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ford lay before him with lights twinkling
here and there, and Its tall spires rising
high Suddenly stream of fame rose
from his convent high on the darkened
sky, and in an instant y roar loud as the
heaviest thunder burst on the still night
air, and distinctly amid this fearful
sound was heard a sharp short cry of
distress. In moment the whole con.
vent was on fire The trembling monk
dashed down the hill side to the scene
ofwoe. AS he sprung from his horse,
man drew forth from the burning ruins
the lifeless form of Hubert.
The terrified crowd believed that
Roger Bacon had been practising witch.
craft, and without listening to bis defen.
ce, threw him into gloomy dungeon.
For many years he remained in prison,
but at last he was released, and at the
age of eighty lay down in DEATH He
wrote his well kept secret in strange
words in one of his books, and wise mcr
studied long years before they could read
it. He had discovered how to make
guupowder.
The terrible explosion in Oxford, in
1882 does not seem strange to us, for we
know the wonderful power ofgunpowder
but to the people of England at that
time, it appeared to be the work of ar
evil spirit. Thus year by year the world
advances in knowledge, and the children
of 1854 are familiar with many thing.
that were mysterious to learned men 81,
hundred years ago
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ing rich compost, are not the less val.
liable as fertilizers because they lie cons
mon and in abundance on every hand.
T. HoLBRoox.
Btattleboro'. March 4. 1854.
Onions.
GREENSBORO, March l3, 1854.

GEEENsBoRo, March i3, 1854.
REV. s. MORGAN: I noticed id tho
Country Gentleman of this week an ar
ticle from the Middlebury Register,
over the signature of S. MORGAN. Con-
ceiving it was yourself, have taken ths
liberty to address this to you
Your experience in raising onions has
been mine. I raise the Egyptian top
onions" AS to size, they grow much
larger with mo than any other shat /
have SEEN I should judge my crop,
sometimes, would average one foo. in
sirosmGsrssae pa oeisa yIes11sss ssse
1 will tell you how have prepared
my bed. AS soon as the snow goes of,
| COW on at the rate Of six or eight
bushels of salt to tho acre. l put on all
the hen manure can get. and as much
ashes as hen manure. After the ground
is throughly pulverised, I mark it of
and drop the seed. / used to set OUT
each seed right end up with great caro-.
But last year I only dropped it. The
roots struck down and all came UP right,
top frat and never had better crop.
Please send me by express, enough seed
to SOW ono half an acre.
Yours Very Truly,
FRANKLIN BLAKE
Mr. EDrroR Probably Mr.. Blake
did not expect to see his letter to me in
print But l think it too valuable to bo
suppressed. And this for two reasons.
In the first place, some inexperienced
persons say the top onion never grows
large. An cnion one foot in circumfer
ence is about four inches in diameter
large enough. Besides, it is new to mo
that salt and hen manure can be used
with such success l have always used
ashes. And it is new to me that we may
as we'll drop the seeds without regard to
top or bottom being up. l always
thought ifthe root was not down they
would come up heels over hoad. Mr..
Blake's way must be great saving in
work l take it, he makes deep drills,
drops his seed and covers with rake
head, and covers them rather lightly.
Otherwise seed that happened to drop
top down could not turn over. l havc
seen them come in such way that ths
roots held the onion down top and all.
Bristol Vermont s. NJ.
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B1~ Here is a beautiful sentence
from the pen of Coleridge. Nothing
can be more eloquent, nothing more
true:
Call not that man wretched who,
whatever else be suffers, as to pain in
tictod or pleasure denied, has child
for whom he hopes and on whom he
doats. Poverty may grind him to the
dust, obsurity may cast its dark mantle
over him his voice may be unheeded by
those among whom he dwells, and
his face may be unknown by his neigh,
bors-even pain may rack his joints,
and sleep fee from his pillow, but he
has gem with which he would not
part for the wealth defying computa>
tions, for fame filling a worlds ear,
for the highest power, for the sweetest
sleep that ever fell on mortal eye"
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DECLINE OF DRUNKENNESS IN ESGLANB.
Tho London Daily News comments
upon the decline of drunkenness in the
higher classes. believing it to be sspeei:
ally true, with regard to this vice, that
in changes of society the prevalent viees
go out At the lower end -
"Half d century ago, Mr.. Pitt was
kiiUNu to be killing himself with port.
wint, and nobody spoke or thought 81
the catastrophe in tho way We fhould
now if such a thing was happening. Min
listers and NJ P.'s sand foolish and mis-
chievous things in public, aud wss
merely declared to be drunk. G6hl and
other diseases consequent upon excess
were SO prevalent as to make old peopls
Ho$ wonder what has btcome of ,heih.
The spirit decantcrs were brought out
in the evening in the middle ,elass
houses, and the wine merchant's Dili vas
an annual expense to the shop;kesper
which few woald think of now Half
centuty Of Improved cultivation Of MUD,
of Expanded travel of multiplied amuso-
,uents, and, not least, Of a partial intro.
duction of lighter vines, has prodigious-
ly elevated the personal morality Of tho
higher and middle classosn
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ELOQUENT AND True The following
is the conclusion of speech by A. Bur.
lington, Esq. of Massachusetts,, upon the
Douglas fraud;
And now there is land larger than
all the northwest territory-larger than
all the free States, excluding California
lying under the latitude of liberty,
blest with the best rains Of heaven, drain
ed by the finest rivers in the world wait.
ing the advent Of one hundred millions
of freemen, dedicated to liberty by the
plighted faith ofpatriots from the North
and South and New England insn,
Graded in Vermont, and nurtured in the
Northwest under the smiles of freedom,
forgetting the mother that bore bin, un.
grateful to the land Of his adoption, in
tho Senate of the United States, In the
face of the world, with haste, when to
man prayed for it by petition, seeks no
abrogate the language by which it has
been given to freedom, that language Of
the glorious old ordinance of 1888. orig.
inally from the mind Of the author of the
Declaration Of Independence, aud to
doom it TO the woes and agonies Of slave.
ry.
In the name of tho poor man; whose
heritage 1t ISL protest: in the name of hui
manity, l protest Let the Declaration 90
forth from Faneuil Hall /; let il rise from
every section Of the republic from the
land of Henry to the land Of Adsms
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as much as the States Of Vermont,
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island
combined. The expenses of the city
government of Boston exceed that of
the six State governments of New
England! The banking capital Of
Boston, with the recent and contem-
plated additions, will be only one
fourth less than that Of New York ci-
ty, twice that of Philadelphia and
Baltimore combined, and probably
more than the aggregate capital Of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
and Rhode Island.-Iraveller
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JusTUs COBB, Publisher,
BY whom all kinds Of Book and Job Print
In n will bc done on favorable terms.
Law of NeWspapera.

I. Subscribers who do not give express no.
tice to the contrary, are considered as wish
ing to continue their subscription.
II. II subscribers ordsr tho diseontinusnce
or their papers, the publisher may continue
10 send them till all that is due be paid.
Ill. II subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office to which they are
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pers discontinued.
w. If subscribers move to other places,
without informing the publisher, and the pa
per is sent to tho fovmer direction, they are
held responsible
v. The courts have decided that refusing
TO take paper from the office, or removing
and leaving it uncaled for, is prima facie cv-
idence of intentional fraud.
vi. A Postmaster ncglecting to inform a
publisher when his paper is not taken from
the Office, makes himself liable for the sub
scription price.
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[From Graham's Magazine.
The Head and the Heart,
by JOHN G. SAKE.


The Head is stately calm and wise,
And bears princely part;
And down below, in secret lies,
The warm, impulsiye Heart.
The lordly Head that sits above,
The Heart that beats below,
Their several office plainly prove,
Their true relation show.
The Head erect, serene and cool,
Endowed with reasons art
Was set aloft to guide and rule
The throbbing, wayward Heart
And from the Head as from the higher,
Comes all directing thought;
And in the Hearts transforming fire,
All noblcr deeds are wrought.
Yet each is bost when both unite
To make the man complete
What were the heat without the light
The light without the heat
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From the New England Farmer.
Is It Profitable to Fatten Swine In
New England7

The question of the profit Of fatten-
ing swine in the New England States,
was suggested by reading an extract in
the Monthly No. of the Ncp England
Farmer for january, 1854, tskeu from
the Ohio Cultiratoy, and detailing the
results of an experiment projected in
Ohio, to determine how much pork a
bushel Of corn will make 1t appears
from the extract, that S B. Anderson
weighed off 100 thrifty hogs, placed
them in an enclosure, fed them 100 days
with as much corn as they would eat,
and found that they consumed, on an
average, 100 bushels every six days, and
made an average gross increase, per hog
for tho 100 days, of l75 lbs, or at the
rate of II h. each per day; that bush.
el of corn made gross increase of l0l
lbs of pork, or, by throwing off is, to
come at the net weight, that bushel Of
corn makes 8 2.5 lbs. of pork. net. 1t
further appears, that if bushcl of corn
makes s 25 lbs. Of pork, then
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A GREAT kINDNEss.-The royal
family of Great Britain, in 1761, ran
loose about the world, and people did
not know how to treat them, nor they
how to be treated. In the 3" Letters
to Gray" a good story is told of the
Duke Of York, in substance as follows:
When he was at Southampton, in the
summer, there was in the neighborhood
a clergyman, with two handsome daugh.
ters. He had soon wind of them, and
dropped in for some reason or other,
came again and again, and grew ia,
miliar enough to cut a bone of their
mutton. At last he said to the father,
"Miss -, leads very confined life
here, always at home why can't you
let one of them go and take an airing
now aud then with mo in my chaise p
"Ah, sir, says the parson, ''do but
look at them-a couple Of hale, fresh.
colored, hearty wenches. They need
no airing; they are well enough. But
there is their dear mother, poor woman,
has been in declining way for many
years. If your Royal Highness
void give her an airing, now and then, +,
il would be doing US great kindness
indeed !"
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A Fathers Counsel.

Truth will not accommodate itself to
us. my son. but we must conform our.
selves TO truth.
Hold yourself too good to do evil.
What you can see, look ut it with your
own eyes.
Fear no man as much as yourself.
Learn gladly of others and whenever
they talk of wisdom. honor, happiness,
Eight, freedom, virtue, listen attentively
But do not believe at once all you hear.
Words are only words; and when they
drive along so very easily and swiftly ;
be on your guard ; for horses that draw
valuable load, travel slowly.
1t is easy to despise, my son, but tc
understand is far better.
Teach not others, until you have
learned yourself.
Take care of the body. but not as if il
were the soul.
Meddle not with the affairs Of others
but attend diligently to your own.
Flatter no man, and permit none to
6atter you.
Depend not on great men.
Do what is worth reward, but care not
to be rewarded d-Fron, the German.
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B@~ lie al5uo is truly great who
is so by virtue Of intrinsic qualities,
The adroit employment OF arti6ce and
falsehood may for time deceive; bus
that fine intuition that tests charscttt
and worth with inhllable sagacity' vii
reverse the decision Of mere clinlchy
and estimate the man as Nc Is.
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Total Of grain Con-, IL bu. Total gain, 800 lbs.
Averaging the three lot of pigs, the
gross increase was l6 23 lbs. for each
bushel of corn Que of the pigs in the
first lot was killed at the expiration of
the experiment, and his net dressed
weight was found to be IS less than his
gross live weight If then we deduct
10 from the average gross gain of the
pigs, We find their net gain to have been
l35 lbs, or that bushel of corn, ground
into meal and the meal cooked, made
l3t It's, Of pork, net
The late Mr. Phinncy, of Lexington,
Mass. of great and varied experience in
agricultural matters, was celebrated, a
mopg other things, for bis superior
breeds Of swine, and mode of rearing
and fattening them. Ho gave several
communications to the public, showing
that bushel Of corn, fed in the form Of
cooked meal, will make from ~ to Is
lbs. of pork net weight
In conversations with him, he frequent.
ly related to me how he made this
mount Of pork with bushel of corr, and
l have no doubt he knew, with greas ac-
curacy, whereof he affirmed. l have now
before me the records of experiments
made BY several other persons, and they
show that ! bushel of corn ground and
cooked, will make all the way from l2
to l6 lbs of pork, net
Taking tho lower estimate, if ! bush
el of corn makes l2 lbs of pork, then
When pork se. for &c per ill., corn bring, 7ae per bu
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BosroN AND New ENGLAND
From recent statistics published it ap-
pears that Boston has a valuation at
the present time of fnearly three times
that Of the State Of Maine, and about
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TIKI MIDDLEDURY REGISTER,
JOSEPH H. RETT,
Editor and Proprietor.

tYNo paper discontinued until arrearages
are paid, unless at the option of the propre-
tor.
EYAll communications must be postpaid.
lY v. b. Palmer is agent for this paper in
Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.
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p o
Death.
BY SHELLEY.

Death is here, and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death-and we are death.
Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all VIC know and all we fear,
First our pleasures die--and then
Our hopes, and then our fears-and wher
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust-and we die too.
All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves, must fade and perish
Such is our rude mortal lot
Love itself would, did they not.
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The extract does not state the condi-
tion Of the corn fed to the 100 hogs, but
| suppose it was fed whole and uncook-
cd, and perhaps on the ear. Whether OF
not, on the basis of the above table Of
prices, it is profitable to Ohio farmers to
feed corn to hogs, is more than l know
Here in New England, it isnot profit
able to fatten swine on clear corn, un.
ground and uncooked, nor in any form.
if the system Of feeding is loose and
careless one, but shall attempt to
show that with proper management,
we can make pork at profit.
Numerous interesting accurate oxper
imen,s have been made in various parts
of the country, to determine the differ.
encc between cooked and uncooked food
for fattcning swine, and resulting great.
ly in favor of the cooked food. The
late Mr.. Coleman made worry valuable
communication to the Transactions of the
Essex County Agricultural Society, de.
failing various experiments of his in
fatteping pigs upon Indian meal boiled
with water. Here are the results Of
three Of his experiments:
pigs in I days eon bu corn, aud gained % b.sro's
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Supplied with raw material, they will
make from 25 to 80 loads of com
post. measuring 35 bushels each and
richly worth bushcl Of corn each;
say 30 loads, 8ic. 1920
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The following deductions must
made
Worth of pigs at six weeks old, 50
each $500
A bu of corn making IL lbs. of pork,
and the pigs weighing 800 lbs. each,
then have each consumed 20 bu. or
in all 100 bu. at SAC. 84,0O S02
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possess alkaline properties which 60 to
neutralize the too great acidity apt to be
produced in the stomach by ground corn.
An accurate experiment has been made
in Virginia, TO ascertain the amount
of saccharine or nutritive matter in the
corn cob. Ten bushels Of corn and cob,
and ten bushels of clear shellcd corn,
were in separate lots subjected to distil-
lation. The ten bushels of corn aud cob
yielded thirteen gallons of spirits, and
the ten bushels of clear corn eighteen
gallons. Allowing that the ten bushels
Of corn and cob would have given five
bushels of shelled corn, there would be
left as the product of the cobs, four gal
Ions of spirit, or nearly half as much as
was afforded by FIVE bushels of corn.
Having thus stated the incidental but
important considerations connected with
the question am attempting TO deter
mine, lam now prepared TO make out an ac.
count of the prof, Of fattening swine,
based on personal knowledge aud pracs
ticc.
Four early March pigs, Of frst-rate
breed, are placed in pen when 6 weeks
old, or about the middle of April Those
of the same ago are selected, and il all
of one litter so much the better, as the y
will be more likely to live in peace to.
gcther, From about the middle of April
till the first of September, which is about
20 weeks they are kept on light cheap
food, as the wash of the dairy and kitch-
en-, with little corn and cob meal added
after the first TO weeks ; and they
also have the weeds and other green
trash of the garden thrown to them from,
lime to time. After looking the matter
over carefully, have concluded that il
the light mixed food of this period is es
timated as of the average value, per day,
of 8 quarts of corn and cob.meal. that
will certainly equal, and think exceed
the real cost of keeping Eight quarts
of corn and cob-mcal per day, is sc
quarts per week or 50 bushels for &c
weeks, equal to ~ bushels cf clear corn
the price of which we will call s5 cents
per bushel, though the average price Of
corn for ten years past in the region a
round me will not exceed go cents say
then
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When slaughtered the pigs
will average 300 lbs each,
dressed, or will weigh 1900
lbs. the four, worth &c per
lb.
They have prepared 80 loads
of compost, between the
18th Of April and the lst of
Jan, worth a bu. of corn,or
65c per load
Deduct cost OF fattcning
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1854-10-12

IT, 1851 the Native Americans posted the
following hand5il in Philadelphia to excl lie
the Proteslants against tie Catholics, and TO
iniure the election of Governor Bigler and
Judge Campbell. II was base forgery
pretending to come from the Catholics, o'
the purpose Of casting odium on them:
IT CATHOLICS, II
Remember your Holy Secret Church.
Catholics 10 your Posts! You know wha
10 dol
Vote for
Judge CAMPBELL and your other friend
Col. WM. BIGLER.
Down with the Red Republic,
And down with the
Du,chmen attached TO the Red Republic.
Down with W. D. Kelley,
The orangeman's Sou.
gP Q S. tn
Remember your Friends.
MoRIAaTy. HucH CLARK. I
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EXPLOSION AT DANvILLE.

On last Friday morning very serious ac-
cident 10 life and property occurred al the
Montour Iron Works, Danvills. One of the
boilers Of the Rolling Mill exploded, des-
troying about 40 feet Of the building and o
frame dwelling adjoining, in which Two fam.
lilies resided.
OF John Fadey's family, one OF his two
children was carried away with the boiler,
and instantly killed; the other, little girl,
vas found in the ruins dangerously Gu, up,
and is now dying. Three OF the children
Of Barney Mcclure, 10 the lower story
were hurt. Mcclure, himself, Peter Mona
CHAN, and Lawrence Mcbride, who were in
the same house AT the time, were also in.
inred. Charles Search, a boy, died. John
Priest, John Diesinger. Alex Wands, John
Adams, Michael Levy, Isaac Hines, Viii.
liam Butler and Joseph Shuggar. are all
badly scalded aud hur--some OF them dan.
gerously. Robert Woods, Bryan DENIM,
John Miller and Samuel Deiz were slightly
hun. They are still removing The rubbish
as fast as possible, and il is believed the re
are more under il, who are missing. The
boiler is said TO have been empty Of water,
tn which circumstances the accident is al.
tributed The loss to the company is not
known.
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The National Baby show.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 5.-The much talked ol
National Baby Show took place at Spring.
field, in this State, to-day. One kundrsd and
fsceaty children were entered for compeli.
,ioa. The frs, premium for the fines, baby
Of two years old or under, was tea set
with salver, valued at $500; the second,
a tea set, valued a, $500; the third premi.
um, for the finest child under one year,
5000; fourth premium, Parian marble
group.
The first premium was awarded to Mrs.
Remner, Of Vienna, Ohio; the second to
Mrs. Nc Dowell, of Cincinnati; the third, to
MIS- iAfthur Cannon, Of Pailsdelphia; and
the fourth, TO Mfs. Henry Howe, Of Cincin-
natl.
A. letter was received from Fanny Fern,
which was read greatly to the ediicatiou Of
all concerned. Letters were also recei we'd
from Mrs. Swisstelm, Mrs: Crittenden, Mrs,
Mott, aud from Horace Greeley. The letter
thought that much attention. should oe given
10 the development of the human consti,u-
lion, in country whore able bodied men
are sold for $500 20 $1,000. Mrs. Mott
thought the black babies should be admit
ted. .-.
Among the exhibitors there was an old
woman, who came with her ssveu,e enlh
child, and claimed a premium Oh that
ground.
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Fire at Pottsc,Ne.

Pot tscile, October i0.--A very large fire Is
now raging here in the rear nf Cenife sirest
Many buildings are on fire as send off his
despa,ch-9 P. M. All The buildings in the
,rea, Of the Miners Journal office, and all a.
long the Railroad street are on fire. The
office Of the Miners Journal-published by
Benjamin Bannan-and many other buildings
are destroyed.
Several dwellings on Railroad street were
consumed, with four or five stables. The
large book establishment; Of Mr.. Bannan,
was saved without material damage. His
valuable furniture was also nearly all saved.
Mr.. Bannan is partially insured, but the loss
from the destruction of the neuspap er Office
will reach about $4,000. Much sympathy
isexprcssed for him. The FIRE is believed
10 have been The work Of an incendiary.