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NEWENGLAND FARMER 



OCTOBER 5, IR3«. 



MLKm^m^^^m^, 



ODE, 



Sung at the Funeral Cciemonies and Eulogy of James 

 Madison, formerly President ofthe United States. 



BY PARK BENJAMiri, ESQ. 



Hiiw ahall we mourn the glorious dead .' 

 What trophy rear above his grave. 



For whom a nation's tears are shed — 

 A nation's funeral banners wave I 



Let eloquence his deeds proclaim 



From sea beat strand to mountain goal ; 



Let Hist'ry write his peaceful namo, 

 High on her truth-illuinined scroll. 



Let Poetry and Art through Earth 



The page inspire, the canvas warm — 



In glowing words record his worth. 

 In living marble mould his form. 



A fame so bright will never fade, 

 A name so dear will deathless be; 



For on our country's shrine he laid 

 The charier of her liberty. 



Praise be to God '. His love bestowed 

 The chief, thn patriot, and tlie sage i 



Praise God ! to Him our fathers owed 

 This fair and goodly heritage. 



The sacred gift, lime shall not mar, 

 But Wisdom guard what Valor won — 



While beams serene her guiding star. 

 And Glory points to Madison I 



ORIGINAL HYMN, 



Written for and sung at the Centennial Celebration at 



Dedhani. 



BV THE REV. JOHN PIERPONT. 



Not now, O God, beneath the trees 



That shade this plaui at night's cold noon 



Do Indian war-songs load the breeze, 

 Or wolves sit howling to the moon. 



The foes, the fears our fathers felt 



Have, with our fathers, passed away ; 

 And where, in their dark hours, they knelt. 



We come to praise thee and to pray. 



We praise thee that thou plantedst ihem, 



Andmad'st thy heavens drop down their dew. 



We pr.iy that, shooting from their stem. 

 We long may flourish where they grew. 



And, Father, leave us not alone : — 



Thou hast been, and art still our trust : — 



Be thou our fortress, till our own 

 Shall mingle with our fathers' dust. 



of Messina, saw there, with lionor, polypi attach- 

 ed to the rocks, the arms of which, being several 

 feet long, were more than sufficient to strangle a 

 man. In ntany seas, the eye perceives nothing 

 l.iit a bright sandy bottom, extending for several 

 luindreif miles, without an intervening object. 

 I?iit in others, particularly in the Red Sea, it is 

 very different ; the whole body of this extensive 

 bed of water is, literally speaking, a forest of sub- 

 marine plants and corals, fo-ined by insects for 

 their habitation, sometimes branching out to a 

 great extent. Here are seen the madrapores, 

 sponges, mosses, sea-mushrooms, and various oth- 

 er things, covering every jiart ofthe bottom. The 

 bed of many parts of the sea, near America pre- 

 sents a very different, though a very beautiful ap- 

 pearance. There it is covered with vegetables, 

 which make it look like a green meadow ; and 

 beneath are seen thousands of turtle, and other 

 sea animals feeding thereon. — There are some 

 p'aces of the sea where no bottom has yet been 

 found ; still it is not bottomless. The mountains 1 

 of continents seem to corresjiond with what are 

 called the abysses of the sea. The highest moun- 

 tains do not rise above 25,000 feet ; and allowing 

 for the effects ofthe elements, some suppose that 

 the sea is not beyond 30,000 feet in depth. Lord 

 .Mulgrave used, in the Northern Ocesiu a very 

 heavy sounding lead, and gave out along with it 

 cable rope to the length or4,980 feet, without find- 

 ing bottom. But the greatest depth ever sounded 

 was by Capt. Scoresby, who in the Greenland 

 Seas, could find no bottom with 1,200 fathoms, or 

 7,200 feet of line. According to Laplace, its mean 

 depth is about two miles, which, supposing gen- 

 erally rcrcivcd cotiiiiale» to be cuiicul, us to the 

 proportion the extent of the waters bears to the 

 dry land on the earth's surface, would make about 

 two hundred millions of cubic feet of water. 



NURSERY OF WIi.I-IAM KENRICK. 



THE SE.V'S BOTTOM. 



BY REV. C. WILLIAMS. 



The bottom of the basin of the sea seems to 

 have inequalities like those of the surface of the 

 continents. Wero it dried up, it wo.ild present 

 mountains, valleys, and plains. It is covered al- 

 most throughout, by an immense quantity of tes- 

 taceous animals, or those who have shells, inter- 

 mixed with sand an<l grass. The bottom ofthe 

 Adiiatic Sea is composed of a compact bed of 

 shells, several hundred feet in thickness. A cele- 

 brated diver, employed to descend into the Straits 



Nonanllim Hill in Newim, 5\ miles from Boston hy the Wett- 

 em Avenue, and near the great Western Ruil Road. 



This estahlishment, which now comprises 26 acres, includes 

 the selections of the finest kinds of new Flemish Pears, and 

 of all other hardy truiis — selections from the firsl rate sources 

 and the linest varieties known. 



75,000 Morus IMuhicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry Trees, 

 can now be supplied, wholesale or retail. 



Ornamental trees, shrubs and roses. Also Herbaceous 

 flowerins plants of the most beautiful varieties. 



Address hy mail, post paid, to William Kenrick, New- 

 (on. Mass Trees and plants when ordered, are carefully 

 selected, and labelled, and fauhf.Jly packed, and duly lor- 

 worded from Boslon by land ur sea. Transporlalion gratis 

 to the city. Catalogues will be sent to all who apply. 



Sepl. 21. 8m 



GREEN HOUSE GLASS 



Of everv size and thickness, for sale t'V 



LORING &, KUPFI'.R. No. 10 Merchants Row. 

 Boston, Sept. 7. 2mis, 



A Brother's Influence. — We can conceive of 

 no worse character than his who exerts his author- 

 ity or influence for the moral ruin of those who 

 depend upon hitn for counsel. Such a case was 

 recently developed in the Municip.il Court in tliis 

 city ; it appearing on the trial of a lad for larceny 

 that his elder brother advised, urged, and drove 

 him to the commission of a crime which will for 

 ever affix a stigma upon bis character. There is 

 something horribly disgusting in such jiroofs of 

 what men may do ; and the spectator feels con- 

 strained anxiously to watch over all who may in 

 any way he dependent on him for advice, or be 

 affected by his example. Neglect may ( ause as 

 much evil as positive advice to sin. — Bostoti 

 Pearl. 



Honors. — It is not that honors are worth hav- 

 ing, but it is painful not to have them. A star 

 gives consequence in the eye of the common 

 world, and even those people who most effect to 

 despise such external signs of court favor, are of- 

 ten influenced by them. Honors are to true glo- 

 ry what artificial lights are to sunshine. The bat 

 and the moth fly towards the torch, and the eagle 

 soars towards the heavens. But it may be said of 

 artificial lights, that they are useless to all eyes ; 

 and when they are intended t > illumine, and not 

 to dazzle, their effect is excellent. Elizabeth wag 

 very chary in distributing her honors, and hence 

 they were valued. — Sir Hnmphrtxj Davy's JVote 

 Book. 



SUPERB DUTCH BUI.BS. 



Just received from Holland, at tne New England Seed 

 Slorr, a fine assorlmcn; ol Hull>s obtained from a responsible 

 and celebrated garden near Rouerdam ; consisting in part of 

 tlie following kinds of I (yacinlhs. . 



La Heroine, double yellow with rosy eye, (superior); 

 Grande Videlle, single lilue ; Commandant, douhle blai k ; 

 Congress of America, do ble red; Groi.l Voorst; lioquel 

 Tendre ; Grande Blonaiche de Fiance, single white ; Vol- 

 taire; Louis d' Or, <louble yellow &c. Hyacinths, mi.\ed 

 colors, without names, by ihe dozen or hundred. Douhle and 

 Single Sweet Scented Jonquills ; Polyanthus Narcissus, of 

 various sorts; Crocus, by lli dozen or hundred; Double 

 Kanunrulus, mixed surls ; Double Anemones, mixed sorts; 

 English Iris; Persian Ins; Marlagnon Lilies; Crown lm| e- 

 rials; Amaryllis Formosissma ; Amaryllis, of ten difl'crenl 

 varieties, some very splendid ; Giadiolus Cardinahs; Mexi- 

 can Tiger Flower; luberoscs; (;yrlamens; Frilalarias, and 

 Tulips, double and single, ol every variety. 



The above loi ol bultis is worthy the attention of amateurs. 

 They were all selected with the nicest care, expressly for our 

 establishmen , and are undoubleOly the best lot ever imported. 



Sept. 21. JOSKPH BKECK & CO. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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AGENTS. 

 New York—Q C. Thorbukn, 11 John-street. 

 ^l//«iH!/— Wm . 'I'horeurn, 347 .^larket-sticel. 

 Phitaile/vhia—D. i^- C. Lanubeth, 85 ChesDut-street. 

 /i.i/dmoic— I'ublislicT ol Amciicaii Farinei. 

 ('ii,cin7,ali—S.C. Pakkhukst,23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. y.—Wni. Prince iS- l'*""*. Viop. Lui. Bol.Gar. 

 Middlehurij, Vt. — Wight Chapmak, Merchant. 

 West Bradford, Muss.— \iA\.E&. Co. Pooksellers. 

 Taunton, /V/n«s.— Sam'l O. Dukbar, Bookseller. 

 Har;/oriJ—GuiHin\K Jj- Co. Ilookscllers. 

 Neu-liui-vporl — Ehem.zer Steiima.v, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth. N. K.— John W. I'oster.Boi ..seller. 

 Woodsiocki I'l.—i.A. Pratt. 

 Ban'ror,Me.—\\M. M.wN. Druggist. 

 Halfjar, N. S.—F.. MKOKr:.F.iq. 

 S( iouis— Geo. Hoi.TOK, and Wni.is & Stevens. 



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