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From the American AgricuIturist.
CULTURE OF POTATOES.

We rank the potato crop in the United States
before wheat, and second only to that Of corn, as
constituting the food ofthe people and their domes.
tic stock. How important then thatthe crop be
good one. We are not going to write an article
now upon the particular culture of potatoes, as
every farmer understands that sufficiently we'll for
general purposes; but shall merely content oursel-
yes with few hints on the subject by way of
guarding against the rot.
Whatever may be the cause of the rot in pota-
toes, there is no doubt in our mind, that the APP
plication of fresh barnyard manures and animal
matter of any kind has tendency to increase it
and we would therefore avoid the use of them on
this crop for few seasons, till the rot had in
some measure disappeared, and apply the manure
chiefly to grass and corn. For the potato crop,
then, we would pillow up sod just after the grass
had we'll started, and this, with the application
of little plaster, ashes, or guano on the hills
near the stalks after the first time hoeing, will be
sufficiently rich to produce good crop. Potato
es raised on a sod are sweeter more nutritious,
and mealy, than those raised by the direct ap-
plication Of rank manures. Crops grown by the
latter method are almost invariably watery, and
tangy--are eaten with disgust and have little nu-
triment in them The best tasted potatoes we
ever raised, and the largest crop obtained, were
produced on a piece of sod where the grass had
been permitted to grow up till the first week in
June. 1t was then turned over flat, rolled, and
narrowed lengthwise with the burrows, and the
rows marked out three feet apart with light one
horse pillow, running three inches deep, being
careful not to disturb the sod. The seed was
chosen of medium size, dropped six inches a.
part in the row, and covered two inches deer
with hoes. 1t was field of about ten acres
No grass sprung up on it, and very few weed:
were seen during the season. Just before the
potato vines bloomed, single horse pillow was
passed down and up each row. throwing the dir
to the vines, the men following with hoes and IA
pidly killing them. In the fall they were dug
with the pillow, when the sod was found complete
ly rotted, and pulverised beautifully. No doub
the unmolested growth of spring grass facilitated
the decomposition the sod, and added to thu
growth of the potatoes. The seasons was rather
= a wet one, which accelerates decompostion hat
J. it heen dry the sod would not have decomposec
so well. The first week in June is sufficient,
early to plant potatoes for winter and spring use
We have planted as late as the Sd of July AM
got fair crop, when warm autumn followed
But this is too late for this climate, and we can
y not recommend the practice. Eearly potatoe
should be planted in April. Some think planting
. unripe seed prevents the rot
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tai power will shine out before hand, and should
tostered. But the propensity which some
mechanics have of bringing their sons up at col
lege to make them more respectable, we think
to be great error. 1t is injurng his son more
than benefting him, unless some extraordinary
mental energy displays itselfin the youth He
goes through college, and thence,
proceeding soon, a graduated Ounce"
he is just fitted for-what? He has spent the
best part of his youthful days in qualifying him
seffor profession from which he cannot gain
a living, or at least very scanty one.
In our humble opinion, as the professions
now are, we should say to mechanics, and in
deed to professional men, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred, give your sons good educa-
ton and then put then as apprentices to some
respectable business. They will then, as soon
as their time Of apprenticeship expires, be indie
pendent, capable of earning an honest living at
once. The profession of mechanic is daily be-
coming more and more respectable, thanks to
the good sense and good judgment of the pres
ent age; and it can no longer be thrown out as
a mark of reproach, you are mechanic. 1t is,
on the contrary, an honor.
As the question has been recently discussed
among few mechanics, what they should do
with their sons, we would repeat, give them a
good education and then bring them up as me-
chanics or farmers if you wish to insure them
a comfortable, honorble and Independent living
and station in society
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The Trade in Poison.-Death is an awful vsi-
tation TO all who behold it. Even the funeral OF
an utter stranger appals the heart of the pnssen
ger, as he fixes gaze of horror the symbols of
grief that dsnote the passage of soul to another
world.
In the family circle, what so heaft-dismaying as
Death Is the father dead? Oh! what tears del.
uge the hearth-stone of the dome.tic monarch.
Is it the Mother? Still more tender and barrow
ing are the groans and lamentations that swell the
bosoms of the afflicted Is it the son, the daugh-
ter, the sister, the friend? Still the heart hleeds
the eyes dm-and the voice chokes with suffo-
eating grief
"What caused his DEATH"
4" 1t was brought on by Drink! For the last
few years, he has lived day and night in yonder
den, where fiend in human shape traffics in poi
son."
"Then you mean to say he was pOisonedn'
" Yes-certanly-by Rum. You see the sign!
The house is licensed, in Chestnut street, too"
" Then his death was caused by the Rumseller.
Ought he not to be made to indemnify his family
for the loss of their head"
" Yes-n justice this ought to be. But not in
Law. The man who keeps the poison-den has
License to kill The Law authorises his bust
ness"
"Then you mean to say, that the law authori-
ses murder?"
-" 1t does. do not make the assertion, but facts
establish H. The law authorises the vender of
poison to kill his victim. You cannot prosecute
him for it, because he pleads his license If he
killed him with pistol or dagger, it would be
murder. But when he only kills by poison, and by
slow degrees, it is not crime because the law al
lows it,"
" And is this the morality of n CHRISTIAN coun-
try?"
Yes-and il is more than that. 1t is the re-
ligion of Christian country; for these dealers in
poison have the exclusive privilege to kill on the
Sabbath day. No honest trade is permitted by the
laws on that day. But Rum dealing is tho pet
business of the Subbath-becausc OIL that day they
can murder more than on any other"
Then you mean so say that murder is encour-
aged on the Sabbath dayH'
" Such is the fact. Look and examine for your
self 1t is not my assertion, but melancholy Ect.
Look! You see another funeral coming down the
street. 1t is that of youth of 10, who got intoxi-
Gated on Sabbath day--went boating, and was
drowned, while beref of his senses by poison
Who was the murderer"
PROFESSIONALLY, the veuder of the poison"
" But the law!"
True-society was an accessory before the
fact "-PhiL Sun
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land under the most solemn obligations to oppose
slavery in every possible shape and torn wherev-
er it may be found, even should the church be u
unanimous in their opposition against u.s. But
PolItlcal party, as such, has no constitution, and
consequently we can maintain our allegiance TO il
only ny acting in unison with the party, voting for
It's candidates, and carrying out its measures
When we fail TO do this, our connection with the
larty ceases. When therefore we become anti
slavery in principle and practice, our connection
with al proslayery parties is of necessity at an
end. 1t will therefore be readily perceived, that
there is not that contradiction between our religion
and our politics, that some have supposed. We
are seceders in neither. And our position in rela-
ton to church and state so far as slavery is con-
cerned, IS one and the same. We adhere to the
constitution of the United States Belle wing it 10
be antisIavery in its character, we consider all
those laws and regulations which the government
may adopt that are of proslavery character, to be
null and void. And those parties which profess to
adhere to this constitution, which arc of prosIa-
very character, we have no fellowship for, and
shall labor with untring vigilance for their over
throw. In like manner also, we adher0 to the
constitution of the church, believing it to be foun-
ded on the Bible, and consequently antisavery in
Its character. And all laws and regulations which
the church may adopt that prosSvery, wa con-
slider unconstitutional and consequently null and
void. And such parties as may be found in the
church of prosavery character, we have no fell
owshp for, and shall labor with untring vigilance
10 secure their overthrow We are ahoIitionists:
but we 60 for the abolition of slavery, and not for
the abolition Of the church or state. And we set
our faces against that spirit which stalks abroad
in the land, seeking the overthrow Of all organiza-
tons, both civil and religious. We believe these
institutions 10 be the great buwark of our country
and we wish to rescue them gu, Of the hands of
the slave power, and hand them down unmpaired
to future generations.
TO be concluded.
GEORGE PU IMAM.
Albany, May 5, 1s45.
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monarch of peace. He estimates the blessings
of peace at so high value, that from his Ian
guage it might be supposed that he would soon
er lose his crown than become party to Onoth-
er European War.
There is therefore every ground to believe
that the peace of Europe will be long preserved
The political sky wears pacific aspect We are
mistaken, indeed, ifthe days of European war be
not over. Apart from mere feeling on the sub
ject the nations are at length opening their eyes
to the folly and miseries ofwar. What was ever
gained by it, What European country can be
named that has ever been benefited by hostilities
with another countryl What country, on the
contrary, ever engaged in war that was not
loser by it,-a loser in treasure as well as in the
lives ofits subjects? Even the victorious power
is all but ruined by its triumphs. Look at En-
gland. We vanquished Napoleon; but what was
the price at which our victories were purchased
The answer is to be found i'll the present over
taxed condition of the people. War triumphs
were purchased at the cost of 5000, 900, 0O0.-
We are suffering for our victories now. Nor will
the pernicious consequences of our wars and our
victories be confined to ourselves. They will
outlive us for many long year; our descendants
for ages to come will have to smart severely for
the folly
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TEEE FERE-SEDE.
WHAT SHOULD PARENTS DO WITH
THEIR BOYS?

Many parents have sons, whom, when they
arrive at years of discretion, that they are uncer-
tain what to do with For instance, respect
able mechanic has good, stout, hearty, well
disposed son, whom he wishes to bring up re-
specially. If he is in easy circumstances, he
son must be brought up to some higher business
than a mechanic. He therefore concludes that
he must send him TO college and make him a
lawyer, doctor, or clergyman, and the hon
est, well-meaning parent labors hard to earn mo-
ney to pay the expense of a collegiate education
for the purpose of making him respectable, to
make him take higher rank in the world than
that of mechanic. Here is great mistake
When the boy leaves college, what is he to do?
He is then Just qualified for nothing He turns
pedagogue for while. He beats learning into
the youthful progeny but few, very few, think
of pursuing the business of schoolmaster as a
permanent profession After continuing it for
year or two, he quits it, and commences the
study of one of the learned professions Here
are three or four years spent in preparing to be-
come professional man, and at an additional
expense to his father. He at last is admitted to
the bar or receives degree of M. D., or is Ii
censed to preach. The next thing is to get a
living by the profession he has chosen, and this
is not so easy a matter All the learned pro-
LESSONS are full to overfiowing, and there seems
to be no room for new beginners, The conse-
quence is, that the young aspirant for emf
hence drags along without getting business e.
nough to pay the rent of an office. Year after
year he patiently tolls, or would toll, if he
had any thing to do, without making halfenough
to pay his own expenses. To be sure, there are
some whose superior intellect and commanding
talents will enable them to rise at once to emin
ence and to command business which will rem
der them independent; but these cases are few
and far between.
When such do occur, the superiority Of men
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Prospects Of General Peace-During a re-
cent debate in Parliament Lord Palmerston, in
his attack on the slave trade negotiation now
going on between the Due de Broglie, and Dr..
Washington, accused Sir Robert Peel of having
made dishonorabe concession to France. The
right hon. baronet in repeing the charge, enun-
ciated principles which must afford great gratif-
cation to the friends ofpeace He avowed his
predictions for pacific policy, and announced
his determination to pursue that policy as long as
he could do SO without compromising the honor
or sacrificing the interests ofthe country. 1t is
pleasing to find that the leading powers of Eu-
rope are not only avowing, but acting on the
same pacific principles. Guizot is emPhatisaly
the minister Of peace Louis Philippe is the
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ladies' Department.


Great, indeed, is the task assigned to woman
Who can elevate its dignity? Not to make
laws-not to lead armies-not to govern en-
pres, but to form those by whom the laws are
made, and armies led, and empires governed; to
guard against the slightest faint of bodily mfr
nifty the frail yet spotless creature whose moral
no less than physical, being, must be derived
from her; to inspire those principles, to incul-
cate those doctrines, to animate those sentiments
which generations yet unborn, and nations yet
qnclyllized, shall learn to bless to soften firm
ness into mercy, and chasten honor into refine
ment; to exalt generosity into virtue; by her
soothing care, to allay the anguish of the body,
and far worse anguish of the mind; by her ten
der4ess to disarm passion, by her purity to tri-
umph over sense, to cheer the scholar sinking
under his toll; to console the statesman for the
ingrattude Of mistaken people, to be the COM
pensation for hopes that are blighted, for friends
that are perfdious, for happiness that has passed
away Such is her vocaton-the couch of the
tortured sufferer, the prison of the deserted
friend, the cross of rejected Saviour; these are
the scenes of woman's excellence, these are the
aires on which her greatest trlumphs have been
achieved. Such is her destiny to visit the forsa-
ken, to attend to the neglected, when monarchs
abandon, when counsellors betray, when justice
persecutes, when brethren and disciples fly, to
remain mistaken and unchanged, and to exhib-
it on this lower world type of that love, pure,
constant and ineffable, which, in another world,
we are taught to believe the best of virtue
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Family religion is of unspeakable Importance,
Its effects will greatly depend upon the manifest
sincerity of the head of the family, If his CHI
dren and servants do not see his prayers exem-
pIifed in his temper and manners, they will be
disguised with his religion. Tedousness will
weary them. Fine language will shoot over
them. Goominess will make them dread reli-
gion as a hard service. Let them be met as for
most delightful service. Let them find it sa-
worry, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. Worship
thus conducted may be used as an engine o.
vast power in family. 1t diffuses a sympathy
through the members. 1t calls off the mind from
the deadenng effect of worldly affairs 1t ar
rests every member as with morning and eve
ming sermon, in the midst of the cares ofliie
1t says, There is God There is spiritual
world! There is life to come !" 1t fixes the
idea of responsibility in the mind. 1t furnishes
a tender and judicious father with an opportuni
ty of glancing at faults, where direct admoni
ton might be inexpedient.-[ Cecil.
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DUTY OF WOMEN TO TT

DUTY OF WOMEN TO THEIR COUNTRY.
The shelter and protection of a free govern
ment also demand awakened and grateful ener-
ges. Since its welfare is involved in the virtue
and intelligence gifts subjects, the character and
habits of every member Of its great family, are
Of importance, imagine that hear from the
lips Of some of the young and sprighty of my
sex, the inquiry, "why need we concern our
selves in the affairs of politicians! what share
have we in the destiiies Of our countryW The
same share that the rll has in the rivulet, and
the rvulet in the sea- Should every little stream
let tarry at the fountain head, where would be
the river that dispenses the fertility-the ocean,
bearing commerce and wealth upon its never
ending tide Woman possesses an agency which
the ancient republics never discovered The
young fountains Of the mind are given in charge
to her She can tnge them with sweetness or
bitterness, ere they have chosen the channels
where to flow, or learned to murmer their story
to the time-worn pebble. Greece, that disciple
ard wcrshipper Of wisdom, neglected to appreci-
ate the value of the feeber sex, or to believe
that they who had the moulding of the whole
mass of mind in its first formation, might help
to inluse principle Of permanence into nation
al existence. Rome in her wolfnursed great
ness, in her fierce democracy, in the corruption
of her imperial purple, despsed the moral
strength that lay hidden under physical weak
ness But our country has conceded every
thing--the blessings Of education, the equal
ity of companionship, the luxury of benevolence
the confidence of cultures office to those young
buds of being, in whom is her wealth and hel
hope What does she require of our sex in re-
turn for these courtesies? Has she not RICH
to expect thatwe give our hands to every cause
peace and truth-that we nurse the plants o
temperance and purity-that we frown on ever!
inroad of disorder and yice-that we labor il
all places where our lot may be cast, as gentl
teacher of wisdom and charity, and that we holt
ourselves, in domestic privacy, the guardians Q
those principles which the sage defends in tn
halls Of legislation, and the priests of Jehova
upon the walls of Zion.
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ScAB In SHEEP.-A decoction of tobacco and
sulphur; 10 lbs. of good tobacco for 100 sheep,
well mashed AMI stepped in about l6 gallons of
water, to which add lb. sulphur. Wash every
part ofthe sheep with this decoction, putting it
on with the hand and some kind of a CLOTH
This should be done Immediately after shearing,
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RrcnEs.-The greatest pleasure oflGe is love;
the greatest treasure, contentment the greatest
possession, health; the greatest ease is sleep;
and the best medicine true friend
The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-02-12
THE GALAXY.
NIIIDDlala13WRHs VIZ
Wednesday, FEB, IL, 1916.
To our delinquent Subscri hers

We most cbeerfully acknowledge our
obligations to the patrons of the Galaxy.
But it is clear that many Of those who
have received our sheet even from the
commencement do not reciprocate the
feeling, or have imbibed the idea that we
can get along year after year withoutPay, at
the expense of fifteen hundred dollars per
annum expended. A large number have
taken our paper for nearly four years with
out paying a dollar With such, we
must have speedy settlement. To all,
we would say, that for month or two
past we have studied our ledger, and find
balance of thousands in our favor
Nothing but borrowing to considerable
extent has prevented US from stop
ing long ago. As yet. we have hardly sent
a single greeting to any of our subscri-
bers, and except in extreme cases of which
we must be the judge, we do not intend
to do SO by any who between this and the
close of the volume (tbe LIST Of May shall
call and settle with us satisfactorily either
by payment or note. In all cases we shall
demand interest after the expiration ofeach
year. This will be better for the subscri-
Der than the payment of 25 cents for fail
ure of payment within the wear. That
provisionYe shall reserve for those who
neglect this call altogether. Such cannot
expect any benefit of Clergy as Lawyers
say.
P. S. Those who have had Probate No
tees in which the estates are settled or
nearly so, must pay up by the first of May
! if possible, and at least must settle.
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entirely extinguished. is said by the
Washington Correspondence of the Tri-
bune that Senator Bagby will oppose 1t
on Constitutional grounds, and that it is
right to set downthe Ohio Senators as
offered to annexation, also that Berrian
Barrow and Jarnagin who have been set
down among the Doubtful will oppose 1t,
and that Rives, and Archer with or with
out instructions will oppose it.
The correspondent of the Courier and
Enquirer writes thus:
"We have the very best grounds for
assuring those interested that annexation
by resolution is utterly impracticable now
or hereafter. Consequently that under
no circumstance will it be annexed at this
session of Congress"
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United States Senator,

DANIEL 5. Dickinson Of the county of
Broome, has been elected Senator in the Sem
ate OF the Congress of the Uni,edf States for
the full term of six years. on and after the
18th day Of March next. The decree of eau
Gus had settled this some days since and we
only notice the appointment with the view of
stating that everything in the ranks Of the
Democracy appeared calm and mild on
the surface. the nomination receiving the en-
tire vote of the party. This. i; is true, is no
more than anticipated. The threats OF GER
tain members in caucus not TO be bound by
lis decree, were in our estimation, lust SO
much breath spent for nought.-4lbanv
Dai. Adr.
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TEMPERANCE CELEBRATION.

Arrangements are in progress, under
the care of the Committee of the Young
Mems Temperance Society in Middlebu-
ry for a Temperance Celebration to be
held on Wednesday the Goth Instant
An address is to be delivered in the after
noon, to which the attention ofthe friends
Of the cause in all parts OF the county
will be invited, and the announcement O
exercises to be made next week it is hop
ed will be such as to command liberal
attendance from every quarter. This eel
ebration has been twice held hitherto in
the form of Temperance Convention,
and such in effect we have no doubt it
will be on the present occasion. An eve
ming party, attended with addresses and
other suitable exercises, will be holden in
the evening of the same day.
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BEHIND THE AGE.

The mechanics of the city of Charleston
S. c. are prevented from putting up steam.
engines in the town. and the labor OF negroes
and blind horses is deemed fit substitute for
them. That city has not increased for
twenty years. while o.her American cities
have Doubled in population. She has had,
too the advantages of the South Carolina
Railroad, which under ordinary circumslan-
ces. should have doubled her population
Mechanics work, ready made doors, blinds.
shutters, &c, are applied from the North. A
writer in the Charleston Courier who de-
tails these and kindred facts, calls upon The
citizens to awake from their dreams, aud fol-
lies, and consult their interests by introdu-
cling manufactures.