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Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
The Grannies Of Democracy,

All are familiar with Grand-ma's story
of the "back man. When the good Old
dame wished to restrain any of her little
truan's from frequenting forbidden resorts,
she would cry "Back man" "Black
man - she whimpers, with shudder,
"Black man catch you" This, her only
argument, suffces for the time; she has
frightened the little fellows, and, coward
like-not from love of her, but from fear
of the Black man-they crouch aud hud-
die close to Grand-ma's knee. But, ere
long, they learn that the old woman 5
BLACK man" story is all gammon-a
mere device-and now, when she screams
out "black man at them, they may be
seen clapping their thumbs on their noses,
giving their fingers significant motion,
the door is shut in her face, aud they are
off,
Analogous to this is the course Of the
sham Democracy. Heretofore, when they
saw any of their rank and .f'e likely to
desert them, they would raise the bug-a- boo
cry OF "Black Republicans No other
argument was offered, no other was nee
essary, to scare the babes Of Democracy in
to line and drill. Aud, now, every Dem
ocra,ic paper throughout the land is self
constituted corporal guard to sbriek "BIack
Republicans. as if the whole Locofoco
party was still ,imid and silly enough to
become terror.s,ricken at their clamor
But that old woman trick is played out
The boys have discovered the game
"Black Republican" aud ''Disunion" pass
for first rate JuacomJ among them now,
and the Democratic party, like the old wo-
man, is left solitary and alone, feeling as
ridiculous as folly in its prime.-Greene
County (Pa) R,Pubiicaa.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
Grating Wax.

This being the season for grating, We
publish, for the benefit Of fruit-growers,
the old receipt for making grating wax,
at the same time adding new receipt rec
commended by prominent agricultural
journal.
The old standard grating wax is made
as follows: "Three parts rosin, three parts
beeswax, and two parts beef tallow. These
are all melted together, and the mixture
is usually applied with painters small
brush, or a wooden blade. 1t is frequent
ly worked up like shoemaker's wax by be-
ing softened with little warm water, and
applied with the hand. Some also dip
strips of cotton cloth, an inch or an inch
and half wide, into the hot wax, strip
ping it through between two pieces Of
wood and applying around the graft"
We prefer the firs,.named process.
The ne,p grating wax referred to, is
made and applied as follows: "Melt two
ounces Of rosin slowly SO as to make it
throw of its spirit Of turpentine. When
it becomes perfectly clear, add little less
than an ounce alcohol, mix we'll, and at
once cork tight in bottle. Add alcohol
to make it q medium liquid,
and apply with a small brush or wooden
blade. Like the foregoing, it is said to
form an air-tight covering, which is the
object aimed at by all applicants in graft.
ing"
The perfect covering for gratis is that
which will always adhere to the stock, and
will not crack in the cold, in the high |
winds of spring, or run in the hot suns Of
summer.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
Cultivation of Corn.

As the farmer will soon be called upon
to prepare for corn planting and cultiva-
ton, word or two on the subject, based
upon practical experience, may not prove
uninteresting to some of your readers.
My plan is as follows: l plow the
ground in the fall to the depth of six or
eight inches. l then prepare a rich COM
post of hog manure and good loan. In
the spring, turn my compost heap thor
oughly, SO as to have it well incorporated.
harrow the ground once with heavy
spike barrow, and afterwards harrow or
pulverize with large four horse cul,iva-
tor, working it both ways. The use Of the
spike harrow is then continued until the
ground is perfectly mellow.
The ground is marked out four feet each
way, aud shovel full Of the compost al
ready referred to is divided between these
hills, or l apply about four tablespoons
full of Baugh's raw bone phosphate to
each hill. From six to eight grains are
planted in the hill. When the plants
have attained the height of four inches,
l weed out to four stalks in hill, and
keep the ground mellow with the culti-
vator
by this simple method, have increas-
ed my corn crop from fifty to seventy bush
els to the acre. This increase attribute
to two causes. First, the deep plowiDg
and thorough pulverizatiou of the fcr;ili-
zcr The young plants start at once, aud
vigorously. Having something to feed
upon, and well prepared soil for the roots
to penetrate, the wire worm is headed of,
and the birds are not SO likely to disturb
the grains as when the termination is
slow.-Farn,er and Gardener.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
reD-Gov. PACKER has shown his s

rA-Gov. PACKER has shown his su.
premc devotion to his party, by nom-
mating Hon. THOMAS Ii. BURROWS of
Lancaster Ga Douglas Dem.) for Su-
perintendent of Common Schools.
He was confirmed by the Scuate-all
the Opposition Senators voting for
him, and seven Buchanan Democrats
voting against him. Mr.. Burrows
was Superintendent under Gov. Rit-
ner, and was an earnest and indefati-
gable friend of the cause. He is
styled by some, ''the father of the sys-
tem," but in fact it was inaugurated
under Gov. Wolf, and has been on
the gain in public estimation ever
since. lie is editor of the 'Pcnn'a
School Journal" and for all indoor
work Is doubtless abundantly quail
fled. Whether he will he as happy
in his outdoor intercourse with the
people, as his predecessor, is to be
seen-we hope he may. Were the
County SuperlnteDdents to select the
man, they would have chosen Mr..
HIcKoK-but as the Governor looks
to his own little party for the officer,
they can but hope it may all prove
for the best. All parties admit Mr..
Burrows eminent worth and fitness.
lie takes the Department, we believe,
about the first OF June.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
The most profitable Offices arc

~Young editors frequently make very
awkward mistakes in attempting to use
big words. A neishboriug paper speaks
Of . gentleman as having ';profcienay
filled" certain station-meauiDg, doubt
less, efficiently. Another speaks of two
persons as "oticious and attentive officers"
meaning, We suppose, they are ctlicien,
ofncers. Here, two different wrong words
are used instead of the one proper word
desired to convey an intended com plment.
A Dictionary should be at one elbow of
editors, and book Of Synonyms at the
osber-snd even then, in the hurry and
earelessuess SO common in the best Offices,
they may fail to give the clear and precise
meaning they desired to do.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
Garrison on Seward.

The great abolition organ OF Boston,
Tie LiJcratOr, edited by WILLIAM LLOYD
GARRISON, has a severe editorial review Of
Senator Stewards speech, evidently written
by Mr.. Garrison himself. The writer says
he has always regarded Mr.. Seward as the
"incarnatou Of political circumspcetion, y
and as incapable Of genuine "uliraism." "
lie thinks 'the recent speech, when close
ly analysed, will be seen to be but little,
if any, better than Mr.. Webstcr's 9Th of
March speech, 1850" He adds, "Mr.
Seward has gone backward, and gone
down, and he viii drag many along with
him ; and self recovery, under such cir
cums,ances, is scarcely ever possible -
But the following paragraph contains the
essence of the review:
"This speech greatly disnppoints US !;
not on the score of rhetorical skill, or
power of condensation, or clearness of
statement, or historical accuracy, for it is
very creditable performance in these
particulars; but because it evinces, through
out, the adroit, calculating. heartless poll
lician, rather than the wise, courageous,
far-seeing statesman. 1t has no pulsations
of life, no ,hrobbings of humanity it is
wholly destitute of moral feeling and
of purpose. Instead of re asserting the
doctrine of an irrepressible cOufct' be-
tween freedom and slavery, it is a labor
ious attempt to show that there need be
no collison-certainly no unfriendly col
llsion-between these forces, aud that
there is no reason why they may not re-
main in juxtapositiop, without heat or
jealousy, al mfnHum."
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

Col CURTIN, the nominee for overnor,
is well and favorably known to our people.
He belongs to this Judicial, COngression-
al and Senatorial district, and during all
his professional life has been one of the
most prominent lawyers in this section of
the State. As a politician, he is bold,
vigorous, and uncOmpromising. Fcrtwen-
ty FIVE years be has been one of the sturdi-
est pillars Of the Opposition in this quar-
ter, under whatever name they sailed. In
this quarter We have met him before as a
candidate aud leader, aud we tell the
Democracy everywhere to buckle on their
armor, for they will have to meet foeman
worthy of their steel.-LocA; Harea Dem
ocrat, "a Lecompson organ.)
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The Legislature of New Jersey has
passed law, and it has been signed BY
the Governor, which in effect does away
with the Railroad monopoly SO long enjoy
ed by the Camden 4 Amboy Company.
1t leaves some questions to be decided by
the Courts, and if the corstitu,ionality Of
the law is sustained, there will, no doubt,
soon be competing lines of railroad be-
tween New York and Pepnsylvania.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF SALERATus.-
A distinguished physician attributes to
the free use of saleratus, in cooking, many
Of the diseases to which children and
adults are subject. To the use of this de-
le,erious substance he attributes the death
of one hundred thousand persons out Of
the three thousand under ten years Of age
who annually die in the United States:
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

WIN. H. BIssELL, Governor of Hi
nois, died recently, after a lingering
illness, aged about so years. Born in
Otsego Co., n. Y. :, he first studied med
icine, then law-served with honor in
the Mexican war,andin Congress-ac-
cepted a challenge from jeff Davis,
who "settled"-and was elected the
first Republican Governor of Illinois.
A man of superior abilities, he dies
muck lamented. JOHN WOOD, of
Quincy city, chosen Lieutenant Cover
nor, now becomes Governor.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

An old lady, on being witnessed before
magistrate as to her place of legal settle
ment, was asked what reason she had for
supposing her husband had legal settle
ment in that town? The old lady said
ale was born, and married, and they bu-
ried Linn there; and if tha. amt settling
him there, | don't know what is.'
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

Prentice says, "One Of the dullest mon
we ever saw was named Sharp, one Of ths
s,upidest was named Smart, one of tLs
slowest was named Swift, one of the tall
es, was named Low-and the ex. G Governor
Of Virginia was named Wise ~
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

Near Warren, Conn, is posted on q
meadow fence, the following:
"Notis know kows is aloud in these
medders eny man or woman let,in thars
kows run the rode wot gifts inter my med
ders afoursed shel have his tale cut off by
me OBADIAH ROGERS"
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The Rochester Express records the death
Of a daughter Of Frederick Douglas. Since
her fathers absence, she had lost her ap.
petite and interest in her occupation, aud
gradually sunk away and died. She had
got the idea firmly fixed in her mind thss
her father would never come back, and
that, if he did return, be would have to 20
to prison and execution.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
THE WORN WEDDING RING,
BY ". C. BENNETT, (oF EsGIlsD.) }

BY W. Z. BENNETT, (oF ENGLisD)
Your wedding ring wears thin, dear wife All! summer
not few,
Since put your finger first, have passed DER III,
And, love! what changes We have seenwhat ant
pleasures, too
Since you became my dear wife, when this old rims
Was
o, blessings that happy day. the hsppies Of my life
When, thanks to God! your low, sweet Yes, MADE you
my loving wife,
Your heart will say the same, know-that days u.
dear to YOU,
The day that made yours dear wife. when this old
IiDg was new.
How well do remember, now your young, sweet face
that day;
How fair you were-bow dear you were-my tongue
Nor how dvated on you-ah, how proud was of you
But did love you than nov when that old ring
asnew!
No. fairer you, then, than at this hour,
And life to this day, how could you dear.
As your face be- tina, day. as now it is It's
Bu, did know your HEART we'll, when this old ring
new!
O. partner of my gadness, we what care, what grief
Is there,
For me you would not braveIy face-wthsne you would
o, what weary want hid each day, if wanting you
Wanting the love that God Iiade niine when old
Years bring fresh links to bind u.s. wife. small voices
that are here,
Small voices round fire, that make their mother
yet more dear,
Small, loving hearts, your each day makes yet
more IKE 10 you,
More like the loving heart made mine when this old ring
was new.
And blessed be God! all he has given with yet
around
One table, every little life lent Us, still with us is found
Though cares we've known, with hopeful hearts the
wo.st we've struggled through;
Blessed be Ills or all Ills love, since this old ring
new.
The past dear-its sweetness still memories treas
ureyet;
The greis we've borne, together borne, we would not
now forget;
Whatever, we the future brings, heart still
true,
Wen share, have shared all else, since this old
ring WAS new.
And if God spares US mongst sons and daughters to
grow old,
We know his goodness will not let your heart or mine
grow cold,
Your aged eyes will in all they've still shown
to you,
And mine yours all they have seen since this old ring
was new.
And 0, when death shall at last to bid me to my
rest,
May die looking in those eyes, and resting on that
breast;
may my parting gare be blessed with the dear sight
VI those fond eyes-fond as they were when this Old
ring was ne~l
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
Chr Star aub Cbronif!r
MONDAY, MARCH 2G, 1860.
Best Post Offices In Pennsylvania.

We fud in the Tribune the following
lists Of the Post Offices 10 this State which
pay over One Thousand Dollars per year
Of compensation TO those having them in
charge, or pay over that SUN OF nett pro-
ceeds to the Department:
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

Baron Smyth spent two whole days and
nights in considering an answer to the
conundrum, "Why is an egg, undone, Ike
an egg overdone?" He would suffer none
to tell him, and at last hit upon the sou-
ton, "Because they are both hardly doue'
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

When it is remembered that there are
four Post Offices within four miles Of Le,c-
+sJurg, it will be admitted that our town
and its peighbors patrouize Uncle Sans
postal department as well as any cOmmu-
nifty iu this or any other State.
The number of similar renumerative
Post Offices throughout the Union, is CIV
en- "a follows:
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

To FRUIT GEowERs.-Tbe Horticultu-
rist says that those who wish to have plums
retained on their trees until ripe, can do
so by digging up an inch or two iu depth
around the tree in the spring of the year,
and then putting about gallon Of air
Stacked lime iu-then replace the ground
taken out, or get fresh, and the tree will
retain the fruit.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

PRosPEcTs-We learn from a friend
tina, Judge Wilmot, since the Democratic
State Convention, puts his Congressional
District down as good for ten thousand
majority next fall. (Oar readers may
recollect, that Judge Wilmot put down the
District in 1856 as good for eight thou
sand. 1t seemed scarcely possible a. the
time, but the Judges predictions we're full.
flled-) In Allegheny county, where five
thousand is considered good round ma
jority, our friends confidently expect six or
seven thousand. Like encouraging reports
come from Lancaster, aud other sections of
the State. Friends be Of good cheer ;
victory is certain.--Lehiyh Register.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

"THE HUMAN VoIcE-i.s right man.
sgemsus in Speaking, Reading and Deba-
ting, including the principles of True e.
oquence." BY Rev. W. W. Cszalet, A.
NJ, Cantab. Published BY Fowler & Wells,
Sos Broadway, New York. A pamphlet
ot so pages-price not stated, but we
guess 25 cents.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The Governor Missouri has again
vetoed the barbarous and unchristian
bill against free colored people, pass
ed by the Legislature Of that State.
Honor TO his heart
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC bIeBT BLOWN
OUT-The last number of the Neehat
Dcmocra, comes to US with this notice
"This is the last issue Of the Neenah D,m-
ocrdt. The thing don't pay. Too many
Black Republicans and Shapgha:s. -
.janesuiRe JIis) GG.eHC.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The Louisville Journal, in reference to
the paltry attempt of Senator Douglas, on
the floor Of the Senate, to create the i'm
preston that the shoe-makers' strike in
New England was the result Of the with
drawal Of the Southern custom, says :;
"These strikes are the strongest evidence
against that assumption, for labor never
attempts to coerce higher wages from cap
ital unless the times are brisk. Ii the or
ders for manufactures have fallen of, the
strikers would be playing into the hands
Of their employers by quitting work when
they can be dispensed With pras'sbly.'
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The wit Of louisville declar > q ha. VII n
the DisuDion Traitors shall stand upon
scaffold, with ropes banging ever their
heads, they will think there Is an ''iuPeu-
ding crisis" and no 'lIslper."
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

The inventory of the property of the
late Senator Broderick, shows him to have
oeen the possessor of an estate worth
si00,ooo, norig'ged for abOu, $50,
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

Mr.. Buchanan may talk as he Will
about "maulfest destiny" but We never
kuew any man whose destiny was meIs
maui.c.l than hi.-r----! Re Junal
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

ANCIENT OIL-SPRINGs.-The following
quotation from the Bible would seem to
indicate that the ancients we're not with
out knowledge of the existence of oil
springs: ale made him ride on the high
places Of the earth, that be might eat the
increase of the fields and he make him to
suck honey out of the rock, and oilOm o,the
aiM,y rvek."-Dcut. xxxii, IL.
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30

But when you come to the cost Of trans
portatioD, the Slave States are in no par
ticular in the rear
Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-30
NoS-IyTERcoURsE MAN, coNyERr.D.

NOy-IYTERCoURSE MAN, CoNyERTkD.
-[The Chattanooga ga } Adeertiser, gives
the following romantic conversion Of an
anti aukee Georgian
''Not thousand miles from here, there
lives gentleman Of the real ,hunder-and-
lightning red-fag school of political ts-
isf, JaIn-up Sou,herner, death upon the
Yankees. He was widower, and had a
daughter attending school. On ascertain
iug that the teacher was one of the down.
east girls, be took his daughter from school.
resolved to have nothing to do with the
down easter-wasn't going to hive hi,
girl taught By any such person. Shortly
after be took his daughter from school, be
happens to be travelling on the same train
with the Yankee sehool-marm, is intro.
duced, is rather pleased, becomes interest.
ed, is got, and is gouer. The Yankee
school-teacher is now Mrs. -"
"Russia is abolshing serfdom, and tho
reform works well. Republican America
is behind despotic Russia iu this great
work. Posterity will wonder at our tOler-
alton of this relic Of barbarism"
"The Dutch Government has commeuc.
ed the work Of the emancipation Of slaves
in Java" ."-Boston Courier.
Very shortly, these blessed United States
of America will be alone, among civilized
nations, in retaining the barbarous ins,i-
tuition Of human slavery. Oar Southern
friends are even violent against US because
We positively refuse to permit them to
make slave from what is at present free
territory. 1t is bad enough that slavery
exists at ali in this Republic. 1t would
be positively monstrous to extend it any
further on this Continent This is what
the Republican party combats, and if the
North are true to her interests the princi.
pies of that party will be successful this
year-I1HsciUe Journal
The BraadOn (Miss.) Republican fairly
hits theinsincerity of the Democracy touch
ing the Slavery question, in the following
rough but lively epigram:
John sherman, to prove you're bad
But remark suihces-
You indors,d HELPERS booS
Called the "Imp-niing Crisis"
John Letcher, you once indorsei
Rufner', Abolition opiniur;
But you a bemocrat John,
Aftir /. xuf.rG Gff ffst npmin
John Sherman's deyil-JohD Letrher's n saint
(John Letcher pemocrat-yohH .ShsTAGa utstl