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* -V. ^ * , * T.'.Wll ' ^ \;? *v . \ . COW8 AND SII.K. .. Evbry farmer or dairyman is awaro 1 . that thorn js a vast difference in the quart*! tity and the quality of milk given by differ- j ' wrtt oowa. yot this variatioais ntado hv very I fpW(? the basis of any calcination as to the 1 actual profit or loss in keeping such ani- j -mala. As a genera) rule, it must be admitted that cows that yield a large quantity of milk, require more and bettor feed than Mthb*e which yi^M less, in ordor to maintain * the H&nv> iiesli ; but this is a point much d-"?pendinir?ti the breed, and its constitutional qualities.- The average of the best cOmaion dairy cows, will not for sitf months, exceed ten quarts per day, while numerous instances are on record, of cows which bftv averagod more than double this , " quantity tor the same period. We very much question, whether a majority of our cows produce half a pound of butter a day for the same perio 1 of time ; while the instances are not few, in which cows have yielded from ten to twelve pounds per reek, and some have much exceeded this, j '' at tho examples wo shall give will show. We think if tho vast difference in profit \ , bet woe# a pood and a poor cow was duly -considered much more pains would ho takon to produce and rear such aniuiala and as Woufcl b.sst servo the purposes ofi hJJ- the"da^ry Or the thrm^r. There is no prov * pHtety'Tn the farmer's keepingsome half a ' Jflcr/.fm inferior cows to devour his pasture in the summer, and empty his barns in ! y..:winter, to make butter for his family, v. rwhetfr.half the nuuihcr of pood animals will ! V^'do it njuoh better, and enable him to dis- 1 pose of the extra fodder the others would vo'nsiirtie, or add to his other stock in the *ainc proportion. ".Very few instances have been given., whore the quantity of milk from a number of cows has been determined with accuracy. Mr. Aiton, from the record of -wsvoral ' '-' years with a herd oi" the best Kiloes aj^forth of England cows, gives the follow j ' 'ing result, in which confidence muy he placed : r. V First 50 days, 24 qjaris per day, 1 200. Second 44 20 44 * 1.000 Third 44 14 44 700. -* ' rourtti 44 ft 44 400. Fifth ' 44 8 44 400 Shah 44 4 44 800." being 4,000 quarts to each cow, or an av? t-rngo ?of 13s quarts for 300 days. In Dickson's Survey of Lancashire, the quantity of milk produced by five short homed cows of the ordinary, not improved breed, in the summer at pasture, and win, tej at hay and turncps, is stated as follo ws : y ,440.io which did not go dry at .- to all*? 5,837 quarts. One dry eigMjpreoks, 3,983 44 '^One dry six Weeks, 3,087 44 /.One'dry 44 3 695 44 1 y_\ One dry eighteen weeks, 3 383 44 . ...v Vfur?9on ^r* Curwen's . farm, gave .op an average of four years, 3,. J709 (jnarts to each cow, but the average in Lancashire generally, is stated at between 8 an 1 9 quarts. Some of the country rep*?rts, in Transactious of the Agricultural *Y ^Socfefy, averagd liie quantity as below : Devousiuro, 12) ni-L-.L! -n f vucmnre, n > quarts per tlav. Lancashire, 8<o9) Mr. Wm. Crania in Sussex. had a cow that in four years from 1899 jravo 23,5-10 quarts of milk. producing 2 132 pounds of butter; probably the greatest instance of continued pro luctivoness on record. Since the improved Short Ilorn.s have become so well known, occasional examples of still greater amounts of butter or milk for a short time, have been furnished. Thus the Rev. Mr. Racket, near Newark, Engl:ad a cow which produced 19 pounds of butter in a week, though the average of toe cows in that vicinity did not exceed six pounds per week. A cow of .Mr. Calvert produced 373 pottnds of butter in 32 weeks; and for 20 weeks averaged 20 q larts of milk a day. The Yorkshire cows have in many instances been remarkable for the quantity of milk produced by them ; many, during the height of the sea- j son, yielding 30 quarts a day, and instan- j i !inv<i ' ? .vuv.nnf; l|'?.U 1.1. The instances ot uncommon productive- : ness both'in milk und butter, among the I ' cows of this country, arc very numerous. These instances of great yields are more j common among the improved breeds of imported stock, or such as have been deri- j ved from thorn, by crosscss with the na- i tive stock of cattle, thun among the old stock alone. Thus Col. Jacques' Cream I Pot breed, the result of a cross between j ttufDlirham bull and a native cow, bus j ptoduped butter at the rate of seventeen '* pounds itt a week. Wo noticed not long .j sincetn tlie Pennsylvania Inriiiirer. n ? 1 Mnent of Mr. tlowens Short Horn cow *?> h Dairy Maid," which yielded 331*'jqiiartH 1 ?f htiTk per day for a week ; but the most j remarkable instance of productiveness in ! n cow, ftU things considered, we have ever J - - noticed, w found in tho following state- j tnent of Mr. W. Canbv, ofWoodside, Del-'I *' iiware, furnished for the Delaware Journal, i , *.* 7TK Canby's cow is called Dloesoin, end is I ,>J"'from the excellent stock of C. Hall, Ksq. j ^ of New-York. fler mentioning Dairy Maid, .Mr. C. ^ odds: .< < ** I concluded to try my cow Iffwscm, n statement of whoso milking for one week * you will find below, and by which you will |?crceivc she averaged for the week over 3/> quarts per day, and yielded 13 1.4 pound*of well buttef. * * My dairy maid is firm in ll?e belief that at a cooler season I of the. year or with n spring house,' the cream she had from Blorsnm would ! hare yielded 13 or 10 pound, of butter. 4" * Uncommon as this produce may be, I dojiot consider it mere sol ban the fact .of Bor never having been dry since she had ncr nna caji, mom irmn nvn years a?ro, wwl in ilicj'spaee of 2.ri months, hrm pro?lu^"ecd five living c?Iwh, ri/?on tlm .V h of v April. 1?38, ahf bn?l her fir** rnlf, (/>* /</'' ' ywr()on the 4lh'of July, 1^39, alio luxl ifJ*V*T.ly W'l ln'lryrntlfitre. ;) . urwl 4/*? p.hjij lliiv',. i'JlO *In*hail ivvius I tLr, ' -. > ..**?? ? - . . \ . ? -f ' 1 * ? * ! " , -" - --- -T _ again, (Rotwacml Julie*;) ami I think I can safely say, that during the whole ol thut time she has averaged toll 20 quarts of milk |icr day $ she gave 25 quarts per day with her first calf, and made nearly 12 pounds of butter per week." Mr. Canhy in l>oth years tried to dry Blossom'before calving, but found it impossible. If Mr. Canby is right in his estimate of the average daily quantity of BlossoniV milk, she greatly excoeds any other cow on record in product. The average of Mr. Cram's cow which has been 'nniixlilf.Mll at tin. hunt u'fii: fi iinn.tu "-?v., lo per annum, while Blossom's is 7,300. Tlic average yeurlv.producl in butter of Mr. Cram's cow was533 pounds, and lhat of Blossom', as estimated by. Mr. Cauby, (J-J4 pounds. _ It is not to bo expected that the average of I tie cows in auy country can be made to equal these extraordinary yields of milk and butter; yet when we see what has been done by Col. Jacques, and to what perfection caro and Judicious selection has brought other breeds of domestic animals we can conceive no good reason why our dairies should'not have their profits vastlv incrfeasodby improvements in the milking qualities of the animals composing them. <c Cultivator. WtXTKK FOOD FOlt cows. Mr.Charbort, the director of the veterinary school of Africa, had a number of; cows which yielded twelve gnllonsof tni'k | everyday. In'his publications on the i subject, he. observes that cows fed in the j winter upop dry substances give less milk > than thont.which are kept upon a groan ; diet, and also tlmt their milk loses much of its quality. lie published the following re<je^?t, by the use of which his cows afforded .him an equal quantity and quality of milk during the winter as during the j summer:? "Take a bushel of potatoes, break th.un ' whilst raw, place them in a barrel stand- t ing up. put ting in successively a layer of | potatoes fend a layer of bran and a small quantity of yeast in the middle of the mass, which is to bo left thus to ferment j during n wno'e week, and whe.t the via- j oiw taste has n :rva lcd thy whole mixture, it is ihus give.i to the cows, who cat it , groadilv." From thn Albany, (N V.) Cul ivator. w.st ao? of tiie horse. Some d flference of opinion appears to exist ' as to Mfe tune when the horse is best tit im| to perfoim lahori or rather respecting the age at wlii-'h a horse intended lor labor can be most profitably purchased. Tlu're is a general ' feeling in favor of young horses, and most in- i dviduals who wished a horse to perform hard j work for five, or six years, would choose one not more than four years old to begin with.? We doubt .whether this would be tint best course, and imagine that one of seven years j of age, will for live or six years do more work I1 and ran be more r.ontiden ly relied on, than ' one younger. It is very true that, where a j farmer or other person is in'euding to keep j or wear chit his horse, one ai four m?y prop rly enoGgfli:lie chosen; but where fine -or six years of sevr re labor, without regard toother circumstance-', is required, an older horse is unquestionably to be preferred, f A principal reason, and in our opinions decisive one, for chousing a horse of a greater ige, the boss is iiiiiii.Mitre, and of course mi lit fur groat or long continued exertion They ! have the life and snirit. but tli inam-nlar ?... ergy is wanting. Tin* hones Iihvr not ac. [ quired hardness, and the tendon* the firmness, 1 necessary to prolonged effort* ami any aciion in wluclrthosu elcmuits are essential to sue. cess, inuHteilhor end in a iailurc, or lie accomplished at an injurious expenditure of physical energy anJ power. Wo 111 ty leam inue.h respecting the capacity of aninials for labor, from what we know of the cff'cts of muscular exertion on ourselves. The nun under twenty may he active and capable of a i great effort, but lie is wanting in the powers of endurance. There is not liruin *ss of iniiscle essential to severe and continued action. Taking'the,comparative ages which man ami the horse live, as a standard, and allowing tint the man is incapable of hi- greatest and continued efforts until he is twenty rive or past, the horse should certainly not tie less than 1 seven or eight to answer the same rond tioiM. | ()ve rtaskiug iloes not prodce the same effect on j the man thai it dues on the boy, and the horse < at twelve, will scarcely h?el fa'igue at efforts j which would have ruined htm at the age o1 three or four. Light loads, short stages, ami frcqu ni flops while travel'.ng, in ly enabl a yonng'horse to moke h journey w; hunt injury, but where a heavy load is to be moved, or a quick pace-is required, or on a larm a thick sward ix to bo turned, a horse under seven or eight, should not be chosen; ami at such a severe work, the eight year old, wiil last longer than the four year o'd. It is a saying among English sportsmen, that what is required for a first rate hunter, or a horse of great work, ih young 'eg*, ami an old mouth; that is, horses that have done | little until five or six, and of course while their t li.nhs are elastic, are at the same time in full muscular vigor. Elwes the g'cat moor, nev. er allowed a colt to be broken until six years old; and when his horse* were twenty or more yours of,age. Ins animals always led the held in the ebn?c. Stage coach proprietors do not i oosidei a horse past the iw st severe pace or age, until af cr thcii sixteenth y< ar. 11 must j be admitted, however, that much is depending on constitution and treatment, and wneu , there arc gm>d, a horse las's much longer than 1 In* been generally supposed. It is stated I in an English journal, that at this time there is | h surgeon noar Finsburv square, l/md n, wlm i lias a Y marc upwards ol fortv vears of 1 w - , ' / !?"? wInch hiul does Iter work ill admirublc styh .? At lliirtV'Six yenta of nge, this antui.ti performed the distance of eighty miles a day, on j two successive day*; and one liundied miles in one djiy, and wiiijoill exhibiting any nnlica. { lions of being severely tasked. An extraor-( dinary instance of what ti.o horse can perforin, is given in the New York fap-rit ofihe Times nf June Orb, from w Inch it appears ihat Unhorse Kilo, a six year old gelding, on the l'-ilh of May, trotted between son and ,?un, one hundn d and six miles, carrying 470 ill?. The match took place near Boston. NVc think we hazard little in the assertion, that while no animal is deserving of more attion to Jus improvement than tlie horse, there ia nnnn li. U'liM>ii..iniiniin it? ??? '? ? -v? - - ",,L "* merf, mi hule attention m paid. It is enough : if the anion.I attached to the carriage or .the plow,;i* a hwh-ep-it ntaitefr hut liillu what i?titiM performance or hie hearing; ami not un. * frequently, mch as arc unfit J<<r '.he n.citji.i K .. J . 'rtflges, are selected to perpetuate (t|?e race, j Fojrour farm horses, we do not want the Ara- , bi^i or U?<* Kuglieh blood borse, we require , must weight more bone and muscle, thaif Se nfibrd; but we do want some ot l heir ac~ y, and powers ot endurance, and all these 4 rable qualities, it is believed, can be ub? J lained by a proper eelceuon, and by crossing, i Sune of tbo best horses in Englaiut, for the < carriage or the farm, are ?be produce ot a cross between the C.eveland bay, or the Huff ilk'1, I'uai h, and a half blood horse, combining the rss ntiul requisites of weight and acrionk ?->' faiaslhcy can be united; and that a similar process here would be attended with the same befielicial rcsul s, does not adiiiit of a q'nes iioi r arineis should discard the caricatures of. his noble animal, that disgrace their prcniiih?s; in breeding, give a preference to good rattier than to clieap cattle; beware working iheir colt* too young, or too severely; Jet the loot! correspoigl to ttie labor; anil always ro. member that "it is the pare that kills the hor.-e," whatever may be h.s business or his condition. LIXK. A Pennsylvania paper states that a Mr. Cad well, of Vnljcy township, near Danville, raised 400 bushels of whent from a field of land, the past season. Five years ago the product of the same field was hut thirty bushels. In the meantime, Mr. C. has spread 1500 bushels of lime pn said land. Lime is not every where to bo had with the sr.mo ease, but, on the other imrid, it is not every where wanted. What is wanted, is science enough, on ttio tariticj's part, to know when and where lie has occasion for it, and to what extent.? The .ecological ltepprts are throwing great light ou these matters, and they are disclosing, at the same time, numerous new locations of valuable lime. Fr<nn the Cultivstor. BROWN CORN. Tlic region arround the beautiful Wtujtsiogee lake ill New- Hampshire, is hecouii ig as Unions lot corn as is tin; picturesque hrtu i c'oun'ry of the west fur its wheat. The cirn lliofil esteemed there is a variety soue- I what r- seiil'ding the Golden Sioux. eght rowed, largo eared, lit cob small, and llie'Ver-, nol 1 irgo, ami very ortriy?one of tli; nost import.tut considerations m our northern ulimate. It is named the Brown corn from llj' individual who first cultivated and brought it into no'ice?and its success in his hands, :nd j those of other farmers in that region, 'iud wherever it has been introduce would steni to justify the hig|i reputation it lias acqui'ed. | At the Stafford couiry agricultaral Show.mil Fair, three fields of this corn were offered lor the premium, one of wl tch gave an acre urodue it g 11(3 Imshels. The cmn|ictitor8 verc Mcsrs. Eanpray, I'hillsbury. and Drown, all three living on the margin of the lake, oi tin (lie islands in its wate a. The second icrop. or'130 bushels per acre, was grown on a ::'arni . owned by E. H. Derby, Esq. of Boston, and of the proi.ei ds .ind management of which an interesting, accoun" lius been given by lum in t|n! '&J h tSlo. of the cur.enl volume of the Newp.igl.iud Farmer. > It is pleasant to record ?hos? triumplis of 'skill and industry?for they furnish the 'most conclusive testimony' that the science and prac'ice of agriculture is improving in" the country, ?nd that hy attention to varieties of plants, and their culture, the products nitiy he vastly increased,Willi little or no increase of la. bor. i'here can be little doubt that crops of from | 7*)'to 80 onshels of corn to the acre are now I as frequently grown as 40 or 50 were half a century s.ucc?iml probably of 100 bushels to 11... ....... ,? ~e. >. i .. ?. ...V ...V un .rier it-atlieu HOW TII a II VII WtlR at that luiio. Indian corn in certainly oho of ilie moat important crops grown in the United rlUties and ?lmuld receive a proportional euro and attention. All year* may not prove eqoally lav ranlc?hut if proper care is paid to the preparation uf the grn nid, and to the clioiie of sued, pernap* there is no crop less liable to a failure. IJL.ACK StiA WhkaT. M ' y o 'our farm T.ssavs lie-Coos Connly(M' ) D-mocrat have in ?<Je tlie exje rineuiol tu>vii)o |u<- Blaek S.J t wli at. Toe mam object ot'sowuii; tins variety is to a vuiil the rust, wiiicii often proves iujnrotis to wle-ai crops hi tins vicinity. So far as we have heard ilie result ol this experiment, lie olij ei litis ln*en IulIv "'lined. In one in-l.init<' wiiere die Bi lek Sea wlient, ami the common variety were sown side l>y side ill (he s Him field, tin* lot er w.ig almost en. lir-dy d siroyed by rust, while the former ; i " <inii iiiicu uuiuuuii u, una g ?v? gnoil prom. ?" of tit abundant harvest. Ei i ki ts ok Voltaic Elkotricitv in ('ASKS OK SlfSPKNDKD ANIMATION, Wo copy the following interesting and important statement ol* Joseph Ferguson, Esq., M. I)., surgeon of the Westmcath Infirmary, from the Westmcath Guardian of the 2d July:?"On Thursday evening, the lrtihult., 1 was requested to go in all haste lo see a man of ihe name of Jumes Rook, who had just been token out of the canal, and was supposed to l>c dead, i was with him in four or five minutes, and found him apparently lifeless, cold, and livid. 1 had him t'orwith removed to tiic country Infirmary, about eight or i i?i 1 " iuiiu uuiMirru varus ais'aut. I learned, in the meantime, from several persons wiio had w itnessed the scene, that he was at least six or seven minutes completely j under the water, and that he had been in a state of intoxication. Finding the abdomen very much distended, 1 immediately introduced the stomach pump, and discharged by it upwards of gnllon of water, strongly impregnated with spirits Seeing that this, with all the odinnry means of restoring suspended animation had failed to produce the desired effect, and that no time was to he lost, I determined on trying a plan wlMch-I*hnve for u long time considered a likely means of bringing about the action of the heart | and lung.-; in those cases, l>y immediately acting on the diaphragm, tho main agent of respiration, and accordingly won pro. pared with tlio nees.snry apparatus. I an incision below the seventh rib?' ?>ut down on llmt important muscle?'aid it i>nrc, and iipplhsi the conductor of a galvanic battery, consisting of fifty pair of plates, i'. The effect wns instantaneous, and surprised nil the persons pres. i ?nt. The musics of the chest and ah- i loin n : hi .-came spaMiioJicnlly moved, | ,t intl, after a few moments, Itoujfope this q?asmodic action gradually disappear, and the regular action of the chest pome on, which soon increased till breithing beon nip quite apparent, as also tqe circulation; and blood now for the first time, issued from the wound I had mSde in the ohest. lie has continued to gd on well, with the exception of some infummatory symptoms, perhaps produced bv the wound, hut not unlikely from thq effects of the cold and wet he was exposeqto; however, by the use of the lancet,' and following up the anti-pldogistic treatment, those symptoms are fast abating; and I have no doubt I will be able to discharge him cured, from the Infirmary very shortly. This case must fullv ci'.ublish the utility of voltaic electricity in restoring suspended animation from immersion in water, by acting indirectly oqibcphrenic nerve and eighth pair, and lima exciting the action of the heart. It fill go to prove, in iny opinion, that it is foot necessary to transmit along the channel of the nerves this most wonderful agent as a substitute for nervous iuHuenca. As immersion in cold water musi.hasten the extinction of life, arising from Suffocation, by depriving the body of vital heat, the ertjet of this extraordinary power is the more rcmarlcablo, and shows tho necessity of artificial heat being applied to the body as effectively and expeditiously as possible. The. stomach-pump, I consider, was of much use, jus by rcleiving the great distention of the stomach, the lungs were better able to fulfil their function up6n the galvanic influence being applied. In cutting down and exposing the diaphragm much caution is necessary,, so as not to wound it, however si ightly, tho consequences of which might be very had. ' 1 SoVTTTF.RN NoTJOXS OF YaNKKBS. Suppose in a farmer in Vermont has six KUII9 j UIIU) j?l.! IUIJW*, Will IV'lUtUIl lO DO ii stay and stall" to the good old man, when he totters clown the hill towards the sunset c?f lilo; but another first gets to he a schoolmaster, then studies law, flourishes a while before the courts, goes to Congress, nutl fi lally is (iovernnr of the Stale. A third pushes ott* on foot to Boston, cuives a stage for a time, then tends ahar in a tavern for a while, and at last is clerk in a s'oro. 11* re he gains the confidence of his employers?<tt ttt^uty-one is udniittcd into a partnership, and is soon a merchant of established reputation. The fourth is a wild roving fellow, who first goes fo sea before the mast-; but the Yankee is still in him, and his wild oats being sow.i, he at length becomes captain of a packet, and at the age of fifty is a weatherbeaten seaman, Und retires upon a comfortable income. The fifth is a pedlar, and circulates tin ware for half a do/.oti years through the Southern States. He then goes on a hunting expedition fo the Rocky Mountains ; utter his return, he officiates as steward on board n Mississippi steamboat. Being of a musical turn, he joins a caravan, and plays the clarionet through all the principal cities of the IJ. Statins. He then shoots off to Kentucky, where he keeps school for a short time. He next removes to Alabama, where with a capital of two or three thousand dollars, which he has saved, he sets up a store in a new town, still covered with stumps. The town increases, and our young merchant nourishes. In due time, lie has extensive cotton lands. Those he cultivates with care,and year after year, adding acre to acre, becomes a wealthy planter, respected und beloved by all around him. The sixth is a favorite son,.and like most favorites, comes very near being spoiled. He is sent to eolletre, and there ncuuires some knowledge, and a good estimation ol himself. Hut hechances to bcsenttoouc of those colleges when; there is little intercourse between the pupil and instructor, and where a parcel of young men are left without rudder or compass at the most *>ormy and dangerous period of life, lie catchen, therefore, the infection of h?J principles, ami goes forth with a diseased und impure spirit to the world. lie is bred a lawyer?lie has talents, perhaps genius ; he commences life with iuir prospects, but still with the idea that fortune is to he obtained without, lie is disappointed, and becomes dissipated ; he loses his friends, and is on the point of he. ing lost to society ; hut the Yankee is s'ill in him. His father's honorable example, his mother's religious counsel come to his aid. The good and evil are at strife, hut the former prevails ; In; shakes off his idolonce, he tramples his- vices bonoath his feet. :'fi lie makes a hold effort,'and removes to the wide valley of the .Mississippi, he esInKtlwltow It iiiu/iU* no ?? l'? ? ???/? i uoa kht y\;i iiiini; virilH'V of somecourt house, still surrounded by the relies ot'tlio forest, 'lie demotes himself carefully to his profession, and at the age of forty, is honored and respected ns the CiiicfJusticc of the State. Hueh, or something like this, is the history of many a Now England farmer's family. Mrs. Aimms* Intuoium'tion to tiih t'oruT of St. Jamv.s. From the new work writteli hytho lady of Ex-President John Adams, we extract the following account of her introduction to (ieorgc tins third, soon after the'war of tlje Revolution: "Congratulate me. my dear sister, it is over, I was too much fatigued to write a line last evening.* At two o'clock we went to the circle which is in the drawing room of the Queen. Wo passed through several apartments, lined as usual with spectators upon these occasions, (ipon entering the antUchnmhcr, the Baron do Lyndon, the ITutyh Minister, a Count Sursfield, a Fscnch \o!)lemaii, with whom I was accapiaited, paid his compliments.? As I passed in the drawing room. Lor.! Carmathen and Sir Clement Cotteral Donncr were presented to me; though tlicy had Ikm:u several tiiM?s here, I had nave/ seen ??fr: them before. The Swedish and the Polish w Ministers made their coniplinicnta and F several other gentlemen; but not a single ol lady did I know until the Countess of j re Etfiinghnm come, who was very civil.? : s? Thero were three young ladies, daughters 1 si of the Marquis of Lothian who were to he I T presented at the same timo, and two ! tu brides. We were placed in a circle round tl the drawing-room, which was very full, I bclcive two hundred persons wore pres- nl cut. Only think of the task! The royal m family have to go round to every person, ! si and lind small talk snough.to speak to all ai of them, though they very prudently speak j n in a whisper, so that only the person who p stands next to yon can hear what is said, u The King enters the room, and goes round to the right; the Queen and the PrinCCsos to the left. The Lord in waiting presents you to the King, and the lady in waiting b does the same to her Majesty. The King ; w i is n personable man, but my dear sister, lie j c has a certain countenance, "w hich you and ! t< I have often remarked; a red face and j ji white eyebrows. The Quern has a sinii-1 r< lar countenance, and the iiutncrous royal family confirm the observation. Persons v are not placed according to. their rank in j w the drawing-room, but proinisoouslv; and ! o ! when the King comes in, In; takes persons i h as they stand. When ho came to me, j tl Lord Onslow said, ''Mrs. Adai'rw," upon i v which I drew off my right hand'glovo, and | tl his Majesty saluted my left check; then I r< asked nnvif I had taken a walk to-day.? j e 1 could have told his Majesty that I had j p been all the morning pr. paring to wait j'1 upon him; but I replied, "No? Sir," '-Why, | h don't you love walking ?" says he. I an- ti swrred, that I was rather indolent in that j t respect. lie then howed, and passed on. j v It was mora than two hours after this he- t z fore it came my turn to be presented to the; j t ! Queen. The circle was so large that the | n j company were four hours standing. The e j Queen was evidently ein!?arasscd when I j l was presented to her. Iliad disagrcnhle i t< j feelings too. S!ic, however sail, "Mrs. j h j Adams, have you got into your house I r , Prav, how do you like the situation of it!" ' u ' Whilst the Princess Royal looked com- \ s I passionate, and asked me if 1 was no! ' t i much fatigued; and observed that it was i .1 I a very full drawing room. I fer sister who ! came ur\t, Princess Augusta, after having j ' asked yonr neieo if she was ever in Mug- ' land before, and her answering 4,Yos,v in- J quired of me how long ago and supposed ( s i it was when she was very young. And all ] h , this is said with great i ff ihilifv, aril the.'"4 'ease and freedom of old acrjuaintance.? j i The manner in which they make their j v I tour round the room, is, first, th<^ (Jircn s the lady in wai'ing behind iier, holding up ! j li'-r train; next to her the Princess Royal: r j after her the Princess Augusta, ami their ' i lady in waiting behind them. They are ' pvoHy, rather than boatifol. well shaped f i with fair complexions, ji:id a tincture of 1 t the King's countenance. The two sisters ! ' look much alike: they \v. re liodi dressed * J in black and silver silk, with a silver belt- i > ing upon the coat, and their heads full of 1 l diamond pins. The Quam: was in purple ' 4 and silver; she is not well s'lap ! nor 1 I handsome. As to the lad:.; of (In* Court * rank and title may cmup jusate f. r want I of personal charms; but thev are i n ?ui. 1 t ......i ........ ;u ..i .a i i... I . , vkii f \;i y |im( i ii ii i*n;iu |l I till I I I \ I'll j 1 don't yon toll any body that I say so.? 1 1 If ore to set: voui must go to t Ranelugh; there ii is collected in one t bright constellation. There were h:ii. two | ladies very elegant, at Court.?I/i !y o'tl- i isburv and LadvTaihoi; lc.it tlm observe - J tion Aid not in general linl 1 good, that ' line leathers make fine birds." j 1 U. S. A RMOKY AT Sl'UiMJflU) M \S.S. ' < There are in the II. States onlv two es- ? tahlislunciits for the nn'iufn"turo of small : i arms owned l?y the (rcnoml (iovernni nt. I ( One of those is at Harper's Kerry, Vn.? ; ! the other at Sprigfi Id. Mas*. \ correspond- < ent of the New York Journal of t'oin- j' ' meree gives some account of the latter. ' | Tiie premises owned by the (Joverit-*| mental Springfield i elude about I Otter es ; of land, divided into two parts; one of 00 ' acres, upon which the Armories and part j I of the work shops an I other public build- I ings are situated; the other of 10 acres, 1 i ! lying on Mile Kivcr, throe quarters of :? ' j mile distant where the factnri s worked by- < \ water power, arc situated. 'I'lio two pur- I j lions arc connected by a street or av.uiuu : | running from one to the odier. Springlicld is silua'r ! o:i the Connect!- ' cut, twenty.six miles from Hartford, n id ' contains six or seven thousand iuba!>it- 1 I ants. Tiie Armory was established there 1 i in ?which event gave the *fi;s? ioi- ' I pulse to the prosjs rity of the p'ace. It is 5 ( healthy and occupies a bead till pos'tion. ' j The number of men eniph yed by lb * s j wovcrnnient is troin '200 |o 270?all of ' : whom arc paid l>y the; p ien, except I'm ' i Superintendent, Master Arnio-in r, I'av ' | Master, lour clerks, ami ni.ir inspectors, 1 who receive salaries. A go.i.l wor!;m 1:1 1 'can earn from forty to sixty dollars per * month, labouring ton ho irsn day. S .me | J of the men employed at this cslahlishm nt j have been (lit re for thirty years tin it 'rpntntion nsgood mechanics living so well " ; e.onfirmod that 11n*ir services could not ' I well be dispensed with. ' ' During the year 1*08 the amount of 1 I expenditure at Springfield was 8:8 1,250- ' I 88, for which the (iovernmeitl mainline- ' I til red 1 "> (t()() muskets with the neeessarv ' appendages, such as screw drivers, wipers 1 hall screws, Ajo. Ivuch musket e?>st about ! ' 811.81. Tlio n port for 1S59 includes'' the work done during throe four'lis of the I year only?a change having been made in ' tiio fiscal arrangoinent of the establish- ' ' men? hv which tin- .. :.u ?-< .. j ?/.?i ? ii'in mm nru- I tcinbcr intftond of Doooinbrr. 1 )iir? ??* * thaf - poriod tlio (iovoriinicnt oxpondituro ' was $1*21 for flu; manufacture of? arniM, 11ml *0,705.31 for flin iiiarliim-ry.? ' Ton thousand imiskois w.-fo ma/lo wi;li the usual appondajjos. A now nio l? of ( oti.vlriH'.tiijjf llio m iskels liud boon adop. i -tod, takon from tin- mo M of 11n* I'Voiioh ^ ?i V *_ capon, although * it *if Stated that the rcnch themselves have gone back to the d plan. The improvement baa been mdered available at our armories by na? 11 oft he greater precision aiid mechanical till with which the pcice is constructed, lie particulars of the new plan are too linutc and technical to be interesting to io general reader. ' Since the establishment of tho! Armory t Springfield in there have been lanufactured there 4117,400 muskets con* sting of 250 000 bright Vxirnished.pcices, nd 184,100 brown; besides which in foricr years a few shot gttn9, carbines and is'ols were made, ami large quantities of luskcts from time to time repaired. .. ' Bait. Amcr. Extraordinary Fraud.?An act has cen brought to light >vhicii is connected ith one of the most iniquitious frauds ver practised in thiscountry in'reference ) elections. The matter is undergoing idicial enquiry, and .we therefore give the [.-port ns it is now current. Our reade'rsarc aware that the hncofoco otc in the city and count}' of Philadelphia as lurgcr, by several thousand, than any ne, even-tlie honest men of that -party, ek-ived it would he; no mail, forJtmtancc, sought that wore as many Van. Jiurnn x oters in this city and county, .by several uiusuiids, as there were Van. Huron votes jceived last Tuesdays and uttcntipn was, onsequentlv, drawn to the naturalization roccedings, to illustrate the subject.? 'iie following discovery, we learn, has een made: In the hook of the proper oficer of the Court, wherein are registered he names and oaths of those eiirigrants . ho declare their intention tp become citiens leaves had heen inserted this year in he record of the year 1H38, and the mines of many jiersons registered as delating their intentions, and the name of he former clerk of the otKoe forged therei>; and the Court having l?een induced to deive that these several entries were cally ma le in rets, graute I the papers of laturuli'/.a ion. This jiigh-handed fraud, > iri viiigut ill - purity of courts uiid elecioiis, lias Ik'.cu I trough i to the notice of udge king, ami will l> carefully sifted. I'/vI. ir. S.'Guz. CfR-ors ('luri'Mvramk ?Last week, . young lad, while walking up the west ido of the Iiiv. r Tuy, a id when a little ?oiow ?Sc me Palace, threw a numltcr of lo.ics at s tine hots s that were, grazing n an euc'its ire at ih<: road side; upon vhieli tiic animals, lit tiie lad's terror, as. enibled together an I exhibited strong denoiisjradons by pawing tlie ground and areeri ig, to attack him. Tliey at length lid so, leaped tho enclosure, aiid the"'In I, laving no mode of escape oXcep' niie, nlopt.sl it, which was crossing the ItiVt?r 10 le "woods."' The horses pursued him, lowever, and lining almost at his hcen* v'len lie landed, Iris only escape lay in a reo, up w liich lie sprung, act till ted |?y 1 error, with wonderful agility. Tiierc lie vas kept prisoner a couple of hours, the lorses gi.i/.iug round the foot of the tree, i:id ocas o luhv casting ominous ktoks at i ..i. ..c . I. some persons came ijowii ho It v? r <1(1(5, upon w hom tin- la ! called. Hid lliro ig.i whos : hi. ans with the q'ssisance o. a p oughmau, the horses were got i :ros.: I Ik Itiver to their enclosure, and ho la '.'s liberation elleetcd. Nctrrwtllr Coiinui Lioiitnino ?A friend states the folowing circumstance as having occurred inder his knowledge, some years ago, in me of the towns of .Massachusetts.- Hev ral men wiio had heen at work in the ield, t< ok refuge from a thunder shower n a covered wagon. A holt of lightning 'ell upon the wagon, tearing a hole 11 trough he top and kit i >g npj a'eiitlv live .man * lirectly under. He was immediately ipoll the ground hy his coiupai^ions( his ireasi made hare, and a stream of water xiurcd incessantly upon the stomach, fiotn inclevuion of live orsix feet. After this ipcr.-uion had heen persevered in for nn liour or tuo, sin.dl signs i,f life'werd ex* liihitetl, and finally the man recovered the use <>f his faculties, though neVnr$o'':jieriee.'.y as before. Scarcely any one rase :;ould ever occur where there> would lie less hope to stiiu;.i'u(c uu cllort. . IIock-Cuvstm. Watcii.?A watch lias heen presented to (lie Academy of s.-ienee at 1'aris principally formed of ocii-erystal. The internal \\vorks ore vishie: the tuo-teethed wheels which carry lie hands a re rock-crystal; t he' other wYieels ire metal, to prevent ticcidciits from the ireaking of the springs. All the screws in lixed i;i rrys'al; ami all tlie nxles turn >:i rallies. Tne eseapeinent is hf sapphire, lie balance wheel of roekavryirtul, and its (prints of gold. The regit tartly of thin >\.iled a^ a liin -keeper is attributed fiy the uaker lo fin- feeble expansion of the rock. :rislaloii the ha la hoc wheel. Annthi r huii'l SljtIf at I'lat/urmrnr.? I In: Iberville (Jazelte of the 17th inst. ia\ s .4 About six ;.r|H-nt.so loveo and some >f the pul lie road ill front of the town of I'iatpiomine, lias been carried u\yay hy a. jollier slide of earth. The slide begun aioi r t uohiindred I eel from the former, one, :o that there will he at least fifteenarpents )f levee to he made to preserve the town iml a great part of the parish on the right ?;mk ol the river from the danger of an ivcrflowing. This second disaster took )l.u:o on Friday last, ami the ground'still ontinues in settle. There now remains >f tiie whole front of the town but a small mint where boats can land, and if that >lides, there will bono steam boat landing inlil high water." . Tlio.smne pa|H:r says, (hocottonorop in bcrville will ha reduced oO percent. T?ie London "P?.? en say* tl?? French aro ^ low building fmirteen 100 gun ships, una i) ) ^Uiis, .uiU : wciiu (ngaius.