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NEW ENGLAfVD PARMER. 



April »i, i&m 



IM:X^CEI.I.AI7ZI2S. 



OUR OWN FIRESIDE. 

 Dear in the morn's soft blowing ga',,' 



Is budding May ; 

 Sweet in the tvild-rose scented vale 



'J'he scattered haj ; 

 Otar is the early evening star, 



The lover's guide : 

 But dearer still, and sweeter far. 



Our own fireside. 



Dear is the linnet's lively son^ 



That cheers the grove , 

 Sweet is the breeze that wafts along 



The sigh of love ; 

 Dear to the sailor's heart the call 



O' land desciied ; 

 But, ah! more dear, more sweet than all. 



Our own fireside. 



Piize Poetry. — Some years since, a Mr. Dick- 

 son, who was Provost of Dundee in Scotland, died, 

 and by will left the sum of one guinea, to a per- 

 son to compose his epitaph upon liim ; which sum 

 he directed the three e.xecutors to pay. The exe- 

 cutors, thinking to defraud the poet, agreed to 

 meet and share the guinea among themselves, 

 each contributing a line. 



Tlie First gave — 



"Here lies Dickson, provost of Dundee ; 



The Second — 



"Here lies Dickson, here lies he ; 

 The Third was enibarassed for a long time, but 

 unwilling to lose his share of tlie guinea, at length 

 vociferously bawled 



"Hallelujah, Hallalujee,', 

 which completed the epitaph. 



bridge, 3 or 4 ; at riollislon, :i ; Natiek, about the 

 same number ; in the Counties of Barnstable and 

 Dukes County, ()93 — In addition to these, there 

 are two smiill remnants of aborigines on the Vine- 

 yard, amounting to about 'ii. The IVfarshpee, 

 Gayhead, Christiantown and Chapycquiddie tribes 

 have schools, which were establishen by the socie- 

 ty for propagating the gospel among the Indians, 

 in North America, and e.\hibited to the committee 

 very favourable specimens of their improvement. 

 [S: lem Observer.] 



Coloured Cotton. — At an annual cattle show of 

 the South Carolina Agricultural Society, hell on 

 the 2.'3d of February, a letter was read from Mr J. 

 W. Watson, dated at Guayaquil, atcompanying a 

 present of a parcel of cotton seed of a new kind, 

 the production of Peru. The cotton is naturally 

 coloured ; the plant is perennial. It is raised 

 from the seed in a kind of nursery, and afterwards 

 transplanted and set in rows. It grows to nearly 

 the same height as the peach tree, and produce 

 for fivQ years. The writer is of an opinion that it 

 might be succeasfnlly cultivated in tlie Uniied 

 States. One Variety of it is of a light brown col- 

 or, with a pretty good staple, and in his opinion 

 woiild make excellent nankeens. 



cases, but I know of no remedy unless taveruki 

 ers can dispense with selling liquors. The hi 

 bottle brings in dirt sufficient to manure a 

 farm. It is a pleasure to accommodate the cl 

 traveller and the town business man, but the t 

 ctestable. March 



The real Perpetual motion discovered. — W^hile 

 others have their intervals of leisure, the printer 

 has none ; while the tired laborer seeks an early 

 repose — the merchant throws aside his books and 

 bargains and enjoys the social fireside in an even- 

 ing at home — the manufacturer loses the bands 

 that drive his complicated machinery — the farmer 

 drinks his generous cider fiom the old fashioned 

 silver or pewter mug, (as the case may be) hand- 

 ed down from his sires, and cracks his nuts and 

 jokes around the blazing hearth — while these are 

 partaking the enjoyments of relaxation, and ac- 

 quiring new vigor for the labors of the succeeding 

 day — the printer is at his case picking up little 

 bits of lead vi ith letters stamped on them, or la- 

 bouring with his brain and pen to elicit something 

 that shall please his readers of the morning, or 

 correcting proof sheets by the fading light of a 

 lamp, until that light beufins to blend with ihe tin- 

 ges of early dawn. Such are the occupations of 

 the printer and the editor, and when the dishes 

 for one morning's course arc sei ved up — the press- 

 man has closed his labor of striking off the im- 

 pression, and the assistants have folded, directed 

 and mailed the papers for the day, then comes the 

 time to commence new preparations, mental and 

 manual, for another publication. 



[Providence Journal.] 



Indians in this Commonwealth. — A very in- 

 teresting report has been made respecting the In- 

 dians of this Commonwealth. The committee re- 

 presented the whole number to be about 1000. In 

 Grafton, Worcester county, there are a few of the 

 Ilassanamisco tribe ; in Canton, about a dozen ; at 

 Dudley, half that number ; at Middleborough, 

 about 15 or 20 ; at Dartmouth, from 8 to 12, of 

 the Troy Indians ; at Maiden, 4 : at West Stock- 



Twenty-live hundred bales of Cotton were lan- 

 ded at the wharves in Savannah, from different 

 parts of the state, during the 48 hours previous to 

 the lOth inst. 



Letters from London, of Feb. 8, say groat im- 

 portations of Cotton are to be made from Bombay 

 this year. It is thought India Cottons do not make 

 strong g-oods. 



Florida Svgar. — Sugar has been produced on 

 the plantation of Coir Domett, in Florida, which is 

 pronounced to be superior to the heat Havana Su- 

 gar. From about 35 acres it was expected 3U 

 hhds. would be raised. 



Nothing annoys an enemy more than kindness. 

 It is an anow that generally hits the mark. It is 

 the most severe, yet the most noble mode of treat- 

 ment. 



SUGAR PLANTATIONS. 



A Louisiana paper states, that Gen. Wade Hamp- 

 ton has three sugar plantations on the Mississippi, 

 below Donaldson, upon which 301) hands are em- 

 ployed who make this year 1000 hhds. of 1260 lbs. 

 each, worth in New-Orleans, at the ordinary price 

 of 7 cents per lb. .^589,600. The General however, 

 shipped his own sugar to the northern markets, es- 

 timates his nett revenue, this year, from Louisiana 

 plaitaiions, at $10(1,000. 



Judge Carlier has on the Mississippi, opposite 

 to ponaldson, 70 acres of cane, hands employed 

 30,' quantity of sygar made 120 hhds. weighing 

 each about 1200 lbs. worth say $10,080. 



Jos. Bourgeois, on the Bayou Lafourche, about 

 28 miles below Donaldson, -JO arpents of cane, 

 hands employed 12, quantity of sugar made 40 

 hhds ; weighing each about 1000 lbs v^orth say 

 $2,800. 



P. Aubert, about 40 miles below Donaldson on 

 the Bayon Lafou-che, 150 arpents of cane, hands 

 employed 37, sugar made KJO hhds. weighing each 

 about 1.300 lbs. worth say .$14,000. 



Mr Editor — I was happy to observe in your 

 last paper an article on the dirty condition of many 

 taverns in New England. This is too true in some 



Kenrick JVursen/. 

 FRUIT AND FORF.ST TRF.FS for « 

 IS usual near the Brighton Post Offii 

 The Nursery contains a good varietyof 

 y frees ; and of Pear trees, from which 

 tlemen who seasonably apply can obtain sampli 

 several of VIr Knight's new sorts, so highly rccom 

 ed in the Agricultural Journal. Also many thou 

 of budded apple trees of superior kinds, good size, 

 allowed by ail to be very thrifty and handsome, 

 eral thousands of budded Peach trees, conslstin^ 

 choice collection of about 40 of the best sorts disci 

 ed in gardens or the market ; the peach trees are 

 5 to y feet high, and the buyer has bis choice 

 cents each ; there are likewise plenty of .Apricoti 

 Nectarines. 



Of good sized Ornamental trees, the Flowerin 

 alpas, and Horse (-hesnut — the Mountain Ash — Wj 

 ing Willow — Silver Fir — Larch — Sugar maple — 

 ternut, tc. Currant bushes, — the common red o) 

 sizes, by the dozen, hundred, or thousand, on m 

 ate terms. — Also the large Dutch VNhite, and Red 

 the Champaine "nd the Black. — Red, White 

 Damask Rose lushes. — Senna, Gum Acacia, Engj 

 grapes, — Red and White Antwerp Raspberries, &c. 



This Nursery, within six miles of Boston and 

 ily viewed, stands in no need of that incessant pr; 

 the interested and artful lavish on some distant 

 series, which they well know are located in 

 direction for supplying people in these Noilhern St; 

 For it is an established maxim, of which they cani 

 be ignorant, that trees of rapid growth ought not to fie 

 robbed of their roots in the fashionable way and ru^.toi 

 cri from a mild to a colder situation, — -but the rt vt rse 

 However, Yankee sagacity is not easily outniltcd 

 hence experienced Agriculturists as far south as !■' hodr 

 Island, give a decided preference to trees fnun "sorlli 

 ern Nurseries. 



Orders addressed to J. & W. Kenrick, and s.iitl 

 the Brighton post office, or left at the office of l-uiHi 

 Fenno in Slate S^treel, will be duly attended to 

 trees will be packed in clay and matts for shipping w' 

 ordered j but distant gentlemen should always em 

 some agent to receive and pay for them. On Sal 

 days, paci^ed trees will be delivered in Boston frei 

 charge for conveyance. 



Ill transplanting one year's growth is frequ'nl 

 lost, if the trees happen to survive, by an unreasonable 

 diminution of the roots, therf fore special care shall lie 

 taken for their preservation. tf. March 9.f 



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Fruit and Ornamtntal Ti-ees, Shrubs, Sfc. 



STF.PHKN F. MILLS i- CO. (late PrinCP 

 Mills) proprietors of the extensive tiurserj 

 t Flushing, Long Island, near .New 'i ork, 

 ffer their very choice and sthcl culii rtiinvi 

 Fruit reifofall the various hinds to which thiy not 

 ony give their personal attcnliun, but which have the 

 s/t//gTfa/rr a(//an/n^e of being engrafted from bi arinf 

 trees whose accuracy has been tested ; they Ibi refore 

 solicit with the fullest confidence the patronage uf the 

 public. 



The Trees, Shrubs, etc. are in the most thrifty and 

 healthy state. — the correctness of every sale by tlitm n 

 g.uaranteed — and the same attention observed in th0 

 selection as if the purchasers were prestnt. 



Orders are solicited by the subsciiber, Agfnt for the 

 Proprietors, who will furnish catalogues on application. 

 M23.6t HENRY L. BlLLliNGS. LS India \Uiarf. 



While Mulberry and Jl'oad Seed. 

 George Murdock, No 14 Market Square, has re- 

 ceived a quantity of the above named .leed, of the last 

 years .growth, and of a superior quality, to sell by the 

 quantity or at retail. 



Also a general assortment of Garden Seeds. 6w» 



The Farmer is-published every Friday, at $'2.?,(i pef 

 annum, if paid in ad-ance. 



