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i. K. IIAVEUA C- B. PROPRIETORS AND -PUBLISHERS. VOL -1- tfiiMi s: , - - , . " - T- tfc I hc Patkiot is published weekly, at two dob Uip per annum, only, if paid -within three mouths ; if not paid in that time, three dol lars. subscfUwr wiU.be, receifc4 for a shorter ifriodthan six months ; ariMrdcrs for the paper must be accompanied vithhe cash when beyond tne state. failure to order a discontinuance within the year, win oe consiuereu a new ciigagcmcnii and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Uvertisrmrnta, not exceeding eighteen lines t printed matier, will bjCvfieat!y inserted three Umes for one dollar; and twenty five cents for each succeeding publication those of greater length in the same proportion. ' RURAL ECONOMY. F10M..THK HORFJLK HERALD. ' EXitUCT, From an Essay on Agriculture. Although other avocitioos may offer (he greatest prizes in the 'lottery of life' yet it we compare the advantages of ru ral industry with those of any other of the common" occupations to which men devote themselves, we fh;ill find that he who is engaged in Agriculture, has no reason to be dissatisfied with the lot which fortune-has assigned him. Its superiority in point of saluonty over any sedentary employment i& too apparent to require , illustration- ana v, 'affords more of those common enjoyments .which constitute nvirti rf Iho tmifj rtf hnnntnpsa than "pny other state Ot equal mediocrity. The farm yard th& orchard, and the dair, sup ply almost without expense, .abundant -.jnean3fQr;.lhQie--qualilication.a....us.uallj. termed the comforts of , life '.besides many Juories. humble fortune, fr ew persons are indeed insensible to the difference of mere ani mal existence as enjoyed by the farmer who passes his days m the heatbful la bours cf the field, and that of lb"? me chanic or the shopkeeper who wears a wiy his life at the bench or the counter. But it is oot in these alone that the ad vantages consist -of all the. feeling which we cherish, none h dearer than the con sciousness -;of tndepft4ncp,-and-4hw uo man who earns his bread by the favour of the public, can be said to enjoy to an equal decree with the farmcr. Traders as well as those termed professional men, are rivals, jealous of each other s success and let this be what it may, they 8till owe adeferrence to the world which is often galling to their spirits ; but the 4ftrmer fears no competition ; individually, he has nothing to aprehend from the success of hn neighbour ; he solicits no preference, . and be owes nalhatiks for the purchase oi his produce. (lis business though snojeci to more casualties than almost any other, is yet so divided among many riski, that he is rarely exposed to the haz- zard of total failure; the same weather which often injures one cr p improves an other andLthe very difficulties of a critical feason, opens a field of exertion, by which lie is often gainer. Possessing on hi farm .aJJ the means of. life, he is under no cor-, roding anxiety re;aniii his daily subsis tence. Me is removed from those collis ions of interest, and strules for prece dence, which rouse the worst passions of the heart; and .his constant observations of the beneficent dispensatory of nature, for the care of all her creatures, can hard ly fail to impress him with a deep sense of tha religion of the heart which cou sistg in the conviction of, and reliance up ". the care of an all ruling and all "boun ti'ul piovidcncc. And to borrow the s'Vntinent of a distinguished French No '! nun, 'I could wish to inspire all the wrlj with a taste for Agriculture: it ins to me impossible how a bad man "houl J possess it ; there is no virtue I do ;iot attribute to liim, wlio loves to talk of ;3r i ing and to conduct it. Absorbed in 'Ins passion, which is the only one that increases with age. he daily overcomes those which derange tin--calmness of the ''tl, or the order of Society, when he r-scd the limits of the city, (ihe seat of wonl and physical cormprton) to go and w"rk on his land-, or to enjoy them, his h'-'rt rejoices at the siaht of nature, and experiences the same sensation on his I ' on receiving the pure air that re Irhes them, . Noihing tends mrre to enlarge the mind, anl extend the eplrere of our rational pif-wires", than the conternplaMon of the 'i Uuse has placed above coiu-iderationi V EVANS, " TO - : ro.f pecuniary advantages, but who pet a, dufKvahic on intellectual enjoyments, the itudy)f Agriculture olfers an "inexhauati-; ble tuiiitf amusement, aawell us iintruc-i tion. ThtJNsame ohiect seen under dif- i ferent aspect3vpresents an infinite variety of feature andhe most Blender stock of appropriate knowledge, if aided by habits ol observation k research.may be eminent- ly useful m ascertaining facts hitherto tin- kr,own or unrecorded, and in thus illustra ting agriculture which howeveeedulous- ly it has been explored, still opensva wide field for inquiry, while even if not form- nate in the attainment 6f any material benefit, the mere occupation of the mind 10 tracing the origin and progress of any novel improvement, will be found nroduc- lima nf iAiit-... ar j 1 1 fli I i.ln Aj tha l.Vl. VI .111, U I . J . lil.itll.Uriit J13 l ItilllS 'iJ , III', l.'i.-i " - soil, however rich, says Senca, cannot be only ia hishart but with ?iis lip', 'there productive without culture, so the mind is no (.,!,' controls In n not, for ha sees without cultivation cannot produce good ih h wid of a creating (iod and reveres it, fruit. AuaK.OL.A. from th.uhm.iu' RKcUTtR. SURFACE MANURING. Until very lately, the opinion was erv general, if not universal, that fermented manures should be turned under with the plough as soon as put on the land; and that nthprwup Ihpir vnhiH wniild ho murb impaired, if not totally lost by evaporation. raHC ,hy ta"d " d d nvrve thyself lor l'hu was thought especially necessary, if Soodncss. Il God ha? given thee mtellec the manure used was rough or half rotteU ,Uh1 Pvvr, awaken it in that cause : nrv I have thought much on this subject, er let it be aa.d of thee, he helped to swell and for the last twenty years marked ihe the ti le of em, by pouring hi mtluence pfl'.-rt nf manitrp in all it rannin mnAoa HtO its chiniieK II tllOU art feeble ill of application, both on rny own farm and on my neighbors' and now propose to ine Pol,,Jiea '-"rTeui. -wiKr, mc, give you the result my inquiries, leaving it yuns' m i" ! u ,? esy fra'f'illy to sin to persons more learned than myself to K" difiicult to be pure and holy. I ut reconcile these results to the "princifler6" 'strength then ! let thy chivalry be of philosophy. Fifteen or twenty, years, aroused against, error let Truih b- the ago I observed an old mau of good practi- lady of thy love, d-f.Mid hT.S.Rie. cal sense and euccesssful as a farmer cart- - mg manure out in the month of July, on l.VDLIA JiLUQUEACE. rfjeirinfenJed for IriJlati cT)i tf the '6f Nobere-ca-lM-loal : poetic year : this was spread as fast as carted, bought clothed in sure captivating sim aud remained in that situation until spring phcity of expression, thanin the answ-. r following. He justified this practice by a I'ecumseli to Gov. fIarrisoi.,iii the con perfectly unanswerable reason, vz. that terence at Vincennes. It contains a moral experience had taught him, that bottvhis crop and his land were more improved by "'Cf dv an eviaeni con?ciou5ness oi iom the use of his manure in that way, thai "ess aoov thti reach of insult. At the .any other he had tried. The confidence I c,) 'f his address, he found that no had in the integrity and good sense of thi, chair li?d been placed for him; a neglect old gentleman induced me to make rc- which Governor Harrison ordered to 1 peated experiments on this subject j all rtmedied a soou iis.dcoyeredL S i-pect-of which have been decidedly favo, able mg, perhaps, that it was more an atrroni to top dressing, or surface manuring, and than a mi.-take, with an air of dignity el proved to my entire satisfaction, "that'ma- evated almost to haughtiness, he de -ihu il nure, when in contact with the taith, the seat offered with the words 'Vour does not lose its strength by cvapora- fither requests you to take a chair,' ami tion.' This, I was exceedingly loath to be- answered, as he calmly disposed of him heve, and 1 made many tlforts to account self on the ground, 'My father ? The sin. for the fact (for that I could not doubt) " my fither, and the earth is my mother, and at length came to the conclusion I will repose upon her bosom.' that the chemical affinity between the 'Yon have arms.' said a Seminole chief particles of manure aud the earth was too lately to Gen. Chinch, 'and so have we, strong to be overcome by the power of e- vaporation; and that the apparent evapo ration is nothing more than the passing oil of the water which had been contained in the manure. Whether tins is eo or not, I'm sure I do not know. Lut 1 do know, that in the many different expenments I have I made both the land and the crop are more brnffnd hvihft annlvin-r of manure on the r r " -y -i i j o - - - land than by turning it under the' land. 1 hope yt ting farmers who are not yet wed ded to any set of opinions will be induc ed, at.Jtast, to make the expetmicnt Not having fame as as a farmer, to give I weight to my opinions I shall sign niysclf. Akaior. iYoe. The late Mr. Thomas West, brother of Sir Benjamin West, settled on a farm in Ne w Jersey, alter lie had reach ed the age of forty, liis ooject was to m;.ke it a grazing farm. He used no plough whatever, but the hoe and pcythe, to eradicate the briars, weeds, &o. He top dressed his fields, or some ol them ev ery year, and in a few years he had the nche.-t larrn in the whole country a round. See Memoirs Philadelphia agri cultural society. The Tomato. Tin being the season for planting this delicious vegetable, we take the liberty of urging upon our rea ders the advantages ol providing it in the greatest abundance. Besides its pleas antness to the palate of all who ever usr! ed "it, it is universally esteemed a : whole - some article bt diet, as well by ev rv nhvcii-ian no hv PVPrV Othf.r nrr- 3 son whom wc have heard ppeak of truest touches of natural eloquence. He it. It. is affirmed, too, by physicians, ved to a great age ; in his last oration, ihat it possessrs excellent medical prop- n council, he opened wfth the following erties, in ali ilflictions of the liver, parti- sublime andtrautiful seirtarce-r-,Broth-cularly ; and some of them have gone so er I am an aged hemlock. The winds footjo predict tbal.it will eventually su- f n,, hundred years have whistled thro percede4hVu " rnT branches, rn4 I am dead at the top.! Fgyif textile Qbrtrtrr Every reader, who has seen a tail hem- j f" J J I-- GIVE TO AIRY NOTHING A tOt AL. HABITATION tJUEENSJJOROUGH, X. C. WEDNESDAY, 3IAY 18, 1830. : "ggr-g s i: ii &ct . TO YO f7.V G M V. There is no -moral object so beautiful to a conscientiom young man watch him as I do a star in the heavens : clouds may be belore him, but we kno that this light is behind them,& vvill beam again : the blazf of other's prosperitv may outshine htm, but vve know that though unseen, he illumines his own true sphere, lie resists temptation mt without a strug- gTe, for that is not a virtue : but he does resist and coikj ler -, he bears the sircasms o( the pro(;g-tte and it stings him, for that i the tnil of virtue ut he heals the wound with his own pure touch, fie h ?eds not to thewntch-wrd of fashion, .f . I... I, n o.. . lliu Altnl-I S'lV4 IKlI I of a preserving (j d and rejorces in if Wuman is shelttxed by fond arms and vvIil4 co'iu -el old age 5 protected b ex.wneiice and manh.od by it streiili ; hut the y-ing nan stands amid temptations ot lhe world like a s. ll balanced tower ; h-ippy he wno seeks and gam ie prop and shel.er of morality, O.lWarJ, tiicll, CoiiSCl.-n'loiJS youth ! mental strength,: throw not that drop into, rebuke, and a Mrcasn o.h t ned in t u have powder and lead, and so have we, your men will fight, and so will ours till Ihe last drop of the Seminole blood has moistened their hunting ground. This needs no comment, lutrepidity is its character. Turn to Red J tcket's graphic descrip- "on oi me irauu wmcn nas punoinea their territory, and shame mingles some- vhat with o.ur pitv. 'Brothers, at the .. treaties held for the purchase of our lands, the white men, with sweet voices and smiling faces, "told us, th-it they ould not cheat us, but that the lClhg's children on the f:her side of tlie lake would cheat us. When w go on the other side of the lake the King's children tell us your P ople will cheat us. These things puz zle bur heads, and we believe that the Indians must take care of themselves, and not trust either in your people or in the king's children. fJrothers,our seals were once large, and yours veiy small. You have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets.' True1, and soon heir graves vvill be all they shall retain of their once ample hunting grounds. Their strength is wasted, their countless warri ors dead, their forests laid low, and their burial places upturn'd by the plough share. There was a time when the war cry of a Powhattan, a Delaware, or an Abenabnis, struck terror to the heart of a pale-face, but now the Seminole is trr his last battle-song. Some of the speeches of Shenandoah, celebrated Oneida chief, contain the AND A NAME. '. , S .... , . y : - lock, with a dry and leafless top sur mounting its dark green foliage, will feel the force of the similie, M arm dead at the top.' His memory, aod all the vigorous powers of youth, had departed forever. Not less felicitous was the. close of a speech made by Pushmataha, a venerabh chief of a western tnb.-, at a council heid. we ; believe, in Washington, many years since In alluding to his extreme age, and to the probability that he might not ev . ii survive the j jurney back to his tribe, he said : .My children will walk through ine forests, 6i the Great Spirit will whis per in the tree-tops, and the flowers will spring up in the trials hut Pushmataha will hear not he will set the flowers no more. He will be gone, (lis people know that he is dead. The news will come to their ears, as the sound of tht t ill of a mighty oak in the stillness of the vVoods." Knickerbocker. CRUELTY A V Tit, C.I (.l.QWS. A disposition hefj'ienily inanite-ted by children, especially boys, is cruelty to an imals. Nothing seems in ;ilf rd them so much pleasure as to destroy life to kill. They love to witness the blood work of the butcher. Like eagh'S. where thi; carca--is, they are sure to be Lathered togelh- , , , .- , ) i:r. vSjiiic children form such habus i ..... . ' . criK y, hat they destroy every insect an. .,' ., . . J . r ptiie within their reach, however harm j irt as naturally as they broath V u may sometimes cc them for hours to 'ther waging a war of extermination a the fl.e, upon the window, or the v.tnous pretty insects tni nil Ironi 11 we 10 flower by the way side, or amusin;. 'hemselves with the poor creature's smug gles to escape, after they have been 'Cruel ty robbed of all their limbs. An unoffen ding frog cannot raise its head above the surface of the pool, pear where a cruel boy is passing, but it is sure to be broken wohu pebble, or a stick.. The, . hajjkf, of the stream near a country school house, ou may see strewed with lifeless tad poles or liny fish, whose dy ing struggles nave been the sport of the cruel. The parent bird that lays her young in the .leighborhood of such a boy, is sure te nourn their early dpalh. An enemy iore to be dreaded than the savage son ; f the forest, is hunting for her nestlings. The ravenous beast3 of the woods sieze '.heir prey, even though it be the moth er's (lariitig child, to satisfy fhe era vihgs'of ninger ; but these more cruel y ouths,sieze and torture their victims only for sport. S jtne of our young readers may be ica ly to ask 'what is the harm if we do amuse ourselves in this way?' Let these inno cent victims of your cruelty answer; 'VVhat i? sport to you, is death to U3.' But ttiis is not all. This habit of cruelty to brute animals weakens our sympathy to human suffering and wo, it hardens the heart it cherishes the spirit which lead; the hero to pant for the battlefield, and the murderer for his victim. The spirit which leads on to cruelty and bloodshed in each of these cases is in the 6ight of God, the same. It is the spirit of war the spirit of murder. Seldom doe a man imbrue his hands in the blood of a fellow nan, whose sensibilities have not been blunted and whose heart has nt beet: hardened by acts of cruelty, in early life. We have been led into these remarks, by reading the declarations of Prescotf, who in January last at the early age- oi nineteen yeais and a half, expiated hi4 crime, upon the gallows. lie was asked the day before his awful death, if l used to give him delight to kill animals. Oh, y es,' he . replied, ?I liked to kill them. 'Better than any thing else:1 'Yes, 1 think I did,' 'Did you ver wish to kill people if they opposed you or vexed you?' I don't know that I did I used to want to kill the cattle, when they did'nt act to suit me.' Mr. Cochran, with whom he lived and and whose wife he murdered, testified oi trial, that Prescott was. often harsh and cruel to cattle. Youthful reader! whenever you find yourself delighting in cruelty to any of the creatures which God has made, think of Prescott think of the gallows ! Parents! Yours is the responcibility of guarding your children from the formation of habits of cruelty. Let the first ex hibition of this spirit in a' child remind you of Prescott remind you of the gal lows ! ' -' 4- Sufimtition. It were better to have no opin ion oi' God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of hirrr;" for the one is unbelief, the. thief: is contumely ': -nd certainty supersUtion is a reproach to the 'Deity, Bacon.- TWO UoijjXilmADNCE; OR ' THREE DOLLARS AFTER TIISEK MOSTIIS. ; 1SO-7. honor;in;;vvak. The idea-of, honor is BseoeiatedwithJ war. Cull to whom docs the- honor be-, long? If to any, certainly ..not. to the mas of t lie people hutia. those thpjLrA.'l particularly engaged in it. The masa of;. a peoiile, who f-tav at home and hire ojihcrs to fight, who 6leep in iheirvwarnv- r beds arid hire others tr,"sfepp on v the"" cold and damp earth, ait at their well spread board and hire others i to takq he chance. 'of starving, who nutse the slightest hurt in their own bodies arid, hire others to expose themselves to mor t ! wounds, and to linger in comfortless lospitals, certainly this mass reap little lionor from war. The honor belongs to those who immediately "engage in it. -Let me ask, then, what is the 'chief businetis 2 of. war? It is to destroy human life, to gah and hew the body, to. plunge, the -Wi-rd into the hart of a fellow-cieature, ' to strew the earth with bleeding frames, ' slid o trample them under foot with hors- -ei hoofs. It is to batter down and -burii r.iiies,to tutu fruitful Gelds MntodesertSf. ' to level the cnttags of the peasant, and 0 the magnificent abode of opuiencey to courge nations with famine, to multiply v " widows and orphans. Are these honora b'e deeds? Were you called tdrnamc " vnlllfa ttrnrllivr t f rl&minc tvrM.I. ..i. ' . mvii.1 "Villi, VI ui.iiiuir3, , iui lu iuil 1 . ' 1 j " not naturaly select such as these? Grai.t a . .. , 1 . necessity for them may n?t. It is a dreadful necessity, such as a. good man must recoil from with instinctive horror, and thougn it my exempt thenv'-m guilt, -it cannot turn them into glory. We have ' thought that it was honorable, to heal,7to I ave, to mitigate pain, to snatch the sick and sinking from (he jaws of death. VY e have placed among the revered benefac ors of the human race the discoverer of.' rts which alleviate human suflerings, J .vhich prolong comfort, adorn and cheer A human life, and 4f these arts be honor- hie, where is the glory of multiplying md aggravating tortures and death J'? Dr.. Charming ...... -tern- . ' FROM THE KMCKEHBCCKKR. - - THE BETKAYKD. The delightful mode of instruction by parable, has ben successfully employed by Krummacher, by Herder, and by ma ny other writers in Germany. Spectator. Upon a sunny and unfrequented hill ide, grew a solitary rose tree. By it Trble a'mazy pathway among myrtles nd v -violets, which the stranger's footsteps had never pressed. It was in the strength of its maturity, when a single bud had burst from its topmost bough; This bud the summerbeam wooed with daily fidelity, md the bee Uved lo riostle among its pet als. The latk stooped hir airy wing in -passing it by day, and the nightingale sang io it his sweetest serenade, on the nearest bramble by Might. But pi ide entered not the heart of this queen of flowers. It shed a perfume alike on the the flagrant nlossom and the scentless herb. It bow'd over the humble violet, and smiled upon the unpretending modest daisy. Thus the charity and benificence of a lovely female, are diffused alike on the humble md the high, the poor and the rich. The west wind was blithe to blow around it. But it turnedaside from his dalliance, heeding not his whispers, or -His" wooihgs. Ofher flowerets v tistettcd 3 to his lures, and fluttered to hisTnghtj.-" They- were wafted far. from Mte tprotec.. . ting spray, danced in gayety for an hour, - - -then flung, unsheltered, on the cold earth. " Remember, maiden, that the heart of her who heeds the flatterer's breath, shall be thus gaily wafted, wrung, withered, "and tossed aside? Proudly the parent 6tem summoned all " its energies to lift high the head of its; cherished offspring, that it might partake bountifully of the benignant light, and he invigorating air that it might be een aud admired. The rose repaid the rondness with dutiful affection. Often, it morning, did it distil the fragrant tear of gratitude, and at evening, it rested its fair bead on the stem, as a prattler's round cheek reposes on a parent's bosom. The fame of its beauty atti acted a -on of pleasure. It won his admiration. Regardless of the agony of severance, he snapped, it from the stalk. While its beauty lasted, he proudly displayed it to the giddy and the heartless, who eilVlfU pilB pUD&CBSIUM. UUI aidl, llt'll j. j the nourishing stem its form languished -If in one . fleeting day, and its color faded. i Then it was cast, like a loathsome weed, ' , j beneath the feet of . the jooultitude to V -e wither and peresh there: . ' - -k -,f t Licenlious profligate 1. that rose vris ,y g$ my. only beloved Lina 1 I am 'he 6oli-. ji tary, iVrolceny bleeding 6tcm f ' 7 , V . " .'." ' ' - '1 i li 1 4. I if t1 7.1 'it! 1 . 11 It I I i ' 1 1 ii 4,
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