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AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
DEDICATED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOTH COUNTRY AI TOWN RESIDENTS
EMBRACING DEPARTMENTS DEVOTED TO
IGRICUITURE, SHEEP HOSBftNDRY, HORTICULTURE, DOMESTIC [CONOID!, SCIENCE. LITERATURE, EDUCiTIOH
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, THE MARKETS, &c, &c.
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CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE,
WITH AN ABLE CORPS OF ASSISTANTS AND CONTRIBUTORS.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, EOOHESTEE, 3STEW YORK, BY D.'D. T. MOORE, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE, BUFFALO STREET. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection
fAGRICULTURAL. DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Improved Sheep Rack, Hale's, 307 Picotee, a prize 247 Rebus, Illustrated,. .361, 372, 380,885, 396, Bull, Ayrshire, 389 Lamp for Lard, i 366 Piping, 247 401, 412 Canada Thistle 133 — Short-Horn, "Princeof Wales," 165 Plaster Sower, Seymour's, 84 Rocket, double sweet, 215 Star-Spangled Banner, 220 Ceres and Pomona, 377 Horse " Tartar," Arabian, 405 Potato JPlow or Digger, Hickok'e, 222 Rustic Summer-House, 407 Tom Thumb and Lady at Ellis' Music Cribbing Horses,, 125 Ewe, four year old Merino, 149 Rack and Trough, Ralston's combined, 44 — Seat 407 Rooms, 241 Dipping Box for Sheep, 222 — No. 1, Mr. Elitharp's 173 — Hale's improved Sheep, 307 — Chair, 407 Fair Grounds at Rochester, State, 321 NATURAL HISTORY. — No. 2, Mr. Elitharp's 173 Stamps for Marking Sheeep, Todds 172 Squash, Turban or Turk's Head, 103 Fowls, Grain Chest for, 93 Falcon, the 49 — Teg, Paular Merino, 157 Stump Machine, Hall's hand-power, 213 Strawberry, Smith's Buffalo 231 Fence, Haines' Brace, portable or stationary, 292 Ten Week Stock, new large 87 Fish, the Flying, IT — "Vic," Mr. Doty's Infantado, 349 Wagoa Jack, 62 Hogs Rooting, to prevent, 213, 24,6 Tulip, single, and Crocuses, 303 Goose, India or African, 397 Weeding Implement, 287 — the Sting Ray IT Hop-Yard, Collins' Horizontal, 101 1 Waxwork Plant, 127 — the Thorndike Skate 17 Ram, " Big Chunk, ' Mr. Wilcox's, 246 HORTICULTURAL. Marking Sheep, Todd's Stamps for 1*72 Weeding Implement. , 287 Prairie Chicken, or Pinnated Grouse, 361 — " Comet," Mr. Sanford's Merino, 149 Apple, Yellow Bellflower, 399 Milking Heifers before Calving, 197 Woody Nightshade, 127 — Don Pedro, imported, 77 Ash, Oak-leaved Mountain,..-. 31 PORTRAITS. Rack and Trough, Ralston's Combined 44 MISCELLANEOUS. — " Golden Fleece," Mr. Center's, 341 — Weeping Mountain, 31 — Hale's Improved Slieep 307 Amazon, Swamps of the 73 Audubon the Ornithologist, 33 — " Hannibal," Mr. Gorby's Merino, .... 261 — the Weeping European 119 Shed of Poles for Sheep, 222 Atlas and Blackboard combined, Herider's, 177 Elgin, the late Lord, 369 — " Ironsides," Mr. Hay ward's Infantado, 205 Tobacco, how to transplant, 189 Birch, CuUeaved Weeping, 183 Bridge, Niagara Suspension, 273 Hancock, Major General 288 — " Lincoln," Mr. Robinson's, 237 Carnation, a Prize, 247 Charleston Harbor and its Approaches, King of Oude, 289 BUILDINGS, &c. — " Monitor," Mr. Douglas' Merino, 277 Currant Moth, the American, 191 Map of 9 Nena Sahib, 289 Barn, Complete Stock, 413 — Teg "Cortez." Mr. Elitharp's Meri.no, 173 CrocuBes, and single Tulip,. 303 Constantinople, View of ... 409 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 41 — •" ground plan, 413 — " Thousand Dollar," Mr. Wilcox's,... 2,46 Floral Tent at, State Fair—1864, 829 Depot, Chicago, Central Railroad, 15? Thomas, Maj.-Gen. George H., 81 Barn, plan of Sheep 102 — the Tottingham, 325 Hollyhock, the Dwarf 285 Dance, Sioux Scalp, 305 Wadsworth, General James S., 337 Farm House, a Western New York—eleva- — "Young Ironsides," 205 Hot-bed for Flowers, 79 Falls, Niagara 273 tion, 109 IMPLEMENTS, MACHINERY, &c. Hyacinth, growth of the 23 — Passaic, 297 MUSIC. — — First floor of 109 Beetle, 93 — the 359 Forest in Peru—Landscape, 137 Birds, Bees and Squirrels, 265 — — Second floor of 109 Corn-Marker, 117 Layering,.. „ , 247 Landscape, New Grenada, 257 Gentle River, 353 Ice-House, Rough or Shanty, 13 — — Improved, 166 Linden; the pendulous, , 7 Mississippi, Head waters of the...... 185 Morning in Spring, 89 — — above ground 13 Dipping Boxes for Sheep, 222 Magnolia Soulangeaaa, 207 Mobile and Vicinity, Map of , 282 My Own Native Land, 393 — f— plan of single wall or board, 13 Fire Engine, (Steam,) Silsby's New Style — — flower of 207 Music and Piano Rooms of G. H. Ellis, ... 241 Ode to Wisdom, 201 — — plan of double wall board, 13 Rotary, 401 Melon, White Japanese, 95 New Orleans—the Crescent City, 121 Our Empire State, 145 Summer-House, Rustic, 407 Folding Machine, the Buckley Newspaper 385 Pear, Edmond's, 15 Park ia Havana, Cuba, 65 Summer, 225 — — ground plan of 407 Hall's Hand-Power Stump Machine, , 213 — Coit's Beurre, (2 figures,) 167 Politician, City, as seen by himself and The Pilgrim Fathers, 57 Shed of poles for Sheep, 222 Harrow, wooden hinge, 53 — Sheldon, 391 ©thers, 364 The Teacher's Life, 313
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Agricultural. attle. Prince of Wales bull -.166 'air, Vermont 812 Horae rake, Old revolving 302,342,371.405 Music received ,...3Gti Sheep poisoned with laurel 22 Wind mills,^Empire 325,406 — pin-worms in 182,229 — Wisconsin M4,198 — rakea atStateFair .325 — store, Ellis's 246 — rack, Hale's improved 14 — — Halliday's 318 Advertising seeds in Rural 131 reliev ing choked - -. 14,62 Fairs for 1864 278,291 — — Revolting i». wheel 312 Muskratweed 78 — —Andrew Ralston's 14 Wrne plant 93 African Seed s 206 ring-worms on 15 — Horse racing at 7d — showatLyoos j .190 Nails in hard woo J, To drive 166 — shearing festival 174,190 Wire worms-.94,126, 111, 157,158,174,189 Aftermath 301,310 — sale of Short-Horns 30,118,254, Farm, an OnondagaCo 14 — Senoca Falls 198,211 — To clinch cut- 166 — — machine .• '. SO Wisconsin, Notes from ..342 Agricultare and the Government 6, 29 ^8,366 — a valuable 198 — Know io Queens Co 30 — To draw rusty 166 — show, Thornhill 102 Wood, Don't spoil 126 — Report on 390 — scours in 214 — book-keeping 381,898,4u6 — To eure a pulling 22 Mationaldebt 112 — with cows in pasture Il66 — Storing ..206 Agricul tural College of W isconsin 11,25 — to relieve choked 141,173 — buildings in a heap 101 — — presrent rubbing mane and tail Mewton on Ag'l Colleges, Isaac 117 Short Horns, sale of ..30,118,254,358,866 — splitting machine 214 — — Massachusetts 182 — to keep flies from working 286 — — shingling 118 134,158 New York commission merchants -198, Shovel, a lazy man's 13 Woodchucks, Killing 254,270, 310, 350 — —Iowa 230 — too much salt for - 102 — — siding 269 — —make a balky one draw 168 22.2 Silk manufactures 19 Wool advance 30 — — Vermont 238 — tail sickness in 62 — — colorfor 382 — — make the inane grow 206,374 Night soil [see manures] — worm, anew 198 — congress 6 — — Pennsylvania- 216, 270 — valuation 86 — — paint for 310 — a blind mare 288,302,310 Oat Meal—Nature and value of. 238 Sirup from Imphee 206 — growers'meeting at Syracuse 78 Illinois 334,382 — warts on 142 — — wallHof 310 — anailiog colt ; ..238 OatB for forage 160 Sleighs, bob 326 — —in Illinois and Missouri...:.... 54 — — Land scrip 326 Cement water-proof. 78 — economy 237 Horses, Alsike clover injurious to . 181 — wanted 94 Smut in wheat 286 — Great sale of w 238 -r — munificent offer 350 Cheese, age of milk for 45 — help 8.5 _ atstate Fair 236 Oil-Patent paiut ...198 — 'To prevent 86 — inNewYork 94,118,168,190 — Colleges ..6,117,134 —- cracking 6 — house, plaratbr ac-heap 21 Blanketing igs — Cake for feeding 405 Soil, pulverizing 166 — items, Illinois 62 — Education Ill — dairies 3r — — in Western N. Y. i0t» — Bleeding.. loi Onion Culture 110 Soils, sand and gravel 261 — products of Iowa 6 — Etiquette 213 — factory system 46,238 — implement manufacturers 86 Bone spavin on 392 — Seed per acre 131 — Water should not evaporate on.. .261 — tariff 62 — Journal in Canada 14 — — plan wanted — 62 — implements, duty on 246 — B reeding and matching 405 — — Sod groundfor 168 Soiling stock 30 — — suspension 278 — Increased priceof 46 — items 21,221,384 — Breeding from a 2 year old filly ..181— — When to sow 134 Soldiers, aid for 88 — Land grant to New York,....70,174 — inquiries ...110 — labor, economy of .....:..285 chafing under collar 165 Orchard grass (see Grasses.) Sorghum and broom corn 134 Sheep Department. — Machinery, field trials 78 — manufacture 37 — note book i«7 — Cheap mode ot feeding 46 Paint-A Cheap 86,101,310 — Bagasse 397 — Mission to China 198 — Manufacturers Convention 22,37,45 — notes from Vermont 3tO,374 — crib-biting 51, 125 Pamphlets receUed.46,64,78,158,174, 294 — Evaporators 278 About other men's sheep 126 — Patents... 397 — — Association of Ohio 70,126 — of E. Cornell 270 — Colicin : 64, 119 Paring and burning land 254 — forforage 45,86,93,102, 118 Annual produce of flock 413 — Products of loyal States 390 — Swiss 62, 86,150 — out-buildings 101 — Cough ia 6 Pasture lands—Improving 165 — for coloring cloth 366 Anonymous correspondents 68 — Report bi-monthly 181 — strainer 190 — stock, improvement of 229 — Curing harness galls on 158 — in highways 310 — flour 350' Apples for sheep 374 — —of Michigan 222 — size of 45 — suggestions 29,358 — Dobofekill 230 Peas and Corn for fattening Swine ...405 — growers in Wisconsin 69 A Swindle — Pretended imported — Reports of Ohio 3D — Vats, Western Reserve 406 — wages 102, 110, 134 — Don't stint the colts 285 Peas—Bug in 238 — manufacture 216 sheep 64,70,126,166 — Society, Brockport 30 — why so light 253 — Waste places on a 117 — Feeding 285 — Do you want early 365 — mill near Rochester 134 Australia, Samples of wool from 182 — —California..... 262 Chess in wheat 262 Farmer Garrulous talks...63,199,277,373 — Glanders spreading among 118 — for Sheep 160 — mills 278 — Sale of American sheep in 390 — — Cattaraugas Co 22 ihickory Culture 62 Farmers'accounts 62,77 — Heaves in 150, 284, 270, 302 _ Sow 101 — seed 86 — Sheep and wool in 117,373, 396 — — Cayuga Co 38 - seed 62 — ask for demonstration 277 — interfering 238 Peat in Monroe Co 216 — — Depth of planting „ 61 Bad management 142 — — ChatauquaCo 30 Chinch bug 142, 190, 222,238,246,356 — and their representatives 61 — Lady Woodruff 142 Pemmican 22 — Birup 80 Barn, Apian of a sheep 102,118 — — Delaware Co 30 Cider, keeping 3*7 — — internal revenue 328 — Lice oncolts 134,142,182 People moving 126 — Soil for 54 — wanted, A plan for a sheep 61 — — ErieOo 30 — mills at StateFair 318 — College in Ohio 64 — Pinwormsin 229 People's College 222 — sugar ..16,69,141 Bran and shorts for tegs 390 — — Franklin Co. Mass 38 Claims - 310 — clubs 102 — Poll-evilin 302 Personal and explanatory 126 — — in Ohio 78 Branding sheep 102 — — Haniden Co. Mass 38 lover, Alsike 246,269 — duties 102,331 — Remedy for founder in 126 — and progressive 38 Sorrel, To kill 214 Broom corn seed for sheep 312, 374 — — Illinois—Officers of 318 — for horses 181 — donation 246 — Riding 251 Pigs (see Swine.) Sowing machines, Broad-cast 6 Buttermilk for lambs 16a — — Livingston Co 22 — for cows 189 — Encourage yonng 85 — RinK-bono on a colt 131,150,158 Pipe fsee Water Pipe.) Spring work .77,85 Cabbages and apples for sheep 374 — — Michigan 70, 334 — for pasture 110 — bints about building 46 — Saltinar hay for ^§3 Piscatorial 134 Stable stanchion 325 Changing the forms of animals 277 — — Monroo Co ...14,30 — hay • 221 — Mutual Insurance 6 — Scratches in . .93,117,160,174,182,229 Plaster (see Gypsum.) Stables, Ventilation of 365 Classification of sheep for prize lists. .881 — — New England 70,91 — in an orchard 331 — should keep books _ 6 288,262,398. Pleuro-pneumonia in Mass 54 — Litter the , 46 Coal tar for goitre 126 — —New York 70,22,62 — roots —166 — — have credit 85 — Slabbering 358 — — contagious 61 State Fair discussions 333,311,319 — markingsheep 61 — — OtsegoOo 30 — seed, bushing 141 — — use the scalpel Ml — Sprain of coffin joint 270 Plow—ASubsoil 286,331 — — grounds, permanent 397 Coarse wooled sheep 246 — —SandyCreek 38 — — and there two kinds 150 — ought they to labor 294 — String-halt 30, 110 — — Awordabout 350 Steam engines, portable 6 — atState Fair 269 Alderney cream for consumpttves.149 — threshers and cleaners 214 — oracle 34 j — Strainedjoint 246 — attachment—drover's 325 — plow, English 302,318 Colds 374 Almanacs, best weather prophets..110 — varieties of. 173,190 — organizations 356 — Swollonleg 166 — in the potato field 373 — — Aboata 898 Collies wanted .810 Alsiite clover injurious to horses...181 Coach-makers Magazlde 171 — loom 358 — Sweeniein 174,190,198,238 — Side-hill 390 — plowing in Egypt 174 Consumption praportioned to weightns — — valueof 216,269 Coal ashes for manure 85,134,158 Farming in Connecticut 14 — Sure footed 107 Plows—Advance on price of 406 Stewart not a provision dealer, A. T..139 Contributors, To 117 American Annual Oyclopaedia 198 — tar for marking sheep 54 — keep the weeds under 221 — Thorough bred 4n/s — and plowing 373 Stock pond, how to make a 245 Copperplates 110 — Artisan 190 Composts [see manures.] — made attractive 246 To oure breachy colts 134 — Boltsfor 171,190 — Salting 357 Corn stalks and straw for sheep 78 — Phrenological Journal 38 Oomminutlon 181 Feathers as fertilizers 94 — To remove films » — Burnam's subsoil attachment 128 — for Canada 78 Correction 118,158, 278,826,342,374 Angels in thehay-fleld 245 Oomstock's Spader. 181, 198,216,261, Fences, management of. 85 — Training farm 405 — Carrington's drain 131 Stone, picking 78,245 Cotswold sheep 113 Animal Painting at State Fair 318 326,390 Fencing for door yards 62 — Wheattor 78 — Cast-steel 350.398 Straw, cut and uncut 6 Cutting hoofs 221 Animals—pampering , 30 Corn, au eighth of an acre 62 — Haynes' patent 206 — Wolfteethin 310 — — Ironvs. Steel ,.113 Straws 38 Delano's sheep ..398 Annual Register of Kural Affairs. .382 — and Gophers 102 — Hedgesfor 30 Hot-beda, Night soil for 350 — Drain 102,134 String-halt (see Horses.) Dipping box 222 A noble spectacle 374 — and peas for fattening swine— 405 — in the West 78 Houses, Plastering brick 182 Plowing at State Fair 317 Strings for hams 246 Diseases—Colds 374 Apiary 77 — best variety 86,126 — whitewash for 134 — Roofing 54 — Steam 294,392 Stump machines 213,398 — Destructive malady 198 Apiarian Society, Western 166,198 — cobs, an experiment with—V, 2<>6 Figures from Broadlanda 261 — Sissingtor 54 — contest proposed 294 — machine. Hall's ^ 14 — Distemper 150 Arboriculture 77 — Chinch-bugs in 158,190 Fire-proof wash for shingles .v94 Howard, Sanford 78,166,206 _ Fall 263,389 Stumps, process for rotting 270 Epizootic in New Hampshire 158 Ashes 77 — culture 19<> Flax and Cotton * 14 Humus .294 — match, umong the freedmen 142 Sugar and corpulence 357 — Fouls .....102 — leached 214 curing for forage 190,221,222,246,236 — Cotton 6,62 Hungarian Grass and Stock 158 — weedy stubbles in fall 365 — beet 61,109.118,216,898 — Goitre 86,110,125,126,134 Associated Husbandry 397 — crop 254 — Convention 62 — — seed..... 166, 182,374 Political papers 371 — — Information 86,102,118 — Grub in head 110,126,173,238 Autumn Leaves 357 — cutting up - 285,302 — Culture «,46 — — forgheep 189 Vork. salting and packing 357 — boiling pans 117,126,142 — Hoof-rot 182,206,302.349 Barberry Hedges and Wheat 126 — —machine 286 — in Canada 214 Hydraulic Rams 69,126 Postage on manuscript 230 — Cleansing Maple 117 — Lamb epizootic .....160 Barn—A Grain and Sheep 22 — Dent at the North, 6 — machine wanted 4; Hydrometer 165 Posts, how to set ...102,119,150 — from Sorghum 174,270 — Lectures on 110 — A Complete Stock 413 — Experience 119 — machines at State Fair 318 Ice houses, MakiDg and filling 13,389 — rotting 113 — — Imphee 206 — Prescribing medicine for 174 — Yard, to make a 102 — for fodder.. 70,94,102,160,190,198, — s Grapes, Raisins from 159 Rhubarb wine from Michigan 223 Eggp, Packing 39 Fishes, Vocal nm Numbering sheep on the ear 142 Apples, Everbearing MJ — Pickled 266,279 Flannel, Patent wool fcT Ohio Farmer 390 1 — received 327 River banks, protection of «» — Sheep in 102 — for market, packing v-, ^ — Report of committee on 135 Rocket, double sweet 215 — To preserve 11,127 Food, Our :..'"" 65 — —in Eastern 150 — for Northern Wisconsin lu3,127 — Roger's hybrids —87, 327 Rose, a wonder of nature f*' Fever and ague. Cure for 161 Form of a drop "^"233 — Wool Growers Association 37 — from Oregon • — Russian mode of preserving 167 — Characterof agood VaV «§ Flavoring extract 7 French economy .._ ""* 33 — Constitution 38 — in Kentucky," decay "of 1S7 — Varieties of 95 Rose bugs... 135,207 Flannel red, To color .351 Frog in a stove thirty years ".""377 — Officers 38 — vines, layering 286, 279 Roses, buying 167 Float, Recipe for 191 Frozen flesh, Hew to thaw 57 Joy Cometh in the Morning V.232 — Keeping... ,°' — — Pinching..! 239 Floors, Cold 63 Gas-ligbt, Coloring '.Y.Y.409 — Resolutions 38 «— list wanted 2** — List of best 9°7. Just Eleven ...164 — — When and how to graft Ill — on apple trees, white «£ Flowers, To cryatalize 343 Gastw. Pain 57 Pastures, Shade in 222 — Southern ?ij 13 Justice 72 — Waterin 222 — tree root, along. ....- — •„—'"i — to trim 87 — Transplanting * Footmuff ... 31 Goodyears Rubber Patents 161 Knitting the Socks :: 28 Paular sheep, Darwin E. Robinson's" 237 Grasses, ornamental 169 — To prevent blasting • - - • - 79 Frames, Grasses for 215 orilla and other Anthropoid Apes" 153 Labor and Wait 216 — for Western NTY., varieties of.-. 95 Grove, preparing land for a Ill 43 — Ruetic 167 . and man " )gg — — of Messrs. Rich 167 Appreciative beginner "> — Varietiesof I . ™° a Land of the Beautiful 32 — Merinos... 182 Hageerston, Death of David 23 Rosemary plant '•'" Fruit over summer, To keep dried.. — To the 129 Let it Pass 159 Apricots for Missouri "0 Hauford. Death of A. G 311 159, 215 Pedigrees 84*293 Ash, varieties-—.- "5 Rustic seats and houses ?07 Grain, Effects of air on weighing 161 Let us Try to be Happy 372 Pennsylvania, How sheep have win- Hedges beside an orchard 167 Saffron 467 — dried with sugar *255 Life'R Fairest Action 500 — European Weeping i» — Barberry for 16,65,71,3*7 — forpoldiers, Dried 266, 279 Grape juice, Extracting m tered^ 134, HO Saw-dust about grape vines J<3 Gunpowder, Substitute for 353 — Melodies 224,249 Balsams, fine double j'j — Bestplantfor 15 Scions from bearing trees '* — vs. Jellies 255 Lines to an Absent Friend 4R Picking, How to cure 126 Barberry culture ...... //1 — Hemlock 65 Fruits, Canning 191,279 Hair, Longand short 3^ Plate and ring earmarks 126 Sea Kale 2t>5 Havana, Cuba... Little Belle Ym Foisoned by laurel is8 — for hedge. 15, 71, 55,127, M7 — Honey locust for 119,167, 287, 391 Seeds, buying and growing ]35 Furs, About dressing 3H7 66 Little by Little 57 — on the prairies jgl 10 Heat from the f.tars 395 Practical Shepherd, Correction 118 — Pear 375 — Experience with naw ? Gingerbread 39,63,71 Looking Toward Sunset 352 lsl — Alum in 351 Herbarium. How to make 265 Prairie lands for sheep ..278, 309, 326, — feed "119 "135 — Plants wanted 279,311 — Raising minute Hiccough, How to stop 121 Long Ago 392 _ 341, 398 Barry affords" pleasure"...... 31 — Work on 143 — Saving. ?55 — Old fashioned 391 High prices True cause of 217 Love 344 Premiums on sheep, New York State Barry's Fruit Garden, revision of 96 Herbs to dry, cutting 2fi5 Sherry, London .'.:.': 1W — Soft 15, 359 Houses in China 17 Love's First Kiss 240 Ag. Society..- 229 Bateham, M. B. {19 Hogs in the oichard 231 Sootand grubs 71 Ginger snaps 233, 311 How to buy 89 Make your Home Beautiful 120 Profits of sheep raising 126 Beans, growing Lima 135 Hollyhock, a dwarf 255 Soap-suds for rhubarb 143 Gloves, To clean kid 119,191, 271 Hydrate of Lime, New 161 Maiden Beauty "132 Questions by correspondents 13 Bittersweet, what is...... U7 — Separating 247 Spinach, varieties 25I> — Cleansing and coloring kid 183 Ice by steam, Making 65 Many Mansions JR Ram Comet ...K9 Blackberry, culture of NewRochelle ^ Honey locust seed 2do Squash, Turban or Turk's Head 103 Gooseberry catsup 287 — over the continent 409 May 1864 'm — Don Pedro 77 Horticulture, Floriculture, &c 7 — Worm on the Hubbard 127 Graham bread 31 Imagination, Power of 273 Memories 208 — Golden Fleece 340 _ Holcombe ...'.....'.383 — in Egypt 151 Stealing fruit 279 Grease out of silk, To take 2&7 Ink-plant, An 163 MeetiDgof the Waters 384 — Hannibal 261 — Propagating New Roehelle 161 — with the army, sanitary 191 Stocks, Annual 87 — from floors 3S9 Insect Sampson, An 97 Miles O'Reilly on the "Naygurs". 108 — Ironsides 205 — Running...: 336, 359, 391, 399 Herticultural coincidence, a remark Strawberry, Agriculturist 378 Hair-brnsb, To clean 279 Insects on apple trees 217 Mischief-Makers "320 — Lincoln " 236 Boquets round and flat 143,191 able.... 399 — baskets' 79 Hams, Curing 215 Iodine as a disinfector 163 Moonlight and Starlight "3gg — lambs, Sale of prize 326 Brinckle, W-D .....383 — exhibition at St. Louis...... 169 — Buffalo.. ...127, 231, 255, 375 — Pickle for 7,351 Iron for sulphur, Affinity of 201 More Life 232 — Monitor 277 Bugs from vineo, to keep 312,316 — importing association of Illinois — Brooklyn Scarlet S83 — Chapped 23 Lavender fields of England 145 Morning in Spring (with Music) 89 — Mountaineer 246 Bulb farms of Harlem 23 and Missouri 47 — "Bartlett" 383 — soft, To keep 169 Lead as a poison 121 Mother 232 — The Tottingham 325 Bulbs, culture of. 303 — Society, Illinois....7, 287,361,359, 391 — Culture. 287 Honey, To make artificial 295 Leaf impressions, How to take 233 MyAuldWife 28O — tegCortez 173 — Planting 263 — — Massachusetts 7 — French ."." 375,383 Hoops, To mend 71 Leather, Oiling 3f3 My Brother and I " g« — Thousand Dollar , 245 — Taking up... 263 Missouri 169,359 — Hudson... 183 "op y east 391 Mackerel fishing 17 — Neighbor "" gi Rams, Breeding long wool v^Xi Cabbages. Dr. Schroeder on 157 — Societies " — in Canada 383 iousehold conveniences 159, 327 Magnetic mountain 26 — Neighbor's Wife 248 Horticulturists, questions for Illinois.255 — Lady's Finger 383 ce cream » 71, 287 Man, human; gorilla, animal 169 — for teasers. Coarse 126,166 — Fleas on 279 s35 — own Native Land (with Music)."',193 — Poiled on nornlef.8 874 Caotus in California 63 Hoppital Gardens 175, 391 — plants, selecting — — Farmers' 287 Marble manufacturing. 401 — Poem will Never be Finished.. 208 — Selection of 3C7 California fruit items 7 Hot-bed for flowers 79 — Russell's Prolific 216,375, 363 — — Forfreezing 287 Matches in San Francisco 40J NeverAgain 04 — Separating 220 — Curculio in 7 Hyacinth 23,359 — soil 271 — — Strawberry 287 Menagerie, Items from 25 Nightand Storm """ j| Randall's works on sheep 254 — tea plant 199 — Feather 287 — Triomphe de Gand 223,375, 383 Icirjg for cake. Sugar 343 Money •- 31s No Rain in June "*268 Rheumatism 190 — Wild fruits of. 199 Insects, injurious 311 — which is best 119 Indian meal <"or cakes 127 Now and Then ^""lM Iron for pear trees 71 Strawberrien, culture of 169, 215 phases of coin and paper 8 Rich's ewe teg 157 Canker worm 71 Ink, Black, blue and red 161 Moon, The 26 "Now I Lay me Down to Sleep" 40' Roots for sheep raising 126, 160 Carnations and Picotees 247 Islands in Lake Erie 247 — Discussion on 875, 3&3 — erasures 343 — Size of as we see it 106 Ode to Wisdom (with Music).... "" "207 Sale of sheep ...310 Catalogues received 31, 111, 143 Japanese melon 95 — from seed, raining 151 — Good 367 Nature an economist 266 Oh, Wanton Wind 494 Salt in summer 222 Caterpillars and sulphur 215 Kennicott, the late Dr. John A ..167, 383 — Howto getearly 169 — Indellible 7 Naval hygiene 201 OllaPodrida 296 Scab, Cure for 126 — To kill 175 Kerosene and apple tree wroms 199 — inCalifornia 7 Iron rust. To remove , 23 NoRe bleeding, To stop the 15! On an Old Portrait """284 Scotch Colleys 70 Cauliflower, large 351 — oil on apple trees 265 — — Philadelphia Fair 175 Jelly, Apple 7 Oiling leather ..36| Once "376 Scours 126,374 Cedar seed, planting red 343 Ladders, extension.... 407 — Keeping runners off of. 135 — Lemon 1S9 Organs of hearing. Unequal power of-153 One Sweetly Solemn Thought : 72 Scrofula 222 Celery, Turnip-rooted 151 Linden, the American 7 — Planting 223 Jumbles, Molasses 311 Ozone, About 401 — Trusting Heart 4(8 Shea ring machine 126 Cherry, Black Eagle 271 Locust trees, what will kill 143 — Popularity of. 223 — Sugar 31, 175 Sources of 4ul OnlyaPrivate 121 Sheep at State Fair 317 — Early Richmond 183 Magnolias 191 — When to plant 135 Kitchen conveniences 63 Ozonoscopo 401 Orion, : 18 — Coarse wool 269 — slug 71 — Chinese 207 Sulphur and caterpillars 216 Lard, How to keep 135,223 Pants, Metalic guards for 201 Our Empire State (with Music) 145 — Foreign 270 Cherries in Southern Illinois 55 — Hardy 207 Sweet brier, propagating 335 Leaves, Skeletonizing ...143,199 Parasitic pestilence 81 — Country 68 — Applesfor 374 Chickory seed 79 May flower of New England 135,175 Tennessee the Rhine of the South 175 Liniment for inflamation 135 Perpetual motion 106,161 — Life 88 — Best breed for wool 286 Chinese silk worm 63 Melon bugs, remedy for 159 Thorn grafted on Mountain Ash 167 Mango pickleB 311 Peruvian forests 137 — Little Daisy 128 — Browsing 413 Coal ashes about trees, 135 — Japanese 103 Tomatoes, are they fruit 287 Melons, To pickle musk 3U Petroleum, History of its discovery.. 25 — Loved ones—Gone 24 — Changing form of 277 — tar injurious to trees 167 — to plant, best water 167 — Ripening 287 Mildew stains, To remove 383, 391 — in pipes, Distributing 201 — Maryland 389 — chewing tobacco 78,102,126 Conservatories in Paris 266 Melons on poor land 103 Trees, best protection for fruit 199 Milk toast.... 319 — oil, Supposed discovery of 113 — Neighbor 212 — Coarse wooled 246 Cotton in Illinois ; 65 — To pave 215 — Coal tar injurious to 167 Molasses, Clarifying 7 Photographing moving bodies 106 Outside the Fold 120 — Cotswold 413 Cranberry culture 215, 375 Mountain Ash from seed 283 — die, why Western 239 Moths, Remedy against 247 Physiological facts 377 Over the Waters.. •. 100 — Delano's 398 Cranberries, upland 399 — — Varietiesof 31 — Failure in planting 127 MufflBS 383 fisiculture in England 113,153 Palm Genesis 803 — Great improvement in ...126, 134,198 Crocuses, about 303 — — Weeping 65 — for the prairies, Deciduous 151 Nankin, To color 183 Plan to prolong life.. 409 Persic Stanzas 296 — How to winter 78,301 Cucumber*, to save 215 Mulberry and Almond 103 — Hardy Ornamental .7, 31,119,183, 192 Omelet 23, 47, 71, 87,191, 283 Playing at hen aDd chalk 306 Presence 382 — husbandry 69 Curculio in a dry season 391 Mushrooms, growing 175 — How the Chinese dwarf 247 Paint, To remove from clothing 287 Poison, Antidote for 97 Profane Words 186 — — in N. Y. 13, 39 Currant bushes, save your 119 New York Central Park 71 — Method of growing 23 Pan cakes, Indian meal 127,199 Poisons, Occult 73 Norwav Spruce about a Cemetry 135 Pushing on 345 — in Nebraska 278 — moth, American 191 — Marking name, of 279 — — Improved 239,219 Poisoning by buttercups 409 Questionings 256 — in England, Price of long wool.. .294 — worm and petroleum I6f — —for wind-breaks 87 — on the prairies 79 Papering white-washed walls.95,127, Printing without ink 401 Nursery business of Rochester.. 1 23 Remember Me 8 — Letting on shares 413 — — Description of the new 223 — produce. To make barren 361 207, 399 Pumps, Thawingout 66, 89 Returning Clouds 308 — Lincoln 286 — — Remedyfor 199,207,223 — Catalogues criticised 81 — Protect your 143 Peaches, Pickled 343 Railroad spec d, Facts about 67 — management 238 Nyce's fruit-preterving house 256,263 — Sprouts on 239 Sainted Helen—Dec. 6th 392 Evergreens for the prairies 79 — Preserving 295 — depot on Lake Michigan 163 Say Yes 304 — Number to be kept In same build- — from seed -. Ill Orchard culture, Western 303, 351 — To prevent frost lifting 231 Pears for sauce, CookiDg 211 Ravens. Moorish legend of 233 ing 180 — experience 63 — whensold 23 Scatter Smiles 152 — — deciduous trees 127 Pencil wilting indelible, To make 407 Salt. How it is made 129,137 Seeds!. 276 — on the prairies 78,180 — Nurseries of 263 — gossip from Illinois 31 Tulip and Hyacinth blooms, breakingl7A Pepper hash 367 — in Louisiana, A mountain of. 105 — peddlers 182 — Hogs in , 231 — Planting seed or 407 "She kind o'Wished me to" 65 — Pruning 136 Pickle for hams •-...7, 351 Science, Nature of 106 Sheridan's Ride 412 — siale of. 310 — Transplanting 258 — Plowing a young 143 Tulips from seed 263 Pickles, Maneo 311 Shoddy 25 — shearing in Ogden 245 Orchards, old 271 — about 303 Sighings 138 Extension ladders 407 — Musk-melon 311 Shoulders, Round 137 Snow 60 — Ehearings 238 Floriculture by ladies 135, 311 — Protecting .....281 Turnip seed, vitality of. 199 — Potato 369, 407 Sickness not causeless 97 — show and shearing 160 — Re-grafting 86 Vegetable instincts 271 Song and Silence 272 — Biennial flowering plants 136 — Sweet 317 Silk fabrics. Adulteration of 409 Song of Time 280 — Sore lips on 406 — Hints for ladies 71 — Mowingand pasturing 399 Verbena, a non-blooming 407 Pie, All abouta 119 — goods in America 409 — Tartar 238 — in the North- West, essay on 239 Vineyard. Gates' 385 Song—Our Mountain Rose 12 — Inquiries Ill — Mockapple 159, 811 Sirup for coldp 121 Sowing and Reaping 8 — terms 110 ~ Philosophy of 183 Oregon, season in .161 — in latitude 43de«r 119 — Pot ; 247 Skeletons of birds and animals 297 — wintered. How have 110,189 Osage Orange for hedges 15, 58 Vineyards, cullivation of 343 Stepping-Stones 266, 400 — Preparing. Bowor-beds 143 : — Potato ~ 335 Sleep and study, The time for 169 Still Coming 116 — work in January, 6: February, 46; — Talkbyanadyon 167 — — from native seed 389 — in Pleasant Valley 391 — Yorkshire 383 Sleepir gears 161 March, 77; April, 109; May, 149; June, — — hedges, trimming 287 Walks for winter, dry 7 — She keeps Rocking Him 84 — To organize a Ladies' Society 191 Pies. Boiled Cider 359 — with toe mouth open 377 Spring Cleaning 200 181; July, 214,221: August, —; Sep- Florists note-books 297 — — plants 407 — How to make gravel 239 — Genuine mince 71 Small pox, Signs of 66 tember, 293; October, 325; Novem- — — seed 39,311 WartR on apple roots 231 Summer (with Music) 226 Flower, anew 247 — Lemon 15,39,119,167 Snow, Partioles of 106 The All-Fathers Love 240 ber, 365; December, 389. — seeds, sowing biennial 175 — inlllinois w 199 Watermelon [Bee melon.] — Light crust for pot 31 Spectres, Brain 169 Shepherd dogs 238 Osier Willow [see willow.] Weeds in sarden-walks, destroying.. 39 — Andersonville Post-Office 393 — perennial 175 — Mince 7, 31 Sponge business 40$ — Battle of Life 328 SUesian sheep 397 Flowers at State Fair 317 Peach crop, how affected 223 Weeding implement 287 — Sweet apple 65 Statues are made. How If3 — «nd New Oxfordshire sheep 70 — culture 183 Why Western trees die 239 — without sugar. Green apple 63 — Beautiful 348 — for name, wild 223 Steel rails for rail ways 105 — Brave at Home 216 Song of the sheep 70,222 — Hot-hedfor 79 — Bale's Early 369 Willow and Phoenix, white..119,159, 239 Pimples on the face 71 Sugar cane as a disinfectant 353 South down sheep husbandry in Eng- — trees damaged 113 — Cost of planting Osier 1S9,176 — — atReet 392 — intbe panctum 279 Porcelain Rtains •. 391 Sugar from the butternut 163 — Bridge of Cloud 498 land .. „ T.. 61 — I,ook after the 199 — — grafted 127 — for fence, white....39, 56, 103, 111, 263 Potatoes, Pickled 369 Sun, Influence of the 266 — wanted 70 Peaches, Discussion on 2J9, 367 — Osier 39, 96,135,159 — Burials 268 — More about 159 Pot pie 247 Swiss, How they live 177 — Careless Word 272 parish importation swindle..70,126,166 — Namesof. 259, 375 — destroyed in Southern Illinois 56 — swamps around 63 — crust. Light 311 Tastes differ. How l«l paving sheep 78 Wine from Oporto grape 143, — Cause 276 t — Patriotic 135 — in Japan 39 Preparing baked apples IS Tea, Gossip about 233 — Clouds Silver Limnr 40 — ewes 110 — Phlox, Asterand Candytuft 136 — — June, ripe £07 — — grapes 303 Pudding, Baked Indian 216,239 — used by the poor, The 163 Staggers 174 — land, cheap 65 — Children of the Battle-FIeld-A — Preserving 247, 287 — on r>]urn stock 65 — Batter 63 Teeth, Care of 105 Prize Poem 148 Starting in sheep business 190 — Premiums at State Fair 343 — — tha trees 215 — making 271 — Berry 247 — The 25 Stretches 102,233 — Planting pits 87 — makers, important to native 271 — Dead Heroes of the Past Year 36 Fruit at State Fair 317 — Bread 223,319 Telegraph cables, Laying 401 — DyingGirl'a Request 386 Sulphur, alum, &c, 222 — buds 47,71,87 — Protecting 256 — manufacture in Pleasant Valley.. 391 — Cottage 15 Time reckoning 16| Surgeon's silk 174 Pear, anew 879 — Plant ....55, 119,127 — Cream ,.; 367 — Fairies 244 — Conventions Ill Trichina spiralis 353 — Flight of the Hours 328 Tagging ISO — committee of Western N. Y. Fruit — Andrews 3.11 — Rhubarb , ]7« — Dandy 39 Typhoidfever 81 Tartar bheep 238 — Belle Lucrative 351 — Tax oh manufactured 287 — Fond Heart 284 Growers' Society, report of 239 — Egg.. 39 VaTata 163 — Giant 377 Tariff on wools and woolens..101,141, — crop in Niagara Co 247 407 — — Williams 369 — vs. Temperance 336 — Indian meal 215,369,367 Velvet, About..... 185 U0,165,166 — Bergen 351 Wines from Los Angelos 231 — Haven 408 — Defining best varieties of. ill — Plain 23.66,79,383 Water by lead pipe, Poisoning of 121 — Hot Season 232 Teasers marking progeny 166 — for Northern Wisconsin 103,127 — Beurrede Amalis a51 — Rice 95, 143,215 — engines 121 Tegs 238 — — Giffard and Chas. Downing 103 — Inner Calm 400 — Gathering and Keeping 263 Puffs 215 — color painting 297 — Little Boy's Dream 273 — Bran and shorts for 390 — growers'and Express and Railroad — — Hardy 351 Purple. To color royal 183 Waterfall greater than Niagara 1"'6 Ticks 190,222 — — Lanqelier 361 Quince marmalade 891 — — People 98 Companies 278 Domestic Economy. Wind and weather 73 — — Lovers ]05 Tobacco eating by sheep 78,102,126 — — Society of Western New York — — de Clairgeau 351 Red, To color 151,351,391 Wine, Boquet of. 66 — wash for eneep 182 — — Sapier • 359 Removing iron-rust 23 — Longing 368 15, 47, 63, 71, 79, 95,175,199, 215, 223, 231 Alum baskets, t) make 223 Wines, To distinguish artificially col- — Maiden's Prayer 172 Todd's stamps for marking sheep 390 — of Upper Canada 23,319 — — Oswego 369 Rolls, Hot 39 ored 121 Toe nippers 221,222.254 — Bonne de Ezee 361 — in gingerbreid 351 — Mother's Farewell 829 — — meeting at Iona 399 Ant nests, To destroy 161 Rose color 183 Zodiacal light 297 — — Prayer 160 "To shear" 310 — in Indiana 103 — Columbia 351 — water 287 Tucker's Address, L.H, 70 — — Minnesota 135 — culture, dwarL ,. 79 — trap 205 Sago 23 — Mountain Voicft. 108 Turnips for sheep, Mode of raising 110 — — New Jersey 239 — Coit'sBeurre 143,167 Apple butter 367,399 Sauce, Lincoln 7 — Officer 180 Two years' fleeces 126 — Lists of hardy 389 -~ Dana's Hovey 359 — dmnplmgR ..367 Saupftge, Seasoning for 351 — Old House Far Away 384 Virginia sheep lands, Information — prospects 143,159 — Des Tongres :...; 851 Apples, Baked 15,859 — To make , 23,359 Educational. — — Year of the Nation 20 wanted 70 — preserving house 265,263 — Doyenne du Cornice 351 — Doing up 255 Scarlet, To color 7, 79 — Orphan's Wai] 264 — West 102 — — de Alencon 551 — for winter. Stewed 327 — Pilgrim Fathers (with Music 67 — — cans, Mason's 319 Scraps, Save the 899 A Plea for the Birch 113 — Pilgrim's Song 324 Washing sheep 38 — Premiums on at State Fair 343 — Edmonds 15,335 — Sweet pickle of ' 867 Sealing wax, Red 319 A Problem for Teachers 161 Water in pastures 222 — Flemish Beauty 351 — To use sweet 827 Shawls, Coloring crape 39 — Place for Man to Die 184 — Stealing 279 Beef. Tokeepfr«sh 47 Bitter Sweet, hints from 281 — Planting of the Apple Tree 140 "Wintering sheep 30,110,188 — trees care of 119 — Frederica Bremer; S69 Shells. Polishing 343 Books 129 in Ohio... ..150,190 — Howell 359 — Corned „.. 7 — RipeiaingCorn 380 — — Does grafting degenerate 167 Silk, Cleaning 47 Chemistry 81 — Ship of State 236 — —in Pennsylvania 134,150 — — in hedges 239 — Hedges 883 — in ten days,Dried 136 — - Black .-*6 College, People's 153 — — in Wisconsin 142,206 — trees, blight on 199 — .Taminette 359 Beet, Hop 319 — Renewing color of black 65 Drawing 249 — Skeptic's Daughter 48 Wolf dogs 206 — Kinesesging >. 859 Bees-wax, Whit» 15 — Spirit Sisters 368 — Best protection 199 — To take grease out of 287 Errors in Speaking 161 — Star-Spaneled Banner (111.) 220 Wool and wrinkles, Length of 238 Fruits, Greeley prixes for S91 — Kirtland 359 Bird of Paradise color 183 Skin, To soften U71 Geography—How should it be Taught 41 — Alleged enormous fleeces 302 — leaf, diseased ^ 333 BiscuitGraftpn 175 — Teacher's Life, (with Music.) 313 — Names of 239, 265, 375 Slate, To color a purple 183 — Taught 177 — Three Eras . 316 — clip, A 278 — New American 39 — Manning's Elizabeth 359 Black, To color ...... 79,183, 287 — To color a light brown 183 Hints from Bitter Swe et 281 — Eating 160 — Maria Louise 359 Blackberry cordal 265 — Two Mites 208 — of California, wild 199 Soap. Hard 39 Indue trial Schools 161 — Vrjfinished Poem ]44 — Good fleeces 326 — The Small 151 — Muskingham 359 — root 279 — Honey 47 Learning to Spell 65 — Growers'State Convention...142, — Nickerson 127 Blackberries for soldiers 263 — Soft... 7 — Voice of Love : 96 Fuller's Grape Culturist 189 167 Blanc Mange ...... , • 843 Loud Talking, 81 — Wanderer's Grave 32 166, 269, 277, 280, 317, 333 Gardens at railway stations 31 — planting 375 — Toilet 47,339 Miss Dunstable's Spelling Class 113 — — and Manufacturers 380 — Queen of August 351 Blue, To color 341 — To make Uard from soft ..191, 223,346 — Wasp and the Bee 369 Gardeners, advice to 239 Bluing, An excellent liquid 119 People's College 153 — Weight of a Tear 288 The 342 — wanted 407 — Sheldon 351, 391 — Transparent 1 f! Primary and (irammar Teachers 41 — — Association, Onoadaga 230 Gooseberries in California 7 — Steven's Genesee 381 Body, Cleansing the 2]9 — One barrel into two 47 Rule for Spellers 329 — Wife of a Man of Gold 344 — of Illinois 826 — Mildew on 135 — trees, iron for 71 Bread, Brown 39,71 —. Washing 47 Scholar, the true 329 — Wind and the Pine 96 — growing, Competition in 86 — — Planting 39 — Corn 23,159 Taedium Vitae .&. 328 Gothic Garden and Nursery 351 Soup 55,95 Schools in Ohio., 57 Thinking 112 — house 286 Grafting wax 135,151,167 Old 143 — Graham 31 — Asavory 135 Schools, Industrial 161 — market 254 dying 143 — pudding 319 — Beef ill, 119,383 Think of Me.'. »,. 56 — —and grafting 167 Spell, learning to 65 Thirty-Five "" 37fi — manufacturers. National Associa- Grape, Adirondac 143,319,335 — —Variableness of 239 — What shall he done with dry 319 — Cabbage 23 Successful Teaching 39 tion of 406 — Vicar of Winkfield Ill, 359 Broccoli. Boiled..:: 3^3 — Pea 11 Thoughts 228 — A seedless 271 Talking, loud 81 Thou Wilt Never Grow Old 388 — on wrinkleB 374 — — new hybrid 327 — Wilmington 151,351 Brown, To color... 127 — Potato Ill, 135 Teachers, aProblemfor 161 — Price of in 1864 197 Pears and fire-blight 287, 335 Butter, Substitute for 191 — Rice , Ill To My Love 364 — Allen's hybrid 327 Teaching Geography, Illustrated 393 — — Mignonette 144 — Proper length of 262 — Bogues Eureka 335 — Best for family use 63,71 Cake, An excellent 367 — Vegetable 135 Text Books for Teachers in the Class. 41 — Robinson's samples 168 — Canada wine 143 — Changing dwarf to standard 369 — Bread 31, 111, 215 Squashes, To cook summer 279 The Defects of our Education 329 — the Gorilla in Rochester Univer- — Specimens of. .80,174,182,190,198, — Dwarf. 7 — Baker's ginger...... 311 sity 129 — Concord 46,223,335 Stains from clothes, To take 369 — True Scholar 329 Triumph Hours 200 230, 254, 262, 270, 302 — Creveling '.....' 39, 319 — Discussion on...\ ..351, 359 — Cheap fruit , 15 — — silk, To take 375 — Educated Farmer 57 Woolen manufactures and Queen — culture, best localities for 23 — for Northern Wisconsin...: i. 103,127 — Currant 23 — on porcelain 391 — Newspaper in School 249 Twiliglt 44 Phillippa 182 — — Newworkon 103 — — Canada 127,175 — Caessy. 176 Straw color. To color )83 What an Educated man ought to know 113 Under theSnow 96 — Manufacturer's Convention 342 — — drying, plant 127 — Cream of tartar ., ;• 31 — for braiding, Preparing 247 Waiting by the Gate 56 — — Training the vine m When Education Commences 81 — ontheSteps 80 — undorclothing 182 — — and American Pomological Soc375 — in California 7 — Cup... 175 Strawberry short-cake 239 Words fitly spoken in School 73 Wrights imported sheep 70 — — fruit-room, keeping 31 — Clay 175 Walk Boldly Forth 136 — Culturist, Fuller's 159,167 Sugar, Maple 87 Whispering in School, 129, 249 Wandering 224 — Cuyahoga 327 — —the Island of Jersey 39 — Citron 271,383 Tea, Substitute for 279 — Keeping 63 — Delicate J5 What Folks Say 252 — Devereaux S9 Tomatoes, Cooking ripe 335 — ILove 48 — Delaware 46,367,391 — most liable to fire-blight 303 — Fruit 247 — for supper, To prepare 271 — New American Seedling 71 — Indian Loaf 15 — Pickling green 359 — Was It 224 — Diana 327 Poetical. When? 344 Horticultural.? — English Native 175 — New varieties ; 63 — Johnny 16,79,176 - Preserving green 367 — Pruning 79 — Jenny Lind 175 Toast, Milk 319 White, Pure White 176 — for Virginia 335 Winds 162 — Honey bee and 351 — Ripening and keeping winter . 383 — Jelly., 183,311,319 Vinegar, Recipe for Sorghum 3S9 Above the Crowd 312 Ailanthus silk worm 63 — Soil for 79 — Know Nothing 175 — To make good 23,119 Abstraction of Sorrow •. 48 Words 288 Alder, Tig 255 — Hartford Prolific 39,335 Work is Prayer ])2 — Husmann's mode of training the — The four best '.[ 3g — Loaf Jell....- 319 Wa'er color painting 207 A Camp Song 361 Annuals that should not be transplanted — Vote on 71 — Mineiva Z 175 A Cheap Barometer 377 Wounded 184 Concord 223 — To cleanse and soften 167 You Kissed Me 312 193 — How to plantthe 47, 223 — Wben to be gathered sb'i — Molasses 223, 255, 381 Wetting the broom 207 A Deserter , 273 Ants from Peonias, To drive 207 — Isabella 46,327,335 Peas, plantingdeep '.".''279 — Mountain 271 Win«, Elderberry 279,311 Affinity ;. 192 Aphides on pear Trees 191 — items. Western I03 Peonias, to drive ants from 207 — Mrs. Wilson's French 311 Wool, To cleanse 239,375 After Sunset 104 Apple, American Summer Pearmain.399 — Ives' Maderia 327 Plant for name 56, 175, 247" "263 — Poor man's... 87 Worms in dried fruit 55 Age and Youth 40 — Bachelor's blush 309 — Iona ,...327, 335 Plants, about crowding 135 — Pie plant short 119 Yeast cakes that will keep 391 A Hundred Years to Come 124 Story-Teller. — Brenneman and Klaproth 311 — Israellla 327 — for hanging baskets " 87 — Pork 175, 271, 359 — Making : 39 Alone 72 — Belmont 39, 87 — Laying down vines 47, 407 — from frost, to protect from " "287 — Roll jell 319 Yellow, To color 151,383,391 All about aPie 119 — Ben Davis 309 — Leaf-folder on the 335 — in flower, notes on 543 — Sorfa cream 311 alight .183 A Prisoner's Prayer "in Libbj" 384 — Best recently introduced 231 — named... 175,199, 223,239, 263, 279 " — Soft ginger 175 A Soldier's Letter 260 A Housekeeper Wanted 324 — Cassell and Ohio Nonpareil 309 — Lenoir 39 — Lydia 327 AT * r • 336* 359 — Sponge 175,223,311 — and a True Woman's Answer265 Allen Ellsworth's Home 212 — Cheney £09 — Maxatawne 327 — New mode of watering 407 — US. Grant 207 A Song for Children 49 A Touching War Story 60 — Cooper's Kedlin 3H — Modes of training... 47 — Purchasing annual ""143 — White 31 Useful, Scientific, &c. At Church 204 AuntMary 204 — Duchess of Oldenberg 399 — to the acre, number of. Y. 271 — Wedriing 71 - Dusk 8,32 CarlSwartz 316 — Mustang :... 65 Cakes. Fried 215 — destroyed in S. Ill 66 — Miles 327 — Watering when the sun shines "263 - the Door 408 Divorced 862 — Early harvest 399 — Nomenclature 167 Phlox Drummondi, varieties.. .'. 143 — Flannel 21 A Country without a reptile 97 - Sea 272 Enemies 404 — Esopus Spitzenberg 127 — Culture of perennial "183 — Strawberry short 239 Ailanthus silk worm 25 A Warning 352 Going West ,. 412 — Passe Hamburgh 197 — without eggs, Fried 63 — Evening Party 311 — Profits, varieties, &e 46 Plum, the Lombard "127 Air for consumptives, Fiesh 305 A Welcome to May 168 Golden Pippins ." 396 — Fallenwalder , 309 — Pruningthe 23 — trees, black knot on ."" "^79 Candles, Making 399 Amazon, The river 73 A Wife's Sigh 368 Home-Keeping vs. House-Keeping... 68 — Grimes' GoldenPippin 309.127 Catching cold 7 Antidote for poison 97 A Woman's Answer 896 In a Nut-Shell 308 — Rebecca 199,327 Plums in California "" 7 ll6 — graft fruiting This year's ..265 — Roger's hybrids 327 — — Southern Illinois "55 Catsup, Gooseberry 287 Arab horse-shoe 409 A Woodland Song 166 In Spite of My Curls — Henry Ward Beecher on the .... 407 — — Northern Wisconsin " 103 Cauliflower, Pickling 207 Ashes dangerous, Cold, dry 97,113 Beside her Grave 264 Jessie's Thanksgiving 380 — Soil for the 47,173, 223 — Boiled 343 — Jeffries 311 — Taylor 151 Pomological Society, American .7], 183, Associate to buy 97 Birds, Beesand Squirrels (with Music)268 Kind Words Saved Him 244 — King of TompkmsCoVI"".""'""309 — Trellis vs. Stakes 47,95 Cement, Diimond 1«, 71, 87 Attacus Cecropia 225 Blackberry ing 292 Living on the Top Shelf. 7« — — to hasten ripening 143 — Report of meeting.^09,'31l' Cheese and doughnuts 335 Atoms, Relative Mze of ultimate 377 Brave Hearts 320 LsstLove 340 — Kerosene oil on trees . , ' '245 319, 327,335, 313, 351,359, 367, 375, 383 — Cream 361 Aurora of 24th of August 305 By the River 361 Love and Ambition; or, He Doeth all — To get well ripened fruit 47 — making on a small scale 33s T — Lady """ "J03 OQ — Tc-Kalon 327 — officers 319 Bank Dotes, Lives of. 321 Carvinjr" >. «ime 24 Things Well .'.... 268,276 — Lippincott Sweet.'." !-sna — Underbill's Seedling 127 — members "319 — To keen flies from 247 — — To prevent forging 65 ci-ucy 28O Maggie Lee 180 — Magnum Bonum. -HI — report of fruit committee" 319 Chickens, To cook 271 Barometer, A cheap sa Childhood 80 Making Hay 300 — listMonmouts of 111h Pippin ' %uj — Union Village and Ontario .319 — Varieties for market 47 — Resolutions cf. 383 Prairie 295 Barometrical observers, For 377 Christian Musings ..264 Managing a Wife 364 — moth by Dr. Trimble": S75 — —Indiana 7, 39*"ni Chilblains 399 Bedrooms, Look to the.. 305 Claribel's Prayer 192 Manly Independence I™ — Milain ..y\ — vine worms 271 — — Ohio 15, 383 China, To mend 3J3 Bees, Treatment of sting of 201 Clouds and Sunshine 206 Margaret Reed ,8!> — — Reserve bud on 175 13 4 — Name wanted ?Ai — Wisdom 39 Cider, Preserving 23 Beginning of the yew; - 49 Dead : 40 Marian West V n — vines from single eyes 367 l — Northern spy {;; • iV? Portulaccas, double 216 319 Citron for cake. To prepare 383 Bishop Whately's brain toni; 273 Death of a Soldier 88 Mrs. Foster's Boarders \i® — orchard in Illinois .".".I m> $kl — — on Kellev's Island 63 Potatoes in place of Hyacinths, sweet 343 — To dry.....' 367 Bodily carriage 49 Directions to Lady Skaters 48 — Jones'Trials 236 — — Uncovering 135 — Sulphur for 135 Cob-webs. Save vour 247 Boilers, Upright.. 73 My Bequest 292 — — wanted 79 — Sweet '."lBl Cochineal, To color with 391,407 Brandy in case of exhaujtton, Sub- Dollie's Cradle 184 — Hospital Experience }**; — Winchester 196 — — Book on "215 Coffee, To make good 287 stitute for 1...377 Dreams 16O — Spring Campaign \'A Grapes and trellis, light wanted 103 Echo Poetry 128 1 Protection "231 Cone frames 71 Can« stripper, A - 161 Netty's Touchstone --: y "* — Rambo "' — and the Ohioans 263 Quinces and raspberries 279 Cookies 15. 47, 63, 79, 351, 247, 271, 311 Candy as a dessert '. 409 England and America 1863 64 Nina Ronaldson; or, The Heiress or — Red Astrakhan .•. 3?5 — atNauvoo, 111 143 Evening Prayer 409 82 Rabbits, Poisoning ""' 31 — Everlasting 151 Oat, Aflshing t. 25 La Grange ,w — Red Stripe "".". £» — Black Barbarrossa and Lady Radish, a large "391 — Molasses ]51 Chairs, A word about 121 Excellency of Christ 128 Popbingthe Question „*? — Rawles Janet iSx Downe; 143 Railroad resolution 335 — Tea 359 Children, Keep warm., 1C9 Fair Inez "248 Professor Halstead's Girl - • • • •?/* — seed, planting 07? — Bestkeeping 223 Firelight Fancies "104 3 Rainfall Y"m Corn-husk pillows 327 — Arms and legs of 169 Results; or, Worth Wins 1»» J<* — trees, trimming °yi ~ Cause of rot in <3 Raspberry, best forfam21yuse *27i Cornedbeef 7 City in the Rocky Momtains 169 Gedankenflug gg Sad Eyes.. *°S _ — Application of ley to 159 — Committee on 311 — Clark 15 Cotton as good as new, To make 399 Clay for dressing soils 153 Gentle River (with Music) ".".".'."••353 Scatter Blessings **2. _ — iDJuredyouog ,«» — Difficulties of Culture 191 — Ellisdale '. 30 Crackers 56 Consumption. Cure ff 217 Gentle Words **185 The Contrary Man ~2 — — Mulching ~."mi — Discussion on by American Pomo- — Keystone 335 " Give it to Somebody's George" 241 Crullers...."." 167 Cork-screw, Substittfefon r 153 — Countandthe Cousin "° ._ — worms and kerosene " ^99 logjcal Society 319, 327 — Marvel of four seasons '"175 Cucumbers, Cooking 319 Cost of cultivating l' d by steam 137 GodisLove \ 216 — Double Sacrifice „£; _ — dying at the. West 167" "263 — forCanada 127 — Philadelphia 15, 39, 336, 35Y 375 — for pickling, To preserve 271 Crying, Advantage pof 217 God's Providence "*."!!"" 64 — Drab Dress "2? _ — Hardy 207 ~ — Kreen-houses 135 — Semper Fidelis js Currants, Black 279, 327 Daylight in Norwa, Perpetual 273 Grandmother...... """""*""n*? — Hard School *j — — die, why 263 ~ — Maine 143 Raspberries and blackberries "255 — Preserving 247 Disinfecting Agent 201 He Lost his Arm....::." 7g — Madonna at the Ruins »* — — Washfor ill — — cold vinery 199 — and quinces "279 Custard, Snow 343 Drains of Paris... 321 Home on Furlough ... 104 — Old Flag £K — — Grafting old ,359 ~ —wine 223 Hope jg" 80 — Discussion on "37a Diarrhea 295 Earth yields rich"*. How the 49 — Soldier's Letter g^ — The Teigmnouth ]51 ~ r- market ." 223 — Food for "279 Dinner, Howto cook 1?3 Electricity in ast'.ma ol Hospital Scenes "."." '120 irom bearing •nmr.A no — Unmeant Rebuke"."."."..."."."." 348 — twig borer ,.1 [TWO DOLLAES A. YKAR. "PEOG-EE9S AND 3STO. WTVtt CENTS. YOL.XV NO.U ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOU THE WEEK ENDING SATUBJ)AY, JAMJAEY %, 1864. {WHOLE NO. 789. MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, AGRICULTURE AND THE GOVERNMENT. of course cost something, but the expense should own hobby hard may develop its paces and its AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY not be enhanced by expending large sums where points better than a duller horseman. But the IT is known to most of our readers that there there is not a reasonable prospect of profitable man who insists that because he has ascertained EURAL, UTEKARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. is established at Washington, a " Department of returns. Very doubtful experiments should aluoays that a particular kind of product or breed of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of be tried on a very small scale, or not at aU. s animals is best fitted to his particular climate, CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, which shall be to acquire and diffuse among '\e We are now so accustomed to spend money, soil and market, it must necessarily be so to all With a Corps of Able Assistants and Contributors. people of the United States, Useful Information that we may not be greatly horrified at expend- other climates, soils and markets, is simply an CHAS. D. ERAG-DON, Western Corresponding Editor, on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the ing a few hundred dollars annually, to settle amusing booby! It is just as absurd to HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. B.. most general and comprehensive sense of that doubtful points in our domestic economy. Shrewd attempt to decide this class of questions gener- Editor Department of Sheep Husbandry. word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute men know that the country is losing millions ally, or in the abstract, as it would be toattemp t among the people, new and valuable Seeds and every year because those points are not settled, to decide in the abstract whether a line of steam- SPECIAL CONTEIBTrrOHa: Plants." (I quote from the act establishing the —at least not settled in an authoritative and con- INTRODUCTORY. boats or a railroad and locomotives would Estab- P. BARRY, a DEWEY, LL. D., Department) Some of the labors of this De- vincing manner. Carefully conducted experi- lish the best mode of transportation betweeii two H. T. BROOKS, L. B. LANGWORTHY. partment are before me in the shape of a " Ke- To THE READERS OT THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: given points—irrespective of the factwhethlr the port" for 1862, in which are embodied disserta- ments are now the great want of our Agricul- W. T. KENNEDY. Jr.. Assistant Cffloe Editor. I HAVE engaged to edit, for a year, a space to be traversed was occupied by i^a or tions upon the wheat plant, cotton, flax, sorghum, ture, and private enterprise does not seem to un- dertake them. England has her MECHI and Department of SHEEP HUSBANDRY in the land I There are localities where fine-wooled THE RURAL NEW-YORKER is designed to be unsur- apples and pears, physiology of breeding, sheep RURAL NEW-YORKER. I bring to my aid in sheep are greatly and obviously the most profita- passed in Value, Purity, and Variety of Contents, and husbandry, horses, farm implements and ma- her LAWES, but America wonders and waits. the performance of this duty the experience of ble — where coarse-wooled sheep can not be kept unique and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor chinery, entomology, health of fanners' families, Whatever we do to raise agriculture to the devotes his personal attention to the supervision of its many years in the practical management of at any profit,— and there are localities where the Agricultural Statistics, &c, and trough, jostled about, run over, and put to assessment, and thirty days allowed for payment quite an interest manifested in the? Dairy Business, death by inches by the latter? Is every stable Communications, which, for convenience, may be made to any on< and quite an excitement on the Sheep question or shed in good repair, and every gate and door of some five or six individuals appointed as re and Wool Growing. These Departments of ceivers in different parts of the county. In casi operative life are not the staple of our country, about the sheep yard* securely hung ? We HAY AND STRAW, CUT AND UNCUT, AS knew a choice flock of full-blood Merino lambs payment is withheld beyond thirty days, thi but are important auxiliaries, and promise great No. 1, VOL. XV, OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKJSB—An FOOD FOR STOCK. pears in an entire new dress, and ought to be very DPP which were doing admirably up till the begin- insurance on such member's property ceases, bu good to our young and growing State. That the he is still liable to the company for the amoum aentable. If it is not what it should be in all respects ning of March last year. In a wild, stormy IN times like these when everything edibl public may know our present whereabouts, and the failure can scarcely be attributed to a lack of pam due. The Washtenaw County Co. now has note our future progress, I send you the result of night of rain and sleet, the door of their stable for the support of biped and quadruped is at or expense. Every type, rule, cut, etc., i3 " bran new » blew open, and seeing the light, or frightened very high price, it i.s important to know how t some twelve hundred members, and ovei our doings in these respects for the year 1862, as and moreover of the best style and material obtainable by the noise, they rushed out. The slamming feed animals in the most economical manner, $2,200,000 insurance on their books. The las shown by the assessment of 18G3: Though a small portion of the paper upon which our of the door or other causes, prevented their annual report of the directors showed that th Total No. of acres of Sorghum and Imphee,.. 36,667 large edition is printed is not such as we ordered and has been said with much reason, that hay cu expected, (our late experience with paper-makers co re-entrance. They were exposed to a pelting fine affords one-third more nutriment than haj cost of insuring one thousand dollars from th " " gallons of Molaase?, 3,012,396 n first organization of the Company up to tha " " lbs. of Sugar, 21,469 firms all preconceived notions in regard to total deprav- rain which penetrated to their skins, and before when fed unchaffed. The philosophy of this is, " " hives of Bees, 84,731 ity,) we still trust our present number exhibits marked morning the wind changed and froze severely. time (three and a half years) had been $1.2 " " lbs. of Honey, 1,052,685 improvement in appearance, while its contents will that hay, like straw, contains a large portion oi " " " Beeswax, <10,7H2 They took violent colds, and in the case of a cellulose (woody fiber) which, notwithstanding annually. The company has had eleven losses " " " Butter, 13,675,500 compare favorably with those of any of its predecessors number of them a low fever supervened. Five its insolubility, if only made soluble, is identical by fire since it commenced business, amounting " " " Cheese, 90'»701 The time required to change from old to new type " " Sheep at shearing time, 4Ofi. Winter — Winesap, Rawles' Janet, Domine, Jonathan, Willow Twig, Yellow Belle Flower, Talman Sweet, White Winter Pearmain, West- field Seek-no-further, Roman Stem, Northern Spy, Ramsdell's Sweet, Swaar. CALIFORNIA FRUIT ITEMS. FOR TRIAL. — Winter— White Belle Flower, CORNED BEEF, PICKLE FOR HAMS, &c White Pippin, Paradise Winter Sweet,- N. Y. HEBE are some items given me by a horticul- Pippin, Tompkins County King, Hubbardston's Nonesuch, Broadwell, Newton Pippin, Rhode EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER:—Below you will tural friend who has spent some time in Culifor- Island Greening. find a few valuable recipes that have been well ia He was located forty-five miles from Sai; Autumn—¥&\l Orange, Northern Sweet, Fall tested for years by a housekeeper who would Francisco at Suscoi. These items were noted Wine, Montreal Beauty Crab, Transcendent like them more generally kndwn, and who takes down by me as he gave them, during a genera! Crab. pleasure in contributing a little useful knowledge Summer—Kirkbridge White, Duchess of Old- conversation. enberg. to your highly prized paper: GOOSEBERRIES.—They are very easily grown FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT. CORNED BEEF.—One cwt. beef; 6 Jbs. fine there and sell in market at from five to twelve i FOR MARKET. — Summer—Early Harvest, salt; i fi>s. brown sugar. Pack the meat with and a half cents per pound. They are marketed Golden Sweet. this mixture, rubbing over every portion of the in peach baskets—some of the largest of these Autumn—Maiden's Blush, Bailey's Sweet. Winter—White Pearmain, Domine, Winesap, same. Let it lie 24 or 36 hours; then make a r will contain 45 pounds. This gentleman had New Y ork Pippin, Willow Twig, Rawles' Janet, brine of two quarts of salt and two oz. saltpetre, superintended the picking, boxing, and had Newtown Pippin (upon rich limestone soils, with and let it just boil. Skim, and when cold, pour weighed five tuns of gooseberries, the product of high cultivation.) over the meat. FOR FAMILY USE.—Summer—Yellow June, three-quarters of an acre of land! Tliis was in Early Harvest, Sweet June, Red Astrachan, PICKLE FOR HAMS.—For one cwt. take four 18U2. The reader will agree with me that it is Keswick Codlin, Golden Sweet, Ramsdell's gallons water; 4 oz. saltpetre; 6 fts. good coarse a pretty big item. Sweet, Summer Pearmain, Benoni, Carolina Red June. salt; 1 quart molases. Scald and skim this brine APPLES FROM OREGON.—Oregon ships to Autumn—Maiden's Blush, Fall.Wine, Bucking- as for beef. To remain in this pickle six weeks, gan Francisco from 5,000 to 7,000 boxes of apples ham, Bailey's Sweet, Fulton, Hubbardston's then soak over night in pure water before per week. These bring from two to five cents Nonesuch, Fall Swaar of the West, Snow. Winter— Domine, Jonathan, Pryor's Red, smoking. per pound. They are sold to dealers at auction Swaar, White Winter Pearmain, Roman Stem, To DYE SCARLET YARN.—One oz. cochi- on the wharf. Peck's Pleasant, ^Csopus, Spilzenberg, Wine- neal; 2oz. muriate of tin; 1 oz. cream tartar; sap, New York Pippin, Rawles' Janet, New- APPLES IN CALIFORNIA.—Apples begin to town Pippin, White Belle Flower, Lady Apple. put the cochineal and cream tartar in first, and ripen the 6th of June. They have apples the FOR TRIAL.—Early Joe, Downing's Paragon, wl\en it is nearly boiling then add the tin. year round without any difficulty. Notwith- Rome Beauty, Ladies' Sweeting, Romanite, Boil half an hour in brass. White Pippin, Nickajack. standing its size the fruit is solid and eats and INDELIBLE INK THAT WILL NOT EAT THE keeps well. The flavor is as good as any of the FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT. CLOTH.—About an inch in length of nitrate of same varieties he ever tasted here. They used FOR MARKET.—Early Harvest, Red Astra- chan, Carolina Red June, Yellow Belle Flower, silver, put into a very small bottle, and dissolve to keep the Yellow Newtown Pippin in boxes in Rawles' Janet, Winesap, Newtown Pippin, New in strong vinegar; keep in a dark place,—corked the barn until July. Has often weighed Gloria York Pippin, Pryor's Red. close. Mundi's that weighed 30 to 33 ounces each. And FOR FAMILY USE.—Early Harvest, Large Preparation.—One teaspoonful salts of tartar; he says these apples eat finely! A great many Yellow Bough, American Summer Pearmain, Rambo, Yellow Belle Flower, Pryor's Red, New- i teaspoonful gum Arabic, dissolved in soft wa- varieties are cultivated for market. The most town Pippin, Rawles' Janet, White Winter ter,—bottle close. Saturate the place to be profitable early varieties are Keswick Codlin, Pearmain, Buckingham. marked with this preparation, and, when nearly Dutcbess of Oldenberg, " White June Eating," FOR TRIAL.— Yellow June, Sine-qua-non, Benoni, Porter, Rome Beauty, Willow Twig, dry, smooth with a warm iron; then (shaking Early Harvest, Bed Astrachan, Summer Rose, Nickajack. the ink before using) mark with the ink, and "William's Favorite, Summer Pearmain. These expose to the sun until the writing turns to a are the most profitable—the first two because of jet black. their earliness, and the rest because of color. SOFT SOAP.—Put six pails of good lye into a Anything red will sell ahead of anything else. barrel, one pail of boiling hot grease (to be nice The most profitable fall varieties are Rambo, MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — We should be strained) poured into the lye. Stir well. Baldwin, Esopus Spitzenberg, Gloria .Mundi, THE PENDULOUS LINDEN. learn from a circular issued by its officers that the Fifth Next day stir thoroughly, and add five pails of Cathead Greening, Yellow Belleflower, Roxbury Annual Meeting of this Society will be held at St. Louis HAEDY ORNAMENTAL TREES-NO. L popular as a street tree, and there arc still in the soft water. Stir often for several days. Let any Russet, Rhode Island Greening, Fall Pippin, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Jan. older cities some fine avenues of it. Of late one who wants a good soap, and nice-looking, Swaar, Tompkins Co. King, Zalpchocken. Of THE LINDEN. 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th, 1864. Delegatesfrom Horticul - years, however, in some places the European tural and Agricultural Societies are cordially invited, try this. DAISY. these, he says Esopus Spitzeneurg sells ahead of THE Linden or Lime Tree is the Tilia of Bota- species has been attacked by a borer. The and all persons interested in Horticultural improvement Binghamton, N. Y., 1863. anything else. Has seen them sell at seven to nists, and belongs to the natural order Tiliacas. American species has not, to our knowledge, are requested to attend. The ladies are especially invi- nine cents per pound when other varieties sold ted to lend their influence in this cause, and to grace the The American species is known by the common been attacked by this borer, and no tree that we MINCE PLE, LINCOLN SAUCE, &C. at 3$ cents — all on account of color. He says name of Basswood. know in the catalogue is more worthy a place on assemblies by their presence. Specimens of Fruits, the above varieties may be properly called fall Flowers, Plants, Vegetables, Wines, Seeds, and otter In nearly all parts of Europe, the Linden has the lawn or in the avenue than our beautiful MINCE PIE.—I notice a call for a recipe. varieties there. But I see that California cata- products, are earnestly solicited. Arrangements have for ages been one of the most popular of orna- native Linden. Take meat for six pies; add two-thirds as much logues do not agree with him altogether in this been made with all the railroads in Missouri, by which mental trees. In every park and pleasure The WHITE-LEAVED AMERICAN LINDEN members will be furnished free passes for returning apple; having both ehopped./irae; one teacup of classification. He gives the following as the ground you visit in Great Britain or on the Con- ( Tilia alba) is the finest species—a noble, erect, home. Application has been made to the Illinois rail boiled cider, or cold tea, or coffee will answer; most profitable winter varieties. Newtown tinent, you will find splendid specimens of this rapid-growing tree, with large leaves, quite roads, asking the extension of a like favor for Horticul- one-half a pound of butter: a pint basin of nice Pippin, — green and yellow, — White Winter tural friends from other States. It is confidently ex- tree, but it is in the public avniuios and prome- hoary underneath. There is a pendulous variety sirup; add of salt, cinnamon, pepper, allspice, Pearmain, Wine Sap Morgan, Rawle's Janet, pected it will be granted by all railroad companies who nades that it prevails over all others. For this of this, T. alba pendch, the most graceful, and, appreciate the efforts that give value to the country cloves and raisins to suit the taste; spread thin Wagener, Monmouth Pippin. The last named, purpose it seems to have a peculiar fitness—free, as Mr. SARGENT sqys, the most ornamental of on a flaky crust and bake quick. If you have he says, promises to be the apple. It bears early, through which their roads pass. The order of business upright growth, a well balanced, graceful head, all the Lindens. We give a portrait of this tree includes addresses and essays from prominent Horticul- not the apple, bread may be used in place of it, is a good and beautiful apple. and sweet-scented flowers. The 'growth is rapid from ELLWANGER & BARRY'S illustrated cata- turists, discussions on fruits, etc. after scalding it in vinegar. Use more moisten- WORMS AND CURCULIO.—He had never seen enough; it bears transplanting Avell, even when logue of 'Omamenta/ Trees. ing with the bread than when apple is used. the curculio there nor a wormy fruit. The fruit of large size, and the branches bear shearing or Of the European species, there are some va- ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL awar^x.- orjn- T T>JCOLN «»TTrjfl.—Perhaps many readers of is very seldom imperfect. clipping to any extent. In the old formal Dutch rieties particularly ornamental, viz., the Red- CKRS ELECT, &C—At the meeting of this Society recent- the RURAL may not know that sauce wiiivu is PEAKS.—Pears ripen early in June; and the style of gardening, where everything was clip- twigged, (ruhn,) the Golden, (aurea,) and the ly held at Alton, the following officers were elected cheap, but equal to the best, may be made from Early Beurre keeps well until that date the ped, the Linden was one of the most useful Cut-leaved, (asdniala.) for 1864: President — SMILEY SHEPHERD, of Bureau Co. Vice Presidents—At large, O. B. Galusha, Lisbon; the common pumpkin. Cut the pumpkin in succeeding year. • The pears grow to an enor-^ trees, as it was also one of the most extensively In the nurseries the Linden is seldom propa- small pieces, and boil twenty minutes in vinegar; employed. 1st District, Jno. Periam, Thornton; 2d, C. N. Andrews, mous size. The Pound Pear, which he says is a gated from seed, but from layers and by grafting Rockford; 3d, A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove; 4th, J. add one-half a pound of sugar for every pound of popular fruit, though poor, and good only for In this country the Linden was formerly very and budding. H. Stewart, Qnincy; 5th, W. A. Pennell, Granville; the pumpkin, after taking from the vinegar; cooking, grows to weigh three or four pounds. 6th. J. O. Dent, Wenona; 7th, M. L. Dunlap, Cham- cook slowly for two hours, and season with The average weight of a Bartlett as grown there paign; 8th. O. M. Col man, Bloomington; 9th, C. C. lemon. Cook in porcelain or tin, and you will YORKER against the impositions of designing have no business to blow double, like those flowers is a half pound,— has seen Duchess de Angou- 8turtevan$Beardstown; 10th, Jno. Huggins, Wood- have sauce that will be so nice no one will sus- that Mr. VICK sent us. We know better, for lemes and Flemish Beauties frequently weigh men? biirn: 11th, Charles Kennicott, Sandoval; 12th, E. S. pect of what it is made. over a pound each. The most popular summer First and foremost then, I charge ELLWANGER have not OUT mothers raised Zinnias and such Hull, Alton; 13th, T. J. Evans, South Pass. Cor. Sec. —W. C. Flagg, Moro. Rec. Sec. — C. W. Murtfeldt, NICE FLAVORING EXTRACT. — Slice three pears are Bartlett, (extra,) Elizabeth Manning, & BARRY, nurserymen of Rochester—advertised , things, from our boyhood up, and who ever saw Rockford, and Parker Earle, South Pass; Treasurer— lemons into one pint of alcohol. Lodge, Madelaine, Jargonelle, and Doyenne as such in the RURAL—of having imposed upon double ones? It is clearly not legitimate. It is C. H. Dimmock, Alton. Executive Com.—Smiley Shep- Wadham's Mills, N. Y., 1863. MRS. P. V- CLARKE. d'Ete. The most popular autumn varieties are me in manner following, to wit:—They sent me time a stop is put to such things! herd, G. W. Minier, O. B. Galusha. Finally, Mr. Editor, if you are willing to Belle Lucrative, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Diel, various and many things, bearing strange names, The attendance at this meeting was the largest in its Bonne d'Ezee, Duchess de Angouleme, Emile when I simply ordered of them a few plain "chalk up," and do the fair thing, I will be history. The exhibition of Fruits and Wines was very CATCHING COLD.— One of the most fruitful d'Heyst, Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jer- things, such as apples, pears, cherries "and such reasonable in my bill of damages. But, if you good. The papers read were in the main valuable and and certain causes of severe colds is the habit sey, Merriam Marechal Dillew, Marie Louise, like." When I wrote them that I wanted PEARS, j compel me to "go to law," you will be made to profitable, and the discussions spirited and practical.— many have of going into warm rooms from the Nouveau Poiteau, Parred'Albert, Seckel, Swan's did they not send me such things as Dutchesse suffer considerable, " if not more.' cold air, and retaining all their wrappings of Orange, Urbaniste Seedling. Of winter pears, D'Angovkme, Loum Bonne De Jersey, and other Rolling Prairie, Wis., 1863. L. L. FAIECIIILD. shawls, hoods, furs and overcoats. They " can the following are named as the best:—Beurre such outlandish things. When I asked of them, INDIANA POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The Third Annnal only sit a few minutes," and so stay and chat a Bretanneau, Beurre Easter, Columbia, Glout and sent them money for Cherries, they sent me ILLINOIS APPLE LISTS. Meeting of this Society will convene in the city of quarter or half an hour, get in a slight perspira- Morceau, Josephine de Mature, Pound. There Oov. Wood, May Duke, Donna Marias, and even Indianapolis on Tuesday, January 5th, 1864, and con- tion, and go out thus in the wind and cold. In AT the meeting of the Illinois State Horticul- tinue in session four days. A general invitation is a few minutes they are cold and shivering, espe- are other varieties on trial that are promising. Black Eagles. Now, Mr. Editor, would you be extended to all persons who are in any way interested, tural cially if riding, and too often a severe and seri- willing to part with your money, and receive Society, Dec. loth, the State was divided in Fruit Culture. All who can possibly do so, are invi- Jnto thl>ee STRAWBERRIES.— The strawberry season such trash as Governors and Blade Eagles? Is it ' grand divisions, or fruit districts—the ted to take with them samples of fruits a,nd wines. An ous cold is thus caught, the sufferer wondering commences about the first of May and continues not outrageous when a man sends for Pears, to | Northern, Central and Southern. The bounda- interesting meeting may be expected. On thefirst da y how and where. Better always throw off, at as long as people want the fruit—from two and We a batch of Duchesses and Marias sent to ' ries between these districts were fixed as fol- addresses are to be given by the President, I. D. G. least partially, your furs, unpin your shawl and a half to three months. The bulk of this fruit him? What can a married man do with such lows:—The line of the Logansport, Peoria and NKLSON, and Dr. JOHN A. WARDER. Several other throw it from your neck; loosen or lay aside prominent persons who are announced as Essayists, grown is from seedlings. The British Queen and property ? It is enough to break up all family Burlington railroad is the boundary between the furs, and unbutton your coat, even if but for a Ajax are considerably cultivated. The Wilson have been written to, and nearly all have answered few minutes' stay, and not fasten them till just ties, and make a regular smash-up in a man's Northern and Central districts; the line of the favorably. The reading of the essays will be followed is favorably regarded where it has been tested. Haute alld Alton ready to go out. A little attention to these household. Then, as if not enough to satisfy Terre railroad the boundary by discussions. But seedlings are so abundant and fine that little their desires, they committed the following sins between the Central and Southern districts. On trifles will be no trouble, and will save many a attention has been paid to improved varieties. of omission against this humble individual. They the first day of the session of the Society, O. B. sore throat and bad cough, and, perhaps, life in DRY WALKS TOR WINTER.—We should be remiss in the end.—QUEKCHY, New York, 1863. PLUM.S.—The plum product is spoken of as never put into the bill, or the box, a single root GALUSUA moved to appoint a Committee of three fl om our duty were we to neglect, at this season of the year, excellent. As before said no curculio is there to of Canada Thistle, no, net even a seed. They even ' each district to report lists of Apples to repeat our counsel as to the great comfort and con- trouble. Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gage, Im- were so penurious as not to put in one single root to be recommended by the Society for cultiva- venience which dry walks insure about dwellings, barns CLARIFYING MOLASSES.—Common molasses perial Ottoman, Jefferson, Dennison's Superb, of that very desirable (?) grass called "quack." : tion, for the following purposes:—1st, For Mar- and outhouses generally in winter and early spring. may be clarifiVd and rendered much more palata- ! ket We are pained sometimes to see the utter negligence and Washington are regarded the best. Other Do you suppose I am going to stand such things, ; 2d, For Family Use; 3d, For Trial. The ble by heating it over the fire and pouring in varieties, as Columbia, Coe's Late Red, Duane's prevailing upon some premises in this respect. A few when I can prove by a firm of New York nursery- fllfollowini g committeeitt s were appointedapointed : sweet milk in the proportion of one pint to a Purple, Lombard, Magnum Bonum, Orange, old boards, or a dollar's worth, or two, of new boards, Northern Dbdrkt—O. B. GALUSHA, of Ken- gallon of molasses. When the molasses boils up and others are good. men that such things are in order ? Do I not nice flat stones, or a liberal supply of coal ashes would know it of my own eyes ? For did not said nur- dall Co.; A. R. WHITNEY, of Lee Co.; and C. save ten times the cost in shoe-leather, damp feet, colds, once, the albumen in the milk collects all the CHERRIES.—The following varieties are highly serymen send me fine samples of both of the W. MONTFELDT, of Winnebago Co. doctors' bills and loss of time. Coal ashes laid on dry impurities in a thick scum on the top, which spoken of:—Arch Duke, Black Tartarian, Eure- above plants? You "can't fool me," when I Central Distrkt-m. E. S. HULL, of Madison ground to the depth of three or four inches, after re- must be carefully removed, and the molasses is ka, May Duke, and Ohio Beauty. The Kentish, have such good proof of the legitimate way of Co.; J. H. STEWART, of Adams Co.; and C. R. moving the mud, make a first-rate walk, and they can then fit for use. Bullock's blood is also used for be put to no better use. The difference to be seen upon Kirtland's Mammoth', Bright Early Black, Early doing business! OVERMAN, of McLean Co. this purpose, but milk is more agreeable in many Purple Guigne, Flesh Colored Bigarreau, Down- a premises where dry walks are provided wherever Southern District-W. C. FLAGG, of Madison needed, when compared to others where this moral in- ways. er's Late Red, Doctor, Davenport's Early, and Now, Mr. Editor, there is another Rochester man that you have advertised extensively, sir- Co.; G. II. BAKER and P. R-^WRIGHT, of fluence has no abiding place, is enough to make us Buttner's October Morello, are being successfully Union Co. shiver as well as to cause us to feel for the absence of APPLE JELLY.—One pound moist sugar, one J named VICK ; I supposed his father must have tested. social charities in the family. C. I). B. called him JAMES, as I see he appends something These committees reported the following lists, pound apples, one lemon—the juice of the lemon of the sort to the other name. I put money in which were adopted by the Society: to be used and the rind added—cut very fine. HORTICULTURE, FLORICULTURE, ETC. a letter and sent it to him-. What do you suppose FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT. DWARF PEARS.—Referring to two men, the American Boil the whole tUI it becomes a perfect jelly. he sent me in return ? Seed! .yes, cabbage seed, FOR MARKET.— Winter—Wine Sap, Rawles' Agriculturist, says:—" What is the truth upon this sub- Let it stand in a mold till quite firm and cold. [IT is proper to state that the following " abusive ject? Both these men are right. Dwarf pears are a Turn out, and stick it with almonds; set custard article has never been seen by either of the parti es named tomato seed, flower seed. Well, that was not success with the first man, because he takes care of a* doing the things charged, and that we "assume the round. If for dessert, use a small mold, plain. what I complain of. But of this:—The cabbage Belle Flower, Northern Spy. them, and a nuisance to the latter, because he pays no responsibility " of its publication, promising to " chalk Autumn—Famcuse, Bailey's Sweet, Maiden's n seed all grew! Well, anybody knows that was attention to them. I have been cultivating pears since P " to avoid a suit at law.—ED.] not right that ever bought a paper at a "store." 1850, and have now about 150 trees, standards and [SPECIAL NOTICE.] MR. EDITOR:—Before commencing an action You may fool young birds "with chaff," but not Summer—licA Astrachan, Carolina Red June, dwarfs. The first trees planted were suckers, contrary BEWARE or IMPOSITION.—Some unprincipled parties against you for damages, I thought I would one who has bought cabbage seed for years, and Keswick Codlin, Early Pennock, Sweet June. to the advice of the books, and to the practice of the have put up a large amount of worthless s»tuff called write you and sen if you are willing to make the never had a dozen plants to a paper grow. Then, FOR F AM I L Y VsK.-Summer—Early Harvest, best pomologists. They were respectively budded with Saleratus, and scattered it all over the Western States, ' amende honorable" for certain "actions and the- Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jersey, White much to the detriment of D. B. De Land & Co.'s excel- did not all of the tomatoes grow "smooth," when Doyenne and Winter Nelis, and havtejiever thrown up lent Saleratus. This worthless stuff is P^ «P in blue things" which this individual has suffered at every novice knows that they oughg t to be rougg h j Autumib—yiimeuse.,'Autumibyiimeuse.,ByBailey's Sweet, Maiden's a sucker. The last two bore for the first time last year, or green paper and called "B- B. De Land & Co. "a the hands of two firms of RURAL Advertisers. lh Atmn Strawberr Hi Housewives'Favorite," while D. B. DeLand & Co.'a r nave like a wash board. It won't answer, Mr. Editor, Blush, Fall Swaar, Autumn Strawberry, Hoi- though they have had good cultivation, plenty of ' you not, at divers times, promised to manure, and have been shortened in every year. The Housewives' Favorite or Chemical Saleratus is put up Protect the subscribers of the RURAL NEW- You know, too, that flower seeds ; Crab Fulton. others began to bear three or four years earlier." in bright red papers. Beware of the imposition. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection ———_____-—--— of them by. And yet, our doubtful friends of the home- you will either have to break yourself o And spun will enjoy the neighborhood of such a •someday, or carry them to vour home- And farmer and profit by it. They love to sell him I can assure you no nice young man would select such a girl for a permanent house-keeper. "likely young colts;" they eagerly furnish him Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. Written for Moore's Kural New-Yorker. Port Huron, Mich., 1863. FANNT FLOYD. with butter (at the town price) and possibly with AT DTJSK. *^-* . REMEMBER ME. eggs; his own fowls being mostly fancy ones, SOWING AND REAPING. bred for premiums, and indisposed to lay largely: Written for Moore's Ilural New-Yorker. OH I tell me if—when I am pillowed in Death, BT OLIO STiSIiKT. in short, they like to tap his superfluities in a BT MAEIA M. JONES. LET ITS BEAUTIFY OUR HOMES. When his pale seal is set on my brow- hundred ways. They admire Mr. TALLWEED, When lost is my feverish, flickering breath, TIME for the bright blue eyes to close particularly on Fair days, when he appears in Lot morning's ushering stars arise, BEAUTIFY your home. Plant trees,—plant You will think of me kindly as now? And the fringea lids to fall, the dignity of manager for some special interest; In orient fair clouds serene, vines,—plant flowers. Though it is but a little I ask thee not often to mention my name, And darkness shunned from off the skies, For the evening breeze, with rustling sound, brown house, if there are trees grouped about Not often to think of my bier; and remark among themselves that " the Squire Leaves victor day's bright silv'ry beam I Creeps through the grasses tall ; But when I'm remembered,—oh, bear me the same makes a thunderin' better committee-man than And where the moon looked coldly down, Time for the rosy lips to breathe it, vines creeping up its rough sides, flowers Fond affection you've given me here! he does farmer." And when they read of him Who vigils throngh the darkness kept, The tender, sweet good-night; growing plentifully around, it is a place of in their agricultural journal—if they take one— Now morning tinges with a crown •So happy Sleep beauty. Don't think money or time wasted When the heart-beat of hope in its casket 5s dead, Which rivals hues where twilight slept. My baby keep, that is spent in beautifying your home. Here And the life-leaping pulse is at rest: as a progressive and successful agriculturist, they "Till sunny morning light are gathered together your heart treasures. The silver chord loosed, and my languishing head laugh a little in their sleeves in a quiet way, and The bird, tho first to spy the beam, Dropping low on the pale monarch's broast conceive, I am afraid, the same unfortunate With joyous notes sprung from her nest; Time for the little feet to pause Here you come for rest when weary. Here you When I quietly sleep >neath tho turf's velvet green, distrust of the farm journal, which we all enter- The flowers, wakened from night's dream, In their tread, so fairy light, retire when jostled too rudely by this rough From the world's witching haunts far away— Now rock their crowns on th' Zephyr's breast I Time for the little hands to fold world,—when sickened with its selfishness and tain—of the political ones. Yetthe Squire is Oh I sometimes recall what we are, and have been, So Nature quickly springs to life, O'er the robe, so dainty white; as innocent of all deception, and of all ill-intent deceit,—for here are love, and truth, and sympa- And love me as well as to-day. Athwart the dullness of the night- Time for our little one to rest in the matter, as he is of thrift in his farming. thy. Can too much pains be taken to beautify a Back from her calm into her strife, In quiet, peaceful sleep; I ask for no fonder affection to breathe Whoever brings to so practical a business the spot to you so dear—so entirely your own. From light to darkness, then to light! Good angels, care Its tribute with sympathy's tear, ambition to astonish by the enormity of his For baby fair, Judging by the majority of country places, I No blossoms of beauty my pillow to wreathe crops, at whatever cost, is unwittingly doing Ye who are on the road to fame, Your trust securely keep. will imagine what your home is now. A thrifty- Than the ones you have culled for me hero. discredit to those laws of economy, which alone Oh! heed this lesson and the song, Philadelphia, Pa., 1863. looking place,—a white, clean looking house,—a And when, in the future, a hallowed spell justify and commend the craft to the thoroughly "Us not a breath— No! not a name, From the past o'er thy, spirit shall come, back-ground of outbuildings, a little square yard earnest worker. For which you toil so slow and longi in front, a bunch of pansies, a pair of lilac Will memory whisper you love me as well The darkness of the night ie deep, Written for the Rural New-Yorker. The daylight's beaming long and slow, bushes, an old maple somewhere in some corner, As when I was with you at home? THEN AND NOW—NASAL AND BROGUE. HINTS TO SCHOOL GIBXS. —that is all. As good as your neighbors, you Bethany, N. Y., 1863. MoLLtB Yet still, your watchful vigils keep, will say, and you are satisfied. Now I wish I think it is well to remember the good old Watch still wilh faith for morning's glow. times—and contrast them with the present, that THE bleak wintry winds are whistling around farmers would do away with this as-good-as- For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. Place firm one hand in GOD'S on high, the house, unceremoniously intruding themselves other-folks' idea, and have a little more individ- "MY FARM OF EDGEWOOD." perchance we may not arrogate to ourselves too And sow the little seed with care, through every crack and crevice, swaying the uality. Tear down the fence of that little, great a degree of progress; or that we may then There ever Hves a watchful eye— bare brown limbs of the cherry tree which so penurious-looking, square front yard,1 though it "HAVE you read IK MARVEL'S new book?" better appreciate what we now possess or enjoy. A lore that still will watch it there; Ohl weep not at life's cheerless lot, lately rustled its green foliage against the win- is "just like all the neighbors." Inclose in your asked a friend, the other day. To this end I copy MITCHELL'S felicitous por- dow. The modest little snow flakes come whirl- traits of Nasal and Brogue: Nor murmur that thy path is straight, yard all the ground you can conveniently spare, "No, I haven't." Thine is reward which all have not, ing cautiously, easily down, until they quietly "Well, you had better buy and read it; it will "There lived some twenty or thirty years ago, then fill it with shrubbery,—lilacs, syringa, The end is Heaven's golden gate! settle upon the white carpet so daintily thrown snowballs,—such as can be had almost anywhere just suit you." in New England, a race of men, American born, over the faded earth, as if to hide it from our and who, having gone through a two winters' Webster, Michigan, 1863. for the asking. Get some vine, and train it over So I bought it, wondering why " it would just «-•-* view until it can appear in a more beautiful the portico. Let vines creep and cling around course of district school ciphering and reading, suit me," I've been reading it. Some passages Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. garb. While sitting here so cozily all alone, every door, and tie them up till they " look in at in it do suit me—"just suit me;" and I believe with cropped tow heads, became the most inde- I AM GOING HOME. looking dreamily out of the window, my mind the highest window." Plant roses by the win- it should have a wide circulation. Some passages fatigable and ingenious of farm workers. Then wanders back to the winters that are past, dows, by the doors. Buy three or four of the hoeing was a sleight of hand; they could make are exceedingly suggestive, and the suggestions A FEW more weeks, a few more weary days when I bore the sweet name of student, and par- beautiful climbing roses, and train them over an ox yoke, or an ax helve, on rainey days; may do good. So, MOORE, you will pardon me and restless nights, a few more sun-risings and ticipated in all the pleasures, anxieties and dis- rude arches,—set'in here and there among the by adroit manipulation they could relieve a if I let 'em suggest, and segregate a little. settings, then the last lesson Will be learned and appointments accompanying this period of our shrubbery bunches of peonies, lilies, etc.,—hardy choking cow, or as deftly hive a swarm of recited, the last counsel given, tke last good-bye lives. Remembering the many trials and temp- flowers that thrive without much care,—then, "A PRETENTIOUS FALSEHOOD." bees. Their furrows, indeed, were not of received, and I shall go home. Home, to a tations to which young girls are subjected on in some choice spot, make two at least, large The author had advertised for a farm of 100 the straightest, but their control of a long father's approving smile and a mother's clasping leaving home, and the influence of a kind and flower beds—border them round with pinks, or acres. In answer to the advertisement came team of oxen was a miracle of guidance.— arms; home to mingle in the society of manly loving mother, to go forth among strangers, I polyanthus, or dwarf lilies, and fill them with one letter "from a widow lady, inviting atten- They may have carried a bit of Cavendish twist brothers and gentle, confiding sisters; home to thought it would not be amiss to drop a few annuals and choice plants. Around the back- tion to the admired place of her late husband," in their waist-coat pockets; they certainly did all the happiness and endearments of the fireside words of friendly advice to such as have already door set maples and willows,—at the side of the who had " an unusual taste for country life, and not waste time at lavations; but as farm work- circle. And what matter though that home be commenced their course. house, evergreens, balsams or cedarg. Make a had expended large gums in beautifying the ers they had rare aptitude; no tool came amiss a homely one, though its walls be unadorned rough frame over the well, and set a grape-vine farm," &c to them; they cradled, they churned if need The first and most important consideration, with magnificent paintings and heavy tapestry. to nun over it. Along the roadside, too, plant were; they chopped and piled their, three cords after being thrown into a promiscuous crowd The farm-hunter, after deciding the place What though the floor be uncarpeted, though no trees,—thus, lindens, maples, willows,—there is of wood between sun and sun. With bare feet of schoolmates, is to select those whom you "inadmissible, upon the wtole, as a desirable costly viands grace our table and far-brought a beauty in variety,—let them stretch along the and a keen-whetted six-pound Blanchard, they wish for your associates. In doing this, remem- plaoe on which to test the economies of a quiet luxuries tempt our appetites ? It matters not so whole length of your farm, in one long sweep of laid such clean broad swaths through the fields ber that a good and beautiful heart is often hid farm-life," utters the, following paragraph of long as there are sunny smiles, kindly words and beneath a homely exterior. We are all too beauty. good sense: of dewy herdsgrass, as made 'old-country-men' stare. By a kind of intuition, they knew the loving tones—so long as there be warm hearts, liable to judge by the dress. Many a poor stu- " I can conceive of nothing so shocking to a Now allow me to glance for a moment inside locality of every tree and of every medicinal herb and ready hands, and willing feet—so long as dent has been slighted merely because dressed hearty lover of the country as to live in the your home. It is a convenient, comfortable- that grew in the woods. Rarest of all which those I love are gathered there. in plain, simple, or, perhaps, odd garments; or glare of another man's architectural taste. In looking place, the snow-white curtains at the they possessed, was an aouteness of understand- they may not have had the benefit of the most the city or tho town there are conventional laws I am going home. I know that at the thought window are suitable and pretty. The family ing which enabled them to comprehend an genteel society, and appear awkward. If these of building, established by custom and by limi- the bloom deepens on my cheek, that my dim Bible lies on the nicely dusted table, and by its order before it was half uttered, and to meet oc- are their only faults, if they are industrious, atr tations of space, to which all must in a large eyes grow brighter, my step more elastic, and side the "weekly journal." But it don't look casional and unforeseen difficulties with a steady tentive, and always come to the class with good measure conform; but withithewidth of broad the blood bounds more joyously through my just right. What is wanting? Tt is something assurance, as if they had been an accepted part lessons, they are just the ones whom you.mu* acres around one, I should chafe as mnch at veins. more to feed the mind,—to raise and keep it of the problem. It was possible to send such a Rdaat &mnn& J-°TIT irienUs, and endeavor to en- living in the pretentious house of aiother man's Is it always thus? We are all teachers and above the monotony of every-day hie. Put man into a wood with his team, to select a stick courage and assist ordering and building, as I should ctafe at living scholars in the school of life, but soon the last task books and papers on the tables, plants in the of timber of chestnut or oak that should measure will be completed, our life-book closed, and the If you are old enough to go to school—of course in another man's coat. Country architecture windows, pictures on the walls, and you have a given amount; he could be trusted to findsuc h Great Teacher will summon us home. Home to you ought to know what you go for. Far too whose simpKcity or rudeness is so far subordi- indeed a pleasant-looking home. The wee little —to cut it, to score it, to load it; if the gearing the "many mansions" in our "Father's house" many are unmindful of the value of their time, nated to the main features of the landscape as not birds will nest in the vines, the robins will build broke he could be trusted to mend it; if the tree —home to walk in the company of the "just and throw it away upon the many amusements to provoke special mention, may be any man's in the balsams,—the flowers unfold in beauty lodged, he could be trusted to devise some arti- made perfect"—to see our SAVIOR as he Is, and brought forth by the idle heads that care noth- building; but wherever the house lecomes the their velvet leaves. The birds will make sweet- fice for bringing it down; and finally,—for its bathe forever " in the light of his countenance." ing for education, and attend school only because salient feature of the place, and challenge criti- est music,—the flowers yield sweetest fragrance. sure and prompt delivery at the point indicated. And does the knowledge of this fact fill us with it is fashionable. Beware of all such waste of cism by an engrossing importance as compared Such a home as I have pictured, where the the same joy and happiness as would a visit to time. Take care of the minutes and the days with its usual surroundings, then it must be in voice of discord is never heard,—where industry " Your Irishman, on the other hand, baulks at our earthly home ? Does it strengthen us anew, will take care of themselves, and you, too, for you agreement with the tastes and character of its gives cheerfulness and health, and where a taste the first turn. He must have a multitude of give us fresh zeal and activity hi the performance will get through with perfect lessons and a cheer- occupant, or it is a pretentious falsehood." for the refined and beautiful blend in with life's chains. He needs a boy to aid him with a team, of our daily duties? O, happy will it be for us ful heart. sterner duties, is, indeed, almost a paradise be- MR. TALLWEED. and another to carry a bar. He spends an hour when the Master calleth, if we shall feel that low,—and yet, such a home is within the reach in his doubtful estimate of dimensions; but Another important but very much neglected And here is a portrait which will be recog- we are but going home, that we are about to of every industrious, energetic fanner. Such a *begorra its a lumpish tree, and he thwacks matter^ is regularity of habits. "A time for nized. IK MARVEL says,—"There are not a exchange the heavy cross for a glittering crown, home is, indeed, the "dearest spot on earth." into the rind a foot or two from the ground, so every thing, and every thing in its time," is of few entertaining people of the cities who imagine our earth-stained garments for the robes of Hitherward, the eyes of the wandering child as to leave a *nate' Irish stump. Half through no less consequence in keeping order, than "a that a farm of one or two hundred acres has a righteousness, and that all our moans of sorrow place for every thing and every thing in its are ever turning with tenderness and longing. the hole he begins to doubt if it be a chestnut or and pain here shall be forgotten amid the harp- The school-child will peer in with wistful eyes way of managing itself; and that it works out place." As soon as you know what recitations crops and cattle from time to tune very much as a poplar; and casting his eyes aloft to measure songs of the redeemed. Then will it be joy you are to have, appoint a certain time for the through the pickets. Hoary-headed age will it anew, an ancient wood-pecker drops some- indeed to go home. OMEGA. lean on the gate-way, and recall the faded small beer works into a foamy ripeness, by a law study of each lesson. Thus you will always be of its own necessity." thing smarting in his eye, and his howl starts Jamestown, N. Y., 1863. in readiness when the recitation hour arrives. memories of youth. The man of business, with the ruminating team into a confused entangle- his over-taxed brain, will pause, as he chances IK MARVEL wishes with all his heart it were On returning from school, it will take but very ment among the young wood. Having eased past, and gaze on all around with a pleased sad- true, but asserts that it is not. And he illus- DEVOTION TO CHRIST. little longer to carefully place your books upon his pain and extricated his cattle, he pushes ou ness, trates how stumbling blocks are thrown hi the the shelf or table, than to throw them down with his ax, and presently with a light crash of way of agricultural progress, by the introduc- NOTHING great or valuable is accomplished in promiscuously to be piled up at some other period. " Turn ronnd, and gaze again pliant boughs, his timber is lodged in the top of And sigh, and say it is a blessed place." tion of his friend Mr. TALLWEED, who, after this world, save under the influence of a master By doing in this way, and managing every thing an adjoining tree.">rHe tugs and strains, and accumulating a fortune in the city, is disposed purpose or passion. The master passion of the else accordingly, you will be surprised to see KATE H. TITCOMB. swears, and splits the helve of his ax in adapt- true Christian is devotion to Christ. He need what an easy task it is to keep your room in Hagamans, Mont Co., N. Y., 1868. to put on the dignity of country pursuits and ing it for a lever, and presently, near to noon, advance the interests of agriculture. not wonder at his cold, comfortless, inefficient order. oomes back for three or four hands to give him state while his bosom is unvisited with a thrill He purchases a valuable place, builds his villa, a boost with the tree. You return to find the Regularity of diet is very important to those FEMALE SOCIETY. of this devotion. He need not inquire about plants, refits, exhausts architectural resources in who wish to keep a healthy stomach and clear team strayed, through a gate left open, into a creeds, church-organizations, benevolent socie- WHAT makes those men who associate habitu- his outbuildings, all under the advice of a shrewd brain. To sit with a book in one hand, and a thriving corn field, and one of your pet tulip trees ties as means of good; or suggest improvements ally with women superior to others? What Scotchman recommended by THORBURN, and piece of pie, cake or apple in the other, is very lodged in a lithe young hickdry. 'Ochl and its in their machinery, while selfishness still largely makes the woman who is accustomed and at ease can presently make such a show of dainty cattle poor food for the brain when you want to study. a toolip—it is! and I was thlnkin 'twas niver a reigns in his heart It will be La vain* A in the society of men superior to her sex in and of mammoth vegetables as excites the stare Your hours for eating should be so arranged as chestnut; begorra, its lucky thin it didn't come divided heart accomplishes nothing by a show general ? Solely because they are in the.habit of of the neighborhood and leads to his enrollment to allow at least one hour's recreation,—more is down intirery.'"—c D. B. of affection. We must give up our idolatry. free, graceful, continued conversation with the among the dignitaries of the County Society. We must be prepared for a true self-surrender. better,—before again calling the blood to the other sex. Women in this way lose their brain, as is required in study. But the neighbors who stare have their occa- WHAT WE MAY DO. Having, for the most part, passed the earlier, frivolity, their faculties awaken, their delicacies sional chat with the canny Sept, from whom they indistinct, and somewhat deceiving raptures of Of equal importance with diet is ventilation. and peculiarities unfold all their beauty and learn that the expenses of the business are " gay No human being can be isolated and self-sus- the young Christian's self-surrender, let us These cold nights, it does seem rather hard that captivation in the spirit of intellectual rivalry. large;" they pass a side wink from one to the tained. The strongest and bravest and most calmly, eacramentally, consciously, give our- we can not shut up all the doors and windows, And the men loose their pedantic, rude manner, other as they look at the vaulted cellars and the hopeful have yet, acknowledged and unac- selves to Christ. Let us make no reservations. and make our roon air-tight to keep out the cold; declamatory or sullen manner. The coin of the cumbersome machinery; they remark quietly knowledged to themselves, moments of hungry Let us fall at His cross, glad to be there on any but pure air was i_ade to breathe, and while understanding and the heart is changed contin- that the multitude of improvements does not soul-yearningH for companionship and sympathy. terms. Let us at least prayerfully, humbly, there is such an abundance of it out-of-doors, it ually. Their asperities are rubbed off, their forbid the employment of a multitude of farm For the want of this what wrecks of humanity endeavor to make the great offering, and advance seems absurd to bolt it _u out, and breathe what better materials polished and brightened, and "hands;" they $hake their heads ominously at lie strewn about us. Youth wasted for. the mock a step nearer to the stature of perfect men hi has become poisoned by having been used once. their richness, like fine gold, is wrought into Then, don't be afraid of the cold. You need the extraordinary purchases of grain; they semblance of friendship adrift at the mercy of Christ Jesus. The unproved tone of piety will new, finer workmanship by the fingers of women observe that the pet calves are usually indulged be evinced In the greater measure of success not open your window and a^w the cold blast than it ever could be by those of men. The iron chance, for the grasp of a true, firm hand, and a to blow direct upon you; this uld be injuri- with a wet nurse, in the shape of some raw- kindly, loving heart, to counseL It is affecting vouchsafed to the GospeL—Anu Fresbyierktn. WO and steel of their character are hidden, like the boned native cow, bought specially to add to the ous, but it can be lowered a few toches from the harness and armor of a giant, hi studs and knots to see how strong is this yearning, so fatal to its top, letting in pure air and permitting the escape resources of the fine-blooded dam; and with possessor if not guided rightly; such a life-anchor of gold and precious stones, when they are not these things on their minds—they reflect If AFFLICTIONS serve to quicken our pace in the of the impure. wanted in actual warfare.—Joseph C. Need. if safely placed. "Friendless!" What a tragedy way to our rest. 'Twere well if more love would the results are large, it seems to them that the may be hidden hi that one little word. None to 5 prevail with us, and that we were rather drawn Last, but not least, keep your rooms neat. means are still more extraordinary; if they labor for; none to weep or amile with; none to Remember you are now laying the foundation HUSBANDS AND WIVES.—Many wives are wonder at the size of the crops, they wonder to heaven than driven. But seeing our hearts care whether we lose or win in life's struggle. are so bad, that mercy, will not do it, it is better of your future lives. A good habit is mGre miserable, not from wanting the affections of still more at the liberality of the expenditure; it A kind word or a smile coming to such an one to be put on with the sharpest scourge, than easily formed than a bad one broken, and if you their husbands, but from the absence, in that saems to them, after full comparison of notes with unexpectedly at some such crisis of life, how loiter, like the foolJah virgins, till the door is get into careless habits, such as leaving a pile of affection, of the quality of tenderness. the "braw" Scot, that even their own stinted often has it been the plank to the drowning man, dishes unwashed, a bed unmade, the floor un- crops would show a better balance sheet for the lacking which he must surely have perished. shut.—Baxter. —*•• * • swept, a comb full of hair lying on the stand, IT is the most momentous question a woman is farm. It appears to them that if premium crops These, surely, we may bestow as we pass those your dress hanging on one chair, your apron on ever called on to decide, whether the faults of the and straight-backed animals can only be had by To store our memories with a sense of injuries, less favored than ourselves, whose souls are is to fill that chest with rusty iron which was another, your shoes and stockings in the middle man she loves will drag her down, or whether sweh prodigious appliances of men and money, waiting for our sympathetic recognition.—Fanny of the floor, and various other disorderly tricks, she is competent to be his earthly redeemer. that fine fanning is not a profession to grow rich Fern. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection Written for the Rural Now-Yorker. WETTING COMPOSITIONS. FROGS PETITIONING JUPITER FOR A KING AMONG the many reforms of old abuses in A FABLE. teaching which are being discussed, none are Afli Esop wag traveling over Greece, he hap- capable of more decided improvement than the pened to pass through Athens just after Pisistr£ old plan,—or, rather, no plan at all,—of instruc- tus had abolished the popular state and usurped tion in the art of composition. Girls and boys a sovereign power; when perceiving that toe who were considered old enough, were required . Athenians bore the yoke, though mild and easy once in a week, or two at most, to write a com- with much impatience, he related to them the position. Unless nature had given them that following fable: peculiar talent, they had no more idea how to The commonwealth of Frogs, a discontented, proceed than a man would know how to build variable race, weary of liberty and fond of a house without first learning the trade. The change, petitioned Jupiter to grant them a king. wi9e teachers used to say that practice was all The good-natured deity, in order to indulge their that was necessary, but they were mistaken. request with as little mischief to the petitioners The pupils naturally thought that they must as possible, threw them down a log. At first they write something proper, and their subjects used regarded their new monarch with great rever- to be selected after the following order—Hope, ence, and kept from him at a most (respectful Love, Patience, Contentment, Faith, Persever- distance; but perceiving his tame and peaceful ance, and so on,—and their productions were disposition, they by degrees ventured to ap- usually pretty pro«y and uniform. Many who proach him with more familiarity, till at length were capable of writing well, from the not they conceived for him the utmost contempt. knowing how to go at work, fell into the beaten In this disposition they renewed their request to path with the rest. I could mention a certain Jupiter, and entreated him to bestow upon them Academy where a girl who could write an origi- another king. The Thunderer, in his wrath, • nal, amusing composition, was considered a per- MAP OF sent them a Crane, who no sooner took posses- fect prodigy, whereas it only needed perhaps an CHARLESTON HARBOR sion of his new dominions than he began to hour's proper instruction to develop strong indi- devour his subjects one after another, in a most viduality in half the compositions produced. I AND IT3 APPROACHES capricious and tyrannical manner. They were remember just one teacher who had a way of Showing tbo positions of tho Kobol Batteries, 18C3. now far more dissatisfied than before; when applying to Jupiter a third time, they were dis- his own of teaching anything. He used to give Reduced from original map cf XT. 8. Coast Surocy, missed with this reproof that the evil they com- out the subjects of the compositions himself, and A. D, Ikuhey Supi. tell us a little what was expected. He would plained of they had imprudently brought upon say "here, Thomas, you may take the stove for themselves, and that they had no other remedy your subject. Tell us its color, use, age, and now but to submit to it with patience. qualities generally. How many different kinds tktkmel r-cCcrite on Toby JUana Hsbd EaiUrics In possession National Jbrcet MORAI—'Tis better to bear with some de- you can recollect, and who first invented stoves. jCWtoiw sH't heUiby «.'* fects hi a mild and gentle government, than to Also where iron is found, and as much about Trtncka & IJaXtries rf Xa!hmal ixsteglnQ Armg. risk the greater evils of tyranny and persecu- the manufacture of stoves as you know or can # [T^ _ t J"\a£im of attackirkjjleet, Jturmg action. tion. find out. LUCY, I saw a plant of Artemesia in Statute Nik*. • »• bloom at your house, and you may tell us its EJB. Jetrott 4 C» Engravers, Buffalo. N. Y. PUNCTUALITY OF WASHINGTON. history in as good language as you can com- mand. Describe the leaves and flowers,an d tell AN EXAMPLE FOR THE YOUNG. —When us what peculiarities, if any, it possesses. HEJ> Gen. Washington assigned to meet Congress at EN, you may select your favorite wild flower, noon, he never failed to be passing the door of give us your reasons for the choice, and describe the Hall while the clock was striking twelve. it in the same way." Thus, with their work Whether his guests were present or not, he pointed out, we had many creditable composi- always dined at four. Not unfrequently new tions, and made better progress in learning to members of Congress, who wore invited to dine express our ideas in one term than we should with him, delayed until dinner was half over; have been likely to have made in a long time and he would then remark, "Gentlemen, we are under the old plan. punctual here. My cook never asks whether the company has arrived, but whether the hour Besides, the monotony acquired under the old has." When he visited Boston, in 1789, he ap- way usually followed pupils through the world, pointed eight o'clock A. M., as the hour when unless they had a decided genius for literature, he should set out for Salem; and while the old in which case they might outgrow old habits. South clock was striking eight, he was mounting But the humdruin mode usually crept into their his horse. The company of cavalry which vol- letters, cramping their style and spoiling the unteered to escort him, were parading in Tre- freshness of their ideas. I think much of the mont street after his departure, and it was not highflown nonsense found In the correspondence until the General reached Charles River bridge, of schoolgirls, might be traced directly to the. that they overtook him. On the arrival of the habit of writing essays on subjects too old for corps, the General, with perfect good nature, them, and which were manufactured to sound said, "Major , I thought you had been too well, and not to express any idea which the long in my family, not to know'when it was writers ever had. eight o'clock." Capt Pease, the father of the Another way in which the old plan failed of OHLA.RH.ESTOlSr HARBOR A1TO ITS APPROACHES. stage establishment hi the United States, had a its expected benefits, was in the dodges prac- beautiful pair of horses which he wished to dis- ticed by pupils who had not the gift of writing pose of to the General, whom he'knew to be an even on matter-of-fact topics. They would bor- A MAP OF CHARLESTON HARBOR AND ITS be accurate. We think it the most beautiful as maps, charts, diagrams, or a»y other worl excellent judge of horses. The General ap- row from some famous writer to make up for APPROACHES will attract attention at a time and complete illustration of the kind ever given requiring delicate tracery and perfect distinct pointed live o'clock in the morning to examine any lack of brilliancy which they themselves when the eyes of the whole world are turned to in the RURAL, and it reflects, great credit upon nees of outline. Though the map is too finefo r them. But the Captain did not arrive until possessed, or when too honest to do that, many that important point in the contest between Messrs. E. R. JBWKTT & Co., of Buffalo, by ordinary newspaper printing, we trust it will quarter past five, when he was told by the a boy who could not catch his ideas has threat- formidable portions of the Union and Rebel whom it wan executed. It is a fine specimen of work so clearly that all RURAL readers wi groom that the General was there at five, and ened rebellion against school discipline, until armies and armaments. The one we have the their new style of Belief Line Engraving—a pro- comprehend its, points without needing othe was then fulfilling other engagements. Pease, his eldest sister at home supplied him with a pleasure of presenting is original, and believed to cess particularly applicable to such illustrations explanation or description. much mortified, was obliged to wait a week for themef and assisted him largely in writing it another opportunity, merely for delaying the All would then go well with him until the next first quarter of anhour. call, when the same scene would be repeated. BENEFITS OF. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. INTELLECT DEVELOPED BY LABOR. fears none, he lives in himself, shrouded in thi Elkhorn, Wie., 1863. B. C. D. consciousness of his own strength; he interferei THE war between the Northern and' Southern ARE labor and self-culture irreconcilable to with none, and walks forth an example thai THE SPIRIT OF LOVE. PRONOUNCING EITHER AND N KITH KB, States is showing, in various ways, the import- each other? In the first place, we have seen "eagles fly alone, they are but sheep that here BEYOND all question, it is the unalterable ance of Common School education. If all the that man, in the midst of labor, may and ought together." It is true, that should a poisonoui constitution of nature that there is efficacy in THE pronunciation of the words at the head people at the South had been as well educated to give himself to the most important improve- worm cross his path he may tread it under his love. The exhibition of kindness has the power of this article as if spelt nHher and Oker, which as the mass of the people at the North, it is pre- ments, that he may cultivate his sense of justice, foot; should a cur snarl at him he may chastise to bring even the irrational animals into subjec- is not unfrequently heard from divines and sumed they would never have inaugurated such his benevolence, and the desire of perfection. him; but he will not, cannot attack the privacy tion. Show kindness to a dog, and he will re- others, is not sanctioned either by analogy or a rebellion. They would have read and thought Toil is the school of these high principles; and of another. good use, and is only to be accounted for on the for themselves, and could not have been made we have a strong presumption that, in other member it; he will be grateful; he will infalli- the tools of crafty leaders. respects, it does not necessarily blight the souL bly return love for love. Show kindness to a supposition that some doubtful use in England THK PATH TO GREATNESS.—There are two lion, and you can lead him by the mane; you* is considered better authority than good use in In the Northern States, provision is made by Next, we have seen that tho most fruitful ways which lead to great aims and achieve- can thrust your head into his mouth; you can America. Out of seventeen lexicographers, which every child, rich or poor, shall receive, sources of truth and wisdom are not books, ments,—energy and perseverance. Energy is a melt the untamed ferocity of his heart into an only two, and they of little account (J. Johnson free of charge, such an education as will qualify precious as they are, but experience and obser- rare gift,—it provokes opposition, hatred and affection stronger than death. In all of God's and Coete,) expressly authorized the corrupt him for the ordinary business of life. These vation ; and that tBese belong to all conditions. reaction. But perseverance lies within the L vast, unbounded creation, there is not a living pronunciation, and the analogy of the language schools are of such a character that they are pat- It is another important consideration, that reach of every one, its powers increase with its and sentient being, from the least to the largest, is utterly opposed to it, there being only one ronized by men of all ranks and conditions in almost all labor demands Intellectual aativity, progress, and it is but rarely that it misses its and is best carried on by those who invigorate not one, not even the outcast and degraded ser- word of similar orthography, " height," whose life. It is an honor, rather than a disgrace, to aim. Where perseverance is out of the ques- pent, that is insensible to acts of kindness. If accepted pronunciation coincides with it. their minds; so that the two interests, toil and tion, where I cannot exert a protracted influ- have acquired in these Primary Schools the rudi- love, such as our blessed Savior manifested, To show how entirely analogy fails to sustain self-culture, are friends to each other. ence, I had better not attempt to exert any in- ments of knowledge. It is not so at the South. could be introduced into the world, and exert its the corrupt pronunciation, the following para- It is mind, after all, which does the work of fluence at all, for I should only disturb the There are, it is true, in thoee States some Public appropriate dominion* it would restore a state of graph has been framed, in which is introduced the world; so that the more there is of mind, the organic development of affairs, and paralyze th( Schools; but they are spoken of as sohools/or things far brighter than the fabulous age of gold; all the different connections in which the letters more work will be accomplished. A man, in natural remedies which they contain, withou the poor, which men of rank and wealth never it would annihilate every sting; it would pluck ei are met with, except as in the word "height" proportion as he iH iatelligent, makes a given any guarantee for a more favorable result.— patronize. The consequence is, that the poor, every poisonous tooth; it would hush every dis- given above : force accomplish a greater task, makes skill take Qoethe, who need the benefits such schools afford, grow cordant voice. Even the inanimate creation is "Being disposed to walk, I woukl 'feign' the place of muscles, and with less labor gives a up in ignorance rather than attend a school for not insensible to this divine influence. The bud have visited my ' neighbor,' but on approaching better product Make men intelligent, and they ESTIMATE OF TEACHERS.—Plato, when near paupers. Public sentiment hi the South has and flower and fruit put forth most abundantly bis ' seigniory»I was alarmed by the ' neighing» become inventive; they find shorter processes. his end, blessed God for three things, viz., that never been in fWvor of wnzoersai education, by and beautifully where the hand of kindness is of his horse, and on lifting my < veil' was terri- Their knowledge of nature helps them to turn its he was a man, and not a beast; that he was which an opportunity is given to the poor to xtended for their culture. And if this blessed fied to find the animal within ' eighty' yards of lawB to account, to understand the substances on born La Greece, and brought up in the time of qualify themselves for honorable positions in influence should extend itself over the earth, a me, approaching at a speed that seemed ' freight- which they work, and to seize on useful hints, Socrates, so that he could enjoy the benefit of society. A Governor of Virginia, in one of his moral garden of Eden would exist in every ed' with the direst consequences. I was in a which experience continually furnishes. It is his instruction. messages, thanked God that "they had in that land; instead of the thorn and briar, would ' streight '—caught in a • seine.' My blood stood among workmen that the most useful machines Gibbon Bays:—" A liberal mind will delight to State no Public Schools." spring up the fir-tree and the myrtle; the desert rtill in my < veins,' as I ' conceived' my life in have been contrived. Spread education, and as cherish and celebrate the memory of its par- Who has not been gratified to see that North- ,vould blossom, and the solitary place be made danger. Turning my head I was pleased to see the history of the country shows, there will be ents; and the teachers of science are the parents of ern young men, by reason of their ability to no bounds to useful education. ;lad. —Exchange, an Arabian Dispatches from Charleston harbor state that AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. tained that if they could Iscape they would of New Advertisements. no important events had occurred since the sail- receive assistance from the Union people of ing of the last steamer. INFORMATION has been received at the State Richmond, who are more numerous than is Prospectus of The "World. Cook's Sugar Evaporator—Blymyer, Bates & Day. There had been but little firing the last few Department that orders have been sent by the generally supposed, McCullock feigned to be Creo. Demerit & Co., Jewelers. Imperial Government of France to the Com- ine Young Ladies' Collegiate Institute of Union days. The Ironsides and Monitors were all dead, and was carried out in a coffin, and How- Springs-R B Howland. n mander-in-Chief of the French naval force in ard passed the guard in the night. Their escape bprlngneld (Mass.) Republican—S Bowles & Co. lying safe at their anchorage. There were no Wet the Best-G & C Men-Jam. EOCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 2, 1864. present prospects of active operations. the Pacific, to place in a state of blockade the was effected on the 8th ult., and they remained Valuable Property for Sale—M T Meeker. ports of Acapulco and San Bias, but that through °P«ng Garden Seeds—J M Tliorburn & Co. The Boston Traveller has a letter from Beau- in the city until the 17th. Some friends took ine Prettiest Present for a Lady—Arrandale & Co. a spirit of liberality and comity on the part of Clark's School Visitor—J W Daugbaday. The Army in Virginia. fort, S. C« dated the 22d inst., which says: charge of them, and suits were made for them JUegantCIn-istmas Present—Arrandale & Co. INFORMATION received on the 26th from the Emperor of the French, he has decided that out of rebel blankets, and passes furnished Randall's Practical Shepherd—1) D T Moore, An expedition is about starting all in a hurry American packets which constitute the line fecrofularia, Ac—Wm R Prince, the Army of the Potomac says there is no indi- which enabled them to get out of the city. bteel Composition Bells—American Bell Co. and uncertainty. No one knows its destination, between Panama and San Francisco, shall enjoy The Little Giant—Agents Wanted—T S Page. cation of a retrograde movement toward Wash- These persons report our men are suffering great Nursery Foreman Wanted—A G Hanford & Bro. but the fact that it is to be commanded by Gen. the privilege of touching at Acapulco, in order Dairyman and Farmer Wanted— H M Wead. ington, as has been reported, nor is it believed Seymour, indicates that it is of importance, for hardships in the rebel prisons and hospitals. Agents Wanted—C Ruggles & Co. to renew their stock of coal which they may The rations of the rebels themselves are very Elba Nurseries—E 3 P'e tti bone & Son. the enemy in their present condition are able to he is a fighting man. The order to strike tents Land for Sale—C L Salisbury. need for the completion of their voyage; it being scanty, consisting of a piece of corn bread, and they Employment—C J Heinman & Co. give us much annoyance. Their cavalry on our was given at 7 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock they Short-Horns for Sale—E Marks. understood that these vessels shall not leave receive occasionally a piece of bacon. They rep- Aerents Wanted—Shaw & Clark. front are not equal to the task of making any were off. or receive any passengers at that port, or any $80 per Month—J S Pardee. formidable raid on our base of supplies owing to resent that the average number of deaths of our Prince Alberts Windsor Pigs—Wm K Gridley. The new oath of allegiance has been adminis- merchandise. prisoners in the hospitals in the city is 35 per the impoverished condition of their horses. The tered to a number of rebel officers who have The State Department has received intelligence week. SPECIAL NOTICES. insufficiency of shoes and blankets, if the state- recently come into our lines to accept of the from London by the last European steamer that Atlantic Monthly—Ticknor & Fields. ments of deserters can be relied upon, renders it pardon offered by the President. They bring Beware of Imposition—D B Deland & Co. equally improbable that Lee's infantry can be all the rebel rams in England have been offered intelligence from a large number who intend to to the English government at a certain price. NEWS PARAGRAPHS. called from*heir strong position and comforta- do likewise at the earliest opportunity. ble shelters to undertake a campaign during the Lord Clarence Pagot, on the part of the English THE entire number of guns wrested from the Late Wilmington papers announce the arrival Admiral, has written to the builder that no rigors of winter. enemy by "Unconditional Surrender GRANT" of blockade running steamers in great numbers. decided answer could be given at present, but The following dispatch has been received at A refugee who has just reached here says 2$ar- during the past six or seven months, amounts to — The small pox is said to be raging at Memphis, that the subject was before their Lordships for four hundred and twelve, viz:—Fifty-two while headquarters: rived there the night before he left. consideration. T>3im. ED RAY, POCAHONTAS CO., WESTERN VIRGINIA, ) winning his way to Vicksburg; three hundred — The Richmond Whig quotes coke at forty dollars Dec. 21, via Beverly, Dec. 22. 5 The plan of leasing out the abandoned planta- In accordance with instructions received from tions in East and North Carolina adopted by at that place., and sixty at Lookout Mountain. per load. Major-General Hcdleck., General:in-Chief: — I the Emperor, the Russian Minister, Mr. De- His own losses of cannon have been trifling. have the honor to report that I cut the Virginia David H. Eaton, supervising agent, is proving a Stoekel, had an audience of the President on the — The Maine potato croplhis year amounts to 6,696,- and Tennessee Railroad at Salem, on the 15th, great success to the Treasury Department, and THE materials for a game dinner for a Phila- 348 bushels. and have arrived safely at this point with my 26th, for the purpose of expressing the thanks of also great benefit to the laboring classes of both the Imperial Government for the kind reception delphian at Caraccas, were put up at Philadel- — The Sultan of Turkey has gone into horse-racing command, consisting of the 2d, 3d and 8th Va. extensively. mounted infantry, 14th Pa., Dobson's battalion colors. of vessels of the Russian Navy, and their officers phia recently. Two turkeys, four pair of can- of cavalry, and Ewing's battery. At Salem The rebel iron steamer Cheatham was cap- and crews in the United States, and also for the viis-backs, a dozen quail, and two pair of prairie — A Scotchman has invented a way of making car- three depots were destroyed, containing 2,000 hens, were placed in the center of a hogshead of pets of cork. barrels of flour, 10,000 bushels wheat, 100,000 tured by the gunboat Huron, about December assistance extended at San Francisco to a Russian bushels shelled corn, 50,000 bushels oats, 2,000 1st, in Duboy Sound, Ga., in attempting to run corvette. ice. This large package was necessary to pre- — Telegraph facilities are rapidly increasing along the serve them sound. In Caraccas they have, no Pacific slope. barrels meal, several cords of leather, 1,000 sacks to sea with a cargo of cotton, tobacco, Ac. It is expected that Arkansas will be repre- salt, 31 boxes clothing, 20 bales cotton, a large turkeys. 'That bird cannot live in that climate, — There were 10,520 .federal prisoners in Richmond The expedition planned by General Gilmore sented in Congress at an early period in the amount of harness, shoes and saddles, equip- and the Yankee in Venezuela who wants a turkey on the 18th ult. ments, coal oil, tar and various other stores and for an attack on Savannah was abandoned on present session. Arrangements are progressing two wagons. account of the arrival of troops sent to re-en- dinner must import it. — They are enlisting colored men in New Haven at favorably for an election in that State, and there the rate of ten a day. Th% telegraph wire was cut, coiled and burned force Bragg. is reason to believe the State Government will A LATE number of the Richmond Whig says: for half a mile. The water station, turn-table, Admiral Dahlgren has one or two expeditions —"In Danville five dollars in gold were sold at — One of the California mining companies is selling and three cars were burned and the track burned soon be ucting in co-operation with the Union land at $1,000 an inch. up and the rails heated and destroyed as much as on foot, from which good'results arc anticipated. authority. auction, a day or two ago, for one .hundred and — The ground for another National Cemetery has been possible in six hours. Five bridges and several Congress having failed to amend the Conscrip- forty dollars in confederate notes." Which culverts were destroyed over an extent of fifteen The Richmond Examiner of the 28th ult., pub- selected at Chattanooga. tion Act previous to adjournment, the draft will makes a confederate dollar worth 3£ cents. miles. A large quantity of bridge timber and lishes the following dispatches: — The North has used 2,980 tuns of powder in the war repairing materials were also destroyed. CHARLESTON, Dec. 25.— The enemy com- be postponed till February 1st, in order to give FEW American cities surpass Chicago in the since its commencement. My march was retarded occasionally by the menced shelling the city last night, keeping up Congress time to amend the law. The act will number and beauty of its church edifices; and tempest in the mountains and the icy roads. I — Thousands of logs' have been lost by a freshet in was obliged to swim my command and drag my a steady fire, which is still going on at 9 o'clock undergo a revision upon the re-assembling of it is stated as a singular fact, that religious wor- the Kennebec river, Maine. that body, in order to simplify its provisions and artillery across Cross Creek, seven times in this morning. A fire broke out at 2 o'clock, de- ship is conducted there in more languages than — Justice Wrightman, a distinguished English Judge, twenty-four hours. On my return I found six stroying 12 buildings and causing a few casual- increase its efficiency, and until this is done it is in any other city in the world. A convocation died lately, aged 80 years. separate commands under Gens. Fitzhugh Lee, ties. There is heavy firing in the direction of not likely a draft will be enforced. In the mean- of all the Chicago churckes would be Babel re- Imboden, Judson, Echols and McConsten, ar- — Seventy thousand bales of cotton have been raised ranged in a line extending from Staiinton to Stono, which is believed to be between our bat- time recruiting will be stimulated by bounties newed. A person making the rounds of the in Italy the present year. Newport, upon all tl^e available roads, to prevent teries and the enemy's gunboats. The shelling and by ii vigorous effort. various houses of worship would, in a single my return. — Another National Bank with a capital of $1,000,000 of the city continues to-day. One white man A bill has passed both Houses of Congress to day, hear services in English, German, French, is to be started in Chicago. I captured a dispatch from Gen. Jones to Gen. was mortally wounded, and one white woman Swedish, Welsh, Dutch, and Norwegian, be- Early, giving me his position and that of Jackson supply deficiencies, appropriating $20,000,000, or — The New England clergy are, it is said, talking of at Clifton Fords and Covington. 'I marched eriously wounded, and three firemen badly so much thereof as may be necessary for the sides some supposed to be conducted in unknown a strike for higher salaries. wounded. All is quiet at Sumter. from the front of Jones to that of Jackson at payment of bounties and advance pay, provided tongues. — The Quakers are about to establish a college in their night His supports were pressed in at a gallop that no bounties except such as are not provided by the.8th Virginia Mounted Infantry, and the CHARLESTON, Dec. 28.—From 12 Thursday A LETTER from Morris Island, since the late interest at West Chester, Pa. two bridges across Jackson's River were saved, night till 4 Friday P. M., 130 shells were thrown by law shall be paid to any persons enlisted storm, says:—"For the past twenty-four hours — The mining productions of the United Kingdom although fagots had been piled ready to ignite. into the city. The enemy fired five guns, three after the 5th of January next, and that money these shores have been ghastly with numberless are estimated at $150,000,000. My column, about four miles long, hastened paid by drafted persons under the Enrollment across, regardless of the enemy, until all but my at Gregg, one at Gumming's Point and from a rebel dead, some of them in boxes, but mostly — Fresh beef is selling at from three to four cents ambulanceS"and a few wagons and one regiment mortar battery. Act shall be paid into the Treasury, and shall be uncoffined. They were washed out from the per pound in Indiana Co., Pa. had passed, when a strong effort was made by The engagement on Johnson's Island, between drawn out on requisition, as in the case of bounty beach near forts Putnam and Strong, (formerly — Twenty-five colored regiments have been organized them to retake the first bridge, in which they our light batteries and the enemy's gunboatfe, money, and the money so paid shall bo kept in Gregg and Wagner.) Skulls, arms, and entire in the Department of the Gulf. did not succeed. the Treasury as a deposit, applicable only for the The ambulances and some sick men were lost, resulted in a draw fight. There were few skeletons bobbed around the beach, a literal — It is expected that Alexandria, Egypt, will be light- and by the darkness and difficulties the last regi- casualties. Our loss at Stono was one killed and expenses of the draft and for the procuration of dance of death.'" ed by gas in about eight months. substitutes. ment was detained upon the opposite side until five wounded. IN the last six months, one-fifth of the whole — Gen. Rosecrans is appointed to the command of morning, when it was ascertained that the As the terms of the President's Emancipation the Western District of Missouri. population of Panama has perished from small- enemy seemed determined to maintain his posi- and Amnesty Proclamations do not, in words, tion upon the cliffs which overlook the bridges. Department of the Gulf. pox. All the churches and cathedrals are now — About $130,000 have been subscribed in San Fran- include the Indian Territory, efforts are being cisco for the Sanitary Commission. I caused the bridges, which were long and high, THE steamer M'Clellan from New Orleans without pastors. The dead are buried without to be destroyed, and the enemy immediately made by the Indian Bureau to adjust the difficul- the 14th, Pensacola the 15th, and Key West the religious ceremonies, and marriages are per- — It is stated that the rebels have 2,000,000 bales of changed his position to the flank and rear of the ties growing out of certain Indians having made cotton accumulated at Atlanta, Ga. detachment which was cut off. I sent orders to 18th, arrived in New York on the 26th ult. formed either by the civil authorities or consuls, the remnants to destroy our wagons, and come common cause with the rebel government, and — The ice on the river at Albany is eight inches thick to me across the river or over the ruts. They The rebels are in large force in the vicinity of to base the settlement on the principles asserted or by the chaplains of the war-ships. and heavily laden teams are crossing. swam the river with the loss of only four men, New Orleans, but have refrained from making in these proclamations. Already the Creeks A PATRIOTIC old lady recently sent three smok- — The keels for two immense war vessels were laid who were drowned, and joined me. In the any attack on our entrenchments. Our scouting ing caps as presents to officers in the Potomac at the Brooklyn Navy Yard last week. meantime forces of the enemy were concentrat- have negotiated a treaty with this Government ing upon me at Cullihau's, over every available parties are outside every day. Recently 30 providing for the abolition of slavery among army. One was to G en. Meade, and the remaining — A bounty of 61,000 is paid in Newark, N J-, to road but one which I deemed impracticable, but rebels came in and gave themselves up, saying them, providing they be reinstated in the two she desired to be presented to two Generals, every recruit under the Just call for troops. by which I crossed over the top of the Allegha- they were tired of the rebel service. A day or benefits which they forfeited by their disloyalty, one of whom must be a teetotaller, and the other — The entire capital ( $500,000) of the new National nies with my command with the exception of wo before a party of our cavalry captured 29 four caissons, which were destroyed to increase and similar treaties are contemplated with the one who never indulged in profanity. Gen. Bank in New Orleans has been subscribed. the teams of the pieces. My loss is one officer rebel cavalrymen. They seemed to be willing, Choctaws and Cherokees. The latter, through Williams, chief of Gen. Meade's staff, took the — During the last three months 10,500 horses have and four men drowned, and four officers and 90 and joined our cavalry without hesitancy. their council, have provided for freeing their Anti-Profanity cap, and Gen. Hunt the Temper- been purchased in Chicago for government. men missing. We captured about 200 prisoners, "but have retained but four officers and 80 men The Era says that since the firing on the, Henry slaves, but a stipulation for that end is required ance cap. — The free colored schools in* Washington are well on account of their inability to walk. Van Phul all boats have passed up and'down in a new treaty. THE sum of $35,000 has recently been appro- attended, and are accomplishing great good. unmolested, and not a sign of an enemy is to be — Not a single steamer under the American flag now We took also about 250 horses. My horses A Circular has been issued from the Adjutant- priated by the authorities of the Methodist lave subsisted entirely upon a very poor coun- seen at Morganza Bend. A gunboat is stationed sails between the United States and Europe. General's office as follows: Church, for the extension of the Church in the try, and the officers and men have suffered cold, near the point where the batteries were formerly — The estimated expenditures of the city government hunger and fatigue with remarkable fortitude. far South, and measures are being put in opera- placed. The six months troops now in the service who Of Philadelphia for 1854 amount to $4,809,253. • My command has marched, climbed, slid and may desire to re-enlist lor three years or the war, tion to carry out the work. Bishop Ames is at swam 355 miles since the 8th inst. At the mouth of Red River a fleet of trans- will be re-enlisted under the following regula- St. Louis, preparing to start down the Mississippi; — The number of persons leaving Liverpool W. W. AVERILL, Brig. Gen, ports have been assembled, and as there is nine tions : Bishop Simpson will soon proceed to Tennessee, America in 11 months of last year was 136,000. The X. Y. Tribunes army dispatch of the 28th feet of water on the bar at that place, we shall First. When thi'ee-fourths of a regiment re- and a prominent minister in New York has been — A company in Indianapolis, lnd., is preparing a enlist, the officers will be permitted to retain the. fruit farm near that city to embrace 1,200 acres. ,,ijlt., states that a cavalry raid has returned to soon hear of these boats having ascended the rank held by them. designated for New Orleans. ^Bealton Station, having made a successful forage River, doing all the damage to the enemy in Second. Should less than three-fourths re- — A Yankee prisoner in Richmond made believe their power. enlist, said force will be organized into one or THE San Juan Press says, owing to the mercu- dead, was laid out in the dead house and escaped. #mong the rebs, driving the guerrillas into the rial vapor which falls from the chimneys of the (mountains, and destroying at Luray a large sad- The arrivals of cotton at New Orleans for the more companies, and officered by such officers — Seven children in one family in Multown, Maine, as may be selected from the brigade command, works at New Almaden quicksilver mine, the died within the space of one week of diphtheria. idle and harness factory and a large tannery. week, amounted to 2,444 bales and 2,699 bags for by the commanding officer of the department! vegetation on the surrounding hills for the circuit The remainder will continue under the remain- — The contributions from New Hampshire to the JFive other tanneries were destroyed near Sper- New York. of three or four miles is all dead, and the timber Tyville. A rebel mail and a quantity of medi- Mr. Getchell, N. Y. Herald correspondent, ing officers till the expiration of the six months- Boston Sanitary Fair will produce, it is said, at least term is discharged. If the government shall not likewise is leafless and sapless. Cattle that'feed $15,000. cines and dry goods were captured. Quite a captured at the Bayou Coteau fight, states that require the troops for the full period of three on the dry grass within half a mile of the works numfeer of prisoners were also captured during 600 prisoners and 24 officers were captured with years, and they shall be mustered honorably put — A fair held by the American ladies in Montreal for become salivated. the benefit of the Sanitary Commission yielded the sum him. He says the disaster was owing to the bad of the service before the expiration of thei? $he rAid and several brilliant skirmishes were had. enlistment, they shall receive the whole amount of $700. conduct of Gen. Washburne, and that the gal- THE plantations of Jeff. Davis and his brother, The Herald'saxmy dispatch says the re-organi- of bounty unpaid, the same as if the full term — There are 535,319 white males in Ohio of the age zation of the army has commenced. antry of Gen. Burbridge alone saved the whole had been served. All legal heirs of those whe Joe. Davis, below Vicksburg, have been taken possession of by the Government and will be used of twenty-one years and over, and 9,937 blacks of the Deserters from the North Carolina troops jorps from capture. die in the service shall receive the bounty un- same age. paid at the time of the soldier's death. for a contraband camp. continue to avail themselves of the President's Tli-" schooner Marshal J. Smith, with a cargo — In some parts of Iowa the snow is said to have amnesty. of 2Co bales of cotton, was captured off Mobile The government has decided that the safety of Dr. J. W. Robinson, Assistant Surgeon of the fallen to an extraordinary depth, drifting in piles fifteen General Michael Corcoran died at ^Fairfax Point on the 9th inst. American vessels leaving seaports requires that Id Kansas Regiment, died at Fort Smith on the feet high. Court House Dec. 22d. no person shall be allowed to leave these ports as a 11th inst. He was the first Secretary.of the -The Missouri Senate has passed a IStfll repealing Movements in the West and South-West passenger, or otherwise, on any American vessel • tate of Kansas, and took an active part in the the old law prohibiting whites teaching slaves to read and write. Department e*f the South. THE Choctaw Chieftain McCurtam, with without first receiving a passport from the Mar- councils of the Free State men in 1855-7. shal of the District. Any one can obtain the — It is stated that only eighty millions of the five i THE U. &. transport Star of the South, from other rebel Indian leaders, came in our lines at A SEA captain of forty years' experience as- proper passport who can have his loyalty serts that the Gulf stream is several hundred hundred millions of the "Five-Twenty" loan remain Hilton Head 21st, arrived in New York on the Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the 27th ult., and sur- unsubscribed. 26th ult, rendered themselves to Gen. McNeil. They properly vouched for. The adoption of this miles nearer our coast than usual, and predicts a stringent measure will probably prevent a repe- — In the Third Army Corps 16 regiments have agreed The report of the Ironsides and other Moni- have abandoned the rebel cause, and have ex- warm winter in New England, but not at the tition of the Chesapeake affair. South, in consequence. to re-enlist upon condition that they retain their present tors being entaogled in the obstructions in pressed a desire to avail themselves of the Presi- organization. * Instructions have been sent by Secretary Charleston harbor, is untrue. The Monitor Le- dent's proclamation. Their example will influ- THERE are now about 6,000 rebel prisoners in — Rev. John Dempstey, D. D., a distinguished high while on picket duty near Fort Johnson, mce others of the rebel tribes. Welles to the commanding officers of the differ- Camp Douglas very much exercised about the preacher of theMethodisiMenoinination, died in New got aground. The rebel battery opened on her, Apprehensions are felt for the safety of an im- ent navy commanders to have a fleet of vessels President's proclamation offering pardon to all York recently. doing her considerable damage, -when the other mense supply train on the way from Fort Scott, ready to take their positions at New York, Bos- •vho will take the proposed oath. A large num- — All the cotton mills in Cohoes are running, and it two iron-clads went to her assistance and suc- on account of Standwaite and Quantrel being in ton, Philadelphia and other ports, for the pur- ber express themselves willing to take that oath. is said they are likely to continue in operation through- ceeded in getting her off. She sprang a leak, that direction. pose of carrying out the new regulations relative Over one hundred have enrolled their names, out the winter. .makinf it necessary for her to go to Port Royal Col. Williams, commanding at Rossville, Ark., to passports of vessels and passengers. and have had them forwarded to Washington, — A New London (Conn.) paper announces the death for repairs. No one on board was injured. has secured for the ^Government, and has in pro- 6nthe 24th ult., two enterprising tiqldiers of the offering to enlist in the United States navy. of Jas. Douglass, of Stony Creek, at the extraordinary Gen. Gillmore continues to shell Charleston cess of ginning, some 200 bales of rebel cotton. United States Army, who have been in durance age of 110 years. A YOUNG LADY in Richmond, writing to her 1 daily from his 200-pounders. He has within reach of camp 100,000 bushels of at Richmond, reported themselves at the Pro- friends in Baltimore, says that the gaieties of — A scientific expedition has started for Syria from The United States steamer Massachusetts •orn, and is gathering 1,000 bushels per day. vost Marshal's office, dressed in gray clothes society in that city consist chiefly of what are England to investigate the geology, zoology and botany arrived at Fortress Monroe on the 27th from He can put up, if salt can be procured, 200,000 made from secesk blankets. Their names are called "starvation parties," at which people of the Holy Land. — It is asserted that the Loyal Union Leagues at the Charleston Bar with 250 soldiers, 44 sick, and 15 pounds of pork. All of this is being done by II. S. Howard, of Scammon's brigade, and John meet in each other's houses, and have music and rebel prisoners captured on the rebel steamer the regiment with the assistance of one extra R. McCullock, of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry. North now number between eight hundred thousand ilancing, but nothing to eat or drink. The fair and one million voters. Cheatham. She has on board a portion of the train besides running two miles and hunting Howard had bgen employed by the rebels in writer attends these parties twice a week, and -A dispatch from Chattanooga, 18th ult., says that rebel obstructions in Charleston harbor, for- bushwhackers generally,, several of whom have charge of Alabama Hospital No. 22, and Mc-she avers that they have a good deal of fun but warded by Admiral Dahlgren. the President's Messnge and Proclamation are satisfac- been captured. Cullock as Hospital Steward. Having ascer- no supper. tory to many rebel prisoners. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection p PRETTIEST PRESENT FOR A LADY 0jmial Notices, YOUNG LADIES' COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, pROSPECTtTS FOR 18 64. Is the Gold Composite Patent Detached Lever Watch, OF UNION SPRINGS. >VEKT1SIN Paragraphs; Reviews of New Books, and Literary, A. t j State, and 93@94c for Western. 729 No. 30 Liherty Street, New York. Al l ma n Th e v e n < other and better days, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, PROVISIONS —Vork market quiet; sales at $18,62!<(S. summary, with the latest market quotations of New 19,87, M for old mess; $,@$21,50@22,0, 0 for nee w messmess, ,an andd $14,5$14,500 o York, Albany, Boston, Hartford and Springfield; Relig- together with the masses whose principles were those of @]60@]6,0,00 fof r new primei . LarLdd quiet it; salel s att 12@,13c12@13 B. ButBut-t A THOUSAND YEARS. H ter is selling at 22@27c for OhiOhioo , aandd 27@327@322c ffo rSt Statet , ious Intelligence; Agricultural Articles by a practical such patriots as Andrew Jackson and William L. Marcy* Cheesese steady at 13®16q13®16q. Works' Great War Song, Words and Music, in January No. "armer; Stories, original and selected, choice and fresh; Brick arches for Cook pans should be built 31% Inches Silas Wright and Stephen A. Douglas, now stand BUFFALO, Dec. 28.—FLOITR —The demand is very A SCHOOL MAGAZINE FREE! Literary Miscellanies; a Column for the Children; in width and 9,10.^, 12 or 15 feet in length, inside meas- moderate this morning, while prices rule firm. Sales urement Send for a Circular and order earlv. shoulder to shoulder upon the same platform and under Poetry; and Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BLYUTEIt, BATES * JDAY, since our last mostly high grades, at $6,75 for Illinois ba- OLAKK'S SCHOOL VISITOB.—Vol. VIII. the same banner. The platform is a plain one. It is to kers' ; $0.25 for extra Canadian, and $7,25@8,75 for double The Publisher of this favorite Monthly, in order to THE REPUBLICAN has a corps of eight editors, .includ- Manufacturers, Mansfield, Ohio. extras. reach all schools, will selid the VISITOK one year gratis ing Dr. J. G. Holland, ("Timothy Tltcomb,") and a lady restore the Union, maintain the Constitution, and enforce the GRAIN.—Wheat, market quiet and steady, and nothing to one person (who will act as Agent,) at any "post-office TKSTIJfl OJYI&XS. doing this morning. Sales mixed Chicago spring at $1,- in the United States. This is an "unparalleled oiler. of high literary culture. Its Weekly Edition is printed Laws. Whatever makes for this end, the exercise of 30. Corn—Nothing doing and no change to note in quo- and mailed on Friday for $2 a year; ten copies $15; al- Half a cord to the 100 lbs. As light as the best tations : held at $1,40. Oats—Market quiet and nominal Address, with live cents iucl'wert, fnr narMnulars, force or the policy of conciliation, Tins WORLD win at 71c. Barley and Rye quiet and no sales; the former is J. W. DAUGHADAY, Publisher, ways in advance. It is also issued Daily at $7 a year, coffee sugar.—Harmon Beecher, Hlnesburg, Vt. held at $1,30 for Canadian, and $1,35 for Western. Peas, 729-2teo 1,308 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Boiled much faster and made sugar at least 20 per cent advocate; whatever makes against It, THE WORLD win and Semi-Weekly (on a double-sheet) at $4. Ten copies better.—Orange Buck, Cambridge, LaMoille Co., Vt. market quiet and nominal at $1,15. of the latter for $30. Specimen copies will be sent on oppose. PROVISIONS—Heavy mess pork firmer; light mess is CHRISTMAS PRESENT One-third faster. • Sugar worth 15 per cent. more. now held at $19.00, and heavy- at $20. Lard steady at 12%. application. —P. M. Henry, North Bennington, Vt. Smoked shoulders held at 9c; hams at 12>£c. FOB A LADY. Its operation surprised all who saw it.— Sidney Shep- It wiU oppose every enemy to THE UNION, whether The Circulation of the DAILY REPUBLICAN is 10,000 ard & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. TORONTO, Dee. 26.—FLOUR —Superfine at $3,75 for «f Beautiful Gold composite. Bunting- cattd copies; of the WEEKLY, 12,000; which is greater than armed in rebeUion at the South or insidiously planting shipment %J barrel; $4(5)4,10 for home consumption; ex- IV^TCR, Jeweled, The ne plus ultra of Sugar Boilers.—Hiram Robbing- tra, $4,25^:4,50; Fancy, $4.10@4,20; Superior, $4,75@5,00; that of any other Interior journal in the country, and Brighton, Monroe Co.. N. Y. the seeds of disunion and essential disloyalty at the Bag Flouf; $V£ 200 lbs! ' >*>•*->. An excellent time keeper, $15. only excelled by but few of the city papers. Both in the Saved half the wood and time. * * Sugar and Syrup Nortlu GRAIN —Fall wheat, 80@98c for common to choice^ For ji Gentleman, of a purer quality altogether.—M. C. Morgan, Benning- number and high character of its subscri bers, it presents ton, V t. bushel, although $1,04 was paid during the week. Spring especial inducements for all kinds of general advertis- It will oppose every violation of THE CONSTITU- wheat at 75@82c i3 bushel. Barley in good demand at 70 MAGIC RAILWAY WATCH, The Sirup and Sugar were very beautiful In color. With Patent Time Indicator, ing. SAMUEL BOWLES & COMPANY, TION, which Is the only hope and bond of Union, and @S0c fl bushel. Oats at 38@40c. Peas, 4S@52c—Olobe. Showing the hour without opening case, very handsome The Sirup of the first run looked like the white of an egg and reliable, $15. Publishers, Springfield, Mass. or the clear honey that young bees make.—Levi Hart, our only authority for exhorting or compelling the alle- Pulaskiville, Ohio. THE CATTLE MARKETS. CZsf The Gold Composite can also be had in gentleman giance of the South. size. HEO. DBMBEIT Ss CO., PRESS JYOTICJBV. ALBANY, Dec. 28—BEEVES—Prices—About 1000 head Waiclies sent for inspection before payment. It will oppose'every infraction of THE LAW, in high changed hands, at the following quotations:—Premium, 1 Commended as the best by Moore's Rural New-Yorker. $6,15: extra, $5,50@6,00: first quality, $4,75@5,20; 2d do CHAINS in grea1 t variety, Gentlemens $1 and upwards; The New England Farmer, American Agriculturist, Nt w places or in low, by reckless and misguided partisans, or $3,70@4,20;3ddo,$2,70@3,25. ' ' ' Ladies $2 and upwards. Send for circular. BROADWAY, JSTEAV YORK!, York Tribune, Country Gentleman, Genesee Farmer. SHEEP—Theinquiry for Sheep is active at prices rang- ARRANDALE & CO., Ohio Farmer, Ohio Cultivator, Field Notes, Illinois Far- by the administration which has been their example. s Importers of Watches, 212 Broadway, N. Y. (COKNEK DUANE STREET.) mer, Prairie Farmer, Wisconsin Farmer, Minnesota ing from 5J4a>6}£c$ 1b. Farmer, Michigan Farmer, Indiana Farmer, and by all It win fearlessly exercise the Freedom of the Press; it HOGS—The sales for the week reach about 5,000 head editors who have ever seen it in operation. 729-3tom at prices ranging from 6@7c%71b, for common light corn- 100,000 Watches, Chains, Gold will constantly uphold and defend Freedom of Speech and fed to extra State and Western. Dressed Hogs—Prices OFHHSTGr Gr-A-IRDEIsr SEEDS show a further advance on best lots to 8%@9c. for State. Pens and Pencils, &c, &c., J. M. THORBURN & CO., $650,000 Freedom of the Ballot BRIGHTON, Dec. 23.—BEEF CATTLE — Extra, v»,™w WORTH $500,000. To the lawless acts of the Administration, its arbi- 3,00; 1st quality, $8,25@3,50; 2d do, $7,00(5)8,00; 3d do, $5- 15 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK AVORTH OF 00@6,50 $7100 lbs. Stores—Yearlings, $1I@,15; two years TO BE SOLD AT ONE DOLLAR EACH, WITH- trary and unjust arrests and expatriations, its denial of old, $16@25; three years old, $25(a»0. Working Oxen- Take pleasure in announcing their WATCHES, CHAINS, RINGS, &c., Sales at $85, $125@140. Milch Cows—Prices ranging from OUT REGARD TO VALUE. the right to the writ of habeas corpus, its illegal procla- ' $25 to $65. Sheep and Lambs—Lambs sell at $4,25(5)7,00 Annual Descriptive Catalogue to be disposed of with the ¥1 head; extra, $8,00@9,00; Sheep, 5>£@7c 9p ft. Swine— find not to be paid until you know what you vM mations, its abrogation of State and Federal Laws, its OP Novelty Prize jStationery Packet, 50 at market, retail, 7(.a)8c; fat hogs, 1,400 at market, receive I despotic accumulations of ungranted power, and its sub- rices 7c. Hides, 9c $ H>- Tallow—Sales rough at 9c. Containing over $1 worth of fine writing paper, envel- Eambskins, $2,25@2,50; sheepskins, $2,25@2,50. Vegetable and Agricultural Seeds opes, &c, &c. Also, a certificate entitling the holder versions of the safeguards of civil and personal liberty, it upon the navment of One Dollar, to some one of the fol- wUl constantly oppose the letter and the spirit of our NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—BEEF CATTLE.—The current FOB SPLEflDID'LIST OP AKTIOLES lowing articles prices for the week at all the markets are as follows:— supreme law and the advocacy of sound doctrine, until First quality, $11,00(312,50; ordinary, $10,00@ll,00; com- IL3G4. All to be Sold for One Dollar Each! Gold Watches, Silver Watches, Gold Vest and mon, $8,50@9,50; inferior, $7,00@8,00. American freemen shall be roused to the recovery of Cows AKD CALVES.—First quality, $45(5)60; ordinary, MAILED FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. 100 Gold Hunting Cased Watches $100,00 each Neck Chains, &c., etc. $40@,45; common, $35@40; inferior, $30©35. 100 Gold Watches 1 60,00 « The whole of this novelty packet, we sell at $15 per 1C0, their rights, their liberties, their laws, and their limited VEAL CALVES.—First quality, p ft, 7J|@8c; ordinary, 200 Ladies'Watches 35,00 " which yields Storekeepers and Agents, handsome profits 6Jfi7c; common, 53£@6c; inferior, 5@5>^c. TO THE SEED TRADE! 500 Silver Watches $15,00 to $25 00 " and well-balanced government, by the resistless decision 600 Gold Neck and Vest Chains ... 12,00 to 15,00 " and in addition we present them free with every 100 pkts SHEEP AND LAMBS—Extras, tl head, $6,50(a«; prime WHOLESALE PRICES of Seeds for the month of 1,000 Chatelaine and Guard Chains.. 5,00 to 15,00 " a splendid solid silver watch, thereby giving them the of the ballot. rd nary 4 50 5; best chances to make money ever offered. A single ?nferiof Is^ ° * ' * ' ® common," $4@4,50; January 1864, are now fixed. 3,000 Vest and Neck Chains 4,00 to 1200 " packet mailed free, upon receipt of 50 cents. 4,C<00 Solitaire Jet and Gold Brooches 4,00 to 8,00 " Profoundly impressed with the desire to contribute all SWINE.—Corn-fed, heavy, 5>i(a)6J^c; still-fed, 5@%c. TRADE LISTS on application. 4,000 Coral, Lava, Garnet, &c, do. 3,00 to 8,00 " G. S. HASKINS & CO., 36 Beekman St., New York. that it may to the great work of this generation,—name- J. M. THORBURN & CO., 7,000 Gold, Jet, Opal, &c. Ear Drops. 3,00 to 8,00 " Wholesale dealers in Watches, Jewelry and Prize Sta- ly, to restore our national unity, and to place the United THE WOOI, MARKETS. 15 John Street, New York. 5,0U0 Gents' Breant and Scarf Pins... 3,00 to 8,00 " tionery Prize Packet. For further particulars send for 6,000 Oval Band B racelets 3,00 to 8 00 " circular, mailed free. 726-4t States again foremost among the nations of the earth, 2,000 Chased Bracelets 5,00 to 10,00 " and first in the peace, prosperity, and happiness of its iTNEW YORK, Dec. 24.-There is rather more move- 3,500 California Diamond Pins and SlvfEf1 V *!*,?lose of tlle year, and, wittiunt people,—THE WORLD seeks from those who desire such usually light stocks, holders are very firm in tlieir views Rings 2,50 to 8,00 •• RANDALL'S PRACTICAL SHEPHEED. torjboth Domestic and Foreign. The salesincl tide% 000 2,000 Gold Watch Keys 2,50 to 6,00 » things their sympathy and support, and, above all, the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 5,000 Solitaire Sleeve Buttons and Studs 2,00 to 8,00 " THE PRACTICAL SHEPHERD: A Complete Treatise on favor of Him who crowns every good work. A HOLIDAY GIFT OF PERMANENT VALUE I 1 8,000 Gold Thimbles 4,00 to 6,00 " the Breeding. Management and Diseases of Sheep. 5,000 Miniature Locktes 2,00 to 7,00 « By Hon. HENRY S. RANDALL, tiL. D., Author of TERMS: 3,000 Miniature Lockets, Magic 4,00 to 9,00 « "Sheep Husbandry in the South," ''Fine Wool Hus- flj/ir wo n x i>. lad to add my testimony in its favor. 2,500 Gold Toothpicks,Crosses, &c... 2,00 to 6,00 " bandry," &c. With Illustrations. G [Pres. Walker, of Harvard.] 3,000 Fob and Ribbon Slides 2,00 to 5,00 " Yearly Subscribers, by mail, $8 00 very scholar knows its value. 5,000- Chased Gold Rings 2,00 to 5,00 « THIS work reached seven editions in less than six E [Wm. H. PrescotUthe Historian.] 4,000 Stone Set Rings - 2,00 to 6,00 " weeks from the time of its first publication, in October, SEMI-WEEKLY WORJLJO. he most complete Dictionary of the Language. 6,500 Sets Ladies' Jewelry ^let and 1863, and the demand for it is still extraordinary. No 0r. Dick, of Scotland.] Single subscribers, per annum $3 00 T Gold - 5,00,to 15,00 " volume on any branch of Agriculture or husbandry ever 6,000 Sets Ladies' Jewelry, varied Two copies to one address 5 00 he best guide of students of our Lanjmaw. styles 3,00 to 15,00 " had so rapid a sale, or gave such universal satisfaction. T [John G. Wiittier.] 8,000 Gold Pens, Silver Case & Pencil. 4.00 to 8,00 " Three " " 7 50 e will transmit his name to latest, posterity. It is cordially welcomed and highly approved by both 4,000 do Gold Case and Pencil 5,00 to 10,00 " Press and People, being pronounced THE BEST WORK Five " 1200 ALBANY, Dec. 26.—Market firm, with mode H [Chancellor Kent.] 6,000 do Gold-mouuted holder 2,00 to 6,00 " Ten " 22 50 tbr domest i? tymological part surpasses anything by earlier All the goods in the above List will be sold, without ON SHEEP HUSBANDRY ever published in America. ffi$$J?5&2F* S E laborers. [George Bancroft.] reservation, for ONE DOLLAU EACH. Certificates of The Twelfth Edition is now in press and will be issued WEEKLY WORLD. earing relation to Language the Princlpia does to all the various articles are placed in similar envelopes uext week. Single subscribers, per annum, $2 00 B Philosophy. \Elihu Jiurritt.] sealed and mixed. These envelopes will be sent by mail xcels all others in defining scientific terms. or delivered at our office, without regard to choice. 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Address THE WOULD, 85 Park Row, New York. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection •Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. for her part would have heartily enjoyed mana- in a bottle, I can't see what he wants with such pizen-looking things unless he's a secesh." IN THE DEPOT. oin 9 name and creed. Many of those who, within the limits $1,58(5)1,61 for amber Michigan. Rye quiet and nominal. manufacturers of this description of Bell with Harri- pondents at Boston, Washington and New York; Six to fe^> "3 "s b y b v lov e CLe a Barley quiet but firm. Corn—Market quiet and steady; son's self-acting patented rotating-hangings, either in Eight colnmns of Leading Editorials and Editorial pro v pro v cono i pro v of the Constitution, fought the battles of the ballot-box ft ft SbX.) ft a) IE sales at $1,28@1,29 for shipping mixed Western. Oats this country or in Europe. I1 V && g1 h 9" w 3o