Ilie seed, niul pursiied it with go iiiiich zeiil iind 

 |ieisevei-aijce, iis lo cause liiai to lie regarded hy 

 (lie lew settlers, jii.st then beyiiiniiif; lo make 

 tliL'ir H|i|)eaniiice in the eoiimry, uiih a de^'ree 

 t)l alninsi sdpersliiioiis admiralion. 



liiHiiedialelv U|ioii his advent lie cointnciiced 

 the rai.sin^^' of apple trees tioiii the seed, at a lime 

 when there uere not perhaps filiy white men 

 wiihin the lorly miles scpiare. lie would clear 

 u (ew rods of f,'roiind in sonie open part of the 

 _fore.-t f,Mr<lle the trees standiii^Mipoii it, snrronnd 

 It will, a linish fence., and plant his apple seed. 

 I his done, he would go o(i' som.; twenty miles 

 or so, select another fav.>rahle spot, and again go 

 through the same operation. In this wav, with- 

 out laimly and wiihont connexion, he ramhled 

 IroMi place to place, and employed Ids lime, I 

 may say liis life. " ' 



When the settlers hegan to flock in, and open 

 their "clearing!.-," old .Appleseed was ready for 

 Ihem with Ins young trees; and it was not his 

 (aidt i( every om; of them hail not an orchard 

 planted onl and growing without delav. 



Thus he proceeded for iiianv years, "deriving a 

 sell-saiisliiciion amounting lo" delight, from The 

 niilulgeuce of Ins engrossing passion. 



Such yvere the lahors and such the life of John- 

 ii.V Appleseed atnoiig ils, and such his immin<ded 

 enjo,ine,it.s, till ahont fifteen years ago, when 

 pn.hahly h;eling the encroaclnnenls of others 

 "('"" lis sphere, and desiring u new and more 

 cMended held ol operations, he removed to the 

 (m- West, there lo enact oyer again the same 

 career <,( hninhle hiit snhlime iisefnlnes.s. 



iliis man, oliscure and illiterate though he 

 wa.s, was yet, in some respects, another Dr': Van 

 "Ions, and must have heen endued with the iii- 

 stiact of Ins theory. His usual practice was to 

 Saliier Ins seeds from seedling trees, and lo take 

 hem (roui as many din'erenl trees as were to be 

 <;;;;;' "nlm, the range of his yearly autumnal 

 ■■"'d.es, and from those Iiarticidar see.lling trees 

 "Hording the highest eyhlence in their fruit that 

 ilie process o/ amelioration was heiiim and was 

 i-'omjr <.n in ihem. At fiist, his visits necessarily 

 e-Ntended to the seedling on-hards upon the Ohio 

 mid Monongahela rivers in what were oalled the 

 ^etlhMnents;' hut when the orchards of his own 

 l'l'">ling began to bear, his wanderings, for the 

 l"in>ose o( collecting seed, became more and 

 niore narrowed m their extent, till the time of his 

 cleparliire iurilier westward. 



S-ill true, however, to the instinct which first 

 < rew him lo the Van Mens theory, for the pro- 

 cluclion o( new ameliorated varienes of the an- 

 [lie, he has continued occasionally to return in 

 the auturrm to his beloved orchards hereabouts, 

 Or the .joiihlo purpose of contemplating and 

 nmmiaiing upon the results of his labors, and of 

 galhermg seeds from his own seedlins trees to 

 take wiih him and carry on by their means 're- 

 jM-odnction at the West. Recently, his visits 

 have been altogether intermitted. Our hope is 

 that he may yet live in the enjoyment of a green 

 Old age— happy in the multitude of its pleasiii" 

 leimmscence.s.— jj/ao-. o/-//ort,Vii«u,f. "^ 



Coshoclon, Ohio, Feb. 24, 1840 



^l)C Jarnur 5 illcintl)lij bisitor. 



67 



There isan axe factory at Collinsville, Conn., 

 in which forty-iive men turn out eight hundred 

 axes per day. They are of the best quality, and 

 (iiid u rapid sule.-.V: l". Mechanic anil Farmer. 



Growth of a Youn^ Orchard. 



As many people object to .setting out fruit trees 

 because it will be a long time belbre they will 

 bear, an,| adord them a return for their labor and 

 expense, ,t is well, we think, to give, occasional- 

 ly, the progress ot young fiuit trees. A few 



AiTu"" r? 'T" "' Wohurn, ami calling on 

 '^li. Uni. Handers, with whom we have had 

 many a conversation on fruits, he invited us to 

 lake a walk and see liis young fruit orchard 



bmno jears ago he purchased five acres of 

 bmd, then „. wood, a short distance from his 

 lioose; he cut olf the wood, removed the stones, 

 w Inch were very plenty, and put then into wall 

 plouiilnul, manured and planted the land; and 

 ^;x >ears a-o set it out with apple trees, and 

 Mlice that time he has set some peach trees be- 

 tween the ajiple trees. 



The soil is a loam well adafited lo fruit trees 

 A part IS quite moist on which he has judicious- 

 y sot the Koxhury Russet. The land has been 

 tilled and cropped, the trees pruned and washed 

 will, various substances, as often recommended 

 1 hough these trees have been well manaire.l, yet 

 lliey have not been mirsed, nourished and ied 

 with great care and expense, but ihey have been 

 managed a plain and economical way, and they 

 are making a good healthy and sufficiently rapid 

 irrowih for uselul purposes, though not enough 

 to make a great story. 



Tbe trees now average over four inches in di- 

 ameter, some of them are si,x. Two years ano 

 one tree produced almost a barrel of fruit • the 

 whole yielded seven or eight barrels ; the lield 



will probably be about twenty barrels this season. 

 And we have no doubt that the crop will nearly 

 double 111 amount every second (the beariu") 

 year, till It becomes quite productive. The ap- 

 ple trees "re nl.out two rods apart, and the who e 

 luitiiber IS 180. it will be hut a few years before 

 bey will average. a barrel each, annually ; they 

 will then pay all expense in their management 

 the interest on the capital invested, and rapidly 

 pay oti the prmcipak It requires but little dis- 

 cernment to judge whether this will be a profit- 

 able investment.— fioi/on. Cultivnior 



let out with the exception of this poor boy who 



was detained till pas. midnight.' He b'ecai : 



on, tins time nervous and melancholy, and sunk 



cvLi lecovei ' lie mi.ssing art cle was found 

 tbe next morning, exculpa.ingMhe boy f orn tl e 

 gudt with which he bad 1.66.7 charged. 



»r. Franklin's Moral Code. 



Our great American philosonhe.- -....i „. 



™".,.Benjami.,Fraid.iu^.rew';:rtb:tl,ri;" 

 li^tot moral virtues, to which he paid const, nf 



and earnest attention, and thereby Ude him ;"f 

 a better and hajjpier man. """soii 



Silence.-S],enk not hut what may benefit oth- 

 .•r.s or yoursell; avoid trifling conversation. 



0)WtT._Let all your things have their places- 

 let ea,.. part of your business have its time ' 

 ««o/u<,o«.-Resolve to perform what" you 

 "Mit; Pe;form vyitbont (iiil what yoti resolve. 



J'rugably.~M>>ke no expense, biiit do good lo 

 others or yourself; that is, waste nothing 



Iiulustr^, -Lose no lime ; be always employed 

 m something useful ; cut off all un/ecessarylc- 



Slncerily.-Vse no liurtTuI deceit; think inno- 

 cently and justly ; and if yon.speak,'speak^ccor- 

 J;li«;l■c^.--Wrong none by d-oing injuries or 

 omitting tbe benefits that are your duty ' 



in^bjuitt"-"''^"" "''"'""''' '■'"■l>«a'-r«^ent- 



CTea«/,W_Snfi-er no .incleanliness in body. 

 clothes or habitation. ^' 



Tranquitity.—^e not d-Lslnrbed about trifles oi- 

 at iuxidents common and unavoidable ' 



//Mmi/.fi/.— Imitate Jesiis Christ 



Never frighten Children. 



Cotton Manufactured in the United States. 



The increase of the consumption of raw cot- 

 ton m this country is truly astonishing, and lue- 

 sen.s interesting and highly important fads to 

 the mind o( every friend of his country. 



J be Hon. Abbott Lawrence, in his third letter 

 on the subject of the Tarifl^, stales some inter- 

 esting lacts 111 relation to the consumption of 

 cotton m the United Slates. Since 18IC, a peri- 

 od of tweniy-nine years, the amount consumed 

 has increased from 11,000,000 to ireSOO 000 lbs 

 -n.ore than shleen-fotd. During the same pe- 

 riod the increase of consumption in Great Britain 

 has been from 88,000,000 to 560,000,000 lbs - 

 ess than .c.v,!/„.«. We ma.iufiicture more cot- 

 ton than I ranee, and quite as much as GO 000 000 

 Oermans. ' 



Acotlonfactory.savs the Traveller, is about 

 on^he'-R? 'r u-^ ..t the Falls, above Tuscaloosa, 

 on the Black Warrior River, Alabama. A capi- 

 •='1 of i=GO,000 has already been secured, and 

 measures taken to procure machinery from the 



ri Ol III, 



Virginia has already nearly twenty woolen 

 manuflictories and the products of her cotton 

 iHanufactures amount to more than $500 000 uer 



In the Glasgow Constitutional is an account 

 of the indiscreet conduct of a school-mistress 

 who for some trifling offence, most foolishly put 

 a child in a dark cellar for an hour. The child 

 was terrihed, and cried bitterly. Upon returnin.. 

 to her parents m the evening she burst into tears 

 and begged that she might not be put into the 

 cellar. I be parents thought this extremely odd, 

 ami a.ssured her that there was no danger of 

 lieir being gmity of so great an act of cruelty ; 

 but It was difficult to pacify her, and when siie 

 was put to bed, she passed a restless night. On 

 tie following day she had a fever, during which 

 she frequently oxxlaime.1-" Don't put me in the 

 cellar ! ■ I he fourth day she was taken lo Sir 

 A..<tley Cooper in a high stale of fever wiih de- 

 hiiuin, frequently mutlering— " Pray don't nut 

 me ,n the cella.y When Sir As.ley inquiled 

 be reason, he found that the parents had not 

 learned the punishment lo which she had been 

 subjected. He ordered what was likely to re- 

 leve her, but she died in a week after this un- 

 feeling treatment. 



Another case from the same authority niav 

 bere be cited. It is the case of a child ten years 

 old, wno wanted lo w,iie her exercises, and lo 

 scrape her slate pencil went into the school in 

 tbe dark lo fetch her knife, when one of her 

 school-mates burst from behind the donr to 

 righien her; she was much terrified and her 

 head ached. On the following day she became 

 tieaf, and on the next so much so as not to hear 

 tne loudest talking. Sir Astley saw her three 

 months alier this bad happened, and she contin- 

 ued in the same deplorable stale of deafness. A 

 boy fifteen years of age, was admitted an inmate 

 of the Dundee Lunatic Asylum, having become 

 imbecile with fright. When twelve years of a^e 

 he was apprenticed to a light business, and some 

 inflmg article being one day missing, he was 

 along with others, locked up in a dark cellar! 

 Ihe children were iniich alarmed ; and all were 



PoAver of Music. 



Hutchinson FAM.LT.-The "home branch" 

 of .bis " singing family " have returned to their 

 home after a siiccessful tour through the country. 

 VVhile at New York, they visited the state prison 

 a Sing Sing, on the Sabbath, and sung in the 

 chapehs of the mide and female prison, and also 

 m the hospital. The visit was received with in- 

 The le'r'^'i-"-^ of gratitude by the prisoneis. 

 iis efF c "'^"* '""^ peculiarly exhibited in 



IS efFecis upon the inmates of these walls, as the 

 ollovving account will show, given in a le ter by 

 ti.e principal ina.ron of the female department, 

 o JiMlge Ldmonds, the Chairman of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, &c.: ^xecu 



Wot 1,1 „,,®"'"°,^''"''''^Pr>l 11th, 1846. 



We had the ^ Borne Branch " of the Hutchin- 

 .on family with us yesterday. They had been 

 invited to visit and sing in the P,-isoL,and came 

 up Satmday lor that purpose. Were yon acquain- 

 ed with them, I should not have to tell you that 

 tbe simplicity and genuineness of their chaiae- 

 teis add as much to the effect of their music as 

 characters less beautiful derive from it. Such is 



nol^rh" "7''';i*^'"« :V0U are well aware, 

 would the peculiar force of this charm be more 

 keenly fe t than among our unfortunate prisoners, 

 riiey took ,, art m the Sabbath .services of both 

 iisons. In the Chapel of the Male Prison, after 

 iitled '""*^"' ^^ '""= '''" ''««"'"■"' piece en- 



" His loTf can ne'er be told ■" 



and it would have delighted you to see how the 

 sentiment lit up the hearts of that large congre- 

 gation. Phis was followed by the announcement 

 of till ee deaths that had recently occurred in the 

 Prison. One of these ns you may already know, 

 was a suicide. The victim was a young Eng- 

 isbman, about 22, who had for some time been 

 nbonng under depression of mind. He perpe- 

 tiated he deed by banging himself with his tow. 

 el, made fast lo the hook by which his bed was 

 suspended during the day. 



The statenient of these melancholy occurren- 

 ces by the Chaplain was followed by the very 

 oeautiliil and appropriate piece— 

 " A brother is dead," 



sung by Mr. Joshua Hutchinson. The most per- 

 feci silence pervaded the audience, and, as the 

 tender, low-breathed strains were uttered, every 

 syllable, though whispered in the softest tone 

 was audible, and glistening eyes and flushed 

 brows III many parts of the house testified that 

 neither crime nor its consequences had yet utter- 

 ly extinguished sympathy orgensibilitv. 



