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NEW ENGLAxND FARMER, 



DEC. 33, 1833 



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Fjom Blackwood's Magazine. 

 THE CONFESSION. 



■Tliere's sornewhit on ijiy breast, faliicr. 



There's somewhat on iny breast ! 

 The livelong day I sigh father. 



At night I cannot rest ; 

 ;I cannot take my rest, f.ither, 

 Thongh I would fain do so, 

 A weary weight oppresselh me — 

 This weary weight of wo ! 



•'Tis not the lack of gold, father. 



Nor lack of worldly gear ; 

 My lands are broad and fair to see, 



A1[y friends are kind and dear ; 

 My kin are real and true, father. 



They mourn to see my grief. 

 But oh ! 'tis not a kinsman's hand 



Can give my heart relief ! 



'Tis not that Janet's false, father, 



'Tis not that she's unkind ; 

 Though busy flatterers swarm around 



I know her constant mind. 

 'Tis not her coldness, father. 



That chills my laboring breast — 

 Jt's that confounded cucumber 



I've ate, and can't digest. 



Dyspepsi.* The Journal of the Franklia In- 

 stitute, contains a description of a patent machine 

 for tlie cure of the Dyspepsia, made by Charles 

 Wood, New Bedford, Bristol county, Mass. Jan. 

 16. This machine consists of a table or platform, 

 upon which the patient is to stand, and where he 

 is to take hold of a couple of handles, by which 

 he is to work a swinging part of the apparatus 

 backward and forward. The swinging part con- 

 sists of two vibrating bars, which are attached by 

 pivots, one on each side of the table, their upper 

 ends being united by a cross bar, forming the 

 handles. The weighted lower ends are to rub or 

 strike against certain obstructions projecting from 

 the table legs, and by this means a sudden jerk 

 will be given to the muscles of the arms and chest, 

 thus e.xercising them in such a manner as to re- 

 store its tone to the stomacli, and of consequence, 

 health to tlie patient. There were in existence 

 (adds tbe Journal) before his patent was obtained, 

 several .machines adapted' to the same purpose, 

 which every one had the right, if they had the 

 disposition to use. One of them is technically 

 known under the name of the wood-axe, another 

 of them is denominated a saw, and there is a set 

 of them called a maul and wedges. We have 

 also heard of the application, in certain country 



powers, gives the secret contest victory, and un- 

 veils to our astonishment ideal worlds ; secures us 

 from temptation and sensuality, and exalts us in 

 tlie scale of rational beings. When 1 pass by the 

 grog shop and hear the idle dispute and the ob- 

 scene song — when I see the cart rolled along 

 filled with intoxicated youth, singing and shouting 

 as they go — when I discover the boat sailing 

 down the river, where you can discover the influ- 

 ence of rum by the noise which it makes — 1 can 

 not hel]) but ask, were these people taught to 

 ,read ? Was there no social library to which they 

 CQuld have access? Did they ever know the 

 calm satisfaction of taking an improving volume 

 by a peaceful fireside ? O, did they ever taste 

 the luxury of improving the mind? You hardly 

 ever knew the young man that loved his home 

 and his book that was vicious. Knowledge is 

 often thc^oor man's wealth. It is a treasure that 

 no thief can steal, no moth nor rust can corrupt. 

 By this, you turn his cottage to a palace, and you 

 give a treasure which is always improving and 

 can never be lost " The poor man," says Robert 

 Hall, " who has gained a taste for good books, 

 will, in all likelihood, become thoughtful ; and 

 when you have given the poor a habit of thinking, 

 you have conferred on them a much greater favor 

 than by the gift of a large sum of money, since 

 you have put in their possession the principle of 

 all legitimate prosperity." 



Nor is it to the poor alone, that this remark ap- 

 plies. The rich need occupation, their hearts are 

 often like seas, which, stagnant luuler a breathless 

 atmosphere, putrify for the want of a wave. Em- 

 ployment, rouseil by some noble object, is the se- 

 cret of happiness. 



from bread, because eating nothing else they may 

 eat too much of it, and gluttony will certainly 

 produce death. Men will never enjoy health till 

 they will learn to live without eating and drink- 

 ing." 



American Gold Mines The following table 



(says the Philadelphia Gazette) exhibits the quan- 

 tity of gold brought to the mint in the following 

 years, ending on 30th September, but does not 

 comprise the quantity sold for the jiurpose of be- 

 ing manufactured without being coined. 



1824, $5,000 



1825, • 17,000 



1826 20,000 



1827, 21,000 



1828, 46,000 



1829, 140,000 



1830, 446,000 



1831, 520,000 



1832, 678,00(; 



1833, . 868,000 



1834 743,000 



1835, 654,000 



$4,168,000 



Coebett's Habits. — The late Mr Cobbett in 

 his diet was extremely frugal and simple, and fas- 

 tidiously regular in his hours, rising with the sun 

 or before, and retiring to bed by nine. He used 

 to say, " no honest man ought to be up later than 

 ten." Two young gentlemen, who attended him 

 as secretaries, alternately rose at about three or 

 four o'clock in the morning to write while he dic- 

 tated, which he usually did while pacing the rooiri 

 backwards and forwards, paying regard to the 

 punctuation, parentheses, &c. all in the same 

 breath, so that the matter needed no further cor- 

 rection for the press. He would not permit any 

 alteration iu the domestic arrangements during his 

 stay at Landguard, but seemed studious to con- 

 form to all existing regulations, good humoredly 

 overruling any proposal to consult his ease or 

 comfort. The room in which he slept looking 

 into the farm yard, his host expressed a fear that 

 he might be disturbed too early in the morning 



The North Carolinians have been made happy 

 by the discovery that one of their mountains is 

 some hundred feet higher than any other in the 

 United States, notwithstanding the pre-eminence 

 heretofore claimed by New Hampshire for the 

 White Hills — and the Raleigh Register seems 

 nearly overcome by such a God-send. The edi- 

 tor says, " had we learned from a less respectable 

 source that the highest mountain in the United 

 States was to be found in North Carolina, we 

 would not have believed the fact." 



A man of science can do greater things in his 

 closet than a general at the head of an army, or 

 a despot with the physical force of a nation under 

 his control. 



Genius, without good sense, is of little use to 

 its owner. Negligence and irregularity render 

 the most splendid talents like sharp tools in the 

 hands of one who does not know how to use 

 them. 



by the uoise of the cattle and poultry. Mr Cob- 

 places, of what are there known under the names I bett quashed the objection by saying, "he were 

 of a hoe and a spade, which are said to be very but a poor farmer who would allow his live stock 

 good stimulants and tonics. In the use of them, | to be up before him." 

 withal, it is believed, that the result of the exercise 

 is productive of other benefit, besides that accru- 

 ing irntnediately to the patient. — J^an. Inq. 



An Extract. — There is a close connexion be- 

 tween ignorance and vice; and in such a country 

 as our own, the connexion is fatal to freedom. 

 Knowledge opens sources of pleasure which the 

 ignorant <;an never know — the pursuit of it fills 

 up every idle hour, opens to the mind a constant 

 source of occupation, wakes up the slumbering 



Advice. — The Boston Courier wittily winds 

 up a critique on Diet and Regimen in the follow- 

 ing manner : — 



" We advise all persons to abstain from all sorts 

 of meat, for it is too fat; from all sorts of liquid, 

 because it produces uneasiness in the stomach ; 

 from all fruits, because they are acid ; from but- 

 ler, for it is an arch demon ; from cheese, because 

 it is not cheese ; from all spices and dried fruits, 

 because they irritate the lining of the bowels ; and 



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