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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Sheepskins. — A corresponilcnt nf iho Hallinv- 

 ell Aiivociile recommend!', (or llie preservation 

 ol 6'/jcc/).sii;is, ttiiit insle:ul of streiviiiir ashes on 

 then), lliiit :is souu as tlie skins are taken off, 

 alioul a pint of water not more than lilood warm, 

 should he poured on each, then rolled up, and 

 pcruiilted tu remain in some ivaiin place for 

 ahoul six hours, when the wool may be easily 

 •pulled oil, and ihe skin be left in good preserva- 

 tioii. 



Upper Citnnda — The popuhition of this prov- 

 ince IS 211,713, and rapidly increasing. It is 

 generally a level country, and from the line 

 which divides it from Lower Canada to Sdiid 

 Hich, a distance of nearly 600 miles, nothing 

 like a mountain occurs, Ihouijfh there are many 

 pleasing hills and line slopes. It is said that 

 this province alone, if its Agriculture were at- 

 tended lo, is capable of sufiplyin,? all Europe 

 with grain, besides being rich in other produc- 

 tions. 



BJfsccllanron.g Ktrm.s, 



Vermont, novir enumeratin!? 260,000 inhabitants, 

 bad, in lUuO, 150,000 souls, ami in 71 towns embraced 

 ill the tour 1101 thtru countit;?, now containing- i!5,000 

 inhabitants, had at that period less than 12,860. Up- 

 wards ol 60 turnpike companies have been incorporat- 

 e.i during tlieae twenty-five years, before which there i 

 was scarcely a grant in the State. Manufacturing ! 

 pruileges have been granted also to more than one ( 

 liuadred eoinjianies in some of the principal towns, and 

 many ol iheui ar= doing extensive and profitable busi- 

 ness lor a donicslic and foreign •mrket. A general sys- 

 tem of common school education has been encouraged 

 by legislative provisions, and academies incorporated in 

 several counties, diffusing knowledge among all clashes 

 ol the commu ity, which causes them to under.stand the 



A writer in the New-Bedford Gazette, is in favour I 

 of establishing a National Cemetery, for tlio^e who ren- 

 der im|iortant 5er\ ices to the nation, to be located :it 

 the seat of the General Government, and to be de- 

 uoniinated the Washington Abbey. 



lyinnepiseogre C'nyial. — A company for the comple- 

 tion of this Canal, has been organized in Portsmouth, 

 and subscriptions opened for the Stock. Capital $1100, 

 000. — Shares $t00 each. 



Delaware and Hudson Canal.— Five hundred and 

 tv/tnly-five thousand dollars of the stock of this com- 

 pany is paid in. The greater part of the canal from 

 the l)elaware to the Hudson river, has been contrac- 

 ted for. The whole is expected to he finished in Ihe | reserve by 

 course of next year. Thei'e are now employed by the i 



Contractors, on the canal, from 1000 to 1200 men. It i -^, ,,,■.. i, l.- u TT 77, I TT ; J^ — Z 



•s said they will be able to • work the greater part of( J"^^' IMbhshed by! helps and ^arnham , No. 5, 



Long Wool Sheep at Auction. 



ON Wednesday the 14th day of December, at U 

 o'clock A. M. will be sold at Col. jAacES, in 

 Chaiiestow n, 



•1 very fine Lincolnshire Ewes, one year old 



1 Lincc^fhire ilam, 2 years old, of an extraordinary 

 quality. 



2 yearling Lincolnshire Rams. 

 All the above are Sheep of fine form & size, 

 5 South Down KanisJ , , . ■ . 

 1 South Down Ewe \ "^ '''« P""'^ ^"''^ 

 The above are the sheep recently imported by Mess. 



A. & A. Lawrence & Co. — And will be sold without 

 COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD, 



Auctioneers, 



ourtstriet, and Nathaniel S. Simpkins, comer of 

 Court and liratlle streets. — Domestic Medicine, or a 

 Treatise on the Prevention and cure of Diseases by 

 Regimen and Pimple Medicines; containing a Dispen- 

 satory for the use of Privnte Practitioners ; by William 

 Buchan. .M. l->. Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, Edinburgh. With considerable additions, and 

 various notes, by A. P. Buchan. M. D. of the P,.oyal 

 College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the 

 Westminster Hos| ital. To which is added, a Family 

 Herbal — a new eiiition, revised and amended, by John 

 G. CofKu, M. D. Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society. Boston November 25. 



the winter, this however must depend on the season. 



Phitad. Prts.'. 



Col Richard M. .lohnson, Senatorjn Congress, from 

 Kentucky, has received into his hoiM twenty one In- 

 dian chililren, of the Choctaw Nation, for the purpose 

 of edueating and teaching them the pi inciples of the 

 Christian religion. 



^1 Life Insurance Ofltce Was established in Lon- 

 don, some 30 years ago, under Ihe title of Ihe Equila- 

 blt Insurance Comprtnv. It appears that, by a very 

 recent £j;)Ofe of its affairs, this institution h^s now a 

 vested capital of no less than eirrrn millions sterling, 



or nearly./;//^ millions of dollars ; and the society is ' ■ ■■iii..«i ii™iii ii- "« iii«ii»i»»i^^»^^»^^^-^— i»'^»^ 

 actually eriibarrassed to determine what disposition to'pfilCES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &IC. 

 make of this prodigious fund, which every year re- 

 ceives an augmentation of about a niillfion and a half 

 sterling, — Jades'' Reg, 



Collon-Mills. — It is said that there are ninety cotton 

 mills, and some of them are very large establishmeixta 

 in the little State of Rhode Island. T' 



James MoNRor, late President of Ihe Untied ■'ilales, 

 has been sworn in as Jvs'ire of the Pence in Londoti 

 County, Virginia. He took hf§ seat as junior meniler 

 of Ihe Court, refusin? to accept the chair of the presi- 

 ding magistrate, which was offered him. 



[Corrected every Thursday evening.] 



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D.C. 



interest ol tUe country and to act up to the dictates of etle was received at Rouen with the same enthusiasm 

 reason and morality. Medical Institutions connected 



with the Colkg, sat Burlington and -Middlebury, -at- lone of'his old coUeajues in the Chamber of DepuHe 

 tended Loth „, iihe professional and literary depart "^ 



ments by al-ont 350 students, have commenced oiwra- 

 tion since the beginning of the period in review. Ag- 



I'Usuiess in a certain degree ever demand- 



ricaltu 



ed by the wants of the people, has been aided by dis 

 ceriTing and cultivating those productions which com- 

 mind the highest pric s in market. — Vermont ,/lurora. 



The Coal mines in the town of Cumberland R. I. 

 have been recently explored for the purpose of procur- 

 ing the coal for the supply of the Providence market. 



In Ihe two years ending 1st of Oc'ober last. 7.500.000 

 pounds of lead arrived at N. Orleans from L^pper Mis- 

 souri. 



The Trenlon American mentions, that the public 

 Fund in New Jersey, for Ihe in'^truilion of Ihe poor, has 

 grown to the sum of f200,fl00 ; and that Ih' re is reason 

 to expect an immediate addition to it of 100,000 dol- 

 lars — balance in the state treasury, 



1920 students attended the last lectures at different 

 medical schools of the United States. 



Dr Howe, an ^^merican, now in Greece, has written 

 home many interesting letters, in relation to the af- 

 fairs of that country. The following is an extract from 

 one of his last letters: — "News from the Morea better 

 aud better. It grows certain that Ibraham Pacha is in 

 great trouble. He has made several ineffectual at 

 tempts lo escape from the plains of Tripnlitza, bnt 

 has been prevented by the Greeks, who to the number 

 of about 15.000 fill the passes. Four days since thev 

 cut off 100 horses with provisions destined for his 

 camp." ■ 



Massachiisells Canal. —The Palladium states, that 



the Canal Commissioneis of this Slate are about to 



make a report favourable to the project of a Canal 



from Connecticut River to Boston Harbor. Two routes 



^ were surveyed for this purpose, but it is not stated 



• Which has been preferred by the Commissioners. 



By the Paris papers it seems that General La Fay' 



nthnsjjsm 

 he was in Ibis country. He dined with M. Cabanon, 



More than two thousand persons assembled in fret t of 

 the house, in Ihe evening, and shouting * A'ivo La Fay- 

 ette." The police, however, thought fit to order out 

 the gend'armerie, and the populace viere repeatedly 

 charged with drawn sabres, and many of them were 

 wounded. Another account say? a number of females 

 were murdered. So much for the liberal government 

 of Charles X. 



Niles' Register has a notion that the capital vested HOPS, No I, Inspection 

 in manufactures, in this counlry, exceeds one hundred . LIME, 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 



pearl do. - - - - 



BEANS, white, . - . - . 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo. No 1, new, - - 



"• No 2, new, - - 

 BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new 

 CHEESE, new milk, . - - - 



skimed milk, - . - 



I FLAX 



FLAXSSEEU -r ^-..r - - - 

 FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 



Genesee, ... 



Rye, best, ... 

 GRAIN,Rye 



Corn - - - - . 



Barley - ... 



Oats 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



millions of dollars 



A medal, worth 1.000 francs, is proposed by some 

 Paris Liberals, as a prize for the best piece of poetiy on 

 the visit of Lafayette lo America. 



The keel of a seventy-four was laid down a few days 

 since, at the Navy Yard, Washington, 



A pocket book, containing $1,500, was cut from the 

 pocket of a country merchant, in an auction room at 

 N. York, on Saturday last, 



A canal boat, with a cargo on board worth iJ60,n00, 

 was recently struck by a flaw of wind on Lake Cham- 

 plnin, and sunk. 



The Vice President of the U. States has returned to 

 Washington, from his journey to S. Carolina. 



The London Times says, "The American man of war 

 Prandywine, which has been lying in Cowes Roads 

 during the past week, has attracted considerable atten- 

 tion, especially in the naval world. Shepretents the 

 singular anomaly of a frigate in some respects superior 

 to a ship of the line." 



The great timber ship Baron Renfrew, arrived at 

 Dover Oct. 13, and was taken in tow by a large (team 

 ship — [She afterwards grounded on the Long Sand, 

 near Harwich, and remained, notwithstanding the ex- 

 ertions of several steam vessels to get her off. Part of 

 the cargo was taken out and carried to Harwich. She 

 ,has since been towed off and was seen at the last date 

 otf the Gallaper Light.] 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 

 PLAISTER PARIS retails at 

 PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, - 



Clover ..... 

 WOOL, Merino, full blood, wash 



do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PnOVISIOJ^ MARKET. 

 BEEl'', best pieces .... 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



" whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, 



POULTRY, ...... 



BUTTER, ke» & tub, - 



lump, best, - . - 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - . - - 



Indian, do. . . - - 



POTATOES, .... 



CIDER, liquor, . . i . 



114 00 

 1 70 



16 



9 



4 



10 



00 



3 00 

 C4 

 76 



46 

 12 

 11 

 1 12 

 90 



4 75 



2 00 

 8 



1 20 



45 

 50 



42 

 75 

 55 



45 



12 

 8 



6 



8 



10 



18 



20 



80 

 80 

 50 

 50 



