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elderly woman, generally, but always one of the most truRtwortliy aiid intelligent, ia selected and 

 invested will) all necessary power and authority. Much experience, under the guidance, in 

 critical cases, of the best jiliysician in the ueighborliood, qualiiics lier to prescribe iu all ordinary 

 cases, with judgment and success, and in cases of more Bcrious character, some near relative, as 

 the mother of the patient, if a child, or the wife or sister of tlie man, if an adult, is. at the sug 

 gcstion of the nurse, detailed to assist in the care of the sick. The hospital is kept con- 

 stantly supplied with suitable medicines, and such materials for diet and drink as are suited to 

 the common maladies of tiie country, and the e.\igcncy of the case. If more extraordinary and 

 alarming symptoms supervene, a physician is sent for at the discretion of the nurse (if distant 

 from the proprietor's residence), who will understand that forbearance to do so is not to be prac- 

 ticed at any risk to the patient. Calls are made in all cases of need, and without scruple, on the 

 master, and more especially on the mistres.?, for anything iu the way of nourishment or delicacy 

 that the familj- stores can supply ; and to withhold personal attention and sympathy would be 

 an exception to the general practice and feeling of the country. Some of these nurses acquire 

 ■wide and well established reputation for .skill and tact, and are often sent for and allowed to at- 

 tend in the sick room of the most respectable families, especiallj- in obstetrical cases ; and for 

 their services some of these colored women, slave nurses, derive in the course of the year consid- 

 erable income — much more than white women laborers in Europe obtain from the severest daily 

 labor throughout the year. 



On one estate near Columbia, it came under our observation that at an early stage of preg- 

 nancy the women are required to refrain from field labor, to retire to their house, and yet every 

 day, iu good Weather, to take a certain quantitj- of bodily exercise, \^''e are persuaded that the 

 system for the care and protection of the sick and disabled is in no countrj- in the world moro 

 thoroughly arranged, or the provision more humane and complete than on the large plantations 

 in the south. One rule on the estate to which we have referred, near Columbia, is to provide 

 for them an abundance of warm clothing, and to have wood in such abundance at their doors 

 as that it may be burnt at pleasure — leaving them no occasion even to remain stationary, much 

 less to sleep in wet clothes. 



This humane forethought on the part of Col. H. is worthy of all imitation, no less as an exam 

 pie of humanity than as an economical and the most effectual preventive of the Typhoid Pneu- 

 monia. It may be added that the.se particulars are derived in great measure from the slaves 

 themselves, and from personal inquiry and observation, lleturning, in April la.st, from the su 

 perb residence of Mr. Tlrsbull, near St. Francisville, we inquired of his driver ''What 

 house is that ? " The answer was, " That, sir, is the hospital ; " and he went on to say, that as 

 soon as an^-, especially any of the children, were taken sick, they were sent to that house, to be 

 looked after by master and mistress?, as the cure of them would not be trusted to any one, even 

 their mother, exempt from their personal watchfulness and attention. Honor to whom honor is 

 ■dua. [Ed. Farm. Lib. 



THE NEW-EXGLANI) FARIVIER. 



We heartily concur in what lollow.s from The Cultivator, as to the NEW-E.var./i.vD Farmkr. 

 Jt is the first intimation we had of the discontinuance of, we believe, the third a"TiciiItural 

 journal established in the United States. Thk Amkrican Fakmkk, at Btdtimore, still fluurisli- 

 ing in a green old age, being the first, The Plough-Boy, at Albany, by Southwick, being 

 the second, and The New-Eng[,asd Farmer, now no mure, the third. 



Though we have not hatl the pleasure (7th .luly ) to see a copy of " The Horticuf.turist," 

 lor which Mr. Breck acts as agent at Boston, it is not to be doubted that with such Editor 

 and Publishers it will be brought out, as to matter and maimer, in a style to deserv-e extea- 

 sive and lasting encouragement, and we sincerely lio2)e it may receive it. 



Mr. Breck. Editor of The Ncv-Ens[land Farmer, announces in that paper of June 24th, the 

 discontinuance of that work, which has now completed its 24th year. This paper, from its com- 

 mencement under Fesse.vde.v, has pursued the "even tenor of' its way." with less change aud 

 greater steadiness of purpose lha:i has attended almost any other periodical iu the country. 



Punctual in its weekly visits, cheerful in its tone, sound and dLscriminatiug iu ita advice, it 



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