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Year: 1859

The farmers generally attempt to
cultivate too much land The disad-
vantages arising from this cause, are
many and obvious. 1t is no exagger-
alton to say, that the lands cultivated
in the country are capable, under a
high state of cultivation, of producing
twice as much as they now produce.


When will our farmers in the coun-
try fully appreciate this truly? There
is no one thing that contributes so
much to retard our agriculture, as the
folly of cultivating too much land.


In the first place no farmer should
think of managing 80 or 100 acres of
land with one or two men. 1t is bad
economy to do so: nothing can be ex-
pected from it but poverty.-poverty
of both land and purse. How much
better it would be to cultivate half the
number of acres, or less, and do it we'll
1t costs just as much to plow an acre
that will yield ten bushels of corn, as
one that will yield fifty or hundred
bushels. The difference in hoeing
would be a trife, and the planting
would be the same. 1t will require the
same amount of fencing in the one case
as in the other, and the same tax will
have to be paid on each. Why not,
therefore, plow less and plow deeper?
why not cultivate less land and ma
nure more? Farmers, many of them,
appear to forget that they have pro-
ductive farm just underneath the one
they ale cultivating, equally and per-
haps much more productive than the
one on the surface.


Turn up this farm, then, with deep
subsoil plow,-expose it to the action
of the sun and frost, and thereby
double your crop.


But the surface farm-if there arc any
scrupIes about distributing the one i'm
mediately underneath-may be greatly
increased in productiveness by proper
ly manuring it. Let a portion of
spring work be devoted to carting ont
manure on the land that is to be cult
vated. Be assured that no labor will
pay better. If any one has doubts on
the subject, let him try an acre of thin
land without and another with manure.
And if he desires to be still more
utilitarian in his Investigations. let
him deduct the cost of the manure
from the value of the increased crop,
and it will be found that it is much
better TO manure one acre well than
cultivate two without manure.


But let him try the experiment of
both blowing deep. and manuring
we'll, and he will forever abandon the
idea of cultivating more land than he
can cultivate well.


Farmersl think of these things: do
more-practice them. and our word for
it you will never have occasion to re-
gret that you did not cultivate more
land
Year: 1859

II was observed that q certain rich
man never invited any on to dine
With him. i viii lay wager said
a wsg. i get an invitation from him


The wager being accepted. be goes
the next day TO the rich mans house
about the time he was TO liae. and tells
the servant that he must speak with
his master immediately. for he could
save him q thousand dollars.


Sir said the servant TO his master.
here is man in . great hurry. who
says he can save you a thousand dol
lars


Ont came the master


What is that. Sir. Can you save
me a thousand dollarse'


Yes, Sir. can; but / see You are
at dinner; will go myself and dine.
and call again


oh, pray. Sir. come in and take
dinner with me-


The invitation was accepted. As
soon as dinner was over. aud the fam
lily bad retired, the conversation was
resumed.


We'll. SIR saRi the man Of the
house, now to your businesss. Pray
let me know bow | am tosavc a thous-
and dollars


Why. Sir said the other. Il hear
that yoa have daughter to dispose Of
in marriage.


Il have. Sir


And that you intend to portion her
with ten thousand dollsrsl'


Il do. Sir


Why. then, Sir. let me have her.
and | will take her at nine thousand


The master Of the house rose in ~
passion and kicked him out Of doors.
Year: 1859

The New York correspondent of
the Charleston Courier gives this no
tice of Peter Farley"


IL saw the venerable Peter Parlev
Goodrich in Wall street to-day. lean
ing on the arm Of his son. Dick Tin
to" Goodrich. The old man is fad
ing and failing fast. lie wore his
spectacles. and had q handkerchief
around his throat. His step was nm
steady. and ! was satisfied that tho
popular author who had delighted 80
many hearts and homes. and given to
the schools 80 many pleasant and use
ful books. can not long remain among
US. 1t is very rarely nowadays that
the old man leaves his quiet home in
Connecticut to make . visit to New
York.
Year: 1859

There's the secret. A saving wo-
man at the head of family is the
very best savings bank yet establish
ed-one that receives deposits daily
and hourly. with no costly machinery
to manage it. The idea of saving is a
pleasant one, and if "the women"
would imbibe it once, they would cul-
tivate and adhere to it. and thus many
when they were not aware of it, would
be laying the foundation for compe-
tence. security in stormy time. and
shelter for a rainy day. The woman
who sees to her own house has large
field to save in, and the best way to
make her comprehend it is for her to
keep an account of her current ex-
penses. Probably not one wife in ten
has all idea how much arc the expend-
itures of herself and family. Where
from one te two thousand dollars are
expended annually there is a chance to
save something if the attempt is only
made. Let the housewife take the
idea-act upon it-and strive over it
and she will save many dollars
perhaps hundreds-where before she
thought it impossible. This is duty
not a prompting of avarice-a
moral obligation that rests upon all
upon "the woman" as well at the
men; but it is duty. we are sorry to
say. that is cultivated very little.
even among those who preach the
most, and regard themselves as ex-
amples in most matters. Teach the
women to save" is a good enough
maxim to be inserted in the next edi-
tion of Poor Richards Almanac.
Year: 1859

In nearly all the larger towns and
cities young men form themselves into
clubs of various kinds. to enable them
to pass away the hours of the long
winter evenings socially and pleasant
ly. They are, many of them. among
strangers far away from the home cir
Gle. and the pleasant associations
which gather closely around the hearth
stone Of their childhood, and they find
it difacul. 10 get into society. Their
time, after the business hours of the
day are past, drags heavily, and they
are ready to take up with almost any
thing that offers itself in the shape OF
amusement or recreation. \ club OF
jolly good fellows has many attrac-
tions under the circumstances. Whilst
we would not do anything to curtail
the real enjoyments of the young. es-
pecially under such circumstances as
we have detailed above, we would
warn them against those which are in
furious to either soul or body.


An old merchant related in our
hearing q few evenings since his own
experience and observations in regard
to this matter. When he left home
to 60 into business in the city. he felt
lonely in the evenings, and longed for
companionship. He was difiident, and
had no influential friends to take him
by the hand and introduce him into So
ciety. a friend invited him to Join a
social club. They spent their time in
song and Jest. eating and drinking,
and general iollity. He kept list OF
all who belonged to the club during
his connection with it, and has traced
their histories since. Of forty-nine
but three now remain enjoying a green
old oge. Most of the others went to
early graves. the victims of intemper-
ance. Very few of them were ever
successful in business, though some
OF them were young men of business
capacity. Our venerable friend thinks
the seeds of their ruin were sown in
the club-room. He said with great
emphasis, Had | an iron voice, which
| could ring through our whole coun-
try, | would say to every young man.
beware of the clubroom, and especial
ly the room of drinking club Many
Il young man is ruined there before he
is aware of his danger.-[ Presbyterian
Herald.
Year: 1859

ELoPEMENT OF A NEw-MADE WIFE WITH AN
OLD LovER.-A nan about forty five years of
age, named Henry Kahtenleip, week or two
ago, married girl who was a quarter Of a
century younger than himself, and took her to
his home on Buckeye street. 1t is usual, in
such marriages, for the ardor of the husband
to decrease in the proportion which that
of the wife increases, and this has no ex-
coption to the rule. Not a fortnight had
gone by ere she repented of her choice,
and as heartily wished herself husbandless
as before she had longed to take upon herself
the conditions by which she could become a
resident of that state, devoted to the deluded,
called Matrimony. Day before yesterday
she became heartily disgusted with the cold
mesa of her husband, and just at that time an
old lover-who had the one quality he lacked
dropped in to see her, and the two conclu-
ded to elope. The preparations were instantly
nnde, and as part of these, she packed up
about thirty or forty dollars of her husbands
money, and two suits of clothes which she
thought her beloved might need, after which
they left the city, and have not since been
heard from. The husband said she had cost
him about hundred dollars already - that
he was not sorry she had left, and wished the
couple all the happiness he had expected for
himself.
Year: 1859

If THE gentlemen who have been endeavor
ing to compromise the late series of forgeries,
and in which the member of firm of stove
dealers on Main street was implicated, will
refer, in the statute book to the section relative
to compOunding felony, they may discover
that 1t will be of peculiar interest to them.
Year: 1859

ANOTHER CASE OF HYDRoPHoBIA.--A man
named Harrison Rose, who resides on Rich
mond street, below Mound, and was formerly q
watchman in the Fifteenth Ward, was suffering
yesterday severely from hydrophObia. He was
bitten by the Same animal that caused the
death of Mr.. Wright, which our readers will
remember took place three or four weeks ago
on Freeman street. The spasms were slight,
but of such nature as to preclude the hope of
recovery
Year: 1859

A SMALL but intelligent community may be
found in one of the workshops of the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, where, out of seven
teen workmen employed, twelve are, and for
some time have been, regular subscribers for
the Daily Press. -... .
Year: 1859

The war news from Europe was the current
topic Of conversation on the streets yesterday.
We learn that some Of our fast young men
about town who have been spelling for fight,
are already thinking of enlisting with either
one or the other of the agtag agonistic powers.
Year: 1859

A CURE FOR THE HYDRoPHoBIA.-A German
who resides at No. 13, corner of Clark and
Front street, states that he has powder which
is an infallible cure for hydrophobia, and offers
it gratis to any one who may be suffering from
this terrible disease. Application must be
made at his residence.
Year: 1859

The new iron bridge over the White Water
Canal, ut Smith street, is the neatsst and most
substantial in the city, with the exception of
that over the Miami Canal, at Vine street.
The crazy old wooden structures over the va
rious crossings of the canals, within the city
limits will, we trust, soon give way to these
new and elegant improvement
Year: 1859

A PRIZE fight for ten dollars q side came off,
yesterday, about mile back of White Hall,
opposite the foot of Fifth street, between
drayman who hauls for Front street house,
and one of the Fancy from the City of Buffalo.
We understand the Buffalo was worsted in the
conAict
Year: 1859

FROM thirty to forty inmates of the City
Prison are now employed daily in quarrying
stone on the hill side, for the purpose of build
ing WOrk-hOuse. They are only worked six
hours day, for the reason that as yet there is
no provision for furnishing them with dinner
on the grounds.
Year: 1859

The Board of City Improvement should take
some measures for the better preservation of
the books and papers in the City Auditors
office. The Auditor and his assistants, in their
present limited quarters, have not room suffi-
cient to file away properly one half their docu-
ma
Year: 1859

Parson Twiss, Of New Hampshire, had
jus, married lady whose Christian name
was Desire, and 1t being IN his course Of re-
mark ON a certain Sabbath to illustrate the
difference between the renewed man in the
exercise Of love. he delivered himself TO the
OF his audience IN this way :
Formerly had no Desire to love, but now
| have Desire to love, and love freely"
Year: 1859

PHH.osoPHY OF CONTENT.-It is the voice of
Wisdom, that we adapt ourselves to whatever
changes or circumstances in life we may encoun-
ter, and be contented in them; at least, in such
as we cannot change. Zeno, an ancient philoso
pher, founded a sect upon the principle, in opin-
ion, that men should be free from passion
unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without
complaint to the unavoidable necessity by which
all things are governed. This was called Stoicism
and in the absence of Divine revelation. was
doubtless suggested by the immutability Of the
laws OF nature, associated with a belief in the
justice of the gods. We recognize the same SUI
periority of mind in this, that while advancing
to a more elevated destiny, we should not allow
the weeds and brambles of the highway to choke
out the flowers that bloom at each advanced
iootstep.-S SiskiyOu Chronicle.
Year: 1859

THE SoRRowFUI. CHAMBER,-Agan he stood
before his wife and almost deemed her living
again he took the farewell kiss which she had
died in giving. He half forgot that death had
been within his pleasant home; he seemed to feel
her presence there, beside him in her room.
There stood upon the mantle shelf vase of faded
flowers, they had been placed there by herself in
happy glowing hours. There sat her vacant
crimson chair, her shawl across it lying; it had
been folded round her breast when he had seen
her dying. There was her basket and her books,
her portrait on the wall, the Bible where her
last sweet looks on holy words did fall.
Year: 1859

THERE is every reason to believe that the en-
suing will be the most prosperous season within
three years. Treasures of snow are piled on the
mountains which will continue to disperse till
late in the summer.
Year: 1859

HAD it not been for the great quantity of goods
in store, people should have suffered here this
winter. There has been no shipment for a long
time. Formerly everybody had plenty of money
and no bread now they have plenty of bread
and no money.
Year: 1859

N b. Merchants In want Of any OF the above
tcIes will ind It to their advantage TO give call
can ammodate them by tue case or dozen, at as low
prices any other house IN the City.


mar3-tr b. r. CUTTER
Year: 1859




2sth has long and well considered
article on the subject of free. passes, in
which it lays down the principle that
both justice and policy dictate their
issue to certain extent. 1ttakes strong
ground IN favor of free tickets for char
table purposes to managers Of other
railway companies or kindred works,
to workmen on the roads, and to edit
ors. The comments in regard to the
relations between the press and the
railways are so pertinent thas we copy
them entire


We think the best investment the
Erie Railroad could make to-day would
be to issue fifty free passes to editors
Of leading newspapers, on condition
that their use should always be accom-
panied by notice of the road. Ad-
vertising is the secret Of success where
one depends on the public patronage.
The most valuable kind of advertising
for railroad is not the publication of
time tables, but spirited descriptions of
its route Of the works on its line, of
the country and community it traver-
ses. These are always eagerly read,
and always create a desire to visit the
scenes described. A description of
the capabilities of the country, or the
cities and villages or ofthe industry and
products Of the people, upon the routes
of the road, will be often the means Of
sending large parties over it, in search
or loo.t;o,,o I, - ~, ,or,col,,os No-c ,,o,
ticularly is such kind Of advertising
necessary for the weaker Of the two
competing lines. The latter should be
kept constantly before the public eye.
Otherwise its existence will soon be al
most forgotten. AS passenger road,
the Erie Railroad is now almost lost
sight Of. Few newspapers now refer
to it, except by way of disparagment
The public catch the same unfriendly
feeling; no one passes over 1t unless
compelled to do so. The result is,
that this road presents the remarkable
phenomenon Of a steadily decreasing
passenger trafc which wasless the past
year than in 1853; the first year that 1t
came into use. What the roads need
is lift from the newspapers. 1t twou!d
cost the company nothing to gain their
good will. But should cost it twice
the amount that all the riding upon
free tickets would come to it would be
polite to make the outlay. The ad-
vantage would be twenty to one on the
side Of the road. We think the last
years receipts ought to be a pretty
loud argument in the premises. Ifnot,
we are willing that Mr.. Moran should
try his experiment year OF two longer.


No road can afford, rightfully OIL
wrongfulIy, to incur the Hospitality ofthe
public press, TO 1t our railroad com
panies owe a debt that can never be
paid. Without it our railroads could
never have been constructed. The
Erie is, more than any other railroad
in the U. S., the creation of newspa-
pers. Not cent could have been had
from the State, not a loan from the pub
lie, but for their good opinion. For
Mr.. Morgan or any other man, to effect
to despise them is to commit a mistake
sufficiently grave to threaten to destroy
the very work they have created"
Year: 1859




The Toronto Globe thinks, that steady
decline in the value of money and consequent
advance in the price of accommodates and
other eatabes, and is extending to all other
articles. The Globe thinks that the absence
of war loans and the steady accumulation of
precious metals is the cause of this. Upon
this the Galena Aduertiser remarks, "that the
tendency of things is in England as stated by
the Gtcbe, we have no doubt. 1t may reach
the West, but we do not think its footsteps
have yet been discovered here recently. Mon
ey will not accumulate here till we sell some
thing abroad for money and bring it here-
For every dollars worth of stuff that goes out,
dollar in money comes in, and this condi-
ton complied with, is the only way in which
the state of things referred to by the Canada
paper can be brought about. Property is one
thing, but the article which we make use of to
express the value of that property is quite an
other. And inasmuch as we make contracts
to pay debts in this measure of value, and not
in the value ITSELF we must provide protection
for our property in ready money to the value
of all that we owe. There is no other posi-
BILE way Of perfect salty. This process is
going on in this vicinity at least so fast as it
can, and in due time our people will have the
leverage largely in their favor, and they will
have learned little by experience if they do
not firmly keep it so.
Year: 1859

We find the following economical mode of
constructing smoke houses in IHoOres Rural
Nep Yorker:


"Having given you my method for curing
and keeping hams, let me add my plan for a
smoke house. No farmer should be without
a good smoke house, and such a one as will
be fire-proof, and tolerably secure from
thieves. Fifty hams can be smoked at one
time in smoke house seven by eight feet
square, Mine is six by seven, and is large
enough for most farmers. first dug all the
ground out below where the frost would
reach, and filled it up to the surface with small
stones. On this laid my brick floor, in lime
mortar The walls are brick, eight inches
thick and seven feet high, and door OH one
side two feet wide. The door should be made
of wood and lined with sheet IRON For the
top put on .joice two by four, set up edge
wise, and eight and half inches from the
center to center, covered with brick, and put
on heavy coat of mortar | built small
chimney on the top, in the center, arching it
over, and covering it with single roof in the
usual way An arch should be built on the
outside, with a small iron door to shut it up,
similar to stove door, with hole from the
arch through the wall ofthe smoke house, and
an iron CRATE over it. This arch is much more
convenient and better to put the fire in than
to build fire inside the smoke-house, and
the chimney causes draft through into the
S1noke-house. Good corn cobs or hickory
wood are the best materials to make a smoke
for hams. The cost of such smoke-house
as have described will be about twenty
dollars
Year: 1859

A shrewd writer, who is in the habit of
telling home truths which go direct to the
heart of the popular foes Of the day, has the
following in relation to the pernicious system
of domestic education, so fatally prevalent at
the present time:


"In the town of Somewhere, lives Mr.
Manygirls He is toilsome merchant, his
wife hard-working housekeeper. Once they
were poor, now they are ruinously rich. They
have seven daughters, whom they train up in
utter idleness. They spend much money,
but not in works of humanity, not even in
elegant accomplishments, i'll painting, dan
cling, music, and the like, and so paying in
spiritual beauty what they take in material
means. They never read nor sing they are
know-nothings, and only in vain show, as use
less as ghost, and as ignorant as the blocks
on which their bonnets are made. Now, as
these seven ladies" as the newspapers call
the poor things, so ignorant and helpless, are
not only idle, can earn nothing, but consume
much. What load of finery is on their.
shoulders and heads and necks. Mr.. Many
girls hires many men and women to wait on
his daughters idleness, and these servants are
drawn from productive work in nursing these
seven grown up babies.


"On the other side of the way, the Hon.
Mr.. Manysons has seven sons, who are the
exact match for the merchants daughters
rich, idle, some of them dissOlute; debauche-
ry coming before their beard all useless,
earning nothing, spending much, wasting
more. The only labor is to kill time, and in
summer they emigrante from pond to pond !;
from lake to lake, having fishing line with a
worm at one end, and fool at the other
These are fast families in Somewhere. Their
idlenesS is counted pleasure. Six of these
sons will marry, and five perhaps Of Many
girls daughters, and what families they will
found to live on the toll of their grandfather S
bones until commercial crisis, and the wear
and tear Of time has dissipated their fortunes
and they are forced reluctantly to toll.


Besides, there is an enormous waste OF
food, fuel, clothing, of everything. We are
the least economical, civilized people on earth.
OF couase the poor are wasteful everywhere
| they do not know how to economize; and
they have not the means. They must live
| from hand to mouth, and half what is put in.
to the hand perishes before it reaches the
| mouth So likewise are the rich waste


full who have inherited money, almost never
such as have earned it. The great mass 0
| the people are not economical, but wastetul


1t is the habit of the while country"