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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



FEK, 21, 18 38. 



8ujip(ise<l In llie pani{jra[)h taken from tlie Star, 

 ever existed here or in tlie tu'iglil)()rlir)orl. 'I'hese 

 stories do us no harm, heciin.se evtry ])ns(in 

 aroninl us knows they nre arrant fictions. They 

 arc so far an injury to the jiuhlic, as to cri^nte a 

 needless alarm of the ravage.s ol a dit^easej which 

 «he enlightened part of connnnnity know is ren 

 dered harndess hy vaccination, hut which i.-f still 

 a terror to the ignorant, the ohstinate and the su- 

 perstitious. — JVoodstock Mer. 



AND gardener's JOURNAL. 



Boston, Wednesday, Feb. 2l, 1838. 



SUMMARY OF TUKWEEK. 



The weather is by uaiversal agreement the first topic ; 

 and never was there a more agreeable topic than this 

 has been through the whole season. The ground is 

 now every where covered with snow, and the sleighing 

 is perfect. There is but a single abatement to the de- 

 lightful exhiliration, which the passage of the beautiful 

 and tasteful vehicles, that dart by the pedestrian with 

 the rapidity of the wind, creates at such a season ; and 

 that is the nierciless abuse and cruelly, to wldch the 

 noble animals, who draw these glittering and winged 

 cars, often crowded with life and radiant with beauty, 

 are subjected, driven furiously under the whij) at ihe 

 top of their speed and then often left shivering in the 

 cold to wait the pleasure of their unfeeling masters. — 

 Such cruelly is as disgraceful as it is barbarous. The 

 abuse of the dumb and defenceless ; and this too in the 

 pursuit of our own pleasures, is the meanest of all ty- 

 ranny ; and presents not a single redeennng feature. 



Congress. — The National Concerns go on. There is 

 much private bu>ines3 undoubt(jdly, which involves a 

 good deal of labor in the Committee rootns i)ut which 

 does not appear on the surface. The only ostensible 

 business in the house has been an attempt to get up a 

 kind of bull baiting; but the animal after being brought 

 in was released, as Itc might be wanted to be shown up 

 in another theatre. I,t was amusing to see some men 

 throw javelins and tarbed spears at him ; secured as 

 they were by a high fence and while the animal stood 

 tied, so that he could neither hook nor even leash them 

 with his tail. These brave men insisted upon it that he 

 should not even roar. Such heroes would run from a 

 three weeks old calf if they were to meet him in an open 

 field. iVI. L. Davis who goes by the name of tire S;jy 

 in Washington, a Reporter for one of the public papers, 

 "was called to answer at the bar of the House for having 

 charged a member of Congress with corruption. While 

 the old man sat in the gallery some of the tnenibt-rs 

 called him a villain, a scoundrel, a blackguard, and oth- 

 ers of those beautiful designations so frequent in the 

 jCon-^reSsional vocabulary — the late editions. He was 

 l>rousijt to the Bar. He denied the power ol the House 

 ito question iu'"l '" * way to criininiile himself; and as 

 it was discovitreQ that he did not refer to a member (.f 

 the House, h.5 w^a discharged 



Mr Adams pre6^tiJ.ed a wheelbarrow load of pelitir^is 

 ^nd for .various ohjects. .One that Congress would make 

 ;him an alien. Another ihat Congress would build 

 a wall between the Northern and the Southern Stales. 

 /Another from Georgia praying that Congress would 

 pass laws to protect the frcedoni of speech and of dis- 

 ^.ussion. Guess this last man, as Jonathan said at the 

 «:beatre, has got into the wrong pew. 



j^jAsaACBDSETTS. — The Commitl»e» have made an 



anatomy of ihc Commonwealth and Kilby banks ; and 

 hung them up in terrorem. The report respecting the 

 former, discloses a ehain of frauds and violations of trust 

 and embezzlemcnls quite sufficient to secure an iramsr- 

 taiity of infamy to the parties concerned in them. 



The House of Repiesentatives have passed the bill 

 giving the credit of the State to aid in the construction 

 of the Western Kaihoad. We hope this project will be 

 cnnsunnnated. The agricultural but particularly the 

 mafiufaeturing interest will be benefiited by it. But 

 our hopes of its utility to the trade of Boston are not so 

 sanguine as those of many of our contemporaries. We 

 tielieve it can never come in competition with water 

 conveyance in the tiansportation of flour, for example, 

 from the West^ We do not f'urget likewise that the rail- 

 road car goes <dther way at pleasure ; and therefore that 

 every facility lor reaching Long island Sound or the 

 Hudson River from thfe Connecticut valley must tend 

 to carry the trade to the city of New York. The facili- 

 ties of personal interourse which it will furnish will 

 be delightful ; and we send beforehand our compliments 

 lo our good friend the Editor of the Cultivator that we 

 mean to drink tea with him and eat some of his rasp- 

 berry jam the first evening after the railroad is open; 

 and come home allerwaids We expect him to return 

 th(! visit the next day. 



lengo ihe Editor of the Watchman to find ten other fa 

 mars in the State, who have done the aa.ae labor, an 

 can say as much. More than that, we know that 01 

 friend never ctmceals his convictions or o]Hnions; — lli 

 he makes no compromise with intemperance ) that I 

 holds the system of licences under pretence of " publ 

 good," iu abhorrence; and maintains it tube the si 

 cmn right and duty of the Government to put a stop 

 the sale and the t-ailic in ardent spirits, other than as 

 use in the arts, or in medicine ; and to closeevery whe 

 at once, the drinking houses, these bitter fountains 

 poverty, crime, and unmeasured and unulterable wretc 

 edness. 



We have not the honor of an acquaintance with th 

 gentleman, the editor of the Watchman ; but we undt 

 stand that his name is Thresher ; quite an agricultuf 

 name. Now we beg Mr Thresher, btifore he lays on [ 

 Hail again, first to look and see what is under the stra' 



A Hint to Bekkshiiie FAnMER?. — Mr Jonah , 

 Hulbert, of this town, raised the past season on nil 

 acres of land, eight hundred and twenty bushels ofoB 

 — being a little over ninety-one bushels to the acre. 



THE CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN. 



In the Christian Watchman of the week before the 

 last, our attention was arrested by a heading in capitals, 

 UNFORTUNATE ; and we expected at least to find 

 an account of some horrid murder, or accident by fire or 

 flood. Judge of our surprise, w hen we found out ihat 

 a poor joke of one of our correspondents about Temper- 

 ance pledges, a mere pleasantry, which we never sup- 

 posed contained half as much powder as an India 

 Cracker, had exploded , and killed how many of Fal- 

 stafV's men in buckram, we shall not say. Now not to 

 be out-done in any of the Extraordinaries, we immedi- 

 ately called upon Our " accident-maker,'* and he gave us 

 impromptu, the following exquisite morceau, which has 

 at least the merit of origlnalitij 



MOST UNFORTUNATEST. 



Jack and Jill went up the hill 



To draw a pail of water ; 



Jack fell down and broke his crown, 



And Jill came tumbling after. 



The Watchman of the last week, by way of ample 

 restitution, not in capitals, but in lower case, contains a 

 sort of recantation of their insinuations against the good 

 character of our friend. From this, it appears he has 

 discoveied " that he got the wrong pig by the ear ; " 

 and is lor " ganging bock agen !" Would it not be rath- 

 er more " Christian " like, before they make insinua- 

 tions against a neighbor's good name, to inquire into the 

 ground of such insinuations .'' Now we have the pleas- 

 ure to infonn this Christian Watchman, that our friend 

 in question, was the devoted friend of temperance, prob- 

 ably before he was born ; and from his childhood to the 

 preseiit lime, has held all kinds of ardent spirits and to- 

 bacco hke%vise, Its first couxin and best patron, in utter 

 detestation; that he had a farm for thirty years, and in 

 that time he had hundreds of men in his employ ; that 

 he has sometimes in a season out 100 tons of hay, raised 

 1500 bushels of corn, 500 of wheat, 1800 of potatoes, 

 and 5000 of other vegetables; and made miles of wet- 

 drains; and yet that ho never used, and never would 

 permit 10 be used, and never did have used upon his 

 place, with his content or knowledge, one gill of ardent 

 spirit.'), except in case of accident or sickness. We chal- 



Internal Improvements. — New York has expend 

 OD internal improvements, ^18000,000, and nulbori/.ed 1 

 expenditure of $}Jl2 000,000 more. Pennsylvania has ci 

 structed 961 miles of Railroad and Canal, at an expense 

 $25,000,000. Illinois appropriated, in 1837, ^9 fOOOl 

 for internal improveraenls. Maryland, in 1836, appiupria 

 5^8,000,000. Virginia has expended and appropriated $ 

 500,000 Michigan appropriated, last year $5000,01 

 Making the amount appropriated and ex)>ended by six yia 

 $85,100,000. 



To Correspondents. — Filius AgricoliE and I). C 1 

 gratefully acknowledged and so is the l,etter about t 

 Turkey, written, we opine, by his friend the Gr)ose. 



Farmers help us I Send us your grain v\ithout siflil 

 If you think it is not clean enough, we promise to pasi 

 through our winnowing mill without toll. ' 



The following was handed to us \*y a friend as a first effort 

 its author. It is a beautiful flight, graceful and soari' 

 Let her plume her wings for a much loftier height; for 

 only requires on her part, the deterniinalion, to reach it* 

 TRUST IN GOD. 

 Trust in God ! *l is a holy guest 

 That cheers the traveller's lonely breast. 

 Whether in desert wastes, alone. 

 Away from country, friends and home; 

 Or ill the weary wilds of lile. 

 He meets with danger, toil and strife, 

 And yields to false temptation's snares, 

 Or feels the weight of earthly <:ares 

 Press his worn spirit, once as bright. 

 As morning's clear and cheerful light, 

 And finds what he has toiled (ogain, 

 Brings nought but misery and pain. 

 That what he thought would give most bliss, 

 Has yielded but unhappiness, 

 And keen-felt disappointment's smart, 

 Is rankling deep within his heait, 

 Turns he still to that holy guest, 

 Trust in God ! it will give him rest. 



Errata in our last, page 250, note on 2d columil: 

 "1098' read 1668. Cage 251, 1st column, 24th 

 for Seincet at Oise, read Sein et Oise. Same page 

 column, lOih line, after " founded " read manufactB 



