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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



OjV goveRj\i.\g the PJIS^IO.XS. 



BY T. C. FF.SSENDE.T. 



" lie thai is slow to anstr is belter than lite mit^hly ; 

 and he that ruktii his spirit, than he thai lakclh a 



Ci7^." SoLOMO.V. 



The man who rules with absolute control 

 The angry passions, which deform the soul, 

 A more important victory can boast 

 Than he whose might has overcome a host. 



The soul is sicken'd and the heart is pain'd 

 To tiace the course of anger unresfrain'd. 

 Blasting the pleasures of domestic life 

 With bitter brawls, and scenes of savage strife. 



The wretched wight, who yields to anger's power. 



Has no security aisingle hour ; 



His life may soon be forfeited for guilt 



Of guiltless blood, in furious transport spilt. 



Behold how bright the warrioi's wreath appears, 

 Planted in carnage, fertiliz'd with tears I 

 And trace his trophies of heroic ire 

 Through seas of blood, and pyramids of fire I 



Behold the conqueror, who won the world, 

 Hy ruthless rage from glory's zenith hiulM 

 Tost like a feather on the mountain wave, 

 Vprd of the globe, but passion's paltry slave !* 



Th"n he who rules with absolute control 

 The angry passions, which deform the soul, 

 .\ more important victory can boast 

 Than if his might had overcome a host. 



•Alexander the Great, in a fit of anger, slew his fos- 

 ter brother Clytus, for which flagitious act he was 

 struck witli such remorse, that he atteuvjited to starve 

 himself. 



From the Boston Patriot. 



MORSE SIIOEI-VG. 



1 liave heretofore suffered much trouMe and 

 some danger, when riding on horse back in the 

 winter time, from the horse having his feet 

 loaded with balls of ice and snow ; and I consid- 

 er that horses driven in the stages often under- 

 go a double share of fatigue and labor from this 

 circumstance. 1 have for several j'ears been 

 endeavoring to devise some method to prevent 

 or remedy this inconvenience ; but without cf-j 

 leci, until the year past; I directed my black-' 

 smith to try the experiment of a shoe upon a; 

 clitTorent construction, and whicli I found to suc- 

 cecil so completely, that [ wish to communicate 

 it through your paper for the benefit of the 

 public. 



The smith in forming the plate for his shoe, 

 should draw it wider in the middle and narrow- 

 «?r at the end than tor a common shoe: After 

 the shoe is turned, let the inside of it be pccncd 

 out, so as to leave it in the form of a heater, viz. 

 narrow at the toe, and wide at the heel : In 

 which case the snow, instead of being conllned 

 by a circular shoe and forming a ball in the hol- 

 low of the foot, is continually working out and 

 discharging itself at the heel ; and the horse in- 

 stead of trcadin;» upon a round ball of snow and 

 ice. nill find ani\ feel the benetit of his corks! 



Printers who consider this improvement as 

 worthy the attention of the public, will have the 

 goodness to communicate it through their re- 

 spective papers. 



Hampden, Me. Nov. 20th, 1822. 



From a late London paper. 



CURED FISH. 



Dr. Mac Culloch, of Edinburgh, has ascer- 

 tained, that the antiseptic quality of Sugar is suf- 

 licient to preserve fish in the most excellent 

 condition. Me states that this substance is so 

 active, that lish may be preserved in a dry state, 

 and perfectly fresh, by means of sugar alone, 

 and even with a very small quantity of it. He 

 has thus kept salmon, whiting, and cod, for an 

 indefinite length of time ; and by this simple 

 means fresh fish may be kept in that state some 

 days, so as to be as good when boiled as when 

 just caught. 



It is added, that " if dried, and kept free from 

 mouldiness, there seems to be no limit to their 

 preservation ; and they are much better in this 

 way than salted. The sugar gives no disagree- 

 able taste. This process is particularly valua- 

 ble in making what is called kippered salmon ; 

 and the fish thus preserved are far superior in 

 quality or tlavor to those which are salted or 

 smoked. If desired, as much salt may be used 

 as to give the taste that may be required ; but 

 this substance does not conduce to their preser- 

 vation. In the preparation it is barely necessa- 

 ry to open the fish, and to apply the sugar to 

 the muscular part, placing it in an horizontal 

 position for two or three days, that this sub- 

 stance may penetrate. After this it may be dried ; 

 and it is only necessary to wipe and ventilate it 

 occasionally to prevent mnuldmess. A table 

 spoonful of brown sugnr is sufticient, in this 

 manner, for a salmon of five or six pounds weight ; 

 and if salt be desired, a tea spoonful or more 

 may be added. Saltpetre may be used instead, 

 in the same proportion, if it be desired to make 

 the kipper hard." 



From the National Gazette. 



In " the General Views" contained in the 

 Appendix to Mr. S. E. Morse's " New System 

 of Geography," the following, among other in- 

 teresting results, are stated in connection with 

 the Tables of the Population of the United 

 States. 



In 1790, the States West of the Alleghany 

 mountains contained scarcely one hundred tlioii- 

 sand inhabitants — in 1820, those slates, including 

 Alabama and Mississippi, contained more than 

 two millions of inhaliitants. 



The population of the ,United States has in- 

 creased 32.9 per cent, between 1810 and 1820. 

 At this rate it will double in about twenty-five 

 years. 



Taking the whole of the United .''tates lo- 

 gether,the rf/ii/f.? increase faster than the lilarks. 

 During the last thirty jears, the proportion has 

 been as 147 to 13.'5. liut during the same pe- 

 riod, in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Ken- 

 tucky, the Blacks have increased much faster 

 than the Whites ; in South Carolina, during the 

 last ten years, more than three times as last. 



In the new States, the number of females is 

 much loss, in proportion, than in the old states. 

 The difference is accounted for by the fact that 

 the emigrants to newly settled lands, are goner- 

 all}' young men, many of whom are without 

 families. Hence the chances for marriage for 

 females, are greater in the new than in the old 

 states. In the latter, the number of females not 

 married, is much larger in proportion than in 

 the former. 



Of the white population of the United Stat 

 it appears that 12.17 per cent, are upwards 

 45 years old, while, of the Black, the prop 

 tion is only 10.40 per cent. In the States so 

 of Pennsylvania and the river Ohio, includ 

 .Missouri and Louisiana, only 11.23 percent 

 the White population are more than 46 ye 



old. , 



j It appears that 2,065,499 persons in the Uni 



j States, or more than one-fifth of the whole p 



ulation, are engaged in agriculture ; child 



; and females generally not being included in t 



calculation. Only 421.644 persons, or 3.80 | 



j cent, of the whole population, are engaged 



1 commerce and manufactures, including not mr 



' \y manufacturers in the common sense of 



term, but mechanics and artificers of every ki 



' In all our great cities, the females are mi 



numerous than the males. The average of 



the cities gives nearly 109 females to 100 mal 



while that of the whole United States gives 1 



97 females for 100 males. 



In the six principal cities of the United St:, 

 the proportion of females between 16 and 4.. 

 very large, being on an average about 24 |jt 

 cent, of the population, while in the countrjln 

 large, it is only 19.30 per cent. Atthesa) 

 time, the proportion of children under 10 ye 

 of age, is very small, being on an average 1 

 than 28 per cent., while the average of I 

 whole United States gives 33.29 percent. Fr 

 this it appears that the causes which operate 

 retard the increase of population, exist tt 

 much greater extent in ourcities than else whe 

 llis a singular fact, that in every one of ■ 

 abovementioned cities, the females under 

 years of age are more numerous than the mal 

 while in every State of the Union, the fact is 

 reverse ; and in the new States especially, 

 excess of mates among the children is very gri 



It appears that in the newly settled States 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois and IN 

 souri, taken collectively, there are, among 

 children under ten years of age, 76,087 boys i 

 70,038 girls ; that is, for every 100 boys tb. 

 are only 92 girls ; while in the old States 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Isia 

 Connecticut, and the District of Columbia, th< 

 are 158,113 boys and 153,384 girls ; that is, 

 every 100 boys there are 97 girls ; it appe 

 also, that in our six larger cities, taken coll 

 lively, there are, under 10 years of age, 38.'- 

 boys, and 38,223 girls ; that is, for every 1 

 boys there are nearly 100 girls. This seems 

 indicate, that the state of society whicli is m 

 I'avorable to the increase of population, is j 

 culiarly favorable to the increase of males : 

 perhaps, to be more particular, that the pro]' 

 tion of males among the offspring of early mi 

 riages is unusually great. 



A gentleman riding through the town of — 

 one day mot an awkward fellow, leading a ht 

 whom he accosted in the following mannf 

 " How odd it looks to see one hog lead anothei 

 " Yes, replied the chap, " but not so odd as 

 does to see a hog ride on horseback." 



Mrs. Garrick's letter of remonstrance agair 

 Kean's ^Ibel Dnigger, was brief. " Dear S 

 you don't know how to play Jlbcl Dniggcr.^'- 

 His reply deserves also to be recorded, ai 

 placed to the credit of his gallantry. " De 

 Madam. I know it." 



