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was standing in her bare feet upon a mud wall at 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a pumpkin upon 

 her head— KetidaWs Sanla Fe Sketches. 



The lastTliree days (Sept. 22, 23, 24) have pre- 

 sented almost the air of mid-winter: old Boreas 

 has blown his blast almost to the splitting of his 

 cheeks. A Newport paper mentions that snow 

 has already covered the mountains of SulMvan 

 county This accounts for the severity of the 

 weather. We had the first frost on the night of 

 Friday, Sept. 23. 



Joseph Stanwood, Esq., of Hopkinton, in- 

 formed us that he has, the present season, raised 

 from a single liill in which was planted one un- 

 cut potato only, 104 lbs ! 



the Con- 



THEFARMER>S MONT H L Y V I S I TO R. Sep tember, 184S. 



n „ iniirl unll fit As thfi .iltfivnatR showers and .<!iinKhinR of sum- MOLASSES — Porto Rico, 195 bbls. 21 a 23.4 c. per en\. 



Wele 



that the wool-growers 

 necticut river valley are now able to sell their 

 common Merino wool at tlieir doors for thirty 

 cents per pound. ^^^^^ 



Laiige Fleeces.— Claudius Allen, Esq. of 

 Cheshire, Ct. last year sheared from one slieep, 

 one year old, 14 lbs. and from three slieep of the 

 same age, SB-i lbs. of wool. Tliis year, from II 

 ewes and 1 buck, he cut 88 lbs. 



The Merrimack Comity Agricultural Show and 

 Fair is to be at Franklin in the thud week ol 

 October. , ,_,,.,.. 



The Cheshire County Agricultural Exhibitiou 

 was to be on the 28th September at Keene. 



As the alternate showers and sunshine of sum- 

 mer ai e requisite to the proper growth of vege- 

 tation, causing it to assume new life and beauty ; 

 so are alternate joys and sorrows, necessary to 

 tlie heart of man ; washing away its impurities 

 and giving lustre to its virtues. 



As spring, with its cheering sunshine, and re- 

 freshing showers, reanimates to new life the 

 growth of vegetation ; so the soothing accents of 

 love and sympathy restore to wonted brightness 

 the heart desolated by grief; causing it to put 

 forth the shoots of gratitude and joy. 



Avarice has ruined more men than prodigali- 

 ty, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expendi- 

 ture has not destroyed so many fortunes, as the 

 insatiable lust of accumulation. — Ibid. 



MOLASSES— Porto Rico, 195 bbls. 21 a 23.J c. per gal. 



SUGAR— St. Jago. white, 32 boxes, Jj(8 OO a 7 90 ; do. 

 brown, 67 do. g6 25 a 6 30 per 100 lbs. 



Terms of the above, from glOOtoSOO, 4 mos ; over 

 gSOO, 6 nioa. 



NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 1842.— The Commercial Ad- 



" Since our last notice there has been a gradual im- 



business. and the community .ippe.ir to ba 



gaining confidence in the anticipation of better timoe. If 



increase of trade is not as rapid as might by many be 



lied, it is nevertheless of a character to impart greater 



stability and render us less liable to a sudden reaction. 



Rapid changes are not usually permanent, and in our 



Gw it is much better for the country, and more condu- 



ve to the prosperity of the community, that we should 



ove moderately forward. Indeed, we do not see how 



can be otherwise.'' 



Many of the advocates of economy are more 

 economical than prudent. He that goes bare- 

 tooted to save his shoes, may save them so long, 

 that he will not live to see them worn out 



THE MARKETS. 



The Messrs. Parkers of Merrimack have this 

 vear caught three hundred dozen pigeons, which 

 sent to the Boston market by railro.id, have av- 

 eraged the price of one dollar per dozen. 



Stoop a h'H/e.— The following story related by 

 Dr. Franklin in a letter to Dr. Mather, has been 

 often told, and is well worth telling again : 



"The last time I saw your father (says Dr. 

 Franklin,) was in 1724. In taking my leave, he 

 showed mc a short way out of the house, thi-ough 

 a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam 

 over head. We were still talking as I withdrew, 

 he accompanying me behind, and I turning to\y- 

 ards him, he said hastily, ' Sloop ! stoop.'' I did 

 not understand him till 1 felt my head hit against 

 the beam. He was a man who never nii.ssed an 

 occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he 

 said to me, 'You are young, and have the world 

 before you : stoop a little as you go through it, 

 and you will avoid many hard thumps. 1 his ad- 

 vice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been 

 of use to me ; and I often think of it when I see 

 pride mortified ami misfortunes hroiight upon 

 people by carrying their heads too high. 



Swimming.. — There is one scientific rule which 

 if suitably impressed upon the mind, would save 

 life in all ordinary cases ; and for a want of a 

 knowledge of this rule, very expert swimmers are 

 sometimes drowned. The rule is this: Clasp 

 vour hands behind your back, make your nose 

 the highest point of your body, (or look towards 

 the ho'i-izon over your forehead,) and do not stir a 

 muscle,and vou will infallibly float. 



Thus every human being has a life-preserver 

 against water, if only taught to use it. The 

 brutes from their diflerent conformation, and es- 

 pecially from their want of the great rational de- 

 velopement of the forehead, float by necessity, 

 and swim bv instinct. It is a pity and a paradox 

 that men should lose their lives by a more lib- 

 eral allowance of brains! — Free Amer. 



Manual Laioc— The great Locke had the right 

 notion of the salutary influence of moderate labor 

 upon the mind. Gardening, or husbandry in gen 

 eral, he says, and working in wood, as a carpen- 

 ter, joiner, or turner, are fit and healthy recrea- 

 tions for a man of study or business. It is well 

 understood by jihysiologists that to increase the 

 vigor of the mind we should increase the vigor 

 of the body ; not by eating and drinking alone, 

 but by hca"lthlul exercise— Sciecterf. 



Boston Wholesale Prices Current. 



Conecled/or tite A'. E. Farmer. 

 SKEDS. Herds Grass, g2 60 to 3 00 per bushel. Red 

 Top, 40 to 50 cents. Clover— Northern, 00 to 12c.— 

 Southern, a 10c. Flax Seed, gl .W per bushel. Lu- 

 cerne, 30c. per lb. Canary seed, ^4 50 per bushel. 



GRAIN. Duty, Corn, Rye and Beans, free ; Barley 20 

 per cent. ; Oats 20 per cent. 



The market, in view of expected arrivals, has barely 

 sustained the late quotations. 



Corn— Northern, old, bushel 61 to 62— Southern, round 



yellow, old, 60 a Southern flat yellow, new, .57 a 00— 



do. do. white do. 00 a 54— do. New Orleans, 00 a 00— 



Barley — a Rye, Northern, 65 a 67— do. Southern, 



60a 62— Oats, Southern, 26 a 28— Northern do. 30 to 31 



—Beans, per bushel, 75 a gl 25.— Shorts, per double 



bush. 2« a 25— Bran, 20 a 22. 



FLOUR. The market acquired a little more firmness 



D close, owing to a temporary scarcity, but as large 



liRS are now daily expected, no improvement in pri- 



5 looked for. 



Itimore, Howard Street, 4 mos. cr. Si 87 a 000— do. 

 wharf. Si 73 a 000 do, free of garlic, ^OOO a Phila- 

 delphia do. 4 mos. S4 75 a 4 87— Fredericksburg, lowl'd 4 

 .s. S-1 87 a 00— Alexandria, wharf mountain,— 00 a 

 —Georgetown, g5 00 a 00— Richmond Canal, gi 75 

 I 00 — do. City, $000 aO 00— Fetersburgh, South Side, 

 «0 00 a OO— do. Country, ^4 75 a 00— Genesee, corn- 

 cash, giala.0 00— do. fancy brands, g5 00 a 00— 

 Ohio, via. Canal, §4 02 a 4 75— do. do. New Orleans, cash 

 SO 00 a 00. Rye, ^0 00 a 00— Indian Meal in bbls. 

 S2 73 a 300. 



PROVISIONS. The transactions at private contract 

 comprises 500 bbls. Mess Pork, and 200 Prime. Lard is 

 iu steadv demand, and prices improving. 



Beef— Mess, 4 mos. new bbl. g8 75 a 9 00— Na 

 go 00 a 00.— No 1, g6 23 a C 75— do. Prime g400 a 

 —Pork— Extra clear, 4 mo. bbl. g 1 1 00 a 00 00— do. clear 

 910 00al0 50,doMess, g750a8 00— do. Prime g5 00 o 



6 00— do. Mess, from other Slates.— a do. Prime do 



do. g5 00 a 5 50, do. Cargo do. a 000 Clear do. do 



glO 00a 10 50— Butter, shipping. 6 a 8— do. store, unin- 

 spected, 8 a 10 — do. dairy, 14 u 16, — Lard, No. 1, Boston 

 ins. 7 a 7i— do. South and Western, 7 a 7A, Hams, Bos- 

 ton, 6 a 7 — do. Southern and Western,* a 6 — Cheese 

 Ship'g and 4 meal, 3 a 4— do new milk, 5 a 64. 



WOOL. Duty. Tiie value whereof at the place of ex 

 portatiun shall not exceed 8 cts. per pound, free. AI 

 whereof the value exceeds 8 cts. per pound, 32 per ct. ad 

 val. and 4 cts. per pound. 



Sales of pulled and fleece in modcr.ite quantities have 

 been made without any material advance from former pri- 

 ces. Sales of 300 bales foreign coarse at nnproveii prices. 

 Prime or Saxony Fleeces, washed, lb. 37 a 40c.— Amer- 

 ican full blood do. 33 1 37— Do. » do. 32 a 36— Do. 4 do. 

 30 a 32-1 and common do. 25 a 28 — Smyrna Sheep, 

 washed, 20 a 25— Do. unwashed, 10 a 13 — Bengasi do. 8 a 

 10— Saxony, clean,— Bueuos Ayres unpicked, 7a 10— do. 

 do. picked, 12 a 16 — Superfine Northern pnllcd lamb, 2.1a 

 35— No. 1 , do. do. do. 28 a 30— No. 2, do. do. do. 20 a 22 

 —No. 3. do. do. do. 12 a 15. 

 HOPS. Duty 20 per cent. 



There have been none of the new crop inspected, and 

 prices are not yet established. 



HAY, per ton, gl6 to IS— Eastern Screwed, gl4a 16. 

 CPEESF,— Shipping and 4 meal, 6 to 8c.— New 9 lo 1 1. 

 Eggs, 12 a 16. 



The earth, indeed, is doubly grateful— inns 

 much as she not only repays forty fold to the cul 

 tivator, but reciprocally improves its iiiiprover,re 

 wardingliim with health, strength and vigor. 

 Ibid. 



BRIGHTON M.VRKET— MoNriAV, Sept. 19, 1842. 

 Reported for the Boston Daily .Advertiser. 



At market 700 Beef Cattle, 875 Stores, 3200 Sheep 

 and 1123 Swine. 



PuiCES — Be^ Cattle — We quote to correspond witli 

 last week, vix : a few extra at S3. First quality 4 50 a 

 1 75 ; second quality go 75 a g4 25 ; third quality g3 a 

 S3 50. 



Stores— Two year old at g7 a gl2 ; three year old gU 

 a g20. 



Slieep — .\ little quicker without much advance. We 



iticed lots sold at 75c, gl 08, 1 '25, 1 33 and gl 50. 



'ethers gl 50 gl 62 and g 175. 



.S'loinc — Lots to peddle at 2.Jc for Sows, and SJc for 



irrows. Old Hogs at 3c. At retail from 3* to 5c. 



BROKEN BANKS IN NEW ENGLAND. 



Burrillville, R. 1. iLafayette, South Boston 



Commonwealth, Boston. Middlesex, Cambridge^ Ms, 

 cisea Bank, Chelsea, Ms.|Nahant Bank, Lyn 



Castine, Me 

 Derby, Conn. 

 Eagle, New Haven, Conn. 

 Fulton, at Boston, Ms. 

 Franklin, at South Boston. 

 Farmers', Belchertown, Ms 

 Frankfort, at Frankfort, Me. 

 Globe, at Bangor, Me. 

 Kennebec, Me. 



Norfolk, at Roxbury, Ma. 

 Newburyport, at Newbury-. 



port, Ms. 

 Oldtown, at Orono, Me. 

 Passamaquoddy,Eastport M« 

 Roxbury, Ms. 



Stillwater Canal, Orono.Me. 

 Wiscasset, Me. 

 Washington Co. Calais, Mo. 



Hampshire Bank, Northarap- 



Ms 



Bank. 



del, Me. 

 "Mendon Bank 

 Newburyport Bank, old 

 Ph(EnixBank,Nanluckel 

 Sutton Bank, Wilkini 



ville, Ms. 

 Saco Bank 

 »VVatcrville Bank 

 Winthrop Bank, Me. 

 ire still received. 



riorthlcBB. 



ct. di>. 



BOSTON MARKET— Sept. 20, 1842. 



FLOUR — In good demand, and the receipts of Gene- 

 see are taken as fast as it arrives, common brands 4 94, 

 and fancygSaoOG. Ohio, via. canal, 431, cash : George- 

 town, gS, 4 mos. 



GRAIN— Corn is dull, with considerable in market. 

 Last sales at 57c. Sales of Delaware Oats 27c. 



FISH- Sales of Mackerel, No. 3, g 1 ; No. 2, 6 25, and 

 No. 1, 9 37, cash. 



OIL — Further sales of 4000 gallons English Linseed at 

 98c— now held at gl. 



AUCTION SALES THIS DAY. 

 COFFEE— Havana, 1«2 b.;s, g8 30 a 7 CO— avorag- 

 I ing about OJc; St. Domingo, 500 bags, g6 73 a 6 62 per 

 ' 100 lbs. 



Bath Bank, Me. 



Bangor Bank, Me. 



»Bank of Montpelier, Mont- 



pelier, Vt. 

 Concord, (Sparhawk cash- 

 ier,) N. H. 

 *Cum!)erland (old) Bank 

 Portland, Mc. 



Damariscolta Bank, Dama- 

 riscotta. Me. 



Farmers and Mechanics', 

 Pawtuckct, R. I. 

 » The bills of these banks 



BILLS NOT RECEIVED .\T THE SUFFOLK B.\NK. 

 MAINE. 



Agricultural Bank, Brewer 80 a 90 perct.dis. 



Bangor Commercial Bank, 5 a 6 " 



Calais Bank, at Calais, 10 a 12 



City Bank. Portland, 12 a 15 " 



Citizens' Bank, Augusta, new cmii 



Damariscolta Bank, 



Frankfort Bank, at Frankfort. 



Georgia Lumber Co. at Portland, 



Globe Bank, Bangor, worthless — a — 



Lafayette Bank, at Bangor, 5 a — p 



Mercantile Bank, Bangor, 5 a 6 



Oxford Bank, at Fryeburg, fraud. 



Oldtown, at Orono, worthless. 



People's Bank at Bangor, closed. 



Penobscot Bank, at Bangor, no such bank. 



Stillwater Canal, at Orono, wortlil. — a — 



St. Croix, at Calais, 12 a 15 



Washington County, at Calais, worthless. 



Westbrook, at Westbrook, Me. 3 a 5 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Concord Bank, 2 a 3 



Wolfeborough Bank, worthless. — a — 

 MASSACHUSETTS. 



Commonwealth Bank, Boston, 60 a 70 



Chelsea, 80 a 90 



Farmers' and Mechanics', Adams, 

 South Village, new worthless. — a — 



Fulton Bank, Boston, worthless. — a — 



Mi.kllinglnterest, at Boston, 50 a 60 



Middlesex, at Cambridge, 3 a 



Newburyport. at Newburyport, 75 a 86 



Norfolk,' at Roxbury, 



Nahant, 



Roxbury, no sale. 



RHODE ISL.VND. 



Scituate Bank, — 



VERMONT. 



Bennington, Vt. no sale. 70 



Essex, at Guildhall, worthless. — 

 CONNECTICUT. 



Housatonic Rail Ro.id Co. 



NEW YORK. 



Banks in New York city. 



United States Bank Notes, 4; 



redeemed 



