48 



®l)c jTarmcr's iHoiUl)li) l)isitor. 



long known as tlie " old soldier" was unnounced in 

 the newspapers of Concord. Within the lust three 

 3'ears we had taken a personal interest in the old vet- 

 eran, that it seemed to us as if few others of a genera- 

 tion so much indelited to him and the men like him, 

 were inclined to take. An invalid ourselves, we had 

 several limes turned our course seven miles out of 

 town to the rude and humlilc cottage near the hank of 

 the ijoucook, the place of iiis residence, wherein he 

 had reared a large family within the last lifty years of 

 his life : we saw the wicket of life's lamp flickering 

 in the socket. Leaving home each year hefore the 

 winter set in, we hardly expected for either of the 

 last three years that holh of us could live to look upon 

 each other's face again; and the late season has bnt 

 too truly verified our anticipation. He has survived 

 lit least two years heyond our expectation at the time 

 of our visit about three years since. Ilis widow and 

 only wife, at the age of more than eighty years, out- 

 lives him; and the daughter never married, who has 

 been the solace and sujiport of both parents from her 

 infancy, remains to smooth the pillow of the last davs 

 of her widowed mother. A few months ago the fami- 

 ly left their long residence in this lown, a few acres of 

 the poorest soil with the house standing on it — all to be 

 disposed of for the sum of about a single hundred dollars. 

 This was not the properly of the old soldier himself, 

 but had been earned and paid for by the daughter. It 

 was to be exchanged for the half of a more couiforta- 

 ble house at Loudon village, the other part being own- 

 ed by a brother who had removed there as more con- 

 venient for employment on wages. 



We have not seen the family and know not what 

 were the distresses of the tedious days and nights of 

 the three last months of soldier Haynes. An excel- 

 lent constitution and good habits through life he must 

 have had to live so long. His history must be fresh to 

 our readers within the last three years. A soldier in 

 the army of the revolution, then just past nineteen 

 years of age, he miraculously escaped as one of the 

 rear guard of the army retreating tiom Ticonderoga in 

 1777, having his woolen frock pierced with many bul- 

 lets, and being shot and wounded externally on several 

 parts of his body ; here he eluded his swift pursuers, 

 the British and Indians, by dropping suddenly into a 

 ravine covered with foliage. He lived through the 

 severe campaign of the following few months to be 

 engaged in the last two decisive battles upon Bhcmis's 

 heights near Saratoga, in the last of which he was shot 

 down and lay with the dead more than forty-eight 

 hours exposed to the frosts of at least two October 

 nights, nearly insiMisible, as he said to us, the whole 

 time. In.leed when visited by his comrades on the 

 field, it was then a matter of doubt vvhi:tlier or not the 

 brcalh of life was in him. 'I'l-.e laige bullet probably 

 of a Queens-arm piece, familiar to the soldiers who 

 armed themselves ivilh weapons taken from the ene- 

 my in the place of ruder pieces which had been worn 

 out in long previous service, struck our hero in the 

 lower right jaw, passing through llii' mouth in an .uigb' 

 of about twenty degrees upwards and out near llie ear 

 upon the left cheek side. In its way through the 

 moulli it tore out eleven teeth if we remember right, 

 and very nearly cut across the tongue the width of 

 three fourths of an incdi in a diagonal direction, lea\ing 

 but a small fibre upon tin' one side widening as it pass- 

 ed over, 'i'he tei-th, we think were never restored — 

 the tongue healed over with the evidence of mutila- 

 tion so long as the mouth could be opened. For seve- 

 ral months after receiving this worse than death-wound 

 the soldier vibrated as on the verge between life and 

 dealh at the hospital at Albany. Thirteen monlli.s 

 reslori^d bim to the service in which he continued till 

 the end of the revolutionary war. 



'I he old soldier lived afterw.irth to get married and 

 to rear a numerous finiily. Children and grand- 

 children survive him. Without opportunities for early 

 educ.-ilion ami long in the army, his (|ualilication3 for 

 acquiring and owning property were b-ss than hundreds 

 and perh.ips ibousaiids of our fathers ajid grandfathers, 

 who fought first for liln'rly and afterwards realized its 

 enjoyment iji pilching uimn lands within our borders, 

 which un(ler the lujnds of persevering industry soon 

 made of their owners independent farmers. .Mr. 

 Hayocs v\'as a poor man, depending for the most part 

 upon his own Iraml.* from day to day, in the employ- 

 ment of others of belter property than he possessed, 

 for the njeans of supporting si-antily at times and never 

 in abundance, a niujierous risijig family. 



It was always his custom to be industrious. Upon 

 a small plat of sterile pine land he year after year 

 raised Ihe vegetables for fimily use, including a few 

 bushids of corn or rye for bis common bread. Tor 

 several years he drew from the government an inva- 

 lid's pen^iml first small in aniount, gr.idu.illv increasiMl 

 to some ihirly-six or forly dollars per aniiom. .After 

 the year Ibl!), lo his invalid pension was added the 

 common soldier's pension of forty-eight dollars. Both 

 pensions amonnted lo less than one hundred dollars a 

 year. 'J'hcse pcnsimis, managi'd wilh a iliii^ ecotujmy 

 in his motle of living, might b,i\e sulhced for his own 

 comfortable support : but the excellent wife iiud part- 



ner of his bosom, often with children and sometimes 

 granilchildren, came in for a share of the stipend! 

 Tor many years the time of semi-annual payment 

 found the whole sum expended, so that no money ac- 

 tually came to the hand of him who alone deserverl it. 

 Ilis last and most helpless years was his most comfort- 

 able and least vexatious point of life so far as pecunia- 

 ry alTairs were concerned. His children had grown to 

 an age t(f take care of themselves and even become 

 helpers to ihe declining age of their parents : within 

 Ihe last few year's when the time of his pension pay- 

 ment came round, the agent who took his money had 

 the generosity to lei him have the little which seemed 

 to be irKlispensable — the purchase perhaps of a little 

 tobacco of which it had been his habit lo partake to 

 the long, long time back of his mutilation, as one of 

 the condbrls of the camp, .and as his partner said of a 

 little gin taken as a medicine to assuage the pains of 

 long and restless nights. 



When nature in the course of days and years wears 

 down the human frame, disease attacking the system 

 generally, or in some more vital parls, often closes its 

 work suddenly : at other times "life will lengthen out 

 itself by some acute disease operating upon a less vi- 

 tal part in which the seeds of mortality all concentrate. 

 Soon after we made ourselves more particularly famil- 

 iar with the old soldier's life and sufferings, he com- 

 plained of pains in the head and of night restlessness 

 which we then supposed must soon terminate his ex- 

 istence here : it atiected his memory as to events oc- 

 curring all about him, his hearing and his eye-sight : he 

 complained of coldness in his extremities and the 

 swelling of his limbs — he thought he must die soon. 

 Taking him by the hand when leaving him once in 

 this condition, we observed that it had more the life of 

 health than we had been in the habit of witnessing in 

 one apparently so near his end. After the lapse of 

 another winter making him our first visit, we believe 

 it was now nearly two years ago, we found the previ- 

 ous alarming symptoms had left him, and that his 

 troubles of body had concentrated themselves in a cru- 

 el cancer of the mouth fastening and extending itself 

 in the region of the wound received sixty-six years 

 before. Again and again we saw him afterwards — the 

 cancerous afl'ecttorr extending and growing each time 

 more painful. Of this he is supposed to have died. 



If we had outlived the veteran soldier and been at 

 home at the time of his death, it would not have been 

 without an effort to do the last honors which his case, 

 more than that of any oilier man we personally ever 

 knew, so well deserved. ' If our lale legislation had 

 not put an entire end to that noble military spirit which 

 has not only secured our p\?ace but made this great 

 nation, under iho Uivino blessing, all that it now is, 

 '• the queen of the world and the child of the skies," 

 we had anticipated that a little (jfibrt would bring out 

 on his funeral occasion somefhiijig such a military dis- 

 play as honored the furreral oibsequies of a Hancock 

 anil Washington nearly half a\cenlury ago, extending 

 back almost lo the tinres of ouri first reco!!"clJQn • this 

 was trot a notion of our own invention, but the sugges- 

 tion of another revolutionary miiin who survives him. 

 We hope of ourselves to have/given a notoriety to the 

 services and the sulVerings (tf the eventful life of 

 Thomas Haynes, that ihey irjiay be remembered and 

 appreciated by at least one gerjieration coming after us. 



Tho capacity of tin; IJir'itod States for snpiily- 

 iiig- lliu wrriits of Great Hfritniii with liroml stuffs, 

 is sliowi) ill an e.slim!iti! r'oiilainiMl in a tilati.siiciil 

 article piibli..i|ieil in a Nf vV York paper. It makes 

 lilt! surplus of wlient nii'il Iiidinn com for export 

 to he— Wlirat, ii.OOO.OO'O bushels: Flour, ;i,r>00,- 

 000 barrels; Indian corn and meal, 17,000,000 

 llllt'liel.-. .' 



Friih iuul Orij'iimenlal Trees, &c. 



r-». f> M 7- n c. ...11 i_ .... -. uriderr^igned fur every 



be r'cce'iivccf by Ihe 



RDER.S Ml 

 Mr Uirid of 



FRiJif TRiiES. appl'es, thaks, i'1,u.m.s, ciii:uries, 



Also.nll tlic varieties of ' ORN AME.NTAI. TREKS, SHRUBS, 

 ficc, fruiii tile cxtcrisivtl; .\iir..'crv (if \Vm. Ki;nhick, Ni'Wlon, 

 Mass. Tlicy wilj bo tn( kfii frosli from llic urimnds, pnckrd In 

 iiin.M, and delivered at Nursery prices, free of cviicnsc udtuna- 

 liiulalidii to (Nihcurd. ; 



CatalogUM furnislilc'd oralis to those who npplv. 



tViM.KEN'f, 

 / Agcnl of Wui. Iveiirick. 



Concord, N. It., J>\pn] 1, 18J7. 05 



T'l!; 



N'jtice lo Farmers. 



V. Hultsi rilir*' rs wiiiilii rtspciirull} iiifuriii tlie Fnrmprrf of 

 Cuticurd iiiifti viriiiitv lliiit llir\ \iavv olilaiiu-ti iiii n;;«*ncy 

 Ii'i Ilie salt; of Vr^ .mtv i^ Vlmtrt' nlrlniii.irCfntrt! DniU(;lit 



Ptr.OK^IIfei, 



and Iiavc thi:* ''•vvcck roccivtil an t .\trncivp Hssorlmcnl, wlilrli 

 iirr iiIlLTcd nt IiIIh' luniinrnrinriii;; pricrs, nl llit-ir Siovi- \\'an' 

 llmiff, riirfclAly np|<osiU' Iho I'lleiiix Mold, Collci.nl, N. II. 

 'I'lii- propiiiliy ,(•< (.1 tlu'sc I'l.nii-lis huvcaiUIrd (liu piist yi-ur to 

 iliiir iihi'iuly,*^ (-\i, ntli-d iKt srvcml H"W (mlliriif, coniajiiing 

 iinmy in-\v n/liid iinporlatit iin|iruvtiiu'nts. 

 Abo for d|.nk' uu above u g(.'ncral VQtioly of othor Fanning 



irlcneils, consisting of Ciiliivalors, Straw Cultere, '.'i 

 iManiirc Forks, iihovcis, Iloes, &.C. ice, which aret.- 

 low as can be bought alaoyotherestablishment in New"*"- 

 shire. 



rRATT &, KETCHAM. 

 Concord, March 25, 18-17. 3m 



NortheiTi Herds Grass & Clover Seeii 



1 tfl^tf^O BUSHELS first quality H. G. SEED. 

 i'SJFVf Vr 10 TO.\S <io. do. CLOVER SEED. 



For sale low fur cash at the Depot Store, bv 



GIL.MORE & CLAPP. 



Concord, N. H., Apritl, 1847. 45 



BRIGHTON I>I.\RK;ET— Monday, .^rarchaa, 1847. ' 

 [Reported fur Mie Daily Advertiser.] * 



At Market, 530 lirief Cattle, 33 yokr^s VVorkinc Oxen, 70 

 Cows and Calves, 130(1 Sheep, and 800 Swine. Abouut GOO 

 hogs are expetlt-d by the cars Ibis day. 



Pbicbs— Bre/CoH/e— Extra6,75; first quality 6,50 ; second 

 and third qiialily 4 75 fiv 5 75. 



Working Oxen— Sales were made at S80, 62, 87, 88, 103, and 

 117. 



Cows and Ca?cf.s~S:iles were noticed from $13, 20, and 23 tc 

 50, according to quality. 



S/irrj,— Sales at §3, $2,59, 2 87, 3 50 and 6. 



Swine — At wholesale, 4^c for SoWs and 5.Jc for harrow s. — 

 At retail from 54 to 7c. i 



CONCORD IVHOI.ESAX.E 



CASH PRICES CURRENT. 



For West India Goods & GrocEBres, FLorE, Grain, Pbo- 

 , OUCE, Iron &. Steel, Fi.aster, Salt, Lime, &lc. &c. 



Corrected vvei-kly for Hill's N. H. Patriot by GIL.MORE 4c 

 CL.VPP, at the De|X)t Store, Concocd, N. H. 



April 2, 1847. 



ASHES, Pots, 4J 



Pearls 4i 



ALU.M, 4 



liRI.MSTO.NE, Roll 3 



Siiliiliur, 1 



CAMPHOR. Refined 50 



C ANDLES, .Mould, 12 



SpFTin, 32 



COFFEE, St. Domingo, 



Porto Rico, 9 



Porto Cabello 9 



Old Goveroment Java,.. . 11 



COPPERAS, 2 



FISH, Bank, lf>-qiiinlal,. .4,00 



Pollock, 3,00 



Bav, 4,00 



Old Dun, 5,00 



No. 1 Salmon, l(>bbl, 14,00 

 No. 1 Shad, p-bbi, 12,00 



Ton's & Sounds, i,*bbl, ti,00 

 H.ll.Fins,p^hbl, 9,00 



FLOUR, Gtnescc, 8,00 



Fancy brand 8,50 



Ohio,Akrun, 9,00 



Spaoldin'.', e\ira, 9,00 



J. H Beach, 8,50 



FRUIT. Figs 



.10 



Raisins, blue mark,... .6,50 



Blacklnark, 6,00 



Box, hunch, 2,00 



FUSTICK, Cuba, t» ton, 30,00 



Tampico 22,00 



Ground, If* liund 1,75 



GLUE, Russian best 17 



.'Vlncrican, 11 



GRAIN. Oats, 42 cents lf> bu 



Corn 874 dodo bu 



Rye 75dod»»bu 



Beans, 75(ai,,'>0 



Peas, M& 75 



GRINl)r"rONES,lst<iual- 

 ilv,tini-lKil,l;> bund. 2,55 

 Du.'du. Tinlinislu-d, 1,.")0 



lir.IiUI.Ni;,!,-* bo.x, No. 1,..50 

 ^Haled, 75 



I.NDICO, llensal,. 1,100 1,75 

 Spanish lloat,... 1,00 ra) 1,. 10 

 M.-iuina, 75fij)l,25 



IRO.V, Old Sable, 5 



Eiijlish, 4 



Banks, refined 4* 



Kn^lisli, sheet, 6 



Russia, do 12(6)13 



Old Sable nail rolls, 5J 



Nolwei;ian do ti 



Common do Al 



Enjtiish hoop, 5 



Amcriran do 4 



Stiue Shapes, .\in 43 



Swedes, sliur slmpe-i( -H 



LBATHER. New York 

 Sole Leather, Lifht, I7'ril 

 Do. Ileavv, In liil 



LIME, Thoinaston, tirsl 



quiilitv, 1,2.') 



Camden, do 1,00 



LOGWOOD, St. Ilolnin- 



B.i, P ton, 22,00 



I'amprarby, 27,00 



Gioulid, ),^ bund 1,75 



MACKEKl-.L, No. 1, ¥>■ 



bbl 11,00 



No. 2 »,X 



No. 3, 6,50 



MOLASSES, llavann, S8 



Siniimin, 30 



Trinidad, 3-2 



Porto Kiro, :L5 



t<iii:ar House, 50 



NAILS. Boston Iron Cu's 



brand, 4^ 



Old Colony do 43 



VVev month Iron Co 4)j 



Maiden, 4J 



PLASTER, It* ton, 6,00 



Do. LTounii 10,00 



PROVlSU>.\S. Pork Ex- 



tr.t clear (f* bbl 211,00 



Common do 18,00 



Extra Mes9, 18,00 



Coinmon do 16,01) I 



Bolter, p- tl. 10® 15 , 



Cheese, new inilch,.. .7® r* 



Four meal, 5(&/ 1> 



Dried apple, best, 4^ 



Lard, northern, r. ...11 



Do. soutliern 10 



Turkeys Sc Chickens, begt,9 



Goslins, best, 4 



Round Hoas, 8 



REDWOOD, ground, ^ 



bond 2,75 



Nicaragua, f* Ion, 35,00 



RICE, K* bund, heal 5,00 



ROSl.N, tt* iibl -',50 



S.\L/ERATUS, first qualilv,61 

 SALT, St. Ubes, fj* hhd. 4,00 



Cadin, 4,00 



Bonaires, 4,50 



Turks Island, 4,50 



Liverpool, 4.00 



Do. fine, Worlhingston 



brand, 1* baa, 2,00 



Do. other brands, 1,75 



SALTl'ETUE, crude, 8 * 



Do. refined 9 



SEED. Clover, norlhfrn,. 10 



Do. soiilhein, 9 



Herds [;r.ass, ^ bu 2,75 



SHEETINGS, prime fr-vd ..6i 

 SHI.NGLES, first qnalily. 



No. 1, pine, V* M 3,50 



do. do. do. spruce, 2,25 



SHIRTINGS, ^ yard 61 



SHOT, assorted, oj 



SHOVELS, cast steel, ^ 



do7. 10,00 



Steel pointed do 9,00 



I run do. best, 8,00 



Do. coininon, 6,50 



SOAP,Caslile 10 



White Soap, best, 8 



Brown, No. 1, 4 



Family, 5 



Extra, 6 



SPICES. Cassia, in mats, 20 



Do. ground 14 .' 



Cloves, 30 ' 



Gtnper, pure 9 



Muce, |/> lb, 1,00 



Nulipegs, bes-l, 1,50 



Pimento, whole, 12 



Do. crouiid, 14 



Pepper, whole, 9 



Do. around, 10 



STEEL, Swede.*, b«st 7i 



Sanderson, Brotliers 3l 



Co. castsleel 18 S 



Jessop &. Son, ll 17 



German, oest 12^ 



Do. cunnnon, 10 



Conrli sprint;, br>t, 9* 



SUGARS. Bro«n llnvn- 



na, very best, 8^ 



Do. do. prime, 8 



Do. do. Iiilr, 71 



Double refill. East B. loaf,! it 



Do. do. crushed llj 



Do. ilo. powdered, 12 



Common loaf, 10 



Porto Rico, bi-i, eS 



Purified .Mnsn.vndo do . . .81 



TAR, V> I'l'l 3,50 ' 



TEAS.^ Gunpowder, best 



quality, 1^ II,, 75 



Ini(H-rinl, do 80 



lljsoii, do 60 • 



Hyson Skin, du 30 l« 



Vount: llvsoii, common, .35 ' 



Do. do. fair 40 



Do. do. KODd 45 



Do. do. best, 55 



TOBACCO, common keg,.. 6 



Good do I'< 



t'ominon box >~ 



Good do_ I '. 



Honev Dew, do. best, ?^ 



Caveiidiih, S5iS;)'i; 



