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NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



n.ww'AKn's Gazetteeu of Massachusetts. We 

 consider this the most valuable work of the kind that 

 has ever been published. It is not merely a gazetteer 

 in the usual dry, brief style, but a volume of four 

 hundred and fifty pages is devoted solely to this 

 state, ■which affords the opportunity of introducing 

 history and statistics, and giving various details that 

 are interesting, not only to citizens of this state, but 

 to people throughoxxt the country, particularly from 

 the prominent rank which Massachusetts holds in 

 the history of our progress as a nation. The work 

 is enlivened v>ith numerous instructive anecdotes. 

 The eminent author is extensively kno-\\Ti. Pub- 

 lished by Me33rs. John P. Jewctt & Co., 23 Cornhill. 

 We are pleased to learn that these enterprising book- 

 sellers are publishing a separate work of this kind 

 for each state in New England. 



OuTi.iXES OF Improvejiexts IX ViiiGiNiA, giving 

 an account of numerous works, Siich as roads, turn- 

 pikes, &c., in operation, progress, or surveyed, with 

 a beautiful map of the state. Forwarded by the po- 

 liteness of T. II. Dewitt, Esi. It shows that a spii-it 

 of improvement is pervading that state, which is 

 loading to increased facilities of communication with 

 every section, which is a siu-e precursor to agricul- 

 tural improvements. By Claudius Crozet, late State 

 Engineer. 



Transactions of Agricultuhal Societies. — We 

 have received the doings of the Worcester, Essex, 

 and Plymouth Agricultural Societies, each in pam- 

 phlet form. The plan of late, (and of the Essex 

 Society for a long time,) of publishing the transac- 

 tions in a permanent fomi, is excellent, as such mat- 

 tor is worthy of preservation, and should be in con- 

 venient form for reference. These works contain the 

 annual addrcas, reports of committees, statements of 

 applicants for premiums, essays, and other useful 

 matter. 



Report of the First Exhuiition of the Wor- 

 cester Mechanics' Association. — This work indi- 

 cates that this institution is large and flourishing, and 

 that their exhibition was extensive and excellent. 

 We understood that it was attended by vast numbers, 

 and gave excellent satisfaction. 



IIoRTICULTUr^VL RePORT OF THE TwENTY-FlRST 



Annual Fair of the American Institute, bj- 

 Thomas Bridgcman and Peter R. Mead, superintend- 

 ents. It contains various matters interesting to the 

 liorticulturiit and pomologist. 



PROGREGS OF INDUSTRY AND HARMONY 

 OF LABOR. 



This, then, is the grand moral lesson of the hour 

 — the progress of industry and the harmony of 

 LABOR. That progress is already proved and illus- 

 trated when this society remembers, on the one 

 hand, what its fathers saw, and what they did, and 

 on the other, casts its eye on the exhibitions, and 

 gathers up the instructions, of this day. That har- 

 mony", in interest and growth, in sentiment and pur- 

 pose, is substantiated by this present re-union of all 

 the sons of labor at this annual civic triumph. 



These exhibitions are teaching us that we are all 

 producers and all consumers. These holidays are 

 proving to us that the circle of all business and all 

 pursuits is a charmed circle, and that a single jar 

 any where spreads discord and disaster through the 

 whole. There is no such thing here as an isolated 

 ijiterest, nor any such man as an isolated laborer. 

 In the formation and growth of communities, labor 

 divides and subdivides itself — to the end, not that 

 this pursuit or that may become easier or more hon- 

 orable than the other, but that each and all may be 

 the more profitable and the more productive. Would 

 you say that the divisions and subdivisions of hu- 

 man invention in the machinery we have witnessed 

 to-day, with all their nice and varied improvements 

 from year to year, involve any encroachment on the 

 rights of labor r Neither with any more truth would 

 you maintain that any fixed department of human 

 pursuit, whether of the hand or the head, in the 

 field or the shop, in the counting-room or the ofiicc, 

 could be stricken out without imparting disturbance 

 to the whole. There is one harmonious idea run- 

 ning through the whole scheme and the whole fabric 

 of society, the whole theory and the whole piractice 

 of the world — and that is, increased profit and in- 

 creased production, — greater capacity for producing, 

 sustaining, educating, advancing the race. The small 

 and despised stream which flows through the heart 

 of this city, is a wiser v>itncss and a more liberal 

 philosopher than we. 'S^Tiat growth, and upbuilding, 

 and expansion of industry has it not witnessed ! It 

 very early beckoned to its banks a scattered, humble, 

 dependent colony of mechanics. It kept them up 

 through prosperous and adverse fortune, till now a 

 score of smoking shafts penetrate the sky, and fi'om 

 the reservoir on the north to its southern outlet, its 

 banks arc vocal with the hammer and the axe, the 

 whirling wire and the building machine, the forming 

 plough and the noisy plane, the fierce glow of the 

 furnace and the heavy M'orking of iron, the whiz of 

 the car-shop and the crack of the pistol — while a 

 host of children whom no man can number, look 

 towards it in the morning and in the evening for 

 their daily bread. If I were to call upon this pro- 

 ductive rivulet for its testimony, what, think you, it 

 would be? 'SNTiy, to bo sure, that the wire-maker 

 and the machine-builder combined to supply the 

 cotton and v/oollen mill — that the plough-maker 

 furnished his wares for the Avhole agricultural world 

 — that the iron man, with his five or six scores of 

 hands, was at work for everj' body — and so on to 

 the end of the chapter, concluding Avith this essen- 

 tial and impressive fact, that as this community has 

 increased from year to year, new churches and new 

 schools, a little more counsel and a little more medi- 

 cine, yet other stores for wholesale and retail, more 

 boarding-houses, and shoe-shops, and tailors and hat- 

 ters, and grocers, and dress-makers, were demanded 

 and came in upon us, till the town has become, what 

 we behold it to-day — all helping one another, and 

 THE farmer feeding thr WHOLE. I hold him to be 

 a suspicious friend who would scatter the seeds of 

 dissension where Providence and natural causes have 

 established a coincidence of interest ; and against 

 his testimony I place that ever speaking and benevo- 

 lent stream, as it carries down to the waters of the 

 Blackstone, to be diifused over yet larger communi- 

 ties between this and the Bay of the Narragansetts, 

 that large, universal truth of American life — thb 

 harmony of labor. — Bullock's Ad. before Worcester 

 Ag. Society. 



Draining low lands will contribute to promote 

 health and profit. Generally speaking, our wet and 

 marshy lands are the richest in organic matters, and 

 become the most profitable to the owner, v.-hen thor- 

 oughly drained. — BiioVs Far. Com. 



