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them the Western Tiller deserves to be mentioiiecL 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 in- 

 different to the moral bearing of his own pursuits, or to those of his 

 fellow men ! The annual report of the Louisville temperance* socie- 

 ty, lies before us, and it is replete with interesting and important facts; 

 especially in the appended documents from judicial, medical, and oth- 

 er public men. Among these most respectable witnesses, there is 

 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 add, 

 of the cases of insanity are due to this cause. There is but one 

 remedy, and that is the total abandonment of the use of ardent spirits 

 as a drink. This course is effectual, as half a million of persons who 

 are now supposed to be associated in the United States for this pur- 

 posCj can testify ; and doubtless, half a million more can echo the 

 same report, because, although not avowedly associated for this pur- 

 pose, they act upon the same principle. We would by no means 

 insinuate, that a large proportion of the remainder are intemperate, 

 but too many fail to give the world the influence of their decided 

 opinion and example. We find it diflicult to refrain from enlarging on 

 a topic of such momentous import, and which has been rendered famil- 

 iar to us by much contemplation and examination. There remains 



* The addresses of Dr. Sewall, of Dr. Musscy, and of many others, besides many 

 reports of societies, as those of the state of Soiitli Carolina, of New York, &c. are in 

 GUI' hands, but we have not room to advert particularly to their interesting contents. 



