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them no credit for remarkable talents ?? Or, shall we still cling to these theories, maugre the facts, merely because we have already spent so much time in laborious efc forts to sustain them ? I cao answer only for myself by saying, that I will ever abide by frets in preference even to my own opinion, whenever they conflict with each other. But in regard to the sub- j ject now under consideration,-1 believe there is a perfect accordance between them. Your subscriber however, may possibly think that I have "jumped too speedily to toy conclusions I will therefore, respecL J fully offer to hi in such explanation of the operation of surface spread manures, as has bt?n satisfactory, at least to myself. Should it prove so to him, I shall have gained my object in complying wi'h his request. My belief, founded on the facts already stated, is, that all the fertilizing substances of manures are soluble in water, and will remain un njuredd themselves, and useless to plants until the solution begins, whether they be deposited on or under the earth's surface, f also believe, that this solution is caused by every fall of rain, and is immediately absorbed by the subjacent soil, which absorption resubs Irom two causes; ? j - ? I, _ firsf, the principle or gravity, una secondly, the stronger attraction of ;he earth than of the atmosphere, for every substance in so. lutioa which constitutes the food of plants. Moreover, that the earth never pans with this feod. when thus absorbed, to anv thin<r but the plants themselves ; for it,is their peculiar aliment, and not that of theatmos. phure, whose existence, for ought we know to the contrary, is entirely independent of it, although its agency seems essential to the health and vigor of all plants. If this were a or the fact; if, (for example,) the earth did give the best and greatest proportion of this food to the atmosphere; or, if it escaped from surface spread manure, before gravity and attraction could impart it to the earth, then the evaporation which is supposed to be the medium of conveyance, and which is known to be constantly going on from the soil, would, in process of time, certainly render it barren, even without any cuitlva. tion whatever. Yet neither total nor par. tial barrenness is ever known to be produced by any other cause, than incessant cubtore without manure. That evaporation does take off something from manure while in a moist state is proved by the offensive smdl which constantly exhales from it until it is entirely dry. This sine 11 is excited by a gat which is suid by some, to contain the most valuable portion of the food of plan:8. But admit the fact, where is the proof of this portion being lost? 1 say there is none. On the contrary, we havo what 1 think a conclusive reason for believlog, that this food is immediately given by lite atmosphere to the tope of plants, as more suitable to thera than to their roots. My reason for this belief is, the result of the following experiment which I have koown to be repeated several times. All the bark was taken off from around the body of cer. tain young trees, in a ring about three inch* es wide, for the purpose, in the first case which I saw., ol ascertaining whether this process would not kill the tree. But to the surprise of us all, not more than a year or two elapsed, before that part of the body above. the ring became obviously larger than the oart below, and this difference in ( size increased ever year afterwards, as 1 bad frequent opportunities of noticing. < Another reason why I believe, that manures act better, if spread on the surface of land, than when buried under it in the cus- i toruary manner, is, that in the first cose, the rain water carries the dissolved substances oo deeper than the roots of mos' of ourcultivated plants always grow, unless they are forced out of their natural course ; and there these substances remain fast held by the earth's chemical affinity, until the stronger attraction of the spongioies of the roots begins to act upon them. But in the second case, that is, where manure is ploughed under as soon as spread, ail the food of plants contained then in, being placed at once quite as deep as their spongioies ml. turaliy grow, and litis too, before the rains begin to dissolve it, the subsequent solutions caused thereby, necessarily sink still deeper, and generally b*yr nd the reach of the plants for whose nourishment they are designed. In no other way can I account for the long noticed and invariable superiority of crops produced by surface spread manure, to those produced by that which was ploughed in. To me there appears to be but this alter, native, either to deny the facts already sta. ted, which I myself have oflen witnessed, or to explain them, (if we must theorise on the subject at all.) in some such way as the one which 1 have just offert d to your subK?tber,aod to such others of our brethren j as may choose to examine it. Permit me further to add, that on this subject nature * "* ?n nffiP lit A luffiful lf?fisnn if , we were not too wiae in our own conceits to be taught by such an instructress; for I know not a single exception to her practice of depositing on the earth's surface, all the putrseoent substances of every nature and kind, which appear designed to preserve her fecundity. in close connexion with this subject, there is one other matter, on which I will take the liberty to express an opinion, although your subscriber has not asked for it. This is, ?n regard to the best state in which manure can be applied. So fur as my own experience enables me to judge, an experience confirmed by that of many atom in wlose practical knowledge of the sufcyem I have great confidence, I believe that the fresher it is, the betttl^j for in such state, so much less will suffice, than in anymore advanced stage of putrefaction, thot time, labor, and value are all saved in th* application: while none the alledged "burning" ascribed to the manures being "too hot," ewer occurs, if the quantity used b* lessened in proportion to its freshness. This injury to plants, if i mistake not, is always caused by excess in the quantity, and not by the quality of the manure wt apply to them, although the two things pre | often confouoded, and thereby contribute to the perpetuation of error in regard to the nature and operation of all fertilizing substances. There is not, 1 believe, an agri. culturist of any experience in our country who has not had frequent opportunities of witnessing numerous facts to prove the correctness of these opinions. But, as I be fore remarked, we are all vastly fonder of our own fancies, than of facts in opposition to them ; and consequently pass all such without notice, or, when-too strong and obtrusive to be entirely disregarded, we spare no labor nor pains to force them, as far as we possibly can :o subserve some oreviously conceived notion which our silly pride forbids us to abandon. This obstacle to the progress of ail improvement, but espe_ cially in husbandrjt is one of the most pernicious of our besetting sins; and but for this, it seems to me impossible that any con. troversy should still exist in regard to the best manner and state in which to apply manures to land. Two or three years, at most, would have been amply sufficient to establish the most beneficial practice, if all those whose special interest it is to ascertain it, would have diligently and impartially resorted to comparative experiments, ac. curately and assiduously made for the purpose, rather than to speculating and theorizing about it. But it can ueVer be too late to make such experiments. Let me tt?erefore, roost earnestly, but respectfully re- i commend to your subscriber, who has i done me the honor to ask my opinion, as well os to nil others who may still have doubts on the subject, forthwith j commence making trials of the differ. < ent methods qF applying manures, and , also of the different statesln which it is ap- j plied. The opinions of experienced men are certainly well worth consulting, in re- r gard to all matters connected with their respective trades, professions or callings ; but ' we should never implicitly take them as guides for our own practice, any longer ! than until we can have leisure to test their 9 correctness by actual experiments. When 2 a number of these concur in producing the 9 same uniform result, it is a matter of very 1 little comparative importance, how others j may endeavor to account for the fact, as the fact itself is the all important thing, es- J pecially in every practical art. But this ' war between speculation and practice, be* J tween nature's own doings, and our fanci- ' ful ways of accounting for them, is destined I fear, never to cease, so long as such a 1 hing remains in the world, as pride of opin- 1 ion. Let a man once commit himself so ' fur, either in speaking or writing, as pub. j lickly to deliver whatever he considers an argument in support of his " ipse dixit," 1 and there are a hundred chances to one 9 that he persists in it to the day of his death. I In thus complying with your subscriber's ( request, I may perhaps have said more 1 than either he or you expected or wished. < If I have done so, I must rely for my ex 1 cuse, on the proverbial garrulity of old age, unless your own kind feelings will suggest ^ a better. I remain, dear sir, yours very { respectfully, * ? -JAMES M. GAENCTT. < From the Hunterdon, Fa. Democrat. f Extraordinary Destruction of Grain, 1 by worms. The premises of Mr. Leonard P. Kuhl, 1 k respectable farmer of ibis couatry, was 8 - - * n I . !- .1 - f.l risited on tne imn 01 Jtny iasi, id uio ioi- a owing extraordinary manner: On Sun. J Jay, Mr. Kuhi took a leisure walk over bis c fields for the purpose of examining his grain, 1 which ? few days before looked re. r markaly well, and promised an abundant s yield. On his approach to one of the fields c in which a fine crop of oats was growing, g ho discovered that the grain was infested * with an innumerable quantity of worms, re- \ sembling very much the appearance of the t common black cut worm so destructive of s corn, but rather longer and mnch more ac- e tive. Mr. Kuhl supposes, from appear, s aoces, that they commenced their depreda. (ions on or about Friday, the I9ih ult., and 1 continued their work of destruction until the 1 following Wednesday, at the end of which r time, they had destroyed about two hundred 1 bushels of oats, leaving not a vestige of a 1 single spear of either oats or grass, in the < whole space of about five acres. Their 1 mode of operation was very extraordinary, ] and is described to us as follows: They I ascended the stalk, clipping off as they < went along, every blade, until the) reached i the head?they would then cut the grain 4 off, which would fall to the ground?after 1 which, they would descend again, and feed * upon the substances which had falleo. They i pursued this course until tbey literally des* troyed about two hundred bushels of oats, i as above stated, and otherwise stripta large 1 portion of the field of every thing that was I on it, so that it now resembles the appear* r ance of having been swept by fire. After c hey fed upon the oats, they proceeded to aq t adjoining field, and commenced theirdepre. t lotions upon the potatoes and corn, ot t which it seems they partook but little, as c neither of those vegetables agreed very well 1 with them. They ate but once of the po~ 1 tatoes, which purged them so excessively r that they were found dead, in large quanti ties a short time after. The effects of the i corn upon them were somewhat similar, I though they survived longer after eating it. I They did not appear to eat much of either I grain, but stripped the stalk and left it stun- i ding naked in the field. From the description given of the worms, I we are inclined to think they were a species of what is called the army worm/' which are known to be very destructive of grain, and are occasionally suddenly found in large quantities, destroying everything like grain or vegetables within their rea^h. They were of a dark color, and about an inch and a quarter in length when full grown, having from 16 to 18 legsor feet?four at the head, and occasionally eight in the middle, and six it* the rear. Some of them were also marked with light colored strip*.* or spots on the back. Mr. Kuhl observes that during their operations, he never heard any thing resemble more a large factory or place of business?so loud w&9the hum or buzz they I created while at work. In the heat of the | day, they would seek shelter in the shade, * / pte chesnut color, with a coat com pari n, with a thoroughbred horse; his gaits are fre< I easy, true and regular : he trots a rnile ii three minutes, varying but a few seconds now, although he has never been trainee j nor never has eaten 4 bushels of any kirn of grain, since he was foalded. 1 hav managed him wholly myself; he is porfec tly safe, and well broken, before a gig, o under the saddle : he has never shown a vi cious act, and is gay and prompt. I hav< never seen a sounder horse to my knowl edge.?-I believe he is without a blemish. Ihave been many years in accomplishing this object, and know not how to combine more useful properties in any one horse Asa stallion, his value can hardly be cal eclated. I feel a great confid? nee, that 01 some of the fine-blooded mares in your sec tion of the country, he might produce foal of the speed and bottom of Tom Thuml and Ratler; and as a gig end saddle horse is not excelled : he is quiet and perfectly manageable in the gig ot saddle, on th< road. In France, and many other places the horses in common use, and their caval< ry,are entire. My family chaise horse milk cart horse, and team horses, are entire and no more trouble than geldings. - Having had repeated enquires fromyoui section of the country, for gig and saddle * 1 ? -?1 I -? ham r\r under ciods or leaves, and feed Upon what they could get. Towards sunset they would renew their depredations, and continue ihern until the following morning. If they were approached suddenly, or heard the slightest abrupt noise, they would double themselves up and fall to the ground, as though they were dead. At any time during their stay, large quantities could be gathered in the space of a few inches,, and so completely was the ground covered with them, that by laying down a hat in almost any part of the field, it would encompass hundreds. During the stay of the worm9, the field was infested with a great variety of birds, such as quails, blackbirds, crows, robbins, dec., which devoured them very rapidity; and but for their approach, it is supposed much greater injury would have been sihl tained. There were alfeo a great numbei of land turtles found in tlie field at the same time. We are requested to call the atten. tion of farmers to this fact, in order to show them the importance of allowing birds to remain on their promises during grain grow, ing seasons, as by destroying them, they evidently give the worms a better oppor^ (unity to prey upon their crops. The oldest farmers remark that they have neither seen nor heard any thing similar to tlw above remarkable incident, and look npon it altogether an extraordinary circumstance. ? ? -A.-. tannci ? stallion. We copy the article below from the Americas Parmer. The editor of that paper, in the coarse. >f some introductory remarks, says*?1' The fob owing descrijjtion recommendatory of a horse is >y one of the beet judges of a horse, and one of he best horsemen in this or any other country.* The horse is the Bellfoonder Morgan, and is >fiered at $2600. " I think he posesses the best properties as a roadster of any horse over bred in New Englard. This you may think is a strong expression, considering the many fine roadsters we have bred. It is a fact of jroat notoriety, that New England, within hu last forty years, has produced more, and better roadsters, than any other section of this, and perhaps any other country. It has . been said, and I believe it cannot be contra- , dieted with propriety, that there has never been a breed of horses in New England, which have proved so eminently useful as tho M rgan breed. They have often excited the admiration of strangers, foreigners, See. They combine in a great degree the prupertios so desirable to New England Yankee notions, viz* go to church, go to mill, under the saddle, before the gig,to the coach, find before tho plough. They excel in* great endurance, carrying weight a long distance, noble and generous spirited, with a docility of temper, that the most timid can, drive them, but if put to their mettle, they ire a full hand for the best whip. The origin of this breed of horses is as ollows Some time aboot 1796 to 1800, i French Canadian horse accidentally balded a full blood thorough bred racing aaare, and wln-nehe dropped her colt, Up >wner gavo it to a man in Vermont, by jbe lame of Gass Morgan. At A r his colt showed uncommon powers,and Mr.. Shovey, the man who broke and trained lim, informed me, that he had frequently teen him run one-quarter of a mile in fifteen - ? it..j .l- ri lecondg, l ilts COIt was catit-a me urar* Morgan--1.ence the Morgan breed of hors>8. The Gats Morgan lived over 30 years ; ie was of great vigor. Mr. Shovey showed ne a superior horse of his get, which he a* ured me was the 13th foald of the same lay*? get, by this horse. The Gats Mor. fan horse was the crack rod it>*t vWmity, for more than twenty.five ('ears, and he probably produced more foalds hon any other norse on record ; he was the tire of the famous Sherman Morgan horse, i stallion of merit, exiruordinary powers, ind fine properties. I obtained some years since a remarks, ile fine mare which was got by the Grass Morgan horse. She had been owned in ny neighborhood several years by a baker iy trade, who reside I sixteen miles from dost on. She had been driven in his bread. :art with a toad of bread iato Boston aod lack again, six days in tlie week, for several fears, hardly missing a day. Her stile and tcetness excited much attention. After ibtaning this mare* ( put the imported horse Bellfounder to her, and she dropped mo a illy, aod when this filly was 4 years old, [ put the Sherman Morgan horse to her, ind she dropped me the colt which 1 call he Bellfounder Morgan. Bellfounder was imported from England n 1832, by James Bratt. Esq. of Boston, Bellfounder was sired by thai well known ast and high brrd trotter, old Bellfounder, iut of Velocity, by Haphazard, by sir Peter, iut of Miss Harvy, by Eclipse. Velocity ; rotted on the Norwich road in 1806, sixt en mdes in one Iiour ; and although she iroke fifteen times into a gallop, and as iften turned round,-won her match. In 1808 she trotted twenty eight miles in 1 lour and 47 minutes, and has often done nany other great performances against time. Bellfounder at 6 years old, trotted two niles in less than six minutes, and the foL owing year was matched for 200 guineas :o trot nine miles in thirty minutes, which fie won easily by 22 seconds. His owner shortly afterwards challenged to perform with him seventeen miles and a half in ooe hour, but it was not accepted. Old Bellfounder was a true descendant from tho original blood of the Firnoays, which breed of horses stand unrivalled in England either for gig or saddle. With these materials I have attempted to breed a horse to order, to combine as much as possible, bottom, speed, health constitution, vigour and good temper?legs showing bone and muscle of the blood horse J chest and body, round, full and compact; shoulders well laid~in; back short with good couplings ; neck rising prompt from the shouL Jers, and a good length, with light head, well placed ; all of which are most adrnira. bty combined and well developed in my Bellfounier Morgan. Bellfounder Morgan is fifteen hands and one inch high, well grown, a beautiful dap. will be to take them neither from the immedi ate neighborhood of any house, manure-heaj or farm-yard, nor from any old exhausted held They may be collected from a ploughed field about two inches below the surface, on a drj day, and put up in a tin box or bucket con tianing about a quart. Each box or bucket having the precise la cality from which the specimen was taker carefully marked on the outside If a chemical analysis can be procured o the specimens produced, I feel persuader that the result will afford to enquiring farmtri many valuable hints relating to the tillage an< general treatment of the soil. I am very respectfully. From the Norfolk Beacon. antidote fob bed buos. Messrs. Editors?I learn from a medica gentleman in this place, that the expressei Juice of the green Tomato Vine is an effectu al antidote to the pestiferous animal which i will persist in calling a Chinch in spite of th< laughs and jeers of our Yankee brethren. Th< juice of the vine can be introduced into thi crevices of the bedstead by a feather. Tb< experiment has been fairly tested, and seem a cleaner wiy of levying war against thes^ noraest nas muuucu wc hi 4uuui? iw? w? ibis subject. ' ' ^ ' '*** V It unygentleman, or a number of gen ticmen, of your acquaintance! should fee disposed to purchase the Bellfounder Mor Ran, to be used at tho proper season> as ? Stallion, they could not render a greater pub lie good for improving the breed of horses for roadsters. Besides, I think he migh ears all I ask for him, in one season, wit! you. Yours, very truly, Samuel Jaqoes. " From the N. England Farmer. Red Oak Skingles, Mr. Editor?I think it a duty of ever] one to make known to the public all expe riments that are likely to be useful to tin community. In 1630,1 built me a house, and covcrec the roof with shingles made of what w< call red oak. The shingles I split an] shaved, myself*, they are quite as easild made of oak as chesnut; they split mort freely and shave as easily. The shinglei have been on the roof nine years, and fronr present appearance they will last longei than a coat of the best of pine shingles.? They are as free from warping and twist ing as pine ; the wood is much harder am does not wear so fast, Good pine shingh timber is scarce in this part of the country and there is in many places, large quanti ties of oak; therefore, from nine yean experience, I think 1 can safely recommeni it to til? public. Any person having a desire to see the proof of the experiment, will please call a my house and examine for themselves ia the north east part of Sturbridge. Gardiner W atkins. 8? Carolina Agricultural Convention To the Editor of the Choraw Gazette. Dear sir,?There seems to be much inter t&?itteu, TWS|W oczgeive, by the Plan ters and Farmers of the interior, fc? ? M tide water, in the proposed Agricultural Con veation "to be held in Columbia on Wednes day of the first week in the session of th< Legislature"?The fact that there is <*a differ ent mode of planting in the low country, fron that of the up country," will not be regarde< as an obstacle by any citizen who has at hear the promotion of science, and a foil develope ment of the resources of the State.?Suppsa mmmmrimg of tS* Convootion held in Charleston on the first Wednesday o March! * ' - - - a .? Doubts nave been entertained wnemer um convention should consist only of Delegatei from the Societies now in existence, or o Delegates from every community in the Stau feeling interested in the subject It hai already been proposed by your Society at Che raw (and, I doubt not, the liberal and fair pro. position will be concurred in on all hands) thai the people of every District who are disposet to unite in advancing the science and improv. ingthe practice of our agriculture, shall elect Delegates to attend the convention, with instructions to assist in maturing some feasibk and proper plan for effecting the objects already indicated. I now allude to the proposal with the view simply, to suggest that each Delegation coax prepared fo furnish a specimen of the soil per vading their respective Districts of the rivei swamps' (where this is cultivated generally) ai well as the upland. The convention may invite Professor Ellet or Dr. Gibbes to analise the same at bit leisure, and report on their constituent proper ties to an Annual Convention succeeding ii 1840. In collecting the specimens, the only can g midnight disturbers of the public peace, than >t the smearing of the bedstead with lard as a recommended in an extract published in the Beacon. As this remedy has been satisfacto. rily tested, it would be well to ptabiish the | feet pro bono publico, which, being translated ^ means for the bones of the public which are e made quite sore under the attacks of the bed * bug. OLD FIELDS. - CHKii A.W GAZETTE. * FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 30, 1?39. State or the River?Ten inches above lowI water mark, and fa'Iing slowly. e The attention of delegates to the Agricul. tural Convention is invited to the Communi. 3 cation on the second page. * The Editor wishes to procure 30 bushels of 3 good Seed Rye, to be delivered within two weeks either at this place or on board a boat j any where on the Pee Dee. Any person hav-x ? ing it to spare will confer a favor by Jetting him i know it. The first bale of new cotton was brought to * this market on Wednesday last from the planta.tion of Col. K. C. Dubose, and brought 13 rtk. ___________U r Our esteemed friend of tho Terapci-ance AcTvo.' i cate is informed that bis not receiving our paper , i was owing altogether to an oversight in the of. ~ fcsjT efwbiofc'wv had no suapicHjfeV Itfe J! * greatly regret being deprived of the privilege 1st , 1 an exchange with him. t The Columbia Telescope gives the number of ' , Administration members of Congress already j elected at 113; and the number of Whijp at \ t 117. - The Raleigh Register computes them at1. | , 111 and 119. The elections are yet te be held 1 in three States, Rhode Island, Maryland and 1 Mississippi. The members from these states in ( the last Congress Btood 9 Whigs and 3 Admin. ! istration. Mr. A. Crews ef Rolesville, N. C. has sent ! the editor of the Raleigh Standard a sample of < silk spun by a native worm of large size which i was fed on the leaves of the black jack. Mr. Crews has preserved the eggs of the meth, and 1 intends to try what can be done with them next ' jw- ; Eight Hundrod Moms Multicanlis Trees, from buds planted last spring, were bought in this town the present week, by a neighboring planter to set them out for the purpose of feeding worms 1 and making silk. The price paid WaB ono do!, lar per tree. The article from the " Cultivator," signed James M. Garnett, on the application of manures, we copy as we find it, notwithstanding ife ver. bosity and great length; because the subjoct is , important, and the opinion advanced is alleged to be supported by repeated experiments. The reader can judge of it for himself, and repeat * ? ? * ? ttTAs!K IlOO csperuueiuB, n ua duuuiu wew ui?u< ?? v> repeating, Ills a very general opinion that manaroe ought to be plowed in as soon as spread. Mr. Gar* nett thinks his experiments prove the reverse. , Much if not all the fertilizing matter of both , ' animal and vegetable manures is certainly ' soluble in waterj and is actually dissolved by I ' ala tv ??cr ianyniMgh >npn<?A to it f ?or at least, if not chemically dissolved, it becomes intimately mixed with the water, and remains suspended in it for some lime. And* although muoh of the water in which it is thus 1 mixed sinks into the earth, much of it is also evaporated by the winds and by the heat of the 1 sun. The prevelant opinion is that the water evaporated carries with it the portion of the manure dissolved or mixed in it. ,But we know J there are substances which may be dUsdTvsd 1 in water that do not rise with it in evaporation ?table salt* and other neutral salts, for instance. There are also vegetable substances , some of which are used as medicine* that are procured by first boiling or infusing the vege tables which furnish them, in water, and then slowly evaporating the water, which leaves them behind. Now may it not be possible that ' ' the fertilizing matter of both animal and vege. table manures wh ch is soluble in water is left behind in evaporation 1 If so the soil would " be more speedily enriched by ihem without plowing them in, than after that operation; because their soluble parts, in which alone perhaps their fertilizing properties reside are sooner dissolved and incorporated with the earth. This however can be true of vegetable ' manure only when it is well rotted. When not 5 rotted it ought certainly to be buried to hast- 1 en its decay and solution. r We do not wish to be understood as plead1 ing for he practice of leaving any kind of manure uncovered; but only as attempting to shew that tbe practice may possibly not be 1 nnifp a a irrational as is commonlv SUDDOSed .* t""" "" cf f and that the subject may be worthy of father 1 investigation and experiments. Experiments alone, in such matters, can set men's theories } right, or prove them to be right when they are 1 so. ) We believe that all the Morus Multicaulis trees for sale in the Pee Doe country, except s few ' f hundred, are now advertised in our columns. the mulberry market. We take the following paragraph from an . article on this subject in Morris's Silk Farmer i of Philadelphia. A Heavy Business.?Enormous conf tracts have been made m Virginia, within : . two weeks past, for the delivery of multicaulis trees in the fall of 1840. Wo have tho 1 most positive information, names, places, i amounts, &c.; and we now announce that these contracts amount to the enormous quantity of one million eight hundred thousand trees, and that contracts of the same kind are now making, and will no doubt be concluded, < which will swell the amount to three midiona We do not entertain a solitary doubt of the ' 1 fact. The immediate t ffect of these contrac 1 has been to withdraw fiom the market this - year nearly 500,000 trees, which can no* lonI ger be offered for sale. These contracts have 5 been made in various parts of Virginia, pcine cipally in the county of Brunswick and the s neighborhood of Norfolk. They have been s made firom 11 1-2 cents per tree dpwn as low b as the buyer could induce the grower to go.? 9 In consequence of these contracts, we have 1. . . =? this week been applied to by a gentleman from Virginia to supply him with trees to take Sooth, but he has purchased elsewhere, in this market. The same paper furnishes an account of a large number of recent sales for planting neat season in different parts of the country, at various prices; some of which we quote, all the other sales being within the extremes of those quoted. , The following sales of Multicaulis trees have been communicated to us from authentic sour*. cess: A sale of4,000 trees was made at Belvidere, N. J. within about a week, at 12 1 2 cent* . per foot, tbe root to be measured as part oithe tree, payable on delivery. At York, Pa* last '. week, an acre and a quarter in trees sold hi $8,000?terms net mentioned. At Cokmtnhk Pa* Delano has made sales at 15 cents, per foot. At Hilteboro' Md. sales bare been pade at 25 to 50 cents, and at $1 50 for trees from the root. They are in few hands at Hillsboro,* and holders refuse less than 50 cents. Mr. Edward H. Stabler, of Baltimore, last week sold 20,000 trees at 90 cents, and 4,000 at 50 cents,'the latter lot to be taken as they grow, rejecting all trees under three feet high. Mr. * Joseph Tallman, of this city, in Market street, near Second, so.d last week all his trees now growing on his farm in Lower Dublin, on the Bristol turnpike, in this county, ten miles from the city, supposed to be about 35,0ftV at 29 cents each, rejecting all under one foot ; $9,000 equal tu c <ch was paid oo wgning the contract, the balance on delivery. This is the lowest1 pi lee we know to hay# been accepted. . These trees cost Mr. Tallman $876, showing a clear profit for cultivation of more than 17.000; he cot his trees into single bods.? Dr. Clark of Richmond, Virginia; within two weeks, has sold all his trees, large and small, is they stand on tbe ground, at 80 cents each ; the sale amounted to a fraction less tnaa 116,000. The whole lot was purchased for the West, ahd will go there; 98,000 was paid mi closing the contract, and the balance OQ delivery. At Petersburg* Va., last week 100,000 buds were sold in one lot, at I cent per bud, and a second lot of 160,000 at the same price, with the addition of the roots lhr? wn in without charge; the seller receives 9100 additional tor cultivating them Until thfe Lime of delivery. Three miles from Richmond, Va., two weeks ago* Mr. tsham Puckett sold about 2,000 trees, as they stood on the ground, large and small, at *fl each; these wore roots, the whole root; with all its sprouts, going at the above price. ' At Lawrencevillo; Brunswick eountv, Virginia. large sales of bttds have bsen made at one cent, say in lots of 150,000. . w> At Bordentown, N. J. on Monday last, Mr. Wm. U ilion sold 2,500 trees at 50 oeuts each, to Mr. Jacob Janney, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 9800 were paid down, half of the re. maining balance cash In 30 days from sale, end tbo remaining half eo delivery of the treses? The sale embraced all the trees as they stand, without any exception. The Northampton (Massachusetts) Gasette / says t "A gentleman in Whateley, who purchased last spring 9350 worth of mulberries, has just sold the crop growing therefrom, to be delivered next' autumn, for 91*800, being ah increase upon the outlay of 91*450, The tree* are of assorted ki ds.w The most of these trees* if not all, were bought on speculation. We leafn, through a gentlemap * from Mecklenburg county Va. that sake in small parcols, such so. are bought for planting, were; generally made in that county at 8 cents pot bod and some at'higher prices." . ,. \\ The tea dot may be disposed to ask whg to great difference in the prices at which different lots of' trees are seM? One reason rosy be that sellers -were ignorant of this market value of the trees, and being effered o,-1 price which paid them good profit on the money, and labor expended, they took K, fearing they might not do so well again. Persona who-buy to sell again are, of coarse, careful to ascertain the market value before they bay. Bat different lots of trees do actually differ very greatly in their value for planting. Many entire lota, considerart good t?x>*c too, yield less than an. average of 39 good cuttings; whereas others yWd hundreds, in this climnte at least. And is the valoe, for pleating is proportionate to the number of bods c -^.nature stalks of good sue, lots differing so much in thir respect,[ought to sell at different prices. When trees am planted in a nursery so close that 20.000, or dven 10,000 stand oh an acre, and that in poor land, as is oftarthe caset they attain bat little height; and if they hiva ' side branches, ttuse are so small that if divided ^ . into one bod cuttings many ofjbem must, in the beet seasons, fail to grow, and those which do grow, if they are not killed by the early sommer's sun, mako small and feeble trees. Besides trees which stand so close da' not mature their wood as well as those which have mors room.? Every person of the least observation Who has had anv exDerience in raisine the Jhaulticaolis* if*. .-. . - , . . . .. , # knows that Targe cuttings, other things being equal, are not only much more suie to grow in unfavorable seasons than smaller ones ; but, also that in all seasons, they make larger and mora vigorous trees the first season, and of coarse furnish more and and better cuttings for the next years planting./ Therefore it is that cut. tings from - trees of southern rearing succeed better, tnd are in every respect more valuable than those from trees reared at the north. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN A LAI A MA.?The following are the members elect. (Adm.) (Whig.) ; .. R. H. Chapman, . Geo. W. Crabby r*" - v l* < Davie- Hubbard, James Dillet, ' PiionU. Lewis, Extract from ale ter brought by the Liverpool from England. y THE HON. MR. WEBSTER. I perceive by the London papers, which I have just seen that Mr. Webster has declined being a candidate for the Presidency.^ I havrf not seen his letter, and know not hi? reason for so do.ng. I suppose you have seen that many attentions have been paid to this gentle, man while in London. On Thursday last, while on my way from Sh? ffiekl to Leeds, no English genileman told me that, be heard Mr. Webster address the great agricultural meet- ing at Oxford; that it was a performance which would have honored any master spirit of the age, either in this or any ot^er country; that he never heard a speech produce greater applause. For this dinner upward of two thousand tickets were sold; such were the desire to be present that a large premium was offered for tickets after the sale was sopped. I have not seen the speech?you wifl find it in the London papers. It was published in an extra from the Oxford fJerald office. The Hon. Blr. Ingham of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Harris, of New-Jersey, were present. I was kirdly invited, but had accepted aninvjtioo from another quarter. t