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rom It, tod was floating oo the sea withOlh« They^wok
ceived mo and pulied to my assistance.—
piec.
the b»Mg|*<
me wild fr*«h
month* had etapsed, and that
w» the depth of winter, ^"1
chanes of beior re,A “ ed t!w M '* ahl *
* P *MMah Wakbar, God It evefv whore!’’ imrr-
raptod tbe Paths. “But I with to know. Huck
aback, how you were to exactly aware of.lhe
limo which had pasted away."
“Min Baalii, apd head of thousands’.” replied
Hndtaback, “1 will explain to your Highness.
I once jammed my nail at tho bottom, aud 1 ex
pected to loae it. It did not however come off,
bet grew up at before, and I had the curiosity to
koow how efien popple changed their nails in the
course of the year. It waa exactly two months,
and from this I grounded my calculations, I oh-
aerved apecka on my naila aa they grow, up, »o
did 1 calculate time.
“Marahallah, how wonderful!” Well caid, by
Allah! I never ahould have thought of that,"
observed the Paaba. “Proceed with your sto
ry”
The five months had elapsed, according to my
calculationt, when one morning I hoard a gra
ting noise close to me; soon afterwards l per
ceived tbe teeth ol a saw entering my domicile,
and 1 correctly judged that seme ship was cat
ting her way through the ice. ' Although I eould
not make ravself hoard, I waited io anxious ex
pectation of deliverance. Tbe saw approaclied
very near to whera 1 was sitting, and I waa afraid
tbit 1 should be wounded, if not cat in halves;
but just aa it was within two inches of my nose
it waa withdrawn. The fact waa, that I waa un
der ifyo main flee, which hjid boon frozen to
gether, and tbo firm ice above having been re
moved and pushed away, I rose to the surface.
A current of fresh air immediately poured into
the small incision mads by tho saw, which not
only look away niy breath from its sharpness,
but brought on a spitting of blood. Hearing the
voices, r considered my deliverance at certain.
Although I understood very little English, I
heard the name of Captain Parry frequently
montlonod, a name, I presume, that your High
nose it well acquainted with.
••Poof! never heard of it," replied tho Pasha.
•• I am surprised, your Highness; I thought
every body moat have heard of that adventu
rous navigator. I may hare observe that I have
since read hit voyages, and he mentions, es a cu
rious fact; tbe steam wbicli wea nothing more
than the bot air escaping from mv cove when it
was cut through—» singular point, aa it not only
proven tb« correctness of his romurks, but the
circumstance of my havin'g been there, aa I am
now describing to your Highness.”
But, alas! my hopes toon vanished: the voices
became more- faint, 1 felt that I waa plunged
under the floe to make room for the postage of
the ship, and when I rose, the water which had
filled the incision made by the saw, froze hard
and I was again dosod In—perhaps forsVor. I
now became splits frantic with despair, I tore
my clothes, and dashed my head against ilia,
corners of the cave, aud tried to put nn ond to
nty hated existence. At Iasi I sunk down ex
hausted witn my own violent efforts, and con
tinued sullen for several days.
But there la a buoyant spirit in our con»|fo
aition which raises our heads above tho waters
of despait. Hopo never deserts ns, not even In
the iceberg. She attends us and suppbrta u* to
tho fait, and although we' reject her kind offi
ce* in our fury, ah* still watches by us, ready
to assist and coosole us, when wo are iuclined
to listdta to her consoling whispers.
I once more listunod to hor}*uggesiions, and for
six months, fed upon them, aided by occasional
variations of the flesh of the sea-horse. '11 eras
W ok. a* on •W"iS'' a einWm
the govnrtr, to whortiMavo a Wtforjr
of my advootnresf hW Eojpkhtneo oop-
me a liar, and pat .He in the Clink, and a
pirate schooner having been lately taken
and the crew executed, I waa declared to
havu been one of them; but, at it uat
clearly proved that the vessel only con
tained thirty men, and they had already
hung forty-seven, I was permitted to qoit
tho island, which I did in a small vessol
bound to America, on condition that I
would work my passage,
tween ten and twelve o’clock, tt Wight, and
d rowed through tbe whole
healing it* WMcb cried, and
seeing • party ofladita departing from <
A Horn.— At a ronrtof sessions which
closed a few days since, at Hackensack,
N. I., a hoax waa played off, which, for Its! and ascended to Prescott’s room,
singular audacity and'success, deserves to] nwakennig, asked who was there!
vasaels, where they bad been to an
entertainment. The strieeat orders were
given to keep *.! dead silence. A party
was left to guard the boat while the others
boldly advanced to the General’s quarters.
Barton was ballad by the sentinel to give
the countonjgavh* advanced, swearing
like a British officer, asking him if bn a»w
any d—d deserters, until he got near
enough to him tothrow op his musket, ahd
putting a pistol fi t h?breast ordered him
to be silent on paiu of death. He took
him to be under his protection and advan
ced with the most rapid steps to the house,
which he surroui.dod’ surprised the guard,
* mh«I ....n,I—d sm '.Ba.dMAis^fl ersfinl wrvtn
a man, who is culled a diddler, with two
sou.—The Rev. J. G. fisher formerly
Virginia
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ink’Pmmer. - rod*, but considerably larger at the lower tually and effectanlly cored all kinds o
OF: CORN. end, and pointed at tho extremity, slept very painful and dangerous Serpent’s bites,
TUBE Ot CORN. end, and pointed at tho extremity, slept
seek; Feb. 1, 1833.—Dear bdckwaMs along tbe turf, andmaket the
ho
Bur-
bo recorded. The perpetrator had been; Ion answered and said, you are my prison-
our4am 4a tjmaummw,«nd the
su bound up TOftliWitilj Biclicd away.—
One morning 1 was astonished by perceiving
that the light of the sun seemed to change it*
position regularly every quarter of an hour. Had
it done so occasionally during the day, and at no
stated intorvals, I should havo imaginod that
the ice I waa rnclosed in, altered its position,
from the winds and corrents; but tho regulari
ty astonished me. I watched it, ond 1 found
that the aame phenomenon occurred, but nt
shorter intervals, and it continued until the light
shifted from tide to side every minute.
After some reflection, the horrid idea occur
red 10 mo that J must have been drifted to the
const of Norway, and was in the influence of
the dreadful whirlpool called the Mulestroont,
aud that In a few minutes / should be engulphcd
forever, and as / thought it might bo the ckse,
the light revolved eacli fifteen seconds. “Than
it it!" cried / in dospuir, and as i iittcled the
words it became quite dark, and- / knew that /
had sunk in tbo vertex; and all was over.
it may appear strange to your Highness,
that, after the first pang, occasioned by the pros-
poet of perdition, bad passed away, that to far
from feeling a horror at my situation, /mocked
and derided it. / could feel no mere, and
waited the result with petfect I indifference.
From the mat ks in my| nails, I afterwards
found nut that I was nearly six month* in the
interior of the earth. At last, otto day I was
nearly blinded by the powerful light that p-ured
through my tenement, and I know thut I was
ouee moro floating on the wuior.
“All ill Kebirl” exclaimed lira Pasha—“Ho
ly Prophet, where wus it that you cuiiid up u-
gainf"
^ “In the liurbour of Port Royal in Jamaica.
Your Highness will hardly cretin it, butou inv
honour.it is true.”
The heal of tho sun was so groat, that io a
voty abort lime the ice that surrounded mn was
thawed, and 1 found myself at liberty; but /still
Hosted upon the body ol the sea-horse, and tho
ke which was under tho water. The latter
soon vanlslioj, and striding thnback of the dead
animal, although nearly blind by tho rays of the
sun, and suffocated with the sudden change of
climate, 1 waited putioutly to gain the shore,
which was not one mile distant; but, before i
cotld arrive there, for tho soa breeze had not
yet set in, an enormous shark, well known among
the English by the name of Port Royal Torn,
■who had daily rations from government, that bv
remaining in the hnrbour he might prevent the
sailors from swimming on shore to desert, ranged
up along side of uie. / thought it hard that I
should luvo to undergo such new dangers after
having been down the Maelttroom, bnt there
*** if ’. He °P«oed hi. enormous
laws, and had I not immediatoly shifted my lea.
would bav# taken it off. As it was, bo took
such a pioce out of my kora*, as to render!*
r 1 *!!** "•‘S'* C *V d. Again ho e"
tacked it, and continued to take piece after
piece off my steed, until I •«, ,f ri J he would
come to the rider ut last, when fortunately a boat
full of black people, wbo vert catching fob, per-
long limo in prison at Hackensack,
awaiting bis trial upon a charge of perjury.
The evidence against him establishing the
offence was known to be of so conclusive a
character, that nobody doubled for a mo
ment that the proceedings against him
would terminate by his imprisonment in
the state prison. A living dog however,
is better than a dead lion, as was shown by
the issue of this man’s case. It appears
that a few day* prior to the limo appointed
for trial, when every expedient which hi*
fruitful mind waa capable of devising seemed
to be exhausted, in the vaiu hope of escape
from his perilous siiuntlbn, he bad a severe
paralytic stroke, by which one entire side
was rendered powerloss. In this feeble
and liolptqs condition, insisting upon his
trial, he was conveyed upon a bed from the
prison to the court room. The spectacle
of an infirm and afflicted fellow being, oil
trial for a perjury had a powerful influence
upon the sympathies of the jury. They,
nevertheless, felt themselves bound, under
tho weight of evidence, reluctantly to re
turn ngainst him n verdict of guilty.
While the trial was in progress, the prison
er became so faint that the court was
under the necessity of granting a recess, to
enablo him to be reconveyed to his apnrt-
mont in tho prison for revival. On this
Occasion he was again removed upon liis
bed, and so strong nn appeal was made by
this distressing exhibition of tho helpless
prisoner, that tho prosecuting Attorney,
Mr. Campbell, and his associate, Mr.
Todd, botievolontly lent a hand in his re
moval llieiice and bqck.
Tho Court, upon his conviction, fell no
little embarrassment in comiug to n result,
ns to tho degree mid character of punish
ment they shouM award against him, for
the serimis and infamous crime of which
be had been tound guilty. Believing, how
ever, as they said, that he could not livo
long—that his capability to commit harm,
even if his inclination to do so continued,
was in n great measure destroyed by tho
afflicting paralysis under which he then la
bored; that if sent to prisbn he must remain
there a public charge without rendering
any adequate service in return for his sup
port—but aljpvo nil, that he was likely,
according to every reasonable probability,
of so shortly answering for his transgres
sions before another mid higher tribunal,
they came to a conclusion that alt the ends
of public justice wobld be answered in his
case, by imposing upon him a fine. They,
therefore, moro out of u regard to the
forms of law, than any desire lo exact its
collection, imposed upon him n fine of fiat
dollars,
or and must follow me immediately, which
lie did. Barrington, his aid, hearing the
noise jumped out of the window and was
secured by the men stationed around the
house; both wero hurried off le the boat
nithout any other covering than their
night clothes.—/i was now after midnight
when they took to their oiiis to return
again, passed through the Aeet in infety
and landed on the mnin just ntday light.
During the pnssage, Prescott became very
chilly, and Barton at tho risque of the loss
of she expedition guve him his great coat
and exposed his uniform.—The water was
so low that ike boat could not approach
nenr enough to the shore for the party to
jump on dry land, and they had to wado
knee deep through black mud before they
could get on the beach. Prescott’s and
Barrington’* legs appeared lightly booted,
and in that situ uinn were placed in a car
riage with the Culonel and one or two of
his companions, to be conveyed to a place
of safety. Just as the sun arose they came
to high grounds, from whence was a full
view of the British fleot and army. Bar
rington turning to Barton, exclaimed, by
G—d sir you have achieved a gallant ac
tion. Proscotl observed a sullen silence.
Tbe news of the surprise (low faster than
the vehicle, and the country people collec
ted in crowds lo gazo at tho prisoners.
They did not much relish their curiosity
and complained of their ill manners. Bar
ton replied that they must excuse his coun-
trvmen as they wore not otlen accustom
ed to such sights. He recejved a vote of
thanks and u superb sword from Congress.
Leo was soon after exchanged fur Pres
cott. Bui, alas! the ingratitude of repub
lics. Col. Barton wits in helpless old age
immurred for years in prison in tho Stale
of Vermont, by tho very people whose
batting lie had fought, until released by the
generosity of the feeling and good . Ln-
Fayntto.— This disgraceful fact is enough
to stain the judicial annals of any State,
and spoaks louder than ten thousand argu
ments in favor of abolishing the Vundal
and barbarous practice of imprisonment
for debt. There is no greater truth than
that imprisonment is too mild a punish
ment for n roguo, and too severe for an
honest man.
The brother otjlie prisoner, who man*
ifesty'fffffr him during ull this, while the
most fraternal solicitude, nrlvancod the fine,
snd with a one horse wuggnn in which lie
had pheed a bed, drovo off with him from
the prison.
One of tho prdsocuting couusel having
business in this ciiy on (he following day,
crossed tho ferry at the foot of Courtlundt-
street, but tho extent ot his surprise and
astonishment may be bettor conceived than
described, when almost immediately on
landing, lie ran plump up a gainsttho dying
man, who was hastening towards life ferry
with tho eagerness nnd speed of a flying
Mercury. The counsel of course ex
pressed liis amazement at this singular
ly unexpected recontro, to which the cul
prit rnpiiod, chuckling ut the success ot his
ingenious expedient, and proud of the de
ception bo had practised by the inimitable
manner in which ho hail acted out the
character of a cripple—Oh! 1 am » great
deal better to-day than yesterday.—
Then wilh a knowing wink and a hear
ty laugh, he droped his arm and con
tracted his leg, to prove tho identity
of the paralytic choat, and recovering hitn-
self immediately, turned hastily upou his
heel, and made tho best of his way to the
ferry, leaving the couusel to gaze with
wondor at the miraculous recovery of his
locomotive powors, of which hut the day
befuro he had bocn seemingly deprived,
and also to reflect upou the credulity of
those who had been so successfully duped
by an Hrch imposter.
If. Y. Cour. tj- Enquir, Md ull.
From thn Baltimore Chronicle.
REVOLUTIONARY ANECDOTE.
Capture of Urn. Prescott by Col. liar-
ton.— There never was a more daring and
successful enterprise, not even that of the
fabulous surprise and taking the famous
horses by Diomcd and Ulyset, than the
capture ol General Prescott, on Long
Islaod, by Col. Barton, during the revo
lutionary war* I shall relate the occur
ence as I heard it from a friend, who hud
it from the Colonel himself. Immediate
ly after the surprise and capture of Gen-
al Lee, Col. I). had resoived in his own
mind to take prisoner a British officer of
equal rank, to procure an exchange. Ac
cordingly when thut part of the British Ar
my commanded by I’ttmeott, was encamp,
od on Loo- Island, ha laid the plan of aur-
prisiug l’n\.ont, io which he so gloriously
succeeded. Ail the country occupied bv
the Biitisli army and the house in which
Prexeott had his quartcii were well known
to Barton, and the Biiiiih fleet waa moor,
ed between the main land and the ^snd
He nelecled a cbotcr baud ofnativ* Amer
ica" Soldier* disguised si country market
people, and jnat at night went on board s
row boat, such as was used to carry provi
sions to the Army and Fleet.—He atrang-
ed the tube so as to reach tbe Island be-
07*07“ Greeting ! To Bookbinders,
Publishers, tt id genus atnne : Cut your
sheets, or wo shall almost bo tempted lo
cut your acquaintance. What is more
vexatious, when roclined snugly in your
fauteuil, to enjny the honeymoon of a new
novel, or any other intellectual bride, to
bo obliged to brandish a snickersnee in one
hand; while holding thn object of your
affection in the oilier, and ever and anon
“cut," and “read!"—•*cut/" and “read!"
lo the Inst syllable of rerorded charms !—
Then, consider iiow like an assassin ono
looks brandishing his ivory scalpel, rr tin
cleaver, und parting thn caratiil artery of
every innocent pngo! And then, horrisco
referens I think of having your midnight
slumbers untimely broken by the sheeted
ghost of every murdered volume ! ” Tis
too horrible!—’lis tome-cult “in the first
degree !’’ and vexation in the List !—’lis a
touch of barbarity beyond bulking ! We
shall cut the acquaintance of this practice
altogether. It shall no'longer be said
of us,
We knew lira right, nnd we approved it loo;
Wo know tho wrong, nnd yet tho wrong pursue.
But what, it will he miked, shall ho the
ulternntiveT lie nr!
07* The bookbinders $bnll thrust the
haul ef every now-horn volummo under
tliuir guillotine, Mid sculp it, just tho duo
decimo part of an inch ; after this Procrus
tean operation, every philomath may ruu
and resd.— lioston Statesman.
General Lafayette, or rather his resi
dence at La Grange so well known us the
asylum of tho persecuted friends of Lib
erty from whatever quartor of tho Globe
—Inis been the object of an outrage which
excited great indignation at Paris. We
translate from (lie National of the 12tli
ull. I lie following account ofit:—'
Violation of the Dwelling of Gen.
Lafayette.— General Lafayette commu
nicator! to-day to the Chambers a fact,
which even after all rho indignities here
tofore witnessed, will revolt the public.—
A member of the Polish government, the
celebrated Iwltwel, driven from Paris at
the instigation ol tbe Russian Ambassador
had found an asylum at La Change in the
house ofjthe General. He has just been
taken fVora it by gensdqirmcs; who thus vi
olated the sanctity uf a dwelling, which
even the Restoration had respected,
though Gen. Lafayette was openly its op
ponent. Tho pretext for ibis savage step
as the General characterised it, was that
this proscribed man once had been seen
in tbe capital, notwithstanding the engage
ment into which he haj entered not again
to appear thete. Tho Ini* motive is a
fresh, injunction front the Russian Ambas
sador recently arrived in 'Papist and who
was unwilling to endure that out of tbe
Polish heroes should quietly reside within
fifteen leagues of his own dwelling. The
imputation cast upon ML Lelemel of hav
ing broken hit word, General Lafayette
and his ton both repelled peremptorily.
The veteran General w«s well on the
15th—of which date we have a letter from
him in Paris.—AT. Y. American.
Sir l—Iu the list number of the Virginian
Farmer, it it stated that a Mr. Meg
gioson, of Buckingham, made last year,
from one sere of land, one hundred and
eight and a half bushel of Indian corn.
That was eertainly a giefci product, and
shows conclusively the value of manure;
and sorely ought to stimulate every form
er to use all tha meant in his power to
raise as much of that indispensable article
towards gosd sod profitable forming, at are
withio his roach, I read Mr. Megginson’s
letter inserted in yonr paper, wherein be
stated tho manner of preparing land for
corn, and the subsequent cultivation. This
gentleman is certainly h practical farmer,
whose examples (in genera’., us for as lhay
arc developed by liis totter,) are worthy of
imitation. Under a hope that others of
more experience than myaelf may be in
duced to give us their lights on the subject
of agriculture—I beg leave to state the
manoer that I prepare nty coru land, and
the mode of cultivation afterwards. I
commence on or about the fiisi of Novem
ber to follow with a two horse McCornick
plough, (the best kind I ever saw, and I
beiievo the best I ever shall sec) ploughing
about five inches deep. The last of
March I bed my land five feet, with three
furrows, and crop it three feet apart,
and commence planting as soon afterwards
as I can, allowing the plough or ploughs
tlmt are cropping sufficient lime to keep
Hltead of the planters, of course I plant my
corn five feel by three putting three grains
in tho hill, or rather the hole. If the
spring is tolerably favorable, the corn will
bo large enough to thin out one stalk about
the 20th of May :—About this time I put
in tho cultivator, made in a traingular form,
having in it four hoes and a tooth, the latter
is fixed in tbe hinder end of the right side;
tho advantage of the- tooth is found in run
ning immediately along side of the young
corn without covering it, by throwing dirt
on it, two strokes of this cultivator are suf
ficient in a row. As soon as I get over my
crop the wide way (as wo call it) 1 take
the tooth out of the cultivator and put a
hoe in its place and commence cropping
the narrow wtty : that corn is then large
enough to benr the little dirt that is thrown
to it by the cultivator. My object in cros
sing, is tq break and pulverize the bad, and
level tho ground. After the crop is passed
over in this way, which is speedily done,
one stroke being sufficient, I cross no more
and continue to work die corn wilh the
cultivator alone, until a siiort time before
hnrvest, when 1 put in a one horso plough,
and run two furrows qn each sido of tho
corn, throwing the oarth up pretty well to
the corn, the cultivator will at ono furrow
cut out.that which is unploughed in the
middle. I omitted to state, that I com
mence hoeing my corn or rather chopping
around it wlton I first start the cultivator,
taking out one stalk if there are three,
thereby thinning the corn gradually. The
ploughing is intended to facilitate and les
sen the hoe. work the second hoeing, and
prevent tbe grass front getting a hold dining
harvest; a time when we havo to take all
our hands out of the corn field. After
harvest tbe cultivator is again used, and
nothing clso except the hoe. I think Mr.
Megginson is mistaken in saying that corn
ought not to be worked after it begins to
joint; I know by several’ years experience,
that corn ought to bo harrowed or stirred
with u cultivator (the latter 1 prefer) until
the first of August. I am under the im
pression than he plants his corn too thick,
unless in a very highly improved lend. It
is true lie will liavo more ears, but I doubt
very much if more bushels would not be
mode by pluming five and three, one stalk,
unless tho land is rich enough to produce
ten or twelve barrels to the acre, then too
stalks may be safely left. One cultivator
will do as much work in a day as two, or
perhaps throe ploughs, and according to
the foregoing mode of cultivating a corn
crop, much is saved, less team is necessary,
fewer hands will bo roquired, aud the crop
cultivated in n neater manner nnd better
calculated to insure n good crop. If you
have none of McCormick's ploughs in your
country, I would earnestly press you to
gel ono, Nn. 10. You can get them in
Frdericksburg and perhaps in Richmond.
I have thus roughly given you my modo of
cultivating a corn crop; there is nothing in
it lliooretical, and l am confident that it is
the safest mode in this part of Virginia, at
least to insure a good crop. If you think
any good may bo done by the above (ex
cept filling up a pluco in your paper) you
can use them as vou please.
Yours, RALPH EDMOND.
holes about four inch e* or under every tray,
and ono deep- la these holes the drop
pers (women, beys, and girls’) drop two
grains which arJ qnite sufficient. After
this, a gate bushed with thorns is drawn by
one horse over the land and closes up the
holes. By this mode three pecks of grain
are sufficient for an -aero; and bsiug im
mediately baried, are equally temoved
from vermin or the power of frost. Tho
ingulsrity of its rising gives the best oppor
tunity of keeping it clear -from weeds,Sby
hand or hoeing. Setting of wheat it s
method peculiarly beneficial when corn is
dear; and if the season is favorable,
may be practise! with great benefit to the
former.
Sir Thornes Beevor, of jBetbel Hall,
in Norfolk, found the produce to be two
busliels per. acre moro than from sown
whoa'; but having much lest smaller corn
intermixed with it, the sample is better
and always fetches a higher price, to the
amount generally of two shillings per quar
ter. Tltts method, too, saves to the farm
er and the public six pocks of seed wheat
in every acre; which, if generally adopted,
would of itself afford bread for more than
half a million of people. Add to those con
siderations, the great benefit given to the
poor by this second harvest, it may be called
which enables thorn to discharge tneir rents
and maintain their familes without having
reoenrse to tbo parish. The expense of
setting by hands is now reduced lo about
six shillings per acre; which, in good
woathor, may be done by one diddler, at
tended by threo dropper, in two days.
This is five shillings pet day; of which if
the diddler gives to*tho children six ponce
each, lie will have himself 3s Cd for his
day’s work, which is more than be can earn
by any other labor to easy to himself.
But if he lias a wife who diddles with him.
nnd two or throe of his own children to
drop to him, his grainTwill then be very
important, and enough to insure a plenty of
candidates for that work, even in the least
populous parts of the country. But the
profit of litis method, in soasons when seed
corn is ve'ry cheap, or tho autum particu
larly unfavorable to the practice, must cor-
tainly be lessened.
after they had been inflicted for many
hours, by the application of common sa'it
moistened with water, and bound upon tbo
wound, without any bad effect ever oecur-
ing afterward, He cite* a case from a
newspaper, in which a porson waa bitten
by a dog, which within a few hours died
raving mad. Ssh was immediately tubbed
for tome time into the wound, and the per
son never experienced any inconvenience
from the bite.”
Cholera in Ireland.—" Never,” says •
letter from Limerick of the 14th of March,
was thoro any thing like the stale of the
surrounding country. The Cholera has
spread all around. Tho Rev. Mr. Noo
nan, Curate ol Knockany, was here to-day
to purchase cofflas, there not being hands
enough in that place to make them. At
Hospital to-day, the parish priest and
twelve of his flock are dead of cholera*
Forty persons were attacked last night "
with tho postilence, out of which the above
number felt victims in a very fow hours lo
its malignant lury Poor Dr. O’Connell
said mass yesterday and appeared to enjoy
excellent health. The manoer ot his
death (being taken off io three or four,
hours) had created a general feeling of re
grot aud consternation through the sur
rounding couutry. Kitmallock, too is
nearly as bad. Brurce is totally deserted;
Fcdamore attacked at all points; the Rev.
Mr. M’Carthy the parish priest and his
coadjutor, have been called out of bed to
attend the sick nnd the dying, eleven nights
in succession. In short, the panic through
the country far exceeds any thing within
the memory of man."
Killmurry, Ibraickane, and Seaficld, in
the County of Clare, have^been visited
with the disease, nnd as if to provoke its
rage, tho deluded inhabitants refuse to go
tu the hospitals whore every necessary is
provided, but perish in thoir own miserablo
dwellings. Upwards of sixty deaths out of
seventy three attacked, have occurcd in ^
Kiimallock. Of those who were affected
seven remained ondei treatment, and only
six havo recovered. In several other
places in that part of the kingdom the dis
ease was extending.
Front lira Farmer’s (English) Mnsnzinc.
ON SETTING WHEAT.
A woman in Raymon, Me. was recently
deliverer: of four children al one birth !
Tho mother sod children tie doing well-
This is a method which is reckoned
ono of the greatest improvements in hus
bandry that was made during the last cen
tury.
It seems to have been first suggested
by planting grass in a garden from mere
curiosity, by persons who had no opportu
nity of extending the cultivation for profit.'
This was first atlemped nt Norwick, and
n fow years after by oue of the largest oc
cupiers of land in Norwick, who set fifty-
soven acres in one year. H is success ft om
tho visible superiority of his crop, both
in quality, and quantity, was so grout, that
in the following autumn ho set three bun
dled acres, and continued the practice ever
since. This noble experiment estab
lished the practice, and was the means
of iutrondueing it generally among the
intelligent formers in a very laige dis
trict; there being few who now sow
any wheat, if they can procure hands
to act iu I has been generally observed,
that although the set crops appear very thni
duringjlbe, autumn and winter, the plants
grow taller and spread prodigiously during
the spring. The ears are indisputably larger,
without dwarfish or small corn; tbe grain
is of a larger bulk, and specially heavier
per bushel than wbsn sown. Thn lauds
on which Ibis method is particularly pros
perous, are eithet after ■ clover stubbie, or
on which trefoil and gras* seed were town
tbo spring before tbe last These
grounds, after the usual manuring, ire once
rued over with tbe plough in extended
flag or turf at ten inches wide; along which
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
Agricnltural Sosietics havo invariably
gives a groat stimulus to improvements in
hnsbandrv. In no department of industry
is there so wide a field for the application
of knowledge and sciences as in tne culti
vation of tho soil; and we know of no
method so well calculated to diffuse useful
information as by agricultural societies.
They bring farmers together, sad tiiey
learn from the experience of each other,
they teach scientific knoweledge, and the
practical application of it to the pursuits
of business. The great object of husband
ry should bo to raiso tho greatest quantity
from the least add at the smallest expense;
and this can only bo done by using the
accumulated wisdom of exporince.
It is appnront to every observing mao,
that agricultural societies have had u benign
influence, and is facilitating the labors,
and increasing the intellectual and mdrel
condition of the people. Tho ptogross of
improvement, in these particulars, has
probably been greater in Jcfl’ersou than in
any other county in tho stuto, in the last
twelve years, and during tho successful op
eraliofi of her agricultural society. As one
branch of her improvements, I will men
lion that in travelling through most of the
northern and western counties, I came to
the conclusion, after critical observation,
that tho ItorstA in Jefferson were at least
twenty per cent, better than in any other
county through which I passed. I will
quote another illustration of these advan
tages from a sister state : I allude to the
manifest improvement which has been
made in Burkqhire county, through her
agricultural sucidly, tho oldest-county soci
etv in our country, and which still contin
ues its usefulness with unabated vigor.
I asked an intelligent inhabitant of this
county yesterday liis opinion uf the extent
of tbe benefits which Berkshifo had de
rived from her agricultural' society. He
replied, that it had enhanced the vuluo of
her lands, nnd its products, thirty per cent,
and accelerated intellectual improvement
thirty years.—Rochester Repub.
Culture.—Soap suds is one of the host
antidotes against insects, as well as a very
good manure. Trees, shrubs, garden ve
getables, &c. if showered with this liquid
once or twice a wetek, would not be injured
by worms and bu'gs, anti would flourish
surprisingly. Watering plants, such as
potatoes, turnips und even flax, with soa
water, has been recommended by Dr.
Deane; but ho says, •• salt water applied
lo tender plants most commonly proves too
strong for them, if applied when the ground
is dry; but if it be wet, the strength of
the water is abated by mixing with the
juices in the soil, before it is tnken up by
tbo roots, and thus it is rendered innocent
and safe, as I have found by experience.
Do not forget to plado a handfull of plaster,
or ashesy or mixture ol both, on your hills
of corn and potatoes, just before the first
or second hoeing. Those substances are
usually appled after hoeing, but it has been
thought better to cover them with earth,
lest the sun and air steal away their fertili
zing qualities. Soap suds is the best of
manure for cucumbers, mellons, Ac.]
Lithography.—Stnnefeldtr, the dis-
jverer of lithography, has enriched tbis
departmentlot the fine arts by a new in
vention. lie '
has succeeded in tffkipg im
pressions of oil paintings, and transferred
the colours in all their original brilliancy,
and with singular accuracy, to canvass, bv
moans of the usual lithographic printing-
press. He has presented several speci-
mess to the magistrates, and received a
sum of moaey to enablo him to carry it
into %flect.
•‘ Boy !" said a phlegmatic old fellow
to a noisy nrebin, “ what are yon holler
in' for when I’m going by T" •• Humph !”
returned the boy, •• what are you eoine bv
“ for when I’m holtrenT'
„ (Mammon Sail remedy for animal.poi-
Great Failure in Calcutta.—'Wo aro
informed that letters have been received
in this city, announcing the failure of the
house of Alexander ACo. in Calcutta, for
the enormous amount of eighteen millions
of dollarsi The effect ofthis will no doubt
be severely felt by several mercantile
houses in Europe. The establishment
consisted of 7 partners, and upwards of
1200 clerks; on ono floor were 12 count
ing rooms.—Boston Paper.
POLITICAL..
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itlemar|/ (1
Globel
[From the Alexandria Phoenix Gazette-J
Alexandria, Apriil 21, 1833.
,, Mr. Snowden:—Having, to-day, re
ceived a dismissal from the Navy of this
republic, signed by “Andrew Jackson,"
aftor twenty-three years arduous service,
devoted to my country, ns I have with ar
dent zeal been, both in war and peace, I
think proper to give the public the first an
nunciation of the fact.
It was about two months ago, immediate
ly after a full and complete examination of
nty conduct by a Court of Enquiry con
vened in Washington under the test]
of many persons, when I was most
ably acquit tod as an offlcni 1 nnd gentlemar
that the Government paper (the Globe)
proclaimed roe lobe a large public defaul
ter. 1 then requested a suspension of
opinion upon the charge, vouching that tho
whole of it was infamously malicious, and
that I would in time exposo tho nefarious
measures, whereby tho buse accountant of
ficer, his favorites and coadjutors, were so
wretchodly aiming to fix it upon me. This
promise I havo so far redcomed as to bo
ablo to declare solemnly, that I have very
recently completely cancelled, by proper
vouchers and testimony, tho iniquitous at
tempt to injure me, and by it brought the
Department indebted to nte not much short
of one thousand dollars. My accounts
liavo been most dishonestly, and with the
most unprecedented hardihood, protested
against, und even tho ducision ot the Ex
amining Court utterly disregarded.
My couusel will immediately prepare a
thorough and vrfry connected statement of
tho manner in which I have been for near
ly four years persecuted; and from which
the community will clearly discover that I
have not the smullcst prospect of any thipg
like'ultimato justice from tho Department.
I again ask of tho public a little further
forbearance from making any unfavorable
conclusion against me. I pawn my very
existence upon the fidelity und taitbfulnew
with which the whole of my duties to my
conntry havo been fulfilled.
Those Editors who are accustomed to
act indcpentcntly, and with proper justice
to individuals, [especially one who has
been dismissed from the high service of his
country to gratify the most black-hearted
malevolence, fraught with viows of tho
deepest iniquity,] will be pleased to givo
publicity to what I now subscribe tny
name.
R. B. RANDOLPH, Late U. S. N.
The English papers give currency lo a
rumor that the Duke of Wellington is to
go to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, or the
commander in chief of the army, in tho
event of the passngeof the Irish enforce,
ment bill. This soldier of a fortuitous
fortune owes his success in life, in a great
degree, to the blood and valor of Irishmen.
He himself is a native of Ireland, and yet
it appears.he it to be selectod to let out thn
dogs of war on hit own countrymen.
Geo. Jackson is a native of South Caro
lina. If the toil of that State had been
drenched in blood under our enforcement
bill, by whom was the carnage to have
been directed or ordeiedt The sigArity
of the two bloody bills teems to etmtl e-
ven to the persons by whom their enact
ments shall be oarried into effect.—V. S.
Telegraph.
Tho packet ships which arrived at Now-
Yrwk on Tuesday afternoon, brought up
ward* of Ten thorfpoitd LeR«rs f