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The Domestic Architect : comprising a series of 
Original Designs for Rural and Ornamental 
Cottages, with full and complete Explanations 
and Directions to the Builder, embracing the 
Elementary principles of the Grecian and Cot¬ 
tage styles, with primary rules for Drawing and 
Shading, and the Rudiments of Linear Perspec¬ 
tive. Illustrated by over 200 engravins. By 
Oliver P. Smith, Architect. Buffalo : Derby 
& Co., 1853. 
This is a neat and valuable work, of which we 
have already given an extended notice. It con¬ 
tains lucid directions for the practical builder, for 
whom it is particularly designed. Mr. M. Austin, 
a well known and excellent Architect of this city, 
speaks as follows of its character and value :—“ I 
have examined a new work entitled ‘The Domes¬ 
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the use of practical builders and young students 
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Notes from Boston.—Visit to Marshfield. 
Liebig’s complete works on Chemistry —Com¬ 
prising his Agricultural Chemistry, Animal 
Chemistry, Familiar letters on Chemistry, The 
Origin of the Potato Disease, Chemistry and 
Physics in Relation to Physiology and Pathol¬ 
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Price, $1,50. 
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142 State street, Rochester. 
middle, passes the Lake Ridge, itself a curiosity 
that strikes every traveler. The surface of this 
Belt is almost a plain, (gently undulating hero 
and there,) with its southern edge elevated about 
three hundred feet above the northern, and con¬ 
sequently sloping to the north by a descent of 
about thiry feet to the mile, thus giving a rapid 
current to the streams, and creating no small ex¬ 
tent of water-power. The south half, between 
the Lake Ridge and the Mountain Ridge, through 
which the Erie Canal and the Rochester and Ni¬ 
agara Falls Railroad passes, is for the most pait 
under good cultivation, with a large population. 
Here is the city of Rochester and the villages of 
Brockport, Albion, Knowlesville, Medina, Middle- 
port, Lockport, and Niagara Falls. The same 
cannot be said of the north half, between the Ridge 
and the Lake. Some handsome villages appear 
in this division, but much is still forest land, and 
some of it wet and swampy. Yet, from ease of 
drainage and the exceeding fertility of the soil, 
this, ere long, must become one of "the most pro¬ 
ductive portions of the State. It will be the great 
granary to supply the flouring-mills in Western 
New York with the finest article of Genesee 
wheat. 
With this general view of the Lake Belt, it is 
not our purpose to notice the “ thousand and one” 
points of interest that have attracted the visitor. 
We pass by the Niagara Falls on the west, the 
Genesee on the east, the rising and falling of the 
Lake, the forts and battle-fields, Rochester and 
Lockport, the magnificent locks, the costly aque¬ 
ducts and bridges, the churches, schools, colleges, 
and seminaries, and we stop awhile at a place of 
comparative insignificance to complete our im¬ 
pressions. Do not be surprised. The very names 
at first may be a little repulsive. Have you or 
have you not heard of Jeddo, and of Wild Cat 
Swamp? 
The little village of Jeddo is on the Ridge Road, 
near the centre of this Belt, two miles north of 
Middleport, and thirteen east of Lockport. 
* It will in time be numbered among the most 
thriving villages on the Lake Ridge. Already 
you see a substantial flouring and custom mill of 
masonry, with three run of stone ; two saw-mills; 
■ftetog JUcbifies. 
__-A vessel built of zinc has been launched at 
Nantes. 
-The winter wheat in Wisconsin looks very 
promising. 
-Excellent sugar is now made in the Sand¬ 
wich Islands. 
-Lamartine is dying : his physicians have 
no hopes of him. 
-Frederica Bremer promises to publish a 
work on American slavery. 
—— P. T. Barnum is elected to the Connecticut 
Legislature from Bridgeport. 
-The Mexican debt, which is clamorous for 
liquidation, is $129,000,000. 
-The protestants in France, attending their 
own form of worship, are 3,000,000. 
-Navigation opened from Montreal to Que¬ 
bec on Thursday last, the 21st instant. 
-A vein of lead seven feet thick has just 
been opened near Mineral Point, Wisconsin. 
Prospect for Wool.—Recent Sales. 
The prospect for the coming clip is quite as 
flattering as the public have been led to expect 
From all parts of the country we have reliable in 
formation that mills which have been standing 
idle are to be put in operation as soon as tbe ne 
cessarv stock can be obtaiued. 
Of the market in England and on the Continent 
the London Times says “ At the late public 
sales nearly all tbe stock then in London was sold 
and the warehouses consequently beginning to 
look very empty. Tbe advices from the Conti 
nent represent light stock and high prices. In 
Germany the old stock is nearly exhausted, and 
the consequence is that the next clip has already 
been contracted for at much higher prices than 
those of last year.” 
We also find mention of an extensive and im¬ 
portant sale of wool in New York, on the the 20th 
inst. The competition was quite spirited, and 
the prices realized were fully ten per cent higher 
than was generally anticipated, and in advance of 
rates lately realized at private sale. Lots were 
wanted by manufacturers to carry them on until 
the new clip comes in ; and this, in addition to 
the prevalent feeling that the stock on hand is 
limited, tended to send up prices. The aggregate 
amount sold reaches $400,000. Common Ameri¬ 
can fleece brought 45c ; % blood do 52 ; fine do 
55@61. 
' The People's College Association, which 
was chartered by the Legislature at its late ses¬ 
sion, was to have met in Brooklyn on Wednesday. 
This project of establishing a College embracing 
such a complete systerp of education, has been 
maintained in the face of much disco.uragement, 
and will now probably be carried out. 
Boston, April, 1853. 
Messrs. Editors: —No one can visit Boston 
without reviving glorious recollectious of early 
Colonial history, and struggles in the sacred cause 
of human freedom. Here is Faneuil Hall. Its 
walls and arches, now consecrated by lapse of 
time, heard the first public demonstrations iu de¬ 
manding liberty of speech, thought, and action ; 
and rang with triumphant shouts of victory, and 
glad acclamations of an honorable peace. Here 
Webster pronounced his immortal Eulogy ou 
Adams and Jefferson. Little, perhaps, did he 
think then, that the same columns would be 
shrouded in mourning for him. Hilliard, with 
such a subject for contemplation as the departed 
Webster; aud such remembrances, as those of 
olden time, could but follow in tbe same lofty 
strain of eloquence which commemorated the 
birth, and deplored the death of the Boston Pat¬ 
riot and tbe Sage of Monticello. True greatness 
is not borr in a day, nor is it of mushroon growth 
ft requires many years to lay an indestructible, 
foundationand death—the terminus of noble ex¬ 
ertion—to build the monument, and hand down 
the precious memorial. Party strife and sections} 
jealousy, may asperse character and assail the 
honorable reputation of the living. But when 
death calls a great intellectual light from exer- 
tiou and glory, all private animosities, as they 
should be, are buried in oblivion. 
1 his afternoon I visited the homestead aud 
tomb of Webster, at Marshfield. It is 34 miles 
from Boston. To go there you take the Old Col¬ 
ony Railroad to Duxbury, which is within ten 
miles. Thence by stage, or private conveyance, 
and you are landed on tbe farm which Webster 
reclaimed from barrenness, and brought to a high 
state of fertility and fruitfulness. Webster was 
a model farmer. Like the Patriarchs of antidelu- 
vian time, he took heartfelt pride in numbering 
his flocks ; and in walking over his many acres of 
land. Mr. Fletcher Webster was not at home, 
having just gone on a fishing excursion with Mr. 
Sargent. I was welcomed however, by his son, 
Daniel, a bright and promising boy of 12 years, 
and by Mr. Dudly Baker, superintendent of the 
farm aud biotbei -in-law of “Go (i-head John Tay¬ 
lor,” I was taken through the Library, and room 
where Webster said, “I Still Live;” and where 
he died. It overlooks tbe family burial place and 
the Ocean. The bed and furniture of the room 
remain unchanged. 
Mr. B. conducted me to the grave of Webster 
on the monument is the simple inscription 
“Daniel Webster.” 
On the tomb of bis son, slain in Mexico, Major 
Edward Webster, is the following words, 
‘A dearly beloved Son and Brother.” 
On the tomb of Grace Fletcher, bis first wife, 
the passage of scripture, 
Blessed arethepure in heart,for they shall see God;” 
and on the tomb of Julia Webster Appleton, 
bis daughtei, the beautiful and expressive words, 
“Let me go, for the day breaketh.” 
I dined at the mansion, and was entertained by 
many anecdotes and sayings of the illustrious de¬ 
ceased. On leaving for Boston, Mr. Baker pre¬ 
sented me with some valuable letters in tbe hand 
writing of Mr. from Washington, on matters 
relative to farm management and fishing. Though 
short, they serve as a correct iudex to the home- 
habits, and private character of the man. None 
of them have been published in any form what¬ 
ever. As memorials of Webster, and Marshfield, 
they are invaluable. Yours, Ac., 
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; presenting tbe 
original Facts and Documents upon which tbe 
Story is fouuded. Together with Corrobora¬ 
tive Statements verifying the truth of the work, 
By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston : John 
P. Jewett A Co. 1853. 
The readers of “ Uucle Tom’s Cabin” will be 
interested in this volume, which is even mor 
thrilling and affecting than that world-renowned 
work. The title above gives a good idea of its 
contents. For sale at Daruow’s, Main st. Book 
store. 
Letter from California. 
We are indebted to Mr. Barnum, of Yates, Or 
leans county, for tbe following letter from Cali 
fornia, written, be says, “ by one of bis school 
mates to a brother at home.” The advice given is 
worth heeding: 
Benicia, Cal., Feb. 22,1853 
Dear Brother : — In your letter you speak of 
coming to California, aud when reading it, 
thought I should like to have you here with me, 
But I presume you are better off where you are, 
although this is a good country to make money 
but not as good as we beard it was before we left 
home. The mines are not what they have been, 
nor are wages as high. There are hundreds in tbe 
mines that are not making their board — still 
there are some who are doing well. I consider the 
mines a perfect lottery, yet think I should try then: 
if I had no family to look to and care for. For 
this reason, I had rather trust my luck by the 
month on a farm, where I am sure of making from 
$50 to $100 per month the year round. I hope 
you will not take encouragement from this to 
come here, far from it; though you might perhaps 
make more money here in one year than in five at 
home, yet the difference in enjoyment would make 
home to be preferred. I sometimes think all Cali¬ 
fornia would not persuade me to leave the com¬ 
forts of home. You say you have not given up 
the idea of coming here. If you should come, do 
not take the land route. 
The weather here is very fine. It is now as 
pleasant as May at home. We have not had any 
rain iu a month. The wild oats are ankle high. 
I wish I was at home to eat some apples with 
you this evening. This from your brother and 
well wisher. Wm. B. 
Impressions of Western New York. 
W. M. H. 
Stamped Envelopes.— The New York Evening 
Post learns that the stamped envelopes, contract¬ 
ed to be furnished for the United States govern¬ 
ment, will be ready for delivery by thelst of June. 
The New York Recorder, has along and inter¬ 
esting article under this title, from which we make 
tbe following extract. All YVestern New York 
readers, aud many others, will thank us for trans¬ 
ferring it to our columns : 
Though I do not live in Western New Y r ork, I 
have often traveled over its smooth or gently un¬ 
dulating fields by the different railroad, canal, and 
carriage routes that chequer them, and have had 
my attention again and agaiu arrested by those 
marks of growth and promise that distinguish 
few other portions of our State. In particular, a 
Belt, about eighty miles in length from east to 
west, aud ten in breadth from north to south, has 
struck me, not only as presenting some singular 
geological features, but as one of the Doblest thea¬ 
tres for the display of Anglo-Saxon enterprise, 
and destined at no distant day under this enter¬ 
prise to stand out as one of the brightest spots of 
earth. 
This Belt, defined as the Lake Belt, sometimes 
called, par excellence, Western New Y”ork, has a 
strong alluvial soil, with evidences, here and there 
that it was once submerged beneath the waters of 
the Lake. It produces large roots, the choicest 
fruits, and the best grains; especially the well 
known “ Genesee wheat.” On the north it is 
fringed by the Ontario, whose blue watere, dot¬ 
ted with sails and steamers, stretch away farther 
than eye can reach. On the south it is skirted 
by tbe Mountain Ridge, a line of hills from thir¬ 
ty to fifty feet high, running from west to east, 
and sometimes quite precipitous, with out-crop¬ 
ping ledges of rock, as if once a rock-bound shore. 
On the east, this Belt is cut off by the bed of tbe 
Genesee, and ou the west by the "deep aud broad 
current of the lower Niagara. Through the whole 
length of it, from west to east, and nearly in the 
a machine-shop, with water-power; several me¬ 
chanics’ shops ; store ; post-office, and some thir¬ 
ty families, where a few years ago was the mias¬ 
ma of a swamp. The water-power at this place 
is highly valuable, being supplied by tbe middle 
and west branches of Oak Orchard Creek, Wild 
Oat Swamp, and a waste-weir on tbe Erie Canal. 
This last source in particular renders it steady and 
reliable, for in summer, when other streams in 
this region fail, this has the greater supply, as 
more water is then pressed down from Lake Erie, 
and more let out at the waste-weirs towards Lock ’ 
port. Nor is the fall inconsiderable. At tbe 
Ridge, for the Ridgeway Mills, about fifteen feel 
are secured, and two other falls, of eight or ten 
feet each, may be secured nearby for milling aud 
manufacturing purposes. 
Our notice of Jeddo would be quite imperfect 
without further allusion to Wild Cat Swamp, for 
all tilings here worthy of notice are as if the pro¬ 
duct of this. Stand on the Ridge iu Jeddo and 
turn your face to the south. You see fields of 
muck, which rival in richness the far-famed Scioto 
Y r alley of Ohio. These fields, waving in summer 
with heavy wheat and corn, and yielding roots of 
enormous size, constitute by far tbe richest por¬ 
tions of Esq. E.’s and of Esq. B.’s farms. Only 
twenty-five years ago, when water and dense for¬ 
est covered these, the wild-cat, raccoon, and deer 
found here a secure home, and the exhalations and 
sickly vapors of summer kept the dwellings of the 
white man away. The Lake Ridge caused this 
Swamp. It has been disputed whether this Ridge 
has or has not once constituted the Lake shore. 
Some able geologists maintain that it has; and 
our State geologist, Mr. Hall, in the Natural His¬ 
tory of New York, favors this opinion. But the 
shape of this Ridge is not generally that of a per¬ 
manent shore, descending as it does nearly alike 
on both sides. It is more that of a drift or bar in 
the Lake ; still, a very singular one if it is such. 
Low, there may have been a time wkeD, by a 
different conformation of lauds, the waters of the 
Ontario were pent up, in the direction of the 
Mohawk and St. Lawrence; when the Niagara 
Falls and the Falls at Rochester did not exist, and 
the level of the waters of Ontario was nearly the 
same as those of Lake Erie. If ever this was so, 
the Mountain Ridge, to all geological appearances, 
and not the Lake Ridge, constituted tbe shore.— 
The form of the Mountain Ridge favors this theo- 
ly. What, then, was the Lake Ridge ? There 
may have been a time when, by a partial removal 
ol the barriers on tbe east, tbe waters tarried 
awhile at this level, and threw up as if a tempo¬ 
rary shore. Or it may have been a bar formed 
before tbe watere receded. The sand, rouud 
gravel, smooth stones, and shells found in this 
Ridge show, at all events, that it must have been 
ibject to great agitation by water. But whether 
shore or a drift, when the Lake receded it be¬ 
came a dam, through which most streams at once 
burst; but some, being arrested by it, coursed 
along on its south side till able to force a passage. 
In this way,^tke West Branch, being checked, 
formed Wild Cat Swamp, and, after passing to the 
east for six or seven miles along the Ridge, in al¬ 
most a dead level, was discharged into the bed of 
tlie Oak Orchard, and in this way its waters 
ossed the Ridge and found the Lake. 
This Swamp was not only waste ground, but 
tbe seat of malaria, which drove the new settlers 
away. To abate a nuisance, therefore, the Ridge 
this point was tapped. Some man, about 
twenty-five years ago, having no idea of the con¬ 
sequences that were to follow, gently checked the 
ground, and the water, once beginning to flow, 
moved with it the sand and gravel till a channel 
was cut about fifteen feet below the surface of tbe 
Swamp, passing lip through it till it reached the 
channel of the West Branch and Middle Branch 
of Oak Orchard Creek. The sickly vapors were 
abated. The soil carried down enriched the lands 
below. The Swamp, with five or ten feet of muck, 
was left high and dry for cultivation. A new line 
of mil-seats was formed by the new channel, the 
one at the Ridge especially valuable, and a seat 
which was purchased by J. E. for six dollars per 
acre, and considered dear at that, is some of it now 
considered worth more nearly a hundred dollars 
per acre. Such is one of many illustrations that 
might be given of great effects from slight causes, 
when enterprise co-operates with natural advan¬ 
tages. 
Much that has been said of Wild Cat Swamp 
may be said of others similarly formed and simi¬ 
larly drained, though of few has the drainage been 
attended with such direct results. 
-M. Manndorf, another pretended Dauphin, 
has enlisted as a private in the Dutch army. 
-The boilers of the ill-fated steamer Henry 
Clay, were recently sold in New York for $3,050. 
-Wisconsin has chartered 15,000 miles of 
Railway, which it will cost $300,000,000 lo build. 
— The Sloo Tehuantepec treaty was ratified 
by tbe Mexican Government on the 28th March. 
— The New York ice-venders propose to 
charge the coming season double the rates of the 
last. 
-The amount of money raised in New 
Hampshire by taxes, for schools, in 1852, was 
$150,527 74. 
-Hon. W. A. Graham was thrown from his 
carriage near Raleigh, on the 12th inst., and nar¬ 
rowly escaped death. 
-A Savings Bank is about to be established 
at Honolulu, upon the plan of similar institutions 
in the Atlantic States. 
-There are 484 convicts in the State Prisons 
of Philadelphia, aud they pay by their labor the 
cost of their confinement. 
-Each person iu the United States would be 
the possessor of property to the amount of $375, 
were it equally distributed. 
-The new government envelopes are of 
beautiful laid paper, with the words “ P. O. Dept.” 
water marked iu the same. 
-Barnum has disposed of his interest in the 
Illustrated News, and has hired the Siamese 
Twins, at a salary of $5,000 a year. 
-Santa Ana’s address commences with the 
words—“ on placing m y foot ou the shores of my 
native country.” He lias lost one leg. 
-William Stoddard, of Litchfield, found an 
old almanac the other day, iu a building be was 
demolishing, which bore the date of 1761. 
-The proposition to undermine and other¬ 
wise improve Faneuil Hall, Boston, has been 
vetoed by the Common Council of that city. 
-The Legislature of New York voted $25 
to one of the members who had bis coat stolen, 
while in tbe discharge of bis legislative duties. 
-Louisiana is about to set the example of 
paying witnesses a fair price for their time when 
compelled to attend to other peoples’ business. 
-Tbe pay of Colonel in the English Grena¬ 
dier Guards was reduced, some time ago, from 
fifteen thousand to ten thousand dollars a year. 
-Tbe Cobourg Star sets down the value of 
the Woolen manufactures produced yearly in Mc- 
Kechnie’s establishment in Cobourg, at $300,000. 
- There has been a decline in tbe prices of 
leading articles of produce in St. Louis. So says 
the Evening News. Pork is tending downward. 
--The Canals have not opened well this 
spring. An unusual amount of annoyance and 
delay is experienced in getting them ready for 
navigation. 
Bullard’s Panorama of New York City.— 
This entertaining and instructive work of Art will 
soon be exhibited again in this city. Those who 
wish to see the great Commercial [Metropolis of 
the country—and particularly the scenes witnessed 
in Broadway—can do so at a trifling expenditure 
of time aud money by visiting this Panorama.— 
It is a faithful and beautiful picture, as many a 
New Y r orker has testified, and as we ourselves 
have observed. 
-Florida writers are advocating the planting 
of vineyards in that State for the production of 
wiue, for which tbe soil and climate are both fa¬ 
vorable. 
— The New York Day Book has employed 
some half dozen female compositors. The nimble 
fingers of the gills, it is said, kiss the type with 
great rapidity. 
— A colored man, who sailed for California 
from Newburyport, in the brig Ark, in 1849, re¬ 
turned by tbe last steamer, $10,000 better off than 
when he went away. 
-The city authorities of Pkiladeldhia, in 
contracting for cleaning tbe public thoroughfares 
for the season, have stipulated that the streets 
shall be swept at night. 
-The N. Y. Tribune goes into an estimate 
of the cost of the dust in the streets of New York, 
the destruction of hats, clothes, liuuen, Ac., at three 
millions of dollars a year. 
-It appears by tbe census that tbe con¬ 
sumption of spirituous liquors in the U. S., reaches 
the enormous quantity of 86,000,000 gallons an¬ 
nually, equal to six gallons for every adult person. 
— It is stated that the third and fourth vol¬ 
umes of Macaulay’s History will appear by (be 
end of April. The period embraced in these vol¬ 
umes extends to the accession of the house of 
Hanover. 
-The Peru and Indianapolis Railroad is now 
completed to Tipton, forty miles distant. Pas¬ 
senger care will soon be run to that point. There 
are thirty-two miles of the road yet to be com¬ 
pleted. 
-The force of circumstances and the influx 
of advertisements, have caused the New York 
Times to grow taller by a few inches added to the 
length of each column. The Times achieves great¬ 
ness. 
-Fifty thousand bushels of Onions were 
raised last season in the vicinity of Westport, Ct., 
within a tract of country not exceeding three 
square miles. The average yield per acre was 
about five hundred bushels. 
-The golden ingots are now the most popu¬ 
lar celebrity i n N ew York. Tbe Herald descri bes 
three of them—one worth $4,361 74, another 
$1,171 27. They are stamped with their weight 
and fineness, and are tempting slugs. 
:-About 140,000 dead letters are annually 
returned from our General Post-office to tbe Post- 
office Departments of Europe, that they may agaiu 
fall into the hands of the writers. The postage 
amounts to about $20,000 a year. 
-The Minnesota Legislature has incorpo¬ 
rated a Railroad Company to build a road from 
the Falls of St. Anthony to Puget’s Sound on the 
Pacific. Tbe distance between Chicago and the 
Pacific on this route, is estimated at 1,765 miles. 
-There are 124,783 children in Wisconsin 
who go to school; or, nearly one-third of the 
whole population. Last year, there were 111,431, 
so that the increase is 13,442. The number of 
school houses iu the State is 1,730; built the pres¬ 
ent year 221; volumes in libraries 11,975. 
