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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13


FARMING AND READiNG.-Do you take
aud read an Agricultural paperl Strange
that farmer, or planter, should think OF
doing without one. The merchant sur
rounds himself with his shipping lists,
price currents, and all the means that can
communicate information and ensure sue
cess the lawyers shelves are loaded with
law journals, law reports, law comments
ries, and law precedents, for he is sensible
that without understanding what others
have done, he cannot hope for triumph ut
the bar; so with the other professions, they
must and do read, If they hope for emln-
ence or usefulness. All are anxious TO un-
dersland their own business, the farmer ex-
copied. and too many of these are content
TO follow on in the beaten path, never read
ing, scarcely thinking, and showing nc
anxiety TO know what science is doing lol
them, and wha, discoveries and improve
menis are making 10 aid and accelerate
their progress. No man needs extensive
varied knowledge, more than the farmer
none can inrn il to more profitable account
The whole growth of plant from the ger
mnalion of the seed TO the ripenlng oil TIN
fruit is purely chemical process, and on
tina, NAV be understood aud known. Th
farmer is admirably situated 10 study an
to inlerrogale nature, Let him read, Oh
serve, compare, reflect, aud practice aceol
DINGHY. Never acl without system. nor d
thing because others have done ii.
CuLirai0r Aimana,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

CnEAp PosrAGE.-We have not yet ex-
hqustcd the question, how government may
best strengthen and perpetuaie our union,-
There is one of its establishments, which, in this
point of view, VIC highly value, aud which we
fear, is not sufficiently priced for the high bene-
fit Il confers. We refer TO the post Office. The
facilities which the institution affords to the
government for communication, with all parts Of
the country, arc probably regarded by many as
the most important national service which it
renders. But it docs incomparably more for us
as a community. 1t does much towards making
us one, by admitting free communication be-
tween different parts of the country, which no
other channel Of intercourse could bring togetll-
err 1t binds the whole country in a chain Of
sympathes, and makes it in truth one great
neighborhood. It promotes kind OF society
between the sea shore and the mountains. IL
perpetuates friendship between those who arc
never to meet again. II binds the lamily IN Tho
new settlement and the half-cleared forest to
the cultivated spot from whiehit emigreied' IL
facilitates, beyond calculation, commercial con-
nectons, and the interchange OF products- on
this account, we always gIieve to sec statement
Of the revenue accruing TO government from the
post Office. II ought not to yield cent to tho
treasury. il should simply support itself Such
Importance do we attach TO the ffeest commune
cation between all parts Of the country, so much
do we desire that the poor, as well as rich, may
enjoy the means Of intercourse, that we would
sooner have the post Office tax on the revenue,
than one OF is sourseS.-Ier. DR.. Claiming.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

SOMETHING ron ALL.-So various nre
the uppciiies of animals, that there is
scarcely plant which is not chosen by
some and len untouched by others. The
horse gives up the roter hsmiOek to the
goat the coo gives up the lang ie0red ~d'
ttr hendrix to the sheep; the goat gives up
the monks hood TO the horse, ETC.; for thai
which certain animals grOi0 fat upon, 9th
crs dbhor as poison. Hence no plant is alb
soluiely poisonous. but only respectively.
Shilling Feet
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY IN NIssouRI.-
The Missourians are discussing whether the in
tercsts of that State would not be promoted by
u legislative ait, declaring that no person born
in that State after 1850 shall be held as a slave,
The St. Louis Organ says II should not be sur
priscd il some immediate measures were taken
to free the State from the acknowledged evil
and adds that the thousands of emigrants who
now avoid that State, and make for territories
north of II, will como there, and Missouri will
be, in developcd resources, what she is natural
Iy. the richest State in the Union.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

IMPoRrANT LEGAL DEcIsIoS.-ln recent
bigamy case tried in Brooklyn, N. Y, before
Judge Rockwell, he decided that man living
with woman in state OF adultery, and calling
even though not actually married, and may not
only be made liable for her debts and acts, hut
be prosecuted and convicted if he weds another
female during the life time Of his paramour.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

THE LAST CLEAN OF NAPoLEoN's GLORY.
"A strange and ghostly spectacle came athwart
our gay and busy streets, ON the anniversary of
tho death of the Emperor Napoleon. The few
remaining relics of that great army, sound and
whole enough to walk, assembled beneath the
columns of the Place Veudome, and repaired in
procession to the Invalidcs, to celebrate mass in
honor of his names ! cannot describe to you
the effect of this asscmblagc Of withered spec
tres, alfred in the uniforms Of the regiments to
which they had belonged. 1t seemed as il each
had issued from the tomb, or risen from the bat
tlc-ield, whercon they had once been left rotting
in the sun or sfiening in the snow.
The procession passed without exciting tho
slightest enthusiasm, the crowd following in ST.
lcnce and in awe. The church was hung in
black, and the places around the altar reserved
for the veterans of the guard, Of whom twenty
three yet remain. The celebrated Hulon, whose
jaw was shot away in seeking to place himself
before the Emperor in a skirmish in Russia, act
ed rs Sacristan, and the silver jaw-bohe," fresh
polished for the occasion, shone and glittcred in
the sun; while the Mamelukc Fezdah, without
legs and in possession of but one eye, claimed
the chief taper Altogether it was one Of the
most curious and extraordinary ceremonies
ever witnessed.
Paris Correspondent ofhe Boston atlas.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

INDUSTRY AT LARoE.-On Monday after
noon We met woman walking in Essex street
very busily engaged in knitting stocking. in,
dustry must prosper" thought we, but we would
rather have the use of our eyes as guide IN
walking a crowded street, to the appearance oil
heinn So industrious. Adrerliser.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
EDITORIAL. REMARKS.

We have many accounts Of stones al
tracing water, or inviting it upward, when
q pile Of them has been made IN the earth.
As 10 their virtue, in this respect, we need
more evidence. Rocks and stones have
favorable influence in attracting and retain
ing heat Catawba grapes that seldom rip.
en- in New England, in common situations,
have become fully ripe when trained on
large piles of stones.
In another respect stones are nm impor-
tant advantage. All soils, or the mineral
part, are composed Of stones, disinicgr
or worn down finely in long lapse OF
time. Some OF those inorganic matters
enter into the composition Of plants, aud
on burning them, by which the organic
paris, that have been taken up from the at
mosphere, are scattered again into air, the
mineral or earthly matter, called inorganic,
remains in ashes.
Now, il is evident TO every common OBJ
server, that by constantly taking crops
from land, certain properties or elements
that compose the crops are reduced, and u
the land is MANFRED the same ingredients
may not be returned to the land. Hence
old lands become so exhausted Of some ei'
ements that crops long cultivated on them
fail
Lands long in pasture, become exhaust
ed of phosphate OF Lido, or bunc earth, Sc
that plants are mt kroduccd containing
enough phosphate OF hme for the milk o
COWS, and to support the waste Of thei
bones, and they become diseased with tn,
"Bone Disorder" II has been estimated
that cows pastured on land IS years carr!
from each acre one ton of phosphate o
lime or bone earth.
Then, as all mineral matters, or inor
ganic substances in soil, have been iorme'
from the disntegraiion of soils, and as ihi
process is still going on. the new matte
! from stones will supply, in measure,
wholly, the loss by the production aud re
mova of crops from the land.
Thus il is evident that the removal o
stones is injurious to the soil, and We hay
recorded several cases of exact experiment
on this point, showing great loss in th
crops by ouch deprivation.
As stones on cultivated soil are pest
or nuisances, as stumbling blocks and hind
RANGES in tillage, especially in fine culture
every farmer must Judge how far to remoy
stones, and what size may remain wlthot
doing more injury as hndrance. IN Il
lage, than benefit in supplying by gradui
decomposition, the wear and waste of so
by exhaustion. No chemist, nor praciic
cultivator, can determine this questio
with exactness. Very small stones are bI
, little Inconvenience on lillage lands, an
by rolling the land, when laid down
grass, they will be pressed into the sol
on gravelIy or sandy soils, small stones al
less useful than on soils Of clay, mud I
mari, as The gravel aud sand are mimi
a stones. s. Boston Cuhicdtor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

HEr The land warrants issued to soldiers in
the late war will use up about 100000 acre.
of Uncle Sans farm. 1t is estimated that nine
tenths of this land will pass into the hands o
spectators.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
MRS. IL. KIDDER'S
DYSENTERY CORDIAL,
IMMEDIATE AND PERFECT CURE

-.
Cholera AforJus, Dyseniery, Didrrhed, Sumner
Complaints Of Children, Sea Sickness, Gen
erdl Debility, ETC., etc.
WHERE this all-powcrfu antidote is att hand,
w Chol.ra Dysentery and Chronic DiarrhGa
longer to be seriously feared, looked upon with ter
ror-as this Cordial will most assurcdly cure the dis
in the of very few hours, II taken At the
commencement.
IL has been before the public foi iOio thaH sixteen
years and was the first article made known to the pub
lie as an immediate and perfect remedy for these COM
plants II has been thoroughly tested in every ooun
try and ever climate and its effect has every where
proved the same,-SuRE TO CURE, even where the
disease has advanced to the last stage. The public
may rest assured that il contains neither opium, or
mineral substances, anything that is in the least in
furious to the constitution.
Cholera and Common Cholera Morbus.
| This Cordial Immediately checks the vomiting re-
icyos the pains stops the Diarrhpa and restores tho
bowels perfectly regular and healthy state, howev-
or the attack may be, however low the pa
| tent may have become, IT invariably restores.
Sevcrest Cases of Dysentery,
are Immediately counteracted, the pains allayed
the bowels healed, and not unrequently the bowels
become perfectly regulated and restored in the short
space Of ten or twelve hours.
Chronic DiarrhGa.
Either 10 children adults, of months years con
unulncc most readily cured with this Cordial not
vithstanding they may be reduced 10 mere skeleton
it Immediately strengthens, and shortly restores them
10 perfect health.
| Cholera InfantuLa.
| II has saved the lives of many thousand ChldreI
when reduced to deaths door by this complaint /
gives them immediate relief and they very reecv
| or. Sea Sickness.
Itis a most pleasant and desirable remedy for Sci
Sickness It checks the vomiting, and readily restore
the patient 1t invariably checks vomiting produces
IRON any whatever
Children that arc Teeihing,
, If inclined to Diarrhna, should always be provided
with this medicine it will keep the bowels regua,
ed, and keep off the Clnker. II is wholesome SAT
and pleasant TO the taste and children fond Of Il
and will take It without trouble or dislike.
For General Debility and Dyspepsia.
II Ia most excellent restorative, giving health
tone to both the stomach and bowels, and prevent
food from pressing or distressing the stomach.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
Roots, Shoes and Rubbers.
DOWN AGAIN.
THO'S &. WALES

WILL sell ut GREATLY REDUCED PRI.
w CES all kinds of Doors and SnoEs by the
doIn or package, Mt his
"ENTIRE CASH BOOT g. SHOE STORE"
Boston.
4. c, W. would also inform his old customers
and all purchasers of INDIA RuBBER SnoEs, that
he has been appointed Selling Agent for the largest
importers Of PARA RuBnERs, and for all the prin-
cpal manufacturers of Patent Ruhbers in this coun.
try making the most extensive assortment Of Run
BER SIoEs to he found in any one Store in Amer.
lea, all Of which he is authorized TO sell for Cash
or CREDIT at Tie topest ma,ktt prices and on liberia
! terms. 2ml
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

OF William Goodwin, of New Haven, very
benevolent and charitable citizen, has watched
with the sick eight hundred and torfyi1o nights,
during the last three wears.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
10 and q Drron,Iire Sired, Boston

10 and % Deronshre Street, Boston,
Dealers in Wrought IroH Steam and Gas Pipes, Tu'
bular Steam Boilers Steam and Hot Water Apparatus
oRIGINAroRs
Of that most important improvement in steam apparnius
for warming factories BY which small wrought iron
pipes in connection with improved valves and arrange
nent are substituted for large cast iron and copper
pipes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
CLoOKs ! CLOCKS! CLoCKs!

POND IL BARNES, Manufacturers and Whole
sale Dealers in Clocks would call the attention Of
country merchants purchasing CLOCKS and TINE
PIECES, to their large stock Of superior and com
Clocks which they selling at good bargains At
II & 10 Hanover Street, Boston.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
SUPPORTERS AND TRussEs.

A. +. Is \ X L l. l. L L,
Manufacturer of all kinds of Improved Supporters, such
as CHApIs's, FITcm's, IRGALL's; BASsIEG's LAcEs,
and others of his improvement also, Patent Elias
tie Suspender Shoulder Braces, and Superior irsses
Agent for DR.. Fitch's celebrated supporters, shod'
der Braces, and HJ,dling Tubes,
22I Washington ST., near Marlboro Hotel
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
Massachusetts Quarterly Review,

Devoted to the GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE
DAY, in Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Religion,
and Humanity, conducted by TmEoDoRE PARKER, as
sisted by other gentlemen. Price $500 per ann. Ad-
dress Coolidge & Wiley, Publishers IL Water Street
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
Bradford Barns, Jr.
Light !! Light! Light!!!

The subscribers manufacture superior article Of
CAMPHENE, and LAMPS of every description for
burning the same which they selling at less prices
than any house in Boston. Also, BURNING FLUID
and FLuID LAsrs equally cheap. We are the only
traders in Boston, in the Business who manufacture
their own articles, and therefore able to sell at
less prices than our competitors, having NO PROF-
IT TO PAY TO MANUFACTURERS. Also,
UTCKS, GLASSES GLOBES, and every thing
in the Lasr TRADE at MBtgdehTea Prices, and les
than any house in Boston.
SMITH & TARBELI.
Boston Lamp Depot, 10 Washington st.,
one door east Of Cornhi
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
French a German Importing House

Nos ID and II Kiby Street Boston.
Importer and Wholesale Dealer in French, German
and English FANCY GOODS and TOYS, and ar
tcles Of American manufacture, Combs Brushes, Cat
lery Perihmery, Fans, Steel Trimmings, Purses. Bags
Fine Willow Ware, India Crackers &c.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13

Patent Improved Lead Pipe and Sheet Lead manuiac-
tured and for sale at the Lo,cea Prices for Cash.
Also, English and Amtriean Linseed OIL.
GEORGE l.. STEARNS,
Corner of Water and Congress Streets.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
THOMAS C. wALES'S
EngIish a Ger,nan Bronze,

Direct from the Manufacturers for sale on small
advance on the cost of importation, by
CALEB DEELEY,
81 Court Street (up stairs,) Boston
Samples and prices sent by express if required.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-10-13
JOHN A. WHIPPLE,
nAGUERROTYPE MINIATURES,
WALWORTH 4 MASON,

Childrens Pictures taken in any weather.
M % Uas,ingion Street Boston.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-06
MIR. Smiths Case Again.

read in several of the city papers of Of singular
deluson and gross imposition. " Some scoundres, it is
said "have been practising upon wealthy man, and dis
honestly eating his estate by community called the
Brotherhood which had been organized for the purpose of
speculation " that $4,000 have been used up of Mr..
Smiths money - that through the instrumentaty of a
pretended Oracle by which of the members be-
ieved hold communion with the spiritual world heavy
drafts made his purse - that the young who
horse-ned and wned of the best in the city " that Mrs
Smith applied to the law to take charge of her husbands
property " that the matter brought before the Gin
Courts :" and that the Jury has found Mr.. Smith
insane in the mildest sense of the word.
This being in which may pretend to be better in
formed than those whose authority these statements are
made hope may be permitted to correct the
which they apt make especially the readers OF the
Herald of Truth the circulation OF which In this city Is
entrusted to by the Company; The readers OF that
journal Will be able to Judge whether its contents SAVIOR OF
deusion and gross imposition" If some OF the Brother
hood should be mised by Mesmerc influences the Society
should be blamed for their as the Mes
Society this city pretends itself benehtted by the
facts thereby revealed Errors committed orevs suffered By
physical experiments do not necessarily constitute scoun
dreism If they did the victims OF physical errors which
daily conveyed to the graveyards should make
more distIustfu of physical experiments The difficulty be
tween Mr. Smith and his wife is matter for which
think courts OF law are pgs s9 and nao6 More than
out the nstigaton of any Oracle whatever have been
Informed by himself Similar cases of mild insanity in
the members have my knowledge If the violent
deirium of boarding into the mlder form of dis
riuting the superabundant hoard who would apply for
remedies in such case
who figured Oracle and his extravagances believed
to be true; but If all the young this city living the
style and means perhaps less honest than should
be advertised under their Names what room would there
be found for any otherl
Subjects of science need necessarily be objects of
morality. CD.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-06
Russia.

Tn nreyious numbers of our paper, we have de-
voted large space to statistical exposition OF the
nresent condition of two OF the most important
MOWERS of Europe-Austria and Prussia we now
come to Russia the most powerful and most inte-
resting of all Most powerful, because combining
more of the elements of strength most interesting
from the spectacle it presents of the union of Euro
mean enlightenment, with Asiatic barbarism-ke
struggle, between ancient feudalism and modern
civilization. There canbe no doubt that the COM
ing will place at the head of the powers of the
earth, two nations, both pursuing the same career,
towards universal dominion the one upon the
Western the other upon the Eastern Continent
Russia and the United States of America; the for
representing the despotc, the latter the repup
lican principle. On account of the difference, In
the present condition of the people of the two couh
tries we have named, these two principles, seem
ngly antagonistical cannot come IN CONNECT lof
despotism is as much the destiny OF the eciaVo-
mans as republicansm is ours the one is OUT 'iie
preparatiye-the forerunner of the other. But more
of this hereafter.
The Russian empire contains larger extent Oh
territory than any other upon the GLOBE conpfis,
in abont oneseyenth of its terrestrial surface ana
one-seyenteenth of the entire population EAehu-
;, from the frontiers of Prussia and Turkey on the
west, to the Rocky Mountains of America on the
east ~and from the Black and Caspian Seas and
Tartary upon the south, to the Frozen Ocean upon
the north its length may be estimated at 5000
miles, and its average breadth at 1900. Within
this vast region included nations of almost every
variety of complexion, of habits, and of language,
and of every degree of fertilization, from the wan
dering nomade of the Asiatic plains to the gay
and luxurious population of the modern Peters
burg. 1t will therefore not appear surprising that
within the dominions Of the Autocrat, there should
be spoken tortv different idioms.
The following tables will show the population OF
the different portions Of the empire, together with
their extent in geographical and statute square
miles, according to the most reliable authorities:
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-06

OUR EXPORTS AND IMPoRTs.-The Merchants
Magazine gives, in its last issue, comparative
view of the imports and exports of the United States
for every year, from and including 1921 to 1S47,
exclusive of specie. This table establishes the fact
that our exports during the past year greatly ex-
ceeded our imports, and consequently that we are
creditor country The figures given for 1847 are as
follow: exports, Sl56, 1885, imports, 122, 424 ,s49
excess of exports $31, 3l6, 534. OF this enormous
amount of exports all but about Sc O00O 900 were of
domestic produce. These figures do not include
the specie, either way; but a@subsequent table
shows the import of specie in 1S47-(the year is
made up to July 1)-after deductng the exports, to
have been 2,267, 700, which would still leave a
balance to our credit of S12 100000 in the account
of exports and imports.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-06

PORTRAITS OF JACKSON AND CLAY-Two Of
the most beautiful specimens of miniature painting
that we have ever beheld, are to be seen at Mr..
steees, in the shape of portraits of the great
men whose names head this article We do not pre-
tend to any very intimate acquaintance with the
fine arts and therefore cannot give purely scien-
tifc opinion but we do consider ourselves justfa-
bic in saying that these pictures unsurpassed by
any in the same line that have ever come under
our observation. Both of them are, in point of
drawing, execution and coloring, so unexceptiona-
BILE, that we scarcely know which to prefer. They
We're painted by Mr.. Dodge, and are for sale, the
price of the two being $500.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-06

EFFECTS OF POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY
When the Provisional Government of France was
formed, Ledru Rollin, one of its members, pos
sessed fine head of hair His hair is now per-
fectly gray. Louis Blanc had healthy, fresh,
almost Juvenile countenance; he is now wrinkled
and salIoW as an old man.