ORIGINAL POETRY. severe bleeding at the lungs, and when

For the Repository. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW.

BY MARIE DELAMORE.

In the rosy morning light,
In the evening sunset glow,
In the flush of noontide bright,

Pass the footprints in the snow.
Here and there-to and fro,

Pass the foot-prints in the snow.

Passing out from every gate,
Palace, hall, and cottage low,
Wide and narrow, small and great,
Go the foot-prints in the snow.
Here and there-to and fro,

Pass the foot prints in the snow.
Here has passed the man of wealth,
There has walked a man of woe,
And the bounding foot of health

Made this foot print in the snow.
Here and there-to and fro,
Pass the foot prints in the snow.
Here have pattered children's feet,
There old age has tottered slow,
And a maiden fair and sweet

Left this print upon the snow.
Here and there-to and fro,
Pass the foot-prints in the now.

So within the paths of life,

Forms of care, and joy and woe Mingle in the busy strife,

Like the foot prints in the snow, Here and there-to and fro, Meeting-parting-on they go! But the footprints melt forever,

Ere the summer sunbeams play,While our spirits only sever

Chords which bind them to the clay, And away-far away,

Soar to realms of endless day! QUINCY, March, 1860.

other remedies fail, Dr. Rush found two
spoonsful of salt completely stayed the
blood.

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.

We

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

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to the eye of every lover of beautiful
typography and artistic excellence, it can-
not be surpassed. The price per volume
In cloth, will be,....
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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 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

cheapness and convenience of form, there
can be no comparison between the two.

itory.

riculture 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.

REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON,
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY.

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.

The yield of the Cranberry is of course very variable, according to the locality, nature of the soil, eare in cultivation, &c., but one hundred bushels to the acre is a very low estimate. One bushel to a square rod, or one hundred and sixty bushels to the acre is a moderate crop, when properly cultivated, and we frequently hear of double that quantity being obtained. In some instances four hundred bushels have been gathered from a single acre, but this is not a frequent occurrence. Perhaps one hundred and fifty to two hundred bushels might be considered a fair average yield on cultivated meadows, and even that quantity, at $3.00 per bushel, the average price of the fruit for the last

five years, would pay enormous profits, | markably quick, and he hoped for a great even with the most expensive methods of yield from such young vines. But when reclaiming and cultivating the grounds.

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 SELECTION OF PLANTS.-One very es- felt confident," remarks the narrator, which were really very productive. "I sential point in the successful cultivation from their appearance, that they were the of the Cranberry is to procure good best ones I ever saw; but I lived to find healthy plants. One of the greatest mis-out that those signs which I took to indifortunes that could befal the cultivator, cate the productiveness of the plant, were would be, after expending his time, labor, only symptoms of disease, which discase and money in the preparations, and the purchase and planting of his vines, to find them, after two or three years cultiva tion, barren and worthless. With every advantage of situation, soil and natural facilities, if vines of the unfruitful varieties are planted, the result will, of course, prove a failure. Against this then we would if possible, protect our readers.

As this is a matter not generally understood, we trust the caution may not be altogether valueless, and yet it is possible that even the experienced cultivator may be mistaken. Mr. Eastwood, in his excellent treatise before alluded to, relates the experience of an old and practical grower as a case in point:-"He prepared some land adjoining a fresh water pond, which, in every way was adapted to develope the cranberry vine. He came in contact with a few rods of vines which seemed to be good, and his impression was that if he could secure them he would soon have an excellent crop. He bought them and set them out; he watched them closely and was gratified in seeing them look so thrifty. They spread and matted re

means barrenness."

the plants producing fruit,) are not, in The healthy vine, (by which we mean stalk or "spear" is generally smaller and general, the finest in appearance. The more wiry than in the barren sorts, the

vines less rampant in their growth, 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.

CURCULIO REMEDY.-One pound of whale oil soap, four ounces of sulphur, 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.

FIVE DOLLARS FOR A PEAR!-A Duchess d Angouleme Pear sold in New York, last week, for five dollars. A bushel of fine Bartletts sold last fall in Philadelphia for $29 25. Farmers raise Pears.

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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-
Would fain another's fault efface;
How can it please e'en human pride
To prove humanity but base?
No! let us reach a higher mood,
A nobler sentiment of man;
Be earnest in the search of good,
And speak of all the best we can.
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..

NEW-LONDON, CT.

Thursday, April 12, 1860.

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.-
These things he learned in the streets,
among coarse and bad boys with whom he
sometimes loitered around evenings, con-
trary to her earnest request.

Then, to her reproofs, he returned
taunting words. "Women did not know
anything. He should do as he pleased."

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 reach of his power? He would surely be 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.

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

What words from a son to his mother! Still, the disrespect shown to herself did But only One looked into that bleeding not trouble her so much as the lowness of heart, and it was a kinder eye than Leonfeeling and principle they indicated, in ard's. 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.

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 But Leonard grew up selfish and diso-prayed, in the first dark hours of her bedient. He valued the good opinion of widowhood, to the God of the fatherless? others, and so appeared well enough away from home; indeed, he was naturally as intelligent and amiable as most boys; and

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.

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

"But for the soul--oh tremble and beware

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

At the Conference of the Methodist

Episcopal Church, held in New Bedford on Wednesday of last week, the following appointments for the New London Dis

THE REPOSITORY: hence may change tl:em to the plain garb trict were made.

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 fol. low 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, ard 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 "mascu-
lines" 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 invert-
ed flower pot-one week with a counte-
nance as grim and piligerous as Bruin
himself and the next 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 gro-
tesque 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 phan-
tom that is leading so many to ruin, in-
ducing 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

NEW LONDON DISTRICT.-L. W. Blood,
Presiding Elder,

New London-Paul Townsend.
Lyme and East Lyme-To be supplied.
Mystic Bridge-Anthony Palmer.
Mystic and Westerly-E. S. Stanly.
Hopkinton-Supplied by S. Stanley.
Gales Ferry-Lozien Pierce.
Uncasville-Wm. E. Sheldon.
Montville and Salem-To be supplied.
Norwich Main Street and Greeneville,
F. Uphan; Free Church, Rob't. Parsons
Sachem Street, John Livesy, Jr.; North,
supplied by N. G. Lippitt.

Baltic and Hanover-Nelson Goodrich.
Hopeville, Voluntown and Griswold-
L. 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.
Gurleyville-F. C. Newell.

South Coventry-To be supplied.
Willimantic-Win. Kellen,
Lebanon-To be supplied,

Willington-Supplied by J. F. Brooks.
Tolland-Supplied by T. W. Douglass.
Square Pond Supplied by G. W. Cur

Stafford Springs-Charles Morse.
Staffordville-F. H. Brown.
Somers-N, F. Colver.

Hazardville-S F. Sheffield.

Thompsonville-f. Lovejoy, S. Lam

berton, supplied.

Warehouse Point-Wm. S. Simmons.
Windsorville-Warren Emerson.
Wapping-L. D. Bentley.
Quarryville and Andover-Wm. Turk-
ington.

Rockville-C. S. Sanford.

North Manchesterville and Centreville

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 Royaltoo often sacrificed on the altar of fashion, ty, wore each, a fashionable crook in the we have reason to rebel against her tyranback." However ridiculous this may appear to us of the present age it can scarce-ny, and condemn an abject subserviency to her despotic rule. ly 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 queenAnd est classes in point of morality, that make ly courts, or foreign courtezans. 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.

As an intelligent reflecting Republican people we are too much under the control -J. D. King. One to be supplied.

If Fashion

South Manchester-Sanford Benton.
Scotland-G. W. Wooding.

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.

Haddam Neck-Jabez Peck.
Colchester-V. A. Cooper,
Marlborough and Hebron-S. A. Win-

sor.

fessor, member of Portland Quarterly Wesleyan University-C. K. True, ProConference.