F*""" ' 0VStflQP^EKB?C!W6l|C^^lQiBto^89fJSMKdIflRV9HHI^Hi
til he is full three ; the too early riding or
working a horse being a most pernicious
practice and causo of degeneracy. To
break a horse, is too often an excuse tor
breaking his bones, but mean3 nothing more
tfrwi using the most proper means to rem.
cjer him useful. At two years old ho may
be made to wail: tiie ring by means of a
long leathern line in a circle. After having
been thus practiced in walking, give a
length of line and use him to trot, taking
care -that his hind feet do not touch and cut
bis fore feet. All this may be done gently
and if a blow seems to be necessary, let it
be done with a whip, more in terror than
eff-ct, an-1 after the voice has failed to procure
obedience. This may bo practiced
two or three times weekly. When the colt
begins to understand what is wanted of
him, then put a blanket on him w ith a girth j
during his exercise, then a light weight, in-1
creasing in proportion ?o tunc and strength
or as hi* will he wanted as a beast of burden.
When two and a half years, old, a boy may
mount the col', while he is walkingthe ring,
but not as yet at large. When he has acquired
a goo 1 trotting gait, take a longer
fine , and two persons arc n"cd d to learn
him to gallop and leap over a boso pole,
low at first and raised higher by degrees.
Tue work or draught horse need not practice
leaping , instead of which, he must be
t uj lit the harness an I to pu!l i'ght burdens,
with sin all wheels, so ns to accustom the!
colt to draw and to the noise; this last to j
.Ix* increased by degrees, so as not to scare
. him, and moreover to use him not to bo
frightened at any noise in future. All ttiis
practising may last until the horse is at least
three ye ?rs old, at which ago the back bone
is strong enough not to bo curved inward
by the rider or weak* neci by overstraining
pul'mg.
Town horses in Europe arc a > ways kept,
in t'?i* stable, fresh htier b'ing spread every j
nigbi for his bed and taken away in the
morning.? He is fed wi.h hay, straw and j
cats ; i!;? hav and straw are in bundles, the |
hay of 2D or 23 lbs., tho straw about 10 i
lbs. Rye straw is preferred. Both are put.
in the ra k. Wet bran is sometimes mix. |
cd with outs. Perfect cleanliness is kept
in the stable, tiie horse is curried, brushed
and combed every day nod taken to the riv
r rtt least twice a week if possible to wash
and bafho. In the country, horses are often
f d with chopped ryo straw, and barley
meal. In France, the hay is made of different
kinds of grasses unknown here, some j
of which contains more saccharine and nutritive
matter than most of ours. Lately the
pota'oe has been tried an J boiled for horses
perhaps in time of scarcity of grain. In
England, carrots, Windsor beans, cakes of
l?c:s and other vegetables have been given
to them ; the potatoe seems to have sticceeded
well. There is, however, a difference
of taslo in animals, ns in men, in this couo.
fry; wo can scarcely prevail upon them to
eat any of lho0Q articles of food so much
praised in Europe, such as turnips, ru a bi?
ga, pan pods, which aro eaten greedily any
wheriMdsQu A good work horse kept gen.
erally on dry hay, will bo sponger and fi -
i r i
ter lor hard iaDor, tnan a norseicu on
gras<? ; arid it is only when his system wun's i
cooling, that he ought to be sent to pasture, i
and it would he more advantag -ous to farmits
it their work horses were never put to <
pasture but kept in a large stable yard and
go it> and out of the stable and e;;t.
It is an error to suppose that tho horses '
ought to brave the rigors ofuil the seasons, i
us they do in tlieir savage state, in this,
nv?a or beast follows the dictate of nature
and are not obliged to work. Civilization
has changed or altered their constitution.
Tho mare at least must be taken from
pasture sometime before foaling, for ussis.
tanceis often necessary to the colt in the
first days after birth, being subject to a sort
- of dysentery besides that wich is particularly
called the colt distemper. The symptoms
of it are a dulness of motion ; a cough
tif.c r some days ; the swelling of the kernel
under the jaws, and lastly a running at the
nose. The first remedy is bleeding. When
there is a considerable discharge at the nose,
fumigation is proper ; make a bag of about
2 J feet long and largo enough to admit hulf
the head, with a string over the ears. Bo I
mullein and bran together, put them into
the bag tolerably hot, so that the steam
. should penetrate into the mouth and nose
of the animal and disengage all the matter.
The water of this may be given him to
rlr nk with a little salt. (lav and bran must
be his food. An obcess is sometime*
f lined in the kernel, for which an o'n?ment
of two yolks of eggs, mixed with turpentine,
? - ? .1 . ?i
may be uscu to ruu me pun uuu o*?u ??o- >
lened there as a plaster.
i shall add one more observa inn, grounded
on my own experience: I had n very
good and handsome horse whose stable was
near a hog's pen. He began to cough so
as to make mc think that he might havt
swallowed some feathers of the hens that
perched in llw hay loft. Not suspecting any
other cause, I was at a loss to find it ou\
when one day going into the stable, I was
s ruck with a bid snr ell of the hog's pen,
arid conjecturing that to be the cause, I removed
the hog pen, and saw with great
pleasure that my horse recovered from a
cough that threatened bis lfe.
When a horse is sick in winter, he must
be covered. Every humane and reflecting
person must rejoice at leaving off the fashion
of Cutting off the horses tail. It is ci^nr that
nature fvroducos nothing in vain. The tail
may be tririvned ; but never forget that a
horse, harrassed by flies, has no other means
than bis tail, to bru^h them off aud that it
may prevent accidents, in keeping him to
stand qu?et.
% d A purge for a horse after disiwnper?the
f th part of one ounce to the 10th of Aloe
Burbadoes dissolved in warm wnter.
W. MENTELLE.
FEEDING AND FATTENING FOWLS.
Fowls will become fat on the common ;
* run of the farm yard, where they thrive
-jpon the offals of the stable, and other refuse,
with perhaps somo small regular daiI
y foods; but at threshing time they become
particularly fat, and are thence styled barn >
*
door fowls, probably the most del cafe nnd
highly flavored of all others, both from
their full allowance of the first grain, and
the constant health in which they are kept
bv living in a natural state, and having the
full enjoyment of air and exercise. It is a
common practice with some housewives to
coop their barn door fowls for a weok or
two, under the notioD of improving them
for the table, and increasing their fat ; a
practico which, however, seldom succeeds,
since the fowls generally pine for the loss
of their liberty, and slighting their food, lose
instead of earning, additional fl ^sh. Such
a period, in fact, is too short for them to
become accustomed to confinement.
Franklin Farmer.
TO CORRECT DAMAGED GRAIN.
Musty grain, totally unfit for use, and
which can scarcely be ground, may, it is
said, be rendered perfectly sweet and sound
by inimorsmg it m boiling water, and letting
it remain until the water becomes cold.?The
quantity of water must be double to
that of the grain to be purified. The mu=tv
quality rarely penetrates through the husk
or bran of the wheaf. In the hot water, all
the decayed or ro:ten grains swim upon the
suiface, so lhat tlie remaining wheat is erfectualiy
cleansed from .-ill impurities, without
any material loss. It is afterwards to
be dried, stirring occasionally on the kiln.
N: E Fanner.
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SiLK CULTURE,
From the American Silk-Grower.
SCCCESSPUL MODES OF REARING THE MORUS
MULTICAUL1S CAUSE OI THE GREAT FAILURES
IN 1839.
The time which I consider as most suitable
for planting the cuttings of the Morus
MuUicuuiis is the time which is usually
deemed best for sowing the seeds of the
Mulberry, and also of most small seeds ol
gar ten vegetables, and of Indian corn; that
time is in Massachusetts and near Boston,
about the 1st of May, or a little later, according
to the season, and after the earth j
has become in a measure warmed by the ]
sun, and the danger of sudden changes i
from heat to cold is past. If planted earlier
they are liable to vegetate prematurely,
and to be suddenly arrested in the bud, and
to perish during long cold Storms.
The chief cause of the very extraordinary
failure in cuttings during the present year in
the States of the E >s; and throughout Long
Islaud, in Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and
many other places, was caused by too early
planting, followed as it was by long cold
storms of extraordinary duration. And this
is not ti? only year in which great failures
have originated from this same cause. It
w&9 the same lost year at Long Island, as
it had been also in some former yeara both
at Long Island and in other places where
great failures bad arisen fsom too early
planting.
Many failures, without doubt, occured in
other places, and from far diflerenfjcauses.
This was perticularly the case with many
who bought French imported trees, as a
verj considerable portion of those trees had
lost their vitality on the passage. In many
cases the trees which were sold had l>een 1
ruined by oft changing hands, and removals
hither and thither, and long continued ex.,
posure during winter or spring. Tn other
cas"s, from imperfect and bad packing and
drying, or the alternate freezing and thaw- i
of their roots, and by careless management. 1
I am aware that several estimable men,
writers and cultivators of considerable ex.. |
periencc, in Noith Carolina and Virginia 1
judging from their own successful cuitiva- i
lion in former years, have highly and most 1
impressively recommended parly planting n? I
indispensable to tho most perfect suc-ess, i
and for the climate of Virginia even Feb., i
ruary was deemed by them as preferable I
si .u: u: ,
10 mnrcn. i rieir writings uu mis su -jeui
being circulated from publication,to publication,
throughout tbo country, seem to have
had a powerful offect, and to have induced
generally to very early planting. The usual
time for planting Indian corn at Portsmouth,
ir-ar Norfolk, in Virginia, us I was there*
informed, is generally about the 10.h of
April. At that place, nnd in the spring of
the present ^ear, I planted largely of th?*
Morus Multicaulis. A part I planted with
euttings, all of which I cut wiih hut a single
eye, and a part with roots. All cut.ings
which I planted very early succeeded ladly;
but all those cuttings which I planted very
late, succeeded admirably, as d:d all the
J0< t?. whether planted early or late.
That part of t he land where I commenced
planting was in a highly cultivated and good
so'l, rather s'iff and tenacious. *
I began planting my cuttings the 15 h of
March. Thesp were planted in drills, on
a ridge a little elevated above the surface ;
they were covered about an inch and a half
above the eye, and as scon as the ground
was sufficiently dry it was rolled with a
wooden hand roller ; this loft the compact
earth about an inch above the eye. My
reasons for covering at th s depth and for
rolling were io guard ngainsi die drouth,
should drouth come, for such extraordinary
cold nnd long continued storms as afterwards
came on had been seldom before
known, and were not anticipated by me in
that clim-ite. My rirly planting was fin.
ished about the 12th of April. From the
115th of March io the last date there were
occasional long and cold storms. Of this,
my first planting, a very great proportion
ol the chtungs finally perished iu lite earth, 1
and were l<>st.
About the 10th of April I returned norh,
and sent on from tho icea large quantity of
cuttings sufficient (o finish the whole field ; j
these wero s<'t out between the 20th of
April, and the 1st of May, in a noil ruTTtW '
less consistent and ruber more sandy than
the first part of the fi Id, which was planted. I
They were covered with earth about an i
inch above the eye, the earth compressed I
lighily but not rolled hard ; showers follow- <
cd, and this late (tinting, for that climate, 1
succeeded admirably ; not one perhaps, in
twenty cuttings faded.
At a still l?t*rperiod, I sent on a few 1
thousand trees from the nor.h, to replant n
part of my ground wh ch had failed of my
first planting. A part of these trees were 1
cut up into cuttings, and a part were laid
horizontally, tlw b.nhw?
incTi deep ; all these were planted in June.
This last mode is an admirable and safe
one. All of this very late plnnting su -ceded
well. Cuttings which wero planted
very early in this part of Virginia seem to
havefured worst of all in soils rather clayey
- - * . r? 1.
and retentive ot moisture, ai ronsmwu u.
Dr. Butt planted a co isiderable field of cut
lings in the latter part of March, in a very
rich coal.black soil, composed almost exclusively
of a large p oportion of vegetable
mould, mixed with a small proportion of
sand ; these succeeded well. On another
inulb rry plantation of the R-v. Mr. Jon?is,
at the same place, tiiu cuttings were planted
at the same season, in a soil composed nl.
most exclusively of a large proportion of
sand, and but a small proportion of vegetable
mould. In this poorer soil the cuttings
appear to have suffered least of all from the
cold storms, as they succeeded admirably.
The most suitebl soil for the cuttings is
a soil composed of a mixture ot part sand
and pnrt vege'able mould. The cuttings
s1 ould b cut on qarterofan inch above the
eye, and aAcr inserting it vertically in the
earth, it should be trodden hard, and covered
with about an inch of loose mould. If
iho season is wet a id there is a prospect of
more rain, let the cuttings be planted in a
ridge a little elevated above the surface ; if
on the contrary the earth should be dry at
the time of planting with no immediate
prospect of rain, lei the cutting be planted
on a level with the surface, and covered ra-i
J
mer ueep.
The cuttings should he immersed in wa_
ter at the moment of plan ing out, but by no
means should they be steeped in water during
twenty-four hours, as some have directed
; sueh a practice is utterly destructive
to the vitality* of the cutting.
But the most sure and certain mo le of
propag t'i.igthe Morus Multicnulis isto bury
the body of the free horizontally, fixing thr
roots nt a proper depth. In Northern
States the bodies should be covered but halt
an inch, or an inch, but in the Southern
States an inch and a half, or rather deeper,
in a dry sandy soil. Thus planted, and at
the suitable time, I have never, in any season,
known this system fail, as the root will
thus preserve the vitality of the lop, and in.
sure its growth. Tin; buds on the uudcri
side of the tree thus horzonially laid, will
lie dormant, but they only sleep, and under
more favorable circumstances, will start
from the root one 01 two years after. About
half the buds or eyes of the trees, thus laid,
will grow and form fine trees, with fine roots,
by Autumn. Of nil the modes of raising the
Morus Multicaulis, I consider this as one of i
the most sure. I have never in a single instance
known it to fail of producing an ab
return. Very Respect fully,
William Kbvricit.
Newton, Muss, August 26, 1839.
From the Farmers's Register, for September.
The high prices obtained at Mr. Physick's
sale are likely to have an injurious
effect on the market. These prices,added
to the previous panic, and consequent anxiety
of many persons to sell, have caused an
immense number of trees to be advertised
for sale, and at auction, and for cush.or very
short paymen s; This roost impolitic
course, offorcing sales six or seven months
before they can possibly be wonted for
planting, (their only use, so early,) will at
least t<st the vital powers of the commodity ;
and if prices are not for a time reduced to
one half, or to less, by this glutting of a before
dull market, then it may be relied on
that there is an intrinsic value in the article,
surpassing the speculative demand, nnd that
nothing can destroy its market. And th?3
forcing of sales is to be done at a time
when the United S:utes Bank post notes are
selling at 24 per cent, discount, and th
best public securities and sfoeks at prices
jnprecedentedly low, compared to their acknowledged
value as investments ; and when
- ? ? _ I?
stoppng<? or spcne payments uy me uuntts
is openly recommended by a commercial
paper in New York, to alleviate the intolerable
existing pecuniary pressure. If, uuder
iu< h circumstances, tho producers of whea
were to insist upon selling the next surplus
crop of the country six months before it
could be put to any use, it would certainly
put down the price to less than half the expected
future rates.
The result which this most impolitic procedure
may produce, of a temporary prostration
of prices, would be as injurious to
public as to private interests. The foundation
of silk culture is now laid so firmly and
broadly, that nothing will prevent the structure
being finally erected ; and this would
secure good prices for trees, not only f
tais year, hut also for the next, even if there
were not a s ngle individual speculator in the
market. But asudden depression now, wou
cause the erroneous irnprssion to be mad*
an the public mind that tho udvocates of silk
culiure had lost confidence in its value and
profits, and would thus serve :?t least to retard
its general or extensive establishment.
We bole-ve that every tree raised in the
rouutry next year will be wanted to supply
the aetual demand for feeding silk-worms,
or to make provision for the future feeding.
And if so, the lowest price that can well be
conceived, even five cents the tree, will give
a very good profit to the planters of southern
stock at 50 cents, or at the highest prices
yet obtained or asked, this season in
Virginia. The general price of the young
white mulberry trees in France is n franc a
piece, (about 19 cents.) though that kind has
been cultivated there for sale and for feed,
irrg. forsomrr ccn*trrr?*!f. Wtry tlmj, if wanled
for use at nil, should not the morus mul[icauiis,
which is intrinsically worth so much
m< re, nnd as early a-; 1840, sell for onethird
at least, and more probably two-thirds,
or more of the regular price of die morus
nlbi in France? The occurence of 'his result
will not depend on the action of speculators,
nor he prevented by a present depression
of price, if caused by the means above
mcn'ioned ; but will be founded on the actual
operations of, and the certain and undoubted
profits to be derived from s Ik culture.
With the success of this culture,
ua ? |.u.ti.lia<n, wo may pruiluuiiO"
that everv present holder of trees may safe
ly withdraw from the market keep his trees
until next spring, (and standing in the fields
if in Virginia or more south,) if no purchaser
ofT r sooner and ihen, if not sold, convert
lie whole stock to plantings, nnd he
may count on greater profits from the crop
than from pursuing the opposite course. On
the other hand, it is not necessary to repeat,
what we have often said already, thnt without
the establishment of siik culture, or its
success btin/T in certain orosnecf. the
" O '
whole mulbeiry cultivation and trade
would indeed bo nothing but d bubble.
Stlk Ohlturein Misiouri.-TUf operations
of the Missouri Silk Company ntSt. Louis,
are already som? what extensive. They
have fed three crops of leaves he pnstsum>
mer, and the Si. Louis Republican of Sept
21 si says, their muliicaulis trees% are as
richly covered with foliage as if none had
been taken from them.
LUXURIANCE OF THB YAZOO SOIL.
The ordinary height of cotton on the
Yazoo prairies is six feet. It is common to
sco thirty pods on a stalk. An average
crop is from one.bale oud a half to two
bales on acre. As many as three bales
have been rmsed on a single acre. Other
plants grow with a like luxuriance. Uorn
grows to a prodigous height, yielding a
double abundence. The Yazoo Union
boasts of a sweet potato, rnisod in the neih.
borhood, which measured 18 inches in circumference,
and 12 inches in length. All
of the vegetable productions are on the mammoth
order. N. O. Bulletin.
Case of Poisoning bv Diseased Fleeh.
?On Snturdajflast a whit" woman named
Deems died at Baltimore under the following
circumstances :?A cow belong to one
of the neighbors had died, apparently from
the effects of poi?on, and was thrown ou
upon the commons. Tho deceased, with
two other women resolved to skin the dead
animul, which they did, on Friday, and ihe
deceased also took a portion of the meat,
and cooking it, she, with several of her
children, aie a portion. They were all token
sick, and on Saturday the mother die I
The other two women had not eaten any
of the meat, but one of I hem is now suffer
ing in lor tires from her arm being inflamed
and painful in such a manner as to threaten
the lock-jaw N. Y. Whig.
The Jews in Palestine.?Sir Moses
Montefiere is a? Alexandria.?He had made
proposals to Mehemit Ali to establish a
Bank there with a capital of one million
sterling, provided ho would do away with
the many legal disqualifications of the
Jews. Sir. M. M. has already rented a
large tract of land in Pales ine on a lease
f??r ft iy years, and holds out every inducement
to his people to become agriculturalists
in the land of their forefathers : as one principal
object of his banking institution will be
rendering the necessary assistance for the
prosecution of agricultural pursuits the real
riches of these countries.
From the Salein Free Press.
TOBACCO CHEWERS.
Cons'dering all men's follies,
There's nono can o'er be greater,
Than chewing of tobacco plants
Contrary to their nature.
The filthiest brutes in all the land
Refuse to eat tobacco?
Except some poor old hungry horse
Should chance to snap a sucker.
And yet will men, both well and sound,
Q lite heartv and athletic.
? 0 '
Merely for a passion, use
This corrosive emetic.
Just like a squirrel or a mouse,
Their jaws are often going ;
While through their beards and down
their chin, /
The ambier is a flowing.
You see them motioning their jaws,
Like cows in meadows mowing;
Whilo working of their tongues to keep
Their ambier mills a going.
And no church floor, however clean,
Is from the filth exempted ;
And without regard to decency,
On carpets too, 'tis emptied.
And yet, for all this indecency,
They have no plea to mention ;
The reason why they use this plant
Is past their whole invention.
If any wishes to retreat,
After due reflection,
How tho practice to leave off,
I'll give him one direction.
If ever you should happen where
So.ne cliewer hath been sitting,
If you the practice uould leave off,
Just look where he's been spitting.
A CITIZEN.
New York, Public Ckmbtry.?A public
Cemetry is about to be laid out on Long
Island, for the use of the cities of New.
York and Brooklyn. It is to be called he
Greenwood Omot ry. The area is 200
acres, and includes the highest point of the
island, whence you look down upon Broklyn
; it is beautifully wooded, of an un-lula*.
ring surface, and has numerous poels of w*.,
t<T,one of which is a lake of pure water,
40 feet deep, and surrounded by a dense
(brest, making together one of tho most
beautiful scenes to bo found any where.
The Phiindelnhia Herald of the 15th in*t..
says :?A Miss Novel, by Professor Nott,
(one of the wrecked in llie .Home') which
found its way ashore, the only por.ion of
the Professors effects which were saved?
has been placed in the hands of Mr. IW6*
rauam, by which it is forthwith to be pub.
lished, with the memoir of the lamented author.
Singular,?A British Captain, at the battle
of the Nile, was giving au order from the
quarter deck of his vessel, when a shot
struck him in the head, depriving him instaneously
of sense and speech. Living,
however, lie was taken home, and remain
ed in the Greenwich hospital fifteen months*
At the end of that period, during which he
had exhibited no si.ns of intelligence, an
operation was preformed on him by a skilful
surgeon, that in a moment, restored him
to his faculities. Ho immediately roso in
his bed, and completed the order !
A trance op a week's duration.
A young girl residing in a house hack of
German street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, Southwark, a member of the
Methodist Church known as the Academy,
in Fourth 9treetnear Arch on the evening
of Wednesday, the 25th ultimo! arose from
hor bed under religious excitement, and be.
gan to pray. The religious exercises, with
the workings of her own imagination, produced
such a state of excitement in her mind
as to tiirow her into a trance, in which condition
she has remuiaed since yesterday
week, insensible fo every object and event
around her. During that period she has
partaken of no food, except such aliment as
ihin gruel, which her friends and attendants
force into li< r mouth between her clenched
teeth. Such a long period of unconsciousness
and abstinence has had no apparent
rff'd upon her health; she breathes regiu.
larly, her respiration is similar to that of a
person in a deep sleep, and her cheeks and
lips have the glow and hue of health, the
ruddy color of which, added to a face pos.
sessing regularity of feature, gives her an
ex'remely interesting and beautiful appearance.
The only motion that has been observed
during this length of time by those
around her is a movement of the head,
which is turned occasionally from one side
to the other, as she lies upon her back, and
a rapid rolling of ihe eyeballs, under the
closed lids. Site has now been eight days
in this singular state, and seems no nearer
a restoration to a state of conciousncsa than
at the lime of the first attack, though yesterday
one of her attendants heard her whisper
indistinctly something about her broth,
er, which made them believe t iat the fit of
unconsciousness was near its termination.
She has been visited by five or six physicians,
though it is notknowo to what they ascribe
her present condition. Whatercr may have
been (he cause which produced and contin..
ues this singular effect, there is one thing
certain, (hat the facts detailed by her friends,
in regard to her pr sent condition, are strictly
to he depended on. The name of the
girl is Nancy Simpson. (Philad. Ledger.3
The latest advices from Bombay, (East
Indies,) state that the cholera is making
dreadful ravages in that quarter. Death
often supervenes in one hour after the attack
; and to crown the distress, die inhabitants
are suffering under a great scarcity
of water most of ihe wells being dry*
A SINGULAR CASE.
A man named Alanson Theodore Her?
rick, has confessed before a magistrate of
Easton that he is the murderer of Zellerbach,
the pedlnr, for whose death Kobler
has been convicted and sentenced to be
hung. He related particularly the manner
in which he committed the deed, the mode
in which he disposed of the goods, die,
and the places he has visited since, and
said the awful convi< lions of his conscience
had induced him to confess the deed,? *
When told that Kobler had confessed the
deed, Merrick said, "that if Kobler was ?
willing to die for him he would not confess,
as there was no use of both dying."
Alexander s (PkaA M'ssenser.
The public will wo think learn with surprize,
that Messrs Ruiz and Montez, of the
Island of Cuba, who were overpowered by
their slaves on board the Spanish acboooer
Am's nd, and from whom they were rescued
by a U. S. ship of war, afW enduring the
most horrid tortures?are now suffering incarceration
in the common jail io this
city.
And for what ? it will be asked f Have
these gentlemen been guilty of any crime
among us? Have they committed any
wrong here ? None, whatever.?They held
slaves in Cuba, but this the laws of Cuba
sanctioned. They purchased slaves in
Cuba and transported them from one part of
the island to another. This loo the laws of
Cuba sanctioned. When fortunately res,
seued from impending death, by a gallant
officer of our Navy, thoy claimed the slaves
as their property?and th?s question of
property, is now in a course of adjudication
before our courts of law.
Yet, is i a f?cl that they were yesterday
both arrested in a civil suit by a process issuing,,
one, from the Court *of Common
Plans and, another, from the Superior Court,
on the assumed complain* of 44 Fulah, an
African of the Mendi Tribe, and Singwth,
an African of the Mendi^Tribe/'for44 imprisoning,
healing and wouodjog them,"
and the joint damages laid at $9900. On
wh'ch process Messrs. Ruiz and Montez
are now confioed in jail.
The Savages, in whoso name these suits
are institu ed, are of course ignorant of the
whole matter. A lifetime would not suffice
to make them comprehend it.?The real
plaiouflk are the abolrtion:?fa, and the foremost
tut usual amongst them is Mr. Lewis
Tuppan ! who actually- accompanied the
Sheriff's officer who served the writ to point
out to him ihc persons of the Spanish gentlemen.
He of course would not lose this
opportunity of adding to the enviable notoriety
ho already enjoys!
N* Y. Courier &. Enq.
.. FRANCE AND TKXAS.
We are happy to learn, by the intelligence
received by the Liverpool, that previous to
the departure of General Hamilton (who is
u nficaiinnapnn linnr(t nf llilc flhint from Po.
u 1I0UI wii wwuivi wi *? I / 1 v " *
on.tho lOthSnptomber las', a treaty of
amity and commerce was agreed opon between
France and Texas, which contained
a recogni ion of the ind pendence of the
hitter. Copies in both languages had been
exchanged, and the Minister of Foreign
Affaire Marshal Soult, merely waited the return
of the King to Paris, that it might bo
laid before him, when the treaty would be
formally executed.
We understand that the recognition of
the new Republic by Great Britain will cert
>inly soon follow, and that the loan of five
millions of dollars which General Hamit'on
and Mr. Bursley went out to effect, is io a
train which promises a prompt and successful
negotiation. Genera) Hamilton, vre understand,
goes on immediately to Teiaa, to
obtain the confirmation of the Government
of that Rebublic of the arrangements which
Mr. Bureley and himself have made in Eng.
land, whilst the former gentleman remains
in London to close the negotiation.
(N. Y. Evening Star.
A woman in Gibson coumy, Indiana, re*
cently sent three of her children to look for
eggs in a hen's nest, a short distance from
j the house. They ran eagerly and thrust
j their hands into the nest, when a large cop.
per headed snake ly;ng in it, attacked and
hit the whole three. The mother hearing
heir screams ran 10 ineir assistance, ana
whi'e absent the youngest fell into a tab of
water and was drowned. To odd to the
mother's distress, the three who were bittea
by the snake died in two hours after.
Singular Circumstance.?On Thurs.
day the 29thf a Mrs; Stone io Louisville,
left her child lying upon the floor, while she
went a few steps for a bucket of water.
Hearing a scream she turned aod saw a
hog running across the street dragging the
child by its foot. By the assistance of some
men who were passing by, the child was
rescued without very material injury, but
not without some difficulty, as the animal
seemed little disposed to give up its prizeThe
child was about eight months old and
entirely within the door when seized by the
hog.
Melancholy Accident.t-Oo Monday
last, as the accommodation train of cars was
go ng up from Stoningion to Providence,
Mr. George Reynolds, of VVickford, one of
the assistants, imprudently passed, on the
top of the cars, back to the baggage car,
ns the train was approaching a bridge. As
the train passed under the bridge, as it
would seem, bis head came in contact with
the under part of it; and he was tt the
same time precipitated down between two