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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



August f), 1830. 



A TRUE SKETCH. 



The depopulating pestilence that walketh at 

 noonday, the carnage of cruel and devastating 

 war, can scarcely exhibit their victims in triore 

 terrible array, than exterminating drtmkenness. I 

 have seen a promising family spring from the pa- 

 rent trunk, and stretching abroad its populous 

 limb like a flowering tree, covered with a green 

 and healthy fjliiige. 1 have seen the unnatural 

 •decay beginning upon the yet tender leaf, and gnaw- 

 ing like a worm in the unopened bud, while they 

 dropped off, one by one, and the scathed and riiiu- 

 f-d shaft, stood alone, until the winds and rains of 

 many a sorrow hiid that too in the dust. On one 

 of those holy days when the patriarch, rich in 

 virtue as in years gathered about him the great 

 and the little ones of his flock — his sons with their 

 .sons, and his daughters with their daughters, — I, 

 too, sat at the festive board. I, too, pledged 

 them i'U t!ie social wine cup, and rejoiced with 

 them round tha hos|)itable hearth ; and expatiated 

 with delight ui)oa the eventful future ; while the 

 good old man warmed in tlie genial glow' of 

 youthful enthusiasm, wiped the tear of joy 

 from his glistening eye. lie was happy. 1 met 

 with them again when the rolling year brought 

 the festive season round- But they were not all 

 there. The kind old man sighed as his sufl^useil 

 •eye dwelt wpon the then unoccupied seat. But 

 joy yet came to his relief, and he was happy. 

 A parents', love knows no diminution — time, dis- 

 tance, poverty, shame, but give intensity and 

 strength to that passion before which all others 

 but dissolve and melt away. Another year elaps- 

 ed. The board was spread. But the guests came 

 not. The old man cried, ' Where are my child- 

 ren ?' And echo answered, lohcre'} His heart 

 broke — for they were not. Could not heaven 

 have spared his gray hairs this affliction ? Alas ! 

 the (lemon of drunkenness had been there. They 

 had fallen victims of his spell. And one short 

 month sufficed to cast the veil of oblivion over 

 the old man's sorrow and the young one's shame. 

 They are all dead. — .V. Y. Amtrican. 



Drunke.nness. — Drunkenness is the occasion 

 of nine tenths of the grief and guilt that aggravate 

 the inevitable distresses of the poor. Dry up that 

 horriil thirst, and the hearts of the wretched would 

 sing aloud for joy. In their sober senses, it seldom 

 ha|)pens that men, in a Christian country, are such 

 savages. But all cursed passions latent in the 

 heart, and seemingly, at least, dead, or non-exis- 

 tent, while that heart beats heartily m sober indus- 

 try, leap up fierce and full grown, in the power of 

 drunkenness, making the man at once a mimic, 

 or rather at once converting him into a fiend. — 

 Slackwood's Magazine. 



The followinrr extracts are from an old book by 

 John Josselyn, Gent., printed in London, 1672. If 

 the descriptions were true then, the things described 

 have much clianged since. 



' Fourscore miles (upon a direct line) to the North- 

 west of Scarborou; a. Kidge of Mountains run North- 

 west and Northeast aD hundred leagues, known by 

 the name of the White Mountains, upon which lietli 

 Snow all the year, and is a Land-mark twenty miles 

 off at Sea. It is rising ground from the Sea shore to 

 these Hills, and they are inaccessible but by the Gul- 

 lies which the dissolved Snow hath made ; in these 

 Gullies grow Savm Bushes, which being taken hold 

 of are a good help to the climbing Discoverer; upon 

 the top of the highest of these Mountains is a large 

 Level or Plain of a days journey over, whereoa 



nothing grows but Moss ; at the farther end of this 

 Plain is another Hill called the ■ Svgar-loaf, to out- 

 ward appearance a rude heap of massive stone piled 

 one upon another, and you may, as you ascend, step 

 from one stone to another, as if you were going up 

 a pair of stairs, but winding still about the Hill till 

 you come to the top, which will require half a day's 

 time, and yet it is not above a Mile, where there is 

 j also a Level of about an Acre of ground, with a pond 

 of clear water in the midst of it ; which you may hear 

 run down, but how it ascends is a mystery. From 

 this rocky Hill you may see the whole Country round 

 about ; it is far above the lower Clouds, and from 

 hence we beheld a Vapour (like a great Pillar) 

 drawn up by the Sun Beams out of a great Lake 

 or Pond into the Air, where it was formed into a Cloud. 

 The Country beyond these Hills Northward is daunt- 

 ing terrible, being full of rocky Hills, as thick as 

 Mole-hills in a Meadow, and cloathed with infinite 

 thick Woods. 



' .New- England is by some affirmed to be an Island, 

 bounded on the North with the River Canada (so 

 called from Monsieur Cane) on the South with the 

 River Mohegans or Hudson^s River, so called because 

 he was the first that discovered it. Some will have 

 .Imerica to be an Island, which out of question must 

 needs be, if there be a Northeast passage found out 

 into the South Sea. The Northeast people of ./Jmer- 

 iea, i. e. JVew- England, S,-c. are judged to be Tartars 

 called Samoades, being alike in complexion, shape, 

 habit and manners, (see the Globe :) Their Language 

 is very significant, using but few words, every word 

 having a diverse signification, which is exprest by 

 their gesture ; as when they hold their head of one 

 side the word signifieth one thing, holding their 

 hand up when they pronounce it signifieth another 

 thing. Their Speeches in their Assemblies are very 

 gravely delivered, commonly in perfect Hexamitre 

 Verse, with great silence and attention, and answer- 

 ed again ex tempore after the same manner.' 



'The Porcupine. — The Porciqiine in some parts 

 of the Country Eastward, towards the French, are as 

 big as an ordinary Mungrel Cur ; a very angry Crea- 

 ture and dangerous, shooting a whole shower of 

 Quills with a rowse at their enemies, which are of 

 that nature, that wherever they stick in the flesh, 

 they will work through in a short time if not pre- 

 vented by pulling of them out.' 



'The Jaccal. — The Jaccal, is a Creature that 

 hunts the lAons prey, a shrew'd sign that there are 

 Lions upon the Continent ; there are those that are 

 yet living in the Country, that do constantly affirm, 

 that about six or seven and thirty years since an In- 

 dian shot a young Lion, sleeping upon the body of 

 an Oak blown up by the roots, with an Arrow, not 

 far from Cape Anne, and sold the Skin to the 

 English. But to say something of the Jaccal, they 

 are ordinarily less than Fores, of the color of a gray 

 Rabbet, and do not scent nothing near so strong as 

 a Fox ; some of the Indians will cat of them : Their 

 Greese is good for all that Fox Grease is good for, 

 but weaker ; they are very numerous.' 



'The Po.nd Frog. — The Pond Frog, which chirp 

 in the Spring like Sparows, and croke like Toads 

 in Autumn : Some of these when they set upon their 

 breech are a Foot high ; the Indians will tell you, that 

 up in the Country there are Pond Frogs as big as a 

 Child of a vear old.' 



The French expedition,fearing that the Algerinos 

 may poison the wells along the coast, have taken (>00 

 dogs with them, as tasters. If they drink with impu- 

 nity, men will have nothing to fear. 



Census of Boston.— yhe population of Boston falls 

 some short of G1,000. The population in 18'20 was 

 43,298. Increase in ten years about 17,500, or about 

 40 per cent. 



Moss Mattresses. — Mattresses made with fine 

 moss are now getting into general use in Russia and 

 Sweden. They are filled to a depth of twelve inches, 

 are very elastic and wholesome, and the cost of re- 

 newing them is of course trifling. 



Propagation of the Chinese Mulberry 1 

 IN the south of France. — Mr Barthere, nursr 

 man at Toulouse, writes us, March 14, 1830, that 

 has so far been successful in propagating the Mo. 

 mutticaulis, that he will be ready next fall to deli' 

 from 8 to 10,000 of them of different ages. We i 

 glad to announce that source of supply to our nun 

 reus applicants, for what we could neither give i 

 sell. Mr Barthere has also experimented with t 

 by rearing silk worms and manufacturing their silt 

 now deposited in the Library of the Royal Hoi 

 cultural Institute — the plants which have produc 

 that silk were cuttings of the same year, which w< 

 as good as those of four or five. He says that t 

 tree does not grow so high as the white mulber 

 but suffices to alleys and shades of eight or ten fe 

 and is confident that in grounds and vineyards whi 

 could hardly give two per cent, this tree will m 

 insure at least ten percent. — HorticuU. Annales, J\ 

 13, April, page 44. 



Hovcn cattle. — A correspofident of the Buc 

 County Intelligencer recommends the follow! 

 remedy for cattle which have been hoven by e 



ing damp clover Mix a double charging of Gt 



powder in a pint of new milk, and give it to t 

 animal with a horn or bottle. In nine caf 

 out of ten, (says the writer) this will disperse t 

 fixed air contained in the stomach, and affo 

 relief. 



Oneida Indians. — Rev. Mr Davis, who accoi 

 panics 2.50 Oneidas, removing to the neighborhO' 

 of Green Bay, states that many of them had ma 

 considerable progress in learning and were go 

 agriculturists. We found one of them in o 

 office, says the editor of the Detroit Journal, rea 

 ing very carefully the New England Farmer, ai 

 the general appearance of the party was in eve 

 respect superior to that of most of the otb 

 tribe;, with which our streets liave been throng< 

 during the summer. 



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