NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



391 



FOREIGN. 



Votliing new or interesting from the theatre of the 



mch and Spanish war has transpired since our la^t. 



ere has heen a late arrival at N. York, (apt. Uoane, 



11 Cadiz ; but he brought intelligence from that city 



in later date than the 15lb of May. Accounts from 



Andero have been received by Capt. 'J'uuison, as 



served in our last, to the 20th of May. AVe know 



hing more of the alleged masterly manoeuvres of 



11. Mina, in thrusting himself between the French 



ny and the frontiers of France ; and we may as well 



huirn our curiosity from day to day, till authentic 



.milts of a later date shall be received. \\e might 



i>iir readers a column or two of t^uesi work, or 



lit them with a few samples of the buz ! buz ! of 



-h and American journalists, who make use of 



inventions to keep curiosity awake and expecta- 



I uu tiptoe, as well as make news from " the whole 

 th," for the purpose of appearing to know what can- 

 be known. 



^^:om South ^menca accounts are confused and con- 

 iictory, every new report showing the fallacy of that 



II h immediately preceded it. 'J'he last intelligence 

 11 that quarter was received in New York, by Car- 



- papers, which came down to the 3Ist of May. 



iiate that the Columbian squadron, consisting of 



^?els, has entered the Laguna of Maracaybo, im- 



11" command of Padilla ; and that troops from Rio 



Hache arrived on the 19th in the line of Gara- 



. and had there beaten 70t) men belonging to 



Irs. Gen. Padilla has taken all the sea force of 



1 lies in the Ragoon, and keeps him entirely sur- 



11. led, and has cat off all his resources. Morales 



iiiot now escape, or rally any new force. He is 



iritd out. 



■ an arrival at New York in 36 days from Pernam- 



information has been received that Lord Coch- 



with the Imperial Brazil fleet of 11 vessels, of 



I one is a line of battle ship, was blockading St. 



I lor. Several thousand troops had recently ar- 



.1 from Lisbon, to recover, if possible, and support 



dominion of the mother country. St. Salvador is 



f '^^ented, however, as the only place in the posses- 



1 .T in the interest of the royalists ; and the patriots 



1 out the country to within a few miles of its gates. 



DOMESTIC. 



iu'iberies. — On the 26tli inst. the store of Mr. Flavel 

 I ;- r, at the head of Long W bar', was entered, and a 

 * .V nrokeu open, from which the robbers took a small 

 a 1 ui change. They also carried off a quantity of 

 I Is of different kinds. A reward of ,920 has been 

 c If il for apprehending the offenders. — On the same 

 e uing the printing office of Joseph ^V. Ingraham, in 

 i uklin Avenue, was entered, and the counting room 

 .5 desks broken open. About J40 was taken fio.m 

 of the desks. — The next night, store No.fi, long 

 \ ^rf, was broken open, and goods to a considerable 

 a junt stolen therefrom. 



^ulressing Occident. — On the 18th ult. a quantity 



o-iinpowder, in a wagfon, was exploded in Dover, 



r 11. By this explosion two men were so badly burnt 



a to die within twenty-four hours. A third person 



V s'l much injured that it is feared, if his life is spar- 



lis sight cannot be restored. The waggon had 



d in one of the most frequented parts of the vil- 



:. Some powder from a cask had fallen on the 



J Hid near the waggon. To this some idle and mis- 



;vous boys set fire, in the absence of the owner. 



'. fire communicated to the straw in the waggon. 



alarm was given, and the inhabitants hasten.'d to 



inguish the blaze ; but the owner, informing t!i( m 



I it contained 24 or 25 casks of gunpowder, checked 



ir progress. The horses set out with the blazing 



fgon in the direction of the most frequented street, 



the citizens turned them towards the river, which 



y nearly reached. Four or five persons, who had 



been informed of the contents of the waggon, at- 



pting to unharness the horses, the powder took fire, 



injured three of them as above mentioned. One 



he horses was so much hurt that he died soon after, 



the other is rendered useless. The waggon was 



wn to atoms. The coat of the owner, which lay on 



powder, was blown nearly across the river ; and 



saddle of one of the horses was blown into the air 



ire, and lodged on the roof of an adjacent house. 



The persons burnt had sufficient presence of mind to 

 plunge into the river. The explosion took place near 

 a large brick store, which sustained the priucipal 



damage. 



J^~cw Setlkm^nf. — Stephen Austin, a North .\mcrican, 

 has formed a settlement with three hundred families in 

 Texas, and they have solicited the Mexican Congress 

 to be naturalized as citizens of Mexico. 



The Mississippi. — This river had fallen on the fith 

 ult. at New Orleans, about seven inches, but was still 

 rising at the mouth of the Ohio, and the Upper Coun- 

 try was so inundated as to cause great destruction of 

 the crops. For the distance of six or seven hundred 

 miles up, nothing was to be seen but the tops of trees. 



J^ew Poem. — Solomon Southwick, Esq. Editor of the 

 Albany Plough Boy, is about to publish a Poem, enti- 

 tled " The Pleasures of Poverty." 



More 5n.ron Sheep. — We learn that the Hon. Joseph 

 Strong, of South Madley, has recently received from 

 Saxony, bj' way of Hamburg, two Saxon bucks and 

 three ewes, in fine order. The spirit of enterprize and 

 improvement manifested by Mr. Strong and by Messrs. 

 Bates and Shepherd of this town, in introducing into the 

 United States the fine wooled sheep of Saxony, is high- 

 ly creditable to them, and will, we are persuaded, be 

 productive of beneficial consequences to our couptry. 

 Northampton Gatette. 



A machina for making Pins is in operation at New 

 York, belonging to Mr. H. Whittemore, which makes 

 30 pins in a minute. — In the British mode only 14 are 

 made in the same time. 



A new carriage has been invented in Philadelphia, 

 which is propelled by the weight of persons who ride 

 in it. ^-^ 



Notice is given in the Albany Daily Advertiser, for 

 the benefit of all sturdy rogues and beggars, that a 

 Stepping Mill is about to be erected in that city. 



Internal Improvement. — The example set by the pop- 

 ulous and powerful state of New York, has given an 

 impulse to internal improvement throughout the United 

 otaLc:?, wiucii deserves every eiicouragement. In Penn- 

 sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Caroli- 

 na, and in Ohio, canals are in contemplation, and in a 

 course of execution, which cannot fail to increase the 

 wealth of those states, and add greatly to the general 

 prosperity of the Union. The present moment is ex- 

 tremely favorable to these improvements. The monied 

 1 capital withdrawn from trade, and which, to a vast 

 , amount, must be in the hands of individuals, may be 

 'advantageously vested in these undertakings; and, 

 I from recent examples in this respect, we are gratified 

 to find there is no lack of means to effect the objects in 

 view. The investment of funds in such a way will be 

 profitable both to the present generation and to pos- 

 terity. — Washington Gazette. 



Important Discovery. — .Some fine specimens of rich 

 lead ore have lately been found near the surface of the 

 earth, in a field belonging to Mr. Samuel Chase, in 

 White Cceek, in W'Lshiugton county. Pa. More than 

 a dozen hands were employed, for several days, in fur- 

 ther investigating the extent of the mine. 



The plant, vulgarly called Poteweed, is recommend- 

 ed as a specific and sovereign remedy for the cancer. 

 The recommendations appear to rest on a solitary sx- 

 periment made by a person of color, who by accident 

 threw the leaves of this plant over a cancer to keep 

 off the flies. Finding unexpected relief, he repeated 

 the operation, and was entirely cured. 



The brine in which cucumbers are preserved, is dis- 

 covered to be fatally poison to cattle and hogs. A gen- 

 tleman in a neighboring town has lost several cattle and 

 hogs in consequence of their drinking it. — Rutland Her. 



The fly has ceased its ravages in some parts of \'ir- 

 ginia, and the prospect respecting wheat is brighten- 

 ing. A good rye harvest has commenced — and corn 

 looks well. 



Dear Fruit. — In England, in April, a person gave 

 two guineas for two cherries raised in a hot house. 



The New York Canal Commissioners have at length 

 decided that the Great Western Canal shall ter.Tiinate 

 at Black Rock, instead of Buffalo, as was at first con- 

 templated. 



Wm. M'Rte, late of the corps of Engineers ; Lieut. 

 Col. R. Lee, Superintendant of the National Armory at 

 Springfield, Mass. and Capt. G. Talcott, of the Ord- 

 nance Department, have been appointed to explore the 

 Western Country, under the act passed at the last ses- 

 sion of Congress, for the establishment of a National 

 Armory upon the Western waters. 



(i^ Mistake corrected. — In our paper No. 47, p. 371, 

 is a " receipt for destroying caterpillars," &c. in which 

 it is directed to ^' take equal parts of turpentine and 

 train oil," &c. as an application to destroy those insects. 

 It should hate been " take equal parts of Sjiirits of tur- 

 penfi/if," &c. This mistake is important, for the re- 

 ceipt, as it now stands, would probably prove ineffec- 

 tual. The reader will please to correct it, by inserting 

 spirits of, after the words " parts of," iu the first line 

 of the receipt. 



DIED, on the 27th June, at his seat near Milford, 

 His Excellency JOSEPH HASLET, Governor of the 

 State of Delaware. 



In Amherst, on Monday evening last, very suddenly, 

 Rev. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT MOORE, D. D. Presi- 

 dent of the Amherst Collegiate Institution. His disease 

 was an attack of the bilious cholic. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c. 



[Revised and corrected every Friday.] 



ASHES, pot, 1st qual. . . 



pearl do. . . . 



BEANS, white, .... 



BEEF, mess, 200 cwt. . . 



cargo, No 1, . . . 



" No2, . . . 



BUTTER, inspect. 1st qual. 



" 2d qual. 



small kegs, family, 



CHEESE, new milk . . . 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED ..... 

 FLOUR, Baltimore, superfine, 

 Genessee 



Rye, best . . . 

 GRAIN, Rye .... 

 Corn .... 

 Barley .... 

 Oats .... 

 HOGS' LARD, 1st sort 



HOPS, No 1, 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, American 

 PLAISTER PARIS . . . 

 PORK, Navy Mess . . . 

 Bone Middlings . 

 Cargo, No 1, , . 

 Cargo, No 2, . . 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass . . 

 Clover .... 

 WOOL, Merino, full bIood,washed 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native .... do 

 Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISION MARKET. 

 BEEF, best pieces .... 



PORK, fresh 



VEAL, 



LAMB, per quarter .... 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, keg & tub ... 

 lump, best . . . 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, 



Indian, 



POTATOES, 



CIDER, liquor, 



HAY, best 



ton. 



bush 



bbl 



lb. 



husl, 

 bbl. 



buih 



lb. 



cask 

 »al. 

 ton. 

 bbl. 



bush 

 lb 



lb. 



doz. 

 bush 



bbl. 



FROM 

 D. C 



143 00 

 153 00 



00 



50 



50 



00 



11 



9 



13 



7 



8 



85 



75 



62 



50 



72 



5f; 



6! 



40 



11 



f! 



25 



65 



3 00 



12 00 



14 00 



12 00 



11 00 



2 00 



8 



55 



46 



50 



4. 



38 



55 



50 



1 



6 



37 

 10 

 13 

 15 

 12 

 7.= 

 7^ 

 40 

 50 

 ton. I 18 00 



TO 



D. C, 



145 00 



155 GO 



1 10 



9 75 



8 75 



7 25 



12 



10 



14 



8 



9 



90 



7 87 



7 87 



4 75 



75 



CO 



70 



42 



12 



12 



1 37 

 00 



3 25 

 12 50 

 14 50 

 12 50 

 11 50 



2 25 



9 

 62 

 60 

 55 

 47 

 40 

 60 

 55 



10 

 8 

 8 

 50 

 12 

 14 

 16 

 14 

 80 



45 



2 25 



22 00 



