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editor's table. 
(Suitor j 5 olablc. 
Address to be Delivered before the State 
Society. —Hon John C. Spencer, of Albany, will de¬ 
liver the annual address at the Show of the N. Y. 
State Agricultural Society, to be held at Buffalo, on 
the 5th of this month. 
The Pork Trade of the West.— De Bow’s Com¬ 
mercial Review, for July, contains some interesting 
tables of the pork trade of the western states. The 
number of hogs slaughtered during the years 1847-48, 
was 1,500,000—an increase of nearly fifty per cent, 
over previous years. The number slaughtered, in Cin¬ 
cinnati alone amounted to 575,000. Only a small 
portion of this valuable product is exported ; and four 
fifths of that sent out of the country, were shipped to the 
British colonies, South America, and the West Indies. 
Remarkable Growth of the Paulownia Im¬ 
perials. —A correspondent to the “ Alabama Plan¬ 
ter,” states that he has a tree of this species that has 
produced a shoot, since last spring, fifteen feet in 
length, containing leaves twenty-five inches wide ! _ 
The American Architect, comprising Original 
Designs of Cheap Country and Village Residences, 
with Details, Specifications, Plans, Directions, and 
Estimates of the Cost of Each Design. By John 
W. Ritch, Architect. New York: C. M. Saxton,205 
Broadway, 4to. Price $3 per annum. 
This work has reached its second volume, and, as 
we understand, has been liberally sustained. Although 
several of the designs are tolerably well planned and 
would seem adapted to the wants of many of our citi¬ 
zens, yet we would suggest that the editor, in future, 
would turn his attention to a cheaper, more conveni¬ 
ent, and a more Republican class of dwellings, of which 
a majority of the American people, at the present 
time, are greatly in need. We would also suggest 
that, there occasionally appear a handsome and com¬ 
modious Grecian or Italian villa, a Swiss or purely 
Gothic cottage, with now and then, an appropriate de¬ 
sign and estimates, for a school house, or village 
church. Some further attention might likewise be 
paid to the grouping of trees and shrubs, with refer¬ 
ence to ornament and shade, and in giving a more pleas¬ 
ing effect. 
The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil. —A 
monthly periodical has recently been commenced un¬ 
der this name, by John S. Skinner, Esq., late of the 
Farmers’ Library, of this city, and formerly editor of 
the American Farmer. The time having expired for 
which he was engaged to conduct the Farmers’ Li¬ 
brary, at New York, that work has been discontinued, 
and the present one established, at Philadelphia, in 
"its stead. “ After thirty years of earnest endeavors, 
by all the means at his command, to improve the prac¬ 
tice of American agriculture, and to raise it in the 
public estimation to a standard commensurate with its 
true dignity and importance,—and without necessity, 
during a great part of that time, to feel personally, 
much care about the pecuniary results of his labors,”— 
our veteran pioneer says, that he “ now finds himself 
thrown, for the support of his family, exclusively on 
the patronage which his countrymen may be pleased 
to bestow on his future exertions in the same cause.” 
The work is published by George B. Zieber & Co., of 
Philadelphia, at $3 per annum. 
De la Elaboracion del Azucar en las colonias 
y de los nuevos aparatos destinados a mejorarla, obra 
escrita en Frances por MM. Derosne y Cail, prece- 
dida de una noticia de los resultados ventajosos obteni- 
dos con sus aparatos, no tan solo en Europa, sino 
asimismo en la isle de Borbon y en la de Cuba. Se- 
gunda edicion, corregida y aumentada con un apen- 
dice que comprende la estracion de los azucares delas 
mieles y la comparacion de los diversos sistemis de 
aparatos que pueden proponerse a las colonias; tradu- 
cida al Castellano, ilustrada con notas, y aumentada 
con una memoriav presentada ai instituto de Francia, 
sobre el analisis ae la eana de la tierra de la Habana, 
por el Senor Don Jose Luis Casaseca. Habana : Im- 
prenta del Gobierno por S. M., 1844. 
We have received from Don Jose de la Torre, of 
Havana, the above named work entire, on the cultiva¬ 
tion of sugar cane and the manufacture of sugar, which 
has been translated from the French and published by 
the Spanish government. To those of our southern 
friends who are conversant with the Spanish language, 
and are engaged in the cultivation of sugar cane, and 
are about to erect new sugar houses, or improve old 
ones, this treatise would be valuable. It probably can 
be obtained at Havana. 
Water-Rotted Hemp. —Our fellow countryman 
Dr. R. J. Spurr, sold, at Louisville, Ky., last week, a 
portion of his crop of water-rotted hemp, for some of 
which he received $210 per ton, and for the remain¬ 
der $205. It is an excellent article, and was readily 
taken up by the government, at Louisville,’ at the 
prices stated.— Lexington Observer. 
Cane Poles. —Quite a business is driving in this 
article, if we should judge from the quantity passing 
this point. A day or two since, the steamer Colorado 
passed up with 7,000 on board; and the Paris on Wed¬ 
nesday, with near 10,000. They are cut on the island.- 
and brakes on the lower Mississippi, and are shipped 
to the eastern cities, where they are manufactured 
into various articles, bottoms for chairs being the 
principal use to which they are subservient.— Lou. 
Courier. 
Hoop Poles. —The sugar business is carried on to 
such an extent, at present, in Louisiana, that the de¬ 
mand for hoop poles is enormous, and, it would seem, 
that the supply is nearly exhausted. Our Louisiana 
v\ r oods have heretofore supplied excellent poles for 
hogsheads, but western poles are preferred, when they 
can be had at a reasonable price. Louisiana poles are 
seldom used for molasses barrels, being too tender. 
Our principal supply comes from Indiana. The poles 
are cut from the 10th of September to the 1st of 
March. This year, there appears to be a great scar¬ 
city, and it is difficult to say how the market.will be 
supplied, as, owing to the demand for labor, the usual 
quantity has not been cut during the winter. During 
the last two or three years, the price, in this market, 
has varied from $15 to $22 per thousand, for bar¬ 
rel, and from $35 to $50 per thousand, for hogs¬ 
head poles. Northern split hoops sell here at $35 
per thousand.— Southern Paper. 
Conumdrum. —Why would ahorse be justified by 
Scripture in biting a man’s legl 
Because “ All flesh is grass !” 
Origin of Gee and Wo.—Dr. Pegge, a curious 
antiquary, attempts to explain the origin of these 
words, so much in use with cartmen and drivers of 
oxen. He derives “ gee,” from the German word geh , 
which is the second person singular of the imperative 
of ei gehen,” to go. 
Wo,” or “ Who-o,” he derives from the Danish 
word ho, which means stop. The French say “7(c 
Za,” “ stop there.” And in Shakspeare’s “ As you like 
it,” we find the following: ce Cry ho-la to thy tongue. 
I prythee, it curvets unseasonably.” Among nautic i 
persons, also, when a vessel is spoken at sea, it is 
usual to cry “ Ship ahoy!” that is, “ ship, stop.” So 
in like manner, a little trading vessel, which the Eng¬ 
lish term a “ hoy,” probably derives its name from 
stopping at different places to take in goods and passen- 
| gers, when hailed from the shore. 
