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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JANTIARY 2, 1833. 



MISCELLANY 



NEW TEAR'S ADDRESS OP THE CARRIER. 



Our Muse, a notable "sky-scraper," 

 To whom tlie sun can't hold a taper, 

 With super-sublimated lay 

 Salutes this annual leslive day, 

 And hopes your Honor may not miss 

 Perennial plenitude of bliss — 

 In full fruition ever know 

 All man can wish, or Heaven bestow. 



And now, good sir, supposing you 

 And I should take a bird's-eye view, 

 And sketch concisely whatsoe'er 

 Time has within the recent year 

 Brought into being, which may merit a 

 Transmission onwards to posterity. 



Since Noah's flood we question whether 

 Was ever such eccentric weather 

 As not long since breath'd desolation 

 O'er fruit and forest-vegetation. 

 About, if rightly we remember, 

 A year preceding last November, 

 Fell Winter's desolating train 

 Caught Nature by a coup de main, 

 While basking in her summer dress, 

 And froze her solid, more or less. — 

 Some say that such a blast then blew 

 'Twould cut a catamount in two. 

 And striking like trip-hammer sledges 

 Nipp'd bull's horns off like clipping hedges — 

 That frost's intensity at last 

 Extinguish'd llirnaces in blast, 

 Turn'd post and rail fence into ice, 

 The next thaw melted in a trice — 

 Made icebergs out of boiling fountains, 

 A veto put on burning motmtains — 

 Chang'd raging Etna's flaming craUir 

 To an immense refrigerator- 

 Struck through the globe, and made it freize 

 The feet of our Antipodes— ( 



But these, like travellers' narrations \ 



We set down for exaggerations, ; 



Or tales of story-tellers trying 

 To win a premium for IjHng. 

 Still fruits and forest trees, 'tis true, 

 By Frost pervaded, through and through. 

 Lost by intense refrigeration 

 Their principle of vegetation. 

 And summer shew'd them blasted, bare, 

 Mere skeletons of what they were. 



A new and terrible disease 

 Has cut off men as well as trees. 

 The direst plague of modern date, 

 Dread executioner of Fate, 

 More deadly llian the unseen foe 

 Which wrought the Assyrian's overthrow, 

 Extinguish'd in an hour the boast 

 Of insolent Sennacherib's host — 

 Has lately fallen, like Sodom's showers, 

 On this afflicted land of ours, 

 And mankind fall tlie liend before. 

 Like grass that's cut down by the mower. 

 Bred in some oriental clime. 

 The home of turpitude and crime, 

 On Eastern gales 'tis walled here, 

 To poison our pure atmosphere. 

 But some say Cholera's visitation 

 Takes off redimdant population, 

 (Which Malihus would be thankful for,) 

 With more economy than war ; 

 Makes mankmd's masses keep due distance 

 Behind their methods of subsistence,— 

 An instrument by Heaven design'd 

 To prune the stock of human kind ; — 

 Though sometimes with relentless power 

 Eradicating fruit and flower, 



The Cholera Cultivator trims 

 Off mostly useless canker'd limbs, 

 W^hich, witli exceptions, past a s'oubt, 

 The trunk were better off without. 



Why then shoidd Cholera fall behind 

 Other destroyers of mankind. 

 Your Buonapartes, Alexanders, 

 And such armipotent commanders. 

 For whom Fame's trump for ages past 

 Has blown its laudatory blast ; 

 Though meriting, from God's creation, 

 One general burst of execration. 

 Those wights who swell Bellona's train 

 Are hired to slaughter and be slain, 

 Their limbs to mangle, lives to yield 

 On batde's barbarous bloody field. 

 Because one Captain Cut-and-thrust, 

 Or General Gantlope said they must ; — 

 Are doom'd to death by strutting things, 

 Proud tools of emperors and kings, 

 Who, justice done, must do the fighting. 

 Which, done by others they delight in ; 

 But, had mankind the wit of donkies, 

 They'd not be cat's paws to such monkics. 

 But, leave the proud ferocious elves, 

 To go to loggerheads themselves. 

 Instead of hiring human brutes 

 To act the part of substitutes. 

 In fact the worst of human plagues 

 Are those which stand on human legs, 

 And Asiatic Cholera can- 

 Not be compar'd to choleric man. 

 The former mostly condescends 

 To let folks die among their friends. 

 With due appliances to wail 

 On body, spirit, and estate ; 

 But man kills man as men kill cattle. 

 Then boasts of murders, done in battle ! 



Old Hudibras declar'd that " some 

 Have heard the devil beat a drum," 

 And certain jiuili/ters some 

 Say beat the devil that beat the drum ; 

 And surely none but goblin leaders 

 Could take precedence in procedures ; 

 Or sanction certain wild opinions 

 Quite ciurrent with South Carolinians. 



Wiat is the essence of authority. 

 Except the will of the majority ? 

 And who are rebels but minorities 

 Attempting to control majorities 1 

 1 should be glad to find out why. 

 If states a law may nulii/y, 

 Each individual may not claim 

 As good a right to do the same ; 

 Thus make our Federal Union's band 

 No stronger than a rope of sand. 



Supposing one's least finger should 

 In angry mood declare it would 

 No longer be at the command 

 Of such a tyrant as the hand — 

 The body being forc'd, you know. 

 To cut it off and let it go : 

 The little rebel would find out 

 It had not been so wise as stout. 

 And that, poor niJlifying elf. 

 It had just nullijied itself! 

 The nullifters too are quite 

 As badly off for power as right ; 

 Suppose a tom-tit in a rage 

 A lordly lion should engage ! 

 Or that some doughty daring fly 

 Should undertake to " mtllify " 

 By dint of some unheard-of process 

 A mighty elephant's proboscis : — 

 One state against the Union pitted 

 By just such figures would be fitted. 



But whereas we dont mean to mix 

 With partizans in politics, 

 AVould let alone all sorts of wrangling. 

 For fear our jingling turn to jangling , — 



SPECTACLES. 



A GOOD assortment of Silver Spectaci es constantly 

 u hand and for sale at fair prices by William M. Wesson, 

 I No. lOa, Washington Street. 4t dec 18 



And some, dissenting from our views. 

 Say — What a fury for a Muse I 

 We'll bid adieu to said high flyers. 

 Nor meddle more with Nullifiers ; 

 But trust, for their annihilation 

 To Andrew Jackson's Proclamation, 

 In which all patriots hail with gladness 

 A panacea to parly madness. 



But now 'tis time, as sailors say. 

 To dov\n with helm, and bear a« ay ; 

 And whereas modesty 's a barrier 

 Seldom surmounted by the Carrier, 

 He will not hint at service render'd. 

 With nothing therefor had or tender'd. 

 Of fingers nipp'd and frozen toes. 

 And ears that stiiTen as he goes ; 

 But if th' amount of your gratuity 

 Would serve a mouse for an annuity, 

 Your himible servant will endeavor 

 To meet vour wishes now and ever. 



NATURAt HISTORY OP INSECTS. 



COMPRISING their Architecture, Transformations, Senises. 

 'ood, Habits — Colleclion, Preservation and Arrangement. 

 A'ith Engravings. In three volumes. Price 51 per vol. For 

 ale by Geo. C. Barrett. dec 2G 



SWEET HERBS, &c. 



FOR SALE, at the New England Seed Store, 52, North 

 ilarket Street — The following Sweet Herbs, pulverized, and 

 tcked in tin cannisters for domestic use, viz : 



Sweet Marjorum, 37.J cts — Thyme, 33 els — Summer Savory. 

 'i cts — Sage, 17 els — per cannister. Also — Black Currant 

 if me for medicinal purposes, 7a cts per bottle. Tomato Ket- 

 >iup, 37^ cts per botlle. dec 26 



SEEDS FOR COXJNTRY DEALERS. 



TR.VDERS in the rouiury, who may wish to keep an as- 

 TOrlment of genuine Garden Seeds for sale, are informed they 

 can be ftirnished at the New Kn^lanH Farmer office, Nos. 61 

 fc 52, North Market street, Boston, with boxes containing a 

 complete assortment of the seeds mostly used in a kitchen 

 gartfen, on as favorable terms as tliey can be procured in tliis 

 coiuitry, neatl.ydone up in small papers, at 6 cents each — war- 

 ranted to be of the growth of 1832, and of the venjjirst quality. 

 Ornamental Flower Seeds will be added on the same 

 ttrms, when ordcri?d, as well as Peas, Beans, Early and 

 Sweet Corn, &c. of different sorts. 



^y The seeds vended at this establishment, are put up on an 

 improved plan, each package being accompanied with short 

 directions on ils managements, and jjarked in the neatest style. 

 Traders are requested to call and examine for themselves. 



Dec. 24. 



LEAD. 



SHEET Lead, of all dimensions ; Pig Lead ; Lead Pipe 

 of all sizes ; Copper and Casi Iron Pumps, constantly for sale 

 by ALBERT FEARING & CO. No. 1, City Wharf. 



Boston, Oct. Itith, 1S32. tf 



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Halifax, N. S.—P. .1. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 



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