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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[April I-t 



»ixscz:li.anxes. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARJIER. 



THE EVENING STAR. 

 How brightly shines fhi- eveniii» star, 

 With its mellow and radiant eye, 

 As it mounts aloft in its silver car. 

 Through the liquid blue arch of the sky. 



When the sun has departed and sunk in the west, 



With his bright and majestic glow — 

 When the world's busy tumults and toils are at rest, 



And night's shadows are blending below — 



How softly she shines on the regions beneath, 



And scatters her pensive ray ; 

 And a quiet as calir^as the stillness of death 



Succeeds to the bustle of day. 



'Tis then that the wand'rn- on life's dreary v.aste, 



The victim of sorrow and care, 

 Finds his spirit releas^'d from the grief which oppress'd. 



And a holy light centering there. 



The quiet of nature descends on his soul, 



Atul to liini the blest promise is given. 

 That cnfiancnib'd from sorrow and grief's dark control. 

 He shall rest, like tliat bright star, in heaven. 

 JVorrisloien, (Pa.) .SprU 1826. 



JUST published by Wells and J.illy, the EDIN- 

 BURGH REVIEW, for November 1825. 



cnrrTENTS. 

 1. A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects 

 and Importance of Political Economy ; containing an 

 Outline of a Course of Lectures on the Principles and 

 Doctrines of that science. -Ry .1. R. M'CuUoch, Esq. 



2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S. Secretary to 

 tiie Admiralty in tlie reigns of Charles II. and James II. 

 ComprisinfT his diary from 1G59 to 1669, deciphered by 

 the Rev. John Smith of St John's College, Cambridge, 

 from the original short hand MS. in the Pepysian Lib- 

 rary, and a selection of his Private Correspondence. 



3. Absenteeism. By Lady Morgan. 



4. Observations on the Silk Trade. 



5. Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in 1821 and 

 1822, including some account of the Countries to the 

 Northeast of Persia ; with Remarks upon the National 

 Character. Government, and Resources of that King- 

 dom By James B. Fraser, author of _*. A Tour in tht 

 ilimala Mountains.' 



C. 1 ays of the Minnesingers, or German Troubadoun 

 of the I2(h and 13th centuri s ; illustratid by spici 

 mens of tire cotemporary Lyric Poetcy of Provence anc 

 other parts of Europe ; with historical and critical nO' 

 tices. and engravings from the MS. of the Minnesinger; 

 in the King's Library at Paris, and from other sources 



! 7. Picports and Evidence upon the state of Ireland— 



Indiistri). — Man miisl have occupation or be Ordered to be printed by the House of Lords and Com 



How to make a Doctor. — M Edinburgh we 

 have now no fewer than nine Medical Profes- 

 sors. To finish a Doctor, in short, in our im- 

 proved academical manuliiclory, he must pass 

 through as many hands as a pin. He is first 

 drawn out and cut over by the Professor of An- 

 atomy — the head is then made by the Professor 

 of the Theory of Medicine, and put on by the 

 Professor of the Practice — he is next silvered 

 over bv ihe Professors of Botany and Chem- 

 istry — pointed b_, tlie Professors of Surgery — 

 burnished up by ibe Professors of Ihe Art Ob- 

 stetrical — and fin illy prepared and labelled by 

 the Professor of Materia Medica. — Edinburgh 

 Review. 



Man cannot be idle and enjoy life; and tho" 

 be may somelitnes comjilain of the bitterness of 

 the bread which he eats with the sweat of his 

 brow, he would unquestionably find il ten times 

 more bilter, if it could be oaten in absolute idle- 

 ness, and without any considerable exertion 

 either of the body or mind. — Ibid. 



[selected for tiie N. E. 1-ARMF.R.] 



Tax on Milestones. — Some mention bavins; 

 been made in ihe presence of Siieridiin of a tax 

 upon milestones, he said '• such a lax would bo 

 unconstilutional — as Ihey were a race that could 

 not meet to remonstrate."' 



Genius not incompatible with correct habits. — 

 Many men escuso liiemselves and are excused 

 by others, for deviations from the path of recli- 

 u de and prudence, by pleading genius as an 

 apology for eccentricity. But il is finely re- 

 marked by iMoore, in bis Life of Sheridan, that 

 "To claim exemption fur frailties and irregular- 

 ities on the score of genius, while such name' ; golil coins the people refused to give them 

 as Milton and Newton are on record, were to i currency. A precept was therefore directed to 

 be blind to the example ivliich these and other! Ihe Mayor and Sherift'to enforce their circula- 

 great men have lei't of the grandest intellectual j Hon ; but the citizens making a representation 



miserable. Toil is the price of sleep and ap- 

 petite, of health and enjoyment. The very 

 necessity which overcomes our natural sloth is 

 a blessing. The world does not contain a briar 

 or'a thorn that divine mercy could have spread. 

 We aie happier with the sterility which we coh 

 overcome liy industry, than we could have been 

 with spontaneous plenty and unbounded jirolu- 

 sion. 



The body and the mind are improved by the 

 (oil that fatigues lliera ; that toil is a thousand 

 limes rewarded by the [ilcasure which it bes- 

 tows. Its enjoyments are peculiar; no wealth 

 can purchase them, no indolence can taste tbi^^n. 

 They flov/ only from the exertions which they 

 'tT^J- ■ 



Gold Coin. — The late anxiety for obtaining 

 gold would appear strange to some of our re- 

 mote ancestors ; for when Henry III. first isoiipd 



powers combined with the most virtuous lives." 



Labour neccssanj to c.ccclleiicc. — Nothing great 

 and durable has ever been jiroduced with ease; 

 labour is the parent of all the lasting wonders 

 of this world, whether in verse or stone, wheth- 

 er poetry or pyramids. No man, however gift- 

 ed by nature, can rationally expect to excel 

 either in art or in science without judicious and 

 persevering industry. 



Indolence a Crime. — Many lazy people atlenipl 

 to quiet their consciences liy ihe sup|)osilion 

 that they are not bad members of society — that 

 though they cannot claim the revvards of virtue, 

 they are exempt Irom the disgrace and punish- 

 ment due to vice. But omitting to do what we 

 ought to do is often as criminal as doing what 

 Tve ought not to do. The sentinel who sleep* 

 on his post is little belter than he who deserts 

 to tiie enemy. Besides there is something in 

 the old saying " When tho devil catches a man 

 idle he always sets him to work." 



27(2 Votary of Pleasure — Is the devifs hired 

 man and receives death for his wages. 



against this kind of money, a proclamation was 

 publisherj by the King, declaring that they were 

 only to be taken at the option of the receiver, 

 and that holders of them should receive the full 

 value from the Treasury, deducting the char- 

 ges of coinage. 



Real .'Iffection. — A hackney-coachman at the 

 West end of the town having died, a subscription 

 was set on foot to bury him, and afford the dis- 

 consolate widow immediate relief — she received 

 the colleciion, and when asked to show the body, 

 said she had turned it to a better accoui't., than 

 waiting good money on so lost a subject — she 

 bad no room to keep the body, and it had there- 

 tore, been sent to an anatomist tor (our guineas. 



The left Stncliing. — It is asserted that "Ladies 

 n/aioi/.f pull off the left stocking last." This is 

 ( orroborated from observation ; but what ren- 

 ders it more astonishing is, that the fact equally 

 ipplies to gentlemen; for,should either ladv or 

 •rentlemnn perchance pull the stocking off the 

 left leg first, that upon the right leg becomes 

 the Itfl stockmg. — A'ational Intelligencer. 



mons, Sessions 1824-11)25. — The Book of the Romar 

 Catholic Church. By Char'cs Butler. Esq. 



C. Histoire da Passage des Alpes pa' Hannibal.— 

 .\ Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over Ibi 

 Alps. By a Member of the University of Oxford. — .^ 

 Critical Examination ofMr Whitaker's ' Com s£ of Han 

 nibal over the Alps ascertained.' 



9. Proposal for the Advancement of Religions Know] 

 edge, and the Reformation of Morals. Addressed t' 

 Ibe Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland. V.y a Poma 

 Calliolic Clergyman. — Thoughts on Ihe Education c 

 the Irish Poor. By J. O'Driscoll — Letter to the Rigli 

 Honorahle C. Gram, on the li^t.: Charge of Ihe Righ 

 Reverend the Bishop of Kilalloe. By Athamic — Th 

 Fourteenth Report of Commissioners of Education. 



10. Lcttres sur L'Anglelre. Par A. dc SlaelHolslcir 



11. Thoughts on Popular Education. By a Ricmbt 

 of the ("burch of England. 



12. Considerations on the Game Laws. Bv Ednar 

 Lord SufF.eld. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & CO. have ft 

 sale at their nurserj', at Flushing, o 

 Long Island, near New York, 

 FRUIT and FOREST TREES, 

 FLOWERING SHRUBS and PLANTS, 

 of the most approved sorts. 

 The proprietors of this Nursery attend pcrsovallij t 

 the inoculation and engrafting of «// their Fruit Trrti 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that th 

 Trees they ord.r will prove genuine. 



The subscriber, agent of the above nursery, will r< 

 ceive orders for any quantity of trees, plants and sbrnl 

 and transmit the same, and the bills may be jii.i.l t 

 him on the delivery of the trees in this city, the freigl 

 iic. to be paid by the purchaser. 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis, and an)' infurn 

 ation respecting the condition of the tret s, &c. iinpar 

 ed on application to him. Z. COOK, jr. 



Boston, Feb 10,1826. epIOt -44 Slate st'ree 



O^CRUDF ROCK SALT.— The Subscriber hr 

 for sale at No. 69 Broad Street, 



51' Tons Crude Rock Salt, — iu large lumps for ca 

 tie, or for sheep. 



Tills article deserves Ihe attention of Farmers, hot 

 for its economy and ulilily ; being less than halfth 

 expense of the common salt, and less liable to waste. 



Feb. 24. 3ra. F. WILBY. 



TIIF, subscriber has for sale at his nursery in S; 

 lem — the Englii'b Mountain .\sh and the C'ommou .^sl 

 both of them of good size and very fine trees — ali6 

 great many set dling English Oaks. 



Salem, April 7. E. HERSY DERBY. 



The FARMER is published every Friday, by Joha' I 

 Ri'ssELi., at $2.50 per auuum, iu adrancc. 



