he went further. But one look showed him that he lov- made to lighten care; to soothe corroded feelings; to coned her wholly, entirely, undividedly; the sight of her sole the affiicted; to sympathize with the suffering, and agitation encouraged his hope-and advancing to the by her gentle influence, to allay the stormy and conflictback of the sofa, and leaning over it, he said, in the soft-ing elements that agitate the more rugged nature of man! Instead of this, shall she permit her own angry passions Now that you are a woman, may I repeat the request to be the whirlwind that shall raise the storm? The wo of my boyhood? Will you be my wife?" est tone- Miss Eustace spoke not a word, but her eyes met those of her lover; language on either side was unnecessaryboth felt that they loved and were beloved-that they were one forever! Something more than a year after this eventful moment, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey were spending a social evening with their friends, in the same pleasant parlor in which their hearts had first been opened to each other. In the course of conversation, Mrs. Atkins made known the fact, that her cousin, Miss Leigh, was on the verge of matrimony. "I pity her husband," said Mr. Chauncey. man who does this should be disowned of her sex, like those who abandon themselves to any other vicious inclination. An ill-tempered man is a tyrant; but an ill-tempered woman is a monster!" BIOGRAPHY. CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON. This Prince, whose late residence in Switzerland was a source of so much uneasiness to Louis Philippe, and who no doubt cherishes the delusive hope that at no very distant day he will be called upon to sway the sceptre in France, is the third son of Louis Napoleon, brother to the Emperor, and of Hortense Eugenie, daughter of the Empress Josephine, and was born at Paris on the 20th of April, 1808. His birth was announced by the cannon of the Grand Arny along its line, and his name was first inscribed in the register which was to es peror's family-wrote a letter to the "Citizen King," to ask permission to serve in the army as a common soldier, so anxious was he to return to his native land. This application of the enthusiastic youth, as is well known, to our readers, was answered by a fresh act of banishment. This is not the only instance in which the "Citizen King" neglected to fulfil promises made by "the duke of Orleans," as the good Lafayette soon, to his sorrow, found: who, in 1833, sent word to the prince that he much desired to have an interview with him.They accordingly met, and Lafayette embraced the young pretender with great cordiality, declaring that he bitterly repented of what he had helped to do in July, and strongly recommended Louis Napoleon to return to France. Shortly after finding this to be impossible, he was filled with new enthusiasm by the movement that occurred in Italy in 1831, where he had arrived from Switzerland with his mother. He at once ardently espoused the cause, and zealously labored to promote it, as did also his brother; the one, until his death at Forli, and the other until the capitulation of Ancona, without accomplishing any thing, owing to the in.becility and indecision of their leaders. Young Napoleon was now in extreme danger. Tusca Why?" demanded Mrs. Atkins. "Surely Augus-gulate the right of succession in the Imperial family.-ny notified to I ortense that he would not be received inta has many valuable and attractive qualities." "I grant it," said Mr. Chauncey, “and acknowledge that I once felt their force. But should a woman com bine in her own character all the valuable qualities in the world, she conld not secure happiness to her husband, were they allied to a temper like hers.' "Is not that going too far, Horace!" asked Mr. Atkins- is it not laying too much stress on temper ?" "I think not," answered Mr. Chauncey-Early in life my mother often spoke to me of the importance of good temper. Her remarks, which made a deep impression, led me to careful observation—and I am convinced, that could we accurately learn the detailed history of any one, from the cradle of his infancy, to the grave in which he was laid at three score years and ten, we should find that temper, his own or that of others, had occasioned three fourths of the unhappiness he had endured.Neither poverty nor toil, sickness, disappointment, nor the loss of friends-neither, nor all of these together have caused such hours of bitterness in this sorrowing world, as ill-temper. It is the scorpion among the passions-it stings the deepest, the most envenomed wounds that are inflicted on human happiness;" "I rather think you are right; and if so," he playfully added, "I really sympathize with you on account of Abby's unhappy temper.", "Abby's unhappy temper!" repeated Mr. Chauncey, while his eyes beamed with unutterable complacency and love as they rested upon her. Look at her Charles. Picture to yourself that face distorted and and inflamed >y passion! Imagine your own wife so disfigured! Is not the picture horrible? Who ever imagined a woman is she should be, without investing her with meekness, {entleness, patience, forbearance, as the genuine charactristics of her sex. When destitute of these, she denies her nature-counteracts the very design of her creation!" "But you will grant," said Mr. Atkins, "that some women are born with much stronger passions than others; will you make no allowance for these!" "Not the least," said Mr. Chauncey-"I have no belief in ungovernable passions. I would as soon excuse a thief for his stealing, or a drunkard for his intemperance, as a sensible woman for indulging a bad temper, on the score of natural infirmity. At the point of danger, a double guard must be placed. Every woman owes this, not only to herself, but to her friends. She was It was after his that the name of the king of Rome was entered. He was not baptised until the 4th of November 1810, when the cremony was performed by Cardinal Fesh, the Emperor standing god-father, and the Empress Maria Louisa, god-mother. It is a singular fact that on the very same day the Emperor and Empress held over the baptismal font the son of the heroic Lannes-the same duke of Montebello who, as Louis Philippe's ambassador to Switzerland, has driven his baptismal brother from the chateau where his mother, the noble Hortense, expired. Napoleon Louis, as well as his brother, was an object of particular attention on the part of the Emperor. At the return from Elba, he stood beside Napoleon, during the holding of the Champ de Mai, and was presented to the deputations from the people and the army; and when the Emperor embraced him for the last time at Malma'son, although then but seven years old, he showed strong feeling. He wanted to follow his uncle, and cried out, weeping, that he would go and fire off the cannon. It was with much difficulty that his mother pacified him. His exile now commenced, the first period of which was passed at Augsburgh, where he pursued the classic studies which had been commenced at Paris. From thence he had accompanied his mother to Switzerland, to the canton of Thurgau, where, while completing his education, he was enabled to follow his own inclination, by applying himself to military science; first going through the exercises of the Baden regiment in garrison at Constance, and afterwards studying engineering and artillery at the camp of Thun, where he contracted the manly personal habits of the brave mountaineers, as appears by one of his letters to Hortense, dated Sept. 2, 1820, in which he writes "I am engaged in military reconnoitering in the mountains, walking ten or twelve leagues a day, with a knapsack at my back, and sleeping under a tent at the foot of a glacier." He was thus employed when he was surprised by the news of the revolution of July, 1830-a revolution that, he flattered himself, would annul the treaties of 1816, and put an end to banishment. But, alas! like many other exiles he was sadly disappointed. After the duke of Orleans had been placed upon the throne by Lafayette, Louis Napoleon-knowing that the duke had frequently said to his mother in 1829, that should he ever ascend the throne he would recal the em to its territory, and the Austrian minister declared that he would not be suffered to reside in Switzerland. An Austrian fleet was then cruising in the Adriatic, and should the Austrians fasten their clutches upon him, his fate was certain. He was at this critical moment in the palazzo at Ancona, in a feeble state of health, with his mother, who kept him concealed, two rooms only separating them from the Austrian commander-in-chief! In these trying circumstances, Hortense resolved to save her remaining son by means of that very France which, on pain of death, he was forbidden to enter. Accordingly, by means of a passport furnished her at Genoa by an Englishman, she boldly entered France, and after arriving at the Hotel de Hollande, in Paris, wrote to inform Louis Philippe. An interview took place-the Citizen Royal was all kindness-made many promises which he had not, of course, the slighest idea of fulfilling-and in a few days aftewards, sent a messenger to acquaint Hortense that herself and son must immediately quit France! On his arrival in Paris, the Prince received an invitation from the envoys from Warsaw to repair to Poland, but the news of the fall of Warsaw, stopped him on the very point of departure. It was in Switzerland, in 1832, 33, and 34, that Louis Napoleon published his Reveries, Politiques,' his 'Consideration Politiques et Militaires sur la Suisse," and his "Manuel d'Artillerie," works which have been much praised for the science and learning displayed in them. The circumstances of the affairs at Strasburg, in 1836, are too fresh in every one's mind to be repeated. It may not, however, be generally known that when the news of that catastrophe arrived at Paris, as many as eighty general and superior officers met together and bound themselves to protest against the Prince's being brought to trail. The embarkation of Louis Napoleon for this country, his return to Switzererland at the time of his mother's illness, and the transactions betwen France and Switzerland, which compelled him once more to leave the latter country, are all matters of notoriety. The last accounts we had from him were that her Majesty's subjects were saluting him in the streets of London with 'Long live Prince Napoleon !' Such sounds, from such a source, must have fallen pleasantly on his ear! Boston Evening Transcript. Gen. Winfield Scott. Winfield Scott was born June 13, 1785, near Petersburg, Va. He was early intended for the bar, and went through the usual course of studies, which he concluded at William and Mary College. He settled at PetersLurgh in 1903, and commenced the practice of the law wita flattering indications of future success. The Mirror. FRANCIS L. HAGADORN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. NEW BRIGHTON, N. Y. APRIL 6, 1839. muderer. As years elapsed, still the suspicion adhered to him, producing the utmost misery in the family. At length repairs were made in the house, and at the foundation a skeleton was discovered. The suspicion was revived. An inquest was held on the body by an Attorney Coroner, and a jury as well acquainted with skeletons as he was. All the persons engaged in making this medical inquiry, understood nothing of the subject. The jury was equally ignorant with the coroner; the coroner was an attorney, and necessarily incapable of eliciting truth from a medical witness, except by mere chance. They made up their minds, and were on the The attack upon the frigate Chesapeake by the British, which kindled into a flame all the yonng and active spirits of the nation, roused him from the calm pursuits, of peace; and the measures taken by Congress at their next session, making it probable that a war with Great Britain would ensue, he accepted, in 1808, a captaincy in the regiment of Light Antillery, which was raised on the first enlargement of our military establishment. In 1812, Captain Scott was promoted to the rank of Lieut. Colonel in Izzard's regiment of artillery. Early in the autumn of that year, he arrived at the Niagara with two companies of his regiment, and took post at Black Rock, to protect the Navy Yard. The Adams, in drop ping down the river, grounded under the guns of the British batteries. Scott prevented the enemy's getting order of a superior officer. Early on the morning of the opine that some of our worthy counsellors will find it trial before the coroner is only preliminary, that there is AN IMPROVEMENT IN LEGISLATION.-In looking over the Argus' official report of the proceedings of our state legislature, a few days past, we discovered several titles of enactments under the unique heading of "bills read a third time and parsed." Pleased that this impor-point of returning a verdict of wilful murder against the manner. tant improvement in the duties of legislation had origin- legislation to parse bills as well as to pass them. We that in "this enlightened age," it has become a part of brother, when fortunately, a surgeon happened to come in and exclaimed, "Stop, stop, you are about to commit some horrible mistake." He had discovered that the medical jury were holding their inquest, was that not of skeleton on which the non-medical coroner and the non a male but of a female. But the advocates of the attorney-coroner say that the another court in which an opportunity will be offered to the accused for calling professional testimony; but, gentlemen, when once the coroner's jury has pronounced possession of her, and held her until she was burnt by 13th October, ha arrived by forced marches at Lewiston advantageous to seck other vocations, since the laws of to join in the attack of Queenstown heights. During the land are to be simplified to the comprehension of evthe battle, Scott exposed his person in the most fearless ery grammarian. A happy light has dawned upon our He was in full uniform, and being remarkable day, since legal acumen and pettifogging subtlety must their verdict, the skeleton is buried-it is no longer in the court to speak silently but most cloquently to all who understand anatomy. The skeleton is buried, the evidence is inhumed. Now I say, with men of humane minds, men who love charity and justice, one such fact, as that, if there were not another, ought to determine their choice. ton. for his stature, was evidently singled out as a mark. From Queenstown, Scott was sent a prisoner to Quebec; thence, about a month after, he embarked for BosHe was exchanged in 1813, soon after his return to the United States. At the surrender of Fort George, he was the first to enter, and took with his own hand the British flag yet waving on the works. In April, 1814, he established a camp of instruction at Buffalo. In this camp were taught those tactics which gave to our army an accuracy and celerity of movement surrender to Lindley Murray. ACCIDENT.-On Monday last, while the steamboat Bolivar of the Staten Island Ferry had proceeded about half way to the city on the two o'clock trip, the cap of their safety-valve gave way and let off the steam, without the control of the engineer. The passengers were all taken off by the Water Witch, having suffered no damage save about fifteen minutes' detention. I believe it will be admitted that I know as much of law as Mr. Adey, and if that be so, I think I know ra ther more of physic than he does. (Loud laughter and MAYOR OF CHICAGO.-Benjamin W. Raymond, the whig candidate, has been elected by a majority various-cheers.) If Mr. Adey had been the coroner on that ocly quoted from 50 to 150. The Common Council will casion, he would not have known whether they were the bones of a female or a rhinocerous. (Roars of laughprobably be a tie-six and six. The returns, as yet, are ter.) How should he know it when he never made it incomplete. his study as I have? I believe you all recollect the occasion of the last election, when one gentleman told you that an atterney-coroner did not know a dead man from a living one. It was well known that after the inquest had been held, the dead man got up and laughed at the coroner. (Cheers and laughter.) You all recollect the case of Catharine Moody in the London Hospital, upon no less than three inquests had been held. (A voice in the crowd, "That was Mr. Urwin.") Yes, Mr. Urwin was the coroner. Mr. Fuller, a surgeon on the London road was examined on that occasion. which had never been displayed by British or American Connecticut. Bangor Courier. English Coroners. Mr. Wakely, the editor of the London Lancet, has In the first instance, a verdict of "accidental death" lately been elected Coroner for Middlesex, over a Mr. was brought in; (a laugh) and in the second it was a Adey, an Attorney. The following is an extract from verdict of "natural death;" and after they had left the his stump speech, to the electors, congratulating them on room they were requested to return, and found the wothat wisdom which has elevated him to the office. Alman sitting up, saying "Good God! I wonder are they though, we must confess, the effusion is somewhat redo- going to bring me those oysters!" On another occasion lent of what an English audience might esteem wit, it a man fell from his horse, returning from a fair in Milestill speaks more for the presumption and vulgar arroend road. An attorney-coroner looked at him, and at ance of Mr. W. than for his modesty, or for the good once prononnced him dead, (Laughter.) He was put sense or dignity of his auditors. It is with pride we no-into a room, an inquest was held, and a verdict of “actice the example of American communities in like mat-cidental death" returned. In the middle of the night, ters, and observe the advantage we seem to have over the the man being in his shroud, and not liking his quartmother country in points of this character. The vulgar ers, turned round and fell upon the floor. He called out triumph so apparent in the following extract, it is proper loudly for assistance, and one of the watchmen under to say, is a fair specimen of British customs, and is just the old system, broke open the door, and seeing the man ified by long established precedent, notwithstanding it in the shroud, cried-"Don't think to frighten me with may appear rather offensive and unpalateable to the Am- your shroud, I know you well enough; you are one of erican public. the rascally resurrectinnists. I am not to be done in that "I will relate to you," said he, "a case which occur-way; I shall take you off to the watch-house, (Great red in a neighboring county. Two brothers lived in the same house by the side of the Thames. One of these brothers, who was a maniac, suddenly disappeared.Suspicion attached to the other brother that he was the laughter.) And so he did. (Laughter.) The poor fellow was liberated next morning; but another misfortune had not been foreseen, for the undertaker sued him for half a crown for the use of a shell." The Sister Republics. not The history of the Spanish American Republics, duThe Tortoise. It is painful to behold the efforts of a people to be free, ring the fifteen or twenty years of their existence, In the library of Lambeth palace is the shell of a who, as a community, are destitute of that intelligence of a character to win golden opinions for popular insti- tortoise, brought there in 1623, which lived until 1730, and virtue without which a well-regulated, enduring po- tutions. Where is the fault? Not with the institu- a period of 107 years. Another was placed in the Epispular government is impossible. Communities of this tions themselves, but with the people who have adopted copal palace of Fulham, by Bishop Laud, in 1626, and description may indeed achieve their independence-they them. They have sought to govern themselves politi- died in 1751-125 years. How old they were when may even frame a good Constitution and enact good cally before they could govern themselves morally placed in the garden was unknown. From a document laws but without the prevalence of education and mo- The mass of the people are enslaved by ignorance, su- belonging to the cathedral, called the bishop's Barn, it is ral principle among the people, such institutions cannot perstition and vice. It is not in the nature of things that ascertained that the tortoise at Peterborough must have be sustained. Revolution will succeed revolution-un- such communities can be happy. Popular institutions been 220 years old. Bishop March's predecessor in the der cover of the law and of a sacred regard to the rights are too great a blessing for them to enjoy, except when see of Peterborough had remembered it about sixty years, of the people, those rights will be invaded and trampled marred by anarchy. Wouid we then send them back to and remarked no visible change. He was the seventh upon. Ambitious men, availing themselves of propitious despotism? Never. That is a still greater evil. It clo- bishop since his sojurn there. Its favorite food was the circumstances, will force themselves into power, at a vast ses the avenues of knowledge, and postpones the hope of flower of the dandelion, lettuce, green peas, &c. In the expense of blood and treasure; and with occasionul inever enjoying rational liberty. No, they must go on in latter part of June it inclined to eat strawberries, currants, tervals of repose, this scene will be re-enacted as long the course upon which they have entered. They must and the like. The gardener said it knew him well, as as there are energies capable of being enlisted for such a endure the evils incident to their intellectual and moral he generally fed it, and would watch him attentively at purpose. Look at our sister republics of the South!- debasement until the causes of those evils be removed. a gooseberry bush where it was sure to take its station In what condition do we find them? Most of them are That they will be removed, to some extent at least, un- while he was plucking the fruit. It would take no anitorn by internal feuds and civil war. All of them en-der the operation of free institutions, we hope and be- mal food, nor milk nor water. In cloudy weather, it jɔying an imperfect, precarious freedom, liable at every lieve. In the mean time, those republics are a living ex-scooped a cavity in the ground, where it lay torpid till the oment to be shaken by new convulsions. ample to the people of the United States, warning us sun appeared. For a month before retiring to winter against the encroachments of ignorance and vice. If we quarters, it refused all sustenance; the depth of its burwould continue free, all the means of intellectual and row varied as the approaching winter was mild or severe, moral improvement must be made to keep pace with the being from one to two feet deep. Mr. White in his stogrowth of population. Schools and churches must be ry Selborne, from which from this account is taken, menmultiplicd where they are now deficient. The new tions one which always retired to the ground early in States must emulate the old, in these noble enterprises. November, and emerged in April. It was very timid in And they will do it. A sacred regard to law and order regard to rain, although its shell would resist a loaded must every where be inculcated. In short, we must take cart. As sure as it walked elate, or tiptoe, so sure came for our models the founders of the Republic, not forget- rain before night. The tortoise has an arbitrary stomach ting those who prepared the materials and shaped the and lungs, and can refrain from eating or drinking blocks and timbers-the Pilgrim Fathers. Thus, and great part of the year. As soon as the old lady, who thus only can we expect to transmit the blessings of pop-fed this one forty years, came in sight, it would hobble ular institutions to our children and those that shall come toward her with awkward alacrity, but was inattentive after them. to strangers. The ox knoweth his owner.' In Mexico, the party in favor of Federation and the Constitution of 1824, are in arms against the governLent; several battles have been fought, and the contest is still undecided. To these internal troubles is added a "quasi" with the French, who have captured the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, and hold the entire coast at their mercy. Commerce is suspended, ane the public credit defunct. A large and fertile province has been dismemhered from the Republic, and is lost to it forever. Such is Mexico in 1839. Guatamala, or Central America, is in a situation still more deplorable. Civil war rages from one end of the Republic to the other. By several of the States the authority of the General Governmant has been renounced, and in one of them at least the State authority is disavowed by most of the districts composing it. Anarchy reigns. The resources of the country are exhausted by forced contributions for the support of the contending arinies;-agriculture droops; business of all kinds is prostrate. When or how this wretched state of things is to terminate, is beyond the ken of mortals. The Oriental republic, of which Monte Video is the capital, has just passed through a bloody revolution, headed by General Rivera, who has deposed the constitutional President, Oribe, and now occupies the Presi Tin. N. Y. Journal of Commerce. The tin mines of Cornwall, in England have been supposed to be the only ones of consequence in the world; and immense quantities of tin (Britannia) ware and sheet tin (that is sheet iron covered with a wash of tin) ware, used in this country, can give one some idea of the great extent of the Cornwall mines. They have been, and probably will long continue to be, a source of immense revenue to the British nation. It is stated, however, that Great Britain will not much longer have an exclusive monopoly of tin-that a tin mine of considerable Oribe has gone Buenos Ayres, and is there stirring magnitude has been discovered in Kentucky, and that the embers, in the hope of inducing that Republic to there are indications in its neighborhood of greater minmake war upon Rivera, and with some prospects of suc-eral treasures of the same description. If this be trueIn the meantime the ports of Buenos Ayres are and by the way, newspaper accounts of such discoveries Mockaded by a French squadron, and a war with that ought to be received with a greater deal of caution-we dential chair. cess. powerfal nation seems to be impending. To crown the are more pleased than though a mine of gold had been discovered as large as the iron mountain of Missouri.— Boston Times. whole, the Buenos Ayrean Republic is making war on came. Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador, the three republics formerly composing the Republic of Columbia, are just now in a state of quiescence. Exhausted by long continued commotions, they are gathering strength for future conflicts. They are volcanoes, which at any moment are liable to pour forth fire and lava. a HORNE TOOKE AND WILKES.-On one occasion, Horne Tooke wrote a challenge to John Wilkes who was then one of the Sheriff's for the County of Middlesex. Wilkes had signalized himself in a most determined affair with Martin on account of the No. 45, in the North Briton; and he wrote to Horne the following laconic reply to the challenge:-" Sir-I do not think it my business to cut the throat of any desperado that may be tired of his life: but as I am now High Sheriff for the City of London, it may happen that I may shortly have an opportunity of attending you in my official capacity, in which case I will answer for it that you shall чave no ground to complain of my endeavors to serve you." N. B.-Horne was on the eve of a trial for high treason, with several others. of Assembly, during a recent debate, a member named Mr. Happy, accused another named Baker, of an attempt to "soft soap❞ unsuspecting members; and that he had an utter contempt for "soft soap." Mr. Baker in reply, said; "The gentleman expresses contempt for "soft soap." I believe him sincere-if the members of the House will inspect his countenance closely, I dare say they will there find conclusive evidence that he feels the greatest contempt for "all sorts of soap.” HOW ARE YOU OFF FOR SOAP.-In the Illinois House WHISKERS." I cannot imagine," said an alderman, "why my whiskers should turn gray so much sooner than the hair on my head." "because,” observed a wag, " 'you have worked much harder with your jaws than your brains." Whatever of your character and purpose it may be Low company of whatever kind, debases our nature desirable to conceal, is best hidden under a sociable and in proportion as we become attached to it. open demeanor. AGRICULTURE. From the Monthly Genesse Farmer. THE FARMER'S DICTIONARY OF TERMS USEFUL IN THE SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Continued from our last. Barley. strips of grass land that border ploughed fields, and oc- Bean. The plants that come under this designation are of two species Phaseolus and Vicia. To the first belong the varities of pole and bush beans usually cultivated in gardens; while the last, Vicia faba, is the bean known as the Windsor or horse bean, cultivated extensively in food for animals of all kinds. In Europe, the bean is England as a field bean, and considered of great value as used, mixed either with peas or oats or alone, ground into meal, for feeding horses, fattening pork, or even as food for man. It is considered one of the most nutrutive kinds of food; but in this country is little used, corn meal being considered a preferable substitute to bean meal, either for man or beast. The prices which are obtained for the common white bean, would seem to render it a proper article of culture on light soils, where it succeeds One of the common cultivated grains, in use from time inmemorial, and extensively cultivated in modern times. It has a thick spike, with long awns attached to the kernel. It is divided into several kinds; of which the most common are the long cared or two rowed barley, the sqare or six rowed, and sprat or battle door barley. The six rowed is most commonly cultivated in the north of England and Scotland, having the reputation of being the hardiest plant. In this country the long eared or two rowed has usually obtained the preference; producing a whiter, fairer grain, and srautting less than other kinds. Barley in this country is principally used for malting; in other countries it is extensively used for bread, and for feeding cattle. Barley has met with little thing improper in the grain, as is evident from the fact that barley is almost the only grain given to horses in the east, where the best and finest horses are found. The difficulty lies in the mode of feeding. Barley is one of the best substitutes for corn in making pork. It requires a rich soil, rather moist than dry; and the ground should be made fine before the seed is sown. From two to two A liquor produced by brewing together malt, hops, and a half bushels of seed per acre, is the usual quantity and water; and when preperly made is a nourishing favor in this country as food for horses, but there is no allowed. Barometer. An instrument for measuring the weight of the air.- 17th century. Torricelli reasoned, Basin. better than on those of a heavier kind. Beer. use, should stand as long as consistent with safety from frost. Bee. (Apis mellifica L.), A hymenopterous insect, of the family Apiaria, and well known as the honey bee. The valuable products of this insect, and its sigular habits and instincts, have caused it to receive more attention than has perhaps been given to any other, (unless the silk worm is excepted;) and the naturalists of Europe, among whom we may mention Reamur, Cuvier, and Huber, have each largely written on this subject. The treatise of Huber is a model of such investigation and writing, and though later observation would seem to indicate that on some points he had been mistaken, still his work is likely to remain the standard authority in the natural history of the bee. There are three sorts of individuals that make up a community or hive of bees. The female, mother, or a she is usually called the 'Queen,' the male or 'drones,' and the working bees.' These last have been improperly termed neuters, since the experiments of Huber show they are females, and at the pleasure of the community, and by an interesting process, be converted into the prolific Queen of the hive. Reamur asserts that the female in the spring lays as many as 12,000 eggs, in the space of 24 days. The product of the bee is of four kinds; the honey, wax, pollen, and propolis. The honey is drawn from flowers and undergoes little change, as is evident from its occasionally partaking of the narcotic or intoxicating effect of the plants from which it is wholesome drink. Beer is, however, like most of the derived. Age usually deprives it of these noxious quaother liquors of commerce and trade, ed ulterated to a lities. The wax is eleborated from the honey by the bee. frightful extent by the introduction of ingrements of a It is formed between the abdominal rings of the working cheaper nature than malt or hops, if not absolutely nox-bees, into plates, and is used for making the combs. The ious or poisonous in their effects on the system. The pollen or 'bee bread,' under different modifications apquantity of beer consumed by English laborers is aston- pears to constitute a large part of the food of the bees ishing; especially during harvest, when it is provided and their larvæ; while the propolis is used for lining the by the employer. The greater part of the barley grown hive, closing unnecessary holes, &c. The working bees, in this country as well as in England is made into beer; and the Queen also, secrete an active poison, which is though the establishments for the manufacture here are retained in a small bladder at the foot of the sting, and on a small scale, compared with the magnificent and ex- through which it is ejected into the wound by pressure. pensive ones of that country. If the good old home The Mexicans have a bee, an excellent worker, domesbrewed beer, from malt and hops, could be substituted ticated like our common bee, but which has no sting. for strong beer or whiskey among the classes that con- and in its habits is as harmless as the house fly. Several and morals of the country would receive a decided im- failed; we believe from their inability to endure the cold o consume the most of these drinks, we think the health attempts to introduce them into the United States have our winters. Mr. Weeks of Vermont, has paid more attention to the bee than probably any other individual in the United States; and he has in several valuable papers given to the public the result of his observations; correcting errors into which others have fallen, and disclosing new and valuable facts in regard to their habits and proper treatment. provement. Beet. A common vegetable of which there are several varieties, such as the scarcity and common beet of our garden; the mangel wurzel or field beet, cultivated for cattle; and the white Siberian beet, grown principally for the sugar A term in geology used to designate a section of coun- manufacture. The mangel wurzel is a valuable rooţ, try converging to a point lower than the remainder, which producing heavy crops, and being excellent food for sheep, part is most usually occupied by lakes, swamps, or riv- fattening animals, and for milch cows. It requires a Thus we speak of the basin of the Hudson north rich loam. The manufacture of sugar from beets in its of the Highlands; that of the Mohawk above the Lit-most improved state consists in slicing the rotts thin after tle Falls; or the basins of Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. The best defined basins of Europe are those of London and Paris. The first of these basins is a bed of clay in some places 700 feet in thickness. The basin of Paris is formed of chalk, alternating with limestone and marls and ers. gypsum. Baulk. Ground left unturned between the furrow slices in ploughing, and also strips of ground usually in grass between ploughed ridges, as in common field lands. These are the European difinitions; in this country farmers give the term a rather wider definition, and include the they are well washed, drying them thoroughly in ovens 'Rather too pointed,' as the fish said ven he swallowed the bait. 'BE GUARDED IN DISCOURSE.' So I am,' said the loafer, who was making a speech before the Recorder with an officer holding on to each arm. A GOOD TOAST.-The American Fair, too wise to take the veil, and too beautiful to need it.' Ask quick if you want to get a pretty girl, and dont take no for an answer. 'Rents are enormous' as the loafer said when he look SELECT POETRY. From the National Magazine. TO MARY. Without thee, what would life have been? A casual star might just be seen, Then fade-a hope soon blighted: A polar winter, where the sun, Full light and heat denying, A sea without a shore, where sails Now vexed and driven by the gales, For those my carly youth hath loved, And desolate had been my lot, Unsympathised and cheerless But Heaven sent thee, who art-if not 'Mong mortals surely peerless; The sun on polar regions bare Has looked-the shades are daunted, The bright waves gently kissing, From the Religious Sovenir for 1839. AGRICULTURE. BY C. W, EVEREST. How blest the farmer's simple life!— Far from the world's tempestuous strife, With cheerful steps along. And sunbeams fierce are cast, Down the green lane young hurrying feet And claim their sires caress. And Heaven with praise is blest, On Slumber's couch of rest! Nor deem that fears his dreams alarm, O, ye who run in Folly's race, Ho! monarch! flushed with Glory's pride, MORNING IN SPRING. BY GEORGE D. PRENTISS. How sweet the landscape? Morning twines Like happy spirits float away To revel on the mountain's crown, Of music in the hour of sleep- The sunrise gale o'er flower and tree A fairy bark upon the sea; It comes on fresh, so calm, so sweet, A cloud is on the sky above And calmly o'er the young year's blue, 'Tis coming like a thing of love To gladden in the rising dew- And blossoms pictured on its breast- The air with glorious visions-bright And wander in the clear blue light-Off to the breathing heavens they go, Along the earth they live and glow, Shed o'er the lake their happy smiles, And beckon to its glittering isles. Oh, at this hour, when air and earth Are gushing joy, and love and light, And songs of gladness hail the birth Of all that's beautiful and brightEach heart beats high-each thought is blown To flame--the spirit drinks the tone Of brighter worlds, and melts away In visions of eternal day. From the Boston Daily Times. TO ME, Oh! bright were the days when with pastime and song, Oh, bright be the day when again we unite, Laconic Correspondence. Treasury department, Washington Jan. 16, 1822. Sir-This department is desirous of knowing how far the Tombigbee river runs up. You will please communicate the information. Respectfully, W. H. CRAWFORD. S. Dinsmore, Esq. Collector Mobile. Mobile, Feb, 7, 1822. Sir-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th, and informing you in reply that the Tombigbee does not run up at all. Very respectfully, S. DINSMORE. Hon W. H. CRAWFORD, Secretary Treasury. Treasury department, Washington, March 1 1822. Sir-I have the honor to inform you that this department has no further service for you as Collector of Mo bile. Respectfully, W. H. CRAWFORD. S. DINSMORE, Esq. Mobile. Mobile, March 29, 1822. Sir-As the cause of my removal seems to be that at present the Tombigbee persists in running down, I have to express my hope that you may find a Collector who can cause it to run up. Very respectfully, S. DINSMORE. Hon. W. H. CRAWFORD, Secretary Treasury. |