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OUR CHARLEY. . Five years ago we parted from our Charley, bound for the East the blithest, brighest, bravest lad that ever drew breath. I, who have been his mother, as lie savs, these fourteen years, have a ri;ht to boast of him ; but all our island knows him. He was but just sixteen upon the night of the great storm, when I and all ot us thought in our hearts tliat we should never live to see another day : the whole Atlantic raging at our feet, and the southwest wind, in its unbroken fury, pouring upon our low-roofed cottage the first opponent, save a few mastless ships, that it had met for a thousand miles. The darkness and the noise were hideous ; but, worse still, the pauses, when the powers of air seemed to be o-atherins strencth for some more tremendous ef fort, and when the lightning showed for an instant the Ion" line of white and shuddering cliff, and the black mass of waters rising in wrath to overwhelm it. We women were all up and in the parlor ; the supper-taoie was yet spread there, at which four hours before we had sat. and laughed, and eaten, listening to the rising tempest, not without a selfish sort of comfort God forEive us ! to think that we were safe and warm on md. There is a strange difference observable under 11 circumstances between hours, whatever they may be, devoted to wakefulness and those given to rest. Between twelve o clock, tor instance, to trie laay ot fashion, and three o'clock, if she happen to be awakened at such a time ; and between ten and one to persons who live domestic, quiet lives like ourselves ; quiet apart from the contrast which the gayety and brightness of the one, and the loneliness and darkness which the other, must of course present they seem periods of two separdte existences, one of which is not without a certain terror for us. Whenever I have chanced to be called up at night, from illness in the house or other cause, although I soon get my brain in order for working purposes, I am a long time coming to myself : the business that 1 have been in such tunes sec to ao nas always appeared, in a measure, weird-like, the familiar places unnatural, and my friends themselves what the . .... .. i-., . , i . -ii i Scotch call " uncanny." l tmnK most people win leei what I mean.- On tins night of the tempest we were all excessively terrified. It was long before the can dles could be lit ( the wind cot in so every where ), ana, when that was done, we were the more frightened with looking at each other's faces, Poor Janet but fourteen then with her brown hair hanging about her shoulders, and her large eyes starting out of their bed 1 Herbert thirteen- very pale, with his mouth set in an artificial smile, poor little fellow, while his teeth chattered with horror 1 bmall Alice, in fits ot tears ana scream ing, so as to be heard even through that tempest, and both the maids pictures of abject terror 1 . Presently, while the house was rocking to and fro like a tree, in rushed Master Charley, dressed, and with his Glengarry cap on. " Now, girls," cried he, " who will shut the iront-aoor alter me I ., , : , . " Good Heavens, Charley 1" I exclaimed, " you are not surely mad enough to venture out in such a night as this r . " Yes, mother, I am ; why tot ? r " In such a night as this When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, ' ' Did Jessica ' ( We read it, you know, the other night. I am going after Jessica Phoebe Taylor, that is or she will be drowned else. I am certain that this spring-tide, with such a gale to help it, will more than reach their cottage, and the old man can never carry her away without help." : ... He spoke ot the bedridden wile ot a superannuated fisherman, who, in defiance of the warnings of his companions, had set up his' old boat, by way of a house, in the corner of the bay, just above high-water mark. ' .Directly (Jharley mentioned this, we knew at once the danger to which this aged couple must already be exgosed, for it wanted but an hour or so to full tide ; but the dangers of a rescue were not less. . " Kemember, Charles," cried I, " that these three children have nobody to look to for protection in the world, save you. . " Oh yes, laughed he, gayly : " there s Herbert ; ain't there, Herbert ? Besides which, you will not get rid of me so easily ; you. will see me again anon, bearing the lovely Phoebe in my arms." . . , A tremendous crash, occasioned by the flying open of the hall-door, and its being jammed against the wall by the blast, announced the boy s departure. Ihen we felt deserted indeed. The two maids were blown down in the passage in their attempt to shut the door again, and the rush ot wind into all parts ot the house became so violent that 1 was in momentary expectation of its lifting the roof off. Our only comfort seemed to be eazinff at the lighthouse. We had been inside it but a few days before, and it was, in a manner, cheer ing to know that there were living beings there tnen engaged in their usual occupation, and even counter acting to some extent the awtul effects ot the storm. In the mean time, walking edgewise, as he afterward affirmed, in order to offer as little resistance to the wind as possible, and absolutely feeling his way toot by foot, our Charley had reached the path that winds down to the beach. Here, away from the trees, and in the open, it was not so pitchy dark, and the gusts being dead against him, only nailed him to the cliff without danger of sweeping him from off it, which, had it changed to a point or two more westward, it would have done at once, like a knife, . The tumult below him sounded so near and awful that he seemed to be descending into the sea ; a slip, a false turn, a- sprain of the hand or ankle, would now have been certain death to him. I here was a light still burning m the wooden hut, how ever, which guided him aright, and gave him spirit, for it told him that he was not too late. He found the old man by his wife, with whom he had fully made up his mind to die, since he could not save her. He had at tempted to do so, however, for the poor woman was partly dressed, and had been lifted on to a chair. She was trying, as Charles entered the hut, to persuade her husband to leave her to her fate ; " but, since it is your time to die, Phoebe," said the old man," I seem to have lived in this world long enough.". No two young lovers, charcoal-burning to death together after the French fashion, were ever half so noble a spectacle as that ot this ancient couple, lhere was no doubt what ever about the reality of their heroism, for the spray of the still-rising tide had already begun to patter against their refuge, and they knew that the end must be very near indeed. Charles and the old man togeth er had to wade very deep before they got poor Phoebe to the toot ot the path, up which, with such a burden, they were quite unable to make their way." But our Charley was not the only angel abroad that night : the two coast-guard men had also bethought them of the perilous situation of the Taylors, and had come from the station with lanterns to see what could be done for them. They dared not, in such a night as this, however, take the shortest way which lay across the Down and had been much delayed, so that the light in the little room was quenched, and the hut itself far out to sea, when they arrived : but they were in time to a&i sist in bringing Phoebe up the cliff. We heard noth ing of them until the party were in the little hall, and at the parlor-door all safe. . ' ' . ' I will tell you one thing more of Charley, to prove to you how brave a boy he was. ., ' . ' One of his chief pleasures was to join the fisher lads in their perilous expeditions after the nests of the eider-duck, and for the eggs of other sea-fowl. With the aid of an iron bar and a rope he would swing-him-self over the face of the steepest clifi's, and into caverns which one would have thought no creatures could have entered save with wings. Upon one occasion he went out with another youth with only one strong rope between them, and, instead of one remaining above the precipice while the other went below, they thought it

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would be excellent fun to go down both 1 together. They chose, too, for this amusement one of the loftiest and least-frequented cliffs of all, midway in which, however, they had seen from their boat once a great cave much haunted by the sea-fowl. They fixed their bar firmer than usual, and took to the rope together, the fisher lad being under-most ; they laughed and chatted in air, with the sea four hundred feet beneath them, as town-bred lads would lauch and chatter in a swing ; but they found it by no means easy to reach the cavern with their double load, being afraid to make a pendulum of the rope for fear it should wear away from the increased friction at the summit. At last the boy beneath obtained a footing, and held the rope fast while Charles slid off into the hole. But attracted by the cry which the latter raised at sight of the myriads of nests which lay within, and confused, perhaps, besides, with the swinging, the fisher lad let the rope slip through his fingers ; once only it swung within distance, but in his agitation he made a futile grasp at it, and after one or twb vibrations, succeeding one another more rapidly than I can write of them, the two boys were left in their living tomb, with the means of escape indeed within sight, but only to tantalize them with its proximity: seven or eight feet of fathomless space lay between them and it a situation to them, who well understood it, more awfully perilous even than it seems. No vessel ever came near enough, on account nf t.hft hrfiaVirs. in spa ftnv aitrna.1 such as thev , could make from the sea : thev had left no word at home of whereabouts they were going ; and, even should they be found, it was very improbable that means could be devised for their rescue, while they had still the strength and spirit to, take advantage of them. The boys looked at one another in blank dismay, as they thought of all these things. "My poor dear mother," said the hsher lad,, with a groan, lor he was her only nope. " Supposing one dropped," asked Charley, thoughtfully, after a few moments, " would this tide carry one for certain on to shore in the fishing bay?" " Yes,"said the (other, "and within the next hour to a certainty, but it would be only as a dead corpse, Master Charles." " God alone knows that," quoth Charley ; " we must trust in Him." He wrote down upon a slip of paper (which I now possess, with the writing just a little, a very little shaken, poor fellow, when it gets to the last message) some such worjls as these : " Robert Harris is in the Gull's Hole upon Wadden Cliff: he has lost hold of the rope, and must have help at once my dearest love to all at home. Charley." He put this up in his case bottle, taking the cup off at the bottoni, so that the writing might be seen at once through the glass, and buttoned it up in his coat-pocket. , " My people are richer, than yours, Bob, and can better spare me," cried he. " I am soinc to leap at theSrope, old fellow ; let us shake hands." The lad tried to persuade him not to risk it, but rather to hope for rescue by means less desperate. But " Don't unnerve me, Bob," was the simple heroic answer ;" once, twice, thrice, and here goes" The other hid his. face while the spring was taken, listening for the far-off splash, perhaps, that should tell him his friend was dead, who had spoken to him the instant before. But when he looked up, our Charley was holding well on to the rope, only he was deadly pale. He cot to the cave again in safety, and the two rescued lads came up to life again, with their pockets stuffed with eider-down. Charles was a brave boy his widowed mother's darling and mine, in whose care she left him, and beloved by all. He did not know her long, but loved her dearly, and had the strangest thoughts about her always. He thought that she was near to him, and upon the eve of any special peril he seemed to grow conscious of her presence. The night before he left us, as we wandered in and out the rocks by the sea-shore, and round the leafy paths that thread the copse, and up and down the level sands, all grown so doubly dear to him at parting, he was full of this. Perhaps it was but natural having dwelt so long upon the happy past, and stroke by stroke together retouched many a picture hanging dim enough in the long gallery of memon'-that we should Come at last to her. 'With our eyes upon that boundless world of. waters darkening as the night drew on, with that whisper of eternity breaking softly on our ears, alone, and in that beautiful spot, it was natural, I say, that we should speak of the beloved dead. ,r " Mother," he called me " mother" even ' then " she is listening to us now," he said. " I shall see her in my dreams to-nicht : she is auite close to us." I begged him not to talk thus, and reminded him that it was time to go within. , '. " Nay," said he, " but let us once more climb the Down." So we toiled up the steep behind us in silenco, under the innumerable stars. . , , . '' " See you," said he, when we had reached the summit, " yon steadfast lights on ocean ? There rides a mighty fleet, the guardian-angels of our land, and all night long they keep strict watch and ward because of us. lhere were they, still, though hid trom view, until we gained the headland, and there will they be when we descend again. So it is, as I think, with some of us : few souls but have some spirit watching over them, although unseen, save, haply, when a more than common danger threatens, when heavenly stoops to earthly, and the fleet sails round to us. " I do not mention this because I think that such a be lief was to Charles's credit for I believe it to. be false and weak one but to prove that he was no more samphire gatherer and pillager of gull's nests, a youth of nerves and sinews only. Had he been so, would Janet, the enthusiastic, the poetess, have ever loved him so dearly as she did ? Would gentle Alice, for whom I have heard him weave full many a fairy tale ? Would Herby, whose young head he filled with visions of tut and tourney t ' ' , : ' It was terrible the parting from a lad like this ; but he thought the Fusabad appointment was too good to be let slip, for our sakes ; although, for himself, he would have much preferred the military service. We watched the mighty vessel that bore him out, roundin the point and speeding into space, farther than any oth er dewy eyes in Britain.' Our roof, I think, is the last Ensjish home the exile sees, and the first speck which, after weary years, grows gradual to the, sight on his return. Throuch aS the war in the Crimea we saw the very last of every squadron, the smoke-clouds streaming on the horizon's verge, and the first glim mering of those countlees sails which brought up from the warring " underworld" our wounded thousands. If the wind was favorable, we could hear the martial band-music, nay, even the cheers themselves, of the gallant soldiers, in the vessels outward-bound ; and in the homeward, if the skies were clear, we could see, with telescopes, the very-beds of the wounded, ay, and perhaps of the dead, brought up upon the decks for disembarkation. We were sad enough, indeed, but we had no miseries of this kind then to dread tor Charley, The East was then at peace, whither he was bound ; the vessel that bore him was cleaving tranquil seas. The next letter, however, which we got from him was from Spain. The ship had been wrecked, with awful loss of life himself picked up exhausted ; but " all's well," he wrote, " as far as I am concerned, except for my kit, and I hope to start from Gibraltar in a luckier vessel A slip of paper was inclosed for me : " I told vou that a penl threatened me : remember our last talk upon the shore." There was not a word in his account of the shipwreck of this incident, which we read of in the newspapers : " Among other deeds of heroism during the confusion, and when it was plain that the ship must go to pieces in a tew minutes, that or a .Mr, Charles Brooke, E.I.C.S,, deserves especial mention. Observing a young lady : Miss Claud, daughter of Lieu tenant-General Claud, of the Bengal army, who was on her way to join her father in Calcutta unprovided with a life-preserver, he removed his own from his waist, and fastened it around her ; and in the water af

terward, perceiving her to be drifting out to sea, he brought her by incredible exertions under the protection of the head-land, and into the bay, where she was rescued. Mr. Brooks was picked np subsequently insensible ; but we are happy to state that this noble young fellow has since entirely recovered." If this had happened two years later, we should not have conr sidered the proceeding so entirely disinterested, as after that neriod Miss Claud betran to ficrure in his let-

ters pretty frequently unaer ine more ianimar uue oi " dearest Ellen." r In due time they were married.and .. ., " .... y . li last January wrote us a most enthusiastic account of their little boy, then exactly a month old, ana already " beginning to take a great deal of notice." - "Next Christmas, wrote our Charley, "we hope au three to spend in the beloved island, Where groves ot ine on either hand To break the blat of winter stand. And, east and west, the hoary Channel . Tumbles a breaker on chalk and saud; i . ' ' 'Where underneath tlie milky steep . -,, .: The ships of battle slowly creep, And on through Rones ot light and shadow Glimmer away to the lonely deep.. We have the latest poetic accounts of you, you see, up here at Fusabad, which, indeed, is almost as much in the world, and finite as civilized a town, as vour South ampton. Ardent is here, and will take his leave at the 6ame time with ns for England. How I long for you all to see dear iillcn and the child! ., Not more than we longed for them, be sure ! How we pleased ourselves with imagining what sort of person pretty and good-tempered, we were certain Charles's Ellen would be 1 And that sweet baby, too, whom we loved in advance ever so much, and kissed, and dandled, and made much of, already in anticipa tion! Whether would our Charley himself be chang ed or no ? How much would he have to tell us, after his five years' absence 1 , What a merry, merry, Christr mas it would surely be I Ihen came the first rumors ot revolt to shadow this fairpictui e. Again the soldier-crowded ships began to pass in quick succession before us over the eastward sea; but, this time," how much more ofmir selfish hearts they bore with them 1 . How prayerfully, women though we were, we wished God-speed to rifle-ball and bayonet Y One day we got a letter from" our Charley1, confirming our worst fears; words which, from him who always took the most cheering yiew of matters, filled us with cruel grief. "It is tolly, wrote he,, "to disguise our position any longer. -The irregular cavalry here are not to be trust ed, and our lives are in their hands; the general can not affprd.us any addition to our little band of European soldiers; there is mutiny all around us; and this is probably the last dawk that will go sate to its destina tion, so I write m haste to catch it. I have looked death in the face before now, mother, but never with such dear ones in my company: this is what makes it terrible., Some of us here think better of our situation, and God grant that they may be right j but I I saw her last night, and you know what I hold such a sight mean. lou, wuf not soon forget me and mine, whatever happens, I well know. Heaven bless you all." ' - ' - .- ' ' " ' ;-' : Our Charley never wrote to us again. ' That very next telegraph ran thus: "An outbreak of the I. C. at Fusabad; their officers were fired upon; all the civil-r lans m tlie station massacred save three." JNever, Surely, had oracle of old the power to cast in despair, to excite to passionate hope, to agonize by suspense, its credulous believers, that this world-traversing dumb sibyl possesses in these days.. . .Its wires are as the very threads of fate, on which hang human lives; our heartstrings have become electric too, and with them shudder in unison. "Save three!" In these two words and their interpretation all happiness or misery seemed for us to centre :. Father' mother, and child. ,.- Two of theml one of them at least, in mercy, must.be among those "three !" After nearly two months of wearing hopes and tears, the names were published, giving joy to other households to ours despair. They were all three strangers. ' Captain Arden, poor Charley's friend, was one of the few officers who escaped wun me; ne wrote us a saa letter, with DUt one coia gleam of hope, in a report that he had heard of some Europeans of Fusabad being still alive in the revolted district, under the protection of a native rajah; but we were sunk too deep in sorrow to be buoyed by such a floating straw as this. We gave the writer, credit for good iutentions,but were not more wretched when we read, in his second letter : "Our last spark of hope has, I fear, died out. I come to England by the earliest packet, and my first visit will be -to you." He had things to tell us ot a very terrible interest. By -this time autumn had faded, and winter was spreading over us his snow-white pall, lightly and tenderly, as in ouf island he ever ' spreads it, like a father covering the tace ot his dead child. But the seasons themselves could bring no such change upon nature as it seemed, in the sadness of our hearts, to have already suffered, The breeze that swept our lofty downlands was no longer blithe and spirit-stirring, but rose in gusja of lamentation, and died away in melancholy sighs : the laughing sea had become a waste ot waters ; and our favorite paths, where the evergreens flourish as in spring, might have been full of withered leaves, so loth were we to walk there; because our Charley seemed to be associated with all these things, as the scent with the flower, or as the soul with its beautiful fornf. .If this seems to be exaggeration, it must be remembered that our little household is a very simple one1, and alone in the world, and that our Charley was all in al to us. l . . ', ' i ' " The time had how arrived when the steamer that was to bring Captain Arden might be expected, and we watched for it attentively, but without impatience; with eyes less tearful than had followed that retreatipg yessel years ago, but with hearts far heavier. , . . , r , ' Herbert had been dispatched to Southampton tq await the captain, and bring him on to us at once ; so that, when the black ship went by at dawn, we knew that we should see him that same evening. As the afternoon wore on, we got to be unaccountably wistful and anxious that the girls and I determined to walk up the cliff-road to meet our guest . ,,, ;.. ... ',1 ; "There comes the carriage 1". exclaimed thoughtless Alice, presently, clapping her hands. , , ' . ' A look from her sister reminded her at once of the tidings which our visitor must needs have to tell us, and the poor girl (who has as loving a heart as any of us) hung her head down, and let fall her vail, one must have been mistaken, however, about the carriage, as it must have by this time emerged round the corner of the rock. . Instead of this, a solitary horseman, Herbert, showed himself. ' "Arden is not come on," cried he, "but I have seen him; he has brought the best Of news, the very best : the baby is saved Ellen is sav edCharley is saved : the rajah took the very great est care ot the whole family. JNowi don t get white and foolish, Janet, or I will tell you no more news." . ' "They are here," musmured Janet, faintly; "they are all here, I know.".- , ,' - 'l "Well, dearest, I was going to tell you that myself: they are waiting round the chff yonder, till you have quite made up your minds to see them.' . : And there in very truth they were the three : the crowing baby, the fair wife, and our own Charley, safe in their island home. Thanks be to Heaven, . we had indeed a time of great joy. I would that by every English hearth, this year, the vacant chairs had been as blithely filled 1 ; .. '. ; ....-; '-s " g" The late Vice. President of the Illinois Central Railroad, whose salary was $10,000, claims $160,000 in addition, for his services in England in purchasing iron and selling bonds.; ',.:.'.:-..'

NO. 12.

: m - j MR. MORRILL'S LAND BILL. , i ' ' ! Washington, April 24, 1858. : ' The remark of The Tribute's special correspondent, that Mr. Morrill's Land bill is " the wisest and tnost useful measure proposed in Congress," is scarcely an exaggeration, it we take into view the immense and far-reaching advantages that may accrue to the country if the provisions of the bill are carried out faithfully in accordance with its spirit and design. As in some respects the bill, as it passed, was different from the report of it sent to the Associated Press, I will briefly recapitulate its feature.., It grants to the several States 5,920,000 acres of land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 20,000 acres for each Senator and Representative, to which the State is now entitled. ' ' This, for example, would give Massachusetts 260,000 acres, Vermont 100,000, New-York 700,000, and Ohio 460,000. ' Whenever there are public lands in a State worth $1 25 an acre (the value to bo determined by the Governor of the State), the quantity to which the State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands. To States in which there are no public lands of the value of $1 25 an acre., the Secretary of the Interior is directed toissue bind scrip to the amount of their shares' in acres, said scrip to be so'd by the States, and the proceeds to be applied to the use and purposes prescribed in the act, and for no other uses or purposes whatever. All the expenses of the management and sale of the lands are to be paid by the States out of their' own treasuries, so that the entire proceeds of the lands given in the United States shall be applied to the purposes ot the bill. ' The money deriyea from the sale of these lands shall be so invested as to 1 constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished and , the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one College, where the leading object shall be, without excluding scientific or other classical studies, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. ' If any portion of the fund be diminished or lost it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished. No portion of the fund or of the interest shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the pur- ' chase, erection, preservation or repair ot any building or buildings. " But a sum not exceeding ten per cent upon the amount received by any State may be , expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective Legislatures of said States. ' ' ' ...... ; Mr. Morrill began his speech in support of the bill by saying, that no measure for years had received so much attention, so far as the fact can be proved by petitions from the various States, North and South, from State societies, from county societies and from individuals petitions which came in almost every day in the session. T ' ," . ' 1 ' " ' , , . We expend millions to protect and promote commerce through lighthouses, coast surveys, improvement of harbors, and through our navy and naval academy. We make immense grants of lands to railroads toopea new fields of internal trade. We secure to literary labor the protection of copyright. We encourage the growth and discipline of seamen through government bounties. ' We secure to ingenuous mechanics high profits by our system of copyright , We make munificent grants to secure general education in all the new States. But all direct encouragement to agriculture ' has been1 rigidly withheld. ' Ceres does not appear among the gods of our Olympus she is only seen in a picture on one of our Treasury Notes. . .. ' 7 While we are in advance of the world in many of the useful arts, it is a humiliating fact that we are far in the rear of the best husbandry in Europe, and that our tendency is downward, not upward. ', The pros perity and happiness of a large and populous nation depend ': . ' "" ' ' ' ' 1 ' " ' ' . ' . . .''". ''' I. Upon the division of the land into small parcels., ' H.' Upon the education of the proprietors of the soil. If it be true' that the common mode of cultivating the soil in all parts bf our country is so defective as to make the 'soil poorer year by year, it is a most deplorable fact, and a fact of national concern. ' If we are steadily impairing the natural productiveness of the soil, it is a national waste, compensated only by private robbery. : What are the facts ? ' ' . , r " '. In New-England the pasture-fed stock is not on the increase, and sheep-husbandry is gradually growing of less importance, excepting perhaps in Vermont and New-Hampshire. The wheat crop, once abundant, is wow inconsiderable. The following table will exhibit something of the depreciation of the crops in ten years : -Wheat bush , -Potatoes bush.i.;t:. 1840. 1850.' 1840. , 3.414,238 5.385,054 1 ' 911.973 "fi,2"6,606 10.392,880 8,1)69,751 1850. 2.689,805 3,385,384 651,029 4,304.910 '3.43ti,04Q 4.951,014 Conneoticut. ' 41,000 :. 31,811 49 185.(158 535,055- - Massachusetts,.. Khode Island..;..-. New -Hampshire.. Maine. ... 4. Vermont. ......... - TotaUJ.1;..';:. 157.92 , 3,0I8 . 452, '14 , 848,168 ;495,800 .2,014,111 1,090,132 35,180,500 19,418, 111 'In many of the Southern States the decreasing production is equal marked : . Wheat, bush. "Wheat, bush.' -') .1 1840. . 4.509,692 4.803,152 . 1.SO1.830 . 838; 052 1850. 1,019,385 2,142,822 I,0f-'8,534 iiH4,044 : Tennessee..,, Kentucky. Georgia....'. . . Alabama...... Total,. 12,012,726 ,. ... 6,144,796 These figures, after all proper allowances for errors and a short crop, establish conclusively that in all parts of our country important elements in the soil have been exhausted, and that its fertility, in spite of all improvements, is steadily sinking. The number of sheep in the State of New York had decreased so that there were nearly 300,000 less than there were thirty years ago. Within a period, of five years the decrease has been nearly fifty per cent, while the decrease ia the number of horses, cows and swine is above fifteen per cent. In 1845,. the product of wheat was 13,381,770 bushels. It has steadily declined since, until the pro. duct of the; past year did not exceed 6,000,000 busheby The average yield of corn per acre in 1844 was 24,75 per bushel, but in 1854 it was only 21,02 bushels. ' ' ' '.' -1 t The average crop of wheat in Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina for 1850 was only seven bushels per acre. And even the largest average crop of any State in thie Union, that of Massachusetts, was but 16 bushels per acre. , And this, with the leanest soil, proves her agricultural science to be far in advance of her sis-, ter States. . While the crop of cotton in the new lands' of Texas and Arkansas was 700 to 750 lb. per acre, it, was but 320 lb. per acre in the older cultivated fields of South Carolina. . ; ...'. , In Virginia, the crop of tobacco in , 1850 was less than that' of 1840 by over . eighteen million pounds. No crop has proved more destructive to the fertility of the soi than the tobacco crop, and this staple . commodity, unless a cheap and effective remedy can, be found, must be either banished or it will banish the cultivators. In this State where tobacco, corn and wheat have been continued for a century, many districts are no longer cultivated. Liebig says, that from every, acre of this land, there were removed in the space of, one hundred years, twelve hundred pounds of alkalias in leaves, grain and straw. While the , yield of, wheat has increased in England to thirty bushels per acre, it has sunk to seven in Virginia. ' '. Even in Ohio the wheat crop is already less remunerative than formerly, and fields long cultivated are given up to' pasturage. In Indiana; Kentucky and H-