Maumee Express

Peaches.--The cultivation of this delicious fruit has been of late much neglected in northern Ohio. In the early settlement of the Lake country, the peach was the first fruit the pioneer could bring to maturity, and a log cabin could scarce number three summers before it would be completely embowered in a thrifty orchard of red cheeks and golden rare-ripes. Glorious days lang syne. Memory runneth back to troops of barefoot boys and girls--with sun-burnt looks and health-browned cheeks-aye, and the joyous shout that thrilled through the old wild-wood when the peach gathering came on, and the peach-paring brought joy, youth, beauty and innocence to the "reel and scamper down" on the earth floor of the rustic cot on Autumn evenings. Aye, of the Mirth and Satisfaction-of olden time, when Content "Sat by her spinning wheel, And Plenty in a wooden tray Of wheat and Indian meal."

But we took up our pen to say that peaches might be profitably cultivated in this vicinity. They command extravagant prices, and we saw a wagon load retailing in market this morning at a cent a piece! The owner would not sell by the peck even. The sand ridges in the vicinity of the Lake are well adapted to the growth of the peach, and this fruit will always command good prices in the city and villages around Erie's fair waters. We hope farmers will no longer neglect the luscious peach.

In parts of New Jersey and Delaware no better crop can be raised, and the peach is extensively cultivated. Mr. Ridgeway, near Delaware city, has an orchard of 140 acres, with 100 trees to the acre. His crop this season will yield him $20,000. Two schooners are constantly employed in transporting the fruit to the Philadelphia and New York markets, where it meets with ready sale at $3, 4 and 5 dollars per basket.