lay did slowly slowly move the tender strain s heart each sigh each smiling tear she flies to love could not part but follows to her mistress dear lo heaven taught her eyes m and mid the blue skies her soul forever worlds revolving in their to their why not rush lawless through the space of heaven and fly in mystic race � attraction doth that fury and each in its respective circle runs all glorious works of heaven the d maid exclaim d and long farewell she bade the hung the the heavenly sound has d the muse no more has sung a art vl history progress and existing of the agricultural society in with practical directions for societies forming in north on the model hy first president of said society c vo an address delivered before the philadelphia society for at its meetings january by william l l d chief justice of the state of and one of the vice of the society the first of the two the names of which art at the head of this article is the production if we are rightly informed of a gentleman who himself to the promotion of agricultural knowledge and agricultural taste it is a most amiable sort of enthusiasm which a man to labour for the improvement of his fellow men and a kind of patriotism though and of extended fame or political honours yet most because of its and admirable for its that is iu the m societies dignity and rustic in the � ye of the american people that our as a science is capable of vast improvements there can be no doubt nor can it reasonably be questioned that the prodigious success of our commercial for a series of years previous to the in europe had die very ancient and honourable occupation of the earth lower in the scale of dignity and general estimation than its usefulness with and virtue deserved every sincere and well directed effort to render an honoured and a favourite pursuit should therefore be received with kindness and mr it seems was mainly in establishing the society from which great benefits have been derived by that part of the country and afterwards assisted in the organization of those in and new york he attributes great effects to the public distribution of and giving to agricultural by means of music and even all that sort of which usually political and he relates some striking examples within his own experience of the happy effects flowing from the presence and encouragement of the fairer and part of the community at the in honour of and domestic is still much behind many of her sister states in efforts to encourage and promote agricultural kill a bill now before her and which will probably have becomes law before this number of our journal is published is calculated to do much towards calling the attention of the people to the of great improvements and towards exciting a most spirit of but die has no society at present established that exercises � ny veiy active in of societies ha this assertion is made without any disposition or intention to from the highly respectable association before whom the address mentioned at the head of this article was delivered but respectable as that society unquestionably is in the individual worth of its members proofs are yet wanting of any at benefits heretofore derived by the from its exertions the introduction of sum as a into general use for which we are indebted mainly to the example and of the very gentleman that over that institution is indeed a most valuable improvement and our lasting obligations for it are due to that public spirited the volumes too of transactions it is granted contain k collection of tracts presenting the results of numerous experiments and descriptions of various newly invented instruments of but a publication after two or three years have elapsed of a ponderous made up of the papers collected during all that period theories that meanwhile have become describing machinery grown out of use or no longer novel to any one and announcing new inventions that at the time of publication have seen two or more pass is a very plan of the knowledge that the society labours to collect the book is necessarily too expensive for general circulation and the information too stale to be very valuable no are bestowed or as as we know offered to exertion or do honour to successful experiment there is however an agricultural published under the direction of the so which is calculated to be very useful because it contains a good deal of practical information in a small compass and form we know not whether the societies in other states adopt a plan certainly it is much to be commended and may be with good effect nothing is so sure to be read as an every master of a family possesses one and has frequent occasion vol i s v to consult it any information therefore to the mere is certain to find its way to his understanding as very able learned and judicious of an the philadelphia society are to unlimited praise but much more is expected of them and little of it performed in thus expressing with perfect frankness the sentiments we have adopted from the collection of many opinions in relation to an association that a large share the respectability and distinction of individual character in this city it is obvious that we tread but any error or when pointed out shall be as frankly acknowledged and if the sins of that we charge upon the society were ten fold more extensive we should be quite willing to forgive them while we are by listening to such an as that above referred to and from a personage so dis as chief justice art viii � miscellaneous articles a work robe of kings and ma either totally disappeared or from 