Vol. X.— No. 19. 



AND HORTICULTURAL J(3URNAL. 



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I'l.mi Ciiljhelt'a Advice (o Vouiig .Veji. 



COBBKTT'S COURTSHIP. 



Wlii'ii 1 fii'st siiw my wifV, sl.e was thirteen 

 ye<u-s old, aiid I wus vviiliin a'oijiit a inoiuli ot'twen- 

 iyonc. Siie was the dauglitor of a seiji-aiit of ar- 

 tillery, ami I was tlio SiMjeaiil-niajor of a regiment 

 of foot, hntli stationed in forts near llie city of St. 

 John, in tlit: province of New Brunswick. 1 sal 

 in tlie room with Iter, for about an hour, in com- 

 pany with others, and I made up my nsind that 

 she wa.s the very girl for me. Tliat 1 thought her 

 lieiiutjfid is certain, for that I iiad always said 

 should be an indi-spensable (|iialifiration ; but I 

 saw in lier what I deemed marks of that sobriety 

 of conduct of which I have said so mtieh, and 

 which lias been by far the greatest blessing of my 

 lifr. It was now dead of winter, and of course, 

 the snow several feet deep on tlie ground, and the 

 weather jj'.eroing cold. It was my habit, when I 

 liad done my morning's writing, to go out at 

 break of day to take a walk on a hill at the. foot of 

 which our barracks lay. In about three mornings 

 after 1 had tirst seen her, I had by an invitation to 

 breakfast with me, got U|) two young men to join 

 me in my walk ; and our road lay by the house of 

 her futhrr and mother. I: was hnrilly light, but 

 she was out on the snow, scrubbing out a wash- 

 ing-tub. ' That's the girl for me,' said I, when 

 we had got out of her hearing;. One of these 

 young men came to England soon afterwards ; and 

 he, who keeps an imi in York.-^hire, came over to 

 Preston, at the time of election, to verily whether 1 

 was the same man. When he found I was, he 

 appeared smprised ; hut what was his surprise 

 when 1 told him, that those tall young men, whom 

 iie saw aroumi me, were the sons of that pretty 

 little girl that he and I saw scrubbing out the 

 washing tub on the snow in New Brunswick in 

 the morniMg. 



From the <lay that I first spoke to her, 1 never 

 !iaJ a "ihought of her ever being the wife of anoth- 

 er man, more than I had of her being transformed 

 into a chest of drawers ; and I formed my resolu- 

 tion at once, to marry her as soon as wc could get 

 perinis.-ion, and to get out of the army as soon as 

 I coidd. .So that this matter was, at once, settled 

 as finidy as if written in the book of fate. At the 

 end of about six months, my regi:nent, and I along 

 vvitli it, were removed to Frederickton, a distance 

 •of a himdred miles up the river of St John; and, 

 which was worse, the artillery was expected to go 

 otl'to England a year or two before our regiment ! 

 The artillery went, and she along with them ; and 

 now it v\'fl's that I acted a part becoming a real an<l 

 sensible lover. I was aware, that, when she got to 

 that gay place, Woolwich, the house of her father 

 and mother, necessarily visited by numerous per- 

 sons not the most select, might become unpleasant 

 to her, and I did not like, besides, that she should 

 contiime to work hard. I had saved a hundred 

 and fifty gnijieas, the earnings of my early boms, 

 in writing for the paymaster, the quartermaster, 

 and others, in addition to the savings of my own 

 pay. I sent her all my money, before she sailed ; 

 and wrote to her to beg of her if she found her 

 home uncomfortable, to hire a lodging with re- 

 spectable people, and, at any rate, not to spare the 

 money, by any means ; but to buy herself good 

 clothes, and to live without hard work, until I ar- 

 rived in F.ngland ; and 1, in order to induce her 

 to lay out the money, told her that I should get 

 plenty more before I came liome. 



As the malignity of the devil would have it, wc 

 were kept abroad two years longer than our time, 

 Mr Pitt (England not being so tame then as she 

 is now) having knocked up a dust with Spain 

 about Noolka Sound. Oh how i cursed Nootka 

 Sound, and poor Pitt, too, 1 an) afraid ! At the end 

 of four years, liowever, home I came; landed at 

 Portsmoiiih, and got tny discharge from the army 

 by the great kimlness of poor Lord Edward Fitz- 

 gerald, who was then major of my regiment. I 

 found my little girl aservnnl of (dl work, (and hard 

 work it was,) atjice pounds a i/ear, in the house of 

 captain Brisac, and, with hardly saying a w(nd 

 about the matter, she put into my bands tho whole 

 of my hundred and fifty guineas unbroken ! 



Need I tell the leader what my feelings were ? 

 — Need I tell kind hearted English parents what 

 this anecdote must have jjroduced on the minds 

 of our children.' Need I attempt to describe 

 what effect this exam])le ought to have on every 

 young woman who shall do ine the honor to read 

 this book ? Adtniration of her conduct, and self 

 gratnlation on this indubitable proof of the sound- 

 ness of my own judgment, were now added to my 

 love of her beautiful person. 



Now I do not say that there are not many 

 young women of this country who would, unrler 

 similar circumstances, have acted as my wife did 

 in this case — on the contrary, I hope, and do sin- 

 cerely believe, that there are. But when her age 

 is considered ; when we reflect that she was living 

 in a place crowded, literally crowded, with gaily 

 dressed and luimlsome young man, many of them 

 really richer and in higher rank than I was, and 

 scores of them ready to olTer her their hand ; when 

 we reflect that she was living among yonng wo- 

 men who put upon their backs every shilling they 

 (;^nld come at ; when we see herkee|)ing the bag 

 of gold untouched, and working hard to provi<le 

 herself with but iiicro necessary apparel, and 

 doing this while she was jiassing from fourteen to 

 eighteen years of age ; when we view the whole 

 of these circumstances, we must say that here is 

 an example, which, while it reflects honor on 

 her sex, ought to have weight with every yonng 

 woman whose eyes or cars this relation shall 

 reach. 



Sale of Blood Stock. — The annual sale of Stock, 

 Horses, &c, at the residence of C. H. Hall, Esquire, 

 was attended yesterday by between 200 and 300 

 persons. Wc were llipre for a short litne only. 

 The paitieulars of the sale were as under. Mr 

 Doran, of the Bank Coffee House, prepared a sump- 

 tuous collation both at the house and in the fields. 



At the farm of Hemy Hall, Esq. at Marlaem — 

 by R R. Minturn & Co"— Durham, a full blooded 

 short horned bull, $400 — Wve comet, a noted full 

 blooded bull, 200 — Norfolk', a full blooded Dev- 

 onshire, 100 ; Henry, do. two years old, 65 — 

 Young I'atroon, do. one year old, 80 — White bull 

 ilo. do. 100 — 20 various bull call's, from one year 

 old, 25 a 60—1 Heifer, one year old, 105 — 1 do. 

 do. 70—20 do. do. 32i a 65—15 Cows, half blood, 

 20 R 45 — 30 Blood Cllves, 15 a 45. 



Horses— Constellation, $775— Talma, 1.125 

 —Alert, black filley, 525— Bay Colt, 450— Sorrel 

 Filley, 300 — Ranger 3 years old colt, 575 — Alarm, 

 an impurteil mare, 575 — Samjison, a 5 years old 

 sorrel, 300— Express, 3 year old sorrc 1. 400 — 20 

 blood Horses and Filleys", from 100 a 375— Bake- 

 well sheep, bucks and ewes, from 4 a 12. — .Veto 

 York Standard. 



WORCESTER CATTLE SHOW REPORTS. 

 We should be glail to give all these reports at 

 large, but have so many claims on our colnnins 

 that some curtailments can scarcely be avoided. 

 We hope to proserve the substance of those re- 

 maining though unavoidably shorn of some of 

 their proportions. 



ON S H K E P . 



The Committee on Sheep observed that there 

 is evidently an increased degree of attention be- 

 stowed by our fanners upon the improvement of 

 their flo<ks, both as it regards the size of the sheep, 

 as well as the qmiliiy of their wool. There is no one 

 branch of our ilomestic industry, which bids fair 

 at the present time to reward the farmer more 

 richly for his trouble tlmri that of wool growing. 

 It is one which our soil and climate, and the wantd 

 of the community point out as more peculiarly ap- 

 propriate for New England than almost any other. 

 In the ofl^ering of preujiums for Rams, the society 

 have had regard to their size as well as the fine- 

 ness of their fleeces. Deeming it to be an impor- 

 tant consideration that the sires of our flocks 

 shoidd be possessed of all those qualities which it 

 is desirable to have combined in their offspring', 

 and which the experienced wool grower finds to 

 be most conducive to the obtaining of quantity as 

 well as quality of produce. 



Fine wool commands the highest price in the 

 market at all times and a flock of sheep producing 

 the first rate of wool requires no more care and 

 attention and consumes no more of the produce of 

 the soil than one yielding- fleeces of an inferior 

 grade. If profit then be an inducement to stimu- 

 late the enterprise and exertions of our farmers, 

 the growing of fine wool is a business, to which 

 they will find it for their interests to devote nioro 

 of their time and attentioii than they have for some 

 years past. Our sleep and rocky hills, which 

 are too rough for profitable cultivation seem to he 

 peculiarly appropriate an.l fit for rearing .sheep, 

 and the climate of this section of the United States 

 is favorable for growing iine wool. 



The Cominittoe hesitated some time between 

 the ram offered by Rejoice Newton, Esq. of Wor- 

 cester, ami one offered by Mr William WiUiamfi 

 of Shrewsbury. They however awarded the pre- 

 mium for the best Merino Ram of seven dollars 

 to William Williams of Shrewsbury. 



The premium ' for the best ine.-'.no ewes not 

 less than 4 in number' was awarded to the lot ex- 

 hibited by Mr Edwin B. Taintor, of Brookfield. 

 For the next best lot of merino ewes tfie premium 

 was awarded to Rejoice Newton, Esq. of Worces- 

 ter. For the best lot mixed merino sheep there 

 was but one claiinant. Mr Benjamin N. Child of 

 Worcester, exhibited those which were consider- 

 ed by the committee as well deserving the ])remi- 

 nm of $5 for thidr fine quality. For the best n.-;- 

 tive ram t'e premium of. S5 to Ephraini Wilson 

 of Bane. For the best native ewes, 4 in number, 

 to Mr John Reed of West I5oy!ston, the premium 

 of $4. A fine large and handsomely formed na- 

 tive ram was offered for exhibition only by Mr Otis 

 Longley of Boylston. A lot of six native ewes of 

 fine shape and size were exhibited by iMr Rufus 

 Barton, of Milbnry. A fine ram of the native 

 breed with a slight cross nf the merino blood was 

 exhibited by Mr John Reed of West Boylston ; — 

 this ram was reraarkable for weight of fleece, 

 three shearings having yielded 20 lbs. and 11 

 ounces of wool. The fact of his having a cron 



