Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-07-29

wards The Orwell, and an extensive sort Of |
bush pasture between the woods and the road
ON my lett. The general surface OF this bush
pasture was smooth. sbort-nibbled grass;
"ithev aud anon elump or Island OF the
Prick'y iurze, which seemed almost impene
uable to man or beast. rhrse were covers
Tor hsrcs, as ! Afterwards found. aud planted
with care for that purpose Indeed hares
might b. seen scudding about. and hopping in
aud out of these thickets. Perociving a tine
old Gothic tower n-iug above the woods on
the hill, II seemed to me there might be q
church there. the yard of which il always an
object free and open 10 curiosity. I there
tore ovvrlesped the ience light board one
and there was gate, live barred gate" o.
pen little farther shead--and made my way
across the plain At the foot OF the hill and
mkt to the woods. was another higher board
fence, separating the wooded hill from the
plain. On his fence were nailed up all man
ner Of csrcases. owls. hawks, foxes, vessels,
rats. &c., &c. seeming the air far and wide.
by winding pathway ascending the hill.
on which the supposed Gothic church stood.
aud found myself face to face with an impu-
dent looking son of a gun, who wanted TO
know II knew that was where had no
right TO be. Certainly not, | replied, I had
seen gate wide open and supposed il was
proper Tor me to cross the field to examine
whit took To be a church. II I have tres
passed on private rights might be excused
on consideration that I came from America.
and was stranger 10 the manners aud ems.
toms OF England. From America, indeed,
said he. o. I mis,ook you Tor one of those
fellows who go prowling about 10 get hold OF
game. | beg your pardon. Go where you
like. | very soon discovered that the fine
Gothic tower, which had mistaken for n
church, was nothing bu; this game keepers
lodge. IL was tower To be sure of some five
aud twenty feet high, but occupied by the
rather numerous and not over tidy family of
the game keeper. All around il, in admira-
bic confusion, lay hcncoops, dog houses, aud
an endless variety of trumpery. passed on
very smicably with the gamekeeper and his
dogs, upon their rounds TO see forty and fifty
hens that had hatched the eggs OF phcasants
and patndges, and were now nursing the lit
tie chicks, TO be shot by the nobleman when
large enough.
These hens were confined in little cages
OF some distance apart, and the chickens were
rambling about III the woods, coming home
To their step mothers when they needed com
fort. When the chickens are large enough TO
do without the hen they do not come back,
but ramble quite away and become denizsns
OF the woods. In other words they are artif- |
clal game. The highest entertainment the |
noble proprietor can offer to his numerous
friends rs TO invite them down TO shoot these |
comparatively wild patridges aud pheasants. |
So sweet is savage life. that the highest aspi.
ration oil wealth and civilization is to get back |
into IT, or the nearest imitation of il which |
money can make. A quarter of a mile further |
Oh we came 10 a rich level plain the table |
land OF the hill having the mansion or castle |
OF Sir w. F. +. Middleton on the right and |
far awsy 10 boundary OF woods
on the left. Here. quite removed from vulgar
sight, browse the nobeman's deer in peace
and quietness, except when slaughtered for
sport by the nobleman himself or his particu-
lar friends. or Sir Middleton saw and knew
1oihlng, except that he is descended from
DRY family, which left Charleston, South Car
lima, at the breaking out of our revolution.
nd received some tokens of royal favor for
its allegiance.
Passing at some distance by the palace.
egained the road by the main gateway. There
park within park. The inner one con-
aims the deer, pheasauts. pstridg $, &c. At
he gate oil this you find lodge built after the
imilitude OF log house, which strongly re- |
minded me OF the times OF Tippecanoe and
Tyler too. Great pains had been taken to
notch down aud saddle the logs a, the corners
n true log house STYLE. but otherwise il did
lot resemble strongly the yeriiable log cabin.
i " as tenantcd by supeTanuated retainer of
he Baronei, whose sriuous duty il was To
hu, aud open formal gate. The outer park,
u much greater exteuI is tensnied chiefly by
ares, which make little rinous ioraging par
les over into the wheat and clover fields Of
he surrounding farmers. should Judge the
Whole park might contain two or three thous.
nd acres. At the main entrance was grand
ate and ornamental lodge two stories high {
i superb style ot architecture. The little
overty stricken cottages of the men who ac-
nslly plough England's burrows and reap
snglsnds harves,s, are kept quite out OF si;,ht
I this shrub-land Park. Sir William Mid
Teton may be very excellent, noble gentle a
aught know, he may be first cous- ]
n TO our Jolm G. Calhoun. am sure the sys- I
em of labor he lives on must be as near as ]
rst cousin TO that Of Mr. Calhoun, notwith- Q
landing one is part and parcel Of aristocracy.
M the other Is the corner stone Of republi- J
anism and democracy. Boston Chronotype. {