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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 2-.', IsitJ. 



l»IS0B2,I,AinES. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



CURE FOR USING TOBACCO. 



Ye, who are chewing, snuffing, smoking. 



Think, or think not, that I am jokir.g, 



When I declare, the solemn fact is. 



All may leave off this tempting practice. 



Let every one the process try, 



iO beg of all, and never buy. Smoke 'em. 



indicated between tintt number and those embod- ; 

 iod in the returns of tlie mililia from the States, 

 results from the exemptions from militia service, 

 which, in some of the states, are equal to one half 

 of the whole number, which from their ages should ' 

 be enrolled. From our happy position in regard \ 

 to Europe, and from t!io no less fortunate relations j 

 maintained witli our neighbours, and their actual ; 

 condition, it would appear t]ia.t keeping up a system ' 

 of the militia so extensive as the present, and bur- 

 thensome, without any advantage to a large class of 

 our citizens, tvas absohitely unnecessary. A differ- 



Joftn*omana.—Dr Johnson said of Goldsmith, ^„^ organization, therefore, by which at hast a mil 



It is understood that a vessel « ill sail in a fe 

 days from Pliiladelphia for Greece, with a car; 

 of twelve or fifteen hundred barrtlj of flour,- 

 donation from the merchants and others of tl 

 city, to the suffering Greeks. 



The exports from the port of Pensacolu duif 

 the year ending Sept. 1, consisted of 1, 803 bai 

 of Cotton, 100,000 feet sawed Lumber, 305 

 Bricks, 857 Cedar Logs, 1,299 Ox Hides,! 

 bales Deer Skins, 10 lihds do. 93 bbls Tallq 

 do. Beeswax, 5 do. Otter Skins. 



" No man was more foolish when he had not a pen 

 in his hand, or more wise v/hen he had." 



Once vi'hen somebody produced a newspaper in 



lion and a lialf of our most useful citizens would be 

 relieved from the unprof table pageantry of military 

 parade, forfve or six days in the year, constituting 

 which there was a letter of stupid abuse of Sir \so injurious a draft on their industry, viust be one 

 Joshua Reynolds, ot which Johnson came in for a I which cannot fail to be rvell received by the Jlmeri- 

 share, — " Pray, (said he) let us have it read aloud can people ; and when, too. it is believed, that not- 

 from beginning to end;" which being done, ho [ withstanding this relief, a superior efficiency will 



with a ludicrous earnestness, and not directing his 

 look to any particular person, called out, " Are we 

 alive after all this satire !" 



Dr Johnson being in company with a gentleman 

 who thought fit to maintain Dr Berkely's ingenious 

 philosophy, that nothing exists but as perceived by 

 some mind ; when the gentleman was going away 

 Johnson said to him, " Pray, sir, don't leave us ; 

 for we may perhaps forget to think of you, and 

 then you will cease to exist." 



The following anecdote is said to be very char- 

 acteristic of Richardson. One day at his country- 

 house, where a large company was assembled at 

 dinner, a gentleman who was just returned from 



be imparted to tliis natural arm of the national de 

 fence." 



It is stated in the Boston Recorder, that two 

 captains of companies have lately died from fatigue 

 and sickness occasioned by the late Division Mus- 

 ter at Dedham. It is really worthy of serious con- 

 sideration, whether the idleness and dissipation in- 

 cident to many of our militia trainings do not coun- 

 terbalance all the benefits to be derived from this 

 childish, " unprofitable pageantry of military pa- 

 rade." 



The annual produce of the agriculture and 

 cries of Frande, is estimated at 4,i>7-,7'28|l 

 francs; and of the French manufactures 

 1 1,830,105,409. 



I The celebrated horse Duroc, the sire of Eclij 

 &c. died last Friday week, at his owner's resii~ 

 in Hyde Park, Long Island. 



I' 



On the Transference of Fish from Salt Water to 

 Fresh. — A letter from Mr Meynell, of Yarm York- 

 shire, has been read to the Wernerian Naturalist 



Paris, willing to please Mr Richardson, mentioned i Society, on changing the habits of fishes, and 

 te him a very flattering circumstance,— that he had 1 mentioning that he had, for four years past, kept 

 een his Clarissa lying on the King's brother's ta- 'he smelt, or spirling (Sa/mo £;)eWan!(S,) in a fresh- 

 water pond, having no communication with the sen 

 by means of Tees or other .vise ; and that tlie 

 smelts had continued to thrive, and bred as freely 

 as when they enjoy intercourse with the sea. 



[Littel's Museum.] 



Dr. Comstock, of this City, has found on 

 chemical process by v/hich to render leather, cl 

 and divers other things, impervious to watei 

 We saw a pair of prunella shoes which did 

 dilter at all in appearance from ordinary shoe 

 that kind, that had been soaked in the wate: 

 days without the least dampness on the insid 

 To what purpose, or how extensively the 

 means to apply his discovery, is what ho hio 

 has perhaps not yet determined, but it has ea 

 appearance of being a most important one. 

 said to us positively that it is a very different tl 

 so far as he could find out, from any of the | 

 for such purposes that have ever before been 

 or recommended. [Hartford Mirr 



ble. Richardson observing that part of the com 

 pany were engaged in talking to each other, af- 

 fected then not to attend to it. But by-and-by, 

 u hen there was a general silence, and he thought 

 that the flattery might be fully heard, he addres- 

 sed himself to the gentleman, " I think, sir, you 



were saying something about ," pausing in a 



high flutter of expectation. The gentleman, pro- 

 voked at his inordinate vanity, resolved not to in 



Cruelty to the Brute Creation ; by Dr. Parr. — 

 The minds of children are open to impressions of 

 every sort, and indeed wonderful is the facility 

 with which a judicious instructor may habituate 

 dulge it, and with an exquisitely sly air of indif- Uijem to tender emotions. I hiae, therefore, ul- 

 ference answered, » A mere trifle, sir, not worth ^^^g considered mercy to beings of an inferior 

 repeating." The mortification of Richardson was species, as a virtue which childr-^n are very capa- 



Ornamental and Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Plant. 

 D. & C. LA.NDRETH. 

 JVursery, Scedsn 



:men, arid Florisls, 1 



Philadki.phQII" 



liand for sale, a very exti I'' 



excessive, and he did not speak ten words more 

 the whole day. Dr Johnson was present, and en 

 joyed it much. — Boswell's Life of Johnson. 



The Mililia. — There is at present, among our 

 most judicious citizens, great doubts as to the util- 

 ity of our present militia system. Gen. Jones, who 

 for many years has held a high office in the militia 

 of North Carolina, and can certainly speak from 

 experience, says in a late letter to the legislature of 

 that state, that he considers the militia system as 

 unnecessary, and worse than useless; that instead 

 of maki ng good soldiers it dissipates good citizens ; 

 and instead of diffusing a military spirit, it gene- 

 rates a disgust and contempt for it in the minds of 

 industrious mechanics and farmers. By the fol- 

 lowing extract from the last 'report of the Secreta- 

 ry at War, it appears that similar sentiments are 

 held at Washington : 



'' I cannot abstain from calling your attention to 

 the highly interesting fact, that we have, accord- 

 ing to the last census, two millions of male citizens 

 batween the ages of 18 and 45. The difTerenco 



ble of learning, but is most difficult to be taught 

 if the heart has been once familiarised to specta- 

 cles of distress, and has been permitted either to 

 behold the pangs of any living creature with cold 

 insensibility, or to ijjiflict on them wanton barbarity. 



A man of sensibility is always either in the 

 attic of ecstacies, or the cellar of sorrow ; either 

 jumping with joy or groaning with grief. But 

 pleasure and pain are like a cucumber — the ex- 

 tremes are good for nothing. I once heard a late 

 minister compared to the same vegetable, " For," 

 said the punster, " his ends are bad." 



More hearts pine away in secret anguish, for 

 unkindness in those who should be their comfort- 

 ers, than for any other calamity in life. 



The number of persons employed in tlie office 

 of the National Intelligencer, including editors, 

 reporters, &.c. is one hundred. Three hundred 

 reams of paper have been consumed in one week 

 in the above office. 



HAVE constantly on ha 

 collection of Fruit Trees. Hardy Ornamental TVei 

 Shrubs. Green House Plants, Bulbous Roots, G 

 Seeds, &c. fcc. not exceeded by any similar est; 

 ment in the United States. j, J 



in their selection of IRUITS for cultivationil 

 care and attention has been paid, and from an i 

 cy with the subject of many years, they believej l,ll 

 judiriouslv. 



The ORMAMKNTAL PLANTS, both tend 

 hardy, which they are now cultivating, are somi 

 most esteemed and admired of both native andj 



The GARDEN SEEDS, ofwhich a large a: 

 ral assortment is cultivated, are exclusively 

 own rearing, for which purpose a number of a0 

 tached to the establishment are appropriated, aj| 

 the moment they are planted, through all the S 

 stages of their growth and ripening are under th" 

 mediate care and superintendence, consequent! 

 are enabled lo assure purchasers not only of the f 

 but quality. 



Persons ordering any of the articles on their 

 Itigue, m'ly be assured of having them well and 

 packed, and ofevery atttn'ion being paid to the* 

 thai they will give satisfaction. 



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