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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 2<i, 1831. 



MISCEL.L.AIVY 



MELODY. 



Silently, O silently, 



The moon-beam foils on me : 

 Silently, as silently, 



It falls on land and sea. 



Silently, still silently, 



Creation's winf;s wax bright; 

 Silently, more silently, 



Bright morn succeeds to night. 



O let my soul, thus silently. 

 Depart from earthly clay ; 



Thus silently and beamingly 

 Enter the realms of day. 



NFW nFFIMTFON'S I Valuable and Cheap Land— for Sale. 



_ INLW Dbl-lMllU.\te. I .|,|^^ subscriber offers for sale, 14,000 acres of choree 



'Ibsurdity. Anylliiiig advanced hy our oppo- | Land, situated in the town of Pinckncy, county of Lewis 



and state of New York. Some ot the land is improved 

 and under cultivation. The country is remaikalily heal- 

 thy, being entirely free from the fever and ague and fro 



TEMPERANCE. 



Temperance Societies. — An aged man observed 

 to one of the distributors of the city committee, 

 that the change which had been produced among 

 seamen, riggers, and the workmen abotit the docka 

 and slips, was ahiiost incredible. ' I liave lived in 

 the city, said he, ' many years, and my occupation 

 brings me in contact with these men ; and in 

 comparison witli the profiinity and drunkenness 

 which prevailed a few years ago, all is now peace 

 and quietude. Otlicers and hands read the bible, 

 aiid attend church ; many of our vessels are con- 

 stantly going; to sea, and making voyages, without 

 any spirit on board. Sucli a change I never e.\- 

 pected to see as has been accomplished by tracts 

 and tetnperance societies. — Report of the JV. Y 

 City Tract Soc. 



Evils OF I.ntemperance. 



The bio^raplier of Napoleon, speaking of the loss 

 sustained by England on the field of Waterloo, 

 says : ' Fifteen thousand men killed and wounded 

 threw half Britain into mourning. It required all 

 the glory and all the solid advantages of that day 

 to reconcile the mind to the high price at which 

 it was purchased. But what mourning would fill 

 all Britain, if every year should behold another 

 Waterloo? But what does every year repeat in 

 our peaceful land ? Ours is a carnage not exhibited 

 only once in a single field, but going on continually 

 in every town and hamlet. 



Every eye sees its woes, every ear catches its, 

 groans. The wounded are too numerous to count; 

 who is not wounded by the intemperance of this na- 

 tion ? But of the dead, we count, year by year, 

 more than four times the number that filled half 

 Britain with mourning. Could w.e behold the 

 many thousands wliom our destroyer annually de 

 livers over unto death, collected together upon one 

 field of slaughter, for one funeral, and one deep 

 and wide burial place ; could we behold a full as 

 semblage of all the parents, widows, children, 

 friends, whose hearts have been torn by their 

 death, siu-rounding that awful grave, and loading 

 the winds with tales of wo, the whole land woidd 

 cry out at the spectacle. It would require some 

 thing more than ' all the glory and rdl the solid 

 advantages,' of intemperauee, ' to reconcile the mind 



to the high price at which thuj were purchased JV. 



Y. Address on Temperance. 



nents contrary to our practice, or above our com 

 prehension. 



Ambiguitr/. A quality deemed essentially neces- 

 sary in diplomatic writings and law proceedings. 

 Backward. A mode of advancciiient practised 

 by Crabs, and recommended to mankind in gene- 

 ral by the Holy Alliance. 



Blushing. A practice least used by those who 

 have most occasion for it. 



Book. A tlimg formerly put aside to be read, 

 and now read to be put asi<le. 



Breath. Air received into the lungs for the 

 ()urposes of smoking, whistling, &c. 



Courage. The fear of being thought a coward. 

 Cunning. The simplicity by which knaves 

 generally outwit themselves. 



Ditch. A place, in which those who take too 

 much wine, are apt to take a little water. 

 Echo. The shadow of a sound. 

 Finger. An appendage worn in a ring, and of 

 reat use in taking snuff. 

 Gain. Losing life to win Jiioney. 

 Health. Another word for temperance and ex 

 ercise. 



Idol. What many woi-ship in their own shape, 

 who would be shocked at doing it in any other 



Mouth. An useless instrument to some iieople, 

 — ill as fiir as it renders ideas audible, liut of spe- 

 cial service in rendering victuals invisible. 



Pedant. A man so absurdly ignorant as to be 

 vain ofhis knowledge. 



Quack. A man who only wants a diploma to 

 make him a regular physician. 



Satire. Attacking the vices or follies of others 

 instead of reforming our own. 



Sato. A sort of dumb alderman, which gets 

 through a great deal by the activity of its teeth. 



Ugliness. An advantageous stimulus to the 

 mind that it may make up for the deficiencies of 

 the body. 



Umbrella. An article which by the morality 

 of society you may steal from friend or foe, and 

 which for the same reason you should not lend to 

 either. 



Vice. Miscalculation ; obliquity of moral vis- 

 ions ; temjjorary madness. 



l^oice. Echo is the only instance of a voice 

 without a body, whereas three parts of our 

 unprecedented population are bodies with out a 

 voice — London JVew Monthly. 



How TO PLEASE TOUR FRIENDS. — Go to India) 

 stay there twenty years, work hard, get money, 

 save it, come home — bring with you a store of 

 wealtli, and diseased liver, visit your friends, make 

 a will, provide for them all— then die — what a 

 prudent, good, generous, kind-hearted soul vou 

 will be. 



Boijal Sports — Louis XI. ordered the Abbe of 

 Baigne, a man of great wit and who bad a knack of 

 inventing new musical instruments, to get him a 

 concert of swine's .voices, thinking it impossible. 

 Tlie abbot accordingly mustered up a number of 

 hogs of several ages, and placed them under a 

 pavilion, covered with velvet, before which he 

 had a sounding board, ])ainted with a certain num- 

 ber of keys, thus making an organ ; and as he 

 played on the keys with little spikes which pricked 

 the iiogs he made them cry in such tune and con- 

 cert as highly delighted the king and his court. 



the common bilious fevers which often afflict the towns 

 upon Lake Ontario, this town being IS ndles east of the 

 lake. The soil is principally a sandy loam, much of it 

 covered with rich black mould. The timber is chiefly 

 ugar Maple, Black Ash, Butternut, Beech, Elm, &c. 

 The land yields first rale crops of Grass, Rye, Oats, Bar- 

 ley, Potatoes and Fiax ; and on some lots, good Wheat 

 and Corn may be grown. To those wishing to obtain su- 

 perior grazing farms, a fine opportunity now oilers itself. 

 The produce of pasturage and hay from an acre of this 

 land, is very large, fully equalling if not surpassing that 

 from the same quantity of land in any other of the Black 

 River townships. The land is admirably well watered, 

 there being but few lots which have not durable running 

 streams upon them. The land is well adapted to Orchard- 

 ing — the Apple tree thriving very well in this county. 

 Stock of all kinds may be disposed of with the least possi- 

 ble trouble, and to the greatest advantage, the drovers 

 purchasing at the very doors of the farmers, and paying 

 the highest cash prices for their cattle, which will readily 

 find purchasers at all seasons of tlie year. Several far- 

 mers at present residing on this town, were originally 

 from the New England States, and some of them from 

 Massachusetts, who are in thriving circumstances. Tlie 

 above described land is offered for sale at the very low 

 price of from two dollars and a half to three dollars per 

 acre, lor the uncleared land, and from three dollars and a 

 half to five dollars and a half for the improved lots. Tile 

 land will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, and from two 

 to five years' credit for payment, in annual instalments, 

 will be given. As a further convenience to purchasers, 

 the subscriber will receive in payment. Cattle, Sheep, 

 Perk, Grain or Grass Seed, for which products he will 

 allow the highest cash prices. The title to the land is 

 indisputable, and good Warranty Deeds will be given to 

 purchasers. Pers'ons desirous of purchasing will please 

 to apply to the subscriber, at Henderson Harbor, county 

 ofJefferson.Stateof New York, or to David CanfielDj 

 Esq. on the town. JAMES H. HENDERSON. 



March 9. epl6t - 



Ammunition ^_£J) 

 Of the best quality ai.d iu7rfsf;iri(rc.s, for sporting — 

 constantly for sale at COPELAND'S POWDER STORE, 

 6": Broad Street. 



IV. B. H' the quality is not found satisfactory, it may 

 be returned, and the money will be refunded, tf Jan. 7 

 Hickory. 

 This astonishing fleet horse was raised in Montreal, is 

 from an English blood mare, (sire unknown,) is not ift- 

 ferior to any in the U. Slates for speed, action and beaiv 

 ty. He is a fine sorrel, well built, good size, and pro- 

 nounced by (good) judges in every respect a first rate 

 horse ; trots a 3 minute gait, fast walker, and has paced 

 around the trotting course. Long Island, in 2 minutes, 34 

 seconds, and was offered publicly to match against any 

 horse that could be produced. It is considered unneces- 

 sary to say more, as his qualifications are too well known 

 to be doubled. 



Ho will stand at Abbott's Inn, Holden, during th* 

 season. Terms $3, the season. 6t May IL 



An Independent Oijsterman. — At many of the oyster 

 cellars in New York, the signs are inscribed with — 

 ' Oysters on the Canal Street Plan.' But an Irisliman, 

 who keeps a cellar near the Chatham Theatre, with a 

 praiseworthy spirit of independence, both in the matter 

 of business and in spelUng, has a sign lettered thus — 

 ' Oijstcrs on my Oen Plan, as good as any other Plan.' 



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