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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



JtlNE 26, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



THE ■ EMIGRANT'S SONG. 



Bi ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. 



The sails are spread, the tapering mast 

 Bends leeward, quivering in the blast; 

 Kind hands that ne'er may clasp agaiji, 

 Have ta'en their last and fondest strain ; • 

 Eyes gushing like a spring-time brook, 

 Have had their latest, saddest look; 

 And from old England's anchoring ground 

 Mv bark burst seaward with a bound, 

 WJjile following on our foaming path. 

 The ravening storm howls in his wrath. 

 Some o'er the gladsome billows dance. 

 To woo the sun-burned belles of France, 

 Or through fallen Rome's liL\orious clime, 

 Make music plume the steps of time; — 

 For glory some, and more for gain, 

 Rejoicing brave the perilous main , 

 But fate on sterner terms wafls me, 

 Tims sorrowing, o'er the stormy sea, — 

 A song of mingled scorn and wo 

 Bursts from my lips as forth I go. 

 No more, roused by the summoning horn, 

 I'll reap old England's goldeji corn, 

 Or dalesward walk, and whistling blylhe, 

 The fragrant sward sweep with the scythe. 

 Or round the May-pole leaping light, 

 Make mirth the partner of midnight. 

 In vain, for me, from conquering hordes, 

 My sires the Isle saved with their swords. 

 A haughty band, a pampered race, 

 Have pushed me fiom my dwelling-place. 

 The Tsle is theirs '. They are tiie heirs 

 Of land that yields, of tree that bears. 

 Of waters too — the plough and line 

 Are used but that the proud may dine. 

 The wind is theirs, with all it brings 

 Of wild-fowl to the groves and spring : 

 The tim'rous hare, the bounding deer, 

 The bleating held, llie fattening steer. 

 Are theirs— the poor may naked lie. 

 And hungering curse llieir lot and die. 

 For me ! my heart in youth-hood's hour. 

 Can take a flight beyond their power, 

 And borne upon the barren brine. 

 Far northward from the burning line; 

 I'll dwell where drear Mackenzie flows, 

 'Mongst howling wolves, and falling snows ; 

 By Huron's yet unvoyaged lake, 

 Ohio's thick unthreaded brake — 

 Fll roam, and fish, and hunt, and sing. 

 And be of mine own person king. 

 Or let the rough winds waft me far. 

 To climes beneath the eastern star; 

 "Where free tlie tameless Tartar ranges — 

 Where Eagles build beyond the Gauges — 

 Where Himmalaya rears her mountains — 

 While Hoorampooter pours hei fountains — 

 Where England's flag hath never fluttcr'd — 

 I'll live — her name by me unuttered. 

 Save when, for much unkindness sighing, 

 I'll strive to bless her « hilst I'm dving. 



HONESTY. 



A BOT, whose honesty is more to be commend- 

 ed than his ingenuity, once carried some butter to 

 a merchant iu a cotmtry village to exchange for 

 goods. The butter having a very beautiful appear- 

 ance, and the merchant being desirous of pro- 

 curing such for his own use, invited the boy to 

 bring him all the butter liis mother had to spare. 

 " I think," said the boy, " she caii'tspare any more, 

 for she said she would not have spared this, only 

 a rat fell into the cream, and she did not like to use 

 it herself." 



REVOL.UTIONARY ANECDOTE. 



The following fact took place during the period 

 when Washington and the half-starved, half clad 

 troops, were in winter quarters at Valley Forge. 

 A young man not quite twenty from the western 

 part of Massachusetts, was a guard before the 

 General's door, marching back and forth in the 

 snow, on a tremendous cold morning. Washing- 

 ton came out, accosted him, " My friend how long 

 have you been on guard here?" "Nearly two 

 hours, sir." " Have you breakfasted .'" " No 

 sir." " Give me your gun, and go to breakfast at 

 my table." He did so, and Gen. Washington 

 marched the rounds till he returned. 



From the Boston Cowicr. 

 We wish some of our public spirited young 

 men would get up a society (or the suppression 

 oi smoking, chewing, and snuffmg tobacco. Snuff- 

 ing is indefensible ; chewing is filthy and vulgar : 

 smoking — our vocabulary is too poor to supply an 

 epithet which can denote its character. A com- 

 munication against drunkenness was handed to us 

 a day or two ago, by a gentleman, whose rutlled 

 bosom was spotted with coagulated snuff drops 

 from his nose ; while he was in our otlice, he 

 made our floor slippery with the saliva squirted 

 from between his tobacco-chewing jaws ; and wo 

 know that he spends more money for cigars than 

 ho contributes to the funds for the suppression of 

 intemperance. Why should a man who spits over 

 his neighbor's floor, or piifls the smoke of a cigar 

 in his neighbor's lace, be tolerated in his anathe- 

 mas against the use of rum .' There is no more 

 wickedness in carrying a bottle of rum in one's 

 pocket than a box of the most nauseous and in- 

 toxicating weed that ever grew. 



" Landlord," said a shrewd fellow, as he seated 

 himself in the bar- room, and bore the silent gaze 

 of the surrounding advocates at the bar, " do you 

 know of any body who has lost a handsome ivory 

 handled jack-knife, with four blades — two large 

 ones, and two sinall ones — having a piece of silver 

 on one side, and brass at the ends ?" " No," re- 

 plied the veteran landlord, whose proboscis re- 

 resembled a ripe strawberry, tipped with a jiearly 

 drop of dew — " why, have you found one .■"' 

 " No," said the wag, " but I thought 1 would en- 

 quire, so that if I should find one, I might know 

 whose it was." 



WHOIiESAtiE AJVD RETAIL. CASH STORE. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. 414, Washington Street, 

 (South enil) has received a general assortment of Spring and. 

 :^ummer (Inocls, among which are 100 cases English, French and 

 American Prints of alT prices and qualities— 2U cases Petticoal 



Robes — 1 case Cambric Muslins, some of which arc very fine 1 



case Cotton Cambrics do. do. — 1 case ^hite Lilesia for lining, 

 ladies dresses — I case Book Binders' Cambrick for do. do.— 3- 

 cases do. — 100 cases bleaclied and brown Sheeting and Shirting,, 

 some j.xira line— 1 case Marseilles Quilts, from aio 10 quarters- 

 — 5 cases London Rose Blankets, some of a \erv superior qual- 

 ity and large size — 1 case Hearth Rugs — 4- case's Chapp's spool 

 (i cord cotton, warranted — 200 yards superior qualitv — 5 cases 

 Clark's do. at very low prices by doz. or case — 'iOOO fancy 

 boxes — a lar^e variety of colored and black French Silks at 

 very reduced prices — 2 cases col'd Batliste — 1 case black and 

 colored Barage — -t cases French and London printed Muslins 

 of new patterns and beautiful colois — 2 cases three corded su- 

 perfine lialianettes, black and fashionable colors — 1 case com- 

 mon do— 1 case Plaid Palmgrim's su|)cr quality — 1 case Pon 

 de Soi a genteel article for ladii s' suniuirr (lrc■^.ses, 9d per yd 

 — 20 ps Juper mix'd, drab. ;iriil i 1 m M. inn (';i-,inctts for 

 children's summer dresses — 20] 1. . m m. m \miIi a large 

 \ariety of superfine and fine I'.i n > . i, ..i. I » .i>>iuieres — 

 20 bales Pelisse Wadding— 3 c,,,., ..i,|„ u.n 1 ,, ki],g— i cases 

 cheapdo— 10 cases improved soli lijuslicd 4-4 Irish Linen, man- 

 ufactured for the London market and imported expressly for 

 the subscriber. 



'Hie above goods are offered for cash only at prices so ex- 

 tremely low as will make it an object for purcliasers eitlier by 

 piece or yard to call and see. May 29 



NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST, 



JU.'^T ijublishcd and for sale by GEO. C. BAKKETT, Nos. 

 ."il it ,)2 North Mailct Street, The New American Or- 

 CII.1R1IIST, or a treatise on the cultivation and management of 

 Frtdls. (t'mpi's, Oniamentai Shritbs, aitd Flowers, adapted to 

 cultivation in the United Slates. 



litis is recommended to the public as a treatise well worlhy 

 a piece in every farmer's library, containing an account of the 

 most valuable varieties of fruit, and the remedies for the roala- 

 oie3t(» which fruit trees are subject from noxious insects and 

 dlher causes. Also the varieties of Grapes willi their modes 

 of duliure, &:c. Price Sl,25. J. 19. 



FOR SALE, 



TH.-\T valuable coimtry seut and /'arm iVirniirh' owncil by 

 E. H. Derby and J. Crowninshield, Eiqrs . nn.l I.m, Iv by Col. 

 r'ntA'eott. situated in Danvers, within i\mi iml. ^ , ,t S.ilem and 

 'iflcen of Boston. The buildings are in •^<""[ ii [Mir. spacious 

 ind elegant, and convenient for a genteel laiuil_\-. and iUso for a 

 farmer's, with barns, stables, &.C., attached. 'I'here is an ex- 

 cellent garden, containing a great variety of choice fruits, 

 shrubs ajid flowers and a tasteiul summer house. The farm is 

 in a high state of cultivation, well watered and enclosed — ^il 

 produces large crops of hay, grain, and vegetables, besides ap- 

 ples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, quinces and cherries ; 

 there is a nuisery nf young fruit trees, and a plantation of 

 5000 White Mulberries, l^e place has raatiy advantages, and 

 is the most desirable country retreat in the vicinity. The build- 

 ing and garden, with from 10 to 100 acres of land, as the pur- 

 chaser mav choose, are ofl"ered on liberal and accommodating 

 terms. Apply at this office, or to * ""'^ '•'""'^ 



Danvcrs, March 27, 1833. 



AMOS KING. 



A Fair Offer. The Crawford 31essengcr, pub- 

 lished at Meadville, Pa. throws his bait to the ed- 

 itorial fry thus : — " The editor caught on Saturday 

 last, with a hook and line, a pike, which, when 

 taken from the water, weighed upwards of 20 lbs. 

 If any of our brethren can beat this, they shall be 

 entitled to one year's exchange." 



Rarities. The New York Traveller mentions, 

 among the rarities of nature, the following: A 

 lady with handsome teeth fond of keeping her 

 lips closed ; an old maid fond of children ; a cob- 

 bler with a pair of good shoes ; a quack doctor 

 with a sorry countenance ; a man of mean talents 

 not eternally boasting of them ; a poet having a 

 long purse ; an editor's ofiice without a lounger. 



Masquerade. A witty writer (remarks the New- 

 ark Daily Advertiser) of the last century says, as 

 all mankind live in masquerade, whoever pre- 

 sumes to come among them barefaced must ex- 

 pect to be abused by the whole assembly ! 



THE NEW ENGLAND PARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at gS per anmim, 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay within 

 sixiy days from the time of subscribing, are entitled to a dcduffl- 

 lion of fifty cents. 



inr No paper will be sent to a distance without paynwnt 

 being made in advance. 



AGENTS. 

 -A'ptc York—G. Thoreurn «fc Sons, C7 Liberty-street. 

 Albany— Wm. Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia— D. &. C. Landketh, 85 Chesnut-slrect. 

 li,iltimore—\. I. HiTcHCOCK, Publisher of American FarmM. 

 t'iurinn'iii — S. C. Parkhurst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. 1'.—Wm. Prince &, Sons, Prop. Lin.Bot.Gas. 

 Middlebiinj. Yt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford— GoooYllv & Co. Booksellers. 

 tiprinrfield. il/s.— E. Edwards, Merchant. 

 AVi/'AjiTi/pori— Ebenezer Stedman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H.—i. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, Jl/c— Colman, Holden & Co. Booksellers. 

 Awnista, Me. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, N. S.—P. J. Hoi.i-and, Esq. Editor of Recorde.. 

 Montreal, L. C-— Geo. Bent. 

 St. LonU—G^o. Holton. 



Printed for Geo. C. Barrett by Ford & Damrili 

 who execute every description of Book and Fancy Prtnt- 

 Inir in good style, and with promptness. Orders for print- 

 in'^ may be left with Geo. C. Barrett, at tlie Agricul- 

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