IN r• READ & 13. IL FRAZIER, EDITORS, • 3IONTROSE, tI - IT AUGUSrI2 1858. • • • 4 • . • J r thehtdrfirnikitt Refiubliceitt. silt; IS..WIZITTEN, WIDOW :" n.tu JON KS . . , . -- s Yi,Villf 11, Sin.toEn, dark-eyed weeper, .. * . • May the blessed angels: keep her ' i m cr - 14ath tilde flialloFy 'zings, .. . . ' 4 . / .1 ' . }We 'fit/NI all unholy things,' z j •VI her sorrow.whitened spirit,. , - Resting on the Savior's merit, . ' P.tss t.ium, present wretchedness s, • fate final hlessedne,;sl ' ' . •'I . . Bride of earth, life's trite evangel, - . ' 1 Here, as the blessed angel . • Iff the. lost one gone before, . , 1. - p to tread the golden shore- - -! , licard_he not rout:widowed prayer, • While you folded back the hair . ' li.!_l : :- Damply resting. 011 his ittow ? ' 1 ;Smiled he theta—he's smiling now, - . . ' And that prayer in weakness given,• ' i • Bore his spirit up to heaven., . . .1 Levin" woman—true believer, it- ' _ ' 1 . . SitunCe.hearted faith-rcceWer,- , drriltot kcidorc, may you never. ~.. I 'rom the Father's bosom sever, - . - •. - i 'fill is ith contrite joy nozpoltti' . ..i . rr,:;ell front conflict, pain and. sin,, Yen receive His welcome-token- • - ,'acing, "Daughter, enter in ' ' •.. 'To thy vestllife's transient sweetness . . * Eadethin divine completeness. Wor-hip not "Inc treasure less,,' ,-* - . ' • "" Love in Ileaven'is measureless, Fleating.from the; Father,.througit . . . l'oam.adored one,- down to tau. - -- . Thus reflected from the Throne, . (if te. pitying, sutleritt,g SON - S. - -It l-,7 , rsunes transparent, holy, • ; • Child-like, Christ-like, God-like, lowly.;- As tom loved the gift Ire gave you, ,` - ' Will'lle tatisorn, love, and.save you.. - * ; . . . 4. , I,f,re and fault arc free, supernal, . . ...‘ ,14 -sting on the great Eternal,,, -.; • 1.;111 , illg. strongor,.purer, clearer, .I , ; di rr draw . yotd..sph it-nearer ro the :oils butp.eiched to grasp yon, ' To Ow heart laid Idly to clasp you ; .Is lif,. : 's -weary shadows lengthen, . Will this bond of union strengthen. . . Trcqv s of angels l • night and mnruing, GAer up, for 11 - easen's 10 .0 ruing, t;eiris. that lie in death's dark river, And rstore them 14 the Giver; Ever t circling round the Throne, - :Wiere your lost one kneels alone:' anon the . whitest d that band Sail return at his 'command, nd- with featless, dldthfut hand, , Lead you to the better land, `Where your heart;' as henrtloring,. 'hall forever kneel adoring!. oh for ttith like yonrA, stn.v.t stranger, . • Yarnett, steurlitst, free try ni thsnger, - • -31. iv the lore you, and with blessings float Whore 'Till npmt the - Father's.breast, lon :at-laid in peneefulsest, l'a4,ing from life's ,wretchedness, lot-6,perfeet hle do s. li•it , gP, July, 165.5. _ For - ilteliedrpentkni SLEEPING ADVENTITILE . IN THE , WABAF.H VALLEY. Dr A. Ay .6F \" nimor. ",YoL.cari sleep a tar," snid the old lads, ll4tlictg•to one of two Nincakt beds, near tt b;e1: un .the Nor the all* candle Was burn- • ".lans . ."said yawning, but thinking that, :ire.; I was, I would sit up - All•nigllt . before , It.hetA expose six lineal feet . of . m y' persim_ t4e gaT'e•of the oh?, lady's groan-up daugh:, term; - settic,d myself back i v chn,'• and trielk-to amuse myself with tiel-dog (which faißg, - 1 - rnade - a sickly attempt to' appear 'at and at rny. ease. lion can sleep thai,,".i'aid the old lady, still more emphatically,' accompanying each word with a nod towai.3 the bed; "and if yob are goin' to bbd tOcigbt, ydu'had better ,he 'f . , “ E.x a-e-t-l-y,” I 6:battered between my-' teeth, as slowly appeogthed the bid ; "but, AS lads'," I. nnitterdd sotto . core, " hadn't you -better min them ;iris Out dot rs'?" The • girls in the Mean time, instead of • tnrnmg.round .. a§ I had'chnritably hoped, set , -tied themselves into. po4itions :to' comment freely. upon thei'r . eceninds lesson in Anato triy,,tztkili,*, Matter coolly, and pay• lug kind of attention to my 'embarrass-. tient Seeing no help for it, otT came myi b6ot- with a jerk. - Know he is':a towii,ehart b the way he muttered -comment . No. 1. By extra resolution off came I:bat-and vest, • 11 - his pretty goodloc t king if his face asil'i kivered with :soliloquized No. 2, - 4 .S,T.them yeller things all kirereci with go,jid,",spoke up N. 3,, calling attention to a :fit . fif hoshin studs, which at the moment 1 sticking in the throats of each. of them. Narrer through the chist,"chimed in NO. 4,Which comment was acquiesced in by a plait ail round., .• The question that that. was now sin) ly 4liatrhyklie down ln,iny muddy pants und get,iny'Thead.broke with the . old lady's A6 - 0 - berdte;s:bt--:should I face the 'nusic, lay amide 0nc,0 . 1 7 tri;F remaiiiiritgarmentsy and scrip. cidalte - ap . ose my. shins to the whole .Seeker family ? • My head being tender, the `decision was speedy so, with a reckle.ssness.„ eyeihpowiradder at, of It came, I - voliderillg what the neat comment would be, hti:3 g against hope'that the examination was it le end • but ho, dowdy but surely out, it - .. - Alighty small - shanks for - so big a ;, . - • , Tl.k.was the hair that broke the camel's 1!:telt. With one iiound over went the caU the; the next brought me into the tniddle of th e lea ; and as I dove down and still• far- Ther down I. fully determined before I asked- Ilte - bospitality,,of another Sucker : would xler•rt on - the prairie, .116 W, we s t:tried arklwOrn out by - exeitentent, - *overslept myself, bow ainly watched in the rimming for an oppor uttltx.-to get up and dress 'undiscovered, and at len g th rcsorted a coup d' Etat which retcheldly, failed,remains yet, to be told. • HANDo.Ws CoyraturnoN.=A :gentle -7., ati waited:upon Jerrld one morning to en • --. IRS sympathies., in • behalf . of •a - ,mutual hiend, rho was in want of a :round stun .of , •nonpy. L'ut this-tr.titual friend had already hat about among its litererg breth rya un more than ,One . Laeion. Mr, 'nut was becoming an instil • n . ; •and :the .frieud s were grieved at Indelicacy of the j•rueee.ding. On the, occasion to - which - Ve now . refer, the beaier - of the Llt was remitted by Jerrold- with' evident: dissatisfaction.-• " Wefl:" said. Jerrold, •'" flow. much does . want this !hue?" 1 4 Why just a • four nud`twil .noughts La-ill, 'I ..think, put—him ! 4 ralght," the beafer of the' hat' replied.= Jerruld.--!‘ Well; put tne dawn - fur one cif he noughts , '' • '• • L • - - • - ‘.. • • • . • • • • i tZri ;VA . t r ? • . . . • A)- • ' 1 1 • . • •• • • • - . _ • •- . • • . . . . 1 1 / 4 fEssns; ED/T0303 :—Undei• the above heading, lobserve another article in your pa 7 per of the 15th July, from the pen: of your genOrons :correspondent, X. T. Y. : 1 have been at a stand to know whether to answer it or not, finding in It, as Peter said of Valli's epistles, "some things which are hard to 1:10. understobd." _ . . First, he .starts out with life question, " What is the object .to be gained by ou? .common 'schools, Se., and answers, " to plant and mature, as fai as may be, correct seientifle . knowledge., ' Now what may we Understand .by the term, "scientific knoWledge ?" in the abi settee of, your ctrrespondent, L T. Y., 1 ain confined to 'Webster Pir an explanation of this -term, " Seleatific,n he 'says, is " accord int; to the rules orprineiplai - of science," and science,-" in a-general sense, knowledge, or - edytain knowledge; the, comprehension or understanding Of truth or facts by the mind,," Now, if we would-" plant, and mature" a "certain knowledge" of geography connect-, eti With ancient history, (which certainly-, should be taught in connection with geogra phy) where can we find a better test-boot: than the. ' It-tells-us, if I remember correctly, when the earth was created, by whom created, and its shape,—" standing in. the water and out of the water,"—as also in the first .chapter of Genesis an account is given of its creation. • Localities, and facts connectedwith them ; are beautifully combined in various' portions Of-the Scriptures.' Fur instance, Mt, Ararat, Where Noah's ark rested: Here we have a history of the defUge ;. of God's displeasure at the wickedness of the wicked. A little further .3.1# 4 g the 'Red Sea -is "brought into ac count, with the miraculous event of the chil dren of Israel passing thiligh it, while Pha raoh and,his host were overwhelmed, and perished in the water. Sodom &e„ the places where the Waters of the Dead Seri now roll. are described. Sin and superstition had de stroyed every -itt.ne, rejected every good, (perchance had rejected the Scriptures from the,sehool'roobi,) till the wrath of God was poured•iiiit of the cup of -his indignation, without mixture, upon them; Again, .Nim rod appears, laying . upon the banks of• the Euphrates, the walls Of Babylon, that great and mighty city. Prosperity and plenty at tended her for a time, but behold bet- folly Do you remember the decree of King •Dari- Ars ; " that whosoever should ask ;.1 petztiovi of aft God or nian_for thirty days, _save 'the said King-Darius, should.be cast into the li enis' den HoW inrpious, and- yet -we have individuals in our laud, at the present time, but ri:klittle behind ; for they boldly deny the (Nieliel'i right to pray in school, and if• they succeed in this, we:have - no' guarantee that .they gill not molest them iri their closets. • It is a fact, too, that. by the aid lof this great master-pieee of ilience, geologists have been led to - many discoveries, .which, other wise, _might have remained in obscurity per haps forever. It gives us a minute neeount of the ra ces of men, their origin, &c. Reading R is another branch to be taught in our COllllllOll schools. his not_my - periise. Ito introduce , the Bible -, as -the only reading book ; thatis not the quiAtion at issue: the propriety of allowing th teacher to read portients of it at the'open*g and closing of sthopl, was to be corksideted ; , still, 1 have nb objection to portionsl,.it. being selected tr. exercise' in, readivA:';Where shalt we Ittok for a more powerfai - 4a7stion , than was Made at the dediattion of the Temple ?- --ilany selectlims might be made, but a few must suffice us.' For irManee: "Ile shall t feed his flock like a shephe d t " &e. David's lamentation over the . deat, - of Absalom, or the prayer• of. Habakkuk. 1 , . . Thenjuo, fur poetry. .rhere can we find 'a more beautiful a poern th n the Psalms of David ? . ,—Take tIMIOth mid 24th,to the '2sth, in shoft, from the first to the last, how rich, how kublime l. . Philosofihy is sometimes taught 'in com mon schools: would you_ like a lesson ? . Verily, verily 1 say 'unto you, eNeept a corn of whim fill into the ground . an& di; i I it abideth.ahme," &c. , I: Arithmetical luestions rriv also be (mind. I Take one, for instance, in profit and loss : I" What shall it ; profit a man if he shall gain_ I the Whole world and lose his own soul ?" I - can see do reason why these different 1 branches of edaeation may not be taught ar.d compared . with 'scripture, and the teacher use his liberty 'With' regard to it, and, yet, not a I subvert the great principles of our 'instito - tions intosettariaw,engines.-" j, Your eprreipondent, it seems, wonders how certain esplanatilins can be given, " and I 1 yet not be sectarian:" • It is, to me, very plain. The principles I Wished to have taught :are not confined to one set or Beet ; but they are, I think, acknowledged and pro. mulgated by all 'orthodox persuasions. .-VVith sorrow do I regret that his children, the offspring God -has given- him, cannot hi fed With the bread.ef eternal life; ,that from I them the llble must be withheld. . - - • "Another reason," - -ssys your! correspond ent,. ".why. the Bible should not be . thes taught or used in schools, is the general ig- , . nomnce of teachers , in regard to its doctrines,' &c. If siichis the ease, "'shame and confu-, flan of face should rest upon every teacher until these objections are removed by a mind well informed upon the great doctrines Of thePible. The reason also assigned why it should not be used, 'is, to me, a reason why it should' be ved ; that one children may Dottie as ignorant .as 'X. T. Y thinks our present teachers are, or as. he thought I was in my former communication. „ Then, says he, "one word about prayer, which N., thinks is so objectionable to me," just as . though it was a supposition_ of mine. I did really think he was opposed to it, or he would not have accused the school directors of - Bridgewater of introducing "things, for - eign and objeetionablef hutiam - happy to hear him say he is "not opposed to prayer, particularly the kind referred to," &c.; ', tho' I confess that Ihnow not *hat he means, foe in el'osing.up, - --.l(esays,"-1 hive other reasons why :l 'object to prayer in common 'schools," &c. Now fern so " ignorant". that lordnn ible A 6 determine what a man . Means when he affirms two things in direct Opposition .. 3 and ' as ;your coriespondent.- has said , both Ways, I should, like tolave- him tell- low he 'wishes to be understood.' - , ' A word with regard to' the. depravity he Muses pie Of itiejAhlag talus heart, 'I per- Jbr the Independent Rpubl(enn, THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. u FREEDcm amp Roarmu aaaaftEoeff ig[LawdßY amp V7ROMO," sonated no one. I only imputed such de pravity to." the heart of that trm_who -wan tonly objected to a teacher's invoking the blesshigs of heaven upon his labors," but " if thou art the man," you can wear the garment without charge. I thank him for the chapter he. suggested. Christ, here, had given his disciples a beauti. hi sermon indeed, especially ftom the 15th to the 20th verse. "Other reasons," and, those. mere 'valid, will be required' to convince me that our land will be the wiser for rejecting, the . 'word of God and prayer_ from schools. Allow - me to ask, which of till) Now Eng land Statfs`has.discarded its use , Yours, truly, - N. FOREST COTTAGE, July `23d, 1858. - For lhe harp: mind Republican. LETTER PROM PROP. STODDARD. QUEBEC, July 3, 1858. We left Ottawa early on the morning ,of the 23d Jinie,• but the ELM had been up full two hours before us. In these northern lati ,tudes it begins to be light at 2 o'clock a. tn., .and, the sun rises at 4, (at least, so. they say, i I .hat e not betln up at that tittle to see,) and :sets at S'o'cloelt p. in. After a few taws ride -in the cars, we took a steamboat at PreS. cott for Montreal, and were soon on our way down the St Lawrence. The scenery is very fine, tb s , , .rii er 'v;inding around and 4. among large n 'tubers of islands. AVe have passed several rapids .of minor 'mportance, and now came in. sight of the Long Sault Rapids ; the bounding rit er with ' its, white caps, dark eddies, and rapid currents is truly .beautiful, il not grand. The 'engine is stopped, mil we float among them, now up then down, down,---np again, -and we dance upon tke waves, with the spray now and then dashing over our bows.. Iris certainly very exciting, and timid ones feel faint ,At heart. The scenery Still continues fine as we descend ' the river; and another rapid is passed, and we emerge into a road Lake. But we are nearing Montreal, and she last and most dan gerous of all,- the Liclinie Rapids, are to be • passed. A canoe shoots out from the Indian village, and we take on board an 'erect and stalwart son of 114 - forest.. Gaily he, chats with his assistants at the helm ; but we near. ~the ~the rapids, and with - stern Nisnge and eagle - ; eve he views them. In front of us we see, ft rock—on, on we'go, directly towards it, un til almost uponsit ; thin with a' quick turn-- We slide into the swift; cnrient which rushes by its side,—another rock sunken from view 'being upon the opposite side. But the dan. ger or excitement is • nbt yet over, for. the . current runs swiftly, we are mot ing at the rate of seven miles in 16 minutes. We dance upon the rough wave, and sunken rocks are all around us. A few miles' sail, and we are at th 6 splendid whoa es of Montreal,. un equaled' on this continent for their strength and substantiality. The city of Montreal, the largestfand most populous city in :Blitish., North _America; Ix. situated upon the Island of_ the sari name, and contains about 75,000 Inhabitants. Be ing at the head of ship navigation on the one hand, and . lying upon the St. Lawrence and at the mouth of - the Ottawa upon the other, its natural position for trade and 'commerce is mast advantageoUs. The Churches of Montreal are of great in terest, the Church of Notre Dame being. the largest, excepting.perhaps one' in. Mexico, of of any Church on 'this continent. Its length is 2551 feet, breadth 1841 feet, and height of prineipa? towers 220 feet.. The total num ber of pews is 1244, capable of seating about 7000 . people. * In the north-western tower is . a fine chime of i,ells,'and in the Opposite tow er is placed the largest bell in America, be ing One cast expressly for this Church, and weighing 29,400 pounds. • - The day after our arrival 'was §t. John- the Baptist's day, a great Holiday' among tha French Catholics, 'and early were we awak ened by the pealing. of the great bell sending forth its deep rich tones. The streets were full of military compa nies and civil societies in -full regalia, and crowds were wending their way to the Great Cathedral. We, too, jlined the throng.--+ The great building was all alive, witlipeople; the main floor, the aisles , and the two wide galleries extending siround the Church one above the other, were crowded. The Church was decorated with large branches of trees ouvered--Wlth`green foliage, which formed a beautiful cOntrast With the richly ornamented Mire& We witnessed - the high Mass per formed bv'the Bishop, assisted by nearly two hundred Priests. ThOmusic was very fine, the new mammoth organ being played fur 'the first time. ' Mount Royal, directlyback of the city, is a favorite resort. A kind friend accompa nied us up the mountain for'an evening walk end view of the city. The mountain was very steep, and it was hard work to tug up its sides, but we were amply repaid by the splendid view in all directions: We had not only a perfect panorama of the city, riv er, and surroundingcounty laid out before us, but splendid views of mountains over thirty miles distant. '• There are two Normal Schools in this-city, one for the French and one for the English. The English Normal School is conducted in connection with McGill College and has un der'its care 72. students, 60 of whom are la dies. The systeM of instruction here is very good. We were very "courteously entertain ed by Prof. Hicks, the principal of the school, who is an accomplished Englishsgentletnan, and the best teacher I have met with in Can ada. Yours Sze., -- J. F. S. or When Daniel Webster was deliver ing his memorable speech at the dedication of Bunker Hill monument; the crowd press ed forward to such an extent that some were fainting and some, being crushed. Officers strove in vain to make the crowd‘stand back. They said it could not be done. Some one asked. Mr. Webster .to make an appeal to them. The great orator came forward, stretched forth his band, and said in his deep stentorian tones, "Gentlemen stand . back !" " it can not ba done,." they, shouted.i " Gen- Alemcn, stand back," said be, without a change of. voice. "It is impossible, Mr. Webster impossible." "Impossible ?" ttFstere peated* r, "impossible ? Nothing is impossible on Bunker Rill,"_ and the vast 1 Crowd•swa ed, and rolled back likes mighty 1 .wave of the ocean. , ar Why is as idea like a pig ? Because you must catch it before you car pen it, For the fndeptudent Republican THE CHERRY VIIRRANT. Mgssna. Era:roils :=-It is doubtful whether you can fill a space in your,Agricultural De. partment more advantageously to your many patrons, than by transferring to it the follow. ing e, , itraCt, from the Minutes of the Ameri. can Institute Farmers' Club, (N. Y. City,) which I find reported In dial:rib/me of the , 20th ult. It relates to the description, mode of cul tivation, productiveness, dze., of a new (to this country, at least,) variety of that very common and inestimable small fruit—the Currant. .It is to be hoped Oat the hint it conveys will not be lost on the Farmers and Gardeners of our own county.- There is'no substantial reason why we may not reap a large profit in growing currants, as well as apples, butter, pigs, anclpoultry, for the mar ket, if we will but cultivate the best varieties. lkit least of all is there any reason wg -we should -continue to raise-the miserable, stunt ed, old-fashioned variety for our own palates and domestic uses, when a variety so incompar ably superior in 'every respect, can be grown just as easily, and in multipled "profusion.— As a matter of pecuniary interest alone--=to say nothing of‘tbe kxury of ,the thing—we must supersede our eld'style of bushes by the Cherry Currant. Doubts on the subject ace but a poor. refuge for excuse. The ex-' pe`use of a dozen bushes for the experiment is so trivial, as to bona obstacle in the way, if there is but "the will." Besides, where-can you find better authority in matters of this kind than Solon Robinson ? But to the ex• tract: Cherry Currauls.—Solon . Robinson asked the privilege of making a little statement about the value of improvements made upon our common fruits, as most particularly shown in the cherry currant. Some of the members of the Club, said Mr. R , will re member with what pleasure we looked Upon a specimen of the fruit of the cherry currant exhibited here last year by Charles F. Er hard, a German gardener, at Ravenswood, that beautiful little village on the bank of the East hover opposite Blackwell's Island. It was doubted by some whether such , currants could be grown, n a .flenerat thing, tb such perfection. don't'dOubt it—l have visited Mr. Erhard and seen how they will grow, and how they will compare with the erintstin sort growing in the same soil, and I am satis fied that all gardeners and all flirmers should get rid of - ta old style currant bushes, and replace them with those of this new variety as soon as possible; and it is possible very soon, for even now, great as the demand is ; the-sets can be bought for about VO a thou sand., As some persons• may inquire ; " What is •the cherry currant el have requested Mr. Erhard to allow me to.read paper prepar ed by •him, giving that information. It reads asfolloirs Description of the CheWy Curitant —lt is not a distinct species of the genus Ribes,— only a' new variety of Ribes .Rutruni, of which the red and white Dutch and many others are also varieties, It is, therefore, just as hardy as the common currant. The dis tinguishing properties of the cherry currant are:, Strong robust growth of the bush=the shoots being stouter, the leaves larger, and of a darker green, than the common sort. The blossom of the cherry currant is easily dis tinguisbedli ora the greenish yellow .blossom of the red and white Dutch by its, darker ,brownish color. But the 'greatest and most valuable distinction of the cherry currant con sists in the uniformly great size of the berries. They measure from half an inch to five-eighths of an inch in diameter, 'all the 'berries of a bunch being generally of nearly one size, while the bunches of the common currant ta per down-to a very small berry at the end. Beside this ; the berries are-also distinguisha ble by their dark red color. Another a very stril4ig feature of the cherry currant consists in the manner the bunches are dis tributed over the branches. While with the common currant the fruit is rather thinly— at, least, by comparison—scattered over the branches, the cherry currants hang in mas sive clusters so tight that' the stems of the fruit strings can scarcely be seen. Branches' of the bush of from one to three feet in length are often'unbroken clusters of luscious, fruit, which gives the bushel a charming rich ap pearance. ' Him, to fi rm', them.—Many farmers and market•gardeners seem to think these good qualities can only be brought out by very high culture, such as the amateur gardener only can bestow on a few vet bushes. This is an error. I would say : Manure, plow and hoe thorn asyou do your Indian corn, and you *ill hare them in as great perfection as . nurseryman. ' As the bushes grow very Strong, they should be planted not less than 4x4 feet, or, perhaps, 4x5 feet apart, which will give 2,178 plants per acre. I prefer th , atter method, and would plow only one way b • een them, allowing the branches 'to spread i.„ 1 .0 direc tion of the rows, so akto form so _ like s hedge. These rows should run and south, to shield the bushes from All , ttest mid-day sun. Shade to the fruit is in' tspen sable to bring it to perfection ; if too much exposed to the hot rays of the sun, the' ber ries ripen prematurely before they attain their full size. Now all the shade necessary to protect the fruit is furnished by the bush itself, if you do not disable it to do so by pruning and cutting away what was evident ly intended for that purpose; and this brings me to the shape in which' currant bushes should be pruned. lam aware ihat there exists a great difference of opinion among cultivators as to this „point. Many believe that the tree shape is decidedly the best; oth-- era think the bush furin,ftrith several branch es shoringing directly from ' the root, the bet ter and most natural shape. I have tried both ways, ,but prefer the latter method greatly. The great advantage of the, bush form, it seems to me, consists in the system of renewal which should be combined with it. . Suppose you plant young bushes with two prangs or-branches. Plant them deep and allow the fret year two shoots- to grow up from under the ground. These shoots will at the.same time send out their own roots and grow luxuriotisly. If you allow, then, every - year two more shoots to 'spring up from the root, you will, in the stammer of the fourth year love two branches each. five, four, three, two, and one year's growth. Six of these branches, that is, the five, four, and thine year , old' ones, will be loaded with fruiti the. two•yeare' growth may havc y 9410 berries, and those of this year's , growth will only be straight .'shouts. The bushes will now be as large as they should be, and the two five year old branches may be 'cut Out as soon as the fruit is picked; and henceforth; by allowing still two new shoots to come up , every year, and by cutting out the two old r est brandies after the gathering of the fruit, ..the bushes will be kept young and bear s fie fruit for Many years more. Of course thi s is only;, meant to elucidate the, general princi ple. The practical cultivator will know how to modify the above rule for every -individu al bush. Productiveness.—ln-cAlculating the profits ofe crop, great caution must be used, and casualties must not be forgotten. Although I-hive seen four year old bushes I that bpre nine pounds of berries to each'bush, I would not think it safe to put down the qvefage yield of a full- grown . five year old bush, trim med as above, at more than 'sir pounds.— This would amount to 13,008 pounds to an acre. The price of common currant's in the New — York market,. generally . very Small, sour things, varies from four to seven cents . per pound at wholesale, ~which certainly jus tifies the anticipation of six cents per pound for cherry currants for many' years to come, and this would make the value of the crop per acre-equal to *784. Expeosekof Cultivating and Gathering.- - Half at day' of plowingand three days of hoe. ing„ by one .man, will clean and stir the ground of one acre most effectually, which at ordinary wages of man and horse, will cost *3,50, which makes four plowings and hoe ings cost *l4. Picking 13,068 pounds, at one-third cent,per pound (about 15 cents per bushel), will be *43. If we allow *27 for,. manure every year, the whole expenses per acre would sum up to *B4, leaving *7OO clear, of which only the cost of bringing them to market would have to be deducted: Mr. Robinson continued :—Now,- air, sup pose you take this as the statement of an in ttrested nursery man—a man who is pat be ginning to make it his business to propagate this new—that is new in this country, it orig inated in France a few years ago—this new variety of currants. What then? 'Why simply this, truth is immutable, and no mat : ter by whiA uttered, it is truth still. And so far as what I can say will encourage the prop: agation_ of this. fruit I will do it by: indorsing every word in that paper. Nay,!.3l will more ; and here say that. the, statement is not exaggerated, it is below the fair estimate that would be made ,by any sensible man who has seen, as 1 hive seen, the bushes in full bearing. There is oneinore thing that I will say ; There are at thisftuothent tgris of thousands of acres of land upon Long Island covered with scrub oaks as worthless to , the world as their owners, every , acre of which could be made to yield the product and profit set forth in that paper, if some Man of means would set the idle men and women. of this city to work at the business of groyving thou sands of acres, and tens of thousands of tuns of This improved variety of currants. "4lut 'the market!" Fudge! The fruit can be /grown for two cents a pound, and then every family can cat 'it as a s eondimeht with their bread and meat every day in, the year and can afford to diink a delicious, wholesome wine—currant wine—insteactofget tin drunk and dying as they do now from poisoned stuff called beverages. While 0,16, then, bears the name of American Institute; let us by every argument we can use encourage the increased production of American fruits.— We have no need of sending- to Zante for currants, Madeira for grapes, or France for wine ; nor should the folly be any longer tol erated, except by a nation of ninnies, of im porting currant jelly. For the botependent Repliblicay. "liome."—To Xy Brother. You ask me to tell you of my home; and. I knew that while your eye glances'over these lines, your heart will be asking, " Does she forget the old home of. her ehildbood ?" Forget! Ah f brother, when the flowers wither in the'ehill frost, and the leaves fall, do we forget it was. once spring? When we lit in vain for a bird's song, and the . wintry winds howl - , do we forget the summer Zeph yrs and the trilled bird-melody ? So, over the bleak waste of years that stretches between the drear present and 'my childhood's home, I long and pray . for the glad sunlight ;I yearn for thee,•fOr thy, ten der, watchful love, my Brother. Last night, in-my drearn. s life, I put off the cares and trials of all these years and we to: gether wandered, as of old, by the'river-side, watching the waters ripple, Or, listening to sweet warblinge in the , boughs overhead-; anon gazing at the sunset, glory, Marveling in our childish way at its pageantry of pur ple and gold ; sometimes imagining we could' see the "pearly gates," and catch a glimpse of the "Irma, wlite throne ;" and then 7--- when the shadows fell—in subdued voices we talked of the other world ; and wondered when those radiant gates would open for us, oft repeating to each other " the sweet story of old." - Tithe went swiftly on, and there came the -parting, under the sha de: of the white and purple Vacs by the south do%ar. Your look was earnest and hopeful, and your voice firm ; but my heart tank with a nameless fear.— Was it a preseierlce of the coming yettrs of desolation I Well, we parted ; and ever since I have struggled with this great agony at my berth. My brother, - I have not told you of my home, and I cannot, with 'the memory of the past so fresh. I can only tell you, that the •childish image of the pearlygates. comes of. ten back, and perchance Lam nearer hams than ever before. We may soon meet there, and the shore of the death•river shall be our trysting place. There, shall we no more long, so wearily, for home" and for w "-shall be satisfied, when we awake- in r likeness." MAY PZACY. • JOLLY Lira.—lnsects generally must lead a truly jovial life. Think what it must tie to lodge in a lily. Imaline a palace of. ivory or pearl, with a pillar of silver and cap itals of gold, all exhaling such aperfume as never rose from human censer. Fancy again the fun of tucking yourselves up for thnnight in the folds of, a - rose, rocked to sleep by the gentle sigh of the 'summer Mr, nothing to do when you awake but wash yourselves in' a dewdrop, and fail to and eat your , bedclothes. Neier purchase fripode by gifts, for if you ow to give, they will eelieo_t4 { H. H. FRAZIER, PUB LISHER-7V 0.L.4.0.. 82. gunumEn. Now the san, with burning glare, Lengthens noontide hours ; Men to cooling vales repair, - /Or to shady bowers. Slowly through .the meadow-green Sluggish streams arc flowing; All along their banks are seen Roses deeply glowing. - Come, we'll seek the leafy grove, Sip the cooling fours n, And, when evening s%is i we'll rove • Round the shady mountain. • Then, at nighgall, will we throng Home through balmy flowers; - And, with many a, grateful song, Bless the summer hours. ' CHARLES MACKAY IN A SLAVE MIN. Tnz following is from a recent letter of Charles Mackay to the London Illutrated. Yews On my. first arrival' at New Orleans, I lin gered fora-few moments at the open door of a slave depot, without daring to go in, lest I should he suspe e pted of espionage, or mere curiosity, and exPelled. But seeing among the company an eminent merchant of New York,- whose friendship I had been fortunate enough to make, and whom I knew to be no slave dealer or supporter of slavery, I walked , in awd joined' his party 4. drawn thither like myself by curiosity. Ow'one side of the room the male slaves ' with clean linen and shining new hats and boots, were arranged ; pad on the-other the females were disposed in theist best attire, most of them exceeding ly neat, bttt some bedizened with ribbons, of colors more flaring and tawdry thin _elegant or appropriate. I was immediately beset wifb entreaties to purchase. "Buy me," said i young negress, who spoke Frenetkand no,English ; " I am a good cook and a gtod needlewoman. Buy, me," "Buy me," said another in the same lan guige ; "I am accustomed to children, and can inks myself useful in the nursery." felt a sensation somewhat similar to that of the first qualm of sea-sickness to be thus addressed by my fellow-creatures--a feeling of nausea, as if I were about to he ill. I fold the poor women that l:was a stranger, who had not come to buy. But they were incred ulous • and — when at -last convinced they re turned to their seats with a sigh: and sn ex pression of deep disappointment on their dark and good-humored jeaturese I entertained' such a hatred of slavery, that had -it been' in my power to abolish it in ono instant off the ace of the earth by the mere expression of my will, at that instant slavery would have ceased to exist. • I then walked he male side of the slave mart, where I was beset by tinailar entreat ies, 'urged iwovery variety of tone and man ner, and by almost every variety of laborer and handi-craftsman. Some were accustom ed to the cotton, and some to the sugar plan tation ; some were carpenters ' son'id garden ers, smile- coachmen, some' barbers, some waiters—but all equally anxious to be sold. One men—who ko my inexperienced eyes seemed-as-white as myself, and whom I at once put down in• my own mind as an Irish man of the pureSt quality, of the county of Cork_ got up from' his seat as I passed, and asked me t trZbuy hint " I am a good gardener, your ho)lor," said he with an unmistakable broguti " f am 's' so-a bit of a carpenter, and can look after the horses; and can 'do any_ sort l of a job about the hiiuse." " But you are joking," said I, "you are an it iAman ?" "My hither was an Irishman," he said. At this moment the slave dealer and own er of the depot came up. " •.• " Is there' not a mistake hero ?" I inquired. "This is a white man.' " His mother was a nigger," hfi . replied.— " We have sometimes much whiter men for sale than he is. Look at his hair and lips. There is no mistake about hint." " • Again the sickness came over Me,' and I longed to get, into the open air to breathe a purer atmosphere. " I would hke to buy that mall and set him free," I said to one of .our party. 41 You would do him no good," was the reply. " A manumitted slave has seldom any self-1.61#° or energy. Slavery so - de• grades and cripples the, moral faculties of the negroes that they require the clutch, even in freedom, and cannot walk They find it impossible to compete with the poor whites, and if left to thetriselves, sink into the lowest and most miserably paid oc. cupattons." - You are an Englishman, and a traveler," said the slave dealer, " and I should be much obliged to you if you would put any ques tions to the negroes." • ;..1 " What questions r said 1. "Shall I ask them whether they prefer Freedom or Slaw ; don u t mean that," he replied. "Ask them whether Ido not treat them well— whether lam not kind to them—whether they do not - have plenty to.' eat and drink while they are with me 1" I told him that I had ao doubt of the fact; that they looked clean, comfortable, and well fed ; bift—and in that " but" lay the whole case, though the worthy dealer of New Or leans was total!, incapable of comprehend. ing it. The same feeling Roma to exist all through the slave States. But more of this hereafter.. , CURIOSITIES OF WATER.--Water exists around us to an extent and under .conditions which escape the notice of cursory observers. When the dyer buys of the dry 'salter one 'hundred pounds each of alum,' carbonate - of soda, and. soap, he. obtains, in exchange for his money, no less than - to:if : five pounds of water in the first lot, sixty-four pounds - ili the second, and a variable quantity, sometimes amounting to seventy-three and a haftiounds; - , in the third. Even the transparent air we= ' breathe. contains, in ordidary weather, about five grains of water ditruseilAhrongh each cubic foot of its bulk, and thus adified wa ter-no more wets the air , than the _Solidified water wets the lime or opal in - which._ it is absorbed. og a plaster of Paris statue i weighing fivelibutuds 'nor .; than • one good pound is solidified water. er. Even the precious opal is but a MASS of fli n and water, coin bind in the , proportion cif ninegrains of the, earthly ingredient to, one . of the fluid. -Of an acre of clay laud a foot - deep, weighing about one" thousand two hundred ions, at least four hundred tons are . water i." ' - and even of the great mountain chains With, WWI tba globe is ribbed; many millione, of term ore .water iolkaeLl int<tillt. - 'L: ''- ' IM=l 4: • A MIGRATORY ROSE. Strange as the heading of this paper may,./ appear to the reader, the flower is neverthe-, less an entity—a 'thing that exists, and may' be handled ;_a plant almost as regular as the swallow in its fittings to and. fro; one that travels many miles annually; and what is more, a fashionable one resorting to the:sea side during the hottest season to indulge in a swim among the cool billmis of the Mediter ranean. name of this remarkable vege table phenomenon is ilasialica hierochutati ca among the. botanists ; the. Rose of Jericho. with the unlearned. Very many superstitions are connected wit - this extraordinary plarit,irahe, minds of' 14douins and other Arab tribes.. The an: eients attribute miraculous virtues- to die' Rose of Jericho. Dispensing with' the nc- . ; tions of both, however, there remains to us quite a sufficient charm about this apparently insignificant shrub, which seldom attains 'six inches in height, to apologize for introducipg the subject to, our readers. To behold this little rose, it is not necessa ry to'tell you "to go to Jericho;'.' no such uncomplimentary journey is required. In the arid wastes of Egypt, by the boider.s the Gaza deiert, in Arabia's wilderness of— 'sands, on the roofs of houses — and among-rub bish in Syria, abundant specimens are to be met with. rut,' like many -other -things of magnificent exterior, few pause to look upon; or handle this way-Side shrub, which never. theless carries with it a lesson and a moral. By the laws of germane/km, there are, we are told', these three things 'nressary for i plani—humidity, heat, and oxygenized air. The first of them is indispensable, inasmuch as without it the grain or seed will not swell, and withour.swelling could not burst the shell or skin; and heat, in, union with water, brings various gases to young plants—espe cially oxygen-z-which is necessary for its ex istence. With these facts before us, and a knowledge that rain seldom falls in most _places where the Rose of Jericho thrives, how are we to - account for the ettraordinary circumstanced of this plant being periodically abundant and - flowering at precisely the seine season year after year, when, by the acknowledged laws of germination, there hassbeen that succor want ing which is indispensable to propagate vego tation 1 Now appears the most remarkable and most direct interposition of nature for her offspring—an interposition little short of miraculous, and, indeed, apparently so f-csbu lobs as to be unworthy of record. But the fact has been established - beyond doubt that, for its own purposes, this little plant per forms annual journeya over a large extent of country, and into the ocean, whence, at a stated period, itor rather its offspring, turns to the' original haunts, takes root, thrives, and blossoms. In-the height of spring s when nature, casts her brilliant vesture, set with flowers and flowerets of a hundred various hees,,ovei- the fertile hills and valleys of Palestine; when every breeze is laden withrichincense - from , orangelroves or honeysuckle dells, then, un heeded, amidst the, rich profusion of vegeta tion, or isolated amid the desert sands, blos soms the tiny Itose of Jericho. On house-tops, where the sun's' fierce rays rend the crevices —on dust-heaps; where half-starved wretched curs prowl and dig fer food or ayest ing place—where multitudes throng the streets, and where neither foot of man nor beast has ever left imprint on the broiling' sand, there sprout the wonderful Apanatica hieroehuntira. When sum - mer.hatthirly set. in, and flowering shrubs have ceased to blos sora—about the game season-of, the year that Mr. Bull and his family are meditating a month's trip to the lea-side for fresh breezes and sea-bathing, when the whole house is turned topsy-turvy in the pleasurable excite-, ment of packing for a month's holiday—the' Rose of Jericho begins - to-show symptoms of a migratory disposition alSo. 'How astonish ishe Mr. Brown would ; - be if his gardener rushed in with the startling intelligence that some faVorlte rose-bush or other plant in the garden had evinced sudden signs, of restless ness, and, after a few prelifninary efforts, had quietly taken itself off for the season 'Hadji Ismail, the Bedouin camel-driver who witnesses the phenomenon annually,.tn countering scores of migratory Analtatica hierochtottica, simply pauses to stroke his beard and fresh charge his' pipe; while he pours into the eager ears of some untravelled novice legends about this _wonderful rose--- legendk replete with fairy romance, in which almost iniariably a certain Unmentionable 'gentleman comes in for a volley :of 'invec tives, as being the instigator of this tnysteri lns freak of nature. . The first symptoms the' Rose of. Jericho 'gives of an approaching tour is the s hedding ( of all her leaves; the branches then collapse, apparently wither, and roll. themselves firm ly into a ball. Like the'fairies that travelled in dut-shells,''this plant ensconces itself in its own framework of a convenient shape, size and weight for _undertaking the necessary journey. , Not long has the tower assumed this shape when strong land hieezes sweep over the land, blowing hot anUteroely to wards the ocean. In their onward course, these land winds uproot and carry with them. the buttes or fram,ework of.: our rose:; and' once uprooted, • these :are tossed and 'blown over many and triatry a dreary mile of 'desert sand. - till they are finally whirled up into the air, and swept over the coaXtinto the ocean. Soon atter the little plant comes into ;con tact with the waterit unpacks again; unfolds itself, expands ita 'branches, and expels its seeds from the seed vessels.: Then, I pre sume, the mother plant finishes her comer ; or is stranded,a` wreck upon the sea belch.— Howeier this may be, it seems evident 'amt. the seeds, after having been thoroughly sat=“ . iirated viith . water, are biought .back,..by the_ waves, and '.c ast high and dry upon the beach. When thciresterly winds set In with violence 'from the they. carry thou; seeds hack with the Seanering them far and •wide`over thedest*kn. .dliMiong.the - intiabited land ; and' so eatery as the spring-,titne comei round .will desolate bordera ot the aesert be en livened by the tiny blossoms of the Rose of Jericho.4,--ChwithorsVoilrnal. etcentrio Niealtbyge44,un*ninck up a , board in 'a, field' ripon wida was paipted' vfat giri 0 this field any intaiiiho beinitentid." 110 - 'seson bad an *Omit. 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