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Year: 1867

Il Is said that clayey soils retain the
manure longer than sandy loans. Doubtless
this is the fact; but why is it? May 1t not
be for the reason that crops cannot appropri-
ate the mannrial food In the soil to their own
growth SO rapidly as they can In freer lands
where the rootlets have readier access 10
every part OF the surrounding soil? In our
experience we have found that the same guam
tity of manure appl ed to sandy loan will
cause young plants to sp,ing forth sooner,
rut oul a more vigorous growth and yield a
larger crop IN autumn than If applied to stiff,
clayey soil; and we are more than half in
clined to think If the latter retains Its ma
nure longer 1t is becaus. the crop has net been
able to exhaust it. but has left portion of it
tor the support of vegetation another Year or
later. i


But it Is said when soils are ftee and por-
Gus the manures evaporats and pass off In
the air: whereas in stiff soils they cannot
thus escape. Now this theory of the real
food of the plants passing off by evapora-
ticn Is rather questionable one in our phi
losophy. Nature never meant to carry on
such random operation. Who ever knew
Year: 1867

EVERY DAY RELIGION.-We must
cotHe back to our point, which is not
to urge all Of you to give yourselves
up to mission work, but to serve God
more and more in connection with
your daily calling. I have heard that
woman who has a mission makes a
poor wife and q bad mother; this is
very possible, and at the same time
very IamentabIe; but the mission
would urge is not of this sort. Dirty
rooms, slatternly gowns, and children
with unWashed faces, are swift witness
es against the sincerity of those who
| keep others vineyards and neglect
their own. l have no faith in that wO-


man who talks of grace and glory
abroad, and uses no soap and water at
| home. Let the buttons be on the
shirts, let the Children's socks be mend


ed, let the roast mutton be done to q


turn, let the house be,as neat rs a new


pin, and the home be as happy as
can be; and then, when the cannon


balls, and the marbles, and the shots,
and even the grains of sand, are all in
the box, even then there will be room
for those little deeds Of love and faith
which in my Masters name seek of
you who look for His aPpearing.-
Serve God by doing common actions
in heavenly spirit, and then, if your
daily calling only leaves you cracks
and crevices of time, fill these up with


holy service. To use the apostles
words, GAS we have opportunity, let
u 10 good unto all men. ."-TSpurgeon.
Year: 1867

That a considerable portion of the South
ern people have got their eyes wide open
is evident from such expressions as are
given below. A prominent citizen OF
AIbemareI county, Va, writes as follows to
the Richmond Whig:


In my judgment, no greater evil could
be brought upon the South than would be
a successful effort to reOrganize the old
Democratic party, or a party under any
other name, in antagOnism to the RepUb-
lican party. The Democratic party in the
North, as have already stated, is utterly
pOwerless now, and is likely so to con-
tinUe. We Ofthe South, in view of the
course of the Democratic party of the
North during the late war, are under no
obligations to it even if it were, as it is
not, the dominant party of the country
They promised us aid before the war COM
menced, and Ealsified every promise they
made on the subject. Many of theiI
leaders went promptly into the war, OBJ
tanned high positions as officers, and now
claim that but for their assistance the Re
publicans never could have conquered the
South. We are free to make a fresh start
in political life, and l feel disposed to take
that road which, in my judgment, will
soonest lead ME to haven of peace and
prosperity.


So far as the question of consistency is
concerned, hold that it is just as consist
ent for a Southern man to affiliate and CO.
operate with the Republicans of the North
Us with the Democrats of the North.


An "Oficer of the late Confederacy,' -
writing from Lynchburg, hopes Governor
Pierpont will be reelected, because he is,
cat heart, all that is desired" The Abing-
don Virginian says: "The Democratic
party ought to he disbanded, and never
more named in the South. 1t ought to be
disbanded everywhere"
Year: 1867

Resozred, That the people of Ohio,
now, as they always have done, look
upon the institution of slavery in any
part of the Union, as an evil, and IN
favorable to the full development of
the spirit and practical benefits Of free
institutions and that, entertaining
these sentiments, they will feel it to
be their duty to use all power cOhsis-
tent with the national compact to pre-
vent its increase, to mitigate, and fin
ally to eradicate the evil.


We clip the above from the Demo-
cratic Ohio State Platform of January
8th, '43. It was introduced by one
Thurman, now candidate for Governor
of the party who howl over the aboI-
ishing Of slavery and declare they
would restore it if they could! They
won't have the chance, however, not
this year.
Year: 1867

The Now York Tribune states the facts
so concisely that we reprint them, that
every citizen may bear them in mind. 1t
says:


No ingenuity will ever conceal the great
fact that the South rebelled, that the DEM
ocratic party sympathized with rebellion,
and that the Republican party directed
and maintained the war for the Union, and
brought it to a triumphant end. 1t is no
tOrious that the rebels depend for aid up
on the Democratic party that the official
action of that party was hailed in the
South as an encouragement to persist in
rebellion that ifit had not been for Dem
ocratic opposition the war would have
ended years, perhaps, before it did, and
that the debt and all our national evils
would now be immensely less. There is
nothing palmer than the Democratic par
ty-next to rebels-is responsible for the
war and the misfortunes that have follow
ed it. We repeat therefore, that to COM
pare the rate of taxation in 1860 with the
rate in 1866, in proof that the Republican
party has mismanaged the finances, with
out a word of reference TO the war, is
simply the meanest kind of political trick
cry, and certain to damage the cause it
was meant to help.
Year: 1867

The loyal Methodists have good record
in Missouri. Governor Fletcher i'll conf
.mending one of their churches to Eastern
aid thus writes


oIt is as necessary to maintain these
Methodist Churches as it is to keep posses
sion of the forts and arsenals. am not a
member of the church, but rely on the
Methodist Episcopal Church to aid and
maintain loyalty in Missouri as fully as [
relv on my militia, and, in fact, more than
on the militia, for the loyal NIethOdists are
on duty all the time. Help the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Missouri as You would
help soldiers in the field fighting for the
! Union"
Year: 1867

General Sheridan had an invitation not
long since to go to Detroit to assist in lay
ing the cornerstone of a soldiers monu-
ment. In his letter declining the invita-
ton he says:


"It would give me the greatest pleasure
to again meet those with whom I first
started to assist in crushing rebellion, the
officers and soldiers of the 2d Michigan
cavalry, also the gallant officers and sol
diers whom l had the honor to command
up to the surrender of the rebel armies /;
but the war with me hats not yet closed
and now prevents the qualification of this
desired pleasure
Year: 1867

We regret to have to chronicle melani
chollv accident, which occurred about four
miles from this place on last Friday, re-
snlting in the death Of boy ten years of
age, the son of Mr.. Frank Swartz. The
circumstances under which the accident
occurred, as near as we could learn them,
are as follows: The boy had been Instruct
ed by his father to water the horses, and in
doing 80, rode ole of them, while he led
another-a colt-with line, which was
tied around its neck. After he had water


ed the horses, he was in the act of taking
them to pasture, still leading the colt, when


he pusia loop, which was on the end of the
line, around his neck, in order to put it out
of his way, as is supposed, the line


being quite long. On his; way to the


pasture[field the colt got frightened


at something, and jumped, pulling


the boy off the other horse, which
scared the colt still more.and ran through
the field, dragging the boy after it. The
colt run from the pasture field into strip
of woods, which was close by, when it run
around small tree where the line got fast,


and stopped iC. The boy was still fast to
the line, but life was extinct before reach
ing the woods, This was done in sight ofhis
father and other members of the family,


who were in pursuit of them. When his


father reached the tree where the line had
\ fastened the horse, there was no sign of life
| in, the boy,t his head being literally mashed
and his neck broken. It is a sad calamity
1 TO the family, and they have our deepest
| sympathy. We have been informed that


the boy was a bright and promising youth,


and industrious and well disposed; but act


ed very unwisely-as boys generally do in


such matters-iD putting the strap around


his neck.-Kenton Democrat. MAN
Year: 1867

The Tldfn Advertiser, published at the
home of General LEE, the Republican can
didate for Lieutenant Governor, says:


.sMany of our exchanges are asking why
General Lee resigned after the battle of
Chancelorville. The only information we
are able to give is that at the battle named,
his horse became frightened and run away
with the Generator Colonel at that time
and he was unable to get back to see the
battle out, losing his hat and coat in the ex-
citement. He didn't like his experience
under fire and soon after resigned. If the
| Colonel has any other reason, we would
like to hear from him, as the people ap'
pear to have curiosity to know why he
| left the army in such haste.
Year: 1867

Sec. 13 And be it further enactek, That when
boy shall be committed to the said house of
correction, the city in which he had his residence
donne t ne tle OF such commitment or if his resi-
not III within the city of Washington, or in the
city OF Georgetown, then the county of Washing
ton snail pay to the treasurer of the house of
rectlon ttty cents week while he remains there
IN the payment shall be made quarterly on the
hrst days of January, April, July, and October;
ana any sum so paid may be recovered BY such
cry or county OF any parent, kindred, or guar
dian, liable by law to maintain him.


Sec. II. And be it further enacted That for
the purpose of securing transfer of the building
and other property to the trustees, preparing the
premises and building for occupancy, and for the
payment of other necessary expenses, there is
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
twelve thousand dollars, to be paid only on the
order OF the Secretary of the Interior: Provided,
That six thousand dollars of said appropriation
Is hereby declared to be the sum that shall be as
sessed and paid by the cities of Washington and
georgetown, and the county of Washington and
1t snail be the duty of the proper authorities of
the city OF Washington to raise, BY tax or other
wise, and pay in to the treasury of the United
States, at or before the time when the premises
shall be ready for occupancy by the house of cor
rcctlont the sum OF four thousand five hundred
dollars and it shall be the duty of the proper
authorities of the city of Georgetown to raise and
pay i'll like manner the sum of one thousand dol
laIs and 1t shall be the duty of the proper au-
thorites of the county of Washington to raise
and and pay in like manner the sum of five hun
drcd dollars and in case of default of such pay
ment into the treasury of the United States by
either OF said cities or by the said county Of
Washington, the party so making default shall
be liable to summary proceedings before the su-
preme court Of the District of Columbia, at the
instance OF the United States attorney for said
District to enforce the same, with interest there
on after the date of default.


See. 15. And be it further enacted That this
act SHALL take effect from the date Of its passage.


Approved, July 25, 1866.
Year: 1867

fullness and torpor, in which men
appear as animals, and to very poor
advantage even as such. If the great
est epicure, the man with the most
prodigious appetite, and the man who


lives to eat, would but follow this
simple rule of abstemiousness, they
would in the end be able to eat far
greater quantity Of food by being able
to live longer to eat.-N. Y Gazette.
Year: 1867

SNAKE-Po -PoIsoN.-Professor HalfOrd, of Mel
Medical Journal upon the subject of the poison
of the cobra-di-capello, and indicates some
important points in regard to the action of the
poison. He has found that the immediate
result of the poison is to develop in the blood
a number of corpuscles of living ''germiual
matter" which increase in great numbers, till
at length they constitute the bulk of the blood.
These cells appear to be of vegetable growth,
and by their number they SO completely
absorb the oxygen of the blood that the person
poisoned may be said to die of asphyxia.
Year: 1867

CHoKED PHEAsANTs. - The gamekeeper
serving under an English gentleman who has
during the last six weeks lost upwards of three
hundred young pheasants, from no apparent
disease, has at last discovered the cause of the
evil, which is as follows:-The young phea-
SAINTS had been placed in a meadow in which
large number of sheep had preceded them
while there the sheep had shed quantity of
their wool, and the pheasants had swallowed it.
The keeper writes-"I have opened forty or
fifty young birds and found the gizzards quite
full of wool, and the passage stopped up so
that no food could pass. After the birds are
dead they turn quite black. l never had a
better lot of young birds, and now l have lost
nearly all of them.n
Year: 1867




FROM PEN D'OREIILE LAKE.-ln our issue oil
the 9th lust, we noticed the reported discovery
of rich paying mines in the neighborhood OF
Pen d'Oreille Lake. In corrOberation OF this
report, we give place to extract from a private
letter, addressed to Capt. Perkins, at Wallula,
written by gentleman who is on the ground,
and whose statements may be considered ems
tirely reliable. He says awe are in the midst
of an excitement caused by new gold discoveries
in this vicinity. If these mines are half as good
as represented, they will be the making OF this
place. Men in whom l have the utmost conf
dence tell me that they have prospected about
seven miles of the creek, and got from 25 to 30
cents to the pan. prospecting party has just
started out and in few more days shall be
able to inform you as to details" The
same writer adds: " General Tilton, engineer of
the North Pacific Railroad, has sent up here for
a particular description of the Lake and its sur
roundngs, with view of making it point on
the North Pacific Railroad route" What with
gold discoveries and railroad threading our
Valley, the prospect that opens to our people is
in every way encouraging. Well all be happy
yet
Year: 1867

Our OF LUCK. A jolly son of the Emerald
isle was up before Recorder Lacy, on Wednes-
day last, on the,charge of drunk and disorderly
conduct On being convicted, he plead hard,
said it was his first offence, and in this way got
off with the payment of a merely nominal fine.
In less than two hours he was again arrested
this time on the charge of assault and battery
and on being arraigned the second time, plead
in Justification that he was " out of luck =
Year: 1867

WHITMAN SEMINARY.-It will be seen by ref
feripg to the card that the Trustees of Whitman
Seminary have materially reduced their charges
for tuition. This is in order to keep pace with
the times, and to the end that none may be de-
MED the privileges of the institution on the
acore of eXDense.
Year: 1867

Have courage to discharge debt while
you have the money in your pocket.


Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.


Have the courage to speak your mind,
when it is necessary you should do so,
and to hold your tongue when it is pru-
dent you should do So %


Have the courage to speak to friend
in "seedy" coat, even though you are
in company with rich one, and richly
attired.


Have the courage to make will, and
a just one.


Have the courage TO tell man why
you will not lend him your money.


Have the courage to show your respect
for honesty, in whatever guise it appears;
and your contempt for dishonest dupllcity
by whomsoever exhibited.


Have the courage to year your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.


Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridieuled by man.


Have the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fashion, 10 all things.


Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to seek credit fol
Knowledge under false pretenses.


Have the courage to provide entcr'
tainment for your friends, within youl
means-not beyond.


Have the courage to take good paper
and to pay for it annually in advance.
Year: 1867

THE Boy WITH SUGAR IN Him.
Charley, what is it makes you so sweet?"
asked loving mother as she fondled her
darling boy to her bosom.


\''I dess," lisped the boy, "dat when
bod made me out of dust he put little
thugar in"


That was queer conceit for a little
boy. There was no sugar put into the
dust of his body, but | suspect that some
sugar-the sugar of love-had been put
into his heart That was what made
him so sweet aud precious to his mother.
recommend every child who has sour
or sinful disposition, to get little of that
sugar put into his heart to sweeten it.
Year: 1867

AN UNPUBLISHED INCIDENT OF THE
REBEL CoNGREss.-It is stated that n
few months before the fall of Richmond,
Va, while the rebel Congress was deeply
concerned about the cruelty and barbar-
ity of the North, woman of that city
walked into the House of Representatives
and attacked three members with cow
hide, castgating them mercilessly. AT
last the Speaker caught the yirago in his
arms, and held her there until she went
into Mysteries She said her intention
was to chastise the entire body because
of its abuse of the North, and she made a
very good commencement certainly. Af
ter her departure, the House passed reso-
luton that the body recommend to the
press the improperly of making public
the unhappy incident, as matter calcu
lated to bring reproach Upon the dignity
of Southern Legislators. The Richmond
papers never mentio ed the circumstance,
and only recently was the story told by a
reconstructed member of the defunct
House.
Year: 1867

LIFE.-We are not sent into life as a
butterfly is sent into the summer, gor--
geously lowering over the flowers, as If
the interior spirits of the rainbow had
come down to greet these kisses of the sea-
son upon the ground, but to labor for the
worlds advancement, and to mould our
characters into Gods likeness, and so,
through toll and achievements, to gain
happiness would rather break stones
upon the road, if it'were not for the dis
grace of being in chain gang, than to
be one of those contemplate joymongers,
who are so rich and so empty that they
ire continually going abou. to fud some
thing to make them happy.
Year: 1867

A young gentleman, happening to sit
at church in a pew adjoining one in
which sat a young lady for whom he con /.
ceiyed sudden and violent passion, was
desirous OF entering into ceurtsk,p on
the spot, but the place not being suitab e
for formal declaration the case suggest
ed the following plan


He politely handed his fair neighbcr a
Bible opened with a pin stuck in The
following text:


Second Epistle of John, 5th worse
" And now bescech thee, lady, not as
though | wrote new commandment
unto thee, but that which we had from
the beginning, that we love one another" :"


She returned it, pointing to the second
Epistle of Ruth, 10th verse


"Then she fell ON her face aud bowed
herself to the ground and said to him


''Why have | found grace in thine
eyes, seeing [ am strauger?"


He returned the book, pointing to the
thirteenth verse of the third Epistle Of
John:


"Having many things to write unto
you | would not write with pen and ink,
but | trust shortly to come unto you and
speak face to face, that our joy may be
full"


From the above interview marriage
took place the ensuing week.
Year: 1867

TdE FATAL EXAMPLE-An indi--
yidual residing at, who was a prom
isng Christian, universally esteemed a
good man by those among whom he resi-
ded, and who had been Tor years superin,
tendent of the Sabbath school there was
away from nome, and staying for short
period in a distant city.


With others, he one evening yielded
to an invitation to visit the theatre, not,
however, without some misgivings as to
the propriety of his course. These, how,
ever, were overcome, and he went; but
whether the act was repeated, it is not
known "


He returned home thinking that act
would never be known to those among
whom he lived. But some years after he
was sent to visit sick and dying man
He went, supposing it was to administer
spiritual advice and consolation. As he
sat down by tie bedside, the dying man
said to him ; You, sir, have led me to
ruin my soul. Some years since you were
staying for short tine in - city.
was then living there and ha d often been
tempted to visit the theatre, but had been
deferred by the convict that it was
wrong and dangerous. On a particular
evening, as | stood in front of the build
ing hesitating whether or not to go in, |
saw you go up the steps and enter I'm,
mediately | thought, if Mr., -, who
is member of the church, and was my
Sabbath school superintendent, can at
tend the theatre, surely may. | in
stantly went in, was fascinated by the
performances, and continued to attend
till all hesitation was gone, and with 1t all
concern for my soul In this state | am
nov; dreading the summons to appear
before God. felt | must send for you,
to tell you the influence of your exam>
pie Are there not other members ofthe
church who are setting such exampet
Ponder the result.-Boston Recorder.
Year: 1867

Visiting the city would greatly consult their own
interest by purchasing a supply of this never
failing King Of Chilli. Much time can be
this medicine uproots the disease and so
destroys the cause that il will not return, as it
does when cured with quiuine.
Year: 1867

- In magistrates court in Savan- nah. the other day, there was quite an exciting scene, growing out of the fact that the justice had hung upon the wall of his office steel engraving illustra- ting the poem of the "Conqnercd Ban ner, and bearing a representation of the rebel flag. Col. IIazeltinc, a law yer interested in a pending case, pro tested that he would not plead in any court where that flag was displayed, and, after some sharp talk from rebel lawyers present, the conquered ban ncr" was turned to the wall, and the case proceeded.
Year: 1867

He might Furnish volume of certificates, but the public have lorg since learned to esti- mate such things at their true value. The safest plan is for every one to test for himself the virtue of a new medicine.
Year: 1867

We print in another column a continual
ton of our extracts from the Republican
papers Of the State, on the question Of
equal suffrage and the course OF the Legis-
lature. 1t is well to mark that not one
Ohio Republican paper on our exchange
list commends the action of the Legislature.
One or two family apologize for it; three
or four remain utterly silent upon it; not
one ventures to praise it, and vast ma
jority of them speak out in terms of un-
disguised condemnation of the course of
the timid and recreant Republicans in. the
Legislature. This is sign of the times
which it. behooves our Representatives at
Columbus to heed.-CleUeland Leader. 81.


But the Representatives at Columbus
will not heed. Mind that. .... ...