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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



Strange as mny appear, we are told tliere was 

 Buch a freshet in Andover, from whence the waters 

 flow directly Ihrourrh this place towards the sea, 

 only twenty-five miles north nf us, raised by a ra- 

 pid and hasty shower of rain one day last week, 

 that a mill, a blacksmith shop, and some thousand 

 bushels of coal were carried away by its force ! 



Before "oing to press, we have a rain just such 

 as was wanted. 



From the Indinna Eagle. 

 New England. 



BY H. W. ELLSWORTH, ESQ. 



New England ! New England ! 



How beautiful thy vales — 

 Where summer flowers are breathing forth 



Their sweets to summer gales; 

 Where soft the wild note breaketh 



From out each dewy grove. 

 When lone the night-bird chantetli 



Her even lay of love 1 



Oh ! far beyond the surges v ild 



That beat upon thy shore, 

 Hath swept the pa;an of thy fame 



Old ocean's vastness o'er ! 

 And echoes far the triumph song 



Of that true-hearted band. 

 Who gave their homes, their all for (iod 



And thee, my father-land! 



It peals amid the palaces 



Of England's tilled sons — ^ 

 O'er softltalia's quivering wires 



Its magic inusic runs ; 

 From lofty peak and lowly vale, 



From island ..f the sea. 

 In joyous notes, comes bursting forth, 



That anthem of the free I 



Majestic are thy mountains, 



Uplowering to the sky 1 

 Stern monuments that Freedom's hand 



For age hath piled on high ! 

 Forever may they guard thee. 



As now— the bleat, the free — 

 Bright Ellen-land of nations ! 



Proud home of Liberty ! 



And beautiful the silver streams ^ 



That ripple o'er thy breast, 

 In thousand forms meandering 



To seek their ocean rest — 

 Aye beautiful ! and may they twine 



Forever bright as now, 

 A fadeless leaf of lustre round 



Thy clear unruffled brow '. 



We love them, for tlicir legends tell 



Of deeds and daring true — 

 How oft' the hunter paddled there, 



War-led, his dark canoe ; 

 And oft, beside the mossy banks, 



'Mid scenes that linger yet. 

 The Indian maid — sweet nature's child — 



Her Indian lover met. 



And these are gone ! — but fairer forms 



Still rove beneath thy skies. 

 Whose priceless worth, and trusting love 



Gleam forth from laughing eyes. 

 Thy daughters ! like sweet flowers of spring 



Bloom 'neaththy fostering care. 

 Thro' coming time, as now, to be, 



Thy treasures, rich and rure ! 



Thy sons ! what clime that knowcth not 



The noble and the brave ! 

 The tamers of the stubborn earth — 



The rovers of the wave. 

 Aye 1 dearly do they love the land 



Their fathers died to gain ; 

 Their pride, its glory fresh to keep. 



Its honor bright from stain !j 



New England ! New England '. 



God's blessings on thee be ; 

 And ever on those cherished ones 



Fond memory links with thee! 

 From this fair land, whose spreading skies 



Like thine, a glory wear. 

 My spirit turns to breathe for thee 



A blessing and a prayer ! 

 Indiana, Jlpril, lci40. 



Correction. 



In the communication of IVlr. Lossing in the 

 Visitor of Mav 30, an attack, which it now seems 

 arose from misinformation, was made on a gentle- 

 man in the western part of New York who is con- 

 sidered one of the most skilful»breeders of Berk- 

 shires in this country. The gentleman alluded to, 

 (A. B. Alien, Esq. of Buft'alu,) is a capital judge 

 of stock of all kinds; but as a breeder he has of 

 late paid more particular attention to Berkshire and 

 China pigs. His breeding stock, among which are 

 some of the most superb Berkshircs to be found in 

 this country, has been selected with the greatest 

 care and taste, after a personal examination of the 

 best piggeries in the northern States. As a skilful 

 breeder and a gentleman of high character, he is 

 without reproach ; and we are gratified to see that 

 Mr. Lossing retracts, (as he does in the annexed 

 card,) in the fullest manner, the imputations con- 

 tained in his first communication. 



Mr. Allen, whose stock was already extensive, 

 has just now added largely to it by the purchase of 

 the entire good stock owned and bred with so much 

 SKill bythe Shakers at Watervliet, who have given 

 np the business of breeding for sale. This addi- 

 tion, with that of some fine breeding sows purcha- 

 sed in Albany, gives Mr Allen a piggery not to 

 be excelled in number, purity of blood, beauty and 

 size, in this country*. 



Jlbany, 15//j July, ISJO. 



Hon. Isaac Hill — Sir: — In my article on Berk- 

 shire Pigs, published in the Farmer's Monthly Vis- 

 itor of 30th May last, allusion was made to the stock 

 of a gentleman residing in the western part of this 

 State, as being of impure blood, &c. I am happy 

 now to say, that I was totally misinformed on the 

 subject, and that the name of the gentleman in 

 question has been forged and used by a band of ly- 

 in«" drovers, for the purpose of gulling unsuspect- 

 ing western farmers in the sale of spurious Berk- 

 shires. 



His stock was derived mostly from the common 

 source of that of mv own pigirery, and I can rec-. 

 ommend it, not only as pure in blood, but very 

 choice of its kind. lie is as particular in the breed- 

 ing of his pigs, as in that of his Durliam Cattle 

 and Blood Horses. The term '' Improved" was a 

 misconception on my part, and applicable only to 

 the Chinese. 



All papers tiiat have copied my article of the 

 30th Mav, will please give place to this, and oblige. 

 Yours respectfully, 



JOHN LOSSING. 



Cleansing Window Blinds.— Soap or strong 

 Soap suds will destroy green paint more readily 

 than other colors; the lye has the .same effect on 

 oil paints tliat it has with grease. I have seen ma- 

 ny paiTited rooms soiled by the carelessness or ig- 

 norance of wash-women, in the application of soap 



Frovi the .V. 1'. Journal of CoinNicrce,July 16. 

 Death of B. B. Thatcher. 



The Boston papers of Tuesday evening bring in- 

 telligence of the death of B. B. Thatcher, Esq. 

 who, although comparatively young, had attained 

 a high rank in the scale of literary eminence. He 

 was also distinguished for his virtues. For a year 

 or two past, Mr. T. has been connected with this 

 paper as a correspondent, and has written frequent 

 letters and other articles for our columns, many of 

 which have been extensively copied. The news 

 of his death was very une.xpected to us, as it is not 

 more than ten days, or so, since we received let- 

 ters from hiin, which made no mention of illness. 

 We were awaie, however, that his health was pre- 

 carious. 



From the l^oston Merc. Journal, July 14. 

 Undef our Obituary head, will be seen a record 

 of the death of B, B. Thatcher of this city, at the 

 early age of thirty-one years. Mr. Thatcher is 

 well known in this country and in Europe, for his 

 scientific and literary attainments — and wherever 

 known has been respected and loved for his kind 

 disposition and liis high moral qualities, as well as 

 for the great variety of knowledge of wliich he 

 was master — and the announcement of his death 

 will carry sadness to many a heart. He was edu- 

 cated to the profession of the law — but his great 

 aim through life ajipears to have been to acquire 

 knov/ledge, and to diffuse it abroad for the purpose 

 of enlightening, elevating, and improving tiie hu- 

 man race. For several years p;ist he has devoted 

 himself exclusively to literary pursuits — and if liis 

 career, by a wise Providence, had not been abridg- 

 ed, he would have been surpassed by few of his 

 countrvinen in rendering true service to his coun- 

 try — and would liave acquired a lii me to endure for 

 ages. Manv of his writings are before the world — 

 they bear the stai.ip of wortli, and have been read 

 with much interest in this country and Europe — 

 and he has doubtless left many important manu- 

 scripts, which, it is to be hoped, his fi lends will 



and strong soap water; when it does not destroy give the public at some i'uture day. 



the paint, it may affect the lustre. — .-ill*. Cut i Mr. Thatcher was at one time editor of this j>a- 



per — and since it has been committed to our care, 

 its column., have frequently been enriched by his 

 contributions — and in his death we lose "a friend, 

 faithful and just." It is now nearly two years 

 since he returned from Europe, where he had pas- 

 sed many months, in travel, and in studying the 

 manners and characters of the inhabitants — chiefly 

 in Great Britain. He was there attacked with a 

 chronic affection of the stomach — and on his return 

 to this country, he suffered much from ill health. 

 Since then he has been gradually declining — but 

 he has never neglected his literary pursuits, or his 

 accustomed exercise of walking, until within a few 

 days. He was conscious of the approach of death, 

 which at last came upon him suddenly — but he 

 met the grim king of terrors like a Christian phi- 

 losopher — and his last moments were soothed by 

 tlie benignant spiritof Religion. The death of B. 

 B. Thatcher has left a blank in society that will 

 not be easily filled. 



When the editor of the Fanner's Monthly Visi- 

 tor was at Boston in January last, on returning to 

 his boarding house at dinner he found on his table 

 a note from " B. B. Thatcher," saying that h» had 

 twice called, and, fearing he should not find Mr. 

 Hill in, asked tiie favor of his calling at No. 3, 

 Tremont Place. We did call, but did not find Mr. 

 T. in until a second time. The gentleman said he 

 wished for an interview on account of the desire 

 he felt for the success of the Monthly Visitor ; and 

 in the course of conversation we very soon found 

 that, without even a personal acquaintance and 

 with a known difference from us in political opin- 

 ions which had very much g.ven the tone to friend- 

 ships or enmities as the individual happened to be 

 on either side who came in contact with us, Mr, 

 Thatcher had taken a deep interest in behalf of 

 our agricultural journal : he had in fact written the 

 principal articles in our f'avor which appeared in 

 botli the Boston Mercantile Journal and in the New 

 York Journal of Commerce, noticing our humble 

 efforts in a more flattering manner than we had 

 dared to suppose they had deserved. 



Mr. Thatcher was at that time laboring under 

 great disability : his emaciated form, his cadaver- 

 ous countenance, his shortness of breathing, gave 

 but too sure an indication of approaching dissolu- 

 tion. He was at that time in tlie midst of severe 

 mental labor with piles of books around, and man- 

 uscripts before him. He had delivered a Lyceum 

 lecture at Cambridge the day before, and he was 

 to give another at Brookline the ne.xtcvening. The 

 nex* evening the editor of the Visitor delivered an 

 address at the Boston State House on the subject 

 of Agriculture, being very nearly the same that he 

 had prepared for the farmers of Candia, which was 

 afterwards published in the Monthly Visitor. Mr. 

 Thatcher was too much exhausted by his previous 

 efforts to attend our lecture ; but sent by a friend 

 a request that he might have the perusal of the 

 manuscript for a few hours. We saw him not af- 

 terwards : indeed we never had with him but a sin- 

 gle interview, for we three times called to obtain 

 the manuscript before leaving town, and neither 

 time was he at home. Tlie lady, a relative of his 

 with whom he boarded, informed us that, too un- 

 well to sit up, she read aloud to him our perform 

 ance while he reclined U|)on a couch We could 

 not mistake him when we saw in the N. V. Journal 

 of Commerce in a few days afterwards an extend- 

 ed and a flattering notice of our address under the 

 head of ^' Correspondence from Boston." The 

 manner in which the deci'ased gentleman gratuit- 

 ously took up the pen in iavor of our particular 

 agricultural work, when there were so many oth- 

 er works of the kind nearer to him conducted by 

 men greatly our superiors in experience and in ag- 

 ricultural knowledge— an entire stranger to us — 

 where no consideration peculiarly selfish could 

 have led to it — was to the editor gratifying to his 

 pride and favorable to the little interest he could 

 iiave in an extended circulation of this paper. To 

 deserve so good an opinion of so good a judge 

 would be payment in full for every eftort that has 

 been expended in all our essays for the Visitor. 



Although, by the untimely death of this amia- 

 ble and excellent young man, we have lost the 

 benefit of all such further notices as he was wout 

 while a stranger to take oC each successive num- 

 ber of the Visitor, his disinterested efforts in our 

 behalf have drawn the attention of hundreds of 

 others to this journal, in which number perhaps 

 some one or more may bo found who will find it 

 in their hearts to do us equal kindness from the 

 same disinterested motives which actuated that 

 which has returned to its original dust, while the 

 soul, " immortal as its Sire," has winged its flight 

 to a region where sin and sorrow never come. 



