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The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-21

70 a letter from the Great Salt Lake Mormon
city says there is settlement fifty miles from that
city OF men owning negroes, carrying on farming
largely.
The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-21

3 IMPROVEMENT OF TIE TENNESSEE RWER.-
The papers in North Alabama are suggesting a
convention to be held at South florence to memo
ralze theLegislature as to the removal Of some OBJ
structions al Colbert's Shoals in, the Tennessee
river. An act passed at the last session Of the
Alabama legislature outhat subject, but, from some
Objectionable clauses, it has remained dead letter.
With these 'obstructions removed, Florence and'
ruscumbia would be at the head of navigation !;
now. il is thirty miles below, in Mississippi The
Florence Gazette thinks that Congress should aid
in the natter as the Tennessee river is entitled to
fair Share in the appropriations made Tor the'iur-
provement Of the, Ohio and other western streams
MEETING AT HUNTsvLLE.--A public meeting
was held at Huntsville GA tie 9TH inst, to receive
the report of the delegates from Madisonsoounty to
the Memphis Convention. Gov. Clay and A. e.
Mills, Esq, addressed, the meeting, eongratula ting
it upon the action of thai body, and its important
influence upon the extension of the Georgia and
South Carolina Railroads through North Alabama,
via Huntsville to Memphis. Resolutions in favor
or.the convention to be held at Huntsville on the
26th instant TO promote this enterprise were adopt
ed and committees Of arrangement appointed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
A Cheerful Giver.

How is it, Betty" said an elder of the
church to poor woman in Wales, who was
always observed TO contribute something
whenever a collection was taken; show is
it? always see you drop something in the
plate? Where do you get it"
ooh, sir, do not know" she replied
" The Lord knows my heart and good will
to his cause and somehow or other, when
collection is to be made, am sure to
have my penny before me; and when il
comes, put it in the plate"
Well" said he,"you have been faithful.
in little take this sovereign, and do what
you will with it,"
"a sovereign, sir !' said she; d" never
had so much money in my life as sover-
eign! what shall do with it 7"
~ dare say you will find means of spend.
ing it," said he, " if your heart is devoted
to the Lords cause"
Soon after this man came round to so.
licit subscriptions for some benevolent OBJ.
iect. He went to one of the elders who
gave him half a sovereign, and another gave
him five shillings, both of which were re.
garded as very liberal donations. Not lik-
ing to pass by any member of the church,
he asked this poor woman what she would
dot
Put my name down for sovereign"
A sovereign - said he; why, where
did you get sovereign from p
ooh, sir" said she, 81 got il honestly
put my name down for "a sovereign"
She gave him the sovereign, and in about
two weeks from that time, she received a
letter from Doctors Commons, informing
her that friend had just left her one hun
dred pounds. "There is that scattereth
and yet increaseth; and there is that with
holdeth more than is meet, but il ,endeth to
poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat,
aud he that watcreth, shall be watered also
himself"-Proeerbs tx. 25, 26.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
Plague Scenes at Constantinople

After waiting little while in large dir
ty ante-room, during which there was scuf.
Hing and running up and down of priests
and deacons, who were surprised and per-
haps little alarmed at a visit from so nu-
merous company of gentlemen belonging
to the British embassy, we were introduced
into large square room, furnished with a
divan under the windows and two sides OF
the chamber. This dyan was covered with
rough sacking ofgrey goats hair-a stuff
which is said not to be susceptible of the
plague; and people sitting on it, or on
the bare boards, are said not 10 be "com-
promiSed''-a word of fearful import when
that awful pestilence is raging in this neg
lected city. When any person is comprom-
ised, he is obliged to separate from all So
ciety, and to place himself under strict
quarantine for forty days, at the end OF
which period, if the fright and anxiety have
not brought on the plague, he is received a.
gain by his acquaintance. Dealers in oil
aud persons who have an open issue on their
bodies, are considered secure from the
plague, as far as they themselves are concer'
ned but, as their clothes will convey the
infection, they are as dangerous as others to
their neighbors,
There was an old Armenian, who whether
he considered himself invulnerable, or whe.
Their poverty and misfortune made him reck
less, do not know but he set up as q
Plague-doctor, and visited and touched those
who were stricken with the pestilence.-
Whenever he came down the street, every
one would start aside and give him three
or four yards space at least. Sometimes
he had men who walked before him, and
cried to the people to get on. of the way
As the old man moved on, in his long darl
robes, Stunned with such horror by all, tn,
mind was awfully impressed with the fearful
nature Of the disease for if the Prince o
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
nlisfrllanceus.
THE LITTLE BLIND GIRL.
BY JOHN II. WARLAND.

In one of my evening rambles about the
village, | came, for the lhousandlh time,
upon the old church yard. 1t was the close
OF one Of those enchanting days, known
only to our New England climate, when
Summer aud Autumn, minging their balmy
bfeaths into an atmosphere of almost Ely
sian soitness, seem to embrace and smile
upon each other with unwonted sweetness.
The rays of the setting sun glanced, with
. their arrowy light, from point to point, gil
ding every tombstone and mound, aud mo-
dest shaft, with briliancy as dazzling and
golden, as if it were an irradiaton from the
confines of the better land.
As threaded the little avenues of the
sacred enclosure, and marked the crowded
slabs and decayed stones at tie head of the
graves of the village dead, could not avoid
giving utterance to the feelings which the
spot and the season were so well calculated
to inspire. Strolling leisurcly along the
well-trod paths, now stopping to pluck de-
caying flower, or to declpher an inscription
upon some moss covered stone, l observed
the old sexton at his customary abors with
his spade. Near him stood a modest slab,
OF virgin Wilderness, which he seemed to re-
gard with more than ordinary reverence, as,
pausing from his work and wiping the sweat
from his forhead, he leaned upon his spade,
TO direct my attention to it. "What grave
is that, my good frend," said l., around
which the dropping wild flowers cluster SO
beautifully They seem to lnger near il
as though they were the peculiar guardians
Of the'sDot, and were 10th 10 breathe their
last incense offering to the sleeper below,
and surrender their holy trust"
THAT simple slab," said the old man,
sis one of the few-pardon me for saying
so--that love to stop in my labors to gaze
at. 1t records the name of her who is
known as the Poor Blind Girl Just stoop
down and read its inscription"
81 did so, and read upon the little white
slab the following simple and touching in
scription--
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
Sailing Hay.

We have often warned farmers against
sailing their hay too profusey. No more
salt should be put on hay, than animals
would voluntarily consume while eating it if
the salt was given to them separately. We
are astonished to find, in valuable agri-
cultural journal, advice to add ten or twen-
ty quarts Of salt to a ton of clover hay,
which will aid in preserving it, if rather
green.
The largest quantity-twenty quarts to
the ton-would be about twice the amount
given to horse in year, at the usual al
lowance of an ounce per day, or half
pound per week. Four quarts Of salt tn
ton of hay, is as much as animals common
ly consume when they have their own
choice. Hay is greatly injured by the use
of large quantities of salt to save, when put
into the NOW only partially cured and in
some cases diseases and death among stock
have been the consequences of too liberal
use of salt as preservative. How would
man like butter with four ounces of salt to
pound, in order to save it without the
trouble Of working out the buttermilk We
have been particular on this subject, as deal
ers inform US that much hay brought to this
market is injured by oversalting. for the pur-
pose of saving it when housed too green.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
The Crust of the n.

The following extract we take from Dr.
Silliman's Journal, showing his opinion,
that a ia certain depth below the earth'S sur
face, the whole is heated mass of matter,
in such complete fusion, that it is even
tossed by subterranean winds, which find
vent in the cra,ers of Vesuvius, Mount
Blanc, Orozimbo, &c. This is grand
speculation, sublime in the effect it produ-
ces on the mind, whatever may be the sup
port afforded to it by truth. In these mat
tiers we prefer that strictly scientific men
should be heard. Dr. Boynton, in late
lecture on Geology, in the city Of New
York, stated that the present condition OF
the earth was the result of entire chemical
sction, which at once reduced it to mass
of ignited, liquid matter, of which the pres
ent crust of the earth was produced by cool
ing, which he calls the Granite work.
q As this crust gradually cooled off, il
contracted upon the melted mass within,
and by means of this contraction, it either
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
The Woman.

The man who stands upon his own so;,
who feels, that by the laws Of the land in
which he ives--by the laws of civilized ma
tions-he is the rightful and exclusive own
err OF the land which he tills, is, by the con.
sntution of our nature, under wholesome
influence, not easily imbibed from other
source. He feels, other things being equal
more strongly than another, the charac-
ter OF man as lord of the inanimate world.
Or this great and wonderful sphere, which.
fashioned by the hand of God. and upheld
by his power, is rolling through the heavens,
portion is his; from the centre to the sky.
II is the space on which the generations be-
fore him move in its round of duties and
feels himself connected by visible link.
with those who preceded him, as he is, also,
to whom he is to transmit home. Per-
haps his farm has come down to him from
his fathers. They have gone to their last
home but he can trace their footsteps over
the daily scene of his labors. The roof
which shelters him, was reared by those to
whom he owes his being. Some interest
ing domestic tradition is connected with ev-
cry enclosuere. The favorte fruit tree was
planted by his fathers hand. He sported
in his boyhood, by the side of the brook,
which winds through his meadow. Through
that field, lies the path to the village school
of his earliest days. He still hears from his
windows the voice of the Sabbath bell,
which called his father and his forefathers
to the house of God ; and near at hand is
the spot where he laid his parents down to
rest, and v here he trusts, when his hour is
come, he shall be dutfully laid by his chill
dren. These are the feelings OF the owner
of the soil. Words cannot paint them gold
cannot buy them--they flow out of the
deepest fountains of the heart thes are the
life-sprngs of fresh, healthy generous ma
tonal character.-Eduard Euerett.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

The LLAMA AND ALPAoA.-A communi-
cation has been received by the Paris Acad-
envy of Sciences, from M. Christian Bona
foux, giving an account of the attempt
made, by order of the King of Holland, 20
acclimatize the llamas and alpacas Of Chill.
Four years ago, thirty-four Of these animals
males and females, were imported into Hol-
land, and put into the Royal Park, Sche-
vinigen, near the Hague, wher they have
propaga ted freely. The climate does them
no injury, and they merely seek the shelter
prepared for them when the snow is on the
ground
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

NOVEL PETs.-A correspondent Of the
Boston Journal, writing from bingham,
Mass, which place he has visited on pleas
ure excursion, says:
We took the younger members of the
party to visit West River Iron Foundry,
and the pond near it, and Miss Thomas
petS-the fish and turtle in it. This child
of nine years, has fed these fish four years
with bread. She was at first amused by
throwing the crumbs into the water when
she eat her meals on the stones of the bank,
and seeing the fish dart for them, she took
an interest in the fish, and has fed them
regularly ever since. Strange as it may
seem, they know her voice. On our re-
questing her 10 feed and call them, she did
SO, and called "turte, turtle, turte," several
times; directly we could see the turtles
popping their heads up over the pond, then
SWIM to her and take the bread from her
hands The fish did the same; several
hundreds of which, consisting of large black
pouts, six or eight inches long, sinners and
minnows of all sizes, focked around her,
perfectly tame. The turtles were Of two
kinds, "snappcrs," and the common yellow
spotted ones.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
Grating.

There is, in the ne!ghborhood of Ham
burg, an apple tree, which excltes the as
constituent OF the curious. 1t bears two
hundred aud iiy-six different kinds of APP
pies. 1t will bear three hundred, and the
gratis have not yet all taken. The proprie'
tor of the tree, which is perhaps the mos
singular in the world, has affixed a ticke
to each branch, to indicate the quality o
its fruit. This ingenious mode Of grating
would not have suited the Minorquins, wh'
were pious even in their agriculture. The
English have taught them the use OF graft
ing their trees but when the island wa
restored to Spain, they left off, saying
God Almighty knew best how trees ough
! 10 grow"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
fV' The great Water Wheel at Pate

~ The great Water Wheel at Patter-
son, N, j., manufactured at the Union
works at Patterson, for Don Rubio, cap
talist and manufacturer in Mexico, for his
factory at Queretaro, is to be taken apart
this week to be shipped 1t measures Sc
feet in diameter, or 200 feet in circumfer-
ence, being the largest wheel in the world.
except one in Scotland. 1t has 16S buck
cts, & feet long, and its weight, including
the cog-wheels, for regulating the speed, is
near 200 tons 1t will make two entire
revolutions per minute, and its power is
that of 100 horses.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
OUR LITTLE BOY.

When the evening shadows guther
Round about our quiet hearth,
Comes our eldest boy untous,
Bending hulLly to The earth;
And with hands enc.aspeh tightly,
And with meek eyes raised above,
his is the prayer he Offers nightly,
To the Source of light and love
" Bless my parents, . my Father,
Bless my little sister dear;
While gently tuke my slum5crs,
BE tiny guardian angels near.
Should no mornings dawn e'er greet US,
Beaming brightly from the skies,
Thine the ego OF love to meet me,
In the paths If Paiadise."
low glad good night" he gives Us,
And he seals il with kiss;
Nousht ofeurihly sorrow erieves US
In an houI so full Of bliss.
Now our arms about him wreathing,
One fond kiss beiure lie sleep:
SooG we hear hIs gentle breathing,
In a sluInber calm aud deep.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
1)ortrp.
From tho Knirkorbo eker Magazine.
THE GRIST MILL.


The Grist Mill stands beside the stream,
With bending roof and leaning wall;
So old, that when the winds are wild,
Tho miller uembles lest il fall
But moss and ivy, never sere,
Bedeck 1t DER from year to year.
The dam is stoep, and weeded green
The gates are raised, the waters pour,
And tread tho old wheels slippery steps,
The lowest round forevemorc;
Methinks they have a sound ofire,
Because they cannot climb it higher.
From morn till night in autumn time,
When yellow harvests load the plains,
Up drive the farmers to tho mill,
And back anon, with loaded wans;
They bring wealth of golden grain,
Aud take it home in meal again.
The mill inside is i'm und dark;
Rut pceping in the open door
You see the miller fitting round,
And dusty bags along the floor;
And by the shan and down the spout,
The yellow meal comes pouring out.
And all day long the winnowed chaif
Floats round it on the sutIy breeze,
And shineth like u settling sv urn
OF golden winged and beted bees;
Or spai ks around blacksmith's door,
When bellows blows and FORCES roar.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02
One of our finest and brayest officers

One Of our finest and bravest officers who
have lately fallen on the embattled plains Of
Mexico, and one that obtained early and dis
tinguished promotion while cadet at West
Point, being importuned by higl-splrited
and reckless companion to drink with him
the enchanted cup and chided for his cow
ardly refusal, simply replied, my mother
would not wish me to."-Myor Noah.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

The Pittsburgh Mercury, recording tho
marriage Of Miss Holmes, President of
the Martha Washington Total Abstinence
Society," to a MIR. Andrew Horn, appends
the following:
"Fair Julia lived temperance maid,
And preached lie beauties night and morn,
But tul her wicked neighbou said
She broke her pledge and took a Horn"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

+This little sketch by no means creation Of the fancy
The main features Of it, Of eusihat which represents
CId as tearing away tbs andagcs from her that shG
might sec her mother the first restored
,sh-ura true 10 tho iotter The child whose hopes
thus suddenly ecpsod and bighted in her OF
seeing hei mother, resided far from Worcester, huss
and her parents still living
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

/" 1t is sad tale" said /, as the old SEX
ton ended his recital, "and if you will
pluck me flower from her grave l will
cherish it till its cup closes, aud withers in
death, as symbol of the sweet girl who
sleeps beneath the sod upon which it lavish
es its fragrance."*
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-02

During her performance of this little air,
Mrs Revere, who had thus been the inno-
cent means OF giving fresh vibration in the
tenderest chord in her childs bosom, turn
ed her eyes away to conceal her emotion. -
When Clara had concluded, she rose with
one Of her sweeteot smiles, and threw her.
self into her mothers arms.
"Oh, mother, when will it bel When
will the day come you have so often prom.
sed me that shall look out Oh the green
world of which you speak, and admire its
beautiful things and its flowers and the gay
birds that slug so sweetlyi Every thing
can see but me-when will il come! Soon,
soon, will it not. mother 7"
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-18
MORRIHE ,0l/E

NNTHEREAS William McVicar and Eliza.
" beth McN Icar, his wife, did on the 22d day
OF May, in the year Of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and forty SIX, in order to secure a
certain sum OF money therein mentioned executed
under their hand and seal to one Daniel Makoncv
(both parties being residents of the town of
Brighton, county of Racine and state of Wiscon-
SIM a certain mortgage, which mortgage w+sre-
corded IN the office OF the Register Of Deeds of
Racine county, and state of Wisconsin foresaid
on the twenty third (23d) day of May in the
year ct our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
'oriy SIX 1850 AZ four O'Clock in the afternoon
OF SAID day, ia Vol. F. OF mortgage, at pages one
hundred and nine (09} and one hundred aud ten.
,Il0 And Whereas on the twenty sixth (26th)
iay OF January. in the year of our Lord one thou.
5 nd eight hundred and forty eight GlS4Sl for
valuable consideration the sand Daniel Mahonev
duly ASS gued the said mortgage to Volney
French, VINO is now the lawful owner thereof
uron which SAID mortgage there is claimed 10 be
due, at the date olthjs notice, the sum Of forty
three dollars and twepty eight cents lSl3.2S)
Now therefore default having been made in the
pa" meHt at the balance of principal and interest
moneys due upon - ID morris gage, and no proceed
ing n law having been had to recover the same,
notice IS hereby given, that BY virtue of a power
Of sac contained ia said mortgage and in pursu-
ance e The st'tute in such case made and nrovi.
ded, will lie sold at PUBLIC AUCTION
by the Sheriff, or under Sheriff of the county Of
Racine, or by he party or his attorney. TO the
highest bidder, at the DURKEE HOUSE,
kept by D. l.. NJ Kinney, in the town of
Southport in the county Of Racine, and state OF
Wisconsin aforesaid, on the twenty eighth day of
July, y. ID. l-49, at ten O'Clock, \. NJ. of said
day. the premises described in said mortgage or
much thereof as VIII satisfy and discharge said
principal and interest, moneys and costs, 10 wit:
All The following pieces or parcels of land, lying
and being in the town OF Brighton Aforesaid, viz:
The west half Of the north west quarter, and the
ives; half oil the south west quarter Of section
thirty SIX 1867 in township two ri north OF
range twenty T"Ol cast, containing one hundred
md sixty acres more or less, of land subject TO
sale at Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory.
Dated Southport, April 18th, lsl9.
NOLNEY FRENCH, Assignee
CHiTFIEID * FRENCH, Attys.
Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-18

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