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From the American Farmer. Singular facts in regard to Indian Corn ascertained by experiment. Edisto Island, S. C. > March 20, 1825. $ Dear Sir. —Having somewhere read that seed selected from the point or small end of melons, cucumbers, and pumpkins, would exhibit a greater increase than if taken from the middle or butt end. I tried the follow ing experiment the last season, on corn,! which, though not sufficiently conclusive, should yet lead to further inquiry and ex amination. In the centre of my field there were two pieces of ground, (not adapted to cotton.) each 10.5 feet square, which were divided, and planted with seed from the point, middle and butt end, according to the following diagram. Tusk No. 1. Task No. 2. r | POINT | | BUTT END || MIDDLE I l| MIDDLE | |1 BUTT END |j || POINT 1 L. j li—SH— d "When the corn was harvested, the pro duct was as follows, viz. Task No. 1, point, 3 pecks; middle, I peck and 4 quarts; butt end, 2 pecks. Task No. 2, point, 2 pecks, and 4 quails; middle, I peck and 3 quarts ;i boil end 2 p-cks. Both tasks were plan-) ted at the same time, cultivated in ilie same manner, and I am not aware that there ex- 1 isted a dilference of soil. The a.erage crop would have been much greater, had not (lie season been so peculiar ly unpiopiimus to the husbandman. In the monilisol June,July & August the drought w.i. unusu illy severe, and portendi d the most disastrous consequences. A Hood ofj rain succeeded in September, and fields: which had previously exoiUiled a parched: and meagre appearance, were now literally inundated. To the theorist, am! him who is emulous, of peoelratii. The arcana of nature, I sub mit the so. • ’:(• problem which the above tacts > Vei v ( i.. > '•want. • .ill V)UK •*>» -f s- S. Great yield ,y . an' ->• Os the It IST mu.. i'u: ijr.uu , (Vi; ■ Caro Una, Ei.izvbeiii City, lot- Ml' ■ i Dear .Sir: i did not receive you.* letter: soon enougn to comply with your wish, to ho\ ea s imple ol our Roanoke or scupper-) noog Wide in time lor your agi iculturul fair. 1 have some, winch i piefer to Ma deira, made in 1d24, by mysell, on Hie island, where 1 purchased the grapes and prepmed the wine in a proper manner. Toe grapes themselves are the most deli cious ol all others ; they are mdigenoui, of the speices ot the lox, but white, larger and 1 more luxuitaut of growth. On toe island, one vine serves each landlord, as it will 1 spread as long as you will Had it bearers, and (3(1 bushels is but a common vintage lor one vine, flic soil on winch it tlsur-l isiies, is poor and sandy, and will produce* nothing on vines, and the grape is difficult) to propagate on a iillereat soil. Tin* island might be thrown into an eu lire vineyard, and would produce several thousand hogsheads. I'ne flavor of tlie wine is somewhat sweet, but remarkably rich, luscious and oi,y 1 propose going down in .September (li is only ;3U miles 1 rmi this) and makmgi several casks, secundum arlem. It re-) quires s kill in managing, as that made by toe inb .imams, alter I heir rude and care-; b-ss m.diner, is by no means a fair test ofi tin power d tlie grape.— I hey do not suf- I t n n ter.neiu, but add new apple brandy 1 • (be .1 "te, ju>: from (he press. At the Sd daps lei mentation, it is excellent Chain* p.M.n, but lew bottles can bold it in tins dim Me. 1 am, with great respect, 1.. SAWYER. lo the Kditor of the American Farmer. J! handsome p ice for sheep. —A gentle man •>siding at hast Windsor, Connecti <;:i, i. a int er to the editor of the New K -•! n.f ItaMinr, says, “ I have sold one of i. v >aXon links fur 8130; two at 8120 < • one for 8110. and half of another '. i 3H*O : one Ewe fur SHU, and three for uto e.a h. ? ’ Mr. Adam Ilnar, ol this comity, raised add prepared about eight hundredweight of It-hip. wlddi, delivery to the Navy Ag.'in in i’-.-ladd|■Ida, was placed in the h d.ns i „ rope m k r, (or the purpose ol having ii made ii.'o mpe and its quality le-ti-o ; ami s tor as die examinatinn lia< 1; ••I' made, *t In;- been found eijua! it: (jiiaiity to the best Hussion, “and of course,’ ears lie-Navy A.-ent, “ it will be paid for rating it accordingly." L Lancaster Journal. ’ ECONOMY OF THE EYES. OBSERVATIONS BY DR. KITOHINER. Without spectacles all the other workin; tools, of most artists, soon after their 40tl year, would be almost useless. At that precious period of life, when ge nius begins to wait upon judgment, tin persevering student would no longer be abb to enjoy the limits of the labors of his prede cessors, or to preserve the produce of lih own for the benefit of posterity. f'he accomplished artist, almost as soor as he acquires bis art, would be incapable ol 1 pursuing it—the seeds of perfection which he lias been industriously cultivating during the first period of life, would very soon after cease to be productive, and, but for the eye (invigorating art of the optician, his lattei : days would be melancholy and forlorn. It is hoped that, by a little attention to the 1 following pages, that all who can hear, may be enabled to procure precisely such glasses jas are most proper for them. Every body is in want of such information, because nobody has given it—therefore, I have endeavored to render it as easily attainable, as it is universally desirable, by communicating it in such plain terms that every body may understand. The choice of spectacles is one of those acts which cannot be properly performed by proxy—the sight cannot be perfectly suited, unless. " Every eyo negotiate for itself.” This is so absolutely true, that not only one person cannot choose for another—but one eye has very little notion what glass will behest even for its own brother, so ex tremely does the left eye occasionally differ from the right. No faculty of man varies more in its na ture, or is susceptible of so high a degiee of improvement and refinement by art, as the J sense of sight. The highest degrees of its discriminating power are acquired slowly , and imperceptibly. From organic imperfection and neglect of cultivation, many people pass through life who (it may be said, comparatively,) never see— i. e, whose eyes never have tne facul ty of accurately appreciating either farm— or color:—to very few, indeed, is it given to perfectly perceive and portray both. There cannot be a more evident proof of 'the general defect in the people’s sight, than the general acceptance of capricious and unreasonable fashions, which appear to be prevalent, in proportion that they are in direct opposition to all the principles of 'good taste, and which, to a fine eye, are I frequently frightful, and absolutely painful to behold. From the different modes of coloring of I different artists, I suppose that the ey r es of ,11" fw» painters feel exactly the same im ipression of colors—and objects appear of inherent colors accordingly as they are animated with the different lights. " The mole’s dim curtain, and the lynx’s beam,” do not differ more extremely than does the sight of different persons—and of the same | persons at different ages, j The peculiar conformation of the eyes, differs quite as much in different persons, as the construction of (heir noses; it is just | as impossible to guess exactly what specta cles will best suit the sight ofanother person,! .as it is to tell what tunes are most delightful to his ear, or what tastes are most delicious to li is tongue. Nothing can be. more erroneous than the | common notion, that there is an invariable j rule, that a certain form of glass is calcnla -I ted for a certain age. No rule lias more! exceptions : but this vulgar error lias been! | productive of great and irremediable injury [to the eyes of thousands.” There could not be a more useful charily, | than that of providing proper spectacles I for the pooh. The best glasses, set in single-jointed steel frames, may be purchased, wholesale, at the rate of 18 shillings per dozen pairs ; —if a single-jointed frame is fastened round the head with a riband, it may be kept on, almost as steadily and comfortable as a double jointed frame. For the small sum of eighteen pence, the benevolent may enjoy the gratifying reflec tion of giving an industrious workman the ‘•power of long continuing (ns labor with uu diininished ability, and of earning a subsis tence of extreme old age. In no way can so much good be done with so little money ! ; •• U,ui Visum, Vitam dat.” Ihe greatest part ol the disorders of the eyes of poor people who are upwards of for ly five years ol age, are occasioned bv their straining their sight, for the want of spec tacles, or by looking through bad glasses, or . those of a focus not suitable to (heir eyes. 1 hope when this is considered bv the Over [seers of the Poor, the District Societies for f bettering the condition of the Door, and ‘the ) patrons of the eye infirmaries, that they will c make the distribution of spectacles a part ol r their bounty. Symptoms of lit eyes requiring specta, Its la read xeitk. J he natural decay of the sight commences, j in common eyes, very soon after “ the Meri /’|dian ol Idle,” which, according to those whe i I'fain men for athletic exercises, and.accord - 1.1 mg to Dr. J imeson, is about our twenty ,fjeighth —according to others, about our thiV Vl l y -ti fth year. ?j The chryslaline humour is clear am n tratisparei i like water, till about the (wen iv filth or thirtieth year ol our age, when i *•• | begins to become a little yellow towards tlv rentie, which yellowness grows gradual! I deeper and deeper, and extends more ani more towards Hie surface, insomuch that Ur. Petit found that the chrystaline of a man eighty-one years old, resembled two pieces of ig beautiful yellow amber.” Dr. Porterfield on ,h Eye, 1759, Bvo. vol. i. p. 229. The commencement and progress of the >. deterioration of the sight, depends upon the ie health of the individual, upon the original e formation of the eye, and how it has been .. used. is Some eyes, at thirty years of age, re quire the aid of art as much as others do at n bfty, while the sight of, some persons con if tinues almost as perfect at fifty as it was at 1, thirty, w g The average period of the eyes requiring spectacles to read with, is about the forty - fifih year. r Nature has decreed, that, soon after our fortieth year, the most perfect eyes shall no e longer retain the privilege she gives to youth, y °f the power of adjusting them to see dis tinctly at dirt'erent distances ; this range of accommodation diminishes gradually, till it i falls almost entirely —those to whom it is I given to continue to discern distant things „ distinctly, no longer see those which are Y near distinctly. t Very few persons past the a gc of forty, can see quite so well by candle light, as e they could before that age—those who can, Y w >ll generally find that there is a small de gree of shortness in their sight, which is the cause of their possessing that advan tage longer than persons in general do—if f they will try that very shallow concave tj which is called by opticians, “ No. 0. Con -5 cave,” or u half a number” —they will find .jit give a deemed outline to distant objects r which they never saw defined sharply be fors. However, people who do not use their C eyes for minutely examining near, or for ; accurately delineating distant objects, are * quite unconscious of the finer perceptions of rja line and cultivated eye, and are equally insensible to (be smaller gradations ol the f deleri ration of their sight, and happily . suppose that " they have a good eye,” r while, as Beatrice, says. . " They can gee a chu ch by day light.* There are some symptoms too evident , even (or the sell-love of the weakest and the vainest to mistake, by which all persons C will easily perceive when they really re , quire the assistance of spectacles. I I'he first indication of the eye beginning . to be impaired by age, is that, when you , wish to .ead a -mall print, you are obliged fjto remove it further from your eye thao you .jhave been accusmined to do, and ilesire die paid of plenty oflignt ; and, on looking at a 1 near object, it beco nes confused, and ap (lpears to have a kin I of mist before it, and (jtbe letteis of a book run one into another, sr appear double, &c.; and, by candle i plight, you catch yoursi If holding a book, ' . &c. close behind die candle, and that you ' begin to admire the ingenuity of the gen tleman who invented snuffers. , You vyill begin to feel the absolute ne , cessily of using glasses, when you want to read a small print by candle light, for twelve months before you require their as sistance by day light. If you obstinately strive against nature, and barbarously refuse your e»es that as sistance from art, which will enable you to ' see with great ease, but withmt which you | cannot see without great difficulty, you will ' act as absurdly as if you refused to eat when hungry, or to sit down when you are tired, and will soon strain and weaken Jyour sight, which will receive more injury Jin a few months by such forced exertion, I j than it would in years, if assisted by pro !{per glasses, which render vision early. | However, some people seem to be about , jas unwilling to acknowledge this truth, as "they are to confess that they do not feel ' quite so frisky at forty-five, as they did at I twenty-five. The common objection which people ; make to put on spectacles is, that, * if they j once begin to wear them, they are afraid they can never leave them off again. This ’ is true enough ; but why should they, if by Jsuch aid their sight is relieved and pre- Jserved, ami they are enabled to see easily ‘ and distinctly, and when they attempt to ’| read without, their eyes ache, their head | ! aches, and every bit of ’em aches. ! A man afflicted with incurable lameness, who cannot move without crutches, would i act just as wisely in refusing to avail him. * sell ol them, because he can never hope to walk again without. •' Timely assistance from glasses will ease the eyes, and in some degree check! ‘ their tendency to grow flatter ; whereas, if r they be n it assisted in time, the flatness ; will be considerably increased, and the eves jj he weakened by (he efforts they are com pelled to exert; all delay is dangerous, and "'the longer those who feel the want of as sistance, defer the use of spectacles, the ® j more i hey will increase the failure of the 'eye.”--jidams on Vision, 1792, B vo.p. 109. “ 1 he: change in the contui motion of the eyes, which renders spectacles useful, seems to be one ot those which nature has dcstin *’ e d take place at a particular period of lile, and to which there is no gradual ap proach through the preceding course of life.' j A person tor instance at lorly, sees an ob-j ject distinctly, and at the same distance that | '■jhe did at twenty. When he draws near to; titty, the change I have spoken of common d ly comes on, and obliges him, in a short i- time, to wear spectacles. As it proceeds, it he is under the necessity of using others of ie a higher power. Hut instead of supposing ly that his sight is gradually becoming worse, d from a natural process, he attributes the in crease of the defect in it, to his too early and frequent use of glasses. Upon the whole, 1 should draw this inference from what has been said, that —no person whose sight begins to grow long, ought to be in the least prevented from enjoying the im mediate advantage which spectacles will af ford him, by the fear that they will ultimate ly injure his eyes-.” — Dr. IVells on Vision, p. 23. AAst oi VifelleTS. Remaining in the POST-OFFICE, at Waynesbo rough, Cfeo. Ist July, 1825. Allmined John, } Mill Elijah, Andrews John 2, | Hi 11 lienjamine I), ittaway Harley, I Hatcher Edward Ballard Reddick, | Hill James IJ. Mowers John B. J Johnson Hannibal 2, Bowers John Dr. i Kimball Jose|)li 2, Bush Joseph, | Kidd Edward, Ballard lohn, » Kinsey Abs deni, Buxton William 2, j Lambert John, Hargenean Elisha, J Murphey John W. Belcher or Hines, 1 Milton Peter 2, Brown Fielding J. | Moore John B. Bush Samuel, I Myers David, Belcher Abner, } McKay George, Hyne Lewis, \ Messer Stephen, Bell, the family of Jes- j Mania Rachel, se k Eliza, I Murray John, Catlett Mary, | Nichols Heusof, lollins Jos. B. or Sarah,} Neruin Hiram, Cox Sarah, 1 Overstreet Moses, Chew Henry, I Owens John, Clark Charles, I Elizabeth VI, Hamilton, Carsey Bud. | Philips Joseph I. Champion Elisha, J Powell Lieut C. It, lutteau Peter J. ? Perse Thomis. Cleaveiand Mai tin, 1 Perry Joseph 2, Carter 'W illiam P, | Paris Henry A. Cox John, | Ponder Itichard, '■o k El.zubelh, ; Rial? Anlitir, ■ickson John, ! Reese William, Dickson Hubert, J Rim al Stephen 2, riregon Charles, J Spam Lewelliog, Gresham Jobe, | S. James, Gudbee Samuel, \ Tinda'.e James Sent'. Godbee, James or Sami, i Wimberly Edmund, .odhee William, 1 Walker Mrs. Martha, Gamble Roger L. j Williams Jane, Mai d Henry H. I Welch James, Harwell Absolem, J Ward Capt. John, Holliday A. E. j Ward Nancy 2, E. Garlick, P. M. Ju!y»l9 3*i t 7 Sheriff’s Hale. Will he sold on the first Tuesday in August next, al the Court House door, in Waynesborough, Burke county, within sale hours ; One Gray Horse, levied on as the iroperly ol Alexander P. Lewis, to satisfy an ixeculion in favour of Patrick Seasomt. —also— -273 Acres of JLand, adjoining .and- 1 of Janies Hines and others, levied on as he property of Charles Kimball, to satisfy an Jxecuiion in favour of Samuel Wilson. —ALSO — Two Negroes, viz : a negro wo nan named Lynn, and tier child Jerry, levied on is the propei ty of Michael Wiggins, deceased, » satisfy sundry fi fas from u Justices Court, in avour of Artimr Hrb, vs tlte administrators of Miclteal Wiggins, deceased. John T. Forth, s. b. c. 1 June 30. 1825 5t -r 3 Administrator’s Hale. Will be sold on the first Tuesday in August next at the Court-House, in Waynesborough, by or der of the Honorable the Court of Ordinary : Seven Negroes, viz: Monday, , ten, farad, Pegg, Henry, Jim and Arch, belong ng to the estate of Colten Merritt, deceased, nd to be sold for the benefit of the heirs and Teditors of said deceased. Comfort Merritt, Jldni’rx. tiw'fce County. May 3 18 25 I3t t 91 Administrator’s bale. Vill be sold on the first Tuesday in August next, at the Court-House in Franklin county, at tlu usual hours : One Negro, named Uandal, of he Estate of Wilburn Edwards, deceased, sold in , rder to make a division among Hie heirs of said ieceased,— Terms made known on the day ol ale, George Stovall, JhLm’r. May 24. 1825 lot r 97 Administrator’s Sale. Will be sold on Thursday the 25th day of Au gust next, at the residence of James Ponder, deceased. late of Scriven county, between the hours of ten and four o’clock : All the Beef Cattle belonging to he estate of the said deceased, consisting ol ibout seventy four head (more ~r lesi.) Sale to mntinue from day to day until the whole is sold. Terms C'.sh. George Robbins, .drf/n’r. Striven County. July 4. 1325. 5 .... ... - ... Administrator’s Sale. Jo the first Tuesday in October next, will be sold at ilie Court-House in Waynesborough, b permission of Hie Honorable the Interior Cour. of Burke County : That tract of land known as No. 13 in the siit district Monroe county, belonging 0 tin- estate of Samuel Saxon, deceased, tor the aenefii of the heirs and creditors. William Saxon, and .lohn »axou, Jldm’rs. Hurke eonn'y, July It 1 5. .5 t 5 Guaruian’s Sale. Will be sold on Saturday the 10th day of Sep tember next, at Hie residence of Henry Megee, deceased, late of Scriven County, between the hours of ten and four o’clock. A quantity of Beef Cattle, a par cel of Stock Hogs, together with a number ol other perishable articles too tedious to enumerate sold as the property of the minor heirs of said leceased, for the purpose of making a division Terms ol sale Cash. Simon Smith, Guardian. Scriven county, July 13, 1525 l.tr 7 & w anted at this office, a young 1 lad from 15 to 16 years of age, of industrious hab its as tn apprentice to the Printing Business r Monthly Advertisements. • . - > N otice. e VT INK months after dale, application will be j made to the Justices of the Interior Court f Scriveu County, when sitting for Ordinary nirposes. for leave to sell a certain tract of Land containing two hundred ac t'S being in the coun " ‘y aforesaid, belonging to the Estate of Caleb , dowel), deceased, fur the benefit of the Heirs and creditors of the said deceits cl. Mahala Howell, Adm’x. June 13, 1825. In 9m 10.3 N otice. iVTINE months alter date, application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Columbia county, for leave to sell a tract of Land in aaid county of 105 1 2 acres, joining Murray, Hay and other, it being part of the real state of William Rinion, deceased. Peggy, Billion, adm’rx. March 15, 1825 lm9»m 75 N otice. months after date, application will be made to the Inferior Court of Columbia County, when sitting for Ordinary purposes, for leave to sell 235 acres of Land, (in said County) belonging to the estate of William K. Crabb, de ceased. John Kennon, adm’r. November 6, 1824 lm9m 40 .IS otice. NINE months after dale, application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court ot Hurke County, when sitting for Ordinary pur poses, tor leave to sell the real estate of Wriley llanberry, (Minor,) deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Jona. Lewis, adm’r. Burke county, March 7. 1825 1.m9 n 57 . —;-r ■ • ■ N otice. NINE months after date, application will be h made to the Justices of the Inferior Court 1 of Franklin County, when sitting for Ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the real Estate of Da vid Clark, deceased, for the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Thos. Mays, ex V. April 12, 1825 lm9m 87 JS otice. NINE months after date, application will be made to the Justices of the Inferior Court of Franklin County, when sitting for Ordinary nirposes, for leave to sell the real estate of Star i*ng I’rncfor, a Minor. James R. Haley, Guardian. Anri I 12,1825 1 i.9,n, 8 7 N otice. NfINE months after date, application will bn rnu'le to lint Honorable the Court of Ordin ary of burke county, for leave to sell the real Us ale of Enoch Farmer, deceased. John Farmer, adm’r. Hurke County, Feb. 1, 1825 1 n.O 65 N otice. VTINE months after date, application will be made to the Interior Court of Franklin coun y, when sitting for ordinary purposes tor lei ve to sell the Ileal Estate of lacob Strickland, deceased, tor the benefit of ihe Heirs n 1 said deceased* Hardy Strickland, Ex’r. ■f'l’v f ld-25 lm9 n o JN otice. NINE months alter dale, application 'will be made to the Court of Ordinary ot Ftanklin .ounty, for leave lo sell one hundred Acres of Earn], in said County, as the property ot Adam Linn, deceased, for the benefit of the Heirs and .[■editors of said deceased. John K Carson, adrn’r. January 18. 1825 fmfin 63 N otice. NINE months after date application will be made lo the Honorable Inferior Court of Joiumbia County, when setting as a Court of Or dinary for leave lo sill 202 1-2 acres of Land ly ng in the 2d District of Monroe County, Lot No. 208, it being the real estate of William Smalley; deceased, and to be sold tor the benefit of the ueirs and creditors of said deceased. James Smalley, Adm’r.. January 4, 1825 lin9m 57 .Notice, NINE months after date, application will be made to the Honorable the Justices of the Inferior Court, setting for ordinary purposes, tor the county of Hurke, for leave to sell all the real state of Stephen Chance, late of liurke county, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and credi ors of said deceased. Mary Chance, Adm’x . Joseph Chance, Adm’r. Burke county. Sept. 6 1824 1 9m 22 N otice. OHINE months after date, application will be JISI made to the Honorable Court of Ordinary oi Columbia Coumy, for leave to sell ail the real estate belonging to the orphans of Samuel Sullivan, deceased, and aLo, an undivided 'tract jf Laud, lying in Columbia County, belonging o said orphans, and to Melinda Jones, a Minor, John Cartridge, Guardian of said Orphant. Polly Jones, Guui dain of Melinda Jones. May 25 ImVin 95 JN otice. ,f*(jjlNE months after dale, application will be made to the honorable Inferior Court of Richmond County, for leave to sell the undivided naif ol Tenement No. 7, bridge How—also, two unimproved lots Corner of Eloert and Ueynold streets, for the benefit of Margaret I’. Hones, a Minor, John Bones, Guardian. October 25, 1824 lin9in Notice. NINE months after date, application will be made to me Honorable the Justices of the terior Court of Franklin County, when sitting ur Oidinary purposes, lor leave to sell the real .-.tate oi J mn Gettings, late of said county, de a-fd, iur the heirs and creditors of said de I ceased, I John Gettings, adm’r. 1 April 12, 1825. Im9m 87 fli