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English ~agricuhurists has effected IN this way
are among the most remarkable tnumphs oil
art over nature. How far this process can be
carried Is Of course q question OF experience
but there is every reason to suppose, that none
OF orr cultivated vegetables have reached their
highest point of attailible perfection, IN re-
gard either TO qunitv or quantity OF product
The increasing density OF population, and the
consequently enlarged demand for agrIcultu-
raj products in the old world, together with
the spirit of rivalry and emulation IN the new,
will stimulate continued ~cxertion in this hon
cradle field Of labor, and VIC NAV hope tina;
the peaceful triumphs Oh the husbandman will
eclipse ir popular rcnOwn, as well. as IN true u
tility, the proudest trophies of the warrior.
But besides improved modes of cultivation.
we may look for great advantages to agricul-
,ure from the Introduction of new vegetables
aad animals into our huSbandry. If We re-
nIembcr how Europe and America have mu-
tua.ly enriched each other with new forms OF
pro luctiye life, and consider what vast prov
inces teeming with endless variety OF vital ex-
~istenccs still remain but half explored upon
our own continent, if we reflect how little we
know concerning the natural productions Of
the boundless realms of central Asia, and Chi
ma, where one third part Of the human family
subsists upon the fruits Of rural industry, and
where the art of the husbandman and gardener
is said to have been carried to a pitch unknown
in Europe, we may well imagine that our fields
and fruit-yards and gardens aredesined TO ac-
quire new sources OF Observation-Disclosures and
wealth and beauty from regions yet untrodden
by Christian feet. But we have good cause
to hope, tina: additions may be made TO our
stock of cultivated vegetables from more ac-
ces-ible sources. Compelled as we have been
in this new world to avail ourselves Of certain
and approved metht ds Of husbandry, We have
rot vet had time or means 10 experiment up
IN the economical value of wild indigeRou.
plants, but siace savage ingenuity has c%Ontriv-
cd to render innocuous the most poisonous
vegetables, and TO extract the nourishing tap
Ioca from the deadly c~aSsava, it seems not i'm
probable that civilized chemistry may discov-
or the elements of nutriment in many plants
not hitherto used for human food. The ma
tive grasses of our country, too, promise to
prove highly valuable in agriculture, and the
wild rice and wappatooo Of our northern swamps
which are largely consumed by the Iudian
Tribes, NAV peri-ps prove worthy of cultivn-
tion. and thus give value to lands, which, in
oar present system of husbandry, are wholly
unproductivc.
Concluded next week
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A SIGN OF ALARM.-A bill has been re-
in the House of Representatives of the
State of Name to repeal the law cflast session
(which provided that the electors of Presi-
dent and Vice President shall be chosen by
plurality, and to pass another requiring a ma
l1ority to elect electors. This is a virtual adj
mission that Gen. Cas- cannot get the vote Of
Maine from the people, and that the only way
ito secure him the State is by the aid Of the
Liberty or other fractional parties, preventing
"a choice, and thus throwing the election of Z
into the hands of the present Legisla-
.ture. To such outrageous frauds IN popular
do the friends of Gen. Cass already
in their ~trepidation and alarm. AID
this is the way they expect to hold their grasp
'on the spells. They cannot trust the people
They cannot abide by the law they passed
themselves at the last session, but propose to
bag all the abolition votes At once for Gen
|Cass, and throw the electoral vote upon a Leg
|~islature elected with no view to any such
|choice, but chosen some six weeks after the
passage of the plurality law of the last session.
s-Kennebec Journal.
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General TAYLOR was cent into Texas. In
10 Mexico. where the surcharged clouds Ut
war were brooding. We have not time 10
r~ecount his successive battle6elds. or track
his brilliant career. AtPalo Alto, Resaca
de la Palma, Monterey, Buena Visia-the
HEARTS ofaIl our people marched with him,
land his deeds are fresh and vivid in their
memories. Too deafening was the roar oil
this brief storm Of war, TOO thick was the
smoke, loo dark the peril, TOO deadly the fight.
to let our people think calmly ofthe man who
was the leader and hero Of our pr riled army,
But. after The wal clouds had spent their fury
al Buena Vista, and the legions Of Santa
Anna fed away like scattered clouds after a
1siorm. leaving the clear sunshine Of heaven
upon the scene, all hearts rushed 10 that cd
man. and, ihrouging around him, the people
studied with intense interest every movement
Of his body, mind, and heart.
And how well have we learnt The dear old
Imam. The plain old Soldier, without pomI
or osientafion, with the nerve and judgment
|ofa man, but yet with the heart and soft feel
|mgs ofa child! His very person we know
thick set, and bulky-the picture Of
simplicity, frankness, aad good feeling. And
Ia good old man is he! Little children would
|clap their hands to see him in his country's
uniform, and, encouraged by his friendly
smile and helping arm, would Chamber up 10
see The eagles" of his buttons and the shin
ing gold of his epaulettes. The very dogs
would crowd around his feet and never fear
a kick ; and odd Whitley" we all knolr the
~favorite old charger, moves with n pricked eaT
and a quicker step when he hears the friend
" sound of his masters voice i-heRtuckJ
Commonwealth.
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is GEN. TAYLOR A WIG!

When Il candidate has received the en-
Idorsemcnt ur II convention of Wings, assem-
,bled from all paris of The country. and by
whose selection, we have pledged ourselves
TO abide, we must, in seriously pressing such
IN question:. either presume our friends in Con-
;veniion 10 have been guilty of iIeachery 10
their and to our common principles, or else.
10 have been sadly duped, and, therefore, TO
be dolls. To the unhappy Wings then. who
hang their impressions upon either horn oil
iillis dilemma, we ask a brief attention 10 the
following facts.
In General TayIor's letter 10 Hon. Joseph
r. lngersnll, alluding In the statement MIR.
slngersoIl had made in Congress, that " Gen.
Taylor was a Wing, not indeed an ulta
partisan Wing, but a Wing, in principle. y
kGen. Taylor says explicitly:
AL OF WHICH Is ENTIRELY CORRECT
aud after the discussion which occurred in
both Houses of Congress, at the last session.
growing out oil thecapilula;ion of Monterey.
IN which discussion you thought proper 10
sdelcnd my conduct in regard 10 that transar-
ion, when assailed somewhat, irnot entirely.
on party grounds, | can hardly imarine how
any one. who WINS present, aud heard The
speeches on that occasion, or read them aIier
they were published, could reH mistake the
compierlon Of my politics. At the last Presi-
dental canvass, il Wa well known 10 all with
whom l mixed. Wings and Democrats
flor ! had no concealmcnt in the matter
that Iras decidedly in tapor Of Mr. Clans
election. and rouid nOiO prefer ser;ag him
ia that office TO any indiridual in the Union"
! In his letter 10 DR.. Bronson he again saws
( he could have voted at The last Presiden-
nal election, -" I should most certainly hare
oast my rOte for Mr.. Clay"
In his letter to Col. Mitchell, he says:
81 have no hesitation in stating. as | have
stated Oh former occasions, thai | am a Wing,
ho' not an ultra enc; and that J haze not
7ssire te corcedi tbs .fact from any portion
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"NoNE OF Us HAvE DENIED, THE PkEsI
DENT HAS AcKNowLEDGED, THE WHOLE Dem
|ocRATIc PARTY HAS AGAIN AND AGAIN AS
SERTED THAT THE ANNEXATION OF TExA:
WAS THE CAUSE OF WAR WITH MExlCo.'
LEWIS CAss, Speech in the u. S. Senate
~ Mr.. Van Buren,, the Barnburner can
didate fer the Presidency. in his Inaugural
Address, in 1887, declared, Al must go int
the Presidential chair The infiexibIe and IN.
compromising opponent Of every attempt or
The part Of Congress to abolish siarery in III,
District of Columbia, against the wishes Of
the slaveholding States." He is now tn,
Free Labor" and Free Soil" candidate
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILRoAp.-Ths
ears on the Central Railroad are now run
ming as far west as the village of Paw-Paw
Van Buren, Co, eighteen miles west of Kala
|mazoo, the former termination T he road vii
soon DC completed to Chicago.
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ED The Editor of the "Grapc & Canister
judging other people by himself, concludes
that VIC mean TO hunabug our readers. respect
ling the Wilmot Proviso. Now this is to in
form Capt. Brown, and all others interested in
the matter, that we intend at all times to speak
out openly and honestly, whenever We speak
lat all-and to make no ostensible statcmcnt of
'Jact, for which VIC cannot give very respccta-
bio authority. We wish to be understood rs
asserting our settled conviction (thc grounds
of which we have already in part eivcn) that
Gen. Taylor is in favor of the principle the
Wilmot Proviso Is intended to embody-and thst
his views coincide essentially with those Of
Messrs- Clay, Mangum, and Clayton, the lat
ter Of whom roied for the Proyiso, in amend
mcnt of the Mexican Treaty, in secre, session.
This is a position We will undertake to defend
against all the Grape & Canister any
Cdss editor in Vermont will have the courage
to discharge.
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HoLDEN's DOLLAR MAGAzIHE.-This is a,
comparatively new monthly, having just CON-
.pleted its first volume. While it is the cheapest
periodical Of the kind within our knowledce. it
is also one of the very best III point of literary
and a~rtistical establishment. The July
No. contains IS engraving, and is filled entire
ly with original matter.
Published by Charles W. Holden, 100 Nss-
sau Street, New York.-S1 a year.
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JAIL BROKEN On Saturday last
says the Long Island Star ofthe 10Th, ont
of the prisoners confined in Flatbush Jail
broke out and very deliberately took hi.
seat IN the stoop. On being questioned
he said he did not like his room but il
they would put him in a more agreeable
apartment, he wOnM stag has time out
Otherwise, he would go of! This very
reasonable request was compiled with
land the man remains.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. As Mr.. Jon.
|athan Smith, Jr., Postmaster of Chelsea
was riding with his wife and three young
children. on the 9Th instant, the horse,
from some unknown cause, went off the
road, and the family were thrown down q
|precipice fifteen feet upon the rocks. Mr..
'Smith was killed instantly, and his wife
$50 much injured that her life was despair.
ed of. On Sunday there was some hope
that she might survive. The children
were injured, but not dangerously
Chronicle.
SIIAs WRIGHT's oPINIoN.-The late
Ex- Governor Wright of New York once
SAID OF Gen. Cas-, that $50 much had his
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VERMONT STATE AGEIcULTURIsT.-The
first number of this monthly Journal of Agri-
is just issued.-Published by c. T.
Hopkins and ID. W. G. Clarke, Burlington,
Edited by c. I. Hopkins. $500 a year in
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IRELAND

II ~ n IIVTI"r'
In Ireland the armed movement goes on un.
'abated.-Thousands are weekly flocking to
1.-THE clubs, and the Government appears to be
unable to devise n check.
The League has not yet been costructcd
but its formation is daily looked for. The ia
press. headed by the Irish Felon, revel.
in undisturbcd scdition.-Littlc doubt is nov
entertained by any party that a formidable
'phvsical-force movement will he made in tn,
autumn.
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FREE Soil CoSvENTIoS.-We are desired
TO say ihata Convention ofaH those through
out the State who arc in favor OF excluding
from all Territory now free, and
who refuse to sustain The nominations Of Ell
'ther NaIianai Convention. will be held in
|Middlebury, on the LIST day Of August next.
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MIDDLEBCRY DELEGATES.

At a duly warned and organized meeting.
'on FRIDAY evening last, ut the Town Room.
IOIon. Dorastus Wooster in the Chair,)
the Wings of Middlebury made choice of the
following persons as delegates to the State
Convention, to be held On the 18th. inst
Ira Stewart, Teicr Starr, Jonathan Hagar,
Cyrus Birge, Joseph II. Barrett, W. s. John
son, julius A. Bcckwilh, II. L. Enoe, James
NJ. Slade, Asa Chapman, Joseph Warner, and
IOzias Seymour.
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EThe AHfegrGph and RcmarIcr is
|" constrained from conscientious con
'victlons, long entertained, To dissent
from, protest again t, & oppose a nomina-
ton which VIC (ir) had hoped a Conven-
ton Of Wings would have been wise c
.nough not to have made" Very well =
and O we ask the Autograph, and
Mr.. Everett, Just to consider what a fig
.ure they make, i'll lamcnting over the de-
feat Of Henry Clay, and at the same time
refusing 10 support Zachary Taylor, BE-
he is a Southern Candidate.
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merit rs cus. { r. :s' !r- e.:
until the c-ose q. .A7 Fs-so.t -,.-a
subscribers viii hot, therefore, suffer tie T..
convenience of a sudden change, such as tt
immediate transfer of the business INTO cts.
hands might occasion.
BosToN SCHOOL REPoRTs-The Reports
of the Annual Visiting Committee ofthe Pub
lie Schools in Boston, for the last year, have
been put into our hands, through the polite
ness of Mr.. Bates, of the Brimmer School.
The pamphlet enbodies much information
valuable to sll Uhoarc in any wagon
Ger ned in the business OF education. The Wis
ting Committee, we observe, pass a very
high encomium on Mr.. Batcs's School, and
from their report, we should judge it to he e
model worthy of general imitation. The Pub
lie Schools of Boston have iorg been celebra-
ted, and may doubtless be safely set down as
ItGe best in the world. We should be glad TO
see these reports in the hands of every School
and Teacherin Vermont, and
I'VE arc sure that careful examination of the
in which Public Education is managed
in Boston might, though for our country
an exact copy would BY no means be
practicable, do much to elevate them above
their present condition.
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Last Lick. The Fourier Association, whic
was established on Lick Creek, in this coun
ty, and which for a time was supposed to b
doing well, is now dissolved, and a partition
ofthc property is being made. Thus has ter
minated the last of these establishments, il
the United States.-SpringteH (M) Jour
nal.
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The JANUS FACE.-lncredible as it
may seem, and disgraccGul as it is to our
political opponents, it is nevertheless true
that the managers at Washington have
caused to be issued from the
Office TWO VERSIONS Of
the life of Lewis Cass-oNE FOR THE
NORTH, THE OTHER FOR THE SOUTH.
One represents the Loco Foco candidate
as opposed TO the Wilmot Proviso, and is
duly seasoned TO suit Southern appetites
the other substitutes in place of the
remarks on this subject, a passage from
ICass's speech in the Senate on the late
movements in favor ofFreedom in France,
and is TO be circulated at the North,
where the Abolition of Slavery in the col.
Ionies by the French Provisional Govern
ment, has been a subject of particular
congratulation. How desperate must be
the prospect Of Locofocoism, when hope
is founded on such a lame and ~bungIing
manGuyre as this
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SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM
EUROPE.
Terrible News----Paris
flooded with blood--14
General Officers, s
Deputies, and $4,000
Menkilled and
ed!

The Cunard steamer Niagara, which sailed
on The I>t inst, in place of the M5c,nja, ar
rivel At Boston on Wednesday morning, il
less Ian eieccn days from Liverpool.
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y The Vermont Chronicle and several other
religious papers, as far as their positions warrant,
throw the weight of their influence against both
the Philadelphia and Baltimore nominations
National Era, 29h JUe.
We should like to know how far the position Of
ANY religious paper warrants " any informed
ding with such matters at all. 1t IS true, howev-
!er, that the Chronicle has declared, er ~caihNdrG, a
gains, both Taylo- al Cas- We III" saH'-'
speak nj this again.
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ofhe people ofthe United States"
In the Alison letter. which we shall pub
'lish again herafier, he nee more declare
distinctly. 81 reirerafe what | have 50 oltei
said-l Am A WHlG."
Ner York Express.
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Ilife been given to trimming, and his pol
Eitics guided by his interest, he could new
Ter receive his support"
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Law Intelligence .

COMMON PLEAS IN CHAMBERS, Aug. Before Judge
Daly-HoJeas Co,pus.-Marvin McNulty, held under
an indictment for embezzlement &C., brought up
by writ Of habeds corpus, to be admitted to bail Tho
Judge refused the motion the ground that he was
eady brought before two other Justices who
to bail him.
.9nofhtr.-John Brown, imprisoned on charge of
assault and battery also brought by writ of haJeas
corpus TO be discharged, the ground that exam
ton Of the had. and amount of bail fixed
The Judge denied the notion but ordered the mags.
trste to proceed with the examination, and fix the
amount of bail.
.Gnother.-Wiam Striker. colored boy, was brought
up and discharged the application Of his mother
nom the United States frigate Cumberland on the
ground of his being minor.
COMMON PLEAS Aug. 5.-Tn chamber-Before Judge
Daly-HaJeos Corpus,-John Hynes, one Of the crew
Of the United States frgate Cumberland, brought
before the Judge this morning by writ Of haJels
nus TO he discharged the ground Of his being mi.
nor The evidence not being satisfactory, he re-
handed Robert Miles, James Spencer Gray, and Ber-
nard Doan three Of the of the vessel were
brought up as being minors The evidence being sa-
tisfac,oiy. they were discharged.
UNITED STATS CoaMssioNER's OFFICE, Aug. Be
foi Commissioner Morton - Charge of Cruel and
Unusual Punishmenf-James Hunting, mate of the
whaling ship Portland Of Sag Harbor, arrested
Thursday last q charge of cruel and unusual pun
hmcnt IL appeared that while the ship lay Mt sgd
ney, dispute arose between the two mates and Allen
Warner. one Of the After beating him. he was
put IN irons by order of the captain and kept in the
81 The vessel for thlrytbrec days, after which he
brought on deck, tied up In the rigging and
coy,d IF y lashes the bare back, his wrists aud
hands were also much isjured by the irons Hunting
held to bail in $3.50. The captain and he az
ryaIds held to bail in civil suit in the Of 81 600
The other mate is still at large.
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Dem. gain in two years 2OS

In the counties of Wake Wayne, Johnson, Le-
noir, Martin, Moore, Nash, Sampson, Cumber-
land, Franklin, and Green, Col. Read runs $50
votes ahead of Hoke's majority over Graham
In Orange county there is tie between Wad-
dell and Berry. Waddell was chosen by the
Sheriff.
Three democrats and one wing are elected to
the House of Commons.
For Governor, there is supposed gain for Read
PETERSBURG, Va, August 5, lSiS.
In Northampton county the wing candidate for
the Senate has been defeated by 80 votes. For
Commons, Parsons (democraD has beaten Barnes
(whlg) by loss of 2. In the county of Halifax,
Wing Senator and 2 wing Commons are elected;
wing gain of 2.
BALTIMORE, August 5, 1913.
Pasquotank has given 300, and Camden county
407 majority for Manly.
MOORE CoUNTY--As far as heard from, gives.
Reid 449; Manly, 494. Worth, wing, for Senate
2S9 Shaw, democrat, 2S9; Hancock, wing, g.
Worth elected.
MONTGOMERY CoUNTY.-Commons--
democrat, SIG; Mcdowell, wing, 4S3-Persol
undoubtedly elected.
SIMPSON CoUNTy.--Reid, 692; Manly, $50. N,
change. Members of the Legislature all d.
mOcratS.
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NAvAL.-The U. s. steamer Scorpion, Commander
Bigelow ten days from Laguna via Campeachy Sisal
and Havana, arrived here yesterday The Scorpion
brings home portion of the battalion of marines re-
Gently serving shore at Laguna Left of that port
United States ship Saratoga, Commander Nicholson
At Campeche, communicated with United States
steamer Iris and schooner Frt and at Ssa wit the
Water Witch. The health Of the officers and crews
Of these vessels which to remain for the present
on the coast Of Yucatan, is good List Of officers Of
the Scorpion Bigelow, Commander-W: r. owath-
ney, Lieutenant; George II. Howell, Assistant Sur
geon; w. Holland I'd Assistant Engineer; John Car
roll, Sd do; j. c. Tennent, Sd do; f. Hudson, Cap
tain's Clerk; +. f. Boosc Acting Midshipman; q. d.
Hand, do; II. M. Caldwell, do. Passcngers-Captain
N. C. Waldron, Lieut.. J. D. Simms, Passed Mdship.
man A. c. Rhind, late acting master OF Water
Wtch.-Noyjck Herald, .9sgud4.
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The American Ocean steamship Hermann, Capt
Crabtree, arrived at Quarantine last night She
left Southampton the 2lsl ult., with III pas
seDgers and heavy and valuable freight list. The
passage of the II. is very good, being not over
fourteen days. Taking the distance and the man.
ner IN which she is loaded into consideration the
run is excellent The ship, from stem to stern, is
clean and trim, and her engine in such perfect
order that her departure for any voyage might have
taken place an hour after her arrival Her freight
list is the largest we understand, of any ever
brought from Europe by steamer. In connection
with the Hermann, we give the following testimo-
NAL TO Captain Crabtree, who is certainly worthy
of the respect paid him on all sides -
U. S. STEAMSHIP Hermann
At Sea, August 4. 1913.
CaPTArN l. CRABTnEE -
DEAR SiR-Thc undergrad passengers board the
STEAMSHIP Hermann, from Bremen and Southampton
to New York beg to express to you their esteem
,spect for your urbarity and kindness during the
voyage and their high opinion Of the management Of
The ship through the many untoward oircumsta Of
The passage They ALTO wish TO express their thanks to
the onoers Of the ship for the sacrnces they have
made aud their attention to the comfort aud
nieDce of an board. with their best wishes for
your welfare aud The o. the noble ship you
command they rtnain
signed D. The passengers