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Year: 1865

DR.. II. Sherman has made a discovery re-
garding the breeding of the chinch bug,
which we believe, will make it an easy mat
ter to totally eradicate this curse of wheat
growers. He writes as follows:


The chinch bug having destroyed my wheat
crop for a number of years, was anxious to
get rid of him, and believe have tracked
him home, and can destroy him, root and
branch.


| believe that next season, if the farmers
will follow my advice, they may raise good
crop of wheat, and not lose bushel from the
ravages of the bug. This is the important
secret. My investigation led me to believe
that the seed wheat or kernel was used as
sort of ''foster mother by the bug; and find
by inspection through microscope that in all
wheat grown upon land where there are bugs,
is deposited in the blow, or fuzzy end of the
kernel, large quantity of eggs, which pro-
duce the bugs next season.


Mr. Sherman says he will convince any
farmer of the truth of this, if they will bring
him a sample of wheat grown where there
were plenty of bugs.


1t follows, that if the kernel of seed wheat
is the general depository of the eggs of the
chinch-bug, that our farmers have been sow
ing the pest each year as regularly as they
have their wheat, and it follows, that if such
is the case, the eradication of the bug will be
easily mplished--either by sowing no
wheat that has been in contact with the bug
or by sleeping the seed in some solution before
sowing, which will destroy the larva


We are quite sanguine that Hub Sher-
man has "scotehef the little imp at last. and
furnishes the information that will insure the
rapid extinction of the terrors of wheat grow
ers. If Hubs" discovery leads to this re-
suit, he will be entitled to the highest graft.
tude of the farming community; he will richly
deserve to be knighted We hope that others
will investigate this matter, and give US the
results of their observations.
Year: 1865

The Company who are boring for petroleum
at Poquonocll, have drilled to the depth Of 200
feet, and have struck stream of pure water,
which flows rapidly to the surface. For manu-
featuring purposes this water is probably
worth more than the amount of money eX-
pended so far upon the work But number
of gentlemen, who are abundantly able, have
invested something in this enterprise, without
regard to the chances of gain. They are
willing to expend something to ascertain what
is to be found in that region, and we commend
them for pursuing an enterprise which may
possibly be of benefit to our State, while it
gratites the gentlemen interested, cannot in
Jure them in any pecuniary degree, and may
pay them well for their cash investments.


The late Col. Colt commenced an artesian
well on his premises, and sunk it to the depth
of about 500 feet. [ was his intention to drill
to depth at least of $500 feet and we regret
that the work was discontinued. The Colonel
was satisfied, from an investigation of the facts
connected with the artesian wells in this
country and Europe, that at the depth of 1000
feet or less, or certainly at $500, he should
get hot water, and enough of it to warm his
greenhouses. But hot water or not, he felt
interest enough in aiding the investigations of
geologists and scientific explorers to learn
from an actual test what there is here in the
Connecticut Valley, half a mile below the
surface. We trust that the enterprise will
some day be completed. At the depth of four
or FIVE hundred feet sulphur spring was
found, and it is flowing still to the full capacity
of the opening. (Ct.) Times.
Year: 1865

Unless the voting basis is adopted, the South, it
will be seen, gain sixteen members by emancipation.
If it is adopted they will lose eighteen members
Should the amendment be adopted, and members ap-
portoned according to voting population, the South
will have the inducement of absolute gain of
thirty-four members in Congress to make voters Of
tha freedmen
Year: 1865

The uncertainty. of the payment of bounties to
members Of the Veteran Reserve Corps has been
settled by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury.
the close of the they entitled to the balance
of the bounty the same though they had remained
With their regiments, the fact Of their being sauss
Year: 1865

We sit by the window, my baby and /,


In the fading sunset light,
Watching the darkness creep overthc sky,


Out of the eastern night
We see the stars come trembling oui


In the track Of the fallen sun,
And we feel the quiet within and without,


That comes when the day is gone.
What have we been doing all day, all day,
Since the rosy morning smiled
Playing at work and working at play,


God help us, mother and child;
But much fear those little hands


Have put me TO shame to-day;
For God, who in earnest understands


Truly our work and play.
think Of Kindness len mdone


That might have frightened the day;
OF duties dreamed of but never begun,


Scattered along my way
You die with peace in your violet eyes
You have not learned regret
For the sorrowlh years that make lis wise
have not come to my baby yet
And -lill, as ! sit in the twilight hour
Al the close of "A weary day,
Even sorrow and sin do not quite have power
To keep blessing away
A blessing that falls like the dew from heaven
On the parched and thirsty ground;
And in loving much because much forgiven,
My deeper peace is found
Your life, my baby, is just begun,
And mine is growing old
But we're children both in the eyes of One
Whose years are all untold,
He holds lis both in hi. loving hand,
lie pardons all our sins,
And, byand-by, 10 the same sweet hand
lie will gently lei us in.
Year: 1865




The Richmond Enquirer says, onthe division
Of Virginia:


The distnemberment of Virginia isone OF the
sadest recollections Of the war; that any part
of her people would have laid violent hands
upon the teritofyof the State, and, through the
connivance of small body of men fitting be-
tween Wheeling and Alexandria, without con-
stituency, without character, have undertaken
to dismembcr and divide the territory whose
boundaries were fixed by the Fathers Of the
Republic, can only be accounted for by the de-
moralization OF the war That the Congress
of the United States should have consented to
this dividing up of an old State, the mother OF
the Constitution, would be likewise incredible
but for the actual fact.


But the division has been made-will 1t be
permitted to stand When reason and justice
shall return, and passion and prejudice subside,
when Virginia shall have been restored to the
Union, and her people exhibited to the salts
faction of the creduloiis and doubtful, their
loyalty and purpose of remaining faithful to
the spirit and letter of the Constitution, we do
not believe that this wrong will be persisted in.
Year: 1865

"a


Hear what one Of the leading old-time Wing
journals has to say ON the subject. 1t has been
warm but discreet advocate Of the general
views Of the Republican party during the late
four or five years. but it does not contract its
vision at period when the whole country is to
be considered: f9


From the N. 7. Commercial 1drertiser


Among the many changes that have occurred
in the South since the termination of the civil
war, the remarkable growth and activity of the
newspaper press is not the least important and
significant 1t might have been reasonably
inferred that people who were supposed to
be broken in spirit, and with wasted resources
and exhausted energies, would be neither In
clined nor able to patronize the press, and that
it would be the last of all the institutions of
the South to recover from the ruinous conse-
uuences of the civil war. Nearly
all our exchanges from that quarter come to US
in new type, and with superior paperand press
work, that exhibit prosperity which We hope
may long continue.


The editorial talent of the Southern pa
pers is on par with their improved appear
ance, and is marked with even more than the
ability and vigor that formerly distinguished
them. The questions of the day are for the
most part discussed with q moderation and
recognition of accomplished facts that speak
well for the temper of the people, whose views
are doubtless represented by the papers to no
inconsiderabe degree. They exhibit none Of
the sulliness, anger, apathy, and air of passive
resistance that were to be dreaded so much on
the military suppression of the insurrectlon.
and which constitute the greatest difficulties OF
Austrian rule in Hungary and Venetla. On
the contrary, the newspapers present all the
indications of desire on the part of the people
to resume their former constitutional relations
with the United States Government, and an
appreciation of their rights and duties as citl-
zens, which shows that the instincts of Amer
ican citizenship and nationality have survived
the aborative attempted thefanaticle politicians
to establish an independent republic' There
are. it is true occasional ebulitions of temper,
which betray doubtful taste and Patriotism
But these are the exceptions, and the news
papers generally exhibit recognition. of &C
complished facts, and readiness to abide by
them and make the best OF them, that cuTn0t
fail to produce healthy influence in both the
North and South, and allay theirritations in both
sections that are capable of offering such serious
obstacles to material progress, and retarding
real union of social, political, and industrial
interests. e
Year: 1865

nearest point Of land by the Hampton Roads To the
westward Is Hampton creek, broadening az it comes
sou'hward into an ample bay separating tho fortress
from the nearest po Mt Of land tho west and north
ward except on the north, whore Is the strip Of beach
previously referred to.


'ssen Is regular polygon aud Is surrounded by wet
ditch thirty yards WIDE 1t is tho extensive and
massive Of the permanent Notifications of the United
States, its enormous being fully capable Of holding
several Fort sumters. 1t has battery towards
the sea, which is Of itself a formidable work.


WHERE JEFF. DAVIS CONFINED.


Tne immediate place OF confinement OF JEFF Davis will
DO In the casemates, several V ,,whi,h have been
thoroughly prepared for this pteS0o. within the
past few days These classmates are rock ribbed and
arched mansions within the fort eoch well nigh
constituting fort within ITSELF Within few days they
have been made doubly secure the cmb asures looking
to Me wet ditch as well the windows looking the
interior OF thawork having been most heavily laTed
with iron, In the form Of grutinya


on TIE ARCHES


OF these classmates mounted ffteen-inch Rodman
guns Az an evidence Of the capabiity Of these
mates ana arches 70 withstand rsstaucc, It may be
stated that they fully competent snsan the shock
OF the explosions Of the monsters Of modern warfare


THE MAINLAND CONNECTIONS.


The only connections from the fort with the mainland
are oy the main sayport and small poscrn Of
the bastious The wet ditch being spanned at each OF
these points by drawbridge which can be raised a.
pressure, thus cutting on all communication.


THE OTHER srATH PRrsoNERs
accompanying Davis, will be provided for in manner
similar TO himself At all events thcy will be secure
against escape pleasant for the country to
have
Year: 1865

Cold and dreary would life be were
there no hearts to sympathize with US in
our affliction, but sometimes the winds
grow boisterous and tbe arms Of sympa.
thy are powerless to save from sinking
beneath the dark pillows ofsorrow which
Ssem roady to engulpb us How blessWd
Year: 1865

Bulbs IN DIsHEs.-Whe en- it is def


sirable to ornams snt q stand or ta.


bile with bulbs. you may use any
deep vessel, such as a salad bowl
or tureen, and fl it up two or
three inches with sand, and all the
rest oft with fine green moss.
Place the bulbs halfway down In
the moss. Hyacinths, for this pur.
pose, should be selected to grow
the same height. La Mu de Ceur,
red, and the same name blue, are
dwarf. PFRe them alternately
close to the edge, and get any early
white for the centre. but according
to the size of the vessel select your
bulbs. Water freely, for they
must not dry When the roots
reach the sand they will grow
strong: but they will do without
sand if well supplied with water.
Year: 1865

70 The Union men Of Pike county made a
gallant fight at the last election, and came
very near capturing this stronghold of the
encmy-Feducing their majority to about 100
against $50 last year. Every town shows
Union gain. Another year will complete the
good work
Year: 1865

book Is worthless as contribution to history
AZ mere written stump speech In apology
for his course, dealing with no Other facts
than those already made public, We doubt II
lis publishers WILL End II even successful
ventue
Year: 1865

GEN. CAss' TRIBUrE.-We call atten-
ton to the letter Of General Cass on the
second page Of the paper this morning.
The tribute which he pays to the ability,
patriotism and honesty Of President Lin.
coin, is worthy Of q place in the records
of history. How the almost universal
testimony of the nation to the private
and public virtues of Mr.. Lincoln should
shame the Copperhead press and the
C,pperhead leaders whose chief business
for the last four years has been to villify
and denounce him as an imbecile and
knave, usurper and despot, who soush,
his country's ruin. And in view of the
utter falsity and groundlessness of this
miserable viluperation, how careful should
the people be in future how thoy put
faith in the lying rascals who have been
trying to blackcn the pure and spotIess
lame of Mr. Lincoln.
Year: 1865

EH The new Constitution of Missouri
and the Ordinance of Emancipation are
distinct instruments in Missouri, and are
to be voted on separately BY the people
There seems to be no doubt that the Or
dinance of Emancipation will be ratified
whatever may be the fate Of the Coustita
ton.
Year: 1865

g The Canadian papers are becom
ing quite excited as to the propriety and
policy of continuing to give aid and pro
lection to the rebel marauders under the
pretenco of neutrality, now that the rebel
government is a thing Of the past.
Year: 1865

The New York Ri4bune, in its profound
anxiety to secure the right of suffrage to the
negroes of the South, proposes to extend q
universal amnesty to all the whites, if they
will, in exchange for "that one, that small,
that almost no request" f." allow the negroes
to become their political equals. Mr.. Gree,
ly is, in this instance almost as liberal as tn,
devil was when he offered the Son of Mar
all the Kingdoms of the world if he would
fall down and worship him. But what be
comes of the wckedness of the rebellion il
the whole of it can be atoned for by the one
godly act of allowing the negroes to vote 2
Plain Deoier.
Year: 1865

To men the star of love is like venus in
the sky. In early youth it is dreary Hes
perus, or an evening star, filling their world
with twilight of flowers and the songs Of
nightbirds later, it is the morning star of
purity and power, that makes known the
day; and they can become become united 50 e; as to to
their appearance.
Year: 1865

Fanaticism is religion caricaturod, bears
the same relation to it that monkey bears
to a man; yet with many, contempt of fan
aticism is received as a sure sign of hostility
to religion.
Year: 1865

NEw YoRK, Nov. THE Commercial
special from Washington says nearly all
the clerks in the Departments have gone
home to vote. Polls for soldiers viii be
opened here and OF Alexandra.


The President urged upon the author
tiles reduction of the estimstes for the
next fiscal year to the lowest sans.


Regulations are being prepared for the
collection of the tariff on the frontier on
the termination of The Reciprocity
Treaty. The prospects for q new treaty
are doubtful


There is no panic in ths city about
the cholera.
Year: 1865

LorIsvIEIE, Nov 3 by order OF the
President, The Westsr Associated Press
will meet in this city on the 22d last
The Western Association extend a cor
dial invitation to the Press Of the South,
and can bus hope they will attend this
meeting. sst - #as@
Year: 1865

As to the whereabouts or movements Of. the ar
mics of Sherman and Gen. Johnston, We can gain
no important or reliable intelligence. There is
little doubt however that both armies are now in
the heart of North Carolina. The evidences &C
cumulate that the lcgions of tho continent will
meet in tremendous and terrible confics far to-
ward the Atlantic coast. Not in two years past,
has SO great energy pervaded every department
of our army Our people and our soldiers are
unmistakably determined to accept nothing short
of independence. and liberty from Yankee rule
and Yankee violence.
Year: 1865

We copy this morning the views of
the Cincinnati. Gazette on Peace and
Reconstruction These views meet our
approval far more than the glittsringe
motto which hoated from its eagles
beak few days ago. What We want
now is the acknowledged supremacy of
civil law If rebels are indiscriminately
pardoned without und ergoing even the
form Of trial, the civil law will be shame
fully ignored. The rebels hsve bowed
to the supremacy Of our arms and the
prowess of our soldiers, now let them be
compelled to bow to the supremacy of
civil law. That is an unsafe, sickly, O
maudlin sentimentality that ignores the
claims of justice. Justice should be
tempered with mercy, but let JUSTICE
be done, +" though the heavens fall If
it is to be understood in this country
that treason is undeserving of punish
ment other than i, casually receives in
return for the damaging blows it inaicts
upon the Government, then has the
blood shed by our noble soldiers been
spilled in vain. A premium IS offered
for future outbreaks Traitors win say
TO themselves; LstSus try again; if we
succeed, power and dominion are ours;
if We fail, we but revert to cur original
position in the Government We COM
mend the article from the Gazette to a
calm and close reading ! -as,sef
Year: 1865

In the moral conditions Of this world, il
is necessary that people whowoald re-
tain their freedom and rights should
have il known that they are ready to
maintain them by force Of arms. We wish
to abate no part of the costly demon
stration. aa 20 Iol sDa3 a1s ~


We have conquered the Southern re-
bellion. tits we'll to triumph over il,
and that the lesson should be impressed
deep in the sufferings, despair, and hu-
initiation Of The rebels. We have de-
stroyed their great Southern Empire,
whose cornerstone vas TO be Slavery,
and whose superstrueture military pres
tige and power 1t is necessary TO
make them realize their suhjugation.
But the subjugstion of the rebellion ac-
complishes our ends, and when they or
their Northern sympathizers, or the
weAk-minded among the welLmeRning,
talk of the wrong Of the .subjugation Of
people, and of holding them as vaasals,
we show the dishonesty Of it BY the fact
that We fght only 70 put down the re-
bellion against equal laws, which the
Southern people have always declared
bsnefcent; to maintain the existence OF
a Government which they have always
boasted as the best the sun ever shone
upon.


The same obedience, TO law that we
pay is all we ask of them. We have
fought to subdne their rebellion. The
ulterior measures that we impose are
only such safeguards an shall be neces-
sary to seal is end, to establish peace on
permanent foundations, TO. remove the
cause Of sectional conflict, and 10 hold
the local governments in Abeyance until
loyalty shall be SO established that they
may be safely entrusted to the majority
of the inhabitants. Anything less than
this will but restore defeated rebels to
political power to renew the conflict
Anything short of indemnity for the past
and security for the future will be fatal 10
the party now in power, and will give up
the country 70 the control Of the restored
rebels and their Northern confederates.
Year: 1865

The Washington correspondent OF
the Cincinnati Gazette sass that the
report that Mr.. Lincoln favored the re-
organization Of Virginia by the rebel
Legislature is untrue. Arrangements
are in progress TO establish the Pierpont
Government in that city. The report
that comes to us through New York pa
pers, that the President will waive ev-
erything for the sake Of reunion on the
basis of emancipation, may also be re-
garded as purely sensational.
Year: 1865

! There il cruelty more heartless
than stern justice. or vengeance, more
Indifferent to blood than the most brutal
isoldiery; il is the heartlessuess Of politi-
cal trifArs, who, untouched in their own
persons by the nations calamity, are
generous in the blood of the brave pa
triots who have fallen in their country 8
cause; who are magnauimous to forgive
crimes that others have suffered, and
who actually make merit of their lack
of feeling and ef moral sense. Some of
these zre crying out that we must mod,
crate our transport over Victories that
are crushing the rebellion; that we mast
spare the rebels the conviction that they
are conquered, or we shall make them
implaeable; and that if we cannot re-
cover their love, we shall yet fail to re-
store the Union. 5ns5gW


The rebellion was begotten of the idea
that the Northern people would not fight
for the national preservation, and would
not dare resist Southern secession. The
belief in the lack Of spirit in the North
ern people was dangerous to the nation
; al peace and popular Government 1t
became necessary that they should con-


vert it by fighting, and il is necessary
thatthe lesson should be fully impressed
on the Southern mind This is the way


to peace. We shall throw away the les
son if we shate one jot of the demon
strstion that the. Northern people have


whipped The Southern. The rebellion


was amenable to noIArggnent but mill
tary snblugation, and it is necessary 20
the beginning of the restoration of peace,
that the rebellious people of the South
should realins that they are sabiugated.
Year: 1865

READING, Pa, April IS, 1854
DR. WIsHART-Dear Sir: One year ago the
Examining Surgeon of this district told me
had Consumption of the Lungs, and that could
not be cured; aud Judging from all my symptoms
at that time, myself supposed this to be true.
was for more than one year troubled with a
hacking cough, which gradually grew SO bad
that 1 could not have a severe fit of coughing
without splitting up blood in large quantities.


For months could not work at anything
and was obliged TO keep my bed most of the
time While in this condition | was in Mr.
owbotham's store, IN this city and lie seeing
how low | was, recommended me to try your
Pine Tree Tar Cordial. He said he had sold
great deal Off aud that, as il had cured so many
others, he believed ii would do some good /
bought bottle and commenced using it. In a
very short time | saw that | was getting better
very fast and after taking several bottles was
entirely restored TO health, SO that could work
every day at my business, which is very heavy
work. in an iron foundry When / commenced
to use your Pine Tree Tar Cordial my weight
was emily one hundred and thrty-fi pounds;
since the use of it have weighed on an average
one hundred and fifty five. ! shall be glad TO
have you publish this, as | believe | should not
have been living at this time if had not used
your great medicine, and | wish all who suffer
TO receive It's benefit


Very truly yours,


Capt. SAMUEL HARNER.
Year: 1865

Some friends of Mr.. Lincoln, after asserting
the truth of the statement that slavery was
dead, asked him why, under thecircumstances
he couldn't let it alone and make peace with
out the condition. He replied that it remind
ed him of a little incident down in Illinois: A
friend OF his, passing along a village street, was
painfully bitten by AN ugly dog. A single
blow of heavy stick, skillfully aimed, was
sufficient to kill the animal Instantly; and the
enraged pedestrian still continued so pummel
the corpse till little vestige of the canine form
was left. At length he was acoosted with
What are you about? That dog has been dead
this ten minutes" II know ii, was the reply,
"but want to give the beast a realizing punish
nent after death"