Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03
THE FARMERS HOME.

What signify all the improvements in
agricultural processes, which are constantly
urged upon the acceptance of farmers, if the
farmer's Home is not what it ought to be
| Deep cultivation, draining, drawing ditch
ing, mulching, composing. etc., are all inn
portant, as means; but the proper end to
be accomplished is not the multiplication of
dollars and cents-not the laying up in store
Of "much goods :" but the most desirable
of all earthly uItinates, pleasant, attrac-
tive. happy Home.
The farmers home should not be so much
his castle, as his sanctuary. Over its ,hresh-
hold disorders and discontents should never
be allowed to step. Harmony. order, love,
! and peace, as well as plenty, should reign
within the farmers abode, making it a par
adise, as little marred by gross and corrupt
ing desires as may be; where the intellect,
the taste, and the affections may seek and
find their appropriate and full qualification.
I What deselation, nay, what wants abound
within those walls, where mere animal de-
sires are cloyed with material profusion, to
the exclusion Of that higher food of the spir-
itual nature, which is, in fact, +" the bread
of life!" There, the physical man m
grow and fatten, and rejoice in its ease, in
It's incidence, with sort of porcine satisfac-
tion while the inper life, the manhood, the
God-spark, faints, furnishes and dies.
The fields are the places where the head,
aided by the strong arm, should triumph in
material achievements. In the true home,
the heart, aided by the head, should emulate
the industry of the bee, in storing its trea-
sures, and like the treasury of the bee, those
of the human Home should be of honeyed
sweetness.
Wealth may build palaces to shelter mi
sery. Poverty, by making true home in
an unpretending cottage, hallows itself, and
shames the power of god.
1t is astonishing with what facility the
cultivated spirit changes even material OBJ
jeets into high spiritual individualities. A
tree, a shrub, flower, nay, stone, may
have its history-a history the recital of
which shall palpitate the listeners heart
with joy, or blur his eyes with tears and
sadness. lnanimate objects-only so, per-
haps to our thinking-may speak language
which the heart shall hear and feel, and an
swer. Around the true home, sacred as
were held the household deities of olden
times, cluster these objects of mans asthe-
tic nature. They make him better, happier
and wiser; opening up to him to read SER
mons in stone, and to behold good in every
thing.
Verify, we are sorry to say it, but SO it
is-veriIy, the farmers Home needs in.-
provement more than his plow-shares, his
thresher, or his reaper. 1t needs more than
improvement it demands new creation,
fashioned on plan of such beauty and har-
mony, that it may be temple worthy TO be
tenanted by beings who have spirits as well
as bodies. Then, what follows in the way
Of even unlimited improvement in modes of
material production, will he of the utmost
Importance, for the farmers Home will be
what it ought to be.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03
Elegant Reproof.

Lord Lelly celebrated in the last age for
his love of music, was not only witty in
himself, but the cause Of wit in others
MIR. b, Scotch Advocate, man OF
considerable humor, accompanied by for
mality of manners, happened to be one OF
convivial party when his lordship was at
the head OF the table; after dinner he was
asked to sing, but he absolutely refused to
comply with the pressing solicitations Of
the company; at length Lord n. told him
he should not escape-he must either sing q
song, tell story, or drink bumper. Mr..
B being an abstemious man, chose ra-
Their to tell story than incur the forfeit
" One day." said he in his pompous man
ncr, "a thief, in the course of his rounds
saw the door of church invitingly open;
he walked in thinking that even there he
might lay hold Of something useful having
secured the pulpit cloth, he was retreatlng
when, 10 he found the door shut. After
some consideration, he adopted the only
means of escape left, namely. to let him
self down by the bell-rope the bell Of
course rang; the people were alarmed land
the thief was taken just as he reached the
ground. When they were dragging him
away, he looked up, and emphatically adj
dressed the bell, as l now address ,your
Lordship. Had it not been,' said he, for
your long tongue and empty head, l had
made my escape"
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

TRANsPLANTED Trees are, until re-rooted
in the same situation, nearly, as trees cut
down or rooted up and left on the surface
of the ground-that is, they mast rely main
y on the sap existing in the cells before re-
moval. Now it is plain that the more OF
buds and leaves there are on a tree, tho
greater will be the demand upon its stock
of sap or nutrition, and pice versa. Hence
the reason for recommending to reduce the
tops of trees at the time of transplanting.
For this reason we cannot transplant deci-
duous trees safely while in full foliage
Even strawberry plants root better by hav-
ing portion of their leaves removed; and
hence the use of bell glasses and other con-
trlvances TO prevent evaporation from the
leaves of newly inserted cuttings. A tree
transplanted with small number Of roots,
or damaged roots, and branchy top, will
suffer from the evaporation Of the leaves,
just as a cutting with leaves would il it
were freely exposed to the air, though per-
haps not to the same extent. Some trees
will bear planting with smaller roots and
larger tops than others-such, for instance,
as the Poplar and Willow, and all those
that root easily and rapidly, and have large
sap-yessels through which nutriment absoi-
bed by the roots can pass quickly to the
leaves.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

To LET.-The anniversary of these little
words is rapidly approaching, when we shall
see them on the doors Of novels at three
dollars a month and posted on arisiocratic
portals at thousand year.
"To Let" There are more things to let
than are placarded. Hearts are to let every
day; old hearts, young hearts, stricken
hearis-all empty; all 10 let. 7g..
There are heads TO let-to any new thing,
to isms and ologies and ists--heads that
have not had a tenant to bless themselves
within twelve-month.
There are hands to let. Hands fair and
plump; hands lean and brown; these to
love, those TO labor; these for rags those
for rings.
There are consciences to let-elastic, ac-
commodating, caoutchouk-at five cents .
month; sixty per cent year. TO let on
bond, mortgage, and pound Of flesh. To
let for anything that WI "pay," for any
thing that will sell.
And so it goes, from sods to souls, every
thing to let; everything with its price !;
everything in the market but griefs. They
are never at premium, never to let.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

THE FATAL REsULT.-Death is but too
often the termination, of what, in its Begin
ming, was lightly treated, and fatally neg
lected as common cold. The SNOWFALL
does not increase faster by rolling, than
does danger from an unchecked cough or
cold. When inflammation once seizes up
on the delicate tissue of the Lungs, the
progress of fire is scarcely swifter or more
fatal than that Of Pulmonary Disease thro'
its varions stages, to its terminus, Death
Yet it may be arrested in all cases by
prompt resort TO DIR. RoetR's Syrup Of Liv-
e,7cori, Tar, and Canchalaeua The proof
of this is most ample. The Propristors have
on file at their Office and open TO inspection
great multitude oc letters from those who
have used it in every form Of Lung disease.
and they speak in the most unequivocal
terms of the benefit it has afforded them.--.
Among them arc letters from such men as
Major l.. Van Buren,, Rev. +. T. Tiffany,
A. +. Campbell, President Of the Brooklyn
Fire Department, and others Of equal vera
city and intelligence. Those who are trou-
bled with lung or throat disease, would do
well to SNAKE note" of these things.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03
..There's silver Lining to Every Clouds

There's a Silver Lining TO Every Clouds
The Poet or Priest who told rs this
Served mankind in the hottest way,
For it lit up The earth with the star oil bliss
Tina, becomes the soul with cheerful ray;
Too often we wander, Gespairine and blind,
Breathing our useless murmurs aloud
But us kinder TO bid us seek and find
silver lining to every cloud.
Nav we not walk in the dinele ground,
When nothing but autumns dead leaves
are seen,
But search beneath them, and peeping around
The young spring tufts OF blue and green.
It's beautiful eye that ever perce,ves
The presence OF God in Mortality crowd;
It's a saving creed, that thinks and believes
There's silver lining to every cloud.
Let us look closely before we condemn
Bushes that bear no bloom or fruit;
There may not be beauty in leaves or stem,
But virtue may dwell far down at the root.
And let US beware how we utterly spurn
Brothers that seem all cold and proud;
If their bosan,s were opened perchance We
There's silver lining to every cloud.
Let us not cast of mercy and truth,
When guilt is before US in chains and shame.
When passion and vice have cankered youth.
And age lives on with branded name.
Something oil good may still be there,
Though it's voice may never be heard aloud,
For while black with vapors of pesIilent air
There's silver lining 10 every cloud.
Sad are the sorrows that oftentimes come
Heavy and dull and ilighting and chill,
Shutting the light from our heart and our home.
Marfing our hopes aud defying our will.
But lei us not sink beneath the blow
'Tis well perchance we are tried and bowed,
For be sure though we may no, Oft see it below
There's silver lining to every cloud.
And when stern death with skeleton hand
Hath snatched the flower that grew in
our breast
Do we not think of fairer land.
Where the los, are found and the weary
have rest
Oh the hope of an unseen future springs
In its pure strength Der the coffin and shroud;
The shadop is dense, but faiths spirit voice rings
There's a si!usr lining TO every cloud.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

Solemn AND IIuMoRous MANIFESTATIONS
nv W. Beecher, in reply to a rebuke Of Sc
curi,y and levi,y in the pulpit, hits night
and left in this style: /" 4 sermon that is
dry. cold. dull, soporidc. is pulpit monster
and is just as great violation of the sane
,ity Of the pulpit as the other absurd extreme
Of profane lesi,y. Men may hide or for
sake God's living truth by the way Of stu
pid dizziness. just as much as by part ina
gina,ion. A solemn nothing is jus, as wick
ed as ,riits nothing. Whoever hides the
trath by establishment of words. by a vain
exhibition Of Wit or fancy, by opaque learn
ing. by the impenetrabe thickness Of nice
distinctions, by stupidity and lifalessness.
by inane solemnity and .sznc,i,uonious con-
yen,ionalism, is deseck@1or of the palpi,
and a breaker Of the Sabbaih day."
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

Praisiag God with all the Powers.
The excellent DR.. Duff closed sermon
on the Public Singing of the praise of God,'
when in this country, with these glowing
words:
"Above all, ye could End matter ever new
and ever exciting in tie stupendous scheme
of redemption. Ye might strive to initiate
the choral strains of the heavenly host over
the plains of Bethlehem, on the first advent
of the Prince of peace. And surely, when
you rise from contemplating with the eye
of faith, and and susceptible, loving hearts,
the astounding scenes of Gethsemane and
Calvary when Conscience awakes with
its singing convictions of sin and guilt,
and scorching preapprehensions of divine
wrath:s and Repentance awakes, under
gushing sense of provocations and atironts
offered to the Majesty of heaven, into the
overfiowings of bitter but ingenious sorrow;
and Memory awakes and recalls to mind the
Egypt Of frightful bondage in which by ma
ture We were CENTRALIZED, and the hell of hor-
ror on whose fiery frontiers We were care
lessly treading; when Faith awakes to APP
prehend the dreadfulness of the divine ven-
with swift and resistless fury to smite the
Shepherd, that out of his riven side the life
stream of salvation might freely flow when
Gratitude awakens at the marvelousness of
that love which, so willingly broke through.
the mountain barrier of our transgressions,s
as to rear fabric of mercy and pardon on
the foundations of magni6ed law and salts
fed Justice! Oh, when, by such heavenly
CONCENTRATIONS and exercises of spirit, the
smouldering embers Of languid, benumbed
affections are blown into glowing warmth,
and the altar of your devotions is made to
smoke with the sacrifice of loving hearts,
nfamed with the holy FIRE of Gods ineffable
love to you. surely, surely ye cannot respond
to the jubiIant hymn of the great assembly
of the firstborn that surround the throne on
high. and with joy unspeakabla and full of
glory sound forth the triumphal song, ever
exhilaratng and ever new, IS Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain. Amen.'' IS For thou
hast redeemed US to God by thy blood
Amen" "Salvation to our God, who sit
teth upon the throne, and 10 the Lamb
Amen" " Blessing, and glory, and wis
dom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and pow
er, and might, be unto our God for ever and
ever. Amen.'"
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

A FRIExD.-A friend shares my sorrow,
and makes it but moiety; but he swells
my joy and makes it double. For so two
channels divide the river and lessen it into
rivuleis, and make it fordable and apt to BIO
drunk up by the first revels of the Syrian
star. But two torches do not divide, but
increase the fame and though my tears
are the sooner dried up when they run up
on my friends in burrows Of compassion,
yet when my fame hath kiDdled his lamp,
we unite the glories. and make them radi-
ant like the golden candlesticks that burn
before the throne of God, because they shine
by numbers, by unions, and considerations
Of light and harmony.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03
JUDGES MUSTARD BATH,

Two or three days ago, a young friend
who has recently been spending some time
in Georgia, related to us an anecdote, which
shows how thoroughly scared the people Of
the interior of Georgia were during the
prevalence Of yellow fever in Savannah.
Il seemed that Judge r., Of the Su-
preme Court of that State, was up in the
country at the time, but within twenty hours
run by rail of the terrible disease. Quite
suddenly, late one afternoon, he was seized
with headache, pains in his back and limbs.
&c. Having heard that these were the salu-
,ations Yellow Jack extended to his VIC
Tins on approaching them, the Judge, in
great CONSERVATION, applied to a friend who
was posted for advice. A hot mustard bath
was urgently advised, and being prepared,
the Judge was soon laving himself with the
irritating fluid Presently he felt better,
and finding cake of soap in the vessel of
water. he began to apply it freely upon his
person. After quite pleasant exercise in
This way, he looked down on his body and
limbs, and discovered that he was turning
black, Oh, horrors! His friend was hur-
redly sent for, came, and declared that the
symptom was intensely expressive of yellow
fever.
=" But said the Judge, shivering the
while, 81 feel no pain;.l feel well ~
$50 much the worse the absence Of
pain is a marked symptom"
GOOD Heavens!" the Judge calculated,
Z" what shall do p
1.-The only hope is in the mustard. rub
away" was all the consolation his friend
could give.
And rub he did with a will. He used the
soap TO open every possible pore, and after
some minutes sent for candle (for the twi-
light was fading.) to ascertain his exact Gu
ticular condition. On examination. he WAS
as black as crow, and the soap, which a
careless servant had dropped into the tub
was discovered TO be somebody's Patent
Paste Blacking."
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

Never marry for fortune. We overheard
a poor unfortunate get the following sock
doiager, the other day, from his better hall !;
- You good-for-nothing fellow!" said she.
" what would you have been had not mar
ried yoa! Whose was the baking kiser,
whose the pig-srough. whose the frying-pan.
and the iron-hooped bucket, but mine, when
you married me
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

WoSpERFUL LAKE.-In the town Of Man
Illus, ten miles from Syracuse, Mr. Merriam
examined some lime since, wonderful lake,
situated in the bottom of a circular crater
like indentalion, upon the summit Of a
high hill. The entire crater is about five
hundred feet in perpendicular depth, and is
filled TO within about two hundred feet of
the top, with clear cold water, which, when
looked a. from the top Of the steep bank,
assumes a vivid green color. Before SUM-
rise upon bright morning. grasses may be
discovered by the eye, rising from every
part OF The bottom. Trees that fall in the
water become encrus:ed with green coat
ing, which, on being exposed to the air,
hardens TO stone; aud the boys in tine vi
cinity procure small sticks, thus cncrusted,
from the water. and cutting out the woody
part make whistles of the stone incrustation.
About the lake is found a sort of concrete,
formed by the water, and somewhat resem-
bling pumice-stone.
The waters of Green Lake." as it is
called, are often in state of ebuliiion,
caused by the escape of gases from below,
and wood taken from it gives strong sui
phurous smell upon being Burnt. Several
years since singular phenomenon exhibit
ed itself here. The son of the farmer who
owns the spot was ploughing upon small
level spot of ground in the vicinity. when
suddenl y he heard.a roaring of waters behind
him, and looking back saw the lake in a
state of great commo,ion, rising and beating
against its rocky barriers in great waves
He hurried home aifrighted and alarmed,
but when he returned with his father to the
place, everything had resumed its former
peace and quiet.
Upon the borders Of Green Lake, one No
vember morning, Merriam found a garden
Of frost flowers, beautiful beyond description
the growth ofthe preceding night. They
resembled the white pond lily in shape and
size, with the exception that the stems were
shorter. The outer leaves were Opaque on
the edges, but the stem portion was trans
parent. Their discoverer plucked one and
carried it in his hand for distance of about
miir, until it gradually dissolved in his
hand, just as the dreams and aspirations oil
young and sanguine heart melt away
wien exposed TO contact with the rude re-.
alisies OF life.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

When fame is regarded as the end, and
merit as oaly the means. men are apt to
dispense with the later, il the former can
be had without il.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

Napoleon is said to have remarked of
physicians, whom he found to be. material
lists: s. They do not believe that man has
a soul, because they cannot find it with
their dissecting knife.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

There is an excess of wretchedness In an
unhappy marriage which trsnseends every
other misery in The world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-20
mo. 534
NOTICE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT

1 or an additional land district In the State Of
california hereas under the provisions Of the
act OF Congress, approved March g. 1853, entitled
- An act to provide for the survey OF the public
Land in California, &c, the President of the nj
ted states is authorized at such time times as In
his Judgment the public interest may SO impera-
the State Of California into two or three separate
land districts, two OF which districts were estab-
nshed under said act by public notice, dated 2Ist
March, 1853; and whereas the surveys and settle
ments have extended In California SO far that the
convenience Of the settlers and the public interest
require the establishment of the three districts au
thoriZed 10y the act Of the Sd March, 1853 afore-
said
Now, therefore, be it known, that under, and by
authority of tue said act Of Congress of Sd March,
1888, the President of the United States has direct.
ed that the State Of California shall be divided
into three separate land districts the boundaries of
which are as follows, viz:
All that part OF the State, commencing on the
Pacific coast, lying north of the line between
townships seven and eight & and s. north of
Mount Diable base line, thence running east on
said line to the meridian thence south on the mo.
ridian line to the line dividing townships three
and four @ and ~ north of said base line thence
east on said line between townships three and four
to the eastern boundary of the State will form the
- UPPER DIsTRICT,T the Land office for which
has been established at Marysrils
All that part of the State lying south Of the
above described limits and north Of the line divid
nth standard south) will form the "MIppIp
DISTRICT, - the office for which is at Benic,n.
and all that part OF the State lying south Of the
fifth standard parallel the 50 LOWER OIsrRIcr,n
rs heretofore organized, the office for which is es
tablished at Los Angeles; and in view of the
said direction Of the President Of the United
states, under the act Of Congress aforesaid, the
boundaries above mentioned shall in future be re-
garded as the limits Of said land districts respec
lively.
Given under my hand at the cityo Washington.
this ninth day of April, A. ID 1855
BY order Of the President:
JOHN WILSON.
Commissioner General Land Once
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-20

A RELIGIOUS COURTsHIP.-A young gentle
man happened to sit at church in a pew ad-
joining one IN which sat young lady, for
whom he had Conceived sudden and violent
passion, and was DESTROYS of entering into
eOurtship on the spot; but the place not suit
ing formal declaration the exigency of the
ease suggested the following plan. He polite
Iy handel the fair lady the Bible open, with
n pin stuck in the following text-2d epistle of
John. 5th-''Anl now beSeech thee, fair lady,
not as though | wrote new commandment un-
to thee, but that which we had from the be-
ginning, that we love one another" She re-
turned it. pointing to Ruth ii, IOth-"Tben she
fell on her face and bowed herself to the
ground and said unto him, why have found
grace In thine eyes, that thou should take
knowledge of me seeing l am strangerg' He
returned the book pointing to the 18th verse
oil the epiStle of JOhn-''Hsving many things
70 write unto You would not write with pa
Per and Ink, but trust to come and speak
face to face. From the above interview a
marriage took place the ensuing week.