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NEW ENGL.AND FARMER. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Blessings of povebty in touth. — An English 

 judge being aslied what contributed most to the 

 bar, replied, " Some succeed by great talent, some 

 by high connexions, some by a miracle, but the 

 majority by commencing without a sliilhng." Tlie 

 same remark holds true of almost any calling or 

 profession. A traveller who starts on a journey 

 •with a heavy load, or too much baggage, is much 

 less likely to get on witli comfort to liimself and 

 success in his enterprise, than he who forbears to 

 encumber himself. 



Poverty is a sharpener of the wits and an incen- 

 tive to exertion. No man who has the requisites 

 for success — and every man is fit for something — 

 is apt to let his talents lie in a napkin, if the ex- 

 ercise of them is necessary to his pecuniary sup- 

 port and comfort. If, however, he commences with 

 property sufficient to defer the business of life — to 

 slight the duties which he should perform in the 

 community ; the cliancc is, that when the hour of 

 necessity arrives, he will find himself unfitted by 

 slothful habits and neglected opportunities. The 

 occwrence of these consequences may be recalled 

 to any reader's mind by a recollection of the histo- 

 ry of the rich men and the poor men among his ac- 

 quaintance. Many a poor lad is enabled, by the 

 changes and chances of fortune, to befriend in his 

 ^eed the man Avho was his rich school-mate. 



There are many rich people in the world who 

 liave themselves no idea what they are good for — 

 and whose friends have never thoroughly found 

 them out — we mean the rich by inheritance. Ma- 

 ria Edgeworth, whose works were very popular 

 fourteen or fifteen years ago, and ought to be more 

 widely read now, has an excellent story among her 

 other cxcelle;it works, entitled " Eiinui." The 

 reader of fiction, if he is not already familiar with it 

 may hunt for it. With that and the other novelties 

 of the same writer, time may be both pleasantly 

 and profitably employed. Meanwhile, as the inci- 

 dents are apposite to our argument, we will briefly 

 relate them from the recollections of a perusal four- 

 teen years ago. 



The subject of the sketch, the victim of ennui, 

 is a rich Irish resident landholder, whose time hangs 

 awfully heavy on his hands. Having no induce- 

 ment or incentive to occupation, he is a mere blank 

 in creation, and his restless existence is a positive 

 burthen to himself lie is accounted by his ac- 

 quaintance a negatively good, harmless, useless, 

 individual, who might shuflle olfhis mortal coil, and 

 the world suffer no loss by it. So he vegetated 

 fsr a number of years, in possession of his proper- 

 ty, until he accidentally discovered that the estate 

 of which he was in possession — not enjoyment — 

 was not his own. The foster-mother of the real 

 heir had changed infants with the owner of the es- 

 tate, and given him her child instead of his own. 

 Conscience would not permit him to remain in pos- 

 session of property acquired by his mother's fraud, 

 and he lost no time in putting the real owner in 

 possession, and launching forth himself, at middle 

 age, into the world, pennyless. The dross of 

 wealth removed, the man shone out. Industry, 

 talent and application, gave liim wc.ilth and char- 

 acter, and by tlie lime the real heir had exhausted 

 his suddenly acquired property, and killed himself 

 in revelling in the enjoyment of uncultivated taste, 

 and low dissipation, our victim of ennui was readv 

 to re-purchiise and enjoy the esLate which he had 

 so magnanimously surrendered. 



To his second possession he brought an acquain- 

 tance with himself, and with his own powers. He 

 had acquired habits of employment, and knew how 

 to devote his time with usefulness to his fellows, 

 and occupation and happiness to himself. Ennui 

 was a word no longer in his vocabulary. He had 

 learned " the uses of the A\orld ;" and to him they 

 no longer seemed " weary, stale, flat, and unprofit- 

 able." -It is those only who do not understand the 

 world, and mix in it with a clear conscience, that 

 it docs seem so little worth caring about. The 

 guilty may be sick of it, for its events remind them 

 continually of their own bad passages. The weary 

 of pleasure — the sated with enjoyment, may cry 

 out that " all is vanity," and the ascetic may affect 

 to regard the world which God made and pronoun- 

 ced good, not good enough for them. But the true 

 christian and philanthropist — the observer of men, 

 of manners, and of nature, will always deem exis- 

 tence a boon worth thanking heaven for. But we 

 are wandering from the subject. 



The experience of the suddenly enriched pens- 

 ant, in the tale to which we have referred, shows 

 the danger of wealth coming to the possessor by 

 surprise. Riches are not wealth unless they are 

 earned dollar by dollar. The eastern sage was 

 right, who jireferred that riches should come drop 

 by drop, rather than that the golden stream should 

 be quick and violent. There are men about town — 

 we meet them daily in the streets — who have been 

 rich, and now are poor, in purse, in mind, in char- 

 acter. An unexpectedly fortunate turn to a spec- 

 ulation, a bequest of property from the dead, or per- 

 chance a lucky venture in a lottery, has made them 

 wealthy beyond their former conceptions, and al- 

 most beyond their desires. Money thus acquired 

 by accident, is seldom, except by accident, retain- 

 ed ; and as the purse runs out, the man runs out 

 with it. Of course, in this connexion, we do not 

 intend to allude to those whom the chances of trade 

 have rendered unfortunate. Honestly losing tlieir 

 means, they do not lose themselves with their prop- 

 erty — but may be, like the hero of Miss Edge- 

 worth's story, better men for being poorer. 



The desire to obtain property, is honest and 

 laudable. Honestly and laudably followed, it 

 brings an improvement of the man with tlie acqui- 

 sition of every dollar. The passion for acquisi- 

 tion, is another trait of character altogether, and 

 degenerates to avarice. The desire,' followed in 

 moderation, makes great from our little men — the 

 passion, indulged to excess, belittles our great ones. 

 — .Veil' York Despatch. 



Spanish ETiquETTE. — The etiquette of the Span- 

 ish coiu't was the most severe in Europe. One of 

 their kings even fell a victim to it. Philip HI. be- 

 ing newly recovered from a dangerous malady, was 

 sitting near a chimney, in which was so large a 

 fire of wood that he was almost stifled. Etiquette 

 did not permit him to. rise, nor a common domestic 

 to enter. At length the marquis de Polar, cham- 

 berlain, came in, but etiquette forbade his interfe- 

 rence, an I the duke of Usseda, master of the house, 

 hold, was sent for;- He was gone out ; and the 

 heat increased, wliiie' the king bore it patiently, 

 rather than violate his dignity. But his blood was 

 so heated, that next morning an erysipelas of the 

 head appeared, and a relapse of the fever soon car- 

 ried him off. 



The general government has bestowed upon 

 Michigan 969,7.57 acres of land for school purposes. 



AVINSHIP'S BRIGHTON MIRSERIES, 



AND EOTASiC GARDENS. 



Fruil and Ornainerilal Trees, Shrubs, Creep- 

 ers, Herliateous, Pereunials, tireeii House 

 Plants, &c. 

 Orders addressed lo Messrs WINSHIP, 

 ^«n,a..^— ^ Brightou, Mass., will be promptly executed, 

 and forwarded to any part of this or olher countries. 

 April IC. f 



FRUIT AMD ORN'AMEIV'I'Ar. TRKES, JUULBER. 

 Rli<:$ a^c. 



NuTsery of Willimn KcvricI: 



The Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees for 1 839 is 

 now ready, and will he sent to all who apply. It comprises 

 a most extensive selection of the superior vtirieties ol Pears, 

 Apples, Plums, Quinces, Gooseberries, Raspberries, Cur- 

 rants, Strawberries, Grape Vines, &jc. The stock of Cher- 

 ries and of Teaches now ready is parliculvlv large. Also, 

 Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Honeysui'kles, Peeonies, 

 Dahlias and other Herbaceous Flowering Plants. 



10,000 Cockspur or Newcastle Thorns. 



10,000 Buckthorns. 



Moras Mullicaulis, and other Mulberries; the trees genu- 

 ine and tine, at prices fair, and varying with the size, and 

 the qiiantitv which may be desired. 



Fruit and all olher trees, when so ordered, will be secure- 

 ly packed for safe transportation to distant places, aud or- 

 ders promptly executed, on application to the subscribe]-. 

 WILLIAM KENRICK. 



Nonaiilum Hill, Newton, near Boston. 



January 30, 183S. 



PEAR, Pl,tJltI, GRAPE VINES, «C. 



1000 Pear Trees of the most approved kinds; 



1000 Plum Trees, of the most approved kinds aud eitra 

 size— many of ihem have borne the past season ; 



500 Quince Trees ; ■ 



3000 Isabella and Catawba Grape Vines, from G to 15 feel 

 hi?l), most of them have borne fruit— Black Hamburgh, 

 Sweelwarer, Pond's >eedling ; 



30,000 Giant Asparagus Roi ts ; 



5000 Wilmot's Early Rhubarb or Pie Plant, lately intro- 

 duced ; 



Also— a good assortment of Gooseberries, Roses, &c. ol 

 different kinds ; 



All orders left at this office, or with the subscriberat Ca 

 bridgeport, or in Mr Lyncli's baggage wagon box, at Gould 

 & Howe's. No. 8 Faneul Hall, will meet with immediate 

 attention. SAMUEL POND, 



March 27. Cambridge- port, Mass. 



BONE MAXIRE. 



The subscriber informs his friends and the public, that, 

 after ten years experience, he is fully convinced that ground 

 bnnes lorm the most pewcrful sliniulant that can be applisd 

 10 the earth as a manure. 



He keeps constantly on hand a supply of Ground Bone, 

 and solicits ihe patronage of the anricullural community. 

 I'r-ce at the Mill 35 cents per bushel fput up in casks and de- 

 livered at any part of the city at ia cents per bushel, aud no 

 charge for casks or cartiii;,'. 



Also, ground Oysler Shells. 



Orders left at the Bone Mill, near Tremont road, in Roi- 

 bnry, at the New England Agricultural Warehouse and 

 Seed Store, No. 52 North Market Slreel, or through the Post 

 Office will receive prompt attention. 



March 27. NAHUM WARD. 



GISAPE VIXES. 



160 Sweet Water Grape Vmes. 

 200 I^aliella, " " 



150 Catawha, " " 



100 Black Hamburg Grape Vines. 

 1000 Asparagus Roots. 

 100 Early Wilmoi Rhubarb Roots. 

 200 Common " " 



Also— Strawberry Plants of the lollowiuf choice kinds: 

 Methven Castle, Balh Scarlet, Hijutbois, English Wood, 

 Monthly, &c- Raspberries, Franconia While and Red. 

 Gooseberries— Currants- Flowering Shrubs and Plants of 

 all kinds supplied at short notice, bv 



JOSEPH liRECK & CO. 

 April 10. 51 and 62 North Market Street. 



A Bl IjI, AVANTED. 



Wanted a young Bull, of the short horned Durham breed, 

 old enough to be used the present season. Apply lo 



April 10. JOSEPH BRECIC & CO. 



THI': NEW iONGLAMJ FAHMEIl 



Is puhiishcd every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per itnnnni 

 payable at the end o'f the year—but those who pay withm 

 sixty days from the time of subscribing are entitled to a de- 

 duction of 50 cents. 



TUTTLE, DENNETT AJCD CUISHOLM, PRIIfTeBJ, 



n SCHOOL STRRKT BOBTOS 



