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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SWfscrllantriS. 



FOR THE NEW EXr.LAND FARMER. 



EARLY RECOLI.ECTIOXS. 

 Say, who is he that in some distant land, 

 Far from the humble home, where childhootrs hours 

 I'assed on in happiness, unmix'd with care, 

 But gives a sigh — a softly swelling tear, 

 To the remembrance ? Say, who can forget 

 The mother who, in hours of infancy 

 Ouided his faltering steps, and taught his tongue 

 To lisp the sacred name of parent — who. 

 When sorrow's hand weighs hard upon him, and 

 Distress and want knock loudly at his door. 

 When " ei'eWa*/'ng" friends desert him, and 

 The comforts (e'en necessities) of life 

 Are wrested from him, still remains uncharg'd, — 

 Still calms the surges of his troubled mind. 

 And cheers him with the hope of better days .' 

 O 'tis a heavenly love, a mother's heart. 

 Firm and unshaken thro' life's every stage — 

 And he indeed must be a very wretch, 

 Who can forget her while life's current rolls 

 Through his warm veins — And who on earth can go 

 To the green turf which covers the remains 

 Of such a friend, and there indulge the thought 

 Of all her kindness to him, and not feel 

 The tears of gratitude and warm affection 

 Coursing each other rapidly adown 

 His cheeks ? — I would not lose, for all 

 The glittering treasures of Golconda's mine?, 

 The gratitude I bear her mem'ry, who 

 Rests in the grave from all the storms of woo. 

 Which toss'd her feeble bark on life's dark sea. 

 No ! for there is a pleasure mix'd with pain 

 Like a fine web wrought by some cunning hand. 

 That she has reach'd a haven of delight, 

 Where cares and troubles come not — and the thought 

 That, at no distant period, I shall drop 

 This cumbrous load of dull mortality. 

 And that, in those efernal realms of joy, 

 Our souls shall meet, my fainting spirit cheers, 

 And points me to the path of life divine. 



Boston, 1824. Mortimer 



was astonished when they saw pass first the 

 Duchess, then Countesses, Baronesses, and 

 other ladies of quality, whose husbands had of- 

 fended against the Emperor, each with difficul- 

 ty carrying her lord on her shoulders. It had 

 been supposed in the army, that when the 

 Duchess demanded this favour it was only with 

 a view to save their gold, silver, and jewels, 

 and no suspicion was entertained of their real 

 intentions. The Emperor was astonished at 

 the sight, and could not help being touched 

 with the tenderness and courage of these la- 

 dies who considered their husbands as their 

 true treasure, which they esteemed more than 

 o-old or jewels. He recommended their fidelity 

 to their husbands, treated them with a splendid 

 dinner, and came to a sincere accomodation 

 with Guelph and his companions. 



An interesting circumstance occurred, while 

 Gen. Lafayette was passing the line of children, 

 arranged under their instructers tipon the Com- 

 mon, In this city. A little girl of about 5 years 

 of a^e stepped out from the line of children, 

 and was handed into the General's barouche, 

 when she immediately pronounced, in French, 

 these words, Dieu vous garde, [God bless you] 

 presenting him at the same moment with the 

 wreath of natural flowers which had adorned 

 her hair. He blessed and kissed the child, and 

 it then resumed its place in the line. In the 

 wreath were entwined the following lines: 



An infant hand presents these blushing flowers. 

 Glowing and pure as childhood's artless hours. 

 When roses bloom and buds of promise smile. 

 Repaying with their charms the culturer's toil. 



O take them, Father, they were cull'd for you ! 

 (Still bright vi'ith warm affection's sacred dew) 

 O, let them live in thy benignant smile, 

 And o'er thy brow of glory bloom awhile, 

 'Twined with the laurel, tame on thee bestowed. 

 When thy young heart with patriot ardour glowed. 



Self-exiled from the charms of wealth and love. 

 And home & friends, thou didst our champion prove. 

 And by the side of glorious WASHINGTON, 

 Didst make our grateful country all thine own. 



Go, fragile offering, speak the ardent joy 



Our bosoms feel, which time can ne'er destroy ! 



SINGULAR CAPITULATION. 



Guelph, D«l|a of Bavaria, having made war 

 on the EmpSror Conrad VIII., besieged that 

 prince in the (^aflle of VVeinsberg, whore he 

 defended himself to the last extremity ; but was 

 at last obliged to surrender at discretion. The 

 Emperor treated (he person whom Guelph had 

 sent to him to capitulate »vith great civility, and 

 gave his word that the Duke and the troops 

 should be permitted to pass through the Impe- 

 rial army unmolested. The Duke's lady, lunv- 

 ever, suspected that some fatal design against her 

 husband was concealed under this appearance 

 of clemency. She therefore wished to make a 

 more certain cngagemont th;m that of mere 

 words. She sent a gentleman to the Emperor, 

 to demand from him safe conduct not only for 

 liersclf, but also for the other ladies and women 

 that were in the castle ; that they might be suf- 

 fered to pass unmolested, and be conducted to a 

 place of security ; and that they should also be 

 at liberty to take whatever they could carry 

 with them. To this request the Emperor read- 

 ily consented. 



The evacuation was made in the presence of 

 tlie Emperor and all his army ; and every one 



How to get sober. — A person in this (own, 

 whose name we could mention, made applica- 

 tion to (he selectmen, a week or (wo since, (o 

 be put iii(o gaol ; stating that he had been in- 

 toxicated for some time and could not possibly 

 get sober so long as he was in a situation to gel 

 rum, and requesting it of them as a favor that 

 he might be confined in the gaol till his reason 

 returned ! The selectmen very kindly recom- 

 mended him to the care of the gaoler, and af- 

 ter being held in duress for a week, was dis- 

 charged a sober man ! — JVorriJgewock Journal. 



Puns. — Puns do not deserve the reproach 

 heaped on them; they enliven society; and 

 we have heard of hundreds of them in compa- 

 nies where no pocket was ever picked. Bad or 

 good, here is one : In a party, chielly of medi- 

 cal gentlemen, discussing the power of animals 

 to communicate hydrophobia, it was asserted by 

 a learned Doctor, that the infection had been 

 communicated in one ins(ance by a duck. Ma- 

 ny inferences were made from this fact, till an 

 extra-professional visitor observed, that the 

 strongest lesson he could draw from it was, to 

 " beware of quacks." — VermoiU Gaze'.m. 



Eloquence. — " True eloquence," says Milton, 

 " 1 find to be none but the serious and hearty 

 love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is 

 fully possessed with a fervent desire to know- 

 good things, and with the dearest charity to in- 

 "use the knowledge into others, — when such a 

 man would speak, his words, like so many nim- 

 ble and airy servitors, trip about him at com- 

 mand, and in well ordered files, as he would 

 wish, fall aptly into their places." 



Lord Norbury, while lately indisposed, was 

 threatened with a determination of blood to the 



head. Surgeon C 1 accordingly opened 



the temporal artery ; and whilst attending to 

 the operation, his lordship said (o him in his 



usual quick manner, "C 1, I believe you 



rocre never called to the bar .'" — " No, my lord. I 

 never was," replied the surgeon — " Well, 1 am 

 sure. Doctor, I can safely say, you have cut a fig- 

 ure in the Temple.'''' 



Civic Literature. — At a city dinner, some time 

 since, some gentleman happening, during the 

 circulation of the bottle, to be speaking of the 

 wit and vivacity of Horace, one of them turn- 

 ed round to Alderman A , and asked him 



what he thought of the Carmen Seculanl His 

 worship, who did not wish to appear very igno- 

 rant, gravely replied — " Why I don't know that 

 they are worse than the car men of Thames- 

 street, — we all know they are a great bore !" 



LANDS FOR SALE IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



THE subscriber offers for sale in small lots to actual 

 settlers, or in larger tracts to others, the following 

 lands in the State of Pennsylvania, belonging to the 

 estate of the late Wm. Diugham, viz: tu-o hundred 

 andjifly thousand acres in the counties of Bradford 

 and Tioga, at from three dollars, to tiio dollars fifty 

 cents per acre, according to situation ; and Jire hun- 

 dred thousand acres iu the counties if Potter, McKean 

 Venango, Armstrong, Jefferson and Lycoming, at tiri 

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

 ments, three of them without interest. The land is 

 generally of a good qualify, well watered, intersected 

 by important roads, and in a healthy situation. For 

 further particulars application may be made to a^-ents 

 in the diffe.reat counties, or to 



ROBERT H. ROSE, 

 July 2-). Silver Lake, Pe7insyhanitt. 



m, FRUIT TREES, &c. 



''W^3 T-^MESBLOODGOOD&CO. 

 ^ ty have for sale at their Nursery 

 at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 New York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs & Plants, 

 of the most approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting of all their Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr Zebedee Cook, jr. No. 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 ni prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respictin;; 

 the condition, &c. ice. that may be required, on appli- 

 cation to him. Sej't. 4. 



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