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Year: 1865

PRESERVE THE HARNEss.-Our readers can
rely upon the following preparations for ap-
plying to harness. We doubt if n better re-
cipe for the purpose can be produced. We
know of its being used largely and that it has
given the best satisfaction


Take of CASTLE soap | pound, beeswax 2
ounces, neatsfoot oil pint, alcohol l gill,
ivory black ounce, gum arabic l ounce,


Mix the beeswax and oil by gentle heating
in the same vessel: dissolve the gum arabic
in gill, or SO of hot water; shave the soap
fine and dissolve same as the gum arabic; /;
mix all together. If not of the consistency
of oil, make it SO by gently eyaporating a
portion of the water. Wash the harness
clean and apply. If your harness is still
hard take the first opportunity to give it a
through coating of this mixture, and when
once pliable, keep it so. The leather will
last double the length of time that it will if
never washed or oiled.-Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1865

No improvement that takes place in either
of the sexes can possibly be confined to itself;
each IS universal mirror to the other and
the respective refnements Of the one will
always be 10 reciprocal proportions to the
polish of the other.
Year: 1865

A THRILLING RoMANcE-Where will be
found a more touching and truthful picture
of life than is depicted in the following short
romance. 1t contains but two chapters, but
each is as fnll of meaning as an egg is of
meat:


Chapter I.-She stood beside the altar,
with wreath oforange buds upon her head
upon her back the richest kinds of duds
Her lover stood beside her with kid gloves,
and clean-the last twenty one years old, and
the first was seventeen. The parsons job
was over, every one had kissed the bride,
and wished the young folks happiness, and
danced, and laughed and cried The last
kiss had been given and the last word had
been said, and the happy pair had simmered
down and sought the bridal bed.


Chapter II.-She stood beside the wash tub
with her red hands in the suds, and at her
slip-shod feet was pile of dirty duds. Her
husband stood beside her-the crossest man
alive-the last twenty years old, and the
first twenty-five. The heavy wash was over,
and the clothes hung out to dry, and Tom
stuck his finger in the dirty baby's eye
Tom had been spanked, and his supper made
upon a crust of bread, and then the bride
and bridegroom went both grumbling off to
bed
Year: 1865

New AND IMPORTANT lNvENTIoN.-The
cleveland Leader says that James E. Craig
has invented and patented new steam boil
er, which will work an entire revolution to
steam boilers of all kinds, and particularly
where o large amount Of fuel is used, in ma
king saving of at least ninetenths of the
fuel now required for ordinary boilers. The
mode of operation is TO start the fire by the
natural draught of air and when the Goals
are ignited, close the openings beneath the
CRATE and the top of the flue-supplying air
for combustion by means of force pump.
which, after passing through the fire, is in
jected as fame into the substance of the wa.
ter, which instantly starts the generation of
steam, although the mass of the water be
not above one hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
On trial it was estimated that less than one
pound of coal would develop horsepower
for an hour, saving something like nine
tenths of the fuel commonly consumed. The
boiler which is only six feet in length and
three feet in diameter. developed for several
hours, steam enough for thirty horse power
engine from q few shovels full of coal. Its
main feature is the entire economy of all the
heat generated.
Year: 1865

The Black Republican, paper very well edited
by black clergyman st New Orleans, contains a
gorrespondece between committee Of the Freed
men and the editor, on the prospects Of the black
populatien Of the South. From the reply of the
editor we copy the following paragraphs


The coIored man and the white man cannot live
together in this country; they must and will have
TO separate unless the Congress of the Nation shall
gve them d place 10 themselves, for as 1t was with
Abraham and Lot, so it is with Us, the sooner we
seek q home for our rising generation the oetter II
viii DO for


Oar final destiny as far as can dimly see, is that
m three hundred wears If will be rare thing to see
3 colored man in this country. Like the Indian,
our race in this country is destined to become eX-
tlnct unless we move TO ourselves. And after we
shall have obtained the right Of suffrage, L shall
strongly advocate 8 treaty stipulation between the
United States and our race whereby we may live
under the United States flag, but be apart to our
selves and even then we viii become dissatisfied,
for there is no historian that can point out an IN
stance where two nations have ever lived together
happily.


pIessed and If VIC don't separate in less than three
hundred wears the colored man in this country viii
be a color between the Canadian Indian and the IN
habitants of India. This country, gentleman, Is
not ours in my opinion, and a the question has been
asked bv a party Of freedmen, the above Is my an
sWer 70 Jle odulc -OuLA "ilOO a WIN - WIS
question had the means to put II in circulation.


The immigration Of the white race from Europe
must increase whilst the immigration Of the black
race must decrease the slave trade has been stop
ped and the result the African race in this coun
try will finally out and ali the property we may
accumulate for our rising generation Will avail US
nothing unless we obtain resting place OF our own
Moreover experience teaches That no two races can
live together happily under one flag when they both
are properly educated. Therefore, gentlemen, my
impartial opinion is, that this country Is not our
home
Year: 1865

been merely reappointments of those who held Of
fce under the last two rebel Governors Letcher and
Smith. In short affairs are fast returning TO pre-
cisely the same point where they would have been
had the rebel organization been promptly acknowl-
edged on the day Of the fall of Richmond.


This is certainly not very encouraging represen-
tation. Those who make it, however, have the air
Of sincerity, and they attest it by calling on the
Federal Government TO secure the elective franchise
TO the colored population, and 10 establish in the
meantime a strong military or territorial govern
ment But the charges brought against the Pierpont
government are of nature easily susceptible of
proof and trust that the exact truth will soon be
ascertained and put beyond denial The size and
Importance of Virginia and her coptiguity to the
loyal States, make her condition a subject Of uni
versal interest aside from those considerations
Of vast moment which attach TO the general condi-
ton of the South. We want to know for certainty
whether she progressing toward loyalty with
very slow, if but steady steps, or whether she is
swiftly relapsing into that unsound and dangerous
position which can only be distinguished from re-
bellion by the present absence of arms, because i'm
portant duties on our part are hinging upon the
neutrality-suspicious. Journal.
Year: 1865

Sir William Nay ier was one day
taking o long country walk near
Freshtord, when he met q little
girl about five years old, sobbing
oyer q broken bowl. She had
dropped and broken It i'll bringing
it back from the field, IN which
she had taken her fathers dinner
in it, and she said she would ba
beaten on her return for having
broken it; then, with . sudden
gleam of hope, she innocenlly lookl
ed up into his face and said r


But We can mend it, can't yer ,


Sir William explained that he
could not mend the bowl, but the
trouble he could, by the gift Of q
sixpence to buy another. However,
on opening his purse it was empty
of silver, and he had to make
amenls by promising to meet his
little friend at the same spot in the
same hour next day, and to bring
tho sixpence with him, bidding
her, meanwhile, tell her mother
she had seer q gentleman who
would bring her the money for tho
bowl next day. The child, entire
ly trusting him, went on her way
comforted. On his return home
he found an invitation awaiting
him TO dine in Bath the following
evening, to meet some one whom
he specially wished to see. Ho
hesitated for some little tine, try
ing to calculate the possibility OF
giving the meeting to his little
friend of the broken bowl, and OF
still being in time for the dinner.
party in Bath; but finding this
could not bo, he wrote to decline
accepting The invitation, Oh ths
plea of Encouragement saying,
to one of his family, as he dill sc, i,
81 cannot disappolnt her--she


trusted me 30 implicitly" DFA.ai
Year: 1865

Too HAPPY.-A newly,married
man says that if he had an inch
more of happiness he could not
possibly live. His wife is obliged
to roll him on the floor and pat
l.im with shingle every day to
keep him from being too happy
wait till he has been married a
year, comments our Fisnd, 'and
he will probably feel like patting
his wife with the shingle, aud that
not lovingly
Year: 1865

On receipt of the Certificate, ' 6il' sec
what you are going to have, and the. : is al
your option to send the Dollar and tAn he
article or not. Purchasers may thus Obtain
q Gold Watch Diamond king or any set
of Jeweiry on our list for ONE DOLLAR.
and in no case can they get less than one
dollars wor h, as there arc no, blanks The
price of Certificates is az follows:
Year: 1865

The symptoms Of Catarrh, as they generally appear,
first very slight Persons find they have a cold
that they have frequent attacks, and sensitive
TO the changes Of temperature In this condition, the
may be dry, slight discharge thin and acrid
becomes chronic the discharges increased IN quantity
and changed n quality; they thick and heavy,
and hawked coughed OF. The secretions Of
fensve causing bad breath; the voice is thick and ma
SAL the eyes weak the OF the smell is lessened
destroyed; deafness frequently takes place Another
and important symptom Of Catarrh is that the
person is obliged TO clear his throat in the morning OF
thick or slmy mucus which has fallen down from the
head during the night When this takes place the per
may be that his disease Is its wsy 10 the
lungs, and should lose no time in srresting IL.


The above are but few Of the many Catarrh symptoms.
Year: 1865

ES-The great incendiary plot to burn the
city of New York, about the time of the
Presidential election, when dozen Of the
principal hotels were reported to have been
fired, has probab y not passed from the public
recollection. Some of the ncendiaries were
said to have been caught and found to be
emissaries from rebeldom, and that they
would be tried and if found guilty, would
suffer death. Late correspondence from the
East says, that after waiting for months for
an exposition Of this plot and the trial Of the
criminals, a general conclusion is being arrived
at that i, was a cooked up affair on the part
of Government officials. No trials have taken
place, and it is not known that single
arrest has been made. The police and other
officials, ii interrogatsd upon the matter,
look wise and say nothing.
Year: 1865

SURFACE INDIcAlloNs OF PETROLEUM -
The paying wells of petroleum are shafts
bored into cavities in the rocks, in which
the Gil has been collecting for immense
periods of time. Petroleum is found in all
geographical formations, but it is only in
accumulation in large quantities. If rock
is found saturated with petroleum at the
surface, it is absolute proof of the existence of
the oil at that locality, but it is no proof
Of the existence Of a great basin in the rock
below, filled with the valuable fluid in GUAM.
titles sufficient 70 pay for sinking well.


Scientific 11neyican.
Year: 1865

Valley and Dutch Fiat ditch, owned by the
South Yuba Canal and Water Company, SAYS
the Transcript, has been completed to Dutch
Flat. and the water will soon be turned into
it. The ditch is twenty four miles long, and
can not cost, when completed, much less
than $4,000. Around Dutch Flat and Gold
Ran, in Placer county, is large extent of
mineral ground, but for want of water il has
no, been thoroughly worked. We under.
stand that the Bear Valley ditch is the fourth
one which has been conveyed into that sec'
ton, and as it has never failing source of
supply the miners will have abundance Of
water throughout the year.
Year: 1865

General Butler was ordered to report at
Lowell. and he has reported, with a venge.
ance He delivered speech of over an
hour in length, in which he went over the
whole ground, vindicaing himself and pitch
ing into every body connected with the war.
The following extract from bis speech is
peculiarly sharp and rich, and shows that
Butler can out-taIk his adversaries if he
cannot Outright them:


II understand that there are those who
were among my old friends in politics, but
who, unfortunately, have lately got upon the
other side, who sneer at me as the Hero of
Big Bethel and Fort Fisher" l accept the
title. They do me honor overmuch. What
was Big Bethel! II was skirmish in which
twenty-five men were killed and wounded.
But Big Bethel was not Ball Run; Big
Bethel was not Fair Oaks; Big Bethel WAS
not Seven Pines; Big Bethel was not the
Chickahominy. Big Bethel was failure,
but i. was no disaster. No West Point
General commanded there | claim credit
for this that when we Of the Volunteer
Army Of the United States make failures,
we DO no. make disasters. Stop a moment
and compare the battles have named with
Big Bethel. Why, at these there were more
men slaughtered and homes made desoate
than there we're leaves on the trees in the
forest around Big Bethel-not to be num-
bered. Bnt | am the hero Of Fort Fisher,
too. Well, Fort Fisher was not Fredericks-
burg; Fort Fisher was no, Charlottesville;
Fort Fisher was not the Wilderness; Fort
Fisher was not Coal llarbor. A volunteer
General commanded at Fort Fisher at each
attack; one was without result but no dis
aster the last was a success; all honor to
Gen. Terry and his brave volunteer soldiers
Again, it is charged on us that we did not
make SO big hole in the Dutch Gap Canal
as we ought to have made. It may be that
we did not (athough Dutch Gap Canal was
a success make so great a hole there as was
made by the explosion Of the mine at Peters
burg last summer; bat, thank Gcd neither
did we fill uselessiy that hole up with Ame.
rican dead until it ran blood. Rene wed
applause. am, therefore, content, nay. l
claim 10 be the hero of the comparatively
boodless attacks on Big Bethel and the
wholly bloodess failure of Fort Fisher; and
do not claim to be the hero of Fredercks-
burg, Of Chanceorsviile, Of the Chckahom-
my, of Fair Oaks, Of the Wilderness, of
Coal iiarbor, nor o' that charoe house Of
useless dead in the mine bef re Petersburg
am prepared 10 take the issue; and here
after, folow-citizens, when you bear Inc to
that little enclosure on the other side of the
river, which hope as my last resting place
pray you put over me for my epitapb
Here lies the General who saved the lives
of his soldiers at Big Bethel and For, Fisher
and who never commanded The army of the
Potomac | ask for nothing else"
Year: 1865

The HsrGLE's Charleston correspond
ence says: Very little attention has been


paid by army officers to the demands Of
Governor Perry's civil apPOintees, for the
surrender to them Of superior control IN
the administration of affairs, and the Pal


metto State still remains under military


rule. There has been no actual collision,
but considerable disagreement and lack
Of co-opperation between the civil and


military authorities. Gen. Gilmore VINO
recently returned to Charleston from bis


tour through the interior and conference


with Governor Perry, is represented as
stating that the military will maintain


the direction of affairs until the regular
State Government is organized. Conven-
ton candidates appear to be brought out
slowly. Most OF the leading men NOM
mated on the several tickets have with
drawn in favor of new men. The gen
eral disposition of the people IS opposed
to any issue being made but that of the
common welfare There is a sincere de-
sire to elect delegates who viii be accept
able to the Government and Northern
people at large The withdrawal Of so
many of the old citizens leaves it difficult
to make up such a delegation Of expert
enced men as is most needed to compose
the convention in time like the present.
The mechanics have put forth a ticket,
candidates being with one or two cxcep-
tions, men of that peculiar class. AnOJh-
eT class ticket has also appeared, eonpOS-
ed principally of naturalized citizens.
German and Irish, Affairs in the inte-
rIor are improving. A much better state
of feeling is being gradually exhibited by
the whites and blacks towards each other.
Year: 1865

a gentleman who knows all about the
subject, says truly that many erroneous
statements are promulgated about the
insects and worms which detsroy cur
fruit trees and fruit. He coFrects a few
of them in the following paragraph:


Plums are not safe from the curculio
"as soon as the stone is formed" /" II the
first part of the season is favorable 10 the
curculO's operations, the first set Of eggs
will be laid by the time the plums are
half grown, and early fruit will escape
with little further injury. But a second
set of eggs will be ready for the latter
plums. and the first laying IS often so pro
tracJed as to leave no appreciable inter
val between it and the second.


The apple borer cannot be extermiDa-
ted by any kind of attack through the
round holes which it makes III the bark
These holes are made by the mautre
beetle in escaping from the tree after the
grub has finished his work


The caterpillar cannot be overcome by
destroying their webs while they are
foraging abroad. Neither are they al
ways to be found at home until nine
O'Clock in the forenoon. Their habits
vary with the weather, and are guided by
acute instincts.


Honey bees are not injurious TO fruit.
Even wasps and hornets prefer that which
has begun to decay, and rarely attack a
sound spot.


Neither potatoe rot, pear blight or
black knot are caused by any insect what
ever. As to plums and cherries, injury
from any cause gives an occasion for rot
All these diseases, except pear blights,
are fully as certain to be caused by fungi
The leaf blight of the pear, and that
which cracks the visgalied, is the fungi: /
but as to the terrible fire blight we have
no certainty as yet.


When you see bird dive at a cherry, |
and then see a hole in the cherry, are
you quite sure that the bird made the-
hole? Many kinds of bugs and flies
make such holes, and bird that picks
-hem ont is doing good service.-,jOsarai
# Commerce.
Year: 1865

The gem cannot be polished with
out friction, nor man perfected with
out adversely.


1t is the worst policy in the world,
ever to bear an appearance of doubt
toward another till he has given you
good cause. Your suspicion may
make an enemy but, it can never gain
friend.
Year: 1865

AFrsR OiL.--The Des Moines Register
says that quantity Of machinery to be used
in boring for oil has arrived At the State
Capital and the employees Of the Chicago
Company have been busily engaged in their
preparation for boring ON Spring Creek
The question Of whether there is or whether
there isn't, oleaginous dcposin in that neck
Of woods, will soon be determined.
Year: 1865

The Burlington city authorities are deter
mined to punish the saloon keepers who keep
open their saloons on Sunday, in violation
of the city ordinance. Five Of the violators
have been arrested. It would be the best
thing that ever yet happened for the morals
Of our city, If our our authorities would do
likewise. The saloon keepers Of this city
seems to have no more regard for Sunday
than if such day was not kown.-Ausca-
tine Journal.
Year: 1865

Tie Monthly Recie,o is the title of new mag
azine of which We have received the first number.
edited by WILLIAM WRIGHT. and devoted to politics.
industry science sociology aud theology. 1t is in
tended to promote the industrial interests Of The
country without taking sides either with the capitalist
or the workingmsn discussing the main questions at
issue without reference to party associations or indi
yidual claims TIE long experience Of the editor In
connection with the newspaper press gives lin many
practical advantages for the enterprise in which he has
embarked. published by the American News Coz
Year: 1865

Why Roger A Pryor me Of
the worst and most malignan.
rebels that .ver swore by the Con.
federate flag and at the Union
flag, u As treated while = prisoner
so much better than other prison.
ers ar, we cannot understand
We have stopped trying to under.
stand l..
Year: 1865

The editor Of the New York Times,
who tries to play the philosopher ocea-
sionaIly tells US that every loyal man
should be thankful for the first disas-
ter at Bull Ran We believe we
shall leave it to the rebels to be thank
full for that. They have not much
now to be thankful for, and they moy
have the exclusive right to this,
Year: 1865

PRESIDENT LINcoLN's FUNERAL IN
CANADA. New York Tribune of
Monday week, says:-Itis, we believe, the
common belief of all the European resi-.
dents in the United States, that no country
of Europe has ever witnessed anything
approaching the exhibition Of mourning
throughout the United States on the
death Of President Lincoln The funeral
services in British America are no less
remarkable. There is probably no pre-.
cedent in the worlds history of whole
country paying such tribute of honor 10
the memory Of the head ola foreign nation.
in almost every town Of Canada the
places of business were closed on Wednes.
day from ~ to 2; the churches were
thronged for the celebration of the funeral
rites, public buildings and private houses
were largely draped in mourning, and all
voices united in the manifestation of
grief at the loss sustained by the United
States and of horror at the work of the
assassin. Previously, the town councils
with very creditable unanimity had
passed resolutions Of sympathy with the
family of the murdered President and


with the people of the United States,
We have had, in the course of this war
to register many acts of unfriendliness
toward the United States on the part of
q considerable portion of the press and
the people of British America. It Is
gratifying to acknowledge this oppression
of sympathy on the part Of our neighbour
in our great national afliction.
Year: 1865

1t is obvious that the sufferings of the
Confederacy have thus far been the re-
suit of it's own errors and discords
rather than the superior strength-g,e't
as that superiority is of the enemy.
The People have made efforts and incur
red sacrifices which ought long ago to
have secured our independence. If the
resources Of men and means which were
poured forth with uns,inted hand for
years of the war had been husbanded
with tho care and handled with the skill
which the occasion demanded and if, in.
stead of mutual chickering's and distrust,
we had cultivated spirit of mutual
liberation, and thrown the mantle over
all that was weak and shameful instead
of exposing it to the gaze of the world,
we might be in situation to>day that
would render as ridiculous the enemy's
vaunts of our approaching ruin as they
uniformly proved to be in time past
These reflections will prove consola~
ton if ever the dismal hour Of our sub
jugation arrives. They are not, however,
too late now. If we draw the proper
moral from the past, if we stand shoulder
to shoulder as in the first year of the
war, and put forth our energies in .
united and enlightened course of action,
the Spring campaign Of 1865, with the
blessing of Heaven, will have the same
results as the Spring campaign Of every
year since the war commenced.