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MVKMAt.T. OF Tin: SUN AM) MOOX.
h;-:;i:til'i;l allegorical description, which
,!i whs ii'Uii'.iur.ii'ated for the Kegister at
'v Miai'i f the h;st annu.'cir Eclipse, by the late
II. S. Kil. iiuMjd, tiien of I IiU.boro a ;eutlc
.. :) , iKi i ic l t. drills a;id line poetical tai-te.
had :i greater run than we have ever
. ..vwitjai before, having been copied into nearly
i , j ;;k r i;i the union. A mend lias written
A friend has written
.:, i:s re-publication, and it well merits it.
i;'v kn v.v that a Wedding' has happened on
And vii were the parties united?
Tv... ;!:' Sua urn! the .Moon! in the halls of the
Tlu v w . re j'.iii:d; and cur continent witnessed
t:.' tu-;
Xu'.ji.;iin rit else was invited!
Th ."ir eourtshb was tedious, for seldom they
met
TrVsi-tete, whilst lonjr centuries irlidrd;
Da the wuruitii of his love bhe could hardly fr-
t-
I'cr, tli i4'i distant afar, he would smile cn her
Save when Karth the fond couple divided.
I'm why so prolix was the courtship and why
S. li iir wjj pos'poned their connexion?
Tlu'iit.e iiriuegroum was anxious 'twere vain to
ilciiv,
ii. v t!i heat of his passion pervaded the sky;
Li;! ihe bride was renowned f. r rtllteiiou.
r.;iiUs, 'lis reported their friends were ail
v. v d;
Tin1 ni.i'A-h was deemed, somehow unequal;
A.-... uiu hid to the wedding, each made some
lit i. u
Tj iln-liu:, lill the lovers, worn out and per
plexed, Vvcre coiiiptlled to elope, ia the sequel.
and Jujiter never such business could
ln-:.r,
;L y !iaun;htily kept themselves from it;
ii rsehi-il dwelt at such distance he could not be
then;
Van e:it, with reluctance, his Mug to the
fur,
i'y the 1; 'u.Js of a trust-worthy cometi
'y ciie dim, pale planet, of planets the least,
Condescended these nuptials to honor;
Aii ! t!;at v.'emod like skulking away to the
"if I'lS-ifrt it was Mercury, acting as priest;
rue Venus, a peeping; sharne on her!
hir'.liin silence rejoiced, as the bridegroom and
bride
1-Hin-ir mutual embraces would linger;
alst clieering through regions of light at his
sid.-, '
i'-' displayed the bright King, vot "a world too
wide'
1 a a conjugal pledge, on her finger.
" ":eforth shall these Orbs, to all husbands and
wives,
''lino as patterns of duty respected;
A., her splendour aud glory from him she Je
rives, And she shows to the world, tiiat the kindness he
1' futi.fidly prized and reflected.
lii'.Kborough, Feb. 13, 1631. X.
From (he Iiahigh Star.
CULTURE OF THE MULBERRY
TREE.
Wc are gratified to perceive that those
uho have taken the lead in this business,
are beginning to reap a rich reward for
l;,eir enterprise and industry. In some of
J!e Northern Slates the experiment has
ten made, and the result proves satisfac
!)ll!y that the silk culture in this country
jsnot only practicable, but may become
'j'pMy profitable; and many are turning
l"r attention to it. This has caused a
freal de,nal fur the Mulberry Tree.
Heavy orders from the North have been
Reived in this State. The Editor of this
Paper is authorised to contract for twenty
QT iljirly thousand for a gentleman in Phi
aaelpliia. Sales of the Morus Multicau-
to the amount of several hundred thou
i dollars, have been made in Philadel-
t me present season. The produce of
"vmem ol 400 dollars, made by a
Cm" 'm Monmoulh N- J-,asl sPrig.
ao'11 $3,000, after retaining stock
v. " --" .?v . i 3
1)0
enough (or the next eaSo. Ano l.cr,,,,,
an investment of $109 05, mtide at the
jame n.ne, rectived 3,000. I'riuce h
Lovegood, of Flushing, Long Island,
lave realized from their sales the present
year, a clear profit of $25,000; and three
J'oung ladies, sUiers, in the same town
l"p, have made $3,000 on silk manufuc
t"ed within their own domicil, from
worms raistd by their own care. Will not
this st.rn.ihae the luu daughters of North
Carolina?
The Portsmouth Times states that lovv
V irgmia is up with the foremost in the cul
ture of the Mulberry, but th.a one tenth
oi the demand for cuttings, in that neigh
borhood, cannot be supplied. Some of
he patriotic and enterprising citizens of
die eastern section of North Carolina, it
gives us pleasure to state, have likewise
embarked with praiseworthy spirit and ac
tivity in this i.ew enterprise.
We invite attention to the following ex
tract from a letter written bv the Kev.
Sidney WeMcr to the Cditor, thted Sept.;
14, 1S33. This gentleman is extensively
t agagtd in the culture of th- Mulberi v;
and his experience an this subject, entitles
his opinions to consideration.
Urinkleysvilte, lltlfxx co , Ar. C.
September M, IS38.
u aflords me I trust as much pleisun
to reflect that I have contributed my mitt
to foster and promote a great State am.
National branch of new enterprise am!
source of iudustrv aud m -'ih n i? il;..i
Lr i i i "
i ui me vciy ii.iuobuine pecuniary emoiu
ment 1 have realized. Would to heaven
our State Legislature would open their
eyes this inter to the importance f giv
iug a speedy impulse to the silk culture in
our State, by an act to offer Stale premi
ums, as some Noithern States have done.
I should regret that the Northern Slates
should far outstrip the Southern, or our
State in particular; which I am confident is
as well (if not better) fitted by climnte and
soil for silk culture as any Stale in the
Union, not to say any part of the world.
"The Multicaulis, (now conceded by all
competent to judge) the best kind of Mul
berry in our country for silk culture, grows
much more luxuriantly (as I have proved)
in our Slate than at the North; ami grown
with us is found better for propagation; as
gentlemen in Virginia who purchased from
me, and at the Northern nurseries, have
fully proved.
"A gentleman from Philadelphia, who
engaged most uf my stock lately, assured
me be could have procured cheaper at the
North; but from tiiai of some he pure has
ed from me last year, be considered mine
better for propagation. Prom inspection
d' the various establishments in our cr.un
trv, the same gentleman said he bad seen
no trees as larc as my original ones; or,
in puriscular be said, trees of mine were
(i ice as large as the original one at Haiti
more, first brought into our country, from
which mine bad sprung. If our legisla
ture should appreciate the great advan
tage to our Slate of pulling her "ahead"
in the silk culture, we may confidently an
licipate that in a few years only, this cul
lure will take the place of cotton now
scarcely paying cost of raising."
Cherokee Emigration. The Nashville
Whig states that there is no doubt that the
contract with Iloss for the removal of the
Indians will be carried into complete ope
ration, notwithstanding the clamor that
iva raised against it. Two parties ol
about 1,000 have already started under
this contract. ib.
Land Sliding in Vicksburg. The
Natcluz Free Trader of the 25th inst.
(says the New Orleans Commercial Bul
letin,) describes the beginning of an ava
lanche or sinking of the earth on the mar
gin of the landing at Vicksburg, which
threatens serious damage to the front street
of that city. Deep rents in the earth, pa
rallel to the river, were found to have been
made as high up as Washington street,
nearly opposite to the site of the late Pinc-
kard Hotel, commencing near the bottom!
of Maine street, and running southwardly
as far as the railway.
The large warehouse owned by Messrs.
Corfrew &i Watts at the upper part of the
levee, near the bottom of Main St., began
to give way, and in the course of a day or
two, became a ruin, allowing time for the
occupants to remove goods, he. This
house was once. owned by Judge Lane,
aud rented for .$12,000 per annum; at the
present time, it rented for about $S,000,
to several occupants, whose business and
goods must of necessity be much injured
by such a speedy removal. Several other
houses are swerving from their perpendicu
lar. The beautiful new house, commenc
ed by McDowell, nearly opposite the late
Pinckard House, has been badly cracked
by the sinking of the foundation.
Tavh
rough, (Edgecombe County, JS c.J Saturday, October 20,
lie uri movement of the citizens of
he flourishing city of Vicksburg, should
be to procure a practical geologist to as
certain the true state of the case, both the
danger threatened, as well as the injury al
ready done.
Horrid Murder in IVatjUnd, Masmchn
setts. A man named M.itthew Smith, who
had for some time lived separate from his
"if", by whom he had seven children,
broke into her residence at Way land, Fri
day night, stabbed iter several times in the
neck, and threw her on a bed where she
died. He then repaired to a field and cut
his own throat, but has since recovered
aud confessed his crime.
Another. Peter Bond, at Reislertown,
Baltimore county, Md. on Saturday 22d,
murdered, in a shocking unnuer, his wife,
an industrious woman who had bad eleven
children by him. lie cut into her head
with an axe in several places, deeply pe
netrating the brain.
ff?A woman in Vermont has been
found guilty on a charge of being a com
mon scold. The editors of the Vermont
papers add that "the jury was composed
of married men." We do not know what
is the inference to be drawn from that cir
cumstance, but we should suppose that the
j;ry ought to be considered judges.
A "Fatal Ilvncontre." In Cincinnati
on the 1 8th instant, a row commenced with
i fight between Charles ami William Hen
na, cousins, and the latter being worsted,
Hugh, his brother, look up the matter,
and, in the contest which ensued, was
knocked dow n, his uei k broken by the fall
or blow, so that he expired in a short
lime. Charles and Wiiliam were both
committed.
Progress of the Jirts. 1 83 1, a Steam
Press was manufactured in England,
whick struck ofl one thousand printed
sheets in an hour. This was thought at
that time, to be the perfection of the art,
and was so announced. But we recently
saw a Press at work in the Oflice of the
National Intelligencer, which struck ofl"
'2500 sheets within the hour; and a late
New York Courier and Enquirer, states
that that paper is printed on a Press which
strikes oil six thousand sheets an hour.
The press is capable of working seven
thousand an hour. It requires the atten
dance of ten persons, and is the fastest
printing press in the world. This would
really seem the "perfection of the art,"
when ii is stated that, with the Presses now
in common use in country Offices, 250
sheets, one hour with another, is consid
ered good work.
Sub-J!arine Armor. This is no hoax,
bit a teal, new and imported invention!
In a brief notice of it, a short time ago,
we ascribed it to the ingenuity of the "uni
versal Yankee nation," but we were mis
taken as to its origin; and we thank our
esteemed friends of the New hern Specta
tor for correcting the error. They state
that "the invention is of English origin,
and the person who has brought it into no
tice in New Yoik is Capt. Wm. Taylor,
a native of Newbern." Capt. T. now re
sides in the city of New York, where he
has formed a company, called the "Sub
Marine Armor Company,'" which has been
incorporated by the Legislature of the
Slate of New York, with a capital of $200,
000. North Carolina has produced many
men of genius and enterprize, who have
been driven, by the waul of public spirit
at home, to seek their fortunes in distant
ands, where they have received due en
couragement, and arisen to eminence and
usefulness. How long will our good old
mother lay this necessity upon her sons?
How long will she wear the poppy upon
her brow? How long will she yield her
energies to its deadening influence? Our
love for our native Slate will excuse this
digression. We want to see her up and
doing; we want to see her territory im
proved, her resources developed, her
means husbanded, her industrious citizens
rewarded, and her talented sons promoted.
We are indebted to the politeness of a
member of this company for a neat pam
phlet copy of their charter, to which are
subjoined several editorial notices of the
apparatus; from which we gather the fol
lowing interesting particulars :
The Sub-marine Armor is a hollow fig
ure resembling the human body and limbs,
but of much greater breadth, composed of
webbing, coated w ill) gum ealstic, stretch
ed over iron rings and plates. A kind of
lantern, with a thick semi-cylinder of
glass in front, serves for the head. The
sub-marine workman gets into this figure,
and is made to sink in the water by the
help of weights, where he may traverse
the dominion of old Neptune
1838
"Upon tbe ooze and bottom of thedsep,
-Mid sunken wrecks and sunless treasures."
tie is supplied with air for the purpose of
respiraiion by a long flexible tube coated
with India rubber, which entets the ma
-hmeiu which he is enclosed. Into this
tube fresh air is forced from time to time
by the help of a bellows with a valve, and
alter fbeiog breathed, it escapes through
ihe water by a tube in the lower part "ul
thefigiiie. A man can imve about in it
under water with almost as much facility
as he could on dry land, and remain there
for almost an indefinite period. The use
and design of this armor, it will readily be
perceived, is to gather treasures from the
"vasty deep;" and, verily, old ocean will
now have to give up
'.Many a gem of purest ray serene"
that has been hid for ages upon ages in her
"dark, nnfiihomed caves:" For its vir
tues have already been sufficiently tested.
The wreck of the Bristol has been visited
by men in this armor, and some thousands
of dollars in value rescued from it.
Among tise articles recovered, were thirty
tons of rail road iron, and five tons of cast
steel. This armor may not only be used
in recovering from the ocean lost treasures,
but it will be of incalculable advantage in
the pearl fishery, and in the surveys, ex
aminatiuns and improvements in the chan
nels of rivers, harbors, he. The com
pany, we are . glad to learn, are going
ahead bravely. They would do well to
send an expedition to the coast of North
Carolina. Millions of dollars lie buried
in the caverns of the ocean w hich washes
our shores. Raleirh Mic.
Destruction of the Natives. The Rev.
Artem is Bishop, a missionary, says in the
Hawaiian Spectator, printed at the Sand
wich Islands, that in 50 years in conse
quence of the destructive t fleets of while
intercourse and civihz ilion, tvery vestige
of aboriginal blood will have been extin
guished in that groupo. A pretty candid
confession! So much for the tender dis
interested caresses of those w ho would en
graft calvinistic metaphysics upon the rude
untutored mind of the savage, that withers
at the touch of these dark abstractions, and
finally falls a victim to the intemperate use
of liquors and other vices of w hiles intro
duced by whale and other ships touching
at that groupe. At present, the havoc has
been so great that not more than one in
four of the families now existing, have
children of their own alive.
The Editor defies the missionaries to
show that their conduct has not been most
disastrous to the Islanders. He will go
any where to argue the point, either to the
snow capp'd "summit of Mauna Loa, or
to the volcanic crater of Hawaii."
AV Y. S:ar.
Pem... Accounts from Valparaiso to June
30th, state that the cxpediton of 5000 men
against Peru had embarked, and were to
sail forCallaoin a few days. The career
then of Santa Cruz must by this time have
come to a close, ss the Buenos Ayrcans,
our accounts from this side state, were
inarching in triumph through Bolivia and
towards Lima. ib.
Slander.--The New Hampshire States
man says that a case was tried last week
in that town of considerable interest. Col.
Knox of Pembroke, uttered discreditable
words against the character of his brother's
wife; on account of which he was prosecu
ted, convicted, and fined 51000; with costs
of suit. ib.
Great Suit. The heirs of Duremsi and
others have brought suit against the first
Municipality of New-Orleans, for restitu
tion of property between Ursuline and Es
planade, Levee and Rampart streets, and
$"500,000 damages. Value of property
claimed, 4,000,000.
Frightful Affair. Last evening about
dark, as the brigades were returning fiom
Harlem to this city along the Third avenue,
the third regiment being in advance, they
were met by a cartman named Michael
Healey, half drunk, driving a very spirited
horse in a cart; when first seen, at a gentle
pace. When, however, within a few rods
of the troops, he took one of the "rungs"
out of the cart and lashed the horse so vio
lently that the animal maddened with pain
rushed into the midst of thed regiment,
through the whole line knocking down
some forty or fifty men, more or less, bruis
ing and wounding a majority of them.
On went the horse and Healey holding the
reins, and, as it is said, maliciously guiding
it through the midst of the troops. After
dashing through the third regiment, they
next came on to the ninth, where more men
were knocked down & bruised. One of the
dragoons was knocked off his horse, and
received so bad a hurt that it is thought his
life is in danger. By thisTime the excite
ment was tremendous, overwhelming, a-
Vol XIV Yo. 42.
mounting to madness all subordination
was at an end. Vain was it for the officers
to call upon the men to maintain their dis
cipline they rushed upon the miserable
cartman in such confusion, and so com
pletely o'cr-muslerod by passion, that they
cut and thrust at each other, whereby sev
eral of them were severely injured. It
was reported that two men were thus kill
ed and many others dangerously wounded.
At this lime Charles II. Ilale,at the risk of
his life, rushed into the midst of this fright
ful melee ami rescued the cartman with
scarcely a spark of life remaining, he hav
ing been cut and slashed most horribly.
Officers Rose and Jones happening to be on
the spot, the poor wretch was given into
their custody, and by them conveyed to
the upper police, where his wounds wero
immediately dressed. He received one
sabre wound on the head that is considered
dangerous. By the last accounts, how
ever, he was still alive.
New York Times.
Shocking. A Colonel Zane of Phila
delphia, has been committed to prison for
attempting to shoot his son! There was
no dispute or altercation between them at
the time but Colonel Zane being under
the influence of intoxicating drink, pro
cured his double barrelled gun for the pur
pose of shooting his daughter. His bon
hearing his sister's screams hastened to her
assistance and was fired at by his father,
and wounded in the arm. He then dis
charged the second barrel, as his son was
crossing the entry, some of the wadding
of which entered his shoulder.
Durham Cattle. There have been two
extensive sales of these valuable animals
recently in the neighborhood of Lexington,
Kentucky, by Messrs. JNIaslin and Sam
uel Smith. The prices at which the stock
was struck off shows that the demand is
greatly on the increase.
The Lexington Intelligencer says As
examples of the estimation in which the
Durham cattle are held, we will mention
that at the sale of Mr. Samuel Smith, a cow
and sucking calf sold for 2100. Another
at 81350; others S1200, Sl000,&c. The
whole stock of Samuel Smith for between
520,000 and 30,000.
(jplt was staled in the New-York Ex
press that the King of the French had put
forth an ordinance, prohibiting the expor
tation of hiead stuffs from France. The
Journal of Commerce of Saturday says, that
the decree alluded to, relates to the borders
of Spain, and its design is only to prevent
the feeding of Don Carlos. The decree is
political entirely, and not founded on any
apprehension about the crops in France.
To preserve Cabbage from JVorms.
A gentleman from North Carolina, who
came to this state last fall, and who saw
the cabbage in every part of the State
tvhere he has been, almost entirely destroj'
ed by worms, has furnished us the follow
ing remedy against these destroying in
sects, which he says, he has fully tested,
and finds never to fail: So soon as the
worms begin to make their appearance,
which you will see by the holes in the
leaves about the heart, take powdered sul
phur, and but it in a gauze bag, and go late
of an evening or early of a morning, before
the dew dries, and shake ibis bag of sulphur
over every cabbage. This will drive the
worms away or entirely destroy them.
Perhaps you will have to perform this ope
ration a second time. This remedy is
simple, try it and you will have good cab
bage. Jamestown Adv.
Cheerfulness in Wives. Boz well re
marks that a cheerful woman may be of
great assistance to her husband in business,
by wearing a cheerful smile continually
upon her countenance. A man's perplexi
ties and gloominess are increased a hun
dred fold when his better half moves about
with a continual scowl upon her brow. A
pleasant, cheerful wife is a rainbow set in
the sky when her husband's mind is tossed
with storms and tempests; but a dissatisfied
and fretful wife in the hour of trouble is
like one of those fiends who delight to tor
ture lost spirits.
Weight of the Human Body. M.
Chaussie dried a human body in an oven,
the original weight of which was 120lbs;
when dry, it was reduced to 12lbs.
Hence the solid matter of the body was
water, as one to nine or one-tenth. From
this it will be seen how great a proportion
the fluids of the body bear to the solids.
Colic in Horses. Horses that are afflic
ted with colic may be speedily relieved by
drenching them with about a quart of com
mon salt and water, made as strong of salt,
as possible. It will also afford relief in cases
of the bolts, and the symptoms of the two
diseases are often so similar that it is not
easy to distinguish them. It is always sa
fest to avoid the administration of medi
cincs, the qualities and powers of which we
ate ignorant. Farmer's Cabinet