No. 1. 



Editorial Notices. 



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The fit'tli number of the " Biblical Cabinet,'' contain- 

 ing the concluding part of Neander's History of the 

 Christian Religion, during the first three centuries, 

 has been published by James M. Campbell & Co., 98, 

 Chestnut street. This number, or the work complete 

 in five numbers, price one dollar and twenty-five cents^ 

 may be had of the publisher, or at this office. 



In looking over the 11th & 12th No's, of the i^crmcr's 

 Encyclopedia, now in the course of publication, by 

 Carey & Hart, at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut 

 streets, we are quite of the mind that they are equal in 

 interest to those which have preceded them. Both the 

 publishers and the American editor, have sustained 

 themselves admirably in this work: we trust it will be 

 properly appreciated. 



"PRODUCTIVE FARMING; or A Familiar Di- 

 gest of the recent discoveries of Liebig, Johnston, 

 Davy, and other celebrated writers on Vegetable Chem- 

 istry: showing how the results of English tillage might 

 be greatly augmented ; by J. A. Smith,— published by 

 Wiley & Putnam, New York:— price 31| cents." J. 

 W. Moore, bookseller, No. 23, Minor street, Philadel- 

 phia, has sent us a neatly printed pamphlet, of 150 

 pages, with the above title. It is a compilation, the 

 object of which is, to simplify and render interesting 

 to all, the more scientific and technical writings of 

 such men as are mentioned above. The intelligent 

 and inquiring farmer will read this little book with 

 pleasure and advantage. While it renders familiar 

 the heavier investigations of science— it aims to 

 disseminate those sound and rational views of the ne- 

 cessary relations between practical farmivg and prac 

 tical science ; without which agriculture must still lag 

 behind the age, and though the first and most import 

 ant of all arts, remain long stationary. The work 

 may be obtained in Minor street, as above, or of Kim- 

 ber & Sharpless. 



"RELiaU^ BALDWINIAN^: Selections from 

 the correspondence of the late William Baldwin, M. D., 

 surgeon in the United States navy; with occasional 

 notes, and a short Biographical Memoir, compiled by 

 William Darlington, M. D." 



This volume, just published by Kimber & Sharpless, 

 consists principally of the botanical correspondence of 

 Dr. Baldwin. The lovers of nature, and the admirers 

 of native worth, to whom these characteristic Remains 

 of his excellent friend are respectfully inscribed by the 

 compiler— himself a distinguished botanist of Cliester 

 county, and well known by his Flora Cestrica — will 

 really, it seems to us, pore over the volume with the 

 warm feelings due to long acquaintance and personal 

 friendship. An amiable simplicity of character, and 

 a warm hearted frankness, are strongly marked in the 

 correspondence, as well as an unflinching ardor in the 

 pursuit of his favourite study, under the pressure of 

 enfeebled health. Ambitious to study upon the spot 

 the natural history of the West, Dr. Baldwin joined 

 Major Long's expedition in 1819: his strength however 

 failed him, and he died the same year at Franklin, on 

 the Missouri, in the forty-first year of his age: and the 

 wild flowers of that vast region, with which he so de 

 sired to become acquainted, have ever since, been 

 blooming around his grave. 



The Autumnal exhibition of the Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society, will be held on the 20th, 21st, and 

 22nd of next month, in the saloon of the Chinese Mu- 

 seum. We will give a list of premiums ofl'ered in our 

 next number. 



Our minister, E. Everett, partook of the festivi- 

 ties at the annual dinner of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society at Derby, England, on the 14th of last month; 

 Earl Spencer in the chair. In the course of some 

 remarks he made, which were repeatedly and loudly 

 cheered, he illustrated the incalculable importance of 

 agricultural pursuits, and the value of agricultural la- 

 bour, by comparing some of its items with the value 

 of the whole trade between Great Britain and our- 

 selves. " The commerce between our two countries," 

 said he, " is the largest that is carried on between any 

 two countries on the face of the globe. The annual 

 commerce between Great Britain and the United States, 

 is nearly two-fold that which you carry on with any 

 other people. The entire annual movement of this 

 commerce both ways, — your exports to the United 

 States— your imports from them— either of them singly, 

 being twice as great as your commerce with any other 

 nation. And yet, what think you it amounts to?— 

 About as much as the value of the annual crop of oats 

 and beans in Great Britain.'" 



In reference to the universal interest that was felt 

 in the subject which brought the meeting together, he 

 said it seemed to him there was " an amount of science, 

 of mechanical skill, of practical sagacity, of capital, 

 and of attention on the part of the higher orders — of 

 diligence and perseverance on the part of the interme- 

 diate and labouring classes, combined for the promo- 

 tion of agriculture, that had never been equalled in 

 the history of the world." 



Now can any of us for a moment suppose that the 

 result of this will be a failure, and that agriculture is 

 to remain stationary? Verily, nay: every farmer who 

 still slumbers, must wake up, and study his position 

 with reference to his soil— his crops — his markets — his 

 manures: and he who is determined not to do so, and 

 has made up his mind to farm and to crop thus and so, 

 because his father and his grandfather did it, and were 

 successful, will byand-bye, perhaps, be sufliciently 

 aroused to perceive that his long slumber has left him 

 alone — behind in the race in which all had embarked 

 but himself. 



We learn from the Belfast (Maine) Journal, that a 

 violent shower of hail, accompanied with lightning, 

 recently occurred in Freedom, and its immediate vi- 

 cinity. Large quantities of window glass were bro- 

 ken. In one instance a house was struck, and much 

 injured by the lightning; as was also the occupant, B. 

 Douglass. Both boots were torn ofl' his feet. " The 

 lightning then entered the churn in which the family 

 preserve their cream, and made butter of the cream in 

 it, as etfectually as an hour's churning would have 

 done." 



A MILLION of persons are said to have passed through 

 the Thames tunnel since it was opened, five months 

 ago. 



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