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m)t laxmtxQ iUontlilu bisitor. 



to be pitied for tlie stinted means of his own I 

 family, liecaiise his slave hihoreis upon the land 

 are hardly ahle with the whole procee.ls to live 

 comfortably— when his heart was rended quite 

 as much for the suffering of his slaves as for 

 himself and his own wife and offspring; but 

 liow will southern hospitality bound at the op- 

 portunity of making both black and white com- 

 fortable around him, from the gains presented in 

 the sugar culture of Louisiana ? 



The rush into the cotton production upon the 

 new lands of Alabama, Mississippi, Jtc. has been 

 too great in some instances: repudiation of 

 debts grew out of the paper inoney making of 

 the times of cotton high prices: so now, if the 

 whole sugar crop be profits, evil may follow 

 the rush into sugar-raising. With the revulsion 

 iu cotton, from high to low prices, men have 

 made fortunes in the west from the raismg of 

 that great stajile, which has been the mine of 

 greatest wealth, to the whole United Slates. 

 " Gen. Speight, late Senator of the state of Mis- 

 sissippi, who died last summer after his return 

 from Washington, we first knew as a represen- 

 tative iu Congress from North Carolina. Meet- 

 ing him frequently at Washington last winter, 

 we ascertained that he had changed his posi- 

 tion from a grain raiser in North Carolina, to a 

 cotton planter upon the new land of Mississippi. 

 Iu the change he stated that the condition and 

 health of his family of slaves had been wonder- 

 lully improved, as had been his own [irospects of 

 property and a life of ease. At the close of an 

 evening meeting of gentlemen free-masons. Gen. 

 S invited a few gentlemen to partake of an 

 oyster supper at his expense: our old friend, 

 the Grand Master of the District, detained a lit- 

 tle time after the usual hour, on this iuvitaiion, 

 his colored man stood outside waiting, with the 

 horse harnessed to take him home. The enter- 

 tainment being through, the fact of the waning 

 servant came to the knowledge of Gen. S., and 

 ns was his fashion, the gallant southron swore in 

 good round numbers that no man, black or 

 white, should stand out while he was eating, 

 who should not be treated with as good as he 

 liad received; and the black man was called in 

 for a share in the entertainment. My negroes 

 at home (said he) as long as 1 am alive, shall 

 live as well as I live. 



strong ashes, the germs of troublesome weeds 

 may be avoided. A well prepared fiehl without 

 weeds, may be cultivatad with half the labor.— 

 A carrot field will be all the belter if the ground 

 has been stirred to the depth of twelve, fifteen 

 or twenty inches, and the manure well mixed.— 

 The seed sower will do its work well, only 

 where the ground is smoothed down after the 

 manner of a garden bed. 



Raisin? Onious, in Massachusetts. 



The general result of our inquiries is, that the 

 average yield of onions in the town of Danvers 

 the pn-seiit year, (where at least two hundred 

 acres have been cultivated, is one hundred and 

 ei.hty barrels, or from four to five hundred 

 liushels per acre. Tlie average value, for seve- 

 ral successive years, has been one d"""' P^' 

 barrel. The present year, the best Uind=, have 

 commanded in ihe market, o«e dollar and a quar- 

 ter per barrel. The average cost ol dressing 

 and cultivating an acre of laud with omons, does 

 not exceed sevenly-five^ rfoWars having a net in^ 

 come for the use ot the land, of at ^f V;°' ^ 

 hundred dollars per acire.— Report to the ±.ssex 

 JlgriciMurul Society, 1847. 



To give a good yield of onions, land should in 

 the first instance, be ploughed deep. A light soil 

 may be more easily prepared for a sure crop than 

 a heavy clay soil. Manures should be well mix- 

 ed in, and the surface of the ground left smooth. 

 Three to five cords of good manure to the acre 

 should be applied annually: the tmnures will be 

 all the better for being free of the germs of weeds 

 —these may be avoided by the decomposition of 

 the compost heap. Onions may be raised in 

 many successive crops, when the ground is well 

 prepared. The newly invented onion hoe will 

 be a great saving of labor in weeding the onion 

 field, which should be treated much in the same 

 way as the carrot field. What can a man do bet- 

 ter than turn his one-fourth, half or whole acre 

 to the growth of onions which may be sent by 

 railroad and shipped t o a sure mark et ? 



(r?'Hard wood is from four to six dollars per 

 cord in'tliis nunkcl.-Maine Hallowell Gazette. 



We have been favored with thfi follniving hi2hly amus- 

 ing song, sun? bySam'IA. Walker, Esq., ot Brm.kUne, 

 one of the directors of the Boston and Maine Railroad, 

 on the opening of the Northern Railroad to Lebanon.— 

 Allusions are made, m a very ingenious and pleasing man- 

 ner to directors in the Pasfuinpsic, Vermont, Central, 

 Concord and the JNorthern railroads, and to oiher gentle- 

 men. The song produced great merriment at the time, 

 and by no means is divested of its humor when read at 

 this distance from the scene it was solely intended tor.— 

 Post. 



Tu^E— " King and Countryman." 



Dear brethren and friends, we have come up together, 

 And met here at Lebanon, (better late than never;) 

 And so, as the railroad must still be the theme, 

 Just hark while this engine is letting off steam. 

 Times was when the folks in the Bay State by dojens 

 Came up once a year to visit their cousins ; 

 While now they come up after breakfast and dine, 

 And are safe back at home ere the bells ring at nine. 



The Orange Carrot. 



As a substitute for the potato, so far as the 

 f^ediu' of stock is concerned, I caunntioo strong- 

 ly recommond the long orange carrot; every 

 lUrmer should cultivate from a qua.ter ot an 

 acre to an acre, on ground suitably piepared.- 

 1000 bushels is readily ohlaiiied to the acre and 

 there is no s.uer crop, nor one that >'«''''!-" 

 lar.'e a return for a given ainouut of labor 1 In. 

 :seo:,l shoiihl be sowed by the 20th ol May in 

 drills eighteen inches asunder; a man with a 

 seed sower can <-asily sow an acre per day.- 

 Thev ai-e rather tardy in making their appear- 

 ance, and require pretty clo.^e attention m vveed- 

 injf,(at which time the growing carrots should 

 he tliiniied out three or four inches apart in the 

 drills,) until about themiildle ot July, when they 

 will cover the ground, aii.l no farther labor need 

 l,e bestowed upon them until harvest tunc. II 

 every farmer .loes lu.l feel able to purclwise a 

 «eed sower, which costs about $!•->, (or little can 

 he done withniit ..ue) ii would he welMor a tew 

 to club, as one will ansv^er for a neighborhood. 



Dix,Mnl,Mt., JVov. 8, 1847. -.V/c. l''armcr. 



For raising carrots or ruta baga, the land may 

 he prepared with little ti-ouble. Manures free 

 from the seeds of weeds will be best used ; there 

 is no belter stimulant in light soil than spent 

 ashes. In compost licaps, with quick lime or 



Hard oak, maple, beech or birch wood now 

 sells as the lowest price at four dollars the cord 

 in the Concord niarUet. Every kind of wood 

 has risen in price in the last year one dollar per 

 cord. This rise has more than doubled the val- 

 ue of all woodland within ten miles of the Mer- 

 rimack river. 



The consumption of hard pine, as the favorite 

 fuel for railway engines, has almost denuded 

 our plain forests along the river: very little of 

 tlie original growth is left that may be easily 

 come at. 



And now what has done it 1 The swift iron horse 

 Has cut him a path all your valleys across. 

 And right thro' your mountains his pathway he takes, 

 Though once an old woman did pull up the stakes.* 



New Hampshire has boys to beckon us on, 



There's Nesmith the president, valiant and strong ; 



And Carrulh, the treasurer, deals out the tin 



That puts us right onward thro' thick and thro' thin. 



Just now let me mention some twenty who seem 



Quite strong in behalf of advancing by steam : 



There's Kmrick and David, (1 don't mean the psalmist,) 



ButDauid the whipmaker, living at Amherst. 



There are GUmort and Wildes and Fiske and a Tucktr. 



Who will never be too late to his supper. 



There's ex-gov?rnor Paine and Samud H. IVallcy. 



And Doctor Daniel WAi«« with his p.ll-box, by jolly ! 



There's SHckney and Thomas and Emmon> and Sawyer, 



And Bayley and Weld and R<i3sell the lawyer, 



And Fairbanks forthcomiu? with weights and with scales, 



To see if the go-ahead system prevails. 



There's Mussey of Boston, and Crocker and Chase, 



And iValker of Charlestonn, who'll doctor the case, 



And Uaxler from Paradise, joins with the band 



Who are strewing with sleepers and rails all the land. 



Hurrah lor three railroads united in one ! 



Vermont and Passumpsic and Northern, well done ; 



There's Spauldiiig the president, and Read we eipcct. 



And Peaslec the member of congress elect. 



Then there's Low who makes paper, the blue, brown 



and white, 

 And Raymond to add to the list who are right ; 

 While Thomas comes on with the long iron bars, 

 And the worthies just mentioned will Kll up the cars. 



Then there's Lucius B Peck, and Peck the M. D., 

 And iflwo pecks don't make a half bushel we'll see; 

 And Forester and Leicis and Robert G. Shaw; 

 1 believe I've more than this engine can draw. 



Pu„PK,NS.— Mrs. Nancy West of this town 

 sent r.s, as a Christinas present, two full quarts 

 of pumpkin seeds. These will be very accepta- 

 ble for the next spring planting, as we find in all 

 those raised in our own field the season was not 

 of sufficient length to perfect the seed. 



The vine, upon which Mrs. W. raised twenty 

 huge pumpkins averaging probably twenty 

 pounds each, was remarkable. She observed 

 early in the season a healthy pumpkin plant run- 

 ning up in her vegetable garden. To this the 

 ground was givcii-or rather it took ground lor 

 ^iself— outgrowing and covering over everything 

 nioimdit: from this vine the growth of some 

 five or six hundred pounds of excellent rii.onud 

 pumpkins was produced. 



Two connlics in New York Slate manufiicture 

 seventeen million pounds of cheese annually.- 

 Wo (export cheese every year to more than fitly 

 (breign countries. 



They are all on the right track, the ladies and all ; 



Come on, then, Passumpsic. walk up Montreal ! 



What if part of Ihe railroad has once washed away, 



'Twill take more than White River to do it today. 



So come to the work with your picks and crow-bars, 



We'll soon go to Canada now in the cars ; 



For from Concord to Lebanon already we go. 



And where wo shall end all New Hampshire don't knovf. 



Hurrah for Coos cnunly— the steam whistle scares 

 Krom the dens of the mountains your lujes and bears; 

 So good luck to the railroad— success to Iha theme— 

 But to-night has this engine done letting off steam. 



And now at the last 1 can tell you of four 



Whose eximple and precept are doing still more ; 



There's Webster, our champion, noble and true. 



And Ifai-mi, the judge and the president too. 



Then there's Quincy, the mayor of Boston, we know; 



He will urge on improvements wherever we go ; 



And tho' last not least— there's one Joseph Hell, 



Who will linjr an aiarm if all is not well. 



• Mludin.' lo the old woman that pulled up the stakes of 

 the' cngino'or, while laying out the Boston and Maine 

 railroad-supposing by thai means to delcat the object. 



A swarm of bees contains from ten thousand 

 to twenty thousand in a natural slate, and from 

 twenty thousand to forty thousand in a hive. 



