The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-04

BERKSHIRE COUNTY, August 8, 1858.
TIE Extreme Counties of Massachusetts -Berkshue
and Earnstable- Origin of Berkshre-Ns Io,cas
--Popuiation-P ropeyfy--Voination at rarious
times, and Encreaee- Eminent PerSons--Agricut
ture-Corn, Gets, Hay, Butter, Cheese, Maple
Sugar, Honey, &c, Sc.-JeGerSon's Mammoth
Cheese Cattle, 8.c,-Land-tI Manu- acturcs-Cot
ton and Woolien Factor,es-Paper MWs-Eoua.
dyics--Cordage- -Linc-L'on Ore.Slate
--Miscdlaneous A,ticicS--llodes of Property,
&c, &c.
When Massachusetts politician wishes to make
very comprehensive appeal to the people, he takes
them in (lteray So sometimes,) "from the sands of
Cape Cod to the hills Of Berkshire This has be.
come sort of antthesis in politics, and is almost as
hackned were the words "foregone conclusion in
the late (and Slow Constitutional Convention. The
two counties far enough apart, and sufficiently
unlike to warrant their being placed in opposition to
one another. Berkshire is far away inland; Barn
stable stretches far out to Berkshire shoots up
into grand mountains; Banstable sinks into the fiat
ness Of Sahara. Berkshire has rocks: Barnstabe is
not to be beaten in sand. Berkshire draws not lit
tie of her wealth from the bosom of the earth; Barn
stable is even more indebted to the bosom of the
ocean. The Berkshire man, who cherishes that pc
culiary strong attachment to his home tina. belongs
to the natives of mountainous countries wonders
that any one can exist on so dreary spot as the
Cape; at which the Cape man laughs, and tells him
that he has often seen mountains compared with
which even Taghaonic and Greylock sink to the d.!
mansions of molehils-the Andes, from the deck of
his ship, when sailing on the Pacific, or Mont Blanc
OF, perhaps the Hmmalayas, for there is no saying
where your Barnstable man has not been. In
Barnstable everything is salt to the nostrs and
misty to the eyes; in Berkshire, the air is fresh
youth, and the msts that lie on the mountains only
render them the more magnificent In the one county
the grandeur of to day is the it was yester
day and as it will be through countless to morrows;
for are not the hills eternaK In the other the great
ness of nature is various; for though the first Of
poets has told US, the ocean is nov what creations
morn beheld it, We know that its moods and its
manifestations are various. In what is understood
by beauty, Berkshire must be admitted, by even the
most sanguine of the admirers of Barnstable to have
the same superiority that the Vale Of Cachemere has
over the beach of Madras. To beauty Barnstable
has small claims. Here and there is to be found
beautiful spot all the attractive from the drear
mess Of the adjacent country, veritabe diamonds Of
the desert. In Berkshire there is hardly square
too-as the Garden of Eden, should the good times
return, and Adam and all his race he gathered to-
gethcr in Paradise Regaincd.' There is every
thing that man can wish Of natural scenery in
Berkshire, beside its mountains, while Barnsta-
bic has little beside the sea. Then the for
mer county has rivers-the Housatonic and the
Green river, not to speak Ct minor stream. that
flow by in crystals" that have been hymned
by great poets, who have also placed her woods and
fields, mountains and wales, in immortal verse;
while the Capc's glories have rarely been sung, and
must depend for justice upon dealers in prose The
contrast between these counties extends to their
politics. In Berkshire the wings are seldom in the
majority and some Of her towns are noted 'demo.
cratic stronghold as the papers say. In Barnsta
BILE tue democrats never have majority and there
are butcy OF the Cape towns where the wings 90 not
triumph now % OF old. Even Tho free soil storm
produced but ittc effect on Barnstsblc She re