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NEW ENGLAND FAR3fER. 



[Nov. 25, 



iaxscEi.i.ANzx:s. 



COMPLAINTS OF THE POOH. 



BY SOCTHET. 



And " wherefore do the poor complain?'' 



The rich man aslis of me : 

 Come walk abroad with me, said I, 



And 1 will answer thee. 



'Twas erenipo;', and the frozen streets 



Were cheerless to behold ; 

 And we were wrapt and coated wt IK 



And yel, we felt the cold. 



We met an old bare-headed man, 

 His locks were few and while ; 



I askM him what he did abroad. 

 In that cold winter night. 



"Twas bitter keen, indeed, he said, 

 But at home no fire had he ; 



And, therefore, he had come abroad. 

 To ask for charity. 



We met a young barefooted child. 

 And she begged loud and bold : 



! ask'd her what she did abroad. 

 When the wind it blew so cold. 



She said her father was at home, 



And he lay sick in bed ; 

 And, thtre/ure, was it she was sent 



Abroad to beg for bread. 



We saw a woman sitting down 



Upon a stone to rest ; 

 She had a baby at her hack, 



Another at her breast. 



I ask'<J her why she loiter'd there, 



When the wind it was so chill ; 

 She turn'd her head, and bade the child 



That scream'd behind, be still. 



.She told us that her husband serv'd 



A soldier, far away ; 

 And, tlierefure, to her parish, she 



Was begging back her way. 



V.'e met a girl, her dress was loose, 

 And sunken was her eye ; 

 ^Vho, with tlie wanton's hollow voice, 

 .\ddressed the passers by. 



I atkVl her what there was in guilt, 



That could her heart allure 

 To shame, disease, and late remorse, 



She answcr'd she was poor. 



i turnM me to the rich man then. 



For silently stood he ; 

 You ask'd me why the poor com].Ialn, 



And these have answer'd thee. 



Iiislancrs uf providential presp.rvadon. — The 

 following F-piliipli is copied tVom a lonib in the 

 vicinity of Port lloyal, .Inmaica : — " Here lielli 

 (lie body of Louis Ciiily, Esq. a nnlive of Monl- 

 pelier, in France, wliich country iio left on ac- 

 count of (lie revncalion. He was swallowed up 

 >y the earthquake, » liich occurred at this place 

 in 1692, but, by ibe great Providence of God, 



i had caught hold of the carriage while giving'! 

 - i some directions respecting it. 

 1 About the year 175 !, a vessel hound from] 



; Dublin to Holyhead, in which Major C , aj 



I relative of a noble (ainily in the north of Ireland, 

 ! was a passenger, having been struck by a large 

 , shi[i which in a dark night had run Ion! of it, im- 

 j mediately s.ink. The crew of the ship, awaked 

 1 by the shock, ran instantly on deck with lights, 

 I but not a single vestige of the vessel or ot the 

 passengers vvas visible on the surface of the wa- 

 ter. An eddy merely marked the place where 

 she had been ; but though the boats were in- 

 '■ stantly manned and sent out. not a human being 

 could be found. After a little time, however, 

 had elapsed, a strange sailor was seen sitting on 

 I the deck of the ship, in a kind of stupid amaze- 

 ! menl. On interrogating him, they di?coverpd 

 i that he had belonged to the vessel which had 

 I foundered. Of the mode of his escape he knew 

 nothins:, neither had he any recollection of the 

 I accidental meeting of the trvo vessels, nor of the 

 situation in which he had been placed when the 

 transaction happened. It was, however, con- 

 jectured that he had at that period been aloft in 

 j a deep sleep, and had been precipitated from 

 his station among the shrouds and sails of the 

 ship, and his fall having been thus broken, he 

 had descended upon the deck, where he had re- 

 mained for some lime in a state of insensibdity. 



The foregoing instances of extraordinary jire- 



'orvation, recall to onr recollection one equally 



{ remarkable, which happened, a few years since, 



to a gentleman t'ornierly residing in this Slate, but 



now one of the most eminent merchants in Lnn- 



J don — [Samuel Williams, Esq. formerly of Salem.] 



I Passing one night on the ocean, he was sud- 



j denly an>used by a tremendous shock. .Spring- 



j ing instantly on deck, he was met by somelhinu- 



I at the head of the gangway, which, though but 



I partially awake, he in>tinclively siezed hold on, 



land clung to. It proved to be the bowsprit nl a 



I larger ship, which had run afoul of them, and 



] which passed directly over the vessel in which 



j he was a passenger. It was inulantly sunk, and 



I every soul on board, beside hini'^elf, perished in 



I the general destruction, leaving him alone to tell 



1 the sad and untimely fate of all his companions. 



I He then formed tlie resolution never more to 



risque (he dangers of the sea, to which he has, 



thus far rigidly adhered. — Worcester Sny. 



Curiou.'! Operation. — The London Lancet gives 

 Mt account of the transfusion of blood from the 

 arm of a robust healihlul husband, to the arm of 

 his wife, wlio was apjiarently dying of hemorr- 

 hage. The operation was at Guy's Hospital, 

 under the direction of Doctor Blundell. The 

 cephalic vein ot the woman's right arm was laid 

 bare lo (he extent of an inch, under which tvas 

 passed a needle at the lower part of the incision, 

 !o prevent the efflux of blood. In this position, 

 by moans of a tube and syringe, two ounces of 

 blood, taken from the arm of the husband, was 

 injected into the vein of the wife, and slowly 

 thrown towntds the heart. This quantity of 

 blood produced little effect on the patient; and 

 alter a very short pause, two ounces more of 

 the vital fluid were thrown in, which caused the 

 pulse at the wrist to intermit, ami a slight rest- 

 lessness ensued ; and in ten minutes the woman 

 was evidently recovering, and from that period 

 went on improving. 



The Doctor, who has seen many cases of he- 

 morrhage, thinks this timely supply of blood, 

 though only four ounces, rescued his patient trom 

 death. 



Jin English Turnip was raised in the gar- 

 den of the late Capt. Wait Gould, in Hanover, 

 L>'. H. the present season, which measured in 

 circumference, three left and seven inches and 

 weighed nineteen pnvnds ! 



The above may be relied on as a conect 

 statement. El. .^. //. In'ctl. 



The business of the Uni'ed ?l.ite.? Br.nch Bank is 

 now transacted at the new and thg.int r.liice in Stale 



Street. 



FKUn TREES, k^'^ 



AMES BLOODGOOD & CO. have for 

 sale at their nursery, at Ilusbing, on 

 { Eons; islriiij, near IS'ew York, 



j Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Slirubs & Planlfs ol 

 ( the most apjiroved soi'Is. 



I Tiie pro|,|i,,(ors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 j the inoculation and en°rafting- "f all llni'^ I'rvil Tr'i i, 

 ^ and portliae, rs may rely with confidence, that the 

 i Trees tln^y oider will prove genuine. 

 i Orders 1< ft v^ith Mr ZEBEiitF, Cook, Jr. No, 4-1 State 

 I Street, Ilo^trin, will he transmitted to us, and receiv- 

 j our prnnipt .-ind particular attention. Catalogues will 

 I be delivered, and any inrormation imp:ot<d rtspectinj 

 the condition. Sic. tc. that may be reqnired, on appli- 

 caton to him. S(pt ."O- 



Ohio. — The number of sheep owned in .JpC- 

 ferson count}', is said to be 25.000. The tiock 

 of William R. Dickenson, of about 2000 meri- 

 nos, ]b admitted to be the best in the Unite<l 

 Slates, That of B. Wells, is of about the same 



was, by a second shock, (long into the sea, where ^ mimber, and but little inferior. Another flock 



he continued swimming till rescued by a boat, 

 and lived 40 years al'terward 



of 7 or 800, from the choice of the Dickenson 

 flock, belonsrs lo .lohn and Alexander McDowell. 

 An instance of providential preservation not j Dickenson's wool, at the last sbearin?. produced 

 dissimilar to the fore-roing, is recorded in the j him ^5tXH), and he has sold 7000 dollars worth 

 annals of the Lrilish Navy. A merchant vessel ' "'^heep without impairing his flock. Tobacco 

 in sailing through the Idasted frao-ments of a ! P'''"*'"^ ''■"'^ "'*" ''^''" '"'''°''"<-^'' '"'° ''■'* <"0"n- 

 ship of war. whose magazine had explo<Ipd. ob- 1 ''J, =""1 promises well, 

 served the first I,ieulenant lyin"- extended on '''if citizens of Ohio .' 



the carriage ot a gun. On his bring taken U|), 

 it was, to the utter amazement of the crew, dis- 

 covered that he was lieginning to revive. Cor- 

 dials were immedi.itely administered, and, in a 

 very short space of lime, he was completely re- 

 stored. He vvas altogether unconscious of the 

 awful convulsion, barely recollecting that he 



are abnnf to introduce 

 railroads into that state. In a Columbus paper, 

 notice is given of an application to the next 

 sreneral assembly, praying that a rail-road may 

 be constructed, to commence at the head of the 

 Columbus feeder, and to pass through the coim- 

 lics of Delaware, ;\!arinn, Crawford, Sen£ca, 

 and Sandusky, to the Sandusky Bay. 



FOR 8AEF. — a Farm situated in the pleasant and 

 flourishing vill ge of Dixniont, through which the 

 mail stasre pa=ses twice a wc( k lioin Angt;.ta to l^an- 

 gor, and is only from It) to '^tl miles distant to four ports 

 on the I'enoliscot river. It has a convenient farm-house, 

 2 large hams, sheep folds, sheds, and out liouses all in 

 good repair; will summer and winter lUOshetp and 

 from 1.^ to 20 head of neat cattle ; villi a good set of 

 farming tools of the most approved kinds, which may be 

 bad with tlie premises if required. — For further partic- 

 ulars, inquire of BENJA.MIN Bt'TMAN, on the premi- 

 ses. 7t. Dixmont (Me.) Oct. 13, 1825. 



EPAIiSONS & CO. City Furniture warehouse 

 • Uni.in Street, near the Union Stone, keep con - 

 stantty p ; hand for sale, a gi neral assortment of furni - 

 ture, chairs, looking glasses, feathers ol all kinds, fire 

 sets, binshcs, bellows, &c. &c. 



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