J82G.] 



NKW ENGLAND FAR\rER. 



school keeping while there is a temiiorary re- 

 source, or afler having left College, for the 

 saiiii! ohjecl. In cither event it is not an em- 

 ployment on which they rely for any length of 

 lime, ami it is in this as in every otlier occu|>a- 

 licn, that nothing but long Jevoliou to it can 

 furnish the necessary qualilications." 



We should he happy to give the whole of 

 this able report, as it embraces many topics, 

 connected with the mo«t imjjorlant vl' hiiinari 

 pursuits. We think that the caution, which the 

 Commissioners express, when they recommend 

 that the proposed plan should be considered 

 merely as an experiment, is perl'ectly correct. 

 The greatest evil to be apprehemled is that too 

 mucli may be undortakeii ; and that, in conse- 

 quence ot hereafter (indmg all which was an- 

 ticipated has not been eflecled, it should he sup- 

 posed that no good can result iVoin any devia- 

 tion from the established plans of education. — 

 We should avoid equally rash and thoughtless 

 innovaiion, and a too rigid adherence to errors, 

 which have nothing but lime to sanction them. 

 We should keep moving in our progress to ii.:- 

 provement, but not lilt a foot till we have a fair 

 view of'tiim ground to sit it upon. 



TO THE EriTOR OF THE NEW ENGWND F.IRMER. 



COB MILLl^. 



Roxbury, Jan. 25, 1026. 

 Ma Fr.sSRXnKX — I noticed in your p.iper n( 

 the '2oih, an inquiry from a correspondent, C. 

 whether Corn Mills for breaking and grinding 

 Coil and Coin together are in u^e in ihe neigh- 

 borhood of Uoston. I would inform your cor- 

 respondent th.it mills for that purpose have \feen 

 madrt and sold at the Agricultural. Warebfltisc, 

 No. ■iOP. Slate Street, but ivere found on trial oi; 

 working will) hand labour, much too hard, and 

 not to rio the work sufilcieni lor the purpose. .\ 

 mill on the same principle pud calciilale^i ior 

 horse power would answer Ihe purpose w«ll, — 

 and may be iiad at the above est.iblislimonf. 



Yours, &c. \.* 



TO THK EDllOR. Oi'' Till; yCW E\GJ.A.\» F.IK.MEn.. 



Fru.nina^haii), {.Us.) Jan. 2G, 1325. 

 CtOB MILLS. 

 iWr Fr.'=sr.NDr..v — If I can conlrihute anything 

 fir the inl'ormalion of your correspondent C, I 

 will do it with pleasure. 



I formerly had a cast iron corn and coh crack- 

 er in my grist mill, and practised grinding corn, 

 rye and cracked cobs, as occasion required ; but 

 ! found that at"ter grinJing cracked cobs and corn, 

 the stones would not make good meal for bread 

 until Ihey were new dressed. 



In 1021 the oM mill privileges being taken up 

 for factories, 1 undertook with another man to 

 build a mill on a good stream, near Iha centre 

 of Ihi* town; we put in it a pair of stones for 

 rye, and a (>air for corn, in the usual manner : 

 for the coh meal we took a pair of large stones, 

 cut the eye of t!ie runacr twelve inches at top, 

 and fourteen or tifleen inches at bottom, and 

 bosompd it out large, as we term it ; in this man- 

 ner it answers every purpose for cracking and 

 grinding corn in the ear. 



Yours, respectfully, 



L. BUCKMINSTER, jr. 



I . CONGRESSIONAL. 



1 SEITATZ. JAN. IS. Ttie NavalCoramiltee 



j to whom liad b(-(;n refcir<^d tiie sniij'ect o( the rt-ci:nt 

 iltcision in tlie case of Capt. Porter, reported against 

 ItiH revision. 



I A bill to (leclarft the assent oi Congress to an act of 



j the stale of .Alabama, for laying a tonnaje duly of five 



I cents on vessels, for the impiovenu-nl ol the navigation 



j of the riytr .M. 'bile was debated. Mr. Lloyd of Mass. 



j anil .Mr. Holmes cxiiressed their doubts whelhci Ihe 



I stale of Alabama possessed the rij,-tit to impose such a 



j duty. The bill was eventually laid on Ihe table. 



1 J.AN, 17. This day was occupied in attending to 



j private and local business. 



j Jan. 18. The Vice President communicated a re- 

 port from the S. cnfary of the Navy, of the Navy Con- 

 tracts made in 1C25 — Also a report frora the Secretary 



! of War, relative to the expenses of that department. 



I A bill was reported and passed to a second reading 



Tor amending the Import Law. 



I JAN. 19. A bill for the establishment of a Naval 

 Academy was reported by the Committee . ou Naval 

 Affairs. 



The bill to prevent and punish frauds in the Collec- 

 tion of Duties on Imports. &c. was discussed but no 

 decision taken. In debating on this subject it was 

 staled that the United States had sufl'ired a loss from 

 three to tight hundred thonsaad dollars by late traud ' chanic Arts. 



2!.') 



Several resolutions relating to the survey of public 

 lands in Maine were read and laid on the tabli'. 



A bill to confirm Ihe act of Ihe Slate of Vermont "to 

 proiidc for imjjroving Ihe navigation of the valley of 

 Ihe Connecticut" was taken up, and its lurlbtr cou- 

 sideration assigned for the S'ltli inst. 



JAN. 20. 'Ihe bills for erecting another building 

 within the limits of the iitate Prison, with several others 

 passed to he engrossed. 



J-AN. 21. 'the Committee nn Banks was in^tiucled 

 to report at the present session of Ihe General t outt on 

 the measures mcfssaryto be adopted to prevent any 

 evils, which may result from the expiiatien oi' the 

 Charter if the several Banks in this Conimojiwi allh. 



Eills were enacted lo incorporate the Three R ivi rs 

 .Manufacturing Co. and the Shepherd Woolen Manu- 

 facturing Co. 



A bill was passed tor granting a half township of 

 land to Sanderson .^cadenjy. 



.I.\.N. .'3. A committee was appointed to rcpoit on 

 the expediency" of making farther proviirn for <he re- 

 demption of ^lortyage*', ;nd giving equitable remedies. 

 — The bill relative to Usury l-aws was debated, aod 

 passetl to a third rtading. — -Among llie petitions pre- 

 sented and loramitted was oi.e ot Tatiick K.Jackson 

 and others, praying for the incorporation of a company 

 for the promotion of the ManufacturiT*g and Me- 



JAN. 24, Mr Dana fp m a cummittee nn the subject 

 j reported that it is inexpedient at this lime to raise a re- 

 venue by the (stab'i^hment of Lollenes, and that fur- 

 ther provision is necessary to carry into ttfect the re- 

 striclions against the sale of Lottery Tickets. He re- 

 ported a bill on the sulject, which was ordered to be 

 ! printed. The judit iary coraniitlee was instructf d to re- 

 I pott on the expeditncy of so altering the laws that Cor- 

 I ouf rs shall only take inquisition when there is reason to 

 jlilleve that the persons found dead came to their 

 , dca'.hs by the violence of others. 



I HOUSS. JAN. 18. The report on the Insti- 

 I lute of Piactiial .\rts and Sciences was rtferred to a 



in Philadelphia, and that the President had sent a 

 confidential Agent to that city to inquii<; into the al- 

 ia ir. 



HOVSE. JAN. 13. Mr. Condict of \. J. 

 presented a resolution for inquiry whether the revenue 

 of Post Odice Department could not be increased with- 

 out detriment or inconvenience by giving to the Depu- 

 ty Postmaster, in all cases an adequate pecuniary com- 

 pensation for their services, and withho.'ding from them 

 the franking privilege. 



A resolution was olfered by Mr Van Rensallacr for 

 placing a portrait of Gen. Washington in the Hall of 

 the House. 



The Committee of Ways and Means was instructed i special committee.— The committee on Education rc- 

 to inquire into the expediency of reducing and equal- i ported unfavourably on petitions from Sherburne, Sonth 

 izing the duties on import! d Wines. I Reading and Uarre, praying for the establiEhmrnt of 



JAN. ll). Upwards of eighty petilions from c<»o. J •^cad»a»,(4;^J^ t!iss«>J<r>rn!. Tho-rcFortTvaa evtatuallf 

 ' prY-iiions and individuals in nineteen Slates and Ter- ^ 'aid on the table, 

 ritories w( re this day presented. J.AN. 19. A till was reported lor the incorporation of 



Mr Baylies from the select Coinriittce on the Terri- a Seminary for the education of Young Ladirs in the 

 tory of the United Stales on the Pacific Ocean made a , 'own of Rrookfield.— Mr Wbeuton, from Ibe committer 

 repoif, accompanied by a bill for establishing one or 

 move .Military Posts on the Tenilory of the U. S. on 

 the Pacific Ocean, and to employ a Naval OiKcer, art- 

 ists. &e. to survey said Territory, &c. 



JAN. 17. iMr Webster repoited the bill from the 



n|)pointrd on the avHject, reported the bill fixing the 

 rate of interest, airtl restraining the recovery of excess- 

 ive usury, with sundry amendments. 'I liese amend- 

 ments after a long discussion were rejccle'i. 



JAN. 21. On motion of Mr Simmons of Roxtury, the 

 Senate lo alter the time for holding the District Court commidee on the Judiciary was instructed to erquirc 

 in New York, and for .annulling an act of the Terrilo- i"to the expediency of providing by law that aliens 

 rial Government of Rorida on the subject of Wrecks, may hold real estate 

 A resoUuion was adopted for furnishing the House 



with a list of balances due by the Receivers of Public cessary. " 



Money, on account of the sales of public lands. | 



Mr Haylies laid on the table a resoiuilon to request , The situation of the Irish peasantry is represented as 

 the President to communicate information of the cor- very comfortable, and the country in a quiet state. 



in this Commonwealth, under 

 uch limilalions and restrictions as may be deemed ne- 



respondence with Great Britain respecting the bound 

 ary of the Territory of the United States, which is sit 

 uatrd on the Pa< it^c Ocean. 



.lAV. 13. Mr Ingham presented a resolution rela- 

 tive to .\ttornies of the United States rendering servi- 

 ces to defendants Sec. in suits brouglit by such altornies 

 in behalf of the United States, and recovering fees 

 therefor. This resolution, after amendment by Mr. 

 Webster was agreed to. 



M.\SSACHUSETT3 LEG ISLATURE. 



Reports were made to the two Houses, by the Com- 

 mittee to whom waa referred so much of the Governor's 



I The opening of the English ports for Barley has not 

 lowered the piice of that grain. 



The Shakspeare has arrived in the Th.ames, from a 

 port in Colombia, with a rich cargo of silver, copper,' 

 and produce. The metal is said to be the first fruits 

 of the mines worked by English Capital. 



The Gibraltar Chronicle states that the fever on the 

 opposite coa:t has arrived at such a dreadful height that 

 the inhabitants were falling dead in the stri el. A sub- 

 scription had been opened at Gibraltar for the suffer', rs 

 at Tangier. 



The Catholics of Dublin have held a great meeting-, 

 for the purpose of taking into consideration the address 



Message as celates to the Claim of this Commonwealth ! from the Catholicks of New-York. Many fine speech 



on the Government of the United States for Militia 

 j services. These reports recommend resolutions cal- 

 Iculated for obtaining the speedy adjustment and al- 

 lowance of said claims. 



SENATS. -JAN. 13. The bill for the erec- 

 tion of another building within the limits of the State 

 Prison in Charlestown was considered, and the blank 



j in that section, which relates to an appropriation for 



: that purpose was filled with $5,000. 



es were made, and a resolution of gratitude passed, &c. 

 Shaksjnare. — It is reported that three original let- 

 ters of this great poet have been found amoi'.g the pa- 

 pers of the late Duchess of Dorset. 



One of the poor persons now applying to bis .Majesty's 

 almoner for the Christmas bounty, is said to be a niece 

 of Gen. Wolfe, the renowned conquerer of Quebec. — • 

 She resides over a stable in a yard gning out of Brook- 

 street, Grosvenor square ; is f;2 years of age, and in a 

 very infirm State of health.— ionrfim paper. 



