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Year: 1864

denly let loose the tempest of his Maker s
| ire.


I And when consciousness of his imperfec-


tions possessed him and when he reflected


that he had full often failed to come up to the


ideal type of godliness, though comparative


ly "perfect in his generations" he must have


been profoundly impressed with the fact OF


his Indebtedness to the Almighty for protec-


ton and security. A third emotion which


swayed his bosom must have been conscious
delight in his Heavenly Parent. We cannot


suppose that for an instant his heart pulsa-
ted with alarm in view of his position No
| God had shut him in. God had pledged to
him his guiding providence, and amid wreck
and ruin he could feel the same sense of per-
sonal safety as if his feet were placed on the
green carpet of blooming world. In his
wooden prison he felt as if he were securely
housed in the very heart of Deity. This in
teresting portion of biblical narration is re-
plete with practical reflections. The Ark of
Noah undoubtedly typifes the Ark of Christ's
blessed Church. Into that retreat how often
have we been urged to go to escape the ap-
preaching storm of accumulating justice.


Though we may not realize that danger is
at hand, yet the Gospel comes to us with
clear intonations to warn us ofan approaching
hour when fiery deluge shall sweep away
the cherished hiding place of the ungodly,
and if faith for moment do but gain the
ascendant in our bosoms, we shall flee for
refuge to the blessed sanctuary. Like Noah,
moved by fear, the good man separates him
self from an unbeleving world, and sequest-
rates himself in the Ark of genuine piety.-
Like Noah, he induces his family to adopt
the same course, and embrace the same
shelter. Feeling that the welfare of that family
is identified with his own, he pursuades them
also to accompany him to the gates of Para
disc, and leave behind them the Sodom of the
world. And as Noah, with his wife and sons,
and sons wives, stepped out at last on the
peak of Ararat, so the Christian, with those
God has given him, shall stand at last upon
Mount Zion, in this city of his God, and feel
and know that every tempest has past away
forever Happy they who escape the deluge
of Gods wrath and view the rainbow of
peace as it spans the azure armament, telling
of Gods complacent smile, and foreshadowing
an eternity of peace and joy, known only to
the pure in heart.
Year: 1864

BY BAY.
I am thinking of thee in this twilight hour,
And I'm lonely and weary and sad
For the day is done and the night has come,
And there's nothing to make me glad.
l am thinking Of thee and almost start,
And fancy that thou art near
But sigh will rise to my angushOd heart,
Like an echo of wild despair
am thinking of thee as L sit here alone,
And ponder on days that's past
But they've flown away like a summer day,
Too short and too happy to last.
Lam thinking Of thee and long to sit
By thy couch of sickness and pain
I'd smooth thy pillow and press thy hand,
And make thee well again.
am thinking of thee, oh would could share,
Thy every ill on earth
I'd love thee so fondly that sorrow and care .
Should fly at their earliest birth.
am thinking of thee, cans thou doubt me love
Or wonder that L am sad
For thou art my all and the tear will fall,
For there's nothing to make me glad
1 am thinking of thee as sit here alone,
And the moon and stars have sit
And the day has dawned Ger the cold gray morn,
Still I'm thinking of thee yet.
Near Concord, Feb. 1864.
Year: 1864




1t is sometimes made an objection to Ger
tain kinds of strawberries, that after produc
ing few crops they die out, and leave tn,
cultivator without crop for the ensuing
year.


1t is worth remembering, however, that al
strawberries bear better, and produce fruit o
better quality the second year of planting ou
than at any other period of their lives, and il
is probably on the whole better to base ones
calculations on renewing beds every SECOND
year.


This is more particularly desirable where
Strawberries are grown in hills-aplan which
is now followed by most who seek the best re-
suits, and which plan is very liable to be at
tended by the well-known enervating effects
of over-bearing


Many market growers of the strawberry,
whose pecuniary interests generally lead them
to the most profitable way of raising fruit, re-
new their beds every third year. They make
plantation every season, which, after bear
ing two crops, is destroyed. A new one
planted and an old one abandoned, thus keeps
up the annual succession These are not
planted exactly in hills, but in pIow-rows-
the plants, perhaps, twelve inches apart and
the rows two or two and half feet. These
rows are usually hoe-harrowed continuously
through the early part of the season, till the
fruit is ripening, when the whole bed is left
to the undisturbed possession of the runners
and the fruit. In September, after the new
ground has been thoroughly prepared the
runners are taken off and set in pans of water,
from which they are transferred to their as
signed positions in the new rows. All the
runners not wanted are then cut off with a
hoe or harrow, the plants left to bear one
moro good crop next season, which is usually
the best, after which they are destroyed, and
the ground planted again with young plants,
or left for the purpose of using for some other
crop, according as it may suit the views or
convenience of the planter in regard to rota-
tive cropping.


This is.a general outline of the practice Of
some of the best growers we know. They
each vary in some particular, but the main
point is in the early renewal of the plant, as
we have stated.


The questionable point would be this =
Granting that a third years crop FROM the
same plants would not he as good as the sec,
ond years had been, would the difference be
so great as to warrant the increased labor of
making new beds? We believe it would
Moreover, the labor is very likely to be over
rated for it costs but little more to make
new plantation than it does to clean out and
fix up an old one.


There arc some instances, no doubt, where
it can be proved best to let a bed remain more
than two fruiting seasons, and as long as it
will bear well. In the eyer-varying circum-
stances under which horticultural rules are
to be practiced, these anomalies are contin-
ually occurring, but we have no doubt, as
general thing it will be found most profitable
and satisfactory to make a new plantation
every second or third year.
Year: 1864




Many people contend that it is impracti
cable to make nice yellow butter in the wint
er, or even during the foddering season, and
therefore, various remidies have been resort
ed to, for the purpose of producing nice yel
low butter, when COWS do not feed on greer
grass.


! Why will a COW that irin a leshy condi
tion, give milk that will make yellower butter
than, cow that is like the lean kind Of
Pharoah of ancient Egypt


why" says one, 81 did not know that
! there would be any difference in the milk
Bqh there truly is a difference, and we will
enndeayor to explain the why's and the where
fores about the matter, so that there will be
but-lttle difficulty in producing yellow butter
in the winter.


Why may we not have as good yellow but
ter, when cow is fed on straw or white
turnips, as we do when the same cow is fed
on green grass?


Because there is greater abundance of
butter-forming material in good grass than
there is to be found in straw or white turnips.
And more than this, there is delicious aro-
ma in the butter-materials stbat is extracted
from the grass, that is tsot 70. be found in
straw, turnips or in many other kinds of
feed, which will produce good flow of milk


Take for example buck wheat bran and
buck wheat straw, and white turnips, and
they will produce about as large quantities of
milk as any other kinds of fodder, providing
they have not been damaged by being exposed
to the influence of the weather. But, will
such milk make nice yellow butter? By no
means.


We all admit that there is nothing equal to
good grass for the purpose of producing
rich yellow cream. But grass cannot be OBJ
tanned in winter. Therefore, we must feed
such materials as will be as nearly like grass
as is practicable.


When grass is properly dried and convert
ed into good hay-if it be CIT before the bios
som has fallen-it will yield cream which will
make about as yellow butter az green grass
would make, Therefore in summing up this
SUBJECT we are Justlhed IN saying that make
ing yellow butter in winter, will depend on
certain conditions and contingencies, which
are as follows:


LIST. A cow must have good supply of
good hay, that has been made of good grass,
cut before the blossom has fallen, and cured
properly, without having been wet while it
was being cured. I'd. A few orange carrots
daily-not reduced to a fine pulp and ming
led with butter-but fed to the cow in con-
nection with few pounds of Indian meal,
made of yellow corn. Sd. A good supply of
good cornstalks-not those that have been
frost bitten and weather beaten. 4th. A
good cow, with yellow skin about the udder is
very essential. 5th. A COW in good condi-
tion-not ono as poor as 'pocertyation." 9th.
A good stable we'll Uttered, and an abundance
of clean water for the COW to'drink. 7th.
Never allow the milk to freeze.
Year: 1864

DR.. John Browns little book on Health
has more good advice in it, than is often
crowded into such small compass, and no
parent can read it without receiving sugges-
tions he will remember, and put to worthy
practice in the home circle. There are some
wise hints in the following paragraphs


Whatever you wish your child to be-be it
yourself If you wish it to be happy,
healthy, sober, truthful, afectionate, honest,
and godly, be yourself all these. If you wish
it to be lazy, and sulky, and liar, and a
thief, and drunkard, and swearer, be
yourself all these. As the old cock crows,
the young one learns. You will remember
who said, "Train up child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not de-
part from it." And you may, as a general
rule, as soon expect to gather grapes from
thorns, and figs from thistles, as good, healthy
happy children from diseased, and lazy, and
wicked parents.


Be always frank and open with your child
rem. Make them trust you, and tell you all
their secrets Make them feel at ease with
you, and make free with them There are
no such play things for grown-up children
like you and me, as oceans, wee ones. It is
wonderful what you can get them to do, with
a little coaxing and fun. You all know this
as well as do, and you will practice ii every
day in your own families. Hero now is
pleasant little story out Of an old book; L" A
gentleman having led a company of children
beyond their usual journey, they began to
feel weary, and all cried to him to carry them
on his back, but because of their multitude,
he could not do this. But, says he, IN
get horses for us all;" then cutting little
wands out of the hedge as ponies for them,
and great stake as charger for himself,
this put mettle in their little legs, and they
rod; cheerily home" So much for bit of
ingenious fun.


One thing, however, poor as you are, you
can always give yonr children, and that is


your prayers; and they are, if real and
humble worth more than silver and gold,
more than food and clothing, and havo often
brought from the Father who is in Heaven
and hears our prayers, both money and meat
and clothes, and all worthy good things
And there is one thing you can always teach
your child: you may not yourself know how
to read or write, and therefore you may not
be able to teach your children how to do
these things; you may not know the names
of the stars, or their geography, and may,
therefore, not be able to tell them how for
you are from the sun, or how big the moon
is; nor be able to tell them the way to Jeru-
salem or Australia; but you may always be
able to tell them who made the sun, and
moon and stars, and you may tell them the
road to Heaven. You may alwsys teach
them to pray.


Some weeks ago, 1 was taken cut to see the
mother of a little child. She was very dan
gerously ill, and the nurse had left the child
to come and help me. l went up to the nur-
sery to get some hot water, and saw some
Year: 1864

UNHIS Tobacco is manufactured expressly for


the California market the peculiar manner IN
which it is put up keeping it always moist. and
causing it to retain its flavor any length Of time
Year: 1864

The New York Times has long article upon
the exiravaganee which is now prevailing at
the North. The Times tanks if it is not
checked collapse viii soon take place which
will end the war. Here is what that sheet says
in regard to the matter:


This ostsntation Is kept up mostly by foreign
fabrics, which only gold esn buy. The specie
basis, which alone can sustain currency and
credit, is being mora largely drawn away; aud
without currency and credit no war can be ef
feetuslly prosecuted. Ths disproportion be-
tween gold and paper cannot 90 on iDersssiDg
for q great period without producing q fnan-
ciaI collapse. And should that collapse come
the war, we may be sure, win ghtwsy end.
Our Government can practice no such repudis-
ton shifts as she rebel Government is now es-
saying There is TOO much moral principle yet
left in the Northern people to tolerate any aa-
tionsl turpitude of that sort. When il comes
20 the point that this war demands reputation,
the war viii be abandoned, and all the sscri-
6ces our soldiers have. made in il viii go for
naught
Year: 1864

UNHEARD OF HONEsTY.-A friend informs us
that gentleman, against whom be holds note
for 8 small amount Of borrowed money, came
to him few days since and remarked that be
was anxious to pay the note, but that the
money he borrowed was gold, that he could not
now get the gold to pay him, ard he would not
ask him to take the dspreciAsed currency, bat
be had plenty Of good bacon which he would
sell him at ten cents per pound, just what it was
selling for when be borrowed the money. As
the Yankees took all our friends meat, Of course
be will accept the liberal offer. Such instances
of honesty are extremely rare in these degene-
rate times, and we cannot refrain from giving
the gentleman's name. 1t was Thomas S.
White, Esq, of this eOunty.--BrGRd0n RePEb
Il LssaH
Year: 1864

The Telegraph informs rs that Gen FORREST
hes officially communicated to the War Depart
ment the capture Of Fort Pillow, by the force.
under his command. The details, as reported
By him, do not differ materially from those here
tofoTs received, and confirm the unprecedented
slaughter Of fTe-ssvenths Of the garrison. The
capture was an important less to the enemy
and the drama attending it a bloody one
Year: 1864

CoUNTERTErr twenty dollar Treasury notes
are In circulation In New York. We have seen
some specimens of the article Z" well calculated
to deceive" the imitation being good-grcen
tint and all.
Year: 1864

This distinguished officer arrived In this city
yesterday. He had a long interview yesterday
and to-day with the Secretary of War and the
President, and will probably leave for Fortress
Monroe this evening.
Year: 1864

the verge Of extreme dcstitution, some Of our
apparently prosperous bankers and money
1oanets certify themselves TO be really In very
indiecnt circumstances, with an income so
small as to suggest the idea that their affairs
are in very bad condition.
Year: 1864

an this dark hour of our country S
trial, there Is but one road to success
and peace, aud that is to be firmly uni
ted for our Government as the rebels are
against it. Small differences Of opir-
ion amount to nothing in this grand
struggle for . nations existence Do
not place even one straw in the way, and
remember that every word you speak 10
encourage the South, nerves the arm and
strikes the blow which 10 aimed at the
hearts blood of Cur brothers snd kin
dred."
Year: 1864

a letter from Batavia to a commercial house
In Boston states that when the Red Gauntlet
was destroyed by the Florida, the commander
Of the piratical cruiser informed Capt. Luce
that he would destroy every Americsn-bullt
vessel sailing under foreign flag, whose papers
showed that her nationality had been changed
In any colonial port since the breaking out of
the civil war; and that the nation whose flag
covered such property Sc destroyed must settle
the matter with the Confederate Government.
Year: 1864

The Washington theatre is TO be opened by
Miss Keene this evening with a capital comedy
capitally cast, and the performance will satisfy
the most captious critic. The theatre has been
purified and beautined, and Is is the Intention
OF Miss Keene to make the place and the per-
formances worthy Of her high reputation as an
exponent and manager OF the drama in Its best
form and quality. We trust that her efforts
will be SO well patronized that she will give us
a long season of frst-class entertainments.
Year: 1864

TEE Army AND NAVY JOURNAL for the present
week republishes from General McClelan,s
Report the correspondence between that Gem
cral, the President, and the War Department,
from the commencement OF the Peninsula
Campaign to the close OF General Pope's Cam
palgn.
Year: 1864

A SAILOR going ashore at Asplnwall on
hawser, was seized by shark which took OF
first one of his legs, next his yight arm and
then his left arm. Finally the shark bit tho
sailors head when he died.
Year: 1864

How NATURE Covers Up BATTLE FIELDS.
Did tell you ever, among the affecting
little things one is always seeing in these
stirring war times, how saw on the Bull
Run battle field, pretty, pure, delicate
flowers growing out of emptied ammuni-
tion boxes; a rose thrusting up its grace
full head through the head of Union
drum, which doubtless sounded its last
charge Tor retreat, as the case may have
been, in that battle, and a cunning scar
let verbena peeping out of fragment of
bursted shell, in which strange cup it had
been planted. Wasn't that peace grow
ing out of wsri Even so shall the grace
full and beautiful ever grow out of the
horrible and terrible things that transpire
in this changing and ever advancing
world. Nature covers even the battle
grounds with verdure and bloom. Peace
and plenty soon spring up in the track of
devastating campaigns, and all things in
nature and society shall work out the
progress of mankind and harmony of
Gods greatest designs.
Year: 1864

INxoRrALITY.-At the age of seventy.
FIVE one must. of course, think frequent
ly of death. But this thought never
gives me the least uneasiness. lam fully
convinced that the soul is indestructible,
and that its activity will continue through
eternity. 1t is like the sun, which seems
to our eyes to set at night, but it Is gone
TO diffuse its light elsewhere. Even
while sinking it remains the same SUM-
Gostks
Year: 1864

Il It'is hard to analyze this item, as it is
impossible to say what kind and amounts
Of food will be furnished them, but the sum


charged Is very large, and have no doubt
the same number Of Indians, part Of them
Year: 1864

Our terms are $40 in the issue or SIS in the
old We have to pay issue for the printing paper
we buy, and therefore must change the old for is
sue SIS included So in the old issue pays for four
months subscription.


B The Democrat 4ciU be diScontinuedto all subscr-
GERS at the expiration Of tie tine for r1teA paid.
Those a0ho scdn to continue mast rene before atthe
dirdtion Of their klzas
Year: 1864

"Ihe Irish PEASANTS food, in time of harvest
consists of oatmeal, porridge and small quantity
of sour milk or butter milk for breakfast; pound
Of wheaton bread and pint and half Of beer at
dinner, and at night a supper resembling the
breakfast.


'In parts of Scotland, the laborers, if single
men, are furnished with two pecks of oatmeal on
Monday morning, and with a daily allowance of
new or sour Enthusiastically they may have
beer and bread for dinner, Instead OF pOrridge
Few laborers exhibit frmer health or more muscu-
lar vigor, Or really perform more work than many
of these men"


"The wages of the French peasantry are in
general from franc to a franc and half per day
per man-that is, ten to fifteen pence, or twenty to
thirty CENTS and to women, about four tlths of the
former sum, or about eight pence or sixteen cents
Coffee and tea are scarcely known among them
They drink no ardent spirits. Their usual drink
is an acid wine, not strong common cider,
and this mixed with water. They have meat but
rarely-occasionay fish; but their general provis
ion is soup composed chiefly of vegetables and
bread. Bread, both wheat and rye, is with them
literally the staff Of life. With all this they en-
JOY ruddy health"


From these extracts we see on what diet mill
ions upon millions of men in the two most civiliz-
ed countries of Europe subsist themselves from
year to year, and from youth to old age. Iolllng
laborers not required to toll here, they yet
scarcely know the taste of flesh. What they
thus endure constantly, we surely can endure
for time, when our liberties and all that is
dear to US are at stake, We surely make
some distant approximation to the abstemious diet
on which Irish laborers fatten at feast, rather
than our sun should 90 down in darkness and
blood, and unutterable horror! We can deny our
selves at home for season, that the gallant sol
diers to whom we look for deVerance, may have
proper and abundant food. Every good citizen
will do this willingly and of choice; the bad and
the inconsiderate must be made to do it.


BSr most interesting and impressive ceremo-
ny took place at the Episcopal Church in Dalton,
on "Wednesday, in the confirmation, by Bishop
Elliott of four Generals of the army of Tennessee.
Lieut. Gen Hardee and Gems. Cowan, Shupe and
Srabl The last named General was first received
into the church by baptism, and then the rites of
confirmation were administered to him with the
others.
Year: 1864

Two farmers in Hunterdon. New Jersey,
undertook to resist the collection of the in.
ternal revenue tax by refusing to pay it.
The consequence was they were indicted.
plead guilty, and each had 70 pay fine Of
$500. The amount of tax which they re.
fused TO pay was one dollar. A man tha,
undertakes to resist the Federal laws, when
properly executed will always como out Of
the contest second best. And yet we need
not be surprised 20 hear of repeated in.
stances Of these attemptsto resist the law.
Simply because the conductor of every cop.
perhead newspaper in the country is now
laboring to incite the ignorant portion of the
community to oppose the legal authorities.


Indeed, the copperhead leaders seem to
have no purpose iu view now but to pro-
woke collision between a portion of the
masses of the loyal States and the Govern
ment.
Year: 1864

We do not beliesethat it is necessary to
say anything to farmers relative to most
strenuous effort in the production of every
eatable which can be grown in this latitude.
They certainly must see that there is no
thing but is remunerative which can at all
be made diges,ible. It is no excuse to say
that labor is high, 81 or S3 per day is
nothing, compared to the prices to be ex.
pected for produce within the ensuing year.
Whether the war ends or continues, the
result is the same. If the last gun of the
rebellion was fred to-day, not bushel Of
grain would remain in the North when the
hour of another harvest arrived. OF all
grains and vegetables, therefore, which may
be sown as a second crop, put them in and
do not spare expense in doing go. 1t will
pay we'll in the end.-.&. Joseph Herald.