Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-05-21

EXTRACT
OF A LETTER FOM REV. DR.I.T.C0OP

winch esteem great privilege-my atten
tion was recently attracted to your brief notice
of our retirement, in feeble health, from the
effective work" of the Church. You were
pleased also to announce our removal from
wilmington to Village Green, in Delaware
county, Pa, and settlement at our former
homestead, 'sThe Pilgrims Retreat" We
are now becoming somewhat fixed to house,
keeping on our own hook; and our farming
operations are getting pretty fair start, con-
siderlng our very late beginning. A good
supply OF garden vegetables of all the usual
kinds are coming up. The fruit trees row
promise an abundant bearing, and if no reverse
occur, we shall have apples, peaches, pears,
and grapes plentifuy. Our cherry, apricot,
ounce and plumb trees are yet too young to
bear much, but we have a fine variety Of choice
qualities beginning to produce little, planted
by ourself within the last few years.-We have
four acres Of oats growing finely, and should
| have planted five acres in corn and potatoes
| this week, had not the hard rain Of yesterday
intercepted our progress. The ground is all
plowed and narrowed, and ready to mark out
and plant, but ii is too wet to work. If Prov
idence please, next week we hope to have all
the spring seed in the grOuDd.-We raise our
| own poultry, milk, butter, pork, fall and winter
beefj indeed, almost every necessary is sup
Piled by few acres of land properly cultivat-
| ed, except the tropical groceries and dry goods
for clothing, &C., &c.
The farm approaches moro nearly to an in
dependant sovereignty than any other situation
in life. The mill, the shop, and tho office seem
to be secondary, complicated, and dependant
vocations. used to hear the eccentric
perhaps crazy-Gcorge Munday entitle tae
farmers IS Natures NObemen.' There is point
and appropriateness and power in this and
many other .okens OF poor Munday's natural
MISUNDERSTANDING is hard work, but it is
Independent, honest, and noble, and at the
present prices of produce, ought to be lucra-
tive, II prosecuted on scale sufficiently be-
yond family consumption. Our scale is that
OF domestic supplies only, and in our present
health and the scarcity and costliness of mod
ern fertilizers and labor, we would not have it
any larger. shall direct my attention for the
present to tho study and practice of agriculture
as business, and hope to investigate and test
by experiment, the principles and theories,
the opinions and advices OF scientific and Drac-
teal tlrmers 1t is a useful study, u magnif-
cent theme; its various branches separately
and together are captivating to the mind and
lnviSorating to the body, inspiring research,
thought, and pleasure. How splendid the
occupation Of learning and understanding within
mans own sovereign domain of thirty
acres, the soils, manures, the various grains
and crops, and then the most economical and
profitable cultivation, gathering and use. But |
farming must not absorb all thought nor carry |
away all feeling. We shall probably furnish |
you occasionally with ''repOrt progress, - and |
the result of our experience as to the dairy, |
moving grass, grazing cattle, and crops of pre-
cious grains, together with the horticultural |
produce of marketable vegetables.
A word about Village Green, and then our
respects to old mother Delaware, and we close
for the present.
Village Green is what was formerly called the
Seven Stars, and distant about thirteen miles
from Wilmington. Originally, a large tavern
house was built ut the junction of five roads,
opening into a hollow square, one leading to
Chester, four and half miles; another to
Marcus Hook, three and half miles, another
to Concord, three miles; another to Rockdalc,
one and hall miles, another to Knowlton
MlllS, ON Chester creek, property of John p.
C.Ozer, eSq., one mile. The sign of the inn
was painted with seven stars, and hence the
place was called 'sTbe Stars" In due time a
clever little village gathered around sc The
Stars" about thirty dwellings, u post office, a
large and excellent hotel, as we'll and orderly
Kept as rum shop cun be, by very respect
able gentleman, who OWNS the property;
large, fine country store; all the usual mechanic
shops; resident physician, the estimable S.
A. Barton, NJ. D., who is man of talent, skill
and prudence in his profession. The Aston
Ridge Seminary for Young Ladies', by the Rev.
b. s. Huntington, OF the 2. Il. church, u very
Green Seminary, male and female, recently es-
tablished by Messrs. s. A. Barton, M. D.. and
James Barton, esq, and in the educational care
of Rev. Professor j. II. Barton, Of the NJ. L. |
church, and graduate of Dickinson College, |
Pa, is promising institution; also the public |
SCHOOL, and the churches of several donomina- !
lions are right ut hand. The country is high |
and healthy. The views of the Delaware, Of |
New Jersey, and the surrounding landscape
scenery are most beautiful. Nine large cotton
mills within two and half miles, on Chester
creek, and within that distance around, there
is supposed to be resident population Of g 900
people. The people are rather more than or
dinarily moral and industrious and prosperous,
and would be eminently SO, ii il were not for
the discount and curse Of rum and drunk
cnness. May God hasten on the day when
CHRISTIAN MEN will see and feel that it is right
and good to prohibit the traffic in rum, at least
50 far as the uses of drunkenness, danger
death, and damnation are concerned. They
neither see nor feel it yet as they should. May
God strengthen, unite, and prosper the tenn
perance cause and temperance men every
where. The Pilgrims Retreat is about three
hundred yards from Centre Square, on the
Rockdale road, the proprietary title of which
was Village Green. Some years ago the Seven
Stars were changed to Village Green. Our
friends will sec that our home, lately down
near the rivers edge, is now short distance
ABOVE inc - otdrS.'- w men we move from the |
SO Stars we hope still to go IIeayenward.
You were pleased also to allude to ouru
&c mourning friends" in your city, and other
parts Of our dear mother Delaware. To their
regrets consequent upon our necessary suspen-
sion Of the charge OF our congregation among
you, and also to their hopes of our speedy re-
storatiOn TO health, and to our post in the open
battlefield for s. Righteousness, Temperance,
and Judgement to Gomez most cordially do
we reciprOcate the kndest feelings and best
wishes with yourself and our Delaware friends.
We love the Diamond State with strong natural
affection. She is to us the 81 Father Land.'
W. feel deep, tilial interest in all that apper
tains to her welfare. Her morals, religion,
honor and glory, are objects of our highest
hopes. We cherish with delight the memory
the memory Of her illustrious patriots, philan-
thropists, and statesmen deceased. 1t would ,
be a pleasure to mention long list of her !
honored dead. Her living sons OF science and !
the arts, her orators and authors, her jursts
and divines, are our pride and boast
God bless Delaware and make her still
bright star in the galaxy of the American Re- I
pubic, pioneer in the field OF moral, intel
lectual and political progress. First to ratify
the national Constitution, she is the first and
oldest sister in the constitutional family of our
great, powerful, and honorable country. NV
respects to old Delaware. Your friend,
May Is, 1857. l. 4. Q.
RELIGION ron ALL WEATHERs.-There u is