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Z\V ENGLAND FARMER. 



DECS, I84I. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE BACKWOODSMAN. 



BY EPHBAIM PEABOOV. 



The silent wilderness for me! 



Where never sound is heard, 

 Save llie rustling of the si^uirrel's foot, 



And the flitting wing of bird, 

 Or its low and interrupted note, 



Or the deer's quic^, crackling tread, 

 And the swaying of the forest boughs, 



As the wind moves overhead. 



Alone, (how glorious to be free I) 



Jly Rood do? at my side, 

 My rille hanging in my arm, 



I range the forests wide. 

 And now the regal Buffalo 



Across the plains I chase; 

 Now track the mountain stream, to find 



The licavcr's lurking place. 



I stand upon the mountam's top, 



And (solitude profound!) 

 Not even a woodman's smoke curls up 



VVilhin the horizon's hound. 

 Below, as o'er its ocean breadth 



The air's light currents run, 

 The wilderness of moving leaves 



Is glancing in the sun. 

 I look around to where the sky 



Meets the far (orest line, 

 And tills inipt'ria! domain — 



This kingdom — ail is mine. 

 This bending heaven— these floating clouds- 

 Waters that ever roll — 

 And wilderness of glory, bring 



Their ofierings to my soul. 



My palace, built by God's own hand. 



The world's fresh prime hath seen; 

 Wide stretch its living halls away. 



Pillared and roofed with green. 

 Mt music is the wind that now 



Pours loud its swelling bars, 

 Now lulls in dying cadences, — 



My festal lamps are stars. 



Though when, in this my lonely home. 



My star-watched couch I press, 

 I hear no fond "good night"— think not 



1 am companionless. 

 no ! I see my father's house, 



'i'he hill, the tree, the stream. 

 And the looks and voices of my home, 



Come gently to my dream. 



And in the solitary haunts. 



While slumbers every tree 

 In night and silence, Ciod himself 



Seems nearer unto me. 

 l/cel hi.s presence in these shades 



Like the embracing air j 

 And as my eyelids close in sleep, 



My heart is hushed in prayer. 



statue, whose immense size struck the spectator 

 afar off with astonishment ; but when nearly view- 

 ed, it appears disproportioncd, unshapely, and rudo. 



Observations of the same kind may be applied 

 to all tlie rep'itation derived from civil accomplish- 

 ments ; from the refined politics of the statesman ; 

 or the literary efforts of genius and erudition. 

 These bestow, and within certain bounds, ought to 

 bestow, eminence and distinction on men. They 

 discover talents which in themselves are shining ; 

 and which become liighly valuable, when employ- 

 ed in advancing the good of mankind. Hence, they 

 frequently give rise to fame. But a distinction is 

 to be made between fame and true honor. The 

 statesman, the orator, or the poet, may be famous ; 

 while yet the man himself is far from being hon- 

 ored. We envy his abilities. We wish to rival 

 them. But we would not wish to be classed with 

 him who possesses them. Instances of this soft 

 are too often found in every record of ancient or 

 modern history. 



From ail this it follows, that in order to discern 

 where man's true honor lies, we must look, not to 

 any adventitious circumstance of fortune ; not to 

 any single sparkling quality ; but to the whole of 

 what forms a man ; what entitles him, as such, to 

 rank high among that class of beings to which he 

 belongs ; in a word we must look to the mind and 

 the soul. A mind superior to fear, to selfish inter- 

 est and corruption ; a mind governed by the prin- 

 ciples of unifonr. rectitude and integrity ; the same 

 in prosperity and adver.sily ; which no bribe can se- 

 duce, nor terror overawe ; neither by pleasure 

 melted into effeminacy, nor by distress sunk into 

 dejection : such is the mind which forms the dis- 

 tinction and eminence of man. — One, who, in no 

 situation of life, is either ashamed or afraid of dis- 

 charging his duty, and acting his proper part with 

 firmness and constancy ; true to the-God whoin he 

 worships, and true to the faith in which he profess- 

 es to believe : full of affection to his brethren of 

 mankind ; faithful to his friends, generous to his 

 enemies, warm with compassion to the unfortunate ; 

 self-denying to little private interests and pleas- 

 ures, but zealous for public interest and happiness : 

 magnanimous, without being proud ; humble, with- 

 out being mean ; just, without being harsh ; sim- 

 ple in his niiinncrs, but manly in his feelings ; on 

 whose words wo can entirely rely ; whose counte- 

 nance never deceives us ; whose professions of 

 kindness are the effusions of his heart : one, in 

 fine, whom, independent of any views of advan- 

 tage, we would choose for a superior, could trust in 

 as a friend, and could love as a brother — this is the 

 man, whom in heart, above all others, we do, we 

 Blair, 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



THE TRUE HONOR OP MAN. 

 The proper honor of man arises not from some 

 of those .•splendid actions and abilities, which ex- 

 cite high adniiration. Courage and prowess, mili- 

 tary renown, signal victories and conquests, may 

 render the name of a man famous, without render- 

 ing a man truly honorable. To many brave men, < must honor, 

 to many hemes renowned in story, we look up with 

 ■wonder. Their exploits are recorded. Their 

 praises are sung. They stand as on an eminence 

 above the rest of inankind. Their eminence, nev- 

 ertheless, may not be of that sort, before which we 

 bow with inward esteem and res[ioct Something 

 more is wanted for that purpose, than the conquer- 

 ing arm, and the intrepid mind. The laurels of 

 the warrior must at all times be dyed in blood, and 

 bedewed with the tears of the widow and the or- 

 phan. But if they have been stained by rapine 

 and inhumanity ; if sordid avarice has marked his 

 character ; or low and gross sensuality has degra- 

 ded his life ; the great hero sinks into a little man. 

 What at a distance, or on a superficial view, we 

 admired, becomes mean, perhaps odious, when we I Total of all dcmominations, 

 examine it more closely. It ia like the Colossal I 1 in G of the population. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. al the New England Agric 

 .tural Warehouse and Seed Store ISos. 51 and 62 North Mi 

 kel Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay » 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle not bef«4 ^, 

 applied to asy implement for this purpose. The mcst pro) 

 inent offects of this application, and some of the consei]al| 11 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power reqoil^. 



sufficM 



t, that the strength of a half grown boy is sul 

 to work it efficiently 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two biw t 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fust as has been claim He 

 by any other machine even when worked by horee or steii 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which thl • 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any ott f 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and| 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable asl 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of ordeti 



APPLfc PAKEKS. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Wai 

 house, No 31 and 62 North Market Street, a good supply 

 Stanlry's Superior Apple Parers, a very useful article. Wi 

 one of these machines a bushel of apples may be pared 

 a very short time in tho best possible manner, and with gra 

 saving of ihe apple, as the outsides may be taken off'at 

 rtquirtj thickness. The above is also for sale at N. P. 

 WILLIS', No. 45 North Market Street, SCUDDER, CO] 

 DIS Jt CO., and HOSMER & TAPPAN, Milk Street. 



Sept. I 6w JOSEPH BRECK & C' 



DENOMINATIOfJS IN BOSTON. 

 A writer on " City Miisions" in the Boston Re- 

 corder, gives the following statistics of the mem- 

 bers of the different churches in the city : 



Churches. 

 Orthodox Congrcgationalists, 13 

 Baptist, 9 



Methodist, 10 



Oother Evangelical, (including Episcopal), 

 All others. Unitarian, Universalists, Cath- 

 olic, &c.. 



•Vfrnter.?. 

 3,750, 

 3,000, 



1,800, 

 1,000, 



4,noo, 



14,150, or 



Brightob, near Boston, 

 SUuaicd on Ihe line of Ihe Bnslon and Worcester Ha 

 Road, — 5 miles from the city. 

 The Proprietors of this extensive nursery 1 

 heave to inlurm their friends and the public, t, 

 ^they are ready to furnish orders to any amog 

 lor Forest Trees, indigenuous and eiotic. 

 Fruit Trees, including all the varietiec 

 Pears, Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Cherries, Uk. &c. 

 'Seines— Shrubs, Green House Plants, &c. 

 Catalogues may be obtained by aipplying at the Nan 

 Trees carefully packed, to ensure safety in long 

 Orders left at the New England Seed Store of J. Bhi 

 Co. Nos. 51 and 52, North ftlarket street, will be deli» 

 the day following. 

 Letters coRtaining orders, addressed to the subscriber 

 J. & F. WINSHIP. 

 Brighton Nurseries, Oct. 27, 1841. 



tiltUIDSTUNES, ON FRICTION I: 



Grindstones of differenl sizes hung on i: 

 moved with a foot trcader, is found to be ii ur' mi iiii{ 

 ment on the present mode of hanging grindstones, 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, renders th 

 very easy to mm with the (ool, by which the labor of ( 

 man is saved, and the person in the act of grindiqg, 

 govern the stone more to his mind by having the comp 

 control of his work. Stones hung in this manner aral 

 coining daily more in use, and wherever used, give uoil 

 sal satisfaction. The rollers can be attached to stones hi 

 in the common wav. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., Nos. 61 md 

 North Market Boston. July 14 



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