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366 NEW ENGLAND FARMER, MAY 23, 1S38. AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. Boston, Wednesday, May 23, 1838. article of human food they are not a favorite with most people. This, we believe, arises from their infrequent use.

Probably they are quite as palatable and acceptable as potatoes were when first introduced. When sliced and fried in batter like the salsify or vegetable oyster plant, which is so much esteemed by persons of taste, they are not easily distinguished from it. The leaves ars said by some to make good feed for cattle, but this does not accord with our own observation. As far as that goes, cattle are seldom inclined to touch them. We understand that the afterpiece intended to follow the first performance was an attempt to set fire to the asylum for orphan colored children.

Good Heavens has all humanity fled the earth. Why had not these true savages these respectable and well dressed cannibals have brought these miserable children into their State House yard and having transfixed them with pine splinters, have burnt them in the true Indian style. It certainly would have been good enough for such wretches as choose to offend a Christain community by being guilty of wearing a black skin. PARSNEPS. (For the N.

E. Farmer! OAKLAND FARM, BRIGHTON. The sale of this beautiful place next Thursday offers a rare chance to gentlemen wishing to purchase a country residence, or to establish a public summer resort, being unsurpassed by any situation in this section of the country, for beauty of landscape and rural scenery. The garden contains all thit is beautiful for the florist and amateur, besides an endless variety of fruit of the most delicious kinds. The ponds are well stocked with gold fish, and the grounds abound with choice and rare ornamental trees, among which is the beautiful Tulip Tree and the most splendid groves of Oaks and Chestnut to be found in the country.

Recipe for the Catarrh. Take the root of San-guisorbia Canadensis or Blood Root, dry it and beat it into a powder or fine snuff, mix it with the gum of Camphor and use it as a snuff when affected with the catarrh. This remedy has been proved to be efficacious in curing the disease after being practised several times and can be recommended as an almost certain remedy. E. Savers.

There is much reason to regret that this vegetable is not more cultivated among us; and that its value for feed of cattle has not been tested. We have never known a case in which it has been made the subject of field-culture and no one thinks of raising more than a few for table use in the spring. Our own cultivation has never extended farther than to the growing of thirty or forty bushels in a season; but we cannot say why, excepting from sympathy with general prejudice and custom, we have not pursued it much more extensively as we recollect having fed them to milch cows in the spring with very great advantage to their health and milk. The cultivation of them is more easy than that of carrots; and the yield upon an acre is greater. The carrot plant when it first appears is not so distinguishable as the parsnep and the weeding and thinning therefore are more troublesome.

The digging of parsnepsis more difficult than that of carrots but if planted on ridges, it may be greatly facilitated by means of a plough and after all, the extra labor required is not a matter to be much considered. The parsnep likewise may be afely left in the ground until the spring and then it furnishes in perfection a succulent food for cattle, of the highest value, and at a aeason when it is particularly required. The butter made from the milk of cows fed upon pars-neps is said to be distinguished by its fine flavor; and in parts of Europe, where it has been cultivated as a field crop it is stated ihat no vegetable food will produce more or finer beef or pork. There is no vegetable which is less liable to accident; none which has fewer enemies among the insect tribe; none for which a suitable soil is more easily found; and none which requires less expense of seed. They are cultivated in the same way as carrots and we recommend for all vegetables that they should be sown on ridges, and in as straight lines as can be drawn.

For parsneps as well as carrots, as there is always a liability to sow the seed too thickly we advise mixing the seed with a considerable quantity of dry sand; and it may then be sown evenly either with the hand or a machine. The human hand however, where there is not too much to be done, is doubtless the best of all machines. We advise likewise that carrot seed should be moistened before sowing and kept slightly wetted almost to germination before sowing. It will then appear early above ground before the weeds show themselves. We cannot say that the same method would not be advisable in regard to parsneps.

We recommend that a trial should be made; but we have made no experiment of this matter ourselves. Parsnep seed is usually long in coming up; and on account of weeds it is very desirable to forward them. Parsneps may be sown in the autumn or the spring. The almost universal opinion is, that if sown in the spring it is indispensable that they should be put in very early. We have the testimony of two or more intelligent farmers, that they have succeeded better by late sowing than by early; and they avoid sowing until the last of May.

This was a new fact to us. In this case we should deem it the more desirable if possible to forward the seed by some artificial means before planting. It is stated that upon analysis parsneps yield 99 partB of nutritive matter to 1000, and that of these 9 parts are mucilage; the rest saccharine matter. A an Immense Lumber Raft. We mentioned a few days ago the fact that a fleet of lumber rafts containing a million and a half feet of lumber had been towed from Port Deposite to Baltimore by the steamboat Relief Captain Turner.

We have now the satisfaction to state that the Relief has achieved a still greater work in the same way. Yesterday she entered our harbor from the Susquehanna with an immense field of rafts in tow, the PHILADELPHIA RIOT. Since our last a riot of a most infamous character has occurred in Philadelphia, which resulted in the wanton, unresisted, and deliberate destruction by a mob of a large and expensive public building erected for public lectures and free discussion. The papers say that of the many thousands, ho crowded in the vicinity to witness the conflagration of this beautiful edifice the large part were respectable and well dressed persons, who evidently looked on with approbation." Can it be so? Has.hu-man nature sunk so low Are all the great moral distinctions so obliterated in our minds that we can perceive no longer a difference between order and anarchy, between justice and injustice, between liberty and licentiousness, between humanity and cruelty Are all generous and just affections so paralyzed within us have avarice and tyranny so fixed their gangrene in our souls, that all sentiment of liberty and honor has become extinct within us Has divine Providence in its awful and just retribution sealed the fate of our Republic once the glittering pole-star of the friends of liberty throughout the world so that a moral desolation as blighting as the Simoom of the African desert has come over us and human passions, defying all the restraints of government, of reason, of religion, are suffered to run riot like devils incarnate and the terrific scenes of the French Revolution are to be acted over in our young community Do not men see, where mob violence is suffered to prevail, all law is at an end and no man's property, or house, or person, or life, is secure a moment. But it is our province only to give facts yet it seems as though our pen would drop from our hands while we trace these facts.

The glare of this conflagration flashes before our disturbed vision as though the flames of Hell itself had burst up through the earth for where else indeed could such fires have been kindled The Hall was dedicated to free discussion excluding only subjects of an immoral character. Hall was dedicated to Virtue, Liberty, and Independence." The sole objects of the particular meetings holden in it on this occasion were the discussion of the great princi-plos of civil and universal liberty and of universal justice and love. This was not to be tolerated, and yet this was the whole of the offence. Yet in a country calling itself the anly free country in the world, the rights of speech and the press are to be trampled under foot, and the cause of freedom shall not even be discussed. It is said that when the roof of this noble temple of liberty fell in there was a universal shout of triumph.

Strange that such a shout in such a city should not at nee have called the spirits of Franklin and Rush from their graves. Some of the public buildings and squares in this beautiful city are adorned with the statues of these noble sons of liberty, these friends of universal humanity. Let the next efforts of the Philadelphians be to melt down these statues, which heretofore they hare pointed at with pride and let them replace them at once with the appropriate statues of Nero, Caligula, Danton and Robespierre. aggregate contents of which were two million seven hundred thousand feet of lumber This lumber is the property of Messrs Stowelland Dickinson, two enterprising citizens of Wellsborough, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, from which distant section it has been floated on the present Spring tides of the Susquehanna down to Port Deposite, and thence by the fteam tow-boat to our market. Thp business of towing on so large a scale is yet in its infancy, but the cheapness, speed and safety with which it is effected, prove that when the Susquehanna Canal to Havre de Grace is finished, the boats may be towed to and from Baltimore with great facility and economy, and without Jtranshipment of their cargoes.

Baltimore American. East method or purifying Water. Take a com mon garden pot, in the midst of which place a piece of wicker work, on which spread a layer of charcoal of four or five inches in thickness, and above the eharcoal a quantity of sand. The surface of the sand is to be covered with paper pierced full of holes, to prevent the water from making channels in it- By this process which is at once simple and economical, every person is enabled to procure limpid water at a very trifling expense..