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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18


When liz hts are seen burning in hi
house before the break of day, in winter
especially shows that the day viii never
break on the breaking in of the winter
of adversely.
When you see him drive his work in
stead of his work driving him, it shows
that he win never be driven from good
resolutions, and that he will certainly
work his way to prosperity.
When house, separate from the
main building purposely for ashes, and
an iron or tin vessel to transport them,
it shows that he never built his dwelling
for funeral pyre for his family, or per
haps himself.
When his hog pen is boarded outside
and in. it shows that he is 'tgoing the
whole hog or none" in keeping plenty
inside his house and poverty out.
When his sled Is safely housed in
summer, and his farming implements
covered both winter and summer, it
plainly shows that he will have good
house over his head in the summer of
early life and the winter of old age.
When his cattle are properly shielded
and fed in winter, it evinces that he is
acting according TO Scripture, which
says that ''a merciful man is merciful to
his beasts" ~
When he IS seen subscribing for
newspaper and paying for it in advance,
it shows that he is speaking like book
respecting the latest movement in agri-
culture, and that he will never get his
walking papers to the land of poverty.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
Queen YIetoria,s DominIans.-

queen of England is now sovereign over
one continent, 100 peninsulas, 500 prom
ontories, 1000 lakes, 1900 rivers, and
10, 900 islands. Her subjects number
more than 150, 100000. BY wave OF
her Ihand she can summon an army of
500, 600 soldiers, and navy of 1000
ships of war, aud 100000 sailors The
Assyrian empire was not so wealthy as
that of Great Britain; the Roman en-
pire was not SO populous; the Persian
empire was not SO extensive; the Arabi-
an empire was not so powerful; the
Carthagenian empire was not so much
dreaded; he Spanish empire was not
so widely diffused.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


SPONGE GINGERBREAD. Take one
pint of molasses, two great spoon
fuls melted butter, one tablespoonful
ginger, one quart sifted -four, one
heaping tablespoonful of saluratus dis
solved in hot water, half pint of milk
Make a hole in the fonr, and put In all
the ingredients, and while working them
together add a great spoonful of vine
gar.
SPICE GINGERBREAD. -Three pounds
-four, one pound butter, one pound moist
sugar, four ounces candied orange or
lemon peel, cut small, one ounce of
powdered ginger, two ounces of pow
dered allspice, one-half ounce OF pow
dered cinnamon, ii handful of caraway
seeds, and three pounds of tracle; rub
the butter with your hands into the
flour, then add the other ingredients,
and mix it in the dough with the tracle !;
make into cakes or nuts, and bake it in
warm oven.
ENGLISH SPICE BREAD.-Take two
quarts of -four one pound of currants,
one pound of stoned raisins, and a quar-
ter of pound of chopped citron. Warm
pint and-a-half of sweet milk, putting
IubO 1t u DleCt VI TIE size Oh dD
egg, and mix with teacup of potato
or bakers yeast teaspoonful of salt,
one egg and half an ounce of cara
way seeds. Mould thoroughly and set
it to rise; when it IS risen bake in broad
pans in moderate oven for an hour
and a quarter.
SALLY LUNNs. eggs, one cup of
milk, one cup of sugar, three of -four,
butter the size of an egg, three tea
spoonfuls of cream tartar, and one and-a
half of soda. Bake in little round tins.
and eat hot for tea.
CANTERBURY PUDDING. Half pound
of beef suet cut fine, half a pound of
grated bread, half pound of powdered
loaf sugar, the juice of one lemon and
its rind grated fine, three eggs, and a
large wine glass of brandy; to be boiled
an hour and quarter, and to be served
up with pudding sauce.
Potato CAKES. Take two pounds
of very mealy boiled potatoes, mash
them very fine with a little salt, mix
them with two pounds of -four, and
milk enough to make this into dough,
beating it up with spoon and put in
little yeast. Set it before the fire to
rise, and when it has risen divide it in
to cakes the size of muffin, and bake
them. These cakes may be cut open
and buttered hot.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
Gathering and Keeping Apples

Gathering and Keeping apples To
secure soundness and preservation, it is
indispensably necessary that the fruit
should be gathered by hand. For win
ter fruit the gathering is delayed as
long as possible, avoiding severe frosts,
and the most successful practice of our
extensive orchardists is to place the
good fruit directly in careful manner
in new, tight flour barrels, as soon as
| from the tree. These barrels should be
gently shaken while filing, and the
head closely pressed in; they are then
placed in a cool, shady exposure under
a shed open to the air, or on the north
side of building, protected by a COW
ering of boards over the top, where they
remain for fortnight, or until the cold
gets too severe, when they are carefully
| transferred to a cool, dry cellar, In
which air can be admitted occasionally
in brisk weather.
A cellar for this purpose should be
dug in dry, gravelly or sandy soil, with
slope to the north, or, any rate, with
Openings on the north side for the adj
mission of air very rarely in weather not
excessively cold. Here the barrels
lshould be placed on the side, and the
cellar should be kept as dark as posi-
BILE. In such cellar, one of the lar
gest apple growers in Duchess county is
able to keep the Greening apple, which,
in the fruit room, usually decays In
January, until the 1st of april, in the
| freshest and finest condition. Some
persons place layer of clean rye straw
between every layer of apples when
packing them in barrels. -Dolsning.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18

SsraWberries.-The rapidity with
which the strawberry prOpagates itself
with runners, makes the formation of
new beds matter of so little difficulty,
| that there is no excuse for those who
neglect making provision for a supply
| of those most delicious Of berries. -
Many persons prefer setting the plants
in the spring, but if the runners are TIA.
ken off now and carefully transplanted,
either where they are to remain or int
nursery beds, to get well established Tor
the next springs planting. they will do
well. Fall setting has this advantage,
that the plants will bear a good supply
of berries the next season. Runners
should be selected only from the most
thrifty and best bearing vines. The
soil to which they are transplanted,
should be well MANFRED before the
plants are set. We have no doubt that
the best berries are produced where the
plants are set In rows and the runners
cut off; but If this is thought too much
work, they may be set in long, narrow
beds, and allowed to cover the ground.
In setting bed of strawberries, at
tention will, of course, be paid to varie-
ty, not only as to the quality and guam.
tity of fruit it produces, but as to wheth-
or its blossoms are stQminate (male) or
pistilate (female.) If of the first, few
imperfect berries may be produced. If
OF the second class, some male plants
must be set in the same bed, or no fruit
will be set. Some of the best varieties
now cultivated are hermaphodite, and
produce fruit when set alone. -EE.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
POETRY.
May and Death.
BY RoBERr BROWNING.

81 wish that when you died last May,
Charles. there had died along with you,
Three parts of Springs delightful things
Ave. and, for me, the fourth par too.
A foolish thought, and worse, perhapsl
There must be many pair Of friends
Who. arm in arm, deserve the warm
Moon-births and the long evenings ends-
So. for their sakes, be May still May
Let their new time as mine OF Old
Do al il did for me; bid
Sweet sights and sounds throng manifold
Only one little sight, one plant,
Woods havein May. that starts up green
Save a sole streak which, so TO speak,
IL Springs blood spllt,Its leaves De'"eoi--
That they might spare: certain wood
Might miss the plant; then loss were
small.
Rut T-whene'er the leaf grows there,
It's drop comes from my heart, that's all
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18

nuIehing. you ever lift board
from the ground in warm weather?
If so, have you noticed the drought
This is ''mulching." But the keeping
the ground moist is not the only bene-
fit of mulch. The moisture that is de-
posted beneath the mulch is the warm
air coming in contact with the cool
ground. This air always contains more
or less fertilizers IL the form of vapor.
And this vapor is arrested by cold air
coming in contact with the warmer
Everybody can see, if they will, that
piece of land kept covered instead OF
bare, will increase in fertility, while a
piece of land left naked, will continu-
ally grow poorer. If farmer leave a
! covering of grass upon the ground dur
ing the winter, he will find it will pay
him well in the increase of the crop,
| while the naked ground is liable to lose
not only what grass there is by winter
killing, but less and less grass will
grow where it is all fed off close in the
fall. An apple tree will be made to
grow, simply by covering the ground
with stones about the roots. And ]
have seen grapes growing out of a pile
of stones, loaded with fruit, the stone
heap acting as a mulch, and keeping
| the ground at AN even temperature,
which is so essential in growing grapes,
never permitting the ground to bake.
Keep your ground under the pillow we'll
worked, and don't let your pastures be-
come baked, either in summer or win
tel. GernedntOlCn telegraph.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
Henry Ward Beeoher delivered Il

Henry Ward Beecher delivered the
funeral address over the remains of the
gallant Colonel Dahlgren at Washing
ton, Tuesday. The President and 9TH
er Government officials were present,
and at the close of the remarks, the
President, at his own request, was in
troduced to Mr.. Beecher.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18

"A recent letter from San Francisco
states that the Unitarian minister there,
Mr.. Stebbins, has salary of Sc, 600 in
gold, and the congregation have mark
ed the close of first year of his ministry
by a present of $4,000 in gold. In adj
dition to this, he is to have an assistant
in his labors,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18
Signs Of a Prosverous Farmer.

We clip from an exchange the follow
ing appropriate observation on the signs
of a successful farmer, and we earnestly
commend them to the consideration
of every thoughtful reader: s
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18

The Soldiers Fair closed in Phila-
delphia on Saturday night. after adj
dresses by General Meade and others.
The total receipts amounted to $50. 900.
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13

EY@Daniel L. Gibbons of Boston, Treasury
Agent at Mobile, committed suicide by cutting
his throat on the I'd inst.
g3-The Washington Star, says: sReports
now arriving at the Bureau of Refueees,
Freedmen, &C., give highly encouraging ac-
counts of the manner in which the business of
the Bureau is being carried on in the south
western states. Hospitals and camps are being
provided for the sick freedmen, and a large
number have already been established. Homes
are being furnished and work supplied to great
numbers of the idle and suffering. The num-
Der of those supported by the government is
daily diminishing, as the freedmen gradually
fall into employment, and are thus converted
from idle consumers to producers"
E9~Prof Laboulaye, Professor of Compara-
tive Legislation at the College of France and
the warm and fast friend of America. who is
now suffering from weakness of the ewes which
commands certain amount of repose, is going
to avail himself of this opportunity to make a
visit to the United States The Paris CORES
pondent of the N. Y. Times, who makes this
statement, remarks "There are no honors YOU
can confer upon this distinguished man which
he has not merited by his vigorous and persis-
tent defence of America and her institutions
under all circumstances" EFtEg "a
EY@ 1t is rumor9d that Bennett of the Herald
has taken orders for the priesthood. One might
infer as much from his recent article on the
theatres. Hitherto he has belonged to the
beast-hood-[Saturday Press.
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

gB A subscriber to the Bath Times threat
ems to stop his paper if the editor says any
more about the advantages of advertising, as
IL hurts his business, he being too mean TO iee
the public know what he has got SELL VI
course the Times tells him to go to H-a'ifax.
Heis probably the same man VINO VIII LOU pay
for ointmen, to cure his children OF the itch,
because he is SO stingy that he can't bear to
have them part with anything they happen to
get.
gs5- Reuben Townsend, of Jay, committed
suicide on Thanksgiving Day, by hanging him
self in his barn.
Gg- Hon. Moses Mason, of Bethel, has
caught eight skunks in a trap at the mouth of
his cellar drain, and continues to catch about
one day, says the Democrat.
gY- On Monday, two young ladies of Linn
erick, than whom none in town can boast of bet
ter parentage or more beauty, wheeled to mar
ket nearly one hundred pounds of lard, an af-
fable clerk offering them five cents per pound
above the usual price-upon condition that
they should cart it themselves.
EtB@ The Saco Democrat says that at a dis
turbance in Limerick Thanksgiving evening, a
young man named Macarthur, son of James
Macarthur of Limington, was badly injured in
the head.
DY" A petition is to be presented to the next
Legislature for charter granting the use of
the Saco River between Bar Mills and Modera-
ton Village, for steamboat navigation.
va The editor of the Belfast Age had given
him plate of honey, which was taken from a
chimney in which swarm of bees lodged last
June. After examining several chimneys in
the neighborhood, they selected this one which
had never been used, and remained through
the season. The bees were taken up last week,
by breaking hole in the chimney in the attic,
and about 80 lbs of honey secured. ..s.t
Esf- The Journal says that one of the cler-
gymen of Lewiston remarked in sermon on
Sunday, that he was told that the preceding
Sabbath there were more people around the
Indian encampment in Auburn, than in all
the churches ! The Journal thinks something
should be done, and asks what, to correct this
anti-church going spirit. We would suggest
that more interest be created in the church.
more attraction, if you please 1t is not to the
credit of the church that it has less attractive
power than an Indian wigwam. ''
% A correspondent of the Bangor Whig
says that while Liyey Penney, of Clifton, and
Ivory FL. Day, of East Eddington, were blast
ing rocks in the latter town on Friday last, Mr..
Day was instantly killed by fragment of a
rock falling upon him after discharge. The
other man, though within two feat, was unin-
jured. Mr.. Day was % years of age, but left
no family of his own, though he was the only
support of widowed mother.
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
The Canker Worm.

At meeting of the Portland Society of
Natural History, held on Wednesday evening,
Edward S. Morse communicated the following:
Having noticed the Canker-worm moth de-
posting its eggs in several parts of the city,
and not aware that we have ever suffered from
their ravages, I thought it would be well to
describe their appearance, and mention also
the common mode resorted to in order to
check their increase.
|, The devastating effects of this insect in
Massachusetts and further South. should warn
us to be ready for them, in case they should
make then appearance here in numbers
The female moth has no wings, is oval in
shape, dark gray colored, and about third of
an inche long. The insect is very sluggish in
its movements and can be easily caught and
destroyed They deposit their eggs on the
trunks and branches of trees about the middle
or last of March, though few are seen depos-
iting in warm days in November. The eggs
are very minute and are glued together, side
by sidein numbers Of from fifty to one hun
dred. The worm matches from the egg in
May. and commences feeding on the tender
buds and leaves; it is not till June however
when the foliage is thickest and the worm
most voracious that their rayages are noticed.
10 protect the trees, it is necessary to prevent
the females from ascending the trees for the
purpose of depositing their eggs. This can be
done a1 by painting broad strip of tar round
me trunk, or better still, by making clay
! ]. belt about ten inches wide, and coat
les tnat with tar, and then there is no danger
" tile trees being injured by the tar. These
are Ine cheapest and most effectual modes,
PROVIDED the tar be renewed at intervals
NICE trees are often protected by making
wooden trough round the base of the tree and
filling with tar or oil. IN >'->,-l'---
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
.OThe Temperance co,, No..

Mr.. EDITOR :TAre. the friends of temper-
ance aware how much they are indebted to
the orignators of this moral and intellectual
entertainment, and how strongly they are
are bound to sustain it?
From the indications at the first lecture, 1 fear
the credit Of our good people will not be sus-
tanned by the patronage to this Course. Tenn
peranee is indeed at discount, hut shall some
OF the best speakers in the country be allow
ed to speak to small audiences simply because
temperance is the theme -t'r'.5ar r
!. a 10 ald a good cause, these young men, the
: Templars." have instituted this method of
drawing the public attention to palpable du
". Their programme is rich and varied. and
our people are proyerbial for their liberajity in
patronizing popular lectures.
here is Course which beside intellectual
entertainment, calls to mind the claims of A
great moral enterprise. -
largely, and thereby secure TO Themselves s'e an
opportunity Of doing and receiving good.
which they cannot afford to loseP B.
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
Oficial Test Oaths-Again.

The Advertiser contains, from the pen of the
editor, an elaborate reply to our articlelof few
days since on official test oaths, in which it in
sists that Judge Marshalls remarks which we
then quoted, in which he said Congress might
''superadd to the oath directed by the eonsti-
tuition such other oath of office as IFS. wisdom
might suggest" do not apply to the case in
point, and afford no authority for congress to
prescribe such test oath as that reqtiifed.by
the act fully 2, 1862. .,a.oni ~
Alter giving its own views of the purpose,
bearing and intent of Judge Marshall's Ian
guage, the Adce,tise7, says: 4 q
"yiewing tile. dctum in this, its only proper
pect, aad it is both sound in theory and nay be
full in practice BUTT touches not the poaU Of one
condit on ct membership by the Constitution, TO the
members Of d'otheror s'scceeda''g Congress-"
This is the point which our contemporary
makes, and right Or wrong, we shall rot spend
time or ink in combating it, SO long as, for all
parctical purposes, it admits all we need con-
tend for. The logic if not the express Ian
guage Of the above is, that each House has
right to prescribe a test oath, not required by
the Constitution, for its oacss members, though
not for the members of a succeeding House.
Now both Hou-es, in their joint capacity, did
prescribe test oath, in July, 'S2 J, and the new
Congress of '63, by general understanding, by
tacit agreement, considered the same oath
binding upon the members ofits. Houses, and
now the Con gress of 1866, which has just as
sembed, by its non-action, has endorsed the
same cath, and SO will every succeeding Con
gress until one is elected the majority OF
whose members take exceptions to it, when
the rule may be set aside. Whether that time
will ever arrive we pretend not to say; that it
has not yet arrived we are fully convinced, and
all the sitting members of both Houses hav-
ing taken this Oath, we do not believe they
will let down the bars Tor the accommodation
of men whose hands have been raised agains
the nations life. The test oath is secure fol
the present Congress at any rate,-so we be
lieVe, and before another Congress shall have
been elected it is hoped the Southern people
will have learned wisdom, SO that none ba,
men who have been constantly loyal to tho
Constitution and flag will be allowed to come
up to Washington knocking for admittance al
the doors of the national council chambers
If they should not prove to be thus wise, it il
hoped there may be found firmness and patri
ottsn enough in the country to Keep those
doors barred against all past traitors. 81
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
F, and guilty on the second, of intent to

ing), and guilty on the second, of intent to
steal. ---.sss- .-7s=-=-4 81
Barney Holland was arraigned on an indict-
ment charging him with receiving stolen
good-the pistols, &C., stolen by McCaferty
from the store of G. L. Bailey. He pleaded
not guilty, and his trial was set down for We'd
nesday.
James Devine was put upon trial for la1-
ceny of three pairs of pants from Abiel NJ.
Smith. Not finished.
NJ. NJ. Butler. 4 y { J.ODonnell.
The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
SYlogistic Reasoning.


The Argus is great on sylosisms. Aele. is
one: The Press praises Fred. Douglass lee
tura Fred. Douglass severely censured Pres
ident johnson. Ergo the Press is opposed to
President Johnson's administration. -
Suppose we try our hand The Argus pre-
u, tends to respect Thomas Jefferson Jefferson
was Dei5t Ergo the Argus rejects the
Another.-The argus abuses Edwin NJ
Stanton. Mr.. Stanton is in,favor ofupholdlns
the Government and putting down treason - :.
Ergo the Argus is a traitor! %.
"a, The reasoning in the above is all of the
same conclusive character. 1.-THE logic Of the
first is sound, that of the two last cannot be
gainsayed. 8eH tBHhMst9 90
The Press INDUCED in no praise Of what Nj.
Douglass said adverse to President johnson
? Mr.. Douglass eompl aimed that President John
son, when addressing men who had laid tneiI
lives upon the altar OF country wnlch nAa
sanctif1ed the slavery Of their race ana VINO
were covered with the smoke and dust OF bat
tie, MANY of them bearing honorable scars,
and some OF them legless or armless or other
wise manned for life, should admonish them
to 20 home and prove by their acts that they
were worthy of selfgoyenment Mr. Doug
lass thought such men had already given the
highest proof OF such worthiness, and that
such advice, under such circumstances, and.
to such men, was in bad taste, if not insulting.
We think it will be much easier for the argus
to vapor and talk about the "nigger Douglass
than to convince candid, loyal men that Mr..
Douglass, himself colored man once slave,
and who had given son to his country
cause, did not have, in the circumstances,
some grounds for his complaint. 81
Mr.. Douglass did not say President johnson
was traitor, as the Arglts charges, or that
he was worse than jeff Davis, but he did say,
there was lower depth than jeff Davis had
touched, and the nation would find it II, after
invoking the aid Of the negro To put down a.
rebellion gotten up by his master, and i, thu 2
10 putting eternal enmity between them, il.
should now, in its safety remand and abandon I
that negro to the control and tender mercies
of the master whose treason lie had aided to
put down, and whose anger and hatred he
had incurred. We think Mr.. Douglass was
right in this, and that the sArgus, in oppos-
ing such an idea, only proves that it has al
ready reached that lower depth. tsstSS