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MARCH 9, isa^. 



S'iI5;S©iiaS,AT<i"2?. 



The fillowing beniit'fiil lines were composed as a tri- 

 bute of gralitiide lo the jcnjiig tiiiin who nohly resrued 

 an only eliild of an ogonized mother from the flames, 

 during the late conflagration at New York. — St. Clairs- 

 villc 'Gaz. 

 Brave youth ! this deed of thine last night 



Doth honor more thy name, 



Than if victorious in the figlit 



Thgli'dst raise thy country's faiiie. 



To gain the wreath vvhicli now I lay 

 Upon thy youthful head. 

 Not envy's tongue can ever say 

 One drop of blood was shed ! 



When tossed upon tha stormy deep. 



Thou walk'stthy watch at night ; 

 Or in ihy cot below, asleop, 

 Ttiis babe will be in sig'ht — 



And like the " Cherub" o'er thy path 

 A look-tKit keep for thee; 

 And if engaged in battle's wrath, 

 From danger '11 keep thee free. 



A mother's prayers will now each night 

 For thee asiend on high ; 

 And she will have — oh, blessed sight ! — 

 Her infant kneeling by — 



Whom she will teach to lisp a prayer, « 

 And raise its little. -hands. 

 To beg that thou may'st be the care 

 Of him " who all commands." 



A NOBLE ACT REWARDED. — Our readers liave 

 not forgotten the very interestiiig int-jdent pub- 

 lislied by us two or tlirp.e days since, of the rescue 

 of an infant during the great fire in New- York, 

 by Lieut. Wilkins, of 'the Navy, from the fourth 

 story of a house which was wrapped in flames 

 from garret to cellar, at the imminent hazard of 

 his life. They will be pleased to learn that his 

 bravery and humanity have been partially reward- 

 ed. Some time since, Lt. Wilkins was cashiered 

 for "contumelious conduct to his superior officer." 

 When the New-York papers containing the ac- 

 count of his humane daring in saving the infant 

 reached Washington, "a member of the house of 

 representatives," says the correspondent of the 

 Detroit Free Press, "while in his seat, read it; 

 banded it to a colleague of his, by whom his eye 

 was directed to a near relative of the officer in the 

 gallery of the house ; he marked the passage in 

 the paper and sent it up. A profound bow was 

 the grateful return made on the occasion. '] he 

 relative of the officer dined with the President 

 that day, and the heroic and noble deed has been 

 rewarded by an executive restoration of Lieut. 

 Wilkins to his rank and station in the navy !" 



This act of the President will assuredly meet 

 the approbation of all parties. It proves that, 

 although his exterior may he as rough as the bark 

 of the "hickory," after it has braved the storms 

 of a thousand winters, his heart beats warmly, 

 and glows with ailmiration of humane and gener- 

 ous actions. — Louisvilh Adverliser. 



Sleep. — We have often heard it lamented that 

 so much time was lost in sleep, and the spirit of 

 reform has not failed to point out the maximum 

 quantity of sleep which a conscientious man 



should allow himself; the quantity being, of course, 

 much less than has hitherto been supjjosed ne- 

 cessary for the refreshment of nature. Some may 

 devote too much time to sleep, but they who arc 

 disposed to err on the opposite extreme, may re- 

 ceive instruction from the following just renjarks 

 in Robertson's Treatise on Diet. — Piesbijicrian. 



" Habit influences greatly the quantity of sleep 

 that is required by men of any age, or engaged 

 in any occupation.. I am not about to advocate 

 the curtailment of any of the revenue that is just- 

 ly due to the drowsy god. A man may use him- 

 self to so little sleep, as to be thereby greatly the 

 loser in his waking moments. This seems to have 

 been little, if .-it all, noticed, but it will be almost 

 always found that those jiersons who boast of 

 s|)ending in sleep no more than four or five hours 

 in the twentyfour, devote a far greater portion of 

 the day than their fellows to absolute mental and 

 bodily inaction — to a state of dreamy and useless 

 vacancy. ' I believe that sleep cannot be robbed 

 of its dues without adding materially, and in 

 greater proportion than the time taken from it, to 

 that wasted in those waking reveries." 

 h- 



Decay of Leaves. — The annual decay of 

 leaves, and their seperation from the plant with 

 which they are connected, is attributed by natu- 

 ralists to the quantity they contain of Silica, or 

 the basis of the common flint. This being among 

 the densest and least soluble of the earths is read- 

 ily precipitated from the sap, and deposited in the 

 leaves and adjijcent parts. When thus deposited 

 it seems incapable of being taken up and trans- 

 ferred elsewhere or ejected from the system ; and 

 hence in course of time a considerable accumula- 

 tion of silicious particles take.s place, which by 

 clogging up the pores and vessels, tends more and 

 more to prevent the access of nourishment. 



This change has been assigned as a principal 

 cause of the decay and ultimate destruction of the 

 leaves ; their footstalks, more especially suffering 

 from this obstruction, perish, and occasion the 

 destruction of the leaves which thus make way 

 each season for those that are to succeed them 

 the next. 



the sport, as well as how capable they are of per- 

 forming actions which have no other object thaw 

 that of pleasure or diversion. 



A SM >I.l. PliACE WANTED, 



Not less than live or over foily miles from ilie ri'Sy of Bos. 

 ton, aboul ten acres good land, llie soil a substraluni of sand 

 in prelercnre to clay, with a small house in pood repair and 

 wrll finished, a small barn and out buildings in good order, 

 wiihin fifieon or Iwenly minuies walk of the ceulre of a well 

 sculptl and thriving village. 



Any person who has a place of the above description lo 

 dispose of (hecp, will please lo address by mail V. X. New- 

 burypnrl, with a minuale description of buildings, soil, silua. 

 lion and price. 3l Feb. 10, 1836. 



PLASTER. 



Calcined Plaster for Mocco Work, Ground Plaster foi 

 manuring lands, in barrels ano casks, bom the Lubec Mills, 

 constantly for sale by GEO. CLARK & CO. T Wliarf. 

 K.'li. 10,' 1836. 3m 



P.\RM TO I.ET. 



To be lei orleascd, for Farming purposes, all the unoccu- 

 pierl Lands at r.asl Boston, belonging lo the Coiiipany — con- 

 sistiri.g of more than five hundred acres of e.\cellent Upland 

 and .-^all Marsh. 



'I'he L'pland is capable of producing large quanlilies of 

 hay and pasturing many caille. 



For a milk farm, it is probable superior to any in the vicini- 

 ty of Boston; ihe occupant will have the preference of sup- 

 plying the M.iverick House with milk and cream, which will 

 go lar towards paying the rent of the Farm. Ti:e Farm, 

 House and Parns are in good order, and there is an abun* 

 daiire of sea manure around the Island. 



Apply at the Land Ofiice of the East Boston Company, 

 or near the Maverick House. 



WM. FETTYPLACE, 

 Feb. 10. 4t Superintendent. • 



FARM TO LET IM MEDPORD 



Aboul 5 miles from Boston; containing 40 acres of excel- 

 lent Land, well ad. pled lo mowing, lillage and pasturage. 

 Said farm has been heretofore improved as a milk farm. 



Apply to L.uther Angler, near Medford Bridge.' 



N. B. Adjoining the above farm is about the same number 

 acres, of similar land, which may be had on application to 

 NATHAN ADAMS, Esq, 



Medford, Nov. 26, IS.^. If 



The Otter. — The disposition of the otter is 

 singular and interesting. Their favorite sport is 

 sliiling, and for this purpose, in winter the high- 

 est ridge of snow is selected, to the top cf which 

 the otters scramble, where, laying on the belly, 

 with the fore feet bent backwards, they give 

 tliemselves an impulse with the hind legs, and 

 swiftly glide head foremost down the declivity, 

 sometimes for the distance of twenty yards. This 

 sport they continue apparently with the keenest 

 enjoyment, until fatigue or hunger induces them 

 to desist, in the summer this amusement is ob- 

 tained by selecting a spot where the river bank is 

 slo]iing, lins a clayey soil, and the water at its 

 base is of considerable depth. The otters then 

 remove from the surface, for the breadth of sev- 

 eral feet, the sticks, roots, stones and other ob- 

 structions, and render the surface as level as pos- 

 sible. They climb up the bank at a less precipi- 

 tous spot, and starting from the top, .slip with 

 velocity over the inclining ground, and plump 

 into the water to a depth jiroportioncd to the 

 weight and rapidity of motion. After a few slides, 

 the surface of the clay becomes very smooth and 

 slippery, and the rapid succession of the sliders 

 show how much these animals are delighted by 



VALUABLE NEW WORK ON SILK. 



American Silk Grower's Guide, is this day published at the 

 oflice of the New England Farmer — being Ihe arl of growing 

 the Mulberry and manufacture of Silk on the system of suc- 

 cessive crops each season — by V^'m. Kenrick, author of the 

 New American Orchardist; 112 pp. price 42 cents, neatly 

 bound in cloth. Bookscllersand traders supplied on favorable 

 terms. Feb. 17 GEO. C. BARRE'I'T. 



WANTS A SITUATION AS GARDENER. 



A young man who is acquainted with pine growing, grapes, 

 framing, and gardening in all ils branches. The advertiser is 

 skilled in bolony, qui nescit absteneat and acted in some of the 

 best places in the British limpire and has also a knowledge ol 

 nursery business, so much so thai he trusts he would give 

 satisfaction. 



Any application made to J. B. at the office of this paper 

 will be respecllully attended to. 3t 



THE NEW ENGLAND PARMER 



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 payable al the end of die year — but those who pay within 

 sixty days from the lime of subscribing, are enlilled to a de- 

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 /JutojMJt— Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati — S. C. Pakkhukst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N 1'.— Wm. Pkikce Sf Sons, Prop. Lin. Bol.Gar 

 MidJlelmni, Vt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 West Bradford, Mass.— Half. & Co. Bo..ksrllers. 

 Taunion, Mass.— Sam'l O. Dunbar, Bookseller. 

 Hartjord — GoonwiN Sf Co. Booksellers. 

 Newbnniport — Ekknk/.kr STEriniAX. Bookseller. 

 PorlsiiiMilh.N. «.— John W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Um-ilsiack, \'l.—J.A. Pratt. 

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