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supported on a few Hticiu, h t u.< *6 allow a free current of air between (liu mat ami the heap. In thin way I have been enabled to preserve put a tors quite plump, ami entire in taste, to the cml of Sept. or till the succeeding crop lie sulll ?iently ripe to hi) used without loss > ami, loss must always he Mistained in the quantity, when potatoes are largely used before they In- nearly ripe. N?v in thin way potatoes may he recov ered in plumpness and taste when they have jmlTer?d by injudicious exposure to air or heat, or by necessary carriage. In July last I had oc ca> 'tii to send some potatoes, for tho use of my family, at sea bathing quarters, n distance of Hi or IT miles. They were taken out of the pit, nnd pat into a sack , but it was three or lour days before they were sent off"; and when they caine to be used they were found to have lost much of their fine taste, and somewhat of thrnr mealiness. I immediately inad?t a small pit in the back ground belonging to *1?o house I po*. sessi'd 5 in which when well watered the pota to^* were put, wateied and covered as already described. In five daytthe pit wt:a opened, anil flic potatoes had reeowrc* both their dryness and table. ??\ i KF.niNt; and r\rt r.N'tvt; kwixk. 't he following article is copied iVoni tlic Georg ick l'apors for IH07; it may probably be inter esting to some of our readers.?4* 1 was not long hi nee at the house of a farmer in a neighboring town, ami was pleased with his method offend ing and fattening his swine on potatoes boiled by steam. It was expeditious, simple ami clean. Near the hog'a pen, was a small brick JVame built on the ground, five or six feet in length, open, at one end to receive the fuel, and closed at the other, cxccpt a small chimney to convey the smoke. An iron pot containing about ten quarts was set in the frame and filled wit!) water. A barret, with the bottom perforated with holes, to admit the steam, was placed over the pot and tilled with potatoes. The head was placed on the top. and the edges covered w ith a little clay tnoriar to retain the s{cam, am) noineof it put rouud the bottom of the barrel for the same purpose. A small quantity of fuel is sufficient to boil a barrel.?-Tliey are boiled al-, together by the steani which rises and pervades* the whole mass, washes them clean ami extracts from the skin, that bitter quality which is tasted when they are boiled in water, and tho whole | washing of the potatoes settles as a sediment in | the pot. and appears of the color and consistency of tar, after the water is evaporated. When they are sufficiently boiled, it is known by the steain lifting the cover and issuing out at the edges. They are then taken out, clean and mealy, with a shovel, put into a large tub and worked'with ineal or t ail and put into the troughs. Half a bushel of Indian meal is used with a barrel of potatoes. Ten or twelvo large hosts in flue order, consumed this quantity daily. The above method is also undoubtedly the best for preparing this common and very useful root for the table, as thereby the bitter and unwholesome quality of the skin is extracted, which cannot he wholly separated from it when boiled in water, and by its great dryness in this way, it becomes u more salutary absorbent, and palatable. IMPROVED COW.IIOUBB. In Glasgow, one of the curiosities shown to strangers, and one of the greatest curiosities in Dritain, is a cow-house, set up on his own plan, by n Mr. Buchannan, an old but a very skilful and successful master weaver. Iu this cow house are kept constantly about 300 cows, iu the neatest, most clean anil healthy order. The house (one room) is a square building, the roof supported in the centre by iron pillars. The floor is boarded, washed clean and sanded. I Small long stages, about a foot above the floor, Are erected, each containing perhaps 20 cows, j Those stages are just as wide as the cow is loug,i and behind tho cow is a trough to carry away' what falls from it. They are kept two and two together, ore fed regularly with grass of some kind, and watered; women attend upon them, and groom them as men do horses, hut during the nine months they are in milk. they never change their situation, They live upon six Square feet each j ~yet their skins arc always ?leek and silky, are fat and beautiful* The moment they become di v they arc sold to the butcher, for whom they ar?? highly fit. The owner has a man or two travelling about the country, purchasing new ones coming into milk i the owner too keeps a farm, which the cows' manure enables him todres? well. In this way the business goes on like clock work, it being but secondary to his weaving trade, und ha* gone on for eight years ; no bustle, no rnnfu sion i and he sells his grass milk for half the price the Londoners sell the nauseous mixture, though land is dearer than around London. COTTON AND NT If, AH A New-Orleans paper of Kept. 2d Hny??J* The want of rain in goine of fl?o district* of thin Htate and tlio Mississippi Territory, have in a cur. tain degree, injured (he crops of cot(on : bu(, in (he aggregate, (here will b? very large crop*, more co((on perhaps will he railed and brought into market thin fall and the emitting winter and spring than ever has been in one year. Hugar wop* will bo very abundant. To Farmtra.?Tt in thought advisable by Home experienced farmer* fo ntrip (he hunk* of tho corn that in (ouc.hed by (he fros(. It will be found upon examim?(ion (hat (he inner husk being \"ry tcniler is 10 injured a* (o adhere to the corn and become rotten?-(lie experiment cannot make i( wove. The year of the great ftickmnA was preceded by an eail> front which ?| oiled the corn. The sooner (lie husks are opened (he better.? Vermont yn. i Mr. Andrew Smi(h of Rutland, received, ?] M the Cattle Show at Dri^bion, the premiums ' for (he M and 2d quality ca((le, equal to $60, < lor thi> first quality native fdieep, ft 10 j and af? f terwanU obtained 855 extra price, in conae*! quelle* <A (he animal* being exlra s('C.v. ?JJUU'-JUmUBJLBL MliDICAL.' niH TUB TKLMTOr*. ?Vr. I*orratn?Tho Iloopiog Cough, I Mnu by (he newspapers, prevails generally through* out Hie United States } and if reliance for the cure is placed on a remedy, which I see co-?x tensividy circulated in the news-papers, it mutt l?e very fatal. I remember to have seen tlie re cipe to which I allude in an almanack, but it was ho absurd tliat I hardly expected an intclli* gent editor of a news-paper would ever contri bute to give it currency. The remedy is salt of wormwood and cochineal. The salt of worm wood will nut directly do harm : it will certain ly do no good. The cochineal is only a coloring ingredient. Now though these ingredient? are harmless in themselves, vet they will do infinite mischief by begetting a fulse security and pre venting the employment of efficient remedies I believe the presumption has occasioned the death of hundreds ; and the printer who Arqt gave publicity to it, perhaps only to gratify some foolish or credulous nostrum hunter, has much to answer for. Hooping Cough, like small pox and other contagious disease*, must run a cci tain courxc. Its progress cannot he ar rested. The utmost that art can do, is to miti ujrtto the symptoms and conduct it to n favorable termination. Tlio lungs (the seat of the dis ease) are the most effectually relieved by de termining the circulation to tlio surface. We find accordingly that an emetic (ulministercd ev ery day, affords in most cases, astonishing re lief. If, however, there is any inflammatory deathesis in the system, indicated by flushing, hard pulses and w*hitc furred tongue, &c. bleed ing is an important remedy and should always preccde the vomitting. I hope, Mr. Lorrain, the reputation which your paper has acquired for the taste and propriety of its contents, will give some degree of authority to this attempt to re strain the progress of a mischievous imposition. Tl.'KSI) \ Y, OTTOnP.lt ?9, 1H1(? r.uuriioNs. inn Tin. sure i.un?.*Tfm: Orangburg. John M. Kelder, Senator5 Ste phen Curry untt llonrv M'Michael, Represen tatives. ForA\-?Robert Clendcnnn, Senator; Thomas Robertson, William M'Gill uud James I)un', Rcnresentatives. Lauren* /Wsfricf.?William F. Downs, Rob ert Campbell, Samuel Cunningham, Robert Word, Representatives, I Kingston.?Wni. H. Cirice, Senator; Willis Ilawls, Representative. Pendleton.?John Wilson, James C. Griflin, Samuel A. Easloy, Col. John M'Millan, Isuiah Kirksey, Capt. Andrew Millet, Representatives. Marlborough.?John Evanu, Major Whit field, Representative*. I IVinyuw.?Major Keith, Senator; Tlmmas R. Mitchell, Major Karr, Dr. Willis Wilkinson, John L. Wilson, Representatives. Ml Saint*.?Francis K. Huger, Senator j William A. Rull, Representative. Cites terfle Id.?Capt. M'Darrall, Senator; Col. li'uvrv, Represciitative. fit. //W?>m.?-Nathaniel II. Khodos, William Uourkc. Representatives. St. Peter*,?Major Winburn I?aughton, Sen-, ator; Reuben Roberta, John Manor, Repre sentatives. Prince. William.?Gresham Smyth, John De loach, Representatives. HI. Lukes.?Richard B. Screven, Senator; Win. D. Martin, Win. Hope. Representative*. Hpurtanburgh.?Wm. Smith Senator; Samuel Farrow, Jamo* IIunmet, Wm. Reid, and John i Dodd, Reprc6eutnli\p.4, } ion rov(.HRAS. I For Charleston district,at present represented | by Henry MiddleK-n, II. Middlrton re-elected. I For the united districts of Colleton and Beau* j fort, at present represented by Win. Lowndes j ?Wm. Lownde* re-elected. For the united district* ofGeorgetown, Horry, Marion, Marlborough, Williamsbur^h and Dar lington?James Krwin. For the united districts of Fairfield, Newberry and J<aurens, at present represented by Wui. Woodward?Sterling Tucker elected. For the united district# of Edgefield and Ab beville. at present represented by John C. Cal houn?John C. Calhoun re-elected. For the united districts of Pendleton and Greenville, at present represented by. John Taylor?no return received. For the united districts of Spnrtanbureh, Union, York and Chester, at present represented by Ken. Moore-?Wilson Nesbitt elected. * Smtr rfth# P?t1 nmiott m'kii?hh? nirr V'nk H 77 4fl) 1 a Hoiirtuntinrfjh PI 7 4J 101? j(? (I'C.'.r ilt?. r>ri2 5rt JS| t'non 211 71? 112 iU u<rr i?rr hhi .141 For the united districts of Lancaster, Ker hliaw and Sumter, at present represented by William May rant-?Stephen I). Miller elected. Wp have received (says the Camden Gazette of Oct. 24.) a letter from Wip. Mayrant, Esq. tendering his resignation, of which tnu following is a a copy. *flr?te*borff, 31st Ortolier, 1816. Sir,?The opening the Poll limes, fur this Congressional District, speaks a language too plain to bo mUunderHtood t By it I perceive that my vote, In favor of the Compensation Bill, hus tost mo tho confidence of my constituent# i not wi?hing to represent people, whose sentiments and feeling upon that point I cannot consistent with my own opinions, advocate j I therefor* ro? sign m v in ilic fourteenth Coii^fi'if!! give tlicm u'u opportunity of electing some one wlm may lend liift exertions to ro|ii.*at that law j to them so odious* hut which opens the door ol your national legislature to virtue and talent, altho* poor, and takes from their pockets an nually, one cent and nut quite a lull". I am yuuiti with respect. \VM. MAYRANT." If it should appeur the circumstances have not been exaggerated?if the American llajr has bcon wantonly assailed, and tlie blood or our brave countrymen causelessly shed?there in but one course which this nation can pursue. Let there bo no delay ; no time wasted in ap peals to the Spanish court?bill let an immcdi ale attack bo made upon some of the royal pos sessions adjacent to our territory. We nave 110 hesitation 111 avowing tliCM? as our sentimnntj?? and such wilt doubtless become the universal sentiments of the American people. Let us have no negotiation j Ferdinand's officers are himself?if they have, committed their country, is it our fault ? The attack litis passed j let us meet it as becomes a nation proud of its rights and tenaceous of its honor; and not l.ik* humble ?panielv 1 rk, The f?i"t tlut tre:it.? un lo u kick. J'et. Int. Treaty Commission.?The British ami Ame rican commissioners, whose intended meeting ut St. Andrew* has l>e?ii announced, have met, and adjourned to May next, then to convene in Huston. They have, we learn, made the nc-; cossaty arrangements for procuring surveys, and tho collection of documents and evidence; relative to the territory in controversy. The 1 lion. Mr. Barclay has passed through town, on | his return to New-York; and the lion. Mr.I Holmes has proceeded to Brunswick to take his seat in the Maina convention. Col. Austin, one of tho agents to the conimiaMon, has return* ed to town.?CetUincl. A paragraph has been going the rounds of the papers, stating, that the settlement of our northcin boundary line, will give the United States sixteen townships of Lower Canada, and their fort and island, the Isle an Noix. We have respectable authority for stating that this report is entirely iuc rrect. Gentlemen who are every way qualified, inform that they have repeatedly taken observations on the spot, for their own satisfaction, and have found that the line, as it always lias been received, is the true ?15th degree or parallel of latitude. One of the commissioners for Kfitlinjg this line passed thro* town yesterday, and continued the above state ment which induces us to give it publicity.? Would it not be better that this and all report* respecting this subject should bo suspended, (ill the proper authority have decided on the l>ouiidary question ??Portsmouth Gazette. Unhappy Catastrophe.?Yesterday morning, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, Tobias I^ear Ksq.* accountant of the War department, put a period to his existence, by shooting him self through the head. We have not as vet learnt the causes which led to the perpetration of this unhappy deed. Mr. Lear was naturally chccrfululm pleasant 1 011 the fatal morning, Mr. L. breakfasted witli his family in his usual good humor, and was proceeding as they thought to his office, when the report of a pistil wa9heard from tho back of the yard?Mr. Lear, son of the deceased, immediately proceeded to the spot from whence the sound appeared to issue, and found his father weltering in hi* blood .?George' tou ii paper Oct. 12 A real tragedy was exhibited at Sacket's Har bor, a few days since, before a large company of spectators. Attached in the show bill of a wire dancer, appeared an advertisement of an Italian sailor, who promised to exhibit wonderful feats, such as the spectators had inner before seen. Curiosity attracted a very full house. After the first had performed his part of the enter tainment, the sailor entered, called for a blank et and pillow, and laid himself down upon the floor. All eyes were turned towards him in anxious expectation, when ho drew from his bo som a pistol, clapped the mu/.cle to his ear, and blew out his bfains! This closed the entertain ment. As horrid as this deed Appears. the de luded man who became its victim had undoubt edly anticipated as much eclat, as lie does, who deliberately goes out to shoot his friend, or to lie shot?in a duel. And if there arc shades of difference in the two crimes, the self-tnurdccr i? the least ctiminul.?Jllbany Jlrgn*. fiickn*$s at GantfaliHipe-?capt. Andrew*, who arrived at Providence, ln*t week, from Point Petre, Guadeloupe, states that, while there, he t?aw in one day one hundred funeral*. The! sickness continued with severity, when Cnpt. Andrews flailed. Two of his rrew died while in port, and one on his pussago home.?A*. I'. Spectator. JYbble Example.?Mijoi John Pinkerton hns left, to cach of the two religious societies in Londonderry, not fur from 8,000 dollar* for thr support of the gospel j and 12,000 dollar* as a fund to the academy l.itely incorporated in that town by the name of Pinkerton Academy. It may he interesting to many of our friends to know that on the 1st of next month, Duncan Mar line, Ksq. will re-establish the line of mail stages between Payetteville, Camden, and Columbia, which route has been recently inter rupted or disused.??AW. int. Perptrtual ?Vofi?M.~~Xntwithstanding the numerous and signal defeats of adventurer* in the grand scheme of perpetual motion, the Bos ton Pntiiot inform* us that a new adventurer, about i4 iniles from that town, is constructing a machine, for which ho is about obtaining tet ters patent ! Twenty spots (Mfc the 8alcm Gazette of the Gilt inst.) were on the Sun, thrqugh a tel escope otl Sunday last, w ? ?' ^h. SV.\' \7t vriON i>? MAINV.. The oAiciul returns gtvo the following rent Whole numberufvotca, ^ Five ?ninth:', 13.4HI !i Votes fur separation, 11,1)27 r/i Legislative deficiency, 53'i I4. A postcript to tlio Portland Gazette of thetitli in>;t. mentions, that the committee to wlioni the subject was referred io con volition, have re* ported in favor of iliu tie|?ainiiou of* the* District itotwitliKtniidin^ the deficiency of voted, it-'- ? i|uircd by the law. Hy the following extract of a letter to the Kdilor of the Huston Daily Ail- jl vurtiser, dated llruimvick, Oct. 7, IKlC, it will J8 be seen that some difficulty lms arUen as to tho,.] construction to Ins given to tlio law for regula-'^ ting the proceedings of the convontion. " Sir? | The convention is still kept together. Tlio .2 committee which waft agreed upon, and the list* ' handed about before the President won chosen, ;i find it impossible as vet to understand the luw jj or count toe vote#, although tliey were all op<Micil J and a lint made of them in convention. It ap- '? pears that the number of vote* wanting to mnlm | the proportion of 5 to-J is 1223. Sonic of tho leading reparation incu opposed this openifi;-; and listing the vote* in convention?and indeed 4 it was probably decisive of the ultimate qucMfon. j All manner of construction* have been given to >? the law, but it is thought here that the honest ' men in favor of separation will prevent open , ft mid and violence. T'. at hus been ascertained after a violent struggle in caucus. The Legis lature will bu applied to again but they will know how t<> put the (piustion upon proper ground.*' On the first day of November next the Light at Charleston (S. C.) which is now a fixed one, will be ultcred to a Revolving Light. At the distance of 8 or 9 leagues the time of darkness will be twico to that of light. As you approach it the time of darkness will decrease and that of light increase, until you get within three leagues, when the light will not wholly disappear, but the greatest strength of light will be as one to forty four. The 17. 8. Frigate Macedonian u undergoing a thorough repair at the navy yard near llostou. It i*.saia that she is so much decayed as to ren der it necessary to rebuild the whole above tho gunwale. Kentucky Tobacco,?It is said that the cropj\ of Tobacco in Kentucky far excel any that wpro ever before produced in that state. One letter indeed states, that the production of thin year wilt be ten fold greater than that of any former year. ACAOKMY OF IIJ K A UTS On Saturday last arrived in this city those celehrated Paintings of Mr. West, which for some years past have adorned tlio walls of the Philadelphia Academy. These Paintings at o intended to be added to the extensive collection now deposited in the apartments of the Ameri can Academy of this city. We are hapny to learn, that tlie public exhibition will probably take place early in the ensuing xve.fiwlffetl our citizeiiB will be gratified with a view of many of the most valuable productions of their distinguished countrymen. West, Trumbull, Stewait, Alston, Leslie, and others. 11t& Statuary belonging to this Academy is known to be of superior value, and the Oircctors of the Institution merit the highest praise for their unwearied exertions in forming a united collec tion of Stationary and Printing, which in point of excellence is unrivalletl in this country, and eminently calculated to diffuse a knowledge of the principle*, and to spread a taste for tlio practice of the Pin(} ArtB.?>V*. Y. Columbian NOTICK. THE 8uWrilter? hate removed the r PUY GOOD and STATION A It Y STOItRS, into the.r new fire proof ??*!' k n?r?i-, where tliey liuve a geneval assortment of IjUUl)!), suitable fur the present and upmrt.icliiit^ ica sou, uiul hope to Ik: lavoicdwith n tilwreTM the public patrnmgr. MORGAN 4c Gt'IltKY. (Vilnmhii, Ort. 21. 45?tf l'UltVIS, URYCK CO. k T the Store near the State House, formerly occupied 2\. by the luto firnn of "Wm. imd IV Purvia," ai d " Wm'. l'urvi* .mil Go."?have just rcce.vcd tlicir ?up !>l> FALL it WINTKU GOODS, comprising ana-Hiwirtmciitofull the Staple Articta* RC* I ! nerally wanted, which they will depone of on low tcrm??|g i t'.tr I '.-wli, Produce at the market prite, or oil a reasonable credit to tho?e who ore known U> l>o punctual hi irviliinfj ' > the r payment#. Iluv tig two Ship* in the RurnpennTrade, and intettd :.y. ti> keep Imrit* constantly running (when the rly#pff Will .. Im'.ti kt?ccii lliia and Charleston, tlwy will M' aide to Mijiplr^otiutry Store-keeper*, l?y wjtotc.idc, at the i lit.- ?oM tfowpible rates. N. II. Tlil^wirncMly call on nil perunn* indebted to the lute firm# of W. (i fl. Purvis, and \V. Purvm fit Co. to <*oine firwurd and discharge their dchta out of the the pi e-c.it crop, a* lemrer indulgence cannot he gi ?nud. Columbia, Oct? 1ft, lHlfi 4l--6w nU)lHWAl.S~FOH I'l'BLlsTUNG nv ?fit?cHimoM KF.l'QIlTS OK C, \HRS decided in the Court of Chun . eery of the Hi.ite of Houth^tafolina, fromMw Revo lution ne.rlv tliwn to the present time?Alto in the F/t'i: tyC ain oi Ap|>culi?by flf'.XItY WVI. DESACftfU'HR, Senior Judge ol the Court ol Ch..ncery, and pie-tiding Juil A* in the Coiu l of Aiipe.d.v Tin* work u .11 lie published in t?v> volumes ortavo, each c*?i?t.i?i>in^r about p>gei, on gotd ptper, ami with ii new t\;v The piniinpwdi !>e c ittr.enccd in :? f< v week-., and will be finished a-.. pevdd; as |mhuii. h.e , prol>.ihlv in the rour-aof'.!>c ye ?:? The p.'.r'1 ia .ubserilHJrs w I! l-e s \ dollars for each vo'wtic, inbr>.ird?' oi)i a modcViieadvance for e.sch vo lume hound, if proper bind.r.jf can Ik: pronticd. The money to he paid on the del\ei'v of t'.e S'vsks. H'lb.nT.pt out w.ll he received at the IV.n'in --offices ft I I'm ?k ?store in C dumbm?<md at the different Court.hou e i hi ilieht-jte. (INK ,CKNT URWAltl). A1W0NIIK1) on the .lilt of Aujrtiat bit,an fndv.dcj . young man noncd David llurigin, 14 yen . ol'apre, S f v 6 or 7 inehe< high, fair Coniplex.crt, hhc evctt With a blemish on the r glit, down look, >honlJer ed, habitually addctcd to pilfering. All person* arc ; forbidden to employ or haiwtr Mid youth, r.s fit* la* ???!? be put in f >rce pgaittst xttr.lt. ? P JlOY. Kparfontatrj'h lt.strict, Oct. the tllf