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Business is now very lively here; the wheat begins to pour in, the merchants are busy buying and shipping it. I saw a notice from a Buffalo paper lately that there came on the upper lakes to that city between one noon and the next, 17 steamboats and 70 Schooners with half a million bushels of grain. One man not two writes from here has one enclosed field of wheat containing 160 acres. It is reaped by a machine worked by horses on the trot reaping from 15 to 20 acres in a day. In Michigan, as I was informed by a clergyman from there who preached here a week ago, they have a machine which at once reaps, thatches,and puts the wheat into bags! these last are I suppose attached to the machine and taken off as fast as filled. There is much rivalry between the boats of the upper lakes and the railroad company through Michigan, by the latter route, one can go from here to Buffalo in 34 hours, fare five dollars. A gentleman living next door but one to us, has just returned from New York; he transacted his business in that city and was at home again in just 4 hours less, than six days, from the time he started. What think you of that? The census of this place has been recently taken showing not quite 4000 inhabitants; there are 15 or 16 physicians though the place has always been distressingly healthy, an equal number of lawyers I presume though I have not heard their number mentioned. There is no decent school for boys only one that I know of and that taught by a Dutchman not quite so tall as I am. The only school for girls of any importance is the Seminary under the care of Mrs. Rev T.M Hopkins and her assistant, lately procured from 'the east' , Miss Rich who has the name of being a very good teacher.