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Es;gs and Poultry.
Among all nations, anti throughout all!.
I grades of society, eggs have been a fa- 1
F vorite food. Hut in all our cities, and
■n particularly in winter, they arc held at
fsuch pnces that but a few families can af
ford to eat them at all ; and even those
kho are in easy circumstances consider
iphem too expensive for common food.
■ There is no need of this. Every fa
|miiy, or nearly every family, can with
■ very little trouble, have eggs in plenty
■ during the whole year; and of all animals
■domesticated for the use of man, the coni- j
I moil dung hill fowl is capable ol yielding
■ the greatest possible profit to the owner. 1
In the month of November, I put apart
■ eleven liens and a cock, gave them a small;
■ chamber in a wood-house, defended from!
■ storms, and with an opening to the south.!
I Their food, water, arid lime, were placed
lon shelves convenient for them, with
I warm nests and chalk nest eggs in plen-j
I ty. These hens continued to lay eggs;
I through the winter. From these eleven
I hens 1 received an average of six eggs;
I daily during the winter ; and whenever
I any of them was disposefl to set, namely,
I iis soon as she began to cluck, she w as:
I separated from the others by a grated;
I partition, ami her apartment darkened ;;
these dockers were well attended and
well fed ; they could see and partially
associate through the grates with theoth-i
er fowls, and so soon as any ot these pri-'
Miners began to »tng She was liberated,
and would very soon lay eggs. It is a
j pleasant recreation to feed and tend a;
[ bevy of laying hens ; they may lie tam
f ed so as to follow children, and will lay
I in a box.
Egg shells contain lime, and in winter,!
i when the earth is hound with frost, oreo-i
I vered with snow, if lime is not provided
[ for them they will not lay, or if they do :
I the eggs must of necessity be without!
L shells. Old rubbish lime, from oldchitn
!neys and old buildings, is proper, and on
ly needs to he broken for them. They!
will often attempt to swallow pieces oi l
: lime plaster as large as walnuts.
| I have often heard it said that wheat is
'the best grain for them, hut I doubt it;;
c they will sing over Indian corn with morej
than over any other grain.
*U'he singing hen will certainly lay eggs,!
if she finds all things agreeable to her;!
but the hen is much of a prude, as watch-;
ful as a weasel, and as fastidious as a hy-!
pocrite ; she must, she will have secrecy!
and mystery about her nest; all eyes but
her own must be averted ; follow her, or
watch her, and she will forsake her nest,
and stop laying; she is best pleased with
a box, covered at the top, with a backside
aperture! for light, and a side door by
which she can escape unseen.
A farmer may keep an hundred fowls
in his barn, may suffer them to trample|
upon and destroy his mows of wheat and
other grain, and still have fewer eggs
than the cottager who keeps a single do
zen, provides secret pests, chalk eggs,
pounded bricks, plenty of Indian corn,
lime, water, and gravel for them ; and
jXvho takes care that his hens are not dis
turbed about their- nests. Three chalk
teggs in a nest is better than a single nest
| e g?> and large eggs please them. I have
Kollen smiled to see them fondle round and
■lay into a nest of geese eggs. Pullets
■will commence laying earlier in life, !
■where nests and eggs are plenty, and j
■where other hens are cackling around I
them.
A dozen dung hill fowls, shut up from <
any other means of obtaining food, will i
require something more than a quart of ;
Indian corn a day ; I think fifteen bush- <
els a year a fair provision for them, and <
after they have become habituated to find!'
enough, at all times in their little man- ii
ger, they take but a few kernels at a time, 1 1
except just before returning to roost, t
when they will take nearly a spoonful in- t
to their crops; but just so sure as their a
provisions come to them tented or irregu-|\
InrljTj so surely they will raven up a whole I
;cro[Ffull at a time, and stop laying. is
A single dozen lows, properly attended, \
will furnish a family with more than i
2000 eggs in a vear, and 100 full grown .
chickens for fall or winter stores. The i
expense of feeding the dozen fowls will! (
! not amount to 18 bushels of Indian corn, s
They may be kept in cities as well as in i
j the country, and will do as well shut up i
the year round as to run at large; and a ;
jgraled room, well lightened, ten feet by ;
• live, partitioned from any stable, or other <
out house, is sufficient for the dozen fowls. 1
with their place, nests and feeding ;
troughs.
At the proper season, viz: in the ;
spring of the year, five or six hpns will:
; hatch at the same time, and the filly or
sixty chickens give to one hen. Two
!hens will take care of a 100 chickens well
enough, until they begin to climb theiri
little stick roots; they should then besep-;
iarated from the hens entirely; thev will!
! wander less, and do better away from
jother fowls. I have often kept the
jchickens in my garden; they keep the
May bugs and other insects away from the
vines, etc.
, In cases of confining fowls in summer
it should be remembered that a ground
: room should be chosen; or it will do as
well to set into their pen, boxes of dried
sand, or kiln dried, well pulverised earth,
tor them to wallow' in, in warm weather.
Mississippi Valley Farmer.
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Destruction ot the Spanish Inquisition.
The follow ing was originally, we be
lieve, a contribution of the Rev. Mr. Kirk,
ijtotbo ‘Western Citizen.’ It has widely
i travelled through our Exchanges ; but
, the exposition of that tremendous power
ijand persecuting spirit of Rome, which
Napoleon, with all his faults did so much
to destroy, is w'orth preservation in every
! Protestant community.— South. Baptist
Advocate.
Baltimore, May 1,1843.
Mr. Fast man : —My fellow passenger
on the Ohio river, was Col. Lehmanous
jky, formerly an officer under Napoleon,
now a minister of the Lutheran Church.
For twenty three years he served with
! him in stations of trust, which rendered
iho most intimate relations necessary;
and it was only when Napoleon was con
i fined on the Island of Elba, that Col. Le
manousky retired from the service.
“In the year 1809,” said Col. L., “be
ing then at Madrid, my attention was di
rected to the Inquisition in the neighbor
;bood of that city. Napoleon had previ
jotisly issued a decree for its suppression,
I and when I reminded Marshal Soultof
.this decree, he directed me to proceed toj
destroy it. lie accordingly gave me two;
required regiments, in addition to my:
down, one of which was under the com
mand of Col. De Lile, who is now, like
,! myself, a minister, pastor of the Evange
lical Church in Marseilles. With these
j troops I proceeded forthwith to the lnqui
jsition, which was situated about 5 miles
from the city. The Inquisition was sur
rounded with a wall of great strength,
and defended by about four hundred sol
diers. When we arrived at the walls, 1
addressed one of the sentinels, and sum
moned the holy fathers to surrender to
the imperial army, and open the gates of
the Inquisition. The sentinel, who was
standing on the wall, appeared to enter
I into conversation for a few moments with
some one within ; at the close of which
he presented his musket and shot one of
my men. This was a signal for attack,
and I ordered my troops to fire upon those
w-ho appeared upon the walls.
It was obvious that it was an unequal
warfare. The walls of the Inquisition
were covered with the soldiers ol the ho
ly office ; there was also a breastwork up
on the wall, behind which they kept con
linuallv, only as they partially exposed!
themselves as they discharged their mus-l
kets. Our troops were in the open plain,
and exposed to a destructive fire. We!
had no cannon, nor could we scale the
walls, and the gates successfully resisted
all attempts at forcing them. I saw that
it was necessary to change the mode of
attack, and directed some trees to be cut 1
down and trimmed and brought on the ;
ground to be used as battering rams I
Two of these were taken up by detach- i
ments of men, as numerous as could I
work to advantage, and brought to bear t
upon the walls with all the power which <
they could exert, regardless of the fire <
which was poured upon them from the 1
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1843.
walls. Presently the walls began to trem- i
ble, and under the well directed and per- i
severing application of the ram, a breach i
was made, and the imperial troops rushed i
into the Inquisition. Here we met with :
an incident which nothing but Jesuitical
effrontery is equal to. The Inquisitor
General, followed by the father confes
sors, in their priestly robes, all came out
of their rooms, as we were making our
way into the interior of the Inquisition,!
and with long faces, and their arms cross
ed over their breasts, their fingers resting
on their shoulders, as though they had
been deaf to all the noise of the attack
and defence, and had but just learned
what was going on, they addressed them
selves in language of rebuke to their own
soldiers, saying, “Why do you fight our
friends the French ?”
Their intention, apparently, was to
make us think that this defence was whol
ly unauthorised by them, hoping, if they!
could produce in our minds a belief that
: hey were friendly, they should have a
better opportunity in the confusion and
plunder ofthe Inquisition to escape. Their
artifice was too shallow, and did not suc
ceed. I caused them to be placed under
guard, and all the soldiers of the inquisi
tion to be secured as prisoners. We then
proceeded to examine this prison house
iof hell.—We passed through room after
room, found altars, and. crucifixes, and
wax candles in abundance, but we could
discover no evidences of iniquity being
practised there, nothing of those peculiar
features which we expected to find in In
quisition. Hero was beauty and splen
dor, and the most perfect order on which
my eyes had ever rested. The architec
• ture—the proportions were perfect. The
, ceiling and floors of wood were scoured
until highly polished.—The marble floors
were arranged with strict regard to order.
There was every thing to please the eye
i and gratify a cultivated taste ; hut where
were those horrid instruments of torture
of which we had been told, and where
1 were those dungeons in which human be
ings were said to be buried alive ! We
searched in vain. The Holy Fathers as
■ sured 11s that they had been belied—that
. we had seen all—and 1 was prepared to
give up the search, convinced that this
Inquisition was different from any others
1 of which I had heard.
I But Col. I)e Lile was not so ready as
I myself to give up the search, and said to
■ me, “Colonel, you are commander to
■ day, and as you say, so it must be, but if
you will bn advised by me let this mar
■ file floor be examined more. Let some
water be brought in and poured upon it,
and we will watch and see if there is any
place through which it passes more free
,ly than others.” I replied to him, “do
!’ as you please, Colonel,” and ordered wa
> ter to be brought accordingly. The slabs
1j of marble were large and beautifully po
lished. When the water had beenpour
■ ed over the floor, much to the dissatisfac
: tion of the Inquisitors, a careful examin
• ation was made of every seam in the
! floor, to see if the water passed through.
Presently Col. De Lile exclaimed that he
! had found it. By the side of one of these
■ marble slabs the water passed through
, fast, as though there was an opening be
• neath. All hands were now at work foi
[ further discovery. The officers with their
■ swords, and the soldiers with their bayo
) nets, seeking to clear out the seam and
f pry up the slab. Others with the butts
s of their muskets striking the slab with all
• their might to break it, while the priests
1 remonstrated against our desecrating
1 their holy and beautiful house.—While
f thus engaged, a soldier who was striking
. rvith the butt end of his musket, struck a
: spring, and the marble slab flew up.
;Then the faces of the Inquisitors grew
pale, and as Belshazzar when the hand
appeared writing on the wall, so did these
I men of Belial shake and quake in every
bone, and joint, and sinew.—We looked
beneath the marble slab, now partly up.
and we saw a staircase. I stepped to the
table and took from the candle-stick one
of the candles, four feet in length, which
. was burning, that I might explore what
was before us ; and as I was doing so, I
was arrested by one of the Inquisitors,
who laid his hand gently on my arm, and
with a very demure and holy look, said,
“My son, you must not take that with
your profane and bloody hand ; it is ho
ly.” “Well, well, I said, I want some
thing that is holy to see if it will not shed
light on iniquity, I will bear the respon
sibility.” 1 took the candle and proceed
ed down the stair-case. I now discover
ed why the water revealed to us this pas
sage. Under the floor was a tight ceil-
ing, except at the trap-door, which could it
not be rendered close ; hence the success (
of Col. De Lile’s experiment. As we i
reached the foot of the stairs, we entered 1
a large square room, which was called the s
Hall of Judgment. In the centre of it (
was a large block, and a chain fastened (
Ito it. On this they had been accustojn- 1
led to place the accused, chained to his I
I scat. On one side of the room was one (
iclevated seat, called the Throne of Judg- 1
rnent. This the Inquisitor General oc
cupied, and on either side were seats less 1
elevated for the holy fathers when enga
ged in the solemn business of the Holy 1
Inquisition. From this room we proceed- :
ed to the right, and obtained access to
small colls, extending the entire length l
of the edifice; and here, what a sighl I
met our eyes! How has the benevolenl
, religion of Jesus been abused and slan
dered by its professed friends.
The cells were places of solitary con.
I linement, where the wretched objects of
( inquisitorial hate were confined year af
|| ter year, till death released them of their
and there their bodies were
suffered to remain until they were entire
r ly decayed, and the rooms had became fil
for others to occupy. To prevent this
] practice being offensive to those who oc
, cupied the Inquisition, there wore flues
or tubes extending to the open air, suffi-
I cicntly capacious to carry off the odour
I from these decaying bodies. In those
r cells we found the remains of some who
’ had paid the debt of nature; some of them
had been dead apparently but a short
lime, while of others nothing remained
but their hones, still chained to the floor
of their dungeon. In others we found
a the living sufferer of every age and of
j both sexes, from the young men and mai
g dens to those of three score and ten years,
all as naked as when they were born in
’to the world. Our soldiers immediately
applied themselves to releasing these cap
“ tives of their chains ; stript themselves
' in part of their own clothing to cover
those wretc.ied beings, and were exceed
ingly anxious to bring them up to the light
of the day, . But aware of the danger.
( I insisted on their wants being supplied,
() and being brought gradually to the light
, as they could bear it.
When we had explored these cells, am)
opened the prison doors of those who yet
survived, we proceeded to explore nno
s ther room upon the left. Here we found
3 the instruments of torture, of every kind
' which the ingenuity of men or devils
• could invent. At the sight of them the
' fury of our soldiers refused any longer to
’be restrained. They declared that every
■» inquisitor, monk, or soldier of the e.stab
f lishment deserved to fie put to the torture.
’ We did not attempt any longer to restrain
1 them. They commenced at once the
' work of torture with the Holy Fathers.
s I remained till I saw four different kinds
■ of torture applied ; and then retired from
■ the awful scene, which terminated not
■ while one individual remained of thefor
' mer guilty inmates of this anti-chamber
3 of hell, on whom they could wreak re
• venge. —As soon as the poor sufferers
L ‘ from the cells of the Inquisition could
e with safety be brought out of their prison
1 to the light of day, (news having been
■ spread far and near, that numbers had
r been rescued from the Inquisition) all
r who had been deprived of friends by the
• holy office, came to inquire if theirs were
among the number.
s Oh, what a meeting was there ! about
• a hundred who had been buried alive for
s many years, were now restored to the ac
? tive world, and many of them found here
K a son, and there a daughter, here a sister,
l and there a brother, and some, alas!
3 could recognise no friends. The scene
• was such that no tongue can describe.
1 When this work of recognition was over,
! to complete tho business in which I had
B engaged, I went to Madrid and obtained
[ a large quantity of gun-powder, which 1
3 placed underneath the edifice, and in its
• vaults, and as we applied the slow match
3 there was a joyous sight to thousands of
3 admiring eyes. Oh ! it would have done
1 your hearts good to see it; the walls and
1 massive turrets of that proud edifice, were
! raised towards the heavens, and the In
■ quisition of Madrid was no more.”
1 11. H. K.
. 1 .
i Irfidclity.
A celebrated officer of the American
Revolution, a Virginia gentleman, had
1 unfortunately been tinctured with infidel
principles. The efforts of Mr. T. Paine
to promote American liberty—the effu
sions of his pen, and the zeal of his life,
tended to make his infidel sentiment pop
ular with many of our countrymen, at the;
[O.ne Dollar a Year.
era of the revolution. This officer had
often introduced the subject, strange as
it may appear to his daughter, and urged
her to embrace its tenets. If infidelity
succeed with man, it cannot often mas
ter the heart of woman, for above all
others, the law of her nature is trust, and
she needs peculiarly the holy trust of
heaven. The young lady resisted the
entreaties of her lather. She clung to
the principles of her Saviour’s religion.
Disease afterwards wasted her fair form,
and she drew near the closing scene.
Friends loved her for her lovlincss, and
the father wept, that earthly beauty
should thus languish into the tomb. The
work of disease was almost consumated ;
the light was passing from her eye, and
the pulse from her heart—it was a fearful
moment—the dividing moment between
time and eternity. She called the infidel
tiither to her bedside—and as she gently
pressed his hand; and looked tenderly up
into his sad countenance, she said,
‘ Father would you have me he an infidel
now ?' There was a pause—there was a
sigh—and the heart-stricken man an
swered, “ No, my daughter, No!”
The Secret.
‘ Mother,’ said a girl of ten years of
. age, 4 1 want to know the secret of your
going away alone every night and morn
ing’
. Hip,*
, 4 Why, my dear ?’
, 4 Because it must be to see some ono
, you love very much.’
4 And what leads you to think so ?’
I 4 Because I have always noticed that
. when you come back you appear to bo
I more happy than usual.’
4 Well, suppose Igo to see a friend I
love very much, and that after seeing
him, and conversing with him, I am
more happy than before, why should you
, wish to know any thing about it?”
4 Because I wish to do as you do, that
. I may be happy also.’
4 Well, my child when I leave you in
the mornbig and evening, it is to com
mune with the Saviour. Igo to pray to
him, —I ask him for his grace to make
me happy and holy,—l ask him to assist
l mein all the duties of the day, and es
pecially to keep me from committing
j any sin against him—and above all, I ask
i him to have mercy on you, and save you
from the misery of those who sin against
I him.’
I 4 0, that is the secret,’ said the child ;
, 4 then I must go with you.’
Goil Defined.
i Collins, the free-thinker, met a plain
countryman going to church. He ask
ed him where he was going :—‘Tochurch,
sir,’ — 4 V\ hat to do there? ‘To Worship
i God.’ Pray, whether is your God, a
1 great or a little God ?’ ‘He is both sir.’
How can he be both ?’ ‘He is so great
■ the heaven of heavens cannot contain
i him, and so little, that he can dwell in
my heart.’
Collins declared that this simple an
swer of the countryman had more effect
■ on his mind than all volumes the learned
> doctors had written against him.— Chas.
1 Rambler.
, Capt. Stockton's Gun. —The N. York
] Sun discoursing of Capt. Stockton’s great
■ wrought iron cannon, says, “the gun is
3 not of mammoth proportions, as many
j believe, and is easily worked ; the merit
of this improvement consists in the tre
t mendous ball, and the distance which it
ris carried. Three kegs of gunpowder to
. a single charge, and a ball carriecnto the
? distance of three miles, places opposition
t at defiance, and renders a navy almost
t useless. A steam ship armed with such
3 a gun can take position out of the reach
. of a seventy.four and tear her all to
) pieces in a few discharges. The success
] of this experiment will produce quite at.
j sensation abroad.”
Caution. —We have been credibly in
' formed, two or three females in our rieigh
‘ borhood have been sickened so much as
to have to call in medical aid, for using
j apple butter, that had been deposited in
j new earthen vessels. Precaution should
! be taken to scald new earthen pots before
using them for this purpose, as the acid
contained in the butter will draw the poi
sonous substance used in the manufactu
ring of them.—Williamsport (Md.) Ban
ner.
Newspaper Law.— ln case of a suit
for fraud, the Georgia Courts have decid
ed that refusing to take a newspaper from
the office, or going away and leaving it
uncalled for until all arrearages are paid,
is prima facie evidence of intentional
fraud.