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NEW EISGLANIj FAKMKR. 



Feb. 1, 1828. 



MISCELLANIES. 



The following Song was wrillen by J. W. Whitman, Esq. ol 

 Bosion, for the aniiirersary of Engine Company No. 7, in 

 this City. 



Oil in the stilly night 



Wheii Beauty's eye is sleeping. 

 The lire gods' lianelul light, 

 Then o'ei- its rest is creeping ; 

 'I'hc smoke, the Hash, 

 Tlic ruin's crash. 

 The crumbling timbers failing j 

 The lov tl, the dsar, 

 'I'he starting tear 

 Of her betrothed one calling. ■ 

 Chorus. Thus in the stilly night, As. 



See climbs that daring youth 



The ladder 'neatb nun burning • 

 Aye, mark the lover's' truth, 

 The maid with him returning ; 

 Torn from tlip (lame, 

 Hhe lisps his name, 

 31ost dear when danger presses, 

 And watch his lip, 

 Sweet nectar sip 

 From 'neath her unbound tresses. 

 Ghorus. Thus in, &c. 



One instant, such as this. 



Repays whole years of sorrow — 

 Perhaps such raptured bliss 

 May reach us ere to morrow. 

 Then pass the wine 

 To Beauty's shrine. 

 To courage and its daring — 

 Go seek its wreath 

 'Mid fire and death, 

 Its crown is worth one's wearing. 

 Ckoi'us. J'hus in, &c. 



When rings the midnight bell, 



Disturbing love's bright dreaming, 

 Remember then that .spell 

 Once o'er the( brightly gleaming ; 

 Vour lov'd one's arms. 

 Her \eiled charms. 

 The hours which may come o'er thee — 

 Haste then away, 

 No longer stay. 

 Thy peril'd one's before thee. 

 Chonts. Thus in, &c. 



.Abstracts from Silhman's Journal for January 18^8, by the 

 Editor of the Hampshire Gazette. 



JVorth Carolina Gold Mines. — Tliere are many 

 extensive deposits where each ton of earth pro- 

 misc'iously taken up will yield GO grains of gold, 

 ($2,25,) No mine is considered worth working, 

 at which a hand cannot make a pennyweight (a 

 bout 90 cents) per day, cleiir of the proprietor's 

 share. First rate hnnns consider they are doing 

 bad business unless they can make 10 or 12 pen- 

 nyweights (9 to $11) clear per week. Good wa- 

 ges have sometimes been made by washing dirt 

 over, that had before been washed five or si.K times. 



Catadids. or Kitty Didds. — These insects usual- 

 ly appear in the month of August. The music is 

 performed by the males ; it is a love song to at- 

 tract the females. The noise is made by flat plates, 

 one on each wing, near the back, which are grat- 

 ed together with great rapidity. In warm, fruit- 

 ful seasons, the catadids appear early in August ; 

 in cold seasons, the latter part of the month. In 

 the cold dry season of 181U they were not heard 

 the first week in August. 



JVlagara Falls. — In July last, Capt. Basil Hall, 

 of the British navy, went behind the sheet of wat- 

 er at the Falls of Niagara, to make some e.vperi- 

 ments with the barometer. He says there is with- 

 in the sheet of water a violent wind, which ex- 

 ceeds the most furious squall ho over met with, 

 and he remarks that every stream of falling wat- 

 er produces more of less a bl.ist of this nature. — 

 rrhe trembling and clattering of the windows and 

 doors in Northampton arc undoubtedly the effect 



of the wuter f«llii g over the iJauis on Mill River, er to make of forty boys v(t si;iioi)l, what a paieni 

 especially that at Mr Clark's mill. Air is carried J cannot make of two at hoin.e. '-Tiie iuiIk of hu- 

 down by Ihe falling water, a wind is produced be- ' man kindness" in children is often spoiled at 

 hind it, and the surrounding atmosphere is disturb- ' home, and parents wonder liiey lio not grow right 

 ed to a considerable distance ] up at once, just as they ought to in «>very particu- 



lar, under the tuition of their teacher. 



Previous to the eruption which destroyed Her" | 



culaneom and Pompeii iti the year 79, Vesuvius ' An association is formin;) in Pennsylvania to 

 was to appearance an e.xtiiict volcano, and his'ory promote the cultivation of .the Mulberry and the 

 had given no account of any eruption, lis crater raising of silk worms, ijoine enterprising gentle- 

 was covered by vegetation, and its slopes by vine- men in Peterborough in this state, are engaged 

 yards, fields and villas. Spartacus and the Roman i in the same pursuit. — A'eeiit Sentinel. 



insurgents took refiiue in this crater, when pursu- — 



ed. On the ^411, of August, A. D, 79, the tremen- '"^ ''"^k with a cigar in his mouth entered Mr. 

 dous eruption took place. A dense cloud OTer- Cross's menagerie last week, when Mr. Cross re- 

 spread the whole neighborhood of Naples with ^''^sted the visitor to take the " weed" from his 

 profound darkness : volumes of ashes encumber- f"o^tli> lest he should learn the monkies "bad hab- 

 ed the earth to a gieat distance ; terribie flushes ''^' 

 of fire pierced the cloud ; the {jround heaved ; the . , ~ ~~' " „ 



, , ... „ ,. _ , u. 1,; IT I never knew a truly estimable man offer a fin- 



sea receded ; and three entire cities, btabia, Her- ,. , , , , , 



, , Tl u 1 I u S^r : I' IS ever a sign ot a cold heart ; and he who 



culaneum and Pompeii, were buried under a heap . , , "^ , , , , ■ , 



„ . , . . en . 1 1.1 (• . • 1 .u IS heartless IS positively worthless, though be may 



of ashes and stones from 60 to 1 12 feet in depth. , • , , , ^ 



. ■ • , , I .11- 1 be negatively hiirmless, 



A new principle has been rectntly discovered a j 



in black pepper, called piperine, which is proved, q.,jg brace of precepts and anecdotes which fol- " 

 from careful e.'ipenmt nis, to be u successhil rem- j^^^ „g f^^m the pen of that prince of gastrono- 

 edy in intermittent fevers, and has been employed ^^^^ ^^ Kitchener, too early alas removed from 

 with advantage in typhus tever and periodical ^,,,3 n„,ndane .sphere. They are taken from his 

 headache. It may be given in doses of from one [^[^.^t work -The Traveller's Oracle.' 



to four grains^ ^ Precept 1.— 'To put the feet into warm water 



In the southern part of France near the Rhone, ^°^ " <=ouple of minutes before going to bed is very 

 is a volcanic district, comprising an area of about refreshing, and inviting to sleep;— lor promoting 

 2000 square leagues. Here are regularly formed tranquility, both mental and corporeal, a clear skin 

 craters, currents of lava extending many miles, may be regarded as ne.xt in eflicacy to a clear con- 

 and many other decisive proofs th.it volcanic fire science. 



Precept 2. — 'A respectful and humble carnage 

 is a mighty advantage to gain knowladge — it un- 

 locks the heart of every one.' 



Anecdote. — 'Visited one evenings wiih Mr. R. 

 Twiss, the master of the house invited R. T. to 

 play at whist — who immediately gave him one of 

 his significant stares and said, 'No — No — pray, 

 sir, what have you seen me do since I came into 



has covered this fine country witli floods of molten 

 rock. The formation of these volcanic regions 

 was before the records of history, but after the 

 existence of animals, bones of which are found 

 imbedded in the vulcanic iimitcr. Auiuuj; ilieiii are 

 the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ox bear, 

 panther, hyaena, &c. 



The Saturday Morning Herald gives the follow- this room so exceedingly silly, that you ask me to 



ing review of the weather market. It is as well play at cards!" 



to laugh as to cry, under the infliction of wet feet, cacr-vi.«.7>„, ^^j....^.>.^_:^._ ___^,x_,^,. — „a^ 



coughs and sore throats. j AGRICULTURAL, BOOKS. 



" Umbrellas — Raised considerably since our last. For sale at the office of ihe New England Farmer, a varieix 



Jf'et Boots — Heavy and hard to be got off. of standard works on agriculture, horticullorc, gardening, breed- 



Q ■ ; n 11 ingof cattle, &c. among which are Deane's New England Far- 



C^pinis — Utill. mer— Farmer's Assistant— Sinclair's Code of Agi iculture— Lou- 



Mud — Plenty and brisk — large lots taken up by don's Encyclopedia of Agri-ulture— .Memoirs ef the Pennsylva- 



travellers ; city holders part with the article freely ?'* A|ric,.ltural Society-Hints to American Husbandmen- 



' •' '^ •' Lawrence s New Farmer s I alendar—Thachei s Orchardist— 



at a small advance. Coxeon Fruit Trees— Ha^ ward on Hcriicullure— Frnit Giow- 



Cloaks and Great Coats — Much sought after — er's Insiructer— Speechly on the Vine— MiVIahou's Gardener— 



J , . , u 1 11 Cobbetts American Gardener — t'obbius Collage Economy^ 



and kept close by holders. Cobfeu's Ride in France- Hogg on the Cultur? of Flowers— 



Cozighs and Colds — Abundant — some few cases Kirwan on Manures— lard on Sheep— Ularshall on Gardening 



have been got off by physicians. 



Rain — Falling continually — dealers very 

 tious of entering into it." 



—Nicoll's Villa Gardener— Thorburri's do.— Holdich's Essay on 

 Weeds— Agricullnral Reader — Honner on Bees— nakc«ell on 

 Wool— Gray's British Plants— Nuliall's Bolanv— Torrey's Dot- 

 any — Farmer's, mechanic's, and Spoi'isinrn's Slagazine. &c. 

 Agricultin'al Libraries and others supplied on favorable terms. 



Children. — The following from the Middlesex 

 Gazette, upon the management of children is cor- 

 rectly conceived ; — 



■Very few boys will be insulting, or mischievous, 

 or backward at school, who are properly manajred 



at homo. And a majority of parents, being r -ed English \\ h 



of the noise, roguery and ill behaviour of their j Early Peas, Tree Onion, Poppy Seed, S;c. 



children at homo, send them to school with no For sale at the New England Farmer office, .'resh S«'d of tho 

 rules or lessons for their conduct, cxpectin 



Lucerne Sted. 

 A few hundred pounds of fresh Lucerne seed, by the pcund 

 hundred weight, for sale at the N. E. Farmer office. 



JVIiite Mustard Sftd. 

 Fur sale at the office of the Ne\'. England Farmer, the bcsl 

 Mwslant seed, by ihe pound or bushel. . 



master in the plenttude of his wisdom & leisure to i New England 

 make them fine scholars, and fine gentlemen, and 

 amiable men and women all at once, and all this 

 is expected many times without a frown or blow, 

 as though it were perfectly easy for a school teach- 



,, Large Poppy, Early Peas, Tree Onion. While Clover, Lima 



"^ Squash, ^c" with ll:o grcalcst variety of Seeds to be fwind iU 



(ET Published every Fbiday, at Three Dollars per annum, 

 payable at the end ol the .year; but ihose who pay within si.\ty 

 days from the time of subscribing, arc entillcd to a deduction of 



Fifiij Cents. 



