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Year: 1866




We mean for the next years operations
on the farm. If you have not, you have
the long winter, with its many hours of
leisure, to study and mature one. Take
an honest view of the last ten years of
your Earnings and answer fairly to your
self, at least, if the result thereof would
not have been more profitable had you
chosen different course. Have you any
more system now than you had ten years
ago; or do you grow crops hap-hazard,
such as you think will best suit the mar
ket? Is your land richer; the average
product greater; is it less weedy; smooth
er on the surface; better fenced,
and supplied with better and more con-
Venient buildings? If not your system
of farming is improbable.


Perhaps you have made great deal of
money, and have invested it in bank
stock, oil stock, or United States bonds !;
and you think this accumulation an evil
dence of prosperity. But deduct a fair
compensation for your labor, and has not
the remainder been taken from the in
trinsic value of your land? If you sell the
products of you farm now for the same
prices the brought you ten years ago, and
incur the same expenses you did then,
will your income be as large? If the con-
clusion is forced upon you that the farm
will not produce as abundantly as in for
mer times, then you must own that the
land has been robbed OF this surplus
money, and that it is illegitimate profit.


Suppose each year for the past ten, you
had built fifty rods of durable fence
such as will last lifetime; and each
year constructed one hundred rods of un-
der drains; and instead of allowing this
ties and other weeds to increase, had an
nually diminished them ten per centum.
Suppose you had pursued a systematic
rotation, sowing each year the same num-
be- of acres, and planting, moving and
pasturing an equal breadth annually =
feeding all course grain. fodder, and turn
ing off increasing quantities of meat and
wool, as your high-fed land yielded more,
would not your purse be as full as at pres
ent? And, more than all, would not
your farm be a nearer resemblance to
that ideal your fancy creates, when it
pictures the homestead you desire should
shelter and comfort you in your old age,
and which would be proud monument
of your skill as an agriculturalist


1t is plain what results would have
been reached if, during the last ten years,
you had worked with a wise and well ma
tured system. Waste no more time. Let
the success Of the future atone for the
shortcomings of the past.-RlraL Neo
Yorker.
Year: 1866

December, in our latitude, is the most
severe month of all the year for COWS that
give milk. In most instances they are
passing from grass to hay, when all the
digestive powers, and even the entire sys-
TEN, are required to make great effort
to accommodate themselves to change
of feed. When the feed of milch COWS is
changed from hay to grass. their systems
are effected much less than when the
change is from grass to hay.
In order to obtain an abundant flow of
milk in cold weather, COW must have a
comfortable shed or stable. If kept in
stable, it should be well ventilated, as
foul stable, in which the air is not fresh
and pure, will shortly affect the appetite
of COW or or any other animal, and pre-
vent her eating a sufficient amount of
good feed to produce full flow of milk.
An open shed, well Uttered with straw,
and sufficiently close to exclude driving
storms and cold winds, will be found far
preferable to close stable, poorly Venti-
lated.


Mich cows require large quantity Of
seed in which there is a liberal supply of
succulent material for increasing the flow
of milk. If rich milk and cream are de-
sirable, COW must be provided with feed
containing cream producing substances.
For this purpose there is no other feed
equal to meal of Indian corn and field
peas ground together in equal parts ana
made thin with water. Three quarts fed
twice daily, besides good hay and corn
stalks, will enable COW to give as rich
milk as when feed is white clover and
timothy grass.


If a COW is fed with buckTheat bran,
still slops, or dish water, and poor swiIl,
she may yield a large quantity Of milk,
but it will be as white as the driven snow,
and as insipid as chalk and water. A
milch COW must be well supplied in cold
weather with three things-gOod feed,
drink and a 10arm Shed-or she will grow
poor.-Indepsn
Year: 1866

The following poem was written by JAMES He
BERWICK, Scottish poet but little Known in Il
country. Who that ever lost a brother or sist
could read these lines without falter in the vol
,r tear in the eye?


They tell me first and early love


Outlives all after dreams;
But the memory of the first great grief
To me more more lasting seems.
The grief that marks our dawning youth
To memory ever clings,
And O'er the path of future years


A heightened shadow filings.
Oh oft my mind recalls the hour


When TO my fathers home
Death came. an unlimited guest,


From his dwelling in the tomb.
had OF seen his face before


l shudderOd at the sight;
And shudder yet to think upon


The anguish of that night.
A youthful brow and ruddy cheek
Became all cold and wan.
An eye grew dim in which the light
Of radiant fancy shOne.
Cold was the cheek and cold the brow,
The eye was fixed and dim;
And there l moaned brother dead,
Who would have died for him /!
know not if twas summer then,
l know not if twas spring;
Buff the birds sang IN the trees
did not hear them sing.
If flowers came forth to deck the earth,
Their bloom did not see;
l looked upon one withered flower,
And none else bloomed for me.
A sad and silent time it was,


Within the house of woe;
All eyes were dim and overcast.
And every voice was low.
And from each cheek at intervals
The blood appeared to start,
As If recalled In sudden haste,
To aid the sinking heart.
Softly we trod. as if afraid


To mar the sleeper's sleep,
And stole last looks of his sad face
For memory to keep.
With him the agony was Ger.
And now the pain was ours.
as thoughts of his sweet childhood rose,
Like Odor from dead flowers.
And when at last he was borne afar
From the worlds weary strife,
How oft in thought did we again
Live DER his little life.
His every look. his every word,
His very voices tone.
Come back 10 US like things whose worth
Is only priced when gone.
The grief has past with years away,
And joy has been my lot;
But one is long remembered,
And the other soon forgot.
The gayest hours trip lightly by
And leave the fainIest trace,
But the deep track that sorrow wears
No time can ne'er eface.
Year: 1866

You are going to have your troubles as
well as your pleasures. A man is not
worth a snap that has not had trouble
You cannot subdue selfshness without q
struggle. You cannot restrain pride with
out a conflict. You cannot expect to go
through life without bearing burdens
But you are going to have help under cir
cumstances that will redeem you from
these things. You are going to expert
ence more victories than defeats. Your
sufferings will be only here and there like
little spots in whole field of peace and
Joy.
Year: 1866

dare not to lose his hold, and the only
hope to save his life was by encouraging
the dog, which meanwhile hung on to
the bucks throat with canine tenacity.
To worry the buck to exhaustion, with
the assistance of the dog was the only
means of conquering his adversary, and
after long and tiresome struggle, was
finally successful, when he went aud got
club and Knocked the animal in the
head te


At the end of the combat Mr.. Nichols
clothing was entirely torn from him,
and he had nothing to cover the costume
which nature furnished him. He re-
turned home through by-ways, and called
Justify to his wife to furnish him with
clothing, and then returning he brought
his venison home, which, after being
dressed, weighed over two hundred
pounds. When we take into considera-
ton the fact that Mr.. N. is very small
man, weighing only about one hundred
pounds, this was courageous under
taking, and courageously did he meet
it-Eau Claire { Wis, Free Press
Year: 1866

From the New York News, Sept. 10.


The latest phase of fashionable fnan-
ciering in New York has brought to light
the existence of coterie of enterpris-
ing young gentlemen, who have organ
lied themselves into matrimonial club,
with the avowed object of securing rich
wives for the members of the club The
range of this matrimonial organization
is not confined 10 any special quarter OF
the metropolis, but extended its opera
tions from New England to the far West.


Those members of the club, who, in
their daily avocations or in society, are
introduced to, or hear mentioned, tie
name of young ladies of wealth, pursue
minute inquiries as age and residence
whether an orphan, or if with parents,
whether mother or father, or both, are
living; the number of brothers and sis
ters, wealth of parents, and the amount
of the daughters expected portion The
result of these inquiries is carefully noted
in the books of the Secretary somewhat
after this fashion
Year: 1866

The pursuit of rich marriage partners
is not confined exclusively TO the young
men who desire to better their pecuniary
condition; the daughters of Eve also
pursue the fortunate subject of Mammon
with an avidity that brooks no restraint.
This is secured by the formation of
clubs or coteries composed exclusively
of young ladies', and who elect their fem
mime officers, who direct the movements
OF the club. These coteries are usually
designated by some term of endearing
character, as the al Amour Coterie, /"
the Dove Coierie. Their sessions are
held at the residences of the most fash
ionable members of the association once
a week during the winter and spring
and monthly picnics are the order Of the
season during the summer and autumn.
The invitations TO their unions, as they
are called, are issued in the name of the
presidentress and amanuensis, and ad-
dressed to all eligible young men with
whom the members are acquainted.
Year: 1866

A New LovE.-Some time since Gerritt
Smith, the great Aboitionist, wrote letter
to Chief Justice Chase. in which he denies the
constitutional right of civil Courts to try
jeff Davis for treason. claiming that he can
only be tried ly military Court. OF course
this amounts to simple difference of opin-
ion between Smith and Judge Chase. But it
is wonderful to read the Democratic newspa
pers, all of which on this coast have copied
the letter. and commend Mr. Smith as
Daniel come to judgment-a Solon of wis
coma wonder of statesman-a marvel as
aJurist. man of expanded ideas, and sound,
enlarged mind How these comments do
sound when compared with the twaddle of
these editors about the Abolitionists of whom
Smith was leader
Year: 1866

JUDGE T.. II. HOWELL, President pro TEN.
of the Louisiana State Convention of two
years ago, has issued pr oclamation for its
re assembling on the 30th inst. and he calls
upon the Governor to issue writs of election
to fill vacancies. The preamble expresses
the purpose of the movement to be to revise
and amend the organic law of the State in
harmony with the General Government, to
establish impartial justice. insure domestic
tranquility. secure the blessings of liberty
to all alike, and restore the State to its
proper and permanent position in the Union,
with ample guarantees against any further
disturbances, and also with view to the
ratification by the State of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution in the short
est time possible
Year: 1866

MAD MULE.-This gulch empties into
Whisky Creek, some five miles above its
mouth, and has been very rich in coarse
placer gold Some time since we gave a
paragraph to the effect that Mr.. Banghart
had struck small vein of quartz at the
head of Mad Mule and was taking out con-
siderable gold from it, We are now in pos
session of further particulars. 1t seems
Banghart is an old miner. and went to the
place advisedly and looked for and found
just what he has got. Friday week he went
up to his claim from Whiskytown, where he
now resides with his family, and returned
Saturday evening with hundred and twenty
dollars in dust; some of it very fine -four
dust, some coarse-one piece weighing be-


tween three and four ounces. lie has now
got his family settled, and will probably go
to work in earnest. At present he is only
down on the vein about fifteen feet Weare
told it can be traced along the side hill from
the head to the mouth of the gulch, and that
other parties have taken claims on it and will
soon commence work Banghart is satisfied
that he has a fortune in his claim and work
SO long as he may care to amuse himself in
that way.
Year: 1866

A HINT TJ RAILROAD LovERs.-We were
eye witnesses to an affectionate scene yester
day. One of the indispensables for good
railroad trip is good company, and that we
had. Even then, however, time drags. un
less the company has some subject for
amusement, and that we had. Ahead of our
crowd was loving couple, taking evidently
their first trip afrer marriage, or their last
before-there was no visible means of deter
mining which. They clung to each other as
if determined that only death should part
them. and were evidently inclined to depart
as far from the perpendicular rs the back of
the seat and the side of the car would allow.
A little boy was induced by the offer of an
apple, to convey to the lap of the amorous
swain note. written by some scamp =
" Hadn't You better take sleeping car ?"-
An exploding shell could not have separated
them quicker. Thence onward the car con.
tained no more perpendicular couple than
they.
Year: 1866

Porosr-This week we had hoped to be
able to give the Precise amonnt of pay per
tun in the Pot,si rock. but the clean up has
been delayed too long for this number
Enough, however, has been aseertaincd to
make it safe to say that it is paying at least
SS5 per tnn in free gold, and Il large amount
of sulphurets, the value of which we know
not, but are assured hy those who claim to
be judges that the money in them will carry
the value of the lode far beyond 500 per
tun
Year: 1866

SorTn FORK. Recently the Chicago Com
pany sent to San Francisco some twelve or
fifteen hundred pounds Of their rock to have
it worked. As a result they have ascertained
beyond doubt that their rock is rich
richer than their fondest hopes had pictured
it. The lowest assay had was Sl25 per tun.
The highest was working test, a la Swansea,
of thirty pounds, which yielded at the rate
of 1854 25. They have learned further that
the rock cannot be proftably worked by
milling. 1t must be smelted.


And now, as the Chicago is only one OF
many lodes in that region believed to be
equally rich, and as there is a want of both
capital and experience for the furnace or
smelling business, and as the mines are not
sufficiently developed to invite the necessary
capital and experience, we suggest that the
miners quietly go to work, take out their
rock. select such as will pay 500 per tun or
over, and ship it to San Francisco, where
they c,n sell it, or get an advance upon it
and ship it to Swansea. A very little time
and industry will thus enable each claimant
there to help himself or convince him that
his claim is not worth having, thus leaving
him loose to go about some other business.
Year: 1866

POWERFUL PiLLs.-An itinerant quack in
Texas was applied to by one of Col Hays
rangers to extract the iron head of an Indian
arrow from his head, where it had lodged for
some time.


q cannot 'stract this, stranger, said the
would be doctor, . because to do it would 90
nigh on to KILN ye; but can give We box
O. pills that will melt it in the head.'
Year: 1866

ENcIAND.-The British Ministry have re.
signed, aad it is now supposed that the EaA
OF Derby will construct a ministry whose
policy will be satisfactory to Parliament
Derby is of the Tory or Conservative school,
Year: 1866

CoRREsPoNpENcE from South Fork is too
late for this issue. We regret this. as the
subject matter is of great interest in connec
tlon with the mines there, noting wealth and
a state of progress we had not anticipated.
Next week.
Year: 1866

COP FIsH-We learn from the San Fran
cisco Tribune that new cod fishery has
been discovered at the Fox Islands, much
nearer than the Ochotsk fishery. and furnish
ing much superior quality. Two trips a
year can be made to the new discovery,
whereas only one is possible to the Ochotsk.
Year: 1866

To the Editor Of the Press: '''- p H-..ii ai .- D


The eight-hOur system seems to excite con-
siderable interest in some quarters, but little
or nothing is said about it in the newspapers.
Perhaps it is thought that it will soon run its
course, its folly become apparent, and its ad-
vocates give it up. There is large class who
do not know whether to approve or condemn
1t. Why not disabuse the minds of this class
now? Why wait until it has created mischief
with those who expect to be favored by it, as
well as with the community at large? Ger
tainly the Press should not hesitate to speak
out on such question.


acknowledge that the exact results of its
working may not be clear to the minds of any,
and that practical proof would be far more
satisfactory than mere theory. AT the same
time 1t seems clear to my mind that the whole
system is based on ignorance and incidence
1t has been all that the North could do against
the Southern and allied influence, to get q
protective tariff The people now are pretty
well satisfied that this is what we must have
to protect our manufactures and arts. Our
alternating history has shown us that we have
grown richer under protective tariff, and
poorer without one. But there is large
class now complaining of SO wise measure,
and clamOring for its repeal.


What would be the effect Of the Eight Hour
SYSTEM? There would be less produced, and
every product would be higher in price. Have
we not little enough produced now with our
labor, and is not everything high enough at
present? But this is not all, nor the most.
Such system would inevitably necessitate
the repeal OF our tariff in order to admit the
much cheaper products of English labor the
effect of which would be to stop opr factories
and workshops and mines, as in former years,
and throw out of employment the very men
this system is designed to benefit.


When the United States, by the aid of ma
chinery and skilled labor arrive at position
where they can compete with England or
France upon square footing, then, and not
before, will be the time to try an experiment
like this. Id. a.IFgrI.-.


BY adopting this system we would be Law
ing ourselves open to the worst possible dan
gers. 1t would be like taking boy and tyipe
one hand behind him, and then setting him to
wrestle with full grown man. ,,.a


The project seems TO me to be not only alb
surd but dangerous, snd all rejecting men
must see in it the elements of disappointment
and trouble. ....... ,CIv1s.
Year: 1866

l9. There is a class of politicians, very noisy
Just now, who are exceedingly anxious and
concerned about the Constitution, lest it should
come to some mischief or meet with some
dsparagement. During the war they suffered
deeply in this respect, although it was observ-
able that their terrors were called forth much
less by the acts of those in arms against the
Constitution than by the conduct OF those
who fought to defend ii. Secession and re-
bellion were things which brought no detri-
ment to the sacred instrument; but the slight
est excess of authority in the attempt to put
them down was an offense which never failed


to draw from this class the sternest denuncia-
tion. NJ l- .5 a.a-l. .-.Uf ,.,a...


just now, if we may credit their ,declara-
tions, this sacred ark of our liberties is in es


pecial danger, and they propose to rally
around and protect it. They are Mortified to
find that there is a class who, while reyering
the Constitution, do actually regard ii as hu-
man instrument, and, declining to accept it as
the sum of all possible wisdom, are desirous
of so amending some of its provisions as more
fully to bring out and give force to its great
underlying principle of the inalienable rights
of man. For this principle they refuse to
recognize. The only parts of the Constitu


ton which have a special sacredness in their
eyes are those which seem to recognize the in
stitution of slavery, and to afford it some
shadow of sanction. These are to them the
Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last.--
II they can save these, they care not what be-
comes of the rest. ,c The instrument had ney-
or any value for them except as it could be
made to protect slavery. If it would not do
this they cared nothing for it; so when they
became convinced that it would not, one-half
their number took up arms to destroy it, and
the other half strove to make use of it to bind
the hands of its defenders. They have failed
in their efforts, and come out worst in the
struggle. The cherished institution Of slavery
has been nearly swept out of existence by the
whirlwind of war; but the few relics which
remain are very precious to them, and so they
once more call in the aid of the Constitution


to assist them in saving the fragments. This


is the meaning of their outcry now. This is
the real significance of all their clamor about
the Constitution as it is, and the Union as it
was" This is the end they are striving to
compass by every species of craft, of sophistry
and of Misrepresentation. But the people
who are not easily deluded by hollow preten-
ces, propose to themselves different solution
of the questions before them. The Constitu-
ton as it ought to be and as its trainers de-
signed it should be, and the Union rebuildedon
the eternal foundations of freedom and just
ice, is the end on which their minds are unal-
terably fixed, and they intend to fight out the
contest on that line if it takes the lifetime of
generation to achieve the victory. "
Year: 1866

AN EXCELLENT ExPERINENT.-The Lon
don Spectator says that firm in Manches.
ter bound themselves by trust deed to di.
vide their profits over fifteen per cent. on the
capital invested among their workmen. TIE
first result was decrease in waste. the men
not seeing why they should waste their own
property any more than any other masters.
and waste it, perhaps, as bad debts, the
greatest source of manufacturing loss. The
next was an immense advance in the pace of
the work done. the men putting their hearts
into it as hired men will not do, and scolding
each other for neglect as if each man was
overseer The last was great increase Of
orders. every man being as anxious to obtain
work, or, as he himself explained it. to
" carry some 'un to bonus," as if he had
been the sole master. The result was a first
dividend at the rate of fifteen per cent, per
annum, and four or FIVE per cent. over for
division among the men.
Year: 1866

speech at Gold Hill, New, with the following
brilliant passage:


Hail to the advancing cause of the people
The bugle note of victory is sounding from
among the feathery pines of Maine and the
verdured hills of Vermont. 1t will swell in
sweet cadences of consolation to the oppress.
ed across the Empire State and along the
borders of the mighty lakes. 1t will mingle
with the murmur of the Mississippi it will
scale the summit of the Rocky Mountains and
sound along the great desert and when the
sun of the 9th of November shall have set
behind these sterile hills. it will proclaim
that the last born of freedom is true to her
instincts and her history.
Year: 1866

PrsrsrRArus.-It. was said of Pisistratus
the Athenian, that he was generous without
profusion, and bene6cient without osteasa-
ton. He had always a servant near him
with bag of silver coin and when be saw
man look sickly, or heard that any one
died poor. he comforted the one with money,
and buried the other at his own expense. If
be perceived people melancholy, and on iu4
quiring the cause, found that it was poverty.
be furnished them with sufficient to get bread
but not to live idlv.
Year: 1866

sequences have ensued from this grand
celestial display, and although there 10
some reason TO believe that an event Of this
kind is possible, scientific men unite in the
opinion that such calamity is not within
the bounds Of probability.