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NEW ENGLAIND FAUMEU. 



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cxaaiine tracts of laml \v|iic-h have not In Massachusetts theie are 170incori)orated man 

 ulfiviiteil, we linJ nntuve lias adapted differ- uC'icturino' companies, with an aggre^'ate oajutal of 

 Js of plants to most of the distinguishal.le J-90,7(ir),00(». There are 5t Banks, with a capital 

 of soils ; and althoiujh some belonging to of .«!(!, 100,000, of which 15 with $10,050,00 capi- 

 lay from some cause or other, l)e found on 'a' '>■'« i" Boston. — There are also in the State 37 

 'a difi'crent qualitv, thev seMoin thrive, or Insurance Offices, with n capital of .•j;!),'J0(VI00, of 

 I their seeds, so as 'to become general. The ^^^'''''-'i 32, with $(),bOO,00() c:ipital, are in Boston. 

 sare of the fanner ought, therefore, to be, 'I'here are 10."? Turnpike Corporalions. There 

 t-per mi.vt.ires, to reduce his land to that »re ti!» persons employed at the Custom House in 

 Ind temporament in which the extremes of , B"ston. 

 Id cold, wot and dry, are best corrected by ( 



thcr; to give them every possible advan- 



owing from the benign influences of sun 



; to adopt such kinds of plants as they af- 



n this state cue greatest nourishment to ; 



renew tlicir fertility by a judicious isllow- 



f the most proper manures. Where these 



are done, there are few spots so unfriendly 



ivation as not to lenay his e.vpensos and la- 



".'•I I'itli a plentiful increase. But without these, 



st tracts of land will in time become a bar- 



iistc. or produce little but weeds. 



Fanr.er''s Miifrazine, 



t NKW LOOM. 



I Horace Baker, of Westchester co. N. Y, has in- 

 vented a loom that will weave cirpeting or diaper 

 to any figure, with as much ease and rapidity as 

 plnin cloth is usually woven — a little more po>»er 

 being reqiiired. It may be attended by any person 

 capable of tying the yarn. 



BORAGE. 

 A writer in a Bavarian journal resommends 

 sowing borage, and when it is full grown plough- 

 ing it down as manure, the good ofTects of which 

 he has proved by lojig experience. What renders 



r^.r 4 r>,-./-v . r 1 it preferable to most other plants for this purpose, 



CuAICt^UALi. . , ^ .•» r 1 , , , ,. , 



^ , . .■ f ,\ /■ t,. „f IS the great quantity of sofla and other salts which 



are requested to notice, lor the safety of ._ >=. ; -^ .... ^ ^ " ""y 



.1 . .u ■)! . T>„ 1 ,t „ fl,.„ ;i i.„tiU 't contains : it may be sov.-n in April, and ploiigh- 



, that on the .'1st Dec. last, a nve n»il Kettle . •' . .,,.,,,, 



, J- J :„,„ ,1.' \i ,;.,„ G'l down in August, in time to be followed by 



rcoil, on fire, was carried into the .Vleeting; .. , 



, iu Orange, for the ])urpose of warming the j ' 



Tiie effect was.as might have been e.xpect- j Or«»gcs.— Mr White, the delegate to Congress 

 N'limbers fell to the floor, and others were so f^„^ Florida, states there are annuallv gathered 

 lally injured by mhaluTg the atmosphere,that ,.,,. gj. Augustine and in the vicinity i;.TOO,000 or- 

 oal . not support themselves for sometime— ^ 3„„.gg ^,,3^^ ^^^ ^^,^3 ^^^^^ suppose.l to be 120 

 :ot li,e congregation immediately retired, it ^^^r^ o,,,^ ^^^ipj, bear at this time 4000 orancres 

 ^eved numbers would have died. , g^^j, ^j^^ ^y ^^^^^ oranges, limes, lemons, citrons 



[Montpehcr paper.] ; „„^; g,-^,^^ „^y ^^ cultivated in Florida, in quanti- 

 instince of sudden death from charcoal, oc- 1 tics sufficient to supply the whole U. S. 

 1 in this city on Saturday last. The coal had ; [Hamp. Gaz.] ^ 



:aken, kindled, from a fire place — One family | — 



n Saturday, a large pot of ignited " Scacoai" ] Hiimcane. — The editor of the Ralisbury Caroli- 

 ooin, from a belief that the sort of coal would nian. who is an intelligent, tiii;!i telling yankee, 

 harm, and it '\as <;il5oult to persna.-le them assures the public that in his statement about the 

 move it. Indeed it was returned again after late hurricane in N. C. "the one half has not been 

 once 'removed. One thing should be rccnl- told." He says he has been told by gentlemen of 

 I, and that is that the deleterious effects of credibilty that " a large four horse waggon was 

 rive no warning — they are not gradual — carried up and torn into a hundred fragments — the 

 istantaneous. — Palladium. 'iVc being twiifd ofi" into half a dozen pieces; and 



such was the fury of the wind, it wrung geese's 

 les srafUd an Oaks. — A recent French pub- necks off," &c. [IbiJ.] 



on announces, that M. Bomowskv grafted or ' _ 



!d rose contifolia, bicolor, lutea', semperflo- i io"^fC'Vy.— Joseph and Elizabeth Copeland, of 

 and alba altissiraa, on the young shoots of ; P'-^^o"'''. "n this state, had 12 children, eleven of 

 planted in potc, and placed in a green house. "'''°'" »''« "ow living, of the following ages : 90, 

 semperflorens flowered the same year ; the ^^' S*'' ^■^' 81' '^' '^^ ''6> 71, fiS, G7. There is 

 9 grew but did not flower. Only one sort died, j 'lardly a parallel for thin.— [Ibid.] 

 does not know whether they will last many 

 or not, but he recollects other anomalies of 

 iame kind. 



Ohio lohncco. — Many hogsheads of Ohio tobacco 



of the first quality, the growth of 182'5, have been 



inspected at Baltimore, and sold at from T9 to 14 



PIGEONS. dollars per hundred. The cost of transportation 



the French law, the lord had a right to the \ ''™"i 0'"° t° Baltimore is .«2,50 per 100 pounds — 



g pisieons of his vassal. e.xcept in the March I '''''^ 0'"° farmers aver that tobacco at .$4 per 



Ilart'ib supposes that there were, iji his | ^'^"^"■^'^ at their farms is a profitable crop. [Ibid.] 



in England. 20,000 riove houses and allow- t^ . . ', \ ', '. \ ; 



nn ■ . u t 1 r u 1 i . 1 '* IS astimated that durino- the last year from 



•00 iiair to each house, and four bushels to he 1 » , , , , , ' ■.no laoi j^cii nuiu 



imed yearly by each pair, it makes the loss of :^yV^',T-T'' "T" ''"'"•^ been built in 

 in a year, 1.15(100.000 bushels. In Persia, the I Philadelphia. In some places, entire squares have 



" . • J t 1 ,1 .1 -1 I c I • t I ueen constructed, 

 jns are trained to kill the wild ones, of which • 



ement they are so fond, that a Christian is 

 permitted to keep any ; and Tavernier, who 

 ions this, adds, that some Christians have be- j 

 Mahometans, merely to be cn'itled to this 1 

 lege. 



There were brought to the Centre Market, 

 Charleston, S. C. in the quarter ending Dec. 30, 

 1826— 24fi.''j oxen, .580 calves, 25G2 hogs, 051 

 sheep, tj28 lambs, .5 goats, and .500 wagons with 

 bacon, poultry, tallo.v, beeswax, butter, &c. 



POST OFFiCK IN FRANCE. 

 The number of letters circulated annually in 

 France, which pay postage, is about 00,000,000 

 and about an equal number which are transmitted 

 free of postage, forming a total of 120,000,000 let- 

 ters or packets, which are transmitted by the post. 

 The three-halfpenny post at Paris receives annu- 

 ally about 4,500,000, or nearly a si.xtoenth of the 

 total receipts of all the posts. The greatest cor- 

 respondence takes place in the month of January, 



and the smallest in the month of September 



From 2,5,000 to 30,001) IcUers arc daily put into 

 the several post-offico bo.xes in the capital ; of 

 which from 8,000 to 10,(J[()0 are the three-halfpen- 

 ny post, and 3.5,Oi;o periodical sheets or prospec- 

 tuses. Besides those, nearly 144,000 parcels are 

 annually sent to Paris alone. 



A Great Yvld. — The subscriber raised in his 

 garden the past year, from a single pumpkin seed 

 of the common sort, nineteen Pumpkins, whose 

 whole weight was 442 lbs, the largest 501bs the 

 the smallest 10 lbs. average weight over 23 lbs. 

 each. JACOB LOOMIS. 



Andover, Jan. 1827. [Hartford .Vdv.] 



It is proposed to extend the Dailij Line of Stages 

 from Boston to Bangor, Maine. 



Of the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution- 

 ary army, who served six months and upwards, it 

 is estimated that there are about 20,000 now living. 

 Some persons conceive that the expedition to 

 tile Tagns is a pretext for increasing the forces of 

 G. Britain — that something beyond the affairs of 

 Spain and Portugal is in view — that there is an 

 understanding between France and England on 

 the whole subject — and that Mr Canning did not 

 go to Paris for amusement. 



The Senate of Germany has granted to the heir 

 of Schiller a copy-right of his worhs for 25 years. 



Dr Rocamier, Physician of the Hotel Dieu. 

 at Paris, thinks the tongues of bashful maidens 

 blush when shewn to Physicians. 



The trade of G. Britain, with the United States, 

 in 1825, amounted to £11,060,703 in which 181, 

 0.33 tons of American shipping was employed, and 

 .37.852 of British. In 1824 it employed 42,802 

 British and 132,018 tons of American shipping. 



The Western States increase in their- relative 

 number of Represeotatives in Congress ; but it is 

 doubted whether the Southern States do. 



A Scotch paper says upwards of 10,000 sheep 

 perished in Scotland in the snow storms the latter 

 end of Nov. last. 



A citizen from Harlem has obtained from his 

 majesty a patent for a new machine for spinning 

 flax. [Dutch Pa.] 



On Monday last a sleigh arrived at N. York, 

 from Albany, in 3 days, with 1600 wt. of poultry. — 

 It came, of course, on the temporary Railway. 



The cultivation of Sugar Cane has been com- 

 menced in the State of Alabama. 



A letter wis received in Chillicothe from the 

 youngpr Lafayette, which was only 20 days in 

 travelling to that place from Lagrange, via Havre 

 and New York. 



A bill for a Grand Statf. Road and branches is 

 before the Legislature of New Y'ork. Tl.o whole 

 to extend over 447 miles — the cost not to exroed 

 $2000 a mile— or the whole ,$814,000. To be 

 finished in 1829. The funds are design.ated. 



