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ON GRASSES. .fjfetlifc l Groat Britain by ' meadow */; land by that of herd’s gnue. ' It la one of the moat val uable grasses that are cultivated; and, whatig worthy the notice of every farmer, it affords more than double the nutriment when ciif in the seed to what it does in the flower. In tenacious,' strong, and moist soils it is entitled to a precedence, perhaps, to any angle grass for hay; yet does not seem to be suitable to mix with clover seeds, when intended for meadow. Another consideration,. .which renders it particularly worthy' of attention, is the seed which it af fords, and which may be saved VOL. VIIL ATHENS, (GEORGIA,) ERIDAY % APRIL 23, 1841. NO.-52. hope or manmineg regret. - “Ab night erowmdAfi* patient forbearance af the neglect*, j Julia with ita just reward, and i blow to folly in the boeoni of i:—! 'era. Returning * with dilgost frotti the tones of the hazard tab meadow oat grass appear to be best calculated to insure profit They grow early, delight in. a clover soiL and are fit for the scy the when clover is in the bloom, ihe time it ought to be cut,' . The hay from this mixture may be made beforejiarvest commences; ancLif the soil is good, a second crop may Be cut almost equal - to the first If intended for pasture the second .year, either of these grasses wiH afford more abundant fbod than timothy. ' r - In clays, the meadow fox tail, an excellent grass, might be sub stituted, though according to Sin clair,' the tali pat grass will do well here’ also. Tn wet-soils, fweiw think would be best ibrall grounds which sire moderate dry.- The rye and oat grasses, or meadow soft grass, might be either substi- d for the two first,-Or com bined with them.-' ; These would afford spring, summer, and foil feed, abundant in quantity, and wholesome and nutricious in du ality.- . ^red grass s : a good' selection, sown BT JCtS S. STEPHENS. Death slttcth in the Cap! to!! His‘able wing Flung its black ahfcdow* o’er ft country’s hope And 1 lo! a nation bcodath down in A few short weeks-and all wns jubilee,— The air was musical with happy sound®— The future full of promise—joyous smiles without materially the bay crop. From tento thir- ty bushels of seed -maybe taken from an acre of timothyj which, at tbe.price it now bears, te opittelf a handsome remuneration. . either separate ojr together. Florin has oi late years been ■ Lucerne and -.sainfoin require brought into notice in Great Bri- a ; deep dry soil, and are generally tain, by the experiments of Dr. gown without other seeds. The Richardson; who -particularly fi r st does recommended it for the cold bog- before the - gy soils of the mountainous dis- wfagresucct . tricts, where ordinary grasses permitted to occupy the ground would not thrive. The peculiar f r om six to eight years, value of the florin, and of other . 2d. Meadow grasses.—In se- grassos of the agrostis family, .focting these the object is to ob- arisez from their fitness for winter tain the grstest burthen of good pasture: as they lose very little hay, and to mix thoso kinds which of their bulk or nutriment by _fe- may beprofitably cutatthesame *-ne- . fv -«£l 7' -For clayey and.inoist. soils, (creeping tent or couch grass) many valuable and 'nutritious implies a difficulty in mOwing.it, kindsseem to he, well adapted; except on a surface perfectly that is to say, meadow fox tail, smooth. Wo BareSeen itrecom- timothy, tall oat; meadow soft, mended to the notice of American grass, floating fescus; rye grass, formers; butfrora.the very limit- Iee d ■ meadow, smooth-stalked od progress which* seeins to have meadow, American cock’s foot, been made in its cultivation wo in- upright-bent or herd’s grass,, arid fer that it has fallen short of pub- tallfescue. And the five last are .PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS TOU RAISING SUGAR-BEETS; l.The soil- ought to be rich . arid friable, so as to break up fine 1 without heavy -lumps or unbrok en clods.; caanot eat them without a reduc tion of size by' slitting them lengthwise into four or five slips. 12. They arc so rich that a peck of salt beets is one .full feed; and given morning and night to a cow, with the ordina- ryaDovrance of bay,lias not on ly enriched the quality of her milk, but. actuafly.dpubled the quantity of it in ten days, put her in-excellent-, flesh, - and given a I lively coatol flossy hair,. More* And now his green old age was yielded up will scour them. . , Mm . 13. The seed, was plauted the 2. It maybe moderately moist, fifteen^ but .riot- very, wet or sodden with water..- - 3. The ground ought to be plonghed and- harrowed three times;once early and deep; a. second time 10 or 12 days after the first, to turn under the seed ling weeds' and extingishing them; third and. last time less dcstp than the first; and about a week after the second. When the third ploughing gets harrow ed down smooth the seed-beds GENERAL HARRISON DEAD: each freeman’s taco and lighTcdup The gentle eye ofbeanty. TAe"/froow<—a'nullity go^d old man— - • * th® wealth of !us .high. purposes. Age tax upon him wi>h a gentle grpee. Giving unro his manhood dignity, . _ Jthe heitof - - dionin Boston,' 1 when every body was holding on, waiting for the article to advance, an old mer-. cliant,. keen as a razor, whose store was packed from the first to the fourth floor with prime Green Rio, conclu ded from the signs which he well tin flupclAAfl ' r fhnt .npiee, I,n4. 15th day of J^Iay, which in our Silent and motionless in their deep reverence, climate is fifteen griys before the first p; awberies, and hefirsfrip- ;em in Carolina would' e best rule probably tor Surcharg’d with grateful joy. The mighty dead Bent gently o’er; him with thpir spirit wings, lie expectation. xfcnliarly suited to swamp or Upright. bent grasSs-rUr. bog soils, 3 Eor dry loarqs, sands Mnhlenburgh,qonsiders.th;s the ara j gravels, which ought never herd's grass of the southern, and to be kept long in grate, the cock’s the foul roeadows.of the eastern fog tor orchard grass,and tall oat, .states; of winch whitetopand red ^ probably the best; apdsto ..top are varieties. This grass is those might be.added red and congenial to our climatc whitbcloicr^ ’’*' ’ ' than to that of England. In many ho great ist opie- boggy soils, both varletics of this ven | deterioration of meadows, grass have come msponteneously, >j<bis .taken place from the better as soon as the ground _has been „ rasse3 rn nmng out, arid giving and draincl, have soon ^ pace to ci kin di in th! formed acompact sod, and afford- masg or to useless and. noxious 1 pasture. plants, aided often by a neglect to fsa&xss&ai wthoMiiqgraaB, which a con- thrive best in moist, they will not Bve long in wet soils. .Hence it e grounds ^Thesmall.crop ^ 0 f, he fi rst importance to keep i it grvra, shows the httie de- t j ]Q sur f aco soil free fi-om standing «*■*“!• water, by good and suffident ditches; and it often becomes mmmM of milk-were frequently greater, and dbw well Floating Feseus grows well In swamps and bog soils, where good Unas are most wanted. • I would r —~~ the. land in ridges at right angles with the drains Another pre caution to be observed is net to feed them ; with stock; when the soil is wet and poachy. -Harrow ing in the fell has been found beneficial to meadows, It ;dq- ; be divided, tor the, fit of the former, into three kinds, to-vrit: Cultivated ly, are cultivated the term* as eerier of grasses which have fallen, or may be-sown, and thus produce which the g U rope, lime is^usecP vrith effect But and as are also ashes. With: us, the ^ in thri sense There emrilov it ai>- annual application of n bushol of intnesmise lnere mpioy^it, ap- gyngma to the acre is found ben- ufinial* It not only thickens the verdure with cIovct,hr* rot^ m a systematic relation of to in ^Qstqther f the Steble manure- shout thra purpose are, generally, the 0 „i y wh en it can be red clovers, lucerne, sain fbin, .. ■« ■ ■ orchard; tall oat, timothy, or rye grass. Cloyer is the primary de- ' trom the'more profitable uste of tillage. .When the means above enumer- era. As vegetables to exhaust from the soSoXrera the seedsare once, ntreduced up- are entitled tothe high 1 datum they havesfotain American formers. liable to - atfuctiou by the it is both * , ' . tormixwithfoeir . some other we shall find little] in naturalizing them orchard nor vernal are said to be indig- country, are recog- ss lands which my observation: :the fox >. earliest for .. - ■ . - "; 7 - should bepreparedimmediately, in' order to prevent weedseed from getting the start of the beet- seed. ... *-t 4. The seed-bed is made by turnjng two furrows together; butsothat the bed is elevated three or four inches above the bottom ot the furrow or ditch on each side of it, and not more,' The next bed should be so form ed as to leave an interval be tween them from 2 1-2 to 3 feet wide, that when 'the crop comes to be dressed by the plough it may admit of two furrows. 5. : On the top of each bed, plant a single line or row of beet- seed, at the distance of one foot fromseed to seed to be ascertain ed by a small hand stick, just a foot long, which the; planter keeps iifnis fingers. Tull a lit tle dirt on the seed with the fin ger, or set the foot on it. The process of planting is apparent ly slow, but a hoy soon becomes expert. There will be a great er weight of beets at a foot dis tance than at any less. 6: Put two seeds at least in a place, in order to iusure one. plant; but if they both should fail tocome up,one may be trans planted, at the first* or second dressing from a redundant hHl, anditwill be sure to grow though it rarely becomes of an average size. . ' 7. As soon os the plants have aD come up and . get a leaf the size of a five-cent piece, extract; with the firigers from each hill all but the.two strongest plants, and destroy with a hoe all-the weeds around them, and on the top of the bed up. to the nftxt one. - This must be done with the fingers and hoe. The plough is not admissible. One hand will dress h alf an acre e asily in three days.;. This and plonting them is the principal labor. - At the second dressing reduce them th only one plant.-. 8. Four or five days after the first dressing, the weeds in the intervals maybe -cut Up by the plough, which is to be immedi ately followed by a hoe, to un cover such as happerito get bur ied, and give a clean circle round each plant.; This hpcing is done with great expedition. . 9. The ploughing and hoeing must be repeated from once, to twice, or three times more at short intervals, subduing, while they are young, all weeds, until the tops of the beet smother them from growth.* The crop must be kept very clean, but is done with very small labor after the first dressing.’ 10. For two years successive ly, half an acre has yielded S00 bushels of beets, without the tops each year; last season the quan tity exceeded that by Sve bush els, and fell short of it about as much this year.. They weigh pounds to abusel, or fifteen tons to an acre, ; 11. (Morses have no. taste, for " ' s^while cattle and hogs de- taem greedily,-and the tops eUy as'tbe roots. Cattle Wly that .cliniate. The .seeds" are soaked aboutarihourbefbre he- irigqjftmted, in tepid water, and then rolled in ashes or' plaster, to dry them. It gives them a small start of the weed; The frequent laudatory com munications I have read its to its adaptation for cattle food, has induced me to follow the crowd, and cultivate, both ..the triangle wurtzle;and sugar beet. During the winter of 1839,1 fed from both kinds, and observed then, after ri few weeks’ feeding, the effects upon the cows and ■milk, which I have repeatedly noticed since, and that-is, when As solemnly h« took the earthly . Which flung its purple o’er his path to Hear cm The oath was said* mrid 'then one mighty pulse Seem'd throbbing through the multitude,— . ■ Faces were lifted upward and a prayer - Of deep thanksgiving wing’d that vo'w to Heaved. In Heaven die Hero answered it . Time slept on flowers and lent his Gloss to"Hope- One little month his golden sands had sped When, mingling with the music of onr joy, Arose and swell’d a low, funeral strain. .era an an t inthc quantity Darkness is o’er the land, Forlo! a death flag streams upon the breeze,- The Hero hath departed • Nay let tis weep, our grief hath need of fears— DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. eyes, and Vice, in ber own: I datotrmity, stood anmasked lumtv' ‘ -" " " ' — at' the bellows not to know that the mopienl hel with his iihihensc .stock began ter sell, aa alarm would be 'ta ken aiHl tlovv” would go the prices. Quietly sending off a prctu* stiff in voice ' a »licle ‘to' apt! , |nt;to min'd j his bu- thc «flc Riiffvi»d r^t Tailing prirxa^for 11 holders, who knew WffK/tKKfi ... four timfes as mych on hand as they had, cpncludetithht it was safe’to bu r whenihe did, and so stood up manful ly and bought- largely." -When ol< Mr. - -V carmen, were tumbling • his purchase.into the, front door of his 1 \varefiouse, five times ixa many were carrying coffee away from the back door. Oh the next day of sale ite Ten years Uve passed solitary midnight, when the i trbn beat in tears .over fiet boy, BeftoM her now K IStillanfo# pride of womanhood, surrounded, fcfr their cherub' faces, wh6 are listening utenray , wuirc « i is bending over the music p the teara: of. happiness a that ^ springs* from a awel ““ he ^contemplates ’ * L * Youl joauxtr^v\ ye,, whp watch oyer ^^wna^rtag^ erring heat—wfen^.r*woach trto bies upon your lips towards a trtiaht * imitate Julia DanveW, aJftJ like th'e sword of fi be covered srilh Bgyrtirsfrtl ^ w ness andirntabiUty^do but, harden, AT not.wholly estrange the heart-~whiMS ondhe^ntrary patiehce and ^ehtle- _v.r-.-_* ^ fojjpin^itfn wearititb nefs of manner (as. water droppir tfi& flinty jrpck will in ttrae wear Tears should einbnhr. the dead, and there is one,. :le woman wjth'hor clinging love, wrung her heart thftt she might give him up To his high destiny. Tears are for her,— She linger yet among her household gods,. ., And know^th not how her heart is laid. From battle fields where strife was fiercely waged And human blt>od-drops"fell, ii crimson r He had returned to her. Uod hclp thet^ Lady," Look not for him now !- Thron’d in n nation's lovo he sunk |o sleep, ■. And so awoke in Heaven.*; KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. - Wo hove often had occasion to ox, press: to bclicvCra in a' literal return of the Je ws, our opinion that there is., at present a hotter prospect of the. freely as- evor. and this contin- ucji for some two or thtee weeks;— One day he jailed to appear at a ,cof, fee sale, and most of the dealers took the alarm, and prices declined a lilt] —Daring the alleriioona pretty ,lar holder; who had always been.’ to buy when lie say Mr,——- mg,methim. in-the street and asked the rate of Cuffee.... ' ; , ' V * 1 don’t know what it's going at'tp- day,’ replied the old fellow, as. icool and pleasant as im fee crean#* ' ' * It dectined.a little thi-s nioruing.'y -‘Did itf* resetimed. IVfr. with* what seemed : to Ills teilow trades man a manifest,-,! inn.ofnKbfTerencc. anda.. kidneys of the cotvs. These results, So different from those assertions of more .expe rienced -.farmera’’. tiian ’ myself, have led • me, nevcrless, to ex periments from time to time, but with-tlie same results, and I now have come to the conclusion that where the object is the quantity of buttei*-tbey.do riot answer as cobmeal;~bu't when milk or beef is the object, they are . all that is said of them. My system of feeding, when with beets, was to give each cow a peck night and morning, fill ing the rack before her with clo ver hay, 'continuing it for some times two.'weeks;. ’’ Then I have changed to cut straw nlixeil up with one peck Ofbroyvnstuff to each cow, with hdy_to rack night and’.moniing. .Then again T Have tried a peek of beets with about two quarts Of brown stuff. sprinkled over them, night and morning, with hay as before.' ‘And lastly, I have given a quart of cobmeal mixed with a half bushel of cut-clover hay, oh corn blades sufficiently moisten ed, night and morning-: This last feed, ! think, is preferable, besides having good effects up on the flavor' and color of the butter. ' The brown stuff above- mentioned is an offal oftheiriil- ler3, rather. better than, bran, although not as good as ship stuff, and costs me from thirteen to eighteen cents per bushel. The -cornmeal costs me.a tip per bushel to grind, '. A. GOOD Let every, one "rea!_ which.^e' find iti ifio C, mocrat. ■ Like the ‘Universal Altnart- ac,’ it suits all meridians, *'- idlers who having nothin^ busy themselves w^h intc the affairs 'A good business, dn exee^e’w. nsis.’s—We heard a sloryT lhb’ IW&r day whidh amused us one we consider alto; fulfilment of this hope, than has exist ed perhaps since the days of , Julian the apostate, We have told them that the matter depended almost sim ply upon a word from Prince 'Me|* ternicb and • Lord Palmerston. Wife happen to know that a pamphlet xvai : P noted and circulated last summer iir erlin, urging upon the, four powers the establishment of Palestine as an independent state, Whither the Jews might return with an assurance of protection and security. , The fbllaw- ing,extract from >a letter received ' this city from a gentleman of h 0 „ standing in the literary and diplomatic circles of Berlin dated Peb. . 15th, serves to show that the subject lias not been lost sight of, and is ( perhaps brought nearer to-some important de- cision than the public has beenawafe. of; t ‘The allies, having obtained their end [in Syria} are somewhat at a’loss how to dispose of their’ conquest.*—! They are serioiisly thinking of setting up, or reviving, a;Christian Kingdom at Jerusalem—a project vyhich .seems to be received with favor at Vienna. But then what are they to do with the other Christian population of SVria ? Th., .1— ‘ • Yes, certainly ! havn’t you heard to be lost.. A few we^ks sincOi iLper- it beforef . v>! iv.-'C son of respectable exterior, Rnd, geu- - • No ; but I expected as much.’ j ‘ Why, we shall all be ruined if; the priijgsgo-'dowa!' . ‘ Not all. 1 .presume,. replied Mr. — —with an unmoved coume nance.. V ‘ * Why,you arc deeper than any ol ance in a village not a t. from NewHaven,when tints are. somewhat: pi keeping a closer eye . r , bors afiairs than to theirvowmdv stranger, took v If Me !’ exclaimed Mr. —— , in to perplex or ^isturl ill feignc<! * astonishment, « Why I i ged off, apparently vrtt got it Itagin my Store /’ . * self, but much t ■The next daytlic bubble burst, and neighborhood. ^air*t f dqjKcn. sj^-oulitjy*^* who had '■*' been.Tor a month H/' iwd dreaming nightly, over^their golden "gain?, were ruined. - THE TRUANT HUSBAND. •The painful Yigiimay I never know f*«ut anxious w^ches o’er a wandering heart.' It was past midnight, and she sat leaning her pile eheek ofl her hand, counting the doll tickiug of the French I membrancc. clock that stood on, the tnkrble chim'- 1 ' m resklesa tor me * " ** * v ' allagogfoTca ness and r ‘ were the raises as to bolu, uiitil general ; consultation and tho r . canvassing of the pros and cbn», : 'I w the board ofgdssips. it was cancluded that' he liad.neither, and tba‘ ‘ eventually leave the uncancelled score as if token “ - mmmm.. ney-piece, and ever and anon lifting c f the medlers resolved in his'b<frn tier wmijy eve to it s dial, to mark the ,n', n d to broach. the .subject - to- the This .is one, of the questions which France has asked them. They are now yery anxious to draw her from t^e isolated position into which they have forced her; as they find after ail that, they cannot permanently -and satisfactorily : settle the East without her concurrence. ( To those who haver an* opportunity of reading the diplomatic papers, it is curious and Amusing to see the game that is going on between those, faithful, confiding, and loying allies, England and Russia, in attempting tocntice France to favor ‘heir respective projects in the Levant. Under the pretext of preserving peace among the different members of the great Mohammedan family, they have put at immediate haznrd-the peace of Christendom, and how affect to. be .very much surprised that the French should think of fortifying their capital. Their real opinion is in favor: of that jeet, as a means iof ; France additional strengtfi not merely for de fensive but for.Oflcnsive war. GALVES RUNNING WITH COWS, A writer: in the Elmer’s Cac- inet says; “My experience extends to many hundred cases; for upon the hilfe of Scotland it is the uni versal practice to permit the cal vs to remain with their dams during the summer," but such are never known or expected to make su perior cows :fbr the dairy, and for this reason lx *• Depend upon it, to make a deep milker the . hag must be periodically distended, and those who supose that to allow the calves to remain with their dams through the summer would be to the injury of &e <fows^. have not come to that dbfMJlnsron without reason £or does not the admit the pi when lie tliink^h} THE SPECULATOR. His wealth, is imaginary, and no where. He contracts debts - and cal culates on miracles to pay them. -He trusts every body. and *evcry body, trusts him, while the ball can be kept —and when it falls to the ground, they all roll away and perish together, The idea of owing more than he can ever reasonable expect to pay, does not rob h;m of a wink of sleep or re-, pose for a moment. “Eat drink and be meriy for to-raoribw you die,” in his maxim. ‘ He lives as if tuo Worn! Were at Ilia command; he despises the sordid maxim of cutting his coat according. tO "his rlolh for Hip. rlnth according, to his cloth for the cloth belongs to others; he goes the way of all flesh, and when his books a amined by tlie assigned that though he has lived and spent bis hundred oi he is never Worth a fai "* debts are paid, The Colone ” [just fill out this We like to see yoangmei staring at eaefi plhe; shows s liows a dispozjtipo to tanfl. ‘let ns Invn ■ maud, ‘let us loye une lapse of another liour." It was. past midnight, and yet he returned not!— She’ arose, and taking _up_thc : Jamp, whose pale rays illuminated the soli dary chamber, prdceeded.with.noises less step to a small'Inner apartment. The curtains of his little bed were drawn aside, and the yQuhg mother gazed oil her .sleeping child I ' What a vivid contrast did diat glowingcheek and smiling brow present,' as he lay in rosy slumber, to the faded, yet beauti ful face that bung; over him in tears! ‘Will he resemble his father ? was the thought that passed /or a moment through her devo ted heart, end a. sigh was the only .answer L;.;:: ‘Tis his well known knbek-^-and the steps of the drowsy porter echoed through the lofty hall, as with a mur mur oil lus lips, he drew the massy Ixj'ts and .admitted his thoughtless master. ‘Four o’c!ock, Wilfis, is it nofl’ and he sprang up the staircase —auo.ther-moincnt he is in tlie chain- berr-in ber arms! e* l J|o reproaches met the truant hW band,: none—save those she could not but spare'nim,,inr iter heavy eye, and faded cheek—vet these spoke to his heart. ‘Julia,/ have been a wamlering hus band.’ ‘But you are come now, Charles, and^aUis.vrelL*, ’Andail was f well,, for,' from lliat hour, Charles Danvers became an- al tered man. Had his wife met him with frowns and sullen tears lie had become a hardened libertine; but her affec tionate caresses, the joy that danced in her sunken eye, the hectic flash that lit up her- pallid cheek at his approach were arguments he could not with stand Married in early life, while he felt ail the-ardor," but not tire esteem oflove ;. possessed' of a spleuiid.for tune, and haying hitherto had the eo- ind of his ou*n pleasures, I into that common -error, married men—the dread, «£ iptrolfcd./ In vain dkl his •viso: beheld with sorr^w tbe :s aftd misery 1^: was r for. himself in afteriifo, ri eyCharles/JanTcrs Uirneffi djftdvice, andpur-*-^'— ms every Way ty.tlie path of i'ofty ifnot gyiit- * Tlie ifovcrn, the ^fitb race coqwei tori^pften 1 solitary rnoumcr.prhi stranger, and thus by performm'g an act of kindness for his neighbor unsoli cited-—whose? easy- nature/^he.^ps himselfas to the stranger s.re'al chafac- } He accordingly introdueod hrmsolf, when the # -following dialogue ensued: ‘Well, stranger,you’ve been in the^e here -parts considerable timp now I reckon^. PBPPPPRBHIRPI^: 1 -'^? •Pretty dear travelling i¥6w : ; Merits you-! i good deal to live at tovepM/I guess,l ^ ■ * - ■ ■ - muganj— in the first piace. I make twontyldpl. lars a month simply own businett, and again I make twenty dollars by letting other people’* alone.' Our informant adds that ithe inter rogator forgot ^ impart tliq reaalttof his enquiries tojiis curious neighbors. innate■ naas. . '; Itianov !rf(^f ; iho reflecting portion of ,ociet;-/fost'a- man is bora with no ionaierifleu^-- Every idea which a child aaqutrtW.hr receive, either ditectly qtterqal tmpresiions [iial h..e n matfe'nto— hia „Kiiee8 ; ..or indirectly.,frpni.'TI comparison of- f-i-.t;: 1 ,