The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 January 1842 — Page 2

Trenton to be supplied from Mt. Pleasant, 9 roilee and back, oncc a week. Waterloo to be supplied from Cambridge, 5 miles imd back.once a week-

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casa,

P°i'7.

,uly

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1. Seven minutes arc allowed for opening nnd cubing the.mailB at all offices, where no particular im tie specified but on railroad and giearnboa. rou_ •fa there is to be no more delay than isneccssary to del. er aid receive the bags. 2. The mail is to be conwycd in presence to pas.sengers, and to their entire exclusion, if its weight and bnlkrequire it 3. A preference to be given to passengers brought ht the connecting mail lines over those traveling in

Post Office blanks, mail bacs and special agenta of the Department, on the exhibition of their credentails, are to be conveyed without further chargc on «. mail lines admiting of such conveyance 5. Mail agents are to be convey*^ without charge the principle railroad and steamboat line*, where the size of the mails and the number of of the offices ». will require their employment by the Department and in that case a separate apartment for the assort ing and safe-keeping of the mail is to be provided by the contractor unuer the direction of the Depart-

6. In all cases, there is to be a forfeirure of the pay of the trip, when the trip is not run a forfeiture ot at least one-fourth part of it, when the running_ val is so far behind time as to loose

,h« 0""®c'lr°o"

with a deoending mail and a forfc:lt".rf' :„fe. portion of it, when a

grade

for conveying1it in P,ace

of ?ervice enrlcred .nle

nor to that in the contract. Tb«e to

incraeed into penalties of higher "importthe nature orfVequcncy of the failure and the import ance of the mail.

any

man"cr t.I,al

it to depredation, loss, or injury for re tisctn?

disadvantages will be estimated in comparing it with other proposals. ,., 1G. There should be but one route bid for in a pro-

The route, the service, ihe yearly pav, the bidder's nnmeand residence, and the "rune ber of the firm, where a company oners, should he disin at 18. The following is the form of the guaranty which •houfd be filled, the first blank with the name of the guarantor, the second with that of the bidder, and the third and fourth with the beginning and terminating points of the mute and after being dated, should be signed by the guarantor, who must be shown by the written certificate of a postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, and able to make good his guaranty. This guaranty, so certified, should accompany each bid. "The undersigned guaranties that lus bid for carrying the mail from to be accepted by the Postmaster General, shall enter into nn obli•it'ion prior to the 1st day of July next,with good and sufficient sureties, to perform the service proposed.

IsP^The hkTshouM be sent under seal.nddwwed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the Siato of written on the race ot the letter and should be despatch**! in tim« to hereceived by or before the Uth April next, at 3 o'clock,

subscribers

HE undersigned

5E&

art|t (^r_*

mand, to convev a mail by. any coach, railroad car -or steamboat, which the contractor regular\y runs or the route, beyond the specified number of trips in the contracts and for not arriving at the time set. And tor settingup or runing an express to transmit commercial intelligence in advanceol the rmil, a penalty will be exacted equal to a quarter's pay. 8. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failutes f*-r violating the lost Office law for disobeying the instructions ot the Department for refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the Department f.»r assigning the contract without the consent nt the Postmaster General, or for selling up or running an express as atore*

"o^The Postmaster General ma /alter the contract and alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata "jcreawol comnensmion, witliin the restrictions imposed bylaw, fortiie additional service required, or for the increased oneed, if the employment of additional siock or earners rendered necessary hut the conlrnctor may, in such

relinquish the contract, on timely nonce, lie nrefcrs it to th' chanse. He may also discontinue or curtail the service, he allowing one month extra pay on the amount dispensed with. \„r,a 10. The payments will be made through _drafts on Posis office* or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter, say in February, May, August, and November. .i„u«-t n. 11. Thodiftancosare aivcn according to the nr. in formation hut no increswl pay will be ntl.'vyed ishout they prove to be greater than is advertised, it the places are correctly named. 12. The Postmaster (iencral is prohibited by law from knowlingly makinga con.rnct for the 'ranspo-ta tion of the mail wHh any person who shall ha\e entered into any combination, or p.oposed to enter into any combination, to prevent tlie making of any bid lor a rrnil contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any atrreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to givn or |icriorni, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything whatever to induce nnj/ other person not to bid for a man contract 13. On coach ronton where t!« present contractor shall be superceded by an underhidder. wh«» may not have the stago property requisite for the perlormance of the contract he shall purchase from the present contractor such of his coaches, teams, and harness belonging to tho route as shall be needed, and may bo suitable for the service, at a fair valuation sn'l make payment therefor by reasonable instalments, as hiapay becomcs due, unless the present contractor shall continue to run stages on the route, should thoy not agree as to the suitableness of ihn property, the terms, or the security, cacti

may

choose

person

who may appoint a third, and their decision shall be Itnal or the Postmaster General will name the umpire. Should tho underhidder fail to comply, Ins bid will be ofiered to the contractor but should lie decline it, the nropsals of th? iindcrbidiler will bo accepted unconditionally. The nndcrbidder should give early nonce of his intention to take or not to take the stock, and il ttie latter, of lii" reasons and the present contractor is to determine, on the first application, wether lie will sell it 14. A bid roccived after tune, to wit: the Hili April next at 3 m, or without the guarantee required by law or that combines several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in competition with a regular proposal, not adjutlgedcd to be extravagant. 15. A bidder may oflVron coach, railroad,or steamboat routes, where that transportation is difficult or impracticable rt certain seasons, to substitute horse or wagon conveyance, or to intermit service, a sprcilicd number of days. woeks,or months. He may propose, to onnt an office that Sa inaccessible, or is not on the stage road, the railway,or at a steamboat landing, as the case may or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode ot supply in such cases. He may propose different days and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail connection or other public accommodation is prejudiced. He may ask for a specified number of days Tor more running time to the trip at certain seasons or peculiar bad roads. But beyond these changes, a proposal Tor service different from the advertisement will prevent its being considered in competition with a regular bid, not set aside for extrvagance and where bid contains anv of tho above nl'P™".®"8

thft^

90. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st

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From the Ladtf* Companion.

THOU HAST LEFT ME TO MY SORROW. BY AUSTIX PHILLIPS. Tliou hast left rae to my sorrow,

And withdrawn thy love from me But my mem'ry still mus: borrow AH its dearest thoughts from thee: .?• Though I know that I am fading, 'Neath a cold world's bitter blast, And they tell me 'tis degrading, *.

Yet I'll love theeto the last-

Where thy false vows first wwre plightetl, It were needless now to tell» How my constant heart wasslichted,

Thou can'et yet rememlier well: But I mean not to upbraid thee, May'st thon never knoif the smart. When some false one has Wtray'd twee,

Of a fond and doting heart. On the path of pleasure hieing, Whilst it brightens in thine eve, May no thought of her now dying,

Wake

And often at the dewy morn, Just as the red'Hinff ray Shot irom the chajriot of the sun,

Betokened coming day: I'd hie mc to my glad retreat, To that old elm I'd stray— And by that bw and humble seat,

J'd kneel me down and pray. And at the sultrv hour of noon,^ I'd seek itscooling shade, And listen to the joyous sound,

fair lanv!

and

a A. WICKLIFFE.

PwTOmc* DwAimrcirr, Dec. 14, 1841.

XF.W PAPEK ^111^.

TOTtlK MRRCH ANTS AND TRADERS OF TI1E WABASH VAI.I.EY.

THR

,WSlowfy

have erected a large PAPER

MILL at Lafarette, Indiana, and have sparrd no in obtaining the most approved Machinery tft»d

StHl fwtTVhe''&"mrf 'prepared to supply the mtire IVabatk with every kind of most favorable term. The fneodaof Home Industry and Western Enterprise, are invited ami to save their Raw. which will be received in ex change for Paper or Cash wnRS

Jan. 1,1842-17-1 THOMAS & A.NPr^s

NEW FIIMt.

have

entered into partnership un-

-l dcrthemma and atyle of Blake & Bourne. nd have taken the old wand of Groverman &. Bourne, on the north sidcorthe pnblic squftre, wheretf»y#t*now opening an extensive assortment of Dry Go jd», liaro* ware and Groceries, the greater part of which has just been received from the Eistern cities. Thay will sell upon very accommodating terms, and invite their friends and tho public g«"y^«

T. J. BOURNE.

Terre-Hautt, No.S*-13-tf

mssolHiian of partnership. ffMIEpartnerahipof Grovermsn & Bourne, istbis day dissolved by mutual conaent. and the bussneaaof the firm placed in the hands of Tho. J. Boorae, tor final settlement, to whom all indebted *ill p'ease apply aud make payment

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as soon as practicable.

the same mmtt be closed

CHAS. GROYERMAN. T.J. BOURNE.

Terra-Haute.Nov. 24-13-tf

Wor Rent.

A toMPORTABLE

two Stnry dwellittfr can He

V»- rooted, if application be made soon. It is ennviolently situated in the business nan of Town. Gall at tha COURIER OFFICE

T«r«'ltiaii,DK 11,11111-M-ti.

5^ r.

thy bosom's faintest sigli

But should sorrow overtake thee, S And thy dreams of pleasure flee. When at night thy grief awakes thee,

Think of those thou gav'st to me.

From the Lady'* Boh.

TIIE GLAD iXETREAT. BY E. G. 8QCIER.

Beneath an elm, a green old elm, I raised a rustic seat The bows low drooping o'er my head,

The green grass at my feet The. sparkling streamlet passing by,

With voic* so cleat and «weet The air-ppriie's low and mournful sigh-

Ob!'twas a glad retreat!

The little streamlet made. ... And watch the bright birds glancing throiigli. The branch, told and young. And wondered as they gaily flew,

What was the song tney sung. But time has passed, those days are gone, Ay more -long years have fled! Any lying o'er the fhtle brook,

A wither'd trunk and-dead. But memory often wanders back, On Fancy'8 piniens free, That glad retreat I'll ne'er forget

Beneath the old elm tree.

THE FORSAKEN GIRL. BY JOHN G. WH1TTIEK,

"They parted as all lovers partShe with her wronged and broken heart But he, rejoicing that lie is free,

Bounds like the captive Irom his chain, And willfully S elievmg she Ilatli found her liberty again "-L. h. Lrindon. II there is any act which deserves deep and bitter condemnation, it is that of trifling with the inestimable gift ol woman's affection. The female ',eart may be compared to a delicate harp—over which the breathings ol early affections wander, until each tender cord is awakened to

tones

of ineffable sweetness.

It is the music of the soul which is thus called forth a music sweeter than the fall of mountains or the song of Honri in the Moslem's Paradise. But wo for the delicate fashioning of that harp if a changes passes over the love which first called forth its hidden hat monies. Let neglect and cold nnkindness sweep over its delicate string, and they will break one after another, -slowly perhaps—hilt surely. Unvisited and unrequited bv the light of love, the soul-like melody will be hushed in the stricken bosom—like the mysterious harmony of the Egyptian statue, before coming ol the sunrise. 1 have been wandering among the graves -the lonely and solemn graves. I love at times to do so. 1 feel a melancholy not unalticd to pleasure in communing with tlie resting-place of those who have gone before mc—to go forth alone among the thronged tombstones, rising from every grassy undulation like the jihonly senlinels of the departed. And when 1 kneel Above the narrow mansion of one whom I have known and loved in life I feel a strnnae assurance that the spirit ol the sleeper is near me—a viewless and ministering angel. It is a beautilul

philosophy,

which has

found its way unsought for and mysteriously into the silence of niy heart—and if it be only a dream the unreal imagery of fancy—_! pray God that I may never awaken from the beautiful delnsion.

I have been this evening by the grave of hmily. has a plain white tombstone half hidden by flowers and you may read its mournful epitaph in the clear moonlight, which falls upon it

like the

smile of an angel,

through nn opening into the drooping branches. lt«mily was a beautiful girl—the fairest of our village maidens. 1 think I see her now. as she looked when the loved one—the idol of her effect ion—was nearer her with his smile of conscious triumph and exulting love. She had then but eighteen summers, and her whole being seemed woven of the dream of her first passions. The object of her love was a proud and way ward being whose haughty spirit never relaxed from us habitual sternness, save when tie lound himself in the presence of the young and beautilul creature, who had trusted her all upon the "venture of a vow," and who loved him with the confiding earnest ness of a pure and devoted heart Nature had deprived him of the artvantages of outward grace and beauty and it was the Abiding consciousness of this, which gave to his intercourse with society a character of pride and sternness. He felt himself in some degree removed from his fellow men by the partial fashioning of nature: and he scorned to seek a nearer affinity, ilis mind was of an exalted bearing, and prodigal of beauty, the flowers of poetry were in his imagination a perpetual blossoming and it was to his intellectual beauty that Emily bent down—bearing to the altar of her idol the fair flowers of her affection—even as the dark eyed daughters of Gheber spread out their offerings from the gar-

dens ol the East upon the althr of the Sun. There is a surpassing strength in a love like that of Rmily's-ii has no'hing gross, nor low, nor earthly its vearnings- it has its source in the deeper fountains of tlie human heart--and is such as the redeemed and

of spirits. Alas—that such love should be

unrequited or turned hack in coldness and darkness upon the crushed heart of its giver! They parted—Emily and her lover—but not before they had vowed eternal constancy to each other. The one retired to the quiet of her home to dream over again th«scenes of her early passion-to count with

untirin2%gernes9

World

the hours of separation—and to

weep over the long interval of ''hope deferred." The other went with a strong heart to mingle with the

girded with pride and impelled forward by ambition. lie found the world cold and callous and his own spirit insensibly took the hue of those around him He shot his eves upon the past—it was too pure Stoop Yorktown,

mildlv beautiful, ami holy as it was pure—he skwp St. Louis, turned not back to the young and lovely and devoted Sloop Cyene ffirl who had poured out to him in the confiding earof woman's confidence tho wealth of heraf-

nestness of woman*sconfld©ice .... fec^on. fie iamc not ba*jt to ftilfil the vow whtfh he

and painfully the knowledge of her lover*

infidelity came over the sensitive heart ot Emily- fche sought for a time to shut out the homb suspicion from het mind—she half donbted the evidence of her own senses-shecould not believe that he was a traitor -for her memory had treasured every token of affectjon—every impassioned word and every endearing smile of his tenderness. Bat the troth came at last— the doubtful spectre which had long haunted her and from which she had turned away, as if were sin to

wnfiden(io7oneVlo9e ho,^ a"re not of earth upon the dark valley of death, whose shadow was already

ull .Sn.mil. with.

^•ISSAASI®

,h. dMB'iim bw .r.n •y'-"*

Emily—I

lone thrown open

Involuntarily shall never forget jacboly mcmc wf

sephvr. words—1 like the low and raela tim« hear in dreams— "Oh—no—-I do not to die.

For hope and faith are bold. And life but a weariness— And earth it t»Wp In view of dearth'* |«IeaoliHjd«»

My spirit has not mourned— *Tis kinder than love* Or friendship onrewnml-

It seems a dreary thing to die Forgotten and alone--Unheeded by our dearest love—

The smiles and tears of onef Oh! plant my grave with pleaant flowers, The fairest of the fair— The vciy flowers he l.«cd twine

At twilight in my hair.

9h Pe chance he yet may visit them, •M And abed above my bier %. The boliwlt dew of funeral flowers—

Affections kindly tear!1!

mpn

It was the voice-of Em-ly—it was her l«t sone. She was leaning on the sofa as I entered the Mr-rt-

her thin white hand resting on ICr forehead. She rose and welcomed me with a melancholy smile. It played over her features for a moment, fhahing her cheek with a slight and sadden glow, and thai passed

away,

CPL

istratton of an angel of light and holiness. passing off to the land of spirits like the melting of a sunsetcloud into the blue of heaven—stealing from existence like the strain of ocean music, when it dies away slowly and sweetly upon the moonlight waters.

A few days after, I stood by the grave of Emily. The villagers had gathered together, one and all, to pay the last tribute of respect and affection to the lovely sleeper. They mourned her loss with a deep and

sincere

emotion—they marvelled that one sp young and so beloved should yield herself up to melancholy, and perish in the spring-time of her existence. But they knew not the hidden arrow which had rankled in her bosom—the slow and secret withering of fceart. She had borne the calamity in silence—in tho uncomplaining quietude of one, who felt that there axe *oes which may not ask for aympaihy—affliction which like the canker concealed in the heart of igme fair blossoms, ore discovered only by thc unti_mejy decoy of their victim.

COFFEE VS. LIQUOR.

The substitution in GreatBntain ofCoffeeforbeerard spirits, has increased its consumption to such an extent as to call tho attention of the Government to_ the propriety of reducing the duties on the importation of it, as one of the most efficient means of producing moral reform among the people. The examination before a parliamentary committee, of several of the keepers of modern Coflee houses in London, gives a curious and interesting view of the'progress of the habit of Coffee drinking ris a substitute for dram drinking II seems that there were not over ten or twelve of these Coffee shops in London, twenty-five years ago now they

nnmber

1800, and they are increasing at the rate of 100 a year. The price per cup tor Coffee is from 1 to 3d and one of the keepers who chargcs lid-p^up, tes tifies that he has from 1500 to 1800 persons at lis house cverv day.

The consumption or Coffee by thelabnnngjclasses in London, is shown by the examination of another witne$s—the proprietor of an extensive Coffee house.— The laboring man comes in the morning nt 4 o'clock, and has a cup of coffee ami a slice of bread and hotter, for which he pays lid and then again at 8 for his breakfast, he has a cup ol coffee, a penny loaf, and a penny woith of butter, which is 3d at I O'clock he comes again, and has his coffee, his bread and meat at this hour of the day there are upwards of one hundred dining in one room nt one time. These coffee houses are generally resorted to by all classes, and it has becomc fashionable and customary, to drink coffee and ask a friend to drink it with vou, in the place of liquor. The duties on coffee in England ore very high the duty on collonial being about 121 cents per lb. and on foreign coffee almost 30 cents. Even at these high duties a cup of coffee is sold at 3 cents, and the consumption is twenty-five millions of pounds annually- It is supposed that with a moderate reduction of duties, the consumption would be increased to one hundred millions of pounds-

In Ireland the relormation has been still more extraordinary through the exertions of Fat her Mat hew, the treat Temperance Reformer, millions have taken the n!eti«e of total abstinance, and these reformed drinkers are'aided in their resolutions by the free use of Coffee instead of Whiskey. In the district of Ireland under the influence of Father Matthew, in all public houses, coffee is used instead of whiskev.

We avail ourselves of the subject and give a few hints from a noted writer, ns to the most improved mode of preparing coffee. The excellence of the beverage depends in a great measure, on the skill ana at tention used in roasting coffee. If it be but too 1 ttie

roasted, it is devoid of flavor, and if loo ninth it becomes acrid, and has a disigreeab'.e burnt taste _while roasting, the grains should bo kept constantly agitated. Coffee "used as an infusion is decidedly preferable to when used as a decoction, both as regards flavor and strength. Coffee is generally used as a decoction, nnd boiled forborne time, under a mistaken notiolTthat nie" strength is better extracted, but the fact is the reverse.. Tho fine aromatic oil which produces the flnvor and 8trencrth of coffee is dispelled by noiling, nnd mucilage extrnctcd at the same time which makes it flat and weak. The best modes are, to pour boiling water through the coffee in a biggin or strainer, or to pour boiling water upon it. anil set it on the fire not to exceed ten minutes- These are the modes of preparing coffee adopted by the French, the greatest coffee drinkers in the world. Prepared in this manner, coffee is one of the most cordial and delicious rcstorri^iVes as most generally concocted with us, it is a nauseous and pernicious drug-—Macon Messenger. p.

WINTER EVENINGS

are

sanctified from earth might feel for one another, in the BRAZIL STATION—Commodore

mi the richgnrn dwelling of the I gratified by the result—and his hope of pcaoerested on I approached tfceqwet and weiaoea iwwnng oe American nat:on bad vindicated its own onoe happy

leaving in its stead the wanness and Stournful brantv of the dying. It has been said that death is oumx,— always terrible to look upon. But to the atricken farmers of that town could not raise barley withsucEmilv the presence of the destraver was like the min- cess, they sow barley and il aimes up oats. A sin-•-is. She was gular instance of this was lately mentioned by one of

-—Those engaged in the mechani

cal arts have but little time to devote to the cultivation of tlie mind. „,KbBut with the farmer, the case is happily far otherwise and where there is a disposition for improvement there is ordinarily no lack cither of leisure or the necessary means. Books are now so cheap—thanks to the fecundity of the press—that they are within the reach of every one. Elementary treatises and text books upon all the scienccs, as well ns work sofa more elaborate order, are now exhibited almost dally at the farmer's door. Newspaper, bearing the accumulated treasures of long experience and scientific research,

pouring in their emitting liaht from every quarter and at a price so easy, that all who arc disposed may read.

Disposition

of Ihe Naval Force of the United

States, in active service, Jan. 1,1842. MOM E SQU ADRON—Commodore Chas. STEWARTS Razee Independence, Frigate Columbia, Steamer Missouri, Steamer Mississippi, Sloop Vandalia, Sloop Falmouth, Brig Dolphin, Schooner Grampus,

Captain J. Gallagher. F. A. PjrkerJ. T. Newton.

W. D. Salter.

Commander W. Rtomsay. J. M. iHdntosh. Lt. Com. W. W. McKean.

G.I. Via Brunt.

CHAHLEJMORRIS.

Captain C. S. McCauley G. W. Storer. Commander W- J. Belt.

Shi p-of-t he-line Delaware, Frigate Potomac, Sloop Marion, Sloop Decatur, Sloop Concord, Schooner Enterprise, WEST INDIA STATION—Com.

H.W.Ogden. W. Boertim.

L. M-Goldsborough

JESSI: WILKINSOH.

Frigate Macedonian, Commodore J. Wilkinson. Sloop Levant, Commander A. 1-it Sloop Warren, G. L. Williamson. PACIFIC STATION—CemmodoreTti. A*

C- Joxi a.

Frigate United States, Captain J. A^nMtrong.

Commander F. Forrest aC. K- Stribbliag

SlofKi Dale .-C. Ganitt. SocrSl'mk, T.A.Dornm. MEDITERRANEAN STATION -ContortCut*.

W, MORflAJf*

Frigate Brandywtne Captain D. GetsijicerSloop Fairfield, Commander J^tnall. SlooJ Preble, R. Voosheea. EAST INDIA STATION Con4nodore L. kum. Frigate Constellation Commodore Sloop Boston, Commander J.C. Long.

OXToxxtLL ASD THE MCLEOD CASK —At the Close of a repeal meeting in Duonn, the great ctympion of Ireland spoke upon the subject of the trial and acquit-

.i *•.,.. «m »,

«ejr bad a h*ppr they escaped fro

what they escaped from. They were dearly and sincerely attached to their little Queen, and ibwou.J be moat painful to them to see tier involved by ler mimaters in a war in which thcheart oTher loyal Irish peo-

frond the of the httle^par-1 ™^r_hj|d ^^ted the law of the land againet a

I pawed to listen—and these ... «'—j i* bb«. if.. men we some citraen be shed, no other powfr ahooW terpen the murdenr from Justice- This wap .Be iriamph to America, and an important lenftn to toe govemtsents of Europe

Bupcri«r

land

And I could ^thesfcgdowy 1 tn rapture all the w#ww-~ If one who w» i* hf

l**tj

Were near mc with *®ue

if '.v

cast,

escape, and he would tell tbetn

,'tebi.of ,l„,hich

AMrkn prid3»t

coold not have prevented.

hit c«a-

id he greatly feared, hia execution too Secmd that whatever might be the pow-

To converse with men of degraded minds fciis iwelf degrading, at (eaat if yoo poaseaa not Tirtwot a very ..

I Irrrvalarity and want of method, are #oly®ap porta men offftst framing or |«w«* wi»o are rite*

v7""

"j"1' «o be wicvea any one »uiup«iM 1 *o~ nM\ of ihe Roman Empi*

AGRICULTURAL.

gular

MCTXTIOS OR Put irrs.—The Courier of November 4,

contains

duce

a paragraph from the Kennebec Journal, staffna that Rlr. John Smiiey or that place, last year ra.sJd Potatoes, as he says, from the fruit or bulbs ot rite eiliiflower. Of the veracity of Mr. bmtley there is no Son, the only question is, can he and his family 3° I mistakenf The Maine Cultivator, also, some time since, contained several brief statements of alleged change of one plant into another. Thus according "credible accounts, gilliflower tubors have become potatoes, tiger lillies have been procured from an aquatic plant and yellow lilies from the peony. Wheat, in the western part of New York, has sometimes turned to chess, barley has been known to pro

oats: a respectable gentleman in the town ot Moutif Vernon—'.Maine we presume) lately remarked ••that some how or other, he did not know why the

iuoi»««vu w» ,it

the'most rcspectatde phvsicians in Maine, himsetr a skilful farmer. When he attended the medical lecture at Dartmouth college, he had occasion to sow a patch of barlev. It came up and developed the barley leaf, stock and heads. In this early state some cattic broke in, nnd nie down in several pmccfl, these plants ro the ground. The rest grew and ripeneu into barley, but these sent up new stalks, which proceeding from old roots, yielded oats in every ease- This is certainly very strange. It would be well for our own curious farmers to try some experiments in th.s way, and inform the public of the result.

From the JN.

Cullivatcr.

What, in the hands of the farmer, constitutes capital, is nn important query? With the merchant, cash is the ,capital, wi'.h the land owner, land is the capital, and with tho farmer, cash, land and stock, is usually considered the capital. But there are many other items that enter into the capital of the farmer generally overlooked, such as implements, manures, and the most important of all, labor. Capital may be productive or non-productive. A million of gold and siher locked in a strong box, or a thousand acres of uncultivated land, may be capital, but so long as the property remains in this stale, it produces nothing, and the owner may be actually growing poorer, instead of becoming richer. Increase of wealth does not depend on the quantity of capital so much as in the use made of it and in nothing is this more observable than in farming. There is many a man who has commenced his career as a farmer with fifty acres of land on this he annually expend in manure, labor, &c., twenty per cent. Encouraged by this success, he adds to his farm another 50 acres, but his expenditure in capital is not proportionally increased, and profits are lessened in proportion. Still he has not land enough, and he keeps purchasing larid, while he adds liftle or nothing to his active capital, and the consequence is while on fifty acres of land he realized forty per cent, on five hundered acres he realizes nothing. He has converted his productive into unproductive capital, and from his five hundered acres he does not clear as much as he did from his fifty acres, or prehnps he actuall falls behind. There is nothing more true than that the inordinate desire for large farms has been the ruin of thousands.

It is true that a large farm may be made as productive as a smatl one but there must be the same proportion, of capital in manure, labor, &c. put upon it, a thing rarely or never done. That part of farm upon which most capital is expended is the garden, and this is clearly the most productive and prfitable and so with a small farm when compared with a large one. Let no one therefore desire to possess more land, or undertake the cultivation of more acres than he-has capital to manage well. If he does, he will find he is rapidly sinking what little productive capital he possesses, and may become a poor man with the means of exhaustless wealth in his hands.

From the Union Agriculturist.

Great diversity ot Agricultural Pursuits. Owing to the more immediate and imperative wants of a new country

and the active

the attention of our farmers has hitherto been principally directed to the staple products of the Middle States, such as Wheat, Beef, Fork, &c. Much of their attention will doubtless still be given to these articles, constituting as they do the prime nessaries of life. But we think the time has now arrived when more attention should be given to some of fh# minor branches of agriculture in order to prevent the embarrassments which follow the want of demand, and consequent extreme depression in price of these great staples. These articles are now much below their general average value, and in a country so extensive and fertile as ours, these depressions may be expected frequently to occur.

At such times it is certainly desirable that our farmers should devote a portion of their time to the sowing of other products, which will belter repay the care and labor bestowed upon them. Many of the minor products of the Northern and Middle States, bear a very high price, when their great staples are very much depressed. As an instance of this, Hops are now worth from forly to fifty cents per lb. and a single acre devoted to their cultivation this year would probably produce more nett profit than a hundred acres devoted to ordinary crops. This to be sure is an extreme instance, Hops being uncommonly high this year, but our farmers would do well to be prepared to take advantage of such fortunate contingencies. To the pruducing of Butter, Cheese, Wool, Clover Seed, Hops, Beans, &c. our soil and climate are well adapted. And even Tobacco we think might be cultivated to advantage. These articles will ali bear transportation to distant markets and should our farmers devote a portion of their time to their production, they would in times like the present well reward the attention bestowed upon them, and add very considerably to the amount of our exports.

demand" caused* by the influx of emigrants, persons on whom the stono has been tried, and

W. L. N.

DISEASES OF CATTLE.—One of the remedies that had been proposed for the disease in the hoofs of cattle, is tar. Now, the active principle of tar is a liquid called kreosote, which is of highly disinfecting anti-putrescent nature it is obtained from that part of the oil distilled from wood tar. It is kreosote that imparts to tar its peculiar smell. The latter is obtained from wood in the distillation of pyroligneous acid hence we recognize the same kind of tarry smell in smoked bacon and other dried meats—in smoky houses also where wood is burnt. The anti-putrescent quality of kreosote is such that, if a joint of meal is soaked in water containing a tittle of it, it might be exposed to the summer's sun for many days together without any taint. It will thus be seen upon what principle tar is a remedy for tlie disease in the hoofs of cattle it ih disinfecting,and prevents putrescency.-

Queen Victoria is said to be the sovereign of a hundred million of subjects—a larger portion of the Ttunutn race than ha® ever obeyed any one European sovereign since the

the premiums airs in the Stole following acfre-

ROOT CULTURE —Among awarded at the Agricultural 1 of New York, we notice the able products—Mangel Wurtzel beets, 1000 bushels Sugar beets, 1160 bushels) Ruta Baga 1200 busheles Carrots 720 bushels Potatoes, 400 bushels. These products, considering the dryness of tho season, are remarkably good, and go to prove the truth of what we have often maintained—^he great advantage which would result to the agricultor were he to devote a few acres to the culture of roots for winter provender for his stock. 1 he degree of comfort such a course would secure to Ihe animals generally, nnd the profit urising from the increased quantity of butter and milk which would be yielded by the milch cows, are considerations which none who are regardful of their interests, will we are sure, overlook.—Am. Farmer.

FATTENING POULTRY.—An cxpiremcnt has lately been tried of feedinggeese with turnips, cut very fine and put into a trough with water. The effect was, that 6 geese, weighing only 9 lbs. each whon shut, actually weighed 20 lbs. each, after about three weeks feeding with this food alone

Mai: is an cxcelent food for gctse and turkeys. Grains are preferred for ihe sake of economy, but will uot fatten so fast.

Oats ground into meal and mixed with a little molasses and water barley meal mixed with sweet milk and boiled oats mixed with malt are all excellent for fattening poultry, reference being had to time, expense and qual

Corn before being fed to fowls, should always be crushed and soaked in water, or boiied. It will thus go much further and digest easier. Hens will often lay in winter, when fed in this manner, especially if well sheltered.

Netc Gen. Farmer.

I turn my barrel over a pan or Kettle in I

which I .burn hard wood for seven or eight gfven iy

days keeping a little water on the head of

the barrel, to prevent it from drying I then pack two hundred weight of ham in my barrel, prepare a pickle, by putting six gallons of water in a boiler, with twelve pounds of salt, twelve ounces of saltpeter, and two q'ts. of molases. This I stir sufficiently to dissolve the salt, &c. and let boil and skim it. I then let it cool and pour it on may ham, and in one week I have smoked ham, very tender, of an excellent flavor, and well smoked."

town, Indiana, one Squire McCoy, who is the owner of what is termed a "JIAD STONE." which, if applied to any part of the human bodv, bilten by a mad-dog or by any other animal, will effectually draw from the place so bitten, all the poison, nnd when impregnated there with, will fall off. If then immersed in milk and water, warmed, the poison will be withdrawn, when the stone will be ready for a second operation. I have seen sveral

have seen tho poison withdrawn. DAVID H. MUDD£

INCREASE OP Poptr^ATROX.—An article in tho Philadelphia American Sentinel, speaking of the increase of population in the United States, gives out the idea very confidently, that our population is destined, within a very small fraction to double itself every twenty years. To substantiate those views, the following estimate from the Homo Missionary is submitted 1840 at 1850 it will be 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940

Agreeably to this statement

17,000,000 22,000,000 30,000,000 40,000,000 53,700,000 71,000.000 95,500,000

tion of the United States, mus», in c-ne hundred years hence, amount to three hundred millions of souls, and not one probably out of every hundred thousand now existing will live to witness that event. That vast concourse of people must be formed of those1 who fit present rest in the mystic embryo of time. What a theme for contemplaiion! The statement above, considering the uumerous advantages possessed by this Republic, tending to the increase of population, does 80t item at all unreasonable. IIow splendid to contemplate, if our civil institution* flourish as at present, the grandeur and strength of these United States, one hundred years hence!

ROBBERY OP THE WESTEHK MAIL.—The great Western Mail, which left Philadelphia on Saturday night last at 12 o'clock, carrying the mails for Lancaster, Ilarrisburg, Chambersburg, Pittsburg, kc. was robbed in lite.car

while on the way between that city

and Lancaster. The Harrisbu*g mail was the only one that escaped. The mail was a large one, and it is feared contained valuable remittances. The robbery was effected by wrenching the lock from the door of the car iaV'hich the mail was carried, and cutting open the bags. It is supposed the robbery was committed after the departure of the train at the head of the Inclined Plane.

Ball. American*

LOWELL The land on which the city of Lowell, Mass. now stands, was twenty years assessed at «1000. There is now investin the manufacturing business alone $10,500,000. There are 32 cotton mills, running 166,000 spindles, and 9183 looms, consuming annually 1,955,000 pounds of cotton, and manufacturing 58,273,400 yards of cloth, and employing G430 females, and 2077 nrile ope* ratives.

Fresh Oysters in the shell, are said to be plentifully received at St. Louis, by way of steamboats.

From the National Intelligencer of yesterday.

THE FIFTH WEEK OFTHE SESSION has passed

away

Whigs would turn to mourning the mirth of their opponants. In the Senate, the Report upon the Fiscal Agency is sti'l upon thcainil, or rather in the furnace, in which it isscvcrly tried, by blasts hot and cold, before being ready for the anvil. Our anticipation is, that the debate will not bo much longer prolonged on the question of reference that the Treasury plan will go to a select committee and that, with such modifications as the developments in debate may have suggested, it will be presented for the main discussion in the Senate with features differing in some respects from those in which it came from the hands of the Executive, That it will over be wrought into any shape 11°

sccure

-Ci'RTNG HAMS.- A correspondent of ihe congress js very doublful, but not, we ralher Farmers' Cabinet gives the following method ^Viink, wholly to bo despaired of. -1 of preserving hams: The proceedings of both Houses ou miner

matters,

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one of those stones, which we are told has

been frequently applied, with complete sue*

cess. Thero is one in F.lizabethtown also.

These stones were brought from Germany, there are but feu in the country. The subject is worth attending lo, at this time, when there is so much danger:

OONC*RN.—'!

*'A MAD STONE."—We received yesterday,1 secondly, the instruction given by the vote of from the writer, a respectable and intelligent Saturday last to the Judiciary committee to citizen of this city, the following paragraph,

If the Mad stone possesses the properties as-, which our re iders will recollect, though passed cribcd to it, ofwhich we arc assured by those jj10 |nst Session of Congress, has not yet acquainted, the fact cannot be to generally gone into effect. known. Capt. GRETSINRER, of this city, has 'pjiQ

slon

Louisville Adv.'

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHOM IT MAY yet a faint hope is to be, the restoration (as

hero is now roouling in Charlcs-

We do not, of course, pretend to arraign the votes of individuals members on this question of the proposed repeal of the Bankrupt

127,300,000 Law- They are acting upon a high rcspon 169,800,000 gjjjjijty, and in consciencious spirit some 206,400,000 doubtless under supposed instructions from 275,200,000 t}ic immediate constituents. If we could the popula-, prcsume f0 uddre^s any argument to them, we should urge that it might have been expected, as more conformable to usage as well as to reason, that a law, sanctioned in terms by the constitutions, passed with the consent of all branches of the Government, (under circumstanccs which have since undergone no change) ought to undergo a fair trial before it is doomed. This privilcdge, which is allowed to the most abandoned malefactor, ought not, surly, to be denied by Congress to its own offspring. Let us have the verdict of public opinion upon il before it is condemned. That opinion has not been ascertained by any process to be relied upon and according to ail the information that has reached us is altogether more favorable than averse to the law.

Obdurate creditors there may be, who, not content with obtaining all that men can pay, would yet hold their miserable debtors in bondage for life. V,_-vs\,s

Imprecations upon the Bankrupt Law may be hurled by such men but how /feeble ought to be their denunciations against the force of reason and the march of intellect which confound all the saws and sophisms and dis* pel the darkness of the barbarism of past ages, under which not only the*debtor, but the debtor's family, his wife and children, were condemned to servitude or penury for hire, to atone for the misfortune of debt which it was impossible that he should ever be able to pay May our legislature,when seriously meditating further legislation on thissubjectt ever bear in mind that. ^5^ if,-:

powei Mercy seasons Justice!

When

The Rochester Evening Post of Wednesday says that the Rev. Mr. Van Zsndt has been convicted of the seduction of Sophia Murdock.

The jury returned a verdict of #8000 for the plaintiff*

without the accomplishment

of any inportant object by Congress no bill having yet passed both Houses but the partial npproproatio'j bill. Nothing has been done nor has there been any step taken, beyond the report of two bills by the committee of Wajs and Means, towards providing for the deficit in the ways and means, which is of course every day increasing by the demands which the opening of lite first quarter of Jthe year accumulates against the Treasury.,, A Government with such vast resources, and so many titles to high credit as that of the United Stutrs, may perhaps afford to trifle with its credit but the expediency of doing so may well be doubted. The pride of the majority, who are responsible for the contiuence of this state of things, should, one would think, be stired to prompt action by the undisguised chuckling of the Opposition^ the poverty of the Treasury, which is owing, after all, to their own neglect, before going oulof power, to provide the means for paying the debt with which-th^y themselves had saddled their successors. Prompt action on the part of the

it the sanction of both Houses of

during the two last weeks, have been

our

Reporters so much in detail, and

with so much particularity, that we need not here retreat them. -1' The only two question of general conscquencc hich have been agitated and declined in the House of Representatives are, first, the reference of the question of revenue, as connected with Manufactures, to the Committee on Manufactures—by which it seems to be understood as the expressed opinion of the country, as well as the]wantsof the Treasury, are to be taken into consideration in tho gen-

I oral revivor, of the duties upon imports and,

rRp0rt

a bill to ropeal the Bankrupt Law,

V0F0

rilpt

sur|)rise

looking to the repeal of the Bank-

Law has, we confess, overcame us with

at its suddenness, and with npprehen-

for its consequences. To this measure,

in comicxht) with the Lund Distribution and Pre-Amplion Luw, we had pointed with triumph as the two great pillars ol Whig policy

which the third was to be, and we have

far as proctiblo) of a Sound currency. We could not bring ourselves to believe, though threatened in the Senate, that there was any serious design in Congress to repeal that beneeficent act, which has called down upon the heads of its authors more of that incense tho savor of which ascends *to Heaven, than any measure ever passed by Congress.* HAVe sym« pathize most deeply |n the anguish With which this indication in the House of Representatives will wring the breasts of many thousand of the helpless women and children, who have fondly looked to the disenthrhllment of their nntural protectors by a process which, upon all the consideration that we have been ablo I to bestow upon it, is to our mind no less just and wise than it is humane nnd provident. I We shudder at the thought of the utter desoI lation which the consummation of the proposed repeal would bring upon hearts long wretched and forlorn, hut upon which the beingnant promise held out by the Bankrupt act had at last shed reviving and consoling beams of hope and joy.—We most earnestly hope that wo may bo sparod the spectacle such of an affliction, the depth and extract of which may be pictured in the imagination, but which no pen nor tongue could ever describe.

The Government Steamer which is ordered to be built for Lake Erie, it is said on good authority, is to be constructed at the town Erie, and of iron.