The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-08-31

TURAL SocIETy.-We have received the first mum.
Der Of this work, which contains the proceedings
Of the Agricultural Convention recently held in
this city incident to the formation of the United
States Agricultural Society, under whose auspices
Is is published. Besides these. we find in thcpres-
Ont number treatses on . variety of topics con-
nected with agriculture, among which are Notes
and Observations on the Soils OF the Scioto Valleys
Experiments in Draining; A Prize Essay on the
Mismanagement Of Farm Horses; An Account Of
the Progress of Agriculture in Massachusetts;
Table of the Analysis of the Ash of Grain; Food of
Plants, its sources and assimilation; Draining
Georgia Swamp; Proceedings of the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture; Agricultural Statistics, en-
bracing full returns from every State and Terri
tory in the United States. "
The work is to be continued in quarterly num-
bers, and supplied gratuitously to each member of
the society, who pays two dollars year the fee
for membership. ..'''....
The best agricultural talent in all the country is
secured to write for the Journal; and we
sured that it is the purpose Of the officers of the
society to make it q repertory of agricultural
knowledge in evsry respect worthy of the most en-
ligbtened agricultural nation on the globe.
Persons wishing to be ONE members of the so
ciety may do so by addressing letter (postpaid)
TO DR.. Daniel Lee, Washington, D. c., its CORE
spending secretary, enclosing two dollars, and Civ
ing the address, post office, county, and State of
the writer. ........ -..ri
This national organization il the focus Of three
hundred societies already organized and in success
full operation in this extended Republic, whose
united efforts have called the United States Society
into existence, and it may therefore reasonably be
expec ted that it will attain the highest degree Of
usefulness in our own country, and also secure the
attention and regard of civilized nations abroad,
The TANNERIEs OF THE UNITED STATEs-The
total number of establishments in the United
States 10 6,2o3; capital invested 567 value
OF hides prepared, $6.l2s ,970; skins, $2,653665;
value Of raw material, $685. 37; number of
hands employed, 10000 males and lO2 females,
monthly wages, $4l6,2l4 to males and $s70 to
females; number of skins produced, 1858 1865; sides
of leather, l2257 $40; aggregate value of annual
products, $32,s6l, 796. There are about 5000, 900
sheep, goat, and other small skins tanned and
Creased annually, which are not included IN the
above. OF the various States, New York has the
largest amount of capital invested, and Pennsyl-
vania next. The products of these two States are
also the largest -". ~ ".8satf ~ sas7s'l,
EAarHauAxz AT AuausrA. The Augusta Ch,o-
nicls and Sentinel states that brisk shock of earth
quake, accompanied by loud roaring and rum
bling sound, was felt in many places in that vi
cinity about seventeen minutes before three O'Clock
on Wednesday morning. "tieA" s"3@.g% .,..,~
The movement Of the earth was from north to
south, and the jar sufficient to clam doors and
window shutters, rattle tables and other furniture.
awaking all but the soundest slecpers.
The oscillation Of the earth and the accompany
ing report were but of momentary duration, and
the shock was not productive of the slightest dam
age, 90 far as learned '.n@ThHa E.-E' es
Colonel JOHN G.. WATMoUaH, Of Germantown,
announces himself in the Norristown Hsrald as
candidate for Congress in the 9th Congressional