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NEW ENGLAND 1< A R M h. H . 



APRIL 13, 1836. 



SH5?S(gIll3E.S,^S?ri?. 



(From the Army and Navy Chronicle.) 

 THE ASSEMBLY. 



BV LIEUT. G. W. PATTEN. 



Hark.' 'tis the trumpet's call 



Booms o'er the sea, 

 Crowd for your banners all, 

 I Sons of the free. 

 Send the hoarse battle yell 



Back to the main ; 

 Arm for tlie citadel — 



Arm for the plain. 



War from his battle cloud 



Beckons his hand ; 

 Wove is the crimson shroud 



Drawn be the brand. 

 Up ! from the mount and glen, 



Forest and ford — 

 Rally ! ye free-born men, 



Arm with the sword. 



Omens are gathering 



Fast o'er the lea; 

 Red is the eagle's wing, 



Restless the sea. 

 Where thy mast quivereth, 



Deepens the storm ; 

 Arm 'mid the trumpet's breath — 



Marshal — and form. 



EVENING SONG. 



BV MRS C. E. CEPOKTE. 



There is a tinge of sunlight yet 



On every waving flower. 

 And day its frolden beams hath left 



On hill and mountain bower. 

 There is a genlle wind that wafts 



The ripples to the strand ; 

 And stirs the blossoms and the leaves, 



In this delicious land. 



There is a sweetness in the air, 



A richness on the sky, 

 A thrilling softness breathing round, 



That wakes a deeper sigh — 

 As on the sileni heart the tears 



Of quiet rapture fall, 

 And all the loved of other years, 



With fonder thoughts recall. 



The following account of two "old fashioned 

 Snow Storms," which occurred in 1717, is taken 

 from Alonzo Lewis's history of Lynn, Massaphu- 

 setts. 



"Two great storms on the 20th and 24th of 

 February, covered the ground so deep with snow, 

 that people could not for some days pass from one 

 house to another. Old Indians of an hundred 

 years said their fathers had never told them of 

 such a snow. It was from 10 to 20 feet deep, and 

 generally covered the lower story of the houses. 

 Cottages of one story were entirely buried, so that 

 the people dug patlis from one house to another 

 under the snow. Soon after a slight rain fell, and 

 the frost crusted the snow, and then the people 

 went out of their chatnber windows and walke<l 

 over it. Many of the farmers lost their sheep • 

 and most of the sheep and swine that were saved 

 lived from one to two weeks without food. One 



man liad some hens buried near his barn, which 

 were dug out alive eleven days after. During 

 this snow a great many deer came from the woods 

 for food, and were followed by the wolves, which 

 killed many of them. Others were killed by the 

 people with guns. Some of the deer fled to Na- 

 hant, and being chased by the wolves leaped into 

 the sea and were drowned. Great damage was 

 done to the orchards, by the snow freezing to 

 branches and splitting the trees as it fell. This 

 snow formed a remarkable era in New England ; 

 and old people in relating an event, would say it 

 happened so many years before or after the great 

 snow." 



Death of a Famous Waterloo Hero. — ^^On 

 the 12th of February died at Strathiieldsaye, of 

 old age, Copenhagen, the horse which carried the 

 Duke of Wellington so nobly on the field of Wa- 

 terloo. He was foaled about tlie time of the bat- 

 tle of Copenhagen, from which he got his name, 

 and was remarkable for gentleness and spirit uni- 

 ted. He lost an eye some years before his death, 

 and has not been used by the noble owner for any 

 purpose during the last ten years. By the orders 

 of his Grace a salute was fired over his grave, and 

 thus he was buried as he lived, with military hon- 

 ors. This horse has long been a great attraction 

 lo strangers, who were accustomed to feed him 

 over the rails with bread, and the Duke himself 

 preserved an especial regard forhim, which cannot 

 be wondered at upon considering that he bore him 

 for si.xteen hours safe through the grandest battle 

 that has occurred in the history of the world. — 

 The late amiable Duchess was likewise particu- 

 larly attached to him, and wore a bracelet made 

 of his hair. — Correspondent of the Times. 



its lilly cheek to make it happy. You may talk 

 to it of sorrow, of misery or death — but your 

 words are unmeaning. It has never felt the chill 

 of disappointment ; it has never withered under 

 the pang of afiliction — and its guiltless heart 

 knows nothing of the emptiness and heartlessness 

 of the world. Oh, that the cup might be broken 

 ere it be lifted to those lips ! 



PEAK TREES. 



For sale at the Garden of the subscriber, in Salem, many 

 varieties of the best old and new I'ears — engrafted from bear- 

 ing trees. Every tree sold will be warranted to produce the 

 fruit which its name indicates. R. MANNING 



march 23 3t 



Greenwich Observatory. — The observatory 

 was formerly a tower built by Huinphrey, Duke of 

 Gloucester, and repaired or rebuilt by Henry VllI, 

 in 1-526. It was sometimes the habitation of the 

 younger branches of the Royal family, sometimes 

 the residence of a favorite mistress, sometimes a 

 prison, and sometimes a place of defence. Mary 

 of York, the fifth daughter of Edward IV. (be- 

 trothed to the king of Denmark) died at the Tower 

 in Greenwich Park, in 1482. Henry VIII, visited 

 "a fayre ladye when he lived here." In Queen 

 Elizabeth's time, it was called Mirejiercr. In 1642, 

 being then called Greenwich Castle, it was thought 

 of so much consequence as a place of strength, 

 that immediate stejjs were ordered to be taken for 

 securing it. After the restoration, Charles II, in 

 1675, pulled down the old tower, and founded on 

 its site the present Royal Observatory. The King 

 allowed 500i. in money, with bricks from Tilbury 

 Fort, where there was a spare stock and some 

 wood, iron, and lead, from a gate-house demol- 

 ished in the Tower, and encouraged us further 

 with a promise of affording what more should be 

 required." 



Infancy. — What is more beautiful than an 

 infant? Look at its spotless brow — at its soft 

 and ruddy lips — which have never uttered an 

 utd<ind word, and its laughing eye, as it rests on 

 the breast of its fond mother. See it has stretched 

 out its white hand and is playfully twisting her 

 hair around its tiny fingers. Ah ! let us look at 

 an infant. It is endued with life; the very coun- 

 terpart of love. It requires nothing but the pleas- 

 ant look of its mother, and her warm kiss upon 



ADVERTISEMEXT, 



'I'be subscriber, resident in the city of Rochester, Monroe 

 County in the State of New York, will attend to the collec- 

 tion of Mortgages, or any general land business in the County 

 of Monroe. Persons wishuig to buy Farms in that feriile re- 

 gion, will find it for their interest to call on liim as he has many 

 Farms for sale. WILLIAM ATKINSON, 



Land liroker, No. 27, Exchange street. 

 Reference to Col. Joseph May, 

 Edward Cruft, 

 Samuel May. Esq'rs. 

 Rochester, N. Y. March 5. 3m. 



TO BE LiET. 



A Farm, situated in Medford, now occupied by Mr Noah 

 Johnson, containing about 220 Acres of Land, in a high slate 

 of cultivation ; the buildings are commodious and in good 

 repair. It has the advantage of the Boston and Lowell Rail 

 Road, and the Middlesex Canal ruiniing through it, and is 

 bounded on Mystic Rivt r, which afford great facilities for trans- 

 porting manure. &.c. Possession given Isi of April next. 



Also — A Tan Yard in Charlestown, near Mystic River 

 and occupied by the subscribers containing 1000 Vats, with 

 all the necessary buildings and machinery for carrying on the 

 tanning business extensively. Coimecled with the yard is a 

 water power sufficient for grinding 2000 Cords Bark per year, 

 milling hides, smoothing leather, pumping, Alc. Also, a large 

 and very convenient wharf for landing bark and wood. Pos- 

 session given immediately. For further particulars inquire of 

 GII.RERI' TUFTS, or 

 JOSEPH F. TUFTS, at the Yard. 

 Charlestown, Jan. 27, 18313. tf. 



WANTED, 



A few bushels of superior Barley, and prime Norther 



)ats. GEO. C. P.ARRBTT, 



april 6. New England Farmer Office. 



AVANTED, 



500,000 Cucumbers for pickling. 

 30,000 Mangoes. 



100 Bushels Beans, for wliicli a fair price will be paid. 

 Delivered in Boston in the months of August and September 

 next. Enquire at this office. 4tis april 6. 



S5,000 WHITE MUI^BERRY TREES. 



The Suhscribar will engage,, il applied for soon, a part or 

 whole of the above number of While Mulberry Trees, very 

 thrif>y and in good order, to be delivered in the spring. 

 Feb. 3 G. C. BARRETT. 



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