MISCbLLANEOUS 



CULTURE OF THE MIND. 



Mind makes the man — 

 Want of it the fellow. 



This motto, somewhat altered from Pope, has a 

 peculiar bearing upon the agriculturi-st. The far- 

 mer possesses all the privileges, and most of the 

 advantages, of other classes of the community ; 

 and if he will improve his mind, his influence will 

 be as potent, and his e.-iample as salutary, as the 

 influence and e.xample of any other profession. 

 The richest natural soil will produce neither bread 

 nor meat without culture. 'I he highest natural 

 natural gifts of intellect will not profit the posses- 

 sor, unless, like the rich soil, they are cultivated 

 with assiduity and care. Good culture not only 

 improves the mind, and fits it for high mental grat- 

 ification and enjoyment, but it lightens the toils, 

 and greatly increases the profits of labor. Frank- 

 lin owed his fame, his fortune, and his usefulness, 

 to his early habits of study, of industry, and of 

 virtue. Without these early habits, he probably 

 would have risen to neither fame nor fortune. 

 Some minds, like some soils, are naturally richer 

 than otl-.ers ; yet even apparently sterile minds, 

 like infertile soils, may, by good culture, be made 

 to yield great returns. Let the young farmer, then, 

 aspire to the highest honors of the nation, by en- 

 deavoring to improve his intellectual faculties ; 

 and if he does not attain tlie goal of his wishes, 

 he may he sure of greatly improving his condi- 

 tion and of benefitting others, provided always, 

 that he is industrious and honest. However me- 

 nial and survile agricultural labor may have been 

 considered among the privileged classes of Europe ; 

 and however degrading it may yet be held by the 

 would-be aristocracy of America, it has comman- 

 ded the highest respects of good men in every 

 age, and constituted in our country, the favorite 

 study and employment of a Washington, a J(?fter- 

 son, a Madison, a Monroe, and a Jackson : of an 

 Huniprey, a Livingston, a Shelby, an Armstrong, a 

 Lowell, a Lincoln, and a great many others, whose 

 names will stand out in bold relief upon the future 

 annals of our country. Let, tlien, no young aspi- 

 rant for fame and usefulness, shun rural employ- 

 ment, because it does not feed his hopes of dis- 

 tinction, and let no one, engaged in this employ- 

 medt forego the opportunity, which his condition 

 presents, of cultivating his mind, as the surest 

 means of sinking the J'tUoii), and rising to the dig- 

 nity of the man. 



the thing was done. I knew all about it just as 

 easy, 'cause I was watchin all the time — so I de- 

 cided the case accordin. 



This is a great country ! Why, marm, the corn 

 here grows as high as witch hazels, or cherry 

 trees, and the cottin and other fruit beats all cal- 

 culation. 



I'm makin' my etarnal fortin here just as fast as 

 I can. I can du any thing a little smarter than 

 any of 'em, 'ceptin playing cards, but I du think 

 they rather go ahead of me at playin lu and po- 

 ker, 'cause they almost always win my money. 



You know them shirts you said you'd made for 

 me and didn't know how to forrid on; you can 

 send 'em by mail now, as I don't have uny postage 

 lo pay in consequence of the virtue of my office. 

 If the watermelons are ripe I wish you would .=end 

 on tu or three : also, them tu pair of nankeen 

 trouses I hadn't room for in my trunk when I start- 

 ed. You'll find a button off on one pair unless 

 you've sow'd it on since I left, and while you are 

 about it you might as well let out that gather in 

 the bottom of 'em — I e.\pect I've grow'd a little 

 since I left hum. Send 'em all by mail — they 

 wont cost me the first red cent. 



I've now" been here nearly nine months and my 

 health has been first rate nearly all the time. The 

 only sickness I've had worth a mentionin has been 

 the billious fever twic't, the congestive fever onc't, 

 the fever and ager occasionally, and the dumb 

 ager all the time. 



Marm, I wish you give my luv to Eunice Homes, 

 and ask her if she recollects that time we went to 

 Hepsey Steam's quiltin ? I wish Eunice was out 

 here now. If you see Zack Stearns tell him he 

 may keep that knife I cum away and forgot, as 

 one blade was broke out and it aint of no great ac- 

 count. 



I feel as tho' I had a shake a comin on so I 

 must stop writin. Dont forgit the shirts and trou- 

 sers. Your luvin sun, 



Eben Pettingill. 



N. B. Apples is quite scace out here. I would 

 ask you to send on a barrel by post, only I'm afraid 

 they'll lumber up the mail. You can send a peck 

 any how. 



might be guilty of to be made the subject of con- 

 versation amongst their neighbors. It would be 

 better if they were to consider the noble destiny 

 which all mankind partake off in common with 

 themselves, both as respects the great moral ends 

 of this life, and the more sublime prospects of the 

 future, if they would remember the great fellow- 

 ship of our common humanity — the social end — 

 which (as parts of a great community) we are all 

 working to attain, and which awaits us at the close 

 of our brief existence. Let them reflect on these 

 things, and not ofiend their Creator by injuring 

 their fellow creatures — rather let them judge oth- 

 ers with tenderness, as they would wish to be 

 judo-ed, putting aside the v/eeds that cover the sur- 

 face of the characters of their neighbors, to ascer- 

 tain the depth and sweetness of the clear water 

 benciith it. — „Vf w York Sun. 



The Advantages of Office. — The following 

 letter might have been written by a young man in 

 Arkansas to his mother in New Hampshire, and 

 might not — we do not endorse it. It seems iliat 

 the young Yankee had lately received the appoint- 

 ment of post-master in that State, and that he pre- 

 sumes a good deal upon the strength of it. — .A'ew 

 Orleans Picnyune. 



WiLDCATSviLi.K, Rattlesnake Co. Ark. 



Dear Marm : — You haint the least idea in the 

 world how I'm a gitting along out here in this 

 Rackansack country. They've lately appinted me 

 post-master in this town, and I'm expectin to get 

 the office of justice of the peace afore long. I've 

 had three cases left out to me already. One on 

 'em was where a feller had gouged out another 

 chap's left eye, and neither on 'em was sartin 

 shure whether he was at the top or bottom when 



I Speak ill of no one without a just cause. 

 j There are many people in the world who are in 

 the habit of s])eak:ng lightly or contemptuously of 

 their neighbors, and some who do not scruple to 

 treat tho.se who are absent with the greatest dis- 

 ; respect, by showing up their faults to those who 

 I are present, without ever alluding to any good 

 I qualities they possess. There is nothing so de- 

 i testable as this habit of backbiting iu society ; it 

 often pi'oduces the greatest bitterness of feelings 

 between those who ought to live in peace and 

 good fellowship towards each other, and it never 

 , does any good. It generally arises from a selfish 

 ; feeling, but sometimes from thoughtlessness; in 

 ' either case it is injurious to society, and ought to 

 i be condemned by every well meaning and sensible 

 j person. Selfish persons have generally such an 

 over-appreciation of themselves, and the situation 

 i they hold in society, that they are apt to speak of 

 otliers with contempt, and are never so happy as 

 I when they discover the least fault, (however trivial 

 I it may be,) in some of their neighbors or acquain- 

 tances. Instead of which, it would be well for 

 them to examine their own conduct, to see wheth- 

 er they were witliout fault, and ask themselves 

 whether they would like any fault or foible they 



REVOI..VIiVG HORSE R.\KX:. 



The Revolving Rake which has been in general use in 

 most parts of Pennsylvania and New .lersey, is found to he 

 one ot the most useful and labor saving machines now in 

 use. One man and horse with a boy lo lead, will rake on 

 an average from 25 to 30 acres per day, wiih ease, and do 

 the worl! well. They are are coming into very general use 

 in all parts of the country, and will, no doulil, in a few years 

 supersede the use of the common hand rake. There is a 

 great advantage in ihis rake over all others, as the person 

 usin' it does not have lo stop the horse to unload the rake. 

 For sale hy JOSEPH BREOK & CO., £.1 and 52 Norlh 

 I\Iarkct Street. 



GRAIK CRADLES. 



The Grain Cradle is an article wnicn is Lommg into very 

 general use in the ISew England Slates, where they were till 

 ol late but little known, although they have heen in very 

 "eneral use in the southern and western Stales, for many 

 year* and which is found lo be decidedly ihe hest mode of 

 harvc'sung grain, as it is supposed one mau will cr.adle five 

 acres in a day wlien he cannot reap more than one. For 

 sale hy JOSEPH BRECK & CO , 51 & 52 North Market 

 Street. 



July 10. 



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