Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-16

From the Home Journal.
The Pig Interest,

The corner Of the Highland Terrace which
fortns our eighborhood--(a cluster of three
rural villages, cut off ty MCodna Creek
and its toll bridge from the city-reach influ-
ences of Newburgh)-is charmingly primi-
tive and rural. With no pine-apples for sale,
no Reorganization by the gentlemen and ladies'
who make twenty four hour excursions from
New-York, no billiard table and no new
paper, It is an eddy of still life, left behind
m uDrippled simplicity by the current of
progress. Delightfully."- unaffected and far
mer-like Ms life hereabouis is, however tce
hdue a class of roiCdies-rowdies with twist
TO their tails-and they override the law ns
efiectuully as the rowdies of New York. and
and by the same sort of tacit admission in
the mind of the public. The pig interest is
too strong 20 be mtddied toiH.
But the way la which the higher-law" is
openly claimed for these rural rowdies in the
very heart of our pretty village of Cunter-
bury for instance, is very curious. Out Of
any ono of those nice white houses along
the stree. will come the most dainty looking
young ladies', fresh from tasty pnrlors, and
mammas that take magazine. The pretty
white fence cncloses little garden, with
fowerbeds edged with box, rose. bushes and
liucs. Door bells, or brass knocker of course.
Inside the gate, all is "genteel." Outside
the gate, however the sireet-on the
sidewalk-right before the front door and
under the parlor windows-stands The fr7niiy
pig trough. The family pigs have the run Of
the village during the Cay, and at night and
morning they come home for their own par
ticnlar swill-eaten, ID the evening, perhaps,
while the piano is playing on the other side
of the pretty white fence. In dry wenther,
when there is no bed of mud in the carriage
track In the centre of the street, the gentle |
man pig stretches himself across the sidewalk |
10 sleep; and, on your way to the post office,
your may walk around n score or more, or
tnke the middle Of the street. You resnnct
pig. You see pig. You smell pig. But
beautiful young ladies' sit in the windows.
just over the fence.
The cottngers in the country around would
be less particular, of course, if there were
a way to be so, than the more genteel vllng-
ers-but the pigtrough outside the gate is
the unvarying feature. And these gentlemen
outlaws know the country, and take long
walks. Leave bar down, or let your visit {
ors from curiosity las happens 10 me every !.
day. forget to shut your gate ms they enter,
and the pigs are oil over. They rooted up,
for me, yesterday, green slope, covered with
luurcls, upon the beauty of which | had
set my heart, cherishing it for S
to picture some artist will paint
for me-nnd it took me and my man nm hour
10 get the unpunishabe defacers out once
more on the highway. They get in at night.
Here and there one climbs Il wall like n
boy, dragging il after him as he goes
over. The religious bearing of this hard
trial" is perhaps the only one that can he
safely dwelt upon. One does not sny his
prayers near Sc easily, | fud, after driving !
out pigs morning and evening, nor begin very
Immediately ngain, to love his neighbor as
himself"
II is against the law-everybody knows l
for pigs to be turned loose on public high
way. And any one of my daily trcspassers.
rould be iaicfluiy driven, by me, five miles to
The nearest "pound VI could then idrtitty
take pains that the sheriff give notice 10 the
owner that his pig was tliere-ia,cfiiiy see
that the poor animal was kept from starving
Tor the several days before he might he taken ,
way-ldlcf,iliy go -four or five miles to attend
lie Justices court, aud appear as prosecutor
-.Gpfiiliy pay my own expenses for this two
DR. three weeks Of trouble, travel and veXation I
and ia,rfiiiy mike an enemy for life of the
Dwner of the trespnssing swine, who would
perhaps have n dollar of fine to pay in con-
sequence of my prosecution of him. All
This il costs to follow up one trcspass 10y one
pig. Pig endurance costs less.
But the village OF Ncwhurg, only four
miles from us, las outlived this stnge of '
progress. Pig vagrancy hns been put down
in its beautiful streets-owing, however, to
he resoluie public spirit Of single indivd- ,
nal. Downing, to whom the country owes
20 much for its advances of refinement
md embellishments, undertook to suppress
pig at Newbnrgh, where he resided. lie
vas told il was Quixolc-that the time
money md trouble il would cost might ruin j
lim-tlint the grounds would be disigured,
lis trees girdIed, and his garden of precious
'lants all torn in pieces by the infurinted S
'eople-thnt the poor had no place TO keep
,igs, aud there was much to be got by a
mart pig on the public highway. His self
interest, and pity for the pig proprietor, were
10Th appealed TO. lie persevered, however,
patiently and !ong-and succeeded.
Now we want such a pig-nposile in Can
public spirited, generous aud
indy man, who will make himself beloved
nd remembered 10y such n crusade of I'M $
popularity against the rowdies nt our gates. G
We wait for him, as New York wnits for her
'ig-nposlles. Let us make ready TO give o
o their advenis welcome. v
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