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Year: 1861

From this time to October next is a
suitable season to transplant strawberry
plants. Some growers of this plant claim
that the month of August is preferable
to later period, for the reason that the
plants acquire a greater growth and are
better rooted Than when planted Iu Sep
tember and October. That is true but
there is this disadvantage in early plant
ing, the weather is generally so warm and
dry that many of the plants are liable to
die if not frequently watered, which with
large plats is quite troublesome, and in
field culture quite quite impossible. l
have succeeded in the culture of straw
berries by setting the plants the first week
in October, but it is not safe generally to
wait till that time, and l recommend any
time from August 18th to September Is.


From considerable experience in grow
ing strawberries, and from extensive read
ing of the writings of those engaged in
the business, both for family use and mar
ket consumption, / am fully convinced
that the cheapest and easiest way to pro-
duce good crops is by adopting the row
system instead of hills However, some
varieties Of plants produce larger fruit on
the hill system; but there are kinds that
are very prolific bearers in rows, or when
then ground is covered with a compact
mass of plants. Wilson's seeding will
bear enormous crops in this condition.
even where the plants are so close that
not a particle of earth can be SEEM
Where the plants are grown in beds or
ryws on this system the ground is so shad-
ed by the foliage of the plants, that they
withstand drouth much better than when
grown in hills.


The usual distance that rows of straw
berry piantr are set Opart dependr on the
size of the plot in some measure. Far
garden culture two or two and half feet
will do very well, but for field culture they
should not be less than three to four feet
apart. In the garden the plants may be
allowed to spread in the rows on each
side so as to leave merely path wide
enough to walk in TO pick the fruit. In
field culture the runners may spread and
fill up the entire ground, but as soon as
the fruiting season is past plow should
be run through the vines, cutting up the
plants in strips from three to four feet
wide, leaving rows of the largest growth
OF plants to restock the land for the next
seasons fruit.


Old beds of strawberries that have
grown into thick mass of plants should
be thinned out with hoe as soon as the
fruit picking season is past, so as to leave
the plants standing about foot apart. If
this has been neglected, the sooner it Is
now done the better, or the growth Of
next season will be slender, and but little
fruit will be produced.


Two years is as long as it is advisable
to crop the same plants; and in order to
grow thisf fruit with the best success means
must be taken every season for supply
of new plants. On the row or bed sys-
TEN this is effected by cutting out large
portion of the old vines as soon as the
fruit is gone, and allowing the runners
from those left to replace those cut out.


1t is generally understood, presume
that strawberry plants are of the two
sexes, male and female, or starainate and
pistilate. The staminates (males should
Year: 1861

The sage Of the Ploughman says -
"The mixer should be on good terms
with the COW. If mixers scold and kick,
the COW will, most likely, return the latter;
and moreover, she cannot kick to adxan-
lage when her leg is in close conjunction
with the mixer The best mixers are
the quickest; for here will be a flow in
less than a minute from the commerce.
ment Of the process. Take advantage Of
this, and prevent its return. Milk dry;
for the slripplings are worth four times
as much for butter as the milk that is first
drawn. This is good advice. A lazy,
scolding mixer, will soon spoil good
cow"
Year: 1861

But there are human beings. whom. if
you are wise, you would not wish to know
you too well. / mean the human beings
if such there should be) who think highly
of you, who imagine yo1 very clever and
very amiable. Keep out out Of the way
of such! Let them see as little OF ycG
as possible. For when they come to
know you well, they are quite sure 70 be
disenchanted. The enthusiastic ideal
which young people form of any one they
admire, is smashed by the rude presenc
of facts. ! have got somewhat beyon,
the stage of feeling enthusiastic admira.
lion, yet there are two or three living
men whom I should be sorry to see,
know / should dever admire them so much
any more. I never saw Mr.. Dickens; !;
don't want to see him. Let US leave
Yarrow unvisited; our sweet ideal is fair
er than the fairest fact. No hero is a
to valet; and it may be questioned whe,h-
er any clergyman is a saint 10 his beadle.
Yet the hero may be a true hero, and the
Clergyman a very excellent man; but no
human beng can bear too close iuspec-
ton. / remember hearing a clever and
enthusia site young lady complain Of what
she had suffered on meeting a certain
great bishop at dinre-. No doubt he
was dignifed, pleasant, clever; but the
mysterious halo was no longer round his
head. Here is a sad circumstance in the
lot of a very great man. mean such
man as Mr.. Tennyson or Professor Long
fellow. As an elephant walks through
field, crushing the crop at every step,
do these men advance through life, smash.
ing, every tine they dine out, the enlhus-
iasm Of several romantic young people -
Country PaTsOn.
Year: 1861

Good reader, if you and / ever reach
that Fathers house, we will look back
and see that the sharp. tOngued, rough
visaged teacher, Disappointment, was one
of our best guides to bring as Ihither.--
He often took US by thOrny paths. He
often stripped US of our overload of
worldly goods, but that was only to make
US travel the freer and the faster on our
heavenward way. He often led as into
the valley of the death-shadow; but nev.
er did the promises read so sweetly 70 Us
as when read by the light of faith in thar
very valley.
Year: 1861

If the worst that can happen to tho be-
lever if he mistake, be the best shat can
qappen to the unbeliever, if he be right.
who without madness can run the venture2
Who in has senses would choose 70 come
within the possibility Of infinite misery!
John Locke.
Year: 1861

to me. They divided amopp them all the


firearms belonging to my husband. and in
reference to musket which he had in the
bar they said here is a United States
gun, wen take this. We've taken one
/ fort at Charleston, now We take this one
! (Tracy's bouse.). The man who led tho
mob on the house was Marshal John Bur-
dell. They put me in wagon and took
me to Columbia, where met my husband
and son in the guard houses.
The boys state that they we're taken
from the plough. and were not allowed to
50 home to SIX themselves up."


Tracey also reveals a ease Of brutal
murder Of an Irish vomss, which took
place, about four years ago, net fos froa
whore they lived at Dutch Forks. The
womau's name was Bridget, sho,
with her child had come on . visit from
Charleston to see some friends. At the
time of the murder she Sss busy sewing,
and her babe was 10 bed asleep A ne
gro had been sent to her with some bread
and seveDpence in change, for some roa-
son or other.


by and By some men came along and
made some accusation about the negro
They made search for the seven penee,
which they meant to use as testimony a.
gainst her, but they could not 6ud it
They then took her and murdered her ou
the spot, and as nobody dared to 90 to
her help, the child was allowed to die
The sewing articles we're left on the table
at which she had been sitting. A man
named Mcnamara was the owner of the
house where the woman was murdered,
and the Marshal gave him large amount
of money to clear out and to say nothing
about it. McNamara cleared ont, and
has not been seen since. The husband
of Bridget was stone mason in Charles
ton.


This family speaks of other murders
which had been committed, b5 way Of
chasing citizens from their settlement.


This raid upon Tracey's house occur.
red three days before the expirstion Of
the time given him and bis family to
move out.


The OLD man and bis family are thrown
upon the world frieDdess aud penniless.
They are yet on board the schooner D.
2. Pitts, at Pier No 10 North River.


The bodies Of the old man and his son
present fearful spectacle The mother
has been dragged until she is scarcely
able to move about.


The old man says that the rasosls
should be made to dig their own graves.
and that then they should be shot down
into them. and covered up. He is done
with the South, and down on its Slave
~.
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the Washington
Star suggests that as President Davis has
purchased q pew in the church of the
Epiphany in that city, it might be we'll
for him also to secure a lot in one of it's
cemeteries, as in case be fails to come into
peaceable possession of the one BIO may
need the other.
Year: 1861

WHAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO WITH LIN
coLN.-That the Confederate Admins
tration is vigorously preparing for war
in earnest, and war which shall tell
with deadly effect on the enemy, we are
firmly assured. Though Gen. Beaure-
gard is not at Richmond, as was tele-
graphed, but at Charleston, and though


there was no manner of foundation for
the absurd message to Lincoln to have
the women aud children removed from
Washington City, it is none the less prob
able that well appointed expedition is
being organized which will in no long
time make sndden and effectual dash
at Washington City. In that event it
will be next to impossible for the Lincoln
Administration to escape capture. What
will be done with tho august President
prisoner has not, we believe, been deter
mined. 1t has been suggested, in view
of the fine joking and anecdotal qualili-
cations of the illustrious rail splitter, that
he could be made to pay the expenses OF
his keeping if he were exhibited through
the country as the chief clown of a travel
ing circus. IL he could not be turned to
some account that way, we would see no
use in holding him as prisoner. The
South could doubtless afford to give him
his liberty along with her contcmpt.---N


| o. Della. nal fa e'f.. aIE p4
Year: 1861

Tux FOURTH.-We notice by our exehan-
gee, that the citizens Of almost every town
and village in The State, are making prepa-
rations TO celebrate the approaching Fourth
OF July, On no former occasion, since our
remembrance. have the people taken 80
much interest in the proper observance of
our national anniversary.
Year: 1861




Had not my hand clenched the door with a
grasp that mortal terror had made convulsive,
I should have fallen to the floor. / stood
nailed to the spot. For there before me stood
a crowd of people-men and women--caught
in the last death struggle by the overwhem-
ing waters, and fastened to the spot, each in
the position in which death had found him.
Each one had sprung from his chair at the
shock of the sinking ship, and with one COM
mon emotion, all had started for the door But
the waters of the sea had been too swift for
them. Lot there-some wildly grasping the
table, others the beams, others the sides of
the cabin-there they all stood. Near the
door was n crowd of people, heaped upon one
another-some on the floor, others rushing
over them-all seeking, madly to gain the
outlet. There was one who sought to clam
Der over the table, and still was there, holding
on to an iron post So strong was each con-
vulsive grasp, so fierce the struggle of each
with death, that their hold had not yet been
relaxed but each one stood and looked fran
tically to the door


To the door-good God To me, to me they
were looking They were glancing at me, all
those dreadful, those terrible eyes Eyes in
which the fire of life had been displaced by
the chilling CLEAN of death. Eyes which still
glared, like the eyes of the maniac, with no
expression. They froze me with their cold
and icy stare. They had no meaning for the
soul had gone. And this made it still more
horrible than it could have been in life; for
the appalling contorton of their faces, express
sing fear, horror, despair, and whatever else
the human soul may feel, contrasting with the
cold and CLASSY eyes, made their vacancy yet
more fearful He upon the table seemed more
tiendish than the others; for his long, black
hair was dsheveled, and foated horribly down
and his beard and moustache, all oosened
by the water, gave him the grimness of de-
mon. Oh, what woe and torture what unut-
terable agones appeard in the despairing
glance of those faces--faces twisted into spas
modic contortions, while the souls that lighted
them were writhing and struggling for life.
| needed not the dangerous sea which, even
Year: 1861

Although the above complaints differ widely 10 their
origin and nature, yet they all require local treatment
Many Of the worst cases, OF such diseases will yield In
comparatively short spc of time wien this Ointment is
diligently rubbed into the parts affected after every
other means have failed. In all serious maadies the
Pills should be taken according to the printed directions
accompanying each box.
Year: 1861

PARsoN BRowNLow.-Thc last number of
the Knoxville Wing was issued Oct. 26th,
in which the patriot editor published his fare
well. He has steadfastly refused to give bonds
to the rebels for his good behavior, and is now
to be indicted before confederate jury. He
says he is ready to go to Jail at moments
warning, and adds


Not only so, but there am prepared to lie,
in solitary confinement, until / waste away
because of Imprisonment, or die from old age.
Stimulated by a consciousness OF innocent up
rightness, l will submit to imprisonment for
life, or die at the end of a rope, before | will
make any humiliating concession to any power
on earth. | have committed no Otfense; l
have not shouldered arms against the conted
crate government or the state, or encouraged
others to do so; l have discouraged rebellion
publicly and privately have not assumed
hostile attitude toward the civil or military
authorities OF this new government. But |
have committed grave, and L really fear un
pardonable ofenses. | have refused to make
war upon the government of the United States.
have refused to publish to the world false
and exaggerated accounts of the several en-
gagements had between the coutending ar.
mics; l have refused to write out and publish
false versions OF the origin of this war, and
OF the breaking up of the best government the
world ever knew and all this l will continue
TO do, II it cost me my life. Nay, when
agree to do such things, may righteous God
palsy my right arm, and may the earth open
and close in upon me forever.
Year: 1861

MIDNIGHT EXCURSION Across THE PoTo
MAC.-The following is an extract Of a private
letter from a member of Co. a, thirteenth
Massachusetts regiment, written at Camp
jackson, Williamsport, Md, Nov. 8 :-"This
is much pleasanter place than Darnestown,
but all want to leave and go into Virginia. a
few nights since we thought we were of, sure
The long roll was beat about midnight, and all
rushed out, ready for whatever might happen.
Our company being on guard, were ordered
to remain behind and guard the encampment.
AT this they complained loudly; but, after
hint from the captain, who knew the plan of
the expedition. they began to smell a mice.'
The line was formed, and, with about a dozen
teams in the rear, started for the river, where
all were safely ferried over. They marched
about three miles quietly as possible flor
the enemy had been seen in the vicinity a few
days before), when the colonel ordered an
attack to be made upon large wood pile 1t
took but short time to load the teams, aud
soon we had thirty five cords of nice, dry,
secession wood on this side of the river, and
are now using it in camp"
Year: 1861

our eHhEncTB are E'uli.


Thirty years ago, and less breadstuffs were
sent from Buffalo westward, to supply settlers
in that wilderness which is now the garden
and granary of the Union. The fist shipment
OF wheat from Chicago was made in 1888, and
consisted of less than two thousand bushels.
Less than twenty years afterwards lin 1860,
the shipments OF grain from Chicago amounted
to over twenty millions of bushels


The receipts OF grain and flour at Buffalo,
this year, have been large beyond precedent,
and show not only how the productiveness of
the great west has been increased by the stout
arms of freemen bat also how greatly Provi.
dence has best our crops in this year Of our
need. BY the table given below, it will be
seen that the receipts Of flour and grain at
Buffalo, during the month of October just past,
were nearly three times MS great as the receipts
for 1853 and nearly twice as much as those of
last year, which was thought one of remarka'
Bile plenty -
Year: 1861

FORREST AS METAMoRA, next Wednesday
night, when an extra train will be again run on
the Boston road, leaving there after the close
of the performance Tickets at the fare one
way for the round trip, and good on the five
p NJ train from Worcester, and the extra from
Boston, will, we understand, be for sale.
Year: 1861

Col. DEyENs of the heroic fifteenth regi
ment, arrived IN the eleven O'Clock train last
night. He was welcomed at the station by a
great crowd, all anxious to grasp the hand of
SO brave a colonel. The appearance OF Col
Devens on the platform was the signal for deaf
ening cheers, which we're not suspended till his
carriage rolled away. Many of his personal
friends found an opportunity to see him later
in the night. He is to remain a~ay from his
regiment one week, which time he will occupy
in securing the recruits necessary to place his
gallant regiment, in point of numbers, in the
position it occupied before the battle of Balls
Bluff.
Year: 1861

To every barrel of flour you can make thirty pounds
more bread biscuit land much better by using Her
rick Aliens Gold Medal Saeratus than by yeast fer
menaton any othe saleratus. Its perfectly healthy
and will not turn your cookery yellow will strengthen
weak stomachs and cure dyspeptc persons 1t is much
better to with tartar than soda Try one pa
per and be convinced Most of the grocers sell it, De-
pot ll2 Liberty street, New York.
Year: 1861

Cost of one bushel of corn at Liverpool, SO
Thus 793 cents are spent upon every bushel
of grain in its transport to a market, OF which
our own labor and capital gain at least fifty six
cents.
Year: 1861

KERP a LIsr.-Keep a list of your
friends; and let God be first in the list,
however long it may be.


Keep list of the gifts you get; and
let Christ, who is the unspeakable gift.
be first.


Keep a list Of your mercies and let
pardon and life stand at the head.


Keep list of your joys; and let the
joy unspeakablo and full of glory be first


Keep list of your hopes and let
the hope of glory be foremost


Keep a list of your sorrows; and let
sorrow for sin be the first.


Keep list of your enemies and,
however many they may be, put down
the ''old man" and the "old serpent first.


Keep list Of your sins; and let the
sin of unbelfef be set down as the first
and worst of all.
Year: 1861

How TO COMMUNE WITH COD


The Gospel enjoins an active charity
on all its disciples, and whoever lives for
self alone, even if for his own growth in
piety, fails Of duty and enioyment.-
There IS good lesson in the following
parable


A pious monk one dag when he had
been unusually fervent in his devotion,
found his dark cell suddenly illuminated
by an nnearihIy light, and there stood be-
fore him a vision Of the Savior, his coun-
tenance beaming with Godlike love.
his hands outstreiched with gesture of
kind invitation. AT that moment rang
the convent bell, which called the monk
in the regular course of his duty, to dis
tribute aims to the poor at the gate. For
an instant he hesitated but the next in
slant found him, true to his vow of char
ity, on his way to the gate. The poor
relieved, the work of love complete, he
returned in sadness to his cell, doubling
not that the heavenly vision had taken
flight. But, to bis surprise and joy, it
was still there, and with a smile even
more full than before Of Divine beauty
and inefable love; and there came from
it the words, "Hadst thou staid, l had
fed
Year: 1861

= Have you never heard of good Father Train,
, Who schooled so soundly and preached so plain.
And fought the devil with might and main
] Small hire he got, yet he always throve,


For he gave his heart to the trade he drove,


" He taught for a living, and preached for love"
2 Noble and bold were the words which rung


In council and kirk from his godly tongue,


And noble and bold were the psalms he sung.


Long years hath the Veterans grave been made,


But prize the altar at which he prayed,


And the old bass-viol whcreon he played
It is leaning now by my study door,


And | love iis worn face al tho more, -aa
That it lightencd the burdens person bore.


I love TO think that far or near,


Though sense be lost to the palsed ear,
There's always a music the soul can hear
l love to think that early and late,


Though the tongue with melody never can mate,
Some thrill Of song in the soul may wait.
1t is mufied away in the breast alone,
gift, mayhap, to the heart unknown,
TIL the joys Of heaven unfold the tone
But many, awake on earlier wings,
VIII answer music 10 all sweet things,
And copy their joy on earthly strings.
And he was one. In his holiest time
He proved the cheer Of the viol's chime,
And worshipped the Lord, in psalter rhyme
So summer and winter came and went,
While the songs and the fates grew kindly bsnt
Of the man and his chosen instrument;
That when the soul Of the saint arose,
His track the soul Of the VOL chose,
And the music-pulse in is bosom froze
All stringless, beaten, and bent awry,
Into garnet dark and high,
They flung the poor, dumb prophet by.
There, long in the curves Of its shattered shell.
The spider folded her silken cell,
And the death-watch tapped to his mate ALPS


we'll"
And many summer the earth-wasp cafnc,
With wings that quivered and flashed like fame,
And glued its nest to the ruined frame
But for chance he had slumbered vet,
With the luIl of the death watches drowsy fret.
Aud the ly-dirge droncd from the SPIDERS net
heard where the lorn old wizard lay,
And calling him forth from his nook one day.
won him back to his ancient play.
Furnished bis faded form, and wrung
His writhed JOINTS till the old grew young,
And his grand toned nerves newly strung.
Then healed him many ghastly hole
And gave him the grace that time had stole,
And unefully back came his aged soul.
By the window sit when the day-bcams wane,
And he leans on my breast and sings his strain,
rill I start ut the voice of Father Train!
Aud I know that beyond the burial calm,
The saint is leaning with harp and palm,
Ind joining his old-time yiol-psaIm. tn.
Year: 1861

NE have just received another supply Of Coal Oil
w Lamps among which are some very handsome
patterns EOr parIOTs, ali ntted with Jne Collins burner
which the last Improvement and Is Immeasurably
superior to any other Lamp before the pubic for
softness and steadness OF flame, freedom from smoke,
simplicity construction beauty and elegance IN I'm
sh cleanliness and economy One Lamp Will give the
light of four candles and does not cost much one
Tfs OIL we have imported burn in these Lamps IS
clear beautiful article free from any offensive odOr,
leaves no grease spot when split upon carpet OF cloth
Ens and viii not explode


RAINS, BROWN & co.
Wholesale Retail Druggists, No IL Public Square
Nashville Tenn. 10
Year: 1861

we the people of the Confederate States each State
acting its sovereign and independent character in
order to form permanent federal government estab
lsh justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posteri
ty-invoking the faver and guidance Of Almighty God
do ordan and establish this Constitution for the
Confederate States Of America.
Year: 1861

The DAILY publishes a very large quantity o
matter, and the TRf-WEEkLr is made up of two
Daily issues and the WEEKLY Is one Of the largest
handsomest, and cheapest sheets printed in the
Union