NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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\ iuious means may be made use of to give the wash 

 k temperature ronclucive to fermentation. \Vatcr-ti;;ht 

 tubes filled with flame or hot air, from a furnace or a 

 ^ovc, might answer the purpose by being carried thro' 

 tilt- cisterns containing the wash to be fermented. But 

 l.ir common farming purposes, we believe it will be 

 best either to keep up a moderate degree of heat in the 

 room or cellar in which the wash is Ui'pt for fermenta- 

 ti n, by means of stoves, or to make use of kettles or 

 c;iKlrons set in brick in the cammon way, in which 

 u'tLTthe materials have been well boiled, the liquid 

 iiui;t be kept of a proper temperature for fermentation, 

 l.v occasionally heating them. AVooden vessels, or 

 1 ircular rims of wood, may be so adapted to the tops 



1 rims of these kettles, that the whole will coDtain 



rte or four times the quantity, which the kettles 



ue would hold. In these roots and other food might 



boiled, steamed and fermented, at the will of the 



. ^vupr or Euperiuteudant of the process. Where fcr- 



.iiiiilatiou is the object, it may be well to mix with the 



-\\eet wash a little of that which is already soure)d, to 



iTvc as veast or leaven. 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



CO.\GRESS, for aught we can perceive, are pro- 

 ceeding pretty correctly, and Jo not appear to be much 

 affected with a certain tndtmic disorder, which used 

 to break out in speeches of more length than substance. 

 To give a detail of their proceedings in our paper, with- 

 out encroaching on our other pro\ iuces, would require 

 rather more talent than is necessary to compress an 

 Uiad into a nut shell. We shall therefore merely f jac- 

 ulate a slitcp''s c;/e towards them, occasionally, without 

 |)retending to give a regular survey of their proceed- 

 ings. There is some prospect of their abolishing im- 

 prisonment for debt — of tlieir amending the Conatitu- 

 iion relative to the election of President, in such man- 

 ner that in certain cases the House of Representatives 

 shall choose one of the .two highest candidates. They 

 have still on the carpet certain resolutions relative to 

 national defence, and organizing the militia, which, 

 when hammered into a workmanlike shape, we shall 

 perhaps present to our readers. They have a bill for 

 regulating the commercial intercourse with Canada, 

 whicii will probably prove interc?ting to those wUom il 

 nav concern. Some wagon loads of private petitions 

 CO likewise to swell the national budget of proceedings. 

 A new naval peace establishment is also in contempla- 

 tion. They seem determined that Uncle Sam shall not 

 be taken in by gentlemen who possess more wit than 

 boaesty, and have therefore under the national thumb 

 "an act in addition to an act for the more prompt set- 

 tlement of public accounts, and for the punishment of 

 perjuiT." An amendment of the Constitution is pro- 

 posed to give Congress power to establish and construct 

 roads and canals. This some suppose will be merely 

 counrming a power already given by the Constitution. 



M.iSSACHUSETTS Lr.GISLATURE is mostly oc- 

 cupied by business of a private and local nature. They 

 have before them, an act for the sale of certain lands 

 in Maine, which they must, according to tlie act of 

 cepaTation, either transfer to that state or pay her 

 $30,000. Likewise, a hill authorising towns not ex- 

 ceeding a certain amount of population, to employ 

 sclioolinasters, who are not versed in Latin and Greek. 

 Moreover, the Iniancial prospects of the Commonwealth 

 appear to look a lillle b!ue. According to a report 

 from the committee of Ways and Means, exhibited by 

 Mr. .Tarvis. it should seem that the annua] revenue for 

 •a number of years is likely to be at least $35,000 dol- 

 lars short of the annual expenditure, and this deficien- 

 cy it is proposed to supply by a tax on auctions. The 

 session, however, appears to be characterised by that 

 harmony and dispatch of public business, which bids 

 fair to promote the public welfare, and assure the ap- 

 pfobatioQ of their constituents. 



FOREIGN. — The last news from Europe brings Tjon- 

 Aon dates to Dec. 7th ; Paris dates to the 4th Dec. 

 Madrid to the 25th, and Verona to the 26th November. 



The Congress at Verona is dissolved. An official re- 

 snoQStrance has been or will be dispatched to the Cabi- 



net of Madiid, demanding such an alteration in the 

 Constitutional system as will at least render it analo- 

 gous to that of Portugal, and jdace the crown beyond 

 the reach of popular control. In case of refusal, (says 

 a London paper) Russia, Austria and I'rnsMa will give 

 their fullest sanction to the hostilities, A\liieli tlie Ultras 

 of Fi ance are so anxious to commence — and there is no 

 doubt tliat the army of observation will soon cross the 

 frontier. England is not to be a party to the measure, 

 unless the Constitutionalists shew a determination to 

 put the king to death, or to invade other countries. 

 The Russians are said to be hostile to Sjiain. 



The Greeks are to be left to the good faith of the 

 Turks, who have promised to behave with moderation. 

 This, a London editor remarks, is the most farcical of 

 all political farces, as it is delivering the lambs to the 

 tender protection of the wolf. 



A London article of Dec. 7th, states that the Uiike 

 of Wellington is hourly expected at Paris, and it is 

 reported that the French Government's determination, 

 in regard to Spain, is suspended until the arrival of 

 the Duke. 



A letter received in London from St. Pctcrsburgh, 

 states that Capt. Waschcw, just returned from bis 

 voyage of discovery, had not only passed up Bcehring's 

 Straits, to a higher latitude than Capt. Cook, but had 

 determined the true position of the northern continent 

 of America, from Tey Cape to .\laska, and found an 

 island north of it inhabited. 



A widow woman, of \'aine5S, in France, was mu.r- 

 dered on the 20th of October last. AVhen discovered, 

 she still grasped in one hand some locks of hair, which, 

 in struggUng she had torn from the head of the mui- 

 derer, and which led to his arrest. 



UIEU — In New Haven, on the 12lh iiist. the Hon, 

 JoNATIIA.N liv<;KusoLi., Lt, Govi Tiior of Conniclieul. 



In Cananduigna, ?<'. Y. lion. Glutos Gi!A.v<;i.n, 

 formerly Post Master General. 



On boaid the ship Moss, on tlie '27th October, on his 

 passage from I'hihidelpiiia to Loudon, lion. Wii.i.i/>i 

 l.ow.MiKS, of South Carolina. 



In liriniEwick, N. J. Gen. Jami.s W. RvAN, at Ih' 

 ad^anctd a-re of 107 viais. 



DOJrESTIC— The President of the Ui.llcd States 

 has ratified the Convention made at St. Peteisburgh, 

 relative to indemnifications for slaves carried off by the 

 British during the late war, by proclamation dated the 

 nth inst. 



The Hon. H. G. Otis, L. L. D. has been elected 

 Member of the Corporation of Harvard College, hi 

 place of the Hon. John Lowell, L. L.D. resigned. 



Lilcrctr)/ Prizes. — The prize awarded by the mana- 

 gers of the Philadelphia Theatre to Mr. Sprague, for 

 his address, delivered at the opening of the Theatre in 

 that place, is a handsome silver cup, of neat workman- 

 ship, bearing on one side, Uie inscription Jludiqac loca- 

 lus ^Ipollo, and on the other " Presented by W arren 

 and Wood, to Charles Sprague, Esq. of Boston, author 

 of an Address delivered at the opening of the New- 

 Theatre, in Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 1S22." Mr. Sprague, 

 some time since, received from the managers of the 

 >ew York Theatre, a laige gold medal, with appro- 

 priate inscriptions. 



Importanl Invenllon. — We find it stated in one of 

 our last files of English papers, that a Mr, Cook, of 

 Birmingham, has discovered a method of rendering all 

 sorts of cotton, linen, muslins, kc. (as well as timber 

 itself,) incombustible, by immersing them in a solution 

 of vegetable alkali. — Kren. Gaz. 



David Sears, Esq. has presented to the Mayor and 

 Aldermen of the city of Boston, a handsome edifice 

 luilt for a vegetable market, and situate in Brattle-st. 

 It appears by the deed (says the Boston Patriot) that 

 Ke presented to them six hundred shares in the corpo- 

 rate property of the Museum Hall Corporation, the net 

 income of which is annually to be funded, and one half 



!ie income of the t'und is to be applied to embellishing 

 le Common and the Mall, and to such other orna- 

 ments of the city, as the Mayor and .Aldermen may 

 think proper. I'nder the municipal regulations of the 

 Market tills fund will annually increase, and finally 

 yield a large revt iiiie. 



The Hon. Nicholas Brown has presented to the Cor- 

 p-ration of Brown University, Providence, an elegant 

 brick building, 4 stories high, 120 feet long, 40 wide, 

 cnntaining 4C rooms. 



Trask, a criminal, who has been confined in gaol in 

 this city about a j'ear, and lately murdered two per- 

 sons immured in the same cell with himself, made his 

 escape on Tuesday night last, by removing one of the 

 stones from the wall of the prison. 



A man by the name of Echert, was killed on the Ist 

 inst. in Penn. by the discharge of a gun. It had been 

 loaded a long time, and in attempting to set fire to the 

 powder it contained, with a lighted coal, it was dis- 

 charged and shatter^ bia headtto atoms. 



I^OR sale at the Agricultural Establishment, No. 20, 

 Merchant's Rov/, a general assortmmt of the most 



APPROVED FARMING TOOLS— viz. 



Harrison's Corn Shellers ; Straw Cutters ; double and 

 single mould board Ploughs, of \ arlous kinds — Bed- 

 son's Cultivators — Bennett's .Bn ad Cast Machine for 

 small seed ; extra cast steel broad and narrow Hoes — 

 Foster's best English Shovels — Ain( s' back sirnpp'd do. 

 Cain's English cast steel warranted Scythes and Hay 

 Knives ; Brush Scytlies — Stevens' Patent steel spring 

 Hay and Manure I'orks — Brown's Vertical Wool Spin- 

 ner, ire. fcc. • Boston, .Tan. 25. 



~]Vi:lw SYS'FEM OF SHOEING HORSES. 



JUST published, and for sale at tiie principal Pook- 

 stores in this city, A NEW SYSTEM OF SHOE- 

 ING HORSES, by Joseph GooiiwiN, Veterinary Sur- 

 geon to His Majesty George IV. and Member of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons ; including Observations on 

 Bleeding and the Pnlse. a Concise View of the Anato- 

 my of the Foot, Notes, Remarks, &c. Jan. 25. 



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HOLBROOK & FESSENDEN manufacture at their 

 Paper Mill, In Erattleborough, (Vt.) Writing 

 I'APr.R of an excellent quality, and much superior to 

 any of a correspondent price imported. They have 

 Foolscap for J;4,.50 a ream, not inferior to English pa- 

 per which costs $9,00 a ream. Their Letti'.r Papkr 

 is also fine, and sold cheaper than imported paper of a 

 similar sort. Specimens may be seen at Mr. Josiah 

 Loring's Bookstore, No. 1, South Row. Jan. 25. 



THE MENTOJl AND LADIES' BOUQUET- 



NATHANIEL DEARBORN respectfully announces 

 to the public, his intention oi issuing a \\'eek]y 

 Paper, provided their patronage should authorize the 

 attempt. 



This determination has been taken with the advice 

 of many friends, among whom are some ingenious mind& 

 which aie * nlisted for this cause ; — it has also been 

 strengthened by the eiicumstance that the editor's 

 compositions have been deemed of sutiicicnt merit, 

 generally, to be republished, which has been his only 

 reward. 



It will be the intent of the editor, to adv.ance, in 

 every degree w Itliin his i)Ower, the rational pleasures 

 of man ; — to ph aei the cause of virtue ; — to lure the 

 youlliful mind to love and to embrace those principles 

 which can never satiate, but which ennoble human 

 nature. 



To our fair country women, we pledge our best ef- 

 forts to promote their interests ; — in every act it will 

 be our aim to merit their approbation. The paper will 

 be entitled Tlit Mtntor and Ludtcs'' Bouqutl. 



Its general outline will consist of extracts from sci- 

 entific works : — as a " Mentor," it will ahvays contain 

 some judicious moral essay ; — and for the " Ladies' 

 Bouquet," will be gleaned the choicest, fairest flowers. 



Its si7e will be a royal quarto, paged — issued each 

 Saturday afternoon — Price, per y< ar, $2,50 ; half year, 

 «;1.25; quarter of a year, 75 cents : — payable in ad- 

 vance. 



Subscriptions received by Col. Benjamin Loring, No. 

 .50, State-street ; Mr. I. W. Goodrich, No. 78, State-st. 

 Mr. Jo'iah Loring, No. 1, South Row, and at C. Cal- 

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Should public favor be expressed for the appearance 

 of this proposed work, the same will be announced 

 through the medium of the daily prints. .'an. 25. 



