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4 LOOK BACK AT BOSTON AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
NEW YORK. AUGUST

New YoRK, AUGUST 4, 1851.
In returning from Braintree to Boston few days
ago ! had glimpse Of bingham, ".the land Of
wooden buckets For this purpose, instead of
taking the direct railroad route through Quincy 10
Boston, went five or six miles the other way,
through a part Of Weymouth, down to the sea.
shore-for bingham lies upon the Bay--and there
took the steamer for Boston, which plies back and
forth several times day. The departure Of the boa, allowed
time to stop in the village that all saw Of Hnoham
merely glance in walking through II, II is fine old
village and contains many very many pleasant resdences
The well lined with shade trees some Of them We
neabe old ems Of nearly two hundred years standing for
bingham among the early settled towns Of Msssschu
Sets Many Of the Boston people down here in the
hot weather snuff the breezes take ses-bah and
spacious hotel for their accommodation is erected hill,
which overlooks both the village and the Bay.
In the streets here Yankee invention for turning
honest penny which had not met with before.
travelling dsguseoype sstabIhment built something like
alargs omnibus small railroad car running four
wheels and drawn BY pair Of horses II il fitted up with
all the apparatus and convenences for taking daguereoyps
Il drives into village selecs station in the principals
turns the horses out to PASTURE sticks out flaming sign, goes
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LETTER FROM A MINER.

STocKrox, (CAL.) JUsr 81, 1851.
have been doing very little Of late, and should probably
be my way home already there, if had
nsy loaned that have been trying get for the last Eve
months Should stay during the winter shall think my
self doing very WELL compared with the great majority Of
miners II clear twenty dollars per week. Fortunes
ether communities. If man, BY fire other misfortune,
loses his all general thing Is taken quite cooy, and be
commences again as though nothing had happened.
There ID the present time, great excitement concern
ing the Quartz dggng aud taking large sums
but the majority barely making living From hole
Carsons Flat (seventy miles from here four hundred
thousand dollars taken in three months and
promises to continue equally rich i not richer But puts
considerable dampe the spirits of company to down
from forty to eighty feet and get nothing, which s often the
company Of six had been working three weeks into
quartz mountain when left the bar (laa Monday They
had got down some fourteen fifteen feet and had fosnd
nothing 20 far One of them has given il up. am &C
quained with them all that had they got any thing
should have known it. gentleman whom am scquainted
with here in the city received piece from Carsons yeser
day, by his partner which weighed twenty-five
at the present time alone when in the mines oil the
having le for home and for other mines Gener
ally speaking, will do better stay in place,
if be should make much for three hundred dol
lars spent in moving from place to another here.
The miners 20 in for Lynch law 10 almost all quarters
the CalavAras fourteen miles from Winters
Bar stole pounds weight Of gold dust fortnight ago last
Saturday the Tuesday following he hung Two others
expected be hung the following day at Carson's.
Horse, mule, and gold stealing all punished by DEATH
stands better chance 70 his life be has COM
med murder than he does If he has committed theft
The commencing In the cities, and car
RED too far, is likely to produce good life and
property mere secure.
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whole world. How Is possible that our General Govern
men can have more legitimate important object than to
look aer and FOSTER and protect that internal Of
the country The quesionis ocby pressed upon the mind
by the very first view of the lake at Dunkk and here again
at Buffalo, where fleets Of sailing vessels and steamers Of
every class carrying active and vigorous commerce
without, natural harbors protect them from the storms and
tempess Of the lake. which equal 10 violence the
the ocean. As into Buffalo yesterday we passed
the wreck Of schooner which had been driven by the storhs
night before upon the stone pier and sunk with cargo Of nine
thousand bushels Of conveseI and cargo lost But my
locomotive imagination has dragged my pen of the track and
must go back and take up the thread Of my story.
Upon arriving at Dunkirk the walked slowly down
upon the long pier and halted between the right
hand and on the left There ready start for Buff
o. and two up the lake for Cleveland ssndusky and De-
troi As made stop at Dunkrk, but may perhaps on
my return, will defer any remarks about the place for the
present.
On board the clever steamer Diamond Ono, first class,
but comfortable boat with fair accommodations and good
dinner large number Of found ourselves at halpast
twelve taking voyage the lake. bound for the port Of
Buffalo, forty miles distant For mile or two out from tho
shore the look iy, the effect Of clay soil Blu, out
side Of this they color Of clear and beautiful green.
AT the dinner table asked waiter where be got such clear
out Of the lake. and put little ice in it," Il twas certainly
superior to Croon or Cochituate.
Buffalo lies at the foot Of the lake. and within
couple Of miles Of the throat Of the Niagara river. We
reached in little less than four hours and before dark
had walked about and taken pretty general survey Of s
caes, business streets. canals docks shipping, hotels pub
lie buildings &c. had heard and read much Of Buffalo,
il business growth and prospects but still in these respects
il exceeded my antcpaons. has the appearance Of
business, hustle, and commercial importance than expected
to see notwithstanding they tell that just dull
time Of the year for business 10, however, the high tide
Of sumner travel and that gives to the place lively sp
pearance st53
must name Buffalo the city Of canals; for her canals
basins slips. docks. and canake river creek consute
her distinctive feature But Of these and the city ss
must speak another day. And those Niagara Falls too thai
roaring n the Of my imagination, they are but twenty
miles off, hours ride the Railroad and
hear them lift up their mighty voice and cry. and see.
BIRD's-EYE.
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RSLrc or rHx REvoLrrros. -JoRpAs L. MorT, Esq or
Mott Haven recently sent to the Smithsonian Institution
bunderbus taken out OF the wreck 9. tne Dnusn sate
H.sso which was sunk in the East River above Hurlgate
in November $780, The piece has therefore lain in the salt
water for seventy years. The barrel lock, and screws oil
the iron work Of the gun, entirely destroyed yet The
brass work In most perfect state Of Professor
Hrrrr in acknowledging the receipt Of the sIc observes
tbst il i not only interesting account Of the historical
socisons connected with il but also exhibiting the
oua seton Of salt two metals simultaneously exposed
to coroson II 10 probable that the brass has been protected
al the expense Of the iron. The metals and the water
with which they In contact would form galvanc COM
bnson in which the chemical action would be determined on
the more oxidable me,al--Neso York Courier. sa's
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Wdser for erery hundred parts Of earth.

II the word Be generally used BY good writers in En-
rope why should we not adopt it to express in concise
manner this new subject Of agricultural inquiry
The Post" would doubt f its critic ever read medi-
cal jounas have blamed for using in the English lam
guase far back 1897 the words endosose and
nos which have long since become words among
scientific These words adopted by from the
French Of Dr. DUrRocHEr, whose lsbors and experiments
I first tested BY long series Of experiments
Why does not this most learned Post" find fault also
with Dr. g. JoHSsoS for causing to be printed in bis worth
less Dictionary the cognate words "hygroseope" "hygro-
MEIER" wELL-Kxows ADJECTIVE Of this family,
viz "hygroseopick" well the German substantive
hygroscopicity, the subject Of new adoption
Permit me now, gentlemen, furthermore to state, since
You have introduced my the American Public in
udcrous way, that have undertaken the arduous task
introduce the open6ed culture Of the European varieties Of
grape vines in Southern States and that my views
highly approved by the late President q TAYLOR and by
the Hon. Secretary M. CLArros, who always ready
encourage and fully able to appreciate all such efforts terd
to benefit our country.
Very respectfully, JOSEPH TOGNO,
Principal Of the ZINE Dresser Model Schoo.
near Wilmington, North Carolina.
wide the American Journal Of the Medical Sciences 1929
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The quantity Of coal shipped TO the United States 10 much
less this year up July 5,h than for meny previous years
We give the following comparative statement with last year
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The celebrated twenty mile-an hour hore, Trustee was
killed in three mile tro narrowed track, at Cincin-
natl few days since. He won the heat in sSs, beating
Gray Eagle and Shapetail, and soon after expired.
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TRADE FROM U. STATES TO NOVA SCOTIA

From TIE PIcToU (S. 81 CHRONICLE.
Trade WITH THE UNITED SrArEs.-We have received
from the American Consul this port the following state
Of arrivals of American vessels for the six months ending
the Both July in the years s4s 1885, and 1851 BY which
will be perceived that there great falling off in the trade
carried on in American vessels
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AccrDEST AT TaH FALLs-On Friday afternoon, about
one o'clock, man in boat approaching the
pds Of Niagara on the American side. He made feeble
Of his oars but his head dropping, and be undoubt
eddy intoxicated He came very near the shore and was
drawn into the rapids His boat was seen 10 strike
rock which dashed it in pieces and hurled him into the
ter, and he precpisasd over the Fals He
supposed TO be gardener from Navy Island. ByE Com.
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Daowsrn on TEE SEA saoRr.--Mr. Joseph Taylor
Jasney, Of Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was
drowned at Square Beach on Sunday. He was good
swimmer but vsntured too far, and the current carried
him of. s
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The Burlington (vt) Sentinel edited BY the poet JoHs
G. SAKE, 10 responsible for the following
TO A GRUMBLINa SUBSCRIBER.

A Free-Soil patron Of the Sentinel
Politely bids rs " send the thing to hell 20
A timely hint. 'Tis proper, We confess,
With change Of residence to change tn address
Il shall be sent, IL Charon's mail win let il,
Where the subscriber will be sure to get il
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TO THE EDITORS

t DIccorSAUx, JULr 81, 1851.
essrs. CALLS & SsAros; 20 seldom see the New
York Evening Post, had you fahsed the article by
adoption, which first appeared In that paper should
have heard Of it. audsSo article Of the Post" dis
playing great ignorance the subject briefly treated in
Mr.. Downing HoricuIurisl" His denunciaon involves
the already authorized method Of adopting fairly
tic words, whether compounded from Greek Latin roots,
but always expressive of idea thing and ndspsn-
sable for the clear and precise meaning of technical WORDS
80 a. to be universally understood The word hygroco-
pieity criticized by the "Pos" Is generally used among
agricultural continental writers.
Comte DE GAsrARIS, Pair de France, member of the
Academy Of Sciences and lecturer agriculture the
College of France in his work Agriculture gives full
explanation Of its general occupation, and in the chapter Of
the Hysroscopicite des Teres" be says We under
stand BY hygroscopcy Of earth the quantity Of water
/" il may retain between its particles (e It's capacy) with
out allowing il to drain off after having been saturated"
This is condition Of the soil Of the utmost Importance "a
the asrculus and ought be studied and well under
stood by him in order to be . successful farmer
scHuBLla, German writer Of the highest authority, no,
only the word but gives table Of the hyroscopiei
~ Of the principal earths that constitute the diverse arabic
soils, which, with your permission, shall anscrbs here
for the edca.on Of the Pos since be is 90 badly posted
up According to this eminent professor the various ele-
mentay eahs retain water in the following proportions viz
@ Water for eueru hundred Darfs of eayth
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No. of yes ls4s . No. Of yes 1850. No. Of yes 1851
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the embryo city OF Dunkk and the bright waters OF Lake
Erie, sparkling in the sum- lie spread before To
who had not before any Of great inland seas had
not, the first view is fresh and refreshing II gives
definite feeling Of the extent and magnitude Of country
Here have travelled nearly five hundred miles line, and
yet have passed the whole breadth Of Of
hyone States We look upon the map, and the eye takes
in view all these great central lakes Wesee their
ave positions and relative proportions but the view brings
up no feeling Of their vastness Here now, Of these
lakes actually spread out before To the view il
boundless as the broad Atlantic many white
sailed vessels and many magnificent steamers coming and
going to distant ports this lake. just at New York
city tall ships aud mighty steamers coming and going to dis
tant ports on the Atlantic And yet beyond this inland
upon which am gazing, stretching far away to the
westward of it. know there three other inland seas each
much larger and broader than this.
The prospect and the thought fire the imagination, and set
Il pcturng what will be here hundred when
ali these vast inland seas shall be surrounded with mighty
cities and popuous towns and the wide regions Of country
around them shall be subdued and repenished and yield
their bounde Of agricultural and mineral wealth
to the hundreds Of millions Of people who shall then nhsb
the land when the great valleys Of the Mississippi Missouri
and Ohio shall become the rich garden Of the world when
all the great lakes and rivers Of whole land shall he con-
nected and interviewer with each other by thousand rail-
roads, and when thousand flying cars shall find their way
TO tho Pacific they now do the Atlantic shores in that
what may Do called the infnai commerce Of the country, If
shall continue one country, (and win not allow myself to
doubt ~ will exceed the present foreign commerce Of the
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American STATISTICS.

A short time past we published some statistics
relative to the number Of soldiers supplied from
the different States TO the revolutionary war. de
Bows Commercial Review gives some tables re-
Iative to this, and other subjects of equal interest,
which We copy
l. The number Of soldiers furnished by the
American States during the revolution, and the
population of each State in 1880 and IN l647.
g. Principal battles Of the revolution, their sew
eral dates, commanders-in-chief, and losses on
each side.
g. Amount of continental money issued to sup
port the war and the estimated cost in specie