On sheltered banks, beneath the dripping eaves,
Spring's earliest nurslings spread their glowing leaves,
Bright with the hues from wider pictures won,
White, azure, golden-drift, or sky, or sun.

Dorches, Heights, 1776.

C. C. Northampton

and Greenfield.

in 8.

2 Mo.

3 Tu.

4W.

5 Th.

6 Fr.

7 Sa.

6h C.

3d. Alexander, Emp. of Rus.,
emancipates the serfs, '61.

Battle of Pea Ridge,

Ark., 6th and 8th, '62.

8 D. 3d S. in Lent.

9 Mo.

10 Tu.

11 W.

12 Th.

High ti.

Bleak. gr. elon.

W.

Battle between Monitor and Mer-
rimack, in Hampt. Roads, '62.

ico ratified, '48. New Hampshire State Election.

runs low.

13 Fr. Low tides.

14 Sa. in Aphelion. 15 D. 4th S. in Lent. 16 Mo. 14th. Battle of New

bern, N. C., '62.

Farmer's Calendar.

DON'T forget to go to town

4th. Washington occupies Cool, meeting. It is the duty of every
good citizen to do his part in the
6affairs of the town, the state, and
but fine. the nation. The grand struct-
ure of our liberties is based upon
the knowledge of our people, as
gained and shown in the man-
agement of the town-meeting. It
is the primary source of our An-
glo-Saxon independence and self-
Treaty with Mex- Variable, government. See where the great
with cold
French revolution left the people,
after their freedom from tyranny
rain,
had been fully gained, and com-
or snow. pare it with the position of our
fathers at the end of their revo-
Cin Per. lution. Both people were free to
Cool
establish a form of government
to suit themselves. The famil-
iarity of the one with the con-
winds. duct of affairs in the primary,
old-fashioned town-meeting, en-
tides. abled it to bring order out of
chaos, and to create a form of
69 C. government which was little more
Pleasant than an expansion of the system
8h.which had been already adopted
and practised in every town in
6.
the country. The other was left
6 to drift like a mob before the tide
days, of circumstances, or led at will
but cool by any popular demagogue.-
nights. That's just the difference, and
the habit of going to town-meet-
ing, and doing the duty of an
independent man and citizen,
in 8. for the season. made the difference.

17 Tu.

C. C.

Plymouth. 6 ¥

18 W. 17th. St. Pat.

19 Th.

C.

20 Fr. O
en-go.
21 Sa. Great snow-storm in

{

New England, '61.

22 D. 5th S. in Lent. 23 Mo. Battle of Winches

ter, Virginia, '62. 24 Tu. C. C. Worcester

and Taunton.

Full Moon, 3d day, 11h. 25m., evening.
Last Quarter, 10th day, 8h. 39m., evening.
New Moon, 17th day, 10h. 21m., evening.
First Quarter 25th day, 11h. 24m., evening.

Length Day's Rises. Sets.of Days. Incre. h. m. h. m. h. m. h.

m.

S. A.

5 436 25 12 423 38|| 413

2 Th. 5 426 26 12 443 40 3 Fr. 5 406 28 12 483 44 4 Sa. 5 386 29 12 513 47 5 SU.5 366 30 12 543 50 6 Mo. 5 356 3112 563 52 7 Tu. 5 336 3212 593 55 8 W. 5 316 33 13

9 26|| 9 49 bel.

4 14 10 11 10 33 bel.
3010 55 11 16 rei.
31611 36 11 57 rei.

317

R. S. Souths.

h. m. h. m.

4 510 23 4 32 11 9 4 59 11 58 rises. morn.

218

219

220 221

9 Th. 5 306 34 13

44

0

O Full Moon, 3d day, 10h. 8m., morning.
Last Quarter, 10th day, 2h. 32m., morning.
New Moon, 17th day, Oh. 4m., evening.
> First Quarter, 25th day, 4h. 3m., evening.

M.

At last young April, ever frail and fair,
Wooed by her playmate with the golden hair,
In tears and blushes sighs herself away,
And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May.

Aspects, Holidays, Events,
Weather, &c.

1 Fr. St. Phil. and St. James.
1st. New Orleans taken

2 Sa.

by the Fed. troops, '62.

3 D. 4th S. af. E.
4 Mo. 9 in Per.
R. L. Leg. meet

5 Tu.

6 W.

7 Th.

8 Fr. 9 Sa. 10 D. 11 Mo.

Rain.

Yorktown
evac., '62.

High tides.
runs low.
<in Per.

at Providence.
Connecticut
Leg. meet.
6th. Capture of Ft.
Oswego, 1814.

Farmer's Calendar.

SPEAKING of insects calls to mind the birds. Don't kill them. It is worse than wanton cruelty. They are at work for the farmer from daylight to dark at this season of the year. Who can estimate the number of insects they destroy? On a careful count it was found that one brood of birds

destroyed not less than five hunof dred caterpillars a day, or about fifteen thousand a month. A gold

Frequent
gr. hel. lat. N. dashes
Confed. evac. Pensacola, dest.
Ft. M'Rea, navy yd., etc.,
Rog. S. Norfolk surren: rain.
to the gov., '62.
Steamer Merrimack blown up
by the Confederates, '62.
The President, by proclamation,
opens certain Southern ports, '62.
Quite

12 Tu.
13 W.6.
14 Th. Ascension Day.
15 Fr. Paper currency estab.
by Congress, 1775.

16 Sa. O ecl. invisible.
17 D. 1st S. af. Asc.

runs high.
gr. elong. E.
69 C.

en robin was seen to catch and eat seventeen caterpillars in one minute. A quail was killed in a flock that had run over a field of fine. corn, on suspicion that it had Look been pulling the grain. On examination, its craw was found to for contain one cut-worm, twentyfrosts. one striped vine-bugs, and one High ti. hundred chinch bugs, and not a 6.single kernel of corn. A yellowbird, which had been accused by the farmer of eating wheat, was 6 JC. killed, and in its crop were no Good planting less than two hundred weevils, weather. which had just been swallowed. Whit S. In fact, the good which birds are all the time doing is incalculable. Variable. And then their music, the charm Much of country life! Who would live House, near Rich., 62. 6. in a country without birds? We 27th. Surrender of Forts rain, can go to the concert morning 29 Fr. 6 2 C. with high 30 Sa. 29th. Defeat of the British

18 Mo.

19 Tu.

20 W. 21 Th. 22 Fr. 23 Sa.

C. C.

Edgartown.
in Apo.

19th. Dark
Day, 1780.

Battle of Front

Royal, '62.

24 D. Pentecost.

25 Mo. Low tides.

26 Tu.

27 W.

28 Th.

ર

9 gr. hel. lat. N.

S Battle of Hanover Court

George and Erie, 1813.

and evening. No ticket is needed but a thankful heart. The sun lights up the variegated stage, and in 8. winds. the broad blue arch covers us.

at Sacket's Harbor, 1813.

31 D. Trin. S.