Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-02-25


de6 his address before the New York State
Agricultural Society, at Buffalo, with the
following mastery portraiture of a perfect
farm:
One more suggestion, my friends, and
relieve your patience. As work of art, l
know few things more pleasing to the eye,
or more capable Of affordng scope and graf
ifcaton 10 taste for the beautiful, than a
we'll situated, well cultivated farm. The
man of refinement will hang with never
wearied gaze on landscape by Claude or
Salvador; the price of selection of the most
fertile land in the West would not purchase
few square feet of the canvas on which
these great artists have depioted rural
scene. But nature has forms and proper
tions beyond the painters skill; her divine
pencil touches the landscape with living
lights and shadows, never mingled on his
pallet. What is there on earth which can
more entirely charm the eye or crafty the
taste than noble farm? 1t stands upon
southern slope, gradually rising with varie-
gated ascent from the plain, sheltered from
the northwestern winds by woody heights,
broken here and there with moss-covered
powders, which impart variety and strength
to the outline. The native forest has been
cleared from the greater part of the farm,
but suitable portion, carefully tended, re-
mains in wood for economical purposes ,and
to give picturesque effect to the landscape.
The eyes range round three-fourths of the
horizon over fertile xpanse-bright with
the cheerful waters of ripping stream, a
generous river or cleaning lake-dotted
with hamlets, each with its modest spire-
and if the farm lies in the vicinity of the
coast, distant glimpse from the high
grounds, Of the mysterious, everlasting sea,
completes the prospect. 1t Is situated off the
high road, but near enough to the village &c
be easily accessible to the church, the schoo
house, the post office, the railroad, a socia'
, ble neighbor, or travelling friend. 1t con.
} sists in due proportion of pasture and till
, age, meadow and woodland field and gar
den.
A substantial dwelling, with everything
for convenience and nothing for ambition
r with the fitting appendages of stable, ant
, barn, and corn-barn, and other farm build
ings, not forgetting spring house with
t living fountain of water-occupies, upon
gravelly knoll, a position well chosen t
command the whole estate. A few acre
! on the front ana on the sides Of the dwell
ing, set apart 10 crafty the eye with tn
= choicer forms of rural beauty, are adorne
I with stately avenue, with noble, soltar
( trees, with graceful clumps, shady walks,
4 velvet lawn, a brook murmuring over peb
h bly, bed, here and there grand rock, who's
cool shadow at sunset streams across tn
}, field; all displaying, in the real loveliness
= nature, the original of those landscapes ,
II which art in its perfection strives 10 give U
, the counterfeit presentment. Animals
select breed, such as Paul Potter, an
- Moreland, and Landseer, and Rosa Bor
heus never painted, roam the pastures, c
u fill the hurdles and stalls; the plow walk
in rustic majesty across the plain, and open
the genial bosom Of the earth to the sun an
. air; natures holy sacrament of seed-time
solemrized beneath the vauted cathedr
sky; silent dews and gentle showers, an
: kindly sunshine shed their sweet infunc
" on the teeming soil; springing verdur
clothes the plain, golden wavelets, drive
by the west wind, run over the joyous whei
y field; the tall maize flaunts in her crisp
y leaves and nodding tassels-while we labc
, while we sleep, Gods chemistry, which "
> cannot see, goes on beneath the clods; myr
= ads and myrads OF vital cells ferment wit
), elemental life; germ and stalk, and leaf ar
:, flower, and silk and tassel, and grain an
fruit, grow from the common earth-tl
moving machine and reaper-mute riva
of human indastry-perform their glads ON
II task; the well piled wagon brings home IL
ripened treasures of the year; the bow
~ y, promise fulfilled spans the foreground of Il
picture, and gracious covenant is redeeme
y that, while the earth remaineth, summ
l. and winter, and heat sand cold, and day an
- night, and seed.tme and harvest shall n
s. fail.
0' CAIRO AND Fulton RAILRoAD,-Tl
'e work on this road, says the Cairo Delta,
-, progressing favOrably. Eight miles are Q
: :: ready graded, and it is said that the cars W
% be running to Charleston, twelve miles fro