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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
NO. 6.
Rev. Or. ErsaAinrldge and ne Goyal North

Rev. Or. EreaAinridge and the Loyal North
The eminent and excellent divine, Rev. DR..
r. J. Breckenridge of Kentucky, has paid a
most beautiful tribute of respect to the Loyal
North He had been invited to Philadelphia
to deliver an address in relation to the seces-
sion conspiracy; and at the close of his letter
Of declnature, DIR. Breckenridge says:
Eou, bretherin, are accustomed to feel that
the ardent and intrepid cooperation of loyal
men in the slave States has been mighty
help toyou in the work thu far accomplished:
nor are you mistaken in this But, on the 9th.
er hand, you must never forget, for an instant,
that it was the heroic loyalty of the free States
that saved the nation. Kentucky would this
day be desoation but for the 100, 900 Nor
thern men, who came to the aid of our 80 900
or 10000 soldiers, ready TO persish before an
overpowering host of traitors. I he safety of
the nation is weakened by every conception
that there was any human power but the he.
roisn Of the North that could have averted
the fate prepared by revolt such as no nation
ever suppressed.
Faithfully. your obliged friend and brother,
r. j. BRECKlNRIDGE.
We believe that the above eloquent and
glowing compliment that the distinguished
writer therein paid to the "heroic loyalty Of
the Free States is but just, and was intended
by the writer, not as compliment merly,
bat a. the grateful utterance OF sincere and
honest heart, such as DIR. Breckinnidge ia zknown
to be,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
Planting sOrghum-sOakiug seed.

EDS. PRAIRIE FARNER- I'VE see, of
late, many communications and re-
ports of meetings in the papers, con-
corning the best methods Of producing
this new syrup. / have cultivated it
for the last three years, and have
found the greatest drawback to O
good crop isin the termination Of the
seed.
Until last season, l have always
planted dry seed, and it has general
ly taken it four weeks to come. and
very thin at that. When it first comes
up, it is hard to discover it, or culti-
vate on ground covered with weeds,
as most ground will be that remains
undisturbed long enough for dry seed
to germinate. Last Spring, hearing
that it was better to soak the seed be-
fore planting, l commenced by put
ting it in a pan and pouring warm
water upon it, then turning of tho
surplus water, and setting it under the
stove, Keeping it warm, and renewing
the warm water every day. ] contin-
ued this process for two or three
weeks, wher about one seed in n hpn-
dred had sprouted. I then planted
upon freshly plowod land, marked
both ways, dropping twenty or thirty
seeds in a hill. 1t came up in about
two weeks, Averaging fifteen stalks in
hill.
The remainder of my ground was
similarly prepared, and dry seed plant
ed, using the same amount in a hill
1t was planted at the same time. At
ter waiting three weeks for this plant
ing to come up, and finding that but
one hill in ten had conc up, and in
those only one, two or three stalks
In o hill, I began to despair Of rails
ing a crop, for the season was so ad-
vanced that either process would DO
too late to secure much Of n crop.
With these facts, and the Southern
rebellion in full blast, and the proba-
bility of a higher price fer "sweeten-
ing" in my mind, after examining NY
cane on Thursday evening, ] conclu'
ded. after consulting with my "better
half" TO try the folloBing experiment.
/ placed about two quarts OF seed IN
a pan, poured upon ID water as warm
as L could bear my band in, and stir
red it up we'll Tn the course nf n
counle of hours, changed the wafer,
leaving it in a warm place. The next
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
cULTURAL.



The Maine State Agricultural Re-
port presents some striking statistics
in relation to the cost Of fencing
The fences of this State have cost
$25, 900, 900; the. repairs require $2,-
100000 annually; six per cent. inter-
est is S,500,00O; and a renewal in 90
years would be $5,250,O0O, or two
thirds the original cost of the Eric
canal. Il strong argument in favor
of soiling. Estimated cost of road
fences, supposed to be one-sixtha part
of the whole, $3,125,000. The inter
est and cost of annual repairs and re-
newing would be $531, ,O00-the tax
paid annually by the fapmers of Maine
to make the public highway a pasture.
To this sum is to he added $3.50, 900,
the yearly cost of breaking through
snow drifts CAUSED BIZ such fences, and
opening roads. These estimates will
do to apply to other places besides
Maine. The custom now is, that ev-
cry man shall fence out all intruders;
the time may come when this will be.
among the things of The past, as much
as that of walling towns to shut out
human marauders.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
no ATTAIN KONG LIFE.

lie who strives after a long and pleasant
term of life, must seek TO attain continued
equanimity, and carefully TO avoid everything
which too violently taxes bis feelings. Moth
ing moro quickly consumes the vigor of lille
than the violence of the emotions of the mind.
We know that anxiety and cares can destroy
the healihiCst body; We know that fright, and
fear, yes, excess of joy. becomes deadly. They
Who are naturally cool, and Of a quiet turn of
mind, upon whom nothing can make too pow
erful an Impression who are not wont 10 be
excited either by great sorrow or great Joy,
have the best chance Of living long and happy
after their manner. Preserve, therefore, under
all circumstances, composure Of mind which
no happiness, no misfortune can too much dis
turb Love nothing too Violently hate moth
ing too passionately-fe fear nothing too strong
ly. For still, eventually, everything which
befalIs thee, the good as well as the bad, de-
serves neither immoderate hatred nor love;
for already on many occasionsi hast thou per-
ceived though ofteR truly too late, that thou
hast placed too high a value on those things
which passionatel7 charmed or pained thee,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
Gloomy Prospect for the Rebols.

fFr"m the Atlanta (Ga-) confoderacy, March sOl
a DIR. Banks, residing in Savannah, Ga
having Just returned from 9 IoHr to Richmond
our brave Colonel A Armstrong weAs TO inquire
froRl him what the news was. oh Colonel, "
said he, 1--WE are whipped on all sides; every
thing looks dark and gloomy for us; McCul-
loch una Price are killed. Columbus and Ma
nnssas are evacuated, ard hell is to poy every
where!7
The same doctor added tA4t the Yankees
would have 10 kill the last Southern gentleman
hcEaYq they would be conquered. ut is not, .
said be to the Colonel. "the negro question
which is now moored-it is to know whether
the P9ritan Or Cavalier is to rule this conti-
nent. For fifteen years we have been prepar-
ing foG it, and the Yankees cannot expect to
destroy in a day what we have taken SO long
to prepare"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
Frosts in Series.

The following extract from the Report OF the
Commissioner Of Statistics, may throw some
light upon the probabilities oflrJst this Spring,
which will cut off fruit
''In my report for 1859, gave the notes ol
Jacob Irhig, Of Wayne county, on the recur.
renee of irosts, which. with that of thia year,
seems to indicate u periodical return of frosty
seasons of greater or less length, generally last
ing three years, Thus the five cycles given by
him we're
Frs Period. The years 1915, 1916 and
1877. 1t is we'll known that the summer OF
1916 was the coolest within the present centu-
ry. There was frost in every EoRth in the
year. In 1917, on the morning of the fyst OF
June, everything, even the leaves of the forest,
were frozen.
Second Period. 1924, May goth aad 26th
were hard frosts, doing little damage.
Third Period. ia 1884, May "A, another
hard frost, and occurrences same as in 1917.
Fourth PERIOD In l843, says DR. IIildreth
on the third Of May, frost killed the apples
in Washington county when they were as big
as ounce balls, In ! 8la, says MIR, Irhig, May
Ilth, 18th, 10th, oath and 28th, thega were
frosts-thoso Of the lth and 28th, hurting the
corn.
Fifth Period. In 1859, June 5ih, there was
a destructive frost, END en- the I'd of May, 1861,
killing the fruit.
From this statement, it appears that late
and hard frosis return n periods OF eight or
nine years, but they arc not always equally de-
Those of 1917. 1884 and 1859 were
the seyereqt. The dcstructiyeness of a frost de-
peuds not merely upon its occurrence, but that
it occurs just when the germs of grain or fruit
are in tender or forming state. The r. ost
destructive frosts have come between Ney lst,
and June 10Th.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
Slavery vs. the Uuien.

Parzon Brownlow, always intensely prosla-
very. in his recent speech at Columbus said
Loyal men in all the Southern States ought
to be protected in the enjoyment Of ali their
property, personal and real, iicihdihg negroes.
But the negroes of the disloyal Rebels, as well
as all their other property. should be confisca-
ted and taken from them. AGa while now
hold the principles Ihave always held, yet if
the South-and ! viii go South and tell the
people there the same thing-if Tie South will
be mad enough to press this issue Of slavery,
and will make The issue q final one--that they
must have slavery even if it be necessary to
sacrifice the Union-if the question become a
Union without slavery or slavery without the
Union, say exterminate every slave. Let us
have the old Union-the glorious Union, with
the Stars aud Stripes-the Union organized
and handed down to us by our fathers. Though
every othRr institution perish, North and
South, let us stand by the Union, and preserve
its haIlowed and hallowing influences"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
A Convict's Will,

James Simpson, convicted in Hamilton
county, May, 1858, for having counterfeit mon
ey in his possession, and sentenced for five years
to the Ohio Penitentiary, died Feb. 2Gth, from
the effects of severe blow in the abdomen
by piece of timber thrown by a circular
saw.
On the 22d day Of February last Simpson
made will, of which John \. Prentice, Esq,
Warden, is appoinled sole exec Itor, and by
which he beqneathed one-hulf of his worldly
effects to the Children's Aid Society of Ceve-
land, said amount to be paid over to r. Wat
erton, Esq. to be by him expended in spch way
as he shall deem best, to aid such Society in
its bepeYolent operations. The other half of
his estate, supposed 10 about $50, he directed
to be expended in the purchase of books for
the library of the Penitentary, on condition
that the Legislature now in session shall APP
propriate for the same purpose at least an equal
amount. The testator directed that Rev. War
rem jenkins, chaplain, and j. j. Janney, Esq,
then Director of the Peniteptiary shall take
charge Of this latter beguest, for the purpose
named; but if the Legislature does not appro-
pirate a similar amount, then he directs that
the fifty dollars Intended for the purchase OF
bou1s shall be paid over to the President Of
the Orphans Home Society, in this city, for
the support of orphan children. As an evi
dence of the confidence the testator had in MIR.
Prentice, he especially directs that he shall not
be required to give bonds for the performance
Of the trusts confded to him, and also requests
that the Cfficers OF Probate and ary other per
sons who may have official duties to perform in
recording and executing his will shall do sn
without charge, that the little pittance be.
queathed, the sole proceeds of his own hand
toll while confined, may be applied without di-
Rlinution to the purposes mentioned.
The following concluding paragraph from the
will we give entire:
And to all persons who are in any way, di-
peotly or indirectly, engaged in The education
or promoting the welfare of indigent or or
phan children, give this my dying exhorta-
tion and enlreaty, TO prqseYere in this good
work and lsLor of love. for | know by bitter
experience that the way of the transgrcssor is
hard, and am persuaded that the efforts 10 save
children from the practice Of vice and to turn
their feet from the haunts of wickedncsss, are
far more egicacious than any effort can possibly
be to reform those who have already been steep
ed in iuiquity.
"And to my fellow prisoners l would lift a
warning voice and most earnestly exhort them
to turn their feet from the paths of sin. have
bequeathed to you pittance of my hard earn
ngs in token of my good will and earnest de-
sire to do you good. | was few days since in
good health, and looked forward to life and
liberty: now look d.wn into an open grave
and beyond to an eLdless future, with only a
faint Hckering h9pa of forgiveness for life
of iniquity. pray you put not of the pre-
paration for eternity to dying bed Co
umbus Fact.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
CEessrua zee RRTnaE.

AZ social religious meeting broiherrose,
End among ether things stated the following
iucidrnt Of Bishop George
,s lie and two other gentlemen we're travt!-
ing in a company toward "a bridge. which they
would be rrqa;red TO cross in their journey
The recent torrent Of rain had swollen the
brooks and streamlels leading into th3 main
vurrenf, and before they reached the bridge
the companions Of Bishop George expressed
their apprehension that they would not be u
BILE TO cross. As their fears increased more
and more, they appealed to the Bishop TO get
his opinion. 'B. ethren,' s,il he, Il nerer
croes O bridge EntdI get 10 it.
SEINE persons are always journeying toward
swollen streams or dluaged bridges. Tie
cloadS seem to fill their horizon, not behind
them, but before them, and are always dark
and threatening. They insist that either prop
city or health, or friends will soon Elil them
AlaS! for them, the good things of this world
we're ordained for. others, not them. Take
no levi thought Tor the morrow ".Sufi-
cielt anto the day is the evil thereof"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
TIE CERTAINTY oF DEATH.

Death certain? All nature proclainls it so
Nv hat means the falling leaf? that withered
plant? that fading flower? the downfall nr
that mighty forest oak which has withstood
the blasts ofan hundred,wintcrS? What means
that pale cheek2 that langud eye? Tell me if
these things betoken not disease, decay, death!
The experience Of the world confirms the same
sad truth. Go. ask past pages, where are the
teeung millions which have peorled our globe
from its creation down to the present genera
tion? and the response is echoed back from
thousand lonely sepulchcrs. In the cold, and
Fiicut tomb. Our fathers. Where are they
And the prophets. do they live forever2 They
sleep beneath the clods of the valley. I1spir-
alton too gives its testimony testimony not
merely circumstautial bnt positive-in favor
of the same solemn truth Dust thou art
and unto dust thou shalt return.' "Nan di-
eth and wasteth away. yea, man giveth up the
ghost and where is hep" Such is the explicit
language Of the Spirit Of God with regard to
that event which must happen 10 all.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
N,w Cure for Treason

We gee by our exchanges that the rebel
sympathizcrS who cannot keep their treason to
themselves are now treated after a novel but
efftctual method in ST. Louis On Monday,
while tie prisoners from PittsbVrg were be-
ing removed TO prison from The steamer on
which they arrived, a small rebel flag was
waved from the residence Of WM BELL, and
large display of white pocket-hankerchiefs
made by the females of the household. Cap
tain LEIGHTON Immediately ordered guard
to BE- placed around the house, and all ingFess
and ceress prohib tied. Ip 4 day or two the
family stock Of provisions run out, anu teey
have since been fed on army rations. The
same course of treatment will be applied to
other people in the same city unless they mend
their ways. This cure for treason IS worthy
Of adoption wherever traitors are TO be found
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09

v WEEL.yGTQN SEYEE LOST ouS.-lt s a
singular fuct in this mans history that he new
er lost gun To the enemy. Returning with
Kim one dny from the hunting field, says Lord
gsIit sE!ere | asked him if he could form any
calculations of guns he had taken in tile course
of his CAREER" Mo, he replied, not with ac-
curacy; somewhere about 1900 [ should guess.
Ut OportQ, after the passage Of the Douro, l
took the entire scige ira n of he enemy. at Yicto
ria and Waterloo took every gun the enemy
had in the field. After the battle QfSalamqn
ca. three ofmy guns, attached to some Por-
tuguese cavalry, were captured in tridiug af-
fair near Madrid bFt they were recovered the
next day. In the Pyrenees, Lord Hill found
himself obliged to throw eight or nine guns
over prespice, but these were all recovered,
aud noue fell into the enemy's hands at all.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
To Protect Seed Corn.

To prevent grubs, crows and chick
ems from eating the seed corn, take
two bushels seed corn, put it into
box or close barrow and pour a quart
of gas tar upon it, heated to about
milk heat. Stir thoroughly till per-
fectIy incorporated; put it out on the
floor or level ground, and dry the
mass with plaster, loose earth or sand;
plant in hills or rows at once, and
there ii no further trouble with these
pests. l have practiced this eight years
without a failure. -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09

HuNTsvH1.B AFFAIEs.--When L. Pope
Walker was Confederate Secretary of War
and held his orgies at Montgomery upon the
bomharllment of Fort Sumpter, being more
full of BacchuS than of discretion, he boasted
that the Rattesnake flag should float over
Philadelphia, New York and Boston. This
was all the gasconade Of a coward. for when
Gen. Mtches forces made their descent mp
on Huntsville, which is the residence of Walk
er, the valorous and defiant boaster ran away
at twelve o'clock at night, and has not been
heard Of since. Upon the same occasion, the
last that was seen of Juhn Bell, he was run
ming through corn-feld. lie alterward bad
the efTrontery to ask permission to return to
Huntsville, but Gen. Mitchell replied that il
he could not go to Nashville he could not
come to Huntsville.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
TIE BRIGHT SIDE.

Look on the bright side--it is the right side
The times may go hard, but it will make them
no easier by wearing gloomy countenarce.
II is the sunshine aud not the cloud that makes
the flower. There is always that before or
around as which should cheer and fill the heart
with warmth The sky is blue ten times where
il is black once. You have troubles, it may
be. So have others. none are free from them.
4 EPerhaPs1Llis we'll That none should be- They
give sinew and tone 30 life-fortirude and
courage 10 man. That would be a dull sca
and the sailor would never get skill, where
4here was nothiag 90 disturb the surfac Of the
ocean. Il is the duty Of every one to extract
all the happiness and enjoyment he can with
out and within him. and above all be should
look on the bright side Ofthings.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09

When General Polk first occupied Colum-
bus, we stated that the rebels had asserted that
if tie soldiers Of the Union obtained the con-
troll of the Mississippi river hey would destroy
its artificial banks and devastate the whole
country by an oyera4w. We now learn, that,
in orlHcr tQ preYeat the occupation Of the Ar
kansas shore by the Federal troops opposite
Fort Pillow. the rebels have cut the levee in
many places along the banks, thus causing the
whole force of the stream to rush through the
apcrlurcs and frevasses and inundate the en-
tire SURROUNDING country, submerging valuable
plantations and exposing them to the most Sc
rious disaster. There is not a wrong or ist-
ry or a spirit of wanton destruction, which
the leaders of secession attributed to the incen-
tives Of the Union cause in order to precip.
tate tAe spglh into eytremitieg, that has not
been pcrpetruted by the Confederate leaders
or their hordes Of reckless folIowers--L Louisville
Journal
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
ELT10 smaI1 TaIx.

Nobody abuses small talk unless he be
stranger 10 its convenience. Small talk is the
small change Of life; there is no getting on
without it. There are times when "tis folly to
be wise;" when a little nonsenses is very pala!a-
be. and when gravity and sciatcress ought 70
be kicked down stairs. A philosopher. cuts
q poor figure III the ballroom, uplesc he leaves
his wisdom at hoar.- Metaphysics are instru-
Eiyc in the midst OF agreeable prat,Ies, as a
.lraihsilnaal ona festaI board. We have met
with men who were TOO lofty for small talk
They wou'd never condesccnd 70 play with
1ihbon, or Hirt fan. They were above such
tfill'ng. il other words, they were above ma
king themselves agreeable, above pleasing. u
hove being pleased. They we're all wisdom,
all gravity, and all tedousness, which they
- bestowed upon company with more than D,ig-
hTryF generosity. A mau who cannot ia.I
hns no more business in society Than a s'atue.
The world Is made up Of tribe: and be who.
can iria,. elegantly and gracefully is valntSic
acquisition TO mankind. lie is a Corinthian
roluala in the abric Of society.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
Worthy of his Name.

Charles Carroll, of Carroliton, grandson oil
the famous signcr of the Declaration Of lnde-
pendcnce, is, with one OR two exceptions, the
largest STAKEHOLDER in Maryland. Kind as a
parent to his three hundred negroes, he halls
the Presidents plan of emancipation with
gladness. lie has told his slaves not to leave
him. because the time would come when they
would be free on their native soil, and thet then
he would employ them as free lahcTeps at good
wages,
Charles M'Tavish, another grandson Of the
signer, owns fifty slaves, and is heartily in IA
vor of emancipation. But then he is Repuh-
lican in politics, believes in the Chicago plat
form, and spoke, acted, and voted for Abraham
Lincoln
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-09
FEMALE SOCIETY.


You know my opinion Of female society,"
Without tive should degenerate into brutes.
This observation applies with tenfold force 10
young men, and those who are in the prime of
manhood. For, after certain time Of life, the
literary man may make shift "a poor one, I
granD TO do without the sociery of ladies. TO
a young man nothing is so important as a spir-
it Of devotion (next TO the Creator) to some
amiable woman, whose image may occupy his
heart, and guard it from pollution, which be-
sets it on all sides A man ought to choose
his wife, as Mrs. Primrose did her wedding
gown, for qusIilies that "year we'll" One
ahing, at least, is true, that if mairimony has
its cares eel 5acy has no pleasure. A New
ton, or a mere scholar may find employment
in study; q man of literary taste can receive in
aRooks powerful auxiliary; but a must
have bosom friend, and ehildrenround him
81 soscheFsh and support The. 'tlreariness Of old
gage.-John Randolph