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NEW ENGLAND FARMEk. 



JAKVARY 30, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



TO THE "WISDS. 



By BERNARD BARTON. 



Ye viewless minslrcls of the sky ! 

 I marvel not, iu times goue by, 



That ye were deiticd ; 

 For, even in this later day. 

 To me, oft has your power or play 



Unearthly thoughts supplied. 



Awful your power ! when by your might, 

 You heave the wild waves, crested white, 



Like mountains in your wrath : 

 Ploughing between them vallies deep. 

 Which to a seaman, rous'd from sleep, 



Yawn like Death's opening path ! 



Graceful your play ! when, round the bower 

 Where beauty culls Spnng's loveliest flower. 



To wreath her dark locks there; 

 Your gentlest whispers lightly breathe 

 'J'he leaves between, flit round that wreath, 



And stir her silken hair. 



Still, thoughts like these are but of earth. 

 And you can give far loftier birth ! — 



Ye come ! we know not whence ! 

 Ye go ! can mortals trace your flight? 

 All imperceptible to sight, 



Though audible to sense. 



The Sun — his rise and set, we know ! 

 The Sea — we mark its ebb and flow ; 



The Moon — her wax and wane ; 

 The Stars — man knows their courses well ; 

 The Comets' vagrant path can tell : — 



But You his search disdain. 



Ye restless, homeless, shapeless things, 

 Who mock all our imaginings. 



Like Spirits in a dream ; 

 What epithets can words supply 

 Unto the Bard who takes such high 



Unmanageable theme ? 



But one ; — to me when Fancy stirs 

 My thoughts, ye seem Heaven's Messengers, 



Who leaves no path untrod ; 

 And when, as now, at midnight's hour, 

 I hear your voice in all its power, 



It seems the Voice of God. 



BANICIIVG. 



Abstract of a Lecture, delivered lefore the Bosto.n 

 Mechanics' Institution, on Thursday Evening, 

 Jan. 21, 1830, by Hon. Willlam Sullivan. 

 Banks are of three kinds, banks of deposit, 

 banks of discount, and banks of circulation. When 

 an individual provides himself with a secure place 

 for keeping, and gives notice that he will take 

 charge of people's money, it is called a bank of 

 deposit. The banker pays the depositer bis mon- 

 ey when called for, either in specie, or gives him 

 his promise on paper, which is called n bank-bill. 

 When the banker owns monies himself, and offers 

 to lend them for a certain amount of interest which 

 he deducts from the depositer's cash, it is a bank 

 of discount. In this country, these three differ- 

 ent banks are united ; our banks arc banks both of 

 deposit, di.scount, and circulation. 



The first bank was established at Venice, about 

 650 years ago. A number of individuals, when 

 they enlisted under the banners of the Cross, be- 

 fore they started for the Holy Land; looked about 

 for some secure place to deposit their treasures; 

 and as Venice was then a rich and prosperous 

 city, they |)laced them there : this was therefore a 

 bauk of deposit. The second bank was establish- 



ed at Amsterdam, 220 years ago, and was also a 

 bank of deposit. The third and most important 

 bank that was ever founded is the Bank of Eng- 

 land, which was established about the year 1683, 

 which was the period when the British national 

 debt commenced, and the Government, for the 

 purpose of raising mouej', granted certain privi- 

 leges, and among others, that of Banking. The 

 bank of Englantl had at one time in circulation 

 £24,000,000. It is rather difficult to realize 

 what an amount this is. If it were brought into 

 American dollars, and they were placed So that 

 the edges would touch, they would occupy a 

 plain containing 253 square miles! If they were 

 piled one above another, the colunni (allo^ving 

 $10 to an inch) would be 168 miles high! If 

 tliey were placed iu teams, and dra^\^l by oxen, 

 {allowing 1 ton's weight to each ])air of oxen) it 

 would take all Boston Common for the oxen to 

 stand upon I 



The British Debt at present amounts to £785, 

 000,000. The whole number of inhabitants on 

 the earth, according to the most acciu'ate calcula- 

 tion, is 737,000,000. Consequently, if the Brit- 

 ifih debt was equally assessed, upon evei:y inhabi- 

 tant of the earth, they would each be required to 

 pay £1, Is. 3d ! 



EXTRAORDIJiARY OAK. 



Perhaps the most magnificent oak tliis country 

 ever produced was lately felled at Tooley, in Lei- 

 cestershire. It will hardly bo credited, hut it is 

 nevertheless true, that this tree, when cut down, 

 covered three roods, the ground on which it fell 

 being immediately measured. The quantity of 

 timber which it contained amounted to 1100 solid 

 feet. The butt was about ten feet long, and it 

 had five large branches, one of which contained 

 200 solid feet of timber. The tree when fairly 

 butted, measured at the bottom nine feet in diame- 

 ter. It produced the enormous quantity of three 

 tons, 18cwt. of bark. Another striking feature of 

 this most wonderi'ul j)roduction of nature is, the 

 quality and beauty of the wood, which is allowed 

 to be superior to any thing of the kind ever seen ; 

 it bears a polish etpial to the finest lualiogony, and 

 the grain is of a most curious and fantastical de- 

 scription. Nearly the whole of the tree has been 

 manufactured into various articles of drawing and 

 dining room furniture, which now occupy the res- 

 idence of several families of the first respectability 

 in tlie neighborhood, where, when standing, it 

 had long been an object of admiration and won- 

 der. — JVational Gazette. 



Sugar refiners are exposed to more heat than 

 almost any class of operatives. The teraperatin-e 

 in which they work is 70, 90, and sometimes 120 

 deg. ; and that of the stoves is 150, 180, and often 

 200 deg. Germans, bearing the heat better than 

 Englishmen, are 'almost exclusively employed. 

 Though dressed only in flannel shirts and linen 

 trousers, they ]>erspire profusely : on coming out 

 of the stoves, however, they take care to rub the 

 skin dry. A disagreeable acetous exhaliation, 

 arises during the process, but does not appear to 

 aflect health. The steam also is sometimes so 

 great as to prevent the men from seeing each 

 other. 



There was a custom in Abyssinia, when fac- 

 tions were violent and ready to tear each other in 

 pieces for mutual wrongs, to compromise the quar- 



rel by means of a camel. It was agreed that no- 

 body in all Abyssinia had been to blame on either 

 side, but the whole mischief he it what it might, 

 was the work of the camel. The camel had set the 

 town on fire ; the camel had threatened to burn the 

 Aga's house and the castle ; the camel had cursed 

 the Grand Seignior and sheriff of Mecca; in sliort, 

 whatever evil had befallen the state was all the 

 doing of this luckless camel. Accordingly the 

 poor animal, though actually the most useful 

 thing in the whole country, was despatched, each 

 man transfixing him with his javelin, and so going 

 his way in peace. The church scents to be just 

 now the Camel of England. — Quarterly Review. 



A swell. A dandy, at Dover, was lisping out 

 his wish to cross over to Calais. " But," said he, 

 " I am terribly afraid of the consequences, shoulil 

 there he a heavy sea." "And you may be sure 

 there will," said one, "if you go, for there could 

 not be a greater swell in the channel." 



Taking Snuff. " I don't care if I take a pinch of 

 that," said a man to one who held an open box ; 

 " I don't care if you don't," said the other, putting 

 his box in his pocket. Who snufled .' — LoicelL 

 Comjjcnd. 



FOR SALE, 



THE Bull COLLINS, got by Bolivar— dam Young Flora. 

 byCielcbs; Graiiddam (he nnported Cow Flora — dropt Aug. 

 30, 18-!)— colour red and white. This Bull is one of the finest 

 animals in America, and will be sold low. Apply at this office. 



Jan. 16 tf 



GARDENING. 



WANTS a Situation, a NURSERYMAN and HORTI- 

 CULTURIST, who has had many years experience. He is 

 a Mejnler of the Edinburgh and Berwickshire Horticultural 

 Societies. Would be glad to have immediate employ. 



janiJ 



Itl.'VDDER SEED. 



THE Subscriber has lor sale 50 Busliels of Madder Seed, 

 so called, consisting of a small portion of Top Hoot, with the 

 buds attjchod to it ; the yield is immense ; it is duir once in 3 

 years. The culture sample and the plant perfectly hardy. Di- 

 rections will be given to all who purchase — ^tjrice from four to 

 six dollar? per bushel. Quantity of seed to plant an acre^ from 

 four to £ve and a half bushels. Time for planting, fall cmd 

 spring. The subscriber is preparing eight acres for planting — 

 Urilerseiclosing the cash will meet with prompt attention — a 

 sample of the article may be seen in the hands of Mr. Jesse 

 Wi.-isi.oiv, Newton, Upper Falls, Mass. 



KUSSEL BRONSO.N. 



Ilridgewfler, Oneida Co. N. 1'. Jan. !i, la33. 



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