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VOLUME 1.
WINCHESTER, TENN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 185G.
NUMBER 25,
THE WING HESTER WEEKLY APPEAL.
. WritUn forth WlnchwtM AppwL
SOLITAUY MUSIINGS.
OK THE PAST.1'-1' ' ,! -
There can be but few if any employ
merits more gratifying t6 the enquiring
4Dd cultivated mind than to muse and
meditate on the Past, to roam with the
historic Muse through the annals of by
gone ages, to take a retrospective view
of tho actions and dispositions of man
kind in every age. It is instructive to
Jook back through the long vista of time,
end behold man in ihe many different
stages of his condition, both moral and
intellectual. And to the enquiring mind
it can be no less a pleasure than a source
of the most useful instruction to unroll
the mouldering record of ages and medi
tate upon the pages of the history of
knowledge. But it is by no means an
unqualified enjoyment for in those pa-
gos is presented a most varied picture of
the greatness and littleness of man. In
every stage of the world's history I be
hold the grandeur, the absurdity, and the
imperfection of human conceptions ; tke
loftiest aspirations of which man i3 capa
ble, and the utter futility of his endeav
ors to realize them.
With regret I see genius perverted, and
prostituted to the worst of purposes,
while I fondly participate in the joy of
the sage at the success of persevering
exertion in acts of beneficence and the
diffusion of useful knowledge. While 1
exult in the triumph of ambitious mental
effort and the noble achievments of moral
action, there also obtrude upon the mind
the ignorance that cannot comprehend
the envy that will not appreciate and
narrow prejudice and dark, malignant
bigotry like ill-omened birds of night,
raising their hideous outcries at the open
ing day, closing their dazzling eyes, and
turning their backs upon the radiant
beams of light which are penetrating
through the gloom and showing up the
dim outlines of the objects that surround,
influence, and hold terrific sway over the
path of life. I find myself an unwilling
observer of their struggles to preserve
and strengthen the dominion of error, or
check the soarings, blight the hopes and
destroy the dearest acquisitions and most
valuable productions of genius; to pros
ecute it, theirdemoniac delight, to pros
trate and exterminate it, the ruling im
pulse of their nature. Diversified indeed
is the scene! a group of opposites, of
intellectual antipodes that the pages of
history hold up to our consideration. I
go back to the patriarchal ages, when the
mighty Deluge had subsided, and the
race of Noah had begun to multiply on
the earth ; when the depravity of man
had again begun to display itself by its
malignant effects ; when the lust of am
bition had begun to exert its baneful in
fluence over the heart, and when the in
ordinate desire after wealth, fame, dis
tinctions and aggrandizement had paved
the way for the erection of despotism,
and for encroachments on the rights and
enjoyments of mankind. Here, among
the mightiest despots and heroes of an
tiquity, I behold Nimrod, the first to
make invasions on the territories of his
neighbors, the first to aspire after regal
dignity and power the first to assume
the reins of absolute government, and
introduce "among his subjects the
Zabian Idolatry, or the worship of the
Heavenly host." From the foundation
of his kingdom the Babylonish Empire
1 soe following in the footsteps of his
proud, ambitious and despotic career,
" a train'' of Alexanders, Caesars, Hani'
bals, Attillas, Alaric, Tamulanes, Jeng
hiz-Kans, Marlboroughs, Fredericks and
Buonaparte," who have drenched the
world in human blood, and driven the
plowshare of destruction,' and in many
instances, of extermination, through the
nations, wading through seas of blood to
Empire, and erecting thrones over the
graves of unoffending nations which they
had 'slaughtered, and decorating their
palaces with trophies dyed in the blood
of millions of mangled and dying victims,
whose groans and shrieks have filled the
orld with mourning, lamentation and
oe. To trace the scenes of desolation,
distress and horror that follow in the
train of atrocities, butcheries and devas
tation ''perpetrated by desperadoes and
monsters in human form, etxn since the
Flood, "would be to transcribe the whole
' record of ancient and modern history."
Startled with the most terrific emotions,
I see rocordod on the historic page the
fact that not less than fourteen thousand
failliont of human beings have been
slaughtered in war since the creation of
tho world, with many millions more who
have perished by famine, pestilence, dis
ease, and other calamities produced by,
and growing out of, war, and the oppres
sion, cruelties, and rapacity of savage
conquerors. What a picture of conster
nation and horror is presented to the eye
when taking into one view all the scenes
of slaughter which have been realized in
every age, in every nation, and among
every tribe!
Only to reflect that 14,000,000,000 of
human beings, endowed with intellectual
faculties, and furnished with bodies cu
riously arranged by Divine Wisdom
equal to eighteen times the number thaj
now inhabit the globe, have been mur
dered and cut to pieces " by those who
were partakers of the same common na
ture, as if they had been created merely
for tho work of destruction !" What a
terrific and overwhelming consideration!
Words sink into utter insignificancy, and
language becomes powerless! The im
agination alone is equal to the depiction
of so startling, so abhorrent a scene.
Humilis.
Franklin Co., July 23.
MISCHIEF MAKERS.
LET WHOEVER THE SHOE FITS WEAR IT. "
Oh ! could iliere in the world be found
Some little spot of happy ground
here village pleasures might go round,
Without the village tattling!
How doubly blest that place would be,
Where all might dwell in liberty,
Free from the bitter misery
Uf gossip s endless prattling.
If such a spot weio really known,
l'ame l'eaco might claim it as her own;
And in it she might fix her throne,
forever and forever;
There, like a queen, might reign and live,
While every one would soon forgive
The little slights they might receive,
And be onenued never.
'Tis mischief-makers that remove
Far from our hearts the warmth of love,
And lead us all to disapprove
What gives another pleasure ;
They seem to lake one's part but when
They've heard our cares, unkindly then
They soon retail thorn out again,
Mix'd with their poisous measure.
And then they've such a cunning way
Of telling ill-meant tales they say :
"Don t mention what I've said, I pray
1 would not tell another : "
Straight to your neighbor's house they go,
Narrating everything they know,
And break the peace of high and low,
Wife, husband, friend, and brother.
Oh ! that the mischief-making crew
Were all reduced to one or two,
And they were painted red or blue,
lhat every one might know them!
Then would our villagers forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
Ann fall into an angry pet
With things so much below them.
For 'tis a sad, degrading part,
To make another's bosom smart,
And plant a dagger in the heart
We ought to love and cherish!
Then let us evermore be found
In quietness with all around.
While friendship, joy and peace abound,
And angry feeling perish !
Infincy. As the infant begins to dis
criminate between the objects around, it
soon discovers one countenance that ever
smiles upon it with benignity. When it
wakes from its sleep, there is one watch
ful form ever bent over its cradle. If
startled by some unhappy dream, a guardi
an angel seems ever ready to soothe its
fears. If cold, that ministering spirit
brings it warmth; if hungry, she feeds it;
if happy, she caresses it. In joy or sor
row, in weal or woe, she is the first ob'
ject of its thoughts. Her presence is
heaven. The mother is the Deity of in
fancy.
Machine for Blacking Boots. Ayck
bourn, of London has invented a machine
for the foregoing named purpose. It is
made of a framework of wood, with con
cave brushes on spindles surrounding a
Btep on which, the boot is placed. A
trough containing blacking is set beside
each brush to supply it, but which are
moved out of reach by touching a rod
when sufficient blacking is put on. The
brushes are made to do their work of
blacking and polishing, by simply turn
ings crank bandle. by a person while
standing- He has but to place his boot
ed foot on a step and turn a crank, and
by a few- whirlabouts, his boot from a
muddy brown hue, will be develofal into
a black shinninc mirnr.
LAZY BOYS.
A lazy boy makes a lazy man, just as
sure as a crooked twig makes a crooked
tree. Who over yet saw a boy grow up
in idleness who did not make a shiftless
vagabond when ho became a man, unless
ho had a fortune left him to keep up ap
pearances? The great mass of thieves,
paupers and criminals that fill our pen
itentiaries and alms-houses, have come
up to what they are by being brought up
in idleness. Those who constitute tho
business part of the community, those
who make our great useful mon, were
trained up in their boyhood to be indus
trious. When a boy is old enough to begin to
play in the street, then he is old enough
to bo taught how to work. Of course, wo
would not deprive children of healthful,
playful cxercise,or the time they should
spend in study, but teach to work little
by little as a child is taught at school.
In this way he will acquire habits of in
dustry which will not forsake bin when
ho grows up.
Many persons who are poor Jet their
children grow up to fourteen or sixteen
years of age, or till they can support
them no longer before they put them to
labor. Such children, not having any
idea of what work is, and having acquir
ed habits of idleness, go forth to impose
upon their employers with laziness.
There is a repulsiveness in all labor set
before them, and to get it done, no mat
ter hcjw, is their only aim. They are am
bitious at play, but dull at work. The
consequence is, they do not stick to one
thing but a short time; tljey rove about
the world get into mischief, and finally
find their way to the prison or the alms
house. With the habit of idleness, vice may
generally, if not invariably, be found.
Where the mind and hands are not oc
cupied in some useful employment, an
evil genius finds enough to do. They are
found in the street till late in the even
ing, learning the vulgar and profane hab
its of the elder in vice. They may be
seen hanging around groceries, bar-rooms,
and stores, where crowds gather; but they
are seldom found engaged in study.
A lazy boy is not only a bad boy; but
a disgrace to his parents, for it is through
their neglect that he became thus. No
parents, however poor, in these times of
cheap books and newspapers, need let
their children grow up in idleness. If
they cannot be kept at manual labor, let
their minds be kept at work, make them
industrious scholars, and they will be in
dustrious at any business they may un
dertake in after life.
We know of many boys young men
old enough to do business for them
selves, who cannot read, and much loss
write their own names. They, too, are
lazy, for ignorance and laziness are twin
brothers. We always feel sorry for such
young men their habits are for life .the
twig bent in childhood grows a distorted
tree, and there is no remedy for it.
They must pass through life as they have
lived in laziness and ignorance. Think
of it, young reader, and take heed that
your habits and character be not formed
like theirs. Palmer Journal.
Fillmore in Alabama. The Mont
gomery Mail says: "Mr. Buchanan's
squatter sovereignty letter has given his
party in the South the dry rot. His news
paper advocates avoid the topta it is a
millstone around their nocks, dragging
themjcruelly down. Every Southern rat
ification meeting, held since that letter
appeared, haa been dull and lifeless.
The flattest of all flat things, have been
the meetings in the South. Since the
publication of his letter of acceptance.
Flat in Mobile, flat in Montgomery,.
in Augusta, flatter in Charleston. See
the Mercury's account.
"On the otherhand, in Augusta, Mont
gomery, Randolph, Franklin, and else
where in this State in Georgia in Vir
giniain Louisiana in Tennessee the
Americans are RALLYING to Fillmore,
about as fast as Buchanan's GERMAN
friends are going to FREMONT! And
"Fillmore stock is rising, rising!" Here,
in Montgomery, as elsewhere, the spirit
of the party is rising. We could now
hav a bigger and far more enthusiastic
meeting in Montgomery than the ratifica
tion affair lately held by the Democracy.
We will tnv rn on the tenth'"
MAIVUmiNC OllCIIAllDS.
When orchards bear profusely, or the
soil through which their roots extond,
yield crops which are removed from tho
ground, the trees ought to bo supplied with
an ample dressing of manure, so often, at
least, as once in four or five years. We
think, however, a better way is to allow
the orchard to take its place in rotation.
Unlike many others, we would not ob
ject to occupying the ground with any
particular species of vegetation, but, let
it be potatoes, corn, wheat or oats, as the
soil or tho judgement of tho owner may
dictate. But we do insist that whero an
oxhausting crop has been taken, ample
compensation in manures should bo
made, for the exhaustion thus occasion
ed.
It is better, however, as a general rule,
that orchards be plowed only in their
younger days, before their tops become
much developed, then put the ground in
the highest condition of fertility, and lay
it down to grass, and invite tho extremi
ties of tho outspreading, pendent branch
es to fall as low as tho ground, if they
should prefer. This greatly facilitates
and economizes harvesting when fruit is
hand picked, as all valuable fruit should
be, and the grass may be equally secured
under such trees, as when the branches
are more elevated. We admire a luxu
riant orchard, with its broad, umbrella
top sweeping the ground when loaded
with rich, blushing fruit, and no fields
can be better occupied than with such a
harvest, if tho varieties are well chosen,
and the trees have received tho proper
care.
If the orchard is in a meadow, and the
grass and apples are annually removed,
the leaves will of course follow them as
soon as the autumnal blast or tho wintry
winds sweep over the smooth surface, and
thus is the ground robbed of ell the veg
etable matter to which it has given life
through the season. Where the orchard
is well protected as the forest, by its nu
merous low swales, fallen branches, or
upturned trunks and roots, and the in
numerable standing trees, the decaying
leaves and branches, and fallen trunks
would restore to the soil all it had ab
stracted; but in the abscencc of these iis
natural manures it must receive others or
starve.
Ashes are one of the best applications
for an orchard; so, also, is swamp muck,
or a compost of barn yard manure; char
coal is excellent, as is also lime, and oc
casionally bone dust, plaster, and salt,
each of which is appropriately applied
aiound the roots. Scraping the trunks
when they become unthrifty, mossy, or
hide bound, and washing with strong
soap suds or wood ashes ley, and then
give a strong coat of whitewash, are at
tended, with tho best effects. These act
both as manure and destroy insects and
worms.
Surface of the Moon, Tho Earl of
Rosse, who has recently completed the
largest telescope ever made, alluded, at a
late meeting in London to its effects.
He said that, with respect to the moon,
every object on its surface of 100 feet irt
height was now to be seen; and he had no
doubt that, under very favorable circum
stances, it would be so with objects 60
fee.t in height. On its surfaca were cra
ters of extinct volcanoes, rocks and masses
of stono almost innumerable. Hehad no
doubt that if such a building as ho was
then in were upon the surface of the moon,
it would bo rendered distinctly visible by
these instruments. But there were no
signs of habitations such as ours no ves
tiges of architecture remain to show that
the moon is, or ever was inhabited by a
race of mortals similar to ourselves. It
presented no appearance which could lead
to the supposition that it contained any
thing like the green fields and lovely ver
dure of this beautiful world of our3.
There was no water visible not a sea or
a river, or even the measure of a reservoir
for supplying town olfactory all seemed
desolate.
It is a goodplan to boil onions in milk
and water; it diminishes the strong taste
of that vegetable. It is an excellent way
of serving Up onions, to chop them after
they are boiled, and put them in a stew
pan, with a little milk, butter, salt, pepper,
and let them stew about fifteen minutes.
This gives them a fine flavor, and they
ten be scrvrdup very hot.
WILT THOU SAIL THE VOYAGE
WITH ME!
EET IRON VAiu,y
'Jm-JnesCPr,.
M now rei-eiving a lnrgo and vf
iit'iit of fine Stovou, JjiiisH Kettles
'amps, Cdistitigii, &c., nnd hnveoiA
variety of Tin Wares, utid can n)
tu order; all manner of Sheet
" Cluttering, Routing-, &c, donl
bio terms.
I Hike in exchange for tho above gl
per, hruriri, pewtor, and k-ud, bcosi
9, tallow, jenns, mid all articles
iur tho head of barter. The ma
ill aKvuyi be allowed.
I.ocklmrt is rny authorized agent, i
svs he found at tho old business stl
?), lMfi. tf S A LOCKHAR'J
uudurxigncd has deposited sen
merior fuses at ilia Furniture R
twin &. Hall, where all with'
o can bii kupplicd ut the shortest u
reasonable lurais. ,
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OOT'fi'O.M & UOLLOWA
mission Merchants and Pr
On the 21st of April, 1854, and after
the close of his glorious administration,
Mr. Fillmoro made a visit to the city of
Savannah, Ga. He was met at the depot
of the Central Railroad by the citizens,
almost cn masse, and the entire military
of the city, under the gallant command
of Col. A. R. Lawton, Democratic Rep
resentative from Chatham in the last Le
gislature. A democratic Board of Aider'
men were the first to greet him, and hav
ing landed from the cars, the Hon. John
E. Ward, then Mayor of the city, and
since PRESIDENT of Cincinnati Con
vention, addressed him as follows:
" Mr. Fillmore : With unfeigned
pleasure I perform the duty assigned me
of welcoming you to tho city of Savan
nah. Whilst the events which mark
your administration of die government
are of too recent date to be discussed
without arousing passions, which on this
occasion should bo hushed to rest, we
must .all remember that those high and
solemn trusts were not assumed by you
in the sunshine of our prosperity. It
was a dark and eventful period in the
history of our Government, " when the
brave began to fear the power of man,
and the pious to doubt the favor of God."
Dark and fearful were the clouds that
hung on our horizon, violent the factions
that agitated our land, and men seemed
to reck not how widely raged the storm,
so that in its fury it upturned the institu
tions of tho South.
"IT WAS YOUR LOTTO BREAST
THAT STORM, AND BID ITS MUT
TERINGS CEASE, and to do that you
must turn away from the crowds of flat
tcrers to tread the lonely path of duty.
With your robes of office as with a pan
ophj of ice, you wrapped yourself from
all the prejudices of earlier years, and
from all the temptations which then sur
rounded you. 'Unter rifled by threats,
unawed by clamors, you held in your
steady course,' preserved the Constilu
tion of your country, gave peace to the
land we love, and repose to the institu
tions which we cherish, illustrating to
the world that "peace had its victories no
less renowned than war's.'
It is fit and proper now, when you
havo laid aside place and power and
patronage, that the affections of a grateful
people should follow you to your home,
and linger around you in your retirement
As the constituted a thcrities of he city
of Savannah, wo welcome you within
her limits as the representatives of tho
people, wo welcome you to our hospital
ities, as a portion of her citizens, we
welcome you to our homes and to our
HEARTS."
Washing Silver Ware. It seems that
housekeepers who wash their silver ware
with soao and water, as the common
practiceis, do not know what they are!
about. The proprietor of one of the old-;
est silver establishment in the city of'
Philadelphia, sav s that"h)ii3fckeepkrs ru
in their siivtr by washing it in o;ii . - uds;
it makes it look like pewter. Never put
a particle ofaoap about your silver; then
it will retain its original lustre. When
it wants polish take a piece of soft leath-
H find whi'inc. ar.4 t i t Lrf I.
VALUABLE RECEIPTS.
One cup of sugar, one of buttermilk,
two ounces of butter, one teaspoonful of
saleratus, one essence of lemmon; stir
in flour till quite stiff; beat the mixture
well before baking. This is the way to
make a cheap and a very delicious cake.
One pint of bread sponge, one cup of
sugar, ono of butter, three eggs, one table
apoon of saleratus; spice to tho taste.
Mix thoroughly, but riot very stiff, and
bake when light. This makes a splendid
loaf cake, and to add to its delicacy put
in some raisins.
Nd under crust should be made to ap
ple or any fruit pie. It is always heavy
and not fit to eat. Place a narrow rim of
paste around the edge of the plate, and
fill with the fruit either raw or stewed, and
cover it. The juices will be retained
much better, and it will save a sight of but
ter and flour, which is no trifling consid
eration in these days, and is ofmore con
sequence, save dyspepsia, which costs
more. After cutting, they are taken out
with a spoon.
Two gallons of ginger beer may be
made as follows; Put two gallons of cold
water into a pot upon the fire; add to it
two ounces of ginger bruised, and two
pounds of white or brown sugar. Let all
this come to the boil, and continue boiling
for half on hour. Then skim the liquor,
and pour it into ajar or tub, along With
one sliced lemmon, and half an ounce of
cream of tartar. When nearly cold, put
in a teaspoonful of yeast to cause the liq
uor to work. The beer is now made; and
after it has worked for two days, strain it
and bottle it for use. Tie the corks down
firmly.
Take pure cider made frorri sound ripe
apples as it runs from the press. Put 60
pounds of common brown sugar into 15
gallons of the cider, and let it dissolve;
then put the mixture into a clean barrel,
and fill the barrel up to within two gal
lons of being full with clean cider: put
the cask in a cool place, leaving the
bung out forty-eight hoiirs; then put in
the bung, with a small vent, until fermen
tation wholly ceases, and bung up tight,
and in one year tho wine will be fit for
use. This wine requires no raking, the
longer it stands on the lees the better.
One cup of butter, two of sugar, two
eggs, one teasp'oonful of saleratus dis
solved in two teaspoons of milk, makes
art excellent cookie.
The following Democratic papers have
abandoned Buchanan during the last
week :
Tho Portland Expositor, a leading ad
vocate of the Democratic cause in Maiue,
last year, now supports Fiemont.
The Rockford, Illinois, Democrat, al
ways an old lino Democratic paper, has
hoisted the name of Fremont.
Tho New Orleans Deutsche Zeitung, a
German paper, with the largest circula
tion in the Southern States, goes for Fre
mont and Dayton. The Louisville. An
zeiger, German, had the Buchanan flag
hoisted, but has taken it down.
The "Anzeiger des Nordens," the Ger
man paper published in Boston o paper
which has heretofore supported the Pierce
administration has declared against the
Buchanier ticket, and places the names
of Fremont and Dayton at the head of
its columns.
The Courier, e German paper publish
ed at Cleveland, Ohio, for the benefit of
the Buchaniers, having stopped for tho
want of breath, the Cincinnati Volks
freund, is now the only German daily in
Ohio that swears by 3uchsnan.
In Galoa, Illinois, a new Fremont pa
per has just appeared in the Swedish
language. There are now 100,000 Swade
in the Northwest, and this is their first
political paper.
This is the way the Northern and the
foicign Democrats support Buchanan.
He may well exclaim with old Falstaff.
"A plague on such backin ! "
Boil (ice until it i 33ft, tf.i .ih wa.-iu
ii, jKc it iiito cakt j i r fLt t!; vi'
- these balls into a lenten egg. on J the;,
! roll thein into Indian meal till thorough!)
coated. This done, fry th'-ui in lard,
which is better than butter for t.Vs pur
pose. Serve them with ta.cr, or with
, u:t.-r 'r Tmn and n;sr.
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