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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
PROFIT FROM TAXES.

Some parties who are grumbliDg at the
high taxes imposed on articles they manufac
ture, may find some crumbs of comforts in tht
following interview Of manufacturer with
member of Congress.
Mapuf-I came on, sir, to get relief lrou
an oppressive burden on my branch of bust
ness. There are particular reasons why tbs
article L make should be exempted from tht
three per cent tax.
M. C.-What amount do you manufacture
annually
Manuf.-One hundred Thousand dollars
worth, on which | pay three thousand dollars
tax.
NJ. C.-And you reckon the tax you pay
as part of the cost of your article, and add
to it the price, do you not?
Manuf.-Why, yes sir.
M. O.-What average profit do you cal
culate to make on your goods?
Manuf-Fifteen per cent.
NJ. C.-Then you make fifteen per cent. Oh
the amount you pay in taxes, which, if it be
$4,000, will give you $3.50 more profits than
you would get if you paid no taxes. Is it not
so?
The gentleman had no answer prepared for
this question, and the conversation ceased
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
INTERESTING 70 SOLDIERS.

The exhorbitant charges made by claim
agents for collecting bounties and pensions
due soldiers widows, are attracting attention
in the proper quarter, and the legal remedy will
be applied to correct the abuse. The law on the
subject provides that not more than ten dol
lars shall be demanded or received for such
service by agents, and the penalty for violation
is $500 fine, or Imprisonment for two years.
Acase was decided in the United States Court
at Indianapolis, few days ago, in which q
man named Werbe was charged with receiv-
ing an exhorbitant fee for collecting a pension
for soldiers widow. The testimony showed
that he retained $l0O for this service, and the
jury found him guilty. Soldiers should under
stand that it is punishable Otfense for an agent
to receive more than $40 dollars for the ser
vice for collecting bounties or pensions.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
Correspondence of the Delaware Gazette.
From the 45th Regiment Owl.
Editors Gazette:

Editors Gazette:
For the qualification of such of your read
ers as have relatives and friends in the 45th
o. V. l., I have procured Col. Humphreys
official Report of the part sustained by his
regiment in the engagements near Nashville
Tenn, on Dec. 18th and 10th, 1864.
On tie 18th, the Brigade with which the
45th is connected was held in reserve, and
as the advance met with no repuIse they were
not brought into action.
On the morning OF the 10th, they were
placed in the front, and soon after daylight
| commenced feeling for the position of the en-
emy. Our skirmishers soon met those of the
rebels, which we steadily forced back-advan-
cling through heavy fire from their batteries
Until within about 500 yards of their works
The intervening space was nearly level afford
| ing fine sweep for small arms and artillery
Oh our unprotected columns. In this position
we were halted and ordered to construct a
| temporary fortifcation to protect US against
the enemy's fre-which was very annoying
until silenced by our own guns. We were
thus employed until nearly 4 p. NJ, when by
the great increase of firing on our right it be-
came evident that the great struggle was about
to commence. Our suspense was not long
Almost Immediately we were ordered to ad-
vance and assault the works in our front. The
order was obeyed with aacrity. The met
sprung from the ditch, the color-sergean
waved the banner of the 45th, and with
"Yanl1' huzza, we started like a whilwind for
the enemys works. The attempts of the enc
my to check US were vain. Our column halt
ed not until we possessed the works. We cap
tured many prisoners and small arms, aDd the
45th, together with the 5lst o. V. L, 2Ist Ky.
and Goth Ills, composing the front line of our
Brigade, captured battery of field pieces.
1t was now nearly night-fa, and though
wearied we pushed on in pursuit of the flying
foe, capturing prisoners and trophies contin
ually, until darkness compelled US to halt
Then almost exhausted we bivouaced for the
night.
Thus ended the battle resulting in one of
the most complete victories of the war. Dur
ing the whole affair officers and men alike did
their duty nobly. Col. Humphreys exhibited
great gallantry. Adjt. w. NJ. Williams and
1t. Alex. g. Henderson were complimented
in official reports for gallant conduct. Ser
geant-Major McMillen and Sergeant New
house showed themselves heroes. In fact, Del
aware may we'll be proud of ali her boys in
the 45th.
l will not send you the casualty list as none
from Delaware county are included in it.
r. PRATT, 5Ist o. Y. l.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
GnRNS.

Many persons, live in continual martyrdom
from these painful excresences.. How to gel
rid of them is question they often ask very
anxiously. Often the remedy tried is as bad
if not worse than the disease itself. A very
simple and efectual plan as we know by act
ual experience, is to put an adhesive wool
plaster having hole in the centre, and ap-
ply little sweet oil to the corn night and
morning. By persevering in this course for
a short time, the corn will scale off until not
vestage OF it is left. Most druggists keep
the plasters we refer to; but good substi-
tute for them may be made withssny thick
cloth about the size and shape of copper
cent, with a hole in the centre to admit the
head of the corn, and fastened to the place BY
some adhesive substance. The plaster keeps
the shoe from pressing on the tender spot
and the oil softens and loosens the hard sub
stance OF the corn
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
More About Corn snrnr.

The Chicago Tribune Of Monday states
that sugar has been obtained in that city from
corn by very cheap process it is, however,
that variety known as "starch sugar." not
grape" or "cane," possessing but half the
sweetening power of the latter.
According to the Tribune the process was
discovered by Mr.. Hirsch of Chicago, who
states that he can obtain sixty pounds Of au-
gar or seventy pounds Of syrup, from one hun
dred pounds of corn meal, the chief expense
being for fuel. This again loses about 30 per
cent in the refining process. The sugar thus
obtained would cost three or four cents per
pound. Doubling this for the additional guam
tity required to equal the sweetening quality
of cane sugar, apd we have seven to eight
cents as the equivalent of pound Of cane
sugar-a wide difference between this and
twenty-seven cents. The Tribune learns that
company is about to be started in Chicago
for the manufacture OF corn sugar.-[Cleve
land Herald.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
GRI ULTU R A L.
An Argument for Small Farms and High Cultu

An Argument for Small Farms and High Culture
A correspondent of the Providence (R. l., J
Press makes the following statement of the
profits of single acre of land cultivated the
last season by d. 8. Reed, of Bristol, Rhode
Island
The Profits of one acre of Laud.-Noti-
ced in Mondays Press your Statement about
Capt A. b. Chadseys crop of onions and
carrots from IA acres. desire to give YOU
the statement of D. II. Reed, of Bristol
His lot contained one acre, fve-eiRhths
Of which was planted with onions, and three.
eighths devoted to raising onion seed and
some other crops of small account. He sold
in one lot from the fve-eighths of an acre
81 ,24O worth of onions, and has $50 bushels
still on hand, which, at $3.50 per bushel,
would make his crop of onions bring $l,47O.
From the other three-eighths OF the acre be
sold to Burdick & Barrett $500 worth of en-
ion seed, and reserved $l0O worth for his own
use. Now add $75 for good crop of car
rots, put in after taking of the onions and
we have the sum of S2,24s as the yield OF
one acre. The nett income from the arce
was 1000 dollars.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
THE RAILWAY POSTAL sYsTEM.

The labors Of the Post-office Department
during the past year to establish Railway
Pest Offices Oh the different routes Throughout
the country, have been quite successful
When the system is perfected, the Postal cars
will run in unison, so that the delay 10 the dis
tribution of mail matter at certain Offices will
be avoided and all mail matter will be torwar-
ded as rapidly as passengers travel
The system contemplates general distribu-
tion of mail matter for the whole country, for
all small offices along the line of the road, as
we'll as for the larger cities. The system has
been in operation in Illinois, from Chicago to
Clinton, Detroit and Dubuque
Before the end of the present month rail
way Post-offices will run on five of the principal
railroads in the Eastern States besides the
New York and Washington line. The
railroads are the New York and Boston, by
way of New Haven, Springfield and Worces.
ter; the Hudson River Railroad, between
New York, Albany and Troy; the New York
Central between Troy and Buffalo; the New
York and Erie, between New York City and
Dunkirk; aud the Pennsylvania Central, be,
tween Philadelphia and Pttsburg, the cars on
all these routes are in process of construction,
or are finished
30 soon as arrangements can be perfected
there will be railway post-offices from Cleve-
land to St Louis. At present there are two
divisions of the East and West, the boundary
being the East line of Indiana. Mr. G.. B.
Armstrong, of Chicago, has charge of the
western department, and @. E. Wheeler, of
this city, of the EASTERN C CleUeland Leader.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

''aO IT ALONE"
BY JOHN G. SAKE.

There's q game much in fashiOn-I think it's caIie
EEshre-
Through have played it, pleasure luere
In which, when the cards are in certain conditions,
The players appear to have changed their positions,
And one Of them cries, in a confident tsne.
II think may venture to 90 1t alone"
While watching the game tits whim Of the bard's
moral to draw from that skirmish Of cards,
And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife
Some excellent hints for the battle of life:
Where-whether the prize be q ribbon or throne
The winner is he who can ''go it alone 7"
When great Calico proclaimed that the world
In a regular orbit ceasessly whirled,
And got-not a convert-for ali of his pains
But only derisioH, and prison, and chains,
tfIt meves for all tiGti' was his answering tone,
For he knew, like the Earth he could go it alonel
ween Kepler, with intellect piercing afar,
Discovered the laws Of each planet and star,
And doctors, who ought 70 have landed his name,
Derided his learning, and blackened his fame,
81 can todt he replied still the truth you shall
For he felt IN his heart, he could ''go Il alonen'
AIasi for the player who idlv depends.
In the struggle Of life. upon kindred or friends:
Whatever the value of blessings like these,
They can never atone for inglOrious ease,
Nor comfort the coward, who finds with groan
That his crutches have left him to ,gO it aloneP'
There's something no doubt in the hand you may hold
Health, family, culture, wit beauty and gold,
The fortunate owner may fairly regard
As each in its way, most excellent card,
Yet the game may be lost with all these for your
Unless you have the courage to ssgo it alonel'
In battle or business whatever the game
In law or love, it is ever the same:
In the struggle for power the scramble for pelf
Let this be your motto-'t Rely yourself 70
For whether the prize be a ribbon or throne,
The victor is he who can ego it alone'
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
HORRIBLE IRAaEnY.

A most horrible murder was perpetrated a:
| the Ohio Penitentiary yesterday morning
(l9th) at about 81 o'clock, by a negro con-
vict named Edward Alexander Drew, on the
person of Daniel Heavey, one Of the guards
10 the gentlemanly Warden, N. Merton.
Esq, we are indebted for the following par
ticulars 10 connection with this horrible
affair
Drew was sent to the Penitentiary in March,
1860, from Jackson country, for the murder
of his father. He had been addicted to very
Incorporate habits, and subject to fits of in
sanity, with lucid intervals, when be appear
ed pleasant and harmless About six months
ago, be made threats to kill somebody in case
be hid not obtain new trial by the 18th Of
January. On the completion of the new Lun-
attic Asylum at the Penitentiary, Drew was
placed in it. Recently he was let out Of bis
cell to wheel coal, which, it was thought,
would benefit him, as he had had no exercise
for some time Yesterday morning, at the
above stated hour, be left his work and went
to the south side of the east hall. and approach,
ed Daniel Heavey. who was standing near
the stove in the middle of the hall. Heavey
spoke to him, saying, chow are you Drew"
n5 Feplled, pl6aSantly, uFst Ihle; "neu nc
suddenly sprang at Heavey with shoe knife,
stabbiDg him in the left side. under the clavi
Gle, or collar bone, the knife penetrating to
the region Of the heart, and breaking of with
in half inch Of the handle, leaving the blade
in the wound. Drew then struck at couple
of prisoners near by, with the handle of the
knife, making hole in the vest of one of
them. He then ran East, down the hall, and
was pursued by Heavey, who fired pistol at
him. Heavey followed him about sixty yards,
and when near the West end, on the North
side of the hall, fell and died in about fifteen
minutes.
Drew is about 81 years of age, has sharp
black eye, of sallow complexion and is of
medium height. In a conversation with him
subsequent to the MURDER he stated that it had
been his intention to murder either the War
den, the Deputy Warden or Mr.. Heavey, for
sometime past. 1t made no difference to him
which he killed, and if he had met the War
den at the time he murdered Heavey, would
have killed him also. He expressed prefer
enee to being hung than to remain in prison,
He said he found the shoe-knife in bucket in
The yard.-Stdte Journal Jan. 20.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
DON'T go IT ALONE
A TRAVEsTIE.

There's poem by SAKE, very witty, own,
The subject of which is-tGo it Alone -
And the wisdom of which am slow to deride,
For read it with pleasure and profit beside,
And said TO myself, its just you sing,
SeIf-TeliGnee, dear bard, is glorious thing.
And never on others life burdens rIl cast,
But will bear them heroic and brave to the last;
And further, moved, it is noble and grand,
When the storm beats about u.s. unaided to stand;
AS tits lovely the blessings OF sunshine to share,
And shelter the weak with protection and care
But I that my heart has grown fainter of late,
For NY dear Mr.. SAKE, I've been trying to skate;
started forth bravely the ordeal to meet
In my head were your verses and skates my feet.
But the rhyming so smooth, and logic so nice,
Had different look when viewed from the ice.
The standpoint was changed if standpoint it be-
To go pitching about like vessel at sea,
And to find BALI the time, for your struggles and pains
That your heels at least high as your brains:
t'Alonel" 1 exclaimed ssOhl never go it,
And this is what comes Of trusting poet"
No, no, Mr.. SAKE, you may talk as you please;
Galileo, and Kepler, and wortEies like these,
All grandly heroic, defying the Fates,
Could never have gone it alone upon skates.
(Of course, allude to the neophyte sage,
No respecter Of persons, Of youth, or Of age)
For there matrons and maidens with cheeks an agow
As roses would look peeping out from the snow;
There seigneurs most potent, and followers of Mars
And cupids with trowsers, and men with cigars,
Were striving to skate, and by each it was shown,
That in learning this art you can't ego it alone"
MORAL.
Now if, ladies, you'll pardon some feeling advice,
Don't refuse willing hands and warm hearts-on the
Nor anywhere else; for say and knew it,
In spite Of the rhymes Of the Green Mountain poet,
That you'll need in this world Of sunshine and
An arm that is strong, and heart that is warm
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
GERMAN ECONOMY. >

A late tourist in Germany describes the
economy practiced by the peasants as follows;
Each German has his house, his orchard,
his roadside trees, SO laden with fruit that did
be not carefully prop them up, tie them to-
gether, and in many places hold the boughs
together by wooden clamps, they would be
torn asunder by their own weight. He has
his own corn plot, his lot for mangel Wurzel or
hay, for potatoes, for hemp, &c. He is his
own master, and therefore he and his family
have the strongest motives for exertion. In
Germany nothing is lost. The produce of the
trees and the COWS are carried to market
Much fruit is dried for winter use. You see
wooden trays of plums, cherries, sliced apples,
lying in the sun to dry. You see strings OF
them hanging from the windows in the sun to
dry.
The COWS are kept up the greater part of
the year, and every green thing is collected for
them. Every little nook where the grass
grows, by the roadside, river and brook, is
carefully cut by the sickle, aud carried home
on the heads of the women and children 10
baskets or tied in large cloths. Nothing of
the kind is lost that can possibly be of any use.
Weeds, nettles, nay, the very goose gras0 which
covers the waste places, are cat up and taken
for the cows You see the little children
standing in the streets Of the villages, and ip
the streams which generally run down them,
busy washing these weeds before they are
given to the cattle. They carefully collect the
leaves of the marshgrass, carefully cut their
potato tops for them, and even, if other things
fail, gather green leaves from the woodlands"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
HOW 10 ENrER HANrnrKs CORPS.

Gen Hancock issues condensed statement
of the way in which men can get into the First
Corps. First, the men are enlisted aud mus
tered at Washington City. Second, Veterans,
who have served two years, and have been
honorably discharged, may enter for one, two
or three years. Third, those enlisting will re-
ceive Government bounty of $780, and in ad,
dition 800 for one, 5000 for two, and 5000
for three years. Fourth, they will be entitled
to local bOunties Fifth free transportation
to Washington by any Provost Marshal
Sixth, the best arms in possession of the Gov
erment will be furnished them.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
A. I. SECHAND.

EXTENSIVE DISCOVERIES OF SILvER.-The e
Commissioner of the General Land Office has
received intelligence Of the discovery Of rich,
extensive silver mines in Washington terri
tory, along the western slope of the Cascade
Mountains. The oar is represented as exceed
ingly rich, yielding about seven hundred dol
lars to the ton. The lead, which has already
seen traced for more than four miles, is from
beven to fourteen feet thick. 1t is situated
about fifty miles north Of Olympia. Miners
are AOcking in large numbers to this new lei
Dorado Washington Star.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
SORROW.

Nearly all sorrow, while it lasts, depresses
action, destroys hope, and crushes energy; it
renders the sensitive more acute, sympathies
more genial, and the whole character less sell
fish and more considerate. 1t is said that in
nature, but for the occasional season Of drought,
the best lands would soon degenerate these
seasons cause the land to suck up from the
currents beneath, with the moisture, all those
mineral manures that restore and fertilize the
soil above 1t is thus with sickness and sor-
row 'once surmounted, they fertiIize the char
acter and develop from the deep fountains of
the human heart a joy and fruitfulness not
otherwise attainable.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
PASSION FoR DISPLAY.

The world is crazy for show. There is not
one person in thousand who dares fall back
on nothing bat bis real, simple self for power
to get through the world, and extract enjoy
ment as he goes along. There is too much
living in the eyes of other people. 1t requires
rare courage we admit, to live up to ones en-
lightensd convictions in these times unless
you consent to join in the general cheat, you
are josted out of reach; there is no room for
you among the great mob Of preteuders. II
a man dares to live within his means, and ia
resolute in his purpose not to appear more
than be really is, let him be applauded.-
example.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

The Easton (Md) Gazette says that large
numbers Of people from the NortherR States,
and from Western Maryland, have been pur-
chasing land in the Eastern Shore counties
with view to settlement in that section of
the State. Numerous farms have thus chang
ed hands since the adoption of the new Con-
stitution. AT the present time the demand is
so considerable that every steamer or stage
carries greater or less number of buyers,
particularly to Caroline and the lower counties.
The land in Talbot is not in so great request,
because it is in higher state of cultivation,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27
OYERWORK.

UnWise above many is the man who consid-
ers every hour lost which is not spent in read
ing, writing, or in study, and not rational is
she who thinks every moment of her time lost
which does not find her sewing. We once
heard great man advise that book of some
kind be carried in the pocket to be used in case
of unoccupied moments, such was his practice.
He died early and fatuitUus. There are wo-
men, who, after hard days work, will sit and
sew by candle or gass light until their eyes
are almost blinded, or until certain pains
about the shoulders come on, which are al
most unsupportable, and are only driven to
bed by physical incapaeity to work any lon
ger. The sleep of the overwOrked, like that
of those who do not work at all, is unsatisfy-
ing and unfreshing, and both alike wake up in
WEAKNESS, sadness and languor. with an inev-
table result, both dying prematurely. Let
10 one work in pain and WEAKNESS. When a
man is tired he ought to lay down until be is
full rested, when, with renovated strength, the
work will be better done, done the sooner
and done with a selfsustained slacrity. The
time taken from seven or eight hours sleep
out of each twenty. four, is time not gained,
but time much more than lost we can
cheat ourselves but we cannot cheat nature
A certain amount of food is necessary to a
healthy body and if less than that amount be
furnished, decay commences thai very hour
1t is the same with Sleep and any one who
persists in allowing himself less than nature
requires, will only hasten his arrival at the
mad house or the grave. This is especially
tPue of hrain work
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

The Jews in this country have shown a full
share of patriotism since the war begun
From Ohio, 1900 have gone to fight for the
Union flag from New York, 10000; from
illinois, 5000 from Michigan and Wisconsin,
3,oOO and from other States enough to make
n total of 10000.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

A New USE FOR PETROLEUM. Galignani
says that DIR. Decasine, OF Antwerp, announces
that the itch may be cured inst0ntaneOusly by
simply applying without rubbing) petroleum
to the parts affected The mere emanations of
that oil are sufficient to dsiniect the patients
clothes, and DR.. Decasine adds that all other
parasites of the human body may be destroy
ed by the same means.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

James o. Aver, the Sarsaparilla man, pays
an income tax OF $45,95s Mr.. Ralph w.
Emerson, who lives in the same district, pays
81 ,662. The moral of this is that Sarsaparil.
la pays better than literature.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-27

The New York Observer, the religious
wheel-borse of slavery in the past, in now in
favor of abolishing the divine institution by
amending the Constitution.