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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From JV. York Slalcsman. 



LA FAYETTE. 

 Hail, patriot, statesman, hero, sage! 



Hail, freedom's friend ! hail, Gallia's son — 

 Whose laurels greener grow in age, 



Plucked hy the side of Washington ! 

 Hail, champion in a holy cause. 



When hostile bands our shores beset ; 

 Whose valor bade the oppressor pause — 



Hail, hoary warrior — La Fatette I 

 Forever welcome to the shore, 



A youthful chief, thy footsteps pressed ; 

 A dauntless, wand and peril bore. 



Till " VENl, VICI,"* decked thy crest ! 

 Forever welcome, grtat and good ! 



Till freedom's sun on earth shall set, 

 The still small voice of gratitude 



Shall bless the name of — La Fayette. 



What monarch of despotic power. 



Who fain would crush tlie free-born brave ; 

 Whose glory gilds a tottering tower, 



Himself a subject and a slave ; 

 Would not to view a nation's eyes 



With joyous drops unbidden wet. 

 The pageantry of pride despise, 



And grasp the hand of — La Fayette. 



Whene'er the lips of youth inquire 



The path to virtue, honor, fame — 

 To glory's temple proud aspire, 



AVhile warmly glows the ardent flame ; 

 The voice of age shall feailess tell 



What perils oft its path beset, 

 And prompt them onward by the spell 



That urged the soul of— La Fayette. 



And when the shades of death shall close 



Forever round thy hallowed head, 

 We'll seek the place of thy repose, 



By filial love and duty led ; 

 And /iearf.? that beat in bosoms free, 



(Gems by unerring wisdom set,) 

 The living monument shall be 



Of Freedom's champion — La Fayette. 



BOSTON BARD. 



' / came and conquered. 



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case^, is moveable, and the palieni coughs it up. 

 and recovers ; hut much too t'reqiiently it in- 

 creases, adheres to the small vessels, ffradunlly 

 ohiiterates them, and the whole lobe at length 

 hecomes ttiberculoiis, or formed of this greyish 

 yellow ma''er. Cons 'ering thus the commence- 

 ment of cnnsimi'tien as only an alteration in 

 the habitnal spcretinns of tlie vascular tissue of 

 the lungs. Dr. M. employs sedatives, and par- 

 ticularly the hydro-cyanic acid, in the two first 

 stages of the disease, with the happiest effect. 



[Bos. Med Intell. 



Hniniin Lungs. — The structure and J'linclinn nf 

 the human litn^s has long been a chief study of 

 LV. Magendie, of Paris, and liy very numerous 

 dissections of this organ, in its ordinary, and al- 

 so in ils phlhisically diseased state, he has as- 

 certained, (hat the tissues or cellular coats of 

 the lungs are almost entirely composed of the 

 minute branchings nf blood-vessels, of the pul- 

 monary arteries and veins, anastomising or con- 

 necting with each other; that the lungs dimi- 

 nieh in number, but increase in size with consi- 

 derable regularity, from childhood to old age, 

 the mcreased size being greatest, where a 

 cough has attended the mdividual; that on the 

 whole, aged people consume much less oxygen, 

 and consequently have less animal heat, and are 

 less aide to resist cold, than the young. 



Dr. Magendie has found, that the beginning 

 of phthisis, or consumption, is owing to the 

 small parieties of the pulmonary blood-vessels 

 secreting a greyish yellow matter, in one or 

 more of the cells of the lungs ; — this, in some 



Snakes. — Professor Luia-i Metosn, of Rome, 

 has pnbli«lied an account of some singular ex- 

 periments made by him on snakes. Among 

 olhers he endeavours to ascertain the truth of 

 the assertions of the ancients respecting (he pre- 

 dilection of snakes for music and dancing. In 

 the month of Juh', 1822, about noon, he put in- 

 fo a large box a number of different kinds of 

 snakes, all quite lively, wilh the exception of 

 some vipers, which were inclosed in a separate 

 box. As soon as thev heard the harmonious 

 tones of an organ, all (he venomous serpents be- 

 came agitated in an extraordinary manner; they 

 attached themselves to the sides of the box, and 

 made everv effoi ( to esca[)e. The clapliis and 

 the Esculnpii turned towards the instrument. 

 The vipers for their part exhibited no symp- 

 toms of sensibility. This experiment has been 

 frequently repeated, and always wilh the same 

 results. 



some Ml.': s.[ict at the ea.-livard, ui. cli pioved 

 fatal. People cannot be too careful .n making 

 use of glazed earthenware. — J\othern Spectator. 



William Penn and Thomas Story travelling to- 

 gether in Virgmia, were caught by a slioiver of 

 rain and unceremoniously sheltered themselves 

 from it in a tobacco-house ; the owner of which 

 ha|ipening to be within it, accosted them with 

 " you have a great deal of impudence to trespass 

 on my premises — you enter wifl.oul leave — do 

 you know who 1 am ?" To which was answer- 

 ed, no. " \Vliy then I would have you to know 

 I am a justice of the [leace ;" to which Thomas 

 Story replied, " mi/ friend here makes such things 

 as thee — he is the Governor nf Pennsijlvonia.^.' 

 The great man quickly abated his haii^iitmei-s. 



A grandee of Spain handing some refresh- 

 ments to a circle af ladies, observed one with a 

 most brilliant ring, and was rude enough to say 

 in her hearing, '• I should prefer the ring to 

 the hand." "And 1, (said the lady, looking 

 steadfastly at (he glittering order suspended 

 from the don's neck) should prefer the cottar to 

 the hcust.''' 



Vermont outdone hy \ew Hampshire. Last 



week we copied a paragraph which mentioned, 

 that Col. Levi Pbinney, of Shrewsbury, Vt. had 

 sheared from a four year old native wether, 

 eleven pounds and one ounce of rcool. This we 

 thought, at that time, (o be an extraordinary 

 fleece ; hut we have since been informed, that 

 .Joseph AVeeks. Esq. of Greenland, (adjoining 

 this town) sheared from a four year old native 

 buck, on the 24th ofMav last, eteven pounds and 

 fiur ounces of-.jpord, being three ounces more than 

 the famous Shrewsbury wether! — JV. H. Gaz. 



Reproof of Steepers. — It is related of Lasseni- 

 u=, chaplain to the Danish court, that perceiv- 

 ing the greater part of his audience to be 

 asleep while he was preaching, he suddenly 

 stopped, pulled a shutlle-cock from his pocket 

 and began to play .vith it in the pulpit. In a 

 shnrl time every body was lively, and looking 

 lo the [>ulpit wilh the greatest astonishment. ' 

 He resumed his discourse, saying " when 1 an- 

 nounce to 30U sacred and important things.' 

 you are not ashamed to go to sleep, hut when 1 , 

 play the fool you are all eye, and all ear." 



We must remind people, that now is the 

 time for green corn, green apples, cucumbers, 

 hot days, damp evenings, and sick children. A 

 little attention in season may save pain, and 

 even life; to say nothing of the anxiety of pa- 

 rents and expense of medicine, advice, and pro- 

 fessional attendance. — Con. Mirror. 



Eleven men nearly lost their lives in Water- 

 loo, N. Y. on the l'2th iilt. in consequence o( 

 drinking butler milk, contained in an earthen 

 vessel. It is sujiposed the acidity of the liquid 

 decomposed and extracted the poisonous qualify 

 of the glazing. A similar iustancc occurred 



A surveyor of taxes, named Hyde, was ex- 

 amining a house, by the side of which was a 

 l.in pit, and while disputing with the tenant 

 about Ihe number of wmdows it contained, he 

 most unfortunately slipped into the pit. " Fop 

 God's sake, cried he, help me." " Nay," said 

 the proprietor, " 1 dare take nothing from 

 thence without the consent of the exciseman ; 

 and it would be a pity lo pull out a Hyde be- 

 fore it is well tanned." 



LANDS FOR SALE IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



TFJF. subscriber offers for sale in small lots lo actual 

 settlers, or in larger tracts to others, the following 

 !ands in the State of Pennsylvania, belonging to the 

 estate of the late Win. Bingham, viz: two hundred 

 and fi fly thousand acrts in the counties of Bradford 

 and Tioga, at from three dollars, to tuo dollars Ji/ly 

 rents per acre, according to situation ; and ^re hun- 

 dred thousand acres in the counties of Potter, .McKean, 

 Venango, .ArnSstrong, Jefferson and Lycoming, at tiro 

 dollars per acre. The terms are ten years for pay- 

 ments, three of them without interest. The land is 

 gentrally of a good quality, well watered, intersected 

 by important roads, and in a healthy situation. For 

 further particulars application may be made to agents 

 m the different counties, or to 



ROBERT H. ROSE, 

 July 24. Silrer Lake, Pennsylvania. 



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^ Jf R. GROVF.'S Essay on Sheep, in a pamphlet form 

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