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the Will be published every SATURDAY Afternoon' In the Two-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IS THE CITY or MACON, CA. By WM. B. HAKBISOiV. TERMS: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $ 2 if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. dj* Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates—and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, O'Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. O’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guatdians, are required by Law, to be held on 1 thehrst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in w hich the Property is situate. Notice of these gales must be given in a public gazett e Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. O’Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of the county •where the LettersTestamentary.or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereof for Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this State,and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. o*Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. (Cj’Notice to the Debtor# and Creditorsolan es tate must be published for Forty Days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazette in the Siate for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. (j_yCitations for Letters of Administration o n an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days —for Letters of Dismis sion from theadministrationofan Estate,monthly for Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. (£j*Rules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the SOUTHERN TRIBUNE Office, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements arc published according to Law. nryAll Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. & 0 c t r S. [kor the southern tribune.] 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 and on the best terms, at the Off re of the 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.