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CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CINCINNATUS. 



BY A TRAVELING AGENT. 



FAYETTE, RUSH, DECATUR AND BARTHOLOMEW CO's, IND. 



Leaving Laurel, Ind., my course was now through portions of 

 Fayette, Rush, Decatur and Bartholomew counties. At Columbia, 

 five miles west of Connersville, and a considerable section surround- 

 ing the hill on which the small town stands, the country is rolling 

 and the soil adapted to wheat. The trustees of the township, com- 

 posed of leading farmers representing the several districts, were as- 

 sembled at the time for consultation in regard to keeping up their 

 schools. Being introduced to the meeting by H. Mason, Esq., one 

 of their number, I was soon familiar with them all, and was much 

 pleased to observe the promptness and anxiety the gentlemen mani- 

 fested to co-operate, in every good work, for the advancement of 

 practical education. The districts were both willing and desirous, 

 in addition to what the state afforded them from the Common School 

 fund, to pay liberally, in order to have first class teachers among 

 them — an appreciation of talents, certainly highly commendable. — 

 Mr. Geo. Scott, a Scotsman by the way, and a noble specimen of 

 the Grampian hills of dear old Scotland, Dr. Hutchinson, an old 

 pupil of Doct. Drake's, the Cottons, T. V. Freeman, Esquire Ma- 

 son, and many others there, are enterprising farmers, true lovers of 

 its science and of educated labor. Spending the Sabbath in their 

 midst, I record, with gratitude, the pleasing acquaintance foimed, and 

 look forward, with them, to " the good time coming." 



Descending from the above place into a more level country — and 

 level, alluvial soils every where abound in the state of Indiana — I 

 found beautiful farms on either hand. Near to the neat little town 

 of Fayette, on the road to Rushville, lives Rev. J. P. Thompson, who 

 devotes no little attention to science, and is much interested in the 

 progress of Farmers' College. Farther on, by invitation, I staid the 

 night and had a pleasing chat on Agricultural proceedings, with the 

 President of the Rush Co. Agricultural Society, Mr. John Megee, 

 a true Kentuckian, and a great admirer of the " blue grass." He 

 took me over his fine farm of 500 acres. I found his open woods. 



