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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-06

NEARLY ONE PRIZE TO EVERY TWO TICKETS
7sNumbers.-I3 10 Drawn BalIOIs.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
n PROTEST AGAINST EARLY
RISING.

DR.. Hall, in the February number of his
Journal of Health, says Zone of the very
worst economies of time is that ilehing from
necessary sleep. The wholesale but blind
commendaIion of early rising is as mischiev-
ous in practice as it is arrant in theory. Early
rising is crime against the noblest part of
our physical nature, unless it is preceded by
an early retiring. Multitudes of business men
in large cities count it a saving of time if they
can make journey of a hundred or two miles
at night by steamboat or railway. 1t is ru-
inous mistake. 1t never fails to be followed
by want of general well-feeling for several
days after, if, indeed, the man does not return
home actually sick, or so near it as to be IN
fit for full attention to his business for a
week afterwards When man leaves home
on business it is always important that he
should have his wits about him that the
mind should be fresh and vigorous the spirit
lively, buoyant and cheerful. No man can say
it is thus with him after night on the rail
road or the shelf of a steamboat. The first
great recipe for sound. connected, and refresh
ing sleep is physical exercise. Toll is the
price of sleep, We canton parents particu-
larly not to allow their children to be walked
up, they will not do it prematurely but have
a care that they go to bed at an early hour
let it be earlier and earlier, until it is found
that they wake up of themselves in full time
for breakfast. Being walked up early, and al
lowed to engage in difficult Or any studies late
and just before retiring, has given many a
beautiful and promising child brain fever, or
determined ordinary ailments to the produc-
tion of water on the brain.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
The ladies of Philadelphia, Boston,
Baltimore New York.

Burleigh," the correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal, writing from Philadelphia, March
4, says:
In no one thing do Boston, New York.
Philadelphia and Baltimore SO much disagree
as in the appearance of the ladies as they walk
out on the daily promenade. Boston and Phil
adelphia are somewhat alike. The dresses of
the ladies are rich but not snowy. In Phila-
delphia the staid Quaker look abounds The
ladies are intellectual looking, but plain. They
all have pale, salow look, as if raised in the
shade; and as body they are far from band
some. A pretty woman on the sidewalk of
Chestnut street is a rare sight. But Balti-
more is flooded with beautiful women. 1t may
be in the climate-it may be in the style Of
dress-it may be because they-no matter
what-but the ladies of Baltimore drift along
Baltimore street in droves of beauty, while the
decided snowy and often gaudy colors worn at
tract attention and this is not in one or two
Instances, but dozens and dozens pass you
all of one style Of beauty and the eye is tlaz-
zled with the numbers. But the ladies of n
York are heterogeneous. The crowd that
floats along Broadway is immense but no
two look alike-no two dress alike. The rich,
the poor, the belle, the domestic, the native,
the foreign, the elegant, the homeIy-all min
gle and blend the picture, so that one only sees
vast mass Of moving creatures, having no
distinct form or character. In dress the New
York ladies overload themselves, and the orna-
ments seem cumbrous and not elegant If
they wear plumes, they load themselves down
like an ostrich If they wear fnrs, they pile
them up till they seem like porters carrying
home goods. If they put on jeweIry, they
wear ii as if their husbands manufactured the
article, and it was needful for them to become
a stand from which it is to be displayed The
same is seen in the dwellings, where the gau-
diness of the steamboat and the tinsel of the
circus seem to be the standard of taste adopt
ed. The New York ladies could learn lesson
that would be of great service to them, from
the ladies of Boston or Baltimore.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
somETHTNG TO DO.

OF all the miserable, misanthrepic, COM
plainine creatures who walk the face of the
earth land there are are great many more
than is at all agreeable to the rest of mankind)
he who has nothing to do is most to be pitied.
We would not be that man, could we walk Oh
velvet, and drink from gold, for the remainder
of our days Nothing to do but to nurse his
aches and pains-nothing odo but to pick out
all his neighbor's faults, and discover thorns
where other people see only roses. Young
man. if you would ascertain the secret of hap
piness, find something to do, and set about it
as if YOU meant it. No matter what-digging
dirt is an honorable occupation if it is honora-
bly, pursued. Nobody knows until he has tried
it what a blessing hard labor may be made-not
mere bone and muscle work, but that generous
hearty exertion which enlists mind and body
alike, and leaves its happy influence on them
both. Are you at the foot Of LIES ladder? it
will help you to reach the top are you tired
or weary, or heart-sick? it is the best medical
ment you can apply to the sore spot. Find
something to do, and do 1t with all the energy
of your nature. No one ever obtained a prizr
worth having, without working for it either by
the head or the hand. If you want to attain
the full stature of your manhood, don't sit
with folded hands, waiting for the laggard op-
portunity, but go to work and make a career
for yourself You will succeed, If you start ii
the right spirit.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
The roelishness of the wise.

The Richmond Dispatch says that the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company will soon
present claim of $4,000 against the State
of Virginia for the transportation of troops to
and from Harper's Ferry. Commenting on
that farce, got up for the benefit Of Governor
Wise, the Lynchburg Virginia observes:
We have understood, furthermore, that
the whole appropriation Of one hundred and
fly thousand dollars has been exhausted,
while the volunteers have not all been paid /!
It need, therefore, occasion no surprise ii Gov
ernor Wise's folly in the Brown affair costs the
state two hundred thousand dollars. And all
this for the satisfaction of training his boys,
when he did not anticipate the rescue of John
BrownP
With all the revelations that subsequent
events have brought to light, we do not hes
itate to say that there never was more wan
ton and wicked attempt to make capital out of
an event, sad enough in itself, than has been
evinced in the conduct of Governor Wise
throughout this entire affair.
The whole country was kept in a tempest
of excitement, and sectional animosity was
stimulated to the highest pitch troops were
marched and countermarched. brought home,
and straightway ordered off again, for no ne
cesity whatever"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
Extraordinary Case of Amalgama-
fion,

Mrs. Catharine Beach, widow of a respectable
merchant of Bridgeport, possessed OF about
$1,000, about middle age, with two children re-
spectacle married, and two aged and 10 re-
spectively, and a woman of more than ordina-
ry beauty and intelligence, fell in love with
Mr.. Francis, colored barber of Bridgeport,
smart, intelligent, and black as jet. She first
set him up in business, in fancy goods store,
and in October they visited New York, and
were privately married. They returned to
Bridgeport, seeing each other but seldom, and
keeping the marriage from the knowledge of
her friends. Not long ago, the secret leaked
out, and she acknowledged that she was his
wife.
The Selectmen appointed Mr.. Hays con-
servator over her to the Retreat for the In
sane in this city, by direction of her friends.
DR.. Butler refused to receive her, as she was
not legally committed. She was taken back,
and her friends joined in procuring certificates
from four physicians that she was insane, and
yesterday she was brought here again. Friends
of Francis, the negro, telegraphed to him in
New York, where he has lately established
himself and this morning he met his wife and
her conservator as they again took her to the
Retreat. He had with him Julius L. Strong,
Esq, as his counsel. He claimed his wife
Dr. Butler said the certificates were all right,
but if she acknowledged Francis to be her
lawful husband, he (Dr b. had no authority
to detain her. She declared that he was tru-
ly and legally her husband, and that she would
stick to him through thick and thin. Mr..
and Mrs. Francis accordingly stepped
into the hack in waiting, and rode to the
United States Hotel, took dinner, and left on
the steamboat City of Hartford bound for
New York, at P. M.-Harford Press, 18th.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
Bes. FFuiti for Markss Purposes.

| A correspondent of the, Genessee Farme,
answers the question, what are the best six va.
rieties of pears and apples, for market and
general cultivation as follows:
After hearing and reading all that has been
said and written on this subject for the last
| ten years, and carefully noting the experience
of producers and dealers as to the demand oil
the markets and consumers, but little hesita-
ton need be felt in naming the best varieties
of pears and apples for market. As to order
in which they should be named for their re-
spective merit, good deal of difference will
undoubtedly be found expressed. For general
marketing and cultivation, think the pears
should be named as follows Bartlett, White
Deycnue-or Bonne de Jer-
sey, Duchesse d Angouleme, Vicar of Wink
fed, and Easter Beurre. Perhaps the Seckel
might be substituted for one of the last two ;
but as these are the only winter pears they
had better be retained, as the market demand
must be supplied in winter, as well as in sum-
mer. The demand for the above varies is al
ways greater than the supply, even at the
highest prices.
The Bartlett, White Doyenne, and Vicar of
WINFIELD succeeded well on either pear or
ounce root, while the other three are best on
the ounce indeed, Louise Bonne de Jersey
and Easter Beurre are comparatively worth
less on the pear.
In naming the apples, have no hesitation,
as the market demands are uniform. The list
is heard in every STALL in every city market,
at the season when the fruit is in market -
Rhode Island Greening, Esopus Spitzenburg,
Baldwin, Newtown Pippin, Roxbury Russet.
and Red Astrachau. If the fruit is to be pro-
duced in western New York, the Northern
Spy must be substituted for the Newtown
Pippin. This last apple will always bring a
good price; but unfortunately, it is not uni
versally successful, neither is the Northern
Spy; but believe it to be a fact that one
Of these will grow where the other will not
The Lady apple-Pomme d. Api Rouge
brings the highest price of any apple in the
market, but it is so small that an orchard Of
that variety will not give so great cash re-
turn for the labor and money invested as the
other varieties have named. OF course this
list may not be right ten years hence, as to some
of the above kinds. have yet to see the va
riety that will drive the Rhode Island Green
ing from the market. This apple always sells
well; and SO does the Spitzenburg.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
poyrnrr nor 30 GREAT A CURSE.

IF there is anything in the world that q
youag man should be more grateful for than
smother, II is the poverty which neeessitates
Bis starting in life under very great disadvan-
tsges Poverty is one Of the best tests of hu-
man quality in existence A triumph over il
is like graduating with honor from West
Point It demonstrates stuff and Stamina
1t Is n certificate of worthy labor ereditably
performed. "A young man who cannot stand
this test Is not good for anything. He can
never rise above u drudge or pauper. ~
young man who cannot feel his will harden as
the yoke of poverty presses upon him, and his
pluck rise with every difficulty poverty throws
5 ID his way, may as well retire into some cor
ner and hide himself. Poverty saves thou
sand times more men than it ruins for it
only ruins those who are not particularly worth
saving, while it saves multitudes of those whom
wealth would have ruined. Ifany young man
who reads this is SO unfortunate as TO be rich,
give hin, my pity. I pity you my rich
young friend, because you are in danger
You lack one great stimulus to effort and ex-
cellence, which your poor companion posses
ses. You will be very apt, if you have soft
spot in yonr head, to think yourself above
him, and that sort Of thing makes you mean,
and injures you. With full pockets, and full
stomach, and good linen and broad cloth on
syour back, your heart and soul plethoric, in
the race of life you will find yourself surpassed
BY all the poor boys around you, before you
know it.
No, my boy, if you are poor thank God,
md take courage, for he intends togive you
chance to make something of yourself If you
had plenty of money, ten chances to one it
would spoil you for all useful purposes. Do
you lack education Have you been cut short
IN the text book? Remember that education,
like some other things, does not consist in the
multitude of things man possesses. What
can you do? That is the question that settles
the business for you. Do you know your bu-
siness. Do you know men, and how to deal
with them? Has your mind, by any means
whatever, received that discipline which gives
TO il action, power and facility? If so, then
you arc more man, and a Thousand times bet
Ter educated than the fellow who graduates
from q college with his brains full of stuff that
he cannot apply TO the practical busim IS Of
iEe--stuff, the acquisition of which has been
in no sense disciplinary process SO far he
Is etsneerned. There are very few men in this
world less than thirty years of agetand unn,d77se
RED. who can afford 10 be rich 0ye-&s s'<tit
great benefits to be reaped from great finan-
ciai disasters is the saving of large crop Of
young men, Timothy Tdeomb.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
TO THE GIRLS.

The following contains sgch wholesome ad
vice to the female portion of the community
that we are constrained to lay it before our
readers, that it may be read and pondered
over again and again
" Ladies-caged birds of beautiful plumage
but sickly looks-pale pets of the parlor, who
vegetate in an unhealthy atmosphere ike the
potato terminating in dark cellar, why dc
you not go into the open air and warm sun
shine, and add lustre to your steps, and vigor
to your frames? Take early morning execise
let loose your corset strings and run up
the hills on wager, and down again for fun
roam the fields, climb the fences, leap the ditch
es, wade the brooks and after a day of exhil-
Grating exercise and unrestrained liberty, go
home with an appetite acquired by healthy en-
joyment.
"The blooming and beautiful young lady
rose checked and bright-eyed-w can darn
a stocking, mend her own frocks, command a
regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs
milk the cows, and be a lady when required, is
the girl that young men are IN quest of for a
WIFE But your pining, serew-up, wasp-waisted,
doll-dressed eonsumption-morfgage music
numbering, and novel-devouriug daughters of
fashion and idleness-you are no more fit for
matrmony than pullet is to look after a
brood of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my
dear girls, you want less of fashionable re-
straint and more liberty of action More
kitchen and less parlor more leg exercise and
less sofa /; more pudding and less piano; more
frankness and less mock modesty. Loosen
your waist strings and breathe in the pure at
mosphere, and become something as good and
beautiful as nature designed
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
The New York Central Park,

This is great work, and the city will ulti-
matey have to pay great bill for it. The
original cost for the ground was nearly So, co.
600, and in addition to this the city has paid
$4,000 for State property within its limits :;
and now it is proposed to extend its dimen-
sions on the north at the cost of another mil
lion, making a total of $6,275,O0' The plan
adopted for the improvement of this land call
ed for an expenditure of 81 8S,4l8-to WHICH
the Commissioners added "for contingencies" !"
the liberal sum of ss3ll ,582-making a total
of 81 100000, which was to complete the park.
A bill is now before the Legislature from
the Park Commissioners, asking for $780,
600 more to complete the work, and $25OO,-
600 as an appropriation for keeping it in re-
pairs. The Assembly, by resolution, has
called upon the Commissioners to report the
amount already expended by them, and also
the estimates TO show for what purposes the adj
ditional $5,000,000 are wanted. An answer
to this resolution has been given, in which it is
stated that instead of million and half, the
expenditures have already reached 81 $4,000
over three hundred thousand dollars more
than was first estimated to be necessary that
| in addition for work already marked out, aud
| which is specified, they will need $2,5Oo,0OO.
Then they want principal (S2,500,0O0,) the
| interest OF which shall not exceed $150,000 per
annum, with which to keep the park in order.
Here is a total Of $I2,775, 600. Some persons
who can judge pretty correctly of such matters
assert that the designs of the Commissioners, Il
carried fully out, viii cost $5,000000 more
making total of sls,000,O0O The Gentra
Park threatens to become perfect politica
whirlpool for sucking in the money.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
Hints on Poor Farming.

lst. Invest all your capital in land, and run
in debt for more.
I'd. Borrow money to stock your farm.
Sd. Have no faith in your own business, and
be always ready to sell out.
4th. Buy mean cows, spawned horses, poor
oxen, and cheap tools.
5th. Feed Marsh hay and mouldy corn fod-
der exclusively, in order TO keep your stock
tame. Fiery cattle are terrible hard on old
rickety wagons and plows.
9th. Use the oil Of walnut freely, whenever
your oxen need strength. 1t is cheaper than
hay or meal, keeps the hair lively and pounds
out all the grubs.
18th. Select such calves for stock as the
butcher shuns beauties of runts, thin in the
hams, and pot-bellied, but be sure and keep
their blood thin with scanty herbage. Ami
animals are safest to breed from, that have not
strength to herd.
9Th. Be cautious in the manufacturing of
manures. 1t makes the fields look black and
mournful about planting time besides it is q
great deal of work to haul it.
9th. Never waste time in setting out fruit
and shade trees. Fruit and leaves rotting
around place make it unhealthy.
The road to poor farming, though largely
travelled, is not well understood, and these
landmerks are thrown up for the common ben.
eft.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
TRIPLES.

Nothing but pin! 1t lay there shining or
one of the broad flagstones of Broadway-siL
robes swept over it, and hurrying feet passed
it by. Nobody paid the least attention to the
new bright pin. IF it had been a tiny GOLD
pice, or a ring, it would have been snapped up
in half minute, but nobody thought it worth
while to stay their progress for nothing but a
pin. At length, however, a weldressed man
happened to spy it-he paused and picked ii
up, brushed off the dust carefully, and fastened
it upon the lapel of his coat, and then went
his way, the richer by pin!
Now moralizers who read the book of hu-
man nature, can you foresee the future of the
man who stops in the whrl of Broadway, to
pick up pin? Can you see him adding pin
to pin, cent to cent, trifie 20 tri6e, until the
fair structure of fortune rises from the al
most invisible foundations. The secret of
prosperity which so many sigh for in vain, was
in that mans possession. He had found the
recipe for getting ahead in life. There was
nothing in the mere act of picking up pin
it was the habit of thrift and economy-the
determination TO pass nothing by that might
one day be useful. "What is wasted does no.
body any good and we respect the man who
is wise enough to be an economist in small
things as well as in great.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
TTME avn ETERNrY.

Time, Ikea. river, carries al things away
with rapid course !; they swim above the
stream for while, but are quickly swallowed
up and seen no more. The very monuments
men raise to perpetuate their names, consume
and moulder away themselves, and proclaim
their own mortality as well astestify that of
others But now, on the othe side, the en-
ioyments proposed to us by the Savior are in
desfructible in their nature andendess in their
duration. They are still fall, fesh and entire
l;ke the stars and orbs above, which shine with
the same undiminished lustre, and move with
he same unvearied motion with which they
did from the first date of theircreation. Nay,
the joys of heaven viii abide Wien these lights
os heaven will be put out, and when sun and
moon, and nature itself, shall be discharged
ssona their stations, and be employed by Prov
iaeuce no more. The righteoss shall then APP
pear in their glory, and being hxed in the Di-
vine presence enjoy one perpstual and ever
LASTING day day commensurate to the eter-
nity Of God iimself, the great Son of Right
eouznesa. vhs is always risingand never sets.
DIR. .Sotth.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
The Rich nzen of Philadelphia.
4 Philadelphia correspondent says:


The rich men of Philadelphia have never
figured so conspiciously in print as those Of
other large cities. Our tax list gives US some
insight into the mysteries of their purses
Strangely enough, the second on the list has
carved out the whole of his vast fortune with
in twenty years. This is DIR. David Jayne,
whose real estate is assessed at $439, 900,
though worth half more He came here
some twenty years ago. from a small town in
New Jersey, and commenced the patent med-
cine business, without capital and almost un-
known. But he has worked himself up to the
top of the ladder, his great lever being adver-
tising. The Newspapers have made him. He
has probably spent 100000 per annum in ad-
vertising his wares, and now runs steam pres
ses on his own premises in making labels for
his preparations.
After him comes George W. Carpenter, an
other druggist, who, having grown rich by ad-
vertising, is assessed at $38O,00O in real es-
tate alone. DR. James Rush is highest on the
list, his estate being put down at $45G,000.--
DIR. John Rea Barton represents $l95.000, so
that physic and medicine seem to be the royal
road to wealth. After these come our bust
ness men, whose real estate is valued as fol-
lows James Francis Fisher, $250,0OO; John
Wistar, $leo,0OO J. S. Lowering, $4,000 !;
James Dundas, $4,000; John A. Brown,
$263,000; John j. Ridgway, 1915, 900; Rich
ard Wistar, $325,000; and so on, so that 45
names represent $7,5OO,0OO. Death has, with
in few years, divided up all the millionaire
estates we had among US.