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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Frankenstein’s Representation of Niagara 
at Hope Chapel, Broadway. —TVe do not know 
when we have been more gratified than in the 
graphic and life-like representation of the Falls 
of Niagara and the magnificent scenery by which 
they are surrounded on all sides. Summer, 
autumn and winter—by daylight, moonlight, 
and through a midnight storm—in all then- 
grand and picturesque phases, they greet the 
vivid and imperishable rememberances of former 
years. We can almost hear the roar and feel 
the torrent of spray as we near the great water¬ 
fall, and a shivering involuntarily creeps over us 
as we look down the awful precipices that every 
where surrounds it. We advise every one to go 
and see this, close imitation of one of Nature’s 
sublimest works. We understand it is going 
South this week. 
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Jones’s Pantoscopic Mirror op the Plains, 
Salt Lake City, and California.— This fine 
panoramic painting may now be seen at Hope 
Chapel in this city. The scenes are life-like, 
and those who have been over the ground pro¬ 
nounce them true delineations. They were 
painted from actual daguerreotypes and not from 
imagination. The accompanying lecture is quite 
instructive. We advise those who have any 
itching to oross the plains, to first take a view 
of this painting, and we think they will then 
agree with us, that there is not gold enough 
beyond to pay for such a journey. At any rate 
it is pleasanter travelling the road of the pano¬ 
rama than the natural one. 
We hope Congress will soon decide upon the 
best plan for leveling the hills and filling up the 
valleys for a Railroad to El Dorado. We suggest 
to Mr. Jones to take his painting to the capitol, 
and show them that the present land route to 
California is “ a hard road to travel.” 
New-Haven Railroad. — Notwithstanding 
the almost providential mishaps to this road, 
and the wide publicity given to all the details of 
every accident, there is no road in the country 
on which we now ride with a greater sense of 
personal safety. We feel quite sure that all 
that human thought and foresight can do, is 
done by the officers of this road to prevent 
casualties. Their experience has been painful, 
but instructive to others as well as themselves; 
and we hope others will as wisely improve the 
lessons. 
We can not see how an accident can happen 
with their present double track, perfect time¬ 
table, and care in reference to drawbridges, &c. 
We have lately been quite amused with the very 
evident feeling of satisfaction exhibited in the 
countenances of passengers when the trains 
come to a full stop, as they do invariably, on 
approaching each drawbridge. We have had 
occasion to pass over this road scores of times 
since its opening, and we have never seen the 
very least departure on the part of any Con¬ 
ductor from the most accomodating and polite 
treatment to the very humblest passenger. 
Two weeks since we directed attention to Dr. 
Underhill’s Catawba and Isabella Grapes. On 
Saturday last we called at his depdt, 293 Broad¬ 
way, and were quite surprised to find he had 
grapes in pretty good order, even at this late 
season. 
We were highly pleased with his Grape and 
Quince Jellies. Those who are deprived of the 
privilege of making these in the country for 
themselves from fresh ripe fruits, will be glad to 
learn that Dr. U. is putting up for them a few 
jars of jelly, made entirely from the pure juice 
of ripe, selected grapes and quinces, without the 
addition of isingglass or any other substance, 
except the best refined sugar. These can be 
ordered at the place above named. That these 
jellies are of very superior quality we can testify, 
for we have tried them. 
National Magazine, devoted to Ait, Literature, and Re¬ 
ligion. Published by Carleton & Philips, 200 Mulberry 
st„ New-York- $3 a year, or 18% cents per number. 
This is one of our best monthlies, and con¬ 
sidering its size, character, mechanical execu¬ 
tion, and price, it is one of the cheapest magazine 
in the country. Its pages are replete with 
interest and instruction, free from sectarian dog¬ 
mas, and from any thing calculated to vitiate a 
taste for the true, pure, and elevated. The 
November number contains a large number of 
articles that will richly repay a perusal. 
TnE Franklin Repository, Chambersburg, 
Pa., is a very excellent miscellaneous weekly 
paper on a large sheet, and edited with marked 
ability by Mr. Alex. K. M’Clure. It is well 
printed on good paper, and furnished at $1 75 
a year to subscribers who pay in advance. 
Error Corrected. —Mr. Matson, of Paris, 
Bourbon County, Ky., informs us that Mr. Alex¬ 
ander was mistaken in supposing, as reported 
in a September number of this journal, that a 
Long-wool buck of his at the late cattle show of 
Bourbon County, beat the high priced buck 
brought from England the past summer, by the 
Northern Kentucky Importing Company. Mr. 
Matson says he was the purchaser of said buck 
at the Company’s sale, and that he has never 
shown him for a prize. Mr. M. showed his low¬ 
est priced buck, which was only one year old, 
which he thinks ought to have beaten Mr. Alex¬ 
ander’s four year old buck, but no allowance 
was made for age. Mr. M. is of opinion his high 
priced’ buck can beat any thing Mr. A. owns 
due allowance being made for age, &c., and this 
allowance being made, he is, as we understand 
him, willing to show his buck for a silver pitcher 
worth $100. 
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THE TOBACCO CROP. 
The subjoined letter will be interesting to 
those engaged in any way in manufacturing or 
vending tobacco. It was written by one of the 
largest and most experienced manufacturers in 
Virginia, and the writer’s facts and deductions 
may therefore be relied upon: 
Lynchburg, Oct. 1 8th, 1853.—Gentlemen:— 
We are without any of your esteemed favors of 
recent date, but supposed, that during the pre¬ 
valence of the awful scourge to which your city 
has been subject for some months past, but little 
has been done in the way of trade. We sincerely 
hope that the career of the destroyer is stayed 
and for ever, and that health and activity again 
prevail. 
We have been for some weeks past engaged 
in collecting all the information attainable, as to 
the condition and prospects of the tobacco trade 
generally ; a synopsis of which you will find be¬ 
low, and such sour confidence in the general 
correctness of the views it contains, that we have 
raised and limited all of our brands at the North 
5 cents per pound, and we must ask of you to 
hold the remainder of our tobacco in your hands 
at 30 cents, until otherwise advised. This step 
may retard sales for a time; we, however, feel 
but little doubt that it will be easily obtained 
before the lapse of many weeks. 
In the meantime, should it so retard your 
sales as to make your advances too burthen- 
some to you, we will, if timely advised, give you 
relief. 
On the night of Monday, the 10th inst., the 
frost destroyed all of the tobacco remaining in 
the field in the valley of the James River, where 
it has generally been permitted to stand until 
the 15th and often later, when necessary, being 
fully protected by the fogs common to the locality 
at this season of the year. As, from a deficiency 
in the supply of early plants, two-thirds of the 
tobacco was not planted until the 20th July and 
later, it was consequently not sufficiently ripe 
for the knife and it is therefore fair to suppose 
that very near that quantity has been destroyed. 
We had a heavy frost in the highlands on the 
28th September and again on the 4th inst., which 
did not much injury of itself to the tobacco, but 
frightened the planters generally into an indis¬ 
criminate cutting of green and ripe, with of 
course the proportion of the former largely pre¬ 
ponderating, yet there were in almost every 
neighborhood a few planters having late crops 
and strong faith that the worst had been done 
for some time to come, permitted their crops to 
stand—but on Monday night last all such re¬ 
ceived their quietus. 
We now regard it as settled beyond dispute — 
that less than three-fourths of an average crop 
was planted in Virginia—that much the larger 
portion of it was planted subsequent to the 20th 
July—that the drought which succeeded the 
latter planting destroyed much that was planted 
—that not more than one-third of such as sur¬ 
vived reached maturity, while the remainder was 
either cut in a very unripe condition or destroyed 
by frost. 
It is now equally clear that the supply of leaf 
for the current year, has heretofore been greatly 
over-estimated. For many years past it has been 
the custom of all of the manufacturers of Rich¬ 
mond, Petersburg, and this place, having the 
means to do so—to lay in a sufficient supply of 
leaf to last them until the 1st of March or April. 
Now but few, very few have stocks sufficient 
to keep their factories in motion until Christmas 
—and the number will be still smaller having 
stocks to work beyond that time, and the stocks 
are not to be obtained, for from an estimate 
made in this place on the 12th inst, there is not 
in both warehouses and factories more than six¬ 
teen days’ supply for all of the factories of the 
city, and we are assured that a similar condition 
of things exists in Richmond and Petersburg, 
which last taken in connection with the deter¬ 
mination of many of the heaviest manufactures 
in this and the places above named, not to work 
a pound of tobacco from Christmas to 1st April, 
’54, unless the manufactured market assumes a 
far more favorable aspect than it now wears— 
lead us confidently to predict that in a few weeks 
receipts into the northern and other large markets 
will begin gradually to decrease and continue so 
until Spring—thereby relieving the markets of 
the usual Winter supply to the extent of many 
thousand boxes, and that by the opening of the 
Spring trade stocks will be smaller than they 
have been for many years past. 
Both public and private accounts from Ken¬ 
tucky ostimate the crop of that State at less 
than a half of an average. The Missouri crop, 
under the most favorable circumstances, would 
have been a diminished one—as less than an 
average crop was planted, but advices received 
in this place on the 13th, from highly respectable 
sources, state that a very large portion of it has 
been entirely destroyed by frost. The remarks 
made above as to the Virginia crop, so far as 
drought and diminished planting are concerned, 
will apply with entire truth to the Maryland and 
North Carolina crops, but as to frost, we are 
without any reliable information. 
We have made careful inquiries as to the 
stocks of manufactured in nearly all of the im¬ 
portant markets in the United States, and find 
that in New Orleans, Louisville and Nashville, 
“ the stocks are very light." In Charleston and 
Mobile they cannot be called light—but are 
neither excessive nor well assorted, and many 
other markets south and west of minor import¬ 
ance are either without or but moderately sup¬ 
plied. Baltimore and Philadelphia markets have 
only about their usual supplies; and the only 
points at which supplies seem to be excessive are 
New-York and Cincinnati, which will undoubt¬ 
edly be much reduced during the winter, either 
