Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-17


me at the BAR, where will for few cents
furnish them with the certain means 0
doing 50.
FARM LiFE.-Being invited recently to de
liver an agricultural address before Harves
Home Association, the ''Fat Contributor
consented. The following is an eloquent ex
tract from his address
/ Although fortune (or perhaps the want OF
! it) cast my lot amid the struggling multitude
Of great city, where YOU wouldn't see a
| farm in a walk of several squares, where
! there are no meadows with their waving po-
tato tops, or wheat fields ripe for the wood
mans axe, yet have felt great interest in
the farming classes, and | hatter myself that
| know something of the noble pursuit you
! follow | will say here, that it has been the
ambition of my life to be an honest old farm
er-tO earn my bread by the sweat Of hired
mans brow. How delightful life on a farm
must be can imagine what vigor is i'm
parted to the frame, and what strength to the
muscles, by reclining in the shade and watch
ing the mowers as they gaily swing their
threshing machines. and then what an appe-
by observing the merry reapers at work dig
ging their potatoes, and their-their tall ap-
pies.
How often, in Imagination, have followed
YOU, as YOU went forth Of summer 5 morn
ing when the dew was on the grass seed,
neatly attired in white linen suits with pa
tent leather boots, with your corn-shellers
swung lightly over your shoulders, to cut
your winters wood. | have seemed 10 hear
your merry songs sweeping up from the mea-
dows, as YOU gather your water-melons and
turnips into corn-hOuses, while min
gled with the busy hum Of your sorghum
evapOrators, came the musical beating Of
your cattle. and the lowing of your sheepand
poultry.
When the winter comes, and the sun pre-
vents YOU from continuing your haying, and
the cold north wind shakes off your strawber-
ries, picture you sitting by your gas stoves.
mending your tanning mills, in preparation
for your spring plowing, or amusing yourself
with Beadle's Dime Books on Agriculture.
Winter on farm, how beautiful What
a pleasure it must be to fodder the chickens
in the dairy, and to hear The musical cluck-
ing Of the pigs as they clamor for their oats
and hay Then when the winter evenings
come. and the robin and bobolink have ceased
their song and gone TO roost on the well
sweep. can imagine no greater delight than
to gather around the blazing replace, re-
gardess of the fascinations of the storm with
out, and amuse yourself with apple pairing,
knitting, base ball, seven up, and other ath-
letic games.
envy not, then, the pale dyspeptie who
bends from morning till night over his s1rdid
ledger in the crowded marts Of trade, or the
child of idlcncss and aflluence If they but
understood the attractions of life like yours.
they would transport their cities into the
country. or transform them into agricultural
communities by act of the Legislature.
\ GnASrH AcuDENr.-It would appear
that the great iniquity Of the New Orleans
massacre has not been fully disclosed. The
following chastity account has been found
among the records in the office Of ex-Alayor
Monroe
CITY or NEW ORLEANS.
To Ttos. Z. .f3qus, Chig " Police:
July 81. 1866.
Cash paid for hauling forty-six loads Of
dead and wounded from around Nc
chauic-' Institute 10 station-house,
at - per load -l3S |
Cash paid for carrying dead from sta
tiou-house To work-house yard, eight
loadsat B 2i /
Cash paid f1r hauling ifteeA loads Of
wounded from -tation-housc to Freed
mems hospital, at 81 90 |
Cash paid for carriage hire for self and
aids during riot, 20
Total, S297 |
certify that the above was made necessary |
by the unfortunate difficulty Of the 30th of |
July. at the Mechanics Institute
THos. T. ADAMS, Chief Of Police.
The premedi;ated murder of leading Union
men of Louisiana. it will be noted, is spoken |
of ar the unfortunate difficulty" The ac-
count not only confirms the reported extent |
of the massacre. but the brutal unconcern of |
the sepulure. Forty-six loads of dead men |
heaped in a common wagon and drawn off by |
a policeman astride of the bodies, the chief |
Of police accompanying in a carriage, at an
expense of S75 per day Such is the simple |
record of southern civilization, \. % 1866 |
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