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Year: 1865



 This delicious fruit has almost disappeared in this section from two causes-ths disease of the tree called the black knot and the ravages Of little insect called the cssrcalio stinging the fruit and causing it to fall prema:urely.

 By proper care we eau contend successfully with each of these difficulties.

 Tie remedy for the black knot: Cut it of promptly and burn it up whenever it appears, either upon large or small limbs. We will not now discuss the cause of this disease, whether the effects of an insect or originating in the tree itself. It is sufficient to know that is highly contagious, spreading from tree to tree urless promptly destroyed on it's first ap- pearance.

 Remedy for the curculio The curculio Is little insect stinging the fruit soon after the petals fall, for the purpose of depositing its eggs. It makes Q crescent work, and hence is called the Turk Coming as he does, just with the prospect of crop of fruit, and sure to destroy it, horticulturists have suggested many remedies to prevent its ravages. The very number of these indicates that sometimes they will fail, while at others they are sue cessful. We will notice some of them.

 It is timid insect, and trees planted by . path where there is frequent passing will often escape. faf

 It is regardful of it's progeny. Trees planted with their tops over water, or with pave- ment of brick or stone under them, often yield full crops When suddenly disturbed 1t plays possum, and falls from the tree. It may be shaken of by sudden jar and gathered in sheets. ... r-=. ~s-1H

 Poultry destroys the animal. Trees may be planted in hen yard, or hen with chickens may be cooped at the foot of a tree. The curculio is ni,e in its senses. Ashes and lime disturb it and. all foul oders. Dust ing the tree repeatedly while the fruit is small with ashes or slaked lime is often effectual A heap of fermenting manure near the base of Q tree or contained in barrel and set under it, will sometimes protect the fruit. But the most etfectual remedy which we have tried is to drench the trees repeatedly with some offensive ammonia generating liquid -- Place in cask some of the draining of the manure heap; add Q handful of salt and flowers of sulphur; allow it to stand and fer ment. When ready to apply it dilute with water and add to each pailful wood ashes or lime. aThis diseagages the ammonia, as will ba observed-Iyl---~s-e nv DE done until you are ready to apply it. As soon as the petals fall and the fruit is formed, with an old dipper throw ths mixture over the whole tree, and repeat as often as washed of by the rains till the plums are nearly full grown. s

 If the liquid is too strong, it will attack the tender foliage, but here use the judgment. and with patience in ies application we :nay be sure of good crop of plums rewarding us fer all our labor. ~.s.. 4
Year: 1865

: A man went to General Thomas. asking him

 not to execute noted guerrilla in his custody. giving him as reason that the war was about to end. II guess we shall have time to hang this fellow,'' was the response of the sturdy general as he dismissed the subject.
Year: 1865

was not always in such a position.


Mr.. Arnett watched the proud turn Of
that gray head with a singular smile;
then sitting down to his desk be wrote
off chech and handed it across the ta-
bic.


"One thousand dollarsP' faltered the
old man as he read, turning red and white
in breath. He held it towards the BAN
ker


"Sir, I hoped you we're too much of
gentleman to make sport of age and dis
tress. Is there anything to jest about in
my Want?'


"NOt at all, sir. You spoke Of sickly
daughter I have a cottage vacant just
outside the city, with fountain, ground,
and observatory. If you and your daugh-
ter will occupy it rent free, shall be
very glad to have you take care Of it for
me-"


The old man stood white and breath
less as if in a dream. In an instant his
hand was taken in the clasp Of the great
banker.


''My friend, my benefactor, you have
forgotten me; but my youthful memory
IS stronger than yours. Is it possible
that you have no remembrance of me2"


The old man shook his head.


eyes it is folly to expect it when I am
so changed. Listen sir" he resumed,
with a bright, earnest smile, "have you
any recollection of fOrlOrn boy, on a
crowded pier, whose little all was scattered
by rude blow? Have you forgotten
his distress?-haVe you forgotten that a
kind stranger stopped to comfort him, not
only by money, but by cheering words p


''Is it possible p stammered the old
man.


eyes, it is possible 1 am the forlOrn
boy. Your money, which that night sup
piled the wants of dying sister with
luxuries and pleasure, proved the stepping
stone to my prineely wealth. Sir, was
a ragged, friendless boy; but my heart
treasured up your kind words as priceless
Jewels, and now the time has come when
I may in some measure, repay them with
interest"


The old man moved bis pale lips as
though he would speak; the banker re,
sumed instantly.


I am alone in the world my mother is
dead, and my little sister, whose last words
were Of your kindness, has gone years
ago to her eternal home. l owe every
thing to you, and now 1 have favor to
ask.


"a favor, and of me?'


"That you will henceforth allow me to
provide for you, and consider me as your
son. My carriage is at the door, and will
take you WheresOever you wish to go.
But one word first"


He took tiny volume from his breast
bound in faded velvet.


''This book was my dead sisters Bible;
it lay on her pillow when she died, and
since that hour it has been my constant
companion. There is a passage here that
has ever been present to my mind since
your kind deed gave hope and courage to
my life" .


He opened the volume; and through q
soft mist of grateful tears, the old man
read the Scripture words:


"Cast thy bread upon the waters, for
thou shalt find it after many days
Year: 1865

One Of the most necessary appendagss
of New York bounty brokerage bureau
is a fictitious mother, being woman apt
at Disgusting herself, and ready to express
and certify her consent to the enlistment
of any number Of minor sons. Colonel
Bakers Investigations found several esti-
mable ladies following this profession, and
making in the neighbOrhOod Of 500 8
day thereby,
Year: 1865

Welcome. welcome, gentle zephyr,
Yea, thrice welcome now thou art,
For the message thou hast brought me
Hath cheered my lonely heart.
But stop a moment, little friend,
Do hear my story through;
Will you not bear message back
To the first who trusted youi
Away, away on wings of love


Fly Ger each hill and dale
And find no other place to rest


Than on the fitting gale
Tell darling many an hour
L sit and watch the silent stars,
With all their magic powerl


And wish that were one OF them,
So radient, clear and bright,


That never cloud might intervene
To hide me from his sighti
These rays Ger life's tempestuous sea
Might beam on him a-far,
And guide him to one loving heart
o would were that starl nn~,oN
Year: 1865

THE MALHEUR EXPEDITION mostly returned
on Thursdays portion of the company have
oone to the new mines on John Days river.
The country was thoroughly prospected, but
nothing of any value was found.
Year: 1865

COLD is easily taken in this changeable eli
mate of ours and without due another will be contracted
top cold thus running into another until the
panypg Cough becomes settled and confirmed ,trlning and
Fackug the lungs and ultimately stimulating the production
Of tubcrces majority of existing Of clearly defined
Pulmonary Disease may thus be accounted for and thou
sands coreesy allowing themselves TO dr through
the preliminary symptoms under the fatal delusoD that they
are troubled with nothing bat cold How obyiousish It,
them that cold should be taken Of from It's incpeney
and no effort spared to rid the system Of it's effects


tive readily obteinabe and Of established reputation be
found in JArsEs ExPEcToRAST and by s all fears o
dangerous results will be dlspated Where tho danger
4. imminent uty lot resort at to the standard
refne1yt
Year: 1865

VIC publish this morning another most i'm
portant and valuable letter from Wm. Good
ang, Esq, The eminent engineer on the canal.
and the means Of cfectually purifying tue
river. In it he gives the facts on which he
based his opinion that the summit Of the
canal can be lowered six feet below tht usual
level Of Lake Michigan, thus turning the pure
water Of the lake through the city for two
millions Of dollars. Such facts are worth
any amount Of theories, and gi1e our author
itics and NIL interested in the welfare and
prosperity Of the city, a sure basis on which
t. rest their cHorts to furnish our people with
pure water, end make our city for all time TO
come, ono Of the most healthy upon the con-
tincnt. True the statistics Of mortality have
thus far shown us to be US exempt, If indeed
not more frcc from disease than any other
American city, but no one with particle Of
knowledge on sucil subjects can expect rs to
remain 60 II the concentrated abonina,
lions Of cur city continue to be
pcuttd In one vast stream of pestilence
into lhat .esesvoir from which VIC draw the
water to quench the thirst and cook the food
Of our citizens. Though thc tunnel succeeds,
This alone would vitia1c the water md make
it about as Ialatable ssas If dead lursc was
seen floating on every hundred square yards
from tic shore. We ere glad, therefore, 10
see that ous Intelligent citizens are nearly If
not quite unanimous in The conviction that
the only permanent ami efTectual way 10 re-
move the evils under which our city suffers.
aud which threaten infinitely more than We
now endure, Is to complete the excavation Of
the summit of The canal ard thus turn the
pure bluc waters cf Lake Michigan through
the city into the Illinois river In the Ian
guage Of Mr.. Gooding, "Sclomon himself
could not Lave como to . more sag. conclu-
sion."


For the information OF those outside OF the
city, 1t should be distinctly understood that
the city suffers from the Impurities Of the
river only when or immediately after we have
had strong wind from the South. At other
times, or when the wind is from the North,
current naturally sets south along the west
e1n shore, which carries all the fifth from the
river down towards the south end Of Lake
Michigan. At all other times the wafer from
tho lake, saving That it is slightly hard, is
ns good and as sweet rs any that gushcs
cut from The springs ut the base Of the Ale
ghcpy mountains Hence, through nearly the
entire year, Chicago can give her guests
and customers as good water as can be found
anywhere upon the face Of the earth.
Year: 1865

A QUESTION. advocates Of green.
backs say that no man is truly loyal who
does not favor the repeal of the Specific
Contract law. Now the law simply makes
every man act honestly, compels him to
live up to his written contract If he
agrees in writing that he will pay debt
in gold, the statue says it must be 20 paid,
in accordance with the terms of the con.
tract This is plain honesty. There eau
be no doubt of that. Then the question
arises. if loyalty requires the violation of
written agreements, the breaking of SOL
smn contracts. and grossly unfair dealing
between man and man, can man be
strictly honest and loyal at the same timee
In other words, is 1t necessary to be liar
and . scoundrel in order to be loyal, an
swer, ye patriOts.- Union Democrat.
Year: 1865

Frcmhsacesvrth twill be decided waste of
time and paper Cor parties to send orders for the
paper, or advertisements for publication, with
promise to pa5 for the sane hereafter. We will
notice none SUCH Our terms, like those of every
one Disc, are strictly cash.
Year: 1865

The Pal Nall Gazette gives currency to report that
there is project of marriage foot between daughter
OF the Queen Of Spain and Duke OF Aosta OF the
King OF Italy. The report receives confirmation
from the fact that the young prince had arrived al
Madrid and dined at the palace Another rumor Is thar
rrnce Amadeus, who was also at Madrid would be the
probable husband OF the Princess.


me ltal an Ambassador TO Spain had been duly re-
ceNed by the Queen at Madrid
Year: 1865

CUcUMBERs.--Take a tight barre
with one head, make eight or ten holes
say three quarters of an inch, at the bulge
of the barrel with small bit-and sink
the barrel in the ground level with the
surface of the ground. Then fill up the
barrel with stone as high as the holes and
put on about four inches of straw then
fill up the barrel with water, and plant
plenty of seed so that you can thin them
out six or eight stalks. In case of a
drouth, put pail of water in the barrel
about once week. i raised off three
barrels, planted in this way, over four
barrels of pickles, and if they are well
watered through the bearing season they
will bear till the frost kills the vines
One needs scafold for the vines to run
on say take four poles, ten feet long, and
set them about four feet apart, with une
end on the ground, and raise the other
some five feet above the ground with
pieces of lath or brush laid across, and /
assure you that you will have no crooked
cucumbers.
Year: 1865

We read Of Persian whose life seemed blest


With all that was bright and fair,
Till he showed one day. deep hidden away,


skeleton grim and bare,
That clouded the blissful light of his life


And darkened his envied fate
His wealth and all-with gloomy pail


That rendered him desolate.
And far down in each human heart there lies
A recess hidden away;
Deep in that cell may a skeleton DWELL


Illumed by no friendly ray.
Friends may be ours who are true and tried,
Who may know each seeming care;
But that chamber dim, we keep from them,
They cannot enter there.
Scarce one but keeps some unhealed wound
A mysterious sorrow hid
A dreary woe, that no mortal may know


Meath that darkened closet lid.
1t may be the ghost of some blghted love-
A spectre of ruined hope
A withered fame--a sullying shame


On their life's fair horoscope.
Weknow that the rose looks fresh and fair
And Its bloom will not betray
That a worm dwells in its inmost cells,
Which is gnawing its life away.
So many with bright and sparkling eye,
And cheek Of the fairest bloom,
Have hid from sight, withering blight
That will sink them in the tomb.
Aye, "Every heart its bitterness knows"
Each has its hidden care,
And every life hath its inner strife
Its skeleton dark and drear.
And no eye can pierce the hidden veil
That covers our lives like pail,
But he who hears our prayers and tears,
Who readeth and judgeth all.
And long as we dwell on this sin-curst earth
VIII our joys be fraught with pain;
Thus He fits us here for that brighter sphere,
Or else we might live in vain.
For when we pass DER to that other shore,
Each sorrow and grief will depart;
There the mist will roll from every soul,
And the skeleton leave each heart.
Year: 1865

NEW lORh1 feD. +
The Commercials Washington special
says The Secretary of War was informed
yesterday that General Grant contemplated
negotiations with the enemy for a general
exchange of prisoners, at the rate of 5000
per month, which is as fast as the rebels
can deliver them.


The indications are that moro vigorous
war policy will now be adopted.


The Cabinet was called together to-day
and doubtless had the result of the Presi-
DENTS conference laid before them.
Year: 1865

February 2.


All the hospitals in the field were cleared
to-day, the inmates being sent TO City
Point to the General Hospital, where they
can receive more care and be in better
quarters. This change, no doubt, gave rise
to the various rumOrs of an intended for
ward movement.


Deserters who came in to-day report the
return to the front of the troops recently
sent to North Carolina to meet Union
force said to be marching on Weldon.
The rebels in front of Petersburg have
been very jubilsnt for day or two, in
dulging in frequent cheering, but on what
account is not known here.


Colonel Ruggles, one of the oldest off
GERS in the army, has been assigned to duty
as Assistant Adjutant General at these
hesd0uarters
Year: 1865

The same special says that the Ways and
Means Committee, to-day, decided definite
ly in regard to the tax on petroleum. Upon
crude oil the import tax is ak cents per
gallon; the tax on the manufactured ar
ticle as it now is, twenty cents per gallon.
Cigars are to be taxed BY the pound and
not by the thousand. Tobacco is not to be
taxed in leaf.
Year: 1865

The CHAMBER DRILL This new and use
ful instrument seems likely TO be adopted
into use throughout the State Those who
have employed it thus far speak in the high
est terms of the manner in which it works
We have seen certificates from practical mi.
ners, who are personally known to us, who
have used it, and who state that with it two
with the ordinary drill. This drill, as its
name indicates, is designed to cut a chamber
in the bottom of hole previously made by
the common drill. This is accomplished by
an ingenious piece Of mechanism attached
near the end of piece Of iron which, when
placed in drill hole, and being struck, as ir
drilling, throws out two cutters from its op
posite sides in snch manner as to cut at
right angles with the direction of the blow.
BY constantly turning this iron or drill, and
repeating the blows. an enlargement or cham
Der is made near the bottom of the hole to
receive the powder, which is thus made to
give lifting purchase on its explosion.
throwing out from twice to three times as
much rock as could be thrown from the same
hole without being chambered This is
found to be the result in actual practice.
Under such circumstances, we do not see
what is to hinder this drill from coming into
general use.


Orders for this drill may be sent to Mr..
Isaiah Weston, Nos. 4 and S, Government
House, San Francisco.


S. Il. Mining Press.
Year: 1865

The Pennsylvania Jetfersonian says: At
the commencement Of the war no one was
willing to believe that it was waged for the
negro; it was treason to hint at such thing.
Abe Lincoln even, refused to admit of such
a purpose. Volunteers were called upon to
protect Washington, and to occupy forts.
The real purpose was sludiously kept from
view, unit the public pulse was made to
vibrate TO the fanalical ideas of the leaders;
until now, it is treason not to be in favor Of
negro equality and mongregalion.


At the present, very few would give ear to
any proposition or scheme for reputation Of
the war debt; and yet it is looming up as
steadily and sarely as the war progressed
os,ensibIy from one for the Constitution TO
one for miscegenalion. On the 2Slh uliimo
Thad Stevens, Lincolns Chairman of Ways
and Means in tie House, touched the key
note, and The sound has gone forth over the
land to lingle the ears Of the faithful. 1t is
as yet, soft and gentle as the cooling dove;
If it s,artes the community, there will he a
drawing back, for further and more etfec-
tive leap. Depend upon it reputation will
soon be made Republican walchword and
test of loyalty.


The question before the House was the
six hundred million loan bill. 1had, Shevens,
in reviewing the financial condition


Expressed his belief that at the end of
the war the public debt would he four thou
sand millions, requiring two hundred and
forty millions in gold as interest, to be pur
chased by the Government, at, perhaps as
heretofore, as high as two dollars and seventy
cents in currency for one dollar in coin.-
Under such circumstances, we would be
driven to the necessity of suspendng, in part,
the payment of interest in coin, a measure
which should not for a moment be contem
plated. We should therefore wisely take
steps to avert such calamity"
Year: 1865

at the proper time.


Keep everything in its place.


Always mend clothes before washing them.


Alum or vinegar is good to set color, red,
green, or yellow.


Sal soda will bleach, one spoonful is
enough for kettle Of clothes.


Save your suds for the garden and plants
or to harden yards when sandy.


hot shovel held over vanished furniture
will take out white spots


A bit Of glue, dissolved in skim milk and
water will restore rusty old Grape.


Ribbons of any kind should be washed in
cold suds, and not riosed.
Year: 1865

a correspondent of one of the St. Louis
papers gives the narrative Of an expedition
from the foot of the Sierra Madre range
across the State of Sonora to Arizona.
in which allusion is made to the "marvelous"
Nacosari copper mines as follows:


1t is a most wonderful development Of
that valuable ore, so lavishly and redundant.
" thrown down there, that almost upon the
very surface one beholls masses of copper
ore with fifty per cent Of pure metallic cops
per in it in abundance sufficient to surfeit the
markets Of the world. | scarcely know
whether to call it vein or lode. 1t is sixty
feet wide and runs four miles. The ore is so
advantageously situated that it can be blast
ed out at one dollar per tun, Offering to
contract to take out five thousand tuns at
that figure. No shafts or tunnels seem ne
cessary any more than on Pilot Knob, Iron
Mountain. All that is necessary is to put in
blast and knock off "a lun at a pop
Besides the copper each tun contains sixty
dollars per tun in silver have many spec


linens of the beautiful ore, many of them as
beautifully variegated as the cools of the
spectrum, all of them fifty per cent pure.
The "Don Juan" is a continuation of this
wonderful minc, two thousand feet distant.
Neither of them have been much worked,
capital being wanting. The face of the mine
already stripped, presents the beautiful ore
in such advantageous position that the mer-
est bungler in mining could knock it out so
rapidly and at such little cost, that it
could be laid down at the doors of the s,net.
ing furnaces at less per centage of ex-
pense than can be said of any copper mine
have heard of from Lake Superior to the
lsthmus of Darien.
Year: 1865

The following passage is from the forthcoming
volume Of PoIlard'a Southern history Of The
Fourth Year Of tho War"


There can be no doubt in history that Gen. Lee
in taking his army away from Richmond and Peters
lessness Of the war; and had predetermined its sur
render. The most striking proof of this Is that
his retreat there order published against
sraggling-a thing unprecedented in all deliberate
and strategic retrPatsaud nothing whatever done to
maintain discipline The men were not animated
by the style of general orders usual such occasions
They struggled ard deserted almost Ut viii.


An idea ran through the Virginia troops that with
the abandonment of Richmond the warwas hopeless
and that they would be justified in refusing to fight
outside the limits of their State. Nothing done
the army. The Virginia troops scattered off TO their
seen that Pickett was left with only Il handful Of
men. Some Of the brigade commanders had not hest
tated to advise their that the war was virtually
over. and thaC they had better 20 home and make
crops.


But there are other proofs, besides the omission
Of the measures against struggling usual on retreats,
that General Lee had preYised Il surrender Of bis
army. lie carried of from Petersburg and Rich
innnd all the transportation of his army sufficient,
perhaps, for one hundred thou and men, certainly
largely in excess of the actual needs Of the retreat
The excessive number OF Virginia troops who were
permitted TO drop ont Of the ranks and return TO
their homes shows very we'll that there was no firm
purpose to carry the out Of the limits of that
State Prisoners taken on the retreat invariably re
ported that the army was soon TO be halted for Il
surrender and General Gusts Lee. whom captured
by the enemy, is alleged to have made the same
elatiOns of his fathers designs