MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
or 11 inches, rendering it as lino and mol- 
low as an onion bed; 3d, manuring-**saving 
everything that will add fertility to tho 
fields, allowing no waste, plastoring—ash¬ 
ing—turning undor clover; clover is sown 
with every wheat, and often with other grain 
crops; even if tho ground is to bo turned 
over for a crop the next spring after liar- 
vest, Mr. Gone thinks that tho fall feed af¬ 
forded by the clover, and tho roots and 
stalks loft to decay in the soil, amply repay 
for seod and sowing, as the fields thus treat¬ 
ed are from year to year, it is plainly ob- 
servablo, improving in fertility. 
Mr. Cono is particularly careful to save 
everything which will add to tho manure 
heap. The contents of tho privy, and all 
tho wash from the houso aro carefully pre¬ 
served. For saving this latter a tank is 
sunk a short distance from tho kitchen, and 
a duct mado of boards convoys tho wash, 
soap suds, &c., into it. Muck or rich earth 
is kept to soak up this liquor, and into this 
tank all small animals which are killed, or 
dio upon the farm, and all animal refuse, 
aro deposited. Plaster is thrown in now and 
then, which renders it inodorous. This Mr. 
Cone thinks tho most valuable manure he 
makes upon his farm. It is mostly applied 
to tho garden, and produces an astonishing 
growth of vegetables. It has tho advantage 
of being freo from all foul soeds. A box 
holding 3 or 4 bushels, is filled with finely 
broken and powdered charcoal, and placed 
in tho wood house, and upon this tho urine 
from tho chambers, (which is saved with 
scrupulous care,) is poured. When it be¬ 
comes completely saturated it is thrown in¬ 
to tho tank or applied directly to tho soil. 
Charcoal, it is well known, is a powerful 
absorbent; that is, it will take up and hold 
within itself more of tho gases and watery 
vapor than any other known substance. It 
will take up 95 times its own bulk of am¬ 
monia, and will absorb so much of watory 
vapor as to increase its weight 10 to 20 por 
cent. Thus, urine poured upon it never 
omits an unpleasant smell, until it is com¬ 
pletely saturated with it. We earnestly ro- 
commond this practico to overy farmer.— 
Ho who looks only to his barn-yard to suji- 
ply the fertility of tho fields, neglects a very 
important sourco of wealth and profit. We 
refer to human excromonts. We know there 
is a false delicacy existing, which would al¬ 
ways make it improper to alludo/to this sub¬ 
ject, but there is no good reason for it, and 
wo shall therefore “ ever pray” our farmers 
to adopt some convenient mode of saving 
thoso enriching materials. When thoy aro 
well preserved they are equal to tho so 
much prized guano. 
Keeping tho cultivated fields ontircly freo 
from weeds and grass. At the time of our 
visit, scarcely a weed was to bo found in 
garden or field, and evory good farmer can 
imagine that it was in fact, a real satisfac¬ 
tion, to behold the true system of farming 
so nicoly and thoroughly carried out. In 
truth, wo were surprised—wo asked but few 
questions—every thing was as intelligible 
as a book, and it any thinks wo are strain¬ 
ing a point, ho can go and sco himself—our 
word for it, he will not regret the time 
spent. 
Well, all tho operations onumoratod aro 
systematically carried on. Evory thing is 
done in season, and tho work is thus not al¬ 
io vved to got bohind-hand. In harvesting, 
or haying, as fast as tho crop becomes prop- 
perly cured, it is housed; by this modo, Mr. 
C. says ho has often saved an ontiro crop 
from driving storms. Tho barley crop is 
found to bo a very profitable ono, but wheth¬ 
er it will continue to bo if the “MaineLaw” 
is adopted wo can hardly predict. 
Mr. Cono uses a largo plow with a “ join¬ 
ter ,” or small ploiv, attached to tho beam as 
a coultor is attached. This “jointer” runs 
about two inches deop, and turns half the 
width of tho furrow nearly over on to tho 
othor half—tho main plow follows, bringing 
up the lower stratum of tho soil, and turns 
tho wholo under, grass, woods—evory thing 
out of sight. A plow thus rigged does the 
work nearly as well as tho Michigan doublo 
plow, and is not so heavy or expensive.— 
The double plow, (which is sometimes er¬ 
roneously called a subsoil plow.) has thus far 
given entire satisfaction whorovor it has 
been used, and Michigan ought to bo proud 
of so useful an invention by ono of her own 
hard-working sons, Aaron Smith, Esq., of 
Birmingham, in Oakland county. This plow 
will come into general use when its merits 
are better known. The cost of tho jointer 
is #2, or $2,25. Thoy may bo had at l’onti- 
ac. Wo can recommend their uso with en¬ 
tire confidence. 
Last season being so vory dry, somo may 
bo anxious to know how tho crops and tho 
pastures and garden vegetables “ stood it.” 
Tho wheat crop had been taken in, but Mr. 
C. informed us that it was vory heavy, and 
wo should judge from the appoarenco of the 
stubblo that it would yield from 30 to 35 
bushels per acre—perhaps more. Tho wheat 
crop on this farm for many years past, has 
boon too heavy for tho cradle—tho cutting 
has been mostly done with tho sickle. Tho 
grass crop has been alludod to. Tho oats 
and barley wore heavy ; tho corn showed no 
signs of drouth, was of a dark green color, 
and very stock y. The pastures wore as green 
as in spring almost, and afforded a full bito. 
There was no suffering in tho garden either 
—not a wilted or a curled loaf did wo soo. 
The ground has all been trenched 18 inchos 
deep, and consequently thoro is no cause 
for suffering. There aro many othor things 
in Mr. Cone's practico to which wo would 
liko to call attention, but must dolay thorn 
to somo future time. His example is in¬ 
deed a useful one. It proves that most of 
the failures in raising crops, aro tho result 
of improper or negligent cultivation ; that 
deep plowing, draining, subsoiling, and a 
complete pulverization of tho soil, and clean 
culture, will bo as surely followed by heavy 
crops, as that harvest follows sood-timo.— 
Who does not boliovo this to bo tho true 
system of farming ? 
drefarfr attfo darkn. 
STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 
WniLE tho Strawberry plant is found 
growing wild all over tho country, it must 
bo admitted that it is not from want of 
adaptation of our soil and climate, that this 
dolicious fruit is not found in every garden. 
The cultivated varieties are of much tho 
samo character, and ovory requisite to their 
growth which Nature can supply is abun¬ 
dantly furnished. Noithor is it want of ap¬ 
preciation of tho morits of this delicacy, 
nor, in many casos, from lack of attempts 
to grow thorn, but their neglect has resulted 
rathor from wrong management, or from 
the idea that thoy were very difficult to pro¬ 
duce in perfection. And it does seom, somo- 
timos, that thoir growth is a mattor of mys¬ 
tery hard to understand, sinco plants taken 
from a boaring bed, and sot in another gar¬ 
den, though tho vinos grow luxuriantly and 
flowered abundantly, yet not a single perfect 
strawberry rewards tho labor and care ex¬ 
tended upon thorn. Why? thoso versed in 
theories of pistillate and staminato plants, 
will give us thoir solution. 
Tho requisites for success in tho cultiva¬ 
tion of tho strawberry aro chiefly, according 
to Thomas, a good soil,—such as will grow 
corn and potatoes well, — mellowed very 
deoply and well manured ; clean cultivation, 
which is a vory ossontial requisite; a re¬ 
newal of plants as ofton as ovory tliroo years; 
and tho selection of suitable varieties. Hero, 
“ as tho productive qualities of strawborios 
depend so essentially on tho prcsenco of 
stamens and pistils, somo attention to this 
part of tho subject is indispcnsablo to thoir 
successful culture.” 
“ Modorn cultivators,” continues Thomas, 
“divido all strawberries into two distinctc las¬ 
ses, ono being termod stamina,te, or ‘ male/ 
in which tho stamens are fully dovolopod, 
and possess tho power of fertilizing tho 
gorm, and tho othor boing termed pistilale, 
or‘female,’ in which tho stamens aro im¬ 
perfectly developed that thoy fail to accom¬ 
plish fertilization.” Tho accompanying cut 
represents, first, tho staminato or porfoct 
fruit bearing flowers, (a, referring to the 
stamens and b, to tho pistils;) second, tho 
staminato barren,—and third, the pistillate, 
which is fruitful if near staminates. By tho 
uso of a microscopo it will bo seen that tho 
stamens are abundantly supplied with pol¬ 
len or fertilizing dust, while tho pistil is 
nearly or totally destitute. Ilenco a pistil¬ 
late variety can never or but vory imporfoct- 
ly fertilize its own flowers, and tho impreg¬ 
nation must bo derived from a staminato 
sort. Tho two sorts should be plantod noar 
each othor, though in separato beds, about 
ono-fourth staminato being thought the 
right proportion. 
Thoso who did not, last autumn, or al¬ 
ready this spring sot a strawberry bed, 
should lose no time in doing so. In such a 
soil, and ’prepared as wo havo described, 
strike out rows tliroo feet apart, with a line. 
Set tho plants about ono foot apart in tho 
rows—thoy will soon send out runners, which 
should bo allowed to fill tho space betwoon 
ovory other row, tho other strip being kept 
bare for an alloy. Ivoop them clear from 
woods and gather tho fruit when it ripons,— 
rejoicing as well you may in strawborrios of 
your own raising. 
Black Knot on Plum Trees.— Inquiry .— 
Wo have a valuable Plum Orchard, and 
most of tho trees are affocted with tho black 
scab. Now what shall wo do ? Wo have 
cut off tho parts affocted, and lot thorn grow 
out again, but this takes about tliroo or four 
years. Now, is thoro not somo remody that 
can bo applied to tho trees, and effect a cure? 
Tho scab koops coming on, as tho now 
branches come forth, and to ono who is not 
very well postod up in this mattor, it looks 
discouraging. Perhaps somo of your cor¬ 
respondents can impart tho desired infor¬ 
mation. If thoy will do so, through tho 
columns of tho Rural, thoy will confer a 
favor.—W., Walpole, JY. II., April 27, 1853. 
Plum Grafts Bearing the First Year. 
—A correspondent, It. J. A., sonds us an 
account of plum grafts bearing full grown 
plums, tho samo season thoy were sot, and 
asks an explanation of tho phenomena.— 
There is nothing very singular about it—tho 
scions set had blossom buds upon thorn, and 
growing thriftily, producod fruit. 
THE GARDEN. 
It was only last summer that a friend 
from tho city, affecting for the moment 
a tasto for horticulture, sought admission to 
our little garden, Wo took him thither, 
and ho rushed through it as if a railway 
whistle had pierced the tympanum of his 
oar, or as if he had beon bent on “ proving 
by his heols the prowess of his head.” Wo 
waited at tho door until his return, and had 
not long to wait, when, taking the adjoining 
border as our text, wo proceeded to descant 
upon its inhabitants. 
Tho first was a Peruvian novolty, which 
had never flowered benorth tho Tay, and for 
whose infloresconco we were waiting in high 
expectancy. The second was a hybrid Ver¬ 
onica, tho gift of an early-cherished friend, 
and most accomplished floriculturist—a 
child from a marriage of his own making ; 
for our friend’s voico is highly potential in 
commanding parties to join hands—in man¬ 
ipulating those quaint clandestine marriages, 
for which nature doos not provide—in tying 
thoso mystic hymonial knots among Flora’s 
children, tho progeny whoi’oof does often¬ 
times give a pleasant surprise at once to tho 
parents and the priest. Tho third was a 
rose—tho Geanl de Batlailles —A gift from 
another friend, who varies his oxercitations 
in the gloomy provinco of criminal law by 
frequent recreations amongst the innocont 
and lovoly donizons of his exquisite llosa- 
rim. Wo were making slow progress in our 
descriptive narrative—for, indeed, to us a 
flower bordor is not a moro border of flowers, 
but an unrolled volume of many-colourod 
history.—Each plant has its pedigree and its 
parontago—its peculiarities of habit and ed¬ 
ucation—its biography. Ono brings to our 
recollection doar friends in a distant land ; 
another transports us to its native homo 
among tho snowy Himalayas. Every plant 
forms a nucleus of kindly association, and 
“ on ovory bough wo have learned to hang 
gentle thoughts and pleasant memories.” 
To number throo in tho bordor wo had 
only reached, when, accidentally looking in¬ 
to tho face of our friend from tho city, wo 
saw depicted thoro blank ignorance, and a 
cold negation of all sympathy with our flori- 
cultural enthusiasm. It was enough; we 
were throwing words away. We conducted 
Mr. Urban out of tho garden; but not boforo 
ho had cropped, with most rash and profano 
fingers, tho flowers of an antir-nhinum of 
such perfect symmetry, and of such clean 
and brilliant stripes, that we had severed it 
from its compeers for tho purpose of seed¬ 
ing ! Smothoring our indgination, wo led tho 
gentleman back to our parlor, and put in¬ 
to his hands an Edinburgh nowspapor !— 
Wo havo made up Our mind on the subject. 
A man that can walk rapidly through a gar- 
don is an undoubted barbarian. Ho ought 
to koop to the highways—or tho boards of 
tho Parliament Houso; or, if ho must ontor 
a garden, lot it bo a large ono, where ho may 
take an airing, and podestrianiso, at his 
pleasure.— Blackivood's Magazine. 
STRAWBERRY CULTIVATION. 
Those who know anything about the 
magnificent strawberries, and the immense 
quantities of them raised on a bod about 30 
feet by 40, for several years past, in the gar¬ 
den formerly owned by mo in King-street, 
may like to know tho process by which I 
cultivate them. 
I applied once a weok, for three times, 
commencing when tho green leaves first bo- 
gan to start, and making tho last applica¬ 
tion just boforo the plants were in full bloom, 
tho following preparation of nitrate of pot¬ 
ash, glauber salts, and sals-oda, each ono 
pound; dissolved in 30 gallons of rain or 
river water. One-third was applied at a 
time, and when tho weather was dry, I ap¬ 
plied clear soft water between times of us¬ 
ing tho preparation—as tho growth of tho 
young loaves is so rapid that unless well 
supplied with water, tho sun will scorch 
them. I used a common watering pot, and 
mado tho application towards evening.— 
Managod in this way, thoro is neither any 
necessity of digging over tho bed, or set¬ 
ting it out anew. Beds ten years old are 
not only as good, but bottor than thoso of 
two or three years of age. But you must 
be sure and keep the weeds out.— North¬ 
ampton Gazette. 
ON SOWING FLOWER SEEDS. 
Tho Ohio Cultivator, which is oxcollent 
authority, gives the following directions for 
sowing flower seeds, which may provo of 
groat value at this season of the year. 
“ Rich Mellow Soil is the first requisite 
fora good flower bed. Not a few inches of 
mucky earth spread over a bed of clay orig¬ 
inally dug from tho eoller—but good deep 
garden soil well pulverized, and enriched if 
necossary with well rotted manure. If at 
all clayey, so as to bako after rain, tho sur¬ 
face should bo covorod with a mixture of 
wood, earth and sand, well mixed and rak- 
od fino. In this sow tho seed as early as 
you please after this time, taking caro to 
covor tho fine soeds, such as petunia, porta- 
lacca, campanula, &c., very slightly; whilo 
the largo kinds, as balsamino, aster, larkspur, 
&c., may bo covered, say 1-4 of an inch 
doep; cypress vino seods should bo soaked 
in milk kept nearly blood warm 48 hours 
before sowing. Care must also bo taken to 
shade the ground where tho fino soods aro 
sown, until the young plants aro strong 
onough to bear tho hot sun. This may bo 
done by placing a shinglo or bit of thin 
board over tho spot, supported an inch or 
two abovo tho ground by sticks or small 
stonos; or strong paper may bo fastoned di¬ 
rectly on tho surface, and hold thoro by 
pegs till tho plants begin to appear. Water 
occasionally in dry weather, boforo and after 
tho plants appear, and keep tho ground 
clear of woods, and mellow, by frequent 
stirring. 
Most of our list of flowers aro annuals of 
easy culture, and quite showy. Tho Asters, 
especially, will bo found vory beautiful— 
embracing moro than twenty distinct varie¬ 
ties or colors, most of them very doublo, and 
somo of greater size than over boforo seen 
in this country. (Give these vory rich 
ground, and plenty of water in dry weather, 
then look out for premiums at tho fair next 
fall.) Other kinds, as the Balsamino, Lark¬ 
spur, Marigold, Zinnia, &c., are of greatly 
improved and showy varieties, and quite a 
number have never before been introduced 
in this country. The CantOrbury-bell, and 
Pinks, are the only perennials —those do not 
flower till tho second year. The Heart’s 
ease and Snap-dragon are classed with an¬ 
nuals because thoy flower tho first year 
from seed, although thoy live two or more 
years.” 
TO RAISE CUCUMBERS OR SQUASHES- 
Take a largo barrel, or hogshead, saw it 
in two in tho middle, and bury each half 
in the ground even with tho top. Then 
tako a small keg and boro a small holo in 
the bottom. Place tho keg in tho centre of 
tho barrel, tho top oven with tho ground, 
and fill in tho barrel around tho keg with 
rich earth, suitablo for tho growth of cu¬ 
cumbers. Plant your seed midway be¬ 
tween tho edges of tho barrel and tho keg, 
and mako a kind of arbor a foot or two high 
for the vines to run on. Whon tho ground 
becomes dry, pour water in tho keg in the 
ovoning— it will pass out of the bottom of 
tho keg into tho barrel, and rise up to the 
roots of tho vinos, and koep them moist and 
gi’oen. Cucumbers cultivated this way will 
grow to a groat size, as they aro mado inde- 
pondont both of drought and wet weather. 
In wet weather tho barrel can be covered, 
and in dry, tho ground can bo kept moist 
by pouring water in tho keg. 
Profitable and Skilful Culture. —Tho 
lato S. W. Colo, stated that Mosos Jones, of 
Brookline, Mass., set 112 apple trees, two 
rods apart, and poach trees between, both 
ways. These trees received the best culti¬ 
vation and attention, and boro the eighth 
year, 528 barrels of apples, that is two bar¬ 
rels as an average to each tree. A “ few 
years,” from the setting of tho trees, he 
says, tho poach trees bore $400 worth of 
fruit in ono year. During this period, tho 
vegetables on tho gronnd, nearly paid for the 
manure and labor. Many of the apple 
trees producod four or five barrels the tenth 
year. We havo known results equal to this, 
on a smaller scalo, where the best cultivation 
was given.— Albany Cultivator. 
attic SLrts, ft. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM TIIE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending April 26, 1853. 
Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, England, for 
improvement in sugar drainers. Patented in Eng¬ 
land, Feb. 21,1852. 
Samuel Cook, of Brockport, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in smut machines. 
Ezra Coleman, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in machines for folding envelopes. 
Reuben Daniels, of Woodstock, Vt., for improve¬ 
ment in straw cutters. 
Wm. P. Merriam, Norman C. Harris, W. Wheel¬ 
er and E. N. Merriam, of Poultuey, Vt., for im¬ 
provement in the construction of iron candlesticks. 
Jas. Bolton, M. D., of Richmond, Va., assignor 
to Chas. D. Yale, of same place, for improvement 
in hot air furnaces. 
Stephen F. Palmer, of New York, N. Y., for 
improved towing apparatus for canal beats. 
Thos. J. Sloan, of New York, N. Y., for machine 
for pointing and threading screw blanks. 
Thos. B. Stout, of Key Port, N. J., for improve¬ 
ment iu potato diggers. 
Samuel D. Tillman, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., for 
improvement in radiators for stoves. 
Alfred J. Watts, of Utica, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in processes for preparing gold. 
David Marsh and Bennet Whitney, of Fairfield, 
Conn., for improvement in rice htillers. 
Chas. Ludwig Gran, of Hamburg, Germany, as¬ 
signor to Conrad Poppenliusen, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
for improvement in cementing materials for orna¬ 
mental compounds. Patented iu Germany, Dec. 
18, 1847. 
John E. Crane, of Lowell, Mass., for improved 
chain cable stoppers. 
RE-ISSUE. 
W. F. Ketclnim, of Buffalo, N. N., for improve¬ 
ment in reaping machines. Patented J uly 10, ’47. 
Ile-issucd Oct. 21, 1851. 
DESIGNS. 
Jeremiah Hills, of Newtowe, Conn., for design 
for ladies’ hair combs. 
Garrettson Smith and Henry Brown, of Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., assignors to North, Chase A North, 
of same place, for design for a portable range. 
Samuel H. Sailor, of Philadelphia, Pa., assignor 
to Chas. W. Warnick and Fred. Leibrandt, of same 
place, for design for a cooking stove. 
John C. Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to 
Chas. W. Warnick and Fred. Liebrandt, of same 
place, for desigu for a portable range. 
NEW CLOVER THRESHER. 
Friend Moore :—I soo in your valuablo 
“Rural” a notico of an “ improved Clover 
Thresher;” and I will deseribo for you my 
Thresher—home-mado by my brother. It 
is a Conical Cylinder 22 inches long, about 
7 inchos in diamotor at tho small ond, and 
21 inches at the largo end, and laid up of 
folloos in tho samo manner as Hildreth’s 
best wheat thresher. It is spiked or teotlr 
od similar to a wheat thresher, and tho teeth 
are thou cut ragged. The concavo to fit the 
cylinder is of wood, lined with good sheet 
iron punched full of holes from outside in, 
similar to a horso-radish grator, and also full 
ot teeth. Tho teeth in tho cylinder are iu 
throo rows in the form of a screw around 
tho cylinder, giving a powerful suction 
from tho small end to tho great end at 
which is a hole 1£ inches wide and four 
inches high at tho sido of the concave. Tho 
fcoding hopper is at the small end on top— 
whon under full motion it keeps ono man 
“ on the jump to keep tho hopper full, and 
it throws tho seed and chaff six feet from 
its discharge hole. 
I havo threshed and cleaned 15 bushels of 
clover seed in ono day—have owned it somo 
livo or six yoars. It could bo much im¬ 
proved by having spikes or tcoth shorter 
towards tho largo end, and also spikes in tho 
upper half of tho concave—mine has only 
tho shoot iron on tho top as described._ 
For power I uso my eight horse-Powor, but 
often attach only four horses to thresh clo- 
vor seed. I feel confident that any ono in¬ 
tending to make clover throshors would bo 
bonofited by sooing this one. I am sure it 
could bo modeled so as to thresh 40 bushels 
clover seod por day. Tho cost of its con¬ 
struction is tho samo as a good common 
wheat thresher. Tho cylinder lies horizon¬ 
tal tho samo as a wheat thresher. 
Were the Messrs. Daniel, of Hanover, Pa. 
—(as per No. 11 of the present Vol. of tho 
Rural) to see this machino in operation, 
thoy would tako improvements from it.— 
The conical shape of the cylinder gives it so 
groat a suction or draught that it is easier 
to tend than any othor machino with which 
I am acquainted. Any mechanic shall bo 
welcome to tako pattern from it, and to any 
information I can impart concerning the 
samo. Tours, C. II. Witmer. 
Suspension Bridge, Niag. Co., April, 1853. 
ATMOSPHERIC TELEGRAPH. 
We soo it stated that subscription books 
havo been opened in New York to construct 
a lino of Atmospheric Telegraph between 
Boston and that city. If any confidence 
can bo placed in the opinion of scientific 
gentlemen deemed fully competent to judge 
in tho matter, all difficulties of a mechani¬ 
cal nature have boen obviated, and tho in¬ 
vention is bound to provo highly successful 
Thus, probably, tho day is at hand when 
lottors, newspapers and packages can bo 
aont over tho country in no time at all, as 
well as words or messages. The Boston 
Advertiser gives a description of the now 
invention, from a model exhibited thoro. 
“ Tho apparatus of tho invention consists 
of a tube connecting the places between 
which communication is to be maintained, 
in which a sort of piston, called tho “ plun¬ 
ger,” is fitted, with a looso leather packing 
Tho matter to be sent is inclosed in a bag 
attached bohind this plunger. Its propulsion 
is secured by tho pressure of tho Atmos¬ 
phere of ordinary density bohind it—that in 
front being rarified by means of an air 
pump, producing Fa partial vacunrn. This 
propelling power is so groat as to produco 
an apparently instantaneous motion of tho 
plunger, with its load, from one end of tho 
model tubo, on exhibition, which is about 
thirty feet long and H inches in diameter ; 
indeed, tho plunger issues forth with so 
much forco, whon not confined, as to knock 
down violently a heavy billet of wood placed 
opposito tho ond of tho tubo if it is left 
open. The speed is estimated at about ono 
thousand miles in an hour.” 
Tho apparatus is so arrrngcd that thero 
can bo intermediate stations upon tho lino, 
at which tho progress of the “plunger”can 
be arrested, or if preferred it can pass di¬ 
rectly through to its terminus. It will bo a 
cheaper modo of convoyanco than any 
othor, besides being twenty times as fast.— 
It is estimated that tho cost of tho tubo for 
tho New York and Boston lino, two foot in 
diameter, would bo $2,000 por milo. If a 
sufficient amount of matter was presented, 
it is claimed that tho actual cost of trans¬ 
portation would not bo more than half that 
of any other method. The line nood not bo 
straight, but can bo curved so as to follow 
tho face of tho ground or under-lie tho 
channel of a river. 
Stone Hewn by Steam. —Many pooplo 
who aro accustomed to the slow process of 
pecking with chisel and mallet, will bo as¬ 
tonished whon they aro told that rough 
stone can bo hewn down, smoothed, and 
polished by tho power of steel and steam. 
Thero is in this city a large building de¬ 
voted to stono-cutting in this modorn fash¬ 
ion, situated on the banks of tho canal, a 
short distance south of tho Capitol. It has 
been under trial three years in Now York, 
and if somo of tho splendid now blocks on 
Broadway could speak thoy might toll an 
interesting story of their birth. Tho cost 
of elegant and substantial building materi¬ 
als must bo greatly reduced by this innova¬ 
tion upon the old and slow process; and 
unless tho price of pressod brick is greatly 
cheapened by somo invention yot to bo an- 
ounced, wo do not seo but thoy will be 
obligod to go to tho rear.— National Intelli¬ 
gencer. 
Preserving Eggs.— -M. Appert’s mothod 
of preserving eggs, is to put thorn in ajar; 
put into a vessel of water, heated to 200 do- 
groos Faprenheit, or 12 degrees bolow boil¬ 
ing. Tho vessel with water being taken 
from tho fire, tho water must cool till tho 
linger may be borno in itj'remove tho jar._ 
Tho eggs may then bo taken out, and will 
keep for six months. 
