The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-09-09

az having wv cases aboard
pest, and that il was put Immediately in strict and
close quarantine. We hope that by the proper prs-
cautions European friends will be able to swav ,be
steps OF both the pest and cholera, although they can
not hope to be entirely free from their partial ov,.
sions.
miller while travelling from his residence IL tho
State Of New York to Ohio to purchase wheat. had
his trunk robbed of sixty thousand dollars He ba.
offered reward Of ten thousand dollars for the rec
" Of the balance.
The Grand Jury Of Richmond, Virginia have made
several hundred presentments-the gamblers have he
particularly attended to.
A LAWYERS CRITICISM or sHAKEs-
PEARE.-l own that never perused NV cbsf r.,,o
rite' me Merchant OF Venice, without mixture of
melancholy to think that it has many faults and IN
particular that the distress turns chiefly upon emhar
easements with which no lawyer can seriously svmpa.
thize. There several striking flaws in this drama
In the first place. Anonios difficulties arise entirely
from his gross oversight in affecting an insurance.
upon his various aTgosies. He should have opened !,
set Of policies at upon the Rialto where marine
insurance was perfectly well understood, and where
the brokers would have got him fifty names in fore
noon to any extent upon ship freight CARGO lost or
not lost. This prudential step would have given to-
tally different turn to the whole affair." When he want
ed to help Bassano with three thousand ducats for
three MONTHS he could easily have raised the money at
policy. Shyock says of him, ssAntonio IL pood
man; yet his means in supposition he hath an ar
COSY bound to Ifpol, another to the Indies; under
stand, moreover, upon the Riato, he hath third at
Mexico, fourth for England, and other ventures he
hath squandered abroad. But ships are but boards.
sailors but there's land and water rats water
| thieves and land thieves, mean pirates ond then
there - the peril OF waters, Winds and rocks Now,
these the very risks which the contract of
Is intended to cover, clearly explained in Marshall
and our other writer's and expressed in the follow
ing clause inserted in all polices Touching the Al.
ventures and penis which the said assurers are con-
tented to bear, and do take upon them in this vovare
they are OF the seas, of war; fire. enemies pirates
rovers thieves, jetsons &c., barrary Of the masters
or Mariners and of all other peris losses and msfo
tunes mat have Or shall come to the hurt detrment
damage of The said goods merchandises and shin ar
vessel With this precaution, Antonio's means wnnld
nave been no longer in supposition but in certaintv
ana as good as hard cash. under deduction merely of
the premium of insurance. FINALLY when intaily :.
was received of Antonio's argosies heinz
is plain that ne might in the circumstances have a.
once abandoned to the underwriters and claimed a.
total loss is painful to so many amiable char
acers involved in gries and difficulties which th;s
pie and natural expedient would have obviated NJ
feelings at this reflection are somewhat akin 10 fhos
of very susceptible medical friend who declares that
ne can never SIT out Romeo and Juliet from the thought
that judcious of the stomach pu,np s. tbo iat
scene, would remove all the distresses and male t"
lovers happy.--BlueImood's 1agaziue 800 -
ADVANTAGE OF WELL. CULTIVATED FARMS
ne last season, titled land under h;rh
state o. cultivation, were well remunerated for labor
expended, while those who titled worn out farms
scarcely raised the amount Of bread stuff exnenaad
during the summer. 1t is time that more attention. WAC
paid to increasing the fertility of the SOIL and wa arc
glad to see that the II. F. & H. Agricultural Society
have offered premium Of SIS the greatest ouantty
OF good manure that shall be made from the first day
OF June, 1887 to June st 1885, written description
OF the making will be required, and an opinion Of the
BEST ana least expensive mode of increasing the same
ri hpr had to fho oL1--
kept in the yard, stables, and pens
we hnd few (and too few) Of our farmers awake /.
to the subject and they have resolved to tin less land
believing that they can get larger crops at any rate
land than on poor. gentleman in this vicinity tod
us the other day, that he had commenced imnrov;nr
his! farm in earnest He had raised the value Of his
farm and greatly increased the produce by dching.
lie mas spout at his back door into which his soan
suds &c. are poured and carried under GROUND to :
pen or yard few rods from his house, This pen is so
constructed that he drive through II with cart
ana here ne deposits turf, muck, damaged hay and
rst rate manure. in this way he has doubled the pro-
duce OF his farm. Much NAV be done toward imnrov
ing land by rotation of crops
The celebrated naturalist Mrbel, has lately piven the
lolowhs explanations OF the phenomena that render
rotation of crops advisable. PIants require other ele
ments OF assimilation and cannot thrive without them
For instance there is slick in the cane and there ia lime
In certain plants, (say wheato whose organization
oouio hoi oe COmpIeIeu WITHOUT The Ouantitv Of
any such foreign ingredient in plant is renerallu
SMALL still the necessity for may be presumed as ab
solute Plants cannot be constituted unless ali the
materials they require be furnished to them and indeed
Inc same observations VIII apply to animals; deprived
hen OF ime her eggs will have no shell, deprive the
ear Of It's Salts such as form, potash soda or in COM
5lna'ion with minerals, lime, gypsum, &c. and YOU
destroy It's productive power. The smallest quantity
Of gypsum will have remarkable effect on clover; and
the effects of the other combinations are scarcely less
visible on other varieties Of plants But the formation
OF these salts, or materials, exciting and sustaining
the growth of the plants, when spontaneous, is slow
and the result of regular chemical changes which have
been at work for centuries; and when the natural and
limited supply is exhausted as be, if the
successive crops of the kind forced upon the
soil, the plants will look yellow and shabby each year
renders it more worthless until finally not enough will
not grow to repay cultivation. Let the crop perish
where it grew, the earth will re-assume the minerals
and salts extracted from it during such growth and the
same plants will flourish indefinitely"