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Year: 1864

Why not grow winter wheat more
generally in Wisconsin u? is question
of peculiar pertinency just now, and
after the good success of the present
year, with the general failure of the
spring wheat crop, many will be in
duced to sow largely this fall, trusting
in a snowy winter and moist spring to
carry it through successfully. :


Now while it is very desirable that
we may have favorable "wheat winter, !"
i. e., with plenty of snow, so uncertain
is it that word Of caution may not
prove useless.


Confident that this crop can be safely
and surely grown with proper treatment
and in view of large breadth being
sown, | wish to Offer few suggestions
upon the conditions of success: !:


lst. 1t is very necessary to secure a
vigorous autumn growth before severe
freezing, the better to resist the infu-
ence of open winter. To secure this,
sowing should commence the middle of
August and not be delayed until the
first of September. Any excess OF
growth or tendency to spindle, can be
easily checked by moderate grazing.
But in this latitude there is little to
fear from this cause, as the cool autumn
weather induces vigorous, spreading
habit of the stool.


I'd. To insure successful wintering,
it is necessary to have some winter
mulch. Abundance of snow insures
the crop until summer, but as the south
ern portion of the State especially is
very uncertain in this respect, it is posi-
lively necessary to adopt some ready
mode Of artificial covering or protec
ton


Among the various plans is one have
seen used successfully years ago, which
is to sow among corn at the last work
ing with cultivator, and letting the
stalks stand until growing weather in
the spring, thus affording a partial
shade and break-wind to prevent the
snow blowing off, and the effects Of
driving winds CT March.


But the course l would especially
commend is to return the straw to the
field during winter. Now I fully be-
lieve there is straw enough burned in
most sections, especially on the prai.
ries, to insure fair crop of winter
wheat. The farmer that grows 40 acres
of wheat, can, after reserving all his
cattle need, distribute evenly the straw
over, say, 20 acres of winter wheat
more or less, according to the bulk
and thus serve double purpose, pre-
serve his crop and redeem his land from
the notorious robbery SO disgraceful te
western agriculture. AS to the time
this should be done, l should say soor
after the ground is fairly shut up with
frost, and very thin coat evenly spreat
will secure a safe wintering and vigor
Gus growth to the orop.-J c. Plum
ir Wisconsin, Farmer.
Year: 1864

~ Cultivate the physical exclusively,
and you have an athlete or savage; the
moral only and you have an enthusiast or q
maniac the intellectual only and you have
a diseased oddity, it may be a monster. 1t
is only by wisely training all three together,
that the complete man can be formed.


The peach crop Of New Jersey this
year will be the largest every raised in that
State. Ona man in Ocean county has 1eo.-
600 trees in full bearing, and is preparing to
send 10 market 325, 900 baskets Of fruit
Year: 1864

Cas- TELL 4 SECEsH BY HIS LooKs.-A little giri
not 4 thousand miles from Wyandotte said the
other day, she could tell Secesh from Union
man by his looks. On being asked bow she could
distinguish, she repi,ed-"vhy secesh goes snea-
king along With his head down, as though he wan
ted to pick up something Children are some
times very close observers, and since the great pro-
to.vpes Of modern Democracy set the example bT
stealing the army, navy, munitions Of war, and
large portions of the territory of the United States


it is scarcely to be wondered at that the rank and


file of the party should acquire the habit Of pick
ing up little things" Bat the Conjectures OF the
little girl were probably incorrect The operations
OF Grant Sherman and Sheridan are alone sufficient
10 make the Democracy 60 with their heads bowed
down, as they witness the waning prospects of
their Southern brethren, in whose success hangs
their hope of attaining power. Besides, the eastern
election news is not Of character to be very cheer
ing 10 tkeV- hearts and it may be that sense Of
their guilt 6zd shame weighs heavily upon the
conscience stricken creatures in view of the misery
they have helped to bring upon our once happy
people. But one thing is certain-UniOn men are
not respondent their consciences not oppressed
for they know their is the cause Of humanity
sationGl life and cirH liberty. Reposing their trust
in the God of battles they cheerful and conf
dent Of ultimate success and whatever sacrifice il
may be necessary for them to make, they feel that
the object to be attained is worth the cost and that
theirs tciH be an honorable record when the clouds
which nog lower around the national horizon shall
be disspated, and the glad sons of victorious free
dom shall arise from the commingling voices Of
united and happy people celebrating our nations
iri.;loa
Year: 1864

IT is said that the State Central Committee
is preparing for daylight parade in San
Francisco, on or about the Sd of November
The Union men of the Bay City are thoroughly
aroused, and will roll up heavy majority iG
the Union candidates
Year: 1864

hold it to be the duty Of every naturalized


citizen 10 vote the Union Ticket. The great


stumbling block with some of our foreign


Catholic population, is the fact, that the de-


scendant of the Pilgrim race with his Yankee


influence and Puritan religion is the life and


soul Of the Union party. The time was when


Pro,essants aud Catholics hated each other


even 10 the point of persecution with fire and


sword. But christianity is progressive in its
nature, and brighter day has dawned upon
the world. And 20 country upon the face Of
Gods earth is so favorable to civil and reli-
gious liberty, as the land Of the Yankee race.
And look il you please At the energy and en-
terprise Of the Yankee in the construction of
railroads. canals, and other Improvements so
necessary for the employment of foreigners
when they land upon our shores With Ian-
kee money they pay their Priest and build
their churches aud under Yankee laws all are
safe, and that without the aid OF French bay
onets. But you say. the Yankee has but little
love for the Catholic religion. Wei, if the
religion of Christ demands reform in this res
pect, this is Just the land for such development.
But be this as it may, the Y ankee ship.of state


is the freest, safest and greatest that ever sail
ed beneath the suu. But YOU say there are
some aboard that hate Catholics, and would
destroy them if they had tie power. Well,
suppose there is, did you ever see ship in
your life, having nothing aboard that was
hateful. If you wish safe passage o'er the
heaviug tide of human affairs, you had better
stay aboard, and lend no aid to those who
would burn the noble craft


now propose few remarks upon the sla-
very question. The slave has no responsibility
resting upon his shoulders as to the support
and education of his family, nor the pride,
fashion, and hindrances to marriage Of his race
that exist among free people. The monied
value and political power of slavery TO their
owners, make il desirable by ordinary increase
by importation from Africa, aud By every pos
sible means. for the slave TO overrun, propagate
spread and fill the land with the blood Of their
negro race. The proslavery propagandists
desire to occupy America as an inheritance for
their slave population; with Just enough whites
to direct and control. If such principle
were generally to prevail, where would be the
outlet for the surplus population of Europe. Ii
they had no country to emgrate to they would
soon starve to death. The practical workings
and designs of the slave holders say 10 the
white man across the Atlantic, stay where you
are, we want the country for our slaves. And
look, pray you, at the slave propagandist as
He says that the Catholic popu-
lation of Spanish America is an inferior race,
and hence be claims the right to kill, rob,
plunder and take from them their country in
which to erect slave empire. G.
Year: 1864

AN Acr to authorize the Corporation Of


Washington to levy and collect the di.


rect tax imposed by act approved Au.


gust Eve, eighteen hundred and sixty


one.


Be Il enacted by lhe Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of the United Satts Of
America IN Congress assembled, That tie
Corporation Of the city Of Washington be
and they are hereby authorized TO assess
aud collect tax not exceeding the rate Of
fifteen cents on every one hundred dollars
Of the value Of all real and personal prop
erty in said city, and on any and oil other
subjects Of taxation rs made and returned
by the Board Of Assessors Of said city, to
enable tho said Corporation IN pay to the
Government Of the United States the tax
imposed by act approved August five, eigh.
teen hundred and sixty one; Propi- ed, That
any surplus that may accrue from the i'm
position Of the ret as herein provided shall
be deposited and applied to the use Of the
general fund Of the said city Of Washing.
ton.
Year: 1864

matter, which we gladly publish in justice to the town.

 A statement published in the Berkshire Courier (copied in the ENQUIRER of last week) in regard to the treatment of the family of John O'Brien by the town of Norfolk is untrue in many of its particulars and the conclusions and comments of the writer are mistaken and unjust. The facts are these John OBrien enlisted in the Huh Regiment of this State in september, 1881. He was at the time of his eni's 'stment unit for the servicein consequence oi physieai and (to some exten) mental weak ness caused as it is said by sun stroke a year or two previous

 me Regiment left the State in December .oi,o"'ns' anu U brlen Was soon after found to be incapable of doing duty, and vas m tba sick list until the next spring. when hs c.mo home on furlough which expired the 2etb of August, lSo2. He remained at home overstav ing his furlough until April 4th of the nry, year, when in consequence of general order addressed to delinquent soldiers he repor,ed at New Haven, and was admitted into the hospital these, where he has since been. in about the same state of health as when he en- listed. He has received his pay regularly from the Government and also his State bounty.

 In September last the wife of OBrien died

 

 enteen years ofage The husband came from New Haven to attend the funeral, ,and in a day or two returned. The selectmen of the town were desrous of keeping the family together if possible, and endeavored to induce the fath- ! CT to apply a portion of the pay he was re- | eeiving 10 the support of the children, but he l neglected to do so. As the State Comptroller | had also at that time declined to grant the state allowance to the family, for the reason that O'Brien had been reported as a deserter, | there was no other reasonable course left for ! [ he selectmen, but to provide suitable places for the children and necessarily to separate them. The adjoining town of North Canaan assumed the support of three of the children children having been born in the adjoining town of New Marlborough, it was thought proper to send him to the authorities of that town, that they might provide for him. IL was not of course anticipated that the child would be sent to the State poorhouse al Monson.

 O'Brien has drawn for himself and family from the State and Government in less than two years and half about six hundred dol lars, and the town have expended for them one hundred and thirty dollars. There ha. no doubt been wrong committed toward tht State and Government that O'Brien was no long since discharged, but the town of Nor folk should not be blamed for this, as the fact that he was entirely unfit for the service at the time he enlisted and would remain so, wa: within a few months afterWald communicated to the State authorities.
Year: 1864

We shall remove the Office of the ENQUIRER this week, to the 2d story of the building di- rectly west of our present location, Lords Building) where We shall be happy to receive our friends after this date
Year: 1864

NoRFoLK.-Mr. Hiram Wheeler in the north part of the town, killed wildcat few days since which weighed twenty three pounds He got upon the track in the morning. and followed it with his dogs nearly all day before getting the shot, which, at seventeen rods dis tance, ended the life of the animal, and the hunt The dogs at one time drove the cat in to a hole in the rocks on the side of noun tain near MT. Wheeler's house, and refusing to enter, MT. w., Putnam-like, crawled into the dark passage about thirty feet and dis charged one barrel of his gun at a venture which had the effect to drive the anima, ont of distant aperture, but did not wound him. There being no town bounty, one is to be made up to MT. Wheeler by subscription.

 We have received the following communi- cation from correspondent in Norfolk, in re- ply to the statement concerning the treatment of the family of soldier by the authorities of the town, which throws some new light on ths
Year: 1864




Those who take Democratic naners and
read them, are affeetioastely invited to
answer these questions


Did you ever see in one of them an
earnest hearty appeal fer volunteers since
the fall of '61?


Did you ever see 10 one Of them word
of ehcouragymeutto to our brave volunteersY
Did you ever see in one of them one
word in advocacy of any practical meas
ures for the benefit Of the Union soldiers?
Did you ever know one of them to ac-
cept as true the first news of Federal VIC
tory I?


Did you ever know one of them that
did not believe at FIRST sight, in every ru-
NOR of Federal Defeat


Did you ever see one that credited any
statement of rebel cruelty to our sick and
wounded soldiers?


Did you ever know one that did not
publish all the Confederate stories Of cru
city practiced by our men on the rebels
Did you ever see liue in one of them
commanding a successful Union officer?
In a short, did you ever see one, that
by single change of name would rot do
admirable as Southern rebel papert
Examine the titles of your so called
Democratic papers and see.
Year: 1864

Recently, the local editor of paper ia
Columbus, Ohio, was cowhided By fe-
male of that city, because of something
he put in the paper about her" The
next evening, the wife OF the beaten edi-
tor, who is said to be the boss of the con-
cern, met the cowhider, and gave her a
tremendous thrashing with horsewhip.
1t is the opinion that no woman will ever
dare to assault that editor again.
Year: 1864

This duty is above all Others Never, perhaps,
shall you DO as important thing while you live.
Consider yourself guilty every moment of un-
necessary delay, When you have deposited
your vote. your duty is only partly done. Use
all your powers to bring every Union voter over
whom you ha We any influence to the polls.
Year: 1864

We acknowledge the receipt Of letter
from company "A," Of this gallant regiment,
dated Prospect, Tenn, April I'd. We regret
that we have not room to publish it in full,
and must therefore beg the indulgence Of our
correspondent. He says: "We have but
two company officers with US, Lieutenants
Springer and Eichelberger, who are, by the
way, two of the best officers this regiment
ever had. Springer IS one of the best men
that ever left Iowa, beloved by all his men,
all of whom would be glad to see him at the
head of the regiment. He Is one of the most
watchful officers for the interests of his men,
and allows none to suffer when it can be
avoided. If we are out of food, as is some
times the case, we 60 into the country and
return with beef or hog. Lieut.. Eichel-
berger does his duty like man, and splen-
did fellow he is. He don't bother himself
about the business Of other people when it
does not interfere with his own. He is q
good officer and is to-day on guard duty.


"Our duty is not very heavy, standing
guard and taking our turns twice week,
but we old soldiers are used to hardships.
Our company numbers about 70 men. Our
regiment is much divided, one company at a
mill seven miles from here, two companies at
q trestle work about five miles distant, one
company guarding the fort, situated on hill,
about 900 yards above US. From this fort,
mounted with two small guns, the country
can be seen for miles distant"
Year: 1864

General Rousseau, a Kentuckian, slave
holder, but brave man and patriot, who
now commands the military district of Nash
vile, made speech at Tennessee Union
Convention at Shelbyvills, on tho 4th inst,
in which he boldly declared himself in favor
of the abolition Of slavery. He stated that a
severe conflict had been going on between his
prejudices and his judgment, but the former
were finally conquered, and he now bel,eyes,
in all sincerity, that slavery not only was the
cause of the war, but its removal from the
land was necessity to permanent national
peace and the country's well being in the fu-
ture. He declared his readiness to give up
property and everything, but the cause Of his
country he can never give up.


And yet there are thousands of poor driv-
cling narrow souls, here in the North, who
can see no salvation Of the country, except
through the preservation of negro slsvery.-
Say, you miserable Copperheads, don't you
feel q little mean when you hear of such
changes among tho Union Shareholders Of the
rebellions South2 When brave man offers
up his life upon the altar of his country, and
sacrifices his property in addition, are you
not engaged in very small business to de-
nounce him as an Abolitionist


Great God, what contemplate soul a
Northern Copperheadmust possess. Ugh!
Year: 1864

The counterfeit slO0 Treasury notes lately
put in circulation may be readily decided
The number of the note is larger and less
brilliant in color than the genuine. The i'm
print of the American Bank Note COMPANY
at the top is also larger, the double rule run
ming from it is heavier, and the terminal curve
twice as large, while there is a diagonal shad-
ing at the point Of the imprint on the rule,
which does not appear on the genuine. On
the right end Of the back of the bill the ''100'
in the circles are inverted thus: "001." In
the genuine the '1O0'' in the circles on the
left end read thus: ''OO1 - in the counterfit
they are thus: "10O." The outside circle of
the 400" in the lower left corner of the gen.
uine touches the lower corner; in the coun-
terfiet it does not.come within one sixteenth of
an inch. The paper is also heavy and some.
what greasy in the counterfeit, and there are
other slight differences.
Year: 1864

The Boston LiberGtor of this week pub
fishes letter from the late Owen Loveioy,
addressed to William Lloyd Garrison, under
date of Washington, February 2zd, 1884,
In this letter Mr.. Lovejoy says: ''I write
you, although i'll health compels me to do it
by the hand of another, to express to you
my qualification at the position you have taken
in reference to Mr.. Lincoln. am satisfied AS
the old theologans used to say in regard to
the world, that if he is not the best conceiv :
able President, he is the best possible. Ihave
known something Of the facts inside during
his administration, and know that he has
been just as radical as any of his Cabinet
And although he does not do everything that
you or l would like, the question recurs
whether it is likely we can elect man who
would. It is evident that the great mass of
Unionists prefer him for reelection; and il
seems to me certain that the providence OF
God, during another term, will grind slavery
to powder. believe now that the President
is up with the average of the House."


"Recurring to the President, there are a
great many reports concerning him which
seem to be reliable and authentic, which, after
all, are not so. 1t was currently reported
among the anti-slavery men of Illinois that
the Emancipation Proclamation was extorted
frorn him by the outward pressure, and par
ticularly by the delegation from the Christian
Convention that met at Chicago. Now, the
fact is this, as had it from his own lips -
He had written the Proclamation in the sum
mer, as early as June, l think-but will not
be certain as to the precise time-and called
his Cabinet together, and informed them he
had written it, and he meant to make it but
wanted to read it to them for any criticism OF
remarks as to its features or details. After
having done so, Mr.. Seward suggested wheth-
er it would not be we'll for him to withhold
its publication until after we had gained some
substantial advantage in the field, as at that
time we had met with many reverses, and it
might be considered cry of despair. he
told me he thought the suggestion wise one
and SO held on to the proclamation until after
the battle of Antietam.


II mention this as sample of great
many others.'
Year: 1864

From the impassloned strains of eloquence
uttered by the great English orator at Phila-
delphia, we CLEAN the following as beautiful
and truthful figure: .~r
"Not alone in the State of Pennsylvania do
witness revival of the anti-slavery feeling
| of other days. The spirit of freedom is uni
versal. This, certainly, is a strange specta-
Gle for one who has twice before visited our
country-a scene so very different from what
has been witnessed in previous years. His
tory tells us of an invading army that having
penetrated into the enemy's country and
taken its chief city, entered the central square
Of that city, and saw elevated upon lofty
column statue of divinity. A superstition
prevailed among the peop'e'of that country
that whenever any molestationshould be Of
fered to that image, and still more, if it ever
should be destroyed by insolent hands, then
the indignation of the gods would be excited,
and calamites would over'ake the nation. A
soldier belonging to that invading army ,yper-
haps the Fremont of that day, Applause, !
scaled that column and reached that image


and with the battle-ax he had used so well
in the field, he smote the goddess again, and
again, and again, until the fragments fell a.
round the base of the column. The people
stood aghast. They looked up, expect
ing he heavens would open, and the
thunderbolts of vengeance descend upon
them. They expected the earth would rock
and swallow them up, but they looked up
and saw that the heavens remained as beaut-
iful and serene as ever. They looked around,
and all was as stable and verdant as ever


They learned to despise the prophecy, and to
laugh at their own superstitions, and to be-
lieve in better and higher Divinity. From
that day forward that people arose to be great
in influence, in honor and IN civilization. I
have seen in the central place of this great
nation column, and statue thereon,
have learned that there was superstition
universal in this country. that he who offered
violence to the image of slavery would bring
the glorious institutions of the country to
ruin. There have been those courageous
enough to assail that divinity to strike her
again and again; and now, behold, she tot
ters, and totters to her fall. The freeman's
yoke is falling ffom the neck of your bonds
man, and America shall now be Free"
Year: 1864

TINE FOB GRATING THE APpLE.-The best
time is the spring when the buds are begin
ming to swell, the scions for grating having
been cut few weeks previously, and kept in
= moist, cool place. or in box Of damp moss
in cool cellar, so as to be neither shriveled
or water-soaked. Crafts may be cut and in
serted the same day, if the buds have not
swollen much. Crafts are sometimes set much
later, but starting so late they do not make 80
good growth during the summer Valley
Farmer.
Year: 1864

The Courier says it has in its possession
the names of "four Abolitionists of this city,
who labored zealously on the 5th and 9Th Of
April, to induce the soldiers to destroy that
Office" We challenge any person connected
with that Office to name the four persons, OF
any one of them. If your declaration be
true. let them be known and held up to public
execration. They certainly are not your
friends, why then withhold them from the
publics Name them Mr.. Odxrisr, or back
down from what we all believe a lie: