New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-02

The old-fashoned notion Of an Agricultural I'D.
dress was that it should be of fat oxen, cereals,
butter and cheese, of swine, powing and draining,
of the snbiugation Of the soil and of the economy of
the household, of muck and of the alienation Of
crops. The Honorable Caleb Gushing OF Newbury.
port in the State of Massachusetts, who under.
stands everything great deal better than the rest
Of mankind can possibly understand it, has allowed
himself to be swayed By no conventional notions,
by no large and by small potato theory upon this
point. The Honorable Caleb Gushing has been to
Richmond, Va, TO deliver an Agricultural Address,
and has, after bis own fashion, delivered an Address
about the Mantchoos, the Chinese the Mongols, the
Hindoos, the Arabs and the Berbers the
Teutous, the Celts, the Scandinayians, the
Tudors, the Calynists the Fifth Monarchy men,
Plato, Cicero, John Locke, the Sierra Indians,
Oliver Cromwell, and the stuarts, but not one
word about oats, peas, beans and barley--no! not
one word about even tobacco, whether Gne-cut or
plug.
That ia tie way in which the unusual
intellect II Caleb invariably develops ITSELF
He always gives TO the people some super
fine commodity which they do not want. He
puts lace upon s his hogs At horse show
he would talk about the Centaur; over
a coward, of Bion and the bulls Of Bashan: in q
prize potato field o. Sir Walter Rsleigh: while 10
an assembly of hard-fsted yeomen lie would quote
the Georges Of Virgil until the audience caPed
itself into general jaw dislocations. He was un.
usually profound learned, discursiye noble and
u IL H. l...t l..
most dsmalIy ant ndubitably unagriculturul. He
touched upon gunpowder, the mariners compass,
photography and optcs-he even paid his kind
respects to algebra and the fuxional calculus ha
aired his exhaustive chronological science--but tho
poor pigs the neglected horses, the sighted steers
were left 10 themselves, while Caleb exclaimed, in
uathe.ic tones and words damp with his tears.
.Ob. man art thou. indeed man the created or
..art thou not rather the creator God" We
have heard OF a gentleman who, in the secrecy Of
private life, was afflicted with doubts upon this
very point and the dilation aud contraction of the
unh.ppy person, as now be and now Divinity got
uppermost in his imagination, We're truly affecting
But this poor wretch was hushed up by his friends
,nd was not allowed to exhibit himself under q
Virginia sun or any other sum- upon Virginia
platform or any other platform. We are beneyo-
lent. snd hasten to relieve Mr. Gushing from this
lsceratng' doubt. He is not the Creator-he il
ONLY Caleb. 4 very great Caleb-perhaps the
Greatest Caleb out of jail-but not the Creator
20 that. so far So the Sage OF Newbuyport is con-
cerned, he may consider the question settled.
The defender Of Mr.. Gushing may naturally re-
DIV tbst in Virginia, where nothing is specially
raised, except negroes, it would hare been i'm
proper for him to have INDUCED in dirty disquis.
ton. upon the dirty cultivation Of dirty acres.
But then. Mr.. Gushing should have elected some
other subiect-obstetrics, for instance, in connec
t;on with the Internal Slsve-Trade. He complains
tbs, the people of the United States are too much
given I'D to politics, and then proceeds to admin
i.,er FLIP to the politcsl proclivties of the VIZ
ain.ns rubbing them up aud rubbing them do~s;
sticking sharp pins in the tender parts Of their con
s,tutiors exciting their irsscibties, already sufh
Gently fer,:d, sgsipst Northern books, Nor.sesa