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Lucretius.

Mr.. TENSYsoS's new poem deserves some
thing more than passing notice, whether
it be regarded simply MS to its intrinsic
merit, or, less individually, as the last elabo-
rate effort of SO great master. "Lucret:us"
has been long expected, and from the form
of its announcement We had hardly looked
for its appearance in the ephemeral pages
of magazine, form of publication which
has not of late been conducive to the growth
of Mr.. TENXYsoS s renown. But, since its
appearance in Macmillan" is heralded
with much flourish Of trumpets, and warn
ings against piratical infringements of copy
right. we are to presume that we have here
the identical poem which has been so long
looked for, and that the poet has once more
given up his mind to be 'vexed by the
shallow wit of the dark-browed sophists"
of the press.
Like most of Mr. TESSfsoS's elaborate
poems, "Lucretius" hardly unfolds its beau
ties to the casual and thoughtless reader.
Carried on by the wonderful melody of the
yerse-and the Laureate's sternest critics
can hardly deny that he has brought Eng
lish blank verse to a pitch of rythmical per-
fection unrivalled in English literature
the reader is apt to pass over unnoticed the
more recondite beauties of the poem, its
bursts of musical expression, its subtle
philosophic analysis, its pathetic insight
into the great poets nature, its dramatic
truth and power as deduced from what we
know of the character and history of LU
cRETIus. To this last feature of the poem
we can hardly do justice in IL short notice
like the present, but all who are familiar
with the workings of LrcRET1us' mind, rs
displayed in his famous poem "De Rerum
Natura," will recognize the wonderful skill
with which Mr.. TESxYsoN has seized upon
and epitomized the doub:s and perple1ities,
the pathetic groupings after truth which
was hid from the seekers eyes amid the
confusions of contemporary systems, all of
which have made LrcRETIus one Of the most
attractive names in Roman literature.
The poem is full of those felcities of cx-
preston in which the Laureate never fails,
even when his other accustomed merits are
obscured. Some passages there are which
will rank in melody and descriptive beauty
with his best efforts. The opening of Lr-
cREr1us' soiiloquy is very fine:
Storm in the night for thrice heard the rain
Rushing, and once the Hash Of thuudcrbolt-
Methought never saw So fierce fork
Struck out the streaming mountan-side and
showed
4 riotous confluence of water-courses
BlanchmS and blliowinS in hollow OF it.
No one but Mr.. TEXSYsoX could have
written the following passage:
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MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.

MEWOhIAL AsSOCIATIUN.
THERE WILL BE NETTING OF THE MEMO
4 RIAL ASSOCIATION This afternoon, 30ih inst,
at Five O'clock at the house Of the President, No.
Church.street
full attendance Is requested, as there is business
Of interest to the members April 80
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nRI GOODS! DRY GOODS!:
GAINS! BARGAINS!!

L
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now is your CHARGE.
OUR STOCK COMPRISES:
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OFFICE OF THE Mast Err IN EQUITY,
CHARLESTON, 10th March, 1868.
In pursuance OF the order of Chancellor Carroll,
made in the above stated ;ase, extracts from which
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JdTASTED, EVERYBODY TO SUB
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

do it; and dey hest de curtain, and what did
we Sc de ole def dog, de old blind dog, de
ded dog De def dog was de seceshun party,
who would not hear de cries of the North, de
blind dog was de Conservative party, and de
ded dog was de Confederacy; and he tellyou
now dat dey want frad of either dog; we
never can trust man who he'd dem in slavery.
Dey may forgive dem, but dey would watch
dem, and would never forget dem.
You will never git de colored man out OF
Virginia while de sun shines. He warnt
gwine anywhar else; dis was heben enough for
him, until Jusus comes out of de abundance
of de heart de tongue speaks. Dar was white
men in some portions of de State who neber
did see de constitution, and neber will see 1t;
all dey want was to see bottle OF whlskey
and a chance to drink it. You tell us your
are our friends why, de devil might as we'll
tell God he was His friend. He said once
dar was man who was named Moses and
his wife was named Mary, and dey use to fall
out sometimes, and one day Mary got Moses
down and she picked up brick, and Moses
followed, "Oh, Mary, don't don't hit me"
"Well, 1 won't but you must not do so any
mo or not" "1ary, won't do SO again"
So Mary got up, but just as soon as Mary got
in front Moses picked up the brick and
knocked her down, and Mary asked him not
to hit her, as she did not hit him, but Moses
said, 81 got the brick now;" and dat was de
way wild de Conservative party. We got de
whip now, and you ask US not to whip you; ;
but we amt going to trust you wild it, either
[Great laughter.
Hodges made a famous speech. He went
through the whole bible history of the negro
race, from the days of Ham. He announc ed
that the Queen Sheba was as black as the
ace of spades, but that Notwithstanding that,
Solomon delighted in her, and said he had
never seen woman that pleased him SO we'll.
De Republican party had dug deep, and was
going to build its house on de rock, while de
other party was built on de sand, and great
fall was comm some day. He felt that God
had put it in his heart to make speech; he
had done done it. He give Him the glory
for it, and concluded.
A member said he did not think the Great
Givor of all good was quite hard enough up
to want the glory of any such talk.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10
Judge Woodward on Impeachment.

The following paragraph from the speech
of Judge Woodward, of Pennsylvania, against
the impeachment conspiracy, will command
attention. A few more such determined and
patriotic spirits as Judge Woodward would
prove blessing in this trying crisis of the
country:
81 deny the right of the Senate to try i'm
peachment. The House is not composed as
the Constitution requires, of members chosen
by the people of the several States; nor the
Senate, of two Senators from each State. So
sure am that the American people will re-
spect this objection that if l were the Presi~
dents counsellor would advise him, that if
you prefer articles of impeachment, to demur
both to your jurisdiction and that of the SEN
ate, and to issue proclamation giving you
and all the world notice that whilst he held
himself impeachable for misdemeanors in
Office before the constitutional tribunal, he
never would subject the Office he holds in
trust for the people to the irregular, unconsti-
tutional, fragmentary bodies who propose to
strip him Of it. Such proclamation, with
the army and navy in his hands to sustain it,
would meet popular response that would
make an end Of impeachment and imPeach-
-
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An ELOQUENT Remark.

Gen CAss, in the patriotic oration which
he delivered at the opening of TIE Wabash
and Erie Canal in Indiana, in 1S43, made
the following comparison, full of beauty and
the force of true eloquence:
I have stood upon the plain Of Marathon,
the battle field of liberty. 1t is silent and
desolate. Neither Greek nor Persian is there
to give life and animation to the scene. 1t
is bounded by sterile hills on one side and
lashed by the eternal waves of Agean sea on
the other. But Greek and Persian were
there, and that decayed spot was alive with
hostile armies, who fought the great fight
which rescued Greece from the yoke of Per-
sia. l have stood upon the hill of Zion, the
city Of Jerusalem, the scene Of our Redeem
er's sufferings, crucihxion and ascension
But the sceptre has departed from Judah, and
its glory from the capital of Solomon. The
Assyrian, Egyptian, the Turk, and the Cru.
saders, have passed orer the chief places of
Israel, and have reft it its power and beauty.
In those regions of the East where society
passed its infancy it seems to have reached
its decrepitude. If the associations which
the memory of their past glory ezcites are
powerful, they are melancholy. They are
without qualification for the present and with
out hope for the future. But here we are in
the freshness of youth, and can look forward
with rational confidence to ages of progress
in all that gives power and pride to man, and
dignity to human nature.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

ScALDIEG CHEAM.-Do all the good farm
ladies know that by simply scalding tho milk
before setting for cream, the butter will como
very readily with from ten to fifteen minutes
churning in the coolest weather. The cream,
however, will require to be brought into q
proper temperature. 1t requires little trou-
BILE to strain the milk into tin kettles and
place them on the stove until the required
heat is obtained and the milk will be all the
better for family use. Try it and see how
much trouble and vexation it will save the
domestics when the time Of churning comes
around.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

THE "QUARTERLY" ON GEN. LEE.-The
London Quarterly Review" replying to an
essay by Goodwin Smith, who cites Lincoln
Grant, Sherman and Stanton Cd as examples
of American great men, says;
"We admit that Mr.. Stanton and his col
leagues have done great things on great
scale, but they lack the stamp of individual
greatness. If that is to be found anywhere IN
America, it is under the modest roof OF Cen
eral Robert E. Lee, the loved champion
of the lost cause, whom prosperity never in
toxicated, nor adversely depressed, and who
exceeded his opponent as much In real robll-
ity'and greatness of character as he did IN
military skill and daring"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

HIS GREAT FEAR.-There is now station
ed not far from Gotham happy, ruby faced,
fun loving clergyman who had several sons
brimful and running over with wit and mis-
chief-unsanctifed chips of the old block.
Among them one we will call Sam is ring
leader. A few months ago Sam was arraign-
ed one morning before the domestic judiciary
when the following dialogue occurred:
"Now, my son, you are getting to be very
bad boy. Why will you not mind your pa
rents aud act more like man, and not be
getting into all sorts of scrapes?" Sam look
ing down to the floor, quite serious and de-
m1re, meekIy replied: "Yes'r." The rev,
ereDd parent, thinking he was getting good
hold on the boys feelings, added; My s.G. SOD
great fears. Do you know what my great
fear is, samuelEthe fear which distrssses
me day and night?" ''Yes'r," said Sam, his
long face looking almost ready to give way to to
tears; 81 know well enough-its burglars" !"
Sam had leave to Etart for school about that
time.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

Corn MEAL FoR Mich Cows.-The stats
ment is often made through the agricultural
press, that corn meal is the best feed for COWS
as milk producer. Why this should bo
repeated when the experience of almooteyery
farmer is to the contrary, ne cannot tell, un-
less it be for the reason that corn meal is tho
best grain feed for COWS not giving milk
There is no grain SO good for keeping up fat.
animal heat, and producing flesh and it is used
in winter by most dairymen for this purpose;
but as milk producer it is the poorest grain
that can be given. Oat meal and wheat bran
are far superior. These statements are based
upon actual experiment and the experience
of many farmers Ohio Farmer.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

How MUcH LAND THE FARMER Owns
A popular writer says, "No farmer owns any
deeper than he can plow." The rest is the
unhandled globe. But it contains the great
er part of what farmer might use; it is there
for his taking-the most of it. He can do
much of this by simply adjusting the clevis-
pin; by using little longer spade. Bring
up the rich soil; it wants to see the light; it
wants to do duty for man. In some places
this layer is many fathoms in depth. 1t is
there, treasure, as gold is treasure in tho
mine; the skill of man needs but to be ap-
piled to develop it.-F2rGirie Farmer.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

SIZE OF PoTATo SETS FOR PLANTING
The last number of the Journal of the Royal
Ag. Society of England, has a report of Mr..
Maw's experiments on the potato crop, to de-
termine the most profitable size of sets, which
is very practical paper, and goes to settle
4 question of much Importance about which
very diverse views have been held, and de-
iective practice followed. Mr.. Nav, who
was distinguished scholar ut Cirencester.
evidently is alive (says the London FTeld) to
the Importance of confirming results by
variety of tests. We must content ourselves
with stating very briefly the conclusions ar
rived at. Every increase in the size of tbs
set, from l OF up to 8 o., produces an in
crease of crop much greater than the addi-
tional weight Offsets planted. The net profit in
using OF. instead of OF sets, amounted to
between three or four tons per acre, and the
further profit, from 4 to o., averaged about
5 tons. The advantage of large sets was
more marked in late than in early sorts
Small sets yield best when planted close in
rows, say from 6 in. to 9 in., and in no case
should the distance exceed IL in. Weight
for weight, cut sets produce the samo weigh.
of crop rs whols potatoes.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

PORK EATISG-Halrs Journal OF Hea1th
says: "Thers is no trouble in eating pork in
a cold climate. 1t is needed, or some fatty
meat for the support of life, while at tho
South vegetable diet ia better. But wheth-
er the hog should be eaten depends on tho
manner in which he is kept. If ho is kept as
mere scavenger on filth and rottenness, the
meat would be unfit to eat, as its food would
enter into its composition. We see this in
the difference bstween the hogs fed on acorns
and those fed on corn. Any animal that
lives upon the filth and waste of cities should
be rejected as food. But if the hog can be
kept cleanly and on proper food, pork is ~
healthy as beef or poultry or fish"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

R9TThe Adjutant- General who was ap-
pointed Secretary of War ad interim by Mr..
johnson, is General Lorenzo Thomas, one of
the Oldest officers in the army, having reach
ed his sixty eighth year. He is native of
Delaware and entered the Fourth infantry as
second lieutenant on the lst July, 1928.
At the beginning of the late war, being re-
garded as Copperhead, he was not trusted
with any command; but in 1854 he was depu-
ted to the Southwest to organize a body Of
negro troops.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-03-10

How TO SALT BEEF-For every 100
pounds of beef, take one and half ounces
of saltpetre, two and half pounds brown
sugar, FIVE pounds good salt, and two and
half gallons water; mix all together and boil
the mass till all the hard ingredients are
thoroughly dissolved; then let the brine cool
and pour it over the meat, which must be
packed tight and weighted down. The pickle
should entirely cover the brine.-Rardt
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: Cattle for beef should be kept in rather

Cattle Tor beef Should be kept IN rather
small lot, have water very regularly and fire.
quently, and be fed diet which is at once
palatable, nutritious, and readily digestsd.--
Corn, boiled in the ear until the grain and
cob arc both soft, should, perhaps, form the
staple article of diet in the west; but mash
made of pumkins, turnips, potatoes, cabbage,
etc., boiled in kitchen slop, and thiokened
with corn meal or wheat bran, makes an ez-
cellent change, and should be resOrted to
ofteu.-NoTth Western Farmer.
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tFor the Split of Jefferson J
DREAMLAND.
By MAY LIE BARON.

Through the baIIny portals of sleep
From the realms of dreamland fair
Sad my spirit came forth to weep
over the ruined treasures there.
s,raips of music that died too soon;
Beauteous visions that cleaned to fadei
Golden days that ended at noon,
Sun lit PictureE drowned in shade;
Amber tresses that turned TO grey;
Azure eyes with their lustre hed;
PearI-white feet that fitted away
Brave young hearts that moanless hied:
Garlands of flowers that grew to graves.
Silver-edged clouds that leaden brokes
Stars that sank in the darkered waves.
Sea-sheIl echoes that wailing woke
Blessings wa sted, and prayers unsaid.
Broken vows, and regrets profound.
Wasted hours, and tears unshed,
These the treasures IN dreamland found.