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S t a t e o f N e w Y o r k . — New York contains a population op more than two and a h a lf millions. It has thirty-four represen tatives in Congress; it has the longest railroad; it has ten colleges. There are 156 academies, and 463,000 pupils attend the common schools. There are 4,399 m inisters of the gospel; the average amount of their salaries is nearly $350 a year. M. Soyer, the most celebrated French cruisiner in Lon don, says that an egg for eating should be boiled from two m in utes and a half to three m in u tes; and for sauces, &c., from eight to ten m inutes. Eggs should not be cooked till eight or ten hours a fter they a re laid. No substance is more indigestible than a hard-boiled egg. A s s o c i a t i o n a t t h e W e s t . — Iron moulders at Cincinnati have erected and put in operation a foundry at Industry, a small town ten miles below the Queen City, the business of which is conducted upon the share principle. They have an agency in Cincinnati, and thus f a r have been quite prosperous. F r e n c h Theatres. —A commission appointed by the French Council of State has decided, by a considerable m ajority, that the privileges enjoyed by the directors of theatres should be curtailed, as injurious to public morals ; but the m inister of the interior is said to be opposed to the report of the commission. ---------- «>- O =■<5 < - --------- L a c o n i c E p i s t l e f r o m a C a l i f o r n i a B ’i i o y . —A man who left Chicago for California last spring, w riting from a n eighbor ing city, where he had arrived from the El Dora, to a friend, B a c k N u m b e r s , from No. 1, can be supplied to new subscri bers. P a y m e n t i n a d v a n e e , i s d e s i r a b l e , i n a l l c a s e s . $ 2 w i l l pay f o r o n e y e a r . S u b s c r i b e r s w ill please be particular in w riting the nam e of P o s t O f f i c e , C o u n t y , and S t a t e , distinctly, in all letters ad dressed to the publishers, as this w ill p revent delays, omissions, and mistakes. T h e U n i v e f . c c e l u m . There a re a few complete copies of Vol umes o n e , and t h r e e on h and, which w ill be sold for o n e d o l l a r a copy. Volume Two, lacks one n u m b er, of being com plete; price the ame. Address the publishers of this paper. Popular Music, - Relative Longevity of the Negro The Coming Church, The Anniversary of a New Half Century. - - - European Socialism—The Bank of the People, An Ancient Art re-discovered, 353 355 325 357 358 359 The turn of Life, Criticism Criticised, Address to the Friends of Re form and Association, European Affairs, - - - News of the W eek, - Town and Country Items, P o e t r y —The Clergyman’s best Argument, 359 360 362 365 366 367 353 P R O S P E C T U S thus expresses him self :—1! Dear H : Ju s t arrived, b e ! P a rticulars in my next. Your 3 , California L V C h o l e r a in N ew Y ork .— In the city of New York, from May 19, 1S49, to October 13, there were 5,017 deaths by Asiatic cholera, and 8,064 from bowel complaints of every class. The m o rtality was less in proportion than in 1832. The num b e r of deaths from cholera in Boston was 611. J ew s in C in c i n n a t i . —From a communication in the Cincin nati Times, it appears that there are iliree Jew ish Synagogues in th a t city, and the adult worshippers num b er about three thousand. This shows about sixteen or tw enty thousand Jew ish population. ---------------- o -1 * 43? ► * ~<s> -------- - Mr. Samuel Gurney is one of four banking families whose united properties w ere recently pointed put in the Cir cular to Bankers as exceeding the Capital of EnglanH, w hile they amounted to five times the capital of the Bank of F rance. ----------------------t- o O v -t — ------------------ N bw -E n g l a n d I n d u s t r y .— A single establishm ent in C o n necticut manufactures about 500,000 woith of peg boots and shoes per annum, and the State o f M assachusetts manufactures the same article annually to the amount of $18,000,000. --------------------- o - -m - ----------------------- S o u t h e r n M ails .— I t is announced that tbe Postm aster G e n eral has effected arrangem ents by which the transm ission of the G reat M ail South from N ew -Y o rk will be continued, as at present, during the winter. ----------- <u.. 4-• <Vt> < * < -- -------- §jp An estate in Bohemia, belonging to Prince M etternich, has been sequestered for delay in the paym ent of the taxes due on the domain. THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. T h i s Weekly Paper seeks as its end th e Peaceful Transform a tion of hum an societies from iselated to associated interests, from com petitive to co-operative industry, from disunity to unity. Amidst Revolution and Reaction it advocates Reorgani zation. It desires to reconcile conflicting classes, and to h a r monize man’s various tendencies by an orderly arrangem ent of all relations, in the Family, the Township, the Nation, the W orld. Thus would it aid to introduce the E ra of Confederated Commu nities, which in spirit, tru th and deed s h a ll he the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness, a Heaven upon F o rth. In prom oting this end of peaceful transform a tion in hum an societies, The Spirit of the A g e will aim to reflect the highest light on all sides communicated in relation to N a ture, Man, and the Divine Being,— illustrating according to its power, the laws of Universal Unity. By summaries of News, domestic a n d foreign,—reports of R e form Movements—sketches of Scientific discoveries and Mechan ical inventions—notices of Books and W orks of A r t— a n d ex tracts from the periodical literatu r e of C o n tinental Europe G reat B ritian a»nd the United States, The Spirit of The Age will e n d e a v o rto present a faithful record of h u m a n progress. CLINTON HALL, 129 and 131, NASSAU STREET, New York, T E R M S , TWO D O L L A R R S A Y E A R , (Invariably in advance.) |^=A11 communications and rem ittances for “ T h e S p i r i t of T h e A g e ,” should be d irected to Messrs. Fowler3 & IVells, Clinton Hall, 129 and 131 Nassau Street, New York. f j p Carbonized gutta percha is now used in England for sharpening razors. B o s t o n , Bela Marsh. 25 Cornhill. P h i l a d e l p h i a , J, P.Fraser, 415 Mar ket Street. B a l t i m o r e , W m. T a y lor & Co., N o rth Street, W a s h i n g t o n . John Ilitz. C i n c i n n a t i , J. W . R y land ' B u f f a l o , T. S, Hawks. R o c h e s t e r , D. M. Dewey. A l i t a n y , Peter Cook. Broadway-; P r o v i d e n c e , P . W . Ferris. K i n c s t o n , N. Y. T. S. Channing. O t h e r s , who wish to act as a g e n ts for The S p irit o f the Age, w ill please n o tify the Publishers. M ACDONALD & LEE. P R I N T E R S . 9 S P R U C E S T R E E T .
