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Death of Judge Buel. 



Vol. IV 



DEATH OF JUDGE BUEL. 



[From the Albany Argus, Oct. 9.J 

 We discharg-e a melancholy office in an- 

 nouncing- the death of another of our most 

 respectable and valuable citizens. Judge 

 JESSE BUEL expired at Danbury, Ct., at 

 three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, in the 

 sixty-third year of his ao^e. In consonance 

 with the general sorrow, and as a tribute to 

 the character of the first proprietor of this 

 journal, our columns appear in the habili. 

 ments of mourning. 



Having accepted invitations to deliver anni- 

 versary addresses before the Horticultural and 

 Agricultural Societies of Norwich and New 

 Haven, Conn., on the SOth and 27th ult., he 

 left home about a fortnight since, with that 

 .'iew. At Danbury, he was seized on Sunday 

 night with a bilious cholic, of which he was 

 relieved in the course of twenty-four hours ; 

 but bilious fever supervened, and he sank un- 

 der it, after an illness of more than a week — 

 receiving, during the time, every attention, 

 and unremitted medical attendance from the 

 hands of strangers. It was not until Friday 

 last, however, soon after his son had left him 

 on his return to Albany, to request the attend- 

 ance of his family physician, that the disorder 

 assumed an alarming aspect. He was accom- 

 panied on his journey by his only daughter, 

 of whom he took an affecting and final leave, 

 in the full possession of his mental faculties, 

 a few moments before he calmly breathed his 

 last. 



Intelligence was brought yesterday morn- 

 ing by express, announcing the expected fa- 

 tal termination of his illness. It was a mel- 

 ancholy surprise to his anxious family on 

 reaching the steamboat wharf in the after- 

 noon, on their route to his place of illness, to 

 be among the first to learn tliat his remains 

 had been brought up by the Columbus, the 

 day boat from New- York, which arrived be- 

 fore the departure of the afternoon boat. The 

 body had been brought from Danbury to 

 Poughkcepsio, and thence to this city. 



For the last thirty years. Judge Buel has 

 occupied a wide space in the political and ag- 

 ricultural world. In 1813, he removed to this 

 city from Ulster county, and established the 

 Albany Argus. In the following year, he 

 was appointed Printer to the State, and dis- 

 charged the duties of that station, and of the 

 editorship of the paper, until 1821, when he 

 retired to the farm in the suburbs of the city, 

 einc(3 so widely and fiivorably known as the 

 "Albany Nursery." After his retirement 

 from his editorial labors,, he represented the 

 city tor successive years in the popular branch 

 of the legislature, and at the period of his 

 death was a Regent of the University. His 

 la.st appearance in political life was as the 



gubernatorial candidate of the opponents ol 

 the national administration in 1836. 



But it is as an Agriculturist, in the grea' 

 and broad sense of the word, practically anc 

 scientifically, that he has built his fame as 

 a public benefactor. As such, he was knowr 

 tlu'oughout this continent and in the olc 

 world ; and no man has contributed more, zi 

 a writer, and in practical life, to elevate, in- 

 form and improve the agriculture of his age. 

 Nearly six years ago, as an auxiliary in iiis 

 plan for the diffusion of knowledge on tliis 

 subject, Judge B. established "The Cultiva- 

 tor," a monthly publication of the highest value, 

 and of great and varied inlbrmation, and which 

 has attained a vast circulation throughout the 

 American continent. His labors, however, 

 ' v're not confined to his monthly publicatiun, 

 ample as were its pages. His pen was in 

 constant requisition upon nearly every subject 

 connected with the cultivation of the .soil, and 

 his correspondence throughout the Union, and 

 abroad, was extensive. In example, not less 

 than in precept, he may be said to have con- 

 ferred blessings upon the times in which lie 

 lived — blessings that will continue to fructily, 

 and ripen into fruit, long after his body shall 

 have mingled with his favorite earth. 



As a neighbor and a citizen — and in all the 

 relations of domestic life — he was without re- 

 proach- He was esteemed not less for his 

 integrity than his intelligence and worth, — 

 for the unaffected affability and simplicity of 

 manner in his intercourse with his fellow men. 

 He may be said to have lived for utility ; and 

 to have died in the prosecution of his favorite 

 employment. His death is a public bereave- 

 ment, which all will mourn, as irreparable. 



Within the last two years, society at large 

 — and the farming community in particular, 

 have sustained a serious loss in the death of 

 two of the moit eminent conductors of the ag- 

 ricultural press — Judge Emerson,* of Jones- 

 boro, Tenn., Editor of the Tennessee Farmer, 

 and Thomas G. Fessenden, of the New 

 England Farmer. These gentlemen had de- 

 voted themselves zealously to promoting, by 

 means of the press, the great and important 

 interests of agriculture ; and by persevering 

 efforts had overcome many obstacles, and were 

 encouraged by the flattering prospects before 



*.lu(l2e Emerson, we believe, establi>he(i tb" first 

 agricultural newspaper in TeiineBsee, .nnd continued 

 it until his (lentil, in tlie fare of groat discnuraLrmetit, 

 anil at great personal sacrifice ; and if we niisliike not, 

 so important did be consider tbe dissemiti;ition of ligbt 

 and knowlfilge on tbe subject of ngriciiltnre, tfi the 

 prosperity of J'.ast Tennessee, that he made provision 

 in Ins will fur continuing tbe paper be bad esliililislied, 

 and which lie- liad conducted for some time with uuuUed 

 ability. 



