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NEW ENC4LAND FARMER. 



[Dec. 9. 



]M[ISOEX.X.ANXES. 



THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL. 



BY MRS HEMAN3. 



Why do I weep? — to leave the vine, 



Whose clusters o'er rae bend ? 

 The myrtle — yet, O call it mine .' 



The flowers I loved to tend ! 

 — A thousand thoughts of all things dear, 



Like shadoHTs o'er me sweep, 

 I leave my sunny childhood here, 



— O ! therefore let me weep ! 



I leave thee, sister 1 — we have play'd 



Through many a joyous hour, 

 Where the silvery green of the olive shade 



Hung dim o'er the fount and the bower '. 

 Yes I thou and I, by stream, by shore, 



In song, in prayer, in sleep. 

 Have been as we may be no more — 



— Kind sister ! let me weep ! 



I leave thee, father 1 — Kve's bright moon 



Must now light other feet. 

 With the gather'd grapes and the jyre in tune. 



Thy homeward steps to greet ; 

 Thou in whose voice, to bless thy child, 



Lay tones of love so deep. 

 Whose eye o'er all my youth hath smiled, — 



I leave thee I let me weep ! 



Mother ! I leave thee !— on thy breast 



Pouring out joy and woe, 

 1 have found that holy place of rest 



Still changeless — ytt I go! 

 Lips that have lull'd me with your strain, 



Eyes that have watch'd my sleep .' 

 Will earth give love lilce yours again ; 



— Sweet mother I let me weep ! 



Thoughts on Sleep. — " Blessinofs," exclnimed 

 Sancho, "on him that first invented sleep! It 

 wraps a man all round lilce a cloiik."' It is a 

 delicious moment certainly, that of heing well 

 nestled in bed, and feeling; (hat you shnll drop 

 gently to sleep. — The gooJ Is lo comn, not past; 

 the limbs have been just tired enougti iw .^..j.^ 

 the remaining in one pasture delightful; the 

 labour of the day is done. A gentle failure of 

 '.he perceptions comes creeping over one ; the 

 spirit of consciousness disengages itself more 

 and more with slow and hushing degrees, like a 

 mother detaching her hand from that of her 

 sleeping child ; the mind seems to have a balmy 

 lid-closing over it like the eye ; 'lis closing — 

 'tis more closing — 'lis closed. The mysterious 

 jpiiit has gone to take its airy rounds. 



One of the most favorite passages on sleep is 

 '.he following address from Beaumont and Fletch- 

 er's tragedy of Vchntinian, the hero of which 

 is a sufferer under bodily torment. He is in a 

 chair, slumbering, and these most exquisite lines 

 are gently sung with music : 



Citre-charmiug Sleep, ihou easer of all woes, 

 Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose 

 On this afllicted prince. Fall like a cl'iud 

 In gentle showurs ; give nothing (hat is loud 

 Or painful to his slumbers: easy, light, 

 And as a purling slreanij thou son of Night, 

 Pass by his troublt-d senses ; sing his pain 

 Like hollow munnuiing wind or silver rain : 

 Into this prince gently, oh ! gently slide, 

 And kiss him into slumbers like a bride ! 



How earnest and prayer-like are these paus- 

 es! How lightly sprinkled, and yet how deep- 

 ly settling. Idee rain, the tancy I How quiet, 

 affectionate, and perfect the conclusions! 



Sleep is most graceful in an infant ; soundest 

 in one who has been tired in the open air ; com- 

 pletes! to a seaman alter a hard voyage ; most 

 welcome to the mind haunted with one idea; 



most inteteslir.g to behuld in the parent that 

 has wept; lightest in the playful child; proud- 

 est in the bride adored 



Coal. — We understand that the Rhode-Island 

 Coal Company has commenced raising coal from 

 the mines on that fertile and delightful island. — 

 The coal is said to be uliundant and of an excel- 

 |pnt quality, and promises fully to remunerate 

 the enterprize of procuring and sending it to 

 market. We learn from the Newport Mercu- 

 ry, that the tirst cargo raised since the renova- 

 tion of the company, sailed for New-York on 

 Thursday last. Those who succeeded in burn- 

 ing the R. I. coal (and there were many,)when 

 the mines were formerly in oi'cralion, were not 

 only satisfied of its utility and economy, but pre- 

 ferred it, for its cheerfulness and comfort, to 

 any other fuel. Modern improvements in the 

 arts of constructing stoves and grates, have re- 

 moved the principal objection to its use, the dif- 

 ticulty of kindling it. It will be found in this re- 

 spect to be no more objectionable than the Le- 

 high coal, and probably not so much so. We 

 know of no advantage which the Lehigh posses- 

 ses over it; and should the markets be sufficient- 

 ly well furnished, the Rhode-Island coal will 

 probably hold a successful competition not onlv 

 with the Lehigh, but with other kinds which 

 cannot be afforded at so little expence. 



\_Providcnce American 



In both cases, if he also carries some weight, 

 he draws better for it. 



In a cart he may draw from JOOOIbs. to a ton 

 weight. 



Ani.mai, stef.n'gth. — Some .curious remarks on 

 its varieties, from mnthcmatical xcorks. — There 

 are, in common parlance, various ways in com 

 paring animal force. 



" Men may apjily their strenglh in differenl 



ways in a working machine." 



i A man of ordmary strength, turning a roller 



!'«' the handle, can work all day against a re-. 

 Isistance i-ij..... .- .»..u- •' ° 



j Working 10 hours a day. he can raise a 



I weight of DOlbs. through 3 feet 6 inches, in a 



second of time, and in that proportion. 



He can only work constantly for a small lime 

 against a resistance of 50lbs. more. 



Two men working at a windlass, can more 

 easily draw up 70lbs. than one man 30, provid- 

 ed the elbow of one of the handles be at right 

 jangles to that of the other. This is always re- 

 garded by good machine-makers. 

 ] Attach a fly wheel to it, and a man can do a 

 Ibird more work ; or raise lOlbs. working a 

 whole day as above mentioned. For a little 

 1 while he can overcome a resistance of 801bs. 



Porters, and men accustomed to bear loads, 

 will carry from 150 to L'uOlbs. 



A man can dravv but 70 or GOlbs. horizontally, 

 for he cannot api)ly but his own weight to the 

 pull. • 



Suppose a man weighs ItOlbs. his force ex- 

 erted horizontally at the height ofhisshoul 

 ders, is only enough to overcome a resistance 

 of 27lbs. 



Horses. — A horse's strength is generally 

 equal to that of 5 men. He can carry 240 to 

 '270lbs. He draws to greatest advantage, when 

 the line of direction is a little elevated above 

 the horizon, and the power nets against his 

 breast. 



He can draw ^OOlbs. on the ground, for 8 

 hours a day, at 2J miles an hour ; and SlOlbs. ; 

 he can work but G hours at that rate. 



A'en'li/ discovered A''a(ion. — We have received 

 accounts of a recent discovery iu Central Alricaj 

 which, will soon be lai<l before the public in great- 

 er detail ; but of which the following outline is 

 siillicicntly curious. — Major Clapperton and Cap* 

 lam Denham, in the course of their late expedi- 

 tion in that quarter of the world, arrived in the 

 capital of a nation whose manners and hi.=;lory 

 seem like to occupy, to no trivia! exlenl, the 

 attention of the public of this country, ^ve might 

 safely say of the whole civilized world. They 

 found a nation jet black iu colour, but not in our 

 sense of the term ncf^rocs^ h:iving long hair and 

 fine high leatures. Th.s people was found lo 

 be in a state of very high civilization; and above 

 all, the British travellers witnessed a review of 

 seven thousand c;iv.\hy ,i\iv'u'.eil into regular regi- 

 ments, and all clothed in complete armour. Six 

 thousand wore the perfect hauberk mail of ihe 

 early Norman knights; most strange by far of 

 all, one thousand appeared in perfect Roman ar- 

 mour. The conjectures to which this has given 

 rise are various. We confess liir ourselves, 

 that, looking to the polished and voluptuous 

 manners ascribed to these peo[)!e, Ihe elegance 

 of Iheir houses, &c. &c. ; in a word, Ihe total 

 ditierGnco between them and any olher race as 

 yet discovered in the interior of ' Africa, moth- 

 er of monsters,' our own opinion is sirongly that 

 here we have a fragment of the old Numiujan 

 population; a specimen of the tribes who, alier 

 long contending, and long co-operating with 

 imperial Rome, were at last fain to seek_ safe- 

 ly in the central desert, UDon '•>= ili,v3olu(ion ot 

 the empire. !„ i^^'^e .squ^.Jrou, .^ioc.,. ci„j,- 

 ,.. .. auu uenham probably beheld the live- 

 liest i.mage that ever has been xvilnessed by 

 modern eyes, of the legions of Jugurlha — may 

 we not say of Hannibal. The armour, we un- 

 ders;and, is fabricated in the most perfect style 

 of the art ; and the Roman suils might be mis- 

 taken for so many Herculanean and Pompeian 

 discoveries, if it « ere possible lor us to imagine 

 the existence of genuine antiquities possessing 

 all the glossy finish of yesterday's workmanship. 

 One of these travellers has already set oft on 

 his return to this sable court. — London paper. 



It is now 51 years— says the Boston Palladium, — 

 since Ihe first American General Congress was held, "to 

 consult measures for the preservation of our liberties." 

 Of this illustrious hand of Patriots, only one survives ; 

 and that is the venerable .Iohn AnABis, of Massachu- 

 set's. What a glorious change has taken place iu our 

 happy country since that of anxiety and danger! Of 

 three millions, we have become nearly livtlve. Our 

 Republican Government is in the full tide of success- 

 ful experiment. We are as powerful as we are free ; 

 and as prosperous as powerful. — The federal union hais 

 ljei.n nit, and more than was expected. It is com- 

 mensurate to our high destiny, if the ofTirers of Ihe Gen- 

 eral Government will he content with the exercises of 

 their legitimate powers, and the Plates severally yield 

 to a harmonious, prosperous national administration. 



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