NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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nd incorporateJ with lo.im. The loam may 

 .ept unJer cover for thai purposo, aucl with 

 aid of a hoe, or garden rake, may be easilv 

 equally impregnated with Ihe salt*, kc. 

 ph wore held la solution l)y the liquid ap- 



d. (to BK CoNTlNUCP.) 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWa 



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>NGRI^SS. — There appears to be but little bifsi- 

 yet completed by that body which is ot general iii- 

 t. Bills are read and comiiiithd^ and bills to prc- 

 debtors being cotniniited seem to be the order ot 

 " lay. Various details of ma,*.ter3 anj things relating: 

 li essrs. A. B. ii C. which to give in detail would " a 

 a (red pens require" are presented, debated, and sonn . 

 H probably bedicided upon, either during the present 

 Ime future session. By a communication from the 

 itary of the Treasury, it appears that the imports 

 e yi ar amounted to $8J,'241.54I, and the exports 

 I (2,160,-iiJl. I'he bill (or the disbursement of pub- 

 loaey is still before the !?enate. Mr. I'lumer of N. 

 as reported a bill for allowing costs to patentees, 

 executors, Sic. where the sum recovered shall not 

 ss than fifty dollars. A committee have reported 

 ' it is not expedient to legislate on the subject of vac- 

 ion. Messi's. Gales and SeatoD, proprietors of the 

 jnal Intelligencer, complained to the House that 

 honesty as printers had been impeached by an ar- 

 ia the Washington Republican. This relates to 

 thing, thought to implicate Mr. Crawl'ord, relative 

 rtain Banks to the westward, but of which it be- 

 s us to be mute, as the alTair is before a committee 

 e House. Whenever it assumes a tangible, matter 

 t fhape, we shall put our hand upon it. 



tSSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.— This honor- 

 body appears to be chiefly occupied in concerns of 

 al and private nature. A number of companies 

 been incorporated of a religious and secular na- 

 Among the latter is the " Boston Gas Light 

 pany," who will probably shed light in our paths. 

 •y accomplish this and we do not then walk in the 

 my of rectitude it will not be their fault. A peti- 

 las been exhibited for converting .Amherst Acade- 

 ito a College, but the petitioners have had leave 

 thdraw their petition. A bill has passed the House, 

 h provides for the payment of one per centum on 

 mount of all goods, wares and merchandize, and 

 lalf per centum on the amount of .all real estate 

 It auction in this state. The bill respecting pub- 

 orship and religious freedom has passed the House 

 as 67, nays 41. 



, ')REIGN. — Letters from Smyrna, as late as the 

 of Nov. confirm the account of the return of the 

 '1 ash fleet to Tenedos, but state nothing of any seri- 

 ** ingagement with the Greek fleet. The defeat of 

 MParkish array, which had invaded the Morea, is 

 inl| confirmed ; but the remains of it, at the last date, 

 [fl posted in the citadel of Corinth, and besieged by 

 ,1 jtreeks. 



^ late arrival from Europe at New York has brought 



I ligence from London to the 9th Dec. By this it ap- 



[Hs that the British and Portuguese are determined 



(jrt main neutral in the dispute between France and 



A I Q ; and that the Cortes are determined to reject 



J proposition for modifying their constitution. 



''ac war still continued between Persia and Turkey, 



*» it was reported that the Persians were within a 



ffll hours march of Bagdad. There was no prospect 



f,;;4 war between Russia and Turkey, 



,. |! Mexico public affairs wear a revolutionary aspect, 



ft the reign of Iturbide seems near a period. Gen. 



"Na Anna has raised the standard of revolution, and 



■ k published a proclamation replete with promises 



M patriotism. On the 6th of Dec. three days previ- 



>'tn his proclamation, the general sent a letter to his 



E rial master, advising him to abdicate, and intimat- 



r that he could enforce his reasons with two thousand 



1 :iif-t8. The Fort of San Ullao has surrendered to 



It troops of Iturbide. Aflfairs in Havana appear to be 



Uling into a quiet and commercial state. 



I late New Orleans paper says, " a rumor has been 

 J^tral days in circulation here, that the British are 

 ll|it embarking seven black regiments from their Isl- 

 fcs inthe West Indies, ia order to take possession of 



such parts of the Island of Cuba as have become noto- 

 I ious for piracy." 



A school has iieen established at Edinburgh, for im- 

 parting to mechanics the philosophical principlis of 

 Ihrir revpoctivc occupations; and a similar school at 

 (ilasgow, uudir i>r. Ore, who Irctiives on the various 

 braiiclus of scitiice connected v;ith the arts. 



'1 he Dry of Algiers has issued a ducric that every 

 bachdor of more than 'JO years of ago, shall be flogged 

 in public every day till he takes a wife. 



DOMESTIC— On the night of the 12th ult. the 

 house of Mr. Nathan Ross, Jr. of .Vnson, Maine, was 

 consumed by fire, and Mrs. Ross, with three children, 

 were burnt to death. — On the 9th ult. a young v.oman 

 of Charleston, S. C. died in consequence of injury sus- 

 tained by her clothes taking fire ; her sister was mate- 

 rially injured in attempting her rescue. — The dwelling 

 house of Mr. Calvin Uriggs, of Putney, Vt. was con- 

 sumed by fire on the night of the i3d ult. together 

 with the household furniture, nearly all Mr. B.'s pa- 

 pers, some money, about $.100 worth of leather, and 

 all the provisions and clothing for his family. — A fac- 

 tory in \'ernon. Con. owned by a Mr. Abbot, was de- 

 stroyed by fire, on the 24th ult. — Several stores, con- 

 taining valuable merchandize, among which was '100 

 bales of cotton, crates of crockery, &c. were consumed 

 at Philadelphia last week ; supposed to be the work of 

 an incendiary. 



The maniac Trask, who lately broke jail in Boston, 

 has been taken in the barn of the Hon. Christopher 

 Gore, in Waltham, without resistance, and returned to 

 the jail from whence he escaped. He had on the iron 

 collar and fetters, with which he was encombered pre- 

 vious to his escape. 



The House of Assembly of New-York has passed an 

 act to abolish Imprisonment for Debt. 



Slate Prison. — According to a report for the year 

 ending on the 30th September last, the average num- 

 ber of convicts in the prison was about 275. The num- 

 ber received during the year, was 91 — the number dis- 

 charged was 83, of whom 14 only were pardoned — 10 

 died, and one escaped. The amount received from the 

 sales of stone was $23,796 ; the amount for labor of 

 shoemakers, weavers, brush-makers. Sic. $9,844. The 

 balance against the prison, on the accounts of the year, 

 was $8,371, besides the salaries of the directors, phy- 

 sicians, chaplain, and warden, amounting to $2,900. 



.Vfchanicat Invinfion. — -A Clover Mill has been erect- 

 ed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. under the direction of Mr. 

 Boulton, which is highly spoken of, as calculated to 

 separate all the seed from the chaff, and, at the same 

 time, leave the former remarkably clean and hand- 

 some. The machinery is described as very simple, the 

 cost trifling ; and, if generally used by the fanners of 

 Dutchess county, it is calculated that, instead of pur- 

 chasing their clover seed, gi-own in other parts of the 

 Union, they will be able in a few years to raise a sufli- 

 cient supply for themselves. — JV. 1', Mechanics^ Gas. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We have received at too late a period for insertion in 

 the present paper a very valuable communication from 

 a gentleman in Worcester, which we shall publish in 

 our next. The delay in our reception of the manu- 

 script, we understand, was caused by its contents hav- 

 ing been communicated to a number of gentlemen, be- 

 longing to the Legislature, for purposes connected with 

 the interests of agriculture. 



The paper from a gentleman from Newton, on the 

 subject of pruning fruit trees, &c. is received, and 

 shall soon be published. 



LAW OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



CHARLES EWER, No. 51, Cornhill, Boston, has 

 just published, " An Fssay on the Law of Patents 

 for New Inventions. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Coun- 

 sellor at Law. The second edition, with large addi- 

 tions, corrected and improved by the author." 



This work is adapted as well to the use of the Artist 

 and Mechanic as of the Lawyer. The whole was care- 

 fully reviewed in manuscript, and recommended by 

 gentlemen of the first legal talents in New England. — 

 The Hon. Judge Story, in a letter to the author, ob- 

 served, *' I have no hesitation in expressing my opin- 

 ion that the book will be highly useful to all persons, 

 who are engaged in obtaining patents, or in vindicating 

 them in Courts of Justice, The manuscript contains a 



colb'ction of all the cases, on the subject of Patents, 

 within my knowledge ; and tlie principles contained in 

 them are detailed with accuracy and fulness in the 

 Summary at the conclusion, 1 know of no work so 

 conipri hi- iibive as yours on the subject ; and it may be 

 relied on as a safe guid( ." 



The Hon. If'ilUam I'rcscott, and the Hon. Daniel 

 U'tiisltr, after pCTusing the manusciipt stated th-ir 

 o[.i:.ion as Ibllows: " This edition is a great improve- 

 ment on the first, and we think it will be a valuable 

 and useful book to the profession, as it contains the 

 statutes, and states, we believe accurately, all, or near- 

 ly all the decisions, which have been made on a branch 

 of law, daily growing more interesting and important.^' 



George Sulliran, I'sq. a gentleman who has paid much 

 attention to this branch of law, has likewise favored 

 the work with a recommendation, from which the fol- 

 lowing is an extract ; 



" Your method of arranging all the decisions in the 

 order of an analytical digest of the several requirements 

 and provisions of our statutes for granting patents, puts 

 the lawyer at once in possession of the judicial con- 

 struction of the statutes ; while your synthetic Summa- 

 ry, far more extended and comprehensive than in the 

 former edition, places within reach of the mechanic a 

 sure means of judging whether his invention is a fit 

 subject for a patent ; what is required of him by the 

 statute in order to obtain his patent ; and what provis- 

 ions are enacted for securing to himself and heirs, his 

 meritorious privilege." Feb. 1. 



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