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INEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 11, 1828. 



(ISCELLANIES. 



FOB THE NEW ESGLASD FitRMER. 



Occasioned mj reading " The Grave of Napoleon," in the Farm 

 of the Stk of Febi'uary l\tst. 

 FAME WORTHLESS WITHOUT VIRTUE. 

 O'er prostrate graa'.ness sympathy will mouni. 

 Tliougli seas of blood have onco that greatness borne : 

 But sympathy is oil a vision wild, 

 And shields with tears the worlldess and defil'd. 



'T.-s true, the fors'C victor soar'd on high. 

 Like a broad meteor in the troubled sky. 

 His furious car o'er bowing nations rolIM; 

 He crush'd their armies, and he clutch'd their gold. 

 Sceptres and crowns at W'ill, lie gave, or look, 

 And e'en his nan.e. remotest empires shook. 

 Dire Iroubler of the groaning world he stood, 

 His all embark'd upon a crimson flood ! 

 At length, reverse to victory succeeds, 

 The vaiiquish'd Iriuniph, and the viclor bleeds. 

 His veterans, like a mist, have pass'd away — 

 His mighty empire 's crumbling to decay — 

 His crown has fallen — his iron sceptre 's gone ; 

 The lord oi kingdoms finds himself alone ! 



A feeble captive, to Helena's isle 

 Departs tlir Chief, who Iriumph'd o'er the spoil, 

 Theie disappointment spread its baneful shade, 

 And his fierce soul upon its mansion prey'd. 

 Till death, that conqueror of kings, drew near, 

 And laid the resiles.'- hero on his bier. 



He scal'd the summit of imperial power. 

 And sank from sight in dark affliction's hour. 

 How keen the pangs his loP.y spirit felt, 

 M'hat sad presages in his bosom dwelt. 

 When the vast object of his w hirlwind course, 

 Was roughly pluck 'd from his strong arm by force: 

 When the world's diadem, so near his own. 

 Fled from him, and he trembled for his throne 5 

 When still inci easing -weakness bow'd him down. 

 To yield his hopes, his .sceptre, and his crown. 

 What sad refiections rent his troubled breast, 

 When dire disease his sinking frame oppress'd; 

 When death, the good man's friend, the sinner's dread. 

 With certain aim his fatal arrow sped. 



The height of worldly pomp, and depth of woe, 

 Pass'd o'er the head of h-m who lies so low ! 

 We see the contrast, and our souls will melt. 

 And fef 1 in part, the very pangs he felt. 

 So s) mpathy once wept, when Ca?sar fell. 

 And so she weeps, e'en o'er the Prince of Hell ! 

 But justice knows no sympathetic rule. 

 True worth 's the standard of her righteous school; 

 .\nd tried by this, Napoleon sinks beneath 

 The lowest, poorest, virtuous, that breathe. 

 Self was ihe object of his constaut aim 

 Whose altar blaz'd with a perpetual flame. 

 X'or her, he intrigued — and for her he fought. 

 And all his nnghty powers to action brought. 

 No sacrifice for her, loo dear, was found. 

 Though waves of blood and tears the nations drown'd. 

 .Shall he be sainted, then, whose wild career, 

 i'iU'd earth with desolation, and with fear ? 

 Have we no feeling, but for him who sleeps 

 Upon that wave worn rock, mid eastern deeps ? 

 Whose sword made mothers childless — at whose word, 

 Whole armies were in ghastly heaps interr'd .' 



Where nations mourn, whose scales the grief can wcig 

 Whose eye the wide extent of woe survey / 

 But myriads bleed, and millions o'er them cry. 

 Not worth a tear, unworthy ofn sigh ! 

 While the fierce tyrant who impelled the wound. 

 Has both a laurel and a jwet found ! 



Let ihooc that please, the bloody victors crown, 

 Who hew their paths terrific to renown ; 

 What though at length they sink, as once tliey roSe, 

 Crush'd by the angry strokes of vengeful foes. 

 'Tis but a just reward, ambition's gain. 

 A righteous retribution, pain for pain 



For woes they once inflicted, now they (eel ; 

 The sword alone can pierce their hearts of steel ; 

 Earth is befriended when the conqueror wanes. 

 And sounds of joy reanimate her plains. 

 Thus she rejoic'il when Gallia's monarch fell. 

 And still the notes upon the breezes swell. 

 So let each warrior sink, no more to rise. 

 Who draws his ruthless sword for fortune's prize. 



Could I once stand beside Napoleon's grave. 

 Where Helen's rock defies th' eternal wave. 

 Thus w. uld I mourn ihe celebraled dead, 

 Who there reclines his solitary head ; — 



The relics of a fallen Chief lie here. 

 Whose very name the nations shook with leai ; 

 His vigorous form, a powerful mind sustain'd ; 

 But fell ambition had his soul enchain't:, 

 A thirst for empire, and the hero's fame, 

 Scorch'd every virtue with a ceaseless flame. 

 O'er seas of blood to power sublime he flew. 

 And kingdoms and republics sunk from view ; 

 'Till the dark clouds of vengeance round him burst. 

 And laid his empire and his schemes in dust. 

 Thus ciied his projects, and thus fell his crown, 

 His sole inheritance, a bad renown ! 



Oh, had his active soul but lov'd the truth. 

 When the bright morning beam'd upon his youth. 

 Then had his brow have worn a dia*tem. 

 Unfading as the oriental gem. 

 What evils had he quell'd. what good perform'd, 

 Had real virtue but his bosom warm'd. 

 How had his glorious fame thro' nations ran, 

 And gain'd the love and gratitude of man ; 

 Pierc'd thro' the shades of death, and rose on high, 

 A quenchless star in the eternal sky. 

 But now, bis name must with the wicked rot — 

 Enroll'd as infamous, or be forgot. 

 The blood of slaughtcr'd millions, from the ground 

 Cries out for vengeance, with prophetic sound; 

 Woes coundess, indescribable, were slrew'd 

 Around the awful path his falchion hew'd. 

 With fearful aspect, all against him rise. 

 And wait the righteous sentence of Ihe skies. 

 Where has his spirit field ? Ah ! where indeed. 

 Since from its cumb'rous load of earth, 'twas freed ? 

 None but the orphan's friend can this deride. 

 The widow's God — before whom kings are tried. 

 Gilsum, N. H. CANTHOR. 



Mligators. — The alligator is the most terrible 

 animal of this class. Vast numbers are seen in 

 tlip slow streams and slallow lakes of Florida and 

 Alabama; but they abound most on Red river, the 

 Mississippi lakes, and the bayous, west of that 

 river. On these sleeping waters, the cry of a 

 sucking pig on the bank will draw a shoal of them 

 from their muddy retreats. The largest alligator, 

 ever killed in these regions, measured more than 

 sixteen feet. They have at times, especially be- 

 fore a storm, a singular roar or bellow. When 

 moving about in the water they seem like old logs 

 in motion. In fine weather, they dose on the sand 

 bars, and such is their recklessness, that they al 

 low people to pass in boats within a few paces of 

 them. A rifle ball will glance from their bodies, 

 unless they strike in a particular place. The an- 

 imals when sltiin, emit an intolerable musky smell, 

 and it is asserted that its head contains a quantity 

 i of that drug. They sometimes chase children, and 

 I would overtake them, were it not for their inabil- 

 I ity to make lateral movements ; for having few 

 'joints in their body, and very short legs, they can- 

 not readily turn from a straight direction. Con- 

 jsequently, those who understand their movements 

 I avoid them without difficulty, by turning at right 

 j angles. They are chiefly formidable to pigs and 

 I other animals of that size. The skin is vahiablp 

 ! to the tanner. — Flint. 



ESTABLISHMEJfT FOR SEEDS. 



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Artichoke, Green Globe 

 Asparagus, Devonshire 

 Gravesend 

 Baitersea 

 Large white Reading 

 Beans, (2(» varieties,) including 

 the English broad beans, 

 dwarfs and pole. 

 Beets, true Long Blood 



Early blood Turnip 

 Early V.'hite Scarcity 

 French .Sugar, or Amber 

 Orange 



Green, (for soups, &:c.) 

 Borecole 



Brocoli. Early White 

 Early Pur|.le 

 Large < 'ape 

 Britssells Sprol/ts. 

 Cabltu^e, Earlv Salsbury dwarf 

 EarlV York 

 Early Dutch 

 Early Sugarloaf 

 Early Lon. Batiersea 

 Earlv Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large P.ergen, Arc. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 Large Scotch 

 Large Green glazed 

 Large late Drumhead 

 Tree, or 1000 headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Yellow Sa\oy 

 Turnip rooted, &c. 

 Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 

 Cardoon. 



Carrots, Altringham 

 Early Horn 

 Blood Red(fcr West In. 



dia market) 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Cremer 

 Cauhflouer. Early and Late 

 Celery, White solid 



Rose coloured solid 

 Italian 



Celeriac, or turnip rooted 

 Chervil. 

 Chives. 



Corn Salad, or Vettikost 

 Cress, Curled or Peppergrass 

 Broad leaved or Garden 

 Water 



Long Orange 

 Cucumber, Ear\y Frame 

 Green Cluster 

 Short Pricklv 

 Long PricklV 

 Long green Turkey 

 Long white Turkey 

 White Spined 

 Small Girkin, &c. 

 Egg Plant, Purple 

 White 

 Endive, Green 



White Curled 

 broad leaved Batavian 

 Gard£7i Burnet 

 Garlic Setts 



Indian Com. (several varieties) 

 Kale, Sea 



Purple curled 

 Green curly Scotch 

 Leek, London 



Large Scotch 

 Lettuce, Early Curled Silesia 

 Large Green head 

 Royal Cape 

 Imperial 

 Hardy Green 

 Brown Dutch 

 Grand Admiral 

 Tennisball.or Rose 

 Drumhead 



iMagnnm Bonura Coss 

 BalTi Coss 

 Ice Coss 



White Coss, or teaf, 

 Green Coss 



Melon,Vme Apple 

 Green Citron 

 Persian 

 Nutmeg 



Large Canteleupe 

 Pomegranate, or iVIusK 

 Carolina Water 

 Long Island Water 

 Apple seeded, Water 

 Marjoraiit 



Mustard. White and Brown 

 Xaslurlium 

 Mangel Wurlzel, 

 Okra 



Onicn, Polatoe 

 Tree 



White Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Madeira 

 Stratsburg 

 Large Red 

 Parsley, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 Curled, or Double 

 Parsnip. Large Dutch swelling 



Silver Skmned 

 Peas. Early Washington 



Early double blossomed 

 Early F ame 

 Early Golden Hotspur 

 Early Charlton 

 Early Strawberry Dwai J 

 Dwarf blue Imperial 

 Dwarf blue Prussian 

 DwarfSpanish,ot Fan 

 Dwarf Marrowfat 

 I Dwarf Sugar 



Matchless, or Tall Mai . 

 I Knight's Tall Marrows 



Tall Crooked pod Sugar 

 Peppers, Long, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squash 

 Bell 

 Cherry 

 Pumpkins. Finest Family 



(-'onnecticui Field 

 Mammoth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Shori lop Scarlet 

 Lrng Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white, or IV'aplcs 

 Cherry 



Viiilei colored 

 M'hile Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanish 

 Rhubarb, for tarts. &c. 

 Rata Baga. 



Snlsa/ij. or vegetable oyster 

 Sea Kale, 

 Skillet 

 Scorzcmera 

 Saffron. 

 Spinach. Ne 

 Pr 



Zealand 



klv , or Fall 



Roundleaved stimmet 



Eng. Patience Dock 



Sage, 



Squash, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable IMarrow 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 

 Tomaios 



Turnips, Early White Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 White Flat, or Globe 

 Green Round 

 Red Round 

 Swan's Egg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long Tankard 

 Long Yellow French 

 Yellow Dutch 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Yellow Aberdeen 

 Yellow Stone 

 Yellow Swedish 

 Dedhani 

 Tliyme — Sweet Basil — Bonesel, 

 Lavender — Rosemary — Hyssop, 

 Wortmcood — Summer Savory, 

 Penny roiiol — Spikenard — Diil. 

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