NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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1 am con(i(tonl tli.it 1 linve nevrr i:u«o<lsii ii)'i'"l' 

 and so val'ialile potk, from any other kind ol 

 Hog=, so cheap by oO \ier cent. 



Uespectlully yours, O. FISIfE. 



Remedy for the Gnpcs, a disease in Chickens. — 

 Take as much kitchen soap as will cover the 

 thumb nail, and havina; mixed it up with some 

 meal dough, give it to your chickens, at any 

 stage ot" (Hsense. This has been found elTectu- 

 al on the tirst api))ication almost alivnys ; a sec- 

 ond rarely necessary, and when it is so, it is next 

 to impossible that i! should fail, — Am. Farmer. 



Treatment of the Piles. For tliis very disa- 

 greeable and inconvenient disorder, it will be 

 necessary to take gentle laxative and purgative 

 medicines ; as sidphur, cream of tartar, and con- 

 fection of senna ; but the patient must avoid- 

 drastic purgatives, and above all aloes in anv 

 shape. The following, called sulphur confect- 

 ion, will be found to be, perhaps the best medi- 

 cine that can be pre-cribed for this complaint : 

 . — Mix together in a glass or marble mortar, half 

 an ounce of sulphur, two oimces of confection of 

 senna, three drachms of saltpetre in powder, 

 and as much syrup of orange as will give the 

 whole a proper consistence. One or two 

 drachms of this, or a piece of the size of a nut- 

 meg is to be taken twice or thrice a day, so as 

 lo keep the bowels open. 



Fur small Cuts and Wounds. Moisten a piece 

 of lint with a saturated solution of copal gnm in 

 ether, and apply over the injured part. Moist- 

 en it once or twice a daj', by pouring a sufficient 

 quantity over it without removing the lint. If 

 it be a cut, care should be taken to bring the 

 edges together, when the application from its 

 sticking quality will keep them in that state. — 

 A bandage may also be applied; but when the 

 mischief is not extonsive.it is unnecessary. 



FARMER 



SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



Dtaf and Dumb. — Ttie New Hampsliire legislature 

 "has authorized commissioners to confer with the le^is- 

 Istures of Masiachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and Vtr- 

 Jijont respecting the Deaf and Dumb. 



.Tuhn W. Webster.^ .M. D. of this city has been ap- 

 pointed Lecturer on Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geol- 

 ogy, at Harvard University. 



Indian IVur. — Accounts have been received at Mon- 

 treal, s'.atiiig that agtncral coalition of the bidian tribes 

 in the iS'orth West territories, to the amount ol some 

 .lliotisands. has taken place, and that they attacked the 

 "white? in the settlement at Red River ; that the assail- 

 ed made a desperate resistance, and detended them- 

 selves with great bravery; l>iit in the contest the set- 

 tlers sustained some los^ ; ytt they succeeded in preser- 

 ving their ground, and keeping the savages at a respec- 

 table distance. 



Good Example. — .i Mrs Pills, a Methodist lady who 

 "lately div:d in Virginia, left her slaves free, ujjon condi- 

 tion of their going to Africa, and has directed her ad- 

 ministrator to furnish the nece.ssary means to defray all 

 the expenses of their transportation. 



Lafiiyetle. — The General has arrived at Washington 

 city, from his Virginia lour, accompanied by Mr Bar- 

 bour of the U.S. Senate ; and dined with tlie President 

 in conip.iny with the principal officers of the govern- 

 ment, the mayor of the city, and other guests. On 

 "Wednesday morning he departed for Baltimore. The 

 General purposes visiting South Carolin.i in the course 

 of the ensuing wiater. He attended the Baltimore Cat- 



tle '^how on the 25th nil. ; and will probably remain 

 in Washington city during the month of December. 



Kinlutl:;/. — The receipts into the Plate Treasury of 

 Kentucky dining the last year are found lo be insntTi- 

 cient to meet the expenses by the sum of about 3o,000 

 dollars. 



Cnielli/. — Mr Flournoy, of Georgia, has been pre- 

 sented for cruelt}' to seven slaves, overworking them 

 and Kfusing them proper food and clothing. Tiiey all 

 died and then, it is said, were refused the riles of sep- 

 ulture. 



.4 Cntlon Gin, nrar New Orleans, was lately consu- 

 med bv fne, occasioned by friction of (he machinery. 

 Loss, i 10,000. 



I^ouisianrt. — The cultivation of sugar in Louisiana, 

 (he season just past, has produced 40.000 hogsheads of 

 'hat article, which at a valuation of $7.5 a hogshead, is 

 worth j;3.0n0,000. The next article of importance, the j 

 Cotlon Plant, has produced the present year, a crop 

 valued at nearly 'I;2,0UO,0()0. Such already is tlie pro- 

 ductiveness of a State, but very imperfectly settled, the 

 population now not averaging over three persons to 

 a square mile. It requires indeed no great effort of the 

 imagination lo anticipate the future grandeur of this 

 section of our Republic, 



J\'<H' Orhuns Bur;/i.ng Grounds. — A writer in a New 

 Orleans .Advertiser complains of the negligent manner 

 in which the interments in the Protestant burial ground 

 in that city are made. He asserts that " after the late 

 heavy falls of rain, there from 18 to 20 inches of water 

 on the surface of the ground, on which a great number 

 of coffins were seen Ann ling, and being agitated by the 

 wind, were driven in difierent directions, knocking a- 

 gainst each other, and forming a deadly representation 

 of a sea-fight. The (Irv weather and the hot sun which 

 we have experienced since, has in some measure caus- 

 ed the water to evaporate, and with it, of course, the 

 miasma to be drawn into the atmosphere, and there is 

 no doubt the pernicious eflect of it lias much contribut- 

 ed to the continuance of the epidemic which has caus- 

 ed so much desolation." 



»3ra K.r/7;oi?oH lately took place in (he graining house 

 of the ^.tna powder works, near Pallimoie, but no loss 

 of lives is reported. — Another explosion at Sider's Mills 

 near Niagara, has taken place, by which three persons 

 were severely injured. Loss about <!;iOfO. — .A late 

 Calcutta paper gives an account of a dreadful e.^plo- 

 sion at the powder mills in Papamow. (India'). Two 

 sifting houses, containing about 300 barrels of powder, 

 were blown up, and about 40 persons scattered round 

 In a manner too horrible for description. At a distance 

 of 5 miles from the works, the doors of the fort were 

 torn open, anparently with greater violence than those 

 near the place where the explosion took place. 



i4 Sinsuliir Equipase has lately been seen in the 

 streets of .Munich. It is a calash drawn by 2 enormous 

 Wolves, which a merchant found verv vouns:, and has 

 so well tamed that they have all the docility of horses. 

 These animals are harnessed exactly like our carriage 

 horses, and appear to have entirely lost their ferocious 

 instinct. 



China. — A Russian resident at Pekin during 13 years 

 has completed a regular history of China from the year 

 2.357 R. C. that is from 9 years before the Mosaic del-. 

 uge, to the age of Charles I. of England, in 9 vols, folio, 

 and has taken it to Russia. 



Dr Kalh. — It affords us great pleasure to hear that 

 the citizens of Camden, (S. C.) have determined to 

 erect a handsome monument to (he memory of that ga!-. 

 lant olTir.r, Baron de Kalh, a Major Gen. in the U. P. 

 Army, who fell in (he haltle near that place, during our 

 Revdlu'ionarv sfrujgU, a; that it is intended to invite 

 Gen. La Fayette to lay (he corner stone. 



.B^rful Fffech of Inlrmfernnre. — At Lancaster, Penn. 

 OM Wednesday of last week, a man by the name of Wil- 

 liam ICirkwoo', drank ofr nearly three pints of whiskey, 

 which occasioned his death in the course of a few min- 

 utes. 



PHH.AnELrHiA, nov. 17. — We received an article 

 stating that j-esterday a Duel was fought between 

 two young men of this city, the one aged 18, and the 

 other twenty years, at Red Bank. Dem. JPress. 



JYew England Musmm — 76 Court-SrU. 



TIIK public are re?peclfully informed, that this 

 Great Estabi.ish.'vieivt, far m6re extensive, 

 and containing a much greater number and vari- 

 ety of costly and interesting curiosities than any other 

 Museum in .America, continues steadily to increase — 

 the whole receipts being immediately applied for that 

 purpose. It fills eleven spacious Halls ami .Apartments % 

 two of which are lofty Malls, 70 by !30 feel. 



Numerous additions have been made within the last 

 year, and particularly within the last three months. — 

 Among them, a few only can here be noticed. 



A Whale 19 feet long, which weighed nearly 3 tons 

 — this is the sm.illest kind of Whale, and is commonly 

 called a black Jish by sailors. 



The Fampire of liic Ocean. — This monster moves in 

 the water as a bird flies in the air, is 18 feet broad across 

 the wings, has two heads, and a mouth large enough to 

 take in a hogshead ; it weighed when taken, upwards 

 of five tons. It is the only one ever taken in any 

 country. 



The great Basking Shark, 21 feet 3 inches long, the 

 first seen in these parts. 



The Moose, Elk, and Lion, from Asia. 



A Canoe made of skins, from Greenland, 



The great Leriathan Turtle, weighing 809 pounds, 

 from the Mediteranean, — the only one ever seen here^ 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



[Revised and corrected every Friday.] 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, Isl sort, - - - 

 pearl do. - . - - 



■BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo. No I, new, - - 



" No 2, new, - - 



BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 



CHEESE, new milk, . - - - 

 skimed milk, - - - 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED - 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 

 Genessee, - - - 



Rye, best, . . - 



GRAIN,Rye 



Corn - - - . - 

 Barley - . - - 

 Oats - - , - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No 1, Inspection - - 



LIME, ..--.- 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 



PLAISTER PARIS retails at 



PORK, Bine Middlings, new, 

 navy, mc^s, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 



SEEDS, Herd'sGrass, 1823, - 

 Clover - - - - - 



WOOL, Merino, fullblood,wash 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISION MARKET. 

 BEEl-', best pieces . - . . 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



" whole hogs, - - - 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & tub, 



lump, best, - • ■ 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail^ .... 

 Indian, do. - . - • 

 POTATOES, new, - . - - 

 CIDER, liquor, new - - • - 

 HAY, accprdiDg to quality, ■ 



