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[From the New Bedford Mercury.]
THE HORSE.
We make the following extracts from an
interesting lecture delivered recently by Hon.
Zadock Pratt before the Mechanics' Institute
in New York. The lecturer stated that in the
course of a long and active life of more
than three score years, he had worn out
more than a thousand horses in his service,
and a strong love for the subject had indu
ced him to give it more than ordinary atten
tion. His remarks would be principally the
result of his own experience and observa
tion.
The horse family is distinguished from all
other animals by having an undivided hoof,
and a simple stomach. It is divided into two
classes; the common horse, with its varieties
of work horse, carria.ae, hunter and race
horse,. all of which have important peculiari
ties, which I shall mention; and that class,
the type of which is the common jackass,
and which includes the quaaga and zebra,
not found in this country, and I may say, not
wanted either.
The horse is undoubtedly the most useful
and manageable of all animals known to
man. In gracefulness of carriage, dignity of
motion, and in obedience to the will of his
master, he is superior to every other quadru
ped. Lively and full of spirits, he is yet
'gentle and tractable. Keen and ardent, he is
more firm and persevering than any other an
imal, and all these qualities especially fit
him for the purposes to which man has ap
plied him. He works patiently and steadily
at the plough, or in drawing a loaded carriage;
he deports himself with pride, while whirling
along the pleasure vehicle, or jingling the
merry bells of the quick moving sleigh. He
sometimes dances with delight as he prances
along with his martial rider on his back, and
he enters upon the race with as keen a zest
as hls owner, seeming to exult in success, or,
with downcast head, to experience shame in
defeat. Whilst ministering to so many mul
tiplied wants of man dnring life, his remains
are applied to many important branches of
manufacture, though civilized nations make
no use of his flesh, it is quite an important
item in the food of many barbarian tribes,
where it is considered a delicacy, and a spir
itous liquor is made from the milk of the
mare, which is eagerly sought after, as the
intoxicating wine by us.
And now let me give you my idea of a
good horse.
- He should be about fifteen and a half hands
high; the head light, and clean made 3 wide
between the nostrils, and the nostrils them
selves large, transparent, and open ; broad in
the forehead; eyes, prominent, clear, and
sparkling; ears, small, and neatly set on ;
neck, rather short, and well set up; large
arm or shoulder, well thrown back, and
high ;withers arched and high; legs, fine,-
flat, thin, and small boned ; body, round, and
rather light, though sufficiently large to af
ford substance when it is needed ; full chest,
affording ample play for the lungs; back,
short, with the hind quarters set on rather
obliquely. Any one possessing a horse of this
make and appearance, and weighing eleven
or twelve hundred pounds, may rest assu
red that they have a horse of all work, and
a bargain which is well worth getting hold
of.
After alluding at length to the various
races of horses in foreign countries, the
lecturer proceeded to speak of those in our
own.
With regard to horses of America, we learn
that large numbers were brought over by the
early Spanish and English discoverers- The
first were imported by Columbus, on his sec
ond voyage, 1493. The first brought to any
territory now belonging to the United States,
were landed in Florida, in 1527, by Cabaca
de Vaca. They were allowed to .run loose
during the dissensions that followed, and
multiplied to an almost incredible extent, es
pecially in South America. Although the
climate in S. America would seem to be sui
table for the proper developement of the
horse, as it is for cattle, yet he has never at
tained more than secondary importance. In
large wild herds they roam about, acting in
admirable concert to oppose the attacks of
wild beasts, who share the vast_ wilderness
with them. Men have often fallen victims
to their temerity in approaching them, and
travellers have frequently found their own
horse shake off their burdens, break away
from restraint, and dash off to meet a body of
their free companions, if they happen to meet
ihem. The natives take them with the las
so, and only ride the horses, leaving the
mares to run wild. They make no attempts
to breed, but catch a horse when they need
him, and break him to their use by the most
violent measures. They never bring them
to market, and it is said that a foreigner,
who was once riding a mare, was so hooted
at and pelted by the natives that he narrowly
Wiped with his life.
The wild horses found in North America
when the west was first explored, were
more hardy ; they were of spanish extrac
tion, and had been brought into use by the
natives to a great extent, though many wild
herds of immense numbers still roam
freely over the praries of our western territo
ries.
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The race of horses which originated those
nolv used in this country, and in Canada,
were imported from various nations.
In 1609 one horse and six mares were
brought to Virginia from England. In 1625
a few Dutch horses from Holland, were im
ported into New Netherlands. now the State
of New York. In 1604, M. L• Escabot
brought the first horse into Canada and No
va Scotia, then known by the Indian name
of Acadia. The first horse brought into
Massachusetts, was from England, and was
imported by Francis Higginson, in 1629.
In 1678, they existed in considerable num
bers in Louisiana. The Indians on Red riv
er, in Texes, used them in 1609. The early
French settlers in Illinois, had them in con
siderable numbers in 1770.
The same vessels brought over the first im
portations of cattle, sheep and swine, and
they have increased so as to form a most as
tonishing portion of the wealth of the coun
try.
In the present year, 1855, the number of
horses may be set down at five millions,
worth on the average, sixty dollars a piece
and valued in all three hundred millions of
i - lollars. The whole number of horned cattle
is estimated at twenty millions, averaging
twenty dollars, and valued at four hundred
millions of dollars.
The number of sheep, is twenty-three mil
lions, at two dollars, equalling forty-six mil
lions of dollars.
The present estimated value of swine, is
one hundred and sixty - millions of dollars, be
ing thirty-two millions head, worth on the
average five dollars a piece.
From the small beginnings I have men
tioned, the whole value to this country, is
now the immense sum of nine hundred mil
lions of dollars, and the value of the land
used for agricultnral purposes, is three billion
and five hundred millions of dollars, the
whole covering an area of about three hun
dred and five millions of acres.
The West Indian horses may properly be
classed with those of America, and they gen
erally exhibit the characterizing marks of the
nation to which the island may belong.
The Canadian horses are of French origin,
and to this stock we are indebted for most of
the trotting horses of the United States. It
is a marked peculiarity of the Canadian horse
that he always trots, as the Arabian horse al
ways canters. Other breeds exhibit all the
peculiarities of movement, including the
trot, canter, and amble, but the Arabian horse
never- trots, the Canadian rarely
canters. Beside the trotting horse, we are
indebted to Canada for many of the most
serviceable specimens of the cart and dray
horse, of their size, and in the northern part
of this State, in Vermont, and other sections
of the Canada line, they are met with in
great abundance.
The United States do not, as I have men
tioned, possess anything which can be cal
led a native stock, but many of the horses
found here ate superior to any others, owing
to judgment in ciossieg breeds, care in rais
ing, and by a close observation of all circum
stances which will improve good
.qualities
and correct defects, so that I may say, with
out hesitation, and after long observation,
that they combine all the excellence of other
nations. It was supposed that the horse sent
from Morocco to Gen. Jackson, and the Mus
cat horses sent to President Taylor, would
materially improve the American race, but
they were small, though just made, and I
think the country has derived no benefit from
their possession.
Much of this excellence is obtained by
changing a horse from one section to anoth
er, provided the change of climate is not one
which will have a deleterious effect. Thus
a horse brought from the Western privies
to the sea side, soon gains in weight, pow
er of endurance and vaiue ; and the same is
observed when an Eastern horse is carried
West. A horse with the heaves taken from
New York to Illinois, will be cured of the
disease, and I have noticed many other fovo
rable changes. Still there is always more or
less necessity for acclimation, but a judicious
course of management will result in much
good to the horse. The change, however,
will be injurious, if the new climate is not
healthy. Thus, a horse taken from here to
South Carolina, soon depreciates andbecomes
of less value. A. horse taken to Mexico feels
the change of climate at first very sensibly,
but the purity of the air, and the excellence
of the feed,. soon adds largely to his useful
ness and value, and he is much more highly
estimated than the native Mexican mustang,
who partakes of the uncertain and flighty
character of the people who raise him. A
horse brought from Kentucky or the Wes
tern States, or from Canada, requires about
a year to become acclimated to our seetion.
Our own horses, when taken west, are deem
ed far superior to any others. On a trip to
Kentucky, I was riding on a stage, and asked
the driver where he obtained his horses. He
replied that they came from northern New
York, that they were brought out there by
some parties who had a small contract, and
were liked so well that they always kept
them. Their own, he said arrived at maturi
ty earlier but did not last half as long, that
the Nev; York horses far exceeded them in
endurance, and there were no such thing I
as driving them off the track. The Kentucky
and Tennessee horses are good for the saddle,
but not for the collar. In fact, custom is ev
erything, and though it will sometimes do
much towards training a horse for uses to
which he is naturally unfit, yet any horse ac
customed to the harness can rarely be - .made
serviceable for the saddle, and a good saddle
horse is soon spoiled if the collar is put upon
him. As the God of nature has not endow
ed any one mar, with all knowledge, so he
seems to have distributed the qualifications
of animals, in such a manner that judicious
management will make each superior in a
different and distinct sphere. I was once in
Boston looking at the immense truck horses,
and inquired where they came from. I was
told that they were obtained from the high
lands of New Hampshire and Vermont. They
were better for that purpose than any others,
while for the lighter spring carts of this sec
tion, the heavy eastern horse is not so suit
able.
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HUNTINGDON, MAY 23, 1855.
The slow Canastago horse of Pennsylva
nia was formerly used in teeming over the
Alleghanies ; they weighed from fourteen to
sixteen hundred pounds, and I have found
from experience, that they had not the endu
rance to labor as the horses of our section.
Once the custom was to esteem the Nar
ragansett pacer as the best horse in the coun
try ; but that was prior to the Revolution,
and before my time, though 1 well recollect
several fine specimens of the breed.
The horses of Carolina, Georgia, and other
southern States, cannot work as well as those
of a more temperate climate. In fact, I have
frequently observed that the horse attained a
higher degree of excellence in a temperate
section, while mules and the darkey are fitted
for the south. No horse can endure labor all
the time. A few months in the pasture after
being high fed, and worked for several years,
will renew his energies, as stated periods of
rest and recreation will preserve the vital en
ergies of man unimpaired through a long
life ; and by a wise law of providence, which
is as beneficial to the beast as to the man, a
horse will do more labor in the six days, than
if he were worked the whole seven.
In reference to the peculiar excellence of
the horses of this State, I might say that I
have driven a pair two hundred and forty
miles in three days ; or eighty miles per day,
without any injury. Amongst the many
hundreds, and perhaps thousands of drivers
and teamsters in my employ, I had a slow
moulded man by the name Dana Brown,
who drove for me some ten years, and always
drew the largest loads in the same time, and
with less fatigue to his horses, than any oth
er driver I ever knew. His horses would
look better on the same food than those of
any other, and they always appeared in good
condition, while those in charge of others
gave unmistakable evidence of improper
usage. Forty, fifty, and even sixty hundred
weight has he drawn over the Catskill moun
tains with one pair of horses , and lam only
doing him an act of justice to say that he
never wore out a lash, and hardly a snapper
in the whole time.
Whilst other teamsters had sick horses,
his were always in good condition. The
whole number of teams I had in one year,
averaged in every three working days, 2500
pounds to Plattville, and 3000 pounds to
Catskill, a distance of 36 miles, making
about two and a half millions of pounds in
all. I mention these facts, as illustrating the
great benefit of good management of horses,
and of good roads.
In feeding a horse, it should be remem
bered that corn has a tendency to make him
slow, as may be witnessed in the slow mo
ving corn fed horses of Ohio. Oats are more
suitable to develope all his qualities, and
from 12 to 16 quarts per day should be giv
en.
With regard to the natural longevity of a
horse, nothing can be said with certainty.—
hey have been known to live 30 or 40, and
in some rare instances, even 60 years; but
ill usage frequently destroys them before
they are nine or ten. I think that under or
dinary circumstances, fourteen years would
be a fair average.
Frain the Washington Sentinel.
A Brief History of the Acts and Do
ings of the Massachusetts Legis2a
ture---Roxbury---Mr. Hiss---Mrs. Pat-
terson---Know-Nothingism.
Few histories are reliable. Old histories
are for the most part, made up of stupid fa
bles and absurd superstitions. They were
written long after the occurrence of the
events they narrate, before printing was dis
covered, and made up from dusty scrolls and
wretched parchments. The sources of all
ancient histories, to say the least, are suspi
cious.
The truest histories are those written by
men who are eye-witnesses of the events
they relate. Yet such histories, even, are
not beyond criticism and not free from sus
picion. Events often times occur in the
presence of a number of men, it may be a
small or a large number. It rarely happens
that all of the number concur in their narra
tives of such events. Conflicts and contra
dictions usually distinguish their statements.
Even in courts of juitice, where men are
put on oath, respectable men, and where the
issues of life and death are involved, it sel
dom happens that two men give the same
testimony. This is a sad commentary on
the value of human testimony.
But there is one thing that has happened
in our day, and in our country, before our
eyes, in reference to which all national men
:agree. rt is the course ar.d conduct of the
State of Massachusetts. When the historian
takes his pen in hand to record the even is of
which we speak, he will not be at a loss for
the material wherewith to compose that his
tory. The records of the present Legisla
ture will be suMcient.
Those records will inform him that that
Legislature has taken, not one, but many
steps backwards•. That it has gone back,
not only to the horrible and revolting blue
law days : not only to the scarcely less re
volting period, when crop-eared covenanters
alternately howled and prayed, but to those
more distant and more miserable times,
when priestcraft asserted dominion over men,
both spiritual and temporal, arid when su
perstition, that curse alike of the ignorant
and the over-learned, taught men to culti
vate vices for virtues, and to worship devils
for gods.
In that saintly and scholarly Massachu
setts Legislature, there are, we believe, two
score and ten canting parsons. Not God's
ministers. Not Bible ministers, but wolves
in sheeps's clothing, who are infected with
every ism in politics, and who burn with
every fierce passion that man is subject to.
They are not the meek disciples of their
humble savior, but severe and loud-mouthed
sons of thunder. Not content with preach
ing religion, they must needs preach politics.
When the Bible is in their way, they con
strue it out of their way. When the consti
tution imposes a barrier to their insane pro
gress, they boldly break it down. These
men, we believe, are all know-nothings and
all abolitionists.
Besides this canting crew of reckless and
wretched hypocrites, the Massachusetts leg
islature contains a vile set of scrub politi
cians and gutter demagogues, who have ris
en by espousing some ascendant isms and by
pandering to some prevailing caprice. Bed
lam exhibits no crazier assemblage—Five
Points, no more vulgar ruffianism.
From a legislature thus composed of Ab
olitionized Know-nothing fanatics, and hyp
ocritical religious dissenters, nothing good
could be expected. Yet, in the sunlight of
this enlightened, nineteenth century, so
much of evil could hardly be expected as is
exhibited in the proceeding of the body.
It has passed resolution setting aside the
fugitive slave law, and making any citizen
of Massachusetts incapable of holding a
State office who recognizes it, or aids in its
execution. It has resolved against the ad
mission of any new slave State into the
Union, whether the people of such State de
sire slavery or not. It has protected vile
Emigrant Aid Societies designed to send lep
rous vagabonds to settle Kansas, and expel
slavehotders and their rightful property.—
It has passed an address praying the Gover
nor to degrade Judge Loring by expulsion
from the judicial bench, because, in confor
mity to his oath as a United States Commis
sioner, he sought to give efficiency to the
Constitution and the laws passed in pursu
ance of it, in the case of the fugitive slave,
Anthony Burns. It. appointed a Nunnery
Committee to persecute, vex, and insult
Catholics, men, women, and children. It
sent that committee out on its disgraceful
mission, charged with high powers, and arm
ed with all the authority of law.
True to the mission to which it was ap
pointed, that august committee visited pub
lic and private Catholic seats of learning and
of piety. The crowning glory of that com
mittee was exhibited at Roxbury, where
helpless girls and unprotected women were
subject to close scrutiny in their persons,
their bed rooms, their wardrobes and their
trunks—where they were alarmed by Satyr
leers, insulted by coarse propositions, and
outraged by brutal ruffianism:
The chief Hero arid head devil of this
committee was one Mr. Hiss. a representa
tive from the godly and "solid" city of Bos
ton—the seat of learning and refinement—
the "Athens of America." Appreciating
the designs of the Legislature, and true to
the high functions expected of him, Mr.
Hiss gave himself free scope and ample lati
tude. Not content with the insulting ten
derness he exhibited towards the pious and
unprotected ladies at Roxbury,.he signalized
himself by a notorious love adventure at the
neighboring hotel. He recorded a name
more infamous than immortal, among the
memorable names of his brother committee
men—that of Mrs. Patterson. She passed
for a member of the Legislature, and her ho
tel bill was charged (at Mr. Hiss's instance)
to the State.
These freaks, frolics and follies soon be
came rumored abroad, and entwined with the
names of the nunnery committee and asso
ciated with the euphonical name of Hiss
that of Mrs. Patterson has become famous.
"Billy Patterson" made it notorious before;
Mrs Patterson has by her exploits added to
its lustre.
Mr. Hiss both gained and lost by these
transactions. He has been nominated for
the Presidency, with Mrs. Patterson on the
ticket, for Vice President. That much he
gained. His loss was—his good name, and his
seat in the Legislature.
No sooner did these disreputiable transac
tions get abroad, than a committee was ap
pointed to investigate and report upou the
conduct of the nunnery committee. Days
and weeks were consumed in the investiga
tion. Finally, the committee reported and
recommended the expulsion of Hiss from the
body of which he had been so gay a member
and so shining ornament. The report was
adopted almost by acclamation. Thus the
gay, the sportive amorous Hiss, has been
made the scapegoat of the nunnery commit
tee and of the Legislature by which it was
appointed.
The report of the investigating committee
now stands permanently on the records of
the Massachusetts Legislature—the grave,
the godly and the learned Massachusetts
Legislature ! A report, the most foul in its
vulgar details, the most coarse in its minute
description of the tavern scenes, that ever
was made to any assemblage. Those who
have read this report will know to what we
allude, those who have not, are better and
more innocent in their ignorance.
Massachusetts is the black sheep in the
fold of this Union. Her former glory has
departed. She is disgraced. All of her
most prominent acts, passed by her present .
Legislature, look to secession. Why does she
not secede ?' The Union would be far more
respectable without her. In the above we
have faithfully described' Massachusetts
Know-Nothingism.
EXCITEMENT IN THE MASSACIUTSETTS
BOSTON, May T4.—There was considerable
confusion and excitement in the House of
Representatives this afternoon from the fact
that Mr. Hiss, the expelled member, twice
resumed his vacant seat, and was each time
removed by the sergeant-at-arms at the order
of the House, passed nearly unanimously.—
It is presumed that Mr. Hiss acted in this
singular manner at the advice of his counsel,
B.F. Butler and Benj. Dean, who have pub
lished an address denouncing the expulsion
of Mr. Hiss as an aibitrary exercise of power,
and intimating that the House feared impor
tant development to be made in the case.
KNOW NOTHINGISM FADING.—Last week
the Intelligencer, of Petersburg, Va., the
Know-Nothing paper of that city, predicted
the defeat of the Democrats at that city elec
tion, by a majority of about 2000 ! The re
sult shows a Democratic majority of 152 on
the Mayor's vote and for one of the other
Democratic candidates (Grosham over Alley)
a majority of 380 !—Against two of the
Democratic candidates the Know-Nothings
did not deem it prudent to bring out candi
dates. On the whole, the result is a glori
ous Democratic victory. Thus is Know
Nothiulsm fading.
LATURE
Proceedings of the Executive Committee
of the Pennsylvania State Agricultu
ral Society.
The first quarterly meeting of the Execm
tive Committee of the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural Society, was held at the office of
said Society, in Harrisburg, on Tuesday the
17th April, 1855.
President of the Society in the chair.—
Members present, Messrs James Gowen, H.
N. M'Allister, A. 0. Heister, John Strohm,
A. M'lllvaine, James Miles, Tsaac G. WKin
ley, Thomas P. Knox George H. Bucher,
William Bigler, David Mumma, Jacob S. Hal
deman, Alfred L. Elwyn, Algernon S. Rob
erts, John P. Rutherford and Robert C Walk
er.
Two communications were received from
Chauncey E Goodrich, of Utica, N. Y., ac
companying a large variety of seedling po
tatoes which were sent by him for the use of
the Society. The potatoes were properly dis
tributed among the members, with a request
that a report upon each variety as to their
product and adaptedness to the soil of Penn
sylvania, be made at a future meeting. The
thanks of the Society were voted to Mr.
Goodrich. Also, communications from Isaac
B. Baxter and Frederick Watts, regretting
their inability to attend the meeting of the
Executive Committee.
Also, a communication from Peter A.
Browne, of Philadelphia, recommending, the
introduction into Pennsylvania of the "Ango
ra Goat." The letter was authorized to be
published in the transactions. Also, a commu
nication from Joseph Bailey, proposing to
sell a tract of ]and in Perry county to the
trustees of the Farmer's High School of Penn
sylvania, which was referred to said trus
tees.
A communication proposing to donate two
or two hundred and fifty acres of land in Cen
tre county for the purpose of an Agricultural
School, was received from Gen. James Irvin,
and referred to the trustees of the Farmer's
High School.
The following resolutions Tele offered by
H. N. IVPAllister, and unanimously agreed
to.
Resolved, That the thanks of the friends
of agricultural science are justly due to Gen.
James Irvin, of Centre county, for his gener
ous offer of 200 or 250 acres of land to the
Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania, on
condition that the institution be located there
on.
Resolved, That the Secretary be, and he is
hereby directed to lay before the trustees the
proposition of Gen. Irvin, and the proposition
of James Miles, Erie county, as published in
the proceedings of the iato 2annunl -meeting,
together with all similar offers which shall
be received prior to the meeting of the trus
tees in June next.
Resolved, That in the hope of exciting em
ultition and inducing similar propositions
frOM the citizens of other sections of the
State, the above resolutions be published:
James Gowen, chairman of the committee
to prepare a premium list for the next
annual exhibition, made report, which, after
being amended, was adopted, and two thou.
sand copies ordered to be published in pam
phlet form.
In accordance with the constitution; (this')
being the first quarterly meeting,) George,H.
Butcher was re-appointed Treasurer, and
Robt. C. Walker Recording Secretary for the
ensuing year.
The correspondence between David Land
reth, President of the "Philadelphia Society
for promoting agriculture," and the Hon.
Marshall P. Wilder, President of the United
States Agriculctura Society, upon the sub
ject of the latter society holding ancexhibi
tion in Pennsylvania, presented.by Algernon
S. Roberts.
The correspondence being before the com
mittee, a resolution was offered by A. S.
Roberts. to the effect that the assent of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society be
given to the United States Agricultural Soci - -
ety to hold an exhibition this fall, in Pennsyl
vania, which gave rise to considerable dis
cussion. The assent was refused. Those
opposed to•the resolution, and who were
largely in the majority ; took the ground that
our own State Agricultural Society and its
auxiliary county societies were abundantly
able to manage all the functions pertaining
to them within the bounds of this Common
wealth, and that the appointing and" conduct
ing of agricultural exhibitions here could
not be properly entrusted to any extraneous
association whatever.
On motion of David Mumma, it was resol
ved that the Corresponding Secretary be re
quested to correspond with and select a suit
able parson to deliver the aunual address at
the next exhibition.
On motion, the committee adjourned
THE OUTRAGES IN KANSAS.-A high state
of excitement prevails in Kansas Territory,
concerning the recent outrages perpetrated
in that country. A leader of the Pro-Sla
very Party, named Clark, has been killed at
a public meeting at Leavensworth. A dis
pute arose as to which party had the majori
ty. Mr. Clark claimed it for his party, and
McCrea of the Anti-Slavery party, replied
that this was a lie. Hereupon Clark struck
McCrea with a club, stunning him; but as
soon as he came to himself, he drew a revol
ver and shot his assailant dead. This done,
he escaped, though shots were fired at him.
Fir.ally his friends gave him up to the Uni
ted States officers at the fort, in whose cus
tody he remained, though a desire to take
him out and lynch him was manifested.
LADIES FASDION.—The Elk Advocate, in
noticing Graham's Magazine, says :
Those who cannot get the May No. in
time, may thank us for telling them how
they can be in fashion. Get what you please
for your summer dress; something not too
heavy would be preferable—linsey, wool
sey for instance. Make it to suit your
self only have a flounce on every spot where
you can make one stick. Flounces are all
the rage w ith the Paris ladies, and why
should the Elk county ladies be behind their
French cousins.
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VOL. 10, NO. 49.
An Act to Protect 'Keepers of Hotels,
Inns and Boarding Houses.
i SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As
' sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, That whenever the
proprietor or proprietors of any hotel, inn or
boarding house shall provide a good, suffi.-
cient and secure safe in the office of such ho
tel or other convenient place for the safe keep
ing of any money, goods, jewelry and valu
ables belonging to the guests and boarders of
such hotel, inn or boarding house, and shall
notify the guests and boarders thereof by pla
cing in every lodging-room, parlor and public
hall or other conspicuous places, printed
cards or notices stating that such safe is pro
vided, in which such goods, jewelry and val
uables may be deposited, and that the pro
prietor or proprietors thereof will not be res
ponsible for said money, g oods, jewelry and
valuables, unless deposited in said sate, and
if any such guest or boarder shall neglect to
deposit such money, goods jewelry or valua
bles in such safe, the proprietor or proprie
tors aforesaid shall not be liable for any loss
of such money, goods, jewelry or valubies
sustained by such guest by theft or other
wise : Provided, That nothing liereirecon
tained shall apply to such air amount of mon
ey and such articles of goods, jewelry and
valuables as is usual, common and prudent for
any such guest or boarder to retain in his
room or about his person.
SECT. 2. That whenever the proprietor, or
proprietors of any hotel, inn or boarding house
shall post in a conspicuous manner as afore
said, notices requiring said guest ed boarder
to bolt the door of the room or rsorrivoccu
pied by said guest or boarder, or in leaving
the said room or rooms, to lock the door, and
deposite the key or keys with the proprietor
or the clerk at the office, and if such guest
or boarder, shall neglect so to do, the propri
etor or proprietors as aforesaid, shall not be
liable for any baggage of such guest or boar
der which may be stolen from said room or
rooms : Provided, That said proprietor or
proprietors shall clearly establish the fact of
said room or rooms having been left unbolted
or unlocked by said guest or boarder at, the
time of the loss of said baggage as aforesaid.
SECT. 3. That if any person or persons
with the intent to cheat and' defraud design
edly by any false or fraudulent representa
tions, or by any false show of baggage, goods
or chattels, which are calculated to deceive
any hotel, inn, or boarding housekeeper,
shall obtain lodgings and credit in any hotel,
inn or boarding -house within this Common
vvoahli, and Qtalictac i ...ntly
pay for the said board and lodging, such per
son or persons so offending, shall upon con
viction, he punishable by imprisonment in
the county jail of said county, for any pe
riod not more than three months ; at the dis
cretion of the cowl, and be liable to a fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars. . .
SECT. 4. That all proprietor or prpprie
! tors of hotels, inns and boarding liOeses
' within this Commonwealth shall have alien
upon the goods and baggage belonging to
any sojburner, boarder or boarders, for ,any
amount of indebtedness contracted for board
ing, lodging cr entertainment ; for any period
of time not exceeding two weeks, and shall
hale the right to detain said goods and bag
tr
gage until the amount of said indebtedness
is paid, and at the expiration of the three
mon as the said proprietor or proprietors may
make application to any alderman or justice of
the peace of the proper city, borough orecoun
ty, who is hereby authorized to issue hiS war
rant to any constable within said city, bor
ough or ciotinty, and cause him to expeise the
said goods and baggage to public sale, after
giving - at least ten days' notice, by . public
written or printed' notices, put up in three or
more public places in the ward of, said city
or borough, or in the township where said inn,
hotel or boarding house is located, and after
he shall have sold the same he shall snake re
turn thereof to the sail justice or,alderman,
who shall, after payment of all costs, a nd the
said amount of indebtedness, pay over the
balance, if any there be ; to the owner or own
ers of said goods and baggage Provided,
That the owner or owners of said goods and
baggage shall have the right to .redeem said
goods and baggage at any time within the
said three months, upon paying the amount
of said indebtedness, and at any time previ
ous to the sale as aforesaid, ,upon paying al
so the additional cost established by law for
the like services. Approved May 7, 1855.
Grafting Grape Vines.
Grape vines have often been grafted with
good success. But the operation should not
be performed until the season has advanced
considerably—until the vine to be grafted
has leaved out—say in ordinary seasons,
about the 10th of June. Should the attempt
be made early in the season, the excessive
flow of sap would be in the way of success:
however, after the young shoots get pretty
well started, the sap ceases to flow from a
wound or cut made in the wood of the vine.
The mode ordinatily,
,adOpted in grafting
large apple-tree—cleft grafting--is a good
way to do it. When the body of the vine is
of a regular shape at the surface of the ground,
it would be well to saw it off close to the
ground, and, after inserting the scions
and applying the wax, to clear the dirt up
over the end of the stock, leaving only about
half of the length of the scions out of the
ground. Where this manner of performing
the operation, owing to circumstances, is not
nracticable, the trunk may be taken off high
!
er up. Small, short joined cuttings, taken
from vines at the winter pruning should be
used for scions—they can easily be kept till
the time arrives for using them, covered with
sand in a cool cellar.
Vines thus grafted have been known to
produce the first season, shoots or canes from
fifteen to twenty feet, in length. If the
wood of the vine in questions proves to be
firm and healthy, it can, without doubt, be
grafted with a saisfactory result.—Ontario
Co. Times.
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