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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SEPT. 3, is:;.-. 



V MY BIRTHDAY. 



" My birth-day !"— What a different sound 



That word had in my youthful ears ! 

 And how, each time the day c )mes round, 



Less and less while its mark appears ! 



When first our scanty years are told, 



It seems like pastime to grow old ; 

 And, as youth counts the shinin? links 



That time around him hinds so fast. 

 Pleased with the task, he little thinks 



How hard that chain will press at last. 



Tain was the man, and false as vain, 



Who said, " were he ordained to run 

 His long career of life again, 



He would do all that he had done."— 

 Ah ! 'tis not thus the voice that dwells 



Id sober birth-days speaks to me ; 

 Far otherwise— of time it tells 



Lavished unwisely, carelessly— 

 Of counsel moclc'd— of talents, made 



Haply for high and pure designs. 

 But oft, like Israel's incense laid 



Upon unholy, earthly shrines— 

 Of nursing many a wrong desire — 



Of wandering after love too far. 

 And taking every meteor fire 



That cross'd my path- way for his star '. 

 All this it tells, and could I trace 



Tlie imperfect picture o'er agaiu, 

 With power to add, retouch, efface 



The lights and shades, the joy and pain, 

 How little of the past would stay ! 



How quickly all should melt away— 

 AH— but that freedom of the mind 



Which hath been more than wealth to me ; 

 Those friendships in my boyhood twined, 



And kept till now unchangingly. 

 And that dear home, that saving ark. 



Where love's true light at last I'vefound, 

 Cheering within, when all grows dark. 



And comfortless, and stormy round ! 



Moose. 



CAKIJIO-PHOBIA. 



(Being translated, '■ Dog-madness") 

 '* The dog-star rases." 

 Mr Editor : — .»s you have charge of every 



thing moral and immoral, social and unsocial, 



political and impolitic — I wish you would he 

 kind enough to " speak to the dogs " of this city, 

 who combine every night, with a sultry atmosphere, 

 to keep us Christians awake. 1 am certain it is 

 done, on tBe part of the dogs, with malice prepense 



for they lie (luiot asleeji in the shade all day, 



just to he ahle to hark at us, and keep our eyes 

 unclosed, si'i-k or well, all night. As I do not like 

 to be personal, i will not specify, by name or de- 

 scription, any particular dog, except one — a little 

 black cur, that annoys the peaceful, terrifies the 

 timid, snarls at good nature, and yells at a good 

 whipping, whose master has provided a residence 

 for him exactly opposite my bed chamber. I wish 

 the abolitionists would buy the little t/arf- brute ! 

 I verily believe he is the Christopher of a kind of 

 Dog-liayti they meat: to establish here on the av- 

 ejiue. Is there any law, gentlemen, which will 

 authorise us to take measures to a.void beingbark'd 

 in this way? If so, I for one would willingly 

 turn out, to sec that which has been enacted shall 

 be executed. I would be the last to take away a 

 (log's character, or break his head ; but when he 



takes away my "sweet repose," night after night, 

 and breaks my rest, vvhy the frailty of human na- 

 ture ]irevails, and I feel inclined to give him tit for 

 tat. To shovv you that 1 am not prejudiced against 

 them, as a species of fellow-creatures, i can assure 

 you I have read a whole volume through, from 

 page 1 to page 220, (I think,) of " Instances of the 

 Sagaoiousness of the Dog." I have admired their 

 affection — their remembrance of kindness — 

 their nasal skill in tojiography. I have admired 

 and v^ondered ! — JSTat. Intelligencer. 



Messrs Delaware Journal : — I hand you the 

 above extract taken from the National Intelligen- 

 cer, and join heartily with the writer. There is 

 no p'ace, I presume, on this fair continent more 

 dog ridden than we of Wilmington. I wish to 

 spend my days in quiet, but on this resolution the 

 dogs have |iut their veto, and I fear the City Coun- 

 cil and constables have given these night ramblers 

 and sleep disturbers quiet possession of the town. 

 Scarcely a negro in the place keeps less than two, 

 some five or six. And many of the whites arc 

 very little behind them. Is there no remedy for 

 this dreadful curse. 



ExcnST-s FOP. GETTING DRUNK. — The following 

 are among the excuses which are made by the in- 

 dividuals when brought liefore the magistrates at 

 the different police offices in the metropolis, 

 charged with being drunk in the streets. Many 

 of the excuses are made indiscriminately by both 

 males and females : — Met a friend ; met my mo- 

 ther ; met my sister ; have been wounded in the 

 head ; had a child die ; in very great distress ; 

 out of work ; broke my leg in his Majesty's ser- 

 vice ; very old ; an old sailor ; an old soldier ; 

 been out of place a long time ; just recovered 

 from a fit of illness ; been looking for woi'k ; had 

 a little business to transact with a friend ; ju.st 

 come out of prison, and vt;ry little liquor takes ef- 

 fect upon me ; had my brother transported ; my 

 mother died ; burnt out ; very hungry ; had a quar- 

 rel with my wife ; don't know any thing about it ; 

 just apprenticed a child ; buried ray wife ; mar- 

 ried the day before ; been to a christening; been 

 to a funeral ; in short, it woidd appear from the 

 statements made, that there is not a single occin-- 

 rence in life but is considered as an excuse for 

 getting drunk. 



Cold Weather in Europe Extract of a let- 

 ter dated Paris, 28th June. 



" We are now near the 1st of July, and to-day 

 as I walked the streets I met here and there a 

 prudent man or woman with their cloaks on. For 

 about a fortnight it ha.s been so cold that I have 

 been obliged to come back to my winter clothes. 

 I now sleep with two blankets on my bed, and 

 find them very comfortable ; it has not only been 

 cold, but wet. It snowed yesterday, precious lit- 

 tle to be sure, but a July snow is rare. Fruits arc 

 very plenty and fine — cherries, strawberries and 

 gooseberries are fine — the stravberries surpass 

 ours in beauty, and arc cheaper, but are not fine 

 flavored ; fine black cherries two cents per lb." 



The bar are peculiarly privileged in Spain. 

 They arc exempted from debt, and in case any 

 one of them is condemned to capital punishirient, 

 he is allowed to die by the same mode of punish- 

 ment as would be inflicted upon a nobleman. 



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Taunton, Aug. 12. 4l JAMES LEONARD. 



VAL.U.'k.BI.E WORK ORT FRUITS, VEGETA. 

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An excellent Farm containing 70 acres, situated in Marib 

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WHITE MULBERRY SEED, Growth of 18;l5. 



Jusl received 50 lbs. of White Mulberry .Seed growth 

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GEORGE C. BARRETT. 



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Ju.y 29. 



THE KEW ENGL.-'VND FARMER 



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