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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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SABBATH MORNING. 



Hail! to the placid, venerable morn, 

 That slowly wakes, when all the fields are still ; 

 A pensive calm en every breeze is borne, 

 And graver murmur gurgles from the rill, 

 And echo answers softer from the hill, 

 While softer sings the linnet from the thorn, 

 The sky-lark warbles in a tone lesS shrill, 

 Hail, light serene ! hail, holy Sabbath morn. 



The gales that lately sighed along the grove, 

 Have hush'd their downy wings in dead repose, 

 The rooks float silent by in airy droves, 

 The sun a mild, but solemn lustre throws ; 

 The clouds that hovered slow, forget to move ; 

 Thus smil'd the day, when the first morn arose. 



All things useful. — When (he council of (be 

 Royal Society honoured Dr Priesdey by the pre- 

 sentation to him of Sir Godfrey Copeley's medal, 

 on the 30th of November, 1783, Sir John 

 Pringle, who was then President, delivered on 

 the occasion an elaborate I'.iscourse on the dif- 

 ferent kinds of air ; in which, after expadnt- 

 tng upon (he discoveries of his predecessors, 

 he pointed out (he particular merits of Priest- 

 ley's investigations. In allusion lo the purifi- 

 cation of a tainted atmosphere bj' (he grow(h of 

 plants, the president thus eloquently and piously 

 expressed himself: 



" From these discoveries we are assured that 

 no vegetable grows in vain ; but that, from the 

 oak of the forest (o the gra&s in the tield, eve- 

 ry individual plant is serviceable to mankind : 

 if not always distinguished by some private vir- 

 tue, yet making a part of the whole which 

 cleans and purifies our atmosphere. In this 

 the fragrant rose and deadly nightshade co- 

 operate ; nor is (he herbage nor the woods that 

 floorish in the most remote and unpeopled re- 

 gions unprofitable to us, nor we to them, con- 

 sidering how constandy the winds convey (o 

 them our vitiated air, for onr relief and for 

 their nourishment. — And if ever these salutary 

 gales rise to storms and hurricanes, let us still 

 trace and revere the ways of a beneficent Be- 

 ing, who, not fortiinalely but with design, not in 

 wrath but in mercy, thus shakes the water and 

 the air together, to bury in the deep those pu- 

 trid and pestilential eftluvia which the vegeta- 

 bles on tlie face of the earth had been insuffi- 

 cient to consume. 



The Quakers. — A late Edinburgh Review, at 

 the conclusion of an article on Capital Punish- 

 ments, in speaking of the exertions of the Socie- 

 ty of Friends, observes, ''The Quakers have 

 taken a considerable interest in this question ; 

 and to them also we, in a great measure, owe the 

 abolition of the Slave Trade. They have been 

 ridiculed as a body, for not lending themselves 

 to the pomps and vanities of the world, but they 

 devote themselves to prying into and alleviatmg 

 lis evils. If you see one of them come into a 

 bookseller's shop, it is not to inquire for Camp- 

 b*rs "■ Pleasures of Hope," or for Rogers's 

 " Pleasures of Memory ;" but for Buxton en 

 frison Discipline, or for the last account of the 

 Slate of the Jail at Leicester. These are their 

 Jtligh'.s, their luxuries, and refinements. They 



do not indeed add new grace lo the Corinthian 

 capital of polished society ; but they dig down 

 nto its dungeon-glooms and noisome sewers — 



Do good by stealth, and blush to find tl fame — 

 They bear (he yoke of the wretched, and light- 

 en the burden of humanKy — and they have, and 

 will have their reward." 



School of Mutual Instruction.— The Journal of 

 Science states, that this system continues to 

 spread rapidly in Europe, South America, and 

 even in some parts of Asia. In Englan<l, Italy, 

 and especially in France, it is making a most 

 encouraging progress. The Society in Paris is 

 active in its exertions. According lo the state- 

 ments preBen(ed to that Society, there are in 

 the single department of (he Seine, 30 schools | 

 in full ac(ivi(y, containing about 2000 scholars,' 

 viz. in Rouen 8 schools, one of which consists 

 of girls— Neufchatel 5— Yacetot 3— Dieppe 4 

 Havre 9. This progress is due, principally, to 

 the zeal and exertions of Baron Maonet. 



Chinese Women.— One of the surest tests of 

 the refinement of a nation, is to be found in the 

 treatment experienced by the softer sex ; and 

 could the Asiatics be once thoroughly persuaded 

 of the impolicy of their conduct and deportment 

 to their women, we might confidently anticipate 

 a change of character which would raise them 

 several degrees above their present rank in the 

 scale of civilization. As they go on now, they 

 may and deserve to continue for ages circum. 

 scribed within the base and narrow limits of 

 mere animalism, shut out from all those sweet 

 and ennobling emotions which depend — not on 

 (he indulgence of a grovelling sensuality, but 

 on the cultivation of the best and finest qualities 

 of our nature. 



The Haram's languid hours of listless ease. 

 Might well be quiet with raptures sweet as these. 



But of all the people of Asia, it would be diffi- 

 cult to select one in which the real worth of 

 the feminine character — the mingled softness 

 and fortitude — the grace — the elegance — of an 

 intellect of which, generally speaking, we 

 know not why the strength and extent should be 

 supposed inleriour to those of the masculine 

 sensorium — " the mind — the music breathingfrum 

 the face'''' of enlightened loveliness ; — the gener- 

 oQs delight that thrills the female heart, at the 

 glory and happiness of him who has secured its 

 affections. In no region, even of Asia, we re- 

 peat, is the value and dignity of women so 

 wretchedly a|>preciated, as in China — no where, 

 even among orientals, is the absence ol — we 

 will not say refinement, but — decency on this 

 important point, so disgustingly evident, as 

 among the Chinese. 



Calamities af Genius. — Homer was a beggar; 

 Plautus turned a mill : Terence was a slave ; 

 Boetius died in gaol ; Paul Borghese had fourteen 

 trades, and yet he starved with them all; Tasso 

 was often distressed for a few shillings ; Bentl- 

 voglio was refused admittance into an hospital 

 he had liimself erected ; Cervantes died of hun- 

 ger ; Camnens, the celebrated writer of the Lu- 

 siad, ended his day.s in an alms house; and Vau- 

 gclas left his body to (he surgeons, to pay his 

 debts as (ir as it would go. In our own country, 

 Bacon lived a life of mennness and distress ; bir 



Walter Raleigh died on the scaffold; Spencer, 

 the charming Spencer, died forsaken and in 

 want ; and the death of Collins came through 

 neglect first causing mental derangement ; Milton 

 sold his copy-right of Paradise Lost for fifteen 

 pounds, at three payments and finished his days 

 in obscurity; Dryden lived in poverty and dis- 

 tress ; Oti»ay died prematurely, and through 

 hunger; Lee died in the streets; Steele lived a 

 life of perfect warfare with bailiffs ; Goldsmi'h's 

 \'icar of Wakefield was sold for a trifle to save 

 him from the gripe of the law; Fielding lies in 

 the '"uiying ground of the English factory at 

 Lisbon, without a stone lo mark the "spot ; Savage 

 died in prison at Bristol, where he was confined 

 for a debt of eight pounds ; Butler lived in pen- 

 ury, and died poor ; Chatlerton, the child of gen- 

 ius and misfortune, destroyed himself 



The Tisio Farmers. — Two farmers who were 

 neighbours, had (heir crops of early peas killed 

 by (he frost. One of Ihem came to condole with 

 the other on their misfortune. " Ah !" cried he, 

 " how unfortunate we have been, neighbour ! 

 I have done nothing but fret ever since. But, 

 bless me J you seem to have a fine healthy crop 

 coming up just now ; what are these ?" " These, 

 (said the other) why these are whnl 1 sowed 

 immediately after my loss." '• What coming 

 up already?" cried the fretter. " Yes, while 

 you were fretting, 1 was working !" •' What, 

 and don't you fret when you have a loss?" — 

 " Yes, but I always put it off until I have re- 

 paired the mischief" " Lord, why then you 

 liave no need to fret at all." " True," replied 

 the industrious gardener, "and that's the very 

 reason ; in (ru(h, it is very pleasant to have no 

 longer reason to think of misfortune : and it is 

 astonishing how many might be repaired by a 

 little alacrity and energy." 



Matrimony. — Tobin,in his Honey Moon, says, 

 " all women are angels before marriage, and 

 that is the reason why husbands so soon wish 

 [ them in heaven afterwards.'' 



Jlmerican Wine. 



DYER'S superiour Red and White Grosnlle (or 

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

 the present, at 66, Broad-Street, by E. COPELAND, Jr. 

 Price per keg of 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. 



Thefollouing notice of this Wine is extracted from the 

 (Salem) Essex Register. 

 " We have been politely favoured with a sample of 

 the Groseille Wine, made by the Messrs. Dyers, of 

 Providence, R. 1. and have nobesitation in pronounc- 

 ing it superiour to much of the imported Wine, and a 

 everaffe of uncommon richness of flavour and colour. 

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

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

 social parties," kc. Dec. 24. 



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