The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-11-25
From, the Neso York Ledger.
BILL BROWNS VISIT TO GOTHAM.
BY JOHN @. SAKE.

That almost everything we see,
However high in it's degree,
However fine, or rich or rare,
IL but kind of Earthen-lgdre!
Aud so Bill wrought
As farmer ought,
Who, doomed 10 toll by original SHINING,
Began-like Adam--al the beginning.
He ploughed he narrowed, aud ae sowed;
He drilled, he planted, and he hoed;
He dug and delvsd, and reaped and moved.
II wish coud-but | can't-tell now
Whether he used a sub.sol plough;
Or whether Bill had ever seen
a regular reaping and raking- -machine.)
He took most pains
With The nobler grains
Di higher value and finer tissues
Which, possibly, one
Inclined 10 pun
Would call-Tke Ha,per-hs s'eereal issues!"
Viii, wheat his lands were all a, blaze;
Srwas amazing 10 see his fields of maize;
And there were places
That showed rye-laces
AS pleasant TO see as so many Graces.
And as for hops,
His annual crops
(So yery extensive that, on my soul,
Tbey fairly reached from pole 10 pole!)
Would bea, the guess of any old foaie,
Or-,he longest season al Saratoga!
Whatever seed did most abound,
In the grand result that Autumn found,
], was his plan,
Though moderate man,
To be eaily running II into The ground;
That is TO say,
In another way
Whether the seed was barley or hay,
Large or lIule, green or gray
Provided only i, was like Ito pay,"-
He never chose to labor in vain
BY stupidity going against the grain,
But hascued away without stay or stop,
Add carefully put into his crop.
Ard he raised tomatoes,
AID lots of potatoes,
More sorts, in soolh, than ! could tell;
Tumips, that always turned up we'll;
Celery, all that he could sell;
Grapes by the bushel, sour and sweet;
Beeis, that certainly couldn't be beal;
Cabbage-.like some sanofal mound;
Vine, lha, fairly Gu umbered the ground;
Some pumpk ins--nore than he could mouse,
and
Ten thousand pears; Char twenty lhousand9
Fru of all kinds and propagaIlons,
BalJw,ns, Pippins and Carnations,
And apples of other appellatiOns.
To sum il all up in the bTiefest space,
As you may suppose, Brown fionrlshed apace,
Just because he proceeded, venture 10 say,
In the mulld-reirosum vestigi.ous way;
That is--if you are not University bred
He took Crockelt's advice about going ahead
Al all the State Fairs he held fair station,
Raised horses and cows and bis own re outa-
ton;
Made butter and money; took JUSTICES
niche;
Grew wheat, wool and hemp; corn, cattle,
and-rich.
Bul who would be always country clown :
And SO Bill Brown
SAT himself down,
And, knitting his brow in a studious flown,
He said, says he:- ..
li's ,laiB 10 see
And think MIS-. B. will be apt 10 agree,
(lf she don't il's mnch the some 10 me,)
That !, Bill Brown,
'- Should go 10 town
But then, says he, what town shau II be!
Boston town IS considerably nearer,
And York is farther, and so will be dearer,
Blu, then, of course The sights will be queerer;
Besides, Pm iold you're surely lost 'un,
II you once get aslray in the streets oil Boston.
.. ., YORK is right angled;
..... And Boston, right tangled.
And both, Pve no doubt, are uncommon new
tangled.
Ab!--,he "Smi,hs,"I remember, belong 10
York,
('Twas ten years ago sold them pork)
Good, homes, lrades--Pd like 10 know them,
And Soils selied--l'll so 10 Gotham!
And so Bill Brown
r .,. Sat himself down,
With many smile and never lrown,
And rode, by rail, 10 that notable town
Which really think well worthy OF mention
AS being Americas greatest invention!
q indeed, In be bound that if Nature and Art,
(Though the iormer, being older, has gotten
the slan,)
In some new Crystal Palace of suitable size
Should show their ehefs-deurre, and con'ene
for the prize,
The latter would prove, when il came 10 The
scratch,
Whalo'er you may think, no contemplate
match; s,Hs
For should Mr.. Nature endesvor 10 stagge
her a.a.J4
BY presenting, al lost, her majestic Niagara ),
Miss Art would produce an equivalent worl
lnher great, overwhelming, unfinished New
York!
And Eow Mr.. Brown
Was fairly in Town,
Inihai psrl OF the city they used TO call down,
MOI far from the spot OF ancient renown
As being the scene .:ss
oi the Bowling Green,