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wt; have. Ti; re arc others, however who hk'Mo what is going on !n th'J world, i:t their own prof, -ssion, an J feel encouraged > hope, by what others are actively doiii'j,; .uni sonw linte or ciicr they may bo able I ' ) do the same, or L :;tor, themselves. Of; auoIi ckaracrers, wo havo ;i few even in v. ei!sb? :ough, and i have :ho pleasure of ending you the names of tk" foll'wmrr r,j. s subscribe rs,'' &c.?Ibid. BONK MANURE, tt* rice hone manure has b come more ne. cessibio to a considerable po.tum oi too ; farming comrnuuity, by the erection 01 bone mills at Albany, VVn:es?*?rd, New \ork. tfostcn, and other places?end ts likely to . come in'o more c.vb ns;vo use, as <ts vaiuo :s better :;ppr. elated?wo propose to Rive | some account of its fort Jizing properties, of I the soils and crops which it is calculated j most to benefif, of its mode of application, | t!ip nuntiiitv Sri-hod to t ic acre, fee. In j doing tins, we snuli draw our fac's princ' from l!iC rv-port of the committee of! *h?? I)oucn?!cr Agricultural Assoc: dion, ? society which has rendered eminent service :o .!)? Agricultural community, in thff -j> i:t j departments t f husbandry, by its investiga- ; turns and reports. \Vjth n view of eollefuinor facts Jo f >rm ; the basis of Unreport, the committee ad- ; dressed sweatees queiies to the mos" iui -J Jig"nt farmers of the coun iv, embracing m?'n of science and asking answers to :h" j interrogatories in regard to tins manure.? |< Fortynine answers were returned. From ) inosvthe committee made out i >?'ir rcpor: ; i and it is the substance of this report we are about to give. B >ne manure had beer, used, by there to , wi.o.-n the queries w? re ad dressed, for an j | average period of twenty years. "Our cor- j r sj>o?iden!s," says the report, "w.tb only J | twoescpptions, all concur in s ating i: to be j j a iiig'ily valuable manure, and cn 1'ght dry j ] ? ' i it i soils superior to farm-yard dung ana t::i ; other manures." In copying the language j, ?.f one of them in relation to dry sandy sails, i we express the opin'ons repeated i:i the far j , greater number. "I consider bono tiilagc j, one of the most useful manures which have I. ever ben discovered for the farmer's bra:. J fi'.> The hgh ness of carriage, its suitable- j, ness U>r the drill, and its gcijciul fi r!;' ;:;ng . proper.ios, render it peculiarly vu uable i:j j | those parts where distar.ee from towns r ! dors :t impossible to procure manuic cf a j hoa \ i>T and more bulky description. The ! use of die bones diminishes labor at a sea* ' i son of the year too when time is of tint first !: imporine.ee ; for one wagon load of a hum,! l drod an d twenty bushels of small drill bones, \ is equal to forty 01 fifty cat! loads of field j manure/* J < "Upon very thin sand hind," say the ' i committee, "its value is not to be cstima- i < ted ; it is not only found to benefit the par- j j fieular crop :o which it is applied, but e.x- i i ? i i! toads through the whole couse 01 crop?,anu <j < von in tiie succeeding course, its effects ' < aro v:'ii !e in the improved qualify of the : i hind. a:;J the cf5ei r.cy ofn smaller quanti- r ty than would have fiis: ensured a crop."? I Numerous facts are hero cited in proof ol < this declaration o( the committee. VV.'iore, | i for instance, in a district of many thousand i f acres, lurmps would produce on y tops, and 1 'l ose very sinu!!, the use of bones alone has i increased the urni|> crop in some cases ten, | and in few cases less tlrui five fold ; and a!! j the succeeding crops of grain and grass , c wore arnaz ngly increased. , < On light loams the benes were found j ; referal)!1* to yard dung?provided tiicvarc j ( dry?for the bom s do uwt seem lo benefit I at ell upon wet sods. t On heavy loams and clays the experL i ments were unfavorable; and the commits t tee infer, that clay sods are rn general too t mo st '-o receive any considerable benefit; i; from bone manure. j t Upon peat soils, thoroughly drained, the j i advantages of bone manure were very sir k i i ing. Fifteen to twenty bushels per acre!* were found to surpass, very tar, tiie ordinary \ \ dressing of farm yard dung, and even li.no i t and pigeons' dung. - 11, Upon gravels, the opinions of its efficacy j ( are contndic ory. Upon w t ones it will j t not succeed. J * As to i s dunhil t/. Tnr acres were [ 2 bone with one hundred and filiv husiiels ! per aero bv mistake. Four.e* 11 yours afer,1 v the land had not forgotten it, but was nearly < halt as go.'d agaai as tho other par , farmed a pfwisely in flit- sum w y, wi lnne exceptor of the one do s>ing ot bou s. To tiio qu s ion, do you continue o u-e Ia betvs? nut one n t e forty Litie returned ; ^ an answer to tiie u emve. Tatar U>c was ' a ia i?!ly iiicrt-asii.u. I( Upon l. ?*i for tne idowor p s'Mr--, \ r th'-ir fti i"! w is t v?T ibly, '11- hern \ o tie- I iti'4 improve 1 i . quu i \ and qu uitit v. ?3 x ( I i s -? r >pr ad open i went v. J ' r. t m. oi dry s uidy ) { . ' i| ova ieu vears. 1 1 i i i' 'ou le ttie butter, i' ^ . i >'. upon it to those ' ..r p >> ure not lion d. ion of bono .tu-t in | t . .< t :ni |) crop, one of the \ >r i. . iir.tis i husbandry; and I : >..? , lo iv ti -si mode of apply , ? j- , j- m dr.lis or broadens , are vu o ig tir- former opinion rattier pre\ ;:; ':?? $iy. of the bones, the opinion is ; i i\o oi liiifaicti bones. Mr. Durk s;ut< s ; \ I were to t.li lor tiarly preffi , I would | u-?* o.n's p iwder J as small as suw-dust : ' i. I Wiv.kiI to l;?vp m> laud in good heart, . i wou.d use principally h dl'mcti bones, an I i i t>r?'aS-iiiig these 1 dio-.ild preftrsonie con- j J rab.'v larger." l> using bun s of a ' g- s'Z", witii dus oi t mm," says ano'hrr in >. oudcii, "I hink i have sufficient of i mkuIi jnrnel'S o >?t ti.e croj) forward, j a:i<i dlic.cnt of t':c large particles left to j mam; in the laud in good condition for the 1 last crop" in the course. In regard .o lire qu unity tube applied to an ; en-, al.hough the cotnnii ice admit that the average of the re'urns is thiity-nine j bas'n Is, th y nevc:t.:oless recommend, as a j sufficient dressing, twenty-h\c bushels of tho c:r.?.!I siz<?, u'eJ Irty besh.-is of the hail inch, giving to the poorer land:? a greater, and ;o tne richer ones a smaller quantity. Some of the correspondents prefer raw j or fresh bones, and s nue those which have | b'en hoilei1, mid the glue and od extracted j WVhoa: going into f r:!i- r detail, we s!:all ; close our notice oi the report, by copying a j surr.rnarv ol the d-duciioiis which the com* . mil tee draw from tlie facts tney collected. ! They are as f. ilows :? On dry sands, limestone, chalk, light loams, 1 ard peat, bones are very valuable manure, I They mav he lain on g-ass with goedotfbet. : On arable lands, they may belaid on fallow j for turnip?, or used for any of tho subsequent I crops. That the best method t?f using them where ! broadcast, is previously to mix them up with! earth, dung cr other manures, and let them lie i to ferment. That if used i-lor.e, they may be either dri'led ; wit Ii tho seed or sowi broadcast. '''' 1 ? I tlio ?r/\_ I Ifitit DOT1C8 WillCil IlllVb' Uiiun^oui; ?,m> i crss of ferment.iMon, arc decidedly superior to j those v* liicli have not done so. That tlu* quantity should be about twenty, i five bushels of dus', or forty bushels of large, increasing the quantity if the land be im- ! poverishcd. That upon clays and heavy loams, it does l not yet appear that bones will answer. From the foregoing date, the farmer will \ be able to judge I tow far bone mnnuic is ;vinula I to his so i; and from estimating its eost myJ transportation, he can calculate i theecononiy of purchasing and applying it. In the report before us it is computed to be . cheaper at 2s. (44 cen s) per bushel for j manuring, than yard dung, at 10s. f82. 22) j iIk* load, the price the latter is stated at in j Brita n. The price at the mills in this stab'; is 814 to 81G per ton, which would bring it j o more tlnn 40 cents a busltel. So that to manure an acre with twenty.five bush Is j would cost about $10.75, besides transput*. ?. talionanJ spreading. This dressing wou'd , ho equal to that afforded by twenty common | loads of manure, which ought to be est inn* j U J to Le worth 50 cents a lond, besides the j expense of hauling it cut and spreading it. It wou'd :Ii Tefore seem to be cheaper than stable manure ; and at all events it would I ufiorda valuable auxiliary where manure is j scarce, or has to be brought from a distance.' Hone dust is for sale .at tbc glue factory j of T. CouDon & son, en the Schenectady j . turnpike. Albuov. and In* K. Fur, WaterorJ. * " ?_____ I i Greas:: ru.a Wheels and macnixe.iv. j i ?M. D'Arcet, the celebrated French ' I diemist and muster of the mint in Franco i ' ' -commends the fid.owing composition as ! t' lie boot grease for wheels and maclnnery, j c " 25.: Eighty ports of grease and twenty parts j t jf plu:nbago.(black load) reduced :o a \\ ry i ine powder, and most intimately mixed to- t ;ctlicr. M. D'Arcet employs his compo- i iiticn with the greatest advantage a- the I mint, for locks, and fowling pieces. In a I nun.ry from Paris to Marseilles, hegroas ji 2d with the above, the witecls of his car- j i iage, and again at .Marseilles before Irs re-; i urn. and the wheel which appeared v ry ; ( leavy and clumsy,rolled with the greatest t :ase, to the as ouislmv m of the drivers. A 1 .* re ry small quantity sufli *es. lie gave t ionic cf it o a person going front Pans to i Home, who on his return gave han back t "tiost of it, as so very ?i tie was required. { ??????????? t Generat Washington's Teeth.?A few t jays since a snt dl engraved profile was ! jhcvvn us. under whtcn were thee words: t 4 John Greenwood, Dentist to Ins Exedhm- 1 :y General Washington !" Tins led to < r a | ? urlhcr inquir es, when wo were imormeu 4 ha* Geo. Washington, in the iai'er part of 1 lis lifts wore a complete set of artificial ' eeh, on bo tif?ws, which were munuOtciur. J '(J by tins Mr. Green woo i, who then resided n the city of Now.. York. Washington, tsually liad two sets on hand, in orj -r to I nect any suJ.Icn emergency, in cas 4 those n use were broken. A letter is ex ant, in vhicli ho requests Mr. Greenwood to lor- ! vard a V.c v set, that he might be prepared o speak b 'fore the ensuing Congress. The 1 ast tooth which was ex racted from the jJ. nera!, being carefully preserved, came ill mate'y into the possession of thesoF, 0; ; Jr. Greenwood, also an eminent dentist ot ( \Vtv. York, who had it secured very choice. * y in a gri'd sca!, many years ago, and ' vliich is s'ili ken , an 1 h?!iev?d to be fho only 1 ?rg unc rchr, net er* ombcJ, of that great -1 md good m n. j I Lawful Revenue.?A1 ny years s:ncr, j t t g' li'leman of Nowington, a parish of j < kVo hersfi M, Conn., who was a very re? j1 i ?">n >r?nc r?T,n ttiHrrind onn i ! !jm)us i.1j 1 < oust'tu iwmj ....... i f tlic most ill natar?-d ami troublesome wo- | 7V ti wh.eh could found i:i ill? vicinity, j 1 rnis oceas onod a univcrs ?1 surprise where, vr lie was known ; ami one oi his neighs 1 :ors vcn 'jr? d to 'sk him t e reasons which 1 jov r ed his choice, He replied, tnat having had hut !i tie trouble in the world, he 1 w.is hMrfui of becoming too much attached ' to initios ot time and smse.and he thought b\ exp<rnnci g some afflictions, he should become mor<i weaned trom the world, and < th it i e married such a wo an as ho thought j1 would accomplish this ot'j ct. The best part of the story is, that the wile, hearing the reasons why he married ! her. was much often h d, and, out, of"r vcti^c, !1 became one of the most plea sain and dutu tui wives in the town ; declaring itjat she was not going to be made a pack-horse to carry her husband to heaven. Swiftness of Birds.?Tin smallest j ' I < \! \ in v. can fly several league* ! W ? J ? ( id an hour ; the hawk goes commonly at ! the rale of a leagu; in (our minutes, or above I forty miles an hour. A fa I eon of Henry ! !!. was fi )un from Pontainbieau, and found, j by its ring, a Malta next day. L ne, sent ; irum the Canaries to Andalusia, returned to j T< n::or:Hfe, in sixren hours, a distauco of! near s ven hundred miles, which it must j h :ve gone at ti>e average rate ol twenty four miles an hour. Culls go seven bun. divd miles out to s- a and return fairly ; and | and liigato birds have been (bund a: twelve ; hundred miles from any land. Cnon their j migration, he cuter, u.: v. ?;*; *.vn !Vj\ that' cranes go and return at the same date, without the least regard o the state of thi: weather, which shows no doubt, if true, a most peculiar instinct ; but these, and indeed all tacts which he find': stated by a writer so much addicted to painting and coloring, must bo received with a degree o!'susp:c on, for which no one but Mr. Virey is to be blamed. The accounts, however, of the swiftness of birds, I can well credit, from an experiment which I made when travelling on a r ml way. ',?*hile going at :he rate of thirty miles an hour, I let fiy a bee ; ii made its circles as usual, an 1. surrounded hs easily. N ,\v if there was no current of air or draft to boar it along, tin's indicateJ a rate of ninety miles an hour; and even allowing for a current, mu?t have been grca\ I should, however, wish to repeat : . i.e.... ?? (lie: iji.ioio u'.:u;^ ijuia; ?uju wi so creat a swifti-ss in so small an inscer. ?Lord Brougham's Dcssertauon on Science. SUBSTITUTE Foil THE SUN*. The nev.lv invencd huh of M. Gaudin, on which experiments wore recent 1\ marie in Paris, is an improved modilication of tlu? well known invention of Lieutenant Drummond. While Druminon l pours a stream of oxygen gas tiirougo sp rits of wine, upon tins! iciu d l ine, Gaudin maKes use of a more ethr-rial kind of oxygon. which !.e conducts through burning essenc-* of turpent nc. Tne Drummoud ligut is 1500 times great--r than that of burning gas ; the Gaudin light is, we arc assured by ti e inventor, as strong as that oftiiesun, or thirty thousand limes stronger than gn?, and o' ooura-, ten lim s more so tiinn that of the Drummoad. Themcdi- | od by M. G audio proposes 'olurn the n?'W invention o use is singularly sinking, fie proposes 'o erect in ihe island of the Post N'-uf. in the m ddleofthe Seine and c? ntreal Paris, a hg a.house, five hundred feci High, in which is to be placed a light from J a hundred thousand to a million gas p pes slrong?the power to b'* varied as :he night is light or dark.?Paris will thus enjov a sort of perpivu ilday ; and as soon us the sun of the heavens lias set, til" sr.n of the Pont Neuf will rise.?London Mechanic's Magazine. A Good Boy.?No mo'her, who Ins a so i fir away, can run her e; c over the following acknowledgment cf a mother's .otter, which is taken from tiie Western World, withou pronouncing its author " a jood bo)*." In announ- ing the arrival of i latp mail the editor beautifully remarks: " It dso brought us a h tter from her who uirscd us in infancy ; from her who'aught :s our alpliabet : a letter in the same handwriting of the first copy afcr which we r.ade our first aitempt ?o irace the forms of otters ; ye<, a latter from her whose pious , ips were the first to tell us of " the sin'ul vss of sin," d t c < xcel!. nee of v;rtu,%; rem h. r whose click has paled in nig iH\ vat?'h ugs, f?r rnomhs togeiher, hy ih?* 'Ouch, to wlwc i wi h shackles of pain, d.s Msc Iiad bound us ; from h r whoalwiys ickno'A lodged our joy with a su.ile, and our voe with a r ; from li r who though of 10 kindred blood, has ever loved us with " a mother's lovo ;'7 and who now writes to re. icat her w armest prayer that we may meet igain en earth, and tell, in terms whose ruth we know, that she who thus has over oved us, will love us thus forever. More .nan two Ion a years have passed sine la>? we met, and more than If distance of the arth's diameter divines us: an I which time mil distan '0 may he more than twiee douhed ere we met again ; yc, in reference to i'T, how warmly do wo feel, and now tiulv i.y, "Whore e'er I go, whatever realms to sec, My heart, untravclled, fondly turns to thee." A REMARKABLE HIsTORV. Zer.ah Colburn. No phenomena in lie whole course of intellectual m m, have wen more n-maraable t!ian those attending he life ofZerah Coibjrn, whose death lias jet n recently announced. He was born at Cabot, y?-rmont, on the irst ot September, 1801. and was the sixth i ;hi;a of poor, but resectable pnren s. His a her was a farmer, and he first discovered lis son's peculiar faculty sometime in August, 1810, the boy b<in<j then about six rears old. The child had been at a district Hiool only about six weeks, which comiris-' ii ai' .his oppor unity for eduction, and he fi: st indica ion behave of his uncommon :omtnand of numb rs vas by running tl rou??h the multip icnt on table, while s;tin?r on the fl?or of a ea.penter's shop, and watclrng chips as tl:ey were thrown olF from the tool. He v.as taken to several places in Ver i 1 moir, nncJ was examined by ciistingtt'sneu men, who were astonished ut his power, which was no I ssineomprehens b!e to them than to hinist if. By the advice of friends, his 'ather was induced to lakeZ -rah about for exhibition, though several capital off TS were made ( specially by Professor Adams, :>f D .rtmouth College,) to take him iri i ll irge and g ve turn a complete education. All the offers wcic refused by the mercenary spirit of the father. In BoS'.cnthe father received a munifi-j cent offer to educate the bov, which his I mercenary temper induced him to refuse. J James Perkins, Daniel Sargeant, Josiah I Quincv, Isaac P. Davi'-s, Wi.ham Sullivan j and W. S. Shaw, agreed to contract with | the father, to raise S5UU0 by subscription.1 and without exhibition, one half of which shouid bti given to the father, and the other half annlieJ to the education of the child, under the directon of the Trustees, although the father should be allowed to he with, arid have tin; personal charge of his son. This off r was refused. 2erah was soon taken to England, w lie re he excited as much wonder as lie had done, here. The desultory conduct of his father, however, ruined his prospects, and made enemies. After travelling through the United Kingdoms, receiving much money, and borrowing more, this wicked father took the boy to France, where, in 1S14, without giving any intimation of ha person, or character, he was taken to Dr. Gall, the father of phrenology, who imnn-di itely re. marked upon the prominenepof the organs of number, and desiied to take a mask of his free. Here, also, great astonishment was excited, and vast sums of money taken by ;!ie exhibition or received in loans; but j it" was all expended, and they returned in J poverty end dis'ress to England. In July, 1S16. the Ear! of Br s ol, with a j princely Iib"ralitv, took up the patronage of i *he boy, with the hope, that, in the course , ! of a good education, be might be enabled j to reveal the secret of bis mysterious power j ] of computation. lie offered topiv the ex-1 pensesofbis education at Westminis'er ; j and, in the meantime, to allow the fuller | twenty-five pounds per annum. At this j instil u'ion t bey had a quarrel and left on; 1 account of 'lie prnc'icr of^qgo/n.;,and went j j to the Rev. Mr. Bullen. in Buckinghamshire, i - t -Ml ? I whcro the Earl of Bns:oI consensu sun 10 i defray ihe expanses of private tuition. Zerah was taken from Mr. tfuilen's in I 1819. on account of some freak of his fath- ' pr, an'i was taken to Edinburgh to be .pro. pared for the stage. After s udying some ime with several actors, wuh whom it was impo sible for the father to agree, Zerah was put under the care of Charles Kemble, and r -ceivet! lessons from him. He was la., j km r??and*o Ire! ?nd and the provincial 'hentn-s without success, during lSCOand 1821; and in 1^22, having been reduced to destitution, application was made to the Earl of Bristol lor further assistance. The Earl very properly sai l he would do nothing for j the father, hut separate and ind^'pendent of him or his control, he would assist the son, then eighteen years old. Compelled to labor by necessity, Zerah in that year took a small school in the country, which he continued untd near the death of his father, which happened in Feb. 1824 ; and in May, by the renewed liberali ity of the Ear! of Bristol lie sailed for this j I country. ! There is nothing more to relate of Zerah Colburn, hut tint lie has lived in Vermont ' ver since, a Methodist clergyman with no j distinction or eminence of any k nd. His ! talents were far below mediocrity as a j scholar and as a thinker. He hod not even the giftot clear conception or strong expression of thoughts, bur dwindled down in o one of fho lower classes of those, who though pious and useful to a certain extent in the min stry, are not enabled to shine. His power of calculation was los', some time before lie left England. The sorrel of its origin and end r sts only \vi;h Ins Maker ?Bos'on Daily Times. EASY JOE BRUCE. BY H H. WELD. 'Bless ni" !'exclaimed Mr. Joseph Brure, or perhaps we snould rather say Joe Bruce, for as he w is a noble, <?asy fellow, nobody thought ol alio* >ug him more than half of 'us name, or of any thing else w.licit be longed to him?'I st?e by the pap r thai (lawk & Harpy hive assigned. *1 meant o have scoured inv debt y? sterd #y !' Me left his rolFe ball dr ?r.k, stumbled over the threshold, and w nt almost at a run to the counting-room of Hawk <Sz II irpy. One h !(' that speed on the day before would have savi*d Insd-h ; as it was, le was jus in season to put on ins n tm?* at the bot om of a Joz 11 and a halt preferred ones, 10 receive ten per rent. lie went back to lus unfinished breakfast with what appeti e he mig'ir. . 4Why did you neglect this so long, Mr. Brure?' said his helpmate and comforter. I mc.mf in hnvf attended to it vesterdav. * " "J J ' my dear. *Y"ii meant? That is always your way, Mr. Bruei*. You carelessly n- gleet your busin< ss to the last momerr, and then put yourself in a haste and Heat for nothing, my dear !' 'Really, Mrs. Bruce'? But Mrs. Bruce did not allow him a chance to defend himself On she went, in the most approved conjugal manner, to be. rate him fur his carelessness and inattention. Really, Mrs. Bruce' And it was really Mrs. Bruce, for few of the feminine, and n <ne of the masculine gander could have kept pace with her.? Cer ainly Easy Joe could n t. The <fa ter of the co:ton mill would not have been a circumstance to the dm she raised. Easy Jje pu led a cigar case out of his pocket?clapped his fe<-t on the fender?and it almost | ?ecm d that the smoke rendered his ears impervious !o the bleat ings o( that gentle lamb Irs spouse, so p!?cw was mis couiuknance, as the vapor escaped in graceful volunies from his mouth. People overshoot tin? mark some:im<'s : Mrs. Bruce d d. Had she spared her or a ion, the morning's loss would have induced her husband to have been punctual to his business, for one day at least. As it was. he took the same sort of j pride in neglecting it under her lecture, that the Grande Nation took so long in refusing to pay the cluimsof onr citizens. Br cze away Mrs. Bruce !' 'Breeze away, sir ! Breeze away ! 1 wish j I could impart one title of mv energy to you,! Mr. Bruce, I?I' Bruce sprang to his feet; crash ! came j an elegant mantel clock down upon the j hearth. 'There, Mr. Bruce! That clock has j stood there three months without fastening; j a sing'e screw would have saved ?t; but'? J Well, 1 meant to' 'You m *ant! Mr. Bruce?you meant won't pay the damage, nor Hawk & Harpy's I j note ! You mean't indeed !' Bruce seized his hut and cloak, in a few 1 minutes he was on change. Nobody could read in ins nice any traces 01 me lute mum. ; monial breeze; and nobody would have j su^p1 c!od from bis countenance, that Hawk j & Harpy I'aiLd in bis debt. Easy Joe J Bruee! I Well, Mr. Bruce, they've routed him.' j 4 Who V | 'Our friend Check. Pingree was chosen ! president of the bank, one vote would j have stopped him. } 'How deucedly unlucky, I meant to have i beenjoresent to vote far Check, myself.' 'Never mind, Bruce,' sai i another, 'you a arc a lucky man. The news of the great i yi fire in Speedcrvdle but just leached town by I express, and I congratulate )ou that you 1 sr was fully insured.' j p 'Insured ! my policy expired last week. 1 in meant to have got it n n-vvd this morning.* c< Joe posted home in no very happy hu- si mor. When an easy man is fairly up, ho is the most uneasy and unreasonable man in 5 iJ creation. . ! n 'Mrs. Cruoo, by -taking at home to hear j |, ycu scold, I have lost thousands. I meant :o have got insured this morning. I did not. Spcedervilh" is burned down, and I am a a, beggar.!' tl Why did you not do it yesterday, Mr, ;r Bruce ?' I I was thinking of Hawk & Harpy. Thinkin"! why diJ you not secure yourself?' I meant to, bus' ii Bu;?nic no buts !' _ _ | a You arc in excellent spirits, Mrs. Bruce.7 j Never in better.' a Vastly fine, madam. Wo are beggars.' t< Mrs. Bruce s it down and dapped her feet s on tho fender, after her husband's manner g( in the morning. ^ rWe ur^J ^TQuJflni/ -J^HIOO -y xf pented. J ? Very good?I will take my guitar, and you shall shoulder the t tree children. We'll (f play under Mr. Hawk's window first, ti.en ?? und'ti Mr. Harpy's, and then beg our way g to Spcederv.JJe, to play to the ashes of wh it s< was once your factory?which 3 ou meant to have insured. I should like beginii/g, of tT ail things.' j, You abominable woman, I shall go t| mad ,J Sj Don't, 1 beseech you, Mr. Bruce, they Cl put mad beggars in Bedlam.' ^ Bruce sprang for the door, his wife iircr. ft cepted him. *flere, Joseph, is a paper t| which I meant to have siiown you this a morning.' f( 'A policy, and dated yesterday !' S( Yes. You meant to get it renewed to n day?I meant it should be done yesterday ?so I told your cletk, from you, to do i,. t; Am I not an abominable woman? When I said so, I was in a pet. I nj'-ant'? No more of that. Joseph. Now tell me , who is the first on Hawk & Harpy's assign ? men! V j, Your brother. , v, His claim "overs you both.' Yo j are an angel, Mrs Bruce' p E tsy Jo became an altered man ; and ^ his Wife was released from her watch over c lus out loor business. Sh di -d som" veers p b foie lain, hut we are ha!, indin d to sus- 0 pect. that after her deu.h, Joe partially relapsed into his old habits; so true it is. thai f v habit is a secondjr.ature. Bo h were buried 0 in the giave-y ard at Speederv lie, .and our suspicions are found-d on something like ihe } following conversation, which took place jj between die grave-di^'g r and his hssjs ant ' S| WIh're are we to d:g Mr Bi uce'.s grave?' s 1 dout know exactly. 11 ts will says, next p his wife.' I( Where was she laid V p Th it I don't know. Easy Joe always said he mean to p ace an obelisk oner, nor, 51 but it never was done.' , Written for the Lady's Book. ^ OLD SCHOOLS. BV PROFESSOR ALDEN. d I prefer ofd things, that is. wh?n I do not g I k?: u^w things belter. For this reason I } look wnli sorrow on iho gradual d -cline 01 t' old fashion d sc .ools, and t*?e risi? of h'uh, ? eclectic,collegiate, and other schools. Not 4,1 hul that inteilcciml improvement is in som h cases promoted, for in those good old P schools, that was the las: th ng thought of, hut I think the sum of juven le happiness is dimin shed, and when is man nappy if not h in youth ? Where is the lawyer, congress, man, edror.or pr acher, who some twemy t"' years ago passed through the process of reading, writ ngt and ciphering, that does d not look back o those as his happiest days t' ?days when the necessity of comprehend- e' ing things was unfelr, when five hours per w diem was tiie ukimation of restr Jut, and tl when a goodly portion of that was spent ft in planning enterprises for execution when the delightful stereotyped expression, "school's dismiss'd," should be uttered. Who docs not recollect his feats at read- ! ing, especially after he had arrived at a height j fraud circumference entitling him to a stand.! e ing w?th the first class 1 "First class read," cries out the p"d.i- a gogue, opening Scott's Lessons before him, " and deliberately persevering in ruling the I u ink-URsulIied sheets, fated ere long, to bear ; fi the traces of unearthly characters. \ r "First class read," end lo! a simulta ; I I necus rush ro the open space diversified by j n j a few intentional stumbles over the smaller J n j scholars, whose improving employment was : c I to set up right on backless benches, and j tl avoid whispering, or a furtive appropria. ! s lion of some flaxen locks, or by an atteirp- i h ted elongation of some luckless urchin's ear,! r followed by a solo attracting the attention J s and eliciting the inquiries o the master, enu- ! e ing in a threat of flogging next time. At I length, the line is (brmed, and the charge j j. commences. The head boy, who, in order j s to secure ih it station, has taken a place so j a near the fire that one side of his person is ! j. J well nigh in a roasting state, begins at the J 0 top of his lungs, and hurries on that he may r, get through with It's paragraph and use his ! t(' book as a fender lor the more sensitive parts ; s i nf his frame, fie is about half through | p | when sonic rogue at a distance of four or j five below him gives a side lurcli to his ! neighbour, who not at ail unwilling, com.. | muuicates the impulse to one above him, j ami so on till the reader is shoved against b : the blazing forcs'.ick, and there is a pause to a adjust matters and find he place, 11 "Read on," cries the master, "next v read." s "Giles hasn't read a half a verse," cries i out half a dozen voices. . t "Giles, why don't you read on ?" ? Giles at length gets through his verse, 1 t and forthwith turns to his neighbour, and in ! s 1 "If horrible whisper, "Darnntion take you,, ou don't get it when the boys go out." ' Giles don't stand straight," cries out ime ill-natured boy at the foot of the class, oor Giles had advanced in front of the lino i order :o avoid crisping. It was an ex?11? nt rule of the school that each ono tould keep the place he took at first. "Giles stand back in your place," says le infl xible inagister. There is no alterative, he must toast till the last lazy boy as blundered through. The time to take seats at length arrives, nd on their way Giles falls in the rear and J Js to the momentum of his neighboui by in application of his foot, i s woight being icreased by horse points innumerable. "Giles' bt-en a kickin' me." "Ha'n't boon a kickin' himnother." vv ho saw Ones kick ben V The p ^ties were about equally divided i popularity, and amid the cries of "1 did" nd 1 didn't," the poor pedagogue found it ! fficuli to discover the truth. At lergih, !i was rgconei! d and made? plain by Vho simony of one who cries out, "Master, I e<* ad how ii was. Ben just kicked Jmn. i'lf, and then tried to lay it to Giles." This xp'aoation se* med satisfactory Jo all parear; tfjuy toughed hiuillty atpT^were left ith an admonition to behave themselves. Tiierc is less inc.dent in the reading of ic second and third classes, the first class tending to writen" in the mean time.? cribble, scribble it goes, with occasional ou s of "mend my p? n," "John's jog. ling," &c. In about half an hour one uilv'ps :i diurnvnrv- nnd crins. "Miister. mV .. .. ... . ? J , ? -? - / ik s froze," and away he goes to the fire to mw it. Pleased wiih the warmth and con. picuousness of his station, he, with great omposure, suffers his ink to boil ano her :t!f hour.' Not daring to delay longer for ;ar of the frown of his mns:ci, who has by >is time cornpteed the cop es of ;he day, ud t-egins to look around he guards his face 'om the flaming emb'-rs with one hand, and pir/'S with the oilier the inkstand, which is ow at a temperature equal to boiling wa er. l4Gaul darn lie inkstand," is the involuntry ex'damat.ou of the yonnger writer. "What is that you said?" "f said as how the inkstand is hot." "Tnat is not what you said?come here, ive me your hand crack, crack, crack oesthe terule,"There that was for swearig;" Crack, crack, crack again, '*That ms for I) ing ; go to your seat " Alter this exploit there is silence for noor/ half an hour. At length some urchin reaks the monotony by n dexterous did* hurge of a bullet of soaked and chcwct aper, which takes eiFoct on the nose of one t the opposite side* of the house. This is signal to recommence operations. Tim dnspering becomes louder; the complaints f "crowdm*' thicken; till at lost an open xplosion, it should se< m, is prevented by ul}', "boys m ?v go out," burs'ing from tho ps of the mas cr. Books arc closed, inklands ovc rturn d. foes trodden upon, curs not loud hu d ep, uttered ; at!ast,ihrrc * sJ' iiec in the house and peace for the mas:r; for girls, for ih? most part, as every edagogue will ,es ify, are a peaceable, quii race. - By and by the bo\s must come in, ud t ten there is a glorious imc of crovrdiig round the fire. At l"Dgth here is uje* peeol quiet till some long-necked fellow it urious to know how it looks up chimney, ud wid e taking the pnsiion necessary to ! t'-riiMiie i at important fact, his neighbour >v- s him a t |r that brings ihp line of gravif wuhoul Uie base, and to avoid falling on ie now quiet embers. Ii?* .se.ze? on the coat I is neighbour. vtH-n a "darn you, I< tgo?" n I a j rk n the opjiusite direction, restores im ;o his perocudicular ty, and at the ex. ense of lie coat. "Jim's been t?.?r n'my coat." "Master, lie fore it himself. I just took old on linn and he tioiched ;ind tor- if." "Take your seats, all of you." thuoder# le magister. "Well, the ^irls 'n, nnd all seated, again ie process of instruction recommences. In le first case, the course was from the eldest veil u:ro the least, now the beginning is i:h the least, and so working upwards to e greatest, spelling only b? ing substituted >r reading in the first and socondclasses. The youngest toddler comes to read: "Wlut is that?" No answer. It's A?say A." "A ?y," says the toddler, looking at the >ur points of tiic compass, and so on to the nd of the alphabet. The remaining exercises are in consider. ble more order, lor when the command. First class take your places to spell," is it?'red, tlte master is seated, or s'anding in all view, and there is no opportunity (or a cpetition of the exploits of the morning.? )y and by, the joyful sentence 'school's isnissed," is heard, and then perfect happiiess is felt if there is any such thing on arth. Now, as I said before, I grieve at le extinction of those schools, for it will be een that they were the very nurseries of upptness. It was there I acquired my iresistible propens ty to laugh at every thing ave old age and religion, and there is no stimating ihe value of such an acquisition. If I thought there was any part of llio ind safe from the sophisticating invasion of teamboats and railroads and newspapers nd orators, I would retire thither and estate sh a school on the old plan, and thu9 liv? ver my early days. But the nge of ch val. y is gone, and that of high schools, iasti* ites, and practicalities is come. You can cnrcely distinguish a schoolmaster notv rorn an ordinary man. MILK.SICK BUTTEB. We learn by a gontleman of this neightor hood, that he has received a letter from i friend in Illinois, mentioning the fact, hat a gentleman with his five sons who vere moving to that country, died in con. equence of having eat some butter which hey purchased of a man in the neighbor, tood they were travelling through. Trav:llers emigrating to that country would do veil to take warning frcm this circumitance.?Jonesboro' (Tenn.) Telegraph,