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The Nutritive and Digestive Qualities
OF Food.

The importance of this subject is SO very
obvious in itself, that 1t is deemed wholly un
necessary to Offer any remark upon il. The
nutritive and digestive qualities of the food we
eat, are matters which coucern the health of
every individual Many experiments and an
slyses have been made by competent men of
science, to determine these points, and the re-
suit of them will be found comprised in the
following:
Wheat is tho richest in the elements OF nu.
triton Of oil substances. except oil--con;an.
ing nlnety.fve parts of nutriment in every one
hundred parts Indian corn ranks next in value
to wheat, as it yields, according TO Dana,
nnety-One parts to the hundred of nutriment.
In barley there is eighty nine, in rice eighty.
six, in rye seventy nine. in oats seventy.
four, in buckwheat sixty-eighI per cent Of nu.
triment
Meat Of all kinds, in it's raw state, contains
about from seventy to eighty per cent. of water:
hence, when evaporated to dryness, the residue
amounts to from twenty to thirty per cent,
which may be regarded as composed almost en-.
tlrely OF digestible matter. Mutton is the most
nutritious; then chicken, then beef, then veal,
then pork, which is least so.
The fruits are as follows: plums, twenty.
nine grapes. twenty.seven apricots, twenty
six; cherries, twenty five; peaches twenty !;
apples, nearly the same; pears, sixteen, anG
gOoseberrles, nineteen per cent. of nutritious
matter. Garden vegetables stand the lowest
on the list in respect to the amount of nutri-
ton afforded by them, inasmuch as they contain,
when fresh. great portion Of wafer. Cueum-
bers give only two per cent, melons three per
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
Buckner to be Tried for Treason


A dispatch from the West says that Buckner
the rebel leader captured at Fort Doneson is to
be held for trial on charge oftreason. Buck
ner did as much as any man towards carrying
civil war into Kentucky. For months he pre-.
tended, with Gov. Magofin, to be desirous OF
preserving the neutrality" of Kentucky,
which was only another name for secret afila.
ton with Davis and his party. AS that game
could not be successfully played, he next tried
to run Kentucky off into secession. But the
people were too true 10 the Union and this
scheme failed also. The only thing left was to
take up arms against the State, and it was he
who seized upon Bowling Green and organized
rebel army in Kentucky to war against the
majority who had determined by their votes that
they would stand by the Government. The
Constitution of the country requires that per-
son indicted for treason shall be tried 10 the
State where it was committed. Buckner, if
indicted, will be tried in Kentucky, and under
the state offeelng which the experience o:civil
war IN Kentucky has created, it seems very
probable that jury can be teund who will pro.
perly appreciate the rebel Generals efforts to
distrOy his Government, and bring disaster and
ruin to the State. AS fast as the rebel leaders
the men who plotted to produce secession
are caught, they ought to be tried for their
crimes; but for the people, those who were
dragged and forced into opposition to the Gov
ernmeRt, conciliatory course would be the
best policy.
II has been proposed that terms Of adjust
ment be offered to the rebels. But there should
be no negotiation with the traitors who call
themselves the Confederate Government, or my
act which implies recognition of them in thar
capacity. The only terms should be, to each
individual not tainted with the crime of origi
mating REBELLION, pardon upon uncondtiona
submission to the Constitution and the laws
Bet the leaders who concoeled the rebellion
whenever caught, should be tried fer treason
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
CHOICE POETRY.
DAY BY DAY.

Every day has its dawn,
Its soft and silent eve,
It's noontide hours of bliss or bale
Why should we grieve?
Why do we heap huge mounds of years
Before US and behind,
And scorn the little days that pass
Like angels on the wind.
Each turning round small sweet face,
As beautiful as near;
Because it is so small a face
We will not see it clear:
We will not clasp it as it flies,
And kiss It's lips and brow;
We will not ba,he our wearied souls
In its delicious Now.
And so it turns from us. and goes
Away in sad disdain;
Though we would give our lives for it,
1t never comes again.
Yet, every day has its dawn,
Its noontide and its eve:
Live while we live, giving God thanks
He will not let US grieve.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

GENERAL LOCKWOOD AND HIS REvILERs.-
There has been several letters published in the
Northern and Western papers abusive of Gen.
Lockwood, and charging him with " UDrepubli.
can clemency" toward rebels, and with cru.
city" toward the negroes We do not presume
to suppose that General Lockwood needs any
defense at our hands, nor de we know that he
would thank US for taking the liberty of writ.
ing this article, but we cannot refrain from say.
ing that be has carried out in spirit and 10 let.
Ter Gen. DIx's proclamation, and has given
general satisfaction to the powers that be- We
know indeed, that be has received letters from
Genral Mcclellan, both public and private,
compimenting him highly on his conrse Of
conduct and stating that he approved Of every
thing Gen. Lockwood did. II has been spirit
Of envy that dictated the abusive letters above
referred to, because General Lockwood would
not permit some parties TO steal and pilage at
will. An officer, we learn, in the Michigan
regiment that was in the expedition on this
shore, sto!e away horse valued at $500,
aud another officer one that was worth 5000,
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

WILL THEY Come BACK! The Richmond
papers say that every train from Manassas is
crowded with soldiers wao are on their return
home to visit their friends-but who have prom.
sed 10 come back and re-eniet. Wonder how
much' under the circumstances, this promise is
worth The successor of defeats which the
rebel cause is encOuntering al every point must
be lively inducement to return. Once at
home, they will, we fancy, come to the conclu.
sion that patriotism imperatively requires them
to stay where they are, so as to help drive away
the Hesslan invaders" when they 90 down
that way. Besides, if they spend few weeks
at their fresides, it will probably prove SO dif-
hcult for them to find their old comrades and
commanders, unless they seek them among the
prisoners in the Union camps, that they will
scarcely attempt ST. desperate an undertaking.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

The Proposed TAX ON WHIsKEY.-A Wash.
ington correspondent states that large dealers
whoare pleading on behalf the whiskey interest,
with the Committee Of Ways and Means, max
the almest incredible assertion that the total
products of all tte disiileries in the United
States is not less than GOO ,00U,O00 gallons. II
so, tax Of ten per cent. will net very pretty
sum for the Treasury.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

The iron clad steam gunboat Mystic was
launched at the town in Connecticut from which
she takes her name, on Friday last Her ex.
treme length over all is 200 feet, aud her
armor, which extends two feet below the
water line. is composed of longitudinal iron
bars 81 inches thick, showing inches lace,
and bolted every 6 inches with : inch bolts.
Her rig will be that of brigantne.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

LEVY CouRT.-At the late session of the
Levy Court of Kent county. the following per-
sons were selected to fill the offices named:
County Treasurer-Iienry Whitaker.
Trustees Of the P00r.-Thomas B. Lock
wood, for Duck Creek Hundred; Moses X Ford.
tor Dover llundred, and Andrew J. Galley. for
Murderklil Hundred.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
HEMMING CoTToN.

I1EMMING COTTON.
Hem them in: is the country's cry;
See how the bayonet needles fy!
Nothing left and nothing leave.
Hem theEi in from the shirt 10 sleeve.
Little they rsck of scratch or hurt
Who toll at hemming the Seuthern shirt;
Little they'll care as they shout aloud,
II the Southern shirt prove a Southern shroud.
Hurrah for the needles sharp and thin!
Cotton is saved by hemming it in.
Continental MonthIy.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

On the receipt of the news of the victory Of
Fort Donesou in Wilmington on Monday
night, many Of the bells Of the city were rung,
and large number Of fireworks displayed. AT
noon on Tuesday, and in the evening, all ths
bells were rung and salutes from cannon FIRE
as well as from innumerable small arms
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
Change in Business.
Tinware and Stove Emporium.

TIE subscriber wishes TO inform the Bubic that
ha has purchased the rnware Store formerly belong
ias p hr. John II. Graham. in the town Of SMYRNA,
Nasrs he is pre jared 10 10 ROOFING. with Tin or
sleeiirOa, AZ the shortest notice and on the muSt
rsAs1aa5le ters- lie als1 keeps constantly on hand
aiarga AssortmentOf fINWARE Of all kinds, Stoves
ell siz - an pltterns and every thing IN hs line
81 aaslness lie h1pes. b. strict attention to bust.
aess. Ia recsive liberal share OF public patronage
sflt WILLIAM s GREEN
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HARPER'S
ATA &C - ESA ~
SINGLE COPIES Il CENTS

oINuLE CUFIEo, CENIS.
FERss-0ns copy. one year. 50; two copies, "a /;
harpers Weekly and Har1er's Magazine OEe year So
harpers Weekly will be sent graluiionsy for one
a. a speclmen-to any one who applies for is
speemsn numbers Of the Magazine will also be sent
sfanilousiy. To Postmaslers and agents getting up
Eiaeoiien susscribers a copy will be seht gratis -
sabsefpi0as may commence with any number
HARPER g. BROTHERS. Publishers,
Franklin Square, New York.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27

ind got the horses as far as the middle part of
Pennsylvania before General lockwood could
have them overhauled and returned. This is
the cause of his being abused.-Reg mental
FEdr
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
DOCTOR w. t. COLLINS

MILL give prompt attention TO the citizens Of
smyrna and vicinity. in the pn.ctice Of his
Prsis-eioa- s. Capl. .'57-f
OFFICE at the House formerly occupied
by DR.. X. 8. CWlbreth, Main ST., Gbove Fsr.
VyGrs Hotel.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
DIR. ]. E. CLAWSON.

Having located in Smyrna, respectfully offers
his professional service. in ell it's branches, to
the Community.
o. OFFIcE aud Residence, on Main stree,
opposite the Upper Hotel"
Aug. 26, 1857.
Smyrna times., 1862-02-27
Bricklaying, Plastering, &c.

The subscriber respectfully informs his friends and
sAs public that he is prepared 10 10 all kinds Of Brick
wprk. Plasiering, Masonry, &C., with neatness and
Asp&tch
tie 7s8 keeps constantly on hand the best gnaIity
rLAsfkR.-s ~ urders eit at the slOr0 sf Benz. B
Aen. or al the subscribers. will receive prompt at.
tsstoa. ALVEN ALLEN,
apily SmVFna Del
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
A Day at a Time.

A little of the sea in tumbler is color'ess: ::
but d vast deal of the sea seen in its ocean
bed, is green. With life the case is reversed
In the commonplace course of life, the path
we are treading may look rather green
green, | mean like the cheerful verdure of
grass but if you take it iD too great pros
pect, the whole track is apt to take the as
pect of desert waste, with only green spot
here and there. You will not add to the
cheerfulness and hopefulness of man or child
by drilling into him this morning you will
do such things and all day such other things;
and in the evening such other things then
yoa will sleep. Tomorrow morning YOU will
rise and then the same thing over and over;
and so on. | have known a malignant per.
son ~ho enjoyed the word of presenting to
others such disheartening views OF life. Let
me, my reader, counsel the opposite course
Let us not look at life as one unvared ex.
panse, although we may justly do SO. Let
US discipline our minds to look at life as
series of beginnings and ends 1t is a success
sion of stages, and we shall think of one
stage at a time Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof" Most people can bear one
days evil the thing that breaks men down,
is the trying to bear, on one day, the evil of
two days, twenty days, a hundred days.
We can bear a day of pain, by a night of
pain ; and that again by day of pain, and
that again by a night of pain. and thus onward.
But We can bear each day and night OF pain
only by taking each by itself. We can break
each rod, but not the bundle. Aud the suf
ferer, in real, great suffering turns to the wall
in black despair, when he looks too far on and
takes in a uniform dreary expanse of suffering,
unrelieved by the blessed relief of even fanci-
full beginnings and ends.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
Printing in America.

The first printing press in North America,
as we learn from CoggeshalPs Newspaper Re
cord, was established at the City of Mexico,
about the year 1900 The first press "work-
ed " in the American Colonies was "set up "
| at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1929. The
Rev. Jesse Glover procured this press, by
contributions of friends of learning and reli-
gion in Amsterdam and in England, but died
on his passage to the new world. Stephen
Day was the first printer. In honor of his
pioneer position, Government gave him grant
of three hundred acres of land.
Pennsylvania was the second Colony to en-
courage printing. William Bradford came to
Pennsylvania with William Penn, in 1886,
and established a printing press in PhiIadel-
phia In 1892, Mr. Bradford was induced to
establish printing press in New York. He
received g40 per annum and the privilege of
printing on his own account. Previous to this
time, there bad been no printing Done in the
Province of New York. His first issue in
New York was proclamation, bearing the
date of 1892
1t was nearly century after a printing
press had been set up in New England, be-
fore one would be tolerated in Virginia.
The southern colonists had no printing done
among them till 1921.
There was printing press at Cambridge,
Mass, 1929 ct Philadelphia, Penn, 1856 !;
at New York, n. Y, 1892 at New London,
Conn. 1909; at Annapolis, Md, 1926 at
Williamsburg, Va, 1929 at Charleston, S.
c., 1880 at Newport r. l., 1882 at Wood
bridge. N. j., 1852 ; at Newbern, N c.,
1855 at Portsmouth, N. H., 1856 at Sa
vannah, Ga, 1862
The first printing press established in the
Northwest Territory, was worked by William
Maxwell, at Cincinnati, in 1898. The first
printing executed west of the Mississippi, was
done at St. Louis, in 1903, by Jacob Hinkle
There had been a printing press in Ken.
lucky, in 1886, aud there was one in Tennes-
see, in 1898 in Michigan in 1909 in Mis-.
sssippi in 1910. Louisiana had a press i'm
mediately after her possession by the United
States
Printing was done in Canada, before the
separation of the American Colonies from the
mother country. Halifax had press in l76l, ,
and Quebec boasted Of printing Office iu
1894.
In 1925, there were newspapers printed
in the United States in ITS, there were
"a in 1900, about 200 in 1925, about 600;
in 1880, about l 200 in lS4O, about 1,40O {;
in 1850, about 1890 in 1860 about 5000.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04

FIENDIsH TRAGEDY.-A terrible tragedy was
perpetrated at Port Clinton, N. Y, on Oct
81 Henry Riqnarlz, hired man engaged
by Mr.. T. j. KIRK, took advantage of the ab-
sence of the eldest of bis employers three
daughters from home, to entice the two youn.
ger girls, aged respectively fifteen and eleven
years, into the barn where he was at work,
aud after violating their persons, strangled
them to death by tying leather cords around
their necks. They were found with faces swol-
len and discolored, and eyes starting from their
sockels. On the return of the eldest daughter,
the villain refused to give any information re-
garding the girls, but seized the first favora-
BILE opportunity, overpowered her, tied her
hands and feet, and when consciousness, which
she had lost in the struggle was restored, told
ber that be did not intend to do her any in
jury, but that he only wished to prevent her
giving the alarm until he had made way with
himself AS he was leaving the house for
this purpose he met one of the neghbors, who
had come in on some errand, told her that the
girls for whom she asked were up stairs, and
then going to the barn, succeeded in banging
himself before the alarm could be given
Very naturally the horrible affair created the
most intense excitement in the town where it
was perpetrated.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
A Chinese Juggler.

AS soon as be had cleared a circle with the
old string and balls" he spread the contents
of his wallet on the ground, and stripped him
self to the waist. He was poor thin fellow,
who seemed to suffer from the effects of the
trick he performed. He first of all spoke for
| about five minutes with all the volubility of
Charles Matthews, evidently saying something
witty, for the people round laughed heartily.
In the middle of his harangue, however, he
was seized with a fit of choking, and after an
effort of trying to get something out of his
throat drew forth little slip of bamboo, like
Lisbon tooth pick, then another and aud an-
other, then he sneezed, and out they came
from his nostrils, then from bis eyes, until he
completed the number of 81, by making one
appear halfway out of each orifce at the same
tine, and then threw the lot on the ground
for any one to examine. He next took three
glass balls, about an inch in diameter, and,
placing them singly between his lips, sucked
them into his mouth and swallowed the first,
red one, then blue. and last of all white
one; here was q little interlude of tooth. picks
and talking, af;er which he walked gravely
round the ring, stopping four times each
time he gave himself a shake and jump,
when the balls were distinty heard to jingle
inside him. On completing his round, after
several efforts, he spat the balls out on the
ground in the same order he had swallowed
them, the red first, the white last He then
took two more balls, one of polished steel
about the size of q hens egg, and another of
glass the same size. These he first let fall on
the ground to show that they were solid, then,
placing them between bis lips, swallowed them
like the smaller ones, but with difficulty, the
ball swelling the throat as it went down; here
more tooth-picks and talking, while he pre-
pared two swords, about an inch wide and
twenty long, very like polished hoop-iron,
clashed them together to show they were real
and passed both down his throat at once, un.
til they struck the balls with an audible click;
Withdrawing these, he placed his hand behind
him, and after several apparently painful tri-
ais, each ball rose in the throat, and fell from
his mouth to the ground with heavy thump.
-Pekan Letter.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
say- Human life. with all it's follies. faul

sa- Human life, with all its follies, faults
and sins, has nothing in it to mock at. but
much to pity, deplore, and love. Look out
over the rose gemmed path of maidenhood !;
see its merry and mysterious windings-how
the far-off and unattained urges itself on the
almost bewldered pleasure seeker How the
child woman tries to interpret natures sign
language How bright the tiuts she gives to
her life picture
Happy, inexperienced maiden-happy in
your dreams of coming biss-envied of an.
gels in your sweet purity, fascinating in your
unconscious beauty-trutbful, trusting, care
free What can be more beautiful than thy
young days all unmxed with selGshness and
sin No thought of evil, no fear of turning
the pages of life, no pausing upon the umtried
brink of womanhood ! No suspicious pilot
guides thy little boat out into thee deep waves
of welded life no terror stricken sentinel
stands guard at the door which opens up ma.
ternal joys Truth, trust. love /! these are
thine inherited jewels o, woman, wear
them
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04

IMMENSE ARMY MovING Down THE MIsSIs-
sIPPI.- Between $4,000 and 10000 troops
have passed down the river within the last two
weeks. Those going down during last week
went t. Memphis and Helena-most of them
TO the former. 1t is how understood that Gen.
Sherman, at present in Memphis, will co ope-
rate with Gel Grant, now moving against
the enemy in Mississippi. From this it would
appear that the report that the new troops
now going down the river are to be organized
into distinct army under Gen. McClernaDd
is not correct. Nevertheless, we should not
be surprised to hear of big rise in the old
Father of Waters very soon, which will effec-
tualIy wash out Vicksburg, and open the chan
mel clean through to the Gulf
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
PUBLISHED P

found was besieged on all sides, and with an
imploring look begged him to say no more
about it to any one, that had banished all
thoughts of marriage from my minu, and had
concl uded to spend my future life in single
blessedness but despite the charge I gave
Bob to keep quiet, the affair, through some
mysterious agency became circulated around,
or, depend upon it, would never have given
it publicity and now, having put you in pos
session of the facts concerning the history of
those /" two letters" | will make polite bow
and retire to lay bachelor couch
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04

Missouri FOR FREEDoM.-The triumph of
the Emancipation policy of President LINCOLN
in Missouri, which from last accounts seems
to be assured, is worth to the country at least
as much as a great victory in the field of bat
tie. 1t is now estimated that we have six of
the nine members of Congress, and ten ma
jority on joint ballot in the Legislature, which
secures the election of two Emancipationists
to the Senate of the United States When
the people CT Slave State stand up for Free
dom thus nobly. pro-slavery men in the free
States should hide their heads in shame
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04
n6P A Young fellow Of our acuuaintance

D9- A young fellow Of our acquaintance.
whose better half hai just presented him with
pair of bouncing twins, attended Rev. Mr..
IS church on last Sunday evening. Dur
iag the discourse the clergyman looked right
at our innocent friend, and said in tone of
thrilling eoquence Young man, you have
an important responsibility thrust upon you"
The new-fedged dad, supposDg that the
preacher alluded to his peculiar home event,
considerably startled the audience by reply.
ing " Yes, have two of them"