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CEDARTOWN RECORD. .\IA< HINT.I New York, Connecticut; Massachusetts New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Vir ginia, West Virginia, Nevada, Wiscon- , «n, Iowa and ItoUwarc ; and it is likely that others will follow the example. A number of trade anti industrial as sociations, which require largo amounts of space, are provided for in special build ings Among these are the photo- { graphers, the carriage builders, the glass makers, the cracker bakers, the boot and shoe manufacturers, beaidea quiteanum-: ber of individual exhibitors. The great i demand for space renders this cor rue no- j cessary to a considerable extent, espec ially J<ir exhibitors who have been tardy in making their applications. In the main exhibition building, for example, , three hundred and thirty-three thou-1 tY HALE American Dental Convention; Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America; Independent Order of B’nai B’rith; National Alumni Association; .Sales men’s Association ; Fifth Maryland Regiment; Seventh New York Regi ment; American Homological Society; Malsters Association of the United States; Army of the Cumberland; Ifuinboklt Monument Association; Christopher Columbus Monument Asso ciation; Board of Trade Convention; International Typographical Congress; Rifle Association of the United States; Centennial Legion ; J’hiiadclphin Coun tv Medical Society; International Medi cal Congrcm; Old Volunteer Fire De partment of Philadelphia; German Rifle Club; Army of the Potomac, etc. W, S, D. WIKLE «fe 00., Proprietors. THE CENTENNIAL. The Great Anniversary Exhibition Views of tho Exhibition Build ings and Full Descriptions of tho Various De partments. ArmngotnenU for tho Onntonliinl. Tho not of congroHH wtaloh provide* lor .'‘celebrating the one hundredth miniver- rwrv of Amerleon independence,by hold- ing an international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine." authorized the creation of! the United States centennial eoinniisaion, i and intrusted to it the management of the exhibition. This body is composed of two commissioner!! from each state nml territory, nominated by the rciqwctive Rovernors, and nun missioned by the I president of tho United Staten. 'lira en- j terprise, therefore, is distinctly a nation al one, and not. as has sometimes lieen stated, the work of a private coritora- tion. The exhibition will lie opened on May 10th. 1876. and remain oimmi until No- veinlier 10th. There will be a fixed price of fifty rent* for ndmission to all the 'buildings and grounds. The centennial grounds are situated on the western bank of the Schuylkill river, and within Falrmount Park, the largest public park in proximity to a great citv in the world, and one of the most lieaii- tiful in tho country. The park contains; • hr line humlrcil acres, four hundred nml fifty of which have been enclosed tor the exhibition. •Besides this tract, there are large yards near by for the exhibition of stock, and a farm of forty-two acres is already suit-; ably planted for tho tests of plows, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural machinery sand three hundred square toot of space had been applied for by the Iragimiing of October by American exhibitors only; whereas, tho aggregate spneo which it has been possible to reserve for the United States department is only one hundred and sixty thousand square feet. About one-third is consumed by passage The machinery building, like the * hers, is already Yuliy covered by appli cations. There are about one thousand American exhibitors in tills department, one hundred and fifty English, and one hundred and fifty from other European countries—which is alsnit two hundred and filtv more than entered tho Vien na machinery exhibition. Extra provision has been mado for annexes to accommo date the hydraulic machinery, the steam hammers, forges, hoisting engines, boil ers, plumbers, carpenters, etc. Power in the machinery hall is chiefly supplied by a pair of monster Corliss en gines. Kadi cylinder is forty inches in diameter, with a stroke of ten feet ; the fly-wheel is thirty-one foot in diameter, and weighs fifty-five tons; the horse power is fourteen; and the number of iMtilers is twenty. This engine drives about a mile of shafting. For the art exhibition, tho most emi nent American artists have sent speci mens, and it may Is* confidently stated that, cs|>ecially in the department of landscape painting, the United States presents a finer display than the public 1ms boon led to expect.' Quite aside from the contributions of American artists, applications front abroad call for more than four times the exhibiting space afforded by the great Memorial Hall. Provision lor the surplus lias lieen made in temporal^ fire-proof buildings, though all exhibiting nations will Is* represented in the central art gallery. The secretary of the navy lias arranged that a United States vessel shall call at convenient Euro|>caii js»rts, Us collect and irniia|M>rt hither to the exhibition the works of American artists resident in Kuro|*e. Among life porta thus far designated, arc Southampton for Eng land, Havre for France, Bremen for Ger many, and Leghorn for Italy. Tho ar rival of this vessel is cx|*eetcd daily. Mr. Roll, the cinindtiL English sculp tor, who designed the groups for the NEWSPAPER Tho exhibition buildings are up-1 preached by eight lines of street ran- which connect with all the other lilies in the city, nml by the Peniisylvanis and Reading railroads, over tho tracks of which trains also run from the North Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Wil mington. and Baltimore rail rends. TIiih the exhibition is in immediate connec tion with the entire railroad system of the country, and any one within ninety miles of Philadelphia can visit it at no ! greater cost than that of carriage hire at | the Paris or Vienna exhibition. An important H|>crinl exhibition is made by the United States government, ; and is prepared under the supervision of a board of officers representing the sev eral executive departments of the gov- j eminent. A fine building of four and I a half acres is provided for the purpose, space in which is occupied by the war, j treasury, navy, interior, j»ost-ofIice, and j agricultural departments ami the Smith sonian institution. Tho women’s centennial executive committee have raised $60,000 for the erection of a pavilion in which to exhibit every kind of woman’s work. To this collection, women of all nations have contributed. The list of sj>eeial buildings is con stantly increasing, and the present indi cations are that their total number will Is* from two hundred to two hundred and fifty. Most of the important foreign nations—England, Germany, Austria. France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and others—arc putting iij< one or more structures each, for exhibition purposes, or for the use of the commissioners, ex hibitors and visitors. Offices and head quarters of this kind, usually of consid erable architectural Iranuty, are provided by the slate- of Pennsylvania, Ohio, j Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, IIUILPINCL plinth for the great Albert memorial in Hyde Park, l/ondon, has reproduced in terra cotta, at the celebrated works in Lamlicth, the one which symlxilizcs America. The figures in this group are colossal, covering a ground apace of fif teen feet square. It is placed in tho great central art gallery, op|>o*itc the principal entrance. Tho nrtexhihition includes, iq addition to tho works of contemporary artists, representative productions of the past century of American art—those, for in stance, of ritunrt, Uoplev, Trumbull, West, Alston, Bully, Neaglo, Elliot, Kensett. Cole. These, as well as the works offered by living artists, have lieen passed upon by the committee of selec tion. who visited, for the purpose 1 , New York, Boston, <'hicago, and other leading cities, in order to prevent the needless trniiN|>ortation to Philadelphia of works of art not up to the stajiuanl of ndinis- A large number of orders and frater nities have signified their intention to hold gatherings at Philadelphia during the |>eriodof theexhihition. A inongthose which may now lie enumerated, arc the Grand I»dge ol Pennsylvania, Indc- |iendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Grand Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Grand Jxxlge, United States, IndejKuidcnt Order of Odd Fel lows; Grand Commnndci y Knights Templar; Grand Army of tho Republic; Presbyterian Bynod; Caledonian Club; Portland Mechanic Blues; Welsh Na tional Eistcdfodd ; Patriotic Order Sons of America; California Zouaves of San Francisco; an International Regatta; the Life Insurance Companies; National Board of Underwriters; State Agricul tural Society; .Second Infantry, N. G. of California; Philadelphia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church ; Cincinnati Society; California Pioneer Society; VOL. II. NO. 4!). restoring the hull to Its ancient appear- ance. The rarthiits of nearly every one of the signers now adorn the wuIIh. Open daily. A Hundred Years Ago. Main Building. This is a parallelogram, running east and west one thousand eight hundred and Kovonly-six foot long, and north and south four hundred and sixty-four feet wide. Tho larger |>ortio» is one story high, the interior height being seventy feet, and ttifvcorniee on the outside for ty-eight feet from tho ground. At the ivntor of the longer aides are projections four hundred and six feet in length, ami on the ends of the huildiug projections two hundred and sixteen fleet in length. In them*, which nro in the center of the four sides, are located the main en trances, which arc provided with arcades U|m>ii the ground floor, and cen tral facades ninety feet high. The east entrance forms tho principal ap proach for carriages, V isitors alighting at tho doom of the building under cover of the arcade. The south entrance is the principal approach from railway cars. The west cutranco ojiens upon the main passage-way to two principal buildings, tbc machinery and agricultural balls, and the north entrance to memorial ball (art gallery). Towers seventy-five feet in height rise at each corner of the building. In order to obtain a central feature, the naif for one hundred and cighty-lour feet square at the center has lieen raised above the surrounding jstrtlon, and four towers forty-eight feet square, rising to one hun dred and twenty feet higli, are intro duced into the corners of t^iiH elevated roof. This gives ventilation, ns well as ornament. 'The main building has nine hundred and thirty-six thousand and eight square feet of surface, or nearly twenty-one and a half acres. Its ground plan snows a central avenue one hundred and twenty feet in width, ami one thou sand eight hundred and thirty-two feet in length, which iH the longest avenue of that width ever introduced into an vxlii- bit inn huildiug. On either side of this is another avenue of equal length, and one hundred feet wide. Between the central and side avenues are aisles forty- eight feet wide, and on the outer sides of the building smaller aisles of twenty-four feet width. To break the great length of the roof-lines three transepts have lieen introduced, of the same widths ami in the same relative positions to each other as the longitudinal avenues. Those cross the building, and are four hundred and sixteen feet In length. Tho Inter sections of these various avtmues make at the center of the building nine spaces, free from supports, which are from one hundred to one hundred and twenty foot square, and which aggregate four hun dred and sixteen feet square. The gen eral elevation of the roofs of all these avenues varies from forty-five feet to seventy Tcet. The huildiug rests uiion tho ground, tho laud having lieen thoroughly graded and prepared. 'The foundations consist of piers of masonry, the superstructure being roinjioHod of wrought iron columns placed twenty-four feet apart, which sup port wrought iron roof trusses. Thoro are six hundred and seventy-two of those columns in the entire structure, tho shortest Iming twenty-three foot and the longest one hundred and twenty-five foot long. Their aggregate weight is two mil lions two hundred thousand ismuds. The roof trusses and girders weigh five- mil lions of |Hiunds. The sides of the build ing, to seven feet above tho ground, are finished with brickwork in panels lie- tween the columns. Abovo this there arc glazed sashes. 'Tho roof covering is of tin, that being the lrast roofing known in this climate to resist leakage. 'The flooring is of plank, upon sills resting upon the ground, with no open uni the building at ail the corners and angles, and the na tional standard, with appropriate em blems, is placed over each of the main entrances. There arc numerous side en- h lxdng surmounted with a the country occupying that portion of the building. In the vestibules variegated brick and tile are introduced, l/mvre ventilators surmount all the avenues, and sky-lights the central aisles. Light, of which there is ample supply, comes from the north and south sides almost entirely. Theie underlie tho building two miles of drainage pipe, the water supply and drainage system being com plete. Offices for the foreign commis sions arc placed along the sides of the building, in close proximity to the pro ducts exhibited. Offices for the admin istration are at the ends. The design of the huildiug is such that all exhibitors will have an equally fair opportunity of exhibiting their goods to advantage. There is comparatively little choice of location, as the light is uniformly dis tributed, and each of the spaces devoted to products is located upon one of the main thoroughfares. Machinery Building. This structure is located about five hundred and fifty feet west of the main exhibition building, and as its north front stands upon the same line, it is practi cally a continuation of that edifice, the two presenting a frontage of three thou sand eight hundred and twenty-four feet from their eastern to their western ends, upon the principal avenue within the grounds. This building consits of a main hall, one thousand four hundred and two feet long and three hundred and sixty foet wide, with an annex on the southern side two hundred and eight feet by two hundred and ten feet. 'Hie entire area covered is five hundred nml fifty-eight thousand four hundred and forty square foot, or nearly thirteen acres, mid tho floor apace afforded is about fourteen acres. The chief portion of the building is one story in height, the main cornice upon the outside Isdiig forty feel from tho ground, mid the in terior height to the top of the ventilators in the avenues seventy feet, and in the aisles forty feet. To break the long lines of the exterior, projections have been In troduced U|ton lira four sides, anil the main entrances are furnished with rneudes oxtending to seventy-eight foot in height. The eastern entrance is the principal approach from railways and from the main exhibition Iniilding. Along tlie southern side are placed tho honor houses,, iitiu suelj other buildings for special kinds of machinery us may be rcuii i red. The plan of the niUehinery building shows two main nvenues ninety feet wide, with a central aisle lietwocn and an aisle on cither side, these lielng sixty feet ii\ width. Those avenues and aisles together have three hundred and sixty feet width,and each of them Ih one thou sand three hundred and sixty feet long. At the renter of the huildiug there is a transept ninety feet in width, which at the south end Is prolonged licyoud the building. This extended transept, Ira- ginniug nt thirty feel from tlie building and extending to two hundred and eight feet, is flanked on either "bide by aisles sixty feet wide, and forms an annex for hydraulic machines. The promenades are: In the avenue fifteen loot wide, in tho aisles ten feet, and in the transept twenty-fire feet.-Tho walks extending across the building nro nil ten feet wide, and lead lit either end to exit floors. The foundations of this building are piers of masonry, lira superstructure consist ing til solid timlicr columns siip|Mirtlng roof trusses, constructed of straight wooden principal beams and wrought iron ties and struts. 'The columns are placed in longitudinal lines, ami in these rows stand sixteen feet apart. Tho columns are forty feet high, anti , support respectively tho niucty-fcet! root-spans over the avenues at a height i of forty feel, and the sixty feet roof- spans fiver the aisles nt a height of twenty feel. 'The outer walls are built of masonry to a height of live feet, and above that are composed of glazed sash j between the columns. Portions of these sashes are moveable for ventilation, and j I/>uvro ventilators are introduced in . continuous lengths over Ixitli the ave nues ami the aisles. The building is on- 1 own use. Tho machinery hall proper tains nbovo ono thousand two hundred American exhibitors, having an uvr space of two hundred and seventy square feet each—a more nun pact arrangement than has boon accomplished previously, since nt Vienna there were iiino hundred and fifty-nine exhibitors of machinery, with an average floor spneo of threo hun dred and three square feet. . The Art Gallery. 'l ira most imposing and ornate of nil the structures is memorial hull, built at a cost of $1,GOO,000, by thu state of Pomisyfvnria and the citv of Philadel phia. This is placed at the disposal of the centennial com mission, to ih? used during the exhibition iih an art gallery, after which it is designed to make it the receptacle of an industrial and art col lection similar to the famous south Ken sington imiseum. nt liOtulon. It stands oil a lino parallel with, and a short dis tance northward of, the main building, and is in a commanding position, looking southward across lira Schuylkill ovc Philadelphia. It stands upon a tcrrac one hiimircd mill twenty-two feet nbov the level of lira Schuylkill. Being de signed for an absolutely fireproof struc ture, nothing comhiiHlildo has lieen tmed 'The design is modern Renaissance. II covers an acre and a half, and is three hundred mid sixty-five feet long, two hundred mid ten feat wide, nml fifty- nine feet high, over a spacious basement twelve fret high. A dome, rising one hundred feet iiIkivo the ground, sur mounts the center, capped by a colossal bail, from which rises the figure of Co lumbia. Tho main front of IIiIh build ing looks southward, displaying a main entrance in the center consisting of threo cjmrmoiiH arched doorwayH a pavilion on each end, and two arcades connecting the pavilions with tho center. Tho en trance is seventy feet wide, to which there is a rise ol thirteen steps. Each of the huge doorways Ih forty feet high ways are clusters of columns, lorniiimtiug in emblematic designs illustraiive of science and art. 'The doors are ol iron, relieved by bronze panels, displaying the coats of arms of all the states and ter ritories. The United Btalcs coat of arum is in the center of the main frieze. Tho dome is of glass and iron, of iiuiquo de sign. While Columbia riscH at tho top, a colossal figure stands at each corner of the Imso of the domo, typifying tho fou quarters of the glol>e. In each pavilion there is a large win tirely lighted by side light from the north and south. Space in machinery hall has lieen allotted as follows: Chili 408 Norway .. 300 Tho United States occupies three hun dred thousand square feet. This machinery building has very su perior facilities for shafting and double lines are introduced into each avenue and aisle at a height of about twenty feet. A Corliss steam engine of one thousand four hundred horae-powor drives the main shafting. 'There are also to be counter-lines of shafting in the aisles and special steam {tower furnished where necessary. Btcam power is to Is: furnished free to exhibitors. In the an nex for hydraulic machines there is a tank sixty feet by one hundred and sixty feet, with ten feet depth of water. It is intended to exihit all sorts of hydraulic machinery in full operation, and at the southern end of the tank there is a wa ter-fall thirty-five feet high by forty feet wide, supplied from the tank by the pumps on exhibition. There will prob ably be a larger exhibition at Philadel phia of processes of manufacture than at any previous exhibition The applications for space have been so numerous as to require the addition of three annexes, covering two and one- half acres, while numerous private ex hibitors have put up buildings for their dow, twelve and one-half feet by thirty four feet. There are altogether eight of these windows, used for the display of stained glass paintings, etc. Tho arcades designed to screen tlie long walls of the galleries each consist of live groined arches, and form promenades looking outward over the grounds and inward over gardens extending back to the i wall of the building. These garden plots are each ninety feet by thirty-six feet, or namented in the center with fountains, and intended to display statuary. 'The arcades are highly ornanonted, and the balustrades of them and of the stairways are also designed for statuary. The walls of the east and west sides of the structure display the pavilions and the walls of the picture galleries, and arc relieved by niches designed for statues. Tho frieze is richly ornamented, and above it the central dome shows to great advantage. Tho rear or north front of the building is of the same gem character as the main front, out, place of the arcade, has a scries of arched windows, twelve in number, with the entrance in tho center. Between the pavilions is the grand balcony, a p ennde two hundred and seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide, elevated forty feet above the ground, and over looking to the northward the beautiful grounds of the park. On each front of the buildings the entrances open into halls eighty-two feet long, sixty leet wide and fifty-three feet high, decorated in modern renaissance. 'These, in turn, open into the center hall, eighty-three feet square, the ceiling rising over eighty feet in height. From the cast and west sides of this center hall extend the gal leries, each ninety-eight feet long, forty- eight feet wide and thirty-five feet high. These galleries admit of temporary di visions for tho better display of paint ings, and with tho conter hull form a grand hall two hundred and oiglity-sovoii foot, long and eighty-three feet wide, cnpnlilo of comfortably accommodating olght thousand persoim. This is .nearly twice lira dimcnuioiiH of tho target l hall in the United Btalcs. From the gal leries doorways open into two smaller galleries, cighty-nino feet long and twenty-eight feet wide. These open north and south into private apartments connecting with the pavilion-rooms, and forming two side galleries two hundred and ten feet long. Along the whole length of the north side of the main galleries and central hall extends a cor ridor fourteen feet high, opening on Us north line into a series of private rooms twenty-throe in number designed for studies and smaller exhibition rooms. All the galleries and the central hall are lighted from above; the pavilion and studios from the sides. Tho pavilions and central hall nro designed especially for the exhibition of sculpture. 'This fine building gives s'eventy-five thousand square feet of wall space for paintings, and twenty thousand square feet of floor •olonial times, whose extravagant 1 •lied the alarm of the village. the eldest sen got a pair of boots, the second nn overcoat, (lie third a watch, and the fourth a pair of shoe buckles; ami the nciglilNirs all shook their brails, iimi whispered to each other: ‘That, family (son the high road to Insolvency.' ” Legislation in New England tried to restrain extravagance in dross, and laws were passed mini list wearing laces, em broidery, needle work cups and " im moderate great sleeves." A century later we And people making much the same complaints, and quoting "good old colony times." The shoes wore of the same material a* the dross, often skillfully embroidered. Country gills sometimes carried tho broadcloth shoes with peaked Iocb in their hands till they got to church ; but the pink satin and yellow brocade shoes of city maidens were supported on clogs and pattens. Mrs. .Inhn Adams asked iier husband to send her from Philadel phia in I77G, “ two yards of black cala manco for shoes," saving sho could not wear leather If she went barefoot. By way of silently reproving the vanity of their wives and daughters, the sterner sex appeared in immense powdered wigs, stiffly starched rullles, glittering knee nml shoe buckles, embroidered silk vests, white silk stockings, and coats of every line but. black, trim mad with grcnl gilt, or silver billions. With these claborato wardrobes of the men to keep In order, Hint wonder'the women had no tiinn to ullivnlo their "squirtels' brains?" to quote ono of the gallant croakers of the Alter all, wo fancy tho most ardent lovers of the past would hardly In* in favor of the early days of the republic With the ninlmgony sideboard rescued from oblivion, (lie spinning wheel set up in the parlor, and the quaint china tea sot upon the closet shelves, wo can all cry: ■'.OhI IIiohu pleasant times of old, with their i for statues, * etc. Tho skylights throughout are double, the upper being of clear glass and the under ol ground glass. Groat as is the space afforded ill the memorial hall, the applications from American and foreign artists have proved so greatly in excess of its capacity us to require tho erection of a much more spacious building. This, only of brick, harmonizes architecturally with the me morial hall, and it is to In; permanent. It stands just in tho rear of tho original art gallery and communicates wlt.li it. ItauordH sixty thousand square foot ol wall space available for paintings, and contains twenty-four galleries, each forty feet square, besides two galleries, each ono hundred feet long by forty feet wide, and two transverse central corridors, twenty feot wide. Independence Hall. Tho hall of tho independence, on Ghost- nut street, between Fifth and .Sixth, ’ commenced in 172ff, and completed 17JM, having been designed for the use of tho provincial assemblies; and the long hall formerly in the upper story was often used for grand official banquets given to governors, distinguished stranger and generals, and to the moi hers of tho first congress when they i rived in 177*1. It was originally «l coratcd with a stately steeple, which w taken down in 1771 on account of decay ; only a small belfry was left to cover the Ixdf until the year 1828, when the pres ent steeple was erected as nearly like the ancient one as circumstances would per mit. The nneient liell. formerly used for the clock, is remarkable for its prophetic inscription. Originally Imported from England in 17G2, but cracked in its first ringing, it was recast in Philadelphia, ami the inscription—“ Proclaim liberty B to rend their chronicles which such bravo deeds relate. B to slag their ancient rhymes, to hear their legends told— lint Heaven lie thanked I live not In those blessed times of old !" The Agricultural Huildiug stands north of the. horticultural huildiug, being separated from it by a romantic ravine, and has a commanding view of tho Schuylkill river and tho north western suburbs of Philadelphia beyond. This huildiug illustrates a novel combination of materials, mainly wood and glass, and consists of a loiiffimvo crossed by three transepts, each being composed of truss- arcltesof Gothic form. The nave iseight hundred and twenty feot long by one hundred and twenty-five feet in width, with a height of seventy-live feet from the floor to the (Mi'intof tho arch, the cen tral transept one hundred foot wide and seventy-five feet high, and tho two end transepts eighty feet wide and seventy foot high. Its interior apponrnnee re sembles that of a great cathedral, and in looking from transept to transept, tho vista4s extremely imposing. A portion of this building is supplied with steam power for tho use of agricultural machin ery. The four courts inclosed by the nave, and transepts, and also tho four spaces at the corners of tho building, having the nave and end transepts for two of their sides, are roofed, and form valuable space for exhibits. Tho ground plan of the building is parallelogram five hundred and forty foot by eight hundred and twenty feot, covering about ten and one-quarter acres. Sixteen foreign na tions have space in this building, and in tlie ono hundred and forty-seven thou sands five hundred and seventy-two square feet which remain, more than one thousand American exhibitors urn ac commodated. This necessitates sjieeial throughout lira land, and to all the poc- plo thereof”—was placed upon it. This was more than twenty yean* before the independence of the colonies was dreamed of; yet, when the declaration was signed, this very boll was the first, by its merry peal, to "proclaim liberty throughout the land.” It now occupies a place in tlie south vetishule of tho Imilding. The Declaration of Independence was signed in the chamber on tho left of the prin cipal entrance. Homo years since the nutinue architectural decorations and furniture of this room were re moved, and their places supplied with new furniture mid tn|»csLry in modern style. 'This error bus since been repaired, iw far ns possible, by buildings for the collective exhibits of their natural resources provided by tho different stales. In addition to the grounds within the inclosure, an eligibly located stockyard, twenty two acres in extent, has lieen pro vided’for the display of live slock, which will be exhibited in a series of shows during the months of September, Octo ber, and November. Two farm#, more over, of alsmt fifty acres each, have lieen suitably planted lor tho trials of agricul tural machinery. Cary Stockino, the smallest man in Connecticut, is dead. Ho was only thir ty six inches high, and at the Limn of liis death was sixty-four years old. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, IS7C.