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Year: 1868

Mr. Robert B. Mintum requests us to state
that the Free Traders have accepted the propo-
siton of the PrOtectionsts that discussion of
the matters in difference between them shall
be prosecuted by selected champions of either
cause, and distributed at their mutual cost.
We make the statement accordingly; but it
does not shake the truth stated by us that the
proffer was made from our side and declined
by the other, in q correspondence long ago
published in these columns. The protier was
full and fair, and the rejection deliberate and
unequivOcal.


And now that the Free Traders have been
brought to the touchstone of discussion on fair
and equal terms, might they not wisely resolve
to debate the grave matter at issue in man
ner somewhat less arrogant and supercilious
than that TO which they are accustomedf Even
The EUening Post has at length been brought
TO q grudged concession that ProtectiOnists are
honest in their delusion why not address them
as though they might possibly be rational as
WELT We venture to remind the Free Traders
that we have read their essays, and think we
see wherein they err-oftener in their premises
than in their deductions. If they do not pro-
pose to give us up as utterly demented, sup
pose they concede that cause which numbers
Napoleon I.,Alex. Hamilton, Henry Clay, Heze
kiah Niles, Matthew and Henry C. Carey
champions, cannot be 80 absolutely irrational
as they are accustomed to consider and pro-
nounce that of Protection
Year: 1868

The French Government has, all on sudden,
picked up quarrel with Tunis, and fastened
to dispatch an ultimatum to the Bey Tunis
is adjacent to the French Province of Algeria,
and is of course too weak to offer any serious
resistance, should France be desirous of annex
ing it to Algeria. AS France has Of late been
very active in its efforts to obtain new terri
tory, in particular in Northern Africa and in
Farther India, this rupture with Tunis may yet
prove to be matter of considerable import
Year: 1868

Speaking Of the misuse of the franking priv
ilege, will any one knowing the facts send us
a copy or dozen copies of the envelopes of a
certain Gift Enterprise, franked by certain
members of Congressi The new process of
sun-printing will copy them exactly. Some
one who has ticket warranted to draw q prize
will do us favor by sending the envelope.
He may keep the ticket.
Year: 1868

confirm this statement and strengthen the
hope that Mexico will at length extficate her
self from the interminable Instructions and
civil wars which have heretofore cursed the
country and paralyzed all its immense natural
Year: 1868

necessary REQUISITES to promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prosp5ct Or hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection thai the happiness O.
Year: 1868

Hear practical man on the subject:
81 ironed wagon some years ago Tor
nv own use; before putting on the tires
| filed the fellows with linseed oil; and
the tires have worn out and were never
loose. Ny method is DIS follows-I use
long cast iron heater, made for tN'
purpose; the oil is brought to boiling
heat, the wheel is placed on Stick SO as
to hang in the oil, each feiloe an hour
The timber should be dry, as green TIM
her will not take oil. Care should be
taken that the oil is not made hotter
than boiling heat, or the timbe.wllt
be burned. Timber filed with oil Is
not susceptible to injury by water ana
is rendered much more durable by this
process"
Year: 1868




The editor of the Rural World describes
a machine he made and used for many
years for the purpose ofgathering clo-
yer seed. He says a man and horse
will gather with ii the seed from double
the quaLtity of land i'll a day that he
can cut over with scythe and the
heads require no labor except drying,
to prepare them for cleaning and hull
ing. Make an ordinary sled, with the
sides OF runners fourteen inches wide,
and six feet nine inches long. These
may be placed five or six feet apart, and
secure together with two cross-pieces
only at the back end, leaving the for
ward part open to the length of IL or
feet; then box is made to nearly fill
the width between the runners. The
box is 4 feet long and 10 inches deep
with the forward end open. 10 the
cross-pieces at the bottom OF the box, at
the forward end, teeth OF hard wood are
secured, q as to project about twelve
inches; they should be three-fourths OIL
an inch thick and one inch wide on the
top, and made quarter of an inch mar
row, or bevelling, on the under side
These teeth are placed three-slxteehtns
of an inch apart, so as to form COMP.
Ifshe upper sides of the teeth were
capped with hoop iron, neatly iitted' 1t
would be better. This box is hung be-
tween The sides of the sled upon TWO
eudgeous or pins two inches in dame
ter. lust as canhon is hung in its car
riaee. With two handles. -four feet long
secured to the box and projecting pc
hind, the box may be moved on the pms
so as to raise and lower the teeth 10
adapt them to clover of any height.


A man with horse can strip the
heads from four to five acres of clover III
a day with this machine, and collect IL
in the box. With one OF these machines
farmer can gather as much seed IN Il
day as would be required to seed forty
or tiftv acres. 1t needs no hulling or
cleaning unless it is designed for mar
ket. Some prefer to SOW the seed III the
cbaff to that which is cleaned.
Year: 1868

Don't kill hogs until the weather IS
cool and clear. When dressing open
them from the tail to the snout ana
rinse freely with cold water. Prop
them open as far as possible with stick
so that they may cool quickly and thor
oughly. Let them hang until COM
pletely cool, aud then keep the sun
from them when taking to market.
Cut the pork for packing as soon as lt
is cold, and If the weather Is warm salt
immediately
Year: 1868

And the boys mother-where was
she when her child was dying of cold
and hunger7 In one of the aristoc
ic houses on the Avenue the poor seam
stress awaited as patiently as she nigh
the payment of her bill She was in
Mrs. Mays nursery, whitber she had
been directed to wait that lady's com


'ng soon as she could leave or guests:
Year: 1868

Photographer, cne door West of the Town
Hall, takes as fine Pho otograIhs as can be
had outside of he cities. All work known
to the art executed in the best style and
Warranted 10 please.
Year: 1868

The drunkard dreamed of his old retreat,
OF his easy place in the tap-room seat;
And the liquor cleaned in his gloating eye
Till his lips to the sparkling glass drew


nigh,


As he lifted it up with an eager glance,
And laugh as he saw the bubbles dance.
"Aha 1 am myself again
Here's a truce to care, an adieu to pain.
Welcome the cup with its creamy foaml
Farewell to work and mopy home!
With a jolly crew and flowing bowl,
In bar-room pleasures | love to roll w
Like flash, there came to the drunkard's


side,


His angel child who that night had died !
With look so gentle, and sweet and fond
She touched the glass with her little wand
And oft as he raised it up to drink,
She silently tapped it's silent brink,
Till the drunkard shook from foot to crown
And set the untasted goblet down.
''Hey, man." cried the host, "what mean
eth this?


Is the covey sick? or the dram amiss?
Cheer up my lad quick the bumper quaff.
And he glared around with fendish laugh
The drunkard raised his glass once more,
And looked at its depths as so oft before;
But started to see on its pictured foam
The face of his dead little child at home
Then again the landlord at him sneered,
And the staggering crowd of drunkards


jeered;


But still, as he tried that glass to drink,
The wand of his dead one tapped the brink
The landlord gasped, II swear my man,
Thou shalt take every drop of this flowing


CAM


The drunkard bowed to the quivering brim
Though his heart beat fast and his eyes


grew dim,


But the wand struck harder than ever be-
fore,


The glass was flung on the bar room floor
All around the ring the fragments lay,
And the poisonous currents rolled away.
The drunkard woke. His dream was gone
His bed was bathed in the light of the
morn;


But he saw, as he shook with pale cold
! fear,


A beautiful angel lowering near.
He rose: and that seraph was nigh him


still,


1t checked his passion, it swayed his will,
1t dashed from his lips the mad ming bowl
And victory gave to his ransomed soul.
Since ever that midnight hour he dreamed
Our hero has been a man redeemed,
And this is the prayer he prays Away,
And this is the prayerlet us help him pray;
That angels may come, in every land,
To dash the cup from the drunkard's hand.
Year: 1868

DEAFNESS OF THE Nothing
is more common than to hear old peo


pie utter querulous complaints with
regard to their increasing deafness
but those who do so are not perhaps
aware that this infirmity is the result
of an express and wise arrangement
of Providence in constructing the hui


man body. The gradual loss ofhear


ing is effected for the best purposes
it being to give ease and quietude to
the decline of life, when any noises OF
sounds from without would but dis.
compose the enfeebled mind, and pre-.
vent peaceful meditation. Indeed


the gradual withdrawal of all the
senses, and the perceptible decay Of
the frame, in old age, have been wise
ly ordained in order to wean the hu.
man mind from the concerns and pleas
ures of the world, and to induce a
longing for more perfect state of ex-
istence. a
Year: 1868

The RED SEA-The red sea is said
10 pe Lue noteSJ place III the world
The atmosphere for about sixty miles
on that sea is steamy and sticky
Everything in the shape of iron or
steel about ship takes on a coat Of
rust During the summer months nc
one travels on the Red Sea unless
compelled by business or military or.
ders to do so. In the winter and
spring the passage is delightful. Yet
navigation in thai body of water is
always attended with many dangers
The Red Sea is long and narrow, with
sunken rocks and projecting reefs


and counter winds prevail, which pro
duce dangerous currents. There are
three lighthouses in the sea, which
must be kept by salamander-like men
since the thermometer runs up to one
hundred and twenty degrees in July
and approaches ninety in early spring
Year: 1868

AGRICULTURE IN CHINA.-The Chi
namen, who walk over bridges built
two thousand wears ago, who cultiva-
ted the cotton plant centuries before
this country was heard of. who fed
silk worms before King Solomon built
his throne, have fifty thousand square
miles around Shanghai, which are call.
ed the Garden of China, and which
have been titled by countless genera.
tions. This area is as large as New
York and Pennsylvania combined
and is all meadow land raised but a
few feet above the river-lakes rivers
canals-a complete network of water
communication the land under the
highest tilth; three crops year har.
vested; population so dense that
wherever you look, you see men and
women in blue pants and blouse, SO
numerous that you fancy some fair OF
muster is coming off and all hands
have turned out for holiday.
Year: 1868

SPAsMoDIC PIETY.-A quaint writer
compares certain class of professors
of religion to "sheet-iron stoves heat
ed by shavings." When there is
little reviving in the church, they all
at once fame up and become exceed
ingly warm and jealous. They are
ready to chide the pastor and elders
for their coldness and want of activity.
But alas! the shavings are soon burn
ed out, and then the heat goes down
as it went up. They are never seen
in the prayer room, or more spiritual
meetings of the church again. until
there is another excitement. If such
people had not souls of ther own to
be saved, they would not be worth TAX
ing into their Church. They encum-
Der it, though they may themselves
receive benefit from a connection
with it.
Year: 1868

EN NJ PERRY, the old and experienced Den
II tst ofOreans County is still at Barton,
and in readiness to attended to all work pertain
ing to his profession in a prompt and efficient
manner. Also to extract teeth without pain, by
the use of Nitrous Oxide Having one of the
best Apparatus in use. Charges reasonable as
those of any respectable Dentist. Please call.
Advice gratis.


Rartnn- Ocr % 1851
Year: 1868

The following is rich-decidedly


rich We don't know where it came


from, butit will suit- any meridian:


1t was twenty years ago yesterday


that party Of us fellers went over


TO Cacokia Creek, on skating match.


The day was colder than ten ice


bergs; all smooth as glass. and we


made up our minds to have heap


of fun. Bill Berry was the leader OF


the crowd. He was a tall, six footer,


full of pluck, and the best skater in
all creation, Give Bill Berry pair


of skates, --snd smooth sailing, and
he'd make the trip to Baffin's Bay
and back in twenty four hours, only
stopping long enough to take drink


at Halifax. Well. we got to the
creek and fastened our skates on,
and after taking good horn from
Joe Turner'S flask, started off in
good style, Bill Berry taking the
lead. AS 1 was tellin' ye, it was q
dogged cold day, and so we had to
skate fast to keep warm. There was


little air holes in the ice, and every
now and, then we would come near
going into them. MY skates got
loose, and l stopped to fasten
'em. Just as I had finished buck.
ling the strap, / saw something
smoothing along the ice like lightning.
~ was BIZ Berry's head. He had


been going it like creased electricity


and before he knew it, was in one of
them air holes. Hlssi


The shock wss so great as to cut
his head off against the sharp cor


ners of the ice. "It's all day with
Bill Berry" said /, "And all night,
too" said Joe Turner. just as he
had got these words out of his mouth,
and looked at Bills head which
had been going it on the ice, all at
once it dropped into another hole
We ran to it, and heard Billy Berry
say, 'quick, boys, quick! pull me
OUT | looked into the hole, and
there, rs | am sinner, was Billy.
NNA'J OoN1 nulCu Hdu SkO0Ieu
along under the ice, and met the
head at hole in the ice. It was so
shocking cold, the head had frozen
fast to the body, and we pulled Billy
out as good as new. He felt little
numb at first, but after skating
awhile, he felt as the rest of us.
and laughed over the joke. We
went home about dusk, all satisfied
with the days sport. About ten
o'clock in the evening somebodp,
knocked at the door, and said was
wanted at Bill Berry's. l put on my
coat and went over. There lay
Bills body in one corner and his head
in another, HIS wife said that after
he came home from skating, he sat
down by the fire to warm himself, and |
while attempting to blow his nose,
he threw his head into the fire.
place The Coroner was called that
night, and the verdict of the Jury
was, 'Bill Berry came to his death |
by skeeting too fast"
Year: 1868

CONCERNING WINDows-The SIM
.pIest contrivences are. often the last
to come into general use. The Lon
don builder offers as suggestion
about the windows OF our houses
which is sensible, but which nobody
has thought of applying. II is this:
Instead of setting the window frame
some inches within the outer surface
of the wall (by which the wall is
made to absorb the greater part of
the light, J set it flush with the ex.
ternal surface, and let the panes Of
glass be roughly ground on the out
side surface. BY this means the
light from the whole of the visible
sky, and the remotest parts of the
opposite walls. will be introduced in
to the room, reflected from the innu
merable small facets made by grind
ing. the glass surface. The window
will appear as If the sky was directly
beyond it, and rays of light will ra-
diate from every point of the lumi
nous surface into all parts of the
chamber.
Year: 1868

~ One day, when the late Geo.
Stephenson was at dinner, scientific
lady asked him a question: "Mr.
Stephenson, what do you call the
most powerful force in nature?"--
"Oh,' said he, in a gallant spirit, 81
will soon answer that question. 1t
is the eye of a woman for the man
who loves her, for if q woman looks
with affection on n young man, and
he should go to the uttermost end OF
the earth, the recollection of that
look would bring him back. There
is no other force in nature which
could do that"
Year: 1868

OPP FELLows.-The Cincinnati
Enquirer says: ave understand that
there is a proposition before the DIFF
ferent lodges of Odd Fellows in the
State to organize protective sys-
TEN. 1t is proposed that each mem
Der of the Society shall contribute
two collars as a standing fund, and
when member dies, each one shall
contribute one dollar, so that there
may be always a fund to- donate to
the widow of the last deceased mem
ber. 1t is generally thought that
this benevolent scheme will be car
ried into effect.
Year: 1868

E At Quincy, Ill, is German
with curious blood mark. 1t is a
perfect deer about the size of silver
dollar, and on his right cheek. The
form and ontline of the deer are as
perfect as could be drawn by an
artist, and shows deer in the act OF
leaping. II is of a bright red color,
and looks as if it had been painted,
instead of freak of nature.
Year: 1868

and with this than ordinary energy in an emergen
cy the country will probably be saved from terrible
scourge.


THE PLAGUE AT PROVIDENCE.


"A drove of 33 head of Illinois cattle were
purchased by Providence firm from firm at Albany,
n y Eleven were killed aud dressed on Thursday put
the meat was not sold On the following day seven ded
from tne plague ana OF the Is remaining were 1ree
from symptoms of the disease hence ali were destroyed


INVESTIGATION or THE CATTLE DISEASE.


Col Capr0n, Commissioner of the United
States Department OF Agriculture has authorized Prof
Gamgee To proceed TOlOno for the purpose OF making
Investigations to the origin OF cattle disease The
Illinois state Agricultural Society has appointed Com
mittee OF medical gentlemen for the same purpose
Year: 1868

The announcement that Barbe Bleue" was
TO be withdrawn from the at Nbo after this week
was erroneous The opera IL enjoying an unqualified
suceess and no man yet foresees the end OF it,
Year: 1868

Do you know that the property which
you occupy and call your home is yours?


There are thousands of titles TO real es-
tate in Marshall County that are not worth
the paper they are written on.


There are hundreds of Patents from the
Government that have never been record
ed, and tless defects should be corrected
al once.


DO you want to know whether the title
to your farm or home is good or not?


CoRBIN i NANvALKESBURGH have a per-
feet Deed Abstract Of every section of
land and Town Lot in Marshall County.
II you desire to satisfy yourselves, call at
our Abstract Office, over the Bank, in
Plymouth.


4s-tf1 CoRBIN & VANvALKENBURGH.
Year: 1868

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
7. ,ains- and tie wind is never weary;
The vine still cIings to the mould ring WALL
Pm, at every gust the dead leaves fall,


And the day is dark and dreary-


NJ life is cold. and dark, and dreary;
I,,,fps. and the wind is never weary;
MytbOughts stiil cling to the mould ring past
Bat the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast;


And the days are dark and dreary
Be still, sad heart. and cease repinIng,
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,


Some days must be dark and dreary.
Year: 1868

Having resumed the manufacture of airs. at his
shop located the lot in the rear of his residence
on Market street. and short disttnce west of the
Foundry. is prepared to accOmm odate his old
friends and all others who may favor him with a
call with every description of Windsor chairs.
He has a good assortment on hand to which be
directs the attention of purchasers They are
made of the yery best material we'll painted and
flushed in workmanlike manner and will he
sold at prices to suit the times Examine them
before purchasing elsewhere


CIearfeld Pa March IS. 1855
Year: 1868

There is no medicine extant equal to these rem
edies in such cases. A tone and vigor is impaired
to the whole system, the appetite Is strengthed, ,
food is enjoy ed the stomach digesis promptly the
blood is purified. the complexion becomes sound
and healthy the yellow tinge is eradicated from
the eyes a bloom is given TO the cheeks and the
weak and nervous invalid becomes q strong and
healthy being.
Year: 1868

RESOLVED, That Notwithstanding the enur-
nous and conceded frauds in the cfeatioh
of the public debt, tie faith of the country
is pledged to its payment principal and in
terest, according to The terms Of the sewers
al acts of Congress, under which the bonds
representing the debt were issued, but not
otherwise, and we are opposed to any plan
for extending the times of p2ynint, thus
increasing the amount Of gold interest to
more than the principal, or to any declara-
ton by Congress that the principal is paNa-
BILE in gold, which would virtually add
more than a thousand millions to the burtli=
eu of the debt, and to the whole insane
financial policy of which these measures
are part.


RESOLVED, That, neither forgetting nor
denying our ancient faith that gold and
silver coin form the currency of the Con-
stitution, We declare that the fiVe~twefity
bonds, should be paid in the same curren-
cy received by the Government for their
issue, and that by the withdrawal of the
monopoly granted to the National Banks
this result can be accomplished without an
undue or dangerous increase of paper
money, now the only circulating Medium,
thus relieving our people from tho burthen
of debt, the tendency of which is always
to corrupt and enslave, and our Govern
ment from the reproach of paying favor
ed class in gold, while discharging its debts
to all others, including pensions TO widows
and soldiers, in an interior currency.


RESOLVED, That this plan violates no
law, impairs no contract, brea ks no faith,
and instead of retarding a return to specie
payments, is the shortest because the only
safe way of reaching that end.


RESOLVED, That all the property OF the
country, including the Government bonds
which receives the equal protection of the
Government, should bear an equal share
in its burthens,
Year: 1868

GRANTS western todr" is d great Sues
cess--as funeral march. He goes Into i
town. aud goes out Of it without as much
demonstration about il, as is ordinarily
needed over the march Of company d
gypsies through city. He is the deadest
beet that ever yet gos his name before d
people for any office.
Year: 1868

PERFECT PRMrTSG.-It has been much doubted whether an absolutely perfect copy of classical author has ever been printed. A wealthy amateur tried to make a perfect copy of "Os Luciados," of Camoens; and with the aid of the accomplished printer, Didot, got up magnificent edition of it at an enormous expense, which was not to con tain a single error. All thought he had suc- ceeded but when the book was printed an error was discovered in some of the copies, by one of the letters of the word luzitua0 be- ing displaced by some accident while work ing the sheets.

 The same experiment was made by fla nous firm in Glasgow. Every precaution was taken to procure typographical accuracy. Six experienced psoof readers were employed, who devoted many hours to each page and when they had done with 1t, it was posted up in the hall of the university, with a notice offering reward of fifty pounds to any per son who discovered an error. Each page was thus posted for two weeks before it went to press. No error was discovered; but when the work was printed, several errors were de- tected, one of which was in the first line of the first page.-ReLigiOus Herald