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NEW lENGLANi) FARMER. 



March ao. 1827. 



»a:£scEi.i.A2nss. 



WAR. - 



Whene'er cor.tending nations fight 

 For private pique-or pubh'c right ; 

 Armies are raised, Uie fleets are mann'd, 

 They combat both by aea and land. 

 J'hen, after many battles pass'd, 

 Both '-ir'd of blows make peace at last ; 



What is it after all the peoplr get ? 



Why — widows, taxe- wooden legs »nd debt. 



Labour to prevent diseases by tempe- 

 rance, sobriety and e.xercise ; but if sickness comes 

 never go to quacks for physic. To lake tlicir pres- 

 criptions is next to self murder. The only reme- 

 dy they can afford a patient is their absence. — A 

 quack's prescribing to a sick man is like a child's 

 snufiing a cundle, — it is ten to one but he snuffs it 

 out. 



DOMESTIC BLISS. 

 The camp may have its fame, the court its elai 



The theatre its wit, the board its mirth: 

 But there's a ealm, a quiet heaven, where 



Bliss flies lor shelter — the domestic hearlh .' 

 If this be comfortless, if this be drear, 



It needs not hope to find a haunt on earth ; 

 Elsewhere we may be careless, gay, cartss'd — 

 But here, and only here, we can be bhsl .' 



I Dean Cowper of Durham, was very saving of 

 I his wine. Descanting one day on the e.xtraordin- 



ary performances of a man, who was blind, he 

 j remarked t!iat the poor fellow, could see no more 

 I than that bottle — 1 do dot wonder at all sir, replied 

 I Mr Drake, (a witty minor canon) I do not wonder 



at all, Mr Dean, for we have seen no more than 

 \that bottle all the afternoon. 



Anecdote of the Rev. S. fVeshy. — Mr Wesley 

 had a clerk, vtho believed the rector, his master, 

 to be the greatest man in the parisli, if not in the 

 country ; and himself to he the next in worth and 

 importance. Ho had the advantage and the 

 privilege of wearing out Mr Wesley's cast-ofF 

 clothes and wigs, for the latter of which Iiis head 

 was far too small. The rector finding him par- 

 ticularly vain of one of those canonical substitutes 

 for hair which he ha^' lately received, formed the 

 design to mortify him in the presence of that con- 

 gregation before which John wished to .-ippear in 

 every respect what he thought himself. One 

 morning before church time Mr W. said, " John, 

 I shall preach on a particular subject to day ; and 

 shall choose my own psalm, of which I shall give 

 the first line, and yon shall proceed as usual." — 

 John was pleased — and service went forward as 

 it was wont to do till they came to the singing, 

 when Mr Wesley gave out the following line : — 



" Like to an owl in ivy bush." 

 This vras sung — and the following line, John 

 peeping out of the huge canonical wig in which 

 Ills head, was half lost, gave out with an audible 

 voice and appropriate connecting twano' — 



" That rueful thing am 1 1" 

 The whole congregation, struck with John's ap- 

 pearance, saw and felt the similitude, and burst 

 out into .laughter. The rector vvas pleased; for 

 John was mortified, and his self-conceit humbled. 

 This is the same man, who, when King William 

 returned to London after some of his expeditions, 

 gave out in Hepworth church. — Let us sing to 

 the praise and glory of God, a hymn of my own 

 '•omposing : — 



" King William has come home, come Iiome, 



King William home is comi; ; 



Therefore let us togethf r sing 



The hymn that's call'd Te B'um''' 



Clerk's Memoirs of the Jt'esley Family. 



' I live in Julia's eyes,' said an aflfectionate dan- 

 ily in Colman's hearing. ' I dont wonder at it, re- 

 plied George ; since I observed she had tLSty in 

 them when I saw her last.' 



Real Estate fallins in the fVest. — We learn by 

 the papers, that a considerable part of a Tannery 

 near Natchez lately siink fifty feet, and it was 

 feared the remainder would soon follow. 



The Jews,- in former times in England, be- 

 cause they cherished and cultivated the " Talmud," 

 and other Hebrew works, were acctised of study- 

 ing the black art ; the belief Jingered in the sup- 

 erstitions of this country, and the Witch read her 

 magick rhymes ii/cA-ioarrfs for no other reason than 

 because such is the method of reading Hebrew. 



De Moivre, the celebrated calculator, makes the 

 probability of human existence at any given age, 

 equal to half the complement of that age to 86. 



On Tuesday last 13 .58fj shares of jtock in the 

 Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company were sub- 

 scribed in four hours. The books were to remain 

 open nine days. 



An excellent ship, of near 400 tons, launched at 

 Medford last week, has been named the Arnold 

 fl'elles, as one tribute of respect to the memory of 

 that exemplary individual. 



On the 1 0th or 12th of March the trees in 

 Charleston, S. C. had been in blossom, and green 

 peas were selling at $1,50 a peck. 



The Duke of York's stud sold fit Tattersal's for 

 8000 guineas. His debts are estimated at £.300,000 

 sterling, nearly a million and a half of dollars. 



Tlie English ministry have brought forward a 

 plan of erecting mills to supply the navy with 

 flour. Last year COOO sacks were thrown back 

 upon the contractors. 



The Boston Land Mail is to leave New York at 

 10 A. M. instead of 7. Giving 9 hours to answer 

 letters. A Steam Boat Mail, via Providence, is to 

 be made up at 2 P. M.— and sent on immediately 

 on arrival at Providenoc. It is probable a return 

 Steam Boat Mail will be established. The new 

 contract has. not yet been made from Providence 

 to Boston, which may include an extra Providence 

 Mail. 



Unprofitableness itself is a sin. We need not 

 do mischief in order to conunit sin ; uselessntss, 

 when we might be useful, is enough to make us 

 sinners before God. The fig-tree in the gospel, 

 was cut down not because it bore sour fruit, but 



Frui 



In Sweden, robbing the mail is considered as because it bore none. The parable of the talents 

 one of the most serious offences, and is punished i is pointed expresslv against the simple neglect of 

 by amputation of the right hand.then decapitation, faculties and opportunities of doing good, as con- 

 the mutilated members being afterwards gibbeted I trn-distinguished from the perpetration of positive 

 in the publick highway upon a wheel. crimes. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & Go's 

 JVi'rsen/ at Flushing, on Long Island, near 

 York. 

 IN bel alf of the proprietors of tlie 

 nursery, the subscriber solicits the ordei 

 hnrticiiltuiist? who may be desirous of ft^ 

 iiig ill ir gardens and fields with fruit trees of (he fii 

 sorts and most healthy and vigorous storks the pr 

 autumn. 



B1.00DG00D i Co allpnd personalty lo Ike inocuh 

 and i-ngrnflivf( of all Iheir fruit trees, and purchi 

 may rely wilh cnufidence (hat (he trees (hey order 

 prove i^vjnuinr. 



The subscriber, agent of (he above nursery, wil' 

 ceive orders for anv quandty of 



FRUIT ANV FOREST TREES, 

 FLOWERING SHRUBS, 



AND 



PLANTS. 

 And the trees will be delivered in (his city at the 

 and expense of the Purchaser ; tho bills may be 

 to him. 



The reputation of this nursfry is so extensively kuo^ 

 and has been so well sustained (hat I take leave to 

 fer those in want of trees to any of the Hoiticultui 

 in tti? city and its vicinity, and if ocular demons(rati 

 is desired, I invite those who wi-h to he thus satisfii 

 to examine the trees in my q-arden at Dorchester p| 

 cured from this nursery for three or four years pi 

 some of which are now in bearing, all in a healthy 

 vi^rnrou" state. 



Calalogues will be delivered gratis on applicati 



to ZEB. COOK Jr 



uilding — Congress Street 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, S,-c. 

 STF.l'UKN F. MIELS i CO. (late Pri 

 & Mills) proprietors of the extensive nun 

 at Flushing, Long Island, near New Yoi 

 offer (heir very choice and select collectia; 

 s of all (he various kinds to which they 

 ony give their personal altenlion, but which have 

 i/((!,g-rea(ej- adeaji/ir^g^e of being engrafted from bearii 

 treis whose accuracy has been tested ; they (herifore 

 solicit with the fullest confidence the patronage vi the 

 public. 



The Trees, Shrubs, Sec. are in (he most (hrif(y anil 

 heaUby s(ate— the correctness of every sale by tiem is 

 guaranteed— and the same attention observed in the 

 selection as if the purchasers were present. 



Orders are solicited by the subscriber, Agent for (b« 

 Proprietors, who will furnish catalogues on applicafiou. 

 M23.6t HENRY L. BILLINGS, l!i India ^\ hart 



The Contents of a young JS/ursery for sale cheap. 



The subscriber a few j'ears since contemplated eslab- 

 lishinga nursery for Fruit Trees and Flowering Shrubs,' 

 and having altered his mind, ofl'ers for sale to prrson* 

 (aking 50 trees or upwards a discount of 25 per cent oa 

 former prices The trees are healthy, the appli t two, 

 years from the bud or graft. — and ch-rrics, plum?, np-y 

 ricots. and peaches one and two years. Also a few*' 

 thousand pear stocks 3 and -1 years old. ^' 



All the aliove are wafranted/roTJi seed and not. .tuck' 

 eri— a consideraple quantity of horse chestnuts— ah-o a 

 great variety of flowering shrubs a( usual prices- Apply 

 (o the Gardener, Mr Charles Senior. All the worked" 

 trees are from Iriiit of (he best kinds cullivated neaf 

 Boston. X lis( of (hem is left at th^ office of the New' 

 England Farm* r. JOHN PRINCF. 



Jamaica Plain, Roxbury 20 March 1f;27. 



An Imported Bull for Sale. 



A full blood hull of (he North Devon breed, will he j 

 years old in May next, will he sold at a reasonable rr.te 

 or let on shSres for one or two years to any porson v. Im 

 may he well reromnundtd. He is a superior annual -• 

 dark red — as this breed always is — therefore (nsi'y 

 ma(ched for working ca((le ; being (he most acliv, in 

 England for labour — also excellt-D( for beef and milk. 

 He is now a( Sandwich, N. H. and may be had Ihr- L-l 

 of Vlay A letter to the subscriber (post paid) will be 

 attended to. JOHN PRINCF. 



Roxbury. Mass. 20 March 1827. 



For sale by T. P. Meriam, Concord, Mass. 100 lbs. 

 Onion seed, various kinds, which is genuine good. 



