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NEW ENGLAND FARM ER. 



APRIIi e, 183G. 



!eS31g©II!aS,ASS"S'= 



(From the Knickerbocker.) 

 TO MY COUSIN. 

 What a trouble one's in, to know wlieve to begin, 



To a friend an unwiilten epistle. 

 When the present and past from the first to the lait, 



Fly together like birds at a whistle : 

 As it were in one p.ige, from our youth to our age, 



All the story of lile strangely blended,— 

 The illusions, the cares, the enchantments, the snares, 



Through which we have wearily wended. 

 It were nothing to send a short line to a friend 



By the post on a common occasion ; 

 And a pink billetdoux is a small matter, too. 



With its sweet scented words of persuasion ; 

 But to write as much sense as will pay the expense 



Of Ihe time and the light of a taper, 



Is another affair, and is certainly rare, 



Among all the things upon paper. 



When my sweet pretty cousin demanded a dozen 



Brief lines, in the way of a sonnet, 

 Though little she knew it, my heart wept to do it,— 



For thoughts of my youth were upon it ; 

 A sad retrospection of early afieclion. 



Of joys in my life's cloudless morning— 

 Of many warm hearted, now cold or departed- 

 Dark changes that came without warning. 

 When to village school daily, we journeyed so gaily, 



Or roved through the valleys, beguiling 

 Our holiday hours in gath'ring the flowers. 



That around us were blushing and smiling. 

 As sister and brother we were to each other, 



As lovers whom nought could dissever ; 

 Nor deemed that such feeling ere long would be stealin< 



Away like a meteor— forever ! 



And then to remember when frosty September, 



Came bristling along in his ire. 

 How we che^ited the season, so out of all reason. 



With our glee by the crackling fire ! 

 ■T were joyously pleasant to look from the present 



Far back on those pure days of gladness,— 

 But none may restore them ! dark shadows are o'er 

 them. 



And memory sinks into sadness. 

 Nor have I aught better to fill up the letter,— 



For life is a dull round of sorrow : 

 Earth hath not the treasure to purchase a pleasure 



Today that will last till the morrow. 

 E'en while we are quaffing Joy's nectar, and laughing, 



If the depths of the bosom were lighted, 

 Mirth's merriest lover, belike would discover, 



The garden of peace was all blighted ! 



Yet what is life's trouble .' — a fable — a bubble- 

 Unreal, or full soon to vanish : 

 A cloud on a mountain, a mist o'er a fountain, 



The first beam of morning will banish. 

 There cometh an hour of balmiest power, 



When the dreariest gloom shall be riven. 

 And the spirit shall fleetly, yet calmly and sweetly, 



Go up to its last rest in Heaven. 

 The years in their rolling thus whi.?per, consoling. 



And deep though they leave all their traces,— 

 Bearing off the fresh roses, where beauty reposes, 

 While the furrows of time take their places,- 

 Though thus they pursue us, they ne'er may subdue us 



But when the long strife shall have ended, 

 We'll smile o'er the cares, the enchantments, the snares 

 Through which we have wearily wended. R. H 



The WAT THEY COUP.T ON THE GrEEN 



MonNTAiNs.— It recently happened that three 

 young ladies residing in one house, were so for- 

 tunate as to have 'fellows' on the same night; 

 and there being hut one room for the whole, they 

 wore under the necessity of worsliipping at the 

 shrine of Cui)id en masse. It was ' a bitter cold 

 night' — one of the coldest in December — and it 

 so^happened that there was no wood ' chopped ' 

 at the door, and what to do these young candi- 

 dates for matrimony were for a while at a loss to 

 determine. At last one of thein Iiit upon an expe 

 dient to prevent freezing, which was readily con 

 sented to by all parlies. It was this : The beaux 

 were to take turns in cutting and the belles in 

 carrying in wood ! and so they did through the 

 night. — Vermont Phanix. 



Peculiar Habits of Musical Composeks.— 

 Sacchini could not write a passage except his 

 wife was af his side, and unless his cats, whose 

 playfulness he admired, were gamboling about 

 him. Paisiello composed in bed. 11 Bardiere di 

 Siviglia, La Molinara, and other chefs-d'-oeuvre of 

 ease and gracefulness Zingarelli would dictate his 

 music after reading a passage in one of the fathers 

 of the church, or in some Latin classic. — Hayden, 

 solitary and sober as Newton, putting on the ring 

 stmt him by Frederick II., and which he said was 

 necessary to inspire his imagination, sat down to 

 his piano, and in a few minutes soared among the 

 choirs. Nothing disturbed him at Eisenstadt, the 

 seat of Prince Esterhazy ; he lived wholly for his 

 art, exempt from worldly cares, and often said 

 that he always enjoyed himself most when he was 

 at work. — Cimarosa was fond of noise ; he liked 

 to have his friends about him when he composed. 

 Frequently in the course of a single night he 

 wrote the subjects of eight or ten charming airs, 

 which he afterwards finished in the midst of his 

 friends. — Parlor Magazine. 



Anecdote.— "An excellent clergyman, posses- 

 sing much knowledge of human nature, instructed 

 his large family of daughters, in the ordinary prac- 

 tice oY music. They were all obser\ed to be 

 exceedingly amiable and happy. A friend in- 

 quired if there was any secret in his mode of edu- 

 cation. He replied, "when any thing disturbs 

 their temper, I say to them sing, and if I hear 

 them speaking against any person, I call them to 

 sing to me, and se they sung away all causes of 

 discontent, and every disposition to scandal." 

 Such a use of this accomplishment, might serve 

 to fit a family for the company of angels. Young 

 voices around the domestic altar, breathing sacred 

 music, at the hour of morning and evening devo- 

 tion, are a sweet and touching accompaniment." 

 L. H. Sigourney. 



FIKE EAR1.T PEAS. 



Earliest Dwarf Peas— Ihe earliest variety of Peas, grown 

 from ?.0 to M inches high— consequently requite no slicks. 

 Early Wasliinglon Peas; a very produclive early variety. 



" •Charllon '' Early Golden Hotspur, do. ; 

 Bishop's Eai ly Dwarf, do. ; very Dwarl and early. 

 Also— Dwarl Scyinelar Peas— A new variety from Scot- 

 land ; this Pea will be Immd a great acquisition for a very pro- 

 ductive and delicious late sort. 

 Dwarf Blue Imperial Pea; 

 Large Dwarf .^iarrowfat, do. ; &c. &c. 

 All llie above were raised expressly for the New England 

 Seed Store, Nos. 51 S,- 62, North M arket Street. 



FARMERS AVAKTED. 



Wanted six or eight good men to go to the Stale of Illinois, 



J work on a farm, siluated about lilty miles from St Louis, m 



a healthy district. Applications must be made immediately 



persoii to Griggs and Chickering, 22 Commercial St. 



Boston, March IG. 2l 



FARM AT AUCTION. 



Will be sold at Public Auction, on SaturSay, 26tb inst. 

 P' o'clook at noon, on the premises, a Farm, pleasantly situ- 

 ated between Cobell's and Policy Pond, on Windham Hange, 

 containing about 120 acres of first rate land, suitably divided 

 into mowing, tillage, pasture and wood-land. <Jn sa,<| (arm 

 is a two story Dwelling House, a good Barn, 36 by 70 leel; 

 a eood Orchard and about 400 cords of Wood. 'Ihe road 

 leading from Hampstead to Lowell passes through the centre i 

 of the said farm, it being about eleven miles Irom Lowell. 

 Said farm will be sold entire or in two lots, divided by the 

 road. A credit of from one to five years will be given with , 

 satisfactory security. For further paruculars enquire ol ; 

 Gentlemen contiguous thereto, or of the subscriber, in said 



Windham. _ , ^ _ . _ , „ 



Also —At the same lime and place, 2 Oxen, b Lows, I Ux , 



Waggon 1 Sled, 1 Harrow, 2 Ploughs, 7 Chains, and other! 



articles loo numerous to mention. BENJ. F. SIMPSON. 



Windham, March 9, 1836. ., 



N. B. The above farm is very well adapted to the growtUl 



of the Mulberry. 



PREMIUM SPRING SEED WHEAT. 



Can be had of the subscriber, in Fitcliburg, at £2,50 pei\ 

 bushel The product ol' this kind (known by the name, Black- 

 sea or Smvrna.) has been 55, 50 and 35 to the acre for the 

 last thrcrj ears' PAYSON WILLIAMS. 



Feb. 24, 1836. 



MORUS MULTICAULIS. 



JOSEPH DAVENPOKT, of Colerain, Mass. continues to 

 supply orders for trees of the Morus Multicauhs, genuine root 

 and branch. 



Orders received by mail will receive prompt attention. 

 Trees carefully packed and forwarded by land or water to 

 anv part of the country, a part of the trees arc at SufBeld Ct 

 an'd will he transported to Hartford gratis. 



Colerain, Feb. 10, 183G. 



STRAW CUTTER. 



A "ood Straw, or Hay Cutter, for sale at S. N. TEN- 

 NEY^'.-i Hard Ware Slore, No. 7, Union street. Will be sold 

 cheap, if applied for soon. 3t march 23: 



OX WAGGON. 



For sale a first rate Ox Waggon, nearly new, with broad 

 wheels AddIv to the subscriber, Jamaica Plains. 



march & H. COWING 



Tit for Tat. — A gentlemen travelling, stop- 

 ped at a public house in Windham, Conn, and was 

 ushered by a landlady, into a parlor kept for the 

 best company. The gentleman noticing an ele- 

 <fant clock in the room, stepped up to it in order 

 lo regulate his watch ; but discovered that it want- 

 ed its most useful quality, that is, motion, and 

 turning to the lady, remarked that it did not go. 

 No sir, said she, it is like a great many men, it 

 has no brains. And also like many women in a 

 similar situation, retorted the gentleman, it has a 

 very pretty face. 



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 Taunton, Mass.— Sam'l O. Dunbab, Bookseller. 

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