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1 1 1 V lf IV. il ' "f any man attempts to haul down the American Hag, shoot him on the s)ot." Jon A. Dix. PLATTSMOUTII. N. T., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, I8G5. AO. 8. VOL. I 1 v IJj - - - '.-5. i-, M A-l.V-K. . j. . 1 ' THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVKitV WEDNESDAY MORNING, H. 13- HATHAWAY, EDITOR AND PROPaiETCa. tfOtp-e od SJ a in r.Tf t, ;: i:e AinU-n, !" T'-y A. C Terms. --"0 per annum, invariably In advanci. Ware oj .irfM.MHr. ne 'r-v of t. n ):'.-) wi-. i:irr:i-.n, 1 y'ir?!- u'' : i.n-" on'i":erc" :" "r ''""'J k,' ii',. i-iii ) -" Kate of .'idrerthin. if ht.lt cola'11 i lvt'1 o nw.::. .. f,x in -re:.t . It.;. I.i..ii.ti3 0:ic eolumn tw.-Iv mnmln three nnr.!!t All r;-i;-rt a-lver:i-iii':at u.-t he I 4."i ' til I 1 , 'IV Cit in '.' f r iu . cr .T. t, w .-k rt. "U n it:': . in a s-tj . . I - "T 3...- f.i - .V 7i;A.t,,, -1 ill';!!! . i1! illLltlln!. T . .12. .TZAIIQ'SrrT, attoum:y at law i Solicitor ia Chancery. ! 1'I.ATTSMiU'TH, -- ' M .iSK.. ' "WILLI TT FOXTEXGEE.. ATTOiSNKV AT LAW,: I'LA I l'S'! L" VH - - NF.rTTAS! A. i Si. 23. tlv: X OTA 11 7 i;iii.rc CCNnVl!SSiONEi"i OF DEEDS, . j t-c t,- rr-- , , . . ... r. .. ... . - .t ... ti ...r - i w. :,-..: -i.u. .r i- . -' ' ' f r '.I !..:- ' : i " ' t , t- ct 1 "t . ' t -., -, r t.' -i '-::.' - . J it.-: - r - t . i i.u - . , , -l'llt-:ii utll. . 'I' t .M.i.v 1 t.. V. Lewis N O T A Pi Y PUBL1 C fOXVIlVANC A.. - t. T'X T.v r r i . V'AGH!.CTCrJ D- C F. M- D O Fl R i N G TON , 1 f.ATTSMor i II, - - M.Ii'.lA -KA I. t"-;r-.l trt pf'-rt an.l rr "" '' .:-. .i i 't I i;..: I in- j , -. V n-, : 'K.t -. . : .:. m- Ii.-f.ri- r.- I. I l .- '. Ill . I. 1' jcssrn scniiA-rcii. WATCHMAKER and JEWELER, MAIN 1 KJ.KT, ri.ATT.SM UTII, - - NF.P.HASKA. A z 1 J U r . I V . S i : '. . ..:in i;:iiv..i iji e 1pi1 to lii-i ' Anr:l 10, I- tt;,i.. , f W it C - I' ' - VV.ir , K.me - " " Vl..'.:n r..l Vl . .- - i !. t A.itt-r.- Cu.ii- ifi? i.i lie arr:.tv.I. DR. V. E. LAWRENCE, Oculist, T'f.i .-ill In-' .-i . .'f tt:- i y. li j d! i.i'. is a tar" lu tvt-rj f-e '::iMjn iu i.ta.:. 'tC'i!i at tin' Ni!(i j-kii t.'ou:e.i P!at:iu-'i:l!, Apr.l 1, 1-T. PLATK3 vvi,i;j"r :i MS S. T3 T5 u z . G. W.CROW, PP.OP m-y f.ivor n : . i.i- j rt I am prparPi! to fir;:; -yt al rh wdh rwr -no, u ih tKMf'i i.V thf; ' --k. l"ittr-iiiMiiif,. Ai-r.t J TOTREIGIITERS aavTrARLIEIis JJIacksniitli. Oatfittni .'.NO W- in f j" i r. O-.tttttin-' ar..l !u- ca . ii- S fii;i .'ti Main Street, South Side, vV,.- vmi am K-t 'r.jr or woi k ! ti :i; W agon Shop lu rutin Vin . !.-; a -ijlif ci "Lull L&t. r. iittni"-i..i. T:. I 1 -:"a l f w. .-i-w tk I rr" A : I w ...nf.. 1. W. Ii. (.ri.!l ri v O. . ' ' t. tootle, ha:i::a & co. jrcCHHVICKS Illinois Cora Planters, AND MOLIXE PLOWS, AT ITIaimfacturciV Prices, Frc.bt A.i.lcd. TOOTLE. QA jr" A i C0, UttteffltottCOUJi. National Kcbts and U.. K-Slocks. The creation of national debts is no modern improvement, but the ability of a -reru nation lo provide for a great debt, an J to make it the most con venient anl best for:-.! of personal prop erty, is a :aodr rn wor.de r. The debt oC Groat Bri:ain was begun by rais ing a miihm t'.f r!i! ly loan in 1G02, anl when her great contest with Louis XIV. was terminated, the debt had reached ii.ty millions. Many slat. j f, anJ economists WOi e then atari : ed at the (gret burded which had be impoM-d ujjoo the industry of the cou ! tr,- ?;; when the war of the Austru states- arm- coun- trv, wncn me war o. mi; iiujuiau :-uct e-si m ha.i swe iled this amount to eighty milieus, Macau! y rivs that his- i tnriana and orators pronounced tne case O le tiff cerate, but when war again I broke out and the national debt was j ra. : ;y carried up to one hundred and fortv mi. .ion.-, men ct theory and nusi- ne.-s b.Vvh pronuun-jed that the fatal day ! hti-1 certainty arrived. David Hume ) : .i .... t.,.,.,l. l.r hI..ii t.r..r IlmVs to ihe turnout, the country might ' poil.iy live through it, the experiment lirasl Iiever I'e lejieineu un-ii ii ."man ii.cr-a?e m!r:hl be fatal. Ciranville ,aid the nation must ink under it un-le-s si';:e n mion of l!e I jad was horns by th'i Aiii'Tican fj'onies, and the at i n'pt ! ic.ij'ose thi- load produced the war f hi revolution, and, instead of d;!.iniIii:. add-d another hundred iniliien' to the l.-in'en. AiTain, says Mac .u!y, was JJnt'!and given over, tut again she was iaore prosperous than ever before. Jl it vh-n at ihe c!oe of . ! . .. .... I ..,U ! hr Napoleonic wars in 1SIG, this debt ' ba 1 been swcl.ed up to t!i enormous . sum cf over -jht lutiidred minions , st. r i, ' i " . f t t o ;i r ' t ho'i .-an J t !i x k e hun- i st T.i'itr . or totir' tnou-anu ttiree iiun- : dr."l million ilollars, cr nearly one half . ntirc rroi'.c rtv of the United Kma:- i d ial, the f li' Jt-heart, li.mett believer ! in r:aii'.)tia I regress and national de ,' ve'p ner.t. might well Lave been ap ! j .il!e J. D-.it in very face of this : mountain of obligator! to s-ay nothing ,' f her vast colonial roseffions the projierty of the Untish nation has been . ' ia..ri; than treble !, and ner debt is no v a (barge of b-nl V2 1 2 per c?nt againft : il. Al! thru (Ireat ?ri'ain has dene in paving !.-t de: t, we ?hr il uo and more , w.tii r irs. '.. j.-ivft va-t territories : i.utO'iihfd I'V t!i'' p'ow, mii.es of all , jTeci; . j3 metals cf which ;e have hard i !y I'tici.'-d the door, a fioeu!aiion full ! of life, i'n- rgy, enterprise- and indus try, am! t'e'' accumulated wealth of ;va:el 1 ah. r (f t! oiJ countries tig i:. o the lap of our ffiat.t and evc-r-to-:-'? unit d reru. re. JJjringthe ' ie ree.-t and ne -t exaauing of all pos ! r-ible wars, we have demoustratt d our I national strength and all the world over, national strengtn is but anotner name for national credit. "As good as United Mates Stocks" will soon Le synonymous the world over with "as go.nl us IJriti.'h Consois." For our part, we think a U. S. Treasury note, earing f even and three-tenths annual interest, is jact as much better than I'.riti.-h Consols as the rate of interest is higher. Some cf our timid brethren who shipped their gold to London and invested in Consols, are now glad lo sell nut and invest at home at a round lj;-s and serve?? them right. Ex. L" ITiiiiXS routv. A iiiovemcni t f considerable magni !:;re, at l!it? hea l of which is Hon. le rge W. Julian, is in progress ha ving for its pa rpo;e a substitution cf the pacification fr the nnni!nlatin policy iu dealing with the North-Wes-tt.Tii Indian?. These gentleman are urging upon the President and Secre tary Harlan, the appointment of some intelligent and competent memler of the S-jCietyof I riends as Commisioner c f Indian Afiairs in pince of JJ r. Dole. The systematic robberies of 'which the Indians have been victims for a term i of years and the consequent massacres of wmch the fronti ir settlers have in turn teen victims, are instance iu proof of the utter failure of the coer- ci on pi hey. It is understood that Sec ai. j retary Harlan is decidedly favorable lo the retorms urg'-a ty rlr. Julian and cth 'rs. On the other hand ex-Stna-lor Wilkinson of Minnesota claims ihe appointment if ihe Covernment con cludes to maintain the resent hostile relations. Two prominent and active Quakers have been named by Mr. Julian and Lis friends, one from Indi ana an.l the other from Pennsylvania. m m -gTAll the duties of religion are eminently solemn and venerable in the eyes of children. I5ut none will so strongly prove the sincerity of the pa rent; ncne so powerfully awaken the reverance of the child; none so happi ly recommend the instruction he re ceives, as family devotions, particular ly these in which petitions for the chil dren occupy a distinguished place. ru5The Adams Express Company offers five hundred dollars for each and every person, who may be convic ted of crime in connection with the throwing off the track the Ohio and Mississippi railroad train, and robbing the express car and passengers. , The United States bonds stolen are also de scribed, and the public warned against negotiating them. II Hi 11 PRICES. Our exchanges complain, far and near, of the tenacity with which pro vision dealers cling-to high prices. They appear to have a strong aversion to the moderate and fair charges of past times, and exhibit a total oblivi ousness of the process and reason that led to cuch enormous advances. A little while ago these dealers were thoroughly educated in the financial perplexities of the country, present and prospective, and were able to point out the exact per ceDt, to which the market was liable to be affected by a further issue cf greenbacks. If a customer, somewhat slow in such calculations, expressed a little surprise by a mild look or the elevation of his brows at an additional ten cents on his coffee, sugar, molasses, Luiter, or beaas, he was in s'.autly informed of the gold market, and made to undertand that the mys teries of trade were beyond the scope of his comprehension. "Gold has gone up," he was pleased to say to the la boring man or the laboring women, 'and we are obliged to rise with it." There was a little truth mixed with the dealer's statement, it must be ad mitted ; but the advance price was greater in prodortion than the fact. Somehow the gold market always fa vored the seller. And now, when the premium is reduced to 30, the laboring man and woman are no belter off. Their financial friend and instructor seems to b-i as ignorant as they ever were about the gold market. lie has ignored his theory that the prices of provisions must go up with the price of gold, by failing to mark his articles down with the decjine of gold; and thus the "lower tendom" of society are excluded from the benefits of a fiue opportunity to become practically ac quainted with the matter. The explanation, made with so much complacency and wire look, "gold is up," furnishes a rare opportunity to retailers. It is doubtful if they will be in any readiness to relax their embrice of it f or some time lo come not until a rigid economy, at least, in our house holds compels a deeper study (if the laws of finance. 21o. Don. The Dxatii that Iooth Disd. Tiie wound from the effects of which Booth diid, was of the spinal cord, and in immediate effect was complete par alysis of the arms, legs and lower por tion of the trunk, while respiration and the heat would continue, as the nerves which proceed to those organs pass off from the cranium and not from the spinal cord. The mind was clear and undisturbed, save from the shock of the wound and pain; but the brain was uninjured. It was a living, active mind, with a dead, helpless body, with the most excrutiating, agonizing pain thai a human body can be subject to. bays a writer m the Philadelphia Press : "From the moment the ball struck him he was dead and helpless, with a mind clear, intense suffering, a Jiving witness of his own just pun ishment for his atrocious deed. Yas there not the avenging hand of CJod upon him from the moment he ex claimed, upon the stage of Ford's the ater, I am avenged ?" In the leap upon the stage the fibule, the small bone of the leg, was fractured. For ten days and nights the forest and swamps were his home, with pain, and dread, and anguish. Wheu discover ed the barn was fired; before him a sea of flame read' to engulf him ; be yond the grave a stiil greater flame awaiting him; snd at that instant he received his peculiar wound, which we have described. Could the end of such a life have been more painful, more dreadful, more appalling? Was there not in it all the hands of an over ruling Providence ? ff2rIt seems but yesterday, when the storm of war was raging about Richmond, where Davis sat a 'Presi dent To-day he is brought back, a reclaimed fugitive and an ackno.vled ged felon, 'thus punishment has over taken the guilty, and good men every where exult with profoundest joy. The important question of what will be done with the criminal now forces itself upon the public attention. We conceive of but one answer to it. If Jefferson Davis is not tried, sentenced and executed, we can imagine no ob ject in having laws among men. If he can, by any legal or moral possibility, escape the highest penalty known to law, ihe whole machinery of legislation becomes a farce, and the moral support of the State will be fatally weakened. We needabove all things, an exam ple which will proclai-a for all time that treason is an odious crime. Un less we are wholly mistaken in the man now at the head of the Govern ment, that example will be promptly supplied. Jlfo. Dm. S3"In the siege of Mobile our for ces used wooden mortars, made of tho gum tree, and according to rebel siate ment they were very destructive. One hundred shells were fired from one of them, and one of these shells killed and wounded eleven Confederate sol diers. Two of thse "new-fangled" guns are to be sent to the Chicago San itary Fair, to see how much they will bring in aid cf the soldiers. The Itlan Who Killed Ilootli. The New York cornspondent of the Boston Journal wriiei: Corbett, who shot Baith, is well known in this city. He was a con stant attendant at the Pulton Street Meeting, and greatly anioyed it by what was considered his fanaticism. lie took part frequently, 1 and ia his prayers was in the habi! f adding er' to all his words, as "Oh iord-er.jhear-er our pray-er." Vhrn anything pleased him he would shait "Amen," "Glory to God," in a shan shrill voice, to the great horror of ih Dutchman who controls the meeting. All remon strance was in vain, and heshouted lo the very last. He enlisted in ihe 12th regiment, and made conscience his guide there. He was pepetua!ly in hot water because he would follow the order of his conscience rather than the military order. lie prayed in his tent regularly night and norning, nor could the taunts and jcersof his associ ates turn him aside. I heve seen him ofien in the guard-house with his knap sack full of bricks as a punishment, w.th his Testament in his hund, lifting np.his voice against swearing, preach ing temperance, and calling upon his wild companions to "seek the Lord." One day at a dress parade, in Frank liii square, Butterheld cursed and damned the regiment for something he did not like. Corbett st3pped out of the ranks and reproved the Colonel for breaking God's law. He was of course put under arrest. Jle made up his mind that the time for which he enlist ed expired at twelve o'clock at night on a certain day. lie gave notice that he should go home w hen his time was out. He was put on picket duty, and as the hour of midnight was souuded, he laid his gun down on the fine and marched oil'. He was triec' by a court martial and sentenced tobeshot. The order was not executed, but he was druinme dout of the regiment. Noth ing daunted, lie enlisted again. He was in a detachment of the New York lGth, who were hemmed in by Mosby near Culpepper. He stood out man fully with his revolver and Ireach-load-ing rifle. He killed seven men before he surrendered. He '.fought his man down every time he find, and as each rebel fell he shouted: "Amen! Glory to God !" j u-t as he us?d at the Fulton Street Meeting. Mosby liked his pluck, anJ ordered lis men not to shoot him. H i was a risoner at Ar Uersonv ihe. " rie u w passes down "to history as the avenger of ihe President. Iliicaanan a Traitor. ! The New York Etenins Post makes the distinct, unqualified charge that in the Democratic Natunal Convention of 1S-5G, held in Cincinnati, James Buchanan was nominated for Presi dent because of riedges made becreily and afterwards publicly in his behalf that if elected, and the South should wish to break up the Union on the choice of a Republican successor, he would offer no obssaIe to dissolution, but would aid it. Th Evening Post fays : "The Convention wis at a dead lock; Mr. Douglas had authorized his friends to withdraw his name; Mr. Pierce had done the same; and ihe Convention adjourned one day with a fair prospect that in the morning it would meet only to adjourn sine die. Aboat 9 o'clock p. m. it was whispered atom the Bur nett House that next morning Htichan an would be nominated. By midnight it was said that negotiations were per fecting which would insure his nomi nation the next day. By 4 o'clock a. m. it was thoroughly understood that he would be nominated on the first ballot. The Convention met. Mr. Buchanan was nominated on the first ballot, and as usual, the Chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation rose iu his place, and in a few words thanking the Convention, pledged the State for the nominee, and look his seat. A si lence ensued for a few moments, as if the Conveniion was anticipating some thing already prepared, when -udge Black of Pennsylvania (afterard Attorney-General under Bueiaiiauj rose in his place and made a set speech, in which he proceeded io denounce Abo litionism' and 'KepublicanUm' very fiercely, and to argue that the States possessed, under the Constitution, the right of Secession. lie went further, and told the Convention that if the nom inee was elected, and a 'Black Repub lican' should be elected as his succes sor, Mr. Buchanan would recognize that right of the States to secede, and would do nothing to interfere with the exercise of it. The pledge was ample, and was accepted byjthe Southern lea ders. The Convention proceeded to nominate Mr. Breckinridge for Vice President, auJ adjourned harmonious- $5KnowIedge alone is not sufH. cient. It is, indeed, power; but if un sanctified; power for evil. Knowledge did not teach Charlemagne t3 sacrifice his own desires to the happiness of any living creature. It did not make Augustus respect the life of Cicero, nor the pupil of Aristotle to restrain his passions. If undirected by virtue, knowledge is but the servant of vice, and tendi only to evil. Was it Profane ? A gentieman from the interior of the States relates to us the following incident, lo which he was an eye witness : Al the village of Afton, Union country, Iowa, when the news of the assassination of the President was re ceived, a meeting of the citizens of that place was called, and, after a strring sermon by a minister of the Presbyterian denomination, a Metho dist clergyman offered a patriotic and thrilling prayer, in the course of which he prayed that "the assassins might be detected and punished in this world, or if ihey escaped capture here, that they might be punished in the world to come. A good brother in the body of the church, responded to this sentiment by a hearty "amen." Kneeling by the last personage (for the entire congre gation were on their knees,) was a famous cattle dealer, who occasionally indulges in the tallest kind of "cuss words." Carried away by ihe fervor of the prayer and the excitement of the occasion, the cattle dealer capped the brother's amen by the unconscious exclamation "give 'em Hell !" It was not until after the meeting was disper sed, and he had been taken to task for his profanity, that he was aware of ha ving uttered a single word. The min ister afterwards said that "prayers had offten been responded to iu various ways but never before in quite that style." Pela Blade. X?SFTae Buiiington Vt. Daily Times, cf May 14th, says that eight hundred cnvalrymen with their horses and equipments, (filiing twenty-three cars,)passcd through that city on Sat urday last, en route for Ogdensburgh. Where they could have come from we cannot even conjecture, as we have seen no notice of iheir movement thro' other places, and what they are to do on the border at this time is a matter equally mysterious. . General Rose crans is up in eermont somewhere, but his business is shrouded in mystery- Perhaps they are after George Sanders. Beverly Tucker, Jake Thompson and the St. Alban raiders. It is about time to place a corps of ob servation on the border to look after the doings of our "neutral'' Canuck friends. A Bit of Oily Gammox. In Franklin, Pa., there was a weil which ...4jol ciro KauJrod la.rroIa o potro. leum a day, "right straight along." The proprietors were, after much per suasion, induced to part with it for 70,000, when they at once departed to other fields of usefulness. When the new owners took possession they found a pipe leading from tho lank to a plug in the well, so that when the engino start'd the. oil ran from the tank into the weK, and was pumped thence into ihe tank again, thus keeping up an inex haustible supply. KSiMr. Lincoln's gaandfather, al so named Abraham Lincoln, was mur dered by an Indian in 1774, while at work on his farm, near the Kentucky river. He had three sons, the eldest cf whom was Thomas, the father of the President. Thomas married in 1S0O Nancy Hanks, a native of Vir ginia, and settled in Harden Co., where the President was born February 12, 1S00. Iu lSIG the family removed to Iudiana. The great-grandfather of the President emigrated from Berks county. Pa., to Rockingham coonty, in the Shenandoah valley, Va., about 17J0. The "Desirable ' I'ew, A pew iu a Congregational meeting-house is thus advertised for sale in the Amherst (Mass.) Express: "A new in the meeting house cf the first parish in Amherst. The man diat owns tne pew owns the right of a space juit as long as the pew is, from the bottom of the meeting-houre to the top or roof, and he can go as much higher as he can get- If any man will buy my pew and sit in it on Sunday, and repent and be a good man, he will go lo Heaven, and my pew is as good a place to start from as any pew in the meeting -house." C'Ou the day of the President's funeral, u bronzed and weather-beaten soldier, anxious to obtain a better view of ihe procession, happened to step before a party of ladies and gen tlemen. One of the gentlemen nud ged him on the elbow, at the Eanie time observing-, "Excuse me, sir, but you are rir;ht in front of us." Bowing handsomely in return, the soldier re plied : "That is nothing remarkable forme, sir, for I hare been in front of you for three years." So these iron men, marching with the nonchalance of veterans, are the men who have 6tocd in "front of us for three years." J3TThere is a peculiarly forcible kind of whiskey lately come in vogue in London, branded L. L., and when a cockney says, "come and 'ave a dram of double hell," he undoubtedly gives the right title to it. E3General Wallace has prohibi ted tho sale of Booth's pictures in Baltimore. - . CUL.TIVATI.Vt COK.V DEEPLY. Eds. Prairie Farmer: As there seems to be quite a differenee of opin ion among farmers, in regard to the "modus operandi" in growing corn, allow me to give the results of my ex perience in that line' The fact of its being a crop so generally cultivated, would seem to in dicate that its culture is weil understood by all that raise il to any extent ; but such is not the case. j H. B S. from Kankakee county, is no doubt a thrifty farmer, but he "don't know it all." He pitched into N. C. (in No 15, April, 22,h) like a "thou sand o brick." Now I will wager th3t N. C. can do the crop as much justice, and raise as much corn to the acre, according to ihe soil, &c, in his region, as II. B. S. can in his, for all his "ten or twelve years experience." The fact of a man's being successful in raising a crop of corn in one part of the state, under a certain mode of cul tivation, is no reason why another man in a different locality should not raise as good a crop though he persu cs a plan altogether different in raising it. Soil aud climate have such influ ence, that what may do in one locality will not do in another. Here in Sou thern Illinois, the soil is of good quali ty, but has a strong tendency to settle and become hard after being plowed awhile, so that it is necessary to "get right down among the roo's, as N. C. says, to loosen the soil, so as to give the roots a chauce to spread, and also to retain the moisture. But H. B. S. will say, "why Sir. you will break and tear the roots, which is as bad as to break and tear the roots of an orchard." Your are quite mistaken, sir, if you injure the roots of an apple or peach tree to any extent, it will take it months or years to recover; while you may de stroy more than half the roots of a corn plant just before tas?eling, and loosen the soil around it to a good depth, and when earing time comes, you will find that the new roots are more extensive and better than the old ones would have been if "let alone." and this re mark applies only to this locality or others like it. It is in the best of the growing season and they grow very quickly. In places where the soil will remain light through the season, as it does in some sections, about all lhat in neces sary xs lo keep ih-3 weeds and grass down I suppose; but here, if you follow that plan your crop will be light. I have seen the two nlans tried in fields side by side the same season, and 'get ting right down among the roots" found favor in the shape of ten bushels per acre over shallow cultivation. The cultivation of both crops was alike, from the beginning, except that one was plowed deeply at the last plowing ; cultivators were used altogether except in this field at the last plowing, when a common bar plow was used, throw ing the soil to the corn. Old Jake. Sorghum. A Connecticut Sorghum grower made an interesting experi- ment ingrowing tne cane last season. He planted nine rows with the hills four feet apart, and the hills two feet asunder in the row, thus giving a less number of hills by the latter than by the former planting, and yet he got fifteen gallons of molasses from the former and forty gallons from the lat ter; and in addition he raised a row of potatoes between the rows of the latter. The sorghum needs light, and hence the great gain in the wide rows. BLACK LL(i IV CALVES. Blacksmith Bill writes to the Pra irie Farmer that the following me thod of treatment for Black Leg, which he got from an Ohio farmer, has pro ved very successful with him : Take beef brine and vinegar, (cider vinegar preferred) equal parts, and boil together and rub on the legs, breast and back while hot with woolen cloths. B. B. says he has not lost a case in five cr six years. He fails to state how many applications are necessary, but farmers can use their own judge ment. It is at any rate a harmless medicine. CiiiNcn begs. Already we have rumors of the appearance of these pests. The Bjreau Co. Republican says the' air was full of them on Fri day last. The hot sun had warmed them into life, and they left the corn stalks and rubbish that had served them for winter quarters. P. F. To Softex Old Pltty. Take a common poker at a duil red heat, and move it slowly over the old putty, say at the rate of two feetfper minute, and you cau easily cut it off with a pocket knife. The Weight of Ten Millions. The Scientific American, commenting on die story stated some weeks since, but since proved untrue, lhat Jeff Da vis started off with seven to thirteen millions of money in gold, says: "One million of dollars would weigh 3,700 pounds a good load on a smooth road for four horses; or sixteen tons for S10, 000,000. Considering the condition of Southern roads and horses, the like lihood of gelling away with so great a sum diminishes every lime you think of it." . lTIiat Sized Potatoes arc best to Plant. Mr. Guorge Maw, an English ex perimenter, has made some - careful trials of the effect of planting seed po tatoes of different sizes. Ha planted in rows two feet apart and one foot in the row. In one experiment 20 pota toes 2 ounces, and tho same number weighing 4 and S ounces each were tried. The yield was as follows: The 20 of 2 oz. each (2 1-2 lbs) yielded 21 pounds 5 1-2 oz. The 2(J of 4 oz. each (o lbs) yielded 20 pounds 1-4 oz. The 20 of S oz. each (10 lbs) yielded 3-5 lbs 3 1-2 ounces. Extending these experiments to an acre, shows after deducting the weight of the seed, that there is a gain of 50G9 pounds in using the four in pref erence to the two oz. sets, and in using S oz. sets the gain over the 2 oz. was U94U pounds. Experiments with, the above different sons show even a lar ger gain than this, from using large seed. Mr. Maw is of the opinion that the use of larger sets produces larger potatoes, and believes that not only the quantity but the quality of the crop may be improved by always planting the largest and best and that the pota toe producing power of land may bo increased one-third by using the largo seed. f&tTh is proposed to commemorate ihe next 4th of July by laying the corner-stone of the monument over the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa. This grand mansoleum, dedicated to the brave men who fell in the conflict which was so decisive of the fortunes of the rebellion, is to be constructed by the eighteen States represented' bv their gallant sons on that blocdy field. Gettysburg was the only battle fought in a free State, and the fund to prepare and perfect the Cemetery, raised by ihe commonwealths alluded to, is being" carefully and intelligently expended. There is now nearly c'90,009 in the hands of the trustees. fc"TA Cincinnati audience was recently favored with a novel perform ance not in ihe bills. The play, a new one, proving a failure, the author and manager appeared at the footlights, alleging that the actors had not follow ed the text, ii'ext an actres3 appeared, and declared sonio portions of the text too vulgar to be used. The author retorted, reinforcements came to tho support of the aciresj, ahi th? mana gci rang down the curtain. Ia the midst of the excitement, the gas was turned off, and the audience finally groped its way out in darkness. VfT'A ycung lady, who was at the ball recently given by the Prin:e and Pricess of Wales, fell doling a round dance, and knocked out three of her front teeth. irSBooth's diary mentions every thing that occurred from the time that he fired the fatal shot until his capture. He gives the names cf the parties who harbored him and of those who re fused to do so, the latter of whom he had marked for his vergence. JfyST There is a suit before the su preme court of New York involving the title to a guano island worth 810, 000,000. Mcsk. The Empress Josephine was very fond of perfume"?, and, ahovo all, of musk. Her dresing-rooia at Malmai son Aas filled with it, in spit-e of Napo leon's frequent remonstrances. Forty years have e'apjaJ since her death, and the present owner of Mulmaison has had the walls of that dressing-room repeat edly washed and pa.nted; bat neither scrubbinj, aquafortis, nor paint, hn. been suflleient to remove the smell of the gooil Empress's musk, iThicli continues as strong as if tho bottle which contain ed it had been but yesterday removed. (EaThe Houston Telegraph of xpril 2othj publishes a speech f (.Jen. Maru dor's at' a war meeting the day previous. Magruder said ho saw nothing dis couraging in Lee's surrender if the people of the trans-Mississippi, would keep up tho determination to fight. He closed by saying: Coraewhat may, I shall stand by my coflntry, and never bo a slave to Yankee power. I had ' rather be a Comancha Indian chief than bow the kneo to Yankeedom. I will only adl that we have neighbors near at hanij I don't feel at Iibertv to sav any thing further concerning the matter at present, but it may be that we may have -aid from a source unerpeced, and at the time when we least dreamed of it; therefore, let us staadby our leaders and all will yet bo well . Embalming. M tiueoni, ia a papor read to the French Academy, states that after a series of experiments made , with different salts, h 3 hnus that sulphato of zinc, prepared ef different degrees of strength, is the best material. An in- , jectioa of about a gallon would perfect ly well preserve a dead body, as is prov ed by the preparations belonging to th anatomical cabinet at (ienoa Bodies so prepared preserve all their inflexibili ty for forty days. It is only after that period they begin to dry up. still pre serving, however, their natural color. Chlorid of zinc and sulphate of soda are sometimes u?ed. 5 la the vvaruiiuu- ot ilaxall & Co., Itichmcnd, was discovered a lot of blankets, from 50J to 1000, marked U. S., which it was confessed were stolen from our men imprisoned there, not one of whom last winter hai a blanket. i ft t. k
