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best; the second is sometimes quite as good as
the first, but not always the third crop, the
greatest portion %inferor, though have seen
the last crops, in some few cases, when the
season suits, quite as good as the first. The
summer of lS4l, | had a patch of about one
acre, the hills were thirteen one way by ff-
teen the other, and closer than I generally
lay them of, which makes in all one hundred
and ninety-fve hills, and SO very promising
was the prospect that we concluded to keep
the count as they we're brought to the house,
which was by the cart load, and found the
number TO be about twenty-five hundred, the
majority of which we're excellent ones. The
vines in that patch continued to grow and
bear till they were killed by the fros,s, and
it was quite an interesting sight TO see the
vast quantity that remained. from the size of
a partridge egg up 10 the size ofthe full grown
melon.
Accompanying this document, I send you
some of my best seed, hoping that you will
preserve them unamdlgamated with others,
as | consider them the best in the land, and
ii would give me great pleasure to be often
with you while you are engaged in the cult.
walton of your vines; for, while | feel that an
apology is due for the very great length to
which | have spun out this document, yet
am satisfied that the subject has been treated
with too much brevlty in some particulars
but, upon the whole, | indulge the hope tina
it will prove satisfactory. With much re-
spect, | am, Yours, truly,
NEWTON CRAIG.
To Mr. JOEL Scorr, near Frankfort, Ky
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Importance of Daily Exercise.

All nations which have proceeded US and
have been notable for their bodily strength
and ability TO endure fatigue, were those who
Infatuated themselves to bold and manly ex-
ercise. The Romans, Grccians, Sparlans,
and other nations of antiquity, which are re-
nowned for strength and robustness, had their
games, and gymnaslic exercises, which were
daily participated in. The ancient Brirons
paid as much attention to physical, as Nc
now do to moral education, and they were a
people capable of accomplishing and endu.
ring almost anything within the scope Of
physical ~exertion and endurance.
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The Concordia Intelligencer tells a pretty
good joke Of a fellow who was walking ashore
from that splendid boat, the "Harry OF the
West,'-his bundle in one hand and five dollars
IN specie c'enched in the other-on a single
plank, and needless of his way, he trlpped, and
iellsous in to the river. In an instant, recover.
lng himself, he struck manfully for the shore,
waded out in full view OF the boat, shook him.
self like a huge wa,cr.dog, opened his hand and
found but two OF the sinners left-he was anger.
ed at the plank, mad with himself, furious at the
loss OF his money, and more than furious al The
monstrous Mississippi. He looked at the plank,
the river, the boat, his money, and wound up the
survey by venting his spleen as follows :-"Ive
got five dollars in this here bundle, two dollars
IN my hand-have iist been duckej--stand five
feet ten in my stocking feet-,olerably stout for
my age-rather midland dog my cats if | can't
fog any man on that boat, for fist fight or rough
and tumble! Who'll say yes !--Whoop !
whoop! whoop! Hurrah for Old Kentuck ~
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SAM'L LAWRENCE.
CABBAGE HEADS FROM STuMPs.-Jame

CABBAGE HEADS FROM STuMps.-James
Bates, of Norridgewock, Me-, writing 10 the
Farmers Journal says " do not know all
your Boston gardeners are up to, but | do
know that, if cabbage stumps of any variety
are set out in the spring, in good order, one,
two, three, or even four good sound heads
will grow on them |; and this they will do
year after year, until they die by accident.
They are managed in the following manner (:
The upper, narrow-leafed sprouts, which
would bear seed, are carefully rubbed of, and
likewise all the lower, round leafed ones,
which latter will form heads, leaving only so
many of these as the strength of the stump
and the soil are capable of bringing to per-
%fectlon. At our cattle show, Mr.. John Drew
presented several such stumps, with one to
four heads Of low Dutch cabbage on each,
which have borne for three years. He sets
them out in earth in the cellar in autumn.
cuts off the heads when required for use. and
places the stumps pretty thick in the garden
in the spring. The labor is %triAlng, the Gu,
worm gives no trouble. and the crop sure
and abundant"
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NOTHING MADE IN VAIN.

The Creator has made nothing that IS unuse-
fu', nothing so insulated as to have no relations
with anything else-nothing which is no, ser.
vIceable or instrumental TO other purposes be-
sides its own existence--nothing that is not ap-
plicable or convertible TO the benefit of His sen.
tient creatures in some respect or other. The
mineral has a connection of this sort with both
the vegetable and the animal kingdoms, and
these with each other. The same principle has
been pursued throughout the animated classes
of nature. No one species of living being has
been formed only for ITSELF or can subsist in alb.
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CLOSING THE GAME.-Two fellows were
once vending their way home from a billiard
room, in a glorious state of tuddleorum.
They hung together as long as the could, but
in crossing a deep gutter, where pipe-laying
operations we're carried on, they made a
heavy lurch-,he one ~capsized by hitting the
lamp-post, and the other fell full length in
the pipe hole.
"HolIo!" said the fellow in the gutter,
show do you make in"
"By the rubbers, | have cannoned against
the lamp-posl."
THAT'S no,hing-I have pocketed my
self into the trench"
"Then," SAID a Waterman, who happen
ed to come along, "the game is up, and you
must walk along, and settle with the game
keeper"
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OLD GRIMES is DEAD.

Ephraim Grimes of Hnbbardston, whom
everybody in all this region knows as Old
Grimes" or as "Eph. Grimes" and whom
thousands have coupled with the subject OF
the trite song old Grimes is dead'--dled
at the Aims House in that town on Thurs
day of last week, aged eighty-fve.--Few
individuals have ever attained a greater no.
toriety in this and the adjoining counties, and
none ever deserved il better. There are a
Thousand Evolutionary tales of his merry and
mIschievU~s tricks which are true, and more
devillry OF which he was probably never
guilty is ascribed to him ti.an to any necro-
mancer or unearthly spirit of old. He had
a brain filter than was any other mans for
the devils work shop, and the great c%onjurer
was always busy there. From high TO low,
frem the clergy to the crockery shop, from
even the courts of Justice to church deacons
in their seats, no one was safe from !" one o.
old Crimes tricks. 1.-The pillory, the stock;
and even the House Of Correction we're ut.
terly insufficient to restrain his mischief-ma
king propensity. Wherever he went, i
seemed as if the devil we're let loose.-No
that his tricks we're malicious, but in inge
nuity of device and power of annoyance, the.
rivalled the capacity of the father OF mis-
chief. We well remember when crowd
have been taken with the side ache, from
laughter at the narration of his exploits.
During the latter part of his life, oil
Grimes was a dependant on the pauper sup
port of his native town. The " light of hi
genius had expired, his right hand forgot it
cunning and the lie no longer rolled gllbl
from his tongue. Yet the reputation of hi
former deeds yet survived (and long will
and rendered him an object Of curiosity
Even when the spirit had departed and tn
good people of Hubbardston had seen hi
=" safely" underground, they left the grave
yard looking over their shoulders, 1t is saiC
lest this last scene of his eyentful life migI
. prove to be bnt "anOther Of old Grimes
hicks."-Barre, Mass, Gazette.
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THE PILGRIMS LEGACY.

The May Flower, on New England's coast, has furll-
ed her tattered sail,
And through her chafed and moaning shrouds De.
ceml er's breezes wall,
Yet on that icy deck, behold a meek but dauntless
band,
Who for the right 10 worship God have left their ma.
tive land
And 10 this dreary wilderness this glorious boon they
bring,
"A Church ~,eiilouta Bishop-.a State aoihouta King.
Those daring men, those gentle wives-say, where
fore do they come?
Why rend they all the tender ties of kindred and of
home!
lis Heoren assigns their noble work, mans spirit 10
unbind-
They come not for themselves alone-they come for
all mankind
And TO the empire of the West this glorious boon they
bring,
"A Church triHouta Bishop-a State pitlou, a King.
Then, Prince and Prelale, hope no more to bend them
TO your sway.
Devotion's fire inflanles their breasts, and freedom
points their way,
Aud, IN her brave hearts estimate. 'twere better not
10 be,
Than quail beneath the despot, where the soul canno,
be free;
And therefore DER the wintry waves those exiles come
10 htlnT
a Church %ritiouta Bishop-a STATE nithoutu King
And still Their spirit in their sons, with freedom walks
abroad,
The lIBLE is our only creed-our only monarch
GOD!
The hand is raised-the word is spoke-ibe solemn
AMI bo dly on our banner floats, in the free air Of
heaven,
The motto Of our sainted sires, and loud we make i
ring
"A Church 'eiHiouta Bishop-a State riliout a King!
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Revolutionary Sermon.

"Tkey that take the sword, shall perish by the sword"
SOLDIERS nj CoUNTRyMEN.-We have met
this evening perhaps for the last time. We
have shared the toll of the march, the peril OF
the fight, and the dismay of the retreat alike, we
have endured the cold and hunger, the contume.
ly Of the internal foe and the courage OF the for.
eign oppressor. We have sat, night after night,
beside the camp fire we have together heard
the roll of the ~reveille, which called US to duty,
or the beat Of the tattoo, which gave the signal
for the hardy sleep of the soldier, with the earth
for his bed, and his knapsack for his pillow.
And now, soldiers and brethren, we have met
in the peaceful valley on the eve Of battle, while
the sunlight is dying away behind yonder heights
the sunlight that Tomorrow morn, that will glim-
mel on scenes of blood. We have met amid
the whitening tents of our encampment in time
Of terror and OF gloom, have we gathered togeth-
er-God grant it may not be the last time.
1t is a solemn moment. Brethren, does not the
solemn voice Of nature seem to echo the SYM
pa,hies Of the hour, The flag of our countr y
droops heavily from yonder staff, the breeze has
died away along the green plain of Chadd's
Ford-the plain that spreads before us glitter.
ing in the sunlight-the heights of the Brandy
wine arising gloomy and grand beyond the wa.
tsrs Of yonder s,ream-all nature holds a pause
OF solemn silence, on the eve Of the uproar Of
the bloodshed and strife of tomorrow.
"They that take the sword shall perish by the sword. u
And have they not taken the sword!
Let the desolated plain, the blood .sodden val.
lev, tho burned farm. house, blackening in the
sun, the sacked village, and the ravaged town
answer-let the whitening homes of the butch.
cred farmer strewn>along the fields ofhis home
stead, answer-let the starving mother, with her
babe clinging to the withersd breast that can
afford no sustenance, let her answer, with the
des,h.rattle mingiing with the murmuring tones,
that mark the last struggle of life-let the dy.
jnR mother and her babe answer.
1t was but a dav past and our land slept in the
quiet of peace. Warwas not here-wrong was
no. here. Fraud and wo, misery and want,
dwelt not among US. From the eternal solitude
Of the green woods, arose the blue sky of the
settlers cabin. and golden fields of corn looked
forth from amid the waste of the wilderness, and
the glad music of human voices awoke the 81.
lence of the forest.
Now, God Of mercy, behold the change. Un'
der the shadow Of a pretext, under the s~anctity
Of the mama of God, invoking the Redeemer to
their aid, does these foreign hireling Stay our
people! They destroy our towns, they darken
our plains, and now they encompass our posts
on the plain of Chadd's Ford.
"Thsy ,hattske the sword shall perish by the sword.
Brethren, think me not unworthy Of belief
when ] tell you the doom Of the British is near
Think me BOT vain, when ] tell you that beyond
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solute uselessness to others. This 10 one
grand purpose for causing SO many races Of ami
NAL beings to subsist on each other. BY this
system each enjoys the gift of life, and each is
made to contribute, by the termination Of that
gift, to the we'll being of others. Fishes are
thus useful to each other, to many birds, TO SOM
animals, and to man. Birds have their period
of happiness for themselves, and are serviceable
to others of their kind, and to man, and to some
quadrupeds, in their mode of death, instead of
Wondering through corruption into their mate.
rial dissolution. Quadrupeds have the same
double use in their existence their own enjoy.
ment, and the benefit Of their death, to those Of
their own order, and to the birds and reptiles,
worms and insects that have been appointed to
derive nutrition from their substance. All the
Kingdoms of nature have been likewise so con.
%structed, as to be beneficial to the human race,
not as nutrimcnt only, but in the thousand con-
veniences to which they are convertible. The
amphibious order of nature is no exception to
these general results. lis various genera con-
tribute their proportions to the common stock of
mutual utilities. They have their own gratif-
cation from their personal existence they con-
tribute by their substance to the maintenance of
others of heir fellow creatures and some Of their
genera serve to multiply the convenicpces and
pleasures of man. He derives advantages from
al that exists in as much larger a degree to any
other animal as he is superior to any in his in.
tellectual exertions and universal capacity.
Sharon Turner.
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HABITS OF GREAT AUTHORS.

Shelly usually ate a baked potato previous
to sitting down to write. lie has been heard
to assert that some of his finest ideas came
whilst putting in the butter. Whether he
purchased his potatoes in the street, or had
them dressed at home, does not appear.
Fielding wrote the whole of 'Tom Jones' in
one night, after IA debauch with Hogarth, and
sold il the next morning to procure him a
meals Such is the fate of genius ! kirke
White was much admired for his red
hair, which he allowed to 90 down his back
in two plaits. He never would suffer any
%allusion TO be made to it but when writing
used it as plotting paper. On this accoun,
all his MSS. are transcribed in red ink, as
may be seen in the Library Of the British
Museum. Cuvier always wrote with a pal
Of water at his side, in which he alternatel
dipped his head and feet, to freshen his ideas
He has been known to do this upwards o
sixty times in one night, when preparing hi
Regne Animal. 1t was his boast that he hat
never been up IN a balloon. DR.. johnson
could never see a post without jumping ovel
it. Boswell remarking upon its puerility
Johnson observed
"Slr, what a boy does IN sport, a mar
NAV do in earnest
Upon which Boswell replied
"Then you mean to say that might play
at chuck farthing 7"
"Sir," returned Johnson, "any man NIGH
if he had "a farthing to chuck"
How brilliant are these %sallies, when COM
pared to the insane answers ofmodern times
the empty retorts of exhausted receivers
A slight exaggeration, no doubt. as it would TAKE
several expert pensmen to make a copy Of II IN twice
the time named.-Eds COur.
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LINES TO A CANARY BIRD.

Written during the difficulties oil the bounoa'
~ question in Maine, when Sir JOHN HARVEY
Governor of the provinces of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia was deferred from actual hos
tility by the judicious conduct Of General ScorT
his personal friend. PREscoTT's noble work =
I" Ferdinand and Isabella" had just appeared, ant
the "Cray,on Papers" were in course of pub
LEGATION.
God bless thee! and thy joyous throati
Thy trill, thy churr, thy piercing note,
NV sweet canary!
Thou gush of song, thou waterbrook
OF Joy, thou poem, doctrine, book,
Vocabulary!
Thou caged-up treasure Of delight!
That know ct TO make a prison bright
Through music's mystery!
To swell the rich notes in full tide,
Or highest reach of sound divide
Like Pagunini!
Where di1st thou gain this wondrous lore!
Where that. (which l admire much more,)
The glad Philosophy,
That smiles at iron bars and doorsl
H. loneliness a spirit p0urs
Wmirthful minstrelsy?
Whateve old? or broken heartfelt
Hast eve. from thy mate been parted
To nee, hereafter?
It cannotbe; that gleesome strain
Springs fom a heart that ne er knew pain
IT'S ,!most laughter!
Now tho, art still; thy chaunt is DER;
Theu seeu'st intent on something more
important TO thee.
Hast any thing to lose 7 or gain?
What III nix st thou Of the war in Maineq
Ant Sir John Harvey?
Woul' st Scott or Prescott, rather BET
The Cotton crop-is't auqht to thee1
The trayton Papers?
en- nuh a theart? or yet 10 know
Gut mark! thy strain again doth flow,
Again, in music, stirs!
All Rogue! l see thee, have thee now
That leap from off the transverse bough,
That knowing look, inspires
The SQUAD thou lov'st shall now lie heard
Fresh seed and water for my bird,
And sugar for his wires!
IT'S done-and here King, Cawdor, Glamis,'
Not more to Macbeth were, than this
Thy stock Of seed renew'd
IL JOY TO thee!-would I might draw,
From thy bright gayety, a Law
OF confidence and good.
Forget my bars, forget my cage
Like thee; my wants, my cares, my age,
A lone and widow'd bed
And raise to Heaven thy magic song
In words, that might TO both belong,
"Thanks for our daily bread"
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Some literary ladies being asked how they
could be sufficiently interested in astronomy
TO spend so much time in watching the hea-
veos, replied-'tha, they had a great c%uriosi-
" to see whether there was really A MAN in
The MOON
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A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC,
From the Citizen Soldier.
A SERMON.

Preached on the ere Of the battle Of Brdndy,rine, by
the Rev. Joa6 Trout, Sept. 10, l777.
Messrs. I. q. A. Diller:
GENTLEMEN-Not long ago searching into
the papers of my grandfather, Mai. J ..hn Jacob
Schpfmyer, who was ou' in the DAYS Of the Rev.
olu,iun, | found the following discourse, deliv-
cred on the eve of the battle OF B~randywine, by
the Rev. Joab Trout, to a large portion of the
American soldiers, in presence Of Gen. Wash.
ing,on and Gen. Wayne, and other officers of
the army. You may use this discourse for the
columns of your valuable paper, if you think
proper. Your friend
A. HAMILTON SCHEFMER.
BRYhEwooD FARM, Chester Co., Aug. 30, 1913.
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Do YOU WANT PLENTY OF EGGS l-Corn
given to fowls should be crushed and soaked
in water: this helps digestion. Hens will
lay IN winter that are so fed that would not
otherwise.
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A gentleman writing from the West, says
that he has altered SO much since he left home,
that his Oldest creditor would Not know hs~'
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The following song was cha,ted by the Sa-
cred Musica! Society of New York at the close
of late lecture at he Tabernacle, delivered by
the Rev. George B.. Cheever.
The Whig standard., 1844-09-03
l. OC A l. N L W s.
WING MEETING LAST NIGHT.

The weekly meeting at the Club House last
night was as usual attended by large concourse
of the Wings of our city and number of ladies'
also were in attendance, whose welcome presence
is always hailed with pleasure at Wing meet
ing The meeting was opened with the singing
of an excellent Wing sony by the Glee Club, and
Mr. Bradley (the Presdent) introduced to the
assemblage Mr. UPToN, of Fairfax county, Va,
who favored them with chaste and eloquent
address of an hours length, combining in it many
new but convincing arguments upon the danger
GUS tendencies of many of the positions Of the
Polk party, and the necessity of the people of the
District expressing their opinions upon the polit-
cal topics of the day, freely, fully, and unreser-
vedly. The remarks Of Mr.. Upton were receiv-
ed with deep attention by the numerous auditory,
who testified their approval Of his remarks by
frequent bursts of applause. Upon the conclu-
sion of Mr.. Upton's remarks, resolution that the
Club attend the Mass Meeting in Georgetown
tonight, was unanimously adopted and then,
after the singing of another cheering song by the
Glee Club in their usual excellent style, the
meeting adjourned
The Whig standard., 1844-09-03

HEALTH INDISPENSABLE TO LONG LIFE--The latter
only be enjoyed by the possession of the former
Mans cOrporea structure tender and delicate in its
nature that the disorganzalion Of part dsogan zes
the whole and one of the members suffer- oil The others
must suffer with it. How important then, TO man to
guard against every avenue to disease To all who are
suffering with Scro,a various forms ncpent Con-
sumption disease of the skim any other org mating rom
an mpurity Of the blood and arrangement OF the secre
TONS we should recommend them lew bottles of
Sands Sarsaparlla. This invaluable medicine is SO well
and av.raby known and generally used by the medi-
tenon of our readers TO the in this days paser.
New York Sunday Alias June 30.
Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by A. b.
& ID. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists, 79 Fulton St..
New York. Price 81 per bottle; bottles for IS.
Agents for Washington city :-ROBEkI FAhN.
HAM, Bookseller, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street, and r. S. PATTERSON, Druggist, cor
ner of Pennsylvania avenue and 9th street.
The Whig standard., 1844-09-03

FIRE.-The frame building known as Pettrich's
studio, near the Presidents House, was destroy
ed by fire last evening between nine and ten
o'clock. The house was until few days past
the property of the Government, when it was
sold at auction to poor Irishman for twenty five
or thirty dollars 1t was doubtless fired by an
incendiary, since it could in no other way have
taken Ere, as it is far removed from any other
building and was unoccuped. We trust that the
city authorities will endeavor to ferret out the
villain, and bring him to condgn punishment.
The Whig standard., 1844-09-03
From the Baltimore Patriot,

Wing insists that we shall bring the Locofo-
cos to the test Of bet by publishing the follow
ing He is too good Wing for us to refuse his
request:
WHO BELIEVES THAT Mr.. J. X. POLK WILL
BE ELECTED PRESlDENTa
The excessive Dragging OF our friends on the
other side, has induced me to offer for their ac-
comDoda ION a few fancy points 10 wit:
will bet $1,000 to $500, or $4,000 to S ,OO0
that Clay will get Polk's own State, Tennessee
Do you hear that, Locos!
will bet $500 or y 1000 that Clay will get
Louisiana. and the same amount that he will get
Georgia.
| will bet $500 or ssl 900 that Clay will carry
at least two OF the three largest States of the
Union, to wit: Pennsylvania, New York, and
Ohio.
will bet $500 or $ 1000 that l can name less
Gin The number OF Sta,es) Than two-thirds of the
States of the Union, which States alone, (ess than
two-,hrds,) will elect Henry Clay.
Now, if the Democracy can't stand up to any
Of these figures, let them hoist doNn that rooster
of theirs, and substitute him, as far he will 60,
for the "roast beef" that has been matter of such
bitter woe and lamentations, which they say the
Wings fooled them with the promise of in 1910.
Mr.. Editor, please publish the above, and if the
Locos believe what they say, they will certainly
touch some of these points, in which case send
them to ME, and oblge A WHIG.