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BY WALTON & SON.
TIIU11SDAY, AUGUST 11, 1853.
VOL. XLVII, NO. 38 "WHOLE NO. 2443.
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From the Loa.if.lU Journal
The Village.
Oh, plruantipnt ti nur tillage l-orot,
Hy th iM ff yon peaceful Mrttm,
Where Ihe w!rr glide oet the pchMtt white
Like tboufhta through peaceful dretm
Where the wind iwp hy, with Mvttj ! h
O'er the rich, unlVMti-f Aowcr,
Ad the wiM-bird nngftb it evtecttil eoog
ta our beautiful foreit how ere,
Thut it .nd ll mintMin 1oriia grto,
Uouadihi villas home of our.
The mount tin darkeai the river' brtttt,
With it ehintag ihNi of gtrnri,
And fir. far down in the wttet't depth,
tta i h allow it dimly en i
With the cedar aprtadng it Sought afar,
And the willow drooping tow,
)ui lightly to-Hhing the eptrkling witet
A" tnwatd lh$y oftlf go,
Half mtrthfolly ehalsUg the rtfplea bright,
Ai they too them W aeal fro.
Aad a quirt ijot i our Tillage hvme.
When the toll of day are dene,
When the wearied frem woik re'urn
To their harth-tfiea me by on ;
No reel ahout on the air i herJ,
From taverea tkne and dim,
No teufd i hesrd mi the atilly oifcht,
Hare the nlhgti'a tvsnit.g hi mo ,
The In ewp stand on the shelf untouched,
And dry is the goblet' Mm.
Jfe marble romlM la reared on high.
In iM Tillage herai of our,
humble, lowly tot bufe we,
Encircled with vine and flewer ;
The windew are mantied with roe bright,
And the Jmfn pore and fair,
Which the maiden rather at eventide,
To wreath in their braided balr.
There are lovelier home on thi earth. I know ,
There are loAier cot than or,
There are richer cn( there are aoftsr wind,
There ere brighter and aweeter flower;
Cut oh, though their mtrmone may lofty be,
Though their window in grandeur gUam,
Though the acenes around there be brighter far
Than the poet'a or painter' dream, "
m flee to our boeem can W ao dear
A our home by the wilwy stream.
illisccllancoits.
For tb Wtlchmao and JsurnaL
The Green Mountains.
Mrt. Editor, Since steam has annihila
ted distance and brought ihe city and toun
in closer proximity, permit me to call your
attention, and through your valuable journal,
ihe attention of the travelling public, dur
ing this hot, sultry weather, to the Green
Mountains, to " oldManfneld," their high-.
est point, formerly we hid no uccommo
dations here, and no road to the summit of
the mountain ; now we hate both, and a'
number of good teams, saddles, guides, &c. ,
It his been visited by very many Irom both
(ides of the mountain already this season,
and is destined at no distant day to become
a place of resort during the funiiner months. 1
I learn that over two hundrod partook of a
collation on its summit from the other side,
on the 4th of July. It is much easier as
cended upon this side, especially since our
road has been cut. A few mornings since
.Mrs. C. and celf rode within Mill of a
mile of the summit of thu "AW," wulked
from thence to the " Chin," staid ffve hours
upon the mountain, and rode all the way
down, or back again to the Inst house, where
we left our wagon, thence home before
(unset, having started about S o'clock A. M.
There is nothing hard in reaching the
" Nose" on horseback. Any lady who can
tide a horse is soon there without fatigue
when, if she can walk a mile and a half and
back, upon the bare rocks, mostly quite
oud walking, she can view the landscape
from the" Chin," , rather better prospect
than the one from the " Nou."
i noticed in your last paper Hn article
from the pen of a correspondent of the
i" Country Gentleman," a recent visitant of'
.Mansfield, in which ho Hates "that with
puick eye, patience, and a good glass, three
undred and twenty-seven spires of church-
have been counted and can be anain from
he"CAin." Tins speaks volumes in fa-
or of the prospect, aside from the inoun-
m'a own vtrdaut and romantic scenery.
ra confident there is no better prospect in
ew England, indeed none as cood. Near-
1 the whole extent of Lake Chamnlain. its
teamboais and islands, the Adi rondac and
iVhite Mountains, the whole northern nor-
'n of the Green Mountains, with innu-
erauie farms, villaees and woodlands lie
'preaa out before you on every side and may
' en with the nuked eye. The deep cor
ei ravines, and precipices beneath vour
ft, and around you, cause your whole
"mo to start convulsively and tremble for
'. ihe deep and sombre rallev lead
n8 through the Notch" to Cambridge,
in .uii view beneath you on the east,
-ense mass of primeval and evergreen
rest-beyond which, a little to the- north,
Sterling n.l. ii c
6 ootno yews Siuco a
road was cut through this rnllcy and notch
to Cambridge, Uy means of a grant oraj0'""' It i not tlio heart saying to the
l.nJ u r m.cu i.-r-... foot, " I have no need of t lice." nor the
annexation to Slowc, and while " Old Tto
, , . ' ,, ,
ry Luce," the William Tell of Mansfield,
was a member of the Legislature, and
through his influence. It is now grown up
with bustles were it reopened (and it will
be soon,) it would afford one of the mot
charming dells for excursions on horscehack
in the world the rocks on either side ris
ing perpendicularly, or neatly so, a thou
sand feet or more, otcrhung with trees and
foliage in many places, making it a cool
and sylvan retreat. Still farther to the east
may be seen the vale of Watcrbury river,
ii which aro some of the finest farms in the
State, beyond which rise the " Hog Bach"
and Elmore Mountain, a mass of bare rocks,
over which the eye takes in much of the
landscape of Orleans, Caledonia and Essex
Counlie9,and the western partof New Hamp
shire, including the White Mountains. On
the north you have a view of the southern
portion of Canada, including Montreal.
On the west, directly under the mountain,
you have a variety of deep gorges, inacces-1
sable ravines and land-slides, rcachingdown
to the first settlements ofUnderhilla town '
... , , , i ,
rightly named-near which lies Jericho,
with its farms and wllas minus the thieves
of which we read in scripture, I trust then
comes the Vermont Central Railroad, the
lake with its bridge across to the island, and
r .
the mountains of New ork. On the South
rises peak upon peak of the Green Moun-
tains, with " Camel's Uuuip" towering over
I,...,. ,11 nn.l .....I,., l,M.l4.,. ..ii.. ,...1
, , . . ,, , ,,'. , , '
farms below. Old Mansfield is the first
object which catches the eye of the Ver-
monter as he nears his native State from the
West, and is endeared to dim by a thousand
r i ti . r i r .i
fancies and recollections of his Green Moun-
tain home and kindred. It is doubly en- associations, and honor dear memories I
hariced and prized by him by contrast Willi What more filling place could have been
the monotonous prairie its clear limpid found than that selected in the city of Bos
water is almost nectar to his lips, while its t0",J, ... , .
, , ... , 1 Would her " only eeavorl," which has
fresh mountain air invigorates his frame sometlulcs oeen ,houi,,,Uo look down with
There is pleasure in its shady ascent there an air a little too lordly upon the interior
is music on its top and in its chasms and portions of that State, assure themselves of
grottos. There is beauty in its sunrise and a " glorious Fourth," tl.al shall not ever be
.... , .. forgotten? Who could better have made
sunset scenerv. There is euphony in its 6 ,. . , ,
.. . .. assurance sure than her sons in Boston and
echo-a Hutchinson would sing his moun- Ne)V York for the day just approaching?
tain song far deeper and freer from its rocky They will not fail. When were they known
summit, while his " mountain echo" .vould to fail ?
. , e . i i . i, 1 We once kept the tally for the President
reverberate from chasm lo chasm and rock ,,. 1 , . ,
of that old " aristocratic" institution, " 1 he
to rock, again and again. Ihe true poet Old Massachusetts Bank," himself a coun-
feels the mountain's inspiration and sings try minister's son, as tie counted over the
thereof. ' A Taylor, a Bryant, a Longfellow Bovton boys among the (then) sixty Boston
have immortalized them in verse.-why ? members of the State Legislature, and the
, , , . whole sum total was less than a dozen. 1 he
because it is nature and nature alone. A fe8l wer(J frun ,he C0UllUVi al)d Jel ,here
Shakspeare hath said that "he who had no ,B gometimes a jealousy belweeeu city and
music in his soul was fit only for treason, country I If this is reasonable, tiier. a
stratagems and spoils," to which may bead- house may propeily be divided against it-
, , , , . self father against son, brothers and sis-
deo, that he who loves not i s own Green . .i p i i . . i
' turn, mothers and daughters, cousins and
.Mountains and tc ill not rtsit them, is fit only uncles, and even betrothed lovers against
for the everglades oTF!orida or the burning each other. Such a contest is essentially
sands of the doubt. fcFor it is by contrast a family feud.
we learn to vallPth.ngs. Then why not In olden limes, and even in many
, , ,, . , , , ,. , , cities now scattered over the Lastern Hem-
visu oiu .imiiMieiu ( his wen worm I lie
while; it will richly pay, and it only needs
to be visited to be appreciated. I ho ride
reciatcu. i no riue
Our village is not
.
h it wasorire away
is easy, the road good.
out of the world, tliougl
up in enmmt." hight hours only from
Boston twelve from New York, and so all
along the "shore." Come then and 'visit
r 1 1 i .i.. it . ii i
Mansfie d ascend the "jose, on horse,
,. , ' '
5000 feet-lhen the " hps on Toot, whose
only drink these hot days is the dew from
heaven and from thence to the " Chin,"
the crowning summit or the " 'crd Mou. ,
tains," which is finned by the gentle zeph-
vrsof the lake, washed bythegetiial show-
'er. shorn of all verdure by the keen edge of
the tempest, and perfumed and finished in '
toilet by the flying clouds of heaven, aided I
occasionally by the telegraphic lightning
, , .ii.i i ii ., i .
and deep-mouthed thunder roll . g down its
base, shaking the rocks of " Old It, and
awakening " Old Ethan" in his peaceful
slumber near the laKe shore who cries out
;,. K.,rrp,.,lr in ti,n i,.,mnfii0 ,n,i
, "Surrender in the name of the great
, . ., r, .. ,,
ah and the Conl.uental Congress." C.
0 ......
Jehova
July, 1653
Town and Village, Crrr and Codn-
trv. Short siahted and narrow m nded oeo. I
pie sometimes indulge in jealousy and ill-
. . ... r '
will towards their neighbors, and envy their
prosperity. It is wrong as well as foolish.
I'he success of one should be the rejoicing
r ii . ; . ... i r.
or all. Soniet n.es, too and pretty often,
the town is jealous of thu growth and pros-jfcluC
perity of the village, and you will not un-
frequently see efforts made to cramp the
growth of country villages, by those in the
county or town, whose best interests, as far-
iners and mechanics, are promoted just in tie brush, but I never was much of a fisher
proportion as the villages increase in busi- man. I've caught eels, and cat-fish, and
uess, wealth and population, thus rendering, perch, and mullets, and crabs, and I've
tho market better for the producer, and the ,,aule.d, s?mo; f"r sh,ad, a,,d ,crri''e. '"
' ' rnurrht trnnt. too. hut not hr.inlt irrnil '
demand lor the mechanical and artistical
labor more abundant and the pay better.
On this subject, that excellent publication,
the " Plow the Loom and the Anvil," makes
the following appropriate and beautiful re
marks : X.
If the towns grow, the country grows.
Show us an old-looking rickety, pauuless,
dilapidated town, and we will show you a
country of shiftless and thriftless farmers
near it.'
So says the editor of the Prarie Farmer ;
and among the volumes of good things that
have come from his pen, he has never pub
lished a more truthful sentence, nor one
more worthy of serious thought. ' Town
vs. country,' country vs. city 1' Did you
ever see tho two blades of a pair of octs-
sora woirving and bullying and fighting each
"vessel of honor turning with disdain
from the " vessel of dishonor." There is
no such inequality of position. If one pre
sents to the eye piles of brick and stonu,
with markets and merchandise, the other
spreads out fields of green, and quiet and
tastcuil homes ; and the land waves its gol
den harvests in graceful obeisance to the
traveller from the city, as if it would bid I
him welcomo to the spot where the suste
nance of the world is grown, and to the
families to whom he owes much or Ins own
prosperity.
No, they are not head and tail, nor lord
nor peasant; they are rather the two arms
of the lever by which the world is moved.
They are the two noble steeds, unlike in
regard to color, form, &c, which lift out of
the fog mid darkness the chariot of day,
while neither, alone, would give motion to
its ponderous wheels.
Without the city there is no market.
Without the country there can be no city.
Cities do not grow at hap-hazard. They
will not extend their busy streets and marts
at the command of men's fancy or caprice.
Nor, on the other hand, can the country
flourish without the cities. Where are our
rich farmers I Invariably where t lie v have
access to large markets. Exceptions are
such only in appcartnee. The ancestor
fro'" whom ,l,e wea.Utl was first mhcritel, ir
a farmer, acquired his profits where he
cmjI(J se) rtJl!y he prod'ucts of h an(J
Who constitute the throngs in tho streets
of cities 1 Many of them are strangers
froin llle country. Who occupy the stores
and counting-rooms of the city I The for-
"ler companions and schoolmates or those
strangers, if not their brothers and sillers,
who chose to try their fortunes in a new
and ,nore venturesome pursuit.
D"e3 the agricultural State of Vermont
wish to raise large sums with which to en-1
dmv her C0cgeSi helc d her agelta ,
Among her own sons in Boston and New j
York. Does agricultural New-Hampshire i
w,sh lo Rcl UP a sP,e"d,d 8HC,al k:isl n hcris
the natives ol the State can assemble and 1
. ., , . , ..... . . i
isnhere. the flocks and herds which, during
lh0 day, are led out into the broad fields of.
tue rural oisiricts, ai iiigui are couecteu a-
round or within the walls of the city fori
protection. This is an apt illustration of,
reaV(, p(,slllt)l of ,he coulllry all(j ,ha,
the rural districts, at night are collected a'
ctv. When these shepherds mid herds
men are ready to conspire together to de-
Mroy that which protects them and their I
flocks to kindle a blaze under the walls.
. r . , . . ... ,i
hiid roofs which afford them cnmlort nnd i
she,eri ,iell Ilia jealousies r-priug op and j
he fanned into bitter quarrels aud angry
fightings, and ull contend manfully for the
common destruction of all classes.
' "
ro. tb. N. Y.sP.,itof the T.m...
HOW the Major went Trout Fish-
ing and the Sport he had. j
' I was North once,' said the Major. 'Ah!'
ld Yes,' said the Major, ' among the
Yankees, but I didn't stay there long. I
commiue'd aL,graated ar!saut and bfu
on an eder in the church, and left rather
suddenly, for fear of consequences. It's a
long story, saiu me xuajor, aim may not
prove interesting to you, who are a
,kce.' 'Let's have it!' said I.
u WM , fljrty.sevcni ln ,ho lnol
prove interesting to you, who are a xam
month ofl
June, that I had a hltle business to trans
act in Boston, and after gelling through
w"h ili a friend ,he,e advised me to take a
""'c "'I' "-""j j m
little t
home.
. . I . . . i i r .
It is delightful just now,' he said ; 4 tho
birds are singing everywhere, aud the trees 1
and fields have on their brightest summer j
llver.y of 8reen s,,d ,,u "rooks are as clear ,
na eni:i urn uu uui inuuuy i iters utnvu
S mt) lie(,Va ,,,' , , be
0UlIlot ,,ull0 );isl lhe oCason-if you
j have ever caught the brook trout, you will
not regret a day's sport, I assure you.1
' 1 am something of a sportsman,' said I ;
' I keep a pack of hounds, and many's the
time I have been in at the death, and got
caught trout, too, but not brook trout.1
' Then you had better go, you'll enjoy
il,' said he.
' here do you catch tuem at !' said 1.
' Oh, there are many good sections for
trout,' said he. ' I should say Berkshire
County was as good as any, perhaps the
best, there you are right among the barren
mountains, and you catch the spotted fel
lows in the mountain brooks Take a good
line an 4 two dozen hooks on snells along
with you ; you can get a rod anywhere.
So I went.
I passed through Worcester to Spring
field, and then deviating from the direct
route a little in order to enjoy the beauty
of the Connecticut river valley, I was whirl
ed on the cars through Ihe most lovely
scenery, a sucessiun of green meadows. and
betutiful Tillages, to Greesf.cid, where 1
look a coach west up through the moun
tains. At night, weitopped at a country inn,
and on inquiring of tho landlord if there
was a trout brook near, I was informed that
there were a dozen or more in the neigh
borhood, but that most on 'cm were fished
clean out. 'The blasted boys, you see,'
said he, 'goes and ketches 'cm 'fore they git
of any bigness.'
'It isn't probable that they are all caught,'
thought I, as I got into bed ; ' we'll sea about
that to-murrow.'
In the morning a very tall man, with a
tattered straw hat, and an extremely sheep
ish look, whom the landord addressed as
' Jed,' (short for Jcdediah, as I aflenvards
asccrtaiued,) informed me that ' he'd hem
tell as how 1 wanted to go a fishing, and so
he'd bin a digging some angle worms in the
garding ;' he added that ' he'd kctched
trouts in them parts sence lie i'is knee
high to a grasshopper, and knowed the
holes where the old settlers lay ef anybody
did.'
After breakfast, my guide got me what
he called a ' first rale rod,' it was the lip of
an ash sapling, with tho bark peeled off,
nnd war fancifully decorated with alternate
rings of red and green paint.
' You don't use a fly, do you 1' said he,
as we tramped along.
' No,' said I, 'I'm not much of a fisher
man.' ' There was some fellows here a spell
ago,' said he, 'that fished with what ll.ey
called arter-Jisfull flies, aud they ketched
a slew. There was one on 'em ketched
two hundred hi one night, true as 1 live.
They had rods that they took all to pieces,
and they carried 'em 'round in bags, when
they warcu't using 'cm. And they had
brass reels, that they hitched on to their
rods to wind up their lines on, and when
they ketched a big feller, instead of hauling
him right out, they played him 'round and
'round a spell, till he was most dead, and
then took him out gentle. I cal'late the
reason why they couldn't pull 'cm right out,
'cause the man that made them rods had a
kinder idee, at the tune, that he was mak
in' whip storks, and so you see, he didn't
get em High st.ff enough j a half pound
trout could bend one o' them rods a'most
double. 1 tell ye what 'twas curious to see look out for the Deacon, and if he comes I
how them fellers worked it. They'd go up kinder cal'late we'd belter leave.'
kinder sly to within praps twenty foot of I baited my hook aud dropped it into a
the brook, and then they'd kinder lay otr, dark hole, while Jedediah went u few yards
and swing the rod over, and bring that ar- up the stream to another,
ter-fish-all fly right down on the lop of the' Instantly I got a bile, and without wail
water, and they'd make the darned thing ug to go through the ceremony of playing
jerk along, till bime-by the water'd kinder, him, I landed a fine fellow,
surge up ; the feller he give a little jirk, and j Oh 1 he was a glorious fellow, with bright
one, he'd play the critter a little afore he
there was a trout hooked ; ef "was a bip
fetched him out. It seemed to come mitral I
to them fellers to play a fish 'forathey fetch-
ed him ashore. I see ono tilaviu u trout
under difficulties, and I'll bet, in that par
ticler line, that feller couidu't be beat.
Ymi see 'twas down lo tbn fj!U. aad the
trees hung so close down, tberrtPvasn't no!
chance to thrdw vour line. Yot was obtur
ed to go up close, aud drop right down in.
Well, this feller lie come to one of the great
deep basins, that's all along through there,
and arter he'd tried above and below, aud
on both sides, and crept into all sorts of !
places, trying to throw his line, arter he'd1 'But, I remonstrated, ' I'm a stranger
climbed three pines, a maple, and a hem- here, and I camo all the way from Boston
lock, to oniangle it, where he got it ketch- to catch a few trout; surely, my good sir,
ed when he throwed, he had lo give it up )u will not spoil my sport?'
for a bad job, and getting on an old rotten 1 ' Tuaii't no time for compliments,' said
log, that ttuck out about twelve fool above lhe "'"ge, ' and I don't care if you come
the water, he dropped in his hue. The a'l tho way from Cluuey and never see a
nnnitit touched kersplash! the grand fa- Irout afore, just walk otil o' that fa grass.'
therof all the trouts look the hook in his ' 1 must say, sir,' said I, ' that thu is most
mouth and put. Well, the feller he gin ungentlemanly conduct ; no stranger would
him hue, and let him run for a minit, undbe treated in this was in my part of the
then he'd wind up a htile and bring the fel- couniry.'
ler to a sense of his situation, and all the 'Now just look here,' said the Deacon,
time his limber jointed rod was bending, ' I ain't it man of many words, bui ef you
and the old log he sot on was a shaking. """"'t gel out of that tall grass, I'll get over
l'retty soon the old trout gave asxvage pull, this wall 1'
and the log broke ofT, right under where j ' Oh, you will, will you,' said I, getting
he sot. You should a seen that feller lift , mad ; ' perhaps you'd better try it on 1'
his rod, and wind up his multiplying reel i At this challenge, the deacon climbed
as he went down : he was bound lo have I laboriously lo tho top ofi thu wall and
that trout, and he never give him an inch
ofslacklihe; but he did'nt go down fur,
for the tail of his coat catched in the stump,
and held him a swinging 'round in the air
like a big pendulum, aud he kept on play
ing that trout, as cool as a cucumber, till
bime-by the wind blowed him 'round with
his back to the basin, aud his nose and eyes
just in tho water, where it fell over the
rocks, and then he had to holler fur help,
but he kept on pullin' at the trout, and then
giving him line, the same as ever. Well 1
got hold ofhis coat tails, and arter a little
straining, I hauled hun up high and dry,
and when he got the trout out it weighed
three pound aud a quarter.'
By this time we had come to where the
road crossed a large clear, brook, which
ran below us through a meadow, bearing a
little to the right, and passing near the road
further down.
' You had better commenoe here, and I
will hold back and meet you in an hour and
a half, and then I'll take you to Kellogg's
brook. That di-n't get fished much, he's
so darned particular. Which way 'II you got'
I concluded logo up the stream, towards
that cool wood; aud climbing the fence I
made my way towards a deep looking hole,
where 1 hoped someof the old settlers lay.
Before starting in the morning, I had
bought a thinnish sheet of lead, and I put
on a piece for a sinker, then baiting my
hook, and seating myself at some distance
on the grass, I endeavored to throw my line
according to my guide's description of the
operation, but the brook was narrow, and
my hand unskilled, and I could'nt manage
to hit right. I persevered in my attempts,
however, till my line caught in the branch
es of an oak lliat grew behind mc. I was
up the tree in a minute, and at the immi
nent hazard of breaking my neck, I disen
gaged my hook, and got down with it.
Then I took the lead oil, but without it I
could do nothing ; the wind blew my hue
away from mo, and I was obliged to lay my
rod down on the grass and go to the end of
it before I could get my line to put on the
sinker again ; so giving up all idea of
throwing it, I walked almost to the brink,
and dropping my line quietly in, seated my
self. Instantly there was a powerful pull
ai my line. ixow,' inuiKs I, ' tnis is one
of those big fellows ; I must 'play,' him a
little , so seizing my rod firmly in both
hands, I gave him half a dozen smart jerks,
that I fescy rather utoatthed his, tzi then
suddenly lowering tho rod, I let him run n
littlo, fetching him up with a pull. Thinks
I ' that will tiro him if anything will,' out,
alas I just before I meant to land him, I
gavo such a savage jerk for a final one,
that the hook camo out ofhis mouth with a
little piece of gill attached to it. 1 saw tho
the great fellow, for ho was a big one, shoot
ing ofl down stream. 'Never mind,' nays
I, ' there's plenty of more where you came
from,' and I dropped in agun.
It was a warm, lazy-feeling day, and the
shadow of the oak tree fell just where I sat,
making it very cool nnd pleasant, so you
must not be surprised that waiting full half
an hour without getting a bite, I fell asleep
and dreamed of a giant trout fisher, who
hung suspended in mid-air playing a colossal
trout.
Just at that instant that the appendages
whereby he hung, appeared about to give
way, aud precipitate him into the boiling
gulf below, a hand on my shoulder awoke
me; aud I heard a voice saying, ' Well I
swoti you haint ketched nothing, now !'
and my guide held up a string of some thir
ty odd fine trout.
' Wal now,' said he, 'I thought you'd a
ketch u slew by this time; tell yo what
though, when we get to Deacon Kellogg'
mender, we'll teach 'em how to ketch trout.
Better not let the Deacon ketch you, though,
a trainpin' down his mowin' ; he thinks a
heap of his tall grass, and ef he finds any of
the boys in there a fishiii', he usually licks
'cm. The Deacon kin fight some, and he's
powerful on doctrinal pints, too. Over to
a protracted mcetin, just as he was in the
middle of a long prayer, he sees a feller in
the next pew a dravvin a dogcritype like
ness of him, on the side of the pew. He
was a hard drinker, the Deacon was, and
the picter represented linn and Satan, suck
in' cider out of the same barrel. Just wait,
young nib n,' said the Deacon, pulling up
short, ' nil I finish tliis prayer, and I'll teach
you to draw piclers in meetin' 1' And he
kept his word, he give him the darndest
nautili' that ever I see.'
At the conclusion ofhis narrativn of the
Deacon's prowess, we arrived at a large
meadow, through which a brook, deeper
and sillier than the other, flowed.
'Now,' said my guide, ' keep a bright
reu and blue spots on his sides, a back most
beautifully mottled with green, and a belly
of the finest salmon color. He was a beau
ly 1 My eyes feasted on him, and in fancy
but my contemplations received a sudden
and very disagreeable shock. ' Just look a
here now,' said a gruff voice behind me,
' H'leis you're a treanatsinj;, aint ye? Walk
out o' that tall graas, will ye V
I looked up, and saw a broad and very
nbicund visage surmounted by a straw hat
scowling at me over the stone fence.
' I'm trout fishing,' said I.
1 Don't care ef you're whale fishing,' said
the face firmly ; 'just out of that tall grass.'
shewed mc a short, but very strong built in
dividual, clad in a coarse blue frock aud
overalls. When he gained the lop he paus
ed. ' I see you've ketched one trout,' he said,
' now that trout's my trout, and I'm going
to hev it.'
' Take il, and be d d lo you I' said I, and
1 let hun have it, as hard as I could throw,
just between the eyes.
The Deacon gave a snort of defiance, and
rolled ofTthe wall, then gathering himself up
he made a rush at me. I dodged, and into
the brook he went heels over head. Tho
ducking seemed to have cooled hun a little,
but the sight of thu grass that had been
. ,i J ! , . j . rusn, re-awaneu
hlM Iff nil ft HflllKtinrV tiia rtrott Haiti am ln.
ering ishead, he 'uttered V
like a bull, and came on
lie was so blind with wrath, and so guile
less of all knowledge of the noble, art,' that
it was mere child's play knocking hun into
the brook again 1 but like a young giant re
freshed, he emerged from the stream, and
before I knew what he was at, seized my
rod, dealt me a blow on the head that made
mo see stars, and 1 felt the cold water clos
ing over me, before 1 knew where I was. I
clambered up the bank, dodging a second
blow the Deacon aimed at me with the rod,
aud leaping tho stream closed with hun.
The Deacon was very strong man, but 1 am
not a child, and my activity made me more
than a match for him. After a short, but
severe combat, in which I got a black eye,
and the Deacon swallowed his four front
teeth, I got him under me, and then I just
laid in the big licks, till he cried for mercy.
Un my araival at the hotel I louud my
guide quietly eating his dinner.
' Well,' said he, ' who licked V
I did,' said I.
' Efyou don't want a troublesome law
suit,' said he ' you'd better take the after
noon stage and travel. He's death on goin'
to law, the Deacon is. I see you hit hun
with that trout, and I cal'late that was sault
and battery, and nothing shorter ; and the
Deacon, he's Justice of the Peace, ef he
should bring the case up before himself
now, you wouldn't stand no chance.'
Though I doubted the Deacon's power to
4 bring up' a case 4 afore himself,' if he
chosfl, still the probability of a lawsuit
seemed so great that I determined to avail
myself of the opporlurJiy Jedediah suggest
ti.
1 1 can't say from experience added the
Major, ' much about your trout, but 1 can
say, that you've got the talk it hind of Dea
cons up there, that I ever came across.'
Untimely.
A characteristic story is told of Judge II.,
a worthy man, and, in his younger days,
an able lawyer, now living in the northern
part of Vermont. It is said he was once
ambitious of political preferment, but, if
so, his success has not been equal to his
hopes, as he never roso higher than to be
what is called a 'flower pot judge' as
' side judges' arc sometimes denominated,
from the fact that the office is rather a mat
ter of ornament than use. A few years
ago, while this old gentleman was attend
ing a session of the legislature, he was ac
costed by an old acquaintance, ' Ah, judge,
how d'ye do, and what brings you to the
capitot V ' Why,' said R., ' 1 came to get
an office, but it's of no use, and I shan't
try again, r or twenty years I camo here
regular for an office, but they said I was loo
young, at u now ai i navu crown grev,
IrvinS ln removo lha. ..hipr.inn lhnv 11
and now
me I am too old, and that's a difficulty
which I have no hope of outliving; sol
give up the chancel' The judge sighed,
wiped the dust of Monlpclier from his shoes,
and never darkened the portals of the Capi
tol afterwards. He holds legislatures in
great contempt, and can give no better
reason for his opinion than their shabby
treatment of himself. St. Albans Demo-
crat.
Qlljc plow aniJ tlje f)oc.
II V i;. I. WALTON.
' 'lit that by Ihe Plow would thrive
llimaeltmuil either hold or drive. '
Fa n me it's Calendar ron August, 1853.
Haying, harvesting and preparing the ground
for the ensuing crops of rye and wheat and
oats, barley, beans, corn, and potatoes, ifcc.
&.C., make August a busy and important
month to farmers. It is a capital month for
pealing hemlock bark and preparing the
logs for draught to the saw-uull, next win
ter, that boards may be in readiness fur fen
ces, repairing aud rebuilding premises and
out-houses. And the weeds (wo, bushes,
briars and thistles, can be best eradicated
by thorough digging and cutting. No month
in the year is better for draining aud re
claiming wet lands and worse than useless
; swamps and making them, in time, tho most
productive and valuable parts of the farm.
Save vour crass and clover seed. What if
you can purchases it ? You can just as well
! save your seed as to purchase it. You will
I then know what it is, and whether it is
! clean clover, timothy orchard grass, red top
j and herds grass, or whether it is one half,
or less, while weed, yellow weed, yellow
daisy, mullen stocks and thistles. In the
' long run the farmer who 6avea his own
seed for grass will be the gainer; and it
can be saved aow, cheaper than it can be
baught by-and-by. By and by is a very un
1 certain and indefinite time of day. The
by-and.wy farmer is generally behind the
times, and his farm as well as hit garment,
'apt to be out at iho clbown. There's no
time to ba lost in August. If nothing tiro
in to bo done, ol more importance, tne
" goodiwoman will na lake il amiss" tnhavo
herbs in plenty gathered when the flower is
matured, drietl in the shade, and put up for
future use. She will hang them up in prop
er bags; and like all provident aud prudent
house-wives, mark each bag so as to know
what's what. See if b!ic don't.
Items for Fahmciis. We have heard of
"plowing with the heifer," and seen cows
accustomed to the yoke and women gather
ing in the sheaves and playing " lhe rake"
in haying time, but we never heard of tin
ox that cave milk. Wonders and freaks of
nature, however, we suppose will never
ceuse. Mr. James Thorn, as the papers in
form us, has an ox that works well in the
yoke and gives milk fieely. He has a bag
with four teats, each one of which yields
milk like that of a cow. He is a kind ol
he-she animal, and may soon loo fur a con
vention to assert and maintain his rights
H fo-j, divided into four sections; but,
I ' '
the cow's it has no udder. Each qua,
ler of Iho bag has a cavity which supplies
its teat, independent of the others. When
milked out il is readily supplied again, like
that of the cow. Tho annual is so useful
for tho dairy and for " all work" on the
farm that Mr. Thorn cannot spare him for
exhibition at the Chrystal Palace, and the
World's Fair at New York. The ed
itor of the Connecticut Courant has receiv
ed from Mr. Horace White, Manchester,
Conn., two heads of Herds Grass, exceed
ing, in length, twelve inches. They grew
on reclaimed land, for which Mr. White
last year received the premium of the Ag
ricultural Society. Think of that, brother
farmers, and reclaim your wet lands by
ditching them. Now's the " nick of time"
for doing the " clean thing." Doct.
Johnson, speaking in derision of oats as
food for man, in presence of a Scotchman,
said, " It is a grain on which horses are fed
n England and men in Scotland." The
Scotchman instantly replied, " And where
will you find such horses and such Men I"
the English horses, even at that day, stan
ding pre-eminent for excellence. Chemists
in England have recently ascertained that
the flour of the oat supplies more nourish
ment of the muscle, bono and blood of man,
thau any other vegetable substance.
An Ectioa Tusnso Farms. It is said
trjat Horace Greeley, Bsj. of the Tribune,
has purchased a farm and is about to try
the pleasures of rural life. It as intelli
gent and industrious on the farm as in tho
priming office, Horace Greeley will suc
ceed ns an agriculturist, and find the earth
more bountiful in repaying labour bestowed
upon it than politicians sometimes are after
having been boosted into office by the influ
ence of the press.
Expouts oe Wheat. Tho Ccntui
of 1850 gives .tho quantity of wheat
grown in tho United Slates at 100,500,-
000 bushels, which ta nn increase of 18
per cent, on the preclud of 1840:
since which time our Sbpulation has in
creased from 17,069,453 to 23,246,301 ,
being a gain of 36 per cent. ; so that it
appears for these ten years the produc
tion of wheat has not kept pace with the
increase of population. By a table in
the Atlas, showing tho exports for tho
. e i .l . -i l
aSl '"'y yCar WC fltld that there hi
there has
been but little average increase in that
of wheat during this time, and that in
1840 nnd 1841 we sent to foreign coun
tries 1,000,000 bushels nioro than in
1830-'51. In 1837, being a year of
peculiar scarcity, we imported 4,000,
000 bushels of wheat, and in 1847, when
the famine commenced in Ireland, wa
exported an unprecedented quantity,
which has since gradually fullen off.
In 1831 we exported at tho rate of 71
100 of a bushel for every individual in
the nation; in 1851 it was only 47-100.
New England consumes more wheat
grown at the south and west than we
send lo nil foreign nations. During the
same twenty years, from 1831 to 1851,
our exports ol domestic manufactured
nrticlcs has nmoun'ed in valuo to $212,
376,629 ; whilo that of wheat was but
8 186,740,962, being a balance in favor
of manufacturers of $25,635,000.
Mr. I'eadodv's Estate A corres
pondent of tho Cincinnati Gazette thus
describes a visit to tho estato of Mr.
I'eabody, an eminent horticulturist near
Columbus, Georgiu :
" Mr. Pcabody has a very healthy lo
cation on a uiu in tne pine woods over
six hundred acres ; and when he went
on it, thirteen years ago, not a tree had
been cut. He cleared n space for his
house, and they moved in Ihe next
spring. He has proved tho most suc
cessful cultivator of many kinds of fruits,
berries, and melons in this country. I
saw l.uoo lulls of water-melons, on
which will bo ripe fruit by tho 1 0th or
15th of Jane; ho says ho has frequent- '
ly picked them weighing fifty poundi'.
His great peculiarity with strawberries
is the quantity of fruit, its size, and fit
vor.and the constant bearing of the vines ,
he always has plenty of finn berries for
six months frequently eight and last
season he had them every month in the
year. Recollect this is in the open air
in his open fields. 1 saw eight acre
ol strawberries; tho vines nre very
small, and covered (tho ground literally
looks red) with most delicious, Hovcy
berries. These vines have l.cen in iusi
as full bearing since the IOthof March.
and ho says will continue until the mid
dle of September, and as much longer
as frosts keeps away, if he chooses to
attend to them. Mr. P. sends to this
market from 150 to 200 quarts per
day, nnd says he could pick double the
quantity if the market was larger."
Sorno interesting statistics have been
published lately, from which it would ap
pear that wool growing is likely to be
come a far more profitable pursuit than
hitherto, and that a general extension of
operations in the business will soon be
come a matter of necessity. The pros
pects of advantage and profit to West
ern farmers aro especially flattering.
Whilo tho population of the States in
rapidly increasing, the supply of wool
is diminishing, In New York the re
duction is from 5,000.000 to 3,000,000 ;
in Vermont from 1,600,000 to 900,000.
While the increase of population in the
United States has been 20,000,000 tho
number of sheep has only increased 1,
000,000. Wo are now principally do-
f-- ; - J
pendent on a foreign supply, and that
seventeen of the
largest nations of Europe the sheep num
ber only 207,171,351, while tho total
sum of the population of these countries
is over 225,000,000. Australia used lo
bo a capital wool producing country,
sending out 16,000,000 to 40,000,000
lbs. annually. Hut tho gold mania hm
put a startling check upon all that, and
caused a great diminution in those ex
ports. In a word, deficiency of sheep
und wool is undcistood to appear
throughout nearly all the creat wool
growing sections of the globe.
Of the cood House-wife's dress the
ancient author and agriculturist says:
44 Let tho Ilus-wifcs garments be comely
and strong, made as well to preserve the
health, as adorne the person, altogether
without toyish garments, or the gloss of
light colors, and as farro from the vani
ty of new and fantastique fashions, as
neero to the comely imitations of modest
Matrons ; let her dyet bo wholesome and
cleanly prepared at due bowers, and
Cook l with care ami diligence, let it be
rather to satisfie nature then our affec
tions, aptcr to kill hunger then reuiue
new apathies, let it proceed moth from
tho prouision of her owne yirde, 'then:
the furniture of the market; end let it
be rather esteemed for the fa'milier ac
quaintance she hath with it, then lor the
kirangencwG end raritio it brisgsHli Imn
other Ccvntties."
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