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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Dec. 31, ]n: 



MI SC ELL. AJV Y. 



FROM FRIENDSHI P's O F F E R I N G — FOR 1831, 



THE ACCEPTED. 



BY THOMAS HAYNE3 BAYLT. 



I THANK you for that downcast look, 



And for that blushing che«k : 

 I would not have you raise your eyes, 



I would not have you speak : 

 Though mute, I deem you eloquent, 



I ask no other sign. 

 While thus your little hand remains 



Confidingly in mine. 



I know you fain would hide from me 



The tell-tale tears that steal 

 Unbidden forth, and half betray 



The anxious fears you feel ; 

 From friends long-tried and dearly loved 



The plighted bride must part : 

 Then freely weep — I could not love 



A cold, unfeeling heart. 



I know you love your cottage home, 



Where in the summer time. 

 Your hand has taught the clematis. 



Around the porch to climb: 

 Yon casement with the wild rose screen, 



Yon little garden loo, 

 How many fond remembrances 



Endear them all to you. 



You sieh to leave your mother's roof. 



Though on my suit she smiled. 

 And, spurning ev'ry selfish thought. 



Gave up her darling child : 

 Sigh not for her, she now may claim 



Kind deeds from more than one ; 

 She'll gaze upon her daughter's smiles 



Supported by her son! 



I thank you for that look — it speaks 



Reliance on my truth ; 

 And never shall unkindness wound 



Your unsuspecting youth : 

 If fate should frown, and anxious thoughts 



Oppress your husband's mind. 

 Oh ! never fear to cling to me, — 



I could not be unkind. 



Come, look upon this golden ring — 



You have no cause to shrink. 

 Though oft 't is galling as the slave's 



Indissoluble link I 

 And look upon yon church, the place 



Of blessing and of prayer ; 

 Before the altar hear my vows — 



Who could dissemble there! 



Come to my home ; your bird shall have 



As tranquil a refi-eat ; 

 Your dog shall find a resting place. 



And slumber at your feet : 

 And while you turn your spinning wheel. 



Oh ! let me hear you sing. 

 Or I shall think you cease to love 



Your little golden ring. 



From Lady Morgan's late Work on Fmrice. 



DOMESTIC INDUSTRY IN FRANCE. 



To tho perseverance and entorpriss of Monsieur 



Ternaux the French are indebted for the immense 



improvement they have made in tho manufacture of 



sJiniWk, to wiiich his attention was drawn hy the 



growiniT rage of the Parisians for the products of 

 the Indian loom. At the period when the Egyptian 

 expedition had brought this article into vogue, the 

 species of animal which produces the law material 

 was absolutely unknown in France ; and the first 

 eftbrt of Monsieur Ternaux was directed to smug- 

 gling from a town, some hundred werstes beyond 

 Moscow, a specimen of the wool. This was e.xecu- 

 ted by one of his riders, who brought the precious 

 bale, to the amount only of sixty pounds, concealed 

 in a courier's cushion. The first attempts at imita- 

 tion were made with this scanty supply ; and it was 

 not till after the peace of Tilsit, that he was enabled 

 to obtain a second quantity. 



A perfect fac-simile of the shawl itself was then 

 soon eft'ectcd ; but tlie borders afforded a permanent 

 obstacle, in the liigh price of French labor ; this ar- 

 ticle being entirely manufactured by needle-work. — 

 Monsieur Ternau.x's next attempt was, therefore, 

 to work the border by tlie process used in Lyons 

 for the figured silks. The excessive price was, 

 however, still an obstacle to their sale ; and an infe- 

 rior article, made partly of silk, by another house, 

 obtained possession of the market. Unsubdued by 

 this impediment, Monsieur Ternaux still persevered; 



to improve the breed of sheep, and obtain the fin 

 qualities of wool, from indigenous sources. Havii 

 made his first attempts at imitating the Indian shaw 

 with merino wool, his attention was early fixed 

 this product, and the animal from whicli it is obtai 

 ed. The improvement of the breed of sheep h; 

 been a favorite object with the minister Colbert ; ai 

 when a certain Mons. Cudot, a cloth manufacturt 

 was nearly sinking under the expenses of his i 

 tempts to make fine cloths in opposition to the Le 

 den looms, he succeeded in saving his protege, by 

 trick, which perfectly answered his intention. 1 

 his persuasion, Louis tlie Fourteenth was induced 

 wear a coat of this manufacture ; and, when on 

 parti de chasse, to praise very much its te.xture ai 

 colors: the result was, that his courtiers (and the 

 courtiers in turn) all made a point of procuring 

 similar dress. The cloth sold rapidly, and at a hi; 

 price ; the manufactory at Sedan was saved, and b 

 came the parent of that of Rheims, which, for 

 long time, remained famous for this stuff, which w 

 afterwards known by the name oCsilcrie. 



To the improvement of the French breed 



sheep, Monsieur Tcrnau.x has contributed, by t 



importation of various approved races, from Spai 



and ultimately succeeded in producing shawls, from England, and from Egypt ; and he has publis- 

 which, both for the tissue itself, and the beauty of'cd several pamphlets to diffuse a knowledge of t 



tlie borders, were not inferior to those of India. 



The next object with the manufacturer was to ob- 

 tain a sufficient supply of the wool ; and Monsieur 

 Ternaux having remarked that tlie Russians, from 

 whom he had purchased it, knew the article by the 

 name of Persian wool, he directed his researches in 

 that quarter ; and learned that Thomas Koulikan, in 

 his Asiatic expeditions, had brought three hundred 

 of the goats which produce it from Thibet; and 

 that these animals have multiplied greatly in Bukha- 

 ria, and as far as the province of Kerman. Having 

 thus determined that these animals throve in forty- 

 two degrees of latitude, and in a climate, from its ele- 

 vation, much colder than France, and that they also 

 resisted the heat of Kerman, which is in the thirti- 

 eth degree of latitude, he resolved to attempt their 

 naturalization in his own country. 



To ascertain the identity of the animals, and that 

 their products in Thiket were precisely the same as 

 those in Persia, personal inspection was necessary. 

 For tills purpose. Captain Baudin, who sailed for 

 Calcutta in 1814, was charged to obtain the true 

 Thibet wool. An examination of this product clear- 

 ed up all doubt ; but the greater work remained of 

 obtaining the animals themselves. To this enter- 

 prise many difficulties presented themselves, in the 

 distance, the dangers of the journey, and the jeal- 

 ousies of foreign governments. To succeed, requir- 

 ed the services of a man of great courage and inge- 

 nuity, acquainted with tho Oriental languages, and 

 accustomed to perilous and long journeys. It re- 

 quired also the direct intervention of the French 

 ministry, to dispose the Russian government in its 

 favor. Fortunately, the Due de Richelieu, whose 

 relations with that country gave him immense fa- 

 cilities, took up the matter with warmth ; and a 

 Mons. Ainadee .Taubert (vvlio was sent express,) af- 

 ter having been compelled to abandon two hundred 

 goats in the steppes of the Oural, and having en- 

 countered the greatest difficulties, from the sickness 

 of the animals, from wolves, from the barbarous 

 hordes inhabiting the country through which he 

 passed, and from hunger and thirst, succeeded in 

 embarking from the Crimea five hundred and sixty- 

 eight animals, two hundred and forty of the pure 

 breed, and three hundred of a mixed race ; si.x Buk- 

 harian sheep, eight kids, seven young mothers, and 

 seven males. 



By the success of this well-combined and fortu- 

 nate enterprise, a single manufacturer has bestowed 

 on his country a new and profitable object of agri- 

 cultural industry, and has enriched its manufactures 

 with a product, which will be a source of labor and 

 profit as long as wealth and taste shall remain in Eu- 

 rope, 



points to be attended to in the conduct of this ii 

 portant branch of agriculture. To the manufactur 

 of Monsieur Ternaux, dispersed through differs 

 parts of France, commerce is indebted for a vast v 

 riety of new products ; more especially for tb 

 beautiful, light texture, now so perfectly imitated 

 England, which is known by the name of merini 

 He also, I believe, it was, that invented the proce< 

 for stamping patterns in relief, on cloth ;— for t: 

 covers of tables, and other ornamental purposes. 



As the popular representative of Paris in t: 

 Chamber of Deputies, this gentleman's name is w> 

 known to English politicians. He is said to possf- 

 immense wealth; and, if industry, ingenuity, an c 

 lightened and comprehensive mind, and a patri 

 ism that sees the prosperity of his country in t 

 comfort and happiness of its people, and pursi4 \^ 

 that object with incorruptible honesty and unvvearit 

 perseverance, be just titles to eminence — 

 ' Well has he won it — may he wear it long 



The night before Pius the seventh died, he senti 

 Col. M — ,who had been extremely kind to him wh 

 he was a prisoner at Valence, and presented him w^ 

 a superb silver-gilt cup, rescued from the papal tre ■ 

 ury, whicli he begged him to accept as a mark of nl, 



gratitude and esteem. Col. M , felt somecd titf 



scientious scruples about taking so magnificefl y^ 

 present. 'Perhaps your Holiness is not aware,' | ^^ 

 he, 'that you are making this valuable, and aim , 

 consecrated present to a heretic. I am of the chili " 

 of Geneva.' ' What has that to do with it .'' said't *l 

 Pope, with a flash of animation. Then, closing ij "n 

 heavy eyes, he added, in an exhausted tone, but w( )[(; 

 great solemnity, ' Are we not all children of tl iljj 

 same Father ?' — Lady Morgan's France. i, 



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