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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-08
National Agricultural Convention.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
WASHINGTON, June 25, 1852.

WASHINGTON, June %, 1897.
The convention for the formation
of a National Agricultural Society
completed its business to-day at | o.
clock, after a very laborious session
Ii was composed of some l30 or lac
delegates, from all sections of the
country. They were generally prac-
tical farmers, although it was occa-
sionalIy intimated in the debate that
some Of them were farmers of"three
acres with large houses" The spe-
cific object was to establish a Ma
tional Society, to be incorporated BY
Congress. A plan for the Society
was yesterday agreed on with form
Of Constitution, admitting anybody
to become a member. by subscribing
the constitution and paying two dol
lars into the treasury, and paying
two dollars per annum as long as
they choose to continue in the socie-
ty. It's sessions are to be held annu-
ally, in the city OF Washington, in
February. The Constitution was
adopted yesterday, and the society
was formed, and the Hon. Marshall
p. Wilder, Of Massachusetts, an ex-
President OF the Senate Of that State,
was chosen President Of the Society
for the ensuing year. Many gentle.
men, members Of Congress, delegates
TO the two National Presidential
Conventions, and others who hap
pened TO be present, On general in
vi;ation from the Chair, came for
ward. signed the Constitution, and
paid two dollars each, and thus be-
came members OF the Society.
After forming the Society yester-
day, the Convention took a recess till
after dinner. AT the evening ses-
sion a resolution was proposed for
peiitioning Congress TO establish an
Agricultural Bureau, either in con-
nection with one of the Executive
Departments, or as an adjunct to the
Institute. Judge Doug
las. a delegate from Illinois, moved
an amendment, asking Congress to
establish a separate Department on
This led to a very
sharp and animated debate, in which
Judge Douglas, Professor Henry, Lii
braIian of the Smithsonian Institute,
Ex-Governor Steele, Of New Hamp |
shire, Mr.. King, ex-menaber Of Con-
press from New YORK, and several
others took part. The debate took |
wide range, embracing tariffs, the
public lands, homesteads, revenue, |
steam navigation, reciprocal inter-
course with Canada, internal i'm
and finally politics.
Fhe moment they touched on poll
les, it seemed as though a firebrand
lad Unexpectedly been cast into the
lrena. The debate waxed warm,
md warmer, and was kept up till half
,ast eleven o'clock last night, when
hey adjourned to this morning, at
line o'clock, without taking the ques-
ion.
To-day the contest was renewed
With great animation. The intro
Iuciion Of politics seemed to drive
IF some Of the original favorers of
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-07-08
THE SCOTCH MOTHERS BLESSING.

For | must now away,
To meet my bonny Agnes, mither,
Upon her bridal day.
I've loved her long and weel, mither,
And thou my love hast known;
Then lay thy hand upon me, mither,
And bless thy kneeIing son."
"Ahl Willie. how my heart o'erAows,
When thus hear thee speak;
My tears are glistening on thy hair,
And dropping on thy cheek.
And. oh! how memory calls up now
The days of auId lang syne,
When | winsome bride first call'd
Thy sainted father, mine.
aye look sac like him, Willie, dear,
Ye look sac like him now,
Ye hae the same dark, tender cen
The same broad, noble brow.
And sic smile was on his face,
When he that morning came
To bring AVA as ye muun do,
A lassie to his hame.
"Puir child, her heart is beating now,
As it ne'er beat before;
Puir child, | ken her hazel cen
VII tears are runnin' Ger.
She loves thee, Willie, but she feels
To wed's solemn thing
weel remember how | felt.
When looking on the ring.
"I weel remember, too, the hour
When VII heavy sigh,
| turn'd, wife sac young and sad,
To bid them a goodbye.
The tears were gushing then, | know,
For | luved my kindred weel,
And though my ain was by my side,
could ma help but feel.
"But then how kind he took my hand,
And gently WHISPERED 'Comel
The same soft star shines DER my cot,
That shines above thy home,'
And, Willie, often since he's dead,
I've watched that distant star,
And thought ] saw his gentle face
Smile in it from afar.
s'We luved ilk ither weel, Willie,
We loved ilk ither long:
All, mel how happy was the heart
That trilled the even sangl
We luved ilk ither, Willie, right;
And may God grant it so,
That ye maun luve as we twa luved,
In days lang, lang ego.
ssOhl fondIy cherish her, Willie,
She is sac young and fair;
She has not known single cloud,
Or felt single care.
Then if q cauld worlds storm should
come
Thy way to overcast,
OH ever stand Thou art a man,
Between her and the blast.
"When first knew a mither's pride,
Twas when I gazed on thee;
And when my ither flowers died,
Thy smile was Left to me.
And lean scarce believe it true,
So late thy life began,
The playful BARN | fondIed then,
Stands by me now a man.
"Then tellthy bonny bride. Willie,
She has my frst-born son;
taxi the darling from my arms,
And gle him TO her own!
OH she will cherish thee. Willie,
For when maun depart,
Che, only she. will then be left
To fill thy lonely heartl
81 dinna fear to die, Willie
everwish to gang;
The soft, green mould in yon kirk-yard, =,
Has lonely been too lang.
2 And would lay me there, Willie,
And a. deaths terrors brave,
Beside the heart sac leal and true,
If 'tis within the grave.
"Then gang AVA, my blessed BARN,
And bring thy gentle dove;
And dinna frown if a. should grieve
To part wi her they love;
But if tear fills up her e'e,
Then whisper as they pari,
There's room for thee at mither's
hearth
There's room in mither's heart
Sand may the God that reigns above,
An sees ye a. the while,
Look down upon Your plighted troth,
And bless We VII his smile.
And may'st thou ne'er forget, Willie,
In a. thy future life,
To serve the power that gave to thee
Thy kind and guileless wife,
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AT the expiration OF the year, OO
No discontinuanee until all arrearages are
settled; and failure to notify the publisher Of
discoutinuanee will be considered as new
engagement.
Amy person getting up Club of TEN to
enc address, will receive copy gratis. The
CASH, in such case, must invariably accompany
the names.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

work. The first stages of the session always are
performed in slow time, but the pace acceerates,
and gets to be killing before the termination of the
performance and on IBIS occasion there will be
the devil 20 play before adjournment.
Both chambers now are like magazines filled
with combustibles. The least carelessness, or the
awkward dropping of spark would blow the
existing organizations sky high !; and there are
plenty of persons in both bodies ready and willing
to strike the spark when opportunity presents, or
interest may dictate. This is revolutionary era,
and revolutions Especially of opinions, never go
backwards. The Freesoers, thus far have been
perfectly quiet, leaving Mr.. Foote to agitate for
them. Now that he has left, it is probable that
some of them will pick up the apple Of dlscord
and play the same part under different pretezt.
With the consummate cunning that marks all their
proceedings, the New York branch of their con-
Germ have continued to monopolze Kossuth. If
they make much out of the Hungarian We have
mistaken the man--that's all, He will be here on
Monday week, and will make mischief the wise
ones think How, nobody yet has been sage
enough to point out. He will, most likely, make
speeches, and possibly deliver himself of one on
the floor of the House but surely our Institutions
not yet so rcketty as to be shaken to pieces
by the breath of stranger Ifso, the danger is
more imminent, and the necessity OF an immediate
change III those institutions more pressing, than
most people suppose. President Fillmore will
have his perplexities in the matter. He will be
equally afraid to be too too cold but it is
hazarding little to predict that whatever role he
takes, the Magyar will checkmate him. There
can be comparison instituted between the cali
bre of the Ex- Governor of Hungary and the Pres
ldent of these United States. The one is man of
genius, the other mere of routine, ICON
tent to dwell in decences forever" Still the one
has been successful, the other not SO, and with
vulgar minds, the mere fact of success, without
reference to other circumstances, goes great
way King Log quietly floating over the surface
of his gray Kingdom will often command more ad-
mirers than restless King Stork, stirring up the
muddy waters, and keeping its tenants wide
awake, at the risk of annihiIation kossuth is a
complete King Stork, and ''all is fish that comes
to his net,' whether in the shape of sympa
thizing speeches. other individuals of similar
metallic uSlre. Every speech made by this mis-
sionary otntervention more clearly developes his
views and policy. But he greatly errs if he mis-
takes the plaudiss OF The New York diners-out for
he voice OF he American people. If his recep-
ZION that city, and the asininc brayings at him
oU he part ut she noisy few here, have stirred his
blood un go fever Heas lie stands fair chance OF a
.a.. OR coming, ou1 OF hat unwholesome atmos-
..,re. Aamlrjn5 the Orator and his zeal for his
country. highly possible, ,here yet is no good
y.a-o0 @As .ea..e should make supreme asses of
themselves la ,,@,tyr- hat admiration
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

LORD THURLow.-Charles Butler, in his Remi-
niscences, thus mentions speech of Lord Thur
lows in reply to attack of the Duke of Grafton
during inquiry into Lord SANDWICHES administers
ton of Greenwich Hospital:
'' His grace's action and delivery, when he ad
dressed the house were singulary dignifed and
graceful but his matter was not equal to his
manner. He reproached Lord Thurlow with his
plebeian extraction, and his recent admission into
the peerage. Particular circumstances caused
Lord Thurlow's reply to make deep impression
on the reminiscent. His lordship had spoken too
often and began to be heard with civil but visi
BILE impatience. Under these circumstances he
was attacked in the manner We have mentioned
He rose from the woolsack, and advanced slowly
to the place from which the chancellor generally
addressed the house then fixing on the duke the
look OF Jove, when he has grssped the thunder,
:" / am amazed" he said, in a level tone of voice
&c at the attack the noble duke has made upon me
Yes, my lords, considerably raising his voice,
:" | am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble
duke cannot look before him, behind him. or on
either side of him, without seeing some noble
peer, who owes his seat in this house to his sue
cessiul exertions in this profession to which be-
long. Does he not feel that it is as honorable to
owe it to these, to being the accident of an ac-
cident To all these noble lords the language of
the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as
it is to myself. But do not fear to meet it single
and alone. No one venerates the peerage more
than I do; but my lords, l must say the peerage
solicited me, not the peerage. Nay, more; l
can say and will say, that as peer of parliament,
as speaker of this right honorable house, as keep
er of the great seal guardian of his majesty
conscience; as lord high chancellor of England
nay even in that character alone in which the no.
BILE duke would think it an afront to be consider
ed but which character none can deny me as
a man. am at this moment as respectable; | beg
leave to add, | am at this moment as much re-
spected, as the proudest peer l now look down
upon " The effect of this speech, both within
the walls of Parliament and out of them, was
prodigious. 1t gave Lord Thurlow an ascendancy
in the house which no chancellor had ever posses
sed, and it invested him in public opinion, with a
character of independence and honor; and this,
although he was ever upon the unpopular side Of
politics, made him always popular with the peo-
ple."
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

MExrco.-A Washington letter in the n. York
Journal of Commerce says:
The situation of Mexico, and our relations TO
thatcountry and government, now afford subject
of much concern and interest Recent letters
have been received from Mexico by this Govern
ment, exhibiting melancholy picture of the con-
dtion of things in that country The government
is abandoned to faction and corruption, and must
fall into utter ruin. President Arista declares
unreservedly that the country must fall into
condition of hopeless anarchy, unless the United
States should interpose to prop it up--that is,
send people into it who viii redeem and re organ
Ze it's institutions.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

SOMETHING New IN THE MILKY-W NJ. = Ths
Home Journal says
A few cakes of the newly invented soi}d:fe3
milk have found their way to this country. The
article resembles in color, consistency, weight.
and feel, cakes of pale yellow soap. One pound
grated into boiling water, will make several gall
Ions of very good milk. 1t is warranted to keep
any number of years. Prce, in England, one
dollar per pound 1t is not yet, we believe, for
sale here A friend, however, whom curiosity
led to import small quantity, has tried it. and
assures us that it is all that it claims to be''a
real blessing to mothers and Mariners
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

a FEELING JUDGE.--An individual having been
convicted of a capital crime upon slight evidence,
the Judge proceeded to pass judgment:
Prisoner at the Bar! You have been found
guilty by jury of your own countrymen of
crime, which subjects you to the penalty of DEATH
You say you are innocent: the truth of that as
sertion is only known to yourself and God. 1t
is my duty to leave you for execution. If guilty
YOU richly deserve the fate that awaits You il
innocent it will be qualification to feel that you
are hanged without such crime ON your con.
science. But in either you wN be delirered
from q ro,fd Of cdrei''
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

Ar. Clemens, in the United States Senate. on
the Kossuth resolutions, made the following truth
full remarks:
Sir, | am afraid that we are sometimes inclin-
ed to overlook the merits of our own kindred, and
unduiy exalt those who have less claim upon our
sympathies. We can intercede with Turkey for
the Hungarian, with France for the Arab, with
England for the Irishinan but not word is spo-
ken here of the fifty sons of America who were
murdered in Cuba. We hear nothing Of national
vessels sent to the coast of Africa to- redeem from
bondage own citizens, banshed to this mhos-
pitable shore for no sin but that of loving liberty
well enough to fight for it in another land than
our own. ="
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Mr.. Sanders. says Florence eprrssrcodent Of
the National Intelisenccr. young artist fren
Mississippi. is making some gecd Sketches frer
life chiefly portraits of the aower giils Of Fer.
ence He leaves for Rome in a few weeks. a.
which place his brother. also an artist Of grea.
merit, is United States Consul
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

There is great deal of quiet satire in the fol-
lowing, which we copy from the Hartford Courant:
One evening last week an old man drove his
horse upon pile of sleepers that lying in
the street, designed for new building. The wa
gon was turned bottom up the pile and the man
split out, while the old horse stood still as if en-
joying the fun. The man picked himself up, rub
bed his side, and commenced embarrassing his
horse. When that was done he quietly turned
round to a by-stander and inquired, II Il voVla be
considered nuisopce 70 Ecure tie Wogon there all
niQht. "
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

TRA1ToRs-Mr Mason of Va, has been put
at the head of the Committee of Foreign Affairs.
and Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, at the head
of the Judiciary Committee. In the House, Mr.
Burt, of s. c., Chairman of the Committee on
Military Affairs.
All three of these eminent men, who enjoy SO
highly the confidence of the American Congress,
were recently denounced by the whig press as
traitors, because they doubted the efficacy of the
Compromise.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

SPECIAL PRovIDENcEs. - A dozen clergymen
have appeared in the Louisville papers. giving an
account of the railroad cars running over some
cows, a steep embankment, by which the
cars were thrown off the track and the eodly gen
tlemen terribly frightened. III ey say the accident
occurred from gross negligence, and conclude that
it was Especial ProEidence that the cars
were not precipitated over the embankment.
The Hon. James Guthrie, the President of the
road, answers their card-denies the charge of
negligence--and submits to the twelve reverend
gentlemen, that Special Providence " would
most likely have keptthe cows of' the track.
NdSkviRe american.
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and Observation-Disclosures in Its home contests, feeble
in its outside ones. such will continue to be the
case II avaed GulIiver but little that his foes
siugjy were confempGble, SO long as the thousand
Hgtla threads with which he was ted one to each
separate hair, held him down iii his painfully rdc-
ulous position. The South is Gulliver When
viii she sweep the threads?
But to recur to things here the Compromise
controversy re-opened by ''the little Paeiicator''
toote, still goes on, and the Goals get hotter the
more the windy little man blows the bellows of his
lungs. How many speeches he has made in the
course of the week, including interruptions and
personal explanations, would be hard to reckon up
But he has been most completely ''squashed' by
your two Senators first one and then the other
picking him up with pair OF tongs, and exhibit
ing the bat-ike flights of this most fighty politi
clan. 1t is universally conceded that both Mr.
Butler and Mr. Rhett have wOrsted him in every
collision that has taken place between them and
after skukng off from the fra of the former, he
met equally severe punishment under the lash of
the other. Both of your Senators have acquitted
themselves most admirably in the trying position
which they have been placed The defamers of
South Carolina cannot say that her race of orators
and statesmen are extinct while she can show two
such able and ready champions on the floor of the
Senate.
The debate is not closed Foote was indulging
in a TRADE of the usual kind to day, in which he
swore by Gen. Jackson Proclamation, and abus-
ed Mr.. Rhett, and tomorrow your Senator will
respond to him, having obtained the floor for that
purpose. After that rejoinder, Mr.. Foote will
probably try to press it to vote, in which he will
not succeed, as Sam Houston intends making a
speech, abusive of South Carolina of course, and
various others also wish to listen to the sound of
their voices.
Foote had hoped to carry home the vote as cap
ital, but will be disappointed Whether it finally
will be laid on the table, or passed, is an open
question The chances either way vary from day
to day. Let that test be adopted and the incom-
patible substances composing the existing parties
will resolve themselves into their original Gle
ments very quick If it is laid on the table, it will
manifestly be a shirking of the subject, and the
bone will be thrown into the National Convention.
The Kossuth fever in New Y ork. and the march
OF agrarlan progress there connected with 1t,
you doubtless have remarked. koo>uth will be
here next week-but everybody keep cool about
IT. They accustomed here o lions OF al
kinds, and in the habit OF seeing The animals
at feeding lime. He will manage 70 NAH, a >ena-
uoI when he arrives never hcIc--, probably by
speech he floor OF he S,na.t.
No business OF much cunSeq Ucuc, viii os a.4a
III either House, un il after h, CiI~ n m h, 3av.
Many OF Jhe members ha,, -un. Lum. se LEI
how r5gnog and diyeSs .hci Grra.E IL -a.ea.
Hl- h prrjr- %. .he .eE Year "Opens .n earnest
-a- rs-,. cs"Yaasu
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

ANOTHER GEsERAL GoNE--We learn from the
New Orleans Delta, that General Belknap recent
" died on the Brazos in Texas. This is the tenth
General who has died since the Mexican war
Gen. Belknap was in the principal battles, under
General Taylor. in the Mexican war. At the bat
tie of Buena Vista he was Adiutant General and
commanded the advance.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

AtABAMA--The Mobile Adsertter SAYS that
the Senate of Alabama has passed the joint rcso-
luton declaring that Alabama will not support
any candidate for the Presidency or Vice Pre<-
dehcy, nominated by either party in National
Convention unless the Convention making the
nomination shall endorse and sustain the fugitive
slave law
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

'Do you believe what the Bible says about the
prodigal son and the fatted calf
'' Certainly | do. y
Well, can YOU tell me whether the calf that
was killed was male female calf +"
a. 1t was female>eaf "
q How do you know that
Because Cooking the chap in the face) SEQ
the male alive now. =
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

Gratten one day came to his son and pushed
him until he awoke: '.Come." said he. "get
up Recolect it is the early bird that catches the
worm.'
s.Serves the worm right" said the witty slar
herer, 'ffor being abroad SO early"
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

be either alloyed or counteracted by any of the
wild and disorganzing heresies of the day. He
then closed by taking affeetionate farewell of
the large audience assembled to hear him.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

The YOUNG LovERs-To a man who is little of a
philosopher, and bachelor to boot, and who by
the dint of some experience in the foles of life,
begins to look with learned ere upon the ways
of men and exc of women-to such man, say
there is something in noticing the conduct of a
pair of young lovers. 1t may not be as grave and
scientific study lovers of the plants, but it is
certainly interesting. l have therefore derived
much pleasure, since my arrival at the hail. from
observing the fair Julia and her lover. She has
all the delightful, blushing consciousness of an
artess girl, inexperienced in coquetry, who has
made her first conquest while the captain regards
her with the mixture of fondness and exultation
with which youthful lover is apt to contemplate
so beauteous prize. | observed them yesterday
in the garden, advancing along of the retired
walks. The sun shining with delicious
warmth, making great masses of bright verdure
and blue shades The cookoo, that harbinger of
spring, was family heard from distance; the
thrush piped from the hawthorn, and the yellow
butterfly sported and toyed and futtered in the
air. The fair Julia was leaning on her lovers
arm, listening to his conversation, with her eyes
cast down, soft blush upon her cheek, and a
quiet smile upon her lips, while in her hand that
hung neggently by her side, was bunch O.
flowers. In this way they we're sauntering slowly
along, when | considered them, and the scene II
which they were moving. | could not but thinl
it thousand pities that the season should evel
grow older, or that blossoms should ever give way
to fruit, or that lovers should get married - Wash
iz0ton Lyia1
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Mn. Fox.-The celebrated orator. one day
told by lady whom he visited, that she :" did
not care three skips Of louse for him. " He i'm
medately took out his pencil and wrote the follow
innr HnnS
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

forgive the dear creature for what she has
said,
Since women will talk of what runs IN Mtir
head -
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CA lady has told ME. and in her own house,
That she not for me three skps Of