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AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER,

DEDICATED TO THE

EMBRACING- DEPARTMENTS DEVOTED TO

iGRICULTURE, SHEEP MUSBAHDRT, HORTICULTURE. DOMESTIC ECOHOMT, SCIENCE, UTER1TURE, EDUC&TIUH,

GENERAL INTELLIG-ENCE, THE MARKETS, &c, &c,

uXXiiXXJuU

CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE,

WITH A1ST ABLE COEPS OF ASSISTANTS AND CONTETBUTORS-

66 PROGRESS IMPROVEMENT."

PTJBLISHEI3 WEEKLY, .AT ROCHESTER, NJprfT YORK, BY D.'D. T. MOORE, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, BUFFALO STREET. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

AGBIOULTUBAL. Farm House, Cellar Plan, 9 Ram, " Gold Drop," Mr. E. Hammond's In- Nemophila Atomaria oculata, 231 Mole, the 14 Bee-Hat, Improved 117 — —Roof Plan,. 9 fantado Stock. 46 — Insignis 231 Natural Bridge, Virginia, 34S 1 Canary Seed, 13 — — Principal Story, 9 — " Gold Mine, ' Infantado 889 — Maculata 281 Owasco Lake, View near the Head of.... 273 Fence Posts, 365 — — Second Story, 9 — " Gold Mine," Mr. Avery's 318 Pansies, Group of German 127 — — View at the Foot 273 Turnip, Green-top Yellow Aberdeen, 229 Farm House, Premium Plan of 45 — " Green Mountain," seven years old.. 183 Pear, Buerre Bosc 827 Rebus, Illustrated, 12, 20,28, 86,44,49,60, — Purple-top, Laing's-. 178 — — Plan of principal room, 45 — "Kearsarge," H. W. Hammond's Infan- — — Giffard 399 65, 76, 84, 89, 100, 108, 116, 124, 132, tado Stock, t 6 — Skirving's Improved 178 — — Plan of Chambers, 45 — Clapp's Favorite 63 140, 148, 161, 172, 180,193, 372, 877, — White Globe 229 Farm Work-Shop, Plan of 349 — " Little Wrinkly," Mr. Dean's Infantado 357 — Trees, wine-glass method of training,. Ill 385, 396, 401 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Ladder, Eaton's Patent Extension 233 — " Mountaineer," Messrs. Rich's 293 Petunias, a group of 7 Savannah, Georgia, Map of the principal Cider and Wine Mill, The Champion 279 Poultry House, a neat 381 — " Ontario," Mr. Pottle's 285 Phlox, JuliaRoussel I.... 255 part of 26 Clover Thrasher, Collins' 244 Piggery, Plans for a 325 — " Osceola," Messrs. Taft & Potter's... 326 Pink, Japan 207 Seneca Lake, Scene on 241 Corn Plow and Cultivator, Smalley's Com- School House, Plan for a small. 401 _- " Seville," Mr. Jones' Infantado 374 Quince, Japan 175 Skaneateles Lake, View at the Head of.... 257 — —Ground Plan, 401 bined, 83 — Teg " Aries," Mr. Remelee's 262 Radish, Chinese Rose Winter 239 Slane, for digging Peat, 257 Derrick for loading hay, Higgins' 269 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. — —"Grand," 133 — Olive-shaped Rose 239 Soldier's Legacy to his Country, 196 Flax and Hemp Brake, Rundell's 349 Bull, " Hotspur," Mr. Peter's Short-Horn,. 85 — — "Prince of Gold Drops," Messrs. Racinua, Plants of 39 Taughanick Falls, View of 377 N. Apple, Red Canada , 336 — — Longitudinal Section, 121 Canandaigua Lake, East Shore, 225 Hail Sacred Union, 321 — Teg '<«JLily," Mr. Lane's 181 Aster, Imbrique Pompone 407 — — Basement, 121 — —Head of 225 Oh! there's Music 249 — — " Princess," Mr. Newell's 149 Blackberry, Kittatinny 867 — — Plan of first floor, '... 121 Charleston Harbor and its Approaches, On the Mountains, 321 — Tegs, Group of 173 Chervil, Tuberous 239 — — End joints of flooring 121 Map of 73 On the Ocean, 353 _ _ "Pet and Beauty," N. Bottom's... 397 Cannas, Group of 135 — — Hard and soft wood splice, 121 Declaration of American Independence,... 212 Speak Ever Gently, 17 — Ewes, Cotswold, one year old, 189 Frittilaria or Chequered Lily, 223 — — Section of rolling doors 121 Kingston, Canada Wesst 369 Spring has Come, 153 — Infantado, 133 Grape, Adirondac. 343 — — Section of window, 121 Flood at Rochester, N. Y., street view look- Star Spaagled Banner, 209 Fowls, Black Spanish 93 Grasses, a Bouquet of Ornamental 23 — — Cupola and Cornice, 121 ing west from east side of Main Street The Harvest Time, 233 Heifer, "Arzie," Mr. Brown's Short-Horn, 317 — clustef of the Delaware 15 _ —Ventilator, 121 Bridge, 29 — Parting, , '. 105 — I— Main Cornice, 121 Messenger Mare and Colt, 373 Horse Chestnut, Double flowering 183 — View of Genesee River, look- P0ETEAITS. _ _ Water-table, 121 Pigs, Pure-bred Chester Co 405 Hyacinth, Double 319 ing over Andrews' St. Bride, 29 Chief Justices of the U. S., 41 Barn, Premium Plan of a Western N.Y,,. 167 Ram, " Addison Chief," Mr. Cutting's..... 165 Larkspur, Dwarf Rocket 375 Flying Machine, a Natural 361 Everett, the late Edward 89 — — Plan of Basement, 157 — "Black-Top," Mr. Wright's Infantado. 350 Lilium Auratum, one-half natural size,.... 295 Force Pump, Johnson's Champion 199 — —Main floor 167 —• " Crape Defiance,'' Glenn

ora<"S, cure of colic in 174 itatoes Planted under straw 353 lings for producers to consider 117 Merinos,S. X. Franklin's Delaine;....198 Cattle Plague in England 268,291 Farm Prorluc'B, Tax of ». 158 r-lanting J2S imher. Facts In cutting 350 — the term "American" 4H AGRICULTUBAL, — Prayer lor reLef IToiu the 374 — Renting ->r working a 62 • lliff rence in feediug 382 Eves, ointment tor '3 Rasing , 1« Poplar—Woodchucks .206 — and " Panlar". 198 — Holland 858 — workshop, planfp a 849 Storing early 134 Readeringit durable 180 — vs. Cotswolds for wool growing...317 About going South to settle...; 988 _ Ohio :.... 826 Farms, sm 11 and large 269 Exhausted and worn out 126 A b'a-itifiil engraving 191 (rtanderritn 30 Tanharkfor 85 — Wiientocut 14 — wrinkles on 77 — — Guardinsr against the 06 Farmer, a blind 3* Wha* size are best to plant 118 Timothy need, Sow ., 809 Metal ear marks , 46,78- — Crowd of Anvertlsements 62 — - ProtcMon against the ...866,374 b vs.* word to J*« Harasses and 286 — French paper 6 orb. cutting and packintr 406 Tobacco, about growing 30 onongaheia Valley 134 — Raising 8wlne and...... i9'> — California -.850 How muchfrom a nushel of com.390 — Culture 101 ilMeal.... -.110 — Gr -nd implement trial 6i — Canada.... 7° How to fa'tan!""'.""".".*.".".'.""...".. 61 — Salting .246,349 Lameness in —Foot Bathing 397 Making in the West 222, 238 — Effects of on Animals 102 airing—Goitre 388 — Scratching posts, luxuries for.. 222 — Garrul ms talks. .. 5 Question, the 193 — Taxipsr... 3&S ' ' '8. Improved' 6 — log boat 54 — Self^ctlna as R eeders 866 — Publisher of the Wisconsin 398 M»nngeme .tot'Restive 15il — Movem nt in the right direction R91? Pull Evil in 62 oultry business, inquiries about the..23a leaf. 29 — ^dSsTS Rioh'g 593 — Sttbl . Ventilate the 4 3 — Signs of a prosperous ..., "ight use of. <ice and opinion.... 54 Cella'S, about 865 Farmers, a hint for the 826,850 Spec taoles for '74 To Advertiser* 6 "'eninsulaof Virginia JOBS — So gho Convention 406 onientlntt Iron pipe 22 — and farming 2J3 • Staggers in 326 Keeping 358 — trip to Canada SW • Stock. Young "Consternation'..165 Pestleuce „. 374 — < correspondents 14,354, 358 'reventive Medicines , 21 Change of firm, in an extensive busi- — — the markets 882 Products 406 — Horsnv2 Turnip Culture 203,229 — «'Gold Mine," Mr. Avery's 318 — manufactory 22 — Methortical 2iS reparefor Winter ,.834 — Crop, the 173 — " Kearsarge," Stock; 6 — OhloBtate Board of R98 — Manutaj urers' Association, — profitable, is 85 Re medi«s against 231 Turnips among Corn 230 "La,*e R"b;nsf>n 6 Paramount importance of 285 Institute, Carpenter's Collegiate 118 'rogress J 302 11 ChautaSqua Co 94 — St.or.k and grain 61,110 romptly mailed ^ 22 'nrpentine 14 Osceola," Taft and Potter's. 826 Agricultural Address 27u,2?« New York State.6,21,29. 37, — System In 237 — F.Jr.of the American 264 ^avoidable 190 P,>H*)U M.eriu..s 286 — Books, Catalogue of 102 45,54,898 — Unprofitable 817 — Munxon's M'IHICHI 102 ip, Patric's Improved for Water- — Chemistry 102 talia;. Queens, puity of 262 ing Stock 405 Tuiverpitv, Alfred Academy and 230 Sale. Australian 6 — Making 126 Fast time 842 — Cornell 286,818,850 — Ofav«luaMe ; 366 — College Endowment in Maine... 38 — — on the Sabbath 78 Feed-cutters, Farm talk about 14 ohnson, a visit to John ...221 'umpa, about Stone..6,110,181,198, 214 Indiaua.... 898 usta Word 30, 398 Pumpkins, Culture of. 62 — Industiial, Illinois 390 Pcnured Fleece of Mr. Holmes' . .374 — Show at State Fair, a great 238 — Fat, and muscle 406 — in Ireland. Some 368 Use for useless thing*, a 378 — Teg. sa'eof 110 — —Maine »ts — SwUs 62 — Mixing different kinds of ....109.125 Kansas tu. Ohio ". 334 Veterinary knowledge wanted 319 — '• Union," Mr. Remelee's 245 Massachusetts 86,158,286 — Vats 86 — Proper leng'h of cutting 246 ;etchum. Death of W. F 46 — To preserve .390 1 — — Michi an 8e, 142 Queer Colt 382 Wants yet ua-iUppliea 278 — " Youag America' Mr. Bovee'o. .198 Chicken*, precocious 883,398 Fepding, preparing d.y stalks lor... 13 Kirtland, Prof. J. P 22 Wagon Brxke --7|» — " Young Grimes," Harlow Bro's, 3J1 — — New Hampshire 390 Chicken, food for 85,246.27'> — — roots for. 14 Labor 213 ladiBhe- in Winter, Raising 358 _ Jersey 54 ( — Saving, Labor making 36i tain at last.... 234 "WiirsMiHerere" , 64,78 Rims 826 — Gapes n' 54, ''-6 — Roots for ..126 Wartson a Colt; 6 — Cheap Merino 78 — — Pennsylvania 54 — RaisiDg 126 — Regularity in ,....882 Lamp, Ivt-s' Patent 230 tat Exterminator. Wild Peppermint — Colleges, Proposed New England366 asa... 206 _ _ Cow« .....294 — Fleeces-" Gold Drop" 350 — Water for 85 — Stall 390 ,and, can we keep it rich? 277 Teats 13 — I< crossing with Merino profita- — Exports .-• 8rt Chinch-bners-burning Straw 6 Fence-posts, charring 873 Lands in Iowa, cheap 33 lats, to drive away ....142 — Fair, i ower Canada ..150 Read and heed 331 Wan it Hydrophobia J M blef ...7. -238 Churn, Brinkerhoff78.101,103, 111 126 174 — - Charred 406 — — Minnesota 14 Water, Apnaratus for raising l'O Rural-Cuts in the 294 — — The recent 818 — Which is the beit 190 222 — — Driviug 850 /etter from Free Missouri 326 — Read the advertisements •.-.. S6 — Fairs 118 eadable advertisement 358 Weather. Fin« 366 Ku'ting season 342 Cider, to make good 286,887 — — Setting 1 865 ..ent's Barometer 190 — — Both East and West 374 Saltin winter *-- - 6 — Implements 16-> Cistern, Clement for 94 Fencs, gates and posts i74 ,ight Harness, Sow to care for a HI Reaper, the Improved Buckeye 6 — LandScrip 286 ightnin/ Rods, sharp practice in — Using a Blndev on a 118 — Harvest, &c 23') Scab M. 110,286, 390 — Howtocleana 150 — None in Germany ...882 Reproduc'ion, Laws of;- -1*1 — in England, the 382 — cure for , 150 — papers, Preserving flies ol 166 Clean Cn'ture 189 Fenian ''8 sellintr 270 — The hot, a blessing ,..318 ilncoln. Death of Abraham 134 Repairing Roads 167,181. 211 Shedding teeth 110 — Press 22. 88 Clothes-wringer, American .102 Field lessons 69 tight vs. Left-iumd flows.21,83, 117, — Wintry 62 Sheep—Alpaccas 22 — prospects of the West 842 Ciov.r.AUiJse 118 Flax and hemp brake, Rundell's 349 linseed Cake. 326 Weeklies vs. Monthlies. 374 — and wool prospects in future 6 — Best->oll for IS — brakes 80,62 ..ocust, the Seventeen-Year 190 — Society 264 Locusts, Grain destroyed by 390 liver, Right bank of a .'. 46 Weeyiliii Barns 874 — as improvers of land 38 — — Brockport Union 80 — Seed, Sowings. 103,150 — cotton manufacture at uswego, Roller, its use on Meadows 149 - Proof Wheat wanted ....142 — at Hamburg Fair, American prize — — Cat»raugusCo.,N.Y 46 — — White 39J New York 70 — have come, the 198 — Proper time to cut 254 — Platform fora 278 Western Progress 110 285,326 — — Connecticut SO Club, East Maine farmers 80 — flore, freezing. 78 RootOulture 174 What it costs to live 350 — and cattle ditease 381 — — Delaware Co 94 — Skaneateies 8H — wheals 94,110 Machine for cutting envelopes H)t 1 — Mole-drain 102 Jural Agents 126 — we waste ». 841 — — — hale of ...'Co — — GeneseeCo 174 Coal, m'neral, causes of production. 123 Flood, a great 94 an2 Breeders and Wool-firowers Asso- — —Michigan *-i*-•*•£?' &* Gommerclai men in Convention,....288 — Influence on climate and soil —125 — Drills .246 Gorn and Grass in Ohio 174 For a. Consulate 46 — Applying to tail plowed lands 94 Interests, How t«> advance 413 ciation, Meetting of NT. Y. State.. Monr'.e Co 22,118,174" — Increasing hog-pen 389 — is appr-ciated, the 46 — Drilling Spring ... 78 46,64,62,86,93,358 — — New England ^. .94,126,134 — Best 86 — the Union 6 — Items. Minor 158,374 — on f»U plowed lands....102,117 Fair of the 101 York.88,54, 64,102,189,890,898 — Broom 78,110 Fowls, Black Spanish 890 — Liquid 285 Manures, a compost heap 63 — New-Yorker for 1866 ,\3W — Hwvest WfSt 198 —' in council.... 70 Ohio : SO Dwarf Ii9 — Breeding .....102,150 Whev, effects of feeding V OneidaCo 80 — — Care in harvesting 109 — Game 22 — from still stables 14 — Progressing ...278 repurtofthe .229 — pure stable 63 — Single Copy Price Popular .. 6 — Feeding Cows 109 the Executive Board — — OswegnCo. 38 — cradle ''54 — Ta orevent scratching 101 — — Swioe ...109 Seneca Co 88 — Cost of raising In Illinois 294 — White Guinea 94 — management of muck in compost- To its Readers 5 of theN. Y 70 in? 54 Notes from Vermont 3D Why RC tided meal is more nutri- Washington Co 174 — — etephen-on Co., Ill 80 — crop, the 165.890 Free advertising, about 890 tious than raw 38 — — St. Joseph Co., Mich 94 — — and stock hogs 294,342 From Empire 277 — D. E. Robinson's - 294 Ulster Co 38 Dt12Dent 6 ..126 — Preparing wood for 365 _ _ Cry stalized 262,561, 367 Wine Comply, Urbana 54 — — Van Buren Co., Mich 64 — Don't fear to plant yet 182 Funk, Death of Isaac 46 — — Cleansing, a new way of 118 — Th« Western ; 238 — Dipplug composition, Lalors 290 — World, Colman's 150 Woodcbuuks-How to head, 178,198,246 Diseased ---lyx — — Vermont SS — Fall plowing for 373 Galvanized Iron 22 — — Making ,....14, 45, 69, 70,78, »3 — Raecoona.... 222 — —Wayne Co 38 — fodrter.' 842 Gate, a, cheap home-made 182 — — New "" — • Write for the -.368 Dogs : 368 Lurslist, the Indiana ..126 Work Ahead 229 Dressing with castor oil 398 — — Winnebago Co., Ill Iu2 — —Raising 198 Geese and Ducks, large 334 — — Profits of making...., — Close up the Fall .341 — — York Township, C W 54 in Ohio 206 — — Vermont 280 Rye, Sowing for Pasture 117 Eating tobacco 63 Generous 406 Sand-hank, to cover a...... 110 Working for Comfort 182 — wool from other sheep 109 — Warehouse, Mary land 388 — How much in an acre 84 Give b©Vf traps in place of guns.... .35u — Sirup, to preserve ..142 Worms at bottom of bay 110 Agriculturist, the Oregon 407 — husk paper 14, 88 Glanders, death from ...j ...J..890 Michigan, Northern 142 5ap, Where the sweetest is 126 E. E. Brown's Uj> An Expjaiation 2M — Large 882 — Remedyfor 898 Middle Man, HoV he was "headed".382 Sawdust for bedding 405 — English 350 Angle Worms in wells 350 — Manuring for falVplowed 381 Glycerine 2i4 Middle Men 21 cratches, Remedyfor 150, 398 — Engravings for the Rural 342 Another big thing 150 — Measurement of in the crib 382 Goat husbandry 101 Milk. Cows Leaking 150 t-asonabie hints 15,j, 248 SKEEP DEPAETMEUT. — Fair at Canandaigua 168 — Monthly »toing 874 — Selecting Seed..... 150,857 Government lauds in Michigan 6. 46 Facts about 246 Season, Crops. &C, in Illinois 16S, 206 — — inCayuga Co 110 Animals, fat 374 — Stalks, sioring .•. 18 fever, our treatment or. 149 — — —Utah 2H6 — WashingtonCo 110 • Grain, about binding 205,221 — Notes from Champaign Co., Ill... 78 Agricultural Society's Fair, New Eng- State.....?. 125,148,168 — Fractured bones ia 86 — — and straw culture 14 — binder wanted 102 house, a plan of wanted 6 land ... :..309 — Remedy for Sick 182 — Seed 294,350 — drill, which is the best 184 — plan of for fifteen Cows 64 — Work, Progress, &c, in Iowa 126 — Fictitious prices for «£ Seed, Canary 13,77,151 Jorerg—do sheep destroy the 286 — for Virginia 334 — Skinning...: 826 — Thinning in hills 190 — drilling on fall plowed land U0 Proportion of Butter, to yield of. 291 Breeding in-and-in 70 — Treatment of domestic 88,258 — White vs.yellow 78 — drills, about 134,166,182 Pure 206 — To test 141 — Gl«nn Bro's....„ *» Seeds, Brill for small 78 — vs. Buying 62 — Heavy *0S — Wartuon 366 Correction 142,278 — lifted bv the frost 834 — Rack, agood 222,: Buckwheat straw 142 — when to commencing fattening Cotton growing in California SrtJ — and plaster sower so — Sweet, Keeping.... 6 Shepherdess of the Alps 28S — Hon. E. B. Pottle's 206,285 Short-Hoiis at auction, Hon. T. C. — — supposed injurious effects of... 54 — How little hay will do for 61 old .....334 — Illinois and Indiana 834 — trade in Chicago 802 — Water, milk, &c, weights of 118 — for breeding ewes 62 Apparatus for watering barn yards Courtesy and credit ...262 — winter 406 — Weed, Cloth from 86,126 Peters'herd 206,254,270 — Husbandry, Buenos Ayres 301 — — Breeding M Catarrh 110 — ia Onond&ga Co 12» self-acting 117 Cow, a good 362,398 Grains and Grasses 134 — — Blind ditches, 230 Cholic or Stretches 102,11U, 368 Appointei to a Professorship 826 — milker 54,86 Granary, a Western 181 — — Howtohead 270 — — Heifer " Arzie," Mr. Brown's-817 — Infantado, Messrs. Hines' 133 Smoke-house, a cheap and good 3-»9 Complaints 382 — -r- N & N Bottom's 897 Are we making progress 22 Cows, Boil ed potatoes for milch 866 Grasses, the 8 is — — and Canada thistles ..350 Committees at State Sheep Fair 110 Army Worms 174 — .bloat in 61 Grass, best way to cure for hay 214 Milker, a good .206 Soil of the South ~ 167 — Lands in Missouri Splendid 168 Soils that need Lime 365 Correction 38,86,193,222, 229, 36S, 874 — Nebraska.... 64 Ashes, Coal 46 — Bretagne 102 — English Blue 109* Hilkers, good 278 Cots wolds 262 — on the ground. Leached o — Comparative value of. 88 — Hungarian 866 Hiking, Early 333 Sorrel, Remedy for 201 — Kansas 3fi8 Sorgho Convention in Wisconsin.... 6 "Culls" 294 Western 3J.118 Association, the objects Of. 53 — Don'trunthe 230 — Orchard 14 Mineralogist 86 Death from retention of urine. 102 Barn, Plan of 318 — Drying .270 — Seed so wing ani covering _ "MinnesotaGirl," Hints for a 366 — Seed from China .390 —, Labels, about 254 Sorghum as a crop 3) Deferred communications 21,78 — L. A. Sweet's -?»6 — The larg"St in New York 358 — Foodfn-.... 117 — without grain 405 Moles, about 64,126 Doing up tags in fleece* 22 — Yard, how to make a 142 — Garget in 54.70.1DI — To get rid of Quack 101,110,254 — How to trap 14,126 — Chinese Sugar Cane 101,102 — Letting .—• -SW — Culture...... 382 Dogs preventing the extension of — — Out vs. managing them, aw. ..109 Barns, about horse 45 — Cure of 103 Grease for leather 390 Mower and Reaper " Monitor " 198 sheep husbandry it Barley, a Chapter on 229 — Preventive and care for 102 Grub, the corn .190 — Yankee, the 2i)fl for sirup 109 — Lincoln .7...... -!T!..334, 857 In Western New York 77,102 — to cure of sheep killing 6 — Marking ^-30 Beans, Castor in Missouri 85 — Kindness to' 246 T- - white 6 Mowers, Ketchum 166 Ewe, a remarkable fleeced 17' — Plant, 182 — Milking 205 Guenon's work 110 Mowin* lota, lve a swarm of ^246 Cultivator, The Boston 102 Haying and Harvesting, Hoi. 197 — Young Folks 94 State Fairs, New York and other — valuable 310 — Trespasojng 358 — — Southern 230..406 -r- Hints on 230 Oxen, management of working 270 recent SO! — Weight of claansed 277 — Screenings of wheat for...22,153, 278 Pamphlets, ate. received Ill States, Choice of 9 — Scoured 294 — Scrofulain 29,150 Beginning in the woods 2'5 — Evan's Rotary ; 13 Have you a Plan ? 38E Flock of the Hartow Bro'a 286 . Best.mode of piling fire-wood 38,126 Dairying in Northern Illinois 6, 53 Heifer, what is the matter with the..38: Pastures 31! Stock, a chinoe for Fine 4i — Shearing and Picnic «* Pea Straw 38; — Care of in the Fall 366. 38: — Produce ill .Fair, &c ---!§? Be Systunaflc ....269 Dairy business, Inquiries about the. .193 Haaltn* Surroundings 101 — Profltsof a 38, T8,17 136> .Beets and Beet .Seed 810 — interest, the 834 Hemp Growing in Kansas 382 Peaa. about 94,305 — Cutting food for 46,6 — — Festival . Beware of "traveling" agents...14,866 — Product of a small 222 Hens, best b -eed for laying 78 — Buggy, t 102 SUlfcsfor 231 Gall, overflow of the 15 — in Grinnell, Iowa |™J Binders economy of. 78 Deferred 834,406 — cu ing of setting 35fi Peat 302,406 — Don't sell lean 31 Goats, Angora 342 — Ohio State —J/* — Self-Bakers and 117 Dismal times for Daily papers 198 — Neits 39.1 Personal 64,86,182,294 — Exporting from Canada 37' — — Markets for fleeces 874 — — Illinois and Wisconsin ^°° Bloviating Edlter 62 Dogs, cost of in the United States... 166 Herd Book, American 32i Piggery, plan for a 325 — Liceon 6: Goitre , 126,174,382 — — Seneca Castle.....^ {*> Books for Young Farmers to read.. 6 — Cure for 2 — rot in Ohio 27 Merino flock'o'f Me'tirs"jSuttinpI!"!IIl65 — — andneatness t 125 Thanks! Patience ! 2 — increase of yolk imd wool in the. .214 Pedigrees. &c .246 ¥ — Confinement of .\. 54 — fences , 245 — Show postponed 201 — The 15 — To the Press 14,391 — Paular and Iafantado, the 237, — Co6tof feed for..\ 393 — foot-bridges 53 — — in-Wayue Co IS — tops 29 _ Purchase -- -.,-., 374 > Thanksgiving in Ireland, &c 37 _ Sheep-Are w<: enfeebling them..11! 216, 253, 2*1. 269 — Cutting stalks for..:-,. 5 — gate, Harrah's National 16« — The Messenger 35 Potatoes and hav, Relative value of.. TheOountry 110. I The Country Gentleman ...69, 78, 94, — Diarrhoeain .v 85 — - The -*393 — To start abalky 134,3 — Cornish mode of raising early 1 2 — — Mr. Brown's 1221 — Ever glorious Fourth Merinos, antijfuity of 158 118,302 — disease \. 310 — Hayward's seed -286 Horse's, wind puff on leg .70, is — Culture of artichoke and sweet . 8 — Same Fellow J — and our pedigrees 1()2 — Estimating weight by measure- — Journal, the. 40» Horses and breeding 331,89 — Culture and varieties y — Southfor Northern men * — clas*iflp*Won qpin prize lints 37 — impo#ationof Australian into the — Term-'Teg" 134 ment -\. 270 — life, American 165 — A Suffolk Stallion SO — Delaware Sweet , — Spirit of the West .-- }• — Maine Farmer—Horns 6 — from Canada - 318 — — make it attractive 317 — atPasture H — Dropping U — Tares of the New Testament . .-..i! UnUedStatss 17: — in^Varren Co., N. i' IV Typographical Error'. 78 — Great sale of Ayrshire 1 150 — Machinery 181,222 — Barley and Rye for 1! — Frozen without injury — Season 86,126,158.182,206, 2« Uioer. application for an indolent—262 — how muchbhouldihey gain...... 897 — management, a chat on 221 — Bunches ou Feet. ' ... .1 — Heavy and li«ht — — and crops '' — We. D. Cutting's 17: — Pedigrees of American 38 Wneat Straw, Bearded 342 — in Highways 14&V238 — Notes 237,245,254,261,278 — Carrots for.. ' 3 — How to use diseased ; — — —its labors Winter Decline 134 — Keeping on thirty acres of land 322 — Faylngfora 2J — Coming North, Southern 'Thor- — Keeping •. 4f — — crops, weather - - - - - • — the daxon 86 •r Saleof. > 4 Wool Clip, the 150 — Liceon $ — products, aboiit prices of 373 ough Bred — — Sweet.. 14, — Prospects, &c IM, 14^ 174 — Combing 12« \ — Eating 118 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

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Wool Exhibition, Australian S97 ruit, Healthfulness of Summer 239 Pears, Eelative hardiness dwarf and Bread, Rising for 407 Maple sirup, to keep 127 Furs, tanning and preparing 390 3e leads me — Fibers, Increase of on Sheep 222 — house, Prof. Nyce's 335 standard 31,111 — tofry 289 eats, potted ; 176, 383 — the best 63 His Work is Done -.••• — Fine, employed in heavy fabrics, 198 — improved by thinning 215,255 — Setting out dwarf 185 — — make 191 _edieine. an excellent Diarrhoea 319 German Wood-carving 329 Home and Friends around us — In Michigan 103 — The quince as stock for 79 Brown, to color 231,247 — Cough 71 rum Copal 177 — Bevond — Foed best adapted to the produc- Pear tree blight 47 — dark snuff .223 8 2 — ladder, a. ,..191,359 'ildew from Linen 39 Gunpowder, anew 329 — in the etorm tion of- tf-**" * — plates, colored 207 — — — slittingthe bark 247 Broche Shawls, to clean 7, 23, 63 .milk. Condensed 39 ymnastic Exercises, utility of 249 I am Beloved i — Growers' & Manufacturers'Meet- Preserving 351 — — Duches3 D'Angouleme for Brown's Bronchial Troches 383 — Hominy and :375 ealth in hot weather 177 — — With you Always ing called at Syracuse, N.. x 366 received 319 stocks •. 87 Burns 119 — Yeast 16,66,79 eart Disease »nd Tobacco 177 — — Papa's .... — — Association of •Wisconsin 842 The best market 359 — — The old Btuyvesant 159 Butter, Elderberry 319 'occasins, how to knit 391 History of a Drinking Club 353 — Know a Morning Cometh.. _ Ohio 398 trees, dwarf 191 Pear trees, blood lor ill from one cow 31 tosquitoes, hew to get rid of. 215 Torses feeding one another 265 '11 be True — — Convention, U. S. S73 — Effect of iron on 151 — — Hardiness of. 263 making 39 foffins 7,39,63,159 How Envy was punished 225 n Black — — New England AF6ociation..S0,302 .Ichfor )67!- z Pumpkin '. 15 Musk Melons, to pickle 295 — to act when clothes take fire 161 Indiaa Summer — — Legislation affecting 333 — Oil for 3»3 Rules for making good 166 "eat's-foot Oil, to make .Ill — — to count rain drops 163 nMemoriam - Wool, How can we increase the — — What blights the 207 Substitute for 159 ew Wood, to remove the taste of 159 — — renovated, old 215 T — — detect counterfeits 805 invocation quantity of y-.-y i6 — — Setting out 71 — — Wine-glass method of training 111 to keep sweet in a cask 199 othings, my Mother's 215 iydrophobia, anew cure for 257 Is She Dead — Increased supply needed of comb- — vs. liquor 351 "•eonies ..271 Cabbage, Stuffed 385 at meal puddings and Scotch bis- ce, uses of 233 January 1,1865 , ing 174 Fruits.&C, in New York.287,295,335, •etroleum.new use for 175 Cake, Agnes' 391 cuit 95 ndustry of the United States 305 June , — in the stomach...... 326 343,399,407 — To head the striped bug 199,207 — agood common ; 37S Hntment, Camphor 135 ^earning as a bread winner 73 Lake of Shadows — Manufacturers National Asso- Garden, Farm kitchen 143 "etunia, the 7 — Apple Fruit 175 'melets 31,135 .life in Japan S97 Lead me Gently ciation 70 — hedge wanted 87 hloxes, the 255 — a very good cheap 191 nion stew 359 jncolnin the future, Abraham 337 ,ee has Surrendered — Convention 406,413 — hints for May 151 inching to promote fru!tfulness....255 — Bar n Dnions, efficacy of 175 lagnetj Power of the 249 ..eisure — Market, the-133,182, 214, 230,254,326 In England, a rock ssvt Ink, Japan...- 207 — Bell 247 3rder m ifouse power 353 Life Aims A — Ohio Premiums 214 In the?. :i %g Plant huPter, the •„ 183 — Black 263,343, £67 Pancakes, Corn ,279 Music as a Physical Agent 113 — is Action — Picking or biting, shedding, &c... 368 Little things In a J59 — Growing, a secret in ;.li!7 — Carolina •. .135 — from broken bread ....231 Tails, Cast Iron 361 Life's Experiences , — Pulling, cure for 118 Salt for the 2g| Plants and hanging baskets.... 367 — Cinnamon or Ginger 143 "•ear stains 31 National Debt, the : 313 Little Bare Feet shelter «j — Bedding 335 — Corn Starch 79,167 'ears, to stew 279 Natural Barometer ,..353 — Feet... _ _ newcause of- 150 22iJ — Samples of 64,126,142,150,182, 214, The """lums. how to save the 183 — Cream.... 175,199 Pickle, French 295 rt of 2is — — loaf 263,343 — Lemon 127,167,183,199, 287 Peat, its origin and uses 177, 267 AusingS , their 86 — Parlor. 247 — Thumb and finger 268 — Fruit ...v 135,367 — Molasses , ]83 — Machine, new 385 itutual Assistance — Window - 39 — vines 279 — Healthy 271 — Pork and Potato ,...3£9 'etroleum 89 ity Karly Home — Washed or Unwashed 381,389 — Huckleberry 239 J Yolk, Proper amount of 221 Gardeners, a hint to ..175 Put in a tree 199 — Potato i..3f9 olis, the Indian Guide, Joe 67 My Evening Hour Gardens, ants in 143,239 Quince, culture of the 127 — Hot Breakfast 143 — Plant Pie 223, 239 'owder, a new explosive 233 — Heavenly Bird — Howto have clean 167 Kabbits, destroying 71 — Jelly 215 — Tart Apple 127 'ropeller, Improved 273 — Pearl — Market, of New Jersey 399 — How to prevent destroj ing trees — Jenny Lind 183 'igeons, Broiled 191 lack, how it was abolished 273 Nearer to Life's Winter ~~ HOETIOULTUBALT Grape, Adirondac, the 343 81,103 — Lemon 135 'lants, watering 79 Remarkable confirmation 265 Nellie _ as a wine 103 — in orchards 15 — Marble 343 "•ork, how to fry 265 — old Oil Well 257 fever more Night than Day.. — A new seedling i279,S03 — Strychnine and 79 — Mountain > 216 'otage with pumpkin 414 Ride on an Ice Hill, a ....273 tfew-Year's Eve A few present hints 127 — culture '. 286,287,335 Radishes 289 — Nice Dough 343 'otatoes. Cooking '. 351 5aleratup, what is it ? 281 Night — good work 21H — — inMtssouri 271 Ranunculus, or Crowfoot Buttercup 271 — Number 79 — Fried 231 Science and Practice 9 Nil Desperandum " — mysterious package 175 _ Ohio, profits' of....103,127,191 Raspberry, Black-cap plant 811 — Ocean 231 'ot-Pie, to make 199 Scientific Notes 329,361,385 An army to conquer 551 _ Steuben Co., N. Y 359 — In Michigan 867 — Plain 223 'owder, Toilet,.... 391 — wonder elucidated 57 One Pair of Stockings Antirrhinum, the 391 Deleware 15 Re* cedar, growing from seed 103 — Poor man's 835 Pudding, Apple 256 Sea Depths, new measurement of. 257 On the Hillside* 340 Apple, anew 875 Shubarb " — Prudence 247 — a''tip-top" Plum 15 , 164 ....S75 — for wine 119 heridan's mode of fighting 805 Our Boys are Coming Home.. — crop, the - fruit... 391 Rioinus, the — Puff 348 — Batter 327 Small Pox, remedy for 89 — Consecrations , 360 — of Great Britain...... 890 Grafting the ..... 55 Rochester worthy of Imitation 199 — Railroad 336 — California 271 — National Airs 209 — Best for market ....111 Growers' Association, Ohio..23,359 Jose-bug 135,223 — Republican Fruit .- 167 — Christmas, without eggs 343 128 —' — sweet for Michigan ....'71 Someth ing about Reading 337 — Selfish Hearts Western 79 Roses, ClibnClimbingg and PillaPilarr 223 — Roll Jell ; ,183,215,343 — Corn Starch 15,65,135 Strange Custom 377 — Soldier ...... :.... 152 — parer, the Union ....247 growing.. , .263 — CulturCl e off Tube.Tb5: 5 — Sammy; 138 — Cottage ..287 — Red Astrachan ....851 Sugar from Corn 49 Paul and I , 128 — — in Wisconsin, successful. 888 — Grafting 4 — Soda •.. 135,143 — Cream 39,199 'ictures , 124 — — Canada...... 335^ — ' Sorghum 7 'anning small skins. ; 49, — Importance of the' 327 — HybriHy d perpetuapp l — English Christmas 16 'ea as a Summer Drink 345 oem recited by Mr. Lincoln . 136 — trade, the- 882 — shipments, large.. 359 — SeedlinSdligg 31 — Sponge 143,167,183, 319,335 Indian 265 'oems Unwritten 24 — tree and cut-worm 7,188,271,279 — Tender Ginger 151 'eeth, Preserving the 67 — story, huge and true 119 Sussets, keeping 103 — Huckleberry 239 'elescdpe, a large 233 Polly 360 — trees, ashes about... —111 Sap, circulation of 71 — Wedding 256 Oyster 39 . Greasing Ill — wine, making , 835 The age of forty-six 226 "Precious" -•--« 892 Grapes and Other products in Malaga 407 Screens and stockades on Prairies 15, 95 — White , ....135,8*3 Plain Rice 199,247 Psalm for New-Year's Eve 12 V — — high andkew heading...* 407 Seeds, age of 79 — without Saleratus, 271 — — Removing moss from 151 — Best soil for ....167,228 Plum 367 — Caledonia Trout Ponds".".".""*. 401 lalph Rivers' Question 113 — Fall planting of... 303 — Depth of covering 151 Cakes, Drop. 4 ....287, 327 Puff. 271 ""ower of Babel, the 345 3ash Longings 208 Setting elope., 87 — for Northern and Western aspect 55 — for fall planting 295 — Fried 199 Rice 39,335 — — Time to trim.•..•....;; 151 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!" 4.337 JeadiDg the Bible 113 — How to keep till April 63 — Save your own ....231 — Flannel 159 Sago 271 'ransparent Houses 377 Recollection , 30l — — tw.sheep 223 — Sow for a succession 191 — Tea 4 71,175 — -ri War on the 399 .— inMaine , 351 Sauce for 319 travel beneficial to workmen" 297 " Santa Filomena" , 136 — — Spring.. ,.. 263 SeimpraVirva ...'....108 — Yeast. 95 — Snow Ball 351 Vagaries of Self-Esteem 321 Sea-Shore 64 ' Apples annually, to get early harvest f7 Sharp ;..... 63 — Buckwheat, How to make 414 — for latitude 45d 7 — Keeping... 63 — Steamed.., 223, 263, 319,407 Washington Allston's Prayer . "346 September , 800 — Liquid Manure for .....239 Shipping, apple scions and straw- Cancers, cure for 265 tabbit,toroasta 7 Weather, the Sky an Indicator of the.345 Shadow, of the Bough , 40 NameT 103,263 berries .;.;; 15 Candle Wicking, Tow 1 103 .— —Wisconsin ...... * ill — on the Islands of Lake Erie...... 103 Rag Carpet, Warp for 103 Wtldey, Thomas P. G., founder of Stadows 8 — Packing for market. 295 Side-plow, one horse for orchards... 127 Cauliflowers, Fried 891 taspberry Royal 223 Odd-Fellowship in America 329 Shabspeare ../...228 • — Gathering and keeping 843 3now ball, a monster ,...,191 Celery, Stewed 391 . —-Keeping.,... 383 — Pie-plant, versus 247 Recipe for Curing Meat 383 Worth remembering 217 Sliding Down Hill 72 — Preserving :1S,63, 103,223,295 Spinach, New Zealand 135 Cement, Diamond 175,247 — vs. Receipt 95 Wounds and their treatment 16I "oldiers' Monuments 120 •— —winter 89,247 Squash story, a ..:.....103 Cheap Cider Vinegar 28,335 •— Late keeping 271 — Protection for 255 — wanted 287 omebody's Darling — Protecting vinery, in winter 327 Squashes, training 151 Cheese, Dutch a substitute 15 Rhubarb Wine and Jelly 223 Song — on Paradise stocks...; 31 Strawberry plants and ants....; 7 — Saxon 167 — — sandy soils 263 — Prune but little 351 lusk 287,303 — of the Falling Rocks ..312 — Rogers'Hybrid .I.:,... 391 — —by mail 1 ....^ 63 Chicken, to bake a 191 Salve, Lip 23 EDU0ATI0IAL. EK — Woods...., ,..344 — Packing in saw dust 199 — Summer pruning of 231 — — Theflrst 1...... 175 — - frya 191 Sooner or Later ..332 — Sweating 367 r- for Frost Bites 31,287 1 — Trellises and 279,295 Strawberries, about 87,287 Chilblains, a sure cure for 15 Sausage, Bologna 167 Advice to Teachers 185 "SonslesRideaux' .. 28 — When to pickPears and..... 278 Cultivation of. 2il — to cure 7,215 Asparagus 183 Grapevine, abarren 31,223 — meat, to keep ;351 Agricultural College, Michigan 65 Spirit Longings ..176 Aster, the 467 — prolific 274 Fine.... 199,207 Chowder, Daniel Webster's ]fl9 Scarlet, to dye 247 — Education in N ew York 17 Stabat Mater ..144 — — cuttings 399 Fertilizing.. i.,103 Cider, howto make ; 255 Shortcake, Strawberry ...183,207 Allegorical Illustration of Summer.185 Star of the Camp .. 88 A trip East ; — Vinegar, how to make 287 College Education, the value of a.. .169 .. 15 Bean. White Kidney 183 — — destroyer.a.. 271 Great production of. 263 Sick-room, for the 215 Story of a Sunbeam — — Mildew on the. 247,255,271 in August 263 Chocolate Flour 15 Silver, Black spots on 95,119. lommencement Exercises of the Strive to do Good ..400 Blackberry, cultivation of the -.231 Cochineal Red, to color 7 University of Rochester 241 ..313 — The Kittatinny 367 — —of Santa Barbara 303 — Wisconsin : 223 — Spoons, to clean 71 Sunshine and Cloud — — Saltona 375,391 Not enough... 278 Codfish Balls 835 Slate Color on Cotton or Woolen 223 Common Schools, our 185,369 Tell us of the Night ,. .. 76 Black cherry on the Prairies 7t Coffee, Johnny Cate 15 "onsciences ; 241 ..188 Bouquet, a Florist's*. 23 Grape vines, how to plant 143 Planting .: 23 Smut out of Yarn 15, 65 The Angel of Patience — —Pruning 87 Sweet Briar, propagating from seed:103 — to prepare Chicory for 369 Soup ,...215,247 uring defects in speech 137 Answer ..376 — How to preserve a 287 — -, settle 95,383 Education in Germany 169 ..244 — Making .....255 — — Training 319 — potato seed ; ,.283 — Bean 199 Haymakers Hand-glass. ill — William, the .191 Cold, cure for a 65 — Howto niake.^.. 376 — of women in Kansas '....185 Homes of the Poor ..256 Borer, the ; 289 — —a cheap.... 71 Cologne Water 135 — Physical 265 ..232 Borers and Sheep :... 39 Tomato, about the 215 — Mock Oyster 367 Hour of Evening Hedge, Osier Willow 271 — seeds, taving 827 Cookies 287,843 — Oyster 39 How to teach spelling 401 Little Boy's Dream ..305 Budding cherry and apple trees.... .185 — Something for a 103 Ammonia ." 167 —. — write ..273 Bugs, Kerosene for .;..?"~ —v Training the.. , 175 Recipe. • Orator ..329 Hedges 103 Transplanting at night; , )5l Cider ;....263 — to make good 175 Important hints to Parents 401 Lost Doll t — on vines—remedy for 175,223, £_ — Hemlock 63 Ginger. 327,367 Letter to a Young Teacher 93 .. 24 Bulb farms of Haarlem, the . 343 — Hintson •. 199 Stains from Marble 119 Mother's Prayer ..288 : _., „ Orange 119,151 Tree, a remarkable v63 Molasses 175,843 — — Porcelain 63 Mental concentr ation 297 Music of Childhood Bulbs,hardy ^.:;;....295 Pound ;„ 136 ..328 -Cabbage, keeping.. .*...,... 81,407 — in New Jersey -, 159 Trees and the nursery business..... 191 — — Steel Knives _. Methods of computing interest 97 the Rain ,..272 — plants, to save..... 15 Hickory, grafting the 87 — by the roadside 31 Sorghum 11)9 Starch for Shirt Bosoms 23 Modes of instruction f'" Old Canoe ..864 Horse Chestnut, double flowering... 183 — Curious 18s "Tip-top" 319 Steak, to broil a 183,819 Muscular Education Peace Autumn — seeds, way I planted my 191 Coral Frames •. 143,65 -.156 •Cabbages..... 199: Horticulture and Patriotism 207 — Effect of on the climate 888 Stock, Bran 869 Neither, Either 401 President is Dead ..164 — in Indiana' .247 — Girdled 95 — Imitations • 87 Strawberries, how to pick 207 No need to die of thirst 169 Pur suit of Happiness ... 20 — How many an acre 390 Crackers 4 15 Object Teaching 65 • Cactus plants of California ;.135 Horticultural department at the — Herbaceous and the tree Peonies Sweet Com, howto dry. 231 Quaker Coquette '. ..292 State Fair...., 303 of China 127 — Ginger ,...231, 263 Tarts, Sand 215 Phonography..., 209 Rose and the Ring .. 64 , ; Camelia, Fanny Sanchioli 119 — Ronnd , 119 Canna'S"....':.i>...;...; : ..185 Dogmas 7 — Manure for 281 To Color Eed and Yellow 63 Plan for a small School House 401 Solder Father's Song...... 288 matters in Ohio 271 — Manuring 899 Cream, Snow 247 — makegoodTea 85 Remun eration of Literary men 297 Song of Light ..192 Catalogues, A M Purdy's 47 Crullers ....• 151 School-room reveries 369 — BKBliss', 71 rizes 3(9 — —newly set 207,375 — prevent Black crocking 15,119 South ...26n S;egister, American 207 — Planting 375 Crulls 167 — render Clothing incombustible ... 79 Schools in California 169 Stammering Wife ...248 — Ellwanger&Barry's...... 47 Society, Illinois 393911 Cucumbers, salting down for pickles.303 Teachers, salaries of 345 — McElwains... 95 — Raising on the Prairies 883 Tomato as food, the 271 — Time for Prayer ...3P3 — Massachusetts. 39 — Sheep injuring 191 Currant Marmalade.; -.231 — Catsup .803,319 The Literature of the Present day..185 — TwoPictures ... 64 — received :; 95 Custards, Arrow-root .391 — Queen's English 297 Caterpillars, destroy the ....159,175,183 — — Merrimac, Mo. 39 — Taking up 819 Tomatoes 295 — Voyage of Life... s ...280 — — Missouri... >.... — To cure wormy 167 Domestic Economy, Dep't of. 95,207. — Sweet Green Pickles 215 Town Libraries 185 Thoughts from Nature ... 56 Caterpillar, Orchard 255,351 — Naples. Ill — Variegated and purple-leaved... 31 Doughnuts 191 — to cook ripe 176 Ventilation 169 Three Years ... 32 Celery, salt for.... •"- — — Pennsylvania 295 — Wash for .' 115 ain 223 — — preserve 279 Very cheap and good reading 17 To-day and To-morrow. ...352 — Storing....'i. Hot-beds 351 Tuberosa, the 223 Drab, to color t ...215 TodthacJhe, for 15,167 Voltaire and the Quakers 169 ToEnola , ...400 Chervil : Drink for the "Dog-Days" 239 Tripe, Cleansing 15 Where and how to educate our sons 33 —> Tuberous .' : House plants, care of 359 Tulip roots 383 Mi:™ :...... :.: . :. ..376 Hyacinth, the 319 — The 271,3(8 Dumplings, Apple 71,127 — Preparing : 127 — My Friends Cherries for Wisconsin ill Increasing love of Nature ,15 Tulips, about mixing 23 — Potato 391 — —for the table 63 , — Retarding ripening of. 127 — Steamed 255 P0ETET. - Trodden Flowers . Cherry, grafting the. i. *. m Indigo in the North 15 Vegetable growth, force exerted by 302 Turkey, Staffing for a 19: Twice a Child Insect-friend, another 268 Vegetables and fruit gardens 119 Egg Plant, How to cook it .303 — to bake a 191 Twilight Shadows Chestnuts, cultivating ...279 — sauce, codfish 41 A Better Son ....' — Grafting... .;.... 407 Introductory—The New Year 1 — ' Rapid growth of. 159 roasta .183 Two Ways ,. 56 Important if true .: 38S Vlck's Catalogue i 319 Eggs, in winter 3 Veal, to roast .183 — Dream Under the Leaves .152 Chickadee i 55 1 — tofry.. ' 79 — — on skates ..' 52 Chickory 80 Kelley's Island...... 36 ; —' Flower Garden, Mr 167 Vermicelli ..11! Unrest .296 Lady bugs J..151 — seed catalogue for 1865 _• 28 — — keep 126,169, 199, 215 Vinegar, Raspberry — Fancy •.... 356 Vina Vinton's Answer .176 — Grapes—Fruit-stealing ..335 Fish, tofry 183 ..882 408 .236 Cider and cider-making 375 Larkspur, the , 375 Vineyard at Naples,' a. 819 Waffles .• ..ISi — Hymn of Trust Virginia Dare Lindley, Death of the Botanist. 391 — Xargest in the world' 351 Flannels, dyeing orange color 271 Wanted — Httlewhile *. ..-•••336 Waiting .168 — Modes of keeping •. 867 Floating Island 135 ..11 .100 Climbers „ 223 Lilies, the 26S Vineyards in the Tonawanda Valley 383 Whitewash, howto ,.14 — —Gem 352 — at Home..... Luxuries, how to obtain cheap. 143 Vintage, the 875 Flowers Crystalizing 391 — recipe wanted I . — — longer yet 92 — for Christ .328 Cranberries on upland Prairies 31 Violet, the Russian. ,47 Food for delicate stomachs, a 375 — that will not tub off •.• 16? — Prayer 152 .120 Grocus.the ^ 8 5 Maples, new variety of. ...15£ Waiting for the Chil dren — Planting f —.... " Walnuts for wind break, the 39 Dowls, Delicious dressing for 351 Wine, to make Black Raspberry 23S — Requiem 144 Washington . 60 Cucumbers, to cultivate 79 Marigold, new French 343, Watermelon, new 375 Frames, Cone 215 ' Blackberry 21 — Response', to Clio,Stanley .. S& Watching » J28 Curculios, how to catch 3' Meadow mice, ravages of. 39: Weeds in lawns, killing 859 Freckles, Tan and ..239 Currant 231 — Sunny Memory Weariness .224 Currant....4 : 228, 24' •Melons, to raise J 15! Why orchards die early 31,71,103 — to remove 95 Elderberry 231 —.Valentine '.'.'.'.'.'. 48 We love the Truth .297 — and gooseberry bushes, look to Memophila.the 23; Willow culture, basket Osier 87 Fruit, Canning 255 Ginger 23: Above the Clouds 8 Western Prairies .Ifi8 your .• ..35! Gingeibread 1 383,399 ,.272 — moth ....10; Mildew, sulphur for •. 37E — questions 68 Raspberry ...,23i About HuEbands 312 What Life holds Mulberry, Downing's Everbearing.121 — White 71, 95 — To make 407 ~ Jelly 38S Afoot 414 — MightbeDone .268' — worms, remedy Cor the ravages Narcissus family, the 31] '—' — F. K. Phoenix and 867 — Soft 136,175, 287, 407 Yeast, Potato 19£ Along the Shore - 256 — My Heart Rhymed one Day. .168 of the, .....183 Nursery, Ellwanger & Barry's 31! Wine and Cider Mill, Hickok's 199 — Hard molasses..-. 351 — thatwill start itself ill An Ancient Toast 248 Who are Men : .. 88 — — to kill the 191 Nurseries, our Rochester I7f — Another good 207 Ginger drop cake 136 Anacreons, Ode to Cupid .....'..68 Winter Night .224' Currants, what to do with the 279 Old hoop skirts, a use for 142 — or Pie Plant 185, fi8— Snaps 135,189,247,287 Another name 160 Wounded . 36 Cuttings, raising plants from. 11J Oni(5n culture • 15£ — Rhubarb ...?39 Glass Bead Basket 3 April Days.. ^ 104 YePrayerless Ones ,.1114 Dahlia, how fo cultivate the...... 16' — Fair, an 89C — Vinegar 223 Glue e USEFUL, SCIENTIFIC, &c At the Journey's End 184 Dahlias ; — Qualities of the S8J Yam, Chinese. 71 Gooseberry Fool ; •: 23S Autumn .324,356 Distinguished nurseryman going Grape Jam ——So£ . 96, 216 abroad, a : 175 — Seed t ' About Missouri 2t 'Baby' ST0EY TELLEK. Onions, disease of :.. 28i — Jelly. 303 A Chemical Freak ...27S — Bunn 144 Evergreen screen, a beautiful 239 — Some ^...142 Grapes, FroBt 367 — Chinese Dinner , — Nell.... 408 — the Privet.J. 175 DOMESTIC, IK30K0MY. Grasses, Coloring for Winter Boquet.. 31 All about It... 28 Evergreens, diseased ; 39, 95 — Substitute tor 183 Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Be Just and Fear Not 240 Amy Decarre.... 244 ; — To prevent maggots in •. .119, J51 Grease, to take out of Silk or Cloth, * Exhibition ff Beyond the Shadow 284 Behind the Scenes 172 — Planting for protection 103 Oranges in California ..'...... 15 Apple Butter 7,271 119, 247 Alligators'Nests 28 "Blessed to Give" ...... 384 — Transplanting 271 — Champagne ...v .303 Green peas, beans and sweet corn 3£ Celestia and Tom in Chicago 100,108 Fall planting 335 Orange trees a A Mechanician ...<• , Bob Fletcher 348, Constance , * 252 — — Dwarf 35! — cooking .';.': , 55 Hair Dye 31,56,87,111 Americans on their travels , Bringing our Sheaves with us. 26* • • False teaching . 40' — Jelly .....15, 39, 63, 295 — Invigorator "" Eight Years After.....'".'.'..7. "'.isoilfS — — Grafting Lemon and 3! An American in Berlin Calling the Children.... 73 Failures in Life .. 156 Flower Gardens, Spring work in... .121 Orchard, an enemy in the 19: Apples, Dried. 335 — Oil. good ,.:• •. Ancient Musicians 16: Carre Diem 1 — — in September 295 — to pickle ' 127 Fighting the Tiger 300 — Besttlmeto prune an 16' Hams, to cure ' 127,41 Antidote to Strychnia 36 Castles 17; Growing Strong 812,880 — • —Notes in the 191 — Sheep, in the 11] Barberries .247 — Pickle for 41< Atmosphere, the ....: 31! Christmas — seeds, great call lor 159 Baskets, Alum :„.. 223 40 Is it Bight? ...; 68 — To renovate an old*.i.... 119 — — preserve through warm wea- Bamboo paper. 34i Christ's Call to the Soul John Walton's Farm 148 — —: Save your 295 Orcharding in Illinois...... 55,95 Bed-bugs, Salt for... 183 ther 9( Bath, a capital 23; Columns 192 — — To give away ...... Il BedQoilts, covering old ;; 71 Mark Meriden, or Married and Orchards, care of 119 Hard Soap, Howto make 71,155 Bathers, Hints to 23; Coming Home 19c Single 268 Flowers, among the poor, plants and 279 ..— Failure of. 16' Beef, Keeping dried. 63,119,135, 391 Hop yeast cakes.. 3 " Bears and Bulls " Covet not 24 — Early Spring....143, 161,159,167,175 — Sauce for nofrand cold 167 Household leaks 22 Married Flirtations 140 — forperfume 359 — Hogsin., 31,241 Boots, why should they be polished..2K Dangerous Eyes 124 Marrying a Farmer '848 — Management of bearing 39S — Tea 391 House-keepers, Hints for ~ Boot-soles, waterproof 23J Days of my Youth 96 -<• freah+blown in winter 47 — to prepare to dry .15, S5, 79, 95 May Brine and James Miller 86 — Some nints on <....'88S How to keep sirup from running Building, about Deserted 248 Mr. Crawford's Lesson.... .116 — fruit, &c, at Penn. State Fair...343 — To preserve 263, 8S! — — roast 183,335 over when boiling 1, Carpets, a hint on 11; Destiny... 96 — How to arrange 271 Beer, Compound Spruce.: .'..167 Ice Cream 135,183 My Loss—A Tale of the War 856 -r. in the window 307 Osage Orange, a failure 11! Cashmere Shawls .S3, "Dot" -. 369 — Rival 220 1 — — How to extract seed ....38; — Spring 191 — — Howto preserve 239 Charcoal, properties of , 39! Do they work 160 — New 28 Berries, to preserve .' .199 Impression of butterflies and leaves One Inner Life 324,332,340 ' ». — Women and 22£ -r —.from cuttings 10! Chinese treatment of AniTrmlp 28 Dreaming 336 — of the Heroes , 12 •-T-. — in Illinois 23 7! Beverage, a delightful 327 on paper 27 . Chicago Lake Tunnel 11) Dying 152 Force-pump, Johnson's Champion.. 19S Biscuit, Soda 231,287 Presumption's Reward 228,286 — — Planting ....11! Ink, Black Writing ; ' Cholera, cause and treatment of. 313 Earth 232 Shepherdess of the Alps..... 276,284,292 Fork your gardens...1 iff — — seed 7] — Sugar.. 199 — Indelible 19: Civilization and the Human Brain....265 Elegy on a Cat 337 Frittilaria or Chequered Lily .22! Blackberry Cordial 223 Inquiries 319,327,39! Story of a Poor Relation ..44,52 Frost, Death of Joseph .335 — —.-!- Howtosave 6c Clocks 163,313 Faaed away from Earth 40 — — Emiline Ray 76,84, 92 r — Sirup 240k Items for Housekeepers 15! Fruit, annual i , Pansy, the 12' Coal 1 — Flowers 264 The Burglary at the Meadows 121 1 Peach crop, the. ,...23 Blackberries 247 Johnny Cake 25i Dancing and Whist Playing ' Fairest of the Rural Maids 328 — and vegetable garden 32 ; Black, coloring 151 — — A good & — Broken Engagement 260 — basket, self-emptying lj — trees, novel way of treating 40* Detergent, anew 21 Fame , 260 — Empty Sleeve at Newport .308 Peaches in Illinois 22; Blanc Mange 383 — — Excellept 11! Earthquakes, cause of 3. Freddie and the Robins 1.345 — Drying u Bluing fluid for the Washwoman 215 Jumbles. Vanilla 18; — Lost Jewels -.888,396 — Flavor of. 39 — How to raise every year.: 39) Economy, German 21' Freedom- .252 1- Madonna at the Ruins.... 364 — that have escaped frost 103 Boots, Oiling 127 Knitting oversocks ; 40: Electric Bells 17' Genius^. 216 — garden 255,293 — to make water proof 391 Knivep, to clean 19: — Quality ".;;.; 20 — Growers' Society of Upper Can- Pear, Buerre Bosc 327 England in Queen Elizabeth's day 313 Give as you'd take 355 — Samnite Marriages 193,204 — — Giffard , ...399 Boot-sole, coating with India Rubber, Lard for summer use 15, 5J Engineering feat, a great 82S God Save the Flag 132 ada 7 199 95,119 — To keep 19 — Sister's Vow 60 — of Western New York. 7,23, — Clapp's Favorite. 135 Extension Ladder, Eaton's Patent 23S God's Absence : 36£ — Way to Keep him 316 — The Peter's.., ;. 37« Bread, closing the pores 63 — — Restore rancid 3 Extraordinary Memories 38£ Good Bye-^-God Bless You 24{ 39,47,55, 63, 71, 79, 87, 95,103,175 _ Corn.... 191,287 Linen, Paint from ft Trot, a Christmas Story 4i2 207,215,279,295, SOS, 31 — vs. Quince blight i. 2&, Eyes, take care of your ...; 24i Gone Before 304 Uncle Obed's Visit 164 Pears, blight in ^.23,23 _ Indian 167,247,255,348 Liniment to relieve pain .ft Fish, a convenient .w 26' Gradation 20( — growing ., 327 _ — steamed •. 367 Machines, Family Gem Sewing ....63,91 Under the Snow 183 •- — in Illinois 207 — Colors of. -- — Appetite of a 3 Hearth Song 35 UosandDowns 212 — Heavy .„ _ Potato... 231 — Washing 8 Funeral of a Bee. 32 Hearts and Trees 140 — — ProfltBof .18d er Red,fora What Theophilus was Good for 416 — in Massachusetts 71 _ Recipe ..'. 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TERMS, &3.OO PIR.YEARJ FROGKRIESS -AJSTD 3STO. TEN CEHTTS.

VOL. XVI NO. l\ ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1865. {WHOLE NO. 781.

MOOEE'S ETTEAL NEW-YOEKEB, FARMER GARRULOUS TALES wiU Soon rest too. Let us be as true as he—as meet the demand as soon as the war closes, the domestic supply of wool would still fall vastly AIT OKIGTNAL WEEKLY AT THE CLOSE OP THE OLD AND BEGINNING OP unselfish as he was, and the looking back at the short of the demand. It would be very easy, did RiRAI, nTHUJtl AND PAMItY NEWSPAPER, THE NEW TEAR. end of the last year will not give pain, but the look ahead will give life and joy. There, JOHN, EDITED BY HENBY S. RANDALL, • LL. D. space permit, to prove this assertion by well CONDUCTED BY D. D. T, MOQKE, WELL, well, JOHN ! It is quite near ttie end of go to bed and wake in the HAPPY NEW YEAR. known statistical facts; and also to prove that many years must elapse before enough wool can D. BRAGDON, Associate Editor. the year, is'nt it? Do you know I begin to To COBBESPONDENTS. — Mr. RANPAU/B address is look back " about these days," as the almanac's CUTTING STALKS FOB CATTLE. be grown in our country for our own use, at any HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D. Cojrtl&nd, ViUag«, Cortland Co., N. J. AM communica- f say ? But it is not because I feel any desire to rate pf increase in sheep which can be reasona- Editor of this Departtaent of. Sheep Husbandry. tions intended for this Department, and all inquiries go back, as LOT'S wife did. No Sir. I say let I LISTENED with considerable interest to the relating to sheep, should he addressed to Mm aft above. bly anticipated., . SPECIAL COSTTEEBtrTOKS: the dead past put its dead in the grave. But I discussions at the State Fair at Rochester, last All this would be of no use to American wool P. BARRY, 6. DEWEY, LL. D., like to look over th« ground I have walked over. Fall, and think I got some pretty good notions SHEEP AND WOOL PROSPECTS IN FUTURE. growers, were they and were American manufac- H. T. BROOKS, L.. B. LANGWOTHY, It may be I may learn to.keep Out of the holes about prepairing food for animals by cutting, or turers after th« close of the war to be exposed T. 0. PETERS, EDWARD WEBSTER. .in the year before me. "v^eallof us talk, at some- chopping, as our English cousins would say. I THB year 1864 has been an unusually favorable without, or almost without, any legislative pro- TKK RURAL NKW-YOBKEB is designed td be unsur- time in our lives, as if we wish to live them am well satisfied that in the matter of corn stalks one to the flock-masters of the United States. tection, to the coriapetition of the whole world, passed in Value, Purity, and Variety of Contents, and over again. But I do not—not because I have and straw, at least one-half can be saved to the True, it has not been without its serious draw- as they were after the war of 1812, and as they unique and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor not drank deep of life, arid often been made to farmer. But simply cutting does not fulfill all have been on various other occasions by sudden devotes his personal attention, to the supervision of its backs. It was ushered in with a great loss of various departments, and earnestly labors to render the feel better for the draught, but because I might the conditions necessary fpr that great gain over sheep in both the Eastern and Western States, changes in our tariff laws. But the question of BUBAL an eminently Reliable^Guide on all the important make worse mistakes on another trial than I the ordinary method of feeding these two articles owing to opposite climatic extremes and to poor high or low tariffs is no longer an open one. Practical, Scientific and other Subjects' intimately have made. I look back only to gather up the of Winter forage. or scarce feed. We have already stated in these For more than the lives of the present genera- connected with the business of those whose interests It tion, at least, the situation of the public finances zealously advocates. As a FAMILY JOURNAL it ie end-' good I may have left by the way—simply to re- The most complete way would be to steam the columns, to the best of our information, where nently Instructive and Entertaining—being BO conducted call the truth and facts that come to me. For food before it is given to the cattle, as is prac- and to what extent these several causes operated, will render a high tariff absolutely necessary; that it can be safely taken to the Homes of people of instance, do not you remember how I feared that ticed by many New England farmers with great and it is not neeessary to repeat the facts here. and the incidental protection it will afford to intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces more the cold in January would spoil the fruit—how the success, the bloviating editor of the Boston Cul- Then the product of lambs last spring fell con- wool and woolens will be amply sufficient, if Horticultural, Scientific, Educational, Literary and News they are in this particular put on a par with Matter, interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than wet spring would stop the seeding until too'late tivbtor to the contrary notwithstanding. Where siderably below the average in point of numbers; any o£her journal,—rendering it far the most complete to get in full breadth—how the hot, dry time, milk is of importance, I think no ,man can for although it was large in some regions, and in other important articles of import. That an A&RICTJLTTJBAI,, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER in which made the grass dry up, and the grain grow profitably furnish it who does not thus prepare a portion of the flocks in nearly all regions, there injurious discrimination will be made against America. short, made me shake in my shoes? And yet, his food. But as steaming involves considerable were other sections and flocksi n which the mor- them, allowing them less thaa their proportion- able share of protection, iJ'not a supposable f3P~For Terms and other particulars, see last page. for all my trouble of mind, came the grand har- more expense than simply cutting, and as the tality was extreme,. This was particularly the case, vest time—the substance in the grass, the plump food should be given in as moist a state as is pos- of course, in the poorly wintered flocks above case. It would militate against the public inter- seed in the grain sheath; the rich fruit in the sible by the absorption of water, other means alluded to — but it was by no means confined to ests by seriously diminishing the revenue. It orchards, and big prices for all we had gathered. can be adopted producing very beneficial results, them. In those in the best condition, in many would be an exhibition of partial legislation for I wonder if there is any farmer who believes which are within the reach of all who have gone instances, a considerable portion of the lambs which there could be no statesmanlike motive, there is no GOB who rules over us, and gives us, to the expense of cutting. came in that feeble and dying state, which, and one which mere politicians would not be likely to urge in the face of a great industrial THE EUEAL TO ITS EEADEKS, as each year comes round, seed-time and harvest. I am feeding some nine head of team horses whether we regard it as a specific disease or as an interest which, while it is ever willing to bear its ON ENTERING UPON A NEW TEAR AND VOLUME. I confess I feel shame that I have let the entirely and exclusively on corn stalks, with a imperfect development, causes a greater lose in full share of the burthens of our country, is now doubts fill my heart at all! I hope in the New light feed of corn, and they are doing better than our high-bred fldcks than all other adverse agen- strong enough to resent unjust encroachments THE Sixteenth Year and Volume of the Year to keep my faith and trust bygone—to keep on hay with the same grain. I am also feeding cies" combined. RURAL NEW-YORKER commences with the pres- a gla&7 true ^ind stout heart for my work. I tell on its rights and privileges. about 40 head of cattle exclusively on cut stalks, Nor were the Summer and Autuinri of 1864 ent issues On such an occasion—after fifteen you, JOHN, faith, without works,, is dead. You with about a third of .their bulk of good, bright favorable ones for sheep. The first was charac- The.downfall of wool growing and manufac- years of earnest, persistent and consistent labor and I, and every man who tills a farm ought to wheat straw cut with the,stalks, and my cattle terized by excessive drouth, and the last by turing after the war of 1812, was aided no doubt in behalf of what we conceived to be the best think of this and not forget it. No matter what are doing well. But for my cattle I prepare the excessive rain. Sheep will apparently do better by the prevailing derangement in the monetary interests of the Rural Population, and other the weather may be, we ought not to doubt— food by putting into a bin, which will hold on dry parched feed than other domestic animals, affairs of the country — though the cause already producing classes — extended prefatory remarks ought not to regard the winds when we sow the enough for a twenty-four hours' supply, usually but it deprives breeding ewes of their milk, and assigned was amply sufficient to produce the are considered unnecessary. Those who have' seed. I often hear pious men talk of the "work riot far from three bushels per head. consequently lambs of their proper growth; and result. Many persons anticipate a similar mon- known this Journal for years need not be of faith." I tell you there is no greater work of When put into the vat or bin, the feed is wet it also seriously cuts short the growth of one and etary convulsion after the close of the present informed as to its Character or Objects, and faith than that which is done every spring when as filled in, nearly or quite a barrel of water be- two year old sheep. The rainy season did not war. Let us, for the sake of argument, concede the thousands whom we now address fqr the farmers sow their 6eed broad-cast all over ing used for that purpose. Having two vats of come early enough to supply materials for milk that this expectation is well founded; what first time will ere long learn whatever interest the face of the earth. And now as I look back like capacity, one remains untouched for twenty- for the stunted lambs; and an excessively rainy then? Did our people go naked, or clothe them- or value it possesses. Yet a custom, whereof over the past year and see what tests our faith four hours. Thus far I have been surprised to season, when the herbage springs rapidly and selves in skins, during the terrible disasters which our' practice runneth not to the contrary, has been put to, I hope I learn not to doubt any see how rapidly fermentation takes place, for the rankly, is proverbially unfavorable to the growth overtook them in 1815 ? No. They bought the enjoins upon us the duty of inditing an intro- more in the coming years I may live. whole mass will become smoking hot by the time of young sheep, or the fattening of older ones. necessary woolens which they could not manufac- ductory article. This shall be brief and explicit: we begin to feed it, and yet by a little managing ture in their households—and the more, because •for, having neither time nor space for either It is a right good feeling that comes to us, But wool has sold at prices never before it does not heat to damage, before fed out. Be- cheap cotton fabrics were then unknown. (The palaver or circumlocution, our exordium shall JOHN, now that these cold, bleak, winter days reached by the general clip since the war of fore we commence preparing the vat for filling, first successful experiment with the power-loom be condensed and comprehensiye. are here, if, in looking back, we see that we 1812. Many growers have sold for less than a have done well what we have done—that we we have a barrel of water placed at one end and dollar a pound, but none of them whose wool in the United States, was made at Waltham, The' thousands of Ruralist^ whom we have have tried to do what we could do in the best sufficient salt dissolved in it to just give the water was in good order need^o, have done so. Such Mass., in 1815.) But the difference is that our addressed for years, and whose acquaintance we way and wi,th the best aim—that we have done a'slightly brackish taste. Thus far I am exceed- an advance in price, with a strong pppular ex- people in 1815 bought foreign woolens. When now renew, are so well acquainted with our no man wrong in the trying to make things snug ingly well pleased with the success of my experi- pectation that it will be sustained, or approxi- the present "war closes, they will buy their objects, style and manner, that it would be quite for ourselves and our own—that the work of the ment. I find the cattle, do not drink near the mately sustained, has naturally produced a great woolens of Ajnerican manufacturers, and Ameri- superfluous to get upon stilts, or do any fine year as we see it from this point, where we never quantity of water when let out of the barn that advance in the prices of sheep, and particularly of can manufacturers will buy the raw material of t writing, for their edification. They know the stood before, doesriot yawn with duties undone, they do on dry feed, arid do, not come into their, those which will produce the most wool at the American producers—for the good and sufficient "RURAL NEW-YORKER to be the firm, independent does hot reproach us with, selfish wrong doing, stalls shivering, as they will sometimes do after least cost., While the great rise in the price of reason, in both cases, that it will be cheaper to do and unpurchasable friend of the Producing does riot gnaw at our hearts because, some drinking fully at the tub in a cold day. I ought meats, and the greater rise in proportion in the so than to go to other countries for them. This Classes—that it always speaks plainly and truth- one has felt pain because of our acts or neglect. to say, perhaps, that my stalks are those from prices of coarse than of fine wools, has rendered is the fruit of a tariff which protects American fully touching matters pertaining to the interests I look back too, to see if I have done anything the corn field cut up, as soon as the corn has well the actual marketable products of the mutton industry. And the consumers who' are thus and rights of its readers, regardless of the in- that willhelp those who come after me. It seems glazed, tied up in bundles at husking, put into; breeds more valuable than ever before—indeed, compelled to pay more for a great necessary of ducements or threats; of those who would suborn to me, JOHN, that my life would be lost, if the large stouts well set up, and drawn- from, the:' highly remunerative—the principal portion of life, by reason of that tariff, bear rio more than or muzzle the press in order to swindle, individu- work I have done does not lift the farmer who field as wanted. My( straw crops are always cut the new demand for sheep has been directed- their just and equal share of the public bur- als and community. What the RURAL has been follows me a peg higher—does not go to help when the grain "is so far matured as to be weil; towards the American Merino, Ordinary grade: thens — for other industry is equally protected. in this regard hitherto it will be in future. It build the base of his life and work far above out of the milk but hot hard. flocks command prices never before heard of for We were never in favor of high tariffs before will sustain the RIGHT and condemn the Wrong,' where mine began. If it does not, what has my I think our farmers, especially our dairy farm-! such sheep, while really choice ones, with good they became necessary, nor in favor of protec- in all matters appropriate for discussion which life been worth ? I don't know, but when I talk ers do riot yet fully appreciate the great treasure! and well authenticated pedigrees, have been sold tion except so far as it could be incidentally and involve the pecuniary interests and welfare of v with men, I .find few of them who seem to know which they possess in Indian corn. From some and are now selling for sums which almost set reasonably obtained under tariffs adjusted to the Individuals, Cominunities and the Country. that they are living for any one but self. And experiments which I have made myself, as well credulity at defiance! This is not the place to basis of necessary revenue. Now, as already For the Information of the host of readers their lives are not so sweet and rich and full of a as the reliable experience of others, I am satisfied enter into details on this subject, or to give a, ,said, these scruples are no longer applicable. whom we now have the pleasure of addressing kind of joy as they would be if they were to try that upon land which will produce 60 bushels of list of. sales: we are now only enumerating gen- Necessity is " the master of the position." (as subscribers) for the first time, we will here to see some good in other men and that they ears of corn to the acre, sufficient stacks, sown eral causes and effects. The high prices of wool That wool, after the war and after the compe- again state that'' Our object from the commence- might do to other men. or drilled, can be grown upon a square yard to and sheep have necessarily given great profits to tition of cottou is re-established, will bear less ment of the BURAL NEW-YORKER has not been to Heigh-ho! So ends the old year. Put more feed, if properly prepared, a cow or horse, or flock - masters, during the past year, notwith- nominal prices than it no? does, is to be ex- furnish eithef an Agricultural, Horticultural, Sci- wood in the stove, JOHN; and after yoVve their equivalent, for one day; if the western standing the losses and drawbacks already men- pected. But that it will loeeas little by the change entific, Mechanical, Educational, Literary, or looked through the stables and seen that the corn be used for the seed, I am positive the tioned. as any other great staple of industry, and vastly News Journal,—but rather to combine all these, stock is safe and snug, and have shut the doors assumption is quite within bounds. I make my Will wool command equally high prices less than some of inese staples—that it will and thus present a paper unequaled in Value, and are sure they are fast; we'll go over the books calculation to feed my animals 200 days. The through another year? Unless the war should continue abundantly remunerative — is a fact as Variety arid Usefulness of Contents. Our earnest together, and see what the year brings forth. product of 200 yards would therefore furnish the close, or unless some decided change should susceptible of demonstration as any analagous desire has been to make it an honest, inde- Out of debt, grain in the bin, pork in the tub, necessary feed. There are 4,480 square jards in take place in the value of our circulating medium one can be. The American sheep breeders and pendent, reliable and eminently useful RURAL, apples in the cellar, cider in the barrel, hay in an acre, and would furnish so many animals with wool growers t&en have as much .right to look before the next clip is sold,.there is no good rea- 1 LITERARY and FAMILY NEWSPAPER—correct in the barn, potatoes in the pit, butter in the firkin, one day's feed of three bushels of cut or chopped son to doubt this. The chances are generally forward wit^ confidence to the future as any its teachings on Practical Subjects, instructive cheese in the Box, hams in the Bmoke-house, eggs corn Btalks. If reduced to 200 yards to an animal, believed to be against the occurrence of either of other eiasff of producers in our country. and entertaining to members of the Family' Cir* salted down, nuts to crack, a clear conscience for the season of foddering, we have 22 animals these contingencies. But whether they occur or ele, of high moral tone, and entirely free from void of offence towards GOD and man, let's see which an acre of cured corn.fodder would winter. not, the demand for actual consumption must STOCK RAM " deception and quackery, even in its advertising what the^flgures tell, But, dear me, how much But lest my figures may seem wild, M us say two continue. The restoration of cotton culture department" Such was, is, and.will continue to there is in our hearts they can't tell 1 How the square yards and.400 yards to an animal. If any THE accompanying excellent engraving, from 8 11 0 8 ttxer after the war, will of course diminish the de-, be, pur "platform "--brief, explicit and compre- P * .* ^ e still! I thought to get rid of it, one will measure upon their table or carpet six mand for wool, but that restoration will t»s a, drawing by J. R. PAGE, is considered a good I hensive. If it please our readers as well in the but somehow, as I keep looking back, my eye feet by three, they will be satisfied that ordinary gradual under any circumstances. If slavery representation of H. W. HAMMOND'S Infantado future as in the past, we shall be content—for no rests upon that boy's face when he said ''good- cultivation would produce more stalks upon that continues, the actual diminution of it, a»d the Stock ram KEAR-SAR-GE, as he appeared when journal has hitherto been more ardently ap- bye father," and I feel the grasp of his honest, space than any animal could possibly consume breaking up and confusion introduced- into its a teg between ten and eleven months old. preciated and supported.than the RURAL. We hard hand, that was *p full Of warm, true blood, in one day. This would give us 11 head to an arrangements by the war, will greatly lesson the He was dropped in March, 1863, and was got by never entered upon a volume under more favor- and the tears will come, JOHN. Let them; yes, acre. I might fall several bears more and then effective agricultural labor of the South, appli- Sweepstakes, dam "Choice of Old Ewes" by able auspices^ or more hopefully, and shall spare let them flow. I know it was right he should beat meadows all out of sight, but do not pro- cable to the production of cotton. If slavery is Long Wool. When a division was made between no proper effort or expense to render the RURAL go, and best he should die, though it is hard to pose to fall a single one, 'till somebody shows destroyed, it will take considerable time to HENRY W. and MS uncle, EDWIN HAMMOND, of NEW-YORKER for 1865 unapproachable in its bear. But other boys fell when he did, just as me that my counting was badly done. p. organize a new basis for cotton production by the flock which the latter had owned conjointly peculiar and honorable sphere of Journalism. true and good as he. Let him rest. You and I Darien, N. Y., I>ec. 15th, 1864. free labor. But were th« supply of that staple to with HENRY'S father, the nephew had the first Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

Bt^ndard of Illinois cheese at that time. Nine convenience in those parts where help cannot FOB THE UNION.—A club agent in Central New years ago last June I introduced myself to the always be got for love or money. And it eaves York, in a letter containing a good list, says some grocers of Rockford, by calling at their stores, a considerable work for the women folks, in not object to taking the RUBAL because "it goes so and with all the urbanity I could command, having to board the hands, &c. strong for the Union,," but that he has obtained others asking them if they wished to purchase some to take their places, and don't think it is much of a Our straw was light this year; some of it so loss. We assure our friend that we can afford all such cheese. They universally gave me the Yankee short that we could not have bound it at all'by "losses," and that we ask nosupport-from those who answer by asking if it was Illinois cheese. Being hand. We used abou|one pound wire to the are opposed to restoring and maintaining the Union. obliged to answer them in the affirmative, they acre, on an average,* at 2E> cts. per pound. In The RUBAL is for the Union, "first, last and forever." would turn upon their heels,; saying (making.'the heavy straw it would take a little more. The While it is not partisan, it never expresses sentiments words correspond With the twist of their shoul- difference in the number of acres is more than it to please, favor or sustain traitors or rebels, North or ders) that they were not dealing in that article. need be; after a little practice with the binder South. " A vermillion edict!" I met with like success through all the •business there need be very little difference with or with- streets of the city. If I had been in the habit of out it. And there is the satisfaction of having STATE CHEESE MANTJFACTUBEBS' ASSOCIATION.— allowing myself to be overcome with disappoint- the grain bound as fast a& it is cut. The Second Annual Meeting of the New York State ment, I should have left the city in disgust, but Cheese Manufacturers' Association, will be held at the . \f.';. .'••./ ,v • A. HELLIN. Court House, in the city of Utica, on Wednesday and being-fresh from the Yankee land, I soon in- Pewaukee, Wanfcesha Co., Wis. Thursday, Jan. 11th and 12th, 1865. The Annual vented a way of disposing of my cheese. Address will be delivered on Wednesday evening. I commenced traveling through the streets the CHINCH BUGS-BURNING STRAW. The meeting will be one of great public interest, and second'time; leaving a cheese with each of the a large attendance ^isjj^xpected. The following are principal grocers to sell or give away as they EDS. RURAL NEW-YOTKER :—The chinch bugs among the topics to be discussed: Improved Methods might think proper. In this way I emptied my were more numerous the past season in this of.Cheese Manufacture. Best Manner of Marketing Cheese: whether direct or througa middlemen. "Ah wagon. On my return to the city the next week county than ever before. In some fields they H. W. HAMMOND'S, INFANTADO STOCK RAM KEAR-SAR-GE. Uniform Rate of Cheese Manufacture for 1865. The wjith another load, I. discovered that those left appeared before the wheat was headed, and those Best /Manner of •Org&biizing Factories: whether by the week before had all disappeared, and I re- fields were entirely destroyed; in other fields private enterprise, by corporations, or otherwise. Best choice °&£- the ewes older thmlambs^ and he PORTRAITS—PEDIGBEES.—Our correspondent^from placed: them with others. -,J?rom that time to the their appearance was later, and finally they were ;B£gei| of Cows for the; Dairy,. Summer and Winter - chose the dam of Kearsarge. Hence her name. Senesee Co., N Y., whose name and post-office address present I have retained those customers at prices to be found everywhere, even on the wild, unbro- Management of Milch Cows, &c, &c. Kearsarge's first .fleece weighed between 16 and we will omit, is informed that a decently truthful por^ corresponding with the best quality of Eastern ken prajirie. In some cases new land broken last 17 pounds. He is remarkably short in the leg, trait of an animal cannot possibly be made out from a cheese. ' : T year, was nearly exempt from their Ravages, and WISCONSIN SOBGO CONVENTION.—The annual meet- mere verbal description of that animal. It would be compactjind well .built. _ Fabulous ^price^ have While it is gratifying to know that many dairies in other .fields of like character, the wheat was ing of the Wisconsin Sugar Cane Growers will be held easier to choose a wife to-your liking, buy a horse been offered for him. have been established in this vicinity within the entirely destroyed. On One of. my fields of 13 in Madison, commencing on Tueeday,.Feb. 7th. Those •ithout getting cheated, or get a good fitting coat last ten years, the products of which will do acres, two-thirds of which "was plowed in the who have samples of sirup, sugar and seed, are re- from "your tailor, without seeing the lady or horse, or Fall, by going round the field, and the balance quested to take them. It Is desirable^ as far as prac- having your tailor see you! credit to any market, yet the demand pf the CONDENSES COBBESFONBENCE, ITEMS, &c. plowed in the Spring and all sowed the same ticable, to exhibit seed in the head. There will be The pedigree inclosed by same correspondent of a ountry calls for three or four where there is committees to examine and report upon all samples. day, the wheat on the Fall plowing was fit to cut AUSTRALIA^ RAM SAISE—THE NEGBETTI CABANA.— •am lamb is a good one, and we will with pleasure now one, There is no branch of husbandry, all ft is earnestly requested that there be a large at' We hare already alluded to the sale of imported iublish it if sent to us with a portrait, with the weight things considered, more remunerative than dairy- about the time the bugs made their appearance, tendance of those interested in the success of lie cane Merino sheep at Melbourne, Australia,, in August last, of fleece next spring, or in connection with any other ing, in proof of which.assertion I will give a consequently was but little injured; while that interest in the North-West.' Go prepared with such and to tine fact that Messrs. J. H. CLOUGH & Co., who circumstance, now or hereafter, which can be supposed statement of the net profits of my dairy of one on the Spring plowing was injured one-half, and statistics as wnl enable the convention to place before sold them for their owners, had forwarded us a priced render it a matter of some interest to the public. hundred cows for the year 1863: was cut one week before the remainder of the the public the amount, cost and value of the Sorghum catalogue of the sale. In looking over this to ascer- pedigree without any of these concomitants, inter- field, it having ripened prematurely, and was in Crop for 1864. " ' r .' '' ' EXPENSES: • tain what were the varieties offered for sale, we observe ists nobody but the owner of the animal. a fair way to fall entirely to the ground. — •+«_: i -jfT Pasturing 100 cows $4.00 per head $400 00 BOOKS TOE A Yoima I\ARMBB Tp READ.—B. Briggs: the foliowingfacts. There were seven lots, including Wintering, 1% tuns hay each cow, at $5.00 per f 160 head of "thorough-bred" or "purebred Negretti tun j 8.75 00 I have practiced, for many years, spreading Read WABING'S Elements of Agriculture; EMEBSON rams;" two lots, including 13 head -of ewes of same IMPBOVED PAULABS.—A frienaly correspondent re- Milking and making cheese 8 months 520 00 and FLINT'S Manual of Agriculture; THOMPSON'S Food 3ntly asked us in a private letter what we mean when wheat straw evenly over the ground at thrashing variety^ one lot of 23 rams, called. " Saxon Escurial r Care and feeding in winter :i.... 7500 for Animals.; STOCKHABBT'S Chemical Field Lectures; e speak of "Improved Paulars ?" We mean a family Interest on money invested in 100 cows, $35.00 time, and afterwards burning it, thereby destroy- Kegretti;" three lots,.including 42head of "pure bred FRENCH'S. SFarm Drainage. Then there are other >f sheep preserving the leading and essential qualities per head, at 7per cent , 175 00 Merino" rams; one lot of 11 of " pure bred Spanish Cloth for sacking and time in marketing ing all the, weeds and I think inany insects. I works on Specific branches of husbandry that might be >f the Paulars, prior to their receiving an infusion of Merino, rams" from America; and one lot of 18 " Sax- cheeBe •>• ....:....".. 50 t)0 have always noticed that land.thus treated invari- named, but it is better to comprehend one work -well ;he Mixed Leonese blood of Mr. JARVIS'S flock in ony Merino rams." It would'seem from the above ably produces nice, plump 'wheat and bright, than skim through a dozen. You cannot fail to be ibout 1842, and of the Infantado or Atwood blood in that the Negrettis are in peculiar demand in Australia. glossystraw, which is sure to stand well. For profited by reading any of the works above named. 1844, yet modified and improved by those crosses. The There is no distinct family of them in the United' improved family are finer and evener fleeced, and finer those farmers that have not sufficient stock to States, though the Silesian sheepof Mr. CHAMBERLAIN BUBSON'S GRAIN BINDER. about the head, f dollars for this article is sent out of the State, dantly sustained. Thanks to friends everywhere for economy as possible.—J. FLANAGAN, Dunkirk, 2f. Y. hen we possess all the natural resources for not field, and no men for the housewife to cook their efforts, and kind letters and printed praises of only manufacturing for home consumption-, but victuals for. Fifteen days' use of the machine THE RUBAL. We shall strive to appreciate their favors. Our New Dress—the neatest and best the RUBAL ever FALL PLOWING^SOD GEOUND FOR CORN.—S.M. Bur- THE '« LUTE ROBINSON RAM."—It was mentioned in might make it a much more paying business for would pay for it. I regard 10 acres per day a fair the pedigree of the Tottinghain ram, published in* day's work, but I. could bind one half more, or •donned—was obtained in anticipation of less cordial well is informed that we .think the best time for plow- export than the raising of wheat, corn, etc. ing sod ground for corn, as a rule, is just before plant- these columns Oct. 8, that hiB sire, was a ram " bred fifteen acres, if driven hard. I would say that and wide appreciation, but being the best obtainable, ing, after the grass has got a good start; and that we and owned by EBASTUS EOBINSON" and " his favorite No State possesses more fertile river bottoms, the wages of hands in harvest the past season has we must make our obeisance in it, though the audi- ence is far larger than expected. We present, with do not know that fall plowing will Mil cut and wire stock-ram at the time of his death," Mr. R. sold him or any which will yield a greater amount of grass, i been from $2.50 to $3.00 and board, which will- when a lamb to a person residing in Ticonderoga, N. the new type, some new Special Contributors, Cor- worms. under proper management, than Northern Uli-' make a larger difference in favor of the binder. -*~ •— Y. He and his brother Lucius subsequently repur- All that we need to make this* branch of respondents, &c.; and hope during the year to offer And the amount of wire used may be reduced' LEACHED ASHES ON THE GBOUND.—Wm. Hendrick.: chased and used him. When EBASTUS died he became husbandry the leading and most lucrative one in many new things worthy of attention. Indeed, Cor-, one-third, but I am inclined to be over rather respondents, Agent-Friends and Subscribers are so We do not know that it improves leached ashes at all the property of his heirs and of Lucius ROBINSON. this State is an immigration of experienced Lircius thenceforth kept him until he was sold to than under the cost of doing it with the binder. kind to us that we feel in -duty bound tQ dp our very- to lie on the ground; on the contrary we are inclined. dairymen here from the Eastern and Middle" to think it will be more likely to improve the ground CHEARUES LANE. He subsequently passed into the In conclusion, I would say that I will not bind best to increase the value and usefulness of the RUBAL, J ownership of A. H. CLAMP and A. H. AVBBY, of Man- tates. • by hand at any price, but am willing to work the and to this work .we dedicate ourselves anew. if they are properly spread. lius,.N.~. Y., where he died a year or two since much A decade of years has passed away since I, like: binder at the same wages paid for doing the work advanced' in years. He was got by the " Old Robin- /housands of others, left the rugged hills and; by hand. H. J. D. THE SINGLE COPT PBICE POPULAB.—When we, GOVERNMENT LANDS IN MICHIGAN.—M- C. A., Or- son Ram," for pedigree of which see Practical Shep-. racing atmosphere of my native State, with all Champaign Co., HI., Dec, i864. advanced the Terms of the RUBAL to $3 per single^ ange Co., N. Y., asks if Government has any good herd, pp. 417, 418, dam bred by ERASTUS ROBINSON. ;he pleasing and endearing associations of early farming lands in Michigan;- and if so, where located, REMARKS.—The above comes from an entirely copy, and $2.50 in clubs of ten or more, we expected The " Lute Robinson Ram" got unusually large, well Life, to secure one of the fortunes in store in the^ to lose subscribers—perhaps ten to twenty; thousand whether healthy or not; if not what diseases prevail. formed, swell covered, heavy-fleeced, wrinkly stock, Great West, for the hand of Industry and Fin- reliable source, and furnishes the facts and figures or more-^although the advance was not in proportion Will some of our Michigan friend^respond? which partook in a high degree.of his own iron con- ality. After leaving the Queen Gity of the we called for. We are very glad to record the. to that of most articles produced by Ruralists. But stitution. It is doubtful whether, there was ever a success of such an implement, as seen from the we have been disappointed—v^ry agreeably. While, a TIME ;ro PAINT BUILDINGS.—In answer to an inquiry, superior stock getter of the Improved Paular family. West, and traveling up Fox river, through the alley of Ki6hwaukee, up and down the cele- practical stand-point our correspondent furnishes very few ignorant misers granxble at the advance, the we say the Autumn^-thi^ is the best time of year to These facts are mentioned for the information of us. We shall hope to hear from him again on intelligent mass of our subscribers say it is BIGHT, and paint buildings. Good weather should be chosen for numerous persons who own descendants of this ram, brated Rock river, and over the Pecatonica' in a other farm topics. many aver that they would pay $5 a year rather than the purpose. The paint seems to harden better than but w.tb are unacquainted with his history'.' oliloquy I asked, cannot a country possessing be without the RUBAL. During the past week we have if put on in mid-summer. ;•••.,. -• such beautiful rivers with their numerous tributa- —Since preparing the above, our Waukesha Co., Wis., correspondent has sent us his figures received scores of letters containing, the single copy ries, and running through a section of country KEEPING MILK SWEET.-T-IS putting ice into milk the THE MAINE FARMER—HOBNS.—The Maine Farmer as we requested, for which we are obliged. price ($3) from persons who might have joined clubs, says: " A coteraigorary quotes" RANDALL as saying that unsurpassed for fertility, form a trio with Ham- but preferred paying full price. We daily; receive best method of keeping it Bweet in hot weather for 'a hornless Meriiio ramXs about as undesirable as a burg and Western Reserve in the staple business Figures always, tell decisively when they are letters with $12 for four copies, $9 for three, and $6 for cheese-making when set in a large vat upon, a dairy horned South Down orCofe^old ram.' Now, with all of cheese making. I answered in the affirmative, accurate and complete: two—while many send $5 for the RUBAL and P,ractical stove? Will some of your readers please answer?— due deference to Dr. RAXDALX,, or any other staunch and ten years' experience in the business in 'this EDS. RUBAL NEW YORKER:—I will give you, Shepherd. In not a few instances former subscribers A DAIRYMAN. ' ' friend and advocate for horna on rams of any breed, we ountry, together with close observation, has as nearly as possible, the cost of binding-with hav.e refused to join clubs, and sent us instead the, would respectfully ask—wkt real .good or benefit are single copyprice. In one case (at Albion,"N. Y.,) after PUMPS.—A correspondent at Amsterdam,,N. r onfirmed in my mind what then to many might and without BURSON'S grain binder. Without Y., asks at what place in Ohio, and by whom, stone a huge pair of unwieldy horns on any breed of sheep the binder we cut, with a good team, 12 acres of our agent had sent a subscriber's name (remitting for when in a domestic condition ?" have seemed a rash conclusion. him at club rate) he repudiated, insisting upon sending pumps are manufactured. ROBBINS & CALENDBB, This is giving our language rather t stronger coloring I again repeat that what we need in this branchl wheat in a day, and it takes five men to keep up $3, which he did, stating the reason. . Newton Falls, O,, manufacture such,pumps.. than it will bear. We said (Nov. 19) it answer tothe of Husbandry is men and women of experience with the reaper, binding, which makes squaetion " whether we would place any Uwer value on in the art of cheese making. I have been pained Seven men 1 day at $2 , THE IMPROVED BUCKEYE REAPEB.—A correspondent Board " £t.5O To ADVEBTISEBS.—We are again compelled to defet at BdgewoodiJlL, asks where this reaper is ruade and -a Menino ram because he was hornless—" Vere we to to see, in my own county, the cheese from Team 2.00 a number of advertisements, for want of space. •took ^Iy to practical utility we should aniWer ^ r by whom. It Was made by H.'.H. TAYLOB, Freeport, dairies of thirty and forty cows sold for less than Friends will bear in mind that we only devote a lim- 111.,—or he was the agent'for it in that S»te in 1862. But fashion compels us to respond yes." A*a Wp Total..., $19.50 ited space to advertising, and give the most appropri- added-: " Horns are characteristic of the Merino ra*\_L the cost of manufacturing—all for want of prop er knowledge and experience on the part of Or $1.62£ cents per acre. ate and important matters the preference. Ojir aim is a. fine pair of them are considered ornamental to hha. With binder three men will cut and tie 10 acres to do the best we can foradvertiser s consistent with A FBENCH PAPER.—E. P. Shaw, ^ent Co., Mich.: by roost, Merino breeders—and they would consider him manufacturers. Disappointed and discouraged The Courrier des Etats-UnigiB * French paper pub- ifc their new business, with one year's experience per day. our obligations to subscribers, but very frequently of as defective without them, as South Down breeders late we have been obliged to defer from one to three lished in New York City. We do not know the names and failure, they would again resort to the old Three men one day $6.00 would consider their rams with them." Board 1.50 columns of paying favors. of the editors. routine of raising wheat, corn, &c,—ignoring Team ; 2.00 To CUBE DOGS OF SHEEP KILLING.—A. R. P. Th« the fact that all occupations require time, study Wire 2.50 —Recently we have been favored with a large num- . IDE'S CULTIVATOR TEE^H.—I can furnish castings for ber of inquiries asking our lowest terms of advertising. mode described fey you of effecting this is ingenious, and practice, to master them. Total " IDE'S Wheel Cultivator" to A. G. COOPEB, who makes but we can prescribe an easier and much more certain As we are unable to answer by letter at this busy inquiry in the RUBAI..—ISAAC IDE, Host Shelby, iy. F. The embarrassments with which I met, and the one. It is merely to cut off the dog's tail-just bock of Or $1.20 per acre. season, inquirers are respectfully referred to the Terms obstacles I had to surmount in making sale of Which makes 42$ cts. per acre difference in favor of Advertising, published in each No_ of the RUBAL. the ears. Seriously, friend A. R. P., is it not a Httli BLACK LICE ON CATTLE.—I am anxious to know farcical to talkabout curing a sheep-killing dog by an; my first load of cheese in the city of Rockford, of the binder, besides the satisfaction of having Our rates may be advanced ere long, but will continue through your valuable paper, what is the best remedy . other remedy than death ? ten years ago, will illustrate very forcibly the your help always on hand, which is a very great as now given until a change is announced. for black lice on cattle.—MILO. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

the trees and failed, and then aeks *' how is it that the fruit is in market each year? Can he tell us ? " I answer, by grafting in trees that bear the alter- nate year. My observation and experience of thirty'years proves the fact; try it. E. B1. APPLE BUTTER. Rose, Wayne Co., N. Y. THE New Tear brings us to our work again— IN the RURAL of Oct. 29th, I saw an inquiry the pleasant and responsible labor of aiding our THE APPLETREE AND CUT WORM. for making apple-butter; and again in Nov. 12th, readers in their garden and orchard work. We A. GIPPLE'S modus operandi whicn may all be all remember the dawning of the year just closed EDS. RURAL NEW YORKER :—I see, of late, very good where there is an*opportunlty to make —how it awoke our solicitude for both fruit much is being said about the Apple Moth, and the cider. But in the back-woods where we are buds and^trees, and how in many portions of the Apple Worm,—their depredations, and the pre- —here where many of the inhabitants never saw RURAL parish the worst apprehensions were fully ventives.ff A few observations and experiments a real cider-mill and press, a barrel of cider is realized. And yet, the fruit harvest was a glori- may not be amiss, though made out of the usual quite an object. Apple butter is often made ous one to the grower—perhaps not so bountiful channel. Some years ago my brother and myself here without cider. For ten gallons, boil four in quantity as it has proved profitable in prices spent some time and pains in learning the habits bushels of apples after they are nicely pared, cut received. And the most hopeful feature of the of many of the insects that are destructive to and cored, put in: a little water to keep from past year is that the disasters of its earlier months the farmer's labor; and among* these, were the burning until the apples begin to stew. If the did not discourage extended planting; on the con- common cut worm and the apple worm, with kettle is not large enough to contain all the trary, tree'planting, of all Mndsy seemslto have this result. apples at once, fill up as they boil down. When been stimulated; and we venture to say that the The cut worm can be easily destroyed by light- boiled to ten or twelve gallons put in molasses year closed is without its parallel in this respect ing bright fires just at dark, in open grass fields> to sweeten. If the apples are sour more mo- among the last twenty years. Not only have we say one fire to four acres; this done for ten days, lasses will be required than if sweet.—F. F. R., this encouraging fact, but another equally signifr MwMlton, W. Va. fcant and promising^-that Floriculture is keep- at the right time, for a few years, would effectu- ing pace with Arboriculture, a faithful and ally destroy them. Just at night, before the dew gets heavy, is the time they fly about in quest of APPLE BUTTER, OR CIDER APPLE SAUCE, as it unmistakable index of the progress of our people should be denominated, is best made of new in refinement and general intelligence. We have a suitable place to deposit their eggs, and seeing the light they rush into it. cider, pressed from sweet apples, boiled down evidence of this, not only in the increased de- about four to one. Then pare and core sweet mand for seeds and plants, and the continual Just so with the fly that begets the apple worm; it flies out just at dark, and perforates apples and put into the syrup and cook till ten- inquiry which drops in numberless leaves upon der; skim out and put in more. If the weather the skin of the growing apple, to deposit the egg our table, but in, the interest manifest and the is warm it may be necessary to scald or reduce which soon hatches and makes wormy fruit, as part taken by all classes of both sexes in our the whole batch. It is better for common use all western farmers know to be almost universal floral exhibitions. And go where we may, in than the best preserves. The large water cored this year. By lighting bright fires hi the orchard fanner's, mechanic's or merchant's homes, os- apple, called "Purewater," raised in the State of near the trees that first mature, the fly will tie tentation gives place to the jterfume and beauty New York, is an excellent apple for the purpose, attracted to the light and be destroyed, and of* flowers. More than we can tell does this it has a muskmelon flavor.—S. W. ARNOLD, De- thereby save the fruit from this very destructive influence extend hourly and penetrate the sacred KaU> Co., IU. places of our firesides, lifting us all Higher, and enemy. keeping us all purer, and moulding our hearts Any practical ma$ can see the benefit of si|eh and minds into corresponding comeliness and a plan if it succeeds, and any one can test the tO ROAST A RABBIT. beauty. thing for.himself in the following manner:—Take half a dozen common cut worms, put them in a THIS is much improved in appearance, when Now we are stepping across the threshold of glass jar half full of loose moist earth, keep it brought to table, if the back-bone is removed, as the New Tear. What we find in it as we ad- so, in a suitable place where light and air are well as being much easier to carve. In this case, vance must depend upon what we bring with us abundant, cover so as to prevent escape, feed line the body with some thin slices of fat bacon, from the past, and hqw we use what we have of with plantain and lettuce, or any tender plant, and fill it with forcemeat, prepared in the follow- resources. These columns are open to our read- every evening, plentifully, and then watch the ing manner:—6 oz. of bread crumbs, the grated ers for exchange of experience and practice, and result carefully, and the whole secret can be rind of a fresh lemon, two scraped anchovies, for making known their wants. And this is no some parsley, thyme, and sweet marjoram shred light ,'privelege we grant. We are not purely learned in a practical manner, if you do not for- get to exercise patience. The same must be fine, salt, grated nutmeg, and cayenne to taste. , selfish in announcing it; for the value of such a Mix these into a light forcemeat, with 4 oz. of medium of communication to those who use it done with an apple that has a worm in it, the earth in the jar being kept warm and moist, to butter broken up into small bits, the unbeaten is increased in proportion as it is used. Wetrust yolks of two eggs and a little cream. Stuff the our readers will tnink of this, appreciate it, and prevent the apple from withering and placing a inside of the rabbit with this, sew it up, and act accordingly. No matter what ability and small twig in, for the worm to come out upon. truss it the same as a hare. Pin a slice of fat. experience one man may bring to the work of When the fly or miller of any insect is thus bacon lengthwise down its back, dredge it welk conducting such a department, its interest and identified, it will be recognized in the field and with flour, and roast it before a clear brisk fire,, value must depend [more upon the extent to orchard and its habits soon learned; that once basting it continually with butter or lard. It; which it reflects the actual work of those en- done, means for its destruction may be devised will take nearly an hour to roast. Serve with gagedin Horticulture in its different departments. to suit circumstances and location. good brown gravy, and hand currant jelly, round.: The RURAL is not the organ of one man, nor of Hendricks Co., Ind. ADDISON COFFIN. one class of men. Its highest aim is to be a medium for the elevation of its readers, and for APPLES FOR LATITUDE 45 DEGREES. RECEIPE FOR BLACK WRITING INK.—Extract' promoting their progress in all that is worthy of Logwood, 300 grains; Gum Arabic, 300 grains; and desirable—reflecting both, their condition EDS..RURAL NEW-YORKER:—I saw an inquiry A.GROUP OF PETUNIAS. Dried Sulphate of Iron, 300 grains; Gallic Acid, andprogresB. So if our readers wantinforma- in the RURAL for a list of hardy apples for lati- 60 grains; the gum and extract to be in moder- tionlet them, ask for it; and let such as can give tude 45 deg., consisting of three Summer, five ately fine powder. Add to the above one pint of And in this connection, I referred to the success information asked for, furnish it, remembering treble size, of the richest golden color, and' Autumn, twelve Winter varieties. I have had hot rain water. Strain it after it cools. If the always that we lose no knowledge by giving it which has;.attended the fruiting of pear trees in choicest flavor is the result. " Where be your some little experience, but could not give so ink thickens by eVaporation, it may be diluted away, but are far more likely to obtain what we pots, in the orchard house, where the best speci- gibes now?" J. 8. HOUGHTON. large a list. The following, I think, will :be with water. The ink is black, flows easily, and have not in compensation for what we give. It mens of fruit have been obtained, from very Philadelphia, Dec, 1864. found to be about as hardy as a crab apple for is less corrosive to steel pens than the "fluids" is our desire to promote and secure this com- young trees. Indeed, I have seen specimens of the North: Summer—Red Astrachan. Autumn commonly used. munity of feeling and interest among our readers. orchard house pears on young trees, at the exhi- THE PETUNIA. —Dutchess Oldenburg, Fameuse, Gravenstein. The foregoing recipe is furnished the RURAL To this end shall we labor in the year before us. bitions of the Massachusetts Hprticultural So- Winter—Pomme Grise, Blue Pearmain, North- by a well known physician of this city. We ciety in Boston, which have never been, and ern Spy, Yellow BelMower, Ribston Pippin, Tal- THE Petunia is. a well-known and favorite know from experience that the ink BO made is probably never will be, equaled by the present bedding plant, though more generally, perhaps, man Sweet. J. M. HORTICULTURAL DOGMAS. most excellent. practice in. out-door culture. treated as a hardy Amnin.1. Plants in pots may Winthrop, Me. It is commonly asserted that it requires fifteen be obtained at most of the nurseries, though as AT almost every Convention of Horticulturists, or eighteen years to fruit the Dix pear, and some they can be grown easily from seed, and flower EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER :—A correspondent HOP YEAST CAKES.—Take a handful of hops, or Pomologists, certain time-honored dogmas others, on standard trees. This may be so, in easily the first season, this course is the most wishes a list of apples for an orchard of two a little more than a quart of water, and let it' find utterance, which it is "flat burglary" for common orchard management. But will any common way of obtaining plants. Perhaps no hundred trees, consisting of the best three Sum- come to a smart boil; then strain it over a quart' any one to question or gainsay. Should any one deny that, under certain other treatment, a flower has been more improved within the past mer, five Autumn and Twelve Winter varieties. of flour while boiling hot. Stir it well,,let it> member presume to do so, the eyes of all the tree Of the Dix pear, on its own roots, two years ten years than the Petunia. We now have flowr I would suggest the following as answering me cool a little, then stir in a little yeast. (Brewers- sages in the assembly are turned upon him with old, cannot, in three or four years, be covered ers of extraordinary size, striped, blotched very well: Summer—Red Astrachan, Early Har- or bakers' yeast will do,) and when it is perfectly- a 6ort of holy horror. The unfortunate member with perfect fruit, out-of-doors? veined and mottled, single and double. Double vest, Keswick Codlin. Autumn—-Dutehess of light, which will be in a few hours, add corn finds himself in a position similar to that occu- flowers can only be obtained by procuring plants, Oldenberg, Autumn Strawberry, St. Lawrence, meal enough to make a stiff dough; make it into pied by OLIVER TWIST, at the Charity School Now the Dix is one of the pears which we are as there is no certainty that seeds will produce Autumn Swaar, Alexander. Winter—Yellow rolls, let it become quite light, then cut itiinto dinner, when he committed the unparalleled not permitted to believe can be good, or first double blossoms. For a brilliant, showy bed BelMower," Fameuse, King of Tompkins Co., pieces half an inch thick, and dry in a warm offence of asking for " more." It is a breach of rate, until the tree has "age." the single varieties are the best. If seeds are Rambo, Pomme Gris, Northern Spy, Tallman's place. This will keep a long while.—Mrs. J. S. custom not to be permitted or endured. Another dogma, frequently indulged in, ,by the fathers of Pomology is, that varieties or sown in a hot-bed or cold frame, in April, or in Sweeting, Pound Sweet,|Rhode Island Greening,' LEIB, Suspension Bridge, If. T. One of the dogmas referred to, which was put races of fruit trees, run out, or fall into such a the open ground about the first of May, the Esopus Spitzenburgh, Twenty Ounce, Canada forth for the hundredth time, by two or three state of decay, that it is impossible to produce plants will begin to flower by the last of June Red. That there are others that would succeed members, at the late Convention of the National MUFFINS.—Mrs. LEE R. wished a recipe for good specimens, and that this depends chiefly If planted about eighteen inches apart, by the .well here I doubt not. E. A. HYDE. Pomological Society, is, that certain varieties of making "Muffins." I send one:—Melt half a upon the exhaustion of vitality in the variety. middle of July, the whole bed will be covered North Bangor, Franklin Co., N. Y. pear trees cannot produce perfect fruit, a fruit of teacup of butter In a pint and a half of milk; "I know a man," as TOODLES says, who never and exhibit a mass of brilliant yet delicate flow- the highest quality, until the trees "attain age," add a little salt, a gill of yeast, and four eggs; foils, at every horticultural meeting which he ers until hard frosts make an end of their glory. meaning generally the age of twelve, sixteen, or stir in flour enough to make a batter rather f attends, to give-us a lecture of an hour or more eighteen years. The writer of this article is The following are some some of the best vari- stiffer than for griddle cakes. If kept in a mod- on this dogma, which is a favorite doctrine with reported, in the\RuRAL, as saying in reply, that ties I have ever grown, and they are exceedingly erately warm place it will rise sufficiently in certain persons who rarely do grow good fruit. ONION SEED.—Young Farmer: We have never he "didn't see" why any tree, if it produced fine: eight or nine hours.—MEDE, Salem, Ohio. Now mark how plain a tale shall put this dogma known onions grown from seed planted in the spring fruit at all, should ndt produce as good fruit Kermisena Grandiflora a very large flower, to perfect seed the same season. down. In the London Gardeners' Chronicle, Oct. when young as when old. N'ow, the report in ranging from crimson to Bcarlet. There is one 15th, 1864, may be found the following deeply To COLOR COCHINEAL RED.—For one pound the RURAL is, on the whole, the best report that variety in other respects the same, with a white THE FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION OF UPPER CAN interesting and highly instructive statement: of goods, take two oz. of cochineal, two oz. of I, has ever been made of the proceedings of the throat, and it is elegant. ADA, holds its next regular Meeting at the Mechanics' madder compound, one oz. of cream tartar; tooil National Pomological Society. But, in this in- "In the nursery of Mr. RIVERS occurs a tree of Maculata Grandiflora has White ground spot- Hall, Hamilton, on Wednesday the 18th day pf Jan- the cream tartar and cochineal twenty minutes, stance, the reporter did not repeat my remark the Golden Pippin Apple, which is some century ted, striped and marbled with red or purple. It uary, 1865, at 2 o'clock P. M. then add the madder compound and cloth, and with precision.. What I said was, not that I old at least. ThiB tree bears small, scrubby fruit, is a large and magnificent flower, somewhat of boil all together fifteen minutes. Then rinse in " didn't see" a certain thing, but that I did see a of good quality nevertheless, but scarcely bigger the character of Bu«hanan's Blotched, but ONION SEED.—"Can you inform me where to look soft water. Brass or tin kettles should always, fallacy iir that dogma. I questioned the sound- than a large Walnut^ and may be taken to repre- larger, and of more robust growth. for a quantity of reliable onion seed ?" So writes a be used in coloring bright colors. • ness of the assertion, that young trees, of any sent the *'degenerate'? condition of this variety Marginata, is mottled and veined with green. subscriber. If we were going to buy, we should go to the most reliable Seedsman within our knowledge, for variety, cannot produce fruit equal to the best under ordinary, and not very favorable condi- More singular than brilliant, and not always tions. This tree is on the Crab stock. Grafts it. It will probably be advertised in the RURAL before specimens which that variety is capable of bear- true. SORGHUM CAKE.—The following I think good: { taken from this very tree, and worked on the planting time. ing when it hag " age." I do not doubt the fact Sosea Grandiflora, a very fine, large, deep rose- Three teacups of sorghum syrup,- one teacup of \ that the best fruit of certain varieties has fre- Paradise stock,'were submitted to pot onlture in colored flower with white throat. Tius is a truly ANTS AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS.—I have had my butter,,, one teacup of buttermilk or cream, one an orchard house, when lo! the fruit became at quently, and indeed generally, been found on beautiful flower. strawberry plants destroyed by ants making their teaspoon each of mace, cinnamon and cloves, £ least trebled in size, acquiring the richest golden nests among and around the roots. Have tried ashes, trees upwards of six or eight years old. But Venosa Grandiflora is of a variety of good half a wine glass of rose-water or wine, half a, \. color, and the choicest flavor. Verily, there was sulphur, tobacco juice, kerosene oil, lye, and whale this, by no means, proves that fruit equal in colors finely veijned, with a delicate net-work of teacup of common sugar-dried currants and four {? no trace of degeneracy in these. a deeper color than the ground of the flower. oil soap suds, but without eftect. Can you or any of every respect cannot, and shall not, be pro- ypur readers inform me of a sure preventive ?—H. and a half teacups of flour.—LAURA, Sockford, | Countess of EUesmere, is a smallish rose-colored duced, upon trees less than six years old, now, "There can be no doubt that this result was THOMAS. Illinois. .-. \- henceforth and forever, world without end. caused in a great measure by the healthy root flower, with a white throat, always comes true from seed, and makes a most magnificent bed. The best specimens of Du*hesse d'Angouleme action set up under the improved climatal condi- MISSOURI STATE HbRTicuLTimAL SOCIETY. —The tions to which these potted trees have been sub^ The engraving exhibits a group of the Petu- To /CLEAN BROCHE SHAWLS WITH WHITE f we ever get are found on trees three and four Sixth Annual Meeting of this Society will be held in CENTERS.:—Take one oz. of borax and one half : jected. , The trees were well fed by the generous nias described, but I think those who grow them the Court House in the city of St. LOUIB, on Tuesday, years old, the first season of fruiting. So with ot. of camphor gum; pulverize and dissolve in ^ top-dressing which is part of Mr. RIVERS' sys- next season will say that the artist has not done Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 10th, 11th* many other varieties. The finest fruit ever seen a pint of hot water; take a sponge and dip in is frequently produced on grafts the third season tem, and the roots were at the same time influ- justice to these flowers. To portray tfheir beauty 12th and 13th, 1865. Specimens of Fruits, Flower* Plants, Wines, Seeds and other products are solicited the solution, and rub on the shawl until the dirt S\ after they are inserted. enced by the warm air of the liouse acting on in a wood-cut is as difficult a work as painting them through the sides of the pot, and were thus the rainbow.—J. v. for examination and distribution. is removed; wring and hang in the air until The remark which I made in the Convention nearly dry, then iron.—Mrs. N. M. YOUNG, Lib- was, that in my opinion when all the conditions able to do their work thoroughly. Hence the FRUIT GROWEBS' SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK. erty, jsr. Y. necessary to produce perfect fruit were present, well-swelled fruit, which, under such circum- TO GET EARLY HARVESTS ANNUALLY. stances was carried forward to perfect maturity, —The Winter Meeting of the Fruit Grpweij|' Society (such as a sound, healthy tree, a good, plump' of Western New York, will be held at the Court House and altogether swrpaised the choicest specimens of EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER : — Your corres- fruit bud, and the proper Jvutriment in the soil, in the City of Rochester, commencing on Tuesday the To CURB CHILLBLAINS.—Take a piece of but- climate and season!being favorable,) as good fruit the olden time." pondent, "Central Indiana," in issue of Dec. 10, 24th day of January. Session to commence at 11 ter the size of a large walnut, work in salt as can be produced on a young tree as the varfety Here was an old head put upon young shoul- writing of Early Harvest apples, says " they bear o'clock in the forenoon. Members, and all interested long as you can, and then apply to the part is capable of producing on a tree of any age. ders, age and youth united, the "run out" vari- only in alternate years," and that a learned pro- in the culture of Fruit are invited to foe present and affected, heating in by the fire and it will cur«.— ety and the youthful stock; and yet fruit of fessional gentleman had tried to change a part 01 to bring with them (specimens of fruits for exhibition. T. J. M., TroppsinUe. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

out, and the elbows and toes in. No matter for What lesson does our memory suggest as we side, back, or headache, lameness and wearineBs; review the past year ? What is the character of the work must be done, and we must do it. Don't the history we have written on its pages ? Are tell us we don't know. they filled with accounts of sacrifices for the Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. good of others, with instances of self-denial, and Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. Written iti Moore's Eural New-Yoker. If I was a great strapping man, and had a wee JANUABY 1ST, 1865. ' with noble deeds ? Or are they marred with a ABOVE THE CLOUDS. SHADOWS. bit of a wife that worked as hard as she could, record of unimproved opportunities, wasted outdoors as well as in, and everything did not go BT CLIO STANLEY. BY OLOITE VON KORTLAHDT. talent, an$ humiliating selfishness ? What shall BY A. T. ALMS. exactly straight, do you suppose I'd grumble we write oh the blank pages now placed before DREAMING 'midst the twilight EARTH, with atf her joyful voices about it, and lay a great load of blame on her Hymneth to the radiant skies, us ? The answer of our hearts >should be, write STARS are shining, ever shining Of the year— , shoulders to bear, when I was as much to blame Not a dream ot sorrow moves her a better history for the future. In the clear blue sky, Sighing for a smile-light as she, and perhaps much more so? (I wonder 1 Though their light be hidden from us As the Year, neglected, dies; Did any one ever begin a new ygar without Fond and dear: what the ADAMS do that have not any EVES to As the clouds floatby . §8gjf All the merry, laughidg moments, new and good resolutions ? It hardly seems pos- Mourning one departed blame f) Wouldn't I rather praise her, that she All the bright and sunny hours, sible for a thinking person to do so; but how Thickly though they gather o'er us, In youth's glow— did what she could; and tell her not to worry, That had crowned the Year, forsaken, few can say at the close of the year, that they Dark with Coding ill, Lightsome and pure-hearted that she could not do more ? And if she was Witl?. her buds and with her flowers; Far above their gloomy darkness have been able to accomplish all they designed. Like the snow: sick, and had been down nigh to the gates of All the light and dancing breezes Stars are shining still. Even the purest minds of earth, those who have death; do you suppose I would go to her with That had blown.his wavy locks, Aching for the brightness All the winds with joyous meaning, the cause of GOD and humanity nearest their And they never cease their shining, Vanished—fled— the cares and perplexities that burdened me, All the dark o'er-hanging rocks hearts, can learn a useful lesson by reviewing the Never dim their light, With the spirit's lightness and even blame her that she had not managed In whose shadow he had rested past—something that will suggest a better and a Though the clouds that gather o'er us Of the dead: Hide them from our sight. differently, keeping her brain in such a whirl of When his weary march was done,— different course for the present and future. If Lingering, sad and lonely, excitement and worriment that she would look All, forgetful, left the old Year we closely analyze the past we will discover So GOD'S love for thee, Oh! Christian, On Time's shore- longingly into the grave for rest ? Would not I In his death-hour, all alone^-- blemishes, and see points that need important Liveth on and on, Left him in the weary darkness Hearing one voice only rather spealfc loving, encouraging and consoling modifications. Unwise is the man who remains Though His smiles, so-prized and precious, Evermore: •Shivering with a half-spent moan,— words to her; remembering she would naturally untaught and unbenefited by these lessons of Be a while withdrawn, worry enough, that she cannot do when she sees To remember all his gladness, Passion's sweet embraces, . (Think how he had crowned been,) experience. If he tries not to correct faults And though tempests round thee gather In their might, so much to do, without one unkind, unfeeling In the days forever gone; when discovered, he receives no good from the Thick and dark and chill, Clasping only traces remark from me? To bring back each well-known scene; review; but should it stir him to make high and He can see thee through the darkness Of delight: If I was a man I would try hard to hf,a man, How the hopeful Spring had greeted holy resolves, and to trust in divine strength for And preserve thee still, Doubting if a clearer and not a hateful, waspish churl, ready to sting Trim with soft, balm-breathing hours, aid to execute them, they will be truly.profited. 'Tis the night that brings, the dewdrop, Light above at the least provocation, or without one. How the radiant Summer wooed him, Starless though it seem; Could e'er draw us nearer With her fair hands full of flowers; What day is more calculated to produce rever- A true man I consider to be all that is good ies than the last day of the old year ? Day dreams And 'tis clouds that furnish showers In our love. While along the moistened ridges To the field and stream. and noble. Was he not made in the image of Of the earth, the corn appeared, haunt the waking hours of that day more nat- Waning is the twilight •OD ? Couldn' 11 love such a man as that ? And urally than those of any other. The mind re- 'Tis from clouds that souls are watered, Of the, year— And yet later, waving grain-fields, wouldn't I willingly mind PAUL'S advice, which By their golden presence cheered considers the resolutions made at the beginning Much as they would pray Ever has the smile-light we have^ead so often:—Wives be in subjection That their shadows and their darkness Left me drear. With a promise of rich harvests, of the year, and notes the failure or success of to your own husbands in everything ? I think I And of garners amply stored. the same. Many a well-formed plan has not been Might be blown away. ould and would. MRS. SOMEBODY. The wild birds on soaring pinions, executed, many desires hare not been granted, As the earth receives its beauty Written for Moore's Bural New-Yorker. The bright streams and happy floods, many hopes never have been and never can From the dew and rain, All, had left on him the impress SO are souls made purer, stronger, ECONOMY ABOUT SEATING-TO LADIES. be realized. All should strive to see how much Of their own peculiar moods; can be'accomplished, before the last day of this By their tears and pain. Crimson leaves had decked his forehead, " ECONOMICAL indeed!" said widow WEATH- new year djawns; before the king now in infancy Yet canst thou by faith look upward ERBEE, while her cap strings fluttered with indig- 1. AVOID skates which are strapped on the Hoary frost crowned him with gems, And the leafless Winter-branches shall have^lnished his course upon earth, and And behold the light, nation. " There is not such another extrava- 'eet, as they prevent the circulation, and the foot Though the clouds that gather o'er thee becomes frozen before the skater is aware of it, Held to him their icy stems. bowed his head with age, and yielded to the gant family for miles around as that FIELDING But, alas I what need for -thinking 1 greater monarch, Time. Hide it from thy sight. family. One of Mrs. FIELDING'S dresses costs as because the tight strapping benumbs the foot, and deprives it of feeling. A young lady at Bos- Even those chilly days were past, We mourn not for our aged friend; a few Trust then: let them/dark and dreary, much as three of mine. There is her new And no friend was left to cheer Trim,— ton lost a foot in this way; another, in New thoughts of the past, a few mistakes made in Gather as they will, French merino never cost less than two or three None to cheer Mm at the last. dating letters, and he Is forgotten. Some, per- Knowing that in all life's trials dollars a yard, and she could have gotten a good, York, her life, by attempting to thaw her feet in Lost, lost, lost, God is loving still. warm water after taking off her skates. The haps, feel grateful for the blessings he brought, cotton and wool delaine for fifty cents; then her The morning and the noon, Stephens Mills, N. Y., 1864. safest kind are those which receive the fore part Only left the saddened tale but the majority of mankind care little for his bonnet is real Leghorn, and the milliner at the departure. We hail his successor with mirth and + .»- corners told me that it cost nine dollars—the of the foot in a kind of toe, and stout leather Of never-ending gloom. Lost, lost, lost, revelry. We imagine that he has treasures for Written for -Moore's Rural New-Yorker. hare bonnet—and the ribbon for the trimming around the heel, buckling in front of the ankle only, thus keeping the heel in place without The singing and the mirth, us which will be disclosed ere his term expires. THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE. was ten shillings a yard, while my shirred silk Nothing left but one dark grave, "Alas! hope deferred maketh the heart sick;" was only seven dollars, and will last me a year. spikes or screws, and aiding greatly in support- ing the ankle. On all the lonesome earth. many who now breathe the pure air of heaven, MUCH has been' written in prose and verse of Then the foolish set thought they, must have a Lost, lost, lost, 2. It is not the object so much to skate fast as will, ere that, have closed their eyes in a dream- the pleasures of Hope, and .as we recall to mind sewing machine, and that cost a hundred or two The Spring and Summer gone, t to skate gracefully; and that is sooner and more less sleep. They will awaken in a land where a these numberless effusions, it seems as though dollars; and the music painting and drawing that The Autumn and the Winter, too, new year's day never dawns,—where time is un-. easily learned by skating with deliberation, And Hope to Heaven flown. the subbject was exhausted, and nothing could be that family pay for learning, is more than I can limited and needs no measurement by years. reckon, to say nothing about their piano; then while it prevents over-heating, and diminishes said that has not been reiterated time and again. there is the books and papers they take by the the chances of taking cold by cooling off too O fairest-born of light andjoy! Antwerp, N. Y. MKS. ANNIE M. Hor-FEB. Who can compentently describe.the hope of the year—enough for a regiment of soldiers. Some soon afterwards. We hail thy gentle birth, Christian—a hope that maketh not ashamed, that people would have taken the money, and put it 3. If the wind is blowing, a veil should be We bless thee with all voices Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. reaches to that within the veil. How all mere Of sea and sky and earth I BE NOT HASTY. earthly hopes grow dim in comparison with this in the bank for a rainy day, instead of spending worn over the face, at least of ladies and chil- The waters leap to greet thee, dren ; otherwise fatal inflammation of the lungs Heaven-born principle of the soul. . it so foolishly." The blue sky loveth thee, DON'T utter that harsh word, accompanied by or pneumonia, may take place. Think you those earthly martyrs for the truth " They doubtless think their money well in- And earth puts on her bridal robes a cold, chilling look! Let it die upon the lips, 4. Do hot sit down to rest a single half mk> would, could have gone thus fearlessly, yea, joy- vested," said Mrs. GREY, whose previous asser- Of snow-white purity! ere it descends like a heavy stroke upon some ute, or stand still, if there is any wind, nor stop fully to the stake, had no blessed hope of Heaven tions had caused the widow to express herself so To greet thy presence at the dawn,— loving, sensitive and trusting heart. Better a moment after the skates are taken off; but New day of life and Light! inspired their hearts ? While Hope painted to freely. " They could tell you that they do not suppress your grieved and angry «motion, than walk about so as to restore circulation about the them the glory that awaited them at the right always consider it the best economy to buy What does thy presence bring to us send a stern, unkind word to a soul that may feet and toes, and to prevent being chilled. hand of the Majesty on high, the flames could those articles which can be bought for the least Of heartsome cheer, New Year? bear its effects forever. Do you say you have money. Mrs. FIELDING'S merino dress will out- 5. It is better to walk home than to ride; the have no power to depress their minds; they were been wronged? Then go in a loving spirit to enabled to shout victory, even while enduring the last a common delaine by at least two years ser- atter is almost certain to give a cold. "Forever charming, ever new, those who have injured you and show them their vice; the expensive bonnet will do oyer for 6. Never carry anything in the mouth while most excrutiating pain, of body; they endured Are the delights I bring, faults; tell them kindly, and see how the heart as seeing what to their enemies was invisible, many seasons and still be good; and I think a skating, nor any hard substance in the hand, nor I blend the grand and'beautiful will melt in contrition, the eye fill with tears, month's experience with a sewing machine, throw anything on the ice; none but a careless, In harmonistic ring. andofttimes their composure and indifference to and the bosom heave with sighs, and the voice insult and torture provoked the" rage of their would convince you that they soon pay their reckless ignoramus would thus endanger a fel- Yoices of melting tenderness, in-tender accents plead for pardon. Do you say cost in the saving of time and labor; and as for ow skater. Eyes of truthful hue, persecutors, and no species of torment that their Brave thoughts to stir the noble heart the majority would turn away in pride and an- fiendish hate could invent was left untried; yet the books and papers, Mr. FIELDING is repaid 7. If the thermometer is below thirty,, and the ger, or laugh at your weakness ? Better endure a thousand fold, in knowing that Ms family are wind blowing, no lady or child should be skating. That beateth but for you: all in vain—unmoved and calm amidst the storm The smile, the' Bigh, the tender tear patiently a thousand jeers than cruelly grieve of hellish passions, they, stood, sustained by a'. growing up well informed and intelligent; while 8. Always keep your eyes about you, looking All claim their silent place one true heart. ahead and upwards, and not on the ice, that you hope, not begotten of earth, but inspired by the every dollar invested for music, painting and the In love and grief and sympathy Don't check the confidence that would be may not run against some lady, or child, or Most High. Ah! who that hath this glorious like, yields him a handsome profit, by cultiva- Within my close embrace." yours were not your countenance continually learner. Hope would exchange it for any or all of earth's ting in each member of the family a taste for clofiied with forbidding looks! Oh! the those things which have a tendency to elevate 9. Arrange to have an extra garment, thick treasures ? A hope of Heaven! who can com- " Sunniest slopes I bring, to woo fearful, mighty influence of a word harshly or prehend all its blessed fullness ? Truly, " eye and ennoble—by rendering home attractive and and heavy, to throw over your shoulders the thoughtlessly spoken! A pleasant word will affording those pleasures at home, they would moment you stop skating, and then walk home The scented April air, hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it Sunniest meadows to enfold touch rich, hidden chords in the soul, that entered into the heart of man to conceive" the be likely to seek elsewhere, and thereby become or at least half a mile, with the mouth closed so The summer-flowers fair; will respond in sweet, harmonious melodies. exposed to temptations without number. Do that the lungs may not be quickly chilled by the joys that await those who cherish a well ground- Greenest pastures where the sheep The bright sunny smile will mantle the face, the ed Hope of immortality. you suppose that Mr. APPLETON'S son would cold air dashing upon them through the open May nibble the sweet grass, • eyes thrill with rapture, and the lips strive in have proved the miserable creature that he is if mouth; if inhaled through the nose, it is warm- Coolest shades to welcome you vain to frame a reply. But a harsh expression When the mind contemplates eternity, as Hope. When thro' the fields you pass; his father had expended a few dollars of his d before it gets to the lungs. will press the minor chords, which send forth paints it to the Christian, how insignificant ap- abundant means to afford the unfortunate boy 10. It would be a safe rule for no child or lady Gentlest dews to drop adown pear the so called pleasures of earth. We often- In freshness on your heads, low, mournful dirges of sorrow and anguish. some advantages toimproyehis mindandheart ? to be on skates longer than an hour at a time. Don't censure those already painfully conscious murmur because deprived of many things; we He no doubt regrets that he did not devote a Dreams of gladness to make bright in our short sightedness imagine the possession, 11. The grace, exercise and healthfulness of The night about your beds." of their errors, who are striving earnestly to portion of it for the boy's improvement, instead skating on the ice can be had without stay of its overcome them. But rather breathe sweet words would enhance our happiness, but hope tells us up in. of striving to amass property which his dwarfed dangers, by the use of skates with rollers at- of encouragement and advice. We are all wan- yonder we shall be filled with all the fullness of capacities will not permit him to enjoy. tached, on a common floor; better if covered "Enough, enough, I will not tell derers in a vale of tears, in a " world of heavy, GOD. Our friends, those we love, and would Of aught that's sorrowful; have wal^life's entire pathway with us, sicken " Do you think that Mr. HOWE'S daughter with oil cloth.—-HaZP Journal of Health. breaking hearts." I'll leave such to some other day, and die, and as we see the silent dust lowered would have been as likely to have grown weary There'll be a morrowfull;— Be it ours to scatter kind words and winning into its last resting place, our^hearts are filled of home and plunged into the follies and ex- WOMEN KILLED WITH CASE. O pure of heart I thou need'st not fear smiles, to soothe the weary, to awaken the with grief, for we know we shall see them no cesses of fashionable life, and ended by running The meaning of my reign, nobler, finer feelings, and in all things perform more in the flesh; yet, even then, Hope sweetly off with a worthless adventurer, if there had i For whether there be most of joy, EVERY woman must have a best parlor, with well our mission. Guard well our lips, that none whispers of a reunion, where friends never part,! been anything about her home pleasing and at- Or most of grief and pain,— hair-cloth furniture, and a photographic book; grieve in silence o'er our thoughtless words, and in a land where the inhabitants thereof never; tractive to draw her within its charmed circle ? E'en as thy day, thy strength shall be, she must have a piano, or some cheaper substi- above all, that we may enjoy the approving sicken. Oh, what a joyful meeting I-rfriends; People may be 'penny wise and pound foolish.' And all beloved things tute; her little girls must have embroidered smiles of GOD. LLILLIE E. LEWIS. long seperated clasp glad hands with no shadow There is that which scattereth and yet mcreas- Shall bring thee rest and happiness skirts, and much mathematical knowledge; her From GOD'B Eternal Springs." of parting to dampen their joy; but Hope eth, and there is that which withholdeth and is husband must have two or even three hot meals Philadelphia, Pa. FILL YOUB OWN PLACE. changed to glftd fruition, throughout the endless, nothing profited." H. every day of his life; and, yet her house must be >•» ages of eternity our songs of praise shall never, in perfect order early in the afternoon, and she Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. IT takes all sorts of characters, says the late cease. Oh! cultivate Hope. Often let her paint' Written for Moore's Kural New-Yorker. prepared to go out and pay calls, with a black THOUGHTS ON THE NEW YEAB. Professor Willson, to complete this great. World- the, glories that await the finally faithful; it wili WHAT MBS. SOMEBODY SAYS. silk dress, and card-case. In the evening she drama, and somebody must act them. In other sustain in trial's hour, and make the hardest lot will go to a concert or lecture, and then, at the THE old year is dead and buried, and with it words, I believe that every man has his place; in more endurable. Did we dwell more upon the; If I was a man, I'd be a man: that I would. end of all, she will very possibly sit up after mid- many brave forms. Its record of husbands, the world, and that he was made specially for thought of our inheritance beyond the grave, If I was poor, and had a faadiy dependent on my night with her sewing-machine, doing extra work fathers, sons and brothers slain upon the battle- that place. It is only by earnestly filling that and act as though our hope was a living principle,; daily labor for support, and >ras deep in debt in to pay for little ELLA'S music lessons. All this ^eld, or suffering and dying away from kindred place that he fulfills his destiny, and answers the we should murmur less at our trials, and instead the bargain^ do you suppose I *ouid sit m the every "capable" woman will do or die! She and home, of families broken vp, of ruined end for which God created him. Confusion and of thinking we are the most miserable of all GOD'S chimney corner because it was a little cold, or does it, and dies, and linen we are astonished that hopes-, is one not to be thought of without pain- disappointment only arise from our efforts to get children, we should oftener be heard praising; the wind played a few mad pranks with the her vital energy gives out sooner than that of an ful feelings. Truly it has been a year never to into some other place than the one for which we Him for the Hope He, himself, has giren us of snow, or I'd had a crick in my back sometime, Irishwoman in a shanty, with no ambition on be forgotten. Its history will ever stand among are intended. The change of our choice ip limited immortality. SYBIL. and feared I might have again ? If my ba*k was earth but to supply her young Patricks with ade- by the character God has given to us^and the cir- the records of many wars, which have stained Grenee, Chenango Co., N. Y., Dec, 1864. a wee bit lame, do you suppose I'd curl down quate potatoes.—T. W. Sigginson. our beautiful world with carnage, and lain its cumstances by which he hath surrounded us, and somewhere and say I could not do anything, VK* brave ones low. which have modified that character, and devel- should have to go to the poor house: especially The new year has dawned bright and beautiful, oped those faculties. Each man is created with ENJOYMENT soon wearies both itself and us; if I could eat a goodly portion of what was set MA^Y regard themselves as moral, disinterest- and with it new hopes and fears. What thoughts certain possibilities which determined the direc- effort never. That man is happy who devotes before me, and sleep all night, and part of the ed, truthful, and gentle, merely because they in- it brings to our minds—thoughts of time unim- tion he must go, and the height to which he may his life to the cultivation of an island, to the dis-t day, too, so sound that I did not know whether exorably insist that others shall be so. proved, of hopes blasted, of expected happiness rise. We need not, therefore, remain in doubt. covery of one that is lost, or of the extent of the I had a back or not ? No, sir, that I wouldn't. JO? m»,y take her wreath and make it a wed- never realized. 'Tis an epoch which should Our path is so plainly marked out for us, that ocean. "0 yes," says Mr. (what shall I call him,) "you ding-ring of friendship or love; and grief may do cause us to pause in our career and think of the we need not seek long for it, if we have willing can talk; but you don't know anything about the same with his'girdle of thorns. year that is gone. hearts and willing hands to do it. IN darkness and silence rest the dead children it." Don't I though? Andsodoallpoorwomen; ' No love from children is sweeter than that " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, " No man is born into the world whose work in the arms of the cold mother; but at last when every mother's daughter of them, toil, toil, toil, which follows severity; so from thebitter olive And ask them what report they bore to heaven Is not born with him; there is always work the sun of eternity rises, they shall arise, and she, . from morning till late at night to keep the dirl is sweet, soft oil expressed. And how they might have borne more welcome news." And tools to work withal, for those who will." too; shall bloom again. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection mmam.

SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. Written for Moore's Rur,al New-Yorker. A WOBD TO THE BOYS. THE winter is the season of the year when IT is a notable confession which Professo plans should be laid and preparations made for VOELCKEB made at a meeting of a farmer's clu YES, stick to the farm, boys, stick to the ferm, building. It is the right time to collect materi- recently—that "it had struck him that one grea and the "old home," too^it's agpod place, it's als, and the earlier in the winter timber is cut objection to public lectures at the present da] a healthy place, it's a hap]ay placte. Give up your the.better. Building will of course be pretty was that scientific men had l>een trained in plan of going tothe great city to rise, though it much suspended on account of scarce labor and different school from that in which the practical be a long cherished one; think! think! of the highiprices, and yet it ia Unwise to delay the farmer had been taught. To instruct practical thousands who have gone there to rise, who have erection of necessary buildings, for the. want of men upon a subject in which they were very falien, O! so low. N them may cost more than the extra expense of much in advance of scientific men, he could no No matter though your hands are large, rough building now. If you have comfortable and con- hope to do. It was decidedly not the object o and brawny, if their great,strong muscles vibrate venient buildings, wait till the, war is over, and scientific men to endeavor to teach those Who to the impulses of a warm and manly heart. No the war debt reduced,, before you build elegant all their life-time, had been occupied in a certain matter though your cheeks are; too brown and ones, and as a general rule, avoid all expenses on business, but to carefully investigate facts, t rosy to suit the fastidious taste qf danie Fashion, account of fancy, luxury and show. It is worth sift them, and reduce them to principles, so as t 'tis a substantial color, the foot-prints of heSlth, while to consider, however^ that in the matter of become a general store of useful information fc and where there is health there is purity. No timber and lumber, the diminishing supply will all those who might come after them." " matter though your brows are dasky— a huppy be ^followed by higher prices. It is doubtful We say this is a notable confession of a scien hue caught from the March dirges and summer "whether, when the war closes, lumber wilt-be tific man, because it is the first instance we r& winds,—if .the great interior remain pure, arid materially lower, for.the present partial suspen-j member to have seen where the relations o: white, arid spotless —if no burning, "scorching sion of operations will naturally be followed by sfeience to practice have been rightly defined, wind has swept over and crisped, and blackened extensive building then, and this will tend to where the wide difference between the purel; the fair mind,—no matter, then, though the raise the cost of men and material. scientific and the practical man has been pro casket be a little soiled.! TOE A. FABM HOUSE. It may be very useful for the public to know perly acknowledged. Now what is most wante< No matter, though you may be called "awk- that in building they,are not necessarily confined A NEW ABRAN greatly obliged when they shall come into gen- " Farmer's Home " — one having all the convene years ago. created, does not starve in a garret. We have inthrough to perfection, dnly with more dignity eral use, with a little transparent varnish, in our mind, at this writing, worthy examples o and ease. t ceiling up our houses. Red beach should be put success where the educated taste and skill of th No matter though you may be called country down among our invaluable woods, (Should not artist has been turned into practical channels^ "bumkins" and "greenhorns." To be sure, be taken for fuel, but makes excellent studs, And such diversion does not diminish but in neither are classical nor desirable nariies, yet we braces, joists and jterger timbers* and indeed creases the dignity of art. So science must must admit they have quite as musical a ring as white beech does very well when it is straight harnessed to the plow, the cultivator, and mad< " city buck" and "know nothing." No* matter and straight-grained. Basswood answers well to do service in the farm husbandries. And sc though your city cousins may laugh at you for for siding, if always kepi^ainted, add especial- entific men must put on this harness, and hel your" acknowledged greenness in the science of ly when eave troughs and projecting eaves keep others .to put it on. Then shall it be recognized, Broadway. Bear in mind you are quite as much it mostly dry; but pine siding and pine shingles not only for its wonderful and simple beauty, bu at home there, in their great noisy thoroughfare, of good quality are very desirable for good for its far more wonderful and simple power. as they are in the green, quiet country. No buildings. Beech, black and white ash, oak and matter, boys, it is well enough to have a little elm make very good covering for barns and greenkees with the ripeness of earth. other out buildings; the boards should be scant ABOUT DRESSING FURS. inch, carefully seasoned, keeping the piles even I Never mind the jeer and taunt. Don't let to prevent warping, and covering them from the THE RTJRAL continues to. receive inquiries your mind believe every picture that is painted rain. Let the boards run up and down, nail about furs—tanning, dressing, manufacturing, for you of gilded city life, for not half as 'bright them well with greased fence nails to prevent I &c. A correspondent of the Scientific American, a picture is shadowed by-those great bleak walls, warping; paint when oil is cheaper. who says he has seen and dressed hundreds o ks is by the elms and maples that stand guard thousands of furs of all kinds*.both in London around your ^country1 Home. Before you build study your plan toeU. Every and New York, says the process that has been Yes, stick to the farm, boys, stick to the farm. building you see on rollers is evidence of human used for the last thirty years, both in Germany Be as enterprising, be as ambitious, as you have weakness and folly, and yet a great many build- and England, is as follows:—"When the fur a mind 'So, fbt both w6rk charmingly with agri- ings should be on rollers if that would put come from the hunter, in the raw state, to th culture, but stick to the farm. them where they ought to. be. Two principal CELLAB PLAIT. BOOF PLAIT. furriers, they are Sorted over and then prepared Lima, Ind., 1864. SniAS MOMANNUS. ends should be kept in view—convenience and for tanning; the term we use is 'leathering. good looks. There is much every way in good iences that can usually be desired in a new resi- The convenience of the stairways, with the They are greased with common grease on the LINKS IN THE CHAIN. arrangements. You can afford to spend a good dence, and at the same time so similar in its entrances and apartments, and the several apart- leather side, and then put in a tub large deal of time in perfecting your plans, by visiting general plan-to many buildings that are consid- ments with each other, make a composition enough for a man to get into and work easily THE blast that drove the storm-cloud across the best models3, consulting the highest authority ered a little "old fashioned," that it will suggest peculiarly appropriate for that class of people at them. A cloth is then bound around the the heavens shook the oak, and the acorn-cup^ and scrutinizing the minutest details. Some what a neat and tasteful residence may readily who believe that a penny saved is as good as a 1; man's waist so as to keep the steam in th loosened from its fruit, fell on the pathway. build, as they marry, in haste, to repent at be produced from the present unsightly struc- penny earned; or, to be up with the times, direct tub, and the skins are then worked by thx The cloud burst; a rairi-dfop filled the acorn- leisure. ture by a thin application of a few "green- movements are preferable to the right or left feet until warm, which takes an hour or more cup. : backs." obliques. Leaving the inside of houses to Mrs. STOWB they are afterwards taken out and greased again A robing wearied by the sultry heat of an au- and others in that line of business, I will remark This sketch is from the portfolio of Mr. If any one should wish the plans reversed or when the skin and grease are worked again tumn day, and troubled by the fury of the storm, that a square building, of all practicable shapes, J. EDSON SWEETJ of this city, who has recently the L turned to the opposite side, let them be few handfuls of mahogany sawdust are thrown in hopped on the path when all was calm, and contains the most room according to its outside held before a mirror and the spectre will accom- and worked to leather. When the skins drank of the rain-drop. Refreshed and gladdened surface. It is the outside surface that costs. modate him without the necessity of an expen- leathered they are taken out and pulled through he flew to his accustomed place in the Jivy that Avoid leantos, projections, all wings over one, sive architect. Very respectfully, a rope; they are then pickled over night in overhung the poet's window, and there he trilled and all peculiar and distorted shapes. When Syracuse, N. Y.i Dec, 1864. " BOTD ELLIOTT. water and sawdust, and in the morning they ar his sweetest, happiest song. > •pine shingle bring six dollars a thousand, a roof ready for the flesher. When fleshed they ar The' poet heard, and, rising from his reverie, should be a good way from the ground, affording hungup to dry, then greased again, and leathered wrote a chant of grateful rejoicing. The chant ample chambers (the best sleeping rooms) in once more; they are then taken out and the fu went forth into the world/and entered the house dwelling houses, and plenty of storage for hay combed, wel} beaten and drawn over the knife of sorrow, and uttered its heart-stirring accents and grain in barns arid sheds. More than any l or pared' as we call it. The skins are again by the couch of sickness. The sorrowful were man can tell, might haye been saved since the put into the tub with plenty of fresh, clean saw comforted, the sick were cheered. flood, had long posts been used in the place of dust, and worked into the sawdust until the fur short ones! Many voices praised the poet. He said .-—"The is perfectly freed from grease. It may be neces chant was inspired by the robin's song." sary to change it two or three times. The fur ii The larger your building, the leas.it costs in " I should have sunk into the earth had: not the then taken out and well beaten and corned, an< proportion to what it hold6, A half dozen small acorn-cup received me," said the rain-drop. it is then ready for the cutter. This is the way buildings vriU cost three times as much as a larger 'I had not been there to receive you, but for all fine furs are dressed, from the muskrat to the one, holding the same amount. Put two buildings the angry blast," said the acorn-cup. % Russian sable. Buffalo and bear skins are dressei together and you save siding and paint for two And so they that were comforted praised the in a Somewhat different style^ but still under the . of their sides. Don't put your barns and stables blast; but the blast replied, "Praise Him &t 1 same general prefcess." ' ' near the house, or make them too prominent in- whose word the stormy wind arise,tbj and who your landscape. Barns and sheds should be so from darkness, can bring light, making his mercies arranged as to inclose and protect the cattle oftentimes to pass through, unseen, unknown, yards, especially on the windward side, and be DISPENSING WITH STEEPING FLAX. and unsuspected channels, and bringing in due careful to make the yards srhaU so they can be • time, T>y;his omx way, the grateful chant from IT appears from the Society of Arts Journal thai kept well littered and warm. Place the fodder the angry storm-cloud!'% , , in a convenient situation for feeding, using judg- a French manufacturer named BertiU has in- ; ment and skill in all the arrangements. vented what is reported to be a successful method PBINCIPAL STOBT. Be sure and make every thing permanent and of dispensing with the steeping of flax. After SENSIBLE MAXIMS.—Never taste an-atom when A, Living Eoom, 18 by 21. B, Sitting Room and tte fibers have been crushed in the ordinary way. you are not hungry; it is suicidal. substantial. Library, 15 by 15. C, Sick Room, 12 by 15. D, Cobk Let every thing be done neatly and in good taste. SECOND 3TOBT. M. Bertin submits them to a new process, that of Never hire servants Who go in pairs, as sisters, and Wash Room, 13# by 16. ,B, Bed Room, 10 jby friction between two channelled tables, which Remember the world is "progressive," and what .. F, Pantry, 7 by 10. G, Wood Room, 12 hj A, Chamber, 15 by 18i B, Chamber, 10# by 15. cousins', or anything else. is just tolerable now, will be,quite intolerable a 17. H, Stove Room, 6 by 17. I, Cistern. J, C, Bed Room, 9 by 18#. D, Bed Room, 12 by 13#. have a sideway as well as £o-and-fro motion; in Never speak of your own father as the " old few years hence. It costs in ordinary times but Back Stoop, 9 Dy 14. K, Bath Room, 5 by 9. L, B, Bed Room, 8^ by 9. P, Hall, 5 feet wide. H, H, fact, the action is similar to'tiiat of rubbing thi an." little to plane, paint, and put on cheap eornicea Hall, "6%. M, Veranda, 8 by 25. Clothes Presses. fibers between the palms of the hands, but unde: Never reply to the epithet of a drunkard or a for lout-buildings. No man has a right to do considerable pressure, and" with great rapidity. fool. • •''• ' violence to the fine arts. Outrages upon good 1 The fiber is afterward beaten in water, which Never speak contemptuously of woman-kind. foundly. Then let them select from the multi- acquaintance with the fine arts generally, by a carries off every particle of woody matter, and taste ought to be punished by fine or imprison- tudinoua shapes we have, the most convenient wider range of investigations and by refined and Never abuse one who was once your bosom ment. Such crimes are generally committed leaves the flax completely unbroken alnd in friend, however bitter now. and comely forms for us to copy. In other words elevated contemplations and studies. Slowly parallel masses. The principle of friction tables •without provocation and without excuse. Every and by degrees, comely slopes will supplant the Never smile at tbe expense of your religion or. we might take the advice of persons, not tpo has been applied by M. Bertin in other cases, and : man under a free government thinks he has a fanciful and poetic, who have considered the sub- architectural blunders that line our roadsides. your Bible. " right to be his own architect, so he proceeds to is said to furnish an economical, rapid, and per- A good word is;as soon said as a bad one. ject of architecture, and select a building that We must believe in a "standard of taste "—*all fect mechanical action. do violence to the " rules of art," just as though comes nearest to our wants and tasteB and copy true proportions are as comely in 1865 as in the That groat is ill saved that shames its master. they were entitled to no consideration or respect. that. We can't tell how how an original plan year one. Does the oak five hundred years old No one is a fool always; every one sometimes.; ; Peace wijib heaven is the best friendsnip. ; Ordinary carpenters and joiners cannot be would look till the edifice iB finished and then it look ridiculous, like the fashionable bonnet of BBABS AND BULLS." — The singular epithets trusted to furnish drafts and designs for houses is too late; to alter. It is, therefore, safer to fol- year before last ? Would you shorten the neck, of "bears " and "bulls" were first applied to and other important buildings, and the people at! low in the footsteps of some one else,, and copy or lengthen the feathers of the dove ? Would speculators on the London Exchange about 1834. A LZTTLE GIBL, who was walking with her large are no better qualified. Distinguished ar- the most tasteful and convenient building we cj,n you amend the plumage of the bird of paradise? When two parties contract, the one to deliver and motier, was tempted by the sight of a basket of chitects are apt to be too fanciful and elaborate. find. Probably it will be a good while before Will you ask the ocean, the setting sun, and the the other take stocks on a future day at a speci- xuanges, exposed for sale in a store, and quietly, I know a religious society that paid $300 for a the mass of the people can decide discreetly for gauzy skies to do more than repeat their old fied price, it is the interest.of the defiveringj, took one; but afterwards stricken by conscience, design for a church. They got a castle at one themselves, or findcompeten t advisers. beauties? So our dwellings shall be comely party, in the intervening period, to deprejii returned it. After her return home, she was disi end and a sort of an Irish railroad shanty at the Where is the medicine to cure perverted tastes ? through all time if you adopt forms founded on stocks, and of the receiving party to raise tfcem. sovered in tears, and on being asked the cause other. I would have made them a draft nearly If a perfect model is furnished how are all the true relations, and'' the eternal fitnesso f things.'' The former is styled a " bear," in allosioD fo the f her sorrow, replied, sobbing, "Mamma, I as bad for twenty-shillings. Who shall de«ide SMITHS to know that it is the perfect model? habit of that animal to pull down Offings with taven't broken any of the commandments, but when doctors disagree ? They will find out just after they agree upon re- his paws, and the latter a "bull," fi;omth e cus- think I've cracked one a little." She was for- The best way I can tljjnk of to get at it would ligious doctrines. In the meantime let architec- AFABM, with its buildings, should be a finished tom of that beast to throw an object np with be for some strong-minded men or women, of a ture be taught in the schools. Let the people section of the landscape of which it forms a part, lis horns. practical turn of mind, full of worldly wisdom, become familiar with the best models. Let pro- or an attractive point within it. It should be WATBB is not a fashionable beverage for drink-, to give their attention to architecture, studying portions and relations, cplor and contour, engage complete in itself—not dependent upon acces-, WE promise according to our hopes, we per- ing your friend's health, but it is a capital one it iu it» principles and details patiently and pro- their daily thoughts. Let minds be enlarged by sories to support it. brm according to our fears. r drinking your own. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

A private letter from Gen. SHERMAN to his captures were also two rebel editors and four The expedition recently from Morganzia into the List of New Advertisement*. brother, Hon. JOHN SHERMAN, in Washington," secession printing presses. The latter were sent interior of Louisiana met with great success in the 30th ult., gives a most hopeful account of to Parson Brownlow as a Christmas gift. tracking up guerrilla camps, capturing stores, Watches, Chains, &c— Geo. Demerit & Co. Improved Cross-Cat Sawing Machine— G. Westinghouse affairs in Georgia. At the date of his letter, a The severest loss to the rebels was the destruc- &c. Two thousand five hundred rebels under & Co. Important to Horse Bake Manufacturers — Hussey, portion of his army were in motion northward. tion of the salt works at Satville, and the lead Wirt Adams And Scott were threatening Baton Wells & Co. The great naval expedition, under the com- works at Leadville. Both were rendered value- Rouge on the 24th. Vick's Illustrated Annual Catalogue—Jas. Vick. Special Notice—Frank Baldwin. mand of Rear Admiral PORTER, which 6ailed less. Our losses were very small. Great Chance to make Money—G. S. Hasting & Co. Green's Patent Roofing—Henry Smith. from Fortress Monroe on the 18th ult., attacked Our captured rebel prisoners amount to 24 DEATH OF GEORGE M. DALLAS.—The New Ingersolrs Improved Hay and Cotton Presses — Ingergoll & Dougherty. Fort Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, officers and 845 men. York Evening Pbst of Saturday publishes a dis- Wood-Sawing Machine—J. W. Mount. 20 miles from Wilmington, on the 24th. The East Tennessee is now free from any consider- patch from Philadelphia stating that George M. The most Laughable thing on Earth—Amsden & Co. Arthur's Home Magazine.—T. S. Arthur & Co. assault was continued on the 25th, but was able force of rebels, and Kentucky is not infested Dallas, the Vice President of the United States Those Sending articles of Comfort to Soldiers.—Freak Miller. unsuccessful. Gen. BUTLER, who accompanied by Confederates. when Polk was President, from 1845 to 1849, died Farm for Sale.—H. Darrow. J the expedition with a land force, landed 3,000 Prince Albert Pigs.—Wm. Gridley. Gen. Stoneman had possession of the rebel in that city at 9 o'clock, Saturday morning Green's Patent Roofing.—Henry Smith. men under command of General WEITZEL, to telegraph line and held it for 18 hours, during The dispatch adds:—"Mr. Dallas was well enough Quince Stocks, &c.-T. G. Teomans. Dairy Farm for Sale—Mrs. 8. W. Collier. co-operate with the fleet. Difficulties were en- which time he discovered all their plans and to be about on Friday. . Wood-Sawing Machines.—Henry C. Lake. Farm for Sale.—F. A. Spalding. countered which rendered it impracticable for movements;. Sheep for Sale—Walker Cole. " GOD bless the old, flag I as He ever has done the troops to operate against the fort, and they; Cancers Cured.—Drs. Babcock & Son. The first train through from Chattanooga ar- NEWS PARAGRAPHS. Sent for 25 Cents.—Julius Rising. Since He strengthened the arm of our own Washington | therefore, re-embarked without doing the rebels rived at Nashville the 30th ult. Regular railroad Blooded Stock for Sale.—N. P. Boyer & Co. Apple Seed for Sale.—J. A. Root. And God bless the freemen, devoted and true, any further damage than taking some detached communication will be established and kept-up. NEW YORK GITY has already a credit of 10,000 Iona and Israelis Vines for Sale.—Rev. F. E. Cannon. Who'are ready to die for the Red, White and Braei" batteries and lessening their numbers two or Gen. Thomas's headquarters were at Pulaski towards the call for 300,000 men, leaving but Trees for Sale.—A Fahnfefltock. three hundred in killed, wounded and prisoners. the 29th. 2,000 to raise, and will be sure to get out of the SPECIAL NOTICES. ROCHESTER, N. T., JANUARY 7, 1865. Gen. WEITZEL lost but few men, notwithstand- draft. ' '•'• - Atlantic Monthly—Ttcknor & Fields. Our advance was closely following Hood, who Our Young Folks—Ticknor & Fields. ing the reports from the enemy that whole regi- it was believed was trying to cross the Tennessee THE petroleum excitement continues and waxes Notice—Drs. Babcock & Son. STEWS OF THE WEEK. ment* of colored troops had been decapitated- river, i huge. West Virginia is now spoken of as the But few casualties occurred on board the fleet Gens. Granger and Steadman are on his flank, promising Oil-Dorado. Good forth e Oiled Do- From the South. from the missiles of the opposing forces, but and the gunboats are shelling his pontoons, minion. .••/," '••,-. '?:\ '•'•'*''"' • ,..*. WE predicted in the last number of the sad havoc was made on board several vessels by which he has not yet been able to cross upon. IN boring for oil near Chicago last week, a sub- the, bursting of six 100-pound Parrot guns. It* terranean lake was reached, at the depth of about RcRAiithat before the close of 1864, .intelligence The water in the river is ten feet deep, and — Oregon is organizing a border militia. of a moat, cheering nature would be received is reported that sixty-five men were killed and 700 feet, from which the water flows in a copious falling. We have had a steady rain all the even- : — The Michigan farmers are making rosin. from our forces operating in the " Sunny South." wounded by these explosions. ing. stream. . — San Francisco supports ten daily papers. So far as General SHERMAN'S army is concerned The very latest news from the front is that PHILADELPHIA will probably have to raise only Two hundred tuns of gunpowder were fired in — The population of San Francisco is 120,800. all loyal hearts may well beat with, patriotic emo- a vessel a short distance from Fo/t Fisher, but yesterday, (the 29th,) while Gen. Thomas was about five thousand men under the last call, hav- tion. ,; Notwithstanding the flaunting braggado- without producing the desired result pressing Hood on the west bank of the Tennes- ing a large surplus over the quota on the pre- — The Richmond hotels charge forty dollars per day. cio which pervaded the columns of thej^Richmond — Paymasters in the army are not entitled to pen- Advices from Washington of the 30th ultj see, he was trying to lay his pontoons, but could vious call. papers that General SHERMAN would, get entrap- sions. say that the expedition against Wilmington is not make any progress, as our gunboats were A RESOLUTION declaring that the Writ of Ha- ped, that he would find,suc h a powerful foe when — A man in Illinois has raised ten tuns of chicory not abandoned, and that Admiral PORTER is still shelling his working parties. beas Cdrpus ought not to be suspended was voted he arrived at the, Atlantic coast as to baffle all his this year. operating. Considerable fighting has occurred since our down in the rebel House of Representatives on efforts tp secure a victory, and that his army — Vermont has a credit of 1,014 men to count on the The SeralcCs Newbern correspondent of Dec; last issue, between the forces of Thomas and the 24th by 41 to 31. would become a flying,' disintegrated massj Hood, and the .army of the latter is pretty present call. ,. 27th, says that Gen. Palmer's expedition from VICE ADMIRAL FARRAQUT will still serve big whose great object would be to leave as great a effectually broken up. . — John B. Gough, the great lecturer, has an income stretch of the "sacred soil" as possible between Plymouth, under Col. French, up the Roan- country and glorify his flag from the deck of the of $8,000 a year. oke, penetrated a considerable distance and had Gen. Steadman reached Decatur on the 24th 114 it and the invincible aristocracy, the frowns of dear, old Hartford,", as Farragut fondly calls ' — New England female operatives have adopted the several engagements, defeating the rebels on ult. with a large force, and was also threatening the galjant Admiral's flagship. ' the -'god of war" seemB to have made some- Hood. -' | Bloomer costume. thing besides brave men out of the chivalric every occasion, driving them out of intrenched THB Newburyport Herald calculates that the positions and taking a number of prisoners. The Official information from Nashville gives Hood's — The, Fenians hold regular and largely attended gentlemen of Georgia. Although SHERMAN'fe losses from the 18th to the 22d of December at amount of cotton captured by Sherman at Savan- meetings in Boston. great campaign is, we trust,; far from being gunboats were to co-operate, but were prevented nah would supply all the factories in Newbury- by torpedoes." 2,650 killed, $720 wounded, and 5,870 prisoners.^ —Some of the farms in Hlfnois are larger than the ended, he. has already achieved enough in his port, ^running all their works, for five years. German principalities. ' march of three hundred miles through the It is reported once more, by parties who From Louisville, Ky., the.SOth ult, we learn that on Saturday last Capt. Samuel Tabor, of the IN New Orleans, the Mayor regulates the price — Dangerous counterfeits on the North Bank, Bos- center of the enemy's country,, to place his name recently left Richmond, that LEE is making ton, are in circulation.'" home Guard of Harding county, and his nephew, of loaves of bread every week according to the; in the catalogue of the greatest Generals of the preparations to evacuate the city. They also market price of flour, and <^gJ^ke/B_conform to 15 years old, were surrounded at their residence • — Forty million^ of dollars are invested in mining age, and his army entitled to have engraven on state that LEE'S force is now less than 40,000 •the standard. "' '* "-*•"""•-"*- ;- *. •• '•*":-C. ^ enterprises in Colorado. their banners "The Bravest of the Brave," and by seven of Capt. Pratt's rebel gang. : men, and that the whole army is on short A VICKSBTTRG letter says that the appropriation — Heavy teams run across the ice on the Hudsen their deeds of valor emblazoned on the most rations •+- their supplies of meat being almost Capt. Tabor and his nephew fired from the of Jeff. Davis's farm for the use of freedmen river at Albany and Troy. honorable escutcheons in the, archives of the exhausted. The recent destruction of the rebel house, killing Pratt and three of his comrades. will relieve the Government of the support of — A Pennsylvania musician has written a song en- National and State Governments. lines of communication has seriously damaged The remainder escaped with the loss of their ten thousand negroes. titled " Oil on the Brain." their ability to concentrate the supplies neces- horses and guns. The American Eagle , having perched upon — The new ten-cent postal currency will be printed sary to sustain the people of Richmond and Acting Major John J. Shirk and Capt. R. A; THE Richmond Sentinel expects* a lively winter the battlements of Fort McAllister under the on paper made of corn husks. the army. Newberick, Acting Brigade Inspector of the campaign on the part of Sherman; but pretends immediate eye and guidance of the Commading 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, were murdered in to deem the capture of Savannah of no great — A valuable oyster bed has heen accidentally dis- General of the thus fer victorious Army of There has been considerable commotion ob- covered in San Francisco Bay. served lately along the rebel lines before Rich- the parlor of Mr. Grigsby's house, near Bards? consequence. It expects an early attack on Georgia, preparations were immediately made town, Ky., to-day by sixteen of Magruder's guer- Charleston.' — During the present year, 31,630 Union prisoners to invest the city of, Savannah. With com- mond. ' It is thought that LEE has been sending have passed into Libby Prison. rillas. : i THE Virginia Legislature has raised the pay of mendable alacrity both officers and soldiers were off re-enforcements to Lynchburg and Wil- A package of Quartermaster's vouchers^ its members to $40 A da^ and that of the Gover- — Gold is said to have been found lately in small ready to carry out the programme to the very mington. quantities near Bennington, Vt. . amounting to nearly $200; 000, approved and is- nor to $15,000 a year, ant has1 Idopf ed resolu- letter, and soon the veteran hosts environed the Information from City Point is to the effect sued by Capt. Crain at Nashville, were taken tions in favor of "abiding the destiny of the — The divorce laws in Indiana have been changed. city with a wall of the heaviest artillery and that heavy cannonading was kept up during A year's residence or no separation. Wednesday and Thursday night, the 28th and from a train captured by the rebels on the Louis- Confederacy." of bristling bayonets. The summons, on the ville and Nashville Railroad on the 22d ult. — Very rich gold mines have .been discovered in 29th ult., as well as severe skirmishing along our A STATE Convention, one of the principal ob- 16th ult., to once more acknowledge the snpre- They are in favor of parties in Cincinnati, Buf- Buenos Ayres, at the foot of the Andes. lines in the immediate front of Petersburg. Sev- jects of which is to decide upon a plan for put- macy of the Stars and Stripes having been de- falo, Chicago,Michigan City, Albany^ Boston, Phil- — Speaker Colfax has sold out his interest in the clined, with the understanding that the town eral casualties are reported. ting an end to slavery in Kentucky, by legal en- Register newspaper, at South Bend, Ind. There was considerable firing in front of Rich- adelphia and New York. Adams' Express Com- would be defended till every Confederate soldier actment, will assemble at Frankfort, in that — The Fenians now claim to have a membership of mond on Wednesday afternoon, and along the pany notifies the public not to negotiate-or had yielded up his life in the "last ditch," the receive them. State, on the 4th inst. 500,000, and funds to the amount of $1,500,000. 1 lines of the picket guard. 1 ' war dogs " were unmuzzled and made ready, to A WRITER for WUkes Spirit visited Flora Tem- — The Cleveland (Ohio) papers announce important be let loose as soon as the children, feminines About the usual amount of picket firing still From the South-west. ple lately at Philadelphia, and reports her some- discoveries of rock oil in the vicinity of that city. and decrepit old men could be removed beyond continues along the lines in front of the Army ADVICES from New Orleans of the 22dult., what gray, but looking as bright and spirited as — The improvement in manufacturing property in the confines of impending danger. of the Potomac. say that the late expedition of Gen, Granger had a three-year-old colt. The queen of. the turf is Rhode Island the last year amounts to $6,000,000. But what was General SHERMAN'S surprise on General CUSTAR'S division has been making a landed at Pascagoula, and pushed rapidly on now about twenty years old. - The Canadians want a new railway from Fort the morning of the 21st, to learn that General reconnoissance in the Shenandoah 'Valley near towards Mobile. THE"Sisters of Charity at Detroit lately buried Erie, opposite Buffalo, to Windsor, opposite Detroit. HABDEE and his 13,000 warriors had bid the Harrisonburg. A brief skirmish occurred near Franklin's $700 in specie in the cellar, for fear of a raid — The wives of two well known citizens of Cia- city of Savannah "good night," and with the Some cavalry attempted to surprise CUSTAR'S reek, on the, 15th ult. , from Canada, getting the assistance of a man to cinnati have been arrested in that city for shoplifting. stealthy tread of midnight marauders and the camp, dashing in, disguised in Federal uniforms, Many peopie rejoiced at the sight of our forces. do the job. When they wjent.for the money, a — Admiral Porter's share of the prize-money that sneaking cowardice of whipped curs, -slunk which, for a time, produced much confusion, The3 navy rendered valuable assistance to the few days after, it wasn't there. has fallen to his fleet for the last two months is $200,- and prevented our men from distinguishing 000. away, under cqyer of the darkness, to a place troops in landing. Two iron-clad gunboats have ALEXANDER T. Stewart, the dry goods nabob ; friend from foe. They captured 50 of the first — A Greek girl, who was once sold as a slave, it' far removed from th§ vicinity of the "hated gone up the Pascagoula river thirty miles, and of New York, has the largest income of any man New Hampshire cavalry, but the rebels were now the wife of M. Bennedetti, French Minister at Yankees!" iverything progresses favorably. in America, or (probably) the world. He has soon overpowered, and the men re-captured. Berlin. The, vaJ$rwealthy man at Oil City, Pa., was center of a thousand miles of railway. The city the balance of Duke's command, who had been There are about seven thousand troops at that "the right of secession" ended in 1861, lies at the mouth of a riven which is navigable in Kentucky waiting to attack the infantry. Mobile, all militia except Baker's brigade of found dead in the street, last Tuesday, with hia throat and that" State Rights " is an abominable heresy. cut and his pockets rifled. up to Augusta for steamers o£ iso tuns, and jfor Gen. Stoneman attacked the enemy at Marion Alabamians, numbering five hundred or six hun- Jefferson Davis's machine 'is like a patent rat- vessels of smaller size nearly 20a mUgg further. and drove them over the mountains. His com- dred men, and the 15th Confederate cavalry, of — Joseph M&U11, one of the editors of the Chicago trap, with a door only opening inwards. Tribune, has just purchased a block of marble front In a military point of view, 8kESBIAN ^ mand then attacked the salt works, which were Forrest's command. There are but two iron- controls the two States which lie on °,ither'side defended by about 700 men, who were either clads, and neither of these of much use, owing SOME rascally tobacconists of Philadephia buildings in Chicago for $65,000. of this river, and is able to send a force to capture captured or dispersed. to the lack of propelling power. It is the firm make a practice of mixing large quantities, of — Jt is estimated that $20,000 in counterfeit postal Augusta, and from that new base to hold « _ belief of our informant that the defences of the* sumac, which costs three cents a pound, with currency changes hands in Cincinnati, daily, iew know- r ae The loss by this raid to the rebels is immense. ing whether it is good or spurious. stroy the vast railway system which theace All the railroad bridges from New River to the city can be taken without much fighting by a their tobacco, and sell it thus adulterated as ihe — W. L. Lovelace, of Montgomery, was elected stretches north and south. Augusta is theket Tennessee' line are destroyed. Thirteen rail- land force; but he thinks gunboats would expe- genuine article. Smokers using this compound rience great difficulty from torpedoes. They soon find themselves suffering from cancer and Speaker of the Missouri Legislature, last week, and to both Georgia and South Carolina. road trains; with locomotives, and several extra Mr. Dyer, Chief Clerk. Both are Kadicals. ' Established, as he is, at Savannah, SHERIIAN |.d cars without engines, were taken and can, however, get within shelling distance of the ulceration qf the throaty mouth and toungue. has a choice Of campaigns either north or south. city. — Nicholas Thomas, of Eden, Me., now 85 years of y EDMUND €. STEDMAN, poet and journalist, has age, is the last surviving member of the convention Whichever be the future purpose of Lieut. - The steamer North American, which left New come to be a broker in petroleum oil stocks All tke depots of supply in Southwest Virginia, which formed the constitution of the State. General GRANT, it is enough to know at the Orleans on the 16th ult with 203 sick soldiers, and Secretary of the petroleum stock board in factories, storehouses and wagons, and ambu- — The London Times tells Queen Victoria that all present time that the occupation of Savannah twelve cabin passengers and a crew of forty-four New York. There are few poets in the the coun- lances and tnmpike bridges were destroyed. honor having been paid to the memory of Prince Al- makes either feasible, and that its central posi- menj foundered at sea on the 22d. The bark try who would "not gladly exchange places with In addition vr captured 2,500 rounds of artil- bert, it is time she should think of her subjects, tion and its communication by river with the e Mary E. Libby rescued sixty-two persons from him. It is, in most cases, betterto " strike ile," lely ammunition, 3,000 pack saddles and a larg< — Never, within the memory of the " oldest inhabi- interior gives to Gen. SHERMAN a mastery of the the sinking vessel. The 197. remaining were lost. than to burn it in the midnight lamp of the amount of harness and a great quantity of small tant," says the Chicago Post, has winter commenced situation of the Gulf States. The He;aUFs New Orleans correspondent says: muse; arms, 2,000 horses and 1,000 mules. Among the in the Northwest so early as in the present year. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

; MAXIMS OF WASHINGTON. TOEONTO, Pec. 29-—Flour, $4,10@4,6Q. Eall wheat, 85 ENT FOR 25 CTS.-The whole Art. of Ventrilo- _MOST LAUGHABLE THING ON &91c: spring d6.78@82c. Barley, 55@65c. Oats, 88@40c. s' quiam. Address JULIUS RISING, Southwick, Mass. !ARTH."-^A Game that can be played by any xwv'Cf 60Ci Jb*6ft&. IMWWU. Hay,$ft@16,50Htun. Straw, $9 number of persons; is susceptible of 50,000 Changes, PINE @12. Butter, l4®17c. EL..,..jgs,.14®l'6c^ . Hams__.. .., .8@10c _ . Ba- OOD-SAWING MACHINES. Endless Transformations of Wit and Humor, and invaria- EVBBT action in company ought to be with con, 7K@8Kc. Cheese, 10K@llc. Lard, 10c. Green hides bly, produces Roars of Laughter. Just the thing for CZBSR. $3@S,25 |i 100tts; dry do, 6@8c. Tallow, 5c. Wool, 86c. l WOULD call the attention of the Farmers to my new Soldiers in Camp and Hospital: for Old Folks and Young some sign of" respect to those preset^. Green calfskins, 10@12c; dry, 16®18c. Green sheepskins; Drag Saw, which, by a simple contrivance, {patented Folks at Home: for Evening Parties and Dull Days.' A "Speak not when others speak, Sit not when $1@1,25 each: dry,16@18c *ft. Lambskins , 87c@$l each. April 21, 1863,) draws,up the log without stopping, en- Sure Cure for Home Sickness, Ennui and the Blues. Potatoes, 85@45c. Apples, $1@2 $ bbl. TurMes, 50 cts. abling the operator to do a greater amount of work, and A HEARTY LAUGH is a luxury, and often is a first- 3 »R. TALBOT'S CONCENTRATED others stand, and walk not when others stop. each. Geese, 43®90c each. Chickens, 25@85c each.— with less labor, than by the ordinary machine. I also rate medicine.. We indulged in such a laugh the other Ducks, 30c—Globe. build small Light Power, suitable for sawing wood, cut- evening, while the young folks were amusing themselves Be no flatterer; neither play with any one that ting feed, &c.,APPLE CIDER delights not to be played with. Genesee, $2,75. Corn, Western mixed, $1,88 for old. Oats Medina Iron Works, Earth." It ia not a humbug>-.4»*«r!ccm Agriculturist Wherein you reprove another, be unblameable $1. Other grains nominal. [781-2teow] Medina, Orleans Co., N. Y. IS A PREXTIYE OF SICKNESS. Sent, post-paid, fo'r *aS'' cts. Address AMSDEN & Co:, yourself; for example is more prevailing than TNGIiKSOLL'S IMPROVED Box 4a6, BOSTON, MASS, [581-lt precept. CATTLE MARKETS. t^.^fl2fQeittot_iDr- Talbot has had.for the last BRIGHTON, Dec. 28.—Beeves, $7,50@13,75. Oxen, sales HORSE AND HAND POWER A PICTORIAL DOUBLE NUMBER. twenty-five years convtnees him that it ia'time the pub- Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of at $116@218 $' pair. Sales two-years-old at $27 f head.— another, though he were your enemy. Store cows, $28@38. Milch cows, $50®75. Sheep, 6@8<£c HAY AND Q0TT0N PEESSES. 1HE PHREKTOLIGICAL JOTONAI, AND LITE Il/LTTSTRA- IP D>. Swine, 14>g@15c. These machines have been tested in the most thorough TED, for January, appears with 32 quarto pages, and a In writing or speaking, give to every person manner throughout this and foreign countries to the beautiiul illustrated Cover. It contains Portraits of Ten- AND NEW TOEK, Dec. 27.—Beef Cattle range, from $10@25 number of over 2200. nyson, Silliman, Sheridan, Cobb, Phillips, Susanna Wesley r Jt his due title, according to his degree, and the $ 100 Bs.—First class bullocks sell ait $17®19; fair quality --mother of John—an Indian Chief, Franz MUller, Miss $ P Is entirely new to the THE HORSE POWBR is worked by either wheel or cap- public. One qquar t bottltle wilwill laslast aa llpes esoon a yearye . $14@16. Veal Calves, 12@13c. Sheep, 8@llc. Swine, corn- stan, and in many respect possesses unequaled advantages. Muggins, Miss- Fury, the Princess of Wales, Florence Tlus^is rather a new mode of dt custom of the place. fed, 14J^@14^c; stilWed, 13®18K We invite those wanting such machines to write for a cata- Nightingale, A Group of Warriors — Hannibal, Julius Ts^is rather a new mode of doctdoctoring;o ; •nevertheless, Strive not with your superiors in argument, logue containing full information with cuts, prices, &c, Ceesar, Pizarro, Cromwell, Charles' XII, Frederick the TORONTO, Dec. 29.—Beef, $2,50@4,50 $ 100 tts.Calves , or call and«xamine personally. Great, Scott, Wellington and Napoleon^with Ethnology, SAVE MILLIONS but always submit your judgment to others wjth $3,50. Sheep, $8@8,50. Lambs, $2,25®2,50. Fork, $5,50® Presses made, when so ordered, especially for packing Phrenology, Physiognomy, Physiology and Psycology. frombeing sick.1* Is it .not better to pay three dollars a 6(25•"* 100 tts.—Globe, hard and heavy bales for shipping. ' No. 1, Vol. 41st. Published at 20 cents a number, or JB2,00 year to keep from betag sick than to pay teiuw twenty modesty. . Orders promptly attendedto by addr essins a year,'by . aawMessrs. FOWLER & WELLS, dollars in doctor's bills, and as much more for tSe loss of Undertake not to teach your equal in the art INGERSOLL & DOUGHERTY, 889 Broadway, New York. time andinconvenience of being sick? ; WOOIi MARKETS. [781-12tlam] Greenpoint* Kings Co., L. I. To prevent sickness, use as follows: he himself professes; it savors of arrogaricy. Add one teaspoonful of Medicated Pineapple Cider to a NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The Tribune says:—" The mar'- REJEN'S PATENT ROOFING a tumble* of cold water, and driak theflratthinff- afte r In advising or reprimanding any one; consider ketfpr,both Foreign and Domestic Fleeces has been; ex- VJT consists of a stout Canvass, impregnated with a per- you rise in the morning, and the same before you retire tremely quiet since our last, but prices are 'without fectly water-proof and incorruptible compound covered at night. whether it ought to be in public or private, pres- essential change; at the close, however, there is a firmer on both sides with.a stout fabric made, water-proof by a It will increase the strength, and give feeling, and the tendency is upward. The following are solution of INDIA RUBBER, and hardened by a coating entry or at some other time, also in what terms the comparative prices Jan. 1st, 1864 and 1866: Of PATENT METALLIC FAINT; '• - " •JJJ-A.SO3NT Sc H A. M I, I 2W » S VIGOR AND ACTION to do it; and in reproving, show no sighs of , . 1864. 1865I.t is thoroughly WATERPROOF.,-- tothesystem. : '' '' American Native, and % Merino..v.. .'.68@?70 • [email protected] It rolls up and unrolls like a/piece of'oil cloth." A celebrated New York Merchant, who/has made a eholer, but do it with sweetness and mildness. American, % and % Merino ;..>...75@78 . 95®1.05 It makes the best and most durable READY ROOFING thorough trial of the Pineapple Cider, assures Dr. Talbot Am. full-blood and Saxony fleeces 75@85 " [email protected] ever introduced. CABINET? ORGANS, that he has gained ten pounds offlesh i n one motith, at In your apparel/be modest, and endeavor to Pulled No; 1 ....62@66 ••; 7000.80 It is designed for DWELLING HOUSES, BARNS, For Families, Churches and Schools, the first trial. He continues its use, as .above directed, .accommodate nature more than procure admira- Do. Superfine 70@80 90®1.00 SHEDS, STEAMBOATS and RAILWAY CARS- andfinds it very beneficial; says it has proved an entire Do. Extra. .;...'.72@77 ODaiiOO It can be laid down by any sensible working man. tion. Keep to the fashion of your equals such as California 25@55 25® 65 It JsOHEAPER than any known ROOFING or EQUAL ADAPTED T6 PREVENTIVE TO,;SICKNESS .., South American common washed... .'.25@80 50®' '60 DURABILITY. 781-4t minis case. Also, another well known gentleman in New are civil and orderly, with respect to time,and; Cape Good Hope 88@45 50® 60 HENRY SMITH No. 129 Pearl St., New York. SAOEED AND SE0ULAE; 0HUE0B York has" used tae Medicated Cider constantly fot ten plaee. Smyrna 25@46 25® 70 years, and has not been sick one day during that ti BOSTON, Dec; 30.—The sales of the week embrace TW,- REAT CHANCE TO MAKE MON AND Associate yourself with men of good quality, if 000 tts. domestic fleece and pulled at 96c@$l,10 according a and receive a watch FREE, by selling our great THIS WONDERFUL JEEPAEATION to quality.. Canada wool has been, in improved demand, , NOVELTY AND NATIONAL PRIZE PACKETS, HOME ZWXX79XO. Will increase the str ye Vigor aandd actactioon to th hee you esteem your own reputation; for it is better with sales of choice combing at $1,25; pulled, $i,12@l,18. Just issued for the Hpliday Trade. Each package con. systesystem,, and regulatregulate digestion.When." When taketk n internallyitll , to be alone than in bad company. tains over a Dollar's worth of valuable Stationery and PRICES: $110, $130, $140, $160, and upward, fof r paini s of al ll kinds—Bilioukid s CliColiCj_©iarrhea© i (Diseases Jewelry — besides, one certificate in the great sale of of the Throat, Pains In the Chest, .Hoarseness1 , Coughs, . Utter not base and frivolous things among: .according to number of stops anc|. style of Neuralgia, Rheumatic Pains, Dyspepsia, Acidity oithe $650,000 of Watches, Diamonds and' jewelry. Retail Stomach, etc., etc., its soothing and.QHieang effect on the grown and learned men, nor very difficult ques- price, only 80 cents. Thousands can be sold in every vil- lage and camp. case; system is most astonishing. , ' tions or subjects among the ignorant, or hard1 Dr. Wilcox, an eminent jjhysici&n, employed it witB We want an Agentin every town, thus making a profit- great success in treating Fevers, Dyspepsia, Nervous things to be believed. .*„ ' AT the residence of J. S. GRBNELL, Esq.; Rose, Mich-, able business for one smart man in each place. E^F* They are elegant as pieces of Fur- Affections, i.oss of Appetite, Weakness, Palpitation of by Prof; S. A. TAFT, SAMUEL W. SMITH, of Albion, N. SPLENDID GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES niture, occupy little space, are not lia- the Heart, Chronic Diarrhea, Colic Dysentery, and Dis- Be not forward, but friendly and^courteous, the Y., and EMILY M GRENELL, of Rose, Mich. given to our Agents. $17 will obtain 100 Packets and a eases of the Stomacti-and Bowels-.' It is also particularly fln,e Silver Watch*. $10 invested in the splendid Steel ble to get out of order, and every one recommended by physicians to delicate females, and as first to salute^ hear and answer; and benpt.pen-i • AT the Dickson House, Corning, the evening of the 27th Engravings which we publish, will yield the enormous is warranted for five years. an excellent remedy for Enfeebled Digestion, Want of ult., by Rev. L. W. QLNBY of Groton, Mr. WE R. FITCH profit of $50. Send stamp for Circular. Sample Packet Appetite, Scrofula, Nephritic Affections, Rheumatism, «rve when it is time to converse. and Miss ELIZABETH ACOMB.both of Castile, N. Y. Illustrated Catalogues, with full particulars, FRBE etc., etc. It never fails to relie.ve Nervous Tremor, Wake- and Certificate sent on receipt of 50 Cents. fulness, Disturbed Sleep, etc. American Ladies have Gaze not on the marks^and blemishes of others AT the Clinton Hotel, in Rochester, Dec. 21st, by Rev. G. S. HASKTNS & CO.,- . • to any address. Warerooms, No. 7 Mercer street, New used this article with great success to heighten their JAS.E. LATIMER, Mr. OLIVER BURROUGHS^of Seneca [781-2t] No. 86 Beekman street, New-York. York, and No. 274 Washington street, Boston. color and bpauty. , - and ask not how they came. What you may Falls, N. Y.. and Miss ELIZABETH M. LARZELERE, of speak in secret to your friend, deliver not'before the same place.' , - v , GIBBONS & STONE, Sole Agents for Rochester It imparts cheerfulness to the disposition, aha bril- ^ NOTICE! and Monroe county, No. 33 South St. Paul street, Rocir liancy to the complexion. others. . '-. . IN Ogden, on the 28th ult.j at the residedie of the bride's To travelers, especially, it is of inestimable value, and father, by Rev. C. S. BAKER, Mr. CHAS. W. NELSON, ofi To Farmers Wives and Daughters. ester, N. Y. ' 779tT fitUWb" TVtte*»»«ieti Think before you speak; pronounce not im- Sweden, and Miss ABBIE ; F. DEWE Y, of the former which the water is like to vary in quality and tendency.* Persons residing in any. part 6f the countrjfmay adopt perfectly, npf bring out yjpr words too'hastilyy THE PASSES SEWING MACHINE, it witi the utmoffc tp Liberty street, New York. Our vats are the best and cheapest in the market. Our T OTHERWISE.—The Subscriber has, seven blocks of much less than the actual cost. long experience in building, enables us to make a perfect Trees, mostly Apples, 5 to 8 feet high* that must be sold Address JAMES VICK, S.gOVERNMENT .„„ „..„,«*„ .^« article. We also make, to De use1 d with steam, our No. 14 BOYS AND GIRLS. this springspg.. Here, is, an opportunity, to met trees at very Rochester, N. Y; U• DEPOTS—Where, the Government furnishes the' Vat, 550 gallons, with Maples' Patent Water Tank and low pricesprices . Address A. FAHNESTOCEO, , Agent,V United States Army and Navy Leg to sold- distribution, This has been tested and is deemed abso- Should all subscribe for the 1Jew Illustrated Magazine, 781-2teo. ToledoToledo ,O Ohioh . " iei-s gratis, cr^its Valtte applied on the Ana- lutely necessary to get an equal and. even scalding of, the TMPORTANT TO HORSE RAKE tomical Ball and Socket Jointed Leg, which • curd"by steam. We append Mr. Williams' certificate: ARM FOR SAIiE.-One of the best Wheat and has lateral ni6tion at the ankle, like the natu- ' R6ME.N. Y., March S4.1864.. Sheep Farms in Washtenaw Co., Mich., containing ral one. New York, 658 Broadway; Roches- ' D. W. MAPLES, Esq.—Dea/n Sir :• Yours of the Slat inst. F 1 ter, N. Y., over the post-office; Cincinnati, 214 acres and lying on the direct road from Ann Arborto The subscribersjyielding to the solicitations of many Ohio,in Mechanics Institute; St. Louis,Mo., is received. We commenced making Cheese in the Vat Ourlbung Folks YpsilantVand K 'mile out.of the corporation of Ann Ar- Manufacturers o.f Horsa Rakesjiave at length completed TS Pine street jChieago, 111., opposite the post- you rembddleS for us on Tuesday, and find it a decided bor. I? rolling oak land, witth good buildings, fruit, arrangements for furnishing Rake Teeth of any shape office. DOUGLAS BLY, M. D., U; S. Commissioner. improvement on our old method of applying steam. The wood, water, &c. For particulars address desired,,bent and; tempered to any pattern. difficulty 'arising from the direct application of steam, 781-4t F. A. SPALDING, Ann Arbor, Mich. Citizens furnished on, private account. . either witb/Or without water under it, involves the neces- MAYNB EEID, MRS. STO.WB, TROWBRIDGE, GAJL We have no hesitation in assuring Rake Manufacturers For instructions, address Dr. BLY, at nearest Depot. sity of violent agitation of the curd to equalize the tem- TOH, LUCY LARCOM, EDinnrD KIRKB, OUTER OPTIC, that they can now rely upon-procmring from us good reli- perature, thereby' causing a considerable Joss of butter, HOSE SENDING ARTICLES OF COM- able Teeth, of very superior temper , and in anJy Hauan- and fine particles of curd, which are by your method 01 DIO LEWIS, GRACE GBEENWOOD, " CARLETON," " ATTNT T FORT TO SOLDIERS, can in no way contribute so tity, on short no-Side. ••• ' . . heating saved. ' : much to Health and Comfort, and at trifling expense, as We furnish, in addition to the ordinary sizes of Round FANNY," and many other popular writers for the by sending a box of FRANK MIMJIR'S LBATHBB PRB- Teeth, Sprout's Patent Shape Teeth, for which we have *5 A, MONTH! Respectfully Yours, JESSE.WILLIAMS. young, will write for it. SERVATIVB ANI> WATSR-PBOQF Oil- BLACKING. For the exclusive right of manufacture. ANTED.— SEWING MAOHIKB A^BICTS! Every- fly Send for circulars. Letters of inquiry promptly sale at Shoe and other stores generally through the where, to introduce the new Shaw & Clark Sixteen answered. H. & E. F. COOPER, Below we annex present List of Sizes: WDollar Family Sewing Machine; the only low price Dec. 15,1864. [7<9-6t] Watertown, N. Y. ^~ IT IS FULL OF NIC$ PICTURES'. \ country. 7§l-6t > machine in the country which is licensed by Grover & Baker, Wheeler & Wilson, Howe, Singer & Co., and The price is only. $3.00 a year, and much less to OOD-SAWING MACHINES.-The' under-1 Bachelder. Salary and expenses, or large commission '•Clubs. Any boy or girl can form a club. The first W signed can furnish about 100 more of his Wood- Sprout's Patent'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'....^o. 1 allowed. All other Machines now sold forless than forty Sawing Machines than are now contracted. One man . " •' ,.No.2 dollars each are infringements, and.the seller and user and team, with boy to drive, will average about two cords " " ....:'• ..No.3 liable. Illustrated circulars sent/re«. Address.SHAW Address TICKNOR & FIELDS, BOSTON, of blocks per hour, Pri^e' for Mtigle machines, all com- Extra price for aH Teeth over 5 feet in length, also when & CLARK, Biddeford, Maine. 776-12t plete, delivered on the cars at Dunkirk, $75. Send for a a coil or spring is made on the tooth. |3g~ Send for a circular. Circular. • HENRY C. LAKE, NOB. 1,2 and 8, Sprout's Patent, cdrrespond for strength ANTED, 'AGENTS-In every county, at $70 a Charlotte Center, Chaut.Co., N. Y. with the same Nos. of Round, and are much lighter and W month, expenses paid, to introduce IS new and use- -•*- more elastic. ' • • " • —. ' ful articles, the best selling ever offered. For particulars, NOTICE. IRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE.-The sub- Our Teeth are all tested,b.efore. leaving the shop, and address OTis T. GAREY, Biddeford, Me. ' [778-lSt F,, scribej? offers his Fftrtirtfor sale, containing 100 Acres warrante.d.t.0 be a perfect spring temper. of land 3 miles Northeast of the village of Albion, Orleans - Parties ordering Teeth 'should be careful to send nat- Co^ N. Y., onthe Rid^BRoadJSaid farm is well watered y TVIN'S PATENT HAIR CRIMPERS. "THE co-partnership heretofore existing under the and fenced; ias 12 Aferes ofj^Wood, and is abundantly tern. - Reynold's Arcade, Rochester, N. IT. We also' furnish Rake Steel to order, cut to lengths, at 1 *fctyle and name of Drs. BABOOCK & TOBIN is dissolved, stocked wHfcJhe best ofFrult of all the different varie- LADIES, TRY THEM. Entranc|3F Oldese ovet rCommercial the Post Offic College ande ifron thme ExchangeCountry, EstabPlace-. tieacultivartBS in this climate? Inquire of the subscriber lowest market rates. lished in JL842; and on and. after January 1st, 1865, Will be under the on the premises. .* . D. E. TYLER ^"TERMS CASH. Respectfully. They will make your hair wave beautiful without Practical'Instruction in Book Keeping and Business, ; HUSSEY, WELLS & Co Manufacturers of Best Re- name of Drs. BABCOCK & SON. [781-St]--- , ,.;: P. O. Address, Albion, N. Y. y heating it. For sale at variety stores throughout the originated in this Institution, and is more perfectly car- fined and all descriptions of Cast Steel. country. Retailers will be supplied by any first class ried out than in any other. The PRACTICAL DEPART- Pittsburg; Pa., Nov. 1,1864. • [781-13t] Jobber of Notions in New York, Philadelphia or Bos- MENT 19 under the supervision and instruction of the OAAHEAD OF BLOODED STOCK FOR ton. * OwV-SALiE CHEAP —Comprising Devonshire, Dur- Principal himself. ham, (SHOJfthom,) and Alderney—Bulls, Cows, Heifers rjEO- DEMERIT 3s GO. PE^rMAirsfln? by Prof. Rundell, one of theimost success- and Calves jCotswold. Leicester, Merino and South Down RAIN TIIiEv MACHINE, BEST IN USE, ful Teachers in the country. TaLE&RApgsTG—Morse's THE FOLLOWING: SPLENDID LIST OF manufactured by A. LA TOtTRRETTE, Instruments are used—Mr. Barton, Chief Operator in the Sheep; capfered by SHERIDAN in Virginia. A fine chanc e; D for farmers tp obtain very choice stock at l i WATCHES, CHAINS^GOLD PENS, AND PENCILS, 788-tf Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y. OfflcecfftheWesternUnioh.Line,teacher. ' Ladies' Department adjoining main Business Hall, Rural New-Yorker Office, A Scholarship good for an unlimited time. ( To be spl4 at One Dollar each, without regard to JJEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. For further information, please call at the rooms, or ROCHESTER, January 2,1865. value, and not to be paid until you know what you will send for College Paper.s Address ^jxjng generally observed aa.taeflisfcHoliiiay of receive. , : : ,j -< WHEELER & WILSON -. ;;..-. . Opal, &$•, Ear Drops 3 00 to stalks $S@12. Straw,$12@l5. Butter abundant at 43®45c 5000 Gents' Breast and Scarf Piri£ ' 8 06 to 8.00 5R ».. Eggs, 85c. Cheese, 20@22o. Lard, 22@2Sc Bat lit- 6000 Oval Band Bracelets. .' [;; 3",oo to 8*60 a. WESTINGHOU8B '&CO. , tle demand for Clover seed, and dealers refuse to pay 2000 Chased Bracelets 5 00 to 10.00 ? 3500 California Diamond Pins and Rings "" 250 to 8.00 over $14@15 for it. Timothy seed is nominal at $4 50@5 2000 Gold Watch Keys ^'" STKK 6.00 IMPBOTDED CROSS-CUT SAWING MACHINE. Beef sells at $8@10 f) 100tts. i n carcass. Sheep 7@8c *Pork 5000 Solitaire Bleeve Buttons and Studs. " 2 00 to 8.00 SOOOCkold Thimbles ...T^ 400 to6,00- •$15@16,50 « 100tts. Tarkies , 18@i9c in Jhe street Chick AKTHUE'S HOME MAGAZINE i 5000 Miniature Lockets ; "' 2'oOto T.00 mrH^nWwpTSfe?™ ? ' "* character as a 4000 Stone Set Rings.f. <...!. * '^•2.00 to° 6.00 HIGH-TONED PERIODICAL, claiming public favor on- 6500 Sets Ladies' Jewelry—Jet and Gold 5.00 tp 15.00 the ground of real merit, Will be carefully maintained^ 6000 Set? Ladies' Jewelry—varied styles 3.00 to 15.00 while for variety, interest, .usefulness, and all the at 8000 Gold Pens, Silver Case and Pencil. .. THE PROVISION MARKETS. factions of literature and art essential to-8 true HOM .4000 Pens, Gold Case and Pencil 4.05000 ttoo 8.0m 0no ^' -?.eo' .^Ashes, |12®13. Flour, $9, 6080GoldPenstGold-mounted Holder. 200to 6 00 'Cil' ^27l¥eat $232@3 .Allthegoodsinthe above list will be sold, without re- servation, For One Dollar Each. Certificates of all the various, articles are placed in similar envelopes and sealed. These envelopes will be sent by mail or delivered ^,.,., „ — JoS. Tobacco at our office, without regard to choice. On receiving a. mess pork, *42,25®42,50; pL. ss?$^l®40^ Plain Certificate you will see what article it represents, and it mess beef, |20@22; 'extra, $21 Dressed hogs, $16 5^ the iand? familyK is optional with you to send one dollar and receive the 17,25 V 100 Bs. Clover seed,: 27c. Timothy Seed, $5,75 articlIn en named, or any other in the list of the same value @6. Rough flax, $8,5Q@3,70. allow, W>i®ffic; Cotton, ' entltled "NOT ANY- J > transactions by mail, we charge for forwarding $1,20 for middlings. number. commenced in the January YEARLY TEEMS, IN ADVA- BUFFALO, Jan; 2.—Flour, $t m&UAJJ Vr AY, New-York THE attention of wood sawyers isBnvitedto the above ropes, chains, ;or belts. 8d. The log-roller is adjustable Oil meal $60 f tun. Oat me»l, i^ son who sends us a club of sti machine. It is intended for doing/the heaviest business to suit the size of log; and, 4th. The saw may be bal- ries, $15. Dried Apples, 18@14c mailed to each single subscriber fn " may be driven by either Endless ChaSn or Lever anced so as to cut light or heavy, according to size of log. $2.50. AYING BUSINESS-AGENTS .se Powers. Improvements in it p.yer the machines in Send for a Circular containing description of above P In every Township, by the Am common use. consist of—1st. The saw always moves in a; machine; also of our Patent Endless Chain and Lever Co., to sell their popular books, incl to? direct line with the center of the crankrwheel, which en- Horse-Powers, Threshes and Cleaners, Clover Machines, Address . T.B.ABStHUR & CO HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. $5 to! ables it to be driven rapidly without bonnding. 2d. The Circular Sawing Machines, Broom Corn Scrapers, &c. of all expenses. Write to apparatus for rolling the log forward is operated by a Address 6G. WE&TIHGHOUSE & Co., S2S Walnut Sfoeet, Philadelphia. [780-2tJ E. G. 6TORKE, Auburn, N. Y. screw on the crank-wheel shaft, avoiding the use of 781-2teo Schenectady, N. Y. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

A PSALM FOR NEW YEAE'S EVE. the fort had surrendered to the Confederat "ANNA and HELEN," he added, as the girls join hands as brothers and friends once more! States; that the garrison had been given liberty came in, " cheer mother up and bid her look on , We have fought eacjh other as honorable foemen A friena stands 'at the door: to withdraw to' the fleet, carrying with them all the bright side of the future, for I start to-mor- to the death; let us now depart in peace, recon- In either $ght closed hand their private property, and the officers their side row with our regiment for the front." ciled to each other and to GOD !" The last ex- Holding rich gifte, three>hundred and three score, arms; and that all the property of the Unite "To the front! Oh, JAMES, do not say so!" piring effort of each'was made to clasp the othef Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land, States was to be left uninjured to the conquerers. they both exclaimed in a breath; "how can you in a friendly embrace, and their spirits, we trust, '!i Even as seed the sower. With long, loud, repeated shouts, and mutual went hand in hand before the Eternal Throne! Each dropsie, treads it in, and passes by: be spared from home, and who shall we look to It canndt be made fruitful till it die. congratulations, the crowd dispersed to await for help and comfort when you are gone ?" A detailed party of rough soldiers from the the next rising of the curtain on the bloody " Look to Goi>! Come, come! this won't do, rebel fort went out next morning to remove the O good New Year, we clasp tragedy now begun. And yet, amid that seeming girls; you have always been the advisers in wounded and to bury the dead. The officers of PUBLISHER'S NOTICES This warm, shut hand of thine, unanimity of sentiment,-and apparent confidenc spiriteual things, and pointed out to me the patii the colored regiment were selected out, and, as LqoBing, forever, with half sigh, half gasp, of ultimate and easy success, there were some Show Bills, Premium Lists, dec, sent free (with That •which from ours fallB Iike^ead fingers 'twine of hope and trust; it won't do to turn the tables it was deemed a mark of special indignity, specimen numbers) to all disposed to act as Agents for Ay, whether fierce its grasp . foreboding and heavy hearts, and fearful look- now. I came in quite brave and determined; buried with the negro privates in s, common and the RURAL, p?" See list of Premiums unde^ heading of Hath been, or gentle, having been, we know ings forward to the coming tempest. Men wh< you and mother try hard to render me, I fear, promiscuous grave; but, when they came to the " Good Pay for Doing Good" in our issue of Dec. 17. That* it was blessed: let the Old "Year go. had all their Jives revered and honored the grand what you would all eternally despise, an arrant two young soldiers, locked in a last embrace with The Bsral as a Present.—Any subscriber wishing- old flag, felt a secret and bitter pang to see it cdward." •• .. their hands fast clasped upon the sacred charter to send the BUBAL to a friend or relative, as a present, O New, Year, teach us faith t trailing in the dust. GOD forgive the accursed will be charged only $2.50. It is also furnished to Clergy- The road of life is hard: So the family conversed, gradually overcoming of their faith, the coarse, hard jest died out upon men, Teachers and Soldiers at the same rate. ( hands that have done the deed, and save our their lips, and with hands tender as a woman's, When our feet Weed, and scourging winds us scathe their doubts and scruples in the light of Hie young The Postage on the BTTRAI, NBW-YOKKBE is only 5- Point thou to Him whose visage was more marr'd country from the consequences of an act like man's enthusiasm and sense of duty, until at they bore them, still united, on a stretcher to the cents per quarter to any part of fhls State, (except this Than.any man's; who saith, this! was the inward invocation of many a man last, although not Without fears and forbodings, rear,, and buried them together with military county, where it goes free,) and the same to any other "Make straight paths for your feet," and to the whose outward seeming was that of ready acqui- they gave him an affectionate and hopeful fare- honors. i Loyal State, if paid quarterly in advance where received. opprest, escence. They deemed it madness to struggle well. A, pocket Bible, a photographic group eff Kind reader, this sketch is not designed to; Remit by Draft.—Whenever drafts can be obtained Club Agents are requested 'to remit them in preference to " Come ye to Me, and I will give you rest." against a rushing torrent, even though they saw the mother and sisters, and locks of hair inter- soften down one dark 6hade in this rebellion the plunge was into an unfathomable abyss. Currency 6t P; 6. Money -Orders. As we pay cost of ex- Yet, hang some lamp-like fiope twined, as were their heartbstrings, with a long doubly cursed, nor to render one blow the lighter change, and allow them to he sent at our risk, it is the Above this unknown way, And how was the bombardment of Fort Sum and tearful parting embrace,, were in his case, as or less quickly dealt for its suppression'; but it; safest and the cheapest to remit by draft. Band, year,, to give our spirits freer scope, in that of countless others of his young country- 1 ter accepted at the North ? Up to this moment is for us to keep in mind the fact, that those we Direct to Rochester, N. Y.—Persons having occa- And our bands strength to work while it is day: a [slumbering apathy had marked their course men, the cherished remembrancers and memen- strive to conquer are still children with our- sion to address the BUBAL NBW-YORKEE will please But if that Way must slope ever since the official canvass of the Presidential tos he bore away. Who in a lifetime will for- selves of one common blood and heritage, and direct to Bochester, N. Y., and not as many do, to IjTew Tombwafd,"O bring before our fading eyes get the cowardly assaults and direful march York, Albany; Buffalo, &c. Money letters intended'for election had been declared. Men could not be to warn us all not to carry our embittered mood" us are almost daily mailed to the above places. The Lamp of life—the Hope that never dies. through Baltimore that immediately ensued; ' brought to believe that secession was a foregone beyond the hour when our final triumph shall To be Promptly Mailed.—As intimated some - Comfort ourfiouls with love— conclusion at the South, or that the threats of when Massachusetts soldiers, engaged in a patri- have come. Let us fight and pray that the na- ! on weeks ago, the numbers of the BUBAL for 1865 will be ' Love of all human kind; toen, in Congress and put of Congress, were any- otic duty, the anniversary of that very day on tional integrity may be restored, and then, the more promptly issued and mailed than were those of Love special, closer-in which, like sheltered dove, thing more than the idle vaporings of disappoint- which their ancestors at Lexington consecrated bloody issues being buried evermore, let us live- last year. We have so re-organized'our printing and Each weary heart its own safe nest may find; with their blood the first battle-field of the Revo-! mailing forces that we are confident of obviating any And love that turns above ed politicians. The new administration, fore a united nation to the end of time,! further complaint. seeing the storm but as yet far from compre lution, were assailed and murdered while march- Adoringly—contented to resign Additions to Clnbs are always in order, whether in All loves, if need be, for the Love Divine. hending its terrible magnitude and fury, were ing peacably along the streets ? Thanks to that ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties, or any other number. paralized in every effort for preparation by the brave regiment, and a few others like it from BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT.—The command- Subscriptions can commence with the volume or any Friend, come thou like a friend; indifference of the people. It found the army, sister States, early in the field, the Capital was ant of Libby Prison issued a stringent order number; but the former is the best, time, and we shall And, whether bright thy fece, through the machinations and management of protected, and the nation in the very outset! that Union prisoners must limit their letters to send ;from it for some weeks, unless specially directed Or dim with clouds we cannot comprehend, otherwise. Please " make a note of it." traitors recently in official positions, scattered preserved from disgrace and ruin. six lines. The following is a specimen: We'll hold out patient hands, each in bis place, Remit Early.—Agents will please send in their lists, And trust thee to the end— tkrough remote outposts, the navy on foreign With what terriblfe anxiety did the loved ones MY DEAR WIFE,:—Yours received—nto.hopes or parts of them, as soon as convenient,.'in order that Knowing thou leadest onward to those spheres stations, the northern armories and arsenals at home, in that early stage of the bloody tragedy,, of exchange—send corn starch—want socks— we may get names in type for mailing machine as fast Where there are neither days nor months nor years. stripped of their contents, and the whole loyal ere sense of individual calamity had become no money—rheumatism in left shoulder—pickles as possible. Those forming clubs of ten or more, can [Author of John Halifax, Gentleman. portion of the country, like SAJEPSON shorn of Bend 4,' 6 or eight nameB at the club rate for 10, and after blunted by a superfluity of woe and death, watch very good—send sausages—God bless you—kies that fill out lists and secure extra copies, premiums, &c. his locks, a strong man bound and helpless. the baby—Hail Columbia! Your deyotedjtras- the bulletins from the scene of strife. The well The Rural for Soldiers, &c—We will send the T^ie bombardment of Fort Sumter, however, contested but ill starred battle of Bull Run,, band. : • - BUBAL to Soldiers in the Union Army (or to the family broke the spell. * The slumbering giant sprung although it brought reproach upon our arms, of any volunteer in the^rmy,) at the lowest club rate- to his feet, shaking himself and tearing like green and a charge of cowardice upon some of our only $2.50 per copy. ~fy are sending the paper free to many Army Hospitals, and wish we could afford to 'do withs the fetters from his limbs. From hillside regiments, yet under GOD "was rendered an in- more for both tneTpell and «ici and wounded soldiers. Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. strument of ultimate success. and valley, from forest home and from cityhabi-' Show the Paper!—The best way to procure new sub- ONE OF THE HEEOES. tation, the emblem of our nationality was given How did the widow's heart thrill with joy and scribers is to show a number of the BUBAL, SO that it to the breeze; and when the word went forth gratitude, when, after days of harrowing sus- For Moore's BuraJ New-Yorker. can be examined and compared with other papers. that the government was threatened 1h its very pense a letter from the well known hand an- MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. Beader, take this, or any number, in your pocket and use A. TALE.OF THE TIMES as a sample; if lost, ,or worn out, we will endeavor to capital, the determination to crush out at once nounce^ {teat her son was safe; and as she traced supply another. And don't forget to show the paper to BY PROP. EDWABP WEBSTER. and forever the accursed spirit of secession his course from camp to camp, and from field to I am composed of 84 letters. friends who call, inviting them to subscribe. spread over the loyal States like a flameo f fire. field, untouched by disease and unscathed by the My 9, 7,10,12 we all should try to be. Bound Volumes.—We shall have but a few bound •' " Btfss look your last! Massachusetts, the Old Bay State, among the bullet as time rolled on, she gathered fresh cour- My 17, 23,1, 6, 8 is the name of a Union General. copies of the BUBAL for 1864 (Vol. XV,) td sell, as we find Arms, take your last embrace I and lips, Oh you, first in every good word and work, was earliest age and looked forward with cheerfulness and My 4, 24 is a verb. the flies saved for binding have been poached upon to The doors of .breath, seal with-a, righteous kiss, to respond to the government's call for aid; and hope. At the battle of Ball's Bluff, where so My 9, 22,7, 23,17,4,1 is one of the Southern States. supply urgent orders. What we have will be ready in a A dateless bargain with engrossing death I" My 1,12, 22,11,19,1 is a girls name. few days. Price, $4. We will furnish copies of the vol- when that pioneer regiment left her.^apital amid many sons of Massachusetts perished, he fought umes for 1868,1863 and 1861 at same price—$4 each—and [Shakspeare. until the day was lost, and then swam the Poto-i My lfe, 22, SO, 16, 22, 23,. 5, great gratification to the the prayers and blessings of mothers, sisters and soldiers. such volumes preceding that of 1861 as we have on hand at $3 each. THE country was, stirred to its profoundeat wives, another line was added to her scroll, mac amid a shower of leaden hail. • I My 21, 4, 9, 22, 23 is a wiia animal. depths at the startling news announced by tele- ;lory. Mechanics laid asid? their tools; shop- '"Dear mother and sisters," he writes" at My 7,22, 3, 22,1, 6, 5 is a county in New York. No Clubbing with the Magazines.—The prices graphy that Fort Sumter was bombarded. All men hastily dropped the emblems of their trade, ength; "I am coming home 6"n furlough for a My 10,15,13,14 is an obligation. of the Magazines are so high this year that we cannot the South, it was asserted, were organized for a engineers left the locomo$ve\ smoking' at the few days, and then enter as an officer in the first My 22,4,14,16 is one of, the. nine digits. advantageously club the BUBAL with them as heretofore. To accommodate our agents and subscribers, however, simultaneous rising, and would join at once in a round-house, printers abandoned their half-filled regiment of colored troops to be mustered into My whole is a proverb. > we will furnish them as follows:—Harper's Magazine or general ons&ughtlagainst the Nation's life. It sticks and unfinished paragraphs, students broke the country's service, the fifty-fourth Massa- LeRdy,N.Y. MATOE. Weekly, or Atlantic Monthly, $4; Ladles' Bepository, was a gala day in 'Charleston, when a telegraph off from half-conned lessjbns to repair,to the ar- chusetts, We more than ever in this case take I^f Answer in two weeks. $8.50; Godey'a Lady's Book, $3; Lady's Friend, $2.60; from Montgomery directed Gen. BEAUREGAKD mory and receive marching orders. our lives in our hands, for the enemy have sworn, Horticulturist, or Arthur's, or Peterson's Magazine, $2. at once to open his batteries upon the doomed No subscriptions taken for less than one year. On the evening previous to the n^rch^a young unsw'erving vengeance against us, and in case of For Moore's Bural New-Yorker. . Tour Name and Post-Offlce.—Those remitting fortress. A gay and brilliant throng had gathered mechanic engaged in a machine shop, notified capture we expect no quarter. Look out for BIBLICAL ENIGMA. for the BUBAL, whether for one or fifty copies, should onjthe pier head, far up the bay, watching with the master that he desired to join the regiment; bloody work when negro troops and rebel sol- give names of persons and post-office, and State, Territory or Province, plainly and correctly. It isn't profitable to intensest interest the progress of the diabolical and after obtaining permission to do so repaired diers meet together in the conflict." I am composed of 46 letters. work. Handkerchiefs were waved by fair hands My 3, 21, 22, 7, 5, 44, is a Prophet. the writer nor pleasant to us—this receiving money letters to a humble cottage not far away, the residence The visit was made at home on furlough, the without post-office address or name of writer. In writing and jeweled fingers, and successive shouts went My 16,14, 32, 4,, 25, 8,10,15,6 were enemies of Christ. f his mother, a widow lady, and her two daugh- regiment of negroes organized arid disciplined, to a publisher always give the name of your Post-Offlce up to heaven as the thunder of a hundred cannon My 8,12/27, 42 was dne of the sons of Noah. (not Town,) County and State, and don't forget to sign ters. There was nothing about the premises and at length under the leadership of the gallant My 9, 7,11,19, 6 is one of the Epistles. sent forth their iron hail upon a handful of brave particularly to distinguish it from others of its ,nd accomplished Col. SHAW, landed on Morris' your name. Please note and remember.. but helpless and devoted men. My l,f», 23, is eternal: class, unless it were the scrupulous neatness and Island at the entrance of Charleston harbor. My 24,17, 21, 38, 39 is that by which we are saved. About Premiums.—Those whx> may become entitled Suddenly a dense,, dun volume of smoke rose to premiums of extra copies, books, &c, for clubs, will good taste of all its appointments: The well JAMES , "one df the heroes," commanded a My 29,34, 32; 26:45, 22 is the Christian's hope. up from within the fort, that covered the whole please designate what they wish, in the letters containing trimmed shrubbery, the neatly graveled walk, company, prepared to encounter its perils and My SO, 36,18i 20,22, 27, 6, 8 is an attribute of God. their lists, so far as convenient, so that we may send with- heavens, and for the time obscured the sun, as if the climbing honeysuckle above the laticed porch, share its glories. - Fort Sumter, that first scene My 13,15, 8,28, 32, 42, 45, 22,35 is a part of the bible. out delay. In answer to inquiries we would say there is to hide from him in mercy the shameless specta- the close-shaven grass plat with its inclosed bed if the bloody drama, frowned upon them from My 48, 41,:44, 31,41, 6, 38, '34,8 isthat of which an ark yet plenty of time to compete for and win the premiums cle. The wooden buildings inside the fort had f blossoming plants, all indicated lie residence its rock built pedestal amid the waves, while was^nafle. ' • > offered in our last for first lists, &c, (except those offered been set on fire by incendiary shells, and the My 17,19, 87,40 is the wife of one of the sons of Naomi. for first fifty lists of ten subscribers.) As our premiums f an educated family. The internal arrange- Fort W.agner stood defiant in their island path. were this year published a month later than usual, the garrison were in danger of being burned alive, ments corresponded with its externals. Com- That work must be stormed, and ten regiments, My whole is a text of scripture too little observed. chances are good for all who go to work at pnce—Jfow. Haskinsville, N7 Y. ' '> B. A. s; "Let them roast! the white livered minions fort and convenience, but with little that was including the fifty-fourth colored Massachusetts, The Practical Shepherd.—This great American of an abolition despot. We'll 6erve their Presi- luperfluous or purely ornamental, presented it- were detailed to do the work. As the shades of 13^" Answer injiwo weeks. work oh Sheep Husbandry, will until further notice, be dent and his nest of nigger thieves at Washington elf. An elegant piano, with its accompaniment night began to gather over land and sea, the1 sold only by the Publisher and Club Agents of the BUBAL the same sauce in less than a month, so help us command fnoved forward, until the clash of steel For Moore's Eural New-Yorker. NHW-YOBKKB,—(except for a short time by a'vejy few of music books, a few fine engravings upon the county Agents who are now canvassing,—not over ten or ^GOD !" shouted a popular leader and haranguer walls, a vase or two upon the mantelpiece, com-, s a hand to hand conflict, and the shouts of the! ILLUSTRATED REBTTS. twelve In all.) Our plan is to appoint no more canvassing of the mob; and a thousand voices shouted pleted the chief items in this direction, if indeed ;ombatants drowned even the roar of the artil- agents for the book, but to furnish it to our Club Agents amen. Gradually the flames subsided within the n an abode of refinement, however humble, even ery. The swarthy fifty-fourth inetafoe whose at such a rate that they can make a handsome profi't on fort, and when the smoke partially cleared away, aces, clouded with hate and vengeance, were sales. This will give our friends a benefit and place the these are notin some sense necessary. A middle- work in the hands of the people of hundreds of localities a white flag was seen displayed from the parapet. aged matron, one of the type 0f New England scarcely less sable than, their own. With oaths where it has not been offered for sale—for not one-tenth "Tie fort surrenders!" again broke in the women, too well known to need description, and execrations they, grapple each other by the of the counties in the wool growing sections of the States first speaker; "the Confederacy is at first trium- either in their native homes or in other States,. throat, giving and receiving mutrfal wounds and or Canada have yet been canvassed. The book is in de"-& rolling together from the parapets into the ditch mand, and BUBAL readers wanting it should apply to phant, and as at first, so will it be last and 10th North and West, gave her son a kindly Club Agents or send to the Publisher,—as it is not sou at always! What can a set of peddling, pettifogging greeting^ >elow. But the assault was all in: vain; Fort the bookstores. '' '• Yankees, brought up to lie and ch6at, expect to * Where are the girls ?" he enquired, after a Wagner was too well defended to be captured by s The Practical Shepherd is a large 12mo. volume of 454 gain in a #ght with us. There ain't a dozen men moment's hesitation;' " I have come to bring to stormj and the brave column rolled back broken' pages, handsomely illustrated, printed and bound. Price in all the North, that can be kicked into standing you and them what I fear will be unwelcome ind destroyed. The colored fifty-fourth, bothj $2, (post-paid, 11- sent by mall) which is *heap at present )fficers and men, was nearly annihilated. In the cost and prices of books. To any BUBAL Club Agent (i. up to an even-handed contest." lews; I 6tart to-morrow for Washington with e., any person remitting for 5,7,10 or more subscribers to " 'Spect, Massa, dem Yanks am done gone alto- ;he regiment of volunteers. We. may have hickest of the fight, arid borne backward from the B. N. Y. for 1865,) we will furnish the wort at a gedder," remarked a negro, standing by, for rough work of it before we get back; GOD. he parapet, Capt. JAMES.—— went down, but handsome discount from retail price. the slave even, was represented in that crowd knows whether we shall ever come back at all; tearing with him a fair-haired, blue-eyed youth upon the pier head, and had a'stake in the result but let the result be what it will, our country of about his own age, both stricken by mutual C c MOOEE'S ETJEAL UEW-YOEKEB, much better understood by him than his master and mortal wounds. As the tide of battle ebbed shall not perish without at least one blow struck .THE LABGBST-CTRCTTLATIKQ dreamed. in her defence." away, so were their lives fast running to their S3P° Answer in two weeks. Agricultural, Literary and family Newspaper " Gone! yes, gone where all abolitioniste and The widow's cheeks grew pale at the announce- atest sands. IS PUBUBHBD EVERT SATTTRDAN BT nigger thieves will be ,<*re long!, But wh.at do ment, and she gasped for breath as a sudden "Oh, mother! dear mother.!" sighed out the you know or care aboutit, SAM f pang shot through her heart. He was the last 3outhern youth, "this last great sorrow will For Moore's Bural NewrYprker. D. D. T. MOOKE, ROCHESTER, N. T, " Ohi noting, Mass," saW SAM with a grin and male scion of his name and race, and humble as break your heart!" AN ANAGRAM. a roll of his white eyes like cotton balls in want their circumstances were, the hopes and love of " Who talks of mother here?" gasped out the .Office, Union Buildings, Opposite the Court Ilonse, BalTalo St. of picking, "only dis chile tinks may be de the whole household were centered in him. His Captain, half lifting up his fainting form; " you! Eterh's angruder ni het unhdret'B orra, TERMS, XJT ADVANCE: odder Yanks won't like it, dat'a all." ,ther and two elder brothers were sleeping in •h, you, who in this accursed and bloody strife Odul lapegin mfro no hghi; Three Dollars a Tear—To Clubs and Agents as fol- " We don't want 'em to likeft t We are going the churchyard, and the tears of the family had have stricken dowa in me a widowed mother's M eht ivdiv ghnilignt's shfal, lows :—Five Copies one year, for $14; Seven, and one free Hewn tmorss pwees grQthuh hte ysk; to make the whole, crew of 'em nCk the dust at hardly as yet dried, and the sod grown green and two 6isters' only earthly hope and stay!" to Club Agent, for $ 19; Ten, and one free, for $25; and our feet, and turn Massachusetts into a slave over the ashes of the son last called away. " Why did you come here, then!" retorted the Teerh's groanedr ni het lewlsgni vawse, any greater number at the same rate—only $.250 per copy. State. How would you like to live l*jrth SAM Het ntunoiant's fo hte ase, Club papers directed to .Individuals and sent to as many And what will become of us if you should ither, " to excite to war a servile race, and bid Taht surhc ten dripe fo mna, different Post-Officee as desired. As we prepay Ameri- and marry a white wife?" ever comeback, dear JAMES. Should anything >ur slaves do murder upon Our very thresholds ? Newh niwsd wlob liwd dna feer. can postage on copies sent abroad, $2.70 is tba lowest. " 'Spect twouMn't do," said SAM, with aether tappen to you it would surely break our hearts! bu are the guilty party, you who would rob us Frankfort, Will Co., El. BAY S. Club rate for Canada, and $8.50 to Europe,—Kit during the present rate of exchange, Canada Agents or Sub- roll of the eyes; " SUE and the pickanunaes fa, give over this dreadful work to other hands,of our rights, and make our bond servants rulers |^~ Answer in two weekB. would 'ject, and dis chile likes de Souf best bis. scribers remitting for the KTJBAL in bill* of their own and to other men, who, if they should fall in the in our stead!" specie-paying bantes will not be charged postage. The self," Here the conversation ended, the master "No, no! We fight the battle only for our eorites|, would not leave their families utterly For Moore's Rural New-Yorker-- beet way to remit is by Draft on 2*ew fork, (lees cost of being absorbed in. watching the movement of a ountry and its flag, which you are striving to •exchange,)—and all dra*fts made pa/able to the order of ANAGRAMS OF BATTLES. boat that put off from Cummings' Point batteries J, mother, no. Next to GOD our country's estroy. We have no personal hate to wreak on the Publisher, MAT BE MAILED AT ins RISK. in response to the flag of truce; and the slave, claims are paramount; and he who seeks to^ivoid on, but believing slavery to be the source of all Tnlataa, Tineechrew, US'" The above Terms and Bates must be strictly ad- with an apparent indifferent and shambling gait hered to so long as published—and we trust there will be them at a time like this is unworthy of the name our nation's woes, we have 6worn while crushing Swrelnedi's, moved off in the direction of some of his colored Delnow Ador, no necessity for advancing them during the year. Those of man. Danot endeavor;to dissuade me in this the rebellion to eradicate its cause. But oh! Shinap'c Fmar, Kishes'fLilh, comrades, between wh'qm a sign of mutual re- who remit less than specified price for a club or single last and haiHest trial.. I would go with my since our own day of strife and blood is over, let Sottslypavina, Bmoeil Rahbor, copy, -will be credited only as per rates. . Persons sending cognition might have been seen to pass, if any mother's and 6isters' blessings amTcheerful good us leave the rancor of this quarrel to other hearts Wne Emrate Orda, Ulbl Nrn. less than full price for this volume win find when their one had unobserved been watching them closely. wishes—not weighed down and oppressed with than ours; and here upon this Bible, which my New Brunswick,!?. J. Wa. L. DANPORTH. subscriptions expire by referring to figures on address Soon the news came by special, messenger that heir distress." , labels the figures indicating the No. of the paper to other gave me with her parting blessing, let us ^~ Answers in two weeks. which they have paid being given.