Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1851-11-26

cupation of men in the United States, is near.
ly in the following proportions:
No. engaged in internal navigation, 3a,o16
&C " on the ocean, 5000
* g the learned professions, G5, ,255
' commerce, ll9,607
manufactures, 7aI, ,749
agriculture, 3,719,95I
Thus it will be seen that those who are en-
gagged in agriculture, three and half times
greater in number than those in all other di
visions. The agriculturists, consequently,
have the physical and numerical power and
can, at any time, control every government in
the United States, and give tone to public opin-
ion. But do they? No, indeed for however
powerful they may be in number, they ere
weak in influence, and this arises from the want
of proper education. The sixty.fve thousand
hundred and ffty-Gve engaged in the learn.
ell professions, intellectually stronger than
the three millions seven hundred and nineteen
thousand nine hundred and ffty-one engaged
in agriculture, and therefore rule them. If it
were not so, seven -eighths OF the Offices in tie
country would not be held by lawyers and doc
tors nor would all the colleges and high
scools be endowed principally for the benef,
of the learned professions.
Farmers, when will you arouse yourselves 20
the dignity and importance Of your calling, and
elucate yourselves to the height Of intelligence
which will make you the rulers instead Of the
ruled of other professions I? There is surely
nothing to prevent this. if you will only be
true TO yourselves.-Agriculturi
FLAX Corros-S. J. Kellogg of the firm Of
kellogg & Brothers, has just returned from
Boston, with, trust, his health fully and firm
ly re established.
Mr.. X. has brought out some fine specimens
Of NJ Claussen's flax cotton, on which article
much has been recently published. have
examined this material carefully, and am
Il.
complish a revolution, political, social, and
fiscal, covering all the varied interest which
now rests upon the cotton bale. On these it
is not necessary at present TO expatIa'e, for
every realer Of mine trace the problem to
solution for himself, at leisure.
Briefly. let me say, that this is the fax stalk,
after the ripenng of the seed, converted by
Claussen's process, in thirty minutes, into
substance resembling cotton more than any
thing else, but Of longer staple and greater
tenacity Of fibre.
When | say that this article, in a state fit for
spinning, can be offered at FIVE cents per pound,
besides what is made from the seed, every man
can Judge for himself the deep pecuniary in
terests which the great central belt Of Pennsyl.
vania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri,
has in this discovery.-Cist's. Advertiser.
ia The Grand Gulf. mississippi Gazette
says:
! "Mr. E. Conklin. Of this place, has in his
possession, potato, which for size and weight,
/ we have never seen equalled. Its length is
about twelve inches, circumference twenty inch
es, and weighs seven pounds AMI four ounces.
/ Beat this, who can"
To TAKE INK oUr OF LINEx.-Take a piece
of tallow, melt it, and dip the spotted part o
; the linen into the melted tallow-the liner
may be washed, and the spots will disappear
: without IN uring the linen.
5 ia All roots should be excluded from th'
: light during the winter, and kept in as low
g temperature as can be made convenient withcu