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Society, whose recommendation is never know- 

 ingly bestowed unworthily, has written to the 

 publishers the following letter : 



"Agricultural Rooms, Albany, N. Y., ) 

 Nov. 11, 1859. 5 



" Messrs. C. M. Saxton, Barker Co. : 



" S. Edwards Todd, author of the 'Young 

 Farmer's Manual,' is a writer familiar with 

 the wants of the Farmer, and from the constant 

 inquiries I am receiving in relation to his wri- 

 tings, it is apparent to me that he has struck a 

 vein that will insure a large circulation for his 

 works. His writings axe practical in their char- 

 acter, and are well adapted to the purposes of 

 the farmers of our country, and I believe they 

 will find an extensive demand." 



The Hand-Eook or Annual Record op Horti- 

 cultural AND Agricultural Statistics, compiled 

 by Wm. P. Sheppard, Proprietor of the Horti- 

 cultural Agency, New York. Containing direc- 

 tions for gardening, such as enclosing and lay- 

 ing-out; preparation of soil; manures; selec- 

 tion of seedS) and testing their vitality; sowing ; 

 watering or irrigation ; hoeing or weeding; ro- 

 tation of crops ; tables showing the flowering 

 time of orchard fruit trees, at various points ; 

 the number of hills, j-dants, &c., to an acre, at 

 any given distance ; the quantity of seeds 

 usually sown in a garden of half an acre, or 

 upon one acre; the standard weights per bushel 

 of variatis seeds, &c. x\lso, descriptive cata- 

 logues of culinary vegetables, and other garden 

 plants ; and of new plants, flowers and fruits 

 of 1859. Price one dollar per copy. We think 

 the Gardener or Floriculturist who buys this 

 book, will get for bis dollar a full dollar's 

 worth. 



The Carpenter's Guide in Stair-Building and 

 Hand-Railing, based upon plain and practi- 

 cal principles Illustrated by eight large en- 

 gravings, with sufficient explanations to inform, 

 without confusing the learner. By Patrick 

 O'Neill, Practical Stair-Builder. Purilished by 

 J. W. Randolph, 121 Main Street, Richmond. 



The system laid down in this work, com- 

 mends itself to the notice of the mechanic for 

 its greater simplicity than that of any other 

 known method of arriving at the same geomet- 

 rical accuracy and precision in adjusting the 

 hand-railing of the stair-way to the curvatures 

 requiied to adapt it to the prescribed area, and 

 to the elevation to be overcome. It is a Vir- 

 ginian Publication, and is entitled to additional 

 notice on that account. 



Virginia Register. 



With the kindest feelings towards its estima- 

 ble Editor, and best wishes for the complete 

 success of his enterprize, we introduce to our 

 readers The Virginia Register, a large octavo 

 Monthly, of 48 pages. Edited by F. Thomas, 

 Esq., who is also Proprietor. The character 

 and design of the publication are clearly indi- 

 cated in the following prospectus. The paper 

 is adapted to fill an important and useful de- 

 partment in our public Journalism : 



" Prospectus of The Virginia Register. 



"The Virginia Register will be issued month- 

 ly, containing the amount of reading matter 

 originally designed for four weekly issues, viz '. 

 forty-eight large octavo pages. It will be de- 

 voted, as heretofore, to commerce, industry, 

 state rights, and otlier subjects of permanent 

 interest- — historical and political. The political 

 policy of the Register will be governed by the 

 principles set forth in the Keniuclcy and Vir- 

 ginia ResoJutions of '98-'99, and the resolutions 

 adopted by the Senate of the United States 

 on the 24th and 25th of May, 1860, in regard 

 to the rights of citizens of the several States 

 in the Territories of the United States ; the 

 duty of the Federal Government to protect 

 those rights, &c. 



Terms $2 50 per Jnnum, payable in advance. 



" Avertisements will be inserted at four dol- 

 lars per quarter for each square of ten lines, or 

 sixteen dollars per year, payable quarterly, in 

 advance. 



"J^^^Back numbers will be furnished to 

 new subscribers."' 



The Lost Principle ; or, the Sectional Equilib- 

 rium: How it was Created — How Destroyed—^ 

 How it may he Restored. By " Barbarossa." 



We have just received the above work i'rom 

 the publishers. As the title imports, the charac- 

 ter of the work is political, but the idea of a 

 sectional equilibrium, (once secured by the com- 

 promises of the Constitution, but now lost.) 

 which forms the staple of tho book, invests it 

 with the charm of novelty, and lends it an 

 attractive interest not often found in political 

 disquisitions. 



The author— -a young Virginian, who evinces 

 fine talents, and industrious, discriminating re- 

 search in the work before us— maintains, with 

 all the force of intelligent conviction, tlie doc- 

 trines of the State-Rights School of Politics, 

 regarding the United States Government as a 

 confederation of co-e(pial sovereign States in 

 contradistinction from a consolidated republic. 

 He holds the Constitution to be at once the spe- 

 cification and the limitation of the powers of 



