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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



" O splendissima Cotntta P"* 



" —^ piu bella assai che'l sole." 



Petrarca Canzone, 12th ma. 

 Splendid stranger of the sky .' 



Thou unlook'd for didst appear ; 

 Rapid round the pole dost fly ; 



Welcome art thou to our sphere. 



Along the lofly vaulted way, 



As thy majestic course I view, 

 Thy tresses vfith delight survey. 



Where faint a star oft glimmers through. 



Bright-hair'd strar>ger ! in what skies, 

 What unknown system, distant far, 



Does thy out-stretch'd orbit rise? 

 And whither tend, thou lovely star ? 



From where creation first begun, 

 Didst thou take thy distant flight I 



To pay your homage to our sun. 



And bathe your tresses in his light ? 



Or to count each sparkling star 



That glitters in our hemisphere I 

 Or view the moon with silv*'ry car, 



Her phases change in her career ? 



Or com'st thou to behold our globe ? 



Each diff'rent clime, and changing scene, 

 View her in winter's snowy robe ? 



In summer's fiow'ry mantle green ? 



Or dost thou floods and earthquakes bring ? 



Or cam'st to wrap in flames the world ? 

 As round thy lustrous hair doth fling. 



In thy eccentric orbit hurl'd. 



Splendid stranger ! not for this, 



Thou sought'st our planetary bound ; 



Not for mortal's wo or bliss, 



Thou wav'st thy beamy locks around. 



Not to bathe thy hair of gold 



In the effulgent air of light ; 

 Nor on the car her moon behold ; 



Or count the stars thai deck the night. 



Not to view our little earth. 



And see successive seasons change. 



See nature die, renew her birth. 

 Dost thou here remotely range. 



For HE whose guiding hand restrains, 



And to one sun our globe confin'd. 

 Each Comet in its orbit reigns. 



By different laws to them assignM. 



No void : — creation all doth fill ; 



Systems round systems endless roll. 

 Harmonious to the sov'reign will 



Of HIM who form'd, who rules the whole. 



Scatter, ye winds, yon dun-rob'd cloud, 



Gath'ring in many a misty fold, 

 That would the splendid stranger shroud. 



With his radiant locks of gold. 



Thou moon, full orb' J, withdraw thy rays. 



Conceal them with a sombre veil ; 

 For thy fix'd and ardent gaze 



Makes the beauteous stranger pale. 



Stately, stranger, is thy march ! 



Turn'd from sun thy long hair streams, 

 O'er night's blue-bespangled arch. 



And gilt with his resplendent beams. 



having accepted of the appointment, attend 

 public worship on the Sabbath, immediate 

 on his appearing a number of the principal i 

 habitants left their seats anil retired. So gres 

 \y did this incident affect the mind of this ami 

 ble man that on the next day he resigned hise 

 fice. At Bridgewater a much respected gentl 

 man, who was deacon of a parish, was also a 

 pointed a mandamus counsellor. During divii 

 service on a Sabbalh, where it was customa 

 in sniging for the deacons to read the hyc 

 line by line, the minister read the first line a' 

 the choir followed in time as usual, but wh 

 deacon E. read the second line no voice n 

 heard from the choir ; he repeated the read! 

 but all were silent, until another deacon offi 

 ated in his stead, when the choir immediatf 

 performed the singing service. Unable to bro 

 this pointed rebuke, deacon E. the next ^ 

 voluntarily exiled himself and never afterj 

 visited his native town. 



A Miss Crackham, from Palermo, was exl 

 ited in Liverpool, England, lately, as a wott 

 ful natural curiosity. She is 9 years of agel 

 inches high, and weighs less than three pou^i 

 — is in perfect proportion, walks and talks, 

 has the use of all her faculties. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



APHORISMS. 

 Clashing Pleasures. — Those whose sole busi 

 ness is enjoyment, seldom find what they seek. 

 The pleasures of eating and drinking destroy 

 the pleasures of health and appetite, and the 

 epicure is at last convinced that no pleasures 

 are permanent excepting those which are pure. 



Knowledge is not only Power hut Virtue. — 

 Whenever the understanding is well principled 

 and well informed the passions will be tame and 

 the heart well disposed. They therefore, who 

 communicate true knowledge to their species, 

 are true friends to the world, benefactors to so- 

 ciety and deserve all encouragement from those 

 who preside over the community, and the ap- 

 plause and good wishes of all honest men. 



Honesty the best Policy. — Although it is some- 

 times difficult for integrity to get on, it is gene- 

 rally more difficult for knavery to get off; 

 a knave found out is a rogue ruined, and the 

 poorer a man is, the more necessary it is that he 

 should have the reputation of being devoid of 

 guile. 



Praise sometimes Disgraceful. — The praise of 

 a bad man is the severest satire which can be 

 uttered. 



Reward due to Merit. — He that rewards merit 

 makes himself meritorious. 



RAISING A CAPITAL. 

 About fifty years back, two young fellows, 

 brothers, went to Jamaica ; they were by trade 

 blacksmiths. Finding soon after their arrival, 

 that thoy could do nothing without a little mo- 

 ney to begin with, but that with 60/. or 70/. they 

 might be able to realize a fortune, they hit upon 

 llie following novel and ingenious expedient. 

 One of them stripjied the other naked, shaved 

 him close and blacked him from head to foot. 

 This ceremony being performed, he took him 

 (o one of the negro dealers, who was so well 

 pleased with the appearance of the young fel 

 low, that he advanced 80/. currency on the bill 

 of sale; and he prided himself much upon the 

 purchase, supposing him to be the finest negro 

 on the island. The same evening, this manu- 

 factured negro made his escape to his brother, 

 washed himself clean, and resumed his former 

 appearance. Rewards were then in vain offer- 

 ed in handbills, pursuit was eluded, and discove- 

 ry, by care and precaution, rendered it imprac- 

 ticable. The brothers with the money com- 

 nienced business, and actually returned to Eng- 

 land not many years since, with a fortune of 

 20,000L — Previous however, to their departure 

 (Vom the Island, they waited upon the gentle- 

 man, from whom they had received the money, 

 and recalling the circumstances of the negro to 

 his recollection, paid him both principal and in- 

 terest. 



Reminiscences. — A writer in the Plymouth 

 Memorial among other incidents of the revolu- 

 tionary war and the troubles that preceded it, 



relates the following anecdotes. TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



Those gentlemen who were honored by the 0:5i= Published every f?aturday, at Three ] 

 appointment of mandamus counsellors under the per annum, payable at the end ol the year- 

 royal government soon found themselves sub- who pay within «(',T/_y rfai/j from the time of suh 

 jected to all the obloquy of popular prejudice, will be entitled to a deduction of Fifty CenJ 

 and to the reproaches of friends and connexions. 0:5= No paper will be discontinued (unlesf 

 A very respectable gentleman in this town after ' discretion of the publisher,) until arrearages i 



VALUABLE STOCK FOR SALE BY THE 

 SCRIBER. 



AVERY superior MALTESE JACK ASS, 7j|^ 

 old, 14 hands high, remarkably well made, alf '■ 

 quiet in his temper, that a child can manage hil 

 was obtained of the Governor of Malta and imporl 

 Capt. Robert B. Edes. 



-Also two BULLS 22 months old out of good 

 cow?, they are well formed and girt six feetj 

 Price $100 each. 



Also one BULL 23 months old, out of the fami 

 derney cow, imported by John Hubbard, Esq 

 $125. 



Also the Bull YANKF.Y, 34 months old out of a 

 fine native cow owned by Mr. Francis Amory. Ki 

 received a premium at Brighton Show in OctobeW 

 Price $125. 



The above Bulls are in fine condition and wi 

 four sired by the noted Improved Durham Shot»(i».„ 

 Bull Caleb,. '• ' ' 



Ifthe Bulls are net sold by the 20th of Apritij 

 they will be let on shares. 



SAMUEL JAQUEI 



Ckarlesloiiin,Mass. March 13, 1024. 



BRISTOL CROWN GLASS. 



BOXES Bristol Crown Window Glasa 



ptrior quality, just received and fa| 



wholesale and retail, at the very lov 



ces, by BRIGHAM & DELANO, No. 30, Uniooi 



Bosiore, Jtfurc/i 13, 1824. 



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NEW TOWN OFFICER. 



JUST published by Dorr & Howi.and, A neij 

 Officer, Containing the General Laws of Ma 

 setts relating to the Choice, Powers, and Duties < 

 Officers arranged under their respective titlcs.- 

 at their Bookstore in Worcester, and by RichjI 

 Lord, Boston. Worcester, March 1, 1 



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