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Year: 1860

STILL HIGHER-Our farmers seem
very confident that wheat will go still higher
that it is better to hold on just as long as pos
sible. Perhaps that is so. but We think there
lie o risk run in waiting which IL greater than
that Of selling. Those who dispose tf their
wheat now, are sure Of getting good price
for it. and sure thing is worth thousand un
certains.
Year: 1860

STRANGE ANEeICAN fRAIr.-Dr. Bacon
of the New York Historical Society. has
recently stated as a singular fact worthy
Of attention, that Americans never groan
when wounded in battle. Majo General
Gaines told him this and said that he had
heard so from General Stark and other
Generals Of the Revolution. They al
ways knew when there were screams and
groaus after a volley, that he Britishhad
the worst Of it. He desired this to be put
in print. lie thought the same power of
enduring pain without an external mani>
festation which existed in the aborigines
had descended to their successors in the
country. 1t seemed to DO the result Of
the climate, and existed even in the case
of persons of foreign birth who brought
had been here al an early age.
Year: 1860

THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM Up SrAlRs.-A
young man who was thinking of studying
law, said to Daniel Webster: Mr.. Web
ster, understand the profession of law is
quite full, and that there are more lawyers
than are needed do you think there il
any chance for me:" There is always
room up stairs" was the reply, and as true
as it was ingenious. Only few persons
reach the high places, and these are al
ways in great demand" there is room
enough up stairs" First class farmers
and mechanics, as well as physicians, &C.,
always find plenty of room, plenty of
work, and good pay. Whatever calling
you choose, and it matters little, If it be
an honest one, resolve to go into an upper
story; out don't try to Jump there by
single leap, or YOU may fall disabled
Rather begin at the bottom Of the ladder,
and patiently step upon each round.
Year: 1860

A young man entered chapel patron
lied by the nobility and the wealthy, and
marched up the broad aisle without a pew
being opened to him. Having gone to
the furthest extent Of the aisle he wheeled
round, and marching back again to the
door, disappeared. In a few moments he
reappeared, bearing on his shoulder a
butchers block, under the weight Of which
he staggered. All the time his counte-
nance was immovable. The people stared,
and some in fright started from their seats
with Bibles and ,prayer.books in hand
At length he placed it in the middle of
the aisle and got upon It. The reproach
was felt--every pew door flew open to him.
But no the stranger neither moved nor
smiled, but preserved the utmost decorum
until the conclusion Of the service, when
he shouldered his block, and slowly
marched out Of the church.
Year: 1860

COMFORTABLE FOR NIGHT TRAvELERs.--The
Mississippian says that sleeping cars have been
OIL the New Orleans and Jackson
Railroad. They are very complete, and are
said to be more costly and comfortable than
those in use at the North. We also learn that
they will soon be used on the Mississippi Cen
trail Road.
Year: 1860

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty;


Thou are not conquered; beauty's ensignyet


Is crimson in thy lips, and in thy checks,


And Death'spale flag is not advanced there"
Climate and geography do not make char
acters or civilizations, but they unqucstionably
exercise great modifying influence in those
respects. We cannot, by any ingenious ethno-
logical speculations, rid ourselves of the notion
that the rugged though picturesque landscape
of Scotland has much to do with the national
peculiarities Of the Scotch; that Alpine peaks
and valleys bear an intimate relation to the
character and institutions of the Swiss; that
the smiling vinc-clad slopes of France are re-
fcctcd in some degree in the minds and faces
of its people; and that nature in making Italy
beautiful, baptized it as land of art


We believe, too, that if the mind sympathi-
yes with physical nature, the human form sym
pathizes in perhaps as great a measure with the
mind. If we assert that physical development
is independent Of spiritual conception, that the
body does not express the soul, then VIC have
no escape from the black horrors of material
ism, and must subscribe to the deadly doctrine





it be true that the mind feeds on exterior beau
ty, and grows by what it feeds on, and that the
body expresses the mind, then we could scarce
ly find climate and geography more qualified
to soften and refine people with ideas and
forms of beauty aud symmetry than our own.
On this theory, it would not be difficult to cy
plain some of the salient differences between
the population of this section and that Of the
extreme North.


The idea that hyperborcan regions are most
conducive to civilization is n weak invention
of barbaric egotism. 1t would be not less silly
to maintain that better crops could be grown
on barren than on fertile soil. Civilization has
an eclectic instinct, and will always, in the
long run, flourish best where it can combine
the most elements of grand and beautiful de-
velopment. Why may not civilization be
developed in the region lying between the Al
leghany ridge and the Sierra Madre, which
shall be as wonlrous as the Egyptian as beau
tiful as the Grccian, and as powerful as the
Roman, while more bcnefcent than all Ger
tainly nothing in climate and geography seems
lacking to justify the belief that such result
hereafter is more than dreamy hypothesis, and
to stimulate us to cultivate faith in that re-
gard that is d" the substance Of things hoped
| for.'- Sunday Delta.





~ "Sir, have you read the ode COM
Year: 1860

A CHILD ADOPTS VERY vENoMoUs SNAKE
FOR PLAYTHNG.-The little daughter of
Mr.. McDaniels, in Mason County, Va, three
years old, a few mornings since ran into the
house house highly delighted with pretty play
its mother. The mother was astounded to
find 1t a large copperhead snake The child
had one hand just below the neck, and the
other about the middle, and the forked tongue
of the yenemous creature was projecting from
its mouth in the most venemous manner.
The mother was almost frightened TO death,
and our informant says that she has not gotten
over the fright yet. A member of the family
Immediately ran to the child, and, after some
difficulty, succeeded in rescuing it from its
perilous situation without being bitten.
Year: 1860

dS IOiiOWS'


l profess to belong to noparty but my coun-
try, and am taking no part in politics; but,
though silent, am by no means an indiffer-
ent spectator of passing events. On the con-
trary, look with the most intense anxiety,
not to say alarm, upon the present state Of
things. II appears TO me that he must have
read history to little profit who does not see
in the growing jealousy and hatred between
the North and the South the seeds Of discord
and civil strife, which may end. in civil war
and the destruction of this government. 1
am sure that no one can aver that there was
more hatred between Great Britain and her
Colonies ten or even five years before our
Revolution than now exists between the North
and South; and the cause, if cause there be,
seems likely to endure. Demagogues North
and South fan fhis flame for selfish and ambi-
tious objects; and the great masses, which are
usually inert and passive, are likely to be
drawn into the contest and sacrificed, Hotens
uoEens May Heaven save us, for / fear we are
unable or unwilling TO save ourselves. csc
Year: 1860

NEwspApERs.-M Many people like newspa-
pers, but few preserve them; yet the most in
teresting reading imaginable is a file of old
newspapers. 1t brings up the past age with
all its hustle and every day affairs, and
marks its genius and its spirit more than the
most labored description of the historian
Who can take up paper half a century
back, without the thoug ght that almost every
name there printed is now cut upon tomb
stone at the head of an epitaph?
Year: 1860

INGENIOUS ORDER-A volunteer rifle cap
tain desiring to cross field with his COM
pany, came to an opening in the fence large
enough to admit two persons, but no more,
to pass abreast. Unfortunately he could not
remember the words of command which
would have accomplished the difficult task
filling through: but his ingenuity did NOT
desert him, and, therefore, he ordered halt
aud then said, Gentlemen, you are dismiss
ed for one minute, when you will fall in on
t'other side Of the fence"
Year: 1860

ACAuT1ous JUDGE-An Irish judge tried
two most notorious fellows for highway rob
berry To the astonishment of the court, as
well as of the prisoners themselves they were
not found guilty. AS they were being re-
moved from the bar the Judge. addressing
the jailor, said: MIR. Murphy, you would
greatly ease my mind if you would keep these
two respectable gentlemen until seven or
half-past seven o'clock, for mean to start
for Dublin at five, and should like to have
at least two hours start of them.
Year: 1860

Simon Pune Traitor.


Redpath the famous Kansas agitator re-
Gently made speech in Ohio on the hang
ing of Stevens and Hazlett, during the
course of which he said:


"To those of you who are friends Of the
slave driver have nothing to say. My du,
ty is with men whose hearts are too large
to be sutfocatcd by the dust raised by par
ty mountebanks, and whose gaze is too
steady to be dazzled by the glare of the false
and fatal splendor of the despot's cort. To
those of you who are ready to initiate Ste
vens this only need be said: ''Be prepared;
bide your time; ere long you will be called. y
For tell you, men of Ashtabula, that the
strangling of John Brown was not the death
of his cause; and that ere many more moons
revoke, the slave will be offered succor
again. Six month before the blow at Har-
pers Ferry stated that it would be made,
and even indicated by whom; and again, |
give the slave driver a solemn warning to
set his house in order, for his doom is pro-
nouncEd she shall die and not live" Mon
ey will be needed to execute the plans of
liberation. Those of you who approve it
may Aid it by your money
Year: 1860

AFFEcTIoNATE LETTER TO AN ABSENT HUSBAND


Here is very fair set off to the affection
ate letter from disconsolate husband in
town to his wife in the country. The lady
seems to be equally lonely and inconsola
bic:


"MY DEAR HuBBY Il received your af
fectionate letter yesterday, Don't do be
quiet y and it was truly welcome, (be still
you shan't squeeze my hand y assure you
you have no idea how lonesome (there, ou
have made me make great blot y | feel
when am separated (will you?) from you
but the assurance that shall see you on
Saturday Gf you attempt such thing y is
a great comfort look forward to that day
with so much pleasure, (Will, if you kiss
me again, I'll write to Charles y for you
know it is delightful (there, you've broken
my braceletD delightful you've made me
write delightful twice) to live in hopes. Ut's
too late to take ride, isn't it?) could
not but feel pity for you when you spoke o.
being alone upon my word, Mr.. Impu'
dence, that's threeD IN the stiffness Of you'
chantber.' 1t seemed as if could see you,
my dear Hubby, Zach! do behave, will
you y as you were writing to your faithful
wife. l, too, am alone, Tm telling great
story now y and thinking of the days that
shall intervene between chow becomingly
your collar is turned DOWN. now and Sat
nrday. (Not another for the-a-ch y
The country looks beautiful, Git would be
nice to take shor ride on the beach) but
I never enjoy it while you are absent. q
declare, there are the horses at the door y
| have but few minutes to conclude in,
(tell Jane to bring my bonnet,) as the mail
closes land my skirD in a few minutes
Adieu, my dear (well, I'm glad you have
stuck yourself with a pin y Hubby ! Faith
fully yours, MARY
Year: 1860

READ Our OF THE PARTY.-The Repub
licans of Minnesota arc in trouble over the
speaker of their house, Mr.. Cogswell. A
personal liberty bill was introduced, max
ing it penal offence for southern citizen
to bring slave into the State. As Mmne-
sofa is favorite resort in the summer, some
one offered an amendment to the bill that
southerners be allowed to visit the State
during that time with their slaves, and the
speaker not only voted for it, but made .
speech in its favor. Thereupon all the Re-
publicans set upon him and read him out
of the party. just as they read Mr.. Monroe
and Mr.. Dickey out of the party in this
State because they thought it was not right
to imprison southern gentleman ten years
in the penitentiary for bringing his colored
servant into the State. Republicans must
go the whole figure or nothing.-Detsoit
Free Press
Year: 1860

Early Vegetables.


Many farmers are deferred from attempt
ing to produce early vegetables, by an err
roneous idea that the making of hot bed
is complicated and difficult operation,
Will, it is Just as simple as making hill
of corn. Every man who has garden, Of
whatever size, will, we venture to predict,
find the task so easy, and the result so sat-
isfactory, that he will never forego the luxu-
ry afterward. All that is necessary is to
make pile of horse manure p feet deep,
with the top level or sloping little to the
South; then set rough frame Of four
boards nailed together at the corners, upon
the bed of manure, fill the frame with six
inches of garden soil and cover with win-
dow glass. Any old window will answer
the purpose, but it is better to have the bars
of the sash run only one way to have the
glass laid in the manner of shingles.


The best plants to force are tomatoes and
cabbages, which may be transplanted from
the hot bed to open ground without any
trouble. We have removed tomatoes when
they were in blossom and had them all live.
If melons or cucumbers are forced they
should be planted in flower pots, and in
transplanting them you turn the pot over
upon your open hand and give it gentle
thump, when the earth comes out in solid
lump and the roots are not disturbed in the
least


While the plants are growing, they shod
be watered frequently, and warm days the
sash should be raised few inches to give
the plants air.


We have found the growing of plants,
from small hot-bed, fee by 6, up to a
large grapery for raising the black Hamburg
and Frontginac grapes, the most satisfac-
tory of all horticultural operations. Hav-
ing the control of the climate both in heat
and moisture, the plants can be made to
grow with vigsr which they rarely if ever
exhibit in the open air. A hot bed should
be made from four to six weeks before the
time for planting corn.-.Scientifc Ameri-
can
Year: 1860

~ If a girl thinks more of her heel
thar her head, depend upon it she will new
cr amount to much. Brains which settl
in the shoes never get above them. Young
gentlemen please make note Of it.
Year: 1860

conservative and conciliatory !; and seek, as
the leading features ofhis administration, to
nationalize the Republican party, by union a
with tho conservative elements at tho South.


BY this course no will be acting merely
as = patriotic President of the Union, and
not Of Northern party, and wo predict here
that Lincoln will 10 better abused by his
abolition supporters than any President for
years past. We are content to wait and sec
the issue Of events. Already the frost work
|ofpredjudice and flnaticism is melting away


The odious, insulting and unconstitutional
personal liberty bills Of Abolition Legisla-
lures will be repealed and the right steps
taken to bring the country back to the old
doctrine Of the fathers, which was that each
section should mind its business and not in.
tcrferc with the affairs Of the other. This
is all We went in politics believing that by
this course and this alone perpetual
peace, harmony and good will prevail.
Year: 1860

dilapidated neighbors.


As a town site it's advantages are every
way superior. No one visits our town
without being struck with the imposing
beauty Of its surrounding scenery.


/ It's educational advantages are really more
important than our citizens justly realize
For a now town it is comparatively well
built, and some Of its public buildings and
private residences are truly. commendable
in appearance indicating good taste and sub
stantial prosperity.


THE BUSINESS MEN


Of Red Wing arc enterprising, and in all
respects worthy the success they have met
with. No place can boast OF merchants
who better understand their business, or
better deserve the confidence of the COM
munity; and Red Wing is justly noted for
afording more and greater inducements to
the farming and trading classes than any
rival town. The stocks Of goods, from which
selections are invited to BE- made are large,
and the prices very reasonable. The bust.
ness Of our merchants always has been
healthy and and no city in Minnesota, Of
its size, has bad 50 few failures as this, ana
really not a bad failure among them. The
excellent class of our mercantile business
men has largely contributed to our prosper
ity. May success attend them.


-. .,ag... WAREHOUSES;


And warehouse facilities afford great in.
ducemenrs to our farmers to make Red
Wing their point Of business and shipment.
It is now the depot Of the finest agricultural
district Of Minnesota. The warehouses oi
Fed Wing mark and indicate its business
importance, and guaranty to the farmer that
he may always expect to receive the high
est price for his grain that the market
viii Justify. These facilities to do business
indicate in marked degree the real business
Importance Of the place. f.a
/. Above oil Red Wing has tributary to il
the best agricultural district Of this tecming
and prolific West. No equal area ofterritory
in the State or. the Northwest, is more
adapted to wheat and grain of all kinds
and grazing, especially sheep grazing, than
the district lying back Of this place.


These remarks are not the result Of any
interested partiality for Red Wing, but the
just and true statement of the case and is
designed to stimulate our business men to
renewed zeal and effort, TO wake up the at
tentiou Of our farmers and country friends tc
the Importance Of this place as point o
trade, We have said nothing for our city
but what all must admit to be true. We
therefore call attention to these matters fol
tho double purpose Of encouraging business
men to new enterprises and Of inducing oul
farmers and country friends to understand


My they can aud may expect the YER,
highest prices for what they have to sell and
the very best bargains for What they hay,
to buy. aG9s19ln4
Year: 1860

It is now officially settled that the
chubby faced heir OF Victoria Guelph is to
visit British America during the next
Summer. He designs to leave England
toward the middle of June. Should he
reach this city, Corporation committee
composed OF the Turk, Sancho Panza
and the Incorruptible will show him the
sights. He will be fed on meat sand
wiches, and 90 through the Islands, re-
view the Governors, kiss hands to the
girls, examine Barnum's "What is it. ="
and then take stare at an Alderman who
cannot be hired for $4,000 As he comes
while his mother sits on throne, no
doubt all honor viii be done him. The
lodgings which his ally Napoleon had
here and did not pay for will be shown
him. The place where the patriots whip
ped the tyrant Georges soldiers will be
duly exhibited. The spots on which res
ted many an "obscured exile" who in due
time reached the princel y pinnacle, in his
native country will be duly trodden over
by the august visitor, and then some one
will whisper, "There is moral in all
this. 1t is not every one who came hith-
er in power lived to see it remain long in
his possession; and many who have come
here shorn of power have gone away to be
vested in it."-New York NewS.
Year: 1860




A Luzcrne county (Pa orator whose
name we have lost was called on lately at
Wilkesbarre for speech He is one Of
the old style Of men and has blunt man.
ner Of getting at matters, bnt we do not
remember to have seen anything better
than this in our late readings. The whole
speech is good, but we have space for
only two North Ioya Times.


''In this contest, on the one hand would
be the proud Caucasian race. with their
scientific knowledge, their far seeing in
telligence, their indomitable will, their
love of dominion; race that has habit
Of planting Empires wherever commerce
leads, in farthest India, in America, in
Australia, in China, and the Islands of
the Sea- and whose dominion begins when
they first plant foot upon the distant
coast, and continues forever. On the
other hand would be the negro, with his
ban o and his barlow knife "iSuSonno
don't you cry," and possibly one of Old
Browns spears. Place dozen pike in
your swarming fsh.pond, and tell me
how long will it be before your pond will
be filled with pike and the rest have all
disappeared? How long has it been since
the formidable gray rat made his appear
ance amongst us, and what has become
Of all our black rats? But the amiable
philanthropist would stand up and exholt
to brotherly love, how good and pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity;
and read from the Declaration of Inde-
pendence,' we hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Let him try his exhortation upon the pike
in the fishpond, and let him read his nice
quotations to the the gray rats in his eel
lar before he presulnes to address the Cau-
casian racel


But away up North and down East,
there are some pious Puritan women,
and it seems some men also, who long ago
took this world in charge, and with their
aprons around them, labor day and night
to bring it to level with their "rolling
pins" Let the stupid world behold and
be instructed Don't they know? Didn t
they once make tea in Boston Han Dor.
Didn't they bring over Plymouth Rock in
the 'Mayhower'-Plymouth rock, that
gray petrihed Puritan, that glorious old
/ Barney stone? Their hands at present
are empty. They have hung all the Qua
kers they have burnt all the witches: they
have abolished mince pies and Christina,
cakes; they have locked up all the whiskey
Aliens are kept in durance and servic,
seven years, as long as Jacob was to serv'
old Laban for Rachel; and it is said tn
Goldfish no longer swim on Sunday, bu
crowd against the coast to listen to nasa
Psalms. and close their eyes the live Ions
day! In distressing want Of occupation
they cast about and 10, far down Soutl
they behold great evil, an evil that taint
all the air, and cries ont of the ground
and then they adopt the language of tho
worthy deacon when he thrust pir
through the delicate waist Of an humble
bee, 'I'N teach you there iSa God in Is
raeI"
Year: 1860

The SENSATION ROMANTIC Twas al
the close Of glorious summer day--the
sun was sinking behind the distant hog
pen--the chickens were going to roost--
the bull-frogS were commencing their eve
ming songs---the pollywogs in their native
mud -puddles. were preparing themselves
for the shades of highland Sal and my
self sat upon an old and antiquated back
log, listening to the music of nature, such
rs tree-toads, and now and then the mel
low music of distant jackass, which
was waited to our ears by gentle zephyrs
that sighed among the mullenstalks and
came heavy laden with the delicions odor
OF hen-roosts and pig-styes. The last
rays of the setting sun, glancing from the
brass buttons of a solitary horseman.
shone through knot-hole in the hog pen
full in Sal's face, dying her hair with an
orange peel hue, and showing off my
thread bare coat to bad advantage. One
of my arms wSs around SAILS waist, my
hand resting on the small of her back
she was toying with my auburn locks of
jet black hue--she was almost gone and
| was ditto. She looked like grasshop-
per dying with the hiccups, and | felt like
mud-turtle choked with cod fish ball
Sal says /, in voice musical as the
notes of dying swan, will you have me?
She turned her eyes heavenward, cissred
me by the hand. had an attack of the
heaves and blind staggers, and with a
sigh that drew her shoe-strings to her
palate, said-'Yesp She give clean ont
then, and squatted in my lap--I hugged
her until | broke my suspenders.