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The experiments of Boussingault hnve bet ns we have seen, elsewliere .more :ltigularly referred to; but are better ribed in what follows rron J.hnston. Ior ,recent trials of' the vale of in fatteni1g she,(as find of sal as -rnid cattle,) were also particularly do. 44116 -16a late nuinber of the Iondon i cultual Gngocin wiih we setit awaiv to ?,n Csteetnmd frienid jiear Asheville, N. i both easos the, animals were weigh. htl beforoethe trial commenced and after Wen slaughtered.--Their rood, too wits ame precisely whlere 1"to Sait wY. iand where it was not; atud with Jbtvo~cuttle and sheep the salt proi d to. b%) per u u The fol6widg nre the obscrvutions of. Tfrpr Johnston: I. tnwn that wild animals are fond aIt, and in some countries eagerly fre Pe i salt-licks fur the purpose of obtain,' ,1- t.-=ur doe?De pinuals also pre known ito relish it; ind Its the constituents J, Vr IonaSalt are always prese'nt in the 'Ii'~t 0the animal body', it is believed b1 nnny to be absolitely necessary, and y niure to be useful, in promoting the he alti of th stock to which it is givel. it the ojInion of ione, also, that it JltsiR ptual feetling or fatteiing tenlen -y-nuking the saic amoitit of lim)0d 'go fuibuter in sustaining the life of the atnitni , oil.hiadding to its wcight. Tlat it haS apy such direct tendency, however, is ren dered very doubtful by the f-estlt of-some recent.eaiporinqcnta by Boussingault. Ile selocted a numher of ieifers, divided, tibm into two lotr, aid fed themi respuc. ti*ely for forty-four daya (n tite samte q'uIntity of food, giving to the one lot a' lidy allowance of sai, ati to the other none. At the end of the time both IoWt hadl increased in livo-weigltt, and were ap nrently in equal health. It does not appear, therefore, thnt in pU circumstances common .snlt is likelv to add to the nutritive vaine of tle food (vith which it is mixed. Tiere may be cir ctimstances, however, in whicl the useof salt may cause animals to increase more rapidly in weight; and in referenice to this ponf.'i.hre are several elreumtistan~es ivhich rloserve the consideration of the practical-nian. i .1st.~ When animals are fattentitng it i oneet of great consequence to id uce them to'consume a large quargity of food in a limitcd period of time.- Thte addition of pathas the effect of giving a relish to the fso da to awakena and appetite ip ait otjur.iin apparently sattiatedi beast. It is thus~1idu~ed to cat, and to perform upon itsl,though in a less degree, the opera. ;ion ofoetamming, b~y which poultrfy are so quickly fattened. 2d. When hay or othter similar food beeomes musty and offensive to eattle., a 8pfinkllinig of salt often removes thteir dis. .Iikpetdinduces thmem @p eat what they otherwvise reject. The same food may in this-.way~ also be made to go farther. 3d.'Vhen salt is given to cattle they req ord inclined to drintk-min realit y they -afidk much more water than when iiosalt ~Iveni. In some cases thus may bo an #dyggptage, especially whcn the water con. * ains any ingredients by which th~e lIealth of the stopk is likely to be promoted. But the thirst produced by the salt is often made to act in another way. To cattle tied up to fatten a lump of' salt is presen ted,'of wvh ich, by constant licking, they pgotsJfme a large quantity. flat no water ik-gIvun them and they are, therefore, Briian by way of slaking their thirst to ponsume a greater weight of the watery turnp. In this way, again, the process of priimmidig le promojed and a speedier >Ath;,Lnstly,-though in the experi mptoBousimgault the use of salt added t~b~~he comparative weight, it may ~arnb~eht ith other kinds of food, and '~It~r6s"'aided in othe~r localities. Thus Ib W'it a'd that a certain quanti ~1t~I. oeasary to thoshealthy condi jiT t'nimtl. Trhis saalt t obtains vrfhits Iod or fromn Its drink. Bq.t the kuintity of salt ith'e food varies with the It p(il o r m a -g r boft u nq it la~ i n s r oe .-.r crop' may bund itti u ;I 'r'ea d 1'Y.to--6u'p'I aly ki it"'tise.-fo n .1 yhicl 1,t is -given riiay !q.uireadf ilh condrary is the case.th additIod 'of 4I t may be necessary tothe peretlii elth f the iiminiaiind- therofore to its o:ofili'leb nourishniprkitldgowth. The water agai of ir .springs an' rives' which:always cottairksalt is rp or less rich in this substance according as the soil or rock through.'whidh if' flows is so, or. according as it is near- or remote froni the sea. Thus .iri ndfne districts what the rood does not, asp' j the drin may make up, while i % era Wtifood and drink n'iay leave a de6ieny, 'yhjh the practiqg farmer may. (nd A, idvyaiita geo~ts- and profiabke to supply. Though not directly fal ning, sAtlt inay, iri uch cases, by promoting or maintaining the. lialth of an animal, actually tend to more rapid increase of its weight. rmers hibra-,y. 'I\. MAKE A EWE ADOPT A STRANGE LAz1--DETERIONATION OF 'DOMESTIc A NIMBALS IN AMIERICA.--The usual prac tice is, when a ewe loses her lamb, to place its skin on the laMb* whieh 'it is do . sired she sliall nurse in place of it. This is usually attended with success, but, says the auth6r of a Prize Essay on Sheep, in casje of-diflicultyr a little giin rlkbed upon the skin of the }amh [meaning, it is pro. sumed.), the skin of the lamb to be foisted on her in place of her own] and nose of the owe, at once efTects the desired ob'cct. This expedient is so easily adopited that it was thought best to give a place in The Farmer's Library.-We take the opUus. ion to say that we believe American Far mers generally have no idea of the great and unwearied care taken in pngland by breider.q of i mproved stoe of piery sort, to keep it up toi Ihe mark of highest excel. 1itee. Those who are aware of it cense to wonder at the deterioration which gen. erally ensues atier a few generat~ons.-in this count ry. with stock from highpriped imported anerstors. We have not the practiced skill in breVding por the lati tude nf phnice whivh arc necessary for the selection of breeders. ing aill thut has been said and w ritten showing that fresh manuire iiniediately applied to the land, or such as is preserv. ed in tanks or uder cover, or by a inix ture with straw or earth, is at least fiur times the value of that left in the barn vand all simnimer expose-d to sun and rain, wasting its richiess in the air and dr.ench. irg its fertilizing slidts away; yet iny hirmcrs still belierv. or ac; upon .he prin. ciple of belief that manure is like cider, growing better with age; and thus their dung is safly kept in the yard till Au gust or Septemiber, a great nuisance to all around, and a sad toss to the growing crops. \Ve are well aware that rotted manure is considered indispen usable Ihr certain crops, and therefore many say they prt fer to sustain the loss of its rot ting to the inconvenience ofusingr it in an unfirmented state. Let those who thus thinuk co1sSider that when manaure has he. come rotted it is then mere humus or veg enable matter, such as decomposed leaves of trees, straw, hay, corn-stalks, muck, turf, peat, rnd and ditchascrapings, which may be hand on every fharm 'o answer the same piurp~ose as rottd manure'. Hlow many farmers let all theso substances go to waste, thus subjecting thiemuselves to a donahle loss--a de'preciat ion in the value of their manure, and a neglect of the veg etable mattcrs on their premises and a. round them. A HINT TO THIOSE Wilo WAsTE MA. xea.--A little book "On Manures," re eently published in French, concludes with thd folowngsnsble maxim: '"The scarcity of manures is the cauqe of the sterility of a count ry, and it is useless to improvo the mechanical metthods of oul, ture if we neglect this sourpe ofurtility." In Flmnders it is commonly heiinyed that the first crop exhausts one-half of the ma nure.-Comaptesr rendu a l' Academie. 1iscellautIonls. Origin of thec Marsail/ais Ilymn.-The following ace unt of the National H~yrnn of the French is from Lamartine's his tory of the Girondins: The Marseillaise retains the echo of a spng of victory and also of a cry of death; it is glorious as one, dismal as the other. [Hore is its origin: There was at that time (1792) a young artillery officer in garrison at Sti-ashourg. His name wans Roujet dea Lisle. He was born at Louis-le-Saulnicr, in the Jura, a country of meditation and energy, as are all mountain districts. This young man loved wvar as a soldier, and the Revolution as a thinker; he beguiled by verses and music the weary impatience of the garri son. Much sought after for his dopble talent of' musician and poet, he frequented familiarly the house of Dietrech, the Mayor of Strasbourg and a patriot A lsati an. IQietrep!'Q wvife and daughtera par. tpok in his enthusiasm for patriotism and the Revolution. They joyed the yoppg office'r; they gave miration to kis heort a U, r husi pi 0 e Ore. ig As, only garri 11.son- ;mokeitkhan Sa --at Do Lis ~ 74Ml. said: ane i.at ou 6 t)jhdre. be no luel v o feiivals, -or o oatir soldiers! ine in my cel id ho to one o sdr-nk It to liber trsbourg wil r Atriptip cerenc I emust find in ts drop oe 0..lose. ymns which carry into th soul of thoepeoplo that intoxication- fron W hi ch it h)a.9 spru.ng!" The yoting girs applauded hi-s words brought the wineI and'filled the glasses teir old father and the young office utifi the itquor. was exhausted; It wa *midnight; the hight wvas cold. Do LisI vay a d.teaner; is het, wagaffeces; bi head 'vasheated.'-The cold seized upoi him; With unsteady stps he entered hi solitary chambcr. He slowly sought i spiration, now in the beating of his cii Zen heart, now on the key of his piano now composing the air before the wordf Row tho Ivords before the air; aipd in sue a mannera pipting them in' his thoughu that hecould not himself say which wa created first, music or verse, until it wa impossible to separate the poetry from th expression. ie sang. all, wrote nothinig Overpowered by this sublime inspira tion,.ho fell aWleep with his head oi thi piano, and-did'not awake till day. Thi song bfthe night returned to his niemor1 with difficulty, like tho. impression a some dream. le wrote down words ani music, and hastcned to Dictrech. i found him in his garden digging up win ter let (ices.--The old patriot's wife an Aurighters had not yet rison. Dimtreel awoke thie, and sent For some frienda lik( himrelf, pns.idnately fund of music and capable-of perfor#rning it. lRouje sung, -iet ree lt dea.t daughter accom panied him- At the first stanza, a1l thei countenances grew pale; at the second tears flowed; at thie last stainza, th wild iess ofenthiusiasm burst forth. Di:trech' wife and duughters, the old man himself his friends, the young oflicer, threw then ,elves wee ping into each other's arms The hymn of the country was founad But, alas! it was also destined to be thi hymn of terror. Unforiunate Dietreeh a few months later, walked to the scaflblb to. the soupd oif those very notes which ha spriung forth at his hearth from the hecar of his friel and the yoices of his daugh hie new song, performed several day uflerwards nt Strasbourg, flew from towi to town, to all the popular orchestras. Thi Marseillais spread it through France 61 singing it on their way to Parij. Frors this came the name of Marsei/laise. The old nother of )e Lisle, a royalist terrifiLed at the velio of her son's voic wrote to him, "'What is this revolution anry hynn whieb is sung by a horde o brigands travelling France, and will which thy name is associated?" Di Lisle himisclf, proscribed as a royalist shuddered ashe hetard it resound in hi caong a enc of death, when flyini aogthe path-ways of the high Alpas. 'What .do they call this hymin?' de mianded hecof his guide. Thc Marsci/laise,' replied the peasant It was~ thus that lie learned the nuame c his own work. lHe wvas pursued by thi enthusiasm which lie had sown behin< him, lie escaped dleath with dliflicumlty TVhe weeapon t urns~ against the hanid w hici lias forged it. The Revolution mn it mladness no longer recogniiz( d her ow voice!" The other (lay, an amaialde liadv not fa1 off, was readinag'an account of a irial in case of horrid niurder. A t the canely sion, she fhund the followipg: 'P. S. We stop the press to say thz the jury was hunig, and the prisonier rc mnainedl for another trial." "Good gracious," staid the amiable oli lady, "what wnere the jnry hung fi Why didni't they hang that bloody mnidec prisoner?" " Why, m adam," observed wnaggish person standing by, 'you mut observe thuat the court didn't hang the jp ry; they hung themselycs.' "La, me replied the old lady, "how shocking, hiave heard that there were men wh would hang themselves if you give then rope enough; but I didn't surppose yoi cotuld find twelvo men who would do it t once, no how. Arkansas Intelligencer. THEs GnRLS.-Not long since a mat rlage wnas to ho celebrated in the villag, church. The minister after making very eloquent and touching discourse o1 the duties and rights of those wvho wner, about to be united, suddenly exclaimed "Those wnho wish to be married will pleasi rise!" and immediately a fter, there shc up, above the seated multitude, the Ieadi handqermi and othorwise, of a crowd c young girls, whg had understood the re mark which was addrcaneato the contra . i.9 Wei(Qestrotp, to i~ :1.~~fp F state o ingl e Bath {M j 'Mune. STATISTICS OF LABOR. Thebetter :t9,illustrate the, bie~fits aria. ing from "eivl'and rbligious liberty." we pub. lish the following, clipped some time .back from and old paper. It *ill.. teach content inent, and furnish at home for the next polit. ical speaker. I In England the reward of the laboring man varies. The stocking weavesrs ef'110t fingham work from 14 to 16 hours per day, r an receive from four to five shillings ster ling per week. Of coursethey can indulge in no luxuries, and are compelled to subsist almost exclusively on bread and water, or on.potatoes and salt. -.lJkIreland, the average wages of a day r liborer, ranges from nine an a half to eleven cents per day. The food of these oppressed beings is principally milk and potatoes, vart. o.d occasionally, as one of them touchingly s remarks, by "potatoes and milk." In Aiustria the land is held principally by the aristocracy. The peasants are compelled 1 to labour for the landed proprietors exeept on the, Sabbath. Bondage-, the most stulti fying, is the condition or the poor. In Hungary the land,'as Austria, is own r od by the nobles. Laborers are compellod, to keep in repair all t1e bridges and 'high ways, are liable at all times to have the soldiers quartered upon them; and compelled to.dacimate the produce of their scanty til. lage to the church, and one ninth to the: lord q of whom they hold. In Sweden, the law regulates the dress of . the laborer. The food of this class consists of hard bread, dried fish, without gruel, apd . without meat. Truly here, "Hard is the fate 'of the laboring poor." The.. Scotch are comparatively a favored 9 people; yet among them, not to enumerate s many other vexations, meat 'is, except on s Sundays. an unusual luxury. e In Poland cabbage and potatoes supply the food of the ordinary workme'n. 'Poverty amoi this class is -universa). Sometimes thougl by no means commonly, they partake of' black bread and soup, or butter or meat. One who had traveled extensively in this country, and was a close observer of things C remarks: i "I have journoyed in every direction, and have never seen a wheaten loaf to the east ward of the Rhine, in any part of Northern Germany, Polaid or Denmark." In Nor'way, the ordinary food of the labor. ing classes ii bread and gruel. 'These are prepared from oat meal, with a mixture of dricd fish occasionally. ~Meat is rarely seen on the tables of the peasantry, and is regard. . ed aq a luxury. In France; it is said that seven and a half millions of the population never eat wheat or wheaten bread! Their subsistence is chiefly buckwheat, and chestnuts, rye, barley and a few potatoes. The wages paid to a common day laborer in France, amount annually to - about 837 5Q for male, and 818 75 for a female. And yet wyith all this, the taxes up - on tmm ampunt to nearly or quite one fifth the neet product of their year's toil. In Denmark, the condition of the under classes is that of bondage. Their state is emphatically that of the ancient predial slaves during the feudal ages, and they are bought and sold with the soil on which they labor and pass their lives. In Russia the condition of the peasantry g or laboring classes, is even more complete and humilating than in Denmark. All the land is in possession of the nobles, and with it are transferred the inhabitants whenever it is sold. A traveller remarks that a great majority of the laborers,"Have only cottage, one por tion of which is occupied by the family, the other appropriated to domestic animals. Few if any, have beds-but sleep upon bare r boards. or upon parts of immense stoves by which their house are warmed. Their food consists of black bread, cabbage, and other vegetables, without the addition of butter." FRENCH DECREES. "Thme provisional government of the Re puphie, desiring to remit as soon as possible to a definitive government the powveir which -it exercises on behalf and by the command of f the people, deacres: "Art.' 1. TVhe electoral assemblies of can I tons are convoked for the 9th April next1 to .elect representatives of the people to the National Assembly, which is to decree the Constitution. sio "Art. 2. The electon shall be on the basis fpopulation. "Art. 3. The total number of representa ives of the people shall be nine hundred, in r cluding Algeria and the French Colonies. 1 "A rt. 4I. they shall be devidedl between the .dep mtnments in the proportion set'foth in time following table. t"Art. 5. The aufl'rage sh~all be direct and -universal. "Art. 6. All Frenchmen aged twenty-one years, resident in the comm'une for six months, .1 and not deprived of or suspended from the ? exercise of civic rights by a judicial decisidr, I are electors. *"Art. 7. All Frenchmen aged twenty-five t years, and not deprived of or suspended from the exorcise of civic rights are qualified to be elected representatives. "Art. 8. The ballot shall be secret. I"Art. 0. All the electors shall vote at the a chief place of their cantons, by ballotting i lists. Each list shall contain as many names as there are representatives to be elected in t the department. "The examination of the votes shall take place at the chief place in the canton, and the declaration of thenm at the chief town of the department. No person can be nomina ted a representative of the people if ho have 'not 20,00 votes. "Art. 10. Each representative of thte po, 1 pie shall receive an indemnity of 25 fr. a-day 1 for the duration of the session. a "A rt.11i. An instruction of the Provislona) :Government shall regulate the details of the , execution of the present decree. t"Art. 12. The National Constltuent As.. sembly shall open on the 20th April. I'PArt. 13. T1he present decree shall be im, O mediately sent to all the departmeunts, aiid publishedand placarded in~ allthe communts! - fteReulc "DoPe at Pa.s 1.'-go' 9 in - a nnqra o tV ; F ROM.YQUig igK PsNDVtLr,t Fdbiuary th@ K 1f4 MUrsva EDITERS Deer. Sli noshtin of' troujilin you for ", ,. on., siderable time, but ,kenttp s th e islutur, and didh'tgit awax.from t l it moved siny dye..,- Andarr Jgot hone thp boys. a#y. gis kept-.artqrra - 'to tel 'em. about how they does things up in the city of' Nashville, until I almostfeigogiiy promis sayou. Since I writ to you, wo've been a mo& tickled tow deth with fun out herein. Pedeville. Dud's moved into a nop houlse, and one of old Simms galls isgot married,' and Cousin Jake's gwine to the afmyr-he. sez; but I believe he's only- tryin tangit some o' the girls to ax him to stay. We had somethin of a time here while Christ mus lasted, and- as soon as that went out 9. fashun, Leap Year pop'd in, and we'vei had some o' the interestinest jollyficasl.. uns you've heern ef- since the last leap. .ycar. A-Monday, the 2A of- heap-year, 'tile galls of Peedeville met over to Mr. Simmes, and congratvlated therselves 'n the privilege o' nnkii love to, the boys, and a day or two arter that they gin the ginuinest spree that was ever danced in, Perleeville; and what was the* best of It, the boys was took thar by the galls. Misa Sally'Simms was thar, lookinad titiful as a whole lump o' sweet things hitewash. ed with loaf sugar! I'll be odrapt if her eyes did'nt make me feel like I was mel tin to pieces like silver dew drops slidin out o''the reach o' the sun! Arter we alf got thar, and was strewed round tergeth. er, the head boss o' the occashun, Jerry Peters, he riz, and sez he "Ladies and gentlemen, set ho, well introduce somethin new." And then. the galls and boys was de ranged over tha room in couples, and if we didn't kick up 'some purnpkins,' 0, Joshua, assist me to sneeze! We all.got twisted in each other's necks, and sich kir. sin, and huggin, apd hollerin! it was enuff to make a feller wish fer it to last al. ways! "The Lors a mercy!" sez old Misses Simms, 'Iwhat upoa the yeath does the. youpg folks nean by sich ondecent Ca pers,' and I thort slie'd a tore her new apernocleani up. "0, we'sonly playing inercently," sez ''Thry didn't have no sich parryins on as that in my young days,' enntinued the old lady; .'if a fellet kig'd a girl then,.. they us4vine toget married.' "You don't knqw hut some of us is," replied Miss Julia Peters; and they all busted into the loudest kind o' larfin. When that was over, somethirplse wes1 got up; the galls and boys was-allkrung round agin, and had therseln. niiMner4 ed. .erry got a big plat td 1 hizself in the middle o thei,' ri 6 et the galls, sez he "When I turns this roiwnd, call out one o' your nirabers, andif you k.tches it before it falls you won't1a'ptopay tn pawns-ef you don't, youi.i-ll aind- " "Let 'er rip, Jerry!" said Cousin Jake, 'we'll have it now." "-Whiz!" went the plate as. Jeryh lered out 'number three.' Round he kept widrlin it and callin The numbers till he got-his hat full of pawns, and sez lie tq Jake, sez he "Now comes yo.ur time; git ready to run!"' .'always that!" said Jake with a smile. "Whiz!" Jerry sent the. p late, and hol lerin out Jakce's number. Up he jumped1 and maikin a lunge to get the plate afore it fell, his heels slipp'd uperds over hin head so high that he couldn't stop till he whirled clear roundl and fell oue o' the or fullest bouncers that ever--busted a pair o' britches clear across thre s-straps. With that Jake riz, anid getherin on to his britches, he come up missin wvhen the boys arnd galls got to redeemin theip pawvns. I hain't got time to rite no more now. ll write agin afgre shgrt. You rd till then, P. 8.-1 didn't send you ihis to publissh. If you print it, you and Jako for il-I aint responsible, no way. Tennessec 'lagrapgha, aftss CLRoy FoRM--"I say, Bill ,Sim son," says Pete Gumbo, Saturday eve ning, "dloes you feel like glaminadin wid do lads di:s ebenin 7" "Gosh, Pete, de 'lumrination ob your mnin4 is gittin above die nigga's instigation. Whq ., is to hab do oberjoyous fecility ob do nigga's "Ya t ya I ya I how do nigga talks. If you's no consquen.hu. intrusion., we'll grae do colored society oh Mliss Clory Fein, di; ehening !" "Miss who is dat, Pete ? I'be heerd oh her in de papers. Ya I ya I ya ! Isda she !"- *n otindakeand do nigg op breff asouiweet, it puts 'em fat aueaforq doy kriqwswhar dey is~( "GoshPate plese t lef do coagplets~ monts oh die nigga's presene before do Ih~b ll obectob e 'saon, and dat I IQWS to fro dshr aa o0 her: most in relous and conuaquious confidelity l"-a~et C I A western editor oommette 91 .. exhortation to bachelors wit- the ltp. lag worda. 't~ me, you poorrqitj .. .-c. . ' lonely, deMl, vulgar frat~~~' of animat risht, come up heto and bae talk to."