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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