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NEAV ENGLAND FARMER. 



JANUARY 9, 1839. 



MISCELLANY. 



The New England Society in the riiy of New York cele- 

 brated the landing of their Pilgrim Fathers on the 22d inst. 

 The following verses were sung on the occasion. 

 ODE 



KOR THE ANNIVERSARY c'F THE LANDING OF THE 



FATHERS. By Mr. Bryant. 

 Sung to the tune of" Old Hundred," by the whole compaaiy. 



Wild was the day, the wintry sea 



Moaned sadly on New England's strand, 



When, first the thoughtful and the free, 

 Our fathers trod the desert land. 



They little thought how pure a light 



In time should gatlier round that day, 

 How love should keep their memory bright. 



How wide a realm tlieir sons should sway. 



Green are their bays — but greener still 

 Shall round their spreading fame be wreatlicd, 



And regions, now imtrod. shall thrijl 

 With reverence when dieir names are breathed. 



Till where the siui with softer fires, 



Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep. 

 The children of the Pilgrim Sires 



This hallowed day, like us, shall keep. 



The following ode, composed by the Rev. James Flint, of 

 Salem, for the occasion, was siuig by Mr. Wright. 



We have met to remember the day. 

 When the Pilgrims first troo tne bleak shore. 



That gave them a home tar away 

 From the homes they should visit i o more. 



We will not forget w hat we owe them. 

 For all they have left us in trust ; 



And though fall'n in ovir virtues below thcni, 

 We still to their fame will be just. 



We have met to remember their deeds, 

 The privations and toils they endured, 



Tho' the heart o'er their sufleriugs bleeds. 

 It exults in the rights they secured. 



The rights they bequeathed us we'll cherish, 

 A heritage sacred and dear j 



And their rock-girdled refuge shall perish, 

 Ere their sons cease their names to revere. 



We'll remember the faith of our sires. 

 Their sun in their sojourn of gloom. 



That reflected from heaven's far spires 

 The bright halo of hope on the tomb. 



'Twas to worship their God unmolested. 

 They left the loved scenes of their youth 



For a land which no tyrant infested, 

 Self-exiled for freedom and truth. 



We'll remember their wisdom, who rear'd 

 On the pillars of justice ami right, 



A republic of sages revei^d. 

 And dreaded by kings in their might. 



Of their skill and prophetic discerning 

 New England a monument stands, 



In her morals, religion and learning. 

 The glory and pride of all lands. 



The neat village, the school-house and church. 

 Her broad hills, her deep valleys and streams, 



The tall pine, the rough oak, the smooth birch, 

 Arc all fresh in our day thoughts and dreams. 



O New England wherever sojourning. 

 Thy children, in sadness.or mirth, 



By distance unwean'd with fond yearning 

 Still turn to the land of their birth. 



We can never the pathways forget; 

 We so ofl in our boyhood have trod. 



To the school, where our playmates we met, 

 And the house, where we worship'd our God. 



Ere we're found in our waywardness shunnmg 

 The lessons there taught us in love. 



Be our right hand bereft of its cunning, 

 And, palsicil our tongue, cease to move. 



MAJSNERS, CUSTOMS, &.C. IN RUSSIA. 



A Peasanfs House. The whole premises consist, 

 generally, of a court-yard with a covered roof, of 

 an enclosure for the cattle, another for the hay, an 

 ice-cellar for the milk and meat in sunnuer, a store- 

 house for oats, rye and buckwheat, and a covered 

 porch with a door, to intercept the exit of heat 

 from the eezba, in winter: lastly, the eezba, that 

 part of the house inhabited by the peasant and his 

 family, and heated with a large brick oven-stove. 

 In Bialo Russia stoves are not so much used as 

 raised hearths, on which fires are kindled. 



Landlord and Tenant. The peasants in Russia 

 were formerly, it is known to our readers, slaves 

 of the soil, as perhaps the greater number of them 

 are at this day. The lower order of tenants are 

 often in nearly as debased a condition. According 

 to the written law of Russia, the peasants can on- 

 ly be obliged by tlieir masters to work for them 

 three days in each week: btit in practice this regula- 

 tion is null and void.. The peasants are acluaHy 

 obliged to do all their masters' field work before 

 they can touch their own. In case of refusal, their 

 masters can find means to punish them us they think 

 [)roper. 



An Extcuzion. What is called an execuzion in the 

 Polish Government is a quartering upon a peasant 

 some of the household vassals, usually the great- 

 est blackguards, who riot, eat and drink in the 

 house, till the peasant pays his dues, or complius 

 with his landlord's demands, as of fowls, eggs 

 and butter, if he wants to give a feast. Some- 

 times these executions are inflicted for not working 

 well, for rudeness to the Jew farmers and for va- 

 rious other causes. The preparations for a ball, 

 for exainple, make the villages around the Ghos- 

 podeen, or country gentleman, who is owner of the 

 district, scenes of rapine and misery. The hungry 

 vassals of the household act like real marauders. 

 They search for fowls in the chest, butter amongsl 

 the linen, and eggs in the bosoms of the peasants, 

 poking into every hole and corner, and insulting 

 in every possible way the poor villagers, both males 

 and females. 



Apprentices to Mechanics. The Russian and 

 Polish gentry are in the practice of sending some 

 of the young boys and girls of their household as 

 apprentices to different trades in the metropolitan 

 cities: indcunl, almost all the apprentices of the dif- 

 ferent artizans there are composed of this class. 



Siesta. The siesta or after dinner nap, is not 

 confined to southern climates. In the heat of sum- 

 mer, in Russia, not only elderly people in good 

 circumstances, but almost the whole body of tin; 

 people, take a two hours' nap, usually from one to 

 three in the afternoon : but then working people in 

 the summer, are in the habit of rising at three or 

 four o'clock in the morning. Even in winter the 

 custom of sleeping after dinner is by no means 

 unconuiion. 



Drinks. Qiiass is a sour, fermented liquor, 

 made from rye-malt, and is the usual drink of the 

 common people in Russia. It is represented as a 

 very refreshing drink in the heats of summer. 



A much more pernicious and a too common 

 drink, is vodky, a sort of whiskey, made from malt 

 and rye flour. 



No one lias lived in Rlissla without npprecintin;^ 

 the benefits of the Russiatt tea-llrn, or samovar, 

 which l.s not unlike the old English tea-urns in 

 shape, but is heated with charcoal. Wlieii the 

 teapot is placed on the top of the samovar, the 

 strength of the tea is drawn off sooner and better 

 than by any similar process with which we are fa- 

 miliar. Brick Tea, the eommonest and cheapest 

 sort of tea, used mostly in Siberia, is sold in pieces 

 of a form siinilar to bricks. It is sometimes made 

 a substitute for money: goods being valued by the 

 number of these pieces of tea. 



Accommodations on the road. Their are no bed- 

 rooms in the houses upon the road, hut if the trav- 

 eller should have a bed or pillow with him, he gets 

 it spread out at night on the floor of the sitting- 

 room : if he have no bed, he can generally find 

 cushions or sofa or |)ieces of felt to stretch himself 

 out upon for the night, at least in the post-houses. 



Moscow Hospilaliti/. The most prominent fea- 

 ture of Moscow is hospitality, or the propensity 

 for keeping open table. One may affirm without 

 hesitation that more is eaten and drunk in Moscow, 

 in one year, than in the whole of Italy in twice the 

 time. To make their guests eat and drink to ex- 

 cess is esteemed in Moscow tlie first characteristic 

 of a good accueil. To guzzle and swill to a tie 

 plus ultra is a sort of pleasure which even welf 

 bred people do not deny themselves. 



One wo evr doth tread upon another''s heels. A 

 tradesman, being suddenly called out of his room 

 on business, left iijion the table a bill of exchange 

 which he had ju.st received. Whilst his wife vras 

 engaged in bathing her infant, another child, a 

 few years olderi^ took the bill and (Oj-e it to pieces. 

 The fatlicr, cnteringnt the nJplMfiiut, became so 

 enraged, that he gave the child aTlolent blow ou 

 the head, and it fell lifeless tO^tlie grotind. The 

 mother dropt her infant into the bailiiiig-tiil), imd 

 ran towards her elder child, btit her assistance 

 was of no avail. In her despair, she forgot the 

 younger child for a few minutes, and returning to 

 the tub found her infant drowned. — Ei\«:lis'h*Faper. 



SWEET HERBS, &.C. 



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

 Market Street — The following Sweet Herbs, pulverized, and 

 packed io tin cannisters for domestic use, viz : 



Sweet Marjorum, 37^ cts— 'I'hyme, 33 cts— Summer Savory, 

 25 cts— Sage, 17 cts— per cannister. Also— Black Currant 

 Wine for medicinal purposes, 75 els per boiilc. Tomato Ket- 

 chup. n\ cts per bottle. 



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