Indiana American, Volume 19, Number 23, Brookville, Franklin County, 30 May 1851 — Page 1

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Mo OUR COUNTRY OUR COUNTRY'S INTEREST? AT OCR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS clAUKSOX. RY C. PBIIOOKVILLE, INDIANA. FRIDAY, MAY SO, 1851. VOL XIX NO. 23.

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Greeley s letters from Europe.

(En?-) Monday, April , iroi.

Th ' ..,t nrosoect of discomfort pre -

lat-door . rood steamship

hiliEf i"1 , . jl noon on the

fcallic 101 .,llIariv calculated to in-

fli . ,:,:t.hc roodlv number who

' f , mAntti, ftf tenet I A

ir(f mm ' ' , . . .

foiBriJ. however, appealed for sou t . thaTT cn Inn a an tn t.i-

sheltered us on the east, moisted

F .7:.."fH. 'anoint West of North'-

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hi, hours of labor; In bad weather he may have' Capt. Comstock's commandership in my eves no hours nf Mat nliiAn 01 13 j .... 1 J "

. . .-. "tiaicici, oiiuuiu no una

such, he flings himself into his bunk for a few hours in his wet clothes, and turns out smoking like a coal-pit at the next summons to duty, to be drenched afresh in the cold effusions of sea and sky and so on. An old sea-captain assured me that his crew were sometimes in wet clothing throughout an Atlantic voyage. Our weather was certainly bud, though not the worst. We started on our course, after leaving Sandy Hook, in the teeth of a NorlhEaster, and it clung to us like a brother. It va

ried

was that, though always on the alert and giving direction to every movement, he did need to command half so much nor to make himself anything like so conspicuous as an ordinary man would. I w lllingly believe that some share o f the merit of this is due to the admirable qualities of his assistants, especially Lieuts. Duncan and Hunter, of the U. P. Navy. In the way of food and attendance, nothing desirable was wanting but Health and Appetite. Four meals per day were regularly provided

at f, ij, 4 and 7 o'clock resDectivelv trhi it.

owsome thirty-six to forty-

nce they very,

1- ..v ...I torm. n

iorui- . , ,

ght hoars c'.iM' 5inl 113 ,urLC' nuu "uu,u

oonEiTep'f''""--f .. .. .I Rimm-tr at nn time eouil-

Yhert- 1 Df-'ie - I . . . ..... n-hih n hrief exnerienee

I - cnal!v to confute. Before we

karscec - .

tSlipS!5eJCey Island, it was abundantly i .i . ... rPiioniniT hrep7e hailed cirect-

ertjiaOJuu. e. r frcraLaViwr and the icebergs beyond, and ,jDo.s'fehanSing its quarters. By the

at we fa'r'y outoiueo! bandy hook we J'.. n.;ih ad n nnnm fnrtjlhle and da-

fc-ere strcB"U8 -

liipsj a cross-sea as naa ever euiargeu my

W nautical experience, uu iiiumtuuiw

tfieneit hour the high resolves, the valorous

dances of the scores who had embarked in

e settled determination that they would not

te sea-sick.had been exenangea tor pauui laces 3d hearic bosoms- Of our two hundred pas-

Dfers, possib'y one-half were able to face the

cner-table at 4 F. M.; less than one-tonrtfi

Haltered to sapper at ,; while a stern butscan-

kr reraaant perhaps twenty in all answered

tsommons to breakfast next morning. Iis not in any one o f these categories. So -gssl c:s able, I walked the deck and sought occaty mv eyes, my limbs, my brain, with

j"a iiuiiu-L.aai. r.aRi nnin. h aat . n'Aiii., rnn..i.i ..... .

- - ..uui.i i"i.'uij compare wun ttiose provided South-East and occas,onally condescended to at any but the very first Hotels; and ,ome of blow a little from nearly North or nearly South, the dinners-that of the last Sunday especially

"e.-ou.arsoivesieny or semi- -would have done credifto the Astor or Irving W esterly wind throughout the passage. There Of course I state this with the reservation that may have been two days in all, though I think the best water and the best milk that can be had not. m which some of the principal sails could at sea are to me unpalatable, and that, even be made to draw; but they were necessarily set . when I can and must eat under a deck, it is a so sharply at angles with the ship as to do little! penance to do so. But these drawbacks are

good. Usually, one or two try sails were all Ocean's fault, or mine, not the Baltic's. Many the canvass.displayed, an they rather served to j of the passengers ate their four meals regularlv steady the ship than to aid her progress; while after the first davout, with abundant relish - and for days together, stripped to her naked spars, ' one young New Yorker added a fifth, by taking she was compelled to push her bowsprit into ' a supper at ten each night with a capital appethe w.nd-s very eye by the force of her engines tite, arter doing full juslice to the four regular ' alone. And that wind, though no hurricane, t mals. If he could only patent his digestion had a will of its own; while the waves, rolled j and warrant it, ha might turn his back on merperpe'.ually against her bow by so long a sue- chandize evermore.

cession of easterly winds, were a decided impe- j The attendance on the sick was the best feadiment to easterly progress. I doubt whether ( ture nf all. Aside from the constant and kind there is another steamship which could have assiduity of Dr. Crarv, the natienca and wMrh-

FUN AND FANCY.

A O Ion in of t orn fort. A friend tells that some dozen or fifteen years ago, when he had the melancholy duty to stand behind the counter, in a country store, dealing out the best selected assortment west of Albany, he was once brought very suddenly to a stateof unutterable wonderment. A youthful and pretty women, robed in "dead black," approached him and wished to look at his'"Gleam of Comfort." "At what, madam?" said he, puzzled, confounded, and confused at what appeared to him a most singular request. 1 "Gleam of Comrort, young man; havn't you

any, or don't you know what It is?" replied the lady.

"Yes, ma'am, most likely we have it. What

is it like? is it dry goodB or groceries, ma'am?" "Dry goods or groceries!" echoed the lady,

looking at our troubled friend in a way that

made him feel decidedly uncomfortable. It is mourning calico of the second grade, for wid

ows of three weeks. It is well known, sir.

with us, in the city. I'm astonished at your ignorance. The frightened young man could only stammer out that "they hadn't any of that particular kind of calico." Detroit Adv.

made the passage safely and without extra effort in less time lhau the Baltic did. Our weather was not all bad, though we had

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miness wun whicli the sick were nursed and tended, their wants sought out, their wishes an

ticipated, wns remarkable. Many had three

no thoroughly fair day no day entirely free ; meals per day served to them separately in their f :.. I I. !. J .1 ; ., .

irom ram ui.a m .. ucvk oenns or on deck , and even at unseasonable throughout. In fact, the spray often kept them ; hours, and often had special delicacies provided

lliorougmy crencnea, especially an, wnen mere tor them, without a demur or

was no rain

twelve davs we had some hour or more of semi-

sunshiue either at morning

The Wife. BT MRS. ANNE T. PINNIES. "She flung her white arms around him Thou art all that this poor heart can cling to." I could have stemm'd misfortune's tide, And borne the rich one's sneer, Have braved the haughty glance of pride, Nor shed a single tearr I could have smiled on every blow From Life's full quiver thrown, While I might gaze on thee, and know I should not be 'alone.' 1 could I think I could have brook'd, E'en for a time, that thou Upon my fading face had'st look'd With less of love than now; For then I should at least have felt The sweet hope still my own,

To win thee back, and, whilst I dwelt On earth, not be 'alone. But thus to see, from day to day, Thy brigtening eye and cheek, And watch thy life-sands waste away, Unnumbered, slowly, meek; To meet thy smiles of tenderness, ' And catch the feeble tone

Of kindness, ever breathed to bless, And feel I'll be 'alone.'

THE FARMER.

A I'rophrlr... r r-. . . c ...

rutting and enrinc liar. LI "" ol "an-ock county

As the lime for harvesting ems. I. wi. 1 Pagsed ,hrooUh his city, accompanied bv

approaching, it may be proper to mnke a few ! h" I,U!,h!,nd a few day "P. her way to the remarks in regard to the time of cutting and Th'S g8Ve 8 very br,Vf h'i0TJ f 1'"

the nwhod of curing it. Our agricultural' friends know that cattle if properly sheltered 1

life. She was born and raised in the interior of Vermont. She had no education whatever.

and fed on good hay through the winter wil ' resided about thirty years in and about thrive, ancHvitirthe addition of a little grain' ! C'!,cinnafi- due course of time the "Spirit

will fatten, whereas if the hay Is bad, they will I 01 Uod ,old '""r 81,6 must prophesy" and with'

fall away or require a large quantity of graiu to

kep them is flesh. Of nil the cultivated grasses usually cut and cored for hay, so far as our experience goes, clover produces the most flesh, although blue-grass and timothy sre perhaps more productive of muscle, and better food for horses and draft oxen. But all grasses must be cut at a proper time to obtain the best quality ofhy. Every stalk, stem and leaf of grass is a chemical labratory in which different organic substances are combined, changes produce !, and new substances formed. After maturitv,

decay commences, and in time, the grasses are

resolved into their native substances

philosophy, as well as experience, points to the i

the holy inspiration she was taught to read and

write. Truly miraculous. But what is mora

i miraculous still, she wrote four weeks inces

santly, without food or sleep, at the end of which time she ceased to enjoy the holy influences, but was told that she must write agiiti. Three years from this time she was re-inspired and continued her writing until she had completed her work. This work is to be quartoeiz, and will contain 500 pages. She styles the work "A Memoir and Frophesy, written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God, um'er the character of Shiloh, or the weary sniTrrer who is

Hence I l brinJt "le ,rue,fS'11 of ,he hidden gospel to fal

len man.-- Mia also "comes under the light of

rtlortifirntion. Walking the other day op Third street, we overheard a conversation hetween a Mr. Jones aud a Mr. Brown, of which the following is the

winding up: I "Jones," said Brown, "I have been waiting i

To mark thy strength each hour decay, And yet thy hopes grow stronger, As, filled with heaven-ward trust, they Bay, "Earth may not ch !m thee longer;"

Nay, dearest, 'tis too much this heart

Must break, when thou art gone;

;:ej than the ea and its perturba- ight. The only gales of much account were

ii ,-t .

iiiiiuuiiiiniurur suikv loon. s

at all. During four or five of the j the re was no extra charge for this, it certaiuly

. u, ...u.c u, rc.n,- j surpassed any preconception on my part of

miauay or lowara steamship amenitv, I trust the

I

ns, ins auempi, nowever proveo. a signal 'are. By the time we were five miles off the

t.col. I was a decuied case; another hour laid

re prostrate; though I refused to leave the

!k-, at tit o'clock a friend, finding me recumeut ndhope',e in the smokers' room, persuafd and helped me to go below. I unbooted

and svraveci into my berth, which endured me

jperforce, for the next twenty-four hours. I

then aummoneii strength to crawl on deck, because, while I remained below, my sufferings ware barely less than while walking above, and

my recovery hopeless.

I shall not harrow np the souls nor the stom-

Isehiof landsmen , as yet reveling in blissful ig-

"..oraivt of its tortures, with any description of

sea-eickaesa. They will knovv'all in ample season; cr if not, so much the better. But naked

!B(ty requires a correction of the prevalent ror that this maUdy is necessarily transient

sjv.ssny overcome, fhouiands who imagine

ny hive been sea-sick oti seme River or Lske Sesmboat, or even dminga brief sleighride, nre

SBua,!y patting to sea with as little neeessity

rn-acy assuiTices to send them on a jaunt tcSisgara or the WhiU Mountains. They fpo they may very probably be 'qualmish'

far a few hours, but that (they fmcy) will but heihtealhf-neral enjoyment of the voyage. Now Hisquite true that any green sea-goer y ke eick for a few hours only ; he may not "ea te k at all. But the probability is very fir from this, especially when the voyage is undertaken in any other than one of the four sun-

- inoauis oi me year, ut every j Htndred who cross the Atlantic for the first tine, I am confident that two-thirds endure mere than they had done in all the five yet rs frtCKicj more than they would do dcring to montha' bar j labor as convicts in a State Friaen. Of onr two hundred, I think fifty did not seea healthy or real happy hour during the P8foe; while as many more were sufferers for "least half the time. The other hundred were

""inly Ocean's old acquaintances, and on that

!ont treated more kindly; bat many of these tl&d mm fet-tr.. I J

those of our first night off Long Island and our last before seeing land (Saturday,) when on coming into soundings off the coast of Ireland, we had a very decided blow and (the ship having become very light by the consumption of most of her coal,) the worst kind of a sea. It gave me my sickest hour, though not my worst day. Our dreariest days were Wednesday and Thursday, 23d and 24th, when we were little more than half way across. With the wind precisely ahead and very strong, the tkies black aud lowering, a pretty constant rain and a driving, blinding spray which drenched everything above the decks, themselves ankle deep in water,

I cannot well imagine how two hundred fellow-

passengers, driven down and kept down in the

cabins and state-rooms of a steamship, could well be treated to a more dismal prospect. I

thought the philosophy even of the card-players f,,cts give some idea of the Oceau's immensity

(who were by far the most industrious and l-ast j lu,t I think few can realize save by experiment

ever- moving

attendants received something more than their

wages for their arduous labors; they certainly deserved it. The notable incidents of our passage were very few. An iceberg was seen to the northward one morning about sunrise by those who were on deck at that hour; but it kept at a re

spectful distance and we thought the example

worthy of our imitation, I understand that the rising sun's rays on its surface produced a fine

effect. A eingle school of whales exhibited

their flukes Tor our edification so I heard. Several vessels were seen the first morning out

while we were in the Gulf Stream; one or two

from day to day, and of course a number as we

neared the entrance of the Channel on this side:

but there were days wherein we saw no sail

but our own; and I think we traversed nearly

a thousand miles at one time on this great highway of nations without seeing one. Such

Connrrlirnt l-'orrrrr. We have a story to tell, and must tell it and

will

& i i " must not be; we may not part;

, i codiu not live -aioner

"ven, replied Jones, "suppose a man ain t

got any money to pay with; I am very eorry, and am much mortified."

"Mortified! are vm,. Mr Tnn? T .'i.l ,ii must tell it in our own way. The reader

somthing pulrefacticus, but thought it was .l,lM8B not boU,er U8 w,lh n? a0Mbrandy," I A few days ago, a Connecticut broom-pedlar,

a shrewd chap, from over amongst the steadyToniiR Ijiflira' Shorter rmrrhixm- , habits, and wooden clocks, and school-marters, What Is the whole duty of Woman? to and other fixings, drove through our streetshea-

dress to sing to dance to play on the piano-1 vjy laden with com brooms. He had called at

forte to gabble French or German, and preside reral stores and offered his load, or ever so

gracefully at the tea-table I 'small a portion of it; but when he told (hem

What is man? A thing to waltz with flirt that he wanted cash, and nothing else, in paywith to take one to the theatre to laugh at ' ment, they had uniformly given him to undertone married to to pay one's bills and to stf,d that they had got brooms enough, and keep one comfortably! 'that he might go farther. At length he drove What is Life? A polka! a scottishe a tip to a large wholesale establishment, on the dance that one must whirl through as test as West side, and not far from the Bri.lge.and once possible! 1 more offered his "wares." "Well," said the What is Death? H'm something that it's' merchant, "I want the brooms badly enough; unfashionable to talk of, to whisper ofto think but what wil! you take in pay?" This was a

of; so the less that's said about it the better.

miserable class among ns) was tried by it. Spa- j

iiad tome trying hours.

"er ncifTereGee to life and all us belong

A n a T at I . ...

",rw ",B crraracieristics of a genuine case of

M SlckneM No. I. 1 enioved snmo nnnnrtnni.

i for observing this during our voyage. Fcr

".uiace. vne evening I was standing by a sick pstlemaa who had dragged himself e-r been

vu tecs, and laid down on a water-proof

punas winch raised him two or three inches from the floor. Suddenly a rreat wave broke

over the bow of the ship and rushed aft

"rough either gangway the two uni

"4 apin beyond the purser's and doctor's offim fT 'he sick man lay. Anv live man

-u my? jumped to his feet as suddenly as

raiuBAe whffe whiz2ing in his bIanke,.

'su-erer never moved, and the languid OO.SSW Of eve wherewith h mitirHot th

flood wh;ch made nn island of him was most

tor ' pp51?' the wave hd near'y spent we and WM now g0 npiy iff-us,d that

"?a wa, not quite overflowed. Cours !,. l .

, cno nave voyaged aud not "er(d will pronounce mr r.rai :.

(alhl!VRmWih' they will be faith.

- mrir own rrnnltno. r . .

---r-. m i out io mine forth. k..c. .,

warn them ""mmaied, 10 at;;tibinvheoce8nwhen

for pastime. Vow" 1 reri,ng to it

o.ofthem;1tm;:t;:T:rnjmenl,

""rhymesters .npnir.a .

'e ?ea:tt,e Deen Blue Sea!'

wtbriM, but wine, which i ., i. .,u i Co before a fresh, fair breeze is com

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in praise nf a i; r..- .u . -

'The S- - .!,. o . ,Jcean

. cea , lhe S ... ' ,M

- proo..-. never out of tight of land in n their live.. jftT Were ever .half . "".' liquid which baod them ?o

, 7 conlial!F luring indonlerrafirmaIlifUp rSf 'eMast theta- ' A home on t!' - fc ' UnotB8Cenofjoytnent, even to toZ ' Wh eufferi 0D,y from hardship and

-'.Kooiner Uborer'a

cions as the Baltic is, two hundred passengers with fifty cr sixty attendants confined for days together to her cabins, fill her quite full enough. For those who are thoroughly well, there are society, reading, eating, play, and other paslimes, but for the sick and helpless, who can neither read nor play, whom even conversation fatigues, and to whom the underdeck smell, cs-

I pecially in connection with food, is intensely

revolting, I can imagine no heavier honrs short

of absolute torture. Having endured these. I

I had nothing beyond them to dread, and it was

tather a satisfaction, on reaching the Irish coast

to be greeted with a succession of hail-squalls to work up the Channel against a wet North Easter, and be landed in Liverpool (after a tedious detention for lack of water on the bar at the mouth of the Mersy) under sulleu skies and in a dripping rain. I wanted to see the thing out, and would have taken amiss any deceitful smiles of Fortune after I had learned to dispense with her favors. There yet remains the grateful duty of speaking of the mitigations of our trials. And in the first place, the Baltic herself is unquestionably one of the safest and most commodious aea-

boats in the world. She is probably not the fastest, especially with a strong head wind and

sea, because of her great balk and the area of re

sistance she presents both above and below the water line; but for strength and excellence

of construction, steadiness of movement, and

perfection of accommodations, she. can have no superior. Her wheels never missed a revolution from the time she discharged her New York pilot till the time she stopped them to take on board his Liverpool counterpart, off Holyhead; and her sailing qualities, tested under the most unfavorable auspices, are also admirable. She needs bnt good weather to make the run in ten days from dock to dock; she would have done it this time had the winds been exactly the reverse from what they were or as the Asia had them before her. The luck cannot always be against her. Praise of commanders and officers of steamships has become so common that it has lost all emphasis, all force. I presume this is for the most part deserved; for it is not likely that the great responsibility of sailing these ships would

be entrusted to any other than the very fittest hands; and this i a matter wherein mistake may by care be avoided. The qualities of a sea

man, a commander, do not lie dormant; thai

ocean tries and proves its men; while in this service the whole traveling public are the observers and judges. But such a voyage as we have

the weary length of tha way from New-York to

Liverpool, nor the quantity of blue water which !'parat.s the two points. Friends who went to California by Cape Horn and were sea sick, I proffer you my heartfelt sympathies! It was seme ronsolation to me, even when most ill and, impatient, to reflect that the gales so adverse to us were most propitious to the many emigrantfreighted packets which at this season are conveying thousands to our country's shores, and

whose clouds of canvass occasionally loomed

upon us in the distance. What were our'light afflictions' compaired with those of the multi

tudes crowded into their stifling steerages, so

devoid of couvenienoes and comforts! Speed

on, O favored coursers of the deep , bearing swiftly those suffering exiles to the land of hope and Freedom!

We had a law trial by way of variety last

Saturday Capt. Comstock having been dnly! indicted and arraigned for Humbug, in permitting us to be so long beset by all manner of easterly wiuds with never a puff from tha westward. Hon. Ashbel Smith from Texas officiated as Chief Justice; a Jury of six ladies and six gentlemen were empaneled; James T. Brady conducted the prosecution with much wit and spirit; while JEolus Neptune, Capt. Cuttle, Jack Bucsby, &.C. testified for the prosecution, and Fairweather, Westwind, Brother Jonathan and Mr. Steady gave evidence for the defense.

The fun was rather heavy, but the audience was very good-natured, and whatever the wit" ness lacked in wit, they made up in extrava

gance of costume, so that two hours where

whlled away quite endurably. The Jury not j only acquited the Captain without leaving their seats, but subjected the prosecutors to heavy damages (in wine) as malicious defamers: The verdict was received with unanimous and hearty approval. Bnt I mnst stop and begin again. Suffice it that though we ought to have landed here inside of twelve days from New-York, the difference in time (Liverpool using that of Greenwhich for Railroad convenience) being all but five hours yet the long prevalence of Easterly winds haid so lowered the waters of the Mersey by driving those of the Channel westerly Into

! the Atlantic, that the pilot declined the responsi

bility of taking our ship over the Bar till high water, which was nearly seven o'clock. We

then ran up opposite the city, but there was no

"t'p with the f.nrU." "What makes you up so h;te, sir?" said a father to his son, who made his appearance at the breakfast table about ten o'clock. "Late! Why, father, I was up with the lark." "Well, then, sir, for the future don't remain up so long with the lark, but come down a little earlier to breakfast.''

The People tVcnpon. They have a weapon firmer set, And better than the bayonet; A weapon which comes down as still As snow-flakes Tall upon the rod, But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of God ! Nor from its force, nor bolts, nor locks, Can shield them 'tis the Ballot Box!

poser. The pedlar tt-as aching to get rid of his I brooms; but he would sooner sell a single broom for cash, than the whole load for any other article especially an article which he could not

as readily dispose of as he could brooms. After a moment's hesitation, therefore, he screwed his courage to the sticking point (it required some courage after having lost the chance of selling his load half a dozen times by a similar answer,) j and frankly told the merchant that he must have cash. Of course the merchant protested jthatcash was scarce, and that he must purchase, ; if he purchased at all, for what he had in his store to pay with. He really wanted the brooms, and he did not hesitate to say so; but the times were hard, and he had notes to pay, and he had ' goods that must be disposed of. Finally, he ' would put his goods at the cost price, for the sake of trading, and would take the whole load

of brooms which thin pedlar had labored so un-

0lf Grbriel was alive, he wou'd no doubt successfully at other stores to dispose of. "So." considerthe present werry dead time.' and be "said he to the man from Connecticut, "unload

tempted to sing that favorite song of his: Oh times is very hard indeed, They cant be not no harder, My pockets I can't interlard; Ard empty is my larder;

And flour is riz and so is beef, They say they can't be rl-zer, Oh, vat a dreadful pressure 'tis; I 'ope It von't be'tis er!' The fact Is, Gabriel was a philosopher in the

vonr brooms, imd then select anv articles from

! my store, and you shall have them at cost." jThe pedlar srralched his had. There wa an j idea there, as the sequel snows plainly enough. ."I'll tell you what it is," he answered at last, , "j nst say them terms for half the load, and cash ! for t'other half, and I'm your man. Blowed ef j I don't sell out, ef Connecticut sinks with all her broom stuff, the next minute." The merchant hesitated a moment, bnt finally concluded the

full maturity of the grasses, and before decay

commences, as the proper time of harvesting them. By cutting before the juices are fully elaborated, the quality is injured and the quantity less, and by suffering it to stand, after it

j has properly matured, the quality is seriously

; injured the leaves fall off and the stalks bej come of a woody substance. All who have j suffered timothy to ripen fully on the foot, for seed, know that for fodder it i9 almost worth

lesscattle will scarcely eat it, because its jui

ces have been, by the chemical operations of

nature, converted into an nnnutritioua and hard substance. After grass is cut at a proper time ihere is of

ten great difficulty iu securing it in good order. Clover is particularly hard to secure without deterioration, if spread from the swathe and dried in the sun. The stalks are large and juicy, requiring much sun and wind to dry them while the leaves and small branches dry quickly, and are very tender. These leaves and branches are

j the most nutritious part of the hav, and a very

large portion ol mem are broken off and lost in securing it. By exposure to the sun the outer surface of clover stalks become indurated, whicli retards the escnpe of moistuie, so that it is al

most impossible to secure them in a state so dry

that they will not heat iu a mow, and unless great care is taken the dampness evolved with the gasses will'be so great as to produce decom" posittion.

By putting clover in small, compact heaps a t

soon as cut, and without exposing it to tho sun

it will heat, and the greater part of the moisture will be envolved in gasses, In from twelve to

twenty-four hours. As soon as these piles be

come heated to a degree that the t.-mperatnre is

above that of the hand when inserted into them

they may bo opened and spread to the sun for a

short time, and then taken to the mow, or if the weather should be wet, and piles well built, so lhey will turn the rain' they may stand without

injury until the hay is completely Cured, an

ready to be housed as soon as the outside of the

piles is dry. By this method much labor and

anxiety are saved, and a better, although not so

bright a hay as if cured in uninterrupted sun

shine is secured. The same plan miybeadop

ten wun anvautnge in curing any liny. t,very practir.nl farmer knows thut there, i a fr":al risk of having his grass injured by rain when

I spread to the sun. if partnlly dry. and the dan

I ger of it heating and rotting, if put into a mow

j in large quantities, so that the g-isses evolved bv

I the fermentation cannot escape and carry off

, the moisture.

the woman, clothed with the sun, and pointing out the seven churches cf Juhn, &c. Rev. let 2d and .Id chapters." Mrs Spaulding, on all subjects but prophesy, was sane. She conversed fluently, aud appeared well informed but upon the subject of her prophesy, she was wild and incoherent. She is about fifty-five years of pg and her present tour i connected with the publication of her work la Cincinnati. Wabash Express.

ory and no fool in poetry, as the above lines tes- chance a good one. He should be g-tting half tify, which contain in themselvea a great deal the brooms tor something that would not sell as of good sense, to be duly appreciated by those 'readily; and as for the cost prtce, it was an easy

who can find it out. . matter to play gammon in regard to it. The bargain was struck ; the brooms were brought in. UCTWe find the following in a late number of The cash for halfof them was paid over. "Now the Lafayette Journal: J what will you have for the remainder of your The. Knppcr nre here. bill?" asked the merchant. The pedlar sr ratchNo mistake this time! The spirits of Pd his head again, and this time mnst vieorouother world have been conversed with by a ,y He walked lh floor drummed with his score of persons within the last forty-eight fin?pr9 on th(s nea(J of a barrel-whistled. By

hours. Clergymen and staid old men, have Rn( by h9 rp,v ranies0WiVf deliberately:

sell at

To .Untie Young Pear Tree l"nr.

I was afflicted by the sight in my gtrden for four or five years, of the most luxuriant youne pear trees, which would not bear, bnt nil their strength ran to wood. Vexed at this, I resolved

to try the effect cf bending down the branches

so as to check the flow of sap and cause them to form fruit buds instead of wood buds. Accordingly, the first week of December, Ia 17, I filled my pockets with stout twine; I drove down

some small pegs into the ground underneath my trees, (which had branched low, so as to make dwarfish heads;' I then tied a s'.ring to tl'ie'end of every long shoot, and gradually bringing down the end of the limb till it curved down so as to make a considerable bend or bow, I fattened it in that position either by tying the lbr end of the string to the peg, or to another branch or n part of the trunk. According to tny expect.it ion, the next year changed its habits of growth, and s -t an abundunco of fruit buds. Since that, I have had

been put to their wits ends by the miraculous Yml pr0Tidence fellers arecute; you

efforts of a little boy only ten years of age. , mucn n0fv. BOd mKyt money -

The residence of Mr. James Johnson, on Co-, , don,, e 10W tis dona. It must be that J pl"'''"' cropsof fruit without trouble

lumbia street was thronged with anxious visi- Fonleo0()y ppt!1 ,he worPt of it. Now I don't tors en Tuesday evening and all day Tur!,liay, fenow wJia( yojr Roodg cost Darrin, one arlict witnessing the spiritual rappings of a most won- Bn(, ef j take anything else, I may get cheated, derful nature. The medim is a little boy from ?(i wein, M wont nlHke any 0i,Ja with J0Ui Attica. The raps are readily and distinctly j gueF9 i'n brooms. I know them like a given in answer to any question relative to pook, and can eweaf to jest what you paid for departed spirits. The raps sound very much Vm ,, like drops or water falling from a distance upon AnJ g0 Mvin?( lh pe(jar commenced reloaa loose plank cr board. We can compare them d hif hTO'oms aml iiavil,g snugly deposited

with nothing else. j one helf of his former load, jumped on his cart j dry. Always put dowu some fine, lean (mind In company with several others, we witness- wit)l a rtgUiar Connecticut grin, and while the clean) straw under the carpet, an I lay it smooth

ed these phenomena at the house oi mt. jonn itnercnant waB cursing his impudence and his and level. Carpeti may be cleaned by pound

Loyd yesterday afternoon, and coull see no ow) stupia;iy, drove in search of anothercusto-

chance for collusion in the matter, ii n was a nler rrovidetice Tost.

llor Ir.-iniii. As this is about the season when good housewives clean their houses from cellar to garret, says the Scientific American, it may be well to s,y a few words cn the surjert. When you wash paint, don't use soft soap and warm water, for that will take ofTthe paint as well as the dirt. Use cold water and hard soap, and don't put

down the carpets until! the floor Is perfectly

Ing them iu strong soapsuds and wash tliem

il,t mmtA triQ tlia tamnraA waI! ma tliA nnr.

, , , . bv the necessity of a custom-house scrutiny

ii ; ii cans imo exercise every iacuuy, ana iay - -

cheat, the boy who serves as the medium, Is j

dock room for the Baltic, and passengers and consideably ahead of Young, the magician, or

e

cannot but think that these manifestations are

akin to some psychological principle yet im-

kuown to man.

Whockins t'rnrltr. The Detroit Journal savs that a few days

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i - ... r : i . n m a, nam. 1 1, . i at.. f . rm r i in, I ir RniH vtuiiu.

iignmaggago Wer a.rr. .. -.. Bny . u. - - ....... since, as Mr. E. Miller, of BriminEham. Oak

n-hieh n n Naw-York should deem itnwor

thy to convey market garbage. At last, after infini te delay and vexation, caused in good part

bare defects if such there be. To sweep ' even of carpet-bags, because men will smuggle 1 B 1 - 1 . 1. . AMAn In thai, nnrbnla. WA

r.l- i Cigars IWIIVIO licic, u ...v .. t. parauvoiy .K. Q nVIok n,l tn.tnnrrnw I

easy; but few landsmen can realize the patient: , T, . ... j - .vn . set my watch by an English sun. There is

r j j . j . I promise of brighter shies nronellintr rower from winds determined to be '

i i Pi r dead ahead. Ii0w nicely the sails must be set

!ift,rg. but the

wage are so dearly

n of

lay la port. He

ww season of n nt?mn. :

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at the aharpest angle with the course of the vesB.l.and aometimea that Course Itself varied a point or two to maka them draw at all; how often they must be shifted, or reefed, or furled;

how much labor aud skill must be pot in requi-

I shall hasten up to

Londoa to witness the opening of the world's Fair; and ao My Native Land Good Night!' II. G.

a;' j y m Port Ha is -- i d'ofkhardeat just when other out- sition t0 cure a very slight addition tothe( en-- deem f orkinj at all out of tb. "ted of the ship-all this I am not seaman s

WWtir,,

lhe;rdu , ""ratttgnnnauay are alike in "tortf. 8,alheir xemptlons; while the 't!,iDd bUndinethe lemPest. S jj to Mertion. Perll d 'privations. - wts-Mitr his houre of rest are equal to

i i l ! ... I nan BilinirA. And

during the entire voyage, with Its anany ticis-j sitades, I did not hear owe harsh or profane word from an officer, one sulky or uncivil response from a subordinate. And the perfection or

The TelegrmphRev. John Pierpcnt, writing upon the Telegraph, concludes thus: A hero chieftain laying dawn his pen, Closes his eyes in Washington at ten: The lightning courier leapa along the line, And at St. Louis tells the tale at nine. Halting a thousand miles when he ceparted, And getting there an hour before he started,

Dcnth Itj Coiaonin. One of the best of young ladies, Miss Emily Carter, whose brothers and widow mother live about a mile from this place, was married it

her mother's, about a year ago the 2nd of last month, to Joseph D. Curry, of JrflVrson County, about 15 miles distant from here.and moved to his place of residence. Siie was Curry's third

wife. Ou last Monday her corpse was brought

back to her mother, not attended, however, by

her husband. Sironj suspicions being entertained that ho had poisoned her, an J suspicious also being awakened that he h il in a similar

manner poijoced his two other wire9 and daughter, th stomach of this 0114 was dissected

nuJ examined by two of our medical men, when the poison was very evident. It had done its office, administered by the hand that had sworn to protect her by a wretch in the name of a

husband!

The murderer immediately fled, and though

he is pursued we have not yet learned that he is

overtaken. The above i civen as we hear it

Ver. Whig. Ttiahop ISrddius. A letter from B:hup Heddings was read to

the New England M. E. Conference by Bishop Janes. The venerable man is sinking fast to

the tomb, but enjoys deep peace and firm confidence iii God. The Bis-hon thb'.izht it probable

he would never meet in conference ag;ii:i. Ii-earf of ()-Short Drrn ."! cmrnl. We find the following iu the Boston Traveller: "A New York house haa recently transmitted an order to I'aris for an invoice of dress goods, with a deep borJer 011 the siJe. These goods are intended for Indies' short dresses, and 'he width of liie cloth will comprise the length of the skirt."

Fioni the Albany Argus A I'hetifitiirnon. ? Tiie editor "f tha Cortland Democrat, in a formal valedictory, takes h ave of that print for another field of Inbor, un'er circumstances whicli we shall n 't venture to state. We copy his own account of the matter: "We will no v givrt our ri'id-r an! idtvi of our reasons for leaving tliem and an account of onr future occupit ion. You recoll-ct. perhaps.

lh;t we gave a notice a few weeks since of Investigating the spiritual manifestation, or commonly termed 'spiritual rapping, and that w M.ite l our belief in regard to the ( heiio'iieua. We have been in Auburn since then; and, upou n thorough mid careful investigation of the subject, wa h iv mm to the further c inclusion that the manifestations r not only produced by spirits out of l'ie tl -!i, but th.it they nr permitted and del. gated to communicate with mortals by God, f ,.r the vast and iiii.om-civab'y exalted purpose of redeeming the world from the bomh'g mid corruption of sin. And as on uf the feeble instrument of God iu this great work, we engage our weak t;.leiits, our tim

and our all, henceforth and forever, till the object be accomplished. "ftiul, the Apostolic Messenger, directed us, by means of t!ie 'rappinc", to leave our business in this plnee and remove to Auburn, tlier tocommence and continue the publication of a paper, to lie devoted wholly and exclusively t 1'iis cause. Accordingly we h ive disposed rf cur interest in the IVmormt. and have purchased, in the name of Pel. g S. Cottrell, Sc. Co , a printing ofTi'e locat-d in Auburn, where in a f -w weeks, will I.e inerf the tir-t number of the paper alluded t, under the title ( given also bv the 'rappings.') of Spiritual and .Moral Instructor. '1 he paper w ill contain account of

conversations with spirit", tit- histnri, defence

land county, was returning from an insane assylum with his son, IS years of age, who had been discharged as incurable, the father left the

IT A young girl, bearing the rather uncom- cars to obtain some refreshment, leaving tha boy

moB name of Brown, living iu Boston, recently !in his seat. On hit return, the father stopped I

eloped with a colored man and went to lie with Jfor a fw moments to talk with a friend in anhim in a cellar. Her friends feretted out her! other car, and on going to the car in which he

place of sojourn and took her home. It was jlft his son lie found the seat vacant and the boy 1 . i - 1 . . t.. n.,: mnA finnlli iron. Prion mliinfr inmiirv. thn rmirlnetnp

found that she was a lunatic, and was finally

seut to the asylum. It is said that her father is an abolitionist, and that he had expressed himself indifferent as to whether his children became practically acquainted with the beauties of amalgamation or not. The Boston popers promise 'astounding developments' with regard to thi9 case. rjj-"Constilutionally tired" is now the polite wa y of e xpressing the fact that n man is naturally ! UA good man suffers eil aud does good: a bad man suffers good and does evil.

gone. Upon making inquiry, the conductor

told him that he had put a young man off the

train, soma distance back, who would not pay his fare, nor give an account of himself. The father stopped at the next station, returued, and found the mangled body of lis son lying on the track. The fare of both father and son had been paid through from Utica to Buffalo. ILTGov. Slade says that two hundred and twenty-two teachers have been sent out by the hoard of National Popular Education. These

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well out or the soap. The suds must be very "IJ nvcacy o 1 in- manii-M auo..-. m... strong and cold. This is done by cutting down composed aud given entirely by spirits in anothe hard soap and dissoU ing it in warm water. ' hT Mate of ex ,tee... It will b- issued emiThesuds should feel slippery between the fin- m"thly. for ne ,i..llr per year." gers. Bedsteads should receive a complete' That the writer is serious iu all he syascrubbing with soap and water, and should not' " thooah it may seem-i as obvious as be put np until pe.fectlv dry. The seams and that he is laboring under a hallucination bord.holes should then be ...otnted with corrosive ' ring on something more ferful. He goes no to

sublimate dissolved in alcohol, or sulphur n.iied 'Y ' -"n "" " J

with camnhine. or a solution of the chloriJe of Chre-tian.ty ana irom a s.a.e oo.ua n-

line. No person should go to sleep in a damp bedroom. Many peoplejby overlooking this motion during house cleaning season, catch severe eol.ls and make their beds with the elod f the valley before the subsequent Christinas. Always cemmence to clean at the top of the house, a .id descend by steady and regulnr stages: Some people clean their houses with quietn-s anj scarce any disorder; others do not auy mora work but make a great deal of noise. If theie is a dog or a cat about Hi house , it generally disappears till the squall is over. The grand

rule for facilit iting work i system Arrango

of full belief, to the Immortality of the soul,

"by means of tha 'spirits' r ipping,' " ! Fat Cai.vks- .Mr Knohlox:k, a butcher of - ur city, killed lri veils this morning, one ol w bicli weighed 2,201 pounds, the other I,9-'f. The epicureans are of course iu testacies. LafayUeCuur. I7"Winston Parkk Noble, (only son of th late Gov. Nobi.n) died uear Indian ipohs on tha, 1 5th iii!-t. lie was iu hislSth year.

(fc-The town of PpringvilV, I(rwfecee

hava all been females. The tenth class will be j be(ot commencing. Fur Wdnt of system, man v

all tlra work lo be ;?ne, aud how it is ty be done. . J.11-, is t'rarly iVserted of its inhabitmits, 0,1 ac

gathered at Hartford, Conn, in Augnbt next.

1 a job has to be done over g liu.

count f tl.e preva 'nice tf ihe mall ' Many have died, and the iiifert'--

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