, 1862-05-09

thank us for giving them any hints that will
produce 50 desirable result The agricultu-
ral department Of the New York O6serrersome
years ago gave the readers Of that paper the
following recipe, which Its correspondents re-
port to be effectua1. The lovers Of good fruit
will be willing to take any amount Of pains
and 60 to considerable expense, to guard
against the rarages Of the curculio. The fol-
lowing is
TEE MIXTURE.
To one pound Of whale oil soap, add four
ounces of sulphur. nix thoroughly, and dis
solve in twelve gallons Of water,
Take one half peck Of quick lime, aud when
well Stacked, add four gallons Of water, aud
stir well together. When settled and clear,
pour Oft the transparent part and add to the
soap and sulphur mixture.
To this mixture, add four grllous Of strong
tobacco water. Apply this compound when
thus Incorporated With garden syringe to
your plum Or other fruit trees, so as to dreneh
for three weeks, one application Tin be suf-
fcient- UWashed by rains, It should be re-
newed.
In preparing this mixture some arc troubled
to obtain seAale oil soap. Many do not know
Of much extent, should keep the article for
sale. It can be obtained in Quantities of ill
whale oil bleachcrs, This soap is the result or
deposiu from mixing potash ley or soda ash
with whale oil. The alkali has an affinity for
and the precipitate from this combination con.
etitute whale oil soap.
The article may be had In quantities ofLy1es,
Po1hemus d Co., 190, or Of the Judd Oil Co,
1s9 Front street, this city. J. ~ Thernburn
q e.. Il John John street, keep it on hand in
ment and Seed store should do the sane.
@ 4 court-martia1 at Charleston, on the
Kanawha, has been sitting upon the long list
Of delinquencies that have accumulated during
the winter. Col. DeVillier. Of the 18th Ohio,
is cashiered; Capt Lane, Of same for "cou-
spiracy'' against the Colonel, is acquitted; !;
Quartcmaster Hart, s4th Ohio, for embezzle-
ments, cashiered; Capt E. P. Fitch, Brigade
Quartetmaster, cashiered; Capt. West, and
Lieut. Mackey, 1st Virginia, for keeping their
| wives IN camp dressed in mems clothes, both
| eashiered; Capt Ira 2. Gibbs, comuaissary
e1nbezzlement, csshiered; and half dozen
p1irates Of the 47th Ohio, for mutiny, are or
dcred to be sent to Tortugas for eighteen
| months.
| Gen. e. s. Hamilton, of Wisconsin,
| Superseded.
| yorktown Correspondence n. 7. Tribune, 6th-]
General Hamilton departed for Washington
| yesterday, MAY 81 being superseded by Gen.
Philip KcaTney in bis division. The cause ol
| Gen. Hauilton's dismissal lit is nothing else,
Is stated as follows: In response to an ordei
By the Command der-in-Chief, detsiling the
| regiments under Gen. Hamilton for fatigue
| and picket duty, that gentleman first obeYed
and then dispatched a note to Gen. Mcclellan
representing that his men had been, from tht
time Of his arrival before Yorktown, notori
ouely oyerworkcd. to the serious detriment 0
their health and efficiency; that other diyi
sioDs had been comparatively absolycd from
snch labor. For this note an apology was de
n?anded. While disc1aiming any Intention Q
discourtesy, Gen. Hamilton persisted in hi
remonst1aaces. The result is bis removal AM
the substitution Of Gen Kearney. know n,
officer who was deseryedly more popular witt
bis men, rs among those Of his own rank, thai
Gen. Hamilton, and his dismissal has assured
| not Diminished his nnnularitY