New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1859-10-15

luICo Vuc3 w ION " SICJU IIdIy ICUCCS, WHCIu-
or in Church or State, school or farm. A good
part of every farmers work, especially in New
England or New York, consisted in making and
repairing fences without number. Many a hard
breathed chase have we been led in "the olden
time" on the grand old granite hills of New
Hampshire, in pursuit of sheep or cattle who
had not sufficiently respected some rail fence, or
brush barricade; for the farmernever coulddo well
what he had so much of to do, and he was at his
wits end to keep up a great many poor fences
instead of "a few good ones. But fencing was
one of the homespun idolatries, and he was OBJ
liged to omit some of the wcightier matters. A
farm becomes a perfect chcckerboard; seen from
an eminence, it is one great whafling iron. 1t
is criss-crossed off into endless partitions. There
IS a mill lot, and the Intervale, and the west pas
turc, and the Holt place, and the Ten-acre lot,
and the Flat, and the Sheep pasture, and above
the Stone bridge, &c. Inequalities in the soil,
streams, woods, hills, all tend to complicate fenc-
ing. There was, too, every variety of fence
stone wall, rail, board, brush, pole, Virginia
Fence. Fencing is a study itself through the
~country.-But it has been a great step in farm
ing and in that general improvement which has
marked the last few years, that it has been found
out by farmers that they can get along with a
great reduction in their fences. A few, and
good ones, is now the %watchword. TO cut up the
landscape into 50 many crooked patches is any
thing but aesthetic. The farmer has learned
that he can make his whole farm into about four
or five divisions as we'll as twenty, viz: his pas
turage, his tillage, his house-lot and garden, his
barn-lot and yard, and his sheep-fold and calf
pasture. When he has made these divisions,
put a substantial barricade round his outer linn
its, and lined the highways with good fences,
his work in that department is done. The sam
rule applied to village lots would add greatly to
the beauty of a town. Half, at least, of the
fences; even between neighbors, might be dis
continued.-INere has been too much fencing
IN the Church. The world has been governed,
nursed and kept in leading strings too much.
Man has been too ready to put in his hand and
often to interfere with the better processes of
Nature and Providence. When VIC speak of the
Broad Church, therefore, we mean what we say.
We mean Broad not in one direction, or to one
wing, but broad in the sense of fewer fences
within the limit of the Christian institution. 1t
would be a great improvement in our spiritual
husbandry if we put up fewer fences, and were
less anxious to be engaged in fencing somebody
in, and keeping him where he does not want to
stay, or fencing somebody out who really be.
longs to us, and wants to stay with us if we
would let him stay in our pasture, and not in
sist upon putting him in our pound. Human
nature needs to be more generously trusted
Put it more upon. honor and less upon espionage
especially in the Church of Jesus Christ-as we
learn from his own words, example and spirit,
and from the usages of the Apostles, there was
great trust, freedom and generosity of treatment.
We cannot be too particular and principled to
copy such royal characteristics into our Church
administration.-When you fence, make good
fences; but do not make to many barriers between
man and man. There arc things enough to pull
people apart and make them exclusive. Let us
study to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond
of peace. .H..*
The good old song of Yankee Doodle is re-
newing it's claim to historic paternity. 1t is
claimed that the original of the tune. is the
"Rogues March" which wa, played in derision
by the British, during the Revolution, and adopt
ed by the Yankees. But it is certain that the
New England yeomanry had nationalized the
tune long before the advent of Gen. Gage, in
Boston. An old version of words set to the tune
has lately turned up, which shows in what a
ludicrons way "the people" rhymed and sung in
these early days. We quote:
"Now cross over, Jonathan
Figure in, Jcmima;
Mother, take the stools away,
Twill make the room look wider.
CHoRUs-Yankee Doodle, Yankee Doodle,
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
"Sister Sue is very sick,
We don't know what ails her
She yesterday eat forty e
And now her stomach fails her.
CnoRUs-Yankee Doodle, Yankee Doodle,
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
General Gage is very brave,
Very brave pertikular-
He galloped up a precipice
And down a perpendicular.
CHoRUs-Yankee Doodle, Yankee Doodle,
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
The st. Louis Democrat Of Friday last gives
the following account of the sentence of Thorn
ton for the cold-blooded murder of Mr.. Charles
in that city some months ago: "When the pris.