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ProO Sontaff, who is the astronomer ac-cotnpanj-fag fa© Hayes' Polar. Exp«ditioB,

t h*s Wiitteu Irom Uppernavic, Aug. ' 19th, t u t friend in Albany, and we make ex tracts from his letter. Prof. S. gives the outline of the plan for reaching winter quartarv, and eventuallj».'ih« open Polar JSea— ifjthere b"e%ne. Prof. S. says:

We found it, however impossible to ob­tain here the, nece*aaiw number of dogs, as most of them have sMed during the last winter by an epidettrift disease,which broke cot among them and reduced their number so" much that the natives themselves suffer «f riou&ly by tbeir UMS, as dogs and sleighs mm •ndispenftaUe^to^lte northern Esqui­maux. In managing these animals and constructing the sleighs, these Arctic bar­barians show great skill and art . The sleigh consists of two runners, each* com­posed of many pieces of wood and kboue, lashed firmly together with strips o f \ § a l skin and connected by cross bars,! with two uprights behind,with which the driver takes hold to guide or retard it over rough ice, and in dangerous places. I t is tlravvu by six or more dogs, each attached, by a separate trace made of seal skin, to the sleigh, which draws a load together of 500 to 700 pounds at the rate of twelve or more miles an hour, ©«# favorable ice, and six miles over land or rough ice. The most use for the sleighs are in the-seal and bear hunting, but in the northern Danish settlement it is also used-io the transpor­tation of the Esquimaux canoos to the open water, which iu the spring is gener­ally many miles dtatalit from the settle­ments, and although they mostly travel over sea ice, they frequently travel' over the land to make short cuts and avoid un­safe ice. Then they display great skill in driving their dogs as they descend steep mountains, or go from the ice to t,he land, which is very dangerous, as the ice. near the shore is always broken up, in conse queuce of the rising and falftrig of the; tide. In descending steep slopes they wrap skins around the runners of the sleigh, anil tie the dogs behind it, or prevent tUe a from running by tying up cue of their forelegs, while the driver runs behind, aud holds on one of the uprights.

One would be surprised to see the roads over which the Esquimaux manage to transfer sleighs and load, by applying these precautions. At many plates they

a white man to attempt When the Esquimaux has got

over the most difficult part of the moun­tain in descending, and finds the lower part uniformly covered with snow, he lets

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the dogs rush down the hill as fait as th ty can, sometimes they (rhe dogs) in front* sometimes behind the sleigh, unable to stoo it, until finally dogs, sleigh and driver, ere brot^ ' t t up by being buried in the snow at &e foot of the mountain.— They show even more skill iu guiding their sleighs across open spaces in thai ice ; a t first the dogs leap over with slack traces while the Esquimaux holds back the sleigh, then he urges them to another leap, aud now the sleigh and driver follow, the lat ter hanging on the uprights. If the crack is too wide they break off a piece and ferry themselves aeross.

Prof. S. says their course will be up the west side of Smith's strait, (Kane's was on the East side.) 4Titey? expect to get into winter quarters by Sept. 10th, iu latitude abftut 79 degrees.** Me says :

If circumst^Ujjas f^oj^auch a cours^, an effort will be made to carry the boats, to be used next summer, a hundred or a hun­dred and fifty miles up the coast, where she will be placed in security, With some provisions, tite party r eWuing to the vessel after the winter sets in. p re ­parations are being rttade ; and here let me say t n a t l think our camp equipments per­fect of its kind. Our tents for summer trav­el are constructed upon a compact and im­proved plan. ^Hie full traveling kitchen, including camp kettles, cups, plates, fqrjp* knives, spoons, & c , for a party of eight persons, weighs only ten pounds, [rhe tents will be used only in summer and fall. During the cold weather we shall construct snow huts for sleeping, after the plans of the Esquimaux. The boat party will have protection, while sleepingdu a tight awbing of light canvas over the boat, which, du­ring the day, can be compactly slowed.— Our bedding will be of buffalo and doff skins. -

Our food is more compact than any be­fore used by Arctic traveler-, and a decid­ed improvement over the old fashioned] pe­rn icau. i t consists of desiccated beef, beef soup, potatoes and Other vegetables, which bave been prepared especially for this e pedition by A4ft Oopeland, of New Yjor] They are condensed enormously. The soup was tried several times, and we find tnat three-quarters of a pound makes a good soup for sixteen persons. Of this we have a thousand pounds. We have the same quantity of beef, one pound of which is about equal to six pounds of fiesh meat. The potatoes and other vegetables are con­densed in the same proportion. This cov­ers, however, the weight only, while a still further reduction is effected by hydraulic pressure, so that the desiccated provisions are in a form of hard, stony cakes.

Our field work will commence as early

Written for'the Annual Literarv and social gath­ering at the charming residence of W M . P: LETCHWORTH, opposite the Falls of the Gene­see, at Portage. • •

Like a parting jn the shadows— L:ke a rift of light at sea—" *

Like young spring across the meadows Comes this morning back to me.

Like a bridge across the toiling Has its memories eyer been!

And &ad thoughts have gathered sweetness Fiom this day to revel in.

One by one the hours have hurried With their weight o f care and pain,

On to meet this goldeu dawning, As the sunshine fellows rain.

*• Glen Iris" wears its drops baptismal On a holier brow to-day>!'. • "

And each tree to each'is cahfrfg In a whisper, " let us pray.""

W e have felt thy tender touching, Friendship's subtle alchemist!

Hands are claspsd that long we re parted, Eyes grown dim with teary mist.

What if summer passed too quickly, Trailing blossoms wan and sere,

We've the same grand choir of waters, Siuging to another year!

Changeless are its rythetned vjteingSj And our hearts beat now, as then,

T o its cadenced benedictions, Answering back its sweet A MEN !

D i v i n g f o r P e a r l s .

A H u m o r o u s K c p o r t .

Fair, Brun-

At the Sagadahoc Agricultural Be?. George E. Adams, D. D., of swick, was appointed Chairman ojh the Committee on "Preserves, Pickles, oic.— Uis report is very readable, full of | u m o r and good sense, and dashes of wit, which, when read, convulsed the audience present with laughter, l i e first ascertaiiis the duty of thy committee,by an analysis of the meaning of the term " preserves, pjjckles, an so/uWA," giving definitions from W e b ­ster and citations from IShakespere—j-

"How cam'st thou iu this pickle?'^ and admits that the committees are in a tine pickle,having to adjudicate the contend­ing claims of a parcel of notable louse-wives.

Alter awarding the premiums, the Rev. gentleman concludes with a series of recipes which will, wo doubt not, be read with pleasure by all. We have the t To make vinegar of the strongest —Take one quart of miik of human ness such as the poet sings of, pour ir^to au earthen pot, set on a table with a | chair lacing the sun. Place in the chair a

following: kind

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reg ular, old-fashioned, tattling mischief-mak­ing gossip, spectacle on nose snuff-box in lett.haud, a large piuch between thumb and finger of the right let her look intently at theatoresaid milk fifteen min-4

utes by the kitchen clock, without winking, and if it is not sour and sharp at th*l end of fifteen minutes, report to the committee and they'll drink it.

To impart a double relish to pieiserves and pickles—Send a small j a r * of each, with best respects to your minister; Or, if you hear that a neighbor has got the start of you, a pock of peas, or a bushel of potatoes,or a few rolls first premium butter will answer the same purpose. •>

N. li.—Never miud the printer* He lives on gas.

To keep good Jiatured, never quarrel.— If itshouid fail, give something to some­body every day.

To keep up a neighborhood quarrel.— Stir it once a week; adding if needful a few drops of "ile o' vitril." I t will I e as good a hundred year£ since as it is to-day.

To keep a good name—Be a good! man, and above all things never be a candidate for Governor or President.

To preserve au old fogy—Put in a bar­r e l aud head up. There's pepper anijl vin­egar enough in him to keep him, without further application, so long as the world wants him.

To preserve beauty—Say your pijayers every morning, read your Bible every night and the newspaper every week.— Never scold your husband, for every scolding causes two wrinkles, one in the sco'eftr, the other in thesooloVtf. Cultivate yottHHPiPu" ; cultivate your affections—for ilt>»a i» »Jrff^annina_bjBauty without intellect and heart. Never be impatient. Ever re­turn smiles for frowns.

To keep a beau—First, as Mrs. Gtjass in her cook book says about the turbot, catch him. Then, if your beau being fairly, (or unfairly) caught,belongs to llm genus uomo,

other words, he is a real man, treat him once a week—any time but Saturday ntghts, lest he should sleep iu meet­ing on Sunfljajs^—to a dish composed of two parts good frank, common sense, aud one part hearty womanly kindness. But if he betongs to the genus simia, which is, being interpreted dandy, apply soft soap, laid on pretty thick, and he will be sure to last U*l4tt«- next crop comes in, when you can easily get another of the same sort, just as good.

life keep a beau [Miss =-'8 way]—r-Take him into the kitchen, the store room the cellar, show him the preserves and pickles aoH next spring as the season will permit, pWb- «*W *» the wee things your own fair hands

ably about the first of April, aud we shall, (or your mother's) have made, suggesting — dog sleighs and boats, as the candi^ i the anticipation of mauy sweet and good tion of the ice will allow. For the final journey a metalic life-boat will be taken along, as it is not probable that under any circumstances that the sea northward of Kennedy channel will be closed entirely during the summer months.

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j g r T h e only town in Essex County which faifed to give Lincoln a majority is N o i t l Elba. Lincoln there received only one or two votes, the rest going for Gerrit Smith. Here r o t John Browu • bon

in years to come jeep a beau when alt other methods

fail—th% best and sorest way of all—Send for the chairman of the committee on pre­serves, picktia, and so forth, who will

quickly pat the young man in a pickle ^ | n c h be will not so quickly get out of.

ted. I of which,is most respecWjuily submit-

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not thy money where there ste it not where there is

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Excitements come an 1 go like cornels.— Tii©T~mak0^^qtrtte 71 ^uss^'or"the time being, after which they are "hea rd of 110 more forever." The Great Eastern excitement was followed by the Japanese excitem mt, and the Japanese excitement by the Pi nee of Wales excitement. The whole three ex­citements will be as much forgotten in two years as if they had happened during the Revolution. In 1857, we had a pearl ex­citement. In a creek in New Jersey pearls were found in such quantities aud of such size, that, for a while, our jewelers thought that Jersey Creek might supply the whole world with pearls. The Jersey creek fever lasted about 4j,months, when it was pro­nounced u played out, " since which time we-'have. had. no pearl exoitemants in this country. But if the Jersey creek excite­ment .had'a short career, it had a very bril­liant .one. I t produced the largest and most'pe.rfectpearl in the world. This pearl is now the property of the Empces§ Eugen­ie, who purchased it for 12,5,66.. francs, ($2,500.) I t was found X«v 1857; and. brought to Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of New York, who bought it and sent it to Europe.

For pearls, hereafter, the ladies—dear creatures—will have to depend on those poor devils, the pearl-divers. To show how highly the ladies should value their pearl ornaments, we will lay before them a brief description of the way the " poor devils" referred to get at them. For this purpose, \VH will make use of some facts and figures which we find in Harper 's Magazine for Nov. The pearl-diver, when equipped for his descent, is stripped naked, and well oil­ed ; his nose and ears are stuffed with cot­ton, and a sponge, dipped in oil, is fastened to his left arm, to aid him in breathing while under the sea. About his neck hangs a basket, in which to deposite-the oysters. In his hand be holds a .1 ojjg^knife \ for the purpose of detaching the shells frcim the rocky bottom, or for defence, against the sharks, which swarm along the coast, and are especially fond of such a meal— basket, coUCvrtjpil and all. When the fish­er is ready 16 be launched into the waves, a pair of wooden pincers are applied to his] nostrils, compressing them t ight ; his feet are placed on a double-headed shot, and away he goes, down, down, until the bot­tom is reached, when, quick as a flash, he leaps from the shot, which is again drawn up for another descending diver ; iiu nedi ately as he springs from the shot, he dash­es at his work, and in an instant fills the basket; the string is pulled, away goes the basket, and away goes the fisher to the surface. This work is all done in about two minutes,which is a great length of time for a human being to be under water with­out air. If you doubt it, test the experi­ment some d a y i n a four quart basin. Ten to one that you cannot keep your head un­der water 25 seconds.

The pearl-diver, having reached his ves

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>> sel,remaius a short time,sorts his "natives, and is ready for another dive. This, he will repeat fifty times a day, and bring at each dive from fifty to aeventy-five oystors. It is a long time before the diver knows the result of his labor, notwithstanding Robert Browning's assertion that—

* There are two moments in a diver's life; One, wfiea a beggar, he prepares to plunge; Then when a prince, he rises with his pearl."

As each boat's crew has a pit dug iu the sand, where the oysters are heaped, and left to the rays of the sun until putrefaction takes place, when they are opened with ease, and the pearls washed out. Often times as many as 20 pearls will be found in one oyster ; but, as a general rule, the greater the number the smalle: the size.— The mass of pearls, after washing, are subjected to nine sieves, which assort, the sizes, after which they are carefully selected over according to their relative beaut}'. A perfect pearl, the size of a walnut, is called " a paragon ;" if it be the size of a small cherry, it is styled a "d iadem." It is needless to say that these areinde3d "pearls of great price," and very rarely found.— Daily Knickerbocker.

P o w e r of a Word.

Wendell Phillips tells the following story in one of his lectures:

A mother on tffe green hills of Vermont stood at her garden gate, holding by her right hand a son of sixteen years, mad with love of the sea. " Edward," said she, " they tell me that the great temptation of a seaman's life is drink. Promise me, be­fore you quit your mother's hand, that you will never drink." Said he—for he told mo the story, " I gave her the promise.— I went the broad globe over ; Calcutta, the Mediterranean, San Francisoo, the Cape of Good Hope—and for forty years, whenever I saw a glass filled wilh sparkling liquor, my mother's form by the garden gate on the biH-side of Vermont, rose up before me. To-day at stxty, my lips are innocent of the taste of liquor." Wfas not that sweei evi­dence of the power of a single word ?— And yet it was but half; " for," said he, u yesterday there came into my counting-room a youffg man of forty, and asked me, 1 Do you not kuow ine V * No,' said I.— 4 1 was brought once,' said he ' drunk into your presence on ship-board; you were a passenger; the captain kicked me aside ; you took me into your berth, kept me thete until I had slept off the intoxication, and then you asked me if I had a mother. I said nevar that I knew of; I never heard a mother's voice. You told me of yours at the garden gate, and to-day, twenty years later, I am master of one of the finest packets in New York, and I came to ask you to come and see me . ' "

How far back that little eandle throws its beam—the mother's word on the green hillside of Vermont! God be thanked for, the almighty power of a single word.

—Work as tho* thou wert to live ever; worship as if thou wert to die presently.

J l t ich P o r k Wi l l a C o r " Make jD

The following valuable facts are from the Valley Farmer :-—Upon the question of " i low much pork will a bushel of corn make ?" Mr. Richard Thatcher, of Penn­sylvania, gives, in the New Y.ork Tribune, the result of his feeding scalded or cooked, corn meal, in several instances, to fattening hogs. The result of one trial gave sixteen and one half pounds of pork for every bushel of fifty-six pounds of meal fed out. In another instance, seventeen and, nearly one haif pounds we*e the 'gain irora a bushel. The breed of hogs-experimented upou were the " Chester" (county, Pa.) white, which we regard as among the best breeds now in the country. We have re­cently seen _accouuts of several other ex­periments of feeding hogs in the sarfce way, with similar results, while the samb breed of hogs fed in the ordinary way, ujion dry corn in the ear, gave a return of about one-third of the weight, compared with those fed on the cooked meal. . The experiments of Mr. Clay of Ken­

tucky, as detailed in the December number of the Valley Farmer, for 1856, afford con­clusive evidence of the advantages ©f feed­ing cooked over raw food. In the experi­ments on the same animals, it was proved that dry corn would afford a ga n of about five and three-quarters to six and three-quarters pounds of pork to each bushel consumed, but.when changed to food, pre-pared^by grinding and cooking, gaiffea re­turn p( from fifteen to nearly eighteen pounds of flesh fer each bushel of corn fed out. These various experiments demon-' strate facts worthy the considertpiou of farmers, and especially when the price of corn and pork is now a matter of interest.

Wilh care tit breeding from a good stock of hogs, and with their proper mjftnage-uient throughout, keeping the hogs con-;-tantly thriving, at least an average; of fif­teen pounds of flesh may be received from every bushel of corn consumed. A few weTl-conducted experiments in feeding, with

.appropriate apparatus for preparing the food, compared with facts determining the amount of gain from the ordinary method of feeding, would forever settle tha, ques­tion, and lead to valuable improvements in this most important interest to farmers.

— As this is the season of ihe year prin­cipally devoted to the" fattening Of porkers, it should not be forgotten that a bojj£ con­taining some charcoal should be placed in every hogpen. Experience has proved that its use in this manner tends to maintain these animals in a healthy condition, and conduce to more rapid fattening.

I V e o p i n s o u t l i c S t e p s . •

There once stood in one of our most E n g l a n d t o w n s , a large

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L Bayard Taylor's opinion on. this mibjeet is thus expressed in the Independent;

"For the finishing of rooms there iijnoth-ing equal to native wood, simply oiled to develope the beauty of the grain. Even the most common pine, treated in thit way, has a warmth andjuster, beside whiih the dreary white paint, so common even In the best of houses, looks dull and dead. No­thing gives a house such a cold, uncomfort­able air as white paint and white plaster. The color is only fit for the tropics. Our cheap, common woods—^pine, ash,ch*snut, oak. maple, beech, walnut and butternut— offer us a variety of exquisite tints ind fi­brous patterns, whJeh, until recently! have been wholly disregarded in building. Even in furniture we are just beginning tip dis­cover how much more chaste and elegant is walnut that mahogany. The beauty of a room is as dependent on the harmony of its coloring as that of a picture. Sotne of the ugliest and most disagreeable |pa r t -ments I ever saw were just those ffhieh contained the most expensive furniture and decorations.

My experience -shows that a room fnish-• walnut , ed with the best seasoned oak or

actually costs (less than one finished with pine, painted and grained in imitation of those woods. Two verandahs of yellow pine, treated to two| coats of boiled oil.hav^ a richness and beajuty of color beyond the reach of pigments • i«d my only regret connected with the house is, that 1 was persuaded by the representations of me­chanics, to use auy paint at all.

SAVE THE L E A V E S . — If Brother Jona­than were as saving of manures as pohn Bull is he would be a better farmer. No one knows until he has seen it how care­ful English an 1 European farmers; and gardners are of every thing which can be converted into manure ; and this is one ground of their superiority in agriculture. Now let us repeat what we have often said, that few things are more valuable fof fer­tilizing purposes than decayed leaves.— They are hardly inferior to barn-yar<| ma­nure. Gather them up in the fall tjefore they are covered by the snpw. They are abuudant everywhere, lying" iu heaps and winrows in the forest and by the roadside and by the fences in every yard. The wooldot should not be stripped clean of them ; but doubtless every farmer's land

coutains more of them here and there that1 ^ f A H | 1 8 l 3 u w a s enacted by Con he can find time to cart home. Gather them up t^t# raking or by sweeping with a 1 n rr| hirniliJMrMpi * Stack them and pack them in thff Targe* wagon, adding side­boards as high as convenient; you will hardly gpt too heavy a. load. Cart them home and use them as bedding for cattle and horses; use them for compost in the stable-yard; use them to protect tender grape vines and shrubs and plants in win­ter. Strawberry patches will fairly sing for joy under such a feathery blanket. By all means save the leaves and use them.— American Agriculturist.

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—If thou would*st live happily, neither trust to good fortune"br siuk under bad.

beautiful New brick meeting-house occupying a com­manding position, and observed for its Comeliness by every one who passed that way. But the doors were locked, the tower was silent, and from the pulpit came no sound of salvation. The Sabbath-day dawned, but those doors were not op­ened,*the bell was not rung, the pulpit was not occupied. All around were beautiful residences and a happy community, but for years that church was abandoned by God and unoccupied by man. • j

It seems that divisions had arisen in the church, the members.had been aliena­ted from each other, and God had with­drawn his presence. No souls were con­verted, no spiritual life enjoyed. Troje rolled on, and still the deserted meeting­house inljiir proportions stood, the mouu-merit of derision and sinriitual declension.

But there was one man who loved God and the church. Every Sabbath morning, on his way to another sanctuary, he would stop and look at the closed doors of the house in which he once went with his fam­ily to worship the God of his fathers. Of­ten he would be seen sitting on the steps, his Bible, iu his hand, and drops of sacred grief flowing down his cheeks. When urged to unite with some other church, and give up the old one, he refused. Noth­ing could induce him to stop praying that those doors might be opened, and those walls again echo the sound of salvation.— He prayed, while others fainted ; he wept, while others turned away1; he believed, while others in despair gave up all as lost. Sabbath after Sabbath that poor old man was seen weeping ou the steps of that closed sanctuary, and to all who asked why he wept, ho told the sad story, and his confidence that God would come and open those doors and again visit his people.

Eight years.he waited. For eight years he sat upon the steps and wept ! Eight years his faith faltered no t ! Then God came. While all the other churches in that town were cold and formal, a few per­sons were converted in an adjoiuing city, and came back in their own homes with the love of Christ burning in their souls. They saw the old man weep­ing on the steps, they looked at the closed doors, and said, " The God: of Leaven he will prosper? us ; therefore his servants will arise and build." They unlocked the doors, swept the airdes, called a pastor;— and now one of the mo-st flourishing, churches in the state, led by a devoted, educated, and popular minister, worship within tlmse walls so long silent arid de­serted. The man who sat on the steps and wept has beheld the redemption of his peo­ple, and heaven has echoed with joy over the conversion of hundreds of souls.

How ought cases like this strengthen our faith, and encourage our hear ts! The Christian is often compelled:to weep bitter tears over the desolations of Zion. But those tears do not long flow. Heaven is moved to mercy by the sorrows of the be­liever over the lost state of man, and a glorious change comes. God never forgets a weeping praying saint. He never disa, points the hopes of those who pray for the welfare of his kingdom.

Do these lines reach any one weeping over the desolation of Zion ? \ Is your heart moved as you see the walls broken down, and Jerusalem in ruins? If so, God will not forget to be gracious,hetwill come ; the desolation will pass away ; the waste places shall blossom as the rose. c. B.

W o r d s o f C o n s o l a t i o n .

BY CALEB LYON, OF L^ONSDALE.

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And little Benny is dead, you say? Asleep are his pleasant eyes.

That rilled the house with their sunshine, NoW never to know sunrise—

That laughed with a silent music, Violet-lidded with joy;

ftVith the life of the summer's beauhful flowers VT'ent (orth-your beautiful boy.

And Benny your only child is gone; I mingle m . tears with thine;

Tears cannot restpre1 his joyous form,

Or the.true loss none divine.

Like a purling brook, his prattle Fell on my ears yestreen,

And baby wnrds, like ttjecarolof birds, Gushing forth in the woods of green.

-Think'st thou, oh! weeping mother,

It is nothing to have above, In God's own high tuition

The child of thine earthly love? 'Stead of piuiugs, toilings, and troublings,

To feel that ineffable grace, That comes with a soul's expansion

Shall b5am in his angel face!

Bethink thee well, grieving father, i Of thelifc-rcad thickly slrown

With hopes and promises broken, ,

Tbat sere the marrow aud bone— Ofsinnings that clog in their darkness

A young soul's upward way; Leave tears, and put off thy mourning

That Benny's not here to-day.

The .ctricken tree gives a balsam That healeth the wounds so sore—

The hctl-crushed flower yields an incense Tba-t never was known before;

The more the flax is bruised The finer the thread is spun;

Aud through a great sorrow's chastening, Heavens gates are oflenest won.

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Lincoln ou F a r m i n g .

T H E L A W OF THE ROAD.-—To be right,

you must " keep to the right," as a'general thing, when you desire to emulate the 2:40 chivalryT. Almost everybody knows, or is supposed to know, that when persons with carriages going in opposite directions, meet on the road, they must in passing each other, "keep to the r ight ;" but the provision is not so familiar to us that when we wish to pass a carriage going in the same direction,we must kfeeptothe !eft,and that the driver of the leading carriage is bound to let me pass if the road is wide enough.; Section 2 of chapter 77 of the Revised Statutes, reads thus :

The driver of a carriage or other vehieie passing a carriage or other vehicle travel­ing in the same direction, shall drive to the left of the middle of the traveled part of a bridge or road, and if a bridge or road is of sufficient width for the two ve­hicles to pass, the driver of the leading one shall not willfully obstruct the same.

WASHINGTON ratf INVENTOR OP THE STARS AND STRIPES.—Washington seems to have been the inventor of the thirteen stripes, signifying the thirteen colonies.— This flag was raised in January, 1776, and was confirmed in 1777, with the addition of thirteen stars on a .blue field. On the

o-ress that the United StHted flagr should consist of thirteen stripes, alternately white and red. with twenty stars! white on a blue field, and that one star should be ad­ded for every new State, the addition to be made on the Fourth of July following the admission of each State.

M D IXIE 'S LAND."—The most popular tune, since the publication of "Old Folks at Home," in the United States, is the plantation negro melody of "Dixie's Land." Throughout the Eastern States it is creat­ing a perfect furore. .It is played and sung everywhere, by brass bands, striug bands, orchestrys serrenaders—is whist­led by ragged urchins in the streets, and by calliopes on the steamboats, and forms

The following extract from an address, delivered by Hon. Abraham Lincoln, at the State Fair of Wisconsin, Sept. 30th> 1859, indicates peculiarly the practical character of his mind :

,. - " My first suggestion is an inquiry as to

the effect of greater thoroughness in all the departments of agriculture than now prevails in the Northwest—perhaps I might say in America. To speak eutireiy within bounds, it is known that fifty bushels of wheat, or one hundred-bushels of Indian corn, canjbe produced from au acre. Less than a year ago I saw it statjed that a man, by extr -ordinary care and labor, had pro­duced of wheat what was equal to two hundred bushels from an acre. But take fifty of wheat, and one hundred of corn, to be the possibility, and compare it with the actual crops of the couutry. Many years ago I saw it stated in a Patent Of­fice Beport that eighteen bushels was the average crop throughout the United States; and this year an intelligent farmer of Illi­nois assured me that ho did not believe that the crop harvested in that state this season, had yielded more than an average of eight bushels to the acre. The brag crop I heard of in our vicinity was ~2,000 bushels from ninety acres. Many crops were threshed, producing no more than three bushels to the acre : much was cut, and much was abandoned as not woith cutting. As to Indian corn, and, indeed, most other crops, the case has not been much better. For the last four yea r s , ! do uot believe the ground planted with corn in Illinois has produced an average of twen­ty bushels to the acre. It is true, that heretofore, we have had better crops, with no better cultivators ; but 1 believe it is also true that the soil has never been push­ed up to one half of its capacity.

Wha t would be the effect upon the far­ming interest to push the sqil up to some­thing near its full capacity ? Undoubtedly

produce fifty would to pi'O-

encioMires— ostites should

This is a

it will take more labor to bushels from an acre, than it dure ten bushels from the saline acre. But will it take more labor to produce fifty bushels from one acre than from five ?— Unquestionably, thorough cultivation wd! require more labor to the acre ; but will it require more to the bushel, there are some probable and several certain (advantages in favor of the thorough practice

It would spare a large pro Miction of making and maintaining of ihe same whether these eiici be) hedges, ditches or fences, heavy item—heavy at first, and heavy in its continued demand for repairs. I re­member once being greatly astonished by an apparently authentic exhibition of the proportion the cost of an enclosure bears to all the other expenses of the farm •, tho' I cannot remember exactly what that pro­portion was. Any farmer, if lie will, can ascertain it in his own caso, for himself. .. x\gaiu, a great amount of j* locomotion"

is spared by thorough cultivation. Take fifty bushels of wheat, ready for harvest, standing upon a single acre, land it can be harvested in ativ of the known ways, with less than half the labor which would be required if it were spread oij-er five acres. This would be true, if cut by the old hand sicklet—wue, to a greater extent, if by the machines uow in use. These machines are !

chiefly valuable, as a means of substituting j candidate of the slavo interc.-.t.owns neither animal power for t i e power of men in this I .fajmi nor slai.e branch of farm work. In the highest de gree of perfection y t t reached iu apphing the horsepower to' harvesting, fully I'ino-teuthsof the power is exueuded by the ani- •

crop is -very thick upon the ground the large proportion of the power is directly appJ'el to gather i i i r in aud^uuting_it;jinJ the smaller, to that which is totally useless as an end. And what 1 have said of har­vesting is true, in a greater or less degree, of mowing, plowing, gathering in ofcrops generally,, and, indeed, of almost all farm work.

The effect of thorough cultivation npon the farmer's own mind, and, in re.Hctu'U through his mind, back upon his busiocs1, ig perhaps quite equal to any olher of its effects. Every man is proud of what ha does wsilj and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is iu the work ; and he will do twicJ as much of it witlj le.->s fatigue. The latter performs a little impelfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines him­self exceedingly tired. The little he has done comes to nothing for want of finish­ing.

The man who produces a good full crop will scarcely ever let any pail of it go to waste. He will keep up the enclosure about it, and will allow neither man nor beast to trespass upon it. Ife will gather it in due season and store it in perfect se­curity. Thus ho labors with satisfaction, and saves himself the whole fruit of his labor. The other, starting with no pur­pose for' a full crop, labors less, aud with less satisfaction ; allows - his fence to fall, aud cattle to trespass ; jralhers uot in due season, or not at all. Thus the labor he has performed is wasted away little by lit­tle, tiil, in the end, he derives scarcely any­thing from it.

The ambition for broad acres leads to poor farming,* even with men of energy. I scarcely ever knew a mammoth farm to sustain itself, much less to return a profit upon the outlay. I have more than onco known a man to spend a respectable for­tune upon one, fail and lose ;it,' and then some man of mo lest aims get a g n a i l frac­tion of the ground, and makea"good living upon it. Mammoth farms are like tools or weapons which are too heavy to be han­dled. Ere long they are thrown aside at a great loss. * . ;* |* . *

—BAUY'S RIVAL.—There are many in this world who make a practice of say­ing to little children! to whom has come the gift of a brother or sister:^ ** Ninv, baby your nose is put, out of jo in t ; you never canjbe mother's bal»y any more, for she has got another." This is said in thoughtlessness — often in glee ; but it sinks like a f\ >ne into the baby heart to which it is addressed. Were one to go to a grown man and tell him that his houso and all that rested within it, had gone, uoue kuew wliithir, but where he never more might hope to see them, it would not be a more cruel blow to him than it would to a little two or three years' oid child, to tell him tlwtt he can never be his mother's baby any more. It makes him a poor frightened little outcast iu a moment ; - - " and any one thai, lealizing this fact, can so sport with the feelings of a tender babe, is worthy of being promoted to the office of chief torturer iu some barbarous despot's court.— Clara Sidney.

UA 'T'IXESS OF CHILDREN. — Children may teach us one blessed, one enviable art—the art of being easily happy. Kind nature has given to them that useful po\v-" er of accommodation to circumstances . which compensates for many external dis- i advantages, and it is only by injudicious management t h a t it is lost. Give him but a moderate portion of food and kindness anjd the peasant's child is happier than the duke 's ; free from artificial wants, unsatiat-ed bydndulgence, all nature ministers to-his measure; he can carve out felicity from a\ bit of hazel twig, or fish for it suo-.#

cessfully in a puddle. I love to hear the bqisterqus joy of a troop of ragged urchins, whose cheap playthings are nothing mo/o than mud, snow, sticks or oyster she/Is • or to watch the enjoyment of a ha!f-c!o'Jn.;d, ha!f-wa.>he<i fellow of four or tivo years old, who sits, with a large, rusty knife, 0ml a lump of bread and bacon, at hi.s fathers door, and might move the envy of an u,*-de;uiau.-

" YOU'RE oorx ' TO, AI.N'T Yav ?—South Carolin.t talks as if she was to be forced to stay in the Union. Xobody is going to disturb her. Let her Federal oUtoers put their resignation into the hands of the goveriimviit. There will be i'otiy ap­plications for c-v-iy p!ace. Her auxh-ty to be coerced is of the same kind as thejauict propriety of the single Kentucky female— who had a single beau. After sitting a long time, at a respectful dislauee.sho su 1-deniy squawked out, " Quit •qqeesru* mef" The startled Kentuckian exclaimed, *' 1 hain't touched you !" " Well," said she. " you're goin' to, ain't you ?"

— t y Tv.-o Pjtz$ts0TWi CANDID4T£5 B.V

jtUPt.— A Washington letter writer says : *'Douglas, whose Chicago speculations

are supposed (o have made him enormous­ly wealthy, is euih brassed beyond hopje pf redemption. Breckinridge, whose invest-ments in the Wt-.-t conveyed an idea of riches, was impoverished by the failure of the Ohio Taust Company, in which he was a heavy stockholder, aud now though tfio

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mai in carrying himself and dragging tl/tf' machine over the field, leaving certainly I uot more than one-tenth to be applied di- ; rectly to the only end of the whole opera- j tion—the gathering in of the grain, an J clipping of the straw. When grain is very thin on the ground, it is more or less inter­mingled wilh weeds chess and the like, —Honor the good that they may love

thee. Be civil to the bad t ha t they may J one of the chief attractions in the musical I aud a large part of the power is expended : soirees of the parlor. ! in cutting these. It is plaiu that when the uot hur t thee.

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— The degrees of crime are thus defined: " Ho who steals a million is only a finan­cier. Who steals a hundred thousand is rogue. Who steals fifty thousand is a kna .e . But he who .^tealsa pair of lioou or a loaf of bread is a scoundrel of the deepest dye, and deserves to be lynchjod."

— Wouldst thou not be a fool in other,,' conceit, be uot wise iu thine own.

—Endeavor to have a comely ^raco i holding thy peace, aud a lively f'orcB iu speaking.

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