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Year: 1863

The Stolen Goods. The woman and her
husband, in whose house was found large
stock of stolen goods, will be up for examina-
ton tomorrow morning. A large lot of the
stolen goods are yet unreelaimed.
Year: 1863

In fattening cattle or sheep 6r'
in keeping mich COWS, few farmers
appreciate tie advantage of high
feedings A large amount of food
IL required TO keep the animals alive
and the milk or flesh and fat which
we obtain is derived from the food
given in excess of this quantity. IF
a horse viii draw ton. and the
empty wagon weighs Is cwt., we
can only take load of cwt.; but
attach another horse and we can
take load Of l5 cwt! In 6th4f
words, the effective power OF the
two Horses is five times as much as
the one.


1t is so in feeding mich cows and
in feeding cattle and sheep lit IL
few pounds OF extra feed that W.
give them which produces the de-
sired milk and fat. To give only
enough of food to keep them in sta
tionary condition, when the object is
to get them fat is minifestly absur d,
a4d give them only a little Inor4
than is necessary and thus only ge6
little fat, is also very poor econo-
my, when by few pounds moro
food we might double or treble tn
AMOUNT of milk.
We do not mean to be understood
as saying that farmers do not let
their fattening cattle or sheep have
all the food they will eat. This is
not the case. They let them have
foood enough, but it is not as nutri-
cious as it should be. We do k6t
feed enough grain.


We are aware that this will seem
strange doctrine to some of our
readers IN this vicinity and in he
Eastern States, where grain is now
high and beef mutton and pork SO
low. But in truth, this does not
affect the question. Hay is quite
as high, relatively, as grain, and if
it will pay at all to fatten cattle or
sheep, it will pay to feed them we'll.
In fact it will not pay to feed them
in any other way. We do not say
that cattle can be fattened here az
a profit. We hardly see how such
can be the case, at the present price
Of beef and grain, but it is useless
to attempt to obviate the difficulty
by stinting them ia their food. IF
high feeding does not pay, poor
feeding willcertainly not.-EGennes-
see Farmer.
Year: 1863

I want to know about raising,
beans, what would be the best kind
for. farmers to raise, the kind of
soil, &c Would elover field be
good land ? Let us know something
about how to prepare the groundy
how to plant, &c.-W. in Ohio Far
mer.


ANswER.-The culture of field
beans is the most simple Of all farm
operations. They should be plan
ted upon dry SOIL to ensure fair
clean grain, as steamy land will
mould the pods and cause blight
The small white bean is the best
for market, the demand for which at
the present time, for army uses, has
raised the prices to a high figure
For white beans the soil need not
be very rich or very strong, though
it is none the better for being very
poor. A clayey or shaley hill' sid6
we have found to be the best adap-
ted to'this crop. Glover or wheat
land would be right if it was not SO
rich as to throw the crop all TO
stalks. Plow the field in low ridges
three feet apart, and plant on the
ridges eighteen inches apart, leav-'
ing about three stalks to a hill, keep
the surface well scratched and clear
of weeds, during the fore part of the
summer.
Year: 1863




EDS CoM.-I take the liberty Of
publishing the letter of Mr.. Belcher,'
containing, as it does, much to en-
courage those engaging in tine sorgo
culture. l will add, also, that the
transactions in the syrup, In this
city, for the past few weeks have
largely increased. Our citizens are
becoming more accustomed TO it's
use, and / can assure our sgricUlturI
al friends that there will be a good
cash market III this city for the sur
plus product of this section of the
State, at remunerative prices. The
want of uniformity in quantity has
been a serious drawback to the conf
mercial operations in it. This can
be remedied here as well as in Chi
cago, and it must be done. I have
the assurance of solid men, that the
means shall not be lacking to'render
this great and growing staple aecep-
table to the trade. There are" Bel.
chers" in Cincinnati, as well as Chi
cagoy


Our friends should give more at
tension to the cultivation 6f this
crop, for good syrup can not be
made from poor cane. While the
expense of its culture and manufac-
ture are the same in each case, In
the markets the difference is very
great. Suppose it does cost dol
lar for better seed to plant an acre,
it will richly pay, even if the syrup
should bring only one cent per gall
lon more, while the probabilities are
that it may bring fve or ten cents
Year: 1863

In every city and village the reader Visits
on enquiring out the notables Of the place
among the number will be included the town
grumbler." No place is complete without the
F" grnmb!er :" the smaller the city or village
the more important is the grumbler, as his
field of operations is the greater in the in-
verse ratio Of population.


The grnmber's vocation is merely TO ind
fault No.hing suits him, aud his life il spent
in carping and criricising. Bnt the gruublcr
never suggests any remedy for any Of the
evils he points out he breaches no scheme in
place OF the plan he condemns. That is not
his business. 1t is for him to pull down, no;
TO build airy structure in the stead OF the one
he demolishes. So you see the vocation of a
grumbler is an easy one. Any person having
The requisite quantity of bile III his disposi-
Iion, can be successful grnmber, for fault
finding is one Of the most prominent of hu-
man weaknesses.


In the Democratic ranks there are thou
sands of gru1nblers. These would not answer
to the name OF Copperhead, and perhaps they
really do not deserve the name. But they
growl at every act of the Administra' ion dc
signed to crush out the rebellion, and yet, pin
them down by the question, What would
you DO p they say tina. is not for them to an
swer as they are not the Government,


The main grumbIing, just now, among the
Democrats, is with regard TO the conscript
law Just passed. They grumble because the
law provides that $500 shall be accepted il
/ lieu of the drafted men, as distinction in ia.
vor of the rich against the poor. Under the
old law, substitute could I've furnished, bu
the prices were so high as utterly to preclude
a man of slender purse from obtaining one
Yet the rich man, with whom few hundred
dollars. more or less, were OF no account, haC
no difficulty in purchasing a substitute. s,
in fact, this law makes the burden, as nearly
as it is possible, to bear equally on all tha
Year: 1863

ON BOARD THE TRANSPORT LOUISIANA,


March u, 1868. :


Ed. GAzETTE:-WhiIe endeavoring 10 en-
liven the monotony of boat life (which becomes
irksome enough when stationary it occurred
to me to write few lines TO the Gazette
Once in while it comes to us Ikea voice
from home, and l assure you it is a welcome
guest. Next to our letters we cannot do with
out the Gazette. From its well stored and
iarniii9f pages we get weekly rations, not far
nished by the Commissary, not found elsewhere
save in our county papers. Those friends at
home "whose sober wishes never learned to
stray" do not know tie fril value of letter
or of the county paper. If they did, we fat
| ter ourselves we would get more mail


The Gazette Of the 18th inst, came to hand
full to the brim with interesting news from
home and from our comrades in the field. We
are interested in their welfare as the brave
boys are devoted to the same cause for which
we are fighting. While we deeply deplore the
tless Of brave H3e2, true patriots, and exempla-
ry meif, we feel there is some consolation in
knowing they died at their post Unlike Cat
aline Judases who would sell their Liberty if
only permitted to worship the Mammon of un-
| righteousness at the shrine Of treachery, they
stood up like men to defend their homes, to
perpetuate the existeEce of the nOblest ma
tion the world has ever known: We who are
in the field can form a correct idea of the sac
rifces men have made in leaving their homes.
But we ask what is home, what is existence
worth, if the clanking of the tyrInts chain
must constantly pain the ear? Is home SO
despised, is idleness so sweet, that men prefer
to live under dcspotism rather than strike
for Freedom? We do not envy such men the
luxury of cowardicei we only regret they dc
not wear white feather to Indicate the color
of their liver. We heartily despise the shame
less tories who clamOr for dishoHOrable and
4 ephemeral peace Lost to all sense of manli
ness the carpiug recreants, like Esop Of old
are ready to barter their birth-tights for 4
mess Of potage. Unworthy sons of honored
sires, the very dead reproaeh you from thei
silent graves. From the battle fields Of Bul
Run, Forts Henry and Donaldson, Murfrees
Year: 1863

fully. Every moment l expected to be greet
cd by dense smoke from the burning prairie,
and to hear the Kissing of the burning fame
but nothing of the kind occurred, az l ven
tured TO look towards the spot where the saw
age had stood with the torch. l took eour-
age, reloaded my rife, aud hastily walked 10
wards the place. reached 1.-THE Indian lay
upon his back, the brand, half extiDguished
beside him; an ounce and half Of lead
through his head. l sank down, overpowered
with gratitude and the various emotions
which such an incident was calculated to in
spire.


This was the greatest shot 1 ever made
and probably shall never equal it again.
Can you wonder that l am attached TO my
rife?"


Not at ALL said the captain, earnestly
'' should never part with it if it was mine. -
Year: 1863

NOT FOR THE UNION As IT WAS.


We have no occasion TO carry on the fight
for tie Constitution as it was--I beg your
pardon. the Constitution as it is. Who is in.
terfering with the Constitution as it is? Who
makes any attack upon the Constitution p
We are fighting with those who have gone
out and repudiated the Constitution, making
Constitution for themselves. And now. my
| friends, do not know but l shall use some
heresy, but as Democrat, as an Andrew
jackson Democrat, I am not for the Union
as it was. have the honor to say as a Dem
ocrat, and an Andrew jackson Democrat, !
am not for the Union to begin again as it
was Understand mel was for the Union
as it was, because saw, OF thought l saw,
the troubles in the future which have burst
upon us; but having undergone those trou-
b.es, having spent all this blood and this treas
uFe, DO not mean to 20 back again and be
cheek to jowl, as was before, with Sou1f
Carolina, if l can help it. Mark me now


let no man misunderstood me; and / repeat
lest may be misunderstood for there i;
none so difficult to understand as those thai
Edon't want toy Mark me again, say, dc
not mean to give up single inch Of the sol
of South Carolina. If had been living al
that time, and had the position, the will, and
ahe ability, would have dealt with Soutl
Carolina as Jackson did, and kept her in the
Union at all hazards; but nov she has gon'
out, and will take care that when she core


in again she will come in better behaved, tha


she shall no logger be the firebrand Of th
! Union-aye, that she shall enjoy what he
fpeople never yet enjbyed, the blessings of
! Republican form of fGovernment And, there
fore, in that view / am not for the reconstruc
! ton Of the Union as it was. 1 have spen
/ treasure and blood enough upon it, in coniuuC
; tion with my fellow citizens, to make it lit
tie better, and think we can have bette


Union. 1t was good enough if it had bee
let alone, The old house was good enoagl
for me, but the South pulled down the e.
part, and l propose, when we build it up, t
Year: 1863

The whole farming operators in the Confeasracy
hsed not be told that it is all important to plant
|arge crop of corn It will be needed early from
present appearances Though there is really enough
BORN now in the country, if it were not in wrong
bands Yes, plant corn and peas and potatoes and
Peans and sugar cane, and everything that cat, be
fatsn by man or beast Every thing to eat Will be


demand while the war lasts, aud Afterwards, if the


ast trump does not sound before 1t ends. 3
Year: 1863

The mails have been sadly out Of joint for several
MONTHS and they grow worse. At the time we
write, We believe there are three western mails due
here The failures on the North Carolina Railroad
arc becoming exceedingly vexatious The amount
Df business the Road is too great for Its means
or the officers of the Road lack the skill and the
energy to keep up its operations.


We are really afraid the trains will Stop alto
ssther, IF something is not done soon. The Diree
tors and stockholders ought to look to this matter
That Road needs the best Railroad skill and man.
bgement of any Road in the country, and it ought
to be secured at snycost The excessive business,
however, and the length Of the Road render it ex-
eedingly difficult to manage in these times, in the
hands of any one. .Thepresent officers, We judge
pre- doing all in their power. The continued irreg-
ulsry of the mails will account to our subscribers
for the delay in getting the Standard regularly.
Year: 1863

children and fools speak the truth. -
See that boys eyes glisten while you are
speaking of neighbor in language that
you would not have repeated. He does
not fully understand what you mean.
but he will remember every word and
it will be strange if he does not cause
you to blush by the repetition.


A gentleman was in the habit of CALI
ing at neighbours house, and the lady
had always expressed to him much
pleasure in seeing him. One day, just
after she had remarked to him her hap
piness from his visit, the little boy en-
tered the room. The gentleman took
him on his knee, and asked:


Are you not glad to see me, George -
why not, ny little man ? he contin-


Because mother don't want you to
come said George.


Here the mother looked daggers at her
little son, and became crimson. But hs
saw nothing.


"Indeed! how do you know that,
George?'


"Because she said yesterday that she
wished the old bore would not call
again


The gentleman's hat was soon inre-
QUESTION, and he left with the impress :
sion, "Great is the truth it will PEE
vail


A boy once asked his father who it
was lived next door to him, and when
: he heard the name, inquired if he was
not a. fool. "a


No, my little. friend, he is not fool.
but very sensible man. But why did
you ask the question ?


Because replied the bay, mother
said the other day that you were next
door to fool-and | wanted to know
who lived next door to you"


Mother sent me- said little girl to a
neighbor, to come and ask you to take
| tea with her this evening.


Did she say at what time, my dear ?


No, ma'azf she only said she woulc
ask you, and then the thing would be
off her mind that's all she said
Year: 1863

man sat down and wrote-he felt no
repugnance to letter writing now


" BEAUTIFUL AND ADORABLE You've LADY


"Since l have seen you from my
window, can think Of nothing else. =
My soul is quite absorbed by musing
on your logeliness. | have left off smo-
king, | scarcely eat, and as for stsdy-
ing law, | might as well attempt to
fight on the back of camel!


l love you more than anything
upon earth. | am sure you are as am
liable as you are pretty, SO sweet IS the
expression of your dear eyes. Where
can I see you? where can we mestl
I shall die. | have Colts revolver
10 my desk-if ! am SO unfortunate as
to offend you. Yours, eternally and
adoringly, ALEXANDER"
Year: 1863

1t is always well to avoid saying any
thing that is improper, but is especially
SO before children; and here parents, as
we'll as others, are often in fault Chill
dren have as many ears as grown per-
sons and they are generally more atten-
tive to what is said before them. What
they hear they are very apt to repeat !;
and as they have no discretion and not
sufficient knowledge of the world to dis
guise anything, it is generally found that
Year: 1863

THE NEW YORK TIMES isnow recognized through
out the country as conspicuous among the journals
the City of New York for the
CHEAPNESS OF IFS ISSUES


THE
ENTERPRISE OF IFS MANAGEMENT





anna
Year: 1863

TIE HERALD AS CORPORATION ORGAS.-s
is reported that the HERALD is to be the pub
Usher of the official advertisements OF the Cor
poration of the city of New York, on account OF
its having larger circulation than any other
paper published here; and we have frequent
ly printed official notices for our own and
other governments, to say nothing of applica-
tions for loans from the corporations of Western
cities; but we had no idea that the good people
of New Orleans appreciated us so highly as to
confer upon us similar favor. An advertise
ment which we publish this morning was d.
rected by the Corporation Of New Orleans to be
inserted in the official organ of that city and in
the New YORK HERALD, thus making us a sort Of
Corporation paper for New Orleans as well as
for New York.


The Corporation offers to sell the right to con-
struct passenger and freight railway along the
levee front Of the city, and also through two Of
the principal streets, connecting the Mississippi
river with the basin or harbors of Lake Pont-
chartrain. This is fine chance for Law. Van
derbilt and the other aspirants for the control
Of railroad through our Broadway. They can
now buy the right to build paying road In
New Orleans without having to disburse cent
to lobby agents. All they have to do is to call
upon Col. Thorpe, City Surveyor of New Or
leans. at the Metropolitan Hotel, to-day, and
settle the matter at once. We hope that the
Corporation of this city and the Legislature of
this State will take hint from the New Orleans
authorities when they have another railway
privilege to dispose of, and advertise it for sale,
either at a fair price or to the highest bidder,
instead of giving it away for nothing to those
who pay the largest fees to lobbyists.
Year: 1863

DAY BoARDRRs WAETED.--A limited
number Of day boarders can be sccommo-
dated BY calling at the first door from the
corner Of Sixth and Main streets. west side.


STILL THERE.-Krause still continues
to please the pubic with the best quality Of
custom made clothing. which he fits to a
nicely. Jerry uses the shears. and he was
never known to fail.
Year: 1863

BsrDsED OvER.-1t is gratifying to
Be ablo to annsuucs that the Father of waters
got little more than his match last night.
Jack Frost came or with full force last night,
and ere the morning sun flashed upon the
towering spires and smoky chimney tops Of
osr delightful city. the Mississippi was bound
In icy fstters from shors to ehore! This 10
good news. No lack OF ice next summer NO
lack of sleigh rides through Davenport and
over to Ro:k Island and vicinity. The muck.
rats are head
Year: 1863

The San Francisco Bulletin thinks the
General Government ought not 10 tax the
mines, even in the present strait for the SIN
cws Of war. 1t unreServedly admits, how
ever, that the mineral lands belong to the
Government. Suppose we amend by strk-
ing out the word "tax," and insert "rent,"
would there be anything Objectionable or
wrong in that Men rent farms, houses,
etc. They do not expect to get fertile fields,
and crop them year after year, until they be-
come exhausted and worthless, without pay
ing something for the privilege. They pay
rent for them, and then they pay taxes on the
wealth they take out Of them. Some farms
are good, some indifferent, some bad, and
rents are graduated accordingly. Is it more
unreasonable to ask rent for mine than for
farm or garden? The Bulletin thinks that
miners ought to be favored above al produc-
ing classes in the State that mining is the
prcdominating interest, and that the State Is
rich principally because Of its mines; that
when they languish, agriculture and all other
pursuits droop or perish. Perhaps SO. Min
ing advertisements would certainly fall off
greatly. If the entire State were made up Of
mineral land, instead of comparatively
small portion of it, we would no doubt have
very rich State, but under the Bulletins
plan where would the money be had to carry
on the Government As half-agricultu-
raj, half-mning county," as she is deSignat-
cd by San Francisco journal, Sacramento
is interested on both sides Of this question !;
and it can, perhaps, be better viewed from
her standpoint than from that Of counties
more exclusively mining or agricultural !;
and from that standpoint the proposition
seems not unreasonable but right, and col
umn of pcttifogging sophistry, such as that
in the Bulletin, is well calculated TO convert
many doubling ones to that view of the mat
ter. The Nevada Transcript, published in
the heart of one of our richest mining cOun-
ties, and the editor Of which was, in former
times, practical miner, indOrscs the recon-
mcndation of the Secretary Of the Interior,
that the mines should Weld tho Government
which OWNS them and protects their opera.
tors, their fair quota towards the general
| burden of taxation. and SAYS. "We agree
with the Secretary. We have on more than
ono occasion indicated our opinions on the
question at issue. We maintained them in
the face of all opposition when Il miner ten
years ago, and adhere to them now. II Is
no new question with us, as our readers well
know. Difficulties may be suggested in the
way Of law taxing mines, but they never
seem to us insuperable." But the miners of
California arc a patriotic and an eminently
practical and juSt-minded class Of our popu-
latiOn and recognizing right and duty, will
look at and discuss this matter aside from
and above 4 mere dollar-and-cent point of
vicw.-Sac. Bee, Dee. 18Th.
Year: 1863

We trust that the intelligent conductors of the
New York Evening Post will excuse US if we sug-
gest that while it is quite unnecessary for them
to concur with us in the expediency of restoring
Gen. Mcclellan to the command of the Army of
the Potomac, it is desirable that they should as
sign good reasons for their concurrence, if
they undertake to give any. When, therefore,
they express the opinion that "it would be most
unfortunate to place Gen Mcclellan at the head Of
the Army of the Potomac at the present moment,
on account of the difference between his mode Of
dealing with an invading enemy and that of Gen.
Hooker" we could wish that they might be more
cogent in demonstrating their proposition than
they are when they simply say:


Ten months ago Lee marched into the very States be
has invaded. At that time Mcclellan directed
by Gen Haeck to his forces to intercept the
return of the rebel army to Virginia Instead of doing
this he placed his forces in position between those OF
Lee and the district by him. and when at length
Lee thought proper in his good time, to march back
again. Mcclellan graed the people by announcing that


Penns safe ; not that the rebel army had paid


the penalty of it's auaacy and had been routed and broken
up but-that Pennsylvania was safe"


As Gen. Mcclellan at Antietam, so General
Hooker at Charlottesville "placed his forces be-
tween those of Lee and the district threatened by
him" but, in spite Of the much greater distance
Of Lee from Pennsylvania after the latter battle
than after the former, he has been left, +" in his
own good time," to march "back again." not into
Virginia. but into the loyal States, and derogatory
as the Evening Post would doubtless deem it to
the military genius Of Gen. Hooker if he should
announce to-day that Pennsylvania was safe, -
there are many in that State and out of it who
would be willing to have the invaders where they
were after they had been expelled by Gen. McClel-
Ian in the month of September last. The Post
evidently thinks that Gen. Hooker has shown more
energy and skill in allowing Gen. Lee to invade
Pennsylvania than Gen. Mcclellan in driving him
out, and this may be the case, but such is our
opacity that we are not able to perceive it.