I860.] 



THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



571 



Sentiment, and Adventure. Edited by a 

 Gentleman in Richmond, pp. 190. 

 • "The peculiar humor of the South, and its 

 characteristic generosity, are happily illustrated 

 in many of these sketches. Those who love 

 that innocent mirth which leaves no pain, and 

 can relish the honey of wit without the poison 

 which it sometimes leaves, will find," says the 

 Editor, "in these pages ample sources of enter- 

 tainment." 



The Practical Miners Own Book and Guide; 

 comprising a set of trigonometrical tables, 

 adapted to all purposes of mining-surveying: 

 also, a treatise on the art and practice of Assay- 

 ing Silver, Copper, Lead and Tin, with tables 

 which exhibit at one view the value of assayed 

 ores. Rules for calculating the power of steam 

 and water engines, together with^a collection of 

 essential tables, rules and illustrations, exclu- 

 sively applicable to mining business. Also, re- 

 marks on the ventilation of mines, with some 

 remarks upon the middle division of Eastern 

 Virginia Coalfields,. &c, being an improvement 

 upon an English work, by J. Budge, on the same 

 subject. By Job Atkins. 



The work will, no doubt, be found of great 

 value as a manual to those who are profession- 

 ally related to the subjects of which it treats. 

 Wi hope Mr. Atkins will reap a rich reward 

 from its publication. We wish it, not only be- 

 cause we deem his work to be very valuable in 

 itself, but because the compiler is one of our 

 naturalized citizens, who, in the midst of the 

 excitement of the John Brown raid, stood up in 

 New York, and in the face of all opposition, 

 boldly vindicated the character and institutions 

 of the South, amidst the tumultuous hisses and 

 other demonstrations of contempt by English 

 and Yankee abolition fanatics, who attended 

 his lectures. 



Virginia will own him as one of her chil- 

 dren, true to his adopted mother. 



Messrs. J. W. Randolph & Co., No. 121, Main 

 Street, Richmond, will issue in a few days anew 

 and original work, entitled : 



"Anticipations op the Future to Serve as 

 Lessons for the Present Time." 



The work is in the form of a series of letters, 

 purporting to be written by an Englishman, resi- 

 dent in the United States, post dated and ex- 

 tending from 1864 to 1870, and addressed to 

 the London Times newspaper. 



The object of the author in speaking of sup- 

 posed future occurrences, as if of events already 



transpired, is not only to invest his subject with 

 the charm of novelty, and thereby to render it 

 more attractive and impressive, but it is also 

 his aim to meet " current and popular objections 

 of opponents, by supposing to occur as early, 

 and principal consequences of the secession of 

 a Southern portion of these, now United States, 

 incidents, which are not such as the writer 

 deems to be either necessary, legitimate or pro- 

 bable results." Nevertheless, as objectors al- 

 lege that the- remaining Northern States will 

 make war on the Southern States to compel 

 them to abide the terms of the present union, 

 he treats of the war as thus waged by the North 

 against the seceding States, and traces before- 

 hand what he supposes would be the legitimate 

 consequences of such warfare to both of the bei- 

 ligerant parties. But, as the book is so soon 

 forthcoming, we will not further anticipate its 

 contents. 



We acknowledge the receipt of the following 

 pamphlets: 



Regulations and list of premiums of the an- 

 nual exhibition of the Philadelphia Agricultural 

 Society, to be held at Poweltonon the 25th, 26th, 

 27th and 28th days of September. 



Rules, Regulations and Premium List of the 

 fifth exhibition of the Macon County Agricul- 

 tural Society, to be held near Decatur, Illinois, 

 on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of October, 

 1860. 



T. C. Maxwell & Bro.'s Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 

 Roses, &c, &c, Rochester, N. Y. 



Central Nurseries, York, Pennsylvania, Ed- 

 ward J. Evans & Co.'s Trade Catalogue of Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Vines, Roses, Bedding 

 Plants, &c, for autumn 1860, and spring 1861. 



The Seth Wright Sheep. 



A few facts bearing unfavorably upon the 

 Darwinian hypothesis respecting the origin 

 of species. 



BY E. EMMONS, M.D. 



Rather more than half a century ago, a 

 male lamb was added to the flock of Seth 

 Wright of Vermont, whose configuration 

 excited the special attention of its owner 

 and his immediate neighbors. This lamb 

 was low in stature in consequence of its 

 short, bow legs, with a rather long body, its 

 whole organization rendering it incapable of 

 I leaping fences, or even the ordinary stone 



