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NOT THE GLORY OF CfESAU; BUT THE WELFARE
OF ROME.
BY H. B.STACY.
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1836.
VOL. IX No. 612.
From the Boston Pearl.
THE FEAR OF THE BURIAL,
"lbs wont pang or death is the burial. L. E. L
It 1 not that we (brink from death,
From nalure'i general doom
It ii our horror of the grave,
Our terror of the tomb.
Our dread of that dark dwelling-place,
That fills us with despair.
And wakes each nerve to agony,
Which all who bieathe muit bear,
T ii not the deep, dissolving pang
To struggling nature known ;
Eidurance calmly meets the strife
Of agony alone :
But 't is that deep nnd thrilling diead
The f-lteiing und the firm
Alike have fell, which shrinks from dust,
Corruption and the worm,
T is this that haunts our infant years,
Inherent with our breath,
The parent of a thousand fears
T is not the fear or death ;
T is this that makes ihe bitterness
Of many a parting hour,
And triumphs over better hopes
With deep and deadly power.
I 're bowed beside my infant's bed,
And watched his struggling breath,
And known that each convulsive gasp
Might terminate in death :
1 've seen around the livid lip
The ghastly whiteness steal,
And in thai horn of anguish fell
As mothers only feci.
Was it n selfish sorrow swayed
Resistless in my breast 1
Did I forget that God was good,
And Heaven n bnme of rest 1
I know not ifl ever thought
There was 11 Heaven above,
Or that a God was reigning theie,
And that that God was love.
But on that idol infant form
Which I no rooro should see,
I thought how soon the icy worm
A reveller, would be ;
And in a horror unrevcaled,
An agony unknown,
I felt, alas ! I could not yield
Corruption what 1 her oten.
It is. alas ! the dust we loic,
The dust to which we cling,
The dust fur which we sorrow when
The spirit plumes her wing ;
A ad that from width the feeble shrink,
The firm affecl In brave,
Is not the fear ofdeath ; it is
The terror of the grate.
REBECCA.
MRS. REMANS.
If any Untie were wanting to convince
mankind of lite exaltation and power of the
mind or woman, the productions of finely
talented females, now breathing Ihe finr
trains of pure and elevated poetry, and now
pouring forth tlio ennobling sentiments of
philosophy, both in title country and uurope,
would be sufficient. The lowering genius
uf Madame de Stael, walking in cloudless
maje6ly like the moon abovo the planets;
the pure lustre of Mrs. llemans shining
with the pure radiance ufthc morning star;
the soft scintillations of Miss Lsndon, like
the first sweet rsy of evening, arc specimens
of what woman is in the fatherland while
the rose-likcbeauty of MrF.Stgouriicy ; the
evergreen foliage of Mrs. Hale; the summer
avory iragrince ot mrs. inuu ; me my
loveliness of Hannah Gould, and the wild
flower sweetness of Miss Sedgwick, arc sc
lections from the flowers of this western
wilderness, and evidences of what the
"daughters of Columbia" may bee me.
The true home of woman is in her own
house : it is there that she shines with pecu
liar loveliness, thero is the proper sphero of
l.er usefulness, and there are the objects
which havu the strongest claims upon her
regard. We wish never to see her climb
ing I hp nigged acclivities of public life, with
Bosdicea at the head nl her army, or with
Catherine upon the throne of slate ; nor
would we have her, like Charluilo Corday
or (he Maid of Orleans, periling her repu
tation and life in popular insurrections and
political feuds. Her abodo is in the valley
amonir the flowers of the garden and the
sweets of domestic life not on the hilltop,
and surrounded by strife and debate and the
clashing of amor. She' can never, with
consistency, appear in the forum of the pul
pit, in the senate, or at the polls btill,
without disparagement of hor sexual cha
racter, or infringement upon those hallowed
feelings, which the delicacy and loveliness
of her nature have cast around her, she may
devote her leisure to the pallet and the pen,
and send forth Ihe emanations of her soul
to enlighten and to bless.
Wo take up the writings of no fomale,
whose sentiment! come to us with a holier
freshness or a more classic purity than the
poems of Mrs. Hemans. She is endeared
to our recollections by somo of the finest
trains of sentimental poetry in the Ian.
guige; effusions which must ever continue
to please, as long as fine feeling and correct
taste shall be found. She has won to her.
self a name and a praise in the whole earth,
wherever the waters of the mighty deep
shall waft an English heart, there will the
ones of 'England's Dead,' the 'Sound of the
r.." nrl the 'Voice of Spring' bo heard.
But her fame is not alone the property of
her native land; it belongs equany to me
wooda of America, whoso wilds will long
continue to echo the lay or the Pilgrim
Fathers;' a lyric which has seldom been
surpassed, either in ths adaptions of its
ideas, or Ihe spirit of its construction. 1 he
production of this piece, with Iho delicacy,
dignity, and moral beauty of her wholo po
ems, liavo secured her a place in every vir
tuous nd patriotic licart, which can only
be obliterated with its list throb. There
it t loftireii of sentiment, and a puro lono
of morality pervading all her productions,
and their frequent porusa! must inevitably
in norm the heart to deeds of nobility
and virtue, aud to eoflen it with feelings ol
sweetness and tenderness. Her genius is
lyric, and her poetry that of sentiment.
There is a melancholy sweetness hovering
over Iho scene which shrt pictures to her
heart; a softened radiance Ilka that of
mellow moonlight falling upon groves and
majestic ruine. All the better and richer
leclings of tlio mind and oftho imagination
are brought into play ; wc arc soothed, de
lighted, elevated, enraptured. The images
of the beautiful pictures which she presents,
dwell upon the mind ; the words and tones
or music, which her eweet harp has awaken
ed, rest upon the ear; wc continue to see
and to hear, and to feel, till our senses are
called away to the enjoyment of new beau
tics, and our hearts dclightod with fresh
images.
THE MASSACRE OF THE JANIZARIES.
The following is from a very interesting work
row in press, by the author of" Ship and Shore,"
entitled "A Visit to Constantinople."
The present feeble and distracted condi
tion of the Turkish Empire has not result
ed, as many have been led to suppose, from
the sudden destruction of the Janizaries.
Had that body retained the patriotism and
vigor which once animated and nerved
them, their absence might truly be deplored
by every honest Osmanlie. But they had
ceased to possess these commendable attri
butes ; they had become insolent and re
fractory a terror to the throne, and to the
hearth of the quiet citizen. Yet there was
an unsparing precipitancy in their fate, that
must awaken sentiments of cammieseratiun.
Nor can we help feeling a bewildering re
spect for the daring spirit that flashed thro'
their despair.
They had long stood the firm refuge and
defence oftho Empire ; they had impress
ed the terror of their arms upon the dynas
ties of Christendom ; they had won a thou
sand victories, and as often dictated the
conditions of peace; they had displaced
viziers, disposed sultans, and set aside the
pashas oftho provinces at will ; they had
recently consigned Selim to a bloody
shroud, and given the present monarch to
understand, that he owed his inviolability
to the simple fact of his being the last of
the Othman line of an age sufficient to
reign. Occupying this position, and sus
tained by these proud recollections, they
were naturally intolerant of any innova
tions, that infringed upon their priviligcs or
diminished their consideration. Mahmoud
saw clearly that he must raise the quick
hand of ruin against them, while ho had
the power, or submit to become the passive
instrument of their caprice. He preferred
his own life and independence to their
domineering sway ; and planned their de
struction with a truo Maclnavclen policy.
lie thinned their ranks by sending tliein, in
small detachments, into the Morea expe
ditiona in which they were intentionally
unsupported, and from which they never
returned. To the remainder he addressed
himself in a different form. To the avari
cious, ho proffered gold ; to the ambitious,
preferment ; to the refractory, he gave the
bowstring; till, by these well adapted do
vices, the commandcr-in chief, and a num
ber of the master spirits of the order, were
brought firmly into his interests. The'
fctva for the organization of a new and dis
tinct army, now made its appearance ; and
produced the expected result. The Jani
zarics instantly roso against it, denouncing
the spirit of its provisions, and demanding
the heads ot those who had counselled their
sovereign to this disrespectful act ; and
threatening, in the event of its not being
immediately rescinded, to force the gate of
the seraglio.
But Mahmoud was prepared for this
alarming issue. The forces which he had
been secretly collecting in anticipation of
this event, now surrrounded tho Etmedian,
in which the Janizarica were assembled.
An order for tho death of the insurgents,
under the sanction of Ihe Ulema, was is
sued ; the standard of the prophet unfurled
from the dome of the imperial mosque, and
all faithful Musslemen called upon to sup
port its sacred cause against the violence
of impiety and treason. The Jannizaries
soon saw that their condition was hopeless,
their mistake irretrievable : yet they de
termined not to disgrace the memory of
their fathers by any relenting tears, or un
availing supplications. They forced their
way over1 many of their dead companions
to their barracks, where they shut them
selves up, sternlv resolved to abide the
terrible issue. From this retreat they
could not be forced ; nnd at evening orders
were given to fire their last refuge. The
burning pile sent up its fitful flashes through
the long night ; and the next sun dawned
upon a mouldering mass of embers, bones,
and blood ! Those who had escaped the
tumult and carnsgo of the Etmedian, were
hunted down in every section, street, onu
alley of the city. They wero betrayed,
overwhelmed, cut to pieces; and their man
gled bodies cast into the Bosphorus, till that
mighty current became literally cnoaKeo
with the dead.
Thus perished in a day one of the most
formidable orders of men known to this, or
any other age, they numbered at the time
ol their massacre (July, laso; au.uuu.
their achievements are interwoven with
tho highest splendour of the Ottoman name.
Their watch fires were kindled from the
mountains of Asia to (lit centre of Europe;
and their war song seems still to echo from
every torrent and steep. Their chivalric
valor, their unshrinking hardihood, and
contempt of death, will long disturb Ihe
sober pen ot History, anu lurnisu iiiumua
around which tho spirit of pootry will hov
er and catch tho romance of its wildest
flights.
THE WHITE INDIANS.
It is a fact, perhaps, not generally known,
that there does exist in the far west, at
least two small tribes or bands of whito peo
pie. Onoofthese bandits called .luw
keyt, They reside in Mexico, on the south
west side of tho Kockv Mountains, and be
tween three and five hundred miles from
Santa Fe, towards California ; and in a
valley which makes a deep notch into the
mountain surrounded by high and impassa
bio ridges, and which can only be entered
by a narrow pass from tho south west.
They aro represented by trappers and hunt
ers of the west known to the writer of
this to be men of veracity to be innocent,
inoffensive people, living by agriculture,
and raising great numbers of horses and
mules, both of which aro used by them
for food. They cultivate maize, pumpkins
and beans, in large quantities.
These people arc frequently depredated
upon by their more warlike red neighbors,
to which they submit without resorting to
deadly weapons to repel the aggressors.
Not far distant from the Mawkeys, and
in the same range of country, is another
band of the same description, called JYabbe
hoes. A description of either of these tribes
will answer for both. They have been de
scribed to the writer by two men in whore
veracity tho fullest confidence may be
placed : and the) say the men are of the
common stature, with light blue eyes, and
their skin is of the most delicious) white
ness. One of my informants who saw
seven of these people at Santa Fe in 1831,
in describing the Mawkeys, says, "they
are as much whiter than me as I am whiter
than the darkest Indian in tho Creek na
tion," and my informant was of as good a
complexion at men generally arc.
A trapper on one occasion, in a wander
ing excursion, arrived at a village of the
Mawkces. He was armed with a rifle, a
pair of belt pistols, knife and tomahawk ;
all of which were new to them and appear
ed to excite their wonder and surprise. Af
tcr conversing some time by signs, he fired
one of his pistols ; instantly the whole
group around him fell to the earth in the
utmost consternation ; they entreated him
not to hurl them, and showed in various
ways that they thought him a superior nat
ural being. He saw vast numbers of liora
es and mules about the village.
Query. May not these people be a rem
nant of those who inhabited this country
prior to the present race of Indians ? the
traces of whose fortifications and cultiva
ted fields and gardens are still to be seen
throughout the whole western country.
The Camanchet. Tho following letter
has been addressed to the government, by
a person long resident among theso Indians,
and competent to form accurate opinions :
"Fur the last five years I have had in
tercourse with the Camanchc Indians and
their allies. They inhabit tho country from
34 deg North on Red Rivor to tho Rio
del Norte, extending to the road that leads
Irom at. Louis, Wo. to Santa Fe, South to
the head waters of Trinity, Gaudaloupc,
Brazos, and Colorado rivers of Texas. A
country in length six hundred miles, ond
breadth Irom 250 to 400 miles, mostly
prairie. The different tribes arc Camnn-
dies, Kyawas, T.iwush, or Southern Paw
nees, Caddocs, Wacoes, and Skiddita.
They number about 35 thousand in all, and
can muster from seven to eight thousand
restless warriors. In this great western
prairie, fruo as the Buffalo themselves, they
acknowledge no superior. Depredating
upon the Mexicans of the interior States,
ravaging anu burning their towns, murder
ing their people, sometimes taking prison
ors, which they either torture to death or
make Waves of, carrying off immenso herds
of mules and hotscs, naturally prompts
these wandering hordes to look upon them
selves as the most powerful of nations
which opinion the visit ol sick and exhaust
ed troop? among them was far from re
moving. 1 left their country on the 5th of
December last. I hey had then torn up
the Treaty made by our Commissioners,
and said they had no treaty with us, and
those that had contracted had no right to
treat. They wore theottt war with the
people of Texas, and had two American
boys (Texlans) prisoners. They also ex
hibited rittes ot American make, while they
said the owners they had killed.
"It isdesirabio to mako a lasting Treaty
with those people ; they liavo from time to
lime murdered more than fifty of our peo
pie on the Santa Fe road and frontier of
Arkansas, and as that frontier appears to
be tho place (and i hope a permanent home)
for our peaceful Indians, it is desirable on
their account alono that we should have a
good understanding with theso Land Pi
ralet of the great prairies. The way to
effect this object in my opinion is to send a
mission without an armed force, (for these
people are jealous of troops.) Some one
who knows them, who has hunted tho Buf
falo and the Wild Horse with them, who
has undergone fatiguo and suffering in
those wild and fearless hunts and sports.
Such a person always attracts tho atten
tion of those wild children of the prairie
and they will bo apt to believe what he
tells them. Let him hold a council and
invite them to our country, thoy will come;
and the wonders thev will behold will con
vincc them that wc are powerful and great,
They will go home in despair, at compara
tive littleness, and they will tell their peo
ple that they have seen more men in one
of pale face's villages, than grass on the
prairies, and leaves on tho trees, and they
will believe."
CURIOUS RELIC OF BENEDICK
ARNOLD.
Soon after Arnold, the traitor, joined
the British army, the war of the revolution
terminated and ho sailed for England. He
lived there in ignominious obscurity many
years, but finally removed to St. Johns, in
New-Brunswick. He carried on the traf
fic to the West Indies there, aud became
quite an extensive trader. But he was
universally despised, and respectable people
generally shunned him. He lived in opu
lence, but even that would not have secur
ed his introduction into any respectable
circle, had it not been for the exemplary
character and fino accomplishments of Mrs
Arnold. While residing at St, Johns, an
cxteniivo warehouse of his, filled with un
saleable merchandise, was destroyed by
fire. The insurance offico suspected foul
play and refused to redeem the policy. A
law suit followed, and during its progress,
the people wero in a high slate of exasper
ation, but no cvidenco was adduced of
guilt, although it was believed ho was
knowing to the incendiary. An original
letter written by Mrs. Arnold during tho
trial, to a lady then resident there, but now
in Northampton, is in our possession. In
relation to her husband's trial, she says,
"the general acts for himself. In my opin
ion this is all I can say for him." After
tho trial was over and Arnold acquitted,
ho was hung in effigy olmost in front of
his own house, and during this lime, copies
of tho following curious handbill were dis
tributed among the populace. We pre
serve its typography exactly.
The Last SPEECH and CONFESSION or
JUDAS,
Who was Executed at the Public Market
Place, in the City of St. Johns (New
Brunswick) on the 27th of
August, 1791.
I WAS born in America, about the
year 1736 of reputable parents, my
father was a Cobbler and intended
me for the same profession, but my
restless disposition rendered me unfit for
any employment during his lifetime Af
ter his death I became a quack Doctor, but
want oi skiii and stability soon reduced me.
And having enjoyed the sweets of imnris.
onmcnt for a reasonable time, I commenced
on the laudable calling of a horse jockey,
n L . : r l-i r .
iii uiu wiyBiuriL-B ui wnicn i soon necame
so great a proficient that with a hogshead
of New England rum. and a half a dozon
old watches, I could purchase a cargo of
norscs ai any time; and irom a knowledge
that jockeying was as necessary and profit
able at a sale as at a puicbasc, I occasion
ally visited the West Indies, where from
the generosity so natural to settlers in
6omo of the Islands, and the ignorance of
others, I found them an easy prey; and by
forming contracts tor barrels ol Hour, that
I had the address to assert as flour barrels,
1 oecamo possessed ot considerable proper
ty: but the old adago that ill gotten gains
are not lasting, was verified in me, as on
the eve of the American struggle, I found
mysell again reduced to penury. A great
field now opened, I assumed the character
of a Patriot and Iherc'jy imposed on the
unsuspecting General Washington: and as
some acts of desperation from a want of
genuine courage, were necessary to es-
isonsii a tavorabie opinion, 1 exerted niv
self to the utmost to confirm it, by commit
ting me most unncara ot cruelties, such as
burning vessels, loaded with wounded men,
&c, as well as imprisoning, torturing.
and hanging the Loyalists indiscriminately,
wnerehy every jealousy ol my want of fi
delity was removed, and I was entrusted
wit h commands accordingly. Treason and
avarice being tho basis of in v composition.
l embraced the lust otter, and sold myself
with an engagement to sacrifice the Army
under my command, for a sum l ti at prom
ised to insure me happiness. I succeeded
but in part, and obtained tho promised re
ward, with the tin reasons bio deduction cf
3d. sterling from each dollar. Accom
plished in Villainy, I had the impudence to
solicit and the address to obtain a British
commission, and consequent commands,
when I commuted acts thai 1 blush to re
peat, my conduct of late years is too no
torious to need a repetition, A gracious
King, and a generous nation, have re
warded my Treason with competency, bat
I find and feel, alls ! too lalo, that they
detest the Traitor.
O Gentlemen, as there seems to be a
great number of you collected together to
sec my awful execution, take my advice,
and do not aa I liavo done: In tho year
1787, 1 was in London and saw that the
Police Office was open and I thought to
make something considerable of them : I
bought an old brig, and insured her fur
three times the value, and when I came to
St Johns, I run her on the flats back of the
town, where she was totally lost and I re
covered the Cash for her. Next thing 1
struck at, was to build a large and elegant
store and imported a general assortment ol
goods, the greatest pari of them unsaleable,
such as stills &c. and all the goods I could
not dispose ol i sent to this etoro, which
was insured for ten thousand pounds ster
ling. A few days aftor I contrived to set it
on fire at low water, so that the Engines
could not be sufficiently supplied my point
being accomplished, 1 obtained the insur
ance Now I beg of all you thai have
children, nol to let them go astray as I have
mine. I sold a gentleman a quantity of
rum, anu wiine no was gone on board to
ship it, I was busily employed in filling the
Hhda. with water. Friends I have done, I
cannot forgive my enemies, and iho Lord
have mercy on my Body for in Souls I have,
no belief.
rm
BENEDICK
ARNOLD.
MARK
Arnold was a cripple from a wound re
ceived in his fool at tho surrender of Bur
guoync. The above shoo represents the
one ho was accustomed to wear.
From the Germantown Telegraph.
LABOR-SAVING MACHINES.
An important subject to farmers, is that
of labor-saving implements and machines.
There is no great advantage in these which
is generally overlooked. By enabling the
farmer to despatch his business, his work is
more completely under his control, and he
is enabled to guard against loss or damage
which might bo the consequence of more
protracted operations. Thus for instance,
in using the horso rake, he is not only en
abled to accomplish tho same work with
one quarter of tho expense he would other
wiio have to employ ; but by enabling him
to perform it bo much more expeditiously,
no ton lane aurantage oi iho weather, and
have many acres of hay upon the ground
without tho danger of having it spoiled by
rain t as tho speed with which he may col
lect it in with a horse rake, enables him to
anticipate tho approach or wet wcathor.
Thus, independently of the immediate a
mount of labor it saves, it prevents tho
troublesome operation of drying wet hav.
after it has once become fit fur the mow or
stack. Again by tho use of the planting
or drilling machine, one man is enabled to
do tho work of several ; this is ono means
of saving; but in addition to this, it very
often happens that a crop may be planted
with it during a Tavorabie scaBon,and while
the ground is in the best possible condition;
while without it, the work might be pro
traded till the ground is unfit by heavy
rams ; and a Joss ot many bushels to the
acre sometimes arises from crops being
planted out ofseasnn.
A vast amount ol labor might be saved
by employing a moderate share of thought
and contrivance in constructing or procur-
ng, and arranging, somo ot the simpler
and more common kinds of labor saving
machinery. Threshing midlines have be
come very common, and many arc connect
ed with a portable horse poAver, which may
be separated from the machine and applied
to other purposes. This may be easily, and
it sometimes is, attached to a circular saw,
(tho cost of which is comparatively small,
and the expensive and laborous operation
of sawing wood by hand is rendered expe
pitious and easy. It may also, with a little
contrivance, be made to work a straw cut
ting machine, a turnip and potato sheer, a
corn shelter and other similar machines.
which ere commonly worked by hand ; and
this may be frequently done while it is dri
ving a threshing machine, or perlorming
other work. We have known a fanning
mill to be connected with it, and worked by
it ; the threshing machine being situated
on a floor above, so that tho wheal fell di
rectly from it into the hopper of the fanning
mill, and passed out ready for market. We
liavo also heard of a pair of burr-stones
placed in a barn, which could be driven by
the power of a threshing machine, and
used for grinding food for domestic animals.
By a little attention and thinking, number
less conveniences may bo devised. Im
provements of this kind should not howev
er, be adopted, until calculation has proved
that from the amount of labor they will bo
required lo pcrfoim, the ultimate saving
will more than counterbalance me itntne
diate cost.
DIRECTIONS
For sowing Ihe teed and raisins Ihe plants
of the trhxle Italian Mulber.'i Tree.
I. To sow an ounce of Beed, prepare a
bed 50 feet long and 4 feet broad. Ala
nure it well with a compost composod of
1.3d stable manure, l-3d ashes, and l-3d
decomposed leaves from tho woods, or
garden mould : dig deep, pulverise finely.
and then lay the bed off in drills 13 inches
apart, 1-4 or 1 .3 of an inch deep ; sow the
seed as thick as your onion or parsnips ;
cover with rich mould, press tho mould
down gently, but sufficiently to causo the
seed to come into contact with tho earth :
and should tho weather be dry waler the
seed bed every other evening ; it will assist
in promoting tho germination af the seod
and vigorous growth of the plant.
3. Keep the beds clean of weeds; and
give an occasoinal watering with suds or
soot and water, say once a week after they
aro up.
3. The second year, if not removed be
fore, the plants must be removed into the
nursery rows which must be prepared as
for any other crop. The rogged roots
being taken off and the tap root shorten.
ed, the plants must be planted out 12 inch
es apart in rows three feel apart, the earth
to be .well trodden around the plant. As
before, the earth must bo kept open and
free from weeds.
4. At two years old. the plants may
be planted out into hedges, at 13 inches
opart in rows six feel wide. The ground
should bo prepared as before directed, and
some good rich mould put into tho holes,
to be pressed around the plant. If inten
ded to be planted out as standard trees, 20
feet square opart would be a good distance,
but in that case the plants should nol be
transplanted until they are about an inch
in diameter. In either caso tlmy will re
quire trimming and tapping, and if kept as
hedges, should be treated as other hedges
aro.
Jlr. Whitmarsh informs us that there
aro but comparatively few large establish
ments in France or Italy, for the raising of
Cocoons or growth ol Mulberry trees.
Tho whole business, in its incipient stages,
is conducted by individual farmers. The
road sides are lined with these trees
Groves arc found every where and so
scarce is the raw silk in t ranee, that the
manufacturers were rejoiced lo learn its
growth was about tu be commenced in
America. Information of every kind,
which wo have the promise or from Mr.
Whitmarsh, was given h.in wnh the great
est cheerfulness by the silk growers and
manufacturers. The business is systema
tized a great deal. Some raise the leaves
and sell them to others who feed the worms.
Purchasing tho Coeoons is another branch
oftho bnsmess and reeling the Silk is still
a fourth department. Very littlo silk is
manufactured in France, except at Lyons
and two or three other large towns. Thcro
tho beautiful silk stuffi we import arc made
by looms scattered among individuals all
over the city. Mr. Whilmarsh purchased
in Franco.nearly UO.OOO Chinese Mulberry
trees, most of which have arrived in town
and will bo need for the great Silk Compa
ny here. He bought all tho need ho could
find there also. A letter from Hon. Geo.
Uronnol, member of Congress, to Dr.
Stebbins bays, in answer to an inquiry
made, thai "tho Silks imported into this
country during the year 1033, mnountcd to
sixteen millions, four hundred and ninety-
seven inousann Hollars I What an item
Northampton Courier.
Tho Stlfc Mania if tho present oxtcn
c tn,Z incrcnsit: interest on the subject
or Mulberry trees and raising Cocoons can
bo called by such a name is spreading for
and wido ovor tho whole of this country.
Letters aro continually received in town
from the remotest sections of tho Union,
asking for information about the business
nnu UKsiring to purchase cuttings and sect
No new department of btisinrm. n,.rhn
Ims ovcr been started in this country under
more nattering auspices, than tho Silk
business. It is founded on 6uch rational
premises and can bo reduced tdTibch sim
ple demonstration, that Hi.crdulity hardly
finds a "loop to hang a ho'po upon." It is
within the reach ol all. It will yield its
fruits to every ono who engages in it. Of
course, il is not presumed that every IndU
vidual will immediately have plantations.
The beauty of it is, that its adaptation to
moons will enable every man to begin with
a faw trees and gradually enlarge his num
ber, or at once embark extensively in their
growth and begin the second yesr to feed
worm? and furnish cocoons. What farmer
or mechanic is there who has even a small
homestead, but what can find wasto spots
and unoccupied places, about his premises,
upon which to raise tome trees?
Silk in Vehmont Mr. Asa Fletcher,
of Orwell, says in the Silk Cullurist, that
ho finds no more difficulty in raising the
white mulberry, than in raising applo
trees. Ho fed a few worms last year with
perfect success, and with no knowlcdgo
respecting their management, except what
he had gained from tho Silk Culturist. A
gentleman in Shorcham fed about 100,000
worms last year. It is easy for farmers to
try the experiment. An ounce of seed, or
a few young trees of tho white mulberry.
win cost but little; and tho procuring of
them, certainly may lead to valuable re
sults. Rev. Dr. Wood of Bascawen, N. H., a
town certainly not more favorablo to the
business than Windsor has made from a
single tree, fur twenty five years in succes
sion, a large supply of silk for use in his
family, besides several dollars worth annu
ally for sale. His worms have not deteri
orated ; and he is satisfied from this long
and ample experiment, that the business
may bs made useful and profitable in this
climate. Vermont Farmer.
The following anecdote of Damei. Weu
step, is related in the New York Sun. In
nn iinnnrtnnt par, in pnnrt. n Pnlcp ivitnnc?
nnnnnrnri nnnlncl Itta pliant. Tint llin rliflt.
culty was to prove him false. Webster
(nought beet to gel rid ot in in ailogctncr.
IVImrnfcirn wlnlp thp follnur u'Aa ll'flllinrr
to be called upon Ihe 6land, the couuscllor
fixed upon him those large dark eyes of
his, which from beneath their awful brows,
nronn ivnll rnlptilnfpit In dinnl tprrnr intn
the suul of guilt. The false witness at
tirst began tu be uneasy. He cast down
his eyes to avoid tho sight of Webster.
Itut hr fair nr onninort I n fi.nl tliit tltn lor.
riblo eyes of the latter were still upon him.
Ho turned his head asido ; but it would
nnt Hn. Prpspntlt- hp hprr.m In prtrrn lift n
- u o-
step or two; then a step or two more; until
ue unany nisappeareu ifi loio, anu lor wani
of his evidence the cause went against tho
party thai suborned him.
Adequate Punishment. A gentleman,
who, a few years ago, resided some time at
Grand Cairo, has described the punishment
of bakers and butchers in thai city. That
which was intlictcdon bakers whoso bread
was deficient in weight, wa9 extremely
severe. For the first offence, the overseer
of the baker (who is the examiner and iho
only person who tries them) immediately
orders the delinquent to bo bastinadoed
For the second offence, ho is more severely
punished in thesamo manner; and fur tlio
third, without any other process than tho
above mentioned officei's order, ho is put
into his own oven when hot, where ho is
suffered to perish ; which punishment, the
gentleman adds, he saw executed.
Tho punishment for butchers who aro
detected in selling meat cither too long
kept, or deficient in weight, is no less ex
traordinary, though not so cruel. A butch,
cr in the neighborhood whuro tho relator
of theso facts resided, was detected by tho
examining officer of being guilty of selling
bad meat, and (as in tho baker's case, with,
oul any other lorm of trial than the order
of the oflicjr,) he was immediately nailed
by ono of his ears to the post of his own
door; his nofe pierced: and ono end of a
wiro nbnut C inches long fastened to it, at
tbo other end of which a piece ot his bad
meat was fixed. In this situation he was
kept for nearly 4 hours.
Early lliting. It cannot bo denied that
early rising is conducive both to Ihe health
of the body & tho improvement of the mind.
It was a;l observation of Swift, that ho
never knew any man como to grenlneia
nnd eminence who lay in bed of a morning
Though the observation of an individual is
not received as a universal maxim, it U
certain that some of the most eminent
characters which ever existed, accustom
ed themselves to eorly rising. It seems
also, that people in general rose earlier in
former limes than now. In tho fourteenth
century the shops in Paris wero open nt
four in the morning; at present a shop
keeper U scarcely awake nt seven. Tho
King of Franco dined nt eight in the morn,
ing, and retired to his bed-chamber at the
sama hour in tho evening. During tho
reign of Henry VIII. fashionable pooplo
in England breakfasted at seven in the
morning, and dined ot ten in the fore,
noun. In Elizabeth's time, tho iiubil
lily, gentry, and sludouts, dined at eleven
in the lorcnoon, and supped between fire
and six m the tucrnoon.
