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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
England and America.

The Londou FINES, WHICH has done so much
by it's course in behalf of the rebels, to plant a
root of bitterness in the heart of every loyal
American, that must sustain prejudice
against England for generations to come, has
mounted u new hobby. Having failed to re-
ecive the sustaining influence Of the people in
ils first crusade against ;he United States il
is now, from a new position, appealing TO the
interests and prtiudices of Europe. 1t boldly
and plainly asserts that ogr new tariff was
adopted solely for the purpose ofinhicling an
injury upon England and France, and that
this course was influenced by deep and bitter
hatred, which Americans entertain toward
those countries; more particularly toward
England. The article from the Times. upon
this point, which we reproduce, will strike
every intelligent reader as one of The most un-
fair, unreasonable and dishonest that has ap
peaTed in that paper. OF course the Times
does not believe what is said upon this point.
Neither is it likely that any great proportion
of the intelligent people Of England balieve
that the American Congress, is adopting the
new tariff, aud Americans is approving of it,,
were influenced by the motives attributed to
them by the Times. Yet this appeal to the
interests and prejudices of certain classes will
have its effect
1t occurred TO the Times, Of course, that the
increased tax on imports falls more heavily
upon the consumers than upon the producers;
and it will hardly deny that while we are will
ling to make these sacrifices for the protection
of the nation, foreign countries have no right
to attribute the course adopted to belligerent
designs or vindictive motives. We have a
double right now, while fighting for our exist
cnce as a nation. Justification is found in the
law of self preservation, if it were wanted else
where. we Reed revenue upon imports,
and we require economy. Hence Congress has
sought to secure both objects by one measure.
That is will prove successful there is little
doubt High prices of goods will lesson the
consumption of foreign fabrics Hence the
imports wiIl1all off, and at the same time the
high tariff will sustain the revenue. This
view of the case, however, the Times carefully
avoided. It chose the dishonest course, because
therein is found material to aid in increasieg
the prejuice against the United States.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
no. 1s.
About Drafting.

In case the number of troops cali
ed from Ohio by the recent Procla-
nation by the Governor 100000 are
not raised by voluntary enlistment, of
course drafting will have to beresort-
ed to. Before a draft can be made,
however, military enrolment law
must be passed, enrolling every able
bodied man of the State, between the
ages ofcighteen and forty-fye, liable
to military duty, and assign him to a
specified regiment.
An exchange in speaking of the
modus operandi of drafting, says
"whep an order is received for a GER
tain number of men to be raised by
drafting. They are taken from among
those enrolled. The men are accord
ingly mustered, and the work of draft
ing is commenced at once. If there
ere fifteen men to be chosen from one
of the enrolled companies, numbers
from one up to fifteen are written up
on small bits of paper, and the Rum-
bered strips, with enough blanks ac-
comranying them to equal the number
of men in the company, and thorough
" mixed in a hat or box. The men
then draw out from the latter, one of
the strips of paper. If it is number
ed, they mast go to war, if blank,
they are free. The whole operation
is very simple, but must be attended
with considerable excitement. 1t
NAV come sooner or later, however"
The following persons are exempt
ed from eRrQllment by the laws of the
United States:
Officers, judicial and executive, of
the Government of the United States;
the members Of both Houses of Con:
gress and their respective officersi
Custom House officers and their
clerks; inspectors of exports, pilots
and mariners employed in the sea SER
vice of citizen or merchant within
the United States; postmasters, post
riders stage drivers, in the care and
conveyance Of the mail of the United
States; ferrymen employed at any
ferry on the post road and the arti-
ficers and warkmen ia the United
States armories and arsenels.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08


Is there more exquisite pleasure in this
world Of oursthaD is lonnd in giving comfort
to tie sadg For this is a world Of sorrow; a
VILE of tears. Aud be who can go to the
wounded heart with words of consolation has
power and mission that angels might en-
: W.
There is no pleasure more exquisite IN this
work Of ours, than is found in the assurance
that every sheet that goes from our hands
may carry words of peace to The troubled, Joy
10 the mourner, and hope to the dispairing.
We meet with a gem OF boly verse, or
happy thought Of some warm hearted author,
or striking incident in the experience of an
other, or simple aHeedoiB that has blessing
in it, we seize it and set it here, ana think
of il on its roNpds Of mercy, tightening up
this cottage, warming this breast, making a
smile of gladncss on this check, aud drying up
tears in these eyes. and 50 going Onward over
: the whole lard upon its errand of blessing.
There is great power in words; in words
fifty spoken. It is "a great gift 10 be able to
speak with such tenderness, or with such pow
er as to be minister Of good to the poor aud
the weary, and the suffering. 1t is joy to
the proud man to be able TO lead and rule
: and overcome. but there is no joy in this
world greater thpp to know We are doing
good to those who are 10 need of good To
-be a heart comforter, in world OF wounded
hearts, is a privilege to reconcile man to a
thousand ills, and make him willing TO be any
thing for the sake of him who wept at the
grave of a friendand restored him to his low
= ipg sister-TN. 7. Observer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08


@He had sort Of religion = his oHn7 was
said of one now near the g sol death-suf
fering from acute disease, bn gho refused the
consolation that he might have in believing
on the Lord Jesus.
But little comfort does this religion Of bis
now afford. Now that bis sinful life on earth
is closing and be Is made to realize that all
earthly pleasures and sensual enjoyments are
but vanity and vexation Of spirit, that AT
The last it biteth like a serpent, and stiRgeth
Ike an adder.
How many have 'a sort of religion Of their
own 1t is Exed principle in the human
mind to have more Or less of a religious senti-
ment Of some kind. and il pegyades all sorts
and conditions of men. In tie ignorance and
blindness Of Heathenism, it leads TO boWing
down TO wood ard stone, as fashioned in the
likeness of deity according to his own crude
notions, by his own hands.
An advance in the scale Of civilization
shows a more elevated, but not more truthful
form of faith and gives US the faneiful imagery
Of the mythology of the more refined Greek
and Roman.
Equally fallacious and unsatisfying are all
those systems OF religion known in the christ
ian worId-from deism 10 rationalism- mani
fold are their forms, names and varieties
Some believe and act in communities, and
some in single selfshpeas. Some believe in a
God of law, Indulgence, but deny him the
attribute of Justice All believe in God of
some sort, aud a future life of some kind the
principle is there.
There is in the soul of man craving de
sire for happiness here and herafter, which, in
the pride and baughtiness of his ainful nature,
he enjeavors to satisfy by some religion of
his own devising until some "alarming shock
of fate" awakes him to tie great fact of his
mortality and shows him the sandy foundation
of his hopes of happiness. He gropes around
for a irmer foundation, and if, in his extremity
he does not build upon the Rock, Christ Jesus,
and firmly and surely lay hold on the hope set
before him in the gosple, he VIII be lost and
forever undone.
Why is this? Because there is none other
naRe uDdeF Heaven given among men where
By we must be saved. z.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
Cabbage for Cows.

There can be no doubt that cab
bage is an excellent food for cows
1t is more nutritious thanthe white tur-
nip, and win produce moro per acre
We think it should be moro extensive
ly cultivated, especially by our dairy.
men The Investigations of DR.,
Voelcker show that in the fall Of the
year, milk when the ccws are we'll
led, yields more cheese and butter
thar during the summer. Bat if tho
cows have not good supply of nu-
tritious food, the milk falls OF great
ly. 1t would seem, therefore, that a
supply ofcahhage, which could easily
be ohtaiRod, would prove of great ad-
vantage.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
a LIFE THOUGHT,

heard man who had failed in business
and whose furniture was sold at auction, say
that when the cradle and the crib and the pi,
ano went, tears would come, and he had tC
i. leave the house to be a man. Now there are
thousands Of men who have lost their pianos
but who have found better music in the sound
sof their children's voices and footsteps, going
chcerfully down with them to poverty, than
any harmony of chorded Instruments Oh
how blessed is bankruptcy when it saves a
mans children! see many mea Who are
! bringing up their children as should bring
up mine, if when they were ten years old. ]
should lay them on dissecting table and cut
! the sinews os their arms ard legs, so that they
] could neither walk nor use their hands, but on
/ Iy sit still and be fed. Thus rich men put
!, the knife of Incidence and luxury to their
!, children's energies, and they grow up fatted
! lazy calves, fitted for nothing at tweuty-fl five
but to drink deep and sqnandeF wide; aud
the father must be slage oil his life, in order
= 10 make beasts of his children. How blessed
ssithen, is the stroke Of disaster which sets the
nschildren free, and gives them over to the hare
but kind bosom of poverty, who says to them
Work. and working makes them men.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
Feeding Calves.

A. Groton On. H. correspondent Of the
New England Farmer writes on this subject
as follows:
In the spring Of 1889, raised thirteen
calves, aud all the milk they had was what two
ordinary COWS gave. I fed them on Indian
meal and boiled potatoes. put the meal in
to kettle Of water and bpiled it very thin
for one hour or more. until it comes to kind
of Jelly, and boil sufficient quantity of each
to last two or three days. give each calf
four or FIVE potatoes, Wen mashed up with
what meal think the calf viii bear; turn the
milk on them and stir them well together. In
teaching them to drink, ! ppt two fingers in
theig Riapih, leaving space between them, so
that each draft they can draw what they
would naturally want 10 swallow. 1 keep a
tub of clean water and box Of salt, where
they can hep themselves. My calves are as
good in the fall as my neighbors are, that
suck twice day until they go away from tho
cows
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
A sOuthern UuiOn Man vs.. A Northern Tory.

One drop of ink used at the right time
might have saved this country from civil war
but the Republican party in Congress refused
to use it, They perlerred to shed the blood OF
thousands of their fellow-citizens, and to sacri-
fee their lives and to impose a burden which
remote posterity will feel as an incumbrance
-[pHbuQue (Ioaea) Hcrald
COMMENTS OF TUE NASHVILLE UNION.
We are astonished that any editor should
have effrontery enough to assert such thing
in direct opposition, not only to all probabili-
ity, and to the avowals of rebel leaders them
selves, but in fragrant opposition to the record
The nation committed an objectionable Of
fence against the cotton oligarchy, by defeat
ing their candidate in 1860, and expelling
them from Office The fre-eaters seeded
then, for their creed was "rule or ruin" We
repeatedly proved that six Southern Senators
are responsible for the defeat of the Crittenden
amendment. And few, we suppose, since re-
cent developments believe that eyen the adop-
tion of the Crittinden compromise would have
contented tho rebels, as one Rf them said they
would not submit to Lincoln, al though they
might be allowed to dictate their own terms
on blank paper. II is gross stupidity, or
gross Ignorance, or gross want of candor, TO de
ny that the Southern leaders were the chiel
men in fomepting the rebellion.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
WOMAN.


After all, what could We DO without WomanE
Man can cook a9d black boots. and milk The
COWS, and wash clothes, aud earn stockings,
and make bis shirts; but cnn he give home that
Pnesescs which makes the very hearth-stone
gladl Can he give to each chair and picture
its proper place, and adjust the shades and
curtains so that the heaEt Of the "lcsd Of his.
house shall bound 10 embrace bis dear, though
iuI eomfortert Can be make the warm blood
to riot in the cheeks by whispera oslOye, sweet
words and tale-telIing sighs! Can be smooth
down the sick pillow so that sickness win af
ter all be easy to bearl As well the bnzzard
stoOp to the Offices Of the linnet--as well the
mud turtle essay TO shine the night long as
well the bison assume ths gentleness Of the
gazelle; man never was created by God for
other than master Of the sterDer virtues
and woman is as necessary to the JOY and no
illness Of each home as the bosom Of the lake
is necessary to reflect the stars Of the blessed,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08

dred and her eyes would have set one dream
ing of the skies Of Haly. A look that I shall
never forget passed over bis face as she reined
in her horse and spoke his aEle.
a,Ernest -
Edith !"
His hand irenbled as If clasped hers, and
she SAILED on him, such smile! 1t froze my
heart in its beauty for l knew, when his
cheek paled and bis eye fell, that be had felt
its power before.
@And so you have not quite forgotten me
Ernest 2"
THAT were impossible r
" And yet you have been silent 50 long,
thought my place occupied by another"
And so be had loved before aud The siren
that enchanted him ha6 not yet lost her power
/ waited to hear.no more. 1t was enough
He would not see me BOw. Hurriedly re-
traced my steps 10 my aunt's abode.
Three months after, word came to me that
they were married, Ernest Temple and the
beautiful Edith Wells / vas in a crowded
room, bat didn't faiat. Edith Wells might
have done that was not so weak. But my
heart turned to stone, and the timid, clinging
child was belle that night, and went forth, a
strong selEpossessed woman, following in the
way Of the world My aunt raised her hands
in wonder. that the lesson she had been vainly
striving to teach me for years had all come to
me in a single evening. But discerDment was
not among her virtues, and / kept my own
secret.
l have changed, they say the crimson life
tide has learned the way to my rosy cheeks,
and do not now need TO be told that 1 am
beautiful, Hearts have been Laid at my feet,
true hearts and false ones aud the world
has learned to call me a coquette. He was
here to-night-he whom love, whom I hate
his eye wearing the wild looESvsf5 sorrow that
mine had learned to hide, and his laugh bear
ing in it the ring of death.
stood by his side, and listened TO the mock
echo; and be saw my curling lip, and that l
had read his soul, and knew all its bitterness.
Aud when had left the crowded rooms, and
stood ih the soft moonliglt, among the shadOwy
trees, he came and knelt at my feet, like a
coward who dare not suffer in silence, and told
me how he had loved me through all the years
that the butterfly of the sun had been his
bride how he loved me still, and ever must
And | went away with low laugh, and left
him moaning Have you, too, grown soul
less ?-you. the snow-white lily that came like
a hidden fountain between me and the dearest
of earthly upbelief?'
'sWell, the world says so and I am lying
on the carpet like broken reed by the brook
of it's love. wondering if all it says is true
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08

a G RI G u L T 2 r L


Decay Of Orchards.
There is a general complaint in New Eng
ARd, Canada, and the western States. that old
! orchards are dying, and that young orchards
do not flourish as well as they formerly did
Various causes are assigned for this, ard
no doubt there is more than one cause for the
evil. We are ipclisea to the belief that the
principal cause is the action Of hoFeEs-We
say borers, for there are undoubtedly more
than one species of this sconrge. One kind,
and the most destructive species, is that which
attacks the tree near the ground and does its
mischief by girdling the tFank of the tree
(Saperda Biyittata). This one most generally
commences just at the edge of the ground,
where it will be out of sight. and works up
ward and around the trunk, it Is oftenlimes
never suspected. Ii is some time doing It's
mischief, and where it does not completely
encirele the tree With Its channel groove, il
(the tree) viii live a sort. of lingering,
feeble life for several years, and finally die.
We set odt some trees from a nursery, that
had been perforated near the ground by the
borers. We examined them carefully and
were sure that they had been all got OUT
The trees grew very well, and bore fruita year
or two, but finally dwibdled away and died, in
spite of all the care and nursing that we could
give them. On examining them after death,
we could find 20 apparent cause for their death,
but the perforations that the borers had made
near the collar or functions of the trunk and
roots before they were transplanted. lthad
never thoroughly healed, and the water and
continued moisture getting in oaused a gradual,
but final decay.
We said that there were several species Of
these boreIa Some think that the one men-
toned above never NEEDLES with the branches
of trees but there are those that do. We
have found at least two kinds doing mischief
on or rather in the branches. One kind is
rather email and seems to confne lis opera
tions between the bark and the wood. We
have always found it there. The bark is al
ways thickened and decayed above its lodg-
ment, but whether the egg that produces it is
laid there before the bark has been killed or
after, we are not able to say,
There are ether branch horers that plunge
into the wood and burrow about with gimlet
10 their heads, that seems to enable them TO go
anywhere about the limb they want to. We
cut off large limb of an apple tree the oiheF
day, that We supposed was killed by the cold
weather some wiRters ago, and found three Of
these last named fellows in it, Frog their
size and the extent of their galleries, we are
led to change our belief of the cause Of the
limbs dying. and attribute it TO the boreE. It
is possible, however, that we are wrong in this,
and those we found belong to that kind that
operate only in wood already dead and decay
ing, as there are some such.-Maine Farmer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
Negro Agitators-An Article for the Particular
Attention Of the Press


The Conservatives are the most pertinaeious
persons in the world ia forcing people TO dis
cuss the everlasting negro question. They re-
| fuse the nation any rest whatever from the
eternal monotony of the song of Slavery
! They raise the cry of negro! negro negro
continually. If tax be proposed they fear
that it will be unjustly huEjenihg slave prop.
/ erty. If an expedition is TO be made, they
/ fear that somebody's slave will 5erun off. II
a rebel is arrested they fear that his negroes
will become demoralized and dangerous with
out their master. II black pilot should run
off rebel vessel, they dread receiving him,
/ lest it should encourage runaway negroes. II
free school be opened the negroes should
learn mischief. If a rebels negroes be found
raising corn for the rebel army they are op
posed 30 taking them for fear Of disturbing the
"guaraatees of the Constitution" IF a loyal
man says tAat he would see slavery perish to
save the Union they tell you that such senti-
ments viii incite the negroes to ipsurrection.
If solitary measure of peace or war can be
proposed which your conservatism viii not
connect in some way or other with the negro
| question, we do not know what If can be-
eAOSuAu III tuC fCt3OLC -
that these same Radical Conservatives, whose
very "breath is agitation" and who would be-
co ne extinct if slavery were destroyed, are
forever complaining that other people will talk
+, of slavery. These men, who agitate from
morning till night, reproach others for agita-
/ ting. We tell these gentlemen very positively
that we cannot and will not allow them to en-
I joy a monopoly of this agitation. If you are
/ for the Union and against the discussion iof
slavery, then help us save the Union, and let
slavery take care of itself amid the fortunes OF
war If its violence and vicissitudes destroy
| it, let it be destroyed: if otherwise, then very
well; but we cannot stop the work of crushing
out the rebellion to read Dred Scott decisions,
or Missouri compromises, or Crittenden reso-
lutions. We mean 10 kill out the rebellion.
We mean to destroy all the agencies used TO
promote and Sustain the rebellion, and we don't
] intend to stop one moment to consider wheth-
er anybody's negro runs off on account of
what we do. 1t is useless for conservatives to
keep up this cry of slavery. Everybody now
understands it. as a stale trick which means
anything or natAing. Our firm belief is that
loyal men have something more important to
attend 10 at present, than to bother themselves
about the security of rebels negroes.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.

In letter to the Cleveland Herald, James
/. A. Briggs Of New York, writing about the
death ofa friend, says:
As we pass along in the journey of life, l
think we notice more feelingly the broken
links in its chaini and the death of q friend
seems TO bring us nearer to its end. Within
the past FIVE years how many have passed
away in my old home, and in the coming
five, how many links that nov bind sold set
tiers" to families and friends will be severed. :
Were it not for the new links constantly being
welded TO the other end Of the chain of being,
life's chain would soon all be gone. But
life is an endless chain, and as link after link
drops down into the, e,darlness, other links
come up, with "the dew Of youth" upon them.
J "Wby should old age escape unnotieed here,
That sacred era to reflection dear2
That peaceful shore where passion dies away,
Like the last wave that ripples DER the bay?
: o, if old age were cancelled from our lot,
Full SOON would man deplore the unhalloWea
blot;
Life's busy day would want its tranquil even,
And earth would lose its stepping stone to
Heaven"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-08
sulphur for Grape lrildew.

NJ. le doeteur Guyot, has received
from the Minister of Agriculture a
commission to examine into the state
of vineyards in France, and in eonse
quence of his report 500 Francs have
been given by the government to bo
expended in the purchase Of sulphur,
which is to be given to the vinegrow-
ers who cannot afford to procure it
for themselves. This shows tho i'm
portancc attached TO the use Of sui,
phur IN arresling mildcw en- grape
VIneS.