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NEW ElVGLAND FARMER. 



August 31, 1S97. 



i*lfscfU.intrs. 



A WISH. 

 Mine be a cot beside the hill, 



A bee hive's hum sliall soothe my car; 

 A willowy brook that turns a mill, 



Witli many a fall shall linger near. 



The swallow oft beneath my thatch 

 Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; 



Olt shall the pilgrim lift the latch, 

 And share my meal, a welcome guest. 



Around my ivied porch shall spring. 

 Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew : 



And Mary a' her wheel shall sing, 

 !n russet gown and apron blue. 



The village church among the trees. 



Where first our marriage vows were given ; 



With merry peals shall swell the breeze. 

 And point with taper spire to heaven. 



I5PITAPH IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. 

 Reader, pass on, nor waste your time 

 On bad biography and bitter rhyme ; 

 For what I am this cumbrous clay insui'cs. 

 And what I was is no aftair of yours. 



Forgive my raving, gentlemen, for " ! fear I am 

 ^^^= not in my perfect mind." Whilst I am penning 

 ! this incoherent epistle to you, I doubt not but ! am 

 ' still playing the losing game : Having lost my 



money, I am now staking my time, which must iii- 

 ! fallibly be lost, if you refuse a place in your very 

 I excellent miscellany for these eccentric reveries. 

 But though time is so tremendously and liighly 

 I spoken of by divines, poets, &c. it is treated with 

 , less reverence by the generality of mankind : the 

 i sporting gentleman bets upon it, and enjoys it : the 

 I musician keeps it and heats it ; the sauntcrer kills 

 \ it ; and the bookseller makes money by disposing 



of an annual map of a small portion of it. Many 

 I ladies lose time ; and they would be extremely 

 i happv if they could also lose the effects of it, for 



Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, a uiucl 

 greater quantity of ilour than we export to all ike 

 West India islands. Those states import, from 

 their sister states, more than 625,000 barrels a 

 year, besides large quantities of corn — the whole 

 foreign export of flour was only 813,000 barrels 

 in 1825, aiid 858,000 in 1826. New England is 

 enabled to receive and co-isume this great quan- 

 tity because of her manufactures — more than 

 281,000 barrels were received at the single port 

 of Boston, of which 72,000 were e.xported, leav- 

 ing 209,000 for eonsumption, chiefly from Mary- 

 land and Virginia, in the last year : and the lat- 

 ter, of itself, is almost equal to the whole export 

 of the United States to the British West Indie? 

 and Cuba — which, in 1825 was no more than 223,- 



THE GAME OF LOSING TIME. 



it behaves unmercifully rude to youth and beauty, j 000 barrels. 



SpoHing Magazine. How small, then, is the foreign demand, compa- 



red with the home market, for the growers of grain. 



Pomp is so much the seducing notion of a Nea- If we allow to the people of the United States a 

 politan, that if he cannot hire a boy to walk after quantity of bread stuffs equal only to a peck of corn 

 his wife to church, he will put on his sword and per week, for each individual, the whole consump- 

 follow her himself, to give her an air of grandeur, tion will be about 150,000,000 bushels a year, equal 

 An Englishman would rob on tlie high way, or to 30,000,000 barrels of flour, while the export is 

 sell himself for a slave, with as much good will as less than 1,000,000 barrels. The horses and hogs 

 follow his wife to church in that manner. — Jlnge-\io the United States annually consume more than 

 louVs Letters. \ five times as much grain-as would bo equivalent to 



the quantity of flour exported ! The foreign de- 

 mand, however, even for so small a proportion of 

 our bread stuffs produced, is exceedingly impor- 

 tant, because of its effect to establish a selling val- 

 ue for all the rest. 



It is very probable that the starch used in ou,- 

 manufacturing establishments consumes a greater 

 value of the products of agriculture than the amount 

 of all such articles expoi'ted, (cotton and tobacco 

 excepted,) to Great Britain and Ireland, Rttssia, 

 Prussia, Holland, &c. We are not joking. We 

 see it stated that five factories near Springfield. 

 Mass. annually use 40,000 pounds of starch. It 

 is ascertained that at one factory in Massachu- 

 setts, employing 2G0 hands, 300 barrels of ,/7oj(c 

 were consumed last year. 



Do young gentlemen study Geography 9 — A day 

 In skimming over Mrs Piozzi's anecdotes of Dr or two since, while a canal boat was passing by 

 .lohnson, the following article struck me forcibly ; ' this village, on the deck of which several gentle- 

 She informs us, that before she had exchanged men were speaking about the beautiful situation 

 her well known British name of Thrale for that of Waterloo, on the Canada shore, opposite this 

 imported from Italy, which she now enjoys, she, ' place, a spruce young gentleman, who wore a 

 with two other ladies, and Dr Johnson, formed a cane, and sported a white beaver, begged to be 

 party at whist, and amused themselves in play for informed " where the battle of Waterloo was 

 a considerable portion of the evening. At the con- fought." All stared at such consummate igno- 

 clusion, Mrs Piozzi asked the Doctor if he had , ranee. " Gentlemen, where's the spot," he again 

 lost any thing? — "Only my time, madam," replied inquired — none rns.vered. Confused, he cast his 

 the uncouth moralist. eye abaft, and discovered the ebony hue of the 



Rude and indecent as this answermay bo thought cook's bright countenance ; the cook naturally 

 ospecially when addressed to fashionable v;omen, thought that the question should be solved, so as 

 who had shewn great condescension in admitting soon as he caught the eye of the spark-,ho exclaim- 

 Caliban among them, it conveys a most excellent ed emphatically " Urop, massa,^' covering his 

 lesson, if properly attended to. On this principle, ivory with a skimmer, ashe ran below. The deck 

 every man who games must be a loser, and, what roared with laughter. The " mortified man" 



HOP MARKET. 

 The reports from the plantations are as bad a 

 more to be lamented, his loss must be irrepara- rushed into the cabin, and betook him to (o Ais i ever, though there are some few that notice a 

 >,]e. books. — Black Roek Gazette. 



I fear I should be an unwelcome correspondent 



■f, on the subject of gaming, I should speak too '^ S"'"^ '='""""' >" «««o«— In the ISew-York 



authors 

 muchin'the style of a° philosopher. It would be a P^pers, a young man advertises that, having his 

 difficult task to persuade your readers that time is evenings to himself, he ' would write up a gentle- 

 infinitely more valuable than gold : I have fre- '"""'s ^0°^^ for a small compensation.' 



quentlv heard ijlayers complain of the loss of the .. ,. ~; ";; ', '. 7, . ^,. 



7 , . , M .u r rni 1- Mu kingdnm for (X horse. — A gentleman m Ohio 



latter, but hardly ever the former. They have, . ■' °. ,,, , -n , . . ■ , 



' ■ .1 ■ 114- , . Tx \7 • dives notice that he will exchange a terrestrial 



not always in their recollection, what Dr Young i ^ ,,.•,, u /• u 



., ■ 4,. • . , ,. » =■ and celestial globe for a horse, 



has said upon this important subject. ^ 



'f'ime destroyed 

 Is suicide, where more than Mood is spilt. 

 Dr Young's observations are very pretty, and 

 ai my present state of mind, very proper to be at- 

 tended to. Be it known to ye, gentlemen, that I 

 lost a thousand guineas in the course of yesterday 

 evening; which has almost turned my brain, in- 

 duced me to commence moralizcr, and to congrat- 

 ulate myself on having done it in a fexv hours; 

 since time is so highly estimated by the learned of 

 ail ages. 



But, with all proper deference to their superior 

 judgment, I had rather say, with Dr Johnson, that 

 I have " only lost my time," than acknowledge to 



trifling improvement. In this state of things little 

 is doing. On Saturday there was an advance of 

 2s to 3s. The Maidstone report says, the rains 

 having washed off part of the vermin and filth, the 

 hop vines have rather a fresher appearance ; but 

 as the lice have been increasing generally, the 

 blight is more confirmed. If the present wet 

 weather continues, little doubt can be entertained 

 of the ultimate fall of the crops. The Canterbury 

 report also says, that tile vermin are on the in- 



An expensive Person. It was said of a person i '^•^''"^ ' ^"''' ""'''"^ favourable -weather should 

 whenever dined at home, and who was always h^^'*^^ P'^*"' t'^"*"-''"""' be any thmg like half a 

 speaking ill of the people, that he never opened i "°P-—^''"''''" P"?"' ■^"'V ~- 



peaking ill ot tlie people, that he never opi 

 his mouth but at the expense of liis neighbour. 



The Maryland papers mention that the venera- 

 ble Charles Carroll was suffering under a disease 

 of the eye, which it is feared would pro\e fatal to 

 the sight. 



Extraet from JViles' Weekly Register. 

 Much fear is expressed of a loss of the Brit'-h 

 West India trade — and a shutting of the port;- ot^ 

 Cuba would throw us into i;reat alarm ; boca :se 



lioliing Cloths and 



you, (as the fact is 1 that / have only lo.it a ihoui- "*" °- festricted demand for our flour— and yet t'le 



and guineas. 



A"«ir England states received from New York, 



Constantly for sale by B. F. VVlilii:, No. II Kilby 

 street, Boston. 



