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made in tne country seats ot several men of 

 wealth, and of various extensive ranges ot glass, 

 lieated In' hot water; and includinir all the mod- 

 ern European improvements. We reler to tiie 

 otiier articles heatled 'North America,' under our 

 'Foreign Notices.' 



Froiii the British fi'est India Islands a new 

 orchideous plant is occasionally received; but we 

 have had no accounts lately of the progress of 

 garden cultivation in that cjuarter; though, hap- 

 pily, the new law respectinix the emancipation ol" 

 the slaves is s'aid to work well. 



From Si)uth ^-/merica Mr. Matthews continues 

 to send home splendid specimens; and the 'Hor- 

 ticultural Society' of London, have lately sent to 

 JMexico a zealous young naturalist, M. Hartvveg, 

 who will probably penetrate into Colombia. En- 

 gravings of some new species of pines and firs, 

 brought from Brazil and Mexico by J)r. Coulter, 

 are about to be published by Mr. Lambert. 



yJustralia has lost the curator of the Sydney 

 Botanic Garden, Mr. Richard Cunnigham; and a 

 notice of the distressing manner in which he met 

 hi<: death, will be ibund in a preceding page. Mr. 

 Allan Cunningham, the brother of the deceased, 

 has been appointed his successor, and sailed from 

 London, in October last. From the new colony 

 established in Southern Australia, much is expect- 

 ed, in consequence of the adoption of the new 

 principle of concentration; by which means, in a 

 very short period, a distant colony may be made 

 to unite all the essential advantages of an old 

 country with those of a new one. This principle 

 consists in government assuming, the prorietor- 

 ship of the land, and allowing no person to settle 

 who does not become a purchaser, or an occupier 

 at a fixed rent, and show that he has sufficient cap- 

 ital to bring what he purchases or hires into pro- 

 per cultivation. It is easy to conceive that the ap- 

 plication to this principle will have a tendency to 

 produce a great number of small estates, all lying 

 near together, and within easy distance of a town 

 occupied by tradesmen and laborers, who will 

 supply the wants ol' the agriculturists, in return 

 for a portion ol'the produce of their farms. In such 

 a- colony, it will be long before there can be any 

 overgrown estates; and it may probabl}^ grow up 

 a second Norway, where every head of a family, 

 among the rural population, is an owner of land, 

 which he cultivates himself A number of port- 

 able houses, such as those fiirured and described 

 in our ^ Encyckrpadia of Cottage^ Farm, and Villa 

 jirchitedure,'' p.2ol.; a portable school and church; 

 and a portable banking-house, of two stories; 

 have been constructed at London, and sent out to 

 this colony, lor the conveniance of the first settlers. 

 Mr. Allen, an early correspondent of this 'Maga- 

 zine,' has gone out as a nurseryman and garden 

 architect; and w» have already seen, in a South 

 'Australian newspaper, one of hi.? advertisments, 

 offering his services m laying out and planting 

 small gardens. From the lalitude of Southern 

 Australia, we should expect the climate to be 

 more analogous to that ol' Van Diemen's Land, 

 than to that of Sydney; and, consequently, that 

 it will be found better adapted for the health of 

 British emigrants, and for the growth of British 

 productions. The great article of export from 

 Australia to Europe continues to be w^ool; but it is 

 highly probable that, at no great distance of time, 

 cotton and silk will be added. Wine and oil may 

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doubtless be produced there in sulTicient abunt 

 dance lor home consumption, ii" not lor exportion- 



IIIGH PlllCr.S OF DURHAM CATTl^E. 



[The following statement, (from the Chillicothe Ga- 

 zette,) appears to us not so much an evidence of judi- 

 cious and valuable improvements in stock farming, as 

 an indication of tlie commencement of a speculating 

 cattle-mania in this country, which will be at least equal 

 in violence and etfect to the merino-mania which raged 

 about twenty -five years ago, and the high-blooded- 

 horse-mania, which is raging in Virginia now. 



The allusion to a "sham sale," below, has reference 

 to an account of a sale of 50 liead of short-horned cattle, 

 which has recently been published in half the papers 

 of the United States, and will be copied into the other 

 half. That report is pronounced by the same paper to 

 be false in sundry particulars — and it attempts an expla- 

 nation of the mis-statements, which is any thing but 

 satisfactory, and therefore not worth repeating here.] 



"Seventeen head of improved short-horned cat- 

 tle, belonging to the Ohio Company, being mostly 

 of this year's importation and the produce of 

 others, took place at the Sugar-Grove in this town 

 on Tuesday last, [Oct. 24.] The attendance was 

 numerous, comprising a larger number of actual 

 bidders than the previous sale. Among the indi- 

 viduals present who are pre-eminently noted for 

 their agricultural enterprise, were Governor Vance 

 Ex-Governor Trimble, the Messrs. Renick, Mn 

 Sullivant, and indeed nearly all of the large farm- 

 ers of this valley and the adjacent country. The 

 bidding was consequently very spirited, and the 

 prices obtained for the cattle plainly show, that the 

 kind of stock sold, is rapidly advancing in public 

 estimation. By the following list from the auc- 

 tioneer's book, our brethren of the press will dis- 

 cover, that the cattle enumerated were even more 

 highly valued than those of the sham sale they 

 were of late parading in their columns, copied 

 from the Cincinnati Gazette. 



Bulls. 



Acmon, 3 years 8 months, M. L. Sullivant & 

 Co., Columbus, ^2,500 



Comet Halley, 5 years, George Renick & Co., 

 Chillicothe, .S2,500 



Hazlewood, 1 vear 6 months, Allen Trimble 

 and R. R. Seymour, S700 



Bouncer, 1 year 7 months, John "Walke, Pick- 

 away county, Ohio, • $453 



Powhatan, 1 year 19 days, Harness Renick, 

 Pickaway county, Ohio, $500 



Santa Anna, 3 months 21 days, Joseph C. Vance, 

 Ohio county, Va., $425 



Cows. , 



Flora, 7 vears 6 months, M. L. Sullivant, Co- 

 lumbM.«, " $1,300 



Matilda, 6 years 6 months, Allen Trimble, 

 HiL^hiand county, Ohio, $1,220 



Fidelia, 7 months 18 days, Allen Trimble, 

 Hiiihland county, Ohio, $610 



Elizabeth (and calf,) 5 years, J. & Wm. Vance, 

 Champaign county, Ohio, $1,450 



Charlotte, 4 years 7 months, Joseph G. White, 

 Ross county, Ohio. $630 



