Eiteir...,...ci.41):: - ... - :...r.:it_.)140,1i.....0tt . ...'.';',• . .(),'-,ct,.•0,0.,..:4: I D. A. BrEiti,En, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XVI.-3 5. I POETRY. Li' We learn from the Philadelphia papers that a volume of the poetical productions of Mrs. SON, entitled "Forest Leaves," has lately been giv• en to the public by Messrs. Lindsay and Blake stun, of that city. The readers of the "Star" will rect;gnize in the author a favorite correspondent of this paper some few years since—Me first produc tions of "Lrn I A JAN If' having reached the public throtigh the medium of the "Star." Mrs. P. has since become a regular and popular contributer to our best Literary Magazines. The fofbrwing beautiful poem is taken from the "Forest Leaves:" CHARITY. How meekly beautiful she walks Along the embattled line of life, Regardless of the pomp and power That mingle in the strife. The glittering toys that strew the way, Have no attraction in her eyes; How dim they seem beside the pearl That in her bosom lies: She bears no sword amid the fray, She seeks no laurel, no renown : . What should she do with earthly hay Who heirs a heavenly crown She seeks not—heeds not,-man's applause, She knows 'tis but a passing wind ; And his revilings, scoffs, and taunts. Fall harmless on her mind. Careless of these, she passes on, 'With searching eye and heeding ear, With heart that thrills at every inoan, • And pities every tear. 'Tis hers to raise the prostrate forni, To stanch the wound with tender art ; To lay soft haves of Gilead's balm rpon the bleeding heart. To torn the lifted blade away, And shield the trembler from file blow To lead the .weary on their way, And soothe the wanderer's woe: To aid the bending form of age. And cheer its path of pain and gloom Pointing the dini, eye-to the day That sets'not in the tomb. And see, close folded to her breast, The out-9ast little orphan's form ; She rives it clothing, food, and ,rest, And slid ter froN the storm. Iler eyes and heart are heavenward still, Iler hands are to the needy given, To bind each WOUIId, to soothe'l!ach And lead the weak toward heaven. What though lieV'eyes - are sometimes wet. When veinnn'tUrrrows pierce her breast And blood (hips from her weary. feet: . That knoW tin earthly rest! :Still, Ile Whose to dideps she pursues, Heals all her wounds with holy love, And dries her tears, with dazzling views Of her own Home—above. MISCELLANEOUS. China, A very interesting lecture was delivered by the Iion..C . ALEI/ .C1:till I SO, in Roston, before the Mer cantile Library Association, on the subject of From a running report of it publiAied in the Journal, we make the following extracts : To an European or American, said the lecturer, just landed in China, every thing appears strange. He finds himself not on ly at the antipodes,' physically speaking, but at the antipodes in a moral sense. He secs around him countless myriads of men in a strange garb, and with a general ap pearance unlike to all that to which he has heretofore been accustomed. lle,,observes the most studied uniformityamon'a the va rious clasSes, and the progress of every thing which falls under his observation, so slow and so unvaried, strikes him in singu lar contrast with our own changing inan nets and locomotive speed. A thousand things.admonish him that he is in a Strange land. He hears the constant soundings of gongs, 1w observes innumerable boats 'on the riVers, the dwelling. places of millions of Chhiese—carts moved on land by sails, as well as boats on the water. If the pi 161Tooks to the compass to direct his course upon the deep, helooks to the pointing of the south pole—if he receives a letter he will find it written in lines running from top to bottom ‘ of the sheet, reading from. right to left, with the date at the bottom of the letter—no alphabet being used but idio graphic characters. The mourning, instead of being black, as With us, is white with the Chinese—the shde,'t yen is whitened with some' substance, .to-sorrespond with. other portio sof dress. He sees the sau cer placed o). the cup, instead of the cup oh the sat cer,—shuttlecocks played with the feet instead of the, hands—ladies' feet compressed, instead of their waists—leaves. of a book - cut open and trimmed on the back—a person swimming strikes his hands vertically, and not horizontally=the Atli of the head shaved—and when a friend meets ,you lie does not shake your. hands, but shakes his hands at you—the infantry arm- - ,el with matchlocks, the cavalry with the l;ow and arrow—and a Colonel at the head of his regiment not unfrequontly brandish ing a Hit instead of a sword, lie will not only note these exterior forms of difference, but will learn that nobility is not inherited from the ' father by the 'son,. but rather, if one may so speak, by the father, front ;he son—good deeds reflecting back upon a re-; mote ancestry. Corruption of blood, for crimes committed, affects ancestors long since dead and_ gone, though it does not necessarily affect prosperity. All these things will strike one, upon cursory views; hut it is just to treat the subject in a differ ent manner, or injustice will be done to a great and polished people. We in America receive our laguage; and unfortunately too many of -our ideas, from ... Europe. We speak as if we were the de scendants of the oldest nation on the globe —of history as complete, if that history is ours,—of our civilization as the unique idea of civilized society—of the first voyage to India as discoveries, as if the teeming mil lions of China had no existence till discov:. ered by a Portuguese navigator. ,ne, the lecturer, would not speak of Chinese civi lization alone, but also of its high antiquity. China had for ages cultivated the arts, lit erature and the sciences. The language of Confucius, the contemporay of llerodo tus, is now the vernacular tongue of this great people. •The diseovery of gunpow der, and of the mariner's compass, the manufacture of silks and porcelains, the in vention of the printing press, and even the irculation of bank notes, had their day in China centuries ago. The lecturer did not knoW of any thing that was not possessed by the Chinese. anterior to the history of Europe, except the steam engine. Our word "China," as designating the land of, the Chinese, is unknown to their language, and is of Portuguese origin. Mr. Cushing here gave in tlntge names by which the Chinese designate their country, and also the English translations of them, which he said were quite faulty. Two of them are translated, one the "Central Land," the other the "Central Flowery Land —the third escaped our car. The 'Chinese Em pire consists of -two great classes of peo ple—the Chinese, who inhabit eighteen provinces, of China proper, and the Tar tars, divided into the Manchou,Mougul Tar tars, &c. It has been estimated that Chi na contains a population of 350,000,01)1) souls—by many this estiniate' is doubted, but those who doubt concede a population of 250,000,000, deducting ad libitum from the census taken by . the Chinese them ' selves. A slight analysis of the facts in ' the case will put an end to all speculation. One will see in China a vast multitude of human beings, all active and industrious. comparison of the tQrritory of China, its climate; its laws, customs and habits oldie. people, with those,',of other nations, will sod convince one that the empire is the seat of a vast population. A portion of China lies on die tropics, where two crops are easily produced every season. No beasts of burden are to'be'Seen in southern China: All transportation is carried on - the backs., of t; men.: The boats on the canals are drawn by men—no horses are to •be seen, except what are in use for the Tar tar cavalry, and but few buffaloes, which are used for,ploughing some. peculiar spits. These facts prove that the counrry is capa ble of supporting a dense population. It iS not the ease in China as in this country --they have not to produce in one crop sufficient to support the year round, or to sustain beasts of burden, that consume as much as nice of the agricultural products of the country. The land is one entire cultivated garden, except the large grounds left for the burial of the dead. These facts would leave !Milling to deduct from the es timation of the Chinese as to their own population. But there are others. The absteniiousness of the Chinese is one. They also cat cats, rats, dogs, &e. There is an immense emigration Constantly- going forth. In southern China there arc more productible - articles of fruit than in almost any other section of the globe. (\Ve un derstood Mr: Cushing to say that the ba nana produces as - 133 to 1 of our Wheat and 44 to lof our potato.) * *r- When we consider the facts of the im-, mebse population of China, that its go - vern ment and laws have endured for eeinuries, we come to ask what is the form of its government;'and what the principle of . its social . organization. The exterior form is a hereditary monarchy. The reigning sove reign bears a particular name, not his own name, but the name of his reign, as it is deemed sacrilegious to pronounce the name of the sovereign after he ascends the Throne. The prominent, and it may be said, almost the only, principle of government is the pa ternal relation—the emperor is called the. father of his people, and the idea of the pa ternal relation runs through all the habits, laws, and customs of the people. It is a fiction notwithstanding, but a beautiful one. The radical idea in the social organiza tion of the Chines 6, is veneration of pa rents. Annual oflerings are made at the grayes of their ancestors, and children are most relentlesSly punished by their parents for any disrespect hown to them. The sovereign power is of a religious as well as a politicalcharacter. When pre sented to the Emperor, the individual must prostrate himself three times - to :the ground, rising each time, and touching the ground each time he prostrates himself.— This may be seen going on et•ery day a-, mong the common people in the streets, who arc constantly bowing at their altars, idols, 4c. The ceremony carries with it' the idea of total. submission, mingled, it t . may be, with religious devotion. . Scholars constitute the first rank in the Empire. After passing the examinations, 'which are most strict, the most meritori ous are appointed to the inferior offices of government employ, destined throUgh good behaviour to rise to the Highest in the gill of the government. In China an official is punished by de grading him from his rank. In this coun try, in our Navy for instance, the case is different.. If an Officer behaves badly he is suspended with or without -pay, &c., but an officer is never degraded, as for; in stance from a „Captain to a Midshipinan.•-- In China this is the mode of punishment, it is, the,universal tenure of office. And a GETTYSBURG, P 4., .FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1845. man has to commence anew, eligible again to the highest °dice if he conducts well. Public opinion is as much regarded in China as in Great Britain or the U. States. Newspapers - abound, and arc read as inueh as in this country. The Chinese have their red book, as we have our blue book. Pam phlets, labored arguments are puldiShed as with us, and in farther analogy, periodical addresses are made'by the sovereign to the people, which, however, inculcate morals as well as politic's. The stated agricultural festivals are a great feature with the Chinese—it is at these times that the Emperor drives the plough beforli•his whole Court, an example to his subjects. The works.of Confucius are read hymn and their influence on -the public mind is unbounded: They pulilishas much, and as cheaply, as in the U. States and the people read and write as generally as they do in this country. Their language, which was at first hieroglyphic, has become one of arbitar)t signs, b u t not letters—there Is no alphaliel, Inn each separate sign stint& for a particular idea ; there are 80,000 characters iii their dictionary, and from this it may be inferred what an immense labor it is to learn their language and what, it is which converts China into one great school. Oral language differs in ditkrent provinces, but the written language is the saute throughout China. The written lan guage bears the. same relation to the oral languages of the provinces, as the Ar4hic !minerals do to the various languages Of Europe. When pdrsons front different provinces cannot comprehend each other, they resort to writing or making figures ita the air. This language giving unity to the people, laws Az.c. has done every thing for the stability of -the government. • The manners of the Chinese are emi nently courteous. Ladies do not mingle in their public assemblies. The lecturer would f rnin pronothice their morals of :a higher or lower standard thanothose rope. Ile aid not belieVe it the province of atrancient visitor so to do. The Chi nese estimate the morals of the Europeans at a loif rate,—tbey have learned- them front English sailors and soldiers within the past.five years. When the Missiona rie4 remonstrate with the' Chinese upon sin, - they significantly point to the morals of the foreigners. The Chinese, are emi nently intellectual. Th& country abounds in books, public libraries, andshops cur tlui sale of books. A catalogue. of one of their libraries comprise 10,001 vols. In every dwelling house books are a necessary arti cle of furniture. The staple food of the Chinese is rice. In the decorations of their tables and furni ture of their houses, traces of a high civi lization may be found. The luxuries of the table consist of biehe de mer, shark's tin and edible bird's nests, the latter the most costly article of food in China. The food of the Tartar is frame, which is roast ed and served up whole, while the Chinese is served in small dishes. Their drinks are tea, and - spirit distilled from rice. Mil ny of the drinking vessels now in use in the United States are 'copied from the Chi nese. • Commercially speaking, China is com plete in herself. She raises her bread stuffs except some little rice which she imports. She has tea, silks, material for iron, and wood, coal, precious metals, dkc. Iler commerce was changed by the course of the opium trade, which is very prejudicial to 'China. '••It would soon, however, have been changed by the introduction of cotton, large quantities of which, of the raw - kind, she imports from the United States. She also imports the manufactured article from tlni United States and from Great Britain. The use of 'machinery is prohibited in China. The trade, whether 'it goes direct from this country or from Great Britain, greatly benefits us, as perhaps 6-7ths of British manufactured goods consist of _A merican cotton. - • LAITGIITER.-A. witty writer says, in praise of laughter="Laugliter has even dis sipated disease and preserved life by a sud den ellbrt of nature, We are told that the great Erasmus laughed so heartily at the satire by Reuchlier and Van Ilutten, that he broke an itnpusthume, and recovered his • health. In a singular treaty on "laughter," Joubert gives two singular instances. A patient being very low, the physician, who had ordered a dose or Rliuberb, counter tnanded the medicine, which was left•on the table. A • monkey in the room, jumping up, discovered the goblet, and having tast ed, Made a terrible grimace. Again put ting only his tongue to it, he perceived some sweetness of the dissolved manna, while the rhuberb had sunk to the bottom: Thus emboldened, he swallowed the wifole, but thund it such a nauseous potion, that, after many strange and fantastic • grimaces, he grinned his teeth in agony, and in a vio lent fury threw the goblet on 'the floor.— The wfible of was so ludicrous that the sick, man burst into repeated peals of laugh ter, and • the recovery of cheerfulness led.to. health." A DANDY OUTWITTED.-:—A dandy in Broadivay, N. York, wishing to be witty, ` - aveosted the Old bellman, as follows : "You ! take all sorts of trumpery in your cart, don't you . • ", Yes, jump in, jump in." -‘ Tilt llosTox POST claiins this good one: ' , Why is a wickedman's - conscience like tv!cloti limoin it has a weight. tort. "FEARLESS AND FREE." We believe that true gentlemen are con fined to no walk or rank in lift,. The stur dy blacksmith with his dingy garments, his open, honest countenance begrimmed with smut, and Ins rough, hard hand, scarred with service more honorable than thAt of war. has an immeasurably higher claim to that honorable name, than the shallow-pa ted fop who skips through college with kid gloves and a ratan, cultivates the graces be tore the glass awl the ladies, and takes his diploma with all h is . blushing honors thick lon his vacant head. It is a fillse and, con- I•temptible notion that unless a mar — ran , boast a high descent, or roll majestically I along in at, coach emblazoned• with arms, his'-natne should he stricken from the list of gentlemen. Which class has, from time immemorial, conferred the brightest-honbrs , on the, human race—the haughty aristocrat, who shrinks with strong convulsions from the touch of the honest pook man, and moves with sups that seems dainty of the soil it treads on, who claims no merit but soul ?. ‘'Vltenre come the great lights of the intellectual firmainent—the stars that form the brilliant galaxy whose beams dazzle the eve of every beholder? En the vast majority of instances they have emerged to eminence from the chilling depth of obscurity, destitution and• "Whose voices ate ottenest raised in success ful vindication .of human rights, and float over mountain and — plain; over ocean . and latid, till they vibrate on the remotest dwel ler in Christundom ? Who are they that "Pluck bright honor from the File-faced 1110011, Or dice into the botto in of the deep, Where lathoni line conld.never touch the ground, And drag up drowned ittinor by the locks'?" The scions of imbue blood ? The wor shippers of Baechus and Venus, Who frit ter.awaY the hours granted by heaven for self improvement, in the study of the con temptible and puerile forms of fashion ? No ! they are men of low parentage—men who have hutfetted the billows of fate with out dependence, save tipan the mercy of God amhtheir own energies—the gentle- Men of nature who have trodden under foot the "painted lizards". of society, and. worked out their own distinction with an ardor that could not be quenched, and a per severance th';`ii - considered nothing done while any thing yet remainetrto be done. :1; ON FOOT.-A. Norwegian has : p,posr 1 to discover the sources of the Nile, alone and on foot. He is highly re commended by the ColFt ofSt. Petersburg as eminently qualified Tor the undertaking; being able to accomplish u degree. every twelve hours, and abstain three days from food. Ile takes only a map, compass and axe,.clithbs mountainsowims rivers, and turns neither to the right nor to the left, trusting to his heels for deliverance from man and beast. Truly the mantle of Led yard must have fallen on him ; and with the endurance , of a camel, we.can conceive nothing further than the stomach of an os, trich,, to digest the roots and leaves on which he must be obliged to subsist. COST OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.-.- The new account of the Reirister of the Treasury states that, during '- the fifty-six ye4trs' existence of our Federal Govern ment the entire expenditures of that Gov ernment, excluding principal of public debt, have been a little under one thousand mil lions of dollars, which have been appro priated as follows : For the Military Service $380,998,357 " Naval do 179,933,124 " Pensions,, , 54,012,485 Interest on Public Debt,. 42,494,855 Total, $663438,821 The btilance has been expended as fol lows : Principal of Revolutionary Debts --- and Claims (est.) nearly .$100,000,600 Civil List,' 63,855,525 Foreign Intercourse, 36,166,808 *lndian Department, 42,803,488 Mi4cellancous , - 64,107,721 Total very nearly $306,933,702 *lncluding . payments for Indian lands. tlncluding the purchase of Louisiana. ARTIFICIAL QUARTZ.-A communication was recently read before the French Acad emy Of Science from M. 'Vibe'men, milling engineer, and joint director of the royal manufactory of Sevres, announcing that he has succeeded in making an artificial quartz, equal. in every respeCt to the natural crys tal. This process is of great simplicity. It consists of the evaporation in damp air of Silicie ether. Time crystal thus obtain ed is very hard and transparent, and scratch : es glass. This discovery will give cou rage to those' chemists who are of opinion that even-the diamond may=be artificially obtained. • A new invention has just appeared in England, called the "Satellite," or "Iron Slave." The machine is intended for ag ricultural purinves; such ns , ploughing, sow ing., re4ing, also for making canals, roads, and tunnels. It is a frame of iron, of 4 feet wide mid twenty - feet loner, "with a shaft of 7. felt long in front, and a shaft of 6 feel 6 inches longhehind, with two broad wheels, and a steering wheel , on the _ex iTenie end:: The editorof the. Isiorwich Spectator says : “It's hard work to rook at the sun without winking; but harder still to lbok at some of our, young Women . without feyling inclined to wink.' THE TRUE GENTLEMAN JOHNATHAN SLICK ON I3CSTLES. In his celebrated work called "High Life in N. York," Jonathan thus enlarges on the prominent fashion of the day, while giving an account• of a "swarrey" or "conversationary" he attended at the splendid mansion of his cousin John. Speak ing of his cousin's wife,.he says : "I Itioked at her pretty earnestly. I can tell you, and I.do think she • would hat e been a critter that John might be pi.oud of, if it wasn't tier that stuck np way she's got since she came down here to York. I never see a critter's back stuck up as her's was. I rally thought she was getting - the rickets, and I felt so anxious about it th a t I turned to cousin John afore I went no to speak to her, and sez I 'sort of low, ,Con sin John, how did your wife hurt her back so 1-1 declare it makes me feel awful to see what a lump she's got growing since site's cum'away from Connecticuk' With that cousin Joint looked at her and larfed a little, but I could see he did'nt feel just .rbdat, and timer a minute he said, sez he, 'llush, cousin, you mus'nt speak so loud ; it is true Mary has put on rather too much bustle, it's the fashion, you see.' 1 looked around, and true as you live there wasn't a gal in the room that hadn't her back a stick ing out -the .same way ! Such a set of hump-backed critters I never did put my eyes on ; and yet they all stood about smi ling and It talking to the fellers as if noth ing ailed the poor things." MA STE 12 AND !•:•;cnotain.—A. learned pedagogue at Nantucket S ' vho used every morning to. read passages in theilible, and expound the same as he proceeded, in or der that, by asking, questions as to how much they remembered of•liis comments, lierniglit ascertain who were the bright boys of his school. On one occasion he read from the book of Job thus : "There was a man in the land of Uz, and his I , ;e was Job, who feared God, and eschMed Eschewed evil; that eschewCd evil 'as Ido tobacco—he would have nothing to do withit." With this very clear and forcible elucidation of tke metuiing of the word "esely- , W," he proceeded, until a number of verses, were read and commented on in.a'shmlar clear and intelligible manner. A tier - a long interval, when 'the young mind lad time to digest its food, the peda gogue called upon one of the younger boys and the following dialogue ensued :—Who was the man who - lived-in Uz ?" "Job." "Was lie a good man ?" "Yes." "What (lid he do ?" "He chewed tobacco, when nobody else would have nothing to do with it!" was Bob Ilohnes' answer. The boy was per mitted to take his seat. DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE SAME SUBJECT. --:Englislf travellers complain that they are so much hurried in our hotels, and so little in our stage coaches. An Irish trav eller took a different view of the case.— Holiest Pat came in at 1 o'clock and was called up in.half an hour. "And what will you charge for the bit of lodging ?" "Twen ty-five cents," was the reply. "And sure, 'twas kind in ye to call me stf airly—if I'd slept till morning, I'd not have the money to pay the bill." POINT OF ORDER.-4 debating society, in a town "Down East," one evening un dertook to discuss the question, "whether intemperance or slavery is productive of the most evil in the U. States ?" A Wor thy deacon, contending against the 'briber, proposed to show its effect- on its victims, "in .eternity." "Stop, stop," cried the Chairman, "that's out of the U. States !" INSINIATION.—An angel without money is not thought so much of now-a days, as a devil with a bag full of guineas. We don't doubt that with a little stretch of the imagination, the devil, with that ac companiment, might be mistaken for _the angel, by some_ -4-our nice young men.— 'utton. • PASSINO COMMIMENTS.-A braz en-faced barrister, having failed in all his endeavors to contuse a young and handsome witness, at last said—" Miss, upon my word you are very pretty." The young lady very promptly replied— "l would return the compliment, sir, if were - not on my oath." HOW WOVLD YOV LIKE. Tr ?—An ex change paper submits the following.:—lf our Creator should fashion the female race, henceforth, after the style of dromedaries, how Auld the fitir sex like it "Jlave you in your Album any original poetry?" asked one young lady of another. "No;:but some of my friends have favored nic with ORIGINAL SI'ELLINU !" AovEtrrtsumeNT.—Made their escape, a husband's affections : his disappeared immediately on seeing his wife with her handsand faeennwaShed i al. breakfast. Noah says—“ Taking ,a negro by The head because he refuses obedieneeris "a sei zure.Of wool for ron-payment ofddies." • Why is .a love letter like a rady when / she blushes ? - I)y*tt give it up ? Because it is READ whit cxciteutout.' - r TERMS-TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.] WHOLE NO. 815. • There is something exceedingly beauti. fill in the subjoined from a poem by N. P. '`WILLis, descriptive of a picture entitled "Psyche before the tribunal of Venus:" A talisMan in intellect which yields Celestial music, when the master hand Touches it cunningly. It sleeps beneath 'The out ward semblance, and to common sight Is an invisible and hidden thing; But when the lip is faded and the clieek Robbed of ils daintiness, and when the form Matches the sense no more, and human love Falters in its idolatry, this spell, Will holds its strength unbroken. and go on Stealing aneestrffe - affcctions. Marvel not That Love leans sadlX on his bonded bow : He has found out the loveliness of mind, And he is spoilt for beauty. So 'twill be Eger—the glory of the huMayi form Is but a perishing thing, and love will droop When its brief grace is faded. But the mind Perisheth nor, and when the outward charm . Has had its brief' existence, it awakeS, And is the lovelier that it slept so long." AGRICULTURAL. Fattening Animals,' There arc some rules'Which may be-ad vantageously adopted in, feeding animals, which however obvious they may be; are too often passed over or neglected. Some of these will be specified ; and Ist. Thn 'preparation of food. This should so be prepared that its,nutritive prop erties may be all.rnade available to the use Of the animal, and not Only so, but appro priated with the least possible expenditure of muscular energy. The ox that is obliged to wander over an acre to get the food he should find on two or three square rods ; the horse that is two or three hours eating the course food he would swallow in fifteen minutes if the grain was ground, or the hay cut as it should - be—the sheep that spends hours in making its ..way, into a turnip, which if it was sliced, it would eat in as many minutes ; the pig that eats raw po tatoes or whole corn, when either cooked could be eaten in one quarter the time now used—may indeed fatten, but much less-rap, idly than if their food was given them in.a. proper manner. All food shall be given a fattening animal in such a state, that as lit tle,time and labor as possible, on the part of the animal, shall be required in eating. The food should be in abundance,- From the time the fattezing process com-- mences, until the animal is slaughtered,he shobld'never be -without food , health and and appetite are best prompted by change of food rather than by limiting the quanti ty. _ The-animal that is stuffed and starv ed, by turns May have streaked meat, but it will be made too slowly . for the - pleasure or. profit of the good farmer. 3d. Thefood should be given regular ly. This is one of the most essential points in feeding animals. If given irregularly the animal indeed consumes his food, but he soon acquires a restless -disposition, is seasonably disturbed, or their quiet,broken by unwonted invitation to eat. 4th. The animal Mould not be needless ly intruded upon during the hours of feed; mg. All creatures fatten much .faster in . the dark than in the light, a fact only to be accounted for by their great quiet :77 ,-Some disturbed at every appearance of their feed ers, are never in that quiet state so neces, sary to the taking on of fat. • It is surpri-. sing how readily any animal acquires hab its of regularity in feeding, and how soon. the influence of this is felt in the improve ment of his constitution. When at the reg. ular hour the pig has had his pudding, or the sheep its turnips they sompose them selves to ?est. Those creatures that are the most irritable and impatient of restraint , while feeding, such as turkeys and keese, are found to take on fat rapidly when con- , fined in darkrooms, and .pnly 'fed at.stated• hours by hand. There .is no surer -proof that a pig is doing well, than to See him -eat his meal quickly and then retire to. his bed, to sleep or cogitate until the hour of feeding returns. Animals whiletattening . should never be alarmed, never rapidly driv en, never be fed at unseasonable hours, and above all things, never be allowed to want. for food.—./Ilbany Cultivator. Mons ABOUT DTITINO POTATOES.-A Gimbals Farmer says, in a letter to the editorof the Bangor l'atriot, "Kccp potatoes dry and they will not rot:' IVe copy the following extract from his letter: "I assume it to be a fact.that the pota- . to is not diseased. The tops of the potato have been killed extensively, the two past seasons, and, as a Very natural consequence, the unripe, half-grown tubers, have rotted. The' cause of the rot is fermentation. Pre vent fermentation, and the frightful "potato plague" is cured. This must be done by drying. Any farmer who has a rotting field of potatoes, may save them by digging and spreading.them so thin as to. dry the surface, and keep them dry until cold wea- Hier, and he - can safely stow them away in the cellar. Drying any substance; as every one should know, will preyent-fer mentation. Feimentation in vegitable mat, tors produces decoMposition, anddecompo-. sition is rut." - . 131 PORTING ALPAOHAS.—II IS Sal that, Ex-Governor Paine, orVermont, has sent ' orders to South A meridi for a Aber . paellas, with a view of naw s talizmg then?, if possible, in that Stito. C B IN 'MING 111 says : have US ;4 :place .of athpare and I mit, The Ch'amberebtug-iiiivad's beet which wei:hl4 seven
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