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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 19, 1830. 



MISCELLANIES 



AUTUMNAL SCENERY. 

 How bright is the scene when the Autumn sun glowing, 



Spreads richness and plenty o'er mountain and vale ! 

 When the orchards and fields their ripe fruits are be- 

 stowing, 



And the Harvest hymn floats on the breath of the gale I 

 And while the gay' season our hearts fondly cherish, 



Still shaded with sadness its visions appear ; 

 For they tell us of beauty which bloomed but to perish,— 



That beauty which passed— with the Infantile Vear J 



Where now are those sweets which fond nature discloses. 



When first she assumes her gay mantle of green; 

 When Spring decks the fields with her garlands of roses, 



Or Summer's bright verdure enlivens the scene .' — 

 They have passed— and, like beauty by age superseded. 



Gray Autumn has left them all withered and sere ! 

 They have fled, one by one, all unwept and unheeded, 



Too frail to abide, with the Sipening Year. 



But bright is the livery which Autumn is spreading. 



To garnish the fields where the early flowers grew! 

 A hardier race their rich perfumes are shedding. 



Of growth more majestic and ruddier hue ! 

 The fields and the broolis and the hedges are bordered 



With herbage and flowers to the Autumn winds dear; 

 While the plains with rich cornfields and vineyards em- 

 broidered. 



Exult in the pride of the Bountiful Year. 



And see, through the woodlands what hues are extending. 



As midst the sere foliage the arid winds blow ! 

 How the crimson, the gold, and the scarlet are blending, 



And the purple, the green, and the orange tints glow ! 

 But false are those colors, whose splendor thus heightens 



The charms which fast verging to ruin .ippear!— 

 As the hectic's deep flush oft the dying cheek brightens. 



They mark but the flight of the Hastening Year ! 



For soon shall the flowers to rude frosts be subjected, 



The orchaids and fields their late joys shall deplore ; 

 The herbage shall die on the plains unprotected. 



And Nature look gladsome and smiling no more I 

 And soon shall the long tedious nights be prevailing. 



The sun to the Tropic shall speed his career; 

 While through the bare woodlands the piercing winds 

 wailing, 



Comiuence the sad moan for the Languishing Year. 

 Salem Observer. 



' Married IVell.'— There is not an expression in the j 

 English language more wretchedly abused than this mar- 

 ried well; it is abused, becaus,- it is misapplied. When 

 properly used, it tells of a heart nnd hand connexion ; a 

 blending together of similar tastes and fancies for the i 

 journ-y ol life; a giving away early in the spring of 

 years the affections of the heart : and a joining. then of 

 the sexes in marriage, with the deterniinalion ot adding | 

 a joy to each other. But this ii all forgotten in the race ; 

 ot selfishness. We live to be happy— ve ponder much 

 upon the best mode of becoming .so; yet it we v/ander 

 from the true path in marriage, we get lost in a wild of 

 misery, where the sun light of enjoyment scarcely ever 

 finds its way. Now I for one, do not believe that money 

 is the grand panacea for every ill of marriage, or that it 

 will create a smile of joy upon the brow where atfection ! 

 does not dwell. Take the word of an old fellow for it ; he I 

 who woos and wins modest merit ; who seeks a partner 

 for the social circle, and a helpmate for the domestic ; 

 concerns of life ; who uses the voice of reason, and I have I 

 no objection to his listening a little to the warblings of 

 fancy in his choice, will marry well, although he may 

 not obtain a copper with his bride, yet she brings to him ; 

 a willing heart and a free mind : and these are of infinite j 

 value, to have around us, as we journey through the 

 world. 



From observations made on the river Rhine, 

 it appears tliat granite, sienite, and argillaceous 

 slate soils, are among the best for the vine, vv-ith 

 respect to botli productiveness aiul quality. 



An American gentleman in Paris, . during what 

 an English lady lias most felicitously denominated 

 the late ' pattern revolution,' after detailing the 

 events of tliat glorious and proud epoch of French 

 history, exclaims, in the fullness of Iiis feelings, 

 ' if I were not an American 1 would proudly be a 

 Frencliiiiaii.' We admire the sentiment; it is worthy 

 of an American bosom ; and we pray Heaven that 

 the time may be far distant when there will be more 

 of point than patriotism in it. To be an American 

 is now to hold the highest elevation on earth. To 

 claim indentity with Washington, with the Han- 

 cocks, the Jeffersons, the Pinckneys, and the Rtit- 

 leges, of United America, is, indeed, a distinction 

 above all Greek, 'above all Roman fame.' There 

 is a glory belonging to the humblest native of the 

 soil where true liberty first sprung, which we had 

 hoped would be perpetual as its own mountains. 

 But what becomes of that glory, when that sacred 

 soil is made the theatre of disumon ? Wlien that 

 grand experiment upon which a whole world has 

 looked with breathless solicitude, becomes a 

 'splendid failure? ' The heart sickens over the 

 idea ! 



For Sale, 



The well known FARM in Dover, occupied for the h 

 fourteen years by the subscriber, containing about '.' i 

 acres, well located in a square, bounded on the soutli ' 

 Cochecho river, and on the tast by Fresh creek, on wli 

 is a tide mill, with an apparatus tor pounding and grintli;,. 

 plaster. The Buildings consist of a large two story Brici 

 House, of4G feet by 38, with a wii.^ of 20 by 16, all wel 

 liuishcd, adjoined to which is a sheu 34 feet by 14, con- 

 necting the cider house 27 by 37, twi, stones, with on« 

 plastered room, where all the spinning and weavin" i; 

 done tor the family ; two Barns, one of wh'.ch is lOU fcei 

 by 42, with two wings of about 40 feet each, one employ, 

 ed as a stable, the other tor a sheepfold, with 4 good van 

 well walled in ; the other is a Store Barn of 45 feot square, 

 of IG feet post, and will contain 60 tons of haj ; a pig 

 gery of 50 feet by 30, with a cellar of 18 feet square un 

 der it, with boilers set to nrake soap, brew, and cook fo: 

 swine. The fields are divided by permanent stone Halls 

 and consist of one of 40 acres in front of the house, oni 

 of 17 on the East, one of 10 acres on the North, (princi 

 pally orchard,) one of 15 Northeast, and one of 30 acre 

 West of the house, with three pastures of 20 to 25 acre 

 each. 



The Farm has been gradually improving for the las 

 j ten years, and the two last has cut each year one hun 

 1 dred tons of hay, and 20 to 25 tons of thatch. It is on 

 and a half miles from the village of Dover, which atlbrd 

 a good market. There has been planted some huntlred 

 of Fruit Trees, principally Apple, many of which ar 

 grafted — with Pears, Cherry, Hum, Peach and Quinc 

 trees, and many in bearing, with a small nurserj'. 



The terms of sale may be knpwn by applying to Majc 

 Andrew Pierce, of Dover, Mr Samuel Lord, ( 

 Portsmouth, or the subscriber on the premises. 



June 11. WILLIAM FLAGG. 



The facetious Mr. Sheridan, on hearing his father 

 speak of the antiquity of his family, stating, at the same 

 time, that the original name was O'Sheridan, humorous- 

 ly observed ; ' No doubt of that,' father ; no one has a 

 better right to the 0, ibr we owe every body.' 



A writer in Blackwood, complaining^ of the march of 

 intellect, says : 



' Crossing Grosvenor-square, I was followed by one of 

 those wretched beings who volunteer sweeping the pave 

 He had some ragged pieces of leather on his hand. Th( 

 polite mendicant! As he held it out for the penny, ' £x 

 euse my glove,' said this Chesterfield ot the mire.' 



An old lady, remarkable for her conhised idea of the 

 meaning of words, described a clear summer evenin 

 thus : ' It was a beautiful bright night — The moon made 

 every thing as light as a cork.' 



. Dancing. — 'I am an old fellow,' says Cowper, in one 

 of his letters to Hurl), ' but 1 had once my dancing days 

 as you have now ; yet I could never find that I could 

 learn half so much of a woman's real character by danc- 

 ing with her, as bj' conversing with her at home, where 

 I could observe her behaviour at the table, at the fire 

 side, and in all the trying circumstances of domestic life 

 We are all good when we are pleased ; but she is the 

 good woKdu who wants no fiddler to sweeten her.' 



Innocence AND Guilt. — To dread no eye, and 

 to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of 

 innocence — an exemption granted only to invnri- 

 ble virtue. But guilt has always its lienors and 

 solicitudes; and to make it yet more sliamefiil 

 and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe 

 of those to whom nothing could give influence or 

 weight, but their power of betraying. — Rambler. 



Sick Head AcnE A correspondent in the 



Tuesday's Advertiser states, that three or four 

 small lumps of nitric acid, di.^solved in cold w.itcr, 

 and ilnink ofj; is a cure for sick head ache, arisin 

 from the deficiency of acid in the stomach. Tiie 

 experiment is simple, and worth a trial, at least. 

 We are not informed whether the remedy has a 

 similar effect when the disease arises from a su- 

 perabundance of acid on the stomach Liverpool 



Merc ury. 



Health The principal seerets of health are 



early rising, exercise, ])ersonal cleanliness, and 

 leaving the table unoppressed. 



jYeiv H'ork on Farriery. 



Just received and for sale at the Seed Store ronnecte 

 with the New England Farmer Office, No. 52 Nort 

 Market Street, 



The Veterinary Surgeon ; or. Farriery taught on a m 

 and easy plan : being a treatise on all the disease?- 

 accidents to which the Horse is liable ; the causes ;( 

 symptoms of each, and the most improved remedies cd 

 ployed for the cure in every case ; with instructions to tl 

 Shoeing-Smith, Farrier, and Groom, how to acquit 

 knowledge in the art of Farriery, and the prevention 

 Diseases. Preceded by a popular description of the an 

 rnal functions in health, and showing tlie principles ( 

 which these are to be restored when disordered. By Jol 

 Hinds, Veterinary Surgeon. With considerable additioi 

 and impiovcments, particularly adapted to this countr- 

 by Thomas M. Smith, Veterinary Surgeon, and Membi 

 of the London Veterinary Medical Society. Price $1,21 



Culture of Silk. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the Nei 

 England Farmer, 152 North Market-street— 



Essays on American Silk, and the best me.ins of rer 

 dering it a source of individual and national wealth ; v.-\' 

 Directions to Farmers for raising Silk Worms — By.d 

 D'Homergue, Silk Manufacturer, and Peter S. Du i 

 ceau — Price G'2i cents. 



Also, Directions for the Rearing of Silk Worms, 

 the Culture of the Wiiite Mulberry Tree. Publishd 

 the Pennsylvania Society associated for the Proin''^; 

 of those objects, (an excellent, plain, practical work.- 

 Price 25 cents. 



Pomace Shovels. 

 For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 52, Nr-: 

 Market-street, a few very superior pomace sbov 

 Also a few of Willis' improved Apple and Quince peai;. 

 Maclrines. 



rublislicd every Prit'av. :it 5-> I'cr nniiuni. | .liable altli 

 and of the year--but those who pay within sixty days from tip I i 

 time of suljgcribing, are entitled to a deduction of fifty ceiitJ jj 



Qj" No paper will be sent to a distance without payrncm: 

 being made in advance. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by I. R. Butts— Ijy wl 

 all descriptions of Printing can be esecuted to met! 

 wishes of customers. Orders for printing received by .' 

 P.USBELL, at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 52 IVu 

 Marlict Street. 



agexts. 

 Nni) York — G. Thurbukk & Son, 67 Liberty-street. 

 PhUttdelphiu- I). & C. L.iNDKETH. 85 Chcstnul-slrcet. 

 Bahivtore — G. 1>. Smith, OtHce ollhe American Farmer. 

 AU'jiiii — Hon. Jesse Buel. 



/■7hs/i-«-. y. Y. W.11. Prince & SoNs.Prop. Lia. Bol.Gardf itj . 

 rti///i.n/— Goodwin &. Holfs. M. 



NewOiiniport. Ebenezer Stedjian, Bookseller. ll " 



Huiifax.ti. S— P. J. Holland, Esq. Recorder Office. 

 Montreal, L. C. — A. Bowman, Bookseller. 



