New England Farmer from Boston, Massachusetts • 2

NEW ENGLAND FARMER BOSTON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1857. Hill next Sunday evening. Our citizens will no The Lawtox Blackberry. The JV. F.

Tri September Conventions. The following political State Conventions are "down on the bill" for the coming month. NEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENTS. ine root directly to the bone. Io iU passage, it will put oat no fibere but when it reaches the bone, the root will entirely cover it with the moat delicate fibers, like lace, each one seeking a pore of the bone.

Oo this bone, the vine will continue to feed as long as any nutriment remains to be exhausted. Fanner'i Cabinet. WOEK-SHOPS ASD STOSMT DAYS. Every farmer who has boys should provide them unrkihov. It may be a building erected on pur and the wisdom of man has never yet been able to overthrow that commonser.se axiom.

But be sure that you train your child wisely and rationally. You may shoot a ball through the bore of a rifle, and thus impart to it such a direction that there is a reasonable certainty it will hit the mark. But you cannot insure a straight-forward course in your child, through life, by shooting him, as it were, whether he will or no, through the narrow tube by which you attempt to cut off his early years from all outside influences. A dog may be trained by compelling him to do certain things until they become a habit, without giving him a reason therefor, or consulting his own tastes and wishes; but this is not the way to train a child. The virtue which is thus cultivated is a sickly plant, and will not long doubt improve the opportunity to hear him, for he will unquestionably make an especial effort to please the people!" rirnltnntl Itanrap.

Reports of the Crops. We gather the following intelligence from late exchanges The potato rot has begun to manifest itself with as much virulence as it ever exhibited. The Che-nangoes and the State of Maine varieties are the most affected, but there will probably" be enough of other kinds to supply any reasonable demand. Of apples there will be very few, but pears promise an abundant yield. Salem Register.

The Nantucket Mirror sas the potato rot is very prevalent on that island. Some fields will not pay for digging, and one farmer has three acres affected. The crops in Worcester county will not be so good as we anticipated a few weeks ago. Spring opened late and there was no early planting. The superabundance of rainy weather since has not been favorable to sweetness or ripeness.

The hay crop is large out badly cured. Potatoes run too much to top, and the rot is already breaking out in many places, the oat crop is heht, and fruits are fe and far between and we fear that everything prom ises to be high this fall. tYorcester TranscnvU The Providence Journal states the potato rot is spreading in that vicinity also in Narraganset county and in other parts of Rhode Inland. The Lancaster (Pa.) Times reports the appearance of the potato rot in the low grounds of that vicinity. It has also shown itself to a considerable extent near Frederick, Md.

A correspondent of the Traveller, writing from U'ica, New York, says: "Crops in this portion of rsew iorK oiaie are good, with the exception ot wheat, which is almost a total failure. The far mers say there will be no first quality Genesee wheat this year. Wheat is now nearly in, and in many cases it has been cut and saved merely as fodder. In the counties of Genesee, Monroe, Livingston, Ontario, Yates and Schuyler, hardly enough will be raised for home consumption. Barlev and oats are looking very well, and full average crops win be made.

More barlny is sown this year, and more money will be raised from it, than from any other crop." The crop of wheat, oats and grass in Illinois is described as enormous, very far beyond any ever heretofore produced in the State, and potatoes have not looked so well for many years. Corn will not he a large crop in the northern part of the State, without a favorahle autumn, as it is late, though growing now verv rapidly. Iherreeport Journal estimates the product of wneat this year in Mephenson county, Illinois, at 1,333,000 bushels from G6 000 acres under cultivation. The town of Buckeye alone will yield 000 bushels. The St.

Louis Intelligencer says the Wabash valley will this year yield the richest harvest ever grown upon its bosom. Its inexhaustible soil has givpn the most bountiful pvidence of its fertility. The St Anthony (Minnesota) Express savs: "The harvest is now being secured in this vicinity, and will generally prove a good crop. Although in some parts of the country the crasshnnners have done considerable damage, we think on the whole that Hennepin county will produce a larger crop than last season, as there is a much larger quantity of land under cultivation." The Mobile Mercury has received discouraging accounts ot the cotton crops from almost everv sec tion of Alabama and Eastern Mississippi; but the crop of wheat and oats is extraordinary, and a great yield of corn is promised. The latest accounts of the cotton crop from the interior of Texas were encouraging.

Picking had fairly commenced. The effects of the drought on me ironuer were deplorable. Sorghum Sucre. The Manchester (N. H) American says that the Chinese sugar cane, sma patches of which have been planted all through the State, proves to be an entire failure so far as regards the production of sugar.

In size it com- pares favorably with Indiin corn, and will probably be superb fodder for fall and winter use. The sea son has been unfavorable by its unusually cool temperature. This statement will probably apply to all New England. Farther south, however, better success has attended its cultivation. The Baltimore American remarks: "As the season when the experiment of cultivat ing the Chinese sugar cane in this country approaches a period for practical comparison, the pronamnties ot a complete success become appre- has yet reached maturity the most favorable results are reported success appears to lie so near the surface that the grinding of half a dozen stalks satisfies alike the experienced planter and the most obtuse doubter.

Indeed, even in localities where it is yet only like a waving field of green maize, there are not wanting those who are confident of its adaptation to profitable culture. In the South, in some instances, the experiment of expressing and boiling the juice has been made, and with the most Mattering prospects. From Georgia, Texas, the Carol inas and Virginia we have heard a uni form voice of approbation. Excellent svrup has been produced, of exquisite flavor and in unexpected profusion. Large quantities are also growing throughout the West and Northwest" Vine Culture in the United States.

Con siderable doubt seems to exist in certain quarters as to the success of the experiments now making in various parts of the country in the manufacture of wine from native grapes. The following extract from the News, published in Vevay, Indiana, which was settled by emigrants from the Swiss village of the same name, who were probably the first to introduce the grape culture in the West, states some of the causes of its failure "We have always looked upon it as a settled fact that any attempt to render general the culture of the vine would result in ruin to the party attempt ing it. Unr seasons are too variable one winter too cold the next too open and warm one summer is too dry and too hot another is too wet The truth is that land in the Ohio river valley is worth more money per acre to raise grass and wheat or corn, than it is io raise grapes. We regard it as settled that any man who enters into the culture of the vine, without a capital like Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, will be ruined in ten jeirs.

We are sure that the results of chemical anahsis will show that all the money Mr. L. has made o-1 of the vine culture, has been done by adulterating the juice of the grape and making a little go a good way. In support ot our idea, we would rerer to the experience of the early settlers of our own town. Ihe culture of the vine was commenced, where at an early day large amounts of money were expend ed in the preparation ot the ground, and planting grape vines.

Now there is not a farmer who has any vines who takes to do more than raise grapes enough for his family to eat ar)d to have a drink or two in the hot weather. Indeed, we may say that in the vicinity of Vevay, where the vine-growing was first attempted in America, it has been abandoned, anu men are raising nay, wneat and corn. Mr. Banks on Trimming Trees A correspon dent of the New York Evening Post, who has been visiting the farm of Mr. Banks, at VValtham, thus speaks of his mode of treating young fruit trees "Hia experiments in fruit trees, of which there are about seven hundred in his nursery, at first did not meet the approval of his rural neighbors, who remonstrated against his pruning of the tops, which they predicted would ruin them.

He, however, per sisted, on the theory that the exposure to the violent winds of New Englmd.of the luxuriant branches and foliage of tender trees which had not much strength of root, tended to break the slight delicate fibres by which they derived their nourish ment from the soil. And thus far, results have justified the experiment, for a more hardy and vig orous set ot young trees is nowhere to be tound. it is not surprising that the farmer or waitnam looks with enthusiasm upon his success." Smart Old Men. Capt Thomas Hill, of Goulds- boro', who is in his 77ih year, has worked at haying this season five days in one week. At mowing, raking, he kept up with the other men in the field, and was paid the usual wages of haymakers.

Mr. John Preble, of Sullivan, who is ninety years old, has secured the quarter part of his hay unaided by any other man. He is so inhrm, that when mowing, at each step he is obliged to rest his snath upon the ground to support himself to step by. What do our )Oung folks think of this? Ellsworth American. The citizens of Hampden county have already expended over twenty-Jive thousand dollars in the nurchase and nremriiion of ihe grounds upon which the National Horse Show is to be held, and for I premiums for that exhibition.

1 bune gives an interesting account of a visit to the nursery of Mr. George Seymour, of South Nor- walk, where there were several acres of blackberries. The bushes had occupied the field for two years, and the quantity produced is most wonderful The Editor of the Tribune says "We had learned from circulars that from four to eight quarts were produced by single canes, and that from 500 to 1,000 ripe berries were to be counted on a cane of average size; we found one cane having over 1,600 Sent to the city in quart boxes, they bring 30 cents at wholesale Raspberry baskets filled with these berries sell for 15 cents, and the retailers get whatever they choose to ask. Judging from the present demand, we believe 300 acres may be planted to this blackberry, and the whole results being sent to New York market they would fail of being plentiful enough to be within reach of all. In fact we do not believe the market can be well overstocked." Delaware Peach Crop.

We learn from peach growers that in various orchards the yield will average about a third or half a crop. This, they say, is preferable, as a limited quantity at large prices is better for them than laige quantities at limited prices. The orchards of Messrs. Appleton, Moore, and others, of Appouninimink Creek, the greatest peach growing district in the State, will yield something over half a crop. In the neighborhood of Delaware City, the crop, it is said, will be a failure, as is unavoidably the case when they have long r-een cultivated in the same place.

More than any other fruit, they require new soil, the old apparently acting as a poison, by producing the yellows, Smyrna (Del.) Times. The Lowell JSTeus says that Mr. J. A. Kar-wood, of Littleton, recently sold a pair of matched black geldings of English and Morgan breed, to H.

W. Van Vorhis, of Maiden, for $1050. They are five years old, weigh 1100 pounds each, and were raised by Mr. Harwood. ft" E.

F. Sherman, of Lowell, will deliver the address before the Middlesex North Agricultural Society, on the occasion of their Fair in that city next month. Rev. H. W.

Beecher will deliver an address before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in Boston, during the last week of September. TnE Southern Commercial Convention. The Southern Commercial Convention, at Knox- ville, after a session of four days, adjourned to meet in Montgomery, in May next. The following is a summary of its doings, or rather re- solvings The Convention adopted the following resolutions: Rtquesting the general government to instruct its diplomatic agents abroad to use their efforts to procure a reduction or repeal of the duties on tobacco. Urging the government to obtain control of the isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Calling the attention of the South to the importance of grape culture, ard appointing a committee to procure information on the subject. Endorsing the resolutions of the Southern bishops to build a college. Appointing a committee to inquire into the propriety of re opening the slave trade. And a resolution for the org nization of a Southern Agricultural and Commercial Association. A resolution requesting the governors of the Southern Slates to appoint five delegates each, to meet in convention and devise means for starting of steamers from southern ports to Europe, was adapted.

Resolutions were adopted urging the United States Government to fortify the harbors of Port Royal, South Carolina, Beaufort, North Carolina, and Mobile, Alabama, and making them coaling stations for the goveinment steamers. Among the resolutions defeated was one endorsing Walker's course in Nicaragua; one declaring it inexpedient to investigate the propriety of reopening the slave trade and one calling a national, commercial and agricultural convention at Louisville, Kentucky. Slavery in Illinois Advocated. The Mat-toon Gazelle, a Douglas democratic journal in Southern Illinois, advocates the establish a ent of tion comes squarely up to every business man Which would you rather do, make slaves of your family, or provide a comfortable home for some of the enslaved African race?" Accordingly, it hopes the day of practical benevolenoe will soon usher in the blessings of slavery. The Utah Expedition.

A dispatch from Washington, dated the 26ih, says: Gen. Scott arrived here this morning. He has been busy all day with the General Superintendent in making out a programme, for the movement of troops for Utah. They have finally decided that the expedition to Utah shall proceed. It is not decided yet whether Gen.

Harney, or Col. Johnson will command the expedition. Walker is very anxiou to retain Harney in Kansas. A messenger will be dispathched to Kansas to-morrow to settle the matter. Dr.

Forney of lennefsee was to day appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Utah. This completes all the appointments for the Territory. They will all proceed West immediately, and join the army at Fort Laramie, uov. humming is now at fort Leavenworth, wailing for the other appointees to arrive. From Kansas.

Gov. Robinson has been tried on the charge of usurpation of office, and though the court was Judge Cato's, and the jury all pro- ilavery, he is reported to have been acquitted. There will be about ten thousand votes in favor of the Free State or Topeka Constitution and Government, and there will be very few opposed to it. The returns now in amount to eight thousand for, and only twenty five against it Minnesota. The Constitutional Conventions pro gress slowly.

Some points of difference have been harmonized others, more prominent, such as apportionment and universal suffrage, it is thought the Conventions will fail to agree upon. The Repub licans favor but one Constitution, while the Demo crats are set upon submitting both, as best subserving the interests of the people. The Conventions will probably agree upon a day for the submission of both to the people. Missouri. The St Louis Democrat of 20th inst states that one hundred counties have been heard from officially, and Rollins has 46.572.

Stew art 45,782, making Rolling's majority 747, with nine counties unofficial to come. From these nine the Democrat has returns from all but three, and foots up a majority of 433 for Rollins. It is still confident of RolHns's election. Utah. The Interior Department has received intelligence from reliable gentlemen and fugitive Mormons, that Brig bam Young is preparing to resist Gen.

Harney that he has relapsed into the grossest infidelity and atheism, and that he continues to hold up the government of the United States to the supreme contempt of the Mormons. Texas. The Galveston News says that the majority for Runnels, the Democratic candidate for Governor, will not be less than 11,000, and that the Legisliture will be more largely Democratic than ever before. A Chance for Kansas Women to Vote. A Kansas letter snys that "in consequence of omitting the word 'male before residents, the Border Ruflhns have enfranchised the women! The ladies will insist on exercising the right thus unintentionally conferred on them.

Let Lucy Stone comeoutl She may cast her ballot now. Hurrah for Border Ruffian carelessness!" Tennessee. It is now conceded that Maynard (Amer.) is elected to Congress from the Knoxville District instead of Wallace (Dera.) 0 There is a town in Kansas called Greeley, in honor of the well known editor of the New York Tribune. The inhabitants recently applied to the post office department to establish there a post of- fice, which the department graciously consented to do, if the inhabitants would call it ffalker! Banki Youi Wen, in Worcester Gardner in Boston National American, in Boston Democrats, in Hon. J.

Z. Goodrich, former chairman of the Republican State Committee, has written a long letter against Mr. inks, which creates some talk in political circles in this State. eligtras Jnttlnw. Churches without Pastors.

Eight of the Boston churches are without pastors at this time, The King's Chapel; New South Bowdoin Street; Fifth Universalis! Phillips, South Boston Maverick, East Boston; Bowdoin Square; and the new Unitarian society, in Suffolk Street. To thus mm' ho HH.f? in tlii. pini'nlrf tko ttiese ma he added this VlCimt, the WlLthrop church in Charlestown. the Myotic in Medford.and the Orthodox Churches 1 est Newton, Maiden and Edst Cambridge. tCj The Christian Advocate has an interesting letter from Halle, Prussia, of July 9fh, in which the writer says that King Oscar has come out decidedly in favor of the extension of religious liberty among bis subjects of Sweden and Norway, by submitting to the Di-t a proposition for their ratification.

It is entitled, "A law respecting a more extended religious liberty, and matters appertain ing thereto. tt The General Convention of Universalists in the United States will hold its next annual session in Chicago, on the 15th of September. The citizens of Chicago have made arrangements to entertain the delegates in attendance in the most hospitable manner. New England will be largely represented in the Convention. By The Transcript says "Our informant was error in reporting that the Rev.

Dr. Thompson, had received a call to settle in Chicago. It appears that Dr. T. did not allow himself to be regarded as a candidate, nor permit ary steps to be taken with reference to giving him a formal invitation, while temporarily supply ing a pulpit in that city." 0 The Methodists of West Falmouth have just completed a pmall house for public worship, containing 46 pews, accommodating about 200 per sons, at an expense of $2700.

A clergyman from Xew Bedford is expected to deliver the dedication sermon. Te Scot 1itl Weekly Pulpit announces that the A'orlh British Review, after a temporary suspension to be resumed by the old publisher, Mr. W. P. Kennedy.

The "Kingsley School" of con tributors, it is said, are to be ejected, and the ancient orthodoxy of the periodical restored. tt Rev. Frederick Monod, of the French Evan gelical church, at Paris, editor of the Protestant paper called Archives of Christianity in the Jine teenth Century, will visit the United States the coming autumn with the view of spending the win ter here. ft The 50th anniversary of the ordination of the venerable Dr. Willard, of Deerfield, will be celebrated there on the 22d of September.

He has been blind for a number of years, but cheerful, active-minded, and interested in all Christian works. Eev. Charles B. Boynton, of the South Con gregational church, in Pittt-field, has sent in his positive resignation of his pastorship, and accepted a unanimous call to return to his old charge in Cincinnati. ft Rev.

O. A. Skinner, late pastor of the Fifth UniversalLst chuich in Boston, is expected to take the Presidency of Lombard University, at Gales-burg, 111. lists in Connecticut will be held in Stafford, on the 26th and 27th and 27th insL.anii that Vprmnnt. nt W'H.

slock, on the same days. ft The Western Recorder, a Baptist paper, con tains an account of the expulsion of a member of that church, on a charge of laziness. 0 Rev. Amory Gale, recently of Lee, has become pastor of the Baptist church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, OC? Rev. H.

O. Howland was installed pastor of the Congregational society in Chester, N. Aug. 12 th. ft The corner-stone of a new Methodist Episcopal church was laid in Chelsea on Wednesday.

Sales of Stocks. WtrHEBiAi, Auocbt 26, 1867. 4 hftre Boston and Maine Railroad, 83 14 do. Western Railroad. (..

do. Old Colony and Fall River Railroad. 85. Boston and Worcester Railroad. Si Boston and Providence Kail road.

7f. Portland, Saco anil Portsmouth Railroad, 83. Fianklin Insurance Company, 98. annua Manufacturing Company, 295. Merrimac Manufacturing Couipauy, K52.

Amoskt-ai; Manufacturing Company, 780. RoatoD Muic Hall Association, SoJ, Botuon Athenasura, 87. Batik. 106 1. National Rank, 101.

Boylston Bank, 117. Maverick Bank, V4. 27 do, 12 do. 6 do, 20 do, do. 2 do.

43 do. 22 do. 7 do. 10 do. Thursday, August 27, 1867.

6 shares Eastern Katlroad, si. 12 WtsterD Railroad. Oo. lu do. 1 do.

10 do. 20 do. 10 do. 1 do. 11 do.

Old Colony Railroad, S4. Boston and Maine Railroad, Northern Railroad, 37. Rockland Mining Company, Maverick Bank, 94. Kxchange Bank, 121. Bank of Commerce, 104.

Money and Business. Thursday, Auousy 27, 1867. Honey la In very good demand, and nothing is done less than 9 per cent. The market appears to be gradually tight ening. There If no notable change in the stock market.

Great excitement has been produced in the business world by ihe suspension of the Ohio Lite aud Trust Company, uo ticed in another column. Several large New York bankers and stockholders have already been carried coder by the crarb of this heavy failure, and the effects are likely to be still further felt, by wettern bank and bankers Several banks Id different parts of the country are alio reported as having failed. The foreign imports at New York last week amount In value to nearly five millions of dollars which Is about evenly divided between dry goods and general merchandise. As compared with the imports for the corresponding week of last year, the total shows a falling off of upwards of $800,000. The exports of specie from the port of New York for the week ending Aug.

22, were $2,680,008. Boston Flour and Grain Market. Wbdkibdat, August 26, 1867. Ftoua. There has been a steady but moderate demand for flour during the week, with a small stock of ihe lower grades- The sales of common brands Western have been at 86.75 6,90 fancy bran-Is at and extras at $7,60 9 a few hrands of St Louts only selling for an advance on the latter rate.

Canada flour has been selling at for fancy, and $7. 609 fc bbl. for extras. Souf em flour Is dull, and new begins to arrive more freely. The sales have been at for common and fancy, 6 0 bbli.

new Baltimore fancy selling at and extra range from 1439 I bbl. Corn meal Is setli at 4.65 for common and Brandy wine and Rye Flour at $4 75 5, 75 f- bbl. for com mon and extra. Gain The market for Corn hai been dull during the week, but with Heht arrival near the close prices are a shade high- The sales- of Southern yIlnw have been at Pflcfff $1 and Western mixed and New Orleans yellow at OSgfiWct bo. dosing at 98c 81 for Southern yellow, and 96c for Western mixed.

In Oats there have been sales at 7072c If-bus, for Northern aid Canada; and 68c for Southern, including some to arrive- Rye has been sold at 81, C5 for new. White beans have been in moderate demand at $1 2,26 bus. for poor to very good and Canada peas are scarce and nominally $1,25 bushel. Ntw Yori Cattli Mkt, August 26. Receipt Beeves Beef has advanced llc ft over laot week's prices The receipts were short, tooting up only 2500 ld ssslrH upward of last week The qao'atlon- are 9K cfor pwr, tollfl lSJo for first aialtty and 18918 for r-r-o lum caitle.

Ihe market cl.inK t.nsettled and dull Mutton de- 7f.rftftl h. ad the reeeints nearU 14.000 mark, scifva. 8 Ine scarce nd firm at last week's rates; receipt! 3000, Jfiititurial Utaite, fa. BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857. EEVIEW CP THE WEEK.

The news from Europe this week is of unusual interest. The attempt to lay the Atlantic telegraph has been suspended, in consequence of the breaking of the cable, when upwards of three hundred miles from the starting point This news has awakened general regret and disappointment in this country, although the community were in a measure prepared for it, by the bad weather which has prevailed on the ocean for several weeks. Full confidence in the ultimate success of the undertak ing is expressed by those on board the telegraph fleet, and with the valuable experience now gained, and favored with propitious weather, there would seem to be little doubt that the submerging of the cable will be accomplished on the next trial, which, it is possible, may be made this fall The weather in England has been unfavorable for the harvest, and breadstuffs had advanced. Ve are glad, however, to notice a decline in sugar and molasses. Spain has suspended all negotiations with the Mexican Envoy.

The difficulties concerning the Turkish principalities appear to have taken a favorable turn. The difficulties in British India seem to be multiplying. Delhi has not yet succumbed to the British forces, and the insurrection is spreading in various directions. The entire kingdom of Oude has risen. It would seem, however, that the late outbreaks have been less serious in their consequences than the earlier ones, and the opinion is expressed by the India correspondent of the Times that the worst of the insurrection is over.

Matters appear to be in statu quo in China. There is a report, which is disbelieved, that the emperor has ab dicated. The business world has been thrown into a high state of excitement, this week, by the failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, a mammoth banking concern, whose chief seat of operations is New York city. This company has a capital of two million dollars, and enjoyed a high credit up to the hour when the announcement of its suspension fell like a thunder-bolt upon Wall Street. Its business has been principally in exchanges and loaning money on all classes of securities, and the bank was one of deposit, and not of issue.

It therefore has no circulating notes, and the losers will be only among those who have been directly connected with its business operations. The losses will fall principally upon depositors and holders of its drafts. The direct cause of the suspension was its entanglement with AVestern railroads, which have swallowed a million or a million and a half of its funds. The effects of this failure will be widespread and disastrous, the first fruits of which have already appeared in the suspension of several large operators in stocks and private bankers, in New York. The failure of six chartered banks, in vari ous parts of the country, is also announced.

We had a report from Washington that the War Department recognizes the virtual abandonment of the Utah expedition, and had relieved Gen. Harney of that command but as we go to press, the telegraph reports that after consultation with Gov. Scott, it had finally been decided that the ex pedition should proceed. The only news from Kansas of interest, is the announcement that Gov. Robinson had been tried and acquitted Judge Cato's packed border-ruffian jury being unable to convict him of the ridiculous charge brought against him.

The rumored seizure of the island of Formosa, as explained by the Washington editors and cor respondents, does not as yet amount to anything serious. In consequence of a difficulty between the Chinese authorities and an American merchant, Capt. Simons had been dispatched to the island by Com. Armstrong, with directions to keep the Amer ican flag fiying until further orders; but this was not intended as an ace of seizure or reprisal. Among the prominent disasters of the week, may be mentioned a hurricane in Wisconsin, by which an entire village was destroyed, and a powder mill explosion in Wilmington, Delaware, which proved fatil to four or five of the workmen.

We have had a continuance of cool weather, dur ing the past week. Three inches of rain fell on Saturday night and Sunday morning. At sunrise, Tuesday morning, the thermometer stood at 55 in Boston the lowest since July 2d. On Monday the thermometer rose above 70 for the first time for eight days a remarkable though not un precedented continuance of cool weather at this season. The mean temperature of the first three quarters of August was about a degree lower than usual, and it is probable that this month, like every other in 1857, except February, will be culderthan the average.

For two or three days the weather has been warmer and very fine. TRAINING CHILDREN. The too careful and over-rigorous training of children is not a very common fault, in our day and country. Still, we occasionally meet with parents who seem to imagine that they can rear a brood of human angels by simply taking sufficient pains to hedge them around, in their early years, and excluding from their tender minds all knowledge of the temptations and wickedness of the world without The purity and innocence of childhood, they seem to imagine, are to be preserved very much as the good housewife preserves the vegetable delicacies, of autumn by sealing them up in air-tight cases, by which means they are kept secure from all contact with the outer world. And what infinite, not to say foolish, pains are sometimes taken to carry this mistaken theory into practice We have known an excellent couple to decline adopting a young and guileless boy, towards whose elder sister they had assumed the parental relation, on the ground that he would probably contaminate the super human purity which they were aiming to cultivate in their young charge; as though the Almighty had made a grave mistake ordaining that boys and girls should be born and reared in the same households The pathway of a child brought up on this strait-jacket system, may be likened to a narrow and high-walled road, from which there is no pos sibility of turning to the right or left True, he knows little of the evils and temptations of the world, except what he learns by communing with his own thoughts, which perhaps are not always as pure as they seem; but he knows still less of the means by which those evils and temptations may be resisted.

The time must come, sooner or later, when he will emerge from this closely-hedged pathway, and find himself at liberty to turn whithersoever he pleases. And now, suddenly released from the leading strings which have held him in check so long, and quite inexperienced in the ways of the world and in the art of self-control, it would not be sf range if he plunged headlong into the by-ways of wickedness, and ate the forbidden fruit with the greedy appetite of one who is given over to de-! struction. Such has been the fate of many a too tenderly reared child. Such appears to have been the history of the Scotch girl, Madeline Smith, whose recent trial for the murder of her paramour has attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic. She was brought up on the strict system we are condemning.

Her father, determined to mould her into a spotless being, denied her even so much acquaintance with the outside world as is revealed in the columns of a newspaper. She was permitted to know of evil only as it was spoken of in the catechism. The result of this experiment we need not detail it is notorious wherever the English language is read. "But," says the advocate of the hot-house, air tight system, "does not the Bible assure us that if we train up a child in the wiy he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it Very true, Cambridge Cattla Market. WmiflBDiT, AUU8T 2S, 1S6T.

eor.BtsiiD of Working Oun, Cowa, and one, two and thre jrr ma. Paiczs Jferto Beef Extra, (including notMnr but the beM iiall-fed Oxen, at least one y-ar.) 9e.SGi lt qaaluj (con "Wins: of large, fat Oren, stall fed, at leait several months,) 2l quality (including the btrt grass fed Oxen, the beat stall-fed Cows nod the best three Tear old I Steers,) 87, 7f8. ftd qualit; ordinary quality $6. orkmg Oxen a1e at $90, 100. 110, 15042170.

Ctm and 40, 45 Year.tngt $16 18. Two teart odflfV3. Th'-v yean oldZZlXft 38. ami Lambiawi at market. Pricea In loti, $2, 3,60.

2,75. 33.50; extra and SA7, Smne 425 Western at market: price, live weiaht 7380 ft 8 Huiea 8ft9ic per lb. none but a1utiter at this market. ratfw-'i8e Coif Sktn 13fil4c fc. PelU 50ce76.

RtMARKd. The supply of rattle not no large as last werk 1 Pric''" out the same Good old clep rather tcarce. Most of he lmhs rather flim and sold riull. The whole of the live train lbanJr week Cfta)e Fitchhurg via the Washington and Rutland Railrt ad. There were no cars over th? Boston and Maine Railroad, iioover toe Boston and uowcu, iiuevertne itchburg, and over the WesU-ro, loaded with Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Horses Of the IU over the Fitchburg, 56 were from Albany, via the Rutland and Washington Railroad.

NUMBER FROM BACH STATE. Cattle. Sheep and Lambi. New tW Vermont 30 1670 Massachusetts 3-1 315 New Fork 18-S 110 Western 394 00 Canada 9a Sfl Calves. Horiei.

id (0.. ..15 ...00... ...00..., ...00 ...20 ...00 Total 1358 .3021., Brighton Cattle Market. RiPOBTXU roa vhs Niw Ehqlaitd Fabmii. Thpbsdat, August 27, 185T.

At Market 1250 Beeves, 500 Stores, 3U00 Sheep and Lambs, and 1 3 Swine. PBirss Beef Cattle Extra first quality 3d do. 3d do. 6.7n(S7 W-km Oxen flOO, 140, 160180. Mtich Cow'l, 27.

40d4a common $18 20. Pent Calres4. Yetwlinet S1619. Two yean uUi Three year old Huiet ms tb. Pe'tt Sheep and Latnbt 922.7f extra 3.604.

Stcine Wholesale pigs retail, 10 11c. Fat Hogg, dri-BSt-d. PflxSJc CalJ I4e. Boston Market Eetail Prices. COBKECTID FOa THI NlW fiirflLAICD 29.

PROVISIONS. AnoleB. AO 75 Beef, whole animal, or by the Chert nnti, 0 0 0 Ob quarter 10 12 Cranberries, 00 0 00 Do. fresh, ..12 17 SEEDS. Do.

corned 9 12 Glover, North, 15 IS Do. 00 21 0y Do. Western 13 14 Do. navy, 00 U0 00 Canary, .6 OO 0 00 Bogs, whole 0 00 0 00 Herda Grass, 50 76 Pork, fresh, retail. 10 13 Red Top, N.

bo. .1 8' 1 7 Do. salt or .9 13 Do.do.Snath 90 1 00 Do. clear Bout. ..28 00 i29 00 COAL AND WOOD.

Do. WeBt.clear-.OOOO 00 00 Anthracite, ton. .7" 00 0 OS-Do. Mess 20 50 00 Cannel 14 00 SO0 00 Do. prime 22 00 23 00 Newcastle 0 00 10 00 Turkeys, each.

..1 00 2 00 Sydney, 6 00 0 9 00 Chickens, 75 1 50 Dry East. 8 50 10 00 each 1 50 2 00 Nova Scotia 00 0 9 00 Ducks, 00 1 50 Country, Oak, Woo-icock 25 0 00 Walnot, 00 9 00 50 0 00 South Shore Oak. 8 00 9 60 Roasting 2 00 3 FL0FR AND GRAIN. Calves, tb 7 10 Flour Ohio, 50 10 Mutton. ft 7 15 Do.Qen.com 0 OC 0 00 Lamb, lb 6 12 Do.

do. ..825 10 00 Tripe, ft 8 9 Do. Howard St. ...7 50 8 00 Hams, ft. 13 Do.

Western 13 Butter, lump, ft. ..24 corn.w.yei. flat ua IN 15 Do. do. wh.

flat 1 00 28 Oat 72 78 25 i VEGETABLES. De. urkiD, 1st quai.zz ft. Do. do.

2d. do 20 22 Beans, white, ba.2 60 8 00 Cheese, new 8 10 Asparagus, .0 00 Do. old 14.. 16 Radishes, 4 0 Do. prime sage.

...00 OO Squash, 2 7( Do. four meal 6 8 Lettuce, bead 4 8 Lard, North, ft. -16 17 Pickles, 87.. 50 Do. Western 18 arrots.

.4 8 Eggs, fresh, dos.il 00 Hotatoeii. new.bb' ,20 2 00 HAY. Potatoes, new, 37J Country, new 80 90 '8weet Potatoes, pi. 00 1 Ot Do 90 1 Ov Cabbages, 100.4 00 6 00 Straw, 100 lbs 65 76 Spinach, pk 00 00 FRriT. Rhubarb.

fc 0 Apples, dried, ft. 20 Cauliflower OO Ofl Do. 100 00 15 00 iTnmatoes, pk. .26 88 Apples, 0O 4 00 Cucumbers, 100.60 76 Boston MarketWholesale Prices. Corrected ior the Nbw Emgiard August 29.

ASHES tr 100 fcB. 00 34 00 Pearl 7 62 7 75 3 20 00 28 00 Pot 00 7 76 00 rl6 00 CANDLES ft. Scoot 8 0' 10 00 Mould 133.. 16 I Yellow Pine Floorings. Sperm 00 42 River 15 00 6 1' 0O AoamaDtine 22 33 Steam ..20 00 22 00 COCOA ft.

I Clapboards. St. Domingo 154.. 16 Extra 36 00 38 00 Surinam 1ft 18J Oic. 80 00 3'i CO COFFEE ft No.

1 16 00 18 CO Java 16 lo Shingles. I 1' Domingo 12 12 Best rived ,5 6 26 rorto Rico 00 OO Du. cedar 8 76 4 26 Braxil 11 12 Best sawed 00 4 26 DRUGS 86- Ordinary 2 00 8 00 Borax, refined 19.. 19, Laths. Brimstone, 42 00 00 1 inch Pine 0 00 1 76 Uo.

roll, fl tb a Spruce 0 0 1 20 nor. Duipnur o. a. onooss vj KV oo Cream Tartar 26 CO MOLASSES gallon. Gum Arabic 6 12 Hav.

Mat. tart. .38 00 Gum Trag. Sort. 18 3a Do.

sweet. 40 41 Gum Shelac 12.. 16 Trinidad 00.. 00 0u 4 60 Porto Rico 00 (0 Isinglaas ...44 75 Surinam 00 00 Potaeh, Bich 19 20 Cienfuegos 00 00 Potash, Prua.Am..2 S3 New Orleans, new. Ou 00 Sal Soda 2..

2 NAILS ft). Sago, Pearl 6 6 Assorted 330.. 0 FEATHERS 3 ft. OILS gal. Live Geese, 45 A3 Olive, 1 2b 1 28 Russian, 1,2 33 36 Palm, ft, 10 10) White Ou 4o Linseed Am 85 86 FTSB quintal.

Do. English 85 SO Grard Bank 8 e0 4 26 Whale, crude "3 76 BayChalonr 2 62 2 '5 Whale, ..84 86 Western 3 uu 8 50 Sperm, .0 00 1 80 Shore 2 50 2 75 Sperm, 4C 1 46 Hake 20 0 ifl Sperm, .1 3 1 49 Haddock 160 1 75 Sperm. Fall 1 36 1 40 Mackerel, No. 1.00 00 On 00 Cod, bbl ....17 00 20 00 Mackerel, No. 2.

CO Ou 00 Lard, extra 1 li 1 18 Mackerel, No. 3.. 8 oO 8 75 PLASTER ton. Herring, Magdalen.35 Ground 7 00 7 60 Herring, scaled. 5 60 POTATOES New, bbl.

Salmon, 1, 81 00 33 00 'Common 2 0 6 2 01 Salmon, 2 'i9 00 30 00 Peach Blows 0 00 0 00 Ale wives, No. 1. .8 Tft 4 60 Chenangoes 0 01 0 00 FLOL'K MEAl fl bbl. Carters I CO 0 00 25 0 00 PROVISIONS bbl. Do.

fa cy 710 0 Oj 'Beef, extra 19iU200 Do. extra 8U 9 00 Beef. W. .00 00 18 90 Genebee, ex. 60 to 00 Beef, E.

00 CO Genesee, fan. (0 7 25 Pork, ex. clear. .27 60 28 (0 Genesee, com. br.6 75 6 8 Pork, clear 27 00 60 Ohio, com 6 76 6 85 Pork, Mess 00 26 00 St.

Louis, .6 15 85 Pork, Prime. ...21 50 2 60 St. Louis, fan 7 Oj 7 25 Lard, in kegs 16 161 St. Louis, 7 6 9 uu inbbls. 16 164 Ohio, extra 7 60 9 im Hams.

13 14 Michigan, com. ..6 75 6 8 Hams, pickled 00 00 00 7 25 Butter, choice 21 22 Rye 4 7- 6 75 Butter, good 16 ..19 Meal 4 87 4 65 Cheese 6 10 FRUIT. RICE Raisins, blue mark, 61 caak 00(0 00 00 SALT hhd. Raisins, .0 00 0 OO Cadli ,...162 1 76 Raisins, bch.bx...4 50 0 00 Turks Island 1 75 1 87 Prunes, lb 00 00 Liverpool 1 60 1 76 Currant, 13( Do. fine 10 1 80 Figs, Turkey 9 105 SALAiRATUS ft.

Figs, Eleme 11 14 SaUeratus 6 7 Walnuts, 8 SALTPETRE ft. Filbert, Sicily 7.. 7j Crude 10 11 Lemons. box. .2 00 4 00 Refined 9 14 Oranges, 8 to DO SOAP ft.

in.w to-, uastue lij 21 American 6 8 Almonds, 25 80 Hill's 6 8i GRAIN bushel Chemical Olive 7 71 Corn, Western 92 94 SPICES (p- ft. Corn, Yellow 92 Cassia 88 00 Corn, do. White. ...94 9a Cloves 9 10 Rye 1 06 1 15 Ginger Root 6J 6A OatB, .63 70 Mac 67 Oats, 00 00 Nutmegs t6 68 Oats, Eastern CO 00 Pepper 11 Ilk Barley 0 00 0 00 Pimento 9 10 White 160 2 00 SUMAC t.u. Oil ileal, ton.

00 00 36 00 Sicily 75 00 80 00 Shorts, 25 00 uu OO American 60 00 60 00 Fine Feed ton. 28 00 .0 00 I SUGAR R. GRINDSTONES. Havana whit IS 18( Finished, ton. 20 00 30 00 Havana brown 9..

12 HAT ft ton- PortoRioo 10 Eastern 16 00 17 00 New Orleans 00 HIDES SKINS ft. Cuba 10 Buenos Ayres. S6 86 Manila 9 9 Rio Grande 85.. 86 Braxil white 0 0 Western, dry 23.. 26 Boston 1 00 Western, wet 12 Do.

I 18 Cal. Cow 90 lo Do. JT 121 Do. green .1 6a 1 80 Do. Montevideo t6 86J SEED ft.

HONKY gallon. Clover, Northern. ..14 16 Havana 98 1 00 Clover, W. ft 11 13 HOPS ft. Herds Grass, 00 8 26 First sort, 1856 8 Bed Top, South.

...70 1 CO LEAD 100 fts. Red Top, 1 60 1 76 Pig ...6 12 7 96 95 0 00 Sheet and Pipe. .7 60 0 00 Sicily .0 00 0 Ov LEATHER ft ft. iDo. Russia 0 00 0 0 Sole.

'Canary 8 25 8 tO B. Ayres light 28 29 Mustard, do. heavy to. a Orinoco, light 26 TALLOW ft American .00 IS Do- heavy 25 American, rough. ...8 8 WOOL Domestic.

ft. Slaughter in rough. Light 28 81 Heavy 25 28 Oak light 82 8 Oak heavy to 84 Calf Skins, tf ft. Heavy, curried. ...75 80 Light do 76 86 Sheep Skins.

Bark tanned 16 Sumac tanned 2 26 oah Rockland 75 80 Sax. 4 Mer. 67 ..60 Fail blood 60 ..66 and blood 42 60 Common blood. ..87 40 Pulled, extra 43 do .44 48 40 do No. 1 84 do No.

2 18 80 Foreign, Smyrna, 28 80 86 to Buenos Ayres, 10 Cordova, do 26 Ll'HBEK Mestiso.do 26 87 Peruvian, do. .....86 88 "jJTJT I 00 New Bedford Oil Market Mown at, August 24, 1867. Sperm The demand Is qofte limited, but holders howeTer, are firm at quotations; the iranotions include saies ou bbla. In pa-eels from the wharl at 1,80 gal. tmJe-Utn moderate demand without any material Chang In prices the sales embrace 050 bbl.

South Sea at an 8.0 oo. do. at 78c gal. all purchsseu by manufac-urrs alio about 66 bWs. rt'k woriDw Bw.

in i.otlce sales of 8 -o bbls Northen, at 6-c, sod 80u do. do. ft 78c -purchased by a manufacturing In ihis city Whalebone- We hear no transactions in this maraet sm our last. Id Boston a sale of J'H ft was sold to a bouse in this city Stc bauutunie South 8 pose, or else partitioned off from the carriage-house, corn-house, or other out-building. Let it be neatly made, and not unpleasantly situated, for it should be attractive and not repulsive to those for whom it is intended.

It should be tight, and fur nished with a small stove, so as to be comfortable in winter. It should be provided with a work-bench and vice, a shaving-horse for using the drawing-knife, and perhaps a small foot-lathe. The two latter are convenient but not essential. 1 he tools should be two or three planes, augers of different sizes, a few chisels, a brace-bit, drawing-knife, saw and hammer. A small part of these will answer, and others may be added the cost of the tools varying from five to twenty-five dollars.

Such a work-shop will afford several important advantages. The greatest is the assistance it will render the cause of practical tducalion. The best inheritance any man can leave his children, is, not wealth to support them, but Me ability to help and take care of themselves. A young man, whose natural ingenuity is so developed by practice that he can at any moment repair a rake, adjust a scythe, fit in a new hoe-handle, set a clock in running order, saw a broken harness, make a door-latch fasten easily, set a gate in good swinging condition, sharpen a pen-knife, give edge to a pair of scissors, mend an umbrella, repair a cistern-pump, whitewash a ceiling, paper a room, stop a leaky roof, make a bee-hive, bottom a chair, and black his own boots, will pass through the world more comfortably to himself, and profitably to those around him, and be far more worthy of the hand of the finest young woman in the country, than the idle and sluggish pretended gentleman, with pockets full of cash earned by his father, and who is obliged to send for a mechanic for all these things, which he is too helpless to perform himself. L)r.

Franklin said, "if you want a good servant, serve yourself and, "if you wish your business done, go if not, tend and these sayings apply with especial appropriateness to such as have those jobs to perform, commonly known as "odds and ends." Another important advantage afforded by such a work-shop is its moral influence in furnishing pleasant employment to boys during rainy or stormy weather or other leisure hours, and lessening the temptation to frequent taverns, and to attend places of diversion often leading to the most pernicious habits. Another, is the actual saving of expense to the farmer, in having around him ingenious boys, who will repair immediately any broken article, and save the cost of carrying it to the neighboring village, and the delay and inconvenience, often much greater, of waiting till it is mended. They will be able also to manufacture the simple wooden implements required for farm use. To keep every part of a farm and premises in the best and neatest order, cannot be accomplished unless the owner or his sons are of ready and active hands. Those who depend on hired men to perform the innumerable little services which this condition of a farm rt quires, will find that these services must be connected with an amount of constant observation and thought which cannot be secured by simply paying wages.

It is therefore essential to educate the young managers to use their own hands, and become habituated to hand-work and thinking together and the various operations connected with the work-shop will be found a most important auxiliary in accomplishing this very desirable result. Country Genllman. THANK GOD FOE ALL. BT CHARLES BWAIS. Be Bide yon oak a rustic roof appears, A cottage garden leads onto the door, A few wild plants the lowly casement cheers.

And all around looks neat though all is poor. There Philip dwells and takes a neighbor's part, Though little be the means his help to test Yet still, though poor, he says, with grateful heart, 'Tii well to labor and that God knows best! The hare flits by him with her dewy feet, As blith of heart he quits his cottage gate The golden village lane with dawn is tweet, And Phiiip feels content, though low hie state For labor unto him can joy impart, Tin independence to his honest breast And still, though poor, he saya with greatful heart, 'lis well to labor, and that God knows best His wife beside the door traits his return, His children's voices meet him half the way, And while the sun within the west doth burn, And bird and brook sing sweet the close of day, Phiilp forgets his toil, his chair to find, By little arms and little lips carest And gazing round, exclaims with grateful mind, Thank God for all, thank God, who knoweth best HAYCOCKS. We occasionally see cloth caps on the cocks of hay upon our Jersey farms. But they are not used extensively, and yet they save considerable percentage of the value of the crop merely by preserving it from the effects of dew. Their utility is of course more apparent in case of a shower before the almost dried hay can be transported to the barn.

Their expense will be less, we believe, than the loss which would be otherwise sustained from dew and rain. It seems to us that farmers are behind hand in the old arithmetica! rules of Mensuration. The common practice seems to be to pile up the partly dried hay in diminutive cocks, in the apparent expectation, that it will be thereby protected from wet to as great a degree as practicable, forgetting that according to the principles of Mensuration alluded to, small cocks present a greater surface to be injured than large ones. These little bunohes of hay cannot be surely at all similar in size to those of our grandfathers, as described in that noble and instructive volume, entitled "Mother Goose's Melodies." We know from that distinguished authority that "Little BoPfep Was under the hay-cock fast asleep which is a feat he never could perform in these days of degenerate cocks, which are wholly incompetent to cover any thing bigger than a baker's loaf, which is getting to be the least among terrestial objects, unless it is a mustard-seed. It stands to reason, and we should suppose would stand to the reason of farmers, that the larger the cock, the more complete the protection from wet, the stack being in this respect preferable to the cock, the cock to the winrow, the winrow to the swarth.

We therefore suggest to farmers, that the practice of raking up their hay into such small parcels should be altogether reformed, and large ones substituted. This greater labor, and it will not be much increased, will be followed by a large reward in the augmented value of the hay-cock. Many may object to caps, but few, it seems to us, cau make any rational opposition to the foregoing suggestion. Newark Sentinel. Blacking for Horse Harness.

Melt 4 ounces of mutton suet with 12 ounces of beeswax, and 12 ounces of sugar candy, 4 ounces of soft soap dissolved in water, and 2 ounces of indigo, finely powdered. When melted and well mixed, add half a pint of turpentine. Lay it on the harness with a sponge, and polish it off with a brush. This blacking is for working harness, which should be cleaned and polished up at least once a week when in constant use. The following is a receipt for carriage harness blacking Take three sticks of black sealing wax, dissolve them in half a pint of alcohol, and then apply with a sponge.

Lac dissolved in alcohol, and colored with lampblack, will answer the same purpose. This is a quick drying, hard varnish, liable to crack the leat her, and should, therefore, be put on as seldom as possible. Prairie Farmer. The Poppy. A letter received at the Patent Office from Germany, says the poppy is cultivated in Southern Germany to a large extent as a substitute for sweet oil.

It has supplanted the use of the imported olive oil wholly in that country. It is further stated that the soil and climate of the New England StateR is highly suited for the culture of this article, and they miht provide the whole Union with sweet oil, and therefore suve a large sum of money, which goeB to France and Italy. Barley Bread. The Maine Farmer commends the use of barley for bread, and speaks of receiving from Aroostook oruntv a specimen of flour from grain cut August 3d. The Maine farmers acknowledge early barley bread, taken hot, to be a real luxury, and especially so as it comes at a season when the meal and flour chest is low, and Genesee rather high.

The average yield of barley on new land is larger than wheat. fr Mr. McAD-bor- t. v- r- io nun ujnu uuiuiff mw people of New York in their political duties, talks, in one of hii letters, about the "peasantry of the State," survive transplanting to the open air. The training the child needs is something like that the sensible gardener bestows upon trees that are indigenous and hardy.

He does not shelter them from rude contact with the elements, by immuring them in glass cases, nor does he square every line and twig by mathematical rule, fixing them firmly in their places by with a and bands, to insure a correct growth. By such efforts he would only produce a uny, spindling, precocious thing, that would wilt under the first full and honest glance of the sun, or break before the first merry frolic of the autumn winds. To produce a thrifty and hardy tree, it must be reared in the open air, and allowed some latitude, some freedom of choice, if we may be alio wed the phrase. And, moreover, it is essential that it shall not be "fussed over" continually. It requires a little "wholesome neglect," as it has been termed or, more strictly speaking, a little wholesome letting-alone, for the opposite of a meddlesome or over careful habit is not necessarily neglect, Let us not be understood, however, as undervaluing the importance of parental watch, care, and restraint These, and often reproof and correction, are necessary to give the young mind the right direction, and the too general failure of parents to discharge these duties is one of the gloomiest signs of the times.

Our remarks apply only to those who seek to compel their children to be good, by dint of "might and main," forgetful of those tender but mighty cords by which the young heart maybe drawn into wisdom's ways, and led to choose and love the right of its own free will. The best system of government for a child is that which teaches him to govern himself. The training which shall stand him through life, and insure an honorable career, is not that which seeks to seal him hermetically from all untoward influences, but it is that which shows him how to resist the bewil dering voice of the charmer, how to overcome temptation from without and within, how to struggle manfully against discouragements and trials, how to put himself voluntarily under restraints, when necessary, and how to "rule his own spirit," at all times and under all circumstances. Instead, then, of compelling your child to wear swaddltng- cloths until he has reached the full stature of a man, persuade him in early life to put on the pan oply of true manhood teach him the use of each plate, and rivet, and joint, in his armor train him to the free and ready use of all the weapons by which moral conquests are achieved and inspire him with a mar.ly spirit and courage, a chivalrous love for virtue and truth, and a cordial hatred of the false and the vile. We do not believe that a child, thus -trained, will depart from the path of rectitude when he is old.

THE ORIGIN OF COAL. Among the papers read before the American Sci entific Association at the meeting in Montreal, last week, was one from Prof. C. Whittlesey, of Cleveland, attempting to prove that anthracite and bitu minous coal are mineral substances, and not of vegetable origin, as they are generally supposed to be. According to a brief report in the Traveller, he said it was generally admitted that carbon was a mineral, that carbonic acid gas was a mineral gas, which exited largely in the mineral world.

It was also conceded that bitumen exited in rocks and he contended that it so exisied in sufficient quanti- 1 1, 1 r. tt the springs of asphaltum found so largely throughout the woild which he contended was not proved to have been produced by vegetable decomposition. Geology was a science based upon observed facts; but the facts did not warrant the conclusions heretofore arrived at he was not aware that any like formations was now taking place. Wood, buried under the circumstances which it is supposed produce coal, did not now produce it. Muck beds had been found, covered by many feet of quarter-nary formation, but the vegetable was in no degree carbonized.

He referred to the Presbyterian church at Chicago, which is constructed of bituminous stone, as an evidence that bitumen was of mineral origin. He said that no vegetable formation had been found in it He was not, however, prepared to propound the probable process of the formation of coal, but it was evident to him that the general idea that it is of purely vegetable origin is fallacious. For the Keie England Farmer. THE DOCTORS, AGAIN. Mr.

Editor My attention was yesterday called by a friend, to the gentle rehuke of my hasty expression in relation to the moral code of physicians. I said, "I have long considered lying a prominent feature of their moral corfc." By tying I mean any deviation from strict and entire veracity from the "telling cf the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." This is the rule of law, and whatever comes short of this, is a deviation is I do not mean to say the truth is not in them that all physicians lie at all times but I do mean to say, that in dealing with their patients, so far as my observation has extended, (and this is over half a century at least) they adopt the principle, that "the end justifies the means." It would be easy to illustrate this by facts. If I do not mistake entirely, there are institutions of high standing, in immediate proximity of your city, in which many patients are constantly dealt with, by the medical superintendents, who will not hesitate to avow this as their governing principle. I thank you, sir, for your kind rebuke, but you will allow me to express the belief that when you have seen and suffered as much as I tiavo, by th quackery of medical pretence, your sympathies will be somewhat modified. August, 2oth, 1857.

See 2d page of Farmer of August 22J, 1857. September Magazines. From A. Williams Co. we have received the September number of Putnam's Monthly.

There are four illustrated articles, "Beth Gelert, a Ballad," "A Journey in Africa," "The Camp and the Field," and "The Husband's Friend." The other principal articles are entitled "Lord Chesterfield," "Uncle Josh," "A Magazine a Hundred Years Ago," "Love in the Country," "Novel Reading," A. Williams Co. have also Harper's Magazine for September. "A Winter in the South," "Coal, and the Coal-mines of Pennsylvania," "Temples in which I have Worshipped," are well written and finely illustrated articles. There are also several tales, and other minor pieces, with the usual variety in the editorial department Notice.

An advertisement was left at our office, on the 13th inst, from Messrs. E. S. T. F.

Hustings, and its insertion paid for. By some accident the copy has been lost. Will the parties, whose address we do not know, please forward us another copy of the advertisement Cj We understand that Dr. Magoon will preach in Tremont Temple next Sunday, when our citizens will no doubt improve the opportunity to hear him, for he will unquestionably make an especial effort to please the people. Bee.

Imagine such a notice as this posted up in the public places of Athens "Paul, the learned and gifted apobUe of Jesus Christ, will preach on Mars'.