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RURAL ECO.\'OXY. From the Farmers' Register. comparative value of apples to feed stock, and for sale, and their prol - ducts, cider and brandy. November 4. 183C. During the two last summers and falls, my duties called mc into the apple regions H P of the north. The following facts wcreobHff tained in reference to the subject of apple W eider and brandy. 1. Cider drinkers arc peculiarly subject Bp to rheumatism, to inflamed oyelids, head. B ache, bleeding at the nose, to sores and ul/>oim difficult and tedious to cure, to a flee tions of the stomach and bowels, and to premature trembling of the hand and head, 2. Cider drunkards are the most brutish usd cruel of the unhappy tribe of inebriates. 3. An old orchard and a distillery are almost invariable indices, of widows, or. phans, poverty and drunkenness. 4. There is a great loss of money in making either cider or brandy. Good cuting apples am wortli on an average 25 cents a bushel. Eight bushels of apples make a barrel of cider, and twelve barrels of cider make one barrel of brandy. Brandy At 50 cents per gallon would give ubout 15 cents per bushel for flic apples. The Joss is ten cents per bushel. This on an orchard of one hundred trees, in ten years, would be over one thousand dollars. No allowance is made. for capital and labor connected with distilling. Take these into consideration, and the loss is much greater. 5. It costs no more to raise good apples, suitable for murket, than lo raise apples .only suitable for distilling. Very often np. i pics are worth one dollar per bushel, and I then the loss is immense by turning them 1 into brandy. I am told that in Mobile Apples sell now for ten dollars a barrel! 1 0. Engrafting and budding will change the character of an orchard, and will more than compensate for the tiuie und amount lost in producing the change, in ten years. 7. Appb-s make most excellent food for horses. Several physicians of extensive practice, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, j feed their horses on apples and hay. I I "have never secaffatter horses, or more sleek j and spirited. The hair is much more live- j jy, and requires less grooming than horses led on grain. Mr. Norton of Farmington, 'Connecticut, has about the finest pair of horses I have seen. They are fed mainly on apples and hay. They travel very fast, and seem to have both wind and bottom, j It is proper, however, to remark, that not | as much grain is given to horses at the north as is customary at the south. Oue thing is worth noticing?horses fed on npB pies, do not eat as much hay as when they are ted on grain. Very sour raw apples r injure thcteetn 01 norses,- uin wuw vv.ivu , they do not. The rule of feeding is to j commence with a small quantity, and gradually increase to a bushel a day for one Jhorsc. 3. Apples are most excellent food for beeves. The fattest beef 1 have seen was made so on sweet apples. 9. Nothing will fatten mutton quicker than apples. It is necessary, or best, to cut up the apples when fed to sheep. 10. I logs care nothing for corn if they can get apjdes; if sweet, the apples may fbe given without boiling ; if sour they must be boiled. Mixed with corn meal the flesh is firmer. 11. Apples increase the quantity and quality of milk. At first there was a prejudice against giving apples to milch cows, because it was thought they diminished or dried up the milk. It is true, that -a gorge of apples, or any other green food, will cause a fever and dry up the milk : but ir? nmwr nunntitics. the eflect is quite b"vu "* Y"vt"" l ' diderent 12. Cattle and hogs are purchased and fattened on apples, and sold at a fine profit, when to fatten them on corn would ensure a loss. 13. Sweet apples and good eating apples are to be preferred as food for horses, sheep and cows, also for hogs, although some recommend a mixture of sour and sweet for hogs. If these remarks shall induce any one to test their correctness, by making a fair experiment, the object of my writing theni will be fullv answered. THOMAS P. IIUNT. Method of preserving Cabbages so as to have thfitf good till late in the spring.?Make a trench in the driest sandy ground, nine inches wide, and of equal depth, place a row of cabbages, with the roots upwards, contiguous to each other.. Kill the cavities about them, with some dry straw, and then shovel the earth up to the stalks on each side, almost as high as the retfts, shaping it like tire roof a house.? The cabbage will come out in May as sound J as when they were put in, and the outer : green leaves will he turned quite white, j As they arc not apt to keep well after the} j are taken out, two or three at a time may j be taken as they are wanted for use and j the breach immediately closed up with straw j and earth as before.?lb, i GAMBLING HOUSES. An English work recently published, j with the title " The Metropolis," contuins ; an account of Gambling establishments, j from which the following is taken. "There are a certain number of persons }' called " greeks," or " spiders," attached to the establishment, ostensibly members of the club, but without a penny in the world, who are found to be eminently serviceable to the "concern." It is asked "in what 1 way?" Why, in catch ingots?or, to use ; their own phraseology," to bring in pigeons 1 to be plucked." These persons must, of j I course, be well treated ; and, as a supper j i at home is a rare thing with them, one at j i Crockford's is so much the greater object. Besides, the work of catching flats is but . half finished when the latter arc brought < into the house. I " Before it can be completed, they must j I be made to partake of a splendid supper, I and to drink liberally of the "delicious ' wines." When they enter the house they < have not, perhaps, the slightest intention of throwing a single die, or, at any rate, of i risking more than a mere trifle. Thevare I ? I, pressed by those who " took them in" to j J partake of the " refreshments," as they arc | called. Well, it appears to them refresh- i ment is not a bad thing after all; they ac- < cordingly begin with the supper, and end f I with die hazard table. The moment they ] < sit down to the refreshment, but not till | then, the flats are considered as fairly | caught.?When a pigeon is caught, however, it is very unusual to pluck biui the first few nights. 44 They allow him to go on winning for some nights in succession. In this, the ? hellitcs have two objects in view ; the one is to give him a keener appetite for play, and the other is, that in the interim, they continue, by indirect means, either to elicit ( from himself, or to obtain information from some one else, as to the full extent of his 7 < resources. They regulate their movements ' accordingly. It matters not, though he be . not well supplied with the ready; if his 4* l?V..*?nfl.l>v" SIlCPPwlinlT tf) ft ' V. "J ? y m ^ large fortune be undeniably good. Crock- i ford's bank is at his service to nearly the . full amount,?supposing it were ?50,000, 1 ?of what he is understood to be certain of < succeeding to. In this way many young noblemen plunge tliemselves over head-! [ and-ears in what are called debts of honer, i' before they succeed to expectancies ; and j y consequently when they do succeed, they f t arc, in point of fact, as poor as they were j before. Some years ago Lord C**** paid i down ?100,000 on his coming of age, for j i debts of honor he had contracted at Crock-t ford's." I s Again,? i t ' Some idea may be formed of the extent < of Crockford's establishment, and of the j ] style in winch it is kept up, when I mention . i that no fewer tliat servants are employ. ; i <hJ in it. There is one set of waiters for ' the day, and another for the night. They < are decorated in the richest livery, and live j in excellent stylo. < < * * " * ? * 9 . ? 1 " Tiic hour at which the hazard room is j j ? ? y i i A. J: 1 thrown open is eleven o ciock, ana uic uice ; ( are in immediate requisition. Croekfprd < himself at that moment takes his station in J < a corner of the room, before a little desk; from that he never stirs till the playing is i over. He ac.s on sueh occasions as his 11 own clerk. No person belonging to the os- J tablishment is allowed, in any circumstances, | i or under any pretext, to enter the room ^ while the gamblers are at work. There k ! j a Mr. Page who acts as an inspector, or \ groom-porter, while the games are going * j on iu the hazard room : but he is in the j j confidence of most of the noblemen who | < frequent that part of the house, and tlioagh j < paid for his services-some say at the prince- j ? iv rate of 50 guineas per week-he can hard- j ly be said to be one of Crockford's scr- ; vants. 1 * * * * * * { , I < "In Crockford's very large sums arch played for with cards ; but it is at the haz- I ard table, when the game is French hazard, 11 that the work of plunder is carried on on ' 1 the most extensive scale. There, to use ! ] the gambling phraseology, the ' pigeon is 1 plucked.' And to get the flat prevailed on j j tk?Aiu rlnu-n tho rarfls. and ronair to the i t IV VIV1* ? ?-?W wv. ww7 ? hazard room, is the great, though concealed < object of those in the interest of the house. ; A few hours, most probably, will do the i work in the latter place.?The stakes are t usually high; he loses, perhaps, a fourth ! part of his fortune in less than an hour; he j 4 tables' another fourth-?he loses again, lie becomes desperate ; in the delirium, or < madness, (lor that is the proper word) of 11 the moment, he determines on risking his j I all at one throw. The dice turn up? < his all is lost; he who a lew hours before I j was a rich man, is now a beggar. The j i sums which young, thoughtless noblomen j i lose at Crockford's in one night, are some-; i times incredibly large. : i u Seven years ago one pigeon was pluck. 1 ed in a few hours, to the tune of ?60,000; i the stakes were ?10,000. It is only three ] years since, Lord C , the grandson of < an uged noble Earl, lost ?30,000 in one < night. The winner was a noble Marquis, of sporting notoriety, who, according to re- i port, was at that time, if not now, a part < proprietor of the establishment. Losses of }-" ?5000, ?7000, and ?10,000, in one night, I are by no means uncommon when a rich j Hat is caught." / i Speaking of the presumed conncctioi of a certain " greek" Marquis with Crock ford's house, our author observes? " It is said that the Marquis of Hertfon has from first to last, in the course of hi: life, won upwards of ?1,500,000; how i has been spent?for it is understood to hav< been, for the* most part, spent?is prettj generally known to the public. He nou plays but seldom ; hardly ever unless then is a pigeon to be plucked." On " plucking " there are a few sensible remarks:? "When a wall-feathered pigeon is iir the wind'?such is the gambling-house phraseology-the flat-eatchersofCrockfbrd's are all on the alert. Sometimes they wil keep their eye on him for a year or twe before they expect they can fix their talons on him. The public appearance of nc young nobleman, for many years past, has excited so much interest at Crockford's as that of the Duke of Buccleuch. The im mensc wealth into the possession of whicl they knew he would come when of age was too tempting a prize to be overlooked Every effort was accordingly made to de. coy him into the great hell of St. James's; but it would not do. lie never evincet the least disposition for play. His taste though often varying, was always opposec to gambling. At one time it is for buying old books; at another for collecting cu rious ancient vases, and other antiquities then it changes to fine furniture. No mat ter what direction it takes so long as il keeps him out ofthe way of gambling. Ilij princely fortune can enable him to gratify any other taste, whatever it may be, with, out injuring his family ; but a few weeks ir the hazard room of Crockford's would, ir all probability, see him a beggar." From the New York Express. TELEGRAPHS?IMPORTANT INVENTION. Wc call the attention of our readers tc :he following communication. The infor nation it contains is highly important to th< ivhole commercial community, and to ever} nan interested in the success of so grca in enterprise as the establishment of a Lin< )f Telegraph, throughout the United States Dur country has for a long time requircc ?ome such system. I f the proposed plan lx successful, and there is every evidence o he fact, the invention will prove of immense mportanceto almost every class of our citi sens. The Merchant, the Insurer, the Shif >wner, the officers of Government, anc jvery Editor in the country, will be deepl} jiterestcd in its success. For the Xew York Daily Express. M.^ssrs. Editors:?It wpuld be difficulty ix with certainty the period at which th< " ? ?i t ?r ieiegrapn was mvemuu. i rates ut ?? jse may bo found in the history of all na ions and in the remotest antiquity. Th( jrogress of different people in civilizalior md power was attended with some slighi mprovements in Telegraphy. This art war he constant study of some sages who con sccrated their labors to the prosperity o; heir country, yet the system which has beer jmployed since its invention for the pur. lose of corresponding literally and word foi word, was attempted in vain by them. Go rernments, well aware of* the advantage which they might derive from the art in aspertaining the wants of the people and re. filing attacks from without, readily adoptpd the mode of corresponding by means ol ;he Telegraph, notwithstanding the imperlections of the system. It is this which haj -rent ] the emulation of many individuals who have brought to light an infinite nurabci of different Telegraph systems. In modern times the best telegraphic at tempts known are those of Karcher, of Kos ler, of Amontous, Rob-Flook Gauthey, ant Paulian: the Aerograph of Latour, the Vig. igraph ofPevtes Moucabrier, the Authropograph of James Spratt, and also the Tele graphic system of Rear-Admiral de St Ouen. But these methods more or lesj ingenious have failed not only in rendering any communication (even the shortest) lit zralhj word for word, but they arc over wanting in exactness, they even do not pre sent all the^ad vantages which Mr. Chappe inventor of the Telegraphic System o France, has united in his Telegraph, altho this latter, which is beyond doubt the best o all, is at present limited to simple and shor despatches. All these defective systems, have had bu a short daration; as they have only succeed cd in transmitting very imperfectly thedes patches given to them, as coast signals arc but simple Telegraphs, and as in all lan guages there are thousands of phrases anc different propositions, and as a language contains thousands of words, it was impos sible to imagine a Telegraph that coulc make thousands of signals without falling in - - _ to me greaicsi coniusion. These Telegraphic attempts having failec in satisfying the wants of the present day Messrs. Serval and Gonon have been en eouragcd to persevere in the labor whicl they had been preparing for many years having obtained the result which they liac conceived, and having also attained the ob ject which they had in view, they expect tc exceed the expectations of those generou! individuals who are at the head of the gov ernmeot of the United States, as well as it! enterprising merchants. By means of theii Telographic system with the aid of a line of Teltegraph, they can establish on al points of this immense continent a regulai correspondence, transact detailed accounts expedite exact official reports, communicat< the operations of the exchange and the pri ces current, forward the important decision! of Congress, as also interesting articles fron the journals^&c. &c.,in a word to carry 01 a literal correspondence and word for word without employing more signals than then ore in the dCiV^h, thai jp fg say < i despatch of 100 or 200 words must be - marked by one or two hundred' signals at most, the Telegraphic despatch being alJ ways conveyed with a most exact orthog3 raphy and punctuation, as the principal and t true object of a Telegraphic system is to be j able to transmit all the despatches exactly ,* and above all with very few signals, in oj ' ir der to avoid the bad weather which might ? occur momentarily in great distances. The Telegraph being very simple, and ) the movement quite visible at a great distance, it can be placed at 4, 6,8 and 10 j leagues distant according to the proposition i of the ground. 5 The persons employed about the TeleI graph may he ins:ructed in a very short > time, and with a little practice they will be 5 enabled easily to make from 5 to 10 signals | ) per minute, consequently a despatch of i 100 words which will employ 100 signals at ; th^most, may be transmitted through adis. tancd"of200 leagues in the space of 15 to i 20 minutes. , In consideration of the great advantages ; . presented by their Telegraphic system over < . all others known, advantages attested by J ; undoubted certificates of experiments of 1 their dictionary made at St. Petersburg, and j , at Moscow in presence of gentlemen of the 1 Engineer department and the corps of com\ municatious of the Russian empire, ns well . as before Mr. Clay, Charge d' Affairs of ; the United States, and a meeting of Ameri. can merchants, Messrs. Servel & Gonon I are making arrangements to establish a svs5 tern of Telegraphic communications in all r the States, north and south. The Telegraphic dictionary invented by i Messrs. Servel & Gonon, can be easily i translated in all the living languages without losing any of the advantages it possesses in the French; this consideration has induccd those gentlemen to proceed immediately to the United States of America, being persuaded that this great nation will receive ) favorably a plan which, by presenting a pertect system of Telegraphic communicaJ tions, will also be of the greatest utility to 1 this flourishing country. ; w * M. L. From the Mother's Ulaaazinr. I ? > DAUGHTERS NOT EDUCATED FOR WIVES f AND MOTHERS. ; Few mothers seem to appreciate the . amazing responsibility resulting from the ) relations of wife, mother, and mistress of I a family. Flsc how can we account for r tho fact, that so little attention is bestowed upon the education of daughters, in order to initiate them into the mysteries of! housewifery ? And vet litis view of the j case is mortifying, for every lady knows; that the most common artist, on the prin- i ciple of self-interest, deems it essential to f his success in trade, to serve a due apprenticeship. But mere inattention to domestic duties and qualifications, is uot all we have to complain of. We are compelled to nsk, why is it, that our daughters are so often absolutely disgusted with those duties and employments, to which the God of nature r intended the life of woman should be principally devoted ? ; Miss Hannah More says, " I will venture to affirm, that let a woman know what she may, yet if she does not consider it the perfection of the character of a f wife, 4 To study* household good, 5 And good works in her husband to promote,' ? she is ignorant of the most important * branch of female knowledge." Sho fur-' titer says, " The idea of a female drudge, - or an unpolished housewife, did not enter into the views of Milton, when comment' ingupon Eve's roception and cntertain ment of the angel Raphael. The poet," she says " uniformly kept up tlte same ^ - 1* - II _ .? ' happy combination 01 intellectual worm * with polished manners, ascribing grace to 5 her steps and dignity to Iter gestures, her > husband politely calling her 44 daughter of * God and man, accomplished. Eve.**1 1 The same is true ol Solomon, when de* scribing, in the thirty-first chapter of Pro' verbs, the frugal wife and mother in Is, rael. He says, " She openeth her mouth r with wisdom, and on her tongue i3 the law of kindness. Her children rise up and 1 call her blessed, I?er husband also and he praiseth her. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, ~ and eateth not the bread of idleness." What could Solomon have meant, when j he added, "She worketji willingly with ? her bands; she considered) a field, and buyeth it?" The whole of this chapter JI forces upon the mind the conviction, that " industry, frugality, end economy, were the chief ornaments of the female character j in the days of Solomon, and were also an important source of wealth, and rcspccta' bility, and permanency to family distinc, tion. Solomon beautifully expresses the same sentiments in another chapter, in the j following comprehensive and pithy sentence: " Every wise woman buildcth her , house." s It May be added, these domestic qualities, upon which Solomon lays so much 5 stress, will be found, almost without exr ception, a sure index to female virtue and i integrity?certainly where they have been 1 based upon religious principles; for in r this ease, they must be the genuine fruit of ,, that mode of training which God has him2 self prescribed. These virtuous habits . and principles in the female sex, are the s stability of nations no less than of families, i and they must forever constitute no inconi sidcrablc portion of domestic happiness, i,! because, in the nature of things, they are i 3 1 immutably ri^i)t and proper. a | Ir. tlw U*i?i?g of .c^ngl}t?>rs Iff and mothers, after the model which the wisdom of Solomon has proscribed, fortunately the poorer classes in society have equal advantages with the rich, with incomparably fewer temptations to forsake the path of duty, which is the only path of Safety. It may not be improper, in this place, to give a word of caution to those young men who peruse our pages?if they hope to enjoy the blessings of wedded life, rcmemfor, that what most men seek in a wife, Solomon faithfully guards them against. He says, " Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall he praised"? u Ah, and chosen too," said a wise young man, who was about to select a companion for life. It may be further remarked, that those young women who, by a display of beauty, wit, ornament, or dress, seek to gain admirers, cannot be expected to possess the requisite qualifications for a dutiful and affectionate wile or mother; for, it may be added, no voung woman who is conscien * ? w tiouslv serving the Lord, will spend her lime in employments whicli, instead of benefitting mankind, serve but to inflate herself with pride ; nor will she resort to such fading vanities, 44 to kill time," or to 44 drive away dull care," or for the sake of being44 amused." Said Mrs. S., as she sat trotting upon ber knee her first grandchild, 4,l fear my poor Margaret will never he able to nurse her children." 44And why?" inquired Mrs. B. 44 Because, poor thing, she has destroyed her health and constitution by conforming to the ridiculous fashions of of the day. I Iwve often trembled for her, as I observed her slender form, so much admired by Mrs. T., her dressmaker, hut to her mother was tiie premonition of consumption. But in spite of all my remonstrances, she would attend the theatre? she would attend late balls and parties? she would lace tight?she would walk out in thin shoes and thin dresses, notwithstanding for more than two years she has Lonii cnliinrt tn fainting fits. You, who """" ? ? 'j " n have never had a daughter, Mrs. B., wonder perhaps why I did not control Margaret in these matters; but h? well might a mother think to stem a torrent, as to control a girl ofsixteen, who "came out" into society at fourteen, and who,of course, has yielded for two years to thctyraiiny of fashion. I fear, Mrs. B., that the generality of our young mothers will make but poor nurses." r t What an acknowledgement to be extracted front a mother!! But the question returns, when a young lady during the period of her minority is confined at school, or has been allowed to pass her time in lolling in the drawing J* _ 1_ 11 ... room, reading novel*, nnuug ?i parties, in short, going the whole round of fashionable life; what is tiiere in the nature of things, that shall at once transform her into the liealthy, disinterested, and at. tentivc wife and mother. In these stations, will she have no need of fihn health?no need of firm nerves? no need of fortitude, patience, and selfdenial f If neither her heart nor her mind has been fortified to bear up under trials, how will she bear with vexations in family matters ??how will she bear with disappoint' ntents which may meet her at every step ? -_hmv will she hear with interruptions, not only in her retirements, but ill her most important and necessary plans of usefulness??how will she bear with the waywardness, the petulance, the weaknesses of her children 1 with the impertinence, the ignorance, the dullness and caprice of her domestics ??How, I ask, will she bear up under these, and ten thousand other, difficulties and temptations, if she lias neither health of body, or vigor of mind, to resist or overcome them ? In the training of our daughters, we should not for a day lose sight of the tremendous fact, that there arc two worlds, and that the present life is absolutely a probationary state to one which is unchanging. The fact cannot be controverted, that woman was not formed for a listless or sedentary life, neither was she made for a life of pleasure. On the contrary, her dntir* nre of tlte most active kindi and perpetually recurring. Nor can these duties be thoroughly learned, but in the! school of experience. How nioch wiser then that she begin her apprenticeship at home, under the watchful eye of a fond mother, whose patience and partiality, ever, will far exceed that of a devoted husband, whose youthful imagination lias always pictured his wife as a paragon of female excellence?at home, where it may be supposed that a father's pecuniary circumstances will allow of some prodigality in needful experiments, rather than those of a young man, just set up in business for himself, and who, perhaps, in commencing the early family establishment, had to resist many a remonstrance of his own judgment and reason, and the better judgment of family connexions. Even in cases where a mother is disposed, and really has intended, to avoid the evils we have hinted at, though her daughter is professedly employed, still her efforts do not amount to any thing?her attempts at industry are a sort of busy idleness. She does not in fart relieve her mother of any of her domestic burdens or sympathise with her under her load of responsibility, which, if divided, would not be oppressive. It is by actually participating with the motlier in the incessant toils which must at timvs be sustained even in ye!! reflated families, that our daughters car* become qualified for the endless cares and perpetual obligations, from which it is impossible for a conscientious and prudent hoeiewife to escape. Miss More beautifully portrays that kind of education which is requiaie to prepare for domestic happiness. 'That/ she says," is best, which will tepd tfrforra a friend and companion in a wifli -that which will inculcate principle, peliHtf-tasle,. regulate the temper, cultivate reason, adbdtic the passions, direct the* feelings, habituate to reflection and setf-deoial-*-** and, more especially, thai- which will refefr' all actions, feelings, sentiments tastes end > I passions, to the love and fear of God*"' ? . MJf J i**t CALL FOR TRACTS FROM NESTORIAN# IN PERSIA. 7o Rev. Wm. A. Haltock}Cor, l&c. American Tract SotiAjf. Oormioh, Persia, Juhr jSh Mv PiMB RpnTHRR^?\ ours of October 30,1835, came recently to hand. Mr heart leaps with joy as I contemplate the noble stand which your Society is takioppa the department of Foreign djstribuflVh* Your schedule of Appropriations for the current year is magniflcenl-rC?rjainly so, if compared with past efforts?aou, in foct, it ! is so in reality; though we pray, hope, and ! trust that indications of Providence will re. I quire you speedily still to magnify this schedule, both in the number,andaamount of ifct? ! appropriations many fold. . For your appropriations to our mission* allow me to tender to your Society my heart.felt obligations. Our operations -iftPersia, you ar6 aware, are all incipient, and as yet comparatively limited ; still your . aid has already proved invaluable to us, aad< ; successive appropriations will prove inciteI singly so, as our means for the preparation I of Tracts shall be multiplied and matured^ Our facilities for distribution are unbounded. There is and will be no bmit to the demand for religious Tracts among the j Nestorinns, but our means to supply (hem. : The whole nation are hungering and thirst | ing for religious books, and are as reauy to i receive them from us as at the hondaol* j their own bishops. In fact the Ecclesiastics, from the Patriarch down to the obscum ; est Priest, are foremost in their importunities that we circulate among them and their people christian knowledge with aH practicable despatch, and at our own discretion. But wo have as yet no press, and ope ] Tract operations can only be commeettjratc with the slow motion of the fen, until | we have one, which wo hope will be vefjf | soon. j* , . ' We have at present one translator aad, i three copyists sustained by your funds, and employed in the preparation of Tracts in the I Nestorian dialect. Tlie Tracts which ife 1 have hitherto prepared, and which wo shall for soinc time to come prepare, consist entirely of selections of Scripture, copied front a trnaslation which I am now engaged in making from the ancient Syriae imotbe modem or Nestorian dialect. We cqpy these portions of Scripture upon, one ajffo of large sheets of very thick pqper* and for the sake of durability paste epprae cajN$Sa upon the hack, and for their bctterpreasprvation still, we attach loops at'the top, by< which they may be suspended. - Thus ooh* siructcd, these Tracts form .excellent, and very, convenient reading letsoritfbr schools, and most acceptable cards for general distribution, . r j, ?,, Thus are we nt present disposing of the sacred appropriations made by^ourSocifty to our Mission. The arrival of our Presa will enable us immediately Jo Multiply our operations ; and as Tracts^tnfeoe u Jea*es ? fi:f. ?-L?II Ol mo I rue OI me, suuw mug iuvij vivt the province of Ogni)i(*h; jwid^roagi, ^ innumerable Nestorian villages and handMr in the vailiee and ravines of tE?fikJ Km4*k mountains, and over the plains laLMwefai* tainiastill westward, we connotroufctM wherever they shall fall they will pf?w:ii u healing for the nations." And when tlte Nestorian church?this vene^hte church.of Antioch. shall have awakcnca from .her slumber of centuries?shall have pot (taner beautiful garments, and stand forth ntf tHlf centre of Mohammedan dominion "Mrufe the moon, clear as the sun, and terribl* ajb an army with banners," revived and regane* rated by the Spirit of God, through Tract? and Bible, and Missionary instnimcntalityv and sending forth a flood of light and gtijry in every direction to illuraiWand savwWf Asia?then, we trust, the Tract coatfibdr tions of American Christians for the bttk6t tit of our mission, will appear to JmveMtf made not in vain. That this blewe* may soon come 19 our prayer, the Object of our toil, hooe and expectation. Your brother in the labors of theGospeft Justin pkifff!??' Those who were present at the Ia$ anniversary of the American Tract Sociey, will recollect that much interest was manifested in ihe adoption of the resdtutiod to raise $35,000 for foreign distribution taring the current year. Many thought the* community would cheerfully contribute a much larger sum, and all believed atarrer sum could be usefully employed.' Kt.arfy ; nine months of the year have gone by, and only $6,591 76. have been received; lea v. ing $'28,408 24 to be obtained^ previous to April 15. The receipts H>r this obye6l the last three months have been only if&l 75, less, probably, than dtving any three months in the last three years. The receipts of a little more than three month to come must settle the question, whether iho proposed amount shall be realised and remitted to the heathen. Mtssionnrib? ,au$| others abroad have been apprized of dje Society's resolutions ; they are 'expecting 1 the money, and are making arrangemen# I to employ it in the most useful ^phnnbr as girly as possible. The Committee W? 4