170 



iS;i)C Jarmcv's illnutl)lij| JMsitor, 



u large qimiitily, wljen a smaller one will answer 

 present pHrposes. I believe tliat lime is not on- 

 ly an alternative, that is an ainender of llie soil, 

 but I believe it is' also a positive manure, lliat is, 

 that tlie plant takes it upas a nutrient." 

 "Nutrient ! wliat is llint ? 

 '•A snbsianoe tliat nourislies and encourages the 

 growth of plants. 



With itiis our conversation endeil, and we were 

 hajipy to learn only a few (lays a).'o from the in- 

 dividiial to whom it was addressed, that he had fol- 

 lowed om- advice, and h;id last year, Irnni a field 

 which he was formerly in the habit of getting 

 from tws to fom- barrels cf corn to the acre, ac- 

 cording to the season, gathered ap\>ards of eight 

 barrels, and that he had grown as fine a crop of 

 clover as he wished to have, when, in former 

 times, when his field' was resting, nothing but a 

 iioverty grass and slinie<l weeds reared their 

 lipads. 



From Bickiiell's Reporter. 

 Commercial Statistits. 



CO.MMF.ReE AlVD REVENUE OF THE U.NITED STATES 



FROM 1789 TO 1844, with the tariff per 



CENT- 



A correspondent has nske(\ of us to give the 

 amount of revenue and the rates of the various 

 tariffs since the foundation of the Government. 

 This is not eas-ily done, bin we will satisfy the 

 inquiry us- nearly as possible. h\ the table below 

 are three columns— the first gives the year, the 

 seconiJ the total amnuiit of imports, deducting the 

 amount w'^mn expnrkd. thelhiid ills actual receipts 

 into the Tieasmy from duties. During the e.\is- 

 tence of the Compromise .-Vet an inmieuse auoimt 

 of foreign goods came iii/ro'' of duly. 



the table of imports prior to that year includes 

 the whole amount. Subsequent to that year we 

 have deducted from tli(; total imports that part 

 re-exported, so as to give the nett imports only 

 on which duties were paid. 



j\"ule 2 — There are several epochs to be noticed 

 in the above statement. From 1807 to 1810 was 

 the period of the embargo and other restrictive 

 measures. From 1812 to 1815 was the period of 

 the war. In 1824 was enacted the first protective 

 tariff, as such. In 1828 the second protective 

 tariff. In 1832 the compromise act. Obseiving 

 these facts, we may deduce some consequen- 

 ces. 



.Vofe 3— Below we give the results of each 

 four ye.irs administration from 1801 to 1841.— 

 The first column is the amount of impor^J. the 

 second column is the daiies colleded; the third 

 column is the per centage of duties on imports, 

 taken in the whole: 

 First 4 5 ears of Mr. Jefferson. 

 Imports. Duties. 



$287,467,841 44,766,998 



Secoml 4 years of Mr. Jefferson. 



256,386,773 59,813,258 



First 4 years of Mr. Madison. 



207,213,257 38,113,817 



Second 4 vears of Mr. Madison. 



268,:399,314 62,813,012 



First 4 years of Mr. Monroe. 



:305,61 7,523 78.748,954 



Second 4 years of .Air. Monroe. 



404,608,070 67,500,968 



Administration of Mr. Adams. 



230,781,035 81,3.50,263 



First 4 vear.s of Gen. Jackson. 



274,466,891 97,294,036 



Secoml 4 years ot Gen. Jackson 



389,120,019 88,048,318 



Van Biupu's .Administration. 



460,307,676 62,037,984 



Per cent. 

 15i 



23 



19 



24 



25 



33 



38 



35 



24 



13i 



Cincinnati Chronicle 



SuBsori. Px-ouGHiNG.— Itseflicacy in actually 

 improving the character and depth of.soils, where 

 pro|)er tiilago has been maintained, has been a- 

 bcmdantly proved, and perhaps nowhere more 

 signally than in resuscitation of the sterile lauds 

 e.\"hansted by tobacco culture, in Virginia. I 

 speak from my own observation of its wonderfid 

 utility in a iieighbnring county— Fairfax— and 

 havethe corroborating testimony of the distin- 

 guished Judge of that circuit, who declared some 

 time rsince, that Fairfax, fi-om being proverbially 

 one of the poorest, was fast becoufmg one of the 

 most fertile counties of Virgiiiia ; and this change 

 has been wrought by the immigration of Norlh- 

 eru farmers, biinging with them all their agricnl- 

 tiu-al enterprise and knowledge of what may be 

 properly called the mechanics of agriculture.— 

 Soulher-n Planter. 



^MMMKmMsM^ 



COiNCOKD, N. H., J\OVEMBER 30. IS'U. 



'*Ncvcr too late to do good.^ 



A disiingnished triend iit Braintree, in Massa- 

 ehnsett.s, who this ycargatbered several hundred 

 barrels of apple? from trees grafted with his own 

 h;inds since he retired from suecessfid mercan- 

 tile liM^svue.'ss rn the city, who, av/.iy from any 

 thick siltlemeni, ha;t refused the offer of a thou- 

 sand dollars for a si-ngfe acre of starjding orchaid, 

 who has upon his premises two hundred varieties 

 of appli-s and nearly as many more 0/ pp.Trs — 

 lately Irnuished the editor of the Visitor the fol- 

 lowing mrinrTancfiu)! : — 



'• Key. Ebenezer Cobb of Krngston, Mass., he- 

 gan to set out an orchard at the age of seveiny 

 year.s. Hrrs HfiijihlKirs remonstrated, as he could 

 iiot expect to enjoy rhe fruits of it. They thortght 

 IMr. Cobb deranged in iniTid to make such a rush 

 atlempt. His atjswer « as that of the j)vactical 

 Christian — that from his imcestors he had en- 

 joycrl llie friiils of their laboiv, aiid he was .-inx- 

 iiiiis to do soitiething iii that line for posterity. 

 He lived till he wiis 107 years, 8 Uiouths, aiid 10 

 days old, and enjoyed the fruit of his labor.'' 



The seat of the Massachusetts Pilgrims is re- 

 markable for many things. On our visit to Mas- 

 sachusetts, on that part of the Bay State more 

 rocky and sterile than any other, we witnessed 

 the greatest enterprise and prosperity. The 

 whole way from Boston to old Plymouth, in the 

 range of the travelled road, and near which ia 

 .staked out the route for a railroad, is almost one 

 continuous village of neat while houses, a large 

 portion of which have been erected within the last 

 ten years. Quincy has added thousands to its 

 population in workers upon her granite ledg- 

 es, from- which beautiful blocks for building are 

 prepared and sent to most of the seaport towns 

 of the United States. That town was formerly 

 the part of Bi'aintree nearest to Boston: here 

 stand, within a stone's throw of each other, the 

 two houses in which were born two Pre.sidents 

 of the SInited States, father and son, both of them, 

 with the surrounding land, still owned by the 

 younger survivor. It is not te the credit of thai 

 mind which has gathered and noted down more 

 facts in relation to men and things from personal 

 observation than any other man living — it speaks 

 not much praise to his good taste, that the ex- 

 tensive tracks of laud in his ownership and pos- 

 session, einbriicing. several farms, should be morp 

 neglected than that of the surrounding farmei^s, 

 aiid tlitit the house of his ntitivity and that in 

 which his distinguished father was born, should 

 stand like those of the negligent husbandmtia 

 who has not bad the enterprise to prevent the 

 dilapidations of time. The houses in which the 

 two Presidents were born are built in the style 

 of seventy-five and a hundred years ago. 'I'he 

 father of the elder Adams was a mechanic. 

 The future statesman made his way through 

 college partly by pursuing the business of a 

 teacher. He opened a law office at the village 

 where he was born, in a room of the house wliei'e 

 his family resided, and the front room of this 

 house which was not the office, was the birth- 

 place of his first child. 



The revolution brought out and made great 

 men (if those who might otherwise have contin- 

 ued in obscurity. Theelder Adams was of those 

 who took the first stand in favor of Indepen- 

 dence: with Franklin he was among, the first 

 diplomatists who in Europe ))rocured means 

 without which the struggle to the oppressed must 

 have been unavailing. The wife of Mr. Adams, 

 a lady of remarkable t:ict and talents, was left 

 at horiie in her hiisband's absence. The most of 

 those who adhered to the royal cause in Massa- 

 chusetts wei'R men of wealth: the strong popular 

 sentiment compelled these to take refuge with the 

 cneuiV, and their " lands, tenements and hei'edita- 

 ments" were dechired forfeit. These were sold to 

 those wb&woiild pay most for tl.vm — for a small 

 ariiouf>r,as might be supposed, when all vvasutirer- 

 tainly iis to the teiitue by which pioperty was to be 

 held. In the abseiice of hes husband, the lady 

 purchased two or more magniflcent estates in her 

 own Me'pgliborhood — the anticipation of payment 

 being out of that com-pei*sation to the negotiator 

 abroad which the continental congress had no 

 piesent means ol advancing. The most of these 

 estiites sriil retiitiin in tlie &mily, and are now 

 much uioie Viihiable from their peeuliar location 

 thiiii lidiii aiiy iuiprovcments nvid'e upon them. 

 A plat of seveial arres, souic half n mile distant 

 from the town-liO?ise and village, was quite re- 

 cently sold by Mr. ,\danis at three hnndied dol- 

 lars the acre. The land has been laid out for 

 house lots, soiiie of which have been again sold 

 at a great advance. 



The ancieiit t«ywn of Hinghani lies further 

 down the sea-shore, beyond Quincy and Brain- 

 tree ; and before the railroad through those towns 

 direct to Plymouth is begmi, the enterprising 

 citizciis of Hiiigham, who are alwndantly able of 

 theniselves to liiiild it, have plaitned a branch to 

 accouiowdate them. Not less than Lynn for its 

 shoes ;mil boots has this town of Hinghani been 

 distinguished tor its wooden wares, Ms spinning 

 wheel's foriiieily, and its pails, tubs and ploughs 

 nioie recently- It stilt has its oldest meeting- 

 house of wood lell standing, in New England, 

 being, we believe, full one hnndied and sixty 

 years old. From this town have gone forth and 

 settled in the younger towns of New England 

 many mechaiiirs and thrmcis ; and of all these 

 wilh'iu our acqnaintauce we have never known a 

 simile bad husbimd. Most of the families of the 

 naiiie of Lincoln and Gushing, now common 



