property was brought by Mr. Samuel Riddle in 1843, who since that time has erected 31 dwellings 68 now being the total number in the near vicinity of his mills. The farm consists of 235 acres of the best quality of land, and in the highest state of cultivation. Mr Riddle has erected gas works on his premises, for lighting his factories and private dwelling, which also receive copious supplies of water from a large reservoir in the vicinity. In addition to these, there are in the immediate neighborhood, and doing their carrying business with the road above named, no less than eight mills-the most of them of great, size. These, and the dwellings by which they are surrounded-all embraced within a circuit of four or five miles-in which Glen Riddle and Lenni Stations may be included, are known to the public under the general indefinite name of Rockdale, with a total population of perhaps six or seven thousand. Near Lenni Station, three huge factories are within a stone's throw of each other-all distinctly visible from the cars. One of these massive structures is owned by John J. Crosier. Two miles farther on, or seventeen from Philadelphia, and we are at "The Baltimore Junction," or, in more exact language, the intersection of or, in more exact language, the intersection of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad with the W. C and P. R. R. The former is a new road, which, within the past few years, has been completed to the Rising Sun, in Maryland, a distance of nearly forty miles from the "junction," and the ultimate intention of its managers is to complete it to Baltimore at no distant day. This road has been passing through its dark season-its "winter of discontent" but its prospects are rapidly brightening. It runs through one of the finest agricultural regions in Pennsylvania, and when finished is destined to be one of the greatest thoroughfares of travel in the United States. Another short ride brings us to and made into collars for the market. When their arrangements are fully completed they expect to turn out 40,000 per diem. It is estimated that one million of collars are used daily, and the consumption is constantly increasing. The different patentees have associated themselves together in one company, with a capital of some $3,000,000. In the same mill, where the paper collars are now made, was manufactured nearly all the bank-note paper used for the original issues of the national "greenback" currency, the parchment for the War and Land Departments, bonds for Government issues, and all the paper that has been used for internal revenue stamps. But since the Government, within a year or two past, has been using a cheaper and inferior paper, which it would not pay the Messrs. Wilcox to manufacture, they have not made any bank-note paper for the present national currency, but confine their efforts to supplying the best quality of paper to the several bank note companies, for their private customers in British America, South and Central America, and Europe-nearly all of the paper in circulation in these divisions of the world being supplied by the American Bank Note Company, the different branches of which are in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, and which have been furnished almost exclusively with paper from these mills. The other establishment is devoted, principally, to the manufacture of fine book, music, plate, and collar-paper. The ancestors of the facturing paper in this vicinity in 1729, and members of the present firm commenced manuthe family has been making bank-note paper ever since the issue of the Old Continental Cheyney Station there are a number of fine private residences, and the surrounding country is noted for its beauty and fertility. A short distance farther on is Street-road Station, about four miles from West Chester. Near this place is Weston Boarding School, an institution for the education of the children of "Orthodox Friends." The building is beautifully shaded by magnificent trees, and there is an air of quietness and cleanliness about it that is strongly suggestive of the religious denomination by which it was founded and by whose members it has since been supported. It is a compact and massive brick structure, and is used for the education of both sexes. Without stopping at another station, the cars make a rapid run, and in a few minutes land their passengers in the neat and commodious dept at West Chester, a description of which place must be omitted, as our article is already too long. In conclusion, we will merely make mention that no other section of country, within fitty miles of Philadelphia, in any direction, affords such a fine variety of scenery. There are alternations of hill and valley, winding streams and shady wood, that are truly enchanting. Here nature and art have striven with each other to embellish the landscape, and with marvellous success. Ever and anon the traveller is surprised with unexpected beauties, bursting, as it were, from romantic and secluded dells, which look like sylvan retreats of peace for the wearied man of business. THE ROOT FAMILY. Do you know who are the most industrious and hardest workers in the world? The root family. They work night and day, summer and winter, without tiring. What they have to do, they do without grumbling or discontent, or asking any why or wherefore. Roots are of various forms; sometimes wedge-like, as in beets, to pierce firm and solid ground; sometimes in long, flat scales, to fasten themselves to the bare rocks. But tender and delicate as they often seem to be, they possess wonderful strength; to the forest trees they serve as gigantic anchors, chaining them to the solid earth, and supporting them against the battling of the storms. They dive down into the ground, and let nothing hinder their progress. The roots of a large chestnut tree on Mount Etna, under which a hundred horsemen could find shelter, penetrate through rocks and lava to the springs at the foot of the mountain. duck weed, when each small leaf has its own little root hanging from under the surface. In the mangrove of the tropics, they form an enormous network in the water, and catch, as in a seine, all the matter which floats down the streams when tides and floods go down. Shellfish are often found among the roots, accounting for the stories of some of the earlier discoverers of America, who said the oysters grew on the branches of trees. Sometimes the roots have no home in land or water, but take themselves to some strong and healthy trees, where they creep through the crevices of the bark into the wood, and feed upon the very life of the tree. These plants are called parasites. A stately palm is often seen covered with creepers of a parasite, which at last eats out its very life, and the noble tree dies in its treacherous embrace. Roots, wherever they are, in the dark earth, or under the restless waves, or on the bark of foreign trees, are always at work, and rough usage does not destroy them. A common maple tree may be turned upwards, the roots in the air, and the branches in the ground, and it will yet live. The first orange trees in Europe, which are in the city of Dresden, came as ballast, without roots or branches, in the hold of a German vessel. A curious gardener, anxious to know what the new wood was, planted them upside down; but in spite of this bad treatment, the brave little trees have grown and flourished beyond all orange trees on the continent. the roots seem to say, "The Hand that made us is Divine."-Cultivator and Country Gentle Do not even For Friends' Intelligencer. Rain during some portion of Roots not only serve as fastenings; they pump up the nutriment which the plant needs, and supply it with drink and food There are TEMPERATURE, RAIN, DEATHS, delicate fibres at the end of the roots, called spongioles, which have minute holes, opening and shutting to take in or reject what is necessary for the life and health of the plant, and they know what to take and what to leave. Sup pose wheat and peas to grow side by side; the spongioles of the wheat are open to receive all the flinty matters of the soil which the water can take up, while the spongioles of the pea will not have the flint, but prefer lime, and take whatever lime the water of the soil may contain. The wheat and the pea have different tastes for their dinner. Sometimes they draw nourishment directly from the water, as in &C. Mean temperature of 8t month per Penna. Hospital, 72.50 deg. 75.10 deg. Rain during the month,...... 2.18 in. being for 4 current weeks 1674 Average of the mean temperature of 8th period, 1863,................................. 79.50 181666.00 46 The following brief summary of Temperatures and Mortality will give a bird's eye view of those important subjects for the past three months: The average temperature of the Sixth month was 75.10 degrees; of Seventh month, 76.48 degrees; and of Eighth month, 72.19 degrees, an average for the whole summer of 74.59 degrees. The hottest day of the season was Seventh month 4th, 92.50 degrees; and the coolest, Sixth month 11th, 53.00 degrees. This low temperature, and the cleanliness which has resulted from the heavy rains, bave had much to do with preserving the health of the city. During the three summer months, the bills of mortality in Philadelphia show an aggregate of 3997 interments as against 5191 for the same period last year, a difference of 1194 deaths in favor of this season. Last year about this time, and for some weeks previons, we had the cholera amongst us, which in some measure accounts for the favorable contrast in the deaths. For instance, in the statistics above, we have 1674 recorded for the eighth month of this year, counting five current weeks; from which deduct onefifth for the extra week, and we have only 1339 for 1867 against 1930 for 1866. Philadelphia, Ninth mo. 7, 1867. ITEMS. J. M. ELLIS. A new planet has been reported from the Professor of the Michigan University as follows: On Friday night, while observing in the vicinity of the planet Neptune, I discovered still another planet hitherto unknown, the brilliancy of which is equal to that of a star of the eleventh magnitude. It is situated in right ascension, 14 degrees 15 minutes, and in declination 6 degrees 10 minutes north. ing faces. The average rate of progress with powder was about one foot per day to each face, or from twenty to thirty feet per week in all. In 3d month last the company accepted the services of an experimentor in nitro-glycerine, which article was manufactured on the spot, wherever it could be used with advantage, and the average was increased to nearly fifty feet per week. The workmen, principally Chinamen, labored in three gangs for eight hours each, and proved very servicable in this kind of work. At times the consumption of powder reached four hundred kegs per day. The Pacific Railroad is thus making rapid strides to a successful completion. IN DISCUSSING the present condition of the Atlantic cables, the London Times thinks it somewhat extraordinary that the cable of 1865, which was once supposed to be irremediably lost, should now be the one in which the most reliance is placed The cause of the constant troubles with the cable of 1866 is explained by a statement that when the shore-end of this cable was laid from the Great Eastern that vessel was in a fog, and it was unfortunately laid over a shoal-patch about 240 feet in depth, so that the icebergs frequently ground and cut the cable. The cable company have determined to raise this shore-end as soon as possible from its present bed, and remove it to a deeper channel. They al o contemplate, in order to obviate the necessity of relying on the Newfoundland land lines for their connection with the United States, the laying of a cable from Heart's Connent, by way of Halifax, to Boston, next year. The Superintendent of Education in South Carolina estimates that there are 25,000 blacks, men and women, in that State, who can read a newspaper with a good understanding of the contents, who, two | years ago, did not understand the alphabet. A BUDDHIST "prayer machine" is one of the curiosities of the Exposition. It consists of a little you wish to say a prayer, a turn of the handle will equare box, with a handle at the right side. When The Buddhist machine has this advantage over a do it as easily as if it were a tune on a barrel organ guarantee it to say a hundred and twenty prayers a Barbary organ, that it is noiseless. Its inventors day, and it will never get out of order. The prayers are written on rollers in the box. The harvest of 1867, in America, is one of the most bountiful ever gathered. A close and accurate observer of agricultural matters reports, with regard to this harvest, that Illinois is much the largest producer of Indian corn, more than one-sixth of the whole crop of the country being grows there, and also the largest producer of oats (more than 20 per cent. of the whole,) and of bay more than 20 per cent. Pennsylvania takes the lead in the production of rye-nearly one-third of the product of the whole country, and in buckwheat over 42 per cent. New Jersey produces more rye than any other State, acTHE GREAT TUNNEL of the Central Pacific Railroad, cording to population. New York takes the lead in which has just been completed, is said to have been the production of barley; about 40 per cent. of the the last, the longest and by far the most costly of the whole country. Virginia takes the lead in tobacco, excavations along the line of the road. It is one about 30 per cent. New York, Pennsylvania, and thousand six hundred and sixfy feet in length, and New Jersey together produce two-thirds of all the was begun at the east portal on the 16th of 9th rye. New York stands the tenth State in the promonth, and on the west portal on the 20th of 9th duction of Indian corn, being exceeded by Illinois, month last, and the work upon it has therefore oc- Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Vircupied about a year. The material, which had to beginia, Kentucky and Missouri. In wheat New York drilled and blasted was granite of the hardest grain. | is exceeded by Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and As but a limited surface could be presented to the Iowa. Illinois alone has in corn about 5,000,000 workmen, advantage was taken of a depression in acres; in wheat, 2,196,000 acres; in rye, 345,000 the centre, and a working shaft of one hundred and acres; in oats, 883,000 acres; in barley, 41,000 fifty-nine feet was sunk so as to present four work- acres. FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER. "TAKE FAST HOLD OF INSTRUCTION; LET HER NOT GO; KEEP HER; FOR SHE IS THY LIFE." At Publication Office, No. 144 North Seventh Street, Advice to Ministers-Excessive Caution--Silent Meetings-Open from 9 A.M. until 5 P.M. On Seventh-days, until 3 P.M. Keep thy eye inwardly upon thyself, and be ware of judging the actions of others. In judging others, a man labors to no purpose, commonly errs, and easily sins, but in examining and judging himself, he is always wisely and usefully employed. We generally judge of persons and things as they either oppose or gratify our private views and inclinations; and, blinded by self-love, are easily led from the judgment of truth. If God alone was the pure object of all our intentions or desires, we should not be troubled when the truth of things happens to be repugnant to our own sentiment; but now, we are continually drawn aside from truth and peace, by some partial inclination lurking within, or some apparent good or evil rising without. Many, indeed, secretly seek themselves in every thing they do, and perceive it not. These, while the course of things perfectly coincides with the sentiments and wishes of their own hearts, seem to possess all the blessings of peace; but when their wishes are disappointed and their sentiments opposed, they are immediately disturbed and become wretched. From the diversity of inclinations and opinions tenaciously adhered to, arise dissensions among friends and countrymen, nay, even among the professors of a religious and holy life. It is difficult to extirpate that which custom has deeply rooted; and no man is willing to be Call to the Young. European Correspondence. Michael Faraday, the English Chemist.. The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 454 456 458 460 461 462 463 464 carried farther than his own inclinations and opinions lead him. If, however, thou adherest more to thy own reason and thy own will, than to the meek obedience of Jesus Christ, as the principal of all virtue within thee, thou wilt but slowly, if ever, receive the illumination of the Holy Spirit: for God expects an entire and absolute subjection of our will to His, and that the flames of divine love should infinitely transcend the sublimest heights of human reason. WORKS OF CHARITY. Let not the hope of any worldly advantages, nor the affection thou bearest to any creature, prevail upon thee to do that which is evil. For the benefit of him, however, who stands in need of relief, a customary good work may sometimes be intermitted; for in such a case, that good work is not annihilated, but incorporated with a better. Without charity, that is love, the external world profiteth nothing; but whatever is done from charity, however trifling or contemptible in the opinion of men, is wholly fruitful in the acceptance of God, who regardeth more the degree of love with which we act, than what or how much we have performed. He doeth much who loveth; he doeth much, who doeth well; and he doth much and well, who constantly prefereth the good of the community to the gratification of his own will. Many actions, indeed, assume the appearance of charity, that are wholly selfish and carnal; for inordinate affection, self-will, the hope of reward and the desi.e of personal advantage and convenience, are the | An Address delivered at the request of the common motives that influence the conduct of men. Teachers of Friends' First-day School in (Concluded from page 438.) I would by no means recommend less attention to the cultivation and improvement of the mind, but more to the proper care and health He that has true and perfect charity "seeketh not his own" in anything, but seeketh only that "God may be glorified in all things;" he "envieth not" for he desires no private gratification; he delights not in himself, nor in any created being; but wishes for that which is infinitely transcendent, to be blest in the enjoy-ful development of the body, which is the only ment of God; he ascribes not good to any creature, but refers it absolutely to God; from whom, as from its fountain, all good originally flows; in whom, as in their centre, all saints will finally rest. BEARING THE INFIRMITIES OF OTHERS. means through which the mind can act. Now, it may be expected that I should give some general rules in regard to the modes of promoting or preserving health, and I will endeavor to give some of the results of my experience and observation. Those evils which a man cannot rectify, he 1st. In regard to diet, be rigidly careful to ought to bear with humble resignation, till God have all the food properly prepared, and not shall be pleased to produce a change. This too rich-then do not starve yourselves-eat state of imbecility is, perhaps, continued as the enough and always, if possible, of that which proper trial of patience, without the perfect you relish. To relish what is eaten as a work of which we shall make but slow and in-general thing, is indispensable to good health. effectual progress in the Christian life. Yet, Meat, in too great quantities, like all rich food, under these impediments, we must devoutly overstimulates the system. There is a great pray, that God would enable us, by the assistance of his spirit, to bear them with constancy and meekness. If" after the first and second admonition, thy brother will not obey the truth," contend no longer with him; but leave the event to God, who only knoweth how to turn evil into good, that his will may be done, and his glory accomplished in all his creatures. deal too much meat eaten for true health. Vegetables and fruits with good well-baked bread, milk and eggs, constitute what should be the basis of fare, in order to secure a sound condition of the system. 2d. Keep the mind calm. Let it be energetic, when occasion demands, but preserve it tranquil and self-possessed. Fretting, no matter from what cause, disturbs the nervous sysEndeavor to be always patient of the faults tem and disorders the stomach, thus destroying and failings of others, for thou hast many faults the tone of the whole constitution, and renderand imperfections of thy own that require a re-ing it less able to bear up under the trials that ciprocation of forbearance. If thou art not caused the original disturbance. In this manable to make thyself that which thou wishest ner, the disturbed nervous influence induced by to be, how canst thou expect to mould another fretting, or giving way to brood over what is in conformity to thy will? But we require per- called trouble, acts injuriously on the system, fection in the rest of mankind, and take no care and then the system re-acts on the nerves, till to rectify the disorders of our own heart; we an entire derangement of the feeling ensues, desire that the faults of others should be se- under which the poor victim will, perhaps, sufverely punished, and refuse the gentlest correc-fer for days, and in all probability, involve others tion ourselves; we are offended at their licentiousness, and yet cannot bear the least opposition to our own immoderate desires; we would subject all to the control of rigorous statutes and penal laws, but will not suffer any restraint upon our own actions. Thus it appears, how very seldom the second of the two great commandments of Christ is fulfilled, and how difficult it is for a man to "love his neighbor as himself." GENTLE INFLUENCES-If the secret of all regenerate hearts could be laid open, we should doubtless view with a mixture of astonishment and gratitude the quantity of benefit which has been and which is effected in the world by the familiar converse, and even by the silent looks, of truly good men.-Bishop Jobb. of the household in a similar catastrophe. I have met with two admirable precepts upon this point which my young friends would do well to remember. First. Never fret or worry about what you can't help. If you can't help it, it is simply absurd to fret about it. Second. Never fret or worry about what you can help. If you can help it do so immediately, and the occasion for fretting is at once removed. 3d. Never get in a passion. A fit of anger or passion is almost as hard on the system as a fit of epilepsy, or a spell of bilious fever; then, on account of health, leaving out of consideration the moral qualities and attendant unhappiness, it should be equally deprecated. therefore the mind calm and tranquil. Make every reasonable and proper effort to remove whatever is uncomfortable and disagreeable, and Keep |