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'Toronto, 10th April, 1854. ) 4 18-ly - 18-ly X ee PUNCTUALI® ¥ 232 2 ROB R OVEN, : ea, "LATE OF PHILADELPHIA) Fashionable Boot and Shoe Maker, No. 63, KING STREET WEST. -- a | to be done in a superior style. on anotomical pri 20-te neainess and despatch. 7 Groceries and Crockery Ware, No. 314, DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, C. W. : CAYLEY & CAMERON, Barristers, &c., &c., Ofise--Cuuron Streut, next door to the Court House, "TORONTO, WILLIAM CAYLEY, MATTHEW CROOKS CAMERON. VANKOUGHNET & BROTHER, Barristers, Attorneys, §c., Office--Cuurcnm STREET, Over *' The City Bank" Agency, two doors South of St. Andrew's Church, TORONTO. Mussrs. R. P. & ADAM CROOKS, Barristers-at-Law, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, WELLINGTON STREET, TORONTO. D. FARRAR & Co., IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Groceries, Wines, Liquors, &c., No. 15, DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, C. W. Poetry. From the N. ¥. Tribune. Too Poor to Pay. we We were so poor when baby died, And mother stitched his shroud, The others in their hunger cried With sorrow wild and loud; We were so poor, we could not pay The man to carry him away. I see it still before my eyes-- It lies upon the bed, And mother whispers through her sighs, "The little boy is dead," A little box of common pine - His coffin was--and may be mine ! They laid our little brother out, And wrapped his form in white, And as they turned his head about, We saw the solemn sight, And wept as little children weep, And kissed the dead one in his sleep. We looked our last upon his face, And said our last " good bye," While mother laid him in the place 'Where those are laid who die: The sexton shoved the box away, Because we were too poor to pay ! We were too poor to hire a hearse, And could not get a pall; And when we drove him to the grave, A waggon held us all: "Twas I who drove the horse, and I Who told my mother not to ery. We rode along the crowded town, And felt so lone and drear ! And oft our tears came trickling down, Because no friends were near: The folks were strangers, selfish men, Who hadn't lost a baby,then. We reached the grave, and laid him there, With all the dead around : There was ho priest to say a prayer And bless the holy ground ; So home we went with grief and pain-- But home was never home again ! And there he sleeps, without a stone To mark the sacred spot ; But though to all the world unknown, By us 'tis ne'er forgot : We mean to raise a stone some day, But now we areto poor to pay. Hliscellanueons. We A Woman and an Angel. © MLIA I 'Is my cashmere vest ironed? I want it and.my white duck pantaloons this eve- ning.' This interrogatory was addressed by a very fashionable-dressed young man_ to his sister, Who was not so fashionably dressed ; in fact,had on only a neat calico. She was putting the band to a beautifully made shirt, which was for the aforesaid fashionably- dressed individual. 'No, Harry, it is not. "You know this is washing-day, and it is hardly dry.' 'There is time enough to dry it by the stove, and I must have it, for I am going to wait on Miss M -to the concert to-night. So don't forget,' and he took his hat and walked out. His sister, for it was to her he was speak- ing, flushed, and it must be told, looked anery; but soon laying aside her work, went out, got the things off the line, sprinkled and folded them; then making a fire in the stove, she put her irons in, and sat down to take a few stitches while they were heat- ing. And while she is doing so, I will tell you something about her,' The young man, her brother, belonged to rather a numerous class. He was a clerk, getting a fair salary. He lived at home, paying no regular board, helping with the expenses of the family. He dressed, as most clerks do, quite fashionably ; wore the neatest made shirts, and nicest smoothed clothes, all of which was done for him by his sister. She took great pride in the ap- pearance of her brother, and bestowed more physical labor in keeping bim looking so nice than he did in return for his good salary. But lately he had become quite exacting, and ordered her in rather a premptory man- ner, and at inconvenient times, to do such things as he had just asked her. She had a great deal to do in assisting her mother with the family, besides attending to his wants; and his demands at times appeared arbitrary. Yetshe neverrefused him. He is not the only one whom a sister's toil has enabled to make a better appearance in the | world at less expense than otherwise could. have been done. These extra calls on her , and want of appreciation of them, ly been made since his acquaintance rtain Miss Mm. He was con- tiful, with the sweetest little hand, not broader than three of his fingers, and so white and soft: and he would glance in- voluntarily at his sister's. hand, which was not so very small and white; and how could it be when she had to stand for hours at the ironing-table, besides sweeping, dusting and making beds, in fact, leading an active and useful life? Yet the comparison would hurt her feelings, and she often wished he would not talk to her of Miss M , for she knew if she had done her duty, her hands would not be so very soft and white, for she had seen her mother scrubbing the steps and washing in the yard, although Harry had told her Miss M said her " Ma had delicate health." The more the young man thought of Miss M , the less he seemed to care for Lizzie, and the more he asked her to do for him. And no matter how much she toil- ed, he never had time to do the slighest favor for her, so occupied was he with his courtship to his angel. Now, to let you into the secret, Miss had something to do with this. M She had learned the character of this de- | voted sister, and fancied her lover would expect something like it from his wife. So she had weaned him from her purposely ; and from the very cause that should have made him think more of her, he actually thought less. He had unconsciously im- bibed the very common idea, that soft hands and fine airs are indispensible in mak- ing a lady. His sister not having either, he felt a little ashamed for her; notwithstand- ing his knowledge of her sound sense and true heart. He was too much in love with a pretty face to reflect if she performed the duties called for by their circumstances, it would be imposible for his lady love to be so. They were very well performed, however, by her mother, who was somewhat auling, wt is true. When at last the young man married his angel, though Lizzie shed tears at their s¢pa- ration, her labors certainly were consider- ably lightened, and her hands had a better chance of becoming soft. She loved her brother, and like a true woman, hoped he would be very happy, and that his wife would keep him nace." This had been her especial pride; and every wife ought to con- sider it aduty. But when ina very little time she saw him wearing soiled vests and crumpled bosoms she very easily knew to whom the blame belonged. He began to look frowning, and speak cross and com- | plaining, and at length was taken very sick. When Lizzie went to see him, he beeged her so hard to stay and give him real ' old time nursing.' She now learned that angels got very tired waiting on 'fretful sick peo- ple who have been ' spoiled' by too much at- tention at home. They were enough to 'kill any with fatigue? And how many eross looks the sister got while attending quietly but constantly to her brother's wants. The old brother-look came back to his face, and he got so much better in one day, that Lizzie offered to stay all night with him. And the angel determined to sit up with her, only lying down to take a short nap--which lasted all night. With this' experience, Lizzie thought that woman make considerably better wives than angels. Their proper place seems to be where there is no care or trouble. Young men, be careful of catching an angel. They are quite numerous. A Pastoral Reminiscence. I was called to stand by the dying bed ofa young Minister of the gospel, who, under the dread power of consumption was gradually sinking to the grave. 'The hectic flush was upon his cheek, his chest heaved laboriously ; and his faint utterance was anon arrested by that painful and hollow cough which medical science can scarcely assuage. Yet his soul was full of light and joy, while the physical system was tortured--a practical proof that the spirit in its strange existence is indepen- dent of the body. He had a few hours before I visited him been apparently dead, but as his wife and mother stood gazing upon his pale face through their tears and fancying that the happy soul had fled into the presence of the Lord, he sighed, and again returned to conscious existence, but he looked sad, this was something new, and his anxious mother asked the reason of his obvi- ous gloom. He replied "when I sunk into that low state, my eyes were opened, and I saw in this room Jovelier beings than I ever conceived of, waiting to accompany me to another abode, their very looks thrilled my soul with joy, and I felt enraptured at the idea of going with them, but they began, to my inexpressible grief, to leave the room without me, and I awoke and found them all gone. This is the cause of my gloom." He had recovered his wonted peace of mind when I visited him, and spoke to me of the vision, as he termed it, with much earnest delight. After conversation and prayer I left him, rejoicing more that he rested with unshaken firmness on the righteousness of Christ, than that he had seen a vision. My attention was called, however, forcibly to the subject of his visitants afterwards. Two days after I left him he died, and in what had been his own pulpit, I improved his death. I learned from the family before I commenced the funeral exercises, that he sunk gradually into the arms of death, and just before he expired he looked up with a smile light- ening his whole countenance and said in a firm distinct voice: " I shall go with them this time mother !? when he breathed his last. | I narrated these circumstances to his people, | and it produced emotions which will never be |forgetten. se Pe A New View of Spirits. The Brandon (Mississippi) Register 'Te ports the following curious sermon, preached | atthe town of Waterproofs, not far from Brandon :--- oa «| may say to you, my breethring, that 1 'am not an edecated man, an' I am not one o' them as bleeves that edecation is necessary fur a gospel minister, fur I bleeve the Lord edecates his preachers jest as he wants 'em 10 be edecated, an', although I say it, that ought not, to say it, yet in the State of Indianny, whar I live, thar's no man as gits a bigger congregation nor what I gits. " Char may be some here to-day, my breeth- eren, as don't know whatipersuasion I am uv. Well, I may say to you, my breethering, that Jam a Hardshell Baptist. 'Thar's,some folks as don't like the Hardshell Baptists, but I'd ruther hev a hard shell as no shell at all. You see me here, to-day, my breethering, drest up in fine close, you mout think [ was proud, but Tam not proud, my br2ethering, and although I've been a preacher uv the Gospel fur twenty years, an' although I'm captain of that flat boat that lies at yure landing, I'm not proud, my breethering. "I'm not a gwine ter tell edzactly whar my tex may be found ; suffice it tu say, it's in the lids of the Bible, an yow'll find it, somewhar 'tween the first chapter of the Book of Gene- rations and the last chapter of the Book of Revolutions, and ef you'll go and sarch the Scriptnres, as I have sarched the Scriptures, you'll not only find my tex thar, but a great many uther texes as will do you good to read, an' my tex, when you shill find it, you shill find it to read thus:-- * And he played on a harp uv a thousand strings-- sperets of just men made perfeck." " Mv tex, betherering, leads me to speak uv sperits. Now thar's a great many kinds of -eperits in the world--in the fust place, thar's the sperits as some folks call ghosts, and then thar's the sperits uv turpen time, and then thar's the sperits as some folks call liquor, an' I've got as good an artikel of them kind uv sperits on my flat boat as ever was fotched down the Mississippi river; but thar's a great many other kind of sperits, for the tex sez: " He played on a harp uv a thou-sand strings --sperits of just men made perfeck.' " But PI tell you the kind uv sperits as is ment in the tex, it's fire. That is the kind uv sperits as is ment.in the tex, my breethering. Now thar's a great many kinds uv fire in the world. In the first place, thar's the common sort uv fire you light a segar or pipe with, and then thar's ca -fire, fire before yure reddy, and fall back, and many other kinds uv fire; for the tex sez: 'He played on a harp uv a thou-sand strings--sperits uv just men made verfeck,' "* But V')] tell yon the kind uv fire as is ment in the tex, my breethering--its HRLL FRE ! an' that's the kind uv fire as a great many uv you'll come to, ef you don't do better nor what you have bin doin'--for ' He played on a harp uv a thou-sand strings--sperits uv -just men made perfeck.' '"' Now, the different sorts uv fire in this world may be likened unto the different per- suasions of Christians in the world. In the fust place we have the Piscapalians ; and they are a high sailin' and a high -falutin set, and they may be likened unto a turkey-buzzard, that fhes up into the air,"and he goes up and up, till .e looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fust thing you know, he cums down and down, and down, and is a fillin' him- self on the karkiss uv a dead hoss, by the side uv the road--and 'He played on a harp uv a thou-sand strings--sperits of just men made perfeck.' : "And then thar's the Methedis, and. they may be likened unto the squirrel, runnin' up into a tree, for the Methedis blieves in gwine on from one degree of grace to another, and finally on to perfeckshun, and the squirrel goes" up and up, and up and up, and he jumps from lim' to lim', and branch to branch, and the fust thing you know he falls, and down he cums kerflummux, and that's like the Methedis, for they is allers fallin' from grace, ah! And-- 'He played on a harp of a thou-sand strings --sperits uv just men made perfeck.' "And then, my breethering, thar's the Baptist, ah ! and they hev bin likened unto a possum ona'simon tree, and the thunders may roll, and the earth may quake, but that possum clings there still, ah! And you may shake one foot loose, and the other's thar, and you may shake all feet loose, and he laps his tail around the limb, and he clings furever, for-- ' He played ona harp uv a thou-sand strings-- sperits of just men made perfeck.' " A New Cure. On board a ship one day, we were stowing away the hammocks, when one of the boys came with his hammock on his shoulder, and, as he passed, the first lieutenant perceived that he had a quid of tobacco in his mouth. "What have you got there?" asked the lieutenant, "a pum boil? Your cheek is much swollen." ; "No, sir," replied the boy," there's noth- ing at all the matter." "O! there must be ; perhaps it is a bad tooth. Open your mouth, and let me see. Very reluctantly the boy opened his mouth, which contained a large roll of tobacco leaf. " Tsee, I see, said the lieutenant; poor fel- low ! how you must suffer! your teeth need cleansing. I wish we had a dentist.on board, but as we have not, I will operate the best Ican. Send the armorer up here with his tongs." When the armorer made his ap- pearance with his big tongs, the boy was com- pelled to open his mouth, while the tobacco was extricated with this rough instrument. « There now my boy!" said the lieutenant, '¢T am sure that you must feel better already ; you never could have any appetite with such stuff in your mouth. Now, captain of the afterguard bring a peice of old canvas and some sand, and clean his teeth nicely." The captain of the afterguard came for- ward, and grinning from ear to ear, put the boy's head between bis knees, and scrubbed his teeth well with sand and canvas for two or three minutes: "There, that will do," said the lieutenant, | |" Now, my little fellow, take some water and ~ | eaten anything with your mouth in sucha | filthy condition, nd When you are troubled in. the same way again, come to me, and I will be your dentist." The lad was completely eured, by the ridicule of this occurrence, of 'the habit of tobacco chewing.-- Captain Marryat. BPs Ss ence ae Sir Astly Cooper, the celebrated surgeon, is said to have received the largest fee ever given for an operation. It was upon an old gentleman 70 years of age, a resident of the West Indies, who, being afflicted, went to England to undergo an operation. It was performed with Sir Astley Cooper's accus- tomed ability ; and upon visiting him one day when he was able to quit his bed, he obsery- ed to his surgeon that he had feed his phy- sician, but not his surgeon. He desired to know the amount of his debt, and Sir Astley replied, " 'I'wo hundred guineas!" " Pooh! pooh !" exclaimed the old gentleman, "1 shan't give you two hundred guineas ; there, that is what I shall give you !" taking off his nightcap and tossing it to Sir Astley.-- "'Thank you, sir," said the surgeon, 'any thing from you is acceptable ;" and he put the cap in his pocket. Upon examination it was found to contain a check for a thousand guineas. ("= An Irishman describing the trading powers of the genuine Yankee, said: " Be dad, if he was cast away on a desolate island, he'd get up the next mornin' and go round sellin' maps to the inhabitants." (<> The way to make a tall man " short, is to ask him to lend you a hundred dollars wa Ata meeting of the unmarried prin- ters, which convened not long since, the fol- lowing toast was drank in silence :--** Wo- man --Heaven reward her, she is always in favor of a well conducted Press." &@ A bachelor advertised for a' help- mate,' one who would prove 'a companion for his heart, his hand, and his lot.' A fair one replying, asked very earnestly, " how big is your lot?' : 8& [introduced a bill for the destruc- tion of worms," as the woodpecker said in a stump speech. fae The King of Dahomey, an African monarch (says a recent traveller,) keeps a drunkard, feeds him upon rum, and exhibits him at the customs, that his emaciated ap- pearance may shame his people from making beasts of themselves. (e A certain Secretary of State being asked why he did not promote merit, aptly replied, " because merit did not promote me." (<> To cure deafness, tell a man you've come io pay him money. It beats acoustic oil all hollow. (<7 Paddy, my jewel, why don't you get your ears cropped? They are entirely too long fora man. And yours too short for an ass, replied Pat. : : (<> Professor Morse, having been called upon for a speech at the Yale Alumni, ex- cused himself as follows: " There is a pas- sage of Scripture, which, applied to the Tele- graph, fully excuses me--' There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their lines have gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world" " . (¢- I am a father's spirit! as the bottle of whiskey said to the Glasgow weaver's boy, when he found it under the bed one Saturday night. oe RZ Like dogs in a wheel, birds ina cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor anJ incessant anxiety, but never reach the top, (<> If young ladies now-a-days did not become women at thirteen, men would have better wives. (<- Any one may doa casual act of good nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. (<> Conceit and contidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. > BH When we are young, we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it Is too late to live as we proposed. _ RECIPES, &c. Remedy for the Founder in Horses. I send you a receipt for the founder in horses, which I have never-seen in print. I have used and recommended it for fifteen years, and so far as my experience goes, it is a sure and speedy remedy:-- Take a-table- spoonful of alum, pull out the horse's tongue as far as possible, and throw the alum down his throat; let go of his tongue, and hold up his head until he swallows it. In six hours time, nomatter how bad the founder, he will be ready for moderate service. -I have seen this remedy tested. so often, with perfect success, that I would not make five dollars difference in a horse foundered (if done re- cently) and one that was not.--Cor., Cown- try Gent. (Go Never a ba full stomach. }it has been running, it can be cured for one put your horse to work with | - For the benefit of those irho have or may mal for a trifle, or give him away; but cure him sound and well. We care not how long dime ; yes, one dime's worth-of muriatic acid will cure the worst case of old. poll evil. in it twice a day till it has the appearance of a fresh wound ; after which it should be wash- ed clean with soap suds made from Castile soap, and left to heal, which it will quickly do if the acid has been used long enough. if it does not get well, apply the acid again flesh is all burned out.-- Prairie Farmer. ers en, Erysipelas. The New Haven Palladium says: " We are able to record another case of the com- plete cure of erysipelas, by the "mple ap- plication of raw cranberries pounded fine. The patient was a young lady, one side of whose face had become so much swollen and inflamed that the eye had become closed and the pain excessive. of cranberries was applied, and after seve- ral changes the pain ceased, the inflammation subsided, and in the course of a couple of days every vestige of the disease had dis- appeared. 'The case occurred in the fami! hereafter have horses that have the poll evil, | or fistula, we would say,--don't sell the ani-| But | +f /your farms the fertility of which the w till it does cure ; for it is a sure remedy, and | he will not fail if it is applied till the diseased | A poultice | .meé to make an application First wash the sore well with strong soap} suds ; then drop eight or ten drops of the acid | of one of the editors of the Palladium, and we can therefore vouch for the truth." Agricultural, Kr, aaa aaa ae Laying out Surfaces. To lay out an Acre in a Circle. First fix a centre, and with a rope asa radius, seven rod, three links, three-eighths long, one end attached to the centre and kept uniformly stretched, the sweep of it at the other end will lay out the acre. For one quarter of an acre, a rope three rods. and fourteen links will be the right length, For one-eighth of an acre a rope of two rods and thirteen links will be enough. Triangle. If you wish a triangle to contain just an acre, make each side nineteen rods, five and half links long, A triangle whose sides are six rods and twenty links. each, will contain one-eighth of an acre. To lay out an Eslipse or Oval. Set three stakes in a triangular position-- around these stretch a rope. 'Take away the stake at the apex of the triangle, which will be where the side of the oval is to come; move the stake along against the rope, keeping it tightened, and it will trace out the oval. A square to contain an acre, or just one hundred and sixty rods, should have ech of its sides just twelve rods, ten feet and seven-tenths long. To draw an Oval of a given size. The long and the short diameters being given--say twenty feet the shorter, and one hundred for the longer--divide the short diameter into any number of equal parts, say ten, and from each point draw a line parallel to the long diameter; then divide the long diameter into the same number of equal parts (ten) and from each point to point where each corresponding link cuts the other, on the outside, and this connect- ing mark will describe the oval or eslipse required:-- Maine Farmer. The Destruction of Trees by Ants. These are not very destructive, yet they sometimes do considerable injury to beds of seedings, by making hillocks among them, and they also infest ripe fruits. Boiling water, oil, or spirits of turpentine, poured on their hillocks, disperses them; and if widemouth bottles, half filled with-water or syrup, be huag among the branches of the tree when the fruit is attaining maturity, ant, wasps, flies, and beetles of all kinds that prey greedily on sweets, will be attracted into them. Mr. Downing, who recommends this as a " general extirpator suited to all situations," says that an acquaintance caught in tis way, in one season more than three bushels of vari- ous kinds, and preserved his garden almost en- tirely against them. A gentleman in Detroit, who was very careful of bis garden, informed me that he had pursued this method of trapping insects with results that perfectly astonished him. He had to empty the bottles every day to make room for more. A very good way of trapping and killing ants is, to besmear the inside of flower pots with molasses, and turn them on their mouths near the hillock ; the insects, will soon assemble inside on the molasses, when they are easily destroyed by a handful of burning straw. -- Weeds. No farmer can afford to produce weeds. They grow, to be sure, without cultivation ; they grow ue on all land, and especiaily rich land, but though they cost no toil, a farmer cannot afford to raise them.. The same ele- ments that feed them, would, with proper cu® tivation, nourish a crop, and no farmer can afford to expend on weeds the natural wealth which was bestowed by Providence to fill his granaries. [am accustomed, my friends, to estimate the Christianity of the localities through which I pass, by the absence of weeds on and about the farms. When I seea farm covered by a gigantic growth of weeds, I take | | it for granted that the owner is a heathen, a heretic, or an infidel--a Christian he cannot | and you undertake to destroy der, cut when green, is harder, yellower, preach, I must- to bring them the é. Itis should not grow at all; but economy to gather them up and carry the to your barnyards, and convert them int manure. You will in this manner restor had drained it. na : Good Butter. : Butter produced from feeding on corn- de worth more by the pound, than when the ¢ are fed on hay. Corn-fodder, if cut green, and well cured, is the best feed f milch cows except carrots. The Cruelties of Slavery. The following authentic sketches of slave: holding barbarity are taken from the 1 and extremely interesting work just me lished by John P. Jewett & Co., entitled, 'Insipr Virw or SLavery; oR, A. AMONG THE Pianters. By. C. G.I sons, M. D." a Ns B. 8, of F. H., in South Carolina, ow a giant slave whose name was Dreac slave was represented to me by one. neighbors as a man of superior strength of body and mind, being nearly seven in height. There were forty slaves on the plantation of B. S., before Dread added to the number; and this nam given him by the new master, on acce his uncommon. physical strength. The next year, Dread was made o of the gang, and the management of the tation was wholly left to bis care. The was well conducted under his supervision, -- and every thing went on smoothly and pros- _ perously for several years. The task of -- every hand was always well and seasonably performed, without wipping. If a fee woman was sick, or unable to accomplish her task alone, her husband of brother was al-_ lowed to assist her. Or if a weak, feeble man could not keep up with the gang his friends were permitted to help bim. ay i a privilege not customarily granted to slaves. The fields of B. S. were now so much more productive than those of others arouud him, that the neighboring planters frequently _ sought advice of his colored overseer, in re- lation to the management of their fart thus deferring to his opinion, and adini that he possessed more practical knowl of agricultural matters than either themse or their white overseers. ee A gentleman, well acquainted with Dread, _ told me that he regarded him not only as_ much the stoutest, but the most intellectual man he ever saw. | oe 'Dread had, the largest head,' he remark- ed, 'I have ever seen,--and I have seen -- Daniel Webster; and his natural abilities -- were not inferior to those of that statesman" Placed in a condition Jess humble than ~ most slaves, he had never appeared so menial -- and timid. He felt and acted more like a free man. He did not always take off his" cap, and put it under his arm wheneve met a white man in the street, or entered dwelling. a ee It was natural that the white overseers on the surrounding plantations should be jealo of his success. And soon it began whispered around the neighborhood, t Dread was so disposed, he might becom leader in an insurrection, = The slaveholders held a conference, and decided that it was necessary for B. ) make an experiment that would test hood of the giant slave, and ascertai could be made as submissive as all should be made, to insure the safety o masters. Among the plans that were su gested to B.S., one was to obtain another -- overseer, and put Dread to work under him -- in the gang; and if he expressed the least objection to the change, to whip him severely, -- and "break. ham We So ee ee A large, tall, stout Yankee was secured -- for a driver, and Dread was ordered to take © his hoe, and perform his task with the other hands. Without expressing the least sur- prise or regret at the loss of his place, or even presuming to inquire why he was to be no longer overseer, he went to work withas much apparent cheerfulness as usual. This was so unexpected that the masters were greatly perplexed. They could really find no fault in the slave on which to predi- cate a charge, and inflict a punishment. His noble, fearless bearing, and stately step, were _ unmistakeable signs that he felt altogether -- too manly and independent for a humble slave; but how to develop his feelings an prove the fact, was the difficult question. There was nothing in his character or con- __ duct that deserved the slightest reproof, -- much less a punishment sufficiently severe to crush his manhood and break his invincible -- spirit. Still, all agree that something must be done. = Se) ee ee Finally, they concluded to prefer charges against him, and punish bim be, or he would not allow the heritage which. / whe