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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Jan. 28, 



JHtscrUantrs. 



DOMESTIC LOVE. 



Domeslic Love ! not in proud palace halls, 

 Is often seen thy beauty to abide ; 

 Thy dwelling is in lowly cottage walls, 

 That in the thickets of the woodbine hide ; 

 With hum of bees around, and from the side 

 Of woody hills some little bubbling spring, 

 Shining along thro' banks with harebells dj'cd ; 

 And many a bird to warble on the wing. 

 When Morn her saffron robe o'er heaven and earth doth 

 fling. 



O ! love of loves ! — to thy white hand is given 

 Of earthly happiness the golden key ! 

 Thine are the joyous hours of winter's even. 

 When the babes cling around their father's knee ; 

 And thine the voice, that on the midnight sea 

 Melts the rude mariner with thoughts of home, 

 Peopling the gloom with all he longs to see-. 

 Spirit ! I've built a shrine ; and thou hast come, 

 ^.a^\ on its altar closed — for ever closed thy plume ! 



rO A F.1IEND ABOUT TO BE MARRIED A SECOND TIJIi;. 



Oh ! keep the ring, one little year, 



Keep poor Eliza's ring. 

 And shed on it the silent tear, 



Jn secret sorrowing. 



Thy lips, on which her last, last kiss 



Yet lingers moist and warm. 

 Oh I wipe them not for newer bliss, 



Oh J keep it as a charm. 



These haunts are sacred to her love. 



Here her loved presence dwells I 

 Of her the grot, other the grove, 



Of her the garden tells. 



Beneath these elms you sate and talked ; 



Besides the river's brink. 

 At evening arm-in-arm you walked ; 



Here stopt to gaze and think. 



Thou'lt meet her when thy blood boats high 



In converse with thy bride. 

 Meet the mild meaning of an eye, 



That never learnt to chide. 



Oh, no, my friend .' another here 



Thou canst not, must not bring; 

 No, keep it — but one little year. 



Keep poor Eliza's ring. 



A word of Advice to married Women — A decent 

 country woman came one market day, and beg- 

 ejed to speak with me. She told me witli an air 

 of secrecy, (hat her husband beliaved unkindly 

 to her, and sought the company ofothcr women ; 

 and Ihit knowing me to be a wise man, I could 

 tell what would cure liim. The case was so 

 common, I thought to prescribe for it, without 

 losing my reputation as a conjurer. '' The rem- 

 edy is simple,'' said I. " Ah^'ays treat your hus- 

 band lei'.h a smile.''' The woraa:i thanked me, 

 dropped a cotiriesy, and went nway. A fev/ 

 months after, she came again, bringing a couple 

 of fine fowls. She t(dtl me with great satisfac- 

 tion, that I had cured her luishand; and she beg- 

 ged my acceptance oftlie fowU in return. I 

 was pleased with the success of my prescription, 

 but refused the fee. 



Woman. — The good government^ of families 

 leads to the comfort of commwnitics and the 

 Vi-elfare of states. Of every domestic circle 

 woman is the centre. Home, that scene of 

 purest, dearest joy, home is the empire of wo- 

 man. There she plans, directs, and performs, 

 the acknowledged source of dignity and felici- 

 ty. Where female virtue is most pure, female 

 sense most improved, female deportment most 

 correct, there is most propriety of social man- 

 ners. The early years of childhood, the most 

 jirecious years of life and opening season, are 

 confined to woman's superintendence ; .«he may 

 therefore be presumed to lay the foimdation of 

 all the virtue and all the wisdom that enrich 

 the world. — Literary Gazelle. 



Children. — I>r Priestley was so deeply impress- 

 ed with the power of children to impart plea- 

 sure by their looks and gestures, that he said 

 to a person who asserted in a large company 

 that our Saviour never smiled — "It cannot be 

 true, he mu3t have smiled when little children 

 were brought to receive his blessing." 



Wars tiave in all ages been a (i.-eadful scourge 

 to mankind. But history exhil> i-^ none so san- 

 guinary and destructive as those engendered by 

 the ever to be deplored French Revolution, par- 

 ticularly those waged by Bonaparte .il'lcr his ac- 

 cession to supreme power. 



A French writer of eminence calculated the 

 destruction of men in these wars as follows, 



1. The war of St. Domingo in 1001, 

 Soldiers and Sailors. 60,000 

 Whiles of the Island. 50,000 

 Negroes. 60,000 



2. The war with England, from 1802 



to 180-1, 200,000 



3. The Invasion of Egypt, 60,000 



4. The winter campaign of 1805-6 150,000 



5. The campaign of Calabria, from 



1 805 to 7, 600,000 



6. The war of the North, from 



180G to 1807, 300,000 



7. The war of Spain, from 1 807 to 

 1813, (French and Allies, English, 

 Spaniards and Portuguese.) 2,100,000 



8. The war of Germany and Poland 



in 1809. 300,000 



9. The Campaign of 1813, 

 French and Allies, 500,000 

 Russians, 300,000 

 Poles, &c. 200,000 1,000,000 



10. The campaign of 1803, 450,000 

 Making a total of upwards of five millions of 



the human race ! 



Prophecy nf Columbus. In one of the letters 

 which Columbus wrote to the King of Spain 

 from his fleet, then lying before Jamaica, he 

 has the following remarkable passage : — "• Tiie 

 wealth that 1 have discovered, will rouse man- 

 kind to pillage and violence, and will revenge 

 the wrongs that I have suflered. The S[ianish 

 natinn itself will, perhaps, suffer one day for 

 the crimes that its malignity, its ingratitude, 

 and its envy, are now committing." 



Milton's Spsech on the Liberty of the Press. — 

 Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant 

 nation rousing herself like a strong man after 

 sleep, and shaking her invincible locks — me- 

 thinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty 

 youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the 

 lull mid-day beam — purging and unsealing her 

 long abused fight at the fountain itself of heaven- 

 ly radiance, while the whole host of timorous 

 k. finttering birds, with those also that love the 

 Iwiligiit, tlutler about ama^^d at what she means ! 



The Republic. — By altering a part of one line 

 of Jephson's tragedy of " Braganza," we have a 

 round of sentiments which we most heartily 

 wish" were imprssed on (he mind of every 

 American : 



Live the republic 



Is here hereditary. 'Tis instinct ; 



'Tis principle, religion, vital heat; 



Old men, to listening son?, witli their last breath, 



Bequeath it as a dying legacy ; 



Infants imbibe it at the mother's breast; 



It circles with their blood, spreads with their frame 



Us fountain is the heart, fcc. 



Lord Say, Gibbon's ancestor, was belieaded in 

 1450, by the Kentish insurgents. Jack C^ide told 

 him " Thou hast most traitorously corrupt- 

 ed the youth of this realm, in erecting u Gram- 

 mar .Sc/ioo/, and whereas before, our fathers had 

 no other books than the score and the tally, thou 

 hast caused printing to be used : an.l contrary to 

 the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built 

 a papermill. It will be (iroved to thy face, that 

 ihou hast men about thee who usually talk ofa 

 noun and a verb, and such abominable words as 

 no Christian ear can endure to hear. 



Our self-love too often makes us unamiable ; 

 but It has sometimes a contrary eilect, and dis- 

 poses us to be particularly agreeable and con- 

 ciliatory. Perhaps this is never so entirely t' — 

 case as when we know the favourable opinion 

 that is entertained of us by those we are desir 

 ous to please, and know it too by means which 

 testify beyond a doubt its fervour and sincerity. 



A Dutchman coming to town, and inquiring 

 the meaning of many things that appeared 

 strange to him, took particular notice ofa Sign, 

 on which he read as follows : — " Here are hor- 

 ses and chairs to let. Anno Domini, 1799." — 

 "• Well," said he, " if there be horses and chairs 

 enough for 1799 Dominies at one tavern, how 

 many must there be in the whole town ?" 



American Wine. 



DYER'S supetiour Red and White Grotcille (or 

 Currant) Wine, is for sale, wholesale or retail, for 

 the present, at fi5, Broad-Strett, by E. COPELAND, Jr. 

 Price per keg ol 6 gallons, delivered at any part of 

 the city, 87 1-2 cents per gallon, including keg and 

 sending home, for the Red; — and $1,50 per gallon 

 for the White. The extensive sale of this valuable ar- 

 ticle of Domestic Industry is its best recommendation. 



Tlie following notice of this V/ine ia extracted from the 

 {Salem) Essex Register. 



" We have been politely favoured with a sample of 

 the Grostitle fFme, made hy the Messrs. Dyers, of 

 Providence, R. I. and hare no hesitation in pronounc- 

 iaig it superiour to much of the imported Wine, and aC 

 everage of uncommon richness of flavour and colour. 

 It is said to be very wholesome ; and we cannot doubt 

 that it will take the place of the foreign Wines at our 

 social parties," Si.c. Dec. 24. 



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