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will ?t present answer tny, honest intention*** ?or wo linjl that education and tradition have ao ?>ouiul down poople that tliero ia no moving them, let their pnnciplea or practioe be ever ao ibsurd. Hut an interest is the $reat apring in iiir actions, I hope soma will bo Induced to pay ittention to tliu cxjwrimtiht maJo for forty /cars by a r Annan. 1IKMF. It is believed that thcro are very few crops hat ho well compensate the labours of thohus 'landman as that of hemp. Many persons havo ?rrotienusly supposed that it required a peculiar .oil and that its cultivation was attended with nuvh uncortaiMjr. It is now howtrcr ascer nincd from daily experience, that not only tho iV;rtile bank* of tho Connecticut and Gencssco ?ivers, but most of our warm uplands if properly prepared, produce it in abundance, liio situ* itionn of many of our river towns, particularly if Wi'therfielil i.< nti many accounts peculiarly avornblo to it* production. Their light warm oil, their convcniencc for water rotting in the tfho. nud the facility with which it may ne sent it innrk?t bv t'no river, are great and important oivantnge*. Mill without these, there arc few owns in the state where arty other seed can be nit into the ground that shall yield so many luudred fold. As evidence of the profits uri ;ing from (he cultivation of hemp, I would state, ?hat thirty Ave dollars per acre lmvo been paid or ono years use of land for this purpose. And ' am credibly informed that tho town of Long* ncadow has received at Boston, New-York, and Vow*!laven, thirty five thousand dollars for one 'ears crop. An aver ago crop from land in good icart may bo considered, from 8 to 12 cwt. nor icre j nud tho land if properly taken care of the >econd vear will produco more than it did the irst. A judicious farmer itv iny neighborhood Ately told me that ho had taken 8 cwt. oft' an a ere last year and had no doubt that with little nore attention ho should this vear at least get 2 cwt.?! have noticed in {no Courant that .$41.5 per Ton had latoly been paid in Boston, ?or lleinp raised at Louguieadow-?this is a very nusual price?it hns neon considered a fair ?caco price at 8200 when our intercourse was ?pen with Uussia; pinttlmt, it will pay vast y more tlian any other crop, as may be seen by ?lie following very liberal cAtiinatu of cultivate nn and dressing the product of one acre of land 'hat is in good order : 12 Loans of Manure, 1*2,00 Ploughing nnd harrawing 3 timcj ti,0<) 2 1-4 Bushel* of seed, at l 1). 0/J0 Sowing and Harrowing, too Pulling and Carting .1,00 Breaking and .Swingling 1.5,00 ?It! ,00 8urc profit, per acrc, 5-1,00 Ilnlf ft (on,at 200 D. is 100,00 The above estimate which is undoubtedly as lifrh as it should be, would be reduced consider bly by having the heni|i dieted in a mill, for vhlch purpose .1 number are already erected a ;?out the country, and by converting the stocks or nhiuvcH of manure, which purpose they an* wer to a considerable degree. Thero exists no danger from a glutted market, t will never be imported cheaper from abroad, nd should wc go successfully into the cultivu* ion of it, for many vearH to comc we should iol more than enual the demand there would be iH Hoon as our ships arc permitted to spread their .ails on the ocean. The following method of cultivation has been practised with great success. The ground if not 11 read v broken up to be thoroughly ploughed in ?he fall, tlmt the turf may bo weft rotted j and i. t'ie spring as early m the season will permit* > .ie ploughed again with more or Ies9 manure, iccorditig to the condition of the land \ the ,>.oiighing to be repeated until tho soil becomes .ight and mellow ; that which is peculiarly pro ,>er would not require more than two plough 1 ngs in the spring: the seed to bo sown, anil well '.?arrowed in, on a very even surface from the 1st. to tho 10th Slay, tlso.it it may be out of the way of frosts, by winch it is liable to lie injured.? \vlt?n the blossom falls from the male hemp, as t will about the middle of August, it is to be tn?iled by making alleys through the Held and electing the male from the seed hemp, which is to ii?j left a month longer to ripen. To be bound with rye straw in small bundles and left a fow '!a)S in the field to dry that the bark may lie io-igher and not injured in moving?the bundles u V laid under water to rot from 10 to 20 days Lft tiding to the weather, as it rots much the a t.-stiii warm wonthcr. Clear, standing, soft < lit**,* i i lieft lor this purpose, and salt water, by lecent Hnglish publication is considered alto* ?\ tl.er inadmissible. After it is sufficiently rot i.ed, which is easily ascertained by drying and Wreaking a little 0} it, the biir:illt<* to he dried in "lie op??n air and when thoroughly dried, to be loused j when dressed, first to be pasxed thro' coui>e brake and afterwards thro' a common lie and swinglt-d likt> (lax. The st'cd heiiio i? to he pulled as soon as the eed begins to fall from the stalk, and to be bun* ?'led and carried immediately to the place where t is to he threshed, there to be set up in the sun few days and then gently threshed ? and a* ain put* in the sun a few days more m<d after* /aids threshed aqaoi?it is then to bo treated ? s In-fore directed for the male hemp. This may serve as a general direction, but the intelligent farmer will make such experiments ? his hind, his situation and his convenience vill permit, and by communicating the result vill confer an obligation on the community. Connecticut fiajn'r of I HI I. To preserve J})fie*.?Take a dry barrel, cov r the bottom of tt with white sand lihout one inch?then, after having plucked your apples front the tree, leaving a stem to each at least three?i'jurtlis of an in*:h long, place a layer of vpples, with the stem into the s.md?then (111 up 'he interstices with a layer of sand as luf<iie,and xi'ocecd until your barrel Im: lilled. Apples put ?l? in this way w ill bo preserved in a green state ?th in regions thjc must sultry & the most frozen. ?MISCELLANEOUS. PERPETUAL MOTION. By a paragraph in ono of the lata morning pa pers, it appeara likely that this imposture is a gain to bo forced on the public attention. Al though much more haa already been said on tho subject than it deaervea, yet it haa not been treated iu a manner geueraJiy intelligible, ore von sufficient to convey any definite idea of what is meaut by " Perpetual Motion." Tho writer of this, in suggesting what is to be understood by perpetual motion, and his reasons why it is pnysiculy impossible, expects to oiler nothing new on the subject but merely to brina it in a conciso and plain manner to the consideration of the moat common understanding. Perpetu al motion, then, is an imaginary machine, con taining a power or powers within itself, which being once applied will continue to move it, without any subsequent manual aid, so long as the materials, of which tho machine ia made, will lost, and which, if tho materials were impe rishable-and not subject to wear, would movo it incessantly and forever?in a word, it is an in finite, inexhaustible power, communicated to dead matter. This motion can (if possible) only bo ollected in one or two ways. 1st. l)v a sin gle power acting injlnittly in the samo direction ?or 2d. bv two or more powers, one or more of which shall, by counteraction, be continually re pairing or restoring the force lost by tho main impelling power. To tho first mode, reason and revelation present insurmountable objections.? Man is a finite being, aud cannot make what is greater than himself, aud to admit tho inventi on of such a principle, would at once plnco the inventor on an equality with tho Deity in crea tive power, and superior to his work, for wo know nothing in tho material world, which we suppose to havo this infinite principlo connected with it?even tho planets which navo so long and regularly moved in their orbits, we are taught, will ono day lose the power which im pels them, and cease their motions. To the se cond mode, as involving an infinite principle, the same objections may lie applied as to the first, and besides tho plainest laws of mechanics aro against it?if moro than ono power is ap plied to the machine, ono must be greater than tho other, or they must be equal?if they arc e qual, the motion of tho macliino must cease, trom the equilibrum of powers i and if they are unequal, the greater power will necessarily pre vail over the weaker one, and act alone, while the force given to it lasts, aud then the machine must stop, for to suppose two powers in one machine, acting contrary to each other, whe ther their forces be equal or unequal, without such a result, is too absurd to bo doubted for a moment, while the present laws of nuture con tinue. Tho present age ought to be preserved from the disgrace of longer entertaining this vi sionary project, and it should be consigned to tho same neglect aud contempt which Alchymy (a much more rational notion) has long since do eervedly met?tho inventor is, however, enti tied to some merit, for making a machine, the deception of which scientific men havo been so long bullied, in discovering.? U.S. Guxctte. Female I'atrloti&n.?Every thing that tenth to exhibit American prowess, bravery and pa triotism, merits* preservation. In a nation like this, where no honorary rewards accompany ex traordinary acts of public virtue, or disinterest ed exhibitions of love of country, it is at least necessary tu preserve from oblivion tho deeds of those who have displayed that magnanimity, in* dependence and virtue which distinguished the heroic ages of lireece. They should be preserv cd, because they serve as an additional stimu lant to similar acts of heroic greatness and dis interested patriotism, and wdl tend to show, that if we cannot* from the nature of our adrni* rable institutions, bestow tho star and garter, and the baubles of nobility, wo can at least feel that gratitude and admiration which public vir tue and love of country never fail to excite.-? The following anecdote is related on tho autho rity of one wliosu veracity it would bo dishono rable to question. Gen. Jackson, shortly after he reached New-Orleans, was waited upon by two young men, who were brothers, from Ten nessee ; one of whom presented a letter, which the general found upon jierusal, to bo from tho mother of tho youths before him. The old lady stated that she had taken the liberty to send her two children, the only two she had alive, to join his force at Orleans, and enjoining them to tight or die in tho dcfence of their country. Who re gretted that she had no more to despatch on so noble an expedition j and concluded by observ ing, with the noble patriotism of the Hpartnn ma trons, that though she was sixty years old, if a nurse should bo required in tho hospital, she would come down and ofliriate herself in that capacity.?JS'utluiutl lighter. Population of the City of t/\Yw- Vnrk.?Look inj; into Loiigworth*.* Directory for tho year 1810-17, I was struck with astonishment on comparing the list of names with that of prece ding years, and observing the rapid increase of population it exhibits, I'lie names of house keepers only are comprised in the list* but by multiplying it by 0 l-sj, it will afford us a pretty fair ('iitiiiinte of the whole population j as may be perceived by comparing toe Directory list with that of the Congressional census. Com pare for instance the two in IBID, when the last censuit was taken for the U. States: According to that centos, the population of this city was upwards of UK,000 ) the number of names in the Directory, the same year, was 14,600, which be ing multiplied by ft 1 -2 gives 1)4,000. In like manner, if w e taKo the number of names tho pre sent year, 19,-109, and multiply it by tS I-a, it ;ivc? 120,1.19, an increase of upwards of 30,000. lut it must be noted, that in consequenco of the Madison war. the population sunk so much that it was not so niglt in IB I;), 14 and 15, As it had been in IBI1 and 12: therefore, it may fairly be said, thn' this increase of .10,000 has taken | place in two years i an increase that, alone,| neorly equals the whole population of the city IK III at the time of the adoption of the constitution.? I Houso rent is higher in the city of New-York than in any part of the known world?it. Vost. AYu> invented Churn. A Churn has been fur somo time in use in Wales, which saves both tinio ami labor. It ia called thu cradle churn, being made upon the principles of a common rocking cradle * and cun with easo be worked by a child of flvo or six years old. Sir Robert Vaughan. member for tho county of Merioneth, is so well convinced of the superiority of this churn over every other, that he has ninny made mid distributed among nia tenants. The shape is of no consequence, provided it be made con Hiderablv wider at the top than at bottom^ that it may churn either a largo or small nuantity of milk equally well. The usual form is that of a canoe.-?London, pap. ODD ITEMS. Capt. Price, of the sclir. Rover, arrived at N York from St. Juao do Cuba, informs, that in conscquence of a fleet of merchant vessels that was to sail an embargo was laid oil all vessels at St. Jago, from the 21st to the 29th June.?Ac counts from St. Bartholomews of a lato date, state thnt the Royalists have evacuated nearly the whole coast oV Venezuela.??The Macedo nian frijrnto hns, it !b said, received orders to sail for Lima, to demand of the royal Spanish authorities there tho restoration of an American whale ship, seised in Peru for not having a sea letter, which is not required but when the Kuro neon nations are at war. Gen. Minn, from Spain, has arrived in this country an exile, and Mr. Ueasley, lato agent for American prisoners in London, has aifived at Washington City.? The American mineralogists assert that there has never been a foul 4th" of July siuce the de claration of Independence.?The death war rant of J. Smith lor tho murder of Carson has been signed by the governor of Pennsylvania and he is to be executed on the 10th of August. The secretary of ntate, Monroe, alone, of all the heads of department, remains at tho seat of government. The secretary of the treasu ry is in tho neighborhood of Philadelphia, enjoy img the refreshing atmosphere between the Uank? or the Delaware and Schuylkill.?Gen. Wil kinson's Memoirs of his Own Times is passing rapidly through the press, and will appear, in d formidable volumes, in atl September. The Princess of Wales, senior, has purchased ? beautiful villa at Como, Italy, where she in tends to reside as soon as it is fitted to Iter taste. In April 500 men were employed on the palace and gardens, but theso 500 could be hired for what 100 would charge in England. The most celebrated painters are employed. A pragmatical young fellow, sitting at tablo over against the learned John Scott, asked him whAtuWTerence tliero was lietween Scot and tot ? \ Just the breadth of the table, answered the other. A meeting of the citizens of Nashville has transmittedlo the president of the United States an address and resolutions, strongly expressing their disapprobation of tho" compensation law," and ofthe cession to the Cherokee Indians of the landa acquired from the Creeks, within the limits of the sfato of Tennessee, by gen. Jack son's treaty. MBDICAL. Case of blindness from Cataract cured by De pression? Communicated in a tetter from Jir. John Coleman, of /loc/ring/iam, (Jlichmouii county) to Dr. Calvin Jones of Ilaleigh, da. ted May A0, 181G. Dear Sir?Permit me to communicate to you a case of Cataract thut some month* ago camc under my care and management. Mr. Joseph Ming, near tliin place, about 45 or 50 yearn ol age, had a cataract ol' more than three years standing, which so affected hi* night an to ren der him unable to distinguish object*. The right eye watt merely sensible to the presence, of light* but in the left eye the obscuration was greater, scarcely, if at nil, possessing the power of distinguishing night from day. The loss of sight haa been grudually progressive, neither preccded nor accompanied l?y pain, iuflamation or the existence of any known cause. The opa city of the lens indicated this disease, and the patient, when informed that removing this un teiiebriouR substancc from the axis of vision wsu the only means of cure, readily submitted to the operation : which was performed on the left eye by depressing the lens with a needle in the man ner recommended by Bell. Un the gratifying view of a darkenened pupil when the Ions dis appeared from before it, I observe some mem braneous fragments floating in the posterior chamber of the aqueous humour, which I sup posed to be the ruptured capsule of tho chrystal inch umour. After vain attempts to remove them they were left to tho effect of absorption, and it give* mo great pleasure to add, the floculi in a short time disappeared, and the sight is so well restored that the patient is able to pursue his or dinary occupation*. Tho right eye has not yet been operated on. I have seen in several of the newspapers, late ly, the case of a woman in Connecticut restored to sight after a hjiudnexs of many years. 1 sup pose it was published to induce the aftlictcd to submit to the operation?tho necessity, the safe ty, and tho im|?ortauco of which is known to the great mass of the people. If, in thi.4 way, you could suppose the publi cation of this case won Id in any degree subserve tho cause of humanity, and tie tho means of re storing Heaven's best blessing to one benighted mortal, you have my permission to offer it to the newspapers.?wV. C. filar. A fact.?As ingenuity and perseverance are traits peculiarly obvious in the Native Sons of America, it may not bo uninteresting to the en terprising mechanics and cititens in general to publish the following fact which occurred in Vitchborg this day. Captain Zachariah .Shel don, has hewed three hundred feet of large pitch pine timber complete and taken off his own neard M sleek and smooth" with the same broad axe ho used in hewing, in tho space of eight hours.--Concord (Mogs.) (Jbzfttc. TUESDAY AlfUUST 0,1816. Jl Curionity.?We present our reader*, this week, the rare styht of a newspaper destitute of news, and containing (stranger still) but one singlo advertisement??\Ve feel it our duty, on this occasion, to advise our mercantile friends, not for our own sake, but for the credit of our town, to favor the Telescopo with at least apart of their advertising custom j?-otherwise, the ox* teiihive circulation it begins to obtain, will be apt to spread abroad In the world very erroneous ideas touching the " commercial prosperity and growing consequence" of the metropolis of South-Carolina? Supieiitibus verbum sat. . At a meeting of the Hoard of Managers of the American Bible Society, convened in the City Hall, New-York, on tho 15th ult. General Mat thew Clarkson, Vice President, in the Chair, it was resolved, that the board will proceed with out delay to carry into execution the great ob ject contemplated by the convention which formed the Society, vi*.?" to furnish great dis tricts of the American Continent with well exe cuted stereotype plates, for the cheap and ex tensive diffusion of the Scriptures, through re gions which are now scantily supplied, at a dis couraging expense:" and that in order to faci litate the accomplishment of this important but expensive object, the board will not at present, appropriate any part of their funds to the pur chase of Ribles for immediate distribution. The Hible Societies throughout the Union, as well as individuals, are respectfully and earnestly soli cited to aid the board in tho prosecution of this arduous undertaking, by pecuniary contribu tions. flic elections in Kentucky will be warmly contested during tho prcsenUcssiou?There arc fen districts for Congress?and twenty-six can ? did ate s have already been entered. There in an opposition in every district. In three of theiu thero arc three candidates?and in ono district four. Mr. Clay is opposed by Thomas T. Barr ?and Col. K. M.Johnson, by Robert P. ltenry, and Benjamin Taylor. Messrs. Clarke, Hitr deu, and McKee, of thopresent delegation, de cline a poll. For tho Governor's chair, thero arc two candidates, viz.. George Madison, and James Johnson?and three for tlio offlca of Liou teuaiit-Governor. The contest is, of course, a warm one?and much anxiety awaits the issue of the race. The book lately opened In North-Carolina, for receiving subscriptions to increase the capi t?l stock of the Cape Pear Navigation Company, have met with considerable success. Instead of ninety-funr thousand dollars which it was intend ed to receive, more than two hundred thousand dolls, have been actually subscribed. The com pany has since been organised, and its. officers appointed?It is intended to cotnnicuco immedi ately improving the navigation of the river and its branches. The College of Wii.liak & Mart (at Wil liamsburg, va.) is rapidly regaining its former reputation and magnitude. From an address to the Public, at the close of the Academic year, by Aug. J. 8mith? President of the Institution, it appeared that there have been more than 70 stu dents during the last session. In the conclu ding words of the address, we arc glad to learn, that'? two years have elapsed since its re-orga ni/.ation. and the University already flourishes beyond all expectation, and among its numerous pupils, boast1* of some, who bid fair to uphold the numu of an Institution, which ranks, a mongnt its Alumni, names of which Virginia fa so justly proud." ?Vr. Mdixon.?In his dedication of the second volume of the Guardian, addressed to Mr. Pul tony, he has the following beautiful sentiment? 44 Zeal for tho public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman* and must take placo of pleasure, profits and all other private gratifications; whosoever wants these motives is an open enomy or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied ad van tauc 4 with whicli nature and fortune have bless cumin." ?? Two44 pleasant little matters," from a late Philadelphia paper A few years ago a very respectable lady* aged fuur-Hcore years, arrived at Baltimore from tier many, to visit her relations and friends. Last week she passed through this city, intend ing to visit Ilethlcham and Lancaster. 8he is in excellent health and cheerful. It was truly u great undertaking for one of her years. Our sinccro good wishes attend her, and we hopo sho man return in health to the land of her fathers. Speci6, within the last two weeks, has fallen in Philadelphia three per cent.?As the 8panish government did not hesitate to rtltaw the Ame rican prisoners, on tho arrival of the Macedon ian at one of her port#, we hopo that our govern ment (or our banks we should say) will follow Iter lauiiiblc exomple, by granting speedy re leases to those poor and harmless Spanish suf ferers who have been compelled to ?? /??'??/ tifmit the foul vnftttun ?/ a ttunjfetnJ* for almost two years, deprived of the stgltt of man. IVmm. Paper. I* r Foil BALK, the Lot and House now occupied by Mr. Ottolengui on lUchardsoti street; tho houses are in good repair and will calculated for tho Mercantile business. A bargain will bugivciii and terms made easy. For further particulars apply to ^ , JOHN YANCEY. Columbia) Aug. 6. \