Vol. 1.— No. 52. 



AND GAUDE\ER'S JOURNAL. 



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tualh one if tlijj last productive in the 

 State, was almost ill of tliis undervalued 

 kind of land, having but very little of the 

 carpeted sort, covered with muck, or of fat 

 clay, or recent river alluvion. What there 

 was, was soon seized, as the cream of ihe 

 whole, leaving the dry ridges to the slow 

 coming ' Interlopers,' who have long since 

 enjoyed the cream, leaving the soui milk to 

 their lopper-loving neighbors. The eastern 

 part of Columbia county, also, timbered 

 with oak and chesnut, among which muck 

 lately is found consisting of dry ' ridges 

 and barren vales,' as they were then though!, 

 was like the lands of Dutchess, regarded in 

 the same light. Some 70 years ago, those 

 lands were ' taken vp,' as it was called, on 

 paying a trifling fee of office, and a title 

 was soon acquired, of possession, by occu- 

 pancy as a Farm, and a muckery of a brush 

 fence inclosure. Farms, thus acquired, are 

 yet in possession of the families of the first 

 occupants, and good Farms, with good titles. 

 Yet all these inducements could not keep 

 the Salisbury men, Yankees, just over the 

 line of • York State' from participating in 

 the rage for carpeted lands, the beech and 

 maple and basswood and ash and elm groves 

 of the ' New Statu,' as Vermont was called. 

 They sold their Farms, in Salisbury and laid 

 out the availsin the mucky wilds of Vermont 

 much to their subsequent loss, mortification 

 and regret. 



My Father, one of those, with several 

 brothers, who had been bred to Farming, 

 on hard land, sold the old Farm, a very 

 large and good one, to become Farmers on 

 soft land, most abundantly carpeted, 'over 

 shoe' in black muck When first cleared, 

 it produced great crops of grain, or, rather, 

 a great crop, — for it very soon began to wear 

 out, though managed by good Husbandry 

 and in 10, 15, to 20 and 30 years, would 

 produce nothing but grass, coarse, wet-Ian 

 sedge, or wild grass, because the turf could 

 never be subdued so as to make it take seed 

 ing. As to grain for bread for the family, 

 that we had to purchase from otiiers, after a 

 few years, raised on land more recently 

 cleared, as the occupants of those lands have 

 iiad to do, in their turn. Grass, grass, al 

 grass, and yet poor feed, as pasture, or hay 

 Land that will produce but one kind of pro 

 duct, makes hard living for Farmers, like the 

 shingles of Sasandaga. The only resource 

 of the occupants of those lands, now, (who 

 cannot get away,) is the dairy and the rais 

 ing of young cattle, for the Farmers of 

 Dutchess, Columbia and VVesthcester, livini 

 on lands that were never carpeted. Land 

 moderately moist, and cool, will answer wel 

 for dairy and stock-farming, but wet, and 

 cole! land, contrasted with warm and dry, as 

 above, makes tough, cold, and sour pasture 

 or hay, miserable feed, long and sour, like a 

 tedious and ill told story. 



Sipt.ll, 1831, 



HOUSEKEEPING. 



The true economy of housekeeping i: 

 simply the art of gathering up all the frag 

 ments, so that nothing be lost. 1 mea,. 

 fragments of Vint, as well as materials. — 

 Nothing should be thrown away, so long as 

 it is possible to make any use of it, however 

 trifling it may be ; and "whatever be the size 

 of a family, every member should be em- 

 pi >yed either in earning or saving money. 



If you have a greater qaantity of cheeses 

 in the house than is likely to be soon used 



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covet them carefully with paper, fastene 

 with flour paste so as to exclude the air. I ■ . 

 this way they may be kept free from ins cts 

 for years. They should be kept in a dry coo! 

 place. 



Instead of covering up your glasses and 

 pictures with muslin, cover the frames onl\ 

 with cheap yellow cambric, neatly put on. 

 nd as near the color of the gilt as you cai 

 procure it. This looks better, leaves the 

 glass open for use, and the pictures for oi 

 iiament, and is an effectual barrier to dust as 

 well as flies. It can easily be re-colorei. 

 with saffron tea, when it is faded. 



i'he fumes of brimstone are useful in re- 

 moving stains from linen, &c. : thus, if a 

 ed rose be held in the fumes of a brimstone 

 match, the color will soon begin to change 

 and at length the flower will become white 

 By the same process, fruit stains or iroi 

 lonlds may be removed from linen or cot 

 ton cloths, if the spots be previously moist 

 ened with water. 



When plain tortoise shell combs are deist 

 ced, the polish may be renewed by rubbing 

 them with pulverized rotten stone and oil. 

 The rotten stone should be sifted through 

 muslin. It looks better to be rubbed on \>\ 

 the hand. The jewellers afterwards polisi 

 them by rubbing with dry rouse powder, but 

 sifted magnesia does just as well; and if the 

 ladies had rouge, perhaps they would, by 

 mistake, put it upon their cheeks, instead ol 

 their combs : and thereby spoil their com- 

 plexion. Frugal Housewife. 



A Farm School for the Poor. — We ve 

 ry much doubt whether a more really benefi 

 cent will, can be found on record than the 

 one we are about to mention. We have no 

 information of the character of the deceas 

 ed, nor of his wealth or will, but what is con 

 tained in an advertisement, which we find it 

 i South Carolina paper. By this advertise 

 inent it appears that provision is made in the 

 will of the late John de la Howe for the edu- 

 cation of twenty four poor children, twelvi 

 boys and twelve girls. The trustees appoint- 

 ed to carry the will into effect, advertise f 

 a teacher to superintend a farm school as 

 planned and provided for in the will of th< 

 deceased. They have provided a good farm 

 suitable buildings, utensils, provisions and 

 the necessary stock, and offer a liberal salary 

 for a teacher. According to the plan of the 

 school in the will, the children will live to 

 gether as one family, and the expenses are 

 lo he defrayed out of the funds of the estat 

 with the addition of the labor of the chil- 

 dren on the farm. The qualifications requ 

 red in the teacher shew that the intention of 

 • he liberal testator are to be carried into ef- 

 fect to their full extent. He must posses 

 an unimpeachable moral character, and suit 

 able habits and attainments to instruct in all 

 the branches of English and scientific liter- 

 ature, subservient to agriculture and house 

 wiiery. We consider such a disposition of 

 property by last will and testament, more 

 honorable to the testator than monuments of 

 brass or stone in cotnemmoration of the 

 deeds of the warrior, the statesman, or the 

 philosopher. It is, indeed, doing the most 

 good in one's power with the least possible 

 harm to our fellow beings— and this is the 

 acme of human greatness. 



A Slap at a King. — The following par 

 agraph from an English paper is intended 

 as a slap at the present King, who has giv 



en the title of Earl of Munster, to one o' 

 his natural sons. 



"A sermon has been published in the 

 Preacher, as delivered by a Rev. Mr. M'- 

 Niel on behalf of the Reformation I ocie- 

 ty,on the 3lst May last: and in the course 

 of which that gentleman uttered the follow- 

 ing words : — ' I must not hold my tongue 

 against one of the most awful, one ol the 



ost fearful affronts that was ever put in 

 the history of man, upon the morals of a 



hristian nation. My car brethren, may 

 1 not say, must I not say, can I an^v er lor 

 myself before God, if I sayjit not in connex- 

 ion with such a portion of Scripture as this? 

 ' hold that we, as a righteous nation, ought 

 to rise in indignation against it . I hold that 

 the church in this nation should protest a- 

 gainstit; I hold that the bishops in the 

 church, if they have a seat in the House of 

 Peers, ought to bring before the public — 

 to bring into public notice, the putting into 

 the Gazette — the putting into honorable 

 dignity of station — what shall I say ? i iiild- 



en that are the fruit of fornication ; that 

 are the fruit of ungodliness in the land.' 



The CHOLERA sweeps westward thro 

 Europe with fearful rapidity. It has reach- 

 ed Hamburgh and probably the other com- 

 mercial cities of the German Sea. They 

 begin to expect it at Paris ; and, we are in- 

 ormed, extensive provision against it is com- 

 menced. It will probably visit England. — 

 Will it stop there? Will the ocean be a 

 narrier against it; Will it walk in desolation 

 aver our land ? 



A medical writer at Moscow, of some cred- 

 it, assures us of his conviction that it will 

 pass onward over the whole earth. Accord- 

 ing to him, it is not contagious; which opin- 

 . ai is formed from the dissection without in- 

 jury, by himself, of more than one hundred 

 iieisons who have died of it. He tells us, it 

 is disseminated through the air by some mys- 

 terious process ; against which cordons sani- 

 taries and quarantines are no protection. 



The London Sun states, that it appears 

 b) an article from a German paper, that a 

 plague, called the " Black Death," which 

 lesolated Asia and Europe, from 1346 to 

 1350, was similar in movements and effects 

 to the cholera, and arose in the regions of 

 India and China. Within a year it passed 

 over a third part of Asia, and penetrated 

 southwardly to the Mediterranean sea, then 

 northwardly, through the Greek empire to 

 Russia. In 1348, it reached Italy and 

 Prance; in 1349. Spain, England, and Scot- 

 land ; in 1350, all the other nations of north- 

 ern Europe. More than three-fifths of the 

 population perished. 



Important lo Underwriters. — By the 

 Act of Edward Leap. 4, and 4th ol he 

 same King cap. 2, it is enacted, \\ . a 

 man, a dog, or a cat, escape alive out of a- 

 ny ship, suth ship shall not be deemed a 

 wreck. Onthe(i'h : hi, the 



ship Dart, of Sunderland,drifted into Ports- 

 mouth without a soul on board ' a live cat, 

 however, being found in the cabin, Ihe ves- 

 sel escaped becoming a droit of the Admi- 

 ralty, and was given sn ciiasge oi the her- 

 ' io be delivered to the owners. — London 

 paper. 



