Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-12-13
miscellaneous.

FARMIEe AT THE NoRrH.-HoD. J. S. Skin
ner, in a letter to the Marlborough Gazette,
gives an interesting account of some Of the
fatms he visited during his late tour to the
north. We make the following extracts;
At Indian Hill farm, as on almost every farm
In New England, there is a place for every
thing and every thing in its place. You don't
see a bride on the ground here, and a swingle-
tree in another ~pIace-sheep skins eaten by
dogs, and harness exposed TO the weather-ax-
es scattered here, and hoes every where-carIs
broken, and doors and gates of The hinges-ne-
groes hunting here and there for the spade, or
for him who had il last, 10 know where he left
it-galled horses, with clogs on their feet and
yokes on their necks-and oxen, as | actually
saw in Washington, one pulling one way and
the other the other way, all his might, with a
negro on each side, armed with n bludgeon, 10
drive them from one side TO the other. There
lin New Englnnd) one yoke does at least as
much as three do here. They are all fat enough
for beef the year round, and are driven by signs
rather than by violence. One must go TO New
England 10 have an idea of the power, the do
cility, and the great usefulness Of a single yoke
of oxen. RI
At Poughkeeps;e, in the ~ploughing match,
there were seven single span Of oxen, and two
Of horses, started foI the premium-each man.
aged by a ploughman, svifhout a driper-the
prize was taken by a span ofoxen. The whip
OF the p%loughman was lighter than the beech
ssifches, which ! remember well, and to my
great terror, were kept standing in one corner
of a log cabin school house, in Calvert county,
under the dread government Of the never-to-be-
forgotten Robert Spicknall.
Among other places, ] made visit TO Marsh
field, (Mr Webster's residence) and there ate
cho,rder made chiefly of Goldfish, taken 10 the
''deep waters Of the dark blue sea,'' by the
hand, hook and line OF the great American COM
moner himself.
Arriving before dinner, he took Us through
his corn-feld, by way Of dppetizer-and what
with the thickness Of the corn and the number
Of pumpkins on the ground, you might as well
have been dragged through a Mississippi cane
brake. ] could not help thinking what glorious
music a good pack Of hounds would make in il,
in pursuit ola grey fox or a ' wild cat. A large
portion Of the field would undoubtedly yield 80
bushels OF corn 10 the acre, and yet corn Of the
same height with us, would not produce -
bushels. He was proud, and had reason 10 be,
of his large field of "Swedes," his ~ beautiful
heifers, of the stock he selected 10 England, and
Of his Southdown sheep, Of which he gener-
ously rendered as many as ] would accept,
which was a buck and two ewes, 10 go into
Prince Georges. But Of all things he seemed
10 be fondest OF and most familiar with his no.
bic oxen-some sig or eight yoke, that would
average in the handle at least twelve hun
dred. He seemed, TOO, TO ~felicitate himself par
ticuIarly in the shades oil a venerable and mag
%niicent elm near his house-"Reiigione pat
rum nsuitos serUata per annos"-its graceful
branches extending over Il diameter oil a hum
dred feet.
TURElsH WoMEN. ! was struck with the
elegance Of their shapes and the regularity Of
their features. Their complexion is as fair as
that of European women; as they advance in
age the sun browns them a little. As TO their
morals, chastity becomes a necessary virtue,
when even a kiss is punished with death by the
iather or brother Of the offender. | could
mention several instances of the extreme Sc
verify OF the Turco-inan in this respect, but
one may suffice. Three brothers riding
through an insulated valley, met their sister
receiving the innocent caresses of her lovef.-
By a commo impulse they all three discharged
their fire arms upon her, and left their fallen
victim on the ground while the lover escaped
unhurt. My host, Mohammed Ali, upon being
informed Of the murder, sent his servant 10
bring the body 10 the tent, that the jackalls
might not devour il; and the women were I'M
dressing and washing the body TO commit il to
The grave, when a slight breathing convinced
them that the vital spark was not yet extin-
g~uished; in short, the girl recovered. She
was no sooner out Of immediate danger, than
one of Ais sons repaired TO the tent Of his
friends, the three brothers, who sat sullen and
silent round The FIRE, grieving over the loss of
their sister. The young man saluted them
and said, 81 am come to ask you, in my fathers
name, for the body of your sister; my family
wishes to bury her." He had no sooner fin
ished than the brothers rose crying out, "if
she was dead you would not ask for her; you
would have taken The body without our per-
mission" Then seizing their arms, they were
hurrying out of the tent in pursuit of their still
living victim; but Ali's son opposed their bru-
tai intention with all the weight of his fathers
authority, and his own reputation for courage;
he swore he would kill the first who should
leave the tent; told them that they had sufi-
GENTLY revenged the injury they had received;
and if their sister was not dead, il was the
visible protection of the prophet that had saved
her; and thus he at last persuaded them to
grant his request. The girl was nursed for
three months in Al's family, and was married
after her recovery 10 the young man who had
caused her misfortune. Library Of Travels.
Horrible Murder.-A correspondent OF the
Post, in a letter from Hookset, N. H., relates
the particulars of o horrible murder that occur
red at that place on Thursday last. An elder
ly woman by the name Of Esther Darrah, was
found dead in her house, her head resting on
the bed, her body on the floor. Marks of vio-
lence were discovered on her neck, which leads
to the suspicion that she was msngled to death.
The parties accused are John Darrah and
Charles P. Darrah, the husband and son Of the
deceased. The old man, John, was upon the
bed with his clothes on, after his wife was dead,
as il appears. Charles had been at Manches-
ter during the day before her death, and had
returned as early as eight or nine O'Clock on the
evening of Monday. Some time during the
latter part Of the night Charles went to some