ORIGINAL POETRY. severe bleeding at the lungs, and when other remedies fail, Dr. Rush found two spoonsful of salt completely stayed the blood. For the Repository. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW. . BY MARIE DELAMORE. In the rosy morning light, Pass the footprints in the snow. Pass the foot prints in the snow. Made this foot print in the snow. Left this print upon the snow. So within the paths of life, Forms of care, and joy and woe Like the foot prints in the snow, Ere the summer sunbeams play,- Chords which bind them to the clay, Soar to realms of endless day! VALUABLE RULES, HINTS, &c. In case of a bite from a mad dog, wash the part with strong brine for an hour, then bind on some salt with a rag. In toothache, warm salt and water held to the part, and renewed two or three times will relieve in some cases. If the gums be affected, wash the mouth with brine; if the teeth be tartared, wash them twice a day with salt and water.-Scientific American. CURE FOR NEURALGIA —The Alta Californian gives the following recipe for the cure of neuralgia. Half a drachm of ammonia in an ounce of camphor water, to be taken a tea-spoonful at a dose, and the dose repeated at intervals of five minutes, if the pain be not relieved at once. This is believed to be the most effectual remedy ever discovered for this most painful malady. LITERARY NOTICES. A "PRINCELY" WORK.--Messrs. Brown failure of the English publishers to issue the occasional works in due season. The American edition will be stereotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co, at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, whose work is too well known to need commendation. Each volume will be an exceedingly beautiful crown octavo, of about five hundred pages. The publishers have a right confidently to expect a friendly response on the part of the literary men and cultivated readers of America, in their enterprise of issuing with great beauty of typography, the works of a mighty man of genius, whose "writings fill the whole world with his fame." This invaluable edition of Bacon should be found in every library, public and private, in the country. As presenting a luxury of thought as well as a luxury to the eye of every lover of beautiful typography and artistic excellence, it cannot be surpassed. The price per volume In cloth, will be,... In sheep, library style,. $1.50 2.00 2 50 2 50 Orders received by Starr & Co., No. 4 Main Street. & Taggard, the well known and highly popular Boston publishers have in press and will commence, un the first day of THE ARCHITECT'S AND MECHANIC'S July next, the publication of the COM JOURNAL.-This well conducted and popPLETE WORKS OF LORD BACON. We ular mechanical weekly is well worthy the have been favored with a prospectus and a high commendations bestowed upon it. few specimen pages of the forthcoming We notice with other improvements an work, and we cannot forbear the above addition to the literary staff of a new conapplication of the term applied by the tributor, an accomplished architect of Athenæum to the English edition (of many years practice, whose intended sewhich this will be an exact reprint,) ries of Practical Notes on Constructive to the work. Indeed, we might perhaps Architecture will add to the general intersay peerless, for the American will surest of the Journal. To the Architect, pass the "princely" English edition Machinist, Builder, Carpenter, or Decorain beauty of typography, clearness of tive Artist, this publication is invaluable. In the violent in-printing and quality of paper, while for As the publisher proposes to enlarge the cheapness and convenience of form, there paper, and commence a new volume with can be no comparison between the two. the next number, we would suggest the In the edition of Messrs. Ellis, Sped-present as being particularly a favorable ding & Heath, which as every one compe- time to subscribe for it. Published by tent to form a judgement on the subject Alexander Harthill, 128 Fulton Street, knows, renders all previous editions com- New York. Price $2.00 per annum.— paratively worthless, the works of Bacon Will the publisher please forward the first are arranged in three classes: 1st, the Philfour numbers of the volume to the Repososophical; 2nd, the Literary and Profesitory. sional; 3rd, the Occasional. The Philosophical, and the Literary and Professional works have already appeared in England, and will make fifteen volumes in the American edition, The publishers will begin with the Literary and Professional works, and will issue at least one volume per month till the whole is completed, unless some delay may be caused by the MEDICAL USE OF SALT.—In many cases of disordered stomach, a teaspoonful of salt is a perfect cure. ternal aching, termed cholic, add a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of cold water drink it and go to bed; it is one of the speediest remedies known. The same will revive one who seems almost dead from receiving a heavy fall. In an apoplectic fit, no time should be lost in pouring down salt and water, if sufficient sensibility remain to allow the swallowing-if not, the head must be sponged with cold water until the senses return, when salt will immediately restore the patient from the lethargy. In a fit the feet should be placed in warm water, with mustard added, and the legs briskly rubbed, all bandages removed from the neck, and a cool apartment be procured if possible. In many cases of THE GENESEE FARMER.-The April number of this well known journal is on our table-filled, as usual, with valuable information to every one interested in agriculture or horticulture. No farmer or fruit-grower should be without it. It is only fifty cents a year. Published by Joseph Harris, Rochester, N. Y. Day of the Day of Temperature above zero *; below week. Month. Sunrise. | 12 o'cl'k (10 P. M. (m'n temp. REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY. 80 * N. W. West. Monday,. N. W. Tuesday, North. S. W, cloudy clear clear S. W. Cold all day. clear lear cloudy N. N. E. Wednesday. North 48.6 cloudy clear clear North. S. W. West. clear clear Thursday,. West. cloudy West. West. clear clear 45 " clear Mild and pleasant. 46" Saturday, West. clear hazy HORTICULTURAL. THE CRANBERRY. ITS HISTORY, CULTURE, VARIETIES, &C. NUMBER SIX. THE CHERRY CRANBERRY.-This variety of the Cranberry generally grows on wet soils, though it will flourish well when put on higher soil, such as may be plowed in a moderately dry time. Persons having soils varying from wet to moist upland, may successfully grow the Cherry variety. If the meadow is inclined to be very grassy, the plants may be set out in bunches two or three feet apart, say six or eight plants in each bunch. The plants are very poisonous to the grass, if they do not have too much to contend with in the first state, and will Boon overpower it. Where the soil is very subject to be heavily burdened with grass, it is well to remove the top-soil, previous to setting the plants. When soil is so situated that sand or gravel can handily be procured, the soil may be covered with either, two or three inches deep, and without any other preparation, the plants may be set. The sand or gravel will prevent the growth of the grass till the plants hav made headway sufficient to overpower it entirely. yield from such young vines. But when blossoming time came, he perceived that they did not put out so much as his other vines, and that there were but very few berries on them when picking time came. He tried these vines year after year, and they only yield here and there a fruit,"The appearance of the vines was so fine that he was often importuned to sell them, but declined doing so, yet ultimately he pulled them up and threw them away. It was a total failure, and from vines apparently strong and vigorous. Indeed, they, to all appearance, were the finest and most thrifty plants in the vicinity, greener in color, with stronger and thicker stalks or spears, and more bushy leaves than those which were really very productive. "I felt confident," remarks the narrator, sential point in the successful cultivation from their appearance, that they were the As this is a matter not generally underThe yield of the Cranberry is of course stood, we trust the caution may not be alvery variable, according to the locality, together valueless, and yet it is possible nature of the soil, eare in cultivation, &c., that even the experienced cultivator may but one hundred bushels to the acre is a be mistaken. Mr. Eastwood, in his exvery low estimate. One bushel to a square cellent treatise before alluded to, relates rod, or one hundred and sixty bushels to the experience of an old and practical the acre is a moderate crop, when proper- grower as a case in point:-"He preparly cultivated, and we frequently hear of ed some land adjoining a fresh water double that quantity being obtained. In pond, which, in every way was adapted to some instances four hundred bushels have develope the cranberry vine. He came been gathered from a single acre, but this in contact with a few rods of vines which is not a frequent occurrence. Perhaps seemed to be good, and his impression was one hundred and fifty to two hundred that if he could secure them he would soon bushels might be considered a fair ave- have an excellent crop. He bought them rage yield on cultivated meadows, and and set them out; he watched them closeeven that quantity, at $3.00 per bushel, ly and was gratified in seeing them look the average price of the fruit for the last so thrifty. They spread and matted re the plants producing fruit,) are not, in The healthy vine, (by which we mean general, the finest in appearance. The stalk or "spear" is generally smaller and vines less rampant in their growth, the more wiry than in the barren sorts, the runners fine and regular, and the vines have a mellow, brownish look, while the vine of the non-producing kinds is strong and heavy, and the foliage a beautiful green. whale oil soap, four ounces of sulphur, CURCULIO REMEDY.-One pound of mixed in twelve gallons of water; a half peck of lime in four gallons of water; pour off the clear water after the lime is dissolved, and add to it other water, adding four gallons of strong tobacco water. Apply the mixture with a syringe. 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BADET, NO. 73 MAIN STREET, DEPOT BUIDDING, April 1-tf. APPLES! 40 BARRELS APPLES, Just Received and for Sale at 25 ... 15 80 73 MAIN STREET, BY H. S. BADET. April 2-3 wks. DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Vol. III. SPEAK NO ILL. Nay.speak no ill! a kindly word Can never leave a sting behind; And, oh! to breathe each tale we've heard Is far beneath a noble mind. Full oft a better seed is sown, By choosing thus a kinder plan; For if but little good be known, Still let us speak the best we can. Give us the heart that fain would hide- Then speak no ill; but lenient be To other's failings as your own; If you're the first a fault to see, Be not the first to make it known. For life is but a passing day, No lip may tell how brief its span; Then oh! the little time we stay, Let's speak of all the best we can. THE THOUGHTLESS SON. FROM ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE. BY W. H. STARR The details of evil deeds should never be dwelt upon, nor ought they to be brought to light except to be cured or crushed: but there is reason to fear that more than one child has been the murderer of his mother, who never knew what he was doing until he stood beside her grave. And if one sad tale can possibly arrest such a child in his cruel, though blind career, and save him from the bitter anguish that must follow, may it not be told! It is a short story, that of a broken heart. But death by heart breaking is the most painful of any lingering death; not less so when the sufferer is patient and loves the hand that deals the dreadful blow. Leonard Bond was " the only son of his mother, and she was a widow." One other boy she had, but he died, and in her memory was enshrined as an angel, for she had only kind words and loving actions to remember of him.. But Leonard grew up selfish and disobedient. He valued the good opinion of others, and so appeared well enough away from home; indeed, he was naturally as intelligent and amiable as most boys; and NEW-LONDON, CT. Thursday, April 12, 1860 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR No. 8. weary and aching hearts; and she had tried to teach him everything that was good, and kind, and noble. It had been all in vain. And if her own Leonard, her son, could so insult his mother, how would he treat those who might hereafter come within had he learned to "bear the yoke in youth" might have made a useful and happy man. He began by disobeying his mother in little things, and when he saw her grief at his conduct, he was grieved too. But as he grew large and strong, he imbibed the idea that it was not manly to be sorry for anything, or even to obey his mother.-reach of his power? He would surely be These things he learned in the streets, among coarse and bad boys with whom he sometimes loitered around evenings, contrary to her earnest request. Then, to her reproofs, he returned taunting words. "Women did not know anything. He should do as he pleased." What words from a son to his mother! Still, the disrespect shown to herself did not trouble her so much as the lowness of feeling and principle they indicated, in her dearly-loved boy. For she knew too well that contempt for woman is the sure sign of a downward tendency in a youth. She had looked forward to her own old age, when he would be a man. both strong and gentle, as manliness always 16, and would shield her from the storms of the world which she had buffet ed for him in his childhood. But she could only look for ruffianism instead of manliness, from one who was determined to be "a law unto himself" in all things; who would not be controlled, neither by duty nor by love. At last for a slight reproof, he one day silenced her roughly, and gave her the lie to her face. a curse to the world; and rather than look upon the prospect before him, she wished she could have laid him in his grave, an innocent child, beside his brother; she could almost pray that he might die now, before he was no worse, than grow up such a man as she felt that he must be, continuing as he had begun. But only One looked into that bleeding heart, and it was a kinder eye than Leonard's. She complained no more, nor did he become more kind. Yet every rough, unfeeling word was a drop of slow poison to her, and after months of gradual pining, with a disease for which the physicians could find no name, she dropped into her grave. "She died so slowly that none called it murder." Yet, in reality it was. She died of wounds in the heart, inflicted by the hand of her own son. He did not think of it, when he followed her remains to their last resting-place; nay, he wept, and fancied he loved his mother dearly, But he knows it now. I cannot tell how the knowledge came to him, but any Then the iron entered into her soul.-one who looks upon his face, prematurely She could not speak; she could only look wrinkled and, baggard, as he leans over at her son with silent anguish. But he that white stone in the grave yard, may did not meet that look, and if he had, it is read there the consciousness of a haunting possible that his heart had become too crime that will give him no peace. hard to be melted by it. Could he have seen his mother's heart, when she left him to be alone with her shame and sorrow, he certainly must have been moved. Was it for this she had wept and prayed, in the first dark hours of her widowhood, to the God of the fatherless? The world had seemed brighter to her when she thought she might see her child grow up to carry gladness to some of its Poor Leonard! This is a lonely world to him, yet always haunted by one pale ghost. His mother is at rest; oh, shall he ever rest again? He has travelled through many lands, but Remorse, with her whip of' scorpions, is always at his side. While she lived, he heedlessly loaded her with sorrow, but now he bears a heavier load. His is a hard fate, and he would not have deserved it, if he had only thought. Ye who have time, think! The steel of the midnight assassin pierces only the body. "But for the soul!--oh tremble and beware mere cockle shell as an apology for a bon net, and again, as if a mockery, conceal their lovely features with a "poke" of enormous magnitude. To day perhaps, To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there?" the fair forms of the ladies appear com pletely buried in flounces, but a few months THE REPOSITORY: hence may change tl:em to the plain garb NEW-LONDON, CONN. BY W. H. STARR. Thursday, April 12, 1860. THE TYRANNY OF FASHION. Dr. Franklin, one of the most acute observers and apt remarkers of his age, once said, "The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture," and he might have added, I should have no need of "following the fashions," and making myself uncomfortable and unhappy because I could not afford the money to follow every freak and imitate every panto mine of the fickle goddess. That this is true of many, there remains not a doubt, and if all the struggles that are made, the efforts that are induced and the unhappiness that is endured by the votaries of fashion, and all merely for the eyes of others, could be known to them, their pity and their sympathies would be excited rather than their admiration. of Quakerism. And we, the "masculines" as Mrs. Partington would say, are scarcely less protean in our appearance. At one time with gun-case pantaloons and bobtail coats we resemble a collection of overgrown Shanghais; at another with "meal-bag trowsers," we might be taken for Chinamen of the first water-now in plain black as solemn as a procession of priests and mourners at a funeral, again with fancy plaids as conspicuous as a Scotch Highlander, or sporting with stripes that might almost put a mouutebank to the blush.-With a slouch hat to day of most unmentionable form and proportions; to-morrow with a "steeple crown" that might have been modeled from an inverted flower pot-one week with a countenance as grim and piligerous as Bruin himself and the rext with faces as smooth and feminine as a school girl.—Oh, the whims, changes and caprices of fashion !— A few, comparatively take the lead and the multitudes follow, and were it the grotesque and ludicrous only that pertains to it, the consequences would be less serious. But when we realize that the love of " fash. ion," and a fashionable life" is a phantom that is leading so many to ruin, inducing them to incur expenses that they are unable to support, and to barter away solid comforts for an empty show, we have reason to protest against its influence. When we see health, comfort and happiness too often sacrificed on the altar of fashion, we have reason to rebel against her tyranand condemn an abject subserviency to her despotic rule. * ny, As an intelligent reflecting Republican people we are too much under the control The folly of an implicit obedience to the dictates of fashion is apparent in the whims and caprices of her votaries. Du'ring the reign of Richard the Third, well known as the "Humpback," the fashion of humping became general. It is related by historians, that the Lords, the Ladies and the undergentry, patterning after Royalty, wore each, a fashionable crook in the back." However ridiculous this may appear to us of the present age it can scarcely be more so, than the universal habit of aping every frivolous and absurd fashion so called, emanating generally from forof fashion and more particularly the fasheign countries, sometimes from kingly courts, and not unfrequently from the low. ion emanating from either kingly or queenest classes in point of morality, that make ly courts, or foreign courtezans. And any pretentions to gentility. while we would not remain so firmly weddictates, the forms of our wives and daugh-ded to habit as to condemn all changes of ters are with one consent, enveloped in the costumes or custom, we would regard as habit of the nun, and present a mere atten- wrong and foolish, every attempt to im uated semblance of humanity. Again at pose upon the community, all the whims, her beck these shrivelled habilments begin caprices, and we might add, attendant imto expand and continue their enlargement moralities of the Old World. Let modesuntil the mothers appear like balloons, and ty, grace, convenience and health, be the the children like parachutes in full prepa. great object in view, and fashion will be ration for an arial voyage. Fashion made subservient to the comfort, instead of decorates the heads of our females with a being the bane of modern society. If Fashion NEW LONDON DISTRICT.-L. W. Blood, New London-Paul Townsend. F. Uphan; Free Church, Rob't. Parsons Baltic and Hanover-Nelson Goodrich. Hopeville, Voluntown and GriswoldL. E. Dunham. Plainfield-B. M. Walker. Canterbury-to be supplied. Danielsonville-Geo. W. Brewster. Putnam-H. W. Conant. West Thompson - A. M. Allen. East Thompson-J. W. Case. Fisherville Wm. O. Cady. East Woodstock-G. D. Boynton. West Woodstock and Union-To be supplied. tis. Eastford-Supplied by H. H. Arnold. South Coventry-To be supplied. Willington-Supplied by J. F. Brooks. Stafford Springs-Charles Morse. Hazardville-S F. Sheffield. Thompsonville-f. Lovejoy, S. Lam berton, supplied. Warehouse Point-Wm. S. Simmons. Quarryville and Andover-Wm. Turkington. Rockville-C. S. Sanford. North Manchesterville and Centreville -J. D. King. One to be supplied. South Manchester-Sanford Benton. East Hartford-T. B. Gurney. East Glastenbury-J. M. Worcester. South Glastenbury-Supplied by J. A. Kibbe, Portland-Erastus Benton. East Hampton-To be supplied. Moodus and East Haddam Landing— Geo. Burnham. sor. Haddam Neck-Jabez Peck. Marlborough and Hebron-S. A. Win Wesleyan University-C. K. True, Professor, member of Portland Quarterly Conference. |