Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-12-24
70 the Editor of the Port Tobacco Times:

10 the Editor Of the Port Tobacco Times:
Believing that the following editorial,
from the Washington Union, to be bu, mere
justice to the gentleman named in it, and
that it is proper that the example of our
fellow citizen, Col. Hughes, needs only to
be known to be appreciated by others,
respectfully reques. its publication. For
we think that the bes, use lhs. a soldier can
be pa. to in time of peace. is that Of cult
va,ing the soil !; and tha. he but fulfIs The
ends Of the Military Academy at Yves. Point,
who devotes himself to bis country's SER
vice in time of war, and in peace TO the bene-
1T Of his fellow citizens, by applying to ag-
ricuItnre and the useful arts whatever fund
Of science he may have acquired during his
military education.
Col. HUGHEs was engaged in the service
Of the State of Msrylan for several years,
as an Engineer under The orders of Gen
Jackson, to whom an application for an En-
eioeer had been made by the Governor Of
Maryland, under The authority Of join, re-
solution Of the Legislature. Col. H. made
the first survey which developed the nine
raj resources Of Allegsny county, and has
been mos. closely identified with every
movement. in Maryland, looking to its vast
resources, whether agricultural or CONNER
cisI, and has invested all his means in a
farm, stock, &C., in Anne Arundel county
We hope .ba. his example may be followed
by others. CHARLES.
MARYLAND EXHIBITION-Co1. HUGHES.
We have before US the proceedings of the
meeting Of the Maryland Agricultural So.
cieiv, which was held at Eas,on, in TaIbo,
county, during rI,e third week Of November
We learn that the meeting was well attend
ed, and thai the Eastern Shore farmers mani
Tested their interes, in agricultural improve
ment by The number of superior implements
and the excellent stock exhibited.
Col. Hughes, late Of the army,) who won
SO much distinction in time Of war, is now
seaPing in the fields of peace. He is now
Q Maryland farmer; and he delivered, al
short notice, a most capital agricultural ad-
dress before tire farmers Of Talbot counly.
The wasrier has beaten his sword into a
pruning hook, no, without effect. The &C.
compllshed engineer will teach his neigh bors
how to throw up embankmen,s, and where
to drec. their dilches. The man who &C.
companied Wool in his ex,raol binary march,
who first saw the capabilities Angos,ura
and surveyed the Is.hmus, will not fail to
give vsluable information to bis neighboring
farmers.
Col Hughes, when the war was finished,
took of his epaulets and surrendered his
commission, preferring the life of Mary
land Farmer I'LL such time as his country
may need his services. When the country
calls on her sons, then Colonel Hughes will,
If his life be spared then, be among the first
10 rally around The stars and stripes, no
snatIer whether he bears q sword or carries
Q muskel-fol he is true son Of his coun-
try.
The Marlboro Gazeiie, in speaking of
Col Hughes address, holds the following
language:
1.-THE address of COL Hughes was listened to by
one hour 1t occupied, with the utmost degree of
interest. He spoke with huency and rapidly, of
the beneficial influences of agricultural associa-
tcns the social relations cultivated through their
agency, as well as of the value Of an interchange
OF sentiments and experience among those cult
waiting similar qualities of the SOIL He spoke of
the physical qualities of their soils-of the rela-
tions of practical farming-of chemical principles
IN their application to agriculture-Of subsoiling-
the use of the wheat driIl-of guano, &c. He
spoke of the wealth of waters we possessed in
our noble Chesapeake-that its value to the people
OF Maryland as high,oay, in comparison with
some of our great works of internal Improvement
was more than hundred millions of dollars-that
dts numerous rivers, creeks, and inlets furnished
a navigable canal to the farm of almost every
planter living near its shores-that, independent
of the value of the foreign commerce it secured to
u.s. if we could drain the Chesapeake of its waters,
and substitute cultivated farms in their stead, it
would be difficult to make comparison between
the value of the annual product of those farms and
the enormous aggregate value of the oysters, the
fish, the wild birds, Sc, &c., which are annually
taken from the waters of the bay. All the bene-
fits of the Chesapeake which he had enumerated
were enjoyed principally by the people of the East
ern Shore. Col. Hughes closed his address with
beautiful apostrophe to the Union of the States,
which was enthusiastically cheered
"Colonel Samuel Hambeton, in offering a re-
solution of special thanks to Colonel Hughes, re-
ferred particularly to the unexpected circumstan-
ces under which Colonel Hughes had overcome his
reluctance to appear in order to crafty the socie
ties, and hoped that copy of his entertaining,
Instructive and eloquent address might be obtain
ed for publication. Having just previously read
the published address of Col. Hughes, delivered at
the recent Fair of Prince Georges county, it is
but justice to him to say that the matter of his
present discourse entirely new, as it must have
been unprepared.''
EXECUTION OF PRIEST IN AUSTRIA
The Milan Gazette Of the S.h ul.. contains
the following sentence:
"Giovanni Grioli, priest a. the parish
church nf Casera, was convicted on the 9Th
Of October, Of having by means of money
and persuasion, attempted TO induce several
Austrian soldiers to desert; he possessed,
further, Is copies Of revolutionary writing.