The Silk Business. — Much good, we think, 

 \rill result to the country from the preparations for 

 the raising of silk. Our climate is peculiarly con- 

 genial to the insect that produces it. The women, 

 children, and infirm persons scattered among our 

 population, from whose labors little or nothing is 

 realized, are competent to supply twenty millions 

 of dollars value in silk per annum, instead of which 

 we have imported in a single year more than tliat 

 amount— a sum double the value of the wiiole ex- 

 ported products of tlie United States for the same 

 period, from all our boasted fisheries, wilb all the 

 exports from our forests, of skins and furs, lumber, 

 masts, and all our manufactures of wood, our naval 

 stores, tar, pitch, turnentine, pot and pearl ashes, 

 &c., and also from our almost innumerable farms ; 

 all our exported beef, tallow, hides and cattle, but- 

 ter, cheese, pork, bacon, horses, mules, sheep, &c. 

 with our entire exports of wheat, corn, and flour 

 superadded. The whole catalogue of this formida- 

 ble portion of a nation's hard earnings for foreign 

 export;ation, did notin ie3fiequal twelve millions 

 of dollars, while the imports of silks the same year, 

 exceeded twenty millions of dollars ; and by includ- 

 ing silk and worsted goods, of which silk constitut- 

 ed an important part, they amounted to over twenty- 

 three millions five hundred thousand dollars. This 

 alarming statement, the report from the treasury 

 department will fully verify. Is it not high time 

 that silk should command our attention ?— Albany 

 CuUivaior. 



Bite of a Cat. — It is stated in a Boston Med- 

 ical Journal that the bite of an enraged cat will 

 produce a violent species of hydrophobia, in illus- 

 tration of which the following instance is given. 



" A milkman having remarked a cat often com- 

 ing to steal the milk in his dairy, lay in wait for it, 

 and attacked it with a hatchet. There was a con- 

 siderable contest, until at last, the cat, unable, to 

 avoid a blow, leaped at the man and seized him by 

 tlie chin, whence there was no possibility of detach- 

 ing it, save by cutting off hit- head. The patient 

 was carried to the hospital, and the preventatives 

 of hydrophobia applied. On the twenty-second 

 day the fatal symptoms made their appearance ; he 

 experienced much difticulty in swallowing water, 

 but this he overcame with great fortitude ; the 

 difficulty increased ; the wound became bad ; the 

 patient became (urious, endeavored to bite every 

 one that came near him, was bo\md in chains and 

 immediately broke them in pieces, leaped from bed, 

 ran up and down the hospital, attempting to bite 

 all he met, till, reaching the outer door, in order to 

 escape, he was seized with a shivering, and fell 

 dead. On dissection, the appearance of this case 

 was precisely the same as that of hydrophobia." 



Common Sense. — Notwithstanding its appella- 

 tion, this quality is one of the most uncommon at- 

 tributes of our nature. It is seldom found in men 

 of high literary attainments, in artistf; or divines ; 

 and although self-educated men not unfrequently 

 possess it, it is rarely the property of those who are 

 educated by others. There are also some who 

 possess the characteristic to a certain degree, but 

 in whom it is by no means active. Tliose persons 

 for instance, wlio give very excellent advice to oth- 

 ers, but who never follow it themselves ; resembling 

 in that particular poor Goldsmith, who "never said 

 a foolish thing, yet never did a wise one." Nor is 



result of great powers of observation, combined with 

 a wide field for their exercise. For how sliould the 

 monk, whose sphere of action is limited by the walls 

 of his cloister— the poet, who deals principally with 

 the fanciful creations of his own imagination, or 

 the divine bewildered in the mazes of doctrinal the- 

 ology, acquire that which is almost exclusively the 

 property of the man of the world— of men of action 

 rather than of speculation — of practice rather than 

 of theory. From the absence of this essential re- 

 quisite is it, that we find so many crude imaginings, 

 so many feeble conceits, so much puling sentimen- 

 tality among our magazine poets and tale writers; 

 so many insults to the understanding from the pul- 

 pit; so many blind leaders of the blind among the 

 editors of newspapers ; so much quackery and pre- 

 tension and so little reality. 



Without common sense, no poet can ever reach 

 the hearts of his readers, no divine can ever benefit 

 the souls of his hearers. Shakspeare, Dante and 

 Moliere possessed it to an uncommon degree, and 

 their works yet retain all the freshness of original- 

 ity, unimitated and inimitable. It was common 

 sense and its inseparable concomitant, sound judg- 

 ment, rather than splendid abilities, which rendered 

 Washington the saviour of his country; and it was 

 the same high attribute of humanity which confer- 

 red an impeiishable fame upon the lives of William 

 Penn, Roger Williams and Dr Franklin.— A^.T. Sun. 



wa-'oswill be paid. None need apply but Americans and 

 Ihole thai are acquainted wilh Farming and Gardening. 

 First rate recommendations will be required for honesty anrt 

 sobriety. Please apply at this office. 



Sepleml)er 25. 



A Yoiuig Mam Wanted on a Faim. 



Theadvertiserisin want of a smart i/oun^ man that is 

 well acquainted with the cullivalion ot vegetables, and one 

 thai is also capable of taking charge of Aorscs, coirs and 

 swine, one that understands it, he must be energetic, active 

 and fond of neatness and order ; he must produce evidences 

 of a i^ood moral character. Such a P<^"°n "ay find a per- 

 manent situation by calling on Messrs BREOK St UU. 



£J- None need apply hut such as answer to the above. 



September 25. istl 



IVINSHIP'S BRIGHTON MRSERIISS, 



AND BOTANIC GARDENS. 



.f-^,. Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Cicep- 

 SW%^ ers, Herbaceous, Perennials, Green Hi. use 



'^''^W^ Ord'^ers addressed to Messrs WINSUIP, 

 -i Brightou, Mass., will be promptly exec ited, 



anTTforv^ded to any part of this or other countries. 



April 10. 



Pursuit of Knowledge. — Every rational crea- 

 ture is fit for something, but not fit for every thing. 

 It is the part of wisdom to ascertain for what we 

 are best adapted, and to employ our energies ac- 

 cordingly. Kno%vledge is valuable for all stations 

 in life° and that is best which is best adapted to 

 fit us for the station we have to fill and the duties 

 we have to perform. Parents sometimes make a 

 great mistake in the education of their childrep, be- 

 stowing a great deal of time, property and labor 

 on the attainment of knowledge which, in all prob- 

 ability, will be of little or no use to theni in future 

 life ; while such knowledge as is really essential to 

 their respectability, success and usefulness, is com- 

 paratively, if not altogether, neglected. Is not this 

 the case when the farmer's or tradesman's daughter, 

 who will, in ,all probability, one day be a farmer's or 

 tradesman's wife, spends years in learning French, 

 music and embroidery, whileshe grows up ignorant 

 of arithmetic, and domestic business ? A thorough 

 acquaintance with their own language, with practi- 

 cal arithmetic, with men and things, would have 

 been ten times more valuable than all the Greek 

 and Latin, and heathen mythology, to which the at- 

 tention of boys is often exclusively directed. 



Moms MiUtlcaiUis Trees from Seed. 



The subscriber offers for sale 10,000 trees produced from 

 seed of the genuine Moras Multicaulis. The seed was rais- 

 ed on his primises i» 1835; the trees have been multiplied 

 for the two last years by layers, their growth is more rapid 

 than the original tree, and appear to be sufficiently acclima- 

 ted to endure the winter, some of tbem having been lei 

 standing in the open field unprotected during the two last 

 winters without any essential injury. The '/^ves are very 

 large and equal in quality to any other kind for fetdmg the 

 silk worm. Those who are wishing to purchase a superior 

 kind of Mulberry are requested to call and examine lor them- 

 selves, before the foliage is <'«^''°y^^by^frost^^^^^^^ 



Harvard, September 11. 



The way to be happt. — Cut your coat accord- 

 ing to your cloth, is an old maxim and a wise one ; 

 and if people will only square their ideas according 

 to their circumstances, how much happier might we 

 all be ! If we would come down a peg or two in 

 our notions, in accordance with our waning for- 

 tunes, happiness would be always within our reach. 

 It is not what we have or what we have not, which 

 adds to or subtracts from our felicity. It is the 

 longing for more than we have, the envying of those 

 who possess that more, and the wish to appear in 

 the world of more consequence than we really are, 

 which destroys our peace of mind and eventually 

 leads to ruin. 



MXJtBERRY TREES. 



The subscriber has on hand a quantityof MulberryTrees of a 

 nualitv which is probably superior to any kind ever mtroduced 

 ?n.n i^ircountrv They were imported /oi<r years since and 

 houoh hey K sustained the rigorous cold of ihe last three 

 wintfis ent^irely unprotected, yet it is believed a Southern or 

 ^el?^ ctoaie would be more admirably adapted to the. 

 irowtrat^d propagation. Their foliage is most luxurmnt 

 fnd affords more nourishment than any other variety. S.Ik 

 umducedbv worms fed with tbe leaves, has been pronounced 

 Kliud^es tVbe the best ever manufactured by them and de 



September 11. No. 30 Commercial Street, Boston. 



GREENS PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



TOWPH BRECK & CO. at the New England Agricul- 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store, Nos.5I and 52 Norlh Mar- 

 ket Street, have for sale. Green's Patent Straw, Hay^and 

 stV Cut er, operating on a mechanical principle no before 

 ^in led ?o any implement for this purpose. The most prom- 

 in^t effects Jf ihfs application, and some of the consequent 



'T's^^^i 'eduXnTf rbVquantum o. power requisite 

 ,0 use it,^tat the strength of a half grown hoy is su*cient 



2" Wiih"e'n&"olferate power,it easily cuts two bush- 

 \h rninnte which is full twice as fast as has been claimed 

 by any other' machine even when worked by horse or steam 



'^^*The knives owing to the peculiar manner in whichlliey 

 cuMquire sharpening' less ol?en than those of any other | 



'"rTrmachine is simple in its construction, tnadeandj 

 BUt'tooelh" very strongly' It is therefore not so liable - 

 'he comphcated machin es in general use to get out of ( 



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