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Nebraska advertiser., 1860-03-22

A UsEFUL HINT ON TRANsPLATING.--
A correspondent of the Gardsnsr's 5
Monthly, relates that noticing the success
which had attended the cultivation Of a
friend Of his who was an amateur in gar
dening, he had made some inquiries as
to his method which had proved by the
handsome trees and the rich and rare
plants and fruits, how excellent his man-
agemenl and says .s.ah E
MY question was, slow have you sue
ceeded so well TO have such thrifty and
large surroundings in the few years Of
your occupancy!' He answered, / never
fail in transplanting, if strictly observe
three rules. The first was to mark the
portion Of the tree or shrub to be removed
in reference TO the points of the compass,
as otherwise its sap-stTength after reno
val, may be exhausted. in the natural ef-
fort 10 change the condition Of the mis-
placed southren bark TO northren, It's
eastern to a western, and Vice Versa.
His second rule he could not reason
ont as well except by practice and analogy
III was Wis ~ SCI Nut ofA tAiS sal Nyo
and trees, such as grow out of the ground
in the increase of the moon, aud all
root plants, such as beets, carrots Sc !.
in the waning or decrease of the moon.
Perhaps it may be reasoned the general
state of atmospheric electricity which Is
SO often beautifully set forth when the
summer shower from the clouds viii
cause the dropping grass to stand up in
renewed beauty and vigor, is likewise
more regularly Influenced by the galvanic
power of the moons changing its phases,
instanced in its tidal power its effects on
the sexual system, the common belief in
the solidity of the pork when proper ref
erence is had thereto in lis killing.
His third rule was TO make the hole
wherein tie transplanIed tree was 10 be
placed sufficiently large to 10 allow him
to locate carfully the fire fbrous roots as
nearly as possible covering them carefully
with the original soil. The philosophy
of these rules may not be altogether ac-
quie;ced in ! only know Lis success was
the admiration of all observers.
Nebraska advertiser., 1860-03-22

NEw GRAPE. TnE LABE-The Labels
the name of new variety that has been
presented 10 Mr.. Meenan of the Garden
ers Monthly the past year and IS promis-
ing well. This grape has very large
b rry, Of very deep black coler the
bunch is oblOng in shape The favor Is
IS rather sharp. but combined with pc
ealiaT pleasaDl sweelReSs.
Nebraska advertiser., 1860-03-22

mouth shut ostentatiously. A woman is
100 absolutely secret 10 set up 3 public
sign over whatever may lie buried in her
mind. She gossips, praIlles, pOurs ont
what she does not care TO hold, with such
an air of unreserYed simplicity that all
mankind IS mystifed, and says in friend
ly Jest, "A woman only hides what she
don't know" Among the uneducated
poor, this difference between the woman
and the man is most conspicuous. The
innate powers of her sex place her a.
once upon an eminence which man can
only reach by education. She must needs
often be tied 70 one in whom there Is 70.
the grain Of understanding requisite to
the formation Of true sympathy. BY far
the greater number Of the wives Of un-
skilled laboreEs and mechanics, live more
or less happily, and more or less conscl-
Gus Of the hidden life within them, hay-
ing such seal upon their minds and
hearts.-yfH the Year Round. !
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-01-04
Sharp Practice.

How fellow from Shullsburg, in the
mining district, was elected to the State
Legislature is related as follows by the
Milwaukee News:
The district was close, the Republi-
cans being dangerously numerous. so the
Democratic candidate, who was miner
and employed men to work in the bowels
of the earth, secured the services of fifty
three stanch Republicans to mine in his
shaft on the forenoon of election day. the
understanding being that in the afternoon
they should be allowed to go to the polls.
The fifty-three descended the ladder one
hundred and fifty-three feet into the shaft,
and were soon busy at work, drilling, cut.
ting, blasting, &C. The candidate and
employers saw them well employed, then
ascended the ladder, reached the surface,
anu with the help of two or three friends
in the secret, drew the ladder up after
him, leaving ffiy-three good Republican
voters hard at work hundred feet SOW
with no means of getting out till the lad
der was replaced Taking two sections ol
the ladder off to hare some nea0 rounds pul
! in, he left for the polls, q mile distant and
when the votes were counted at night, 10
the surprise of his opponent, he had for
ty-two majority! An hour later there
might have been seen ifty-three able
bodied men, each ore bearing lighted
candle, emerging from certain hole in
the ground, like anus from vial of mo-
lasses, profaning fearfully, and vainly seek
ing for the man who pulled up that lad.
dcr;' but for two days no such man could
be found. Concluding they had been solo
in earnest, utter consultation. the mi
ners agreed to charge nothing for theil
services, drink at their employers ex
?ense, and let the matter drop-but ht
was elected.
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The Southampton, Va. Negro Insured
ton in 1881.

The Journal Of Commerce gives short
Va, negro insurrection of 1881, headed
by Nat. Turner, which spread such alarm
through the Commonwealth, in conse-
quence of the foul murders committed. =
The remembrance of Nat. Turner, and of
tho barbarities of his gang the inhuman
murder of men, women and children, it
was, that SO startled the people of the
South when the first news of the Harper's
Ferry insurrection reached them by Tel
egraph. For a time no one felt safe, for
none knew the extent of the insurrectlon,
and every slave was suspected of compIi-
city. Fortunately, Browns hope of q
general rising failed, aud a security is
again felt. The Journal Of Commerce
says:
A more successful attempt was made
ip Virginia in 1881 The scene of mas
sacre was in the county of Southampton,
near the North Carolina border. One
Nat. Turner slave of Benjamin Turner,
about thirty years of age. ignorant and
fanatical, imagined himself prophet
sent of God to do good work. His
grandmother and mother had long delu-
ded him with the notion that he was
born for some extraordinary deed, and he
was weak and foolish enough to embrace
the delusion. He succeeded in persuading
a gang of his fellow slaves to rise upon
their owners and perpetrate an iudiscrim
innate massacre. 1t was O sudden out
break of which none were forewarned, fol
which none were prepared. No such thing
had been known in the history Of the re-
gion. All was quiet and peaceful, Moth
ing was suspected. The patrols were
scarcely in existence. The men had most
ly gone to the camp meeting or it's vicin.
lily. AlllookeG fair without, while vol
cano was seetaing beneath. 1t was tn,
month Of August, q month In which tn,
ear becomes accustomed to the loud sound
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SIX ONE AND HALF A DOZEN
OF THE OTHER.

"Now, dearest Fred !" she softly said,
"You must abandon smoking;
1t spoils your loeks-and then your breath,
Indeed, it's most provoking.
Did God decree that men should be
A chimney fue regarded?
Then, darling Fred, let it be said,
Tobacco you've discarded"
'Haw well, my DEAR" SAID Fred, II fear
That will not be so easy;
But, like man, I'll try plan,
And do the best to please ye.
Did God intend that woman's mind
Such wondrous things should brew, love
As bustles, bloomers. crinolines,
Or hoops de- dooden do, love?
But really, if,"-whif, whit, whit, whif;-
"And mind you. Pm not joking
If You'll abandon crinoline,
By Jove!-I--Ill give up smoking
Once Week.
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NUMBER Is.

man." \ = ale never had, like some
weak minded advocates, several theories,
each 10 be used in case of need ia ahy
new pinch of the case he had one MeoryA-
one central commanding theoryA-and all
the evidence squared and dove.tailed into
and upon this one ruling center, which
commanded like asentinel every particu.
lar and svery portion OF the whole vaffe:
gated field." "His analysis and
subtle refinement to discrimination was
marvellously acute" :" His discussion of
the witnesses themselves. personally, was
striking, cunning and convincing If he
wished to break witness in the conf.
dence of the jury. he made no direct %.
sault upon him; that would have been .
bungliug and often an Intellectual proceed
ing. No, he described the witness gon.
orally, remarking, perhaps, that it was Of
very little consequence whether he was
believed or not, but then he would go on
to insinuate rather than express athousand
cisparagements" r * "His whole
theory of augmentation was the exhaut-
tive one; to exhaust every possible line Of
thought directly bearing upon his theory"
"He said to me often, this standing up
and addressing crowd vaguely, an unde-
fncd mass, nobody in particular and
wheeling on the heel, looking about from
side to side, cannot be the thing; it is no
better than standing up and iddlinS.
Talk to somebody. a2As .a M
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of the negroes, gathered to their havest's
singing in concert, and often hallooing at
their work or play, so suits their taste, they
have special love for nocturnal revelry.
Suddenly, on the 2lst and 22d of August,
1881, this band of desperate fellows rose
upon the whites, and commenced the mas
sacre OF men, women and children.
Among the murdered were Mrs. Ira
vers, and three children; Mrs. Whitehead,
her son, four daughters and one grand
child; Mrs. Waller and ten children; Mrs.
Williams, her husband, and their two sons;
Mrs Jacob Williams and three children,
with others, masters and overseers; in all,
| fifty-fve fell, pleading for mercy from the
inhuman monsters. Guns, axes and
swords were the weapons used in this
murderous work-compared with the des-
truction wrought by which, the scene at
Harper's Ferry, was one Of mercy. The
insurgent slaves had all been destroyed
or apprehended, tried and executed, with
the exception of the ringleader, without
revealing any thing at all satisfactory as
to the motives which urged them on, and
the means By which they expected to &C
complish their object. All was wrapped
in mystery, until Nat Tnrner, ,the leader
OF the gang, who succeeded in hiding him
self for two months, was at length cap
tured in cave by one man, Benjamin
Phipps, who was armed with shot CUR
and to whom Nat suddenly SURRENDERED
without offering any resistance, thougl
armed with o sword He appeared t,
anticipate his doom, and to yield to it q
a matter of necessity. He was thorough
ly examined, and made free confession
both of his deeds and motives which wer
those OF finished frantic. Nat wa
hung on the Friday after his trial whic
commenced November S.
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Characteristic Sayings of Choate.
The following short dicta are from the
memorials of Rufus Choate, just publish.

The following short dicta are from the
memorials of Rufus Choate, just publish
ed in Boston:
He said "he always ,oent IN for the YER
dict" I care not how hard the case is
it may bristle with difficullies-if feel
am on the right side, of that cause scin. +"
Is "It is o rich and rare English
that one ought to command who is aim.
ing to control jury's ear" *
'Neyer cross, examine uny more than is
absolutely necessary. you don't break
your witness, he breaks you; for he only
repeats over in stronger language to the
jury his story. Thus you only give him q
second chance to tell his story to them,
and besides by some random question you
may draw out something damaging to
vour own case.n cat the outset
then you want to strike into their minds
Qhe jury) what they want-a good solid
general view of your case: and let them
think over that for good while." "If,"
said he emphatically, "you haven't got
hold of them, got their convictions at
least open, in your first half hour or hour,
you will never get them at ALL"
ssAs be had studied his jury" says the
author. "till he knew them every one, SC
he would say something to hit every one
To his sharpened vision their faces were
as glass" "He would never allow the
jury to perceive him at issue with the
bench" "The material of this great ad.
vocate's argument was mysterious con.
solidation of the most dogmatic and posi-.
tive assertion, the closest logic, the dryes,
law, the most glittering poetry, the mos,
convulsive humor, fred by an enthusiasm
uninterrupted and contagious -
oi"He constantly put himself into tn,
Ijury-box, as it were; that is. he constant
i " made q sort of confident of each jury
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-01-04
LITTLE DOG TRAY.

1t was nanny and many year ago,
In dwelling over the way,
That little boy lived, as you may know,
And he had dog named Tray;
And this little boy had no other thought
Than to sport with his dog and play.
! was child and he WAS pup.
In this dwelling over the way;
And we loved with love it were hard to
and my little dog Tray
With love that the ragged boys in the
street
Made fun of every day.
And this was the reason that. long ago,
In this dwelling over the way,
A mad dog (they said) had been biting
My beautiful little dog Tray;
So that my eide: brother came
And took him from me one day,
Ard shut him up in q woodshed
Of the dwelling over the way.
My brothers, not half SO happy as we,
Went envying me and Tray;
Yes! that was the reason Gas our folks
knew
In The dwelling over the way,)
That my brother came with gun at night,
Shooting and killing my dog Tray.
Our love it was stronger by far and more
true,
Than mans FOR a woman could be-
Than boys for his brother could be
And not any thing any body can do,
Nor yet any thing they can say,
Can ever diminish my grief for the loss
Of my favorite little dog Tray.
And I never see gun, but 1 think what
was done
To my beautiful little dog Tray;
And my dander will rise, when think ol
the lies
That were told of my little dog Tray;
And I've bitterly cried many nights by
the side
Of the house of my darling, my joy and
my pride
Of his dog kennel over the way
Of his grave by the side of the way.
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Hanging in the Rural Districts.

The author of "Rural Life in Louisi-
ana" thus describes hanging in the rural
districts Of that State:
"Why," exclaimed we. as we approach
ed the Jail, "we thought the law required
that the execution should take place
within on enclosure?"
$50 it does" said the sheriff; "and
don't you call that an enclosure -sayY
pointing with his long cane to a worn
fence surrounding the building; Il pu,
that there this morning-the law don'i
require me to build stone wall; nor a
brick one, nuther, jest to hang feller;-
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"THY WILL BE DONE"

"Come hither, George and Marian,
Come hither, Isabelle"
Thus spake youthful mother,
And soft her accents fell.
And George, the rosy, dark-eyed rogue
Come bounding at her will;
And Isabelle, the darling,
And Marian. meek and STILL
'fNow if you offer prayers to Heaven,
And each but ore might say,
For what my precious children,
Would you this moment pray?"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-01-04

"Ohl I would pray that God would send
His bright heaven down to earth,
Nor take from US His lovely ones!',
Said George in thoughtless mirth.
"And l." said lovely Isabelle.
"Would ask my darling mother,
That we might die together
Thou, Marian, 1 and brother!''
Then Marian raised her thoughtful eyes,
Our little dreaming nun.
"Be this MY prayer,'-she mnrmured,
Father, Thy will he done!"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1860-01-04
ANNABEL LEE.

It was many and many year ago,
In kingdom by the sea,
That maiden there lived whom you may
know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other
thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was child and she was child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with love that was more
than love-
I and my ANNABEL LEE;
With love that the winged seraphs OF
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of cloud, chilling
My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in q sepulchre
In this kingdom by the SEQ.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!-that was the reason Gas all men
know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by
night,
Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE
But our love it vas stronger by far than
the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the sou
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE:
For the moon never beams, without
bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And the stars never rise, but feel tn,
bright eyes
OF the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
And so, oil the night-tid lie down b,
the side
Of my darling-my darling-my life ant
my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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that should chink the cracks betwixt
the rails, nuther, to keep any body from
seeing"
"Where have you erected your gal
lows?"
"Oh, 'taiA't erect yet, but soon will
be--here Bill" he continued, "take this
rope drawing from his pocket piece Of
plowline about eighteen inches in lengthy
and 60 and tie one end of it round Tol,
ley's neck and fetch him here"
The deputy departed and soon returned,
leading the culprit, secured as command
ed. He was short, chunky, "don 't-care
a cuss" looking fellow, who sauntered
carelessly along with his hands in his
pockets.
He was placed by the side of long
cottonwood sapling, which was lying on
the ground. 1t had recently been strip
ped of its bark, except the fork at one
end.
The Sheriff drew off his blanket coat.
threw it across the fence. looked full in
the culprit's face, and addressed him:
'Mister Tolley, you're burned mean
looking sneak, now, amt yer? Darn yer,
I'll teach you how to set fire to shunty,
and be guilty o. arson-pull off your hat,
sir, and hold up your head"
The deputy having fastened the other
end of the rope to the sapling, Mr.. f.
seized prong Of the fork in either hand,
and poised it above his head as high as
he could reach, but not quite clearing
Mr.. Tolley's toes from the ground, while
the deputy stood by, watch in hand
counting the minutes as they passed
The Sheriff, still with, arms aloft, being
very red in the face. called out:
II say, Bill, how long has he been {
hangin'?''
"Just three minutes an half" on
swered the assistant.
Then he's got only one minnie and {
half more, and he don't begin TO be deat
yet"
"Aleck," observed we, elf l may b.
permitted to venture On assertion, 'twoult
be that the supreme law of the land make
it obligatory upon you to keep him il
suspense until the vital principle is NJ
more"
"Counselor, shet up; know what In
about You may know all about tn
: theory of law, but you don't know moth
in bout the practice; and it stands t
; reason that you should know nothin' 'bou
/ the duties of a Sheriff; but tell you Nv
3 heard ever since was born, that arter
gentleman had hung a given length {
: time, and want kilt--and / think fiv
4 minutes is the time-he's entitled to lifi
, aud I think he orter be, too. KNOWN
: that to be the law, (or how coald SO man
: people be mistaken if 'taint) I'm agoin
!. to let him down."
q So saying, he threw the sapling as fa
i from him as he was able, jerking the Gu
: prit very hard to the ground, thereb
prejudicing his comfort much more tha
b his pendant position did. Loosening tt
d halter from his neck, and smashing his hs
h down over his eyes, the Sheriff seized hi
It by the collar, planting the toe of nun
e Der eleven pegged boot extremely 10
}, down in the dosal region, and exclaimed :
e Look here, Mister Tolley, you've je
d escaped death by fiction of the law
e now go; but hang me, if ever l catch yc
n in this parish again, I'll kick you Il
you re jelly fish, dye hear? then 5000
IS Come boys, let's go and get up sma
:. game o. draw"
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IF you want to see how the romantic
can be knocked out Of beautiful poem,
read the above, and then read the follow
ing outlandish parody:
The Van Buren press., 1860-09-07
MARRIAGE Guide.

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h We have in store and for sale larne and

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