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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 30, 182(1 



iaiscEz.z.AxnES. 



From the Jf- Y. Slatesman. 



A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. 



There stand the holy spires of prayer, 



Devoutly looking into heaven, 

 Like moral telegraphs, to bear 



The upward thoughts of the forgiven. 

 And as the sun-gilt windows gleam 



In their uustiined transparency. 

 Chaste thoughts come o^-r me, as I dream 



Of that soft hour, when, tenderly, 

 The grey haired pastor crossed my brow 

 With water from the font of snow. 



How sweetly every mansion lifts 



Its clean white front among the trees, 

 While the blue smoke in curly drifts, 



J^ails off before the healthy breeze. 

 Behind each roof, long meadows slope 



In swards that blush with clover blossoms, 

 And new-washed clothes swing on the rope, 



Just hung by maids of swelling bosoms, 

 And there the yi How street is seen, 

 Ilibbon'd both sides with virgin green. 



With what a spruce and dressy air, 



The tavern shows its painted sign : 

 Causing the traveller to stare. 



And cypher out the gold leaf line. 

 And yonder is the merchant's stand, 



Where, on the benches round the door, 

 Gather the story-telling band. 



And all burst out in hearty roar, 

 As some wild wag, at his tonguc''s role 

 Deals the convulsive anecdote. 

 Close at the foot of yon smill hill, 



The district schoolhouse wins the view ; 

 Where the young urchins 'gainst their will, 



In jabbering rows their tasks pursue. 

 And there 's the turf on which they play. 



And tan their open-collarfd necks ; 

 And there's the brook, where every day. 



Their paper barks meet sad shipwrecks 

 Of little hopes, that now endure — 

 The future world in miniature. 



These scenes are pleasant ; but there 's one 



More precious to the heart, than all. 

 It is — when on the ear, the tune 



Of mellow bells, with gentle fall. 

 Proclaims the sabbath morn is come, 



Then every road and path's alive 

 With young and old, — none stay at home, 



But clad in best attire, all strive 

 To fill their places lest they hear 

 In private, from the minister. 



And when from some wood-waving height, 



Upon the moss at leisure thrown ; 

 I view the sylvan shade and light, 



And know the landscape is my own 

 Dear native land ; when 1 behold 



The grassy lawn, the auburn wheat. 

 The mill, the mountains edged with gold. 



And hear the pastoral song and bleat ; 

 Oh ! how i bless with streaming eyes. 

 That heaven which gave the paradise ! 



down by the way, and your neighbors tread over 1 

 you a little ; in other words don't let a failure or ; 

 two dishearten you — accidents happen ; miscalcu- 

 lations will sometimes be made ; things will i 

 often turn out differently from our expectations, 

 and we may be sufferers. It is worth while to re- ' 

 member that fortune is like the skies of April, j 

 sometimes clouded and sometimes clear and fa- 1 

 vourable, and as it would be folly to despair of | 

 again seeing the sun, because to-day is stormy, so , 

 it is unwise to sink in despondency, when fortune ; 

 frowns, since, in the common course of tilings she 

 may. be surely expected to smile again. And 

 again — ] 



DoJiV be iliscoura^cd if you are deceived in the 

 people of the world. It often happens that men 

 wear borrowed character.^, as well as borrowed 

 clothes, and sometimes those who have long stood 

 fair before the world are very rotten at the core. 

 Prom sources such as those you may be most un- \ 

 expectedly deceived ; and you will naturally feel 

 sore under such deceptions ; but to these you must 

 become used ; if you fare as most people do, they 

 will lose their novelty before you grow grey, and 

 you will learn to trust men cautiously, and exam- 

 ine their characters closely, before you allow them 

 great opportunities to injure you. 



DorCt he. discoierasred umler any circumstances. 

 Go steadily forward. Rather consult your own 

 conscience, than the opinions of men, though the 

 last is not to be disregarded. Bo industrious ; be 

 frugal ; be honest ; deal in perfect kindness with 

 all that come in your way, exercising a neighbor- 

 ly and obligina' spirit in your whole intercourse, 

 and if you do not prosper as rapidly as any of your 

 neighbors, depend upon it you will be as happy. 



A British Company is about to make an import- 

 ant settlement in the Republic of La Plata. They 

 have bought a large tract of land, are buil-ling 

 houses,and have already some hundreds of settlers. 

 Mr Beaumont, President of t!ie Company, besides 

 paying for 500 shares, has advanced $'24,OO0 to 

 forward the concern. 



Tlie King of Prance lately purchased, at a mil- 

 lion of francs, a country estate, to serve as an Ag- 

 ricultural Institute, in which three hun ired pupils 

 are to be taught Jlgricvlture and Horticulture sci- 

 entitically. He has assigned a considerable reve- 

 nue to the institution in order that the course of 

 instruction may be obtained at the cheapest rate 

 by the French youth. 



Haising Rent. ^\ farmer in the neighborhood 



of Doncaster, was thus accosted by his landlord : 

 "John, I am going to raise your rent." John re- 

 plied, "Sir, I am very much obliged to you, for I 

 cannot raise it myself." > 



A wag once observed that the iiop grounds in 

 Kent, England, present more extensive views than 

 any other place in the world ; for there your pros- 

 pect citends from pole to pole. 



N. 



"Dont be Discouraged. — If in the outset of life 

 things do not go on smoothly, it seldom happens 

 that the hopes we cherish of the future are real- 

 ized. The path of life, in the prospect, appears 

 smooth and level enough, but when we come to 

 travel it we find it all up hill, and generally rough 

 enough. The journey is a laborious one, and 

 whether poor or wealthy, high or low, we shall 

 find it so, to our disappointment, if we have built 

 on any other calcidation. To endure what is to 

 bo endured with ha much cheerfulness as possible 

 — and to elbow our way as easily as we can thro' 

 tlie great crowd, hoping for little, yet striving for 

 much, is perhaps the true plan. But 



Don't be discoiirafced, if occasionally you slip 



A person notorious for his profanity, was taken 

 on a writ, and not possessing wherewithal to pay 

 the demand, was locked up in jail. His miserable 

 wife deprived of that support which even a broken 

 staff affords was observed by her little son to weep. 

 Confident of his father's proficiency, he kindly said 

 to her, 'Mamma, don't cry, father will swear out 

 in half an hour.' 



The U. States maintains 24 Light-houses on the 

 Coast of Massachusetts — more than are to be 

 found on any coast of the same extent in any other 

 part of the world. A Committee of tlie Senate 

 have reported that the number embarrasses navi- 

 gation instead of facilitating it, on account of tlie 

 difficulty of discriminatiou. 



Sch. Superior has arrived at N. York from the 

 S. Sea, with .5fiOO fur Seal Skins. She brings in- 

 formation of several Stonington vessels. 



Legacy for Young Ladies. 



MRS BARUAULD'S posthumous work entitled ".3 

 Legacy for Young Ladies,^'' edited by Miss Lucy Aikin, 

 is just published at 81 Washington street, (up flairs.) 



1 he January number of the Kclectic Review has the 

 following notice of this interesting little work. 



"A Legacy for Young Ladies from .Mrs Barban'd, re- 

 quires only to be announced to excite a general desire 

 (o share in it. The pieces which compose this delight- 

 ful liule miscellany, ' were found among her papers 

 by the members of her own family.' They consist 

 chiefly of papers of a light and elegant cast, allegories, 

 prose by a poet, andjeux d't sprit in verse, short essays 

 aid letters. A singular neatness and perspicuity of 

 style, and a feminine eleganc;- of mind, admirable good 

 sen^e and true simplicity, characterise all the produc- 

 tions of Mrs Barbauld. There is no pretension, noth- 

 ing that savours o( Ike blue ; she never lectures, or dis- 

 courses, or theorizes, but charms us at all times with 

 admirable sentimtnt in beaulilul language. We know 

 of no one who would better deserve to be styled the 

 Female Addison ; only such comparisons must always 

 fail to be very accurate, and the style of Addison is 

 less perfect than hers." 



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Just received from the manufacturer, and for sale at 

 the ./Igricvllural tVareliouse, No. lOU, Stale street 



I (up stairs,) a further supply of Patent STONE MILK 



jI'ANS; 



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Willis' improved horizontal and vertical HAY CUT- 

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j Hand Machines, with best cast-steel Knives ; 

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10 doz. of Cam's real cast steel warranted SCYTHES- 

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 Howard's double Mould hoard I'LOUGHS; 

 10 casks of superior nianufaclnred Cooking Furnaces. 



A London made patent Rice Mill, Calculated for 

 grinding rice for family use. June 23. 



The Seal Fishery at Newfoundland has been 

 uncommonly successful thus far the present season. 



Let a man do 

 worst. 



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