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Year: 1864

Resolved. Thst the future, in the past will
adhere with answering fidelity TO the Union under the
Constitution the only solid foundation Of our 9Th,
security and happiness as people and asa Framework
equally conducive TO the welfare and pros
pery Of all the States, both Northern and Southern.


Resolved That this Convention does explicitly declare


the people that after four
Of failure to restore the Uion by the experiment Of war;
during which under the pretense Of military necessity
war power higher than the Constitution the Constitution
itself has dsregardcd IN every part and public b
erty and private right alike trodden down, and the ate
humanity liberty and the public welfare demand that
imtnediste efforts be made for cessation OF hostes
with view to an ultimate convention Of the States, or
other peaceabe means. 70 the end that at the earliest
practicable pesce may be restored the basis
Of the Federal Union OF the States.


Resolved That the direct interference 81 the military
authorities Of the United States IN the recent elections
held In Kentucy Maryland, Missouri and Delaware


shameful violation Of the aud repetition
OF such in the approaching election will be hid
revolutionary and resisted WITH all the means and power
under control.


party istc preserve the Federal Union and the rights OF
the States unmpsired and tey hereby declare that they
consider that the administrative usrpaton Of extrsordi
nary aud dangerous powers not granted by the Contn
ton, the ubverson OF the civil by military law In States
in nsurrccon the arbitrary military mpris-
onment trial and Of American citizens In states
where civil Law exists in full force. The suppression Of


freedom OF speech and OF the press the denial OF the


right OF asylum the open and aowed disregard Of State
rights the employment Of unusual test oaihs and the
Interference with and denial of the right Of the peep
their defense; calculated prevent
rcstorat Of the Union and the perpetuation o the
Government deriving its just powers from the Of
the governed


Resolved That the shsmeful disregard Of the Admins
tration It, duty In respect fellow .Iens wi o
are md long have been, prisoners OF in suf
forng condition, deserves the reprobaon
the alike Of public policy and common humanity.


Resolved That the sympathy Of the Democratic party
il hear y and earnestly extended to the Sodiery OF
army and sailors OF navy Who and have been IN
The field and the under the flag of their country
and IN the Of its attaining power they wi receive
ali the care, protection and regard that the brave sol
ard sailors of The republic have noby earned
Year: 1864

Among the speakers who labored with such
good results in New Hampshire during the late
election campaign, none were more effective
than Ex-Governor Randall, First Assistant
Postmaster General. He is one Of the best
stump speakers in the couutry, and We are
glad TO learn that the Union cause in Connec-
ticut Is to have the aid Of his valuable services


He leaves for that field this afternoon, and viii
make a speech In New Haven Tuesday evening.
Year: 1864

A BLIND PRINTER-The editor Of the
Newcastle Banner says he found curl
osity in printing office at Gosport.-
One of the gentlemen connected with
the establishment is blind man, and
sets up type remarkably well. He is
the first blind printer we ever came
across. He stated to us that his aver
age days work was 5000 ems, and that
on several occasions he set from 1000 to
9000 His letter is distributed for him,
and his copy read by his partner, his
memory being so perfect he can retain
from four to six lines when this is fin
ished he cries the last word "set," when
another sentence is read, and thus con-
tinues on during the day.
Year: 1864

PASSES TO THE FRoNT.--The applica-
tions for passes over the railroad to
Nashville grow more numerous every
day. During business hours the Office
is crowded, and many applicants think
that all they have to do to obtain pass
is simply to make request for one
Gen Sherman's orders are very strict,
and Col. Farleigh is instructed to grant
no passes to non-residents to visit Nash
vile, except mon the best of recon-
mendations, and then in extreme cases
Parties living at a distance seem to have
no knowledge Of this fact, and the office
is daily besieged by large number who
have no vouchers and no business of
special Importance over the road. This
is a great annoyance to the officers, and,
generality heavy expense to the indi-
viduals. Much trouble would be saved
if the fact was generally known that
the loyalty of all applicants for passes
over the road must be endorsed by re-
spolsible parties also that full and
clear statement of their object in visit
ing Nashville must be given. We repeat,
that passes will be granted to none who
have not urgent and important business
to call them to Nashville. - Louisville
| Journal.
Year: 1864

NOTICE-As there is 4 growing pref
erence for whole sheet weekly among
our county subscribers, the semi-weekly
half sheet publication of this paper will
cease with this No. Next Friday, there
fore, We expect 70 resume our weekly Is
sue. Should news OF much importance
reach Us in the fore part of a week, We
shall inform cur readers of il by slips
sent 10 the post Offices in the county
Year: 1864

THE DRArr.-Every district should
promptly attend to having those who are
enrolled and Who are not liable to military
duty, stricken fom the enrolment. The
larger the enrolment the larger will be
the quota, consequently where exenpss
are allowed to remain on the list, the dis
trics will have to furnish that proportion
Of increase in the draft.
Year: 1864

FretfuIness is a great lender of mis-
cry. 1t begins its loans to very
young borrowers; and there is great
danger that if its debtors draw on it
early they will become sad spendthrifts
Of misery, and scarcely ever be able
to free themselves from the clutches
Of their hard task and creditor There
is nothing more successful in making
people unnecessarily miserable than a
fretful, discontented spirit. 1t works
i'll in two ways; it causes its victims to
think bally of themselves, and (what
is worse) to think bad Y of other peO-
pie, too. Fretfulness and peevishness
are very much under our own control.
Men can choose to what extent they
will permit circumstances to have in
tiuence over them, and the character
of that influence. An eccentric per-
son. of the JOhnsonian school, has
made a sort of fable on this subject.
He maintains that all kinds of wealth
er may be made charming to a man if
he so will; that if he will 60 out in the
rain, without any defence, and pre-
tend to know nothing about the show
ers, the rain will cease for him, each
drop exclaiming 1T is no use raining
upon that man, he does not mind it
There is a moral to that fable; ard we
may be sure that if, instead of allow
ing every slight incident in personal,
social or family life to ruffle our tenn
pers and make us wretched, we were
determined to regard fewer of them
the wear and tear of life would be
much less, and days and hours would
pass more pleasantly. In every house
every day there are trivial circumstan-
ces which, if dwelt upon, will cause
trouble for long time, but which are
so small that they should never be no.
ticed Said Cervantes, Hast thou a
! mind to quarrel with thy wife? Bid
4 her bring water to thee in the sun
shine: very fair quarrel may be about
notes in the clearest water Yes !;
! great misery--all borrowed, none of it
necessary-is brought to families by
the fretful, captious, querrulous scold-
ings that occur every day ; by the RI
diculous, prosecuting, vexing, vixenish


notice taken of paltry things at home.


Fathers and mothers! i! brothers and


sisters. if our homes are to be happy,


Joyous places, hunt out mere tretful-


ness, and make the love borne by one


to the other as considerate to mutual


happiness as is the courtesy that ls


paid by and to strangers.
Year: 1864

The very best time in all the seasons to
cut noxious weeds-the time when it will
injure them most-is when the pauicles,
heads, or buds, begin to form. If tory
weeds, horse dock and Canada thistles be
moved close at that stage of their growth,
it will hurt them so severely that they will
not recover until late iu the summer. And,
if they be cut again as soon as they form
seed buds, they will be feeble and will not
prick much the next season.


Bull thistles, which occupy large share
of the ground in pastures, should be cut
off with sharp, broad hoes, about two
inches below the surface of the soil, Then
the water will fill the depression made with
the hoe, aud soak into the roots and destroy
them.


If they are moved off, they will continue
to grow, and go to seed. They will -four
ish, it is true only this year, as they are
biennials. But the object is to prevent
their seeding, and to raise good grass where
they would grow.
Year: 1864

Let us cast our eyes up to the armament,
where the rich handiwork of God presents
itself to our sight, and ask ourselves some
such questions as these:


What power built over our heads this
vast magnificent arch, and spread out the
heavens like curtain? Who garnished
these heavens with such variety of shin.
ing objects, Il thousand and ten thousand
tines ten thousand different stars, new
suns, new moons, new worlds, in compari
son with which this earth of ours is but
pOinb all regular in their motion, and
swimming in their liquid ether? Who
painted the Clouds with such variety of
colOrs, and in such diversity of shades
aud figures as is not in the power of the
finest pencil to emulate? Who formed
the sun of such a determnate size, and
placed it at such convenient distance, as
not to annoy, but only TO refresh US, and
nourlsh the ground with its kindly warmth
Ii 1t were larger, it would set the earth on
fire ii less, it would leave it frozen if it
were under us, we should be scorched to
death II further from US we should not be
HSAC ~ IlFC iOi IuC MdDG vi meat. W iO
then hath made 1t so cOmmodious a taber
nacle, Il speak with the Scriptures and ac
cordIngly to the common notion out of
which 1t cOmeth forth every morning, like
bridegroom out Of his chamber, and re
JOlceth like giant to run its course For
so many ages past it never failed rising at
Its appointed time, nor once missed send
ba -, e. Il,
Butsat whose voice does it arise, and by
whose hand is il directed in its diurnal
and annual course; give to lis the blessed
vicissitudes of day and night, and the reg
ular SUGGESTIONS OF different seasons


That it should always proceed in the
same straight path, and never once be
known to step aside; that it should turn
ut a certain determinate point, and not 90
forward in a space where there is nothing
to obstruct it that ii should traverse the
same path back again, IN the same constant
aud regular pace, to bring on the seasons
hy gradual advances that the moon should
supply the office of the sun, at set times
to illuminate the air and give vicarious
light when its brother is gone 10 carry the
day into another hemisphere; that it should
procure or at least regulate. the fuxes or
refuxes of the sea, whereby the water is
kept In constant motion, and so preserved
from putretactlon, and accommodated to
mans manifold convenences, besides the
business Of fishing and the use of naviga
tlon in word, that the rest of the planets,
and all the innumerable host of heavenly
bodies, should perform their course and
revolutions with so much certainty and ex
actness as meyer to fail, but for almost
these six thousand years, come constantly
to the same period, in the hundreth part
| Of a minutes clear aud incontestible
proof of Divine Architect, and of that
counsel and wisdom wheiewith He rules
! and directs the universe.
Year: 1864

Out Door Etjquette.-A gentleman
m eting lady should always take the,
right of the walk.


/ gentleman meeting another should al
ways pass to the right.


A lady, as general rule, should not
take gentleman's S arm in the day time.


However, it is not improper when the
walk is thronged with passengers.


A gentleman meeting or passing gen.
tleman and lady should pass on the gentle
mans side.


A gentleman should never fail to salute
a lady of his acquaintance when within a
proper distance; unless she wears veil, in
which case it would be highly uncivii to
recognize her.
Year: 1864

A Smart Wom0n-A preacher not
long since asking to stay at night at
country house was forbidden by the lady.
Knowing her to be a member of the church
and generally pleased to entertain minis
ters, he began to quote Paul to her, hoping
that she would understand by this that he
was preacher. He hardly got out, for
thereby some have entertained angels un-
awaresa when she said:


4 Know sir, but angels would not come
with quids of tobacco stuck into their
mouths The preacher left without any
further ceremony!
Year: 1864

Singular Accidental young man
named Durkee, at work in soap stone
factory in Perkinsville, Vt, went into the
wheel pit few days since, to tighten some
nuts, and while there was caught by the
coat sleeve upon q two inch horizontal
shaft, and after being carried around the
shaft fifteen or twenty times with fearful
velocity, was thrown into the inside of
large breast wheel, where he was left
in perfect state of nudity. Strange as
it may appear hardly scratch could be
found upon him, though he tainted, hav-
ing become perfectly exhausted.
Year: 1864

Call out all hands-boys and girls too
on wet day, and they may all be cut in
few hours.


Let horseGock be served in the same
manner in pasture fields. When it grows
among grain let it be pulled and placed in
large heaps.


Pull wild mustard and winter cress out
Of oats and other grain.
Year: 1864

The AUSTRALIAN AAeAPoDEs.-In the
natural history of the whole class Of ares
there is nothing more remarkable than the
mode of reproduction of the Magapodes,
to which the talegalla, or, as the Austria
lians call it, the brush turkey, belongs.
Instead Of Matching their eggs by the or
binary method of incubation, in nest,
these birds construct mound of leaves.
grass, moss, or other materials capable of
generating and retaining heat, in which
the eggs are carefully buried, and care
fully watched by the parents until the
young are matured, and issue forth from
this novel Matching machine, stout strong
and so fully feathered as to be capable of
fight on the second or third day Of their
existence. The male bird constructs the
mound, which is generally situated on the
slope of q hill by throwing the leaves and
grass into heap by means of their pow
erful feet. When it has reached height
of about four feet, the birds work together
to reduce it to fat surface, and then be-
gin to excavate depression in the centre;
in this the eggs are deposited as they are
laid, and covered up to a depth of about
fifteen inches by the males, who also
watch the temperature of the heap, very
carefully, almost uncovering the eggs in
very hot weather, and always maintaining
q circular opening in the mound, probably
to insure its thorough ventilation. On the
young bird chipping out of the shell, it re-
mains in the heap for about twelve hours,
without making any effort to escape from
it, being at that time almost as deeply
covered up by the male as the remaining
eggs. On the second day it comes furth,
with its wing g-tea:hers well developed, but
they are enclosed in sheath which soon
bursts, and early in the afternoon returns
to the mound again. where the assiduous
father covers it up, but at lesser depth
than the circle of eggs from which it
emerged in the morning. On the third
day Of its existence, the nursing is capa-
BILE of strong flight. These birds thrive
remarkably well, and when supplied with
a suficiency of vegetable material, breed
readily in confinement, and are excellent
eating. I have seen nest-mounds of the
brush-turkey in the vicinity of the Malice
scrub, near Inglewood, that contained sew
eral large cart-loads of vegetable matter.
Year: 1864

The following extract from one of Dr.
Sam'l Johnson's papers, published in the
Idler, in 1859, might properly have been
written yesterday, and will be as truthful to-
morrow as if it was one hundred and four
years ago:


In time of war the nation is always of
one mind-eager to hear something good
of themselve and i'll of their enemy. At
this time the task of news writing is easy:
they have nothing to do but to tell that the
battle is expected, and afterwards that the
battle has been fought, in which we and our
friends, whether conquering or conquered,
did all and our enemies did nothing.


Scarcely anything awakens attention like
a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never
fails in the intermssion of action to tell how
the enemy murdered children and ravished
virgins, and, if the scene Of action be some
what distant, sea ps halfth inhabitants of a
province.


Among the calamities of war may be
Justly numbered the diminution of the love
of truth by the falsehoods which interest
dictates and credulity encourages. A peace
will equally level the warriors and reator of
wars destitute of employment and | know
not whether more is dreaded from streets fill
ed with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or
from oarrets filled with scribblers accustomed
to lie.
Year: 1864

A Mortified (Ct.,) man carried fat hog
to butcher to sell. The butcher said the
hog was such fine one that he would make
the owner present of the head. which he
did, weighing the hog minus the head, and
making payment accordingly. 1t was sever
al days before the Northfeld man saw the
point; then he thought the butcher trile
sharp.
Year: 1864

as the sense of smelling more pleasing
than the sense of tasting?" was the question
up before western debating society in
barlroom. Uncle Joe was the last to speak
upon the negative, and all were anxious to
hear him deliver himself Walking up to
the bar keeper, he called for hot whiskey
punch, and drank it off with great gusto,
then turning to opponents, he handed the
glass to his leading disputant, and thundered
out: "Now, smell it, you varmnt." 1t is
needless to add that Uncle Joe drought
down the house," and also the decision for
the negative
Year: 1864

The bronze statue of Liberty on the Capil
tol at Washington, is the subject of much
comment. 1t is pronounced by some the
image of negro woman; but Others say the
coored coating was put on to cover the YER
digris on the surface of the metal and that
it is really a Copperhead. JeferSonian.
Year: 1864

REMEDY FOR DIpHrHERIA.-The New
York Tribune says: ave have just received
receipt for the cure of diphtheria, from a
physician who says that of 1900 cases in
which it has been used not a single patient
has been lost The treatment consists in
thoroughly swaLbing the back of the mouth
and throat with wash made thus: Table
salt, drachms; black pepper, golden seal
nitrate of potash, alum dracbm each. Mix
and pulverize, put into a teacup half full
of boiling water, stir well, and then fill up
with good vinegar. Use every half hour,
one two and four hours, as recovery progress
ses. The patient may swallow a little each
time. Apply one ounce each of spirits tur-
pentine, sweet oil and aqua ammonia, mixed,
every hour to the whole of the throat, and
to the breast bone every four hours; keeping
flannel to the part"
Year: 1864

The yam is species of sweet potato, and
is extensively grown in the South. 1t grows
much larger than the common sweet potato,
which is here called the Spanish potato and
is much sweeter. They often grow to weigh
five pounds and sometimes more. They do
not become sweet until they are fully matur-
ed, and usual ly not until they are dug. They
then become very sweet; SO much so that
when baked small drops of molasses will be
scattered over the surface. They are deli
cious, and are regarded rs very healthy and
nutritious food. The manner of growing is
as follows:


Early in the spring bed is prepared, and
the yams are spread thckly over it, but carer
fully laid so that they will not touch each
other, and covered about three inches deep.
When they have grown till the vine is three
or four inches long, and after rain, the
ground is prepared by throwing it up into
ridges. The slips are then carefully drawn
from the yam, and set in the ridges about
ten inches apart, where they will take root
and grow. In about two weeks another crop
of vines will have grown in the bed, which
can again be drawn, and this can can be
repeated four or five times. In the mean
time the, vines first set will have grown two
or three feet, which can be cut off and set
out, and will do as well as the slips drawn
from the bed, and some think better. They
are cultivated with the plow and hoe
When the vines are fully grown on a rich
sandy soil, they cover the ground like mat,
They vary much in the yield, which is owing
in great measure, to the seasons. Two
hundred bushels to the acre is fair yield.
Year: 1864

IL will hc noticed. by the call in another
column. that the State Convention. Is to be-
holden at Burlington the 18th inst, 70 nom
mate State Ticket. Delegates at large %
the National Convention, at Baltimore the
eth Of June. and Electors Of President and
Vice President of the United States This
Convention Is important enough to call out
full representation of the people Of the State.
There will, Of course, be no change IN the
State Ticket, but the election Of Delegates 70
the Baltimore Convention is Of the very first
importance IL is undoubtedly now settled.
whether wisely OF not, that the National
Executive Com. will not postpone that Con-
vention. But it will he in the power Of the
Convention when il assemblies. TO adjourn till
Sept.or some later day, before making a nom
nation. and this it ought 70 do. There is,
however, a disposition to force nomination
upon the people at the earliest possible day,
for the purpose of rendering 1t absolutely
certain that no contingency shall defeat the
choice Of Mr.. Lincoln as a candidate. We do
not sav this Is not wise but, If Mr.. Lincoln
Is so unmistakably the choice OF the people las
his especial championship are, slngularly
enough, almost to a man enjoying federal
patr0nage-declare, he can safely wait until
later day, and still be sure of his reelection,
while If he Is not so popular really as con-
ventions managed by ofhcehOlders would ap-
rarently indicate, a nomination next month
would not help him, and might defeat the
Union party.


There are three hundred to four hundred
ofhceholders in the State. and three-fourths
of them will 20 into the Convention, or see
that their next friends 90. and when assem-
bled it is safe 10 assume that they will take
care that their own interests receive no det-
rlment, whatever may happen 20 the republic
Is it possible, in addition 10 this veteran
army of Office holders, 10 get 300 of the people
TO attend the Convention! One from every
town in the State will almost do it. We
should like 10 see the experiment tried once
Of taking a convention out Of the hands of
the Custom House, Internal Revenue, and
Post Office Departments,-t we confess
we have little expectation Of seeing such a
result accomplished while the vOtersswho are
expected to ratify the nominations which
these gentlemen make, are too indoleDt or
too parsimouious, OF too Indifferent to attend
conventions. We do not blame the Office
I holders for thus riding the people, while the
people consent 10 be ridden, but we only
suggest that it il possible for them to refuse
to be ridden by taking the Convention into
ther own hands.
Year: 1864

There has been question raised lately
whether volunteers were entitled to their
discharge atthrcc wears from the date of their
entering State service or from that of muster
into Z. ). service. The Pennsylvania reserve
corps,-we do not know how many regi-
ments.--it was stated had openly declared
their intention TO lay down their arms when
the former time arrived The War Depart
ment has heretofore said that the latter time
would be taken as the proper time of dis
charge. but it has now made an ex-
ception in favor OF the Pennsylvania troops.


The War Department must of course he
the Judge Of the proper time, and Will not
fail 20 Judge rightly in the main. though
there may be cases OF apparently hard treat
ment under it, Upon the subject Gen. Meade
hs, lately issued the following order