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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



$■3,00 per hundred, cash. The niimher of hogs 

 brought this (all to Virginia, will, it is supposed, be 

 larger than in any year tor the last lour or hve. 



The Pittsburgh Daily American of the Sth. instant, 

 says, "we are told upon good authority, that poikran 

 now be contracted for, in the interior of Indiana, tor 

 $'1,50 per 100 pounds." 



Specie on the move.— The Chilicothe (Ohio) Adver- 

 tiser states that the bank ol Chilicoihe, last week, 

 shipped between sixty and one hundred thousand dol- 

 lais in specie to New York. 



Large sums have ulso lately been drawn from St. 

 Louis, (Missouri.) These shipments, Irom points so 

 remote, indicate the imperious character of the 

 foreign demand for coin, and are equally demonst.-'ative 

 of the ruinous nature of the trade in which the cou«- 

 ,try is engaged. — Bullimore Patriot, {Bankiie ) 



The specie stiil having the country. The ship 

 :Swit7,erland from New York took out $,50,000 in 

 specie for England. On the 1.5th inst. $-.30,000 went 

 by the Sheffield. The Great Western, detained for 

 the 23d, had engaged (on the 17th) nearly .$500,000 

 mostly in gold. The Boston carried out .$100,000 ; 

 The Francis the First took $109,000 lor Havre; 

 making for one we^-k, $739,000 shipped to Europe. 

 The New York Herald adds,— " The Bank of Chi- 

 licothe, Ohio, has recently sent about $150,000 [spe- 

 cie] to this city, for the purpose of drawing against at 

 10 per cent, premium (or its own bills. It is in this 

 way that specie is driven from the interior, to tliis city, 

 by the presence of irredeemable paper, and from this 

 £ity flows off to Europe." — Money Art. N. Y. II. 



The Union Bank of Mississippi has assigned its ef- 

 fects for the benefit of its creditors. Messrs. James 

 Elliot, Charles Scott and C. W. Clifton are the As- 

 .signees, and are the President, the Cashier, and the 

 Attorney of the institution ! The salaries voted them 

 ,are $4000 per annum each. The movement is said to 

 • -be a collusion between the officers and a few of the 

 .directors, and the object to plunder the bank of its 

 ■valuable assets. Much exasperation is evinced rela- 

 tive to the matter. — Ph. Lcdg. 



In addition to Maryland and Georgia, the more 

 jecent elections of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York 

 and Michiean have gone by large majorities in (avor 

 ■oi the loco-foco party, (we know not by what other 

 name to designate it, in the present strange condition 

 oi parties.) These results are a sure indication of 



the triumphant majorities being opposed to the re- 

 establishiuent of the United States Bank. Perhaps, 

 also, they may be taken as evidence of as general a 

 feeling adverse to the whole fraudulent banking system. 

 But this we snll fear to believe, and can not trust any 

 existing party for that extent of honesty. 



The last • elections, those of Mississippi, go still 

 further. The issue was made upon the policy of 

 paying or not paying the state bonds, or public debt, 

 and ihe anti-bond men are tiiumphant. It is a deplora- 

 ble thing that any [leople or government, however 

 cheated and abused in the manner of forming the 

 debts, (as Mississippi undoubtedly was cheated,) 

 should deny their obligation. But it is one of the 

 leyilimate results of the fraudulent paper credit sys- 

 tem, in its worst opeiaiion; and tins refusal of 

 Mississippi to pa}' her debts will be followed by other 

 of the most debt-burdened and bank cheated states. 

 Pennsylvania and Florida will follow the example — 

 and piobably Illinois, Michigan and Indiana, if not 

 more. The public credit of- all the states will be 

 deeply affected. 



At a large political meeting in New Orleans, on 

 November 13tli, the following resolution was passed 

 unanimously — '-Resolved, that we consider the sus- 

 pension of specie payments by the banks of this state 

 as having commenced in perhdy, and as being conti- 

 nued in fraud ; that the late determination on the part 

 of the banks not to resume until the first of November 

 1S42, is considered by this meeting as a violation of 

 common honesty, equally injurious to tiie moral cha- 

 racter and commercial interest of our city." — Char- 

 lestoji Mercury. • 



Benjamin Green, the great Richmond financier was 

 acquitted upon Ins last trial. He was remanded to 

 jail, to be tiled upon the more than twenty still re- 

 maining indictments. No doubt he will be cleared 

 on all ; but at the same rat; of progress, he will be 

 forty years under trial. We would advise the losers 

 of the half million (the stock-holders of the Virginia 

 Bank) to diop Green and Dabney, and to sue the 

 then directors of the bank, who could scarcely escape 

 paying the legal penalty of double each suiter's loss 

 by the defalcation. See the general banking law. 



I As the furnishing a " Summary of News" was 

 ; commenced with and principally for the issue of fhe 

 weeli'ly form of the Farmers' Rf'gister, so Ihe two will 

 ' cease together with this number. 



CONTENTS OF THE FARBIERS REGISTER, NO. XI. VOL. IX. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Page 



Melilot again 629 



Address to the Agricultural Society of Cumber- 

 land 639 



Growing potatoes under straw - - 644 

 Aristida oligantha — poverty grass — hen's nest 



grass 644 



Ground of preference for different kinds of 



wheat. Surface manuring - - - 644 



Green-sand of James river - - - . 645 



To the subscribers to the Farmers' Register - 663 



Root culture in France .... 663 



SELECTIONS. 



Of pruning 623 



Sweet potatoes 629 



Prairies of Arkansas . - - - . 632 



Malaria 633 



Extracts from Gen. Emory's Address before 



the Maryland State Agricultural Society - 634 



Page 

 Essay on the importance of lime in soils — 



No. 1 - 636 



Important discovery in agriculture - - 643 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Hen- 

 rico 646 



European farming ..... 652 



Subsoil plough 652 



Fruit trees 653 



Proper articles for exhibition at agricultural 



shows 653 



The Missourium, or leviathan skeleton - - 654 



Hiving bees ..... - . 656 



Medium sized vs. large hogs ... 657 



Horn-ail 658 



A day at Ridgemont 658 



On peat 660 



Dr. Boucherie's process .... 661 



On cider making 661 



The remedy of each individual against non- 

 paying hanks 664 



American wonders ..... 667 



Transjjlanting trees 667 



