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have caused Ilieir lotal destruction. We learn that the 

 r n^ ^'"bankment across the pond near the lower end 

 » Boscawen Plain, was also so much daina{;ed as to 

 be rendered impassable on Saturday, but is now re- 

 paired. The road in several other places has beeu 

 considerably washed. At Goodwin's Point the water 

 has much widened the new channel.— f/j/rs Patriot. 



Silent Influence.— It is the bubbling sprin" 

 \ which flows gently, the little rivulet wliich runs aloii- 

 f day and night, by ihe farm house, that is useful, rath- 

 er than the swollen flood, or the waning cataract Ni- 

 ngiira excites our wonder, and we stand a.ii,azed at the 

 power and greatness of God there, as he " pours it 

 trom his hollow hand." But one Niagara is enough 

 lor the comment, or the world, while the same worlil 

 requires thousands and tens of thousands of silver 

 fountains and gently flowing rivulets, that water every 

 farm and meadow, and every girden, and that shall 

 How on every day, and every nigiit, with their gentle 

 quiet beauty. So with the acts of our lives. It is not 

 by great deeds, like those of the martyrs, that good is 

 to be done; It is by the daily and quiet virtues of life 

 —the christian temper, the meek forbearance, the spir- 

 it of forgiveness, in the husband, the wife, the father 

 the mother, the brother, the sister, the friend, the 

 neighbor, that good is to be done.— fler. haac Barnes 



_^I)^^irmcr;s iHontl)li) bisitor. 



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of exercising iliu elevated viitiips are ever present 

 to ilie iiulepeiideiit fanner. Like llie |.atriaifh.s 

 ot ohi he stands at the head of his family. Like 

 lliein, he ghoidd rule liis lioiiseliold after liim- 

 instructinjr, consoling, Mipporliiif,'.— Q,(,„c^. 



The Famine.-LorI John Rns.seli staled in a 

 recent speech in I'm liamei.t, that .linini; lliesi.v- 

 teenili century there occinied in Endand somo- 



"•If; very similar to ,1,,, present Irish (iiinine. 



t was relate.l, lie .s-„id, l,y Si,- Tlionias Mooio in 

 his writnifrs that :iOO,0(JO men at o,:e lime rnani- 



hun 70,000 were liimi; m a sinyle year. 



Yesterday morning, (Apnl 28.) was really colder in 

 Concord than any morning at Washington from the first 

 of December to the lust of March, last winter. Ice in 

 the night forniedtolhe depth of ncarlv two inches, 

 and the ground was frozen hard enough to bear up the 

 cart wheels heavily loaded with manure going to the 

 field. All this cold comes of the deep snows upon the 

 ground at the nortli-the snow was at an average depth 

 of five feet at Quebec down to Apiil 12 : after repeat- 

 ed rams carrying it away, we can still see from our 

 window snow banks on the north side of the Canter- 

 bury and Norlhfield ridge, fifteen miles off". Good fires 

 wiihin and good fur mittens abroad, would have been 

 OS grateful on Tuesday as at any time of winter: five 

 days previous, the thermometer stood at summer heat 

 lis passing strange— this high sun over our heads- 

 > these long days of summer day-light, and this bitter, 

 ' t biting frost of winter. 



F P. S. A gentleman from Sutton informs us that the 

 : \ snow was still laying (yesterday,) higher than the wall 

 fences upon the hills of that town, twenty-four miles 

 frtOMant from Concord. 



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Keeping Lggs.-A friend who lias no incon- 

 sideiahle experience in the business, iMlbrms us 

 that lie ii:i8 tried niany methods for iireservin.' 

 eps btit that the following has proved the inos°t 

 effectual. Take a cask or box, or anv vessel that 

 IS proportioned in size to the number of e-.-s 

 reipmed to be kept, and cover the bottom w'idi 

 finely pu verrzed salt. The eggs are to be set on 

 thp_8inall end, sonear as to touch each other 

 nd the interstices to be filled with salt, the' 

 vhole to be covered w ith a stratum of il,e same 

 irticle, and another laying of eggs deposited in 

 l!ie niani.er of the hist. In this way the cask 

 may be filled. If the eggs are depo.iie.l on their 

 urge ends, the yolk will adhere to the shell, and 

 I'ccome putrid. We have tried the above, on a 

 small scale and find it to work admirably. A 

 correspondent, to whom we some lime since 

 communicated the above method, and in whose 

 statements we place the most implicit faith, in a 

 etier to us, recently received, remarks as fol- 

 lows:-' 1 have adopted the plan recommended 

 tV you in keeping eggs, and find it to answer 

 nr imrably. I have now several dozens r.'<.s 

 which were packed one year since, and which 

 rst.!-%:V:;r ''^ ^^'^^" taken fi.«mthe 



Ciii.%A.-The inaniifacture of paper, the art of 

 punting, and manner's compass.— by which be 

 IS enabled to guide his .hip ui.erringiy across the 

 tiackless ocean,-tbe properties of the arch, the 

 art ol making gunpowder and porcelain, and the 

 manulaetiire ol sugar from the cane, all seem to 

 have originated witli the Chinese, and to have 

 been known and used by them long befbro they 

 wero by any other nation. '^ 



I'aper was invented by them during the first 

 century of the Christian Era, and priming ealy 

 n die tenth century. The polarity o( the need- 

 le IS explicitly noticed in one of their iliclionaries 

 made 111 A D. 121. Arches and vaulted work 

 are still to be seen in the "Great Wall "-con- 

 structed more than two thousand years' since- 

 gunpowder was used by them at an early peri- 

 od in making h,e-works; it is comparaii/ely but 

 a short tune since porcelain was made anyw here 

 else, and the sugar-cane was taken Irom thence 

 to other countries. 



Some of those inventions were transmitted to 

 Europe at an early period by the Arabs, who^e 

 lar extended coiitinests, during the eigluli and 

 mnth centuries, brought them to the confines of 

 the remote Empire of China, ami to whose en- 

 terprise we owe tho first distinct account of it 

 and Its peculiar institutions and customs-, which 

 still remain the same as then. The other arts 

 mentioned made their first appearance in Emop; 

 a ter the return of Marco Polo, the celebi n 'd 

 U-netian traveller who spent seventeen years at 

 the Court olCublia Khan, ,he snvereigi. of the 

 rartars and Emperor of China. The ^.^ovk pub 

 hsbed by this traveller is said to have been one 

 ot tlie principal lights used by the Portu.Miese 

 discoverers, in the fifteenth century, and bij'de-- 

 cnptions of the situation of Chink led Colnin- 

 hus to believe that by sailing in a westerly direc- 

 tion he should reach the eastern shores of Asia 

 When he aiTived among the West India Island-. 

 I'e thought he had discovered some of the w hi 

 regions of the East, ati.l, according to Iivi, 



dis::lj:;r°~°^"-'-'^'-^--ofbu; 



tin it becoines the thickness of sweet crraui. 



Hotl,, ,,n,| „,h one quart of sweet cream, llavoi- 

 e. >vi. 1 one Vanilla stick. The bean is pi 'Us- 

 ed at the dr,iggi,t's, broken into small piie "s ,d 

 stecpe.l one hour in milk. The esscMice of le, o 



S'lhiribr',';'''' '"'■.^'""i"a-tl.e ,as,e I, ng 

 me guide lor tho qiianiit\'. 



If it is desired that the crenm shall be very lieb 

 ii.se the proportions of four <|,iarls of milk w ,' 



'I'e more difficult it will he to fieeze it ' 



I h.nic.-ziug is .lone as follows : Pou'r the mix- 

 ime while warm mio liie (leezer. Then „il „ 

 common nail keg or any cask holding rbom, Li 

 gallon.s liaving only one head, bore two or three 

 ..uger iioles I iiongli that bead, and place it ii ,^ 

 wa.sh,u,T, en being provided w ,, I, abc'i,; 

 half liishe o( salt, and about two bushels of ice 

 immid the latter into pieces as large as wait uTs ^ 

 I'Nt a Layer ol salt of a lialf inch or more in | ck-' 

 m..ss in the bottom of the cask, ami on that a lay- 

 er ol an inch of ice ; then set the fn-ezer in the 

 centre o( the cask and place another layer ofsalt 

 about It alternating will, ice, till the cask is filled 

 hi I. 1 hen taking the fiee/.er by the handle, turn 

 I back and (or,h horizo, |y ,o ,|,e right and 



is^Vozem ''*'"'^' ' "'"'"'^'"' ""'*' "'« '••'■«•"'■ 



The efl-ect of mixing salt and ice will be to 



melt the, ce This will evolve an intense cohl; 

 so bat ,( » tbermometer be place.l in the liquid 



vvh ,1, flows into the tub, Ihe mercuiv will sink to 

 eight or ten ilegrees above zero. !f the ,.,•«,„" 

 ;s not too neb it will be fiozen in half m. ho - ■ 

 bu o.lier,v se it will lequiie an hour or more ' 

 If It IS not used immediately, let it stand where 

 oriJi'^i^uirr"""'"^"'^ eratureofaO^ 



P.CKLEu CADBAGE.-Take loose heads or 

 JK.se that have giown too rapidly, chop |,em 

 me .t.en -"Pnnkle a little salt on Hie bo o ,' f 

 '"^ crock, put in „ h„erof the cabbage, sprinkle 

 <;m sal,, then anolher hiye,- ofcabba-e • re, e- i, 

 • .e process till the cio;-k is ..earl y-fu'll 'T ," ~ 

 -s and tue,„y-l.,or hours, then pm- in e im i , , 

 cloves and red peppeis in your vjiiegar: .sc I i; 

 "Pmid pour, ton your cabbage lio't. Yo,, ; , 



vou"iike'-wr""'^ir''^' "'-"-"■-" i'h - 



Agnculiural life has few tempiatious-noi-isks 

 ni-e lun in its pursuit-no deception is used in its 

 piogress— no concealment is required ft.r its suc- 

 cess-it IS open, manly, straight-forward. It de- 

 pends on no one's favor; it rests- on no one's 



•he woi d endureth, seed time and harvest, sum- 

 mer and Winter, shall not cease." And while 

 free froui tempt.ation, such a hfe gives am h 

 ^cope for the exercise of all those duties tha e e 

 vate man, while lienefitting bis race. It is not 



r^u't'udn". f"'"7 ""","' ageneration to dJsome 



^ is he if,l°''"'""T'''''^'' ^°'- ""-■"• ™"""-V- 



, ark he . ^'^"y-'^^^ ''"'i«^« and habits that 



laik the character. It was not in the shouts of 



ueiighted. But It was " when the eye saw him 

 hen 1 blessed him ; and when ihe ear hJa,- 1 m 



iheu It bore witness of him" 'ri.„„ • - ' "',"^'' i'"<"'os oi loai siicar, 



r>ess 01 Jiun. The opporiu«,t,es I sdd nine eggs welj Imten: 



%my 



combines, lieing at the 



same time i-e- 



From the Prairie Farmer. 

 Ice Cream. 



. This is a cool and pleasant refective, exceed- 

 ...gly agreeable in social parties, small or laree 

 at al seasons of the year, and especially s^in 

 .he hot weather of our long ,lry' s»n,L^.,Z 

 Ibongh ,t IS a preparation more esiiecially kent 

 m cilies and towns, and dedic:„ed ,o the rer,-es| 

 'ogol attemlants on the afbresaid galhe les- 

 .vet we cannot see why a can,,,,, become a coni- 

 mon dish 0,1 the tables of those cnl,iy,„ors of 

 ■ gc arms and keepers of l,-„-ge (a„ulies who 



Idc^su^er'of'lir''''"'"''''''""'""'*^'''' "''-'■'- 



In describing the p,ocess of making it we shall 



not, as ,s often done by those who give inlbrma- 



ev,'',-vV "T' '"■"''"'^'' "" ""= -"Pl'o-'^ition that 

 e eij bo. ly knows as nmch of the mat.er as we 

 do but shall take it for granted that th.-y know 

 nolhing about it. 



As preliminary to its mannfactiu-o, there will 

 lie neeued an article called a "Freezer," which 

 coiisisis o( a cylindrical jar, made of block tin 

 and fitted uiih a dose cover, which is so liislenL 

 ed as that the whole can be turned by a lai-.re 

 strong handle, with which tlie cover is fiirni.bt^l 

 riiis can be haxl at the tin shoj, Ibr (ion. one t.! 

 two dollars. 



To make four quarts of icecream, which will 

 be sufficient lor a party of about a .lozen persons 

 put three quarts of milk into a tin pail, and <-et 

 'be pad mio a kettle of boiling water; a.Id 1.^ it 

 three po.inds of loaf sugar, and when bloo.l warm 

 Then stir tho whole 



Greasi.ng Carriage WnKELS.-The hen 

 composi,,.,,, ,ha, can be prepared, to relieve c,u- 

 '-»?e wheels ami machinery f, ,m fricti,',' w 

 composc.l of hog's hi,-d, „l,e,-f, flour, a, d h I'lck 

 lea,! (plumbago.) The lard is to be mel e.l , ' 

 " t'c.tle bre-, and the oiher ii,..,edients--e i-, 

 weigh,-may be added, till ,he^ cn.q osi.jo, ' 

 h.o,igl„ to a cnnsistency <,f .-ommon ,L e, w i| ^ 

 mra.sin. the heat neartheboilin,- point. One 

 nalol , his paste will satisfy any one of its si,! 

 periorniility.— £«^„„^(.^„^,^_ •* 



little addiiioii 



indeed of iimulritious and ill-pre- 1 ""^ 



TiiF. r>ix Pear.— A profitable Tree.- A 

 .;eigbbor of om-.=, who .esi.les but a (few rod. 

 from u.., and n, whose gar.len stands ,l,e Dix 

 pear, has le.-eiitly harvested the crop. After ,!,„ 

 high vyiiids ot autumn, and more particularly 

 Ihe gale of ,he ],3,b of Septeniber. be g:„hen.,( 

 j-l'-mt the hr.., of November, ta-o han-eh of pears 

 lie.-e were intended (br his own use; l,ut a 

 dealer, who bad seen the pears „po,i ,|,„, „-,,,, 

 and knew som.-,biiig of , heir yalne, „,„de hi,, 

 the te,np„„g,;(le,- o( fourlun dollars lor one bar- 

 'cl. Having so large a .(uaiilitv, he relnclanlly 

 consentc. ,0 let ,hem go. Bo.ne weeks sul,''.^ 

 quent to tins, m conversalion wiib the person 

 who p„rcha.-^ed ti,em, be inquired .bow much he 

 gamed by l„s p„,-cbase ; he state.l that he had' 

 sold twenty-five dnzen at five shillings per dozen, 

 m.!l eight <\m.un at about sevenjv-fivc cents „er 

 dozen, the latter beijig of il,e smallest size the 

 ""•rel netiing upwa,-d.s „f l,vcnli,-lhree dollcrn • 

 he whole having been snhl to letail .lealers in 

 l.nsion, to sell again, 'ihiis ibe two barrel- li-,d 

 tlK-y bi.th been sol.l, would have bronghj ,b„ 

 very gi-eat sum of S-lfi. The tree was„ot mI 

 111 ,ji.,r the pears so large ami han,!s..,„e, as in 

 IMo, when our drawing „ns m,.,(e. J, „i|| |„. 

 (bffienl, to find a niore profiinbli; i,-ec,-.Vae- of 

 Horlu-uitiu-c. • a 'J 



lime neutralizes the ncid in both these sub 



