JOSH BILLINGS IN THE PROPERTY MARKET.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 785, 7 March 1871, Page 3

JOSH BILLINGS IN THE PROPERTY MARKET.

I kan sell for eighteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars a pallas, a neat and pensive retirement, Ilokated on the yergin banks of the Hudson, kontaining 85 akers. The land is luxuriously divided by the hand of natur and art into pasture and tillage, into plain ami declivity, into stern abruptness and the dalliance of moss tufted medder ; streams of sparkling gladness (thick with trout) danse thro' the wilderness of buty to the low musik of the kricket and the grass hopoer. The evergreen sighs as the evening zefer flits thru its shadawy buzzum Fruits of the tropiks in golden buty molt on the bows, and the bees go heavy and sweet from the fields to gathering hives. The manshun is of Parian marble; the porch is a single diamond set in rubies and the mother of pearls ; the floor is ox-rosewood, and the ceilings are more beautiful than the starry vaults of heavin. Hot and cold water Bquirtsin every direction, and nothink is wantin that a poet could pra for or art could portra. The stables are worthy of the steeds of Nimrod or the studs of Akilles, and its henery was built expressly for the birds of paradise, while sombre in the distance, like tuecave of a hermit, glimpses are caught of the dorg-house. Here poets

have come and warbled their laze j here sculptors have sculpt; hero painters have robbed the scene ov dreary landscapes; and here the filosofers discovered the study which made them the alkemists of natur. Next to the northward of this thing of buty sleeps the residence of Duke John Smith ; while to the southward, and nearer the spice-breathing tropiks, may be seen the baronial villy of Earl Brown and Duches Wiedey Betsy Jones. Walls of primitive rock, lade in Eoman cement, bound the estate, while upward and downward the eve catches far away the slow grandeur of the Hudson. As the young moou hangs like a curtain of silver from the blue "breast of the sky, an angel may be „*een each night dancing with golden tiptoes on the green. N.B.— This angel goes with the place. Diagrams can be seen at the office of the broker. Terms flattering. None but principals dealt with. Title as pure as the birth of a white male infant, and possession given with the lark.