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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and I waa afraid tbit 1 should be wounded, if not cat in halves; but just aa it was within two inches of my nose it waa withdrawn.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 E OF mBAL. setting Iron*, aomewhai bigger than r*m- missionary in Sooth America, says lie ac- 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.. iry con- !siii):?:!j* J t Itonorj H 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
