Farmers' gazette, and Cheraw advertiser. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1839-1843, November 04, 1840, Image 3
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. 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
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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, ' -.
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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? ??? '?
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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
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'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
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...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
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<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.