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are still maratiding parties straggling thron;,^h ihe inte- 

 rior, occapionally murdering tlio.?e whom they may 

 chance lo encounter. 



The East College, at Williamstown, N. J., was de- 

 stroyed by fire on Sunday last. The building was 100 

 feet long, 40 wide, and 4 stories high. 



Another explosion. — An explosion, it appears, has 

 jr.st occurred in the Morris Canal Barking Compan}', 

 which has caused the company to remove both the 

 president and vice president of the concern, E. R. 

 Biildie and E. Lord. The reason for this act is stated 

 in the newspapers to be, that thrse officers had lo;ined 

 their friends or themselves .$'180, 000 of the funds of 

 the bank, to establish or improve certain iron works 

 in Danville and Wilkesbarre, besides various other 

 financial operations. The Directors called upon them 

 to resign ; they refused, and were accordinoly turned 

 Out. — Phil. Ledg. 



Female industry in MnssachuscUs . — The number 

 of females employed in Mas.sachusctt-: i 40.000, of 

 whom about 24,000, are in the woollen factories. The 

 aggregate amount of their earnings, annually, is esti- 

 mated at $4,000,000.— P/i. Ledger. 



Friday, Oct. 2.9, 1841. 



The steamer Columbia arrived at Boston on the 

 21st, bringing accounts 16 days later from England, 

 and to 5th inst. 



The consideration of the corn law by parliament 

 had been postponed to next se=sion, which will begin 

 in February, 1842. A loan of £3,000,000 had been 

 voted and advertised for. 



Trade continues to remain in a very depressed state 

 in Eniiland, and the sufferings of the operatives are 

 excessive in consequence. 



An arrival direct from Canton brings important 

 news. The city has been bombarded by the British 

 squadron — 40 war junks of the Chinese blown up, 

 several thousands of the Chinese troops killed, and 

 negdTiations again entered upon. $6,000,000 had been 

 offered to the British commander for the ransom of 

 Canton. 



John Forsyth, of Georgia, late s-cretary of state, 

 died on the 21st, at Washington. 



Two of till' great financiers, Hassinger and Wright, 

 are under trial in Philadelphia for swindling. They 

 were the president and secretary of the Norristown 

 Railroad Company, and, as usual, men of the highest 

 respectability. Their joint operation was committed 

 long ago. it consisted in fraudulent issues of certifi- 

 cates of loan and stock of the company for about 

 #250,000. 



The London packet Quebec, which sailed from 

 New York for London on October 26, took $272,000 

 in specie. 



Orders have been given to build three more war 

 steamers — one at Norfolk, to be propelled on Lieut.. 

 Hunter's plan of paddle wheels, one at Philadelphia, - 

 on Capt. Stockton's plan, and one at New York. 



By later accounts from Canton, (kept back for the 

 purpose of speculation,^ it appears that the articles 

 between the commanders had been agreed upon, and 

 that the ransom of six millions of dollars had been paid 

 by the Chinese. 



It is said that the North Am. Trust and Banking 

 Co. paid its lawyer ten thousand dollars for drawing 

 1 up its articles of agreement ; and that the Commer- 

 cial Bank has been in the practice of helping its ba- 

 lance with the other Banks by handing over every 

 morning the checks of certain brokers to the amount 

 of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. These checks were 

 procured in exchange for an equal amount of Com- 

 mercial Bank notes, which were paid out at the bro- 

 kers' counters during the day, and the brokers allowed 

 a commission. 



The Havre packet, Iowa, carries out from New 

 York, $82,000 of specie. 



Another defalcation — We are informed, from the 

 proper source, that Mr. Sylvester Spencer, who for 

 many years past has had charge of the pension office 

 attached to the Mechanics' Bank in this city, turns out 

 to be a defaulter to the amount of about $11,000. The 

 president of the Mechanics' Bank has promptly caused 

 Mr. Spencer to be committed. — Journ. Com. 



CONTENTS OF THE FARBfERs' REGISTER, KO. X. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 

 Publication of the Westover manuscripts - - 577 

 Paper nets for cleaning and ventilating silk- 

 worms .-..--. 583 

 Wheat and Indian corn in France - . - 583 

 Notes on Sandy Point estate. No. 4 - - 586 

 Culture of the tomato and the Indian pe& - - 589 

 New utensil for cutting down corn - - - 605 



Bermuda grass 606 



Notices of grasses and weeds : 



Eastern Shore bean - - - - 611 



Sandy beach bean - - - - - 612 



Poverty grass ..... 613 



On the necessity of a proper rotation of crops - 614 



Party politics and private matters ... 617 



Notes in reply ...... 617 



Summary of news 620 



SKLECTIOA'S. 



Hay seed upon inverted sod .... 577 



Driving nails into hard wood .... 577 



Of seed-sowing and seed saving - - . 578 



The pear tree - - - - - - 582 



The cuiculio .-.-..- 582 



Preservation of butter . - - . . 585 



Incombustible wash 585 



Tomato fart 590 



' trial of fat'en'ng (|uali1I('s o; Woburns and 



Page 

 Berkshires when fed on the same allowance - 590 

 A phenomenon in grafting .... 591 

 Cultivation of the pine on the shores of Gascony 591 

 Reports of the Massachusetts Agricultural Soci- 

 ety 592 



The oyster trade 596 



Poisoning wolves 597 



Report of the committee of the Barnwell Agri- 

 cultural Society, on the culture of cotton - 598 

 Gunny bags against Kentucky bagging - - 600 

 Mr. Law's establishment .... 601 



Blackberry jam ...... 602 



Arrangements of flower-beds according to M. 



Chevreul's Essay on Colors - - - - 602 



The dahlia 603 



Apple gathering and keeping . - - - 603 



An excellent regulation — preservation of birds 604 



Apple jam 604 



Strawberry jam 606 



Crab apple jam 606 



Protection of wrens, rnd their usefulness - - 606 

 Observations on the secondary and tertiary form- 

 ations of the southern Atlantic states - - 607 

 Culture of the sweet potato . . - - 610 



On mud 615 



On lucerne - 615 



On storing turnips, 616 



Preservation of vii:es from the ravages of bugs 620 



