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Year: 1867

How TO SELECT Fowls THAT ARE
YOUNG AND FREsH--A young turkey
has a smooth leg and soft bill, and if
fresh the eyes viii be bright and the feet
moist Old turkeys have scaly stiff feet.


Young fowls have a tender skin, and
smooth legs, and the breast cone yiolds
readily to the pressure of the finger. The
best are those that have yellow legs. The
feet and legs OF old fowls look as if they
had seen hard service in the world.


Young ducks feel tender under the
wing and the web of the foot is transpar-
ent. The best are thick and hard on the
breast.


Young geese have yellow bills and the
feet are yellow and supple; the skin may
be easily broken by the head of pin;
the breast is plump and the fat white.
An old goose is is unfit for the human
stomach. Fowls are most easilypicked Il
scalded, but this renders them liable to be
torn and consequently they will not look
nice. :


To keep fowls in warm weather, take
out the heart and liver and parboil them
set them aside in cool placs' to be used
in the gravy Wash the fowl as soon as
possible from the blood and plunge one al
time into a kettle of boiling water fcl
FIVE minutes, moving it about that water
may penetrate every part. Drain and wipe
them dry and pepper the inside and neck
This process will enable you to keep then
two days in warm weather. In cold wealth
er, all sorts of poultry should be kept a
least week; but care should be taker
that they do not freeze, as they are. no
quite as good for being frozen.
Year: 1867

1t is very often the case that beautiful
woman is by her beauty alone made the ugli-
est of her species--because the charms which
should WOO the angels modesty and good hu-
NOR, sometimes become the boon of coquetry.
affection and folly.
Year: 1867

A correspondent Of the Cincinna-
ii Commercial, gives the following
directions for putting up fruit, which
he has observed for years, with great
success. They apply equally to all
kinds of fruit:


"After having taken off the skins
or stems, or whatever preparation of
that kind may be necessary, put into
brass or timed vessel, on a mode
rately brisk fire, about sufficient to
fill six or eight cans at time. This
Is necessary to prevent some of it
heating so much as to get out of
shape, and separate too much of its
juice. Bring it to a boil; add no
sugar, if it is desired that the fruit
retain its natural flavor, which is
much better than the old fashioned
way of ten or twelve years ago, of
candying or preserving, as it was
called, by boiling several hours, half
and half sugar and fruit. And, be-
sides, the presence of a small amount
of sugar in fruit aids fermentation.
This fact will be apparent to any one
who has tried to preserve by canning
green sugar-corn. Being rich in
starch, it undergoes that peculiar
chemical change of passing from
starch to sugar, and fermeuting last
ly, and generating alcohol.


After having filed out the scalded
fruit into the cans allow them to
stand until it is certain 1t is not gen.
Grating steam. otherwise it will force
its way through the wax and leave
small holes, and the fruit will spoil.
1t is best to place the can, immedi-
ately it is sealed, into a tub partly
filed with cold water, as that con-
denses the confined steam and re-
ieves the pressure, and the fruit is
sealed in vacuum, which will be evil
dent in few minutes through the
bottom and lid being slightly col
lapsed.


1t is of great Importance to get
tight cans; examine closely if there
is a spot not soldered; it is of no
less importance that the sealing wax
be the first quality. If, after the
wax is melted in the ladle, there is
tendency to separate, keep it well
stirred up just before running on the
cans. There need be no apprehen-
sions of the acids of the fruits dis
solving the glaze off the jars or the
tin from the cans, as thai can not
possibly occur unless the fruit spoils;
the acids of the confined fruit can
not dissolve so long as the air is ex-
cluded.


l have endeavored to give your
readers the result of years of expe-
rience in putting up fruit, with the
philosophical reason why, believing
that if these hints are acted upon
they will save thousands of dollars
to the people of the West, particu-
larly in the three States of Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, where a million
bushels of fruit are canned every
year. Respectfully yours,


j. T. PEET.
Year: 1867

1t is not more than forty years age
that Mr.. L. called at the house of d.
B., one very cold morning on hi
way to H.


Sir said the Doctor, 'the wealth
er is very frosty-will you take some
thing to drink before you start?'


In that early day ardent spirit:
were deemed indispensable to warmth
for winter. When commencing s
journey, and at every stopping place
along the road, the traveller alway:
used intoxicating drinks to keeI
himself warm.


No. said Mr. L., 4 never toucf
anything of the kind, and I'll tel
you the reason-my wife is the cause
of it. l had been in the habit o.
meeting some of my neighbors every
evening for the purpose of playing
cards. We assembled at each 9th.
er's shop, and liquors were introduc'
ed after q while. We met not SO
much for drinking, but 1 used to re-
turn home late in the evening more
or less intoxicated. My wife always
met me at the door affectionately
and when l chided her for sitting up
so late for me, she kindly replied:


i prefer doing so, for l cannot
sleep when you are out


This always troubled me- l wish.
ed in my heart she would begin to
scold me, for then 1 could have re-
torted, and thus relieve my consci.
ence. But she always met me with
the same gentle and loving spirit.


Things passed on thus for some
time when / at once resolved that
would, by remaining late and return
ing much intoxicated, provoke her
so much as to cause her to lecture
me, when l meant to answer her with
severity, and thus by creating anoth-
er issue between US, unburden my
bosom of its present trouble.


returned in such a plight about
four o'clock in the morning. She
met me at the door with her usual
tenderness, and said-'Come in, he
band, have just been making a
warm fire for you, because l knew
you would be cold. Take off your
boots and warm your feet, and here
is cup Of hot coffee for YOU


Doctor that was too much. l
could endure it no longer, and re-
solved from that moment that l
would never touch another drop as
long as 1 lived, and l never will. 1t
was heavy trial of my wife's pa
tients; but she fairly conquered me
that time.


He held to his resolution, and liv-
ed and died practicing total absti-
nence from all Intoxicating drinks,
in village where intemperance has
ravaged as much as in any other in
the State.
Year: 1867

Where are you going so fast old mani


Where are you going so fast?
There's valley to cross and a river to ford
There's clasp of the hand and parting word
And tremulous sigh for the past, old man


The beautiful, vanished past.
The road has been rugged and rough, old man


To your feet it's rugged and rough;
But you see dear being with gentle eyes
Has shared your labor and sacrifice,


All that has beensunshne enough, old man


For you and me, sunshine enough.
How long since you passed DER the hill, old man


Of lifel DER the top of the hilll
Were there beautiful valleys on the other sidei
Were there flowers and trees, with their branches


wide


To shut Off the heat of thesun, old man;


The heat of the fervid sun?
And how did you cross the waves old man.


OF sorrow, old man, the fearful waves;
Did you lay your dear treasures by, one by one
With an aching heart and Goods will be done ri
Under the wayside dust, old man;


In the grave meath the wayside dust?
There is labor and sorrow for all old man,


Alas, there is sorrow for all;
Ard you peradventure have had your share,
And they've whitened your heart as well, old
man;


Thank God,
You're now at the foot of the hill old man;


AT last at the foot of the hill;
TIE sun has gone down in a golden glow,
And the Heavenly City lies Just below.
Go in, through the pearly gate, old man


The beautiful pearly gate,
Year: 1867

w A platform, on which a Ger
man was engaged in gliding the spire
of Mount Airy Catholic Church at a
distance of one hundred and fifty
feet from the ground, gave way, and
the man fell a part of the distance,
when, grasping the lightning g-rod. he
stopped his descent to almost GER
tain death. Coolly, by the aid of the
rod, he reascended, adjusted the
platform, and went to work again as
if nothing had happened.-G". Com.
Year: 1867

The Racine, Wisconsin, Journal editor
is grumbler. He says of the compensa-
tion law for the soldiers, passed at Che last
session of Congress: -


at gave to every hospital sneak and
headquarter popinjay that never exposed
hair of their heads to the hardships and
perils of the field three months extra pay
and denied it to all the brave officers who
went through fire and blood for two, three
and four years, if they wereso unfortunate
as to have the time of enlistment expire,
or their health give way ashort time be-.
fore the first of March, 1865, but thou
sands who went into the service after the
fighting was all over drew three months
extra pay We know Of officers who
went into tho service in July, 1862, and
served faithfully until July, 1864, with-.
out ever being in hospital an hour, in
active field service at the front all the
time, taken prisoner after the hardest
fights OF the war, lost everything, cost
them thousand dollars to get fitted up
again, but broke down under the hard
service after being in every fight from
Rocky Faced Ridge to Atlanta, too proud
to get into a hospital to be q burden to the
Government, when they could be of no
service to it; such soldier can't get q
cent, but other officers in the same regi-
ment who could play off, shirk duty and
lay around in the hospital a month
on the Government, could get three
months extra pay" q, !
Year: 1867

perfect no not one now as there IL q Q
different bibles on the globe and our bible
is not believed in by one fifth of the hui
man family, aud each nation that have a
bible believe their own, and look upon
others as poor set Of deluded hcatheps.
and il is plain to the free intelligent mind
that before universal harmony can be
brought about, Man must ceasc to worship
man and his works, and turn TO God and
learn Of him by his works, which speaks
a universal language throughout the world
Of his wisdom. his goodness, and his
power, and understand that we arc no
longer going to be led by mystery and
mericle FOR we have not SO much to rest
our minds upon us the breath that comes
out of our mouths when VIC say mystery.
rs am limited in your columns | must
close hoping that some ablcr man ere this
has answered you. with love and good
to all me | close LIBERTY.
Year: 1867

The rigor of the monastic system in the mouas-
feries OF Mount Athos is peculiar. The town does
not contain sing lie woman. ln the institutions
themselves, which increase in number every year
80 Jealous are they OF the monastic system that
not even hen is allowed on the mountains and
mules are the only beasts admitted within its
verge"
Year: 1867

An arrangement has been made with the English
and French railroads with the Imperial Commits
sion which controls the Exhibition and with per
sons who supply food and lodging, under which
two hundred English workingmen per week may
20 to Paris. live in pleasant hall, spend a week
IN sight seeing and come back again, for seven dol
lars and a half gold.
Year: 1867

GEO. EMERY, we'll known citizen of Albany,
was lately buried from his residence in that city.
His wife, who of feeble constitution was en-
trey prostrated by the event and exhibited signs
of a decline. She had no desire TO partake of any
nourishment, and on Saturday died OF grief She
was buried in one week from the time Of her hus-
bands burial.
Year: 1867

SOME of the girls have demonstrated against a
patent being ssuei for the fastening Of buttons on
clothes by a screw. declared that if the men can
PM on their buttons they viii never &c, married
The screws however. viii grow popular. and even
The young ladies may learn to Ike them in time
Year: 1867

TBIEF not long since entered the residence OF
Marshal Bsnedek. and carried of the insignia Of sll
the orders Of chivalry that had beeu conferred on
that warrior. Nothing else of value was touched
Year: 1867

great variety Of have been reported TO where
of these formidable complaints have resulted from
the of this remedy hut space here will admit
them. Some Of them may be found in American
Almanac which the agents below named pleased to
furnish gratis 10 all who call for them
Year: 1867

Cheese quiet with only 1920 boxes reported for the
week. Still is we known that several lots are back
Accounts are unavorable abroad shippers do
ing very little. few lots of new have been received,
the farm dairy selling at 1OdI5c and the factory at 150
I7e large sale old factory Cheese, at time held
at 21c., was recently made at 16lc We quOte
Year: 1867

A little fellow, thirteen years old, the
son of respectable citizen of the North,
who has recently settled in Florida, know
ing that his fathers circumstances were too
Strengthened to pay his tuition, besought
the privilege of cultivating a market gar
den on his own account His request was
gratifed, but the best that could be done
for him in the way of ''patch was an
abandoned, rooty, barren sand hill. His
father purchased for $25 blind horse and
cart. The little fellow went to work
with genuine Western will, cleared off his
patch" fenced it, and then hauled in a
heavy coating of manure from the debris
of the old burnt buildings in the city. The
lime and plaster from the brick walls. and
the decomposed sea weed, was Just what the
poor sand hill needed to make il blossom
as the rose" A heavy coating of this
having been hauled up and thoroughly
spread over the garden, he turned it well
with deep pillow, and planted his seed.
The result was that this little thirteen year
old boy raised crop of vegetables valued
at over $500, besides making a good deal
OF money by carting boxes, trunks etc,
about the city. And be didn't lose a lesson
from his regular school studies the whole
time. These were learned arA


ms Iather at night. ~


BY his labor, he bountffully supplied
hls fathers large family with vegetables.
their chief support, saved an expense of
over $500, pocketed a pretty little sum of


pocket change" and learned as many
lessons as any other boy Of his age. who
went 10 school regularly.


If there are any boys in Tallahassee
whose parents are struggling 10 give them
al education while they are idiing their
precious time away in lazy sports. we
would point them to the example of this
noble little Pensacola hero. and bid them
initiate ms example. We had the state
ment which We have made above. from the
lips Of the father of this noble boy and can
certify 10 its accuracy and truthfulness.
We are not permitted to give his name in
this article, bat, if we live long enough. we
VIA proudly point to him among the dis
unS pushed men of his nation, less than a
9uaAer of century Tallahassee
SsRtihel.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous ard united
support Of the UNION AND DIsPATcH By the
PATRONS Of both the former papers, the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hiths-
70 unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably ith
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging in
uch matters.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admoniah the Southern
people TO be self-reliant. and shall DO what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts. To this end We viii pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the divsrsif-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

HcleRa-" The object of this letter Is to in
quro il You have any means OF supplying proper reading
matter TO the loyal poor Of whom there very many
here They oall constantly f0rsuch matter. There ore


great many cOlOred men In this and adjoining counties
who can reada Httle. These people read everything"


Fuleiieuie-"We congratulate ourselves on live Re-
publican paper Our weekly The Radical made its adj
vent on the Fourth Its principles sustain IT'S name'
Year: 1867

Several distinguished individuals have
been examined before this committee
within the last few days. Among these
we may name Attorney General SrANBERY,
General FULLERTON, Colonel RoBT. JOHN
SON, the son of the President, and also his
Private Secretary, and Col. l.. G. BAKER.
vi course, the world can only know that
these persons have been examined by the
committee What developments have
been made bearing upon the question of
impeachment we know not As yet all is
profound secret, and must so remain
until the committee shall deem it best to
divulge the testimony in full, either by
submitting it to Congress or by printing it
for the inspection Of the people, US they
were authorized by Congress at its last
session to do,
Year: 1867

1t seems the anti.republican party
known as Radicals" are becoming
alarmed at the figures on the Registration
lists. The freedmen do not foot up as
heavily as was expected, and the God
and morality" party, begin TO have well
grounded npprehensions of the result of
the coming election. We are a little
more generous in our mode Of account
ing for this falling off in the numbers of
blacks in Arkansas, than our Radical
neighbor or the commander of the sub
district During the war many hundred
negroes were taken from this State TO
Texas, out ofreach ofthe spoon.hunters
the war terminating in the liberation of
the negro, their masters did not, of
course, choose, 20 incur the expense Of
bringing them back TO their old homes.
They were left in Texas, and have made
new homes and new associations and
probably will never return to Arkansas
Again, train after train from various por.
tions Of this State carried negroes to the
negro heaven Of bliss, (Kansas) by the
hundreds. These for obvious reasons
have not, and will not, return They are
among people not so good as they, and
they perhaps 60 on the old saying, bet
ter be King among dogs than dog
among Kings" Thus the negro popu-
lation is not in the country. We do not
credit any of these Radical howls about
men preventing their hands from regis
tering. In some few instances, this mgy
be the case, but we don't believe one word
Of it. One Of the best men in our county
was charged by Rad with preventing his
negro-hireling from registering, and an
indictment was threatened-when the
truth is, the negro boy is not twenty one
and when asked by this gentleman to go
to the registering precinct, honestly re-
piled that he was not old enough. a
Rad would probably have insisted on his
going anyhow, as some were registered
here who had not attained the age of
twentyone.
Year: 1867

We have been shown letter written


by Gov. GRAHAM, a distinguished con


serva,ive statesman OF North Carolina,


10 one of our townsmen, from which we


are permitted to make the following cx-


tract bearing upon the political situation


Of the South:


"The situation OF the States of the


South, to which You allude, is indeed


melancholy. We aie realizing the truth
of the declaration of Mr. Fox. that "thc
most dangerous OF all revolutions is a
restoration" The idea of distrainng
the States by Military domination, into
the adoption Of Constitutions for local
Governments, with the right of suffrage
extended TO negroes, without any quail
fcation except being of the male sex, and
over twCnty-one years of age; and by the
Howard amendment TO the Constitution
of the United States, Mt the same time
DISTINGUISHING all men of experience and
influence among us, is the most solemn
farce, that has been enacted in all history.
1t is to roll back the tide of civilization,
two centuries at least, and place the bal
lot in the hands of constituency less
qualified for the Office of Government,
than has ever before exercised it, in
any republican country. The Board
Of Registers of voters has just been an
nounced here, and includes, one negro to
two white men generally throughout the
State. When the whole series of steps
in the process Of reconstruction" as it
is called, shall have been fully contem-
plated, ! think the people, wherever they
constitute majorities, will find it, to their
interest to vote against conventions for
The objects in view, and bear with the
reign of military government, until an
other appeal can be made to public opin
on at the North and especially in the
North West"
Year: 1867

An opportunity is offered for all who
have not Registered to come forward and
do So Let every man, who has not
qualified, be present at this time, and
do SO. We know Of number that have
not and we urge upon them the necessity
ofso doing. This will prove the most
important election that ever took place
in Arkansas. Let not disinterested apathy
deter you from improving the opportun.
ity offered by the Board Of Registers.
Recolect Saturday August 3la See their
notice IN another column.
Year: 1867

Having our attention directed to the
maneuvers of two or three of the colored
Leaguers of this city, few days since
and noticing unknown to them, the antics
they were going through with, practicing
the signs of the order, we were constran.
ed to follow up the information attained
and the result is that we to-day lay be
fore our readers the whole secret work
ings of this midnight league. In putting
the darkeys through, and it will be no.
ticed (by those who have been present J
that about all the ceremonies are omitted,
but the oath to support for Office no one
{ but what we white mon tell you) who
does not belong to the league No
achite man would be guilty of the attempt
Of bamboozling these honest but ignorant
colored men. And the day is not far dis
tant when they will hang their heads with
shame and disgrace.
Year: 1867

"Man smiles in ruin, glories in his shame,


And infamy stands candidate for praise"


The Radical journals are jubilant over
the Tennessee election. At this no one
can be astonished, who is at all acquaint-
cd with the character and temper of the
Radical leaders. 1t is true that the mass
of the white population is DISTINGUISHED
under the the iron rule of Brownlow, and
the negroes banded together in secret
lodges and subjected to the manipula-
tions Of "mcan white" men, who imbue
them thoroughly with their own venom
Gus hatred against the respectable white
population of the State. Although
Brownlow is low minded, vulgar black
guard, of whom every high minded and
hNcorable Tennesseean is ashamed and
EmmSrson Etheridge, most highly
gifted, large hearted and patriotic gen
tleman. What of this ? 1t is habitual
and most natural for Black Republicans
to cxult over the defeat of such man as
Etheridge for he is gentleman and a
statesman, and it is equally natural for
them to rejoice with exceeding great JOY
over the elevation Of such man as
Brownlow, for he is universally recog,
nized as low and vulgar blackguard.
Against Etheridge was arrayed the ne.
groes and the imported Office holders and
office seekers and their miserable depend.
ents-the tools and instruments Of fBrown
low-all banded together and driven to
the polls at the point of the bayonet.
What chance even for an Etheridge
against Radical blackguard? If how
ever in the providence Of God, Tennessee
shall again be permitted to rise from her
degradation and put on the mantle Of
freedom, she will scourge back to their
dark dens Of infamy, whence they issued
the vile wretches who have soiled her
fair fame and caused her gallant sons to
hang their heads in shame ut the con.
temptation of her fallen condition. A
reaction must surely come; to doubt it,
would be to doubt that God reigns in the
heavens and that His providence con
trolls the affairs Of men on earth. When
that day comes, as come 1t will, Tennes-
see will stand redeemed from the curse of
Radical misrule and the memory of the
terrible scenes through which she is now
passing, will be recalled only as the
shadowy acts of tragic dream, which
future generations will find Il difficult to
realize.