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A Picture to be Seen to be AplreCi.
ated.

Holding offic4 10 Utah is no joke, and
not very dignifed, ifthis passage from the
corespondencavpf the Tribune is as true
as itIis graphic.
| have seen the Governor of the Terri
tory walking gravely up the road toward
bis tents. carrying piece of stove funnel
under each arm; / have seen the Chief
Justice cutting the turf for chimney and
punching the oxen which were drawing
logs to build bis cabin; the Secretary Of
State splitting wood, and the United States
Attorney aud Ma'sEal plastering the walls
Of their hut with mud. Yesterday l saw
one United States Commissioner, stripped
to the buff, and riding on horseback, pilo
ting a wagon through a ford across the
South Platte which he had discovered BY
wading, while the other Commissioner, ,hav-
ing accomplished the passage, sat upon a
corn sack on the opposite bank, mendng
rent in bis pantaloons. These pictures
may convince you that the civil officers, at
least, in connection with the Utah sxpedi-
ton, are not sinecures.
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FARKERs DEPARTMEyr


A correspondent Of the COsntry GtA.
asmaH mentions the ease ofa horss, which
was Just ready 10 die Of an old and tester.
ed wound. Fortunately be adds, ct this
stage OF The eaze,an old Pennsylvania team
steF came TO our relief and recommended
smoking with ole shoes. A smoke VA,
made Of old shoes soles and al cut in pie.
ses. 10 beg trough, and placed under the
swollen parts. In a few houn the swell.
ling wholly su5sided, and the sore commen.
esd dischsrging matter-tbs horse was "a.
we'd.
Some yean after this heard two per.
sons taking about horse which bad been
gorgod in the abdomen. In this caro-
everything hsd been tried IN vain. The
poor creature must die. At my suggos.
ton be was smoked and when ! next beard
from him the old horse was well. So much
for old wounds.
10 the same year cut my foot with an
axe. The lady Of the house, seizing the
foot While il was yet bleeding freely, held
il oEera pan containing smoking tag.locks.
In few minutes the bleeding stopped,and
the smoke was removed, and bandage
was applied to protect it from accidental
blows. The wound never msturated, and
consequently never pained me. ] have
seen this remedy tried 10 many similar ca
ses, and always with the same result. You
bsve merely to smoke the wound well and
nature will do the rest. / suppose the
smoke Of burning wood would produce the
same results, but it would not be so man.
ageable. There is principle in the smoke
Of wood, which, when applied to flesh co.
agulstes the albumen,thus rendering it IN.
susceptible Of putrefaetion. The same priu-
eiple stops bleeding By eoagulating the
blood. 1t promotes healing, and may be
applied with decided benefit to almost all
ulcers, wounds and cutaneous diseases
See Turner'S Chemistry, by Liebig and
Gregory, p. 1912. For chappeG hands
and lips, molasses is the best remedy ey.
er used. Ii my COW has sore teats, or an
OK chafes off the outer skin 50 as to occa.
sion the bloOl to star,I apply molasses.'
Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-07-07

UNHAPPY .HoMEs.-Small matters are
often ueedlessly made subject of daily CON-
ment and blame; aud in the end it comes
that home is sometimes anything but the
happy place we choose to make it out in
songs and fictions of various kinds.
This, when it occurs, is great pity
| am for making home very happy to chill
dreu,if it can be managed F.; which ofcourse,
is not to be made by weak compliahees, aud
having fixed rules. For no creature is hap
py, or even free, as Goethe has pointed out
except in the circuit law. But ouce hav-
ing laid down laws and regulatious,all with
in those bounds should be very kind al
home.
Now listen to the cap'ious, queruIous
seedlings that you may hear. even as you
90 along the streets, addressed by parents
to children; is it not manifest that in after
life there will be too much fear in the chill
dren's minds, and belief that their father
and mother never will sympathize with
them as others even might-never will for,
give them? People Of all classeshigh and
low, err in the same way, and in looking
about the world, l have sometimes though
that thorough judicious father is one o
the farest creatures to be met with.
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Two Suicides at VermiIliOl.

The Sandusky Register gives the follow
ing account of the self-destruction Of two
citizens of VermiIliou:
On Friday of last week the dead boly
Of P. III. Brush, Of VermilliOn, was found,
with throat cut in two places, supposed to
have been done with pocket knife. The
deed is thought to have bean the work Of
bis own hands. as circumstances tend to
warrant that conclusion, be having been
seized with tit of temporary insanity on
Thursday, the time the suicide was prob
ably committed. Mr.. Brush was unfortu-
uately addicted to intemperance, but had
abstained on the Sunday prior 10 the time
the fatal act was consummated. He was
respected by his acquaintance and neigh
bors. He leaves a wife and five children.
Suicides seem to have an epidemical in'
flueuce. Mr.. Widerfeld, of the same place
an old and respectable gentleman Of 60
years of age also committed suicide,on Sat-
urday night last, by cutting bis throat
He had been prostrated about year sincC
with an attack of paralysis, and being in
manner helpless, it is supposed be was tIr
ed of life, and was thus impelled to termi'
nate it by his own violence.
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Potatoes for Cows.

The question with many farmers at the
present time is not, "How shall we raise
more potatoes?" but elbow shall we dis
pose Of the last years crop" Prices have
been SO high for some years past, that
present rates are by no means satisfactory,
and probably not remunerative. During
the last two or three weeks, loads Of fine
potatoes, brought perhaps fifteen or twen-
ty miles, have sold in this city as low as
twsnty five cents per bushel. This prce.
although it may pay for raising. does not
10 addition pay for drawing any distance.
Now what we would suggest is this
Instead of crowding potatoes on the mar
ket at a loss, let them be fed to stock, and
converted into articles of better price and
less carriage: While butter and cheese
bring tolerable prices, no better use can be
made of potatoes than feeding them to
cows at the rate of a peck or more TO each
COW morning and evening. Some cows
will not at first eat them readily, but if
they are cut up, and a little meal or salt
sprinkled on them,they are soon eaten with
avidity. Potatoes contain in high de.
gree the elements that enter into the com,
position Of butter, and are not deficient in
what is necessary to the formation Of cheese,
But it should be remembered that the
starch of the pOtatoe is rapidly diminished
after sprouIing commences therefore. the
sooner they are fed out the better Ohio
Farmer.
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THE PooR Boy Don't be ashamed my
good lad, if you have patch on your ell
bow. 1t is no mark of disgrace. 1t speaks
well for your industrious mother. For our
part, we would rather see dozen patches
on your jacket than hear one profane OF
ulgar word escape your lips, or smell the
fumes oftobacco in your breath. No good
boy will shun you because you cannot
dress as we'll as your companions; and il
bad laughs at your appearance, say moth.
ing my good lad, but walk on. We know
many rich and good man who was once
as poor as you. Fear God, my boy, and
| if you are poor but honest, you will be res
pected-a great deal more than if you
were the son of rich man, and were adj
dicted to bad hibits.
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READ AN Hour A DAr.--There was q
lad who at fourteen was apprenticed to q
soap boiler. One of bis resolutions was ia
read one hour day, or at least at that
rate, and be had an old silver watch left
him by his uncle, which be timed bis read
ing by. He staid seven years with bis
master, and his master said when he was
twenty one, that he knew as much as the
young squire did. Now let us see how
much time be had to read in seven years,
at the rate of an hour day. 1t would be
twenty five hundred and fifty-ive hours,
which at the rate Of eight reading hours
a day, would be three hundred and nine
teen days: equal to forty.fve weeks, equal
to eleven months-nearly years reading
That time spent in treasuring up usefu
knowledge would pile up very large
store. l am sure it is worth trying: Try
what you can do.
But mark: To know as much as the
young squire did, be had to read fol
knowledge, and not for amusement merely
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Quarter Dollar Libsrality Rebuked

In the last Western Christian Advocate.
the following anecdote is related by an In
diana correspondent.
When j. EVerbart Travelled the White
Water circuit be had the misfortune TO
lose bis horse. Being q poor mama Meth.
odist preachers were IN those days, and not
able to purchase another, be was greatly
embarrassed. Toward the close Of the
conference year a camp meeting was beld
at DOderige's camp ground. The circuit
had fallen far behind 10 meeting the claims
Of the preachers. Mr.. Eyerhart was with
out a horse, and there was not money E.
nOugh brought in from the classes to buy
him one, though horses were very cheap.
What was to be done? The official mem
hers concluded toget up subscription pa
per, and try to raise money enough to get
Mr.. Eyerhart horse. Accordingly a sub
scription paper was drawn up in due form,
and a number Of names put down,with the
several amounts opposite, varying from 25
cents to 50 cents. They started around
the camp GROUND to see what they could
do. They soon came to James Rariden,
young lawyer of Wayne county,who was
rising rapidly 10 bis profession. They pre-
sented the paper to him, and politely ask
ed him TO subscribe something. He took
the paper and read it, with the names and
amounts etcL one bad subscribed. After
moments pause, he said, No, not one
cent will l subscribe on that paper. Dc
you expect to raise money enough to buy
Mr.. Everhart horse with such subscrip'
tions as these3 Turning to a gentleman
who stood near, he said, 'Mr, A, what
will you take for that fine horse you boz
the other day?' 'Wbat do you want with
himT 1t is none Of your business. WhaI
will you take for him is the question. =
| bought the horse for my own use, said
Mr.. A. 4 gave seventy five dollars fol
him. If you want him for Mr.. Everhsrt
you shall have him for sixty five, Hand
him over 10 Mr.. Everhsrt, said Mr.. Rari
den, and ! will hand you the money wber
l return to Centerville.' Then tearing uE
the subscription paper, he said, go To-
with your subscription paperP The horse
was handed over to the preacher, and Mr.
Rarden paid for him.
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THE LUST FOR RIcHRs.-The drudge
with which most men part with little pit
tance for the noblest purposes, is astonish-
ing and humiliating. MammoD, mammon,
is the god of the protesting world among
us. The love of distinction flows in the
channels of wealth, and thus creates an aris'
tocracy the most feeble and enfeebling,the
most corrupt and corrupting, the most sla-
wish and ensIaving Of all aristocrats the
aristocracy of dollars. Hence the passion
for lucre is the passion ofthe United States
Men measure their responsibility, not by
their deeds of goodness, but by the suns
of which their are masters.--Mason.
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A Husbands Confession.

never undertook but once to set at
naught the authority Of my wife, You
know her way-cool, quiet but as deter
mined as ever grew. Just after we were
married, and all was going on nice and CO.
zy, she got me in the habit of doing all the
churning. She never asked me to do it,
you know, hut then she-why it was done
Just this way. She finished breakfast one
morning, slipping away from the table,she
filled the cburn with cream and set it just
where | couldn't he lip seeing what she
wanted so l took hold regular enoug hand
churned till the butter came. She didn't
thank me but looked so nice and sweet
about it that l felt well paid, Well when
the next churning day came along she did
the same thing. and / followed suit and
fetched the butter. Again, aud it was
done Just so, and was regularly in for it
every time, Not a word was said you
know, of course. Well by and by,this be-
came rather irksome. l wanted she should
ask me, but she never did, and ! couldn't
say any thing about it so on we WENT
At lat made resolve that would not
chun another time unless she asked me,
Churning day came and when my break
fast-she always got nice breakfasts when
that was swallowed there stood the churn.
got up standing few minutes. just to
give her chance, put on my bat walked
out of doors, stopped in the yard to give
her chance to call me; but not word
said she, and so with papitating heart l
moved on. l went down up town, and
all over town, and my feet was as Noah's
dove-I felt as il l had done wrong-I
didn't exactly kucw-but there was an in
describable sensation of guilt resting upon
me all forenoon. 1t seemed as if dinner
time would never come, and as for going
home one minute before dinner. could
rs soon cut my ears off. So l went fret:
ting and moping around until dinner time.
Home went feeling as much as crimi.
nal must when the jury is having in their
hands bis destiny-life or death-I couldn't
make up my mind how she would meet
me, but some sort Of a storm I expected.
Will you believe it ? she never greeted me
with a sweeter smile-never had a better
dinner for me than Oh that day; but there
was the churn just where l lift it! Not a
word was passed. l felt cut, and every
mouthful of that dinner seemed as if it
would choke NE. She did not pay any
regard to it, however, but went on as il
nothing had happened. Before dinner
was over had again resolved and shov-
ing back my chair marched up to the churn
aud went at 1t the old way. Splash, drip
rattle-I kept it up. AS if in spite, the
butter was never SO long coming. ! sup
posed the cream standing SO long, bad goI
warm, SO l redoubled my efforts. obsti
nate matter--the afternoon wore away
while I was churning. paused at lasI
from real exhaustion, when she spoke for
the first time:-'C Come Tom, my dearyou
have ratified that buttermilk quite long
enough ifit is only for fun you are doing
it, knew how it was in flash. She
had brought the butter in the forenoon
had left the churn standing with the but
termilk in for me to exercise with.
never set up for household matters afte
this.
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"Tbe senate of Prussia, at a recent sit
ting, paid 6 merited compliment to the
Galen of Germany, Christoph Wilhelm
Hoohand. by ordering the erection Of a
monument to his memory in the city Of
Berlin. Ii any man deserved we'll Of bis
couutrymen, certainly that man was Dr.
Hoohand; for, while BY his teachings he
revoutionized the whole system Of meii
cine, bis well-digested preparations carried
relief into every home in the land; and a
his death he was mourned as benefacto
of the nation ."-LondoR Times. October
1857.
These celebrated medicines, the German
Bitters and Balsamic Cordial, a,e prepared
in this country only by DR.. @. NJ. Jackson
4ls Arch Street, Philadelphia, and art
for sale by druggists and sLorekeeper'
throughout the United States, Canadas
West Indies, aud South America. Prict
rs cents per bottle,
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AN ORAroR.-Can't some body engage
the genius who gave vent to tie following,
for the coming Fourth Of July? We
should like to hear him spread himself on
the American Eagle. He was describing
the destruction of meeting by flood:
A few short weeks ago, and you saw The
stately meetin' house towering up in your
midst like grannydear in cornfeld!-
None, none SO poor as to do it reverence
1t has gone the way all flesh goes. The
nightly torrents descended from the etsr-
nal clouds; the air was filled with cries oI
despair; the river swelled and ran over,
the mighty building crsaked, shook, rose
upon the surface of the water and moved
like world in miniature down the vast
expanse.
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THE Fools Nor ALL DEAD.-The AL
bany Statesman tells the following: "a
mong the numerous hoard of 'Quack Ad-
vertiser' that infest our cities, one is we'll
known in this neigborhood, who advertised
in some Southern papers that whoever bot
of him a certain 'talisman,' put it into a
bag which be was to hang around bis neck
in such manner that the bag should al
ways be kept near bis heart,would SO long
as be kept possession of the 'talisman,' be
fortunate in whatever undertaking be might
embark. The 'talisman' were dried eyes
of Egyptian Boosters, obtained from some
Sarcophaguses which had been exhumed
on the banks Of the Nile. This bait took.
A letter was received day or two ago
from a lawyer in South Carolina, enclo-
sing a fifty dollar bill-the sum charged
for the 'taisman.' A pair of BOOSTERS bot
in State street, were deprived OF their peep,
ers, which are undergoing the drying pro-
cess previous TO being sent to the South
Carolina lawyer. Readers may look on
this as a hoax, but we have the story from
a citizen who saw the letter opened which
contained the money and the quack adver-
tisement.
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HARD TINES IN KANsAs.-The Kansas

HARD TINES IN hANsAs.-The Kansas
Herald of Freedom gives discouraging
view of the times in Kansas. 1t says:
We pity the man who is compelled to
raise money now 10 Kansas. We were
told by a money lender. the other day,that
be was receiving from 10 to 20 per cent
per month for the use Of money, and bad
been paid at the rate Of 20, 25 and 80 pei
cent per month to discount notes.. The
lowest rates, on good security, for the use
of money seem to range between 8 and .
per ceut per month. Business in all ouI
Kansas towns is nearly suspended. Men
with twenty or twenty-five thousand dol
lars cannot sell property at any price to re
alize even few hundred dollars. Real es-
tate can be bought at ruinOus ratesperson'
feeling compelled to sell 10 realize ready
money, perhaps to save their credit. Hard
ly any branch Of business is sustaining it.
self.
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There is no call for such language here
NR BRANrLEY's SPEECH .

Mr.. BRAETLET's SPEECH.
An old gray headed pro-slavery man by
the name Of Brantley, from North Caroli-
ua. made very excellent speech in which
be tried to apologize for the indiscreet re.
marks Of bis friend, Mr.. Ransom. l was
quite astOnisLed 10 bear 50 much good
sense, and was 81 loss TO account for it,
till Ilearned the old man had been brought
up a printer, Good sesse comes natural
to the craftbut they don't all make as good
use Of It as old man Brantley.
Ransom had however excited a danger
Gus spirit. and the Governor adjourned the
meeting until next day.
THE GRAND GATHERING AND THE FINAL
SETTLEMENT.
Carriers having been sent out to give
notice Of the meeting, a grand gathering
from all parts Of the county took place the
next day at Fl. Scott. The Governor
renewed his plan for peace, and it was &C
cepted by the settlers. The Sheriff Of the
county was reported as obnoxious. HI
was at once removed, and 7. R. Roberts
Free State man from Bellefontaine, o.
elected by the people in bis place.
The Governor then announced that ht
would have the U. s. soldiers removed
from Fort scott, and would commission {
company Of sixty militia under MajO
Weaver. a Free State man, to guard tb,
line and protect the settlers from invading
bands from Missouri. With this arrange
ment the settlers seemed perfectly satisfied
and went home congratulating each othe
on the prospect of peace.
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FIoTITIoUs ADDRESSES TO LETTERS
The Post Master General has decided that
when letters reach any Post Oflice,addres.
sed to fictitious names or parties. they shall
not be delivered to any one claiming to be
the representatives of the addressed par
ties, but must be sent to the department as
dead letters. This step has been render
ed necessary by the unparalleled extent
to which the bogus lottery and other swim
dies have lately been carried.
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A lady writer IN the Home Journal de-
nOunces the old gentlemen with scythe
10 a very hearty manner. Hear her talk,
"Time is an old wretch. He makes men
handsome but he does not improve women"
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SILENT INFLUENoE.-It is the bubbling
spring which flows gently, the little rivu-
let which runs along, day and night, by
the farm house, that is useful rather than
the swollen food or warning cataract. Nj
agara exeites our wonder, and we stand
amazed at the power and greatness of God
there, as be "poured it from the hollow Of
of bis hand" But one Niagara is enough
for the continent or the world. while the
same world requires thousands and tens of
thousands of silver fountains and gently
flowing riyulets, that water every farm and
meadow, and every garden, and that shall
flow on every day and every night with
their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the
acts Of our lives. 1t is not by great deeds
like those Of the martyrs. that good is to
be done; it is by the daily and quiet vir-
tues of life-the Christian temper, the
meek forbearance, the spirit of forgiveness
in the husband, the wife, the father, the
mother, the brother, the sister, the friend,
the neighbor, that it is to be done.
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.RTTbc last excuse for crinoline is, that
lhe 'weaker vessels" need much hopping.
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An editor SAYS the women all use paint,
and he sets his face against Il. IS