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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
NO Right to Endorse.

l. A man has no right to endorse, when
the failure of the first party to meet his 0bli-
cation will render the creditors of the endor-
ser liable to l5ss in tonseIuence of such en-
dorsement:
g. He has no fight to endotse for another
man unless he make provision for meeting such
obligation, Independent Of and after providing
for all other obliga ions.
3. He has no right to endorse unless he
fully intends to pay what he prom ises to.
promptly, in case the party fails to do so,
Few indorsers prepare for this.
4. His relations to his family demdnd that
he shall not obligate himself TO oblige another
simply, AT the risk of de(rauding or dcpriving
them of what belongs to them:
5. He should never endorse or become re
sponsible for any amount without security is
furnished by the party: It should be made a
business transaction-raFely matter of friend
ship. 1t is equivalent to q loan of capital to
the amount of obligations and the same precau-
tious should be taken to secure it.
6. A man has no more right to expect another
to endorse his note without rccompcnse, than
to EXPECT an insurance company TO insure his
home or his life gratuitously.
:. 1t is not good business policy for one
to ask andther to endorse his note, promising
to accommodate him in the same manner
The exchange of signatures may have, and
usually does have, a very unequal value. 1t is
better to secure him the amount, and exact d
like security for the amount Of responsibility
incurred.
8. 1t is better to do business that will in
volve no necessity for asking OF granting sucl
favors, or making such exchanges. 1t is al
ways safe and Just to do sos-Praire Farmer
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
A HaEnTed Eousea

| Speaking of ghosts; / have heard that, somt
years ago, there was q long hotse standing by
itself, near a plantation, not far from Guilford
This house nobody would ever take because il
was haunted, and strange hoises heard in it ev-
cry night after dark several tenants tried il
but were frightened away by the noises. AT
last one individual, more courageous than the
rest, resolved to unravel the mystery. lie ac-
cordingly armed himself capzaapie, and having
put out the light, remained sentry in one of the
rooms Shortly, he heard OIL the stairs pit
pat fill stop, then pit-pat fall stop again
The noise was repeated several times, as though
some creature, ghost or no ghost, was coming
up stairs. AT last the thing, whatever it was,
came close to the door of the room where the
sentry wds placed and listening ; his heart too,
chinled in the time pit-pat; rather faster than
it was wont to dos He flung open the door
hurry skurry bang something went down
stairs with tremendous jump, and all over the
bottom of the house the greatest confusion, as
of thOusdtils of demons rushing in all direc-
tions, was heard. This was enough for ore
night. The next night our crafty sentry es-
tablished himself on the first landing, with
heap of straw and box of lucifer matches
soon all was quiet. Ur the stairs again came
the pit-5at, pit-pat. When the noise was close
to his ambush he scarped his match, and set
fire to his straw, which blased up like bonfire
in an ifistaIt and Whist did he see ?-only
rabt, who stood on his hind legs; rs much as
tonished was the sentry Both man and
beast having mutually inspected each other,
the bped hurled a sword at The quadruped,
who disappeared down stairs quicker than he
came up. The noise made was only the rab-
bits fore and hind legs hitting the boards as
he hopped from one stair to the other. The
rabbits ltdd got intJ the hoHse from the neigh
boring plantation and had fairly frightened
away, by their nocturnal wanderings, the right
full owners thereof; The more courageous
sentry was rewarded for hts vigil; f5r he held
his tongue as to the cause of the ghost. He
got the b5hse st d reduced rent; and several
capital rabbit pies made of the ghosts bodies
into the afgain@Bucklands CGridsiGes Of
Natural History.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
H o L cul t urS.
rHn BEST sTRAwzrRRxrs.

At a late meeting of the New York Farm
cr's club, the strawberry question was again
introduced, and the following report of the
committee appointed at previous meeting to
report the best six varieties was read, and after
long discussion. was adopted almost unani-
mously. The committee consisted of five, of
which g. w. Huntsman was chairman
l. Wilson's Albany-Its primary good quail
tiles are pFodueti,eness, size, and firm juicy
flesh.
,. Longworth's Prolifc-EarIy, large, and
of excellent favor; only moderately produc-
tive; sometimes running too much to leaf
3. Hookots Seedling-Good size of rich
sweet favor moderately productive (some say
very productivity
4. McAvoys Superior-Productive large,
and of excellent flavor berries often defective
in form.
;. Uovey's Sccdlinr-This variety is too
we'll known to need any description. Its only
defect is dryness and want of high flavor.
g. Burrs New Pine-of exquisite flavor ,
medium size; only moderately productive ;
plants want vigor and hardness.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
FIXING UP THE GARDEN.

If you intend getting your garden in better
trim before another summer, do not leave for
the spring what can be done in the fall remem-
Der springs are sometimes short, and there is
but little time to do much. Grading, filling
up striking out walks and all similar work is
best done in the fall, as by spring, the whole is
settled down and any inequality is easily recti-
fed, after which, as a general rule, it will stay
as you leave it. De not attempt too much in
the way Of walks. Enough is as good AS a
FEAST is an old saw and is quite applicable
here. Except in very small enclosures, no
walk should be less than three feet wide, and,
where space is no object, better four, and main
walks, even five and six feet wide. Nothing
is more annoying in looking over grounds than
to meet with walks of a foot or two wide. 1t
has the appearance Of barrier to forbid fur
ther progress yet we sometimes meet with a
place laid out entirely by this rule, aud it GER
tainlv bespeaks very crude notions by the de-
signer
The matter of constructing walks is quite
important, and where it can be done they
should at all times be so made as to dry in all
weathers. In the neighborhood Of the lakes,
first rate walk eau be constructed as follows:
Take out the soil to the depth of six to twelve
inches, sccording to the traffic it is likely to-
have then fill in with brickbats, coal ashes,
stones, or whatever material is best at hand
about half the depth if bricks or anything
coarse, even it down by putting on something
small, as coarse gravel or the like, on which is
to be spread two inches of clay; this should
fill the road up to within say two inches of the
sides shore gravel, screened is then to be laid
on one inch in thickness this VIII soon work
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
woRK ron snPTHMRHR.

You should finish seeding your whea
grounds in this month. If sown too early
is liable to suffer from the fly if too late =,
from rustr Those who SOW acres by the hun
dred, must SOW early and late both. But mod
crate fields should be seeded by the middle of
this MONTH In Preparing the land, if the sur
face does not naturally drain itself, it should
be so plowed as to turn the water into burrows
between each ldIid-standing water, and, yet
m6fe, ite upon it, being fatal to it. See that
your cattle are brought into good condition for
wintering. Fall alsplanting may be performed
in the middle of this month take off every
leaf-re-set, and stake.
BY the latter part Of the month, or early in
October, according to the season. it will be
necessary to raise and put such plants as you
intend to keep in the house to raise aud place
in dry and frostspFoof room, your dahlias,
tuberoses, amaryllis, tgridio, gladioli and such
other tender bulbs as you may have. Let
your seed be gathered; carefully put away
whtre it viii contract no moisture. Go over
your grounds and examine all your labels, lest
the storms which are approaching should des-
troy them: Sow in some warm and sheltered
part Of fctif garden, early in this month, for
spring use, spinage, corn, salad, lettuce, etc
AS soon as the leaves fall, take cuttings from
currant bushes and grapes, and plant them out
in rows. They will start off and grow earlier
by six Tyeeks: the next season. Fill in your
celery trenches every day.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
LAND SWIMMERS.

This term applies to class of men-farm-
crs shall We say ?-who want to get the in
crease of land without making any compensa-
ton for its use.
They may be found in almost any section of
the country. If they crop their land, the pro-
duct is all sold and carried off the farm. Not
the grain simply which they raise, but the straw
if the crop be barley, wheat or oats-and the
stalks, if it he corn. Only cattle sufficient to
meet the necessities of the family are kept on
the farm. These consist of two or three half
fed cows, as many lean pigs, a span or two of
horses, or, in their stead, the frames of one or
more yolleS of oxen, What manure they can
make is all required for the garden, or for one
OF two acres of corn ground
With this management, the land very soon
fails to yield its increase of grain, and then
grass is tried. For year or two tolerable
crop is produced but this, too, is sold and
carried off The farm, as might be expected,
very soon the hay crop is too inconsiderable to
meet the expenses of the farmers family and
grain growing is once more tried, but with
no better success than formerly. Under such
management, it is no wonder that the man
eonclhdes that his land is too poor to pay for
cultivation, and he sells at a sacrifice, and
" moves out west"
Such man is land-skinner," whether
among the rocks of New England, or the deep
loamy soils of the west he is the pirate who
witii0ht compensation, appropriates to himself
the products Of ffUtler earth.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
Nzr. xancey on Manifest Destiny and
the African EIave-trade.

In a speech delivered at Columbus, South
Carlinia, on the 8th July, the Hon. VIM l..
Yancey discou1sed us follows of manifest dcsti-
ny and the necessity of reviving the African
Slave trade:
We see vast itefghBorfng domains inviting
progress of our Institutions All this magniti-
cent continent south of us to the Isthmus of
Darien, destiny points out as the field of Our
operations. The Spanish race has utterly fail
ed in its mission to civilize those regions
They failed in the attempt to build up indus
trial prosperity upon the slavery Of the Indian
race. In this attempt they warred against ma
ture. No other race was ever designed to be
slaves but the African race. They have also
failed in every government experiment they
hare ma g. and they have tried many. They
can neither m;iin in d republic nor ni0hdrch-
ichal form of gov rnment; they have not the
| wisdom to devise proper laws; they have not
the characteristics that would make them prop
erly obedient to laws. Their country presents
vast spectacle of anarchy and confusion, in
which neither life, liberty or property are safe.
1t is cotefed all over with vast semi-heathenish
| idolatrv Nc man conversant with the fate of
nations can fail to see that it is but question
of time, when all this region shall be occupied
| by the Anglo-SaXon race 1t is our destiny
to carry to that people the arts, the blessings
of good governments, and to carry to them the
higher blessings of Christian civilization.
Bet yet, while fitted for this magnificent DIES
tiny, in the purify and sui1icency of our civil
zation, we are denied ali power of expanding
over it, by the unjust action of our own Gov
ernment. The great question for us to solve
is; what shall be our coarse in relation to this
unjust policy? How are we 10 disenthral our
selves? Such question demands union o
sentiment, as well as union of action, among
the people. We are told that we are progress
ing towards its proper solution, because it is
said that it is now stronger than ever within
the Union, and, therefore, may hope to contro
the Union. In one seLse this is true, and no
true in the sense in which it has been uttered
The South is stronger now than she was twen
ty years ago. She is stronger, because mort
united because party shackles sit more light
ly upon her people because she has dettrn'n
ed the question of the morality of slavery ia ii
favor; because she has determined The polite
/ al bearings of slavery in its favor.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02

Every fold counts missing lamb, and there
are but few homes where there has been no
mourning over vacant chair. 1t is hard to
part with the darlihgs of the nursery. Affec-
ton clings to them fondly; and is reluctant to
loose its hold, but the allwisc Father deals ten
derly with his children and removes Some of
their treasures to heaven, that their affections
may follow. Many weeping parents will rec
ognize their own experience in the following
paragraph from an exchange
The death Of q little child is to the mothers
heart like tic dew on the plant, from which
bud has just perished. The plant lifts up its
head in freshened greenness to the morning
light so the mothers soul gathers from the
dark sorrow which she has passed, fresh
Frightening of her heavenly hope.
AS she bends over the empty cradle, and
fancy brings her sweet infant before her. ray
of divine light is on the cherub face. 1t is her
son still, but with the seal of Immortality on
his brow She feels that heaven was the only
atmosphere where her precious flower could un-
fold without spot or blemish, and she would
not resall the lost, But the anniversary of his
departure seems TO bring his spiritual prcsenee
near her. She indul5es iii the fender grief
WHICH oOOtDco, LhO OH OpihOO Ill ooiL, OIL h1hV
passages and care in life. The world to her is
no longer filed with human love and hope in
future, so glorious with heavenly love and joy;
she has treasures Of happiness which the world
IL, unchastened heart never conceived The
bright fresh flowers with which she has deeora
ted her room, the apartment where her infant
died, are mementoes of the far brighter hopes
now dawning on her day-dream. She thinks
of the glory and beauty of the New Jerusalem
where the little foot never finds thorn among
the flowers, to render a shoe necessary. Nol
will pillow be wanted for the dear head re
posing on the breast of kind Savior. Anc
she knows that her infant is there in the worlc
of eternal bliss.
She has marked one passage in that book, t.
her emphatically the word of life, now lyinl
closed on the toilet table, which she daily reads
"Suffer little cl ildren to come unto me, for Q
such is the kingdom of heaven
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
DnArH or THOSE WE LOVE.

There are calamities which are greater than
the death of loved one, but we are wont to
estimate that as the most terrible that can af-
flict us Even the very love for the dead
which constitutes the source OF our misery in
bereavement is blessing of untold worth. A
contemporary referring to this love, beautifully
remarks, " to have laid strong affection down
among the dead, may be great sorrow, but it
is not real misfortune. Whatever ones af
ter going may be, there is deposit for the fu.
ture life, stake in the better country, part
of the heart which the grave keeps holy, II
spite Of the "evl which is in the world. y
The living may change to US or we to them
sin may divide, strife may come between us
hut through all times and fortunes the dead
pemain the same to our memories and our love
The child taken from Us long ago is still th'
innocent lamb that was not for our holding
The early lost friend or lover is still the bles
sed of our youth, hope not to be withered,
promise not to be broken, possession wherein
there is no disappointment
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
xuz xx.zssuNT or SUCCESS.

All men who have succeeded well in life
have been men of high resolve and endurance.
The famed William Pitt, in early life was fond
Of gambling, the passion increased with his
years he knew that he must master the pas
sion, or the passion would master him. He
made a firm resolve that he would never again
play at hazard game. lie could make a res
oiution he could keep IT, His subsequent eiIi-
inence was the fruit of that power. William
Wilberforce in his earlier days, Ike most
young men of his rank and age, Loved the ex-
citement of games of hazard. He was one
night persuaded to keep the faro bank-he was
appalled, at what he beheld. Sitting amid
gambling, ruin, and despair, he took the reso-
luton that he would never again enter gam
bling house. He changed his company with
the change of his conduct, and subsequently be
came one of the most distinguished Englishmen
of his day.
DIR. Samuel johnson was once requested to
drink wine with friend he proposed tea
"but drink little wine," said his host. "I
cannot" was the reply "I know abstinence
/ know excess, but know no medium. Long
since resolved, as / could not drink a little
wine, would drink none at all.'
A man who could thus support his resolu-
ton by action was man of endurance, and
that element is as displayed in this incident as
in the completion of his great work. When
Richard Brinsely Sheridan made his first speech
in parliament, it was regarded on all hands as
the most mortifying failure. His friends urged
him to abandon parliamentary career, and
enter some field better suited to his ability
"No," said Sheridan, "No it is in me, and it
shall come out ~ And it did, and be became
one Of the most splendid debators in England.
Loyola, the founder of the order of Jesuits, the
eourtier, the name of gallantry and dissipation,
obtained such mastry over himself by labor
and endurance, that, to illustrate the fact, be
stood several hours, apparently unmoved, in a
pond of ice and muddy water, up to his
chin. Perhaps no other nation in Europe, at
that time, could have won the battle of Water
10 except the British, because no other nation
could have brought to that conflict that amount
of endurance needed to win. For many hours
that army stood manfully before the murder
OTIS FIRE of the French column after column
fell, while not gun was discharged on their
part. One st1llen word of command ran along
the line as thousands fell-"File up! fe UP ~
mot yet-not yet ~ rus the Iron Dukes re-
ply to the earnest request made to charge and
fight the foe At length the time of action
came The charge was given, and victory
perched upon the standard of England.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02

tions. He told them of an improved mode {
tubing boilers, by which the power of genera
ting steam was increased; and showing wit
what care he provided for security from burst
ing.
Two hours passed rapidly away. The strar
gers were delighted with the intelligence dis
played by the machinist, and with his frank al
tentive and unSuspicious manners. Here i
a man who loves his profession so well, that h,
takes pleasure in explaining its mysteries Il
all who can understand them,'' thought Mr.
Wolfe.
" | am afraid we have given you great
deal of trouble" said the other stranger
" Indeed, gentlemen, l have enjoyed youl
visit" said the mechanic, q and shall be glad
to see you again.
Perhaps you may" said Mr.. Wo,fe and
the friends departed.
Five months afterwards, as the mechanic
whose mems were quite limited, sat in his of
fee, meditating how hard it was to get bust
ness by the side of such large establishments
as were bis competitors, the two strangers en-
tered. He gave them hearty welcome, hand
ed chairs, and they sat down.
awe come" said Mr.. Wolfe with a prop
osition to you from the Emperor of Russia" ;"
From the Emperor Impossible7' =.
Here are our credentials"
But gentlemen" said the now agiteted me-
chanic, what does this mean? How have
1 earned such an honor?''
: Simply by your straightforward counrtesy
and frankness, combined with professional in
teligehee," said Mr.. Wolfe Because we
were strangers, you did not think necessary to
treat us with distrust or GOODNESS. You saw
we were in earnest in acquainting ourselves
with your works and did not ask us before ex-
tending to us your cieilities, what letters of
we brought You measured US
by the spirit we showed, and hot by the digni-
ties we could have exhibited
The mechanic visited St. Petersbufgh, and
soon after removed his whole establishment
there. He had imperial orders for as many To-
comotive engines as he could construct He
mas lately returned to his country and is still
receiving large returns from his Russian work
shop. And all this prosperity grew out of his
1nselflsh civility to two strangers; one of whom
vas the secret agent of the Gar of Russia.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
NO. 90.

But while we are thus stronger within oru
selves, we are not relatively strofger, consider
ed with reference to our oppohents They
| too, are iiiofe united in sentiment against us
There are but two great factions Of the North.
One would crush us by the direct action Of the
General Governments the other would indi-
rectly crush by hostile territorial legislation.
But the true question is not, are We strouger
| than we have been, but are we as strong as
our necessities require? Are yte IS strong as
we rightfully ought to be? This question
must be answered in the negative Can we
have any hope Of righting ourselves and doing
justice to ourselves in The Union? If there is
such hope, it would be our duty to make the at
tempt. For one have no such hope, but |
am determined to act with those who have such
hot1e as long, and only as loiiG as it may red
sonably be irddlged. Not so much with any ex-
pectation that the South will obtain Justice in
the Union, as with the hope that by thus act
ing within a reasonable time there will be OBJ
tanned unity arfiongst 0iir people in going out
of the Union. Appause.l If We remain in |
the Union, we must demand a repeal of every |
act against the institution of |
Slavery. We nitist demand the REPEAL of the
acts of 1907, 1919; 1851. We must deniand |
that it shall be d settled policy of this Govern
ment, that wherever Slavery shall exist under
the flag of this Union, it shall receive full and
adeqdate protection from the Federal Govern
Gent. [Applause.l If we can obtain these
lertiands then we shall be in condition to fill
the glorious destiny that awaits us. When we
1ave obtained these demaiids within the I'm
on, we may look to measures for the acquis-
ion Of new Territories fit for slave popua-
ton. Without them the acquisition of such
Territories would but prove another curse to
he South"
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PRorz-n or rARN1xNG.

People who think farming is a poor business
for young man to engage in do not always
figure correctly: 1t is t;ttc, as compared with
the successful merchant or speculator the pro
fits look small. Ambitious men in the hot
haste TO be rich, consider the slow process Of
making money by the growth of the soil far
too dilatory. Allowing the farmer To take out
of his produce reasonable wages, as a compen-
sation for his labor, aud his per cent. of profit
on the valuation of his land, implements, &c,
will not probably, in Ohio, exceed three per
cent. per annum. "rhat is a very poor busi-
ness says the merchant and banker eX-
pect to make fifteen or twenty per cent. on my
money" Let us look a little into this fifteen
or twenty per cent.
Every man cannot be banker or a mer-
chant, simply because if nobody tills the soil,
the merchant will have nobody to buy his
goods, or the bank to borrow money. Every
one has not the capital to set up store
or n bank, and therefore he that COM
mences, frequently does it by borrowing and