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From the Madisonian.
DESULTORY READING—OF LOVE.
We must dedicate some of the fruits of our
desultory reading f,| i this mysterious but in
teresting subject to the ladies, for whose espe
cial bent fit we “make tip the jewels.
Lovk, thev say, invented the art of tracing
likenesses, and then by led the way to poitrail
painting. Southey.
If love, simple love, is the worst of poets,
that same simple love is beyond comparison the
best of lelter-v liters. In love poems conceits
are distilled from the head; in love-letters
feelings flow from the l heart; and feelings are
never so feelingly uttered, affection novel so
affectionately expressed, truth never so tiuly
spoken, us in such a correspondence. —ls.
Happy indeed is he, says Drummond,
Who love enjoys, and placed hath his mind
Where fairest virtues fairest beauties grace,
Then in himselfsuch store of wealth doth find
That he deserves to find so good a place.
And Allan Cunningham thus records his tes
timony :
True gentle love is like thesummcr dew,
Which falls around when all is still and hush ;
And falls unseen until its bright drops strew
W’iih odours,herb and flower, and bank and bush.
Oh love—when womanhood is in the flush,
And man’s a young and an unspotted thing,
His first breath’d word, and her half-conscious blush,
Are fair as lightin heaven, or flower's in spring.
It is seldom that poetry is written worthy
of this subject. The following may be called
so. It is by the .Manchester poet, Charles
Swain.
1
Love ?—I w ill tell thee what it is to love !
It is to build with human thoughts a shrine,
IKhere Hope sits brooding like a beauteous dove ;
Where Time seems young, and Life a thing divine
All tastes, all pleasures, all desires combine
To consecrate this sanctuary of bliss,
Above, the stars in shroudless beauty shine ;
Around, the streams their flowery margin kiss
And if there’s heavefl on earth, that heaven is surely this.
2
Yes, this is Love, the steadfast and the true,
The immortal glory which hath never set—
The best, the brightest boon the heart e’er knew,
Os all life’s sweets, the very sweetest yet!
Oh 1 who but can recal the eve they met—
To breathe, in some green walk, their first young vow
While summer flowers with moonlight dews were wet,
And winds sighed soft around the mountain’s brow ;
And all was rapture then—which is but memory now,
Os the various ways of getting in Love.
A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs.
It is an accident — perhaps and very probably
a misfortune ; something which he neither
intended, nor foresaw, nor apprehended. But
when he runs in love it is as when he runs in
debt ;.it is done knowingly and in'entionally ;
and very often rashly and foolishly, even it not
ridiculously, miserably, and ruinously.
Marriages that are made up at watering
places are mostly of this running sort ; and
there may be reason to think that they are
even less likely to lead to—l will not say
happiness, but to a very humble degree ofcon
tentment, than ’.hose which are a plain busi
ness of bargain and sale; for in these latter a
certain degree ofprudence enters on both sides.
But there is a distinction to be made here;
the man who is married for mere worldly mo
fives, without a spark of affection on the wo
man’s part, may nevertheless get, in every
worldly sense of the word, a good wife; and
while English women continue to be what,
thank Heaven they are, he is likely to do so:
but when a woman is married tor the sake of
her forkine, the case is altered, and the chan,
ces areuve hundred to one that she marries a
villain, or at best a scoundrel.
Falling in love and running in love are both,
as every body knows, common enough ; and
yet less so, than what J shall call catching iCYc.
Where the love itself is imprudent, that is to
say where there is some just prudential cause
or impediment why the two parties should not
be joined together in holy m t’ritnony, there is
generally some degree of culpable imprudence
in catching it, because the danger is al ways to
be apprehended, and may in most cases be
avoided. But sometimes the circumstances
may be such as to leave no room for censure,
even when there may be most cause for com
passion.
The rarest, and surely the happiest mar
riages, are between those who have grown in
love. Take the description of such a love in
its rise and progress, ye thousands and tens of
thousands who have what is called a taste for
poetry, take it in the sweet words of one of the
sweetest and tenderest of English poets; and
if ye doubt upon the strength of my opinion,
ask Leigh Hunt, or the laureate, or Words
worth. or Charles Lamb.
Ah ! I remember well (and how can I
But evermore remember well,) when first
Our flame began, when scarce we knew what was
The flame we felt; when as we sat and sighed
And looked upon each other, and conceived
Not what we ailed—yet something we did ail;
And yet were well, and yet we were not well,
And what was our disease wc could not tell,
Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look : and thus
In that first garden of our simpleness
We spent our childhood. But when years began
To keep the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then
Would she with graver looks, with sweet stern brow,
Check my presumption and my forwardness ;
Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show
What she would have me, yet not have me know.
Take also the passage that presently fol
lows this : it alludes to a game which has long
■been obsolete ; but some fair reader I doubt
mot, -will remember the lines when she dances
next.
-Imi whan in snort with other company
Os nymphs and shepherds we have met abroad,
How she would steal a look and watch mine eye
Which way st w’nt ? And when at barley-break
It came unto my turn to rescue her,
With •what an earnest, swift and nimble pace,
Would her affection make her feet to run,
And farther run than to my hand ! her race
Had no stop but my bosom, where no end.
And when we were to break again, how late
And loath her trembling hand would part with mine;
And with how slow a pace would she set forth
To meet the encountering party who contends
To attain her, scarce affording him her fingers’ ends !*
•Hymen's triumph.
From the Norfolk Beacon.
TRADES vs. PROFESSIONS.
We have more than once culled the attention
of parents to the propriety of bringing up their
euns in a knowledge of some trade, instead of
hanging them on the outskirts of some of the
professions, or driving them offtu the West in
the capacity of clerks. The antipathy to
trades is one of the meanest relics of aristo
cratic pride ; and, however well it may appear
jn Great Britain, where sons are destined to
■receive splendid fortunes from their parents,
■it is ridiculous and out of place here, where
every man is the maker of his own fortune,
and where neither emolument nor reward will
reach the undeserving. South Carolina has
resolved to break the trammelsofa false pride,
mJ the youth, who in former days would have
been committed to Blackstone or Cullen, now
sec ks the bench of the tradesman and the corni
er of the merchant. The time is not far dis
mot when worth will make the man in the
South as well as the North, and that the acci
dental connexion with some profession will
afford no surer passport to respectability than
m intimacy with the mechanic i rts Amer
ica,above even other l.md,should cherish a de
votion to them, for to no two names is she more
deeply indebted, than those ot a I'niton and
a Franklin.
The following remarks from the Baltimore
American, are so opposite to our present theme
that wc quote them for tiie benefit of the
reader:
“It is perhaps claiming too much for our
countrymen to say that in no other part of the
world do the producing classes stand, deserv
edly,so high for general intelligence and weight
in society as in the United States. In ad
vancing this claim wc do not intend to attri
bute to our People individually more moral
worth or better acquaintance with their voca
tions than is possessed by others, but wc be
lieve according to our peculiar institutions they
are taught to devote themselves to the study of'
•affairs in general, and the acquisition of infor
mation which is beyond the reach of the same
description of persons in the old world. The
simple fact that the highest distinctions are
attainable by every man, without regard to
humbleness of birth, has a tendency when
young to elevate the tone ot feeling and create
a desire for the acquisition of knowledge,
which in after life, should circumstances de
mand it, may become eminently useful. Ot
! the practical effect of this state of things most
honorable examples are found in our history,
in which persons have risen from the most
humble beginnings to fill distinguished stations
in the Republic, and have shown that talent
knows no discrimination as io birth or parent
age. and may be nurtured as well m the cradle
of the woodman’s hut, as tn the palace of the
prince.
“Independently, however, of the cases in
which high distinction has been attained, there
is an appreciation of the producing classes
among us, arising out of the extensiveness of
their views, which is known no where else.
One of the causes which have led to this pro.
psr estimate is the fact that in America, so
ciety does not recognise as a distinct aim
privileged class those who have acquired or
; inherited wealth. In Europe the persons
j here alluded to, form a separate and distinct
; department, as it were, in the community, an
' introduction into which is the great object of
| ambition, Ilcie although numberless individ
| uals are found, whose riches place them above
the necessity for exertion, they still are regard-
I ed merely as individuals, and must look to the
j producing portions of the community for any
I standing they may possess. To be an idler
i in our country, happily for us, so far from re-
I fleeting credit upon a person causes him to be
i looked upon, to a certain degree, as a useless
j appendage to society, and consequently to lose
> ground m the estimation of his fellow men.
“ The high price of labor has tended in an
’ eminent degree to promote the general intel
; ligerice of which we speak among the working
t classes. It is not here as in the old world,
where a man to support himself ai d family,
must exert his physical energies morning,
noon and night for a compensation compara
tively trifling. There, owing to the competi
tion that exists among artizans, no time is af
j forded for relaxation or intellectual improve
' meat. Not only is a man forced to give his
whole time to his particular pursuit, but that
pursuit is, in nine cases out often, in fact but a
department of some general trade. Such a
system naturally circumscribes the sphere of
thought, and however it may tend, as it cer
tainly does, to great perfection m a particular
branch, it renders the acquisition of general
information impracticable,
“ The foreigner who will take the pains to
throw himselt in the way of our mechanics,
will be forcibly struck with the difference here
alluded to, which, to our minds, is strongly il
lustrative of the remark which we have heard,
that‘America >s the place for the many—
Europe for the few.’ In the United States
where every thing is thriv'.'og, and where accu-,
mulation is the order of the day,-labor is scarce
in comparison with the means es employment
for it, and every man of good habits and ordi
nary intelligence must earn more than is abso
lutely necessary for his support. Such indeed
is the value of labor, that it is impossible for a
man to occupy the regular hours for it through
out the week, and not make more than he
needs to spend. In proportion, therefore, to
the ability to enjoy occasional leisure, will the
disposition to employ that leisure in the ac
quisition of useful knowledge, thro’ the medium
of books or otherwise, be increased. It is the
proud boast of our country that her sons are
not mere machines, made to perform a certain
extent of work, and incapable of anything
more. Her producing classes are intelligent
and reflecting, and possess the appreciation
intended by our Maker to attach to usefulness.
The mechanic of America is not the operative
of Europe, but merits Jhe respect due to all
whose practical ability to serve their fellow
men is only equalled by the zeal and intelli
gence with which they do it.”
"I KNOW THAT HE LOVES ME.”
I know that he loves me—l could not live on,
Tho’ loved oy a thousand, if his love were gone ;
But my soul with the thought bounds in raptures no
more;
For, alas 1 though he loves me, ’tis not as of yore !
No wonder the shadow oft steals o’er my brow
When I think what he was, and see what he is now !
Tho’ they say he is true as heart ere was before,
[ feel that he loves me—ah 1 not as of yore !
Time was, when he watched every glance, every tone,
And made my emotions the guide of his own ;
When he looked fond alarm if I heaved but a sigh,
And his cheek lost its rose when a tear dimmed my
eye 1
But now, if I weep, he just asks why so sad ?
And says when I sorrow he cannot be glad ;
O ! so calmly he speaks of the gloom of my mind,
His voice never falters—it only is kind
Yet I know that he loves me—l feel there is none
That he loves half as well, or could love were I gone;
But in solitude often my tears will run o’er,
To think, tho’ he loves me, ’tis not as of yore 1
Oh ! why does the rainbow so often fleet away,
And affection’s fresh beauty so quickly decay ?
Why must time from the spirit its summer glow steal ’
Why, as once we have felt, can we not ever feel ?
Though lovely the fall of mild evening may be,
Oh ! the light and the glory of morning for me !
'Twas the vision of bliss, but its brightness is o’er,
And I weep that he loves me —ah ! not as of yore !
From “the Microcosm.”
REMINISCENCES OF MY AUNT PRIM.
By Peter Pimple.
No. 1.
God bless her ! gentle reader, for she has
a kind heart ; but she belongs to another gen
eration : if she is yet among us, sho is not of
us, she has out lived herself; and really con
siders the events of her past life, as much a
matter of history as the adventures of a Joan
or the sorrows of a Scottish Queen. In her
antiquity, she still preserves ail the character
islic peculiarities of the age in which she flour
ished, rendered perhaps more singularly ap
parent from the strange contrast produced by
the innovations of the present age upon the
primitive simplicity of her manners and ac
tions—That she has her faults may bo true,
but, in charity, be it remembered that they are
faults of education and cot es intention—for
she lived at a time when the march of intel
lect had as yet wrought none ofthose wonder
ful improvements in female education, which
have since astonished and edified mankind.
Then it was considered an indispensable
requisite that the young miss should possess
herself of a competent knowledge of her na
tive tongue ! —and though French was some
times tan gilt as an agreeab'e relief from the
monotony of more severe studies, yet the Van
dals absolutely made it a secondary consider,
ation ! And though my aunt possessed some
skill in music, she was precluded from becom
ing a perfect nightingale, by the preposterous
idea that is was really advisable and proper
that, before entering upon the duties of life,
she should become at least partially acquain
ted with the intention and use of the needle and
thimble ! Though from certain scruples
(then allowed and respected, but now stigma
tised as the wild vagaries of puritan blue slock
ingism) my aunt never danced ! yet, strange
to relate, if we may credit her own assertions,
she was admitted into society, and even con
sidered as quite a village belle ! That she is
still in the enjoyment, of single blessedness,
she assumes to be her own fauh, as we may
leant in some future chapter of her history.
Indeed, I never could wish it had been other
wise ; for it were a catastrophe to lie lamen
ted, that the eccentric goodness of her heart
should have been lost in that great leveller ot
distinctions, matrimony.
Single blessedness is her lot, however, and
truly she bears it. with great fortitude; for
athough modern philosophy would teach us
that they are eminently happy; yet I never
could believe that old maids did not retain
through life some slight regrets, at having
been doomed by fate to become excluded ex
clusives, and, so far as the balance of the world
are concerned, ‘'mere lookers on in Venice.”
That my aunt Prim should be an exception
'to my own rule, I could not modestly claim,
and really I am sometimes induced to believe
. that I discover evidences of its still existing
1 in her case; for she wages a war of words upon
the errors of others, and suffers not the sligh
test action which accords not entirely with
her primitive views of propriety topass un
observed. In matters oflove she is particu
larly vigilant. Not a match is announced
but she “ told you so,” and “ had known it
mouths before not a hapless swam is sligh
ted but she “ expected it, and wondered at his
blindness in expecting it could be otherwise !”
She possesses the secrets of every one, while,
generous soul 1 she has jpot had one of her
own for years- She is good authority on eve
ry other question, and a faithful friend in eve
ry other office, *• save in the affairs oflove-,”
and [ am bound in conscience to add that I
believe she has robbed the newspaper columns
of some advertisements, by being found a
cheaper and more certain means of communi
cation. Yet,after all, gentle reader, for a kind
heart and a willing hand, for rd vice which is
the result of experience, and for warning which
it were well to take heed to, I do sincerely
commend thee to my most estimable aunt, Miss
Particular Prim.
Though the circle of her friends is limited,
yet it embraces every extreme of character.
She is the neucleus around which circles the
whole tribe of gossips ; and, at her tea-table,
the private matters of her neighbors and ac
quaintances are discussed with as much earn
estness and interest, though perhaps less abili
ty, than the pt ice of consols or the prospects
of stocks at the Royal Exchange. Wo to the
erring and unfortunate mortal who appears
before that tribunal without a fried ! Iho
sayings and doings of this Star-Chamber
Court of Inquisition may be the subject of a
future chapter, unless, indeed, I should, after
this revelation, find myself arraigned and ex
pelled from the privileged corner where I have
so long enjoyed the pleasure of being a silent
witness of tiieir deliberations and decision.
THE LITTLE GRAVE.
Bl' MISS C. 11. WATERMAN.
I saw a primrose, fair, and pale,
Uprcar its tend;.”' head ;
And ope its blossoms to the gale,
Above the early dead.
I saw the green grass, to and fro,
In shining clusters wave;
And simple wild-flowers sweetly grow
Beside a little grave.
A mother brought a lovely child,
With soften’d eyes of blue,
That, like the light of Heaven, smiled,
When deck’d with azure hue.
With cheeks, thatsharned the roses dye,
And locks of sunny hair,
To where its sister blossoms lie,
And she had left it there.
And high above its little breast,
Was raised the bright green mound;
And blooming on its bed of rest,
The budshad gather’d round.
They told that, in its quiet cell,
A gentle infant lay ;
And they had come awhile to dwell
Beside its silent clay.
That God had bade these early flowers
Above its slumbers wave,
’Till, waking in his heavenly bowers,
It leaves its little grave.
Love and Marriage — A case was recently
tried, in Rutland, Vermont, in which a Miss
Munson recovered $1425 of a Mr. Hastings,
for a breach of marriage contract. The cu
riosity of the thing is, that the Vermont
charged the jury “that no explicit promise
was necessary to bind the parties to a mar
riage contract, but that long continued atten
tions or intimacy with a female, was as good
evidence of intended matrimony as a special
contract.” The principle ofthe case undoubt
edly is, that if Hastings did not promise, he
ought to have done it 1 and so the law holds
him responsible lor the .non-performance of his
duty. A most excellent decision —a most
righteous judge—compared with whom Dan.
iel would appear but a common squire. We
have no idea of a young fellow dangling about
a woman for a year or two without being able
to screw his courage to the sticking point, and
then going off leaving his sweetheart half
courted ; we hate this everlasting nibble, and
never a bite—tins beating the bush and never
starting the game—this standing to the rack
without touching the corn ; it is the crying sin
of the age. There is not one girl in twenty
can tell whether she is courted or not. No
wonder that when Betty Simpers’ cousin asked
her if Billy Doubtful was courting her, an
swered—'l don’t know ‘xactly—he is sorter
courtin’, and sorter not courtin.’ We have
no doubt thvt this Hastings is one of these
‘sorter not’ fellows and most heartily do we
Souflitrtt OSftts♦
o' e hat the judge has brought him up stand
!• g with a $1425 verdict.
The judge says, ‘that long continued atten
tions,’ or intimacy,’ is just as good asaregulai
promise. Now we do not know what would
pass for‘intimacy’ according to the laws ol
Vermont: but supposing ‘attentions to con
sist in visiting a girl twice a week ; and esti
mate the time wasted by Miss Munson at each
visiting to be worth a dollar, which is dog
cheap, Mr. Hastings has been making a fool
of himself fourteen years and some odd weeks.
This decision makes a new era in the law ot
love, and wc doubt not v ill tend to the promo
tion of matrimony and sound morality. Utica
Dem.
F. \N N ING EXTR AO R DIN AR Y.
While travelling in Western A irginia, hap
pening one dav in a dry goods sfore situated in
a small village, an elderly lady ir on> the coun
try came in. She purchased s- veral articles
of the clerk, and at length observing a neatly
painted and varnished bellows hanging by the
post, she enquired what it was. The clerk
perceiving that the old ,dy rather igno
tant, and being somewhat of ■ wag, informed
her that it was a new fashioned fan, which he
had just received from the East, at the same
lime taking the bellows down and puffing with
it in his face, told her that was the mode of op
eration. The old woman repeated the oper
ation on herself, and was so delighted with the
new fan, that she purchased it forthwith and
departed.
On-the next day our informant told us the
minister had an appointment topreach ata
school house in the neighboring county. The
congregation being assembled, while the min
ister was in the act of reading the first hymn,
who should pop in but the old lady with her
new fashioned fan, and having taken her seat,
immediately commenced puffing away in good
earnest. The congregation knew not what to
make of it. some smiled and some looked as
tonished, but the ludicrous prevailed over ev
ery thing else, and to such an extent, that the
minister himself was obliged to stop reading,
and baud the book to bis brother in the desk.
After the usual preliminary services, he rose
to preach, but there sat conspicuously the old
lady with the bellows in front, a hand hold of
each handle, the nose turned up to her face, and
with much self complacency puffing the gen
lle breeze into her face. VV hat to do or how
to proceed, he knew not, for he could not cast
his eves over the congregation without mect
jmg with the old lady? At length summoning
' resolution, and trying to feel the solemnity of
, the duty imposed upon him, ho proceeded. —
j He finished his discourse, but it cost him more
j effort than any before er since.
Pensive admirers preferred by the Ladies.—
I have remarked, that the generality of my sex
prefer those of the other sex who are of a
grave and sentimental turn, provided always
that (he gravity does not proceed from dullness,
but from a reflecting cast of mind, which in
creases their respect while it adds to the inter
est they experience. 1 have known a pale
face and pensive manner make impressions on
female hearts that had successfully resisted
the attacks of ruddy countenances and exhilar
ating gaiety ; the possessors of these agremens,
being more calculated to amuse than interest,
are rarely remembered when absent. Wo
man seldom forgets the man who makes them
sigh ; but rarely recur to him who has excited
flieir mirth, even though a brilliant wit may
have been displayed in his bons mots and good
stories. He therefore, who would captivate
the fastidious taste of the sex, must eschew
too frequent smiles, even though he may have
fine teeth, and must likewise avoid occasion
ing or promoting the exhibition of those pear
ly ornaments in her he wishes permanently to
please.— Lady Blessington.
Advice.— Would a man wish to offend his
friends ?—let him give them advice. Would
a lover know the surest method by which to
lose his mistress? —let him give her advice.
Would a courtier terminate his sovereign’s
partiality? —let him offer advice. In short,
are we desirous to be universally hated, avoi
ded, and despised, the means are always in
our power. We have but to advise, and the
consequences are infallable. Ihe friendship
of two young ladies, though apparently foun
ded on the rock of eternal attachment, termin
ated in the following manner : “My dearest
girl, 1 do not think your figure well suited for
dancing ; and, as a sincere friend of yours, I
advise you to refrain from it in future.” The
other, naturally effected by such a mark of sin
cerity, replied : “ I feel very much obliged to
you, my dear, for your aeZcz'ce; this proof of
your friendship demands some return : I wuuld
sincerely recommend you to relinquish your
ringing, as some of your upper notes resemble
the ‘dious squeaking of the feline race.”
The advice C't neither was followed ; the one
continued to sing, all d the o’her to dance ; and
they never met but as saemies.
THE SLELSTRO>; WHIRLPOOL.
Letter from a gentleman in Washington, to the
Hon. A. Z?. Woodward, Judge es Middle
Florida.
This wonderful phenomenon, that has ex< t
ted the wonder and astonishment of the worn.,
1 have seen. There arc few of my country- |
men who have had the opportunity, in copse- ’
qtience of the situation of it being remote from
any port of commerce. Its latitude I do not I
exactly recollect. It is situated b’etween two |
islands, belonging to a group oil the coast of ,
Norway, called the Low-in-Stuff Islands, be- '
tween Droutheim (being the most northern I
p ;int of commerce) and the North Cape. I
suppose the latitude to be about G 9 North, but
will not be certain.
I had occasion some years since to navigate
a ship from North Cape to Droutheim, nearly
all the way between the islands or rocks and
the main. On inquiring of my Norway pilot
about the practicability of running near the
whirlpool, he told me that with a good breeze
it could be approached near enough for exam
ination without danger. Wo began to near it
about 10 A. M. in the month of September,
with a fine leading wind north-west. Two
good seamen were placed at the helm, and the
mate on the quarter deck, all hands at their
stations for working ship, and the pilot stand,
ing on the bowsprit, between the night heads.
I went on the maintopsail yard, with a good
glass. 1 had been seated but a few moments
when my ship entered the dish of the whirl
pool ; the velocity of the water altered her
Course three points toward the centre, although
she was going eight knots through the water.
This alarmed me extremely ; for a moment
I thought that destruction was inevitable. —
She, however, answered her helm sweetly and
we ran along the edge, the waves foaming
around us in every form, w hile she was dan
cing gaily over them. The sensations I expe
rienced are difficult to describe. Imagine to
yourself an immense circle, running round, of
a diamater ofone and a halt miles,the velocity
increasing as it approximated toward the cen
tre, and gradually changing its dark blue color
to w hite—foaming, tumbling, rushing to the
vortex ; very much concave, as much so as
the water in a tunnel when halt runout ; the
noise too, hissing, roaring, dashing—all press
ing on the niind at once, presented the most
awfiff, grana, solemn sight, I ever experienced.
We were near it about eighteen minutes,
and in sight of it about two hours. It is evi
Gently a subterranean passage, that leads —the
Lord knows where. From its magnitude I
should not doubt that instant destruction would
be the fate of a dozen of our largest ships,
were they drawn in at the same moment. —
The pilot says that several vessels have been
sucked down, and that whales also have been
destroyed. The first I think probable enough,
but I rather doubt, the latter.
From the Farmer and Gardener.
MORUS MULTICAULIS TREES.
We find the following notice of this inval
uable species of the Mulbury in the Philadel
phia “ Saturday Evening Post,” of the Bth
iust.’ and seize the occasion to say that our
is itt4“L‘‘.“d *'? forecast of our fel
low citizen, Gideon B. Smith, Esq, more
than to any one else, for the discovery of its
use in the feeding ofsilk worms, as soon after
its introduction into Europe he procured a
plant of it and tested its adaptation to such pur
poses Believing that it will ultimately add
millions of dollars annually to the value of our
agricultural products we should do violence
to our own sense of his high deservings were
we to omit noticing his participation in this
good work.
“ MORUS MULTICAULIS.”
This popular shrub appears to have created
much discussion and interest in this city and
vicinity for the last fortnight.
The feeling may be expressed as in a state
of high fever. Some very prudent and cautious
persons have pronounced it for months past
like a “merino speculation,” but the merino
excitement, never raged half so universally as
does this preliminary of the Silk Culture.
We have received many letters asking for
numerous details respecting price, mode of
culture sellers, silk worm eggs, &c. &c. &c.
which to answer correctly would occupy a
large portion of our time. We have given ap
plicant the Doctor’s advice to a valetudinarian,
“ take advice,” subscribe for the S. E. Post,
the Silk Grower, published in this city, by
Charles Alexandria, or the Silk Cultui ist, pub
lished by W. C. Comstock, at Weatherfield,
Conn, to obtain the current news, details of
culture, and instructions generally.
The sales of mulberry trees have been ve
ry brisk for weeks past, even to the amount of
several hundred thousand dollars. Many cul
turists who were disappointed in obtaining
trees last year—or postponed purchasing on
the ground, that plants would be a drug and
“as cheap as a broom” this year, have now
taken “ time by the forelock,” and bought
largely at higher prices than when they were
“ so very scarce and dear” six & nine months
ago.
The prices are so various that it is nearly
impossible to give exact estimates. Buyers
say the price is 50 cents per tree, —the sel
lers, that it is 75 cents.
Within a few days trees have been offered
at 15 cents, 17 cents, and 20 cents per foot,
the root with one inch of stalk being counted
as one of the feet, and some fine plants have
been sold at SI,OO and $1,50 the tree. The
general belief is, that nouriy aii the trees for
sale within -10 miles of this city have been sold.
The growers generally choosing to keep a
large stock on hand for seed the ensuing sea
son ; and well they may like to continue
propagating, for in many instances their profits
have reached 1000 per cent, while others
who have not been so fortunate in their culti
vation or soil, have netted 500 per cent, w ith
, in the last six months.'
To those of our friends who are disposecTfd
go permanently into the cultivation of silk, we
would say, “ Do not depend upon the multica
ulis alone.” Although it will probably be a
good article for production and a sale for two
or three years longer, yet you ought to sup.
plv yourselves with hedges ofthe White Mul
berry, the improved Alpine Mulberry, or the
Broussa, which are hardy plants, and will al
ways prove valuable standard trees ; and some
of these varieties have nearly as much foliage
as the Multicaulis itself.
The culture of silk, although it may not
produce such immense profits as the tempora
ry growing of the Mulberry, will no doubt be
a lucrative and permanent business, giving
pleasant and profitable employment to tho in
firm, the females and the children, who have
at present little to do, ora very small remuner
atiun for light labor. We have been assured
by a practical man. that S3OO per acre may
be depended on, as the proceeds ot proper fee.
ding of Silk Worms and making sewing silk.
Although this may be too liberal and estimate,
I (at least till experience shall guide enterprise,)
j yet from a calculation of the number of co
( coons which maybe raised from an acre of
(Ground, planted with hedges of mulberries, it
| woulu not appear extravagant.
’ Do net attempt to feed Silk Worms till you
are sure of ha v mg twice as much foliage
as they will be calculated to require.
I Feed a few at first—experiment and when
> you are acquanted with the wants ofthe worm, j
Land the treatment required—then “go the
whole figure.” No danger of over stocking
; the silk market, until our population sha 1 ex
tend beyond the Rocky Mountains.
We have discontinued our quotations ot [
flour and grain to-day, because the market is |
so feverish and unsettled to make it unsafe to i
give any qnotaiim-.s gS“!d bo reiied upon.
In consequence ofthe unfavorable news ofthe
i state of the weather in England and the dan
ger to be apprehended to the harvest—the
grain being ripe and incessant rain prevailing
—prices are on the rise here, and there is no
telling at what they will settle down. Best
white wheat sold yesterday at $2 —best red
was held at $1,90, and ordinary at $1,85.
Some sales of corn were effected atsl, and
oats 45 cents.
BADEN AND MERCER CORN.
We received some days since from Mr. W.
C. Wilson, of Baltimore city, two ears ofcorn,
then well ripened, and fit for domestic use, of
the above varieties. They are both very good
looking, but the last named is by tar the lar
gest and finest, being a perfect white and flin
ty will al, and as we believe an excellent meal
corn. As the subjoined note of Mr. W. ex
plains the time of planting each kind as well
as their respecting yields, we shall content our
self with observing, that notwithstanding the
early period at which the Baden corn has come
to maturity this season, we believe it a late
corn, and that unless planted vcr y e!U -| v w ;;>
not in ordinary seasons ripen nearlv -’’ "j ts
duct. We planted tlireo - acres o f it last r '
and although ifie lot would have averaged 3
ears to the stalk, not more than one third ofit
ripened fully. Wherever it can be put in by
the middle of April, we believe that m good
strong land, well manured, it will give a very
large yield ; but if planted in May, in live sea
sons out ol seven wc feel assured it will e
caught by the frost. By experience we can
sav that the Mercer corn is at least ten days
ea Hi er.
“No. 1 is a sample of the Baden corn sown)
on the 6th May; this will average 3 ears to
each stalk —ifihe seasen had been favorable
the average would have been 6 ears, as many
of the stalks have 8 or 10 ears, all of which
did not fill.
“ No. 2 is the “ Mercer,” sown about the
Ist May—this will average 2 ears equal to the
sample; if the season had been favorable, the
average judging from the young ears which
did not fill, w'ould not have gone above 3to
each stalk—The greatest number of ears put
forth on the Mercer is 5 of the Baden 10.
“The Baden was better exposed to the sun,
which probably caused it to ripen sooner than
the other.
“ There is a field of 5 or 6 acres of the Ba
den a few miles from this, which will average
from 3 to 4 ears.”
DUTTON CORN.
Afr. Lyman Reed presented us about two
weeks since with a very find car of Dutton
corn, completely ripe, which was planted on
the 21st June, and gathered on the 31st of
August. This corn, it will be seen, was ma
tured in 71 days from the time of planting.
When handed to us it was hard enough for
grinding. The ear is well filled, and an ex
cellent sample of its peculiar variety. The
usual period of its ripening is 90 days, but we
presume in the intense heat and long continu
ed drought of the summer we are to look for
the causes of its so early perfection.
77«e Tomato. —We copy the following for
the benefit of housekeepers :
“ Recipe for a Bushel ®f Tomatoes—
Take your tomatoes, and pour boiling water
over them, and then boil them well ; after
which, add a tea cup full of salt, a table tea
spoonful of Cayenne, an ounce of clover, and
an ounce of mace ; mix well, and put the to
matoes in jars, run mutton suet over them up,
either with strong blue paper or buckskin.—
Prepared in this way, they will keep a year.”
Administrator’s Sale.
A GREEABLE to an order of the Honorable
Y'Sl the Inferior Court of Madison county,
when sitting for ordinary purposes, will be sold
on the first Tuesday in December next, at the
Court House in Union county, Lot No. 178, in
the 17t’a District and Ist Section, originally
Cherokee, now Union county.
Also on the same day at*Vanwert, Paulding
county, Lot No. 258, 3rd District and 3rd Sec
tion, of originally Cherokee, now Paulding.—
Sold as the property of Agness Lawless, late
of Madison county, deceased. Terms made
known on the day of sale.
JOHN B. ADAIR, Adm’r.
Sept. 22,—21—tds
Executor’s Sale.
IN obediance to the last will and Testament,
i Thomas Branch, Deceased, will be sold
on the first Tuesday in October next, to the
highest bidder between the usual hours of sale,
at Duncan Court House, Nine Hundred Acres
ofLand, more or less situated lying and being
in Said County, of Duncan, on Gray Creek,
being a part of the real Estate, of said Dec’d.,
terms made known on the Day of Sale.
WILLIAM. S. BRANCH.
Qualified, Executor.
March 17—46—tds.
CO” The Georgia Journal, will please give
the above two insertions, and forward thzk’ Ac
count to this office, for payment.
jEkdministrator’s
dl GREEABLE to an order of the Honorable
YSI Inferior Court of Buke county, whilst
sitting as a court of ordinary, will be sold on
the first Tuesday in October next, at the Court
House in Fayetteville, Fayette county, Lot No.
•5, in the sth district formerly Henry, now Fay
ette county, containig 202 1-2 Acres more or
less, being the property of the estate of Elijah
Walker, late of Burke county dec’d. Sold for
benefit ot the heirs and creditors of said es
tate.
ALEXANDER CARSWELL.,
July—2B,—l3—tds Adm’r. of E. Walker.
Executor’s Sale.
■VVfILL be sold on the first Tuesday in De.
’ * cember next, in the Town of Gainesville,
Hall county, between the lawful hours of sale,
Lot No. 104, in the 12th District of said County;
sold agreeable to the will of Win. Roberts.—
Terms made known on the day.
PETER G, MORROW, Ex’r.
Sept. 15, —20—tds
Executor’s Sale.
ON Tuesday, the 30th of October next, will be
sold at the late residence of John Floyd,
deceased, in Morgan county, all the perishable
property of said deceased, consisting of house
hold and kitchen furniture, a large stock of cows,
horses, mules, hogs and sheep, plantation tools,
wagon and harness, oxen and carts, a four
wheel carriage, good as new, corn, fodder and
wheat.
And on the first Tuesday in January next,
will be sold at the Court-house in Madison,
Morgan county, all the negroes of said deceased,
consisting of men, women and children, among
whom are a good blacksmith, wagoner and car
riage driver, and also all the lands of said de
ceased, lying ill the county of .Horgan, to wit :
five hundred acres, more or less, on which the
deceased formerly resided, well improved, hav
ing on it a well furnished, commodious dwelling,
with necessary out-buildings.
Also, the interest of said deceased, in the
land whereon T. B. Rees, Esq. formerly resi
ped, and the adjoining lands lately owned by
John M. Butler and A. B. Wood, which sev
eral lots contain 800 acres, more or less, with a
large two story dwelling, nearly new and well
finished, with good out-buildings.
I And also, the interest of said deceased, in 650
I acres on the Appalachie river, lying broadside
of the above described lands, very fertile, and on
which are a good set of Mills in successful ope
ration, and as fine a shoal for the erection of
machinery, as any in the Southern country.
And on the first Tuesday in February next,
will be sohfat the Court House in Clark county,
the interest of the deceased, in 500 acres of
land, on the Appalachie river in said county, on
which the deceased resided many years ago,
with a comfortable dwelling house, gin house
and out-houses, 150 acres ofitgood low grounds,
and 200 acres in the woods. Terms will be ac
commodatin';, and made known on the days of
sale.
STEWART FLOYD, ) e
JOHN J. FLOYD f *
Sept. 22, —21—tlfeb.
ftfy The Southern Recorder and Southern
Whig, will pelase publish the above until Ist
February next.
Ad mi nisi ra tor’s Sale*
A GREEABLE to an order of the Inferior
-CM- Court of Clark county, when sitting for
ordinary purposes, will be sold E to the ’'p'hesi
bidder on Thursday 25 th Oetoby r next, if a r- ; .
day, if not the first fair thereafi; at t h e hue
residence ol D>- Jo hn Gy, ar jj ue , deceased- of.
ltir .minty, a ]| t|> - household and kitchen fur
niture, larmmg utensils or plantation tools, corn,
foddei - , oats, pork and stock hogs, cows, oxen
cart and horses,together with medicine, medical
books, ’md other things too numerous to men
tion. Sale to continue from day today, until
till is sold. Terms oil the day of sale,
E. W. GABARDINE. Adiu’x-
Sept. 22,—21—tds,
Habersham Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door
in Clarksville, Habersham county, on
the first Tuesday in October next, within the
legal hours of sale, the following property, to wit:
Lot ol Land No. 22, in the 4th district of Ha
bersham county ; levied on by a fl. fa. from Bibb
Superior Court, as the property of Cartis Lewis,
at the instance of Francis Log an, property point
ed out by said Logan.
A. PITNER, Sh’ff.
Septemberlll
Administrator’s sale.
SyBT’ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in De-
■ « cember next, at the Court house in Mon
roe County, in pursuance of an order of the
Superior Court of the County of Madison, the
tract ofLand. whereon Killis C. Bridges re
sided at the time ofhis death, containing four
hundred and five acres, more or less, known 6l
distinguished by numbers forty three, and for
ty four, adjoining A. Adams and others, in the
aforesaid County of Monroe, and Eleventh de
strict Sold as the property ot Killis C. Bridges
deceased, and for the benefit of the heirs of
said deceased. Terms twelve months ere.
dit will be given by the purchaser giving notes
with approved Security.
JAMES SPRATLING. Admrb
de bonis non.
Sept, 29,-22. tds
Administrator’s Sale.
be soldat the Court House in Monroe,
* ’ Walton county, on the first Tuesday in
December next, within the lawful hours of sale,
the following property, viz :—One tract ofLand
adjoining Easley, Gresham and others, on the
Alcova River, containing five hundred and se
venty-one Acres, more or less ; one tract of
Land whereon John C. Brewer now resides,
containing two hundred and fifty Acres, more
or less, and one well improved Lot in the Town
of Monroe, fronting the Court House. All sold
under an order of the Honorable Inferior Court
of Walton county, when sitting for ordinary
purposes, for the benefit of the heirs ot Hand
ley Brewer, deceased.
LITTLETON R BREWER, Adm’r,
Sept. 29, —22—tds
Administrator’s Sale.
W®7'ILL be sold at the Couil House in Dan
'S V ielsville, Madison county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, all the Land be
longing to the Eslate of William Longstreet,
Sen’r dec’d, in said County—Sales to be
continued from day to day, until completed.
Terms cash for all tracts under two hundred
acres, ami one and two years credit for all lar
ger tracts. —Sold by order of the Court of or
ditiarv of Richmond c< unty.
A. B. LONGSTREET, Adm’r.
Wm. Longstreets, Estate.
September 29, —22, —tds.
Adminsitrator’s Sale.
LL be sold at the Court house in Dan.
v w ielsville, Madison county, on the first
Tuesday in December next, all the Land be
longing to the estate ofDavid Hillhouse. Sen’r
dec’d. in said County—Sales to be continued
from day to day, until completed. Terms
cash for ail tracts under two hundred Acres,
and one and two years credit foi all larger
tracts. Sold by order of the Court of ordina
ry of Wilkes county.
A. B. LONGSTREET, Adm’r
of D. Hillhouse’s Estate.
September, 29—22— tds.
Administrator’s Sale,
sold on the first Tuesday in No.
v r vember next, at the Court House in Dan
ielsville, Madison county, in pursuance of an
order of the Inferior Court of said county, tbe
tract of Land adjoining Ranford E. Hitchcock,
Mrs. Colbert and others, containing seven hun
dred and eighty-seven Acres, more or less,
whereon Nathaniel,Bridges resided at the
his death, lying on
county. Sold as lhe property
es, deceased, and for the
said dec’d. ' '
JAMES
Sept. 8, —19—tds
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door
in the 'I own ot Lawrenceville, on the first
Tuesday k: J?puarv_ ney‘, <kc Ts'.erQ House
and Stable lots, belonging to the Estate of James
xVardlow, late ot said county deceased, for the
benefit of the heirs of said dec’d. Terms Libe
ral.
C, HOWELL, Adm’r.
August 18, —16—tds
Administrator’s Sale
130 sold at the Court House in Jeffer-
TT son, Jackson county, on the first Tues
day in November next, one Lot ofLand, lying
on the waters of Oconee River in Jackson coun
ty, containing one hundred and sixty Acres,
mere or less ; sold under an order of the honor
able Inferior Court of Jackson county, when
sitting for ordinary purposes, for the benefit of
the creditors of James Armor, deceased.
JOHN R. HANCOCK, Adm’r.
Sept. 15—20—tds
Adminisrattor’s sale.
1 ** GREEABLY to an order of the honorable
; A Inferior Court of Gwinnett county, when
! sitting for ordinary purposes, will be sold on
] the first Tuesday in November next, before the
1 Court House in Gwinnett county, Lot No. 112,
1 in the sth district of said County, containing
229 Acres, more or less, sold as the property of
’John Turner, deceased.
MITCHEL BENNETT, ) .. ,
SAML. F, ALEXANDER J * dnl rr ’
August 25,—17—tds
A dmiia Istrator’s Sale.
ISIF ILL be sold nt the late residence of Mum
» * ford Bennett, deceased, in Jackson coun
ty on Friday the 19th of October all the person
al property of said dec’d, coneistmg Horse?,
Hogs, Cattle, Stills, Stands, furniture and many
other articles too tedious to mention.
MIDDLETON WITT, 1 Adm’r.
NANCY BENNETT, jAdm’x
Sept..—B—l9.—tds.
Administrator’s Sale*
MV 7 ILL be sold at the Court-house in Wat
▼ v kinsville, Clark county, on the first Tues
day in October next, under an order of the
Honorable Infeiior Court of said County, when
sitting as a court of Ordinary, a tract of Land
with its Improvements, containing one hundred
and twenty Acres, more or less, apioining the
town of Watkinsville, whereon Robert Ligon
resided at the time of his death, and now oocu
died by Isma W. Wooldridge.
Also lots Nos. 5/ and 58, in the Town
Watkinsville, whereon Shadrick Doggel *>w
fives tolerably well unproved, together with lots
No sob <><--jjjg, unimproved and adjoining
l ‘tlreto, the sizes of which can be seen by re
ference to a plan of the Town exhibited on the
d?.y of side. Also one other Lot in said Town,
well improved and now occupied by G. B. Hay
good, Esq, as a law office. Sold Us the proper
ty of Robert Ligon, late of said County deceased,
tor the benefit of his heirs and creditors.
RICH’D. RICHARDSON, )
ISAAC S. VINCENT. { Admr 8 ’
July 28, —13—tds
LAW lILAAKS
For Sale at this Office.