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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-20

yEV Bremen Maiis.-PosT-OFFfcE, New YORK Msy
It, l3oThe rias per L. s. Steamer Washington will br
made This Office Monday the 2sh inst closing q n
AN lmyis 2usI WIN Y. BRADY, PostmsstsG Z
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-20

re- liberal price VIII be paid for copy (eiher
scrip, prnled) Of tale entitled "Ths Lawsuit" pob-
shed in the NewWord in tie year 1912, beginning Of
1913 Or the volume containing ,he story will be pur-
chased Address r. d. H. e CedsrsL up sairs my2o eur
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-20

bremen flBlss-INST-OfffCf.N NEW OxAs MAJ
It, lSo-The ras per L. s. Steamer Washington viii BE-
made op Al ms office Monday the 2eh inst closing q n
AN lnyis 2usI WIN Y. BRADY, Postmsster Z
q Redemption from spectacies.- Pso,; gses.
so~ enables persons 20 Dregerve hsr Natural Sight for
he 70 restore when impaired by age and gaxscs hare
been used for years and 70 Near Sight, oil 10 few
deys weeks OF monlhs, without any pain, injury
and reasonable All diseases Of the eyes ss0
treated. More han th01ssne references given Nore
but paid letters attended 10 Office Dsys-in Boston: Mon
days and TuesdATs a II Winter st. In HsrloFt CT Wed
nesdsy afternoon from TO g. a. the American Hotel; 10
Eew.Yofk Thursdays srd Saturdays from 10 A. a s
Murrsyrf House, Nos ard 7; and In Philsdephs
Eridsv from % ~ a. the Morris House, 1873 Chesurt
my2D 5ns
~ swifler than the Lizhinins.-The feet thsf
JosEs, Of IA ADD-s selling the superb bootx edoes
AID CATERS, al prices which miser would not csvi
IL spreading through the city with uncomfortable rapid
iy. 90 and see II the story IL true.
q Something Worth knowing.-rew peo?s
ere aware that the alkaline Ingredients noceeesy 70 -
used IN the manufacture Of the msjoy vGisee Of sosE -
In heir action, detrimental the skn-csusfng eme
which most annoying, and exposing he pores q ~
especisly after shaving, to the ungasfeed ecnSe
atmosphere, and promoting infamnstosy eence H-
BoeLTs Amols for shaving or wassinz ne IN rE
ed 20 reeiss all effects proceedin< NOS expo~Ss
evcsy temperature a.~xwx
yor sale. wholesale end retail o. A. Q. D. M10eS
10 suiionS ard By shs psopns'o', WIN boS''sS'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

A young clergyman, who had delivered
discourse i'll the place OF an aged brother
minister, requested the opinion Of the lat
ter respecting it.
con-" said he, plainly, " many of the
words you used were beyond the compre-
hension fyour hearers. Thus for instance,
the word Inference perhaps not half Of
my parishioners understand its mean
ing"
Observation-Disclosures !" exclaimed. the
other, "why every one must understand
that
81 think you will not find it so. There's
my clerk, now; he prides himself upon bis
learning, and, in truth, is very intelligent
we will try HIM, Zechaiah-come hither,
.Zecharlah my brother here wishes you tic
draw an inierance; can you do it? %
"Why, Pm pretty strong, bat Johonadal
the coachman, is stronger chan |; III ask
him"
Zechariah went out few minutes &c
look aztec the coachman and returned"
" Johanadab says he has never tried t.
draw an inferance, sir; but he reckon, hi
horse can draw anything the traces vii
hold"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

by twisting, twining and reeling from 100
10 1870 threads per day, of the same length
and quality with the enclosed hank, which
send as a specimen of their work, Tor the
inspection of the curious To complete
this the little pedestrian has to run 1919
miles. This Journey it performs with every
day. An ordinary mouse weighs only half
an ouuse A haIfpenny's worth of oat-
meal, at l5d. per peck, serves one of these
tread-wheel culpits for the long period of
five weeks. In that time it makes no
threads per day, being the average 1850
threads of2 inches, which is very near .
lengths ofthe standard reel A penny is
paid here to women for every cut made in
the ordinary way. At this rate mouse
earns Cd. every five weeks, which is one
farthing per day, or Is. Sd. per annum,-
Take Sd. off for board and allow Is for
machinery, there will arise 6s of clear profit
from every mouse yearly. The mouse en-
pIoyer was going to make application for
the lease OF an old empty house, the dlmen-
sions of which are 100 by so, and 80 in
height, which, at moderate calculation,
viii hold 10000 mouse mills, sufficient
room being left fot keepers and some hum
dteas of spectators. Allowing G2OO for
rent and task masters, $3.50 for the interest,
10000 to erect machinery, there will be
a balance OF eG2 800 per annum
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
am 3r4c an Cities.

In the year 1900, when the first census
was taken. the cities ranked i'll popnIanoi
as follows: Philadelphia, New York, Bos
ton, CharlestoWn, and Baltimore. AT thar
period Chareslown was the 9th city in size
in the Union, and the population was TO-
$50, which is about three ilths of IFS pres
ent numbers. Baltimore only contained
1853 inhabitants, which is less than one
tenth of its present numbers The other
cities named have increased in equal or
greater parpotions. In 1910 Philadelphia
was still ahead, and New York, Baltimore,
Boston, and Charleston, followed in order
Charleston was therefore the 9TH city in i'm
port1nce fifty years ago. In 1910 the same
order was presented ont in 1920 New
York had run ahead Of Philadelphia, and
New Orleans Of Charleston, making The
latter the 9th city in importance. In 1881
the same rank was preserved by the respec'
tive cites Bat in lS40 Cincinnati, Brook
Ign, aud Albany, had gone ahead of Charles
ton, leaving the latter 10 occupy the 9th
place. At the present time, enough is
known of the progress OF the country in
population torender it certain that ST Louis,
Lonisyil, Pttsburg, Rochester, Buffalo,
Troy, Lowell, Providence, Richmond,
Chicago, and Milwaukee, and perhaps some
other places, have eclpsed Charleston-a
city peculiarly favored by nature, and en-
Toying all the blessings of the peculiar in
,tituton in an eminent degree. 1t now
ranks eighteenth or twentith in the scale, &
it is actually declining in population.
New Orleans grew very rapidly until
lS4a, but siuce that period it has shown
symptoms Of decline In l847 the census
was taken, when there was actually less
population than 1910 Mobile has shared
the fate of Charleston-it is perishing o
lhe slave fever. Baltimore, St. Louis, and
Louisville, on the northern border of the
slave States, are nvigor aed by the healthfu
atmosphers Of Freedom. The proportion o
slaves around them is inconsderabIe, anc
they ale therefore prosperous.-Era.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
1orttNlturol.
ANCIENT ROMAN AGRICUL
TIRE.

The last number of the London Quarter
Iy Review contains series of articles Oh
Ancient Roman Agriculture. 1t may be
increasing to compare the method of farm.
ing. two thousand years ago, with that
persued at present; AID, therefore we shall
1--WE ske.ch from the article in question,
Of Agriculture IN the days of the Scipius.
Vhe characteristics of Roman farming
were system, accuracy and great vigilance
against waste. 1t was careful, pains-taking
and garden-like, but exhibited no pro-res
sion; for centuries the farms of Italy were
tiled in the same old fashioned way The
labor was performed by slaves; who were
sometimes worked i'll letters. The farms
generally ranged from 56 to I2a acres
The slaves ploughed; reaped, thrashed, and
did all of the outdoor work and in rainy
weather spun and wove, The buildings,
unless where the proprietor was wealthy,
and had a villa on the farm, were unusaly
Indifferent, not being worth more than two
years rent of the place. The food of the
slaves, as well as their raiment, was of the
coarsest kind.
The Roman meadows were i'll drained.
They were generally moved twice, first in
MAY, and again in August or September
and always watered between the mowings
The second crop was generally mixed with
oak and elm leaves, and used as fodder for
sheep The fist moving produced two
tons to the acre, and sometimes more
Short scythe4 were used. The process Of
hay~making differed in no respect from
what is followed now. The Roman agri.
cultural course was the simplest possible
a crop of grain and faIlow Every veal
one-halI of the land was in grain, one-halI
in iallow. One-thrd Of the fallow was
sown with some sort of green crop to bt
moved for the cattle, and this portion o
the falIow, and this alone, was MANFRED
the result being, that the arabic land wa
MANFRED once III six years, and that perioC
bore three grain crops and one green crop
This method, as we shall see subsequently
wore ont the land finally, and rendered tn,
most productive soils worthless. Grair
was sown in the autumn. Ordinary
pIoughings were nine inches deep. The
plough did not generally turn furrow, anc
the ploughman returned on his own traces
the object, in Roman poughng, being tc
$ il all the land to an even depth No mar
was considered good ploughman, unless
it was impossible to tell whore his plough
had gone. Fallows received three or loul
ploughings during the summer, besides the
seed furrow. The second ploughing wa:
always across the first When wheat had
put out its fourth blade, the ground was
hoed and a second hoeing was given in
the spring.
The mode of harvesting was peculiar
In some cases, the ears of standing grain
were gathered by sort OF comb, cut off,
and carried to the thrashing -four. This
answered well in thin crops. In other in
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
GREEN MOUNTAIN

stances, the grain was cut low, and having
been gathered together, was passed through
combs and hackes, which detained the ears.
These being cut off, we're CARED away sep
arateIy in wicker baskets There was still
another method, where the gram was cut in
the middle by sickle, and, in some places,
it was pulled up by the roots. In the Gaul-
ish provinces a reaping machine was in use,
pushed by oxen it collected the ears of
wheat, cut them off, and dropped the n into
a receptacle. The instrument answered well
in open and even land and many farmers
reaped by it exclusively. The thrashing
was by fail by treading out with cattle;
and latterIy by a machine drawn by oxen,
first introduced from Carthage The grain
was usually winnowed in the primitive fish
ion, by casting it with shoveIs in the teeth
of moderate wind Sometimes, but rare,
Iy,a sort Of fan was employed, Sleeves were
used 10 free wheat from the dust The up
per halfof the straw was used for fodder,
the lower for litter. To burn the stubble
on barren land was considered a good prac-
tice. Manures were Of the simplest kind.
In fact, modern scientific farmer would be
astonished at the comparative want of ma
nures among the Romans, as well as at the
poverty with which they were afflicted.
BY this system of agriculture, the best
lands in Italy came, III time, to be almost
barren wastes. Continually taking off crops,
and rarely returning anything, was as fatal
to the rich soils about Rome, two thousand
years ago, as it has since been to the once
fertile districts of Maryland and Virginia
The earliest period at which we know any
thing respecting the yield per acre, is in the
century preceding the Chrstion era, when
it was stated at about thirty bushels, for
two bushels soWn, or a return Of fifteen for
one. The author who gives this, lamenls
the great falling off in fertility since the earl
ler.tlmes. The deceusion was progressive
Tor, in Cicero's time, Fifty years Iat5r, the
return was eight for one and, by the time
another half century had elapsed it was
only four to one'' The selling price and
rent of land consequently declined, though
the price of wheat had risen from eighty
seven cents per quarter in the earlier times.
to two dollars and fifty cents in the time Of
Cato, and fifteen dollars IN the time ofPliny.
Meantime the expences Of agricultural labor
had not increased, A slave, at all periods,
was worth about three hundred dollars
But the truth was, the land was worken ont,
so that, in the times of the EmperoIs, Italy
raised but little wheat, and Rome had to tie
pend almost entirely on Egypt and Africa
Tor grain 1t is curious fact, but one
proved by abundant testimony, that the
Gauls, general were better farmers than
the Romans reniag BulttjR.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
Popping the Question!

Mr.. EDrToR, AS the following letters
did in fact pass between a lady aud gentle
man upon teader sHbject, send them to
you for publication as they will afford your
readers considerable amusement, and viii
also teach those who are ioDiagy inclined,
TO do up the delicate matter upon scrjptar-
al principles:
LETTER OF TUE GENTLEMAN TO THE LADY
Romans LIST chap. from the 9th to the
10Th verses inclusive: For God is my
witness, whom serve with my spirit in the
gospel of his Son, that without my spirit in
the gospel of his Son, that without ceasng
4 make mention OF you always in my pray
ess, making request, if by any means now
at length might have a prosperous journey
by the will of God to come unto you for ]
long to see you; that | may impart unto you
some spiritual gift to the end ye may be es-
,tablished That is, that may be comfort
ed together with you, by the mutual faith OF
both you and me-"
Please to give me an answer as soon as
convenient Most afectionately yours.
&c.
TO WHICH THE LADY BY LETTER REPLIED
LUKE 18th chapter, part ofthe 18th verse
81 pray thee have me excused. - Yankee
Nation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
Extract from a Letter.
Competence and Health.

LANCASTER, PA, Oct "a, 1917,
My DEAR SIR l know you will have the kind.
ness to bear with me in encroaching upon your time,
while acknowledge lin behalf OF myself and wife,
the obligations feel ourselves under to you in hav.
ing made known certain matters. contained in your
most invaluable Married Woman's Private Medical
Companion 1t has been worth its weight in gold
to me. If express myself rather warmly, you will
see that can not do so too warmly, when inform
you of the sxtent to which have, through it, been
benefited. | will state my situation when | obtained
your book through The merest curiosity look upon
it as one of the most fortunate events of my life
had been married some ten years. and was the father
9fseven children. was long struggling increasingly.
10 the end that might gain moderate competency,
but the results Of my utmost eXertons o. tne end left
me about where was at the beginning u each year;
md that only with the most stinted economy, suli.
cling with barely the necessares Of life. Finally, this
constant effort beginning 70 lave its effect upon
my health: felt less capable 10 endure its continu.
ancc while felt the necessity of perseverance,.
This constant unCeasing struggle on my part was
imperative in consequence of the prostrated cond
lion of my wife with occasional intemission for six
years much of the time confined to her bed, and of
course incapable of taking the charge and manage
ment of household affairs Her condition arose from
,auses Of which was ignorant Oh! what would
have given had l the six years to live over again
What would my wife have given to have been spared
the long days and still longer nights PROSTATE ON
bed of sickness all of which would have been
avoided, bad then seen copy of The MARRIED
WuMAN's PRIVATE MEDICAL COMPASSION
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
Apples for Human Food.

The Importance of apples, as food has
not hitherto been sufficiently estimated in
this country, nor understood. Besides con-
trlbutlng large portion ofsugar, muciage,
and other nutrilve matter, in the form of
food, they contain such fine combination
OF vegetable acids, abstractive substances,
and aromatic principles, with the nutritive
matter, as to act powerfully in the capacity
OF retrgerants, tonics, and aniiseptics; and,
when freely used at the season of ripeness,
by rural labourers and others, they prevent
debility, strengthen digestion, correct the
putlefactve tendencies heterogeneous food,
avert scurvy, and probably maintain and
strengthen the powers productive Iabour.
"The operators of Cornwall, in England,
consider ripe apples nearly as nourishing as
bread, and more so than potatoes In the
year 1901, year of scarcity, apples, in.
stead of being converted into cider, were
sold to the poor and the labourers assert
ed tina! they could stand their work on
baked apples without meat: whereas a po-
tato diet required either meat or fish. j.
The French and Germans use apples ex.
tensiveIy; indeed, it is rare that they sit
down, in the rural districts, without them
in some shape or other, even at the best
tables. The labourers and mechanics de-
pend on them, to very great extent, as an
article Of food, and frequently dine on
sliced apples and bread. Slewed with rice,
red cabbage, carrots, or by themselves,
with little sugar and milk, they make
both pleasant and nutritious dish. If our
friends will only provide themselves with
plenty of choices fruit, we will venture that
not one man, w0man or child, in fifty,
would care for animal flesh to eat. Who
doubts, for moment, that many scro(ul-
Gus and other diseases are traceabe to a
flesh diet 1t is well known that much OF
the meat we cat is in diseased state when
slaughtered, and its effect may be well ina.
glned. Yet our fruit is always in healthy
state, and connot generate disease in the
human body but it has diIuting, purify
ing and renoyating tendency-.Wat0s
Cure Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
NOW 10 Dress Well.

DR.. Johnson, speaking Of lady who was
celebrated for dressing well, remarked
"The best evicence can give You of her
perfection in this respect is, tint one can
meVer remember a0hut sir had 0R." DeIicacy
of feeling in a lady will prevent her putting
on anything calculated to attract notice !;
and yet female of good taste will dress 50
as to have every part other dress correspond.
Thus while she avoids what is snowy and
attractive, everything will be adjusted 50
as to exhibit symmetry and taste,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
Remarkable Wheat Product

The senior editor oftheCincinnati Atlas.
in a letter from ChiIlicothe, says: 81 hear
some remarkable things about the wheat
almost Incredible. A farmer in Beaver
township is reported to have raised in a
small field fifty bushels to the acre
The FayeH Era says that Mr.. Burnett,
in that county, has raised about fifty BUSH
els to the acre These are certainly the
largest wroducts of wheat ever heard Of
But the average yield is IN some counties
quite as extraordinary. A gentleman
writes to the CHlti0ator that the yield in
Stark county is on on average from twenty
FIVE to forty bushels to the acre Stark,
you are aware, is one Of the best wheat
counties in the State. AT this rate, Stark
has raised more than a million bushels"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
Making Mice Useful.

A gentleman in Kirkaldv, Scotland, has
trained a couple of mice, and invented
machinery for enabling them to spin cot
ton yarn. They have been employed about
IL months. The work is done on the tread
mill principle. 1t is so constructed that
the common house-mouse is enabled to
make atonement to society for past offences
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

ToAsr BY A ScHooLMAsrER The fair
daughters Of Amcrca-may they add yir-
tue to beauty, substract envy from freud.
ship, multiply amiable accomplishments by
sweetness of temper, dvidc time by socil.
bIity and economy, and reduce scandal to
its lowest denomination.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

A Durcn SroRY,-I and brother ITonce,
and two Other toys, wash ont hunting next
week, and we drove nine wood-chucks into
a stone heap, and kilt ten out OBJ de nine
before tey cot in"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
sICKLY AND UNHAPPY WIVES.


Ertract Of a Letter from Gentleman IN D'yto"' u
DAYTON, May l, 1917.
CDR. A. NJ. MAURIcEAu-My Dear Sir; The
Married Womans Private Medical Companion for
which enclosed one dollar to your address, came
safely to hand / would not have troubled you with
these few lines but that | am impelled by sense
of gratitude, for myself and wife TO give utterance
to our sincere and heartfelt emotions
"My wife has been perceptibly sinking for some
three years or MORE in consequence OF her great an
gush and suffering some months before and during
confinement; every successive one more and more
debitated and Frustrated her, putting her life in i'm
minent danger, and which was, on the last occasion,
despaired Of supposed that this state OF things was
inevitable, and resigned myself to meet the worst
At this time NOW about two monthsl | heard your
book highly spoken of, containing some matters
reaching my case. On its receipt and perusal, can
not express to you the relief afforded my distressed
mind and the joy its pages impaired to- my wife, on
learning that the great discovery of M. M. Desc
meaux provided remedy 1t opened prospect to
me which little conceived was possible. No pecu
mary consideration can ever repay the obligations
am under to you for having been the means of i'm.
parting to us the matters contained in The Married
Woman's Private Medical Companion. But for
this, ere another year would have passed over my
head in all human probability my wife would have
been in her grave and my children left motheress'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26

W ONE O THE JURlEs.-A man COM
mited suicide on Feather River California,
when a coroners jury was empannolcd-
heard the evidence, and brought in the YER
dict that the man was ga ID fool ~
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-26
THE HAIR.
RECOMMENDATION.
Certificate ofD.. pory, rortemoulh, N. II.

Oortlheate otD, Perry, Portsmouth, N. II.
PoRrsMoUTH, Supt. %, lSi9.
Mr. j. r. Morse, Age5 for Whites Hair Restorative -"
Dear Sill deem i my uty facts respecting
lha netnabe value oiWte's Hair Restorative. Several
years ago amer seven fit of sickness, my wife lost an Of
heaf the scalp appeared diseased and the hair grew
o brash tnd uneven, About year ago by another fit of
sickness, sle lost al of ler hair second Time and for
Ter varlVus application induced TO try the above
mentioned restorative and now, after the use of few
poes her ha mas grown out MS tck as uStrous, and of
as beautiful color ever Furthermore for long time
have been afflicted with neuraeC and other pains in my
head ana have fGund the best external remedy have
eyer lred can lheresre, cheeray recommend It to al
who are afflicted as above as the hest article have ever
seen. Mos resnertfillv yours,