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T11E A RT TON SO KIA L. lam plenscd to inform the citizens ofOr angehtirg and vicinity that 1 have opened a Harber Shop, over (he Store ofCitptaih Brigg niann, where I am ready to serve them in my profession, which consists of Hair Cutting, Shaving, Shampooing. Hair-dressing and such other work as belongs to the tonsorml art. I *k trial. .JOHN ROR1NSON. may l-3mo DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE, I> ENT A L S U K U E () N , Graduate, Baltimore College Dental Surgery. O?ee, Market street, Over Store o/J.A. Hamilton leb M POETRY. Lord Byron. nY KOBKltT VOLI.OK. "lie touched his harp and nations heard en tranced Ah some vast river of unfailing source; Kapid, cxhaustlcss, deep, his number* (lowed, And opened new fountains in the human heart, Where fancy halted, weary in her flight, In other men, his, fresh as morning, rose, And soared untrodden heights, and seemed at home Where angels bashful looked. Others though great, I Beneath their argument seemed struggling whiles; He from above descending stooped to touch The loftiest thought; and proudly stooped, as though It scarce deserved his verse." "Full of titles, flattery, honor, fame, Beyond desire, beyond ambition, full: Drank every cup of joy, heard every trump Of fame, drank early, deeply "drank, drank droughts That common millisons might have quenched; tin n died Of thirst, a weary worn and wretched thing. Scorched, and desolate, and blasted soul, A gloomy wilderness of dying thought. Proof this, beyond all lingering of doubt, That not in natural or mental wealth Was human happiness or grandeur found, . Attempt bow mbn>?tro us ad how surely vain! With things of earthly .-ort, with aught hut Uod, With aught hut moral excellence, truth and love To satisfy and fill 'he immortal soul I" MATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Anna ess of Ca it. E. L. IIovky, at the F AltaiKits' Festival, at .St. JojiNsiiuitY, Vekmoxt, FiamuAny 22, 1872. Mr. President, iMtticn ami Gentlemen: I>t?l I not ktiQW .ft.is. -r.i.;i-i.y, c-.ll ?! Uie. Patron* of Husbandry, to be a lit menus for advancing agricultural ii iertsts', and bad I not more tha t ordinary anxiety for its success, I should not appear lu re to-day in this capacity, lint let it l?c re membered that tin* class of beings it is designed to help has never risen above the level of menials ; lias never presented I heir claims before I he. public in a pub lic way, and any errors that may appear may be attributed to tho fact ihn*. 1 am one ok them. This is a subject that Vermonlers are just getting interested in. It is a ques tion upon which they as a general thing have very little information. It is a new question ; and the fact that it is a new one, and on this account imperfectly understood, is one of the best reasons in the world why it should meet with bitter and violent opposition. Its friends do not regard this as an impassable bar rier. Sluggish streams that meet no obsta cles in their contse are always muddy; but the mountain rivulet, that dashes against rucks and ove r precipices, form ing cascades and cataracts, is always crystal clear. Jn (hose countries where nature has been most lavish ol her excel lencies, where soil and climate ami pro duction? arc unexceptionable, wo lind tt nice of beings that arc ignorant, indolent, worthless; but here in Vermont, where every move knocks off a rust-spot, wo lind tho model State of the Union. She is approximately correct in morals, in religion, in politics, in education, in ugri eulture, in everything. Although Btir rounded wt?h natural disadvantages, she produces more corn to the acre than any other sister State. Yes, opposition every where. It stimulate*, it invigorates, it makes the State. It makes the secret organization, it mokes the man. To protend that this Society its fault less would be useless. But it should be rcmbercd that what one man calls a vir tue another man may stigmatize as the darkest, kind of vice ; and to create any organization that everybody would en dorse as perfect would indeed be a never ending task. But tho time has come when .something must be done to relieve farmers from the thraldom in which they have been for long years, and tho Pa trons is the chosen instrument for this purpose. It has been conclusively shown hero to-day that the farmer needs no mean education, while in reality he has hut little. As he yokes the ox and harnessCB the horse, and compels them to he his servants, just so Congressmen and poli ticians harness the bulk of our popular tion, the agriculturists, and compel them to be their aids and supporters. Now, if the dumb beast knew its strength, it would less readily yield to man's will.? Just so our farmers, were they adequate ly informed no longer be the tools of these wire-pullers, but knowing their rights and their duties, they would have the manliness to resolutely stand up iu defence. Every other occupation has had an organization for mutual protection, and last of all a few practical farmers, libe rally educated, conceived of this method of putting their co laborers on an equal footing with men engaged in other oecu patiens. It has become a necessity.? The great, trade and political monopolies ol our wide-awake cities had managed matters pretty much after their own lik ing, taking to themselves, little by little though it was, what justly and honestly? belonged to the producing classes, and this was done by the most perfect sys tem of co-operation. lint what is this Society? It is a sc ! crct organization in the interest of Agri culture and Horticulture. Its origin;! only dates hack to 1<S(!7. Iking in exis tence less than live years, and, although^ it. is young in years, it has reached the full statine of mature existence. Its sud4 I don and continually increasing growth is unparalleled in the history of secret ora ganizations. It has subordinate Granf ges, State Granges, and a National j Grange loctaed at "Washington, which-; I exercises a controlling voice in all nmrej j tors of injportn ;<"j pcrU'imvg tv !hcy?.rj| I dor. There arc now over 1,000 Granges, ! with a membership of over 150,000. In tho single State of Iowa there arc 270 Granges, all of which have been estab lished within the last eighteen months.? Its great stronghold is at present in the West* It is of late being introduced in to New England, Vermont having' nine organizations. Arrangements are b/ing perfected for introducing it into Canada, Scotland and other foreign countries. This a fair showing of the Order at this time ; what its future may be no one knows, except what may be inferred from certain natural laws, valuable to all ob serving minds. If we plant good seed in good soil, and have a profitable sett son, we expect good crops if the husband man docs his duty. In this effort the object is gcod, tho field is excellent, the time is apt, and if its members do their whole duty, good cannot fail to come from it. Yet we know that the aim may be ever so good, the laws and regula tions without fault, and unless energy is put into the work, and the rules and reg ulations enforced, it, like everything else, is good for nothing. The sudden growth is, of course, no protection against disas ter and distinction; rather, on the con trary, all nature is ugainst it. The mush room that springs into existence in a single night, with all its perfection, dis appears from view quite as suddenly at the slightest touch of adverse fortune.? In the animal kingdom, those species that mature in a few months, and evince won derful agility, as the cat, live but a brief period, while the elephant, that is years getting its growth, lives for hundreds of years. Know-nolhingism .-wept like wildfire tlyoiigh the country, but it was scarcely known before it was "unknown" among political organizations. There was noth ing to it. It was void of substance; it was aimless. The largest trees are hun dreds of years in a growing slate, hut the larger the tree the faster dues it grow.? I accept this as the natural position of the Patrons. Their growth has been rapid, but they are yet in the incipient state. This Society is to grow, and grow on until it is not. only common in the en terprising West, but till every village and town of any considerable size in tho United States, and every intelligent, com munity in Chrislemloujj has a live, wide u^iske Grange, and the following arc my uns: It is a skckkt Society. But farmers $ffi&artieular hr.vc a natural dread of this l^Re word, 'secret.' They associate with itMEpl kinds of mischief, misery and dia DpUCal crime. They turn away from a p^son that even hints that this organi JSS?n is of a secret cast as they would from a loathsome reptile. ^Thcy think that secrecy means inis 4?ef, aud nothing else; but, my friends, iufthing could possibly be wider ot the jjtbWhun God created the universe, Ho r ide everything just and right. He iv'-ide those animals thai, arc preyed up with cars turning backwards, to cna ?$38 them to catch the first indications of . iunds from a pursuer, and lie mudc j?pse species that prey upon other ani yWjlte with their ears turned forward, for ? ';o same purpose. He has made men Band classes of men to prey upon each Llier, and has given to them allanation hjpl protection, secrecy. If I have in mind laBme wonderful invention, and go to the (winces ot* public resort and lay open all |j|y plans and give all the particulars in construction, would not some long-oar [fl&U gentleman circumvent my intentions? pw. tell you that the man who succeeds in Business is the man who keeps his own counsels. The trader who brags about Hps sharp speculation and tells nil about Egbw it is done ma/ be set down as a ppnaneiul failure. But the sly man who Bleeps his bwn secrets succeeds. It is not jjftnly man against man in the race for Rain, but classes of men against men. ELnwyers, physicians, telegraph compa nies, railroad corporations, &c, are ar Kruyed aigain.-t each other, and all combiri f&d aim their thrusts at the unsophisticated m&fyv'. This Society is% secret in its doings for no oilier reason than for pro tection. -Other combinations are form d for the purpose of robbing farmers of their hard earnings, and they?some of thorn?do not think, because the Groat Ruler made merchants and railroad companies with ears trained upon thorn, that they should not avail themselves of the same natural advantage by turning their own back upon the pursuer. Se crecy is necessary for efficiency every v. here. * * * * Upon all matters of importance our legislative bodies sit in secret session, for fear of the effect outside influence might have upon their deliberations. It is a noticiable fact, that those very men who turn with such horror from our organization that openly avows secrecy, arc the very cms who sljnk oil" into some dark corner at our open convention, and there coucock schemes for running the political .or agricultural ''ihashecn." This open sccrcsy is contemptible; It is beneath the dignity of man ; it is rottenness, total and unqualified. But a secret s< cicty thai does not attempt to conceal its name or its object, and is wholly in the interest of I progress, deserves to meet the approval of all well-wishers to humanity. It .nay be argued that the axe-grinders are liable to get control of the Patrons.? There is danger of this, of course; but while they have distinctly in view the cause that created the necessity for this organization, they will he likely to use due diligence in prote cting it against such characters. Socially, it is the right thing in the right place, for it is a farmer's Society. If there is anything that tends to break up tin' humdrum life they have been liv ing, and are living, it should be fostered with every possible means. Of all the evils that fetter and hamper this class of our people, there is nothing so destructive of that happiness human beings were per manently destined to enjoy as the seclu sion in which they drag out their lives. Isolated from the arena of business life, with nothing to stimulate thought, they too often live and die strangers to any of those liner and ennobling feelings that ari"so readily nurtured by commingling of society. They tiro becoming more and more unsocial, and have been tending in this direction since the lirst settling in this country. A half century ago and more when generly poverty and insecuri ty rendered mutual protection a ucccssi ty, there was a more geuial feeling amoug the inhabitants. They went long distan ces on foot for an evening's enjoyment of social intercourse; but since those good old days a competence has como to tho majority of farmers, and they stick to the homestead with a tenacity that fos ters every social evil. They go through with about tho same routine of duties from sunrise to sundown, from otic year's end to another, through the. whole active part of life, never unloosing the mind from the drudgery of farm life. The human being alouo was created with the faculty of social intercourse, and ho who fails to improve it scarcely rises above the level of the brute creation. One of tho principal objects of this So ciety is to enlarge Ulis God given faculty. It calls the laborious worker of tho soil from his duties and places him side by side with those engaged in the same oc cupation. A thousand questions are dis cussed that interest and benefit its mem bers. Place a person in solitary confinement before any indications of intelligence are manifest, and actual experiment proves that the appearance, the shape of tho head, the features, suffer from such treat ment, and actual knowledge is excluded. Since these things arc so, farmers who enslave themselves, who arc semi-impris oned, cannot expect to wear a very pre possessing personal appearance. You ail know the value of a social home; you know the difference between it and one continuously darkened with silence, wrangling, or brutal violence, it maybe. What tends more to enlighten the mind and fill it with principles that will shed their lustre down through the whole course of life than a family gather ed after the work of the day iacompleted, engaged in healthy; mind-invigorating, social intercourse? Any one who has paid any attention to the positions of fam ilies routed in these different ways can not fail to bid God speed to one institu tion that will improve the social condi tion of the furnier. Some who are inclined to see a hum bug in every new move assert that this is a "woman's rights'' movement; others that it is a cover for political intrigues. Nc thing could be further front the truth. The fact that women are admitted to full membership in the Order J regard asone of its most worthy features. I do not believe in making a plow-point of a gold watch; but tho condition of a people, its members, its morals, its social standing, it.s educational status, depend more upon its women than upon man. Is there not as wide a field for improvement in woman's sphere as in man's? Besides, wlmn men are assembled for mental cul ture or social chut, what more stimulated them to high-minded action than the presence of woman ? But there is no need of my diluting upon this important theme. The solution of a mathematical problem decides tho matter. If great good conu s from a meeting of only two .?provided that both sexes are represent ed?how much advantage will result from a gathering of a hundred? Religious proclivities are no test. The constitution ignores the discussion oven of religious topics. No society ever lived beyond a very brief period that harbored the very .ip penrance of politics. But it is my most earnest desire, and I sincerely believe that this much hoped-for event will soon er or later transpire, that although the rations are nowise a political organiza tion, their in lluencc may bo felt in polities. I rejoice that in certain instances this has already been the lact. An educated man is capable of voting, lie is something more than a mere tool. He carries his own ballot, and although he mtyormuy not support a member of the fraternity, \w knows what is right and can conscien tiously, honestly, and resolutely maintain it. Our farmers arc the bulk of the. nation; but where are they, what uro they, and what influence do they exert upon the affairs of the nation?even upon their own chosen occupation? The Congress ,i of the United States is composed, of .-gyle'{4 300 members, and less than a dozen ever had any kind of knowledge of Agricul ture or horticulture. The agriculturalq committees and the chairman of the.-.o committees arc men, ns Mr, Tompson say.s^? that would take every cow in. New^^f"^ soy; hut, sir, when I think of tho j utter,, lack of agricultural knowledge among our0 Congresmen, t feel like making the com-o| parison a little stronger, if poeatfdof ,?tr do not believe they could distinguish, th^j, difference between a Jersey heiter and a, Durham steer, on the hoof. That a rea sonable number of professional men in our legislative halls is a. benefit, is eer tairijlfcit it is just as certain, were some of the vorst lawyers removed, and some, of our best farmers substituted iu their places, that the best interests of the whp.bj nation would be consulted. It was ths farmer that saved the nation as well us made it, but out of tbe millions of dol lars that are yearly appropriated in land i grants, less than one mill of each dollar is appropriated directly to tho farmer. Farmers, think of these things, and if you wish your occupation, that upon which all other industrial pursuits aro founded, protected ; if you wish to stand before the world as men and not as ig noble hirelings, better prepare yourself for the work ; labor in union and not singlo handed, as you are now doing, j^, Something is saved iu climbing to gether for buying and selling./ People in this vicinity have the erroneous im pression that this is among the lending objects in this institution. They could not be more deceived. "When the Ordctr of Patrons was first instituted, it was not tho intention of the organization to tnako it a source of pecunhiry gain. This fea ture grow out of it, aud. as you get your horse shod when you go to mill, so tho enterprising Westerner co::c ived tho idea of clubbing together for tho pur chase of farm machinery, which is so ex tensively used in that vicinity, when they met in Grange meeting, and statistical reports show that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been saved to the farm ers in the West just iu this oua particu lar. In Vermont we usa leso labor-saving machinery, yet it is what we buy that keeps us down. We nre yearly becom ing larger and larger consumers of corn and flour, of seeds and commercial man ures. Now, is there anything disreputa ble or dishonorable for a hundred men to band together ?to avail themselves of wholesale rates? The merchants, the, grocerymen tell us so. A reasonable number of these middle men may be an advantage to any com munity, but tho market is overstocked.? Any means that can be devised that will push a share of them into "active ser vice" would be a move in the right di rection. It is the saving man that accumulates,, not necessarily the man that earns tho most. We may not save as much by this system as Westerners, where they farm u^ou a larger scale, but wo need the little. What constitutes wealth va ries according to circumstances, 'lwenty years ago a farmer in Vermont with 810,000 stood as high as one to-day does with ?00,00. A man in the city of New York with 850,000 would scarcely be recognized. So that really therii is not much to this getting, after a compe tence acquired, beyond having a little more than anybody else in their partic ular locality. A man in an adjoining town not long since remarked that "he should clear a hindred dollars this year if his geese did as well as they did last year." Now it was just as necessary to keep this man iu a financially healthy and growing condi tion that his geese should prove well, ns it is for tho Western herds to come iu at the end of the season in a thrifty condi tion and bring remunerative prices to their owner. Corn is worth from IK to 20 cents per bushel in Iowa. The olllerenee between its first cost and its pies nt selling price here is 70 cents. A dozen different indi viduals have a profit. JJow look at thiP