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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21
Don't Use Anything Else!

~ Dodds Nervlne contains no OPIUM or other
poisonous ingredient. For sale by all Druggists.
Price One hollar per bottle.
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No. 10 Fulton Street, New York
". y. Phillips & Co, Wholesale Agents Tor Maine
October 10. 1851. W&S1Y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21

The report that brig Lie Houghton was spoken
short OF provisions the 10th inst is erroneous;
the contrary she supplied the vessel that so re-
ported her, 1.-THE schr Day break, oil Stockholm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21

MIR. EDIToR:-In the Press of yesterday ap-
peared call from the Young Mems Christian
Association, inviting 'the many ,houghtless
young men of this city to the Wednesday and
Saturday evening prayer meetings at the Y. NJ.
G. A. Rooms" was glad to see this invita-
ton to the young men. hope to see on some
future occasion an urgent call upon all, young
and old, to meet at the same place, not only to
pray, but learn more of God and of spirit life,
and of friends passed over Jordan, and how to
live in this life in good health to good old
age, loving all, doing good to all, believing G od
is our father, that in Him We live, move and
have our being and that, therefore, we cannot
be damned unless He is.
And now, Mr.. Editor, may be permitted,
in order to give young men and old an oppcr-
tunity to learn more ofthis world and the next,
in both of which we are living at the same
time, to invite them to visit Temperance Hall
tomorrow at and 1-2 p. M, to listen 10 S,
j. Finney. of New York, one of the most eIe-
quent inspirational speakers of the new relig-
ious era. Mr. Finney was among the first to
be press-ganged by the spirits into service; and
so energetic and successful has he been in rails
ing and drilling troops to do battle with moral
and religious errors, that he is, in some places,
chilled Gen. Finney, of the United States Spir-
ituai service. Some years ago Mr.. Finney was
in Portland on recruiting service, and formed
the nucleus of a young regiment, which many
have since Joined, and which will, it is expect
ed. be reviewed by him in Tenn e-ance Hall at
10 IL tomorrow forenoon. PROGRESS.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21

BY TEL. TO MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Ar at Deal Sd inst, barque Geo Hunt Woodbury.
Antwerp for havana.
Ar at st John. NIB, goth ms, brig Robin, Douglas
Portland.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30

A MARRIED MAN COMES OUT EVEN
Two friends, one an Englishman and the O.
ther Frenchman, CHANGED to meet at the
Paris Exposition.
"What! you in France, my dear Will
liam p said the latter. 81 am delig GIFTED to
see you. How do you do?"
ssNot very well. I have been married
since I saw you last"
"Thst's good"
s'No, it isn't; for my wife is a shrew.
81 am sorry; that's bad"
ssNot altogether for she brought me a
dowry of ten thousand pounds sterling"
"Ten thousand pounds! That's good; it
consoles you-'
ssNoit doesn't t, for invested the money in
heads of cattle, and they all died of the
disease that has just been raging in Eng
land"
s'That's bad"
ssNot at all; for the skins brought me
more than paid for the CATTLE
s'Then you are indemni6ed."
"No, not altogether; for l bought a fine
house with the money; and it has just been
burned"
"Oh, what misfortune
'tNot so great one either, for my wife
was in it, and she was burned with the
house"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

There are few things more disgraceful in
children than to be cruel to those harmless
creatures which are unablet to defend them
selves. If see child pull off the wings
of an insect, or throw stones at toad, or
take pains to set his foot on a worm, 1 am
sure there is something wrong about him,
or that he has not been we'll instructed.
There was once a boy who loved to give
pain to everything that came in his way,
over which he could get any power. He
would take eggs from the mourning robin,
and torture the unfedged sparrow-cats
and dogs, the peaceable COW, and the faith.
full horse, he delig ghted to worry and dis.
tress. I do not like to tell the many cruel
things he did. He was told that such things
were wrong. An excellent lady with whom
he lived used to warn and reprove him for
his evil conduct. But he did not reform.
When he grew up he became soldier. He
was never sorry to see men wounded and
blood running on the earth. He became so
wicked as to lay plan to betray his coun-
try, and to sell it into the hands of the en-
emy. This is to be traitor. But he was
discovered and fed. He never dared re-
turn to his native land, but lived despised,
and died miserably in foreign cline. Such
was the end of the boy who loved to give
pain to animals. His name was Benedict
ArnoM. He was born at Norwich, Conn.,,
and the beautiful city of his births ashamed
of his memory.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
ARE FARMERS QUACKs

Gil Bias tells US that he served as valet
to DR.. Sangrado, who paid him nothing and
gave him very little to eat, but encouraged
him to drink water freely. "Drink, my son,
drink; you need not be afraid of it; water
is the greatest purifier and invigorator.
By no means neglect to drink great of
water" Gil Bias followed his directions
with fidelity until he became so weak and
emaciated that he began to think of new
master and better cheer. But the doctor
would not give up so docile a pupil, so he
took him as partner in his practice, after
having taught him the whole science of
medicine in one single sentence. "Make
your patient drink great deal of water
and be sure to bleed him freely. Blood
letting and water-drinking are the whole of
pharmacy" There is no need to pause to
describe his career in assisting his master
in depopulating the city.
Now, many farmers treat their lands in
precisely this fashion. They feed their
lands very lightly or not at all, and they
rely upon avater alone to make crop. In
the meantime, they bleed as freely as pos
sible at every harvest, and then apply
leeches to the surface Tin the shape of gra-
zing stock) to extract the last possible drop
of blood. After this system has been pur-
sued for some time, the farmer is astonish-
ed to find himself poor, his land poor, and
his cattle poor. Now, this is quackery, to
produce disease by injudicious treatment,
and then aggravate it by continuing the
same. I would recommend to this class Of
farmers to treat their lands by one of the
rules of the Thompsonian practice, by which
they cure great many patients, despite Of
their lobelia and steam; l mean good feed
ing and good nursing, so that Nature may
do the rest. 1t is worthy of note that
lands, well manured and well cultivated,
seldom fail to produce good crop, while
those left to the fructif fying influences Of
water (rain) alone, fail partially or totally
in four cases out of five. I do not under
value the rains, and dews and sunshine of
heaven, but, for all that, I am not water
cure mani. B. S.
Southern Planter and Farmer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
HONORABLE COURTsHIP.

We heard pretty incident to-day, which
we cannot help relating. A young lady
from the South, it seems, was wooed and
won by a youthful physician living in Cali
fornia. When the engagement was made
the doctor was rich, having been successful
at San Francisco. It had not existed many
months, when by an unfortunate investment
he lost his entire cheap" The event came
upon him, it should be added, just as he
was about to claim his bride. What should
he do? Why, as an honorable and chival,
rous young man, as he is, he sits down and
writes the young lady the particulars of
the unhappy turn which had taken place in
his fortunes, assuring her that if the fact
produces any change Of feeling toward him,
she was released from all the promises she
had made to him. And what does she do,
the dear, good girl! Why, she takes a
lump of pure gold, which her lover had sent
her, in his prosperity, as a keepsake, and
having manufactured into ring, forwards
it to him with the following Bible inscription
engraved on the outside:
"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re-
turn from following after thee; for whittier
thou goest T will 60, and where thou lodgest
I will lodge; thy people shall be my peo-
pie, and thy God my God; where thou diest
I will die and there will I be buried: the
Lord do so to me and more also, if aught
but death part me and thee"
The lover idolizcd his sweetheart more
than ever when he received this precious
evidence of her devotion to him in both
storm and sunshine. We may add that
fortune soon again smiled upon the young
physician, and that he subsequently return:
ed to the South to wed the sweet girl he
loved, and who loved him with such an un:
diving affection. Young ladies who read
the Bible, as, the heroine of this incident
seems to have done, are pretty sure to
make good sweethearts and better wives
Louisville Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
Agrientnral department.
FARMERS SONG.

Down and up, and up and down,
Over, and over, and over;
Turn in the little seed, dry and brown,
Turn out the bright red clover.
Work, and the sun your work will share,
And the rain in its time will fall;
For Nature she worketh everywhere,
And the grace Of God through all.
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky,
Dress the ground and till it;
Turn in the little seed, brown and dry,
Turn out the golden millet.
Work in the house, and your house shall be fed
Work, and rest shall be won;
hold that q man had better be dead
Than alive, when his work is done.
Down and up, and up and down,
On the hilltop, low in the valley,
Turn in the little seed, dry and brown,
Turn out the rose and the lilly;
Work with plan, or without plan,
And your ends shall all be shaped true;
Work, and learn at first-hand like man
The best way to know what's to do.
Down and up till life shall close,
Ceasing not your praises;
Turn in the wild white winter SHOWS,
Turn out the sweet spring daisies.
Work, the sun your work will share,
And the rain in its time will fall;
For Nature she worketh everywhere,
And the grace of God through all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
FORCE OF IMAGINATION.

A few years ago celebrated physician,
author of an excellent work on the force of
imagination, being desirous to add expert
mental to his theoretical knowledge, made
application to the Minister of Justice to be
allowed an opportunity of proving what he
asserted, by an experiment on a criminal
condemned to death. The Minister com.
piled with his request, and delivered over
to him on assassin-a man who had been
born of distinguished parents. The physi-
clan told him that several persons who had
taken an interest in his family had obtained
leave of the Minister that he should suffer
death in some other way than on the scaf-
fold, to avoid the disgrace of a public exc
cution, and that the easiest death he could
die would be blood letting. The criminal
agreed to the proposal, and counted himself
happy in being freed from the painful ex-
hibition he would otherwise have been made
of, and rejoiced at being thus enabled to
spare the feelings of his friends and family.
At the time appointed the physician re-
paired to the prison, and the patient having
been extended on table, his eyes bound,
and every thing being ready, he was sli light.
ly pricked near the principal veins of the
legs and arms with the point of a pin. At
the four corners of the table were four lit
tie fountains, filled with water, from which
issued small streams falling into the basins
placed there to receive them. The patient,
thinking g it was his blood that trickled into
the basins, became weaker and weaker by
degrees, and the remarks of the medical
men in attendance in reference to the quail
ty and appearance of the blood (made with
that intention), increased the delusion, and
be spoke more and more family until his
voice was at length scarcely audible. The
profound silence which reigned in the apart
ment, and the constant dropping of the
fountain, had so extraordinary an effect
upon the mind Of the poor patient, that all
his vital energies were soon gone, although
before very strong man, and he died with.
out having lost single drop of blood.-Le
01nopIeon
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
How DO YOU KNOW THERE rs A GoD.-

How DO YOU KNOW THERE IS GoD.-
A Frenchman who had won o high rank,
among men of science, who denied the God
who is the author of all science, was cross.
ing the great Sahara in company with an
Arab guide. He noticed, with sneer,
that at certain times the guide, whatever
obstacles might arise, put them all aside,
and, kneeling on the burning sands, he
called on his God.
Day after day passed and still the Arab
never failed; at last, one evening, the phi
losopher, when he rose from his knees, ask.
ed him with contemptuous smile:
"How do you know there is God?"
The guide fixed his burning eye on the
scoffer for q moment in wonder and then
solemnly said:
Chow do know a man, and not camel
passed my tent last night in the darkness ?
Was it not by the print of his feet in the
sand? Even So" and he pointed to the
sun, whose last rays were flashing over the
lonely desert, that footprint is not that of
man."
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PUNaENT.-Did you ever hear the stor,
of the Irishman and the horse-raddish

= PUNaENT.-Did you ever hear the story
of the Irishman and the horse-raddish?
"No; how was it?"
Well, seeing dish of grated horse-rad:
dish on the table where they had stopped
for dinner, each helped himself largely to
the sauce, supposing it to be eaten as po'
tato or squash; and the first, putting a
knifeful into his mouth, jerked his handker,
chief from his trowsers and commenced
wiping his eyes.
sWhat troubles yer, Jemmy?" inquired
his comrade.
"sure, and I was thinkin' of my poor
old fathers death when he was hung" he
replied shrewdly.
Presently the other, taking as greedily OF
the pungent vegetable, had as sudden use for
the handkerchief, whereat Jenny as coolly
inquired, "and what troubles ger Pat p
"Troth," he replied, "that you wasn't
hung with yer fatherp'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
Aftisteltantnns Attifles.
THE UNCERTAINTY OF EVIDENCE.

A curious story is told of Sir Walter
Raleigh; which shows that mans eyes
are not always trustworthy:
Sir Walter, in prison, was composing the
second volume of his History of the World.
Leaning on the sill of his window, he med
itated on the duties of the historian to man
kind, when suddenly his attention was at
tracted by disturbance in the court yard
before his cell. He saw one man strike
another, whom he supposed by his dress to
be an officer; the latter at once drew his
sword and ran the former through the body.
The wounded man felled his adversary with
stick, and then sank upon the pavement.
At this juncture the guard came up and
carried off the officer, insensible, and then
the corpse of the man who had been run
through.
Next day Raleigh was visited by an in
innate friend, to whom he related the cir.
cumstances. To his surprise and astonish.
ment, his friend unhesitatingly declared
the prisoner had mistaken the whole series
of accidents which had passed before his
eyes. The supposed officer was not an off,
Ger, but the servant of a foreign embassa.
dor !; it was he who had dealt the first blow
he had not drawn his sword, but the other
had snatched it from his side and had run
him through the body before any one could
interfere; whereupon stranger among the
crowd knocked the murderer down with his
stick, and some of the ambassadors reti-
nue. carried off the corpse. Raleig his
friend added that the government had or.
dered the arrest and immediate trial of the
murderer, as the man assassinated was q
principal servant of the Spanish embassa-
dor. ..- .".s .-..
dExcuse mt" said Raleigh, "but I can.
not have been deceived, as you suppose ;
for I was an eye witness to the events which
took place under my own window, and the
man fell on that spot where you see pa
wing stone standing above the rest,"
'My dear Raleigh" replied his friend,
81 was sitting on that stone when the fray
took place, and I received this slight scratch
on my cheek in snatching the sword from
the murderer. Upon my word of honor, you
have been deceived in every particular.
Sir Walter, when alone, took up the Sec
ond volume of his history, which was in
manuscript, and contemplating it, thought,
eff cannot believe my own eyes, how can
I be assured of the truth of 1.-THE of the
events which happened ages before 1 was
born p and he flung the manuscript into
the fire.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30

HINTS TO FARMERs.-In planting or
hoeing corn, use the ordinary hoes in gene
raj use. Neither India rubber hose nor
cotton hose would be Of any use in corn
field; no more would one of Hoes eight
cylinder presses.
Dont't try to hold the plow out at arms
length. You can't do it. If you haven't
plow of your own, get out an attachment
on your neighbor's who owes you. Any
justice will tell you whether you can hold
it or not.
asked an old farmer once when was the
best time to put in rye. He looked at his
watch and replied: ''This is about the
hour" The rye was Immediately put in.
All seasons are the same for putting in rye.
The best place to keep corn is in the
courthouse, though some prefer to keep 1t
in the system-in the juice. If they don t
keep corn, they keep corn'd.
Good fencing is essential to farm. Get
good fencing master to learn you. A
rail fence is better than an imaginary one.
You can't repair worm fence by taking
vermifuge.
Set fire to your stables if you wish to
make them warm in winter.
To make a stone fence, take equal parts
of vinegar and cider. This is the recipro-
cal stone fence; the more you lay of it, the
more it will clay" you.
The easiest way to draw saw-logs is on a
piece of paper with crayon pencil. AT;
ter little practice you will be able to draw
the largest kind of saw-logs with perfect
ease.
Packing thread is ofn use in packing
pork. In curing hams the time varies.-
Hams that have got trichnia can't be cured
at all.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-30
Wamers#s ReFastme#t.
SOLD FOR TEN DOLLARS.

Our friend c., says Southern contem-
porary, is q neat, taper fellow, standing
about four feet two in his stockings-a nat
ural poet and . first rate fellow-but he was
sold, badly sold, and that too by white
man. Now, G. ought to have known bet
ter, man With such head as he has, and
Of such book learning, ought really to have
been better posted but so it is-the man of
most knowledge is often found to lack the
how and way of keeping the inside track.
The sale was on race, and although G..
runs web, when you take into consideration
the shortness of his legs, andnotwithstand-
ing he had no competitor, he did not sue
ceed In carrying off the purse, although ne
deserved it. You must know that We have
many day here when not solitary Gus
TONER is about to keep the storekeeper busy.
As consequence, in order to destroy the
monetony and ennui, many sell is got up
to create an excitement. G. is literary
man-like Morgan, he deals in books, Ia
test periodicals. ; and his neighbor is bit Of
. wsg, and hard to beat at any game
They were both on the banquette, and had
been in hopes of seeing theshow of strange
face, but in vain. C. was ready to do any
thing to make dull time pay.
"Wen, c., III give you a chanceto make
ten dollars. go
"How2" asks c.
"Well, you're good at running, you're
good bottom, and the time is just the thing.
If you will run as far as Hills warehouse
at the foot of the hill, and back again, and
never stop, you shall have ten dollars:
"Good as wheat! I am your man" says
C. aThe distance is only about two hun
dred yards, and my wind is good for three
times the distance"
ssWeli pitch in, and make an honest K"
Off starts G. at 2:40 pace down the hill,
all the clerks and storekeepers running out
to see what was in the wind. The quiz
soon spread, and our 'little stud was en-
couraged on his route. who laughs last
laughs best was the racers thought
Now he reaches his turning post and back
he comes. Cheers greet him on every side,
but the thought of ten dollars made so easy
wreathes his face in smiles. He arrives at
his starting point, stops and claims the
purse with q glow of pride and exultation.
"You haven't won it! says our wag.
ssHow's that p
ssWhy, you have stopped; and the mon
ey was yours only in case you never stop
pedr'
C's eyes opened wide. Tvs no use to
get mad; the thing was too rich, and the
laugh was against him. He took it in good
part, and our wag, to make all things right,
stood treat.
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in size, appearance or variety Of news and edito-
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