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THE GENESEE FARMER 



November 26, ISSj 



AUTUMN. 



The following beautiful lines upon Autumn, are 

 from " Love," a poem by the author of " The 

 Cornlaws," just published m London. 

 Dost thou mourn with me 



The year's autumnal spring 1 

 Sigh'st thou this second wreath to see, 



Of Woodbines blossoming 1 

 So late, so pale, with scentless breath, 

 Like lingering Hope, that smiles in death, 



And e'en when life is o'er, 

 Leaves on misfortune's ice-cold face 

 The sweetness of its last embrace, 



To fade, and be no more ! 

 Lo, June's divested primrose sports 



A silken coif again : 

 And, like late-smiling sickness, courts 



The coy morn — but in vain ! 

 Lo, half the elm's rich robe is gone ! 

 The ash, a living skeleton, 



Deplores his yellow hair ; 

 Yet, while the beach-leaf rustles red, 

 And while the maple bows her head 



In mournful honors fair — 

 Mcthinks the armed gorse appears 



More golden than when May 

 Left April dying in her tears 



Beneath the plumy spray ; 

 And, for her lover's triumph won, 



Danced with her blue-bell anklets on, 



And bless'd his burning eye. 

 Come, Laura, come ! and hear the thrush, 

 O'er autumn's gorse, from budding bush 



Pour vernal melody ! 

 Come ! and beneath the fresh green leaf 



That mocks the aged year, 

 Thy bard, who loves the joy of grief, 



Shall weave a chapl.-t here : 

 Not pluck'd from summ i 's wither'd bowers, 

 Not form'd of autumn's Hopeless flowers — 



Yet sad and wan as ihey : 

 Here, still some flowers of Eden blow ; 

 But deadly pale and stain'd with wo, 



Like guilt, they shun the dav. 

 While folly treads beneath his feet 



The daisy of the vale ; 

 Love's rose, though sick at heart, is sweet — 



Joy's leaf is fair, though pale. 

 And worth admires, n signed and meek, 

 The tear-drop on the violet's • heek, 



And hope shall death survive. 



Avery ancient heathen writer, speaking 

 of the Jews, says, they neither killed, nor 

 ate the flesh of the hog, it being an animal 

 held in reverence by thetn, because they 

 had learnt from it the art of ploughing the 

 ground. During their residence in l-gypt, 

 they observed, he says, that the rooting of 

 the hog in the soft alluvial soil on the 

 banks of the Nile prepared the ground lor 

 planting ; and improving the hint thus fur- 

 nished, they invented the plough. 



At the present day we do not profess to 

 look to the hog' for instructions in any ag- 

 ricultural art, but a great number of men 

 appear to take lessons in manners and 

 morals from that animal ; and it is a mat- 

 ter of regret that so much as one of our 

 most valuable agricultural products should 

 be diverted from its proper use, and made 

 Co, increase the number of the bipeds who 



adopt the quadrupeds we are speaking of 

 as models for imitation. 



During the past year, upwards of 30,- 

 000 barrels of whiskey have been brought 

 to this market by the canal alone, and prop- 

 ably a much greater quantity has been 

 brought in by wagons .\ ow we have no 

 doubt that the immense quantity of corn 

 which was consumed in making this whis- 

 key, might much better have been employ- 

 ed in making, and improving the condition 

 of, real, tour-footed hogs, than in making 

 an article used only to increase the number; 

 of their two-legged imitators : foi the real, 

 original, article is always found to be bet- 1 

 ter than any imitation of it, in all cases, j 

 and would be peculiarly so in this case. — j 

 The advantage to our country which would 

 resui! from having all its swine go upon; 

 four legs, would be very great, for it would 

 cause very large additions to the SO, or 

 100,000 hogs annually brought to this 

 market, and would materially lessen our 

 export of convicts to Columbus. This 

 part of our export trade producing no re- 

 turn of wealth, may very beneficially be 

 dispensed with ; and as the increase of 

 our export of pork would be in proportion 

 to the diminution of that of our whiskey 

 and its victims, there would be no cause 

 for alarm on the part of any political econ- 

 omist from the variation in the course of 

 trade that would be caused by it. \»e 

 hope this subject may be taken into con- 

 sideration; and as in this country, we are, 

 none of us, afraid of innovations, when any 

 advantage is to be derived from them, it is j 

 to be hoped that there may not be so much 

 fear of the consequences that might result 

 from a change in the disposition of our 

 products, as to prevent an experiment 

 from which we have reason to expect 

 great advantages. — Western Tiller. 



Overflowing of American Rivers. — The 

 following graphic description of the over- 

 flowing oi the Mississippi and Ohio rivers is 

 tram the pen of the intelligent Audubon. 

 Sudden is the calamity, that every indi- 

 vidual, whether man or beast, has to ex- 

 ert his utmost ingenuity to enable him to 

 esc pe from the dreadful clement. The 

 Indian quickly removes to the hills of the 

 interior ; the cattle and game swim to the 

 different strips of land that remain uncov- 

 ered in midst of the flood, or attempt to 

 force their way through the waters, until 

 they perish from fatigue. Along the banks 

 of the river, the inhabitants have rafts rea-j 

 dy made, on which they fasten themselves, 

 their cattle, and their provisions, and which 

 they fasten with ropes or grape vines toi 

 the larger trees, while they contemplate 

 the melancholy spectacle presented by the 

 current, as it carries off their houses and! 

 their wood yards, piece by piece. Some, I 

 who have n >thing to lose, and are usually 

 known by the name of squatters, take this 

 opportunity of traversing the woods in ca- 

 noes, fo: the purpose of procuring game, 

 ind particularly the skins of animals, such 

 as deer and bear, which may be converted 



into money. They resort to the low ridg- 

 es surrounded by the waters, and destroy 

 thousands of deer, merely for the skins, 

 leaving the flesh tc putrify. The river 

 itself, rolling its swollen waters along, pre- 

 sents a spectacle of the most imposing na- 

 ture. .Although no large vessel, unless 

 propelled by steam, can now make its way 

 againsi the current, it is seen covered by 

 boats laden with produce, which, running 

 out from all the streams, float silently to- 

 wards the city of i\ ew-Orleans, their own- 

 ers meanwhile not very well assured of 

 finding a landing place even there. The 

 water is covered with yellow foam and 

 pumice, the latter having floated from the 

 Rocky Mountains of the northwest. The 

 eddies are large and more powerful than 

 ever. Here and there tracts offorests are 

 observed undermined, the trees gradually 

 giving way, and falling into the stream. 



Cattle, horse:-, bears and deers are seen 

 at tunes attempting to swim across the im- 

 petuous mass of foaming and boiling wa- 

 ter ; whilst here and there a vulture or an 

 eagle is observed perched upon a bloated 

 carcass, tearing it up in pieces, as regard- 

 less of the flood, as on former occasions it 

 would have been of the numerous sawyers 

 or planters (logs) with which the surface of 

 the water is covered when the water is 

 low. Even the steamer is frequently dis- 

 tressed. The numberless trees ana logs 

 that float along, break its paddles and re- 

 tard its progress. Beside- it is, on such 

 occasions, difficult to procure fuel to main- 

 tain its fires ; and it is only at very distant 

 intervals, that a wood yard can be found 

 which the water ha* not carried off Bears, 

 congars, lynxes, and all other quadrupeds 

 that can ascend trees, are observed crouch- 

 ed among their top branches; hungry in 

 the midst of abundance ; although they 

 see floating around them the animals up- 

 on which they usually prey, they dare not 

 swim to them. On occasions like this, all 

 these animals are shot by the hundreds. 



Extraordinary Crop. — A field of oats ex- 

 tending to eight acres, belonging to Mr. 

 Henderson, Pv ether Libberton, was cut 

 down on Thin sday, and found to measure 

 generally, about six feet in height. The 

 shearers appeared like pigmies at its roots, 

 and in some situations were not visible ;it 

 all, so that the standing corn was seen to 

 wave from the right n> if at the command 

 of a warlock! I pwards of two hundred 

 pickles could be counted on almost even 

 head. The production of one pile was 

 brought to our office, from which nine stalks 

 had sprungjthe middle one measuring 6 feet 

 4 1-2 inches high, and the average number 

 of pickles on each stalk amounting to 200 

 each, gives an increase on the seed pickle 

 of eighteen hundredfold] — Edinburg Pa- 

 per. 



Lake Superior. A meeting has been held at. 

 Detroit, to memorialize the Congress of the Unit- 

 ed States, to unite Lake Superior with Lake Hu- 

 ron, by a Canal at the Sault ce Ste. Marie ; and 

 for the completi )n of the Fort Gratiot, Chii 

 and Saganaw Roads. 



