REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1860. REPORTED BY H. E. CHITTY. Day of the week. Day of Temperature above zero *; below -. Monday,. 24 Tuesday, 25 20 80 Wednesday, Thursday, 27 ... 27 4 Friday,. Saturday,. 29 28.4 Direction of the wind. State of the Weather. Morn. | Noon. | Eve. General remarks, observations, &c. &c. clear Cold all day. clear clear clear Pleasant. clear N. E. N. E. N. E. N. E. cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy cloudy Chilly. HORTICULTURAL. NEW SEEDLING CHERRIES. Color, pale yellow ground, mostly over-clear, rich red; suture half round, broad; CORNELIA.-Tree very upright, spreading; extremely productive. Fruit, large, heart shape, with occasionally a pip or point, like Elton. Color, light, clear pale yellow, and marbled with bright red next the stem, wherever exposed to the sun in ripening. Stem, one and a fourth to one and a half inches long. Flesh, yellowish, firm, juicy, sweet, with a rich flavor, fully equal or superior to Elton. Pit, small.— Season, last of June. GUM SHELLAC IN PRUNING.-Young trees, says the Scientific American, which were budded tne past season, will require to be cut off above the bud in the Spring. The plan adopted by many nurserymen is to cut the tree an inch or half an inch above the bud, and after the latter has be The readers of the Ohio Farmer will recollect, that two years since we described a new seedling cherry, originating with Mr. Charles Pease, under the name of "The Lady of the Lake." The origin of that variety was the same as those we are now about to describe, viz.; seed selected from the best varieties of Prof. Kirtland's new sorts, such as Rockport, Gov. Wood, Jocosot, &c. Mr. Pease has somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred of those seedlings. Many of them, when fruiting, have shown the natural tendency of the majority of seedlings, viz.: to go backward rather than 'forward; while others, although far better than Bauman's May, Early White Heart, American Heart, &c., are not yet sufficiently improved to make them worthy of descrip tion, name or propagation. A few, bowever, have shown very superior qualities ; and having watched them daily during the ripening, and raade our notes, we now proceed to write them out, for the benefit of such of the world as are interested in the growth, cultivation, and introduction of the best cherries. The names are giv-um, in a moderately deep depression.-paint the surface of the cut with a thick en by Mr. Pease, the originator : NANCY.-Tree of vigorous, spreading habit; very productive. Fruit, above medium size, roundish flattened; suture half round, shallow, followed often by a slight knoblike projection, as in Rockport. Color, light creamy yellow, mottled and marbled with vermillion red, the red provailing. Stem, medium, one to one and a quarter inches long, set in a depression of moderate depth. Flesh, yellowish white, half tender, juicy, sprightly, rich and sweet; when separating from the pit, leaving a little attached. Pit, below medium, smooth, regular, roundish, oval, one sided. Season, June 5th to 15th. DACOTAH.--Tree very upright in growth, Flesh, purplish black, almost tender, very ry gun to grow, to trim the trunk down to the point of connection with a sharp knife. As the young shoot is exceedingly tender, borious and objectionable method results it is in great danger of being injured by this operation. The necessity for this lafrom the danger of the bud being killed by the drying of the trunk down from the ticed for several years, and on many thouplace at which it is cut. We have pracsands of trees, a plan which saves entirely close to the bud at the first operation, and fully successful. We trim the tree down the second trimming, and which has been solution of gum shellac in alcohol. As washed off by the rains, and it preserves the gum is not soluble in water it is not the tree alive to the very end, so that the wound heals in the most perfect manner, making a smoother joint than can be produced in any other way. This preparation may also be used with advantage for coating the wounds made in pruning choice trees. BILL AND COO.-This is a seedling oberof Prof. Kirtland's, that for several years we have been examining, and have never described because of its size. Its quality, however, is very rich and delictain bearing character, that wo believe the ious, together with its productive and cerTO PURIFY RIVER OR ANY OTHER public should know of it, and procure and MUDDY WATER.-Dissolve half an ounce propagate it. It takes its name from being of alum in a pint of warm water, and the favorite resort of a couple of young stirring it about in a puncheon of water lovers. Fruit medium; form regular heart just taken from any river, all impurities LAURA.-Tree, spreading, upright, pro-shape, flattened at apex: stem long, slen-will soon settle to the bottom, and in a day ductive. Fruit, medium to large, heart der, set in a deep depression, sides high; or two it will be clear as the finest spring shape, globular, sometimes one sided.-color, amber yellow ground, marbled with water. "Continuance each week.................................... · "My motto through life has been-Work and Adver tise. In business. Advertising is the true Philosopher's Stone, that turns whatever it touches into gold. I have advertised much, both in the week. ly as well as the daily papers; nor have I found that those of the largest circulation, of either class, benefitted me the most--JOHN JACOB ASTOR. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS THE Grocer's Bank, Bangor.. Hancock Bank, Ellsworth. Maratime Bank, Bangor.... Mousum River Bank, Sanford. 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Hamilton Exchange Bank, Green.. Ontario Bank, Utica, Safety Fund.. Payment to be made in advance, All other let-Western Bank, Lockport..... ters optional. +Weekly, per annum. Papers in all cases to be paid in advance. Yates County Bank, Penn. Yann. All the rest of the State. DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Vol. III: THE GEM AND THE PEARL. There is a gem of price untold, The soul-the soul-that priceless gem, There is a pearl more lovely far It gleameth not 'mid fashion's whirl; That radiant gem of priceless worth BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. NUMBER SEVENTEEN. CAPT. JOHN DESHON. married, Oct. 4, 1724, Ruth, daughter of ONE DOLLAR A YEAR No. 47. ed was that of Capt. Giles Mumford, who purchased the lot of Capt. Deshon in 1785. It was the first house of three stories in height, that had ever been erected in New London. Capt. Deshon's wife was Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Starr. They both died in June, 1792, within eighteen days of each other, leaving but one child, Sarah, wife of Samuel Wheat. They were interred in the second Burial Ground, but their remains have been removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery. Though Capt. Deshon left no sons, the name through a collateral branch is still extant among us. Capt. John Deshon, now living in New London, in the calm enjoyment of a green old age, is the nephew and namesake of the former Captain. Like him he went early to sea, has traversed the ocean in various directions, and trafficked in many ports. It is pleasant to see, walking in our streets, in 1861, with firm step and cheerful countenance, one who so long ago as 1798 was entrusted with command of a ship. In that year Capt. Deshon sailed from New-London as mate of the armed merchant ship Criteri He was born 25th Dec., 1727. He went early to sea, and followed that course of life for twenty-five or thirty years; was successful in his adventures, and relinquishing the actual command of a vessel, was engaged in mercantile pursuits when the revolutionary war took place. In the commencement of the struggle he was ap pointed to serve on various committees of the colony for furnishing naval supplies, and during the whole contest was consulted and employed in the maritime affairs of this district. If a vessel was to be sent out secretly, either to obtain salt, or to purchase a supply of lead, sulphur or flints; or some species of craft was to be armed hastily and dispatched on a special cruise, Capt. Deshon was one of the persons relied on to expedite and manage the business. His special office appears to have been that of Commissary to the Forts and State vessels. This he held by appoint-on-armed to resist any aggression that ment of the Connecticut authorities. The Provincial Congress also appointed him a member of the Naval Board of the Eastern Department. The residence of Capt. Deshon in Main Street was subsequently known as the Wheat house. It stood upon the spot now occupied by the His father, Daniel Deshon, is supposed tasteful mansion of Mr. Sidney Miner, In former days almost all our young to have been the son of one of those thirty and was reputed to have been one of the men took to the seas, and made voyages, Huguenots that emigrated from France first dwelling houses, regularly framed few or many. The crews of our trading with their families, in 1686, the year after and glazed, that was erected in the town. vessels were generally natives of the vithe revocation of the edict of Nantes, and The timber of the frame was cut from the cinity. It is otherwise now; a large prosettled in Oxford, Mass, The settlement ground where it stood; the chimney was portion of them are from abroad. In was subsequently broken up by an inva constructed of brick imported from Hol-looking minutely into our local bistory, sion of the Indians, and the emigrants land, and the original windows were form- it is astonishing to see how many of our dispersed into other parts of New Eng-ed of small, diamond-shaped panes, set in people have acquired the title of Captain. land. Rene Grignon, a man of some note lead. It was taken down in 1851. having Some indeed have acquired it by station among them, fixed his residence in Nor- stood upwards of one hundred and seven-in the militia, but in far, the greater numwich, and there died, in the year 1715.- ty years. In the rear of this house, Capt. ber of instances it denotes the masters of Daniel Deskon was at that time a youth Deshon had a rope-walk, running to Hun- sloops, packets, schooners and larger vosin bis family, and one of the legatees men- tington Street, which had not then been sels, men who from childhood have lived tioned in his will. At a later period De- opened. This street was surveyed and much at sea, and risen to their rank by shon settled in New London, where he laid out in 1784, and the first house erect-skill in breasting the mountain wave. BY J. M. c. Capt. John Deshon, one of the old seacaptains of New London, a veteran in the West-India trade, merits an honorable record among the patriots of the revolutionary war. might be met with from the French, who were then annoying our commerce. Tho master having died on the voyage, he returned from Bilboa in command of the vessel. Since that period he has made some thirty or forty voyages to Europe and the West Indies. THE REPOSITORY: NEW-LONDON, CONN. BY W. H. STARR. Thursday, January 10, 1861. "SECESSION." as the snows on the mountain melt under much susceptibility of and How sadly and harshly does this ill-acter. omened word grate upon the ear! Secess- Peaceable secession! Peaceable secesion is disruption and disruption is disunion, sion! The concurrent agreement of all and disunion is dishonor and disgrace to the members of this great Republic to our country. We hear of peaceable seces- separate! A voluntary separation, with sion. Is any one blind enough not to see alimony on the ohe side and on the other! that this is imposible. Does the South in Why, what would be the result? Where its suicidal policy look for peaceable seces- is the line to be drawn? What States are sion? Does South Carolina desire it? If to secede? What is to retain America? so, what means the seizure of the pub- What am I to be? An American no lonlic property-the Arsenal-the Govern- ger? Am I to become a sectional man, a ment fortifications and the U. S. Cutter! local man, a separatist with no country in Peaceable Secession, devoutly as it may be common with the gentlemen who sit longed for and prayed for, is an impossi- around me here, or who fill the other house bility. Let us ponder over the words of of Congress? Heaven forbid? Where is the last great speech of Webster in the the flag of the Republic to remain ?— Senate. In 1850, in the maturity of his Where is the eagle still to tower? Or is powers and the full vigor of his intellect he he to cower and shrink, and fall to the thus spoke of "secession":ground? Why, sir, our ancestors, our fathers and our grand-fathers, those of them that are yet living among us with prolonged lives, would rebuke and reproach us, and our children and grand-children would "I should much prefer to have heard from every member on this floor, declarations of opinion that this Union could never be disolved, that the declaration of The advantages of giving a superior ed ucation to women are not confined to themselves, but have a salutary influence on our sex. The fear that increased in struction will render them incompetent or neglectful in domestic life, is absurd in theory, and completely destroyed by facts. Women, as well as men, when once established in life, know that there is an end of trifling; its solicitudes and duties multiply, apt to feel them much more keenly, and upon them equally fast; the former are too frequently abandon all previous acthese, But, if one sex have cultivated and quirements to devote themselves wholly to refined minds, the other must meet them from shame, if not from sympathy. If a man finds that his wife is not a mere nurse or a house-keeper; that she can, when the occupations of the day are over, enliven s winter's evening; that she can converse on the usual topics of literature, and enjoy the pleasures of superior conversation, or the reading of a valuable book, he must opinion by anybody, that, in any case, un- cry out shame upon us, if we of this gen- have a perverted taste, indeed, if it does eration should dishonor these ensigns of not make home still dearer, and prevent der the pressure of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word "Secession," especially when it falls from the lips of felt among us with so much joy and grati- not be mentioned; instruction and culti tude." INFLUENCE OF FEMALES ON any him from resorting to taverns for recreation. The benefits to her children need vated taste in a mother enhance their respect and affection for her, and their love of home, and throw a charm over the whole scene of domestic life. those who are patriotic, and known to the country and known all over the world, for their political services. Secession! Peaceable Secession? Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle.The dismemberment of this vast country Female influence is a most important HON. JOHN A. BOLLES' LECTURE. without convulsion! The breaking up of characteristic, not only in every departthe fountains of the Great Deep without ment of social life, but in every phase of ruffling of the surface! Who is so foolish christian, civilized or even savage society. The fourth Lecture of the Citizens' [I beg everybody's pardon] as to expect to Tudor remarks, "From an accurate ac- Course, was delivered by the Hon. John see any such thing? Sir, he who sees count of the condition of women in A. Bolles, of Boston, on Thursday eventhese States, now revolving in harmony country, it would not be difficult to infering, Jan. 3d. Subject, "The United around a common centre, and expects to the whole state of society. So great is the States a Tributary Nation until 1815."— see them quit their places and fly off, influence they exercise on the character of The lecture consisted of an account of without convulsion, may look the next men, that the latter will be elevated or de- the insults and exactions to which our hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from graded, according to the situation of the government and people submitted from their spheres and jostle against each other weaker sex. Where women are slaves, as the Barbary powers, from 1784 to 1815. in the realms of space, without causing the in Turkey, the men will be the same;Owing to the inclemency of the weather, wreck of the Universe. There can be no where they are treated as mortal beings, the lecturer was not favored with as large such thing as peaceable secession. Peacea--where their minds are cultivated, and an audience as the preceding ones. The ble secession is an utter impossibility. Is they are considered equals, the state of next lecture will be delivered on Thursthe great Constitution under which we society must be high, and the character of day evening, Jan. 10, by Rev. E: H. Chalive, covering this whole country, is it to the men energetic and noble. There is so pin, D. D., of New York. Subject— be thawed and melted away by secession, much quickness of comprehension, so "Man and his work," CITY ITEMS. PUBLIC FAST.-Friday last, appointed by Gov. Buckingham as a day of fasting and prayer, in consideration of the imminent peril of our Union, was generally observed in this city. Business was generally suspended, and in most of the churches prayer meetings were held by their respective congregations. An interesting and deeply impressive service was held at the St. James (Episcopal) Church, in the forenoon, The Pastor, Rev. Dr. Hallam, in on able and impressive discourse, relating to the present unhappy condition of the country viewed its troubles as the judgements of God for the sins of the nation; putting entirely out of view the political strifes and commotions which on the surface might appear instrumental in bringing them upon us, and setting forth the national tendency to forgetfulness and disregard of the divine commands, in punishment for which our present calamities aro visited upon us." Those who were present regarded the discourse as peculiarly adapted to the occasion. We learn that its publication will becalled for. 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