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Year: 1868

The american Fruit CulturiSt states


that when old trees become feeble,


there is no better way of imparting


to them vigor than by manuring.


Instead Of adopting the more common


practice of digging circular trench


around them and filling this with


manure, the operation may be per-


formed in more perfect and efficient


manure by digging narrow radiating


trenches from within y few feet of the


trunk, directly from it-this will pre-


vent cutting many of the roots. These


may then be filled with q compost,
made of turf, stable manure, ashes
and perhaps little bone manure-tha
turf to be the chief constituent, say
one half or wo-thirds-and the ashes
say one-thirtieth. The bone manure
is not essential, as its constituent parts
are in common manure in small guam
titles. If this Is done in autumn, the
roots will be prepared to penetrate it
early in spring, and if the tree is not
past recovery, it may make a new
growth. The roots probably roach
as far each way as the height of tho
tree, and the trenches should extend
abont the same distance. They need
not be cut very near the tree, as tho
roots are all large there, and would
be more likely to be injured and would
be little benefited. The trenches
should be only the width of "a spade,
and be from two to four feet apart.


Old apple orchards always grow
and bear best when kept under cult,
vation. If the soil is, however, la
turally or artifcially fertile, they sue
ceed well in grass continually grnEed
short by sheep and swine. These
are useful in deVouring the
insects of the fallen fruit, and assist
in manuring the surface. An annual
autumn application of yard or stable
manure, with small portion of ashes
or, in the absence of ashes, lime-will
commonly be useful. If the orchard
is only top.dressed, the application in
autumn is of great Importance, that
The soil may be soaked in winter or
spring, If plowed in it should DO
done in spring, after the manure has
all winter on the surface.
Year: 1868

Each motheris historian. She
writes not the history of empires or
Of nations on paper, but she write her
own history on the imperishable mind
of her child. That tablet and that
history will remain indellible when
time shall be no more. That history
each mother shall meet again, and
read with eternal joy or unutterable
grief 10 the coming ages of eternity.
The thought should weigh on the
mind Of all mothers, and render them
deeply circumspect, and prayerful
and faithful in the solemn work OF
training up their children for heaven
and immortality.


The minds OF children are very sus-
ceptible and easily impressed. A
word, look or froWn may engrave an
impression on the mind of child
which no lapse of time can efface or
wash out. You walk along the sea
shore when the tide is out, and you
form characters or write words or
names in the white smooth sand,
which is spread out so clear and
beautiful at your feet, according as
your fancy may dictate; but the re-
turning tide shall in a few hours
wash out and efface all that you have
written. Not so the lines and charac.
ters Of truth or error which your con-
duct imprints on the mind of your
child. There you write impressions
for the everlasting good or III Of your
child, which neither the Goods nor
the storms Of earth can wash ont nor
deaths cold fingers erase, nor the slow
moving ages of eternity obllerate
How careful then should, each moth
er be in her treatment of her child
How prsyerfnl, and bow serious 10
write the eternal truths Of God on
bis mind--those truths which shall be
his guide and teacher when her voice
shall be silent 10 death and her lips
no longer move In prayer in bis be-
half in commencing her dear child
10 the covenant Of God.
Year: 1868

Challenges the world to produce anything in the
shape of Medicines that will remove aud eradicate
Cough soreness in the Chest, as prompt. no
matter what form the disease might assume. Hen
ley's Royal Balsam" is the best Medicine in the
world for Bronchial or Pulmonory affections. For
Group or Hopping Cough, there is nothing on
earth that can equal it. All motherers and Nurse.
ought to have bottle close by them, it will give
a child relief in two minutes. 1t is entirely veg
etable, and will prove blessing to the human
family
Year: 1868

From Mr.. THoMAs.-We have used Henley s
Royal Balsam in my family this winter. There is
no talking. 1t throws everything in the shape
of Cough medicine in the shade that ever saw.
My wife was troubled with asthma smothering
spells for years. and could get nothing to have any
effect until struck this Royal Balsam" She is
now about, well. 1t cured me of the worst cold
1 ever had in my life in night. Whenever our
children have anything like cough, few drops
given on going to bed-that is the last of the
cough. l never intend to be without it in the
house.


B. THOMAS, the paper man.
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford ihs afflicted
sound aud scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868

From Harrey Sickier, Esq, the able editor Of the


Tankhdnnock Democrat, Pennsylvania.


ss Our only child, about three years of age, was
attacked by pimples on his forehead. They rapidly
spread until they formed loathsomc and viruent
SORE which covered his face, and actually blinded
his eyes for some days A sklful physician applied
nitrate of silver and other remedies, without any
apparent effect For fifteen days we guarded his
hands, lest with them he should tear open the fes
tering and corrupt wound which covered his whole
face. Having tried every thing else we had any
hope from, we began giving your SARsAPARILLA,
and applying the iodide of potash lotion, as you
direct. The sore began to heal when we had given
the first bottle, and well when had finished
the second. The child's eyelashes, which had come
out, grew again, and he is now healthy and fair
as any other The whole neighborhood predicted
that the child must die'
Year: 1868




The attention which Mrs. Lincoln unfor-
tunately succeeded in attracting to herself
has led some people to speculate as to the po-
litical opinions Of the wife of our next Presi-
dent. A Washington letter-writer saws:


Its little singular, though account for
it satisfactorily to myself-but the pro-reb-
ell society here all insist that they have ev-
cry confidence in Grants good intentions
towards the South. My own theory is, that
given over as they are to believing a lie, they
neither desire nor have the capacity to under
stand character like General Grants A
reticent man who can talk "horse" or any
other commonplace topic, when he does not
agree with his interlocutor, is not under
stood by community one of whose chief
character stics is a blatant selEsufficiencv of
opinion.


They take it for granted that an officer of
the regular army must be socially in sympa-
thy with their views. Perhaps they have an
idea that they can reach the General through
Mrs. Grant, who they presume, without
knowing, to be in antagonism to northern
ideas, because her father was a stakeholder,
and she herself once owned three. l have
been assured that she is, on the contrary, a
hearty opponent of slavery, and has been for
years, giving her consent to the emancipation
OF the three who formed her marriage dover
before the war begun. There are three men,
bers OF the Dent family here-Mrs. Grants
father, now very old man; her brother, on
the stall OF her husband, a man not very
wise as a politician, and another brother from
Iowa, lawyer, who is reported to be a
strong Radical. He is a man of very genial
character, has resided in Kentucky believe,
and was driven out, or so prosecuted as to be
compelled to leave, on account of his opin-
ions and relations.


do not think the pro-rebels here have a
peg to hang hope upon, but there Is not the
slightest doubt that everywhere there are
among them many, otherwise intelligent,
who really think that Grant wants to be
dictator, and who, in their hatred of the Re
public, would be very willing to aid such an
unholy ambition, knowing exceedingly well
that in that event he was their creature, body
and soul.


They utterly ignore one most salient point
in the Generals career, and that is, that while
in the field he was never known to unneces-
sarly override single guarantee of personal
liberty or civil law. The first idea in Grants
career is patriotism; the second is subordina-
tion tie third, is respect for the law and the
civic duties of an American. How any one
who possesses these characteristics in prom
inent degree can be supposed to have the de-
sign OF making military despot of himself,
or be in sympathy with section and society
who carefully cultivate the very opposite to
the qualities l have named, passes my COM
prehenSiOn.
Year: 1868

HAVE PROVED, from the most ample experi-
cient, and Reliable They are the only Medicines
perfectly adapted TO popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them so harmless
as to be free from danger, and efficient be al
ways reliable They have raised the highest COM
ion.
Year: 1868

The recent formation OF National Associ0-
tiOn of Cotton Planters and Manufacturers,
consisting OF leading men in the planting as
well as in the manufacturing States, is step
toward uniting two interests which, though
mutually dependent upon each other, have
always acted in antagOnism. kIf our political
reconstruction could be accompanied by an


ndustrical reconstruction. so that the interests
of labor and capital at the North and South
could be blended in one National industrial
policy, great good would be done. The South
needs capital to restore its exhausted fields,
revive its PROSTATE credit, and give renewed
employment to its idle labOrers New-England
and the Central States have the capital,
and need fields for its safe and profitable


investment, just such as the South opens for
it. New England needs cotton. The South,
with little assistance, can furnish 1t in mex
haustible quantities. Nothing can be palmer
than that the interests of New-England and
the Central and Western States, as well as of
the South, require and demand the adoption
of some policy of mutual cooperation and assist
ance. BY such measures the United States would
soon supply the cotton product manufactured
for the world. Political reconstruction is now
substantially accomplished. The reOrganiza-
ton of the States on the basis of impartial
suffrage and loyal supremacy is complete, and
the formal readmission of the States will soon
follow Now is the time for industrial recon-
structiOn Under the new order OF things
Northern capital will be welcome at the South
Northern men will be in demand, and their
rights will be amply protected 1t only needs
vigorous and wise cooperation among the lead
ing capitalists of both sections to secure the
most timely aid to the industry of both. Let
the good work go on until business interests
and mutual dependence bind the North and
South more firmly together than ever before,
severing each section from the old commercial
intimacy with England which made us inde-
pendent of and hostile to each other Let our
alliances hereafter be at home instead of
abroad. Let there be free and abundant
commerce among our own people Then we
shall never again need bayonets to keep the
Union together.
Year: 1868

Our opinion is that the object of party should
be, especially at this crisis, to form more
"perfect union, establish justice, insure domes-
"tic tranquility, provide for the common
"defense, promote the general welfare, and
"secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
"and our posterity" When a party ceases to
seek these ends with single and honest pur-
pose it becomes a mere faction, and all Its
doiDgs are no more than private specuations
upon the necessities and difficulties OF the
Republic. If all the party to which we are
attached desires is success-i. O., place and
power and the perquisites thereOf-we beg to
be counted outn without unnecessary delay.
We want no share in the disaster which we
know to be inevitable.
Year: 1868

popular reaction against the Liberals, shows in
what spirit, and with what kind of weapons,
the defenders of the Establishment intend doing
battle. But this old cry has had its day; its
potency has departed; and although it may
have the effect Of provoking local disturbances,
in places where the influence of the Anglican
clergy is still paramount, it will utterly fail in
moving the great body of the people, whom it
will be found impossible to persuade into the
belief of anything so absurd as that men like
Gladstone, and Bright, and Stuart Mill, are in
league with the Pope to break down Protes-
tantism in England
Year: 1868

The Philadelphia Morning Post pays Senator Cameron
of Pennsylvania this deserved compliment:


Senator Cameron deserves this acknowledgment from
the Republican press that he has been thoroughly
sstent and earpeit throughout the Impeachment trial
He always voted the right side, always tried to
time TO prevent useless debate, to exclude irree
want testimony and to maintain the dignity of the Senate
Though Mr. Summers votes have sometimes been hard TO
understand Sumner and Cameron have stood side by side
IN all the great isses Of the trial. and have successfully
overued the efforts Of those Senators who to wish
to make the Court political debating club.
Year: 1868

We believe there is an officer of our City
(or County, known as the District Attorney,
and we hope he is aware that our late Legis
lature enacted law forbidding the publica-
ton of immoral advertisements. Presuming
that to be the case, we ask him to look at the
cards falsely Classed as Matrimoniar in GER
tain Sunday papers, whereby men shamelessly
advertise for mistresses and women for para
mours. Is it not somebody's business to bring
these advertisements to the knowledge OF O
Grand Jury
Year: 1868

hear from good authority that Gen Grant said this
morning that in his Judgment the President ought to
be removed. because the Government cannot go on
practically safely in Its present demorallzed condi-
tiOn. lNew-fork Times.


When The TRIBUNE made the above an
nouncement, The Times passionately denounced
it as falsehoOd We took no notice of the
denial knowing whereof we spoke, and not
recognizing the right of The Times either to
correct THE TRIBUNE or to speak for Gen.
Grant. We ask Judgment.
Year: 1868

The delegates to the National Republican
Convention at Chicago are already assembled
in considerable numbers, and, according to our
dispatches, the canvass for the ice-Presidency
nomination is very active, though nothing
definite can yet be known as to the result.
Our State delegation have made determined
stand for FpntOn.
Year: 1868

unless in pecuniary way, to secure this result.
is Chief Justice Chase. He decided the vote
of Mr. Van Wrinkle. He did his utmOst-hap-
pily in vain--to carry of Messrs Anthony and
Sprague. We doubt that Mr.. Henderson would
have voted AS he did but for the Chief Justices
exertions. Those exertions saved Andrew John
son from the verdict which we feel that he
has worked hard and successfully to deserve.


Well!


Mr.. Johnson remains in the White House.
The XIth was deliberately, and we doubt not
iudiciouslv selected as the Article that would
command most votes. This falling all fail.
There may be those who deem it wise and
well to admit Senators from the reconstructed
States and force verdict of Guilty by their
votes; but we cannot concur. 1t might have
been well to defer the Impeachment until
those States should be represented in the
Senate; but having initiated it, we think it
would not do to admit new Senators to vote
upon it after the testimony was taken and
the argument closed.


The Republicans who initiated and have sus-
tanned this prosecution have relieved them
selves from q grave responsibility For years,
Andrew johnson has been the terror of the
Southern loyalists and the chief obstacle to the
rapid progress 'of peaceful and loyal Recon
structon. Thousands have impatiently muir
mured-"Why is he not impeached and
"removedf 7" 1t was in vain that we urged
that this was big jOb-that it was likely to
fail if attempted and that such failure
would only increase his power for evil.
AT length he rashly struck the law and the
law makers blow in the mouth by his second
removal of Stanton and appointment of Lorenzo
Thomas to fill his place dd interim. 1t seemed
to most of us that this was a challenge that
mast be accepted, no matter with what result.
To vindicate and uphold the law may not
always prove practicable but nothing will ex-
cuse failure to try.


SO we have tried and not succeeded; but the
result is quite other than failure. The Repub-
lican party stands for ever relieved from all
responsibility for Mr.. JohnsOn's future mis-
deeds. Let him now wrest the command of
the Army from Gen. Grant-let him WELD the
Military as well as Civil power of the Govern
ment in the interest of Rebellion and Aris-
tocracy-let him obstruct to the utmost the
return of the Southern States, free and loyal, to
the councils OF the Republic-the country and
the world will hold us wholly blameless.
Messrs. Chase, Fessendcn & Co. have taken
the Old Man of the Sea upon their shoulders
we shall see how they bear up under the load I!
They have nine months ahead of snch respon-
sibilty as we do not covet-we shall be agree
ably disappointed if it does not break them
down


Thanks to Infinite Mercy, there is an ordeal
before us in which a concurrence of twO-thirds
is not required TO insure a righteous verdict.
Let Messrs. Chase, Fessenden & Co. take care
of their man johnson, while We organize
for and make certain tho joyful advent of
GRANT and VICTORY
Year: 1868

New-Jersey should feel especially proud of
Cattell and Frelinghuysen. Those who sup
posed that the latter gentleman would dis
honor his revered and illustrious name by
such practices rs have been proved on Fowler.
Trumbull and Ross did not know the man.
Year: 1868

kneir, days ago. that he would vote Not Guilty
if it should be necessary. No doubt, Mr.. Ross
has an explanation of his course ready; and we
are sure his most partial friend will agree
with us that it is badly needed.
Year: 1868

FASHIONS. FASHIONS always run gradu-
ally to extremes, and then return by degrees
to reason and moderation. If ladies' bonnets
became much smaller, they would have to
be put on with the aid of microscope and q
pair Of tweezers. But the reaction, happily.
has set In, and it is whispered in fashionable
circles that the loves of spring bonnets will
be few sizes larger than those now worn.
They viii 60 on increasing, until aftera while
we shall get back to the old style of coal
scuttie, which used to render it imperative
upon man to 20 down asiIk and bombaziue
lane to kiss a woman, and which made it i'm
possible for one woman to kiss another with
out ungearing. After that we shall probably
have the old gig-tops, which had to be
thrown back on springs before female
could look around. Let them come; lovely
woman is equally lovely in a soup dish with
strings, or an old fashioned poke
Year: 1868

The passionate, ill-natured man lives al
ways in stormy weather, even though it be
the quite of dew-fall around him: always
wronged, always hurt, always complaining of
some enemy. He has no conception that
his enemy is in his own bosom, iE the
sourness, the ungoverned irritability, the
habituaI illnature Of his own bad spirit and
character. speak not here Of some single
burst Of passion, into which man of amia-
BILE temper may, for once, be betrayed, butt
speak more especially of the angry charac-
ters, always brewing IN some tempest of
violated feeling They have great many
enemies, are uGaccountably ih-heated, and
cannot understand why it is. They have no
suspicion that they see and suffer bad things
because they are bad, that being illnatured
is about the same thing as receiving III
treatment, and that all the enemies they
suffer are snugly eloseted in their own evil
temper


The same is true of fretful persons-men
and woman that wear away fast and die,
because they have worried life completely
out Nothing goes right; husband, or wife,
or child, or customer, or sermon. They are
prieked or stung st every motion they make,
and wonder why 1t is that others are permit
ted to float along SO peacefully, and they
never suffered to have moment of peace il
their life is field of nettles to them, be
cause their fretfnl, worrying tempers are al
ways pricking out through the tender Skin
of their uneasiness. Why, if they were II
paradise, carrying their bad mind with them
they would fret at the good angels, and the
climate, and the eolors even Of roses.
Year: 1868

SELF-HELP is the best help in the world;
when once a man applies to it he will not
readily apply to any other help. A work
man, IL he devote himself to the special du-
ty Of making his home happy, and of i'm
proving bis condition, viii soon raise him
self above with demsgogues call the op-
pressed classes.
Year: 1868

DEsPIsE not little sins; they have ruined
many soul Despise not little duties; they
have been to many naughty spirits an ex-
eellent discipline Of humility. Despise not
little temptations; rightly met they have Of
ten nerved the character for some fiery
trial,
Year: 1868

To ne Editor Of The Tribune


SIR: In your report to-day of the Chase meeting in
my omitted from the list OF permanent Onee
Tn. adopted by the meeting framed and passed
.ner strong opposition from prominent who desired
another which accepted would have committed those whO attended
the meeting Democracy aud heeby de-
entirely the character Of the meeting Respectfully


wH HOWARD, Secretary
phu lana
Year: 1868

IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL NAVY.
BERLIN, June 15.-The North German Parliament
has passed the bill authorizing the Government to
raise loan, the proceeds of which to be applied
to the enlargement and improvement of the Federal
navy.
Year: 1868

CHICAGO, April 3.-This evenings
journal says: Reports from South
ern and Central Illinois are, almost
without exception, that the Winter
wheat passed through the cold weather
successfully, and promises an unpre-
cedented harvest. The farmers all
over the West are taking advantage
Of the unusually early opening of the
season to SOW their grain. If the
Summer will be anything like as favor
able for farmers as the Spring is, the
Northwest will astonlsh the world
with the extent of its crops this year.


The difficulty between the grain
shippers and vessel owners, in re-
gard to the question Of responsibility
for deficiencies on cargoes of grain,
is becoming more serious. At their
last meeting, the vessel men resolved
MOTTO take any cargOes Of grain under
the newly adopted bill of lading,
which required them to account for
the full amount of grain mentioned
in the bill. Shippers on the. other
hand stand firm, and insist on an ac-
ceptance of the new bill, and one
hundred and one of the principal COM
mission and shipping firms have
signed an agreement not to have no
dealings with vessel owners who will
not adoptft
Year: 1868

We know not the author of the fol,
lowing, but it is one Of the most beau.
tiful productions of the human mind
we have ever read "Nature will be re-.
ported. All things are engaged in
writing their own history. The plant
and the pebblego attended by their own
shadows. Tho rock leaves its scratches
on the mountain side, the river its bed
in the soil; the animal leaves its bone:
in the stratum, the fern and the leaf
their modest cpitaph in the coal. The
falling drop makes its sepulchrc in the
sand or stone; not Il footst9p in the
snow or along the ground, but prints
in characters more or less lasting, d
map of its march; every act of man in.
scribes it's memories on its follows and
his own face. The air is full of sound
the sky of tokens; the ground is al
memoranda, signatures. and every oh
ject is covered over with hints which
speak to the intelligent"
Year: 1868

"TAx unjustly bonds which have been
bought above par on the faith of the
declaration of the government that they
were exempt, and the holder does lose"
The Press should not put its steel into
CsBB, BUTLER, STEVENS & Co. That is
not kind.