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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. \