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o ^ ~ T ' I I K ?pwta?Mw IHIWrfWWP But to the point from which I have diverged. About three years since I purchased in Charleston a Durham bull-caif one year old. I turned him among my common cuttle, and housed and fed him at night, lie survived the summer, and is now perhaps one of the iinest bulls in this state. Having supplied myself with several of his get, 1 sold him to Jenkins Mikeli, esq., of Edisto Island, who assures me that although he was turned upon no.hing but the cominonmarsh pastures of his island, he has all the year kept fatter and and in better health than any of his common cattle. By this bull, when but eighteen months old I get twelve calves. The pasture upon which they have fed is a bad one, and yet these calves have kept fat, and are (I speak with due care.) twice as ? large as calves of other cows bv common bulls. I have several ?ulve3 from this bull, which though but one year old, are as large as their mothers. I now own a white Durham bull dropped two years since from a very l>eautiul Durham cow imported by Col. Hampton. I raised bin: from the bottle, until six months oM, ant then turned him out to pasture, feeding him at niii'ht as I did my other cattle. At one year old I put him to sixteen of hh calves. Though from common Carolina cows, everyone who has seen these calves has been struck with their superior beauty of form, and enlarged size, when com pared with the common breed. That ] have not taken up a partial opinion, lei the following fact speak. One of thest calves from a very inferior cow, I sen to market with two other calves from gocx cows, though bv a common bull. Th( calf by the Durham bull, though foui weeks younger, brought twelve dollars while the other two brought only eigh dollars apiece. 1 hesitate nothing in say ing, upon my own experience, and uj>or information collected from several of nn friends who are competent to speak, tha> the Durham feed closer, live on coarsci food, grow larger, and give more mil!' than any other cattle which can be produced in our climate. Their hutteraceous qualities, like (hat of all other breeds, depend upon the huileraceous qualities ol the food (hcv get. If you feed them tc give much milk, expect them to give less butter, and vice versa. 1 owned a I)urham cow, which by a particular mode oi feeding, I could make give thirty quarts of milk per day, and yet the same milt would not vield as much butter as wher I fed her to give but twelve or fourtcei: quarts. I have some calves from the mosi beautiful Devon hull ever brought to the state. They are fine calves, but not sc good as the Durhams. I have a full blooded Durham heifci two years old. It has been raised entirely upon one of the poorest pastures,^ifpJlK low-country. For size, beauty andeverv other qualification, I can safely put ii against any full grown Devon, Ayreshire, or other cow, I have ever seen. I must distinctly repfcat, that this calf has lived on the common pasture. It has scarcely ever tasted grain. Both it and the young bull I own, live on tho same pasture with mv rnivs and are more thriftV. "*V ^ ~ > It is said that to have these cattle in perfection you must feed them high and attend them well. So you must; but in the low country where we must have n large flock of cattle, we cannot afford tc do so. Must we on that account have nothing to do with the breed ? I think not. If we cannot have this cattle in the perfection they arc found in Europe, we may nevertheless introduce them to improve our common breed, and any one whe will take this view only, will attain much. We all know how much across of breed; will do for cattle ; and it is from the warn ofthis as much as from any other cause that our native stock have degenerated sc much. Under the very best system of attention and feeding, if you do not frequently cross the breed and relationship of animala thev will degenerate in size and quaiity. There are few plantations in South Carolina, where this fact, though so notoriously obvious, has been attended to, and the proper correctives applied. For one hundred dollars, a Durham calf of the purest breed can be delivered in Charleston. At one year of age he is fit to put to cows, and from what 1 have seen I think the get of bulls at this age the best. I have tried them from one to five years of age, and find the calves of the former always the finest in form and size, and have satisfied some of the most skeptical upon this point. When I first advanced this I was laughed at, because contrary to the supposed experience of the country. I say supposed experience, because the custom was only founded on supposition. Every one who will pay attention to the matter, will find, that even among his common cattle the finest calves are invariably by his youugest bulls. My old cowdriver, who has had forty yea rs' experience, vouches this truth. I am opposed to none of the other breeds of cattle; they are all excellent of their kinds. The ohj ect of this hurried letter is to prove that the introduction of fine cattle amongst us, will improve our native breeds, and, that, too, on the very worst of pastures. Dr. O'Hear and Dr. Harleston of this parish, have with myself bred from Durham bulls, for the last few years, and we are now fully convinced that the calves thus bred have suffered drought, inattention, and 1 may actually say, starvation, better than calves from the native bred. The gentlemen whose names I have used, will excuse the liberty herein taken. I do it for the confirmation of truth. Respectfully yours, &c., B. II. Carroll. Worth Rem*-inhering.?We have been informed by a gentleman who has had practical proof of its success, of a new mode of keeping fruit fresh for the table, as grapes, plums, &c* a longtime after they had been gathered. It was simply to alternate them in layers with cotton batting in oh an stone jars, and to place thcrn in a chamber secure from frost. The discovery was accidental. A servant maid in the fanulyoi W211. Morey, of Union \ doge, Washington county, about to visit ther frauds secured a quantity of plums in this way, to preserve them till her return. They were fouud tohavekept in excelentcondition long after this fruit had disappeared in the gardon. From the hint thus afforded Mr. Morey, Mr. Holmes, and one or two neighbors, laid down grapes in this manner last fail, and they enjoyed the luxury of fresh tine flavoured fruit through the winter, untill the early part of March. Buds Cultivator Milking In the morning the cows should he driven around the yard before milking ; they 1 will yield more for the exercise.? : We seldom hire a good milker. Females 1 are better than men, they have more pa! tienee. A gooJ milker will obtain one quart more cream tnan one that milks ' slowly. We have often proved this: we ' hired one summer a man frain Ncwillamp shire who had managed a fariif sevcra [ years. He was clever but extremely j moderate ; we then had four cows in milk 1 | and discovered our slow milker was fast ' I drying up our cows; we concluded to give j htm our aid and let him milk only two; oi: the first trial he obtained the quantity ' that we did. In one week we obtained 1 one quart more than he at inilkink; he suit ! his cows were not equal to ours, we then f I shiffedand obtained within nine days more 1 milk from his cows than he did from ours, ' This was wholly to be ascribed to his mod r *~ ?- 1-.,. 1ff nrmn ill if-p ud. | cruic uini\i!i^, mi iiv/ ivu uvuv ... T 5 der.?Boston Cultivator. t ? . j REPORTING EXPERIMENTS WITH ARTI 1 FICIAL MANURES. ' From >lie Hrilish Fanners Magi zinc. I 9 ^ |l In all oar agricultural publications now r i issuingfrom the press we see many acount* J expcrments made for a.scrtaining the . j value of certain substauccs recommended i as manures either for top-dressing 01 . i p'oughing in. Sonic of these accounts f arc elaborately and no doubt faithfully i j wrtten ; and some times favourable, or, as [ j it may happen, unfovorable. Sometimes . too, we are told of the same material hav. f; ing a countrary effects on land of precielv 5 j the same chasacter especially if situutec : ! in distant parts of the kingdom. Now i i the discrepancies may often arise from ig. i j norance, want of consideration of the pe L j culiar effect or action of the material cut i ployed. > Besides the various substances which have been used for manures from time r immemorial there arc others chiefly inin . crals which arc brought into use with vari ; ous success. The reports of such trials art not always uniform4 and defective is so fai t | as the charccter of the wether or seasor , j following the hpplecation is omitted to be ! stated. In my own practices I have used ! sonf extensively for ton-dressing wiicat ; and have harrowed and rolled it in? hut il J a drv spring and summer followed the soot i j was of no service. I have used chalk and j lime as dressing lor light gravelly land; but i j if wet season succeedad little or no inline. I ate effect was observable. The same result i followed the application of salt, on the , same discription of land under the like > circumstances of season. The reason for ! the non-efficiency af these three last lia: ined substauccs was perfectly obvious : all > three are ready ahsorbants of water from . the air and in a dry season are eniinetly use . ful to growing crops; where as in a show> cry time, the crops need no such assistance. ; Saltpeter and nitra of soda are at pret sent fashionable top-dressing ; and those > best acquainted with those substances > aflirmed that they are often injudiciously . used. On wet tenacious land never they car . be so efficacious as on dry sandy orgraveih , soils; nor in wet seasons so much as they | certainly must he in dry, If I be noi i misiaken in attributing to tliern such ef . ..-ill olu-fn-j ho r-nnsidorod n< | 1CV19 UK V U ill u? ?? u T " ?/v w.. doubtful fertilizers; because they must Ik used before it can be ascertained except by conjecture what sort cf season is tc follow. Mr. Cuthburt Johnson observes that "the agricultural uses of saltpeter have not been examined so carefully or generally as they ought to have been and (?. ivimberly, Esq. of Trotsworth, "regretsthatithas been hastily adopted without rc ferccncerin many cases, to season, soil, 01 quantityand as a few fortunate experiment have started into a fashion the use of thosearticlcs so oik? or two unseasonable 01 improper applications have at once condemned them to neglect and oblivion." c? Such reports show decidedly toknwnccessarv it is to corroctlv the effects of those artificial manures ; whether as the food ol plants improvers of the slaple ; whether I as exciters of vegitation or solvents of nutritive matters already in th? sod: and also under what circumstancas of weather or season thev are most active or altogether neutral- These are questions for the agricultural chemist to prosccnte; so that no farmer need work on this twlight or be tr* rl/-wiik+ i?rtn nnrnin'f ftimpf pfTp/'fj Ill Wil vvi V?4V V.?* ?V? of any manure which comes recommended from competent authorities. And in all future reports of experiments ! made with any of those uncommon articles of manure, the reporter should not omit to stale what kind of weather has prevailed during the experiments ; for the effects, especially of saline substanccn, ere very much determined by the state of the weather. J. Maix. [Our respected corespondent is right.? Much of the success or otherwise of these and many other manures we could name must depend on peculiar circumstances of soil and^season. We have heard saltpeter abused one year and highly extoled in the other; although tried on the same soil, thcsamediscription of crop and by the same person.?Ed. j j * ^ c w and comfort by the ploughman, and that ! i each when left to itself holds on in its proper position and course, where the sod is uniform and free from stones. They agreed, also, that the form and position ' of the beam-handle of Messrs Rugglcs, I Nourse &. Mason's plough is such that the , ploughman cannot walk in the furrow er. ect and comfortably when the plough is in . a position to make good work. They think j . toe, that this plough when left to itself tends to narrow the furrow slice and i run out; and therefore that a constant, - though slight, effort on the part of the " ploughman, is required to keep it in its j ' place. It is true, however, that in the ! 3 hands af a skillful holder, this instrument, in shallow and flat ploughing, makes as | handsome work as any that we have seen, j I Bat where all make work lurndsome en- J oughy those must be considered best which make the smallest draft upon the strength of the team and the skill and comfort of | the ploughman. The power required to turn over a give At. I? _ u ? I veil quaillliy OI t'iirin oy a |?iuii^w, la a very important consideration. This pow er can be measured with great accuracy ; greater than many of the committee had supposed before they witnessed the opera tion. Tiie Dynamoter, inserted between the plough.beam and the chain, measures 1 with great accuracy the strength exerted by the team. Suppose the strength applied l>o the same that would be required to raise 336 lbs. over a single pulley ; suppose also that the depth of the1 , furrow is 1G 2 inches and the width 13 inches. Multiply 13 by 61-2 and you have 84 with a fraction. Now i if 33* lbs of power will take up and turn over 84 inches of earth, then 112 lbs. will turn 28 Inches. Tried in this way, the I ploughs exhibited showed the following' ? lesuits. Tiie power in each case is 112 s | lbs. First Ploughs for lapping furrows. By Charles Howard, ( Ilingham, 2D 1-2 inches. ? By Ruggles, Noursc & Mason, Worcester, 24 " Bv John Wilson, I)eer"ell, 21-12 " Bv Steven's plough, Bar. "ct, Vt. 20 44 By James Stewart, W. t Newbury, 44 (Scotch Plough,) 10 1-2 44 " By Cornelius Bergen, Brooklyn, N. Y. 18 t4 By Baniaby & Moores Iiliicn, N. Y., 17 3-4 44 . By E. G. Whiting, Rochester, N. Y. 18 " I For Flat Furrows. ! By Prouty iSi Mears, Bos; on, 27 1-2 inches, j By Charles Howard, j ilingham, 25 44 i By Buggies, Noursc 6c n nr 1._ m .. | mason, *?orcesier, By Barnaby So Moorcs, Ithica, N. Y. 191-2 " By E. G. Whiting, Rochester, N.York, 11 " Another plough by Prouty & Mears, 2G " ' ? "Charles How- - \ anh 25 " The above table, containing results ar| rived at, not by estimation, but by measurement, is given to the public, in the full belief that it will be acceptable to all farmers who may read it, and that it will be useful to many manufacturers of ploughs ; for here are exhibited some remarkable ond highly important facts. Taking the axlremes, wc find 112 lbs. power applied to one of Howard's ploughs turning over 291-2 inches of earth, while the same power ot one of Mr. Whiting's ploughs will , I FREMIU3I PLOUGHS. The Massachusetts Society for the promotion of agriculture, in its list of premiums offered $100 for the best Plough constructed to turn the sod flat, and $74 for the best Plough that would turn the sod edcicays. At the Fair held 13th ult. the former premium was awarded to Messrs. Prout Mears, the latter to M. C. Howard. | The tests by which the decision was made ; were the comparative smoothness and cv! cjiness of the work, and the case to the i teams, and operator, with which tliat was j accomplished. Shewing the efforts to at| tain exactness in the trial, we make two short extracts from the published Report j cf the committee. " The first operation was to run furrows | so that wc might have narrow lands of !1 about five rods in length. Then ilflf-CD j ploughs were brought on and used succcs1 sively. Each competitor was allowed to 5 furnish his own ploughman; to make his furrow of whatever depth and width he . chose, and thus ;o give us his own specimen of the work of his own instrument. , j Each was allowed to turn several contigu| ou.s furrows. The Dynamometer, ornie- [ r j J ' i *1 ^ I , ! usurer of the power required to draw u.e , ! plough, was applied to each, through two r j or more furrows.' This power was noted I j down ; the depth and width of these furI rows were measured,* and our eyes scan1 ned the work of each. Ahouf five hours 2 were consumed in the trial thus fur. After having taken some refreshments, 1 several members of the committee, whose ' hands were not entire strangers to the plough handle, went to the field and severally tried such of the ploughs as either of them was disposed to follow.? On the following day, also, theyhcld r several of the ploughs; and they all 1 agreed in the opinion that the ploughs of 2 Mr. Howard and those of Messrs. Prouty I ! At Al nrc. are managed with great case turn only 14 inches?a difference of more I su than 100 per cent. The structure of the j tii plough, therefore must be an important j tii matter to the farmer's cattle ; and the j pe committee think they may add, that the 1 w excellence of the work performed with the [ plough was, with few exceptions, in the ; m direct ratio of the ease of draft. Had our ; pi cattle the gift of speech, their proverbial; st patience would hardly hold them back ! te from saying to their owners?" Pay more j gr attention to the structure of the plough." ! I ] The committee cannot forbear to call w the attention of farmers to the vast differ, jx cnce in the power required to move ploughs t\ which are all doubtless considered excel- ei lent in these sections or the country from w which they were brought. Ploughs were \ I exhibited from places hundreds of miles j ni distant from each other, and all subjected 11 to th sam c test?a test as accurate as 1 cl SCaSs figures make ; and it is appa- ! G1 rent thai ilje which one yoke of oxen j sa can perform easily at ori? plough will re- j I quire two yoke at another, farmers usu-1 tc ally and properly judge by comparison, J hi and when holding the best plough they j ni have ever seen, suppose it the best in the i c( world. We request them to weigh well ; a; such facts as are detailed in this request, n] and to estimate the profit of saving one j ti half, or even one eighth of their team la- j |c bor. A saving of even more than one half ! is possible by the farmer of some sections j of the countrv." j? ! r Value of Ashes. Professor Jackson, in cneofhis lectur- ^ es in Boston, in illustrating the manner in ! which soils might be rendered fertile, said ? that?"a farm within his knowledge ~ which was a blowing sand, a pine barren, 11 and almost hopeless, on which ten bushels t of corn to an acre could scarcely be grown, j p by the judicious application of ashes, had ! h been made the produce forty or fifty bush- ! b els to the acre." We do not question the correctness of J)r. Jackson's statements. ! I Our observation has convinced us that on n sandy soils, with the exception of clay a marl, there is nothing more beneficial in o the .application to such soils, than ashes ; it and very fortunate, unless uncommon si qnantities of acid exists in soils, leached ii j ashes are beneficial as unleached ones, c j Ashes do what litne cannot; they render t< the soil more tenacious of moisture, and c and although their action is not as prompt c or cfiicicnt on cold sour soils, they are for c the reason assigned, considered as valua- j u blc on light sandy ones. Of this fact the fi farmers on the light soils of Long Island c and New Jersey, are well aware, and in ; i| the gathering ana application ui osuw, u find a certain source of profit. h Kentucky Farmer. I a -= I common habits destructive of health, t! | [The following article we take from |< the "Health Journal," a neat little semi- p ! monthly periodical published at Worces- | li tor Mass. and edited by a lady. Price | #1 per volume of 150 pages.] s statement by the editor. 1 We have again and again urged upon our friends to send us facts. We know . they have them. Put with many it is an J ^ event to write for a paper, and others per- j mit their multitudinous engagements to j p hinder this labor of love. We have there- | ^ fore come to the conclusion to give our j v own experience. Wc shall speak in the a first person singular?a style, by the way, j ( all editors ought to adopt, which we should I ii | use only we dislike to be awkwardly sin- f gular. f My father was a man of strong consti- h tution, active habits, and pretty good s health. My mother seldom enjoyed a j much health. An unfortunate circum- .v stance occurred in my early infancy.? My mother had a fever known by the ^ , name of the " spotted fever," which pre- j ^ vailed much at that time. I was conse- | r quently deprived of that nourishment so I n desirable to the infant. Were not the general habits of mothers so unfriendly to v health, the practice of "bringing up chil- p dren by hand," as it is called, would be J? * i - ?i ait:*.k i i. mucn more 10 ue rcgreueu. *? uu mc ? I present habits of mothers, the nourish- d i ment which the infant receives from its a I mother's breast is of a character to dis- 8 ease the child and render it any thing but * comfortable to itself and its friends. I i G was nearly killed with laudanum in the first months of my existence, given to ease pain induced by wrong habits. I was fed q immoderately, a practice that has destroyed many infants. Though I possess- f] ed strength of constitution enough to live, q | I was always a very feeble child. My | g parents were luxurious livers, and drank a j v great deal of strong green tea. My food j n and drink were consequently very im- ! 1 proper. I hardly knew any thing of]h health in my early years. My mother P unhappily had an idea that little girls should be little tro/nen. Exercise in the s open air, and the healthful sports of 0 children, she considered romping, and very improper. Iiencc I was kept within doors busily employed knitting, sew. ing and studying. 1 had little benefit of V fresh air, being much ol the year confined if six hours a day to a crowded school-room. ? The scats of the school houses then were exceedingly uncomfortable, and many be- '' sides myself were doubtless permanently J3 injured by being closely confined to them. ^ Being so much confined in my early years, and not allowed the company of children, I contracted a great fondness 0| for bocks, and was almost continually lc poring over them. Works of fiction of a ai very exciting character were abundantly T thrown in my way, and from the age of tc seven to fourteen years, I lived in almost ta constant excitement. At fourteen, I was ia thought to be irrecoverably gone in con mption. Still I studied on; but at this lie I gave hp the reading of fiction en clv. My health somewhat imj roved, irhaps from the use of the shower bath, hicli I commenced about this time. Till the age ofeighteen, I studied alost incessantly. Astronomy, philosojy, and chemistry, were my favorite udies. I supported a miserable exisncc through these four years, and it was eatly to the surprise of my friends that J [ived at all. My general habits were all j rong, but excessive mental labor was I irhaps my greatest sin for the first twen. ! -one years of my life. When about | ghtecn years of ago, I commenced ; riting poetry and tales for the papers.? j studied and wrote a great deal in the : ght. To support this unnatural labor took a great deal of strong tea. I often lewed tea, a handful at a time. My food, j ijcctionable as it was, could hardly be j iid to injure mc, as I took next to none. ; literally lived upon the excitement of a and snuff?yes, loathsome as is the ibit, I took snuff for seven years. My Ejrvous system became so diseased by my j mstant study and continual use of snull'l ad tea, together with my late hours, that ! ty sufferings were at times so excrucia-1 ng that I could find no relief but in swal wing large doses of opium. Some may iv " this is too bad?I would r.ot confess jchsins." Let me tell such that I was r no rant. I made an honest profession f religion when fourteen or fifteen years f age, and never dreamed it was wrong ) take snutf, tea, or opium, although I ft^n f?>lt afraid thev were killing me. 0 it is with thousands who are going on 1 wrong habits. They are ignorant? !ould I at that time have seen such a pacras the Health Journal, my course, I j ave nodohbt, would have been essentia]-1 / different." At the age of twenty-one, I married.? | had previously commenced the stndy of icdical works. I continued to study, nd about this time mostly left otf the use fsnuffand tea. I had all along thought i ; impossible to give up snuff. I most i incerely pity any one who uses tobacco 1 any form. It requires great moral I ourage to break the spell that binds one 3 the loathsome indulgence, llut people an never he justified in committing suiide. After leaving the use of tea, I benine enslaved by coffee, and almost lived pon it. This injured me greatly, and I inally abandoned it because 1 found I ould not perform my duties as a teacher fl continued its use. I had great weokicss, tjembling, and palpitation of the cart, in consequence of taking cotfee.? had made my other habits so correct that found I must attribute these troubles to he coffee, and they all left me when I 3ft the poisonous beverage. I now* took lain food most of the time, but often tr>ok unchcons of confectionary fruit, &c.? hill my health was quite tolerable. I cldom ate flesh?not oftcner, perhaps, han once a week. the royal stud. It is not generally knaw n that a chesuit barb of extraordinary beauty has been ecentlv imported from Tripoli, for the csiccial use, and as the private property, of tcr majesty. Even in Barbary this horse vas remarkable for its symmetry of form, nd bore, in Arabic, the name of Beauty. torios. I ho Einneror of Morrocro mnv be magined to be no mean judge of horselesh ; and, (it is a fact that we can vouch or,) so desirous was lie to possess it, that ic otfered for it the weight it might he C ~ trong enough to carry, in dollars! But n English gentleman then at Tripoli, arareof its value, had determined on obtaintig it for her Majesty : he did so, though rith difficulty?for lib competitor was a lovereign. It was duly trained and forwarded to England, and the subsequent eccmpenco has, as may be inferred, been mplc. Mr. Cunningham, ofSt. Martin's-placc, who is about to publish (bv permission) the ortraits of the Arabians belonging to the loyal Stud, with a memoir of each, has faored us with a private view of the first four esigns, to be given to the public in about fortnight, and we can vouch for the sinular beauty of the drawings and coloring, 'he former is in slight lithography, and he latter is so managed as to give ail the fleet, even to the closest scrutiny, of paining in water colors. The remaining portraits comprise?2. I'ne Grey Arab, sent to her Majesty by he Imaum of Muscat; in admeasurement lie most perfect animal in the world. J3. 'he Bay Arab, lately imported from Benal, neglected during the passage, and of cry inferior appearance on its arrival, but ow a beautiful specimen of its class. 4. 'he Chesnut and While Arabian, sent to er Majesty by the Imaum of Muscat?a owerful and splendid creature. In our future notices of this subject we !iall enter much more into detail. It is ne in which our nationality, and even alriotisin, are immediately concerned, j Court Journal. Public Buildings.?The new edifices at Washington, for ditfen nt departsroen's of iv government are planned for convenience nd safely, and when completed, will coni u'e ndditiornl ornaments to the capital of . le United Stales. The Tcnsury budding, f freestone, is about three hundred feet in ngth with a wing in the rear 11)0 Ice I long, has a superb colonode in Iront, "ompris-! ig 32 gigan ic pillars. The corridors (or ussages) are paved with beautiful squares f variegated marble ; and its several ? xtnsiveJ flights of stairs, banging as if in re constructed fiorn the finest marble, 'lie new Patent Office.just being completd, is also a superb pile of architectural iste and skill. It is built of a like materIs with the Treasury department; is a>ut 260 feet in length and 70 in width. The second story consists of one room, 250 by 70 feet, canopied and surrounded by magnificent arches and alcoves, is designed as the future depository of patents. In the story immediately below, the west halfconsists of one room about 125 feet in length, superbly arched and decorated with beautiful pillars. This apartment is now fitted lip with splendid cases, of huge ritnersioi s, and filled with specimens of articles patented. The east end of this story consists of two rows of elegant apartments for the Commissioner of Patents and his clerks, separated by a corridor of 20 feet in width. > The ( Jeneral Post office is a marble slrncturc 200 feet long, with two wings, and is to be threes tories high. It is designed when completed, to accommodate the Postmaster (ieneral and about 100 clerks. It will be, it is said, the handsomest edifice-in the Union. It will be decorated in front and at the ends with fluted marble columns which arc exceedingly graceful. It is supposed that the building will not be completed under one or two years more. CETERAW GAZETTE. WEDN ESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. * 'j Southern Magizinr and Monthly Review.?We have received the first number of a periodical with this title, published in Petersburg, Va. and edited by Edmund Rulfin, Esq. It is to embrace two principal departments; one consisting of original articles on the plau of the Quarterly Reviews of Great Britain and the U. States;?the other of articles original and selected, designed aa well for amusement as instruction. The political object of the work, according to the Prospectus, will be to restrain the action of the Federal Govern, merit within its strict constitutional limits, without rcg .rd to party politics. The ability and judgment with which t the editor conducts the "Farmers' Regisi ter" arc proof of his qualification for the task which he has now undertaken. The I lnri/lf n/? nfh/il/\o in t l?n nnm Kor lvk(*A1?A > HQ IUtiUlU?? ill 111 111V, I1UIIIUV1 MV1VIV '?'? I are, on the Relations of the Aucieut World; on the changes which have been stealthily effected in the Federal Ciovcrninentsince the adoption of the constitution; and on Ranks and Ranking. The ; two last are all that we have had time to read, and we wish they were read by every citizen of the country; especially the one on the changes in the Government, which ' is entitled " Revolution in Disguise." ^1... though the writer falls into some errors, his article abounds in important truths [ which no lover of our republican institiu tionscan contemplate with indifference. Persons who wish to see a specimen number of the Magazine, can do so by cal- , ling at our cilice. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ' Mississippi.?The Vicksburg Whig of the 11th says that the Majority for Harrison in 48 counties is 3,179. f Alabama.?The Huntsville Advertiser (of 11th says that the Harrison majority j in South Alabama is at least 7000. The ! Alabama Times makes the same stateinent. Gcokgia.?The majority of the high- ' est on the Whig ticket over the highest on the Administration ticket 8,360.? ^ Difference between the lowest on the j tickets, 8,300. Nkw Yokk.?Tlic official returns give li e Whig electors a majority of 13,303. i The majority for Seward, the Whig candidate for Governor is 5,536. Local questions affected his election. Oiiio.?In this state the Whig majority is 23,375. Illinois.?Seventy eight counties of this state hr ard from, give the Whigs a majority of 325. Nine counties to be heard ft tin, in which the Democrats had , a large majority at the Slate election.? I The Whigs gained more than 6,000 since the state election ; but they were 6,744 t txdiind at that time. Massachusetts.?Harrison majority 18,331. Louisiana.?This state has given a majority of 2,651 for Harrison. Indiana has given a majority of 16,773 for Harrison. Tennessee.?Fifty four counties of this state heard from, give the Harrison I ticket a majority of 13,017. In the same counties, the Whig majority at the statq elect ion last year Mas only 69. v .... Kentucky.?The Whig majority in .' * this state is 23,395. Vitcima.?(Complete returns not yet : received from this state. The Adminis^ tration majority probably from 1400 to 1700. North Carolina.?In this state theWhigs have a majority of 12,679 id 51 ' counties, being a gain of3,518 since theAugust election. Fifteen counties to beheard from which gave the Administration ticket a majority of 186 in August The Legislature of North Carolina met on Monday the 17th. but the mes sage of the Governor has not yet come thus far. In the Senate Col, A. Jpyjier was re-elccted Speaker, and in the House-. ! Wm. A. Graham 01 urangc was ^iecieu~\ | We see no names mentioned in tbe pa^^ ^ pers for U. S. Senators in place Of ~ Si range and Brown resigned. FrtftMthe'' 7 report of tho Treasurer it appears thj$ revenue from all sources during (tie- past year was $216,931 30, and the eifetMU ' tures $281,556 53. . ^ rl'hc additions to the. Literary of the state and the income. amounted to $360,535. -