ari)c Janncr^g iHontlilij llisitor. 



18S 



months under any circumstnnces. Up to the 

 diiy of his (lentil he was in his place in the Sen- 

 ate, and tlje lust day lejioited a hill for the bet- 

 ter goveiiiinent of the navy. The Senate ad- 

 journing from Thursday to flloinhiy, he took that 

 occasion for the surgical operation from which 

 he liad before gained relief This in a very few 

 Iiours operated, in excruciating pain, to the ter- 

 tnination of his existence. The telegraphic roni- 

 iiiMuication brought as soon to his family intelli- 

 gence of his death as the mail did his last day's 

 service in the body of which he was a member. 

 It brought also to the writer of this article the 

 ltnowle<lge that near the same liour of the same 

 day in which the impressive services and dis- 

 course of Hislio|) Chase were going through for 

 the death of the beloved pastor of the church 

 where we worship at home, were again repeat- 

 ed, those ceremonies in that hall of the capitol 

 where we attended two similar services last win- 

 ter, and where we had been called to a like duty 

 Beveral times before while a member of the same 

 body. !u view of his mortality well may man 

 uiter the exclamation—' What shadows we are, 

 and what shadows we purs(ie !' 



Riches of our mother earth. 



The resources of our country, and even of 

 tliis part of the country, seem to be without 

 Jimu. We well know that the Granite State 

 abounds m ihnt metal better than gold or silver 

 iron ore as rich as any in the country: this is 

 proved by successful iron works carried on forty 

 years and more at Franconia, one hundred miles 

 from the sea. From the papers printed in old 

 Strafford we find there is in one of the Ossipee 

 mountains situated on the north side of WJuue- 

 pisseogee lake a formation of coal so rich as to 

 have attracted to its purchase a company of 

 Pennsylvania miners. If both coal and iron are 

 found abundant in our interior, soon will the 

 mines be made available "by the railroads. 

 ^ Within the limits of our Slate, close by old 

 Essex in Ma.ssachusetls, another item has been 

 found, which may become of no inconsiderable 

 value in ilscelf. As the only place in the country, 

 the manufacture of ' Bath or Bristol brick ' has 

 been commenced at South Hampton, a small hut 

 valuable town close upon our borders, at the 

 south-east. The material for this manufacture 

 which is there inexhaustible, was discovered by 

 an Englishman fifteen years ago : a small busi- 

 ness at first begun by the father of Mr. F. has 

 been lately extended by Mr. J. B. French & 

 Company, who now manufacture from five to 

 eight thousand boxes of twenty-four bricks to 

 each box. The article is made with the stamp 

 of ' Bail) 'upon the brick in imilalion of the ffii- 

 ported brick, and is sold at twenty-five cents a 

 box. Riifus Dow, Esq., in the month of Octo- 

 ber left wiih the editor a box of these bricks, 

 some of which have been used in brightenin.'^ 

 with labor wonderfully lessened, the brasses of 

 andirons, knobs and door-handles, case knives 

 and forks and other articles with metal polish.— 

 To the female part of otn- family this present is 

 valued far above the nominal retail price. 



A good prospect for the Visitor. 



We have but now sent forth a part of our pro- 

 spectus of the next year's Visitor, and we have 

 at the moment on all hands encouraging assur- 

 ances of its well earned popularity and conse- 

 quent extension of circcdation. Take as a sam- 

 ple the following extract from the Hon. .lo- 

 siAH BurLF.a, of DeerfiL-1,1, which has been 

 one of the best agricultural towns in the Statei 

 and which will, within the next ten years, extend 

 the [iroducts and value of every cultivated acre 

 two if not four for one under the encouraging 

 prospect now holding forth to fiirmers. 



What Ueerfield may and will ,|o, the whole 

 surrounding hill country of old Rockingham and 

 Stratford, from the Massachusetts line to the re- 

 gion of tlie White Mountains, can and will ac- 

 complish. 



A friend at Sanbornton Bridge, to whom our 

 pros|)ectus was directed in the course of a few 

 hours oliiained thirty-six subscribers for the Vis- 

 itor, atiplying to a number of persons hardly ex- 

 ceeding forty. 



Soulh DeerfieU, JV. H., Dec. 9.8th, 1817. 

 Dear Sir,— 1 have this moment received yoin- 

 cu-cidar for subscription for the ' Farmers Month- 

 ly Visitor, and I am pleased to find that you are 

 still disposed to labor in the cause of a-ricul- 

 un-e, ' which lies at the fijundaiion of the''coun- 

 trys prosperity.' 1 know that you have done 

 much good m this department, and I feel uiu.-h 

 .solicitude fcr the success of this Visitor — 

 Knowing that other agricultural papers in iMas- 

 sachusetls and elsewliere have now a lai-'e cir' 

 cul.Mtion in this Slate and especiallv in the"owus 

 ot Deerfieldaiid Candia, Ihope and trust that 

 our farmers in New Hamf.shire, whether whi^s 

 or democrats, will be dispo.sed to encouran-e von 

 in your laiihlul labors to promote the most 'im- 

 portant of all branches of industry— agricul- 

 ture. = 



Agents for other similar publications, have 

 traversed the State to procure subscribers, but 

 the Monthly Visitor has relied on its merit with- 

 out travelling agents lo obtain snbscriplions to 

 aid and sustain it. Though 1 would not disparage 

 other publications in other states, I verily believe 

 the V isilor has done more to advance the cau^e 

 of agri.'ulture than a'ly oiher similar papers in 

 other Mates. Will the farmers of New Hamp- 

 shire neglect or refuse to give one of their own 

 citizens aid in this valuable publication = I 

 know, at tliisjunciure of our poliiical affairs the 

 farmers of all political parlies are heavily ta\ed 

 to [iromote the circulation of political pi- 

 pers; but as soon as our annual election shall 

 come ofi. It not before, 1 trust they will be dis- 

 posed as sprimz opens, to invite their ohi kind 

 teacher and Visitor to come among tlieui. He 

 will not indoctrinate them in religion or politics 

 but lecture once every moiiih to enable thrm to 

 make the greatest pro.lnclion and profits by their 

 labor in tilling the earth. Are there not more 

 than ten thousand fln'mers in New Hampshire 

 ready and willing lo s|.end a few boms in every 

 monil, in reading the Visitor at the expense of 

 only hity cents per annum fur each reader' 



I shall attempt in this neighborhooil to obtain 

 at least twenty names for the Visitor, and wish 

 you m send me one copy, after the coinmeucB- 

 ment of 1848, by mail. 

 Vonrs respectfully, JOSIAH BUTLEIl. 



As a very usefiil and neat publication wt 

 would recommend Mr. Lyon's New Hampshire 

 Register, which is just published. We have oh- 

 served since the lamented J)r. Farmer first com- 

 pded the Register, new information illustrativi 

 of the history of the State, has come forth in 



each snccecding m ler of the Register. Mr.' 



Lyon has lost none of the industry of his pre.; 

 decessor. This year, with 'early'statistics' of 

 the State government, he presents the list of the, 

 first President, Council and Senate of New 

 Hampshire, which assembled June 2, 1784, with 

 new statistical notices of each member. Every ■. 

 succeeding number of the Register is worth a I 

 lidl quarter of a dollar after it has been used ' 

 Tor the year, to be laid away for consultation 

 hereafter. A series of these Registers would ^ 

 present the foundation work for the history of 

 all llie public men of our towns, which some- 

 body ought to gather and write out as often as 

 once in every twenty years. Mr. Lynn's Regis- 

 ter is printed in Mr. Mc'Farlaiid's best style".— 

 We are glad to find the Con,;ord printers in 

 abundance of capital, small capital, italic and 

 figure sorts: in printing this Register, the types 

 of which were more or less composed by the 

 editor of the Visitor for twenty-five successive 

 years, often had our poor supply of tyjie sadly 

 vexed and ad.led to our labors to make out the 

 two forms of thirty-six pages, 'i'hc Register Ibr 

 1804, printed at Amher.st in the fiill of the pre- 

 ceding year, was nearly all composed by our 

 then young fingers at no more than the age of 

 fifteen years. To get out that and the village 

 newspaper, the Farmer's Cabinet, continued to 

 this day by our frien.l Boylston, the eyes of 

 both the young master and his two young ap. 

 prentices, were stretched, not simply to the work 

 often Iiours, but to fifteen and sometimes twenty 

 hours daily, week in and week out. The Re<'- 

 isler then made thiee instead of four sheets of 

 thuly-six pages each— it was printed on long 

 primer with a sprinkling of pica where so large 

 a type would be decent. In the scarcity of fig- 

 ures the worn down types first used by father 

 Coverly were drawn in to make out pages of 

 tables; and the opposite calendar pages were 

 set up and put in after the first side was worked. 

 Nearly as l,-,rge editions ol the ftegisler then 

 sold as now. Few, very few indeed of all the 

 names of judges and justice.^, sheriffs and coro- 

 ners, military officers, conuselinrs and legislators 

 in that ohl Register of 1804 are now numbered 

 will) the living. 



Mi.vrOii..-lhe Detroit Advertiser says, the 

 mannlucluieof mint oil is becoming an i'mpor- 

 laut branch in the productsand ex| oris of I\] jcli- 

 igan. Ju several places in the Stale, minis are 

 culnvated largely, and we understand, profitably 

 lf;ir the maunlaclure of miul oil. 1„ Si. Joseidi's 

 (ounlv. It is carrie.l on largely by Ex-Gov. Bar- 



Pll VT- '""','"''' "'' '"'''I'Pe'l tiom ihere this 

 tall, ot Ins make, amounts to nearly 8'25,000. 



(C?°Th,- Moil. Senator Cameron, a printer 

 sent the fullouiug lo the Columbia Typo.'raiihi-' 

 cal Society of VVashiugion at 'its recent celebra- 

 tion : — 



r•.<^'^"^ '?'"' ^"'■'^ CoLLEGE-TTif Pnniws: 

 U^!C£.— Industry, intelli-encc, inipciiiy, and per- 

 severance, will ensure distinction and" honor to 

 Its graduates.' 



UsEFtJL Table.— An acre of ground will con- 

 tain loOfrm I trees Ifii f.et a,,arl each w.ay, 

 4 843 liill.^ "' ••"'■" ""■"' feet apart each wa"v, 

 4.Jof;0 carrois one foot apart each way, 174 'MO 

 stalks of wheat six inches apart each «ay, fi.aV'^. 

 b40 blades of grass one inch apart cuch'wav 



, K^o'f.'' ''■* ■^'-''"'E.-The Bangor Courier of 

 the ]8th Dec. savs : 



'We learn there is no snow in the lumber 

 rciiions in ibis Stale, and that on the upper wa- 

 ters oi ihe Penobscot at least se^eiiiy teams vviili 

 Iheir complements of men are eniirely idle and 

 unable even lo reach their cauiping grounds — 

 It is now past Ihe middle of December, ahon't a 

 moiilli later than Ibe teams n-iially cm, nieiico 

 Iheir opcialious. This delav, logel'lier with llio 

 less number of teams engaiied, will cause a 

 diminution of the quauiity of lumlier in the mar- 

 ket next .season, anil miist result in an increase 

 111 Ihe price of such lumber as does come in- 

 to the market.' 



The lumber in the Merrimack river vallpy 

 (and this value will be extended as soon as ihe 

 railways are completed all ihe way in ihe high- 

 er region of the Connrclicut river vallcjjbas 

 been much raiised in value by il;e new dcirand 

 for the material in biiihling up Maiiche.-ter 

 Lowell and Lawrence ami all the towns upon 

 the rive, below, [articipaiing in the general ;iros- 



