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Insscts-Powdered charcoal scattered upon melon and cucumber vines occasionally, is the best antidete for bugs-and soap suds is te best manure for them, and for all garden plants and trees.

 The Northampton Gazette says that the late flood covered POO acres of meadow in that alone, and .ha. potatoes and be repan.ed where it had before been planted.

 Fatal Error.- Tie following painful circumstance took place in Kensington, on Tuesday last: Medicine was required for woman recently confined, and tho husband went out and procured suitable quantity Of pulverized rhubarb shortly afterwards the sister of the patient came in, and advised that the rhubarb should not be taken; it was pat away accordingly, and the sister the time put into another place

 small quantity Ol powders procured to kill cockroGch es. This took place o" Sunday, and on Tuesday morning a resort to medicine was found necessary. when tie woman thought to take the rhubarb, but mix cd the cockroach poison took i, and shortly after wards died. The case caused much specuIatiOS, aud gave rise to censure, before the coroner, by digeN examination, arrived at the facts as we have stated them above.-Pha. U. s. Gazette.

 Redistribution. Lieut.. Johnson, of the British ar. my, on wager of l00L. walked from Fort George, U C. to the Eagle Tavero, in this city, returned in seU entesn hours, winning by one hour It was oD Friday Iagl, not wDu DuNTy uAyS VOuus WOTW mWCu ken, and he had 10 cross HHd re.cross the Niagara from Waterloo to Black ROck and yet performed his feat with apparent ease.-B.6aLo JoIr.

 Encounter aith c Whait.-The Middletown Gazette furnishes tie following oi presence Of mind in the master of whale ship, when in situa ton of the mos, imminent peril: Captain Chester. of the whaling ship Ann Maria, of this place, O" her late voyage round the East Cape met with the follow ing adventure. One of his boats having fastened whale, as is customary, a second boat, in which Captain Chester, approached and drove second dart

 into the monster. In his rage and agony, the whale rushed with great rapdi,y through the water, when the rope attached to the harpoon caught capt. C. round his leg, above the ancle, and drew him hoard. Al this critical moment, he seized knife, sticking in the gunwale of the bOa and thus armed, was drawn under water. The rope coon made turn round his body. In this situation, moving rapidly down, he first cut that part of the rope around hs body, then cut the rope fastened to his leg. Being thus relieved, he the top of the water and ras- ed his hand, grasping the knife. Some distance from the beat he was discovered by the crew. who has.en- ed 10 rescue, and loCk him board, almost exhaust, l ed. He was draWn down Rboat thirty falhOms. The capt. s now well and preparing ior another voyage, ! nothing daunled by his adventure