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r i ... . , , . . 'M"' 6 U V - iiz: : ' DEVOTED TO AKT, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, COMMEKCE, NEWS, POLITICS, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE ' INTERESTS' OF NEBRASKA. VOL: II. CITY OF 'BROWNVILLE, NEMAHA CPUNTY, N.. T., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1858. NO. 41. O Nebraska CUiucrttscr rrtLISUED ETIET TUTBSDAT BT FTJKNAS & LANGDON, Second Story Hoadleyfii Muir's Building, (Corner of Main and First Streets.) BROVXVILLE,N.T. For oneyearif jaid u advance, . -. $!,00 "'" at the end of 6 month,-2.50 4i . x . " "12 . -L . 3,00 Clabscf 12 or more will be furnUhed at $1,50 per" nnn..proTded the caih accompaniej the order, Act t,UicrwU. RATES OF ADVERTISING: One wuare 10 !.s -.r lea; one insertion, Each additional insertion, Une square, one month, - three mouth, u - ' Bix months, " one year, F.usiners Cards of ix line or Uu, one year, One Cwlamn one year, One-half Column, oneyear, ' . fonrth u ijrhth " " Column, iix months, ' half Column, iix months, fonrth 44 .ighth - u. " Cuinmn three months, half Column, three mmtfiS, fonrth " $i.0U ,60 2,50 4,00 C.00 12,00 5,0 C0.00 35,00 20.00 16,00 20.00 10,00 ,00 20.00 12,00 10.00 6.00 Announcing candidates for oEceTin advance,) 5,00 Cash in advance wi'.l be required for all advertise ment except where actual responsibility is known. Ten per cent for each change will be added to the above rate. No advertisement will be considered by the year, xtnlew" specified on the manuscript, or previously rd upon between the parties. Advertisement not mtrked on tbecopy fora ipec i5ed number uT insertions, will be continued until ordered ut,aud caarjd accordingly " All advertisements from uraascrfortransient pcr lons.idO be rid in advance. Tbe privilr of yearly advcrtir will be confin ed ndgedly to their own buines;and all advertise .imdu not pertaiuing theieio, to bo paid for ex tra. Yearly adrerti'er; bnve the privilege of changing tUeir advertHiiienti quartrrl j. All load ad ad-crtiomjuU charged double the abre rates. AivortsmNiH on tha uiiide exclasively will be charged extra. BOOK AITDTAITCT JOB PRINTING! Having added ti tbe Advertiser Office Card and Job Pre?, New Type or the latest styles, Inks of all colores,Broni'is,Vine Paper, Envelopes, Ac; we are now prepared to execute Job Work of every de scription in a ntjie unsurpassed by any. other office .in the United Slates. Particular attention will be given to orders from a distance in tuv'.n'liui promptly attended to. The Proprietors, having had an extcusive expe rience, will give their personal attention to this branch of business, and hope, in their endeavors to pleate, both in the excellence of their work, and reasonable charges to receive a share of the public patr-tcage. BUSINESS CARDS. BROWNVILLE. OLIVE BESKET. jamep r. risE. WM. B. GAKRIT. AUGrETrP SXIGHT, OLR'Ell BENNETT & CO., Manufacturers and Whalesalf Dealerhin BOOTS AND SHOES, No. 87 Main Street. (FOKJtXLTtNo.lVl,CoKMt.F dAix axd Loctst.) ST. LOUIS, MO. MISS . MARY TURNER, KILMER AND DRESS MAKER. Tirst Street, between Main and "Water. BROWNVILLE, N. T. Bonnets and Tnmmings altcays on hand. C. 57. WHEELER, Architect and Builder. Urownvillo, 3J" T. JAMES W. GIBSON, BLACKSMITH Second Street, between Main and Nebraska, BROWNVILLE, N. T. TJ. C. JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY AX l Real Estate Agrcnt, BUOWSVILLE, N. T. KEFEKENCES. . rion. Wm. Jesiup, Montrose, Pa. . 1L S. Bently, - John C. Miller, Chicago, 111. Wm. K. McAllister, " Charles F. Fowler, R. W. Furnas, Brownville, N. T. O. F Lake. - liT 7. 1857. 47-ly R. PEERY, M. D., SURGEON, PHYSICIAN ' s - - - And o-rsTyrrg rrrrr y -ray : HLD O CADO, I. T. RESPECTFULLY tenders bis professional ser ricea to the etuiaens of Nemaha county and ad in in j soantiev both in Nebraska and Missonri. Jd 1 1th, 1657. 51-6m I. T. Whyts & Co., WHOLES ALC IJTO RETAIL !E ALFKfr IX i)RY goods, groceries Queensw ire,' Hirdwnre, Coaatxy Produce," tlKOWNVILLE, X. T. DANIEL I,. McGARY, ftTTOEHY IT m - AND ' SOLICITOR LV CHJ1XCERY. Brownville, Nebraska Territory., Will practice In the Court ot Ketvraskaaad Xorth wet JiiSjKiuri. REFERENCES. Jiesr. Crow. McCreary & Co lion. Jame II. Ilufhs, Hon. Juba B. SUeply, - . Bun. James Craig, . . Mod. Silua UuuUion, - St. Ioni, Mo. o St. Jwepb, Ho. Xebraska City, K. T. Judce A. A. Bradford, S. F. Kuckoirs E)V, G. ilURN, SURVEYOR, . IZT.KKT. A CITY, 2T. T. IT'ILL attend promptly'to all buainesf in hispro- V fusion when called oil : such a subdivin? Claims. laying out Town Lots. Drafting City Hats- ete..tr. 37-tf JOHN A. PARKER & CO., X. C. JOHK A. PA&KX&, late Register of the Land Offlc. Onmh. N. T., having Tfesisned his rffice will bereafter, In Mnnscuon with one of tfae best Land Lawgivers in the couni.y, attend to all business confided to him; and es pecially . PHE-EilPTION CASES, Which be ba made himself thoroughly acquainted with by study and practice for years. He refers t the Heads of Department -txA Members of Caiipress of both Houses. All applications tor services mist be accompanied wih a fee to insure attention. January 28 135S. n-31-ly 0 WM. OSBORN. DEALER IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, Jewelry, Hated Ware, Cutlery, Spoons, 4c, Ac. " iTEEIlAEKA CITY, N. T. fENGKAVisG and Uepaikino done on hort notice and all wokb wakkakted. A. D. KIRK, Attorney at Law, Land Ageat and Notary Public Archer Richardson Co., JV. T. Will uractice in the Courts of Nebraska, assisted by Flarding and Bennett, Nebraska City. JACOB &1FFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. GENERAL INSURANCE AND LAND AGENT. And Notary Public. HT5BT! AfifTA CITY, W. T. J WILL attend promptly to all bnisness entrusted to his care, in Nebraska Territory and West ern Iowa. ., September 12, 1S56. vlnl5-ly W. P. LOAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. LOT AND LAND AGENT, Archer, Richardson Coumy, it. T Notice to Pre-Fmptcrs! ! J. S. HORBA CH & CO., Attorneys at Law, AKD REAL ESTATE BROKERS, OMAHA CITY, N. T. WILL give particular attention to preparing all th fieesarv uaoers for Pre-emptions, and rendering any assistance which inaybe required by Pre-emptorsin proving np their Pre-emption rights at the L . S. Land Office 4&-6in B. E. HARDING. C. C. KIJIBOIC-H T- F . TOOSCIB HAHD1HG, K1MB0UBH & CO., Xo-nvfacturcrtrnHd Wioletale Dealer in ITATS, CAPS & STRAW GOODS, Ko 4.0 Main street, bet. Olire ana .rcne, ST. LOUIS, MO. i Particular -mention paid to manufacturing our net Mule Hats. J. HART & SON Oregon, Hlt County, Mi-touri. Keenjonstantly in hand alJdescriptiom.f Harness ttri.tlefi- Ac - Ac. If. 11. tveryarticle inour snop:smanciacturcu v. , ... . , - , by ourselvesand warranted to give misiacuon. UEAL ESTATE AGENCY. CXOKGE CLATES. Real Eitrte nnd General Agency, REFER TO James Wright, Uroker, New York, ' Wm. A. Voodwi.rd, Lsq. - " Hon. K. WoikI, Kx-Gov. of Ohio, Cleveland, Wicks. Otic and Browntll, Bankers, ': Alcott L llorton, , 4 Col. Robert Caupbcll, St. Louis, James Uidgwy, Esq. " Crawfom and SacketU Chicago. Oranh City. Aujf.30.lS5R. vlnl3-l H. r. BENNETT, 3. 8. J1OUT0X, E.H.HARDING BENNET, MORTON &. HARDING ATTORNEYS AT LAW J"tbra$ka CUj, -V. 71, and Gleivxood, Ia TI? ILL practice in all the Courts of Nebraska and 1 Western Iowa. Particular attention paid to obtaining, locating Land Warrants, and collection of debts. REFERENCE : nn. Lewis Cajs.Detroit. ,. ..alius D.Morton, Michigan; . Gov. Joel A. MAtteson, Springfield, 111 - Got. J.'W. Ur.mes, Iowa City, Iowa: -r -B.P.Filed,St.Lonis,Mo ' ; r Hon. Daniel O. Morton. Toledo, Ohio; " ' P. A. Sarpy. Bel"eTBe,Nehraska: Sedgewich & Walker, Chieago,Ill: Green. Wear k Benton. Council Blufff ,Iowa. T. B. CTJIISG. OHN C. TCSX. CI1IISG & TURK, Attorneys at Law & Heal Estate Agents, OMAHA CITY, N. T. WILL attend faithfully and promptly toall busi ness entrusted to them, in the Territorial or Iowa Courts, to the purchase of lots and lands, en trries and pre-emptions, collections, Ac. Office in the second etory f Henry Jc Uootxnew bnildiue. nearly opposite the Western Exchange Bank, r arnham street. Dee. 27. 156. vln28tf DR. J. L- McKEE. " SUSGEONDENTIST- r ' Bmvnville, N. T. TEETH PLUGGED ASS TILLED IJT TBE MOST APPROVED 2IAN5EB. ' JLjj 11, 1S57. Farin, and. Garden. r ' ' IFrom the. Gountry Gentleman. . : Raising Early Chickens. Those who hare an old kitchen, or oth er nom which can be spared for the pur pose,. where afire can be made if nee s sary, will find the raising of a few dozen chickens, to be ready for market during the months of April and May, quite as profitable, considering the time and ex pense required, as they could desire. But if you have not accommodations for fifty chickens,' this is no' reason why you should cot raise any. We have a dozen little ftllows running about on the dry ground floor of a well-lighted, basement cellar; and 'when the changed skies are soft and warm, and Heaven puts on the blue of Slay," it is the work of but a mo ment to 'put them with their mother in one of those long deep boxes, that come from -Massachusetts full of pegged boots, and set them out ia the sun. She will of course invite them very earnestly to leave the box with her, and sometimes" an ad venturous chap will by jumping upon her back, make his escape from the box ; but they can be easily taken care of in this way, until they are large enough to be transferred to a coop with a glass front, out of doors. Such coops may be provid ed. for setting hens, as early as in March so that they need not be taken in the hou"e at all. Let the coop Le five feet long, in the form of ashed, with perfectly tight roof, back, and ends, nailed to four small upright joists in the corners. A width of two feet and a height of eigh teen inches in the rear, will be sufficient to give the roof a good slope from the ront, whicii may be from three to three and a half feet high, to suit such sash as you can procure. , Nail to the joists in ront two strips of plank, of the same thickness as your sash, one at the bottom and the other at the top, on which to nail the boards of your roof, and let the ends of these boards project about , six inches over the rear and the front. Nail some thin slats along on the inside and outside of both your .horizontal strips in front, to form a groove for your sash to slide in ; then run. in your sash at the right hand side, and close up the remainder of the ront securely with boards nailed perpen dicularly to the front strips, letting them over-Ian the. sash, an inch or. two. The s wi.ica are nauea on tee ins ice, of the should exten-3 the whole coop, thus albwmg the sash to be run en- tirf v msiae cr trie nriaraei ns.ii. so as to be out of the way when necessary. This coop must have no bottom, but rest evenly by its own weight -on the ground, with a oose floor of plank about two feet square, fitted neatly into the boarded end. When you have a hen to set, make a nest for her on this floor with an addled egg or two in it, and shut her up in the coop, and if she is a hen of the right kind she will soon take to the nest, when she can be supplied with her eggs. She may remain in this coop, supplied with water and food, including a little meat, and with. ashes in which to dust herself, without danger of wauderinjr away to places where she has previously laid, or of being intrude d upon by other hens. Her coop can be cleaned without disturbing her, or she can be sometimes permitted to go out of it ; and when her chicks are hatched, the nest should be removed, the floor cleaned and replaced Jiud perhaps the coop itself shift ed to a new spot. We have no difficulty in managinjr our Bramas in this way, and almost any htn can be made to set in a particular spot, by causing her to lay there first : Shut - up a lavinsr hen in the above coon even- morn ins till she has laid for a few days, and she will then resort to ithers'tlf; or leave the coop open with an inviting nest in it, conudning two or three eggs, and some one of your laying hens will be pretty sure to find it out, and take possession of her own accord. Tt i? a PTcct mistake to set a hen in cold weather, on more than nine or elev en eggs, no matter how large she maybe, for though more chickens may be hatched thev will be puny things, not having rec eived sufficient vital warmth, and not wnrih the trouble of raisin?. It is also much, better as a general rule, that a set ting hen should wait for her eggs to be laid, than that eggs already laid should wait for a hen- Two or three .days are almost always enough to procure a setting of fresh laid eggs; but when you wish set a hen on her own eggs, or those of some other one, they should be obtained as soon as "possible after being laid, and kept where they will not be subjected to dampness or great extremes of heat or cold. After the eggs are under the hen, our advice is to let them alone to take care of her,nd let her take care of her 'Do not, except in extraordinary cases, attempt to release chicks from their shells those "that want to be helped out, will probably always want helping. . It is our practice to set two hens as nearly as possible on the same day, so that both broods mav be given to one of them, unless they are both large broods, or the weither cold, in which cases it is better to let each hen take care of her own. Should one hen hatch out her chicks a day or two after the other, it is best to give both broods to the hen last hatching as they can be put under her at night, and the chicks themselves will be much more easily reconciled to their new mother than the first hen would . be to chickens placed with her after she had learned to distinguish her own.' . Ycu should discover by the pale,Tsickly or restless appearance of a hen while setting, that she is troubled with iice Do not grease her, as that would grease the eggs, and "destroy all "hopes of chickens, by;stopping the air-holes in their shells; but dust her well with flour of sulphur and powdered rosin mixed together, and remove the eggs carefully to a clean nest. And if after the chicks rare a few days old, you make the same unpleas int disco very, you can then thoroughly grease her with lamp-oil, slightly flavored with tur pentine, and put some of the same mix ture on the head, rumpand under the wings of the chickens, but too much tur pentine in the grease will finish the chicks as effectually as it does cockroaches, as we have learned by experience. tFnmi'tne Country Gentleman. Tbe proper depth or coiering Grass . ' Seefls. C. L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the Mas sachusetts Board of Agriculture, in 'his valuable Report on Grasses, gives a table showing the depth of soil in inches and fractions of an inch, at which the greatest number of seeds germinate; also the depth of soil in inches and fractions of an inch, at which only half the seds germinate; and further, the least depth of soil in inches and fractions of an inch, at which none of the seeds germinated. We here only give a list of a few kinds they being the kinds mostly grown in this country : Orchard Grass t 0 to 1)4 3j4 to 1 i'2 Timothy - Otol4 34 to 1 S RedCIover Otol2 11)5 to 11)2 2 White Clover" 0 to lj4 li2to ZA 11(2 Tal Oat Grass l2to34 .Hi2tol3(4 4 The foregoing results were obtained by careful experiments. The first J column shows that the five kinds of seeds germi nated as well on the surface of the ground as those that were covered from one fourth to three fourths of an inch. But it is proper to say that the soil used in the ex periments to ascertain the proper depth of covering, was ' kept moist during the process, of germination, though freely ex posed to the light, which accounts for the large number of seeds germinating with out any covering whatever. Only one half of the several kinds of seeds germinated when covered at the depths specified in column second ; and none of the seeds germinated when cov ered at the depths specified in the third columns.-- The atcn-e statements will dcubdes3 furprise' many farmers. We ha:ve tinicacu a cam known fnrmers to end itrain'.-known 0W jveir rrtsi tQe3. zl sairte tirce they.Bowed their grata, and then with a heavy barrow, go over the ground from two to four times, bucha process must bury much of the seed too deep to vege tate, if there is any truth in the figures we have given.' Mr. F. also gives the number of seeds in a bushel of red top seed; also in a peck of timothy, and in four pounds of clover eed. The above named quantities of seeds are used by many farmers in stock ing down an acre of land to grass, uther farmers, frequently use, iu addition to the bushel of red top.a large quantity of tim othy and clover. Now it has been ascertained by care fully counting the seeds in an ounce of the three kinds of seeds, how many there are in a pound or a bushel. From this data it has been ascertained that the far mer that sows upon an acre of land one bushel of . n d . top, one peck of timothy. and four rounds of clover, puts upon his acre no le&s than 95,S6S,000 seeds. This gives over 15 seeds to the square inch, or alou 2500 seeds to the square foot. What farmer ever gets such a number of gnus plants upon a square inch or foot of his newly stocked down field ! . .From many , years observation, and some recent experiments, we are led to believe that not much less than half the grass seed sown by many farmers fails to germinate in consequence of being "co vered, too deep." . .. We have frequently seen farmers sow ing their grain and grass seeds upon the furrow,.an;l then cross harrow, for the express purpose of burying the seeds deep from the mistaken idea that there was no danger of covering the "minute seed" too deep for vegetating. We have known others to only pass the harrow over the furrows, then sow their I prain and gras seeds, and then "finish off" by going over the ground twice with the cultivator. But according to the table of depths of covering grass seeds.it seems that the seeds ot timotny, ciover ana white clover fail to germinate when co vered at the depth of two inches where the cultivator is used for covering the seeds.it is very probable that a large portion of them get buried two inches or more; if so, then they fail to vegetate. Some defer sowing the grass seeds till they have done using the harrow; then sow the seeds, and go over the land with a "brush harrow" but the brush harrow sometimes draws the surface soil, and seeds too much into ridges. Some may ask, if there is so much dan ger, of covering grass seeds too deep, what is the remedy ? Will it do to sow them pon the surface of the ground, and i leave tbe seeds to their fate ? Without answering the above questions direct, we will give the results of several experi ments we have recently made in sowing crass seeds. " : In November, 1S56, we solved a small niece of land.with winter rye; after har rowing the rye, sewed at the rate of one peck of timothy seed per acre; intended to have rolled the ground the next day, buLlhat -proved rainy; nothing farther was done with the field till bit April, when we sowed about six pounds cf clover seed per acre. The result was, a fair crop of rye. and about the 'thickest catch' of grass we ever had. Last spring sow ed two acres, a part with wheat, the bal ance with oats; after having done using the harrow, jsowed clover and " timothy seed, and finished off with a heavy roller. We have seldom seen - a better catch of grass, it being as good among the oats as with the wheat Early in September last, sowed two fields with winter wheat; after the grain wtls sown and the ground thoroughly harrowed, sowed timothy seed. One piece of the ground was rolled after the grass seeds were sown; the other was not rolled; in a few days after, the grass and grain came up, and a thicker stand of grass plants we never saw, have no doubt there was twice the number of seeds vegetated that would had we har rowed the ground two or three times over after the grass seeds were sown. The past season was unusually wet. and there was generally a good catch of grass. But wet or dry, for the future, we shall not harrow in our grass seeds; shall sow and then use the roller.; If any of our readers have doubts uTreferrence to this matter,' will they give the thing an experimental trial the coming 'spring ? Sow a portion of the seeds with the grain on a part of a field, .and then drag or harrow the ground over two or three times. On the other part cf the field, defer sowing the grass seeds tiD after all the harrowing i? done; then sow the grass seeds and roll the hole field alike, and carefully note the results;, and after har vest, report your success or failure, in ei ther or both cases, "for publication in the columns of the Country Gentleman. Salt as a Manare for Cabbage, Tur nips, &c. I was much interested in the perusal of Mr. Levesque's account of his clearing a field cf that troublesome plant, "colts foot," as given to the Country Gentleman of the 11th inst., and of the growth of $100 worth of cabbage per acre, on land that three months previous had received a dressing of two tons per acre of salt as also in his statement, that "cabbages of sorts, Swedish turnips, kohl rabi, and mangold wurzel, all being in their native state, marine plants, consequently com mon salt is a necessary and beneficient addition to the soil in the cultivation of all plants as naturally grow ni'ar the sea sihore." I believe Mr. L. is correct in liia tjw via above expressed. Early id October, IS06, in -'company with Dr. Tyler, the then "physi i in of the New Hampshire Insane Hospital, I j took a stroll over a portion ' of . the farm connected with the Institution; none of the crops interested me more than their field cabbages, there being not far from three thousand heads of the largest and best cabbages I had ever seen, I remark ed to him, that for a few years the cab bage crop had, in my vicinity, been almost worthless, in consequence of bein,jr 'clump footed.' He remarked that a liberal ap plication of salt to the land, or manure intended for cabbages, was a certain cure and preventive for fingers and toes, and all other nils that the cabbage is heir to.' The manure intended for cabbages, rec eived all the beef and pork brine and salt of the institution, amounting to many bar rels each year, and since they had made use of the salted manure, they had not failed to raise extra large crops. For the three past years, cabbages from the grount of the insane asylum have always taken the lead over all others at the N. H. State Fair. L. B. Experimental Gardening, Cabbage The following brief description exhibits the peculiarities and comparative excel lence of several of thirteen varieties rai sed the past summer. The d ifTerent kinds have been planted out and cultivated alike and their peculiarities in growth and pre servation noted, and their excellence test ed and discussed at my table, with as much precision as colors of dress cr ft.S3 ions are at that of many others. Premium Flat Dutch, is among the first in point of goodness for the table, and may justly be made a standard of ex cellence. It is a fall and winter variety, sweet and tender, .and one of the very best to keep. ' Large Headed. from England. A large, late, good heading winter variety, an ex- oellent keeper, fine flavor, sweet and ten der, green or boiled ; first quality. White Brunswick Drumhead, from Germany. An early fall, short-stalked variety; heads irregularly square, very flat, large and solid, and of remark-able uniformity in size. They stand the heat - . . . and moisture well without bursting, and are one of the surest varieties to head for late planting. Solid, crisp and tender raw; second quality cooked an exceilen keeper, and fine market cabbage. inningstadt, from t ranee. Une o the best keeping and most solid heading early cabbages known second only to Red Dutch in this particular. Heads uni formly conical, large and lvavy, solid to the very extremity of the leaves, wnich unite at the top in a beautifully twisted form. hen planted early they stand the heat and moisture for a long time without bursting. Good slaughed, but second quality cooked, a fine market cabbage...- ..'..: Planting.-Tew persons take the ne cessary pains to grow cabbage for late winter and spring use. The almost uni versal practice of making one early plan ting only, occasious early ripeness, and consequently early df cay. The summer of 1SJS, I planted White Brunswick the first of June, which were planted out Julr 5th. The past season, planted Brunswick and Winningstadt June 1st, which were planted out the last of the raonih,' and headed up finely, long before frost, and are now, Feb. 8th, in sound fine condi tion. Oxheart and other early cabbage seed may be sown from the middle to the last of June, and be planted out in July with good success. Saving for Seed. Before severe frost, make choice of the finest heads for seed plants, selecting those with fine compact heads, with short stumps, and with few loose leaves; with a fork remove them carefully from the soil, leaving the roots as perfect as possible. These should be planted fully up to their heads in fine mellow soil, in a favorable out-door situa tion; and as the eeasoh advances be fully protected from frost; or if taken to the cellar for protection, the roots and stalks should be buried in dry sand ina box, or otherwise in a cool part of the cellar. On removing to the open ground in the spring a portion of the head should be removed, slicing off about one-half of the head all round, longitudinal with the stalk, using care not to injure the center stem or smau heart leaves. Cultivate and water if necessary, as for other growing plants, and as they advance tie the stalks loosely to stakes to prevent accident. No two varieties, nor should cauliflower, kahl rabi or turnips, be grown in the same enclosure, or within considerable distance as they readily intermix. Dr. C D. S. TbeHerefortls. The New York Tribune thus speaks of some Herefords recently sold in that city: We haee heretofore given a very fa vorable opinion of the Herefords for beef. There are several of them in market to day from Copake, Columbia CoM that came from Geo. Clarke's herd in Otsego Co., about a 'year ago, and have been since fed with great care and have come into market as fine specimens of beeves as we have ever seen, particularly the pair fed by Orville II. "Wilcox, and sold by Henry Hurd to D. Malby. Newark, at 12 12 cents a pound, estimating the weight at 26 cwt. If the quality proves as good as it looks in the animals, it will establish the credit of the Herefords, as producers cf beef superior to any other imported stock. ' Another pair cf the same kind, nearly as good, fed bv .11 P. Sirer!, are estimat ed at i4 cwt.; s..id lv D. C. Culver, who sddfourto Henry Kclley, and four to A.os Oswoid, tt 11 -cents, who we hope will note and report opinions of iir customers upon the quality of Hereford beef. Diseases or the Pear and Apple. There is no branch of fruit culture which demands a more careful ii vestiga tion than the causes and probable reme dies of the discuses by which Our pcpular fruits are aflt cted. There is little hope of success in this inquiry, unless rare and perseverance, with a sufficient amount of scientifi; knowledge, be brought to bear on the subject. It is enough for us to know, that annually a great number of valuable fruit trees are destroyed by an undefined malady, and besides a large amount of valuable fruit injured by a si milar cause, both hitherto merely alluded to in books and discussions, without any decision being arrived at as to thair na ture, developements, or cure. Probably it is beyond limited human intelligence to arrive at any satisfactory decision in the matter. Much is known and has been published which has not been brought before the notice of-our cultivators, and until our means of information and research be come exhausted. I think we should pursue the inquiry. A member of tbe Isew x ork irtut Grower s Society, has lately pre sented some ideas to the public in a co- temporary agricultural journal, and de sires a lurther discussion of the topic Two of the diseases which attack the pear, he slates are beyond his comprehen sion; one of them, the "I ire Blight," so called, "one of the most inscrutable di seases in vegetable life." This conclu sion is certainly just, when we consider the conflicting opinions and multifarious theories which have been promulgated for the past ten years in reference to it. The other, "Leaf Blight," he is also un able to elucidate and this is precisely the result of all the talking and writing hitherto. Shall we progress in the in vestigation or abandon it? L. B. L. of Greece, infers that the "Rust on the leaf, which has recently appeared," has more the appearance of a Lichen, which he seems to think synonymous with moss, than of a fungus, which he translates by the use of the term toad-stool. I wish to take exception to these two substituted terms of moss for Lichen and toad-stool for fungus, as likely to mislead. Lichen does not mean moss, nor fungus, tcad- stool, in a scientific sense; no more than vine mildew, or oidium, means toad-stool Mcs3is only the popular term for a large group cf vegetable forms, and has really no definite meaning unless those plants included m the natural order of Muscior Mosses ; while the Lichens belong to the natural order of the Lichenes or. Lichens nsw U.m l. Z Ivm - wmh1w e, m T f this subject is to be thoroughly investigat ed, let it be done in a seniitle manner, tiding correct terms to represent certain things, or we shall only confuse the reader aal arrive at no result. R. R. S. Two thousand beans may be raised in one siaon from a siuzU seed. Save tlie PiecBS, j Knowledge, if neglected, h pcisca. Food, if endigestod, is poison. ' If the harvest cf cne resr wruM tslL nearly the whole human race would per ish, . Forty-five pounds cf salt are contained in one hundred pounds cf water frca the Dead Sea. Air may be so rarefied by heft a to oc cupy five or six hundred times tha sr-ce it did before. ' ; - Water when converted into steam in creases in bulk 1, COD. There are nearly three thrasandatts cles in the common grasshopper." ' "Please ex." as the printer said whsa he offered his heart to a nice linle girL " A fashionable mama, with tix marri geable daughters on hand, is new defined to mean "a match-making machine.". ' Yoa are no gentleman," said iin nnfry disputant to his antagonist. "Are you?" quietly cbseryid the oth er. "Yes! I am, sir! , ... "Then I am not' was tha caustic reply. Mrs. Partington took np "Life Illus trated, by Fowler S: Wells,11 , and read ii "Life Illustrated by Foul Air ni Well." " We have the authority of her near friend and scribe for this. ' i - There are in the United States' aoout seventeen thousand la wyers, , eighteen " thousand clergymen, and twelv-3 thousand physicians, exclusive of eight thousand quacks. In the manufacture of steel, a single article may be increased in value from ' one to two thousand dollars. " - 1 Law is like unto a sieve yuu may see through it, but you must be considerably reduced before you can get through it. A cotemporary of ours protests mcst earnestly that he is always as good as his word. That maybe, for his word is good for nothing. ! r The "first. business in .Lynn. is the manufacture of shoes. ' That, howeveri is intimately connected with the "las:" business. : . j '; The ladies arc eppcted to stop; males on the Sallcih, C-pL.cis.Ily iii ih evening, vmcsi Uieyiiopat vbeir Ls. Pitt Piatt has bee-ST-jnlaii-imv. ter at Plattsburg. This' alliteration i equal to Peter Piper, who picked the peck . of pickled peppers. "A woman is at the bottom of all mis chief," said Joe. "Yes," aid Frank, "arid when I used to get into mischief, my mother was at the bottom of me." An indolent boy being asked by his . teacher who came latest to school ? re plied : "Indeed sir I cannot sity, for I did not get here early enough to see.'.' ". A lady at sea, in a gale of wind, being full of apprehension, cried out: "We shall go to the bottom mercy on us how my head swims: 3iaaain saia a sailor, "you'll never go to the bottom while your head swims I If we are to live after dea-.li, why don't we have some certain knowledge of it T" ' said a skeptic to a clergyman. "Why don't we have some kncwltdge of this world before we come into it ? was the . caustic reply. The following question is before the Sand Lake debating society: 44 Which do women like the best to be bjgged in- a polka, or squeezed in a sleigh?" We shall iisue the decision in an extra. ' ' .Mistress: "Not going to remain in a situation any longer ? "Why, you foolish thing wb. t are you going to do then V Eliza: "Why ma'am you see, our fortune teller says that two young noblemen is going to marry us so there's no call, to remain in no situation no more, A clergyman was walking out one day and passed two little boys, one of whom made a bow. As he walked away he heard the following amusing conversation: tWhy John, dida't you know that was Parson May?" "Of course I did !" "Why IV. didn't you make a bow?" Why, mother don't belong to his charcK." . . bailiff having been ordered by Lady Hardwick to procure a sow of the -breed . and size she particularly described to him, came one day into the dining room, when lull cf company, proclaiming, with a burst of joy he could not suppress : "I ' have been at Rovstan Fair, my Jady, and got a sow exactly cf your ladyship" size, . A fast Irishman in the time cf a revi val, joined the church, but was found sin ning grieviously not long nfterwardi.--"Didn'tyou join the Methodists!" inqui red a piously dispose d person. "Fail an I did I jintd for six months, and behav ed so well that they let me out for three. How TO HATE PLEASANT .'Dfi t A MS,-r- - HUal Ujore P"ru' l td' 4 at tw feet and a piec of oyater pie, wash uown with a glas of good, ititr brandy," and ia less than an hour you will iee a schr.aik you larger than a hawseiv diTouricg cigtt Uuthaired children, hLo hx.d just tsc?.pq from a y How monster, witia red-hc! tyca and chvt mdecf raxor-Uizes, -