with it, she had succeeded in producing a yellow, trench two feet wide and two feet deep. When but could not obtain a red colour. (From a Bedford, Pa. Paper.) Its Depth to be Regulated by the Nature of the Soil, this was dug, they began another trench of the HORTICULTURE, ON TRANSPLANTING TREES. MR. EDItor, A very imperfect notice, in some of the papers, of a new method of transplanting, lately suggested Dung was hauled on the top, spaded in, and in in England, has drawn down upon that method unthe spring parsnips were sown in drills, and radishes merited censure. Among other persons, one of your between the parsnips. The radishes vegetated correspondents (from Lancaster county, I believe,) weakly; the greater part died by reason of frost or has animadverted on it severely, and, if the system other causes. The few that survived were very had been what he understood it to be, justly. His small and ligneous, and totally unfit to eat. Very observations are perfectly correct, throughout; and few of the parsnips came up, and supposing the yet the new mode of transplanting is a most valuafrost had destroyed them in the seed leaf, I resowed ble discovery, and founded upon reason. It is my them. About the middle of June, found the pros-present purpose to describe and vindicate it. pect of a crop desperate, and having some beet What I shall say will be taken almost altogether plants, set them out in the vacant spaces. These from an article in the 74th number of the London flourished well, some of them attaining the weight Quarterly Review, supposed to be written by Sir of four or five pounds. The parsnips were good Walter Scott; of which the subject is a book by for nothing. Sir Henry Steuart, entitled "The Planter's Guide; In the spring of 1827, this bed was again manur-or, a Practical Essay on the best method of giving im The advocates of deep ploughing [and Tull led ed, dug well with the spade, and sown in parsnips. mediate effect to wood, by the removal of large trees the way,] assert, that at every ploughing a great They were well worked during the summer, and and underwood; being an attempt to place the art fermentation takes place, and an exhalation of many harvested the middle of November; a poor crop, on fixed principles, and to apply it to general purtons to the acre; and that the quantity of gas ex- had straggling of roots. A carrot, the seed of which poses, useful and ornamental." haled is in a ratio with the depth the earth is mov- had no doubt been deposited by accident, came up ed; that the ground being moved to a great depth, in the bed and was dressed with the parsnips. the roots of the plants have greater latitude to ex-attained an unusually large size and was very finely tend themselves, and consequently the facilities of formed. collecting their food multiplied; that the moisture A vintner of the neighbourhood, who trenched does not evaporate as rapidly from deep, as from his vineyard as I did my parsnip bed, sowed carrot shallow moved earth-consequently, the plants are seed on the fresh earth, which was a slate gravel, less affected by dry seasons. and the crop was large and very fine. Sir Henry Steuart, it seems, is the proprietor of It"Allanton," (I quote from the Review,) "an ancient possession of this branch of the house of Steuart, which had not originally much to recommend it to the owner, except its recollections. Situated in the county of Lanark, it is removed from the vale of the Clyde, which presents such beautiful scenery to the eye of the traveller. The soil is moorish, and the view from the front of the house must, before it was clothed with wood, have consisted in irregular swells and slopes, presenting certainly no striking features either of grandeur or beauty-probably just not ugly." The fame of Sir Henry's improvements having gone abroad, a committee of gentlemen "supposed to be well acquainted with country matters, and particularly with the management of plantations," were deputed by the Scottish Highland Society, and visited the place in September, 1823. The committee found birch, ash, Scotch elm, sycamore, lime, and horse chestnut trees, which had been, at one time or other, transplanted, "growing with vigour and luxuriance, in the most exposed situations." "The trees were Tobacco, however, is said to be a great exhaust- of various sizes. Some which had been transplanter, and no doubt is so. But tobacco returns nothing ed some years since, were from 30 to 40 feet high, to the soil; nine-tenths of the plant is shipped to or more. The girth of the largest was from 5 feet other countries. But if cabbage or beets are fed 3 inches to 5 feet 8 inches, at a foot and a half from to cows on the land, as much fertilizing matter is the ground. Other trees, which had been only six deposited as will compensate for exhaustion by their months transplanted, were from 20 to 30 feet high; culture, and I believe much more, because the nu- and the gentlemen of the committee ascertained tritious gas attracted by the plant from the atmos-their girth to be about two feet and an half, or phere is concentrated there, and will serve in re-three feet, at eighteen inches above the ground." production, if not suffered to escape. The committee were particularly struck with a In August last, I placed some manure from the wood, which Sir Henry had created. Though it In the fall of 1824, I fenced in about an acre of hog pen round some beets. Their tops soon exhi-was but five years since this copse had been formed, land for a garden, after cutting the timber off it.bited the effects of the application, flourishing be-"his visitors assigned no less a space than from 50 It was manured and well broken up. In the spring yond expectation. What the result would have to 40 years as the probable time in which such a it was harrowed, cross-harrowed, and sown with been, I was prevented from observing, by reason of screen could have been formed by ordinary means. some garden seeds. The crop was poor, as might one of the domestics, seeing the tops remarkably From the facts which they witnessed, the committes be expected from such rough preparation. I had luxuriant, pulling them for the cows. From the reported it as their unanimous opinion, that the art often heard of trenching a garden, and knew that moment of this operation the plant ceased to of transplantation, as practised by Sir Henry Stewart, Mr. McMahon, late of Philadelphia, seedsman, had thrive. is calculated to accelerate, in an extraordinary degree, trenched his garden two feet deep. When I saw it the power of raising wood, whether for beauty or shelsome fifteen years ago, it was astonishingly producter. They added, that of all the trees they examintive. William Cobbett, in his excellent book on ed, one alone seemed to have failed; and that, being gardening, recommends the practice strongly. I particularly intent on this point of inquiry, they had determined to make the trial, and if the success looked closely for symptoms of any dead tree havjustified the expense, to trench my whole garden. ing been removed, without being able to discover any such, although the traces of such a process could not have escaped their notice had they exlisted." There is an appearance of truth in each hypothesis; It appears from this that beets and carrots thrive but "who shall decide when doctors disagree?" It well on land which has been deeply moved, though is probable the practice of each is advisable under the subsoil contains but little vegetable matter, certain circumstances. I cannot, however, recon- while parsnips and radishes decline and die. It is cile the theory of Lorain with the practice of the a fair inference that deep ploughing is beneficial to Chinese. They never suffer their lands to rest-- some vegetables and injurious to others; that the they plough deep and spade deep; but then they surface of the earth must be made to contain the manure for every crop. But from whence comes nutriment of plants before the seed is deposited, or the matter, the material which enables them to re- the plant will not arrive at its greatest excellence; turn as much to the soil as they take from it? We that plants absorb a portion of their food by the answer, by the strictest care of the barn-yard ma-agency of the foliage; and that the radicula is a nure; by a judicious use of lime, ashes, and above co-agent in the work; that the larger the leaves, the all, the preservation of that most powerful of all greater is the absorption from the atmosphere, and manures, night-soil, without which last, China would the less will it exhaust the soil. Hence beets and not support, by a number of millions, as many souls cabbage are not as great exhausters as oats. as now find plenty and happiness under the auspices of a wise and benignant government; but our vulgar, barbarian prejudices, cause us to look upon it as a nuisance. In Pekin, Nankin, &c. it is mixed with lime fashioned into cakes, and exposed on the shambles for sale to the country people. I have often thought that the relation of what one has done in the pursuit of one's profession, is worth a volume of theory. To relate actual experiments, I conceive to be the best way of conveying information to the great mass of readers. T. B. M. THE BEE MILLER. The following method of destroying a very pernicious insect has been recommended, and is at In the fall of 1825, the garden was manured hea- least worth the trial. To a pint of sweetened wavily with a vegetable substance, taken from a cran- ter (sweetened with sugar or honey) add half a gill berry swamp, (Mr. Eustis' Ash Pocosin,) mixed with of vinegar; set this in an open vessel on the top of lime, ashes and barn-yard manure. A bed of four the hive, and at night, when the miller comes to his square rods was marked out, and two men, each work of destruction, he will prefer this composiwith a grubbing hoe and shovel, began to dig ation, and, diving into it, immediately drown. *Lord Bellhaven, Sir Archibald Campbell, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Corehouse, and Alexander Young, Esq. According to Sir Henry's general statement, the size of the tree to be subjected to the process of transplantation, is a mere question of expense. "A large tree may be removed with the same certainty of success as a lesser one; but it requires engines of greater power, a more numerous force of labourers, and the expense is found to increase in a rapidly progressive ratio." In his practice at Allanton, he considers a tree of six or eight inches in diameter, or two feet in girth, as the least size fit to encounter the elements. "If planted out singly, eighteen inches and two feet in diameter are among the largest specimens, and plants of about a foot in diameter may be considered as a medium size, being both manageable and of size enough to produce immediate effect upon the landscape, and to oppose resistance to the storm." To prepare a tree for transplantation, especially if the roots be scanty and deficient, Sir Henry sometimes causes it "to be cut round with a trench thirty inches deep, leaving only two or three strong roots uncut, to act as stays against the wind. The earth is then returned into the trench, and when taken up at the end of two or three years, with the purpose of final removal, it will be found that the roots have formed, at the points where they were severed, numbers of tassels (so to speak,) composed of slender fibres, which must be taken the greatest care of at the time of removal, and will be found completely to supply the original deficiency of roots. The "Allantonian process of removing and replanting the tree," is the following: the philosophy of Sir Henry's plan, nor by describing it is founded may be advantageously obeyed in the WINE. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS OF THE From these statements you will perceive, sir, that your correspondent's remarks are perfectly correct as applied generally to this country, but that Sir Henry Steuart's process of transplantation has been pronounced by competent judges, and manifestly M. de Saint Vincent has, after repeated trials, is, a most valuable one for such a country as Eng- discovered that the enclosing of wine in bottles, by land. In the United States we seldom have occa-parchment, or a portion of common bladder, instead sion to wish to transport a wood from one place to of corks, has the effect of rendering its flavour, in another, and we are reasonably content with await a few weeks, equal to that of the oldest wines, from ing, where we undertake a plantation, the growth such covering possessing the property of only alof small trees into larger ones. But there are many lowing the aqueous exhalations to escape, but being even here, in which Sir H. Steuart's method may, wholly impenetrable to the spirit or body of the and no doubt will, be pursued to great effect. No wine. matter how small a tree may be, it is always better, as far as the welfare of the tree is concerned, to preserve its roots entire, than to mutilate them; and the less the roots are injured or diminished, the less trimming will be necessary of the branches. To remove a tree without curtailing its roots materially, is assuredly more expensive than to dig it up, and Ornamental Decoration of Farms, &c. chop off its roots within a foot of the stem, with a They will pardon me when I assert, that there is pick axe, as you see many persons do; and to re- no other class of men in the United States so little move a large tree carefully, is assuredly more trou-sensible of the dignity of their own character, or so blesome and expensive, than to remove a small one unconscious of their elevated rank in society as the in the same manner. But the expense is, after all, farmers and planters. Not because this great body not very great, as we have seen; and there are many of citizens are unequal to other classes in every persons too impatient to wait, too active to be de-quality that ought to distinguish man, but simply terred by difficulty, or too rich to regard the cost, from a customary perpetuation of feudal ideas, are who will have reason to rejoice that a noble tree of the cultivators of the soil themselves led to undertwo feet in diameter and forty feet tall, can be trans-value their own profession. Can all the combinaplanted by any process whatsoever. I do not say tions of nature and art produce another whole equa! that I shall adopt this process; but I say that there to a well conducted farm? I answer at once, they are many who can and will. On a much smaller cannot. Can every exertion of the human intellect scale, and without the use of the engine spoken of in any other situation in society, comprise so much by Sir Henry Steuart, I have practised the same of rational improvement, and social happiness as method with complete success; and I am of opinion, can be cheaply and securely united in a well educatthat even where we do diminish the roots of the ed family on a farm? I fearlessly answer not. transplanted tree, it is better not to shorten the branches, unless the roots be very much curtailed indeed. I doubt whether the relation between the roots and the branches be so accurately poised, that every, even the slightest retrenchment of the former calls for a proportional reduction in the latter. Last November, I transplanted many trees, some of considerable size, and I acted with success upon these principles. Among the rest, I transplanted from about half a mile's distance, with a cart and one horse, a white or Weighmouth pine, 15 or 20 feet high and 6 inches in diameter at 2 feet above the ground, without shortening or taking off a single twig or Let not the reader be startled at the preceding leaf; and although much of its roots must have postulate, it contains in its utmost latitude nothing been left where it originally stood, it has grown, in of inapplicable theory, nothing of fanciful Utopian every limb, from 12 to 18 inches, and is as flourish-speculation, but it contains what may, and what has ing as any tree on my place. I am always careful in partial instances been effected. There is, I am that as much of the root should be preserved as can rejoiced to say, miniature pictures of farms scatterbe without a great deal of trouble; but I have re-ed over the United States, such as the eye, and the marked that those trees (for there were some,) that heart can scan with undiminished delight. There were headed or trimmed, are less vigourous and are farms on which no dread of a change of marthriving than those that were not. This is a strong kets deprive its inmates of their rest, and on which instance, for evergreens are much more impatient of removal, than deciduous trees. Within the last five or six years, has the very frame of our social compact been shaken, if not actually fractured by debates, in and out of our legislative halls, whether the families of the United States farmers should be clothed with the produce of their own hands, or from the productions of Asiatic and European looms. With any adequate conception of the incalculable advantages of their situation, the farmers and planters would have silenced such debates in a moment, not by a tariff but by becoming, what their position in the community enable them to be, their own manufacturers. "The tree is loosened in the ground by a set of labourers, named pickmen, who, with instruments made for the purpose, first ascertain with accuracy how far the roots of the subject extend. This is easily known when the subject has been cut round, as the trench marks the line where the roots have been amputated. If the tree has not sustained this previous operation, the extent of the roots will be found to correspond with that of the branches.The pickers then proceed to bare the roots from the earth with the utmost attention not to injure them.' "The roots are then extricated from the soil. A mass of earth is left to form a ball close to the stem itself, and it is recommended to suffer two or three feet of the original sward to adhere to it. The machine is next brought up to the stem of the tree with great caution. This is the engine devised by Browne, and considerably improved by Sir Henry Steuart. It is of three sizes, that being used which is best adapted to the size of the tree, and is drawn by one, or, at most, two horses. It consists of a strong pole, mounted upon two high wheels. It is run up to the tree, and the pole, strongly secured to the tree while both are in a perpendicular posture, is brought down to a horizontal position, and in descending in obedience to the purchase, operates as a lever, which, aided by the exertions of the pickmen, rends the tree out of the soil. The tree is so laid upon the machine as to balance the roots against the branches, and it is wonderful how slight an effort is necessary to pull the engine when this equilibrium is preserved. To keep the balance just; one man, or two, are placed aloft among the branches of the tree, where they shift their places, like a sort of moveable ballast, until the just distribution of the weight is ascertained. The roots, as well as the branches, are tied up during the transportation of the tree, it being of the last consequence that neither should be torn or defaced by dragging on the ground or interfering with the wheels. The mass, when put in motion, is manoeuvred something I think it may be said, in general, that although like a piece of artillery, by a steersman at the fur Sir Henry Steuart's method may not, for a long ther end. It requires a certain nicety of steerage, time at least, be commonly adopted in this country, and the whole process has its risks, as may appear yet, that whoever, either here or elsewhere, shall from a very good story told by Sir Henry, p. 232." | have occasion to resort to it, will find it a most va-tween contiguous estates which would seem inI bave made this long quotation, that your rea-luable means of rural improvement. It might be ders may understand the process; but I will not made particularly useful in our cities. And I think trespass on the narrow space of your columns with it may also be said, that the principles upon which within and without, reigns the purest taste in moral and physical operations. One such an example I am again happy to say, is very seldom found as a lonely flower on a barren heath, but such examples it must be said with regret, have a far too limited influence, and in many instances, contrasts exist becredible if not realized. "What is the reason," once observed a very seasible man to me, on seeing two beautiful young In the wilds then of the west, amid primeval forests, as early as 1760, did Seth Emberton fix bis abode. On the day he chose his earthly home on the Monongahela, the far best treasure, possessed by the young and vigorous Seth, was a wife also young and like her husband endowed with unbending moral courage. Some little, and but little wealth they had, it is true, but far less than had many of their neighbour emigrants. The forest was to be attacked, and it was attacked most successfully. Houses were to be built, and they were built, fields were to be cleared, and meadows, orchards and gardens planted, and an elegant house, surrounded with meadows, gardens and fields, soon appeared. quakers, brother and sister, passing along, "that the placed as to convey the alluvion of the yard to-replies to every question put to honest Thomas, for dress of these people, so simple, so elegant, and so wards the meadows. The whole of this really honest he was, but ever in a hurry, because he universally admired, is not as universally adopted?" splendid little domain of about one hundred acres, commenced in a hurry. Thomas sold his grain at "What is the reason," I replied, "that, a company of was enclosed by a fence through or over which no half price to pay for worn out luxuries, and beheld fashionables at an assembly, bedecked in all the intruding or vagrant animal could pass. Here, and the sheriff at the end of the year, either coming meretricious trappings, which distorted fancy can here only have I ever seen a pathway carried en down the lane in the direction from Uniontown, or conceive, express an undivided admiration of some tirely round' a farm. This pathway was the favo- dreaded every passing stranger to be the sheriff or one person, amongst them, utterly unadorned?" rite walk of Seth Emberton, and many is the sun-his assistant. "Because," replied my friend, "it is easier to feel the ny evening which I have made one with him and Seth Emberton was never in a hurry, nor was charm of simplicity, than to imitate what is really his happy family round this boundary of indepen- such a phenomenon ever known on his farm as hurin the mind." "Then," replied 1, "you have answered dence and peace.. They were, the fields, the mea- ry. From the act of putting on their clothes in the both our questions; but as we are on such a sub dows, the orchards, and the gardens, and the de- morning to taking them off at night every act was ject, let me request you to inform me if you can, corated walk around them, only the outworks, there done, as if that act was all they had to perand you will I know pardon the demand, why it is however, of the still more decorated mansion in the form. When benighted or weather driven, the shethat you and many more of our neighbours do not centre. Seth Emberton and his wife had received riff like every other traveller found a safe welcome imitate in your domestic concerns the simple and ef- from nature minds which seemed to have instinctively at Emberton's door. Selling almost daily, and buyfectual management of the father of the two living regarded order as "Heaven's first law." Their edu-ing perhaps twice or thrice in a year; and selling pictures of moral beauty which we have just passed." cation had been good, though not highly finished; for a dollar and buying for six and a quarter cents, My friend smiled and blushed, but turned the con- their reading though not very extensive, well cho- left Seth a full purse. "I have never made but one versation on another subject. This incident, which sen. To those volumes I have mentioned, a tolera- promise," said Seth on a particular occasion to his was fact, has never been by me forgotten, though bly general collection on literary, historical, and re- neighbour Laycroft, "which has not been fully perthirty years have passed since it occurred, and the ligious subjects, filled the reading desk of this ex-formed, and that was a promise never to contract a two men, the one with whom I was conversing and cellent family, but like other intellectual beings in single debt." "As much of the engagement as has he of whom we were speaking, have long since Emberton's house, the books were companions and come due," continued Seth, "has been punctually gone to their native earth. I mention the subject teachers; and in this house was I first made to feel discharged, and when I am called hence I hope the here, as it affords me the means of sketching aa truth, which time and experience has since com- whole will be found liquidated; I cannot therefore draught from nature of what a farm nay be made, pletely verified, that is, that of all families, read- do for thee, friend Thomas, what I am under an obwhere apparent though unreal obstacles would ap-ing families are, every thing else being nearly the ligation to do for no one, not even myself, but as pal ordinary minds. same, very much the cheapest and most orderly thou art under no such obligation I will lend thee and happiest. I have not, however, introduced this the money to pay thy debt." The observations sketch from reality, to exhibit the poetry or ro- were made; with such an expression of good will, mance, but the real substantial prose of human life. they were without that disgusting appendix advice, In the mansion of this obscure, and beyond his but they were felt as such conduct ought to be felt, own vicinity unknown individual, was pursued that with heartfelt gratitude. Prudence and justice system, and that system alone, by which either compelled Seth to secure himself and family by a single families, or single nations, can be ever inde- mortgage, which in fact secured the Laycroft famipendent. The spinning wheel and the loom, were ly a home, which without such interference was as steadily in motion within doors, as were the lost to them forever. plough, and other instruments of husbandry with Seth Emberton, and Thomas Laycroft went as out. A progeny of five children, two sons and wide from each other on the first, as on the six folthree daughters, were reared, if I might be per lowing days of the week. The Laycrofts, in tawdry mitted the phrase, in an atmosphere of industry, finery, spun and woven at Mechlin, Paris or Manand clothed in the work of their own hands. Eve- chester, went to church; the Embertons went to ry hour of the day had its appropriate task, which meeting, neatness personified, clothed, linen exIt was on this very farm that thirty years after as far as the elements would permit, was performed cepted, out of webs spun and woven on the banks its original opening, I imbibed those enthusiastic with a regularity which obviated every thing like of Monongahela. On Monday morning, and every feelings which I have ever since indulged when any hurry or confusion. Amongst other regulations in other morning of the week, the Laycrofts rose similar met my eye. It was a scene to which I such routine, the hour of reading and of course from their beds as if alarmed by a cry of fire, and again and again passed and repassed, and on which bodily labour was most scrupulously observed. went to bed-not to rest, but as if exhausted by I many a time sojourned, and what may well ex- That hour was invariably from seven to eight in anxiety and fatigue. The Embertons rose and cite astonishment, it was from the shelves of Seth the evening. A valuable work was chosen and one went to rest, with all the calmness of conscious seEmberton, that I read Locke, Reid, Home, Lord of the family appointed reader, and at the stated curity. To every physical cause of misery in one Kaimes, Blair, Thompson, Milton, &c. Years be- period, in the clean, the neat, and elegant little par- family, and contentment in the other, was added, fore restrictive systems were made the subject of lour, the family, and their guests if any were pre-useful instruction in the one, and profound ignodebates, as restrictive of any useful purpose, the sent, sat down, and attentively listened, and at the rance in that of its neighbour. On one farm order true principles on which the economy of a farm close of the lecture, when no particular other duty presided, on the other disorder reigned. Even should be founded were carried into actual opera-intervened, another hour or half hour, was spent in round the outer enclosure of the Emberton farm, tion on a theatre almost exposed to the knife of the conversation arising out of the subject read. Thus every bush or tree seemed a favorite plant; briars a fund of contemplative wealth was laid up in each and bramble were not to be seen. In the fences The house and out houses as they existed in 1790, mind for the ensuing day. The dawn of that day not a paling broken or wanting. The very woodstood on a swelling eminence, the ground falling was the commencing moment of labour, if labour land partook of the same undeviating care. If a by a gentle declivity in every direction. Two in the common meaning of the terns could be said tree was felled, every branch was removed or conbranches met and formed a fine rivulet to the south ever to be performed on Emberton's farm. To me sumed. No rotting trunks were seen nor useless amid a meadow which swept like one great carpet the members of the family and their hirelings ap- pernicious underwood left standing. On the Layfrom the garden and orchard. The orchard where peared to return from their respective employments croft farm, and there were too many as bad or not a branch seemed to be unproductive or redun-as from an agreeable recreation; and such was the worse, ruin seemed to have chosen every useful dant, rose over a fine knoll to the eastward, whilst fact, it was not simply agreeable but delightful re- berb and structure for his prey-nature appeared the garden, in which a tariff of exclusion had ba-creation. Though executed with emulous imitation to have herself sown weeds, and left the inmates of nished every useless herb, really smiled in culture of the periodic marks of time themselves, every the house to reap the crop. On the Emberton from the western wall of the mansion. The Em-individual task was easy. No marks of that dis- farm unceasing labour seemed to have been bebertons seemed to have confined their preference tressing, that wretched weariness, which I have too stowed on the whole, whilst every separate part of one colour to their own clothing, since every often seen on a most miserably managed farm in evinced peculiar care; on that of Thomas Laycroft tint, which nature in the exuberance of her fancy the same neighourhood, did I ever witness on that every spot which met the eye appeared to have had decked the flowery creation, bloomed in this of Emberton. On the farm of Thomas Laycroft, been in an especial manner neglected; and yet as I extensive garden. But the fields themselves, the all was severe labour, scarce a moment left to an- knew them both, I can safely assert there was realmeadows, and orchards were gardens, if the mi-swer a civil inquiry concerning the road to the next ly double if not more hard labour bestowed or nutest attention to elegance in design and untiring house. "I am in a great hurry with my ploughing." thrown away, on Laycroft's fields and meadows, execution in cultivation constitutes a garden. "My hay is suffering in the meadow, and we are all than was found fully sufficient to make that of Seth hasting to get it in before the rain comes," and Emberton a picture of physical, mental and moral such similar expressions were almost the unvarying elegance. savage. The barns and stables with an air of solid construction rose to the north of the dwelling, and, so Let me ask the reader, if a farmer, to employ himself a moment on the inquiry, whether his little territory answers to that of an Emberton or a Laycroft. The names alone is all the fiction of this rude narrative, which I close with the assertion I am convinced is true; that it demands really less exertion, less manual labour, and less care to create such a painting as Seth Emberton's estate, than it does to struggle through a painful existence to produce the rubbish of such a chaotic daub as that of a Laycroft. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. INTEMPERANCE. [For the following we are indebted to the Ladies' Magazine, conducted at Boston, with much ability and taste, by Mrs. SARAH J. HALE.] A queer subject to be discussed in a lady's magazine. But the existence of "female influence" has been so clearly demonstrated, its effects shown to be so extensive and important, that it now appears only necessary to determine the particular direction in which that influence would be most beneficial, and then persuade the women to exert their omnipotence, and we may soon hope to realize in our United States, those visions of perfection that were to distinguish the imaginary republic of Plato. That height of exaltation which our "Fourth of July" orators invariably point out as an easy stage in the national progress, will nevertheless be unattainable without a mighty effort-the effort to go right. The political prosperity of our country has been so rapid, that our citizens, if they have not quite forgotten, have sadly neglected the moral discipline which only can render secure and lasting the benefits of our free social system. Ladies, if you have this influence, exert it, and who will hold the poison, sweetened and rendered banish the demon of Intemperance from among us. as delicious as possible, to the infant lips of their Achieve that task, and female influence will never own offspring. These mothers may be considered more he denied or derided. Here is a glorious the-as aiding to promote drunkenness. It is best to use atre for the display of all feminine perfections; pa- plain language, because the meaning will then be tience, prudence, perseverance-softness and ener-understood, and may be applied, and induce a regy, gentleness and fortitude; the firmness that yields formation. I have not alluded to those respectable not to example or entreaty, and the meekness that females who are themselves habitually guilty of inboasts not its own conquests; the high-souled purity temperance. I cannot, I will not believe there are that disdains alliance with vice, however fashiona- such, notwithstanding the whispers of rumour have ble, and the tenderness that weeps the victims of already been heard sufficiently loud to distinguish an insidious temptation; the hope that never des-names. SPORTING OLIO. pairs while there is a duty to be performed, and the What, a wife or mother sunk in the grossness of Women, as wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, in When the cords of love that bind the household band, are skilfully and delicately touched by a wife and mother, how sweetly is poured forth the rich There is "and pity 'tis, 'tis true," one instance music of affection! It is at such seasons that the to the contrary, or one case in which virtue, talents soul of her husband or son will be plastic as clay in and knowledge, if at times exhibited, are of no the hands of the potter to her influence. And then more efficiency to direct their possessor in the path is the moment to urge her suit, to plead, advise, or of rectitude, than would be the lamps in a sepul- reprove, as her heart and duty shall dictate. chral vault to show the wanderer, lost 'mid storms and impenetrable darkness, the direction to his home. I allude to the confirmed drunkard. But drunkards do not, by our laws, forfeit their right of suffrage. They are a part, and not a very small part either, of the sovereign people, who claim to exercise the unalienable privilege of jurisdiction over this "fertile, broad, and independent land." I disdain all intention of writing politically. What business has a lady's paper with politics? But still considerations allied with the prosperity, the fame, indeed, the very existence of our republic, will press on the mind of every person who reflects for a moment on the degradation of character, the prostration of intellect, the perversion of privileges that may, that certainly must follow, if our citizens do not reform. If they do not resolutely dash from their lips the I (Items from late English Journals.) HUNTING. Extraordinary run.-Lord Kelburn's hounds met, at Christmas, at Milliken-goss-cover. The hounds had no sooner been thrown in, than two foxes were viewed; one stole away, and the other, an old dog tried the earths in Milliken-woods; he then bent his fox, went off in great style; keenly pursued, he course through the grass enclosures of Fennel-farm, by the park wall at Castlesemple, and crossed the River Calder near Lochwinnoch, when, after a run of nearly 17 miles, the gallant pack killed their fox in a grass field two miles on the other side of Ladyland. PEDESTRIANISM. But it must not be expected that the influence of woman, or indeed that any human art, (Chambers' medicine excepted,) can reclaim the confirmed sot. A foot-race of near four miles for fifty guineas a do not counsel the wretched wife to abandon her side was run over Knavesmire, York, on Monday drunken husband. Though she has probably suf- last, between Berry (the Lancashire Man,) and fered more exquisite misery in consequence of the Clarkson (of Bradford, in Yorkshire.) The weathintemperance of the man who vowed to protect er was very unfavourable; and in consequence of her, than those martyrs who sealed, by a life of the late rains, the course was extremely heavy. persecution and death of torture, the fidelity of Berry had before defeated Clarkson, near Bradford, their hearts to the true faith, yet she must not for- in a race of nine miles, which was run in fifty misake her husband. No, let her watch over him, nutes and some few seconds; and the odds were, weep over him, pray for him-it is her lot. A bit- therefore, at starting six to four on Lancashire with ter and terrible one, yet she must endure it. few takers. Both men went off, and kept together But though women must not hope to remedy or for a short distance, when Yorkshire got first, and restrain the current of intemperance when its chan-kept the lead for the first three miles, and, indeed, nel has become fixed and impetuosity attained, yet until near the last half mile, when Lancashire shot they may prevent the insidious stream from gather-out, and won a well contested race by about fifteen ing strength, if they are careful to watch and dis- yards. The distance run was performed in twentyperse the drops before they congregate and form one minutes and forty seconds. poison,the spring of all these ills"-habit. "baneful cup, And now I come to the meaning and moral of my LEVANTING. It is then on the rising generation that female influence will be most beneficially exerted. Mothers A defaulter has been announced in the sporting must watch, with Argus' eyes, over their children, world, whose operations have placed many of the and prevent, if possible, a relish for ardent spirits knowing ones at the wrong side of the post. His from being acquired. There is no middle course betting on the Derby left him, on making up his that can with safety be pursued. The motto of book, 35,000l. in debt; he being unable or unwilling every one engaged in this arduous and important to pay up, left town on Saturday last, and was met concern must be, "touch not, taste not, handle not." in his travelling carriage on the Kent road by a There are mothers who permit their children to friend, to whom he said he was off for Paris, in orsip the pernicious draught; indeed there are some der to sell out of the French funds to make good his engagements-but he is gone to return no more. The consequences will be that many other persons will be obliged to compound or ask for time. The defaulter moved in the first rank of fashion. DOGS-RATS. To the Editor of "Life in London:" or his friends, on Tuesday evening next, at eight, THE SUFFOLK CHAMPION. we have said, to point out in this picture any paltry defects which do not detract from its general merits; but we cannot avoid observing, that to us, who know not the strength of immortal iron, the chains of Salvator Rosa seem very ill calculated to bind the frame Sir,-Permit me to inform John Shaw, of Leeds, of Prometheus. This, however, is, we repeat, but that I will give him two yards in ten hops, for 100l., a trifling defect, which the imagination can overSIR-Observing in your paper of last week a paand that I will agree to his proposition respecting come without difficulty. The picture on the whole, ragraph stating that 50l. was deposited at Cribb's, the five jumps, both to choose two, and toss for the is one of the best of the recent importations, and we to be laid against my dog China drawing a badger fifth, for one or two hundred pounds. I am ready hope it may never be allowed to return to the Conin ten minutes, I called with a friend to cover it, to make both matches, to be decided half-way be- tinent. Why it remained there so long, and when but found it was "no go," and, probably, the offer tween Leeds and London. It must strike every good pictures bore so high a price in this country, was a mere bounce of little Charley's. Now, to honourable man, that it is unfair to expect me to and why it is now offered for sale, when they have stop this little gemman's chaff, I am ready to stake, give long odds to persons of whose powers I know become comparatively so low, are questions we are when and where he shall appoint, and further, to nothing. It has been justly said that there never unable to solve. It is sufficient for us to say that the bet him 50l. that his dog Billy does not kill a hun- was a man born without his fellow, and there may picture is, we think, a real Salvator Rosa, and one of dred rats, finding rats myself, in eight minutes. be many as good, and better than, his best. There are several other paintings, by GerYours, &c. FRANK REDMOND. Your humble servant, WM. JACKSON. ard Douw, Danaletti, Gherardi and Gaspar Poussin, in this exhibition, but they display nothing remarkSir,--I wish to inform Mr. John Goodman, of Bir-able in conception or colouring, unless that they mingham, that I am ready to match myself to run convince us, by comparison with some of the many him one hundred and twenty yards for 50l. or 100l.; pictures now on view in the metropolis from the and I will be at his crib, on Thursday next, to make hands of our own countrymen, that England is fast a deposit, if he likes. approaching to the same excellence in painting as in every other branch of science and art. [London pa. ENGLISH MILLING. [In England, men are as systematically trained for milling, (fighting in the ring,) by minute and careful regulation of their diet and exercise, as game cocks for the pit, or horses for the course. Some times they are obliged to reduce themselves so much, to come within the required weight, as to impair their strength. Thus we see that on a late occasion of a match made between "DUDLEY DOWNS and JACK TISDALE, on Thursday evening, at Frank Redmond's, (the Marquis of Granby in the borough) the deposit due in this match was posted. But the chief fears entertained by the friends of Dudley Downs, are with respect to his weight; he is bound to enter the ring 10 stone, and with not much more than two weeks to intervene before he fights. He now weighs 10 stone 6 lbs." We mean not to disgust our readers with details of the pugilistic combats that fill up and give popularity and circulation to some of the English journals. The following items are selected from a string of hundreds of such notices that appear in "BELL's LIFE IN LONDON."] Sir, I beg to inform you, through the medium of your valuable sporting journal, that I can be backed against Reuben Marten, for the sum of one hundred pounds; in stating this sum, I hope it will meet his approval. I purposed, prior to the late fight, to have challenged the winner; having been defeated by Gas in a manner not so satisfactory to myself and friends, and having challenged Reuben Marten before the event, (and refused,) I trust no justifiable objections can be urged to enter into preliminaries. Your early insertion will oblige, sir, Yours, respectfully, MATT ROBINSON, the Yorkshireman. Lower George Tap, Halifax, Oct. 24, 1827. Sir, I had intended, at the suggestion of my friends, to quit the prize-ring forever; but, on reflection, while yet young and vigourous, I think it would be disgraceful in me to lie on the shelf; so therefore, I beg leave to announce to all whom it may concern, that I am open to fight any man, for any sum, from two to five hundred pounds. I am not particular to my customer. Yours, &c. ROBERT BALDWIN. Sir,-I beg to state that I am ready to fight Jack Adams, of Kentish-town, for 102., and will meet him on Thursday evening next, at the Britannia, Britannia-street, Gray's-Inn-road, and make a deposit. Yours, &c. NED CRAFER. Sir,-You will very much oblige me, if you will inform Charley Gibletts, in your next sporting journal, that I am ready to fight him for fifty pounds a-side in a month, and that my money is ready at Mr. Chapman's, the Marlborough's Head, Foxeslane, Shadwell, where I shall be glad to meet him, West Bromwich, Oct. 26. THOS. DANKS. MISCELLANEOUS. THE PROMETHEUS. FONTHILL. The manufactory built on the beautiful lake in these celebrated grounds, by the late Mr. Farquhar A picture of the Sufferings of Prometheus, paint- and Mr. Mortimer, is now finished. Every imed by Salvator Rosa, and brought to this country provement in machinery as applicable to the mafrom the gallery of the Marquess Gerini, of Flo-nufacture of superfine cloths, has been introduced; rence, is now being exhibited in St. James' street. and the manufactory, as a whole, is now one of the The taste of this celebrated painter leading him at most complete in the kingdom. The quantity of all times to the indulgence of a passion for the terri- cloth manufactured is about from 40 to 50 ends per ble and the sublime, no subject could be better cal-week, all the work of which, from the very first to culated for the display of his peculiar powers. In the last process, is done on the spot, and employs, the attempt to delineate the agonies of man, from of men, women and children, no more than 200 the never-ending vengeance of the Immortal, he has persons, although, without the late improvements, left a vivid testimony of the grandeur of his concep- it would have required 1000 hands. [Eng. pa. tion in that department of the art which his genius [It is not stated in what the improvement conhad selected. The coveter of the power of Omni-sists. The application of steam had already given potence, in forming man from clay-the unauthori to one man the power of hundreds, and reduced sed possessor of the celestial fire-is seen chained them to the point of starvation, here we see that to the rocks of the Caucasus by adamantine bonds, 200 do the work which had previously given bread while the vulture preys with unnatural voracity upon to 1000. In this country, how many horses as well the liver of the eternally devoted victim of his as men have been superseded by steam! How much thirst of blood. The position of Prometheus, under the substitution of other power for horses has dithis appalling torture of body, is conceived with all minished the consumption of agricultural producthe power of the highest genius, and executed with tions! How many wagons and horses will be done the utmost fidelity to our feeling of nature. The up by the steam power engines on the Baltimore convulsive throes of his gigantic body are painfully and Ohio Rail Road? after all who can solve the visible to our senses, and the wide spread arms, the problem, Whether these labour saving improveclenched hands, the swelled and starting muscles, ments benefit the mass of the people?] although exhibiting all that man can conceive of pain, are yet so painted as to convey the impression not of life-extinguishing torture, but that of agony which is to endure for all time in the person of the sufferer, by the strength of supernatural power. The [ Much misery and inconvenience, and someeye of the vulture seems, indeed, not to beam with times loss of life, results from the confusion which the unnatural lustre and vivacity which indicates the ensues upon the happening of accidents, the evil gratification of a passion for a moment, but, on the effects of which might be obviated if the proper recontrary, to be fixed upon its object with that in- medies were generally known. Thus when persons tenseness, and that never-ending appetite for its are severely burned, either the most appropriate prey, which forms, by the will of the Celestial, the and effectual remedy is not known, or is forgotten eternity of the punishment-while his claws, buried in the midst of the confusion, and the violence of in the heart, and saturated with the blood of the the sympathy amongst those who are present, and sufferer, indicate the intensity of that voracity with much unnecessary suffering results from the want which he has been inspired. We do not wish to of the proper remedies, or of sufficient self possestransform our observations upon a fine specimen of sion to apply them. There ought to be taught in the art into a lecture upon morality, but we might every family a sort of medical catechism, as what, sum up all we have to say in the praise of this pic-for instance, is to be done in case of a child's clothes ture by observing, that if there be a worm that never taking fire, what in case of a bad scald; what in dies, a fire that is never quenched, and a punish-case of hemorrhage of the lungs or the nose; what ment never to reach a termination, the situation in case of being half drowned; what in case of the and appearance of this Prometheus conveys a for- bite of a snake or the sting of bees, &c. and in cible impression of the nature of the retribution every family the ingredients should be kept conwhich crime pays to the Almighty dispenser of jus.stantly at hand, sufficient at least for a single case, tice. It is not perhaps quite consistent, after whaWe shall give such recipes occasionally as appear RECIPES. |