Indiana Palladium, Volume 4, Number 44, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 8 November 1828 — Page 1

EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume IVJ LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1828. Number 44.

From (be Nevr Hampshire Patriot FATTEMAG SW1XE. "According to the opinion of the Rev. Mr. Ellicof, the best time in the year to shut up hogs to fatten them, is the month of August. I rather orefer the

month of September, when it may be de pended on, tn.it they will not suffer at all by the heat in their confinement: and there will be time enough to make them tat, before the weather comes to be ex Sremely bad. He that attempts to fatten hogs in winter will be a loser; forit has been found by long experience, that they do not gam in their tlesh near so fast in a frosty as in a temperate season. I therefore take care to get them fit for the knife by the beginning or middle of December, and I should choose to kill them still earlier, were it not for the advantage of keeping the lean part of the pork for 6ome time without salting; as it most commonly may be done by exposing it to frost, in the coolset part of a house. But a very important question is what food is. best in fattening swine? Pea? answers well when the price of them is low. But I am constrained to give the preference to Indian corn. Let them be fed in September with green ears of the field. There is nothing they will devour more greedily than this corn, and even the cobs with it. In Indian harvest, the unripe cars should be picked out, and given to the hogs that are fattening, without delay: or as fast as they can eat them; it will do them four limes as much good in this state, as it will after it is dried, it being difficult to dry it without its turning mouldy or rotten; so that they will scarcely eat any of it in this state, unless they be kept shorter of food than fattening hogs should be. After the unripe corn is used, that which is ripened must be given them. " If it be thought most convenient to feed them with corn of the preceding year, it should not be given them without soaking or boiling, or grinding it into meal. For they will not perfectly digest much of the hard kernels; it being too hard for their teeth. It has been thought by good judges, that the corn will be at least a sixth part more advantage to the swine for soaking it in water. But there is, if I mistake not, still more advantage in grinding it. What new corn is given them, may be in ears, as it is not hardened enough for grinding. I know of nothing that will fatten hogs faster than a dough of meal and water. But as this is expensive food, the dough may be mixed with boiled potatoes, or boiled carrots. They eat these mixtures as well as dough itself; as it appears to make no material difference in their fattening. In this mixture, bar ley meal will answer instead of Indian; which should be attended to in our more northern parts, where two bushels of bar ley may be as easily raised, as one of Indian corn. Both kinds of meal I have found to be a good mixture with boiled potatoes; but it should by all means be a little salted to give it a good relish. While hogs are fattening, little or none of the wash from the kitchen should be; given them. Their drink should be fair water, which they relish better than any other drink, and of which they will drink a good deal, when they are fed only on corn, or stiff dough. To prevent measles and other disor ders in hogs, while they are fattening, & to increase their health and appetite, dose or two of brimstone, or antimony, given to them in their dough, is useful, and should not be neglected. Some change of food may be advisa-j

ble in every stage of their existence, aslare instructed

it always seems to increase their appe- and charmed by the eloquence of Cicetite. But while they are fattening, laxa- ro; through them we admire the justice tive food in general should be avoided, as of Aristides and the heroism of Leonidas.

these animals are seldom known to sufF-r costiveneis, especially when they are full fed, but often from the contrary der. If they chance to be costive, a tie rye will help them In feeding, steady care should be taken that not one meal should be missed nor; mistimed, and their water should never; be forgotten. They should always have! as much food as they will eat up clean;: but never more than that quantity, le-tj they defile it and it be wasted. A little at a time and often is a good rule. If their skins be scurvy, or inclining to manginess, a little oil poured upon their back, will cause it to come off. And some 6ay a small mess of rye now and then as a change in their food, is good against these and other disorders. If the issues in the fore legs should chance to get stopped, every attempt to fatten them will be in vain. These therefore, should be watched and if found to

be stopped, they should be rubbed open with a corn cob. Rubbing and currying their hides very frequently, is of advantage to keep up perspiration. It is grateful to the animal?, as well as conducive to their health and growth. A proper scrubbing post in the middle of their pen will not be amiss. And during the whole time of their fattening, they should have plenty of litter. They will be more dry and warm, and it will be more than paid for, by the increase of good manure. When hogs are killed, a single one should not be left to live alone in a pen. He will be apt to pine loo much after his lormer companions. And in cold weather he will suffer for want of lodging so warm as he has been accustomed to do. The fat pork should be plentifully salted with the be t and strongest clean salt. It will take three pecks for a barrel. The pork should be kept continually under pickle; for if it be exposed ever so little to the air,itwill become rusty and unpalatable. Boiled or steamed clover hay will serve to keep hogs during winter, but the addition of potatoes or carrots, boiled or steamed with the hay, will beau improvement. Mr. Young directs soiling swine in a yard in preference to feeding them on c lover in the field during the sum.mr. But Judge Peters, of Pennsylvania, sa,

"In summer my hogs chiefly run on clo ver, bwine feeding on clover in the fields will thrive wonderfully; when those (confined or not) fed on cut c lover will fall away." The same gentleman asserts that hogs, while fattening, should constantly have some dry rotten woo.!, kept in the pen, which they will cat occasionally, and it proves very beneficial to them. It is also declared, as well by (hat gentleman as other writer., that food when soured by a proper degree of fermentation is much the best for tattering swine, and that one gallon of sour wash will go as far as two of sweet for that purpose. Mr. Young says, that the best method of feeding, all kinds of grain to hogs is to grind it to meal, nod mix it with water in cisterns for that purpose, at the rates of five bushels of meal to a hundred gallons of water. Deas. THE MECWLX1C. If the dignity of V is may be measured by their importance to mankind, there is nothing perhaps, which can rank aove the Mechanic Arts. In fact, they may be called the lever, the fulcrum, and the power, which moves the world. They do not want the "whereon to stand' of Archimedes; they have a sufficient foudation in themselves. What gives to civil nations their superiority over the sage? It is chiefly Mechanic Arts. By them the beautiful and convenient mansion is substituted for the rude and uncomfortable hut ; ard "scarlet and fine twined linen"5 supply V- tiro T-rl Yrl- in nlna a" clmp T .-!. J

animals. They are the foundation ofBreck, saddler, and G. H. Boadford,

nearly all the improvements and coin forts of life, and further, we may say, of, the glory and the grandeur of the world. By them the firmer ploughs land, and by them the mariner ploughs the ocean ; by them the monarch is adorned w ith his crown; and by them the peasant i clad in comfortable garments; bv them

the triumphal arch is raised to the hero, and in consequence of the want of a fadand by them the temple ascends to the der, the occupant? were unable to extin-

Deity; by them the wealthy roll in

ajiots; by them the table is spread, the bed'Lndon Phoenix ffice at Norfolk f

lis decked, and the parlor is furnished To them the poet owes the perpetuation of his fame. Homer sings and Caesar! triumphs in all ages. Through them wei by the wisdom of Plato, And much of this is owing to the two single arts, that of printing, and the man

diir-!ufacture of paper. By the former, learn

lit-iiner has been rescued from the gloom of

the dark ages; but without the latter. the benefit of printing would be circumscribed to very narrow bounds, it is by means of the press chiefly, that so much of Christendom owes its escape from the thraldom of superstition, Butin speaking of the dignity of the Mechanic Arts, we could not confine them to the mere hand that executes, without t! inking of the head that plans; for without the latterbut little morecredit would be due to the person whoxerciseE these arts than to the automatum Turk, who mechanically astonishes the world at the game of chess. To produce the great effects we have mention ed above, to do so much to enlighten, to beautify and improve the world, to labor for the glory and happiness of others,

and yet be ignorant of the springs by which the important movements are carried on, would ill comport with the dig

nity of the mechanic. He would be ("if we may compare small things with great") like the sun in the heavens, which renders light and warmth, and comfort to mankind, without itself being conscious thereof. There is a philanthropy in the Mechanic Arts. The mechanic who brings to his occupation an inventive, enlightened, and enquiring mind, who is master of his craft, in theory as well as in practice, has more of real philosophy in him than twenty of those minute philosophers who spend their lives, in puzzling the world with empty metaphysical speculations, and of whom Cicero peaks with so much deserved contempt. The mechanic who perfectly understands his trade, as well in the principles as the practice of it, gets himself a degree of no inconsiderable rank and honor, and that without the intervention of a college, or the formal vote of a learned corporation. To become an ingenious and enlightened mechanic, it is ne cessary that the youth who is destined for a trade, should bring to his employ ment, a mind inquisitive, studious, bus), and inclined to mechanic pursuits. Such a mind, with, ordinary attention to its cultivation, can scarcely fail of becoming in a ver considerable degree enlightened. But to the common sources of information, a good many mechanics add a very laudable attention to books, to the periodical publications of the day, and to the associations for mutual improvement. Mechanics' and apprentices1 libraries are established, and mechanics' ocieties are formed, which, by inducing studious habits interchange of idea?, and collision of sentiments, must tend to improve the minds of the mem bers in a high degree. There is, in fac, at the present time, a very large share of information and solid practical knowledge among the mechanics of this country. The life of the- mechanic, it is true, is a life of labor; and while he wipes the sweat from his brow, he may, perhaps, murmur at his fate, and envy what he considers the easy lot of other professions. But where is the business which exempts a man from a life of labor. The life of a judge, and of the first officer under government is a life of labor. But can these '''honorable men5' build a ship, or raise a spire to heaven, or exercise all or any of the arts which add so much to the comfort and grandeur of the world? These the mechanic can do; ar d if he duly reflect on the importance f hi labors, he can scarcely repine at his lot. Berkshire Amerhan. Fires, A row of oid wooden buildings on N. Mun-street, was burnt in Providence on Friday evening last. They were occupied by Wm. H. Taylor, drug gist, Zenas Lord, cordwamer, Ama?a t-ii ucmci ixi. juuru icimny, ana a . . . .. ! 1 1 17-. IV. Tl l widow with three children occupied the chambers. The elegant brick mansion of George N- wton, Esq. on Lynnhaven Kiver, Princess Anne county, Va. was totally destroyed by fire at midday on the 12ib inst. The fire was commu nicated to the roof from the chimney;

char-,Kulsn lt A f,H house was insured at the

5000. On the 12ih inst. a tire broke out in a tenement adjoining the paper mill of Messrs. II ddships, Pittshurg, Pa. 15 dwellir g houses and some buildings belonging to the paper mill were destrojed damage about 7000:3000 insured. In Philadelphia, about midnight on the 15th inst. a fire broke out in Smallstreet, near Sixth-street, which destroyed about 16 dwelling houses, and two or three t-table. It is said to be the work of an incendiary, and to have first burst forth Irom a stable, out of which the horses were fortunately taken, before the fire attained much extent. The buildings were mostly old wooden ones, and the streets narrow, which accounts for the extent of the damnge, since it is remarked that the firemen turned out with their usual activity. Premature Interment. One day last week a most urpleasart occurrence took place at the Union Burial Ground on Pine street, near Fifth, in Southwark. A young woman, about 19 years of age, having as it was supposed, died suddenly of cramp in the stomach the night before, was brought to be interred; after the relatives and friends who attended J the funeral had left the ground, the per-

son filling up the grave, when he hadlor buds having been inserted in the tree thmn few kWpU toll of earth unon We have heard of trees putting forth

thrown a few shovels full of earth upon the coffin, heard a deep groan proceed ing from the grave; he immediately ob tained assistance, got the coffin out of the grave and opened it, when it appeared that the young woman had turned completely on her side, and blood was issuing from her mouth and nostrils; medical aid was procured as soon as possible, but without avail, as it appeared that life was extinct. This most unfor tunate instance of premature interment, should be a warning against too early a burial in any case where death is snd- " . . fc ft den, or only preceded by a short illness It is to be feared that too many instan ces of this kiud occur, which are never discovered. Poulsoivs Advertiser. Curious anomaly in nature. About a fortnight ago, a htu that was setting and a bitch with three pups, occupied the two corners of a cupboard, at the house of Mr. Hill, Sherwood street, Mansfield road. The hen took a fancy to the puppies, and made several attempts to drive the mother away from her offspring. When the puppies were about a week old, the bitch died; and the hen lmrm-di t r i j 1 J - - I young progeny under her protection, attending them with the same care thai she would a brood of chickens; gather ateiv lorsook: tier etrsrs. anu iook me ing them under her w ings, clacking about them, and guarding them from harm. W e saw the group yesterday, and it ccr tainly presented a curious spectacle the little whelps plajed round the old bird, who seemed mightily pleased wiih their tricks, and, after lapping seme milk, they quietly got under the feathers and went to sleep, and so completely does the hen cover them, that neither of them was to be seen. Loud, paper. Isaac B. Desha. The writer of the following letter is personally known to us, as a gentleman of respectability, whose statements may be relied on. He is at Ibis time one of the Alcades (Judg es) of PeXriS. S. L. Chronicle. Extract of a letter from Thomas M. Duke, Esq. formerly of Washington) Ky. and ?i ox a resident in Texas. San Felipe de Austin, July 24, 182S. 'Isaac B. Desha who was so long confined in Keniucky for the murder of Baker is now in cot (iuenienl in this place on a charge ol the sune kind: the circumstances are these. Last April, Desha arrivied here on board the schooner T - i . r f "V? " i nights oi man, irom ew urieans, in company with a man by the name of Thomas or John Early, of Brown county Ohio, who visited this country for the purpose of removing his family here. Desha passed by the name of John Parker they arrived in this town early in M ty,and remained only a few days here, and left this for San Antonia. When they left here, Desha was without funds and Eaily had a smart sum with him. Desha arrived in San Antcnia without Early, and spent money freely. On hi return to this place I had him arrested, and have sent out men fc-day to examine for the body of said Early. The evidence that I have been able to collect as yet, is very strong against him, and 1 am very much afraid that he has murdered his companion. Yesterday he confessed to me, that he was Isaac B. Desha; but not until he had been identified by a gentleman in this country. 1 was satis fied inmvown mind that he was Desha from his family resemblance and his! breathing thro' a silver tube." Remarkable fact. A gentleman of this village, planted an apple tree in his ground last spring which has blossomed four successive times, and produced two successive crops of fruit. The first bios soming was at the usual time when the apple trees put forth in the spring but produced'nothing. The eeccond blos soming was about a month after the first, and produced fruit w hich we, last week, saw upon the tree. The third blossom ing was about a month after the seccond, and also produced fruit, which is now on the tree. The fourth blossoming was last week, and we saw fresh bios soms on the tree on Thursday last, which promise fruit, unless the buds be nipped by the frost. The apples from the second blossoms are about the size of a small walnut and are not ripe. The third crop are smaller and somewhat scrivelled. The trunk of the tree is straight and small, being about an inch and a half through, a foot from the ground,andis about twelve feet high. It stands on the side of a hill, with a southern exposure. The fruit and blossoms come from a single stock, no scions

two sets of blossoms, hut never four successive blossomings, two of which produced fruit. Phenomena of this kind

are frolics of nature, and to be accoun ted for. probably, on the supposition ol an irregular, diseased action of the juices of the tree. Lyons A. Y.Ad Mississippi Guards. -The traveller &: historian as 1 am informed, have passed by unnoticed, one of the most useful of all the various tribes of insects-The Mississippi guards. In Mississippi &the states in the same parallel, there are large tracts of country which abound with such numerous swarms of flies, commonly know n by the name of horse flies, that the herds of cattle would be compelled entirely to desert their pasture grounds were it not for the kind protection they receive fn m the Mississippi guards. The guards inhabit the driest and hotest sand know Is They live on the various epecies of flies that infest the stock. They resemble very much the jellow jacket, both in size and appearance; there are, larger and smaller guards, adapted to the different kinds of flies on which they prey. The earth for some distance around the sand hill w hich constitutes their barracks is trodden fnmly by the cattle of the neighboring country, forming what the herdsman call a stomp. Hither the cat tie repair with wild and headlong fury whenever they are beset be)6nd furlher endurance with the large horseflies and other tribes of insects that infest their pasture grounds. At the sound of their approach, the guards turn out of their bterraneous bariaiar.d parade ever their sand hills, movir g to and fro, resemblng swarms of bees. Soso nas the infuriated herd of cattle arrive, they arrange themselves around thesand hill, and become almost aa still as statues, though literally covered with flies which are drawing blood frcro almost every pore; not a cow u seen even to switch her tail. At this moment the guards sally forth on the flies which coter the cattle. Each guard seizes a fly, clips oflT his wing in the first place, jeiks out the probocis, though buried in the skin of the beasts, and bears offthefly,a struggling, wingless prisoner, to the sand hillff and there scatches a hole in the eand drags in the criminal, and by means of a peculiar shuffle of thd hind feet, covers up the hole as he descends, and in an instant, the guard mounts op through the sand in a different plat e, leaving the poor fl buried alive. He again pro ceed? to the cattle in quest of another. In a short time not a fly of any description can be seen. The cattle under the vigilant protection of their guards, at length lie down and chew the cud ia peace. A gentleman who has a large stock of horses aud cattle, has been so fortunate as to have his pond selected by a company of guards for their place of abode. He is never under the necessity of having his cattle or horses driven up to the pond, they always come of their own accord, to rid themselves of the large hone flics with which that whole vicinity abcunds. The guards are always found at their post, ready to seize the blood-thirsty tormentors of the cattle, ai.d to inflict on them a punishment, the same with that which Jsuma Pompilius first instituted for the vestal virgin! who should break their vow Mammoth Steam Boat. In the French Vu,,elln ol 1 eci,rno'S Laif Hulie' we "ua luc . CUUIIl Ol l MKrtlU uuai, WlJIltl 13 llkW ucing constructed by the government of the Netherlands. The vessel is 250 feet in length, and is to have four masts, and a bowsprit. The machinery which is already on board, cost 400,000 Dutch florins! and the rest of the work, wilh the materials and construction, will amount to a similar sum, making the whole expense 800,000 florins. It has two furnaces for the production of steam, and three cylinders. Theower will be equal to that of 300 horsesl it will conume 2,400 pounds of mineral coal, per hoar, or 67,600 pounds per day. This boat is a three-deiker, of very elegant accommodations, unleaded she draws only ten feet, loaded she will draw 16. She is intended to facilitate the communication between Holland and the Dutch East Indies; for this journey, six weeks are the estimated time, during which she will consume 2,419,200 lbs. of coal. As soon as completed, she is to be sent to Ei gland, to tr) her strength with the sea. She has been constructed at Rotterdam, where 4 large steam boats intended for the nayigation of the Rhine, are now in a state of preparation.