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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



INTEMPERANCE. 

 Most men, too passive, when the blood runs low, 

 Too weakly indolent to strive with pain, 

 And bravely, by resisting, conquer fate, 

 Try Circe's arts, and in the tempting; bowl 

 Of poison'd nectar, sweet oblivion drink. 

 Struck by the powerful charm, the gloom dissolves 

 In empty air, Elysium opens round. 

 A pleasing phrenzy buoys the biighten'd soul. 

 And sanguine hopes dispel your fleeting care ; 

 And what was difficult and what was dire, 

 Yields to your prowess and superior stars : 

 The happiest you of all that e'er was mad, 

 Or are or shall be, could this folly last ; 

 But soon your heaven is gone ; a heavier gloom 

 Shuts o'er your head : and, as the thundering stream, 

 Swoln o'er its banks with sudden mountain rain, 

 Sinks from its tumult to a silent brook ; 

 So, when the frantic raptures in your breast 

 Subside, you languish into mortal man : 

 You sleep, on waking find yourself undone. 

 For prodigal of life, in one rash night 

 You lavish'd more than might support three days. 

 A heavy morning comes ; your cares return 

 With ten fold rage. An anxious stomach well 

 May be endur'd ; so may the throbbing heart : 

 But such a dim delirium, such a dream 

 Involves you ; such a dastardly despair 



Unmans your soul. 



Besides, it wounds you sore to recollect 

 What follies in your loose unguarded hour 

 Escaped. For one irrevocable word, 

 Perhaps that meant no harm you I»se a friend : 

 Or in the rage of wine your hasty hand 

 Performs a deed to haunt you to your grave. 

 Add that your means, your health, your parts decay 

 Your friends avoid you ; brutiahly transform'd 



They hardly know you ; 



Despis'd, unnrept, you fall ; who might have left 

 A name still to be utter'd with a sigh. 



"John Varnum, when twenty one years(ed in the arm, we regret to learn that he ni 

 of age, went with Capt. Lovewell after compelled to submit to amputation, as the ch 

 Indians in the winter of 1725, on snow shoes, i means by which life could possibly be pres<r. 

 and carried their provision on their backs and ed. Mr. Penefather is a native of Ireland, \i 

 travelled towards Winnepesoke pond and came very respectably connected in that coun n 



MISCELLANY. 



From the Portsmouth Journal. 



LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. 

 The authenticity of historical facts of ancient 

 times rests often upon tradition only. It is be 

 lieved that Dr. Belknap, in his History of New- 

 Hampshire, was in one instance misled by the 

 information he received. He has laid the scene 

 of an action of a century ago, in the town of 

 Wakefield, which it is apprehended actually oc- 

 curred on the shore ot VVinnipisioga Lake, and 

 probably near Alton Bay. I refer to the achieve- 

 ment of Capt. Lovewell, so renowned in the ear- 

 ly wars of this country, as an Indian Partisan. 

 in the winter of 1725 Capt. Lovewell, with a 

 party of men, undertook an expedition into the 

 part of N. Hampshire now constituting the 

 county of Stratford, and succeeded in destroying 

 a company of ten Indians who were directing 

 their course to Dover. The historian of New- 

 Hampshire has stated this occurrence to have 

 been at the head of the western branch of Sal- 

 monlalk river, in the town of Wakefield. The 

 pond there has always retained the name of 

 Lovewell's pond. The statement which follows 

 IS from the journal of an intelligent and enter- 

 prising young man, who was afterwards exten- 

 sively known and respected.— I mean the late 

 John Varnum, Esq. of Dracut 



on the trail of Indians which they followed, till 

 they came to the aforementioned pond. There 

 not being any snow on the pond, they could not 

 see their tracks. There appeared a large 

 flock of ravens, which follov/ed the Indians, 

 lighting on the trees that were on the islands in 

 said pond : which was considered by the Captain 

 and others as ominous of their destroying said 

 Indians. After following the ravens, sometime, 

 they came in bearing of the Indians firing at 

 heaver and other game ; — they had a great hunt 

 that day. Lovewell and his men halted suppos- 

 ing the Indians would eat heartily, and sleep 

 sound. They therefore concluded to come up- 

 on them about the middle of the night. — They 

 did not build any fire, but came so near as to 

 see ihcir fire. They tied the mouths of their 

 dogs, and kept them close for fear of being 

 discovered. On the 20th of February they came 

 up and fired on them; and killed eight, and 

 wounded one. One man and the dogs caught 

 him. They were all killed, being nine men 

 and a boy. The boy was armed with a lance 

 on a pole ; supposed to drive and torment pri- 

 soners. After scalping the Indians, they left 

 them for the ravens. — The Indians were going 

 to Cocheco,[now Dover,] to destroy a few set- 

 tlers there. — Lovewell and his men marched to 

 Dover, it being the next settlement, and from 

 thence to Andover." P. 



Wakefield, January, 1824. 



Morbid Jlffeefion. — The possibility of contract- 

 ine; diott>mpi?r from a dead subject Ls amply con- 

 firmed by the following melancholy circum- 

 stance. About a fortnight since, Mr. H. Pene- 

 father who had just commenced the practice of 

 surgery, was engaged in dissecting the hody of 

 a female subject, whose death was produced by 

 inflammation of the liver, attended with other 

 symptoms that rendered the cure worthy of ve- 

 ry strict examination. Dissection was submitted 

 to by the friends of the deceased : and Mr. Pene- 

 father and another gentleman operated twice or 

 three times with great professional advantage. 



The body was interred, and Mr. Penefather 

 thought nothing more of the circumstance until 

 about a week after, when he perceived that 

 his left hand began to swell, a little above the 

 palm, or near the articulation of the wrist, at- 

 tended with a slight twitching pain and numbness 

 of the fingers. Those symptoms he attributed 

 to various causes, and conceived that the swel- 

 ling would abate by washing the part with a 

 suitable lotion. This remedy he accordingly 

 tried when retiring to bed ; but to his great sur- 

 prise and no small consternation, he found that 

 the inflammation had extended itself to the arm, 

 which on the following morning was exceeding- 

 ly swelled. Under these circumstances he deem- 

 ed it advisable to state the case to some of the 

 more experienced of the faculty ; and, after ma- 

 ture deliberation by three emment practitioners, 

 with reference to his late anatomical researches, 

 (as before stated) they concluded that he must 

 have imbibed through some medium, whether 

 by a cut or otherwise, a portion of the poison- 

 ous matter with which the morbid subject was 

 at that time iafected. Mortificatiou being seat- 



[Lo)irfo)i papc 



Mankind Classed. — Mankind, may be divif( 

 into three classes. — Those who learn from u 

 experience of others — They are happy mei ~ 

 Those who learn from their own experienc- 

 They are wise men. — And, lastly, those ^'ii 

 learn neither from their own nor frem otei 

 people's experience — They are fools. I 



Idleness. — There is no character in socl 

 more despicable than the idler. He is not 

 ly an unhappy, but in a fair way to becon 

 criminal being. Bishop Taylor observed 

 lady, who neglected the education of her 

 on the plea that he was to young to be co 

 e d to study, " Madam if you don't fill his 1 

 with something, believe me the devil will.' 



Life. — LAfe is time well employed, 

 man, therefore, who squanders aivay his t 

 commits a species of suicide ; and he who 

 me of my time takes away my existence, 

 is more my enemy than the person who 

 justly takes away my money. 



The proper Employment of Ridicule. — T 

 are some vices which ought to inspire us 

 detestation, and others which are most sue 

 fully encountered with ridicule. •" '" this 1 

 class are most which originate in an inord 

 desire of appearing fashionable and gen 

 such as coquetry and foppery. Convinc( 

 quettes and fops that the world laughs and 

 pises them, and you will do much to re 

 them. ' 



False Pleasure. — Some men, in pursu 

 pleasure, destroy their senses, which are 

 only inlets to the enjoyments they are see 

 They roar bacchanalian songs till hoarse 

 deaf, smoke till blind, and drink till stupid. 



" In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire 



Till buried in debauch the bliss expire." 



A man should neither choose to be a he 

 nor a buffoon ; human nature is not so mis 

 ble as that we should be always melancl 

 nor so happy that we should be always mei 



The triumph of woman lies not in the ai 

 ration of her lover, but in the respect of 

 husband, and it can only be gained by a 

 stant cultivation of those qualities which 

 knows he most values. 



The supercilious, however refined arep 



Irish Humor. — An Irishman seeing an oul 

 passenger of an English stage coach cov< 

 with dust, observed, that if be was a potalof 

 might grow without any further planting. 



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