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The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07
General News.
: INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

-HEE y
As Marshal M'Mahaa entered
Milan, a little girl of five years of
age, dressed in white, presented him
with boeuet nearly as biS as her.
self. He raised her up, ard placed
her standing before him otsthe sad
die. "The child,' says 4. letter,
'sthrew her little arm around the
sun-burnt head of the conGRsror of.
Magenta, and kissed him repeatedly
amidst the loudest cheers L ever
heard. The marshal seemed delight
ed with the child, and fondly her
most tenderly, looking frequently
at her pretty features.--And so they
both entered Milan amidst shower
Of bouquets and applause. / saw
many persons affected even to
tears" 9sy sn ii .say.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Times says that the retreat of the
Austrian army must have heen a
disastrous one; and so excessively
rapid that itmight perhaf DO called
a fight. The inhabitaAts 4 ienna
are described as being. sdingly
depressed. The news of,ths defeat
of the Derby Cabinet has increased
their distress, as they are under the
impression that Wing Ministry
will1make common cause with the
Emperor Napolean. OF the mine.
corps d'armee in the Lombardo We I.
netian kingdom, some of them hard
ly number 20, 900 men. VI
From CALIFORNIA The steam
ship Moses Taylor arrived at New
York, bringing $2,041,0 00in gold,
and the mails from California, the
Isthmus, &c, The revolution in
Chill is suppressed, but the country
is ravaged by bands of robbers. A
treaty Of boundaries has been nego-
tfated between Guatemala and Bri-
fish Honduras. War seemed inevi-
table between Salvador and Hondu-.
ras.
WOMAN Hume IN MARYLAND. -
A mulatto woman named Rebecca
Met ormick, was hung at Westmin-
lister, Carroll co., ON Friday last.
She manifested much frmness on
the scaffold, confessed her guilt of
the crime Of which she was convic-
ted, and professed to have made her
peace with God. From three to
five thousand persons Witnessed the
execution e ''a' rs ~ I
gA-At Vernon, Ind, on. Friday
night last, James Goddard shot his
wife dead and then cut his own
throat, His wound was NOT thought
Immediately fatal; but he would die
before morning. Domestic difficult
ties, which has already resulted in
separation between Goddard and
his wife the cause of this double
crime. dfiu ANH gnilw.1 lenih.
SHIPMENT OF VEGETABLES. On
Tuesday, steamers Locust Point,
Powhatan, Express and the Louisi-
ana, left Norfolk with an aggregate
of about 5, 900 bbls- Of vegetables.
The next day thesteamships James
town and Adelaide left With about
5000 more, making fully 1000
barrels in two days.
81 A MAN named Ostswas recently
arrested for beating his wife and
children. On being sentenced to
imprisonment, the brute remarked
that it was very hard a man was
not allowed to thrash his own oats.
Pity somebody did not thrash him.
Willard Fillmore, was unanimous
ly nominated for. President of the |
United States in 1860, at mass
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07

HELMBOLD.S GEN0lEE PRE-.
af a' PARATION. ~
HELMBOLD'S Genuine PR EPAR-
. 31 go ALTON. ie9fo oar i7
HELMBOLD'S Genuine PREPAR.
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HELMBOLD'S Genuine PREPAR-
ALTON. eos sfi,a
Is prepared according to Pharmacy and
Chemistry, with the greatest accuracy
and Chemical knowledge devoted to
their combination. 3..a
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07

Willard Fillmore, was unanimous
ly nominated for President of the
United States in 1860, at q mass
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07
nag-The Trustees Of the NJ. E.

a@- The Trustees Of the NJ. E.
Church, Of this town, experienced
so much difficulty in the selection
Of q suitable lot for the erection Of
the church edi6ce now designed,
that Ia facetious carpenter here
threatened TO have a set Of tru cks
made upon which to move the
church about on every Sabbath, to
any spot where the largest congre-
cation could be found. Some one
suggests that in order to obviate the
necessity of the congregation going
to church at all, the building should
be moved to every house from which
a member was likely togo, and that
by this means, the house might be
filed, and further that this plan
would have the advantage of pre-.
venting all disputes as to sites.
ao LAND SALES. The following pro.
perty was sold at the Court House
door, on Tuesday, by late Sheriff
aStocklpy.
A farm situate within milo and
ahalf of Georgetown, containing
no acres, the property Of Stephen
Warrington, was sole. to John Bur.
ton for the sum of $685..
No. l A tract containing 113 acres,
the property Of Elisha P. Burton,
decd, and lying in Indian River
Hundred, was sold for $500. John
R. Burton was the purchaser.
No. 2, A house and lot in Lewes,
at $500, purchased by Nathaniel
Hickman. A go
The property Of Matilda Hazard
life estate: Il .'''l
No. /. A tract ofland containing
100 acres, situate in, Indian River
Hundred, sold to John G. Hazard
for the sum of 1926:
No. 2. A tract containing $50
acres in Dagsborough Hundred, sold
for $500. s
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07

sa "A MAN named Oatswas recently
arrested for beating his wife and
children. On being sentenced to
imprisonment, the brute remarked
that it was very hard a man was
not allowed to thrash his own oats.
Pity somebody did not thrash him.
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07

SHIPMENT OF VEGETABLES. On
Tuesday, thesteamers Locust Point,
Powhatan, Express and the Louisi-
ana, left Norfolk with an aggregate
Of about 5000 bbls- Of vegetables.
The next day thestearnships James
town and Adelaide left With about
1000 more, making fully 1000
barrels in.two days.
The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1859-07-07

meeting held in Clifton, Ohioethe
other day. Clifton has about three
hundred inhabitantsl
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
A Strange Advertisement.

We find in the GAINESVILLE Courier an adver-
tiSement of Solomon Sturges, one of the
wealthy men of Ohio, in which he sets forth
his reasons for offering for sale his vast landed
He advertises the subject thus =
" will, therefore, sell AT botc prizes and easy
terms of payment, any of my real estate and
| have great deal more than | want, ought
to have, or desire" After enumerating num-
ber of tracts which he wishes to sell, he goes on
this wise : :" [ have also some eight or ten
fine improved farms in Indiana, and one of
$40 acres, near Galena, in Illinois, that / wish
to sell. / believe no man has right to own
more land than is necessary for his use, and
that of his family. God has no doubt wisely
ordained that land Sharks should be cursed :;
and l can truly say that am anxious to sell
all my lands, and get clear of the curse
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Noors in South CaroIina.

1t may not be generally known that some of
the best families in South Carolina are Moors
by descent. The blood of the African soon
washes out. but that of the Indian and the
Moor after a score of generations, shows it.
self almost as strongly as ever. The crisp,
curling black hair, dark sad eyes, long sill1en
lashes, and swarthy complexion, come up gen.
Grafton after generation. Many of our old
Hugucnot families down to TO the present day
show strong traces of their Moorish descent.
When the NIoors were driven out from
Spain, upon the conquest of Granada thou
sands of them took refuge in the south of
France, carrying with them the art of cult
waiting the vine and of growing silk. Remem-
beriug their bitter prosecutions in SPAIN they
never could become Catholics, though forced
by their position to renounce Mohamedanism
and become Christians. They became eventu-
ally Protestauts, and when the revocation OF
the Edct of Nantes took place, withdrawing
liberation from the Protestant religion, they
were again driven to seek new homes, and in
large numbers emigrated to South Carolina
Claren5on Is Cl Banner.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Dreadful Blow at Fornev.

An Administration Democrat of Pennsyl-
vana returns to John W. Forney one of his
circulars issued in October, 1856, when he was
operating to carry the State for Buchanan,
with the following endorsement, which Forney
audaciously puts in type:
Mr.. John ". Forney your preasent conduct
don't gree with this sirkuler that you sent
rown then you were Lool1en to a high post
when you ware disappoint in the undertaken
so then you for got in your MAIDEN Brane all
that fealen that constuts man of the Right
Strip and comenced warfare gans the man
that maid you well frean. Forncy | can tell
you that tha ant 10 men of the Dimacrat party
that is with you and Packer in Miffin Co at
the comfy convinchon Last augest tina wose
onley one anty LacOmpton DelIegat in said
Dugles wont own you nor Packer
and can tell you that the Dimacrats wont
owen you so [ think you had better drift into
the Republicans Ranks and cry niggurs.
Yours j. CoPLIN.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Gam A MOTHER FORGET.

,Egg Can mother forget? Not morning, noon,
or night but she looks into the corner of the
kitchen where you read Robinson Cruso, and
thinks of you as yet boy. Mothers rarely
becomes conscious that their children are grown
out of their childhood. They think of them,
advise them, write to them as if not full four
teen years of age. They cannot forget the
+. child. Three times a day she thinks who are
absent from the table, and hopes that next
year, at farthest, she may have just her own
family there; and if you are there look out
for the fat limb of fried chicken, and that
coffee which none but everybody's own mother
!, can make. Did Hannah forget Samuel? A
short sentence, full of household history, and
: running over with genuine motherlove, is tel
lingly beautiful: Moreover, his mother made
him little coat, and brought it to him from
year to year, when she came up with her hus-
band 70 sacrifice
= "A mother mourning at her first born's grave
or closing the dying eye of child after child
displays grief whose very sacredness is sub
lime. But bitterer, heavier than the death
stroke is the desperation of son who rushes
over a crushed heart, into vices which he would
hide even from the abandoned and Vile
Napoleon was once asked by a lady what
France needed for the education of her
youth; and the short, profound reply was
:" MOTHERS ~
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
copssrANr EmPLoxmnNr.

The man who is obliged to be constantly
employed to earn the necessaries of life and
support his family knows not the happiness he
prays for when he desires wealth and idIeness
70 be constantly busy is to be always happy.
Persons who have suddenly acquired wealth.
broken up their active pursuits, and began to
live at their easa, waste away and die in very
short time. Thousands would have been bles-
sings to the world, and added to the eonnnion
stock of happiness, if they had been content to
remain in an humble sphere, and earned every
nouthfal of food that nourished their bodies
But, no; fashion and wealth took possession of
4 them, and they were completely ruined They
ran away from peace and pleasure, embracing
lingering Ye who are sighine for the
pomp and splendor of life, beware. You know
not what you wish. No situation however ex-
alted; no wealth, however magnificent; no
honor, however glorious, can yield you solid
enjoyment while discomfort turks in your bo-
som: The secret of happiness lies in this-to
be always contented with your lot, and never
sigh for the splendor of riches, or the magnifi-
cence of fashion and power. Persons who are
always busy and go cheerfully to their daily
tasks are the least disturbed by the fluctuations
of business, and at night sleep with compo
sure.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Tn1mmrNa oRcHARpe.

Young orchards of three or fore years stand
ing should be looked over, you may cut all
branches which would injure the good shape OF
the head, or which outgrow the limbs; and this
can be taken as a rule for standards, dwar6, or
treess trimmed against wall. In pruning,
cut out first all dead wood and matted limbs,
to admit air and sun, as sun is as much needed
for trees as for the farmer and gardner; when
this is done, cut out every shoot that rubs
against another, and remove all weak twigs.-
Don't prune too much. More harm rs done by
over pruning trees to natural growth. Fruit
may be small and poor, but by over-pruninS 1t
is very likely to be although absent 49,
q Consider that fruit trees are grown for the
fruit, but not as objects of decoration. A skill
ful trimmer will increase quantity, quality, and
better riponing but one thing Is certain, the
more apple trees or pear trees are prtheyi' less
they bear. Don't forget to scrape of all lss1H'
bark and moss from trunks and limbs, anSs4 burr
the scrapings to destroy eggs and msects.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
CUCUMRERR.

A farmer thus gives his experiences, 4, Last
Spring a friend of mine jecoseIY geparked.
Let me show you how to raise cucumbSrs. :"
de comqnlertced by making holes in the earth,
at the distance intended for the hill that would
hold about peck, he then filed them with
dry leached ashes, covering the aches with
very small quantity of earth. The seeds
were then planted on level with the sur
face ofthe hill Twas willing to. see the expert
ment tried, aud had no expectation of any
thing but loss of seed, labor and SOIL. ,.o-f
But imagine my, astonishment,s lnotwith-
standing dryer eeason was never known and
a almost universal failure of vegetables,( y when
| beheld vines remarkably thrifty, and as fine
crop of cpcumbers. as any one could -wish to
raise, and they continued to bear an unusually
Iong time
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Both Ends of the Union.

The men who brought load of slaves in
the Echo and carried them to Charleston,
whence they were taken back to Africa by our
own Government, have been acquitted. A
palmer case of piracy was never made out
So much for the execution of the law that for
bids the slave trade at the South.
Slavery ought certainly to flourish. No
jury can be found in the South to convict AT
rican negrostealers. and none but ultra Dem
ocrats allowed to sit on the Bushnell jury at
the North to try free citizens for the alleged
crime of rescuing fugitivcs.
But all this helps on the cause of freedom.
The people of the North have only to labor
and to wait and justice will come in good
time to the Free Worth, and slavery will be
pronounced sectional and freedom national
-Clerelqnd Herald
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
WASHING HoRsus, ruaa.

In regard TO the care of horses, Sit George
Stephens says: !" Wherever it is necessary to
wash horses legs, do it in the morning. Most
grooms, acting on different principle, wash
them as soon as the animal comes ia.o i am
satisfied this is bad practice. When, the
roads are dirty and weather wet, and the legs
already soaked, washing can do no harm but
to deluge the legs with water the moment
horse enters the yard, heated with exercise, is
to my mind as unnatural and absurd Dis to Jump
into a shower bath after playing for an hour,
at cricket. My plan is rubbing down with
straw and dry brush aud the next morning
wash as clean az soap and water can make them.
Pick and wash the soles as soon as the horse
comes in"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
NO. g..

Emperor on December 2, 1852, and immedi-
ately after married Eugenie, Countess de Teba.
His recognition as Emperor was imme late on
the part of the United States and England. and
rather tardy by the German Snates. In 1853
ne entered into an alliance with England, Aus
trla and Sardinia, against Russia which re-
suited IN 1851 i'll the Crimean war and the de-
feat of Russia. Allied with Sardinia, he now
makes war against Austria, according to his
own solemn declaration, as the Champion of
Italian Independence
1t may be added that the Prince Napoleon.
SO often mentioned, is the son of the Empcrors
uncle, Jerome
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
9nral and Dotttcatir.
CUTTING rENcE gxurfsurs..
A g r i c u l t ure.

~ @&N& Is -&A&NC& 344A5EB8s
A practical farmer in communication to
the Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph, advances a
peculiar theory in regard to the period for cut
ting timber for fences, especially for posts
The prevalent opinion in regard to the best
time, is when the timber is most free from san
and the very worst time is wheh it contains the
most sap This practical farmer referred to
ehtertalns the very opposite opinion. On one
occasion he cut down some excellent white oak
IN the month OF February and set it out in
lence posts, and after this be cut down the sama
kind of timber in the month of Nav (wben II
contained most free sap) and set it ont into
posts also. The former posts lasted onlv six
years; the latter endured twenty-five years.
This correspondent also advocates the cut.
ting of timber for rails about the month OF
May when it contains most sap. He saws if
TIMBER is cut for rails when the sap is running,
the bark then stripped off and the rails made
they will last one fourth longer
than If cut at any other time and have the
bark left on. The inside bark is the first to
1ecay and rot; being of porous nature Il con.
-alns air and water which carry the process of
iecay into the wood When the bark IL teei
ed off, the sap soon dries and prevents decay.
All experience goes to prove that the bark
should always be peeled from chestnet or other
allS in order to render them more durable;
his is well known to- every farmer, but it will
lardly be conceded that the best time for cut
ing rail timbers is when it contains most free
zap. This is practical question however,
which can only be decided by experiments, and
is one OF no small importance, ss vast ont,
ay is caused annually for repair Of decayed
ences.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
T roeess of Making Ice in the East 1r-
dies.

Natural ice is never seen in the warmest
parts OF that country. To procure ice by arti-
@eial means they dig, on large open plain
not far from Calcutta, three or four pits about
thirty feet square and two feet deep each. the
bottom of which they cover about eight inches
or foot thick with sugar cane or the stems of
| the large Indian corn, dried On this bed are
placed i'll rows a number of small shallow. I'M
glazed earthen pans, formed of a very porous
earth, quarter of an inch thick, and about am
inch and u quarter deep, which at the dusk of
evening they fill with soft water that has been
boiled In the morning before sunrise, the ice
makers attend the pits, AMI collect what is fro
zen IN BASKETS which they convey TO the place
OF preservation. This is generally prepared on
some high dry situation by sinking pit four
teen or fifteen feet deep, lining it first with straw
and then with coarse kind of blmketing.-l
The ice Is deposited in this pit, and beat down
with rammers, till at length its own accupula- |
ted cold again freezes it, and forms one solid |
mass. The mouth of the pit is well secured |
from the exterior air with straw and blankets. |
and tliatched roof is thrown over the whole. |
The quantity of ice formed by the method
above described, depends on a light atmosphere,
and clear, serene weather. Three hundred |
persons are employed in this operation in one
place. ..-... ... -r .--
AT hrst sight this curious process may ap-
pear to be an effect of eEaporation; but this is |
not the case; for it is remarkable that it is es-
sentlal to its success that the straw in which |
the vessels are placed should be dry, whereas,
IT evaporation were concerned in the congeIa-
ton, wetting the straw would promote it.
When the straw becomes wet by accident, it is
obliged to be replaced by dry straw -
The earth is continually losing heat by radi-
alton, and it loses most on clear, starlight
nights, when there are no clouds to intercept
and send back the rays of heat The straw,
like all filamentous substances, is good radia-
tor of caloric, and it is in consequence of the
heat that is thus given out by it into space on
clear nights that the ice is formed When the
weather is windy and cloudy, the effect does not
take place. -. ...-....--- ....-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
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TERTILTZING FROPERYIua
FROM THE ALE,

quantity ofammonia and nitric acid, equal,
perhaps, on an acre, to one hundred pounds Of
gilano, is annually brought down to the soil by
the rain, for the benefit of vegetation. Let
not, however, the farmer deceive himself and
imagine tbat he may indulge in. idle repose,
while nature is thus keeping up the fertility. of
his lands. But he insy profit by this newly
discovered bounty Of hature, if he win take full
advantage of the atmospheric manure by means
of drainage, which promotes the equal flow Of
water through instead of over his soil; by deep
cultivation Of the land, which brings every part
of it INTO contact wath the air.. The atmos-
phere Is to the farmer like the sea to the fish.
erman-he who spreads the nets the widest
win catch the most.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
AsYTEs.roR PoTAT0Hs.

Rufus Brown, of Chelsea, Orange county
Vermont, says that in an experiment tried by
him the gain in the crop of potatoes by the
use of ashes at the rate of teacupfull to the
hill, was about bushel and half of potatoes,
for each bus ofashes used. The kind ofpotatoes
was the English Pink-Eye, and yield 200 bush
els to the acre. The ground was planted May
I, with the ashes in holes and little dirt
over them 1t was plowed and hced june 1s,
tho rows being four feet apart and the hills
three feet. The ashes cost l21S cents bushel,
and potatoes sold at 80 cents, returning full
so cents bushel for the ashes employed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Selling a Dog.

Selling Dog.
Dick Lazybones was the owner of large dog,
which it cost as much to keep as two pigs
would have done; and besides useless ; nay,
worse than useless, for, in addition to the ex-
pense of keeping, he took up house room, and
greatly annoyed Dicks wife.
"Plague take the dog!" said she. ''Mr.
Lazybones, l do wish you would sell him, or
kill him, or do something or other with him.
He's more plague than his neck is worth, al
ways lying in the corner and eating more than
it would take to maintain three children; 1
wonder you will keep such q useless animal. -
"Well, we'll, my dear, said Dick, say no
more about it. I'll get rid of him one of these
days"
This was intended as a mere put-off the
part of Dick; but as his wife kept daily dinning
in his ears about the dog he was compelled to
take some action on the subject.
well, wife, said he one day, as he came in,
| eve sold JowIer'
''Have you indeed!' said she frightening ur
at the good news. I'm very glad of it. How
much did you sell him for, my dear!''
Fifty dollars"
Fifty dollars! what fifty dollars for that
dog How glad am That will buy us 6
good cow. But where's the money, my love
Money p said Dick, shifting his cigar lastly
to the other corner of his mouth, g didn
get any money! l took two puppies at TWEEN
ty-fve dollars apiece
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
SUPPORTS ron rLowura aa,uma-

Galvapised iron wire, number nine, which
can be obtained at most hardware stores, cut
into proper lengths, makes the best supports
for the stems of plants of anything we know Of
They are not half as much trouble to make, and
are more neat than wooden rods; they need no
paint, Deyer rust, and can be used year after
year. Tie the flower stems to the rods with
bass mating or loosely twisted twine. For
tall growing plants use nail rods, cut into prop
er lengths, and painted green-They are used
by many persons with great satisfaction.