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Year: 1867

sary for our national credit and to keep


our flag flying in the field the charges


of our enemies that men were being


drafted from their homes to free ne


groes and the denunci;tions against


the war as failure; but with the SIM


pie motto of 'our county," under the


lead of our noble President-would to


God he were living to-dsy-we won q
magnificent triumph. Applause. In


1866, when President Johnson turned
his back on the party which elected


him, traversed the country making
speeches to be resd by millions, de.
nouncing us, with but time honored


exception Applause, and cries Of


Stanton" with the whole power and
patronage of the Government thrown
in the scale of our enemies we appeal
ed again to the ballot box, winning the
most magnificent victory ever known
in our national history. Applause.


But this will be eclipsei by the COM
ing victory of 1865, when we shall place
in the office of government one who
will be faithful to liberty, justice and
loyalty. We ask no more, and will
accept no less, and the victory will be
swelled by the reconstructed votes of
the South. When they return, as they
will, ia accordance with the terms pre-
scribed in our legislation, they will re-
turn with magnificent msjorities for
the right Applause. They will
come back led rs they must be by
those. who have been faithful to the
Union in its darkest hours. They will
Join with us Of the North under the
inspiring influence of free labor and
free men in the inspiring march of
prosperity and power, and will join Us
in SO legislating that hereafter in this
noble land there shall be no man so
poor, so humble, so obscure that he
cannot look up to the American flag as
his unfailing protection, and with the
ballot which shall vindicats his rights
in his own right hsnd-lapplausel-
and the loyal men shall say Amen and
Amen. loud applause
Year: 1867

ginning to have them at dinner; this


applies especially to the Sherman House
where they are often to be had. The
demand for them is constantly increas-
ing, and so will the supply. A year
from now it will be said that the annu-
al consumption of frogs Is about SOO,-
900 and they will be quoted in our
commercial columns.-C Chicago RSpub-
Year: 1867

TNIE Little Rock and Fort Smith Packet


i Company, having been formed into a
joint stock association. as per agreement on
record in the Office Of G. NJ. Barnes, Notary
Public, at Little Rock, have now provided
suitable boats for high and low water, and
propose to transport freight, passengers, live
stock, and all other property at as low rates as
any other responsible party or parties.
the " Packet Company" at Little Rock, will be
forwarded from that point free Of all charges
whatever


With this statement of the intentions of the
company, we solicit your patronage hoping
by doing your business on the square to merit
the same march lS-tf
Year: 1867

During the night there is consider
able oxhalation from our bodies, and
at the same time we absorb large
quantity of the vapors of the surroun-
ding air. Two healthy young chill
dren sleeping together will give and
receive healthy cxhalations; but an
old, weak person near child will, in
exchange for health, only return weak
ness. a sick mother near her daugh-
ter communicates sickly cmanations
to her; if the mother has a cough Of
long duration, the daughter will at
some time also cough and suffer by it;
if the mother has pulmonary consump-
ton, it will be ultimately commune
Gated to her child. 1t is known that
the bed ola consumptive is power
full and sure source of contagion, as
well for men as for women, and the
more so for young persons. Parents
and friends ought to oppose as much as
is in their power the sleeping together
ofold and young persons, of the sick
and of the healthy. Another reason
ought to forbid every mother or nurse
keeping small children with them in
bed Notwithstanding the advice Of
prudence, no year passes that we do
not hear of a new involuntary infan-
ticide. A body full Of life, health and
vigor in the evening is found dead
the next morning, suffocated by itt
parents or nurse.
Year: 1867

The custom from time immemorial
seems to have been to pay woman
less than a man for doing the same
work. Doubtless this relic of other
ages arose from the fact that work as
signed to women in other times was of
less siilliul character than that of
men, because mechanical pursuits were
not so varied, and, with some few ex-
ceptions, are unfit avocations, on ac-
count of want of strength, for the
weaker sex. Scdentary employments,
lighter and better suited to their pow
ers, are fewer and probably not so
profitable, and in consequence we have
had foisted upon our better civiliza-
ton, and more varied demands for
labor, system evidently unjust and
partial, because the standards of COM
pcnsation in labor should be skill and
industry; partial, because it makes a
distinction for which there is no toun-
dation but that of false custom. 1t is
time we were standing out Of our own
light in this matter, else the time may
come, even in prosperous America,
when subsistence, not competence, will
be the only object attainable by men or
women; because gradually women
will be employed at the low rate of
compensation, and men will be obliged
to starve or work for the same remun-
Grafton. Another light in which we
may look at this matter, and an i'm
portant one, is its bad tendencies.
Morality demands that we shall not,
by our abominable sticking for the
customs of the past, force women to
resort to lives Of degradation, as we
are doing now, in order to escape from
the clutches of starvation. Justice,
interest and morality demand that the
skilled labor of women should receive
the same reward as that of men.
Year: 1867

Ripe and mellow apples fed careful
ly to cows, will produce an extra Sc
cretion of milk. Sweet apples are
doubtless preferable for this purpose
to sour; yet the latter, when not too
acid, are valuable feed, and should
be given in small quantities as long as
they can be preserved sound and free
from rot. To apply the produce Of
the orchard in this way is much moro
economical than to make it into cider,
which, as a beverage to be drunk COM
monty, either at meals or other times,
often produces very unpleasant conse-
quences, but rarely, if ever, docs much
good.-Cin. Enquirer.
Year: 1867

Many farmers are in the habit of
selling their hest animals, as they will
bring the highest price. A greater
mistake cannot be made. A difference
of ten, or even twenty per cent, in the
price of a single animal, is a small
affair compared with the difference of
a whole herd. By keeping the very
best to propagate from, the whole may
be made of equal excellence, and in
the course of a few years numerous
animals might bc produced, having the
excellent properties that now distin-
guish some few of the best.
Year: 1867

DANIEL WEBSTER was right when
he remarked of the press. "Small is
the sum required to patronize news
paper; amply rewarded its patron, I
care not how humble and unpretend-
ing the gazette he takes. It is next to
impossible to fll a printed sheet with
out putting into it something that il
worth the subscription price,
Year: 1867

The Democratic papers throughout
the North are rejoicing at the result of
the recent Kentucky election. This
is perfectly proper and anything else
would be unnatural. The reader will
readily understand this when he has
Year: 1867

A writer in the Prairie Farmer after Civ
ing the history ofthe various transformations
of the Apple tree borer, says:


Now, having followed him through his
changefnl life, and knowing something of his
habits, will give my plan of exterminating
him. will suppose that have young or
chard of any number of trees, say thousand;
the second season after planting, about the
last of July, or during the first half of August,
with common hoe, / take all the weeds and
other trash, and about an inch of soil. from
the crown of the trees; then, any time from
the first to the middle of September, with a
pocket-knife, examine carefully the stem of
each tree; the borer can readily be found by
the refuse thrown out of the hole made on en-
tering; this refuse of borer, of the same sea-
sons growth, will be about the size Ofa pea,
and, boin9 of a slusinous nature, sticks around
the mouth of the hole, and can readily be seen;
older ones throw out coarser chips that fall to
the ground. When one Is found, take the
knife and cut him out. If an orchard is care
fully examined in this way each year, there
need be but few, if any borers missed, and as
they are more easily found the second fall of
their growth, and can have done but little
damage at that time, we would never receive
any serious injury from them. Now it is no
great task to do this; man will clear the lit
ter and soil from around thousand trees, in
a day, and can take the borers out in another
day. will agree to do both jobs carefully in
one days time. A great undertaking, it not?
Year: 1867

maintain that his woodland, about fiftv acre,
IN all, though he had bought it and paid ior II
good round sum, some thirty years before
had IN reality never cost him q cent, "for "said
he, Il have cut wood enough to paw not only
the original outlay but to meet ali the worth OF
the money at compound interest, and TO cover
all charges, and now have more wood than /
found there in the beginning"


We are confident that at the present price of
timber and fuel the profits of woodland to New
England farmers are at least three times as
the profits of the land which they cultivate
with SO much labor. The experiment of plant
ing iocusts on Long Island has proved that
thn hnus S considered valueless before, may become
srha 1ue must precious possession of the owner -
Inousanus Oh acres now lying waste might with
VeIy snali outlay be made to yield very


The length of thetime that must mass bafnra
the prohts OF the artificial forests can he test
ed, undoubtedly deters many from nlanting
them. Very few men like to make an invest
ment OF which the returns begin to come only
after twenty or thirty years. But every man
knows that whatever raises the value of his
land is as sure profit as that which actually
puts Gosh in his pocket. There seems to be less
promise in an acre Of young locusts than
in an acre of thriving turnips; but in
twenty years the value Of all the annual tur-
nips will not begin to reach the value of the
trees. The longer the planter is willing to
wait, the greater will be his ratio of gain.
Year: 1867

Isit fact that cattle or sheep in pastures
enrich the grounds? Do they leave on or in
the soil any thing more than they cropped
from it? and if those crops had been turned
in, instead of being devoured by the animals,
would not the soil be as much enriched there
by, as by the droppings from their bodiesP-
Prot. Nesbit says:


Some farmers have notion-I have found
it general-that sheep and other animals have
the power of imparting something to the veg
etable growth, so as to convert it into manure.
This is great mistake. Whether the vegeta-
BILE matter passes through the body of the ami
mails, or goes at once into the soil, if you can
insure regular decomposition the effect may be
the same.


Prof N. is not alone in this. English farm
ers have come to the conclusion, that there Is
not only no real advantage in feeding crops
to cattle with view to securing their man
ure, but positive detriment. A writer says:


Take the case of crop of turnips Suppose
you have two pieces of land, each 20 tons per
acre, and in the one instance you cut up the
turnips and spread them ON the land, and in
the other feed off with sheep and then plough
the whole and sow it with barley. / maintain
tina you would have a much larger crop OF
barley where you did not feed the sheep than
where you did; that where the turnips were by
themselves, cut up and ploughed into the land,
you would have much mora nutriment adapt
ed for the succeeding plant than where you
fed the sheep upon it; because, while you feed
the sheep, it wants something to supply the
natural waste of the body, and to increase its
bulk, and after these are supplied by the tur-
nips, the sheep leaves ON the soil smaller
quantity of vegetable matter to serve as
manure than was contained in that upon
which they originally fed


Whence can sheep derive manure except
from its food? 1t has no power of deriving it
from any other source, because the animal is
only consumer-it does not impart anything.
Therefore, feeding is only waste, unless you
realize benefit in regard to your stock, which
l am happy to find you ali doing. 1 have
known the time when turnips were so abun-
dant that there were not sheep enough 30 feed
them off; and when they were ploughed into
the land, it produced better crops of barley in
consequence.


These views are endorsed by Mr.. Love,
John Deikley, Thomas Hawkins and others,
and good cultivatOrs are coming to the conclu-
sion that green manuring is the basis of the
best system of enrching the soil.
Year: 1867

A LIGHT AssAULT.-A person was convict
ed In the Court OF Quarter Sessions of Phila-
delphia on Wednesday OF an as 7ault and bat
terry upon lady committed under novel cir.
cumstances. The accused had a mirror,
which bsiHg turned with the strong reflection
of the sun upon the face Of the lady at some
distance, who was looking out of a window,
thereby caused her plin by the effec, of the
suns rays upon her eyes. No blow was
struck, end the action OF the defendant was
probably not eaus' by anger. Nevertheless,
the jury found the defendant guilty Of an
assault and battery, upon the theory that any,
thing that capses pein may Re q battery. We
SUPP ose that the attention OF the Court will be
directed to the cesa upon motion tor a new
trial, and 1t Will be nice question to decide
whether such offence is really an assault
ano battery, according to the usual definitions
OF those misdemeanors.
Year: 1867

A MAN FOUND DEAD ON Tor OF A SLEEPING
CAR.-On the arrival at Concord, N H., of
the half pest o'clock train from Boston,
Thursday evening, the body of a man was
discovered on top of a 81, eping car. his head
bruised and bloody. and his nc ok broken.
Nothing is Fnown as to who he is. or how he
came there, no papers being found on his
person He had coupon ticket to Concord
and a smell amount of money In his D ocket
He was evidently an Irish laborer. and was
about 50 wears of age
Year: 1867

A nice little story is told of
Gen. Washington, which will be
fresh to many of our readers, and
will embalm him in the memory
of all good wives as a model hus-
band:


The General-says the biogra-
pher-and his wife lived happi-
ly together; but it is evident that
like most heiresses, she was a lit
tie exacting, and it is highly pro-
bable that the great Washington
was sometimes favored with a
curtain lecture. The celebrated
authoress, Miss Bremen, relates
that a gentleman once slept at
Mount Vernon, in the room next
to that occupied by the master
and mistress of the mansion, and
when all the inmates were in bed,
and the house was still, he over
heard, through the thin partition,
the voice of Mrs. Washington
He could not but listen, and it
was a curtain lecture which she
was giving her lord. He had done
something during the day which
she thought ought to have been
done differently, and she was
giving him her opinions in some
what animated and quite decided
tones. The great man listened in
silence till she had done, and then
without a remark upon the sub
ject in hand, said:


"Now, good sleep to you, my
dear"


1t is plain that the General
believed that it takes two to
make a quarrel
Year: 1867

The tribe of the Mintoh Utes,
with whom the treaty was made,
is small remnant of few hun
dred of what only a few years age
was a powerful tribe. Contact
with the Mormons and Mormon
-four has nearly destroyed the
tribe. The idea advanced by
Brigham Young that a sack Of
-four will kill more Indians than
a keg of powder, seems to be cor
rect, at least so far as as the ex-
perience Of the tribe aboGt Salt
Lake goes. A wild Indian lives
on lean meat alone, without salt,
and SO long as he has to depend
on what he can kill, he is healthy,
and though the tribe may not in
crease in number, yet they hold
their own. But make a treaty
with them, and pay them, as the
Government does, in salt, bacon,
sugar and -four, and the Indian
becomes lazy and a beggar, while
the change of food brings with it
diseases which were unknown to
the Indian before, and which,
with the diseases that he gets
from contact with the whites,
soon finish off his mortal career.
Keep an Indian with his family
among the settlements, and the
chances are that in three years
there will not be one left.
Year: 1867

A COOP REPLY.-Lord Bolin-
broke once asked Lady Huntingdon
how she reconciled prayer to God
for particular blessings with abso-
Lutte resignation to the Divine will.
"Very easy" said her ladyship;-
'Just as if were to offer peti-
ton to monarch Of whose kind
ness and wisdom | have the high
est opinion. In such a cese my
language should be, | wish you to
bestow on me such a favor; but
your Majesty knows better than
l how far it would be agreeable to
you, or right in itself to grant my
desire. | therefore content my
self with humbly presenting my
petition, and leave the event of it
entirely to you
Year: 1867

Advertising, says an exchange,
is indicative Of liberal and gen.
erous spirit. We state it as fact,
without fear of contradiction,
that the business men who adver-
tise most literally, are by far the
most liberal-hearted and generous
hearted people among US. Take,
for example, our own advertising
columns, and test the truth of
the remark, by visiting the houses
that are therein represented, and
mark our prediction, nine cases
out of ten, you will ascertain that
your purchases can be made, or
your business transacted on much
fairer terms than if you had con-
tributed your patronage to those
who are too economical and par
simonious to advertise, and are
utterly devoid of that high-toned
public spirit which ever patron
ICES the country press. We are
confident our assertion is correct.
We trust our country readers will
carefully peruse our advertising
columns and give those merchants
who advertise their patronage.
We will guarantee you will save
five times the amount of your
subscription to the paper if you
deal altogether with merchants
who advertise.-Athe1as Post.
Year: 1867

MORE PLAIN TALK.-The Baton
Rouge Adoocate says:


The Southern people have a
mania for importing. With any
quantity of cattle, they buy but
ter from the North. The finest Of
grass decay beneath their feet, and
they compete with one another
for Northern hay. The hides Of
the cattle they kill must be sent
North to be made into shoes to be
returned to us, and now our cat
tie are being bought up and taken
North by the boat load to fatten-
ed for the Southern markets. In
nearly everything, we are depen-
dent upon them, and the first blow
for independence in the fine arts
and industrial affairs must bestruck
by becoming independent OF their
press. The New Orleans leading
journals are superior to any first
class New York paper, yet there
is no doubt but that the aggregate
circulation of the journals of
the latter city is far greater in the
South than those of New Orleans.
AS fer the country press theirs is
often indeed a hard road to travel.
Year: 1867

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Two little pairs of boots, tonight


Before the fire are drying,
Two little pairs of tired feet


In a trundle bed are lying,
The tracks they left upon the floor


Makes me feel much like sighing.
Those little boots with copper toes!


They run the livelong day!
And oftentimes l almost wish


That they were miles away;
So tired am to hear so oft


Their heavy tramp at play.
They walk about the new-ploughed ground
Where mud in plenty lies;
They roll it up in marbles round
And bake it into pies;
And then at night upon the floor
In every shape it dries.
To-day I was disposed to scold;


But when see tonight
Those little boots before the fire,


With copper toes SO bright,
/ think how sad my heart would be
To put them out Of sight.
For, in truth, up stairs I've laid


Two socks of white and blue;
If called to put those boots away,
o, God, what should 1 do?
l mourn that there are not tonight
Three pairs instead of two.
mourn, because thought how nice
My neighbor ''eross the way"
Gould keep her carpet all the year
From getting worn or gray;
Yet, well know she'd smile to own
Some little boots to-day
We, mothers, weary get and worn
Over our load of care;
But how we speak of little ones.
Let each of US beware;
For what would our fire sides be tonight
If no little boots were there?
Year: 1867

There is profound wisdom in the
saying of an English farmer, that
he fed his land before it was hun
CRY, rested it before it was weary,
and weeded it before It was foul.
Seldom has so much agricultural
sense been condensed IN a single
sentence. ,-
Year: 1867

PORTRAIT OF BEAST BUTLER
Somebody has sent the La Crosse
Democrat a picture of Ben. But
Ter, representing him on horse
back with his plumber. The edi-
tor says the eyes of the horse fair
ly start from their sockets with
his load of plate and sin, and
that the artist has given Ben. a
youthful air and a sanctimonious
expression, such as a bloodhound
of Zion" might wear when on the
way to seduce a sister from the
paths of virtue, or a New England
philanthropist after receiving q
nlerited cudgeling.
Year: 1867

A wretch in New Haven, Conn,
a few days ago threw pepper into
the eyes of adrunken man, max
ing him almost crazy with pain,
and completely binding him. The
application Of cold water, however,
in a short time partially relieved
him.
Year: 1867

And for the special pleasure and profit OF the
young. each week We will give general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall ind
its way into our columns unfit for the perusal
the mothers and daughters Of the land. Depre-
eating the demorslising sensationalism Of many
contemporary journals, We shall eschew that
character: striving to sive the reader substantial
matter. preferriug to be useful rather than


ensational
Year: 1867

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ,TAsH-
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UNIoE AND DISPATCH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hithe
10 unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNRsS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare favorably iLh


best in the entire country; and in saying


we only repeat the expressions of many


patrons, who are most capable Of Judging in


matters.
Year: 1867

House will look to the protection of the
general iufenest while duly encouraging
individual enterprise. In conclusion, the
hope was expressed that the new dominion
would soon extend across the continent
from ocean TO ocean.
Year: 1867

was recently reported by the astronomers. Whist
of that Who cares for an orb myriads of miles
away. Meanwhile. the whole country is


IN A BLAZE
of excitement at the wonderful effect produced
during the past year upon tens of thousands OF


HUMAN SPHERES
by that euencher Of fiery hair, that transformer
of gray hair. that swift beautiher of hnir of ev-
ery unpleasant shade of color
Year: 1867

The undersigned has purchased what is known
as the Cobb & Whistler Store, opposite Court
Square, where he will be happy to see the public
generally and exhibit his great variety of new and
second hand articles, too great TO mention in de-
tail Call and see his museum of all sorts of
things. IF you want anything go to Job Ross,
and you viii b 'Oretty to find it.