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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the Connecticut Mirrior. 



GREECE. 



Clime of the unprotected brave ! 



Clime of the ancient and the free I 

 Whose blood-stain'd banners boldly wave 



'Mid storms that rock the iEgean sea, 

 With arm supine, and careless thought, 



Why gaze we on thy conflict dire ? 

 To win that prize our fathers bought. 



Why tamely see thy sons expire ' 

 True, — we can glow at Homer's lay, 



Enraptur'd hang o'er Pindar's lyre, 

 Start at thy pencil's deathless ray, 



Thy breathing marble's force admire, 

 At awful Marathon can list 



To catch the Persian's tone of shame, 

 At proud Thermopylae assist 



To bind the immortal wreath of fame, 

 But when from slaughter'd Scio speeds 



The Moslem curse, the helpless cry, 

 The echo of unutter'd deeds, — 



We tax our pity with a sigh .' 

 Oh ye ! who saw the mighty yield 



On Saratoga's laurell'd plain ; 

 Or bade on Monmouth's fervid field 



Your wounded bosoms flow like rain — 

 Rise ! — tho' your wasted locks be grey, 



Tho' chill'd with want your last retreat. 

 Lift high the wither'd hand, and say 



How strong your kiudred pulses beat — 

 Rise 1 — tell your sons what generous pain, 



What warm, indignant zeal revives, 

 When, 'gainst oppression's wreathed chain. 



The crush'd, yet lofty spirit strives ; 

 And tell their cradled babes the tale — 



How oft to wrest the tyrant's rod 

 Do Liberty and Truth prevail. 



Clad in the panoply of God, — 

 Then, ere the holy tear shall cease 



To dew their cheek like rose-bud fair, 

 Devoutly stamp the name of Greece 



Deep, on their unpolluted prayer. 



MISCELLANY. 



Manufactures. — I have seen a statement 

 which Mr. Prall, of New-York, has submitted 

 to the committee en maniilactures, respecting 

 his extensive cotton factory, -M Mamaroneck, in 

 the county of Westchester. It appears from 

 this schedule, that Mr. Prall has upwards oi 

 six thousand spindles in operation ; that (iOO 

 bales of cotton averaging 300 pounds each, mak- 

 ing a total of 180,000 pounds, are annually 

 spun; that the whole number of persons em- 

 ployed in the factory is 425 ; and (he amount of 

 their compensation ^25,000. Mr. Prall is also 

 concerned in two other establishments, and the 

 whole amount of cotton, which he purchased 

 for the use of these manufactories in 1S2.3 a- 

 mounted to 819,GOO pounds. Can any one look 

 at this statement — at the quantity of raw mate-' 

 rials consumed — at the number of persons era- 1 



ployed, who woild otherwise remain idle a( j 



the amount of capital put in circulation among 

 the poorer classes of the community, and for a I 

 moment doubt the policy of affording adequate ' 

 protection of domestic manufactures." I should 

 su[)pose that even the cotton growers of the 

 south would not hesitate to support a policy 

 -which opens in the north an extensive market 

 to their staple commodity. Mr. Prall is now 



at Washington, and has brought on with him 

 a great variety of specimens of cotton thread, 

 spun in his factory, some of which exceeds in 

 fineness, any thing of the kind which has met 

 my observation. — JV. Y. Statesman. 



Cullhation of Tobacco in Canada. — It is stat- 

 ed in the Quebec papers, that although this 

 year has been unfavorable for the cultivation of 

 Tobacco in the Western District ofLower Can- 

 ada, 300 hhds. of that article would be shipped 

 next spring. A petition had been presented to 

 the Assembly from this district, praying the 

 mediation of the House with the British Parlia- 

 ment, for the adoption of such measures as 

 might encourage the cultivation of tobacco; on 

 the reading of which, it was stated "that there 

 was no doubt it would succeed in most of the 

 District — certainly in all west of Lake Ontarki 

 — and that the quality of such as has been rais- 

 ed, was approved of by the manufacturers in the 

 Lower Province.". — The object in view ap- 

 pears to be an abatement of duty on Canada 

 produce sufficient to put it at par with the to- 

 bacco raised in the United States, where, it is 

 said, it cannot be supplied at a lower rate 

 than at present, owing to the expense attend- 

 ing the slave population. The duty in Cana- 

 da is four shillings a pound, and it is thought 

 a deduction of three pence only, would effect 

 (he designed object. The petition was refer- 

 red to a Committee — JV Y. Evening PcH. 



Military Talent. — The time is fast approaching 

 with the many, and now is with the few, when 

 mere military talent, abstractedly considered, 

 and without any reference to the ends for 

 which it is displayed, will hardly secure its 

 jiossessor a glory more long lived than a ga- 

 zette. Posterity will appreciate the merit of 

 great commanders, not by the skill with which 

 they have handled Iheir tools, but by the uses 

 to which they have applied them. 



A Just War. — Where a nation rises with one 

 consent to shake off the yoke of oppression 

 either from within or from without, all fair 

 concessions having been proposed in vain, nere 

 ' indeed we have a motive that both dignifies 

 j the effort and consecrates the success ; here in- 

 j deed the most peaceable sect of the most peace- 

 able religion might concientiously combine. 

 Put, how few wars have been justified by such 

 a principle, and how few warriors by such a 

 plea! In the motley mob of captains and of 

 conquerors how few" Washingtons or Alfreds 

 shall we find ! 



Large Establishments. — As large garrisons are 

 most open to multifarious points of attack, and 

 bloated bodies expose a large surface to the 

 shafts of disease, so also unwieldy and over- 

 grown establishments afford an enlarged area 

 for plunder and poculation. He whom many 

 serve, will find that he must also serve many, or 

 be himself disserved : and the head of a large 

 establishment, is too often only the head of a 

 gang of petty conspirators, who are always 

 plotting against the chief. I 



they all agreed to answer in the affirmatir 

 The questions were these ; " were you 

 scended from parents of good health and 

 constitutions ? And have you been in the I 

 of early rising?" Early rising therefore 

 only gives us more life in the same numbe 

 years, but adds to their number ; and not 

 enables us to enjoy more existence in the s 

 measure of time, but increases the measurt 



ANECDOTES. 

 In the autumn of 1789, Washington, then 

 sident of the United States, visited the Eas 

 States. The Universal and spontaneous 

 sions of gratitude and respect, which were 

 covered by the people, in every stage ol 

 progress, afforded the liveliest and stroci 

 testimony of their attachment to their illv 

 ous hero. In no instance, perhaps, were 

 feelings and affections of the people more 

 cerely and heartily expressed than by Mr. '. 

 they, the Chairman of the Selectmen ofSa 

 This gentleman was of the society of Fri( 

 and when the President was presented t( 

 Selectmen, Mr.Northey took him by the hanw 

 ing covered, and addressed him in the follow 

 plain and peculiar, yet cordial and afl'ectin^ 

 guage : — " Friend IVashington, tee are glad 

 thee, and,in behalf of the inhabitants, bid t. 

 hearty welcome to Soiem." 



An Irishman who had just landed, saitH 

 first bit of meat he ever ate in this cou 

 was a roasted potatoe — boiled yesterday. J 

 you dont believe me, I can show it to you, 

 have it in my pocket now. — Communicatea 



NEW ENGLA^iTmUSEUM 



76, COURT STREET, JiOSTt 

 ONTAINI.NG much more numerous Colk 

 reater variety of entertainments tha 

 other Establishment in America, continues steai 

 increase, and is open for the reception of visiters 

 EVERY DAY AND EVENING. 

 It will be constantly in the best possible com 

 and every exertion made to render the visits of it 

 rons agreeable. 



This Establishment now contains FIVE forme 

 seums united in ONE, together with very g 

 numerous additions (the whole receipts being fait 

 laid out to increase it.) 



JUST ADDED, 

 The celebrated Race Horse Eclipse, 

 A beautiful Cosraoramic View of London, 

 A large and beautiful live Rattlesnake, 

 The Arabian Bottle, made of the stomach 

 Camel — holds about a barrel — used to carry 

 across the desert. 



The Invalid's Chair — very ingenious — inv< 



by Profi'ssor Peck. 



A very large and elegant §word Fish, upv 

 of 14 feet long, with a swoffl 4 1-2 feet long 

 0^ The Museum is Well lighted, and a Ba 



Music performs every evening. Admittance 25 ' 



C^ 



BRISTOL CROWN GLASS. 



150 



wholesale and retail, at the very lowe:, 

 ces, by BRIGHAM & DELANO, No. 30, Union-s 



BOXES Bristol Crown Window Glass, 

 perior quality, just received and for 



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 his remarks on longevity states that in the ex- 

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