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Bay tlie market is open to them now, and tliey are trebling their 

 crops of wheat. This is the seat of the Transylvania University, 

 the leading college of Kentucky, and other valuable schools. The 

 Odd Fellows have just completed a splended building on the corner 

 of Main street and Broadway. Ashland is but a mile and a half 

 distant, but the " mill boy of the slashes " is not there. How- 

 ever, I saw preparations made in the excellent cemetery on the 

 other side of the town for a monument soon to be erected to hia 

 memory. Next fourth of July will no doubt witness a large con- 

 course of the old friends and admirers of Henry Clay, on laying 

 the corner stone of that monument. M. C. Johnson, Esq., well 

 known as a lawyer of high repute, has a beautiful situation in Lexing- 

 ton, and excercises much taste in horticulture ; he is a subscriber to 

 the Cincinnatus. 



PARIS. 



This place has long been noted as an extensive cattle and horse 

 market. People often come here from all parts of the State and 

 from other States to trade in stock. But, as elsewhere, farmers in 

 the country seem to turn more attention to raising grain, making it 

 the leading staple of their commerce. Between Paris and Win- 

 chester I visited the beautiful 



FARM OF BRUTUS CLAY. 



It contains eighteen hundred acres; he has four hundred in corn 

 and grains, and ten acres in sugar cane — sorgho suchre. He has 

 between three and four hundred cattle, one hundred of which are 

 short horned Durhams, and many very superior beef cattle. He 

 has about forty horses, one an imported stallion ; besides many 

 choice jacks and jennets. This farm is certainly the most tasteful 

 and neat of any I visited. The fences, lawns, his own splendid 

 mansion, out-buildings, negro village, saw-mill and cow-houses, all 

 bear marks of his own genius. His saw-mill and grist-mill are com- 

 bined, and run by horse-power, keeping an immense horizontal 

 wheel in motion. He has a cow-shed in course of completion one 

 hundred and sixty-five feet by forty-six, two stories high, and with 

 an abundance of room for eighty head of cattle ; a railcar is to run 

 the entire length of the building containing food to be dealt out to 

 each. 



Here I saw an Osage Orange hedge of three years growth in a 

 fine state of cultivation; springs of water carefully walled in an-l 

 the water courses straitened and turned to account. A pond, Mr. 



