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lies close before. Voii Hie rich In your home 

 niaiUet— a market of i)iircha.se aiul of sale.— 

 All New York is at your feet. You can deal 

 with her as if you liveil ill one of her wards— I 

 inean for all the purposes of commerce. 



"And, gentlemen, if 1 misht eontcmplale a con- 

 (lilion of society in which, uilh regard to the dis- 

 charge of all great duties, nolliinir was lull to he 

 desired, 1 should look at Western New York, with 

 lier favored climate and fertile fields, with those 

 improvements she has completed and those oth- 

 ers which she contemplates, an object of interest 

 uol only to all the States of this great Union, but 

 to the feelings and hopes and highest asjiirations 

 of every man. Gentlemen, the tanners of New- 

 York have no just reason to envy those who live 

 amid the coflee fields, the sugar canes, the orange 

 gloves, the palm trees, ami cocoas, and the Jiiiie 

 apples of the tropics. Far otherwise. His wheat 

 fields, his grass fields, his herds and flocks, and 

 liis forests, are infinitely richer." 



He next insisted that it was the duly of a Gov- 

 enuneiit to yirotect her markets, or, to use hisown 

 words, to " take care that there should be a de- 

 jnatid for Agricultural products." 



" 1 am not about, geiillemen, to enter upon the 

 (ineslion — the debaleahle subject — of a protect- 

 ive lariii; to any considerable extent. But, I nev- 

 ertheless do say— at least 1 do think— and why 

 should I not «(i/il?— [Cheers and cries of " say 

 it, out with it, go on."]— 1 do say, gentlemen, that 

 the .'Igriculliiic of this country is the great matter 

 which demands Proiedion. It is a inisnomer to 

 talk about the Protection of Manufactures; that 

 is not the thing wo want or nee<l ; it is the Prolec- 

 i'lon of the AericuUnre of tlie coimlry. {Re[iPated 

 cheers.) It is a funiisliing lothe surplus produc- 

 tions a market, a near market, a homt market, a 

 large market I You want a home market ; a stea- 

 dy demand fur AgricuUural products. And iliif 

 is, and must be lurnished by the Commercial Clas- 

 ses, the sea-faring classes and all other classes of 

 noii-produeers. Now, gentlemen, I certainly ad- 

 mit, that those who have invested their capital in 

 aianuiiictures have a great interest at slake, and 

 it is just that they should have secured by law a 

 reasonable protection to that interest. — But I do 

 also insist, in spite of all the sophistry and all the 



Wheat-Growing in Maryland. 



A Good Crop. — Our respected fellow citizen, 

 William Carmichael, Ksq., raised this year iiptm 

 twenty acres of land, riiu: thousand and licrnli/siv 

 bushels of Mediterranean wheat, being u IVaction 

 below Jifty-one and a half bushels lo the acre, ave- 

 raging sixty pounds to the bushel. This is a 

 very great yield, larger we believe, than was ever 

 made before on this shore, and v^e question 

 whether the Slate can beat it. This shows what 

 good farming will accomplish. 



The land on which this wheat was raised, is 

 not better wheat-land than two-thirds of this 

 county, but bus been greatly im|iroved by Ihe 

 use of marl aiul marsh mud. — Ccnircvillc Times. 



The iesi<leiice and (iuiii of Mr. Carmichael is 

 on the eastern shore of Maryland, being on that 

 point or tongue of land between the liver Dela- 

 ware and the Chesapeake bay which embraces 

 the three counties comprising the State of Dela- 

 ware on the Delaware side, several counties of 

 Maryland on the Chesapeake side, and three 

 counties of A'irginia at the southern e.Mremity 

 extending the entire width of the cayio. 



Originally a wheat, corn and tobacco country, 

 principally cultivated by slave labor, this tiact of 

 country had become more worn cut than any 

 other section of the middle or northern States. 

 As in the lower counties of Virginia, near the 

 Atlantic waters, now and then a splendid liirrii 

 was left, where the cullivation is kejit up; but 

 whole districts of eoimlry have been abandoned 

 as sterile; an<l he who travels through iliis coun- 

 try in many directions wouiil suppose the greater 

 part of the country had never been ca|iabie of 

 producing ordinary crops. 



In this region of country, beils of marl have 

 been discovered, whicli, with the application of 

 sea and swamp manures, are already producing 

 wonders. Lime also is extensively ajiplied as a 

 sure renovator of the soil. The application of 

 these manures is fast bringing up the cultivation. 

 With no other application than plaster and clo- 

 ver, Icrtility can be restored lo the most worn 

 out lands. 



The land is natural to the jiroduction of wheat; 

 but Indian corn is more etisily raised in quanti- 

 follv (as I must call it) of this age — and this age j ties than in New England. The cidtivaiion is 

 is lull of sophistry on this subject, thai the great | prineipaily by the plough and the cultivator. In- 

 thiiig to be lookeii for is, lliat we have at home a stead of three or lour, or half a dozen acres, 

 demand for the surplus products of our Agricul- 1 many farmers have their fifty or hundred acres 

 tur(>. and on the other side, a home ilemaml for ! of Indian corn. 



ing a stated price. The vtilue of the l.inil«ith 

 the addition of a bearing peach orchard is in- 

 creased (bnr-fold, so that the estate of the owner 

 rises in value as the profits of his crops increase, 

 presenting double compensation ior the labor 

 expended. 



The thorough method adopted by Mr. Carmi- 

 chael I'or improving his wheat-field, sliow.s how 

 much th(^ farmer gains by i;nriching his lands to 

 the highest point. The additional expensi; is re- 

 munerated in the crop of a single year; but the 

 value of Ihe increased fertility extends into the 

 crops of succeeding years so much that if the 

 land in an exhausted state would be dearly val- 

 ued at the price of ten dollars the acre, it will 

 be cheaply valued in its improved state some 

 lots at two hundred, and other mote fertile lands 

 at even three hundred dollars the acre. — Ed. F. 

 M. Visitor. 



Bf.ar vv. — Are you in humble circumstances? 

 Does poverty stare wildly at you ? Are you sick 

 in body and depressed in mind ? Never fear ; 

 l](arnp and all is well. Have you failed in busi- 

 ness .' Has fire, or flood, or storms on the ocean, 

 destroyed your property and left you almost 

 pennyless? Bear up with a stoul heart and 

 strong courage, you will be ou your feet again anil 

 stand as firmly iis before. Have your iViends 

 been swept aw.-iy by insidious disease.' Have 

 lliose you loved as life, turned treacherous and 

 li)rsaken yon — so that now they deride your 

 kindness and laugh at your broken heart? Bear 

 up ; have courage to overcome your feelings, and 

 grief W'ill soon give place to joy. No matter 

 what has given you pain, or eausi d the tear <if 

 sorrow to trickle down your cheeks, the best 

 course — the only wise course — is to bear u|) n."- 

 der yoin- diflicnilie.s. Sufler not the stni-ois of 

 adversity to beat so furiously on your sli'^ i i.eart, 

 as to overthrow it and c.-mse you to perish. Do 

 no such tiling. Yield nnt your strength, and 

 God and man will help \..u out of your difiicul- 

 ties. Suhniit — falter — sink — and you are gone 

 — you perish forever, and no one will lift a fjnje.- 

 to save you fioin the dust. Bear up — be coi.- 

 agcous — and every man will put forth his 

 strength to a.ssist you. — Anonymous. 



ihe products of Maiuifaeluring industry. (Cheers) 

 This neighborly exchange it is, this neighborly 

 intercourse among ourselves — lliis snp|if>iiig our 

 own wants tioni city to city, from villi'.go to vil- 

 hn;e, from house to house, this, /^!S it is which is 

 calculated to make us a happy and a .strong peo- 

 ple."— (Ri)lhnsiastic apphMise.) 



Mr. Webster having disposed of this part of 

 his subject, went into a deliiiice of llie positions 

 which he took at Btiltimore concerning commer- 

 cial treaties, in the course of which he eaid : 



" I believe that the policy of ICugland is and 

 has been, and will be more and more towards a 

 more liberal intercourse, an intcreomse favorable 

 to our gre;it interest.^ to all the interests of the 

 Noilh and Middle, and equally fiivorable to till 

 the friends of the South. It is most certain, that 

 within a few months a new and great clitmge has 

 been produced in our intercourse with England ; 

 a very great change. Articles produced in your 

 State' are yearly hecouiiiig more and more intro- 

 iluced — provisions finding a market in Europe I 

 In the last six months (piite a new trade has sprung 

 up between ns and England in the article of 

 provisions. While 1 was in New York, I took 

 occasion to inquire of some piactical merchants 

 and valued friends how the matter was, and they 

 s.iid, quite to my astonishn\ent, that cargoes of 

 lanl, butler, cheese, beei; pork, &e. were ship- 

 ped to England every day, and that a vessel of 

 Ihe largest class, wiihin the last tweniy da\s. had 

 leltNew York loadeil entirely with provi^:ons, to 

 the exclusion, as it happened in that case, ihough 

 1 do not mention it its a matter of triumph, of a 

 single pound of cotton or tobacco. — Who ever catti 

 Ihonglil, eighteen month.-^ ago, that a large cargo 

 cMitirely of provisions would go to a London mark- 

 et ! VVho does not rejoice and feel llie brnefi<'ent 

 influenoe of this upon both nations.' The peo- 

 ple of England are belti-r fed — the agriculture of 

 New York is better encouraged, and the interest 

 of both is better promoted." 



The city of Wilmington in f)elaware is near 

 the north-easterly confines id' that Stale en the 

 line of Pennsylvania: near it around the Bran- 

 dywine heights are beautiful farms. New Cas- 

 tle, the ancient capital of the Stale, is live miles 

 below. Still further down about five miles in 

 Ihe middle of the river is the sunken island 

 called Pea Patch, on which expensive fortilic.-i- 

 tions erected by the United States were utterly 

 destroyed by fire a few years ago. At this point 

 the north-easterly bank of the Delaware is the 

 eounly of Salem, New .Jersey, ami the south- 

 westerly bank is New Castle orthe upper county 

 of Delaware. Here is the eiitranee ol the granil 

 canal which unites the waters of Chesapeake 

 bay with the Delaware, which was cut through 

 at an enormous expense, about tuenty \ ears ago. 

 This canal, before the lirst construciiou ol rail- 

 roads, was calculated on as ihe m.-im transporta- 

 tion route from Philadelphia to Balilniore : al- 

 though considerably used, in the transport of 

 meicliaiulize and sloop-iiavigaliun, it is poor 

 property, and will probably never reinihmse to 

 its owners the original cost. When this canal 

 was first cut through, the coinury on ciiher hand 

 presenled tihnost a deail waste of sterility, jiro- 

 duciiig on whole extended fields scarcely sufli- 

 cient grass to keep a creature from starving. 

 Now hundreds and thousands of acres have been 

 converted into hearing peach orchards, yielding 

 to their o\vn(.rs the profits of ihonsa.nds of dol- 

 lars annually. A Pinladelphia butcher moved 

 upon this poor land several years ago — coimm^nc- 

 ed llie renovation of the soil ami the rearing of 

 -started extensive peacli orchards, scttiiii.' 

 new ground every year uiiiil he has iucrl^•^sed 

 his peach fields lo several hundred acres. His 

 Income from this source is ten, twcniy, and some 

 _\ears thirty Ihonsand dollars in a year. The 

 peaches arc picked imd forwarded lo the l.-irge 

 cities by water, where the receivers are under 

 contract lo take care of them as they arrive, [lay- 



SixTv Bushels to the Acrk. — We state the 

 following fact to show what may he done by pro- 

 per management. Henry Workman, Esq., soli- 

 citor of this tou'ii, |iliinied about an acre and 

 three perches of ground willi ralher more than a 

 bushel and a half of llie red cluster wlu'.-it, fur- 

 nished by iMr. Robeit Beniaii of Lencliwick, and 

 the jirodiice is twenty bags or sixty bushels to 

 the acre ! The sei-d vv:.-- set by the haml, that is, 

 it was dibbled. The kind upon which this extra- 

 ordinary crop was grown is known to he as good 

 fiir cast ;is any in llie Vale of Evesham. — ff'orccs- 

 lei- [Eng.) Chronicle. 



The attention of tanners who would be inde- 

 pendent anil who have the means of purchasing, 

 is asked lo the advei tisenient of farms in the 

 liiwiis of P._\e anil Bairinglon, N. 1!., especially^ 

 to those in the pattern town of Rye. Farms of 

 so large extent as these must rise in value on the 

 hands of their owners equal to the value of from 

 six to twelve percent, annually if the right course 

 shall be pursued. There are excellent and in- 

 dei>endent larmers in Rye, whose whole culliva- 

 tion scarcely amounts lo thirly acres. The priv- 

 ilege of winch these sea-shore farmers avail 

 iheniselves of securing the dressing washed on 

 the shore by every out wind, and the privilege 

 of loading the jiotato crop directly on board ship 

 — have added immensely lo the value of the Bye 

 lands. In the vernal season the cultivated p.arts 

 of that town present a most InMiitiftil appear- 

 .•inee. Since the jiltenlion of the inhabiiants has 

 been turned from fishing to fiirming, the town 

 has become one of the most desirable spots in 

 the Suite for the farmer's ri'siilence: schools 

 kepi neiirly the whole year, with the I'est in.slrne- 

 lors, at noprivale expense for luition, are bring- 

 ing up a new generation cducateil and filled fiir 

 the society and business of choice in afler life. 

 The farms, late tlie property of the Hon. Isaac 

 Waldron ol' Portsmonih, now lo be sold, iiress-nt 

 prohahly ;is good chance for investment with the 

 prospect of gain as call he found in any part of 

 the country. .'\s a matter of piihlic interest, tlio 

 advertisemeul has been admitted lo the columns 

 of the riioiilldv Visitor. 



