194 Miscellanies. 
them the Western Tiller deserves to be mentioned. — It is a weekly 
quarto, devoted mainly to horticulture and agriculture, but embraces 
other useful arts and valuable miscellaneous imformation. We trust 
it meets with support proportioned to the importance of the objects 
which it sustains. 
6. Population of Philadelphia.—In Hazard’s Register of Penn- 
sylvania for July 30, 1831, there is a valuable paper on the statistics 
of the population of Philadelphia. It scarcely admits of abridge- 
ment or analysis, but will be found to exhibit, in a lucid manner, the 
leading facts on this important subject with ample elucidations of the 
points that are chiefly interesting to a political economist. 
7. Temperance.—This subject is sufficiently physical to be enti 
tled to a place in our pages, even although we were precluded from 
touching the moral interests of man. These interests cannot indeed 
occupy a principal place in such a journal as this ; but who can be it- 
different to the moral bearing of his own pursuits, or to those of bis 
fellow men! The annual report of the Louisville temperance” soeie- 
ty, lies before us, and it is replete with interesting and important facts; 
especially in the appended documents from judicial medical, and oltr 
er public men. Among these most respectable witnesses; there 
but one voice, and that is, that nearly all the crimes, most of the pov 
erty, and a large part of the diseases and casualties, and we may ade, 
of the cases of insanity are due to this cause. ‘There is but ot 
remedy, and that is the total abandonment of the use of ardent spins 
asa drink. This course is effectual, as half a million of perso" who 
are now supposed to be associated in the United States for this pur 
pose, can testify ; and doubtless, half a million more cat 
same report, because, although not avowedly associated for this p 
pose, they act upon the same principle. We would by 1° me” 
insinuate, that a large proportion of the remainder are inte in| a 
but too many fail to give the world the influence of their #60 
opinion and example. We find it difficult to refrain from ene 
a topic of such momentous import, and which has been rendered fami 
iar to us by much contemplation and examination. There remus 
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* The addresses of Dr. Sewall, of Dr. Mussey, and of many others, beside 
reports of societies, as those of the state of South Carolina, of New York, enn 
our hands, but we have not room to advert particularly to their interesting 
