£l)c Jfcumci's ittontljli) Visitor. 



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American Enterprise autl Talent. 



The mechanics and others of Charleston re- 

 cently formed nn association for their mutual 

 benefit. A more diversified industry is (he ob- 

 ject. Mr. Gregg, well known for bis writings on 

 Southern labor, spoke as follows : 



"Travelling North, some time since, I became 

 acquainted with ihe great mechanic, J. B. Bige- 

 low, of Boston, now in the receipt of $15,000 

 per annum, as consulting engineer to the la> lo- 

 ries at Lowell and elsewhere. In a personal in- 

 terview he gave me a short account of his singu- 

 lar litis. He had in his youth studied physic, and 

 taking his degree in the profession, endeavored 

 10 make a living in its practice. His heart not 

 being in the pursuit, but always hankering to 

 give his mind employment according to its turn, 

 he tidied entirely. He next tried merchandise, 

 and formed a co-partnership with that view. In 

 n short lime his interest slackened in litis busi- 

 ness also, and Ins attention became so taken in 

 the completion of a machine he bad designed, 

 and was constructing, that his partner found it 

 necessary to dissolve the connection. This was 

 done, and he was thrown upon himself, embar- 

 rassed, unhappy, wilhout money anil in debt. 

 He had nothing and owed four hundred dol- 

 lars. 



"In this condition he encountered a manufac- 

 turer, showed him his machine, which was made 

 to weave a Marseilles quilt, lis plan was ap- 

 proved, and the manufacturer purchased it for 

 $400. With this sum he paid his debts and be- 

 came free. Soon after he went to New York, 

 and saw in a shop window a Marseilles quilt of 

 finer texture, woven in a style different from any 

 previously known. It immediately occurred to 

 him, that he could make a machine which would 

 accomplish a similar work. He returned to 

 Boston, saw bis friend, the manufacturer, men- 

 tioned his new plan, told him of its superseding 

 the first one, and offered it lo him for sale. The 

 manufacturer proposed lo him a co-partnership 

 in the application of the new machine. It was 

 accepted, factories were erected, and from that 

 time his fortune dated. He afterwards invented 

 machines for weaving ingrain carpets, Brussels 

 carpets, coach lace, and ginghams, lor the doing 

 of which, there are no mills in ihe world, ex- 

 cept those in the State of Massachusetts." 

 — .«^— 



A beautiful extract. — Labor ! Why, man 

 of idleness, has labor rocked you in the cradle, 

 and nourished your pampered lite; without it, 

 the woven silks and wool upon your back would 

 be in the silk-worm's nest, and the fleeces in the 

 shepherd's fold. For the meatiest thing thai 

 ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, 

 man is indebted lo toil ; and even the air, by 

 God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor. It 

 is only the drones who toil not, who infest the 

 hive of ihe active-like masses of corruption and 

 decay. The lords of the earth are workingmen, 

 who build or cast down at their will, and who 

 retort ihe sneer of the "soft-handed " by point- 

 ing lo their ti opines, whenever art, science, civi- 

 lization and humanity are known. Work on, 

 man of toil! thy royalty is yet to be acknow- 

 ledged, as labor rises onward lo Ihe highest 

 throne of power. 



Maple Sugar Crop in Vermont. — We learn 

 by a gentleman, recently returned from the 

 north of Vermont, where he spent several weeks, 

 that the present season, on account of its cold 

 and backwardness, has proved unusually favor- 

 able for sugaring, the trees averaging a yie d of 

 about four pounds of sugar each, as the follow- 

 ing facts will show : 



Caleb Aldrich, of Su'ton, Vt., from 1700 trees, 

 made 6000 pounds of sugar. 



Mr. Noyes, of Sutton, Vt., made 2000 lbs. 



Woolston Brock way, of Sutton, Vt., from 300 

 trees, made 900 lbs. 



Harlow Brooks, of Sutton, Vt., from 350 trees, 

 made 1300 lbs. 



Ferdinand Walker, of Lyndon, Vt., from 400 

 trees, made 1700 lbs. 



These amounts are exclusive of Ihe last run 

 or molasses, they being all stirred sugars, equal- 

 ling in whiteness our muscovado, and are worth 

 there, at least six cents per pounds. — Boston 

 Daily Times. 



Brilliant Whitewash. 



.Many have beard of the brilliant stucco white- 

 wash on the east end of the President's house ai 

 Washington. The following is a receipt Un- 

 making il, as gleaned from the National Intelli- 

 gencer, with some addiiional improvements 

 learned by experiment : 



Take a half bushel of nice unslaked lime; 

 slake it with boiling waler, cover it during the 

 process to keep in the steam. Strain ihe liquor 

 through a sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck 

 of clean salt, previously well dissolved in warm 

 water: three pounds of ground rice, boiled to 

 ihin paste, and stirred in boiling but; half a 

 pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and half a 

 pound of clean glue, which has been previously 

 dissolved by first soaking it well, and then hang- 

 ing it over a slow fire, in a small ketlle within a 

 large one filled with water. Add five gallons of 

 hot waler to the whole mixture; stir il well and 

 let it stand a few days from the dirt. It should 

 he put on right hot; for this purpose, it can be 

 kept in a kettle on u portable furnace. It is said 

 that one pint of this mixture will cover a square 

 yard upon the outside of a house if properly 

 applied. 



Brushes more or less small may be used ac- 

 cording to the neatness of the job required. It 

 answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick, or 

 stone, and is cheaper. It retains ils brilliancy 

 for many years. There is nothing of ihe kind 

 lhat will compare with it, either for inside or out- 

 side walls. Coloring matter may be put in, and 

 made of any shade you like. 



Spanish-brown stirred in will make red or 

 pink more or less deep according lo the quantity. 

 A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside 

 walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well 

 mixed with Spanish-brown before it is stirred 

 into ihe mixture, makes a lilac color. Lamp- 

 black in moderate quantities makes a slate color, 

 very suitable for the outside of buildings. Lamp- 

 black and Spanish-brown mixed together makes 

 a reddish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred in 

 makes yellow-wash; but chrome goes farther, 

 and makes a color generally esleemed piettier. 

 In all cases the darkness of the shade of course 

 is determined by the quantity of coloring used. It 

 is difficult to make a rule because tastes are very 

 different ; it would be best to try experiments on 

 a shingle, and let it dry. We are told that green 

 must not be mixed with lime. The lime de- 

 stroys the color, and the color has an effect on 

 (he whitewash, which makes il crack and peel. 



When walls have been badly smoked, and you 

 wish to have them a clean white, it is well lo 

 squeeze indigo plentifully through a bag into 

 the water you use, before it is stirred in the 

 whole mixture. 



If a larger quantity than five gallons is wanted 

 the same proportions should be observed. — 

 Bowen , s Farmer. 



Facts for Farmers. 



No. 1. Milk coolers. — Farmers about to build 

 a dwelling, should know lhat by carrying up n 

 large flue (twelve inches diameter anil circular 

 is the best) in t lie chimney slack from the cellar, 

 anil having a window or two opening to the 

 north, or cold side of the house out of ihe cellar, 

 they can have as good a "milk room" under 

 their house as could be had over a spring thai 

 may be perhaps two hundred yards olf; which 

 is so pleasant lo go to in bad weather, especially 

 by the female portion of the family. 



The floor should be flagged with stone, as they 

 can be kept sweeter ami are colder than are 

 either brick or cement, which absorb "spill 

 milk " and thus tniut the atmosphere. The wall 



and ceiling should be plastered to facilitate while 

 washing and cleansing. Nothing but milk and 

 cream should he kept in the room, as a pure at- 

 mosphere for cream lo rise in, is absolutely es- 

 sential to ihe making of sweet butler, 



What is needed lo have a cool, street cellar, is a 

 current of air, which will be secured by the 

 aforesaid tine and the Open windows— as a strong 

 current of air is at least ten degrees colder than 

 Ihe same air at rest. 



No. 2. Churning. — Farmers ought lo know 

 that churning can be done with any good churn 

 in filieen minutes, as well in winter as in sum- 

 mer—by having the temperature of the cream 

 light, say 58 lo O'O degrees; anil a closet opening 

 lo such a room, would be ihe best place to keep 

 the pot in the winter. In ihe summer ihe 

 cream can be readily reduced lo the right tem- 

 perature by breaking up clean ice and puuing 

 into the churn. 



A thermometer, which is necessary to regulate 

 these matters, costs hut one dollar, (seventy-five 

 cents. — Ed. Cut.) ami such an investment every 

 farmer ought to make, who has churning lo do, 

 and thus save labor and time, which is money — 

 and make this dreaded part of the duties of 

 farmers' wives and daughters much pleasunfer 

 and easier — and for this I know they would 

 ihauk your modest correspondent, if they knew 

 him. — Indiana Farmer. 



Hamilton County, Ohio, January 10, 1849. 



D. 



Expedition to the Great Salt Lake. — We 

 understand, lhat the expedition for a trigonome- 

 trical and nautical survey of the Great Salt and 

 Utah Lakes, and the surrounding country, lying 

 in the northern portion id" Upper California, is 

 now being fined out in this city. Il has been or- 

 ganized by Col. J. J. Abert, of the Topographical 

 Bureau, and the command given to Captain 

 Howard Stansbury, assisted by Lieut. J. W. Gun- 

 nison, of ihe Topographical Engineers — a corps 

 which may well be called the workingmen of 

 the army. 



The survey will particularly develop the agri- 

 cultural resources of the country, with a view to 

 ihe supply or our Forts and Troops stationed in 

 that country, as also to embrace the astronomi- 

 cal, meteorological and other purposes which 

 >hall give a complete view of its physical geog- 

 raphy.— .Si. Louis Bepublican, of 9th inst. 



Sea Coast and Territories of the United States. 



The sea coast of the United States, according to 

 a recent report of the land office, is five thousand 

 one bundled and twenty miles, including ihe 

 Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific, or a "shore line" fol- 

 lowing ihe irregularities of the shore and sea 

 islands, according to an estimate of the Superin- 

 tendent of the Coast Survey, of 33,083 miles. 

 The territories of ihe United Stales, including 

 those recenily acquired, contain two millions, 

 one hundred and eighty-seven thousand, four 

 hundred and ninety-six square miles, or 1,023,- 

 518,080 acres, which is sufficient to give fifty-one 

 acres, wilhout including the Stales, to every one 

 of the twenty millions of inhabitants in the 

 country. This territory is distributed as follows : 

 Northwest Territory, west of the Mississippi 

 river, 723,218 square miles; Wisconsin Territo- 

 ry, 22,33li square miles; Oregon, 341,462 ; Upper 

 California and New Me.\ ; co, 526,078; Texas, 

 325,520. The newly acquired territory lying 

 north of 30 degrees 30 minutes is 1,642,784, 

 souih 544,713, — Free Press. 



Egg Pone. — Three eggs, a quart of Indian 

 meal, a large table spoonful of fresh butler, a 

 small tea spoonful of Bait, a half pint or more of 

 milk. Beal the eggs light and mix them with 

 milk ; then stir in gradually the Indian meal, 

 adding salt and butter. It must uot be batter, 

 but a sofi dough, just thick enough to he stirred 



