Vol. 1.— No. 32. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



cles the brow of the husbandman ; affection 

 and simplicity adorn his partner with a beau- 

 ty which nothing but an innocent mind and 

 domestic industry can impart ; innocence 

 and health beam on the countenance of his 

 offspring ; pure religion and morality influ- 

 ence all their actions, and although no monu- 

 ment shall transmit their names to posterity, 

 and they shall pass unnoticed in the page of 

 history, still in the opinions of the virtuous 

 and the wise, they hold a higher rank and 

 •are more esteemed, than all the conquerors 

 which the old world has ever produced. 



We wish to enforce the absolute necessity 

 of industry and rigid economy. We speak 

 to the Plough Boys, and address them in 

 the language of friendship; we are aware 

 that the industrious feel a consciousness of 

 having done their duty, and are rewarded by 

 the pleasing recollections which it affords 

 them ; but there are some who have degen- 

 erated and walk not in the way of their fa- 

 thers. To them we say — '• go to the ant, 

 thou sluggard , consider her ways and be 

 wise." We call upon you who pass your 

 days in indolence to exercise reflection; 

 look around you, and consider who in your 



man for many ages to bring them to their 

 full extent, what shall we say to the White 

 Ants, which require only a few months to 

 build a metropolis capable of containing an 

 infinitely greater number of inhabitants than 

 even imperial Nineveh, Babylon, Rome or 

 Pekin in all their glory !" Y. 



Wool — Has fallen and is falling. The 

 Manufacturers have nearly their stock 

 for the year. The farmers have been 

 killing their calves & raising their lambs; 

 so that next year the quantity of Wool 

 in the market will be great and price less; 

 and soon; till the farmers call raising 

 wool a losing business and give their 

 sheep to the hogs. Then wool will be- 

 come •-carce and the price will rise and 

 more sheep will be raised and the price 

 come down again and so on indefinitely. 

 It will however be a good business on 

 the whole for those who follow it steadily 

 and judiciously ; as all that it brings at 

 the shearing floor, over twenty-five cents 



per pound, where sheep are well man- 

 neighborhood commands the most respect! ag d, is clear profit. Keep as many 

 and esteem : is it the man who rides about ; sheep as your farm will most convenient- 

 the country visiting his neighbors? or thejjly maintain, and vou will have a steady 

 one who by prudence and industry has ac-j ;thou? . h unequa i pro fi t . Go to sp. cula- 

 cumulated a competency? You are capa- [i tj — disarrange your other business for 

 ble of determining this question; and we ' , , r , ■ , 



earnestly entreat you to submit no longer to ! lle sa u ke of kee P'"g a g re f many sheep 

 the degrading epiihet of the drone, which; J ust because wool now brings a good 

 you must receive if you continue in idleness, j| price and you will probably bring your 



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but rouse from your lethargy and exert your 

 faculties, lest the industrious bees combine 

 and drive you an outcast from their hive. 



In every civilized country the industrious 

 farmer has been respected ; but in none 

 have they enjoyed so many advantages as in 

 our own. Here the man who cultivates the 

 soil, and adheres attentively to his employ- 

 ment, acquires a fortune, and the confidence 

 of his fellow-citizens, in addition to all his 

 other advantages ; and if he possesses that 

 strong and vigorous mind, that plain com- 

 mon sense for which our countrymen are re- 

 markable, honors await him in our legis- 

 lative halls and national councils. All these 

 advantages the slothful man must renounce ; 

 for who will repose confidence in, or entrust 

 the management of their affairs to the man 

 who is totally incapable of regulating his own 

 private concerns ? No one. Then let the 

 slothful man, as he values reputation, as he 

 dreads the scorn and contempt of his fellow- 

 citizens, as he fears the wrath of an offend- 

 ing Deity, abjure the paths of indolence 

 which lead to infamy, and follow those of in 

 dustry which insure re'spectability. 



But sloth is not the companion of the 

 Plough Boys alone ; it pervades all classes 

 of community, and particularly our large 

 populous cities. But in them we fear it is 

 so deep rooted, that it will never be entirely 

 eradicated. It was not our intention when 

 we first commenced this essay to give a mi- 

 nute detail of the societies of ants, but to 

 draw a moral lesson from them, by making 

 use of such facts only as would answer our 

 purpose. We request the citizen, when con- 

 templating the magnificent buildings in his 

 vicinity, the spacious and commodious streets, 

 the vast multitude of rational beings that 

 subsist in social intercourse, to consider at 

 the same time the following extract: — "If 

 we think with wonder of the populous cities 

 which have employed the united labors of 



crop of wool to market just in season to 

 catch a loss. — Hudson Columbia Repub. 



Mortgaging the Body. — The April 

 number of the North American Review 



onrnent for debt is of little other use than 

 exhibiting a relic of a barbarous acre. — 

 JV Y. Gaz. h 



An occasional correspondent of ours, says 

 the Bedford, Pa. Gaz. whose veracity is 

 unquestionable, wishes to state by way of ex- 

 position that oxalic acid is not unfrequently 



used in the cleaning of tripe, entrails, &.c. 



He learnt by this mere accident : Happen- 

 ing to be in a druggist's shop, not a hundred 

 miles from this town, a little girlcame in to 

 purchase some oxalio acid ; and, as it is 

 well known it is a strong and deadly poison, 

 the natural and very prudent inquiry was 

 made by the tradesman, 'What do you 

 want it for ?' The answer was, ' My moth- 

 er wants it to scour tripe.' It is used to 

 make tripe white. The druggist took care 

 to give the girl a small quantity after such an 

 explanation. Several persons were taken 

 ill, and one died at Bedford last year, in 

 consequence of eating the inside of ani- 

 mals. 



Blushing Blue. — A French paper states 

 that there is a young girl of 17, residing in 

 the environs of Angers, whose body to the 

 waist is quite blue, and when any thing is 

 said to induce a blush, her face, instead of 

 becoming red, assumes a still darker blue 

 color. 



Protection of Lambs and Geese. It 



is but little known, but is nevertheless a fact, 

 says the Portland Mirror, that a little tat 

 rubbed on the necks of your lambs or geese, 

 will prevent the depredations of foxes among 

 them, these animals having an unconquera- 

 ble aversion to the smell of tar. 



According, to a computation published in 

 the Courier, the average increase of the pop- 

 contains a notice ot the tilth Annual ulation of New- York city is equal to one 



Report of the Boston Prison Discipline 

 Society, and a great number of facts in 

 regard to imprisonment for debt. 



The Society have returns from one 

 hundred prisons for the year 1829. In 

 32 of these 2841 persons were imprison 

 led for sums less than 20 dollars, and 902 

 for sums more tiian 20 dollars and less 

 than 100 dollars. 



In 53 prisons, the whole number im- 

 prisoned for sums more th n 100 dollars 

 was but 416, as 1 to 7, compared with 

 the number imprisoned for less than 20 

 dollars 



In 17 prisons, in which 2057 persons 

 were imprisoned, only 294 paid the debt. 



In 17 prisons in the Northern States, 

 in the year 1829, there were imprisoned 

 2742. In the same number of prisons in 

 the Southern States, for the same period, 

 but 35 were imprisoned. This is a stri- 

 ding fact exhibiting in strong contrast the 

 liberalized character of the laws of the 

 South in contrast with those of the north. 



It is computed that in the Northern 

 and Middle States, during the year 1829, 

 more than 50,000 persons were impris- 

 oned for debt. 



From the returns, it appears that the 

 average number of persons discharged, 

 by taking the poor debtors oath, is twice 

 as great as the numbers who pay the debt. 



Facts of this kind may be cited to any 

 extent, all tending to show that impris-j 



person in every hour and twelve minutes. 



The editor of the Pottswvn Star men- 

 tions that a Gold mine has been discovered 

 on the premises of Mr. Bredlinger, in Neu- 

 Hanover township, Montgomery county. 



It is a curious fact, that the Pope is, at 

 this moment, the only monarch in Europe 

 who, without a national debt to liquidate, 

 has a surplus revenue. 



There are, at this time, two red-breasts, with 

 indefatigable industry, feeding and bringing up a 

 nest of young black-birds in an ivy tree, in tin- 

 garden of Mr. Bell, of Thirsk, near the city of 

 London. 



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