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Change of Crops.
Where the soil is fine, and every wav
suitable to the growth of the plant, other
crops beside corn, arc sown several years
in succession with impunity. At Mr.
Mark Cooper’s farm near the village of
Enterprise, Lancaster county, Pennsyl
vania, a second crop of wheat in success
ion is at present the finest in that wheat
growing country; and I was informed
by the owner it was his intention to fol
low it with another crop of the same, and
on my remarking, I never before wit
nessed such liberties taken with the soil,
he informed me of a crop of rye then
growing in the neighborhood, the twenty
seventh in succession, not having receiv
ed a spadeful of dung for twenty-seven
years. On visiting this field, I found a
good crop, clear lrom rust and heavy in
grain, and not a weed in ten acres, and
when asked by the owner why he might
not continue his rotation, as he jeeringly
termed it, I confess I felt somewhat
dumbfounded, and could only answer, I
considered the present an exception to
the general rule. I plucked a sample of
the crop, and present it to you as a
specimen of the twenty-seventh crop of
rye in succession, without any manure.
To the remark, that “cut-worms in
corn may he destroyed by continued til
lage and a naked and open soil,” I beg
to say, the cut-worm would not be found
in corn, were it not planted in sward or
sod land; they are the progeny of a
species of beetle or other insect, which
could never propagate its kind without
the aid of dung, which is found in grass
fields that have been fed by horses or cat
tle, and in this they enclose their egg or
eggs, and sink them a given distance be
low the surface; hence, an autumnal or
winter ploughing of such land destroy
them, by exposure to the rains and frosts
of that inclement season, a doctrine
which has at least met with the concur
rence of every practical man among us.
[Boston Cultivator.
Fruit Trees for Ornament. —ls a man
has but little land, it is well to ornament
his grounds with fruit Dees. They are
not only good for ornament, but valuable,
in affording delicious fruit. If well ar
ranged and kept in a next thriving con
dition, they will be nearly as ornamen
tal as any trees that are cultivated. If
the apple tree produced no fruit, and it
was a foreign species, it would be brought
to this country and cultivated for its
beautiful flowers. What trees cultiva
ted expressly for ornament, particularly
for their fine flowers, make a more no
ble show than the apple, peach, and
some other kinds when gaily decked in
blossoms sweet, filling the air with their
fragrance. If a farmer has an abun
dance of land, then it is of little impor
tance whether he cultivates fruit or for
est trees around his house, as the latter
may as well grow there as elsewhere,
and they will in due time furnish fuel.
We will give an instance of the advan
tage of giving a preference to a fruit
tree. Mr, Bowen Russel, of West Cam
bridge, was advised to set a forest tree
for a shade near the kitchen door, but he
set a Baldwin apple tree, and in eleven
years from that time he took at one crop
five barrels ot apples. Supposing a fam
ily had no fruit trees, what an advantage I
one such tree would be. How often!
would it afford a fine feast of fruit, and
how many excellent dishes of food. j
Boston Cultivator.
• Patent Endless Bee-Hire.
John Milholland and Benjamin Crane
of Chandlersville, Muskingham county,
Ohio, have invented a new and useful im
provement in the construction and use
of the Bee-hive, for which they have ob
tained letters patent of the U. S. Govern
ment, bearing date the 20th day of April,
1842.
The nature of the invention is in con
structing the Bee-house in horizontal,
rectangular sections, or boxes without
tops or bottoms, placed on a base, —sup-
ported by fourspreading legs,—on which
base is a double inclined bottom, for the
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I discharge of all offensive matter. The j “ I did,” was the angry retort. He was unprepared for such a position of i
sections are placed upon the base, and “ Gentlemen never do such things.” affairs. * fi .M f . mes ot coun ‘ r >» at e ' eiy
upon one another, until the house is As Blake said this with marked em- “ I’ll see you in the course of an hour ’ ! entrant’,,!!! CVer) g 7 R< i!° f a . valle >'’ or
i raised to a sufficient height, and the up. phasis, he looked in the officer’s face. he at length" said, rising ’ i committing whollsnl ’ ‘ S mU ‘ der
MIBCE3.ILANEOIIB. I/JCT-T*’* - tuhttA.'S
The code of Honor. “Jherc’s trouble for you now Blake, the floor wounded are jostled off in carts to the
Two voung men, one with a black!, C , C a cn S? >'° ! . saui wo or three -e n .No. Nor likely to be. I rear, their bared nerves crushed into
leather cap on his head, and military but- . nends who ,nstantl ? S athcred round objected to .ho weapons, and indeed, the maddening pain at every stone or rut
: tons on his coat, sat in close conversa- lim ' " « nr 1 " 0 , 0 ! 8 * arran ff cn,ent ; or the flight and pursuit trample over
ition about six months ago, in the bar “ Do J Oll thmk s 0 ?” , Reeled to the weapons ! And pray them, leaving them to writhe and roar
room of the hotel. The subject “Certainly. He’s an officer. Fight- " aatdld he na,ne A blunderbuss ? without assistance—and fever, and thirst
that occupied their attention seemed to in S » •»? V ade ;” nor a duck gun with a trumpet the most enduring of painful sensations,
>jbe an exciting one, at least to him of j “WeMJet him.” I m ” zzlc ' Bu * an infernal pen /” j possess them entirely.
, the military buttons and black cap, tor “ M hat 11 you do ?” « WhJV v ! 'Thirst, too, has seized upon the vet
he emphasized strongly, knit his brows Accept lus challenge, of course. ), curse ice ow, a pen . Aou j able-bodied soldier, who with bloodshot
awfully, and at last went so far as to “ And fight him ? 1 ° *l* P ° meetll, g j eye and tongue lolling out, plies his trade
swear a terrible oath. “Certainly.’ ‘be -Gazette-time, to-morrow mor- -blaspheming, killing with savage de!
“Don’t permit yourself to get exci- “He 11 shoot you.” 10 Is ° P !OVe { bat you are no light, callous when the brains of Ids best
i ted, Tom,” interposed the friend. “It “I m not afraid.” ®” k man, an you are to prove that you loved comrade are spattered over him
won’t help the matter at all.” , Blake burned with a friend to his are one >. aad that a gentleman is at all The battle-field is, if possible a more
I! “ But I’ve got no patience.” ‘ od S m g 8 ’ where h « founda billet already times Privileged to insult whomsoever he painful object of contemplation’than the
“ Then it’s time you had some,” cool- ‘rom Redmond, who was all eagerness to Phases w!thout provocation. combatants. They are P in their voca
ly returned the friend. “If you intend * "‘ n g bis ri\a!. „ )vvar J OO • tion, earning their bread—what will not
pushing your way into the good graces ()l1 next mormn f? two friends of , 10 erms ni< ’ not accepted, he men do for a shilling a day? But their
of my lady Marv Clinton, you must do tie belligerents were closeted for the . , V, ns 0 P°- !/ ou *°r a coward belore work is carried on amid the fields gar
something more than fume and swear P ur pose of arranging the preliminaries of ‘ „ dens, and homesteads of men unused to
i about the little matter of rivalry that has tie ‘ , <v m ' . , . , war. They left their homes, with all
sprung up.” “To weapon r asked the friend of -ust ? accept or be posted.- that habit acd happy associations have
“Aes; but to think of a poor milk I 'c military man. A our principal, by ' . , made precious, to bear its brunt Tha
sop of an author—author!—pah !—to >' e ,a ' vs ? f I bonor ’ ba « the choice ; as, Ibo precise erms in which the pnn- poor, the aged, the sick, are left in the
think, I say, of a spiritless creature like also ’J he ' T lgllt , to nain ® timo ’ P lace > ect -” EaT"?! ‘f® ™ ttn “ er ,n whlcb he burry, to be killed by stray shots or bea
Blake thrusting himself in between me . I understand. All that is set- umed tor the next five minutes, need not ten down as the charge or counter char-re
and such a girl as Mary Clinton; and tlcd ’” r was called ba « k ™ore so- go over them . Th f ripening grain Is
worse, gaining her notice, is too bad! “He will fight then. - in g ») ie question trampled down; the garden is trodden
► 1 lie has soneteered her eyebrows no “I'iglß. O, certainly. Blake's no 0 ~y ou accc P JC ternia oP tke into a black mud; the fruit trees, bend
t. doubt—flattering her in verse, until she c °ward. ,n ® ing beneath their lucious load, are shat
doesn’t know who or where she is—and *' c ? tb^ n > nnmo The weapons.” j, 0 0 courat no • J lO follow s a terod by the cannon shot. Churches
I in this way become a formidable rival.— “ A pair of good goose quills.” ... and P r * y ate dwellings are used as tor
I But I won’t bear it. I’ll—l’ll ” “®' r! ,a profound astonishment. 1 ben you consent t ° be posted.— tresses and ruined in the conflict. Barns
| “What will you do?” “, Th 0 0 weapons are to be a pair of ll ° W ' v ' ll ’ at sound 1 and stackyards catch fire and the con
“Do? Damme! I’ll—l’ll wing him! good Russian quills, opaque, manufac- LI cutott the ruscai s ears if he dare flagration spreads on all sides.
That’s what I’ll do. I’ll challenge the hm ' d mto l )cn3 cf a PP r °ved quality.— ao f At night the steed is .tahled i
: puppy, and Shoot him !” g
And the young Lieutenant, for such he ( be tunc, to-morrow morning, bright and ~C urseit no ,» complete the wrecking of houses to
was, flourished his right arm ala duello, . „ w - , ’ ‘ . , make their lairs for slumber Tho
and looked pistol ball, ami death. “Do yoo to .o.alt me ?” Tt.lt, “ for wo,pons, he’ll .»,ng' of thc ~i vouac cotopU ™ wlat the i
“ But he won’t fi./ht Tnm ” was said with sternness. y ou a llttle to » quick.” kindlarl hv the w‘ t , a 8
Buthe wont hght, lorn. “By no means.” “ No But the public won’t , the batt 6 hav f left uncon
“Wont ho llto uten.nl . face .. Y L canS“bo seriousP> bear him out in such on outrogc-sucli a , ' ,‘ h , C «ddier. march
■ M toish him AH r “Ncor was more,„ y life. It, victim, of ail the rales of koAr.” X e »h?rl • tdTo'remS °Z *«* to .
men hate cowards. I’ll post him-yes, | he coda .°f hono [’ thc ehallenged party ll « nor ! the challen S ed tered inhabitants return to the mam
• and cowskin him into the bargain, if ' ne ; j has the right to choose weapons, pbee of! P art ,y hasthe «-ig!it to choose weapons, L ]e(l bo(]ies (h had" loved atfficTfhe
cessnry.” meeting and "mo. Is not that so 1” blackemog rnias of their homes , to
i “Posting will do,” half sarcastically Lertainlj. o \,,,i r -ii . mourn with more agonizintr rrrief over
replied the friend. “But on what pro- . “ V f r ywell. Your principal has chal- tomeet hcinan the missing, of whose fate They are un
tenco will vou challenge him?” * * longed mine. All these rights are of > ou l ‘ a J e ‘ e d „ Up ? R lhc terms hc certain; to feel themselves bankrupts of
“That would be quite gentlemanly c oursehis; and he isjustified in choosing P^P 09e9 ‘ ba ‘ * 9 all P ,ain and «®P»e the world’s stores, and look from their
—quite according to the code of honor,” tb « weapons with which he u most fa- ilc W,U understand it children to the desolate fields and gar
replied the friend quietly. ™ liar * 1h « weapon he can use best is ‘; t j . , , . v , dens, and think of famine and pestilence
i Theyoung military gentleman wc have tke P en * and chooses that. It Lieuten- „ v , , , , engendered by the rotting bodies of thc
introduced was named Redmond. The ant Redmond had been the chal.enged Thpm ia ° r ® P O9 ' half-buried myriads of slain. The sol
reader has already penetrated his char- P art y> be would ot course, have named • ~i° -i einu ive. o>e dier marches on and on inflictin'* and
acter. In person he was quite good *?L Sto Ith whlc Ihe 19 Dxrmlmr, and P" 9tcd ' yon t d «- Die laugh would be suffering as before. War is a continu
looking, though not the Adonis he deem- r * B ake *’ oldd bavt! called a \ j ou ' ‘ ance of battles—an epidemic striding
ed himself. He had fallen deeply in love coward, a poltroon, or something as bad, fi a9 ba( { ° r even worse, to froni p i ace to place, more horrible than
with the “acres of charms” possessed ) f » after’sending a challenge,.he bad ob- = t then 7” the typhus, pestilence, or cholera, which
by a certain Miss Mary Clinton, and was jected to the weapons. M ill your pnn- ‘ . , , not unfrequently follow in its train.
making rapid inroads upon her heart— c'pal find himselt in any different posi- J> *‘ atc U P somc bow or The siege is an agravation of the battle,
at least he thought so—when a young f. lon 1 he declines tins meeting upon ti * y ~ w;il . The peaceful inhabitants of the be
man well known in the literary circles, bke grounds I think not. lensareas ‘ • 1 - 0 i " n can a P°l- leaguered town are cooped up, and can
rnade his appearance, and was received gof>d !l9 patois, at any time, and will do • no t fly the place of conflict. The mu
with a degree of favor that confounded as execution.” J, dont know ’* lhats humiha- tual injur i e /infli cted by assailants Td
the officer, who had already begun to “Fighting with pens. Preposterous!’ * „ assailed are aggravated; their wrath is
think himself sure of the prize. Blake “Not quite as preposterous as you l T.r • * more frenzied ; then come the storm
had a much readier tongue, and a good m, gbt trunk. Mr. Blake has more than sl j lO ' eva lan Lieuten- and the capture, and the riot and lustful
deal more in his head, than the other, ‘"smuated that Redmond sno gentleman. an s Redmond. When the seconds a- excesses of the victor soldiery striding
and could, therefore, in the matter of For this he is challenged to a single com- W “ t 0 ang ® l ® mcßt to quench the drunkenness of blood in
mind, at least appear to much better ad- 1S P rove iim cither a j (1
vantage than his rival. He had also gentlcmap or not one. Surely the most done by a very humbly written apology, The eccentric movement of war-th*
written and uublished one or two nomi- sensible weapon with which to do tiiis is which was made. On the next day the .• , ' _, . war tke
lar books. This gave him a standing as the P cn * Pistols won’t demonstrate this J‘ ,un g le ft the city, a little wiser £, , on
an author. Take him all i„ all, he was a . Only the pen can do it. So when he came. Blake and Ins see- J veri the first Between de
rival to be feared, and Redmond was not the pen is chosen. In the (inzette f ., c 0 ® . ma c^ • struction and the wasteful consurnntiou
long in making the discovery. What of ‘o-morrow morning, my friend stands I c J>Mce f n.ndi» were Jct mto these- of the soldi poverty pervade he
was to be done 7 A militarv man must ready to prove your friend to be no gen- c / et > wb ich afforded many a hearty laugh , , rr i p vad ff 1 “®
„o. W beaien off • "i, n stand on the defenio, Anton- , „»e friends was Mary Clinton ht i a daii,“
Ti, rival must be gotten off in some pbap, goaded
Keelte P n:“oM.“ »i, h „„t p whom. A ; [or Lientonant. bo swears that
must be challenged and killed off; and so .® v ® r he pleases. Depend upon it, you he wouM as leaf come in contact with igh aßtg 0R th P sol( [- P ,
; then the coast would be clear will find tins quite as serious an affair as a * a 'xban gun as an author with his ‘in- f ., . , . ' bo
i h A few days IfICT tMs bravo and ho„. .£> “*•**"* (S 3
.orable deternnnatton. the officer met the “ [^ ld not comc hete . slr ' t obo ,r ‘W bu , ho can ’ t jtaU up when “ pcnTo*” classes are dispersed ; the dis.
author m a public place, and purposely with. ; tJ , f J d , , cipline of the family circle is removed;
! i‘ )Stled him rudel y- B!a ke said noting, “No trifling in the matter at all— W J;, be d 0 \ aain ; t ' ° dds a habit of living in the day for the day
thinking it possible that it might have l am in s °bor earnest. Pens are the ° * —of drowning the thoughts of the mor
been only an accident. But he remain- weapons. The Gazette the battle Wai. row in transient and illicit pleasure is
ed near Redmond, to give him a chance ground. Time early as you please to- Nobody sees a battle. The common engendered. The waste and desolation
to repeat the insult, if such had been his morrow morning. Are you prepared for soldier fires away amidst a smoke-mist, which a battle spreads over the battle
intention. It was not long before the *he meeting ? or h urr fe s on t 0 the charge in a crowd fi e D> is as nothing when compared with
author was again jostled in a still ruder “No.” which hides every thing from him. The th c moral desolation which war diffuses
manner than before, at the same time “L° you understand the consequen- officer is too anxious about the perform- through all ranks of society, in the coun
that some offensive word was muttered ces?” , ance 0 p wbat be ; s especially charged try which is the scene of war.— London
by the officer. This was in the pres- “ What consequences ?” with to mind what others are doing. Spectator.
ence of persons, who could not help “Your principal will be posted as a The commander cannot be present ev- ...... ■
hearing, seeing, and understanding all. coward before night. ery where, and see every wood, water Rhubarb burnt in an iron pot, is rec-
Satisfied that an insult was intended, “Are you mad?” course and ravine, in which his orders commended as an unfeiling remedy for
Blake looked him in the face for a mo- “No. Cool and in earnest. We ful- are carried into execution; he learns diarrhea. A dose of from sto 10 grains
ment, and then asked, loud enough to be *y understand’what we are about.” from reports how the work goes on. It given in milk, is the proper quantity.—
heard all round— The officer’s second was non plussed. is well; for a battle is one of those jobs The drug loses two-thirds of its weight if
“ Did you jostle me intentionally?” He did not know what to say or think, which men do without daring to look sufficiently burnt,and is entirely tasteless.
AUGUSTA, GA. OCTOBER 19, 1844.
WASHIXGTOXIAIY
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our mutual benefit, and to guard against
a pernicious practice, which is injurious
to our health, standing and families, do
pledge ourselves as Gentlemen, not to
drink any Spirituous or Alalt Liquors,
If inc or Cider.
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