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j EDITED, & PUBLISHED, BY S. SMITH, AT CEJNTItEVILLE, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA. ) "70L. SATTODAT, AF&IL 4, 1829. 1TO. 32.

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I From the Casket. I NIGHT. How beautiful u ru'sht, ar.i!t sublime, magnificently fair, JlkN face ineii tliro' the silver veil J!ow ir.oonhgnt, in the month of May ; ) J.kc a danel in her wedding grb, imel oi. ilrr undal, ami arrayed r$t rich rohe ol roes o'i r the hill?, )i: - the night la cilcnce. Ihw itreno JeT hower,her buttt rflies are tleepiiij

) hilf opnM ro, nnd nh?rr the Hep, .y, and tuljptuoni little suiujglcr, tokm by the evening, still repoief, W the morn, to bear nway hit trophy. ' fiplei.uiil ii the hall of Hcar'n above, 1ith tea thousand glittering group of I, i in pi. ,i!u;iit' the day, in brilliancy and beauty; iiw fair Luna, in the azure ocean, J!e I, i r niter barge, nnd half eonceala jruW.uil face, m tho' ashamed the earth ).! ee hir thin the gondolier of Heaven, acl.t, thou far furpauitt in thy b aty, i lit trapping of the Knd da), p euti Aurora spreads her roiden gates, 1 1 oe! ui drives hi? timj in t ed alar, to r tr.e mountains, nd his tl iming car, U round the blue pavihVm the Ueaveri,

jruin- tt.e world in iLr.t. Fair Luna tlifrj,

surra" t Sal's intrnu ente lmk,

V ::it v IT. her Lrillnncy of charms 1

si th the deformity of man.

in;u H It: y empire, tnou ir.eqacen.

v'-un thau rulrst omt r itht' dun.ain t!,. r; ! Riu n; loo with tUee, nnd call tt'.iitr.Us of monrrh) diiio. j.t. thou ctTtli? mother of meditation,

t-utl unlike tLy gloom art- those bright

ll.oitihti :!i thou oeea'Juiieili nnd jrt there i3 ntle oi"tnr in thrni like to thee, !i t!i beauty. Whin tl-ou art wading far. i tie nif en behind the J i cy cloud, u d,-t remind me of the nnr.d rent ti rrow' d;'rUr?s, nnd I til hnlf shine otit Jsi-iy jplrm'.or. ?lll.l OtU) UAKU.

iiici!irTt n fun a gamix; n lse.

e anu u mor? u.i 'i.:uiiu: h.iui,

'I nr it mr hope, ml.ui.) ;md death;

, irst ahjri", for rntrnnre jru'e, x others are for th- vw've n.ATED. -oshout rriTAri:.

$i re Le th hoil of C attmrioe W'yalt,

any rank in China suffer the nails of the thousands of-dry fruit, common Turkey J 1 have selected from those I consider the

ten nana to grow to an extraordinary maddfr, oil, soap, tar, pitch, carpets, onIf n-rth, in order to prove their erentility, ental stuffs, and other articles of luxury:

and to distinguish themselves from labor-1 and among others cold, silver and furs,

ii.um uuuiiiiim.5. je uuine saw a man- irom Udessa, luoscow,' loula, etc. i nere drin' whose nnils were nearly six inches in are laden in Egypt for the Ottoman provin-

ieni;in, ana a pnvsicjan who Hart urouglit ;ces, about one million pounds of rice, numthem to ten or twelve inches. The nails bers of slaves of both sexes; and forConRrethus kept extremely clear and trans- jstantinople and the isles of the Archipelaparent, and at night are carefully enclosed ;go, a great quantity of corn and chicci, (a in bamboo cases. There is another pe-; kind of pulse.) In 1823, more than 140 culianly of custom among the Chinese, vessels laden with grain, were despatched which is said to be universal; they use j from the port of Alexapdria for the imper their left hard in preference to the right. I ml capital and the isles of the ArchipelaPortugvetc woman, when she rides, sits go. The commerce with Europe is the

with the Icitsmc towards the horse s head, imosl important of all; and out of 818 mer-

and an English woman with the right.

A Portuguese wife never assumes the family name of her husband, but in all the viciitudes of matrimony retains her own; an English woman always assumes the

family name of her husband. The Portu

guese are generally addresed by their christian name, we by our family one In

IVitugal, the master of thf house precedes the visitors in going out; with us, the viiter precedes.

rbe Italians reckon the commencement

of their da from sunset, we from sunrise.

Their coeks strike all the hours, from one

to twenty-four .ours from one to twelve. The Kauischadales, always use dogs for the purpoe of labor and travelling, we use horses and oxen. We ue wine and ardent spirits for intoxication, but the Turks opium. We undress and go to bed at some certain hour, and wait the approach of sleep, the Turks, being seated on a matrass smoke till they find themselves sleepy, then laving them

selves ilown. their servants cover them.

Dinner is our principal meal, a supper is

theirs.

m L,oiombic, bouth America, a person

in eay circumstances u carried on histrav

els b mm. in a chair, and in that countrv

they talk of going on a man's back, as we

mention going on horseback. In conclusion, I would state what an A ineiican writer savs, viz. that the. Span

iatcU may be said to steep upon everv affair of importance, the Italians to fiJdlenp-

on every thing, the French to danrt upon ecr tliirg. the l'riih Inlanders to eat

upon eery thing, and the Americans to

talk upon every thing

chant vessels, which sailed from Alexandria in 1823,444 were destined for European ports.

AGRICULTURAL

COWS FOK THE DA IKY.

best.

The following treatise on the culture and preparation of Hemp, in Russia, was transmitted by J. Q. Adams, while Minister to St. Petersburgh, March, 1810: "In Russia, when the season is mild, the hemp seed is sown about the 1st June, old style. The richer the soil of the land employed for it, the better. A chetwirt of seed, (100 chetwirts are equal to 73 quarters, Winchester measure,) is sown on a piece of land of 0 fater (English feet) long, and CO fathom3 broad. The land is first ploughed and har rowed, and, about 200 single horse londsof dung being spread upon it, it is left for six days, wr en it is again

ploughed, and the seed sown and harrowed the same day. In about foui

months the seed becomes ripe, and

"WAMIM.TON laVlM.,

An ,i writer. I lie b it and pride of Amor-

. i a ei v wrll-drcsed, good-humored rit.: ir n; if not hardline, at leat very pr . -ing in appe ira-iee: though his :r.frnaner has not that intellectual ex-

V-irn uliirh hi- writinc would lend

V to expert. The no-t rematkable V'ire i hi eye; it is large and full, with

Vr. ; ,ft ilrr mn finrr..inil- H. lOOk Ct

i nit- 'tin v -.j. -. --- --- Icat rcprve in it. which strikes one at "Mit verv forriblv. 1 scand it, end

pie ! thit Mr. Irving could never be ac-

1 ot'tarU ri'inq; and I have su-pect-

lmirpd r,r:iv' description of

lie on a sofa and lead new

'i lid-,"' Hut "itii all tins he poei-e a

Y oftarU J'i it he mlii ;''ie, 4,to

On the manngtment of Cows kept'forUhe hemp is then pulled up with the

the Dairy. W here butter is the chief roots; if it be allowed to remain too

object of a dairy, care Fhould be taken long in the ground, it is apt to be-

o select 6Uch cows as atlord the best come harsh. It is hound into heads

and largest quantities of milk and or bunches of four handfuls each; cream of whatever breed they maybe, these are hung upon sticks placed

dui me quanmy oi oauerio oe made horizontally, thus, o J U,

from a given number ot cows must al- and allowed to remain so for two

ways depend on a variety ofcontit. gent Idaya. It is then made into cm: or

circumstances; suih as the pizp and Uhrashed hi mp, as may be agreeable.

goodness ol the bc ast6; the kind and J he cut hemp is n.fde by chopping

quat ttty ot lood and the distance of ott the heads -contauijrg the seed.

time from calving. A large cow, gen- lhi seare put into the kiln, and. af

erally, will give more milk than one of ter remaining there tor. eighteen

smaller sze ; though rows of equal sjzp In urs, the seed is beaten out.

differ ns to the'quantity of cream pio If thrashed ht trip is to be made, the

duced from the milk of ech i it is there-1 head or tops inu-t not he cut off.

fore, in those cows whose milk is not but the bunches of hemp, placed en

only in large abundance-, but which tire -in the kiln; and, if the weather

from a pecuhnr inherent richness yields be warm, il w ill he sufficiently cry n

a thick cream, that the butter dairy- three days, when the seed must be

man is to place his chief dependence; thrashed out of the heads. In either and where a cow is deficient in eithci ca;e, three days after the seed is sep-

of these she should be parted with and larated from it, the hemp must he. put

her place supplied by one more proper o steep or rot, either in a stream or

for this use. a pond, and that the hemp may be

Where ch-ese is the object, the man entirely immersed, it is put under ageme:it in respect to cows should be wooden frames upon which stones

the same. are placed, or, when they are not to It i essential that m:lk cows be kept lie had, earth is substituted, after the

at all times in high health and good con- frames are covered with planks. H it ion. If they are allowed to fall rU The clearer and pur r the Water, in flesh during winter,an abundant sup- the better will be the color of th plv of milk need not he expected by hemp. Win-re the water is warm, bnnging them into high condition in thrte weeks' steeping -will be sufti summer. Warm stables should he pro- cient, but, if cold, as in rivers, vided for them, as ' beasts will not re- springs, &c. five weeks or loi'ger quire so much food when kept warm as may be necessary. At the expira-

whenshivenng with coli. tion of this period, a head ol the For about a month previous to the hemp is taken out and dried; if, on time of cows calving, if in spring, they beating and cleaning it, the husk should be turned into sweet grass; or, if comes off, the hemp may then be ta it happen in the winter, they ought to ken out of the water, but if the husk be well fed with the best hay. The still adheres to it, it must be allowed day and night after they havecalvfd, to remain some time longer. This they should be kept in the house, and trial must be repeated from time to no cold, but luke warm water allowed time, till the hu-k separates, when for their drink. On the next day about the hemp must be taken out of the

noon, they may be turned out, yet reg- water, and suspended to dry, as die

ularly taken in. during the night, for tated before, on its being taken off

three or four successive days after which the ground. they may be left to themselves Cows The hemp is now made into the thus housed, should be kept in their two sorts, distinguished by the names stables till the cold is mitigated by the oi Spring nnd Winter hemp; the formorning sun, and it is recommended to mer being dry and rather of a withi'ive them a draught of warm water ore- ered appearance, the latter , more

erpillars. The mode in which this is done , v,ous to their being turned out. . E. moist, and of a fine brownish green

is remarkable. While the caterpillar istr. Lxr rnn,;nmn mnm AriKn ,-nt

. - , rflf JUtl . "" 1 1' , Luiiiiiiiiurc uiuib Jt v .

STEAM COACHES. We are informed, on good authority,

that the Steam Coach Company are nowmaking arrangements for stopping places on the line of roads between London, Hath

and Ini-tnl, at which stopping or resting places, which will ncur eery six or seven rr.i!cs, fresh fa el and water arc to be

supplied. It was intended that the first coach should start on the fust of No ember, but owing to the arrangements not being fully completed, a delay often days

nr a fortnight will occur. There are fifteen coaches built ; nnd the first, we under

stand, will commence its course from the establishment of the celebrated Mr. Waterhouse. The engines, which are on the safety plan, w ill consume their own smoke, and the ingenious and gallant inventor will lead out of London on her first voy

age

Vie Ichneumon Fly. There are several

rpecics of the Ichneumon, which appear to

have been provided by natuic, with a singular instinct for the destruction of the cat-

feeding, the Ichneuman hovers over it,

pierces the fatty part in several places and deposits an egg in each. After the

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a perception of the ludicrous, and if caterpillarcnatigcs inioa chrysalis state,

rJ.!w- nr iiliricp ttrptrntt llvrH WMCh Hn

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MISTAKE ABOUT BIRDS. able oil, and, therefore, the most a pi

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To the sportsman, to the gentleman far- l" ,1Crt ""PP" rtl ol

ite hi- feeling, hi eve lights up with

)l wishing brilliancy: the dreamy, ooing

k pvc wav to an expression oi w ii anu irair, S lent and in rsi-taMe niirtli- it

not ill n Uiired enough for satin which

lakes one reaoy to laugh with him.

MANNr.HS AND Cl STO.M'i. The common drink of the Japanese are -t; our are cold. Thev uncover their

kt nut of repcct; w e the head. They

re fond of hi ick terlli; we ofwlute.-

hev mount their horses on the right side, e on the left. Anion" the Chinese, white is the colour

ir mourning; a on has no right to wear hite clothes chile his mother and father

ive: hut he can wear no other lor three

joars alter their death. With us, black

The Chinese

e their boots for pockets, putting into

hem their fans, papers. &c. the hoots are

ide. verv w ide, and of black sattin leath-

r. we Use our coats kc . The dress ol the

omen of the lower class in China, is the ime as, or differs but little from the men.

'th us, no two thing arc more dii:nilar. "he Chinese for beaut v reduce both eyenws tT one arched line; we let them a-

''ne to form two arched lines and delight

the 'graceful curve.' Long nails with are d if grace; with the Chinese they

) r an houor. Both tacu and women of

mpr. and in hortirnlt.iralits. the knowl- 'etersuurg or uiga, neiore aepiem

1 infirirr tl-o tnmirlif v tv b i r l" nkimc ibn ediTC of the habits and the food of birds is cr, there is not much risk ot its

eggs of the Ichneumon ate hatched, and ! indispensable, inasmuch as ignorance of heating any more on board the ships,

the young are fed on the interior of the j the subject may otten give rise 10 most sc- especially on snon voyages, .i iu hodv of the caterpillar. When the change I rious injury and loss. For example, in England, and are the best fit for ca-

m about to take place, they attack the vi- Uew England tne cuiuvaien grounus were oies. it it be intenoea inai me

some years ago, mucn irenuenieu wun a hemp should be early ready lor the

species of crow, and the farmers supposing market, it is made into Winter hemp

that their crops were mus injurea, resoi- by lhe following process: Un be-

vedto extirpate the wnoie race, anu oi- t k outof the water itis eft

r 1 .. V. tUn.r. !.. 'I hn nt. o ....

uriru i priLt; iui mvii nciiua. t " " r..ii. ' :a

scripuon was very uc.u..y v.ti4.cU . . , . . . . . f .

to effect; but the farmers instead ot being ,., " f c: a- - Tk,f ki n for twenty-four hours, after

it should appear, like the rooks of our own

rmintrv. flirt not tcprturnt the IieldS SO

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much for the sake of the grain as to feed en on ny sinking ine ncaas oonque-

upon grubs, which, after the universal ly with iron and wooden instruments

massacre of the crows, increased so nu

merously as nearly to destroy the entire

crops, and threaten a famine. When the error was discovered, the crows were as

anxiously protected as they had been formerly persecuted '. Similar instances, in the case of rooks, have occurred in Great Britain. London Magazine of Natural History.

tal part of the caterpillar (a remakablc

provision that this attack should he delay

ed until they have no longer any need of food.) They then spin themselves cases w ithin the body of the cat pillar, and instead of a butterfly, which would lay perhaps GUU eggs that would produce as ma

ny caterpillars, the Ichneumon fly comes

forth, leady to commence its operations in keeping within proper hunts these vegetable destroyers. Cin. Chronicle. Commerce of Egypt. The caravan commerce of Egypt has been greatly diminished by the impulse of late, given to traf

fic by sea. The products of Egypt exported in 1813, amounted to six million nine

hundred and seventy six thousand, four

hundred piastres. Syria send every year

to Egypt, between 30 and 40 cargoes of

tobacco ol Latakia, oil, soap, and silk; taking in exchange, rice and coffee, and again bartering these articles in upper Syria for cotton and oil. The coasts of Car amama and Anatolia send a great quantity

of timber and fuel. The islands of the Archipelago find a market at Alexandria

for manv thousand quintals of raisin, of

which excellent brandy is made; packs in

XXEKX?. Of late, nrnny farmers in our country have evinced a desire to be made acquain

ted with the manner of cultivating He.nip, and preparing it for market. Aftce. examining a number of authors, on the. eubject,

of the shape of a large two-edgd

knife; lastly, to unravel it, tt is drawn through a wooden comb, or card, with one row of wi-jc wocden teeth, fixed perpendicularly. The hemp is then, uid up or suspended in sheds, und is fit to be sort

ed, bound into bundles, and loaded

into th ba;u9. The hemp, to be prepared as Sprang hemp, is allowed to remain

Suspended, and exposed to the weather the whole Winter, until it be dried by the sun in the Spring, when it is broken and cleaned, in the same manner as the W inter hemp.

As the greatest part of the Sum

mer elapses before it can be made fit for ths market, none of this hemp

reaches St. Petersburg until the (bl

owing Spring, that is, two years afer it was sown. The hemp is sown m the same

manner as linseed, rye, or wheat; strongly manured, otherwise it will

be too short, and a flat country should

always be preferred.

One chetwirt of seed commonly

vields 25 loads (upwards 3C pounds English) of hemp, and twelve chet

wirts ol hemp seed.

From the American Farmer. Hemp is a very hardy nlant. re

sists drought and severe frosts, is easier cultivated, less exhausting, and

more prontaDJe than many other crops, with which this does not in

terfere in its cultivation, (except the tobacco crops ;) it is sown before, and gathered after, corn, and requires no attention when wheat is sown, harvested, or thra-hed. It will grow-

year after year, on the same ground,

on winch, if sufficiently rich, it is the surest crop. It is liable to no diseases, and ir jured by no insects. The Soil. The soil shruld be deep, clean, dry, rich, and mellow, The plarit has a tap root, which descends to a considerable depth, and therefore the soil should be deep and be thoroughly mellowed by deep and frequent ploughings. Fall ploughing, and two or three ploughings in the bpiii g, together with barrowing, Ho as to smooth the surface, (and thereby enable the seed to bo sown een, nnd the he mp to spring up equally, and be cut close to the roots,) are preparatory steps to the seed. The Seed, when sown. The seed (to the amount of two bushels per acre, on middling soil, and three od

rich ground.) should be sown as early as possible, in the Spring, after the ground becomes dry and well prepared. Early sowing renders the coat heavier and stronger, enables the hemp to cover the giouud rnrly, so as to smother woods, and before the sun becomes powerful, to sbf-dc the soil ai d preserve its moisture. The seed, after being cast as even as possible, should be harrowed in to as equal a depth as may be, that it may all start together; and a

heavy roller should then be passed over, or a brush drawn across, to smooth the surface, in order that the

hemp may be cut close to the roots'-

ihipcning and Harvesting. When

the hemp become -.fir to be cut, the

stalks of the blossom, or male hemp.

turn yellow, become a good deal speckled, and drop most of their

leaves, and, if the air is still, n, cloud of duit arise6 from the blossom stalks, and hangs over- the field.

When sown early, it will be fit to cut

about the frnt of August. The a-

bove appearance will become icdicative of the proper time , and then

it should be cut without delay ; for, if suffered to stand longer, (as about

one-half of the stalks blossom, and

the other half bear seed,) tho stalks of the male will wither and blacken, and the coat be of little vame; and the female hemp, which has stood to ripen the seed, requires a

longer time to rot than the male, and, consequently, both would be thereby injured. The best way to get seed would be to saw some thinly in a separate patch. The mode of cutting is preferable to that of pulling. A man will cut half an acre per day; and a quarter, pulled, is said to be a day's work. By the former practice, the inconvenience of dust, and the dirt-atjached to the roots, will be avoided.' Cut hemp will be worth ten dollars per ton more than

the pulled. Knives, or hooks, for that purpose, may be obtained for about 1 25 each. When cut, spread the hemp a day or two, to dry it, then bind it, and put it up in shocks. IVrciting, (or Rolling) As soon as harvested, in order to prevent the rains from discoloring it, proceed, as early as convenient, to wret it, by , placing it in clean, pure water, foimed by a, stream spring, or clear pond. If rotted shortly after cutting, about five days are generally required for the purpose. You will be able tojudjje, by taking cut a handful and

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