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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



The following Ode, written by a member of the I 

 Washington Society, in Boston, was sun; at the late 

 celebration of Independence, by Mr. Benj. Brigham. 

 We think that the birth day of our National Freedom, 

 fruitful as it has been, and we hope ever will be, in 

 similar productions, has rarely exhibited any thinj of 

 the kind of equal excellence. 



ODE. 



Air — " To Liberty's tnraplur'd sight. ''^ 



When first with ray divinely bright. 



Forth btara'd fair freedom's western star, 

 O'er ocean, wave, and mountain height, 



Its heavenly radiance gleam'd afar ; 

 Admiring nations gaz'd with awe. 



And monarchs veil'd their dazzled eyes ; 

 Earth, sea and sky enraptur'd raw, 



And bade their swelling anthem rise. 



Star of the brave, the f^rtat and free .' 

 Hail .' glorious star of Liberia^ . 



Then rousing from his rocky rest, 



Stem Independence grasp'd his spear, 

 And toss'd on high his haughty crest, 



And bade his glittering banner rear. 

 Earth trembled 'neath his giant tread ; 



Shook, pale Oppression's gloomy hold ; 

 The red eyed Despot quak'd with dread. 



As far his lofty chorus roli'd. 



Wkerc'eT thou dau-nest all are free 1 

 Hail! glorious star of Liberty. 



" Columbia's Sons arise I" he cried, 



" To glory, fame and honor rise T' 

 Each cavern'd rock and hill replied, 



In echoes to the list'ning skies: 

 They rose in virtue's armor bright, 



Fierce on their tyrant foes they spruiig 

 While cheering on the patriot fight, 



On high the heavenly minstrels sung ; 



The star of Freedom shines o'^er thee .' 

 Columbia thine is Liberty .' >' 



.As rolls the torrent to the main, 



Resistless from the mountain side, 

 Resolv'd to rend th' Oppressor's chain, 



They burst upon his banner'd pride : 

 With firmer step each Wariior trode ; 



A surer mark each weapon found ; 

 Each breast with holier fervor glow'd ; 



As proudly rose the thrilling sound. 

 Bright harbinger of victory .' 

 Hail .' radiant Star of Liberty ! 



Thu?, on to glorious fame they rush'd : 



With vict'ry's wreath their brows were crown'd ; 

 And War's dread tempest, now, is hush'd, 



Now, Peace, mild beaming, smiles around. 

 Adown the peaceful vale, no more 



The cannon's voice of carnage tells ; 

 But far along our length'ning shore, 



Th' inspiring note of triumph swells. 



All hail ; Columbia, great and free, 

 Bltst home of Peace and Liberty. 



And while our bosoms bound with joy, 



Forget not we the mighty dead ; 

 Let mem'ry breathe a mingled sigh. 



For those who for our freedom bled. 

 Pledge deep to them the sparkling bowl ; 



Let their high praise in song arise ; 

 Wake the far echoes of the pole. 



In strains aspiring reach the skies. 



Brave jiatriot band, we raise to thee, 

 Tli" exulting voice of Liberty.' 



From the Natioiial Intelligencer. 

 ROTARY PRINTING. 



In one of the letters from London concerning 

 Perkins' improvements on the Steam Engine, 

 there is an incidental mention of an invention 

 "for printing calicoes, by means of an engraved 

 cylinder, \vhich passing over the cloth, performs 

 the work that was formerly done by manual la- 

 bour." 



It is so singular as to be worth remark, that, 

 more than twelve months ago, Mr. Peter Force, 

 printer and bookseller, of this city, disclosed to 

 the writer of this the principle of an invention 

 precisely such as that now ascribed to Mr. Per- 

 kins. Mr. Force was at that time engaged in 

 having a model made, and perfecting his inven- 

 tion — which work, it appears, he soon after ac- 

 complished : for we discover, from the official 

 printed list of patents issued during the year 

 1822, that on the '22d day of .'higust last, Mr. Force 

 obtained a patent for " an improvement in the 

 machines lor printing paper, cloths, books, &.c." 

 We yesterday saw the specification of this patent, 

 wherein the scope of the invention is thus pre- 

 fixed to the description of it: 



There are six ditlerent machines for comple- 

 ting the improved paper hangings, calicoes, let- 

 ter-press printing, &:c. 



1st. For laying on the ground work all of one 

 colour. 



2d. For do. of different colours. 



3d. For laying on ail the different colours, at 

 the same time where they are separate. 



4th. For laying on all the different colours at 

 the same time where they are interspersed. 



5th. For laying on all the diflerent colours at 

 the same process, where they are intermixed. 



6th. For printing books, &c. both sides of the 

 paper, Sic. at once. 



We do not mean to detract an iota from the 

 merits of Mr. Perkins' invention, whatever they 

 may be valued at, much less from his universal- 

 ly-acknowledged skill in Mechanism. It is no 

 more than just, however, that this useful inven- 

 tion of our townsman should be made known, to 

 the end that he lose neither the merit or profit 

 of what is undoubtedtly his original invention. 



licved here. If it is heard that a man owns a 

 thousand acres of land, and fifty negroes, ill. 

 imagined that there is no end to his wealth.— 

 But it is not considered that out of fifty slaves. 

 on account of old age, childhood, disease, and 

 other causes, scarcely ten or twelve able bodied 

 laborers can be found, whose services are to I 

 regularly depended on. Now if the plant 

 grows corn enough to feed all his dependen 

 and tobacco sutfirient to fill fifteen or eightet. 

 hogsheads, he is thought to do exceedingly 

 well. This tobacco, at an average price, wii 

 produce from one to two thousand dollars. Thii 

 is all the planter has to pay taxes, blacksmith'i 

 and doctor's bills, the expense ot clothing, am 

 every thing else in the way of family expendi- 

 ture, where there are perhaps sixty persons.— 

 The truth is, that many planters in Xirginis 

 begin to feel that the present mode of cultivat 

 ing the soil is so expensive, and the price oi 

 produce so low, that a change will soon beconu 

 necessary and inevitable. Free labor costs les 

 and produces more than that of slaves. Henc« 

 while Virginians are nominally rich, they an 

 actually poor; and will be so until some on( 

 shall be wise enough to devise a plan for chang 

 ing the state of things among us. When shal 

 it once be ! 



NEW ENGLAND AND VIRGINIA. 



Extract- from the Journal of a Virginia traveller in 

 New England. 



In the excursion from which I have just re- 

 turned, I had an opportunity of looking more 

 closely than I had done before into the domestic 

 and agricultural economy of the New England 

 farmers. And 1 have been astonished to observe 

 how much less house-keeping and the cultivation 

 of the soil costs here, than they do among us. 

 A family here, which employs one house servant, 

 lives full as much at ease, as one in our part of 

 the country that employs four — with only this 

 special exception, that, in Virginia, the unstress 

 has a great deal the mo-t trouble. Consider the 

 dillereiice, as to expense, between employing 

 four iin[)roductive hands and only one ! 



I have before remarked that the farms here 

 are small. They are generally cultivated by 

 the proprietor and his sous. And if the whole 

 product is less than on the large plantations in 

 Virginia, the surplus is proportionably much 

 greater ; and the expense of clothing incom- 

 patibly less. I have no doubt but that the nett 

 prolits of farming in New England are greater 

 than iu Virginia. Ijut this will scarcely be be- 



An Irishman who had never fired a gun in hi- 



life, took it into his head to go a shooting. I 



was not long before he saw a little wood pecke 



engaged in perforating a small cherry tree 



Pat crept slowly as far as he durst without alai 



ming the bird, and after making two or thre> 



circumbendibusses around the tree, as the littl 



: feathered mechanic performed a similar revolc 



' tion round its trunk, he tho't he had at last go 



' a chance for a shot; so shutting both eyes fas. 



I he blazed awaj'. The bird, more scared tha 



j hurt by the attack, took to bis wings, while Pa 



sure as he could be that he had bro't down hi 



game, commenced searching for it among th 



weeds at the root of the tree. As he was thu 



engaged, a frog started up before him and be 



gan hopping around the tree. Pat in an ecstac. 



i of joy at having found as he supposed the objec 



I of his search, soon seized poor croaker, ani 



while he eyed his lantern jaws and frecklei 



I skin with somewhat of an amazement, exclaim 



: ed, " Arrah, now, but sure you were a prott; 



{bird before I shot all the feathers oflTyou." 



A gentleman mistaking a very small lady whi 

 was picking her way over a dirty channel, fo 

 a very young one, snatched her up in his arms 

 and landed her in safety on the other side, whei 

 she indignanly turned up a face, expressive o 

 the anger of fifty winters, and demanded why hi 

 dared to take such a liberty ? — •• Oh ! I hum 

 biy beg your pardon, said the gentleman, I ban 

 only one amend to make" — and he again caiigb 

 her up and placed her where he had first fouDt 

 her. . 



A distinguished member of the New-York con 

 vention of 1821, after ending an elaborate speech 

 and supposing his chair to be behind him (whicl 

 unfortunately was not the fact) while in the ac 

 of seating himself, came to the floor rather at 

 ruptty. .Vnother member, not noticing the mi» 

 take, rose immediately to reply to the speech 

 but was silenced by a member calling out, " or 

 der, order, there's another gentleman on ik 

 'ijloor already !"' 



