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CHILDHOOD.
The happy days of early childhood
Too soon, alas, have passed away ;
When in the cheerful, verdant wild wood,
I would pass the pleasant summer day.
All looked bright and joyful then
And hopeful was my youthful heart,
But changes, oh ! how sad and sudden,
Have made me often weep and start.
Full many a sorrow-freighted bark,
Has borne its burden on to me;
But 1 have learned in trials dui k,
To look oh Lord, to thee.
Teach me submission to Thy will,
Thou who canst feel for all my wo ;
My heart with culm contentment fill,
Till from this vale of tears I go.
D.
Vineeille, Ga.
9 oltttcal.
Substance of Hon. J. W. Jackson’s Speech)
Delivered in the House of Representatives,
June 1, 1850, in Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union, on the Presi
dent's Message transmitting the Constitu
tion of California.
Mr. Jackson said, that, coming from a
part of Georgia which was the scene of
revolutionary story, and speaking in the
name of his constituents, and of the de
scendants of patriots of the Revolution,
he claimed the right to appeal to members
from the Northern States, There was in
his district a whole settiement from the
old Bay State. They are the people of
the county of Liberty. Early in 1752,
nearly a hundred years ago, gentlemen of
New England left the town of Dorches
ter, emigrated to South Carolina, estab
lished there another Dorchester and in a
few years came to Georgia. Their de
scendenls retain the tone of education,
morals, religion, and virtue which was
taught them by theirancestors.and, at this
.day, are in every respect equal to any e
rjual number of the people of New Eng
land. He read from a recent publication,
(White’s Statistics of Georgia,) and prov
ed the devotion of their ancestors to the
cause of Freedom, and their sympathy
with the struggling patriots of Massachu
setts, some time anterior to Georgia haviug
agreed to send delegates to the Conti
nental Congress, they had themselves
elected a delegate, who was received as
such on the floor of Congress, and who
participated in its debates. Hence the
glorious name of Liberty, subsequently
given to the county, by the General As
sembly of the State. They liberally sup
plied, although near a thousand miles dis
tant, the suffering troops before Boston,
with provisions and munitions of war.—
The names of the early settlers are still
there, and hundreds of the same descent
are scatterod through the district, retain
ing the same elevated character. Within
five years past, in continued kind remain
bei ance of their early orgin, they have es
tablished a third Dorchcaier, now a thriv
ing little village. Their ministers of the
THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
NEW SERIES— VOLUME 11.
Gospel are devoted to their duty, and ex
tend, contrary to Northern denunciation
the blessings of Chrisiaiti instruction to
the slaves.
But these people, in common with all
olliets of the South, are branded by north
ern members on this floor as “lords of the
lash,” “slave drivers," and “aristocrats.”
He had heard one gentleman, speaking of
the possible circumstance of the Southern
Confederacy, declare that it would be
"the putrescent corpse of slavery encir
cled by the scorn and hisses of the Chris
tain world.” Are the southern members
lin the habit of speaking in such terms of
disrespect of the North, and charging that
‘ people are there destitute of every virtue,
and guilty ? every crime ? He did not
propose to retaliate, because lie did not
desire to fen the flames. Washington,
the father of his country, was a slavehold
er; Jefferson, the author of the Declara
tion of liiilependance, was a slaveholder;
Madison the father of the Constitution,
was a slaveholder; Greene, (turning here
to northern members,) your own Greene,
was a slaveholder. He fought in the South,
and the South grealfully rewarded him.—
Do gentlemen from Pennsylvania remem
ber that Wayne, the hero of Stony Point,
was a slaveholder ? Yet we are taunted
as slaveholders and aristocrats. [Mr.
Jackson here challenged any man on that
floor from the North to arise in his place,
and (pointing to the suspended portrait of
Washington) to pronounce Washington to
have been an aristocrat. If he did, the
contempt of the American people would
overwhelm him forever.] Is this course
of declamation and crimination justifiable
in American legislators? Your own
voices would say it is not, if you would
utter the honest sentiments of your hearts.
The South have never given the cold shoul
der to northern men. They are in that
section elected to the highest offices—
juges, legislators, and representatives on
this floor. Northern people come among
us, and acquire slave property, and they
too, are denounced as slaveholders and
aristocrats.
The States are equal. Our fathers so
declared them. As separate and indepen
dent States they came into the Union ; as
such they now exist, with one common
General Government, having certain dele
gated powers : but fifteen States are now
found in opposition to the equal rights of
fifteen Southern States. lie then earnest
ly defended the interests and rights of the
South, and argued in favor of the exten
sion to the Pacific of the Missouri com
promiseline, contending, upon the author
ity of the report of the Hon. Thomas But
ler King, that the Southern staples can, in
California, be cultivated wiih advantage,
south of 36° 30'. He spoke of the divi
sion effected in 1820 of the country ac
quired by the United States from France,
and showed that whereas the North has
now therein territory enough north of the
line to constitute saxteen non-slaveholding
States, there is reserved to the South hut
sixty thousand square miles west of Ar
kansas, and those covered with the Chick
asaws, Creeks, Cherokees, and Choctaws,
by the policy of this Government, never
to be removed. Mr. Jackson then spoke
of Texas. He contended that its annex
ation was a measuie of national policy,
and not exclusively of Suui’nern. Patri
ots North and South had supported it.—
The South could not have annexed it alone.
Texas was restored to the Confederacy
which had lost it by the treaty with Spain
when Florida was acquired. It never
should have been surrendered. We have
gotton back again only what had been our
own land, and a people who had been our
own people.
He then considered the question of dis
posing of our new territory. Oregon was
entirely Northern. Shall a territory ac
quired by common pattiotism, common
blood, and the common treasure, belong
exclusively to the North ? He would not
enter into the question of how the war
had originated—whether constitutionally
or not. The territory was on our hands,
and he demanded a just division. They
said all of it must be free* Free, sir!—
Yes, sir, they tell us of free States, and
of slave States! Sir, said Mr. Jackson,
I choose to call our division of States by
the terms, slaveholding and non-slavehold
ing. I reject with scorn, and trample un
der my feet, the distinction of free Sta’es.
There exists not on the face of the globe
a people more devoted to the principles
of freedom, and more free in fact than
those of the Southern States. They have
an institution among them which they can
not get rid of, if they would—an institu
tion brought there by British lust for gold,
and by the ancestors of Northern people
who now denounce us, and which we will
defend with all the means and all the ener
gy with which the God of the universe has
blessed us.
Mr. J. then spoke on the subject of
fugitive slaves. Gentlemen had declared
here, and the illustrious Senator in the
other House from the State of Kentucky
had, he believed, that the States of Ken
tucky, Virginia, Missouri, and Maryland,
were perhaps, the only States that were
injured by the refusal of the Northern peo
ple to surrender our slaves, and to per
form their manifest consitutional duty.—
He asserted that such is not the fact.—
Wiihirn twelve months past, three slaves
had been seduced away from the city nl
Macon, in the heart of Georgia, and their
owner, ope of the most enterprising men
MACON. (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 22, ISSO.
in Georgia, had not been able to recover
them. A slave of great value had been
seduced from his master in Savannah, with
in the same time, escaped in a vessel to
Boston, had the audacity to return as cook
or steward in another, and concealed in
her cabin, carried on thence his commu
nication with other slaves on shore, to en
tice them oflf, but was discovered, siezed,
an restored to his owner. And this, sir,
exhibits the necessity that exists,overriding
every other consideration,for the existence
of such police laws as prevail in Georgia,
prohibiting colored men of the North
from entering our ports, and mixing free
ly with our slaves. Mr J. had received a
lettter from one of his contituents of Sa
vannah within the last month, urging the
adoption of some more efficient law for
the recapture of fugitive slaves. His cor
respondent assured him, that a most valua
ble servant of his had recently gone off to
the North. He was now in a Northern
city. He knew what city. He had made
every proper effort to recover him. He
had an agent there for the purpose. He
had offered half the value of the slave.—
But his agent had informed him that he
had not been able to get an officer to ar
rest him, because it would make an officer
so unpopular that he could never be elect
ed to any office again. An attorney had
applied to a judicial officer, exalted in
rank, for a warrant, and the officer had re
fused one. Sir, (said Mr. J.) this is an
injustice to the South, which calls for im
mediate redress. It is perpetrated under
the influence of Northern sentiment, in
plain violation of the Constitution. The
Constitution declares that fugitives from
labor (meaning our slaves) shall be deliv
ered up. It makes no distinction between
United States officers and State officers.—
They “shall bo delivered up,” in des
pite of “law or regulation therein,” says
the Constitution; and the rights of my
people are most shamefully violated. And
who (said Mr. J.) is my correspondent?—
A gentleman born at the North, in Con
necticut, in what is called a free State—
who come to Savannah a very young man,
pursued his calling (an honest industrial
one) with the approbation, smiles, and
patronage of her citizens, has been an al
derman, and a hank director, and is at this
moment at the head of our military estab
lishment. And this man of Northern
birth, now a universally-respected South
ern gentleman, is, forsooth, ‘a slave-driver,
a lord of the lash, a piece of Southern
putrescence, and an aristocrat!’
Mr. Chairman, (said Mr. J.,) there are
several bills before this committee. One,
presented by an honorable gentleman from
Wisconsin, admits California immediately
as a State,and does nothing more. Anoth
er, offered by a gentleman from Missouri,
extends to the Pacific the Missouri com
promise line. I shall support it if its lan
guage be deemed by me sufficiently ex
plicit. A third, by a gentleman from Illi
nois, admits California, with all her usur
pations, all her irregularities, and all her
boundaries, organizes territorial govern
ments for Utah and New Mexico without
the proviso, and seeks to adjust the Tex
as boundary. He places tho northern
limit of Texas at latitude thirty-four, which
commends it to greater approbation from
me than the little I can extend to the bill
now in progress in the Senate. 1 say, sir,
all the irregularities for, I say, in honest
and heartfelt conviction, that three years
ago, in my opinion, no gentleman on this
floor, Northern or Southern, would have
declared that there were not eminently
great irregularities, such as necessarily to
remand an incoming territory. Sir, what
do we now behold ? A population of all
nations that has thrown itself into Califor
nia within two years past, with no inter
est in the soil, of no fixed residence, no
fixed habits, no common language, attrac
ted there by ardor for gold, thousands of
whom may be expected to return—a po
pulation without women and children,
having but some thirteen thousand voters
in all, assemble themselves by delegates
in convention, in concert with a smaller
number of Mexicans who had remained
there, and, without the legislative authori
ty ofihis Government—whether actuated
by the executive head ofthis Confederacy
or not I do not say —frame a State con
stitution for themselves, taking a length of
sea-coast as long as from Norfolk in Vir
ginia to Cape Sable in Florida,with a water
front as large as that of all North and
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, af
terwards electing Senators and Represen
tatives to this Congress, and demanding
at once admittance as a sovereign State,
equal in all respects to any one of the old
thirteen, or of the equally patriotic new
seventeen. And the newspapers of San
Francisco very gravely and arrogantly
tell us that it is a question of admission or
independence ! A fourth proposition, (said
Mr, J.,) is that ofthe gentleman from Ohio,
which in effect, if not in teims, extends
the Wflmot proviso over all of New Mex
ico.
Mr. J. said that an honorable gentle
man from New York, [Mr. J. A. King,]
with whom, and with his respected broth
er, also on this floor, he had made an ac
quaidtance which by him would be cher
ished, had been allowed by the House to
make, in debate, refetence to his [Mr.
King’s] deceased father, and his father’s
services to our common country. Mr. J.’s
father also had been a soldier of the Revo-
Ilution ; had served thioqghout seven long
of Southern warfare against Bi itjsh
and Tory allies, and had, in the councils 1
of the nation, faithfully exerted himself in
the first Congress under the Union, to set
forward this Government in the path of
the Constitution, and had died a Senator,
whose remains are now entombed within
sight of this Capitol. Sir, (said Mr. J.,)
my honored pareut had declared, in the
fullness of his patriotism, in the Senate,
that the proudest title on earth was that of
an American citizen ; and, with equal de
votion to Georgia, had enjoined it upon
his sons, to be ever ready at her call to
maintain her rights. Sir, so help me God,
1 intend to do so. I love my country, also.
I love my whole country. 1 love the green
fields of the North and the sunny lands of
the South. My breast is still fired with
burning passion when I read of the days
of 1776, when I read of the glories of 18-
12, and when I read of the heroic exploits
of northern and southern arms, which, op
erating in the centre of Mexico, eventual
ly planted the standard of my country up
on the walls of Montezuma’s metropolis.
Sir, this passion can yield to oppression.
1 he Southern people all entertain this pas
sion with as much feivency as myself, and
manifest it even in their troubles, and
when under the influence of crying injus
tice. This passion can yield to denial of
right. Spread the Wilmot Proviso over
the country which it is proposed to organ
ize into territorial governments, or over
any part of it; continue to refuse us jus
tice in respect to our fugitive slaves ; a
bolish slavery in this District without the
consent of Maryland and Virginia; inter
fere with the slave trade between State
and State ; —do these things, or any one
ot them, and the fervid people of the
South will spring to their arms. Let it
not be fancied sir, by our northern bethren,
that we are afraid of their legions.—
The Southern freeman knows no fear.—
He quails before no northern force. He
has sacrificed much for union—but there
is a point beyond which he will not be
driven. And, carrying out an injunction
which to mo is sacred, I solemnly affirm,
in the face of the nation, and of this com
mittee, that the rights of Georgia, when
my beloved State shall determine, for her
self, her position in convention of her peo
ple, now or hereafter, will be, to the ut
most of my poor ability, sustained by my
voice, my purse, and my sword. Her
prosperity has cherished me—her adversi
ty, if adversity must come, I shall fully
share.
Mr. J. said, that ho believed that the
people of his district, when ho left homo,
were opposed to Mr. Clay’s resolutions.
They were undoubtedly, in his belief, hos
tile to tho admission of Califosnia, unless
with suitable boundaries, and now this
qualification was not tendered to us. The
Legislature of Georgia, ever held by him
in profound respect, whether Whig or
Democratic, had pronounced against the
admission of California, as she proposes
to come in. The Executive of Georgia
had pronounced against it. In Mr. J.’s
judgement, there was nothing in the pro
posed adjustment which ought to he ac
ceptable to the Soulh. It does little for
her, and yields largely to the North. As
a private man, were he at home, he would
go against it. But he is here the Rep
resentative of his District; he had ever
believed it the duty of a representative—
as a great Republican principle—to carry
out what he believes to be clearly the will
of his people, or to resign his seat. He
was seeking to ascertain that will. If,
having now studied the proposed adjust
ment, and the debates in both Houses, his
constituents, he can he convinced desire,
as from recent circumstances he appre
hended many of them do, to adjust exist
ing difficulties as proposed, his duty, in his
judgement, will exact compliance, proper
amendments being first made. If they
required a violation of the Constitution,
he would not comply. For himself, he
feared no consequences ; he had, as a pri
vate man, repeatedly sacrificed himself
for his opinions, and had lost the confi
dence of his cherished friends. In a mat
ter of such profound interest involving the
peace and happinest of present and fu
ture generations, ho would consult with
those who sent him here.
Mrs. Partington a Physiologist—Jo
shua, inquired of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Partington how she liked Dr. Whiting’s
lectures recently ?
‘Ah! Josh,’ said the old lady, with en
thusiasm, ‘it exceeded my mostsanguinaiy
expectations.’
‘Tell me all about it, mother,’ continued
Joshua, coaxingly.
The old lady gave him a side look and
remarked, that ‘when the Doctor mount
ed the nostrum he dwelt on tho cases
which debilitate the catastrophe and throws
the chemical fluid through the aqueducts
preponderates the diaphragm, thereby up
setting the carbuncles on the back lobe of
tho spinal thorax, The dropsical pabulum
reiterates into a diagonal perspiration,
paroxysms the globular apostrophe into
the glanders and throws thegastic unites
bottom upwards, and then deteriorates in
to a preparation of bliud staggers. Should
tho annual cistern become infatuated, the
liver explodes. In this case the vital
in stiucts becomes degenerated, and then
‘Never mind the vest, said Joshua,
making for tfieduui, ‘I guess tjiat will
do now.’
The Manufacture of Cotton in the
United States. —According to the Hon.
Nathan Appleton, of Boston, in 184 G, the
annual product of all the cotton-mills in
the United Stales, was 350,000,000 yards.
There has been a small increase, notwiih
standing the failure of some large mills.
! Mr. Appleton supposes the consumption
of cotton in the United States in the year
ending September 1, 1849, 600,000 bales,
I of which 100,000 are consumed South of
the Potomac,and in Western Ststes. The
receipt ofthis entire quantity wa5270,000-
000 pounds. The estimated value of the
! cotton when manufactured $67,500,000.
The New Orleans Bulletin commenting
upon this statement remarks: “What
we desire most particularly to call the at
tention of reader to, is the fact mentioned
by Appleton, that the manufacture ofthis
country of 600,000 bales, about onc-fourth
of an average crop of tlie United States,
has increased the value to sixty .seven and
a half millions of dollars ; fully to the val-
ue of the whole crop exported at the aver
age price of the raw material for the last
five years. Let us suppose the whole crop,
say 2,400,000 bales as an average, were
manufactured in this country, instead of
receiving sixty millions of dollars therefor
as now, this country would receive two
hundred and forty millions of dollars in
addition to the present value of cotton ex
ported. Astounding as this fact may seem,
it is nevertheless true. We ask, there
fore the intelligent and reflecting men of
the Soulh, if it is wiso or sound political
economy not to avail ourselves of the ad
vantages which the manufacture of
the raw material will certainly secure to
the South and the Union ? Ihe true poli
cy of the country, and that which will
most certainly secure the highest degree
of prosperity, is to bring the spindle and
loom in close proximity with the cotton
field, and you build up a market for our
cotton, and also for all the breadstuff’s and
provisions that the South can produce.—
Certainly, no intelligent mind will require
argument or illustration to satisfy it that
this state of things would render the coun
try—the whole country—more prosperous.
The best form for Strength —From
experments it has been deduced that the
strength of any material depends chiefly
on its depth, or on that dimension which
is in the direction of its strain. A bar of
timber one inch in breadth, and twoinches
in depth, is four times as strong as a bar
of only inch deep; and it is twice as strong
as a bar two inches broad and one deep—
that is, ajoint or lever is always strongest
when laid on its edge. Hence it follows,
that the strongest joist that cSn be cut out
of a round tree is not the one which has
the greatest quantity of timber in it, but
such that the product of its breadth
by the square of its depth shall be the
greatest possible. Again, from the same
experiments it is found, that a hollow tube
is stronger than a solid rod containing the
same amount of matter. This property
of hollow tubes is also accompanied with
greater stiffness. Hence we find the
bodies of men and animals are formed hol
low, which renders them incomparably
stronger and stiffer, gives more room for
the insertion of muscles, and makes them
lighter and more agile than if they were
constructed of solid matter- In like man
ner the bones of birds, which are thinner
than thoseof other animals, and the quills
in their wings, acquire by their thinness
the strength which is necessary, while they
are so light as to give sufficient buoyancy
to the animal in its flight to the ®rial re
gion. Our engineers and carpenters have,
of late, and now make vavles and mauy
other parts of machinery hollow.
Nature is the best rule to guide the me
chanic and engineer in selecting the best
forms to combine strength with lightness.
The Wheeling Bridge Case. —This
highly important case, involving the ques
tion whether a State may authorize the
obstruction of a great public highway, and
which was argued before the Supreme
Court of the United States during the
past winter, will not be decided at present.
The Court, after considerable delibera
tion, has made an order, directing testimo
ny to be taken before Chancellor Wal
worth of New York, to show whether or
not the Wheeling Bridge is an obstruction
to the free navigation of the Ohio river,
by vessels propelled by steam or sails;
and if an obstruction, what change or al
teration in the present construction of the
bridge, if any, can be made, consistent
with the continuance of the same across
tiie iivci du as til remove the obstruction
to navigation. The commissioner is au
thorized to employ a competent engineer
to examine the bridge, take its various
measurements and report the same. The
testimony to be taken, and returned to the
Supreme Court by December next—at
which term a final decision will, in all pro
bability bo given.— Scott's Paper.
Speech of an Indian. —An Indian
Chief of the Rocky Mountains said to a
white man who wished to introduce strong
drink into his country : “Os what good is
the firewater ? It burns the throat and
the stomach. It makes a man like a
bear; as soon as he has tasted it, he bites,
he growls, he howls, and ends by falling
down like a corpse. Your fire-water
does mailing hut evil; carry it to our ene
mies, and they will kill each other, and
their wives and children will be pitied.—
As for us, we do not wish it ; we are fool
ish enough without it.”
BOOK AND JOB PBiNTiNO,
IVill he executed in the most approved sit It
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SCtITHEP.IT TP.IBTTHE
-BY—
VM. B. HARRISON.
Turnip Culture South. —There no
few crops that are raised South, so Jiitfe
understood as the Turnip. There is not •
farmer but has his turnip patch, and most
of them are perfectly satisfied to have
turnips fit for the table in November, and
go to seed in February. The turnip is a
native of a cool climate, and has been
brought to its greatest perfection in En
gland, where the climate is moist and cool;
and if the Southern planter or gardener
would cliltivato the turnip as successfully
as the English, he will discard seed saved
here. English, Dutch, or Northern seed,
will mature one month earlier than seed
of our own sowing. It is remarkable that
the Rutabaga rarely goes to seed in this
climate. Msny farmers consider this an
objection to it, but it is very much in iu
favor, for when other tut nips are seeding,
and the root has become soft and pithy,
the Rutaboga retains i*s firmness and
sweetness, and is nutricious for both man
and beast. The time for planting the
Rutabaga is near at hand, about the mid
dle of July is the most favorable time, but
they may be planted with safety as late as
September : it is best to plant them in
drills, the drills should be a about two and
u half feet apart, and when the plants are
two or three inches high, thin them out to
NUMBER 24.
twelve inches in the drill. The Rutabaga
is the most nutricious of all the turnip fam
ily. Hogs will fatten on them,cows thrive
through the winter fed on them, and give
an abundance of rich milk For early
fall turnips, sow early White Dutch, Red
Top and English Norfolk. These should
be planted early in August. We sowed
the While Dutch on the 29th of July last
year, and on the 29th of August had fine
turnips in the market. For standard crop.
Red Top is the most preferable of all com
mon Turnips. Our own seed may be plant
ed the last of August and through Septem
ber. There is one reason why the tur
nip seed of this country isinferiorto North
ern raised seed, or farmers rarely trans
plant the turnip, but suffer it to run to seed
where it vegetated and grew. To make
a good turnip bold its own, and improve,
it should not only be transplanted, but the
tap root should be cut off. This treatment
will improve our own turnips, but nothing
can make them as early as seed raised in
a colder latitude. Farmers, try the Ruta
baga. Will some of our leaders that tried
the Rutabaga last season, give us the re
sults of the experiment ?— Columbus Enep
Culture of Ruta Baga.— As this is tho
month when this root should be put iu,
we shall lay before our readers an extract
from a communication in the Albany Cul
tivator, from the pen of J. W. Brewster,
Esq., of Oneida county, New York, giv
ing his experience and mode in the culti
vation of this excellent root.
“The ground planted, was part sward,
and part where potatoes had grown the
preceding year. Those where potatoes
had grown were the best. I measured
from one end ofthe patch, twenty square
rods, from which we got 154£ bushels or
1236 bushels to the acre, 55 lbs to tho
bushel. The ground was ploughed but
once, threw into ridges 3 feet apart, a man
sent ahead with a hoe to level the tops of
the ridges, following myself whh a tin can
ister with two small holes in it, with the
seed in. This raniste.r I shook over the
ridge, passing nearly on a common walk,a
boy following with a garden rake, to cov
er the seed, and it was done. The 6eed
came up well, required a little thinning
in some places and filling up in others.”—
He sowed on the 7th of June, which was
not too early for the latitude of New York.
He estimates the cost of cultivation at
s23—the value of 1236 bushels of roots at
20 cts. per bushel, $247 20—profit per acte
8224 20.
The Ruta Baga is an excellent turnip
for table use, particularly so in the spring
of the year —cut fine and mixed with straw
or hay is good food for horses, oxen, and
cattle, generally—and is particularly a
dapted to the feeding of sheep and stock
hogs in the winter and spring.
An acre of land that will bring 50 bush
els of com, it is said, will bring one
thousand bushels of Ruta Baga—the grain
of that number of bushels of com will
make 40 feeds—the rootß of the one thou
sand bushels of Ruta Baga, (when added
to cut straw or hay) will make 5,500 feeds
at 10 lbs. a feed, or 2750 feeds at 20 lbs.
the feed—we allude to horses and cattle*—
and we should think it will not require
much of an arithmetician, to tell which
will go farthest.
Let those whose cattle died for want of
provender this last spring, think seriously
upon the policy, as well as the humanity,
of providing a crop of this root with the
viewofekeing out their next winter’s
blades, tops, and shucks,
Animal Life.—The length of an ani
mal’s life is sometimes proportioned to the
duration of the vegetable that nourishes it.
A numer of caterpillars come into life,
and die with the leaves on which they feed.
There are insects that exist only five hours
such as the ephemera. This species of
fly, about half the size of the little finger,
is produced from a fluviatic worm, that is
found at the mouths of
ly at the waters edge, in the mud, where
it digs for its substance. This worm lives
three years, at the end of this period, a
bout Midsuram«r-day, it changes almost
suddenly into a fly, which appears in the
world at six ©’clock in the evening, and
dies at eleven at night.
