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NEW ENGIAND I AIi:>iEIl. 



Mar. 20, 1830. 



M I S C B L L A IV I E S. 



THK TWO RIVALS. 

 The TO)e is Icrincil ihc quoen of f1owci4, 

 Since fiT»\ it bluoiiicd in Eden's bower:< ; 

 Nor ca4t, nor west have this denied. 

 That it should bloom the garden's pride. 

 We liml ibi rich resplendent glow, 

 In azure heiivcn's ethereal bow ; 

 It gilds the western twilight's gleam, 

 And blushes in Aurora's beam. 



Yet by its side, in beauty's grace, 

 The ttly cUims an equal place ; 

 Mcthinks, within its snow while bell, 

 Simplicity delights to dwell ; 

 The mansion is so sweet and lair. 

 That innocence inhabits there : 

 It surely was the sweetest flower. 

 That breathed its l>.ilm in Kdcn's bower, 

 No wonder that it flourished fair — 

 No cause was known far blushing there. 



AXIOMS. 



All liuinnii linppinos.s, wlietlicr|iiiblic or private, 

 domestic or national, arc fouiided on individual 

 cultivation. 



Kiiowledjje is pleasure ns vvoU as power; and 

 of any two individuals in .society, whether rich or 

 poor, the more liigldy cultivated, other circum- 

 stances being the same, will possess the greater 

 Bliare of happiness, and will be the more valuable 

 member of society. 



Kvery good principle in society, to do good 

 effectually and generally, ought to be effectually 

 an<l gen'jrnlly applied ; and, therefore, to raise any 

 .society or nation to tlie highest degree, individual 

 cUllivuiion should becariied to the greatest prac- 

 ticable extent in all classes of society. 



To introduce an ignorant youth into a highly 

 civilized country under the supposition that he 

 could obtain ths requisite degree of prosperity 

 and happinesH, would be more absurd than to 

 turn an educated cbilil into a country of savages. 



In all countries, education, in as far as it has 

 been curried, has had an effect of rendering the 

 poor content. The uneducated are prone to con- 

 siiler wealth and happiness as synonymous, a de- 

 lusion, which knowledge quickly dispels ; philo- 

 sophy teaches its fallacy, and history exemplifies 

 it. Edmation incrunses the liajipiness of the rich, 

 Bnd gives happiness to the poor. 



There is nothing more worthy of a man than 

 truth, nothing more despicable than falsehood. 



Men often act lies without speaking them. All 

 fal.se appearances are lies ; every kind of equivo- 

 cation is a lie. 



The whole life of the liy|)Ocritft is a protracted 

 falsehood. 



From Lewis' History of Lynn, pari 3J, (just published.) 

 About the year 1718, potatoes were first intro- 

 dncnl into Lynn. A man received two or three, 

 which he planted ; and when he gathered the 

 produce, a few of them were roasted and eaten, 

 merely from curiosity ; and the rest were put in- 

 t» thi! Bhcll of a gourd, ami hung up in the cellar. 

 The next year he planted ihem all, and hud 

 enough to fill a two bushel basket. He knew not 

 wliat to do with so many and gave some of them 

 to his neighbors. Soon after, one of them said 

 to liiiri, ' Well, I have found that potatoes are 

 good for something. 1 had some of them boiled, 

 and ate them with fish, nn.l they relished very 

 well.' It was several years after this, before po- 

 tatoes came into general use, anil then only in 

 small (pianliticH. 



Between the years 1099 ami 1722, there were 



killed in Lynn woods, and on Naliuni, four hun- 

 ilred anil twentyeight foxes. We have no ac- 

 count of the immense multitude killed during the 

 first seventy years of the town. 



It is said, that before the first schooner was 

 launched in 1720, a great number of men and 

 boys were employed, with pails, in filling her with 

 water, to ascertain if she was tight. 



John Adam Deaggeor, a shoemaker, fro-n Eng- 

 land, came to Lymi in 17.'>0. At the time of hisar- 

 rival, the business was very limited, and there 

 were but three men wlio employed journeymen. 

 All the shooimikers went to him fur information ; 

 and he was called ' the celebrated shoemaker of 

 Essex. 



The greatest earthquake ever known in New 

 England, ha|)pened November IS, 1755, at 13 

 minutes after four in the morning. It continued 

 about four minutes. Walls and chinmeys were 

 thrown down, and clocks stopped. On the same 

 day Lisbon was dcstroyeil. On the following 

 Saturday there was another earthquake. 



On the evening of Jidy 19, 1769, a lica-.::'..''ul 

 night arch appeared. It was widest in the zc'.i'.th 

 anil terminated in a point at each horizon. The 

 color was a brilliant white. 



There was a slave at Lynn, called Ponipey, 

 who obtained his freedom about the year 1750. — 

 He had been a king in Africa, and as such he was 

 regarded by his people in this country. Every 

 year during his life, the slaves, not only of Lynn, 

 but of Boston, Salem, and the neigldioring towns, 

 obtained leave of their masters, for one day, to 

 visit King Pompey. 



Stump Orators. — There is much originality and 

 quaintness of expression in the ' wild-cat-and- 

 whiskey' speeches of these ' half-horse half-ali- 

 gator' Ciceros of tlie Western regions. We might 

 wade in vain through the solid columns of intermin- 

 able harangues and messages with which the 

 newspaper press about these days groans, for as 

 much of the geimine home-made as is contained 

 in the following extract from the stnmp-speech of 

 a candiilate for the Legislature of one of the 

 Western States — ' Born,' said he, ' in a cane-brake, 

 cra<l!ed in a sap-trough, my zeal for indeperulence 

 has grown to maturity, without being choked by 

 the weeds of education.' 



Rail Rond. — It appears from an interesting re- 

 port, maile at a public meeting in Montpelier on 

 the subject of a rail road from Boston, by the way 

 of Concord, N. H. and Lake Champlainto Ogdcns- 

 bnrg, N. Y. that Boston is 17 miles nearer to 

 ship navigation on the lakes, than .•Vlhany by 

 the Erie canal, and 172 miles nearer than the 

 city of New York. The distance from Boston 

 to Ogdensburg by the Railway route, is slated 

 to be 350 miles, which may be passed in 35 

 hours. The passage boat on the canni, moving 

 at the rate of 4 miles the hour, and being de- 

 tained 33 lioiu's in passing the locks, requires 

 120 hours to pass the Eric canal, making n 

 diflcrence of 85 hours — the speed of freight 

 being 2i miles per hour, would require 173 

 hours for the voyage. 



Cheap Fuel. — .\ good fire, on a winter-day, at 

 a mere trilling ex|iensf, is of importance to a poor 

 man. One pemiyworlh of lar, or rosin water, 

 will saturate a tub of coals with triple its origiii.il 

 quantity of bitumen, (the principal heat and lighl) 

 and of course render oiu^ such tub of three times 

 more value than it was when unsaturated. 



PRICEis OF COV.VTHY PRODUCE. 

 (Reported for the New England Farmer.) 



- 'borrH ' 16 00 



|ioand. 



AIMM.RS.hesi, - - - !b«rrel. 



ASIIE^, pni.firMsorl, ... ion. 

 iVarl, first sort, - - • " 



nr.ANS, white, - . . |.-jsh.f 



UEEK, OMM, . - barrel. 



Or-o, No. 1, 

 Cargo, No. 2, 



hL I I EK, inspected. No. 1, Dew, pound. 



CliEE.SE, new milk, - - - , •' 

 Skimmcl milk. - - t " 



FI.OtiR, Baliiinorc, llonard-slreel, - barrel. 

 Genesee, - " " 1 *' 



Itje, best, .... " 



fiRAIN, (-.irn, .... Uisbel 



Kvc, - - - " 



Hurley, . - . " 



Oils, . . . . " 



llor.'S LAUD, first sort, new, - c»l. 



I.I'IE. task. 



I'l.AI.STER PARIS retails at 



I'OKK, clear, 



Navv. mess, 

 C'n.go. No. 1, 



SEEDS, llird'sOn.«, . 

 Orcli,int"Gr35S, 

 Fowl Mcaduu', ... 

 n<cC;ras.H, . - 



'l'.i!l .Meadow Oats Gran, - 

 Red Top - - . . 



Wliiie MoM-ysiickle Clover, 

 Red Clover, (iiiinlieru) 

 French Sugar Bed, - . , 

 WOOL, Merino, full blood, wnshed, - j 

 Merino, lull i>!nod. uttw.tNhed, 

 Mel '.no, liiree liiurilis u asked, 1 

 Merino, hall blond, - - ; 

 Merino, quar'.er washed, 

 Nai've, u ashed, - - - , 

 I'nllcd, Laiiib's, first sort, - • 

 I'ulied, Lamb's, s»*cond sr.rl, 

 I'ullcd, " spinuiug, first sort,! 



PROVISION MAUKET. 



conr.ECTEii r.VKPV wkkk Br iiit iiiiv 

 ( Cir.-t of FaiifuilliaU ilarkel.) 

 HEEF, best pieces, . . - 

 I'ORK, rre>h, best piccci, 



wliole Imgs, 

 VEAL. - - . - - 

 .MU'ITON, .... 



rori.TUY. .... 



l!UTTER,kegandliib, . 

 Lunir.,besl, 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Itve. retail. - 

 Indian, reiai), 

 I'OTATOS, 

 <;iL»ER, [according to quRliiy.] 



rnoa I to 

 I 1 75' 2 S( 

 130 00 13.1 14 

 \\V^ OOIoO 9 

 Ij I J 

 i 9 IS 9 a 

 7 75 

 6 75 

 to I 



6 



4 75 :, 



6 25 i 

 3 Ci .. 



75i : 



7 OOl 



8 



4 ro 

 17 C 

 K 4 



4o|^ 



1 cl 



)k. 



Seeds far Countri/ Dealers. 

 Traders in the country who may wish to keep an assoi 

 mcnt of nardeii Seed'; for sale, arc informed they can 

 furnisbeil, at J. B. Russfll's Seed Store, connect- 

 with the New England Farmer, 52, North M.irket--tre« 

 Boston, with boxes of various sizes and prices, from 10 

 :950, containing a coMPi.eTK assortme.nt of the see 

 mostly U'led in a kitchen gaiden, on as favorable terms : 

 they can be procured in this country, of equal qualH 

 neatly done up in small packages, readv for retailing, )rr 

 short directions on each package for its culluie ■•• 

 manaeemcnt — warranted to be of the growth of 1*. 

 and of the purest quality. tf Feb I ' 



Published r\vT\ Fri.lny.nl S-"* per annum, pnynble to 

 end of ihe year— but those who pay » iiliin sijiy iliiys frcii. 

 lime of subscribinc. are enliiled lo ii deduriiou cil fiby coins 



Jj" Nopnper will be scnlio a distance wiihnul pnymrri 

 ing nnde in n<!viince. 



Primed for J. It. RussriL. by L R Butts— by »1 

 nil descriptions of Printing car be executed lo n rn it:r a* • 

 o( customers. < »rder^ for print inp rrcenrd I.\ J. P. Itr.».f 

 nt Ihe Agricultural Waiehuusr No. 52 North KlnikeiM 



ACXKTS. 



Xew IV*— fi TiuiKBi'iin fc So!«.67 I.il>er»y.«lreel. 



Phi!:lltrlphi,i-\t \ (' l.»M>RrTH. fl5Chrslnut.Jlrret. 



H'illimr>it—C<. II. Smith. Ollice of ihe Anieiican Farmer 



/)'*>in«— Htm Ji-'» Ili'H. 



Fluihinz.S J. \\>t I'iii»ck4:So!<s, Prop. L::i. Pol. nar> 



//u/fA'r<'-ti<'01.«l« 4 Sons. 



Hxli/a.T. N. S— P. J. Il«i I.AM). Fiq. Becordci Office. 



Montrral, L. C — A. Uuninnu, Bookseller. 



