Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-14

0dear New England who shall dare dispute
Thy we-earned title Of the Land of Fruit,
When on thy hills yon glowing globe
Pumpkin pompon-doctors disagree7
Lo where the vefdant vines luxurant rum
He turns his fair. round belly to the sun
Bathed in those beams he, eomatose and calm,
The bursting Fslsah Of the blooming farm,
Awaits his fate--the inevitable hour
The hand that plucks him from his native bower,
Only excaiming, could we hear his cries
Take me to Bedford, and I'll take the prize 70
yellow orb no hand divireis nigh
To snatch thee up and thee in the sky,
modern star, uncatalogued and new,
10 fright the saints and bother science too
But bide thy time! when chill November falls,
voice shall issue from the State House walls,
And every parson, from his pulpit high,
Proclaim aloud Thank giving Day Ia nigh.
Then, when around the dear domestic board
Affections tide has TREMENDOUSLY poured
when the fond mother-years of absence Ger
Clasps to her heart her wandering son once more;
When love, refusing to be longer pent
Smiles IN the eyes timorous assent;
When laughing childhood, full Of fowl and fun,
Finds to its wonder that it cannot run
IT'S then, 0 premium pumpkin! then shall shine
In splendor new this excellence of thine.
Pie Of my country still upon thy breast
Midsummer sunbeams in November rest;
The magic circle Of thy snowy paste
Delights the eye and Initiates the taste;
While through thy form the steel is ranging bright
Our aqueous mouths are puckerod with delight
And, like faint soldiers who from fight would cease
We cry for quarter and demand piece.
Enough of verse fear, good friends too long
I've Kept you listening strdent song;
Until you thought me anxious to compete
With heavy manufactures" down the street;
yield the platform willingly to those
Who burn to speak-I see them there in rows
Touch you their lips for my task is DONE
And now I'll take my flberts and my fun.
Some complimentary illusions to the Hon. RoBRar G.
WINTHROP ELECTED brief address from that gentlemnr
which is thus described:
Mr.. WINTHROP congratulated Mr.. MILLER upon his
learned and able address He had known him long md
not mill WI wnu rk<xrf
moths either in agriculture the body polite He sn
OF New Bedford "a city Of gardens and warmly M
uded to its kindness, hospitality, and beauty He hn
been accustomed to associate New Bedford with other de-
parments Of ndustry with the pursuit of the gganfir
game of the by her sons who made light Of dangers
from which others shrunk appalled, but he found tA1
she could the pitchfork well the harpoon Mr
Winthrop said that yet witness the great
umphs Of agriculture The cultivation of fruit in Nr
England has just commenced He found il recorded
the first fruit brought from Governors Island on ta
10th of October $685. and in all New England tbsr
there was then neither apple tree pear tree Now
Governors Island Gov Winthrops Island and thpss
pppins were his pippins, and he probably proud
OF them as Jacob Dean of his seventy varieties He plant
ed an orchard and vineyard and the he first paid
the State for the island fifth Of the prodncs.
This was afterwards changed hogshead of wine nx
Mr.. W. was afraid that his was rather unsuc-
cessul in ynegrowing, there nothing said in fhe
record Of the discharge of this obligation and of i
Governors Island wine had down in the family cs-
lars The island has passed into the hands of the Uns
States and there is plenty of grape there for the
invading foe The rent finally changed to two bushr
of apples to be paid to the Governor and one to
Legislature. Now, the tenant himself Governor
most of the tme it is easy to where bushel
and appears by the record that the other paid
the General Court 1t does appear whether these
were eaten in the modern mode in the lobby consgpeA
to old in the vestibule sell for the benef "a
the Treasury.
The Hon. HUGH MAXWELL, Of New York having beHn
called up, submitted few happy remarks contrasting
the agricultural exhibitions in this country with those ava
ed sentry.
The Hon. j. W. MILLER, being called up, said he wHs
pleased to see woman in her beauty presiding he
before them. As regarded the success Of the s
hbition, he confessed in the Of his remarks t
New Jersey had been beaten in every thng-in plope
ing, in vegetables in peaches and even in the dsr.-
ton aud extent Of the drought Of the past summer
The Hon. JOHN H. CLIFFORD spoke particularly Of sae
advantage of agricultural societies in promoting sO
feeling and good neighborhood.
The Hon. JOSIAH QUINcY, Jr. made happy and hz1,-
morous speech
The Hon. THOMAS d. ELIOT said he had intended an
make speech Of coincidence to the Society upon ths
sgnation of its President which would have drawn ss
but the President had not resigned and SO that was nh
lost He made pleasant speech about apples and tsir
numerous varieties He gave the following toast
First Meeting New Bedford Of The Bristol County As7s-
cultural Society:
Bringing here whatever grows,
All are shouting "there she 6Lors."
Used to many trying sight,
Two barrel squashes try US quite.
Gourds like Jonah's tell the tale,
All profits arn't swallowed by the whale.