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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Jan. 9, 1S29. 



MISCELLANIES. 



The fullowing elegant lines are from the pen of the highly 

 gifted and accomplished Lady, vvlio condiicls the " IJiiwer of 

 Taste ;''a publ.calion so well known, and wliose merits arc so 

 biglily and generally appreciated, tnat any recommeadatory 

 DOticc from us would be useless supererogation. 



AUTUMN. 



I know 'I is bright— 't is beautiful !— but yet 

 I ne'er could look on Autumn's golden leaf, 



Her robe of changelul dye, and not regret 

 Tiiat vernal loveliness should be so brief. 



Who sighs not over summer's fading rose ? 



Although around us other flowers are wreathing, 

 Whi se besoms richer, gayer tints disclose, 



And with whose fragrance every gale is breatbiug. 



Still, the fair flower, to young aflection dear, 

 It once enshrined wiilnn a laiililul breast, 



Oh, never to the heart that loved sincere, 

 Can other blossoms be so fondly press'd. 



Yet \\lien the garden's loveliness is past, 

 We look upon the forest's tower iig pride, 



Which, though ^^'e know too soon must meet the blast; 

 We breathe a fervent wish to hope allied — 



That soft Favonian gales, with gentle breath, 

 And genial suns the fading scene may cheer, 



Arrest awhile the ehilling shafts of death, 

 And sigh a requiem o'er the closing year I 



Ob t there 's a desolation wikl, and bleak, 

 In winter's dread approach : our bosoms feel 



A paralyzing chill, we eaniiol speak. 



Cling round the heart — o'er all its pulses steal ; 



'T is nature's death we look on ; each cold blast 

 Sounds as the knell of some dcpaiied joy; 



Th? ruilile=s conqueror o'er each scene hath past, 

 With mighty arm commission'd to destroy ! 



AUGUSTA. 



COURAG E. 



Lightning was in his eye. His siep fl\'as firm, 



But steahhy as a tiger's, and his limbs 



Stirr'd like llie springing steel. Uis left hand held 



The instrument ol de.i.li. and on his breast 



Th' insignia of his deadly trade were crossed. 



Look I he has marked his victim, anti his form 



Stoops 10 a keener gaze. On — s'ep by step ! 



Near — and still nearer I — It will answer now ! 



Slowly he raises up his sinewy form. 



And stands a giant. Dreadfuity m.nute 



Ilis deadly preparation — all is dune ! 



A momeni — a keen fliish I — and to the ground 



F^lIIs the unconscious — robin ! — Hail ! brave man. 



disposition and good principles ale tlie best dowry 

 that a. woman can coiiCer upon her husband — 

 London paper. 



The ioilowiiig, which is coi>ied from a Ntirem- 

 buig paper, is an ingenious mode of preventing 

 Sunday tippUug. It is an order from the in.iyor 

 of tlie department of Iserre : — " All petsuns drink- 

 ing upon Sundays and holy days, in coflee-houses, 

 &c. during llie celebration of mass, or vespers, 

 are hereby authorised to dejtart without paying 

 for what they liave had." 



Fraud in wtighing meat in the streets by steel- 

 yards. — One day last week, a gentleman purchas- 

 ed from a wagon in the street, two quarters of 

 pork, the apparent weight of which, by the ven- 

 der's steelyards was 22 lbs. for one, and 26 for 

 the other, both amounting to 4S pounds. The 

 ])uichaser doubting the correctness of the weight, 

 had the pork rcweighed in scales in a neighbor- 

 ing store, when it appeared that one quarter 

 weiglied but 17| pounds, and the other 16| 

 pounds, amounting to 34J poimds — making a dif- 

 ference of 13J pounds, as weighed by steelyards 

 and scales! We give this statement that the 

 public may be on their guard in resjiect to false 

 steelyards and fraudulent venders of ineat. 



centre, he thinks, are distinguished volcanoes, aa'^ 

 no clouds are perccplihie over the moon's face f 

 which being coveretl with snow and ice, accounts, 

 as he imagines, for its clear atmosphere, or for 

 the absence of an atmos|)here. This vast accu- 

 mulation of ice and snow iqjon the moon's sur- 

 face, may be explained, the writer conjectures, by 

 the nattire of the moon's revolutions. He offers to 

 construct iustjiimeiits of the above description, by 

 which these phenomena may be observed, at $50 

 to.flfO; and at the same rate to furnisl) solar 

 microscopes, on a new principle, with a magnify, 

 ing power at 12 feet distance, of 5,134,000. — Bos~ 

 Bulletin. 



Several half-mile sections of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio rail-road are already finished, and waiting 

 for the rails. In excavations through the hills 

 immense beds of mineral i)aints have been found, 

 principally of Spanish Brown of a rich quality, 

 and of value sufficient to defray much of the ex- 

 pense of excavation. It is probable that immense 

 mines of wealth might be found in rail road ex- 

 cavations between tliis city and Worcester, in the 

 shape of beef, potatoes, turnips, coal, butter,ch*ese, 

 &c. Sec. — Boston Palladium. 



Twelve hogs, all of one litter, one year old, 

 were sold in Pawtucket, R. I. on the 23d ult. 

 which weighed when dressed 4236 lbs. This 

 pretty litter came from Conneclictit. 



Orchard Grass Seed. 



Just icceived at the New Engltind Farmer Seed Store, No. 

 32 North Market .Street, Boston. — a eonsigiimrni oj prLme 

 Orchard Grass Seed, raised by Mr Lloyd Jones, of Pcnn- 

 svlvania, who is well known as the most extensive and success- 

 ful cuUivater of this valuable grass in this country, as the lollow- 

 iug letter shows ; 



" Mr Russell, — In regard to the character of Mr Jones'' 

 seed. I have pleasure in sQying, that it isthe best in this market^ 

 and alwnvs commands an extra price. Col PowEt, alway* 

 purchases" of him, 'not only for Irimself but for his southerK 

 friends; and the Pennsylv'ania AgricuUural Society, at their 

 Inst e.\liibiiinn, awarded him the premiums for both Orchartr. 

 Grass and Clover Seed. 



Your-, &e, JOHN P. JHLNOR, 



Recording Seoelanj Peim. Agri, Society.' 



Gentlemen who wish to secure a supply of this seed, will <i». 

 well losecure it soon. 



Also, a most cttensive supply of Garden, Field, and I'lovser- 

 Seeds, raised expressly for us, or procured from the most un- 

 question:d)le sources. 



A correspondent censures the mean, unmanly 

 practice of making a butt of old maids. The 

 habit is an unequivocal ' sign of a vtilgar and ill- 

 rognlated mind, and is most oiTensive and revolt- 

 ing to every person of feeling and delicacy. — 

 Many of these females who leail single lives have 

 been inlluenccd in their choice by motives equally 

 creditable to ihcir judgment and moral charac- 

 ter. A woman may be amiable, accomplished, 

 and admirably suiteil by nature and education to 

 fulfil the duties of a wifti and mother, and yet she 

 may never have been seriously addressed by the 

 man for whom she could feel the attachment and 

 respect without which marriage is a state of in- 

 suppoi tabic tliraldoni. It is so much the fashion 

 to look maiidy to wealth in the choice of a wife, 

 that very many most e.vcellent women are neglect- 

 ed, by men who arc not aware that an amiable 



Spots on the Sun An ingenious individual in 



Providence, has very recently succeeded, by ineans 

 of a seven feet telescope, constructed by himself 

 oh a new principle, in bringing the entire image 

 of the sun into a dark room, upon a white screen, 

 to the size of 8 feet in diameter. He writes us 

 that his astonishment was great, when he perceiv- 

 ed that every spot now ii|)on the face of the sun, 

 nine in number, was distinctly transferred to the 

 screen, and ■was so plain that he could see every 

 movement of them in tlieir various and sudden 

 changes. He says he could jjlainly discover tliat 

 those spots were immense bodies of siTioke, appar- 

 ently issuing from volcanoes ; and as they seem 

 occasionally forced upward from the craters, now 

 forming dense clouds, and now dispersing, cousiil- 

 ers those phenomena as accounting for the rapid 

 changes of those spots. The escape of such a 

 vast quantity of gas from the interior of the body 

 of the stm, would, he observes, as it surrounds 

 that luminary, produce that bright and dazzling 

 appearance, which is the atmosphere of the sun. 

 This theory may not accord with the opinions of 

 others who have made observations on the sub- 

 ject ; but the writer, at any rate, entertains the 

 strongest belief of its truth. 



With the same iiistriTr.ient, which is but just 

 finished, he has also examined the moon, and 

 states his conviction that that body is covered 

 with perpetual snow and ice — the dark spots dis- 

 coverable on its surfiice being frozen seas, and the 

 lighter spaces, land covered with snow. Those 

 [Circular places, which have a rising cone in the 



Canary Birds. 

 For .Sale, a few copies of the New and C(.'mplete Canary 

 Bird Fancier, containing a variety of useful information, h'y 

 which the admirers of diose beautiful Birds may be instrucleJ iu 

 ihelr managemenl while breeding, and their treatment when 

 diseased ; with useful Hints to the breeders of Mules. From the' 

 latest London Edition.— Price '2d els. Just received at the 

 J}gricultural Warehouse. 

 4t Mo. 62 North Market Street, Boston. 



Valuable Real Estate, fyc, For Sale. 



The Subscriber offers for Sale, the following Real Estates in. 

 Durham, iV. H. viz : 



About 50 acres of land, under good cultivation, wiih tolera* 

 ble buildings thereon ; — Soil of excellent quality, and capabla- 

 of a high degree of improvement. Also, a Farm on the New 

 Hampshire Turn|>ike road, containing about SO acres, with. 

 buildings nearly new. 



Also, a Farm of about 110 acres, with new buildings, \ying 

 within two miles of the New Market Factorfes. 



Also, a small F.irm lying in the Great B.ay containing 30 or 

 40 acres, a very productive and excellent tract of land, in thj^r 

 neighbolhood of the above named Factories. 



Also three Houses in the Village oi Durham — oneoftheitt 

 possessing excellent accommodations for a Tavern. 



.Also, a Farm in Lee, e nitaining aliout 80 acres. 



Also, a Wood Lot in Harrington, containing 105 acres, weU 

 wooded. 



He also ofl'ers for sale, a Stud Horse of approved blood, and 

 sevei'al Mares and Colts of difVerent ages. — All kinds of Farm- 

 ing Utensils, and .Slock of ail sorts. 



1'he above described Lands are wiUiin a short distance of th» 

 large Factory Eslablishmeuts at Dover and New Market. 



Durham, Dec. 26, 1828. JOHN FROST. 



Two Heifers For Sale. 

 Two Superior Heilers, wiih calf, mixed between the Dertnr* 

 and Coelebs breed. Both of which lock a premium at the latB 

 Show in Brighton. — Inquire of Daniel Chandler, Lexington, or 

 at the cotinting room oi the New England Farmer, Agricultural 

 Warehouse, Boston. 31 Jan. 2,1329. 



The Hunterdon Gazette Establishment for ,9a/f. 

 At Flemin^ton, Huntei'don couiuy. New Jersey, on reasonable? 

 terms. Address the Editor, (post paid) at Flemingion, New 

 Jersey. 3t Jan 2 



Published every Frirlay, at ^3 per annum, payable at ibe 

 end of die year — but those who pay within sixty da^s from the 

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