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NEW ENGLAND FAUMEU. 



June 8, 18251 



Itaitwrnjs. — A writer in a Kentucky paper pro- 

 poses the constroclion of wooden railways for the 

 westoni country. The plan is to lay sawed tim- 

 ber, five inclic3 by twelve, ami six feet long, with 



the edge upwards, on stone pillars a foi t liigii and | responds to some day in the beginning of M:| 

 six feet apart ; the svheels of the waggon to he tlie Emperor in person goes througli the cerei 

 of the hardest wood, and of the same width as the i of opening the ground. lie repairs in great : 



CHINESE AGRICULTURAL FETE. 



The national agricultural fete of the Ch 

 deserves to be noticed. Every year, on thel 

 teenth day of tho first moon, which generally [ 



"mutilation of trees, defacing 

 fences, iiobbing orchards, &c. 



In compliance with the wishes of a correspon- 

 dent, who inriuircs « what arc the penallies of the 

 law against mutilating trees, robbing orchards, 

 &,c." we have referred to the statute book^ an<l 



find two laws on the subject passed in 17S5, and . . _ . _ _ 



1818 providing that if any person shall cut down, rail on whicli they run. Tho cost ct sucli a road i to the field appointed for this ceremony, 

 destroy, break, cut or mutilate any fruit tree for he estimates at .ivOTI) or SlOO a mile, and the cost i prhicos of the Imperial family, Iho presid 



ornament or shade, without the consent of the 

 owner, he or she so offending shall forfeit and 

 pay to the use of the Commonwealth a sum not 

 less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, to be recovered by indictment or informa- 

 tion. 



For entering orchards, or gardens, and stoahng 

 fruits or vegetables, there is a penalty of not less 

 than five nor more than fifty dollars. The party 

 offending to be also liable to the party injured, in 

 a sum equal to three times the value of the arti 

 cJo stolen. Double penalties are prescribed for 

 these trespasses when committed on the Lord's 

 day, or in the night time. For injuriuL', marring { 

 or defacing any fences inclosing another person's 

 land, or breaking the glass in any other person's 

 building, there is a penally of not less than five 

 nor more than forty shillings. When these of- 

 fences are committed in tho night time, tho pen- 

 alty is not less than throe nor more than twenty 

 pounds. In each case, the party injured is al- 

 lowed an action for damages. [Salem Observer.] 



DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS. 

 As the season of vegetation approaches, a re- 

 mark upon the application of tobacco water in tho 

 destruction of insoct:j, may not bn amiss. In the 

 progress of preparing tobacco for use, a liquid is 

 finally expressed from it, which is very chsrap, and 

 highly destructive to animal life. This, . mixed 

 with three or five parts of water, is found to bo 

 an effectual remedy for the aphis, caterpillars, and 

 similar insects which infest fruit trees. 



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of transportation tibout l.'-J cents per hundred for; the five great tribunals, and an immense nur 

 tliirty miles. 1 of mandarines, attend liim. Two sides of the 



The Quincy Rail Road is now mucli used in I are lined witii the officers of the Emperor's ho 

 conveying the stone blocks from the quarry, in the third is occupied by dilTerenl mandarines, 

 that town, to the Noponset rivers about three j fourth is reserved for all tho laborers of tho p 

 miles distant. Groat quantities arc taken down ijnce, who proceed thither to see their art ho 

 to the landinir every day, to bo carried by LigIit-|od and practised by the head of the empire. 

 ers to Charlostown for the monument on Breed's J^nipevor enters the field jilono, prostrates him: 

 Hill. Some small vessels are also employed in „nd touches the ground nine times with his h 

 taking the stone to Boston, for building. It is i in adoration of Tien tho God of heaven ; her 

 visited by many people, and is said to he equal to ' pronounces with a loud voice a prayer prepa 



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the best hopes of its proprietors 



by the court of ceremonies, in which he invo| 



the blessing of the Great Being on his labor, 



on that of his whole people ; tlien, in the capail 



nine,' 



CHINA. 



In an article in the New Monthly Rlagazinc, it '; of chief priest of the empire, lie sacrifices an 

 is remarked, that more close examination has j in homage to heaven as tho fountain of all good 

 proved the fabulous nature of many of the ac- ' While the victim is offered on the altar, a plot 

 counts extensively credited, during part of thesis brought to the Emperor, to which is yoke 

 past century, concerning tho populousnoss, mag- ; pair of oxen, ornamented in a most magnifis jtlfrij, 

 nificcnce and fertility of China, and tho civiliza- { style. Tho Emperor laying aside his impe; " " 

 tion and enlightened condition of tho inhabitants, j robes, takes hold of the handle of tho plough w 



Recent travellers," says the editor, "found vast i the right hand, and opens several furrows in 



direction of north and south ; he then gives I 

 plough into the hands of the cliief m.-indarin 

 wlio labouring in succession, display their co 



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STRAWBERRIES. 



John Williams, Esq. of Pitmaston, near Wor- 

 cester, cultivates strawberries on small ridges of 

 earth running north and south, about nine inches 

 above the level of the ground, planting the straw- 1 

 berries on the top, and laying plain tiles on eacli 

 side of the ridge. He finds the produce earlier, 

 more abundant, and better flavored, than on plants 

 grown on the flat ground. Tho flat tiles retain 

 the moisture, promote the ripening of the fruit, 

 and keep it free from dirt after heavy showers of 

 rain. — Gardiner pa. 



RAILWAY. 



The importance ot acting with decision and en- 

 ergy on this subject, will, we hope, be felt by the 

 present Legislature. It is not by hesitating meas- 

 ures and a parsimonious appropriation for their 

 accomplishment, that a work of such magnitude is 

 to be effected. iMassachusetts has the means of 

 opening an easy, rapid, and safe communication, 

 through the whole extent of her territory, with- 

 out at all burdening tlie people with taxes. Such 

 a communication is now essential not only to her 

 prosperity, but to that community of feelings and 

 interests which ought to bind together the citizens 

 of the same Cotninonwealth. — IVorctsltr Yeoman. 



desarts as they approached the capital, which sur 

 rounded it on all sides ; and that the wealth, re- 

 sources and population of China have been ridic- 

 ulously magnified. The date of tlie foundation of; partitive dexterity. The ceremony concludes w 

 tho Celestial Empire, which the Chinese pretend ] a distribution of money and pieces of cloth, 

 has existed for 97 millions of years, and which ^ presents, among tho labourers, the ablest of wh 

 even Voltaire states at 5()00 years before Christ, I executes the rest of the work in the presence 

 scarcely reaches tho fifth century before the com- [ the Emperor. After the field has received all t 

 inn- of our Saviour. ; necessary work and manure, the Emperor retur 



i to commence the sowing, with similar ceremor 



Fanna-s and .Manufacturers.— Ai a meeting of and in presence of the labourers. These cerem 

 tho Pennsylvania Society for the promotion of ' "ies are performed on the same day by tho vie 



Manufacturers and Mechanic Arts, held in Phihi- ^ roys of all the provinces. 



delphia on the IJth ult. an address was voted to j in consequence of tho protecting duty on hem 

 the citizens of the United States on the depressed : the quantity raised in Kentucky h^as been triple 

 state of the woollen manufacturers and the mar- 1 Jn 1824, there was but one manufactory of rof 

 ket for wool, and the measures proper to be taken and bagging in Lexington. Now more than or. 

 to remedy them. The Society also proposed a , million of yards of bagging are annually manufac 

 Convention, to be composed of at least five Dele-j tured in that town. 



gates from each State, to be holden at Harris- j 



burgh on the 27tli June next, for the purpose of I keceipe for co.-vsuimptio.v. 



deliberating upon the measures proper to be taken ' jn the month of May gather the flowers froi 

 in tho present condition of Agriculture and Man- j t^g Thorn bush ; boil two bunches of the blosson 

 ufactures. i in half a pint of milk ; let it stand till it is about ai 



A meeting of the growers and manufacturers of j ^y^^m as milk from the cow; drink it tho first thingl, 

 wool, was to be held in Boston on the 5th June, | jn the morning, and take a walk immediately af-L 

 to take into consideration the Pennsylvania res- torwards. This receipe has performed a cure on 



Thomas Campbell, Esq. author of the Pleasures 

 of Hope, was lately installed Lord Rector of the 

 University of Glasgow. 



olutions and address, and appoint delegates to the 

 Harrisburg Convention. — Hampshire Post. 



many persons ; and one thing must strongly re- 

 commend it, which is, the impossibility of its being 

 injurious to the complaint or to health, and therc- 

 Printinfr in France. — It appears by a report fore well worth trying. The flowers will keep 

 made to the Chamber of Peers in France, that good, and befit for use all tho year, if they arc 

 there are 350 type foundcrics. which employ 1000 ! ^vell sprinkled with salt, than put into an earthen. 



workmen ; <)<).5 master printers, of wliom 82 are 

 in Paris ; 1550 presses were in operation in 1625 ; 

 15,000,000 volumes of books are printed yearly, 

 of which the celebrated office of Didot produces 

 400,000 ; the foreman of an office earns about 

 $8,50 per week : a compositor about $5,00 ; a 

 pressman about $4,50. The number of printers is 

 estimated at 10,000. 



pan or preserving jar, and tied down to keep the 

 air from tliem. [Bath Paper.] 



AuthorUii. — Nothing more impairs authority 

 than a too frequent or indiscreet exertion of it. — 

 If thunder itself was to be continual, il would ex- 

 cite no more terror than the noise of a mill ; and 

 we should sleep in tranquility when it roared the 

 loudest. 



