,.'L B. BATEHAM, Proprietor. | VOI.. f 



nocilESTERj .TtLiV, 1842, 



IVO. 7. ] IlEiNRY COLMAN, Editor. 



I'l'BlilSllEO xnOj^TlILiY. 



1'ERMS, 



FIFTV CK\TS. per yo^ir, |,;u;,lile :,lways In artv;ilK-c. 

 Pnst Masters. Agerils, ami otliers, sencliiis current inon- 

 fX. will receive seren cnpief for «3,— Tice/te 



Mean tempcratiiie of May, 1842, 52.33 degrees. 



" " " 1841, .52 51 " 



" " 18-10. 57 97 " 



Rain Gunge, JNlaySC, to June 25, 1842, 3.G8 inches. 



" " " " 1841, .97 " 



" " 1840, 2.13 " 



The laat month, conimenciiig May 26ili ai d ending 

 June 25tl', has been very cold and vi'ct. 



It was remarked to me a few days ago by a gentle- 

 man fron Connecticut, that he thought it the ccldeet 

 June since 1816. What says that aged, venerable 

 farmer, who has kept a record of all the extraoidina 

 ry events of the last 60 years : is the above statemeni 

 orrect. according to your record and observation ? 



May oOth, Radishes in market, SIst, Ruse in bloom 

 — red and yellow; also, Peony. June 4ih, Aurora 

 Borenlis ihis evening, very brilliant. 6th. Red Clover 

 in blj om 7ih, Frost this morning — veget.:ble8 mu''h 



injured in many places. It extended east into Masea- 

 cbusetts and Connecticut, where corn and the loliage 

 of trees were killed. 



9th, Gan'.cn Strawberries ripe. lOtb, a Very rainy 

 day ; in many places east there was erow. 



At Pario Hill, Oneida Co., snow fell to the depth of 

 two inches. The eaine in Newport, Herkimer Co. 

 8nowin Poetoii, and on the hills in BL-rkshirc Co., 

 Mass. It was said ihnt the snow tell 3 inches deep 

 onthehdis back ol Syracuse and within 6 miles of 

 that village. 



llih, Ice this m rnilig the thickness of half a dol- 

 lar. BiidgCs and walks were glazed over with ice in 

 real winter style. The canal was frozen over in sev- 

 eral places — that is, ice was fiirmed on the surface. 



Field Siiawberries ripe. Cherries in market. 



Iftth and I9ih, Summer heat ; showers with thun- 

 der. New Potatoes ann Green Peas in market. 23d, 

 very cold — oveicoaisand fires requisite, the one if yon 

 go out, the other if you stay within doors. 25th, 

 Thunder Shower near sunset. It is taid to be very 

 fine weather for wheat and grass ; but Indian corn is 

 small. 



POLITICAL ANOiWALIi S OR IIVCONISI8- 



TENflES, 



We are not willing 10 plunge into the political sen, 

 turbid and bitter ae its waters are too often rendered 

 by party e.xcitemenis, prejudices, and reseiumeins ; 

 but any calm observer ca i:ot fail to be struck with 

 the anomalies and inconsistencies, which every where 

 present themselves. We are told even by those who 

 have lived longest, that the tin.es were never harder 

 than at present ; and- that ihere has never been more 

 general distress and sutTeriiig and want than now 

 prevail in our community. Yet all this in a country, 

 where there is neither war, nor siclmese, nor famine, 

 nor oppression; where the tn.xcs are not even felt by 

 the people ; where the blessings of education, and 

 law, and order, and civilization are enjoyed to the 

 full ; where the most fertile soil under the sun is 10 be 

 had foi asking ; and where in ihe free States is en- 

 joyed as inuch ot personal liberty, as ever fell to the 

 lot of man in a social condition, and a perfect security 

 of the fruits of his own indu^ty. Now, where is the 

 cause or the seat of the disorder and suflcring, which 

 are so prevalent, and every where the topic of com 

 plaint? Again look at the foundation of cumpUiint 

 every where expliciily avowed ; over-production — 

 over-produciion. It is not want : it is not failure of 

 crops ; it is not universal indolence and inactivity. — 

 No, it is too much bread, ; 100 much clothing ; too 

 much luxury ; too much of every thing that is good ; 

 too much personal industry and labor. We must cut 

 ofl' the producers and increase the consumers. Ah! 

 IS all gratitude to Heaven, and all humanity dead in 

 the soul of man 1 



Then again another cause of complaint is, that our 

 farmers are losing the market for their grain and their 

 meat, because of the Temperance rrl'ormation and the 

 progressofGrnhnni principles. That is. wo are be- 

 coming too moral ; too abstinent : we are not willing' 



to indulge ourselves enough ; we are not willing to 

 poison ourselvea ; we are not willing to make our- 

 selves and our friends miserable and infamous, in or- 

 der to encourage agriculture. How eeUisb and un- 

 patriotic I 



We might go on to extend this lable of social an- 

 omalies and inconsistencies until we reached the end 

 "four humble sheet, but we must forbejr. We throw 

 out these facts, if facta they are, for reilection. So 

 far and so intimately do they connect themselves with 

 the condition of our rural populati n, that we hold 

 them open to, ami invite discussion in our columns — 

 We believe for ourselves that the source of them lieu 

 muidi deeper than most persons imagine. We be- 

 lieve that no government that has ever yet existed can 

 cure them. They are far beyond the reach of all ar- 

 lificial remedies. They grow out of the fixed and 

 unalterable laws of Divine Providence, which in its 

 certain retributions men seek continually to contra- 

 vene. We have bad already a great deal too much 

 law and too much political quackery. The diseases 

 of the social condition spring out of the unmitigated 

 eellishness, and unbridled rapacilyand avarice of the 

 human heart. 



Sir Robert Peel, in his late extraordinary speech 

 on the revision of the British Tariff, remarked that 

 his proposed reduction of the duty upon cured fi=h, 

 {by which the condition of the poor would be greatly 

 alleviated,) was very warmly opposed by a man ex- 

 tensively engaged in the Herring Fishery in the is- 

 land ol Jersey, who very frankly wrote to him, tba 

 " he was for free trade in every thing but herrings. 

 Here is the secret out. " I mistook ; it was your 

 bull that gored my ox." "Ah 1" said the impartial 

 magistrate, " i\\ni niters ihe case," entirely. 



Cattle Shows, Fairs, and Ploughing Matches. 



We subjoin a notice of the times of holding the 

 several Agricultural Fairs, which come vv'ithin our 

 knowledge, within the district where our paper prin- 

 cipally circulates, a. d shall keep it in until the times 

 arrive. We shall be obliged to the Se<:relnries of tho 

 dilTeient Agricultural Societies in New York. Ohio, 

 New En. land and Canada, if they will give us (post 

 paid) the notices of their respective lairs. 

 New York State Fair, Albany, Sept. 28 and 29. 



Oct. 13 and 14. 



Oct. 20 and 21 . 

 Sept. 5 and 6. 

 Oct. 4. 

 Oct. 1 1 and 12. 

 Oct. 20 and 21. 

 Oct, 6 and 7. 

 Oct. 5 and 6. 



Thin out your Peaches. 



The peach trees in this vicinity are overloaded with 

 young fruit, and those who wish to have fine peaches 

 should lose no time in thinning them out ; not leav- 

 ing more than about one thira of the number. These 

 will grow three limes ns large, and be worth six times 

 as much as the whole would be if left to grow. B. 



Omissions, 



We regret that the articles on Stearine from Lard, 

 Oil from Corn Meal, and Tomato Figs. &c., from our 

 respected correspondents McLean and Crocker, though 

 in type, are unavoidably postponed to our next number. 



