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me davpunUh them for fhrfr tiMthe east In 1558 it varied (London)poIes attroct d homogeneous onw anics and their blasphemies. There- to the east U 15. This declinationlrepeel eacfc otter.

one

lanics and their blasph

fore they endeavour to persuade themselves, there is neither a Providence nor a God. Through the corruption of their hearts, aud being

Poetrv.

THE STREAM OF TIME.

ITriiitn by an aged man on th bank of

Cunnecttcut hivcr.

How sweet the stream of time ap

pear.

Which glides alone this vale of tears,'

To waft away our woes! Ah! like vou lovelv frozen stream.

The current of life's plea-ant dream.

Congeal'd by sorrow hows.

ceased in Europe about the midle ofl

the seventeenth century wnen it ppmide due north and south. Soona fter this

it declined, towards the west. Of late

iven orcr to n reprobate mind, they this declination has been diminishing

are so unfortunate as to succeed in

W -- . I Agricultural.

Delightful river! where I ?ing, Thy tace shall feel returning spring. To et the current free, But a!i! the frost of winteryage, Which hinds me w ith its icy rage, Admits no spring for me.

On these lov'd banks I once have seen All nature deck'd with summer green, 'Midst warmth of kindred friends: Though these are constant, some

have fled ;

their endeavours ; and by such as they

can reduce to a like decree of despe

rate wickedness, they ma be accounted w ise men. He knows a day is coming when his vengeance will

cause them to feel the truths which

no evidence would induce them to believe. The greatest and best persons of all ages have believed in "a God who governed the world," and wherein can the wisdom of man consist hut in observing and studying the works, and dispensations of that God from the beginning to this day? How senseless is the man, who passes his life w ithout attending to them. By his mercies and his judgements doth

our God continually speak to us, & Mgnifv his mind, and show forth the glories of his kingdom, for which we

are ever more bound to praise him.

and the needle is now declining to the ULTJyATI0N Qp TOBACCO.

uui uj x ins aeviuiiuii nuutiti

b i

By Peter Minor, Esq. of Virginia. From the Farmer.

is

subject to frequent variation. Pro

fessor Oersted in a paper published

by the Royal Society of Copenhagen, has observed, that during the day,

the western deviation is greatest a

bout two in the afternoon; and its

greatest annual one in the month o

September. Colonel Beaufy ob

served, that the magnetic variation

to the westward of true north had

increased till February and March 1819; when it arrived at maximum Since then it has uniformly decreas

ed. The western variation has been of the first importance, and worthy

on the increase since 1657. of great attention. An intelligent

Rccunero informed Brvdon. that friend, and judicious planter, sug

the needle unon Mount Etna, soon ires ts the following as the best mode

after the eruption of 1755, was aei- of making and preserving an artih

tated with much violence for some cial bed Choose a piece of ground

OP REARING TOBACCO PLANTS. A great scarcity of original land

suitable for raising tobacco plants, beginning to prevail in the tobacco region, the difficulty of obtaining such spots, has induced the planters

ot late years to turn tncir attention to the construction of artificial and

nermanent beds. This is a matter

r

state) to be destroyed b v hV

ii ii autre,'

ing cow weatner. rota (hi, 1

time: and then lost its magnctical

rhe works of the Lord arc great, power entirely. On the iron Moun-

xought out, studied and traced bvjtainof Southern Africa, belonging

all them thathae pleasure therein.

Diligently to mark, and carefully to treasure up in our minds, the special providence of the Almighty is the

way to preserve and nourish our faith

to the Kora Hottentots, the. needle, by being placed on fragments of a

rock, points differently on dillernt

fragments. On some it loses its polarity entirely, on others it points to

and hone in him: it furnishes the'the south; on some it vibrates with

grounds of our thankfulness Sc praise .'great celerity. At sea, near a cer

tain part of the island of St. Elba, mariners steer without a compass, which is also sensibly affected in the

isle of Canny, one of the Hebrides

itrirsup our finest feeling and vc

ry best affections towards him, holy joy, humble reverence, and hearty love; it supports us under all our sufferings, affords us comfort in all our

a

orrows. hen adversity dtcssi s

Like snow, now o'er that river's bed,j,;mi upon a n,arij wwn jle Stripped As cold their kindness ends. Qf us possession, and threatened

with torture; when enemies persecute and friends betray or forsake, or pain and sickness harrass him upon his bed, and sleep departs from his

eyelids gracious Lord, what shall

The trees that decorate the land, Which on the river's margiu stand, Shall see a vernal bloom; But withered as I am. alas! Must hasten down time's current pass And sink within the tomb. Those rocky hills that few can climb. No watery stream, nor stream of time Can there foundation move:

But lime s vast stream may soon

convey,

tacn kmurca incnd to ncavan a-

wav, Where flows eternal love.

at the foot of a hill fronting to the east or south east, and so situated with respect to water, that a small

stream may be trained along the up-

until it is to be hill u 13

may be kept light and cleaf) harrows, when a third pl0QJ!) and a third plastering 0f one 5 per acre is performed the cron 0 then be cultivated in the usual 5

OP PRIMING AND T0PIiyo A practice has prevailed !

extent for several years, and is5 atantly becoming more common not priming or pulling off any 0f bottom leaves of tobacco when ? plant is to Xy: topped. Some J reason?, Aibnnttare given for 3 innovation he old DnrfJ

ii i'si 'tc, me pulling, these leavrvWkcs many rou:

wnicn arc mought to produce at, porary check in the growth 0f-

uany inoumer away, and dron

nuwui .lusummz mucu sod fi . . r ''I

uic putm, ana protect those av them, from decay and dirt, art practice is said to have the effee" lessen, in a treat decree, thp r

trusion of suckers from the root. j topping can certairdy be done

expeditiously, tho' I presume atfi?

per margin of it. If the soil is unfit'it would require more care ari

for raising plants, which I have be

fore described as a rich loam, with

a slight mixture of sand, cart prop

er soil from some other place and

tention, as the required number leaves arc to be left exclusive ... i. i. ii

mose, which in me common r-

would be primed off. I cannot s

cover tho ground Cor 8 inches thickjat all from experience, about

with it. Make a low wall of stone, i v j .1 i i .. -r

iions me enus ar.u luwtr siuc oi uiu

keep this soil in its place.

r?

ied to

Then !)iiru the ground and manage

as well as on several of the hills ofjit in -every respect as in the case of

Australia, where it flies round with velocity, and suddenly settle at op-

While on Connecticut"- fair bank, Through age and grief I sit a blank. A id view the froz.en flood; Though scrrow drowns my carlv I ve, faith and hope are fix.d above. Where dwell-, niv Saviour r;oD.

clieating and thicveing, of perjury, . -

robbery and murder, melts away

vanishes into nothing.

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Ef tract ft i m C'Aspcr Happy !!i"in in wlio sees a God cmployed In all the good Sc ill that rhequcr life! Resoh ing all events witli their elTt ctA; d in tli results, into the will A' d arnitratiod of the wise Supreme Did not his eye rule all things, and intend The least ofour concerns, (since from the lcat The greatest oft originates;) could chance Find place in his dominions, or dispose

One lan h s particle to thwart hisplan

Then God m uht be surprised, and

unforeseen

Contingei cc might alarm him, and

disturh

The smooth and equal course of his

affairs. .

hecorne ol him, there is no help forjthrough runnels in the ice. Two him in his God; that there is neitherjGrcenlacd ships having entered DaRedecmer nor Creator; that the uni-jves Straits, they pursued their course verse is the sport of contending dem-till thev reached an opening; which

ons; a scene of ravage and desolation, they supposed was Lancaster Sound, and instead of being "full of the lov-jDuring their slay on tliis part of the ing kindness of the Lord" is pcopled,coat it was discovered, that the cornonly with fiends and furies? Before pass of both ships, whenever thev an-

guilt of this infernal die, that ofjproached within live or -ix miles of

the north shore, which is rugged and mountainous lo?t their magnetic virtue entirely; standing in any direction to which they were placed without indicating the least appearance of attraction either one wav or the other. But as soon as the ships reached beyond five or six miles from the land towards the middle of the Straits, the needles again acquired:

their usual power, and exercised it

without meeting any apparent ob

struction. Lieut. Parry left England in Mnv

1810. lie followed capt. Rs track inf.. rv...: ' c. r I- . i

anew Deo. uy me am oi me water

for irrigation and the eastern ex-

positc points, the north point turn- posure, the plants will most gener-

ing south. Mr. Mcbrideand captain ally be insured in good time. After Ross state, that the needle loses its the planting season is over, weed magnetic virtue in Davis' Straits; in the bed clean, and destroy every consequence of which the whale.specics of vegetation upon it, and

captains steer by the land, and'eover the wtiolc surface with litter

from the stable after the manner we

method but I think it is worth

trial. Or CURING EY TIRE. An improved method of firing bacco, particularly as it respects

diminution of risk and the econc

ot luel, has begun to be adoptee

some judicious planters, in this p.

oi the iuntry. lhat is, to m-

the fire on the outside, say frcn to 20 feet from the house, and

convey the heat by a regular t

built oi stone or bnck, coine u

ground and opening in the middk

Horn'e.

PASSAGE OF TUT RKO SEA. On the passage of the Israelites

through the Red Sea, Joscphus says

there were 60.000 horses, and 200,-

000 foot drowned in pursuit of I-rael. The Israelites amounted to C00.000 effective men, besides women and children and aged men. A modern writer says, the place where it is supposed the Israelites passed, the sf,a is not quite twelve miles broad, i" t!i channel therv.- is about fourteen fathoms of water, and nine at the sides. Bruce the celebrated travel-

do asparagus beds in the winter, or with half rotted wheat straw so thick

as to preven

JFi.,B . gupun u. i-ei u Thc fire is made in the mouth of

in us coverea until me next

the house. Two of these flues

' , n" gcianon irom housc of 0 feet e cr R

or

into Davis7 straits to Ballin's bav:

.and through Lancaster Sound, pro

ceeded westward until he reached

ij wet longitude, on the 23th ofiticularlv about iho Gmnn Mmmmin

Icrsays that Diodorus affirms thatjSeptembcr. Here he was stoppedja region celebrated for raising to-'

bacco of the urst quality, have ascer

main

winter, when the time for burning

and sowing arrives, when the litter

or straw is to be removed very clean and may be made to enrich some other ground, and the stop burnt and treated as heretofore directed. After the first year the burning may

not be so heavy. I have no doubt but a bed constructed and treated in this manner, will produce good plants for many years. Perhaps it

may become tired or sick of plants, from the want of some rotation, or

from too great an accumulation of

charcoal on its surface, ia which case it will he easy to remove the earth and substitute fredi soil in its place.

RAISING TOBACCO OS OLD LAND.

Some planters in Albemarle, par

fiue, on the outside, after the q

ner of burning a brick kiln. By draft of air, which goes const; to support this fire, all the he: carried into the house, witta of the risk or danger, which art; the common mode. The h should he made tight and close.

indeed every house should be, t

is at all used for tiring.

flwk mi1 irnnAiia

ntw iiiuitiiuus iiiiuniiuiius ui iiuiij".' "' mni, um uc GUI I11S way. very spot had a tradition from fatherjtwo miles through the ice, and got to son, from their very earliest andji a harbour of an island w hich he

remotest ages, that once this division'called .Melville Island. In flii ;nt

Miscellaneous.

OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE.

He is not a man of sense who de-

nies either the Being or the Providence of God; there is no wisdom in

Atheism; it is "the fool" who "says in his heart there is no God." And

sure ly to imagine, that he who made

the world, which he hath made it.

should dcliverit up, to chance and fate, is an opinion equally foolish with the other. There are some

mho well know, thai if there be a God, and if he observes and takes cognizance of human affairs, he must

of the sea did happen here, the wordsjhc stopped till the first of August iniplaster, will produce as good tobac

oi mis aumor are oi tnc most remark-i" lonowing year, when the ice able kind, we cannot think this Pa-! broke. In this voyage lieut. Parrv

gan is writing in favor of revelation, observed, that the magnet held a va

he knew not IVIoses, nor says a word riaton of 126 west, and only about about Pharaoh and his host, yet re- 150 miles farther of 123 east; so that

cords the miracle oi the division of snip secm3 to have made a circuit

the sea in words nearly as strong as

unbiassed and undesigned pagans.

VERY GOOD.

An Irish CounceLor having lost a cause, w hich had been tried before three judges, one of whom was esteem

ed a very able lawyer, and the othertwobut indillbrcnt, some of the other barristers were very merry on the occasion. Well, now, says he, who could help it, when there was an hundred Judges on the bench. An hundred said a stander by, there were but three. By Saint Patrick, replied he, there was one and two cv-

L.i

jmcrs.

THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE

In the early records of observation

round the magnetic pole, which some

those of Moses, from the mouths of have supposed to be situated on the bacco, now remains to be cleared.

American continent between the lonir

itudes of 90 and 120, and below the latitude of 70. It maybe here oh-

served, that Barlow 1ms recently dis 1 A 1 . A A I J

tained that their old laral, which had b eon once exhausted, but made rich again by the use of clover and

co in every respect, as that raised on their best new or fresh land, Tl lis is considered by the planters among the most important advanta-

that ges they at all derive from the intro

duction of the plaster, for a very small portion of first rate land for to-

powcr. llns was discovorprl hv

Morrichini of Rome. Mr. Ridolfi

in mc eany records of observation and their points turn invariably to the magnetic ocedlc declined toward the north. Their hlLZ

An eminant planter from the neich

borhood I have mentioned, describes f the summer and all the following as the process hc pur-'ap oozieg down gradually.!

loii l.if cnrn I lie. JimDS OI au -

- - - r - , .. i .

v i

sues, on such land with great suc-

GIRDLING FRUIT TREES.

As the practice of girdling t

trees is little known amonc; us,h

to call the attention of Farmers

v hen your apple, pear, plumK

peach trees are full in the bios?: take a sharp knife, cut round the ti

and take out the outer and in

bark, a quarter of an inch wid?

scrape out every thing until 1

conic to the white wood. iou

find that trees which usuallv t

their fruits will retain and br:

them to perfection. Take care i

to girdle too, wide. The doctr is, that the sap of trees goes up the wood and down in the ba:

when it comes lo this incision itM

and remains in the branches. I tr

it last year by girdling some lirj and leav ing others. The diffcrej in quality and quantity of fruit i i I fin A this nrinli

girdled limbs are much fuller blossoms than the others. The

cision will heal over in the coc

covered that the magnetic quality of cess. Supposing the ground to be

ii on ivaiuca wnoiiy m the surface. Thus an iron shell weighing ten

pounus, win act as poweriullv as an iron ball of one hundred times its

weight, having the same external di

mensions. It lias also been lately as-

t-L ii.uueo, uiai me vioict rays of the

well set with clover, do not suffer it

to be grazed after hay harvest, that a good coat may accumulate for

turning in. In October or Novem

tr tchirh never lipid Hi tTUH

half an inch wide, that limJ1

fine apples, the others none, incision is not now healed ore

any part, and I find that limb luM

bcr, plaster the land at the rate of! blossoms and the others not. I

one bushel per acre, and follow it

as deep and as well as a good 3 horse

prismatic spectrum have a magnetic plough will effect it. In February

a l . . .

ormarcn, take advantage of an open

spcii oi wncather, and plough it

also proved, that needles, magnetized gain with two horses, first strewinOV flitter rnva linva 4l.. . A .1 -

-j ...v.o mu jjropeny oi

iiwuios nmgneuaea ov menna nf n

loadstone. They vibrate on a Divot

another bushel of plaster nor aero.

This ploughing besides completely

puivunsing tnc earth, and dittusing

me accomposed vegetable matter,

twwol lir lirrh n-nnld f?lP! Dl'

looks as nourishing as the oW

it mav heal over this srrir.c)1

would not recommend girdlicgH

wide.

Humility does not consisting ing our faults, but in bearing tjj

L"IU UI IIIVIII, ttllU til 3

nortls ineir hetcrogeneouerpot the cut wrm (chrysalislpatieotly aud even thankfully