FROM THE COLUMBIAN. CURE FOR PEACH TREES. A sure remedy for the preservation of Peach Trees, against the destructive gnawings of a small white worm, at or near the root, which hath caused such a devastation of that supervaluable fruit, for a series of years, in this and the states adjoining, has for many years been in my possession, and during a number of which, in successful operation; and this being a proper season for its application, I deem it a duty I owe to the public to publish it, hoping that all who are interested in the raising of this fruit will give it, at least, one trial, it being so simple and withal so cheap a cure. My remedy is by an application of an unguent, commonly called itch ointment, around the trunk, at the very ground's surface, where lie the enemy's entrenchments, which after the mould is removed, to leave the top of the main roots, and (choosing a fine day for the operation) the tree quite cleared of all remaining mould (or dirt) must be spread about one inch in depth, and will soon in the sun's rays, extend 2 or 3 inches on the bark, diffusing its poisonous qualities quite into the inner rind of the same, causing an immediate decampment of its natural devourer, and shielding it forever after from further mischief by the sting of its progenitors. The quantum required for anointing per tree, is from 1-4 to 1 oz. according to its size; taking due care that all such as are diseased, be thoroughly cleared from the issuing gum (the dire effects of the hidden devourer) and that a portion of this unguent be applied into the wound when it gushes. Two such anoint ings, one in autumn, and one at midspring, will suffice for completely eradicating the foe. This article may be obtained from the druggist at from 300 to 400 per cent upon the first cost! Hence I would advice the manufacturing of it from the following process: purchase from the druggist 1 lb. of crude quicksilver (cost 7s.) and with 5 lb. of lard (the more rancid the better) put them together into an iron pot, to which attach a rope 5 or 6 feet in length, made fast overhead, into which place a cannon ball 14 or 18lb. and let a strong hand be applied to two legs of this vessel, and round, and round, and round, let it be twirled for one hour, and the ingredient thence deposited in a stone jarr, and if kept close covered, will retain its virtues for years, and serve for the anointing of 200 or 250 trees, and all preserved for the small pittance of one dollar fortyfour cents. AN OLD GARdener. Season of fruits, 9th moon, 1820. AGRICULTURAL MEMORANDA. At a sitting of the Board of managers of the "New-York County Agricultural Society," on the 21st of September, a number of interesting communications were made. A variety of wheat, maize, corn, plants, melons, cabbage, &c. from Egypt, Sicily, Spain, and various parts of Europe, were presented, some from the agricultural board at Albany, and some from our intelligent consul at Malaga, George P. Barrel, Esq. A certified record from Mr. Van Ranst, the owner of the Bussorah Arabian, was ordered to be put on file, for the purpose of establishing hereafter the pedigree of the colts of that celebrated horse. The Board also ordered that notice should be given in the papers, inviting gentlemen who reside in the neighbouring states, and who have fine domestic animals or implements of husbandry which they wish to sell or exchange, to attend the fair which is to follow the award of premiums at Mount-Vernon on the 7th and 8th of November next. A gentleman of this city presented the Board with four fine peaches, taken from his garden. The tree was a wilding, and has borne a large quantity of fruit this season. The largest, which grew on a single stem, measured 10 1-4 inches in circumference, and weighed 8 1-4 ounces. The other three grew on one small stem in a cluster, averaged 7 ounces a piece.-D. Adv. the employ of working cattle, and loss, or deterioration of crop. Now, in truth, labour, as such, never yet diminished any man's profit, on the contrary, it is the root and spring of all profit. Labour unwisely directed and unskilfully managed, is, indeed, a great consumer of the farmer's prosperity. But labour, wisely directed, and skilfully managed, can, from the nature of things, result in nothing else than profit. What is skilful management, and what is wise direction of labour, opens a field almost boundless; and not to be attempted on the present The Hartford Mirror tells us of ap-fice. The great secret of European occasion. A single remark must sufples of an unusual size, produced in the vicinity of that city. Six apples, called pumpkin sweetings, weighed five pounds and fourteen ounces: the largest weighed seventeen ounces and a half. Six apples of the kind called seek-no-further, weighed seventy-two ounces, the largest thirteen ounces and a half. Six apples of the pippin kind, raised by Mr. John Jones, of EastHartford, were weighed in the presence of several persons, and certified to be as follows: FINE FRUIT. SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURE. Systematic agriculture requires sufficiency of hands. Whatever scale of farming any man undertakes to fill, hands enough to do it well, are essential. Although this is a plain dictate of common sense, yet the want of being guided by it, in practice, is one great cause of ill success, in our agriculture. Because we hear every day, that "labour runs away with all profits in farming," almost every farmer lays it down as a maxim to do with as little labour as possible. Now this maxim almost always results in practice, in doing with less than he ought. The effect is almost every where seen in loss of time; loss of season; loss of success in agriculture, is stated to be "much labour on, comparatively, little land." EARLY SEED. QUINCY. Every attentive observer, will remark among the plants of almost every kind of crops, some individual stalks which are distinguishable from the others by a greater degree of health, or luxuriance, or earliness, or some other peculiarity. A friend of mine remarked a few years ago, a particular stem of peas among his earliest crop, which came into flower and ripened long before the others. He marked this stem and saved the whole of its produce for seed. These came as much earlier as they had originally done. This produce was also saved for seed, and thus he obtained a particular kind of early pease, that came at least a week before the best sort he could buy in the shops, if sown at the same time with them. Doctor Anderson relates facts similar to this, respecting wheat and beans. The general idea he means to inculcate is obvious, and extremely worthy attention. CURE FOR CANKER IN CATTLE. The following recipe, published in the Watchman of the 31st of December last, we are informed has proved generally successful on trial; as the disease of the tongue in cattle has again made its appearance, it may be useful to re-publish it.-Del. Watchman. Brandy.cine Hundred, Dec. 1819. secluded spot, while they threw a melancholy gloom over my mind, left me fully abandoned to reflection; the Mr. Osburn, if you think the follow-years that were gone arose before ing recipe worth a place in your useful paper, it may be of great use to the public in general. The most of my horses and cattle had the canker on their tongues, and I tried several remedies: but the only one that I found successful, is the following. One ROBERT FORWood. Honey, saltpetre, and allum. pint of honey, to half an ounce of each of the other, boiled together. Rub it with a swab on the tongue. Oil of spike is also very good to rub with. MISCELLANEOUS. FOR THE MASONIC REGISTER. THE EXCURSION. It was in that season of the year when Autumn scatters her fruits upon the earth, and opens the heart of man to gratitude, that I made my annual retreat from the busy hum of the city, to a small country place, on the banks of a beautiful stream. This place seemed of all others the best calculated to dispose the mind to contemplation. It exhibited an agreeable contrast of the pleasing and the sublime: the eye in wandering over its scenery, beheld on the one hand the green and level lawn, where flocks and herds were carelessly grazing or ruminating beneath the spreading foilage of the oak, the chestnut, and the beech, while the fragrance of surrounding orchards perfumed the air; and on the other hand arose majestic rocks, whose towering height seemed to cast an awful shade on the vale below, while the murmuring of a brook which flowed at their base, increased the solemnity of the place. The sudden change from the noise and tomult in which I had been so lately engaged, together with the uncommon silence which reigned in this me with all their deeds," and awakened the voice of a slumbering conscience. The sins of my youth crowded upon my mind in alarming numbers, and that shadow of religion, moral deportment, in which I had wrapt myself from earliest life, now disappeared from my view, and left me exposed naked to my own contempt. I had formerly sucked in the poison of deistical writers, and had often ridiculed the superstition of a Christian devotee; but I now felt the bands of prejudice and error, which infidelity had fastened on my mind, bursting like threads before the consuming fire of the wrath of God," which drank my spirits up." Imagination, armed with a whip of scorpions, aroused every power of my soul to misery, while recollection exclaimed, "guilty before God!" Long, long, did I drink of the "wormwood and the gall," till at length the shades of night fled, and the morning smiled; for the Sun of Righ teousness arose with healing in his wings. Then it was that I relished indeed the beauties of nature. O with what delight did I enter those scenes which lately proved so bitter to my taste; not a cloud now darkened my horizon, and my heart bounded with delight. "Are these the pleasures," I involuntarily exclaimed, on gaining the summit of a lofty hill, which commanded a view of the surrounding country. "Are these the pleasures from which infidelity debars its votaries. the young and the gay but know the happiness I now enjoy, how quickly would they break the thongs which bind them to the wheel of fashion, and fall with penitential awe at the feet of au injured Redeemer! Yes, said I, while my heart glowed with the rising fervour, were religion but a phantom, with what rapture would I fold the imagined form to my bosom! even Did FASHIONABLE LYING. The following article is copied from the "HERALD," a paper, published in this city upwards of twentythree years ago. What effect it may have had in correcting the habit of FASHIONABLE LYING, at that time, we are unable to determine. But sure we are, that it was far from having been eradicated. "I'M NOT AT HOME." "A pretty excuse this, to get rid of an unwelcome visiter!. "What a crooked path is this to the point aimed at! A lady is very busy, perhaps she has a mantua maker with her, she cannot spare fifteen minutes to see a friend, or she has not on the particular dress in which her pride will be gratified, or in short, she is lolling on her sopha, and cannot take the pains to go down stairs; she directs her servant to tell all her visiters, SHE IS NOT AT HOME. Mighty genteel truly! a lie! Yes, a plumper, to do that which honest truth would do with half the trouble. "But it is fashionable, it is customary to tell such lies; there is no harm in complying with fashion! "Pray, madam, is there no danger o yourself in indulging insincerity? May not practice grow into habit, and send you astray? Are you not teaching your servants and children dangerous lessons? "Oh, as to that we must risk it, it is the fashion, it is well understood, there is no deception in it, every body knows what is meant. "Well, if every body knows what is meant, you may as well tell them the blunt truth at once. “Oh, no; that would not do, it would be so monstrous vulgar to speak the truth; why the whole town would laugh at us, it won't do, it won't do, but in an evasion there seems to be something so delicate, so polite, so well-bred, so fashionable, that nothing suits so well. Sincerity! Bless me, what an outlandish thing is that! Sincerity, hah; a coarse commodity, that is fit only for a log house. "But let me tell you a short anecdote about," I'm not at home." It sets this fashionable evasion in a very happy point of view. { "A clergyman of my acquaintance wanted to write a sermon, he had but one day to do it in, and he wished not to be interrupted. He directed his servant for the first time, to inform visiters, "he was not at home," and retired to his study. At twelve o'clock, a gentleman, appeared at the door, it was GENERAL WASHINGTON, who called to return a visit which had been paid him by the clergyman; the servant did not know him, and obeyed his instructions. The general left his card, and departed. The servant handed his card to the clergyman: what was his astonishment and regret! It was the first time in a life of forty or fifty years, he had directed the excuse of "I'm not at home," to be delivered to a visiter, and it was the first and only opportunity he had ever had to receive a visit from the illustrious Washington! "The clergyman's mortification was extreme! he acknowledged his fault, and declared he would never be guilty a second time. "The fact, which fell within the writer's knowledge, is a fine comment on the ridiculous practice of getting rid of visiters. "Pray, why is it not easy to make it polite, and genteel, and delicate, and well-bred, to tell the truth; suppose the servant should be instructed to say, "Mr. or Mrs. is very much engaged, but will be happy to see you at another time." A little practice would make it set light and But easy on the fashionable world. FEMALE SHERIFFS. to prevent another person from doing it, but to drop the billet where he found it." Linval is the best dancer in Paris after Trenis; he read the billet, hum→ med a new air while he was reading it, and then with a stroke of his bamboo, whisked it into the air, and hastened to the Fauxbourgh de Rould, to give his opinion upon a robe of exquisite taste, but which it was feared was not sufficiently striking. Among the anomalies of the British constitution, that of recognizing the right of females to be sheriffs is not one of the least extraordinary. It is a fact however, that the office of sheriff of the county of Westmoreland is hereditary in the family of the earl of Thanet, and therefore when that title descends to a female, she becomes sheriff both in right and fact. Two instances of such an occurrence are recorded. The one was in the person of the widow of Sir Roger de Clifford, who inherited by marriage; after his death, she sat in person, as sheriff, in her castle of Ap-in its former place. pleby, with the judges. The second was, in that of the daughter of the third earl of Cumberland, the 17th in descent of the Clifford family, who had held as lord and hereditary high sheriff of Westmoreland. His daughter, when a widow, about the year 1660, sat regularly in person with the judges, as sheriff, in the castle of Appleby. This lady left two daughters, the surviver of whom married the earl of Thanet; hence the title and rights were transferred to this family.-London paper. The second person who picked it up, was a man of middle age, simply clad, and walking quick. He stopped, however, to read it, but casting his eyes towards heaven, as if he meant to say, "It is not to me this letter is addressed," he placed it respectfully EUGENIA DE MIRANDE, AN INTERESTING STORY.-FROM THE FRENCH. Towards the close of the summer, a young man named Linval, walking in the Thuilleries, found near the delightful bower, where the exquisite statues of Hippomenes and Atalanta are placed, the following billet: "An opportunity is offered to the person who shall find this billet of doing a good action. If the person is disposed to do it, he is requested to go to the rue de Saintonge, No. 1342, and ask for Eugenia de Mirande." A contractor came next, one of those men who think themselves moderate, because they are content with the trifling gain of three thousand francs a day, and who are purse-proud and impudent; he first kicked the bilScarcely had he read it, when he tore let, then took it up from curiosity. it into a thousand pieces, exclaiming, ""Tis a trap." The next day, precisely at the same place, another billet was deposited, exactly similar to the former. The first person who perceived it, had the delicacy to take the address, and to place the billet where he found it. A young married couple perceived it a few minutes afterwards. After having read it, madame C****, who was on the point of becoming a mother, said to her husband, "My love, let us see the person to whom we are directed. What we have to give is but little; but a slight benefit often prevents the unfortunate from giving themselves up to despair, and inspires them with courage to wait for better days." The young couple proceeded to the rue de Saintonge. But at Paris, having the name, the street, and the "P. S. Should the finder be unwil-number, is by no means sufficient to ling to go to the assistance of an unfortunate mother, he is requested not insure the finding of the real place. Some houses have the numbers they |