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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



March 12, 1S31 



misceiaaneous. 



there's music in a mother's voice. 

 There's music in a mother's voice, 



More sweet than breezes sighing ; 

 There's kindness in a mother's glance, 



Too pure for ever dying. 



There's love within smother's breast, 

 So deep, 'tis still o'er flowing, 



And care for those she calls her own, 

 That's ever, ever growing. 



There's anguish in a mother's tear, 

 When farewell fondly taking, 



That so the heart of pity moves, 

 It scarcely keeps from breaking. 



And when a mother kneels to Heaven, 



And for the child is praying, 

 Oh, who shall half the fervor tell 



That burns in all she's saying ! 



A mother ! how her tender arts 

 Can soothe the breast of sadness, 



And through the gloom of life once more 

 Bid shine the sun of gladness. 



A mother ! when, like the evening's 6tar, 

 Her course hath ceased boforo us, 



From brighter worlds regards us still, 

 And watches fondly o'er us. 



Extract from an Address, delivered be- 

 fore Ihe Massachusetts Charitable 

 Mechanic Association, October 7th, 

 lS30,by Joseph T. Buckingham, Esq. 

 "Give me whereon to stand, exclaim- 

 ed Archimedes, and with my lever I will 

 move the world. The mechanics of 

 these free and independent states can do 

 as much ; they can make as proud a 

 boast as the Grecian philosopher, and 

 they are not, like him, without a sale po 

 sitton on which to plant themselves,while 

 they put the power into operation. The 

 influence they possess as a body, is daily 

 increasing. An awakening spirit is a 

 broad among them, and stirring tbem up 

 to the establishment of schools, lyceums 

 and institutions for purposes of education 

 and for uniting and directing their ener- 

 gies to the advancement of literature, 

 arts and sciences. The highest honor 

 of a mechanic, or any other man, con- 

 sists in the cultivation of his mind ; be- 

 cause it is mind that contnls and directs 

 eyery thing else. It is mind that pur- 

 sues, preserves, Bnd enjoys happiness ; 

 it is mind alone, of all earthly posses- 

 ions, which is eternal , mind is the onlv 

 attribute of our nature which exalts us 

 to the likeness of our Maker — the only 

 one in which the image of God is reflec- 

 ted. 



"It is the mind that makes the body 

 rich.'' It is wisdom and understanding 

 that makes the man independent. Igno 

 ranee is of all slavery the most degra- 

 ding. Chains and fetters may bo made 

 of gold as well as of iron, but neither 

 ihe one nor the other can keep down the 

 energies of an intelligent, well cultivated, 

 independent mind, — a mind trained in the 

 school of virtue, and imbued with princi- 

 ples of honesty, integrity, firmness, and 

 that self-love which forms the basis of 

 the social system. The power of such 

 a spirit is uncontrolable and unlimited ; 



its elasticity can no more be subdued 

 than that of the vital fluid which sustains 

 its physical organization. Prison walls 

 cannot confine it, nor mountains nor 

 seas set bounds to its operations. 



"Do yoo ask what is Ihe evidence to 

 support so broad an assertion, look at 

 your own doors. Look at your public 

 school houses, which from year to year, 

 send forth their hundreds of boys and 

 gifis, instructed in all the elements of all 

 that is indispensable, and of much that 

 may be superfluous in education, forming 

 a basis on which they may build a fabric 

 of moral and intellectual power, which 

 no commotion can place in jeopardy, no 

 revolution can overturn or destroy. — 

 Look at your infant schools where wo- 

 man—the first and best instructor of hu- 

 man ignorance — the first and last suppor- 

 ter of human weakness — the purest and 

 noblest nourisher of the human affections 

 -waits and watches for the develope- 

 ment of the yet unformed idea, and from 

 the instant of its birth nurses it in ten- 

 derness, and trains it with fidelity, till it 

 shall acquire strength and firmness to be 

 handed over to its ruder teacher, man. — 

 Cast your eyes back only for a few days, 

 and see your spacious common, crowd- 

 ded with the beautiful, the innocent, iho 

 wondering, ihe inquiring young, wiiose 

 intelligent eyes asked of every passer-by 

 in that splendid pageantry which marked 

 your centennial festival, "what mean ye 

 by this service and these testimonies V — 

 Look on these things, and ask yourselves 

 if you do not perceive in tbem the work- 

 ings of a restless, deathless spirit of in- 

 dependence — the glimmering of an un- 

 quenchable spark of patriotism, which ti 

 breath can raise to a flame — the con- 

 sciousness of an indestructible and ev- 

 er active mind, susceptible of all that 

 is great, good, or elevated and honorable 

 — an earthly essence that may be pre- 

 pared lor weal or wo — a blessing or a 

 cuisp, to itself and to all surrounding ex- 

 istence." 



SELECTED FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 

 AN ACCOUNT 



Of a remarkable species of men, two liundred 

 leagues from the country of the Hurons. 

 A man who had rambled and travelled a- 

 bout the world for many years, at length re 

 turned to his native country — his friends flock- 

 ed to welcome him, and every one expressed 

 their jov to see him returned safe and sound, 

 and after the mutual salutations were out, 

 each wa* desirous he should recount some of 

 his adventures, and give them a history of the 

 wonders he had seen. 



The budget of miracles was presently open- 

 ed, and among many others, hoPecouuted the 

 following : " You well know my friends, the 

 prodigious distance from ihis country to that 

 inhabited by the tlnrons, well, two bandied 

 leagues froth that country I saw societies of 

 nea whose actions appeared very siugular to 

 me. I'hey would often sit around \ tabie 

 whole nights and days, though there r/as ne 

 cloth laid, or any thing for them to oat, the 

 thunder might roll over their heads, two ar 

 mies might fight by ttwir sides, the beavens 



might menace ruin without making them quit 

 their places, or giving them the least distur* 

 bance; they appeared to be deef and dumb. — 

 From time to time you might hear them uttei 

 some badly articulated sounds, which had no 

 connection with the business they were about, 

 they ofien turned their eyes to some part ol 

 the company in a strange manner, and made 

 singular motions with their hands — looking 

 with the most overpowering intensity on some 

 little machines or images before (hem, 1 often 

 looked at them with astonishment, for they 

 were generally surrounded with spectator? 

 who took no part in their orgies, but seemed as 

 intently engaged as the sitters, and believe 

 me my friends I shall never forget the trou. 

 bled countenances which I have seen on these 

 occasions, despair, rage, and sometime malig- 

 nant joy, blended with mad inquietude were 

 by turns depicted on their haggard counte 

 nances, anon, with horrid blasphemies, thev 

 exhibited the rage of Eurnonides, then the se- 

 rious and sullen air of the infernal judges, and 

 then the pangs of a malefactor going to the 

 gibbet " 



But said our traveller's friends, "what had 

 these onhappy creatures in view ? were they 

 laboring for the public good?" No— '• VVeie 

 they searching for the philosophers s'onef" — 

 It was not that — " U was the quadratum of the 

 circle or |the purpetnal motion. 1 ' — Still less — 

 " Ah ! mo have it, they were performing pen 

 ance for their crimes." — You are mistakes 

 again — "Why then you have been telling us 

 about a set of madmen or fools, without hear- 

 ing, speaking, taste, or feeling, what could 

 they be doing?" — They were civilized men in 

 a christian country, gambling. 



HONEY LOCUST BEEK. 



Recipe. — Take one bushel of honey locus; 

 seeds and pods, when about ripe, break tbem. 

 put them into a barrel, and fill it with boiling 

 water ; let il stand until milk warm, then add 

 a pint of good yest. Put in the bung lightly, 

 until fermentation is nearly over, then rack 

 off, as with cider, when clear, bottle it and 

 wire the corks. When kept a few months it 

 is equjl to sparkling champaigne. It can be 

 used in two days after it is made — Western 

 Tiller. 



CULTURE OF SILK. 



Judge Spencer of Now York has made va- 

 rious appeals to the House of Representatives 

 to take up for consideration (be bill to promote 

 the growth and manufacture of silk. The 

 importance of this object has. as we learn from 

 a Washington paper, strongly impressed, not 

 only the learned and respectable Chairman erf 

 the Select Committee by which the bill was 

 reported, but also a great many of the most 

 reflecting of the members ; and it is greatly 

 to be regretted that every effort to reach it liar 

 been vainly made. We annually export mil- 

 lions for the purchase of foreign silks ; while 

 for a Pingle appropriation of about one-fiftieth 

 or one-sixtieth o( that annual expenditure, we 

 might, as is averred, secure a home manufac- 

 tured fabric, the material of which might be 

 produced on our own soil, and the" reeling, 

 weaving, and dying of which may be perform- 

 ed by our own labor. It was hoped that a 

 more successful effort would be made by Judge 

 Spencer on Saturday, to induce the House to 

 consider this interesting subject. 



THE G E I* E S K H PARMER 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



Denoted ioA£ricnlturo. Horticulture, Domestic Econo 

 my, Sic. Ac. 

 Published on Saturdays, at $2 58 per annum, 

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 lime of subscribing, by Luther Tdcker, at 

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