3il)e ianncr's iHonil)iy utsitor. 



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small eminence which commands a delightful 

 view of the bay, and the beautiful farms on ilie 

 opposite side of it. Mr. Channel is a Massa- 

 chusetts man, and understands the business of a 

 farmer moat thoroughly : he has made the wild- 

 erness to blossom with the honeysuckle and red 

 tops, and the waste places to yield an abundant 

 harvest of golden corn. His farm which was 

 once nearly covered with rocks and bushes, has 

 been cleared of nearly every thing of the kind, 

 and presents to the eye a most beautiful surface, 

 Covered as it is at the present time with an abun- 

 dant crop of grass. His farm being so near a 

 salt marsh, he has improved it much by carting 

 large quantities of the marsh mud into his barn 

 yard and hog pen, where it absorbs the urine, 

 and every thing else that can enrich the soil, and 

 is then spread upon the surface and ploughed in, 

 or else put in the hill. 



His barn yard and hog pen are made hollow, 

 in order that nothing may be lost. A drain leads 

 from the barn yard into ilie field, so that in case 

 of a heavy rain, all the water is carried on the 

 land, which causes an abundant crop of grass on 

 the part where the water flows, even when 

 around this portion the roots of the grass are 

 " hound out," as it is called by the farmers. 



The house, barn, carriage house, shed and 

 other out buildings are entirely new, and all ex- 

 hibit the good taste of the designer and owner. 

 Neatness, pood taste, and utility are consulted in 

 the construction of them ail : to attempt a de- 

 scription of them woidd occupy too much space 

 iu your paper. 



His stork consists of four oxen, one horse, 

 seven cows and two yearlings, ten half-blood 

 Saxon sheep, which are most beautiful speci- 

 mens of their race. The catlle are principally 

 the native breed, although some are a cross of 

 the Durham, and were brought from Massachu- 

 setts. Although his stock is not large, I should 

 judge from the milk pans, and sleek looking cat- 

 tl», that it was profitable. The youngest son, 

 Mi. Thomas S. Channel, is subscriber to the 

 Visror, and says he values it second only to his 

 Bible. 



Thfccrops in this part of the State look finely 

 — I thi.k much better than in the vicinity of 

 Boston. Grass is heavy — corn and potatoes look 

 flourishing 



1 am mu;h interested in your paper, although 

 I do not see dl the numbers. Your object is a 

 good one, am. ought to receive the approbation 

 and support at every man in the Slate. Hereto- 

 fore, the. sourcf, f information have been 

 few to the faring i, u t fortunately they are in- 

 creasing, and I h|, e they will continue to in 

 crease. Until the | ast few years, the farmer 

 could gain informal.,,, 0M |y by experience; he 

 could not depend n^n the opinions of those 

 around him, as they ofered so widely ; conse- 

 quently to be a skilful ', r , ner WO s a reputation 

 seldom attained by any 01, . |, llt s( ..ienre ; s | ell( ]. 

 ing her aid to enable him \ obtain a reward for 

 his labors. Chemistry Utlh,] 8 , |,j m wnft , js 

 necessary to make a harren, j| fruitful; and 

 Geology unfolds to him the Ct n j )08 j,j ol) f t | )e . 

 soil which he cultivates. 



The farmer is a benefit to tl ra( , e f man 

 and so far as the things of this wo.| n ._ 



manctil benefit. He who makes bushel ol 

 corn to grow where none grew Uefor.; s f more 

 lasting service than hundreds of wh„ |j V eied 

 gentry, who get their liviugout ofsoine ne e | 8e 

 In the language of Duyunne, "He tha,>| uu t s 



good seetl in the desert dearth, and brings forth 

 fruit from the brave old earth, worketli his coun- 

 try's good." 



ONE OF THE PRINTERS. 



Moses the first and greatest democrat. 



Musi's was tin; greatest Law-giver that this 

 world ever saw ; anil he was not a Monarchist, 

 nor an Aristocrat, but a Democrat of the purest 

 water. The principle of his government was 

 the perfect equality of the people's rights, iu the 

 j'xi-rcise of self-government) The Hebrews 

 were an agricultural people; they owned the 

 land, and a few could not horde up large sums, 

 thus taking away from the common mass and 

 making many poor. They elected their own 

 rulers, and their public offices required hard labor 

 corresponding to the honors of tbe station. 



Prof Wines, who is now lecturing ill Maine, 

 has slated this matter right. We find a report of 

 his lectures iu the Portland papers. His first 

 lecture iu that city was on The principles which 

 formed the basis of the Hebrew Commonwealth. 

 The Washingtonian Journal reports the lecture. 

 We make a few extracts: 



" 1st. The entire and absolute political equality 

 of all the citizens. Their Law-giver placed 

 them up. iu a far more exact level than any other 

 legislator of ancient and perhaps modern limes. 

 It is one of the best established principles of po- 

 litical science that properly iu the soil should be 

 the basis of political power. If the Prince hold 

 all the land, then the people will be serfs and 

 the government will of necessity he despotic. — 

 If a lew hold the land, the government will be 

 an Aristocracy; the lew will be wealthy, hut the 

 mass of the people will he poor and dependent. 

 Rut if all have property in the soil, the people 

 will have a Democratic government. The last 

 is the Hebrew method. Moses divided the land 

 equally among the whole body o( the people, 

 ami it was so arranged thai estates could 1101 he 

 alienated, hence no one family could acquire 

 such vast estates as would enable it to exercise 

 undue power over oiher anil poorer families. 

 How wise the arrangement ! Extreme poverty 

 and overgrown wealth were alike impossible. 

 All had an equal interest iu the preservation of 

 order and the supremacy of law ; and by remov- 

 ing incitements to tbem, the vices of idleness 

 and luxury were taken away — vices of such 

 baneful tendency in overthrowing the best ar- 

 ranged human governments. This principle is 

 admirably illustrated and defended by the elder 

 Adams, in his writings iu defence of the Ameri- 

 can Constitution, lie says thai nineteen twenti- 

 eths of the people have an interest iu the soil, 

 and while this is the case, the power must re- 

 main with the people. 



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"3d. Another fundamental principle of the 

 Hebrew political system, was the care with 

 which they educated all the citizens. We are 

 ignorant of the precise manner which they pur- 

 sued, but we know that they instructed their 

 children at home and abroad, iu public and pri- 

 vate assemblies, in all those things that pertained 

 to tljeir laws and religion. Plato, in his Model 

 Republic, imitates the Jewish system more iu 

 this than in any other point, that of instructing 

 the youth in t lie laws. In tyrannical govern- 

 ments, the people are kept in ignorance, in order 

 that they may be oppressed with impunity. The 

 &dmans instructed their youth in their laws, but 

 among t lie Jews, this duly was placed upon 

 a far higher and broader basis than among the 

 Romans. 



"4th. They were strictly an agricultural peo- 

 ple, iiiiil God designed that they should remain 

 so. Ample provision was made for internal 

 commerce by means of their annual leasts, and 

 this was the only exchange that, as an agricul- 

 tural people, they needed. Agriculture is the 

 parent an of the race — an employment lavored 

 of God and beneficent to man. lis moral influ- 

 ence may he seen iu the promotion of health, 

 morality and cheerfulness, of simple and pure 

 manners, and of all virtuous and manly attri- 

 butes. Look at those attributes as presented in 

 the character of David, King of Israel, Cinc'ui- 

 iiatlis, Dictator of Rome, and Washington the 

 father of bis Country. 



"Gth. The last principle we shall mention was 

 tlm well balunced checks of the various depart- 



ments of ihe government among theiusi Ives. — 

 There are two ways of checking ambition ; one 

 by inking away the honor of high station, the 

 clher by making duties arduous. They had per- 

 fect equality — there were none excessively rich 

 to bribe, and none sufficiently poor to he bribed. 

 The incitements to ambition were taken away, 

 in order to make any change the consent of all 

 the people was necessary. Some affirm that 

 there was a tendency lo accumulate the wealth 

 nod power in the hands of the. Levitts. How 

 contrary to the liict ! The Levite could possess 

 no land. They were 'divided in Jacob and 

 scattered in Israel.' They had power to do good 

 hut none lo do evil. All overgrown power was 

 perfectly checked." — Gospel Banner, 



What has given us a belter courage of the 

 filial success of the French in their new essay to 

 establish republican government is the important 

 fact that much the largest portion of the voters 

 in France are owners of the soil. So great in 

 that country is the division of real property that 

 the average lo each owner of the soil is fourteen 

 English acres. Willi a population of yeomanry 

 as the mass — with yeomanry of sufficient intelli- 

 gence to manage their own affairs, and with the 

 physical energies sufficient to obtain a livelihood 

 from the soil by the labor of their own hands, 

 the power of government of the masses will be 

 the strongest on earth. Universal suffrage, the 

 voting of every male inhabitant of twenty-one 

 years of age and upwards, will furnish the safest 

 depository of power in any country where the 

 owners and fillers of the soil shall compose the 

 controlling masses. The protection of govern 

 meiit for the property of the rich man is safer in 

 t lie hands of the lower and laboring classes than 

 in the less numerous upper non-laboring classes. 

 It may be the case in France, from a di hVienry 

 of common school education, thai whole neigh- 

 borhoods cannot read ; yet so much improved 

 have become the means of information that the 

 safest voters, the electors last to he cheated and 

 misled, certainly the last to be corrupted to the 

 purposes of dishonesty, will he the hard-handed, 

 ready-handed laboring men who live and subsist 

 their families from the soil. 



The spread of knowledge by means of ji free 

 press will soon make the French a universally 

 leading people: as with the industrious, moral 

 Irish who come to America, marry and rear up 

 families, if the parents cannot read and write 

 and cypher iu written figures, the children will 

 be brought up to do it, and in the end take place 

 among the first citizens of the republic. We 

 have much to fear, hut we have much more to 

 hope from the new experiment of the French 

 people. There is little safety and stability in 

 governments with crowned heads, or in heredi- 

 tary aristocracy. The United States has devel- 

 oped and is developing the strongest and best 

 government in the bauds of the masses: our 

 beautiful system has not gained all the perfection 

 of which it is susceptible. All incorruptible and 

 tincorrupted yeomanry alone can give this per- 

 fect system under our glorious constitution and 

 form of government. May Fiance and all ihe 

 world imitate our example. 



Nutritive quantity of drv and orf.f.n fod- 

 der. — It is generally supposed thai there is more 

 nutriment derived from grass in a green state, 

 than there is after it has been cured. A young 

 heifer was carefully weighed, and fed tell days 

 on green (nod, while an equal weight was nicely 

 cured, when she was again weighed and fed with 

 dry food. The experiment was li ied three limes, 

 with the same result, which was a trifle each 

 lime in favor of the dry food — not enough per 

 haps to pay the labor of curing, but sufficient lo 

 show there was no loss in nutriment, and only 

 in the water of vegetution. 



