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American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01
Too Easily D .scouraged ,

w hlle lt does not become sensible men
to be elated by trifing causes, it is equally
unworthy of them to be too easily diseour-
aged. There is resting on all men, more
especially those in positions of influence,
the duty of cultivating feeling equal to
the crisis. Words cannot express the
feeling of anxiety throughout the country /;
and instead of disposing it to doubt, and
habit of giving way to feeling of dis
couragementat at every trifing circumstance
or rumor, it is every mans duty to help
strengthen and encourage the public mind
prepare it, if need be, for reverses, and to
act as becomes the occ'sion. If there is
no other value in this, it will have its in
fuence on the Government, and give char
acter to its action A feeling of despon-
dency and indecision, once abroad, will
communicate itself to the armies and those
charged with the tremendous responsible
ity of directing them aud the Government
Let us never complain of shortcomings
elsewhere, if we act not right The Gov
ernment needs the support, the counsel -,
the inspiration Of public sentiment, and
the manifestation of the universal will
1t needs it now, when the crisis is more
imminent than ever before, and when ev-
cry thing, seemingly, depends on the steps
to he taken.
We must either go on or stop Stop,
we can not. Go on, we must. But it is
the mode Of going on that's so important.
Shall it be at speed any less than will car
ry us through on time? Shall we incur
the hazard of coming short? 1t rests as
much with the people as the Government
to decide. Nothing ismore certain than,
that if the people are up to the mark the
Government will be. If they are timid,
it will not be courageous How can the
armies fight with a rabble of croakers be-
hind them? How can we expect the Gov
ernment to be strong, energetic and fully
up to the mark, if it receive not encour-
agement and instruction from the people !?
At the present moment the only danger
is the Government will not be sufficiently
decided and advanced, that the Presi-
dent and his advisers will not fully under
stand, not only the capability, but the
universal willingness torespond to any
measure which the public Judgment can
recognize is going to make complete fin
ish Of the business. No blunder has been
so great or so often repeated, as failing
to do that which at once convinced the
country that what was proposed would
prove all that was needed. We have
reached a stage when it is perfectly evi-
dent that numbers only can do the bust
ness, and that with men enough the end
is at hand There is nothing but this in
the case. 1t is simply question of men,
and the sooner the better. Better to many
than not enough. Rejecting men can
come to no other conclusion. If the Gov
ernment has not come to clear convictions,
and if it is not stocked with the requisite
amount of will, let it turn its face and ear
to the country. That it hear no uncer-
tain sound and see no doubt in the Ma
tion's eye, let everybody commence feel
ing, talking and acting just as he would
have the Government act.-COm Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01

PERsoNAL.-The death of Gen. Jas. Z.
B. Stuart, the we'll known rebel cavalry
leader, is confirmed. He was killed in an
encounter with Sheridan. Gen. Stuart
was born in Patrick county, Va, and
graduated at West Point, in 1854, was se-
verely wounded in fight with Cheyen-
ne Indians in 1856, and became captain
of cavalry in 1860. He rose from col
onelcy in the rebel service to the chief
command of cavalry. As long as the
National cavalry was poorly handled and
organized, Stuart had quite a name. and
was hero of romance. Tales were told
of him, and he dated back his descent to
the royal Stuarts. As our own cavalry
became famous under Pleasanton, Buford,
Fitzpatrick, Gregg, and more lately, Sher-
idan, Stuart has been less and less thought
of by his own side as we'll as ours, Fitz-
hugh Lee should have had his command
After the old style of guerrilla chieftains,
it is said that a handsome young lady
followed Stuart in all his fortunes.
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Arthur's Home Magazine
For 1854. Edited by
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!. II IL Y0LLnEs xxnI. AND XIV.

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Orphans Court Sale

DY virtue Of order and decree of the Orphans court
Dof Butler the undersigned Administrator Of the
estate Of James McMahen, late Of Allegheny tp. said
county, decd will o for sale public yendue on the
premises Friday, the Sd day ofJune next o'clock
p NJ Of said day. fifty Of land to be laid on the
end Of larger tract Of land situate In Allegheny tp
said county bounded by lands Of Dr. Crawford by lands
of Alex and Wm. Grant Alex Coulter Thomas Grant and
others.
TERMs-one third of the purchase money to be paid at
confirmation Of sale by the said Court and the remainder
in two equal annual payments thereafter with interest
from said confirmation. JAS. H. McMAHAN,
April 2lst, 81.
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Irregular Attendance at School.

1t is universally conceded by teachers
that the evils of inconstant attendance
are the most formidable ones with which
they contend. 1t cannot be denied, that
of all drawbacks upon Common School
efficiency, they are the most serious.-
Could parents see the evils of unneses-
sary absence in their true light, there is
reason to believe that they would be much
more alarmed than they are now.
Some friend of education has furnish
ed the following, to which serious atten-
tion should be given:
1. If a boy learns to feel that he may
leave his duties as a scholar for trivial caus-
es--for causes equally trivial, he will for
sake his business when man.
2. The time of the teacher and school
is wasted, while his absence is being re:
corded
8. The teachers time is wasted in rea-
ding and recording the delipquent's excu.
ses, when he returns to school
4. He interrupts the exercise of the
teacher, or some part of the school, in
finding the places at which his various
lessons commenced f 10y
+ s. He has lost his lesson recited yester-
day, and does not understand that portion
of to-day's lesson, which depends upon
that of yesterday; and such dependence
usually exists.
6. The teachers time and patience are
taxed in repeating to him theinstruetions
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01

VALUE OF ASHES. .-Professo Jack
son, in illustrating the manner in
which soils might be rendered fer
tile, said that "a farm, within his
knowledge, which was a blowing sand,
pine barren, and almost hopeless,
on which ten bushels of corn to an
acre could scarcely be grown, by the
judicious application of ashes, had
been made to produce forty or fifty
busncls to the acre" We do not
question the correctness Of DR.. Jack
sons statements. Our observation
has convinced us that on sandy soils,
with the exception of clay mari, there
is nothing more beneficial in the ap-
phcation in such soils, than ashes !;
and, very fortunately, unless uncom-
mon quantities of acid exist in such
soils, leached ones. Ashes do what
lime cannot; they render the soil te-
nacious Of moisture, and although
their action is not as prompt or eff
cient on cold, sour soils, they are,
for the reason assigned, considered
as valuable on light sandy ones. OF
this fact, the farmers on the lghtsoils
of Long Island and New Jersey, are
we'll aware, and, in the gathering and
application of ashes, find a certain
source of profit. .T0lN t..
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01

r77 WATER.PRooF Boot SoLEs.-If
hot tar is applied to boot soles, it will
make them waterproof. Let it be
as hot as the leather will bear with
out injuring it, apply it with swab,
and drying it by the fire. The op-
Grafton may be repeated two or three
times during the winter, if necessary.
1T makes the surface of the leather
quite hard, so that it wears longer,
as well as Keeps out the water. Oil
or grease softens the sole, and does
not do much in keeping the water out.
1t is a good plan to provide boots for
winter during summer, and prepare
the soles by tarring, as they will then
become before they are wanted to
wear, almost as firm as horn, and will
wear twice as longas thase unprepar-
ed HIgf6a .EEls aIGfrJ
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01
ghe fatil1et's lepastiaeltt.
40 The Algike Glover.

This clover, which is of rather. re-
cent discovery or production, has be-
come extremely popular in Europe,
being greatly preferred to other gras-
ses of this family which can be profta-
bly grown. Horses are extremelyfend
of it, and is said to be more whole
some for them than the best timothy
It is beginning to to be grown in our
own country, but as yet very sparing-
ly, in consequence of the scarcity of
seed. Indeed we do not know wheth-
er it can be obtained at all or not at
any of our seed stores. 1t has been
referred to before in the columns of
the Telegraph, and being anxious that
it should be better known, we copy
the following Communication relative
to It from the Maine Farmer, fur
nished by a gentleman named Cush-
man, who resides at Sherman, in that
State, and who had been applied to
publicly, for his knowledge and opin-
ION ofthis clover. . .-.
"My experience with the Alsike
clover is as follows: From the small
qnantity | sowed, I got enough the
first year to seed nearly one-fourth of
an acre. Itcame to maturity the past
season, land produced the bulk of a ton
Of common hay. This clover is
hybrid, or cross between the common
red and white. 1t possesses neither
the coarse stalk of the red, nor the
running habit of the white. 1t grows
about two foot high, and makes nu-
merous branches and heads. The
head is flesh color-about half way
between red and white. In two re-
spects it resembles the white clover;
First, as the blossoms fade, the bolls
turn down, and look like the white.
Second, a single boil often contains
several seeds-whereas the red never
does but one. | think it will produce
quite as large a crop as the red, and
Of much finer and better quality. |
think this will be much longer lived
than the red. 1t is valuable to the
keeper of honey bees, as l never saw
a flower of which they were more
fond. The red clover is very sweet,
but the cell is so ecp the bee cannot
reach it, The Alsike possesses the
sweetness of the red, and the shoal
cell of the white, and therefore seems
perfectly adapted to the want Of the
bee. 1t was observed that there
were more bees on that little spot of
clover, than on fifty acres of other
grass. | let it stand till most of the
heads were turned, and then cut it
for both hay and seed think have
enough for fifteen acres"
Now this is very favorable state
nent of the characteristics of this
clover and inasmuch as its cultiva-
ton is a success in the very cold
latitude Of Maine, it surely ought to
be, especially to very large expanse
of territory farther South and West.
Our farmers should experiment with
it as soon as seed can be obtained
and the Commissioner of Agriculture
whowe think has already distribu-
ted some, should procure an addi-
tional supply..-Germantoaon TEL
egraph.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-01

re How TO KEEP Crows FROM Pull
LING UP CoRN.-Take half dozen
eggs and take the white out. Put
o in very little stryehnine, and set
the eggs around in the corn field. If
they getit before they get anything
to eat in the morning, you will find
them in the field. Stick pole in
the ground and hang up the dead
crows. If they go off with the eggs,
they Woa't come back again. Three
have been found dead beside one
sgg.-John Ayers, Columbus, Mic.
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Guardians Sale.

DY virtue Of order and decree ofthe Orphans Court
ID in nd for the county Of Butler the undersigned
Guardian of the minor childrsn of John Douglas late of
Winfield township said county, decd will offer for sale at
public vendue the premises Thursday the I'd day Of
June 1854 at o'clock p Of said day the following
described lot Of ground situate in Lcasureyie said town
ship Beginning the street. nflOt No. b. thence
south seyentyone and half degrees west per-
ches to a Black Oak line of W. Hetsegessers heirs
thence along south two and half degrees east
twenty-five perches to post, thence north twenty and
one half degrees east six perches to post thence by lot
No 10 north two and fourth degrees, west twenty
two and one hafperches to place of beginning; contain
ing hundred and fortywO perches which is
ted a dwelling house, ont buildings &c.
TERMs-one third of the purchase money in hand,
and the balance in two equal annual pa, ments with in
teres from the confirmation Of sale by the said Court
ROBERT STEWART,
April o. Guardian
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Orpl,an's Court Sale.

DY virtue Of an order aud decree Of the Orphans
ID Court in and for the county of Butler the undersgn
ed Administrator Of the estate Of Thomas Mccormick
late Of Muidycreek Tp. said county. decd will offer for
sale public vendue, the premises Thursday the
I'd day Of juno, A. d. 1864 at O'clock p m of said day
sixty of land be the less situate in the
township resad bounded the north by lands Of ia
cob Snyder the east by D. Mccullough the south
by Mathew and Thomas Mccullough; on the west by
VIM. Mccullough. Terms of sale third of the pur-
chase money be paid the confirmation of sale by
the Court and the residue in equal payments
with interest from said confirmation. y '-..-.f.tI
.... DAy1DMARsHALL, Admir-.
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AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE
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Orphans Court Sale.

DY virtue of order and decree Of the Orphans Court
ID Of Butler county the undersigned Administrator Of
Cyrus Rosenberg dec d. will offer or sale at public Ven
D. 1854 at O'clock p M. Of said dayone hundred
Of land, less situated in Allegheny town
ship, Butler county Pa, bounded by andsof John and
David Rosenberg, NJ. s. Adams, and others.
TERMs.-0ne third in hand, and the balance In two
equal annual payments with interest from confirmation
of sale
JOHN NJ. TURNER, Adm.
A,.;i
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Executors Notice.

ESTATE OF Wa. MDosALD, DEc'p
yITHEREAs Letters Testamentary have this day been
w granted 10 the undersigned On the estate Of VIM
MDonad late OF Lancaster 1p Butler county Pa dec
therefore all persons knowing themselves indebted said
estate will make immediate payment without delay and
those having claims against the same, will present them
properly authenticated for settlement
sat -s JAMES MORRISON.
May II, 1s64:6t. Executor.
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Administrators Notice.

Estate Of Isaac Stllicagon decd.
yXTHEREAS, Letters Of Administration have this day
w been granted to the undersigned the estate Of
Isaac Stwagon late of Slipperyrock tp., Butler co,
decd therefore all persons knowing themselves indebted
said will make immediate payment without de-
lay and those having claims against the will pre-
sent them properly authenticated for settlement
JOHN j. KELLY,
Butler, April y, Administrator
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stoves, |, stoves u stoves y,

yEyM. & JAS @. CAMPBELL--RopsIsH Hs-Poundry
w South Of the borough of Butler, where Stoves
Pougbs and other castings made. large supply CON
stantly on hsnd and for sale a. reasonable rates.
p-ee fss5.aH
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Auditors Notice.

tn the matter of the petition of Henry Boyer, Admir-
Of John Boyer decd for Auditor TO distribute the
balance In his hands per filed in the Registers
Office, No. 3s, Sept Term 1861, o. Q.
In the Orphans Court of Butler county No. 73 March
Term 1854.
And to wit April 5th, 1864, Court appoint Hugh
C. Graham ESQ., Auditor to distribute the balance Of
the account to those entitled 10 II.
Butler Cbunty,
Certified from the record this 10th day Of April A.
D., 1854 WATSON .. YOUNG, Clk.
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April q tec4 Auditor.
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sar 1t is said dog in Boston has been
named Quota, because he never seems to
be full 4gs-A@ -
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