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witli in difference, and the coiiipanions of our sports 

 become the oppressive monitors of our follies, no re- 

 medy is so sure to work a change and reform as tra- 

 vel'.inff. A new class of objects gives rise to new 

 sensations and fresh trains of thought: the body 

 recovers its lost vigor, and the mind its cheerful- 

 ness. It was in a state of melancholy void, fol- 

 lowing the career of passion, that Byron began his 

 travels to the same regions of Greece and Asia 

 throusrh which Cicero, of old, had journeyed. By 

 visiting them, fresh sources, of poetic feeling were 

 opened at every step. There was also, as remarked 

 by his brother poet and biographer, in his quick 

 change of place and scene — in the diversity of men 

 and manners surveyed by him — in the perpetual 

 hope of adventure and thirst of enterprise, such a 

 succession and variety of every fresh excitement as 

 not only brought into play, but invigorated, all the 

 energies of his character : as he himself describes 

 his mode of living, it was 'to-day in a palace, to- 

 morrow in a cow-house — tint day with a Pacha, the 

 next with a sheplierd.' Thus were his powers of 

 observation quickened, and the impression on his 

 imagination multiplied. Thus schooled, too, in some 

 of the roughness and privations of life, and so far 

 made acquainted v/ith the flavor of adversity, he 

 learned to enlarge more than is common in his high 

 station, the circle of his sympathies, and became in- 

 ured to that manly and vigorous cast of thought 

 which is so impressed on all his writings. Nor must 

 we forget ajnong those strengthening and animating 

 effects of travel, the ennobling excitement of danger, 

 which he has more than once experienced — having 

 been placed in situations, both on land and sea. 

 well calculated to call forth that pleasurable sense 

 of energy, which perils calmly confronted never fail 

 to inspire. — Journal of Health. 



From the New England Herald. 



FoxBORonGH Bonnets. — The town is neither 

 Boxford, or Boxborough, as stated in some of the pa- 

 pers where the famous straw bonnets are made, but 

 Foxhorough, Mass. about 23 miles from Boston. For 

 two or throe years the business has been dull, but 

 litlli' having been done at it, until within some 

 iiKiuths past, when it received a fresh impulse, in con- 

 neiii'.once of the adoption of a new fashion, which by 

 the way is so rare a thing among the ladies, that 

 the Foxhorough manufacturers may now congratulate 

 themselves upon pockets full of money. These bon- 

 nets were at first disposed of at New York, as an im- 

 ported article, at very high prices ; and from that 

 jjlare sent to this ciiy, and sold here for fourteen dol- 

 lars each ; but since the important discovery has been 

 niaile, that the bonnets are of Yankee origin, the 

 pnco has fallen to three or four dollars. They are 

 iiiado of rye straw ; the rye is sown in September 

 anil the straw cut generally in the second week of 

 .1 line following, while it is in blossom. It is then 

 bleached, while in its green state, by being plunged 

 into boiling water and afterwards spread to dry. 

 The lowest number of strands used in braiding is se- 

 ven ; they however increcse the number to as high 

 as fifteen, just as they desire the degree of fineness. 



The busmess was first introduced by a Mr Hall, of 

 Wrentham, as early as 1800. It now employs about 

 300 women and children ; the latter can braid at the 

 age of 5 and G years. 



Two and a half acres of straw, cut a few weeks 

 ^ince brought 100 dollars. From 80 to 100,000 dol- 

 lars worth of bonnets are manufactured in this town 

 ^n a year. 



In closing this article, wo copy from the Mass. 

 Fournal some excellent remarks upon the subject of 

 irticles of American manufacture. 



' It is a sad pity that the wealthy and the fashion- 

 ible are so much prejudiced against everything of 

 homo manufacture. A bonnet plaited by industri- 

 ous hands in a neighboring town becomes wonder- 

 ausly genteel, when it is supposed to be just import- 

 3d from London ; yet numbers vvoidd be ashamed to 

 icknowledge that they purchased an American bon- 

 :aet, should economy lead Ihem to do so. This is a silly 



vanity — it is more than that — it is a violation of a sa- 

 cred duty. VVe ought to give employment to our 

 own poor, and to encourage native talent of every 

 description. 



' If women wish to advance the interests of their 

 own country, and preserve the dignity and purity of 

 their sex, they will think of these things. Aw/ay 

 with the silly vanity of wearing dear-bought and far- 

 fetched articles! Let the common deception of 

 American bonnets and shoes just imported from 

 London and Paris be no longer necessary. Be inde- 

 pendent enough to encourage our own artificers : 

 and yon will soon see that American ingenuity and 

 taste can equal all the demands of luxury ! 



'Life is made for something higher and better than 

 the silly competitions of vanity and pride. We are 

 answerable to our country and our God for the use 

 we make of our influence !' 



We have seen, and admired, a most beautiful hank 

 of white sewing silk, manufactured by a lady of Ed- 

 enlon. North Carolina. The letter, enclosing the 

 silk, observes— 'Our ladies, next year will raise con- 

 si<lerable, as they expect to engage in it extensively. 

 One of them has made forty pounds.' This silk is 

 pronounced by judges, equal to Italian.— jV. 1'. pa- 

 per. 



Ranz Des Vachf.s. — Among the Turks, the cars 

 make a horrible creaking, which is their delight and 

 glory. 'None but cowards,' say they, 'grease their 

 wheels. The brave fear not to be hoard from one 

 end of the desert to another.' De gustibus, Sfc. 

 Coimt Potoski relates that a Turk, whom he knew 

 at Moscow, told him that after spending two years 

 at St Petersburgh, where this delicious music was 

 not heard, when he revisited his native country, he 

 actually fainted away through ecstacy of delight on 

 hearing the first sound of an ungreased wheel.' — 

 Asiatic Journal, 



A NBW ENEMY TO WHEAT. 



One of the most respectable and extensive farm- 

 ers in Lampeter township, Lancaster comity, in- 

 forms tlie editor of the Lancaster Journal, that as 

 near as lie can judge, the head of one stulk out of 

 every fifteen in one of his wheat fields, has been 

 cut off by the pale green worms about an inch in 

 length. They make their appearance in the even- 

 ing, ascend the stalk and cut it oft'a short distance 

 below the head, during the night, and disappearing 

 almost altogether, before or about daylight in the 

 morning. Another of his wheat fields has sus- 

 tained some injury from the same cause. To 

 what extent this new enemy may carry its ravages 

 cannot be foretold. — Bait. Chronicle. 



Early Rising. — 'Let me inquire what have 

 been your feelings, -Khen peculiar circumstances 

 of business, or other sufficiently strong inducements, 

 have led you to rise earlier than usual ? Have 

 you not been surprised at your first insensibility, 

 which could suffer you to lose so much valuable 

 time ? Have you not despised yourself for having 

 yielded to what is generally called an indulgence, 

 but which you have found to be a complete obsta- 

 cle to the most exquisite of all indulgences ? Have 

 you not, in spite of your recollections of past habits, 

 experienced something like a sentiment of con- 

 tempt for those who were still immured in sirfep, 

 instead of exerting the faculties nature bail bestow- 

 ed on ibeni ? who were " tossed In a sea of dreams," 

 instead of employing their judgments at a time 

 when tlicv were most capable of exercise? Have 

 you not felt the force of the poet's remark, 

 " TIs brave to wake, lethargic souls among, 

 " To rise, surrounded by a sinking throng ;" 

 and, in all the pride of your self-complacent supe- 

 riority, pitied from your heart the slaves of sloth, 

 who were too abject even to desire their emanci- 

 pation from its tyranny ? 



' And bow opposite are those feelings to those 

 which are experienced by one lying on a bed of 

 sloth and laziness. He condemns his irresolution, 

 consciousness of which inflicts iqion him all the 

 disgrace of a cowardly surrender, but fails to call 

 forth the struggle of contest or to stimulate to 

 the honor of victory. He regrets the loss of time, 

 which be makes no effort to redeem. He wishes 

 without possessing, and reiients without reform- 

 ing.' — Jour, of Health. 



It is stated in one of the New Y'ork papers, that 

 within a few days, 2000 European emigrants have 

 arrived in that city. 



Massachisetts. Gold in JVeit) England. — The 

 Soutbbridge Register informs us that a Mr Lemu- 

 el Dunbar, of that town, bad discovered, in dig- 

 ging his latul, among many other valuable mine- 

 rals, a small quantity of pure gfoW. 



[We believe the gold- hunters, and all other 

 gooil citizens of our Commonwealtb, would be 

 much better employed in digging potatoes, than in 

 digging gold]. — jVewburyport Herald. 



Canada Tobacco. — The following is extracted 

 from a letter from the London correspondent of the 

 Montreal Gazette: 



' In this market, the well cured tobacco of Upper 

 Canada is considered finer than Virginia, and certain 

 circumstances have induced us (on this side,) to think 

 that it would soon become a valuable article of ex- 

 port, as merchandize, as well as paying commissions, 

 inland and home freight to Colonists and home ship 

 owners.' 



Aluhuiita Silk. — We have received from a gen 

 tleman residing in our immediate vicinity, four 

 samples of silk, made at bis plantation. Their 

 colors are, as they were reeled from the cocoons, 

 a pearly white, a pure straw color, and a rich . 

 bright saffron. We <lo not pretend to be judges 

 of the article in its present stale, but by persona 

 who are acquainted with the subject, the silk is 

 said to be remarkable for strength ami fineness of 

 fibre, and is very handsomely reeled. — Mobile Re- 

 gister. 



Important to Farmers. — The revised statutes re- 

 quire that a roller, instead of a square edge, shall 

 be used in striking grain that is measured in a half 

 bushel or other measure. The square edge, it is 

 said, will draw offa pint of corn or three gills of 

 oats below the even surface, while the round one 

 makes it exactly level. 



By the same, 2000 lbs. weight, instead of 20 cwt. 

 make a ton. — Utica Elue. 



A young man of Longuenvil shot, last Sunday, 

 a very fine white swan, which, in company with 

 several others, was winging its way to <)ist,mt re- 

 gions. This bird, though common to the north- 

 ern ])ortioiis of this continent, is, we believe, al- 

 most unprecedented in our latitude. It measured- 

 eight feet between the extremities of the vvings, 

 five feet from tail to lieak, and weighed between 

 thirty to forty pounds. — Montreal Gaz. 



A doulde track rail road from Boston to Ogdens- 

 burg would, in all probability, have as important 

 an influence on the business of Boston as the 

 Western canal has upon the city of New York. 

 It is a work which must and will be accomjilish- 

 ed. 



