Vol. IX.— No. 21. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



l'iKAC\ AND Murder. — A shocking case of pi- 

 racy ;iiiil rniiiilor, lias lately taken |)laeo near New 

 York harbor, on the 23il of last month. The 

 transaction was on hoard llie hrig Vinoyanl of this 

 port, roinninnded hy Captain Thornby. Tiie crew 

 coIl^;i!^lell ot' nine men, inchuling eaplain and 

 mate. The two last were ninrdered and thrown 

 overboard by the crew, who scuttled the vessel a 

 few days afterwards, set it on fire, and took to 

 the boats. One of the boats swamped while on 

 tlie way to the shore, and three of the crew were 

 drowned. The rernaininis; four are now in prison. 



The Brig was from New Orleans for Philadel- 

 phia, with a cargo of sugar. The object of the 

 crew was to secure the money, of which there 

 were $-50,000 on hoard. The vessel and cargo 



were insured for more than §50,000 V. E. C. 



HeraU. 



TE:«rERANCE. — We are informed by a gentle 

 man of Proviticetown, Mass. that a great iliminu 

 tion in the coMsumption of ardent spirits, has ta 

 ken place in that town. .Seventy vessels are em 

 ployed by the inhabitants of that place in the fish- 

 biisintss, which formerly averaged every sea- 

 son one barrel of rum each. At present, about 

 20 vessels do not carry any, and the remainder use 

 not more than one third of what they did former- 

 y. Tlie inhabitants of the town did themselves 

 lonor last spring, by a vole that no license should 

 ranted to any person to sell ardent spirits 

 vithin their borders. — lb. 



163 



From the Journal nf Health. 



EARLY EDUCATION. 

 It is as vain as it is difficult, if not impossible, 

 ) separate early physical from moral education. 

 Vhatever is good in the former, exerts a direct 

 ifluence on the latter; the vices of the first are 

 nsibly felt in the second. Improper footJ, by 

 slurbing the stomach of a child, causes pain, 

 jneral uneasiness, and irritation. The young 

 :ing is, on this account, slower in its perceptions 

 " the relations between itself and external ob- 

 ets, — it receives with less understanding, and 

 ituriis with less fondness, the numerous little en- 

 «aring attentions dictated by maternal love. In 

 •is way the had temper and evil passions of a 

 other, exercise a deleterious influence on the dis- 

 isition of the child which derives its nourishment 

 iin her. Her milk is not of the same nutritive 

 d bland nature, when her nervous system is dis- 

 -bed by corroding cares and contending passions, 

 child, taking this milk suffers from disturbed di- 

 ction, in the manner already indicated. Similar 

 :onveniences attend neglect of cleanliness, and 

 afed and chapped skin of the child, or constrained 

 1 unuatural postures, and ligatures in the shape 

 bandages or tight dress. All these serve as 

 tains to the brain of the young being j they dis- 

 b the usual order of its sensations, and prevent 

 satisfactory education, as well of its external 

 ses as of its internal ones, — the innate propen- 

 Bs and sentiments. These latter cannot, in 

 i disturbetl state of things, be correctly studied 

 (the parent ; their manifestations are either sup- 

 ssedor sadly perverted, both by pain and the 

 ans taken to remove it. The irritability engen- 

 ed by this sickly condition ofthe child,|makes it 

 ne to be annoyed by various impressions from 

 ernal objects, which, in better constituted habits 

 Id be either unheeded or productive of plea- 



i. It is the less enduring, also, of these im- oW "ge 



prcssions, whether made by the elements, light, 

 heat and air, or by the prattle and |)layful amuse- 

 ment of the children around, because it has <lis- 

 covercd, and the discovery, from its early date, 

 might almost seem instinctive, that its cries always 

 attract the attention and ensure the caresses of its 

 mother or nurse, together with, perhaps, the ad- 

 ministration of some posset, |)ap, or cordial, which 

 had been used on former occasions of stomachic 

 distress and bodily pain. The habit of indulgence 

 tliii.s early acquired, and impatience at the slight- 

 est delay to gratify its whims, continue as the child 

 advances in age ; and false afliection of the parent 

 coinciding with ignorance of human nature on the 

 part of the instructer, the whims and fits of pas- 

 sion of infancy become ingrained as it were — a 

 necessary part of the adult and grown up being. 

 Neglect on the part of mothers and nurses to de- 

 vclo|i the more docile and affectionate sentiments of 

 children, or still worse, their encouraging the pas- 

 sionate propensities of the latter, by the bad ex- 

 ample of intemperate gestures, voice, and language ; 

 or by violence, suppressing the more animated 

 feelings of their young charge, and making them 

 either stupid and sullen, or hypocrites, arc faults 

 unhappily too common, and yet of a magnitude not 

 at all appreciated. 



Vanity of parents, by which they urge their chil- 

 dren to an excessive and premature exercise of the 

 mental faculties, that is, of the brain, is either pro- 

 ductive of inflammation of this organ, ending in 

 death — or throws it into such a state of lassitude 

 as to give rise to mental imbecility, perhaps bown- 

 right idiocy in after life. Grown and aged per- 

 sons are too apt to forget, that confinement in a close 

 room, and continued application of the mind to 

 one subject, for hours, which they allow them- 

 selves, though not with impunity, cannot be prac- 

 tised by children, whose organs, and muscular 

 and nervous, that is of locomotion and sensation, 

 require continued variety, and space, and fresh 

 air. Every jiart in the young is growing and im- 

 pressible, and every part must receive its due pro- 

 portion of stimulus and exercise. Without fresh 

 air, and indulgence of bodily sjiorts, respiration can- 

 not be fully performed ; of course the blood cannot 

 undergo the changes which fit it for carrying 

 nutrimental matter adapted to the wants of the 

 several parts of the body, such as earthy matter to 

 the bones, fibrin to the muscles, and so on. Not 

 only is the blood not adequately changed, but when 

 the cliild is immured in close and ill-ventilated 

 rooms, and compelled to preserve the same posture 

 for hours, this fluid is not augmented as it ought, by 

 the chyle or product of digestion, since this process, 

 in common with every other, suffers. The exter- 

 nal senses are all in a state of forced inactivity, 

 with, perhaps, the exception of the eye; and this 

 in place of being exercised in looking at the in- 

 numerable objects in nature — their size, propor- 

 tions, colour, and relative distances from each 

 other, is strained in reading some small print, 

 about things which the child cannot understand, 

 perhaps about the qualities of the very objects 

 which could be learned by a walk of five minutes 

 out of doors, if not from the very window of the 

 school-room. All these practices are not merely 

 prejudicial to the min(l,and impediments to future 

 usefulness and greatness ; but they injure the health 

 and destroy, irremediably, the natural cheerful- 

 ness of early life, making it, by cruel anticipation, 

 a depository of the anxieties, and despondency of 



-Ml- Lemuel Sawyer, of N. C. in a IcKer to 

 can Karincr, describes the Uoanokc or Scuper- 

 e, which is indigenous in N. Caiolina, and on« 



Grapes 

 the A 



nong giape, wiul-ii i.s inoigonous in IN. (Jaiolina, and on« 

 vine of which is sufficient for one man and liis family, 

 lor it will spread as long as he will give it bearers, and 

 yield 60 bushels ! It grows on sandy land which is fit for 

 nothing else, makes a rich and oily though sweetish wine, 

 some of which Mr S. now has 16 years old. It makes 

 excellent champaign, but so powerful that few bottles can 

 bold it. 



It is really surprising that more is not done in Massa- 

 chusetts to cultivate our native grapes, and foreign ones 

 also. It is a fact that vines bending with clusters of 

 beautiful and delicious grapes, are constantly seen in 

 Europe on dry, sandy, and pine land, where a yankee 

 farmer would not think be could raise sorrel ! And what 

 is more in the depth of summer, when there is little rain 

 in all the South of Europe, those vineyards are alone 

 green, flourishing, and relreshing. The reason is that 

 grape vines strike their roots deep, and draw up moisture 

 when no other plant can. — Mass. Jour. 



Emigration.— A couple passed through Springfield 

 lately on their way westward with seven children, six 

 of them twin boys, and named George Washington, Thom- 

 a-; Jefferson, John Adams, James Monroe, Lafayette, and 

 Simon Bolivar. 



On the 4th of Nov. the Directors of the Old Bank of 

 Tennessee committed to the flames upwards of a million 

 of dollars of the notesof that «a/t(a6/e institution. 



The Cotton crop is greater in Louisiana and Mississip- 

 pi this year tlian was ever known before. 



Salt water has been discovered in the inferior ot Penn- 

 sylvania between the Susquehannah and Alleghany riv- 

 ers. From a well 17 feet deep, 24 barrels per hour of 

 wafer containing 4 per cent, salt is taken. A company 

 is formed to manufacture the salt. 



Views of Philadelphia.— Co}. Chi'.ds of Philadelphia, 

 is proceeding with his publication ol the beaulitul views 

 of Philadelphia and its environs. There are 96 Churches 

 in Philadelphia — one to about 1666 persons— nearly the 

 same proportion in Boston, New York and Baltimore. 



Simsbury Copper Mine.— It seems that this dismal 

 cavern, which has been so long a tenor to evil doers, and 

 a sinking concern 'o the state of Conneclicut, is now ex- 

 pected 10 be converted to a valuable purpose. We un- 

 derstand that a company of gentlemen in the cily of New 

 York, have purchased the mine ol the State, and have 

 procured two skilful miners from England to examine it- 

 who have given it as their opinion that it contains a rich 

 and extensive bed of copper ore, which will yield 60 per 

 cent. 



Jlrms of Massachusetts.— \\'e find the following de- 

 scriplion of the arms of Massachusetts in the 'Independ- 

 ent Chronicle," ol Nov. 26, VlSi.-Journal. 

 Explanation of the devices for the Arms of the Com- 

 monwealth of Massachusetts. 



SAPPHIRE, an Indian,dressed in his shirt and mocca- 

 sins, belted proper; in his right hand, a bow. Topaz: 

 in his left an Arrow, its point towards the base of the 

 Second ; on the dexter side of the Indian's Head, a star, 

 Pearl, for one of the United States of America ; Crest, 

 on a wreath a dexter arm, clothed and ruffled proper, 

 grasping a broad sword, the pummel and the hilt of To- 

 paz, wilh this Motto, Ense petit placidam sub Liber- 

 tate Quietcm. 



Mecklenburg Gold Mines. — Tiie Gold Region has now 

 become much enlarged, from Virginia to Alabama, and in 

 almost every county in the western part of North Caroli- 

 na, which appears to be the centre of the region. Chev- 

 alier de Rivaiinoli, Agent ot a London Mining Company, 

 arrived in this place on the 1st inst. and is making ar- 

 rangements for an extensive engagement in Minos. The 

 Chevalier we beheve, is to locate in this place, and from 

 all we can learn, will be a valuable acquisition to the vil- 

 lage. He has brought on a number of foreigners, Ger- 

 mans, to work in the iMines, and we understand many 

 more are expected. — JV. C. Alitier's Jour. 



Census. — The population of Pittsburgh, Penn. is 12- 

 540. In 1.S20, it was only 5293. The neighboring 

 towns have increased in a similar proportion aided by its 

 bvisiness. 



The first Snow fell in Hallowell, Me. on the 25th Nov. 

 to the depth of one or two inches. 



An Oration on the late French Revolution w«s be de- 

 livered at Portland, Dec. 7, by O. K. Barrell, Esq. 



