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POETRY.
From ilic American Farmer.
THE FARMER.
Of all pursuits by man invented,
The Ploughman is tlm most contented^
His calling’s good, Ins profit’s high,
And on his lobours all rely.
Mechanicks all by him are fed,
0; Inin the merchants seek their bread;
His hande give meat to every thing,
Up from the beggar to the king.
The milk and honey, corn and wheat.
Are bv his labors made complete
Our clothes from him must first arise,
To deck the fop or dress the wise.
We then by vote may justly state,
The ploughman ranks among the great;
More independent than they all,
That dwell upon this earthly ball.
All hail, ye farmers, young and old;
. Push on your plough with courage bold;
Your wealth arises from your clod,
Your independence from your God.
If then the plough supports the nation,
And men of rank in every station,
Let kings to farmers make a bow,
And every man procure a plough.
NORWEGIAN WAR SONG.
From Conway’s “Journey through Nor
way.”
Sons of the mountain, sons of the lake,
Sons of the forest, Old Norway, awake!
They come from the cast, ton thousand or
more;
But lakes are behind them, and foes are
before.
Shall Old Norway cease to be Norway the
free !
Each face to a Swede, and each back to a
tree.
W ere our foes thrice ten thousand, our
rocks should repeat
The groan of the Swede, as he falls at your
l'cet.
Your mothers have nursed you; your fa
thers till now,
Have filled you with bread by the sweat of
their brow;
But let peace be around him—the sire of
fourscore—
And drive the invader far, far from his
door.
Then down from the mountain, and up
from the lake!
And out from the forest! Norwegians, a-
wakc! 1
And rush like the storm on the thick com
ing foe—
With hearts for old Norway, and death in
your blow.
III i SCE EjLAflT EOI [S.
OREGON TERRITORY.
But lit lie is known of this territory,
in this section of our country, and still
less of the River from which it derives
its name. So extensive is the conti
nent of America, and so much of it re
mains unexplored, that many, veiy
many of our citizens, are more thor
oughly acquainted with the localities
and condition of Europe than with the
climate, soil, vegitable and animal
productions of certain portions of their
own country. The Miner’s Journal
gives some extracts from a work re
cently published in French, by a gen
tleman who resided several years west
of the Rocky Mountains, which gives
a more minute and interesting ac
count of the territory above mention
ed, than we have before seen publish
ed.
During the three years which he
spent in the vicinity of the Columbia
or Oregon River, the cold seldom
passed the freezing point, and the
heat was never greater than 75 or 7G
degrees. West winds are more fre
quent in spring and the early part of
summer—northwest winds in the lat
ter part of summer and (irst of autumn
—and southwest winds blow almost
continually from the first of October
til! the bogining of January, which is
the rainy season, and mast disagreea
ble part of the year.
The result of sc\ r eral experiments
satisfied him that the land along the
Columbia is generally uilit for cul
tivation, though the soil is not every
where the same; and there were pro
bably places which would yield a-
bundant crops. Various kinds of gar
den seeds wore planted by him in the
month of May, but though his garden
bad a fine appearance in August, and
the vegetables were suffered to re
main in the ground until the end of
December, si ill nothing came to ma
turity but radishes, turnips and pota
toes. The turnips were of a prodi
gious size, one of the largest measur
ing thirty-three inches in circumfer
ence, and weighing fifteen .and a half
pounds. A dozen of potatoes pro
duced ninety, which were planted the
succeeding spring, but the second
season was so much colder than the
first that these produced nothing at
all.
Cedar, spruce, white pine, hemlock,
&c. were the most common trees;
the cedars being generally four or live
fathoms in circumference, and the
hemlocks from 12 to 20 inches in diam
eter. An immense white pine tree
is mentioned, which seven men, stand
ing with their arms extended, were
not able to encircle, and xvhich up
on admeasurement, was found to be
forty-two feet in circumference.
Wild fruits in abundance are to be
found from the middle of June to the
middle of October. Besides the
raspberry, the months of July and
August furnish a pleasant acid fruit
of a blue color, about the size of a
cherry, and another fruit which grows
in clusters on a small bush like the
garden currant,{which has a fine taste,
is wholesome, and may be eaten in
any quantities without injury. Black
berries, cherries, currants, wild pears
and crab apples are also found; to
gether with a great variety of nutri
tious roots, of which the natives make
great use. There is one in particu
lar, which they reduce to paste by
pounding, make into cakes of five or
six pounds weight, and bake it on flat
stones heated in tlie fire—producing a
bread almost as palatcable as our
own.
Salmon and Sturgeon abound in the
Columbia River, during certain parts,
of the year, and these constitute the*
principal food of the natives. The
salmon fishery commences in July and
continues until August; in the latter
part of which month, and during Sep
tember, stergeon of an excellent
quality are caught. Some of these
are very laig , one of which we saw
measuring II feet, and weiging 3IK)
pounds. In October and November,
salmon are again to be had, though of
different species & of a poorer quality.
In the month of February, a small
species of fish, of a very line flavor,
is taken in abundance, but these remain
only a short time.
The quadrupeds of this territory
are the elk, the fallow-deer, the
Idack-tailed deer, the roe deer, the
black bear, the brown bc.;r, the grey
bear, the white hear, the wolf, the
panther, the tiger cat, the raccoon,
the whistler, a species of marmot, the
land otter, and the sea otter. The
grey bear is represented as being ex
tremely tierce and carniverous.
The most remarkable birds are the
stm eagle, the black eagle, the tur
key buzzard, the hawk, the pelican,
the comorant, the swan, the heron, the
crane, the bustard, a variety of ducks
and several species of geese. The
sun eagle is so called from its having
a white head, though the rest of its
plumage is of a dirty black.
H O RRIBLE DEG R A D AT ION.
Nothing places in a more distinct
point of view the degradation of those
poor lcmalo wretches who followed
the soldiers ol Bonaparte into Russia
than the following occurrence. It is
related to have taken place after ihe
destruction of Moscow, and while the
infantry were flying from Smoleusk.
“At the gates of the city, says
Count Segur, from whose very iutei-
esting work the account is extracted,
an infamous action struck every sol-!
dier with horror. A mother aban
doned her little son, only five yeais
old! In spite of its cries and tears,
she cruelly drove him away from her
sledge, because it was already too
heavily laden! She herself cried
out that the child had never seen
France and would not regret it! and
as for Iter, she knew France, and she
was resolved to see France once
more! The generous Nf.y witnessed
this scene, and twice did lie replace
the unfortunate in the arms of its un
natural mother; and twice did she
cast him off in the frozen snow!
‘•This inhuman act did not go un
punished. The troops immediately
abandoned the mother to the same
snow from which her infant was
snatched and entrusted to another.
The little orphan was then bunded
from rank to rank and exhibited both
to the officers and soldiers. He was
afterwards seen with the forces at
Berezina, then at Wilna, even at
Rows, and finally escaped from all the
horrors of (he retreat from Moscow.
His mother perished.”
ESCAPE FROM A SHARK.
An extraordinary story is told by
Captain Wallace, of a lover and his
mistress, who were saved in a singu
lar manner from the jaws of a shark.
A transport, with part of a regiment
on boaitl, was sailing with a gentle
breeze along the coast of Ceylon, one
of the ifficcrs was leaning over the
poop rating, conversing with a young
lady vvhj had inspired him with the
tender pjssion; the fair, one was in her
cabin, aid in the act of handing a pa
per to ler lover, when overreaching
herself, she fell into the sea, and,
supported by her clothes, drifted as
tern; tie officer lost no time in plung
ing in after her and swimming towards
her, upheld her with one arm. The
sails were quickly backed, the ship
lay to, and preparations were making
to lower a boat, when to the dismay
of all on board, a large shark appear
ed from under the keel of the vessel,
and glided towards his victims; a
shout of terror from the agonized
spectators called the attention of the
officer to the approaching danger; he
saw the monster’s fearful length
nearing him, he made a desperate
effort, plunged and splashed the ua-
ter so os to frighten the shark, who
turned and dived away out of sight;
the current had now carried the offi
cer and lady close to the vessel,
when the shark appeared a second
time alongside, and was in the act of
turning on his back to seize one of the
hapless pair, when a private of the
i.fficer’s company, who was standing
in the hammock nettings, jumped
fearlessly overboard with a bayonet
in his hand, which lie plunged into the
hack of the shark, which instantly
disappearing the three were quickly
released from their perilous situation.
UNITY OF OPINION.
Unity of opinion, abstractly consid
ered, is neither desirable, nor good;
although considered not in ilsclj, but
with reference to something else, it
may be both. For men may be all
agreed in error, and in that case ti
ll muniiy is an evil. Truth lies within
the lloiy of Holies-, in the temple of
Knowledge, but doubt is the vestibule
that leads into it. Luther began by
having liiu doubts as to the assumed
iufailioilily of the Pope, and lie finish
ed by making himself the corner si one
of tiie Reformation. Copernicus and
Newton doubted the truth of the
false system of others, before they
established a true one of their own;
Columbus differed in opinion with all
the old world before lie discovered a
new one; and Galileo s terrestrial bo
dy was confined in a dungeon for hav
ing asserted the motion of those bodies
that were celestial. In fact, we owe
almost all our knowledge, not to those
who have agreed, but to those who
differed; and those who have fin
ished by making all others think
with them have usually been those
who began by daring to think
with themselves; as he mat leads a
crow d must begin by separating him
self at some iittio distance from it. If
the great Harvey, who discovered ihe
Circulation of the blood, had not differ
ed from all the physicians of his own
day, all the physicians of the present
day would not nave agreed w ith mm.
Ttiese reflections ought to teach us
that every kind oi poisecution for o-
pinions is incompatible with sound phi
losophy. it is lamentable indeed lo
think how much misery is incurred
from liic intemperate zeal and bigot
ed olliciousik ss ui liiose who would
rather that mankind should not think
as tiny do.—Lucon.
SOCIAL INTERCOURSE. i
We should make a principle, (it is
a direel moral obligation,; lo extend
the hand of fellowship to every man
who discharges faithfully his daily du
ties, who maintains good order, who
munitests a deep interest in the wel
fare of society, whose deportment is
upright, and whose mind is intelligent
without stopping lo ascertain whether
lie swings a hammer or draws a
thread. There is nothing more dis
tant from all natural rule and natural
claim than the reluctant feeling, the
backward sympathy, forced smile, the
checked conversation, the hesitating
compliance, which the “ire// of" are
too manifest to those a little lower
down, with whom, in comparison of
intellect and principles of virtue, they
frequently shrink into insignilicence.
Arguments for forbearance.—If the
peculiarities of our feelings and facul
ties he the effect of variety of excite
ment through a diversity of organiza
tion, it should tend to produce in us
mutual forbearance and toleration.—
We should perceive bow nearly im
possible it is that persons should think
and feel exactly upon any subject.--
We should not arrogantly pride our
selves upon our virtues and knowl
edge, nor condemn the errors and
weakness of others, since they may
depend upon causes which we can
neither produce nor counteract. No
one, judging from his own feelings
and powers, caff be aware of the kind
or degree of temptation or terror, or
the seeming incapacity to resist them,
which may induce others to deviate.
Abernethy.
Reverse of fortune.—When Amor,
who had conquered Persia and Tarta
ry, was defeated and taken prisoner
by Ismail, he sat on the ground, and a
soldier prepared a coarse meal to ap
pease bis hunger. As this was boiled
in one of the pots used for the food of
the horses, a clog put his head into it,
but the mouth of the vessel being too
small, he could not draw it out again,
and run away with both the pot and
the meat. The Captive monarch
burst into a fit of laughter, and on bis
guards demanding what.cause upon
earth could induce a person in his sit
uation to laugh, replied—‘It was but
“^his morning the steward of my house
hold complained that three hundred
camels were not enough to carry my
kitchen furniture, how easily it is
borne by that dog, who hath carried
away both my cooking instruments
and dinner.’
Astonishing performance.—We have
seen within these few days a speci
men of line writing, from the pen of
our townsman Mr. Miller, which we
are sure has never been equalled.—
within the compass of sixpence lie has
distinctly and beautifully written with
a pen—the Lord's prayer, the creed,
ihe names ol' the Books of the Old
Testament, the names of the books of
the New Testament, the twelve tribes
of Israel, our Saviour’s twelve apos
tles the seven wondeis ol the world,the
live mechanical powers, the seven
primitive colors, Ihe five senses, the
twelve months of the year, the names
of the governor, deputy governor, sec
retary, and solicitors of the hank of
England; the writers name and age,
and having in the centre a drawing of
the Glasgow city arms.
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