THE FAJtMKR'S iVlONTIILY VISITOR. 



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fluence (if Ihn mid-day sun. Tlie great luminary, 

 which imparts life to every thing, without whose 

 inHucnces we could not exist, and which if struck 

 out of existence wonld leave our planet in indes- 

 cribahle darkness, if lie did not bring witli him that 

 action in the atmosphere producing the rushing of 

 mighty winds and draw in from eartli and ocean 

 the aqueous particles which afterwjrds fall impar- 

 tially from above ; — this glorious luminary would 

 be to mortals no less fatal in his presence than ab- 

 sence if he continued to shine with no other eiiect 

 than the imparting of heat and light. We per- 

 ceive what has been the effect of twenty days un- 

 interrupted fair weather, even when the sun has 

 been obscured a portifin of the day time, and when 

 the night has furnished a succession of copious 

 dews: what must be the condition of aland undtr 

 the equatoral sun where there are no mountains to 

 assist in generating clouds and rain.' 



It continues to be worthy of notice thatalthough 

 we in Concord have had no rain, there have been 

 ample rains within sight at the north nearly every 

 day for a week. The Merrimack river last night had 

 risen within twenty-four hours more than one foot 

 in consequence of the copious rain that fell upon 

 the mountains above us on the 2"2d. On the 23d 

 the black clouds at the north discharged more rain; 

 and following on the same route over the lake Win- 

 nipifiseogee was another smart rain on the evening 

 of tlieS-Jth. In the track of these rains there is 

 abundance of wet, and the season must be 

 the finest for vegetation that can be imagined. The 

 clouds collect at Mne point and follow over the 

 same track for successive days, avoiding that dry 

 and parched region where rain is most needed, if 

 the same dryness continue for a week longer, it 

 will be fatal to most of the growing crops within 

 the compass of twenty miles around us. Beyond 

 that distance in almost any direction, we are in- 

 formed, the crops do not suffer, because there has 

 been plenty of rain. 



The season at the South and West in the months 

 of May and June, has been unconmionly wet. 

 The Mississippi river, the father of waters, has 

 risen to such an excessive height as to cause gen- 

 eral apprehension at the settlements along its 

 banks. The water at New Orleans, barred out by 

 an extensive levee, has stood above the level of the 

 streets in the city. In Soutli Carolina and Geor- 

 gia, extensive daningo has been done by the rise 

 and overflowing of the rivers. 



{JaHses of Disease. 



Of the causes of' disease, anxiety of mind is one 

 of the most I'cequeut and important. When we 

 walk the streets of large commercial towns we 

 can scarcely fail to remark the hurried gait and 

 the care worn features of the well dressed passen- 

 gers. Some young men, indeed, we may see with 

 countenances possessing natural cheerfulness ; but 

 thesi? a]jpearances rarely survive the age of nian- 

 hood. Cuvier elo-ies an elegant description of an- 

 imal existence and change, with the conclusion 

 that life is a state of force. What he would argue 

 is amoral. Civilization has changed our character 

 of U]:nd as well as body. We live in a state of 

 unnatural e.xcttement — unnatural because it is par- 

 tial, irregular, excessive. Our nmscles waste for 

 want of action ; cur nervous system is >vorn out 

 by excess of action. 



T'le false and fitful gleam of gaiety that plays 

 over flu- features wlien the heart is breaking, in 

 what does it differ to a casual observer, from the 

 steady light of cheerfulness, emanating from a 

 contented heart.' The eye of the sorrowt"ul is as 

 bright, and the glow of their cheek, it may be 

 brighter, than that which illuminates the counten- 

 ance of the Iiappy. 



CiRKoTS. — An acre in carrots may be easily 

 made to 3*ield si.v hundred bushels. In the esti- 

 mate of an experienced and excellent farmer in 

 Berkshire county, half carrots and half oats are as 

 good feed for a horse, as all oats ; or rather, to use 

 his own expression, he would prefer one hundred 

 bushels jpf oats and ojie hundred bushels of carrots, 

 to two hundred bushels of oats for his horse. The 

 experience of a distinguished fanner in England, 

 in the practice of keepii^g eighty hor.ses on his I'arm 

 and in his colliery, entirely confirms this state- 

 ment. — .V. K. Funiicr. 



Watep.s ok the Dkad Sy.\. — Frefessor Lee, 

 the Geologist, has furnished the Biblical Reposito- 

 ry with a very able article on this subject, in which 

 he states that the strongest saline spring in New 

 York State, is the Liverpool well, near Syracuse, 

 the specific oravity of which water is only 1. Ill, 

 t>iiilcthut cflhe DVm.I Sea i". l.-.'!! '. also that lOOi' 



grains of water from tliis well yielded 140.34 grains 

 of dry solid matter, while the latter yield 41 per 

 cent when the residuum is dried with a tempera- 

 ture of 18t) Fahrenheit. The following table ex- 

 hibits the comparative strength or the waters of 

 the Dead sea and the other saline springs of the 

 United States, rejecting the magnesia and other 

 earthy ingredients: — 



Of the Dead Sea, 33 gallons of brine give 1 bush- 

 el of salt. 

 At Onondaga, 45 do do 

 Muskingum, .50 do do 



Illinois, 80 do do 



Grand River,(Ark)80 do do 

 Koiiawha, (Va.) 75 do do 

 Zanesville, B5 do do 



Of Sea water, 350 do do 

 Boon's Lick, 450 do do 



Shawneetown,I11.2a0 do do 

 Jackson, (Ohio) 213 do do 



This celebrated sea, the Professor says, is not 

 known to contain any fish, or animals of any de- 

 scription, althoutfh the monks of St. Suba told Dr. 

 Shaw, the traveler, that " they had seen fish caught 

 in it;" and the credulous Chateaubriand states 

 that when he heard a noise upon the lake at mid- 

 night, the Bethlehemites told him " it proceeded 

 from legions of small fish, which come and leap a- 

 bout on the shore.'' Pococke, when at Jerusalem, 

 heard of a missionary who had "seen fish in the 

 lake," and Hazzlequist, Maundrell, Sutzen, and 

 some others have discovered a few shells on the 

 shore. These shells, hovvever, it is nearly cer- 

 tain, are brought down by the river Jordan, and in 

 all probability, the fishes also, which, dying, are 

 cast upon the shores, and thus beget the belief that 

 the lake is inhabited As to the tradition that no 

 bird can fly over it and live, Mr. Stephens, our in- 

 telligent fellow-countryman, says that he *' saw a 

 flock of gulls quietly reposing on its bosom; and 

 that when roused with a stone, they flew down the 

 lake, skimming its surface, until they had carried 

 themselves out of sight." — Boston Mcr Journal. 



A LiBEKiAN Garden. — Gov. Buchanan, of Li- 

 beria, writes to the Board of the Colonization So- 

 ciety, as follows ;. — 



" I am making a fine garden, into which I wish 

 to collect specimens of all kinds of African fruit, 

 flowers, ami plants, so that foreigners may see at 

 the Government house a fair sample of the beau- 

 ties and excellencies of our country. I have al- 

 ready growing the tamarind, cinnamon, orange, le- 

 mon, lime, sour-sop, guava, pine-apple, coffee, 

 pawpaw, grape, (both African and European,) co- 

 coa, coko, pepper, arocador pear, rose-opple, Amer- 

 ican peach, niango and cashew. These are my 

 fruits. 1 have aUo a great variety of vegetables and 

 flowers. The cane field is in a fine state, and ex- 

 hibits a most luxurious growth; many of the stocks 

 are ten and twelve feet high ; this, for the second 

 year, I am told is very remarkable. 1 am clearing 

 the ground, and liave a number of iiands employed 

 in planting, with a view to extend the plantation to 

 a hundred acres as soon as possible. 



PROVERBS. 



Once in every ten ycsrs, every man needs his 

 neighbor. 



Eitlier say nothing of the absent, or speak like 

 a friend. 



Ho that would be well spoken of himself, must 

 not speak ill of others. 



He that doth the kindness, hath the noblest plea- 

 sure of the two. 



He that doth a kindness to a good man, doth a 

 greater to himself". 



Keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open. 



He who will stop every one's mouth, must have 

 a great deal of meal. 



Sliew not all the bottom either of your purse or 

 of your mind. 



One lie draws ten more afl^r if. 



He who keeps good men company, may very 

 well bear their charges. 



He begins to grow bad, who takes himself to be 

 a good man. 



Let us do wliat we can and ought, and let God 

 do his j)h'asure. 



A DoMKsric TraceIjv. — The following tale ex- 

 emplifies the evils c»f speculation with the trugie 

 end of its deluded followers: — A storekeeper in 

 Belvidere, "Warren county. New Jersey, a few miles 

 from Williamsburg, named Jamvs Quick, in com- 

 pany with his son had purchased for credit, months 

 since, immense quantities of grain, montipolizing 

 in his neighborhood, the article. 7^he price of 

 "T.-iin fell. Whf n it cair.e to market, a loss v.as ex- 



perienced in ics sale. The son, to evade the diffi- 

 culty of paying their creditors, absconded, and the 

 old man disappeared at the same tune. The next 

 morning, the wife of the son found the door of 

 the room of her father-in-laiv fastened ; the door 

 was forcibly entered, and the horror stricken spec- 

 tators saw lie fore them the disfigured remains of 

 th.eir relative and neighbor. He hid made two at- 

 tempts with a razor, the second was effectual. The 

 old man was between 60 and 70 years old, but the 

 spirit of speculation severed his hold on life. The 

 amount of his indebtedness to the farmers in his 

 neighborhood, is said to exceed one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars! 



Exports from the United Stales 

 eign ports, from 1st of Oct. 

 1791, as per return from Tre 

 Bushels 



Wheat, 



Indian corn, 



Oats, 



Buck wheat. 



Peas and beans. 



Rice, tierces. 



Flour, bbls. 



Ship stuff, 



Rye meal, 



Indian meal, 



Bread, 



Crackers, 



1,018,330 



36,737 



1,713,241 



116,634 



14,499 



165,273 



93,329 



119,681 



6,484 



24,062 



70,337 



100,279 



of America, to For- 

 1790, to Sept. 30, 

 asury Department. 

 Dolls cts. 

 1,018,339, 

 19,470,61 

 856,620,50 

 33,326,80 

 4,784,67 

 123,9.54,75 

 l,136,.59o,5n 

 3,408,245,50 

 12,968, 

 60,055, 

 140,670, 

 250,697,50 

 6,138,40 



$7,059,877,23 

 imports of bread stuffs in 1837 ocer and ahoie 

 our exports, !«!l ,206,813,00 



The above exhibition is mortifying to the pride 

 of every industrious American. Is the capacity of 

 the country less to raise bread stuffs now than it 

 was forty-seven years ago? Avast fertile region 

 at the West has been since opened, producing far 

 beyond tlie original production on the Atlantic 

 board. Tlie means of transport have been greatly 

 facilitated. The population has been multiplied 

 three for one. Instead of exporting twenty mil- 

 lions of dollars in bread stufli"s, we find a balance 

 against the country, in 1837, of more than a mil- 

 lion of dollars. This is an unnatural state of things. 

 We liave good reason for thinking it has been for- 

 ced on the country by a vicious expansion of pa- 

 per credit, making the prospect easier to obtain a 

 livelihood by speculation than by labor. Every 

 man in the community who has the physical or 

 pecuniary ability, ought to exert himself to change 

 such a state of things. 



In regard to New England :— Is it not a source 

 of regret to every patriot in this summer season of 

 the year, to see heavy teams freighted to the dis- 

 t^ance of fifty, one hundred, and one hundred and 

 fifty miles from the seaboard, with barrels of flour 

 and bags of Indian corn, raised in the southern 

 and western country .' If our farmers cannot 

 raise enough of these for their own consumption, 

 where may we expect to obtain the means of pay- 

 ing for them .' Astonishing as it may seem, there 

 is at this season of the year even a scarcity of po- 

 tatoes in this part of New Hampshire. While so 

 many men are standing idle for want of employ, 

 mcnt, why not plough up or dig up by hand a plat 

 of ground upon which to plant potatoes .' Every 

 able bodied man who can obtain a piece of land 

 should make it a point to raise a sufficiency at least 

 for hisown and his family's consumption. 



Tillage. 



We sliall be cautioned, no doubt, hy some wri- 

 ters, not to plough deep between our rows of veo-. 

 etables, lest we cut off the roots, and cause them 

 to bleed — but we iiave known farmers who have 

 even cut off the .tails of their pigs without appa- 

 rent injury. We need not fear to plough close to 

 our plant-s, wlien they are small, and thouo-h we 

 cut oft' some of the roots, we obtain ten lor one in 

 a very few days. As the vegetables increase in 



size, we may be more cautious of ploughing deep 



though we think ten fields have suftered for want 

 of the plough, where one has suffered from an ex- 

 cessive uf* of it. 



Green sward land that has been turned flat, can 

 be better tilled by llie use of the cultivator than of 

 the plough — for the chief objt ct here is not to 

 make the. land more light, but Lo kill the weeds on 

 the surf:ice and expose fresh mould to the action 

 of the atninsphere. 



Ground that is often stirred with the plough or 

 with tlie hoe, will remain far more moist in a dry 

 time, than when it is suftered to lie at rest, and we 

 never should abstain from tilling u.erely because 

 the earth is 4ij. — Boston Cult. 



