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.o\v ? piccc of laud uiuler wheat acc6rd-< j y* this mode of management, which i? of so oinining an appearance a? to be noticed with upccial attention by my neighbors. 'Hie land ought to have an early fall plowing, if under a binding sward, and the potatoes should be hoed twice. If thin mode of agriculture should jro into general practice, the probability la that it would add materially to tM prosperity of our country. .... * 1 MI8C 15IX ANEOU8. 8LWKHY. An experiment is muking in the Went, which ?.vill shed li^ht upon a muck agitated question 111 Political Kconomy ; how fer domestic slave ry retards or accelerates the advancement of a nation to wealth. Tii? Oliio Uiver is the line* which exactly He fines the boundaries of tfce experiment. *1 o the voutli, nrc the status which permit the existence ?>f slavery?to the north those states which for bid it. Kentucky, Tennessee* tho? Mississippi Territory, ndmit of slave*) the State of Onto ha* forbni it l>v the very constitution of her go \criuuent. The second state, which exists nifth of the river, is that of Indiana, the young ? ?ta?e in the Union. Her constitution ox prr?*|v states, that ns involdlary Horvitudo is forbidden hv principle, " no alteration of this r 'iNtituiion shall ever take placo so as to in trml.ire sluv?ry. or involuntary servitude* in .his state. otherwise than for the punishment of erious whereof the party shall have been duly t:yii\ icled." It i% probable that the same feature will run t'.iroujih nil tin; north-western region?and as ? Michigan and Missouri territories shall fall iutit fee r.tiik > of American states, an eternal )>r?>hib:.ti'?n will be raised by their constitution to tho introduction of involuntary slaves. Tl?:s di-.tiii' tion between the States north and yi.tu'r, el* the Ohio, will have other bearing than t.por. the problem of national wealth?it will tii showing the effect* of Bcrvitade upon Tin- i. I'ararters ami manners of a people.?Ho i tr. then, tbe Ohio is a broad line between the hMtes which l>old slaves, and tlio.se which have l.one?:md although the effects may not be im I'lediatvly perceptible, yet they will undoubt edlv develope themselves in the lapse of gene* rations. Shivmjs then, forms one remarkable feature of distinction, between the banks of the Ohio. There is another in some measure growing out of it. As tlir states south of the ()lii<? not only iiennit the existence of slavery, but the introduction of slaws, most of the emigrants from tlie southern Atlantic states will uaturally bend their steps to that direction.' Mauy of them. hriaox> thev would wish to take their do nu^tit s ui?h them?and others, though they nro de?tilut<* o. drive*. because they have been fa miliari/.od to thrir nM viee and society.?How different from the region* to the north of the Ohio ! 'I tu v will he principally frequented by emigrants from (ho northern states, who have oo slave* to accompany them. The rich will bend their steps in that direction, because they will find the laborer, whom ho was used to em ploy in his own country?The poor luborer will follow the same track, becauso the field is fully open to him??there is no competition with the black laborer to lessen the demand for labor, and lower its wages. These two features will strongly discrimin ate the state of society on both banks of the <)? hio?as strongly as that of Massachusetts is distinguished from that of Virginia. Time will dcvolope the different consequences of these features upon their manners. In the one regi on we shall have more industry, in the other more enterprise?in the one more economy, in the other more liberality. It is thus that the manners of a people are llfected by laws.? Coinpiitr POPULAR ANTIQUITIES. Dcath'iVatch.?Wallis; in his history of Northumberland, gives the followhiT; account of the insect so called, whoso ticking has been thought by ancient superstition to forbodo death in a family. "The small Hcarab called flit death watch, (Scarahieus galeatus pulnator) is frequent among dust and in decayed rotton wood, lonely and retired. It . is ono of the smallest of tne Vagipcnuis, of s dark brown, with irregular light brown apotp, the belly yli cated, and the wings under the ctu.es pellucid | like other beetles^ Uie helmet turned up a* is supposed for hearing; the upper lip hard and shining. By its regular pulsations, like the ticking of a watch, it sometimes surprises those that are strangers to its nature and proprieties, who fancy its beating portends a family change, and the shortening of rho thread of life. Pitt into a bnx? it may be heard and seen in tho act of pulsation, vyith a small proboscis against tta side v.vf it, for food hioro probably than for h*j wtnlwl pleasure, as some have i magi tied. The above formal account will no to ill con trasted with the followittg IWneifut and witty one of Dean Bwift in hU invective against wood. It furnishes us two with ft charm to ftvart tho omen. i ' i%. ' 'i**4 A Wood Worm. f Tint lie* in old wood, like a hare In her fbrm, With teeth or with claw*,It will bite or will acratch. And ch*mt>ermaid? christen thl? worm ndcath>watch? Hccaute like a watch It alway* wet cllcjt . Then woe Iks to tho?e in the houte who are alok t For at ?tir? a* a gun tliry will give up the ghost, It the magot ene* click, wIkii itacratches the pcAt. But * kettle of ncahlmg Ivot water injectcd, litfull.bly enm tins timber afl'cctcd i The omen is broken, I|m danger la over, The m?got will Air, and tlicaick will recover." Gross tells uh thai " the clicking of *dcath watcli is an omen of the death of aome otiu in the houMs wherein it is heard." Deuth Omtnt peeullur to /amf/le#.?Grose tells uh thai besides general notices of death, many families have peculiar warning* or no' iices \ some by the appearance of * bird, and others by the figure of a tall woman, dressed all in white; who goes shrieking about the bouse. This apparition is cumiuon in Ireland, where it is called tteushea, and the shrieking Woman, Mr. Pennant say*, that many of the great families in Soollaud bad their Dtemon or Geni-| u?, who gave them motion* of fotoro ovents.~ Thus the family of Rotbmurvbas had the Rodack au dun, or the ghost of the Hill | Kinchardine* tho ?|>cctro of the bloody Hand. Gartinbeg House was haunted by Bouach Uartin, and Tuf loch dorms by Maug Monlack, or the girl with the hairy left hand. Hie Synod gave frequent ordora,tnat .Inquiry should be made into the truth of thin apparition f out or two declared that they bad seen one that answered the des cription. Air. Pentiont, in describing the custom of the Highlanders, tells us that in certain places the death of peoplo is supposed to be foretold bv tho cries ana shriek of Benshl or the Fairy's Wife, uttered along the. very path where the funeral is to paas \ and what in Wales are called Cropps Candles are olten imagined to appear and fortel mortality. On the country of Caer marthen there is hanHy arfy one that dies but some one or other sees his fight or candle. There is a similar superstition athonjt the vul> gar in Northumberland. They call it seeing the waff of the person whose death itfortells. Ring James, in his Dsemonologjr, says " In ii secret murther. If tho dead carcasses be at any time thereafter handled by the murlhcrer. ft will gush out bipod, a* if tlfo blood were crying to Heaven for revenge ortho inurthcrer." Reginald Scot too, iu his discovery of witch craft, Hays, " I have heard by credible report, that the wound of a roan murthered renewing bleeding at tho presence of a Hear JYiend or a mortal enemy. Diver* also write that if otfe pass by a murthered body, (though onknowri,) he shall bo stricken with feor ana feel in him* self some alteration by nature." Three loud and distinct knocks at the bed's head, saysGroio, of a sick person, or at tho bed's head or door of any of hia relations, is an Omen of his death. ? Among Death Omens (he tyflhertng of Bay tree* wan, according to Nuk/pcare, reckoned one. Thus Richard the Second i .J " 'Ti? thought the Ring It d?&i vie will not stajr. The bay tree* in our count ry*re all withcr'U." Upon which Steevens observes that M Borne of these prodigies are fdbnded in liollinshcfl.-r* * In this year a, in a manner throughout all the realine of England, old Baie Treea, withered, &c. This was esteemed a bad omen; for as I learn from Thomas Lupton's syxt Book of No table Thinges, 4to b. t. u Neythcr falling ttickncsis neythcr devyll, wyll infest or hurt one iu that place whereas a Day Tree is. The lioinayiiR* call it the Plant of the good An gel",*' &c. A writer in tho Athenian Oracle, asserts, that lie " knew a family never without a crick* ct before some otic dyed out of it t another, that an unknown voice always called the person that was to die; another that had something;like a wand struck upon tho walls i and another^ where Home bough always falls off a particular tree a little before death."?He adds inconsistently enough, " Hut ordinarily such talk is nonsense, and Hcpunds more upon fancy than any tiring else." ? In the same work, we read of " Its be ing a common thinjg that before a king or some great man dies or is beheaded, &c. his picture or imago suffers sumo some considerable dam* age, as falling from (lie plaoe where it hung, the string breaking by some strange invisible touch."?In Dr. Tleylin's Life of Archbishop I*aud, it is stated, that " the Bishop going into his study, which nobody could get into but him self, found his own picture lying aloi face, which extremely iierplexcuhim, ing upon it as ominous." Moron, in his journev through part of Scot* land, says: " Tains of Ghosts, llrowuics, Pa ries, Witches, aro the frequent entertainment I of a winter's evening among the native peasan* try, of Kircudbright*shire. It J* commngfl mon them to fancy that they see the fFraiw of a persons dying, which win lie visible 'W one and not to otliera present with tkern. Some times the good and the bad Angel of the person aro seen contending tn the jm&ti of a white and btack dog. Only tho Gto?rof wicked person* aro supposed to return to wit and disturb their old acquaintance. Within these last tweiity years, it was hardly potffofo to meet with any person who hud not seen many. Wraiths tw Ghosts in the.fiottrio Of his experience.*' along on its he look* SCOTCH Musir. In this musical age, many of our Readers wilt no doubt be gratified by the following original ' er from the celebrated l)r. franklin to Lot<1 Efts, with which we have been favoured, by %?fhfiteur of Pastoral Melody." The let ierls dati'd June 2, 1709. ; In my passage to America, I had four ex cellent work the t4 Elements of Critlehmin which I found great entertainment? I only wished you had examined more fully the sub* ject of music) and demonstrated that the plea sure which artists feel in hearing much of that composed in the modern taste, is iyit the natural pleasure arising from melody or harmony*of sounds, but of the same kind with tho pleasure we feel on seeing the surprising feats of turn* biers and rope-dancers who perform difficult thihga. For my part I take this to be tho real case and suppose if tho reason why those unprac tised In music, and therefore unacquainted with those difficulties, have little or no pleasure in hearing this music j many pieces of it are mere .compositions of tricko. t have sometimes at a conbert, attended by* common audience, un? practined in music, placed myself ho as to sen all their faces, ana observed no signs of plea sure in them, during; * great part of what was admired by the performers themselves, while a plain old Scotch tune, which thfey disdained, and could scarcely be prevailed on to play* gave manifest and general aeligjKfc Give me leave, on tWs occasion* to extend * little the sense ol your position?" That melody and harmpnv are separately agreeable, aiu} in union delightful |**? and, to give it as my opinion, that the reason why the Hcotch tunes have lived so Ions, ami (if they escape being stifled in modern affected ornament) will pro^ly Hve forever, h merely tli?4?thai they really compositions of weld* dy anil harmony united, or nithen that their melody la harmony t I mean ,uio pimple tune# sung by a singlo voice. At this will appeaf paradoxical, lmust explain my meaning. In common acceptation, an agreeable suc cession of soundsis called Melody, and the co* existence of agreeable sounds, Harmony. Bat aince the memory la eapablo of retaining for for tome moment** a perfect idea of the pitch of a part aound, soaa to compare with the pitoh of a aucceeding aoand, and judge truly of their agreement or disagreement, were may# and doea arise from thence a sense of harmony be* tween the present and past aofiods, equally pleasing with that between two present sounds. Now the construction of the old Scotch tunes is this) that a! moat every succeeding etuphati* cal note ia a third, a fifth, an octave, or In short, some note that lain concord with tho preceding note | thirds are chicfly used which are very concords. I use the word emphatical to dis* tinguish those notes, which have a stresa laid on them in singing tlia tunc, from the light con* nectiug notes, that serve merely, like grammar articles in common apeech, to tack the whole together. rhat wo have a moat perfect idea of a sound gust past, I might appeal to all acquainted with music i who know how easy it ia to repeat a aound in the same pitch with one h^ara. In tuning an instrument, a good ear can caaily de termine, that two strings are in unison, by. sounding them seperatoly, aa byaoundingthem together: their disagreement is also as eully. I believe I may aay more easily, and better dla* tinguished, when sonnding separately, for, when sounded together, though you knotr'by the beating that one ia fiigfier than theftber, you cannot tell whlckftis. I have ascribed to me'iiorv the ability of comparing tiny pitch of a present tone wltn thft or one part. Bat if there should&(aap<wbly there do,) something in the enr similar to what we find in tho eye, that ability would not be entirelv owing to memory.?Pdiiiibly the vibration given to the auditory nerves by a particular aound, may ac ttyally continue some time after the cause of th^se vibrations is past, and the agreement or disagreement of a subsequent sounu, became by comparison with them more disagreeable.-** Farther; when wo considei by whom these ancient tunes were composed, and how they wore first performed* wo shall aeo that aucfi harmonical succession of sounds waa natural, and oven necessary, in the construction.-?They were composed by tho Minstrels of those days, to be played on the harp, accompanied by the voice. The liara waa atrung with wire, which gives a sound of long coatinuanee, and had no contrivanco like that of the modern harpsichord, by which the sound of the preceding could be stopt, the moment asuccedlng note began. To avoid actual discord, it waa therefore necessary, that the succeeding emphetic note should* bo a chord with the preceding, as their sou mis must exist attlie same time. Henee arose that beau ty in those tunes which had so long pleased, and wilt please for ever, though men scarce know why. i-7^ That they were originally composed for the harp, and tnat of the most simple kind (I mean a harp without any half qotes, but those in the natural scale, and with no more than two oc taves of strings, from C. C.) I conjecture, from another circumstance which, is that not one of those tunes really ancient, haa a single ar tificial note in it? and that in tunes where it was most convenient for the voice, to use the mid? die notes of the. harp, and place the key in F. there the B, which if u?ed> should be a B ftfct, is always Emitted# by passing ove* it with a The connoiseur in modern music will say I have no taste1 but 1 cannot help adding that 1 believe our ancestors, in hearing a good song, distinctly articulated, aung to one of thtyse tune?, and accompanied by the harp, felt more real pleasure than is communicated by the generality of modern Operas, exclusive of that arising from the scenery and dancing. 1 am, &c. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. A RAY IW I.ONDON. In ttio following description of some of (ho moral features or London from a work just mbliohcd in New York wo mar see more to gratify curiosity than cxcitc cither envy or admiration. * In the morning all is cals*?not a mouse stirring before ten o'clock j the *hops then begin to nntn. Milk women, with their nails perfectly ncut, suspended at the two extremities of a yoke, carefully shaped to fit the shoulders, and sur rounded with small till measure* of cream, ring at every door with reiterated pulls, to basteu the house servants, who come halt asleep to receive a measure as big as an egg, being the allowance of a family j for it is necessary to explain, that milk is not here either food or nk, but a tincture?an elixir exhibited in drops, five or six at most in a cup of tea, morning andT evening. It would be difltrult to say what taste or what quality these drops may impart j hut so it is', and nobody thinks of nuentionlnx the propriety of tllo custom. Not a single carriage, not a cart arc seen passing. The first considerable stir is the drum and military music of the guards. marching from their barracks to Hyde T'fcrk, having at their head three or four negro giants, striking high, gracefully and strong the resounding cymbal. About three or four o' clock, the fashionably .world gives tome signs of life, issuing fourth to pay visits, or rather leavo cards at the domra of friends, never seen but in the crowd of assemblies j to go to the shops, see sights or lounge in Bond street?an ugly* inconvenient street* the attractions of whicn it ia difficult to understand. At Ave or sit they return home to drese for dinner. - The streets are (hen limited from one end to the other, rather edged on either side wih tiro long lines of littto brightish dots, indicative of light, but yielding In ftfct very little j these are the lampi. They are not suspended in the ntfddt* of tho street*, ai at Pari*, but fixed on ii sight or nine feet high, ranged along tho h c?. llio want of roflcctors Is probably cause of Uielr giving so little light From Hi eight, the noise of wheels increase*j It it dinner hour. A multitude of carriages, i two eyes of flamo.staring in iho dark before < of them, shake tho pavement and tho * houses, following anucrossiug each otlit Ail I speed. Stopping suddenly a footman lu down', runs to the door, ana lifts the lie knocked?gives a ureat knock, then sev smaller ones in quick succession and them all hie might, flourishing as on a drum,* an art, and an air, and a delicacy of touch, wl denote the quality, t|io rank, and the fortun hts master. '* MFor two hours, or nearly, there is a pau teuarafoitMeMfiifcomeson. This is theg crisis of dress, of noise, and of rapidity universal hubbub | a sort of uniform grim and ahaking, like that oxpei^enced in a tr mill with fifty pair of stonejf and if I wan afraid of appearing to exaggerate, I should that it can only appear like the fall of Niag heard at two miles distance I This crisis i tinues undiminished till twelve jor om o'cto then less and less during the rest of the nig} till, at tho approach of day, a single carriajj heard now and then at a great distance. " Great assemblies are called routs or Mrti buJMhti peoplo who give them, in their .It taflPI only say, that tlioy will be at home s a day, and tbissome weeks before hand, house in which this takes place, ia Croquet ou ret apaHment by the mistress ofthe house stand who smiles at. every new comer with a lool acquaintance. Nobody ?ttM .thff*?t M < vernation,?? cards, no ?wlfei^yelfew turning and winding from room to room 11) at the end of a quarter of an hour, eecapin the hall do4r to wait for the carriage, spend more time Upon the threshold, among footn tlian you have done above ataira with tl masters. From this rout you drive to anotl where, after wanting your turn toanrto at door perhaps half an hour, the street being of carriages, you alight, being in the same ro? and endin the same manneivV v ? FABI1IONADLB WORLD.", Under this, or some similar title, the final editor generally introduces his readers* dtt tention to an important column of his papei The following if) a specimen of tb6 degratlinj beisance which the proud or upMart nobility pect from those npt yet made noble t " Forgetting that themtelve* are all derived M From the moot scoundrel race that ever livM Without aome such stuff, the editor o British no per wotiltl find fow readers t i '? Lady Holland yawned much yesterd her malady is supposed to have been occasio I by aitting op later than usual. lite princess Mary, while taking a morr walk, fell and hurt her toe. , . ? | " On Wednesday, her majesty wf Ji coa^h and foaf to Brighton, ana then(-+ rode back again. * 'V'jif . ?? On Sunday next, thebuhop of ?, entertain a select company j Mrs. Clarke be of the parly. ~ " I?sdy L?^? arrived Itome at 8 o'clock moroiturjftom lord 0??*8, whero she si tiie nljSnt in playing whist. " llio rev. Iman ef ?*-?>?, is ill. The na of his disorder ia kept sectet" Such, Amerlcamgpader, is the fare to wl the English editor weats his reader. Bcwat fashionable nobility. A Strong governn would give you a nobility?would give yo INTELLIGENCE. FROM LONDOM. Last evening arrived here the brig Citli Atwell, 40 days from London. Slje brings pers to the &d of July J they contain not) of great importance?general tranquility co nucd thoughout Europe, bet no aoatemen tlioiv ilittrtui had taken place. Indeed t calamities were considerably heightened by gloomy prospecta of tl?e harvest being cut Private letters announce, that Bavary Lallemand had aet out from Smyrna, on t wav to Pernio. Mr. Gallatin was introduced to Loui* XV on tlie irtli of July, and presented hit crc< tials. All the advivc9 from Germany,the Low 6< tries and Switzerland agree, tfiat no season been more deplorable than the present, weather lias been very hot and dry In the w Seventeen Algcrine vessels were taken Sardinia by 3 or 400 peasant*. Lord Rxmouth got under way .'With* his ' for Algiers on the ?1?( Jty*. It U officially announce^ that all idea of marriage of Perdinantl 7th. and his brotlm the Portuguese princesses is abandon^. '* Considerable difficulty has arisen a'tWong allies, in consequence of the exhaultfcd stai the Krelich treasury. I?ord Wellington's to l?ondon. was relative to this point. French sniii the troops must be withdrawn else Kngland must pay for them.?Do$t. Ch OnKADFUlTACClDRNT Between C and 7 o'clock last evening, steam boat enterprise put off from ftuliv Island, on her passage to town* When al 100 yards from the shore, when most of nassongers were crowded in the cabin to s the rain, which was heavily falling at the t the boiler burst! The nwse of the explo was so slight as not to have immediately ? ted the attention of those In the cabin, until hissing of the bolting water, and the cric the wounded occasioned a general* const* tion. There vai on board about seventy p.v gere--but, providentially, very few lemab