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be ploughed, even when the weather was good. 

 All ploughing was very late ; and the planting 

 of" many a crop o/" corn was not commenced 

 until after the whole field is usually finished ; and 

 those persons who planted earlier larccl worse, 

 by the rotting of the seed, or by the spare and fee- 

 ble growth ol' plants. We had begun to lear 

 that no other thim very bad crop*?, of every kind, 

 could be possibly made. However, since the 

 20ih, the weather has become oppressively warm, 

 and dry, and has been relieved only by one wel- 

 come and heavy, but yet insufficient ram. .The 

 wheat had even before that time greatly improved, 

 and now promises to bring a lair crop, where 

 there has been no peculiar disaster and destruc- 

 tion : and corn has so much improved within a 

 few days, that an average crop is no longer very 

 improbable, if there should be a continuation of 

 favorable weather. The chance for cotton near 

 the northern limit of its culture is still worse than 

 for corn. Tliere were scarcely any oats sown, as 

 but very little land was dry enough to plough 

 or harrow, during all the lime in which that 

 grain could be advantageously sown. 



We are informed that the wheat crop in the 

 Valley of Virginia was unusually good, up to a 

 recent time. — Ed. F. R. 



HOW TO ERADICATE THE BRAMBLE. 



Prom tlie Western IS'armcr and Gardener. 



I observe that a correspondent in your last 

 number inquires how the blackberry bush may 

 be destroyed. As I have encountered and eradi- 

 cated some Ibrmidable patches, which existed on 

 the lands which 1 have at different times added to 

 my farm, I think I may venture to recommend 

 to your correspondent an inlallible prescription. 

 Some time in the winter or sprmg cut them close 

 to the ground, and repeat the operation the la^t of 

 July. A few will appear the second year, be 

 #ure to cut them also the last of May, and the 

 last of July. This spec(/ic is based upon the sci- 

 entific principle, thai no tree, shrub or plant can 

 long maintain the life of the root without the aid 

 of the top. The leaves, &c., are as indispensable 

 to the long life of a vegetable, as lungs are to an 

 animal. 



The same plan will destroy the iron weed or 

 devil-bit, which so much inlests (he blue grass 

 pastures of Kentucky, and which some larmers 

 have vainly endeavored to eradicate by cutting 

 once a year for 30 years in succession. Such 

 pests are not to be exterminated by cuiting in the 

 blossom, or in the moon, but by the dint of scratch- 

 ed hands and sweated faces. You may have re^ 

 marked the freedom of my farm from them, 

 though a scattered one here and there shows the 

 propensity of the soil to produce them, and that 

 my predecessors were industrious enough to raise 

 their own blackberries. Yours, truly, 



KoBT. W. Scott. 



Franklin County ^ Ky.^ March 20, 1841'. 



suivnyrARY or nevts. 



Saturday May 1st, 1841. 



There have been already exhibited several and 

 strong evidences of an intention, by some of the most 

 deeply involved states of this confederacy, to deny the 

 validity of, and to refuse to pay their pubfic debts, 

 contracted within the last few years. Some time ago. 

 Gov. McNult boldly recommended this course to the 

 legislature o( Mississippi, (upon the ground of alleged 

 Ihuid in the* transaction,) in regard to the state bonds 

 furnished to establish tlie great (swindling) Union 

 i3ank of tiiat state. Smce, the citizens of Bond 

 county, Illinois, have held a public meeting, and 

 resolved and published their determination not to con- 

 sent to pay the bonds of that state. The Philadelphia 

 Ledger says, " a similar meeting was held by the ci- 

 tizens of Montgomery county, Illinois, on the 13th 

 inst. A committee was appointed, which reported 

 in full upon the subject, ^nd, fixing the aggregate 

 debt at .$•13,000,000, say this debt, divided among the 

 individuals of the state, would be over $30 per head 

 tor every man, woman and child in the state." — " With 

 these growing public demonstrations of resistance of 

 payment, and the reluctance manifested by legislatures 

 to resort to taxation to pay state debts, we should 

 not wonder to see them as greatly depressed as they 

 are, nor evince surprise if they should go even lower. 

 Our corrupt and swindling banking system has largely 

 contributed thus to taint the public morals and to in- 

 duce men to calmly look at this reckless violation of 

 taith. Let those who aided in building it up and in 

 maintaining it, now look upon the legitimate fruits of 

 their iabors, and learn to be wise." — These results are 

 deplorable proofs of the rapid inroads (hat fraudulent 

 banking, and its necessary accompaniment, fraudu- 

 lent stock-jobbing, have already made upon the morals 

 and moral sense both of states and individuals. But 

 no matter how fraudulently these obligations of debt 

 were obtained, or the money expended, (provided they 

 are truly debts of the state,) nothing can justijy 

 a violation of public faith, as is proposed. It is to be 

 (eared that the pernicious example will spread. 



A public meeting of merchants of New York, call- 

 ed for the purpose, have resolved to petition congress 

 to establish a national bank. The advocates of a 

 national bank, throughout the union, are numerous, 

 and confident of success in obtaining a charter at the 

 approaching extra session of congress. The measure 

 is now for the first time acknowledged and insisted on 

 as a. party measure ; and fifty avowed and open advo- 

 cates for it can now be found as easily as one could 

 h^ve been found last summer. The conflict on this 

 great question will be violent, and the issue all-impor- 

 tant. Within the next nine months will be decided 

 either the continued and more complete separation 

 of bank and state, or a newly formed intimate union 

 of them, indissoluble and for ever. 



Many of the most able and influential of the south- 

 ern men who will now support a national bank, are 

 among those who have for many years loudly asserted 

 the unconstitutionality of any such establishment. 

 How can these new converts condemn any extent of 

 constitutional means of prevention against the measure 

 vvliicli may be exerted by those who continue o deem 

 the bank unconstitutional .' 



'•The Governor of Cuba has commenced a war 

 against gamblers, and intends to diive them out of the 

 island." 



" The brig Troubadour, under Spanish colors, re- 

 ported as belonging to Rosaline Kitan, of Bissau, 

 (Africa,) with 2S9 slaves on board, from the coast, 

 bound to Berbice, was wrecked about the 6th of Feb., 

 on the Cayeas Islands. All on board were saved, and 

 arrived at Nassau— the vessel totally lost. The cap- 



