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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05

We hope that we do not greatly annoy our
cotemporaries who see fit to descant on
''The Tribune's hostility to Gen. Grant, II
''hatred of Grant," &C., when we say that
the Generals testimony before the Impeach-
ment Cmmittee (printed exclusively in our
last issue) proves him an able, sagacious,
thoughtful patriot, who can hardly fail to
serve his country with usefulness and honor
In any trust which she may dcvolve on him.
His early, resolute, persistent opposition to
President Johnson's efforts to have Gen. Lee
and other Rebel chiefs, whom he (Grant)
had paroled, arrested and tried for treason,
with the general humanity ind moderation
of his views as to the treatment of the de-
teated Rebels, prove him far more than a
successful Gencral-show that his character
embodies some Of the higher elements of a
broad and generous craftsmanship. These
views, we know, are substantially identical
with those of President Lincoln, Chief Jus.
ticc Chase, and nearly all our really great
men, Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens forming the
only conspicuous exception); but he Is now
seen to have not only entertained but ex-
pressed them a. time when Executive
power and popular clamor were fiercely
hostile, and when we were enduring and
defyIng prescription and fierce denunciafion
for frankly avowing them. The storm has
since spent Its fury; so that we trust Gen.
Grant will stand higher with the great mass
OF his countrymen for the evidence now Civ
en- to the public that he was sane, even
when johnson was goading the public mind
to frenzy by daily harangues importing that
treason was crime, traitors must be punish
ed, &c, &c,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
The q War ofRaces >,

II is with profound and painful regret that
every lover Of law, liberty, and good gov
ernment--in short, every intelligent and re-
fiecting person, has witnessed the s'war of
races" already inaugurated by portion Of
the white race against the blacks in this
State, and which is strongly recommended
by most Of the press of Virginia. For what
else is it, when one race arrays itself against
another and declars there is no more peace
between u.s." and undertakes to punish every
man Of color who refused to exercise his law
full privilege otherwise than as directed by
the Democracy? The universal cry of the
rebel is, that no employment shall be given
in the future to any who would not 'fbend
the knee to Baal," and vote for those by
whom they supposed their dearest rights
would be endangered. Ifthis policy is to be
carried out, then it turns near ninety -thous-
and 900, ,000) poverty stricken paupers, will
Hing to labor for their living, loose upon the
community at the commencement of winter
to support themselves as best they can.
For If they cannot live by fair means, by
foul they must and WiU it is necessity
forced upon them, necessity for which
they are not responsible; a necessity that
will drive them to desperation, and ulti-
matcly to system of retaliation, than which
nothing can be more frightful and horrible.
.-LOu(lOltp YQ) StIuzHr(Z
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
The Condition of the south.

Those who have watched the latest reports
to the Freedmen's Bureau of affairs in the
South, doubtless notice that there are by far
fewer collisions between Blacks and Whites,
within the past three or four months, then for
any equal period since the close of the war.
Notwithstanding the cry of war Of races
and the "specdy determination of the ne
gross" this fact shows quieter condition
Of society in general, and lessening anti
pathy to, and hatred of the Freedmen by
their late masters, and the "poor white
trash" 1t is the nature of men to defer to
power, wherever it is located, or by whom
soever held; and events have sufficiently
shown that our Southern friends are no ex-
ception to this law. In word, the political
status of the negroes is beginning to be felt.
The more firmly their political equality is
maintained the less we will hear Of angry
encounters between white men and freed
men in the South. And when at last the
natural equilibrium is established we shall
hear of them no more.-N. Y. Tribune.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
Ghe Hoasehuld.


To keep Pumpkins.
As they are so apt to decay, before using,
an excellent way is to stew them down well,
and add half a pound of sugar 10 one OF
pumpkin, stew together, then put away in
jars covered well to use through the winter.
stcwed Beef -''
Take shank of beef, with all The meat
belonging TO it, put into pot-iull of water
early in the morning, throw in several
spoonfuls OF salt. Let it simmer very slow
ly till the beef is soft, and leaves the bone
Peel some potatoes, cut into quarters, and
throw in, with two teaspoonfnls of black pep
per two of sweet marjoram, two of thyme,
or summer savory Add some celery favor
ed. Cook it, until the potatoes are done,
but not mashed. Take diy bread, and
threw in, breaking in small pieces, and
when soaked take up the whole, and serve
il, and every one will like il, those who love
onions, slice in four or five with the rota-
toees.
BaIxed Fish. 4sf
Cod, bass, and shud are good for baking
Stuff them with seasoning made of bread
crumbs, or crackers, butter, salt, pepper, and
if you like, spices. Put the fish in bake
pan, with tea-cup OF water, and bit OF
butter, bake from forty five to sixty minutes.
scolIoped Oysters.
Take the Oysters from the liquor, and
place some at the bottom of dish, then
CRATE some bread over them, a little nutmeg,
pepper, salt and cloves. Add another layer
of oysters, and the seasoning, with little
butter. Repeat till the dish is filed, cover
the whole with grated bread, adding more
butter, and bake half an hour, or perhaps a
little more. There will be liquor enough,
without water being added, unless more is
desired; in that case, add little oyster
liquor. The spices also can be omitted, to
those who prefer it without. This is fine
dish for breakfast or tea, served up hot in
the same dish in which ii was baked.
Frixzled Beef.
Shave fine, smoked beef, pour on boiling
water to frcshen It, pour off the water, and
fry, or frizzle in butter, stirring il up mean
while, few minutes is sufficient. Suitable
for breakfast or tea. tiHlf
Egg Frixzlc.
Treat beef in the same manner as above,
adding two or three eggs, which stir, until
the egg is hardened.
Baked Beams.
Pick over the beans the night before, and
put them in warm water to soak where
they will keep warm all night. Next morn
ing pour off the water, and add boiling
water, and let them stand, and simmer till
the beans are soft, put in with them nice
pelce of polk, tho skin gashed. Put them
into the deep dish In which they are to
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
Labor and Luck.

The mere fact that you are obliged to
labor is not misfortune. The mere fact
that your labor produces slow results is hot
misfortune. The thing you desire as an
alleviation would be the greatest curse to
you. Do not be ashamed of that place
where God hiss shut you up. God has put
your tasks upon you, and remember that
your enjoyment is to consist in the essen
tial manliness Of your nature. It is to con
sist in the active use of those forces which
God has endowed you with, wherever his
province has put you. And If he has with
held from you some of those enjoyments
which he has granted to others, be assured,
If you are faithful, that in some way they
will be made up to you. Do not be
ashamed of hardships. Stand to it and
fight out your battle. See to it that what
ever you lose-whether it be money, or
place, or what not-you do not lose man
hood, or courage, or honesty. or simplicity,
or truthfulness. Stick to them. They are
half your life tlla I1a
think If you were TO go from man to
man, in all the ordinary channels of life,
you would find very few men, If you took
them at that hour when they made their
secret complaints. who did not labor under
the impression that though they should be
resigned to their condition, 1t was condi-
tion of misfortune that they were obliged to
exert themselves. The young man., be-
ginning in life, says to himself 'sI am
obliged to rise early, and sit up late and
labor incessantly; but hope for better
time" All, yes! that better time is the
FOOLS paradise of laziness. He is obliged to
work now but he look forward to the time
when he will not be under the necessity of
working. He points to the favored sons, as
he calls them, of rich men, who were not
born to work, and who are useless and
worse than useless in society, and laments
that, instead Of fhaying their good fortune, he
is doomed to a life of severe toll. But l
tell you, what you call good fortune has
BEEN their ruin, and the necessity of laboring
has been your salvation. 1t has been that
which has made you what you have been,
and what you are still. 1t has been a token
of Gods mercy to you. And instead of be-
moaning your condition, thank God for it.
II. w. Beecher. a4l ..s
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
From the South Corner.
FRANKFoRD, Sussex Co.,
Del. Nov. 37. 1867.

OCi., NOf. louf-
Messrs. E'ditors.-In former letter
very briefly noted few of the more con.
spicuous characteristics peculiar to our soil
The extent of our farm-limits also makes us
rather remarkable in a section located as this
with recent slave-holding surroundings. In
communities where slavery existed there
was continually increasing desire to add
acre to acre, thus year after year enlarging
the territorial limits of the plantation, until
it became totally unmanageable Not SC
here, however. If acre was added to acre,
it was to swell the number of distinct farms,
and not the size of one. Farmers here are
content with from 20 to 15O acres, to the
farm and these acres they stock well, drain
well, and cultivate well. 1t is true, but lii.
tie beside corn is grown, but that we have
of superior quality, and in abundant quan.
tity. II the season be favorable, every far
mers crib is filled to its utmost capacity, fol
home consumption, while sufficient is dis
posed of to Law in store other essentials. and
either invest in another little farm or dror
into the till of the "old chest" the yery val
liable residue, to be called for when mos,
needed, and this valuable residue is never
called for except in cases of ertreme neces
sity and then only, when handsome reye
nue. may be secured to swell the principal
A more independent and contented peopl,
can seldom be found than here. None O
the consummate nonsense of "high life" dis
turbs their quiet fireside, nor obtrudes upor
that far richer quiet that reigus within the
minds deep and unseen chambers. Theil
homes are just sufficiently large to give solio
comfort; furnished with the real s,s5stan
tials of housekeeping; and encircled by sucl
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
Crops and the Poultry Disease.
KENT Co., November 2

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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
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virginia Rebel violence.

A case has just been brought to oar
knowledge illustrating the state Of public
sentiment in Virginia. One of the Republic
can candidates for the reconstruction con-
vention in Fauquier county was Mr.. Solo
mon Hoge, a well-to-do farmer, living be-
tween Middleburg and Upperville, in the
Loudoun Valley Mr.. Hoge is native Vir-
ginian, of Quaker descent and is spoken of
as gentlemen of most kind and inoffensive
temper, against whom none who know him
can make any charge save the objectionable
one ofbeing Union man. 1t is even said
that during the war this fact was the means
ofsaving much property to many of his rebel
neighbors, as he, out Of sympathy and a
desire to lessen their sufferings, used the in
flucnce which his known loyalty gave him
to intercede for them with officers comand-
ing Union troops, and thus procured them
guards for their property, and otherwise
rendered them services in their time of need
which should never have been forgotten.
Now, mark rebel gratituie By coming
forward as a Republican candidate for the
convention he famed to flame the sparks
OF hatred and prejudice already existing
against him, and there seems now to be
determination to drive him from his home.
Threats were freely used for some time, and
one night last week the execution of them
commenced with the burning of his barn and
the grain and other property which 1t con-
tanned, involving in all loss Of some five
thousand dollars. The Union men of Fau-
quier county, especially the few men of
wealth who come within that category, are
now in daily dread of similar outrages, with
which they are openly threatened. and some
of them fear that unless they can obtain mil
itary protection they will be obliged to leave
the State. This is one ofthe results of the
n-,.x -. H. FL I.A IL
the rebels during the war drew encourage
ment from Copperhead victories to continue
the contest, they now interpret the successes
Of the same party as affor6i ing them carte
blanche for the persecution of Union men
and return to their old system Of crushing
freedom ofspeech and opinion. = Washing
ton Chronicle. 8iiss ,-...5.. -. .,....'-5
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05

daughters, and hoydenish widows, mus
take that prominent place in the socia
world which maternity and household cares
fit them to fill worthily and with beautiful
grace They must see that instead of ignor-
ing them, society honors and welcomes
them most cordially We conceive O
thorough change in this respect to be of pre-
eminent importance. Now, woman who
becomes wife and mother, let her be
young, intelligent, fascinating, talented as
she may, is lost to society in great meas
ure; and yet such woman is the very one
ofAll others who should be its brightest and
choicest ornament Because she has sweet
ly and ncbly assumed natural duties, must
she henceforth let all her talents rust from
disuse, and become mere drudge and
slave? 1t is a false and melancholy custom,
based upon the most unsound principles,
and 1t must be done away with.
The laws Of Nature are the laws of God,
and marriage and maternity are among their
primary requirements. Docs not this en-
little need to assert that any violation of
these laws is criminal; but we must realize
that such wholesale violation of them as is
now habitual and almost universal, rather
than exceptional, can only result in irretriev-
able social ruin.
But beneath all that frivolousness and
thoughtlessness which characterize the
fashionable women of America to-day
beneath that artificial and unhealthy super
hciallty which has been gratiHed upon them
by unnatural and foreign influences, there is
still sterling sense of trnth and right; and
however 1t may be hidden or trodden upon,
1t will assert itself when occasion demands.
In this underlying, too often quiescent princi-
pie, rests our best hope for the future. Many
times within the last decade, 1t has shown
unmistakably and triumphantly that, if it
sleeps at times,it never dies; that 1t is equal
to the most trying emergencies; and in many
directions it has been already aroused to new
life and activity. The hour is ripe for re-
form-for the purging of society from those
dangerous errors which cling to 1t like leech-
es, and like them feed upon its best blood
and truest life. Surely such facts as those
presented by DR.. Allen will not appeal to
American women in vain.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
farllt \ fireside,

ONE OF OUR leading scientific men, gen.
tleman whose intimate acquaintance with
Agricultural Chemistry renders his produc-
tions on that subject exceedingly valuable,
promises to write for this department of the
TRIBUNE. He will contribute, shortly, an
Introductory essay on the mistakes in estf-
mating the value of manures, by their ap-
parent effects on crops, or to be brief
" Empirical Agriculture.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
Shelter for Fruit.
BY A MILL CREEK FARMER.

1t is the common experience of fruit grow
ers on the Atlantic coast that their business
is becoming every year more precarious.
Forty years ago, a good crop of apples was
the rule, and failure the exception. Now
we get crop once, perhaps, in five years
depending on the accident of favorable
season, produced by atmospherical causes,
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-05
Literary Notes.

Houghton's fine Juvenile publication, The Riy-
erside Magazine for Young People," embraces
some exceedingly attractive features. The new
volume will be the second, and The publishers
promise to maintain, in the future, the reputation
thus faruwon. Their purpose Ia 10 satisfy the
varied taste of the younger people with whole
some and enjoyable reading matter, accompanied
by Illustrations excellent In art and interesting In
subject. In future, the fu-pagc illustrations, 1t
Is stated, will be Of more uniform merit. Among
the llst of artists engaged the names Of Steph
ems. Herrick, Mast noppln, Porte Crayon, and
Others. The list of contributors embraces jacob
Abbott, Helen @. Weeks, Alice and Phoebe Cary,
Mary E. Dodge, and others equally well known
Porte CrayoD, the famous and funny, who has
so long added pleasant pnges to Harper's Maga-
zine, Is to write series Of sketches, which, as
usual, he will illustrate, called "Thc Little vir-
sinians."
The terms Of the Riverside are $3.50 per annum,
In advance. Lower rates are offered to clubs, and
many premiums Ef r.z T-
The GALAXY, for December, concludes its serial
story, by Mrs. R. H. Davis, awaiting for the
Verdict" The more piquant and readable serial,
Steven Lawrence, Yeoman," ia continued, and
docs not lose its interest. The other contents,
'u'' nion.n' are democracy. by Walt Whit
man our Golden Wedding" by I. W. Par
SUNS Inc drunken Drama, by Olive Logan ;
nOa',ng' py D. M; Words and Their Uses, "
by Richard Grant White; "a Note or Two on
music oy M. A. Caryi "small Planters In the
SOUTH oy james y. Noyes How the Spirits
iormented NE by Richard rockingham. 2
ink HERALD or HOLINESS, the Methodist
magazine, edited md published by Alfred T.
n'o.', Vi 'ne rnliadeipha conference has issued
@ II, second number. The publication is conduct
~ eh.lrely In wilmington, and addresses Itself
though Its deeply religious spirit and decidedly
rp''a' 'one' mgn' commend IL 70 many besides.
,ais number In topographic neatness is de-
elaea Improvement on the first Issue. In refer
enee 10 Its object, the publisher In his prospec-
'ns, % says'-s el
The Herald is designed to lead all to become
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- fHafi
When the lessons and tasks arc all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
The little ones gather around me, f
To bid me goodnight and be kissed;
Oil the little white arms that encircle 4,
Ny neck in their tender embrace;
OF the smiles that are halos OF heaven. I'll
Shedding sunshine Of love on my face. =
And when they are gone, sit dreaming
Ofmy childhood, too lovely 10 last; o.
Ofjoy that my heart will remember.
While It wakes to the pulse Of the Past;
Kre the world and Its wiclredness made me
A partner ofSorow aAd Sin.
When the glory Of God was about me,
And the glory Of gladness within
All my heart grows as weak as a womans.
And the fount Of my feelings will flow, 'N
When think Of the paths, steep and stony.
Where the feet Of the dear ones must 60;
or the mountains Of Sin hanging DER them,
OF the tempests Of Fate blowing wild;
OIL there's nothing on earth half so holy, iii
As the innocent heart Of childi
They arc idols Of hearts and Of households,
They are angels Of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses-
His glory still CLEANS In their eyes;
Oh! those truants.f from homo and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild,
And know, now, how Jesus could liken
The kingdom Of God to child.
l ask not life for the dear ones,
All radiant, "a others have done;f
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare OF the sun; sfl ii
Iwotld pray God to guard them from evil.
But my prayers would bound back to myself
All! seraph may pray for sinner
But sinner must pray for himself.
The twlg Is so easily bended,
have banished the rule and the rod;
have taught them the goodness of knowledge;
They have taught me the goodness Of God:
My heart is the dungeon of darkness.
Where shut them for breaking a rule; w
My frown Is sufficient correction;
My love is the law Of the school. str
Ishall leave the old house in the Autumn,
To traverse its threshold no more
Ali how shall sigh for the dear ones, 1
That meet me each morn at the door; s-s
shall miss the ''good.nights" and the kisses,
And the gush Of their innocent glce;
The group on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning for me.
shall miss them at morn and at even
Their song in the school and the street; ''''
shall miss the low hum Of their voices,
And the tramp Of their delicate feet.
When the lessons Of life are all ended,
And Death says: 1.-THE scheol Is dismisfed!"
May the little ones gather around me. M
To bid me goodnight and be kissed.