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Adver'tisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued utiloidered bUt and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. COPARTN ER*MIP& T HE undersigned, having associated themselves in business under the name and style of DUNBAR & GARMANY, for the purpose of transctilng a general GRO CERY BUSINESS, in this place, respect fully invites the attention of Planters'td their Heavy Stock of all the leading articles ol general consumption. They may be found at the stand recently occupied by B. S. Dun bar, atid nearly opposite the stand formerly bccupied by G. W. Garmany, where they will be happy to receive their former friends and patrons, together with the publii at We ie ditirmined to keep constantly tn hand a stock unsurpassed by bny ever offered in this market, and believing our facilities fdr buying LOW, to be equal to any in the place, we will always be prtpared to sell at the lowest sticbs, bithdr for Cash oi on time to approved bustomers. Having rented the Ware-Hodse formerly occuied by B. Elliott, and placed it under the charge of an expe ' riencbd mart, we are ptepare-i t3 offer equal advantages in storage with any Ware,House in the place ; and liberal Cash Advances made, at all times, on Cotton stored with us, or an shipments made to G. W. Garmany & Cd., Savannah, wlhose charges will be as low as usually mad6 by'other Factors. The highest prices paid at all times for Cotton and other produce-Ttigli to rarket. B. S. DUNUAR, G. W. GARMANY. Hamburg July 5, tf 26 .9 C erd. BEG leave to return my thanks to the public for the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed or mb, and solicit a continuance of the same for the new firm. B. S. DUNBAR. .l Card. I BEG leave to tettirn my thanks to the publin for the liberal patronage hereto fore bestowed on me, and solicit a continu ance of the same for the new firm. G. W. GARMANY. Cheap Goods in Store. 50 lhds Prime N 0 Sug-ar 10 Hhds. common N. 0. Stmar, 20 choice Porto Rico, Sugar, 25' Barrels clartlied 5 " crushed 2 " powdered 5 Boxes Woolsey & Woolsey double refined loaf sugar, 2 " Charleston double rcfined lon sugar, 20 Hhds. M uscovado Molasses. 5 " Trinidad - 50 Barrels New Orleans" 100 Barrels No. 3 Mackerel (large size,) 20 Kiis No. 1" 125 bags prrne Rio Ceffee 40 " " Lagsigra" 20 "-" old Cuba " 30 " " old Java "~ 6000 Lbs. Uni.on brand white Lead (No. extra and pure,) -300 Gallo,ns Linseed Oil, 2 Barrels'1Train" 300 Lbs. Putty in Ltadders,C 125 Boxes wi~ndow glass (all sizes,) 75 Hegs Eastern tnls (assorted) 20.000 Lbs. assorted Swedes Iron, .500 " Casteel (Sandersons,) German and Blister steel, * 400 Pieces heavy Dundee bagging, 100 .Cols hemp rope, 10 Bales homespun (Augusta manufac ture, *5 " " (Graniteville Company) 8 " heavy cotton Osnabuigs, .20 boxes sperm. candles, 2(1 " Adamnanrine candles. -10 " Hull & Sons patent candles, 30 IIhds. bacon sides (western,) - 4000 Lbs. coutntry Bacon. - 3 Tierces Rice. &c. &cr.. -A LSO ' Saddle; Bridles,. Blankets, Calicees, Cotton Yarn, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Ttubbs, Sugar-cans, Sieves, Tobacco, Pepper, Spice, Ginger. Tea, Dane-seat Chairs, Wood seat C7hairs, Grind, istones. and many othier articles too tedious to * eumeate -DUNBAR.& GA RMANY. Hamburg, July 11, 1849, if~ 25 Lanap Oll, Candles &c. .O)0GALLONE iamp Oil, a choice 200 Gallons Lamp Oil, (summer strained.) 200 - " Train Oil. 15 Boxes Sperm Candles.' 15 '. Adamantine Candles. .t 1" Hall's Candles. For sale by HI. A. KENRICK. Hamburg Sept. 5, 1849, rf 33 Brass lioundl BucketIs. DOZEN Brass Bound Buckets, a supe. rior article' For sale by .H1. A. KENRICK. bug.... J..l. 24 1849, tr 27 Froni the Charleston Courier. The Land of the Palmetto. AuR-Carrj me bak to Old Virginny. U' -. F. PORTER. Oh take me back to my native land, By Ashley's flowing tide, Her fragrant woods and verdant glades, Are still the pilgrim's pride: God bless her forest hills so green, God bless her wave wase'd shore It would break my heart to thinik I Should see that land no more. qee her hospitable homes Their gon'rous.rites display, Ilerdatk-eyed maids, with souls as war'M As spring-time's genial ray; And. as I look, my throbbing breast Thrills, as in days ofyore Oh break my heart, for shall I sei That dear lov'd land no more? Mother of heroes ! land of fame! The wanderer loves thee still To thy boinm clasp thy banish'd child, H is heart's fond wish fulfil. Then take me to nay native land, To Carolina's shore 'Twill break -my heart, if I do not see That dear lov'd land once mure. I Love not Now. Tie from me all thou once didst give Thy mainiles and tears-shy sighs-that vo* No longer in my bosom live; I love thee once-I love not now; ,Tis better in this wretched hour, To fling from memory every trce" Each shadow of thy broken power, And all memorials fond erase! Haply, in after- times, the wrong Thy fickle speech hath done to me May'strike thy sonl. fas borne along, Thou gaily sailest o'er life's sea; And then, amidst the wreck of love, That will thy sinking hope surround, Some long forgotten thonght may move Thy fluttering heart with grief profour'id A SNAKE STor.-An old Deacon in Yankee land, unco told us a g6od story. ie was standing berido a frog pol--we. _b.xe-hLY -.W d In h-an saw a large gaiter sua 'e make ah at lack on an enormous bull frog. Hb seized 'one of the frog's hind legs, and the frog, to be on a pai.with his snake ship, caught him by the tail, and both tnnmenced sWiallowing one another, and continued this carnivorous opera tion until nothing was left of either of them! A Hi.-Two cardin:als objected to Raphael, the great master of the pencil, that in one of his pieces he had too much red in the countenances of St. Peter and St; Paul. "Be not astonished at that my lords; I have painted them as they are in Hea ven blushing with shame at seeing the chutch so badly governed." It is time cruryoung ladies dropped the old plan of ref-rring the boys to their paternal relative, on receiving an offer of marriage. Come g.irls, lay aside the old fashion, and on a young man of the right stamp offecring himself, don't look off on one side and stare some particu lar fingure in the carpet out of counten ance and simper, "ask pa." kint fling your arms about his neck, kiss him, lo'ok him in the eyes, and say, Well I raill! -Albany Knick. *"I'll bet a sheep," said an old Mere dith to his other half, "ithat.our boy Otho is going crazy. For lie is grinning at the plough, and he is grinning at th-e table, and lie is grinnine to himself whterevrer he noes. "Pohi," replied the woman, "adon'it you knows he got a love letter this morning." A striking evidence of the wisdom of the settlers of M~inesota is afforded hy the action of the Legislature in passing a vote directing the Secretary to sub scribe'for all the newspapers published ia<the Territory from tho time of their commencement. These papers are to be bound yearly and depositod in the library. as a valtuable history of the time for future reference. MORE FoRtCBLE 'rHAN ELEGANT, Bishop Chase. an exchange paper.. told his congregation a short time since, in one of his sermons, that there was-among his female auiditors, corset boards suf ficientto shingle a hogpen. "[ rather not take a horns with you," as the loafer said to the bull; but the bull treated him to two horns, and the loaf er got quite high." "I always think,'' satid a reverend guest "that a certain quantity of wine does a man no harm after dinner." "aOh no', sir,"' replied' his host, "ait is the in certain quantity that does the mischief." Why i; a tight shoe like a fine summer? Benas it makes corn grow. NATURE AND RELATIONS OF WATER. No living thing can, exist, except it contains water as one of the leading c6n slituents of the various parts of its sys tem. To so great an extent does this go, that, in a thousand parts of human blood, nearly eight handred are Water. The distribution of organized beings all ovei the world, is to a great extent. reg. ulated by its abundance or scarcity. It seems as if the properties of this sub stance mark out the plan of animated nature. From man, at the head oPall, tj the meanest vegetable that can grow on a bare rock, through all the various orders and tribes, this ingredient is ab stlutely required. Insipid and inodo rous in itself, it takes on the peculiari ties of all other bodies; assumes with readiness the sweetness of sugar; and the acidity of vinegar. Disiihed with flowers, or the aromatic paits of plants, it contracts from them their fragrance; and with equal facility becomes the ve hicle of odors the most offensive to our sense. We talk about the use of watir, 6nd imagine that nature furnishes us a pa rennial supply. The dommon ihiloso phy of the people, is doubtless, advanced so far as to admit that, in an unknown manner, this substance is created in the clouds, descends as rain fdr the usd of ahimals and plants; but whence it came, or where it goes, never enters intd tl*ir consideration. Men .constantly forget that in this world, notling is even annihilated; an atom, once created, ran by no process be destroyed ! The liquid that we drink to-day has been drunk a thousand times before; the clouds that obscure the sky have obscured it again and again ; nd and if the sorrows of mankind aie as many as the, [ihilanthropist may well fear, lie might suspect a great part of the ocean is. perhaps, made up of tears that have fallen frohi the human family, in the air their sighs die away, and in the o ean their tears are all lost. This Ehai-acteristic of the: ways of natore; the beautiful and the vile-the great and the small-are all mingled. together i the tears that you shed in the depths of grief to-day, may be squirted to-morrow through a hose-pipe to clean the dire of the stieets, or whistled away through the squeak of a locomotive, to scare some dilatory cow off the track. So much for the sorrows of man. What then becomes of the immense quantities of water, which; this entering as a constituent of the bodies of animals, gives to their various par is that flexibili ty which enables them to execute wove ments or combining with vegetable structure fits them for carrying on their vital processes? After the course of a few years, all existing animals and vege tables entirely pass away; their solid constituents disintegrate. and take on other conditions, and the waters lost perhaps, for a tihrie in the ground, or else eseapes in'the form of vapor into the air. In that great and invisible receptable, all traces of its ancient relations disap pears; it mingles with other vapors that are raised from the sea by the sun. From the bndies of living animalstand plants, immense quantities are hourly finding therr way into the reservoir. In a crowded city, from the skin and by the breath of its numerous inhabi tants, clouds of vapor are continually escaping-we see this visibly going on in the cold weather of winter, and though invisible, the process is eqnally active in summer--the escape arising from the drink we take, or from all those various portions of the system that are dying each moment, for the life of individual being is made up of the successive death of all its constituent particles. In the same manner, from thme forests and mea dows, and wherever vegetables are found, water is continually evaporating, and that to an extent far surpassing what wve might at first be led to suppose. In a single 4ay, a sun flowver of moderate size, throws from its leaves,, and other parts nearly 20 ounces weight. Howv enormous, then must be the quantity wvhich escapes from the sur face of a great continent! Yet all this' is thrown into the air ; and there it min gles wvith other portions, some of which are coming from living taces,- and some derived from the surface of the ground-, and some from the remote regions of the sea. It seems as if- nature had taken sure means that hero all tracesof iden. tity should be lOSt. .The winds- prover bially inconstant, blow at one time from the coast of Europe,. at another from Africa, at another from Asia. In the republic of the universe there is a steam equally, the breath of the king intermningles-with the breath of the beggar, and the same quiet atmosphere receives the exhalations of the Ameri can, the Etuopean, the Asiatic, the Af ricn: the'-narticles that have risen from the intermingle with those from the lil ;And if thit were not enough, the arid the tempests obliterate every inction, and dash in one com, nio'n ibn these relics of every part of the e , A '.f average size requiies a half ton we of wate a year; when he has reache eneridian of life, he has con stimed three hundred times his ofn M of this. liquid. These are state*t liich may seem to those who hear I the first time very wonder. fulland'7 eRre easily verified, might lead y 4 oubt whether the existing order i. ure, as dependent on the waters' e sea, could for any length of time ept tp under such'a heavy Consump nh"t family conssts probably of a III millions of .individuals; it, would- b ery moderate estimate to suppos, I- ,the *rious animals, great and' ' ten together, consume five times a oh water as we do, and the vegetab1 orid two hundred tines as all the a mal races. Under such an immensi 0rin it becomes a curious question. arovisions-nature has made to Meetj deTiand, and how long the waters o i_sea supposing none returned to them (furnish a sure supply 1 The qd stion involves the stability of existence arimated nature and the world of anizition; and no'man, save one wii nr d is .thordughly imbued with an. feciatiou oi 'the resources upon whi e.-ects of the Creator are founded," d, I am sure justly guess at the _Tes 0-There exists in the sea, a supply. 7 Iwould meet this erior mous dthan a quarter of a nilIion' feaa. Schi 7-gan of nature, and such. are the r uit on which she depends for carryi puior meastures. For the well beig eieorganized creations, she can fall na .gigantic supply. Profess er.ggg . Two ;N+hedgtd Charley wer was jo si- that he .codild get in either side-that s to uay that there were two fore sides to his bed aiid no bick side, which Ned found very convenient. One night Ned and Charley, hail been nut, and on returnidg, which they (lid near morning, both were considerably elevated. Ilowever, they walked up to their rooms with an air that seemed to say, "not so Very_ daraed drunk after all," attd sought long and patiently for matches and a lamp.. Arter knocking over the pitcher and the wadlistand and smashing the look ing glass, they finally gave up the search und went to bed. Went to bed-yes. that's the word, but owing to.he darkness and confusion of iheir sense, they made a'slight mistake. In short, Ned's bed had the honor of receiving the two friends-Charley getting in on one side, and his companion rolliug in on the other. "I say, Ned," cried Charley, torching somebody's calf, 'there's a fellow i- tny bed !'. eWonderful coincidence!" exclaimed Ned, feeling a strange elbaw in the region of his ribs, "there somebody in my bed too." "In there though ?" cried Charley, "let's kich 'em out 1" "Agreed" said Ned. And a.ccordingly, the two friends hegan to kick. It. lasted nbout a nminute and a half, and Ned was sprawling on the floor; Charley was left in possessio- of the bed. For a moment all was silent. "I say, Ned" cried Charley.. "What 1"-asked Ned, sulkily. "I've kicked my fellow cul !" "You are a d'evilislr sight luckyier than I am. then," said N'ed;"for niie has kick ed me out."-Spirit of the Times. A-VOLUrTFti WIFE AND BoitoWED BAnY,-A:man wvas arrested in this vil lage on Wednesday for a violent assault upon another, and while undergoing ex amination,' before Justice Arnold; young wvomain made her appearence in court,. with a smaill child in her arms, wvho re presented herself to be the wife of the prisoner. 'She cried pitifully, and her sad appearance'- with the babe at her breast much affected- cite bystanders. [Her tears, however, could not turn.the scales -of~jstice, and the prisoner was sent to jail to await his trial in Septem ber next. -Now for. the denouement. it has since been 'ascertained that this won'an was not the culprit's wif6, nor the child' his. She is another man's wife, and to eff'ect the heart- of the magistrate to leniency, she volunteercd in the 'charac ter we have described, and to heightetn the "cefer," she actually borrowed an other woman's bab.- Woonsocket Pa triot. 'Soutc men so- dislike the dust kicketd up by the generation to which they belong, that, being unable lb pass, they lay be bind. Who follow.not virtue in youth, can.' not fly sin in old age' Front th St. Louis Republican. In the hurry of bussiness, and the multi pliclty of other subjects, the late Conven tion in this city adjourned without mak. ing provision for the publication of the numorous letters' from gentleman inved to attend. The whole. we presume, will ap pear in the regular published proceedingb, in pamplilet form; in advance of that pub. Ilcation, however we hVe obtained the following 66jiies of letteis. whibh we gite to gratify the public curiosity to kndw how ceitain eminent statesmen view the pro. positiod. Letter frn General Casi. bETaoIT,-Oct. 1. Gentlemen :-I have received your let ter inviting me to attend the Convention proposed to be held at St. Louis, for the purpose of deliberating upon ihe eipediency and necessity of uniting at an early day the Pacific with thi Mississippi valley.by means of a rail road and telegraph. While thanking you for this invitation, I am obliged to decline it, as it will-not he in my power to be present upon that in teresting occasion. But, though absent, I shall not '-eeard with the less interest the progresi of this effort to direct public attention to one of the most important as well as one of-the most useful works which has ever been offered to human enterprise. It is difficult for the mind to grasp the immense aclan tages which, politically. socially, and com mercially, this route is destined to bring with it. It would become a highway, if not of nations, for their products, minis tering to the wants of the extensive regions and opening such a channel of internal communication as the world has never seen it, would bind together the diflerent portions of our country,'adaing the facilities of rapid intercourse to all the other mo tives for perpetual union. And the idea ofrransmitting information from the seat of Government to the shores of the Paci. fic in an hour, while it startles the jnagi notion, is pronounced easy and practica ble by experience, and is calculated to exert a powerful influence upon the pro gress and duration of- our Confederation. For all the purposes of intelligence, pub lic or private, .the telegraph has rendered our country far more compact than lt*Vas the day the constitution ,vas ado0.te4 ot I'trist that suicess will crown ynUr.1A' bors, and that such a spirit will be awaken ed as will insure the speedy commence ment of this work, and its final bompletion as soon as cir6unstanaes will peirmit. I am. gentleman, with great respect, your obedient servant. . LEWIS CASS. Mesrs. A. B Chambers, Phillips Do by O'Fallon, Walsh, Committee. &c. Lditerfroni Mr. Calhotin. FORT HiLi., Sept. 16, 1849. Gentlemen : 1 regret that I cannot ac cept your invitation to attend the Con iention to be h6ld at St. Louis, on the 160h of next month, to deliberate upon the ev pediency of connecting the Valley of the Alississippi with the Pacific. My engage ments are of a nature that ivould not per mit me to be presen(. No one more highly appiediaties the 3pbject of your meeting than f do. I have made up no opinion as to its eastern or western terminus, or the. ioute that should l'e adopted; nor shill I until 1 am bett6r informed. My wish is that the best route, all things considered, should be selected, including both termini. The work1should look to the wiole Union, 'and the general commence of both the A tlantic and Pacific oceans. Such will be the views that will governi me, whettever I may be called on to act on thelsubject! I regard the work to be one of too great magtitudoeand im portanice to be inftluenced by local or pri., vate considcrations.. With great respect, I am, &. J.-C.CALHOUN. (A ddressed to the;Committee.) Letter fromi Mr. CIiy AIuLAND', Sep. 19, 1549. GgYNTLEXIr:- 'I haie received gour of ficial letter, in hbalf of a mass meeting'of the citizens of St. Louis, invi'.ing me to attend a National Coventiott int that city on the JGth of next month, to deliberate on the expediency of connecting the Atlanrie and Pacific oceans in the Valley of the Mississippi, at an early day by rail road, &c. I am sorry that it is aot in tity pow. er to attend the props'ed Convention, olhar indespensabile engagements itnterferi'ng. As to the project itself, the means of its execution, and the termini of the road, I stand perfectly uncommitted, and feel no perjudices nor predilectioris whie'h would away my judgment. .Before an, etnterprtse of such vast importande is undertaken all the light of which the subject is susceptible ought to b-e obtnined. Among these is thtat to be derived from accurate surveys of conttemplated routes,' aud their practi cability, tas well as estimates of the cost. F hope that the deliberations and proceed logs of the proposed Cotnvention at St. 15ouis wvill affords useful aid in-nrivming at a proper.conclusion. I am, with great respectj your obedient servant. . H. CLAY. HOGGSH.-A Paddy writing from the WVest says porke is so plenty that "evety third man yoo meet is.a hog.'' The world is a workshop, and none but ih'e wise no how to use the tools, THi BRITISH WEST INDIES. The 'bondition of the British 1et in dies is at this M-Ov nierit interesting and - itsirtletivb. These 'coloaiieshad foFIerin - two great-soui-ces or conbequencetila mother cintry.. They enriched it-17" the great amount of valuble pfoducii poured into the stream of British commerce, edht- - they afforded many :a fat and' haiy offied - for those aons of the nobility whlso badad '. suitable lounging. plAce aghdme; Thbey . be helped io adorn tfii Palaces of hi iner. - chant nobles of London. and .urnislied .Ad a few elegant palaces of their "wn 6'o tfi nobles who l"cked thi convedien;; A - is 'changed now. The sitedr 'of iir merce has lotig flowed 6n without 6arrln; any memorial of tihe fUrmed fertility of b British West Indlii.. The ir iir a njaica has become as historical. is %i.P $at tery and figs of Athens. The Biitiih Merchants have quietly dubmitted.to tilt necessity, snd sought else.wheFe 'or tl1e loading of thwii- shipi and the harveit-oi their capital. It seems to be obftitted that for the present and fdture' British philanthrophy has coisigned tieje-ibloniel to poverty add insignificance. It i i sib ficient hiit to tbh merchabti to - rbrget their existence. But the race df Offie-holderi, liinS" fewer res6drces, lesi sdgaity and o6 ie signation, cannot even yet see thitthey too must share in the iscrideos madi 116 ce.saiy by the conversion of gaidei iitI thickets, and lilooming ,felds. into diefts, They persist in the assertioi tbat the dig.; nity of British rile shall noibe dishb684d; thai ihe ialohes idiui be kept iip-bid il officials be clothed in Ane linehi hu6 ted with dainties. The colonies deimand iw ful reductioni In salaries. They iag it ' - not a qupsiton or ihe eipedienc of high or low revenue-:of fne oi coari fihd'old aries; tt' they are miserably liooi, and have no choice; that they 'cannt p bes . cause the money is not; that ixactions; only aggravate ihe 'ist-esier, and itfd 16 h*itbi6 the .at asirophii orutier into. . . - On this questidi of reducing the .ep ses of the colonial governments Wiihe Idwest possible figure, the British West fudies have bsen-,eviisly distiiret foi iwo-years. pgsti Th honie gArihieInt appears to sidiWvith tfu o -*eisf.i, hile the pulationin'.Jamaia inniGi& n.... - -iral i--- - - . uru ui- , .unsun -T1 ki.usu en ttioi born. Parligmeis have beetr dig solved only to lie followed by ilf itore intractable successors, Finally, fif last. news fron Jamaica is, that the ree*ee for the sup[iorf df government [in aml ij tune (iois has ceased. with no piope6i of an adjustnient of the dispute. out of hiih the confusioIn has sprung. Great Britain ap, parenily shrinks froni a' pUb"lie 6onfessiotr dh'at eh'e . hat pbiloiopi6allf, i-Migiously, and philan*thiopically been wblking with infinite fuis and p'retension for t*enty years, foi th iiiable end of iedu6ingieieral rich and flourishing colonies to; such a ceidi tion of beggary, that they an no longer beai the burden of ftyi6g for a decent gh'vernmnent. .'' MEASURi C0NN I2 'fHE CRIV.- -, First find the solid cor.ints of yout crib in feet, so far as it is filled with iood slip shucked coin'. 'This. will show i;V the number of solid fee: or corn youn crib contains. We suppose 6'a-third o' these contents to be of cob, one-third 61 shuck, and one-third only of pure coi'. Now di. viding the above ascertained solid contents by three, would give you tAe number of bush'6f of putre corn, pr6iided a solid foot of shellid corn made ' bushel, and three solid eet of slip-s'huked corn made a b. shef. But this is'dnot Coyrect, because it' takes fr've solid feet to make four bushewt. 'I"hen' you: ment deduct one fifth from the' - - nu-mber of dolid feet in order to set'tans' the n'u'mber of bushels which the house' could hold or does hold of shelled torn. Remember if the corn isonty sIlp.rhucked, then one-third only of the tditber of On shels unust be counted,. foy the rett is only - . of cob and shuck. . . Soppose a crib is 14 lfeet wide and 2G feet long, and th'at the torn in-it is ten feei deep. Thes' ilti'ply the width by thee lenigth of thie inside of the crib, and multi-.' ply that prodni'et by 10. This gives yet thi.number of' solid feet of corn, viz: '14 by 20=280 by 10=2,800 solid' fes 2800' by .5=560 to be suhrraeted~ 2800-560=2,240 bushels; it) shel1led cor'n. 2800 by 3=746 bushels, if id the shdtlfr. Thus, if I wass to measure a gentlerman'. crib es described in volame 6, page 93, -- I would do it as follows :-The crib; 20'feet long, 14 wide anti JH feet liigh; 1 would calculate thus:- . A 20 by 14=280- by 19==li3b0-Gl6=- - 2404 by 2=B88' bushels to be the contents of the body of his crib wshen with good slip-shucked corn. - Paoof.-One solid: f'oot contains. 17285. solid inches, and' one buishel contains. 215d-4solid inches. Now,. -.. 1728 tnultiplied' by 5 is equal to 8640 - 2150 mutipled by 4 is equal to 8601. You see it-is near enough for measuring corn t'o say that 5 solid feet malte 4~ bush els ; and from this .simple fast' the rule is. detived. In measuring a roof that is full of corn' I multiply the length,.: breath and height together. the.vatme us the-body of abhouse, and then divide by.2, before making other' calculations, for the .roof, contains :enly half .as much as b pen having the 'skme length, breadth and height;but;.not,taper. ing. L.-M.BoErn