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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MARCH 6, l<i.13. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE D1SENTHRAI.L.ED. 



BY J. G. WHITTIER. 



He had bowed down to drunkenness, 



An abject worshipper ; 

 The pulse of manhood's pride had grown 



Too faint and cold to stir; 

 And he had given his spirit up 



To the unblesl thrall; 

 And bowing to the poison cup 



He gloried in his fall. 



There came a change — the cloud rolled off, 



And light fell on his brain — 

 And like the passing of a dream 



That comelh not again. 

 The shadow of his spirit fled, 



He saw the gulf before — 

 He sliuddered at the waste behind.^ 



And was a man once more. 



He shook the serpent folds away 



That gathered routid his heart, 

 As shakes the swaying forest oak 



Its poison vine apart ; 

 He stood erect — returning pride 



Grew terrible within ; 

 And Conscience sat in Judgment OD 



His most familiar sin. 



The light of Intellect again 



Along his pathway shone ; 

 And Reason like a monarch stood 



Upon its golden throne ; 

 Tlie honored and the wise once more 



Within his presence came — 

 And lingered ol\ on lovely lips 



His once forbidaen name. 



There may be glorv in the might 

 That treadeih notions down- 

 Wreaths for tho crimson conqueror- 

 Pride for the kingly crown — 

 But nobler is that triumph hour 

 The disenthralled shall find, 

 When Evil passion boweth down 

 Unu. the ffodl ke m:tk. 



HUMAN I.IFE. 



MOORE. 



See how beneath the nwonheam's smiltj 

 Yon little lulloui heaves its lireusl — 



And foams and sparkles/or awhile, 

 And, mnrmun'ji^, then subsides to rest. 



Tlius Man, the sjiort of bliss and care 

 Rises on Tiine^s et'e7tt/ul sea — 



And, having sweliKl a moment there, 

 Tims sinks into Eternity ! 



MIRACLE WORKING. 



How Don Miguel rii:iy li.ive continued to oper- 

 ate against the invader, itKl.'pendentiy of niilitnrx 

 means may be conjiM-tnred hy means of the follow- 

 ing pleasant story wliieli we inarketl iu reading a 

 recent British work. 



"1 have be '11 favored by a very intelligent 

 friend, who was nn eye witness of it, with the fol- 

 lowing anecdote. The narrator, a man of veraci- 

 ty, is himself a Roman Catholic. For sometime 

 after the as.siiniiitic.n <]f the crown of Portugal by 

 Don Miguel, his party had recourse to stratagem 

 to impress the minds of the lower classes who are 

 still full of ignorance and fanaticistn, and believe 

 in miracles, with the lecrality .ind divine right ol 

 his sovereignty. For two Sundays in succession, 

 a friar of the Convento da Graca, ascended the 



pulpit fronting the altar on which had been placed 

 a figure of the Saviour as large as life, carrying 

 the cross. Under his gown was concealed a boy, 

 who held a string attached to the head of this figure. 

 Aftcrsoineprernninary discourse, the friar informed 

 his congregation that he was going to apply to the 

 image to know' whether Miguel was, or was not, 

 the legitimate sovereign of Portugal ; being satis- 

 fied it would perform, a miracle to work convic- 

 tion in the incredulous. He then turned to the 

 figure and said, ' Is Don Pedro our Sovereign?' 

 to which he received no reply. 'Is Donna Maria ?' 

 no answer. 'Is Don Jliguel ?' upon which last 

 interrogatory the figure nodded its head three 

 times iti token of assent. 



On the third Sunday of this pantomime, the friar, 

 on repeating his two first questions, as previ- 

 ously, received no answer; but on coming to his 

 third the same silence unaccompanied by the ex- 

 pected motion of the head, continued ; itidignation 

 soon took the place of surprise and disappoint- 

 ment, and |)utting his question for the third time, 

 in a loud and angry tone, the innocent agent of this 

 farce, emerged from beneath the Saviour's gown, 

 and itiforined the audience with genuine, but fa- 

 t!il simplicity, that his ntiracle working string was 

 broken." — JVnf. Gaz. 



Morse, being at a loss, without dottijt, for some- 

 thing else to say about us, most eruditely observes, 

 "there is not a single tree of natural growth on 

 the island" — a fact (which by the way is not a 

 fact) about as characteristic of the place, as it 

 would be of the dome of the I'oston State House, 

 or of a cylinder in a carding it aeliine. 



A '1 fc-idPtRAl^CE jilVl!.* UOTE. 



A FEW weeks since, while riding in the coach 

 between Boston and Gloucester, the conversation 

 of the passengers turned upon the subject of tem- 

 perance. A sailor, who hud followed the seas for 

 iliiity or forty years, observed that he belonged to 

 a teniperance society; upon hearing this the other 

 pa.ssengers were surprised, ]iercei\ing that he was 

 then tibont half seas over. He was asked why he 

 still continued to drink, if he belonged to such a 

 society. O, said he, I did not join it with the in- 

 tention of stopping myself, — it does me good and 

 1 will drink. He was asked, ' If yon are still de- 

 termined to drink, why did yiti sign the constitu- 

 tion which requires abstinence?" O, said he, I did 

 It to set a s^ood example to the risintr s:emratwn. 



F.om the Naiducket Inquirer. 

 NANTUCKET. 

 'Oh no, Ihcy never nicniion it, the name is never heard.' 

 CoMAtcNiriKS, as well as individuals, not iiiifre- 

 ipiently huvi; to smart uinler the lash of neglect. 

 This is piirticularly the case with respect to Nan- 

 tucket. It is a town compactly built, with eight 

 thousand iidiabitants engaged in conmiercial en- 

 terprise that spans the whole earth, employin| 

 large capital, a multitude, a fleet of ships manned 

 by two thoustmd setimen that bring more real 

 wealth into the nation than ten times their nnm- 

 lier em|doyed iii any other business; that such a 

 place should be tmknowu in its own country, is, 

 not to say provoking, at least very humiliating 

 Yet it is true, and why? 



The sources from which its true history ought 

 to he learned, are silent or worse than silent on 

 the subject. Geographers and the ptihlishers ol 

 maps are ignorant of us. Asa consummation ol 

 their ignorance it may be seen that, in attempting 

 to swell the list of large toums, they rake out scon s 

 'd" little, insignificant, backwoods, log htit settli- 

 m iits, whose pojinlation can be guessed up In m 

 two thousand to twenty five hundred, while tin 

 f)nieih town in population, and jirobably the twen- 

 tieth ill wealth in the Union, is passed over — not 

 neglected, but unthought of — not omitted, but uti- 

 Uiiown. We ask any iierson that has by chance 

 lieard our name, and by another chance may read 

 these lines, what idea he has of Nantucket, deriv- 

 ed from books. The answer, we venture to .s.n 

 is, "iliiit it is a little, miserable, sandy, fishint 

 concern, situated somewhere, possibly on Cape 

 Cod, coiitaiiiing it may he, two or three hundred 

 ^leople subsisting precariously by hook and line." 



The President of the first College iu America, 

 once asked a poor wight who had been detainiN; 

 here by the ice, after the expiration of a wiutei',- 

 vacation, 'Why did you not come by land. Sir? 

 The same Presiilent would undoubtedly be able ti 

 give a better description of many an unheard ol 

 Vlahoinetan village, than our "poor sandy God- 

 lorgotten spot," though the latter has, beyonn 

 doubt, lighted his way to classic lore, for which 

 he is so justly honored. Even the late Rev. Dr. 



SEEDS FOR COLNTRV DEALERS. 



TRAUEltS in the country, who may wish to keep an as- 

 soriiiicnt ot genuine Garden Seeds tor sale, are in;oimed they 

 can lie lurnisliud at the New Engluiid Farmer ollice, Nos. fil 

 &, oJ, North Market street, ISusion, » idi boxes containing a 

 coiniileto assortment of the seeds nio!>ily Used in a kitchen 

 gardi n on as lavotable terms as they can be procured in this 

 coiniiiy, neatlydone up in small papeis, at C cents each- — war- 

 ranii'ii to be ol the growth ot 183i;, and ol the venjju st quality. 

 Oknamentai. Flovvek Seeds will be added on the same 

 leiiiis, » hen ordered, as well as Peas, Beans, Eahly and 

 6« >.KT < 'OKN, &.C. ol different sorts. 



11 JT The seeds vended at this establishment, are put up on an 

 im|. roved plan, each package being a(coiii(.anied with short 

 ilir'i'iions on its managements, and packed in the neatest style. 

 Trinlers arc requested to call and e.vainiiie tor themselves. 



WHITE CLOVER SEED. 



Just received at the Seed Sioie cunnecied with the New 

 E.igland F.\nner, 51 and a2 North Bbuket Street, Boston, 

 lOlA) lbs fine-t Wh.te Dutch Honeysuckle Clover Seed, im- 

 ported lioni Kotterdam. 



N. B. The tjualiiy of this Seed is considered superior to 

 any that lias been ottered in this city tor many years, being re- 

 markably bright, pure, and tree .rom thai great pest, Canada 

 lliisde, whidi .s Iixqueutly lound in wh.tc clover seed ol Amer- 

 ciiii growth. Fanners are requested to call and examine it. 



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FOR SALE, 



THE Bull COLLINS, got by l;olivar— dam Young Flora, 

 byt.'u'l.bs; Giaiiddam iho iinporled Cow Floia— di.-|.i Aug. 

 oU, m.l,— Coluur led and while. This liull is one nl liie linest 

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