attend to details any longer. Still, he is not idle, which I will presently show. 

 When Mr. Parkhurst left Boston, his circumstances were circumscribed to very 

 small means, but his employer, J. B. Russell, was rich. Mr. Parkhurst came out 

 west, and Mr. Russell entered upon the publishing business, as Russell & Odiorne, 

 in Boston, after making a handsome fortune in the seed business. Since then, in 

 the capricious evolutions of fortune's wheel, Mr. Parkhurst has drawn the prizes, 

 and Mr. Russell the blanks. One went down, the other up. The latter gentle- 

 man came out west in 1844, in fortune quite broken down — and has, for many 

 years since, been an attache of the Gazette ofiSce in this city, in which situation he 

 has been subject to a good deal of intellectual drudgery. The former is a dealer 

 in stocks "on the Rialto,''^ a director in two or three railroads, and one or two 

 banks. Both adhere to the advice of Ulysses to Achilles. For, with both these 

 gentlemen — 



" to have done, is to hang 



Quite out of fasliion, like a rusty mail, 

 In monumental mockery." 



While it is breathing time of day, neither of them intends to die, or rust out. 



Many persons of Mr. Russell's reverses of fortune would have put on the habi- 

 liments of heavy-laden care, or drowned their sorrows in dissipation. ]S'ot so with 

 him. There always appeared to be a bountiful supply of sunshine about the 

 heart that never failed to show itself in a genial glow, through his ever-beaming 

 and benignant countenance. And of all the vices that ofttimes beset the path of 

 both the fortunate and unfortunate, Mr. Russell has happily steered clear ! But 

 please excuse the digression, Mr. Editor, and you, Messieurs Parkhurst and 

 Russell, excuse the too free use that I may have made of your names. I wished 

 to trace the picture, for such is life ! 



The great bulk of receipts and sales of grass-seeds for Western consumption 

 and Eastern export, are made at Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, 

 Lafayette, &c. Of the Southern States, Kentucky, Tennessee, Yirginia, and 

 Maryland, are the principal consumers of clover-seed, for the fertilization of hard 

 worked lands in hemp, tobacco, and cotton-growing districts. Of the Western 

 States, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa are now the main producers of timothy- 

 seed. Up to 1850, Cincinnati supplied nearly the entire West and Southwest 

 with their grass-seeds, grown altogether in Ohio. Since that period, Illinois and 

 Iowa have produced at least half the timothy-seed that has been consumed in 

 this country. The productions of those States have annually increased in tliis 

 article, and the time is not far distant when nearly all the timothy-seed saved in 

 this i-egion will be on the Western prairies. The surplus finds its way to New 

 York or Eastern markets from, or through Chicago and Cincinnati. Of clover- 

 seed it is quite different ; nine-tenths of Western growth is saved in Ohio and 

 Indiana ; Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois consuming more than they 

 produce. As an item in this last-named commodity, Cincinnati has never ceased 

 the great mart, and must continue to be for a long time to come. 



