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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



,^ ODF ~^ ■ IcoDlributors (scattered throughout the state) 1 generally by ignorant cooks, to give their ve 



OF THE BERKSHIRE should be informed of the causes of delay in et.bles the green color, which so many pe 



FOR THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETy, 1823. 



BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT, ESQ. 



Far back in the ages 



The plough with wreaths was crown'd, 

 The hands of kings and sages 

 Entwin'd the chaplet round •, 

 'Till men of spoil 

 Disdain'd the toil 

 By which the world was nourish'd, 

 And blood and pillage were the soil 

 In which their laurels flourish'd. 

 — Now the world her fault repairs, 

 The guilt that stains her story. 

 And weeps her crimes amid the cares 



That form'd her earliest glory. 

 The proud throne shall crumble. 



The diadem shall wane, 

 The tribes of earth shall humble 

 The pride of those who reign ; 

 And war shall lay 

 His pomp away ; 

 The fame that heroes cherish, 

 The glory earuM in deadly fray, 

 Shall fade, decay and perish. 

 — Honor waits, o'er all the earth. 



Through endless generations, 

 The art that calls the harvests forth, 

 And feeds the expectant nations. 



From the N. H. Patriot. 



Jonathan's account of the cattle show. 



Did y'ever to the Cattle Show go ? 



What kicking, and pushing and goring — 



Cattle in pens — the pens in a row — 



And tarnal great hogs, there, a snoring. — 



There's sheep too ; ewes and weathers and lambs — 



Some Bucks ; (some are'nt in pens far's I know) 



There's sheep of the Dons — some Uncle Sam's — 



Some Natives — some " real Merino." 



There's a tug too, or trial of strength. 



With hawing and geeing and scolding. 



Just to twitch a great stone a foot's length — 



Haw ! haw buck '. — why don't ye ! — gee golding '. 



Then for ploughing they give a reward. 

 And, cute as a squirrel that burrows, 

 Off start the ploughs, cut through the green sward, 

 A turning the slickest of furrows. 

 And then, sir, in a room that they've got, 

 There's an " ocean of notions" display'd, 

 ■ There's blankets, and stockings and — what not — 

 That the folks in their houses have made. 

 There's bonnets, both of straw and of grass. 

 And cloth too, of woollen and linen. 

 And there's yarn, and there's thread, smooth as 



glass 

 Thatgai* for themselves have been spinning. 



There's hats, and there's shoes, and there's leather, 

 And there's — I can't tell half now, I fear — 

 Got a prize — gee ho ! altogether ! 

 And I'd go to the show twice a year. JOCK. 



From the liostou Daily Advertiser. 



WASHINGTON MONUMENT ASSOCIATION. 



Several years having elapsed, since the sub- 



scri[)tions were paid in, several gentlemen have 



suggested, that it would be proper that the 



carrying the project into execution, of the pre 

 sent state of the property, and our future ex- 

 pectations, and have requested me to state 

 them. 



The Committee appointed to procure the 

 Statue wrote to ovr distinguished artists, the 

 late venerable Benjamin West, President of the 

 Royal Academy of Painting, and to Washington 

 Alston, Esq. both resident in London, and au- 

 thorized them to select the sculptor in their 

 I opinion best qiiulified to execute the work m any 

 part of Europe, and to contract with the person 

 so selected, as the Committee were entirely 

 unable to judge of the value of such services. 

 They selected Mr. Chantry, of Pimlico, near 

 London, whose reputation is well known, and 

 contracted with him for a marble statue, of 

 colossal dimensions, but simply pedestrian, the 

 fund not being adequate to the purchase of an 

 equestrian statue. 



Mr. Chantry frankly told Mr. Alston that he 

 had works of art already engaged, which would 

 occupy him for/o»r years, which have expired. 

 Col. Thomas H. Perkins having kindly offered 

 his services on his late voyage to Europe, to as- 

 certain the progress of the work and to urge its 

 completion, 1 gave him a letter to Mr. Chantry. 

 His report is, that a marble block of beautiful 

 qualily had been obtained, and that it is the ex- 

 pectation of Mr. Chantry to complete it and 

 send it out within the next year. 



The funds are under the care of the Treasu- 

 rer, the }lon P. C. Brooks, and I have the plea- 

 sure to state, that by his attention they amount- 

 ed to gl4.T39 on the lirst of October instant— 

 so that there will probably be ample funds to 

 complete the pedestal and other appendages. 

 We may hope, in a short time, to see this too 

 long delayed tribute to our greatest benefactor 

 completed. -TOHN LOWELL, 



Chairman of the Committee for procurmg 

 Washington's Statue. 

 Roxbunj, Oct. 13, 1823. 



sons foolishly consider as a recommendati 

 and a test of their excellence. We understai 

 that all the sufferers are now perfectly reco 

 ered. — London Paper. 



Some days since, in the family of Mr. Moore, 

 a gentleman residing near Shacklewell, at a 

 lamilv dinner, that gentleman, and four others, 

 who sat down to the table, were all taken sud- 

 denly ill, with violent pains in the throat ane 

 stomach. A doctor was immediately sent for. 

 when powerful emetics were administered, and 

 iiftcr each of those affected had sustaiue<l dread 

 ful illness, they were saved from the dreadful 

 consequences, which there was reason to be- 

 lieve the poison would otherwise have produc- 

 ed. There was afterwards considerable diffi- 

 culty in ascertaining in what way the poison 

 had been taken. The wine was tried but it 

 was found to be of an innocent quality. One of 

 the sufferers stated that he felt a " coppery" 

 taste in bis mouth, and this led to an esamina 

 (ion of the French beans, which had been ea- 

 ten at dinner, and which were found to be high- 

 ly impregnated with copper. It ultimately 

 turned out that the cook, who had not been 

 long in the situation, had put a dozen of halt- 

 pence in the [lan in which she boiled those veg- 

 etables, and by that means gave them that tine 

 green which they possessed. This she had al- 

 ways been accustomed td do, and there is 

 great reason to believe that this highly repre- 

 hensible and dangerous practice is pursued verj 



In the centre of the Museum in Dublin, 

 suspended the skeleton of a grampus, fil'teen 

 twenty feet in length. The preparations 

 this museum are numerous and valuable : amoi 

 those are two rare and celebrated specimei 

 One of these is the skeleton of one Clark, 

 native of Cork, who it is said was a young mi 

 of surprising strength and agility ; but havil 

 once laid all night in a field after indulging 

 great dissipation, the left part of his body b 

 gan to ossify, and the process continued by slo 

 degrees, until every part grew into a bony sutP' 

 stance, excepting his skin, eyes and entraii it. 

 His joints became stiffened, so that he could ni 

 ther bend his body, lie down nor rise withot 

 assistance : when placed upright, like a stati* .'^ 

 he could stand ; but move no more than if deal ' 

 His loeth were joined, and formed into one c«* 

 tre bone, so that it became necessary to brealii i* 

 hole through them to convey liquid substanii * 

 to preserve a miserable life. His tongue 1^ 

 its use, and his sight left him sometime befJi^ 

 ho expired. This preparation shows the pi " 

 gress of this singular instance of a disease' 

 parallel to which is not perhaps to be found 

 any other collection — Griscom^s '• Year in 1 

 rope.'^ - 



Marble Ponds in Persia. — This natural cu 

 osity consists of certain ponds, or plasH 

 whose indolent waters, by a slow and regil 

 process, stagnate, concrete, and petrify, prodi 

 ing that beautiful transparent stone, common 

 caTled Tabris marble, much used in the biirii II 

 places of Persia, and in their best edificcs.- 

 These ponds are contained within the circoi 

 ference of half a mile, and their position is di 

 tinguished by heaps of^ stene which have acci 

 mulatedas the excavations have increased. Tl 

 petrifactive process may be traced tVom its coB 

 mencement to its termination ; in one part tb 

 water is clear ; in a second, it appears thicke 

 and stagnant ; in a third, quite black ; and inil 

 last stage, it is white like a hoar frost. Wheri 

 the operation is complete, a stone thrown onil 

 surface, makes no impression, and a man ma; 

 walk ovei' it without welting his shoes. Sucl 

 is the constant tendency of this water to become 

 stone, that when it exudes from the ground Bl 

 bubbles, the petrifiiction assumes a globuill 

 shape, as if the bubbles of a spring, by a stroke 

 of magic, had been arrested in their play, anc 

 metamorphosed into stone. 



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