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[E: The Postage must lie paid on all corninunications sent by mail. RCKAL ECONOMY. Contents of the Southern Agriculturist, for November, 1836. Original Communications.?Cotton Crops of this year; Our Southern Planters' interests considered, by Caler; On the Preservation of the Sweet Potato, by One Interested; Smut in Wheat?Potato Oats, bv ^4 Practical Planter; Eye Wash, by C, TF. Petit Gulf Cotton and Corn, by Ari Observer; On the advantages of Potato Cellars, by St. Peter's Parish; Green Rye .as a Manure for Cotton and Corn, by An Inhabitant of St. Bartholomews; Cure foi the Dropsy, Rheumatism, &c. Castor Oil, by Caler; Notions on the Management ol Negroes, bv A Planter. Selections.?Van Mon's method ol raising Fruit Trees from the Seed ; The method of ruising Thorn Plants, by Roberi Watts ; Lime as a Manure; Liming destroys Malaria ; Green Crops as Manure; Profit of the Chinese Mulberry, Ward Cheney ; On Silk in Italy : Beet Sugar; Cutting up Corn by the Roots; Cline on the Formation of Animals; Keeping Stock, a Dialogue; Great Invention in Fire Arms; Agricultural Establishment at Moegelin, in Prussia; Palnia Christi; Smoking Meat. ~ * * MlSCELLANEOrS INTELLIGENCE.?A method recommended to all cleanly housekeep ers to prevent an accumulation of dust; Rohan Potato; Hessian Fly and Wheat Insect ; Cut Worm; Improvement in the manufacture of Beet Root Sugar; Iniportation of Sugar Beet Seed; Silk Print Works ; Patent Silk Loom ; To keep oil or Drive away Bed Bugs; Warm water for Cows ; A method of making good butter from the milk of cows fed on turnips ; -Antidote agamst Mim; fanijpu toSlttm, Breviers; Lseml Invention; American Silk Manufacture; Great increase and consumption of the Cotton Crop in the United States; Selecting Seed Corn ; Vanack Cabbage; Tiie Young Ilyson Tea Plant; Pise Walls. MANURES. Manure is the wealth of the farmer. This proposition cannot be too often repeated and enforced, for on the full belief of this axiom, and a corresponding practice, the success of the farmer mainly depends. Manure, wherever it may be found on the farm, is beneficial, but it never does all the good ii might, unless it is properly prepared and judiciously applied. Most farmers are content if they are able to empty their yards once in two or three years of the accumulated piles of straw and catile manure, at a loss of nearly one half its efficient qualities; and the exuberant fertility of our western lauds has hitherto in part justified this careless management of this important item it] husbandry. Compost, or a mixture of earth with common manure, kept in a pile until the union and decomposition is perfect, is undbubtedly the best application that can be made to land. The efficient power is alsc greatly increased, as the earths employed in making the pile absorb the gases produced by the decomposition of the vegetable and animal matter, and become nearly ofequa value. The mud which accumulates in swamps and low lands, where it lies useless and uimroductive. mav in this manner be converted into one of the most active restorers of exhausted soils. The yarding ol cuule is to be preferred, where practicable, to suffering them to run at large, and the additional quantity of manure made by stabling will, independent of the saving in fodder, nearly pay the expense of erecting stables for their accommodation. Common sense would teach a farmer that the sooner manure, when applied to the soil, can be put under the surface, the better the effect will be, and the less of its fertilizlng qualities will be lost. Spread ovei the surface it certainly does good, but in s I v O much less degree than when put under the surface. To this philosophical application of manure, much of the success in the improved system of farming is owing, as ii necessarily involves a rotation of crops, twe principles of the first importance in ameliorating the soil, and advancing its products Formerly the most of the manure was ap plied to the meadow lands, scattered over their surface, and these were allowed to remain in grass so long, that continued tftention was required to produce ordinary burdens. It was erroneously supposed tkat the ploughing of lands intended for mowhg would be destructive of grass crops, md their renewal as at present practiced wasnot dreamed of. Now, where the soil is not so wet as to forbid it?and the system of draining leaves few pieces inaccessible to the plough?meadows are subjected to the same system of rotation as the rest of the farm, and when properly managed, no deficiency either in quality or quantity of hay need b apprehended. Experience here in the a* t ion r'f is i:t n^rlect PCC'V'tv""' k I J with theory, and shots that when nature is i properly understood, ix; way she points out H ' will be found the easiest and most produc; live to the agriculturist. The manner in whici manures perforin s! | the effects attributed tothem, there is reason a ; to believe, is at pre*:ntvery imperfectly unI derstood. That they fccome accessary in j some way to the growl of plants is certain, a | and the general opinio, seems to be that s, ! the decomposed matteris taken up by the 'j I roots, and again becotes incorporated in j the new structure, fs i not possible, how. p | ever, that the electric ornagnetic influence, jt ! j which seems to pervadqiature, and the ac- j | ttvitv of which every ihv discovery tends h more fully to develope, lis a more important h in tlio trmii-th nt .Imitc tli-m lino ; T ill bllV %* ^ * 1UI11C UJUII 1IIVJ ^VU- j ^ I crally been admitted ? In the construction v ! of the electric pile it is \yii known that nl-} Si ! ternate substances of inidlic and animal or! 1 vegetable origin are cmjoyed, which seems! ; to be precisely the condiou in which tlie | manures are the most tfective. Yegeta- j( 1 tion does not succeed iithe pure minerals p i which form the foundathi of the various n 1 earths, nor will it flourisl where tlie richest, b and of course purest, maure is alone em- s I ployed. Is it not probale then that the ]t ! 1 mixture of these moisten^ with water, con- <J ' structing a true voltaic pi?, by exciting tne v ? secretory powers ot the jam, gives it vi- s 1 tality, and the powers o aggregation or a 1 growth. We throw out these hints for J the examination of the cuious. merely ad- a ; ding, that in wiatever wa; they 0}>erate. n 1 ' manures are indispensable to the success a ' I of the farmer.?Gen. Farter. a j a f ECONOMY OK FOJDER. II i Let us compare the vale of hav with o i J other crops lor the teeain<ol stock. An i o ;: acre of hay yields one to/; and a half of A. ' j vegetable food ; an acre olcarrots or Swc- it ! dish turnips will yield froi; ten to twenty g i ! tons, say fifteen tons, whifi is by no means c ; an exaggerated estimate. Crops at the rate a of twenty-five tons of carrots and twenty- n - two of Swedish turnips b the acre, have s ? been raised among us, and much larger t( >' crops than these are upen record. tl i By an experiment, itfas been ascertain- n ed that three working k>r;ei fifteen and a fc ! half hands high, consuned at the rate of two n hundred and twenty-loir pounds ol hay per it week, or live tons one thousand five hun- si ! dred and forty-eight piunds of hay per year, it besides twelve gallons u" oats each per h . week, or seventy-eigl* buihek by the year, p An unworked horse consulted at the rate 1) of four and oue quarter tens of hay by the y year. The produce therdore of nearly six a : acres of land in this mode cf feeding, is ne- t; ; cessary to support i workaij horse by the |yqftr ; but half an icre of Qrrota of 600 0 i i bushels to the acre, with the addition of chop. ^ j ped straw, will, whic the sason for their c< 11 use lasts, do it as wll if not btter.?These d things do not admitof doubt, tfey have been n 11 subjects ofaccurafc trial. w | Jt is believed, tint the valueof a bushel st of Indian corn in iraw and meal, will keep oi i a healthy horse in jood condiibn for work th 1 a week. An acrt of Indian corn, which lc I i yields 50 bushels, will be ampk for the sup- la , i port of ahorse though the yeir. Now it a ; j is for the farmer o consider, vhether it be s , I better to maiataii his horse upn the pro- tli ; 1 duce of half an aire of carroti, which can vi : be cultivated at in expense nd greatly ex- hi ; ceeding the expanse of half an acre of po- e: I tatoes ; or Jpor half an acre <f ruta baga, to ; which can be riised as a seond crop at th . less expense thai potatoes; orupon the grain Ik 11 produce of an acre of Indian corn; or, on gi ; i the other kand, upon the produce of six acres \\ i i in hay ano grain, tor six acres will hardly do el .! more thai to yield nearly si: tons of hay re 11 and sevinty eight bushels <f oats.?The cc i j same economy might be as sicccssfully in- bi I j troducet into the feeding of our neat cat- h< i j tie. I tave known a yokeofoxi n engaged N s t in the hhour of a farm, to le kept three su >; montlu in winter, in good working condi- til i i tion, tnon one bushel of Indan meal,and w; I ; about25 cents, worth of strav per week; es I ; and ny own earn has never leen in better fa II condtion boti for appearanc and labor, at i (thanwhen fefi wholly upon a iberal supply sii 1 - ? . ' . 11_ i, \ i._ i I otrita oaga ma me coarsest ouucr. l>ui ut 5 it hs beeu ascertained by accirate measure, he > met, that at unworkcd ox pu up on good f oldiay, consumed at the rale Jf 33 lbs. per , i daj or 231 lbs. per week, whith is upwards ; I ofi tons per year, of 2,000 lbs. per ton. tin . : Tfcre must then be a great s?ing between op . | feding in tie way referred to.or upon En- w< . ( gkh hay; and English hay done, in any es i qiuntity, without grain or veiptaBlos, is not co , i alficient for any nard workng animal.? stc ; I (olman's Address. th< . | 7 ? an _! Honey.?In passing through the garden Co . j jmployed by the American Institute, our at- jf L jtentiou was directed to some loxes of honey sh , 'of a e'ear, white aid beautiftl transparent Va , apperrancc, such is has beet) seldom seen nil in tin New York market,. 1 is presented - tiri c / ? PITT . "Til _ _ m by Ajessrs. w iico: ocuone, of *v est Dioorn- qU J field Ontario county. One ?f the firm has hii furnshed us with t ie following statement:? bu j "-.ast spring wc had not noro than 220 wi i swains, this fall ve had over 120 ; nearly an I all he young swarms are good to winter at j ovi'. We liave aken from our bees 700 hu ilb>ofboxor cap honey; in addition to i th* we furnished all in the ucinity where co i ws live, with boxes, showing them how to lot nanage, promising to buy a! the honey that ou \?s built in them. This, adled to our own, he *ade 5,641 lbs. All this wis taken away hii fitheut destroying a single swarm of bees, wl \Tear seven eighth of this haiey was of the se: white, such as wes exhibited to-day ; it ar- a i rived irf New Yok market on the 6th of sin September; nearh two thirds of it is al- wc ready sold. We iave adopted this plan to ke make our bees profitable, anci not to destroy on an insect that is stch an c.vainnle of indus- Ih try.? Y. V. Go* ' hi} SMOKING MEAT. Ivtract of a ic ter from a subscriber at Cincinnati "IIow 4 doctors disagree.' I entirely ifier from one of your correspondents abou mokinu meat. I would have a perfectly ir tight smoke-house, preferably of stone o rick?if of log, plastered, and the mea opt constantly in the dark. If it contract slight mould, so much the better. No in oct will breed in such an atmosphere 'here is no occasion of putting meat inten ed for smoking into pickle. Let it b< roperly sake J, and before hanging it up le be washed in hot ley. Let it hang till it ii ry betbre smoke is made under it. Greer ickory wood is best to make smoke, ave never hid spoiled meat. Besides, i ill be found the least troublesome way, uni erv safe, as but little fire is required to hav< tnoke enough."?Genesee Fanner. ECONOMY OF LIVING. - i i ? i ?? -ii_ T"\ : i. " l oostvvcu, says .?ir. x/ewuy, m sjhmk ig of liis passage in a steamboat Iron 'uris to London, * that a considerable umber o' passengers carried a comforta le pio-nie box or basket with them, ant pread their own table. Wiih some, doubt ;ss, this J revision proceeded from a fastiious taste, that feared some poisonous dir rould he found in the common fare of i teamboat But with many, 1 presume i rose iron a habit, which presents a market itlerence between the people of Englant nd Amcica?I mean the habit of economy. It i? this feeling which would forbii mong u? such a habit as that referred to nd not aily this, but a great many mort nd lietter practices. In England, econo uy stands out prominently; it preside* vcr the arrangements of a family; it ii penly professed, and fears no reproach l man i> not ashamed to say of a certaii idulgcnui, that lie cannot afford it. entlemai says to you, "1 drive a pony haise thk\ ear ; I have put down mv hurst nd gig. lecauso I cannot pay the tax." A inn whose income, and expenses, ant tvle of living far exceed almost any thing i bo fomd among us, still says of some ling qui'e beyond him, which his woalthiei eighbordoes, " We aro not rich enoOgl >r that." One of the most distinguished ten in England said to me, when speak lg of wines at his tabic, *' The wine J tiould prefer is claret, but I cannot atlon , and so I drink niv own gooseberry." 1 avc heard that many families earn* the rinciple so far, that they determine exact r how nany dinners they can give in c ear, and how many guests?nay more nd how nany dishes they can put upon the iblc, when they do entertain. " This frankness on the subject of ecoiv my is among us a thing almost unheard of lot that we arc more wealthy, but, as I ouccive, less wise. The competition ol omestic life among us is too keen to adlit of any such confessions of internal eakness. We practice economy by calth. Nor is that the worst of it; foi tie conse^uenco of this habit of feeling is, lat wc practice too little. When a strangei oks upon the strife of business in our vilges and oties, be imagines that he sees very covetous people; but a nearer obtrvnlion trnnlrl a'mu; him thnt mnr.h ol t% f MUVII r VUIVI 0IIVIT 114 a n?v.. v. lis eager md absorbing, and almost slash occupation, is necessary to sustain the javy drains of domestic expenditure. This ctravagauce at home, chains many a man i the counter and counting-room. And lis extravagance is of his own choosing; jcause lie knows no other way of distinjishing himself, but by the style of living, r'ould tie but conceive that he might better ovate himself in society, by having a well ad Library, by improving his mind and mversation, by cultivating some graceful, it comparatively cheap accomplishment, 5 might live a wiser man, and die richer. c ' ho would hesitate to choose between ich a family, and one whose house was led with gorgeous furniture ; where the ife and daughters are dressed 'in the gayt of the fashion, and the husband and ther banishes himself the livelong day, id half the night, from that pleasant munan. to toil and drudge in the dustv ware use? lie sleeps in a very grand house; : lives in a counting-room !" DECISIVE INTEGRITY. The man wlio is so conscious of the rcctide of his intentions, as to be willing to en his bosom to the inspection of the )rld, is in possession of one of the strongt pillars of a decided character. The urse of such a man will be lirm and ?ady, hecausc he has nothing to fear from 5 world, and is sure of the approbation id support of Heaven. While he who is inscious of secret and dark designs, which, known, would blast him, is perpetually rinkimr and dodging from pubiic obser lion, and is afraid of all around, and much are of all above him. Such a man may, indeed, pursue hisinilitous plans, steadily; he may waste mself to a skeleton in the guilty pursuit; it it is impossible that he can pursue them th the same health-inspiring confidence d exulting alacrity, with Jiini who feels, every step, that he is in the pursuit of nest ends, by honest means. The clear, unclouded brow, the open untenance, the brilliant eye which can >k an hones' man stedfastly, yet courtesly in the face, the healthfully beating art, and the firm elastic step, belong to n whose bosom is free from guile, and io knows that all his motives and purpo3 are pure and right. Why should such man falter in his course? He may be indered; he may be deserted by the irld; but he has that within which will ep him erect, and enable him to move ward in his course with his eyes fixed on saven. which he knows will cot desert ! Let your first step, then, in that discipline i: I which is to give you decision of character, . j bo the heroic determination to be honest t men, and to preserve this character through ^ every vicissitude of fortune, and in every r relation which connects you with society. 1 I do not use this phrase, u honest men," in g the narrow sense, merely, of meeting your . pecuniary engagements, and paying your debts; for this the common pride of gen. . tlenaen will constrain you to do. 2 I use it in its largest sense of dischargt ing nil your duties, both public and private, 5 both open and secret, with the most scru1 pulous, Ileaven-attesting integrity : in that [ sense, farther, which drives from the bosom t all little, dark, crooked, sordid, debasing ] considerations of self, and substitutes in . their place a bolder, loftier, and nobler spirit: one that will dispose you to consider yourselv'-^ga^orn, uot so much for yo^s^'ves. ' us country, und your . j tarcfts* &nd which will lead you to act on , eveQ* occasion sincerely, justly, generously, . mmrnnnimouslv. There is a morality on a large scale, perI fccijy consisient with a just attention to our . own affairs, which it would be the height . | of fplly to neglect; a generous expansion, II a proud elevation, and conscious greatness 11 of character, which is the best preparation t for a decided course, in ever)' situation into 1 which you can be thrown ; and it is to this i high and noble tone of character that I . wonld have you to aspire. j I would not have you to resemble those , weak and meagre streamlets, which lose ? their direction at every petty impediment . that presents itself, and stop, and turn back, ; and creep around, and search out every i little channel through which they may wind ,! their feeble and sickly course. Nor yet ) woild I have you to resemble the headlong L torrent that carries havoc in its mad career. But I would have vou like the ocean, that noWesf c /iiblero of majestic Decision, whirjv L in the calmest hour, still' heaves its res 1 less might of waters to the shore, filling the r heaveus, day and night, with the echoes of . its sublime declaration of.Independence, an#1 tossing and sporting, on its bed, with i an imperial consciousness of strength that | laughs at opposition. It is this depth, and - wefght, and power, and purity of character, [ that I would have you to resemble; and I | would have you, like the waters of the ocean, [ to $ecome the purer bvyqtfr own action.? ? Extract from Mr. WfrCs Address to the . Students of Rutgers College. t ? The present Privileges of Christians.? 11 ">V? sometimes hear it said by Christians of I thojpresent day, that if it had been their privilege to have lived at the time when . and his-Apostles sojourned on earth;.! ! to have seen his imposing miracles, witnesf sod his lovely and attractive example, and ? to have heard the counsels which fell from I his living lips, it would have had a most ' powerful influence upon their character, en' forcing implicit obedience, and softening > every feeling into unison with holy love.? ' But such an observation only shows how little wc know of ourselves?how little we i understand the sophistry by which the human mind deceives itself, f The privileges certainly were great of - those favored disciples who were the con1 stant attendants upon our Saviour's per sonal ministry?who heard from his living lips the heavenly instructions which were 1 so rich, so well calculated to teach the ignorant and encourage the timid and hesitating?who beheld nature and nature's laws instantly submissive to his word?the ever ready instruments to etFect his purposes.? But great as these privileges were, we are mistaken if we suppose that they conferred any higher ability, or greater inclination to D conform to trie requirements ui uie iwuocm> er. We know that the generation to which he preached heard with indifference his warnings and resisted all his exhortations, and the hearts which were thus insensible to the heavenly admonitions of the Son of God, l were but the faithful representation of what the heart of man ever has been & ever will be, until subdued and renovated by divine grace. It was not to the preaching of the Saviour himself that any remarkable success was granted. j But what arc the privileges of Christians of the present day which may be compared with those of the apostolic times? We may not hear with our corporeal ears his living voice, such as rebuked with a divine energy t^e vices of thej Jews, or in softer cadences poured the balm of sympathy and comfort into the soul of the alHicted; we may not see with our natural eyes the blind and withered, the halt and maimed forgetting their infirmities and leaping with joy, to throw themselves at the feet of their benefactor, but to the eye of faith?for ail the purposes of knowledge and piety we may be with Christ now, as truly as were his first 1 i- *i nr. l A?nnA I OlSCipies. \\ e nave me uuhiiulo ?mu counsels which he delivered permanently secured to us, which may no: be lost, as doubtless they were liable to be to those who only heard, them and for whom they were not written. The influence of the Gospel upon us should therclore be less transient?we should live perpetually under the power of that example the features of which are faithfully represented and constantly before us, in the sacred volume. The most important privilege of the primitive disciples was, that they were made partakers of the renewing grace of the Holy Ghost. But that privilege was not restricted to them. It is a blessed influence of which every believer is the subject. If it imposed upon them, as it certainly did, the duty of serving God in newness of spirit and purity of life, not less imperiously does the same distinction require of us a similar character. Corresponding to that special intercourse onrj which the r!iscif>!cs of* / Christ had with him in the days of his flesh, ap when he withdrew from the world, and the ob. TJ servation of the people, and admitted only th< that chosen band to the place of his holy he retirement, is the special intercourse and bo comunion which every Christian lias with an his Saviour. When lie enters his closet to en pray in secret to his heavenly Father?when du he draws near with an humble sense of his re^ wants and unworthiness and a believing "v view of Christ's power and grace, with earnest desire and lively hope, then is he privi- co leged to he as really present with the Re- Pu deemer, and as richly to enjoy that presence W as those whom he took with him to the 'nc Mount of Olives, or who with joy, gratitude Pe' and amazement witnessed the scene of the 011 transfiguration. the O The seasons of social worship when "a Christ has promised to be specially present cai wifli the two or three assembled in his name 10 ?wtibfl wi.ii gratitdd^and humility, and rul love we have prayed, confessed, interceded ^ ?when in the hqly supper we have felt the 10 greatness < * oufr guilt, the wonder of his love, an \ '"iujneXt pardon purchas- C'1 ed by 1. u< ath, and exjierienced those ro. freshing influences which make glad the heart of the pardoned sinner, the adopted child, the invigorated saint, then do wo ,cs know that we have been with Jesus, and en- rai vy not James, or Peter, or even John lean- P'1' ing on bis bosom. P01 Christians who have such privileges ought 'm to be distinguished by the holiness of their att; lives. Permitted to read in the Gospel the *ve record of the Redeemer's life, and the de- ,nt( clarations of his will?favored with the com- wo muiiicutions of iiis grace?and that near Jon and intimate communion which is enjoyed hi prayer and the sacrament of the supper, e_"( they should watch; vigilantly watch against sm" sin?they should strive to excel in religious ?er knowledge?and to be like Christ in meek- *l ^ ness, and patience, and holiness; and not as s^? men of the world, exhibit a vain and haughty i cnirlf n nrnl amhitinns. nrnl rnn. I esti wy " - , tentious temper. The spirit caught from "? communion with Christ is a spirit of .idif. cie ferenceta the sinful attractions of the world P?' ?and of ardent aspirations for things heav. enly and holy. It impels with a divine en- ftlK erg\r in the path of usefulness, and presents I)er to view at the meed of active and seif.den v. ,"u ing labor, misery relieved, the happiness of S'? human beings promoted, souls saved from sin and death eternal, and God's holy name magnified and honored.?S. Churchman. wli doddridge's rise and progress. us About twelve years ago, the Rev. John H. Rice, D. D., sent a copy of Doddridge's aQ( Rise and Progress to a sick lady in the cal country, who made no profession of reli. ^ gion. At this time there was uo preaching^ sPe nor was there a single professor of religion in the neighborhood. The lady to whom s,ie the book was sent soon died; leaving it as a^? a dying legacy to a female friend, who was T" the mother of a large family of children. "'J* i This mother was awakened and hopefully a ' I... ?V?r? ni-iilinrr nf thic linnl- fFl?i? OUT I tUU > ILUj vjy UiVs luduui^ vi ?I?IW * ?iw t conversion of a daughter soon followed. ?* ; This volume soon became the object ofgenI eral inquiry and attention, and many were ^ad more or less atfocted by reading it. This rn0 led to the adoption of measures for procuringthe preached Gospel: and the result cut of the whole has been the establishment of ^',e one of the most interesting'country churches in the State. J 1 have met with this same volume a few ^10; days since, in the hands of a lady who U 'K was reading it for the first time?with S.UP no little concern for her salvation?a concorn awakened by the same honored book. ?nn 1 called two weeks ago to sec one of the ^ur most intelligent and influential gentlemen in nia* . I tin's eonntrv. who was in irreat distress, oc casioncd by the recent death of a child. I SL'n! asked him if he had ever read Doddridge ? 10 w lie said he purchased a copy last summer, con of one of our distributors, but had not read much of it. In compliance with mv request, he promised to read it from beginning to end.?On calling a few days after this . 1 interview, he addressed me as follows: 'I have complied with your request. J n,?f have read the whole book. I commenced sJ,cl( reading it with my pencil in hand, determin. )uUJ ed to mark such passages as I might wish ? to look at a second time; hut Isoon put up my pencil, tor I found I should mark every paragraph in the book. 1 have read it with J'00 the deepest interest. Surely, there is no "ee( human production like it. It has brought Jou me to see myself as 1 never did before., A ) ou few days after this, he professed conversion, c j ^ ItllVICfllf U/lth tllf* tillCl itlJU IU LUIIMW IIIUI^VU <inu Uiv Church next Sabbath. Pura Richmond Telegraph. : negl From the Saturday Courier. whe WRONG ESTIMATE ON THE PROFESSIONS. H5W1 We think there is one radical error in me'; American society, viz: a universal dispo- ter* sition to underrrate the mechanical profes- wn.' sions, when contrasted with what are termed the "learned professions," and with al- 1, most all the other avocations. of si Does the rich and respectable mechanic 2, ?the artisan?the architect?he who rears pens our public and private edifices?the build- 3, er of our ships, and the constructer of our sant canals and railways?never permit a course 4, of conduct in himself, winch goes directly chile to take away from the respectability of the 5. profession by which he has gained all he and possesses ? When he comes to decide upon the s the path his sons shall pursue?is it not too 6. ofien the case, that an overweening dispo- niac sition is displayed to make them lawyers, 7. doctors, ministers, merchants, any thing but of oi to bring them up at the respectable calling 8. of their parent. to ci And let us ask, is not the same thing true 9. of every other class in the community ? prop The sons of American citizens must lions be educated for gentle men. They must not 1( learn a trade an art upon which tlieycan drcd ways depend for a respectable living, bis would tend to lower rather than raise ~*m in the scale of public opinion?and nee it is, that thousands and thousands of ys are crowded into "the professions," d ubehind counters,"?io become, in the * d, genteel paupers, living upon the proofs of other men's labours, rathe; than lying upon their own hands for an honest ing. * We repeat, it is the wrong estimate of the mparative respectability of the different rsuits, that causes so dangerous an error. . e would not stifle genius nor deride learn*?nor do we entertain the least disresct to any profession?but wc would have r sons taught to believe, aud made to feel, it it is far more honorable to learn some ndicrafi, by the practice of which they ti live in independence and honor?than I J. j .1 1 I U0 CrOWUeu llJiU Ul<5 aiwap uychiwvtiii^ iks of"profession," which wili doc yiejd ;ir bread-?-und which but too often lead the en; ire prostration of the better fceliogs the human heart, iu low cunning, duph* y and knavery. Who are the props and pillars of our pub. edifice? Who are "the bone [and rnus" of our society? We say, the meclian* and husbandmen .of the land. From t!?c ?ksof these, too, have sprung statesmen, losophcrs an J sages, who have shed im ishable lustre upon the age in which they id. If the amount of useful intellectual linments could be correctly estimated? entertain no doubt, that the ranks of the sHigent mechanics and agriculturists, uld carry off the palm by immense maties. Then why should the almost universal jrt to disgrace these professions, by a lultaneous rush into other ranks, aoy lou prevail! llettor?infinitely better, would >e that our hardy, athletic youth should mlder the axe and away beyond the untairis?than bv a false pride and false v mate of true respectability, they should thrust into wrong channels, to disease soty, and weaken the bouds of the body * it if*.?Thorn tliov micrht live in the true o ality of nature?cultivate their own fields, i slumber beneath their own cottage, and, haps, become the founders of new oomnities of moral, physical, and intellectual JjtS. ON THE USE OF TOBACCO. . * k ? ? The use of tobacco is an intemperance ich prevails to an attrming extent among as a people. 1 know scores of Methods who spend $5 per annum for tobacco, i will not give five cents to support the ise of God ! t think I should becaib in ing,ihat the Methodists on this'circuit nd $5 per anuumfor tobacco.?-Our eJnJ hotrgwr hw aflm too fltftry w be C t r n ! And if the minister should apeak >ui it, the people will point him to another lister, as good as he is, who uses this IV weed. O that the ministers would set si for example. Hundreds of females in church will use from six to eight bottles Scotch snuff* annually, which cost ?2, ile they would think the class collector I no conscience if he demanded of them re than *25 or 50 ceuts a year to support cause of God ! Let ajl the preachers oil* tliis idol, and the people will soon do same. i . Sept. 5, 1830. W. SPRY* ['his is a sad state of things indeed ! Do 1 . ;o who denounce this "filthy weed" payit they save by their "temperance" to the port of the Gospel ? Will the people ret n if the preachers do, and pay their $5 uallv into the treasury of the Lord f r} ely these motives should induce thern to ce haste to "cut ofF their idols;" and "set '. *. ;tter example" without delay. A just , ? s se of decency alone should prompt them ipc away the reproach set tortn in tnis unuuication.?Chrs. Adv, fy Journal. * CONFIDE IN YOUR MOTHER. \> the voutliful female we would sav? ? no individual of either sex can love i an affection so disinterested as your her. Deceive her, and "your feet will i in due time." How many thoughtless ng daughters deceive them clandestine. ;ive their hand in marriage, and thus the grave for .all their earthly happiness. who would persuade you to deceive r parents, proves himself in that very i unworthy of all your confidence. If wed him, you will speedily realize what have los\ You will find you have exlged a sympathizing friend, and an able judicious counselor, a kind anddevoted ;e, for a selfish companion, ever seekhis own accommodation and pleasure; i i.? i j >: ecting you in neann, anu ueserung you / n you are sick. Who Ims Dot read the ard of deserted parents in the paJe and incholy features of the undutiful daugliLT ARDENT SPIRIT HAS DON ? TO PRODUCE MISERY IN TIIE UNITED STATES. . It has cost the nation a direct expense ix hundred millions of dollars. . It has cost the nation an indirect ex>e of six hundred millions of dollars. , It has destroyed three hundred thoui lives. , It has sent one hundred thousand Iren to the poor-house. It has consigned at least one hundred ^ fifty thousand persons to the jails and irate prisons. It has made at least one thousand mas. It has instigated to the commission ic thousand five hundred murders. It has caused two thousand persons . Dmmit suicide. It has burnt or otherwise destroyed erty to the amount of at least five mili of dollars. I. It has made not less than two hunthousnnd widow if. '?.v