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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



OCT. 18, I~:!7. 



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AUTUMN. 



BY JOHN MALCOLM. 



Sweet Sabbath of tlie year ! 

 While evening lights decay, 

 Thy patting steps melhinks I hear 

 Steal from the world away 



Amid thy silent bowers, 



'Tis sad but sweet to dwell , 



Where falling leaves and drooping flowers. 



Around me breathe farewell. 



Along thy sunset skies, 

 Their glories tnelt in snnde ; 

 And like the things we fondly prize, 

 Seem lovelier as they fade. 



A deep and crimson streak 



The dying leaves disclose : 



As on consumption's waning cheek, 



'Mid ruin blooms the rose. 



The scene each vision brings 

 Of beauty in decay ; 

 Of fair and early faded things. 

 Too exquisite to slay. 



Of joys that come no more ; 

 Of flowers whose bloom has fled ; 

 Of farewells wept upon the shore, 

 Uf friends, estranged or dead. 



Of all that now may seem. 

 To memory's tearful eye. 

 The vanished beauty of a dream 

 O'er which we gaze and sigh. 



Oii;GiN OF Yankee Doudle. — A coffesijondent 

 of the West Chester (Penn.) Repiihlienn, gives 

 the following extract from Judge Martin's Histo- 

 ry of Noi-tli Carolina, to show the origin of the 

 (»ouular air of Yankee Doodle. 



" In the attacks iiiac^e upon the French posts 

 ill America, in 1755, those against Niagara and 

 Frontenac were made liy Govcrmr Shirley, of 

 Massachusetts, and General Johnson of N. York. 

 Their army, during the euinincr, lay on the 

 eastern bank of the Hudson, a little south of the 

 city of Albany. In the early part of June, the 

 troops of the eastern provinces began to pour in, 

 company after company ; and such an assemblage 

 of men never before thronged together on such 

 an occasion, unless an example may be found in 

 in the ragged regiment of Sir John FalstafT. It 

 would hav.- relaxed the gravity of an anchorite, 

 to see the descendants of the Puritans marching 

 tlirough the streets of that ancient city, and lak- 

 in" their stations on the left of the British army 

 some wiih long coals and others with no coal.>( at 

 all and with colors as \Tirious as the rainbow; — 

 i^ome with thin hair cropped like the army of 

 Cromwell, and others with wigs, the locks of 

 which floated with grace around their shoulders. 

 Their march, their accoutrements, and the whole 

 arrangement of the troops, furnished matter of 

 amusement to the British army. The music play- 

 od tho airs of two centuries age, and the tout eii- 

 seujble, upon the whole, exhibiteil a sight to the 

 wondering strangers, to which they liad been un- 

 accustomed, 



Among the club of wits that belonged to the 

 British army, there was a Dr Shackburg attached 

 to the staflT, who coinbiiied with his knowledge of 

 surgery, the skill and ta'eiits of a musician. To 

 please the new comers, he composed a tune, and 

 with nmch gravity recommended it to the officers 

 as one of the most celehratiMl airs ot martial mu- 

 sic, T he joke took, to the no small amusement 

 of the British. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it 

 was nation fine, and in a few days nothing was 

 heard in the provincial camp, but the airs of Yan- 

 kee Doodle. 



Little did tlie author in fiis composition then 

 suppose that an air made for the purpose of hv- 

 ity and ridicule, should be marked for such high 

 destinies. In twenty years from that time the 

 National march inspired the heroes of Bunker's 

 Hill, and in less than thirty, Lord Cornwallis and 

 his army marched into the American lines to the 

 tune of Yankee Doodle," 



The 100 largest Cities in^ the World. — 

 A recent German |)ublication gives the following 

 curious calculation res|)ectiug the hundred most 

 populous cities in the world : These are Jeddo in 

 Japan, 1,680,000 inhabitants ; Pekin, 1,500,000; — 

 London, 1,300,000; Hans Isnhen, 1,000,00C ; Cal- 

 cutta, 900,000 ; Madras, 817,000 ; Nankin, 800,000 ; 

 Congo, Ischeen, 800,000 ; Paris, 717,000 ; Werst 

 Chans, 6i- 0,000 ; Constantinople, 497,000; Bena- 

 res, 630,0(0; Kio, 520,000; Su Ischem, 497,000; 

 Houngh Ischem, 500,000, &c. The fortieth in 

 the list is Berlin, containing 190,000 ; and the last 

 Bristol, 87,000. Among the hundred cities, two 

 conlain a million and a half, two upwards of a 

 million, nii.e from half a million to a million, 

 iweiity-three from one to two hundred thousand, 

 and six from eighty-seven thousand to one luin- 

 dred thousand. Of these one hundred cities, fif- 

 ty-eight are in Asia, and thirty-two are in Eu- 

 rope, of which four are in Germany, and four in 

 France, five in Italy, eight in England, and three 

 in Spsin ; the remaining ten are divided between 

 America and Africa. 



Read Ladies! — A discourse recently before 

 the me'mbers of the American Institute, states, 

 that there is more silk annually consumed in the 

 United States, than all the wheat, Indian corn, 

 rye, oats, flaxseed, biscuit, potatatoes and hops, 

 which are exported, will pay for, by two millions 

 of dollars! The annual consumption of silks 

 amount to the enormous sum of $7,983,818 ! ! ! ! 

 Here is noble field for the exertions of our modern 

 abstinence societies. — Tenn. Far. 



Re-insertion of Human Teeth.— A practice 

 prevails in some of our largest cities of re-insert- 

 ing teeth taken from the deaii, in lieu of artificial, 



(It least so says the Boston Medical Journal — 



good authority. We learn from the sawie source, 

 that a dreadful and fatal disease, in one instance, 

 was in this way communicated to a lady, whose 

 jaws and face presented a horrid spectacle before 

 she found relief in death. 



Sir Ashley Cooper says, "I never suffer ardent 

 spirits in my house, thinking them evil spirits ; — 

 and if persons could witness the white livers, the 

 dropsies, and the shattered nervous systems which 

 I have seen, as the consecpience of drinking them, 

 they would be aware that spirits and poison are 

 synonymous terms." 



An immense Chandelier has been [laced in the 

 new Circus at Philadelphia, which emits 2500 

 lights. It is fed by gas, consuming a thousand 

 feet per hour. 



The farmer who wishes to succeed well in his 

 business, must always be busy, but never sutler 

 himself to be hurried. 



Patent Lamp Apparatus for Heating Water, 

 Cooking, ,&.c* 



This appa"atus lias been louinl veiy useful in small fam- 

 ilies, and for such person.s as may \vi.^li to prepare lea or 

 cofTee-drink, cook oysters, &c.. ill ihoir own aparlmeiils wi ht 

 out llie trouble ol a wood or coal fi. e. Il is very convenion- 

 iii public houses, cof^'ee-liouses, and oilier places wliere il is 

 wished lo keep any hot liquid coiislantly on hand. Besides 

 answering all ihe purposes of whal is called the nurse lamp it 

 may be made lo hoii from one piul lo a gallon of wafer, hy a 

 meliiod, which in many cases will be found ihe most econom- 

 ical ami expeditious, wliicli can I e dc\'ised. 



This apparatus has been much used and highly recom- 

 mended in writing by all, or nearly all ihe druggists in Bos- 

 ton, whose certificates of approbation may he seen al the 

 office o!" the New England Farmer. No, 52 North Market 

 Slreel, where the apparatus is for sale. \\ may also be 

 bougiil of William Spade, No, 26 Union Street. 'Handbills 

 or pamphlets will always be delivered with the apparatus, 

 when sold, containing an explanation of its principles and 

 particular directions lor ils '.ise, &c. 



J me 14, 



laiOCUliATING ORANGE TREES, I.A'S'IIVG OUT 

 GARUE:i\S, 



EDWARD SA'V'ERS, Gardener, begs leave to inform the 

 citizens of Boston and its vicinity, thai he intends lo remain 

 for a thort lime in lioston, and would devole his time to the 

 above business, to those who may be inclined to employ him. 



|CU^^^' orders left al the Agricultural Warehouse and 

 Seed Store, No 52 North Market Street, will be punctually 

 attended to. July 26. 



FOR S.iI,E, 



1 full blood imported Dishley Kam, 1 do. Ewe, 1 full blood 

 Dishley Ram Lamb, 6 Irish ewes 2 years old, 2 Ram Lambs, 

 5 Ewe Lambs and 2 yearling Ewes, 1-2 Dishley and 1-2 Irish 

 blood, al! large anp beautiful. To be seen on the farm of B 

 SHURTLEt'F, Jk. Chelsea, Mass. 



TO FAR9IERS 



A person who having had some knowledge of the farming] 

 business wishes to extend his practical knowledge of thei 

 same, ofl'ers his services to those who may wish to employ fow 

 one or more years after the first of October next. Address 

 J. M. through the New England Fanner. 



TERRIBLE TRACTORATION. 



Terrible Tractoraiion and other Poems. By Dr Caustic 

 4th Ed'lion, For sale at Ihe New England Seed Store. 

 April 19, 



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