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r?R- IITTXtPNRPvha TflT*R. NO. X.
LONDON.
Dissenting Chapels.
All the houses of public worship in Eng.,
land, not belonging to the establishment, are j
called chapels. Many of these in London, j
and indeed in all the principal tonus are;
very large. Some of them, it is said, w ill j
seat twenty-five hundred people. A low 1
prcseut a handsome exterior to the eye; hut i
for the most part, they are very plain look- j
ing buildings, and not easily distinguished .
from the private edifices by which they are
surrounded. They have neither bells, nor ;
steeples, nor any thing iike tower or cupola, i
to tell you at a distance, or even to enable j
you to conjecture, where and what they arc.
These ornaments and conveniences were i
formerly denied to the whole body of Dis- j
SGQlCrS, UHUCr seven; pouuiuos. uuu JII answer
to my enquiries, I was often told that
the law is still in ibrce. Others, however,
think it is not, and seem to be quite confident
that auy congregation might raise a spire
and put up a bell, without peril or moiesta-;
tion. My impression, from all I could gath-!
cr, is, that the arbitrary statutejust alluded j
to, has never been repealed?that it might j
be enforced, and could be, in some of the j
diocesses, should the Independents have the !
temerity to vie wtih the Establishment, in
the construction of their chapels, but that in j
most places the law has so fur become a j
dead letter, that hardly any one would at-!
tempt to execute it. But even the obso- j
lotc existence of such a law, would be a re- [
proach to any Christian government in the;
world. The American traveller in his 4fath.:
er land,' cannot think of it. without feeling :
his blood move quicker in his veins. What! j
may not a congregation of as good and !
loyal subjects as can be found in the British 1
empire, build a steeple, or ring a bell, to |
-- - * - -1 T It 1
call the people togetncr on tne L.oru s uay,
without exposing themselves to indictment,
fine and imprisonment! I low long would
any government stand, that should exact 1
-anil attempt to enforce such a law in the j
/United States ! VVe could do well enough ;
without steeples to our churches, no doubt,!
as well as they ; but we want the liberty of;
t- attaching them to our barns even, if wc 1
please, and it is quite certain we should j
please, if any body were to ma!;c a lav.* to .
hinder us.
. In shape and general construction, the
English chapels differ very considerably
from the prevailing style of church building
in this country. They are square buildings,
or nearly so, with very deep or wide galleries,
own extending quite round behind the
pulpit, and so as to furnish nearly as many
sfctnngs, I should think, above as below.
TheVpulpit, of course, is advanced many
feet tow ards the centre of the house, and a
great nfcanv of the audience are behind the
speaker.-*-Th is is a very bad arrangement,
any whetfe, if it can be avoided. The
preacher ought to have the whole congregation
under the glance of his eye, aud so
seated that they can see his face as well as
hear hia voice. And I am sure these advantages
can be secured in church archi- j
tccture, because they are secured in many j
of our largest places of worship. The finish
of most of the chapels wbich I saw in
London, is very plain; altogether plainer
than with us, especially in our large cities.
This, I think, is rather in their favor than
ours. Neatness and comfort in a house of
worship, 1 admire, out much ornament seems
out of place.
All the English chapels, so far as I had
opportunity to observe, have vestries attached
to them, either in the main building or in
a projection. The vestry is a small room,
fitted up for the convenience of the minister.
Whether there be any law against Dis.scnting
preachers being called clergymen, I
do not know; but they are always called
.ministers?the other title being reserved exclusively
for those who have passed under
the hands of the bishops. Instead of going
directly up the aisle and into the desk as we
do, the minister enters the vestry by a back
door, where there is a fire, if neeeded, and
where he can rest himselfas long as he pleases,
cither before or after service. This
struck mc as a very excellent arrangement.
When the moment forcommencing the public
exercises arrives, (for they are remarkably
punctual) the sexton comes in to give
the preacher notice?takes up the great
Bible, and proceeds to place it in the desk.
The minister follows immediately, and the
first the congregation seo of him, he is in
his place, ready to begin. The clerk often
read the first Psalm, and sometimes this part'
of the service devolves entirely upon him.
I rarely saw a considerable choir of singers;
and those few which I did see kept
themselves rather in the back ground. The j
clerk lines out the psalm, as i: is called, and '
all who can raise a note, unite in carrying |
the tune through, or being carried through
w ith it, by those who are stronger and more
skilful than themselves. Our friends in
England are exceedingly attached to this
I congregational singing, and it must bo con- v;
| fessod, that it* there is less science and taste tli
! than von liud in our churches, there is oltuii j ti]
more devotion. Bilis ior prayers, &c. are t ai
in some places handed ut> to the preacher, ] n
I as he sits in the desk, on the end ot a long fn
i rod, made ibr the purpose, which struck me Vi
| as a new contrivance, though 1 must confess j |>|
! it is very convenient. j t<]
[ One thing I observed in some of tiiv? j jj,
i chapels, which would have afforded such a j jK
| one-eyed tourist as Capt. Hall, or Mrs. j <?l
j Troliopc, matter ibr a tine tirade upon Brit-j
[ tish manners and customs.?1 allude to the j a.
! female sextons, (perhaps they call them by [ NV
some other name,) whose business it is to ol
carry tiio Bibio into the desk and to lind t C(
seats lor strangers. Now 1 mustacknowl-} ft.
edge, tlutio see a woman waiting at ?hc |
dour, or standing in the aisles, and every j
now and then preceding two, or three, orj-,
half a dozen men through the whole length I ,
of the house, to liud them seats, struck me j j,
as trenching upon genuine Christian dcco-j j n
rum. It is such an encroachment upon that f ^
retiring modesty, which is one of the bright- J
est ornaments of the female sex, as I am
. - i .i- . .. 1 m
sure woutu met:! witu general disapprobation ^
in one of our congregations. Anil with all .
my respect for the good taste and superior ,'
polish ??f our kindred on the other side of the
water, I cannot possibly awurd to them the .
palm in this particular. If it is a proof of
superior refinement, it is one which our modcrate
proficiency has not enabled us yet to jC
discover. '
Ere. John Wesley's Chapef. .
This, if I was rightly informed, is one of
the largest Dissenting places of worship in *
London. The sexton showed ns the build- ..
ing, and pointed out the place where sleep
the remains of that extraordinary man, ^
who once held listening thousands here in tj(
breathless attention. 1 felt a thrill run
over inc. us I stepped up into the pulpit,
and stood in the very spot, from which the |
irreat founder of one of the most flourish
p- - - - t # r t THI
in" denominations in the United Kingdom
, c yi
so often addressed his early followers. It ^
is not necessary for a person to abjure j.
Calvinism, or even to bcinlluenced by the j
slightest methodistical binssns, in order to j
admire such a man as John Wesley. I am .
sure of it, from my own experience.? j o
How gl idly would I have seen that vener- kkj
able form, and heard that persuasive voice. af
Not that I should have disturbed his re- j 15
pose, had it been in my?power.?But as ;
i can never cease to admire the men of |
whatever serf, who stood up for evangeli-!
cal piety, in a suffering and degenerate
age, so it would be quite impossible forme
to visit the very place where they worship- .
ped Hod, and tread upon their ashes without
strong emotion. This is not the place
to discuss the merits, or the creed of Mr. ^
Wesley. From some ofhis doctrinal views r
/ . ? r __4 O..4I *1
many ot us conscientiously uissew. dui j
certainly he was a man ot* wonderful forecast
and sagacity, as u ell as eminent piety, ^
unquenchable zeal and prodigious labors,
lie was horn to command?not by the
power of tho sword, but by a high moral
and religious influence?uot by the help '
of lite secular and ecclesiastical arm, but
# #
in spite of it. The time will conic, I have ]'
no doubt, when John Wesley will have
let* a deeper impress of himself upon liuman
society, than Napoleon Buonaparte, ^
for the image of lite Conqueror will nearly j
vanish with lite lirst generation, while that j
of the Reformer seems likely to retain /
much ol its original freshness, and to inul.
. m
tiply its impressions, tor ages to conm. j.
The remains of f)r. Adam Clarke lie near j
to those of Air. Wesley.
liunhUI Fields. i
This is a very ancient and extensive bu- pi
rying ground, lying on the city road, and sk
not far from Wesley's Chapel. I spent u!
li.:? _
an nour, pcrnaps, in warning uvui n m
and reading the inscriptions upon the ui
tombs of the grc.it and the good. And in el
looking at tho time worn monuments of sn
John Dunyan, Dr. Watts, Dr. Owen, Dr. If
Waush, Dr. Gill, Dr. Hunter, Mr. Winter, dt
and many otiicr once burning and shining T
lights in the Church, I felt as if I was dt
treading upon holy ground !?Perhaps it t!i
was wrong. Perhaps toy veneration for bl
the noble army of martyrs and confessors, se
and puritan worthies, slumbering here, car- sc
ried me further, for the moment, than was rc
altogether safe, though I hope it did not. of
I am quite sure, that I was never in so tli
interesting a ccmetry before, and from ta
what I could learn of its history, I doubt, m
whether there is any other spot on earth, er
of equal extern, where so many sleep in of
Jesus as here.?For ages it has been the
favorite resting place of exalted piety.
During those times which tried men's so
souls from the fires of Sinithfield, down gc
through several succeeding reigns, the pu- th
ritans and non-comformists are said to have sn
preferred this to every other place of se- so
pulture; and the greater the number of hi
those who through much tribulation cn- th
tered the kingdom of heaven, were buried of
at Bunhill Fields, the greater became the nt
desire of enjoying tlie same honor. We lis
cannot suppose that all who sleep with rn
Bunyan and Watts and Owen, died in the sc
Lord?but that thousands died, we have die th
best evidence which heroic endurance, di
I humble faith, and patient continuance in gi
| well-doing can furnish. m
I What a scene will he presented here, ta
on the morning of the resurrection, when pi
, all these graves come to ho opened?when sp
'this mortal shall put on immortally'? | p<
when these 'vile bodies shall bo fashionsd j < j
like unto the glorified body of Christ'? u;
! when these thousands shall 'he caught cp in
| together to meet the Lord in tbe air!? And !
I where, I cannot help asking, will those; h:
; tiicn appear, who shut up the churches nf)
i these just men; hunted them from ouopri-1 a
ito room to another; spoiled them o
icir ^oods; starved their families; thret
lem into prison, and left them to wast
vav in the damps and darkness of thei
nel confinement? Who would not in
nitelv prefer the lot of poor John Bun
in, or John Ilodgers, to that of thei
'oudest crowned and mitred persecu
us? For myself, 1 do not wonder, thn
iose who 'die the death of the righteous
we an earnest desire to make thei
raves with them, that their dust may hi
liiigled, and that they may rise togethe
the last day. It is natural, and win
ill say that it is wrong? Who that goe
it to hury n dear and pious friend, is no
nnt'orted, if he can lay those precious re
ains hy the side of those whom he ha
a>on to believe, have entered into th<
iiiu> rrlikri/kiic fuel ? A mt ti'Kril rUrlclI-ii
there, who, in looking over the buryinj
ace where he expects soon to lie him
:1T, does not fer-1, that it will be a privi
ge to sleep with the friends of that lie
;emer whom he loves and adores.
I confess that had it pleased God to la
e upon my last bed of sickness in Got)
>n there is no spot in which I shoal
ivo esteemed it so great privilege to b
tried as liunhill Fields. Is this weak
;ss ? Is this superstition ? Is it a fee!
g which it is unlawful to indulge, or c
hich any person in his sober senses ha
ason to be ashamed? The patiiarci
*cob would on no account, consent to b
iried in Fgypt, but on his death bed, h
barged his sons and said unto them
11 to be gathered unto mv people; bur
e with my fathers, in the cave, that is ii
e field of Maehpelah, which is befor
[mnrti. in tho bind of Ganaan. Thcri
ev buried Abraham and Sarah his nilc
ere (hey buried Isaac and ltebekah hi,
ife, and there I buried Leah! In !ik<
anner, when Joseph drew near the clos*
life, " He said unto his brethren, I die
id God will surely visit you, and brin<
>u out of this laud, unto the land w hid
j sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and I
icob. And Joseph took an oath of lh?
lildren of Israel, saying, God will suref
sit you, and ye shall carry up my hone
nice." So, 1 am persuaded, would ev
y christian say, could he have his choice
[Jury mc not in Egypt?make not 111
avc with the wicked; but with the rjglite
is, that we may rise and be glorified to
itlier."
Yours siucerelv,
0
1 L\J ur 1UL. UL?-!<'*
The last Amuricau Journal of Scienc*
ves an account of the invention (by Sc
ito au Italian) of a new method of preser
ng the bodies of the dead. The fact
c drawn from a pamphlet, published a
lortnee. Segato has visited Africa, fu
c purpose of constructing a map of it
irthern regions. Among the sands o
e desert he discovered a carbonized sub
J nee, which 011 close examination, prove*
be animal matter. lie afterwards loiin*
e entire body of a man, about a thin
nailer than the si/.e of life; it had bee
:rbonized by the beat of the sand, an
as partly of the colour of soot. It oc
irrtd to legate, that it might he possibl
imitate this natural process, by mean
art: and on his return to Italy, he boga
C JlCCesSUry OApUl liUl'lilS UUU <Jpjji;uo i
ivo been completely successful in con
:rtin?i animal substance to stone. Hi
?
elhod of operation is not given; but tin
Mowing arc some of the results.
Kntirc animal bodies may be as rcadil
ihjectcd to the process as small portions
hey become hard, and acquire propertie
ceisely similar to those of stone. Th
in, muscles, nerves, veins, and blooi
1 undergo the same change; nor need th
scera be removed. The colour, forrx
id general appearauce, remain un
langed. Offensive substances lose thei
ucll. Putrification is checked at once
the process bo carried only to a give
'grec, the joints arc perfectly ilexibh
he bones of skeletons, which have un
irgone this operation, remain united b;
eir natural ligameuts, which,though plia
e, arc solid and stony.?Moisture and in
cts can do no injury to animals thus pre
rved. Tho hair does not fall oil", be
tains a natural appearance. The siz
' the body, after the process, is a little les
an in its natural state; but no alteratio
kos place in the weight. The eyes, i
ost of tho animals that have been tha
nbalmcd, sparkle and lack only the powc
'motion, to appear just like life.
As proofs ofthecflicacy of hisinvcntior
?gato shows a canary bird which was pre
rved ten years ago, and has not under
me the slightest change; also, the eggs c
e land-turtle, water-snaks,' toads, fishes
ails and insects. It has likewise bee
iccessfully tried on various portions of th
nr.au body. The inventor possesses th
c emaciated hand of a lady who die
consumption ; a foot, retaining th
jils; the liver of an intemperate man, a
lt d and lustrous as ebony ; an entire hu
an brain, with all its eonvolusions; a girl'
alp, with the hair hanging in ringlets; an
e head of an infant, partly destroyed an
scoloured by putrefaction, which had be
111 its work before the experiment wa
ado. But Segyto's greatest curiosity is
bio, inlaid with two hundred and fourteen
cces of stone, (or what appears such,) c
ilendid and variegated hues, admirabl
dished. and so intensely hard, that a fil
tn scarcely mako the slightest scratch
>on them. These stones which would b
istaken for specimens of the most pre
ous marbles, are diilcrent portions of th
:ma;j body?the heart, liver, pancreas
ken, tongue, brain and arteries. Thu
multitude of men and women, once alivt
f have contributed fragments of their vital
v organs to form Segato's inlaid table: a poet
e perhaps has given his brain, an orator his
r tongue, an hvpocondriac his spleen, and a
- love-sick girl her heart?for even so ten
der a thing as a young girl's heart can now
r be changed to stone. In her life time it
- may have been all softness but after death
t if it pass through Segato's hands, a file can
i' make no impression on it.
r The limited means of the inventor have
e not hitherto permitted him to try the pror
cess 011 an entire human body; although
u the expense would be only one-tenth as
s great as that of embalming in the ordinary
t way. It is confidently believed, that dead
- persons may thus he preserved for ages,
3 with precisely the aspect that they were,
ix -1 i i i i 11r
Li iviien Ufjiiui laid nis nana upon mum. tvc
n can perceive no reason why these stony
<r figures, which once were mortal, should not
- last as long as a marble statue. Instead of
- seeking the sculptor's aid to perpetuate the
- form and features of distinguished men,
the public may henceforth possess their
y very shape and substance when the aspi
ring souls have left them. The statesman
d may stund in the legislature hall, where he
e once led the debate, as indestructible as
- the marble pillars which support the roof.
- lie might be literally a pillar of The state.
>f Daniel W ebster's form might help to ups
hold that Capital, assisted bv the great of
h all parties, each lending a stony arm to the
e good cause. The warrior?our own old
e General?might stand forever on the sumI
mit of a battle-monument, overlooking his
y iicid of victory at New Orleans. Nay,
ii every mortal, when the heart has ceased to
e beat, may be straitway transformed into a
e tombstone and our cemeteries be thronged
; with the people of past generations, fixing
s their frozen stare upon the living world,
e ?????
u RURAL rCOXOJIV.
* queries relative to the culture ge silk,
l'rom the Silk Culturist.
AUentown, (A. J.) Ftb. 12,1836.
Sir.?The manufacture of silk, and the
e cultivation of the mulberry in the United
^ States, has become a subject of such great
s imnortnnce. that the unlet of our village has
been roused by its influence, and several of
us are now making arrangements to plant
y orchards in the spring.
The business is now, and though your
excellent paper would seem to contain all
the information required bv those engaging
in it, yet there are some apparent contradictions
by your correspondents, upon matters
which we, who rely upon what we read to
e guide us in the enterprise, are desirous to
- have reconciled. Hoping, therefore, that
- you will receive this as a sufficient apology
s for intruding upon your time and attention,
t allow me to propose the following queries.
r Some of your writers say the young trees
s should not be stripped sooner than five years
if from the time they were transplanted. Othi
ers, that worms in sufficient numbers may
j be fed from them the second year, that is,
[1 the nc.\t year after transplanting them, as I
d understand it, to defray expenses, and that
ii the third year's crop will furnish silk enough
d to give a nett profit of 8100 per acre.
1st. Which statement is the practical and
true one ?
s 2d. I low old from the seeds should the
n plants be, before they may most profitably
0 be transplanted ?
3d. From the orchard planted in hedge
s form, the plants 2A feet distant, and the rows
r, 12 feet apart, how many worms may be
fed the second year, supposing the statement
.. to be correct, which advises this early leafrrr
! TVtT
? it i am uoi iii;siuk<;ij, ;u, u iauuivie
guo in Ins book, notes American cocoons,
j without their ehrysales, at 6 grains, which
e would require 1130 to the pound, whilst a
writer in your paper gives from 2G0 to 300 /
' 5th. You state $3 per bushel, as the price
r of cocoons?how are they measured? Three
, bushels may, without difficulty, be put in
n' and on one.
Gth. Can cocoons by any care be packed
for market without indenting vast numbers
of them, which is said to destroy their value ?
7th. Before measuring and packing,
arc they stripped of the floss, or are they
sold with that attached ?
. 8th. What amount of silk can an ordinary
rccler wind from the cocoons in a
e dav ?
s
If it will not lax your goodness too far, to
answer in the next number of the Cultiva.
tor, the above queries, you will, by so doing,
b greatly oblige your humble servant,
T ^ WILLIAM I ML AY.
P. S. From the inducements held forth
'' in your paper, I have purchased 7000 trees,
to be planted in the way stated in the third
" query. Three other gentlemen in our village
11 I are nrenarinrr to set out ail C'oual number.
J J o i
>
11 Answer hj the Editor.
1st. It is tin* opinion of the most experienced
cuiturist, that trees two years old, may
be stript of their foliage without injury, proe
vided the leaves on the extremities of the
s brunches are suffered to remain. It is,
* however, recommended by some, to let the
s trees remain one year alter the first picking,
^ in order that thev may recover from the
d loss of their foliage. Trees of two and three
years old, yield but little foliage, and conses
queutly, not much profit must be expected
a from tbem. It is, however, supposed that
n potatoes, beans, or other low vegetables may
'f be raised among them, in sufficient quunti*
Y ties to defray the expense of their cultivae
tion and give a small profit
h Wc have had no experience in feeding
c from trees of this description, but a gentle.
- man of tin's country informs us, that he fed,
e : the last season, 50,000 worms, on the Co!,
| iiage of 50,000 white mulberry trees, on
s I their third years growth, and made at least
ten pounds of silk. The method he pur
sued, was by pruning the trees, in such a
manner as would best promote their growth
and form, and feeding the worms on the i
boughs cut off. Tiiese with such other foliage
as lie could gather from the remaining
branches, furnished hiin with food sufficient
for his family of 50,000 worms. By
this experiment it will be seen, that a tree on
its third year's growth, sustained a worm,
and enabled it to make its cocoon. The
Chinese mulberry at two and three year's old
will yield un abundance of foliage, and much
more than 8100 nett profit may be made
i from an acre thickly set, and highly cultivated.
2d. Trees should always remain in the
seed bed, or nurseries, until they are two or
three year's old, if they are to be transported
any considerable distance for transplantation.
The last snrinir we transplanted
I c? 10,000
seedlings, about half of which diet'.
They were, however; transported about 20
miles, and were sometime out of the ground.
When trees are to be merely transplanted
from the nursery, to the plantation, it is considcred
by many, advisable to remove them
at one year old. They will put out more
brunches, require more pruning, and consequently,
furnish more food for the worm,
at two and three year's old.
! 3d. It is impossible to answer this inquiry
with sufficient precision for any practical
i purpose. Much depends on soil, cultivation,
pruning, &c.
4th. The weight of cocoons, and the number
in a pound, varies according to their
quality, the time when they are weighed,
&c. We should think they would average
from 250 to 300, to the pound, immediately
after the worm is destroyed, and before
they are thoroughly cured. As they become
dry, they loose their weight, and when
so, a pound, of some qualities, muy require
the number stated by M. D'Homcrquc.
--> /i . >
otn. cocoons arc measureu oy puumg
them gently into the measure and rounding
it. There is a difficulty in ascertaining
their actual measure or weight, ns they vary i
materially, according to the manner oi'measuring,
or the time of* weighing. The most
equitable method of coming at their value,
is to weigh the silk after it is reeled, and for
this purpose, among others, should the ,
grower acquire the art of reeling. Until
this is done, the better way is to carry the
? i .1 i i 1
cocoons to the mature ana nave tncin reeicu
by a skilful reeler. The silk can then be
weighed, and the expense of reeling deducted?the
number in a bushel varies according
to their size, ranging from 2,500 to
2,00f\
0. There is no difficulty or danger in packing
or transporting cocoons, provided the
directions lor preserving and transporting
them, given in former numbers, arc duly
regarded.
7th. The floss ought not to be taken
from the cocoons if they arc to bo sent to
market. It prevents their becoming indentcd,
which ^materially injures them. Some
manufacturers prefer flossed cocoons, on
account of the measure, but what they lose
in measure is more than made up to them
in their quality.
0. The quantity of silk which can be reeled
in a day, depends upon the quality oftlie
cocoons, the reel used, and the experience
and dexterity of the reeler. Some reelers j
will reel a pound; but the average among
ordinary reelers, would not much exceed j
half the quantity.
j From tho Silk Calturist.
I .TORUS MULTICAULIS IN EAST FLORIDA.
1 In the last Silk Culturist there is an article
under this heading, giving some acj
count of the Morus Multicuulis in the gar'
den of the Rev. Mr. Thomas, as seen
j about the middle of December last. A corI
rcct account of the accidental experiment
j by Mr. Thomas, may be useful, pcfliaps to
the growers of the Morus Multicuulis, and
as it stands in the article of E. H. alluded
to, it may mislead them. I take the liberty to
send you a true history of the matter.
In November of J3U I arrived in St. Au- i
gustine, with fifty smali plants of the Morus
| Multicaulis, obtained from Mrs. Parmentier.
They were the first ever brought to Florida.
Little attention was bestowed on them.
They were planted in a crowded nursery,
and allowed to vegetate as they could till
the Spring of *35, when some of them were
laid and some cuttings taken from tiicm.?
I A few which had room to expand are now
fruit bearing trees of some ten inches in
circumference. It was late in the spring
or perhaps June, when i gave the Rev. Mr.
Thomas a few cuttings and with them a
sprout with a fibre of root, which was recommended
to his special care. Ife pave
it a good situation and its growth was remnrkable.
In three months, I have no
doubt it had increased in volume one hundred
fold. At this time, about the first of
September, I advised Mr. T. to lay it; but
he replied that it was so beautiful he disliked
to spoil it. lie did, however, lay it
in the early part of September, and in
three months more, wlien lie was talking of ;
a return to Carolina, I offered him ten dollars,
I think, for the product of the little
plants 1 had given him six months before,
lie probably got much more. The case,
1 however, was a remarkable one.
The plant may be propagated here much I
more rapidly than at the North, as the
growing season is ten months instead of
fi?e or sis; but we are not to expect in cxten- 1
ded operations, to realize results ia proportion
to Mr. Thomas* success with a single 1
plant. Mostly from the small lot of plants 1
I brought on as above, there are now some
twenty or thirty thousand in the Teritory;
and as within the last }-ear I have introduced
a new and larger stock from the
North; and as others have also brought in
some, within two years, or if allowed to proceed
in their propagation by our masters,
the Seminolcs, there may be millions ofjthe
Moruj Multicaulia in East Florida. Th? I
unfortunate Mott, when attacked and rnordered
was employed in planting the MoruS
Multicaulis.
D. Brown. 1
St. Augustine, June 13, 1836.
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From the nim.
Fredericksburg, Va. Jtxs 30th, 1886Mr.
F. G. Comstock, Esq.
Dear Sib:?The excitement Upon the
silk business is getting high in this part bf
the country. A company,called the Potomac
Silk and Agricultural Company, obtain*
ed a charter from the Legislature in March
last, with a capital of $5000, with the privilege
of increasing it to $50,000. They
held their first meeting ou the 4th insh
when the following officers were elected: ;
JOHN MONCURE. President.
Wm. A. Jackson, 1
Heney R. ROW. lDincWrt. .
Thos. F. Knox, f .
Wm Aitpk. \
Thos. F. Kn*ox, Secretory end Trtatunfi '
The Company have purchased 400 acres
of land, and have planted about 2000 Chi*
nese Mulberry trees. They led about
5000 worms this season, merely as an experiment
in an old house, without a covering,
and consequently exposed to all the rain
that fell, and remarkable to say, not a worm 4
died; the rain seemed rather to refresh them.
A gentleman who visited the farm a few days I
since, brought home with him a small busli 1
that was filled with cocoons of very largo . \
size. The worms were fed with the black
and white mulberry leaf, of which there is a
sufficiency to feed one milllion of worms.?
The black and white mulberry tree is very
abundant on the land, some of a very large
size.
J IW|A*WII Ul*T f
h. r. robtj '
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Market for Cocoons.?The Northampton
Silk Company advertise for 10^.
000 bushels Cocoous, at prices from |3 ;
50 to 85 per bushel.?Silk Culturist.
Importation of Cattle.
Mr. Duningerfield of Alexandria, Dis- *
trict of Columbia, has lately imported fc
number of fine English cattle* They are
of the Durham breed, and among them ore
a bull and two heifers, of first rate pedigree j
and boautiful appearance. The importoof
improved breeds of cattle, formerly a rare
occurrence, is beginning to be common, and
will soon have a very beneficial effect upon
the native stock of the country.?lb.
the dalkv zone.
Wo have heard the remark repeated,
that in (he United States, the cheese
and butter district is circumscribed between
the parallels of 40 aod 45 degrees ^
north latitude. It seems to be true, that
the principal cheese dairies are within
those parallels; and that althoegb very
excellent fresh butter is made in Pennsylvania,
and in states west and south, jet
we have an impression, witliout being able
to determine, at present, how true it is m
fact, that comparatively little butter is pro-J'
duced for exportation south of New*York.
Whether this fact is mereit imaginary, of
being true, whether it is owing la climate,
to herbage, or to incidental causes, we
shall not stop to inquire. Most pleats and
animals havo their natural zone, beyond
which they deteriorate or do not lure
The potato, for instance, deteriorates
south of latitude 40; and the fact is of
common notoriety, that cows do not furnisli
that abuandance cf milk in the southern
States, that they do in the northern. .
The reputation of Goshen butter is well
established; and yet we are persuaded,
that butter made with the same care in
the northern and western parts of tlw
state, particularly in the hilly and undnllK
ting districts, is as good as.that mode in,
the county of Oraegev And' why should
it not be so 1 The climate and hcrbagu
are similar.
INDIAN CORN.
All, or nearly all, the accounts we have:
published ot great products of Indian cornagree
in two particulars, viz : in not using
- - _
the plough rn the culture, and ta not eartlii?g,
or but very slightly, tDe hills.. These
results go to demonstrate, that the entire' .
roots arc essential to the vigor of the crop;
and that roots, to euabfe them to performtheir
functions as nature designed, must
be near the surface* If the roots arc
severed with the plough, in dressing the
crop, the plants ore deprived of a portion
of their nourishment; and if they are buried
deep by hilling, the plhnt i? partially
exhausted in throwing out a new set near
the surface, whore atone they can performall
their offices. There is another mate*,
rioi adraotago in this mode of cultivating
the crop?ft saves avast deal of manual
fab^r. See the communication of Mr,
TomKnsoti, in to-day's paperThere
is another question of interest
to farmers, which relates to the mode of
harvesting the crop, that is, whether h is
best to top the stocks, cut the whole at the
ground when the gi ain is glazed, or cut the
whole when ihe grain has fully ripened. We
have stated the experiments of Mr. Clark,
of Northampton, one of the best practical
farmers of our country, and-of other gentleman,
showing, that the grain suffers a
diminution of six or eight bushels the acre,
by topping the stocks; and there aeeas
to be oo counterbalancing benefit ta the
fodder, unless at the expense of carrying
the stocka to the borders of the field, fltac
they may be secured before the crop Is
gathered, and before they becotne blanched
and half rained. And it is protection
against early autumns! frosts, bai