. H*~w__~_r ,_ _. _»__,_ PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY A. H.3BYINGTON & co. . AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANN UM, IN ADV._4?§\‘§ \ r—~—” “ "‘ ""*"“""‘"‘ “ " _'——'—"_"“‘ it fumilu ' lfiimupupuéullwuhi tn inn! idem uni Entertain, (152nm! finblligtun, Iiltml a; an, lculiliw, figunltun, Melanin, lit 31th, thinning 3c.3c.---trtuh1ulniulaun. I“ .3 :.,_ '2 hf. _~.::1-;":~'-__.'. .-~———~ — NUMBER 615-9NEW SERIES. . I N ORWALK, CONN., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1859'. r VOLUME XLII.---NUMBER 42. <— NORWALK noun. l cage in Wood’s New Brick Building. Main Street. A, H. BYINGTON & C0,, A. H. BYINGTON, J. B. ELLS, G. N. ELLs. u bscription Rates. All Subscribers, by Carrier, Mail, Post Riders, and Wagoners, per year, . $2 00 Those hung out ofany Carrier’s District, ifpaid one year in advance, Clubs of six or more, sent to one address, to be . paid in advance, 1 50 Single copies 5 cents—in wrapper, Gcents. Advertising Rates.- One-Squure,oneinsertion, $1 00 do th do 1 ‘25 do three do 1 50 do one month, 1 75 do _ two months, 3 00 do threemonths, 4 00 do sixmonths, 'i 00 do oneyear, $13,«—\\~ith paper, 15 00 Two Squares, do $23,—\vith paper, '25 00 Each additionaISquarc, perycar, S 00 One halfColumn. one year, . 40 00 One Column, one year, 75 00 Advertisers occupying three or more Squares. are enti - tied to the paper free nl‘charge. ‘ Fifteen lines, or 100 words make a square. Fractional parts ot'a. square charged, for as a whole. Yearly advertisers have the privilegeol‘changinqthcir advertisements on ce per month. Advertisements cluuged ol‘tener charged as transient. '- K‘ausientadvertisements payable 1st ofJanuary and , .Iuly. Yearly advertisers restricted to the business contem- plated at the time ot‘contract. Cards, Resolutions, Funeral and all other Special No- ticeS, 25 per cent. additional on the above. 35‘ These terms will be intlexibly adhered to. Wusnnuunmmv:“"" A1113 HOUSE; ,Formerly Norwalk Hotel, NORWALK, 012, AVING been leased for a term of yeal‘S. has been thoroughly renovated and greatly improved, and is now open for the re- caption ofcompany,aud will be kept asa/irst class house. No pains nor expense will be spared to makeit pleasant for its guests. It is believed that the village of Norwalk and its environs afl'ord more inducements to the pleasure seeker and the man of business than any town in the. state. Its splendid Churches, Seminarics and Schools, with their surrounding scenery—its magnificent drives, its superior facilities for sailing and fishing, and last but not least. its line oysters, are sufficient it is believed to tempt the most fas- tidious. Hoping for a share of the public pat- ‘ronage, I am its humble servant. L. P. ALLIS, Proprietor. Norwalk, May 20, 1859. South N orwalk Hotel. JAMES LUCAS, Pnormsron. This House has recently been thoroughlyH rebuilt and greatly enlarged, and is now ready for the reception of guests. It is pleas- antly located,in immediate proximity to the depot of the N. Y. and N. ll. Railroad. and in this respect for permanent or transient . boarders possesses advantages over any other Hotel in the town. A good Stableis kept in .1. shown, all. 10., '— Ofiice in Hubbell’s BlOCk,Norwalk. JAMES G. BAREOUR, SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL walk, Conn. Architecture. ARCHITECT, HOMCEOFATH, GraduateYale Mcd.Institute,Class1851a ’52 DENTIST , 50. . . Office at Resnlcnce, East Avenue, Nir- SIDNEY M. STONE, Will furnish I‘laus. Specifications, detail Drawingsmnd superinli-nd the erection of public and private buildings. Office in Mar- ble Block, Chapel-sh, New lluvcn, Ct. “52 WM. RANDEL SMITH, s U n x713 Y o R Surveys and Maps of every description accurately made. Earthwork measured and superintendcd, &c. Office at Chi- chcstcr’s Store, Norwulk, Conn. 39 In. WARNER, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, Officeflin ll’lallm'y’s Building, East side the Bridge, NORWALK, CONN. .r. r. roan-1:, Attorney and Counselor at Law, OFFICE 0 I’ER JlleLL 0R Y’S S TORE, Nor-walk. Conn. - n. 3. Boo-1'11, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, 6| WALL STREET, NEW YORK. WM. 0. STREET & CO. Importers,Wliolesale and Retail Dealc’rs in HARDWARE, IRON, Steel, Cutlery, Guns, Agricul- tural Implements, Oils, , Paints, ‘VllldOW Glass, £10,, &c., &c. Norwalk, Conn. A. II. Witcoxsox WM. C. S'rnniz'r, N orwalh Fast Office. MAILS CLOSE. West 7.30 A. him-2.30 P. M. East 8.20 A. M.-——5.00 P.1d. connection with the Hotel. Wooster House, Danbury, Conn. A. CHICHESTE R, Proprietor, Danbury and Norwal‘k Railroad, 8.50 A. M. Weston,Redding.and Bedding Ridge 12 M, M A ILS D l,‘ E. The Subscriber.having purchased the Wesl,9.]0A.ll[.—-5.55 P.1d. l pbove named Hotel.is prepared to receive East 8 20 A. M.—3.20 P. MI permanent and transient boarders, and ‘0 Danbury and Norwalk Railroad 7.55 A. M. entertain Travellers and the Public gener- ' ally. The Hotel is large, commodious, and .i is fitted up with the conveniences of modern 4 Hotels; it is abundantly supplied with pure Spring Water, and is pleasantly located on Main Street, within a very few doors ol'thc Railroad Depot. 6:. s. Locxwoon, Fashionable Draper and Tailor, —~a n d— - oummmx’s FURNISHING EMPORIUM, No. 3Skitl'dy’s Block, Main Street. Norwalk, Conn. Dentistry. Doctors am 6!. FITCH, Surgical & Mechanical ll 15: N T I S T S , , Ofice over the Store of C.J.Gruman, 9 NORWALK, CONN. A. BILL, CHARLES Fircu. .. O. J. GRUMAN, : nmler intForeign and Domestic our nouns, CARPETINGS, . Clam-cage Trimmings. Cloths, Cassi- . mares, Satinetls, Vcslings,and Tail- 97': Trimmings, by the Yard, -Pz'ece or Package. MEETINGS, SHIRTINGSJEANS, , At the lowest possible prices. MOIRWALK, CON N. "S. E. OLMSTEAD & CO. ' _ VIOLEsALI-I axn RETAIL DEALERS [N -Q'BOCERIES, FLOUR, FEED, &C., He’s 14 drill Main Slreet,Norwalk.Conn. F. H. NASH, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN S -'.I' O V E S , . BIANUFACTURI‘TK OF . Tinfih‘e'et Iron-8i Copper Wares Eds constantly on hand a large assorl 1' frat-mt of general llama-keeping «I. Fw‘czilurc, at So. Norwalk. ‘ ' ' Conn, ' $16!. 1:1. H. Lockwood, 6!. Go., ' NORWALK, CONN., laNUFACTURERS or Tin,She‘etIr0n heapper Wares, '- i axonsxtunsm Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Bri- tannia Ifjorcelain and “’00ch lVare, and kitchen Furniture in gen- eral, Pumps, Sheet Lead 113, Lead Pipe, Crock- : iery, Glass and China lVare. AJHOS HUNT, EeneralI'ension «a Patent Agent And Pl‘oseculor of Claims bag/ore - the scl'oeml Departments and . the Court qulaz'ms. W ushington . D. C. ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, 0f Hartford. Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual, cash Capital—7, - - - - - $1,000,000 Its-sure aguir / loss and damage by File, 6‘3 Termrmlaplcrl lo the hazard, (Lad consistent with the laws of compensation. ,GEO. R. COWLI‘IS, Sole flgcnt ly34 ForvNorwalk and vicinity. Life Insurance. A. H.321NG'1‘0N, ' , (Al; the Gazette Olfice)‘ . AGENT non THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE LIFE lNSURANCE COMPANY of Hartford; Conn. POST OFFICE HOURS From 7.00 A. M.t0 8.00 P.1d . ll . W. Sni'rn. P. M. Office open from 7 A. M. ’till 8 P. M. _.__ ,___. .__.. -— irronrAs many, Merchant Tailor and Draper, No. 3 Phat-nix Block, Norwalk,Conn., . THE subscriber would respectfully announce that having cleared out all his old stock at his auction sales, he has now on hand a fresh selected stock of seasonable Cloths. Cassimercs, Vi-stings,&c., which he is pre‘ pared to make up in the best and most fash- ionablc styles. A complete assortment of Mens’ and lluys’ CLOTHING READY .xlI./IDE. Gratefulfor long and continued favors,I shall endeavor with renewed exertions, to merit their continuance. 1:. ennui-Alan 4: sons,- Ca'loinet Maker 5 At their old, established lVare~Rooms East side the Bridge, opposite Phrmiix Bloch, . AVE now on hand the largest and best assortmeutof Cabinet F u r n i t u r c, Chairs. Looking Glasses, Mattresses. .tc., cverol’fcrcd tor sale in this place, which we have just purchased for Cash , at. extremely low prices, and i aloud to sell accordingly. We also keep constantly on hand Rma’y .Made Coffins of all sizes and descriptions, from the iiiostcostly Rosewood to the plain- est ever used: . .From our long cxpcriencei n tthnderta- kingbusiness,wc are confident wecau give pertectsatishictiuu to all who may needour schices. Norwalkfieptdilth,1858. 37 Groceries Cheaper than ever FOR CASH! THE subscriber would inform the public generally, lhathe still continues to sell the best of Groceries, Provisions, &c., at his Old stand, N0. 4 Skiddy’s Block, as cheap as the cheapest. He offers great inducements to cash buyers, as he has as large an assort- ment ol groceries of the best qualities as can be found iii. any store in the county. He would mute the special attention of all to his stock of . Coffees, Teas and Sugars, Which are of the very best quality, and will be sold cheap. The public are invited to call and examine, and judge lor themselves. A. MOREHOUSE‘ COAL ! GOAL I H.& J. C. RANDLB. have been re- . ceivmg direct from the mines, and are now prepared to offer at the lowest market rptes. the l'ollolving kinds of coal, from their Coal lard, east side the Bridge, viz : Spring Jlfnuululn Lehigh, ' Sugar Loaf d ' o. .anmol/I "cin. (IV/lite with) Locust .Momzluin' 410- Scranlon do. C'mmcfl Ridge, (Pin/r. .flsh) Laurence (Red 410.) Trevorlon Semi .flnthracile. The Lehigh, Mammoth Vein, Locust Moun- lain. Council Ridge and Trcvcrtou Coals are oflbefirst‘class, and are acknowledged by dealers to have no Superior. For furnaces arid all stoves with strong draughts, the Le- lllgll coals cannot be surpassed, being hard, endul'lflx and very pure. For ordinary do- mestic Purposes. the Mammoth Vein, Locust Mountain and Council Ridge Goals, stand un- rivalled; burning more freely than the Le- lllgll, making no clinker, and leaving less ashes and slate than most any kind of Coal known in the market. As to the Trcvcrton. we can say to any persons trying it, that if it, does not an- swer the recommendation and prove entirely satisfactory, we will take it back again if de- sired, at our own expense, and refund the money. , Mr. 0. TI. Benedict. long and favorably ‘ known in the Coal Trade, will be always on hand to serve the public. A share of the pub- lic patronage is solicited. P. S.—-Just received. a cargo of very supe- rior Blacksmith’s Coa1,mined by the Hamp- shire Mining Co. New Work. AYARD Taylor’s Travels, GREECE a; Paper Hanging, FIRE BOARD PRINTS, . Window Shades and. Fixtures. THE subscriber has now on ban a large and well selected ussortmentol't c above named goods, which he will now offer for sale cheaper than ever before thought of in this market. Faper Hanging, . _ _ House and Sign Fainting, Executed in all their branches. Bidwell’s Parent Wagon Grease for sale at my store, next door north of Wood’s Building, Main- st., Norwalk. GEORGE MARVIN. ROOFING. HE subscriber is prepared to furnish par- ' ties biflldiug with Warren’s superior Fall and Cement Roofing. This article of Roofing is in use upon the Nor- waik Lock Company‘s Building, and at Louns- bury, Bissell _.& 00’s.. where it gives entire satisfaction, and is believed to be the cheap- est, as well as the best roofing in use. All orders left with John W.Hubbcll,at the ofiice of Win. K. James. will receive prompt atten- tion. tf4l. LN. HILL. Notice. General Blacksmithing and Machine Jobbing. HE Subscriber having established himself in the above line of business, at the old stand of his Father, Wm. Glover, is prepared to execute all orders in the Blacksmithiug Department, in a thorough and workmanlike manner, and at'reasouable prices. Special attention will be paid to the repairing ofma~ chinery,&c. THEODORE GLOVER. Norwalk, March 14th, 1859. lltf INSURANCE. HE Subscriber having taken the agency of the JVew England Fire and .Ma'rme In- mrance 00., of Hartford, is prepared to in- sure all kindsof property against loss or dam- age by fire. on as accommodating terms as any other Company. " The New England Fire and Marine Insu- rance Company has been recently established, with a paid in capital of $200,000, and has a surplus of $6,295.00. ' JOSEPH W. HUBBELL, A'gcnt for Norwalk and vicinity: Norwalk, Feb. 1st,'1859. 5H Wagop and Carriage BUILDING AND REPAIRING, N New Canaan, at the old stand of the sub scribcr. Every description of Wagons made to order,.puinted and repaired at the shortest notice, and ten percent cheaper than any other shop in the county. All kinds of Farm produce, and Oak, Ash, and Hickory Plank taken in exchange for work. tf29 E. L. ARNOLD. Mr. J‘. Hessian, ,Professorof Music / Will be prepared to re“ now his course of instruc- tion—to all thgse Who may desire his servi~ ces-—in Instrumental Mnsic,ouand after Weds nesday, the 19th inst. Instructions given on the Piano Forte‘,0rgan or Melodeon. Pianos tuned and repaired. All orders left at his residence,Main Street,Norwalk, or at N. Turk’s Clothing Store, will be promptly attended to. Norwalk Jan. 17th. 1859. ly32 NORTHROP’S LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S I C E C R E A. M Avid Refreshment Rooms, ARE now open for the Season,at the cor- ner of Mcrwin Street and West Avenue. N. B.——Ice Cream furnished for Families at 50 Gts. per Quart. Norwalk, May 7, 1859. South Nor-walk BOOT 6L SHOE STORE. WE would respectfully call the attention of the citizens and public genera ly, to our large and varied as-ortment of Ladies’ Gaiters, Shoes,aud Slippers, Gents’ Patent Leather and Call Boots, Gaiters and Shoes, Misses, Boys, and Children’s Gaiters and Shoes of all kinds. We are prepared to man- ufacture to measure any article in our line at short notice. Repairing in all its branch- es. STEVENS 3r. TRISTRAM, tf18 Ely’s Block, South Norwalk. House Fainting, GRAJNING AND GLAZING'. THE Subscriber would respectfully. au- nounce to his former Cl sto acre (and as many new ones as will give him a call.) that he is prepared _to execute i 11 orders in his line with neatness and dispatch, and solicits their patronage. Jobs taken and stockfurnished if required. He can be found at his old stand, Union St., opposite Quintard tit Smith’s Carriage Facto- ry. GEORGE HODGES. South Norwuik, April lst, 1859. ly12 Fish and Vegetable Market. (I § . The undersigned hav- ., . , «:1 mg purchased the stand ‘ ’- ’ formerly occupied by Mr. _ .- \Charlcs Murray, would , 12., inform the public that he ‘ "” keeps constantly on hand the best kind of Fish and Vegetables themar- ket atl‘ords, in great variety. He will always be ready to serve the public with such kind of fish as can be bad in any market. Remcm her the old stand on the bridge. 2m*21 JOSEPH MOORE. The world is puzzled much to know How RANDLE can sell Hats so low,— And some there are who'think t’will tend ' In final bankruptcy to end. We thank all those who are so good, To feel such kind of s0licitude,— But beg that they’ll not be alarmed, Since we’ve no fear of being harmed. Some other time we will confess, The secret of our great success, And tell Lhcm more about our labors. And how we " unnuusnm.” our xmouuons. At present we will merely say To young and old, to grave and gay,— Ifyou upon us please to call, We’re sure that we can suit you all. FURNITURE! THE subscriber is now prepared to offer to the public,at his old stand. as good an assortment of ' Cabinet Furniture as can befonnd in Fairficld County,and at lower prices, FOR C'JISH, than the same quality of Goods can be obtained at any oth— er Estublishmene. - The Stock consists in part of Marble Top, Extension, Dining, Card and Quartctoc Tables; Bookcases, Bureauli, Sofas, Tcte-a-Tete Lounges, Mahog- any and Cane seat Chairs ; Gilt and Mahogany Frame Look- ing Glasses, dim, Jim. 0' OFFIJV' W'flRER 0 0M 8, Where may be found a. full assortment of Coffins, which will be finished inthc best pois- sible manner, and at short notice. . m A Hearse will be furnished when de- sired, A. RENOUD. RUSSIA.just out and for sale by A.H.CAMP.‘ .‘ \- ‘ . \ gating. w.....w,-w. r.--....-.-...W,,_w, MW...- . .w... Always Look on the Sunny Side. Always look on the sunny side, And though life checker’d be, p lightsome heart bids care depart, And time fly pleasantly j. Wh y sit and mourn o’er fancied ills When danger is not near ‘.’ Care is a self co nsumiug thing, That hardest nerves can wear. Always look on the sunny side, And though you do not find All things according to your wish, Be not disturbed in mind ; The greatest evils that can come Arc lighter far to bear, When met by fortitude and strength, Instead of doubt and fear. Always look on the sunny side— There‘s health in harmless jest, And much to south our worldly care: In hoping for the best. The glo‘hmy path is far too dark For happy feet to tread, And tells of pain and solitude, 0f friends estranged and dad. Always look on the sunny side, And never yfeld to doubt : The ways of Providence are wise, And faith will bear youvout. If you but make this maxim yours, And in its strength abide, Believing all is for the best— I.ook on the sunny side. o‘.-...__—— Wall Street—An Epigram. At the head ofthe street the lawyers are found. At the foot of the river the vessels abound. Fly—stranger—oh fly.l to some safer retreat, For there’s craft on the river and craft in the street. é” - _ " 1 Mf’rlglolinclining.w .-.-.WA~v.-.x-ax-.~VM~.-A-M~~w s.“ SPEECH OP REV. T. S. BRADLEY. ' Delivered at the opeiiing of the Fair- field County Agricultural Society’s Fair, on Tuesday evening, Sept. 27th, and pub- lished by order' of the ' LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : 8 e week ago to-night, the wifly an good-natured chairman of your committee of arrange- ments, tapped me on the shoulder and said he wished me to Open your Agricul- tural Fair to night, with a. fifteen, or thenty minute knowing what a squib might be, nor what might be expected of me, I opened my “Webster’s Unabridged,” and found, a “ Squib, n. n., a. short roll of paper filled with gunpowder, and used for amuse- Here is the roll of paper, but I fear the gunpowder is lacking. Squib,” v. u , to make a display of small fireworks, such, I suppose, as small boys use on the evening before the fourth of July, to usher in the big guns, which are to be fired .by men the next day. Such then being the explanation, I shall attempt to address you in a twenty to twenty-five minute speech, so as to leave room for not more than three quar- ters squibbiug. And as your cd'mmittee, and 1 fear you all, do expect not much own business. Pardon me, then, if, in the few remarks which I shall make to- night, I may secm‘ enthusiastic, or my story, to~ the phlegmutic, may seem like u lover’s tale, which he fondly tells of his absent sweetheart. Speak little,or speak much, I shall only say What is in my heart, and shall only say it, because my heart is full of the subject, and, like the Irishmun’s cask of cider, which, having purchased with his neighbor on shares,be slyly tapped at the bottom, , intending simply to draw out the bottom half for his; you must expect the whole to run,un- til the heart, the subject, or your pa- tience is wholly exhausted. I have said I love the farm and the farm-house _; so I do—I love too the farm- er, I love his son—yes and Hove, too, a farmer’s daughter with all my heart ; I ove all that is his, and if I do so it is be- cause they are of themselvesjntrinsicully worthy of our love and are nearly allied to what I esteem the source of our na- tion’s prosperity and to the stability of all that we hold dear in our political rela- tions. The source of our national wealth lies not less in our- broad acres which our future farmers are to plow, than in that broad expanse of waters rolling up its waves on our Eastern, our Western, our Southern borders which our future navigators with the keels of our merchant ships from pole to pole are to furrow. Our treasury. The industrious further, the honest yeomunry and the skillful mechan- ic, those sons of toil are the bone and sinew of our strength. Let. those agri- culturists who have been, are now, and ever will be fully three-fourths of all our inhabitants, be true to themselves, true to their calling,und our nation must be pi'os-. perous. But degrade the agricultural oc- cupation, because the agriculturist de- grades himself—for that is the only way underheaven in which it can be degraded —and our nation must becomep. nation of political reprohates. So vast a majority of our people are tillers of the soil, that with this soil and its tillers,is linked a vast deal of all that is, or is to be great and. good in our future history. And not only this, but I love the old farm-house because there is the spot where have been reared and from which have gone forth so many ofthe great and good men of our land. These farm houses are centres, like yonder golden stars, where ten thousand rays of light have been born and from which ten thousand energies of power have gone forth to. bless, Duot on- ly the generation in which we live, but to travel on and on to future ages and is to bless future generations, just us the stdrlight travels on and on through space and never stops, because space is like eternity. Some of the best influences in our nation originated in New England homes. Some of the best counsellors in our government were reared in the agri- cultural communities of our quiet New England vallies. These New England farmers raise not crops only, but men.— The best productsof your farms are not k more than this, if you actually find it to prove so, you must comfort yourselves with that text of the negro preacher, which he supposedto be found in Mat. v, 12, as the eleventh Bealz'lude, and so preached, “ Blessed am flwm who ’specks 'nofli'ng, for they shan’l be disappointed.”— So much for squibbii.g by way of introdu- cing the topic of the evening, which shall be the Agricultural Occupation. It is related by one of the old Latin Historians, of one of the old Roman He- roes, that when he‘ and some f his rivals went to consult the Orncles 0 " who should be conqueror and king,” the response came back from the shrine of the God, that “ he, who should first salute with a kiss his royalmother,should be greatest.” Quicker than thought the 01d Roman General fell prostrate, em- braced and kissed kind old mother Earth, and 50 secured the promise of the Fates, in a way'that the Fates themselves had probably not dreamed of. Whether this act of affectionate reverence and honor, had anything to do with his after-success, I cannot tell, but certain it was, that the old Hero became a Conqueror and a King. So it is in this rivalry in the Ag- ricultural Occupation. the oracles of common sense and common experience is, that he who salutes his royal mother with the kindest kisses of careful culture, of patient industry, will be a conqueror and worthy to bqla king. 1 have always looked upon the tillers of the seil, as the Life Guards in that ROyul Family, to which the race of man belongs. They stand the nearest to the Motherly Queen. They are her Cup-bear- ers. They dispense her royal favors to her hungry and thirsting children. They bask directly in her princely smiles.— Though not clothed in purple nor scarlet, nor even broadclouth always, the true aristocracy in the Land, where Mother Earth is Queen; the great low of whose realm is‘ Labor, and the sanction of whose enactments ure,in her left hand, poverty, wretchedness,disease and death ; but in her right hand, riches,honor,heultb and length of days. It is therefore with the greatest pleas- ure, that I accept the invitation to title I love the aristocra- I venerute a. represen- tative of that occupation, in which, I was born, bred, educated, and in which at last, I hope to die. scion of an aristocracy of farmers unto the third and fourth generation, and whereunto the genealogical record “run- neth not to the contrary,” I ' have only turned aside to serve my Maker loathe clerical walks of life, with the dew of my youth and the strength of my manhood, expecting, bye-und-bye, when old age comes creeping on with its frosts 'and its snows to crisp the greenness of youth or theripeness of mauhood,and the church no longer want: an old man for a pastor, and so tIrns him off to feed on the barren ublic charity ; to return -aguin to the greener fields of my youth, and die in the old farm house, and be gathered to my Fathers, on the old farm, where no storms and no tempests have dis- turbed, for two centuries, their peaceful The response of dress you to-night. The wandering pastures of p To me, then, a farm house and its peaceful surroundings,ure the long dream- ed of Arcadia, where smiling fields smile their sweetest, and the happy homes are the happiest, and where, the inhabitants live at peace, because they cultiv to their pigs, 'horses, cattle, geese, corn, beans Tnnd- potatoes, but boys and girls, that un- d er farm discipline become men and wo- man known and recognized as such in any clime beneath the sun. In truth there is no place under the heavens better adapt- ed to this’purpose than the farm. There are here no temptations to vice ; idleness is driven out of the house and chased from the farm by early industrious habits, and on a well ordered farm where there is en- ergy enough to keep the fences good, it is kept out. Labor is the order of the day, and when a boy or girl has learned to labor steadily, perseveriugly, there is nothing this side of Omnipotence too hard for them to c0uquer,or too great for them to achieve. The farmer’s boy or. the tar- mer’s girl have little time to be enerva- ted, emascnlated, eaten up by the rust of sloth and when they go forth into the world to act for themselves, they know. no such thing as failure where labor con- quers all things. They know how to take whatever they do take hold of, must go, if there is any go in it. No “ rose water” characters are reared in the farm-houses. Hence, go where you will on this wide earth, and where any enterprise is start- ed with a. New England man at the head and a yankee at the bottom,no man fears to take stock in the'concern, for every body knows that it will go through, just us they know that the lightning express train will go through when they see the high pressure engine, with loaded valves and the steam hissing from every avenue attached ahead, backed up by a locomo- tive of higher pressure and brighter fires standing with its eight lit driving wheels scarcely curbed behind. Hence the men who have founded new States at the West, who havt blocked ut and hewn and shaped new constitn ions for new territories, who have felled with gi- ant arm the mighty forests of our Western wilderness went forth from these New England farm-houses. ' Go anywhere, where the most gigant- ic enterprises have been successful ; go where the richest California mines have been exhumed and on the grandest scale at that golden gate of the West ; go where the largest prairies have been sub- dued from that billowy wildness which once rolled and heaved tifi the music of the summer’s wind sweeping over ini- mense untamed wastes ,into fruitful farms and smiling villages ; go where the might- iest ships over old ocean’s tempestuous waves haVe fearlessly looked the storm in the eye or have bearded the frost« king in his own frozen realm or played with his iceberg subjects at either pole as with familiar things ; go where the adventurous exploring party have dived the deepest into the mysteries of the un- known, be it amid the pestileutial swamps of an unknown river in Africa or amid the dangers of u “ land meted out and trodden down,” over which the holy Cherubim of heaven once unfolded their pinions ; go anywhere, especially on this new continent where wise heads have planned or skillful hands have exe- cuted, where great hearts have beat be- neath brave breasts, and you, will find men whose stalwart arms on some New England farm were made strong by the hard difficulties of a sterile soil, whose wise heads were made wiser by those maxims of industry. which guide the farmer’s toil and Whom brave hearts were made braver by the skillful energies - 9, , 59er their God and mi Westport, May lst, 1858. , .l —"‘ -- Zulu-tw— of you: fat labgg. on that it Trier nation’séoil is, and is to be our nution’s+ hold of everything by the right bundle and . 2' "fetid... rocky soil so scantily yielding her pro- ducts. You will find unx like those old warriors of sacred history under Israel’s hero who are going up in the length and breadth of the land to possessit. Go in- to any of our large cities and talk with our princely merchants and merchant princes who have girdled this earth with their cemmerce and have filled this whole continent with their dyed works, as of Tyre, so that the daughters of th ad are attired in scarlet and the fab . 0f the East, and ask them to what they owe their sycess, and some of the no- blest, the truest and most successful will point you to some New England farm- house, and tell you of that old homestead the loveliest, the best, the dearest spot on all this wide earth, rough perhaps in exterior, but the holy sanctuary where boys at the domestic altar are christened men, and girls are made polished stones, polished after the similitude of a. palace. It was the remark of one of the “ solid men” of Boston—I think a. Luwrcnce—' once a. poor farm boy himself, that “ our cities would decay on their foundations, their inhabitants die of mere luck of pow- er to live and our public energy become emasculated of strength, vigor or vitality were it not for the fact that it is yearly energized by the best blood from the country. Country boys marry city girls, and our city boys marry farmer’s daugh- ters, and the vital forces of our cities which would otherwise stagnate are re- vivified, and gigantic enterprises are not only set on foot but achieved.” If all this is the fact, it is, I hope, the only instance in which the boys of the city display so much superior taste and sounder judgement. For who in choos- ing a companion for life would not pre- fer the full and rounded form of the coun- try lass to the cotton fitted belle of the city ; who would not prefer the flush of nature’s beauty in the healthful face of the angel of the farm-house to the rouged cheek and painted lip of the artificial beauty of the sickly house plant of city life ; who would not prefer the girl for a wife who is twice as merry and sweet, with health glowing in every vein, with hands whose skill can touch as if by magic and set right. every article of household need from garret to cellar, who is never lounging in the parlor from 10 A. M. to w P. M. with the latest novel, while momma is looking after the kitchen; who has oheart bi'imming full of love and good will and an eye which will at a glance shine day- light thi'ough your soul and fill it full of sunshine too ; instead of the girl whose head is crowded full of boarding school lore and knows as little of house keeping and the mysteries of cooking, as Betty the kitchen maid fresh from the Emerald isle knows of the latest style of operatic music. \Vere it made a capital crime for a young lady to marry without being as well acquainted with all the mysteries of house-keeping us the young man who mar~ ries her is acquainted with the afl'airs of his trade, his business or his profession, alas! how many mothers like Rachel would be weeping for the slain of their daughters ; how many young widowers seeking con- solation and finding nonc,until found in the hand and heart of some good sensi- ble farmers daughter,who would not blush 'and hung her head in shame if caught doing what mother Eve did before Irish help was invented ,- cooking their husband’s dinner. with the lark with song It is not then,farmers, fellow citizens, the ’corn, the cattle, the large squashes that are the best, the noblest product. of your form. Your agricultural fair ought to exhibit its men, its women. Your boys and your girls are the noblest premium specimens of farm enterprise ; they make .up as we see to night, the best part of the FAIR. ' - It is the favorite theme of some who address agricultural gatherings to talk to farmers of elevating the standard of their calling, to raise it in dignity on a level with the calling of the merchant,the lawyer, the doctor, the capitalist, just as though your profession was not already elevated, just as though there was any- thing degrading in.the farmer’s frock, the brown and hard hand' or in the imple- ments of your occupation. I must cou~ fess I feel the ancestral blood of honest labor burning in indignation in my veins when I hear such imputations (kindly meant to be sure) from Mr. Broadcloth addressed in the shape of advice to the representatives of your occupation,the no- blest, the most honored, the most heaven favored of any in this land or many oth- er land; in this age or any other age.— God made men originally tillers of the soil ; HE intended that man should draw his susthnauce like the babe, from the bosom which mother earth presents.— Some of the best. traits of human, charac- ter have been brought out, moulded and exhibited by. men who were agriculturists by choice and continued so because they loved the calling and because it was cul- culuted to make true-hearted men. Some of the noblest men that have ever blcst this earth were farmers by profession,and thon- sands of nature’s truest uoblemen have sought at last a. quiet retreat from the cares and toils 'of public life in a rural helm:j 0n the farm, as a kind of earthly para ise, Wh b iviu their time to undisturbed ‘ y g g with the God of nature and of the Bible they might prepare for a. heavenly puru- dise. Nay more I three-fourths of our truest, b ravest and most successful men in all our professional employments grad- uated a 5 boys from the farm into public life, an d were all the more successful be- cause they had attended that agricultu- ral school, where labor was the teacher and signed a diploma, written not on parchment but with iron pen on the eter- nal character. The very best influences of our. nation have gone forth from New Engl: ind homes, and a majority of those homes have been the farmer’s homes.— Dau‘";'.el Webster that councellor of the nutilou, that jurist of the world, like No- ah 'x'of old was a tiller of the soil, u'plnntp er: «of vineyards, a farmer himself and the holder son of a noble farmgr. He loved . editutiou and communion the home of his childhood on that New Harlapsbirc farm, and in o_ of the finest passliges in one of his fine orations, this exporiuder and defender of the Constitu- tion Speaks of that home in one of th green gvallies of his native State i“ glowin':Wvg we ' which 7' tom as w from a peaceful retirement on a farm the demands of duty to assume again the might be said almost to have crea- ted, he took the earliest opportunity when 'he could fly from political life, to hie away to that well loved spot and there as a. farmer, to spend the remnant of his days and be buried beneath the sod which, while living, he loved so well to tread. tinies of nations and have stamped their characters upon the age in which they lived have been men born and bred on the farm. Cincinnatus, that old Roman with a Roman heart was called from the plow to the cares of a troubled State, and martialed the turbulent forces around him, all the better because he had learn- ed so well to martial himself behind the plow. Poets,in painting an earthly Elys- ium, usually portray a smiling villa in some sunny dell, surrounded by protect- ing hills, down in the peaceful bosoms of which are flowery gardens and product- ive fields—En short a. true farmer's home. cd to sing of just such a home, and such a home he had among the vine-clad hills and beneath the sunshine of an Italian sky. when I hear or see men who have never tried the Farmer’s frock and would scarcely know a stone-boat from a. barrow nor meal from flour, when even the bag 's untied, talking or writing to farmers, as though their profession were below the common level, and needed an elevation. On the contrary, such men need them- selves to be elevated, (whether by the rope or by what, I shall not decide,) un- til they cau reSpect the source from whi the food of the world is derived, or re peel; the employment to which we all owe so much of what makes life desirable, or living, pleasant. I would as soon expect the blood-sucker to tell the man whose blood he sncks,—-—“ look upward, wade nobly, respect yourself, elevate, your mental faculties, erect the standard of your employment, and it. will soon not be considered degrading to be sucked by 1&8 !” grains of common, or uncommon sense, actually loves a home of such simple sur- roundings, as we find on the farm and in the old farm h0iISc. There is scarcely a merchant engaged in the strife of business in our large cities, who has not the half- formed plan, flitting ever in future pros. pect to nerve his heart to fresh energy to baffle fresh di cultics, to retire at length, after a. fortune is gained. to some quiet, rural home, and there, in a state of no- ture’s simplicity, outside of thelife crush~ ing conventionalities of artificial and fash- ionable society, t 0 Spend the last days of his life, as God meant all men to spend them at all times, in the wisdom of childlike simplicity. Said one of the most enterprising merchantsof Phila- delphia, “ I am toiling with aching head and weal-led hands, for a farm, and a farm I shall have, if God prospers me, to die upon. best affections, like vines their tendrils, and twine their sweetest hopes and fond- est unticiputions around a farmer’s home, a farmer’s fireside. It is such a. home as children. He made men agriculturalists at first. He put the father of the race. in a. garden and bade him keep and till it for life’s employment, and had not o in say, Amen.” awtfiht it is a. wonder that those SM tor’s tender heart or a venerution of his gi- gantic intellect. Later in life,he purchased a. farm a. few miles out of Boston and made it his oasis in the desert of political life. His strong affections clustered around that spot ; be heuutitied it with the rarest flOWers ; he planted it with trees,nnd, enriching his beautiful grounds, he began to love the homestead of his second choice with a woman’s love. He loved to walk among his cattle whose broad honest faces were never known, like political sycophants, to Speak or look a lie; and when the hardest battles of life were ended, he went home to that farm-house at Marshfield, the spot he loved so well, to end his life, just as it is said the old cugle,when it feels the sluggish blood of age beginning to creep more slowly along its feebly pulsating veins audits weakening pinions growing weary in the distant flight,will return to the old cliffs ofits early love, there to lie down and plucking the familiar drapery of its couch about him, to die. George W shingtou was a farmer, and after ha. ug led an army of heroes to a heroic success, after having achiev- ed his country’s independence and was at the head of an idolatrous army, ready to waft him, as other conquerors had been wafted to the heigth of power, no allure~ ments of royal station or of kingly pow- er cOuld keep him away from his well loved home and his tempting fields and which lay along the grassy banks of the beautiful Potomac. Compelled only by public cares and assist by his almost su- perhuman sagacity informing and in ad- ministrating a. government which he Thousands who have moulded the des- Horace that prince of Latin poets lov- I say then, I am out of all patience, The truth is, everybody who has three \Vell might our hearts throw out their God has willed to the majority of his “ men sought out many inventions,” _ we should doubtless have been a more muo- ceut, as well as happy race. Vice origi- nates in great cities,~us frogs hatch, swim and crock in swamps. The quiet employ- ment of a. farmer’s life is Well calculated to developc men physically, intellectually and morally. The temptations are few, habits are: simple,life unruffied and in the quiet of the field, the man meets his God face to face, and the voices of nature talk to him of his better estate. When we look at these things in this light, it is no wonder that the Farmer‘s Sons, who have gone forth, like the Prod- igal, leaving the corn behind to feed on the basics abroad, should, at length, come to themselves, and desire to return again, to the peaceful country home to help cut. the futted calf and to make their last days their best days. Since God has made the soil the source of man’s sustenance, it. is no wonder that he blesses the agri- culturist, that all men of sense bless him,. that the Earth itself blesses him, that we all bless him, and cry out, “ Let all the if that grave may only be beneath the shade of the old roof-tree of a childhood home. But there are some sons, wiser than their father’s to be sure, who think that they can gem living easier than by,~ digging it out of e soil, and so go forthf; their wits, without industrious toil, buture only brought to their senses when they find they have made a wretched failure, for want of stock, and are landed at last in the poor house. And yet if anybody can succeed in commercial or professional life, you will usually find the successful ones to bethese farmer’s sons. But, too many, alas l sue, ceed only at the expense of life’s tru'é'end or of life’s true happiness. They succeed to be sure, but only by fighting their way through scenes of wretchedness, and by wading the dark streams of vice, them- selves coming out perhaps unpolluted, and perhaps not. ' Some one has called our great cities the Devil’s Marts. Be it so or not, cor-. taie it is, that those who upset and des- pi‘e God’s plan for cultivating the earth for a subsistence, and crowd into these great cities, only to fill them to overflow- ing, to glut every avenue of trade with I- might plethora. of men ; must expect to see revolting crimes committed, such as are weekly committed by the disappoint- ed and corrupted. They must expect to see haggard poverty storing them in the lace on every street, nakedness and want haunting every alley, vice and licentious' ness walking abroad with unbluebiug front at noon day, as well as at midnight; over trading, inflated stock jabbing, and bartering knavery, crowding and pushing into every enterprise ; defalcutiuus, Schuyler frauds and bank robberies al- most without number ; fictitious prices and bogus stocks, creeping into every channel of commerce, and every ten or fifteen years such a. wild whirlwind of panic as that, which, two years time, swept over the great mart. of the world, driving to wreck thousands, in whom we confided as in a strong tower, trust- ing that no financial storm could roll torrents of tempest waves aroand them, large enough to undermine, over- throw or engulph them. Such things, the young man, if be de- serts the quiet of the farm house and the slow but sure road to wealth on the form must expect to meet in the great world without , and himself help, perhaps, swell the magnitude of the fearful In But on the other hand, the young mer, whose good sense keeps him at b to thread the slower, but more mm. and sure avenues to success, only ire-1.... of the strife of the elements abroad.— They pass him by,und like that fearful on- gel in Egypt’s darkest night,they come not nigh to wreck the peace of the favored ones. For when, I ask, did you ever see an agricultural community,or hear of one, whose wealth wisely lay in happy homes in well filled barns and in broad, produc- tive acres, (all paid for too,) and not in railroad bonds at fifty to seventy-five per cent.disconut,apd some worth just the paper on which they are printed, and some not even that ; nor in ruilroudl stocks, which never have and probably never will pay a. dividend ; nor in coal company shares, too many of which pay the promised interest out of borrowed capital, if they pay at all ; wnen, I ask, did you ever hear of such a. community 'of farmers, who follow God’s plan of gel:- ting 3 living by the honest meat of their brows, behind the well used plow, ever suffering under the terrors of a panic ?— When did you ever hear of a. crash in an agricultural community, except it be the crash of the Find on the old burn floor? The idea and much more the spoken ques« tion is . absurdity The farmer’s wealth lies in God’s mint, just as he has coined it for him. It lies in God’s sub- treasury, just as he has deposited it there. It lies in a bank that neVer closes doors in a panic, and newer stops specie pay- ment in a financial crisis. Honest son of toll l Yours is no deg grading occupation. The fru.ts of your labor, which are seen scattered so pro- fusely around us,arc like the Golden Fleece of ancient Story, the insignia of your tell, your c0nquest<, your nobility” nobility which nature has made, and nature’s God approves. You are the Rotsh‘childs—tha grand bunkers of the world. there is not a. city on the globe, that your hand does not feed. There is not a. ship,which braves old ocean’s storms, that is not freighted in part, or wholly, with the fruits of your toil. Commerce looks to you to supply her marts and load her ves- sels. The riches of the world come ul. timately from the soiL And in these days, when might don’t make rig/it, and everything, that glitters, don’t pass for gold, just because it glitters, the agricul- tni'al occupation is assuming its true po- sition. The whole nation is waking up to see the source of our post prosperity and to learn the sure promise of our fu- ture greatness. We commenced auction of Farmers and shall never die as a na- tion, so long as such farmers live, en gave as national birth. Those heroic men,who felled almost limitless forests; who eflect~ ed frontier settlements and defended them from the attacks of wild beasts and yet wilder men ; who covered the subdued wilderness with corn-fields ; who were the bone and sinew of the revolutionary army, were Farmers. And the bold and skillful men, who sat in congressional hulls bud guided the affairs of State through perilous times, or who martialed our battling hosts, were furmers’ sons.— Those brave men were trained when young, to wrestle with the difficulties offs hard and rocky soil and to conquer thug first ; to go boldly out into the dark old fovests and encounter the Bear in the chase and come off victorious ; to lock the panther in the eye and make his quail before a sterner look _; to encode. ter every trial of adverse lot mu pioneer's home ; to bear up under every burden with a. heart that could brave anything that the stern stuff of a hero could bnve, and become a hero in doing it ; so that when these same farmer’s sons becuru. a men, they were men ; men, who neither ariher’s sous ever left that 9 arm, for the stormy strife r“ ed and jostling city, wt, “out of twenty-five mix? i and die poor men new... could not would let ggfgot‘ltheir grasp, ”A all: "'70 to- , 1' M and fire/£3396 «909» 101$? flirt. we“ 0’ E "I ‘ last from the old farm, expecting to ll" hF-s. , F'gy v, '- 4 s. r 5-5.“ “Nb-aha
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