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The American farmer publishes the following estimate of the value of agri cultural products of the United States,! I which it says is based upon the “tabularj estimate of the crops of 1842,” made by the Commissioner of Patents in his An-I nual Report communicated to Congress. The prices set down arc those which prevail in this market, or such as are supposed to be a fair average at other’ places. The actual prices here are de signated by the letter a, those supposed: bv the letter s. 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Such a state of things is unparalleled in the history of the world, and it is useless to blink the question longer, as there can he no doubt but that, through the course of ruinous measures, tending to the de rangement of the currency, and the pros tration of individual and public confi dence, the interests of the farming and planting classes have been paralyzed. [Balt. American. Cattle and Sheep of Great Britain. We find the following in a late English paper, and give it for the purpose of com paring it with some of our own statistics and prices : “The total number of horned cattle in the United Kingdom is estimated at 7,000,000, and the total number of sheep at 32,000,000. Valuing the first per head, at £lO, and the last at 255., both together will give a total value of £llO,- 000,000. In the United States, the census of' 1839, the number of horned cattle was ' 15,000,000, and the number of sheep 20,- 000,000. But the difference in the esti mated value is the most striking point in the comparison. There the average va- 1 lue is put at about $45 for the cattle, and ' about $6 for the pheep. Here an aver* age price of about sl2 for the cattle, and ; 61 50 for the sheep, must be considered l a liberal estimate. This fact shows why i the prices of meat are so high in Great i Britain, and proves that we ought to be i able to furnish them a supply of beef at / remunerating prices. We think it clear f that in the present position of trade, tar- 1 ifl’s and prices, a fair export trade in beef f and pork to England may be expected, t [Alban;/ Cultivator. i AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JULY 29. 1813. Effects of Salt upon Celery. Some time ago, we pointed out the s ! beneficial effects of salt in growing aspar- i agus. There is another plant cultivated i ;in gardens, which would be greatly bene fited if a little more salt was added to its i ;food —for I believe the manure which it icommonly receives, is as wairish to its! taste, as brose without salt to a Scotch- i man. Celery is the plant I mean ; I re icollect gathering it in a wild state, somejj jyearsago, on the north side of the Frith! of Forth, in situations that would be wa-j teredby spring-tides —and, I believe that, ;it is commonly found, both in England! and Scotland, in ditches near the sea. This season I gave a considerable qunn * tity of salt to a row of celery, by putting! lit between the plants some time after they vVere planted. I then watered them 'freely, which carried the saline particles 1 down to the roots. This appears to have ! done the plants much good, for they grew; remarkably well afterwards. From the | Report of the Convent Garden market, some time ago, it appears that celery this 'season, has been rather shorter than usu al. Some of my plants to which salt was !applied, measured by the middle of Sep r tember, four feet in height, 30 inches ofl which were well blanched, j [Gardner's Chronicle. ;j Irish Potatoes. We have received from Mr. Chgrles i worth, a basket of fine potatoes, large, ' dry and mealy ; he invited us to see them |dug—no, not dug, but raked out of the I ground. The process of planting is so ■Jsimple mid at the same time so advanta geous, tnat we intend trying it ourselves; i it tlrmcrelv to lay the seed on the top of the ground, and cover it about a foot ! deep with pine straw, and it is done ; no linoro trouble, until they are ready for braking out; the yield is much larger,! land the potatoes better than hv the usual mode of planting. —[Camden Journal. Analysis of the Cotton Plant. The resolution introduced by General .Means, at the Agricultural Convention, that funds be raised to pay the expense of a thorough analysis of the cotton stalk, seed and lint, is an important one, and we hope will not be neglected. An analysis of this kind will throw much light on the proper culture of this plant, at least so far as to indicate the kind of soil best adapted to its growth, and what manure is best calculated to give it full developemcnt. It may serve another good purpose. Analyzing the plant when in a healthy state, and also when it is affected by rust, may throw some light on the origin of this disease, and thus enable the planter, by knowing its cause, to guard against its appear ance.—[.S’. C. Planter. Industry. The following anecdote may give en couragement to the industrious: Not long ago a country gentleman had an estate of £2OO a year, which he kept in his own hands until he found himself so much in debt, that to satisfy his creditors he was obliged to sell the half and let the remainder to a farmer for twenty years. Towards the expiration of the lease, the farmer coming one day to pay his rent, asked the gentleman whether he would sell his farm. “ Why, will you buy it ?” said the gentleman. “If you will part with it, and we can agree,” replied the farmer. “That is exceedingly strange,” said the gentle man. “Pray tell me how it happens that, while I could not live upon twice as much land, for which I pay no rent, you are regularly paying me a hundred pounds ' a year for your farm, and are able, in a few years, to purchase it ?” “ The rea son is plain,” answered the farmer, “you sat still and said go —l got up and said come —you laid in bed and enjoyed your estate —I rose in the morning and mind ed my business.” J i A correspondent of the Albany Culti- 1 vator says his horse was cured of inflam-! ■nation in the eye by the following!, treatment: || “ Take sassafras twigs of a year’s c growth; take the inner bark a handful i to a pint of cold water ; let it stand for a j feYv hours ; it will become thick, like the g white of an egg; wash the eye out well; 1 it Avill remove the inflammation. For a c film on the eye , pulverize loaf sugar as e fine as possible; fill a quill with it, and c blow it in the eye; it will remove the a film. My horse was entirely blind, and t the above cured him, so that he can see t as well as ever.” i To Salt Butter. —Beat well up to gether in a marble mortar, half a pound of common salt with four ounces oi'poAv dered loaf-sugar; to every pound of ne%v ly made butter, the milH being well drawn off by beating, put an ounce of the mixed powder, incorporate it well, put the butter in pots for keeping. In about a month—not before—it will be fit to use, and it will continue for ten years as •good as newly made. Try it. ! ~ll'll#©l£ !UL AWEiM B."' POLITENESS. An honest heart is the source of all jtrue, genuine politeness. Much that is branded with this cognomen bears ne iniore affinity to it, than the heartless rev erenceof holy thingsin the false professor to vital godliness. With a heart lull of affectionate solicitude for the good of jevery fellow being, the most uninitiated rustic may adorn the assembly of princes and titled heads. To intelligent minds he is all things, what constitutes a real gentleman ; to those whose fondness for hollow etiquette prompts to contempt and , the finger of scorn, his example is at once | useful and instructive. INDUSTRY. No young man of ordinary physical and mental endowments, should harbor the anticipation or indulgence of muni • ment, from friends, relatives, or any 1 source other than his own personal exer “ tions. Sloth is the prolific inducer of 1 many evils : so exclusively is this the ■ fact, that it is not, nor can it be, the pa rent of a single virtue. It is the gan grene which festers and paralyzes the faculties of the mind no loss than the 1 body. But industry is ever honorable ; if directed aright it will not fail to ennoble the mind, impart vigor and health to the 'body, and secure many friends. We may venture to assert, that no youth who consumes his time in idleness or amusement, has ever won the love of a virtuous individual. As you value | your character, your health, and above all, in view of that day when the deeds done in the body shall receive their re ward, —when you shall render an ac count of the talent committed to your keeping, see to it, that you waste not your days in unfaithfulness—your sub stance for that which satisfieth not. PROBITY. The individual who lives in an habitual disregard of truth, forfeits the confidence of every good man ; —nay, of his own associates even. Time, place and cir cumstances, will not vary this established law of effect; some unguarded expres sion, either of utterance or action, will not fjail to betray the hooded turpitude that reigns within. Reputation, pros perity, every thing in fact which makes life desirable, is the ultimate toy to those “who love, and make a lie.” RICHES. That man is most heartily to be con temned who would arrogate to himself the esteem and respect of mankind lor what Providence or Fortune has put into his coffers. It is not that which we have, in the perishable objects of this world, but what we are, that entitles us to favor or regard. Wealth is the bane of happiness to many of its possessors, and without moral excellence the mines of Golconda no more than the merest farthing, will secure the esteem of men, or favor of God.— [Boston Cultivator. We find the following paragraph in the Philadelphia American. It is a fact. The bountiful host was the well known Mr. Potter, and one of the happy guests was Capt. Stockton of the Navy. A Dinner worth having. —A gen tleman residing within the vicinity of this city invited his children—three daughters and a son—to dine with him ; on the Fourth of July. In the course of i the meal, which we presume was one i worthy of the celebration of Independ- I ence, in every sense of the word, a pack- i age was placed before each one of the < four, containing security to the amount s of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars — < making of course in the aggregate Eight c Hundred Thousand Dollars. This truly s generous parent had already, as we learn, \ bestowed liberal allowances upon his t children. We need hardly add that they s are arrived at years of discretion, and s can appreciate the affection, confidence I and munificent spirit which prompted c the gift. Large as it was, the father re- e tains an ample fortune to his own enjoy- \ ment. Jl Encouragement lor American Youth. Amid the many advantages of a meth od of government, such as wc have in this country, over the governments of the old world, not the least is, the encour aging chance for poor but talented youth to rise above the circumstances of their birth. So plain and obvious, indeed, is this fact, that it has already, been cur sorily thought of oftentimes by all our readers—yet it is a fact that seldom has its due weight and influence in the com parison of European and American gov ernments. We think we may safely say, that, in the matter we mention, this coun try is in advance of every other on the face of the earth. It must ever he, in the ordinary meth-| od of the events of earth, that the mighty mass of people, the nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths, will remain poor ; —poor, that is to say, in the worldly acceptation of the term ; for, thanks to a bountiful God, who causeth his Sun to shine upon the proud and the lowly alike, the true comforts of life and necessities for happiness are scattered with an equal and impartial hand. But to the mass, poverty is the inheritance fixed upon them at their birth—buckled upon their backs whether they will or no. And here, in this Republic, where the law rec ognizes no lord, marquis, or duke, noble by blood, every mother’s son of us stands upon his own merits; here, in the race for wealth and distinction, the power of mind, whether it be in a carman, in a 1 merchant, in a shoemaker, or in a lawyer, will certainly gain its own wages, if it works for them. Look at the principal men of our land, at this moment —cast your eye over the 1 names of the long list of brilliant and no ble characters, and you will find them, nearly to a man, from what are called, the lower walks of life. There is Van Buren, the son of an ordinary Dutch far mer—whose children, in any other land, would have been Dutch farmers and dai -1 ry-women to the third and fourth genera ! tion. There is Clay, “ the mill-boy of 1 the Slashes,” who has worked his way up from an equally small beginning. These are in political life—but in the social circles of the well bred and intellectual people of our city and neighborhood, we venture to say the same rule will hold good. No man who is intrinsically a gentleman—no woman who is truly a la dy—can be prevented from reaping the i full pleasure of an equal communion withtho “goodsociety” of this land be cause he or she had parents that worked hard, lived in lowliness, and were poor. Now are not all these things encour aging to the poor youth, of either sex, in our country? Many a man, when ad vanced in life, and occupying an honor able stand among his fellow citizens, has blessed that fate which made it necessary for him to exercise his energies and his powers of mind and body. Let us tell the poor boy, whose eye may perhaps at ' ibis moment be persuing these lines, that, however disconsolate such logic may seem to him, it is well that he should be without the enervating and corrupting in fluence of hereditary wealth. The hot house plant grows up, cherished, but weak —beautiful and lovely, but frail and short lived. The hardy twig which has to strengthen its roots in the unsheltered out-door rigor, and bear up against the beatings of the wind and tempest, enjoys a longer and a healthier existence. We might pursue the comparison, showing how akin is the effeminate child of luxu ry to the blossom kept for artificial show —while the sturdy son of penury, made tough by his condition, is of real value and use in the affairs of life. A Mother’s Love. Deep is the fountain of a mother’s love. Its purity is like the purity of the “sweet south that breathes upon a bank of vio lets.” The tear-drop speaks not half its , tenderness. There is language in a mo ther’s smiles, but it betrays not all her ■ nature. I have sometimes thought, while i gazing on her countenance —its dignity t slightly changed by the inelegant accent t of her young child, as it repeated in obe- l dience, some endearing word, that the r sanctuary of the mother’s heart, is fraught a with untold virtues. So fondly, so devo tedly she listens to its accents, it would seem she catches from them a spirit that d strengthens the abodes of her affection, v I have seen the mother in almost every n condition of life. But her love seems j. every where the same. I have heard her bid, from her bed of straw, her dar ling child (o come and receive the impress e [O-N'e Dollar a Year. of her li]>s, and, as her feeble strains min gled in the air, I have thought there was loveliness in them not unlike the loveli ness of an angel’s melody. And I have seen the mother at her fire-side deal out the last morsel to her little ones so pleas antly, that her own cravings seemed ap peased by the pleasure she enjoyed. But who, that it is not a mother, can feel as she feels ? We may gaze upon her as she sings the lullaby to her infant, and, in her eye read the index to her heart’s affections—we may study the demure' cagt of her countenance, and mark the tenderness with which she presses her darling to her bosom, but wc cannot feel the many influences that operate upon J her nature. Did you ever mark the care i with which she watches the cradle where sleeps her infant? How quick she catches the low sound of an approaching footstep! With what fearful earnestness she gazes at her little charge, as the sound intrudes ! Does it move ? .Do its slumbers break ? How sweet the voice that quiets it! Surely it seems the blood of but one heart sustains the existence of both mothcq| and child. And, did you ever behold’the mother as she watches the receding light of her young babe’s existence ? It is a scene for the pencil. Words cannot portray the tenderness that, lingers on her countenance. When hope has expired, what unspeakable grief over -1 whelms her? Temper. No trait of character is so valuable in a female than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be made hap py without iy.Jt is like the flowers that spring up insJpJf pathway, reviving and | cheering us. llct a man go home at night, wearied and worn by the toils of the day, and how soothing is a word dic ’ fated by a good disposition. It is a sun | shine falling over his heart. He is hap py and the cares of life are forgotten. A sweet temper has a soothing influence over the minds of a whole family.— Where it is found in the wife and mother, ;• you observe kindness and love predomi , nating over the bad feelings of the natur ,al heart. Smiles, kind words and looks, I characterise the children, and peace and I love have their dwelling there. ' Study, , then, to acquire and retain a sweet tem- I per. It is more valuable than gold ; it captivates more than beauty, and to the close of life retains all its freshness and power.— Portland Tribune. National Debt of all Countries. Excepting Brazil and the United States, all the other American powers and Greece owe several years’ interest on their loans. Part of the Spanish debt, too, is many years’ interest in arrears. England, - - . £800,000,000 France, - . . 220,000,000 Austria, - - . 85,000,000 Holland, . . . 82,000,000 s P ain > - 75,000,000 Russia > - - - 60,000,000 Belgium, - . . 50,000,000 Prussia, .... 26,000,000 - . . 20,000,000 Denmark, - . . 4,150,000 Greece, - . . 3,500,000 Portugal, - . . 2,500.000 Columbia, - - . 6,750,000 Mexico, - . . 3,200,000 Brazil, .... 3,200,000 Pe ™, 1,200.000 Chili, .... 1.000,000 Buenos Ayres, . . 1,000,000 Making a total of £1,444,500,000 A Strong Hint. The congregation of a church, in Maine, a few years ago, in town meet ing, proposed to increase the salary of their old and faithful minister to an a mount corresponding with the increased expense oflivingand the increased wealth of the society. The motion was in a fair way of passing, when, to the surprise ot every one, the old gentleman rose and begged his friends not to vdte a larger sum for him. On being pressed for the reason, he declared that he was opposed to voting any more money, because it was so difficult to get what had formerly been voted! The people were set into a roar of laughter, the increase was voted, and, what was better , promptly paid. Better to be upright with poverty, than depraved with abundance. He whoso virtues exceeds his talents, is the good man—he whose talents exceed his virtue, is the mean one. —— : ——jg —— Never get into a passion because otftr ?rs will ix>t agree with you. in opinion.