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NEW Ex'^J GLAND FARMER, 



TEV1PKRANCR AT WASHINGTON. 



\Vc fiiiJ llie following loiter in the Albany Ar- 

 gus : 



W'AsnisGTnM City, Jan. 7, 1842. 



E. C. Dtlnvan, Esq. — My Dear Sir — For some 

 weeks pn«t the tcnif'eranco cnnse in this city has 

 excited an nniisiml interest, wliicli hiis been follow. 

 ed by sonn; very extraordinary results, 'rempo- 

 rance meotin^rs have been held two or three cven- 

 ing.s every week; the great transparent painting 

 which I have forwarded to you, ropreRcnlinic the 

 condition of the drunkard's stomach in the vtirious 

 sta^'e^ of inleinperaiicc, has been exhibited and ex- 

 plained ; crowds have thronged the houses to see 

 and to lieur, and multiliides have signed tlie total 

 abstinence |»lcdge, many of whom have been aban- 

 doned drunkards for years. The hearts of the 

 most despondent are cheered, and we confidently 

 look forward to the time when this city shall stand 

 redeemed, and intemperance be swept from the 

 metropolis of the country. 



A riinst animating and glorious scene was wit- 

 nessed at the meeting of our Freeman's Vigilant 

 Total Jlbslimnce Societij, held at the .Medical Col- 

 lege this evening, which I will briefly describe. 

 The name of 'IMiomas F. Marshall, a member of 

 Congress from Kentucky, nrphew of the late Chief 

 Justice Marshall, is doubtless familiar to you. His 

 intellect is of a very high order, and his mind of 

 that peculiar and original cast which gives pungen- 

 cy, power and eloquence to all his eflbrts in the 

 House of Representatives ; and he possesses also a 

 warm, generous and philanthropic heart. But 

 while he has been admired for the splendor of his 

 genius, and loved for the qualities cf his heart, and 

 while wp liave felt proud of him as an .American 

 orator, all have wept over him: yes, all — political 

 friends and political opponents — have wept over 

 him as a lost and mined man. But i\us day, Thom- 

 as F. .Marshall, while in the Hall of Representa- 

 tives, CMine to the conclusion that he was lost for- 

 ever, without a spceily ami entire reformation, and 

 deliberately formed the resolution to join a tempe- 

 rance society. This evening he was accompanied 

 by his friend Mr l>rig£;8 and myself to the tempe- 

 rance meeting at the college, where he placed his 

 name on the parchment roll, and took the total ab- 

 Btinenco pledge; after which he rose and made a 

 most touching and eloquent address, detailing some 

 interesting incidents in the history of his life. A- 

 mong other things, he said he was not ashamtd of 

 the net which he had consiiminnted ; that lie was 

 not only willing that this step should be known to 

 the society, but to Congress — to the nation — to 

 the world. Aflcr he sat down, Mr Briggs rose, 

 and from an overflowing heart made an address full 

 of power and jiatlios. Several other hpccches fol- 

 lowed, and an impression was made upon the audi, 

 encc which will not soon be effaced. Several oth- 

 er members of Congress followed Mr Marshall's ex- 

 ample and placed their names under his upon the roll. 



I need not till you, that this '.vent, while it is 

 destined to heal a mother's woundi, will cause a 

 whole State — nay, a wliole nation Ut rejoice over 

 tl»e return of o lost favorite son. 



Let us now have the example of the President 

 snd his Cabinet; let them banish from their tables 

 and social parties, the use of wine and other intoxi- 

 cating drinks ; and let the members of Congress 

 sustain us by the influence of their example, aiul 

 the great object will soon bo accomplished, and we 

 shall become a happy, virtuous and wealthy people. 

 Very truly yours, THOS. SEW ALL. 



SELF-PRESUMPTION. 

 It is with nations as wiili individuals, those who 

 know the least of others, think th'- highest of them- 

 selves ; for the w tjole family of pride and ignoiance 

 are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. — 

 The Chinese aflcct to despise European ingenuity, 

 but they cannot mend a commoM watch ; wlieii it 

 is out of order, they say it is dead, and barter it 

 away for a living one. The Persians think that 

 all foreign merchants come to them from a small 

 island in the northern waters, barren and desolate, 

 which produces nothing good or beautiful; "for 

 why else," say ihey, " do tlie Europeans come to iis 

 for such things, if they are to be had at home?" 

 The Turk will not permit the sacred cities of Mec- 

 ca or Aledina to be polluted by the residence or 

 even footstep -of a single Chris'ian; and as to the 

 grand Dairo of Japan, he is so holy that the sun is 

 not permitted to have the honor of shining on his 

 illustrious head. The king of Malacca styles liiin- 

 .self lord of the winds ; and the Mogul, to be equal 

 with him, titles liimscif conqueror of the world, and 

 his grandees are denominated rulers of the thunder 

 storm and steersmen of the whirlwind : even the 

 pride of Xerxes, who fettered the sea, and wrote 

 his commands to Mount Athos; or of Caligula, who 

 boasted of an intrigue with the moon, are both sur- 

 passed by the petty sovereign of an insignificant 

 tribe in North America, who every morning stalks 

 ouf^ftf his hovel, bids the sun good-morrow, and 

 points oui to him with his finger, the course he is 

 to take for the day: and to complete this climax of 

 pride and ignorance, it is well known that the 

 Khan of Tartary, who does not possess a single 

 house under the canopy of heaven, has no sooner 

 finished his repast of mare's milk and horse flesh, 

 than he causes a herald to proclaim from his seat, 

 that all the princes and potentates of the earth 

 have his permission to go to dinner! — Lacon. 



Walking on Watk.r. — A gentleman of Cin- 

 cinnati has invented a life preserver, by which tlie 

 power of locomotion is retained in the water, in an 

 upright position. It consists of a garment, water 

 tight to encase the feet, less and to the body near 

 the arms, and near the latter is fitted a large life 

 preserver To the hands are fixed paddles. Hav- 

 ing witnessed an e.xporimcnt in front of the citv, 

 where the wearer entered the water and passed 

 down the channel for a distance of fourteen hun- 

 dred feet, the editor of the Cincinnati Gazette tes- 

 tifies that the buoyant power of this garment is so 

 great as to float any one for hours, without getting 

 wet 



Pretiij Fair. — A distinguished counsellor nt 

 Nantucket, found a ball of yarn in the utreet, and 

 winding up the thread, he followed it until he ovcr- 

 .took the lady who dropped the ball and had the 

 other end of the thread in her pocket. The coun- 

 sellor made' his polite bow, put on his blandest 

 smile, and returning her the ball, said, " 1 have 

 often heard of ladies spinning street yarn, but nev- 

 er caught one at it before." — JVew Bedford licg. 



AGRICULTVRAli IMPLiBMIEN'TS, Ac. 



The I'roprictnrs of the New ['.iisLiirl Agricultural 1 

 house and Seeii :jtnrc Nu. 51 anil 52 Norlli Market i 

 wnulii in''i)rm iheir ^u^lorIlers and ihe puhlic ^enerallyl 

 they hiAve on hand the mobt extensive assortment of A 

 ^llhul:ll .ind Horiitullural TooN lo he found in ihc Uj 

 States. I'arl of which are the following : 



1000 Howard's Patent Cast 



Iron Ploughs 

 300 Common do. do. 

 200 Culiivalors. 

 too fircene's Straw Cutters. 

 60 Willis' do. do. 

 100 Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Shcllers. 

 60 (."^iiinmon do do. 

 2,.0 Willis' Seed Sowers. 

 60 " Vegetable Cutters 

 50 Common do. -do. 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 200 Grain Cradles, 

 ion Ox Yokes. 

 15U0 Doz- Scythe Stones. 

 3000 '■ Austin's Uifles. 

 March 17. 



100 doz. Cast Steel Sho 

 150 " Common dq 

 100 " Spades. 



Grass Scytlwa,. 



nteni Snaillis. 



Common do. 



Hay Kakes. 



Garden do. 



Manure Korks.] 



Hay do. 

 500 Pair Trace Chains, 

 luo " Truck do. 

 100 Drall do. 

 500 Tie up do. 



SO doz. Haller do. 

 inoi) yards Fence do. 

 25 Grind Stones on roll 



600 

 3U0 

 200 

 600 

 200 

 200 

 300 



APPL.K PARISUS. 



Ju>l received at the New Kn3land Agricultural .. 

 house, No 61 and 62 North Market Street, a good sup|l 

 Sl.anli:/s Siipciinr Apple Parcr.t, a very useful article. \ 

 one of these machines a liushel of apples may he par*, 

 a very short lime in the best possible manner, and wilhg^ 

 saving of the apple, as ihe outside-s may he taken oA'all 

 required thickness. The ahove is also ior s-alc at N. PJ 

 WILLIS", No 4.5 North Market Stre.'i, SCUDI>Ell, Cf 

 DISvV CO., and HOSMER& TAPP.AN, Milk Street.] 



Sc|Jl. 1 6w JOSEPH BRECK & Cd 



GKt.;EBI'S PATENT STRAW CUTTEB. 



A good story is related of President Humphrey, 

 of Amherst College. One morning belorc rccila- 

 tioiis, some of the students fastened u live goose to 

 the President's chair. When he entered the room, 

 and discovered the new occupant of his sent, iio 

 turned upon his heel and coolly observed, " (ion- 

 tlemen, i perceive you have a competent instruc- 

 tor, and I will therefore leave you to your studies." 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO i:nTlandA^ 



tural Warehouse and Seed S;... ...-. ,., ..iul,''.2 Norllrl 



kit Street, have for sale, Grecirs Patent Straw, Hbt 

 Stalk Cutler, operating ou a nicchaniccl principle not f 

 ap')!ied to aay implemeiil lor this purpose. The moRt| 

 iiieiit efTecis uf tins application, and >ome of the coo 

 peculiarities of the inacliine are : 



1. So great a red'uction of the quantum of power re 

 to use it, that the strenglh of a halfgtown boy is sud 

 to work it elliciently. 



2. Willi even this moderate power, it easily cuts two! 

 els a ninute, which is full twice as fast us has been di 

 liy any other machine even when worked by horsbor I 

 power. 



3. The knives, ovrinfr to the peculiar manner in whicL 

 I ui, require sharpeuiug less often than those of anyjl 

 sirjw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple inils construction, made an 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable 

 cuiiiplicaled machines in general use to gel out ofc 



WIIIMDSTONBS, ON KRICTIUX ROL. 



Grindstones ol diirereut sizes hung on friction rullei 

 moved with a fool trcadcr, is lound to be a great iinpi 

 n;enl on the present mode of hanging gri:.dsloncs, 

 ease with which they move ujwu the rollers, renders 

 very easy In turn with the loot, by which the labor 4. 

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

 ^ovcr.n the stone more in his mind hy having the coot 

 control of his work. Stones hung in this manner ai 

 coming daily more in use, and wherever used, give lii 

 sal salisfaciiun. The rollers can he attached to stones 

 in the comiiKui wav. 



For sale iv JOSEPH BUECK & CO., Nos. 61 

 North Mai ket BoMon. July i 



^ E W F, N (; I, A N I) F A K M K R . 

 A wi-.KKi.v p.^rKn. 

 1'emis, fi per year in advance, or $2 .VJ ifnol 

 within thirty days. 



N. B. — Hiistiiiaslera arc permitted by law to frank 

 siibscriptiiins and reiiiitlanccs for newspapers, wil' 

 expenaa to •uborribers. 



VDTTLt ARC DEHRETT, PKIMTK&S. 



