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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FEBRUARY 20, 1834. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE HERMIT. 



Time from his features long had worn away 

 The rust of earth, ami Passion's gloomy frown ; 

 He would not stoop to grasp a falling crown; 

 Nor bend, the sceptre of the world to sway 

 Free from the vain desires that earth enthral ; 

 Free from vain terrors that mankind appal ; 

 (Jrttouch'd by Hope, ami unassail'd by Fear, 

 To Truth alone he turn'd bis menial ear ; 

 Alone lu Nature uin'il. and her sweet, simple call ! 



TRUTH IS POWER. 



Some men say that ' wealth is power,' and some 

 say that 'talent 'is power,' and some that 'knowl- 

 edge is power;' but there is an apothegm thnt I 

 would place high above them all, when 1 would 

 assert that 'truth is power.' Wealth cannot pur- 

 chase, talent cannot refute ; knowledge cannot 

 overreach ; authority cannot silence her; — they all, 

 like Felix, tremble at her presence. Fling her 

 into the most tremendous billows of popular com- 

 motion ; cast her into the seven-fold heated furnace 

 of a Tyrant's wrath, she mounts aloft as the ark 

 upon the summit of the deluge ; she walks with the 

 Son of God, untouched by the conflagration. — She 

 is the ministering spirit who sheds on man that 

 bright and indestructible principle of life, light ami 

 glory, which is given by bis Mighty Author to 

 animate, illuminate, and inspire the immortal soul, 

 and which like himself, ' is the same yesterday, to- 

 day and forever.' When the mould has long been 

 heaped on the pride of wealth, and talent, and 

 knowledge and authority ; when earth, and heaven 

 itself shall have passed away, truth shall rise, like 

 the angel of Manonh's sacrifice, upon the flame of 

 nature's funeral pyre, and ascend to her source, 

 her heaven, and her home — the bosom of the holy 

 and eternal God. 



PERSEVERANCE REWARDED. 



The Emma, of Harwich, George Grant, master, 

 employed in conveying the Post-office mails, on 

 her outward voyage to Gottenhurg, fell in, on the 

 Dogger Bank, with a large Finland vessel, laden 

 with timber, for London, bottom upwards, upon 

 which was a man, who had just made his way 

 through the bottom of the vessel. It appears that 

 the vessel suddenly upset in a gale of wind, and 

 seven of the crew in the fore part, were drowned ; 

 four Others, in the cabin, were driven through a 

 small hatchway in the floor. Here, without food 

 and in darkness, they remained for four days and 

 nights. Providentially, they found an old spike 

 nail and a ballast stone; these proved to be the 

 means of their deliverance, fur, with great presence 

 of mind and ingenuity, they sharpened the nail, 

 and with this miserable, yet in their circumstances 

 invaluable, tool, " hoping almost against hope," 

 they llegan to pick away the planks and timber ol 

 the" vessel's bottom oyer head ; and after toiling 

 day and night, they succeeded in making an outlet 

 through a timber fourteen feet by twelve inches, 

 and the plank three and a half inches thick, vv hence, 

 with a stick and a slip torn from a shirt, they made 

 their feeble signal of distress. At length, by per- 

 severance, the opening was made large enough to 

 admit of the whole of their number getting through, 

 which they had not long effected before the} were 

 all fortunately rescued by the Emma. — Edinburgh 

 Ev. Cour. 



The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does 

 beauty appear. Virtue is the greatest ornament, 

 uid good sense tine best equipage. 



EARTHQUAKE. 

 On the 5th inst. at 20 minutes past 10 o'clock, 

 P. M. a heavy shock of nn earthquake was felt in 

 this city. It was preceded and followed by n loud 

 rumbling noise and a very perceptible tremor; and 

 at the instant of the shock a strong report was 

 hi \d, resembling that of a powerful explosion, 

 lis duration was scarcely long'r than ten or 

 twelve seconds; hut it was probably the most vio- 

 lent shock ever experienced in this [tart of the 

 country. — Lancaster Exm. 



COAL. MINES. 



Tut; anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania may 

 be classed among the wonders ol' the world ; for 

 there are here whole mountain-tops covered with 

 carbon. Scarci ly a thin turf presses upon the 

 silvery masses of the coal on some of the tracts, 

 where it is dug or quarried in the open air, under 

 the blue vault of heaven, instead of being excavated 

 from mines beneath the dark vaults of overhanging 

 dripping rocks. The rays of the sun, and not the 

 miner's glimmering lamp, afford light to the labor- 

 ers. One of tin 1 mountains near the river Lehigh, 

 which I visited in the autumn of the year 1830, 

 appeared to be covered with a crust of coal vary- 

 ing in thickness from ten to forty feet. From 

 only one small tract of less than twenty acres had 

 this crust of coal been removed to the bare rock, 

 forming the substratum, leaving a chasm of the 

 depth of the thickness of the vein, surrounded by 

 perpendicular cliffs ol' the pure untouched coal, 

 which glittered in the sunbeams like magic walls 

 of polished jet. The superstratum of turf and 

 soil, aud the fragments of rocks which form the 

 superficial coat, are removed from above the upper 

 surface of the mass of coal by railway wagons, 

 which descend a few hundred yards to the brow 

 of the mountain, from whence their loads are shot 

 forth, to fall several hundred feet, with a noise re- 

 sounding amid the surrounding silent forest like 

 the crash oftbunder. 



The empty wagons are drawn back to the sum- 

 mit of the mountain by the toilsome labor of mults, 

 who descend again, however, without effort in their 

 little moveable stabli s or pens, mounted on wheels. 

 The conductor stated that these animals have be- 

 come so habituated to riding down that they will 

 evince their mulish disposition when deprived of 

 expected pleasure, and will endeavor to step into 

 their pens and to lie down, rather than to budge 

 on foot to the bottom of the mountain. — They rc- 

 tually appear to take vast satisfaction in their ride, 

 with their tars erect' and long faces peering grave- 

 ly out at the sides, like passengers in a stage coach, 

 to enjoy the prospect. The spectacle of a number 

 of mules, thus transposed from the usual station in 

 the harness, to the dignified situation of inside pas- 

 sengers, travelling with greater speed than that ol 

 a mail coach, produces an effect so truly ludicrous 

 as inevitably to produce a smile. 



The agent calculates saugiiinely that three or 

 four hundred thousand tons of coal per annum 

 may be furnished from these coal quarries. 



Pottsville, situated in an adjacent valley, is a 

 considerable town, entirely built up within five 

 years by the profuse expenditures made for the 

 construction of railroads and canals, and for tin 

 purchase of the lauds containing coal. — Practical 

 Tourist. 



FRUIT TREES. 

 Ornamental TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, ttc. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton, Similes from lioston, 

 by the City Mills-. 



Tms nursery now compnscs a rare and extraordinary rollec 

 linn of fruit noes, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament, Roses, A c, 

 andcovi rs the most of 18 acres. Of new celebrated Pears alow, 

 150 kinds, a pari of which, having already been proved in our 

 climate, are specially recommended. — Ol Apples 200 kinds — 

 Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries, 55 kinds — Hums, Nectarine*, 

 Almonds, Apricots, Quinces, Grape Vines, Currants, Raspber- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs. ece. &c.< — selections 

 from the Inst varieties known — a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions of Hon varieties of fruit. 



While mulberries for silk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 



Morus Hulticaulis or New Chinese Miilb'rry, a beauti- 

 ful fruit iree, so superior for silk worms lo al! others. 



(): ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 lo 400 hardy 

 and China varieties -, selections from numerous importations. 

 anl first rule sources. White Flowering Horse Chesnuts. 

 Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash, Silver Firs, Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Aliheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. occ. — 

 in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, 650 varieties. Ot 

 II rbaceous flowering plants, a rliniee selection of 280 varieties, 

 including tin: Pseonies, Mouhni <n/<l l\<p >r. rueea — am! 24 oilier 

 kinds — .mil 83 splendid varieties of double Dahlias. 



Gentlemen are invited to forward their orders early Address 

 to WILLIAM KENRICK, Newton. Trees, otc.delivered in 

 Boston tree of charge for transportation, and suitably packed, 

 nil from thence when ordered duly forwarded, by lane or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if leu with Geo. I '. 

 Barrett, who is airenl, at Ins see I store and New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos. 51 & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. .Jv n 



COTTON GOODS AT REDUCED PRICES. 

 ELIAB STONE BREWER, 111 Washington st. (South 



End.) oilers lor sale, die largest assortment of COTTON 

 GOODS, to be found in any retail store in the cilv. viz. 



10 cases of Colors rich dark Calicoes, at 1 J. 1 , cts. 



10 " Light, small figured " K'l ■• 



3 ,; do do do Plaid" 10 '• 

 5 " Various patterns, " 6d 



1 '■ Furniture Patch Is 



1 " " " 9d 



4 bales 3-4 Unbleached Cottons, 4}> cts. 

 •J " 3-4 •' " 63 



8 " 9-8 " " 10 cts. 



8 " 9-8 Newmarket, manufactured of warp and 



verv slout, for sinning, ISA cts. 



2 cases 8-4 Bleached Cotton, ia| " 



1 " Hamillon Long Cloth, 2U " 



2 " Fine drest 9-8 Cotton, Is 



3 " do and stout, 4-1 do U., cts. 

 10 " 9-8 do 10 " 



4 " 3-4 do (nl 



1 " 3-4 do 4.J cts. 



1 bale Bleached Cotton Flannel, ti 



1 " •' " " 10 



1 " " " " 7-8 I2J " 



1 *' " " ' " very fine 4-4 Is 



Bleached and Unbleached American Jeans. 

 Also — A large assortment of Flannels, from one shilling to 



one dollar per yard. 

 Black and Colored Bonihnzetts, al 12^ cts. 



Camblet and Plaid do 12J " 



Yellow, Green and Scarlet Moreens, 25 " 



3-4 and 6-4 English Merino, superior fabric and desirable 

 colors — A large variety of superior fabric and low priced, mix- 

 ed, &cj — Cassinieres — Brown Linen — 4-4 Irish While, anil 5-4 

 Linen Sheeting — Long Lawn, &e. — 3-4 and 4-4 CoI'd and 4-4 

 and 6-4 plain Hair, Cord and Check, and Plain Cambrics. F5. 



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AGENTS. 

 X, m York — G. Thorbukn & Sons, 67 Libcrly-strect. 

 Albany — W»i. Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia — D. & C. Landreth, Si Chcsnut-street. 

 Baltimore — 1. 1. Hitchcock, Publisher of American Farmer, 

 ( iHcinnati — S. C. Parkhukst, 23 Lower Markei-street. 

 Flushing, A'. )'. — Wm. Prince it Sons. I'm p. I. in. Dot. Gai. 

 Middlebury, Kf.— Wight Chapmak, Merchant. 

 //,n7/i'ii/— ti'iciei i N & Co. booksellers. 

 ,Y utburyport — Ebekezer Stedman, Bookseller. 

 r<>. tsu oath, N. //. — J. W. FOSTER, Bookseller. 



, Mr.— William Snlll, Druggist. 

 Woodstock, I'.— .1. A. Pratt. 



Portland, JMc— CoLMAN, HoLDEN & Co. Booksellers. 

 Bangor, Me. — Wm. Manx, Druggist. 



;/ , ,,. jy. S. — P. J. Holland, Esq. F.ditor ol Recorder. 

 Montreal, I- C— Geo. Blnt. 

 St. Louis — Geo. Hoi.ton. 



Printed for Geo. C. Barreti by Ford & Dameell. 



