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NEW ENGLAND FAT?MER. 



From the Providence Journal. 



AGRICULTURAL ODE FOR THE YEAR 1823. 

 Awske your joyful minstrelsy : 

 But not the clamorous note of war, 

 To tell the deeds of chivalry, 



For Independence done. 

 Nor yet recount, how soared the star 

 Of Freedom, o'er the ocean wave, 

 When, late, in combat met the brave. 



And victory was won. 



The warrior's trophy, stained and toru. 



No pleasure can on us bestow ; 



'Tis purchased with the widow's moan, 



The orphan's sigh of wo. 

 Awake the note of mirth and glee. 

 For bloodless triumphs, all our own ; 

 Fit subject, these, for minstretsy, 



And pleasure's genial glow. 



In hope we ploughed the stubborn soil : 

 In confidence the seed was sown : 

 The harvest blessed our patient toil. 



And plenty crowns the year. 

 The Artists's trophies, too, are won : 

 The Loom its well wrought web unfolds, 

 To shield us from the searching colds 



Of winter's blasts severe. 



Gur commerce sweeps, with swelling s 

 Fearless, o'er ocean's wide domain. 

 Borne onward by his favoring gales ; 



Nor tempts his storms in vain. 

 Returning from far distant shores. 

 With teeming wealth her honest gain. 

 Upon our happy lands she pours 

 ■ The treasures of the Main. 



These triumphs, Industrx/, are thine ; 

 And long may Peace, protract thy rei° 

 Such blessings may we ne'er resign, 



A name in war to gain. 

 The warrior's meed is but a name : 

 Glory's an empty phantasy : 

 Her brightest hallow is a flame 



Of splendid misery. 



ails. 



MISCELLANY. 



Iron Mwiiilain in Mis.imtri. — This place is in 

 Wiifhin^ton County m tliis Slate, and is the mosl 

 extraordinary store lliat has yet heen ili.«cover- 

 ed in any country. It vvouUI not proliably be 

 transcending the limits ot" trtUn to say, that it 

 wonUl supply the world with this useful miner- 

 al for a long period of time. In appearance it 

 bears a strong resemblance to native iron, and 

 would yield, on fusion, 80 or perhaps 90 per 

 cent. 



There are other places that have been denom- 

 inated iron mountains^ such as that of TraberR 

 in Poland, and two, the names of which we do 

 not recollect that have been discovered in Lap- 

 land ; but none of these can be compared with 

 the mountains ot Missouri, neither m point ot 

 magnitude, nor in quality of ore. 



It is a matter of astonishment that no foundry 

 has yet been established convenient to this place ; 

 in its neighborhood are many valuable mills, 

 and there is evidently no want of water power 

 for the applicatioQ of machinery, even of the 

 largest construction. As there arc few individ- 

 uals who could command the capital necessary 



to be employed in this bu.siness, it would per- 

 haps, require a company to carry into effecttial 

 execution, an enterprise of so much importance, 

 and which could aot fail in being amply produc- 

 tive. Of the success that would attend it there 

 cannot exist a doubt, and it is thought, by many 

 intelligent persons, that iron, castings, &,c. might 

 be exported advantageously even to places 

 where they are now manufactured. 



The peculiar quality of the ore of which this 

 section of country is the rich depository, is also 

 worthy of attention. At a Bloomertj, erected by 

 Messrs. Perry and Ruggles, iron is produced of 

 a quality greatly superior to any Ihat can be im- 

 ported, and is preferred by smiths, because it is 

 worked wilh greater facility, and is found to 

 possess, in a very high degree, the properties 

 of steel. Axes, plough-irons, and other imple- 

 ments of husbandry, made of this iron, without 

 any addition of steel, is found nearly equal to 

 those formed in the ordinary way. 



The iron mountain is frequently visited bj the 

 curious traveller, and by those who have con- 

 templated drawing on its vast store of wealth ; 

 and at length it is stated, a foundry and other 

 works, calculated to bring into operation the 

 mineral resources of this district, are about to 

 be erected. We do not vouch for the truth of 

 this statement, but a better prospect for the in- 

 vestment of capital is but seldom presented, and 

 (here can be no doubt, that, if not immediately 

 it will soon, be embraced. — St. Louis Inquirer. 



Lieut. Kolzebue has discovered in the wes- 

 lorn part of the gulf to the north of Beering's 

 Streights a mountain covered with verdure (moss 

 ,ind grass) composed entirely of solid ice. On 

 arriving at a place where the shore rises per- 

 pendicularly from the sea to the heighth of 1000 

 feet, and continues afterward to extend wilh a 

 gradual inclination, they observed masses of the 

 purest ice 100 feet high, preserved under the 

 above vegetable carpet. — The portion exposed 

 to the sun was melting, and sending much water 

 into the sea. Ao undoubted proof of the ice 

 lieing primitive (i. e. not formed by any causes 

 now in action) was afforded by the great num- 

 ber of bones and teeth of the mammoths which 

 make their appearance when it is meited. The 

 soil of these mountains w hisli, to a certain height, 

 .re covered with abundant herbage, is only half 

 a foot thick ; it is composed of a mixture of clay, 

 earth, sand, and mould : the ice melts gradually 

 beneath it, the carpet tails downwarel, and con- 

 iinues 10 thrive — The latitude is GO deg. 15 

 mm. 3G sec. N. 



Belzoni., the Travcller.—This enterprising travel- 

 ler is now on an ejfploratory journey in northern 

 Africa. A letter has been received from him, 

 dated Fez. He had had the honor of being pre- 

 sented to the Emperor of Morocco, and obtained 

 his Majesty's permission to join the caravan, 

 wliicli would set out for Timliueto in one month 

 after tlie date of the letter, '-ll nothing," writes 

 this enterprising man, if " nothing should happen, 

 and if promises are kept, I shall from this place 

 cross the mountains of Atlas to Tallet, where 

 we shall join other parties from various quarters, 

 and from thence, with the help of God, we shall 

 enter the Great Sahara to Tirabucto. Should I 

 succeed in my attempt, I shall add another rornc 

 tablet, to the temple of Eortune ; and if, on the 



contrary, ray project should tail, one more n 

 will be added to the many others which I 

 fallen into the river of oblivion." We ur, 

 stand that his design is first to reach Timb; 

 and from thence continue his route through 

 heart of Africa to Sennaar. He will then 

 through Nubia, arrive once more in the lat 

 Egypt, the scene ol his memorable diacove 



A Foetus Disinterestedness. — Mr. Pope n 

 (Mattered any body for his money in the co 

 of his writings. Alderman Barber had a ;: 

 inclination to have a stroke in hiscommenili 

 inserted in some part of Mr. Pope's works. 

 did not want money, and he wanted lame, 

 would probably have given four or five t 

 sand pounds to have been gratified in thi: 

 sire ; and gave Mr. I^ope to understand as n: 

 Mr. Pope would not comply with such a I 

 ness ; and when the .■Vlderman died he left 

 only a legacy of a hundred pounds, which n 

 have been some thoii.sands if he had obi 

 him with only a couplet. — Spctice''s Anecdot 



Enovgh is as good as Sujierahvndance. — V 

 Mr. Pope's nephew that had been used t» 

 sea, refused a very handsome settlement 

 was oftered him in the West Indies, and 

 that fifty pounds a year was all he wanied 

 would make him happy, Mr. Pope, in.ste; 

 using any arguments to persuade him not 1 

 fuse so advantageous a proposal, immediate 

 fered to .settle the yearly sum upon him v 

 he said would make him happy. — Ibid. 



The Tendency of Uriting. — No writii 

 g"od that does not tend to benefit manki 

 some way or other. Mr. Waller has saitl 

 ■' he wished every thing of his burnt th; 

 not impress some moral." — Ibid. 



Poetry n-cll paid for, and yst a good bargi 

 the Purchaser. — A little after JJr. Young 

 published his Universal Passion, the Du 

 VVbarton made him a present of ^COOl. for 

 When a friend of the Duke's, who was su 

 ed at the largeness of the piesent, criei 

 " What ! two thousand pounds for a poem? 

 Duke smiled, and said it was the best ha 

 he ever made in his hfe, for it was iairly \ 

 lour thousand. — Ibid. 



Contentment. — There are two sorts of 

 tentment; one is connected with exertion 

 other with habits of indolence : the first 

 virtue, the second a vice. You may soniel 

 see a man in sound health submitting day 

 day, to evils which a few hours labor n 

 remedy; and you are prov<jked to hear 

 say; "It will do well enough forme. T 

 it do for my father before me ? I can ma 

 shift with things for my time — any ho» 

 contented." No man ought to be conlj 

 with any evils which he can remedy by h3 

 industry and exertion. — Miss Edgerec 



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