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


of Bristol county, Massachusetts, at the termination
of its annual exhibition, held at New Bedford to-
wards the close of the past month of September.
After the election of officers for the ensuing year,
and the transaction of other business, the So
ciey and its invited guests formed procession and
marched to Liberty Hail. where eloquent address
delivered by the Hon. JACOB W. MILLER, late Senator
in Congress from the State of New Jersey His subject
was American Agriculture its development at home and
abroad" Of this Address the Mercury" gives the fol-
lowing description:
Mr.. MILLER thought 1t privilege to address the So
ciety this occasion If he should have the presump-
ton to incucate precepts hazard opinions the
tical operations Of agriculture, his position would
sembe that Of the Macedonian pedagogue who proposed
to teach the art Of Alexander in the flush of his
Persian victories His object rather do honor
the noble pursuit in which the society engaged He
felt that on this occasion he should derive pleasure
and information than it would be in his power tompart
In this speculative age both pleasing and useful
to return to the natural of life and enjoyment
to contemplate the fruits of the genial earth they
brought forth the labor Of man. Trade and
art and capital may increase general wealth and excite
national PRIDE but the auumnal productions Of seed time
and harvest which crown the year of successful agcu
tural labor inspire higher and hoier emotions In the
cultivation Of the field and the orchard in the raising Of
focks and herds, there is manifestation Of creative
power-a power superior to art and wealth-producng
results which neither be manufactured by machinery
right to govern the earth and nations may glory in the
extension of empire but that people who repensh the
earth by subduing the soil, by producing better and
cheaper food by multiplying the variety Of fruits by
proving the stock Of animals, and thus preparing
abode for civilized man under increased of popu
iation and in higher enjoyment of social fe the
administrators of Government really divine.
Look at New England small in territory, sterile in
soil, forbidding in aspect and cold in climate Her
people at first driven from the land to the water in
search Of more abundant subsistence An adverse policy
called her back to the land Her capital then APP
Piled and her enterprise devoted to the shop and the
LOOM and her manufactures became the pride Of the
nation
After able discussion Of American agriculture upon
the world Mr. MILLER concluded by saying that in giving
agriculture the foremost position its two great allies
commerce and manufacture, must not be forgotten.
Their interests identical and their power Of action
dependent upon each other. While the Governments of
Europe rushing to in the East their subjects
flying to agriculture in the West while their great
armies conending upon those battle-felds where,
ages ago. Persian and Greek Hun and Vandal Saracen
and Roman each in their turn and lost the empire
of the world their population in mghter force is build
ing farm houses in the valley of the Mississippi While
kings and emperors reaustng the scales Of political
power in Europe, our new lands and free Institutions
more potent and persuasive than policy,
pdly transferring dominion to new centre While Eng
lands hostile fleets sweeping the Baltic, navy,
an errand Of peace avoiding the of war; carries
our commerce far toward the rising sun, displays the
ensgns Of power in those oriental regions where c
ment of American influence upon the soil of the mpri-
soned Japanese introduces mechanical powers and
agricultural science to astonsh and delight the eemng
islands of the sea- and great American triple ALI
ance-commerce, manufactures and agriculture-is
spreading the light Of civilization the nations and
readjusting the disturbed balances Of the world.
These of the points TALL space admits)
of Mr. Mlers sound, practical, and eloquent address.
The Society," at the conclusion Of the address, passed
vote Of thanks to the orator. and then again moved in
procession to large pavilion, where sumptuous enter
ainment had been prepared for the company. To this
nearly thousand persons sat down, including large
proportion Of ladies.
Mr. JOHN H. w. PAGE, the President of the Society,
presided the dinner which was disposed Of and
then followed true feast Of and flow of SOUL
consisting of variety Of good things said and sung
which can only make passing allusion.
Mr.. PACE opened by abiding passage in the Had
When by eating they had taken of the edge of appetite
they entered high debate" He was that day mourn
ing He had got something he did not want and he
had lost something he did wanhe had lost his wife,
who told him if he took the Office again she intended to
apply for divorce. He had intended to resign He
had beautiful speech prepared, and it MI lost
The great thing was that speech, and he did not
know where to begin where to end He congratulated
the society upon the suspicious circumstances under
which their exhibition had been held, and pad high
compliment to the sturdy trucknen who had contributed
so much to the equestrian display Wednesday. After
u
facetous attack upon
CHARLES T. CoSaDoN, Esq., who was at that moment
innocenty and pastoray devouring peach. Mr.. Cong
doa took this assault with his usual good nature and
venged himself upon the remorseless President in this
wise:
A POEM from me, sir! really that's absurd
Who pastoral from lawyer heard?
We on the Pandects not on Pan await,
And Eden's richness was but real estate.
Yon model farm, if once tits put in suit,
May keep the fnory if we keep the fruit.
What rustic resource then is left for me,
Unless give you Maro,s Tityre2"
Yet, if you're bent on Anglo-Saxon rhymng,
"Ecloga PriRa" wouldn't prove printing
Besides, fear, 0 m ost bucolc sir
Ny Tityre" d make you a tterer;
For all too lame my Latin verse might flow
You drill'd me in it and you ought to know.
So in despite Of anti-papal days,
Popc's manly rhyme shall tune these minor lays.
IT'S very well for chairman to command
Il wretch to sing what he can't understand
Suppose some OGRE hungry for speech,
Instead of pracsicing, should bid you preach,
Or to exc out yon blatant pens array,
To show yourself for just day?
How can speak, sir, / that hardly know
The names Of things that swell your cattle show7
Vainy these hands n thousand works have sought,
From Virgips Georgics down to Flints Report;
The deep arcana all my quest defed
Flint gave fire and Lebig mystifed.
How should know each different kink and turn
That lends such interest to the last churn
Enough to feel It's thirty cents pound,
Without bother how buffers ground!
How can set in technical array
The myriad particles in O load of hay3
How class the things that farmers sweat
Ammonia, salt guano, and poudrette--
Rising in some behemoth squash or beat?
They grow the "sars.," our business is to eat!
To eat! ali that's it now feel, although
IT'S out Of fashion, that thing know.
Dull must he be who fails to recognise
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