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notes ; and, small as is the pecuniary penalty thus iin- 

 |)Osed, if many anti-bank farmers would enibrce 

 it, every such endorsed note wliich they would carry 

 home would be a striking exposure of, and both astand- 

 ingand a current argument against tlie contunied sutfer- 

 ance of a rotten and irresponsible banking system. 

 Ijut the more outrageous the course of ihe banks, in 

 all matters of violation of legal or moral obligation, 

 and even of regard to common decency of conduct, 

 the bett r we shall be pleased. Wo fully believe thai 

 it is only by the full and complete exposure by the 

 banks themselves of the fraudulent jirinciples and 

 iniquity of the existing banking system, that the 

 people can be roused to its destruction. The banks 

 iiave certainly been given " rope enough to hang 

 themselves," both by the laws and the toleration of 

 the cheated and pillaged people ; and we rejoice that 

 they are using their ample privileges in the surest 

 manner for their own destruction. 



At an adjourned meeting of the stockholders of 

 the United States Bank, resolutions strongly condem- 

 natory of the former administration of the bank, and 

 implying the expenditure of immense sums for purposes 

 of corruption, were otiered by Mr. Duane, and adopt- 

 ed by the meeting. From the supplementary report 

 to the meeting, of the committee of investigation, it 

 appears that more than a million of dollars had been 

 spent and are unaccounted ior — the vouchers having 

 been passed without being read, and then burnt ! ! ! 

 The United States Bank has accepted the benelit of 

 liie " relief law." 



A writer in a Richmond paper of the 20th, in refer- 

 j ence to the bank notes of $1 and .*;2, (which only the 

 banks are now compelled to pay,) complains bitterly 

 that some holders ot such notes "have claimed their 

 legal right, and demanded specie to the amount of se- 

 veral hundred dollars at one time, stickling for the 

 pound of Jlesh nearest the heart, to the last. That the 

 avariciovs appelite of man should be so keen, is humili- 

 ating," Jk,c. — and then the writer (no doubt a bank 

 debtor, or a bank officer,) goes on to threaten that the 

 banks hereafter "will be very cautious in their issues" 

 of small notes, if thus compelled to pay them. What 

 a monstrous perversion of language and ridiculous 

 misapplication of terms, as to the cheating banks and 

 the cheated not-e-holders and creditors of the banks ! 

 How much must the moral sense and intellect of a 

 community have been poisoned by being bank-drugged, 

 if such representations as this receive any respect or 

 countenance ! ! And how miserably u-eak, and yet reck- 

 less and desperate must be the banks that can make such 

 an appeal as this to public prejudice and favor, to 

 shield them from paying a few hundred $\ and $2, 

 notes ! ! ! 



By mails of last night. — The legislature of New 

 Yoric have passed an act appropriating .'tf,o,000,000 

 to three canals, of which, .'j^*2,15()!,000 is directed to 

 enlarging the Erie canal. 



I The Rochester arrived from England at New York 

 I on the 19th, bringing accounts two days later. No 

 j news of tha President steam-ship. No other accounts 

 yet published. 



CONTENTS OF THB FARMERS REGISTER, NO. V. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COBIMUNICATIONS. 



Ajiswers to the general queries on the effects 

 ,of marl in regard to some i'arms in James 

 City and Surry counties. 



I. Of H. B. M. Richardson, of James City 

 county, Va. .... 



II. Of Boiling Jones, of Surry county 

 in. Of Peter T. Spratley, of Surry county 

 IV. Of W. C. Jones, of Surry county 



iCapacity of the clays and rock- marl of Vir- 

 ginia to form hydraulic cement, and the ap- 

 ))licabilit)' of rock-marl to burning lime 



A legacy for young farmers - 



Desultory observations on the banking system 

 of this country, and the eti'ects of its dilfer- 

 ent modes of operation — continued 



Great defects of the agriculture of lower South 

 Carolina ..... 



On the proper nomenclature of grasses 



Crushed corn meal — feeding horses — preserv- 

 ing bacon ..... 



Rohan potatoes .... 



Admissions in favor of the new four-field sys- 

 tem. Temporary wiiiler farm-pens. Rye 

 a substitute for clover in Ohio - 



Proposal to try ITussey's reaping machine 



Caution to silk culturists ... 



Genera! results of diary of the weather, ke])t at 

 Fortress Monroe, (Old Point Comfort,) 

 Va. 



Silk-worm rearing in Arkansas. Importance 

 of calcareous soil to grape vines 



Range of the thermometer, and state of the 

 weather at Washington, Ark., through 1840 



Rotation of oats and tobacco, both profitable 

 and meliorating - - - . 



Sweet-scented vernal grass on poor land. Pro- 

 tection of buzzards - - . . 



Erratum - - . - . 



Egyptian cotton cuKivated in Mississippi 



Monthly commercial report 



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Prize essay on the cultivation of tobacco 



Best time tor cutting timber 



Different effects of nitrate of soda 



Nitrate of soda .... 



Mode of rendering wood imperishable and 

 incombustible .... 



The honest and beneficial credit system con- 

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The American cotton trade 



Quality of milk .... 



Anti-friction .... 



Diseases of cattle and horses ... 



Horse distemper .... 



On salt as a prevention of disease in horses, 

 cattle and sheep ... 



Cotton culture in India 



Weeds of agriculture 



On burning cotton stalks to destroy insects - 



Florida 



Wire -grass destroyed by hogs 



An act to promote agriculture in New York 



"The barren sands of Jersey" 



Reeling silk in Tennessee 



Hes.-ian fly and other insects - 



The use of an owl in killing crows 



On gathering asparagus 



Transformation of oats into rye - 



The milk sickness .... 



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