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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Sept. 2, 



XtfZZSOZ:i.Ii AX7XSS . 



TOTi. THK KEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



RELIGION. 



shall lose his taste for the mnrvelloiis in wretch- 

 edness and in crime, nnd shall give his sole anxi- 

 ety to the progress of piety and happiness, of 

 peace and virtue. ' Charleston Cour. 



BT S. D. PATTERSON. 



There is a power which sooths the jouI, 

 When storms of care and anguish rise ; 

 AVhen lightnings flash, and thunders roll, 

 And clouds o'ercast life's sunny skies. 



Republican simplicily. — ^VVe are never more 

 struck with the difference between the habits 

 and institutions of our own country, and those 

 of Europe, than when we contrast the tilles as- 

 sumed bj our public officers, with those conler- 

 red upon their favourites by the monarchs of the 

 I old world. By this comparison, too, we may 

 learn to what different objects the ambition of 

 man is directed under different forms of govern- 

 ment. While in a well organized republic, mer- 

 it and talents are the chief passports to dislinc-j 

 lion, the subjects of the old and rotten monarch-' 

 ies of Europe seem to consider themselves /ion- i 

 orablc, just in proportion to the number of high ! 

 sounding epithets they are entitled to attach I 

 to llieir names. These ideas were suggested by 1 

 Nor (ire the hopes of glory vain — reading the preamble to the late Treaty be-! 



Nor are they fading — insecure — tween the United States and His Majesty the Em- j 



They fade not — die not— but remaiu peror of all the Russias. The President of the t 



While endless ages shall endure. United States is declared to have named, as his | 



M'orrislown, {Pa.) Jliigusl '26, \S2j. plenipotentiary, " Henkv Midoi.eton, « citizen] 



-...»©««- of the said States;'''' and the Emperor, nn his I 



JS'ewspapers are growing barren, since (he part, is said to have nominated " his beloved 

 world has become la"me. Where there is lilllejand lailhiiil CuAni-ES Robert Count of Nessei.- j 

 of change, there must l)e as little of novelty ; rode, actual Privy Counsellor, Member ol the i 

 and sameness and repetition excite no interest. Council of Slate, Secretary of Slate directing 

 Peace achieves her labours in silence — pros- the administration of Foreign Affairs, actual 

 berlly pursues her noiseless march — happiness 1 Chamberlain, Knight of Ihe order of St. Alexan- 

 heeds not time while revelling on flowers— and der Nevsky, Grand Cross of Ihe order of St 



fortune, came to a lady he had long courted, 

 and told her his circumstances were so reduced, 

 that he was actually in want of Jive guineas. ' I 

 am very glad to hear it,' said she — ' Is this your 

 affection for me !' he replied, in a tone of des- 

 pondency, ' why are you glad V ' Recause,' an- 

 swered she, ' if yon want^tie guineas, 1 can put 

 you in possession o( Jive thovsand.'' 



It breaks the chains which care has bound- 

 It charms the heart, by grief opprest ; 

 And sheds a blissful radiance round — 

 A holy calm — a heavenly rest. 



'Tis blest Remgion — power divine ; 

 That dissipates the blackest gloom ; 

 And bids bright hopes of glory shine. 

 To gild the darkness of the tomb. 



the tranquil pursuits of virtue seek no clamor- 

 ous promulgation. 



Curiosity has a pampered appetite, not con- 

 tent with natural iViod ; and only lo be graliiie(' 



Wladimir of the first class. Knight ot that of the 

 While Eagle of Poland, Grand Cross of the or- 

 der of St. Stephen of Hungary, Knight of the 

 order of the Holy Ghost and of Si. Michael, and 



by strange and marvellous productions. It feeds j Grand Cross of the Legion nf Honor of France, 

 not on the order, but the derangement of society I Knight Grand Cross of the orders of the Black 

 —not on the even temperament of the seasons, { and of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of the Annun- 

 but on their confusion and warfare— not on the | elation nf Sardinia, of Charles 111. of Spain, of 

 hapi-.y progress of the arts of peace, but the i Si. Ferdinand and of Merit of Naples, oftheEi- 

 fierce collision of arms, and the cruel effusions of; ephant of Denmark, of the Polar Star of Swed- 



en, of the Crown of Wirlemberu:, of Ihe Guelph? 

 of H.mover. of the Bclgic Lion, of Fidelity nl 



blood. 



Man banquets on descriptions of battle. Show 

 him a field covered with a rich and bountiful j Baden, and of St. Conslantine, of Parma" !! : — 

 harvest, and gladdened by peaceful and exulting j .Wainc /n'i^fr. 



labourer*, and he shall regard it with indiffer- ! 



ence, although it teems with Iheevidence of Ihe I London Beggars. — \n 1020, an estimate of 

 favors of heaven. Show him, nn the other hand, j their number was taken, and it proved to be 

 Ihe same tield, ils harvest trod, len down, ils ver-l 15,000,whose gain averaged from 5s. loCs. a day 



dure siained with human blood, and its soil cov- 

 ered with human bones, and he shall gaze with 

 exhauslless avidity on these dreadful results of 

 thu follies of mankind. Our sympalhies for each 

 other remain comparatively dormant, unless 

 excited bv some uims'ial misforlnne. We care 

 not to hear of our friends when assured of their 

 prospenly, while we are excessively eager lo 



Some of them were found to sjiend 50s. a week 

 lor their board. One negro was traced to the 

 West Indies, having acquired \hOOl. in ihis way. 

 The fraternity are so well organized, that they 

 have particular walks which are considered ex- 

 clusive properly, and have been ncliially oflered 

 for sa|p in the newspapers. 



In the parish of Si. Giles', (here is a place 



know the'accidcnts that brfd them. A lire, a pes- ! called Ihe Holy Land, ivhere there is a floating 

 tilence, a war--9uch is the organization of our '' popnialinn of lOOi), who have no fixed residence 

 nature — produce each ol" Iheni respectively, a ' and hire Iheir night's lodging at houses fixed up 

 corresponding excilemonl in the readers ofjour- purposely. The price is a sixpence for a whole 

 nals, and conse(p)enlly in ihe journalists of Ihe ! bed, or fourpence for a half a one. In one room 

 time. Where these fail, it is almost hopeless lo! 17 (lersou'* have been found sleeping at once, 

 obtain interest in Ihe public mind by a narrative : and Ihe proprietors of these dormitories have 

 of events, which, because of their sameness, are! many «f them realized large fortunes in the 

 rendered insipid. r'bcggarljj'^ business. 



How happy that period of the world when so i 



few of these punsrent incentives to curiosity re- 1 Requited Lm'e. — What words can bo more de- 

 Diain in existence! and the press has only lo re- j lighlliil lo Ihe human ear, than the unexpected 

 new and proclaim Ihe return of the sentinel, eflu<ions of generosity and alTection from a be- 

 «tf/r.« well /" How dcjirublc that le.ra. wheu man ! loved ivoman. A gentleman, after a great mis- 



FOR S.\LE, by Richardson & Lord, the Agricultu- 

 ral Reader, price 75 cts. Extract from the preface.- 

 '^ 'Tis education form? the common mind, 

 " Just as the twig is bent Ihe tree's inclin'd." 

 THE above couplet has been frequently quoted, and 

 if the sentiment it includes be admitted as true, we 

 need never exprcl the agrirvllural to become a reading 

 community, particularly as it respects subjects relatinj 

 to their occupation, until Ihe tludy of agrirullure, ia 

 some shape or form, shall be introduced into our com- 

 mon schools, and the mine's of youth shsll there first be 

 '*■ /nr/m'(f" to agricultural inquiries and pursuits. And, 

 indeed, why should not this be done ? There is time 

 enough for it in every school ; for as youth must be al- 

 lowed time and provided with books for learning lo rend, 

 by making these enquiries the svhj'rfs of IkeiT reading 

 lessons, the two operations of learning to read, and 

 kantiug lo think on these subjects may be prosecuted 

 and going on together, without any additional eiptnst, 

 either of time ok money. 



Such is the plan here contemplated. " The Agri- 

 cultural Header'''' is designed to be used as a reading 

 book. Copious explanations of terms, fundamental 

 principles of agriculture, examples of good and bad 

 husbandly, domestic economy, industry, neatness, or- 

 der, temperance and frugality, are subjects embraced 

 within its pages — subjects, which, in one way or an- 

 other, " come home to every man'' s business nnd iojoni," 

 and in which it cannot be a matter of indiiiV rence. that 

 youth should be wtll instructed, before enteiingon the 

 theatre of active life, whatever may be the parts there 

 assigned them respectively to act. Much of the mat- 

 ter and the manner are such as is believed will engage 

 their attention, affording at the same time many fine 

 exercises for reading as respects cadence, emphasis, 

 modulation, and inflections of the voice. Every thing 

 otherwise pertinent to the subject is studiously avoid- 

 ed which would be improper to be read by either sex 

 in school. 



The design of a publication of this nature wa.s form- 

 ed so early as the year 11)21 ; and it xras a satisfaction, 

 while iu the prosecution of it, to perceive, that the oc- 

 casion for such a publication already begins lobe felt.* 

 With what success it has here been attempted, is now 

 submitted to the decision of an enlightened public. 



There are two things farther to be noticed in regard 

 to this work •. — The D-finilion of Words, and the Inler- 

 Togalire System of Teaching, both of which are embrac- 

 ed in it. The manner in which it is intended these 

 should be conducted, is explained in the j^%tes, pages 

 9 and 27, to which the reader is referred. 



DANIEL ADAMS. 



Mopnt Vernon, N. H. October 23, 18Q4. 



* " Wliile every other, the simplest art or trade, has 

 it? instructors, every profession its tutors and lecturers, 

 neither our schools, academies, or colleges have ever 

 placed a book on this science [agriculture] on the cata- 

 logue of their studies." 



I R\flTT FTT i 



I! PI I I «KIIRY ( Cor)\millre on Cropf, 



,1 W. MARCH, \ Ro'l'ir.ehar^Agr. Soc. 



"The educ.'ilion that the great majs want is a knoicl- 

 edge efthe arts of life, and I should think, that any man, 

 who should pripare a plain and practical treatise upo« 

 agriculture, and the arts imimdialely connected with 

 it, for the use of cdmmon schools, would render au in- 

 valuable service to the public." 



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