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Year: 1868

With few exceptions, everything the
farmer produces brings good round
profit on the cost of production, show
ing that the business can be safely ex-
tended. We think, as a rule, our
Northern farmers do not employ as
much labor as they ought to make
their business profitable. They are
content to run along, just supporting
their families, when they might do
this and have handsome surplus by
using more labor. 1t costs very little
more brain-work to direct the labor of
six men than the labor of one. If
there is profit in in hiring one man,
there is six times the profit in hiring
six, other things being equal. Of
course it requires more capital and
more care. There can be no doubt
that farming pays with present prices,
and we hold that land is profitable
just as we expend labor and capital
upon it. If any man has any doubt
upon that point, let him plant an acre
of corn, applying fifty dollars worth of
stable manure, and giving thorough
cultivation, and compare the result
with little or no manure and poor cul-
tivation. Labor is much higher than
it used to be, but farm crops sell
enough higher to make up the differ
ence, and leave margin for profit.


We have no doubt that multitudes
of our skilltiul farmers would greatly
improve their fortunes by using more
labor and enlarging their business.
They have skill enough and capital
enough, if it were put in the right
place. The markets show clearly
enough that we want more hay and
grain, more beef and butter, more pota-
toes and poultry, and that all corn crops
pay well for raising. The manufactu-
rer and merchant are very much in
doubt about their ventures now, and
some are failing. The farmer has no
solicitude of this kind. He may extend
his business and thrive. Get skillful
labor if it can be had, but if not, use
tie emigrant. Many who come over
have been trained to farm labor, and
very soon adapt themselves to our
methods. If the farmer can be in the
field with bis help the most of the
time, skill s.of less importance. One
of the best hands we ever had began
work with us the day after he landed,
and stayed with US six years. If a
green hand has aptness he will acquire
skill, and after few months will be as
serviceable at most kinds of work as
the best hand. There is no difficulty
in getting emigrant labor, in any guam
tity, and at reasonable prices. Thous-
ands of them come to our shores every
month, and are eager to secure places.
Give them a chance to earn their
bread, and to make homes for them
selves upon land of their own.-Amer-
ican Agrieultwalist.
Year: 1868

The result of the New Hampshire
election is a sad, bitter disappointment
to the Copper-rebel party, South as well
as North, and on no one does the blow fall
more severely than on the apostate who
stands indicted before the bar of the
Senate for "high crimes and misde-
meanors." The people of the West lit
tie know of the efforts made by the
Copperheads to wrest that State out of
the hands of the Republicans. Fed
eral patronage was employed to the ut
most. Every officeholder was obliged
to work for the election of the Copper
head ticket with all his might, or sub
init to dismissal. Secretaries McCul-
loch and Welles, and Postmaster Ran
dali, used their whole official influence
against us. At the Portsmouth Navy
Yard every workman was compelled to
support the Copperhead nominees on
pain of discharge; every alien was
hunted up and naturalized, and many
imported for that purpose. All sorts
of appeals were made to the liquor in
terest, and whatever party capital could
be grubbed out of the humbug of pay
ling off the national debt in greenbacks
was derived from that source. But
this was not all. A black mail assess
ment was levied on every ofiiceholder
in the Atlantic States, from Washing
ton to Bangor, to raise money, and tens
of thousands of dollars were thus pro-
cured. The rich men of the party bled
Iprofusely, and the municipal office
holders of that corrupt and disloyal city
disgorged immense sums. John Nor
rissey is said to have given his check
for $4,000, and Belmont for twice that
sum, and other magnates in proportion
to their means. The money was used
to perfect the organization of their par
lty; bring to the polls the last vote pos
sible; buy back those who had left them
and to purchase any venal Republicans
who were in the market at whatever
price they might depand. Any Re
publican could get from one to two
hundred dollars for his vote; it was
standing offer.


The excitement ran high; meetings
were nightly harangued in every vii
lage and school district; scores of
stumpers were imported from abroad,
and documents, handbills and roor-
backs were scattered over the State
thicker than fallen leaves in October.
1t was deemed absolutely essential to
the future prospects of the Copperhead
party elsewhere that New Hampshire
should be carried at all hazards and at
whatever cost. 1t was the opening
gun of the campaign. If the State
was won it would be Justly claimed as
popular condemnation of impeach-
ment and of the Republican plan of re-
construction. Hence the necessity of
success. What then must have been
the chagrin and disappointment of the
Copperhead leaders when the crushing
news came to them on Tuesday night
that they were routed horse, foot and
dragoons,- and that too by as large
majority as they were beaten last year,
when they did not half try to win.


At the Presidential election of 1864,
when the political current ran strongly
on the Republican side, the majority
Year: 1868

Oh, wonderful stream is the river Of Time,
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With a faultless rhythm and musical


rhyme,
Aad broad ming sweep, and surge sub


lime,


That blends with the ocean of years.
How the winters are drifting like flakes of


snow,


And the summers like buds between,
And the year is the sheaf-so they come and


they go,
On the rivers breast, with its ebb and flow,
As it glides through the shadow and


sheen.
There's musical isle on the river Of Time,
Where the softest of airs are playing
There's cloudless sky and tropical cline,
And a song as sweet as vesper chime,
When the Junes with the roses are staying
And the name of this isle is Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there
There are brows of beauty and bosoms oi
There are heaps of dust but we love them
There are triukets and tresses Of hair.
There are fragments Of songs that nobody


sings,


And part of an infants prayer;
There's lutte unswept, and harp without
strings
There are broken vows and pieces of rings
And the garment that she used 10 wear.
There are bands that are waved when the


fairy shore


By the mirage is lifted in air
Aud we sometimes hear through the turbu-
lent roar
Sweet voices, we heard in days gone before
When the wind down the river is fair.
Oh remembered for aye be that blessed
isle,
All the days of our life till night
When the evening comes with its beautiful
smile,


And our eyes are closed to slumber a while


May our greenwood " of soul be in sight
Year: 1868

TIE Boston Journal Of Chemistry says that
pencil writing may be fixed almost as indel-
iibly as ink by passing the moistened tongue
over it. Even breathing slowly over the
lines, after writing, renders them much less
liable to erasure than when not subjected to
that process.
Year: 1868

ordered by the Board that the secreuasy publish in tho Lincoln County
Herald all and other which the
,ucensed persons interested and feel
aggsvsd valuation be notified
appear before Board Monday the 2 May 1865 which
said Board will meet to hear and determine appeals
Year: 1868

rising of the Southern constellation, as it
doomed up brightly on the horizon Of war,
pursuing to its splendid zenith the fiery
paths Of Mars, now behold not unmoved its
declining splendors going down in the gloom
Of eternal night And he, its illustrious
chief, whose lofty plume was ever its rally
ing point in battle, and round whom its af,
fections warmly clustered, now commended
it for its past devotion, bade it adieu for
evers Slowly aud sadly be rode from that
mournful field, and the cause that be fought
for was beneath the foot of power. Few
were the eyes that grew not moist at wit
Messing that departure. 1t was the agony
Of great cause finding expression in the
sublime soul of its great defender. And
though that cause be dead, yet will its mem
ory continue 10 live, and ever honored will
DO those names that sacrificed at It's altars.
And on the scroll of fame no name among
the list of worthies shall shine in a purer
serener, or more resplendent light than that
of Robert Edmund Lee. His fame is monu
mental. His name will be placed by the
side Of those of great captains of history-of
Marlborough and SAKE, of Tilley and Eu-
gene and as long as the fame of the South
ern struggle shall linger in tradition and
song, will bis memory be cherished by the
descendants of the Southern races; while
bis character will stand up in the twilight
of history like some grand old cathedral, lift
ing itself in imperishable beauty above the
objects of earth, majestic in its vast propor-
tiOns, awful in its solemn stateliness, sublime
in its severe simplicity
Year: 1868

WHILE there exists workingman in the
country there must be democratic party
Democracy and labor are inseparably united
Democracy means the people, and in every
country the peOple-the masses-embrace
the laborers, artisans and toilers in general
What more significant or appropriate name,
therefore, could the people assume than that
of democracy? There must always be a
party of the peOple-a party whose constant
aim, object and soicitute it is to struggle
against the encroachments and injustice of
the monied and non-working classes-hence
workingmen areuntrue to their interests when
they oppose that party.
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used BY all classes Of
people for every symptom Of stomach out of
order"


The secret of 1t is this : Plantation Bitters are
certain to correct the juices of the Stomach set all
its machinery at work, and enable it 10 resist aud
throw of the approaching danger The tendency of
the operations Of Nature is always towards cure
all she needs little assistance at the proper time
How much more reasonable and sensible it is to help
her along with a gentle, yet powerful Tonic than
to deluge and weaken and defeat her curative pro-
which only stupefy and plant the seeds Of disease
and death.
Year: 1868

PERRY CREEK MINEs.-A miner just down
from Perry Greek brings late news from the new
diggings In following up the creek the gold is
iound to be much coarser than at the place
'here the original discovery was made. All the
Gains had been laid over for the winter, but
many of the claimants had failed to comply with
the mining laws, and in all such cases the
ground is liable to be jumped. A large party
Of Cinnamon, under the protection of the Gold
Commissioner, had attempted to gain lodg-
nent in the new diggiogs, but were driven out
0y the miners. The ground as far as prospected
showed yield of an ounce day to the hand,
out many of the claims will pay much better
'aan this. Some two hundred men will winter
10 the mines. The Hudson Bay Company has
wen stocked store in the mines. Three or four
Nauers with full stocks had arrived, and so there
Tt no apprehension of a scarcity of provisions.
tue discovery was made too late in the season to
eeftaln with any certainty the extent of the
illues, but the belief is that the camp will be
ge one-numbering probably two thousand
~inefs. large number of Montanains are
:. ,.u'eFlng in the Bitter Root Valley, preparatory
ss making an early start for the mines in the
~ p',Ug Every thing about the mines is hopeful,
~. "aila Walla may expect large trade from


quarter the coming season.
Year: 1868

Soar FACroRY.-Mr. Conlisk, late of Vancou-
yer, is now engaged in putting up the necessary
machinery for the manufacture of soap and can>
dies at Walla Walla, and in the course of
week or two will be ready to commence opera
tions This factory will afford a market for the
fat and grease that has heretofore been allowed
to go to waste, thus encouraging habits of
economy. Butchers and housekeepers generally
will bear this fact in mind, and save their sur
plus fat and grease Mr.. Conlisk, when he gets
his factory under way, expects to manufacture
soap and candles sufficient to supply the home
market, and also to meet any possible demand
from the mines. With the advantage of freight
in his favor, Mr.. c. will be able to fill orders at
lower figures than the same articles can be laid
down for from below. Any thing that tends to
build up home industry deserves to be encour-
aged, and in this spirit we trust that our mert
chants and business men will favor this new
enterprise.
Year: 1868

Low WATER.-Passengers just up from below,
inform US that the water in the river is very low,
and that even if there is no freeze up the boats
must soon stop running from inability to get
over the rapids at the present low stage of water
Year: 1868

DRAPED-The store of young man doing
business on Main street, was found draped In
mourning, at an early hour on Tuesday morning.
At first it was supposed that some one was dead,
but on enquiry it was ascertained that the young
man had sustained sad bereavement the pre-
yiOus day, and had taken that method of express
ing his gref-how profound his grief was will
be understood when we state that the front doot
Of his premises was draped with two yards Of
black cambric We trust that our young friend
is not altogether inconsolable, aud bid him res
member whilst repairing the rents in tin-ware,
that time repairs the rents of the heart.
Year: 1868

EXCELSIOR FLouR.-We have tried a specimen
lot of -four ground at the Excelsior Mill, d" and
find it of excellent quality. With the new ma,
chinery the Excelsior Mill is turning out -four
equal to the best brands in the country.
Year: 1868

LADIES FAIR.--The ladies attached to the
Catholic Church, are arranging for fair in aid
Of the orphans fund The Sisters of Charity
have under their care number of orphan child
ren, who have no means of support other than
that extended them by these charitable ladies.
When appealed to render assistance to such
a worthy cause as this, the response of our cit,
zens cannot be other than liberal. The Fair
will be opened on or about the 2lst, and remain
open during the holidays.
Year: 1868

THE WAY 1T WoRKs.-The demonstration made
by the radicals in this county, has had the effect
to stir up our democratic friends, and as a result
we are constantly placing new names on our
subscription books. We trust that Anderson
Cox will bring out his organ and give US
specimen of his scent. No backing down this
tna
Year: 1868

toral bonds that the National Government does not
give It's consent thereto. But would have the General
Government give It's consent"


Beng asked here II this right OF State taxation must
not be given AT the time the bonds sod In order
that purchasers might know what they were buying Mr.
PendletOn said


That ~ an undecided question. My own opinion Is
that the General Government may change It's rate OF tax
alton after the bonds sold. do not believe there Is
anything in the law the nature of the amounting
10 contract. that the Government bonds now eXtah
shall not be taxed above certain rate. The Government
changes It's rule rate OF taxation all other property
why not on bonds the same This opinion hold subject
To future mod dcaOn. However, IL the General Govern
mcnt cannot legally give its consent TO State taxation OF


its bonds after the bonds sold, then the General
Government ought itself To tax It's bonds to amount
equal 10 that tax both Federal and State levied
on other property" lCiDclnnati Com.
Year: 1868

A s.MARRIAGE FOR Fun" ANNuLLED BY THE
CoURTs.-in the Wayne Circuit Court DE


roit, one of the most novel suits for divorce
ever instituted was concluded by the granting
OF The prayer OF the petitioner. The case is thar
OF a marriage which was performed i'm that
city in August last which was first made pub
lie through the columns of the Free Press As
will be remembered, the young man and Young
woman in question. Mr.. William w. Bowers
and Miss Julia l.. Madison, AZ an evening
party. bantered each other 10 marry, ana in the
same spirit Of jest thar prompted the bantering


proceeded TO the residence of a clergyman


where the ceremony was performed, the min
lister, however. not being let into the secret but
supposing the marriage 10 be I'm earnest, and the
intention of the parties bona 6de, 10 become
husband and wife. To the sorrow OF the maid


and the chagrin of her other hall. who had been
made unwittingly husband, the clergyman
pronounced his opinion that they Were moi only
somewhat married, . as Artemus Ward said OF
Brigham Young. but tho truth also came home
to the parties that they were a great deal too
much married. The result was that the vouns
maiden entirely innocent and unsophisticared
in the ways OF married llfe, was Obliged To go
before the Court and have the con SEQ ueuces or
her silly frivolity set aside and annnuled bv
Juuicial form. OF course the young man, the
partner OF her sorrows, did not appear TO de-
fend himself against the claim for a divorce
and the decree asked for by the petitioner was
granted. II
Year: 1868

long ago, in Parliament and suggested
an official inquiry into the question
whether, or not, there We're any possible
way Of connecting the cars of train
with the locomotive. in such a manner
that il there were fire or a murder going
on the engine might be stopped, II the
gentleman had Travelled in the United
States |, might possibly have occurred To
him that rope attached TO bell is an
efficient aud simple way OF accomplishing
the desired result This still remains an
upsolved problem, We believe, in ml out
of the British Parliament.
Year: 1868

weight ~ butter, the grain il more than
neutralized by the deterioration Of the ar,
ticle which ensucs." Where butter is de.
signed for immediate consumption, il
does not requirc more than a quarter Of
an ounce to the pound, but il intended
for keeping or shipment, double this
amount will he about right The salt
should be pure and OF the best quality of
rock. It's use is essential in consequence
of the presence of casein or eurd, which
il Is difficult ta separate wholly from the
butter, and whose tendency is to rancidiy
unless counteracted by salt or its equiya.
leHt
Year: 1868

PROTECTION OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
"A bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature providing that all rail-
road companies in the State shall place
ratings on the top of freight cars, and
bridges between all cars in the train, thus
securing safety to brakemen and others
under the necessity Of passing from one
car to another. 1t proposes to place en-
ployes of railroads upon the same foot
ing as passengers-so that if they receive
injuries through carelessness or bad man
agement on the part of others, they will
be entitled to damages, the same as if they
were passengers. The object of the bill
is very favorbly considered by members
who believe its provisions simply just to a
large and worthy class of men who daily
run as great risks as the average of sol
diers in an ordinary camp aign.
Year: 1868

JERSEY Cows.-A Jersey COW should
have thin jaws, small muzzle, with
white rim around it, wide between the
horns, q full eye, and horns small, yellow


and waXy looking at the root, tapering
off to black on the tip of the horn neck,
/ long and slim, well filled out behind the
] shoulders, straight back, and round, full
/ barrel small tail tip of tail bright,
deep orange color deer like legs with
square bag running well forward, and
well up behind; teats of medium size,
well set apart bag and teats of orange
color, no matter how deep that color is.


The Jersey COW is not a deep mixer.
The most | ever had one give in u day was
nineteen quarts. From twelve to fourteen
quarts per day is good milking for Jer-
sey COW. The cream from Jersey milk is
not equalled by any other known breed
of cows in the world, being very thick
and firm, of bright color, making the
most delicious butter of the same COM
plexion. The Jerseys, like all other cows,
differ in quantity and quality Of milk and
butter. Some OF them will make more
butter from the same quantity of milk.
The average Of butter is, one pound from
four to six quarts of milk. A great deal
depends upon the feed and management.
As every one knows or ought to know
different locations and pastures are more
suitable for butter making than others.
The most butter per week / have ever
mado from Jersey COW was sixteen
pounds. have been told that there are
cows that will make from eighteen to
twenty pounds of butter per week. It
may be so, but~it has never been my good
luck to see or own such. II have Jer-
sey COW that will give from twelve to six
teen pounds of butter per week, call her
a good one.-Cor. Farm and Freside.
Year: 1868

A CARD.-Doct. Perkins desires to ex.
press to his fellow citizens of Castleton
his grateful acknowledgment for theil
prompt and efficient aid in rescuing him
self, his invalid family and his property
in the recent burning of his dwelling
and also to his several friends for their
very generous donation, and to assure
them Of his estimate, that the moral value
of their sympathy cannot be expressed by
the peeuniary worth of their generosity.
Year: 1868

A dispatch from San Francisco Ays
that owing to the increased demand the
Central Pacific Railroad Conpaay have
further advanced the price Of thsir Arst
mortgage honda TO par and interest,"
Year: 1868

Is as extensive as that of any Job
bing House In the States. These
goods have all been purchased
from First Hands upon the most
favorable terms, and will be offer
ell to dealers by the Package or
otherwise. .... .--..r--.H .s4r...


Purchasers are informed that
this stock of goods is so extensive,
that their wants can be supplied
for an indefinite period, without
making any change in the quality
of the articles that they may adopt
for use Our stock of
Year: 1868

A Mount Pleasant Iowa boy met
an unfortunate COW the other day on the
street, and the frozen snow suggesting the
idea, concluded he would have slide


He seized hold of the cows tail, and she
not understanding this unusual proceed
ing, started rapidly off The urehins
thinking this plan of navigation good
one, joined in the sport, and soon long
line, boys hands and coat tails forming
the coupling irons, were having a jolly
time of it at the expense of the poor COW.
Year: 1868

A PARADIsE-A writer in Putnam's Month ly Magazine, thus sums up the happy lot of the Japanese:

 "Take the Japanese as whole, high and low. rich and poor, they are the best fed, best clad, best lodged, least overworked and most genial and happy people on the face of the earth.

 Food is abundant and cheap-imaginary wants rare; and thus temptation to crime are less than with us, though the land is no Uto- pia.

 There is no such thing as sqGalor to be seen in Japan. In the house of the very poorest, fifth avenue belle might sit upon the matted floor without soiling her dress. The streets are admirably severed; all ofial and garbage are removed for manure.

 There is no bigotry. Tine people are won derfully open minded. There is no hatred of Christianity as such; only it is feared as an engine to cause political change"
Year: 1868

Who that fought for the old flag will stand aloof from the Great Captain that bore it to yictory2-Phladslphia Press

 Every man who fayors an economical ad- ministration of the government, a reduction of the burdens of taxation, the rights of the States to control their own domestic affairs, the restoration of the supremacy of the Con stitution, sound and safe currency, in equal taxation, and an honest and equitable distri- button of the burdens of the government. to all of which Gen. Grant, as the representa- tive of the Radical party, stands opposed DetT0it Free Press.