The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester County Advertiser, 1825-06-29

cultural. [From the New-England Farmer.] WHITE WEED. Mr Fessenden. - As you love to talk about every thing in (he season of it - itdo do itdo for the land's *ake and ours, tell us what we shall do to get rid of the white weed? - lf you will just ride or walk into the country, about Boston, now, you will find our mowing grounds cov covered - ered covered and made white with it. Perhaps there never was so much at this sea season. - A - son. - A season. - A more pernicious plant, as re regards - gards regards our grass crops, cannot be found, I believe, unless it be the Canada this thistle, - tle, thistle, and that happily is not much known to us m this neighbourhood. The white weed makes a most miserable food for cable. - good for nothing if allowed to stand till it is ripe. - Our stable keep keepers - ers keepers reject it, and if they did not, their horses would. - It Is so extremely self selfish - ish selfish in its habits, that it will permit noth nothing - ing nothing to grow near it. - lt occupies the whole ground or none. The mode of increase 1 know not. Still less do I know how to effect its decrease. But this I know, that it is spreading indefi indefinitely - nitely indefinitely in all directions. It, is said to have been brought here by our ances ancestors. - tors. ancestors. So we are told was the berber berberry, - ry, berberry, or barberry. Without meaning to abuse those good folks, 1 wish they had left them both at home. - The seed of the Charlock, or wild turnip, it has been said, will remain in the clod 30 years or more and not send up a plant, while the land remains in grass, but comes up after the land is ploughed. Not so the white weed The seed of this will remain idle in the clod for years for ought I know, - but giving no trouble, like the wild turnip, while un under - der under the plough, but it takes possession of the soil the moment it is laid down to grass. This makes it the worse plant of the two, both of them worthless, be because - cause because if it would show its head where we are hoeing, instead of sneaking a among - mong among the grass, we should probably hold a tussle with it. How to eradicate it is now the question - and 1 am asham ashamed - ed ashamed to say that I can afford you no aid on which to rely at all Some have said ploughing will do it. I wish in my heart it would. But if so, how is it (hat it comes again, frequently, the first year after laying down to grass - as may be seen this season? Was the seed put there in the manure that was ploughed in ? - this is possible, but if it be so how does it help the matter? the seed we are likely to have always with us. - lt has wings, too, 1 believe, and who can stop it ? Some think it may be rooted out and destroyed by manuring the grass land very highly. This may elic elicit - it elicit grasses so rank and strong, as to take place of it in some degree; but, that manure kills white weed I do not beK'eve. By keeping all our land under the plough, we might get clear of it: but this we cannot do, you know, any more than we could undertake to pull it all up by the roots and burn it, before it is ripe. So abundant has it become, that in this latter process we should starve. I am really mortified, sir, as a common practical farmer, to discover so much ignorance on this subject, and to show myself so poorly armed against a formi formidable - dable formidable enemy constantly beating up my quarters ; but it is as well to confess it at once and call upon- Hercules. I should really like to know what you learned folks have to say. It is not worth while to print this let letter. - ter. letter. You can talk of this rascally plant without doing that. But perhaps yon will like it - who knows? If you should, I may touch up something else one of these days when it rains; but as I

M. Vandille was the most remarkable man in Paris, both on account of his imtnen-e riches, and his extreme avarice. He lodged as hi®h upas the roof would admit him, to avoid noise or visits, maintained one poor old woman to attend him in bis garret, and allowed her only seven sous per week, or a penny per day. His usual diet was bread and milk,and, for in indulgence, - dulgence, indulgence, some poor sour wine on Sunday, on which day he constantly gave one farthing to the poor, being one shilling and a penny per annum; which he cast up; and, after his death, his extensive charity amounted to fortv three shillings and four pence. This prudent economist had been a macistrafe, or officer, at Boulogne, from which obscurity hr was pro promoted - moted promoted to Paris, for the reputation of his wealth, which he lent upon undeniab'e security to the public funds, not caring to trust individuals with his life and soul. While a magistrate at Boulogne, he maintained himself by taking upon him to be milk taster-general at the mar market, - ket, market, and from one to another filled his belly, and washed down his bread at no expense of his own ; not, doubtless, from any other prin principle - ciple principle than that of serving the public, io regu regulating - lating regulating the goodness of the milk. When he had a call to Paris, knowing that stage vehi vehicles - cles vehicles are expensive, he determined to go thitheV on foot; and, to avoid being robbed on Hie way, he took special care to export with him himself - self himself neither more nor less than the considera considerable - ble considerable sum of three pence sterling, to carry him 130 miles; and with the greater facility to ex execute - ecute execute his plan of operation, he went in the quality of a poor priest, or mendicant; and, no doubt, gathered some few pence on the road, from such pious and well-disposed per persons - sons persons of the country who were strangers to him. When he became extensively rich, being in the year 1735, worth seven or eight hundred thousand pounds, which he begot or multiplied on the body of a single shilling from the age of 17 to the age of 72. One day he heard a woodman going by in summer, at which sea season - son season they stock themselves with fuel for the winter; ho agreed with him at the lowest rate possible, but stole from the poor man sev several - eral several logs, with which he loaded himself to his secret hiding hole, and thus contracted, in that hot season, a fever; he then sent, for tire first time, for a surgeon to bleed him, who, asking half a livre for the operation, was dis dismissed - missed dismissed ; he then sent for an apothecary, but he was as high in his demand ; he then sent for a poor barber, who agreed to open a vein for three pence a time. " But," says this worthy economist, 11 friend, how often will it be requisite to bleed »" " Three times," said he. " And what quantity of blood do yon in intend - tend intend to take ?" " A bout 8 ounces each time," answered the barber. " That will be 9 pence ; Oh ! too much, too much; I have determined to go a cheaper way to work ; take the whole quantity you design to take at three times, at one time, and that will save me six pence; which being insisted on, he lost 24 ounces of blood, and died in a few days, leaving all his vast treasures to the king, whom he made his sole heir.

liocrates, an Athenian, thus addressed a yjung man : - " Act towards your pa parents, - rents, parents, as you would that your children should one day act towards you. - ln your most secret actions suppose that you have all the world for witnesses. Do not flatter yourself that reprehensi reprehensible - ble reprehensible actbns can remain in oblivion ; you may perhaps conceal them from others, but neier from yourself. Employ your leisure hours in listening to the conver conversation - sation conversation of the wise. Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. Comfort distressed virtue; liberality, well applied, con constitutes - stitutes constitutes the treasury of the worthy man. When you shall be invested with some important office, never employ bad men; when you quit it, let it be with/ glory rather than with wealth." , u In the spring of life, when reason and experienc».are necessarily confined, almost every object ri s es clothed in vivid hues; earth appears a paradise, and its inhabitants little shoit of perfec perfection; - tion; perfection; alas! as the man advances, as lie becomes acquainted with his fellow men, how are all these splendid visions scattered on the winds! he beholds passions the most baneful devastate this beauteous globe;and witnesses,with hor horror - ror horror and dismay, its wretched inhabitants immolate each other on the altars ot avarice and ambition. Starting from the dream of youth, he turns disgusted from the loathsome scene ; perhaps re retires - tires retires to commune with himself, to pause upon the lot of mortality. " To this important crisis, many of the characters, which adorn or blot the rec records - ords records of humanity, owe their origin. - Fie, who can call religion and literature to his aid, vill pass along the road of life intent on other worlds, and alone employed in this, in accelerating the powers of intellect, and in meliorating the condition of his species. From the crimes and follies of mankind, from the annals of blood, and the orgies of volup voluptuousness, - tuousness, voluptuousness, will this man fly to no unprof unprofitable - itable unprofitable solitude ; here will he trace the finger of the Deity, and here, amid the pursuits of science, the charms of mu music, - sic, music, and the pleasures of poetry, with simplicity of heart, and energy of gen genius, - ius, genius, will adore the God who gave them." When Alcibiades was pluming him himself - self himself upon his numerous farms aud pos possessions, - sessions, possessions, Socrates drily asked to see them upon a map of the earth, which was hanging before them. What a striking lesson for human vanity !

Notice. THE next anniversary of A American - merican American Independence will be cele celebrated - brated celebrated at Southbridge without distinction of - party - A procession will be formed at the House of Mr. William Healy, jr. precisely at 11 o'clock A. M. and proceed to the Meeting- House, where an Oration with the usual cere - monies will be pronounced. A collation will be provided by Healy suited to the occa occasion. - Gentlemen - sion. - Gentlemen occasion. - Gentlemen and Ladies are respectfully i invited to join in the festivities of the day. Tickets at One Dollar, to accommodate a Gentleman and Lady, may be had on or before i the day by application at the bar of said Healy. EBENFZER D. AMMIDOWN. Chairman of Com. of .Arranges. June 14th, 1825. Commissioners' Notice. THE Subscribers,having been appointed by Nathaniel Paine, Judge of Probate for the County of Worces Worcester, - ter, Worcester, Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Es Esstate - state Esstate which was of JOHN P. HENSHAW'S, late of Athol, in said County, deceased, give notice - that Six Mouths from the 19th day of May last past, are allowed to the said Credit Credit-ers - -ers Credit-ers for bringing in their claims and proving their debts. Tho Subscribers further give no tice that they willatteud to the receiving and examining the said flaims at the Office of R. Miles, in Athol, on tho last Friday of August, September, and October next follow following, - ing, following, from one of the o'clock to six of the clock, P. M. on each of said days. CLOUGH R. MILES, ABNER YOUNG. June 1,1825. - Worcester, ss. Probate Office, June 7, 1825. To the Widow, Creditors and Heirs of Elna Elnathas - thas Elnathas Polley, late of Fitchburg, in said County, deceased, and to all others concerned in the Estate of said deceased, Greeting. VOU are hereby cited to appear (if you see fit) at the Court of Probate to lie hotden at Worcester, in suid County, on the first Tuesday in July next, nt ten of the clock, before noon, to show cause why License should not he granted to sell and convey so much of the real estate of said deceased, subject to the Mort Mortgages - gages Mortgages thereon, as will raise the sum of &1058.84 ets. for the payment of the debts l charges ; and you will be heard thereon. NATHI. PAINE, J. Prob. 3Jook Soli Neatly executed at this Office.

Dr* Deane observed, [see article white weed. Deane's N. E. Farmer,] "that dunging the ground is an enemy to this weed; and it is said that pasturing with sheep kills it. But to conquer it effectually, there can be no better way than to use the land in tillage for hoed crop? several years in succession." The Farmer's Assistant assures us that top dressings of compost suitable to the soil will destroy it. If pasturing with sheep will effect its destruction, it will, in ma many - ny many cases, prove the easiest mode of an annihilating - nihilating annihilating it. But if the farmer has no sheep, cannot well till the land infested by it with hoed crops, and has no ma manure - nure manure or compost to spare, wherewith to doctor off his white weed, we should think something might be done, lo pret pretty - ty pretty good purpose, by constantly cutting it down while yet so green that it may be made into hay. If never permitted to ripen its seeds, it will at least lose its vigor, will not claim a patent right io the farmer's real property, and will not be able to use the " wings of the wind" in extending its dominions and taking ex exclusive - clusive exclusive possession of the territory in which it has unfortunately obtained a settlement. Merino Ram. - On Wednesday last Mr. Wedsworth Wadsworth, of Durham, exhibited in this city his celebrated Merino Ram. This remarkable animal is. only six years old - weighs 140 lbs. has never been sheared, and possesses the peculiar characteristic of the meri merino - no merino breed, of never shedding its wool. The length of his fleece, by actual measurement is 17 inches, and its weight, estimated by competent judges, from 20 to 40 lbs. For fineness of tex texture, - ture, texture, length of staple, and beauty of ap appearance, - pearance, appearance, it is believed it has never been surpassed by any single fleece in the-country. This animal enjoys per perfect - fect perfect health, and it is said does not suffer from the changes or extremes of climate. Middletown Sentine.l.

Sccommoxiatton Starves. THE Proprietors of the Old Line of Stages between Boston and Worcester, having made an arrangement with Mr. CYRUS STOCKWELL and others, Propri l tors of the New Line, running between Boston and Northampton. and Worcester and Soulhbridge, - will run them in the following manner: - Leave Boston every Thurs Thursday - day Thursday and Saturday, at 2 o'clock, A. M. and arrive at Northampton the same day - passing through Framingham, Westborough Town (within three miles oi the celebrated llop llopiiwon - iiwon llopiiwon Springs,) Worcester, Paxton, Oakham, New-Braintree. Hardwick, Greenwich Vil- Jage. Enfield, Amherst, to Northampton; and also through Prescott and Pelham tu Am Amherst - herst Amherst ; and also, leave Worcester tor South South. - . South. bridge same days, upon the arrival of the Stage from. Boston. Leave Northampton for Boston, Mon Mondays, - days, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 2 o'clock, A. M. and arrive the same day, passing through the same towns. Apply for seats, in Boston, at Wild & Hosmer's, Elm-Street, and at Earl's Coffee-House, Hauover-Street - in Worcester, .at Cyrus Stockwell's - in Northampton, at O. Warner's. N B. The Proprietors continue to -«nn their Old Lines as usual, leaving Worces Worcester - ter Worcester for Boston, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 12 o'clock at noon - Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 9 o'clock, A. M. and at 1 o'clock P. M. 05" Th® Southern Mail Stage leaves every -day, at 5 o'clock, P. M. *** For Seats in the above Lines, ap apply - ply apply at Thomas's Coffee-House, in Worces Worces,-te - ,-tei Worces,-te - and at Earl's Coffee-House, in Boston. SIMEON BURT. For the Proprietors. June 1, 1825 American Antiquarian Society. A Semi-Annual Meeting of the American Antiquarian Society will be holden at Antiquarian Hall, in Worcester, on,Thursday, the 30th day of June inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M. - A general attendance is re reouested. - ouested. reouested. REJOICE NEWTON, Ret'g. Sec'y. June 14, 1825.

would not be laughed at by my neigh neighbors - bors neighbors for turning author, I am determin determined - ed determined you shall have no signature but that of A MIDDLESEX FARMER. REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. Our correspondent has contrived to reuder a barren subject fertile.in hu humor - mor humor ; and if be handles his hoe, and performs with his plough, as well as he flourishes with bis pen, he will eventu eventually - ally eventually eradicate every pernicious plant that plagues his* premises. We will cheerfully enlist under his banners in a war of extermination against the vege vegetable - table vegetable land pirates of which he complains* It is ycleped by the learned Chrysan Chrysanthemum - themum Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. but has quite an assortment cf vulgar names, and. like ovu.. rogues mu seeuis to be accommodated with an alias for every country. I* some places it is called white weed, in others may weed, ox eye, &.c. In poetry it sometimes assumes the musical appellation of dai daisy - sy daisy ; and may be made to rhyme with lazy, or crazy, in any well written and well applied satire against those indo indolent - lent indolent cuitivaters who suffer it to encum encumber - ber encumber their grounds. It is possessed of such a detestable spirit of monopoly, (as intimated by our correspondent.) that, unless it meets with a ihorough ihoroughgcing - gcing ihoroughgcing opposition, it appropriates the fi-ids in which it gets root-hold to its own exclusive use, and starves out its more useful and creditable vegetable neighbors with apparently as little com compunction - punction compunction as good farmers feel in exter exterminating - minating exterminating grub-worms or catterpillars.

"There goes the Meddler," they used to say in the street, as he passed along, before he lived three months in the neighborhood - and a more despicable epithet could scarcely be applied to an individual, or one that would sooner bring him into supreme contempt. Like all other young men, Jones had two objects to accomplish as soon as practicable in the onset. The one was to secure to himself an established char character - acter character and a good business - The other to procure a good wife and set himself down in the world - and he appeared perfectly sensible of this, for he aimed Ht both objects in his blundering way. He professed a great deal of friendship for his customers, kept his promises bet better - ter better than could have been expected, and made tolerable shoes - but then he ne neglected - glected neglected hi« books and debts, and made use. of his tongue so much more than his wax er>d, that his shop did not turn many uubespoken dollars into his pocket. One after another of bis customers either took offence at bis meddling disposition, or became disgusted with his inquisitive inquisitiveness, - ness, inquisitiveness, and left him, while in proportion as his acquaintances multiplied, his ex expenses - penses expenses increased. - Three or four mugs of beer a day' cost him as many iippences, and a lew of these made a dollar, and the profit on a pair of shoes was very small. - Literally he went about, with an empty purse and an open mouth, which uttered more words than his shop brought bites of bread and butter per day, for a whole year, to put into it.