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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



APRIL 30, 1R34. 



MISCELLANY. 



From the Village Post. 

 LAND-BREEZE BETWEEN THE TROPICS. 



'■ The forests of Brazil are filled with aromatic pjants, whose 

 perfumes are often wafted many leagues to sea." 



To the billow-borne pilgrim 



Alone on the seas, 

 How sweet comes the perfume 



Of land, with the breeze ! 

 'TIs the breath of a summer 



Eternal in prime; 

 The kindliest fragrance 



Of sun-gladdened clime! 



Those wanderings of sweetness 



How welcome they are ! 

 That tell of a country 



1 ii seen and alar : 

 Like the morning, their advent 



Aye ushers a smile ; 

 And the rover's heart dances 



Injoyance the while. 



To cheer his lone vigil 



At midnight, they tell 

 Of meadow and mountain, 



Of forest and dell — 

 Till his eye o'er the ocean 



Forgeltelh to roam, 

 And he walks in his slumber 



The fields of his home. 



Thus oft on life's billow, 



With bark tempest driven, 

 The voyager fancies 



The breathings of Heaven ! 

 The past and the present 



Remembering no more, 

 He greets in his vision 



The world that's before. 



C. 



From the Nantucket Inquirer. 

 THE CREDIT SYSTEM. 



The novel, striking, and philanthropic idea ad- 

 vanced by our excellent Governor in his first mes- 

 sage to the Legislature — viz. that the laws author- 

 izing imprisonment for debt are in themselves 

 absurd, since they exempt the poor man's tools of 

 trade from seizure, while they sanction the incar- 

 ceration of bis body — as though the implements 

 could work without bands — it is gratifying to per- 

 ceive, bus aroused our law makers to a sense of 

 long-neglected duty. To their honor they have 

 adopted that liberal policy, and those rational views, 

 in regard to the practice of punishing poverty as a 

 crime, for which the more enlightened and humane 

 among the citizens of this commonwealth have for 

 many years contended. It remains now to be 

 proved, by experimental application of the statutes 

 for abolishing imprisonment for debt, and for ex- 

 tending the jail limits, whether the great benefits 

 promised to society by those who have advocated 

 this change, shall be realized. 



One salutary effect, that may be confidently an- 

 ticipated, is the gradual substitution of a more di- 

 rect as well as safer mode of transacting ordinary 

 business between man and man, for the credit sys- 

 tem hitherto so much in vogue, often so ruinous, 

 ami upheld only by the formidable image of a dun- 

 geon. The introduction and establishment of this 

 new mode, cannot but operate advantageously on 

 a larg" majority of the people — on the middle and 

 laboring classes especially. Men will acquire the 

 habit of paying as they go 5 and if men mean to 

 be honest, they may as well pay first as last. This 



habit, and this ability, will become more and more 

 easy as the system of trading or laboring for prompt 

 pay approaches to universality of adoption. 



Moreover, it will promote frugality. People 

 with money in band, are generally careful in their 

 purchases, and scrupulous to get their money's 

 worth ; while those who can he accommodated 

 with a distant day of reckoning, are not only apt 

 to increase their responsibilities unnecessarily, but 

 are very often subjected to gross impositions in the 

 first place, and ultimately immense trouble and 

 distress. A man buying on credit in a small way, 

 is rarely over particular in the consideration ol 

 those points which belong to a good bargain; he 

 neither searches the market, examines the quality, 

 nor asks the price, with that degree of prudent dis- 

 cretion which commonly marks the dealings of one 

 with cash in band. This is human nature perhaps: 

 at all events it is a fact founded in experience. 



Another good effect — of a moral character — may 

 be expected from this improvement. Things will 

 be oftener called by their right names. The 

 swindler and the unfortunate will not so fre- 

 quently be confounded, and thrown undistinguish- 

 ed into prison. A knave who deserves the pillory, 

 is sometimes let off" with the simple penalties hith- 

 erto inflicted on poor debtors. Those whose busi- 

 ness it is to punish the rogue, contrive to satisfy 

 their sense of justice that his doom is sufficiently 

 severe, though it he no greater than that suffered 

 by the defaulter whose culpability arises from no 

 moral guilt. But truth and justice demand a dif- 

 ferent course towards these individuals relatively. 

 If loss of personal, liberty be the legal forfeiture 

 denounced upon innocent penury, the same meas- 

 ure of punishment is not enough for the chastise- 

 ment of fraud and imposture. The villain who 

 cheats the widow and orphan, has too often been 

 suffered to escape as a mere debtor ; and as such 

 has obtained that sympathy which only misfortune 

 should claim. The welfare of society, as well as 

 the cause of justice, requires an exposure of every 

 crime under its proper name and character; and 

 men should boldly hold up such examples to pub- 

 lic detestation, rather than extenuate an actual of- 

 fence against virtue and law, by softening its qual- 

 ity for the mere sake of obtaining individual satis- 

 faction. Henceforth, then, by the aid of our new 

 system, let full retribution be exacted of the knave 

 and swindler ; while the honest man, though poor 

 and disabled, is still sheltered and protected by the 

 arm of the law, from useless or vindictive per- 

 secution. 



ITEMS. 



Tlte Ladies vs. Tobacco. The tobacco chewers 

 of New Haven appear to be up to their ears in 

 trouble. The ladies of the city assembled not long 

 since, and formed themselves into a society, agree- 

 ing to hold no communion with any gentleman 

 who indulged in the use of tobacco. 



A Goose Team. A London paper relates an ac- 

 count of a wager won by a son of a nobleman, 1 1 

 year old, who navigated the Thames from Black- 

 friars to Westminster in a washing tub, drawn bj 

 six geese in harness. Whenever the geese devi- 

 ated lii.in the true course, he put them right with 

 his stick. He won 50 guineas by bis performance. 



Hogreeves. By a bite law, this ancient and hon- 

 orable office has been abolished, and the duties 

 transferred to the field-driver. The newly married 

 man can no longer he chosen hog-reeve. 



EFFECTS OF OPIUM IN CHINA. 



Otjb Indian subjects will be more likely to suc- 

 ceed in conquering China by the demoralizing effect 

 of opium than we should by force of arms. Tho 

 horrible scenes described by M. Gmzlaff' are most 

 appalling. Mr. Majoribanks says the palace of the 

 Viceroy of Canton was burned down by the opium 

 pipe of his secretary ; that the Emperor's eldest 

 son died from excessive indulgence in the use of it; 

 and that all persons of wealth are addicted to it. 

 To such a pitch litis the smuggling trade arrived, 

 that one of the Viceroys recommended it should be 

 legalized. It is said that the amount paid for this 

 deleterious drug is nearly four millions sterling a 

 year, mostly from Bengal. If once legalized, the 

 poppy, like tobacco, will be universally cultivated, 

 all ranks will become enervated and reckless, and 

 the western mountaineers, recently and perhaps 

 still in a state of rebellion, will once more conquer 

 and overcome China. — English Q»or. Revieiv. 



For Sale at the Agricultural AVarehouse, 

 — HARDEN'S improved Seed Sowing Machine. This 



is one of the best labor saving machines in use, calculated for 

 sowing small seed. The saving of seed in the use ol this im- 

 plement is more than sufficient to pay the cost of it annually. 

 Price ,s'j. ap Hi 



Howard's Improved Patent Cast Irou. Plough. 



FOR SALE at the Agricultural Warehouse ol & 5"2 North 

 Market street, a further supply of Howard's Improved Patent 

 Cast Iron Ploughs, Tie- very extensive sale these ploughs 

 met with the past season, and the very general satistarlion they 

 gave 10 all persons who used them, give them decidedly the 

 preference overall ploughs now in use — a constant supply uf 

 them will now be kept lor Lire accommodation of die public, and 

 all B orders will be supplied on the same terms as at the manufac- 

 tory, a 16 



For Sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 



— WILLIS' Improved Cast Sieel Manure Four, the best 

 warranted article that has been made tor the purpose. a!6 



DAMAGED BISHOPS LAWS AND Ml'Sl.INS. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, at No. 414 Washington 

 Street, "ill open lor sale this day, 



1 Case wet (but not damaged) Bishops Lawn. 



1 do. do. do. Book Muslin. 



Also. 1 do. Superfine 6-4 Cambric Dimoties, which will be 

 offered by the Piet e at 25 per cent, less than cost of importa- 

 tion, m 14 



STRAW CARPETING. 



E1.IABST6NE BREWER, No. 414 Washington street, 

 .i.i. received a lot of 106 pieces superior straw carpeting white 

 and fancy checks*5-4. 6-4, and 7-4 widths, which he will sell 

 by the piece or yard at very low puces. Also. Canton Straw 

 table mans. isif. ' a 16. 



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 Baltimon — I 1. Hitchcock, Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati — S. C. PaRKHurst,23 Lo,wer Market-street, 



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 Middlelmry, Vt. — Wic.m Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford. — Goodwin sV Co. Rooksellers. 

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 Portsmouth, N. II. — .1. \\ . Foster, Bookseller. 



! '', Me. — A\ i i.i. a i; ii Sm it., Druggist. 



Woodstockt IV.—.). A. Pratt. 



I',i 1 1, ■ ml. Mr. — Oilman. Holden & Co. Bookselleis. 



i or, Mr. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 

 Halifax, A. S. — P.J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 

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 v !i execute every description of Book out! Fancy Print- 

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