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r rV Nebraska SUmctiisEc. RATES OF ADVEUTISINR. V' AV fstorr Stricklefe Block. Kain Street. f5 BSOWlitTILLE. g. T. -UBNAS & FISHER, F riiorRIETOKS. , - v-- - . y " .... B I tl V.l , i V' Each a'jnt'vul luertion - - . . (4 I 2nmesj Ctrii", ju iiuti r ls, sot yar ft uj Oa eofurf! 'is f - - . la t 0& tatf t'lffntn ' ' - a CO Ou f'.nrth '"fr.itiB tjj rear - . . li aa Oae nhf jinnn o year . MM Ott e?I3rr?!X S ii.-nlJi. , . ,( . 4 (i fJ.V. hlr i'jSTTl Tlrrfrth. - - 44 e One i.,im?r cwiiuin iiWl . . ISM OucSoni tj?r m-.tli 36 One tivf CulnM thrt uxxitLs . . 19 80 One f tur o.intAM il.rti fatb - 12 01 Ore eW.ili cr?- in-.i.fi 8 03 ... if naid In advance, - - - for pw atthe endof 6 month. $2 00 2 60 . LIS EXIT 3r iKD UNION, OiNE AND IKSEPE AULEf'JIOW AlID rOEEYEE." ! T.-airfe" ti.frf-fi..:,!, .. t pi.lt? for ja 4van.e. S 00 " "' f ,j or more will be rurnia ai . .v r mm ' ' ' . .-AAat. VOL. VU. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1863. C1- Provided tb cash accomp-u,. ;A-'rirW(i LyyAys Ay yvy v. JvAy n i r.j 1 1 " si I ! t r Jr r' IP", iff SINESS CARDS ) fo TSS AFFLICTED DR. A. OODFHEY, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON OBSTETRICIAN,. nrI,J m France. trng twenty-lire year.' expe ,J .Vh. Medical science, and ope of the oorrespon 'D, .American Joomal of the Medical Sclen r(raUoiiDe K.r.nnilT in Srownvill.. and re fnnr teoder. bl. prof e;stonal acrvice. to the cit- hli citr and tclnlty. :Ifn m not conflne bU aerrice. to common practice, Bwu,"l-m to chronic diseaiea disease, of long at extpna nt Tumuri Abscesse. and '"r-Tncer. nd Sore Eyes, eren partial Bltndnesi, commonly called Falling Sickne.s. Palsy, r?1 ,i pvupepsy, Consumption In the first and Zi Ktlet Insanity In me formi and disease, of ,kind ' Particular attention paid to Ague. . -in if reouested, fire reference to those pro US5 Vncnrtble In the United 8Utea, and aXterw.rda fbe fonnd at all botirt, either at J. H. Mann'. L"' store, or at hi? dwelling bouse, when not engaged pruresblonal bnslnesf. nMr i BEEHHEYEE & E0BIS0N, MANUFACTURERS OF if BOOTS AND SHOES, "Ajl, BtTWEEH rillT AKD .ICOHD .Ti. BROWNVILLE, N. T. Hiring recently purchased the Shoe Shop formerly mA bi Tn. T. Den, we now offer onr work at greit '.nedoced prices. manufacture all that we offer rorssle. 53-All work warranted. . f Bniviu Sept. 7, 1862. nll-ly I n 1? RTP.WA"RT ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN IKS ! SURGEON,. BIIOWXT1LL.E, iVEBRASKA. Offlce in J. 3. Thurman'. Drug Store, Whitney', tluck, Msln street. v-tMlr AUGUSTUS SCHOENHEIT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICITORS1 IN CHANCERY, I Corner First and Main 8treets, nrownvllle, - - - Nebraska EDWARD W. THOMAS, I ATTORNEY AT LAW, 50HCITOE IN CHANCERY. ? Office corner -of Main and First 8treeU. j BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. i THOMAS DAVIS. ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND G TT T? fi-"RO "NT . TABLE ROCK, NEBRASKA ) Reference, Vr. U. U, urownvuio. ! ApnlIL,'6L nH-Iy LEWIS WALDTER, HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL CLALZER AKD PAPER HANGER. BROWNVILLE. N. T R LIOODY & SON, NIAGARY NURSERIES, I LOCK PORT, N. Y.', Wholesale and Retail Sealeli in Fruit, Trait and Ornamental Trees I AJffD SHRUBS AHD j STOCK FOR XURSERYMEtf. j For Sale at Bargains. Two No. t Shuttle Empire Sewing Machine.. One Franklin Family sewing naoaine. Two Horace Waters' $1 Melodions. Two Freeh's Conical Washing Machine. One No. 1 P. W. Gate, Co.'. Sugar Cane Mill. Evaporators. Appty at the Aitcrtutr and Ttrmtf Office. Browi JlarchUth 1861 lr-.i D. A. CONS T A BLE, iwmcTr, an DEALER Iff IRON. STEEL, NAILS, CASTINGS, SPRINGS, AXLES, FILES BLACKSMITH'S TOOLS Also: Hubs, Spokes, and Bent Stuff. Ttlrd Street, between Felix and Edmond, SAINT JOSEPH, MO. t ....... . ., ..ch Highest Price Paid for Scrap Iron. 1 December 1,186. ly. REAL ESTATE A K D Collection Office O F I BROWNVILLE. NEBRASKA. I Main. Briuttn Tsrte and First Sirtds. Particular attention plven to the JL'urdiase and Sale ol Real Estate, Making Col- lections and Garment or Taxes Tor Kon-Resl dents. , LAND V ARRAXTS FOR SALE, for cash and on '-ime. i LANT "VTARRAVTS LOCATED farFaatern Can. I Wlietaon land. Klected from personal examination, ' .irar ac ivrwNMM ,iuiuvnuuwvi worn I BrownriHe.N.T. Jan.S.lSSl. yl New Remedies for SPERMATORRHEA jHOWARD ASSOCIATION, j PIIII.ADEI1PIIIA. &tntlrt TmtlitvHmi tmlli1ua hv tVfHol E ! WmetU. for in Relief at the Sick and VUtretted Sictei with. Virulent and Chronic DUeatet. and j peciaU) for the Curt est Diteasc of the Sexual 1 Orcan. ' M-EDICAIi ADVICE given paU., by the Acting -'neou. Sluab!a S.iur,a f umiilnrTkM mil nthT di of the Sexual Orcans. and on the NEW REXK .'E3 employed In the DUnensary. tent in sealed lettei lZl .lPe, free of charge. Two or three Stamp, accepu i 1 Addras. DR. J. StILLIM HOUGHTON". Howard A. , R"oa 2, South Mint Street, Philadelphia, Pa j cmocr, lz, iB6i. nza-ly .CLOCKS, .WATCHES. JEWELRY. J. SCHUTZ Would annonnceta thpl tin of Brownville Du TlClnWv that V . v.. KlmMlf in -orovnTille, andintend keeping a f nil auort ti'."',rTUunglnhislineof business, which will rtnV!7. ch- He will also do all kinds of re 'mud clockl waUhe. andJewelry. All work war JOHIT L CAE02I (Successor to Lushbaugh & Carson. 13 OS Zm 22. o LAND AND TAX PAYING Dealer in Coin, Uncurrtnt JiJonty, Land Warrants, Exchange and Gold Dust MAIN STREET. DROWATILLE, NEBRASKA. I will give especial attention to buying and selling ex change on the principal cities of the United States and Europe, Gold Silver, nncurrent Bank Bill., and Gold Dust, Collection, made on all accessable points, and proceeds remitted In exchange at current rate.. Deposit, received on current account, and Interest al lowed on special deposits. OFFLCE, 31 All? STREET. DCTWCO THE Telegraph and the IT. S. Land OQccs. REFERENCES: Llnd k. Brother -J. W. Carson & Co., Riser. Dick &. Co. . Toung It Carson, Jeo. Thompson Mason, Col'r of Port, wm. T. Smithson, Esq., Hanker, Philadelphia, Pa. Baltimore, Md. Wasbingtop 41 D.C. u J. T. Stevens, Esq., Att'y at Law, Jno. S. Gallaber, Late 3d And. U. S. T Tar lor k, Kriegh, Bankers, McClelland, Pye co., Hon. Thomas G. Pratt, Hon. Jas. O.Carson, P. B. Small, Esq., Pres't 3. Bank, Col. Geo. Schley, A'y at Law, Col. Satn.HambletonAtt'y at Law, Judge Thoa. Perry, Pro!. II. Tutwller, Chicago, III. St. Louis, Mo. Annapolis, Md. MercersburgPa Hagertown, Md. Xaston, Md. Ctimberland, Md Havana, Alabma. Nov 8, lS60-tr. BROWNVILLE i: ite. f. " i '1 TK0RI1, C0LMA1J, CO., Announce to the traveling public that their splendid and commodious Steam Ferry running across from Brownvillc, Nebraska. 1. one of the best la every respect oa the Upper Mis souri river. The Boat makes regular trip, every hour anth.t no time will be lost in waiiinr. The banks on both side, of the river are low and well graded which renders nnloading unneceesary s i. the case at most other ferries. No fears need be entertained as to diil cutties at or near this crossing, aa everybody in this regin, oa both tide, of tbe river, is for the Untou te ctroett kind. Our charges too an item these bard times are lower than at any other crossing. Travelers Croat Kansas to Iowa and to ttieeast will find this the nearest and best route i every respect. THORN, COLEMAN & CO. Browaviiie, Nebraska, Sept. 21st, 18.L. J. WILSON BOLLINGER, AND nnnTiR-PTxnT at t.aw General and Collecting Agent. BEATRICE, GAGE CO., NEBRASKA. WILL practice in tbe several Courts in Gage and adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to him. Collection, prompt ly made. E5?l 'articular attention riven to locat ing Land Warrants oa land, carefully .elected by him.elf.jgl beptember 2i, 61. niz-yly JACOB UAEH0N, MERCHANT TAILOR, BROWNVILLE, Gall, the attention of Gentlemen desiring new, neat. aervicabie ana rasnionaoio WEARING APPAREL, TO HIS j ITewStock of Goods JUST RECEIVED, BROAD CLOTHS, CASSIMERS, TKST72TGS, fcc.fcc., OF THE TERT I.ATETT STYLES, Which be will aell or make up, to Jrder, at ucprece- dentea low prices. Those wishing any thing In hi. line will do well to call and examine his stock before investing, as he pledges himself to Hold out peculiarly ravoraoie in ducements. February ISth, 1862. THE CONFESSIONS A SD FJCPEIU ENCE OF A fc UFFEUElU Published aa a warning, and for tbe especial bene fit of Young Men and tho who (offer with Nervous Debility, Los. of Memory, Premature Decay, Ac. Ac, by one of those who baa eared himself by simple means, after bein? cut to great expense and incon venience, through the use of worthies, medicines nr escribed bv learned Doctor.. Single eopie. may be bad of tbe author, C. A. LAMBERT, Esq., lireenpoint, Long island, Dy enclos ing a post-paid addressed envelope. Address CUARLES A. LAMBERT, Esq., Greenpeint, Long Island, N. Y. May 22, 1862. s45-2m. IVIonoy A.ci,7xxi.oocl on PIKES' PEAK GOLD! I will receive Pike'. Peak Gold, and advance money upon tbe .ame, and pay over balance of proceed a. soon a. Mint return, are had. In all case., I wi exhibitthe printed return, of the United State. Minf or Assay offlce. JNO. L. CARSON, BULLION AND EXCHANGE BROKER - BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. o29v4 Hats, Boots and Shoes. I have just received a New Supply of Hats, Boot, and Shoes, which I will sell cheaper than they were ever offered her. before. Call and aee m. BTowaville, Apr" 1862 n40-U. Seeds Frepaid by IlaiL 25 Prettiest Annuals In Cultivation, - - $1 00 21 Choice Vegetable Seeds lor the Garden, . 1 00 Boih to Clubs of Five for $3 ; To Clubs of Ten for $15; TaClnbsof Twenty for $25. The NEW JAPAN M1LI-ET, with Immense h6ads, six to ten Inches long, 25 cent, per large paper ; Five for $1. I received Genuine SeedH of this new and valu able Millet direct from Japan, bv the Niagara, last May. and can confidently recommend it as tbe best Millet in cultivation. B.M.WATSON, n33-tf Old Colony Nnrserlea, Plymouth, Mass. To Western Farmers, Totoaooo Dood. I have several varieties of Tobacco that will ripen well in this latitude. To any one who wishes .oed, and remit, me a three-cent Postage stamp, on the ssme, L will send a paper of each variety of seed GRATIS. , . . . Orders must be sent in the months of Sepiember and October. I do this to introduce the culture of Tobacco in the West. Address R. 0. THOMPSON, Syracuse, Otoe County, Nebraska. P. S. Papers in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Ne braska, publishing the above once, and sending No. marked .will receive twenty four papers choice flow er seeds free by nail. R. O. THOMPSON. Shingles! Shingles 1 1 I would respectfully Inform the cltiiensof Kemaha county, that I shall endeavor U keep this market .up plied with good Cottonwood Shingle., which I will set for cash I or take In exchange Cattle, Hog;, Wheat or Corn. R. F. BARRET. FROM C. H. SORIVEN, GENERAL ADVERTISING AGENCY, ISO. 63 DEABBORTf STBEET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1662. FALL TRADE. 1862 VEBER, WILLIAMS & YALE. JOBBERS Or HATS, CAPS. FURS, BUFFALO ROBES, BUCKSKIN GOODS, &c, 25, LAKE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. We have now in Store for Fall Trade the Largest and best Ati!?rtel Stock in our line ever exhibited in this Market, especially adapted to the want, of Dealer, from all section of the Northwest, and unsurpassed in variety and cheapness by- any to be found WEST or EAST. Merchant, who have heretofore purchased In .other Markets are especially invited to examine our stock this se.son, and are assured we are fully prepared and determined to sell Goods as cheap, and on as favorable term. a. the best class of Houses in any Market. ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION. CASH PAID FOR RAW FURS, and Price list furnished by mall. WEBER, WILLIAMS &. TALK. Oct. 4 '62. nl2-3m FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES OF ALL KIND.. Also, Warehouse Tracks, Letter Presses, &c FAIRBANKS, GREEIILEAF & CO. 172 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, 53" Be careful, and buy only the genulDe.3 June 12th, 1863 n49-3m JUST IN TIME FOR TOBACCO SEED GRATIS. Send a three cent post offlce stamp and get six kinds Tobacco Seed gratis. THOMPSON HEDGES. Nov. 29th, 162. Syracuse, fifebratta. Okra or Gumbo Seed. The betl substitute for Coffee prepared in tbe same manner as Coffee. Packages of seed by mall at 10 cts. each. Each package contain, seed enough to raise a sppply for an ordinary family. Send order, to it. A. TEKttT. n3S-tf Crscent City, Iowa. c Co.. FLUSHING, IV. Y., Will send to applicant, who enclose stamps, their New Catalogue of Small Fruits, including 200 Select Varieties of Strawberries. Also Catalogue of Bulbous Flower, and Peonies, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Roses and Flowering Piants, Seedd, &c. nl0-2w 3AGLZ! WORKS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. DO YOU WANT STEASI ENGINES OR BOILERS patent sugar cane mills, Patent steam coil evaporators, patent fire evaporators, patent stamp mills, FOR PIKE'S PEAK OR LAKE SUPERIOR SEND FOR CIRCULARS, With Cuts, and Descriptions, Prices, etc., etc. SAW MILLS, FLOURING MILL, AND MACHIERT OF ALL DESCRIPTION. I-SEND FOR CIRCULARS.! P. W. GATES, President. N. B. r Agent, wanted everywhere. Chicago R. W. FURNAS, AGENT, Brownville, Nebraska, Of whom Circular, and detailed Information can had. March 20, 1862. fn37-lyj LANDRETRS Warranted Garden Seeds BLUNDEN, KOENIG & CO., (Late Jobs Garhitt & Co.,) . No. 66 North Second Street, above Pine, ST. X.OUIS, MO. nw.r far a.i t verv low fl cures, a large and wel assorted stock of Agricultural and Horticultural Imple ments, comprising everytntag necessary u mo farmer, together with a large and fresh supply of Landreth's Celebrated Garden Seeds, CROP OF 1861, For which they are the sole agents. Their friends can rely upon getting from them seeds that are not only Dure but true to name in every instance. Also field seeds at lowest market rates Chinese Sugar Cane seed, Tobacco seed, Top Onions fee, , &c Dealer, in seeds would do well to send tbera their orders. Send for Almanac and Illustrated Catalogue gratis. BLUNDEN, KOENIG it CO. March 6, 1862. n35-ly 600.000 AGENTS, MALE OS FEMALE, TO SELL LLOTD'S NEW STEEL PLATE COUNTY COLORSB MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, CAN AD AS, AND NEW BRUNSWICK. From recent surveys, completed Aug. 10, 1862; cost $20,000 to engrave it and one year's time. Superior to any $10 map ever made by Colton or Mitchell, and sells at the low price of fifty cent. ; 379, 000 names are engraved on this map. It is not only a County Map, but It is also a . COUNTT AND RAILROAD MAP of the United States and Canada combined in one, giving SVERT RAILROAD STATION and distance between. Guarantee any woman or man $3 to $5 per day, and will take back all maps that cannot be sold and refund the money. Send for $1 worth to try. Printed instruction, how to canvas, well be furnished all our agents. ... WantedWholesale Agent, far our Maps In every State, California, Canada, England, France and Cuba. A fortune may be made with a few hundred dollar, apital. No competition. J. T. LLOTD, No. 1C4 Broadway, New Tork. The War Department uses our Map of Virginia, M.ry land, and Pennsylvania, cost $100,000, on which i. marked Middletown, MaiTland Heights, Williamsport Ferry, Millbrook Mills, Noland's Ford, and all other, on the Potomac, and every other place in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, or money refunded. PRICE 25 CENTS. From Tbe Tribune, Auguit 2. "Lloyd. Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylva nia. Thia Map i. very large ? its cost is but 25 cents, axid is the tut which can t purchased. al2-f9-3t Flower Seeds. -.iAf id en of w-urr tunerior JTUdUy.&O per. ef which will he seat (post-paid) by mail, to any address, for one ao uar. .-.. ' n. A. TXRRT, Crexent Clry, low. March I3th, 1862 (n3S-2m Wire Fences. In a late number of the Rural New Yorker, C. 1). Bragdon argues that wire fences is the cheapest and best that can be built in many sections. He stated that he had just examined a fence which ne helped to make elev en years ago, and found it in good condition, though no expense had been laid out on it since it was built, and it has been thoroughly tested by stock of all kinds. He admits that there are other fences built at the same time but in a ahiftless,,, half-way style, which were worthless long ago. He gives the following very plain direc tions for making such fence as he'rec commends: Set the posts eight feet apart, three feet in the ground, anchored with a pin . through the bottom thereof, the hole filled up with small stones, and then packed with soil, bore said posts with a three-eights or three-quarters bit, at distances to suit, to receive the wires; insert, the wire, fastening it firmly to firmly set endposts; tighten it with a small horizontal capstan or windlass not so as- to over-strain it, but enough to straighten it perfectly tight ; then drive beside each wire on each side of each post, a pine or cedar plug, which has been previously pre pared and soaked in oil; do this before the windlass is removed, or any effort is made to fasten the end at which the straightening power is applied. Drive these plugs in the holes above, or over the wire. They should be of a size to drive snugly, and of such length that they may protrude from the hole and protect the wire at the point where it enters the post. The driving these plugs besides the wire in each post, divides the strain, prevents it from working in the holes the entire length, if an animal runs against it, and thus by rendering it more efficient renders it at the same time more dur able. About No. 9 wire is the best size. No. 11 is used, and for a top wire over a half wall will answer; but No. 9 or 10 is better. After the wire is in the posts as above, take a paint brush and walk along the wires back and forth and paint them. It is done as fast as a man can walk, and adds to the age of the fence materi ally. Gas tar is excellent for such a purpose, and is cheaper than anything else. I am satisfied that such a fence is more durable, equally efficient, cheaper in its first cost, and better every way in windy snowy counties, than the ordinary post board fence." From the Iowa Homestead. Cultivation and Management of Tame Grasses Practical Experi ence. In the first place, for all cultivated grasses, the land must be well pre pared for the reception of the seed, and with a view to its growth and du rability. I have sowed on the ground without cultivation, but never suc ceeded in getting durable pasture ex cept, perhaps on some light hazel land where the brush was killed out by fire or some other process. , This sub ject properly embraces the different grasses, proper for, and profitabls for cultivation, the best time for sowing the seed, and management of the same', and the comparative value of the different kinds for all practical purposes. I have made experiments in sowing at all seasons of the year spring, summer, fall, and winter with the following results: If sowed in the spring, in connec tion with small grain as is usual, the result is very uncertain. If the sea son be favorable, it will vegetate, and if not too dry, nor choked by the too luxuriant stand of the grainror by weeds, it may do tolerably well. But if the season proves dry, aud especial ly if dry and hot when the grain is harvested it is very apt to die out and prove a failure. It has proved so in this locality for the last three or four years. In summer, after harvest, if the ground is plowed and harrowed down, seed sown, and the season is such as to start it, and continues favorable it gets sufficient growth and root to stand, and succeds well. If sowed late in the fall, it does not get suffi cient root, and is liable to be thrown out by the frost in winter, and entire ly killed, if we could rely on snow to cover it, it would, like fall wheat, do well. I have had altogether the best suc cess in sowing all kinds of grass seed in winter. In fact I have never failed of success in this way, where the land was properly prepared in the fall. Sow any time between December and the middle of March. The little snow and rain, that occasionally falls, and the freezing and thawing of the sur of the ground, sufficiently cover the seed, and it vegetates and grows, whene ver the weather is warm enough; grows right along and get3 the start of the weeds and . keeps ahead. I have noticed this fact, not only by sowing in tho fall, but bv taking ma nure last winter from my stable, and spreading on my garden, which con tained timothy seed, Scratched through ther floor from the hay loft bv mice or chickens. It got a start in the gar den before plowing in spring, and troubled me much, bo much for the time of sowing and the results. Now the different kinds of grasses adapted to culture in our btate. To some extent we want a variety, bnt I consider timothy the great sta ple, both for hay and pasture. It is said that "Cotton, is King," in the United States, but the statistics from Helper's book, show that the article of hay is far ahead of cotton but to return. For meadow, I like timothy with a lit- tie clover; not too muchj for I find that clover here gains on the timothy, and if too much gets the ascendency ; but there is an advantage in having some clover in a meadow. For in case of a dry season, the clover roots run so deep, and the top shades the ground so thoroghly, that it pro tects it from the hot sun, and pre vents it from baking, to some extent. But for pasture, in my estimation, timothy exceeds all other grasses, both in amount of feed, and in amount of nourishment . afforded to stock. Clover for ha"y and for pasture affords a great amount . of feed, but i3 more difficult to secure, and not so nourish ing when obtained. Blue grass is of little .use for hay, but is valuable to some extent, for pasture. It starts very early in the spring, and is excellent for winter pastnre, especially when left without feeding or mowing in summer. Red top is a good grass, and mixed with timothy and a little clover makes excellent hay, (say first rate,') and has this advantage it is well adapted to ravines and moist lands, and can stand without suffering, till after the usual haying and harvesting season. It makes good pasture, and is on the whole a valuable grass. The Hunga rian grass, as it is called, has had its day, and in our region is considered among the things that were. A few words now in regard to keep ing meadows good, and preventing them from running out, as it is term ed, One cause of this is the blue grass is very apt to woik in, and when this is the case, it chokes out the oth er grasses, and it may as well be plowed up and worked till it is worked out. Blue grass will kill out every thing it comes in contact with, wheth it be other grasses, weeds, vines, hedges, or fruit trees. My plan has been to use my manure to a great extent on ray meadows, by hauling out and spreading it in the fall making it as fine as possible. The rain carries it down to the roots of the grass, where it is nyide availa ble the coming spring producing a vigorous growth, and insuring a good crop. The effects of a good dressing will last for many years. I have found it to double the crop in one year. And by taking a piece at a time, according to the amount of ma nure available, meadows may be kept good. Any kind of litter will answer the purpose "uch as straw, stack bot toms, &c anything that will protect the roots of the grass from the hot sun, and retain moisture, will have an admirable effect. . In speaking of the comparative value of the different kinds of grasses for pasture, I have noticed several facts. One is. that stock in summer will eat but little blue grass, unless it is fed close enough to prevent it from head ing up. Another fact stock pastur ed on timothy, if not overstocked, al ways get fat. I have a large pasture, a part of which has been in cultiva tion, another part in blue grass, an other part in white clover and wild grasses. While that which has been in cultivation, is now in timothy, and is fed down to the ground, that part in white clover is in full blossom, and the ground as white as a sheet, and remains untouched. To my mind this fact shows the comparative value of the different grasses named, both for hay and pasture. There is another fact which I have also noticed, and that is, that horses and colts pastured on, clover, always drule and slobber badly, and fall away in flesh, which is not the case when pastured on timothy alone. In conclusion, I will say, that the cultivation of the best grasses in con nection with laising stock of the best kinds, (instead of raising so much grain to sell, of for fattening stock,) aud let it carry itself to market with-, out hauling, would soon add greatly to the present wealth of Iowa. A Hint Worth Heeding. One great cause of the increasing circulation of good agricultural papers is, that the matter of which they are composed, is nearly ail the every day experience of progressive farmers While new theories are continually advanced, upon the thousand and one subjects connected with agriculture, these thories are freely and fully dis cussed by experienced farmers and what is good in them is freely admit tted ana practised, while errors, how ever specious and fair in seeming are exploded. The proof of this we can daily witness by notislng how often and easily one man, who does not take an agricultural paper, is gulled by agents, who are vending worthier farming utensils, patent cow-milkers, fruit trees with great names, &c.' while his neighbor, who believs in book-farming, and reads the papers, is ahle. hv his superior inteliffenpf r.r , r o - J - avoid all worthless articles, and choose those that are proven to be good. A Woman Who Never Gossips Oh. no. I never gossips! I have enough to do to take care of my one business, with out talking about the affairs of others, Mrs. Smith. Why, there's Mrs. Croker, she deals in scandal by the , wholesale. It dose seem to me as though that womans tongue must be almost worn out; but there's no danger of that. If every body was like me, there wouldn't, be much trouble in the world. Oh, no, I never gossip! But did you know that Miss Elliott had got a new silk Mrs. Smith? You didn't? Well, she has, it's a real bro cade; 1 saw it myself and I do say it's a shame for her to be so extravagant I mean to give her a peice of my mind, Mrs. Smith. You believe her Uncle gave it to her? Well, I don't care if he did. Why it's only two months since her father failed; and now to see her dash out in a stile, it's a burning shame, I suppose she thinks she's going to catch young lawyer Jones; but I think she'll find herself mistaken. He's got more sense than to be caught by her, if she has got a brocade silk dress. And there's the upstart dress-maker Kate Manly, setting her cap for tho doctor's son. The impertinence of some people is perfectly astonishing. I don t think she's any better than she ought to be, for my one part. I nev er did like her, with her mild, soft look when anybody's about. My word for it, she can look cross enough when there ain't. Then she says she is only seventeen! Goodness knows, she's as old as Ar abella; and she,s well, I won't say, how 'old, but she'j more than beven teen, and I ain't ashamed to say so, either; but I think Dr. May's son will have more discretion than to marry her. Some folks call her handsome. Well, I don't. She ain't half so good looking as mv daughter Jane. Th en er she does up her hair in such fly-away curls ! and if you believe it, Mrs. bmito she actualy had the impudence to tell me she could't make her hair a3 straight as my Maria's. Imperti nence! If she'd let curling papers and curling irons alone, I'd risk but what her hair would be as straight aa anybody's. But what do you think of the Min ister's wife Mrs. Smith? You like her? Well, all I. can say is you've got a very peculiar taste. Why she's as proud as Lucifer been married a whole week, and hasn't been to see me yet. You presume she hasn't had time? I don't see what the minister wanted to go out of town to get a wife for, anyway; and then above all things, to get that girlish looking thing ! . Why didn't he take one of his parishioners? There's Arabella Lucretia would have made him abetter wife than, he's got now. And she's just about the right ago for him. .... . ... a . . . What do you say: that ;AraDelia Lucretia is two years older than the minister? I should think it was a pity if I didn't know jay daughter's age, Mrs. Smith! If some folks would mind their own business as I do I'd thank them. Evglish Girls. "The English girl spends more than one-half of her waking hours in physical arousments, which tend to develope and invigorate and ripen the bodily powers. She rides, walki, drives, and rows upon the water, run?, dances, plays, sings, jumps the rope, throws the ball, hurls the quiot, draws the bow1 keeps up the shuttle-cock, and all this without having it pressed upon her mind that she is thereby wasting her time. She does this every day, until it becomes a habit which see will follow up through life. Aer frame, as a natural covse- quence, is large, her muscular system in better subordination, her strength more enduring aud the whole tcte of her voice healthier." I t t T How Bodies are Embalmed. Embal ming, which is coming much into pra ctice of late, is thus performed : The modern embalmer finds an artery into which he can place the nozzle of an in jecting" syringe. Tne artery in the up per part of the arm, called the brachial or the artery in the neck, the carotid, answers the purpose. Into this artery the enbalming fluid, consisting of alum or corrosive sublimate is injected, until it premeates every structure ; the fluid sometimes retains its fluidity, sometimes it is so constituted that while it is warm in the fluid, on cooling it sets and be c oroes more or less hard, after the' in jection, the artery is closed, the opening through the skin is neatly sewn up, ana the operation is complete. Great num bers of the officers of the army, who have fallen in the , engagements in Virginia have been enbalmed in this . manner by Dr. Holmes of Brooklya, and sent heme to their relative. Yenomoas Caterpillars. A most singular case (perhaps the only one oa record) of death esu3ed by cat erpillars occured a fevf days ago in ths commune-of Dardilly. nr Lyons. A little boy not more than eight years cld had gone into a neighboring wood in quest of bird's nests. Percshrn; one oa the top of a tree he climbed up, but in so doing shook down an i&raense number of caterpillars many of wbkh Ul on his shirt, his only upper garment, and soon covered his breast, which wis bare, and penetrated to his armsind shoulders. For a few minutes the child took no notice of this, but he soon felt such an itching sensation that he was compelled to get down again and Tun home for as sistance. Upon examination his sVin ap peared covered with large. red . spots, which -was soon followed by a general swelling, then by feveri somnolency jfnd delirium; and notwithstanding all medical care, deah ensued in the course of a few hours. The kind of caterpillar wbtdl caused this disaster was the Bombyx pro cessicnea of Reauruuy, a very venemcus species. The number of carerpillers which infest . the trees this year all over France is quite unprecdented a circum stance which has called the attention of the authorities and of various learned societies to the question of protecting insectivorous birds, the only really efH cacious enemies of the caterpillar. Galignani. Two Kinds of Fences. A good fence is very cheaply made by using about two boards securely nailed to cedar posts, withstone3or even an embarkment of earth under neath. It forms a good road fence, or as a division fence between lots, where sheep orhofes.run. For cattle, particularly those inclined to be un ruly, it does not answer so good a purpose. Another excellent fcnee 13 con structed in the following nUnncr; set iron rod3 three feet high about ths iron in a stone foot or bottom, and bore inch holes in the ends of the ce dar, ash or poplar rails, dropping them over the rod. Have the fence about five rails high, and when com pleted secure them by a smill kty through the. rod. IN placed in the zig-zag or "worm " manner, the fence would be more substantial, though we have seen it built on a straight line, and standing firm and erect. It forms the prettiest fence we have ever seen. Simple Receipt roit Marino Viit-eqar.-T. B. Miller of Clayton, Ind., has comraunicatid to tha New-York Farmers' Club the following simple. recipes for making vinegar: "i?lll nearly full any vessel, jag, crock, pan, tub or barrel, with pare rain or soft water, sweeten it with any kind of molasses, (the quantiy is not material,) set it in a moderately warm place, in the sun, eover with sieve, gause or net, to keep out flies and gnats. In due process of time it will be vinegar, when it must be put into a suitable vessel and stopped close. To convert cider into vinegar-if made from sweet apples, it i3 only necessary to set the barrel in a warm1 place and knock out the bung; if from sour, stir in a little molasses, and when sour enough bung up tight. Vinegar barrels should be well pai nted, as they are liable to be eaten by worms. "It will be proper to state that it is the action of the atmosphere, which in time converts the sweetened water into vinegar, hence the greater the surface exposed to ita influence the sooner it will sour. There is a thick scum rises on the top of the vinegar when making, which is the 'mother and shonid not be thrown away Louisville, Dec. 2G. Morgan's com--mand, about 3,000 cavalry, entered Glas gow Wednesday. Three companies of the 2d Michigan cavalry opposed their entrance, but fell back onMunford3vilI, having lost one captain and two privates. The rebels lost two captains, five privates and seven prisoners. The rebeli were then reinforced and remained in possesion of Glasgow. Thursday, Colonels. Gray and Shanks t 1 1 . auacKea tne rebel3 at Bear Wallow, Heart county, near Cave City, the rebels previously having damaged the railroad near Glasgow Junction. At last accounts the Federals drove off the rebels, killing one andtaking sixteen prisoners, but sustaining- no-los3. The train of amunition cars which left here this morning was fired into at Nolin.and returned. No Nashville passengers. A tram left here this morning. Tel egraphic communication betweea here and Nashville was interrupted, thii morning- Explosivi Coaj. Oil. It has lately been discovered that a certain quality of Coal Oil is as explosive as- Camphene, and consequently more dangerous, a3 many through ignorance cl it3 properties are careless in their use cf it. To de lect whether it is explosive cr not. pour a small quantity in a saucer and bring a lighted match down to it slowly. If ex plosive, it will flash up like powder ; If not, it will not burn at all. In this way accidents may be avoided. -The oil made from light ccal is almost wcrlhle:?. i t 1 1 f a o 1 1 l J March 27, 1862. n3S-tf