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Year: 1865

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absence, +" Hetty Marvin" that be might
be daily reminded Of his little cousin who
had saved his life,


How TO MAKE Gloss HEDCE.
Ooffiu, of Jefferson county, Iowa, gives
the following description Of his method oi
securing . tight hedge: .......


~ have read Q great many chapters on
hedging, and have seen \ great many
hedges, bat have yet 10 see the fiEsl
fence made on the plan recommended by
most of writer's on the subject An osAge
hedge Of this kind shows better on paper
than around field of grain ueeding pro.
lection. The reason is this: where tbs
hedge is cut Of SO frequenAk and closely
the sprouts are SO weak EHd small, thai
as soon 81 the growth becomes sufficient
ly high to be Of any use against largt
stock, the under twigs die out and leave
holes between the plants. There is on'
mode by which the osAge can be made
into q reliable, substantial fence, which il
this: Set your plants two feet apart
and let them alone, except to keep th'
grass and large weeds from the roots, un
til they are five or six years old, or unit
they are two or two and half inches in di
ameter. Then. before the sap stGrtSin tn,
Spring, take = sharp AZ, and commencing
at one end, cut the plants Tor bushes they
will be now three-fourths or four ffthi
of, and Icy each bush down on tho last one
cut. The cutting must be all done on one
side, leaving tue bark uuinjured on the
ether side. Do not be afraid to cut them
near enough off to allow them to bend
down easily, as an inch of bark will keep
an ordinary sized bush alive. The lower
end Of the body should be about four
inches from the ground. Sprouts will
start up from the roots and from the
body, and run through the tops, and
make . fence that no rabbit can pass
through. The future trimming can be
done to the fancy, or the whole let grow
up for wind breaker.


~ think that when the hedge has be-
come Of sufficient size, it would be good
plan to set sod Of timothy or blue grass
around it, to prevent the growth becom.
ing too massive or cumbrous. A strip
of six or eight feet on each side would be
sufficient, and would be much more neat
and profitable than the weeds which
would grow, unless . great deal Of extra
care we're taken to keep them in subjec-
tion. The great scarcity of timber in this
prairie country leads me to urge the
adoption Of this plan, and as know by
experience and observation that this is
the only one 80 far introduced into this
section Of the country that is reliable"
Year: 1865

The Fort Smith (Arkansas) New Era in
an article on reconstruction says:


The strife on the bloody battlefield is end
ed it is to be hoped forever but to suppose
that all danger to freedom and the rights of
man is passed would be fatal error. Treason
is crushed but not extinguished, and what it
could not gain by the bullet it is now seek
ing to gain by the ballot.


Hence the anxiety of the late insurgents,
to have the several States, as yet excluded
from the national councils, readmitted.-
This point once gained and the authority of
these States again established within the
territory of each without their having given
a safe guarantee of securing fully the inslien-
able rights of all men-and the fruits of the
dear bought victory will be lost to great
extent.


In this connection, let us look for a
moment, in all candor, at the condition Of
affairs in our own state. Arkansas has al
ways had considerable and staunch Union
element within her. Her ten thousand
white soldiers, who battled for the Union
to say nothing Of the far greater number Of
colered troops raised in the State-provec
it. Her strenuous and spontaneous efforts
as soon as the rebel yoke was removed TIVE
years ago, To resume her proper relation
with the Federal Government, likewis
proved it. Yet no candid Union man il
the State will deny that his party is greatl
in the minority to-day .o


The State once readmitted, civil law
must rule. The authority of the Genara
Government, which now rules here as in


territory, would then be narrowed down I
the extent it exists m the loyal States. Th
late enemies of the Union would soon hav
again, preponderating influence in tn
Legislature. That body at its first session
would, without delay, call another Convel
ton to undo,a as far as it was able, what goo
the first Convention did. In that cas-
every Office in the State will be declare
vacant, and at a new election very fe


Union men could expect to get within
!. thousand miles Of any office. And *ht
, guarantee can the members of Congre
about to be elected, if they were ever
sound, offer that body for the supremacy
Q loyalty in our State? What evidence ha'
3 they to offer that the people Of Arkans
have removed all cause for apprehension
3 the future?
Year: 1865

The New York World denies that the
resolution of the Democrats relative to
equality of taxation" has any such mean
ing as it is generally supposed in the party
to have-to wit, the taxation Of Govern
ment bonds. 1t says


There is something that the Democratic
party does not ask, and which would amount
to nothing if adopted. The Democratic
party advocates now, as it has always advo.
Gated, honest feldity to engagements, and
the sanctity of public faith. 1t demands
nothing in relation to the public debt, but
such equalization of the public burdens as
will enable the people to pay it without a
sense of injustice The Government has
engaged its honor for the exemption ofits
bonds from State and municipal tdpation,
and IL cannot uithom disgrace repudiate its
contract. A repeal of that part Of the loan
law might unsettle public confidence, but in
other respects it would amount to nothing.
That clause of the law is, as regards its
enacting force, mere subterfuge. 1t merely
served to advertise an advantageous portion
Of the lean. The Federal stocks ,oould be
1ust as much exempt from State taration
cithout that clause as they are aOtht it.
Year: 1865

asked the cause that made them poor"
He is also a man of great ability, and
good, sound judgment, and we feel con
fident, If elected, that he will fill his
position with both honor and dignity.
That good old Monroe may arise in
its strength and help defeat his rebel
loving opponent, is the desire of one
who reside in your sister County of


BELMONT.
Year: 1865

LAAuA t-A0 SAitses1N holAll h4etteA-i


In the village of Georgetown, Ohio,
where General Grant and the writer OF
this article spent part Of their boy
hood, the arrival of a show Of any kind
was great event, and the one with
which my story is connected was cir
Gus. People came from every part Of
the country, in all kinds Of conveyan-
ces, to see the wonderful feats. Tothe
boys the pony and the monkey were
the great objects Of attraction The
boys and the monkey, as if enjoying
peculiar favor, were permitted 70 ride
the pony. '


This pony was well trained to per
form his part On the occasion of
which 1 speak, after the pony and
monkey had performed to the great de-
light of the spectators, the manager
asked if there was not boy who would
like to ride the pony. The word had
no sooner been spoken than out step
ped a good sized boy from the country,
and took his seat upon the pony. The
pony understood well the part to be
performed nov, and as soon ss be vas
turned into the ring began running at
the top of his speed, and to rear and
kick as high as he could, then sudden
ly turning around, the boy went sud-
denly into the dust, TO the great amuse
ment of lockers on. The pony seemed
to enjoy the trick as much as the au-
dience


The managers then said, Perhaps
there is another boy who win like to
take ride" Finally, ont stepped Ulys-
ses S Grant He was much smaller in
size than the boy who had just been
thrown by the pony. The manager
placed young Grant upon the back of
the pony, Ulysses took the reins into
his hands and tucked his heels close in
behind the shoulder blades of the pony.
He seemed to comprehend the situs-
tion. The manager seeing his compos-
ure and self-reliance, thOughthe would
give the pony hint of what he must
do So he gave him asmart crack with
the whip, and away ne went at the top
of his speed, now rearing 50 high as to
be nearly erect on his hind feet, then
kicking up so IS to be perpendicular
upon his fore feet, but Ulysses never
lost for a moment his equilibrium.


The pony, finding he could not un-
horse him this way, ran around the
ring atthe top of his speed, and then
suddenly wheeled about. But the III
der was not taken by surprise; he threw
both arms. tightly about the neck Of
the pony and stuck 10 him, amidst the
great cheering of the crowd. The po-
ny could no more throw him from his
back than be could the monkey He
fought it out on that line, as much as
in taking Richmond and Nicksbdrg
Whatever Ulysses S. Grant undertook
to do he did. : % A'.'-t gn
Year: 1865

have known country society which
withered away all to nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendships once as
granite dissolved to jelly, and then run away
to water, only because of this; love that
promised future as ending as even and as
stable as truth, evapOrated into morning
mist that turned to days long tears, only
because of this, father and son were set
foot to foot with the fiery breath of an an
ger that would never cool between them.
only because of this; and a young husband
and his wife, each straining at the hated


leash which in the beginning had been the
gsiden bondage of a God-blessed love, sat
mourniuly by the side of the grave where
all their love and all their joy lay buried,
and only because Of this. l have seen
faith transformed to mean doubr, hope
give place to grim despair, and charity take
on itself the features Of black maievolence,


all because Of the spell words of scandal
and the magic mutterings Of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrong, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring frem its
larger passions; but woiul and most melan-
choly are uncataogued tragedies that issue
from gossip and dctraction-mest mournful
tho shipwreek often made of noble natures
and lovely lives by the bitter winds and
dead salt waters of SANDER So easy to say,
yet SO hard to disprove-throwing on the
innocent all the burden and strain cf de-
monstrating their innocence, and Furnishing
them as guilty if unable to pluck out the
stings they never see, and to silence the
words they never hear. Gossip aud SIAN
der are the deadiest and the cruelest weap,
ons man has forged for his brother hurt.
Il Dickens. ...1. .I ..
Year: 1865

1t is general practice with farmers
to prune their trees during the winter
or early spring months-and many we
think do not stop to consider the results


A little study of Tree Philosophy will
show that cutting away limbs during
the season of repose, will give to the
tree excess of growth the coming
season because Of the less number OF
buds to be supplied early in the season,
and therefore their more rapid develop


nent and elongation of wood during
early summer or the growing season.


Trees therefore that are wanted to be
kept in 3 vigorous growing state, it ia
well to prune st this season, but if
bringing them into bearing is the
object sought, then the pruning sheuld
be delayed until next July, when the
evaporating is great, aud the tree form
ing its increased size of limb and
storing up food in the bud for another
/ season. If now the water shoots,
! crossing branches, ETC., are taken out,
the remaining buds are supplied with


the food, that would have been par
/ TALLY absorbed by those cut away, and
hence are more perfectly ripened and
brought to maturity or bearing condi-
ton. Cutting away large branches
should never he done at this season,
because the wound so left hardens all
next the outer bark and prevents the
formation OF new layers to and shield
it, which, if the cut is made early in
July, it will 90, and within few years
present no appearance ola limb ever
! having been there Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1865

LADIES' MUFFs.-A letter from New York
says: 1.-The ladies who are about purchasing
their furs for the winter season, ought 10 be
informed that there is a novelty in mufs lust
now. 1t is in the shape OF the morocco bags
which ladies carry when they go out shop
ping. pocket for the purse and another for
the handkerchief are in the muff, and there are
also cord and tassels TO go around the neck"
Year: 1865

FINAECIAL-The New York Commercial of
yesterday says the stock market is somewhat
dull in sympathy with the weather, but stocks
are sustained by 4 firm tone of confidence, and
comparatively stringent with the banks On
the street there is a fair supply, and stock
brokers are readily supplied at per cent. Gov
eminent securities are dull and lower under
the de cline of quotations in London. Private
adyices generally report the price at 632, ex
coupon, which is equal TO 66k with coupon
Skies OF 1881 are lower; old issue Fiye-twen-
thin ties are steady, with a prevailing dispo-
sItlon 10 buy them, being at present cheap.
Gold is firmer under the foreign news The
decline in Five-twenties and in cotton, and the
dullness of trade at Manchester are construed
as tayoring an export OF gold from this side
and hence the quotations are a fraction higher
q Quotations were 1i5ali6
Year: 1865

THE Observation-Disclosures were received a.
San Francisco on the 26th ult., TO the effect
that on the arrival of Colonel Bulkley and the
Russian American telegraph party in the vi
cinity Of Plover Bay, the Indians were ex-
Temely shy, and hesitated about coming on
board. and when they did come they reported
that they had seen a steamer burning stuff in
the vicinity but few days before, and some of
the crews belonging TO the ships had been sent
ashore by the steamer. The Indians did not
understand The burning of these vessels and
therefore hesitate about coming on board.


Some TWO or three sailors set ashore by the
Shenandoah are reported TO have been taken
of by the telegraph party by a young man
who returned by the Palmetto, though Colo
mel Bulkley does not mention the fact in his
letters, and nothing is known OF the where
aboUts of the pirate.
Year: 1865

lg@ A dispatch from Washington says: The
obituary proceedings which will take place in
Congress consequent upon the announcement
Of the death of the late President will be OF
very imposing character. Many of the most
prominet in both branches will deliver
,ulogics, large edition OF which will be printed
Year: 1865

them, in equal degree with the people Of the North.
There can then no longer be pretext for acts within the
Southern States not warranted within the Northern
States Now that you returned to the unon no one
has right TO say that you will not maintain that careful
and enlightened adherence 70 the constitution and laws
for which you distinguished before the war;


The immediate object of the federal usurpers TO pos
To this end they have invented oath, embracing
the constitution, with series OF savsh, unconstitutional
ay prepared with the object pra,sss oi a


times against the imposition but If forced upon you save
your franchise he life blood Of the South and swallow
the OATH though the conspators should offer 1t In the
"bow Of hemlock." The constitution being part and
parcel OF the OATH is antdoe to the deadiest poll
tors, and Is your moral and Legal defence against
any claims on your conscience sought to be
port and defend the constitution intact, as you
understand It, will necessarily invalidate ana
ss nS a. and % void the
dental proclamaons all in violation Of the consttu
ton and not binding in morals or law; and trust that
protest. your practical good will master the inge
nuity Of trick thus employed to dsfranchse you Dur
ing the struggle when there all glance due TO the
then existing Southern conederacy these extra consti
tutonal oatis answered purpose to the machnators
ercsng the franchise privilege; but when all agree
to recognize the constitution Of the United States as OF
old II IS not only as 1t always was most audacous sa
it, but is purposeless except for consolidation
and despotsm.


The Northern conservatives cannot stand by motion
less and see established upon prctext of furnishing
rebels the agraran precedent announced in President
Johnsons disability" proclamation. What guarantee
would they have that this INSCRIPTIONS leveler when
hard pressed for money keep up his large army, and
to create corruption fund for his reeecton will not
appropriate to the state all possessions exceeding his
republican limit Of ''twenty thousand doars9" All
wealth beyond being held disloya. He has assum'
the right TO do the one and if unchecked he will do the
other whenever necessity presses.


You have the power to direct the future Possessing
majority at every poll south OF Masons and Dixons line,
allow be returned to any office who will submit
to assumption of superior rights part Of the North
and who will not fathfuy support the platform, 'the
constitution, with such amendment only will give
greater protection to mnorties and geographical
tons The South wait for national organization
The elections are ordered and upon you, enabling
Then, call upon the Of the North who acknowledge
your equality In he Union TO meet you in convention
In New York city before the Northern fall elections and
there to organize with you great national party such
will deter the progate President and his provost spies
from laying their brutal hands upon unoffcndng men,
women and children. Your exiled fellow citizen,


GEO N SANDERS.
Year: 1865

character expressing regret at his resignation He pro-
poses to the practice of law in this district


DEATH OF DIR. wHELAN.
DR. William whelan, Chief of Bureau Of Medicine and
surgery Of the Navy Department. died three O'Clock
this morning his residence in this city He had been
sick for some weeks with cancer in the stomach.


A SENSATION.


Some sensation created on the avenue this evening
by well dressed and highly respectable individual ia
forming the pedestrians that he received this morning
special revelation from the Lord that this world was to
be destroyed at twelve O'Clock tonight


CORRECTION.


verbal error in the printed testimony Of Hon Charles
A. Dana before the Military Commission now engaged in
the trial of the alleged conspstors makes appear that
he has ceased TO be Assistant Secretary of War; This is
erroneous, he does not expect to resign that office
until the 1st Of July.
Year: 1865

MONTREAL Canada, June I, 1895.


Reason begins TO dawn upon the Northern mind-the
days Frightening Practical, vigorous satesmanship
your part will loosen the iron grip OF the federal
ruler Many Of you have, without pausing TO examine
Che facts very naturally allowed the yrants nterpreta
on OF General Lees surrender to have depressing
IN effect


The "peace In the Grant and Lee correspondence
aid not mean the degrading Of sod and citizens into
heot slaves its character Impressed upon General
Lee by preceding authoritative declarations and by the
anecedents OF General Grant, who put forward by
ms irends ior the Chicago nomination last August as
Seners0nian state rights democrat OF sand
ing They declared that his battle cry had always been
and would contnue TO be- "The constitution as It is and
The Union as IL wasn


When General Grant, commander in chief Of the
federal armies wrote to General Lee commander in
chief Of the Confederate armies that the best mode OF
securing peace to surrender In the way indicated by
him, the question at issue not what was TO become
Of tho army but the fate Of the country in the
"Pescen thus spoken by General Grant had the
highest DO ssble significance and the
shows that General Lee surrendered upon the assuring
manner In which the word was given II General Grant
did not peace with the fullest protection that the
constitution could give land General Lee represent M
che citizen armies OF the South could not have under
stood anything clsel all his words were false and
cruelty deceptve and he will violate every principle
Of chivalry, honor and justice II he now lend
with the constitution, a. he 10 known 10 inter
prct IT, But. with punic faith the tyrant
President would now unblushingly separate the
word from the antecedent and well known opinions Of
the Generan Chief who uttered IT, and give color
spoken by Generals Hsllcck Hunter, or Butler. Yet
will have the hardhood To say that General Lee
would have surrendered TO either Of these generals with
out explicit understanding and assurance.


General Shermans truce imposed extra constitutional
ready been obtained by General Lee-"Tho consttu
sion and the Union, without other conditions The
subsequent surrender OF Generals Johnston and Kirby
Smith on Generals Grant and Lees platform" tho con
quiescence OF the people OF the Southextends and
establishes the protecting power Of the constitution 70
Year: 1865

The Times says that sdvices from Red
river distinctly reiterate the charge that
the British traders in the British settle
ments openly supply hostile bands Of In
dams with arms and ammunition to prey
upon our frontier. fa .a9-f
Year: 1865

who has hsd charge of the marine hospi.
tails for years, will leave on tour of in
spection within the next few days to thir-
ty-Eix different institutions scattered
through nineteen States along the sea-
board and Gulf. His report will no doubt
throw light upon the practical working of
these hospitals, which are now sustained
by an immense annual tax on the Govern
Year: 1865

pondent says he saw very few colored
people or any other class laboring in the
fields during his journey. Wherever they
were met with they seemed TO be working
with s will and msnifesting perfect cheer
fulaess in their toll. A party of half q
dozan blacks were Plowing in q field with
more than usual energy. They we're
working land on shares.
Year: 1865

How TO FALL AsLEEP.-The great point to
be gained in order to secure sleep is escape
from thought, especially from that clinging,
tenacious, imperious though. which in most
cases Of wakefulness has possession of the
mind. always effect this by the following
simple process: " turn my eyebals rs far
to the right or left, or upwards or down
wards, as can without pain, and then com
mence rolling them slowly, with that divors
ence from direct line Of vision around in
their sockets, and continue doing this until
| fall asleep, which occurs generally within
three tnnutcs-slways within five st the
most. The immediate effect Of this proce
dure differs from that of any other have
ever heard to procure sleep. 1t not merely
diverts thought into new chsnncl bu! &C
tually suspends it, Since became aware Of
this have endeavorcd innumsrable times
while thus rolling my eyes, TO think upon
particular subject, and even upon that which
before kept mo awake, but could not As
long as they were moving around my mind
was blank. IF any one doubts this, let him
try the experiment for himself. | wish he
would let him pause jus. here and make it,
venture TO assure him that, if he makes it
in good faith in the manner described, the
promise Of IA penny for his thoughts" or
for each Of them, while the operation Is in
progress, viii add very little to his wealth -
Such being it's Effects, we cannot wonder
that it should bring sleep to a nervous and
wakeful man at night. The philosophy Of
the matter is very simple a suspension Of
thought is 10 the mind what supension OF
travel or labor is to weary body. II enjoys
the luxury Of rest the strain upon its fac
mites is removed; it falls asleep as naturally
as the farmer in his chair after toing all day
in his fields.
Year: 1865

Der Of American ladies and gentlemen viii display their
histrionic talents


see from my window the rooftops covered this morn
ing with thick Of snow, the heaviest have ever
in Paris This Of course ends the skating season
for the present