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desires, and we should very soon have, not the
great conflict long predicted between free and
slave labor, but terrible conflict between white
labor and black labor. Applause Let our
Southern labor system be overturned, and there
will soon be negroes enough to be got rid Of We
will send you here in the North YOUR full and equal
quota; You will not be suffered to complain of your
share. Laughter. The unemployed slaves will
be found among you in sufficient numbers to COM
pete with you at your wharves and your docks.
and in every branch of labor in which white people
alone are now employed. Mr.. Lincoln is too care
iul to allew them to come into his own State,q1d
Ior TINS reason, we shall have to send you in New
oTE one million and half as your proportion,
ana l5O,OCG for Abraham Lincoln and the people of
Illinois, Laughter and applause.
IMPORTANCE OF SALT IN AGRICULTURE.
If we should ask why so enormous a quantity of
this inestimabe gift of salt is distributed through
out the earth; why threefourths of the surface of
the planet designed for the home of man is covered
with it; the answer would be-in order to preserve
the work of nature to enable man the more readily
to sustain himself and to make him wealthier and
better. 1t has become indispensable condition
for the existence of man and his civilization. In
all organic beings we meet with two processes
that of life and that of decomposition-the latter
beginning its full activity after the former has
achieved its end, at the moment when organic be-
ings are dissolved into those constituents from
which the plant was formed and nourished.
IL, however, we intend to check, or at least de-
lay decomposition, we must employ acids, for we
mighty barrier against the immeasurable mass of
water becoming putTid; we know that stocks
of flesh, grease, &c, are preserved by the appca
tion of salt; that cabbage-water acids in general,
and kitchen salt, are the means employed by the
agrculturist against septic diseases in domestic
animals, and against diseases of the mouth and
feet. The separation of milk and deposite OF meat
will be increased by the application Of SALT thus
forming an essential means for the promotion of
cate-raisng. By the application Of SALT the
fruits, especially wine, will become much better;
and even the ancients were in the habit OF throwing
salt on their grounds, their vineyards, and fruit
trees. Agricultural chemistry informs US that the
simplest combinations through which nourishment
is conveyed to plants consist in acids, alkaes and
alkaline substances. Animal chemistry shows that
free muriatic acid and kitchen-salt form the prnci-
pal constituents of the contents of the stomach.
In a French prize paper, by DR.. Desaive, on the
manifold advantages of the use of salt in agricul-
ture the following results have been laid down by
the celebrated French veterinary surgeon, Gro
gniez:
Common salt serves a preventative of the fer
mentaton and heating of hay, which has been
heaped up in large stacks during wet weather.
Forty quntals of hay require fifteen pounds of salt,
to be strewn among it in alternate layers. This
effect is much better shown in straw, which, if in
tended to be used fodder, by being mostened
with salt water may be preserved for a long time,
when it can be given to cattle instead of hay-a
method in among the anCients. Leaves of
trees, when put in bitches with salt, may be pre-
vented for long time from putreiactive termenta-
tiOn and will even make good forage. Intelligent
farmers of the Mont dOrIvonais are in the habit of
thus preserving their vine leaves fodder for goats
Fodder of inferior quality for instance straw, or
other kinds, soaked and beached by rain and sun,
cured too late, or become woody, may be rendered
more palatabe and easy of digestion by being
sated. pound of salt in three quarts of water is
required for quintal of bad hay. The sharp taste
which the milk of cows usually assumes in
quence OF beets, turnips and white cabbage being
continually fed to them, can be removed by sailing
those vegetables. In Flanders, common salt is
] I h., 4, hnr
and thus prepared will not be dangerous to the
/ animals. The same application may also be made
to nay newly harvested, to prevent injuries when
it may become necessary to feed such hay, the mos-
ture of which has not been fully evaporated.
Though the bad qualities of dusty, muddy, or
| mouldy fodder after having been washed thresh-
! ed are not entirely removed, yet, by giving a
sprnkling of salt water they will be diminished to
| tage to the farmer whenever he may be in want OF
! appropriate fodder. BY means of salt, such water
as otherwise could not be used for cattle for drink
ing, will be rendered proper. The great advantages
to be derived from common salt with regard to the
health of cattle, have been clearly shown by many
experiments made by that learned and celebrated
agricuIturist of Alsace, NJ Boussingault. Cattle,
| by being fed with salt receive soft and glossy
skin their digestion and appetite are in good or
der, and they increase in flesh and strength. Cows
thus fed yield much milk, while those treated other
wise have dull SKINS with rough hairs, exhibit less
appetite, produce n small Ter amount OF neSh, ana
Of milk. Manure from cattle fed with salted fod-
der is also ofa better quality. Finally, manuring
with salt will Danish MOSES and hurtiul parasitcal
plants from meadows United States Patent Office
Report
CHARLES DIcKENs' Country HoUsE.-It is an
nounced that Dickens is about to dispose Of Tavs-
took House, London, and retire altogether to his
pleasant retreat at Gadshill. The latter residence
has been the remote cause of all the great novel
lists domestic Woe In his boyhood, Dickens lived
at Rochester, Kent, his father being then employed
in the Navy Yard at Chatham, contiguous to Roch-
ester. The scenery in the immediate neighborhOod
had an unspeakabe charm for Dickens. He de
scribes portion of it in early chapter of the
PickWick Papers. As he advanced in life and be-
came familiar with Shakspeare's Henry w., Gads
hill in the vicinity of Rochester, acquired specia
interest in his eyes, and he registered VOW, that
if ever he became rich, he would build house
there. But by the time he had obtained possession
of the means of realizing the object his heart
Mrs. Dickens had become so attached to LOndor
life that she positively refused to go into the
country. 1t was in vain that Dickens expostualed
entreated, and explained how difficult it was fol
him to write in London uninterruptedy, exposed,
as his popularity rendered him. frequent visitors
Mrs. Dickens intexible. Ultimately, Charles
Dickens went to the new country house, acCOmpa
MED by one of his daughters, and for her sake in
vted his sster-in-law and a mertorious young ac-
tress to become inmates of their dwelling. 1t was
not long before this arrangement became a subject
of serious uneasiness to Mrs Dickens. The ''green
eyed monster is said to have possessed her, and
thence arose those serious Misunderstanding which
led to dissolution of the marriage compact, and
the complete severance Of Dickens from London life.
LADY FnANKIrX AND the NEw FORK WoMAY's
LIBRARY.-Lady Franklin is still in New York. and
having intimated the pleasure it gave her to be
hold the working Of such institutions as are de
signed for the benefit of woman, she found on heI
table few days ago the following note:
OCTOBER Is, 1850.
DEAR AND HoyoRED LADY, may, without incur
ring the charge Of hattery, address you in this
wise, for you have endeared yourself to all who
love the purely good, and conferred an honor
! which will endure for all time on the sex you SO
admirably represent by an exhibit ton to the world
of patience, a loving devotion and a high cour-
age, unsurpassed in the history of noble women. Ii
cannot surprise you, then, dear lady, that the
friends of a Vomaa's Library should desire the
honor of a visit from one whose history they mus
one day find upon their shelves to an eX
ample and stimulus to excellence. May | then
ask on behalf of the friends of the Library, the
favor of visit from your Ladyship, as circum
stance which will afford a high qualification, and
one which we may remember with feelings of truly
atfectOnate pride.
Sincerely and respectfully yours,
I ELIZABETH NJ. POWELL
LADY JANE Franklin.
A NOTORIOUS SCAMP.-Wm. f. johnson, alias Nc
Nair, convicted of bigamy in Nansemond county,
Va has been sentenced to four years in the State
prison 1t appears that the career of McNair has
; been various He had served two years in the
same institution, before his last conviction, for
4 grand larceny in Lynchburg. lie was set Tree nj
. teen months ago. since which time he has married
two wives, stolen two horses in Berthe, n. e., at
tempted to commit rape at Gatesville, IN tht
, same State, and received lynching from the cil
zens, served term in Jail for assault and battery
, and perpetrated various other offences OF mlno
nature.
SENATOR LATHAM and family of California, wit
left San Francisco in a wagon, bound 10 New Or
leans travels by what is known as the Southern
route to El Paso and San AntOnio Texas, and as h
, has now been out nearly four weeks, we may sooI
: hear of their arrival in Texas. 1t will be some
thing to tell Of even in this fast age, Senator
= the United States making the trip overland all thf
i way from California in his own wagon.
u u The lands of the Illinois Central railroad com
prise an area covering 4, ,055 square miles, nearly
large as the territory of the State of Connecticut
twice as large as Delaware, more than halt as larg
3 as Massachusetts, about the size the Elec
torate of Hesse- Casse three-ourths large as tn
Grand Duchy of Baden and half large as tn
Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
t The Washington correspondent of the Philade
: phia Pennsyuduian, says: | understand from
good source that the President barely hopes for h
" continuance of peace during his administration.
am told that he fears the issue of secession will
precipitated Immediately after the election, ,withou
waiting for the Inauguration of Lincoln.
re The Watrous land case was again up at Chamber
81 of the Supreme Court at New York on the oath,
an application for a commission to Mexico to tai
c testimony. The motion granted, and stay
10 proceedings allowed until the first of FebruaI
, next.
d In the Washington %. c. Circuit Court on tn
|. 3d. the Court took up the civil of Montgemt