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Year: 1862

There Is scarcely any operation of farm
ing concerning which practice, in differ
ent parts OF the country, varies mere than
~ tnls. The grain drill is rare sight in
New England, and rare also in many parts
OF The Middle and Western States and
Canada Sill wherever It's use is common
II is held in very high estimation. In sa.
wing seed alone, a drill more than paws
tae interest on It's cost The risk of win
ter-killing is greatly diminished, and en-
even seeting is readily secured In the
following communication from Mr. A Lin
ton, OF Chester Co, Pa, written in re-
sponso to request from ourselves. the
advantages are very simply and strongly
set forth, and deserve the attention of
every wheat grower who does not use the
drill


THF USE OF THE DRILL


To say anything advocating the use of
the drill in sowing wheat in this section OF
the country, would be as superhuous as TO
discuss the excellence of anthracite for fu-
ell, or the utility of steam as motive pow
er. The use of the wheat drill Is so near
ly universal here on all land where it can
be used that tho sight of q field sown In
the old fashioned broad-cast way is rare
occErrance


The advantages Of drilling wheat may
be very briefly stated as follows: 1t dis
tributes the seed more evenly over the
ground than is generally done in broad
east sowing; the wheat is not so liable to
be thrown out of the freezing and thawing
which occurs here during the winter; the
depth ct which the seed IS placed in the
ground can be regulated to certain extent
as the moisture or dryness Of the soil NAV
require, TO insure its speedy termination.
1t takes less seed; the crops look better
and ripen more evenly than if sown in the
old fashioned way; and lastly the use of
the drill insures moro thorough prepa-
ration of the ground previous TO seeding,
being good cuitiyator ITSELF


As To the points to be possessed by
good drill: 1t should supply the seed reg
ularly and equally to the separate drill
tubes. The grain as it drops into them,
should be plainly IN view, that the opera
tor may see at a glance that they are al
working properly. 1t should not be so as
20 prevent the regular flow of the seed. IL
should have an index to mark the quanti-
ty of ground sown and fixture enabling
the user TO regulate the amount of seed
per acre. There should be n contrivanc,
to raise or drill the tubes at once at least
one foot clear of the ground IL similar
contrivance to raise each tube separately.
50 that one or all the tubes can be cleared
Of any sods, or other obstructhions to sue
cessful covering Of the seed Each tube
should be so arranged that lift should trike
a stone or root, 1t viii fly back without
braking anything more than a small wood
en- pin. The drill tubes should not be too
heavy and yet heavy enough to put the
seed in sufficiently deep. 1t is better to
drill in fall wheat by the first of October.
as seed sown after that time often fails.
The cause of failure | think is owing to
drilling the seed too deep; the ground at
that season is cold, and seed placed too
deeply in the soil S n long time coming
up, the plants are stunted, and never af-
ter become yigorous.-Ame5'ican igricul-
turiSt
Year: 1862

1t is a freq tent remark among open seces-
sianists and reconstruction Democrats
Heaven preserve the name of Andrew Jack


son from deflement-that the war now waged
by..this nation for its life, is an Abolition. war,
that the great objects for which it was under


taken have been lost sight of, and that it has
aegenerated into paltry scu he, in which the
effort is to set Il e SLAVES free. 1t is hard to
say whether commiseration or contempt is the
feeling with which such remarks should be
received. The probability is that both sem
timents are to be ins oked, and applied as the
case in hand may demand. If the semi


traitor knows no better, it is best to only pity
him .sand let him go' fhe knows better,
or has had opportunities of knowing. better,
as scontefnptuously Of Kina.as he deserves. Toe
men most Objectionable who utter this men
dacious statement are those of Northern birth,
who were never in one of the slave States,
and have been. led to admire the system of
negro slavery from the fact it may be, that
at some time or ether he has been g booted'
NY some Mississippi blackleg, and has felt,
since that time IA profound respect for every


thing etivalric. 1t is impossible to give to
this class the justice to which they are en-
titled. 1t is not in the compass of words to
express the contempt with which men are to
regard them. Loosening our cravat, we make
Just one effort: II every expression of con-
tumely and every adjective of scor1, every
word of objurgation ever found in any Ian


guage, living or dead or thought in uncommon
bitterness by any Of the sons of man, were
concentrated into one burning focus, like the
rays in the Archimedean lens, and then was
hissed by the curling lips CT the incarnate
Scorn, it would give faint expression to the
feeling with which these recreants are to be
regarded. Pah! How poorly the best words
in language shadow forth their unspeakable
vileness. All forgetful that for them, and
their children forever, there is no secure hope
which is not indissolubly connected with the
fate of this nation; all unmindful that the ma
tion which they are too cowardly to take up
arms against, but which they would lie down,
never harmed yet human being, or other
thing with life in it, they take themselves to
the pitiful, the miserable task of saying, in
the face of sun n-bright proof to the contrary,
that our great fleets are whitening-the sea,
and our vast starmies mastering alield, prompt.
ed by no sentiment of pride or patriotism, but
for the purpose of freeing the slaves. Would
to God that it lay in the power of a govern
mental proclamation to emancipate them from
their miserable, selfish natures, and their un-
Year: 1862

paintings attracted fair audiences at this
place on Monday and Tuesday last, and the
general opinion of. those who saw it is to the
effect that it is by far the best thing of the
Kind that ever visited the town of Shasta
Each evening the enterprising proprietor dis
tributed valuable gifts among his visitors,
which was not the least interesting part of
the performances. 1t is hard to excel this
exhibition
Year: 1862

We do not stop to remark upon an idea
sometimes advanced, that this proclamation
goes for naught. and is worth nothing, only
to observe that if it really amounts to nothing
it is useless to make such pother about it.
and pass on TO few words concerning an
impending insurrection which, with strange
inconsistency, they say will result from it,
According to this high authority, the events
of the war have reduced this country to
strange dilemma We can not, for constitu-
tional, moral, and perhaps other reasons set
the negroes free, and can not bring the war
to speedy and satisfactory conclusion while
they remain as slaves, and are engagedin rails
ing supplies and carrying muskets in the rebel
army. That which is notoriously and aa-
grantly wrong and injurious, cannot by our
law, (which is the perfection of reason) be
forbidden to do an act on which its own su-
premaey depends, and which, being left un-
done, it topples to the ground and ceases to
be law.



men are sincere when they seek to turn the
people aside from the performance of a duty,
peremptorily enjo;ned, by telling of the hor
rible results of this proclamation, in melting
slaves to revolt. If they are honest in what
they say, and do actually Lelieye in these
consequences. then they do not know any
thing about the matter. 1t is to be remem-
hered that there are few places in the slave
States where the slave population exceeds the
white or free. and where such places are
I found, there are scarcely no whites on whom
the terrific outrages, about which mems i'm
| agnations are so uncommonly fertile, could
be inflicted. Again, the bondman is invari-
ably coward. He will not fight. Hunter
found that out by an experiment which he
need never have tried if he had asked any
one who knew. few questions about the
qualities of the slaves. 1t is an opinion
founded on a rather extended experience in
that quarter. that an effort on the part of
the slaves to . RISE would be followed at
orce by their total determination. for which
few days would suffice


The idea is plausible one. that these ar
guments and forebodings, to which we have
been alluding, take tLeir rise in sort of
superstitious view with which too many of
our people regard negro slavery, and the
right to hold it. The reader will net want
proof of the remark that this right, and this
institution has, by public opinion, been regard
ed as thing apart. especially sacred in its
surroundings. and peculiarly guarded by all
laws human aud divine. Indeed it will not
be difficult for him to remember men whose
idea about the matter practically is, that
the Constitution was not made to protect
anything else than this . Institution.
Year: 1862

Notices of the Press.


This is sound Company


The insurance of certain sum for ones family
is a prudence that every should adopt in these
critical times


The man that would be respected and loved by
his family in life, and gratefully remembered in
death, will provide his family against want"
"All our most prudent citizens and soldiers are
insuring a competence to their families in they
are drafted, killed in the service it is the only
safeguard in these critical times nj 9m
Year: 1862

Since the issuance of the late proclamation
of President Lincoln, declaring that afteS a
certain Gay, distinctly named, and in the har-
peningso certain events, clearly laid down, all
persons held as slaves in certain districts of
this country shall be forever free, much idle
discussion has been indulged in, by a portion
Of tie public press. who pretend to see in this
manifesto the utter and total ruin of the coun-
try, and the perfect demolition of its Consti-
tuition. Nor are these unfortunate protests
and reckless vaticinations confined merely to
an intemperate discussion of the legal bear
ings of the issue thus raised. That mind
which can perceive the vast constitutional and
logical consequences of this step, which these
persons continually hold up to the public
gaze, is eminently fitted to discern the ''gor
gons, hydras, and chimeras Dire with which
this proclamation is infested They are con-
tinually bringing forward the fact that the
earliest and most direct effect of this step on
the part of the Chief Executive of the nation,
must be to incite servile insurrection in that
quarter of the country. We remember hear
ing United States Senator, who ought to
have known better, under the spur an i'm
pending defeat for reelection, come over
some sacl twaddle.


In the first place, no one, we suppose,
whose opinion goes for anything or is worth
considering, will deny that as war measure
the President has the unquestionable right
and prerogatve to issue this document. The
authority to do it may not be found in terms
laid down in the Constitution, but it results,
if anything whatever results, from the p -wer
to carry or the war. The Congress of the
nation recognizes state of war as existing,
but it leaves with the Commander in Chief of
the army and navy the details of how it shall
be waged. Wars, as we have heretofore had
occasion to quote, are conducted upon the
idea that one possesses the right to inj ure and
weaken an adversary in every way possible,
inside of certain humane restrictions not now
necessary to consider Thus, if an enemy
has a powder mandatory, or magazine,
your right to destroy, or seize and hold it,
nobody denies. If an enemy has stores of
provisions, and munitions of war. your right
to seize and hold, or destroy the same, is be-
yond question, even if by so doing you
leave him utterly defenceless, or so reduce
him that absolute starvation is the result
These things are not done specially for the
purpose of furnishing him, but with view to
reduce him to submission. Under this view
the proclamation in question can be justified,
if any justification is deemed necessary IT
is historical that the rebels, by the aid Of their
slaves, are enabled to carry on the war now
raging. Without their help they could not
do it. They are enabled to send the whole
force of whites of that section into the field,
and keep them there, well provisioned and
clad, and occasionally, at a pinch, use them
for offensive purposes, or m =, =!
Year: 1862

WE give to-day, much of the correspon-
dence between Seward and Lord Lyons as our
limited space will admit. We are sorry we
could not give the whole Of Stewards long pre-
amble, not that it possesses any considerable
merit, but that our readers might be able,
simply, to see what an extraordinary effort be
has made at display of superior statesman
ship.


He has argued tke question at great length
and with considerable adroitness and shrewd
cunning for which he is so distinguished but
when the positions taken come TO be viewed in
the light of facts, law and usage, his argu-
ments will be seen to drift before the scruti-
nizing research chaff before the wind.


We arc glad to see that he takes such pains
to justify the act Of Capt Wilkes, or the yield
ing up of the commissioners only complies
with one half Of the ultmatum of her Maies-
ty and leaves the matter now just where we
want it-our ministers at their post and the
cause of war still existing, aud exists too, in
such form that the Rump cannot dodge
it without plunging themselves ten fold deeper
in disgrace.
Year: 1862

A gentleman informs the Fayettville Obser-
yer that he travelled on the cars early last
week with DR.. Worth, who was on his way to
the coast for the second time He had been to
the Virginia Salt Works to familliarize himself
with the whole process of salt making, for
wich purpose the proprietors there had kindly
given him every facility and information. He
thinks he make some improvements of the
works. HIS difficulty is in getting the ncces-
sary salt pans cast for which he has applied
in every accessible quarter in and out OF the
State. AS he could not be in Virginia and at
the foundries and on the coast all at one and
the same time, he had prevailed upon another
energetic gentleman TO proceed him to the
coast to make the necessary arrangements
previous to his second arrival there Pet.
Express.
Year: 1862

ANOTHER WRECKED YANKEE.-We received
the pleasing Intelligence yesterday that aHotf-
er Yankee steamer had gone ashore opposite
Swansboro' ur Cedar Point on Sunday night:
We have not heard the particulars about it yet
but may be able to give something more III
our next, as Major Boon and Lieut. Colonel
Robinson left yesterday to pay it visit: It's
a good time now for them to prowl round our
coast. Pity that Burnside didn't get to HATTIE
ras Oh Saturday instead of Old Point
Year: 1862

The Yankees discussing proposition to
remove the seat of Government to New York,
and although this vast stockjobbing scheme
may fail, the mere fact of its having been dis
cusscd, will contribute to produce abroad new
faith in our ability to establish our nation
ality.


The North has plentiful lack" Of states
manship, and this is another striking illustra
ton of the truth we have just enunciated.-
Norfolk, Ldy Book.
Year: 1862

/ 1t is remarkable and most interesting
fact, says a secular paper, that the very
/ first use to which the discovery of print


ing was applied, was the production OF


the Bible This was accomplished at
Mcntz, between the years 1850 Hoo
Guttenburg was the inventor of the art,
and Faust, goldsmith, furnished the
necessary funds. Had it been a single
page or even an entire sheet, which was
then produced, there might have been
less occasion to have noticed it; but there
was something in the whole character. ol
the affair which, if not unprecedented,
rendered it singular in the usual current
Of human events. This Bible was in two
folio volumes which have been Justly
praised for the strength and beauty Of
the paper, the cxac,ncss of the register,
and the lustre Of the ink The work con-
tanned twelve hundred and cighty-two
pages, and being the first ever printed, of
course involved long period of time,
and an immense amount of mental, man
ual and mechanical labor and yet, for
long time after it had been finished and
offered for sale, not a single human being
save the artist themselves, knew how it
had been accomplished.


Of the first printed bible eighteen cop
les arc now known to bein existence; four
Of which are printed on vollum. Two Of
these are in England one being in the
GrenyIle collection. One is in the Roy
al Library at Berlin, and one in the Roy
al Library of Paris. OF the remaining
fourteen copies, ten are in England
there being a copy i'll Oxford, Edinburg
and london, and seven in the collection
of different noblcmcn. The velIam copy
hash cen sold as high as eight hundred dol
lars
Year: 1862

pouGHNUTs.-Onc cup melted lard ono
pint milk enc cup yeast; mix at night
warm; in the morning when perfectly
Hght add two cups brown sugar two eggs,
one teaspoon cinnamon: let it rise again.
Roll it about quarter or an inch thick
and cut it. Boil in hot fat.
Year: 1862

its composition, the more pAlatable the pudding
became, and after general and impartial sur
vey ofthe subject in all its phases, we are con
siueed that


You may mash, YOU may soak them, aud you will
hl the taste OF the hard tack VIII cling TO them si


But these considerations are of minor impor-
iance, beside the deprivation of tobacco, such as
the men have been obliged to undergo latterly
the article in any shape is almost unknown here.
Many jaw that once was busily employed iu
crushing the weed is now inactive, and many a
pipe, merchaum and hrier root that was once
wont to emit beautiful puiFs of smoke, has now
gone out, not to be reighted until "Lynchburg"
or "nigger head" is attainable. The oit-repeat-
ed inquiry is, "have you any tobacco and the
response is almost invariably in the negative, for
chew is n rarity, and the man that is the pos
sessor of one, is considered fortunate, il he is not
envied. plug would look as large as a dry
goods box, and an old fashioned twist would as
sumo, in the eyes Of most of us the dimensions
Of a saw log. But we trust that with the arrival
of the suffers, this alarming condition of affairs
will cease in n measure.


Our regiment has been performing consider
able amount Of picket duty. Yesterday il was
posted along the north hank of the river, while
the rebels were on the other side. As the stream
was very narrow, conversation between the
pckets was kept up all day, and with the best
feeling. The rebels called some Of our men, in
Sting them to come over anG take breakfast,
adlng, 1--WE have ham anil eggs, you have
coffee and we will have bully hreakfast"-
Some Of them came across and fraternized with
our men, aud then returned after expressing
themselves as heartily tired OF war. Two men
belonging to an Alabama regiment came over
and delivered themselves up to our regiment
They told our boys that they saw the lst Della.
ware at Antielam, and heard of il, and that II
did some tall fighting in that engagement Al
of the rebels with whom our pickets converset
agreed in the statement that they were sad'l
deficient in clothing aud shoes, aud that the lat,
cold nips were by no means agreeable.


Yours, BILLY.
Year: 1862

OF the service, recommend the introduction Of
this branch Of surgery; and under an able and
skilful head an organization of operators
throughout the army might be perfected of
the highest practical value and importance.
Year: 1862

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS


He who attaches any Importance to
the criticisms OF the foreign CORES
pondents Of the American newspaper
press in regard to the matter Of
Intervention in the American war, must be
less acquainted than we are with the disre-
putable tricks Of the leading journals in
which the wise predictions Of these cores
pondents appear It unquestionably true
that half, and, perhaps, more Of the pre-
tended foreign letters which appear in the
New York Herald, are purely bogus
made from the foreign mails on the arrival
Of steamer, in the Herald Office, by the
attaches Of that establishment, in accord
ance with the instructions which are sent
up from the editorial rooms. And these
instructions vary with the policy Of the
paper for the moment, and to suit the
views Of its conductor. These facts are so
well known to the editorial profession in
New York that they have ceased to excite
remark. But, at this time, when this ms
chlnery is being used for base and unpatri-
otic purposes it is well enough for Western
men, at least, to understand how foreign
correspondence is too frequently managed
Year: 1862

on Washington street, was obtained, aud
SO do VIC; and now, how eau he be asked
to give less than one fourth its value for the
defense Of the remainder Of his possessions,
He may offer to pay in currency. In that
event, we would advise that the tender be
accepted, because, Of all men in the West,
he has been the most strenuous defender Of
wildcat and red-dog issues He knows
how much George Smith gave him for de-
Tending his stuff; and his conscience ought
to tell him that a part of that, too, on 5sht to
be donated to the public defense Let the
Committee call on him The ten thousand
will, no doubt, be forthcoming. He has
not given dollar yet-not cent even


Call On him! ,
Year: 1862

Our readers cannot but have noticed that
the manifestations Of Northern disloyalty
are always the most virulent after an Union
reverse, and that Border State neutrality
leans over to active cooperation with the
rehcl cause whenever shade is cast over
the probability Of loyal succesa To-day,
when rebellion is again brewing in Mis-
souri, Kentucky and Maryland, We find
that the Chicago Times and all journals of |
Of that ilk, and all the red-mouthed
politicians who take their inspi-
ration from such secession sheets, are
more than ever rancorous and bitter
in their attacks upon the men who are en- !
deavoring to uphold the country's power.
Carl1e, Wicklife & Co have broken out in
3 new place, and between all hands,
We have the most convincing proof that
nothing but fear Of consequences prevents
more open and reasonable avowals Of
hatred to the North and sympathy with
the South, than any they have yet dared to
make. II, then, fear is the only impulse
that these men will obey, if patriotism is
dead, if humanity is dumb, it is time for
the constituted authorities Of the
country, not the unlicensed mob, to
take step in advance and
put in motion the enginery by which the
traitors may be more efeetually controlled.
While We are for no half measures with
the enemy in the seeding States, we Ger
tainly cannot be expected to be in favor Of
e7cusing the worse traitors right here at
home The horse answers to the whip,
the OK to the goad, and the ass to club
the traitor willis at the suggestion Of the
prison or the rope, We are for the widest
latitude of opinion, and for the greatest
possible liberty Of speech consistent with
public safety But when the secession
hug is flying undisturbed in mora
than one place in Illinois, and when
loyal men in some Of the southern
counties are driven out by mobs
who hurrah for jeff Davis, it is about time
for us, who deal with men just like these
miscreants that deiRntly 6y the symbol ot
rebel authority, and initiate the secession
custom Of mobning or cutting the throat
OF whomsoever does not worship their
idol-time for us, where as yet law
order and loyalty are the rule, tc
look out. The rartle-snake is torpid here
but his taDgs are jus: as full Of venom as
those of tile same reptile in Egypt; and il
NEEDS but a few more CLEANS of the rebc


sun to cell itself to strike. Another 'svic


tory" Like that at Richmond, aud the th1ea


Of Dick 1ler.ick, made in the Springfield


Convention, that, when war was inaugu


1attd, blood would run down the streets O


Chicago, would be put into execution. I


fear must be invoked, we pray the Gov


errment to begin It must, or the traitor


will.