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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
4 the Administration Corrupt.

| Roger A. Pryor, democratic member OF
Congress from Virginia, said in arecent speech
/ in the House:
1 know that some gentlenlen on This side Of
the chamber are disposed to throw the veil of
| concea!meut over the exposures of fraud and
corruption which have been practiced in con-
nection with this public printing I do say
they are not anxious TO reform those grievan-
ces and abuses, which smell very bad in the
nostras of the people. With regard to this
printing of Post Office blanks, it appears that
the Executive Department, after doing the
work, distributed the surplus among the par
tisans and supporters of the Administration.
1t has been said that the President distrib-
uted this money among bis friends. That is
all very well. When he distributed it at all,
he had right to distribute it among his
friends. But why did not the President inform
Congress that this Office created an excessive
amount of money for the specific service, and
suggest to Congress the propriety of remedy
ing the evil, and saving the money. That is
my complaint-that, instead of the President
saving this large amount of money to an ex-
hausted treasury he distributed this surplus
money among the stipendaries and partisans
of the party. / deneance this malfeasance on
the part of the President and his Cabinet, and
invoke the justice of the people against it.
invoke the arm of justice and the Judgment
of the people against this act of the Admins
tration, for which there can be found no palli-
alton or eXtenuation. I want to see exhaust !
I'd the whole fund and source of corruption /
have no hope that the Administration that |
will succeed the present one will bo more
honest one. Ifear, at least, that it will not |
De so honest as the one now in power. l !
want to deprive the coming Administration
Of the means of corruption and fraud, and to
hat end | would strike the first blow at these
Congressional printing abuses. My deliber- /
lie Judgment, after careful examination of
III the systems, is, that the only one prospect
5 the one which can rescue us from the exer-
Use of fraud and corruption, and insure a
ompt and satisfactory execution of the work.
At any rate, let US try the experiment, and if
t proves a failure, nothing is more easy than
o revert to some other experiments.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
What do Men Live for !

We do not ask the question in tbeologi-
cal or religious regard, but as one of practi-
cal common sense, and it has been suggested
by the almost universal language of the press
respecting an estimable gentleman, who, after
many years of public life, in which his virtues
and abilities have won him much esteem and
admiration, will probably at an early day re-
tire into private life. We are told by one
Journal with painfully irreverent use OF di-
vine inspired language that dr. Seward has
been wounded in the House of his friends" I"
and that he is now politically dead And the
whsle tenor of the political press is 10 the
same effect. Simply because VIM, n. Seward
has not received the nomination for President
from the Chicago Convention, he is every
where commiserated as a ruined, wretched, un-
happy man, the great end of whose life has
been frustrated, who has lived in vain, and
whose declining years are to be passed under
a cloud of sadness disappointment and sorrow.
All this tends to make a false. and most inju-
rious impression upon the youth of the land,
and deserves the severest of apprehension.
The Office of the Presidency of the United
States, and indeed every Office of public trust
which indics tes the good opinion and conf
sdenee of ones fellow citizens is an object of
laudable ambition but it by no means fol-
lows that mans life-his inward peace and
ha ppiness-consists in the tenure of office
in his prominent political attitude. The doc
4ripe that, because man has fallen short Of
the goal of a just ambition, or failed in some
political project, he must therefore give place
to discomfort and misery, and go weeping all
his days, is monstrously unsound and evil. 1t
ignores all other aims of life, and places the |
mere qualification of some one cherished wish
above all those other desires, atfectonssand as
in which the true and intelligent
man will always find comfort when other
things fail to supply it, 1t assumes that rnen4
siave no resources in themselves-no sufficient !
with their own thoughts and in |
tellects or in their social circle, or Mt the do
nestle hearth. 1t not only makes an idol but I
a deity, or a summum bonum, of politics and t
political station to the exclusion of those holi- i
er feelings and more worthy deities which ev-
cry man may possess.-N. Y. Commercial I'D
reTtlseY
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
THE MARRIAGE RELATION.

The great secret is to learn to bear with
eachother's failings not to be blind 10 them
that is either an impossibility or folly /;
we must see ard feel them; if we do neither
they are not evils to us, and there is obviously
no need of forbearance; but to throw the man
tle of affection round them, concealing them
from each others eyes, TO determine not TO let
them chill the affections; to resolve to eulti-
vste good tempered forbearance because it is
The way of mitigating the present evil always
with view of ultimate amendment Surely
II IS not the perfection, but the imper!eetion.
OF human character that makes the strongest
claim in love. All the world must approve
even enemies must admire the good and the es
timable in human nature. If Husband and wife
estimate only that in each which all must be
constrained to value what do they more than
othersf Is it in6rmities of character, imper-
fections of nature that called for the pitying
sympathy, the tender compassion that makes
each the comforter, the monitor of the other
Forbearanee helps each to obtain command
over themselves. Few are the creatures so
utterly evil as to abuse generous confidence,
n calm forbearance Married persons should
be pre-eminently friends and fidelity is the great
privilege of friendship. The forbearance here
contended for is not weak and wicked indul-
gence Of each others faults, but such calm
tender observance ofthem as excludes all harsh
ness and anger, and takes The best and gentlest
methods Of pointing them out in the full conf
dence5of affection. @ l.sfaa3a e
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another Little Farm wsll rill.a

Michael Dorne, an eDterprising, industrious.
vegetable dealing German Of West Springfield.
Mass, has been the owner of about 16 acres
of worn out tilIage land there, for the last iea
years. He has one lot of four acres, nou d..
voted to vegetable garden, that when be
bought it was thickly covered with old decay
ing useless apple trees, besides being overrua
with blackberry vines, daisies, weeds and stoue.
The four acres once afforded scanty pasture
for single COW. By dint of persevering 10
dustry, about 200 loads of stone have bceu
removed from this field to more useful plaecs.
the unsightly apple trees, Furnishing yeers
fuel for his family have been cleared away,
and stable man1res, night soil, ashes. and plas-
ter have been literally applied to the iurro~ed
land, tMr. Dornc buries all Of his manure with
Il barrow or plew.) and the result In kind Of
crop and cash receipts for 1859 we present ss
follows:
Mercer potatoes, $1I2 "a; strawberries,
S94 30; peas, S55 AZ; tobacco, SIS Is,
beans, $50 56; tnrnips, $2s so; squashes.
S45 90; sweet corn, $25 90; tomatoes.
$16 90; cucumbers, Sc so; rutta bagas,
$5 90. Total receipts, $474 n.
The land from which this amount was tAkea
ten years ago was worth less than $25 per
acre. We present these facts. with dcsIro
to raise this query in the mind OF the reader
whether he prefersla little farm well TILED, ce
a large farm poorly titled? Let your action
agree with your decjai6s and we are coptene.
Mr.. Dorne sold $500 worth of produce
from other parts OF his farm last year. and
kept nearly enough to winter three COWS. one
calf, one horse, six pigs, and support bis fani-
ly Of four persons. He considers the raising
of pigs profitable if the breed is good. He
rniscs often after peas or early potatoes, SEC
Ond crop Of rutta bagas turnips or cucumbeN
the same year.-Repubitodn.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29

A statement was made few days since in
the Norwa!k Reflector that B. F. Smith, Esq
OF Bellevue prominent Democrat of that
county, had determined to give his support to
Lincoln and Hamlin. Upon its appearances
Mr. Smith wrote note to the editor stating
that he was not advised upon what authority
the statement was made, "but of its truth
there can be no doubt" yet saying that it
would have been more agreea BILE to him if the
article had not been published as it would be
expected that he should either admit or deny
its truth In brief manner he states sever
al propositions which he believes are true and
so believing must act with the Republicans
He says
The normal condition of all mankind is one
of freedom-slarery is a creature of the law !;
it is morally wrong but may be right in the
sense that might makes right that with
slavery in sovereign States, of which we are
not citizens, have nothing to do except as
moraists that it is unsafe and unwise for
any party to allow the Supreme Court of the
United States or any other Court to dictate
political creeo, or for any party to stand
sponsors for the correctness of any ju-
dicial decision or opinion; that the present
Democratic party is perversely proslavery in
its proclivities that the great majority OF the
leaders of that party consider fealty due as
much to the opinions, as decisions in the Dred
Scott case that the present Administration
is extravagant. corrupt and sectional; that
the well-being of the people of the United
States requires change in the Administra-
ton, in order to effect some important changes
in the domestic policy of our federal govern
ment.
He states further, that he is prepared to
give at all suitable times and places his rea-
sons for the faith that is in him, that he has
examined with care the Chicago Platform,
and so far, as the question of slavery is con-
cerned, it approximates to the position taken
by the Democratic party in Ohio, but few
years since and to which | can take but few,
If any exceptions" and "the balance of that
platform can be exceptonable only to him
who is determined not to be pleased with it,
that "all or nearly all the old political issues
have become obsolete, and the issue now u.s.
whether slavery shall CURSE OUR FREE TERRI
TORIES by virtue of Judicial or any other leg
islation; that is stating the question in its
mildest form, from anything can gather from
the proceedings OF the Democratic Conven-
ton at Charleston, and the Chicago Plat
FORM"
We welcome Mr.. Smith to the ranks of
the Republican party, and commend his rea-
sons for joining the Republicans to honest and
candid Democrats everywhere. State
Journal.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29

The Key, as engraved in Mr.. Lossng's book
from an accurate drawing made at Mt Yer
non, bears little resemblance to the other Key.
of which an engraving is given in the Illustra-
ted London News. Perhaps. the second Key,
now il, England, was used in opening and lock-
ing one Of the smaller doors or gates of th
Bastille ?-that is, it may be key. but not tn
Key. Lafayette's letter to Washington deci-
dedly speaks of sending "the main Key of the
fortress of daspotisln." Moreover, Lafayette
sent off his Key ten months March, l790)
after it came into his possession, whereas NJ.
Palioy, -" lie patriotic" did not present the stone
until 1898. three years latter. and there is no
record whatever about his Key, or its history.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
Facts about Bees

The following notes about bees were trzns-
lated from the "Benenzeitung, for 1860. Ger
mani by correspondent of the Boston Con
| gregationalist
MaxIMuM WEIGHT OF THE BROOD IN HYvg-
HIVE suppose the greatest number of eggs
laid by queen bee in day TO be 2,00o.
hive might contain. at one time, 10000 worms
and 81. 900 immature bees. The worm, when
first hatched, weighs Booth part of grain.
and when fully grown, three grains. 1aking
the average, 10000 worms weigh $4,000 8 n rs
These worms, during their transformati, y, de-
crease in weight, and loose half oft, before the
bee natures. at an average of two and 10
quarter grains, $4,000 immature bees wti4b
900 grains. The entire brood would, tbeTc-
fore, weigh $1,000 grains, or about elerea
pounds and O half.
Quantity OF HONEY WHICH AN AcKs OF
BUcK-wnEAT CAN YIELD IN ONE DAY-Tkers
were $50 hives, which in the circuit Of half
league, had the range of rs acres of fbuckwbeat
On the most favorable days, each Of the hivcs,
on an average, gained three pounds Of buck
wheat honey daily. If they all secured 900
pounds from rs acres in a single day, The aver
age for each acre would be about ID pounds
of honey daily.
NUMBER OF JOURNEYS DAILY MADE FeoH A
STRONG SToCK.--Von Berlepsch had had stocks
which brought in IL pounds of honey in q day;
Kaden, in Mentz, had days when ooe stock
brought 81 pounds; Pastor Stein, 10 Aents
had days when one stock brought % posDds
The sap which honey bag holds weighs bOta
grain, and, as one pound contains z $50 grains
the bees in order to bring in % pounds Of bon.
ey in one day, must make no less than 2l5,o4o
journeys. t
STATISTICS OF BEE CULTURE IN MoRAvIt, N
THE SPRING OF l859.-Ir thirty-six school dis
tricts, containing 1890 parishes, there were
$3.50 bee keepers, aud 22591 bee-hives. The
subject received most attention in the Kostca
district of twenty parishes, l09 bee keepers.
and ,245 hives and least in the Kanitz dis
trct of fifteen parishes, ~ bee-keepers. aHd
258 hives.
Is THERE LIMIT TO rHE WsieHr oy Fos
Ey WHICH SrocKs CAN OprAIE l-Supposiog
particular district TO bave full supply. sl Tho
year through could stocks collect honey I'D Ea-
fnit,trn Or, if one fed a stock daily with
twenty pounds of honey, could the bees contis'-
ne to take it? Or, in other words. can hive
reach weight of ten thousand poupdsf This n
inquiry came up among some apirists, at re- e
cent convention. There appears to be . limit
here. A hive cannot contain more thap a.
600 bees for, since a stock becomes extinct
in six weeks. iD hive of $4,000, 1000 bOsS
perish daily. And this is the maximum uuu,
Der daily maturing, in such hive. Sipce thu
addition and loss in a hive containing $4,000
bees is therefore equal no increase Of size 10
possible. While the number ofhees is limited.
they also distribute themselves. when the hive
has great supply of honey, and consequently
q large extent of comb so that, at last, oniy
solitary bees are found at the extremeties Of
the sheets On account Of this scattering, and
on account Of their desire to build being di.
minished by the ext.ent II the conba, the VIII
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
What Southern Papers Say of Lincoln

The Louisville Journal, Bell and Everett
organ of large circulation and Influence, bears
the following voluntary testimony:
The Republican organs, by common consent,
designate their candidate for the Presidency
las Honest Old Abe" We are by no means
disposed to deny his right to the designation.
We know him personally and have observed
his public course, and however strongly we
may condemn some of the doctrines to which
he is committed, we have at no time seen rea-
son to doubt his honesty. We believe that he
has the good of his country at heart Thus
much we take pleasure in saying in his be-
half. f-
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, q
les ding Georgia journal, says that "the Chica-
go ticket is contessedly very strong one. and
Lincoln, rough specimen of the Western
Hoosier, will sweep the Northwest like a
herd of wild buffalo on the praries. Against
all comers we consider him certain to carry
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowar Minnesota,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts, and New York-lOs votes" The bat
tie field, our Southern cotemporary thinks,
will be the States of Pennsylvania and New
jersey.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29

Cause Of Deterior alton of the Sal 3.
The Baltimore Rural Reeisters ss5s +. ssss.
this new country. upon which the 1Ist, Earl-
pean settlements were made but p LITTLE gaoss,
than two centuries ago, go where we.yil, SIX
OF the Aleghahy mountains, we ar, ,cons,avi%
! " meeting with old fields, worn into galiies,
or covered with sedge and perfectly ya,ae,csa
IN 'neir present condition for agricultural pue-
poses. In England. on the contrary. during
the last half century, the crops instead u 81,
minishing in quantity, have been increased ia
the product to the acre by more than 50 psr
cent. Yet the land there has been uI,dcr' col
| tivatiou more than Thousand years. Nov il
has been recently demonstrated that BY purs4.
ing similar system, our soils are capable u
raising as large an amount Of grain or hay 10
the acre as those of any other, coantTy 1ba
remarkable decrease in our agricultural pro
ducts which statistical tables indicate, can pro
coed from no other cause than careless and
slovenly farming. The fatal defect 10 The pld
system of farming with us was, that il did not
take into due consideration the injurious inAu-
enoe excited by our climate upon surfaces con-
stantly exposed to an almost tropical beat iu
the summer season. At an earlier Jay tohac..
co was our staple production. Il vas what
wheat has since become--the planters maSey
crop; and high prices and steady dcmand,
stimulated him to cultivate in negligent map
Der as many acres of this plant as the number
of his field hands would admit of putting uu-
der the plow. A succession of crops taken
from the same field. without rest or intermis-
sion, speedily wore the life ont of 1t. Fresh
lands were cleared, which were subjected To
the same ruinous mode of treatment. until m
the course Of q few years, thousands of aers
of as fertile soil as the world could bosss be-.
came but little better than sterile waste,
Where the fields were not sufficiently f1harst-
ed to be thrown entirely out of cyltiyB;isa..
corn succeeded tobacco and shallsR plesing,
and the sun, the wind, the rain, and the RS:
acting continually upon the exposed snrfpce,
the work of destruction which reek.
less tillage had commenced. /, If there iExd
been instituted, from the. beginiping.ss az
proper rotation Of crops; if tap-reoted pleaial
1ad been allowed to succeed eabrous roolsas
plants; if the manure Of the barn.yard, and
Lhe wood ashes of the house fresr7had beeag
if shells, oralme, or mari had re-
placed the alkaline constituents which had
oeen taken from the soil by previous crops;
t plaster had been permitted to exert it's sing
llar influence upon the growing clover, and il
he latter instead Of being cut and carted t&
he land had been turned under it, those acids
low looking so barren and forlorn would hars
'cen more fertile at this day than they swerp
when the plow turned the first furrow 10 the
'irgin soil. Scientific AnlerieAn.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29
: a-a GOSSIP.


The bane of social life always Indicating a
small mind, having affinity with petty CON
eerns oftena malicious mind, delighting in
traducing others irreverence for truth, risk
ing thewiolations of it for the pleasure of tell
ing stories which may be false-often are known
to be so; great lack of honor, a sneaking dis
position, saying behind the back Of another
what would not, be said before his face pre-
sumptiye want zaof power to converse on
noble asabjects, at least belong exclusively to
women, but supposed very incorrectly. Wo-
men, gossip chiefly about domestic life, love,
marriage. Irritation, servants, entertainments,
and o world of mischief they do there of heart
burnings, heart-inkings and heart-breakings, OF
broken ties and a,ienated affections. But men
gossip too; authors. professors, commercial
men. All! what keen, biting. whitening gos-
sip these have, half untrue, wholly needless
Literary gossip, political gossip-half its mis-
cries areicaused by gossip! tl-21
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ai ksTT7Es saalaTeE =
fs,.,e-svfq a. AUTHORS.

1t is doubt whether mankind are most in
debted TO those Who like Bacon and Butler.
dig the gold from the mine Of literature, or
to those who, like Paley, purify it. stamp it,
fx ia sreaf value, and give it currency and uili-
ty. For all the practical purposes of life,
trath might as well be in prison as ipthe
folio .ef atSchoelmau, and those who release
her fromaher cobweb shelf, and teach her to
live ssithsiaen. have the merit of liberating .
n NOT " !" discovering !" her. CoLroN. i
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- - = - -. nAfRiHsSy.. Z
TBR AsectnhOs eatsa gsB9fally vi With ttb,as 3

- - s-Ss jaATRMoSxs Fssa .sssea,-o
FHR ABectBhos -afdatsd gsbesalIyy Vi with ID IS Is
much deterepce and reflection A n as If deserYess-
HokhlnS Is of more conssq sqpeRees thaa matri-
mony to the happiness and best interest," of
those dHlsethiak oflentefihg iafn its solemn re-
IatieasG s4Bat aesgsfsw give the subject the
conssdss4 aea'A s4hpoft tafces dehaab ds'' r re-
q1ently a young man bestoTs more time !. in
hqFipg a herse than he does in choosing a wife,
Frequently young lady spends more hours at
be- tthalH sheEdees in Studying the charac-
tesbBheryiosef. saF requently they show more
juagEaent i6 Tie pdrchase Of book than the
selection of husband. There is time in the
history of every yqupg. person which is the
tuH ng point ofsfheir lives. 1t occurs some
times sooner sometimes later in life But
every y8ung lady arrives at the most critical
anH eiitertaining period ofiife at eighteen years
of&ge. And then if she is not very cautious
and prudent she will iniure, the dignity of her
standing aud Der hopes offs fortunate marriage,
forsiiGzs Self will ard vanity are her two
worse enemies at this age II. she has the mas mas
terry Of these, and has good acquaintance with
the secret springs ofhuInan nature, her chances
are very favorable Many yonng lady has
ruined her prospects by being too obstinate,
and n NOT yielding to the voice of her super
ioss. Nothing is more common Than for
young lady IL be highly fattered when she
becomes the object of attention from young
men. Never has she more reason to fear
Fornssless she is very discreet, thes. attentions
may be the very means Of throwing her out of
the company of those whose smiles she once so
highly enjoyed. b s.'sfEaT...Ar=fi - 5a7
When two or three Young gents pay their
addresses to d young lady about one and the
same time, generally speaking it is very likely
to prove great disadvantage to the young
lady. It makes her naughty. proud, arrogant,
and yain. Consequently, the Better sense of
her admirers being dsgtisted with her airs and
foaleries, they shun her company as being Of no
advantage 10 them- For the most part every
one eau be just What they wish-can occupy
just such position as they desire, if they will
but use good Judgment and perseverance,
When we look upon the many unhappy mar
riagss--upon the very many disappointed
young ladies and gentlemen, we can but say it !
ID mostly their own faults and errors, aud false |
notions of men and things that has caused it.
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work. which the English ladies did SO much in
the incident reias-,i = aE'4-
Fourth, she believes what one has said, /" It
is gomans high mission to act gently, SMILE
ard endure, where mans rough nature can,
not"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-29

From present indications the wheat crop
will be abundant in Pennsylvania. The fields
never looked better ..f1n