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D. A. BUEHLER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VOL. XVI.-43.
POETRY.
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plains of Hungary. In two (lays they had through them. Whole battalions, driven He loolisl'ack on his path, and as far
all assembled, and on the evening of the frantic by 'this inaction in the midst of as the eye! can reach he sees the course
4th of July; Napoleon glanced -with exul- such a deadly fire,.broke and fled: But of his colarin by the black swarth of dead
tant eye over a hundred and eighty thou- every thing depended on the infantry hold- men that stretches like a huge serpent over
sand warriors, crowded and packed into the ing firmly their position till the effect of the plain.:, Out of the sixteen thousand
small space of two miles and a half in Davoust's assault was seen. Yet nothing men with which he started, : but fifteen
breadth,- and a mile and a half in length.--- but Napoleon's heroic bravery kept them ' hundred .arc left beside him. " Ten out of
Congratulations were exchanged by sol- steady. Mounted on his milk-white char- , every eleven have fallen. And here at
diers who last saw each other on some ger, Euphrates, given him by the King oflength the tired hero pauses, and 'surveys
glorious battle field, and universal joy and Persia, he slowly 'rode backward arid for- i with a stein and envious eye his few re
hope spread through the dense columns ward before the lines, qyhile the cannon ' maininginlio - Wers. The heart of Bona= 1
that almost touched each other. 1 balls whistled and rattled like hail stones ' parte stops beating at the sight, and, well ;
Bridges had been constructed to fling ; about him—casting ever and anon.,artanx- it may, for his throne is where Macdon
acrosis the channel, and during the evening , ious look towards the spot where Davoust , ald stands. He bears the empire .on his
of the sth, were brought out from their pla- , was expected to appear with his fifty &pi- I sing!! !. - . . . , •. , :.—lie is thg. EMPIRE !
CRS Of concealment, and dragged to' the sand brave followers. For a :whole hold' Shai' 3:.
bank. In ten minutes one was across and he thus rode in front of his men, and though trea I.' '.. :! .; , !re totters on the ensan
fastened at both ends. In a little longer j they expected every moment to see him , gable!' ; - ,-'. J.,- ~!te a speck in the distance
time two others were thrown over and ! shattered by a cannon ball, he moved 'un- ' Ma. , ' -y still to pause, while the
made firm on the opposite shore. Bona- ' scathed amid the storm. - Ican , -,-! . ! -,:. ,! he dead in heaps around
parte was there, walking backwards andi
At length Davoust was seen charging ; hurt ,
.- •, • ,urn at last ?" is the se
forwards in the mud, cheering on the men, like fire over the plateau ' of Wagram, and . ere': -
- ,: • ,',,!!: question Napoleon puts
and accelerating the work, which was ' 7 finally appear with his cannon on the far- :to I .i.. - ,• • : - my throne go down ?"
driven with such wonderful rapidity, that titer side of Neusiedel. In a moment the No' '- - • • ..' -of the mighty trust coin
by three o'clock in the morning, six plateau was covered with smoke as he o- mit'. 2to - t 'he empire stands or falls
bridges were finished, and filled with the pened his cannon on the exposed ranks of wit:: Wm, i ! ,: - 11 stand while lIE stands.
marching columns. Bonaparte had con- ; the enemy. A smile lighted- up Napoleon's Looking away to where his Emperor sits,
strutted two bridges lower down the river, I countenance, and the-brow that had been he sees a. inovement as if aid were at hand.
as if he intended to cross there, in order to ; knit like iron dUring the terrific strife of "Onward," breaks from his iron lips. The
distract the enemy from the real point of ; the two hours before—as word was. con- roll of drums and the pealing of trumpets
danger. On these the Austrians kept up ; stantly brought in - of his successive losses, answer the'volley that smites that exhaust
an incessant fire of artillery, which was 1 and the steady progress of the Austrians— ed column, and the next moment it is-seen
answered by the French from the island ! cleared up,- and he ordered. Macdonald, piercing the Austrian centre. The day is
with a hundred cannon, lighting up, the 1 with eight battallions, to march straight on won—the Empire saved—and the whole
darkness of the night with their incessant 1 the enemy's centre, and pierce it. This Austrian Army is in full retreat l
blaze. The village of Enzerdorf was set formed the - crisis of the battle, and no soon- Such was the awful battle of . Wagram,
on fire, and burned with terrific fierceness ; er did the Archduke see the movement of and such the charge of Macdonald. We
for a tempest arose as if in harmony with this terrible cohimn of eight battallions, know of limiting equal to it except Ney's
the scene; and blew the flames into fury. composed of sixteen 'thousand men, upon charge atWaterloo, and that was not equal
Dark clouds _swept the midnight heavens, his. centre, than he knew that die hour of because it failed.
as if gathering for a contest among them- Europe's destiny and his own army had
selves—the artillery of heaven was heard come. lie immediately doubled his lines,
above the roar of cannon, and - the bright at the threatened point,. and brought up the
lightning that ever and anon rent the gloom I reserve 'cavalry ; while two hundred can
blent in with the incessant flashes below, non were wheeled around the spot on
while blazing bombs, traversing the sky 1 which such destinies hung, and opened a
-in every direction, wove their fiery net 1 terrific fire on.the approaching column:—
work over . the heavens, making the j Macdonald immediately ordered a hundred'
eight . wild and awful as the last day of; cannon to precede him, and answer the
time. In theinidst of this scene of terror 1 Austrian batteries, that swept everYinch of
Napoleon remained unmoved, heedless a- ' ground like a storm of sleet, The can
'like of the storm of the- elements and the 1 noniers mounted their horses, and! started
storm of the artilery ; and though the wind lon a rapid trot tvith their hundred !pieces, -
shrieked around him, and I
the dark Danube approached to Within a half cannon 511, , ,
rolled its turbulent flood at his feet, his `and opened a destructive fire in the ( 1.(:- ,
We copy OR following terribly magnificent pie- eye watched only the movements-of his I my's ranks. - '
ture of one of lime most bloOdy, desperate and sue- rapid columns over the bridges, ivhile - his 1 With this battery at its head, belcri,-,
cessful charges of which the annals of war make share quick voice gave redoubled energy . ferth five like souse hfige monster, .!!
mention, from a sketch of Marshal Macdonald, in • ' -
to evety effort. mighty column steadily advanced. 1!, •
*he July N.itiiiier ot the American Review, - writ
ten by Mr. deadly. The charge decided the fate - The time—the scene—the mighty re- Austrians fell back and closed- in on each I
of Napoleon and of Europe : suit at stake—all harmonized with his stern other, knowing the final struggle had come.
It is at Wagram that we are to look for and tempestuous nature. His perceptions At this crisis of the battle nothing could
Macdonald's greatest deed. We never became quicker—his will firmer, and his' exceed the terror and sublimity ,0f..-.}lie
think of that terrible battle without feelings confidence of success stronger. By six ; scene. The whole interests of the armies
of the profoundest wonder at his deSperate o'clock in the morning, a hundred and : was concentrated here, while the incessant
charge, that then and there saved Napoleon fifty thousand infantry and thirty thousand ' and rapid roll of the cannon told how des
and the empire. The battle of Aspera had cavalry stood in battle array on the shore I perate was the conflict. Still Macdonald
proved disastrous to the French. The lit- of the Danube, from whence a month be- I slowly advanced, though his numbers were
most efforts of Napoleon could not wring fore the Austrians had driven the army in diminishing, and the fierce battery at its
victory front ,the hands of the Austrians.— affright. The clouds had vanished with head was gradually becoming silent. En-
Massena had stood under a tree while the the night, and when the glorious sun arose voloped in the awful fire of its antagonist,
boughs were crashing with cannon balls over the hill tops, his beams glanced over the guns had one by one been dismounted,
overhead, and, fought as never even he i a countless array of helmets, and nearly and at the distance of a mile and a half
fought befole. The brii.e Lannes had ; three hundred thousand bayonets glittered from the spot where he started on his aw
been mangled by a cannon shot, and died ,in the light. It was a glorious spectacle ; ful mission, Macdonald found himself with
while the victorious guns of the enemy I•those two mighty armies standing in the out a protecting battery, and the centre
were still playing on his heroic, but flying , early sun-light amid the green fields, while still unbroken. Marching over the wreck
column, and the fragments of the Magnifi- i the air fairly sparkled with the flashing of his cannon and pushing the naked head
cent army, that had in the morning moved steel that rose like a forest over their heads. lof his column into the open field, and in
front the banks of the Danube, in all the ! Nothing could exceed the surprise of the to the devouring cross fire of the Austrian
confidence of victory, at nightfall were ' Austrians, when thPy saw the French le- artillery, he began to advance. The de
erowded and packed in the little island of gions, across the river, and ready for battle. struction then became awful. At every
Lobau. . I That bright scene was to see the fate of discharge the head of the column disap-
Rejecting the counsel of his officers, 80-' Europe settled for the next four years, and peared, as if it sank into the earth, while
naparte resolved to make a stand here, and that &lions summer's sun, as it rolled the outer ranks on either side, melted a 7
wait for reinforcements to come up. No over the heavens, was to look down on way like snow wreaths on the river's brink.
where does his exhaustless genius show it-one of the most terrific battles the world No pen can describe the intense anxiety
self as in this critical period of his life.— I ever saw. with which Napoleon watched its pro
ne revived the drooping spirits of the sol-'1 We do not design to describe the move- gress. On just such a charge rested his
diers by presents from his own hands— . ments of the two armies, or the varied empire at !Waterloo, and in its failure his
he visited in person the sick in the hospi-',' success during the day. Bonaparte at the 'doom was sealed. But all the lion in Mac
tals, while the most gigantic plans at . the outset, had his columns—converged to a donald's nature was roused, and he had ful
same time strung his vast energies to the point — resting at one end on the Danube, ly resolved to execute the awful task -g'v
utmost tension. From the latter part of and radiating off into the field, like the en him or tall °ludic field. Still he to v-
May to the first of July, he had remained spokes of a wheel. The Austrians, on the , cred amid his falling guard, and with lis
cooped up in this little island, but not in. contrary, stood in a vast semi -circle, as if, eye fixed steadily on the enemy's centre,
active. He had. done every thing that about to enclose and swallow up their ere- I continued to advance. At the close and
could be done on the spot, whilst orders , my. Macdona td's division was amongst 1 fierce discharges of these cross batteries
had been sent to the different armies to has-' the first brought into the engagement, and ; on its mangled head, that column would'
ten to his relief. At two o'clock in the af- bravely held its ground during the day.—sometimes stop and stagger back like a
ternoon of the 2d of July, the reinforce- When night closed the scene of strife, the I strong ship when smitten by a wave. The
ments began to pour in, and never was Austrians had gained on the French.— next moment the drums would beat their
there such an exhibition-ofthe skill and ; They nevertheless sounded a retreat, while hurried charge, and the calm steady voice
promptitude with which orders had been i the exhausted Army of Napoleon lay down , of Macdonald ring back through his ex
issued and carried.
; At two o'clock in the ;on the field of blood, to sleep. Early in - hausted ranks, nerving them to the desper
afternoon, the different armies from all , the morning, the Atistrians, taking advan-; ate valor that filled his own spirit. Nev
quarters first began to come in, and before; tage of their success the day before, corn-! er before was such a charge made, and it
the next night they had all arrived. First, 1 menced the attack, and the thunder of their ; seemed at every moment that the torn and
with music and streaming banners appear- ! guns at daylight brought Napoleon into his mangled column inus / break and fly. • The
,ed the -columns of Bernadotte, hastening saddle. The field was again alive with Austrian cannon a gradually wheeled a
from the banks of the Elbe, carrying joy charging squadrons, and covered with the ; round till they str ,tch away in parallel
to the desponding hearts of -Napoleon's. smoke of battle. From daylight till near-; lines on each side of this band of heroes,
army-. They had hardly readhed the field ly noon had-the conflict raged without a' and hurl an incessant tempest of lead
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before the stirring notes of the bugle, and moment's cessation. Every where, ex- gainst theirhosoms. But the stern war
the roll of the drums in another quarter, cept -against the Austrians' left, the French ; riors close in and fill up the frightful gaps
announced the approach of Vandamme ' were defeated. From the steeples of Nil:. made arevery_charge and still press on.
from the provinces of the Rhine. Wredc . enna, the multitude gazed on the progress 1 Macdonald has communicated his own .
came next front the, banks of the Leech,; of the doubtful fight, till they -heard the settled purpose to 'Conquer or die to his de
with his strong Bavarians ; w hil e th e til e r . , I
' cheers of their countrYmen above the roar voted followers. There is no excitement—
ning sun shone on Macdonald's victorious :of battle driving the flying enemy .before ; no enthusiasm such as Murat was wont
'troops, rushing down from Illyria and the them, when they shouted in joy, and be-, to infuse among his men when making one
Alpine summits, to save Bonaparte and lieved the victory gained. But Napoleon of his desperate charges of cavalry. No
the Empire. As the bold Scotehrnan rein-; galloped up, and restoring order in the dis- cries of "Vice l' Empereur," are heard a- !
ed his steed up beside Napoleon, and vein- ; ordered lines, ordered Devoust to make a lone the lines; but in their place is an un
ted back to his advanciwr b column, he - little circuit, and ascending the plateau of Wag- I alterable resolution which nothing but anni-
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thought that two days after the fate of:Ext., ' ram, carry Neusiedel; . While waiting the hilation could shake. The eyes of the ar
rope was to turn on his single. will.-- - ;! result of this movement, ort - the success of, my:and the world are on them, and they
Scarcely were his troops arranged in their i •which depended, : all his future • operations, ; carry Napoleon's fate as they go. But
appointed place, before the brave Mar- the French lines - under Napoleon s - Mime-, human strength has its limits and human
rhout appeared with glisteniiv bayonets • diate charge, were exposes to a mostl ter-' effort the spot where it ceases forever.—
and, waving plumes,
,from the 'borders of rifle fire from the enemy's artillery, which No living man could have'earried that col-
Dalmatia. Like an exhaustless stream the tore thorn into 'fragments. Unable- to ad- umn to where it stands but the iron-heart
magnificent Wilumns kept pouring into that vanco, and, too far distant to return the Are ed hero at-its head. But no*;he halts and
li tt l e i s l e, w hil e, to crown t h e whole, Eu- i they were-compelled to stand as idle spec- - , casts his-eye- aver his little surviving band,
(wee came up with his veterans fiom. the tators, and .see- the' cannon shot 'plough , that standis alone in,the midst of the enemyi
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'HAT IT IS TO BE A SLAVE t
BY BERIPARD lIARTOY
Hast thou ever asked thyself
WHAT IT 18 TO BE A. ELATE?
Bought and sold for sordid pelf,
From the cradle to the grave ?
'Tis to Ittcow the transient powers
• E'en of muscle, flesh and bone,
Cannot in thy happiest hours,
Be considered as thine own!
But Tur MASTERS goods and chattels,
Lent to thee . for little more,
Than to fight his selfish battles
. For some bits of shining ore I
'Tis to learn thou hast a heart,
Beating in that mt RTRRED frame,
Of whose ownership, no part
Thou can'st challenge—but in name
For the curse of Slavery crushes
Out the life-blood from its core;
And expends its throbbing gushes
But to swell another's store.
God's best gift from heaven above,•
Meant to make a heaven on earth,
Hallowing, humanizing LOVE!
With the ties which thence have birth
, These can never be lIIS lot,
Who, like brutes, is bought and gold.;
Holding such—as having not
On his own the spider's hold!
7iB to feel, e'n worse than this,
If aught worse than this can be,
Thou bast shrilled, for bale or bliss,
An immortal soul in thee! .
. .
But that this undying guest
Shares thy body's degradation,-
Until slavery's bonds, unblest,
Cheek each kindling aspiration
And what shOuld have been thy light,
Shining e'en beyond the grave,
Turns to darkness worse than night,
Leaving thee a hopeless slave
Suen.ts SLAVERY! Couldst thou bear
Its vile.bondage? Oh! my brother,
How, then, canst thou; wilt thou dare
To-inflict it on another?
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Battle , of Wagram.
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MACDONALD'S DESPERATE•CHARGE.
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1846.
"FEARLESS AND FRET„"
A band of fairies, making a large tour-by
moonligh!,•caine suddenly upon the borders
of a northern forest. Alternate storms of
snow and.rOn had fallen, and left the trees
robed in"garments of virgin whiteness.—
The full 'tuociniirshining brilliantly upon the
thick braticireS - , - aitiVeasting 'slanting shad
ows through theOitn aisles of the Wood,
festooned % .th icicles and paved with gems
of frosts, ihade the scene one of dazzling
sp,lender. The fairieS folded their rain
nv wings, and ,gazed in mute
they beheld, aught
! the night blast
- shuddered, end be
:,;Dipp, uf tt:t.-11
••., • t - cling one of the fairies
of the band came anti bowed km before
the queen, murmuring—
"A boon !"
"Whattvilt thou!" said the fairy sow
creign, touching the suppliant with her.,ti
ny sceptre.
"Oh, lel me dwell in this•beautiful place,
gracious queen !" was the request.
"Foolish► one ! wouldst thou forsake thy
sisters for this cold, glittering land ? Then
be it so. Farewell !" and they sped light
ly down the valley.
The fairy, rejoicing in her new and
splendid lot, danced gAily under the-gleam
ing forest roof, and sang many a rich and
sweet carol among the bows which arched
over her like a jeweled canopy.
The spirit listened with admiration to
her song, as it rang clear and sweet through
the wood.:
.
But long ere the moon waned, her voice
faltered, and her step became languid.- 7
She had fOrgotten that her fragile form was
made for a summer clime,. and might not
bear the 411 air which pervaded about her.
Slowly Ali yielded to the piercing cold.—
Oh ! how the longed to nestle in the arms
of one of lier sisters, amid the silvery foun
tains and pirennialflowers of her own loved
and loveVfairy land. The snow spirits,
in their spangled robes, gathered about her ;
but their Voices were 'strange, and their
breath fell ;like ice upon her cheek. The
stars looked down upon Ilex with' cold, dis
tant glance; Flashes of radiance shot ever
and anon 4hwart the sky above her, seem
ing to moher agony. Alt about her
was gloridls as the land of dreams; but
what was is brightness to her !
. Faintly *ose the last cry of the fairr:—
" Sisters ! 4h, sisters ! take me home !—I
am freezin g ! "
f
• Humble yet gifted one, sigh not to leave
the fond h its which encircle thee in thy
loi,sly hom ! Pine not for a dwelling in
that' "land of mysterious gleams," the
wide and s fining land of fame.. Many are
the souls 1 ose warm affections have been
congealed IT its frigid air. Its splen
dor is wonlrous, but delusive as the glitter
ing ice fro-- ; for all above, around and be
neath, is c I d—freezing cold.
THE B Awry OF REPUBLICANISM:-
Ex-Governor Morehead has been qualified
as a Magistrate in North Carolina. James
i
Monro, on 'aving the Presidential chair,
resumed his duty as Justice of the Peace
id Virginia. ' ,
ifashionable ladylike a rigid
Because she makes a great
la little waist (waste.)
Why is
economist?
bustle abou
a Come,
have cleare
Bob's quiz
Cleared l'
why, I ha
" Genius
through," a
hole in the
4 , This fir
toper, who
moon-li!
THE FROZEN FAIRY
' ob, tell 'us how mach you
by , your speculation ?" said
al friend to hi‘t the other day.
replied
,Bob, with a frown,,
e cleaned. my popkets 1."
ivift alwa"ys work its way
the poet said, when he'saw a
boiv of his coat.
is amazing cold," said an old
as frying to warm his toes in
t on a snow bank.
ANECDOTE OF FATHER MATTHEW.--.-1 THE COLDEST Yrr.—.The Albany Ar-
This celebrated temperance advocate was gus says the thermometer at Brownville,
met by a very rich distiller, who asked Jefferson county, on the 11th inst., at 7o
him imploringly, how he could so delibe- :A. M., touched 18 degrees below zero!
rately . plot the ruin of so many good and . On the 12th, same time, 31 below! BrOwn.
uneffending people, who had their all in- vile is somewhat famous in this way. On
vested in distilleries ?. . the sth of February, 1836, the mercury
To which he replied by relating the fol- there fell to 37 degrees below zero.,
lowing anecdote :—A very fat old duck'
went out early one morning, in pursuit of
worms,' and after having been out all day,
RIM succeeded in filling her crop, and on
her' return home at night, with her crop
'full of worms, she had the misfortune to
meet a fox, who at once propotted to take
her life to satisfy his hunger.. The eld
duck appealed, implored, argued, and re
monstrated. She said to the fox—you can:
not be so wicked and - hard-hearted as to
take the life of a poor harmless duck, mere
ly
to satisfy your hunger ! She exhorted
him against thuommission of so great a
crime, and begged him not to stain his soul
with innocent blood. When the fox could
stand her cant no longer, he said: "Out up
on you, madam, with all your fine feathers !
You are a pretty thing, indeed, to lecture
me about taking life to satisfy hunger ! Is
not your own .crop at this instant full of
worms ? You destroy more lives in one
day to satisfy your hunger, than I do in a
whole month !
.A.I.TEFATIOisi OF THE JF:WISII SABBATH.—
A German paper states that the Jewish
Iteibrm Committee' sitting at Frankfort, at
the head ofwhich are Messrs. Goldschmidt
advocate ; Creusenach, professor ; and
Schwartzchild, physician ; and to which
all the most eminent Jews of Germany have
adhered—has just taken an important reso
lution. It has decided that the Jewish
Sabbath-shall-be kept on Sunday. The
committee has appointed divine service to
be performed on Sunday, iii 'the new Jew
ish temple in that city. The names of
several Jewish preachers are mentioned as
destined to take part in it.
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THE TARIFF.—The Washington c.orrespon :
dent of the Philadelphia North American writes
as follows:
" Mr. Hudson, of Massachusetts, who
stands deservedly prominent in regard to
the Tariff, and the protective policy, and
whose experience in the House entitles his
opinions and statements to more than ordi
nary% weight; has taken pains to inform
himself of the actual condition Of sentiment
in, that body, in regard .to the existing sys
tem. After making all reasonable allow
ances, canvassing the doubtful, and aster-
twining the certain, he represents that the
Tariff of 1842 will not receive more than
18 votes from the Democratic party. The
other support will be derived from scatter
ing sources.
REPUDIATION IN MARTLAND.—ID Carroll coun
ty, Maryland,'laSt week, the State tax collector
wasburnt in etligy. The following resolution was
passed at the meeting:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this
meeting That any man who would under
take to collect the State tax for the benefit
of European or American stock gamblers,
brokers, and speculator*, would bottle the
sunshine and huckster out the dews of
Heaven.'
MR. CLAY AND TILE ,PHIEADELPHIA
CLAY CLUB.--A correspondent of the
Newark Daily Advertiser, now on his way
South in company with Mr. Clay, gives
some interesting incidents of a visit to
Ashland,.and among other things a brief
account of the presentation of presenti
from the Philadelphia Clay Club, by Mr.
White, a member of the Club. Mr. W.
after formally announcing his mission, hand
ed to Mr. C. in a becoming manner a book
in which was recorded the names t pf 500 b
persons who had joined ; in giving their u
nanimous assent to the ' series of resolu-
tions (included) expressing theirsentiments
and feelings towards him personally, and
their approbation of the acts of his resplend
ent life. He then presented to Mrs. C. the
casket of jewels, consisting. of a bracelet,
breastpin, and ring of the purest gold, or
namented witlr a. constellation of diamonds
enclosed in a case of mother of pearl—it
self a bijou. TheSe all being opened. and.
examined, Mr. Clay responded to Mr.
White in a ,most feeling manner.
AFTLICTING.-011 Friday of last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Crouch, of Italy Hill, left
home with au infant about two months old.
to visit some relatives in Jerusalem, Pa.
If being a very cold day_they—bundi adAip
very warm. On arriving at their friends,
the young mother commenced telling how
"very quiet the baby was during, the 'whole
ride ; ' but her feelings can be imagined,
when she learned the cause of its quietness.
On uncovering it she beheld her infant a
corpse, having been undoubtedly smoth
ered.
UNFORTUNATE. OCCURRENCE.—The Ten
nessee Democrat says that on the evening
of the 10th instant, the house of Wm.
Mangrum, in Maury county, was con
sumed by fire, and that two of his childmt
persihed in the flames. • 41 -
HANESQNELY DONE.—We learn that
John.ffunter,, an extensive
has
elaware county, N. Y. has presented a
farm of 100 acres to a son of the late Sheriff
Steele, borne' since the death of his father.
He hid previously made a similar' present
to-the Widow.
" Ott of glarkass cometh forth light;" as
the printer's devil said when - he looked in
/
to.Qte ink-keg. ' .
TERMS--TWO DOLLAU ANNIIII.3
I WHOLE NO. 823.
Goon SPORT—The . Winston (Miss.)
Banner says, "A few days ago a party of
citizens went out on a camp hunt and kdla
forty one deer and• five turkeys, and a few
weeks previous another party on a simi
lar excursion killed forty deer in two
days.
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Farmers' Cabinet.
ROBERT BRYSON'S MODEL FARM.
Within n year or two an Agricultural . Society
has been formed in Cumberland County, with its
central point at Carlisle. We insert the follow.
ing from ;he Report of the Coromittee on Farms,
acknowledging that we haveread it with much, .
interest:
It is with feelings of great pleasure that
we cordially unite irfthe expression of the
opinjon that the farm of Mr. Robert Bry
son, and the condition of it-its cultivation,
and the principles of it—afford a most
gratifying -example of the rich' product
which is made by energy, industry and
skill. The farm consists of two hundred
and fifty-seven acres of land, most of which
is, cleared, leaving only trees enough for
!shade. As you approach the farm you dre
at once struck with the cleanliness of field
and fence row, which indicatis that nothing
grows there but what is planted. A large
stone mansion sxhibits the comforts of a
profitable farm, and a 'no less capacious
barn shows that there must be a place for
grain, for there is much here to be stored
away. A particular description of this
barit may be useful to the Society. It is
in size ninety-eight feet six inches, by fifty
four feet, which includes a seven feet over
shot, and thirty-four feet high to - the
square: Itis built in the side of a bank,
and has two sets of barn floors, one above
the other—the first having an elevation of
about, eight feet, and the second is used as
a threshing floor.from which the grain as
it is threshed passes down into the first
floor, NI here it is cleansed; the stables are
below the whole. - -
There is an advantage gained by this ar
rangement, in this, that you can get out a
ny quantity of grain without being hinder
ed,by the accumulation of it upon the floor;
and there can be no better illustration of
this advantage than the fact, that Mr. Bry
son's whole crop was threshed, cleaned,
and ready for market, on the 25th of .Tuly ,
of this year. With the peculiar capacity
and arrangement of his barn, this was ef
fected without any waste of straw, or throw
ing more into the barn yard than would be
readily converted into manure; it was all
stowed away in his capacious barn, ready
to be used during . the succeeding winter, as
occasion will require;—the quantity of
wheat was nineteen hundred and ninety
five bushels, which grew upon eighty a
cres of ImA—equal to twenty-five bushels
to the acre; five acres of barley were also
threshed, and produced two hundred and
fifty bushels ; forty tons, of hay were made
well cured and stored away; the produce
of ten acres of oats, which your commit
tee supposed would yield 270 bushels,
were also here; the corn was yet upon
the ground, and it was the subject of par
ticular examination, and the conclusion to
which we came with regard to it was, that
it would yield about 55 bushels tolhe acme;
notwithstanding this season has not been
as favorable as usual, we have not seen in
any years so large a crop of corn which
was as good as this,; 30 bushels Of clover
seed were also made. This is a limestone
farm, and the manure used upon it is prin
cipally lime. The stock which we found
here, were eighty head of steers, 20 milch
cows and young cattle, 100 hogs, 15 sheep,
Xi horses, and 3 yoke of oxen. The eighty
head of steers were in a course of prepa
ration , for the market, and had been fed
_ _
since the corn had passed the wasting ear
state, by cutting it off and feeding it to them
in bulk—the cattle and hogs thus fed to
gether, exhibited •this system as a profita
ble one ; scarcely two acres had yet been
consumed, and the•cattle were almost ready
for market. One would suppose that a
farm like this would occupy all the at
tention of its ownek,,but not so with Mr.
BiTson , :- - - - - -- on his farm three kilns - were - con- --
stantly employed burning lime, producing
about 2000 bushels a week, hauled front
the kiln as fast as it was :burned to enrich
the lands of the surrounding country. Mr.'
Bryson employs up : in his farm about 30
hands, who are engaged in the tilling of
the farm, and burning and hauling of lime;
the labor of these men is' , directed by Mr.
Bryson in person, and with a system and
economy of time which seem to be pecu-
Rai. At sunrise every man', knows from
the mouth of his employer -what is his bu
siness for the day.
MAMMOTH Cszv.—A snerr urnifionce,
Mr. John Dinmore, of Mountpleseant town
ship, 'Waahington 'county, Pa., elallgliteied ,
a calf aged just seven months,: which
weighed, clean meat, 405 pounds ! Every
thing considered, this was a very remark..
able calf. The hide weighed. 77 pounda.
and on foot-die weight could not have been
short, of 700. It had net betas
but had been running on indifferent pest.
ture a considerable part of the iime—basint 4
no extra attention whatever,