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Year: 1867

court of chancery for the appointment of
a commissioner in the place of the one
thus incapable of acting and said court,
after such notice as 1t may direct, may
make such appointment and the person
so appointed shall be resident tax payer
in the town Tor which he is to act, and
shall have the same powers and duties as
if originally named in said instrument of
assent.


Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from
its passage.


Approved March %, 1867.
Year: 1867

The following note is like so many others
which have reached us that we feel justified In
treating its topic rs of quite general interest:


To a. Editor o Ih> TribsR>


SIN, Your editorials have, from time TO time, drawn
my attention TO farming What should man OF a. Oh
good habits single with natural taste for country ana
farm fc with cash capital OF soo do IN that regard
Does market and fruit gardening ON Long Island offer
better Inducements than tho West What do you con-
sdor tho firesi How much should he invest In land
and how should ho use The baanco lie has no exper
ence the business Is how bookkeeper living on bis
pay but with no prospects. lie believes that many VIII
be interested in your reply. l.


AnSrer.-A man who has S23,OO0 is too well
off to need any advice from us. We may say
generally that any man or woman OF average
sense who is worth that amount can buy
good farm of 100 TO 200 acres almost any
where for $1,000 to $4,000, stock it amply buy
the needed tools and seeds, hire q good farmer
rs foreman, and go TO work, with moral cer-
tainty of doing well from the outset, and better
and better year by year thereafter He must
be very poor stick who can't make his way
anywhere with q start of S2J,000.


But there is very large class now hanging
on in cities and villages who could sell out so
as to take from $4,000 to $1,000 each into the
country. What can young or middle-aged
man do at farming on such capitali


Let us suppose man to have $4,000 and
family of four to six persons where shall he
choose rural homeq and what shall he do
on itf


The proper answer depends on his tastes
and prepOssessons. IL these tend to garden
ing and fruit growing, he should settle within
days ride of this or some other great city,
and very near port or landing whence q steam
boat runs daily to and from our markets.
location on or near q railroad will do; but
water transportation is decidedly preferable.
Long Island, New-Jersey Especially its south
em half, Delaware, Maryland, and even Lower
Virginia, afford excellent locations. There is
very fair wooded or worn-out land to be bought
for S25 per acre or less but land that sells for
5000 per acre Is often decidedly cheaper. And,
whatever your capital may be, do MT bury
more than half of 1t in the earth. Better begin
on five acres plow ID deeply, fertilze it bouh-
tifully, and cultivate 1t thoroughly, than to run
In debt, or farm land that you are unable to
make rs rich as need DO. Do MT be afraid that
the land will all be gone if you do not secure
IL Mt once money will always buy land, and
will buy most land for less than its actual cost
Unless you have much money, buy no moro
land than you intend to put to immediate use,
unless it be patch OF woodland for timber
and fuel.


Your inexperience VIII OF course bo draw
back. You will be abo TO effect more by eight
hours work Dor day in your third year OF iarY.
Year: 1867

The Senate seems to be almost as reckless as
the House in its disregard Of the decencies OF
debate. Twice or thrice last session, it tOler-
ated offenses which should have subjected one
or two members to summary discipline. Yester-
day Mr.. Fessenden was permitted to violate
etiquette and good manners without rebuke
from the presiding officer. We may suppose
Mr.. Wade feels not quite ut home i'll his seat
and was taken ny surprise. Mr.. Fcssendon
however, will receive more effective rebuke
from the country than could have been
administered by tho President of the Senate.
When he comes to sec his angry
words in type, he will be sure to regret
them, for Mr. Fcssenden, though apt
to speak quickly, understands perfectly what
should, and what should not be said on the floor
of the Senate. He knows that to say to one OF
his colleagues, "You cannot dignity it with the
"name of argument, but you were beginning to
"talk, nevertheless" is not parliamentary
Beside, Mr. Fossenden can say sharp thing, if
he has mind and this is not sharp-t Is
merely abusive.
Year: 1867

The Senate has voted million of dollars to
relieve the destitute and suffering people of the
South; but it is a misapprehensOn to suppose
that this sum will be sufficient. The Commits
sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau estimated that
half million more at least would be required.
This sum must be supplied chiefly from the
North, and we hope that an intelligent and pa
triotic charity, never appealed to in vain, will
now come largely to the aid Of the Southern
Relief Fund A letter from its Secretary, printed
in another column, states the necessity still ex
isting for further contributions. The House
yesterday refused to go into Committee of the
Whole to dispose of the Southern Relief bill
referred to it. We take it for granted this
does not indicate opposition TO the measure of
relief
Year: 1867

axiom that


"Fools rush in where angels fear TO troad"
and there have been scores of inventions for
pulvcrizing Peat mixing with it other suitable
substances, and pressing it into tho requisite
compactness and tho most advantageous forms
tho value Of all which will be tested during
tho current year. We hear of Peat companies
at work from Maine as far southwark as the
Dismal Swamp, and presume they will be diff
fused through most Of our States before the
close of 1868. Vague reports are in circulation
of admirable results from the use of Peat and
patent fuels manufactured therefrom in the
production of Iron and Steel. whereof we shall
doubtless hear further in due time.


They who say that Peat can never compete
with Coal overlook the fact that Peat is far
the moro widely and more generally diffused,
and that each mile of transportation affords
argument for preferring the nearer product.
IL Peat may compete on equal terms with
Coal when the latter has to be sought at
greater distance by 100 miles, then, at 200
miles disparity, the difference in favor OF the
Peat Is at least equal to 81 per tun. In other
words tho Peat will there be worth 81 per
tun above the cost of its production. But we
intended simply to call attention to a subject
which promises to attract q very general In
tereaf
Year: 1867

The debate in the House of Lords on the
second reading of the bill for the Confedem-
ton of British North America shows that one
of the reasons-perhaps the principal reason
why that measure has found favor with the
English people, is the promise it holds out of
relieving them in a measure of the burden of
providing for the military defense of the
North American Provinces Lord Normandy,
formerly Governor Of Nova Scotia, dwelt
emphatically upon this point in the
speech he delivered on the OCCASION giving il
as his opinion that, in the event of war be-
tween England and the United States, the
Provinces would be better able to defend
themselves under Confederation than if
they were separate as at present This sounds
plausible but, after all, there ia very little In
it as an argument for Confederation, which
could not so materially add to the military
strength of Canada as to make the conquest of
that country matter Of much greater diff
Guilty than at present to an American army. 1t
would appear, too, from the tone of the English
press on the subject Of Confederation, that the
people of the mother country are under the
impression that the question Of the union of the
Provinces has been settled in favor Of the
project by the popular voice of the Colonies
concerned This is so far from being the case,
that that question has never been submitted
70 the test Of popular vote. How the scheme
Year: 1867

The objections to the bill restricting prosti-
tuition, the substance of which is given in our
Albany telegram, win suggest themselves. We
therefore spare ourselves the disagreeable task
of pointing out some Of the bad details of the
measure. Commissioners are to be provided
for, who in turn are to provide for the evil
which pays their salaries for them.
Year: 1867

Senator Cowans nomination as Minister to
Austria has been rejected by vote of II to
"a. The vote may be a hint to MIR. johnson
that the Senate does not intend to reward the
men who abandoned their party in order to
serve the President.
Year: 1867

OLD SElTLrRs-The Pioneers Of Scot.
county those who took up the "Wcstward
Ho!" and went to using it here previous to
1s4l, hold their Tenth Annual Festival at
the Pennsylvania House this evening. There
is every reason to believe that there will be
large gathering. and that the Pioneers Of
our county will have glorious rc-union.--
So may it be-
Year: 1867

Ar Fissr Cosr.-willson il selling out
his large and complete stock Of jswelry at
first cost without any reservation. This is
. splendid chance to get genuine articles
cheap. His stock must be sold. Call and
price his goods.
Year: 1867

Hill! poor Yankee Hill' He was the
very incarnation of drollery aud esprit,
We loved to see his smiling, gool-natured
phiz before the lights. for it was sure to
impregnate the very atmosphere with a
sense of merriment. Ho possessed ge-
MUS for the impersonation of down east
character, which no actor ever before nor
since his time has approached. He was
natural, captivating, easy and brilliant.
With what genial unction he related a
pleasantly! with how much sparkling
zest he ban.crea the follies of mankind
the witticisms flashed from his lips as
fakes of light along the orient. A gay,
glorious fellow was he, in every sense of
the expression.


His store of anecdotes seemed to be
inexhaus;iblc and be was one of those
few gifted creatures who could talk all
day, and still have something left we'll
worth listening to. One never wearicd
of hearing him Age did not tarnish,
Year: 1867

As every sand has its place n making
the mountains and every drop its own
p ace in making the ocean, and every
leaf its part in clothing the forest, and
every stalk of wheat its place in filling
the field with golden harvest that is to
be gathered into the barn--as every par.
tiele of space between our plane. and the
sun is an important link binding US to
the solar centre, and to perform an inns
portant function in the communications
carr led on between us and the other
members of the solar system, SO is every
man, and the particles of the influence
of every man, link in the vast chain of
human well-doing and well being. Socis
ETY. is the aggregation of individdalities.
1t is, in fact, an association organized by
the Creator for purposes of benevclencc.
Every human being is shareholder in
this association-not merely to receive
the dividends, or as sleeping partner
consume its fruits Jm 10 hep 10 pro.
duce them. Every human being is bound
up with every other human being, and
must fill his page in the vast volumn of
humanity This is true of all ages and
of all men; but especially true of young
men in our day. BY Providence they
are so placed as TO reccire and transmit
impressions just as we their predecessors
have done, and their successors viii do.
Nay, their opportunit es for excrting a
wide influence are, in most cases, greater
than were enjoyed by their fathers
Whatever then may be the character of
the young men of our age, whether good
or bad such will they impart to the COM
ing age. When We are removed from
living men, and the sapds of the noun
tain, or the clods of the valley, or the
tangled weeds o.. the sea, or oceans bril-.
liant shells may be our tomb, then they
will occupy our places on the worlds
busy stage Yes, when We who are now
busy in the strife of life, and struggling
with its burdens, have left these mertal
shores, these young men will be the liv-
ing inhabitants of the earth. Those
whom you arc now teaching will teach
others and mould their character. These
young men of business, of science, Of
learning, aud Of religion in the years to
come, AS the falling leaves of autumn
are replaced by the growth of next year,
or rather .as the leaves on evergreen trees
are ever falling and ever growing and the
tree always green; so in this vast and
ever multiplying population of our earth
we aie born, live and pass away, and an
other generation eometh. The infant IN
the cradle will soon mingle in the spoEi
OF boyhood and the growing child viii
soon pass into manhood, and with bis fel'
lows stamp the living world with its per-
manent characters.
Year: 1867

INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPUTIES.


l. When you desire to establish Council of
the u L. A. at any point, go there or send an
assistant. Assemble eight or more loyal men,
explain to them the objects, and, as far as you
think proper, the principles of the Union League
of America. If they consent to become MEN,
bers, initiate them. After you have given them
the secret work, take the Chair, state to them
the number and names OF the officers they have
to elect. You will then have them proceed to an
election to fill the different Offices from among
the men initiated.


2. After the officers are elected, you will re-
quest eight or more of the members to sign an
application for Charter. This application and
the fee of-you will forward to the Cores
ponding Secretary of the State League, who will
send Charter and the necessary books. blanks,
DC, to the President of the new Council.


8. If you unable to attend the organization
of Council, you may deputize and send an as
sistant, being responsible for his prompt report.


4. Instruct the Councils that they should hold
meetings once in each week, and that they
should follow the ceremony as nearly as possible.
Advise them to enlist all the loyal talent in their
neighborhood, and that they have speaking when
ever they can


5. You will perceive that the success of the
Councils which you establish will depend in a
great measure upon the men who are its founders,
and who may be elected to fill the offices. They
should not only be prudent, vigiant, energetic,
aud loyal, but they should be men who possess
the confidence of their fellow citizens.


6. You should establish Councils in each elec-
ton precinct These Councils should not only
have distinctive names, but be regularly number
ed.


T. It is important that each Council be at once
put in communication with the State and Ma
tional Councils. Through these sources the
members of the League will be supplied with
documents Each Council of the Union League
shonld, as soon as organized, subscribe for THE
GREAT REPUBLIC, the national organ of the
order, which contains each week matters of in
terest and Importance to members of the League.
Great Republic.
Year: 1867

the incest and tidiesE retail country
STORES in this county. is that of George
II. Morgan's. We assert that his goods
are not only cheap bat good As relia-
Tie business man, Mr. Morgan is well
known. He has on hand at this time as
fine a stock of SPRING AND SUMHER
GOODS as any one can wish to select
from. Ka acts upon the true principle
purchase any thing in his line viii save
time ana money By going at once to Nor
ganza.
Year: 1867

more OF ICS0,
They lie rpon the hcalwaters of the
Saint Georges River and Herring Creek
and are convenient to Churches, Stores,
Mills, &c


The soil of the land is excellent and
there is large quantity of fine timber
upon the premises.


About one half of this land is arabic,
and in high state Of cultivation and
Improvement.


There is an excellent
Year: 1867

2 We publish below a report of the proceed
ings at a meeting of the students of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary, called to consider certain
rumors impeaching the good judgment and
humanity of the Faculty in their treatment of


the unfortunate girl whose single yenial offence


was so sincerely repented of and atoned for
with her life. This version of the story, it will
be seen, expresses the belief OF two hundred


and thirty students, many of them eognizant
OF all the circumstances of the special case, and


all competent to bear testimony to the charac-


ter and conduct of their teachers. Some de-
tails of the affair which have never before ap-


peared in print are now given to the public
We are glad to see that the new light which is


thrown upon the case not only clears the
government of the seminary from the
unjust accusations which have appeared in
some quarters, but brings out in fairer colors
the character of the poor girl herself. a,.
Year: 1867

Nine out OF ten who attempt to burr
coal in a stove, waste about as much
coal as is necessarSto be consumed fol
the obtaining Of all the heat desirable
Observe the following simple rules
suggested by cotemporary and few
who adopt the burning OF coal will re-
turn to wood fires. We will suppose
the stove to be cleaned out:


First-To make a coal fire, put in q
double handful OF shavings or use kin
ding wood instead. Fill the earthen
cavity (if the stove has one) nearly full
of chunks of dry wood, say four OIL
six inches in length. On tho top put
about dozen Jumps of egg coal. In
ten minutes add about twenty Jumps
more of coal. As soon as the wood
has bsrned out, fill the cavity half to
two.thirds full of coal. The fire will
be good one. The coal will by these
directions become thoroughly igni-
ted.


Second--Never fill o stove more
than half or two-thirds full of coal
even in the coolest weather.


Third When the fire is low, never
shake tho CRATE or disturb the ashesi
but add from ten to fifteen small Jumps
of coal, and set the draft open. When
these are heated through, and some
what iguited, add the amount necessa.
ry for new fire, but do not disturb
the ashes yet. Let tho draft be open
half an hour. Now shake out the ash
es. The coal will be thoroughly ig-
nited and will keep the stove at high
heat from six to twelve hours accord
ing to the GOODNESS Of the weather.


Fourth--.For very cold weather.
After the FIRE is made, according to
rules first and third, add, every hour,
twelyeor twenty Jumps of coal. You
will find that the ashes made each
hour will be in about that rate. -Zanss-
ttNe City Times.
Year: 1867

BARLEY FOR HoRsEs.-A correspon.
dent of the Country Gentleman recon.
mends barley instead OF oats for horse
feed. That barley is stronger grain
than oats there can be no doubt, and
is far better for work horses. In Cal.
ifornia no other grain is used. The
teamsters all prefer barley feed on &C.
count of its strength and taking less
bulk TO make a meal for a team. We
believe if our people would feed barley
instead of oats, they would make great
saving in the price Of food. 1t is less
liable to founder than corn, wheat or
rye, and contains nearly or quite as
much nutriment as either Of them.--
" hen ground ii is esteemed higher
than any other grain for horse feed by
those who have experimental in the
matter. "
Year: 1867

is the only Physician as Special
ist, now in Chicago that can be en-


tirely relied upon. Go to him,
and not suffer that horrible disease
to remain in your system, disfgur,


ing your face and body, besides
Year: 1867

We copy the following from
the Memphis Ledger:


cit is manifest that the So
called Legislature of Tennessee
in comforting the right of suffrage
upon the negro, did so from no
desire to benefit the race, but as
a means of keeping themselves in
office. Hence, they simply allow
him to vote, but shut the door to
office in his face. They have,
however, unwittingly left the
road to the United States Con-
gress open to him. Now, l pro-
pose to the colored voters of this
district to issue a call at once for
a Congressional Convention of
their own color to meet at La
grange on the first of June, allow
no white man seat in the Con-
vention, and nominate one of their
own color to represent them in
Congress. And every Conserva-
tive white voter in the district
will support him if the Conven-
ton will pledge the colored vote
of the district to support Conser-
vative candidates for the State
Legislature. lam willing to meet
the white voters in a public meet
ing and pledge ourselves to carry
out the compromise in good faith.
What say the colored Yoters?'
Year: 1867

There is great religious excite
ment Just now in several of the
principal cities and towns of Maine.
Many persons are laboring under
deep concern Of mind, and quite
a number of converts have been
baptised in the waters Of the Ken
nebec. At Gardiner the other
night one Of the exhorters-so
runs the story-became rather in
dignant because a brother was his
superior in singing and praying,
So up he got and said: "Brother
can sing and pray; but, by
the blessing of God, there's one
thing ] can beat him in. l can
fiddle his shirt off"
Year: 1867

The number of losses during
the past few years upon Jewish
property insured, have been SO
great as to develop a strong sus-
picion on the part of few promi-
nent Insurance Companies, that
that race is disposed to speculate
by burning up their property
They have accordingly resolved
not to take any more "Jew risks"
This prescription is creating great
Indignation among the Israelites,
who are holding meetings and pass
ing condemnatory resolutions
throughout the country.
Year: 1867

The administration is in daily
receipt of correspondence from
leading men of the South, giving
assurance that the great body Of
the Southern people are determin-
ed to organize under the recon-
struction laws recently passed, and
that the only disturbing elements
in the South are the imported poll
ticians from the North, who are
making every effort to bring about
discord between the white and the
colored people.


A letter just received from a
prominent citizen of the North,
now making a tour of the South,
is particularly instructive in this
regard. The writer says that the
only turbulent spirits are North
ern men, who appear to be in the
interests of the eastern Radicals.

He declares that the removal of
civil officers by General Sheridan
is considered unfortunate that
Judge Abell has ever been an un-
compromising Union man; that
Heth, his successor, was zone of
Buffers spies" and in fine, "that
none of General Sheridan's ap-
can command the least
respect" The writer, in conclu-
sion, says General Sheridan is
daily becoming more unpopular,
but the people will submit TO his
rule"
Year: 1867

The Minister of State in Spain,


has succeeded in procuring the
passage of law for the better
quelling of revolutionary out
breaks. 1t recognizes three
conditions of society, the "Normal
State" the estate of Alarm" and
the estate Of War" During the
normal state, the bill has merely a
vigilant detective power. In the
state of alarm the commissioners
of public safety are permitted to
arrest, hang, fine or imprison ad
Hbttun, and during the state of war,
every person seen upon the streets
without express authority, is to be
as an enemy. A sweet
country to live in, that
Year: 1867

They have patriarch in Taun-
ton, Mass, who says that he once
raised a flock of wild ducks from
a pond, when he took aim at them
with his gun and fired. They
flew away with much clamor, and,
surprised to find that none of
them dropped, he examined the
field of battle. He picked up
four bushels of legs. There was a
touch of pathos in the old mans
voice as he added: II fired too
loW."
Year: 1867

We recently heard the following touch
ing incident: A little boy had died.
His body was laid out in darkened, re-
tired room, waiting to be laid away in
the cold, lone grave. His afflicted
mother and bereaved little sister went in
to look at the sweet face Of the precious
sleeper, for his face WAS beautiful even
In death. As they stood gazing on the
face Of one so beloved and cherished, the
little girl asked 10 shake his hand. The
mother at first did not think it best, but
the child repeated the request, and
seemed very anxious about il; she took
the cold, blOodless hand of her sleeping
boy and placed it in the hand OF his
weeping sister.


The dear child looked at it a moment,
caressed it fondly, and then looked up to
her mother through the tears Of affiie-
ton and love, and said: Mother, this
hand never struck me-"


What could have been more touching
and lovely ?-Retersburg Va.) LldeE.