M I S C t L L A N E U S 



The subjoined address of Chief Justice Shaw, 

 delivered recently at the Centennial Celebration in 

 Parnstable, Mass., is so full of charmingr sentiment, 

 and shows so strongly the v/orking^-i of the finest 

 feelings of ournature, that we are ha;)py to be able 

 to enrich our last page with it. 11. C. 



After the eighth regular toast, some remarks 

 ■were made by Chief Justice Shaw, of which the 

 following is a sketch : , 



J\lr President — It would be mere atfectation in 

 me, not to understand at once, that the sentiment 

 now expressed, alludes to myself, Such an ex- 

 pression of kind and respectful remembrance, by 

 such an assembly as the present, on an occasion so 

 full of deep and solemn interest, fills my heart with 

 unmingled gratitude, and I can do little more than 

 to express to the company my heartfelt thinks. 



To be held in cherished remembrance by my 

 earliest associates, the friends of my beloved pa- 

 rents, the companions of my infancy and childhood, 

 by those who cherish an ardent love for my dear 

 native land, whatever may be their pursuits, or 

 wherever their residence — tliis indeed affords me a 

 .gratification which I would not willingly exchange 

 for any advantage which rank or distinction could 

 confer. 



Here, on such an occasion, all minor distinctions 

 of occupation, of condition, of fortune and residence, 

 vanish before the one deep, absorbing sentiment 

 which binds our hearts indissolubly to our native 

 soil. Here the merchant njay rejoice to come, leav- 

 ing behind him, far a time, his ledgers and accounts, 

 leaving his ships, his stocks, and his merchandise 

 to take care of themselves : the clergyman, in per- 

 fect consistency with his holiest duties, may for a 

 short time leave his pulpit and his flock : the far- 

 mer may well leave his fields and his marshes: the 

 seaman his vessel — the shoresman his fish flakes — 

 and judges and lawyers are glad to tear themselves 

 away from the wrangles of the courts, and the tur- 

 moil of judicial controversy, to indulge togetlier, 

 for a few brief hours, in the cherished recollection 

 of by-gone years — recollections always dear though 

 often sad. But joyful or sad, prompted by the bet- 

 ter principles of our nature, and deepened by a 

 common sympathy, we know and feel that they bind 

 thousands of hearts in one common feeling of mu- 

 tual attachment. 



And why should it not be so ? — Indeed it is 

 good for us to be here — to be here upon such an 

 occasion, and to yield to the thoughts and feelings 

 which come thronging upon us. Sir, there's pleas- 

 ure and profit in it — there's wisdom, philosophy, 

 and religion in it — Was not this the home of our 

 infancy and childhood ? Here we first felt the 

 dear delights of parental love — here the first 

 thoughts and feelings of our social and intellectual 

 nature were enkindled and developed — here we 

 first felt the pleasures of friendship and the joys of 

 social existence, when every feeling carried with it 

 the purity, the ardor, and the joyous freshness of 

 youth. — Why sir, every house, every field, every 

 grove has its history, and brings back a clustering i jno-g jjg looks 



list of the thousand objects, which awaken vivid 

 recollections of the past, and above all — more than 

 all, remind us of those who participated in our early 

 aflfections and friendships. 



And is it not good thus to be moved sometimes 

 by a noble feeling of generous sympathy and af- 

 fection ? Does it not teach us all, the merchant, 

 the seaman, the farmer, the lawyer, each and all of 

 us, whatever our employment, or whatever our suc- 

 cess in life, that there is something worth living 

 for besides profits and wages, and fees and salaries ; 

 that there is something in the joys of memory — of 

 hope and iniagination — in our social affections and 

 sympathies — in the consciousness of our moral and 

 intellectual being, which rises above the ordinary 

 routine of cares and labors, whose object is bound- 

 ed by the acquisition of mere worldly goods ? May 

 it not even inspire a holier thought? If, as we 

 feel and know, these attachments and sympathies 

 so closely connect the past with the present, may 

 it not lead us to indulge the hope, to rest on the as- 

 surance, that there shall be some similar connec- 

 tion between the present and the future — that the 

 affections of the soul, so pure and perennial, are not 

 destined to have their full accomplishment here, 

 and shall not be crushed and annihilated by the 

 termination of our earthly existence, but that, surely, 

 there is another and a better life ? 



But sir, let us not be thought wild or visionary, 

 or to depart too widely from the spirit and feelings 

 of the occasion. Indeed the very spirit of the oc- 

 casion is, to perceive in the persons and objects 

 around us, not the mere visible and sensible images, 

 but the recollections and feeling-s which they sug- 

 gest. Take a single instance. Did we not ob- 

 serve, as the procession was moving on to-day, a 

 long range of hills skirting the town ? You and I, 

 sir, know it by the name of Sandy Neck. And 

 what does it present to the eye of the casual ob- 

 server? Why a range of sterile sand hills, inter- 

 spersed with a few patches of brown woods and 

 swamps, and surrounded by marshes. Who of us, 

 has not heard the tremendous roar of the surf, as 

 its iriountain surges lash the long line of beach 

 back of those hills ? But to the eye of the native 

 Cape Codman whn.t does it suggest? — a barren 

 waste of waters — a barrier to his exertions — a con- 

 finement to his sterile soil ? Not at all. It re- 

 minds him of the ocean that lies beyond — the ocean 

 with all its grand and beautiful associations. He 

 looks at it not only as the field of his fame and of 

 his o-lory, l)ut as the field of industry and enterprise, 

 of his enjoyment and improvement, aye, even of his 

 social and intellectual improvement. It connects 

 liim wiih all lands — with all that is magnificent in 

 nature or polislied in art— with all that is valuable 

 in knowledge, refinement and civilization. His 

 neighbors are not those only, who live in the next 

 town, or state, or kingdom : wherever there is com- 

 merce, there he has neighbors and friends. He not 

 only repeats the words gf the seaman's song, but 

 imbibes its spirit — 



" In every clime we find a port, 

 In every port a home," 



But the home of his memory and his affections is 



here: — to his native land, atiiidst all his wander 



th a steady eye ; and whatever ac- 



them — and they are alike sterile to the idler, the 

 dissolute and the heartless. Indeed, that soil can 

 never be deemed sterile, which yields a large and 

 steady growth of intelligent and enterprising men, 

 and of amiable and accomplished women. 



But I am encroaching on precious time, and will 

 onlv propose as a sentiment — 



Cape Cod — our beloved birth place ; — may it 

 long be the nursery and the home of the social vir- 

 tues — a place which all her sons and daughters, 

 whether present or absent, may, centuries to come, 

 as in centuries past, delight to honor and to love." 



New York Urate and Poudrette Company. 



Not incorporated but carried on by individual enterprise. 

 The manures are not divided among the Stockholilers, as 

 are those lielonging to another estahlishmont, but sold, to ap- 

 pUcantSJ, for cash on delivery. Orders are supplied in the 

 order of time in which they are received. Urate GO cents and 

 Poudiale 4U cenis per liushel, with contingent charges lor 

 ha^s or liarrels, fitc. 



The company are daily preparing for use, during the 

 warm, dry weather, the materials collected during the past 

 winter, and will have several thousand bushels ready liefore 

 the first ot Octoher next. The material is disinfected and 

 rendered trie from offensive smell, by a compound, every 

 part of which is in itself a good manure. 



The experience of the past and present years, 1838 and 

 1939, on Long Island, has satisfied many ol' the farmers 

 that these manures have the quickest operation upon vegeta- 

 hie mailer, producing e-reiiier abundance, and the cheapest 

 of any manure they have ever tried. 



Amended instructions for their use, the result of praclic". 

 experience, will he furnished on application. The effect q; 

 Po.udrette upon Grape Vines and Moras Multieaulis is bey- 

 ond all comparison. 



This company are erecting large and extensive works it 

 the vicinity of the city of New York to prepare the manures 

 and [armers and gardeners may confidently rely on a supply 



Ordurs, post paid, directed to " The New York Urate one 

 Poudrale Company," Box, No. 1211, Post Oflice, New York 

 or sent to the store of STILLWELL & DEY, No. 36: 

 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, will he attended to. 



The Company will be very mu^h obliged to gentlemei 

 who have used the manures, to give them a statement in wri 

 tjng what has been the result of their use and experiments ii 

 relation to them. 



New York, August, 1839. 



Hale's Patent Horse Power and Patent Thresh, 

 iug Machine. 



JOSEPH KRECK & CO. offer for sale this yaluabl. 

 machine and feel greot confidence in recommending it as th 

 best machine now m use. It will tliresh from 75 to 10 

 bushels per day in the best- possible manner. The hors 

 power is calculated to propel any kind of machinerj 

 IS very simple in its conslrucuon, occupies but th 

 small space of nne feet by two, and can easily be transport 

 ed from one plaie to another, and when combined with th 

 Threshing Machine it forms the most superior article for th 

 purpose ever invented. They can be supplied at short no 

 lice at the N. E. Agricultural Warehouse and Seee. Store. 



August 23. 



throng of recollections. Every local object is a ; qujgjtjgns of property, or pleasure, of hospitality 

 talisman, which revives its long train of remember- 1 ^nd friendship he finds elsewhere, he regards them 

 ed joys, or sorrows, amusements and occupations : ■ ^jj ^g [j^g means of comfort and enjoyment on his 

 the school, the wedding, the funeral, the social cir- , return. The land and the sea are alike fertile to 

 cle, the play ground, the meeting house, the bury- : those who have the hardihood, the skill and the en- 

 ing ground :— time would fail me in naming a mere I terprise to improve them, and the hearts to enjoy 



GllKEX'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England Agricul 

 tural Warehouse and Heed Store, Nos.51 and 52 North Mar 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay ant 

 Sialk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not Befori 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most prom 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the consequent 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



t . So great a reduction of the quantum ol power renuisiti 

 10 use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is sufiicien 

 to work it very efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two bush- 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claimed 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or steam 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whichthej 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any othei 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machin,? -IS simple in its construction, made and 

 put together very strongly. Ii is therefore not so liable as 

 the complicated machines in general use to get out of order, 



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