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was of 25 kegs of gunpowder, and that it was ammuni- 

 tion provided for the designed outbreak of a new set of 

 " Canadian patriots." 



The most extensive swoop of "• f^ynch law" yet 

 known, has lately occurred in Arkansas. A numerous 

 and desperate gang of counterfeiters had established 

 their quarters in a place of secure concealment near the 

 Mississippi. A party of 100 men volunteered for the 

 purpose, and by disguising their boat as a common 

 trader, decoyed 27 of the gang ©f counteifeiters on 

 board, who were secured a.nd forihwUh drowned ! ! ! 



The packet to France carries $62,000 of specie 

 from New York. 



The war in Florida, or the hunting and catching of 

 Indians, is going on well. Two hundred and seven 

 more Indians, who have surrendered or have been cap- 

 tured, are to be shipped from Tampa bay to the west 

 on the 27th inst. Col. Worth expects the war to be 

 ended in three months. His expectations are of some 

 account. 



The Danville branch of the Farmers' Bank of Vir- 

 ginia has been robbed by means of false keys to the 

 vault, of $92,135 in bank notes, of which $72,000 

 were cancelled. These robbers, though successful, 

 could not have been the " real Simon Pures" for such 

 operations, (i. e. the bank officers,) or they would not 

 have been such fools as to take cancelled notes, or any 

 notes, if there was enough gold to be had instead. 

 The president of the bank has advertised $5000 re- 

 ward for the detection, and the ])ublic are "cautioned 

 from faking" the cancelled notes, " as they will not be 

 redeemed by the bank." This '' caution" goes too far 

 --for if that is good ground for refusal,' the public 

 ought to refuse all the notes of the bank, as they are 

 not, and (as long as possible to avoid it,) "will not 

 be redeemed by the bank." 



We beg to call attention, of the farmers of Viiginia 

 especially, and of the public in general, to one remark- 

 able incident of recent and current banking history, 

 to wit : that with all the indignation excited, and utter- 

 ed, by and among the advocates or apologists of the 

 banks, every thing has been directed to extraneous 

 matters, altogether irrelevant to the main question of 

 the etlects of banking procedure ; and not one fact, ar- 

 gument, or even one word, has yet been put before the 

 public to defend or deny any abuse, or fraudulent ope- 

 ration of the system, of the manj' which we have en- 

 deavored to expose. The opposition, verbal or print- 

 ed, to our facts and arguments in regard to the evils ol 

 banking, has been compounded principally of every 

 possible charge that falsehood, calumny, envy ami ma- 

 lice can rake up against ourprivale as well as public life. 

 How miserably weak must be any cause that is 

 supported by such a course of argument as this ! 

 How utterly destitute must be the cause of the banks 

 of every ground for defence, on the score of truth, 

 honesty, and public utility, when from all the ready 

 tongues and pens and presses at their command, not 

 one word ot reasoning, disproof, or even simple and 

 plain denial, has been stated in their defence against 

 any or all the many charges brought against them ! 

 Every dreaded opposer ol the o|)t!ration of the bank- 

 ing system may expect (for his sole reward, and as 

 indirect testimony of the value of his services to the 

 cause of truth,) to be denounced, slandered, and injured 

 in every possible manner. But even if every such vic- 

 tim were, in his private life, as villanous and infamous 

 as his worst enemies and slanderers would desire to 

 have believed of him, Ids sins, certainly, would be no 

 refutation of the (acts and arguments brought against 

 the actual operations of the banks, and the bankiiig 

 system of Virginia. 



CONTENTS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER, NO. VIII. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COittMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Shell marl under peat in Vermont, - - 453 

 Mistakes of the names and characters of grasses, 453 

 The Board of Agriculture, .... 456 

 Wax procured from sugar canes, - - - 458 

 Liebig's Organic Chemistry, ... - 459 

 Red clover, Sic, in France, - . - - 476 

 Disputed questions in agriculture, - - - 477 

 Notes on the Sandy Point estate. No. 3, - - 485 

 " Agricultural statistics" corrected, - - - 490 



Rejoinder, 492 



A suggestion to agricultural societies, - - 495 



Movement of the people for promoting banking 

 reform, and the resumption and maintenance of 



specie payments, 505 



Season and crops, . . • . . 506 



A sample of editorial and publication profits, . 507 

 Monthly summary of news, .... 507 



SELECTIONS. 



Address to the Henrico Agricultural Society, con- 

 cluded, - 449 



How does climate affect the staple of wool ? - 452 



\ The cuiculio, 452 



Sheep poisoned by the common red cherry, - 453 



Cotton and Corn — a dialogue, - - - 454 



A substitute suggested for green crops for turning 



down, 454 



On fop-dressing, 455 



Cows, before and after calving, - - - 455 



Carrier pigeons, 456 



Baldwin's patent stock mill, or corn and cob 



Page 



crusher, 457 



Artesian boring at Paris, .... 458 

 Discovery in Virginia of the regular mineral salt 



formation, - 458 



Limestone and calcareous earth, in the Pee Dee 



^ country, 469 



Experiments to show the proper state of wheat 



for reaping, 470 



Bone dust, 475 



Address to the friends of a national agricultural 



society, 476 



The canker-worm, .-...- 478 

 Moisture of the soil. Watering, - - - 479 



Saving grass seeds, 482 



Modes of transmuting wheat to cheat, - - 482 

 Experiments on nitrate of soda and saltpetre, - 483 

 More disputes among the sellers of Berkshire hogs, 484 

 Growth of plants without mould, - - - 487 

 Experiments and observations on the action of 

 charcoal from wood on vegetation, - - - 488 



The bee-moth, 490 



The tare culture, - - - ... . 493 



Henrico Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 493 

 Discourse on the character, properties, and import- 

 ance to man, of the gramineae, or true grasses, 495 

 The peach. Important experiment, - - 500 



The alpaca, - . . . .501 



Blister flies, ....... 502 



Tomato figs, ....... 502 



Table of manures. Their properties and mode of 



application, 502 



Source ot the carbon of plants, . 503 



