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Year: 1863

There are two ways in which farmers
usually deposit their vegetables in the cell
lar for Winter, one of which we are sorry
to say is too common. is to take them up
without much care, and what earth hap
pens to be adhering to them, and throw
them in a pile in one corner, or other part
of the cellar, where they remain till want
ed for family use. We here allude to such
vegetables as beets, parsnips, carrots, tur-
nips, etc. If the cellar happens to be damp,
many of them decay or lose their flavor; if
it chances to be dry one, a portion of them
become shriveled up and too dry for use.
The heaps are overhauled repeatedly to find
such as are good enough for the table, and
these confused and scattered heaps present
anything but tidy appearance, while the
decaying ones produce an unhealthy air.


We have adopted another way, which we
like much better. A few bushels of fine
clean moss is obtained from dense woods or
swamps. Clean barrels or smooth -planed
boxes are taken to the garden,-a dry day
being selected for the Occasion-and the
vegetables being taken up, well cleaned,
topped and trimmed, are placed in the bar
rels or boxes with alternating layers of
soft damp moss. When filled, the wheel
barrow or hand-cart conveys them to the
cellar. The moss keeps them clean and suf-
ficiently moist, preventing the accumula-
ton of water on the other. They are al
ways fresh and ready for use, and are taken
out from under the moss without the least
difficulty. AS the barrel is successively
emptied portion of the moss is taken off
and placed in another one for future use.


There are very few places where good
moss cannot be obtained from the woods
within reasonable distance; but if beyond
reach clean moist sand may be substituted
for the purpose of retaining the moisture.
1t is, however, heavier and more difficult to
handle, and the vegetables do not come
from it so clean and fresh as from the moss.
Year: 1863

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30-It is believed
here that Secretary Chase will issue more
legal tenders, though it is stated that both
committees of Congress have expressed the
opinion that it would not have to be done.
1t is understood that yesterday it was his
intention to call for loan, lar l.
Year: 1863

The Government has decided not to
retain any officer in the army whose views
on the war policy are not in consonsnce
with it's own. 1t is to be regretted that
cases still remain to be reported for dis.
missal for the use of what is termed dis
loyal or reasonable language.
Year: 1863

Shall ever forget that unhappy day whose
miserieS arise before me- even now, with such
terrible distinctness


The long, dusty road wound like huge
yellow serpent up the hillside, and concealed
its further course in the forest of stunted
pines and half grown hemlocks on the top
On either side lay freshly ploughed fields
with not blade Of verdure to enliven the
vast stretch Of brown and back of me the
great, busy, dusty town, from whence a
thousand changing discords came to nv ear,
blended and mellowed by the distance into
roar like that of the far off, muhcd artillery
Imagine desert, sterile, ,sdesoate, and silent
as the eternal night Of the inlin tie reaches of
! moonless, and starless space, and these ard.
lHeless sand-plains falntng and fading still
in the glare Of a fierce, unwinking sum- and
you have the scene that mccked my tortured
eyes.


The old gate keeper looked at me curious
ly as | walked by. He was only one of the
many phantoms that passed ON my way.
One of these ghouls raised his hat, as [ met
him, and another spoke to me. He was an
| old friend, but scarcely knew that | had
ever seen such a face Ou' of the hideous
dreams of my childhood, when half human
monsters aSsalIed me on the verge of dizzy
! cliffs, or bore me aloft among nightmare la
den clouds 20 hull me down, down, into un-
fathomable abysses. The smile with which
he greeted me was almost fendish his
voice came up from pits of darkness, and was
a concentration Of malice, hate, and all wick
cdness Was his sardonic grin evoked by a
similar contorton of muscle and nerve in my
own face ? I asked myself the question:
No, for though my breath came short and
quick, and there were demons of anger and
pride IN my heart, tearing each other Ike
Gagged giants, was assured thatI had per-
mitted no signs of the wretchedness within
to undermine the rigid tranquility of my
smile, or rise through the calm tones of my
voice


Presently the hot sand began to burn
through nay thin shoes, and, when | reached
the margin of the pines, was glad to seat
myselfin the dusky shade, and throw off
my warm shawl and close bonnet. was in
defiant mood now, and smiled cont9mptu-
ouslv at my own weakness when l found
that my anger had, after all, resulted in
nothing better or worse than the gnawing
out of the ends of two or three glove fingers,
and the breaking apart of the little clasp
that joined them at the wrist. What bitter
thoughts were my companions! Alb, John
Hamilton, if you had known to what unchar-
itableness toward the world to what bitter
| feelings to what fierce battles with all with.
Year: 1863

A great deal of talent is lost in the world
for the want off little courage. Every day
sends to their graves a number Of obscure
men who have remained in obscurity only
because their timidity has prevented them
from making a first effort, and who if they
could have been induced to begin, would in
all probability have gone great lengths in the
career Of fam& The fact is, that to do any,
thing in this world worth doing, we must
not stand back shiyering and thinking Of the
cold and danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can. 1t will not do to
be perpetuslly calculating risk and adjusting
nice chances; it did very well before ths
flood, when man could consult his friend
upon an intended publication for hundred
and fly years, ard then live to see its sue
cess afterwards; but at present man doubts
and waits, and consuils his brother and his
particular friends, till one fine day he finds
that be is sixty years of age that he has
lost so much time in consulting his first
cousins and particular friends, that be has no
more time to follow their advice.
Year: 1863

A venerable farmer some eighty years,f


age, said to relative who lately visited him


have lived ON this farm for over half,
century. have no desire to change my res


idence as long as I've on earth. Ihavo TO
desire to be God of my fathers with the
same people for more than forty years. Dur
from the sanctuary on the Sabbath. and have
never lost but one communion season.
have never been confined to my bed by sick
ness single day. The blessings of God
have been richly spread around me, and I
made up my mind long ago, that if II wished
to be any happier, / must have more religioa
Year: 1863

The timely warning of Gov. Seymour as to
the necessity Of providing more men to sup
ply the place of those soldiers whose terms
of enlistment will expire during the coming
Spring seems to have been entirely ignored
by the administration leaders and press 1t
seems to be taken for granted by them that
our last white army is now in the field, and
that if any additional troops are to be called
into the service they must come from the
plantations. Hence Thad. Stevens bill to
arm 10000 negroes, and Mr.. Beecher's dec
laration that the slaves are now the military
forlorn hope Of the republic.


But Is it really true that no more white
soldiers can be enlisted ? 1t cannot, Of
course, be denied that the North, once united,
is now divided in sentiment. So long as the
war was for the restoration of the Union un-
der tn old constitutional guarantees there
was no difficulty in raising troops but now
that it is simply conflict for freeing negroes,
the larger half of the North has had it's
enthusiasm chilled. This cannot be denied.


But how is it with the Republican party
Surely there can be no lack of enthusias m
| for the war in that organization. They
have declared that emancipation would not
only create trouble at the South by rous-
ing the negro population, but that it would
be received with delight by the real war
| party Of the North. The roads "were to
swarm with recruits" and "the three times
three hundred thousand abolitionists who
had not yet smelt POWDER were to take the
| field.


By next July it is as certain as that two
and two make four that half our army will
be disbanded or dead. Now, therefore, is the
time for the Republican to fill up the ranks
They are bound in honor to do so.-- Wor!t
Year: 1863

do not want to issue document that the
world will see must necessarily be imperative,
like the Pope's bull against the comet.--AsE
LINCOLN.


declare that have no purpose directly
indirectly to interfere with the institution
slavery in the States where it exists; that I
telieVe have no lawful right to do so, and
have no inclination to do so.-AsE's IHAucu.
RAJ.


On the first day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty three, all persons held as slaves within
any State or part of State the people where
of shall be in rebellion against the United
States will be thencefcrward and forever free.
ABE LINcoLS's PRocLAMArIoN.


And people, anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have the right to rise up
and shake off the existing government, and
form new one that will suit them better.
This is most valuable most sacred right-a
right which We hope and believe is to llberate
the world. Nor is this right confined to cases
in which the whole people Of an existing gov
ernment may choose to exercise it. ANY
portion of such people that can, may reyolu-
tionize and make their own of so much of
the territory as they inhabit. More than
this majority of any portion of such people
may revolutionize, putting down minority,
intermingIed with, or near about them who
may oppose their movements.-ABE LIN
coin SPEECH IN CONGRESS-.


After reading these extracts who will ques-
tion A-b-e's h-o-n-e-s-t-y.
Year: 1863

Pennsylvania correspondent writes us
that the dipthera is very prevalent in some
parts of that State, and says that we would
confer great favor upon the sufferers by re
publishing the remedy given about year ago.
With this request we comply. 1t is as fol
lows:


MAKE two small bags that will reach from
ear to ear, and ill them with ashes and salt !;
dip them IN hot water, and wiring them out
So they will not drip, and apply them to the
throat cover up the whole with flannel
cloth, and change them rs often as they be-
come cool, until the throat becomes irrtated,
near blistering. For children, it is nee
essary to put flannel cloths between the
ashes and the throat 20 prevent blistering.
When the ashes have be n on sufficient time,
take a flannel cloth and rub it with CASTLE
soap until it is covered with a thict; lather
dip it in hot water, and apply it to the throat'
and change as they cool at the same time
use eargle made of one teaspoonful of cay
enne pepper, one Of salt, one of molasses, in a
teaspoonful of hot water and when cool, add
one fourth as much cder-vinegar, and gargle
every fifteen miutes until the patient requires
sleep. A gargle made of CASTLE soap is good
to be used part of the time"


A correspondent in Name, in sending the
above remedy, says there had been a number
Of deaths from diptheria, until this remedy
was used, since when all have recovered.-A
Y. Tribune.
Year: 1863

soldier lay on the frozen ground
With only blanket tightened around


His weary and wasted frame:
Down at his feet the fitful light
Of fading Goals, in the freezing night,
Fell as a mockery on the sight,


hcartless, purple fame.
All day long with his heavy load,
Weary and sore, on the mountain road,


And over the desolate plain;
All day long through the crusted mud,
Over the snow and through the food,
Marking his way with track of blood


He followed the winding train.
Nothing to eat at the bvouac,
But frozen crust in his haversack, ~


The half of a comrades store
crust, that after longer fast,
Some pampered spaniel might have passed,
Knowing that morsal to be tho last


That lay at his masters door.
No other sound on his sIumber fell,
Than the lonesome tread of the sentinel,


That equal, measured pace
And the wind that came from the cracking pine,
And the dying oak and the swinging pine,
In many weary weary line,


To the soldiers hollow face
But the soldier slept and the dreams were
As the rosy glow of his bridal night,


Will the angel on his breast,
For he passed away from the wintry gloom
To the pleasant ligat Of cheerful room,
Where cat sat purring upon the loom,


And his weary heart was blest,
His children eame-two blue-eyed girls.
With laughing lips and sunny cdrls


And cheeks of rulty glow
And the mother pale, but lovely now,
A. when upon her virgin brow
He proudly sealed bis early vow,


In the summer, long ago.
But the rcyeille wild, in the morning gray,
Startled the beautiful vision away,


Like q frightened bird OF the night;
And it seemed to the soldiers misty brain
Bat the shril tattoo that sounded again,
And he turned with dull, uneasy pain,
To the camp-fre's dying light.
Year: 1863

About the sorriest specimen of humanity on
record is whining man. He has the sign out
all the time. He is az incessant grImblar.-
Everything goes wrong with him. The world
to him is wilderness of shocking desolatioa
There are no oases in the desert of life He
is cynical and sharp even against his friends
He is peevish and Iretful He is petueut and
lachrymose. He is sulien and irasoible. He
sees ruin in business. No other man ever
saw as much trouble as he He hasn't man
hood enough to struggle through any trivial
embarrassment. He throws himself out OF
bed in the morning with a tumble and grum-
BILE of discomfort He moves all day in the
midst Of thick cloud, lahoring diligently to
keep himself and everybody else miserable
He returns to hs bed at night complaining of
his mislortunes. Hdeous nightmares over
take himl Sleeping or waking, he is the pie
ture of discomfort and misery.


Thus we have daguorreotyped the Whining
Man. But little of the nobility of soul does
he possess. He has neither brains nor forti-
tude. He has from youth upward cultivated q
disposition TO fall out with everything and
everybody. The older he grows, the more in
veterate is his inclination to grumbIe; and be
will tumble into his grave one of these days,
leaving an impression on the public that he
whined himself out of useless existence
Iolrd Stale Register.
Year: 1863

Our Creator has egjoined upon US in terms
of the greatest clearness the duty of being
happy. The powers with which he has en-
dowed u.s. the circumstances ia which our lot
is cast, with all the blessings of his benefcence
shows uanli.takabiy his mind and will, that we
should be happy. Many do not consider th is,
aud 10 their sefishness and Ignorance labor
most earnestly to thwart this kind dtsigu.-
Some seem 10 think that happiness is the very
last thing to be thought OF, il not to he abso-
lutely Stunned, as though their merit lay in de
priving ourselves of il,


What is decisive on this point is the fact
that whatever conduces to our highest good is
most consonant with true enjoyment while
a violation of sight always involves pain.


Not that our sole aim is to be happy but
We may be assured that no demand of truth,
right or duty will ever requirea sacrifice ofhaL-
piaess on the whole, and that it is both our
privilege and duty to be as happy as possible.


How are we to seek happ ness? We an
swer: BY bencvoleuce. Strive TO promote
that happiness of others in the highest degree.
This will administer directly to your pleasure.
and cultivate in you the faculties most condu-
sive the same end. The one whose heart
glows with love, whose hand is active in min
istering to the good of his fellows, cannot be
wretched-Moning Stu.
Year: 1863

Tho question is often asked Ought orchafds
to be titled? Our reply is, yes. The Frinci-
pal objection, we believe, is that no crop will
remuncrate the cost Of cultivation, and that
the time and capital expended upon it is near
ly dead loss. Cora, and even potatoes, which
require sunshine and free circulation Of air,
generally fail in productiveuess when planted
in orchards, and as they are streng feeders,
have rather an exhausting effect upon the trees;
but there is no doubt that the loosening and
stirring Of the soil is great advantage, as it
let's in the dews and rains, and tends to aug
mcnt the supply oi nutrimental matter contain
ed in the soil.


Some persons have recommended cultiva-


ing orchards in peas, oats, turnips, cabbages,
beels &c, and in many cases which have fallen
under our observation, these crops have sue
ceedcd well. The primary object however, is
to impart new cncrgy TO the trees All the
farmer realizes from his crop in this case
should be set down as clear gain as recOm-
peuse for the labor bestowed upon the soil for
tl-s benefit Of his trees.


Allowing orchards to be swarded over with
a thick st and vigorous turf, and to remain in
this condition for years, while at the same time
perhaps the tops are neglected, is a most ef-
frc'ual mode OF running them. Nograss should
be allowed to grow for any considerable leRgth
OF time around the trunk OF any tree, fruit or
ornamental, if health, fruitfulness aud good
development are desirable.


Where trees have not been literally manured
it would be about good policy to SOW grass
seed in the corn field as in the orchard But
where the manure has been lberally supplied
and the trees have made rapid growth Of
wood, but do not fruit, laying the land to grass
for two yenrs will check the exuberant growth
Of wood, and bring tho trees into bearing
AT the end OF two years, a shallow plowing, and
the land again seeded with clover, will DO a
profitable operation.


Lime and ashes, with horse load OF clay to
each tree, if the soil be of light or sandy tex
ture, will be found an excellent top dressing
for most fruit trees.


There is danger Of manuriug apple orchards
too much. Ifgreen manure is applied in large
quantities, the trees will be forced into a rap
id and unnatural grow h; they become tender,
the wood is not fully ripened, the bark turns q
reddish brown color, it is separated 10 some
places from the wood, and in few years the
whole orchard dies prematurely OF the goutl
If apple trees make an annual average growth
Of ten to fifteen inches, it is enough. When
that is the case the new growth will be thor
oughy ripencd and the whole action Of the tree
will be natural aud healthy and the orchared will
be established with permanent and prolific
character


For the isst ten years If we are contented
with a moderate aud healthful growih-the
land may he cropped so as 10 Pay fair profit
on all the labor bestowed to produce il, and al
so that given to the cultivation Of the trees
1t should not be devoted to the small grains
however, but to any of the hoed crops, corn
potatoes, beans or roots. Under this practice
The cultivation Of an orchard is done at little
or no cost
Year: 1863




SENATOR WRIGHT, of Indiana, said, the other
DAY, in replying to Il traitorous speech by the
sneak, POWELL. of Kentucky:


IF you fail to put down this secession move
ment, if the hour Of calamity comes upon US,
make he prediction that it will come from
the hands of traitors in the North. I am not
sure that there was not a concocted plan with
in the last ten days to bring into this city two
reginents TO cooperate with the secessionists
with view to Surrender this capital. The
rebel emssaries are about you; they may be
in these very halls. Sometimes they may come
under one Dame, sometimes under another
Sometimes the Goveroment is attacked in the
name of Democracy; sometimes fault is found
with arrests; sometimes the army is opposed
but the effect Of all these attacks results in the
same bad end, the destruction of the Govern
ment.',
Year: 1863

ARCHBISHOP HUGHEs ON PEAcE.-At tho dedi-
cation of ST. Teresas Church, New York, on
Sunday, June 2lst, Archbishop Hughes preached
the sermon In the course of his remarks, he
thus alluded to the national crisis:


"We might pray to God by some means that
1t is impossible for man to penetrate to bring
our unhappy affair 10 some conclusion--to end
the effusion of human blood. That is iegit-
mate prayer Though no man can say that even
in that case there would not be prayer on both
sides Of the line-one praying against the other
We can only hope that out of His mercy for both
sides of the line for the whole country, He. in
His all wise and all-powerful providence, will
bring about the peace and prosperity of the peo.
pie These thoughts have just entered my mind
on the present occasion, and hope that in all
our endeavors we will not forget our devotions
at the altar-praying, l will not say for peace,
which appears at this moment ridiculous, since
there is only one side can give peace, and the
other won't have it. We may pray the Almighty
TO bring matters to a conclusion. One side can
make war. but it requires two to make peace,
and it appears there is only one side now that
wants it, We had peace once, they did not pre-
serve peace. Now it is one party that is for
peace. The other scorns it. In that state of the
case what prospect is there for peace ?"
Year: 1863

While we write the fate of Vicksburg is unde-
cded. But whatever that fate may be, The sturdy
and splendid prowess of the Western Soidirrs
who have fought for II month in The very h"',rt of
the rebellion will be one of the most glorious
traditions of the war.


They stand beside the river which Is their river.
They fight not only for the great and general
cause OF the Government and of civil order whlch
inspires all our troops, bat they strike for pal
pabe present object, the control Of the river,
which is the litecurrent Of their prosperity
which is the natural highway to the sea of tea
millions of free men between the Alleghauies
and the Rocky Mountains, the vast, central basin
Of the continent. the valley of imperishabIe
empire.


They fight for II with herosm proportional
to the grandeur of the stake, with the inspira-
ton OF men who know that Justice, law, neces.
sty, national lie itself, are on their side ia
the wiles of demagOgueS and desperate traitors
they oppose glistening front of silent steel
They know that no treaty with foreign power
can secure to them the navigation of that river
so certainly AZ its unObstructed control by pow
erful undivided nation from the lakes to the
Gulf They know that to seek that control by
separation from the Eastern and union with The
Southern part OF that nation would be to re-
nounce the guarantee Of great sovereign power
for the uncertain alliance of faction which
shows no regard for honorable engagements, aud
repudates the unity OF parts as an essential Goa
dition OF collective force.


Throughout the loyal land, and through ogc
history, the praise of these men rings and shall
ring forever. Men of the West, whether ths
time Vicksburg falls before your conquering
hands, or whether its fall be yet delayed, remem-
Der that every stalwart blow you strike rvcts all
true hearts in the land together, and binds yet
more closely the bonds that hold our common
country In the East and West, tr0m the river
to the sea, all hearts follow you with hopes, and
prayers, aud pride, aud the children OF our
children shall bless you !-Hppe''s Weekly
Year: 1863

journey OF LIFE.-Life is a journey over q
hill. From youth to middling age we are clam.
bering to the top from mid-age to seventy we
gradually descend, and we iud our grave bed
ready which mother Nature, considering our
fralty, has made for us-in fine, she has taken
our dust from one side of the hill TO carry il aud
rest forever on the other side
Year: 1863

ARrEMUs WARD believes If Copperhelds would
whisky, they would DO as good Union men rs
the rebels. We doubt it, A genuine rebel feels
for the South because it was his place OF birth,
while the cowardy Copperhead not only opposes
the aims of the Government but denies the State
of his nativity in his anxious Zeal TO bceolu1
lick spitte for the bogus Southern aristocracy.