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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



press. The North Carolina banks, which occu- 

 pied precisely the like grounds, (of pretended re- 

 sumption of payments, and real continued sus- 

 pension,) have already, since the Ibregoing re- 

 marks were written, thrown aside the thin dis- 

 guise, ibr the purpose ol saving the brokers 

 the trouble of collecting iheir noie^ to obtain spe- 

 cie, and ihemselvee Crorn the odium of refusing to 

 pay while proliessing to be "specie-paying" 

 banks. The Virginia banks will all follow the 

 same course as soon as it shall be deemed less 

 profitable to them to keep up the present decep- 

 tion, than to publish the truth of a general 

 refusal to pay all demands. If the lapse of an- 

 other week does not bnns them to this result, 

 two months certainly will." — Farmers^ Register 

 for March, 1841. 



The predictions made in the latter part of the 

 foregoing extract, were all fully and speedily 

 verified. 



While the banks are thus guarded at all points 

 (except from the demands of foreign and other 

 brokers, who can arrest their notes in their dis- 

 tant circulation,) from paying any considerable 

 amount of specie, it is as ridiculous as ii is decep- 

 tious for iheir mouth-pieces to talk about the small 

 amount of demands made on them lor payment. 

 Let the banks lay aside these defences, (which 

 would stigmatize and disgrace any individual, as a 

 shameless and fraudulent bankrupt,) and resume 

 payment bona fide, and then they may with some- 

 thing like truth claim whatever may appear ol 

 the forbearance of the community to demand 

 payment. As it is, it would be nearer the truth 

 to say that they are required to pay every existing 

 and valid obligation', for of the very few notes 

 of $5 or more in home circulation, scarcely one 

 passes through the hands of three individuals, 

 before it goes to the bank to be redeemed. If the 

 lew $1 and $2 notes remain somewhat longer 

 in home circulation, it is because they singly pre- 

 sent too small an object to the holder to seek pay- 

 ment. If all the notes of the banks and their 

 branches were in home circulation, they would 

 be presented for payment so rapidly, that the next 

 avowed suspension of payment would probably re- 

 commence almost as quickly as happened in 

 Virginia in February 1841, and la'ely in regard 

 to the banks of New Orleans. Whenever the 

 banks of Virginia shall avow suspension again, 

 they will continue suspended to the rapidly ap- 

 proaching end of their long continued fraudulent 

 course and present legal existence. And after 

 November 1st, nothing vvill prevent the early com- 

 mencement of that stale of things, except new 

 legislation to protect bank frauds, or, otherwise, 

 that actual degree of confidence of the people in 

 the banks, which ia now claimed for these institu- 



tions, as operating, but which they take especiaf 

 care to guard against being tested. 



REMAUKABLE EXTENT OF THE SECOND 

 BLOSSOMING OF TREES. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Sandy Point, Sept. 20th, 1842". 

 Amongst the many ravages committed by the 

 severe storm of wind and rain which passed over 

 this section of country on the 24th ol August last, 

 was the nearly entire stripping of the leaves from 

 that side of the fruit and other trees exposed to its 

 unusual violence. On those trees, so prematurely 

 and roughly denuded of their covering of leaves, 

 nature is now making a vigorous efibrt to restore 

 those appendages, even at this late season, which 

 1 think is well worthy of record. The unusual, 

 beautiful, and interesting anomaly is now present- 

 ing itselfj of apple and other fruit trees in full and 

 perfect blossom. Instances of this nature, I am 

 aware, occur (to a very limited extent) almost 

 every season, particularly on plum trees, but never 

 have I seen so general a flowering. Some apple 

 trees here are as amply and completely covered 

 with blossoms as generally happens to them in 

 their natural flowering season. AVhere apples 

 have not been entirely shaken off the trees by the 

 violence of the storm, a dish of fruit can be ga- 

 thered from one side of the tree, and a bouquet of 

 flowers from the other. Pomona and Flora are 

 here as intimately hand in hand as they are on 

 many of the plants of the citron family. The ap- 

 ple is not the only tree which presents this inter- 

 estingly beautiful phenomenon ; the plum, cherry, 

 pear and walnut exhibit the same; and on one 

 side of a double flowering cherry, (exposed to the 

 storm,) there is a good display of the beautiful 

 blossom natural to that tree.* A lew blossoms of 

 apricots are also appearing. A plant of Persian 

 lilac is in full bloom, and the buds of many other 

 flowering shrubs show an evident tendency to 

 speeily developement, if not shortly arrested by 

 early frosts. I have thought the interesting cha- 

 racter of these unusual but natural efl'ects, the ef- 

 Ibrts of nature to replace a beautiful portion of her 

 works, so unseasonably destroyed, well worthy of 

 notice. Some sages, from these appearances, 

 prognosticate that the now approaching winter 

 will be a severe one ; others, that some fearful and 

 direlul calamity is about to pass over the country. 



A. NicoL. 



SOWED CORIV. 



From tlie New England Farmer. 

 It may amuse, and perhaps be of some advan- 

 tage to the agriculturists of the country, to be cor- 

 rectly infbrmed to what extent of production the 

 soil may be relied upon or referred to. This is 

 especially important to those who have but little 



* Many of tfie petals of these show a tinge of red 

 not natural to them, fit emblem of the hectic on many 

 a young and fair cheek destined like them to prema- 

 ture decay. 



