A\D (JARDENEK'S JOURNAL. 



47 



rsi plncc it conSucea to hcaltb. A gemle- 

 ncquniiunnce told mo, that he would ride 

 n to see one really henltliy woman ! and 

 "Oiion we think would bo rare enough to jus- 

 I Ti. Now nil our treaties on the prescrva- 

 lualih, in recommending exertion ao its "sine 

 m," insist also, that that exercise must be taken 

 open air, and that the mind must be engaged 

 xcited equally with the body. Now what oecu- 

 fullils these conditions like gardening ? Let 

 He practice it a while out of doors, on a beautiful 

 fmorning, with all the delightful e.xcitementof 

 out a border, sowing seede, transplanting and 

 ;ing shrubbery, and they will find by the quick 

 f every pulse, and the glow of the cheek, how 

 fill is the exercise. And as a sort of supple- 

 to this part of my subject, I would add, that the 

 t of gardening leads directly to early rising, 

 iome of its most important offices must be pcr- 

 i before the burning bents of the day come on. 

 'dear me 1" says some young lady, "I never 

 ) early; if that is necessary in order to raise 

 s, I never shall do itl" Never fear, my fnir 

 once get your heart and soul engaged in the 

 •, and yon will rise early, because you cannot 

 The images of your geraniums and roses 

 unit your morning pillow, and you will be down 



fic lirst dawn, to see if the blossoms they promi- 

 dny before, hnve stolen forth, like beautiful 

 in the stilness of night. 



m again, gardening is a graceful accomplish- 

 :or a Indy, and has so been held from the time of 

 r Eve — if we inny credit the saying of a very 

 old gentleman, one Mr. John Milton, who 

 many handsome lines to that effect, and who 

 ery much admired in limes when creiy body 

 nt write such fine poetry as they can iiow-a- 

 -We seriously think that it is every woman's 

 ce, as far as in her lies, to see that the outside of 

 veiling is well arranged, trimmed, and orna- 

 1, Bs to endeavor after bright brasses, pretty car- 

 id handsome china, in the inside. 



^hat is the use of flowers !" exclaims a thrifty 

 keeper, meanwhile busily polishing her fire- 

 What is the use of bright fire-irons, eay we 

 y 1 or of any fire-irons at all ? could not you 

 1 fire on two stones, that would keep you quite 

 m ? What's the use of handsome table cloths 

 d spreads 1 one might eat on a board, and sleep 

 a buffalo skin, and not really starve either I 



much for the "utile." Perhaps many of our 

 will remember how involuntary was the 

 ;nt they have formed, in riding by houses, as to 

 iracter of their inmates. When you see a house 

 ig all alone, bare of shrub or flower, except per- 

 )me volunteer bunches of thistle and pig-weed; 



you infer of its inmates ? And when you 

 Dssed even a log cabin, where the sweet brier 

 refully trained around the door, while veils of 

 ig glories and of scarlet beans, shade the win 

 do you not immediately think of the dwellers 



Had neat, cheerful and agreeable ? This is more 



«klly the cose in regard to the homes of the poor. 



a edit of the rich man's grounds may belong to 

 I dener, but they who can keep no gardener, 



. nose simple flower garden springs ont of mo- 

 Itstolen from necessary labor, pofsess a genuine 

 (-dial love of the beautiful, to render an humble 



I ig so fragrant and fair. 



Ill then the time and expense of keeping an or- 

 xinl garden I" — says some one. — Good, my 



II thi? is a consideration — but I have used up my 

 nf paper. Next month, however, I may show 



liw to find both time and money. 



H. E. B. S. 



.• Feet. — How often do we see people tramp- 

 5utinthe mud, with leather soaked through, 

 IV often do such people when they return home, 

 rn by the fireside and permit their feet to dry 

 t changing either their stockings or shoes. — 

 then wonder at the coughing and -barking, 

 jumntism and inflammation, which enable the 



1 to ride in their carriages ? Wet feet most 

 nly produce affection of the throat and lungs; 

 len such diseases hnve once taken place, " the 



on fire," danger is not far off: therefore, let 

 eat our renders, no matter how healthy, to 

 gainst wet feet. — Med. Adv. 



^ lat has no bread to spare, should never keep a 



Popiilntion Statistics. 



We annex a comparative view of the Census of the 

 United States at the several enumerations taken by or- 

 der of the general government from 1800 to 1810. — 

 The increase of population since 18^0, is nt least four 

 jiii.noNs. The present population of the United 

 Stales is very little short sf skvknteen millions. 



states. 



181 lU. 



IflO. 



leau. 



Ifc30. 



1840. 



:\lnine 

 \. llauip. 

 Vcnnont 



It. Island 

 Conn. 

 New York 



VirRinU 

 N Unroll 1 

 S CaroWr 

 Georgia 

 Aluljumn 

 Mississippi 

 Loulsi 

 Tenne; 



Fl.Ter. 

 Wis. Tcr 

 Iowa Ter. 



298,335 

 2'14,101 

 235,704 

 523,287 



83,059 



275,202 



1,372,812; 



277,575 



1,049.4.58 



72,749 

 407,350 

 1,065,379 

 038,820 

 502,741 

 340.987 

 127,001 



75,448 

 153,407 

 422.813 

 564,317 

 581,434 

 147,178 



55,211 



66,586 

 8,876 



14,373 



33,039 



399,0.53 

 209,328 

 280,052 

 010,408 

 97,199 

 297,665 

 1,918,6'JS 

 302,823 

 1,348,233 

 76,748 

 447,040 

 1,211,405 

 737,087 

 581,183 

 516,823 

 309,529 

 136,621 

 215,739 

 081,004 

 067,917 

 937,903 

 343,031 

 137,455 

 140,145 

 31 639 

 30,.')e8 

 39,334 

 34,730 



501,796 



284,481 



201,818 



737,4611 



108,837 



310,023 



2,432,835 



372,352 



(1,669,717 



78,120 



467,228 



1,331,444 



753,110 



549,439 



*3i9,164 



1479,449 



370,099 



K49,638 



a 823,0.37 



1,513,695 

 063,314 

 423,934 

 c 327,731 

 211,705 

 94,913 

 43,713 



Venr. 

 1790. 

 1800. 

 1810. 

 1S20. 

 1830. 



^ Bradtbrii county and parts of Union and Luzerne not in- 

 cluded 



* Nine counties not received. 



t Incomplete. 



X Returns from tlie Western district not received. 



a Part of Monroe county not received. 



c Seven counties not returned according to law, and not 

 included in this aggregate. It is supposed they have a popu- 

 lation of aliout 50,(i00. 



PROGRESS OF THE WHOLE POPULATION, 



Number. Increase. 



3,929,827 



5,305,923 1,375,098 or 33.1 per cent. 



7,239,814 1,933,889 " 36.3 " 



9,638,131 2,398,317 " 33.1 



12,860,920 3,227.789 " 33.5 



1840. about 16,900,843 4,033,923 ■' 31.4 " 



By an examination of the tables it will be seen that 

 the white population has increased in a very uniform 

 ratio from 1790 to the present time; the increase in no 

 decade being less than 34 per cent., nor more than 

 36.1 per cent. The ratio of increase among the free 

 colored people has been very fluctuating; but taking 

 the colored population en inasse, slaves and free, the 

 fluctuation has been moderate down to 1830, and the 

 average ratio of increase nearly as great as among the 

 whites. But for some reason or other, (perhaps the 

 Abolitionists can explain it,) the ratio of increase for 

 the last len years, has been greatly reduced, both 

 among free negroes and slaves. A few have gone to 

 Texas and Canada, perhas 30,000 in all, but this af- 

 fords a very imperfect explanation of the phenome- 

 non. — Jour. Coin. 



For the J\'eto Genesee Farmer. 



Education of Farmers' Chiltlren»No. 3. 



Of the kind and quantity of education for the chil- 

 dren of faimers, the following would be a just esti- 

 mate: — 1. It should be appropriate ani pertinent; 2. 

 practical, as far as may be; 3. extcTuire as their con- 

 dition and means will permit; 4. moral and intellec- 

 tual ; and 5, elevating, and not depressing, them in 

 their rank in life. 



These particulars will comprehend more perhaps 

 than some will be ready to admit; but, it is believed, 

 not more than is required by all above the middling 

 class of farmers. The acquisition of it by this por- 

 tion will soon exert a salutary influence on those be- 

 low them. It embraces what is necessary for all, that 

 education in the common and elementary branches of 

 which no youth in our country should grow up ignor- 

 ant; next that which is specially pertinent to the far- 

 mer, that knowledge of agricultural subjects which is 

 placed within his power; next, instruction in various 

 kindred objects, and those general subjects which have 

 a connection with our most important civil and social 

 relations, including much of natural philosophy, 

 some chemistry, moral philosophy, the elements of 



the principles of government and our conBtilutions 

 and laws, and the rights and duties and privileges of 

 citizens, and something of ptiitical economy or the 

 knowledge of ihc classes of men and of production 

 and distribution of properly as well as of commerce 

 and money. 



Besides these, there are various studies, which have 

 an indirect bul poxnerful influence in forming the 

 mind, and strengthening it and filling it for thinking 

 correctly and closely and profitably, such as algebra, 

 geometry, languages as the Latin, botany, mineralo- ' 

 gy, surveying, rhetoric, a portion of geology, and 

 other things of lees consequence. Those may have 

 no direct influence upon the son or daughter in fitting 

 them for the immediate labors of a farm, or garden 

 or farm house ; but they exert a great influ- 

 ence upon the mind, to bring out its powers, and to 

 give to it energy and activity. Several of these are 

 important to the sons especially, and will preserve 

 them nearer the level of the daughters, as they will 

 keep them longer at school, will carry more of them 

 from home a few months, and show them more of 

 men and manners, and will place them more on their 

 own responsibility, and tend to elevate their whole 

 character. 



It is an undoubted fact, that the daughters too often 

 receive those advantages to a greater degree than the 

 sons, and that the latter are depressed by the compari- 

 son. Besides, many of these extra studies are recited 

 to both, and may be obtained by them. They will 

 employ the eons longer, and when their minds are 

 made more mature. But, how far they shall be pur- 

 sued in any case, must be left to the good judgments 

 of parents and the parties concerned. True it is, that 

 the sons need more special attention. They would 

 not be so likely to be dissatisfied with their condition 

 in life, and another end would be gained too by such 

 a course; the daughters, expecting a settlement in the 

 same relative condition, would have a stronger in- 

 ducement to qualify themselves for those household 

 duties, for which ihey will find a strong and constant 

 call. In this respect, there is need, too, of correction 

 of mistakes, and the practical education of the daugh- 

 ters should go on hand in hand with that of the sons. 

 The latter should not alone be required to labor and 

 toil in the appropriate works of a farmer and of n far- 

 mer's house. For these domestic duties, there needs 

 a wise preparation. He that by the plough would 

 thrire, must either hold or drive, is a plain practical 

 truth in all places, and conditions, and business. The 

 mistress of a family has no less occasion for its appli- 

 cation than the farmer himself. 



Finally, such an enlarged education would make 

 the sons and daughters more miitahle companions for 

 each other, and the amount of happiness would he 

 greatly increased. The rank, the notions, the aims, 

 and the efforts, would be more nearly alike. They 

 would be far more contented with that truly honora- 

 ble and happy condition in which their benevolent Fa- 

 ther has placed them. Their children will be provi- 

 ded for in a wiser manner, so that their "sons may 

 be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daugh- 

 ters may be as corner stones polished after the simili- 

 tude of a palace." D. C. 



Rochester, t'cb. 1841. 



A Durable Whitewash. — Before putting your 

 lime, which should be unslacked, into the water, satu- 

 rate the water with muriate of soda, (common salt.) 

 This will make a whitewash that will not rub off nor 

 crack, and is very lasting. 



Ctrb fob tooth ache. — Mix alum and common 

 salt in equal quantities, finely pulverized. Then wet 

 some cotton, large enough to fill the cavity, which co- 

 ver with salt and alumn and apply it. We have the 

 authority of those who have tested it, to eay it will 

 prove B perfect remedy. 



