roL. xvni. NO. ai. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



18S 



worthy of iniitati.in, were fifteen swine of the ly cmlured by witnossos wlio liavc been unanswer- 

 Bay State, from the Lunatic Hospital. The ^ able in oilier courts, to stand coniiniKL-d until lib- 

 ciple that all things have b^'ginning, middle, . eruted by tlie habeas corpus, which enlarges the 

 end, has some exceptions : tiic hogs of Massa- i body of pork from the prison of the barrel. But it 

 setts seemed to be witlwut particular beginning ! appeared that for the ( onvenience of travelling, 

 nd, with nothing middling. They would liave ^ they had packed their heads too deeply in their 

 n cubes of pork if they had not been rounded i trunks to be again taken out. The dissolution of 

 pheres for the more perfect .symmetry. They | the copartnership existing between head and body, 

 e sober and solid, as all is belonging to the in- \ by the pressure of rope or the motion of knife, is 

 Uion of which they are members. They were not considered agreeable: to have the chief end 

 rers of despatches from the Superintendent, com- embalmed in pork must be delightful. While 

 licating a remarkable instance of resistance to these animals remain under the caie of Dr Wood- 

 authority and order of their home. . ward, tlie loss of the extremity is of slight cimse- 

 T wo of the fattest and best of the swine," quence. At the Hospital, second hand heads are 



es Dr Woodward, in his letter bearing even 

 ; with these presents, "remain behind. Before 

 • left the sty they manifested repugnance to the 

 rcise of the authority which disturbed their re- 

 they were urged to advnn."> tilt *hoy h~^ 

 tred the pen, when they turned up their noses, 

 ited themselves on bro/id consiitulional ground, 

 refused to advance. They were Jlatlered and 

 (akd without good effect, and finally werecom- 

 ided, but to no good purpose. They seemed to 

 eve that they had slate i-ights and could nullify 

 measures of their general government. Their 

 e could not be roused by the prospect of seeing 

 public, or even by the promise of meeting the 

 dges of swine" — nor could their sense of jus- 

 be excited by the argument that their good 

 ping deserved from them cheerful ncquicscence 

 he arrangements of the great exhibition. So 

 as their ideas could be understood by those who 

 not studied their language of signs, Ihry did 

 like the law which compelled them to remove 

 n the places of their business where they had 

 umulated large personal estates — they regard- 

 it as anti-sumptuiry — and questioned the power 

 -well as the right to enforce such enactment." 

 irhese bold rebels have been placed inclose con- 

 •rnent in the custody of a faithful keeper, there to 

 lain witli no better food than bread and water, 

 il they should be converted to non-resistance. — 

 )uld they continue contumacious, they will be 

 ught to trial at the next December term of the 

 irt, and the painful necessity will exist of inflict- 

 capital punishment fur their offences. 

 It should be remarked, that to drive a pig pleas- 

 ly is an accomplishment as rare as it is elegant, 

 is branch of educatipn has not yet been introduc- 

 in the seminaries for instruction ; — it is not 

 ght in the Normal schucds, or the colleges of 

 w England — It can only be learned in the uni- 

 •sity of nature. Much mischief and great divor- 

 y of practice have resulted from the neglect of 

 ! study of the art. Some have attempted to en- 

 ethe pig into the way in which he should go, by 

 ; moral suasion of meal : if he was of the gentle 

 rkshire race, he would seriously incline his ear 

 an ear of corn, but not unfrequently halted. — 

 hers have preferred the coercive process of fast- 

 ing the fift.'en stranded cord of compulsion around 

 5 wise : if the pig was "4'tn/)C(/," he would not 

 3ve an inch on such terms. Neither time nor 

 ice allow the discussion of the comparative ad- 

 ntages of the two modes, or the attempt to recon- 

 le the discordant views in regard to being led or 



If yesterday iiad been to-day, or to-day was to- 

 morrow, the report of the committee would have 

 been more biief ;— in short, if this year had been 

 next year, the chairman would have had the honor 

 to report nothing. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM LINCOLN, Chuirmnn. 



tforcesler, Od. 9, 1839. 



cleaned, repaired, and refurnished, so that they 

 as well as new ones, and perhaps the skill which 

 exists in that institution, might take down a small 

 understanding and set up a larger one. 



il wouiu "ue impossioie in one day to express the 

 sentiments of the committee in viewing the congre- 

 ffation of swine. They can only hope to delineate 

 the virtues of 81 hogs by appending 81 notes, ex- 

 hibiting portraitures of the manners, morals, feed- 

 ing, breeding and fatness of each. Compelled to 

 part abruptly from their friends, they can only state 

 generally — that the boars of Lowell Sibley, of Sut- 

 ton, half Ro-ebrook; of Joseph Jepherson, of North- 

 bridge, full blood Leicestershire ; of Alfred Mower, 

 o' Charlton, of the licrkshire family ; of Amory 

 Holman, of Bolton, one fourth Mackey and three 

 fourths Grass bred ; of Lewis Chapiu, of Worces 

 ter, native born ; of John Barnard, of Worcester, 

 from the Bigelow stock ; of Aaron Howe; of Shrews- 

 bury, half Berkshire and half Leicestershire; of 

 Lovell Southwick, of Sutton, with the Bedford feath- 

 er ; of Eleazar Porter, of Worcester, one of the 

 Headless Hogs of the Hospital ; of Benjamin P. 

 Rice, of Worcester, a citizen of New England ; of 

 Levi Bowman, of Westboro', of the Berkshire breed ; 

 and of Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, one fourth Berk- 

 shire and three fourths Grass breed — have failed to 

 obtain premiums ; not by reason of any deficiency 

 in their own merits, but by reason of the extraordi- 

 nary excellence of their successful Berkshire rivals. 

 We must not covet c ur neighbor's goods : every 

 member of the society might honestly desire to have 

 a/i the pigs of these gentlemen, and must wish that 

 each of them should receive thanks for their exhi- 

 bition of fine animals. 



It is necessary to be long when there is no time 

 to be short. Far tov/ards the last in the order of 

 reports, come the " Judges" of the society and the 

 swine: in the order of merit the last should be ftrst. 

 Bulls are good — oxen great — heifers graceful — 

 and all the neut stock in and put of the husband- 

 man's household, elegant and amiable: Hogs are 

 ornamental and useful, 'i hey constitute the beau- 

 tiful of the farm yard. '1 hoy fill tliat remarkable 

 space, only one siep wide, separating the sublime 

 from tlie ridiculous. The swine have stood in tlie 

 dignity of conscious worth while the whole delega- 

 tion to the annual county convention of herds and 

 flocks have gone by. It has been their consolation 

 under the preference given to others in the proces- 

 sion, that for them the post of honor-was a station 

 in a private pig pen. There, surrounded by atten- 

 tive friends, with the atTections- of those who have 

 fed them and in their turn will be fed by them, and 

 the endearments of domestic circles, supplied with 



iven. 



Some of the swine who obeyed the summons to 



ime from the Hospital, looked as if they had for- , . , , ir i .i .■ i .i 



„ . , . ,. 1 1 Ik ■ • ;„!,» happiness by the pailful three times a day, they 



itten to bring their heads. i he omission might, 'f, .,,, , -it j rn i . 



, =., , , . J. 1 • »c I ' coud till arge paces in life, and fill manv plates 



ive been considered contempt, and to have justified ;""'"""""=. ' ■ ' 



^ntencc to a confinement as severe as that recent- ""•"'^ ungry in 



From ihe New York Ohscrver. 



DR. HUMPHREY'S THOUGHTS ON EDUCA- 

 TION. 



School Houses. 

 Are they where and what they ought to be? A 

 grent deal has been written on this subject, witli- 

 i„ T fpiy yo^i-; pDSt, and there is, in some places, a 

 manifest improvement in school house architecture ; 

 but I suspect that even now some thousands of 

 school houses might be pointed out, within the 

 bounds of New England and' New York, to go no 

 further, which are anything but neat, pleasant and 

 convenient. I might call them juvenile prisons, if 

 they were not so slightly built, and kept in such 

 miserable repair. But whatever they may be like, 

 let us go and visit one of them. There it stands, 

 on a burning sand bank, or upon the margin of a 

 dead swamp, because the place is twenty five rods 

 and a half nearer the centre of the district, than the 

 fine verdant lawn upon whicli some ol the proprie- 

 tors were anxious to have it built. Every thing- 

 around is desolate and forbidding. The school has 

 opened for the winter, and the glazier is coming 

 j!c.r( iveek to mend the windows ; which, however, 

 seems to be a needless expense, as by careful use, 

 the boys' hats, which now-supply the place of seven 

 by nine, will last till spring. A little wood there 

 is, piled up under the snow ; but it is as green as 

 a Norwegian pine, and if it were dry, there is no 

 sign of a wood house to slielter it from the weath- 

 er. This looks dreary enough, in a sharp winter 

 morning, but let us go in ; perhaps we shall find 

 things better than we expected. Not at all. See 

 how sVnall the room is, how hiw the ceiling, how 

 badly constructed the stove, or fire place, how high, 

 and rickety the slab frames, how closely huddled 

 together the smaller scholars, half roasted on one 

 side and half frozen on the otlier ; how, awkwardly" 

 and miserably fitted up the writing desks, how snow, 

 blinding the light for want of curtains to exclude 

 or soften it; how — but why should I go any fur- 

 ther? If JOM wish to remain longer, I have no- 

 earthly objection, provided you v/ill release nie 

 fiom this carbonic and soporific confinement. 



Now I am aware, that this may be put down as 

 an extravagant and slanderous ebulition, by some 

 of your readers ; but if any one can prove to me 

 that there is a grain of carricature in the picture, I 

 will reward him handsomely for his trouble. At 

 any rate, when I had the honor, in successive win- 

 ters, to exercise some of the youthful reuiments of 



H and L counties, in common school 



tactics, it was nothing strange to have liic necessar 

 ry repairs put off till the last moment before the 

 (.pening of the scliool^nay, to have the mason 

 come in with his trowel, and the glazier with his 

 putty or bits of tin, in the midst of our spelling and 

 reading ; to see a hardy yeoman ilrive up, with the 

 first load of ^rcen wood, or of what he had picked 

 up on his farm in the last stages of decayj to make 

 room for more to fall down and rot, against the next 



