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jP©£Yav. IFrom the Fountain.] Lot hits that thk.keth be Stan Jcth take heed lost he Calk 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 — ======= 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 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 1 I t At Augu.ta, Georgia, By JAMES McCAFFERTY. In cnmmenceing theseeond volume of this pa fi .ter, the publisher has the gratiflcation to present I t sheet to the public, which he trusts will men Eg with their approbation--and he ask* from those 9 friendly to its prosperity, their aid in extending 1 its circulaiion. Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded 1 to the call made upon them l y the Board 11 1 Managers of the Augusta Society,.to condui t i the Editori.d department, the publisher flatter* I himself that he will be able to place the paper on I a permmi nt basis, and to give it a much more ! ele'ated character. Thus far, tile march of our cause is onward. U and in a lew years, it may reasonably be expected. I that if the energy which has characterised the I members of the VY ashingion Reform, for lh.' I past threeyrars, continue, an entire reformation I must lake place, and that the greatest curse to I our cdllntry, will only be mentioned as among I the evils that were. The subject of Tempt ranee will be the promi- 1 nent object of the “ VVasih.notonun;” y« t there j will be room for the stirring event* of the day, j and f,>r other items of interi st to the general reai.- I •■r—as Agriculture, Science, a Price* Current of 1 the Market, Exchange Table, &<•- Jo short , the | publisher will endeavor to nrnke thi* paper what I it should be—an able advocate of 1 emperancr, I and a useful Family Paper, strictly moral in ii* j bearing. The “ Washingtonian” will be published I EVERY Saturday, (on a Sheet 20 x 26 indies,) I it the unprecedental low price of One Dollac I >er annum always in advance-- thus placing it I with n the means of all who desiie ail excellent I Family Paper, at a Wry cheap rate, to obtain if. | l’b“ uublisher looks confidently to all the friends I of T emperance and Morality, to aid him in carry- I ing successiully, this enterprise into effect—and I with their aid, >t can be done. CLUBBING—To persons who will club togethi r, and forward to the publisher, ( ree «>f postage) Five Dollars, in current funds, will be entitled to six copies, and so in proportion. For a package of twenty-six papers, to one addreas, I wenly Debars. rS* All Post v!asters are respectfully request ed to act as agents. f~s* All communications, by mail, must be post paid, to receive attention. By the rules of the General Post-Office, Post Master* may frank subscription money lor Newspaper*. Jum Gih, 1843. T't Editors inserting the above prospi ctur, or noticing the appearance of our paper, through their columns, will confer a favor which wo shall be happy to reciprocate. BRASS'& IRON FOUNDRY, r FHE subscriber has now on hand a ■j large slock of the raw materials, of the beet quality, tor Mill and Gin Gear, also, fi'st rate • patterns of every description of Machinery, at i his Foundry, in the rear of the Presbyteiian Church, on the Road'from Augusta to Savannah ---where he is prepared to do all kinds of busini ss • in his line, as low as any other establishing nt in thecitv. He flatters himself that he will be able to give satisfaction to ail who may entrust their work to his care. Orders lefl at the Foundry, or with any of the merchants of Augusta, wi.J be promptly attended to. ; July 1 4 tint] F. Hi MAN TZ. im, AT REDUCED PRICES. . 'FYPES, and all other PRINTING MATERIALS, manufactured at Conner's United States Type and Stereotype Foundry, corner ot Nassau and Ann streets, New-York— an be had at Eighteen per cent deduction from old prices. The undersigned respectfully informs the Old Patrons ot the Type .nd Stereotype Foundry, formerly known as James Conner’s, and more recently as Conners & Cooke's, and 'he Public in general, that they are prepared to execute Or ders tor PRJTISG TYPES. PRESSES , CHASES. CASES, IMPOSISU STOKES, ISK FRAMES, and evpry other article to form Complete Printing Establishments, on as favorable terms, and as good a quality as any , other establishment in the United States. A me prices, per lb. Old price. Agate, 96 cts. Agate, 108 cts. 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