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Year: 1860

Poultry.


AS the season of the year for poultry is
coming, we copy as follows from the New
England Farmer. Country people cannot
tell what difference it will make to them
in the price Of poultry to have it neatly
prepared for market Besides this, the
farmer and his wife who bring nice poultry
to market or nice butter, always are treated
with extra regard by every one when they
may offer their produce for sale. A sloven-
ly.got-up roll Of butter or ,coolly pair of
fowls offered for sale by pretty girl has
doubtless been the cause of neglect on
the part of a young mechanic or merchant
who might otherwise have proposed for a
wife. Girls, do not let want of neatness
in household duties cause you to want a
husband. Be nice and neat as you all know
how to be and we pledge the influence of
the Times to assist you in every way to
reach that goal of woman's heart, A HONE ::


1--WE have often noticed the careless and
SioSSiuN uidiiueI, duu tuc llLttc NllCUtlOu
paid to the external appearance of poultry
offered for sale in our markets; and we
have likewise noticed the ready sale and
higher prices where due regard was paid to
having the skins all sound and clean; the
breast not mutilated by long cut, the
shrinking skin exposing the drying meat
covered over with hay seed or chaff; but
well covered over with fat Of rich golden
yellow. Much Of the poultry exposed for
sale has been through the process of scald-
ing to facilitate the picking-this practice
should never be resorted to. 1t turns the
rich yellow of the fat into tallowy hue,
and oftentimes the skin SO that it pecls of,
unless very carefully handled. No cut
should be made in the breast; all the offal
should be taken out behind, and the open
ing should be as small as possible; the in
side should be wiped out with dry cloth,
but no water should be used to cleanse
them. With a moist cloth take off the
blood that may be found upon the carcass.
In picking, great care should be taken not
to tear the skin; the wings should not be
cut of, but picked to the end; the skin of
the neck should be neatly tied over it, if the
head is cut off. Most people like to see the
heads of fowls left ont makes better
show. The heads of ducks and geese
should not be cut Off"
Year: 1860

New PAINr-Mr.. Sherman of Milwau.
kee called on us last week and exhibited a
new article of Paint, the basis of which is
Lime and the finishing coat Of silex or glass,
Wcwcre much interested in his explanation
Of its durability and cheapness and hope
he will perfect arrangements to establish a
manufactury Of it at this point. We learn
that parties here are ready to engage in
this enterprise in small way. If it sue
ceeds here as well as at other places (Mil.
waukee for instance,) the stock will be
good. There is no oil in it.
Year: 1860

| H..


"Sir," said the doctor, ''the weather is
very frosty-wil you not take something to
drink before you start?''
In that early day, ardent spirits were
deemed indispensable to warmth in winter
When commencing journey, and at every
stopping place along the road, the traveller
always used intoxicating drinks to keep him
warm.


NO." said Mr.. l., II never touch
anything Of that kind; my wife is the cause
of it,"


had been in the habit of meeting some
Of our neighbors every evening for the pur-
pose Of playing cards. We assembled at
each others shops, and liquors were intro.
duced. After awhile we met, not so much
for playing as drinking, and used to return
home late in the evening more or less intox.
icated. My wife always met me at the door
affectionately, and when chided her for
sitting up SO late for me, she kindly re-
plicd


~ prefer doing so, for cannot sleep when
you are out"


This always troubled me. I wished in
my heart she would only begin to scold me,
for then would have retorted, and relieved
my conscience. But she always met me
with the same gentle and loving spirit.


Things passed on thus for months, when
| at last resolved that would, by returning
much intoxicated, provoke her displeasure
so much as to cause her to lecture me, when
| meant to answer her with severity, and
thus by creating another issue between us,
unburthen my bosom ofits present trouble.
| returned in such plight about 4 o'clock
in the morning. She met me at the door
with usual tenderness, and said:


Come in husband; have Just been
making warm fire for you, for knew you
would be cold. Take off your boots and
warm your feet, and here is q cup of hot
Coffee


Doctor, that was too much. could not
endure it any longer, and l resolved that
would never touch another drop while live,
| and | never WILL"
He never did. lie lived and died prac.
ticing total abstinence from intoxicating
drinks, in village where intemperance has
ravagcd as much as any other in the State.
That man was my father, and that wo-
man my mother. The facts above related
were received from the doctor himself, when
on visit to my native village not long
since
Year: 1860

Getting Married.


There is nothing in life so important as
getting married and yet it is rare that you
see two persons who have recently expert
enced that delightful transmutation which
tiguratively turns ".wo into one" without
noticing sort Of sheepish sortncss, kind
of calflike stare, as though they were
ashamed of each other or that their interior
satisfaction was so immense that they had
no mind for any subject outside the new
kingdom which they had fallen heir to-
Our editorial window is opposite to, and on
a level with, the balcony of the American
Hotel and it is frequently our luck to notice
on that balcony couple Of human curio-
sites who have fled from either an eastern
or western locality to enjoy the few first
days Of excitement in the hope perhaps
that their fondling would be less noticed
by strangers than by their acquaintances !;
or, what is quite as probable, to escape that
internal din Of chararairl-(sh (shirarer, the
Americans call IT'D which puts any quiet
man out all patience with his race. We
often have the luxury of witnessing these
delicate attentions which married folks will
pay to each other, for the first few days at
least, and it is not uncommon for us to
moralze at length, mentally, on the curiosi-
ties of this pairing off influence. We dare
not say much about it i'll the paper because
it is seldom we allude to any subject having
a bearing on the intimacies of the sexes at
ALL One thing we venture to state, and
that is that the ladies', when first married,
are invariably the most sensible; they
enter into the subject as though they were
born for it, (and so they are, for woman
without house is miserable and that only
a business arrangement had been consum-
mated; but the man appears as though
he had gone daft and in nine cases out
Of ten he looks as if he was not sure
whether he was entitled to a hat or bonnet,
so completely has he been Transformed
This getting married is wonderful altera-
tive Of the social habits Of men.
Year: 1860

ATLANTIc.-The October No. of this
scholarly magazine is splendid one. We
think its literary articles are better chosen
than usual. 1t contains political article
that is of great length and, aside from the
bitterness which seems necessarily to work
into politics, of great ability. The Atlantic
is Northern sentiment paper, and to
persons who want an able and interesting
magazine of the Republican order, the At
lantic will be very welcome.


BY sending us $500, all subscribers of
the Times can get the Atlantic-thc regular
price is Three Dollars.
Year: 1860

sB Henry Ward Beecher, on recent
occasion, said THE articles of the press
90 farther than the sermon, and carry with
them really moreweight: certainly where one
hears three day, which is an abomination
before God and man. No preacher who is
fit to preach sermon is fit to preach more
than one day, and no man is At to hear
more, or if he does, he is not tit for much
else. Sermons are like boys pop guns,
however many wads you put in, it's the
last wad that drives the others out"
Year: 1860

~ The Ways have found cut the way
to settle the ''irrcpressible conflict without
coming to blows. One asserts that the
best way to fire Southern heart is to
make love to Southern belle, and another
says the cotton region may 'be precipitated
into revolution BY marrying her.-Loui,-
vills Journal


The foregoing theories read very well,
but it would be impossible to reduce them
to practice without = resort to orma.-No-
iionol Enteligsmsr.
Year: 1860

SCARCITY OF Provisions AMONG THE CHoc-
TAws.-The Fort Worth (Texas) Chief states
that 'the Choctaws are about tocall on the
General Government for assistance 10 pro-
cure provisions for the people of the Nation,
as their crops have almost entirely been de-
stroyed by the drouth. We learn from good
authority that there win not be corn enough
raised in the whole Nation to last them until
Christmas, and as the appropriation of the
money due the Nation failed in Congress last
session, they are going to appeal to the Gov
ernment for assistance in some shape to keep
them from starvation" - Z
Year: 1860




The Chinese are our antipodes, not only
in geographical position, but they do many
things In q manner directly the reverse Of
our own. They shave the hair from the
head, instead of that Of the face, after they
reach manhood. The lather-brush looks
like O toothbrush, and they lather with
warm water only, without soap. They not
only always wash and bathe in hot water, but
will also drink warm water in preference to
cold. They begin ut the end Of a book to
read, and read from the top to the bottom,
beginning at the right hand, instead OF
across the page and beginning at the left.
Explanatory notes are always at the top Of
the page instead Of at the bottom. The title
Of book is always on the outer margin in
stead of at the top. The leaves are all
doubled and printed on one side, instead of
being single and printed on both.


The pupils in schools study as loudly as
they can scream, instead of silently, and in
reciting stand with the back to the teacher,
instead Of the face. They locate the seat Of
intelligence in the stomach, instead Of in
the head. In salutation, they each shake
their own hands instead of the others. With
them the magnetic needle is always said TO
point to the south; and in naming the four
cardinal points they say east, south, west,
north. Instead ofsouth east and northwest
they always say east-south and west-north.
Mating is used for mattresses, instead of on
floors, and they use hard pillows (some times
block of woody instead of soft Long
nails are eornamental--if three or four inches,
they are quite an aristocratic length. They
put the given name, or the title by which
you are called, after the family name, instead
Of before it. So it would be Smith Mr., in
stead Of Mr.. Smith. II is impolite to take
off your hat in the house. They plaster and
whitewash buildings on the outside oftener
than on the inner. l tH,
Year: 1860

AN ANTI-ADMINIsTRArIo PAsroR.-It is
to open their meetings with prayer. A
venerable clergyman, says the New York
Ecening Post called upon to perform this
service at the dedication of the Wigwam at
-, few evenings since, embraced in
his fervent petition the following by no
means complimentary allusion to the present
Administration; 40 Lord thou knowest
that some times the vilest of the vile attain
the high places of power, and that we, as a
people, are now undergoing bitter experience
IN his respect"
Year: 1860

~ Nothing can excsed the beauty OF
the weather at this present writing. The
days are splended and Spring like and the
bright full moon shedding her mellow light
upon things earthly. making the nights
delightiul-just the kind-o'nights for lovers
Uaika
Year: 1860

tension of the slave power, though person
ally he said nothing about Abolition. He
most strenuousiy opposed the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, was against the Kaa-
sas Nebraska bill, against the Lecompton
swindle, against the English bill and some-
times he maintained his course against the
instructions of the Tennessee Legislature
He has also been steadily opposed from the
first to all acquisitions of territory from
Mexico or Spain for new slave States. All
through he has acted fully up to all that the
Republican platform could demand. On the
other hand he has supported all those gea-
eral measures that have been most popular
at the north. If he had done half as much
for slavery as he has against its assumptions
and usurpations, he would be sure of every
democratic vote in the South, while now
he does not claim or expect Republican sup
port.


We are liable to have many worse men
than John Bell elected to the Presidency, and
have little chance of obtaining better.


OF Mr.. Everett we have no room to speak
to-day, and he is too well known here to
need words.-Nep5Wypor Herald
Year: 1860

A Prophecy FULFILLED In the Illino
contest of 1859, Mr.. Douglas had much to
say about the sectiouality of the Republi-
can party. In reply to one of these TRADES,
Hon. Abraham Lincoln used the following
remarkable terms:


g ask his attention, to the fact that by
the rule of nationality he is himself fast
becoming sectional. | ask his attention to
the fact that his speeches would not go as
current now South of the Ohio River as
they have formerly gone there. ask his
attention to the fact that he felicitates him
self to-day that all the Democrats of the
Free States are agreeing with him. If he
has not thought of this, commend to his
consideration the evidence of his own dec
laration on this day, of his becoming sec
tional too. see it rapidly approaching
Whatever may be the result of this ephem-
eral contest between Judge Douglas and
myself, see the day rapidly approaching
when the pill of sectionalism, which he has
been thrusting down the thro ITS of Repub-
cans for years past, will be crowded down
his own throat"
Year: 1860

THAT'S So.-We agree with the Mariposa
Gdzette in what it says, as follows: at is
important for the people to look well to the
coming election fer members of the Leyis-
l'ture; because, at the next session of that
body, a United Ststes Senator is to be elect
ed; and what is of infinitely more import
ance, ;he whole legislative representation
is to be re-apportioned upon the basis OF
the census of 1860. This will give rise to
one of the most exciting sessions ever wit
messed in the Sta and if we desire to get
fair show, we must send cur best men to
both tr1nches of the Legislature: men who
can speak and act, and who, from their abil-
tiles and character, can command influence
in the legislative halls If we send mere
dlmmies, who will draw their per diem and
vote aye and no, we will stand about as
much show for fair proportion of repre-
sentation, as a feline would in the Internal
regions without claws; or a male member
OF the bovine species, with his caudal ap-
pendage curtaiied, ia fly time"
Year: 1860

The LITERATURE OF THE PRESs.-1t GER
tainly can not be claimed for the American
press that its literary attainment is very
high. The editor of one of our interior pa
pers makes use of the phrase q we done it,
A city journal said of man whose leg was
unfortunately broken by accident, /" that he
had his leg broken" as if he had hired some
one to perform the painful operation. A
leading Sacramento paper, relating the sud-
Den disappearance Of lad who is supposed
to have fallen into hume and drowned,
says of him that ." he was found missing"
A western journal, in describing and extra
ordinary fall of meteOric stones, says that
one large mass weighing ffty-two pounds
descended ''in an angling direction Shade
Of Izaak Walton, what could it have been
fishing for?-S. f. Herald
Year: 1860

COMPUTING ISTEREsr.-A new mode OF
computing interest at six per cent. has been
published, which appears very simple. Null
tiply any given number OF dollars by the
number of days of interest desired; sepa-
rate the right hand figure, and divide by
six; the result is the true interest in cents
OF such sum forsu number of days at six
per cent. This rule is simple, and so true
according to all business usages, that every
banker, broker, merchant and clerk should
post it up for reference and use. There be-
ing no such thing as q fraction in it. there
is scarcely any liability to error OF mistake.
By no other arithmetical process can so de-
cided information be obtained with few fig
ures.
Year: 1860

SoirAAS, ARK, June 9th, le60.

 MEssRs. EDITORS: If you will allow me smaI space Tn your excellent paper, will indulge in scrbbling out short epistle of the matters and things in this end of old Van Buren, as it is SO se dom communication ever halls from here Tbera has been nothing strange nor miraculous turned m here of late. Every thing seems to be moving on in its wonted monotony. Rain has been badly need ed, but it is coursing down at this moment delight. fully, quenching the furnishing crops, cooling the air and giving energy and tone to nature general ly. The corn crop promises fair, and had just be- gan to need rain. Wheatis short bu: s better than was expected in the spring.

 Politics dull, the quality on hand is old, few wings who disclaim knowing any thing about "Sam," but sing Clay and the banks, are to be found here, though not enoughfor quorum. The democracy are united here, and next August will give Col R. H. Johnson hundreds of votes never boiled for candidate for Governor in Arkansas before. A majority of this end of the county emil grated hither since the last gubernatorial election They will support him not only for his State policy and his ability in carrying it through, but because he is the nominee of the democratic convention, and all democrats who oppose him are disorgan- izers learn with regret that the candidates for Governor will not address the citizens of this coun- ty in the present canvass. If they could conven- iently speak at Quitman, it being central point of densely populated district, multitude would be out to hear them.

 A number of the citizens met in convention on the fifth ult, to nominate candidates for county of hces for Van Buren county, but some of the ingrs- dients being combustible said convention exploded without transactng any business This event never set us back much, we have plenty of candidates here which saves the trouble of making nomna- tions. We in this portion of country are laboring under the inconvenience of living remote from our county seat; it is some forty miles from Clinton to the east end of the county; here all for new county-a new county we must have. There are two candidates for representative in this coun- ty, both claiming to be advocates for new county Well whichever of them elected will fight for this measure as long the term of the legislature ex- istsl We shall see.

 notice with pleasure the nomination of Col. J. c. Davie for the popular branch of the next legis- lature, by the democracy of Prairie county. Col. Davie is a gentleman of the first order patriotic, energetic and in all respects competent to fill the place for which he was nominated. The writer of this had the pleasure of his acquaintance in Ten nessee. To know him is to like him. May the next legislature be composed of such men as John Cal win Davie. D.
Year: 1860

EDIToFs TRUE DEMOCRAT

 Dear Sir: write to you to enquire why iti that the True Democrat is so irregular in coming to this office, it is now due here on Saturday, and although thestase comes regularly. do not think that your paper has ever come here on Saturday but once, and some times it does not come for week. Last Saturdays paper has not come here as yet. We feel some interest in getting paper at this time. and it is really annoying to be disappointed. So Johnson will get almost unanimous vote about here Dr. Mitchell is certainly on gaining ground, and think that if a few more of the papers that are in favor of Can't will take down Johnson's name and openly support Rector for Governor, Dr. Mitchel's election would de sure. W. B. L.
Year: 1860

an eternal conflict between these two con
testants. There is in neither Of them snJ
of the forbearance and tone Of peace which
characterized the founders of the COVERT
ment. One side is fighting, as it thinks, TO.
the very life of one section of the countrJ
and the other side are making an aggress-
i've constant war upon the other Section
"A higher law than the Constitution lie
preached in Civil Government 'an ire.
pressible conflict smong fraternal States.
war between Capital in enc part Of the
country, and Labor in another. And then
precede or follow, as the case cay be,
hue and cry about the Territories, one side
insisting upon special legislation for slavery
in the Territories, and the other side for
special legislation against slavery in the
Territories, and each side fghing for an ab-
stractiOn, not for practical principle, and
putting the country by their ears with the
very abundance Of their supsrfuous breath.
Surely there is straight and right way be-
tween these extremes, and as it is a safe and
straight road, is it too much to expect tha.
million or two Of the American people,
North and South, East and West, Sill de-
light 10 walk therein?'
Year: 1860

Clasp the hands meekly over the still
breast-they have no more work to do; close
the weary eyes-they have no more tears to
shed; part the damp locks-thers's no more
pains TO bear. Closed is the ear alike to
loves kind voice and calumny's singing
whispers.


o, if in that settled heart you have ruth.
lie sly planted thOrn-if from that plead
ing eye you have carelessly turned away
If your loving and kindly word and
clas ping hand come-all too late-then God
forgive you! No frown gathers on the mar
bic brow as you gaze--no scorn curls the
chiseled lips no flush of wounded feelings
mounts the blue-velned temples.


God forgive you! for your feet, too, must
shrink appalling from deaths cold river
your faltering tongue asks can this De
death? Your eyes linger lovingly on the
sunny earth. Your clammy hands yield
their last feeble futter.


o, rapaciOus grave! yet another victim
for thy voiceless sleepsrs! No warm.wel-
come from q sisters loving lips! No throb
Of pleasure from that ever dear maternal
bosom!


o, if these broken links were never gath
cred up--if beyond deaths swelling food
there were no eternal shore--if for the
struggling bark there were no port Of peace
If athwart that lowering cloud sprang so
bright bow Of promise


aAlas for love let this be ell,
And Aought beyend-on earth"