CAPT. PARRY'S SHIP FURY IN THE ICE. Captain Parry was the second time fitted out in the Hecla; while the Fury was intrusted to Lieutenant, now Captain Hoppner, who had taken an active part in the opera tions of the first voyage. The expedition set sail from Northfleet on the 19th of May, 1824, and was in Davis's Strait by the middle of June. The heat of the cabins was kept up to between 50 and 60 degrees, and the seamen wore next the skin a clothing of fur. The spring was unusually favorable, and, with comparatively easy sawing of the ice, the navigators warped out to sea on the 19th of July, 1825. Having touched at Cape Seppings, Captain Parry proceeded down the inlet, where he was no longer arrested by an unbroken barrier of ice. The sea, however was still heavily encumbered by numerous small fragments, that were tossing about in every direction, and pressed upon the ships so hard, that the men wished for a contrary wind; which coming from the south, would open and disperse the masses collected and driven against them by the north wind. In this anxious and precarious state, they worked slowly on till the 1st of August, and reached the latitude of 79° 45', longitude 91° 50'..Here Captain Parry, from the Hecla, saw the Fury receive a most severe shock by a large floe, that forced her against the grounded ice of the shore; and tidings soon came, that she had been very sharply nipped, and was ad- EAGLE PLOW. Fig. 1. This cut represents the Eagle Plow, with the late improvements of a draft-rod, regulated by a simple dial, recently patented by Ruggles, Nourse, and Mason, attached to the end of the beam, by which the ploughman can easily and quickly place the end of the rod in a position that will cause the plow to take any required width or depth of furrow, gauging it to a quarter of an inch, if neces sary to be so exact. This draft-rod makes, in reality, a perfect centre-draft plow, of the best possible construction. Combining the dial-clevis and the draft rod, it enables the plowman to run his plow close alongside of a fence or ditch, and turn up wet meadows or rice lands, with the off as well as the near horse treading on the unbroken ground, instead of the miry open furrow, so very fatiguing to him. The cutter is requisite at the North in plowing sod ground, as it cuts the sod clear through in a line with the plow, and thus enables the plowman to turn it over more The Eagle Self-Sharpening and Adjusting Steel- Pointed Plow. These plows are of the same superior form of construction as the Eagle plows usually made by Ruggles, Nourse, and Mason, with the exception that the point and share consist of two pieces, which are constructed upon an improved self-sharpening principle. The point is a wrought straight bar of iron, steeled at each end, about twenty inches in length, and passes upwards into the body of the plow. As it wears away it is easily shoved forward; and as it becomes blunt it is turned over to the other side, thus always presenting a sharp point of full length and proper shape. When one end of the point or bar is worn off five inches, it is reversed, and the other end performs a like service. The wing or share is also reversible, and can be used either end forward, or either side up. Both point and share are so very simple in their construction, that any blacksmith can renew them at trifling expense, with wrought iron or steel. We particularly commend these plows for Southern plantations, for their own blacksmiths can at any time easily repair them.There is also a cast iron coulter on the share of the plow, a little back and above the point, so arranged as to be easily replaced when worn out, which is much less expensive and in many kinds of soil quite as serviceable as a wrought coulter. They are also made with wrought cutters in common form. Self-sharpening plows heretofore may have been considered objectionable, inasmuch as they have not possessed sufficient strength, Mr. Allen makes three sizes on the precise principle of the most approved Scotch Subsoil Plow, one of which he imported from Scotland in 1840. This cost him $50 in Edinburgh, says Mr. Allen. By modifying and simplifying its construction, at the same time making some important improvements in it, we are now able to supply the farmers and planters of this country with plows lighter and better suitable for our people, and at the same time of equal capacity, and at a much less price than the Scotch Plow. The Sub-soil Plow, imported by us, we believe to be the first real Sub-soil Plow ever brought into this country. They have since been used in the different sections of the United States and Canada, with great satisfaction; and the demand is constantly and rapidly increasing. These Plows are used by following directly after the team, turning up the surface soil, and in the same furrow. This is of great advantage to the crops, both in dry and wet land. In the former, the sub-soil being deeply broken up, and well pulverized, the moisture is retained much longer than it otherwise would be, and the roots and plants can descend much lower and wider for their food, while in the latter the excess of moisture filters below and is readily carried off. Improved Instruments of Agriculture.There is hardly any subject more replete with instruction and improvement, as well as pleasure, to a person of any discrimination or taste, than agriculture. Although shut up in a city, with few, very few opportunities to see a piece of unpaved ground larger than "the Park," or Union Square," such are our habits and feelings, our recollections and associations, that the strongest desire is every day felt, to retire for a while to the sweetscented fields and the lonely woods and groves. It may seem to some of our readers as rather a strange, if not rather a ludicrous substitute, to resort, as we sometimes do, to a seedman's shop, or even a store of agricultural implements. It is however true, that even there we have found a little relief, among objects connected with the farm and the garden. We recently visited the large Agricultural Warehouse of Mr. A. B. Allen, 187 Pearl st., and passed through six successive stories of large rooms, filled with all sorts of plows, harrows, shellers, hoes, spades, forks, rakes, and all other implements, instruments, &c., neces sary or convenient to the farmer and gardener, down to little traps made to catch field-mice, one at a time. There also we found books and seeds, particularly the seeds we were in the search of, viz., the Egyptian wheat, and beans described in our report of a late meeting of the Agricultural Society, which we shall send to many of our subscribers. (See Am. Penny Mag, page 244. Vol. 2.) We were reminded, (while admiring the grand display of American ingenuity around us, with inward satisfaction at the " plough shares and pruning hooks" which we love better in their present contrast with swords and spears") of a wish expressed by an enlightened friend, that the farmers might be informed of the best implements and modes of culture, by cheap and disinterested publications sent to their doors. We therefore have procured cuts and descriptions of some of the latest and most approved, for sale at the store of Mr. Allen, and to-day commence with ploughs. MISCELLANEOUS. A Mexican Thicket is thus described by one of our officers." It was composed almost solely of a dry, white, thorny brush, without leaves, and so closely matted together that it looked as if you could hardly run your arm into it. My advanced guard halted, and said they could not get through it. I told them they must try, and, by beating the bushes aside with the buts of their muskets, they made a place large enough for one man to crawl in. The labor of the men in front was so severe that I had to change them every few minutes, and by the time I had gone a mile in this slow and painful manner, I saw from the general exhaustion of the men, that it was useless to attempt getting further. I then sent two of them up the highest bush I could see, for trees there were none, to discover the nearest outlet, but in every direction they could not see any thing but "chapperal." Not a breath of wind could relieve the close, sultry, unhealthy atmosphere, and where not a drop of water was. to be had. As war with Mexico has now regularly begun, we may expect that the system of privateering will be extensively carried on by adventurers from all countries, sailing under Mexican colors. There is a pretty large squadron already in the Gulf, but we presume it will be ordered to blockade various Mexican ports. An additional naval force is necessary. With a few American cruisers in the Gulf, there will be little danger for some time. The principal danger from privateers is in that portion of the Gulf stretching from the Balize to the Havana. The War.-General Taylor's camp on the Rio Grande was assaulted by the Mexicans in great force, after he left it for point Isabel; but made a successful defence, with the destruction of many of the Mexicans, and burning a part of the city of Matamoras with bomb-shells. General Taylor has since forced his way back. Majors Ringold and Brown, and Colonel Mc'Intosh were killed, as well as 200 or 300 other Americans, and many Mexicans. Effects of the War.-Its effects will be felt throughout the whole United States, but more particularly in New Orleans, Mobile, and other ports in the Gulf of Mexico. Every dollar of merchandize shipped from these places, either to the Atlantic States, Europe, or any other part of the world, is taxed, by the mere increase of premium, from three to five dollars on every hundred, in addition to what was paid before this declaration was made. Be The underwriters now charge three premiums, instead of one, and consequently the rate of one and a half per cent. is increased to four and a half per cent. sides this increased tax, the risk and embarassments are at least tripled on all kinds of trade. In the first place, the large and wealthy capatalists have withdrawn their orders, and will no longer make advances on money shipped from that section of the country, thus leaving the business to be transacted by weaker and more feeble firms.-N. Y. Express. Effects of the War.-At New Bedford, Nantucket, and other ports where the whaling business is principally carried on, and where, at this season of the year, a large portion of the ships are fitted out, the trade has come to a dead stand, and principally because the insurance companies, if even they will take the risk, furnish no security to the insured; for it requires no great wisdom to foresee, that if the war is to continue any great length of time, the companies would be totally unable to pay a tithe of their losses. STRIKING FACTS AND REMARKS. From the Anniversary Reports. DR. CHEEVER'S SERMON FOR THE FOREIGN EVANGELICAL SOCIETY. Text-the second chapter and 8th verse of the Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians-" And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." The question of the practical relations between Protestantism and Romanism, (said Dr. Cheever, is becoming almost the absorbing We seem to see two question of our times. What are great armies on the eve of battle. to be the laws of the conflict, which, doubtless, is to be the conflict of the age? Shall brute force, and material infernal burnings go again into operation, or is the decision of the world, under the providence of God, about to prohibit compulsion, and open a fair field, in which Truth and Falsehood shall wrestle together? There are those who take a desponding view. There are those who envy Rome's unity, and make a great outcry concerning the need of a similar organic unity in the Protestant church, without which they seem to regard Protestantism as unable to cope with her great enemy. They seem to forget, entirely, that true Protestantism is a creation of the Spirit,-Romanism, a mass of form. If the Protestant church should attempt to imitate the organic unity of Rome, the world would not only be shorn of her Evangelical strength, but would become a second Rome herself. This false imitative watch-word of an organic unity is the voice of an enemy: it is Saul arming David, when David must trust in God and in his shepherd's sling. But the great powers of the world, say some, are ready to favor Rome because of her great organic unity, while they despise the Reformed Church because of her Protestant divisions. The organic Romish unity is a mighty interest, while the Protestant church, for want of all that unity, looks small, and scattered, and weak. Now we are sure, if the Church of Christ does not conquer Rome till she adopt Rome's unity, she neve: will conquer; for that very unity is one of the marks of an apostate church; it is the destruction of true unity, a despotism and re. bellion against Christ. Besides, it is the armor of Goliath of the Philistines, which, when the giant is once down, will only serve to bury him, so that David, whom he and the lookers on disdained, because he was but a youth, and ruddy and of a fair countenance, will be seen in the name of the Lord of Hosts standing on him, and cutting off his head.— The very armor of Rome's unity prevents her fighting with the weapons of truth. God is breaking up that armor, breaking it in pieces, as the forester would break the thick bark from the huge rotten tree, which has stood, since it was rotten, by the bark alone. When God takes a few more fragments out of Rome, Rome will fall beneath the very necessity of supporting her huge organization, and then her very armor will be trampled into her own flesh. Our trust is in the Word and Spirit of the living God. It is one of the great facts of existence that this world is not only a world of sin, but a theatre for its display; a laboratory to test its nature. It is Satan's great shop, forge, chemical working place: the materials he is experimenting upon being human hearts and wills, in a state of probation.— The fact of probation must be given, the suspension of the penalty of God's law, the existence of a free will, the opportunity to choose good or evil, and time enough for such choices, with their qualities, to be manifested. We have all this; we are, as it were, shut up in a shop, for the free demonstration of the nature of holiness and sin: in one sense, it is Satan's shop, in which he goes from effort to effort, from experiment to experiment; "goeth about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." In another it is God's laboratory, in which he is demonstrating to the Universe the curse of sin, even before the execution of its penalty. demonstrating the power of sin and error to blast the world, to fill it with destruction and misery, to make rotten the heart, and set on fire the frames of the stoutest empires; to curse the world, even in the face of all remedies and elements of blessedness put into it by God's bounty. He let the experiment have a full and fair swing and developement, through generations and ages, under all phases of society; under philosophy, light, refinement; under ignorance and barbarism: under despotisms and forms of freedom; in climes of paradise and regions hard and stern.Here God lets evil work, without its punishment; let it develope its tendencies, its eternal, damning essence, in the sight of all the universe. Thus far, the experiment in this world has been mainly that of sin and error. The greatest of all developments has been that predicted in the text; of all particu lar special experiments of error, the most vast, prodigious and overwhelming. So vast in time, that it seems, in some sense, to fill up the whole space between the first and second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; so vast in importance that the whole scheme of redemp tion does, in a sense, tarry for its completion; so dread in terror and power of delusion and damnation, that it fills the temple of God, in the place of God, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. This is that revelation of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition. This is that experiment of the mystery of iniquity, the full preparation and organization of the materials of which was the work of more than a thousand years; in which Satan was tasking himself in the great laboratory; and the full demonstration and |