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Having a general assortment of laige, elegant, plain and orna menlal Type, we arc prepared to execute every description of Cai;ds, Circulars, Bill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. . . . Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE .feffer.soniaii Republican.. The Good Old Times.' BV AN " OLD SCHOOL" BARD. Oh ! those were happy " good old times;" Ere luxury had changed The lives of all the fairer sex, And reason's throne deranged, When damsels knew the washing tub; The milking pail and broom, And earned their wedding padua soie By spinning at the loom. Oh 1 those were happy " good old times," When the table white as snow, Groaned baneath beans and pumpkin pies Oh ! I wish 1 had some now. Oh ! those were happy " good old times," Ere Chinese corns we knew, Ere every miss of pert sixteen Esteemed herself a " blue ;" When lassess laved in running streams; Nor with a fork sipped pap, But lolled on mother earth's greed sward, And not in velvet lap. Oh ! these were joyous olden times, The times of which -we've rearf, Of good old fashioned pandowry, Of rve and Indian bread. Oh ! those were happy olden times, ,Ere opera or play, And waltzing reels and jackdaw fops, Consumed both night and day ; Ere easy chairs and feather beds (Oh ! how my back complains !) Had opened to our head-strong race Pandora's box of pains. t Yes, truly, those "were glorious times, The times to do one ,good, While talking husking frolics o'er By blazing fires of wood. Oh ! those were good Dame Kalure'srlmes ! How memories.sweet swatm o'er us. Ere wasp-like forms were girt around With " bustles" so enormous ! When modest arms were never bared And trinketed for show, Nor ever left their hiding place, Save to be hid in dough ! Yes ! these were truly happy timea, Of gladsome, rustic life ; ' Those sanded floors and wax neat homes, The buxom, loving wife ; Bright fancy limns upon my mind A life of love I trow ; ,Ah me ! delicious times were those ! Oh ! I wish we had them now ! ITIad Dogs, &c. - A writer in the National Intelligencer, says -that spirits of hartshorn is a certain remedy Im the bite of a mad dog. The wound, he adds, tihotild be constantly bathed with it, and three ,,'ir four doses diluted, taken inwardly during "the day-. The hartshorn decomposes chemically the virus insinuated into the wound, aud nn- m'Jtaiely alters and destroy its deleterious- J jihs. The writer, who resided in braz I lur 'for .bocve time, first tried it for ihe bn f a corpion; and found that it removed pain and in dlamatiou iaatanily. Subsequently he trtnd it ftir ihe bite of the rattlesnake, with similar snc- re.is. At 'the suggestion of the writer, an old friend and physician in England tried n in ca- es ol hydrophobia, and always wtih :uccet. JT. Q. Adams aud the Bible. The following senttmnts of this venerated jnnn will bear to be repeated at this time. In a letter to his son, in 1811, he Kay; " J have for many years made it a practice to read t hrough ,the bible once overy year. My custom is, to rad four or five chapter every morning, mi .mediately after arising from my bed. It em ploy about .an hour of my time, aud seems to He the mo&t suitable manner of beginning the rflny. in what light soever we regard the Bible, whether wjth reference lo revelation, to history, r to morality, it is n invaluable and incxhau tible mine of know ledge and virtue. v Mexico , BY CASSIUS M. CLAY. It is, no-doubt, expected of me to give some ideas of Mexico.and ihe presenfwar. .Mexico exiends from about latitude 16 norih, to 42 from ihe Gulf of Mexico to ihe Pacific; and was in extent, before the loss of Texas, about as large as the United States. It embraces all the cli mates of ihe world, and rises in temperature from ihe tropical plains of Vera Cruz and'Aca pulca lo the regions of perpetual snow. The Rocky Mountains, which separates us from Oregon, extend through all; Mexico, and .her whole surface ts composed of' table lands: and mountains which n&e in steps from the Gulf and the Rio Grande, to the highest level," and then defends in regular gradations once more to the' Pacific. She has no navigable Streams, and the mountains and and plains compose, 1 honld imagine, aeven-eig4tts of the whole terri lory. It is now three hundred years since the Spanish conquest, and her population has long since reached thai banier where nature imposes eternal, obstacles to (further progress, where the whole products of ihe earih are eco nomically consumed by the people. No doubt, a belter mode of agriculture would increase her population; but at present, lo use the language of Malthu, she has reached the point of sub sistence. It i true, that the remoteprovincea of California and New Mexico, and those bor dering upon the Rio Grande, and- subject to Indian invasion, contains some uncultivated lands; but the proposition, as above stated, ap plies to the mass of Mexico. For in the grea ter portion of the whole Kepublic, women and children, may be s'esMt picking up grains of corn in the highways, and ihe rinds of .fruit thrown in the streets are immediately seized and con sumed. So soon as you cross the Rio Grande you feel yourself in foreign land. Mexico has no forests. It is irue; along the streams aud on mountain tops there are trees, but you are struck with this greai characteristic, that the land is bare of trees. The numerous varieties of Cactus of all .sizes, intermixed with jpalmet to, ataunted or long grass, coer the whole land. You are among a people of a. novel color, and a strange language. , The very birds and beasts, and dogs, sscm different. The patridge, ihe lark, the crow, the bla-ck-bird, differ; in size and plumage, and sing differently from ours; The buildings are of Moorish and Spanish style. The goat aud iheep feed.together'. The.bricks i r" I I - l.:J ' 'PL. -i are ot ciay anu siraw, &uuur-ieu.. i ue wuuicu jgu wijhear?hen vessels to ihe well, just as Ra chel was sent of old in the time of the Patriarchs of J.udea. The roofs of the houses are flat, and places recreation, and the people wear sandals aa in the Ea:t, in olden time. Wheat, Indian corn, and herds of cattle, sheep, and goats, the banana and red-pepef, and garlic and onions, are the principal sources of subBistence.-r-The products of the. mines are the principal articles of foreign exchange, added to woods, besides tallow and cochineal,- . , - The extreme dryness of Mexico makes irre gatton necessary in most of the country, and the scarcity of water, and habits jbf the people, col lect the inhabitants .into ciiies or villages. The land itself is owned by a few large propri etors, not ihe least of whom are ihe priests. The great mass, of the people are serfs, with but few more rights than American slaves. ' It is true that ihe children of serfs are hot of ne cessity also ?erfs. bui debt brings slavery, and the wages allowed by law almost always per- tpetuaie it. Here then is tne secret ot tne sue? cess of our arms. I conversed freely with ihe tenantry and soldiers in all Mexico, and.where they are not filled with 'religious enthusiasm against u, they care not who rules them, Amer ican or Mexican masters. If all the Mexican fflldiers were freeholders and freemen, not one of a 1.1 the American army could escape from Iler borders. The soldiers are caught up in the Haclb.udas and ihe streets of the towns, by force confined in some prison or convent, there dril!d,clothed, armed and then sent on to the regular armv. Such men bVOw their resolution in if(tAr run off on the first occasion. Of near one thousand soldier set from Tallica, lo the aid of Santa Anna at Mexico, not one hurh dred stood the battle. Pat and the Steam Itasiue. The following, which we find in ihe Boston Bee, ix capual. If the editors have any more of ihe 4'ame jort" left, we hope they will send ihe.m along : An Irishman, a day or two since, who had been often and profitably employed as a stevedore, was inteiiily gazing ai a steam en gine that wa whizzing away at a swift rate, domg his work for him, and lifting the cotton out from ihe hold of a ship, quicker than you oan nay "Jack Robison." Pat looked till his anger was pretty well up, then shaking his fist at the "larnal crittur," he exclaimed: "Choog, choog, spet, stame y. and be bothered, ye ould child Satan, that ye are ! Ye may do ihe wirk ' twenty-five fellie ye may take the bread out tv en honest Irishman' mouth but by ihe powers, now ye can't vote, ould blazer, nnnd that, will ye !" We praise Men for fighting, nd punish chil dren lor doing the same. - Great Product of a little Farm. To show how much morebrofii may be, made by- tilling well a small Farm ihan by the usual effontrto manage big Farms, we copy from ihe New'York Tribune the following statement of the produce of the 4 Bloomingdele Asylum,' a Farm of 40 acres, only 30 of1 which are under cultivation, as given by the Hon. James Tall madge Secretary of the American Institute. Statement of the products, of the Blooming dale Asylum Farm of SO'acres ander cultiva tion, wtth themarkel vaite of 1847. VEGETABLES. " 900 bushels Potatoes at 75 cts i ' 8675 00 180 bushels Sugar Beds at 37' 1-2 ceilta 67 50 100 bushels Blood Beets' at 50 elk 460 bushels Turtltps at 3:1 1-4 eta 28 bUsheU Carrots at 50 cts 120 busihels Parsnips at 50 cts v45 bushels Onions at 75 ctsj 150 bushels Coit at 37 1-2 'cm ? '20 btishels Egg Plants ai 50 eta 125 bushels Radishes at.' SI 120 bushels Iieaus at 50 cents 65 bushels Peas' at 75 ds r 75 bushels Pumpkins at 37 1-2 cts 130 bushels Squashes at 37 1-2 ei , 210 bushels Spinach at 75 cents .0 bushels Asparagus at S3 140 bushels Tomatoes at 50 els' ' 100 bushels Cucumbers at 75 eta - 1 bushel Nasiurtions at S2 4 bushels Peppers at 75- cts 5.2 bushels Rhubarb at S2 , . ' 52 bushels Citron Melons al 10 cts 2500 heads Celery at 3 cts " 3000 heads Cabbages ,at 4 cts 1000 heads Leeks at 1-2 ct 2000 heads Salsify at l.ct 4000 heads Lettuce at 2 cts i50 On 143 75 14-00 00 00 67 50 56 25 i JO 00 125 00 60 00 48 75 28 12 ;48 75 157 50 120 00 70 00 75 00 2 00 ; 3 00 104 00 7 50 ;75 00 120 00' -5 00 20 00 '80 00 Toal . ' ' " . HAY, MILK, &c 40 tons Hay' at $ 10 'per ton 1296 pounds Pork at 6 cts per lb 663 pounds Butter 25 cts per lb $2,293 62 400 00 f ''77 76 t j 65 75 4488 gallops Milk at 16 cts per gallon 718 08 303 dozen eggs atls per dozen - 3 88 150 pounds poultry at 6 els per lb . 9 00 Total 5 . ' FRUITS. 200 bushels Apples at 50 cto 20 bushels Pears at $1 : 150 bu-h Cherries -at SI 25 bwshels Currants at $1? , 15 bushels Peaches al SI. . 1200 grapes al 6 1-4 cenis per-.lb 8 bushels Strawberries at $2 51,408 47 lOtfOO 20 00 150 CO 25 DO 15 00 75 00 15 00 Total. - ,5401 Od , , The.aggregate. of these prqducls is S4,103 09 Am'i of expenses including labor die. 2,029 81 Leaves as clear profit a balance of 2,073 28 'f he Tribune adds the following comments : Will the mass of our Farmers never learn the lesson here so.plamjy taught 1j How many of them have been skinning, one to three hurt dred acres all their lives, their lands growing 'poorer and they no richer, who, wheu exhorted to mend their ways, make answer, 4 0,h, I would farm beiier if I only had money enough to buy manures, .hireJielp, &c.' Why, Sir, why won't you see that, you should sell half, three-fourths, or eyen seven-eights of your land, i need ber until 7pu havq money enough to cultivate what is left .thoroughly, ifiounhjt be but a patch of four acres I 1 hose, well tilled, will produce more than a hundred used iu the old miserable way. Tlie Discriminating Power of Plants. Researches in. vegetable physiology, such as the mere practical. man would not Know how to becin to prosecute, haye left no doubt with the curious inquirer that plants possess the faculty of breathing through their leaves these being to them what lungs are to animals. They search, too, in dustriously for their food where the earth is suffi ciently porous and permeable ; admonishing the farmer and gardener to keep the soil, by alj the means in their power, free from stagnant water, which reduces its temperature and excludes the air, with all the nutriment which it contans, and to keep it in that open and accessible condition which leaves thefood it.contains most.easily to be found and consumed by the roots sent, out in pursuit of it ; and here lies the philosophy of thorouglt til liaje. ; . . " r . . , That plants possess, too, the power of discriminating- between what is congenial to their nature or otherwise, some affecting one kind of food and some another, has been abundantly shown by the experiments ofBouissangault; wheat, for instance, growing on the same spot with beets and turnips, will take up eight times as much of phosphoric acid as they will. Leguminous-plants, growing on the same soil with wheat, will greedily con sume and thrive on plaster of Paris orsulphate of lime, while to wheat it anords no nourishment. Certain substances contribute again to the growth of one part of a plant, but not to another part The straw of oats and wheat contains fifty times as much silica as the grain of the same plants. These facts prove that the farmer should study to offer to his crops the most that he can of what their ashes are found to contain But this is not all. Agricultural chemistry ap plied to agriculture, teaches futher that the food which is adapted to the growth and purposes of vegetables at ope stage of their existence, maybe unsgitablW and valueless at another ; just as the mother's rniik is at.once the.most natural and whole some diet "for the 'child, but not for the adult. Thus a'manure which at the lime of germination may be without effect, if hot pernicious, may be most profitably administered and greedily consum ed by grain or grass as it' approaches or reaches' the" 'period, of forming its fruit. All these are mysteries which such men as Day, or Dumas, or Leibig, or Bouissangault, or Jackson, or Norton, or 'Teschemacher, by the' lights of scidnce can detect and explain, but which' the mere practical observer' could not in ages systematize and act upon wiih certainty. Saturday Courier. The Nev ILaw So Secitre to Married Women the Slights off Property. The provisions of the law of ihe late legisla ture- to secure the rights of property to married women, are as. follows : hat every species and description of prop erty, whether consisting of real, personal, 'or mixed, which may be owned by or belong to any single woman, shall coinidue lo be the prop erty of such woman as fully. after her marriage as before, and 'all such . property, of whatever name or kiudwhich shall accrue to any married woman during covertuYo by will, descent, deed of conveyance, or otherwise, shall be owned, used and enjoy eH by such married woman as her own seperate property, and said property, whether owned by her before marriage, or which shall accrue, to her-afterwards, shall not be subject to levy and execution for tjie debts or liabilities of her husband; nor shall such propeny be sold, convey ed,. mortgaged, trans ferred, or in any manner encumbered by hec husband without her'written consent, first had and obtained aud duly acknowledged before one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas of this Commonoalih, ihat such consent was not the result nf coercion on the part of her said husband, but that ihe same was voluntarily giv en and of her own free will : Provided. That her said husband shall not be liable for the debis of his wife contracted before marriage : Provi ded, That nothing in this act shall be construed to protect the proporty of any such married women from liability for debts contracted by herselfaor in her name by any person authori zed so to do, or from levy and execution or any judgment that. may be recovered against a hus band for the'itorts of a wife, and in such cases execution shall be'first had against ihe pro'per of the wife. That any married woman mayv dispose,, by her last w.ill and testament, of, her seperate property, real, personal, or mixed, wheiher-the same accrues to her before or during coverture: Provided, Tlfat ?aid last will and testament be executed itv the presence of two or more wit-, nesses, neither of whom shall be her bus band. ,. . That in- all cases where debtsmay be con tra'cied for necessaries for ihe support and maiii lainance. of ihe family pf any married woman, it shall be lawful for the creditor; in such casr, to institute suit against husband and wife for the price of such necessaries, and after obtain ing a judgment have an execution against the husband alone, and if tip propeny of the hus band be .found, the officer executing t.he said writ shall so return, and thereupon an execuuoh. may be issued which may be levied upon and satisfied' out of ihe seperate properly of the wie. secured to her under ihe provisions of ihe firt section of this act : Provided, That judgment s,hall not be rendered against the wife iu such joint action unless it shall have been proved that ihe debt sued for in ,such action' was con tracted by the wife, or incurred far articles ne cessary for the support of the family of the said husband and wife. That when any married woman possessed of separaie personal property as aforesaid, .shall die intestate, her husbarfd shall.be first entitled to letters of administration on her otate, which said estate shall be distributed ias follows : If such.married woman shall leave no children, nor.the descendanis of such living, the husband shall be pitntied to such personal estate abso lutely If such married, woman shall leave a child or children hvitig.rier personal estate shall be divided amongst the husband and such child or .childrqnlihare and share alike. If atjy sucK c.hild or children being dead sfiall have left is sue, such issue shall be entitled to the share of t.he pa -rent. That the real estate of such married woman tipon her decease, shall be distributed as provi ded for by the intestato laws of this Common wealth now in force : Provided, that nothing in this act shail be deemed or taken to deprive the husband of his rights as tenant' by courtesy. That the llth section of the act of eighih April, one lhouand eight hundred and thirty three, entitled 41 An Act rejating lo last wills and testaments," shall not be construed to de prive ihe widow of the testator in case she electa not to take under the last will and, testa ment of her hushand under ihe intestate law of this Commonwealth, but that the said widow may lake her choice either of the bequest or de mise made to her under any last willand testa ment, or of her share of the personal estate un-1 der the inieaiate laws aforesaid. An editor' out west grates nutmegs overjhis editorials to make thera 6picy. Memory a affected by Disease. It is slated in several papers that Mr. Hutch kiss.'of Brooklin, who was waylaid by robber and. almost killed some months ag-, is entirely recovered in hts physical healthy but hU mind seems much shattered. He seems io have f0r goiien everything he learned during hi life, ami is now learning his letters again, as if he wero a child. The sounds of his voice it is said, constitute his principle source of atnusemein This is one of the many striking instances . f disordered memory. Dr.Beattie telates ihe cas.i of a gentleman who inconsequence of a violent blow on the head lost his knowledge of th Greek, but Hid noi appear to have lost anyihiittf else. Dr. Abercombie also relates an insianco . not less remarkable, of a lady who in sonse queiice of a protracted illness, lot the recoller Hon of a period of about leu or twelve years, but spoke with perfect consisiency,of things as they stood before that time. A case very similar to that related by Dr. Bea tio fell under our own observation some year.f ao. It was that of a voung man residing in northern New York, who, afir having made considerable progress in Latin as well as in th English branches, received a severe kick from a horse over the left eye which caused- it to protrude from .ihe socket and rendered-him senseless for .some days. -Out recovering :ihn use of his faculties his .memory was found in be so much impaired thai he had forgotten all hisknowledge of iJatin. rendering it necessary for him io commence anew the elements of ihe language. i In other case3, as fever, causes a quickened mental action. Flint in his RecollectionsMif the Valley of iheMississippi, says that during the paroxysms of derangement occasioned by a violent fever, .his memory was more than or dinarily exact and retenuve, and that he repeal ed. whole passages in the different language which he knew with .enure accuracy. ."I re7 cited," says he, without losing or misplacing a word, a passage of poetry which I could not so. repeal after I had recovered my health." The power of reminiscence may indeed slum ber through disease or other causes but never dies. , " Each fainter traca- that memory holds So darkly of departed years, In one, broad glance the soul beholds And ail that was at once appears." N. Y. Post. Tampa Bay and the Culture of Sugar. We lake ihe following extract from the Mo bile Herald. It will give our readers an idea, of ihe rapidity with which the State of Florida, is-aeitlittg, and of the impetus which has been given to the cuhivauon of ihe sugar cane: . "Mr. James McKay, formerly one of our cit izens, but now a resident of Tampa Bay, has leit with us samples of sugar made in that neighbourhood. He brought on with him sixty-eight hogsheads, the crop of one planter, ihe quality of which is fair. The hog-sheads are small, weighing about seven hundred pounds, and are the product of five hands. The sugar is now being shipped to N. Y. Mr. McKay, also brought us a sample of anoiher lot of strict ly prime qualiiy, which .will be soon sent t ihis market. It is dry, of beautiful color, and, although not made by ihe improved apparatus employed in Louisiana, is finely granulated, and will compare favorably with ihe same quaU iiy of New Orleans sugar. "The sugar culture is gradually extending about Tampa. There are now about one thou--sand acres appropriated to ihat project, and . from the rapid influx of emigrants, mostly from the Western and Middle Slate, a number of new plantations will no doubi be opened this season and put in sugar. We are glad to learn that a good deal of attention is given to ihe orange, lemon, banana, plantain, and other tropical fruits, all of which succeds admirably in that section. 'The petfect adaptation of the soil and cli mate of that portion of Florida to these articles, of culture, its position on the Gulf, iis mild, healthful, and evetUemperature, together wnh the abundant supply of fish, oysiers, wild game. &c will in time aiiract a dense population and sufficient capital to build up a. large and pleasent seaport town. In regard lo Tampas we learn thai the Government. has withdrawn lis reservation, and cedes Us right to the coun ty, which has located ihe seat of justice there. A number of lots have already been sold and will speedly be improved." It is said lhal ai Venire a horse h a greater curiosity than an elephant is in London. When 1 was ihere,"'says a iravelar, "they were paying iwo pence each to see a stuffed one. Regeneration of Potatoes. Mr. Elias Bacon, of Gaines, Orleans cotimy, N Y., says he has at last discovered ihe cause of ihe potato rot, and found a remedy; but he declines making u public until he secures a patent for his discov ery. writing io the Genesee Farmer, he says; Apnlication will be made to some Governme'nT for a small remuneration for my services lo'the public, before the facts aredu-closed,"
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