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war must go on until there is a drop of 
blood drawn by the sword for every one 
that has been drawn by the slave driver's 
lash, and an amount of money expended 
•equal in value to the two hundred years of 
uninterrupted toil of the slaves, yet we 
must say ‘the Lord is true and righteous 
altogether.' And if a calamity shall come 
to this nation that will cause a drop of 
blood to be shed for every one caused to be 
shed by alcoholic drinks and a tear for 
every one that has been shed on account of 
dissipation and drunkenness, Oh, my God: 
{I say it reverently,) what rivers of blood 
and oceans of tears would be shed. And 
for all this the nation might be compelled 
to say, ‘‘yet the Lord is true and righteous 
altogether.” —The Lever. 
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WALL’S CHANGE POTATO. 
From American Rural Home, Rochester, N. Y. 
We have been aware for some years past 
that our friend Lyman Wall, of Webster, 
late Prohibition candidate for Assembly 
from the eastern district of Monroe county, 
has been planting potato seed with the 
view of obtaining improvements in varie¬ 
ties, and that he has been remarkably suc¬ 
cessful. His greatest success is the one he 
calls ‘‘Walls Orange” which has been 
.somewhat disseminated during the last 
year. 
This potato has not quite the ideal form, 
being rather too broad in proportion to its 
length, of an oblong form, and considera¬ 
bly flattened. Its transverse diameter, one 
way, is from fifty to one hundred per cent, 
greater than the other. This flatness may 
facilitate baking them, but hardly contrib¬ 
utes to its beauty. Neither has it the ideal 
color of skin in a potato. We think ail 
will agree that white is the preferable color 
in the skin of the tuber, although many of 
the beot and most popular potatoes th t 
this country has ever produced, deviated 
from white: notably among these were the 
Long Pinkeye, Mercer, Peachblow, and 
Early Rose. The Lady Finger and the 
Fluke most nearly realized the ideal form 
and color in potatoes, and we might say, the 
ideal in quality, but in productiveness they 
is a yellowish brown tinge, hardly enough 
to call it a color. 
When you come to the prime test of a 
potato, the characteristic chiefly sought in 
the potnme tei'ra, the one for which it is 
grown and has become such an important 
article of diet and commerce in the temper¬ 
ate zones of the earth, namely, its flesh, 
there you find Wall's Orange superior. It 
cooks up very white, dry, mealy, of sup- 
stantial texture, and with a little better 
flavor, we think, than any of the new varie¬ 
ties we have recently partaken of. We 
have been using them steadily for several 
days, and formed our conclusion deliber¬ 
ately. 
But the fact that it is a potato of the best 
quality is not, alone, sufficient to commend 
its general adoption. The Long Pinkeye, 
the Mercer, the Lady Finger, the Fluke and 
the Peachblow all excelled in this charac¬ 
teristic. yet we could not now advise our 
readers to plant them lor profit. At least 
two of them, perhaps three, were never 
profitable to grow for market, the yield 
was so small and uncertain. We are not 
quite certain as to the productiveness of 
Wall's Orange, but are under the impression 
that it has been very productive with Mr. 
Wall. If it proves generally so, that will 
be another very favorable characteristic. 
There is another characteristic that some 
varieties seem to possess in much greater 
degree than others, and that is vigor; a 
quality that enables them to grow under 
difficulties, to produce on poor land, under 
neglect, in very dry or otherwise unfavor¬ 
able seasons. Some varieties of grain, as 
well as vegetables will produce largely 
when everything is favorable; soil rich and 
mellow, seasons favorable, &c., but do 
nothing under adverse conditions. W e 
consider this quality of vigor, one of the 
greatest recommendations of the Clawson 
variety of wheat. There are other varieties 
that will yield as many bushels when every¬ 
thing conspires to favor success, but ill ad¬ 
verse seasons 'prove very unprofitable. 
Whether the potato under consideration 
will prove vigorous in constitution, persist¬ 
ent, retaining its good characteristics 
through many years, time only will deter¬ 
mine. All we can say at present is, that it 
appears very promising. 
