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Iatr"nregc Rusnr, is a travelling Agent for this paper, and is authorized to receive subscriptions and receipt for toe same. [From Arthur's Home Gazuet.j Recollections and Anecdotes of the Presidents of the United States. BY ARTIltIR JOS. STANSUURY. Washington hie Address to Con gress when Elected for the last tbne. Bit I once had an opportunity far more favorable, of beholding this greatest of men, under circumstances the best possible, for exhibiting him to the fullest advantage. It was a privilege which could happen but one to any man; and ,I esteem the hour when I enjoyed it, as one of the brightest moments I was ever permitted to know. Its remem brance yet glows vividly on my mind: ~ea ovanot dimmed it: the .wole. en ii before ume: a d ed ca ecatld it ,to reinembrance. Yes, it was my favored lot to see and hear President Washington ad. dress the. Congress of the United, Sthes, when eleted for the last 'ier-of men now living, how few 'au say the same. I was but a school boy at the time, and had followed one of the many groups of people, who, from all quar ters, were making their way to the Hall in Chesnut street, at the corner of Fifth, where the two Houses of Congress then held their sit tings, and where they were that day to be ad dressed by the President, on the opening of his second term of office. Boys can often manage to work their way through a crowd better than men can: at-all events, it so happen ed that I succeeded in reaching the steps of the Hall, from which eleva tion looking in every direction, I could see nathing but human heads: a vast fluctuating sea, sway ing to and fro, and filling every accessible place which commanded even a distinct view of the building. TIhey had con gregated, rnot with the hope of get. tinig into the Hall, for that was phy ..sically impossible, but that they might see Washington. Many an anxious look was cast in the direc tion from which lie was expected to come, 'till at length, true to the ap pointed hour, (he was thec most pune tual ofhmen,) an agitation was ob servable on the outskirts of the crowd, which gradually opened and gave space for the approach of ana elegant white coa::h, drawn by six superb white horses, having~ on its four sides, beautiful dlesignis of the four seasons, painted by Cipriani. It slowly made its way, till it dr-ew up imnaediately in front of the I lalL Thle rush was now tremendous. But as the coach door- opened, therec is sued fromt it two gentlemen, with long wvhite wands, who, wiha sonme <lirieculty. partedl the people, so as to . open a passage from the carriage to theo steps5, on which the fortunate schaool-boy had achiieved a footinig, and whence the whole proceeding could be distinctly seen. As the person of the Presidlent emerged fr-omn the carriage, a .universal shout moent the air, and contined, as he ye r-y deliberately asendaed the steps. O)n reaching the platform, hie paused, looking back on thae carriage, thus affor'ding~ to the anxiety of theo peo pie, thaginluigenice they desir-ed, of taeasting their eyes ,uponu his per~s .n. Never dida a mnrre ajesuie piersonage piresenit knuself to the public ganz.. Het was within I wo feet of me: I c'ould have tiouch':~d his eilahs: but I shaould as soon have thought of touching an electric battery. Boy, as I was, I felt as in the presence of a divinity. As he turned to enter the Hall, the gentlemen with the white wands, pre ceded him, and with still greater diffi culty than before, repressed the peo pIe, and cleared a way to the great staircase. As he ascended I ascend., ed with him, step by step, creeping close to the wall, and algost hidden by the skirts of his coat. Nobody looked at me: everybody was looking at him; and thus I was permitted, unnoticed, to glide along, and happi ly to make my way (where so many were vainly longing and struggling to enter.) into the lobby of the cham ber of the I-louse of Representatives. Once in, I was safe; for had I even been seen by the officers in attend ance, it would have been impossible to get me out again. I saw near me a large pyramidal stove, which, for tunately, had but little fire in it, and on which, I forthwith clambered, un til I-had attained a secure perch, from Which every part of the Hall could be deliberately and distinctly surveyed. Depend upon it, I made use of my eyes. On either side of the broad aisle that was left vacant in the centre, were assembled the two Houses of Congress. As the President enter ed, all rose, and :erained standing till he had ascended the steps at the utpper end of the chamber, and taken his seat in the Speaker's chair. It was ap impressive moment. Not withstanding that the spacious apart ment, floor, lobby, galleries and all approaches, were crowded, to their utmost capacity, not a sound was heard; the silence of expectation was unbroken and profound; every breath seemed suspended. He was dressed in a full suit of the richestC black o'tvYelvet;_ 3i$ n and blaclk silk stockings. His shoes, which were brightly japanned, were surmounted with large square silver buckles. His hair carefully display ed in the manner of the day, was richly powdered, and gathered behind into a black silk bag, on which was a bow of black ribbon. In his hand he carried a plain cocked hat, deco rated with the American cockade. 1[e wore by his side a light, slender dress sword, in a green sha-green scabbard, with a richly ornamented hilt. His gait was deliberate, his manner solemn but self-possessed, and he presented, altogether, the most august human figure I had then, or have since beheld. At the head of the Senate stood Thomas Jefferson, in a blue coat, single breasted, with large bright basket buttons, his vest and small clothes of crimson. 1 remember be ing struck with his animated counten ance, of a brick-red hue, his bright eye and foxy hair, as well as by his tall, gaunt, ungainly form and square shoulders. A perfect contrast was presenrtedi by the pale, reflective faice and (delicate figure of .James Madi son; and~ above all, by' the short, b ur ly, bustling form of Genm. Knox, with riddy cheek, prominent eve, and still more prominent proportions of another kind. In thre semi-eirele which was formeud behind the chair, and on either hand of the President, may boyish gaze was attracted by the sprlendidi attire of the Chevalier D)'Y rurj', the Spanish ambassador, thenm the only forei gn mrinister near our infant governimenit. I 1is glittering star, his silk chpuiwu b'ras, edged with ostrich feathers, his foreign air arid cour-tly bearing contrasted strongly with those nobility of nra tur-e's forming who stood around him. It was a veryv faiir representa tion of the old world anid tire ire w. I low often has the samne reflectinon occurredh to ine since, on witniessinge tire glitter ing, anid now nurmer-ous, company of foreign dlignitaries eol lected round our Presidents by ain imauguration day, or the recurrence of our national arniversary.---Tr-ue, tire individuals who form that br illiant v:o)erie are, for thme most part, mn eminent for general intelligence, as well as the virtues of private life, men who meet, anid well (deserve a c'rdiial welcome on our shores, arid often carry from it the sincerest re grets. But how do ilhe pers~snal at tainmenits arid characters of the meni themselves put out the blaze of tire gold and~ diamionds with which their gov'ernment~s hiad covered them ? .And if, even in the unadorned~ pres ene of ri suesnorsa.., thse(h a-,. tions seem puerilein republican eyes; how would they jay faded amy-y and been lost in the. 111ing grandeur of the public pregence of Washington. Having re ed his seat for -fow 1 moments whil ctbo members resumed their soats, ths President rose; and taking from liis breast a roll of manu script, proccdfd to read his address. His voice was Full sonorous,.eep and rich in its tones, free from that truin- I pet ring which it could assne amid t the tumult--of battle, (and which is l said to hvo been distinctly heard above all to roar,) but sufficiently loud and r to fill the chamber and t be heat ',,vith perfect lease, in its most 23- ito recesses. The address was d cousiderable length; its topics of cou#, I forget, fojr I was too young, o understand them; I only re membor in its latter lgirt, some refer ence 6thc Wabash -River' (then a new name to my ear id to claims or dsputes on the pvE of the Indian tribs. He read, as 'he did every thig else, with a*,s 1 gular serenity ai conp9sige, viti manly case and di ity, but without the smallest at tmpt atdisplay. Having concluded, he laid the 4eiscript'upou the table before him irese'd his:4.eat; when, after a slight puase h'e rose and withdrew, thp menbors lising and remaining on dei'eet unt hleft the chamber. The papeins then taken up by Mr. Beckley, the clerk of the House, and again read frmo beginning to end. lBeckley's enunciation, by the by, ad mirably'clear, giving every syllable of every word, an'd I may say, .he was almost the only officer whose ol cial duty it is to read, who I ever heard read well. This form hiing been gone through, the members of the Senate retired, and I togk advantage of a e 2 an,, ,.n d iii h i n gle with the dissolving crowd. F E DUELIST-.The most cele brated female duelist was the actress Maupin, one of the performers at the Opera. Serane, the fatuous fencing master, was one of her lovers, and from him she received many valuable lessons. Being insulted one day by an actor by the name I)umeny, she called him out; but as he refused to give her satisfaction, she carried away his watch and his snuff-box as trophies of her victory. Another performer having presumed to oflend her, on his declining a meeting. was obliged to kneel down before, her and implore forgiveness. One evening at a ball, having behaved in a very rude man ier to a lady, she was requested to leave the room, which she did on the condition that those geitlemen who had warmly espoused the effended lady's cause, should accompany her. To this proposal they agreed; 'when, after a hard combat, she killed them all, and quietly returned to the hall. room. Louis XI V gi-anted her a1 p~ardon and she withdrew to Thrussels, where shte became the mistress of the Elector of Ravaria. Hlowever, she soon after retulrnied to the Parisian Opera, anid died in 1 707, at the age of thiirtyv-seven. Unider the regency, a pistol meeting took pelace bet ween the Marquise de Nelse and the Connm tess Polignac for the possessioni of the D uc de Rtichelieu; anid in mod'iermn timnes, so late, iindeed, as 1 8S, a Machune '-at St Htambihert, received a chiallenage to tight with pistols; anid about the samne period , a lady of Cliat eauroutx, whose hushbanid had received a slap ini the face wi thouit reseniting th e insult, called outI the olfenider, anid fightinig him withi sword's, severe ryI nI* fluelijny.1 Mr-s. Partinigtoni says that just before thme last war with England, rireimustances w"ere seen arouind thme moon1 nmight ly, shtootinhg star pe iramt-I bulated the earth, the dlesk of sunm was covered with black spots, like bdots ol inik, andl coimies swept the1 borrizon with their op-er-atie tails. Every body said it was a protligated wvar, and surc eniough war did come. Its costiveniess was felt thiroug~h the anid, but thie bravery of G eneral Jackson expatriated thme Ammericani :itizens, anid foreignm domineering ioonm became a by-word. "T Ihiis is rcally thme smallest horseI [ ever saw,'' said a countryman, on 1 biewing a Shietland pony. "Indade, now,'' replied hia Irish :ompanion, 'but P ve seen on" as small is two of him." i Curious Case of bulism. We find in U Outline of lisordered inentat 11oii,',a curious ase of somnambUIof which was iublished in the ngpa ers at the ime the case octxed. .A farmer n one of the couitieofMassachu etts, had employc tliineJf. for some reeks in winter, bblnig his grain. )ne night as le 'asabout closing us labors. he asce eod altidder, to he top of the gr t beams in the >arn, where the ry ie wail threshing vas deposited, ascertain what iumber of bunsl s remained un hreshed, which a -determined to inish the next d 4. The ensuing dght, about two o'clock, he was icard, by one of toe family, to arise imd go out. He repaired to his barn eiing fast asleep. and unconscious of vhat he was loingiBet open his barn loors, Ascended the great beams of he barn where his rye was'deposited. brew down i flooring, and comnien :ed threshing it. When he had coin Mleted it, he rake off the straw, and shoved the rye to one side of the loor, and again aseended the ladder with the straw, ant deposited it on sone rails that lay across the great )eans. le then threw down inother boring of rye which he threshed and finished as before. -Thus he contin aed his labors. until he had threshed five floorings; and on returning from hrowing down the sixth. and last in passing over part oftthe hay-mow, he ell off, where theobay had been cut lown about six feat, on to the lower )art of it, which a oko him. le at irst imagined himoself in his neigh or's barn : but gher groping ubouc n the dark a long lime, ascertained hat he was in hi du, and at length found the ladde jbit which he des ended to the.. >closed his. barn oors, wh uohit' id o, and re. tieig'~4~ ound hiuiself in such a profuse perspiration that his clothes vere literally wet through. The next nolrniniiig, on going to his barn, he iad threshed, during the night, five mushels of rye; had raked the straw )ftlin-good order, and deposited the rain to one side of the floor, without he least consciousness of what he was doing, until he fell from the hay! Boston Meri,. J'urwIal. 11rxrz Ot:orinxI:.-'hc London spectator thus speaks of tricks per 'rtned by a celebrated juggler now n that :netropolis: Among other iiiomiprei'heniisilile do. ngs he ioils fbour l uel:cd pi e'ns ini kettle full of water suspiemlcd over firc, and lperfectly isilite l. al liout lyfour living hir is from an enpt v yes el: lie returns to thici:- owners a sec re >f handkerchiefs, washe i awl iriorel, hat a inomenit before -lay soaking wet n a pail, and lie rid nucco ii i ewl of o0 lOst, out of an oi-l Iat, that lie taips upon. aii1 turns in si le out. ach pressui re or squei-eze of the h:tn: einig followed byv a freshi supply of' unehles of .sweet sme'lling Il>wers riwn thle ohldh bt tered hat. A young lady n ear us lent her tra~w hionnei~t, anid wasi hIorrill ait ecing it cruihl uip into a halhl; but .o her greaut rel' iefi, it appecared hiang. ng ait tihe. top ofi the proiseeniumii, andi' lie founmd it quOite uniihanilaged. A iinfiill of Lrllbl watcels is fhiae t, be bacek of the .staigi, andl pres'-rtir li''he producing of' tis sort of glibleil ruiti; hunrches if keys t!.at sceeed I ot to be1 ouiit o f seiht , ar' faundl ait :i-ied to theC roolt of a jplait ini a low. 'r jH't; aun' i l heaI, witli Tifi l e . p ilt einnuou ofii at pitbe ('OujlthrSt mt liebunch of rin g at tec' t cip ofit hiintgue andui tre ieutwoi 1I .Id Vatchdswfth eebatls, ou h e could dlt eilah onei' Iof~ th .e 'm''etet omzzs ais the loieen ccesieh- of idack~ an red winel', andit tau ill iho o'ni-gnefrim theu iden Ote blackii lit)e tatii wie had jthi bf.rie ('len iilled wth waer;itis and eg l ip.i iing for b kesn hel wlii that r liei cranke, isbroken, a'nd l ilk hny an one of them oin en I'ts feats seem woidrous in telling, they dre far more inexplicable in the doing; for you feel what cannot be indited sufficiently in a brief description, the seeming impossibility of them. The illusion is perfect; you see things van. ish under your eyes, and behold them in another pl e, while yet they ap pear to be w i'e they were before. Srimming Extraordinary. We yesterday had the pleasure of witnessing an athletic feat, equal, we believe, to that performed by the love sick youth of Abydos; for our Lean der; had, we presume, no armorous Yankee priestess to swim after. A young man named Clinton Jacksor swan across the Niagara river under the Falls and back again, without landing to take breath, merely touch ing land on the other side. To thost actquainted with Niagara Falls, and aware of the muscle required to gel the ferry boat from side to side, it is unnecessary to explain; that though the river at this point is not mor< than a quarter of a mile broad, yet the most lusty swimmer, from the immense strength of the current, against which lie has to struggle, is unable to gain the opposite shore, un der three-quarters of a mile. It is therefore, no small undprtaking t< swim a mile and a half in the most rapid river in the world, with the cer tain knowledge that a cramp or fain heartedness would in a few minutes carry you into the rapids below where the river is supposed to trave at the rate of twenty-eight miles at hour-there to be dashed to pieces on the rocks, or to be "sucked in" th famous wlhilpool.- Jackson perform cd the fat ilth6ut.T difficulty, =keep ipghis head -and neck above the wa tarsdut ig tip wlmol6 time, anl ntev er .turni he ltdck. = t. adJh 'iRttIAN\ N'GEN:IT.-A farmer at tendling a fhir with I hundred pntii:ls in big pocket, took the irecautiion of depositing it in the hands of the landlord of the pub |ic house at which lie stopped. I aviii ocensi-n for it shortly afterwarJs lie re s rtied to ,mine hst for the pay ment, but the landlord. too deep for the coun. tryannn, wond.'ered what hundred wat a iant, and was quite sure no such siun had ever been lodged in his hands by the astonished rustic. A fler ineffiectua a ppeals to the recollection, nnd finally to ilt hontr of it.uldiu.lph, the(! fadrmler ap. plied to Curran fur advie. Ilave p:tience, my friend.' said the counsel; 'spiak to tle. landlord privately anl tell hima you must have left the noney wo ith sone one else. Take n I':iendl with you,,. and lodge witih himl unt, other hutndredI plouInls. in tle tIreselet to your fit-iui, aid the: com"e to le.' W1'e mu.t imlagine, and nst comtit in paper the vrcifi-ratiuts of the hones lupi, at such advice; however, miovet by the rhtelorie ir- anuitlority of the wur th y counsel, he f dlawed it, and returned to the -ca l friend. '.\nd now, sir, I don't see I am to he anyi bet t er for this. ifI I get miy scon<ll hitnldred( aga in. I Iut now what is to ht Go, and14 ask Im ii hr it wh len lie i: ailne.' said C'3 rran. .\y, sir. but asking far it won't do I'ze a frail wvithuouti my wvitne~ss at ai ralet. Naidi tile countrvialan. 'Never itin, tauk' my adi:ce,' sai<4 the counsil; -do) as I hidi you, and1 thet lit i to II ilt'.' dreglad1 at aniy rate to finda that sufe againi in is poLsesion.~ 'l don'1 t e as5 'i ilmuch b~etter ol' \'el,' saiid the counsiesl, 'inow takhe youtr f'riend ithr yiu, aisk the Ilanlior( you i4leve with him.' Thle followintg is a copy rerblatimu ei literatim, of a notitc, ntailed on abo on bt.ard a steambhoat, which r-uns ori am bak nott a thousand miles from h~ake G;eorge. "'In this backs aitr tow Itattil snii woni was " koebedi Ott blak mnountang. titheri ont Note' hiii. " woni is ait yer~s ld and won is fortene." 'KNotise' six centis A site O1l1 Dik,"' 'G(:at. I tSin edi Cap.~ A 4 t vi , lb:em tE.r-- An ol wvonaii obse'rvying a sailor ginig by her door mII'15l suppoin1g it to he' her' soin Billy, eriedl out to hitn,"' illy where is nii coew gone'? 'imhe sailor relhiedl in a conttemptuous mianneor, "Gone to the dI-I, for what I know.'' "WYell as yilu are going that way,'' said thc ob41 womnan, "1 wish y-ou would jotsh let dlown the bat,". efevis ;pn or clevis: be sure that. "n have both chains just tight enou permit the block to lie in he .furrow, allow no slaek. . The short chain gathers the clover,. weeds, &c. and bends them down: the weight of the block prevents the chain from rising, and the plough laps the dirt over .the weeds, while they are in a'recumtept. position. I am this day turning ian der weeds as high as the beads of the ploughmen, who are almost concealed. Turning in Green Crops. From the Germantown (Pa.,) Telegrapl. During the last ten years, the prac tiee of turning in green crops has been extensively adopted; and, so far as 'my observation extends, it has been attended with the most flattering results.- Old, worn.out fweld,, which had become so thoroughly emaculated as scarcely to repay the cost of cultivation, have, by this process, been thoroughly renovated, ' and at a less cost, probably, .than they could have been in any other way. In passing through the country our awgn Lion is often drawn to farms which ria've been impoverished, by an enormous and emasculating system of cropping. to the state of barren karro -fiolds. Nothing can be more forbidding than the appear. once of barrenness which they exhibit; yet even those are not hopelessly bar ren. By plowing under the slight veg. elation they prodt , an-' following up the undertaking by a liberal application t of lime, unless the soil is of a calcare ous n lure, and then sowing budk wheat, pens; or clover, to he turned in when in A} blossom, a degree of energy will be communicated which will secure the continuanrce of increased and increas ~g fertility, and, under a judicious system of rotary cropping, inure good crops for a period of many years. "'Ti, folly in t, extimne to till Extensie fields, and tilt tluensit Shrewdcpounon ' %sla' And sure you' ho -tv For mnore one Thei aleoAig tfEf " 'Some haver nded iilfe .W excellent artialo 1drnttigiiibd all culilvated crops, with the exccj tin, perhaps, of red clover; I consider buck wheat the best. Bycommencingearly, three erops of this grain may be-turned in one season, a dressing ofawhlichwill be found suflicient, under ordinary cir. curnstances, for the most exhausted soil, and which is by no means objectioriable on the score of expense or cost,. A PRACTICAL. FAUIataR Bald Eagle Farm, May, 1850r Hints to Overseers. - U M R. EDIToR:-Same oversceels hIn n. if they keep a tolerably clean crop they are doing well; the condition of the - mules, horses, fences, gates, farming tools, hore lots and stables, and stock of all kinids, are left to shift for them. selves, and are not taken into coniider.. at ion. Overseers,. if they do their duty, will ha'e mules and horses well atte aided to-fed regularly with a given amnount, salted once 'e week; nd rubbed and curried; the stables and lot' will also be kept clean, and the manure taken care of Mules and horses will not ful to show thel'keeping;' When 7 once the hip bones of mules asticl out," no matter hor much thef yna\to pil, (for any soiund horse or mule, if" t~keit care of, enn plow as much as nv hWnnd, without injury,) y'ou may put If doivn at once that they are either irregrlbirly and lbadly fed, or othecrwise grossly ~ negler'ted. Overseers are also deficient, even if they attend to mule ned horses, keep clean crops, nnd god guten anid fe2nces, and do not attend to othlir' stck on the [,lntiation. A gain, if overseers neglect to enforce the ru/es of morality on the' planiation, ~ they are in the highest degree tunfit-for. thei r stat ion.-,This innay benhnoxidna to some-h nm sorry to say it,'even em. lalyers-buit I trust the limo tifbonne wli morality and 'virtue shall be lodh ed on ns an essential-goalifioauion fb anyievfbi avocation. Oeeens too, wvho *Wre "dirty dogs" themselves, amat not expect the negroen- under ieli' charge to be0 any~ thing else. I f we would raise the standard ofotr, profession, let us act uprightly,:and 'M. tend to our bulsiness closely, atnd bepaid* ihr our trouble. AN OvunRa.t Cedat' Toten Ga., June; 1850.' -~< EOIRAPR CurtGs.-Tho Miehnga g mer srtates that Elijah Duck, "a ,ance~saftik cultivator, has mot with unifot faituroj raising grapes from euifng . int th. nau way of placing themt nearly sporgeicae or obhiquely in the soil,"tot n cmennig treatled ever showing signs & tg$*t. ditTrent mode WVa* afferwards placing the cuttings horirontally;Jtt.''b tneath the sutrface. Not'one ini III4lp4 DKsTmoruNG . EfQg.~tlt fects this object'by' bofntc el hioles into wondei bloeb' 's ditibuating thbmi with thiW dhownwardsgein' th*'vas' sCe The hole. need 'illling eacit autenk~r mer., A lady reading that a man had been sentenced to six months hard labour for dog stealing, observed to a friend with a shudder, 'Gracious, my love, what would certain of our sex have to endure for entrapping pup. jC8. Mrs. Partington wants to know if printers can't thd anything better to publish than that "pork is quiet." "Why,"said the old lady, "our pork is always quiet during such hot weath or. You can't scarcely drive them out of the mire." Benefits of Deep Ploughing. From the Amnerican Farmer. We extract the following from 'a communication of Mr. Linus Cone. n the Genesee Farmer, upon the benefits of deep plowing: "I had a field containing 4 acres and 100 rod.s of ground, which had been cleared nine years am"d had a grain crop on it every year- Ifiheat, corn and oats -the three lust were oats. The field was considered nearly worn out, and would not have produced more than 15 hushe g of wheat per acre. There were annny large stumps and four green trees on the field. The soil was clay loam. I had only a single team-a powerful span of horses, and a single plow, ( II'ood's.) I raised tho end of the beam 3 inches, and commenced plowing in June, when the ground was wet, turning up about 5 inches that had never been stirred before, plowing about three. fburths of an acre per day. The groutnd was dug up with a spade a'round the stumps, harrowed and plowed shallow twice anferwards, and sowed the 5th day of Oct. with 2 bushels of bearded wheat per aere. In the spring were sown 150 -bs. of plaster wohere tle: wheat, looked the poorest. The result %vns,.although much was wusted in gathering,fo ,It shelled badly I had by~weight1901,2 bushels,.,psk& one -Igrge load .hqt threshell at the tinie, which would have increased tEfr product to at least 212 bushels. Since that time I have plow. ed (eep, and the result has been invari ably the same, or at least doubling the crop. Deep plowing on a soil like mine will prevent the crop front sufl'ering frot wet or dry weather.'' To deep plowing, Air. Cone ascribes the increase of the yield of his fields, from 15 husae-ls, per acre, to the pro duct above, which, if his estimate ofthe '-large load" of unmeasured grain be correct, anl the yield was 212 bushels on the 4 acres 100 rods, is at the rate of -5 bushels 50 I's. per acre---an in. crease that goes far to prove the efficacy of deep plowing, and deep pasturage fr luts, it virtualiy tlade each acr: of his lot more than equal to three before he abandoned tle skinning plali, and look the resolution of going deep into the howels of the earth, in search of the salts buried in the poisonous I ard pan. We never had any f.itth that the sub. soil contained matters deleterious to healthful vegetation that would not b4 neutraIized by exposure to the action of the ntno' sphere and the application of lime or ashes, and each year's experi. enace hut serves to conviice tis that lhe hard pan is'onaly a butg.bear of the imo. aginationi. If the poison so much drmeaded ini the stubsoil really does exs.t thert', whyi is it that its dlest ruetivye ac. tion is noct msoro appa rent with deep thr~n shallow plowinrg? The roots of' wheat, e rut, anad ot he'r platnts pe net rate far dee-per thani the liti' oforelhnary plowing --why is it then. that thie injury shioti no(t be' as5i mn ifest iti the onei case) as itt the other? T1o PLO4)tUan INx Cova.- Thiose wvho have utndertatken to plough in gr.eui crops, knsow the difficuiy f're quettly attending the operation on accountt of' the liability of the plough to be clogged, and the vegetable mat ter beinig left uncovered. A corres pondenit of the American Farmer gives the following description of a contriavatnce lie hats adopted, which is stated to ani~swer' the puripose com-. piletely: Sawv off' a block from soe hiard, durable, atnd heavy wood; say about ten inchtes long, and three an'd a half or four inches in diameter; then take a piece of trace chain, about threeo feet long ,confine one end to the block, by driving a small staple it the ne, having first passed the sta ple tharoughi an end link of the chain.~ Point the other cnd of the block, and attach a larger chain ini the sae mnatnner to that. Tie the ahort chain (attached to the square end of the block) to the rod which passes through the motuld-board and hosm of the plough, by wrapping it aroud the beamn at that place; drop the block in the bottoin of a furrow which 'has already been opened, (of' course on the mnould-hoard side,) diraw uip thie bong chain. nnd natac ta t., the