Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-07-18

of feeding fat the dinizens Of their damp hills.
The pcvons are much in demand among The
Ncstend- Of London and Brighton butchers for
their best customers. At the last Smithfeld Clah
Show a little Devon had the rare honor Of winning
the gold medal. rs the best OK In the show.
Ncry much like the neyons in color and stump
OF head, but altogether ON a larger scale, and am
afraid, in the face of farmer Wood, OF Ooklcy
Manur,-I must say coarser and loss refined 10y
careful breeding, are the Sussex; no doubt OF tue
same breed are tho North Devon enlarged by
richer pastures, and not refined by the pedigree
breeding of u Quartley aud a Turner,and the llotu
Book Of a ~Davey-not Sir Humphrey, but Captain
John, of Rose Ash. The Sussex are unknown be
You'd the Southeast and Metropolitan markets,
and do not seem to be increasing in numbers; they
are esteemed where known, and are often amongst
tho earliest sold, being Of great size and fine
quality what butchers call a useless class Of
animals.
In the place of honour, in the most fashionable
shed Of the cattle market, under the charge Of
q the DOrsay Of cattle statesmen, were to be found a
large lot of the primest meat of the highest price
/, the Scots, West Highlanders, and Black POncd
Angus. The Scotch cattle are fed fat all over
, England, as far down as where they meet the
! Herefords and Devons, but are only bred in Scot
r land. The West Highlander, when fat, seems a
curious compound Of two animals-one savage and
4 untamable; the other iamest Of the tame. A wild
head, with sharp threatening horns and savage
little eyes, cleaning beneath a shaggy forehead, is
r. attached to one of the %fattest, roundest, and most
I plump and mole-like of bodies, covered with a
1 thick curly hair, supported on four delicate limbs,
and finished off with n long meteorlike tail. This
=. admirable beast, reared among storms and mlsts,
/ fed and thriving for two or three years on the
I coarse scanty heritage and heather of Scotch
mountains, no sooner reaches southern pastures,
sheltered in southern show-yards, or the snug
, Scotch homesteads, where roots and cake supply
him with breakfast, dinner, and supper, than he
does credit to bis keep and; without losing his
wild quality and flavor, lays on flesh OF the juiciest,
SO that when driven to slaughter, he tops the more
ehemlnate and artificial breeds by from sixpence
to a shilling per stone of eight pounds. The West
Highlander is des5rvedly a favorite in parks,
where he is almost as picturesque, if dun or red,
as, and is much moro profitable and hardy than,
fallow deer. 1t is worth a Journey into Motifs 10
see them, as I saw them last winter, browsing
under the oaks, alongside the lake at Clumber, or
wildly dashing away in twos and threes, when
startles by the cry of hounds and rash Of scarlet
coated horsemen.
ltis a hundred years since Jennie Deans Duke
of Argyle began to improve the West Highlander;
but, the savage mountaineer never came to p%erfec-
ton until he tasted oil-cake, mangolds, Swedes,
and with straw to eat and lie on. Equal in fine
grain and quality of meat, larger in carcase, nearly
equal in hardness of constitutions, more useful in
the plough and dairy but very diaerentin personal
appearance, is the improved Black Polled Angus,
by exception only, dun, red, or white, This breed,
within the last quarter OF n century, brought to
perfection, has for want of horns n sort of elk-ike
! uuuuiSueu lOOk, anu IL peCulldT mllu CSpTGsslOH.
Like the Highlander, he is only bred in Scotland,
but is a great faSorite with all the high-class
farmers of England, as well as of Scotland, es-
pecially in the Lincoln shire yards, where his horn
less head makes it possible to pack a larger num-
Der together than of any other kind. Besides
these distinct breeds, there are always in the mar
ket odd animals of every and Of no local breed,
and some elephantine aged fat bulls, intended for
work house or ~emigrant ship consumption. For
+, Ieigners were represented, as before observed, by a
{ - e I'LL. II III nI-I l-Il rA
tened on d~istillery grains-lumpy, uneven, coarse
: looking animals, sadly in want of a good Short
s Horn cross, yet supplying every week, with Dan
/ ish, Rhenish, and other strangers, a very season
able quantity Of lcw-priced beef. The Dutch were
in the care of n mild, stout, close-shaven dealer, in
W a pair Of high boots, and an overcoat Of seal
skin.
The population, or passengers, met in perambu
sh llating the streets between the cattle's tails, con
ed sisted of a very few classes, and all well to do. Ii
ed greatest numbers were the butchers with cage
or looks graziers having stock in the market in tn
hands of statesmen a few Grover lads; but, thei
an occupation having ceased with the tying up of til
ny cattle, and not recommending until, when, later j
EN- the day. sales had become plentiful,-they wer
IN not numerous. Those about were very quiet
Tor with, for the most part, pale faces, and an awake
all-night look. Their singularly seedy, oftel
%unctious, caps contrasted with particularly stou
serViceable boots a fact of costume which prove
OF that drovers are well paid. A working man wit
III GOOu leet coverings Is generally well OH. Fac
~, drover carried a long stick, with a blunt prong q
Der one end, about an eighth of an inch long; tn
mo length being, as the drovers are, licensed by mt
lat nicipal market authority. Whatever these drover
~, were under old Smithfeld education, careful obse1
rs. walton enables me to state that at present they d
Id their duty without any flesh damaging, bangin
or p~rodding X they are under the eye Of th
m butchers now, and such Improbable cruelty woul
not be permitted.
The general appearance of the Copenhnge
,n1 public is decidedly cold, uncomfortable, and niue
Gu needing the moustache movement-with a fu
- beard accompaniment, to cover unshaven, hal
Vi shaYen, or much gAshed cheeks and chins, operate
~ on by the candlelight of early winter morning
'I The leg-coverings of the market frequenters al
~. CHARACTERISTIC of their pursuits. Long boot
H leather ~leggings of various complexity, worste
N hose, gaiters, and primitive fustain galligasking
'L very equally divided the honours of the field
~ while turned-up trousers looked vastly uncor
ah Portable. One luxurious grazier-salesman, wi
~ wore a pair of woolen-lined Crimean boots, with
rec Crimean sheepskin Jacket, and a Welsh wig und,
.a. his Jim-Crow hat, was taking his breakfast accord
Ss. ing to the Copenhagen fashion, al fresco, off
80. tray, supported on an empty sheep-pen the sal
vs. breakfast consisting of one tankard Of hot tea, an
another of hot buttered rolls, brought from tn
Cattle Market Tavern by a young waiter who ha
~ very much the air Of a butchers apprentice.
49, recommend those unfortunate gourmands who cal
- not raise an appetite, TO try a course of Copper
no no hagen market, beginning at six O'Clock on a frost
- morning.
on Next to the leg-coverings, the distinguishin
id. mark of the COpenhageners from the highest
nd the lowest,is a long thin ash plant u sort of wan
led OF once, SOLD by wandering merchants at on
penny each, and borne by every one, from the vo
on unteer eight-year-old assistant sheep-driver to til
ike Shropshire squire grazier, with his two score
all fat Herefords. With this wand, stock are pointe
icy out, tapped on thelr p.rlmest joints IN admiration
YER ana on thelr denciencles IN depreciation, turne
is from eide to side, and finally driven to slaughter
nd Therefore, on entering the market, provide your
lo. self with an ash-stick it will be your passpor
let everywhere if discreetly used. The other onl
,ss perlpatetlc trade OF any moment seems to be IL
IN penny pies, SOLD from a deal box.
The important men of the market are the sales
In men, who fill tho place Of brokers on the Stocl
he Exchange and Mincing Lane. They stand between
in and sell for the graziers to the butchers on com