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f?%r, he dttermined to let that suffice f?>ra dressing ; and the effect of the highly impregnated water from the yard was a growth of grass truly astonishing. Both fields were kept in pasture, and when the stock had eaten one of them down, they were removed to the other, an 1 so changed regularly about. But the effect of the different crops on the appearance of the stock, horses an 1 cattle, is not to be expressed ; for while feeding on tlic limed land their coats were close, shining, and heultf^, and their spirits light and cheerful, when they were obliged tolaborhard to obtain a belly-full; hut when turned into the watered grass, six inches or more in height, a difference for the worse could he perceived in twenty-four hours, and every day after they lost condition amidst the greatest abundance, with coats rough and staring, lax in the bowels and flaccid, with distended paunches, dejected countenances, and sluggish in their movements. But the transition to health and vigor and good looks was quite as sudden and apparent on a return to the' limed land. My friend adds, ho never had an instance of the murrain or botts, while his stock fed 0:1 these pastures, but is satisfied he should have had both, but for the change to the limed land. In conclusion, I would ask, is it not fair to draw the following deduction from what has been said, namely, that all dairy pastures ought to l?c heavily limed; it being the most natural thing in the world to suppose that a proper secretion of milk, the best and most wholesome, depends very much on the nature of the food with which the animals are fed? Ergo, lime your pastures, and allow your stock as much salt as they will consume daily, for I am | eorfvinced that lime and salt are a remedy for " botts in horses," as well as the " murrain in cattle."?Far. Cub. We have been favored by a highly intelligent and esteemed friend at the South, with the follow- j ing article on the cultivation of one of our southern staple articles. We commend it to the careful perusal of our southern readers. Amer. Agriculturist. On the culture of Rice, from the pen of the late Hugh Rose, Esq. being in answer to queries from I the late William Washington, Esq., both of whom j were most respectable Rice planters in the State of South Carolina. > Query 1. What preparation do you give your land before you begin to plant ? 2. When do you begin to plant ? 3. Do you select your seed, and how do you know ! the best seed ? Do you prefer seed from the North or South, and how often do you change your seed ? 4. How many rows to the task or quarter of an 1 acre ? How many bushels of seed to the acre ? 5. Do you scatter in the trenches, or as it is technically called, string plant ? 6. Do you point-flow ? If so, assign the reasons, j 7. How many times do you hoe before you put on , the water ? 9. If in grass, would you put on the water or not? What do you call a good crop to the acre, or to the hand ? 10. Have you ever ploughed your land while the crop was growing ? or do you object to it, and wliy f ? 11. Do you keep your land dry all the winter, or do you flow it ? 12. Have you ever used salt or brackish water, and what has been the result ? Have you ever used lime on your land, and how do you apply it ? 13. How do you know the best time to cut rice, and what is the task of a laborer in harvest T 14. Is there any peculiarity in your preparation cf rice for market ? 15. Do you ever judge by the roots of the health of your rice ? 16. Have you ever practised a succession or rotation of crops, and if so, which do you most approve of ? Answers as follows in the order in which the above queries are submitted. Query 1. I cultivate inland swamp, of a strong, tenacious blue clay, which I strive to reduce to a good tilth, by ploughing a portion, and always digging what I cannot plow. I harrow twice before planting, in as dry a state as is practicable. 2. My land being cold, I seldom begin to plant be. i fore the first week in April, and never earlier than the 2oth March. 3. With respect to the first question, I reply, that I occasionally change my seed, and procure it from tide swamp, cf light and rich foil, not regarding whether it is north or south of me. I judge of seed by its weight I and being free from grains of white and ' red rice. 4. I plait altogether in half acres, 1.19 feet square ; I and after related experiments, to ascertain I the distance best adapted to my land, 1 have determined in favor of 14 inches, and . sow two bushels of seed to the acre. 5. I ob.erve a medium between the two, and neither sow very broad or narrow. I have never planted on string, as it is termed. 6. Being dependent on reserve water, 1 never have ] had recourse to the point-flowing. j 7. I hoe twice, and do not then water, ur.lcss a j dry state of the land renders it necessary. I | 1 do not advocate for early or long wa- j tering. I do not water beyond ten or J twelve days, until rice is in the second joi it. 8. My reply to the last query will answer this also. 9. There is much grass that flourishes in water, and unless in a very young state, would not be destroyed. The red and white i shank for instance, with other water gras. j If ic q lnrrro iinrhnn nf tlio ornn II HJUIV l?J u luigv ??*#? v. < ? ?- ? |- , grassy, I would have recount to water, us much of the grass would be destroyed. I consider fifty bushels of rice to the acre a fair and good crop ou an average, or ten barrels to the hand. jO. I have ploughed a small portion of my rice, 1 when I planted the distance of IB inches, < but I soon discontinued it, as no material i advantage resulted from it. 1 Jl. 1 kept my land flowed until February, if prac- 1 tioable, for the use of a reserve mill. t 12. I have never used salt or brackish water on 1 my land. I have this year lint d an acre I of rice, at the rate of 22 bushels spread on f the land after ploughing, and harrowed in ? previously to being trenched. I am at t present ignorant of tin result from persona! ? observation, but am m'orme 1 there is f no visible difference in favor of the pari c Jinied. ' 13. When three or four of the lower grains are beginning to turn yellow, is, 1 think, the proper time to begin to cut; and if the rice stands well up to the husk, three-quarters of an acre is a reasonable task in cutting. The tying and carrying to the barn yard must be regulated by distance and other circumstances. 11. I used one of .Mr. Luca's water mills,* without any peculiarity as to preparation. 15. No answer to this query, lti. I have not paid much attention to a systematic rotation of crops ; but doubtless, very beneficial results would reward the agriculturist who did it. Permit me to suggest another query, highly important to the interest of the rice planter, viz ; The most eligible time of turning off the water, previous to the cutting of rice ? Opinions differ much on this subject, and it is a desideratum really worthy of investigation. A. Watson, Esq. one of the best planters in this state, concludes his answers to the foregoing queries thus: 441 will now in a few woids sum up the whole ol the art, which, from my experience, is requisite : fallow your land close in the winter; be industrious ; attend strictly to the hoeing ; pick it clean, and you may always expect a fair crop." He generally averaged ti(J bushels to tho acre. Sou. Agt. Prior to the invention of Strong &. Moody's Patent Rice Mill, rice was cleaned by the pestle and mortar and wrought by hand, or by water, steam or horse power. When cleaned by hand the rice in its wrought or unboiled state is put into a mortar holding about a peck; the pestle is then applied by the hand until the grain is divested ot its outer hull and inner cuticle, after which the flour and small rice may separated from the large by fans and screens, or it may be winnowed. In th s manner rice is sometimes prepared for family use, but never in this country for market. When rice is cleaned for market by pestle and mortar in all our rice-growing States, the following is the process, viz : It is first passed through what is called a sand screen, which removes most of the sand and trash from the rice. From that screen it goes through a pair of Liverpool millstones, so wide apart as only to remove the outer hull; as it comes from these it is carried by elevators to a fan which blows ofF the chaff, (which is the outer hull) It pasess from the fan into mortars, these mortars contain about four bushels each and arc in number from 5 or 6 up to 22, seldom more, according to the work to be done and the power possessed where it is pounded with heavy pestles from one hour and a half to more than two hours, when it is removed from the mortars by band into a place prepared for it, where it has to remain untii the moisture which Ins been produced by the action of the pestle on the rice, is dried. Then it is earricd up by elevators to what is called the rolling screen, which is about 1G feet long, having three different size meshes. Through the first size the Hour passes, through the second, the small rice, through the third, the large or merchantable rice, and over the end of this screen, the head rice.? From that screen, the small and merchantable rice goes into a brushcr, so as to remove the Hour from the grain. Under this brushcr is a fan through which it passes. From this fan it is carried to the barrel, where it is well packed, and completely prepared for market. This mill was invented by a Mr. Lucas an Englishman, and has been in use for many years in our southern States, and has proved of great benefit. Strong & Moody's Patent Rice Mill was invented in the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, about the year 1833. It cleans the rice on an entire now principle from that of the pestle and mortar. This mill, after overcoming the various difficulties which most of new inventions have to contend with, is now in successful operation in Charleston, South Carolina, and various other parts of the world. It is thought bv many who arc able to judge, that it will ere long come into general use. This mill can use all the machinery that is used in a pestle mill, excepting the pestle and mortar. llub!>ors urc substituted for them, made in the form of millstones, from 18 inehes to more than five feet in diameter; the smallest drove by hand, the larger by horse, steam, or water power. Through these the rice after it is hi/lled, is passed, and in its passage, is cleaned in the most perfect manner, is less broken than when pounded with heavy pestles, is cleaned much faster, is more free from grit, and keeps better than by any other mode of cleaning. The reasons for its keeping better in all climates, as it is found to do, (either on the sea or on the land) are caused by a greater degree of heat being produced by the rubbers; which is near 153 degrees in place of 65 or 70 degrees, which is believed to be produced by the pestle and mortar. This degree of heat produced by the rubbers, in a good measure kiln-dries the rice, and at the same time removes the dampness from the flour, so that it can be at once passed through the screen, brushcr and fan into the bnrrcl, when it is ready for market. In this process it is more perfectly divested of the flour (on account of the flour being so well dried by the increased heat the rice receives from passing through the rubbers,) than by any other mode of cleaning, liy this new mode of cleaning, the eye. of the grain is much more effectually removed, which is another great reason for its keeping so well. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. Charleston, S. C. April, 1612. *Thc above were written in the year 1826, before Strong & Moody's Patent Ki^c Mill was in- | vented, which was not until about the year 1833. | I will here add, good rice sells on average for J from 75 to 80 cents per bushel, though this year i it will not exceed from 70 to 75 cents per aver- I age on account of the very large crops made this J pear. From the American Farmer. THE WHITE oa BELGIAN CARr.OT. We noticed last season the success of our fclow-townsinan, Mr. Geo. Law, in raising a crop >f this variety of the Carrot. lTpon that occasion ve spoke favorably of it as a vegetable for (he ta)Ic and as food for stock, and our attention has >ecn again drawn to the subject of their superioriy, by a report of a crop upon the farm of Lord Ducic at Whiteficld, Ireland, which we find in he Irish Farmer''s Gardener's Magazine, mblished in Dublin. The extent of the piece of p-ound in culture was 1 aero 35 perches, from j vhich 64 cart-loads of roots were taken. The ) tverage weight of a carrt.load was found to be 10 j wt. Thlr. gives 32 ton-, as the- total weight of the rop, which is at the rate 03 ton^ 3 envt. or 976 | I 1-G bushels per acre. The soil on which they were | grown is a sandy loam, and the writer observes I that they were the heaviest crop on the farm.? I The seed was sown in the second week in April, j 011 land which had been ploughed 10 inches deep, I on the flat, in rows lfl inches apart. The seed I had been previously mingled witli damp sand for several days, in order to partially sprout it and rcndet it easier of being drillod. The plants were thinned out at a fornight old, G inches asunder in the row, and received only one hand and two horse hoeings, which completed their culturo. The expense of their culture is estimated at only half that of any other root-crop grown on the estate of Lord j Ducie. The ground had been, the previous year, i in Swedish turnips, when it received a dressing of j manure, the carrots, however, were not manured, j The conductor of the Magazine, whcnco wo j have made this abstract, states that the white oarrots generally exceed the red ones in weight, from j 8 to 9 tons per acre. Of the white carrot there . arc two varieties, the best is that which makes a larger portion of its root above ground. In speaking of the acreable product of tho white carrot, Col. L? Coutcur informed the editor that he had grown 33 tons to the acre, which is equal to 1113 2-3 bushels. From what we have seen of this root, the above products do not suprise us; on the contrary, they arc what we cxpeeted from a root of the kind, antf should be gratified to see it introduced into gene rul culture, not only for the purjxasesof the table, but as a provender for milch cows; for of a trulh, ; j we arc solicitous to see these animals better eared I for than they generally are. WATER PROOF GLUE. ! Melt common glue in the smallest posj siblc quantity of water, and add, by drops, I linseed oil that has been rendered drying i by having a small portion of litharge burled in it; the glue being briskly stirred when the < il is added. Glue will resist water, to a considerable extent, by being dissolved in skimmed milk. The addition of a finely levigated chalk, to a solution of common glue in water, j strengthens it, and renders it suitable for j signs, or oiher work that is exposed to the j weather. A glue (or cement) that will hold j against fire or water, may be made bv j mixing and boiling together linseed oil and i quicklime. This mixture must be redu j cod to the consistence of soft putty, and j then spread on tin plates and dried in the j shade, where it will dry very hard. This may afterwards be melted like common glue, and must be used while hot. American Mechanic; Sl'TT AT U ICK~ AND THE IRISH. We acknowledge the receipt of a copy of an Oration, delivered before the Hibernian Provident Society of New Haver,' by \V, E. Robinson, March 17, 1842.?' Prefixed to it is an account of the origin . .>* O and organization of the Society, and of its recent festival in honor of Ireland and its patron Saint. The o-ation is written ; in a style characlcristic of the .writers of' the country which it celebrate.*, and I breathes a spirit of ardent patriotism for j the land of the author's adoption, as well j as for that of his nativity. We offer a copious extract, embracing a portion of history with which we confess we have not | before been acquainted; and presuming that many of our readers arc in a like state of darkness, they will probably he, like us, entertained with this sketch of the honored and reverenced St. Patrick. It is stated that the Irish, under their monarch Nial, made an incursion into i France, captured the city of Tours, and returned to Ireland with two hundred nrisoncrs, who were sold into slavery.? I ' r Among these were, Patrick, then about sixteen years of age, and his two sisters. The orator proceeds;? " Patrick was horn A. D., 3S7, in that part of France which is called Boulogne. Ilia father, Calphurn, supposed by some to he of Roman descent, and by c * I others to be descended trom jowisii captives brought to Rome by Til us*, after the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, held a political office fur some lime, which he afterward abandoned, and having entered into holv orders, became a deacon. If is mother, Conchcssa, was a native of France. His original name was Succath, but when the Pope conferred on him the Patrician order, the title of Patricius supplanted the baptismal name. ' On arriving a captive in Ireland, A. D. 403, Patrick was sold to one IMilclio, living in that part of Ireland now known as Antrim, who appointed the youthful slave as his shepherd. The mountain, ; now called Sliebli Miss, or the Mountain : of the Moon, was (he place ho chose for his meditation and prayer. After seven years' slavery, Patrick returned to the 1 continent,and studied at Tours, about four ' years. Having spent about twenty years 1 J more in study and meditation on lonely 1 islands, and in secluded retreats of piety, ' j he visited Rome, with recommendations from St. German to the Pope. Ireland had still hern before his youthful ima- ' gination. From his own pen we learn that he had thought so much about her, 1 that she was present with him whether ' sleeping or waking; at i in dreams lie 1 saw a messenger, hearing a scroll, on ' o ' o ' which were written the words?" The voice of the Irish." r "Though Paladins had been sent bv c Pope Celestinc to Ireland, and though se- I vcral other Christians had visited, or were I natives of the island ; though Pelagius, ' and his disciple Celstius, who were both Irishmen, had disseminated soine of their "" "I"" ri nwe nmnnrr thr> no/inlo vol C & , Ireland had not renounced Pelngianism. The old Irish j?rovcrh?u Not to Pailadius, 1 lint to Patrick,did (iod ^rant the convcr- 1 sion of Ireland"?shows that Christianity had scarce hccii known, w hen Patrick ar rived in the country. Tho ancient Irish worshipped the Sun, as Bel, whose rites they celebrated in temples hot made with hands, but in the grove of oaks which the great Supreme Being had raised lor his own worship, and covered in his own ricli livery of green, and in whose honor two tires wore kindled in every district on the first of May. The moon, too, under the i name of Re, hud her appropriate worship, ' and on her altar a fire was kindled on the I lirst of November, from which the winter ; hearths of tho people were lighted. Groves and wells, stones and pillars, were consccratod to idols, and in the plain of Magh Sioaeth, or Field of Slaughter, human victims were offered in sacrificing to their groat Crorn Cruagh, who was surrounded | hy twelve lesser idols, representing, most | probably, the twelve signs of the Zodiac. ! The round towers of Ireland, about which so much has been written, but concerning which no antiquarian has given any dofinite account, and which have existed, probably, since the days of Solomon, when Tyre, Egypt, .and Ireland were united through Phoenician commerce, were, pro. bably used in the worship of the god Bel. I for taking observations on tlx; heavenly I bodies, and thus determining the cqtiinoc- ; tial and solstitial times, by which to regulate the recurrence of religious festivals. Incense was offered in high places, on the hills and under the green trees. The Druids were accustomed to light up blazing fires, and after performing im-antations over them, made the herds of cattle to pass through them. ? Put these things, (hough interesting. n ' n ~ must not he dwelt upon here. These dark superstitions, and the reign of idolatry, were doomed to melt away before the Pglitof Christianity. The sun, which the Irish had been accustomed to worship, was seen to yield his honors and glory before a briglier luminary. In bis own simple language, St. Patrick told them that " tlie sun, which we behold, rises daily al the command of Clod for our use ; yet will he never reign, nor shall his splendor endure ; and all those who adore him will descend wretchedly into punishment. Put we believe and adore the true Sun, Christ." The Captive hoy had grown to he a Bishop of the Church of Rome, and thus clothed with apostolic power, he returned to the land of his adoption, A. I). 43*2, hearing the words of. eternal life to a brave and learned, yet still pagan people. i "Patrick first landed near Dublin, hut meeting with much opposition I here, he , re-emharked, and landed in Ulster, in the north of Ireland, near what is now called Strangford. After converting many of j the nothern poodle, and visiting his for- [ mcr master, Milchn, (who obstinately re- ! fused to he converted, and, as some his. n torinns tell us, hearing that his son and . two daughters had forsaken the religion i of their fathers, set fire to his house and j threw himself into the flames,) Patrick 11 visited lite hall of Tarn, where a great j meeting of the princes and hicrarchs of j the nation was assembled. "On the eve of the festival of Eistcr, J I Patrick pitched his tent for the night in 11 the neighborhood of Tara, where the monarch Leogair and the assembled princes were celebrating the rites of their i j sun-worship, and there at night-fall kin- , died the paschal fire. As the law was, < that no fire should he kindled, except by i flinic obtained from the altar of Rjl, | wiiich had not vet been lighted, the king j ' was angry, and the Druids, speaking I with prophetic truth, exclaimed?"This 5 fire, which has now been kindled before i * our eyes, unless extinguished this very!, night, will never be extinguished through- j1 out all time. Moreover, it will tower j, above all the fires of our ancient rites, |j and he who lights it will ere long scatter j ( your kingdom." Indignant as the king | was, he nevertheless consented to hear 11 Patrick preach the following day, and j c dispute with the most leurnrd of the Dru-1 r ids. So convincing were the arguments ! I o n of the apostle, that the arch-poet, Dull- ' s tach, was converted, and the monarch j 1 exclaimed, " It is better to lielievc than ! j1 die." The queen, if not also the mnn- 11 arch, was converted, together with their J f. it ? I two daughters. n was on mis occasion, i w-v n that Patrick, when told by the Druids that the doctrine of the Trinity was ah-1 surd, as three could not exist in one,1 ^ stooped down, and pulling a shamrock, ' which has three leaves on one stem, re. ,, plied, "To prove the reality and possibil- p ity of the existence of the Father, Son, si ;ind Holy Cihost, I have only to pluck up o this liurnhle plant, on which wc have trodden, and convince you that truth can I he attested by the simplest symbol of il- ' lustration." This is the scene with , ivhich the artist lias ornamented one side '* >f your beautiful banner. # J | Aongus, King of Munstcr, sent to Ta- ^ a for Patrick. Ifc accompanied the sj ncssengers to Cashel, and there convert- vv ;il the king, who immediately requested ,.( lie saint to administer the sacrament of w nptisin. Patrick, delighted to bear the j* eqtiesf, fastened the sharp point of his :rosier in the floor, and inadvertently pi lierccd the royal foot. Tiie king, sup- la losing that this was part of the ceretno- ,r iv, bore the pain with becoming fortitude. '): I'hc Irish painter, Barry, the friend of ,r iiirkc, has given one of his master efforts st vv in this subject. j The apostle made a journey into Con- ^ taught, passing through the county Lei rim, where the Plain of Slaughter was j)t ituated, and where the bloody idol Croin- |;l Jtuagh, to which, as of old to Moloch, children were offifrod in sacrifice, was | g worshipped. This idol, wt;h his worship,! r Patrick destroyed, and raised in its stead ! | a Christian church. During the season j I of Lent, he retired to the lofty mountain,! I now known as Crungh Patrick, which r overlooks Clew hay, in the county Mayo. r According to traditionary storv, it was t8 . " I [rorri this hill that St. Patrick, having col-* locted all the venomous creatures togetli- j er drove them into the sea?to which Percival, in the lines which he has writ. ( ten for this celebration, refers:? i ( Ilark ! to the voice that through G'onnaught rc- ( i sounded . i Aloft from her mountains so high and so green? j j It spake?through that gem, by the bright ocean I bounded? I No venomous creature again was seen." ? mm > ,11 I Here, on the heights ot an untrodden ; mountain, the prayers of the pious Pat- : ' rick rose to heaven for his much-loved !4 Ireland. And no wonder that the people, j as they saw scu-fou I and lords of prey at- j tractcd thither hy the strange sight of a ? o a human being in so unfrequented a region, readily believed that evil spirits came j obedient to his will, and that every relic i of poisoned superstition was banished j 1 by him, who could command even (locks * of winced demons to obey. j < ; At great assemblies of the people?at j meetings convened for settling the sue- I cession to any of the thrones of Ireland? j Patrick was ever present. At one of j ^ these assemblies, it is said that the seven j: princes royal who were disputing about j *j the succession to the throne of their do- j ti ceased father, were converted, together 1 t with twelve thousand people, who were ! v ioon afterwards baptized hy hi in. i ^ After visiting almost every part of (Jon- j c naught, he made another journey to IJI- ^ >ter, founded in Derrv and Tyrone the j ( cathedrals ?>f Derry and Cloghaer, passed J .ho river* Bann, at Coleraine, where he ; ' ' errcted a church arid an abbey, and tli^n , ' returned to Armagh, where, pleased with ' the beauty of the rj>< t, ho resolved to \ ' build a great cathedral, splendid above !* all the other churches in the island. The 14 Metropolitan Cathedral of Ireland was 1 here built by Patrick, about the year 44"). j I Since that time, Armagh has been the ' ecclesiastical capital of the island, and | v here, at present, is the seat of the Lord ; ' Primate. ! ' A mono the monasteries, which he foun- I1 ded iri Mcath, Duhlin, Kildare, Carlow, * Armagh, Louth, Longlerd, Antrim, Derry, Tyrone, Roscommon, Sligo, Fermanagh, and almost every other county in Ireland, was one at Lough-Dcrg, in the county Doiu gal, to which he frequently retired in after life, to devote himself cn tirely to fasting, meditation, and prayer. } On this very island, at the present tune, nM the people are accustomed to assemble for ' prayer, fasting, and penanee.ns their great v npostie set them tiie example 1 I centuries ' siiro. I From Armagh. Patrick went to Dublin, ^ where he had before been unsuccessful. * On the evening of his arrival, a son of ? Alphin, the chief of the city, was drowned 1 in the river Lilly. The Lady Alphin, i though a pagan, ran to the; Christian apostle, and, on her knees, implored him to come and pray over her child. Moved by her suffering*, he went with her and knoll by the body of the child, which bad just been taken from the water; and, hnv- c ing touched it with his crosier, which was j ^ called the stdjf of Jesus, it recovered, and j was given to the arms of its weeping j mother. Alphin, his family, and his pen. 'j pie wore converted, and a portion of Innd |j was presented to the saint, as a token of 1 ij rntitude, on which a church was built, M ind which is now the site of St. Patrick's S( r,:i I iir?r!r;i I Dublin. jl Though very successful in his npnstol- j it c mission, Patrick's life was not all a i (| (month current, even in his labors of love j e: or Ireland. On one occasion, while pass- ! Ji ng through what is now called King's | p, :ountv, his charioteer, O.Iran, who had |? earnt the intent ion of a desperate chief j };( ain to attack the saint, and finding no j rc ither wav to save him, under the pretence j a. ?f being sick or fatigued, prevailed upon j hi \atrirk to exchange seats, and so the I th ervant received the lance which was in- i ,\J ended for his master. This, to the cred t of Ireland he it told, is the on'y martyr al n the history of the -ntroduction of Chris- 01 ianity to the island. In his confession, w trick acknowledges that he used to bl aakc presents to the unconverted kings, tt nd to use other means for preventing ' w general persecution. This was his plan |a ur recommending the charitable doctrines e> f the gospel, and it would he well if some ei lodcrn apostles would imitate his exam- I v? l?r, rather than proscribe, persecute, and lander, as is too often the case. On an- j (J tlier occasion, a design was planned for _ iking away Ins life, by a hand of robbers. : s, 'ho chief bandit he not only bufiled in te is designs upon his life, hut actually ' tii rouglit him to profess the Christian re- j n< gion. Patrick imposed upon him as a j th en ince, that he should lake one of the j \\ ail curraghs or leathern boats, and with ; y{ o clothing, saving a coarse garment, an iou!d trust himself to the waves and iuds fitr his safety. The penitent obey, to d, and was carried to the Isle of Man, jj here ho was afterwards bishop of the m land. oc A British prince, named Coroticus, who w; rofesscd to he a Christian, invaded Ire- a nd, and plundered the people of a dis- ar ict in Munster, where Patrick had been ra . ..I .... t ho /! ? tf K/?f' _ viuj i/uiwi v? kj'mnu w\;i u ? jjj] lurdercd, nnd some taken prisoner and | th *ld to the Pielish chiefs, who were then en urring against England. Patrick, in a j * Iter to this pirate, which, besides his ru m Cession, is the only piece of his writi" now extant, denounced him as a rob- in tt and a murderer, and, as bishop of Ire- I m; rid, declares him to he excommunicated. m< Dumig liic lunuitulcr ol Ins life, the I 01 *ood Patrick visited tlie several churches' ind encouraged learning among the pco. ?lc. It is said that he wrote with his own land three hundred copies of the alpha>ct. After a long life of piety, usefulness md fame, the saint of Ireland sank to est, at the age of seventy-eight, or as some say, at the age of one hundred and wenty, revered by nil who knew him.? Where darkness had been till thostarof lis advent appeared, his light went out icaccfully, and blended with the glory of 'lie gospel sun. No pomp heralded his ;oming ; no mailed armies guarded his King bed: l?Ht the hosts of heaven wcro mnt on their wings of light, to hear the laint to his place of rest ; and as they lore him with songs of praise over the leecy drapery of heaven, the sounds of ingelic praises sung to his name, have >cen caught from heaven, and re-echoed >om earth,and still live fresh and undying unong a warm-hearted and grateful pco>le. In Downpatrick, near the place . ? i i L _i L:_ .vMere lie (ended his snecp in slavery, ins ishvs now repose. 44 In Down three saints one grave do fill, Patrick, Bridget, and Coluinb Kille.** Here his sainted hones rested, nml here ?vere his shrine and the offerings of piety vhieh adorned if, till the Protestant religion was introduced hy Henry VIH, when he venerable relics, including the crosier ?r stnirof Jesus, hy which, it m said, he icrformod his miracles, were .destroyed, t is revolting to look upon the means villi which the political and religious subugation of Ireland has been attempted. The annals of her fame and glory were aimed by the Vandals of Henry If.; and he venerated memorials of her religion vere destroyed hy the (Joths of Ilcnry rill. But the same barbarous policy a used the destruction of the records of iVclsh,and Scottish literature, as well as if Irish learning, that tyrants might subugate n people by removing from their nitids the memory of their former greatless. The 17th of March, you know, is St. Patrick's day. It is the day of his death indcnnotiizalion. On the 17th of March, 105. he died. 11 is funeral ohstrrpiie* lased for a long time. Hvcry bishop and iriest wished to assist in the holy ceremo lies; and so the rites were continued without intcrrii|ition. The torches kept turning, dispelled the darkness of the light, and made the whole time ono perictunl day. EXTKAUK DIX A It Y Si'OKTJNG INCIDENT. ClIARLKSTOX, S. C. Oct. 26, 1842. 44 Death h itii not struck so ful a deer to-day, Embowcll'd will I see tliec hy and hy." Deak Sir : ? I have frequently read in our interesting journal, sj tor ting incidents f an cxt 'aordumry nature, hut as I havo lever met with any thing on record :noro wonderful, or more hard to he believed, linn one that has just been related to me, am i idueed to send it to you I or the prolahle marvel o{ yourself antJ'VAiders.? )on't impeach my credibility, however ; or I nssure you the story tomes from hose who are the soul of honor and verarity. As Horatio says to Hamlet? 44 .Season your admiration for a while with an a I tent car; till I may deliver Upon the witness of these gentlemen, This marvel to you." On Friday last, October 21, Col Furi us on, and Mr. John IF Hanokreiklo, if St. John's 1'arish, Her k ley, in this Jlatc, hunting in that i'arish, put (he dogs rito a small drive, near Mack Tom Hay. ^ I'hcy soon jumped a tine doe. Oneof the oys !hat was driving heard a tussclinthe ushe*. in the direction where the dogs rere giving tongue, inn few minutes, eeing the deer coming out of the drive, te boy tired. He supposed he had killed ic deer, for it ran only a few paces and ion dropped. On going up to it, and camming it, to his great surprise he could iscern no shot in ii, hut t/uit it iras comJelely emboirclled. He sw ung it on his ursc, however, and having sounded his orn Col. Ferguson and Mr. Dangeifield ? e up. On the formei expressing some itonishment at the expedition (he fellow ' ' -- - -l. - I l_ _ C id manilestciJ in removing me uowcis ui ie deer, he very coolv replied, '* Why, lassa, he never been liab any !" The circumstance being explained as )ove related, Col. Ferguson put the dogs n the scent, and trailed hack to the spot hence the deer was started. Trading tho lood hack about 200 yards, they came to ie bed where the doe had been I) ing, hen jumped by the dogs,, apd near it, a rge sharp siuig, which, in her alarm to cape, it was very evident, it was very ridenl from certain signs that could not ;ry well he mistaken, she must have niped upon and ripped herself open.? n the snag a quantity of hair was found -the stomach was directly under tho iag, and the rest of the entrails about n steps from the snag. The deer at tho me she dropped and was picked up, had ntliing in her but her heart and liver, so at she must have run some distanco ithout stomach and bowels?about 200 lrds, that being the distance from tho iag to where she fell. 1 related the above incident yesterday a gentleman of this city, Mr. John appoldt, an excellent shot, who assured e, that something of a similar character :currcd to him a few weeks ago. Ho asnmusing hirnsell by shooting rata wm? ri(It;, lie lired at a very large fellow, id thought he had missed him, for he n twenty yards helorc he fell. On ex. [lining he found that he had bored him rough, and that his heart and liver, drivi out by the ball, were sticking against wall by the side of which the rat had n. In speaking of Mr. Happoldt, puts mo mind to supply an omission in one of V former letters to yoj. The Pistols i mlioiied as used by the " Robin Hood uh," ul this city, \vetc made by hiiu.?