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Year: 1865

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Agreeable to your request hasten tt
write to YOU. For your kind present
thank you with all the honest fervor of g
sailor; and shall keep them as re-
mcmbrance OF what the good and true
young ladies of New England are doing
for the men who have left home. friends
and all they hold dear, to put down this
unholy rebellion.


At all times it is gratifying to know that
some one thinks of YOU at homo but for
me that pleasure has long been denied. |
have neither friend nor home since my
dear mother died. But your present and
request have awakened the past and now
it will be source of pleasure on any mid
night watch, or battling with the elements,
to think that some one III New England,
who never saw, is working for, or per-
haps thinking of the sailor, who has moth
ing but the consciousness of doing his duty
to God and his country to cheer him thro'
life.


/. is but a few days since we were battl-
ing against the eartben Notifications OF
Fort Fisher, in which engagement our
ship took prominent part, and we hoped
to be able to offer Wilmington and its de-
fences as a New Years Crescent to the na-
ton. But fate ordered it otherwise, and
at stronghold is sill in the hands of the
enemy, through the want Of su4Sclent land
forces to take what we had eilenced.


However We are ready to attack it again
teXcuec the boast, the Navy is always
ready,) and resolved to capture it, or sink
alongside of it. If successfull will be
happy to send you an account of the battle,
and II possible, = trophy.


TIE boys are all grateful for The presents
sent them, and some of them, that have
been years from home, at the sight oI
home made mittcns, once more rccallcl
all tie never cr-to-be-lorgotten association ,
'ihe old homestead the school house. ant
play ground Of their Younger aud happier
days, came up in vivid imagination to tilcil
memories, and they forgot for 4 time that
some of then might never see them again,
and that at present they were on board q
man of war, ready to offer their lives at
any momeut.


During orr engagement we lost but one
man, and had wounded. hope we will
be as lucky next time. We attribute it to
the prayers of our friends at home, for We
have not mach time to pray ourselves.


Hoping that you will send moan ans
wer to this hastily written letter (if not
asking too much of my benefactor)


Believe NE to be


Respectfully your ob't sev't.


DANIEL S. NASH.
Year: 1865

man and hence their saying Of "A peck
Of March dust is worth kings ransom,"
as it indicates that dryness Of the earth
most suitable for the reception Of ssedA
The winds Of March are often very il
furious to growing crops, and hence the
old saying Of scr


'tNo weather Is i'll


If the wind bs still.n
Year: 1865

About the middle Of4April, q grand Concert
will be, given.in the Masonic Hall at this place,
in aid of the " Soldiers Home" Now, when eur
railroads are broken up, and we may constantly
expect way-worn Soldiers to be passing through
our town, is tho time wo doubly need q Soldiers
Home. The Ladies wish to enlarge their opera
1tions in connection with the I" Home" established
here last fall every body ought to help them
In helping them, they help the soldiers. The
Concert will be very varied in character-and yer;
attractive.
Year: 1865

Never buy cow Of dairyman, for If
he is good manager he will sell only
his poor animals.


20 determine which COWS are best for
keeping, try their milk separately and
weigh their butter-for sometimes cow
may give much milk and little butter,
and vice versa.


Cows should run dry six weeks before
calving-if MIXED closely toward calving,
the calves will be poorer.


A COW newly come in should not drink
cold water in cool weather, but moder-
ately warm slop. Calves intended for
raising should be taken from the cow
within few days, and they will be less
liable to suck when old Feed them first
with new milk for time. take care that
all changes are gradual, by adding only
portion first add gradually little meal.


Calves well fed and taken care of with
quart or two of meal daily in winter,
will double the size at two years they
would have attained by common treat
ment.


Heifers thus treated may come in at
two years old, and will be better than
neglected animals at three, and one year
Of feeding saved.


Hearty eaters are desirable for cows
and theymay usually be selected while
calves A dainty calf will be dainty COW.


Heifers should become accustomed to
be freely handled before drawing the
teats


They will then not be difficult to milk.
Begin gradually and never startle them.


In milking cows, divide the time as
nearly as practicable between morning
and evening, especially at the time of
early grass, that the udder may not suffer.


Persons who milk should keep the
nails Gu. short-animals are sometimes
hurt with sharp nails, and nnjustly
charged With restlessness.


Old COWS should be fatted at fifteen
years. The dairyman, therefore, who
has fifteen COWS, should raise hsifer calf
every year to supply the vacency-iftbe
herd is thirty cows, he should raise two
calves, and so forth.


Heifers dried up too early after calv-
ing will always run dry about the same
time in after years-therefore, be careful
to milk closely the first year. until about
six weeks before calving.


Spring COWS should come in while they
are yet fed on hay, and before they are
turned to grass, which will be more like
ly to prevent caked bag and milk fever.
--Annuol Register.
Year: 1865

A Sketch of the Republican Party.


Senator Hale, who knows whereof he
speaks, gives the following sketch of the
Republican party: r-


Let me say word now about our Rep
ublican party, or Union party. Mr.. Presi-
dent, the history of that party which has
controlled this country recently, do not
say 1t controls 1t now, but the history of
that party which made the great revolu-
tion In politics Is a very curious and a very
instructive one. We began when we were
but handful. recognize around me now
but very few faces that were familiar in
those early conflicts snd struggles.


HOW THAT PARTY HAS TAPERED.


We continued TO increase, and by and by
it begen to look as If this new party would,
at some time, have the lOaves and fishes of
Office to dispense. Then it seemed as if a
political pentecOst came on land. Converts
came faster than we could discipline them.
The doors of the party were wide open,
like the sanctuary of God, to all offenders,
and the thief and the hypocrite did not
stumble on its threshold, but in they came
and the proflgate in life, the venal in poll
tics, the the malignant at heart and the bru-
tai in manner, all came in with the great
multitude of the poor and the honest and
Iio uioluIcIcSIeu anu Ille pdLTlOU. ..


But, sir, when the apostles went fishing
and threw out their nets and made great
haul, they caught fish ofevery kind. So all
these people came in and we were great
party. 1t happened to us just as it happen
ed to great many before, and will happen
great many times again; the converts
that were the more recent and from the
most bitter of our opponents, were the most
noisy in professions of zeal for their new
found faith. l confess, Mr.. President, that
was astonished beyond measure when I
found out after weactually oamc Into pow
er, that all the officers at the other end Of
the avenue, in the treasury, the postoffice,
the war, and all the other departments, had
always been Republicans, and the great tri-
az of their life had been to smother their
deep convictions upon the subject of anti
slavery, and their great joy was that in the
providence of God time had come when
there was no obligation on them to be hyp-
critics any longer, but when they could act
with the party with which they had al
ways sympathized. Naughter)
Year: 1865

The following appears in a recent issue
of The Detroit Tribune: I


When the first call was made by the
President for three years troops, a young
man who resided in the interior of that
State volunteered his services. He had
young wife, who was, so far as the world
knew, an honest, upright, and faithful wo-
man, true to her husband, and was highly
respected by all who knew her. For a year
or so he corresponded regularly with his
wife, but unfortunately he was taken pris-
oner. His wife could hear no tidings of
him, which tended to increase her fears
that he had been killed. She waited pa
tiently for q long time, but gave up all
hopes of ever seeing him again.


She came to this city and put up at ho-
tel, the proprietor of which had buried a
loving wife about six weeks previously
He was rather elderly. She registered her
name as Miss. The proprietor, in his
innocence, yearned to make her his wife.
In due time the new wife was installed as
lady of the house-and she presided over
the hotel with the dignity of queen. She
won the confidence Of all who knew her
and better than all, made her new husband
happy. He reciprocated, and although it
is said that to outsiders the old gentleman
was neither attractive or pleasant, he loved
his young wife with fondness almost in
describable. .aa II


Not many days ago, a young man, slight
ly bronzed by Southern sun, dressed in
the grab of a soldier, manly in form, and
with an eye flashing fire, might have been
seen rushing into the--hOtel. Rush is
the word. He went in with single bound
and enquired for the proprietor. The man
whom he sought after stood before him.
The soldier, it is said, drew revolver, and
in laundering tones demanded to know
where his wife was. 1t is unnecessary to
repeat all the conversation that occurred;
suffice it to say, that mutual explanations
followed-the soldier was shown TO the TAM
lily rooms-the long-lost husband was rec
ognized by his (and the landlord's) wife
and there were bitter tears shed all around.
Matters being properly cleared up, the SOL
dier and his wife left on the first train for
Jackson. 'it HH


In narrating the above facts, we have
carefully excluded all names, for obvious
reasons. The story is true in every par
ticular. 49,
Year: 1865

Generation after generation" says a
fine writer, shave felt as we now feel, and
their lives were active as our own. They
passed like vapor, while nature wore the


same aspect of beauty as when her Creator
commanded her to be. The heavens shall
be brightover our graves as they now are
around her paths. The world will have the
same attractions for our offspring yet I'M
born, that she had once for us as children.
Yet little while and all will have hap
pened. The throbbing heart win be stifled,
and we shall be at rest. Our funeral will
find its way, and prayers will be said, and
then we shall be left alone in silence and
darkness for the worms. And it may be
for short time we shall be spoken OF, but
the things of life will creep in, and our
names will soon be forgotten. Days will
continue to move on, and laughter and
song will be heard in the room in which we
died; and the eyes that mourned for us will
be dried, and glisten again with Joy, and
even our children will cease to think, Of us,
and will not remember to lisp our names"
Year: 1865

lT1he attention of the public and the trade is


l. invited to our New SCALE OCTAVE
ROSEWOOD PIAN0-F0RTES, which for vol
ume aud purity of TINE are unrivaled by any
hitherto offered in this market. They contain
all the


MODERN IMPROVEMENTS!
Year: 1865

Now is the time for industry in the far


mer. Haying over, the bitches should b
dug, and the old ones cleaned out, and theil
contents hauled into the bsrnyard or on tc
the compost heap, The muck and pairing
from the roadside should be hauled now, ai
the Fall rains will make 1t worse digging
and hauling, and of course less profitable.
The bitches dug and muck hauled, the wall,
should be built, Tor il is much better hand.
ling the rocks now than after Jack Frost
has had hold of them. Then, when the
ground is dry and work OF other kinds docs
not thrive, is the time to haul sand or loan
upon your moss covered meadows. All
these meadows need is to be warmed up u
little Ditch them and cover them with n
coating OF sand or loan, and the moss and
wild grasses will leave them and in their
room the tame grasses will flourish. Then
this is the season for cutting the bushes in
the fields and by the roadside, in fact,
anyrhre. Cut them now, and they will
have little chance to sprout, and much less
in the spring. The sooner now that you
have your "burnt ground" cleared and
"got into rye" the better, though no great
time is us yet lost. II is better, however,
to he In season with this work. even il other
work is put OF till later season, for we
know Of no work more tedious than "gct-
ting ina crop Of rye" after cold weather
comes, upon" burnt ground" 1t is dirty,
tedious work at best, but in the cold wea-
ther of October and November it is awful


See to it, that II is done this month. 81.


Then now is the time for "breaking up
and hauling out the manure to the compost


heap. The weather Is cool and the oxen
can do the work better now than in the
Spring. Besides, the Spring plowing and
getting out the Winters manure, will take
much Of your time, and what can be done
in the Fall is better done and by far better to
be done.--N II. Farmer. Nur,H. .-
Year: 1865

SOMETHING OF DGsAPPOINTMENT.-
The Staunton indicator is responsible
for the following:


During the course of the war citizen
of Delaware saw and admired II damsel,
who had left the South, alienated from
her fathers roof OH account of her
Union" sentiments as she stated, said
father being wealthy resident of Stann-
ton. He sympathized with her in her
exile for opinions sake, and with the at
traction of money ahead, courted and
married her.


The war having ceased few days
since he arrived in Staunton and re-
paired TO the parental domicil to make
himself known as the son-in-law and to
get share of the fathers wealth (his
right in hand.


Reader, we leave you to imagine his
chagrin when he was informed that, in
stead of being the son-in-law, his wife
was Of negro extraction and had only
been the former servant of the gentle.
man, and that his experiment in the
marrying line had resulted in practical
miscegenation instead of fortune. He
left these parts suddenly, sadder but
doubtless wiser man.
Year: 1865

PIT HOLE, PA, August 2.--The we'll on
the farm on Pit Hole creek was destroyed
by fire about seven o'clock this morning.
The we'll was finished yesterday and was
flowing about 200 barrels. and no tanks
being up, the oil was allowed to flow on
the ground Some twenty persons were
standing in and around the derrick, some
of them it is feared were unable to escape
for the ground forty feet around was one
sheet of flame in moment. Three men
are known to be seriously injured, and
only saved their lives by jumping into
the creek. The we'll is still flowing and
burning
Year: 1865

The AssAssINs AND ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL SPEED.-It is said that Attorney
General Speed is preparing and will
shortly premulgate. an opinion as to the
legality of the trial by military COM
mission of the conspirators against the
lives of the President and Cabinet, in
which he sustains the Government in its
action urging in justification that at the
time of the commission of the deed we
were still at war with rebels against the
lawful authority of the Government,
and that the District of Columbia was,
and still is, under martial law, from the
fact that the order of 1861, issued just
after the battle of Bull Run, has never
been revoked.
Year: 1865

USEFUL SPrTE.-The New Orleans Pic
aynse says that ION account of the demor.
alization of negro labor in many parts of
the State the white population have Wig
orously and industriously taken hold Of
the work themselves, and are producing
some of the best crops now growing
The people are beginning to see that un-
der the new system Of African labor, or
rather want Of systen, no further depen-
denoe is to be put in that race, and they
have resolved to do their work them
selves" Nobody win be found object
ing to that. When thewhite mon in the
South go to work, The South will know
what real prosperity Il
Year: 1865

JUDGE WALKER AND GENERAL But
LER.-Judge Walker, q prominent resi-
dent of Louisiana, who before the war
conducted the Delta newspaper and for q
long time the Cincinnati Enquirer, was
one of the most active members of the
convention which passed the ordinance
of secession, for which he voted. Butler
on his arrival sent him to Fort Pickens
and afterwards banished him from the
city. which favors the Judge reciproca-
ted by writing up Butler's doings at his
leisure. The manuscript is nearly ready
for publication, has been in fact sent on
to New York where il made considerable
stir among the publishers, and will prob
Ably soon see the light.
Year: 1865

New YORK, August 3-Sherff Boyer
arrived in Brooklyn this morning, with
an official order from the Governor
committing the sentence of Michael Ken
nedy, who was to have been hanged to
morrow for the murder of John Raven
burgh, to imprisonment for life. The
prisoner will be conveyed to the State
Prison as soon as possible.


The Commercials Quebec special says
the funeral of Sir Etinne P. Tache, late
Prime Minister of Canada, took place
Yesterday, with impressive ceremonies
The appointment of new Premier ex-
cites great interest. There will probably
be a reconstruction Of the cabinet
Messrs. Cartier and Mcdonald are spoken
of for the position; also Mr.. Cauchon.
The appointment is likely to turn on the
question Of confederation. 1t is known
no effort will be spared to render the
cabinet unanimous and effective on this
mint
Year: 1865

NEW York, August Sat the meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows yes
terday, the proposition to consolidate the
Grand Lodges of Northern and Southern
New York was adopted.


An attempt was made to put in circu-
lation, last night, counterfeit SIS on Clark
j. Co.'S bank, of Pulaski
Year: 1865

New YORK August 3.-The Washing
ton Chronicle says the mysterious pris-
oner is a man named Fuller, who COM
mitted the frauds upon the Union Ma
tional Executive Committee during the
last campaign. The immediate cause OF
his arrest is not known.
Year: 1865

REBEL SENATOR FooTE.--This noted in


ldividual, who arrived in New Y ork last week


from kurope, publishes a card saying hat be


reported to zen. Dix on arrival, expecting to


be detained in custody until President Lin


lcoln should decide whether he could proceed


Ito Nashville or not. He says he has nothing


Ito complain Of in regard to the action Of the
Washington officials toward him, and that 1t
is for them to determine whether it be pru-
dent to allow an individual To visit the popu'
lous portions OF the South who has been at
one time member Of the confederate Congress
who has neither received nor asked for auy


special exercise of executive clemency in his


own favor and who has constantly avowed
his determination to share the general fate Of
his fellow citizens Of the South heretofore


Engaged IN this war, whatever that fate might
be- Still he comes back in the hope that, in
view Of the virtual termination OF the war,
! he may be permitted to return to Tennessee.
Year: 1865

We cannot comment on this horrible deed
Words give no relief the strongest men can find


it only in tears. The legal consequences are sim
'ple, the Constitution providing amply for the exi
fgency. This terrible event will avail nothing for
|oyerthrowing the Government, and nothing to the
rebels unless it be to abate something OF the too
generous confidence and kindness that President
Lincoln has been accustomed 10 extend TO them,
and which have time and again before exposed
him to assassination. Andrew johnson Of Ten
nessee is now President Of the United States
He is probably more radical than Mr.. Lincoln in
his hostility TO the rebellion, and to all the leading
men who have taken part in it. He has been


schooed, too, for four years in posts Of personal
danger His known hatred to the rebellion will
be an inducement for assassinating him also. and
his watchfulness may not prevent It. In that
event the President of the Senate Senator Foster
of Connecticut. will become President of the Uni


ted States and in the event OF his death the office


will fall to his successor in the chair OF the Senate,
or to the then Speaker Of the Housl. An extra


session Of Congress will undoubtedly be called
promptly, 70 elect Speaker.
Year: 1865

The Secretary Of the Treasury hopes 70 bs
able to pay OF promptly the GOyernmsnt In
dsbtsdnsss to the soldiers about TO be mus
tered out Of service. Notwithstanding the
large receipts from the sale Of the seven
thirty loan, the money they produce Is paid
out as rapidly as II comes into the Treasury
Year: 1865

THB guerrillAs have again become trouble
some in tho southern part Of South Carolina.
On the 27th ult. a party of them made their
appearances within Six miles of Charleston.
and tore up some railroad track Another
strong force Of national troops Is soon TO be
seue out through the State. Tho rebel ram
Columbia, sunk In Magnolia creek, has been
raised, and Is found to be not greatly injured.
She will be brought to the North,
Year: 1865

PERSONS THAT SHOULD NOT ATTEND
LECTURES OR CONCERTS.-As an appro-
pirate item for the occasion, we publish a
Joke that is going the rounds"


The man with creaking boots.


The woman with the cough.


The man who sees friend and desires
to sit beside him.


The man who insists upon procuring
a better seat for the ladies under his es-
cOrt


The woman who cannot refrain from
audible criticism on the looks of the lee
turer or singer.


The man who eats peanuts.


The man who is invariably ten minutes
late.
The young woman who goes invariably
| to see the fashions.


The man who invariably has to 90 out
five minutes before the termination of the
lecture or concert.


The man who continues to read hi:
evening paper during the performance


The tail woman who wears a liioh bon
net, and insists on sitting Immediately in
front OF short man.


The very young woman anxious to at.
tract attention from the opposite sex by
discoursing loudly with an acquaintance
Year: 1865

How Mr. SEwAEp DISCOVERED TIE
DEATH OF President LINCoLN.-Mr.
Seward had been kci't in ignorance OF the
attack on the President, hi physician
fearing the shock would be too great for
him 10 bear, and all newspapers Were
rigidly excluded from the room. On The
SUNDAY following his assassination the
Secretary had his bed wheeled around so
that he could see the tops of the trees in
the park opposite, Just putting ON their
Spring foliage, when his eye caught the
Stars and Stripes al half mast on the War
Department, on which he gazed awhile,
then turning TO hi> attendant said: The
President Is dead" The confused al
tendant stammcred and changed color rs
he tried 10 say nay. but the SagaciouS old
man said: If he had been a,iye, he
would have been the first 70 call on me
but he has not been here. nor has he Sent
TO know how | am. and there l. the fiag
at halt mast" The old StateSnanS in
ductive reason had told him the truth,
and he lay in silence, the great tears eours-
ing down his gashed checks as The dread
full truth sank into his mind.