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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AN ODE, 



Wrilttn foT tin Celebmlion of tht Second Centennial 

 Anniversary of the Settlement of A'. H. 



Two Hundred Years are number'd now, 



Since with the op'ning year 

 The white man breathM his ardent vow, 



And ralsM his altar here ; 

 From Albion's haughty sea-girt land, 



'^ Laconia's'* Ancients come, 

 A patient, firm, and dauntless band, 



To seek a peaceful home. 



And why should thus our Fathers spurn 



Their riative earth and sky ? 

 With visions bold their fancies burn ; 



Their hopes and hearts beat high ; 

 For mid these northern wilds they see 



Perrennial nature bloom, 

 And rivers roll in majesty, 



To fertilize their home : 



And mighty lakes are epreading there, 



Where Eden islands show. 

 And " chryslal hills" are swelling fair. 



Where mines of treasure glow ; 

 Oh, at those visions never smile, — 



They gilded well the gloom ; 

 They soften'J oft the rugged toil 



That raib'd our happy home. 



Nor think such dreams were fables vain, 



The ynoral we may find ; 

 Though winter here in rigor reign, 



No frost can blight the Mind. 

 It glows as pure, it soars as light 



As ocean's wintry foam ; 

 It is the Freeman's Chrystal bright— 



The Gem that gilds his home. 



Then polish high the living Mind .' 



'Twas Athens' noblest praise — 

 Be Learning here with Labor join'd, 



Our laurels with our lays ; 

 And God, who saw with tender care 



Our Pilgrim Fathers roam, 

 Will bless those sous and daughters fair, 



That grace and guard their home. 



HAIL THE DAY. 



Tpne — Scots wha hue. 

 [Sung after dinner at the Centennial Celebration.] 



Hail the day our gallant sires, 

 On these rocks first lit their fires. 

 Where now stand our fanes and spires, 



On this jubilee — 

 Sires, who from old England bore 

 Freedom's standard to our shore, 

 May your deeds for ever more 



Live in memory. 



While New Hampshire's healthful gales. 

 Ocean whiten'd with her sails, 

 While our verdant hills and vales 



Cheer us gratefully ; 

 We'll revere the patriot band. 

 Men, who on this desert str.and, 

 Wav'd their banner o'er our land — 



Flag of liberty. 



On the spot where pilgrims fled, 

 Where by savage foes they bled, 

 To the spirits of the dead. 



This our oath shall be ; 

 V>y the mounds their ashes made, 

 By the altars where they pray'd. 

 By our own right ami and blade, 



Still we will be free. 



From a Fayettevillc (N. C.) paper of May 26. 



HYSON TEA. 



The fact has been demonstrated, that the- 



■^naine Hyson Tea may be successfullj' culti- 



■"'is State. The experiment has been 



"Suit has been the most satisfac- 



e wife of Mr. J. Newl.nnti, of 



, found a seed much resembling 



that of buckwheat, in the bottom of a box of 

 tea, which her husband had purchaspd in this 

 town. She planted the seed in her garden, 

 and the produce was a plentiful crop. She 

 gave some of the seed to Mrs. Farrington, the 

 lad}' of Mr. John Farrington, of Chatham coun- 

 ty, who also planted the seed ; and the writer 

 of this article obtained his information from 

 Mrs. Farrington, and also obtained from her 

 some of the tea and seed. He planted the seed 

 in his garden in this town, where it can be seen 

 by those who are curious to witness the pro- 

 ducts of the East Indies transferred to this wes- 

 tern hemisphere. The writer of this article 

 has distributed, of the small portion of the saf^d 

 obtained by him, to many of his friends ij| this 

 town and its vicinity. A treatise on the mode 

 of curing this valuable plant is quite desirable. 



From Silliman's Journal. 

 SALEM MANUFACTURE OF ALUM. 



We contemplate with particular satisfaction 

 every advance made in our domestic arts and 

 manufactures, and regard every new step of 

 this kind as an addition to our national resources. 



Excepting the natural alum of the caverns in 

 Tennessee, and o( some other regions of the 

 West and South, and that occasionally found in 

 our schistose rocks, and used in these cases 

 more or less for domestic dyeing, and other 

 purposes, we were not aware that the United 

 States possessed any resource for this article 

 independent of the foreign markets. 



Some time since we were informed that a 

 manufactory was established at Salem in Massa- 

 chusetts, and the proprietors have recently put 

 us in possession of specimens, which prove that 

 the effort has been completely successful. 



Among the crystals of alum, are some of 

 great size, and exquisite beauty and transpar- 

 ency, exhibiting to the naked eye, in a very 

 striking manner, the successive layers of super- 

 position, and the progressive increments and 

 decrements. A part of an octaedron lies before 

 us, complete, except on the side where it ad- 

 hered to the mass. It measures nearly five 

 inches by four, and has the most perfect finish 

 on its faces and solid edges and angles, which 

 are in every part replaced by truncations. — 

 Some crystals of rather smaller size are quite 

 or nearly perfect. AVe are aware that fine 

 crystals are not rare in manufactories, but we 

 have not seen these equalled even by the simi- 

 lar productions of the celebrated establishment 

 near Glasgow. There can be no question from 

 the appearance of these crystals, as well as 

 from that of the amorphous masses, of the ex- 

 treme purity of these materials. Perhaps they 

 are even purer for this reason, that the alum is 

 not manufactured (as we understand) from the 

 usual source, namely, the decomposed alum 

 slates, but from the direct synthetical union of 

 sul|)liur)c .acid with the argillaceous earth. 



The sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) made 

 at this establishment, is equally perfect in its 

 kind, presenting crystals of extreme finish and 

 beauty. 



From the American Farmer. 

 CURE FOR THE GRAVEL. 

 Mr.. SKl^^•^;n — When we take a daily paper 

 in hand, it is generally for the purpose of dis- 

 cussing the politics of the day, or noting the 

 price of stocks: both pass away as the Ephem- 



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era. But when in company with the Americwn 

 Farmer, " we read, mark, learn, and inwardly 

 digest" its valuable communications. I often 

 copy receipts from it, and am inclined to mea- 

 sure •• other people's corn by my own bushel," 

 and liiink the following receipt may be of as 

 much service to suffering humanity, as one for 

 making the Hamburgh pickle. Should you be 

 of the same way of thinking, it vvill find a place 

 in your valuable paper. 



Havmg been much troubled with the gravel, 

 1 was advised by a Mr. Zane, of this city, to try 

 a decoction of wild carrot, Daucus Carota. I 

 made a tea from the stalks and seed, with a few li 

 water melon seed, and drank about a quart a 

 day ; it is as palatable as China tea, when 

 sweetened with honey or sugar. In less thaa 

 a month from my first using it, 1 passed a stone 

 2-8ths of an inch long and 3-8lhs circumference, 

 of an egg-like form. 1 have ever since, when 

 troubled with any pain in the region of the 

 kidneys, taken a strong tea of it for my commoa 

 drink, through the day, and always found relief. 

 1 take it with my children for breakfast, once a 

 week- -they make no objection to the taste. 



This is a remedy that is to be found by every 

 farmer on his own lands ; and cannot well be 

 mistaken, from its great resemblance to the 

 culinary carrot seed and flower. Mr. Casej^ 

 Seedsman, called to my recollection, a medicine 

 used by my father, composed of beards of leeks, 

 birch h igs, pennyroyal and wild carrot — ad 

 libitum — but a compound is not so easily pro- 

 cured as a simple, which alone, often causes 

 the receipt to be passed over. 

 Yours respectfully, 



WASHINGTON SPENCER. 



May 18th, 1823. 



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l^ord J^orth. — While this gentleman was en- 

 gaged in discussing one of the most serious 

 points of a question under examination, a dog 

 which had concealed himself under the table of 

 the House of Commons, made his escape, and 

 ran directly across the floor, setting up at the 

 same time a violent howl. It occasioned a burst 

 of laughter, and might have disconcerted an or- 

 dinary man. But he who knew how to convert 

 the most awkward occurrences to purposes of 

 advantage, having waited till the roar had sub- 

 sided, and preserving all his gravity, said to 

 thespeaker, '■'• Sir, I have been interrupted by 

 a new member, not acquainted with the forms 

 of the house. I therefore yielded to him ; but 

 as he has concluded his argument I shall re- 

 sume mine." 



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A dandy, remarking one summer da}', that 

 the weather was so excessively hot, that when 

 he put bis head into a basin of water, it fairly 

 boiled, received for reply, " Then, sir, you 

 had calf heads'' soup at very little expense." 



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