Vol. v.— No. 6. 



NEW ENGLAND I AR]Mr:ii. 



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VERMONT GOLD. 



beautiful piece of native goUl weighing nearly 

 iinces, was lately found in the town of New- 

 \ormont. It wtis picked up by a boy near a 

 brook, and was studded witii crystals of 

 /.. We have been favored by Mr. French, of 



city, with Ihc perusal of a letter from a friend 



at place, from which we cxtr.-ct tlic following 

 uliirs ; "A mass of, native gold, weighing 

 y ten ounces, h:iai-beeu found in this village, 

 the farm of Samuel Ingham. In its general 



arance, it strikingly resembles the North- 

 in;i Gold — specific gravity ll>..5 — considered' 

 1 f-!t cents per pennyweight. It was found in 



bank of a stream, which empties into the 

 li opposite the village." We Ijave seen an- 

 k'tter which says that the inhabitants of the 

 c •■ arc about turning out on a grand • search 

 ore of the precious metal, and every witch- 

 tliereabouts hns been subsidized for a miner- 

 ." We understand that a gentleman in that 

 borhood is preparing a full and scientific ilo- 



lioii of the gold, and the region in whicli it 



bund. [Troy Sentinel.] 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



ingenuity of the British statesman has been 

 long period tasked to discover a cure for the 

 of absenteeism in Irelaml — the same evil is 

 d on Carolina, and generally on the Southern 

 ill tlifl shape of an emigration of lier citi- 

 to t!ie North, during the summer months. — 

 computed that this practice subjects tins city 

 to a drain of at least 500,000 dollars annually, 

 this is a tile without any rcflu:;. If any of 

 olden stream flowed back upon us — if our 

 lern brethren visited us during our mild and 

 iful winters, we should stand on some footing 

 iprocity. It is true that whilst fashion fixes 

 uarters at the North it is idle to expect her 

 ies should continue at tlie South. But tlie 

 tion is not confined to the mere idle throng 

 are always borne along on the current of 

 -it is extending to those who were former- 

 ad with their families for the entire year, at 

 s from which they draw tlieir revenue, and 

 1 contains their property. This formerly fix- 

 Ttion of our population is becoming a part of 

 .nnually moving mass which drains the city 

 tate of those resources which should nourish 

 idustry of their inhabitants. 

 s is an alarming and we fear an increasing 

 The abstraction of half a million of dollars 

 annually, leaves a friglitful void in the 

 IS branches of industrious exertion. It must 

 ably drive our population away, if not soon 

 ted. Our city is almost by imperceptible de- 

 dwindling into narrower limits. 



Charleston Patriot. 



CROPS IN Bl'.RKSllIRE. 

 An agricultural committee for vicwin" farms 

 and crops in the county of Berkshire, having just 

 closed tlieir first view, extending from ShefBcld to 

 Williarnstown, state, as the result of their obser- 

 vations, that " the prices of agricultural products 

 will not, in several particulars, equal the last year's 

 — and that, " there will bo no scarcity or want of 

 food, for man or beast, in all Berkshire this year" 

 — that much Indian corn has been sown broadcast, 

 and appears remarkably tiirilty — that the quantity 

 of oats sown this year, probably exceeded in acres 

 one-half, any former year, and were never stouter 

 or more productive — that Indian corn never ap- 

 peared more promising — the winter wheat and rye, 



on an average, middling — a fine yield of peas 



fia.x very fine and large — a ftiir crop of barley 



potatoes abundant in acres — and that the meadows 

 will tun) out far better than was supposed. 



[Hampden .lournal.] 



ARABIA! 



The Cheraw Spect-itor states that the weather 

 has been dryer this season than was ever known 

 before, occasioning great distress. The mill 

 streams were dried up, and many persons were 

 obliged to carry their grain from 40 to 50 miles to 

 have it ground. A person lately travelling from 

 Marion district, could not find a drop of water for 

 himself or horse, in the distance of fourteen miles. 



A scarcity is- spoken of in N. Carolina. We 

 hope no part of it has been caused by neglecting 

 Agriculture to seek Gold Ore. 



The Wilmington, N. C. paper says the present 

 price ol^tar and turpentine will hardly pay for the 

 barrel ; and that it takes the sap of 5000 trees to 

 fill 200 bbls. 



RKMEDY FOR. THE EFFECTS OF DRAM DRINKIXG. 



Whosoever makes an attempt to abandon spirit 

 drinking, will find from time to time, a rankling in 

 the stomach, with a sensation of sinking coldness, 

 and inexpressible anxiety. This may be relieved 

 by taking often a cupful of an infusion of cloves, 

 made by steeping about an ounce of them in a pint 

 of boiling water for six hours, and then straining 

 off the liquor. In a state of permanent languor 

 and debility, an ounce and a half of the cascarilla 

 bark, (being also first bruised in a mortar) should 

 be added to the infusion. This mixture taken in 

 the quantity above specified, three times a day will 

 be found a useful strengthener of the stomach and 

 bowels, when they have been disordered by fre- 

 quent excess and intoxication. 



CROPS IN BRISTOL. 

 3 crop of Indian corn promises to be unusually 

 . Appearances would seem to warrant the 

 tation also that a second crop of liay will 

 t in some places sufficient to make up fully 

 eficiency of the first crop. The late abundant 

 have given new life to many of the earth's 

 lets, and will have increased to an unusual 

 nexpccted extent, their quantity. One excep- 

 ;honld, perhaps, be noticed. The crop of po- 

 5 has been greatly injured, and in some fields, 

 y destroyed by the continued rains which 

 kept the earth, for two or three weeks filled 

 water. (Taunton paper, Aug. 23.1 



COPPERHEAD SNAKE. 



Mr. John Harbaugh of Frederick county, in a 

 note to the editor of the Examiner, states that on 

 the 22d ult. his daughter was bitten on the ankle 

 by a copperhead snake, the bite of which is con- 

 sidered fully as dangerous as that of a rattle snake. 

 The mouth of a common glass bottle, filled with 

 whiskey, was applied to the wound for three quar- 

 ters of an hour, and when taken away the poison 

 was found to be nearly all extracted. The poison 

 was distinctly seen passing from the wound into 

 the bottle. A perfect cure w^as effected by this 

 simple remedy. [Bait. Amer.] 



In a Paris paper called the Nouveante, it is 

 stated that there are 4000 dwellings to let in that 

 city, and that the price of rent diminishes every 

 day. 



From the Massucliusell.i Yeoman. 

 FLIES, BUGS. WORMS AND GRARSHOP- 



pj';rs. 



Much has been said and written, this season, on 

 the destructive operations of the fonijrir,^ parties 

 here introduced. In the early part of the season 

 the plants in the gardens surrendered at discretion 

 to the three first Divisions abovcnamed. Since 

 that time, the Jlcld has been stormed and taken by 



light-horse or Jli/ing artilleri/, in the rear a sort 



of corps de reserve. Swoni, famine and pestilence 

 never made sucli ravages among the race of men, 

 as these have made among vegetables in some 

 parts of the country, especially in the southerly 

 parts of Vermont and New llampsliire, and the 

 northern parts of Massachusetts, where every 

 green thing has been devoured. But while every 

 tongue has been employed in uttering useless 

 complaints, I, like " Clodpole," have been " think- 

 ing to myself," the result of which is, the belief 

 that the unusual number of these destroyers is oc- 

 casioned by the destruction of those feathered 

 tribes which were designed by the Creator as a 

 check upon the increase of insects and w orms, by 

 making them an article of food. In other words, 

 I consider these insects as a judgement froiu heav- 

 en upon the land, for the wanton cruelty of its in- 

 habitants in shooting and killing birds. 



Illustration. My neighbors expressed their aston- 

 ishment that every thing in my garden should look 

 so tlirifty and flourishing, while every plant and 

 vino in theirs was cut down and destroyed, almost 

 as soon as out of the ground, by the bugs and 

 worms : and begged to know how I preserved 

 mine from these destroyers, " O Sir, I have no 

 concern about it ; my robins see to that." I pre- 

 serve these from their enemies, the boys and cats, 

 and they preser\ e me and mj mine from the ene- 

 mies before mentioned. In one corner of my gar- 

 den, near my dwellirf^r, is a tree on which a couple 

 of tliese friends of man have reared their little 

 families for eleven successive years. There has ev- 

 er been a harmony between my birds and me. — 

 The dawn of day is ushered in by a song of praise 

 to tlieir Creator, much to the delight and instruc- 

 tion of the humble instrument of their protection. 

 The inference I would draw is, that the birds arc 

 intended by the great Author of Nature as a dou- 

 ble blessing to man, by enlivening the scenes' 

 around him by their meloilious songs, and by feed- 

 ing on those insects which devour the fruit of his 

 labour.' By killing birds, man perverts and con- 

 tumeliously rejects this blessing, and thus brings 

 upon himself a curse. One bird will destroy ten 

 or twenty small flies in a day.* Grasshoppers, in 

 the early stage of their existence, and for some 

 weeks after their appearance, are not larg-er than 

 small flies ; and ten or twelve birds would clear a 

 whole field of them before they could be large 

 enough to do any considerably injury. Parents, as 

 you value property, or the blessing of heaven, pre- 

 vent your boys from shooting birds. AMICUS. 



* This estimate of our correspondent is, we sus- 

 pect, much too low. From careful observation it 

 has, we believe, been ascertained that a single bird 

 will destroy a much larger number of insects in a 

 day. — Editor. 



No man ever offended his own conscience but 

 first or last it was revenged upon him for it. 



