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The foUowin' liaes from the Albany Plough Boy, rival 

 the sweetest strains of Shenstone or of Akonside. 

 Like those writers, all Mr. Sonthwick's effusions 

 breathe the same openness of heart, the same abhor- 

 rence of duplicity and exalted love of virtue. — Ro- 

 chester Telegraph. 



TO A COUNTRY GIRL, 



tVHO EXPRESSED A WISH TO LEAD A TOWN LIFE. 



BY S. SOUTHWlCK. 

 Sweet Mary, sigh not for the town, 



Where vice and folly reign — 

 / Spurn not the humble homespun gown 



That suits the rural plain. 

 In ev'ry street the city's glare 



Doth simple hearts betray, 

 And simple hearts who wander there 



Are sure to lose their way. 

 The tradesman plays his wily part. 



To take the stranger in — 

 The profligate dispUys his art, 



The modest maid to win — 

 He lures her to perdition's brink 



By every treach'rous scheme, 

 Then leaves the hapless wretch to siok 



In pleasure's guilty stream ! 

 The flaunting crowd, that seem so gay, 



May please you for a while — 

 But joy with these doth rarely stay, 



Or sweet contentment's smile. 

 The splendid dome that proudly rears 



Its gilded roof on high, 

 Full oft conceals pale envy's tears 



And disappointment's sigh. 

 There foul ambition loves to dwell, 



False pride and lust of fame — 

 There malice and revenge rebel 



Against the good man's name- 

 Ah ! little do you know, sweet maid 



What are the city spoils. 

 Where villains ply the canting trade, 



And fraud is drest in smiles. 

 Then Mary sigh no more to rove. 



Or change your native fields. 

 The rural walk, the verdant grove, 



For all the city yields. 

 And when some swain, of soul sincere, 



Sliall seek your love to gain. 

 Trust to his faith nor never fear 



That you shall trust iti vain. 

 So shall your rustic life be spent, 



With every blessing crowned — 

 Within your doors shall sweet content 



And faithful love be found. 

 And when your infant offspring rise, 



A mother's smile to greet, 

 The joy that sparkles in their eyes, 



Shall your own bliss complete 1 

 Your tide of life, thus even flowing 



Win ebb at last, "tis true- 

 When calm with hope your bosom glowing 

 You'll bid the world adieu ! 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[From the A:ijany Daily Advertiser.] 

 Tlie grand epoch of minglinn: Ihe waters, 

 (lestined by naliii-o, to swell the volume of llu 

 most miV2;uilicent river o( the north, with thos( 

 ofthe Hudson, is aiiiioiinced for llie 8lh instani, 

 and some interest is excited (o devise an appro- 

 priate mode oCcelehralin^ that anspicious event 

 The river gods, the naiades, and the nym|.hs 

 of the lieathen mythology, whose exhanstlos' 



urns and sylvan sports erewhile animaled the 

 pageants of Europe, afford abundant resources 

 for display on this memorable occasion — but 

 they are iiot perfectly congenial with the gen- 

 eral habits, turns of thinking, and tastes, preva- 

 lent in this )ura world; and the American clas- 

 sic ground is certainly of a formation too recent, 

 to be tilled by imaginary, incomprehensible 

 beings, of a grade superior in intellect and pow- 

 ers to humanity, emerging from a dense looming 

 medium, tinged with Ihe ignorance and credulity 

 of the dark ages— for the origin ol the corigre- 

 gated Americans of Eurnpean extraction, is lu- 

 minous as the glare of day. 



Our Aborigines have their presiding genii 

 maniloes and spirits, hovermg over every foun- 

 tain, ri\er and lake, of their country, whose 

 malignity they deprecate, but whose benefi- 

 cence they never implore ; and from this, by a 

 combination of comparatively, ancients and mod- 

 erns, indigenous and local, perhaps a sufficient 

 numiier ot dramatic personages migbi be ush- 

 ered on the stage, with an unique, but certainly 

 a novel effect. 



For example. Skipper Hcndrick Hudson, an 

 an!;lo-Dulchman, in his four-fold hosen and 

 doublet, on the quarter deck ofthe sloop Half- 

 Jllooii, Ihe Dutch flag, with the admonitory mot- 

 to, Ecndraght inacht macht, waving over her 

 head, a telescope in one hand, the other suj)- 

 porling a speaking trumpet, vociferating deti- 

 aiice to all intruders on his peculj.ir domain, to 

 contaminate his ever-moving water with those 

 stagnated in reservoirs, with which he never 

 formed a wish to be connected. 



The spirits ofthe Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga 

 and Skaneatelas lakes, personified by Indiiui 

 Chieis, as hunters, in their gala costumes, pain- 

 ted, crested with the heads, beaks, or plumage 

 of native birds, armed with spears, war clubs, 

 bows, arrows and quivers, smoking the calumet 

 and shaking their rattle traps, in bark canoes, 

 laden with furs, j)eltries, skins, and beaver and 

 Buffalo robes. 



Citizens of the western regions, in canal boats, 

 freighted with hemp, tlax, wool, cordage, sail- 

 cloth, woollen and linen fabrics, plaster, salt, 

 fossil, coal, wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats, flour, 

 meal, smoked, pickled and dried fish, beef and 

 pork, pot ashes, lumlier. co|iper, iron, hardware, 

 marble, mill and grind-stones, and innumerous 

 other productions of their wide-spread country, 

 all uniting in request to Skipper Hcndrick to be 

 admitted a free intercourse with his great arm 

 of the ocean, to pass to the markets of the 

 world, and to contribute to the lucrative trade 

 of the commercial emporium of his favorite 

 river, accom[)anied with the assurance, that the 

 inhabitants on the great inland seas and the riv- 

 ers flowing into then, are prepared to follow in 

 their track, with the cotton, nee, indigo, to- 

 bacco, oil and sugar, and other valuable pro- 

 ductions of the south. 



The venerated Columbus, conspicuously sta- 

 tioned on another sloop, lirm and erect, bearing 

 a chain wrapped round his left arm, (a memorial 

 ofthe gratitude of princes,) holding a map of 

 Mie ample territories which his intelligence 

 and perseverance have bestowed on-civilizcd 



men — an astrolabe sounding-line, entwined 



with sea-weeds, conipass and his highly cele- 

 l)ratcd cask at his feet, his right band pointing 

 to the canal and ejaculating — this is in the scope 

 "f ""J °'^'"- crcotion — on the forecastle, Amerigo 



Vespucci, in the garb of a petty officer, dopl 

 ingthe success of his injustice, in usurping 

 honor of imposing his name on this distinguS 

 ed portion of the globe, so appropriately ij ^ 

 to the greatest human benefactor of his rai|< 

 t/i.e great Cohimbus. 



In this effort, more than one ofthe unities 

 the drama must be grossly violated — but 

 snatch a grace beyond Ihe reach of art, and h 

 monize every discordance, an assemblage 

 American belles, in a galley, with a band pi; 

 ing some of our most admired national melodi, 

 under a standard inscribed Virtue our friend, t 

 Providence our guide, would eclipse the m 

 tricions or factitious splendors of either the 

 cient or modern brirk of Cleopatra. 



A dramatic writer may extract pagoarij 

 from such materials, as fascinating as if 

 whole olympian group aided the witcherjl'. 

 the exhibition. AN ALBANIA'^*'' 



MOUSE TREAD-MILL. 

 To the Editor ofthe Edinburgh Star. 

 Sir. — Having seen a paragraph In yourpaf 

 some time ago staling that a gentleman in K 

 kalilv has trained two mice, and invented i 

 chinery for enabling them to spin cotton yj 

 making 5d per day profit. 1 take the liberll 

 inffrmmg you that a Mr. Hatton of t!iis id 

 has bad two mice constantly employed inj 

 m.iking of sowing thread for upwards of] 

 months ; and ib.at tiie curious may be ciil-ra 

 ed 'lib a fiiir stateiprni of facts, 1 hope 

 will give place io ihe following dcscr.pi 

 wliicii is by no means exaggerated, I liorou; 

 iiin!erstand the amusing operation. — The mi 

 tread-mill is so constructed, that the com 

 house mouse is enabled io make atoii,imcn 

 society for past offences, by twisting, twin 

 and reeling from 100 to 120 threi«is per] 

 (Sunday not excepted,) of the same length' 

 quality with the enclosed hank, which 1 se 

 a specimen of their work for the Jnspectii 

 the curious. To complete their task the 

 pedestrian has to run ten miles and a 

 An ordinary mouse weighs only half an ooSit 

 A half-penny worth of oat meal, at 15d 

 peck, serves one of these tread wheel culpjf' 

 This journey it ])erfoims with ease every d 

 for the long period of five weeks. In tlint tin| 

 makes (1 10 threads per day, being Ihe averal 

 3,850 threads of 25 inches, which is very « 

 ly nine lengths of the standard reel. .\ pef 

 is paid here to women for every cut made 

 the ordinary way. At this rate a mouse e^ 

 9d every rive weeks, which is just one fart 

 per day, or 7s 8d per annum. Take 9d of 

 board, and allow it for machinery there 

 arise 6s. of profit from every mouse yci 

 The last time 1 was in company with the m^ 

 employer, he told me that he was goin| 

 make application to the heritors lor a Icai 

 an old empty house here, the dimensio: 

 which are 100 feet by 50, and 50 in h 

 which at a moderate calculation, will hoi 

 thousand mouse mills, sufficient room bein] 

 for keepers and some iiundrod spectators 

 lowing 2001. lor rent and task masters, and 

 for the interest of 10,0001. to eiect machij|l) 

 there will be a balance of 2,3001. per aMBf 

 This, Sir, you will say, is projecting' willl 

 vengeance, but it would surely be prel'erabljl 

 the old South Sea speculation. ! remain 

 obedient servant, A CONSTANT IlEA 



