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Year: 1864

Always speak pleasantly to COWS. When
ready to milk them, tie them up and put a
rail or bar across the stable, to keep them
from sleWing around or moving off from yon.
If you cannot sit down to milk, on account Of
their kicking, take up the fore foot on the
side you milk on, and tie it up, or let some
one hold it up-then sit close to the COW, on
a stool fifteen inches high, and with your
left leg and left arm you can keep her foot
out Of the pail, and she will soon stop kicking,
as she can not stand without one foot down
on that side. In this way, you can soon milk
her without taking up her foot-if her teats
grow close together on each side, always take
one teAt on the right side, and ono on the left
side, as pulling the skin I think sometimes
hurts them, and they will have the habit for
their lifetime, Of hosting up one foot three
or four times when you commence milking
them.


I have one that has been milked for five
years, that will hoist up her foot three or four
times when you first sit down to milk her, if
you milk her with both hands on either side
of her, but if take one on the right, and one
on the left, and milk 80, she will not hoist up
her foot three or four times, but will keep
both feet down when you milk. 1 have OBJ
served one had before that, whose tsats grew
close together on each side, that she would
hoist up one foot when milking, as long as she
was MIXED, if 1 MIXED with both hands on
one side at the same time. Try it.-[Cor.
Mass. Ploughman.
Year: 1864

Don't keep solitary parlor, into
which you go but once a month,
with your parSon or sewing society.
Hang round your walls pictures
which shall tell stories of mercy
hope, courage, faith and charity
Make your living room the house
Let the place be such that when
your boy has gone to distant lands
or even when, perhaps, he clings to
a single plank in the waters of the
wide ocean, the thought of the old
homestead shall come to him in his
desolation, bringing always light
hope and love. Have no dungeon
about your house-no room you new
or open-no blinds that are always
shut.
Year: 1864

The Democracy of New Hampshire entered
the recent campaign 10 that State full Of hope
and expectation. They framed a long resolu-
tionary indictment of the Administration, and
set forth the beauties of holiness according to
Democratic ideas, and the blessings of peace
according to Ben. Wood, in language that
would have been creditable to the Democra-
cy of Butler County. They made up the is
sue clearly and sharply, and with the full con-
sciousness Of the bearing the result would
have upon the Presidential campaign. The
consequence is that they have been annihilat-
ed, Gilmore beating them by 5000 majority
a very heavy gain, and the election Of the
whole Union ticket Commercial.
Year: 1864

so rich with Jewels hung that Night


Doth like an Ethiop bride appear.


How finely their inverted images are mir
rored iu the stAr-spangIed surface ofthe river
How musical the bugle's clarion call rings
out upon the bracing air of " incense breath
ing rn,"-how gently at dewy eve the
dying echoes of the cadenced tattoo melt
away in the distant valleys Such climate
and such a country, one would imagine ought
to produce superior race, an exalted type
OF manhood, .. ..


A combination and form, indeed,


Where every God seemed to set his seal


To Live the world assurance of a man.


But alas for earth's loveliness and mans
goodness, if the one were to be always judged
by the other. The noblest minds are moi
rocked into existence by summer zephyrs.-
The purest hearts are not matured Beneath
uncIouded skies. The men who stand fore
most in the advance of time and who think
and act for the rest of minkind, are not the
pampered pets of Luxury and Ease. They
have grarely come from the perennial bloom
of the equator. They are children Of the
harsher climes. The Northern nations have
always held the balance of intellectual and
physical power. They always will hold it.


These things are truer than they ought to be
OF the people who dwell in the delightful valley
of the Tennessee. Their lamentable condition
is not the result of the climate alone. Spite
OF that they might have been free, opulent and
happy. But they are oppressed, poor ant
miserable. They might have been refined
educated and intelligent. They are coarse
ignorant, and stupid. And why are they SO
| 1t is all summed up in one word, Slavery
They have been victimized by a monstrou
crime, that of human oppression. By it the.
have been brought to state of absolute bar
bsrism, aye more, have been led into a wicket
war for barbarism. That war has brough
them to poverty, shame and starvation. Blu
even this is not all. 1t is one Of the rares
things to find a man, iwonan or child among
them who can read or write. The dy
nasty of Austria and the autocracy of Russi
opens the door OF education to the humblesi
but the Oligarchy of Southern Slavery close
the door of knowledge against freemeu j
Gods own free land. The negroes wer
bondsmen born, but the white people OF th
South are verify slaves by consent.


There are scores Of destitute families in thi
Year: 1864

In these days of war and mourn
ing we have gayety and apparent
happiness, as if we were not near
or it may be at, the crisis of our ma
tion's life; and there are some peo
pie so swift that they get all theil
own work done, and have plenty oi
time to oversee that of others.


With families all spared to them
business prosperous, no fear OF
burned fences, stolen horses, or any
of the attendant evils of war on
ones own soil, they find a lack OF
something interesting, and so spec.
ulate as to the prospect of Mr..
Wantum's marrying Mrs. Yes-sir.-
No one need to be told that widows
are more numerous now than before
this war swept hundreds of hus-
bands into premature graves.


For every man who dies, there is
somewhere in the world one real
mourner; very often a large family
is bereaved. If sorrow killed then
would the victims of the rebellion
be doubled; but though woman's
heart bleeds, she does not die, and
to live requires such courage as is
only known to those who have pass
ed through the trial, and have gone
on with life's duties, alone.


Many young ladies have lost their
intended husbands since the first
call for soldiers thrilled every bo-
som in the North. Who will say
they do not suffer ? Who will say
they have not paid Him their sacri-
fee? l remember too well hearing
the sneering words, "There'n be
plenty of old maids after this war;"
Aye, old maids; and away down in
my heart burned the response, "let
it be to their enduring praise that
they withheld not their best be-
loved"


1t is recorded above, and yet
while we are in the world, words
will often prove cutting. Though
it is but trife, it gives dash of
pain to hear somebody say, "there
is Miss Cheerful; she talks ss lively
as ever; guess she would like to get
another beau" Take it TO yourself,
and just think how you would feel
to hear somebody speak SO of you.
Oh, shame on our tongues.


Woman is not the only sufferer
Men have their share; the talking
being equally divided between the
two sexes. Many a good wife dies
Does the husband bewail her with.
tears and groans-it is only strain
ed grief :" is he calm in his deep
sorrow, "he does not take it very
hard"


A good home is vacant, and 81
think likely he will soon marry. -
There are always stories ahoat of
which the author is "they say."-
Those deceitful, despicable words
must be invisible, for who has ever
found the genuine 'they say"


For the benefit of those who will
say what they think, too often with
out thinking what they do say, Of
fer this advice:


Remember that, however it may
appear to you, all women are not
anxious to marry. If some of them
do intend to marry, do not be alarm
cd if they smile and bow to you. It
is not very likely they would accept
you should you make them the offer.
Sensible women do not think of mar
rying every man they meet; they
are not SO easily suited. This rule
will apply to the other sex. I have
said enough. The greatest trouble
is, those who need this most do not
take any newspaper.
Year: 1864

The punishment of desertions as prescribed
in the bill of the Chairman Of the Military
Committee, and now pending in the Senate
disqualifes them from voting and holding
Office forever. Itproposes, however, to offer
an amnesty to the deserters now in Canada,
on the condition. Of returning again into the
service, with loss of pay for their absence.
Year: 1864

..- . WASHINGTON, Jan. l9.


Ny DEAR SIR 4: Your kind note is Just re-
eeived. As it has been so long on the way /
have telegraphed you that L will reply by
mail.


At the instance of many who think that the
public interest would be promoted by my
election to the Chief Magistracy, q committee
composed of Senators, Representatives and
citizens has been organized here to adopt
measures to promote that object. This COM
mittee through subcommittee has conferred
with me and have explained to them the OBJ
jections which seemed to me to exist against
any use of my name in that connection. They
have taken these objections into consideration
and assured me that they think ought not
refuse its use. l have consented to their
wishes, assuring them, however, that when
eve: any considerations by them OF by the
friends of our cause, thought entitled to
weight, should indicate the expediency of any
other course, no considerations of personal
delicacy towards me should be allowed to
prevent its being taken. --.H


If know my own heart desire nothing
so much as the suppression of the rebellion
and the establishment of Union. Order aud
prosperity on sure and safe foundations, and
I should despise myself if L felt capable of al
lowing any personal objects to influence me
to any action which would affect by one jot
or title, injuriously the accomplishment OF
those objects f; and it is a source of real graft
fcation to believe, that those who desire my
nomination desire it on public grounds alone,
and will not hesitate to act in any matter
which may concern me upon such grounds
and such grounds only.


OF course under these circumstances de.
sire the support Of Ohio. II, however, it
shall be the pleasure of majority of our
frieuds in Ohio to indicate preference for
another, shall accept their action with that
cheerful acquiescence which is due from me to
friends who have trusted and honored me be-
yond any claim or merit of mine,
Year: 1864

ORCANIzATIoN.-The democratic
party in this state has never been so
we'll and thoroughly organized, as it
has been during the past campaign.
In every portion of the State there


has been an unusual amount of that
quiet work which tells on the results
of an election. The Union party, on
the other hand, too confident in its
immense superiority in numbers, has
not been we'll organized. There has


been no lack Of meetings, large and


small, and in no campaign were meet
ings better attended or more enthusi-
astic, but these have never supplied
the place of organization and never
viii. we shall, in this respect, learn
a useful lesson from our opponents,
and profit by it in the next campaign.
Year: 1864

they supposed thata three months blockade
would starve every man, woman and child into


submission, and that an army of $4,000 men


would te sufficient to conquer and hold the en-


tire Southern region. We told them they would


want million of men, and spend thousands of


millions and yet only be upon the edge


of their fearful enterprise. Nearly two


millions OF men have been called for. and over


two thousand millions spent; anG who is there


having the slightest sagacity that does not know


that te-day the rebel armies are more defiant
and dangerous. than ever, and may protract the
war for years, to the utter and complete ruin Of
both sections. The public eredulity. however.
is still unbounded, and 1t will go on trusting and
being betrayed, as it has been for the last three
years, by set Of knaves whose only object is to
fatten upon the public plunder that such wars
engender, and to rise in the scale of wealth as
their oountry's honor and prosperity sinks
The day will come, however, when a betrayed
people will take AMPLE vengeance upon the
mock patriots who have deceived them to their
ruin. There never was q civil war that was
1ot followed by counter revolution, in which
ample atonement was demanded for the crimes,
md from the criminals that had engendered it.
These men may escape, being influenced by log.
cal conclusions; but, thank God, they cannot
oreyer escape the penalties Of their Infamous
rimes, and expressions; and that hour is near
r ts0n some may imagine.
Year: 1864

*s* ~ Admitting that our arms had
been attended with all the success which the
most sanguine advocates of the war have flats
tered the country with, had the South been dis
posed from their defeats and suffering to sue
for peace. what city Of refuge has been open
for them. what horns of the altar could they
take hold on and be saved What explicit
terms short of degradation and dishonor worse
than death, have been proposed to them r
What security, Gnnocent and guilty. that they
should not be treated as conquered people,an
subject to whatever yoke their naughty vietors
might please to impose upon them2 lt would
be madness to expect that men who had taken
up arms so defantly and struggled SO courage
ously as the South have done, should throw
them down and submit to their conquerors, es-
pecally when they had so little to hope and so


much to fear. The only hope can be, and this
now, to my mind, is the faintest possible, ID
change of system.


Reverse all these absurd snd pernicious meas
ures that for three years have characterized
Northern legislation fer if the confidence and
affection we have lost is ever to be regained, 1t
can only be by giving the South the most unde-
niable proofs that we wish not to Cypress them;
that we are willing to remove every ground OF
complaint, and to afford the amplest security for
the enjoyment of all their constitutional prlVll-
eyes in the future. l waive all questions OF au'
thority and right With nearly million of men
slain or rendered useless, with frightful debt
of thousands of millions increasing at the rate
of two millions q day, and national ruin and
bankruptcy, the inevitable consequences of this
dreadful war, peace, speedy peace, should be our
object, and to accomplish this, repeal of those
obnoxious legislative acts is demanded, which
are an insurmonntable bar to reconciliation, and
have lost US the confidence and good will of
those who might have been really kindly dispo-
sed towards Us in the South. What greater fol-
" can there be than to expect to force people
into a friendly union with you, to entrust their
rights once more into your hands, and submit
their property and lives to your Government by
desolatinS their country and spreading famine
aud death over our landY And what are the
Ilaures acquired in this destructive warfare T.
I'VE have subdued not their armies, but the


small remains Of their affection to the country,
then reverence for its laws,and their confidence
in itsgenerosity. Neither the men in power,or


the raese pensioners of the hour who now cows
ardly sustain them and their policy, ever at
tempt to reason from the analogies OF history
We told then at the outset of the impractica-
bility of their task, and we tell them again that
their failures il the future will be even more
stupendous than they have been in the past
Ignorans Of the astual resources OF the South,
Year: 1864

COMFORTING TO OLD MADs.-There is place
in New Hampshire where they never have any
old maids, When a girl reaches the age of
twenty, and is still unmarried, the young fell
lows club together and draw lots for her.
These who lose the chance, pay a bonus to the
one who gets her.
Year: 1864

THE EMPRESS EUaENIB.--The beautiful En-
press Eugene is said to be in the highest health.
1t is stated by prees correspondent that recent
ly she was on hunt in the forest of st. Cloud,
and brought down nineteen birds with her own
gun. The writer adds; ''She is possessed of
amazing powers of physical endurance
Year: 1864

CHEAP SoAP--Six pounds of potash, four
pounds Of lard, fourth of a pound Of rosin-beas
up the rosin- mix up all together we'll, and set
aside for five days, then put the whole into a
ten gallon cask of warm water, and stir twice a
day for ten days, at the expiration of which
time you will have one hundred pounds OF ex,
eellent soap. So
Year: 1864

Among the Seminole Indians there
is singular tradition regarding the
white man S origin and superiority
They say that when the Great Spirit
made the earth, he also made three men,
all of whom were fair complexioned !;
and that after making them, he led them
to the margin Of small lake, and bade
them leap in and wash. One obeyed,
and came out of the water purer and
whittier than before the second hesi-
tated moment. during which time the
water, agitated by the first, had become
muddied, and when he bathed he came
up copper color the third did not leap
until the water became black with mud
and he came out with its own color. Then
the Great Spirit laid before them three
packages, and out of pity for his misfor-
tune in color, gave the black man the
first choice. He took hold of each of
the packages, and having felt the weight
chose the heaviest the copper-colored
man then chose the next heaviest leav-
ing the white man the lightest. When
the packages were opened, the first was
found to contain spades, hoes. and all
the implements of labor the second en-
wrapped hunting, fishing, and warlike
apparatus the third gave white man
pens, ink, and paper-the engines Of
the mind and the real foundation Of the
white mans superiority.
Year: 1864

GIVING IN MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA
When the promise of marriage has been
given, the father summons his daugh-
ter, who comes, covered with linen
veil, into his presence, and. asking her
whether she be still minded to marry,
he takes up new rod, which has been
kept ready for the purpose, and strikes
his daughter once or twice, saying -
"Loi J my darling daughter, this is the
last time that shall admonish thee of
thy fathers authority, beneath whose
rule thou hath lived until now. Now
thou are free from me. Remember
that thou hast not so much escaped from
sway, as rather passed beneath that of
another. Shouldst thou behave not as
thou oughtest toward thy husband, he
in my stead shall admonish thee with
this rod With this, the father con
Guiding his speech, stretches at the same
time the whip to the Bridegroom, who
excusing himself briefly. according to
custom, says that he '.beieves he shall
have no need of this whip, but he is
bound to accept it and put it under his
belt like valuable present
Year: 1864

Never try to keep out Of any ones
way when you owe him anything It is
bad enough, in all conscience, to be in
debt, make your condition no worse by
growing mean under its pressure When
you cannot pay up at the appointed
time, don't make believe sick, don't
skulk about in one Of the way streets
to avoid meeting your creditors, don t
sneak around the first corner when you
catch sight Of him before he has seen
you. All such conduct is unmanly. No
doubt you feel averse to standing face to
face with man whom you owe-pay
day past and you the debtor still-it is
mortifying, very but it is only one of
the natural consequences of borrowing
and as you have incurred the penalty,
why meet it like man. Face your
creditor, let him know that you neither
forget the debt nor underrate his pa
tience with you. Say frankly that you
are very sorry to keep him SO long with
out his money, and that you will pay up
as fast and as soon as you possibly
can.


This is the only creditable way to
conduct yourself in the case. There is
no respect due to man or woman who,
feeling unable to meet their payments
at the proper time, instead of going at
once and explaining the reason why
they fail, and doing and saving all they
can to assure their creditors that they
mean no dishonesty, just sneak about
carefully, anxious to shun the creditors
sight.
Year: 1864

per cent interest, and may De success
fully redeemed by judgment creditors,
as long as any exist.


Lands sold On tie foreclosure of
mortgage in Court. if the mortgage was
executed since March 10Th, 1859, may
be redeemed within one year from the
day of sale, with ten per cent interest.


MoRTGAGEs-Any conveyance that
may appear to have been given as Sc
curity only, is considered mortgage.


Mortgages may be foreclosed either
BY advertisement or by complaint in the
State courts, in the nature of bill in
chancery.


In the United States Courts the prac-
tice is the same as in other States.


Recording an assignment of mort
gage is not deemed notice to the mort
gage.


Trust deeds for the security of money,
are not in use, and the equityof redemp-
ton can only be barred by foreclosure
according to law, and the expiration Of
Of the period Of redemption.


Mortgages may be discharged upon
the margin of the record, or by written
release executed with the same formali-
ties as the mortgage,


If the mortgage was made prior to
that date, there is no redemption, when
sold under decree Of court.
Upon foreclosure by advertisement of
mortgages containing power of sale, the
mortgagor may redeem within two years,
upon paying purchase money and ten
per cent.


Foreclosure by advertisement, how
ever, is seldom practiced.
MARRIED WoMEN-The real estate
of the wife is not subject to the disposal
of the husband, nor liable for his debts,
but is her sole and separate property, as
if she were single.


A married woman may receive by in
heritance, any gift; grant, devise or be-
quest, from any person other than her
husband; and hold to her separate use,
and convey her property and any inter
est therein, the same as if unmarried.
REDEMPTION FROM TAXEs-Lands
sold for the non payment Of taxes may
be redeemed within three years from
day Of sale, by paying the taxes and
twenty-five per cent. interest thereon.


At the expiration of three years, a
deed is issued to the holder of the GER
ti6cate, which is prima facie evidence Of
the regularity Of all proceedings, from
the assessment Of taxes to the execution
of the deed, inclusive. o'
LIMITATIoNs-Ac ctions for the recov-
cry Of lands must be brought within
twenty years after the plaintiff or those
under whom he claims, were seized OF
possessed Of the premises in question.
Adverse possession Of lan!s for ten
years, under some paper title, or Of
twenty years under some claim other
than any written instrument, gives per
feet title


Former owners Of lands sold for taxes
must commence suit against those in
possession under tax deed, for the pur.
pose of annulling<the deed, within foul
years after recording the deed, or they
are barred


| A claimant under tax deed of lands
in possession of others, must commence
suit for recovery of possession within
three years after the execution Of the
deed.


i LIEN.-Judgments are lein upon
all the real estate Of the debtor in the
county in which the judgment was rem
dercd, or in which, transcript Of the
judgment is filed.


Mechanics have lien for work and
labor done. or materials furnished.
Year: 1864

Tho following full list OF all the nominations made
up TO last evening" II win be noticed that good many
OF the candidates who figured list last week have
disappeared from the canvass and that rather moro
untedness noticeable n the councils OF tho parties
requested that General walbridse Is not


candidate for any office whatever at the approaching
Year: 1864

THE world is coming to an cad in 1865.
Prot Neumayer. of Munich, says SO. He adds
that a comet viii run against the earth and
absorb ii, as one drop Of mercury absorbs an
other Office seekers will be gratiied to learn
that the fusion of the earth and comet will not
take place till near The end Of he year SO that
they may have a little time left to profit by The
coming Presidential election ard The consequent
division Of spos.
Year: 1864

THERE are at present four hundred soldiers
at Camp Union, Sacramento The Union says
that, although many are being mustered out Of
service, the new recruits come in so fast that
the aggregate number increases daily. One
company will shortly be sent to MariPo-s.