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I knew him when a little child,
As opening rosebuds fait;
Ha seemed an angel when he smiled,
* So pure a light was lin ns.
I knew him when a brave bright boy,
With spirit like a bird’s;
His heart n gushing fount of joy,
Arid music all his words.
i know him when a noble youth,
With fame-aspiring eye,
Hit very look was that of truth—
The truth beyond the sky.
I knew him when young manhood eatm.-
How proud the wealth he wore;
To every heart his gifted name,
Virtue’s bright promise bore.
I knew him when his youthful bride,
Joyous he came to wed;
The country's flower, the country’s pride—
“ God bless them!'’— thousands said.
J knew him when he stooped to kiss
How sweet that kiss must be!
The pledges of his wedded bliss.
Bright, blessed cherubs three.
1 knew him at the holy shrine—
The altar of his God;
I saw him take the bread and wine,
And pure the path ho trod.
I knew himkhis—l knew him all
The fondest heart could crave;
I knew—yet, God! his blackened pall,
Covers a drunkard’s gravel
m j el
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Facts Worthy of Notice.
Whenever the farmer discovers' his
field covered with sheep sorrel, he may
conclude that the soil needs liming; the
presence of the sorrel being unerring
evidence of the absence of calcareous
matter, and that the soil is too acid for
the purposes of healthful vegetation.
Lands too, whose natural growth is
pine, require lime, as that%ood almost
always delights in an acid soil devoid of
lime.
Clover, Sainfoin, Lucerne, and all
grasses of this family, require that there
should be lime in the soil, on which they
may be grown, and, indeed it may be
said to be labor lost, to attempt to culti
vate them advantageously on lands in
■which this mineral does not form a con
stituent element. Now, may it be ab
sence of lime in much of the soil of some
of the southern portions of our country,
which opposes such obstacles to the
growth of clover? We think it demon
strablo that it is, and wc are equally cer
tain, that if limo or marl wero applied
to all such lands, that clover might be
grown there as well as in any other part
of the country.—[Am. Farmer.
Curious Fotatoe.
The N. Y. Tribune says—We under
stand that Gen. Tallmadgc of this city,
well known for his intelligent advocacy
of every thing calculated to advance
Agriculture or general Industry, has with
considerable difficulty obtained some spe
cimens of very curious Potatoe, which if
is believed may he introduced into this
country with eminent profit and advan
tage. The few he has been enabled to
procure were raised in Charleston, S. C.,
from seed recently brought from South
America. This potatoo is not a radical
or bulb—but born above ground , upon a
vine which should bo trained on a trellis.
The one from which these wero gathered
covered the end of a piazza and reached
the height of 15 feet. The vine is said
to be very beautiful, bearing a heart
shaped leaf, and the potatoes it bears are
of a very excellent quality. Whether it
can be grown in this country, and if so.
what profit and advantage, remain yet
to be testpd ; and we understand that
measures have been taken by the Ameri
can Institute io try the experiment.
Caterpillars.
An English agricultural paper says,
that a gaidener at Glasgow, practices a
mode of destroying caterpillars, which is
discovered by accident. A piece of wool
en rag had been blown by the wind into
acurreiit bush ; and when taken out was
found covered by the leaf-devouring in
sects. He immediately placed pieces of
woolen cloth in every bush in his garden,
and found next day that the caterpillars
had universally taken to them for shelter.
In this way he destroys many thousands
every morning.—[Afer. Journ.SU
To Gardeueis.
If you wish to preserve your cabbages
from the ravages ot the cut worm, hill up
the plant until the bud is covered with
earth a half inch or an inch deep, which
will not injure the plant. Be sure to let
the main leaves stand up out of the
ground. The worm will then cut off the
stems of the leaves instead of cutting
down the stalk, and the bud will soon
grow out of the ground uninjured by the
I covering. This plan has been tried with
. 1 success in this place, when every other
effort to preserve the plants had failed.
L [Dahlonega Times.
'I be Tuma'o*
Thomas Jefferson Ra ndolph, the protege
of Jefferson, in an address before the Ag
ricultural Society of Albemarle county,
Virginia, lately delivered, stated that Mr.
Jefferson could recollect when the tomato
was cultivated as an ornament to the
(lower gardens, called love-apples, and
deemed poisonous. It was eaten but by
one individual, a resident of Williams
burg, a foreigner, w’hose peculiar consti
tution, or formation of whose stomach,
was supposed to resist its deleterious es-
I sects,
Faimer and Artist.
“Os what use are all your studying
and your books,” said an honest farmer
’to an ingenious artist. “They don’t
i make the corn grow nor produce vegeta
j bles for market. My Sam does more
good with his plough in one month, than
I you can do with your books and papers
! in one year.”
“What plough does your son use?”
I said the artist quietly.
“ Why ho uses ———'s plough to be
sure. He can do nothing with any other.
By using this plough, we save half the
labor, and raise three times as much as
we did with the old wooden concern.”
The artist turned over one of his sheets,
and showed the farmer the drawing of his
much praised plough, saying with a smile,
“ l arn the inventor of your favorite
plough, and my name is .”
Tne astonished farmer shook the artist
heartily bv the hand, and invited him to
call at the farm-house and make it his
home as long as he liked.— [Londonpap.
How to Furify the Air of Stablt i.
BY IIF.NKY BKKCE.
Having been invited by Mr. Evans, of
Dean House, Enstone, to make some ex
periments on his excellently conducted
farm and stables, I trust the results of
those upon the absorption of ammonia
may prove of sufficient interest to entitle
them to publication. A3 gypsum (crys
tnlized sulphate of lime) had been highly
recommended for this purpose in some
recent works on agriculture, the stables
were in the first instance freely strewn
with this salt coarsely powdered ; but
though the ammonia was evolved during
the removal of the wetted straw in suffi
cient quantity to affect even the eyes of
the grooms, I could not, after two days’
exposure, detect the slightest trace of it
in the gypsum when I examined it with
slaked lime. This result was the more
surprising, as it is known to every chem
ist that solutions of carbonate of ammo
nia and of gypsum are incompatible; the
carbonic acid leaving the ammonia to
form tho precipitate carbonate of lime,
the sulphuric acid passing to the ammo
nia; and I had previously ascertained
that in an atmosphere so highly charged
with ammonia as to be destructive to
animal or vegetable life, a very apprecia
ble proportion was taken up by wetted
gypsum. The following experiments
appeared conclusive upon the point, that j
under less favorable circumstances 'not 1
an atom was absorbed: Two hundred i
grains wetted with distilled water were
exposed in a close stable for three days,
i precautions having been taken to avoid
any error from evaporation ; it was again j
1 weighed, no increase could lie perceived, 1
, nor was any ammonia evolved on the
application of the usual tests, while two i
hundred grains wetted with diluted sul-!
■ phuric acid, and exposed the same time, |
were found to have gained thirty-six I
grains of auftnonia. The stables weie
then strewn with the gypsum moistened
with sulphuric acid, and examined the,
next morning; every portion was found
to have absorbed sufficient ammonia to
evolve its peculiar pungent odour when
brought in contact with slaked lime; the
■stables had also lost their close unhealthy
smell. To use the words of the grooms,
they appeared sweetened. As it was
evident the gypsum acted merely me
chanically, affording a convenient ab
j sorbent surface for tho acid, experiments
were made substituting sawdust for gyp*
’ sum with even more favorable results.
That the proportion of free ammonia in
stables is very large may be shown by
' the simple experiment of placing a mois
tened piece of litmus paper, reddened
. with weak acid, in a stable; io one badly
cleaned or ill-ventilated the effect is in
; stantanecus; but even in those of Mr.
’ Evans, where the greatest attention was
paid so these points, the paper was ob
served in a few minutes to become blue ;
even the water kept in the stable the
overnight, as is the habit, to take off the
1 chili, becomes sufficiently impregnated
with ammonia to affect tests. As this
alkali is justly ranked among the most
powerfulstimulants, the continual breath- 1
ing of an atmosphere vitiated by it can i
hardly fail to have a prejudicial effect.
Grooms are observed to be short-lived,
and the rapid course of inflammatory dis.
eases in horses, and their distressing pre
disposition to colds and affections of the
i chest are no doubt greatly aggravated
• by this cause. The increased salubrity
and sweetness of the stable, if pointed out
to the grooms, would therefore scon re.
concile them to the slight additional
trouble the adoption of this remedy would
! incur. At Dean House the acid gypsum
' was first strewn amidst the straw; but
' as this was considered likely to injure
the feet and clothing of the hunters, it
1 was afterwards spread on trays. One
“ part of sawdust will be found to absorb
I readily three times its weight of acid so
lution, which 1 made with one part, b\
' measure, of sulphuric acid to fifteen ol
' water. If intended to be tried as a ina
-1 nure, it should bo mixed in with the
straw’ w’hen removed f&om the stable.
During the process ol rotting the ammo
nia is evolved so freely, that at the end
of two or three weeks the acid powder,
| which should not remain more than
three days in the stable without chan
ging, will be found completely neutral
ized, and, as the greatest benefit was
| derived from covering up and salting
! dung heaps, by which I believe an addi
tional absorption of ammonia could only
have been gained, it may be reasonably
hoped that an increased value would re
sult from a manure thus surcharged with
ammoniacal salts.— [Journal of the Ag
ricultural Society.
mooigiyL&iKiS'OM&r;
The following account of a “secret
society” in Florence is taken from a very
pleasant book of travels in Italy, by M. ji
Dumas, a French author. He says,
“ Something at Florence, in the midst j
of a cavatina or a pas de deux, a bell j
with a sharp, shrill, excoriating sound i
will be heard—it is the bell della miseri- ; i
corda. Listen—if it sound but once, it
is for some ordinary accident; if twice,
for one of a serious nature; if it sound i
three times it is a case of death. If you
look around, you will see a slight stir in
some of the boxes—and it will often hap
pen that the person you have been speak- (
ing to, if a Florentine, will excuse him
self for leaving you, quietly take his hat
and depart. You inquire what that bell '
means, and why it produces so strange an (
effect? You ure told it is the bell della
misericorda, and that he with whom you
are speaking is a brother of the order.
This Brotherhood of Mercy is one of the j
noblest institutions in the world. It was (
founded in 1244, on occasion of the fre
quent pestilences which at that period (
desolated the town — and it has been per- j
petuat'ed to the present day, without any j
alteration except in its details—with none j
|in its purely charitable spirit. It i 3 com
po9ed of seventy two brothers, called, 1
Chiefs of the Watch, who are each in
servi e four months in tho year. Os 1
these seventy two brothers, thirty are
priests, fourteen are gentlemen, and
twenty eight artists. To these, who
represent the aristocratic classes and the
liberal arts, are added five hundred la
borers and workmen who may be said to
represent the people The seat of the
Brotherhood is in the Plaza del Duomo. \
! Each brother has there marked with his |
! own name, a box enclosing a black robe
| like that of the penitents, with openings;
only for the eyes and mouth, in order;
that his good actions may have the fur
ther merit of being performed in secret.
; Immediately that the news of any acci
| dent or disaster is brought to the brother j
i who is upon guard, the bell sounds its
! alarm once, twice or thrice, according to j
| tho gravity of the case—and at the sound
lof tho bell every brother, wherever he
| may be, is bound to retire at the instant,
; and hasten to the rendezvous. There
I he learns what misfortune or sufferings 1
j iias claimed his pious offices—he puts on
! his black robe and a broad hat, takes his !
taper in his hand, and goes forth where \
ihe voice of misery calls him. If it is
some wounded man they bear him to the i
hospital; if a man is dead the chapel;:
the nobleman and the day laborer, cloth- j
ed with the same robe, support together;
i the same litter—and the link which
; unites these two extremes of society is,
some pauper, who knowing neither, is
j praying equally for both. And when '
| these brothers of mercy have quitted this !,
; house, the children whose father l hey j
have carried out, or the wife whose hus
band they have borne have but to look
around them, and always, on some worm
eaten piece of furniture, or other object,
there will be a pious alms, deposited by
an unknown hand! The Grand Duke
himself is a member of the fraternity—
and I have been assured that more than
once, at the sound of that melancholy
bell,,he has clothed himself in the uniform
of charity, and penetrated unknown, side
by side with a day laborer, to the bed’s
I head of some dying wretch—and that
| his presence had been detected only by
■ the alms he had left behind.”
A single day’s Adventure.
The Dover (N. H.) Gazette says there
is a man now residing within the limits
of that town, who has had more events to
happen to him in one day than is com
men. He started from his home sober
at 8 o’clock, got drunk before 9 o’clock,
got a flogging before 10 o’clock, pulled
down a tent before 11 o’clock, got into a
lock up before 12 o’clock, paid seven dol
lars for sauce, and was released before 1
o’clock. Got drunk before 2 o’clock, fell
and injured his leg and was carried home
before 3 o’clock, and took an oath be
fore 9 o’clock that he would never drink
any more liquor, and has kept his word.
He says that no man has greater reason
than he has to hate rum, or thank God for
having a lame leg, and, he might have
added, for having sense enough to see the
cause of all his day’s misfortunes, and
moral courage enough to avoid it in fu
ture.
A Brave Little Fc.luW.
The Montreal Transcript relates a
pleasing instance of courage and affec
tionate devotion in a child. Some child
ren were in the St. Antoine suburb, when
one of the boys missed his little sister,
and thinking she had hid herself behind
the woodwork that supported the wind
lass for drawing water, proceeded to lock
there, when he heard her voice from the
bottom of the well. He called hi 3 com
panion, and then distinctly heard her cry
out, “I shall be drowned”—on which
the brother seized the chain, and without
hesitation jumped in to her rescue. He
I went down “by the run,” and succeeded
in getting the little girl to lay hold of the
iron swivel that held tho bucket—those
at the top being called to proceeded to
hoist, but the little girl’s hands being se
verely cut by the swivel, she let go and
again fell to the bottom. The brother
was let down after her, when he bade her
get into the bucket, and this done, they
were both raised. The little girl was un
hurt, except her hands, but she made bit
ter lamentations after one of her shoes
which she had lost in tho water. The
well was 20 feet deep ; she had attempt
ed to jump across it, and tell in.
Politeness.
The Cincinnati Message relates the
following incident. “ A young man of
our acquaintance from a neighboring
town went into a store in this city a few
days since to purchase some goods/ Be
ing rather ordinarily dressed, the dapper
clerk behind the counter, presuming he
was some country greenhorn who onlv
wanted to inquire the price of n paper ol
pins, turned his back upon him and lefi
him to find his way out of the store as he
came in, unnoticed. The same young
man passed into tho next store, was treat
ed gentlemanly, purchased 85,000 worth
of goods, and paid the cash for them.”
American Locomotive.
At a meeting of the Civil Engineers’
Institution in London, some time since,
the subject of American locomotive steam
engines was discussed. It was stated
that the superiority of the American lo
comotives was incontestible. Ina trial on
an inclined plane, an American “Bogie”
engine, with a cylinder of 12$ inches in
diameter, driving wheels 4 feet diameter,
weighing 14 tons, conveyed a gross load
of 54 tons up the incline at the rate of 12
miles an hour; while the best of the Eng
lish engines, with 13 inch cylinder, 5 ;
j feet driving wheels, and weighing 12
j tons, drew 30 tons up the incline at the
rate of six miles an hour. It was stated!
that the Americun engines consumed a
| greater amount of fuel than the English.l
The B.ixpip.* in Havana.
The Havana correspondent of the New
i Orleans Picayune tells the following
; story:
“ While listening to the music of one
of the excellent bands that play on the
Plaza one night, an incident occurred as
j humorous as it was ludicrous. The night
; was still, bright, and calm ; not a breath 1
I of wind moved the leaves of the orange !
■ tree, and the moonbeams as they fell |
burnished its golden fruit. Just as the |
, band had executed the music of one of
the grand operas, and for a moment had j
; ceased to play, a wild, and, to the natives,
unearthly kind of music was heard in the
: distance, and nearing ihe square. The
Habaneros uttered a thousand exclama
tion of surprise, and seemed to think ii
I was the spirit of murdered music rising
, trom the sea. We at once recognised il
! as the erratic Scotch pibroch, proceeding
! from the national instrument, a Highland
bagpipes. We were not mistaken, for
shortly a ‘bonnie Scot’ came in view,
blowing for the bare life, ,
* Willie, waur's them a’, mon.’
“When the first affright was over, a
commissary summoned sufficient courage
to arrest him.
“‘Hoot awa’, mon,’ said Sandy, ‘are
ye daft? Ye lees’en wi’ a’ the attention
i’ the warld to the fooreign outlandish
airs o’ that band; an’ yet ye ha’ nae
oonderstan’in’ to appreciate a guid stir
rin’ Scotch tune on the Highland bag
pipes. O’ ma conscience, but ye maun
be a vera uncevelized set o’ bodies.’
“The Scotch minstrel was taken off
to prison, but we learn that he was' let off
the next morning on the case being pro
perly represented to the authorities. He
was a sailor on board one of the British
ships in port, who had learned to play the
, j bagpipes, and always carried the instru. • J
1 ment with him. Having heard the bacc 1
t playing, he thought he would get tip an I
• opposition, or, as he said himself, h? I
i jthought the people had a taste for goo. ra
1 j music, but he found he was * maist wae- H
:: fully mita’en.’ ”
. | Yankee Curiosity. —As a sailor, who!
had lost an arm was traveling in thoß
|: country, he stopped at a house of refresh-H
. j ment; the curiosity of the landlord was I*
, excited to know in what manner it was §
, lost. “I’ll tell you,” said Jack, “ifvou 1
I won’t ask me another question about it.' 1
The landlord agreed. “ Well then,” fl
said Jack. 'lt was bit off The Yanfl
; kee would not forfeit his word, but anx- I
iously replied “ Darnation, I wish /I
hww'd what bit it off.”
© WiElFilf 1
r PROSPECTUS
MGISTA WASHINGTONIAN,!
VOL. 11.
! DEVOTEp TO TEMPERANCE, AORICCLTUIiB
AND MISCELLANY 1
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