Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-17
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Dreadful Slaaghfer.-By
he arrival ofihe Butch schooner Swat.
low we have received particulars of ono
of the most daringan murdereus attacks
ofpirates we recollect eyerto have heard
of orread. 1t appears that the Dutch.
war schooner Chameleon, commanded Nv
Lieutenant Van Hoogenhuizen, carrying
l6 guns and about sixty men, was sail
ing in company with a Residency schoo.
ner Of six or seven guns. The Chame.
leon had on boord quantity of treasure
from Mimic, destined for The east coast.
The pirates would appear TO have been
aware OF the fact of there being treasure
On board and they formed plan ofattack
to capture the vessel. In the afternoon
Of the 26th of April, when becalmed near
MaTawan, in the Straits of Casper, about
forty Prows, having, in all, nearly 1900
men well armed, suddenly attacked the
Chameleon and the Residency schooner
in company, but directed their efforts
chiefly to the former vessel. The officers
and crew ofthe Chameleon fought gal.
lantly, but such was the determined.
heavy and constant firing kept up from
the pirate boats, that the war schooner
vas disabled--her sails and hull were
completely riddled. The pirates now
succeeded in capturing and securing the
treasure on board of Chameleon, when
they stabbed such of the gallant fellows as
resisted, (Which every man on board did
till the last and sunk the vessel. The
Presidency schooner also sustained some
INJURY and loss, but a favorable breeze
having Strung up, she succeeded in escap.
ing to Mimic, and communicated the sad
1n.ellIgence to the auth ,rities.
POtatOe ROt-a proposed remedy.
We very much regret TO he ar that this
destructive disease has again made its APP
pearance, and, that in several parts ofour
State its ravages are quite alarming. A
correspondent ofthe Belfast Journal, set.
ting aside all suggestions, theories, and
surmisese on the subject, proposes the
following remedy. His plan, to say the
least, is simple, and notaltogether new,
but he speaks with holiness and conf.
dence backed up by his own experience,
with the subject. He says: "l2here is
but one remedy-that is to NOW off the
vines as soon as the potatoes have bios
somed, or as seen as the potatoes have set,
and are as big as pistol balls. This is a
cure or prevention ofthe plague--nothing
else will reach it. tits disorder which
can alone be cured by decapitation. All
who have written on the subject, have
mistaken the cause and the cure, and as
DIR. Franklin would say, have come GU;
at the little end ofthe horn! | tried the
experiment last summer; it did well.
There is no mistake, if the vines are cut.
OFT near tho ground before the poison of
the insect descends to the root ofthe DO
tattoo, the crop is safe. 1t is winged
insect that does all the mischief. This
is fact, let philosophers humbug as they
will about honey due, fungus, mildew,
dew rust, young seed,old seed, hot wealth.
or, cold weather, zoo wet, too dry, &C.,
DC. All wrong, and do not look to the
wap, or even squint, whence allth evil
comes. Potatoes should be planted early
in order to be forward, to part with their
tops by the 25th OF July or the first day of
August. Tho insect was ten or twelve
days earlier last year than this, or it may
not come at all, which hope. Where |
cut offthe vines last summer on the 1st
day of August, the potatoes were sound,
perfectly good; and am selling them for
seed at one dollar per bushel. Those
cut off on the 18th day,were injured some,
say one eighth lost. ~. Y. Farmer and
Mechanic