paper and find therein a clever-written article, we always expect to find that it first originated in the "Germantown Telegraph."

"Wisconsin Farmer and Northwestern Cultivator: " Devoted to agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanic Arts, and Education. Edited and published by Messrs. D. J. Powers, and E. W. Skinner. Price One Dollar per annum. Office of publication, Madison, Wisconsin. This Journal comes to us in an enlarged form and in a new typographical costume. It was formerly under the editorial direction of Mr. Mark Miller, who has disposed of his interest to Messrs. Powers & Skinner. Under their management the journal has undergone a decided improvement.

"The Southern Farmer:" Devoted to Agriculture and the Kindred Arts, and to the Moral, Social and Intellectual improvement of the agricultural classes. Published at Petersburg, Virginia, under the direction of the Executive Committee. Edited by Messrs. Pleasants, Nicol and Morton. Price One Dollar per annum. We presume, that southern farmers will not fail to sustain so valuable à Journal as this appears to be.

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"The Carolina Cultivator: " Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Mechanic Arts. Edited by B. S. Hedrick. Published at Raleigh, North Carolina. Price One Dollar per annum. Its selections are excellent, and its editorials are well written. This is all we need say of "The Carolina Cultivator."

"Tennessee Farmer and Mechanic: " We have been favored with a copy of this new candidate for agricultural patronage. It is printed on clear and beautiful type, and good paper; so that its readers will not have to procure a pair of specs, of four-horse power, in order to read it. We hope, that this infant Farmer and Mechanic, may hereafter rejoice in a healthy and vigorous growth, and that the shadows of its editor and publisher may never be less. The terms are, Two Dollars per annum. Address, Boswell & Williams, Nashville, Tenn.

"The Western Agriculturist:" Is the title of a Weekly paper just issued. It is printed on a double-medium sheet of fine book paper, in the form of 16 pages, making it very convenient for reading and preservation. It is published by David Ramaley, No. 84 Fifth st., Pittsburg, Penn. Terms of subscription-Two Dollars per annum

We beg to acknowledge also, the receipt of the following periodicals, &c., which we shall notice in a subsequent number: American Cotton Planter; Arator; Valley Farmer; Working Farmer; Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Gazette; Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal; Monthly Review of Medical and Surgical Sciences; Medical Chronicle, Montreal; From C. L. Flint, Esq., two copies of addresses delivered by him before the Hampshire and Hampden Counties Agricultural Societies; From R. B. Forbes, Esq., Report to Boston Marine Society. Memorial to Congress, on the subject of Seamen and Marine Disasters. On the establishment of a Line of Mail Steamers, from the western coast of the United States, on the Paelfic, to China; Remarks on Ocean Steam Navagation; An Appeal to Merchants and Ship Owners, on the subject of Seamen, being the substance of a lectere delivered at the request of the Boston Marine Society, by R. B. Forbes.

"Ohio Farmer: " It may be said, without fear of contradiction, that the Ohio Farmer, in every respect, is superior to all its contemporaries, and the editor deserves more than ordinary praise for its punctual appearance, and the excellence of its productions. Its typographical execution is a model for our eastern publishers. The farmer who cannot call from it, five times the worth of the subscription price, is in reality, a "Know Nothing."

SPECIAL NOTICE.-We invite the reader's attention to the card of R. H. Goodwin, which will be found on our advertising sheet. He is one of the oldest horse shoers in the city of Boston. We have had frequent opportunities of testing the skill of Mr. Goodwin, in the art of shoeing horses, and feel justified in recommending him to the patronage of those who desire to have their horses shod in a workmanlike manner.

Veterinary Journal.

DEVOTED TO THE DIFFUSION OF VETERINARY KNOWLEDGE.

THE faithful servant of man - the horse does not enjoy immunity from the above distressing disease. The same causes which operate on the system of man to develope an inflammatory disease of this character, are, with unerring certainty, operative on that of the inferior animal.

In plain language, rheumatism is, rheumatism, in whatever system you find it; it is always characterized by pain in "joints" and muscles; action of the same generally augments pain, although our patient, the horse, cannot always succeed in convincing his owner of the fact. It occurs among men and horses at all seasons of the year; yet, at the period of sudden transitions from heat to cold, it is most prevalent. Animals that are heated by exercise and then suffered to "cool off" without ordinary care, are very apt to become the subjects of this malady; so that prevention, to a certain extent, is within the province of all rational beings, and in the exercise of preventive measures, we may, in common parlance, "stave off," for a time, an acute disease, although it be hereditary. Rheumatism, like gout, is hereditary; no educated physician ever opposes this proposition; it developes itself in the predisposed. The indirect causes are, obstructed perspiration; keep the animal comfortably warm and avoid undue exposure, and then we have a remedy against the development of hereditary rheumatism.

Mr. Finlay Dun thus discourses on rheumatism: -"Rheumatism is neither so common, nor are its symptoms so well marked in horses, as in cattle." [This is contrary to our experience.-Ed.]

"When, however, it does occur in the horse, it manifests the same well-known appearances which characterize it in all animals. It affects the fibrous tissues of joints, the coverings of muscles, tendons, valves about the heart, and larger vessels, and manifests a peculiar tendency to shift from one part of the body to another, often affecting, in succession, all the larger joints; at one time, chiefly in the neck, at another, in the back and loins, while in many of its more acute attacks, it appears to involve almost every portion of fibrous and fibro-serous tissues throughout the body. In all its varied types it exhibits a full, strong, hard, and unyielding pulse, caused by the inflammation involving the serous and fibro-serous tissues of the heart and circulating vessels. During its existence various excrementitious matters accumulate in the blood, and the fibrinous constituents of the same exceed their normal proportions, as indicated by the production of the buffy coat on the blood. In severe or badly treated cases, the inflammation is very apt to be transformed, from the joints and muscles to the heart, and its investing membranes, and it is the danger of this change in the seat of the disease that renders rheumatism so formidable, and often so fatal. It always leaves the parts affected so altered as to be extremely predisposed to subsequent attacks, and it is more than probable that this altered condition is reproduced in the progenys of rheumatic subjects, and constitutes in them the inherent tendency to the disease.

"Horses sometimes suffer from rheumatic inflammation in the fibrous sheathing envelopes of the muscles of the neck, constituting what is popularly known as the chords. When thus affected, the animal is very stiff, remains as much as possible in one position, and is unwilling to bend his neck either one way or the other, or to elevate or depress his head. There is always more or less fever, with a strong, full pulse. Sometimes, as in lumbago, in the human subject, [this is only another name for rheumatism, Ed.,] it affects the muscles of the back and loins, causing stiffness, tenderness, and pain, which are especially evinced on moving or turning the animal. These rheumatic affections are very readily produced in predisposed subjects by exposure to rain and cold, especially when accompanied by overheating or exhaustion.

"Rheumatism sometimes occurs in horses as a prominent symptom of that epizootic affection which usually receives the much-abused title of influenza. In such cases the rheumatism is of a somewhat more sub-acute or chronic character, than common, and is accompanied by that low, debilitating fever so often the concomitant of epizootic maladies. It usually affects all parts of the body susceptible of the rheumatic inflammation, is attended particularly by those symptoms which indicate disease of the heart and pericardium, as an intermittant pulse, &c., and often terminates fatally by effusions into the pleura or pericardium, thus causing death by arresting the motions of the heart."