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SKETCHES OF IT-AXT kur PROSE'ANPTEBSE.
; - FMtage of he AIp .'J
Hil, lotely land ! from cliffs where Winter reigns ; .
.' Stern midst hii snows, I seek thy tunny plains,
j :And gazing, breathless with the new delight,
JTar, fr beneath me bend mine eager fight,
To watch jbe radiance of th j beauty break
I Through vapours frowning round each rugged pe-'
i . One spot appears, one Jine cfiendeblue . ,. r"
: 'Are those' the hills I loved, tte Vales I
Eifrom my childhood in the P rain ?
Behind yon beetling crag woit agate i
And Desolation re--'9flier sw"7' "'w
And forms of T'cloM! roand my wa7
q, .? clouds depart ,-yon gorge between
A 0'6r,f bMr clearer 'light is seen, ' -
. Wk!eand more wide its spreading circles swellt
iale tints of saffron glance o'er tower arid" fell,
i And rays of purple mingling with the shade
r Stream o'er the plain and in the horizen fade ;
Her, weary pilgrim, rest thine anxious eve. "' '
' 1 F ba1 f ,and yoa seek ei' there lies Italy,
l i i Ah yet I!linger-Yes, thou Power sublime,
dweUTst ezul ting mid the wreck of Time,
I pause e'en at the portal of thy fame,
A.nd feel that even Beauty woos in vain,
fiVbilst thou,encireied by majestic forms, ' . '
.Stalk'st wildly by, and through the deep-toned storms
idpeak st to tlie elements. Thy word is past !
The icy mountain quivers to the blast,
The overhanging avalanche impends,
It crashes, toppling downward, it descends ; ,
With repercussive echoes, sweeping wide
2 ores, and barolet in iU furious tide ; . i v -
JNpw is broad cataracts of splendour tost,
Now shatter into sparkling gems of frost,
Now tbuodering o'er the precipice's verge
Through the black glen, and bursting into surge,
Dread symbols of omnipotence Divine,
Works of the Eternal Intellect, whose shrine
Is universal Nature, in this hour
Of solitude I feel, I own your power ' i
With keener sense ; ye mountains, tempest-riven,
From peak to base ; ye torrents, madly driven
"With wreck of cragand forest to the night -Of
fathomless gulphs ; ye snowy floods of light,
Kidged like the billow, of, a shoreless main , ; '
Behind the pathway of the hurricane
There is a spirit ia you, which comes o'er
rue mind s lone cdntemplations ; let me pour I - ' V
its leenngm my breast, and as I gaze adore, i '" -, .
Eternity speaks from your heights,, around '
Year icy brows sweeps the a waken &ig sound S 7
That bails us as immortal s Hhis vile earth, i
This body, prison of Qun heavenly birth,
Holds not communion with j 'tis the soul
That, mingles with your terrors, in the roll i t
Of your deep thunders, in the distant voice
Of cataracts, commanding to rejoice
Its heavenl-aspiring faculties. Power, migfal, t " ''
And majesty, the vast, the infinite, ;
Are shadow'd in those giuit forms, and raise i,
To them our aspirations whilst we gaze
Till nil the bitter ills of life, which tear r i
Our mortal part, the stripes of grief which bare
Our bleeding bosoms to the scoffs of those
Whosfe morbid dullness feels not Fancy's woesj ' -
Glance harmless from us; here at length we're free; y
Nature, these mental spectres haunt not thee. '
: The road over Mont Cenis first conducted me into
Italy. What I saw and felt on the occasionsuggested
. .the foregoing lines. I will detail in prose, from the
- memoranda! made on the spot, more accurately the
Drvat.iofisSvhich,oc6urredtome, and the emotions
which I experienced: , j
X-t: April 5. We left the small town of St. Michael
at break of d;iy, and at the firfet post arrived ' at Mo
dene, situated very romantically at the entrance of a
deep defile of precipitous mountains. ' From Modene
'we began perceptibly to ascend, although the com
mencement of the passage of Mont Genis not reck
oned from. this place, but from t'Lans-ie-borirg,' a stage
farther. The scenery, upon our leaving Modene.
Hsjuineu me wuaesi ana most magnincentcharacter;
tile precipices w;ere sudden and deep, the valleys be
low' hollowed out into a variety of savaire forms, and
1 heir natural gloorrt increased by the thick; woods of
pine whkh overhung them ; the, mountains peaked
.and covered with snow, and projecting their bleak
jand barren sides and straight unbroken lines into the
glens beneath. At' Lans-le-bourg we had attained
san elevation above the sea of more .than 4090 feet.
r rom this place the ascent became more rapid : we
j were forced to put on an additional pair of horses to
the carriage, and to take with us some peasants, to
i ssisi m supporting us weignt on tne edgejot the pre
Mj pcipices, which, by the accumulation of mow, were
rendered more than usually dangerous, f We pro
; ceeded on foot, in order to have a more perfect view
'" of the scenery. The road ascended by long traverses,
jx six of wliich, each a mile in lengthVled from Lans-le-ji
j bourg to the highest point of Mont Cenis which it
; was necessary to pass. Our prospect was dreary in
(i the extreme: on every .side - we saw wide-expanded
V ; snows, interrupted only by dark woods of pine, which
;) stretched up the mountains. The snows were in
i 'some parts so deep, that the posts which are placed
f J at the edge of the road to mark: its direction, and
ivhich must be at least sixteen feet high, were almost
covered; The snowy masses impended over our
: heads from the verge of perpendicular cliffs, arid
:. mi ii iciicu ii upciiu ciiiu uverwneim us as we pas-
i . sed: or thp.v had fallpn ar-rr the ro.l l j u ,
sed; or they had fallen across the road, and had
cut through by the workmen constantly employed on
I iuont enis, in order to ariord a: passage. Whe
. ' ther Hannibal passed over Mont Ccnisi or not has
s ; been a subject of debate and inquiry.. It is hnwpvpr
impossible to cross it without perpetually recurring to
. y-Eiio auycuiiuca vi iuc ruuip cmei, ana the admirable
liarrative of his historian. " Ex propinquo visa mon-
tium altitudo, nivesque ccelo prone immixte rw,.
i . lniormia .imposita rupibus, pecora jumentaxjue torrida
J .ffigore," homines intortsi et incultir animalia inanima
! iue omnia rigentia gelu, caetera visu quam dictu fifi-
ihora terrorem renovarunt." The dav was wrv
Xh Colilfand the wind rushing down the deep gorges of
xne mouuTain, ana Dnngmg with it particles of snow,
, beat directly in our faces, and added much to the dif
ficulty of the-ascent We, however, reached the
mghest part)l the road in about two hours and a
half. . i We then traversed, atlrearv olain. comnlptpl v
buried under the snow, from one part of which we
had a fine view of the highest peak of Mont Cenis,
' which, as we. passed, burst for a few moments from
itie clouds that surrounded it, and then retired aain
mto obscurity. , On this plain is situated a convent,
t lhe monks of which are especially charged with the
;" v iuia protection of the .distressed traveller. Near
wbirh nls a lake which I conclude to be the one
ntrabo ices as the sources oi" the rivers
"-' naTrjni auUuri- At a short distance beyond,
,rf dS&'J'caU the Grande Croix, W
v Sra K??. f?r . We placed, cursives
sledge was dmi bv V,?? nd vfr ff KW" Each
Ueticeather-beaC? a
, .descent was so rapid, thatTn one piace me
. frule, and directed the sledU6 l13?
, ol snow, so steep that my own h?.shelvu, bank
. to impel it with considerable velocitv I?3? sufficient
be wilder than the whole scene. thmS could
With .their sledges bounding from rock 0ull,taineers
: ing with their burden down the ridJ6f7' or sh"
snowj the bare broad clifls hunxr wuh iriSealed
lescent was so ranid. twTrcci u -ne Piace tne
- torrent suspended in its course by the frost : uiJS?
; winding above our -heads in short traverW i!?l
which was seen at aldistance the carriage slowly
scendinff: a rude bridcrp. thrown
v mountam-streamj the deep black valley below in
which appeared the small solitary village half buried
beneath the impending rocks; and the vast amphi
theatre of Mont Cenis, with its attendant mountains
closing in every direction-around us, covered with
u snow and veded in clouds altogether formed a scene
ol impressive magnificence, anddesolation. We left
our sledges at a small place called San JVlcolo, and
descended in our, carnage the rptofthe way to
Susa, along an excellent road- We soon perceived
that we were approaching a warmer climate ; the
enow disappeared altogether, from the edgee ofthe
roads, although ' the corresponding elevation
on the ade r oavuy it. was eeverai i uccj,
the air jr much milder, and breathed iipon us the
bflJtuy softness ol Italy. About an hour belore we
reached the foot of the mountain, Susa, was visible,
deeulv Biinlc amiHor oVf(a r,f errant plpvation. -As we
descended, and aa the- mrnintaina bv which we had
been so long surrounded gradually opened, we caught
a glimpse ofthe distant Italian plains aim w ns, seen
through the vista of the termination of he range ot
Cenis.- At one point the view was extremely beau
tiful: vinevarda and majestic woods of chesnut form
ed the fore-oround: the small village of Novalese,
with the spire of its church, appeared a little beyond ;
Susa still farther; and the river Duria, winding
amidst the dark clifis of the Alps, seemed to steal
along with dehghttothepurple hills and green plains
oi ltaiy, wiuvu. wcic teen taiuiiy in me aistance.
From the Literary Gazette.
THE HISTORY OF CliAUDINE MIGNOT,
SURNAMED LA LHAUDA
The hints for the following have been taken from
m. jouys volume ol the Hermit in Provence.
A shepherdess becominfir a mippn is a vprv -nrtir
incident in a fairv-tale: but alas! for the common
places of reahty, these delightlul events are of rare
occurrence, fcuch things, however, have happened,
and as what has been may be asrain. the historv of
i-a inauaa will be nmte a romance ol hone to anv
r t i i .,, . " '
iair snepneraess wno may like to indulge in dreams
of exchanging her crook for a sceptre. Amid 'the
many aamirers ol the rustic beauty, the most favored
was Jamn, who though, like herself, by birth a pea
sant, was, from being.secretary to M. d'Amblerieux.
considerably above her in present station and future
expectation. Claudine had soon penetration enouo-h
to perceive that what he sought in her was a mistress
not a wife. This was a mortifying discovery to one
accustomed to consider ner nand tne highest pledge
of happiness; piqued vanity is a sure guard to wo
man's virtue; and day alter day passed, and Janin
found La Lhauda colder than ever. It was in vain
he told her, Love without kisses was a garden without
nowers; her reply constantly was, "I would imitate
the moon, which receives the light of the sun, yet
ay-Jin uiiu, uiuugn uay anu iiignx ins course is arouna
her." When alone, she soliloquized bitterly on the
hesitation of her lover: "Why does he not marry
me f i am niteen, nay actually near sixteen; must
I wait till I am thirty 1 Sweeping my father's house,
managing the household of others, my companion's
will be all wedded before me. Does Janin think I
cannot get a husband? he shall see he is mistaken."
Janin's jealousy was soon raised ; fear accomplished
what Irjve could not ; and his offer of marriage was
accepted coldly by Claudine, with pleasure by her
father, discontentedly by her mother, who. to the
great displeasure of her husband, has higher views
lor her daughter, and recurs to the nredicrion of a
gipsy, that the child was born to be a nueen. How
ever, the marriage-day is named, when the Secretary
thinks it necessary to introduce his intended bride to
his master, who becomes deeply enamoured of the
beautiful peasant. Janin, under pretence of pressing
business, is sent out of the way, 'and M. d'Amble
rieux, in the presence of her mother, offers La Lhauda
his hand, giving them the next day to reflect on his
proposal. Thievena scarcely waited for his depar
ture to begin expiating on her honors in perspective.
"Ah,my dear Claudine, think of sitting in the old
family pew; of how the curate will present the in
cense to you at high mass; to overhear as you pass,
'That ia "M"orlorr.o A" VA 1 : V.
That is Madame d'Amblerieux who is corrrinrr in
Madame d'Amblerieux who is going out Madame
d'Amblerieux Room for Madame d'Amblerieux
Respects to Madame d'Amblerieux Long live Ma
dame d'Amblerieux!' And what an honour for me
to say, Madame d'Amblerieux, my daugther !" She
was here interrupted by Claudine's remarking on
the age of her present lover ; and while exerting all
her eloquence to remove what seemed so trifling an
ection, in comes Pierro, who, far from entering
t 7 " (.iAUAO A VU1111UL CllC 111 V
seat without ceremony, and who will come and do the
same at mine. I hate your fine, people who eat up
your own wheat, without knowing the cost of its
e-uwuig or reaping; to whom you must always o-ive
the first place and the best bit; and who declares open
war upon you, unless their rabbits are let quietly to
eat up your best cabbages and lettuces. Accustomed
to act the great lady, my child will soon forget all
that, was once her duty and happiness. Lhauda
living, win yet be dead to us. The husband for her,
to please me, will be a mart who works for the bread
hp. pato " TVT liArrU,:-.. . . .
U illuwcucUA was not to be discou
raged by this refusal; making Thievena and Clau
'linp his p.nnfiitaTitoo i'nx,,. v,: ir t
t.- .".uuiio, luuvuuics miiiKeu uiscruised as
x.Uini- uiau iu r-ierro, and under the name of
oecomes; such a lavounte as to be promised
the hand of Lhauda. The discovery is soon made,
and by all married gentlemen the denouement may
.be easily anticipated his wife and M. d'Amblerieux
carry the day. The news soon got spread about ; the
marriage Was wondered at, sneered at, cavilled at,
disputed bout, attacked, defended,, till it came to the
ears of Janin, who had from time to time been de
tained on various pretences at Lyons. The injured
lover arrives at the village the very day of the wed
ding; music, the ringing of bells, sounds bi rejoicincr
fill every place-one and all confirm the tale. The
cottage af Pierro is deserted, and at the Castle he is
icpuibeu asan impostor, assuming a name to which
he has no title. , There is no hatred like the hatred
01 love; with his sling in his hand, the miserable
;am" cuittius concealed m the gardens of the Cha
teau. At length his perfidious mistress, and her still
more perfidious husband, pass by ; a stone is thrown,
wliich glances against a tree: La Lhauda alone per
ceives the hand from which it came. If M. d'Am-
uieneux returned to the Castle infuriated against the
unknown assassin, his bride was no less, though dine-
j "tctcu. x ne cnaracters ot h rst love can never
w 11 cnaceaJ 11Ke the name of Sostratus graved
k Pharos, plaster might for a while conceal it,
but stdl the ongmal traces remained ; and Claudine
had really loved Janin. His letters had all been sup
pressed; accounts of his careless dissipation had been
ovy uuveveu to ner. tfutliere was a fearful
, . uvu7 WVi liUW weu sne naa oeen re
membered! and with woman there is no crime equal
to that of forgetting her; no virtue like that of fideli
ty. Janin continued wandering about till night ; the
sound ol music. had gradually died away; one light
alter another was extinguished, till thp hIp i-
came dark as the starless iheaven that surrounded it.
He was standing on the brink of a precipice iover
iutu a ioaming torrent rushed: it was close bv the
Castle. Should he throw himself from it. hi "VwKr
ituuiu me ucai, morauiff noat ion the stream belore
the window of the brwe. Discharmnp- a nifitnl hp
carried into th0 midst of the accumulated
above, he threw himself into the abyss ot waters. A
terrible avalanche instantly followed : the noise awnlfp
all in the Castle, but to Claudine the report of the
pistol was the most deadly sound f all. It soon fell
out as Pierro had foreseen he was sent to his vine
yard, and his wife to her household; and La Lhau
da's visits to her parents were seldom and secret.
che was soon released from every constraint by the
death of M. d'Amblerieux, who left her all he pos-
T1- Her first use of riches was to secure inde
ment ?C her Parents, and to erect a modest monu
ble, reZf men"ry of Janin. It was of white mar
intoaSftmS a iled' female throwing flowers
-. mpty Her low birth furnished a pro
of Francehp1? Peasants in the South
and of equally fatal ToSSf ' 18 e David of old
text to the relations of M. d'Amblerieux for dianu
ting her marriage and her rights to the succession.
a journey n ucwimc necessary j young and
oeauuiuj, iYAaua.mC u iituuieneux was soon in no
want of powerful protectors. The Marshal de V
HopitaL seventy-five years of R . was nnp nf h
moKt active. His influence was amnlv miffirJpnf to
u ult "1 justice in ner rarour; but he deemed
u necessary to nave a right to interfere. He well
knew the malice and wicked wit of those about the
court; the people might suspect he had his reasons
a connexion might be supposed, and he should be in
despair at hazarding the reputation of one as prudent
as she was fair. These one-word-for-my-neighbour
aim two ior-myseli kind ol fears would have only
appeared ridiculous to Madame d'Amblerieux,' had
not the rank of the Marshal backed his scruples.
Again interest took the place of love in leading her
to the altar. L'Hopital soon followed in the steps of
ins predecessor, and in tne course ot a lew months
La Lhauda was again a youthful and lovely widow.
The exultation of her mother was now beyond all
bounds : " My daughter, Mad.pa Marchale de L'Hop:
ital, was the beginning and entling of almost every
sentence ; and morning, noon, and night, the gipsy's
prophecy was recurred to. But Pierro could not for
get that the elevation of his daughter involved her
ssepamiion jrorn mm. a prince, who had in turn
been jesuit, cardinal, and king, John Casimir the se
cond son of Poland, having abdicated, was then , re
siding in France at the Abbey Saint Germain des
Pres, which Louis the Fourteenth had given him.
This prince, no longer jesuit or king, but the gay and
gallant man of the world, saw the lovely Marechale,
and succeeded in winning her heart and losing his
own. A fortunate but conscientious lover, he mar
ried his mistress privately: The secret was soon be
trayed, and though publicly she had not the title of
uueen, yet every one knew she was wife to the King
of Poland. The tidings reached her native village
her mother died of joy, her faiher of grief; and John
Casimir soon followed, leaving La Lhauda with one
daughter, whom his family' always refused to ac
knowledge. Suchwas.the end of three marriages
contracted and dissolved in the short space of fifteen
years. La Lhauda's good fortune was. not left as a
heritage to her descendants she lived to see them
returning to her own former obscurity. Many an old
man in Grenoble can remember a little Claudine, who
used to solicit public charity with the word, ' Pray
give alms tothe grand-daughter of the King of Poland !'
What a vicissitude, to ' point a moral and adorn a-tale !'
This history is well remembered in the little villao-e of
cacnei near nugiau, where L,a L.hauda was born.
The following translation of an epigram of Philo-
demus, preserved in the Greek Anthology, shows that
in one respect, at least, women have altered very little
in a lapse of 2,000 years.
Wh ile flush'd with wealth, what restless lore possessed you ?
But now you wisely cease to burn, when poor
Hunger your best,indeed, your only cure ;
And that sweet girl of yours, who oft caressed you,
And by each fondest, dearest name address'd you,
Will now with strange, and careless glance enquire,
"Good Sir, your namej whenceare you ? who's your sire ?
There's something foreign in your air, I'm sure."
The world will teach you, if you but attend,
"He who has nothing mut not hope a-friend."
Alt Pacha's Method of improving- his Cooks.
" Pilau, or boiled rice, the usual desert of the Turks,
and over which they pour curdled cream, being now
served up, the Vizier, dippingin his spoon, discovered
two pr three small feathers. He immediately judged
that; his pilau had beeii boiled in the water in which
the .under cooks steep the poultry previously to pluck
ing it. ' At that instant,' says M. Pouqueville, ' I saw
the Satrap turn pale, and immediately symptoms of
alarm and terror seized his attendants.' 1 What is this?
Ah !' His voice was completely altered, when his
ejes accidentally meeting mine, not being able CI
know not xv in ,nnt;nnoi,i0;n' 1)
hurst, into idfirnfi: r"; "c
how I am : r rX J ?
hang up a few of m7 tKS:
their cookery.' 'Oh, indeed it will ifyou knew how
essential it is to good order!' 'For this once I hope
you will pardon them.' 'Yes, but they must eat the
pilau boiled m the dish water, with all the feathers in
n luuUBewasexecuieatotneveiyietter;:
etT' AL'jIS.,??
court yard At this time there were about half a
dozen exhibited there, previously to being sent to
vuiisiuutiuopie." Juye qj All f acha
CURIOUS THEATRICAL NOVELTY.
At Franconi's splendid theatre, which may
be termed the Astley's of Paris, but in much
higher reputation in point of fashion, apiece
of a singular kind is attracting prmrrlo oror,-
night, from the Duches to the Grisette, and
"The Lions of Mysore," and the principal
performers are, a lion, two lionesses, a tiger,
irom tne uount to the lierrottpiir. irianaiioi
u, x.vui uj, u kangaroo, aiaea Dy a chorus ol I
monkeys, apesf mandrills, parrots, and par o- eieniy' .to kl11 the vivisic principle of the egg,
quets, to which two enormous boas constrictores Jre &rain thus impregnated must be secured
act coryphees. These are all real animals of Fom that temperature, necessary to procrea
their full natural size, brought to this astonish- tlon.which nature uncheated, would be sure to
lngaociiuy oy m. Martin, the proprietor ofthe
. - m i . ' .. .
in.uagcji.. xnc ursi. act miorms us that a
r..-i v r 1 1 1 . i. j. . .1
chieftain, overthrown in rebellion, had been
condemned by the Sultan of Mysore to lose his
tongue, and with his wife and children driven
into the terrific forest. Here the whole party
are hospitably received by a lion and lioness,
wno surrender their cave for their accommo
oation, land daily hunt for them. Thev are
attacked by other animals : their magnanimous
hosts beat them off'. , In the second act, the
fcultan is seen hunting through the forest.
every tree of which is alive with some specimen
nupicai amiiiaiion. Hinormous boars are
seen gliding through the trees, and bisons, with
otners, lrom the back ground. A child stravs
.! j t -m - .' -7" I
is pursued by a tiger-the poor infant rushes
down to the circusis followed it taarc:
and falls; the tiger springs upon his prey and
. n- i . 6 rt Prcv anu
compelled, to fly. Other children are convolu-
f..i : u .ii - uuitiioic tuiivuiu
uu DUlls intercepted by the lion and
teu in tne massy lolds of the boas, but their
Drotectors a rrn . n roni;l. U . i -
the third act the unfortiinato .h.jr.i'n
11U
K-An A K X " - 7
M " .rAtu prisoner is compelled to fight with
V nnn n .-. . C5
....jl !.. iiav ii u i
right with
a
r v wt m -.
iuiiuus lioness, wnirn. nttr
struggle, he conquers; and the piece terminate J
-j 1 V i
a
Psnprafp
wun a splendid procession by torch light, in
which the victor and vanquished walk side by
side, the other animals following, not disturbed
by theblaze of the fire-works and the thunder of
the musical instruments. Description can but
- ' A 1 .
rw-v A U i 1 T 1 .
laintiy pourtray the interest excited hv
exhibition, in which the illusion is mnLi
x? J
with a deirree of truth thati -iiiis l.i
1 ' m-' mr vr m. .; T
Dut every nrerantinn hc Koor, " ,
o. ....v . ut.uiuii.JV UcllllTl.l ' I
. i
accidents.,
j . " .tuki uv.Liii L-rL n.r'ii ill vi roir-an
: : .
. Useful Invention.-Thursday evening-much cu-
riosity was excited about 9 o'clock, in th StS k
wh atlemanon horsefrom
whose feet streams of light issued forth, and liowed
the pavement for ivenS TOrHa Kr '
headofhkhbrseascleav":
Proceeded fromj a get .of lamps of his invention, oilrfL tQ tur" in my poultry; but I
which was fixed under hhV;P,. AuJ?"t found that turkfiv to A ,y ' DUl 1
dd daftee tolSa
moon. London paver. s-m
- - .
How to -arrive ai perum. Regularly read the
sporting- Sunday newspaper- visit we fancy houses,
blow your steamer ( 1 ) every night at a lush crib
(2) associate with its frequenters j wear a pocdle
upper Benjamin (3), mother of peirl buttons, and lily
shallow (4), and a bird's eyeiCTehaffattheilfreff
Court, and be present at the mills carefully mix up
all the slang" phrases in your ordinary conversations ;
call a shilling a Bob, a coachman a; Jarvie, your father
or uncle a rum old cove, and if you find yourself at a
loss, take half a dozen lessons from any Vaddington
stage coachman. j
(1.) a pipe. (2.) an ale-house jj to be lushy, is to be
drunk. (3.) a rough white upper coat. (4.) a white
hat: To chaff, or? chaffing, means boisterous dispu
tation. J
HEAVES Olf EARTH.
This world's not " all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given ;'f '
He that hath soothed a widow's wo,
Or1 wiped an orphan's tear, doA know
There's something here of; heaven.
And he that walks life's thorny way,
With feelings calm and even;
Whose path is lit from day to day
By virtue's bright and steady ray ;
Hath something felt of heaven.
He, that the Christian's course has run,
And all his foes forgiven ; :
Who measures out life's, little span,
In love to God, and love to man,
On earth has tasted heaven.
AGRICULTURAL,.
From the Virginia Herald.
Sir : As the time of "harvest is approaching,
I address through your paper, my brother far
mers, on the importance of following wheat
intended for sowing, to be entirely ripe before
reaping. Accident last year and eye sight this
year, have convinced me of the propriety of
this course.
In the year 1829, having selected by hand
some ears of Mexican wheat, and sowed it in
the fall ofthe same year, it was forgotten last
year, untu my little son reminded me that it
ought to be gathered. It was then from seven
to ten days after my other wheat of the same
kind had been cut. This wheat was then gather
ed and deposited in a bag. Last October, this
wheat was seeded on the same day, in the same
manner, and adjoining to other Mexican wheat.
No selection of land was made for it, as no
experiment was intended. It has survived the
fly, and the .last severe winter with little inju
ry, but not more than one-third ofthe adioin-
ing wheat has been jeft alive. From its pre
sent appearance, it will produce, I believe,
two-thirds more than its adjacent neighbor.
Can-the keeping in the baer, be the cause of
mi superiority i- l Deneve not, because in-
: !- Til." . .
several previous years, seed has been keDt bv
me in bags, and no similar result has taken
place ; my inference thence, is, that this dif
ference must be owing to the entire ripeness of
tne seea. onouid any reader of this commu
nication nave doubts on this subject, it would
give me great pleasure to show them the grow
ing wheat, which will convince, I should think
the most sceptical. N.
From my LZ4 years experience as a farmer.
am also satisfied, that the smut is mainly attri
butable to unripe seed wheat. My seed whea
h -m. J , ww . V. V
a WAVc riaort Mnoi irVk 1 1
7. "7". T riai1 "igoors, ana
aurm& .lftat Period' 1 nave never seen but six
smutted heads in my own crops. In a conVer-
. the late Mr. Isaac Williams, he
confarmed my opinion, by stating to me; the
same practice of one of his nearest neighbors,
attended by the most entire success.
In making this communication, the interest
ol wheat-growers is my sole object, and if bv
K crops should I increased, it wuM
tribute to the happiness of your obedient servt.
, THE WEEVIL.
A Correspondent of the Cambridge Chronicle
who appears to have given much attention to
tne study ot the origin and habits of this de
sirucuve insect, nas written a very sensible
essay upon the subject in that paper, from
hTnich the following facts are abstracted :
softI milky state, and then alone, the parent fly
Perfor.stes its upper and lower end, and therein
wucu.uie ffrain is in an urmrtA
f1 v6' uu u, men i. uesirov me
S , T v "cr worus, mat you must ex
ri mm in
ciuae me air lrom vour wheat. A W rwf
readers, we know, are alreadv
and they consequently esteem the existence of
me weevu as a matter of but littl rarr,
J faJ a.s regards themselves, since they have
found it not very difficult to preserve their
wheat unharmed from its ravas-es. Rv fr
greater number of our.farmers. hnwpw
unacquainted with the j nromtinn f
Bc ami me means ot interrupting the course
thereof, have still, year after yearf to witness
and lament the very serious destruction which
. j . 1 i 1 O m v. in-.
it occasions with perfect impunity.
L j j 1K WITH ONE stone was
IIS Mil fl TTIfA nr-n.-.
To
of vore and tn fT achievement in the days
OI ore and induce such domestic animals as
7 g 7 l0r food to assist in our Iabor, is
a case stnrtlv an.l nn i , !.
uZl W5 " aco1n8ciouslr on the curculio which
ls encased m tho AllAn -.,: . u.-i. .i
: r .Ane noS aa the
tne duck and the hen. take their nill witli
. ijluh ; uui uie turKev.
1Q1?S and destroy thousands of insects round
ww tviivub
nnr iItit-,!!;., i i . ,
. .-- ,i ii
X. wmcn we take no account.
oix years a crn. T . n. inci w,. j i
l .
."! Pouujy WCTe entirely excluded.
" o ' "wvovi my gorueii, ana
ii try were entirely excluded. Th
in-
C Z - S Vs- 55 SQon vey Perceptible,
:!!! Pi! Y' (Called the round flea from ils
JumPmS0 became so numerous that the wall
.ne stock gi"yflower were disfi-
fiL?""1 Were. generally attacked and
crease oi insects was
.. j -...-.
! ".ueuas soon as the young plantsa ppeared.
ann It nrao -.!.. 1 1 1 ' . . . .
a?d " only by daily attention that trans
l,iai"eu.caDDaffes were oresfirvd frm ,..
w .. ii "
nuu. lowarris thp . ao,; c i.
: m w. . . ucau UC-
xowaras the closp nf i
grasshoppers appeared in formidable niiCJ.
lyuuii miiiiiiiui"
summer
the ravs China Aster i;-ii :
other flowering plants were deprived .!? tlfS
beautv. tL uJ5 i?JT,Ted of their
of the covered bbrde toA PMeMid'J
irritations 1 V .d t0 ?eur rePeated
"J11"10118' 1 ascribe the loss of several MM
P1' ' ! ' "
7CTe o fond o'f .cratchta! 7o be to.Sf ?,
."ueu upon a coop in th rrAn ;i,
I. 1 1 . i f VL I UJ1-
4VVm apreau inemselves ineverv direction
in search of insects. Their light tread injured
nothing and their activity surprised and de
lighted me. Every plant within several rod"
from the coop was examined; and not a bu
nor a fly, nor a worm, nor a caterpillar, could
show itself with impunjty.
I amused myself with calculating the amount
of their service; exactness was not expected
but supposing each little bill to strike a thou!
sand times a day,: though sometimes missintr
thp destruction must Have been great at least
the result was great. , The cabbages stood
nearly undisturbed ; and, for the first time iQ
the garden, I raised turnips Enough for family
use. The grasshoppers were chased, and
greatly diminished in number; .the wood liCe
were cleared from the borders.
From the Southern Agriculturist.
Account of the Mode of Culture pursved
IN CULTIVATING CORN AND PEAS. By ft
John's Colleton.
Mr. Editor, Some time ago I promised fo
give you an accouht of my method of makinr
corn. The land on which I plant, is of a thin,
or rather loose soil, and in the common and
old way of planting corn, Jive feet apart or five
feet square, on my land, could not possibly
average me over twelve bushels per acre.
But for the last four years I have twenty-three
beds in the task, or quarter acre, and plant on
the beds, from hill to hill, three feet apart,
leaving two stalks of corn in each hill, and rny
corn crops have averaged from eighteen to
twenty-two bushels per acre. I have never
been enabled any one year to manure all of my
corn, indeed but a small part. In 1628 we had
a most trying season for early corn, for the
weather was dry in the month of May, and
much more so in the month of June, and withal,
my corn never "fired" within ; I shall distinct
ly state, that only about fifteen feet around the
field of corn did " fire." I was present all the
time, and had an opportunity of seeiner it everv
day until the fourth day of July, when I Tfeft!.
for my summer residence. To the best of my
rocollection, the com was in tassel from the 9th
day of June until the 1st day of July before we
had rain, which eventually saved it. But I have
digressed a little, and should have said a little
before, that I could never account for the corn
not "firing" within, unless it was that the sun
never shone on the earth, and that the earth
was always shaded by the closeness of the corn.
I have tried the distance of a foot and a half,
andltwo feet apart, and leaving a single stalk in
a hill, but; never have had so good an average
of corn, as when I plant three feet and leave
two stalks. The last year a neighbour of mine
planted ten acres of swamp land agreeably to
my- method, and when the corn was harvested
he infarmed me that he had made fromit up
wards of forty bushels to the acre. Thus was;
he so pleased with ray method, that he said he
would never again plant corn in any other way.
Another, -and an adjoining neighbour, who!
plants largely, planted part of his crop agreea
bly to my method, said to several of his neigh
bours, that he would have to build an additional
house to-put his corn in, for that he had never '.
before made so much. .
On the subject of peas fcow peas,) I can only
inform you, that for the last five years I have
always made an abundance from being planted
in among the corn. Previously, or for six years
before, I could not succeed in making "peas
from the corn field, by planting in hills. Some
years I scarcely made more than seed for
another year; but since I have adopted the
latter method of drilling, them iust under the
roots of the corn, and on the side (east side,
of the bed, I never have failed in making large
crops. My time for planting d enends on the
advance of the Season 5 f 1 1 1 0 coan !o eorli-
plant from the 25th to the 30 of June, and if
the season be not, so early, I plant between the
1st and ldth of July.
PRESERVING GRAIN.
A discovery of considerable imnortanrp ha
been announced, with TP (TO vA . r Ti..wtr.nn-
, z 7 o 1 icoci ring
grain. To preserve rye, and secure it from
insects and rats; nothing more is necessary than
not to fan it after it is threshed, and tn tnw .it
in the granaries mirpfl nri.i th Jr .W.c
state it has been kept more than thrP vpars.
withftut the necessity of being turned to pre-
oak-i.--- C 1 " ! i 1 ' L
otl " c 11 irom numiuity ana lermentation. The
experiment has not vet been made with wheat
and other kinds of grain, and'they may proba-
uiy ue.. preservea in cnan with equal advantage.
Brocoli. This plant belongs to the cabbage
amily, but has not been cultivated in the Urii
ed States as much as common cabbao-e. It
appears to be a mixture between th pa ii li fin veer
and the common variety, and perfects itself
with more certainty in this latitude than the
cauliflower.
Like the latter, it is cultivated for thp con-
xvg ui. nowerDuas, which is the part
used; they appear in a conical shape, and are
very tender. When used they, are boiled and
served up with drawn butter. The plants are
to be sowniri the same manner as cabbage ;
and there is al.o early and late varieties, both
oi white and purple colour. . The purple cape
brocoli, is one of the best, varieties for our cli
mate, as the head of the flowerbuds is large
and close, and although the colour, when grow
ing, is a pale purple, when boiled it is of a
beautiful green. In flavour, brocoli much re
sembles the cabbage, Jmt the part used is ex
tremely tender and delicate.
We would recommend every farmer to set
out. a few plants with his cabbage.
Fattening Fowls with Potatoes.
l here is a great profit of feeding geese, tur
keys and fowls of every sort, with potatoes and
meal mixed ; they will fatten in nearly one half
the time that they will on any kind of corn or
even meal itself! The potatoes must be bruisedf
hne, while hot, and the meal added when the
irvai.iA r a i i - .
xuc ia given to them.
nz:cipzs.
Jo prevent Corns from grouting an thefeet--'
Easy shoes ; frequently bathing the ieet in lukewarm
water, with a little salt or pot-ashes dissolved in if-
i ne corn lfseit will be completely destroyed by rut
binff it daily with a little caustic solhtJnn nf notasi.
till a soil and flexible skin is formed.
Cure for the Sick Head Ache, A tfmfull of
finely powdered charcoal in half a tumbler of water
In less than fifteen minutes reliet will be experienced.
For a sore throat. Take and
half a glass of spirits of turpentine, mix them togetbej
and rub the throat externail v. OTriTTfnnpl rOUfl
itatthesametime. It is effectual whenaDDliedesr!'-:
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