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THE WINCHESTER WEEKLY APPEAL.
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LOCAL INTERESTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AGRICULTURE, MECHANISM, EDUCATIONINDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS
VOLUME 1.
WINCHESTER, TENN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 1G, 185G.
NUMBER 27.
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ntoDUCTs or the states.
Wheat, onts, rye, Indian corn, potatoes,
hay and tobacco, are raised in every State
and territory in iho Union.
Barley raised in nil except Louisiana.
Buckwheat raised in all except Louis
iana and Florida.
New England, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio and Wis
consin do not raise rice.
Tho States that do not raise rice, to
gether with Maryland, Dclewaro and In-
diana, do not raise cotton.
Every State and territory except Iowa
raises silk.
Every State except Delewarc makes su
gar. New York raises tho most barley, viz:
1,802,282 bushels.
New York raises the most potatoes, viz:
27,907,55i bushels.
New York raises the rffost hay, viz: 4,
595,030 tons.
Ohio raises tho most wheat, viz: 10,
780,105 bushels.
Pennsylvania raises the most rye, viz:
8,429,229 bushels.
Pennsylvania raises the most buck
wheat, viz: 0,400,508 bushels.
Tennessee raises tho most corn, viz
07,738,447 bushel's.
Virginia raises the most flax hemp, viz:
31,720 lbs.
Kentucky raises the most tobacco, viz:
12,322,543 lbs.
Georgia raises tho most cotton, viz:
148,185,129 lbs.
South Carolina raises the most rice,
viz: 07.802,207- lbs.
Unless we wish to bo deemed fantas
tical, we must clothe our mind3 as we do
our bodies, after the fashion in vogue.
Thorc's a great deal moro Gospel to
the poor in a loaf of bread, and n cheer
ful word of sympathy, than a dozen dry
sermons.
There is a old maid out West so
tough and wtinklod, that they use her
forehead to grate pjilmcgs on.
He is the best accountant who can cast'
up correctly tho sum of his own error:'
The proprietors of tho New York Iter
aid. have made arrangement with
Messrs . Hoe & Co., to construct for them,
2 Ten-cylinder presses, at a cost of sixty
thousand dollars, which are expected to
print one hundrod and fifty thousand Her
aids in time to distribute them by the
early trains and mails, and serve subscri
hers through the city before 7 o'clock
every morning.
It is recorded on good authority that
a Frenchman, learning English and anx
ious to say something very striking, in
parting from the lady of his heart, care
fully consulting his dictionary, aud there
finding that 'to pickle,' meant 'to pro
serve,' bid her farewell with tho emphat
ic exclamation: "May Haven pickle
yoa
The Art of Printing was denounced by
priests a magic and doubtless they fore
saw that it was magic that would destroy
their own divine necromancy, which
enabled them so well to lay the human
intellect under enchantment.
A pious Scotch parson being ashed by
a friend, during his last illness, whether
he thought himself dying, answered:
"Really, friend, I cafe not whether I
am or not; for if I die, I shall bo with
God if I live, he will be with me."
A member of the North Carolina Leg
islature made a decidedly good hit a short
timo ago. A bill was pending which
Imposed a fine for selling liquor to free
negroes, to which he objected on the
ground that "such a law would make
them raoro decent than whites."
"Bob, you say you believe most of dis
eases ara contagious. How long have
you entertained such notions?"
"Ever since I sat along side of a blue
eed girl and caught the palpitatation of
the heart"
A scorpion, when he finds himself en
closed and no way left to escape, will
turn his head around, and sting himself
through the head: and it is remarkable
that this is tho only animal in tho crea
tion, man excepted, that can be made to
THE WOKK1XU BEE.
It is interesting and amusing sometimes
to watch the motions of a working bee in
itsbusy pursuit after tho two things which
constitute tho troasuro tho pollen and
the honey. Tho visit which it pays to
each lower is of short duration, and, ac
cording to our experience, it invariably
helps itself to pollen first, and to honey,
if there bo any, which is not always the
case, afterward. Honey, indcod, in the
proper senso of tho word, it docs not get
at all from tho flowers; but it sucks a
sweet fluid, which is after elaborated into
honey in its own stomach, and thence ro
gurgitated into the waxen cells of tho
hive. We may add, moreover, that the
bee does not collect llio wax, as some sup
pose; the wax being nothing more than n
secretion from its own body, a provision of
nature for the exigencies of its architec
ture. Farmer and Mechanic.
From tho Niishvillo Union ami American.
l'UBlSHEl) BY HEQUEST.
Upon the soul when, "stricken, .smit
ten of God and afllictcd," words of con
solution and sympathy, from those who
have suffered, full soft as "dew upon
Mount Hermon." Tlio following lines,
written by my friend Mrs. E., of Win
chester, express so perfectly my feelings,
that all must be impressed by their appli
cability, s. a. c.
A LAIWUXT.
Tho wind seems wafiing dirgc-noles by,
The "tears of twilight" fall,
And darkness soon will throw o'er earth,
lis dim dim and fearful pall.
But darkness, deeper, heavier far,
Than e'er night's shadows east,
Steals o'er the crushed and aching heart
That retrospects tho past.
The shrinking which the spirit feels
Tho gloom, the sickening dread
When in our wild despair, we sock
Communion with tho dead
Tho titter hopelessness to think
That, they, so worshipped hero,
Lie pulseless, passionless, whi'st wo
Lament, deplore, and fear.
Shade of my Husband! did 1 know
That thou wcrt living now;
Could 1 but know the winds of Heaven
Hayed lightly on thy brow;
Could I but think the glorious mil
Was gazed upon by thee,
I'd love its beams, Iho' now they seem
Mockery to misery.
Did'ut thou but live, pain, penury,
And woe wero naught to me
I'd bo content, although thy form
I never moro might sec;
I'd weep my grief to stillness then
I'd hush each fond regret
I'd e'en, if needful, strive to teach
My spirit to forget.
Vain was thy lofty genius; vain
Youth, hope, and love, and pride;
Vain were thy dreams of bright renown
To stem life's stormy tide.
Oh! how I loved thee, dear one; would
I could have died to save,
To guard thee from misfortune, caic,
And from an early grave!
TIIOU'LT COME ISO MOKE.
tPOJC THE SAME OCCASION BV MBl. B.
Our loved homo is desolate,
Our household gods all broken iie;
The voice of joy is silent, hushed
Alono in wretchedness I sigh.
The world's a flowcrless wilderness
My every dream of hope is o'er,
My brain is maddened when I feel
Tliou'ltcoinono more; thou'lt come no more! i
I've wailed at the noontide hour,
I've watched to sec thy steps of pride,
I've hushed my breath thy voice to bear,
And fancied thou wcrt by my side;
And when the "tcors of twilight" fall
Another day of conflict o'er,
I placo thy chair O! can it bo
Thou'lt come no more; t hou It come no morel
And when tho morn in splendor breaks
Thy little boy upon thy knee,
I hcaf thee soothe his childish grief,
And kindly join his childish glee.
Oil when I saw thy look of love,
And marked the light thy features wore,
I worshipped thee; then can it bo
Thou'lt come no more; thou'lt come no moro!
Love's silver Lyre is scattered now,
Hope's star hath set in endless night;
My future, oh! 'tis torn away
Extinguished is my spirit's light.
True, Heaven's soft harps the oul can calm
True, there is rest when lifo is o'er,
But I must suffer on; alas!
Thou'lt come no more; thou'lt come no more!
When the day "break?" whnt becomes
of the fragment?
A WIFE IN TKOSJI2LI'.
"Pray tell me, my dour, what is tho
cause of these tears?"
"O! such disgrucc! I havo opened one
of your letters supposing it to bo address
ed to myself. Certainly it looked moro
like Mrs. than Mr."
"Isthutajl? What harm can thero
bo in a wifo opening her husband's let
ters?" "But tho contents; such a disgrace!"
"What! lias any one dared to writo mo
a letter unfit lor my wife to read?"
"Oh, no. It is couched in tho most
chaste language. But tho disgrace!"
The husband eargorly caught up tho let
ter ami commenced reading tho instru
ment that had been the means of giving
his wife so much trouble.
Reader, you couldn't gucso the cau.se
in a coon's age. It was no other than a
bill from tho printer for nine years' sub-
criplion.
Tho most sensible woman in nil crea
tion! hue oii::iit to bo a dm;'-to I nnicm-
jcr of the craft.
If n spoonful of yeast will raise fifty
cents worth of flour, how much will it take
i raise funds enough to buy another bar-
el? Answer to bo handed in over the
eft.
An exchange understands that aregis
ter has been kept at tho workhouse, in
one of our principal cities, of tho politi
cal preference of those who havo been com
mitted since the Cincinnati nominations
were made. The following is the result
thus far:
Buchanan, 180
Fillmore, 9
This is certainly a crumb ofgrcat com
fort to our despairing democratic friends!
A despatch states that the Democrats
of Columbus, Ohio, have bolted Buchan
an and joined the Americans.
Liuiit in Tin: South. Tho Pensncola
(Florida Gazatto has tust raised at its
v
masthead tho name of Fillmore, and says
it intends to do zealous battle in the good
cause. It has hitherto been neutral. And
thus progresses this great popular revolu
tion against corrupt dynasties and selfish
ilema?0!;iies, and in hehall oi tho Consti
tution and tho Union! Heaven Fpccdthc
glorious work! 0 yo poor deluded An-
ties, get out of the way, or the Fillmore
ball will run over you!
Still tut. y come! Men after men,
and paper after paper arc rallying to the
battle field to fight for Fillmore and Don-
elson. We notice that tho Baltimore
Clipper, which had been a neutral paper,
flings the Fillmore and Donelson flog to
the breeze. Hurrah for the Union, Fill
more and Donelson.
The following is tho last paragraph of
the letter of Moj. Donelson, accepting
iho nomination tendered him by the A -
merican party of Georgia. Wo have not
room for tho letter complete, but publish
this much for tho special benefit of our
democratic friends.
"But it is not proper for mc to enter
into a discussion of the cause which have
constituted us, without reference to our
antecedents as Whig3 or Democrats, a
new paity. I refer to them only in con
nection with the patriotic declaration of
principles made by the Convention at1
Macon, in order that you may see my
complete concurrence with them, and
how crcat is my appreciation of the lion-
or you have conferred upon mc by an as -
sociatiou of my name with that of Mr.
Fillmore in the noble effort to check tho
excesses of parly spirit, and effect a refor-
mi i Inn I! imnni-trint as that of 1798 ond.
1 ... . .
IPfiO. I once c h creat miusticc to this
;n,,f nntrlnf nn,1 stntpsmnn. hv linl.l-
in-him responsible for what I consider -
.i .ii.mrnnmo thn Wl.;?nartv of
, ,.
ttlO iOrtll 11110 a beiuuii.u uypuMiiuu io
.i..:i... ,r il, Sr.ii.l.: hut when T nw!
him rise superior to such local prejudices,
and prefer tho interests ofthc whole coun
try to that of tho section in which he hap
pened to be born, I made all the amend
in my power to offer, and declared public
ly, long before I ever knew ofthc Amer
ican parly, that ho ought to be called
again by tho united voice of the people to
tho chair of the Chief Magistracy.
Turn your back upon the man who al
ways has many secrets to ttll you. You
mnv know that the mot of ibcm aro lies.
THE UNION WACOM.
AM "WAIT Foil THIS WAGON."
Thoro's right and wrong in parties,
And tho right is on our side,
So we'll mount tho wagon, boys,
And lot tho nation ridel
Tho Union ia our wagon,
And tho People aro its springs
And every truo American
For Millard Fillmore sings
Wait for tho wagon, etc.
Tho wngon is a noble one,
'Twns made in '7G
'Twos driven by George Washington
Through stormy politics.
With western oak and eastern pine,
Jlnd northern ash 'tisbouuO,
PalmCta, Cypress, Cotton-wood,
In spokes and wheels aro found.
Wait for tho wagon, etc.
Tho iMill-bny of tho Slashes, boys,
Our gallant Henry Clay,
Once sat within thia wagor,
As we're sitting hero to-day.
No drove the road of Compromise,
Jly constitution charts,
And held I ho reins of Union
All around tho people's hearts.
Then, Wait for the wagon, etc.
In this, our glorious wagon,
With tho nation at his side,
Through all the troubled elements
Our Jactson onco did ride.
And now wo keep his memory green
And Imil his nolle name;
For Ajcdkew Jackson' Donf.lsox
A scat with us may claim.
Wait for the wagon, etc.
When Webster shook the friendly hand
With noble-souled Culhoun,
'Twos hero, upon our wngon box,
They sat in close commune.
Our Millard drove tho wagin, then,
And Clay was at his side,
And never did the notion take
A safer Union-ride!
Then, Wait for the wagon, etc.
We mL's those noble ones of old
The fi lends of ;oMth and North
W
!y met disunion's threat,
Which trailers uttered forth.
But We lister's friends in Clmatc wo sec,
And Crittenden was Clay's,
kro Massachusetts and Kenluck
Still join in Fillmore's praise.
Then, Wait for tho wagon, etc.
Tho Lowell factory girls have sent
."Bully Brooks," as the Northern people
snccringly call him, thirty pieces of silver
and a rope. In their address to him they
say:
"A whole army of truo women, here,
are spinning the threads and watching the
flying shuttles that shall ere long-, as we
trust, weave the web of Freedom long and
wide enough for the windingshect of that
attroeious system, American slavery."
Poor Ilttlo fools! Wonder where they
would get cotton to weave anything of,
if the Southern slave did not make it for
them? Their very bread depends upon
Southern slavery. Memphis Eagle.
Let the people of the South remember
that Millard Fillmore did not leave a sin
gle Frcesoilcr in office. And let them
remember also that Franklin Pierce, be
sides appointing numerous Frccsoilcr3 to
office himself, cut off Branson's head bo
cause he refused to appoint Freosoilcrs
under him.
State elections will be held in Georgia
and Florida the first Monday in October,
ond on the second Tuesday of October,
in Pennsylvania, Ohio ond Indiana. On
' the first Tuesday in November the same
day as the Presidential cloction in New
York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Win-
ois and Michigan
1
tl- r:.,: l."" n Into ni
"i.i.i..an
Tuesday last, deliberately
i readers that Herbert of California, who
killed the Irish
J Knmv Nothinsr." And this, too, in the
o
face of the fact ofHerbert oeing a dele
gate to the Cincinnati Convention which
nominated Buchanan. A specimen of
the truthfulness ofthc Foreign press.
A woman lately obtained a divorce
from husband because he had a bald
hen 1, which he concealed by a wig durin
the period of urging his matrimonial suit
and the consumation of tho bargain. It
wa3 undoubtedly a bald assumption on her
part, and wo may, wo think, congralu
lata the man on his hair-breadth cscopo
from a miserable fate.
CEKMAN MEETING IN CHICAGO.
(
Tho Germans of Chicago havo held a
public meeting. Tho following resolu
tions wero adopted. Ah, Democracy, you
need not deny that tho Germans aro Abo
litionists tolhocoro. Wo quote from the
Chicago Democrat:
Resolved, That John C. Fremont, of
of California, ought to bo tho next Pres
ident, and Wm. L. Dayton, of New. Jer
sey, tho next Vice President.
Besolvcd, That what ought to bo will
be, if tho Germans of the Union, and es
pecially tho Germans of Illinois, do their
duty.
Re .solved that Republican Clubs will
furnish the Germans tho best opportuni
ty of doing their duty.
Resolved, That tho Germans of Chica
go will therefore form Clubs on the North,
South and West sides, largo and com
prehensive enough to unito all opponents
of tho present corrupt and freedom-betraying
administration, who hold with
the Declaration of Independence, that all
men arc endowod with certain iuulicna
bio rights, among which is especially
"liberty," who deny to any majority tho
right of robbing the minority of their free
dom and oppressing them with slavery,
in short all those whoso motto is Free
Speeeh, Free Press, Free Soil, Free La
bor, and Free and Equal Men.
Patients who take lobelia, get into
what is called the "alarm state." Tho
above resolutions throw lobelia into the
shade.
Yankee Doodle. At a 4th of July
dinner in Boston, tho following toast was
offered:
"Yankee Doodle Tho tuno to which
our fathers marched to victory. May
their sons, as they commemorate Yankee
Doodlo-doo, never forget what Yankee
Doodle did!"
The Lynchburg Republican of a late
late says:
"We have private information to the
cft'oct that the United States Military Asy
lum, at Ilarrodsburg, Kentucky, wasburn-
cd down Inst Sunday. This is ono of the
asylums the site of which was selected by
Gen. Scott, in 1S52. under a special com
mission of the Government. Tho cost
was $100,000. The firo was communi
cated accidentally."
The toothache may be cured by hold-
in z in the hand a certain root the root
of the tooth. Call on Dr. Baud.
A witty druggist, on a cold night last
winter, was awakened by a terrible rap
ping at tho door. Going down ho found
a poor devil who wonted to purchase a
lose of salts. The shop was entered, the
lose prepared, and a half dimo put in the
drawer.
"How much did you make by that op-
rt.. , I,- . (V 1 . 1 l. -.1.
erationi astieu ins who as no jui uul-h
in bed.
"Four cents," was tho reply.
"A shame it is," returned his irritated
dame, "for a man to disturb your rest just
for a dose of salts."
"Recollect, my love," said the druggist,
"that one dose of salts will disturb the
man s rest more man h iuis mme, mm
.i i . i
reflect that theso little inconveniences al
ways work W 'U in time."
JtDAS and Fremont. The Black Re
publican papers ore busy in quoting com
pliments paid Fremont by such men as
s Crittendcr and Cass. Ihcro is no rea
ct! to doubt that Judas was well thought
of by the Apostle until ho sold himself
and betrayed Christ. Judas is believed
to have had a hang-dog look, and every
one who has seen Fremont know3 he has
tho combined look of forty egg-sucking,
sheep-killing, kitchen-robing hounds.
The election of ;uch a man to the Presi
dency would set all the pirates and land
robbresintho United States in motion,
and all the dogs yelping ond Ieopinfrom
their kennels.
Tho Wilmington North Carolina Ihr
aid, in allusion to Mr. Fillmore's pros,
prospects, soys:
The scene-! of 1810 arc about to bo re
enacted in tho country. Tho same as
toi'ishing uprising of popular sentiment
the same earnest, invinciblo desiro for
a chango in the administration of public
affairs the samo determination to rescue
tho government from tho evil influences
that surround it, is beginning thus ear
ly in the campaign to bo apparent.
1'JtESEUVING riCUJT.
Strawberries, raspberries, blackber
ries, currants, peaches, in fact any fruit
may preserved in air-tight bottles, so as
to retain its natural flavor, with but lit
tle labor or expense. The following is
an excellent mode:
"Fill tho bottles quito full with fruit
not quite ripe; place them, with the corks
put lightly into them, in a copper with
cold water up to tho necks, and gradual
ly raise the temperature of the water to
100 degrees, and not exceoding 170 de
grees Fohr. Keep them at this temper
ature half an hour; then take each out
separately, and fill it up with boiling wa
ter from a kettle to within an inch of tho
cork, drivoin the cork firmly, tio it over
and dip it it immediately into bottle wax,
and lay the bottlcdown its side, to keop'
tho cork nlwayS damp. To prevent fer
mentation, turn each bottle halt round
twico or thrico a week fof two or three
weeks; after that, they will need no farth
er enro. The corks should be soaked ill
water two or threo days before being;
used."
Another mode is to tio the corks be
fore putting the botllc3 in the water.
Tho heat expels the air from the fruit.
As soon as tho bottles arc cool enough;
apply the sealing wax. The secret con
sists in exhausting tho air from the bot
tles, and making tho corks air-tight.
A lady in a neighboring town, who had
risen rapidly from the kitchon to gracd
the head of her master's table, was opo
day entertaining a large party, when th
conversation happened to flag, qne of the
guests remarked,
"Awful pause!"
"And what's your business with my
awful paws?" in wrath retorted the land
lady; "if you had scrubbed tho house as
long as I hae done, your paws would nao
hac a been sao bosnio and while as they
ore."
The thread of conv eisation is sustained
amongst several persons by each kHOW-
ing when to take a stick in timo.
Woman's Will. Dip the Pacific o
cean dry with a teaspoon; twist your heel
into tho toe of your boot; mako postmas
ters do their duty, and subscribers pay
the printer; send up fishing hooks in a
balloon and fish for stars when the rain
is coming down like the cateract of Ni
agara, remember where you left your um
brella; choke a mosquito with"a brickbat;
in short, prove all things hetoforo consid
ered impossible, but never attempt to coax
a woman to say she will when she ha9
made up her mind to say sho won't.
In tho debate upon tho Panama Mis
sion, James Buchanan took strong ground
against the Monroe doctrine. The Cin
cinnati platform tipon which ho now pro
fesses to stand endorses tho Monroe doc
trine, and p. little more so.
Fillmore flags aro floating all over
Massachusetts. One recently unfurled,
measures over sixty feet iii length.
A Beautiful FiucnE. Lifo is like a
fountain, fed by a thousand streams, that
perish if one bo dried. It is a silver
cord twisted with a thousand strings, that
part assundcr if one bo broken. Thought
less mortals are surrounded by innumera
ble dangers, which mako it much moro
strange that they escape so long, thari
that they almost all perish suddenly at
last. We ore encompassed with acci
dents every day, to crush tho decaying
tenements we inhabit The seeds of dis
ease are planted in our constitution by
nature. The earth orfd atmosphere
whence we draw tho breath of life, are
impregnated with death, health is made
to operate its own destruction. The focd
that nourishes it contains the eletrfcnt3
of decay; the soul that animates it by
vivifying first, tends to wear it out by his
own action; death lurks in ambush along
the path. Notwithstanding this truth is
so palpably confirmed by the daily exam
ple before our eyes, how Utile did we lay
it at henii! Vo see our friends and
nci'-'hbors die, but how seldom does it oc
cur to our thoughts that our knell may
give the next warning to the world.
Greenwood.
A statute of Washing has been madri
from sheet copper by a copprsmith of
New York city, wij a hammer. A taw
specimen of Ameif -an geniu.
.i.
commit suicide.
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