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is 300 lbs. new milk cheese to a cow; 840 ^ are often ob ainwd from a cow ; 830 are i deemed an average vicU. 11. In SiockbriJge, the proceeds of a. dairy of twenty cows are thus given : 20 cows. 4000 lbs new in?ik cheese sold at 9 1-2 cents., $360 00 1000 lbs. skim milk cheese sold at 6 eis., 00 00 600 lbs. butter, sold at 9 1-2 cen s.t 150 00 : $590 00 j This gives $29 50 cts. to a cow. No account is made in :hicase of the i supplies of th<' f irmly, nor of the amount of pork fatted, both wnich i c ns would greatly have increased be re'sul:. 12. In Lenox, t ie return of a dairy of j 15 cows, was ot ? w milk clvese 1200 lbs.; I of butters 1S0U lbs. I Tne return of another dairy is as foL i lows : It) rows pr uluced of but'er 1120 ;bs. 8 ozM sold at 18 c s., 8201 C9 cheese, 800 lbs. sold a: 9 cts., 72 00 S273 t>9 13. 7o//<*?id.?From a highly in.ell gent farmer in a town adjoining the county* follaivl in Hampshire co , I received so par. teunr an account of a dairy, that I shall here insert it tliouch it miirlit bo thojjjnl to come more properly under the report ol another eoun y. j 15 cows produce 1 4500 lbs. cheese, sold at 9 cts per !l>. 8405 00 and 509 bs. bu tor sold at 19 1-2 cis. 99 25 8504 25 Fifteen cows will nearly fatten 4 hogs, weighing in the spring 20 lbs. each ; in the fill. 240 ibs. each. In this case i* is d emed proper to credi. the milk w.th 140 Ibs. weight of each of these swine ; 140 lbs. .j. 4 are equal to 560 lbs. pork at 8 cis. = $44 80?this divided by 15 gives to each cow a credit of Si 98 2-3 cts.? Buitor and chees i 204 25, add pork 44 80= 549 05. The proceeds of each cow is $3G ? ?_ ,j,] ?..ir?.,,4 ,?,? wv 4 ?#?<?UVJ ^ait uuu $\ 00, $37 60 1 3, $37 GOJ Expenses. Wintering a cow, usual charge, $9 00 Pasturing do. $6 50, salt 50 cts., 7 00 Interest on the value of a cow $23 at 10 per cf, 2 30 One woman will manage the milk of 30 COWS, Her wages $1 50 per week, 29 weeks, her board $1 per week. Wages and board for a dairy of 80 cows would be $70, or $2 33 each. 2 33 Additional help in milking and turning cheese 67 cts., 67 821 30 Profits of a cow, $15 30J No account in this case was taken of the butter and milk us ?d in the family ; but supposed to be not less than 150 lbs. of butter. 14. Cheshire is devoted almost exclusively to the dairy husbandry ; and has been celebrated for the excellence and abun dance of its produce. For the goodness of their cheese, however, I must rely upon au ttiority. lis appearance in some ot the dairies, which I examined, bespoke careful, ueatand skilful management, A. faiwriu 25 cows, states their average yield at 500 lbs. cheese, and 20 lbs. but er to a cow. He says likewise that 1500 lbs. pork are to be credited to his cows. The average cost or value of his cows is $30 each; wintering $14 : pasturing 26 weeks, $6 25; he raises some calves upon whey. It requires the whey of two or three cows to raise a calf. H s hogs at 18 mos. average 350 lbs.; they run in a pasture and have the refuse of the daiiy until abou six weeks before it is intended to kill them, when they are shut up and fed with coru and meal. A shrewed farmer observes, that where swine in this way run in a pasture, it should be laid down as a rule, to have 1 their trough always wet or always dry.? 1 This means that they should have as m ici? ' whey as they ore d sposed to ea'; or, by J being kept wholly without any, taey should from necessity get their living in the pasture. ; They require quietness of mind and free. 1 dom from restless desires in or i? r to thrift j I I .1 I'l .i ' anu iney are nice ower epicureans whom variety and abundance render fastidious. 1 The dairy of another.farmer consists of ' 20 cows. Tne year before last they yielded t 400 lbs. new milk cheese ; the last year 400 r lbs. each, besides an ample supply of but- 5 ter for the family. He calculates upon tl e 1 proportion of one hog to four cows ; with 1 the above cows he made 1200 lbs. of pork, 1 600 lbs. of which he credits to the cows ; ^ he deems three acres necessary for the pas- v turage of a cow. His cows during the 8 spring, have an allowance of rye meal and t whey. t In another case the produce of 23 cows was 12,000 lbs. new milk cheese, and 500 ( lbs. butter. s Another case from 11 cows including 4 J three year-ol i heifers, there were so'd and a used 3475 lbs. new milk cheese, and 403 I lbs. butter. Three hogs were likewise fat- s ted; and it was considered that 400 lbs. s pork were to be credited to the cows Two 1 tons ofhav were required for the wintering u 4 w of a cow, valued at 88 per ton ; or sue might be kept for hire at 50 ets. per week, b In another case 30 cows madj 14,000 i< lbs. new milk cheese ; and 600 lbs. butter, in this case some calves were raised ; but tl most of them were killed at four days old. ti Throughout the county of Berkshire this ai mode of dealing with the calves is termed w deaconing" them. What is the particular oi propriety of this provincialism, I am unable ti to determine; and whether it had its origin in any superstition among the aborigines or p; the first sett'ers of the county, I sh il! leave n: to the antiquarians to ascertain. If is a & p^calwritr, and prevaJ<? vo tvhore e!*e. . ol Til? practice with this farmer, is to give < bod? d corn in the car to his cows ; perhaps , n dozen ears to a cow per day. When it 1 is conveniently had, he gives a mess of rye i meal to each cow, at the rate cf two quar s < per day* for three weeks in the spring. He , is anxious to let his cows go to the grass as soon as the ground is bare. He thinks cows areliable to suffer from excessive feeding in the barnThe wintering of a cow requires 1^ ton of hay, $14 03 Pasturing, 10 cents per week (or 26 we"ks, 5 20 In 40 days of the best of the season on this farm 30 cows produced 4000 lbs. butter. The land required for the pasturage of a cow is considered to be three a?T ts. From thirty cows, an average of 425 lbs. of cheese has been produced to each cow, I ^ Ik- oOAH k. luk/Jp i tflju irn iu.*), ui >juih i | ui ?uu it- nuwiv. On one farm, where IS cows wrekept, 11.3S5 lbs. new milk c ieese were m ule in a season, which <jives tne cxtr o dinary average of 632 1-2 lbs. to a cow. 200 lbs. of batter were ma le the same season from the same cows. One of these cows pro duced 1000 lbs. new milk cheese. During the first part of the season, for two months, two quarts of ryc-meal were given to each cow. H i f of this quantity of meal was given them for one month during the last of the season ; and the greater part of the time they had their whey. 100 lbs. pork were made on the farm ; and half of this was crediied to the cows. The same iudivi ual, when on another farm in South Adams, wi'h twenty-one cows, made 626 lbs. new milk cheese to a cow, in a season. 1700 lbs of pork were raised in connexion with the dairy. Half the pork was considered due to the cows. The process of making cheese began the 25th April, and < nded the 1st December.? As soonns the cows calved, the cows re? ceived three quarts of meal per day each ?principally rye, with some Indian ; and each had some whey, though not half what was yielded was given to them. Three or four of the cows received meal all the sum ms r. H commenced f jed ng again with meal on the 25th July, and continued to give them two quaris of meal until the 25 li of August. On the 25rh of August, he began feeding the cows with cornstalks until 10;h S'-ptember. Then the cows had tho afer feed of the fields ; and from th 1st October, these cows hi^cl nulf a load ol pumpkins per day. In November, fed every cow fully with meal ; two and thrt>? quarts per day until 1st December. After that, the cows had nothing bu1 hiy until spring. From the same cows, at the same time, but. tor enough was made, and milk enough used, for a family of six persons. The r cheese sold in New York for $10 per 100 lbs. These products are certainly remarkable, and show what may bo done by attention, skill, and good treatment of the animals under our care, Tlv pnstmagein Cheshire is of an excellent description. The soil is generally of a rich gravelly loam resting upon lime.stone, and abounding in vegetable mould. It is likewise sensitive to the application of plaster, which is very commonly used. LATE FROM THE PACIFIC. By the arrival of the ship Natchez, Captain Hayes, in the verv s lort passage of , eivti^wiffht itr.vc frnm Valparaiso. the editor of die N^w York Gazette has been put in possession of Valparaiso papers to the 20th , of February. He is also indebted Jo a mer. can ile friend for the annexed extract from a letter of the 21 of M-ir<*h. , Valparaiso, March 2,1839. " A few days since we had a report from an outpost it* Peru that a battle had been 1 fought, in which the Ctiillians wore victor- 1 ious, but it required confirmation. Last ' evening the Boxer arrived from Cullao with ' Lim ? dales to the 5th ultimo, s'a ing that an I action had taken place at Yungay, on the ' 20 h January, between the Ciiillian and I Peruvian armies of abaut 5,000 men each, i in which the latter were to ally destroyed; ( 1 so completely ha i been the defeat that our I Lima friends consider the confederation at 1 Fin end. General Santa Cruz escr.p id with * some of his officers, and has gone to Bolivia 1 or the purpose of raising another army ; 1 nit ho is so fallen wo think he cannot rise. 1 rite castles ofSallao are in his possession, 1 ind commanded by his favorite, General ' Vloran. who has in them 1,500 men, well t rovisioned, it is saiJ, for five or six months * riie Ch lians were daily expected in Lima. J Admitting that Santa Cruz has lost Peru, r ,ve still fear it will be the scene of civil strife s or some time to come, for already the party c iow coming in are quarrelling among them, n elves. The foreign property ha 1 been b aken out of the castles, and deposited on V ward vessels in the bay of Callao, ready h o be entered at Chorillos, should that port o ic opened during the s:ego of the castles, vhich will probably take place. Thus tand afFd'rs in Peru of our last dates ; no v lusiness, of course, was doing, nor would c here be un il affairs were se tied. st 44 The Uni'cd States ship North Carolina, e: Commodore Ballard, and the United States ti chooner Entetprise, will sail for Rio do Ja- V ie.ro and the United Sta es on the 15th of g Vlarch, and the sloop of war Falmouth for ai he coast of Mexico 10th of March. The g hip Angelique arriv'd trom Europe, and w ailed for Cailao 19ih February. The u| lenry Lec, from Boston, arrived 21st Jan- :h LtPV " J ? t*' The following is the official account of the tr attic fought at Yungay, between the Cliil. lo m and Peruvian armies : V( 44 Colonel D. Pedro Urriola, commanding le bat.alion Colchagua, which ?o<)k a dis nguished part in the battle of Yungay, has W rrived here, the bearer of communications pi hicli announce a most triumph ofihenrms !e fCuili. Col. Crriola left the field of bat- vi e ten hours after the victory. be 44 3,400 prisoners, 2.600 killed the whole or irk r?f artillery, the commissariat with sti lore than $9,000, the equiqung^s, horses, Si :c. of the Protector1*, army, are the fruits all f {!' ' vftnrv. Mcrnn T,rl ' wj dininca were killed, the first in the b<t of the 6 It. Generals Ilerrera. Guiros, E mules, Otero, and Armaza, are prison* liie lusr mortally wounded. Santa C escaped with twenty men in the directioi Junin. It is believed that his intention * to make for lea, and embark at Pisco, a company ofChillian carbineers with ho men, w ho had been kept in reserve, folio* rapidily to overtake him. The preten Protector abandoned the field an hour fore the close of the battle. " General Lafuente would march to 1 acho with two squadrons of cavalry ; % i ? two l'eruvian battalions, ana uouia oe Lima and Cailaoon tlio 26th and 28th J ary. General Gamarra would march the 221 January for Junin and thcaout! P? ru, with a division of the restoring arr and the general-in chief would follow \ the remainder, leaving Gen. Lafuente chief military in the north of Peru." There appears also to have been a n; engagement, of which the following accc is translated : " The naval combat of Casma lias minaied in a manner equally happv to arms of Chili. Four vessels armed by G eral Santa Cruz attacked the divisior commandmet.t Simpson, consisting of corvettes Confederation and Valparaiso the barque Santa Cruz, which were.c pie cly defeated, with much damage, the loss of the brigantino Arequipeno, ' a crew of 70 men. The enemy's ves were the Edmond. of 20 guns, a barquo 18, the Arequipeno, of 9 guns, and a go! with 2 swivel guns." Affairs in Mississippi.?The crop Mississippi are suffering severely fror long drought. Apprehensions of a s crop were expressed, unless a fall of rnmn cnnsnnahlv to the relief of he Dim The session of the United States C commenced on the 6.rh instant, at Jack: There were twenty-five hundred cases the docket (o be disposed of. A cor pendent of the Natchez FreeTiader s a large amount of property was involve suit, but iu-he sales under execution had occured, the sacrifices were not great as might have been expected. Al sa'e of negroes, prices ranged from 80 1000 dollars, which is as much as they i ? reality woith. The negro traders f combined to keep up the prices of thisspe of property, to s.ve themselves from loj the disposal of their own stock. The recent derangements of the curi cy have taught the Mississippi planter useful lesson in the business of ngriculti They *re now convinced it is better ro I band their resources, by raising all tt in themselves,:: growing their own corn meat, and all thai the soil is capable of i ducing, than to follow the! eld plan of p ting nothing hu cotton* If the ^alam w ith which Mississippi has been visfteA J to ^U'-h salutary r formations asarenov progress, her afflictions will be convei into ricu blessing. Bad management i: he foundation of all the distress that r prevails. All that is wanting to the rest< Hon of p-ospority, is a return to sober se and a diligent use of the vast resources i capabilities of that State. Columbus,(Mi. April 30.?Murder Our city wus, on Wednesday last, thrr into consilerable excitement, in con quence of the discovery at about 12 o'clc Al. of the body of a man with two st through h s head, about 4 miles from tc on the Military Road. The Coroner, J Alfred Thatcher, empannelled a Jury. <1 proceedc i to investigate the causes of dea h, and the circumstances attending It was ascertained that his name was Cil White, a resident of Russellville, Alabnn that he had visited Columbus on busin and left the city but an hour before. Ev have been riding alongside of him on hoi back, and that perhaps, tak?ng advantage him wh le turning his head, clapped a pi appearance indicated that the murderer it 0 his face and launched him into eterni Mr. White was a highly respectable citiz ind des'gned removing to Columbus, as left a wife and nine children to depl lis untimely end. The object of the i >Q5s n was plunder, undoubtedly; but vus disappointed, as Mr. White had I ..r.?k ki?y* uilinn lirvtt.fr Pnlnmh I'IIC uiuuey ^ llll IIUli *? UUIVII vviumu t is said thai a gentleman left town at ah he time Mr. White did, much resemtd n'm in nppeurance, with a large amount jo!d about him, and that the murderer m lave mistaken his man. The remains Hr. While were brought to town on W< icsday evening, and were interred on Thi day with every respect that our citiz^ ould bestow. Every exertion has be nadc by our citizens to do ectthe murder ut without success. The sum of 812 ras promptly subscribed as a reward l is apprehension, and several parties start ut in pursuit of him. The Morus Multicaulis.?TlieCenti tile Times, published in Queen Ann* ounty,on the Eastern Shore of Marylar ates that great fears are felt hy the gro rs of the Mulberry trees in that region, I leir cuttings. The high winds lately pr ailing have so crusted the surface of t round that they have come up very bad -? .? i .1 nd as many 01 mum nave uct.u m u round a long time, it is feared they nev ill come up. The cuttings that have cor ?, in some instances, have been cut off I e grub worm, and it is doubtful wheth cy will grow again. One reason \vl ces were so high last season was the gre ss sustained from failure of cuttings igetat e." Loss of the S eam Packet M'Donougk.Je rugrei to announce the loss of the stoa ickei M'Donniigii, Captain Luke, wliic ft this port on Monday, bound for Mobil a Clmilesion. On Tuesday night, durir id weather, as Capt. Luke was endoa ing to reach the inlet ai Egg Harbor, si ruck on the bar, and soon went to piece re had on board a number of passenger of whom, with the officers and crew rp? stiv-d had rjc,pif.l ^ x ttle been rppiired and r fitted at an expense o ler- soma fifcen thousand d.dlars, and had been ?rs, purchased a few days sin<c b> Cam. Sriuhz ruz of this city, with the int' ntaui of placing i of h<*r on the maii rou e between M??!>i!o and vas Mew Orleans. Wc understand there wuj but no insurance on die boat. r??j iNew York. MatT7,1337. y ^ The New York Legislature is to ndjourr , to-day, and not a single bill 10 aid in t ie es. tablishmerit of railroads has yet gonetlirougl rju the Legislature. I Col. S one, editor of tbe Commercial Ad vertiser, has been nominated by the Gov ernor to the Senate to go to Europe for tin purpose ofco I-cting Colonial rec rds inter ,esting to this Sta'e. It is probable, bu not certain, that tne Senate will confirm tin n*,' nomination ; which is considered an agree v,th - - a: ;.i """" able compumcni 10 me corps cunoMai uui? ,te The city is crowded with strangers frorr 1V all parts of the Union, who are in attend >unt ance this, the anniversary week, upon tin various Societies now holding their annua *er~ meetings. Between five and six hundrec , e persons came on from Boston, in one boa rHn^. this morning. The anti.slavery people an 1 ? now holding their Convention in the Broad ? way Tabernacie, which is w<ll filled b> an them, s rangers making a great part of th< and congregation. vvtth ^,'!e ant,"s'avf ry Ppop!e have got out t caricature, in which Henry Clay and Join ith ^n'*l0un are represented as shaking I tte 'nnc's In fellowship, in the U. Sate; e Si?na'fc?Calhoun thanking CI ?y for hi: antLabolition speech, and each having a foo s in UP0,) prostrate body of a slave, who i: n a aPPea','ng from them o Heaven. hort Another Parisian Hotel?I mention sue! rain a ^ncl 5X5 on era 'n gastronomy?was for. ters. mal'y opened yesterday in this city. Tlx ourt Globp, it is called, with elegant salons o linp.nallo.l lljOMH. nn/l n/v? .n.nn...Ait l\? SOI!* i ucauijr, uuu uui ouipnsscu UJ on thoso about th"? Tullerics or on tho Boule res- var(^9? Th? French and the English Ho ays, *e's 'n '^,8 cit.v a making a hard fight foi jn victory ; but the Frenchman, I think, wil that carryll,e d;?yat ';,st; ,s0 LATEST FROttGANTON. t the Extract of a Letter. dated Canton, Jauuari ? 12, 1839. lave ' " of December all trade was cies i sl?PP^> on account of some opium bein? is in ' 8e,Z0(h which Mr. J was supposed tc j have smuggled into his own ficiory in Creel rcn^ Hong ; and to awe the residenis, a Chines* _ _ 1 dealer in opium was ordered to be s ran<*3 fl | , _ ' # t n ure. i ,n frOMt ?f our factories, which wms violus-1 l'w]y ?PI)0srcl by the foreigner*. who caus< nth l',e Chinese to desist m their a t?*mpt ?nd! After this, not co was given that the trad^ nro- *'ou'd not Ojien unt I the foreign sloops anr jan schooners remain*-d outside the Bogu-'? A ities 'ast they a?recdfo license nix or eight o lead *hese boats to bring up passengers and let n tcrs, and to open the trade on the 1st in 'j j <im, which was the case. S ill the Horn ,'e mercui'P|s refnse to secure ships unless tin 3 at consigne s W !1 ?ive bonds to the amoun o $20,000 each s tip 'hat no smuggling slial nsd ,nkt3 t,,:ICfs &c* Ar pf**"nt " ? Asia Van an j couver. Omega, Girard, and 13 Englis* , vessels, are a Whampoa, not secured Money has become scarce at Canton Oil ac count ot'ihc almost total suspension of the >wn opium tr >de, which usua ly produce $1,000, ise_ 000 monthly, and the Emperor seems ver} ick, determine to put a s op o this traffic ; it ii lots dea h to deal in i', and transportation to th< >wn cold country for smoking it. A painter ir Mr, China street was seized yesterday, and the mt- Chinamen arc veiy much alarmed." his a " Mr. Vincent Nolte. wh| known ir this community and in New Orleans, hat a . recently been purchasing cotton on specula^ tion very largely?from 30 to 40,000?ir the latter city. When the accounts by the ^ Great Wes.ern reached New Orleans anil 11 L i* 9 0f sent cotton up, inoso wno naa nor Deron 3tol ven,uri'd as purchasers began to investiga.'c lust the more daring pu chases ot Mr. Nolle, and jt by bin a and innuendoes,as is said, occasion. (,n distrust about his ability to c >mply with He h" contracts. orrf * T:?isl?*d to uithho ding deliveries, soj'zas ,n5 ships loaded, and finally to holding Mr. j]e Note himself to bail, in which stale things Ij ' were at the l ist accounts. We have conUJ fidence that Mr. Nolle will carry through | his undertaking successfully, and, we hope, ng profitably to himself."?N. Y. American. ?f FROM THE MILEDGf VILLE RECORDER. The subjoined account of a pamfjl riot >(j among the railroad workmen in the up ur" country, is from a respectable cor espon" dent. ' Marietta, April 55,1839. vr Gentlemen ; It may be interehtug to IQ aomeofyour readers to be informed of a for horrid murder committ"d in this country on ecj the night of the 6 h instant on the road leading from Marietta to Montgomery's Ferry, on the Chatrahoocheo river; the circum.innfn? nre as follows. Twenty.one Irish i re- oiu*? ? ? -e?s workmen from Savannah going to Allatoo- I id, 1 ny w,lh their carts and plunder, to work 011 w, the railroad, they struck camp near the for house of 11 Mr. Brumley, and, about 10 e, o'clock, went to rest, and at 1 or 2 o'clock I he in 'he morning were awakened by the fire !ly a 6un' an?* nexl ^ we^ ahout seventy he of the Irishmen who were engaged with Mr. er Thomas on the railro ?d, near the place ne where they encamped, with picks, spades 3y knives and sticks, killed two of the females er dead on the spot and -everely wounded jy eight more, and did not s op at that; iliey at next broke ojien their trunks, and plunderto ed them of every tiling valuable. On the next day the citizens raised in arms and I went and arrested sixty-four of the supposed ? murderers, and thirty-four of that number m were identified to he o! the murdering elan, di and conunitied 10 jail to awdt their rial. e, ~~ New York, Mav 2. v. Tex Thousand Dollars Lost!?Aie the steamboat Courier Oak, from Hurtlbr ?, s. neared the city yesterday morning, a tarnal s, 1 Yankee who gottoo hoard at New Haven. /"''"'M ?!ip Hartford boats regularly out in.) v9 | . n ^ i ' i v 11jiT'u-ih;s pocket-hook, which com- I fi lained $10,000, was missing, und also his 1; i' coat. The Captain was immediately noli- ^ , n.'d of t!?e c rcumstance, and, on the boat o r arriving off Hie landing, sent a messenger c | j aslto e ind procured the attendance of offi d ;1 cer Spares. Tne pass- ngers were numer* b ous, and to examine them ail id detail, fiom tj garret to cellar, wis no trifl.ng matter. 1 However, t ie sum was too large to be ab1 ondo ed without an effort, and accordingly ^ - the work was commenced. We shall not j 1 undertake to describe till the developments j of the occasion ; suffice it to say, whatever j " else was found, the pocket.bo k was not. . * The examination had not proceeded far, i wh'-n some one suggested that perhaps it r ' would be best now to examine the loser. I t l-T? lma'fVi>r fhnt !?.? u I ? LAW uw"v?%.? ?.?VAW ?i^ waoa i^uuu j , 2 honest man, and should never have made all 1 ' that fuss if the facts hud not been as he s a- 1 2 ted them. " Where did you put your coat { when you went to bed ?" asked the inquis- ( 1 tor. In my berth, replied Jonathan. " Are 1 * you sure of it?" Yes "What was the ' 2 number of your berth ?" 124. " Well, I 1 J slept directly over you. Did not you say, ' wijen you went to bed, something about 1 your berth being too low, and you wishing | 2 to change it?" Yes. "Did you in fact I * change it." No, I d d not; I am pretty ' sure I did not : 1 guess did not. " Well, I 2 suppose you look ?" So Mr. Sparks and J the loser of the pocket-book went to befrh ! 1 124, and behold ! there lay the coat, and in I 1 it the n cket-book, and in the pocket-book ? * the money, just as it should be ? It turned t 3 out that after taking berth 124 and pu ting 3 his c<>a* there, the ? J 0,000 man laid hitnsf lf t 1 in the next tier; and on awaking in the j s morning, and finding his coat was not with t him, he at once concluded that he had been t 1 robbed.?Journal of Commerce. < 2 An Astonishing Case?for the Doctors. 1 f ?On Saturday, August 18, 1837, a little ? / girl named Jane, aged three years a daugh. * icr of Mr. S earns, who resides within 30 * rods of the RtiiRoad Depot at Lynn, ac- c r cidentally drank a few swallows of potash r 1 water which injured her stomach so much r that she has taken no solid nourishment t nm/lA CliA Urt M I I ? fldrt nlf n I! 14! n 0* auiv^c. guo nas uttanuiii uy uiauiv a lime t milk, but for a large por ion of the tim ?she c / had subsisted only on water. And often t she had passed whole weeks wi hout even f ? drinking that. The longest time she has p r gone without anything pissing into her stomach is 21st d iys. At the tune of wri * i tini? this which is on Fast Day, she has v j gone nineteen days without any nourishment s . whatever, not even a swallow of water.* It c . is now one year and several months she lias t . b en * in tliis case. When she drinks a milk she is able to run abou and play, but a when she fasts she pines away, but after an a I abstinence of two or three wieks, she can c t only lock herself in the cradle. Toe facts v I in tliis case may be relied on, and ue think 1 . it is one worthy the intention of p lysicuuis I . and ptiysiologis s.? Boston Traitll r. From the Evansville Journal, A Tran of Shocking lncdr.n i.~Wu I arc informed that at the raising of *a log i ouse in Gibson county, on Tuesday last, f a quarrel took pl-ice moog the men engag-d, when one man who wits chopping the corner, ihr?*w his uxe wlirch struck ' another man be ow, split open his abdomen, and caused his iminediate death. The man who threw the axo fell back as lie , threw it, and in the fail broke his neck; at ] ihe same tim th log that they were rolling up, wus let loose of, in the exci ?men ( of the mom nt, and came back upon the men who were raising it, killing three person9 and wounding and bruising others. " i The nomination of William L. Sim e, Esq. to proceed to England and France. ' to collect ma'erials lor his ory, made by ' Governor Seward, w is not ultimately re ' j jected : it lies over, and it the next meeting , of the Senate, will probably ne confirmed. ' We hope so inasmuch as i; would enlarge i the sphere and means of usefulness for out , r i J i . Id iri?*nu auu cuu ciiiporury, ana give 10 mm the gra ification of more extensive nssocia. ^ tion, and familiar acquaintance with men, 0 manners, customs, and books abroad. ? Phil. Nat. Gazette. p EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE. tr ! The New York American mentions a P1 ! striking ina.ance of the uncurtain tenure of c\ earthly goods in a case lately reported in the London papers. It was a prosecution for ~~ perjury, in the course of which it was given in evidence that the prosecutrix, Lady Park< r, becoming security for her sister, Lady ^ Lake, for the sum of ? 19.000, in consc. ?* qut nee of legal proceedings for its recove* at ry, became an inmate of the King's Bench Prison where she officiated as cook to the CE more wealthy portion of the prisoners. l'1 yi I The New York Journal of Commerce | says, that three companies wire chartered tr at the last session of the New York Legis. p; lature, for the purpose of navigating the pi ocean, viz: the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of $2,000,000 ; of the Ocean St? am Packet Company, with u 2? capital of the same amount; and the North 3, American Steam Navigation Company, dc with a capital of $2.5l)0,000. It is not S known when any ot these Companies will 8, go into operation. ?f \\ We had yesterday the pleasure of wit. \\ m-string a splendid specimen of cocoons, the product of the present season, raised, l?y fj. Mrs. A. R. Latimer of this city. The ^ross weight of t ic cocoons wm about en 14 lbs. some of which were t ie product of ilie White, others of the Black worm ; tho ^ former weighs about 22, the la ter about sjt] 40 grains?ul uncommon size, and varying both in color and beauty. We are gratified to see the experiment in this new and interi esting brancn of industry, thus actiely ca engaging the attention ol the public ?es> lis pecially the ladies?aiH to learn that while thi taey neither "toil nor spin," some port on of m( mat delicate attention requisite to foster and as mature these experiments?may he be su stowed upon those that both ";oii and spin." the We have seen it stated, and will hear repeat he it, for the encouraging of others?tb-u three Bi idji'9 on Long Island, the past year, reali* ed fron) the product of worms, fed by their wn lunds and nuriured by their own are, some three thousand five hundred o'.l. rs ; a liberal reward tor the labor thus est owed. \V th many such examples, mes would soon be easier. Augusta (Ga.) Sentinel, Fatci\t Corn Planter.?It is stated in the Norfolk Herald, that a very ingenious and 'el simple contrivance for planting corn, ins been invented and patented by a Mr. ?orrest, of Princess Ann county, Va. It s represented to be in the form of a plough ird as llie furrow is laid off by the share, he grains are dropped with it through an iperture in a round, revolving box, contain* ng the corn. A couple of hoes, attached o the machine, throw the earth from both iides of the furrow, and cover the seed .1 , . j ? t test *nrn umip o*?'oh?m ? ? ? .w... I..U3Q i?.nut iu u proper aepin. i ne machine is one which effects a great saving jf labor, and is said to perform its allotted [ask with mathematical precision and certainty.?Bait Pat. Table Beer.?The Southern Cultivator gives the following recipe for making table beer : "To make a cheap and wholesome table beer, take eight bottles of water, one quart of Molasses, one pint of yeast, one tablespoonu! of cream or tartar. These ingredients jeing well stirred and mixed in an open vcs. icl, after standing twenty-four hours, the jeer may be bottled immediately." Fish and Silk*?'The New York Journil of Commerce says that an individual has >een supplying the Jersey market with ihnd's eggs, in the place of silk worm's ;ggs, at a considerable reduction in price. Sales were made in Monmouth county to he amount of 8700. Next year it is ex>ected that shad will be growing on MuL jerry trees. Sad Accident.?As like last train of cars >n the Bos on and Lowell Rail Road, was naking the outward trip yesterday after, loon, it overtook, in Woburn, two pedes* rians who were proceeding along to Lowell in the right hand track, which was not oc. lupied by the cars. If they had continu d heir coui so no accident would have hap>ened to them--but as the locomotive ap. iroached, the men seemed to be alarmed ?and one of them sprang off of the slight irnbankment on the right, while the other, vho appeared uch confused, suddenly topped dn to the other track. iu*t ?? tl?? 1? omotive reached him?and was struck by lie engine a blow which fractured his skull( nd the wheeh of the cor passed over bis rm. He died in a few minutes after the ccident. We have not learned the name if the unfortunate man who was killed* He ras about fif y years of age, apparently a iboring man, and said to have belonged to iilmanton, N. H.?[Merc. Journal. * 1?1 !.! ?? A Shocking Accident.?We learn frc m he Middlebury (V ermonO Free Press, that >n the 2<i ins un , M ss Laura Gulvin, of. Weybridge, Lower Fu Is in company with mother young la ly, went into the mill yard )f T. Bailey's saw mill, where the logs are placed on an eminence for the purpose of rolling them on to the carriage of the mill. The workmen were absent for a few moments, and the young ladies, through sport, :ook a lever and loosen**! the lower log for lii?' purpose of seeing them roll down the ieel vity, and the wholeness from above came rustling down h<* side. A large log sought the uiifortt nate Laura, in i's d 66 nt, rolling over her head and chest, and literally crushed her to death in a frightful manner* Tne log was removed imm' diately, a id tbe aody taken a way, but sle breathed only ?n<v, so sudneulv was she called to a final 9 9 ccount. New. York, May 11.' AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETYThe fourteenth annual report states that I .i ii nn - ? ? - - ? unng iiHj year ; on new pjojicui o js nave ?een stereotyped, rn iking the whole number f (he society's publication 994, of which 8 are volume*. In addition to these, 672 orks, including 50 volumes, have been ap. roved for publica ion abroad. Of some acts more than 100,000 copies have be o rimed within die year; and of one 184.0i>0 )pies. Total printed during the year 56.000 volumes?3,657,000 publications -124744,000 pages. Circulated during the year, volume? 299, 56?pubii -aliens 4,099?pages 119,733,* 56. Total circulation since the formation the society, volumes 1,153,390? public* ior.s 57,039,676 pages 917,983.578. The number of volumes circulated er>eds that of any preceding year by 65,000 ; e number of pages that ol any preceding sar by more than 22,000,000. The gratuitous dis ributions, in 422 dis* ict grants, including nearly 2.000.000 lges for foreign lands, amount to 8,257,260 iges. Receipts, during the year, 131 295 40, ' 155,852 81 were donations, including 3,100 02 for foreign distribution, a:rd 461 96 for volume circul-tiot, Of the >nation 8000 are from the American Tract cieiy, Bos on, for foreign distribit'oa *68 34 were received through the efforts fj'idies about G000 were raised at t' 6 rest, in connection with the efforts of Rr Iii im Clark, general agent; and nearly ... ?* i n M ra >00 by lie v. Joiin u. smitn, in soutn iroliun and Georgia. The receip s exceed those of the year ling April, 1837, which were more by !5,000 than in any previous year; but the nations are $16,000 less in twr > ve iif ice, wbile the proceeds of itdes are 916,000 jq (r. Morus MulUcaulis Buds.?From some us", u known lo us, (he Morus MulticauBuds, planted in :his section of country s spr have turned out bad y ; m t )re than one half of :h<m liave come up yet, and many that did come up have ice died, ifsueh be the case througout i United Siates, we e pect tha there will a great demand for Morus Multicaulis ids next spring.?Ha/ifox Advocate,