The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-03

church, aHd high and mighty Indignation
it Was too. Dir. Cheeyer opened the first
vial OF prath "a set forth in the 18th
.chapter Of Ezekiel, which contains one Of
those terrible denuuciations, with which
the RiL.c ahounds, against the oppressor,
and those WhQ hesitate and palterand ''daUb
Sitt qutempered mortar" and, armed
rftfthcse sacred texts he uttered the most
fesFfsl philliric against the Tract So@i-
,efy thai has very lately been pgcnoUnced
against any sinner whether single CT cor
Eorate. Ia Chcever is endowed with
She rarest gift Of tongue, backed up by a
battery Of brain Of thorough culture and
iunensc power. His action IS intense
and rapid, and bis vocal tones various Is
She musical octave; and there he stood,
jp bis pulpit, the sublime persoDjdcation
If moral vengeance. Heseemcd one vast
park Of Bible artillery compressed in it
sle, Illuminating his denuuciations and
hurling his chaiu-lightning with a GER
faulty Of attn and earncstuess 0f purpose
that drew forth thundars Of answering
applause. His sentences are barbed ar
COWS, enextricabc where they strike, and
he wrought up that vast audience 10 an
ocean swell Of Indignation, which, though
il may ebb some, It viii flow more, till
she powerful institution which IS the CO.
iess Of sttack shall "rcmembor tic Door
in his extremity" and no Ioncer take the
part Of the oPpressor against him. John
Gay, Esq, Dr.. Thompson and especially
pF: Tying took up the theme after Checv-
sr, and the righteous anger Of mighty
gen did not flag till the end.
Wandering yesterday down Broadway
aud wondering in that adamautine street,
whare most assuredly the grass don't
grow, what interesting subject I could
scare up for your agricultural readers,
dropped into the Farmers Club, which
llcets every Monday at noon at the Amer
ican Institute. | have had very little TO
ao with a farm since | have lived, except
pne day to be born on one and yet, green
as [ was, | became profoundly interested
in what was said and dcne; IS | am sure
every farmer would be if d faithful trans
cript of the proceedings could be placed
before him. The subject up for discus
s;qq was ''fowers" and small fruits. -
Mr.. Pardee, an enthusiastic dcyotee OF
Horticulture, said great many instructive
and beautiful things about flowers, aud
asserted the prime essentials to a success
full flower garden to be, lst, thorough
drainage, no matter how dry the ground
seemed to be; 2ud, fine compost manure,
instead of the common stable article full
of weed seeds and coarse substances and
Sd, thorough pulverization of the soil, SO
that one fourth of it might be fine as
-four. He proceeded to indicate the best
variety of roses, dahlias, pinks, climbers,
shrubs, flowers, &c, very much as [ in
my profession of letters would advise in
the selection of library. He moaestiy
declined infalibilIity of taste, but showed
the decided advantage Of cultivating &
few of the best varieties, rather than an
indiscriminate mass Of inferior and care
Iessiy selected sorts,
Solon Robinson read I letter from 2
farmer in Maine, who was intensely bored
aud disgusted by his neighbors, becalee
they would insis, on his going to IRA I.
and ruin by reason Of no crops unless he
planted according 10 the changes Of the
moon; and he appealed to the Club to
know if there ever was anywhere in ma
ture, science, or literature any foundation
for the very common belief in the iuGu-
encc Of the moon in planting Affairs. The
Club made merry over the subject, but
declined to admit the moon to any juria-
diction, Mr.. Robinson sad he knew q
man in western New York who never
would lay rail fence in the old Of the
moan, and he believed one farmer il i've
throughout the country, and more than
half of them in some particularly dark
eued localities, went according 70 the
mandates of the moon in tie mana cement
Of their farm affairs.
The topic then took turn as to whcth-
er it was useful to add lime to ashes IS q
fertilizer, and Prof. Mapos gave a very
interesting statement as TO lime and its
uses in connection with ashes As a di-
rect food for plants he said there was
lime enough already Ia good un!eached
ashes; but if it was Intended to supply
the lack of lime in the soil or dec0mpose
pther substances, then ashes needed more
lime than they naturally contain But 1t
makes all the difference ii the world as
TO the condition Of the lime. Chemical
analysis shows the lime in ashes or the
bones of animals or the shells of fish to
pc lime equally with the original lime
rock but the lime Of ashes and bones and
shells is in an infinitely progressed and
superior condition. 1t had entered mil
lions of times into organic life, and mil
lions of times had returned to the soil
so that that sort Of lime is an inftely bet
ter fertilizer, especially as a direct food
for vegetation, than the original lime
stone, crushed ever so finely, and scat
tered ever so layishly over the land. And