The County Gazette.

ALFRED COOPKK, EDITOK. ~ HATifttDA vr^rroiBEKaj, H«MO. ■ lift HI 'J' J» NEWS OK THE WEEK. f In Verrtfbnt on Tuesday Byron Blake murdered bin mother, suiter, and stepfather. afterward* hanging himself. A young lady was killed in Brooklyn on Wednesday by being thrown from her horse, which was frightened by one of those public nuisances, the bicycle. The British bark Killeena, Cupt. Ralph, from New York Aug. 26, for Liverpool, has been abandoned at sea. Her for em 11st and mainmast were gone. The eapf was saved. The toUouiuT Annie L. Henderson, from New York to Suii*¥lmici»co witji a cargo of lumber and shooks, put in at Norfolk, Vs., in distress, having sustained the loss of her deck loud and bad her bowsprit sprung. A railroad war is in progress between the Chicago and Alton company and a rival company. The fare froin Toledo to 8t. Louis reduced from $13 to $8 ; from Detroit from $14. HO to $2. The fare from Chicago to St. Incuts is down to $1.00. The American ship South American, Cap*. Know lev, from llong Kong Sept. 30, for San Francisco, ho* put back to Hong Kong with the ions of hor mix* ac n mast, yards, sails, ami rigging. She will discharge cargo and dock for reI*iirs. i lie oeivoniuon or ujo Kc*qtil-c*-utcu-nial of Baltimore closed Tuesday night with a general illumination of the oily, commemorative of the ninety-ninth anniversary of the surrender at York town. The City Hall, Washington and Battle Monuments glittered with thousands of gas-jets. Over 100.000 pcopla were on Baltimore and the adjacent streets, and the throng was so great the procession of illuminated tableau* pussed with much inconvenience. Tho Rev. E. B. Uillard, one of the leading Prohibitionists of Connecticut, h.ui written a strong letter advising the temperaqce men to vote the Republican, ticket. He sAys that Gon. Garfield embodies and represents in an eminent _ fc.— ■■ >■ iii — *■ a ... a .t • •»-- -Ufc.

lie at the basis of the temperance a* of every other humanitarian reform, and that to support Gen. Dow against him is to array the temperance issue against the issue of free civilization which he rcprtftH-nts, and ho needlessly, and as he believes, fatally, to antagonize it. V : Under tbe head of "Religious," the Baptist Weekly remarks i "Western butter is said to Iks heavily adulterated with powdered sogpstone." Strange religion they have out "West." Senator Rurnnido tells thin *tory of his colleague Senator Anthony. They were dining together one day when ham formed one of the dishes. "If ever I turn a farmer,1' said Mr. Anthony, "I shall raise plenty of calves so thai L can get some nice hams like this,"

The Boston Post is responsible for a story to the effect that a Berkshire goat hates red so that lie rnn three miles to butt a porgeoux sunset which bethought rested on top of a hill, and he was mightily disgusted when lie got there to find it was jnst as far off as ever. In another column will he found the mammoth advertisement of our friend Thad. Van Gilder. Now it strikes us that a merchant doing such an extensive business as we know Mr. V. doe*, must necessarily have a fresh and carefully •elected stock of goods to offer. • We have visited his establishment and are free to say that we have seen notlipip in this county which wtll ©quat it In j point of enterprise and activity. That he understands his husiiu-ss is shown by the fact that he uses printing ink freely, and often. P. T. Barnum, who had ono or two votes for the United States Senatorship in Connecticut two years ago, has anflounced himself aa a candidate, and it is said, has promised to spend $10,000 during the present campaign. l!e ha* been nominated by the Republicans of hi* district for the State Senate, so that he may lie inside the Capitol at Ilurtford during the Senatorial contest. He is thoroughly in earnest, and will he seriously disappointed if he does not succeed iu adding to the attractions of "the greatest show on earth" himself in the character of the Senator from Com-ectirut. Saturday was a Republican field-day in Trenton, and the demonstrations were kept up until late in the night. It is generally conceded that the masa meeting, which was held in the afternoon on the E;ist State street common*, was the largest open air meeting ever

I hold in Mercer county. And it was *Uo °4f*rUe4>Mt W*ir^ mtd i> iu< tiiijp war held with in the county limits. Omipokuu judgos estimate tbe audionge at fiom twelve to twenty thousand^ l>eraoaa; and it is quite ufc to say that at least fifteen thousand persons listened for more than two hours 1 to tbe masterly oratorical effort and oonvincing argument of the speaker of the day, Robert H. ingorsoU. Dr. lioluie, the B.iptist hi in inter who, at a meeting of Baptist ministers oy I Monday lust, maintained that Christians should never laugh, and should never engage in any amusements, is evidently a courageous man, who does not fear to carry out the teachings of his sect to their legitimate end. The Baptists, I like many other sects, insist that it Is a sin for any man to go to tlie theatre, while at tbe suuie time they regard croquet ufid various other amusements as perfectly Innocent. The ministers, however, find great difficulty in convincing 1 people that theatre-going is wrong In it- ! •elf. While no moralist pretends that 1 an immoral and "indecent play should j be patron i^cd by decent people, every i intelligent man knows th»-re is a Vast di&erenoe in ploys, and refuses to admit (hat because it may bo wrong to attend the representation of certain plays it is therefore wrong to attend the representation of pure mid wholesome plays. Dr. IJoltnc evidently perceives that if he is to condemn the theatre in all circumstances, this condemnation must be based upon some other groun 1 than the plea that bad plays are sometimes represented. He therefore maintains that all amusements arc sinful, and that no Christian has any right to : amuso himself. — N. Y. Tinas. ■ w • It is strange that ill a community which lives almost entirely by its farming interests, as does ours, there is no well regulated grist-mill. True we have several water mills, which are run entirely by the tlrte, wi<x instead of "going to mill" at an hour when it best suit* the farmer to go, he is comjiellcd to go at any hour of tho day or night when tho tide happens to bo at tho right stage. Many of our farmers send their grain to Sulom county to sell, and, when in want of flour and feed, again send to other counties for their supply, thus reducing tho money value of what they raise and correspondingly increasing the cost of their flour etc. We venture to say that if an enterprising man, of sober and industrious habits, with moderate moans would come to tho Court House and establish a first-class steam grist-mill ho would , 0^x^.0.. .,.1 ^ ,l... . .-iL. © . ■ * ■* i J . * . . — ■ ik«i

there was not only enough business in this county to support such a mill, hut that all who could possibly do so would patronize him. The gentlemen who run the present water-in ills arc, we believo accommodating as far us it lies in thfcir power |p be ; hut it strikes us that as the world i* advancing and improvements are constantly being made, we, the people of Cape May county, should advance too, and not bo satisfied with the present state of affairs just because • our fathers and grandfather* were coni tent with their ancient ideas. If. in the course of events, a mill is hinted at let us refrain from our usual (♦custom and for once in our lives say, it wili. p«y, and then go to work with all our might to makk It ft IQONtt.

The New York ".Sun," which is the leading Democratic paper of N. Y. City, j has this to any about the nominations : "The Democrats have sustained an unexpected and mortifying defeat in In- I diuna and Ohio. It is disastrous and I may prove fatal. It is silly to make light of it, and idle to try to whittle it uwny by cunning calculations and ndroit i figuring. The Democrat* are beaten, badly beaten ; whether beaten to death or not is the only question. It has seemed to us that the whole Democratic campaign is a series of blunders. The party had one man— only one — whose immense strength had been demonstrated on a national field — Sam m 1 * J.' Tihlcn. It Is tbe one great, pre-emi-1 nent name in tbe Democratic party. He was a reformer indeed, as his record in the office of Governor lisd proven. He was a statesman, as nil his public papers, especially his letter declining to compote for the nomination, had cm- ! phatically shown. Childless, like Washington, he had only his country to love; and even the ties of kindred were ruthlessly sundered by hi* stern and unrelenting hand if the faintest blush of an improper practice rested upon thorn. Bo patriotic, so lofty, so convincing, was kis great letter to the convention which made the nomination that the most adroit And ablest of all bis enemies, after reading it, avowed his disjiosition to support him. This illustrious ntnn the Democratic party thought It could afford to dispense with a* a candidate ! There is a word of one syllable with two ; o*s in it which might ; not inappropl a t«dy, ha inserted here. The party nominated General H*n- ' cock, a good man, weighing 250 pounds. But Hancock is not Tildcn. Then, as a crowning act of folly, tbe psrty went into the State of Thomas A,

Hendricks, and took anotU r map for Uiat of Hendricks anr..T'»K enough j but, to go <>&• fur#n r, they had to lake a man with the !u**»! odious reputation as a skin flint to over comel It is said ths Democrat* were beaten in Indiana by tbe importation into that Btate of Nauftban. mquoc© to iota Oiaj Republican ticket I This is a puerile, ; baby pica. Are not the Indiana Democrate men capable of lawfully maintainiug their ri^it* ? Beaten by negroes ! It is the last thing they ought to own, and they should be ashamed to outioede it. Now, nu-n— Democrats— rally and | conquer 1" — — — — s e # — 44Of makjng many hooks there is no end," is a statement requiring no proof beyond observation . Though the issuing of vheap edition* of popular works has now become quite common with our leading publishers, we mn«t look to Al1 exatider Donaldson, an Edinburgh bookseller who lived about 1770, as the one who took the first step toward giving | the people n cheaper literature. About the year 1800, Mvrrol publishers m, London issued an extensive series of elicap repriqt* of pocket-book slid, yet the true origin of this now vast enterprise was about 1825, when the attempt j wo* more nearly coincident with a gen- i eral Awakening of the public mind. In our own country the book trade i may be said to have received its greatest impulse in the present century, and S every year it assumes larger proportions. The facilities for publication are so great that the time is at hand when the poor man us well o* the rich man rosy boast of a fair-sized library of instructive book*. Could the early investigator* in science, literature and the art* have had such opport unities as we now have, they would have thought themselves most fortunate. The stories of privations endured mmd fin ©Wl give but a faint idea of their longing* for this mental food, and tbe hooks when obtained were perused again until each sentence and each word oft tiroes was treasured in the memory. How different our reading, which too often makes the best books tut a pleasure for the moment and not of lasting benefit 1 Had we the mind of a Macau lay, who, after a single rapid glance over a printed page, could reproduce the exact thought, attired iu almost the same drew, we might hasten through book after hook, but with us a leisurely and thoughtful perusal only is productive of good. This tendency to hasten on from author to author, this eagerness Wn iimr mhiiw ■mwiin ■ ' VU US»* WWU* ■■wwgii ■■ IM.^I f Oil ■

works of the day, may Iki enhanced hv the "cheap prow," which place* ao many book* within our reach, and so make it somewhat objectionable, but if wo consider that now the }»ooms of 81iakB|H*;ire and Milton may no longer be closed l>ooks to the ]K>orer classes ; that work* in liis ton*, biogruphy aud fiction iuay now be read iu a thousand homes where once they were known in but few, we feel assured that this extonsive circulation of good literature will he highly beneficial. The signs of tho times are propitious. Publishers will tuft supply book* without a demand, and the demand crtn arise only with tho groat reading public. With a good reading and a good

thinking public we hnye urn w • few for the |»erpetiilty of our institutions, and the day will be welcome, in- j deed, when more of the standard Eng- j lisli and American works, ill every de i partmcnt, ahull be placed within the , roach of all, and the light of knowl- , edge shall dissipate tho lingering shadows of a blighting ignorance from even i the humblest home. AGRICULTURAL. condittku 1»y indkx. To grow eurlv onions the seed may be sown in the fall, requiring a thin coat of litter to protect them through the winter. The reason that clover is considered tlio best sub-soiling agent wo linvVIs because its roots grow deoj>er in the earth than any other grass. The too common practice of covering lawn* in the autumn with manure, giving them the appear All 06 of barn yards, the "American Cultivator" says, "doe* ; more harm than good, and often is a positive injury." Clean farming is the l»eat under all circumstance*, it not only curtail* Die l growth and spread of weeds but if adopted as a rule will tend largely toward preventing the increase of all in- , | jnrious insects. Water heated to about 160" is reported to be a very sun- remedy for the cal>bage worm. The application to be made at tbA first appearance of the k worms. The eggs from which the worms are batched arc deposited by a medium sized butterfly, wblcli is white with ft tow black spot*. They can ho seen flying about the cabbage, generally in the fore i>art of the day. i ! - c . The Chinese and Japanese are noted

<*rly be pUnte, gild -a neural I i vegotobbvi aft vary Lh.uL and u day. We have no reason to doubt but thi« system would trork as well in this t^ual) AS iu Of ,1 MrVjd , , An exchange *ay» : "8om t people are j alarmed at the prospects of abuudant harvests, fearing that prices will^ be cot ' down to an uoiwm alterative poiaA . D«f I tbe world was never yet ruined by ' abundant harvests ; those are always | acoofnpenied by prosperity in roanufat tores and commerce ; the laborer has on abundance of cheap food, and. plenty of labor at remunerative wages, money to patronise every other industry A farmer writes to an exrfaange : If ! joii desire to get a large yield of rich milk give your cow every day water ! slightly warm and slightly salted, in i which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. You will find, if you have not tried this (hiily practice, that your cow will give j twenty -fir© per cent, marc milk immw- ! distely under the effects of it, and she ! w !1 become so attached to the diet as j to reiuse to drink clear water unless j | very thirsty. But this mess she will ; , dr nk almost any time, and ask for | more. The amount of this drink nece*- ; sary is an ordinary water-pail at a time ; — morning, noon, and night. A fallow is the best preparation for j wheat, especially on clay soil or land infested by weed*. But it is thought to r.*juire too much labor, so stubble i* turned down. An improvement here can he made, as practice has demon- ; xt rated, by first using the cultivator ;w to get mellow soil to turn down. This is best done after a rain, when the ground works up fine. Plough and let it lie fOr pcvm«I Iku* giving © | chance for heat and air to act on the soil, workinv occasionally with harrow and roller, preceded by tlie cultivator if i required. In this way the soil through- 1 out becomes fine and of equal texture, and is especially favorable to fall growth, giving the wheat a good start. If the j soil lacks fertility a coat of manure applied after vowing will supply the necessary enrichment, and the action of . the manure on the soil develops new plauit-food, aided by beat and moisture, i In audi case the manure should be fine and well rotted so a* to uiix well with the surface soil. This preparation is almwt equal to fallowing, and it certain to establish tlie crop well and secure a

ing down mellow soil is not sufficiently! considered. In a fallow we get it ; also in reploughing faltploughed land. The heat root corn 1 ever knew was where J the soil was deeply fined and then i deeply turned under, the surface manured and thoroughly worked. And it is the same with wheat, which needs depth. Merely scratching the surface with the harrow, however fine it may make it, favors vegetation only a little and in the start. Besides, the thin • | coating of mellow soil is a poor mulch and soon get* packed, making a solid 1 l*ody of earth incapable of withstanding drought*. This fined, the cose is entire ly different. Moisture is now retained ; i and the roots have free play. In pre '

paring the ground thus for whefct 11 ha* l»een found that the roller is of import - i ant scrviee. It give* greater density to | the soil without packing it too much, leaving it so that air and water readily ]ieuetrate it. This treatment al*o lessen* the weeds. Clay soil is more par- ' tieulurly benefited by it. • # • Our Washington Letter. (From Our lingular Onrmcpomlcnt.l Washington Dt C. Oct. 16, 1850. The election in Ohio and Indiana have occupied the attention of the Washingtoiiians to the exclusion of every other sulyect. In the several Departments OH Tuesday, but little work was accomplished as the offieials from the highest to the lowest, were abulifilHl Tit the rnrnrmyUfien ©f ©K© ject which to them seemed of such vital importance. Tlie election returns of Tuesday gave sufficient cheerfhl indications to send the occupant* of the anx- . ious bench to their homes to et\joy 1 slum Iwr* undisturbed by hideous visions of impending disaster. The morn ing dispatches not only confirmed the ! brightest anticipation* of the night before, but went beyond the moat aan ' guina expectation*. The Republicans had expected to carry Ohio, but with a greatly reduced minority. 01 Indiana they lisd no hope. Bet* had been offered,* by ivWvTtits, giving large odds, hut there were no taker*. The I'esult was a genuine surprise. The Democrats read m© returns with dubious look*, and knew not what to make of them. The gloom i* now on their side, but It i« not intensified by feeling* of personal loss The departments of the Govemuient QUI, with truth, be said to be on a broad grin. The olerksare like prisoners with their aback lea unexpectedly stricken off. Kverj- load ing official and member of the fablnet except Secretary of Htatr Rvarte i* sbamt from the t-apital, look ing after nolitica in his particular Mate I j Your reader* must therefore not be aur *

W . P j torture were ushered into eternity, "ne | get the bust meh we can and take the greatest pre* auliop r tqc cam»4S It if an accift'iH «i ri luu is j poor comotataoa udl^ friends of tiiose who have thus prematurely been ushered into eU-niiiy. iLl* tigM »ed tii lit re** will 1*4 V | actioq ou i"~ a Good Gunning Boat. For parUcuiark call un or addnaa. OoC2Mw. A. HEWITT. Important To ii. f f 1 / Is ■ a > The undersigned would reepectfuUy announce to the jieoph- of this county that he has a considerable stock of men's and boys' Button Gaiters, AVD A VARIETY OF S-H-O-E-S fill chihlrwi. wbkb b* ©ill I seTl at A bKKAT REDUCTION I from former prices to close out thi* branch of bis business. Smith Hand, . C. V\. AngSflpSm. r -

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