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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Dec. 30, 



IKCZSCX:3:>3:<ANX£3S. 



AN ACRE OF CORN. 

 I am a poor Ploughman who never have ivinder'd 



Avray from the si^ht and the pleasures of home ; 

 1 have always been prudent, and never have squander'd 



And so I have nover been driven ton^am. 

 For thirty long summers my shoulders have bended 



In tilling the farm where my father was born ; 

 I live nnder his roof, and this season have tended 



With the plough that he left me, an acre of corn. 

 'J'hongh ethers may go to the Southward and peddle 



And bring home ofgiiineas and dollars good store, 

 I ne'er havedesirM with their crankums to meddle, 



But to hoe in my garden that lies by my door, 

 When the sun is first rising I always am hoing j 



The mould when 'tis wet with the dews r,f Ihe morn; 

 And when he is higher you will find me a mowing, | 



Or driving the plough in my acre of corn. 

 There are some who are crossing by sea to the island j 



They call S^anta Cruis, with tlicir horses and hay ; j 

 For my part, I'd rather be safe here on dry land, ^ 



And hoe in my garden, or work by the day; | 



I am out to the field with the sun. and am mowing | 



'Till called up at noon by the sound ol Ihe horn, 

 Or else 1 am twirling my hoe and am throwing 



The mould round the roots in my acre of corn. 

 This c?rn is the sort that is tufted andbowiag. 



And when we have thresh'd it, 'lis made into brooms; 

 'Tis Ihe best of all besoms, >o far as I'm knowing, 



To sweep out the dirt and (he dust from our rooms : 

 They always have rais'd it since I can remember. 



And my father once told me, hefcre I was born 

 He made brooms for his trade, and I guess by December 



I shall make up a load from my acre of c.-in. 



STATEMENT MADF, BV PR AKERLY, OF NF.IV VORIv, IN 

 RELATION TO THE PEAF AXD Df.ME. 



The Deaf and Dumb are calciilaied (o he in 

 the proporlion nfoHc in every 200iJ of the pop- 

 ulation of Ihe United Slates, which will give 

 over 5000. 



The same estimation is madp in Enro|'.e. 



Tlie proportion holds good in New York, 

 Philadelphia, All>any, and Cincinnati, in Ohio, 

 where the number of Deal! and Dumb have 

 been ascertained 



ten, from a blow on the head in falling down 

 stair*. 



Thus it will be seen Ihni all children are lia- 

 ble to become deaf mules from sickness, even 

 though they were not born so. 



Deafness, however, appears to run like dis- 

 eases in families and become hereditary. 



It is common to find two, three, four and more 

 in one family, of which there are instances in 

 the schoo 



and judge of merit, which is the highest, but 

 which is too remote, grave, and impartial, to , 

 flallcr his selflove exlravaganlly, or ptifT him 

 up with intolerable and vain conceit. 



Ronsseau, in his Emiic, endeavours lo jiersuadc 

 moibers of Ihe expediency of suckling iheir own 

 children. ;\ treatise has lately been |>ublished 

 in Paris by a iM. Besnard, in which the physical 

 dangers which they encounter when Ihev de- 



Phe school for the Deaf and Dumb in Newjcline the performance of so endearing a duty- 

 are forcibly and alarmingly described. 



The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may 

 admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tinc- 

 ture. 



York, contains 54 pupiU, of which, 27 are pro 

 vided for by a law of the State of New York, 

 and the reinaindcr are principally charity pu- 

 pils. 



The law of the Slate provides for 32 pupils, 

 or 2 from each senatorial district, to be paid for 

 if actually in Ihe Institution, but of those only 27 

 have been received. The Directors, however, 

 have agreed lo fill up the five vacancies. 



The Directors have always been embarrassed 

 in making seleClions from among Ihe numerous 

 applicanis, and Ihey now have on file a list ol 70 

 or more that cannot be received. 



Mence arose the proposition for a female as- 

 sociation in New York, to aid in giving support 

 and inslrtictinn to llie indigpnt D.'-af and Dumb. | 

 Mrs I. Holt first conceived the idea in a letter j 

 to the Rev. Dr IMilnnr. 



There are several schools for Ihe Deaf an' 



CAUSF.S OF FIRF. 



.\mong the causes of fire, we would name the fol- 

 lowing, which at first thought present themselves ; 



Smoking cig.ars in the street and .about the stables 

 of |Hihlick houses ; and careless smoking wilhin doors. 



Leaving candles or lamps burning. 



laattention to the security and cleansing of stove- 

 pipes and chimney-flues. 



Workm'-n leaving fires in merchant's shops, &c. 



Petting embers and ashes away in wooden vessels. 

 or in iron or earthern vessels wdiere the fire can cora- 

 mnnicate to the surrounding wood. 



\'isiti5ig barns and stables in the evening with an 

 (■\posed candle or lamp. 



l^eaving- fi)e-boards in the fire-place of a chamber or 



Dumb in the United States, established in the room communicating with the same flue. 



,. .. . . ^ Carelessly leaving fires when going to bed. 



" E.\pofing drawers and clothes-presses to lighted can- 



1 In Hartford, stale of Connecticut. 



2 !n the city of New York. 

 . 3 In the city of Phil.-.delpbia, by D.G. Sei-xas. 



■1 .\ private school in Philadelphia, by David i 

 G. Seixiis, when he wa*: removed from the oth- 

 er. He has recently located his 'choni in New 

 Jersev. 'ind obtained the patronage oftho legis- 

 lature oflhal slalP. 



5 .\s(hoid at Danville, in Kentucky. 



6 One at Canajoharip, .Monlgomery co. N. Y. 



7 One at Delroil. Mirhiiran Territory. 

 A late report of Ihe Dublin Inslilution for ! The effects of inslruclion on the Deaf and 



the Deaf and Dumb, slates that there are 3U00 I Biim'> -'"■e very observable in brighlenin<r the 



' counlenance and alleriog Ihe e^ipression, s'iviiiir 



evidence of increasina^ inlelliiience : in improv- , making the canal from Geneva along the route of Ihe 

 ing' the moral nriiiciiiie. which is torpid and al-|outlet, by ihe way of W-^terloo and the .Seneca Fails 



mo't oblilerated : and in opefiinc: Ihe way to re- 

 liirious inslruclion and knowledge of ihe Deity, 

 which is almost void. — Vcw York Staiesinan. 



in Ireland. 



There are 428 ]")caf and Dumb in Ohio, as- 

 certained liy census. 



There are 300 in Kenlucky, by cslimalion. 



There are nearly 600 said to be ascerlained 

 in Pennsylvania. 



There are over GOO in Ihe State of New- 

 York, making Ihe average of one in 20t)0 o( the 

 population. This will soon be known by the 

 census now taking. 



There are calculated to be 200 in N. Jersey. 



And 500 is the eslimaiion for the Slates east of i ""t ""ce new 

 Vew-York. 



The Deaf anil Dumb are not all born so. — 

 Many lose their bearing from sickness and be- 

 come mute even after they have been laughl lo 

 speak. 



Of 148 which have been received into the 

 school for the Deaf and Dumb in Neiv-Yoik, 

 nearly one half have lost their hearing from;";?: n" writina:, no popery ! The fool «ayeth in | 



dies or lamps. 



Setting up stoves on or near the bare wood of a floor; 

 suffering the joints of funnels to reniain unfastened, and 

 the funnel itself eiiher to touch contiguous wood, or to 

 remain very near it. 



These are some of the causes of kindling frrs -which 

 stv^ulimes end in those awful conflagrations that fre- 

 qiKiitly destroy lives, and bring ruin on many an in- 

 dustrious cilizen. There is not less danger from fire in 

 country villages than in large towns ; frequently, the 

 for.aier are more combustible than the latter. 



Srriica Ci-rtnJ. — The Genesee Gaselte saj's, "We are 

 gratTied to Uar'n that Ihe canal commissioners, at their 

 meeling in l.'Iica la-t week, had undtr consideration 

 the Cavuga and Seneca canal, and tliat Ihev decide on 



n preference lo the pro}Hosed route via Fbflps ai.d 

 Vienna. The coast of the former route from this village 

 to Cayuga Lake was esliniated by Mr. Thomas, the 

 engineer, at $.')(). GOO, and from the Cayuga I^ake to the 



! Erie Canal near Monti zoma, at §34.000 — making in 



To say 'hat aU new thin"'S the whole about iJM, 000 ; while the canal \y way of 



Phelps, A-c. was estiinaled at near JpCI.'i.t'OO. incbir'ing 

 a feeder from Vienna, but omii ting damages to mill own- 

 ers." 



..Vo Innnvaiinn 

 are bad, i« lo say that all old Ihmgs were bad in 

 iheir commeiirement : For of all the old ihing* 

 e\cr seen or heaid of, there is not one Ihat was 

 Whatever i« now establishment 



A curious and diminutive species of wild dog is f >und 



wae once innovation. Tho lir«t invenlor of pews in the mountains east of Darango, in Mexico. - They 

 and parish clerk*, was no doubt considered as a are only els-ht or nine inches long, in form something 

 Jacobin in bis <lav. Judges, juries, criers of Ihe like a grayhound, with a large hi-h prnircting forehead 



court, are all Ihe invenlions of ardent spirits 



I long ears, and a long tail. They burrow in thi ground, 



, ,.,, , , 11.11 1 and are said to fee.l on grass and olher vegetable siib- 



who (died Ihe world will, alarm, and were con- 1 ^j^,,^^., ., h,.j are sometimes brought to Mexico, and 



sidered as the great precursors of ruin and dis- I ^.|,pn j„me5,icated and iuiproved iu their food, they in- 



"oliition. No inoculation, no lurnpikes, no read- 1 crense in size. 



sickness, and become dvmh in consequence 



In some of these c.ises, deafness has been 

 caused by a common cold, by measles, small pox, 

 scarlot and oilier levers, as well as by iils, acci- 

 dental blows, sore throat, &.c. 



In one case, a spriijbily boy lost his speech 

 and became deaf Iro.ii lils at live years old. 

 The same result occurred in another boy at 



his heart, and crielh with his month, * I will 

 have nothing new l' — Edinburgh licvicw. 



A man of genius cannot well be a coxcomb ; 

 for his mind is too full of other things to be 

 much occupied with his own person. Mc who 

 is conscious of great powers in himself, has also 

 a high standard of excellence with which to 

 i cempare his elTorts : he appeals also to a test 



The bill, endowing and incorporating the New .Jersey 

 Institution of the Deaf and Dumb, has been finally pass- 

 ed by C'ouncil with only one dissenting vote, and has 

 thus become a law of the State. ' 



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