REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY. HORTICULTURAL. Fossess the fine delicate grain, the compact body, which though firm to the touch, PEARS AND RIPENING THEM. gently melts away in the mouth into that Winter use. General remarks, observations, &c. &c. Pleasant. Stormy. Chilly and uncomfortable. attentively observing it, the time during which the fruit is suitable for use may be much prolonged. It is not easy to deterluscious pulp, mingled with the tempting mine satisfactorily upon what this differAs the finest varieties of this delicious juice, the delicate taste of which was never ence of maturity depends. Since the fact fruit are now coming to maturity, some excelled by the nectar which was brought is established, theories are not of much suggestions in relation to the best manner out only at state dinners on Mount Olym-consequence. The time to gather the fruit is when, of bringing them to perfection may be pus? If your pear, young fruit-grower, valuable to those inexperienced in their possesses all these qualities, it is worthy by grasping the pear at the lower end, culture. I maintain that the pear is the of the name, and you may be sure that all turning it upwards, the stem readily sepafruit tree adapted to the climate and soil the labor you bestow upon it is profitably rates from the branch. This test will apof New York and New England-that, invested 1 Your returns shall be an hun-ply to all the varieties above named, and dred fold! If it does not posses them, many others. The fruit should always be with judicious cultivation, it attains a higher degree of perfection, and rewards banish it from your grounds. It is de- gathered by hand, not shaken from the tree, or torn from the branch by any those who cultivate it, either for pleasure generate-unworthy. On the western slope of the valley of of the humbug contrivances called "fruit or profit, more liberally than any arboresLake Champlain, one of the best pear gatherers." This may be readily accomcent production. The varieties which are best adapted to each locality can only be growing regions in the country, the most plished, even upon the longest and most desirable variety, all things considered, slender branches by the use of a simple, ascertained by a series of careful experiare the Bartlett, the white Doyenne or self-supporting ladder, a figure of which ments, in which the exposure, the composition of the soil, the danger of late or earVigalieu, the Flemish Beauty, the Belle s given in the Agriculturist for SeptemLucrative, the Beurre Diel; and the Seck-iber, 1860. ly frosts, as well as the kind of stock upon which the truit is to be grown, are ele-el for autumnal, and the Winter Nelis for ments, each of which must be carefully There are some earlier speattended to. A variety which proves it- cies, such as Dearbon's Seeding and others self a good bearer, and possesses a rich good enough in their season as early pears, flavor in one section, is often indifierent but which cannot be made to attain the or totally worthless in another; while one high perfection of the later varieties. Those which I have mentioned ripen substantially in the order named, commencing with the Bartlett early in Septem- kept, the longer the fruit will be in ripenber. By proper attention, with these va-ing, and a cool dry cellar is preferable for rieties alone, the fruit grower should have those varieties which it it is desirable to the fruit in fit condition for the table from keep until late in the autumn, or like the that time until the Winter Nelis ripens in Winter Nelis, far into winter. All deviJanuary. The latter may be kept in very ces, such as packing in dry sand, saw-dust and the like, are wholly useless. Air, good condition and flavor until March. The first rule to be observed in perfect- and enough of it, is as essential to the preing the pear is, that it never should be al-servation of the flavor of the pear as oxylowed to ripen upon the tree. If suffered gen to the preservation of human life. Attention to the foregoing few and simto remain on the tree after the proper time, it increases rapidly in size, the juic-ple directions, which are much out of es are absorbed in the coarse rough grain, and the fruit becomes insipid and tasteless. Nor should all the fruit of one tree be gathered at the same time, for there is much difference in the forwardness of the specimens, which does not depend at all upon exposure. This is one of the most valuable characteristics of the pear-by grower which is very desirable in the atter may atively excellent over a wider range of One of the most important questions to be determined in relation to a pear is, how does it ripen? 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Of this particular crusade, John Rogers, son of the founder of the sect, wrote a minute account, somewhat in the form of a journal, which was printed for the author, at Providence, in 1767, and is entitled, "A Looking Glass for the Presbyterians of New London; to see their worship and worshippers weighed in the balance and found wanting." A few extracts from this now rare old pamphlet will serve to show that Mr. Byles had some cause for complaint, and that the Rogerenes persecuted their neighbors, as well as suffered persecution from them. The writer commences by saying, In the Biographical sketch of the Rev. Mather Byles, mention was made of the annoyance he suffered from the Rogerenes. During his pastorate in New London, this sect appears to have been visited with a remarkable access of fiery zeal, which led them to make weekly Sabbath irruptions into the neighboring churches, to "We had been many times to the meettestify against the regular mode of wor- ing-house at New London, to put the ship, which they characterized as false minister and people in mind how contraproud and hypocritical. ry their worship was to the scriptures, The Rogerenes appear to belong exclu-and that it was not the worship of God. sively to New London County. They are But we could never persuade the minister not known elsewhere, as a community.nor congregation to stop and hear what John Rogers, their founder commenced we had to say, their deeds being evil, &c. his erratic career about the year 1677.- He then gives the history of their offenHe first embraced with others of his fam-ces, in breaking up the meetings, and the ily, the Sabbatarian or Seventh-day prin- various fines, imprisonments and whip ciple, but soon withdrew from that con- pings they endured in the year 1764. No nection, and gathered around him a small fear of suffering deterred them from givcommunity, who considered all days alike ing their testimony; He says: and declared war against every species of ecclesiastical organization, particularly the erection of churches, the clerical order, and preaching, praying and singing, ac cording to the forms generally used in public worship. Rogers himself died in 1721, but the sect continued; neither increasing or di minishing much, but persistently aggressive, regarding it as their peculiar mission to testify against an idolatrous world. At intervals of a few years their zeal would revive afresh, and they would sally forth in parties, every Sunday to disturb the worship of their neighbors and obtain "We constantly came among them every first day of the week, to witness against their false worship, and to warn them to flee from the wrath to come." "Some of our friends were always coming out of prisson, as well as going in, and so always ready to oppose their false worship every first day of the week." Daniel Coit Esq., then a prominent citizen of the place and in the commission of the peace, was the magistrate of whose severity the writer makes the loudest complaint. Mr. Adams, (Pygan Adams, Esq.,) took the milder course of arresting them, as they came past his house on Sun says: "Justice Adams undertook to stop our testimony by confining us in his house, on the first day of the week, when we came among them, and when their worship.was over he would set us at liberty. This method he practiced for some considerable time." The following abridged account of the proceedings for nine successive Sabbaths, will show the persevering and indomitable character of the Rogerenes. October 13, 1765. "Some of our friends was in the meeting-house, and when the hired priest began to say over his carnal prayer, some of our women being moved with zeal, sewed with their needles, that it might be known they had no fellowship with such unfruitful works of darkness.— Then justice Coit drove them out of the house, but he said the men might sit in the house, if they would be orderly; then one of our men told him, that the priest bad ordered our hats to be taken off, and that we could not have so much fellowship with his carnal prayer, as to sit quietly without our hats; then the justice ordered him to be taken care of. Upon this others spoke and told the people their worship was contrary to the scripture, and therefore not the worship of God; so justice Coit committed six of our friends to prigon. October 15, they beat the drum through the street, and gathered the people of the town together, and took our friends out of prison, and whipped five of them publicly at the beat of the drum. When the first of these sufferers was taken out of prison to receive his sentence of whipping, the sheriff asked if anybody would pay his fine for him. But he told the sheriff he did not want anybody to pay his fine; and then went to justice Coit and told him that their worship was the worship of devils; and when he had received ten severe stripes, and was untied from the post, he told justice Coit again, that their worship was the worship of devis. and God would overthrow it. The next first day of the week, justice Coit committed twelve more of our friends to prison for the like testimony, October 23, they were taken out of prison and nine of them publickly whipped at the beat of the drum. The next first day of the week, (Oct. 27) we went into the meeting house again, and one of our friends went up to justice Coit's pew, and told him that he had whipped us twice for testifying against their false worship, and now we were come again for the same purpose. For these and other words spoken by our friend, justice Coit commanded eight of us to prison. The next first day of the week, (Nov. 3,) three of our men went into the meeting house and boldly witnessed against their worship and pride. These were committed to prison with the others, and soon after all were taken out and nine of them whipped. The next first day of the week, being the 10th of November, a guard was set to keep us from the meeting-house, yet two of our men escaped the guard, and went into the house and boldly declared against their falso worship and justice Coit com mitted them to prison. November 14, being their pretended thanksgiving day, one of our friends went into the meeting house and told the people God would not hear their prayers while they lived in such pride, but justice Coit, ordered a constabie to take care of him, and after their worship was over, eight or ten young men came out, and took him to a place of muddy water and threw him into it several times, also they threw mud and dirt into his face. But he testified to these wicked men, that he felt a peaceable quiet spirit which they could not disturb. He was committed to prison in that wet and dirty condition. The next first day of the week, being the 17th of November, some of our friends went through the town, and an old man aged about 73 years, cryed Repentance! through the streets, and stopped at the authorities houses, and warned that the cries of God's suffering children was gone up before God, and that the Lord Jesus was coming with ten thousands of saints to execute judgement upon all their ungodiy deeds. After they had gone through the town, they went up to the meeting house, but the people fell upon them in a very angry manner, and drove them into the school house, and a constable kept the door, and confined them there. In the evening our friends were taken out, one by one, both men and women, and their heads and clothes were tarred with warm tar; also they put tar into their hats and and that they persecuted the other party, The next first day of the week, after our The next first day being the 25th of November, the three men, (that had been imprisoned since Thanksgiving day,) were taken out of prison, and brought before justice Coit. And he read the writ he had against them, and asked them if they owned what they were charged with in that writ; they answered they did own it; and they told him still more that they had said than he had got in his writ against them. Then justice Coit said, What would you have us do? Then our friends told them they would have them get such a meek and lowly spirit as to be willing to hear the meanest of God's children, and to be like our Savior, who was so meek and lowly as to wash his disciples' feet. So after some little discourse more, justice Coit set them at liberty, tho' guilty of the like crime that he whipped us for before, three weeks running, and twice at the beat of the drum. The next first day of the week, being the first day of December, we went among them again, and were confined in the school house till their meeting was over, and then set at liberty." THE REPOSITORY: NEW-LONDON, CONN. BY W. H. STARR. Thursday, October 11. 1860. THE ANGEL OF THE HOUSE. A delightful picture of the "Housebo Angel" is given in a recent number of the British Workman. The writer reniarks: "There is an angel in the house. No! matter how fallen the inmates, how depressed the circumstances, there is an atgel there to pity or to cheer. It may be in the presence of a little child, or it may be enclosed in a stooping and wrinkk body, treading the downward path to the grave. Or, perhaps, in a cheerful spirit looking upon the ills of life as so many steps toward heaven, if only bravely overcome, and mounted with sinless feet. W knew such an angel once, and it was s drunkard's child. On every side, wherev er she moved she saw only saw misery and degradation, and yet she did not fall. He father brutal, and her mother discourage, and her home thoroughly uncomfortable. But she struggled along with angel endurance, bearing with an almost saintly pas tience the infirmities of him who gave ber existence, and then hourly embittered it. Night after night, at the hours of ten, twelve, and one, barefoot, ragged, shawlIt is unnecessary to pursue this record less and bonnetless, has she been to the further. The extracts given above do not den of the drunkard, and gone staggering contain the most revolting incidents of the home, with her arm around her father.contest. It is a sad historical fact that Many a time has her flesh been blue with cannot be obliterated, that the Rogerenes the mark of his hand, when she has stepped besides suffering the extreme rigors of the in between her helpless mother and vio law in fines, scourgings, imprisonments, lence. Many a time has she sat upon the were several times given up to the tender cold curbstone, with his head in her lap: mercies of the populace, mobbed and driv- many a time known how bitter it was to en through the streets with hue and cry, cry for hunger, when the money which bruised and buffeted, ducked in water, should have bought bread was spent in gin. and besmeared with pitch and tar. It is And the patience that the angel wrought true that they brought all this upon them-with, made her face shine; so that, though selves, that they challenged and courted persecution, and were disappointed when they were let alone. It is true that they were obstinate and excessively provoking, never acknowledged in the courts of this world, in the kingdom of heaven she was waited for by assembled hosts of spirits. and the crown of martyrdom lay ready waiting for her young brow. And she had turned our former kitchen into a tea-order, the following: Chrysoberyl, Spiwas a martyr. Her gentle spirit went up coloring room. There were around the nelle, Emerald, Beryl, Topaz, Zircon, Garfrom a couch of anguish—anguish brought | sides of the apartment fourteen of these net, Tourmaline, Rubellite, Essonfte, Coron by ill usage and neglect. And never iron bowls, set in mortar on the top of as dierite, Iolite, Quartz, and Chrysolité, till then, did the father recognize the angel many brick furnaces, in which moderate sixteen minerals, which fulfil the definition in the child; never till then did his man- fires were burning. Thirteen of the bowls of the word "Gem" in the lapidary's list. hood arise from the dust of its dishonor.— were half filled with tea leaves, and a man Sapphires are beginning to be in great From her humble grave, he went away to stood at each, rapidly stirring them with consideration, ranking with the diamond steep his resolves in bitter tears; and he his hand. The remaining bowl contained and opal. Most people, thinking of sapwill tell you to day how the memory of a quantity of this bluish-green color-phire skies, would tell you their color was her much-enduring life keeps him from ing matter, which another was also stir- always blue. but it has chiefly two colors, the bowl; how he goes sometimes, and ring. To this one, the men would come blue and red. This gem withstands the stands where her patient hands have led from the others every few minutes, and blowpipe, is not attacked by the strongest him, while her cheek crimsoned at the taking from it a small quantity of the con- mineral acids, but fuses with borax and sneers of those who scoff at the drunkard's tents, would return and stir it, each into salt of phosphorus. It is polished with child. Search for the angels in your house- his bowl of the leaves, till they had ac-diamond-powder. When the color is red holds, and cherish them while they are quired the requisite hue. The exceeding it is called a Ruby; when bluc, Oriental It may be that all uncon- ly minute quantity of prussian blue that Sapphire, with four subdivisions—male, among you. sciously you frown upon them, when a any person could imbibe in drinking tea female, water, and cat Sapphire. Its prosmile would lead you to a knowledge of from leaves thus prepared, precludes, in portionate value is next that of the diaof their exceeding worth. They may be my opinion, the possibility of injury re- mond; the Oriental ruby standing highest among the least cared for, most despised; sulting therefrom. in value, and when perfect, and exceeding but when they are gone with their silent The significations of some of the names three carats, is generally as dear as a diainfluence, then you will mourn for them; by which teas are known, are as follows-mond of equal weight and quality. as for a jewel of great worth." making due allowance for the changes and The Topaz presents eight varieties.corruption they undergo, in form and The most esteemed are the rose-bud, and sound, in being Anglicized. Hyson' the white, or "water drop." The value means 'before the rains,' or flourishing has depreciated in consequence of the large supplies obtained from Brazil, the average yield of that country being forty pounds annually. The largest known topaz is in possession of the Great Mogul, weighing 157 carats, and worth $60,000. use. TE A. means 'tea skins.' Refuse of a still coars er description, containing many stems is called tea bones.' Bohea' is the name of 6 folded plant.' Perhaps there is no article in such uni-spring-that is, early in the spring. versal use in this country as the leaf of Hence it is often called Young Hyson.' the tea plant, of which we possess so littleHyson skin' is composed of the refuse of correct knowledge. Taylor's Travels in the other kinds, the native term for which China," gives us quite an interesting account of the plant and its preparations for The Emerald depends for its value up"The same plant," he remarks, proon size, fine color, and vivid lustre. A duces all the varieties. The different specimen which possesses these qualites in times of gathering and modes of preparaperfection is fitted for use in the most extion, cause all the difference between those the down on the tender leaves. Pou-pensive kinds of jewelry. The price of kinds known by so many distinct names-chongSouchong-this gem has been reduced by the product both of green and black. The leaves only small plant. Twankway' is the name of the mines of Peru, but good specimens are picked and not the flowers; they are of a stream in the province whence it is all rolled with the fingers. Those dried brought. 'Congo' is from a term signifyrapidly in iron basin over the fire becomes ing labor' from the care required in its 'green tea,' while those thrown into very preparation." hot basins, then taken quickly out and exposed to the sun for a while, and afterwards dried over a fire, becomes black tea.' These pans,' as some' writers call them, but more corrrectly, howls or basins for they are nearly semi-globular in shape and about eighteen inches in diameter are always of iron-never of copper. A mixture of prussian blue and gypsum is used in the preparation of some green teas; but the better qualities are generally per GEMS. The beautiful gems of such exquisite Sixteen minerals are generally consid- command high value, and the rates have lately increased. An emerald of four grains sells for about $20, one of sixteen grains for $200, and one of forty-eight grains for $1000. The gem is easily imitated, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the genuine from the false. MARRIED. COIT-CHANDLER.-In Concord, N. H., on the py Rev. Charles Mason. D. D., Hon. L. F. S. Fos- DIED. BURGESS,-In this city, on the 5th inst., M. Alice |