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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
THE CHEERFUL VOICE.

The comfort aud happiness of home and
home intercourse, lei US here say, depend We
ry much upon the kindly and affectiona te
training Of the voice. Trouble, and care, and
vexatiOn will and must, of course, come; but
let them not creep into our voices. Let only
our kindIier and happier feelings be vocal in
our homes. Let them be so, if for no other
reason, for the little children's sake. These
sensitive little beings are exceedingly suscep.
tiOle TO the tones. Let us have consideration
for them. They hear so much we have for
gotten to hear. Fer, as we advance in years
tur life becomes more interior We are alb
Eiraeted from outward scenes and sounds
We think, we reflect, as we have formerly viv-
idly lived in the present. Our ear grows dul
TO external sound; it is turned inward, and isl
tens chiefly to the echoes of past voies We
catch no more the merry laughter of children.
We hear no more the note of the morning
bird. The brook that used to praltle so gay
ly TO us rushes by unheeded-we have forgot
ten TO hear such things. But little children,
remember, sensitively hear them ALL Mark
how, at every sound, the yonng child starts
and turns, and listens! And thus, with equal
scnsitiyeness, does it catch the tones of huma n
voices. How were it possible. therefore, that
the sharp and hasty word, the fretful and
complaining tone should not slartle and pain
even depress the sensitive little being whose
harp of life is SO newly and delicately strung
vibrating even TO the gentle breeze, and thrill
ing sensitively ever to the tones of such voic-
es as sweep across it Let US be kind and
cheerful spoken, then, in our homes.-Oncc q
Month.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
A GRIC CULTUR RAJ.
When to Sell.


\ farmer makes quito asmuch mon
ey by selling at the right time as by
cheapness in production. Stock as
well as crops are kept too long for the
greatest profits. A bushel of potatoes
sold in July frequently brings q
dollar; in September, forty cents,
though the cost of production is the
same. A lamb sold in time for three
dollars, often brings more net profit
than the fat wether sold at two years
old. 4 pig will frequently bring four
dollars at eight weeks old. At eight
months, we'll fattened, he will only
bring twenty dollars, after eating
twenty dollars worth of provender.-
With this result it is easy to see the
time to sell pigs in some sections. It
is not so easy to know when to dis
pose Of a young horse. As colt he
may sell at weaving time, say four
months old for twenty dollars, or fifty,
If a handsome animal. 1t has not
cost much to raise him, for he has
lived on his mothers milk and she has
paid her way by her work. But when
he is put up for the winter his keep
ing begins to count. He can do moth
ing in the way Of self-support until
three years old, it were better per-
haps not to work him much even then.
II well kept he cannot cost much less
than hundred dollars before he is fit
to work in any region where hay is
worth fifteen dollars a ton. He may
sell for three hundred dollars or more
than the cost of his keeping. The
farmer may not lose any ything, but he
will Only have made a fair market for
his hay and pasture. La the sale ola
colt during his first summer. or fall
the price is nearly all profit. There
is little risk about it, and the venture
IS made a certinty. IF the sire he a
blooded animal the colt will gener-
ally sell for enough more to pay for
the price Of his services; and often to
pay for them many times over. It is
most in keeping with our calling to
make the profits sure, though small.
= American ArgiculturaList.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
RE HAPEY

Our Creator has enjoined upon us in terms
Of the greatest cearness the duty of being
happy. The powers with which he has en-
dowed US, the circumstances in which our lot
is cast, with all the blessings of his bene6cence
shows unmistakably his mind and will, that
we should be happy. Many do not consider
this, and in their selfshness and ignorance la
Dor most earnestly to thwart this kind design.
Some seem to think that happiness is the We
ry last thing to be thought Of, if not to be ab-
sOlutely Stunned, as though there merit in de
priving ourselves Of it,
What is decisive on this point is the fact
that whatever conduces to our highest good
is most consoaant with true enjoyment; while
a violation Of right always involves pain
Not that our soul aim is to be happy; but
we may be assured that no demand of truth
right, duty will ever require sacrifice of hap
piness on the whole, and that il is both our
privilege and duty to be as happy as posi-
blc
How are we to seek happiness? We an
swcr: By benevolence. Strive to promote
the happiness of others in the highesls degree
This will administer directly to your pleasure
and cultivate in you the faculties most con
ducive- to the same end The one whose hear
glows with love, whose hand is active in min
isteriRg to the good OF his fellows, cannot be
wretched.- Morning Star
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
NO. %.
The sublirtty Of rmprdence.

The London Times, maddened that people in
this country have ceased TO pay the slightest
heed to its impOtent ran and ra ing every
thing American, in its last article works it.
self into foaming frenzy; and talks about Eng.
land and France landing hundred thousand
men each, and driving back the Federal ar
mics Of nyasion!' 1t is characteristic of mad
ness TO play fast and loose with figures; bat
it is somewhat ludicrous coolly and calmly to
bring these wild military maraudings into COM
parison with tkat countrys actual resources.
Leave out the bundled thousand" which
France is to furnish, lard which, by the T7&y
we don't see.) and inquire where England is
TO get her hundred thousand" to carry out
this charming scheme of invasion. The wi!oie
British army, including its militia, consists Of
220 600 men of all branches of The aeFTice;
and these are so distributed among the British
colonies, all over the world, that only 10000
soldiers remain on duty in Great Britain and
Ireland-a force very inadequate TO preserve
order in the mother country.
She cannot axe her colonial contingents; for
it is only by these local forces that her author
ity is preserve, and already in China, at tie
Cape, Of New Zealand, and elsewhere, for
OuS 1T VIC huOWs lIlGS arc 0CAudlIy tugaSGu III
putting down Instructions. There remain
then the volunteers, those valiant holiday SOL
ders who march out every six mouths to slaugh-
ter imaginary Fverchmen in the targets at
Wimbledon But though We are WiEing 10
concede, these might do very good service in
case ofiuvasion, nobody for moment supposed
they would ever leave the country to go 10
war. Where, then, could England procure
ons hundred thousand men to assist the South?
She could not do it. One hundred thousand
men constitute nearly one half the whole Brit
ish army, and it is more by sixty thousand than
are found in all the garrisons Of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. Ifan outbreak were TO take
place in Lancashire it would take the whole
forty thousand soldiers 10 put it down. Such
an outbreak is daily feared; and the Govern
ment will probably have need of all the red
coats they can get at home, without sending
hundred thousand" on the errand thus blat-
antly arnouuced.-[N. Y. Times.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Traitor In Halleck's Staff.

The President has dismissed Major John
j. Key, additional Aid-de- Camp attached TO
Gen. Halleck's Staff. for the utterance of dis
loyal sentiments. lie was not an officer Of
Cen Halleck's own selection, but had been
assigned to him. Key had been employed on
detached staff duties, and nrver in any conf
Dental capacity at the headquarters which
would give him access to information of SER
vice to the enemy.
On the other hand it is stated that about a
year ago he most positive charges of disoy
atty were preferred and publiscd in an Evans
vile paper against Key aud yet he has been
retained on Gen. Hallecks staff down 10 the
present time. He is a brother TO Colonel
Thomas NJ. Key Judge Advocate on General
McClellan's s staff, and both are natives Of Ken
tuckJ. rhe precise ofItnse for which Key
was dismissed is understood 10 be the remark
that we could easily have anHihiiated the reb-
e army at Antielam, but that it waa not
thought best to humiliate the South by de-
feat 50 overwhelming and CALLING as to prevent
the future reconstruction Of the Union upon
terms equitable 20 both sections.
The traitor Key is not the only officer in
the army who talks and acts treason. The
! President bas now set good example in high
quarters, to be closely followed up we trust
until the army is thoroughly purged of those
officers who give the rebels information, and
frequently offend the ear of loyal citizens by
se1itious and reasonable language. g..
Majoy Key is from Indiana, but is said tC
have large contingent interests in the slave
States.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
MIRTHFULNEsS.

The power of. f.discOvering comic point, Of
apprecincing humorous hit, aud enjoying the
fun Of droll position, is a gift not ODE de-
spised. 1t is not a vain, silly, or unbecoming
thing, as some moPing owls and grave duilards
suppose. cit Is, indeed, like all human facul-
ties, liable to abuse, and capable of being per-
verted to evil; but it is essentially good
gift, and ought to be turned 20 the good ac-
count Of which it is susceptible, and to man
iiest itself in the increase Of the cheerfulness
the happiness, and the affection Of social and
family life gAv ESEsLEE.Ez2 2 eG . [
We might go further We might say, and
adduee much evidence to support the PROPOSE
tion, that as humor is discerned only by those
who caHy to some extent, catch the feeling and
spirit Of hamoris one phase or department Of
sympathy ,szEa thus the springs Of rnirthfulIness
and Of kindaess are not far distant; and many
home, amid the alterations of JOY and sor
row that darken or brighten the course of life
has found an ever-fresh gladness in the com
ic vein and jOeund humor of some miri hfa
member of the family. Many Of the best mer
we have ever known-the best in the highes
sens Of the term-With the best heads and th
best hearts, have been men who thorough,
appreciated and highly enjoyed-true humor.-
North British Reyisw:
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Timely Words.

We find occasionally some of the best things
in Harpers Weekly. Here is something from
the "Lounger," which we commend to certain
ones who are rightly enough designated "slack-
witted orators:'
Let US suppress the aboliiionsts." cries
some slack wittsd oretor, and the rebellion
will end" OF course it will, yoa dear soul;
and if all your felIow-citzens had been Of your
caiber and kidney there would have been
no rebellion at ALL Ii Hamtdeh and his friends
had said, Let US suppress these fellows who
cry out against ship money" England would
have quietly submitted to th5 tyranny of the
Stuarts. II Otis and Patrick Henry had shout
ed "Hurrah for King George aud the Stamp
Act" theirs would hsye been no bloody rev.
olution. If Mirabeas ana the French people
had beloved "HurIGh for starvation: aristo-
crafts forever!" alI tke trouble in France would
have speedily ended. To be sure every right
would have been anhihilated, every liberty
destroyed, and fe9 rich and remorseless peo-
pie would have governed France; but there
would have been no difficulty except moral
rot and general NATIONAL decay.
Let US suppress the abolitionists" But
suppose you be- at the beginning. First
SGDIpe lHe cohlmolselSe OF the people OF Tue
country; thcr! you may subdue those who in
fuence it.. IT Is rot what you call, with an
amusing presist ence, abolitionism which caus-
ed the war; but the opening of the eyes of the
people so that they saw. The people Of this
country know perfectly well that slavery IS
at the Bottom Of this rebellion. II there had
been no slavery there would have been no
war: just &c thele You'd have been no abolit-
ionisIn. The temperance movement springs
from Drunkenness: and when drunken mar
tries to All his wife, dOntyou thiuk thai Ehe
teetolalsrs are responsible for it
Slavery was trying 10 Kill the country. It
mad almost succeeded. "WatchT wal chr shout
ed the abo!tiouist. Slavery siaddeped that
its crime was discovered, rEot and stabbed
right and left "Theref there!" cry the sensi-
bic Wick!ise and Company comes Of
calling the watch! Why cant you hold your
tongues? Let us suppress these fellows that
cry, Watch! watch! and all will be quiet
again!"
Certainly dead dog or dead nation ara
both perfectly quiet. Aud nation of free
men throttled with its own consent, by slave
system like ours, is the deadest and meauest
Of all dead dogs.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
7ExrRAcrs roR YOUNG MEN.

Give young man taste for reading. and
in that single disposition you have furnished
him with great safeguard. He has found
at home that which others have to seek abroad,
namely, pleasurable excitement. He has learn
ed to think even when his book is no longer
in bis hand, and it is for want of thinking that
youth go to ruin.
Some OF those who have been most eminent in
learning and science made their first attain
ments in snatches of time stolen from manual
employment. Hans Sachs, the poet OF the
Reformation, and the Burns of Germany, be-
gan life as did Burns, poor boy; he was a
tailor's son and served an apprenticeship, first
to a shoemaker and afterward to q weaver
and continued to work at the loom as long as
he lived. The great dramist, Ben johnson,
was a working bricklayer, and afterward
a soldier. ~LinBeus, the father of modern bot
any, was once on the shoemaks bench. Our
immortal Franklin, it need scarcely be said
was . printer. Hersehel, whose name is in
scribed on the heavens was the son of a poor
musician, and at the age of fourteen years was
placed in band attached to the Hanoverian
guards. After going to England he under
took 10 teach music, and then became an or
ganlst. But while he was supporting him
self in this way he.was learning italian, latin
and Greek. From music he was naturally led
to mathematics, and thence to optics and as
tronomy. John DoIlond, the inventor of the
aehromantic telescope, spent his early years at
the silk loom; and continued in his original
business even for some years after his eldest
son came 10 an age to join him in it. Few
cases are more celehrafad than that of GifF,rd
the founder and editor of the Quaaterly Re
view. He was an orphan, and barely escaped
the Poor-house. He became a shid boy of the
mest menial sort on board Of a coasting vessel.
He was afterward for six years apprentice to
a shoemaker. In this last employment he
stole time from the last for arithmetic and
algebra, ard for lack of other conveniences,
used TO work out his problems on leather with
a bluntsd awl. Few names are more noted
in modern literature.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Bad Flowing a National Sin.

H. F. French in one Of his letters
in the New England Farmer, speaking
of plowing in England, says, their
work is done far better than ours,
and it is either because they have
better ploRs, or hold them better,
than our farmers and plow makers
may settle that question as they can.
/ have seen a man in England, with
q yoke of oxen harnessed in collars
like horses, with binders on, and
bits in their mouths, guiding them
with reins, and holding the plow
himself striking out lands eighty rods
long, with no stakes except at the
ends, absolutely sosstrait that | could
not see an inch variation in the dis
tance. 1t is a common operation'herc
to plow land into ridges for mangold
wurtzels, drill four rows at a time
with a horse, drill when. the crop is
up, two horses, hoe four rows at time.
Any person who will consider this
statement, will perceive that all the
operations must be accurate to admit
of this treatment. think bad plow-
ing is one of our national sins.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Secession Exeesrntions.

said in my last letter that the secessionists
are funny set of ffeItoT7s; an now more con-
vnced than ever taat they are so. Nothing is
TOO absurd for them to believe about the non
success of the Union armies, @hiye every nom
sencical story they here about the defeat Of Nc
Clellan, Pope or Mcdowell is received as gos-
pei For instance, on last it was rumored
throu2ht the city, that newspaper OF the 5th
instant had been rcceaved from Mobile, stating
that the rebel troods occupied it, that they had
taken ten millions of dollars 10 Treasury notes;
that President Mincoln had fed, with bis Cab
LET every voter remember that Col. GoD-
MAN, The Union nominee for Congress, is pledg-
ed both by his acts and his words, TO stand by
his Government until the rebellion is sub
dued.
Let every voter remember that WM. JOHN
sToN was nominated by the anti-war wing ofthe
Democracy, over the soldiers now serving their
country, Coils. BURSs and REID; and that bis
nomination was secured by Withdrawing the
latter gentlemen, one of whom had the largest
vote on every ballot Mansfield Herald.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Sigel on Mcdowell.

In Gen. Miroy's report TO Gen. Sigle, the
following reference to Gen. Mcdowell is made
on the battle of August Both; AT one time,
rot receiving assistance from the rear, as /
had right TO expect, after having sent for it,
and our struggling battalions being nearly
overcome by the weight and persistence of the
enenly's attack flew back about half a mile
to where 1 understood Gen. Mcdowell was
with large part of his corps. found him
and appealed to him in the most earnest man
ner, TO send brigade forward at once to save
the day, or all would be lost. He answered
coldly, in substance, that it was not his bu-
siDess to help everybody, and he was not 60
ing to help Gen. Sigle's CORPS; that my brig
ade had got out of ammunition some time be-
fore and gone to the rear, and that had been
fighting with half dozen different brigades
and that l had not inquired where or to what
particular corps they belonged. He inquired
of one of his aids if Gen-was fighting over
there on the left His aid said he thought he
was. Mcdowell repliedstba he wonld soon
help him, for he was good fellow
The number of prisoners we really took in
Maryland battles, is ABOUT 1900 in all
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
(By D. ]

HURRY1HG UP THE Works ON OUR IRON CLAD
VESSELS. Orders have been received from
Washington to expedite in every possible way
the work, upon the Iron-clad vessels now build
ing at various places at the north, so that they
may be ready for service at an early day. In
obedience to this order, MIR. Harrison LOring of
South Boston, who is building one of the vessels
upon the plan ofthe Monitor, bnt of larger d.
mensions, has now about four hundred men en-
ployed upon her, and expects to have his por-
ton of the work completed inthe course Of two
or three weels.-B Boston Transcript.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10


IT PAYS TO IMPROVE FARMs.-In
1858 | thoroughly under-drained my
west lot Of 40 acres, using the side
walls and loose stone to Ell the drains
Inl859 I gave TIE land liberal dress
ing Of barnyard manuer and leached
ashes, and took off a good crop Of
corn. In the summre of 1860 my
crop of oats was large. In the fall
I applied a light coat Of manure, and
twenty bushels of ground bone to the
acre, and seeded down half the lot
with wheat, and the balance witlfrve
In 1861 the crop of grain was fair
This year the lot produced 100 tons
AT pounds OF hay-ovcr tons per
acre-Deing fully six times as much
as the yield previous to 1859
Warren Leland, in Country Gentle
man. "-a ""
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
Transnla1ting trees.


As soon as the foliage has dropped
transplant ornamental, shade or fruit
trees. There will be a saving Of one
years growth between those planted
now and those in the spring. In TAX
ing up.trees great care should be taken
not to mutilate their roots, for every
fiber Of the root lost the growth Of the
tree will be retarded so much and its
life endangered. Whenever it is abso-
lutely necessary to part with any Of the
roots take off the top in proportion.
Let the holes be larger than the roots
and never bend or cramp root into
a small hole. Where the roots are nlu-
tilatcd make a clean cut with sharp
knife, and new rootlets will show
themselves pushing out between the
bark and wood. If the soil is poor
fill in the holes with rich earth from
the woods or swamps. But in no case
use stable manure in planting out
trees in this climate. Topdress the
ground among your trees with leached
ashes, or any decomposing vegetable
matter. Ifrabbits are trublesome in
barking your fruit trees apply soft
country soap to the trunks two OF
three times in the year.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10
REgEL M1ss1LEs.-Sarg a correspondent.

REBEL MIssILEs.-Says a correspondent,
writing of the battle at Antietam Greek:
Il have been credibly Informed that broken
railroad iron, and blacksmith tools, hammers,
chisels, &c, were fired at US from rebel can
non. Some of these missiles made a peculiar
noise, resembling 'which-away,' 'which-away,'
by which our men came to distinguish them
from regular shot and shell, and as they heard
them approaching they would cry, turkey!
turkey comingP and fall fat to avoid them
One of our artiIlerists, German, when he
saw the tools falling around him, exclaimed
My Got. we shall have the blacksnith's shop
to come next p"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10

1t is well known that reinforccmen's arriv-
ed from Harper's Ferry, by forced march on
Wednesday evening, and that there were
strong reserves who were ready for service on
Thursday, and had net been in the fight on the
previous day. Thus the two armies rested
through Thursday, with only occasional firing
between pickets. The river was only three
miles in the eDemy's rear, with an unobstruct=
ed road to the ford, which the enemy were
evidently intent on reaching as early as posi-
BILE. Now was our great opportunity; and
every one in the army and out expected TO see
the fulfIment of the promises held out that
the rebel host would be captured or destroyed
in attempting the passage of the river.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-10

Coffee was selling in Richmond few days
since at $50 per IL; tea, SIG per ID. sugar,
G0c, C0Sl salt, 60c. per quart molasses ST
per gallon; butter 81; potatoes 81 per peck;
Treasury Notes; 100 per cert. premium; cal
leo prints $3.50: spool cotton, sec; 10
ribbons to be obtainedi CATERS, SI2 @ $I5
per pair.