m)t larmei-'fi ittoittl]ln faisitor^ 



«• .„», in Texas. \ n'0"s request, at tlie most imminent risk of war. 



r ,. r,o., tl.e Galveston Without annexation, a worse might have come 



In relation to the sugar ctoi., the Galveston ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^.^.^_^ ^^^^.^^^ ^^^^ ,_^^ ,^ 



New3 says: 



'Thp accounts we get from the country rep- posed. . , .u. 



Ihe .'"•counia J. j,^ ^ _ ^ _^^^ „ianlers as 1 yy-^^ war upon her IjorJers, the extract at the 



CONCOllD, N. H^)ECEMBER3M847 



Agriculture. 



Many farmers of Hillsborough County, feelmg 

 the necessity of making more exerfou to in- 

 crease the improvement in agricultural science, 

 in the ol.l Hillsborough County, are desuous that 

 all the farmers in the county, and all others who 

 take an interest in the subject, may meet and dis- 

 cuss the subject, and see if something can be 

 done for the benefit of the farmer-in particular, 

 that there may be improvement in cultivating the 

 mind as well as the land. The exigency of the 

 case demands it. 



Therefore, those who are in favor of the object 

 are requested to meet at Hardy's Hotel, in Am- 

 herst, on Thursday, the 18th day of January, 

 1848, at 10 o'clock, A. M. 



P. S. The officers and members of the old 

 Agricultural Society in the County, are request- 

 ed to meet as above. 

 Bedford, Dec. 16, 1847. 



A Revival in old Hillsborough ! 



We noticed, according to the promptings of a 

 momentary enthusiasm, the commendable efforts 

 of our friends in Cheshire, the work only ol a 

 few days, iu revival of the spirit of Agricultural 

 i,nprovement. The farmers, as well as the " gen- 

 tlemen of all work," came out on that occasion 

 These, the practical men, who have done, and 

 will continue to do every thing for the country, 

 are the men to be depended on : without them, 

 we can work no practical good in agncultura 

 renovation. With their aid, with the benefits ot 

 their knowledge and experience. New England 

 will be made the garden of the world. 



As in Cheshire the spirit has been aroused, so 

 in Hillsborough a few farmers of the town o 

 Bedford are directing the attention of that good 

 old county of farmers-that land of patriots 

 mainly settled by the men of Lexington and 

 Bunker Hill,-to a revival of its old agricultural 

 association, which, under new auspices, may be 

 made all we can desire. The old farmer-iniiiu 

 ter of Milford, who in the last fifiy years has not 

 preached in vain in that county, as we know, is 

 not yet too oUl to lead off in the good work, in 

 which we bid the new generation, sons of a noble 

 race, personally the friends and ac<iuaintance of 

 our youth, good speedy 



EA.BLY Planting.— A gentleman farmer of 

 our acnnaintaiice tells ns, that f.n- three years he 

 has planted potatoes at three different periods, 

 viz., early in April, late in April and in May.— 

 Every year the early potatoes have been somul 

 and firm, the middle part unsound, and the late 

 ruine.l. He says it is early planting which pro- 

 tects the potato against the epidemic. We rec- 

 ollect in a great many accounts o( the rot, that 

 the early potatoes were sound.— .iVoi/oWf paper. 



(r/=Our own experience for the tlueo last 



years confirms the above statements : in none ol 



the potatoes planted previous to the tenth of 



' May, have wo found any difficulty from the rot. 



— Ed. Visitor. 



Mapi-e Sugar in Vermont.— Mr. U. Richard- 

 son, in his late address before the VVashmglon 

 Couulv. ( Vi.) Ag. Society, states that m 18 10, the 

 iii.aiitiiy of maple sugar made in Vermont was 

 4,647,934 pounds,— equal to about 16 pounds to 

 each man, woman, and child. 



rc-ent the prospects of our sugar planleis as 

 m.:ruaU favora'ble. What may ^-^ ' - q'-n. y 

 hrought to market this year cannot ^l^^^ 

 tallied with any great accuracy. We believe tha 

 m cl the largest ,>ortion of the cane planted 

 wnibe used for seed to enlarge the presen 

 plantations or open new ones «"">''e>: J^^' ';^";^ 

 this use of the cane will contmue fo'/^^f ;^ 

 ye us to come. We have direct '"'onnation a 

 ei-ht of the largest planters ot Brazoria county 

 :^ill UKike at least 2800 hogsheads o suga^ this 

 vear The sugar houses and mills of that coun- 

 H-e on the Targest scale, and will bear a com- 

 arison with those of the most eMen^'ve planta- 

 ions in Louisiana. Those houses are bmlt o 

 "ick, (which are made on every plantation ot 

 '"'excellent quality) and the largest are thiee 

 hundred feet in length.' 



Scarcely less important to the United States 

 than the annexation of Eouisiana, will become 

 the acquisition of the fine country of lexas, 

 embracing several degrees of latitude. The 

 peace of the country had been well nigh com- 

 promitted when Louisiana was acquired : it will 

 be remembered that the rigid Spaniard then 

 came down on botlr sides of the Mississippi, 

 and claimed all of the country both west as be- 

 longing to Mexico, and eastward as of Florida, 

 as belonging to Spain, and consented not even 

 to give up New Orleans, until forced out.— 

 Spain had not the strength to hold the country, 

 and Mr. Jefferson suffered American citizens to 

 take possession of Baton Rouge, Mobile and all 

 eastward to the river Perdido. From that day 

 no settlement with Spain of boundary could be 

 effected, until Florida was purchased and paid 

 for by treaty. The United States were driven 

 to this purchase, because Florida was made the 

 harbor and nest of outlaws and robbers, both in 

 war and in peace, preying upon and murdering 

 defenceless people of the frontier. 



Texas has been annexed to the Union at her 

 own request, and by her own unanimous con- 

 sent : her people, invited to its settlement under 

 the fallacious offer of free institutions, before 

 the constitution of Mexico had been violated 

 in all its republican features, were bone of our 

 bone and flesh of our flesh. More natural to 

 us was the association than that of Louisiana, 

 because the population of the former was of us, 

 while the latter, in the main, were foreigners, 

 unknown to our language. Why should not 

 Texas be to us annexed ? why should the act 

 of annexation be taken and regarded as war? 

 Lamentable indeed, that war has come of this 

 annexation, by unavoi.lablo collision with the 

 „,ili,„ry oppressors of Texas. Look back at the 

 wars of General Jackson, with Florida In.lians 

 iusti-atod by nominal Spaniards under a masked 

 British battery, when the frontiers of Georgia 

 „nd Tennessee were laid waste-when tnassn- 

 cre threatened the whole population of the South- 

 VVest: can we now expect from the race whose 

 hostility has been scarcely intermitted for the 

 last forty years, any thing but war, until that race 

 is shorn of its power ? 



War with the annexation of Texas, could not 

 he prevented by the American authorities. It is 

 of no consequence, if we say that we would 

 not have given up Texas, through which Groat 

 Britain or France might have annoyed and 

 spoiled the trade of the great Mississippi valley. 

 Texas, civilized and settled, was important to 

 this country as it could be to no other country : 

 wo speak not for others, but for ourselves wo 



head of this article, is premonitory of the value 

 that is to come from annexation. Eight plaut 

 era in the production of a single year, obtain m 

 average sugar crop of $17,500 each. Texas hfa 

 su^ar growing lands in its southern part ui>on thll 

 guH-probably equal, if not exceeding the entire 

 sugar growing region in Louisiana. Further nortk 

 as a cotton growing region, the lan.ls of Texis 

 are excelled by no othei in the world. Still fur- 

 ther north as a land for the production ofgraiM, 

 and whatever is raised in the middle district of 

 the Union, east and west, Texas is not to be oal. 

 done. She can supply within a few years, more 

 sugar than all the colonial West India M 

 of Europe. This country will very likely be 

 the termini of slavery in the Union : slavery 

 with its owners, will remove itself out of theoM 

 States, to add its labor in the production of new 

 millions to the commerce of the country, btav- 

 ery, if let alone by the general government, ca 

 never travel into any country where it does not 

 already exist. 



The destiny of these United States of Amer- 

 ica is to be that of greater commerce, weallli 

 and intelligence-the prosperity and haiipines 

 of greater nurabers-than that of any other Di- 

 tion in all the annals of previ ous ti^me '. 



' QuiNCY Granite in New ORLEAXS.-ffl! 

 Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, it is said li.i 

 accepted, on behilf of the government, the i«. 

 nificent °ift of a whole square, made to it bjlli 

 "Fi'st Mr,ncipality of New Orleans, lor the ., 

 of a Custom' House. The whole ^^q^'^""^ '^^ '^ 

 occupied by it, the building to contain hre-pro. 

 rare'bo-e'. besides rooms for ''>« "PP--;'-; 

 other officers of the cusloins. It is to be bi 

 of Quincy granite, and of the most sul^ntu 

 yet least exi-ensive workmausliip.-;^0'«s/ 

 'jEgis. 



The filling of a whole square for commerci 

 uses of the government, at the port of New 

 leans, indicates the importance and extent of ll 

 commerce and business received at, and pouri. 

 from, the great mart of the Mississippi. Pie 

 Orleans in time must become the greatest pUi' 

 of commerce of the habitable globe : uo otli. 

 place reaches so far in its interior water inle 

 course-none communicates directly with Bcou 

 try capable of so great production and co 



sumption. 



The building of the New Orleans cusio 

 house with its appendant warehouses, will cc 

 the United States some five or more millions 

 dollars: we see not why its expense should 

 exceed the cost of the capitol o. the U 

 States. The stone, the brick, the lime, tlieK 

 beams, nails and spikes, the ''■'"g«-^'''°°'»' f^ 

 windows, timber &c. most probably wiU »" 

 all be drawn from the Northern States. HWJ 

 poiaantfor the business of a single sm.1" 



In Massachusetts, is the (act that ha a n. > i 

 ton million of dollars, in labor, wdl be Mipe 



ed upon one of her granite ledges. « » 



der to use Uuincy granite, was not m^ 



we see not why the beautiful l""-« "•"'• ", 

 graniteofourowu Rattlesnake might n. 



tell used, as that which of late has giown J 



intotise in Boston aiul New ^ oil. Befo 



bad a railroad, the Rattlesnake New H.ml 



granite, prepared at our State prison, wa» 

 ported through the canals ,0 Boston, an I J^ 



!,,_ to New Orleans. The an^^^^^ 



wo speak not for others, but lot ouis^.v.» ... ;.,„„ ^t' a building, is 

 would have annexed Texas, on her own unam- ' the fi.st ciect.o. 



