Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1831-10-13

81 have no vain repininKs for the
past-my feelings now are in every
respect better than they were before.
| feel as it | had undergone purgation,
and purified myself from def sment-
my mind ~ made up to the full mea sure
OF my exigency; and l will bear IL
with a patience and courage which
shall exhaust the utmost malice Of NV
enemies. To those who may be sur.
prised that I could brook the seeming
degradation Of . prison. / would re !.
mark, that to have embraced the other
alternative, would. under existing cir.
cumstances, have been regarded as an
act of despair rather than courage :
and would, know, DO insisted upon
by my enemies rs evidence that l " as
not sustained by the sanction and an E.
probation Of my own conscience and
judgment. l determined, therefore,
to live through this scene. horrid as il
might be. Standing, ~ lido. 50 strong
ly armed with justice, I am not even
now without hopes. that time will vet
bring The community to a proper iudg
menf in this matter. However that
may be--whateyer may be your ul-
innate decision upon my conduct am
consoled by the conviction that in what
! have done, l have only acted upon
those feelings which nature has i'm pl ant /.
ed in the hearts of all men-indeed I
may say Of oil animaIs--snd that each
OF you would have done the same
thing under the same circumstances. -
american SM.-The Eiiter Of the
American Farmer has had the pleasure
within few days, Of receiving half a
dozen skeins Of sewing silk. made by
Miss Belinda Grigsby. Of Rockbsidge
county, Va. She obtained the eggs Of
the editor Of the Farmer last wfDter.
with brief directions for their manage
ment; led the worms on the common
mulberry Of the djacent forest; reeled
the cocoons with common country
cotton reel. doubled and twisted the
six With a common cotton spinning
wheel, aud dyed IT with such domes.
TIC materials rs were at hand. The
gentleman who vas the bearer Of the
specimens, is mer chant of that
neighbo, hood: when asked his opinion
OF the silk, he said it was rs good as
any Italian silk he ever sold, and that
ne wanted no better, that it would sell
readiiy,and that he would purchase all
the young lady could make at So a
pound. 1t is Miss Grigsby's first
attempt, never having even seen a
silkworm previous TO this summer,
nor received any other instruction i'm
any branch of the art than tina: con.
tanned in our brief directions. Her sue.
cess in this trial has determined her TO
pursue the business regularly-fnd.
ing It, as she says, both pleasant and
profitable, and by no means difficult.
The quality Of the silk is really
excelleni-its only faults being in
the dying and Gneness. The pink
and red are rather dull, bot the green
10 beautiful; none Of the colored sk eins,
however ,hsvethe rich gloss Of which silk
is susceptible. -Four Of the ske;ns are
Of good sized thread for com mon use,
but twoof them are almost rs fine as
the fibre Of the Spiders at,enuatcd
Web" And yet il had been twisted,
doubled aud twisted again on a COM
mon wheel. These however she only
made thus line TO see how delicate q
thread she could make. We have call.
ed the silk excellent, by which VIC
mean that II was perfectly even reeled,
properly twisted, and Of good strengths,
and not inferior in any quality, except
the colours, 10 any silk We ever saw.
These samples Of silk may be examined
at the Office OF the Farmer, by any one
Who may take an interest ia the mat
ter .3merieGp Farmer.
We have seen the sample Of sewing
Silk mentioned above by the Editor Of
the American Farmer, and fully accord
with him IN the opinion expressed Of its
cxeellenee.-- Bolt. Ca.