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A TIIRILUNatlTTtE S fOrtY In the month of Jane, a "pedlar" and bis wife pretexted ihomselvei at sun dowti al . . ' i. . n . ! . the uoor or 1,1110 wrm-nouse, one, 10 France, nJ requested permissions of the Tinner to stsy over night, A small room wu aaiened to them, the farmer's, wife was confined to her bed. The next day was Sunday, and the farmer and hia eer- vanfs went to church. The pedlar also started to go, and thre remained, in the '-.ouse, the wife of the farmer, a new born infant, the pedlars wife, who feigned ill ness, and a child six veara pfage, scarce ly had the people gone out when the ped lar's wife, armed" with a , knife., presented herself at Die bed of the sick woman, and demanded her "money or her life. The poor woman, sick, and weak, delivered up her kevs.sod deaiied the little boy to ahow ihe opartmenU. ;: She rose softly from her bed. followet the pedlar'a wifa without be ing heard, and hating beckoned' the child .u- i. . l - .1.-... ct. 'tiUl OI me count, iucacu uic ywuif who then desired the child to run (or hia father, and desired him to bring assistance- ,-. 1 he child did not lose an instant; but. by a sur prising fjlaUty, met the pedlar on the road who natl stolen iroro me ciiurcn to assist his wifeirnhe preconeertec robbery. The nedlar asked the child where he waa rom?, who ingenuously said ho was going to seek his father, as an attempt was made to rob them. - The petl)r said it was now unne cessary as ho himself would go and protect in motherr-anu taking -the- child by the hand they returned to the farm-, -Jl hey knocked al tiie door, but the. farmer's wife, not recognising the voice of her husband refused to open it; -the pcdlarlmadel vain ef forts to induce her, and hnally threatened to cut the child's throat, nnd then break St o pen. Fuiious st being unable to prevail up n hoi, he executed his horrible threat and killed the child., ,'.-' After committing this useless crime, he tried to (ret into the house to save his own kite, as time pressed and the farmer might eturn from church. His attempts, tailing, lie mounted 'the roof and descended the ing, now saw .uotinng to deliver her Irorn certain death. ,;s: 1 he wretch . was almost down the chimney and. about tQ enter her hamber, when, collecting all her atrenglh, she by sudden inspiiation drew the paillcs- e (straw bed) to -theedge of the hearth, nd as auicklv set fire to it. The smoke in I a few minutes enveloped, the assassin, who not being able to reatcend, very soon fell into the fire, half suffocated. The farmers - ....... courageous wile iosi noi ner oresenco oi hntud, but, in his h:il blinileU stat, strucu lira several severe blows oc the head with ho TmkeT, ' which v put htm -beyond the; rhauce of immediate recovering hia senses. jExhausted with fatigue and mental agony, Ihe herself fell senseless on -the carpet of ler clumber," and remained in this situation ril the farmer, and hia servants returned from church.. The dead body of the child. t the gate, uf the farm house,' waa the first lorribla spectacle that stttick the eye of the bnhappy father. V' They forced open the loors, and after having recovered to life he arnier s wife, they seized the two 'culprits nd delivered them over to justice. The redar survived his wounds and burnt,' but to'.h hend his partner received the-punish- the fashionable; lady; : Why should we speak of fashion, in a ity where ilia so inconstant. Yesterday's uli ion is gone to day, and that of to. day's s gone to-morrow. ';i4J'' In Paris, those who dress according to lie fashion are always busy; they must not ose a moment in the day;, there is the mor ling UHdwbS, and the morning dress; day Ires, evening dies, and concert or ball ilress: and this is hot. allone must havi tshionable rooms, dshionable furniture, ashionable carriage and horses, fashionable Mi verier, and fashionable , harness; and fash- on is al wsya fleeting. i'Z.'r' 77 . T 7-7 I Those people to whom fashion is eveiy Ihing, are extremely unhappy . when they jhre found wanting in the smallest particular. n laeiiioo; coats aie not buttoned up so high v mis nowj, tnis hal U not or the new hapet tliis eolor- is in bid taste; and .this ane is-completely (.one by. , -; i. it yon have been so unfortunate as to to lut without knowing all this, you are lost. Bun, hide your self quicks before any one ees you, or your reputation ia gone. " Fortunately, for . the Parisians, thev are m all slaves to fashions --Men of talent hink very little of it; thoy havether things r think about. 8ome aftTare philosophers nd cjtics affect to-tfeaff6 iu they some- mea Jarrv this too far. v F.at mntbf in r. Pin. - '. r j , The folio , h - . m rarw, to whom fashion was everv thine. his lady wu forty years old she was not andsomci but alia aAam -i.ini thai Jde tift tfiia t0:.: J r ? It is the fashion." was her favorite aav- 'r? ,,ennot jo wrong when one is in the "Hut if tha Tuihinn ; . n aid her friends. ' ' . - - Y aahion can nsver be ridiculous!" : "If it's uubeeoming" -, -. v. ..... "If fashion A'mrtaA n ...... hatr , . " : 1 3 I would ahow it" V- "' v -?T wear your rrswaJoJyoBrBsesr, ' -Mt wool war them to. t would always be in thofiShionin rr k . r The husband of this lady who was by rio mearta of hor way of thinking, took it into his head pne day to compose a little piece, and put It Into- the Journal dt$ modei, with t picture representing a lady whose fair hair was dressed, with a carrot. . , Underneath was written .V-V "vir: "New style of dressing hair, diawn back a la Chinoise; natural carrot." ; . ' - Th lady' examined it Jong and curioua ly. 1 -; ' ':. , Oh! what' airigulaf hair d ress how now, ali! they will wear, vegetables in the hair after this." ' ""- -:;r .y p The busbahd shrugged hia ahoulbcrs, ex claiming . '" Hoar, ridiculous is - not common sense I, hope you will not make yourself ndiculous in this manner. '. .' ' :" - : ? Why. not, my dear! it is notuffly not at all ugly. Besides,- it is the fashion, and that ia enough, ; I must have a carrot I must have one immediately a fiue lanre carrot, V We are going to the opera 1 must i. .i. , i . . . . nave my nair aresseu so . . - - . ; . The husbaud affected to oppoe herthe lady persisted. " "She put tlie. carrot in her hair, und went to the opera. - . I ho etlect was extraordinary; but not what she expected. Every; body lauglied, and so very openly, that it was impossible fOt.he.r:.:to.-OTisundeitid'i' It iavery siiiffular. I- was dressed in the last fasliioiij-and yet people laughed at - "My dear,, tojplied the husband," "all fashions are not becoming to'yoK. , . 1 have told you-f ciihousanffCme adapt your dress to your looks;' csrrol is not becoming to a blonde;" ..... : ' Since then, this lady has not followed the fashion so implicitly. " , " - : ' r (lady's Book . NEW. YEAR'S DAY JN EW , - YORK. - , The New York American of Tuesday afternoon- thus speaks of the ' manner in whlcTI1fie"rea"l,li!ilidy'orthaUby was kept on Monday; , , Tan New Ykvb came in bright, amiN ling and joyous and the city felt and ack nowledged the ("elighits of the season and of such a"day"r . . : . The whole muculinity of the town seem- turned info the streets, and sliiving, ea h at the top of his speed, to visit within the, al lowed hoars 1 J o 6 the rreatest quanti ty of femininity, ' or ss our tranicendental friends of'ihe PreseulTLave iifemalci- : - : - Iow Mad then a stray c6uhtry woman or traveller was seen abroad; but with these rare exception of womankind, Broadway, in una sunsnine usually so abounding, ehowed not one.- ' . . '-- :. ,?-:- But within, doors and ' around the domes- tin hearth, there they sat in all their loveli ness and graeiousnea aud where are they tbe found more lovely knd gracious than in this our own city? dispensing with un weanea inaustry, kind words and briirht smiles, to the countless numbers of breath less visitors that crowded through the dim apartments, especially dim in contrast with tne brilliant sunlight from which the visiters Came,'' .. A, . i' . --'..'-;-'.-v,r V:r ' J ,Many are the luckless wfohts. in cense quence of tliis eonqucttish arrangement of summing uuij.juh bo many penciia 01 UgHl went.and came and bowed and speeclii fie'! without any assurance whatever that ihe person, at whom all. thei? compliments were aimed, waa indeed the. real person, 'But all. went merrily as "marriage bells and though here and there, towards the af ternoon, there were seen individuals less steady than befits sobriety and the- Wash ingtonian doctriile the day passed off de lightfully and not InWmperatelyi w'1 i We regret to be obliged to add to this re cord of what was only agreeable, -that on mew i ear a e, the city was disgraced by noting particularly m the 7th Ward where a parcel of those worst of rowdies; volun teer firemen or runners with, the engine these belonged to No, j3 rerideavoused 4n s porter house at its Grand street, " armed with maskets bayoneb, and with an ample provision of stonws-under-pretext -of sn spprthended attack from the runners of No. Sand No."15; ' 1 4 . r . - '. ,"?- Between twelvs and one o'cloca (Sunday night too) hvarinir a noise in the V street. they assumed it wss their expected sssaii- ants mounted to the roof, and thence kept VP '. yoll?ylJf stonesintersperscd i witli musket shots, upon the persons passing be low, ; man living in an opposite house was shot in his bed, but not dangerously. C Thirteen of the rioters were at last arrest ed, and are how In. confinement; but they will escape punishment, fur our police, and the administration of our rriiniaal law s ire expensive and useless mockeries. , . : - it is a mistake to -imagine"; ihaTonly Hie violent passions, such as ambition and love can triumph over the rest. Idleness, -y Ian (tuid as she is. 011 "masteis them all, she indeed influences all ourdeaigns and acliona and insensibly consumes and destroys both j'ajsions sou virtues. BEGINNING AT TUB. WROXO END. - "My Dear" said one of our fishionable tadies, "I.ouiaa" has gone through Frencli, tauii, ureeK, , juu and Dancing. You must buy her a grammar and othar booka necessary t eommenee her English educa tion. NblTH UAB0U54 JJ SIVEESttr MaoAiist : By tlia subjoined notice frorn the Bubliali. er of this work, it will be sefcn that it has been determined to risk its publication one year al least, ' And. wa hope, for the eauae of letter in thia State, that the patronage extended to tne Magazine this year, may o far realize the anticipations of iu conductors that they may he enabled to carry it on not ior tne insignincant time 01 one year only. Other States can have then Magazines, and why cannot North Carolina?. fa it because there is not literary taste enough among the people of our State to support one? It re ally does seem so, from the very fact that other attempts to establish a Mazazina in thia State have proved abortive. :"Nonh Carolina-p'owerful in moral, intellectual, and physical resources" requires an able and highmned periodical, that will foster and eall into active exercise the literary tal ent of our State, the power of which is not understood as it should be. North Carolina has not yet - taken that position among her sister States to which the intellectual powers of her citizens entitle her, and in thia par ticular she ia excelled by very few of them. A very good way to cabmate the intellectual abilities of a.Sute ia ' to judge from the dis tinguished men it has produced, nnd in this North Caronna can occupy a' proud position 1 buv wut ssvcri it, inuns jicr jiisic:vic9j Among pie great men atuuaas gtyen oirtn to we may;, mention Davie, Moore, Stauly, Haywood, Henderson, Duffle, Iredell, and Murphy besides numbers of others-. Well may"Ni"arolina"jaiceft"herga!aXv of great men, when her literary firm iinent is illuiliiiioil with afich rare beauty and hril liancy. "A Stato," as-some wiiter justly remark, "that has given birth to men who have shed such lustre on the bar, the bench, the pu'pft, and the halls of legislation whose influence . has been7o" wnlely and, bencficienily fell in all the relations of li fe and society, and who have done so much f r tlieir country nnd their race, as North Goroltna has, may well bs eolided to auai- nendistinrtion 'amotig 'lier sister -Stateer when the prizes ; fat intellectual greatness and real patriotism, are awarded. 1 Highland Messenger. -A distinguished chemist recommends the following compound as a snfe and excellent dentifrice viz: of white surgarand powdered charcoal, each one ounce, of Peruvian bark half art ounce, of cream of tartar one drachm and a half, and of canella twenty four grains well rubbed together into sn impalpable pow der. .' He describe it as strengthening to the sums, and cleansine to the teeth, and ilestroying the disagreeablo odor, in the breath, which so often arises from decaying teeth. As a preventive of tootliache, we have heard ' washing the moujh and teeth twice a day with sail and. water strongl recommended by gentlemen ' who have ex perienced much relief from it .... . , The "Peace-Maker' is the name which has been given-td'lhe great cannon which forms the principal arrnamorit of the U. 8. stenmship v Princeton. A . correspon dent or the lioston t'ost, who rece ntly paid a Visit' to the Princeton7 bflTNew York, was present at the trial of the eun, and savs of it: ' i ", , Instead of being placed on the ground iri some remote corner", as 1s Usual in pro v. tng ftiris of onethird of her calibre, auCh was ('optain Stockton'a.'confidvnce io this wrought iron piece, that the proving was actually performed on board a small ves eel of some twenty feet beam and seventy feet in length.,; This appears "the mora astonishirt2,5 whenwe,considet-.-ihat the charge xf&s fifty pounds of powder; a charge that might well be required for the capacious rhaw vjf a 'gunfiflften feet long. Wiui a oore 01 twelve .inches, carrying ball of two hundred and thirteen pounds weijgni, Bna-fciU5Cii weiuing ten,, fpni". The gun waa-' placed on a . aHde made of strong timberiT' in ; which a groove waa made to receive abu.t one half -of the vast Mdyv"! slide being ,aecurcdlOlha yes sel by several sfrong hawsers pastJSg round the same, and under tbe vessel's bottom, to r prevent the terrible . recoil which would otherwise open thr vessel -the gun being placed athwartships. :, :", - The pun waa fire offbv means'of a slow mttt"h that burned about half a min ute, " during which the boata containinir the officers and crews had rowed away some. two. orthree.liundred--yarda from the vessel, to lUten to the ejtp'losion and witness the effects of it at a safe distance. The recoil of the. gun, caused Jby the ex plosion of this immense charge or powder gave-4jievjssel 'deep lurch to the op posite side, and, the gun being placed near level, the huge two hundred and thir teen pound ball recocheted along the sur face of the sea to a very great distance, touched ihewater'dt- twelve, different iwintsM each sending up ji 'efpendicsf lar column of white spray," exhibiting the appearance of aauccession of waterspouts, half dozen of which were visible at the same moment of lime. Notwithstanding the confidence ; entertained that the gun would fctand the proof, we can readily ruagine that' the moment was one of in tense excitement, and that no little pleas ure was manifested by both officers and men to find the big gun without' speck or flaw, and as bright and smi'inj as if it were not the most formidable engine of death and destiuction on the face of the globe. . - .' ACCIDENT-AND ESCjlPET A . Mr. Richardsorl. of Wobnrn:- whil! eiossing theFreshpond EaHroad.(Cambridg' eei :yOH: tiok my coal and sw roe go Mass.1 in a slrigb, was overtaken by the lo-1out in,o the air, at the risk of my life with- oonionre: hi horse Waa Inltimiirv k"illed,1tis sieigbsmasliedi and nirttself thrown uninju red in the direction of the track, and so close to it, that part of his cap Was cut off by the wuceisoi me cars: ,,.- - , "''. - - -: '. The Merap'iis Enquirer of the SSdi ult. eontains in excellent ' addresa to the youna men "who will cast tlieir fit at vote for Pres ident ki November 164 4." The number in the Sute oif Tennessee is estimated at not less tlan five thousand. The writer - ad s!resses;his young compatriots in the follow ing langiage: 1 - .. S' As ou of yourselves. I anneal to vou. and ask, if we shall falter or lag behind in the great cStltesi which approaches! No, let us plae.Vouraelvea in the very front Jf tbo Ureat Wiiir army, and march in sol id phalanx to tie polls in defence of our principles. Thy . are holy; they are riffheous the sime ' in defence of which our reVbldtionarj fathers fought and died. It is true, they hid a Washington" to lead on their-ictoriooj armies, but have we not a Clayt A Header, " not lesa distin guished in the" coitneils of the nation than war IKe formtf on the tented fietdf a pa- iirol not leas devoted, and above-all atnttn not loss honest than the ''father of our country" hmself. , Aye,. sucb"aanrs Henry Clay of Kentucky , nd inasmuch aa our printiplea can only bejiarried out in the adra'inistralion of our government, by men; and, as we firmly believe, that he of all other men in tho Union, is th ablest expounder ahd fullest' representative of those -nrinciDles. tor the purpose 01 pla cing him ia toe highest office in the gift of the Aroericsa people, lot us-r-younir wh itrs , of Tenneslsei - pledge, ourselves, each to the other, tm this time until the, oral Monday in November next, to rise all hon orable, exertions, with a zeal which no etrctimstances could abate and wit h- a le- termroatior Which; no ""reverse can over comethrowing ourselves into the thick est of the fight; and. Calling to the rescue our fellow whips young and old through out the Union.oever-ceasa to battle ontii the-r glorious object - of our country s ; demption is accomplished. rr,- ' . Young women are being employed in all aorta of dutiea now t Paris,; , They are e- ven assuming the .(laces of the clerks in eounttng-heusss. Grant, in his new workf Indeed, ths you Parisian women are beginning to be trainJd as clerkf for banking and commercial hoses. They are found to be steadier and iikto attentive than young men. Intone of tie first and wealthiest banking houses in Iaiia you may now see every day two, interring daughters ef ths principal partner, oneof them eighteen years of age, the other, twtntv. at work at their desks during business- hours, and discharg ing their dmies as cleiks with despatch cor redness, aud cheerfulness. Indeed, -the plan is working so well that the government itsell is hegiriiiig to employ young females in the public offices." , - lTIIE WORLD.' "Sir, briisr me a good, plain flinner, said a melaiidinly , tucking imlivulual to n waiter at one'. 01 our principal noiu.s. "Yea, sir,") , V'-" "'' t C'' . The dinner was brought an l devoured and the eater called the laddloVd aside, and ihwe addressed liint ' - " .You are the landlonl!" 7 " Ye," -.'-' . . -you ,0 g business here!" ; Yes." ...... "Ynu make probably ten dollars a div Then I am snfe, I cannot psy for what I have consumed; I have been out of em ploy mint seven months but have engaged to go, to work' to-morrow. 1" had been without food fo ir-and twenty hours when I entered your place, week.' iy-f f. I will pay you in a "l cannot pay my bills with such promi ses,'! blustered the i landlord, "and I do not keep ; a poor-house. " You should address the proper .'authorities.'. Ieve me some thing for security." "I have nothing." --I will take your coat," " 7 'If I go into the streets without that I a ill get my death such weather! s this is." 'Ydu should have" thought of that before vou ranie here.' . "You rre setiousl Well, I solemnly aver mat one ween irom now I will pay you ' "I will take the coat." v ' The coal was left, and a week afterwards a -. . . reaeemea. - - - t- - - oevea tears after thai a svenhliv .fin entered the political arent and was present ed at caucus an applicant for a Congression al nomination. -The principal of the caucus neiu ins peace lie -Heard the name and thd history of the applicant, who was a mem ber of the church and one of the moat res pectable citizens. He wnachsirman. The vote wss s lie and he east negatiye, there by defeating the Wealihy applirani, whom he met an hour afterwards, and to whom he said . , i You don't remember met" " "No V- '.."',,-'"-'' I once ite a1 fliaoer in yoot' hotelatd 1 aitnougit 1 toij you I was famished and J plcdied jny word and nondr la nav vou in plcdied joy out 11. "Wvll. sir. what thenT" , . "Not much. . You ealled ' yourself a Christian. THiight you were a candidate for nomination, and but for me you would nsve necn elected to Uoneress." v . ' Three years after- the hntol-kepper be came bankrupt and sought a home at Bella-; vieu. -The poor dinneitess - wretch that was, is now a high . functionary at Albany. ! We know him well. The ways of Provi. denee are indeed wondeiful and the world's nmtallous atir)osl beyond .conception of be ller. JV. r. ilfisrngsr. , - SINGULAR CASE OF IMPRISON- Mr. William Powell, captain of a packet whicfr plies) between Norfolk and New York writing1 home, from the latter ciiy, "under Vlate fifths) 5th iiisU saya t . 1 ; . 'I have this day been arrested by Jhl Abo litionists on account of returning to Norfolk, last February, with the two slaves that I found ou board the sebf. Empire, and had to give bail for my appearance at Court. 10 the;' amount of one thousand dollars the damages being laid at ten .thousand dollars fiir Jalsej-.iraprisoflmenUof James D.- Lane; the steward, who concealed the slaves in tlie galley, on board he Umpire." ; "The Slew ardTpnkea of inlhe "abovr tract was, it appear) convicted in : Norfolk ofsecrelingtso runaway afaves on board CapC Powell's vessel, shd sentenced to the penitentiary for the offenee. .' c 1. r ' .ThereVis anindividual in our city, who is exeesslvely fond of borrowing tobacco from all his friends, until the habit has grown to; an excess on him. One of his acquaintances j who bad been "rtiany a time and oft" com pelled logo without . his own proporuon, to satisfy demands', peipetralnd the following and placetHrwbere he could hot fail ijl aee- "Deisr air, if you should want a 'ehsW'7";i'ti I'll tell you what you'd fcstter do; ;'.:',.t:-.V,!W. Don't tax the pockets of your friand, In order to attain your'eaj&.'Sgaiij Nor rove for it tbiDughaut the town, .v ATSpc-i Dutehsw the !, 01 buy your own. w - -' . : ; ' V OUSMier. i Vent Vinni. We know of several of tlie same description of persona spoken of aoove, anu are nruugni iu .uauy cunt rat wim one. who never was 10 tne oesi 01 our knowledge, guilty of bnpnj a twist in his iifeViVier Devil, v , rV5 i . - - - ... :AG KICUIsriTHAIs- ; ' ' " From the Virgi.iia Advocate. SSF.ED CORN. . . 7 I Mr. Editor: In accordance with the pro-' mise made you, t give below my fnethdd of saving seed Corn, and tlie effect thereof, tho' 1 am almost deterred , from doing ao under the impression that the method will be pro nounced visionary, and be not heeded. But when I reflect that even a wise man ana a skilful cultivator of the soil may be taught something by Sn apparently half-witted son of Ham, I lake courage and proceed with that, and come other matters connected with About eighteen years fiast, t commenced selecting my seed torn from the field; this was done by taking the best ear from a sulk which had two f arson it (when i commenc ed it. I would some years fail to find e nough seed, in Hh whole crop; Ibis is not so now. aa will be seen from the statement below ) The above method, I think, has been omitted two years in the time, 1 would ssy) ftom negiigence, Ten years since, another ides oecui red to mr mind respecting seed corn, to wit: if '.he seed com was selected of ears which ripen ed first, the Crop Would ripen earlier, aud would be less liable to be injured by froat: comformnbly to tliis idea, t have (aa often as I eowld ) selected my seedLbefore jhere ki been any Host, smi then nave only taken the ear which had dry, or ripe shucks, bis vss done before frosU because after fmM it is dilncultto distinguish the early from the latter corn. '"" V -' ' The advantages of the method is told in a few words-nne ear on a stalk, is now al most as rare, as, two ears were, to the stock when I bcgrin it. - Also, I think by select ing the corn .whith ripened first, the crop ripens two or three weeks earlier. 7 ; V I would be pleased, if it were in my pow ear, to ssy how much waf .produced on an a re, but eannet. , I began to fatten my poik hogs on tlie green corn as "soon as it was in roasting ear state." Beaide this, theie was a atom about the last of August which in jured the. crop materially.- A psrtofthe erop waa on breoinstraw land, cukivutad for die firsr itm, Sd linitlier part m boftont land which was too wet, I think, if I had hot .cultivated the pri which was in broom straw, the remainder would have yielded (notwithstanding lite injury of the wet aud storm) betweea lix and seven bat re's per acre, of good sound corn. The storm allu ded to above waa the cause of an unusual quantity of inferior and rotten corn. : At I am wr-ting on the su'j 1. 1 will de tail my method of d striving Moles, a mis eh evous little animal, hieh fre-)uantly cat the com after pl'-'nf nr. Jbefcre it comes up; also bunows in the ground, which ' is the eommeneement of gully ., ia .land that it not frequently plowed, My method is tliis ascertain ind fix ou a spot jn burrow where they frequently pass: make a small hole with the ud f a atick t then drop into t. track alt palma-crisim - seed.' When the, molo comes auxin, the seed are eaten bv the mola, wntcn i . suppose, destroys them, as the seed fail to terminate and the moles disappear. I have nearly cleared oor ufluy- . fields of moles in iIhs way. . ' - , CHARLES BROWN. . V;:,?)1EAVY CROPS'. 1 ' " . Mr. Augustus Shriver, in writing to the ' . editor of the Ameiicaa Farmer, states that ' in a field COhUining ten acres and seven- eights of an acre, he raiaed the present sea- son 215 parrels of torn, boing aa average of a little upwards of ninety-eight bushes of shelled eotn to the acre! Mr. S. say a the corn waa carefnlly 'measured' by three inert r in his emplny, whose certificate' he baa in his possession. " - ..'vC'v V. -.;- :-'--.'; , The field which produced ht eropTSe " limestone foil, which wss ploughed last fall,-"r. full 9 inches deep and manured wnh one. hundred and fifty five horse wagon loads of. ?f Hd barn-yard unng spread over '.the aur . ace. and covered just deep enough to pre vent absorption. - The afterculture did not , differ rnaterially irom that pursued by good farmers gnoially. Ml. phriver says: . The yield on the above mentioned field has, not - exceeded my expectationa; I have al ways firmly believed, that by proper cultiva 7 tion, from sixteen tolweniybarrels pf !eQrn I an acre cad be giowo on almost any land susceptible of improvement. It requires a tittle JaborJ andalteiiUonto,lB(L aure but . what Is that in comparison to the product. -. The editor of the Kent (Md.) News also raised Ovei ; eighty -Tonr, bushels of Corn to the acre, in a small lot of two acres. ' , ; Mr, Jacob Frock, tf Western Vinicent, in Ihe neighborhood : county, or l heater. states thafne raised the present season one hundred and four butheft and one quart of . . Cera from one aedeT i he neiu in which it grew, contained nine acres, and the acre " wlwok h wsssHfjed-'waeabout an average of the) whole field. - , -'r" , Mr. 'Oi Difklinsoft orOnnttdago?dUnry " New York-announces in the "Cultivatot," . that he raised the "past season, fifty-two and " a half bushels of wheat to the acre. Mr. D sayst-The field had a crop of oats taken ' off, and was then seeded to clover. In the - spi ing when I came on the farm, the cover 4 was email and thin, and 1 sowed on it 11 bushels of v-laster per acre. The second week in July, I moved off the clover for bay, Y-The-lait of - Auguet I ploughed in a large "growth of cjover," and harrowed It thoroughly. - Oa the 6h and 7th of Septem her, I sowed on one bushel and three pecks ' of Canada fllnl" wheat to the acre and har rowed it in; "The sod is a friable black elate -or loam. The wheal if the whole field was ': remarkably equal and the crop per acre as staled; -,'VA. ', ', T t ' ',., -y. The time will come, We think it is not faf distant when our' farmers wilt add al least one-fourth to the yield of all their orops ana wnen 4U to. ou bushels ot wheat to the acre, will not be considered a groat crop." " Gerinantoti n Telariph ' ' We find the following in dha of our ex changes it is good advice. The point at which farmers are most at fault, and that for -which our correspondents and .hundreds of others blame them, and with reason loo, is 'T that they overstock their farms only half, feed their animals lertkeletdh' cow frames ' drag themselves over the premises, and" , , com plain because the dry bones do not give milk abundandly. Wherever cows are kept for the dairy, it is possible amjproper ye it'is a duty to keep them well, I'his cait -r done. If you cannot keep four well, try two; the two, well kept, will give more in come than . four v half starved ones. ,r The ' goodness of the cow is delei mined partly by 7 her nstiye proportions but the food also has much, and very ranch 'to do it miking hsr. good or otherwise... Keep no more Ihsnyou ean feed well very well. ' 4 '" MURDER. , ' On lat Sunday morning, - a negrb hej " named 'Charlra fourteen or fifteen yeara of age, deliberately shot his brother, nam- ' ed Aiov3i,'i man twenty-se v'en or . eight years old, with a pistol loaded with two balls, causing hit death in a few min utes. They had quarrelled the day before. -Whilst another brother was trying to take ' Charles, directly after the murderous act he shot lit him likcWiserwith a-sccond -pistol which he bad concealed, but with-' ouf effi-ct. C'hafli'l fs in jail. The man killed belonged to- Mr. I. K. 0ickson, as does the murderer.'--' - In investigatiug the affair, it waa die- ' covered that a number ofsmall blackboya about town bad pistole in thi ir possesion, which they have been in the habit of -aportin? with, tireing at marks &c, in rc urea -pmces. -1 hey were purchased, ttu'y Sfty",ii4 as ia othelfMii'Welt ascertained!, from certain men in town, who it appears have beer in the practice of eeliing fire arms to the- slave population. Against these violators of the lav, and disturbers of the pence a highly excited feeling just ly exists in the community. So much s indued, that one of the largest public mee tings of the citiens Ve ever witnessed convened yesterday at a few hours holir for the purpose of considering what mchs ures should be taken to nforo; th.hws h their utmost rigor, and to visit justioi up on the- offenders". v Wilmington CAreictt if. 7.
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 14, 1844, edition 1
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