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front wall of the wing, which admits of smoking in the 
open air. 
Proceeding again along the hall, but to the left of the 
principal entrance, we came to a boudoir, 13.6x8.6, ellip- 
tical on plan, with four niches as in the vestibule, and for 
similar purposes ; the boudoir opens into a lady’s dress- 
ing-room, 8x13.6, which last is also entered from the hall. 
Succeeding this is a nursery, 13.6x16, communicating 
with a bed-room, 13.6x14, which is also entered from the 
arcade. The arcade terminates at the remaining or left 
wing of the building, with which it communicates by a 
door whieh leads into a large lobby, containing the stairs 
to the chamber floor, and two closets, between which is a 
side entrance door. This lobby leads to an octangular 
library, 16x16, which communicates with a cabinet, 12x16, 
from which a door opens to the left arcade at the rear of 
the building. 
The second or chamber story is divided as follows : 
two triangular spaces are taken off the second landing of 
the principal staiis, in such a manner as to^ preserve the 
symmetry; the landing is thus converted into a semi-oc- 
tagon, and this process, in conjunction with that_ of nar- 
rowing the hall to five feet, enables us to obtain a number 
of closets, which dre appropriated as shown on the plan. 
The entrance from this landing to the hall may be orna- 
mented in a manner somewhat similar to the lower en- 
trance before described. 
A passage commencing at ihe landing on the dining- 
room side, leads to two bedrooms over the dining-room, that 
next the passage being 13.6x15, and the other 15x16; 
these may be made of equal size, if preferred ; each has a 
closet attached. The passage turns at right angles, leads 
to a linen press, and terminates at a lady’s bath-room. 
Bedrooms are also obtained over the parlor and drawing- 
room, each 16x17.6 and over the boudoir, 13x18.6. A!1 
these bedrooms have'closets attached, leaving two closets 
opening from the passage, unattached to any bedroom, 
and which may be applied to whatever purpose may be 
thought advisable. A circular room, 17 feet diameter, is 
located over the vestibule; this room, with a circular 
table in the centre, covered with rare shells, bijouterie, 
etc., and with statuettes or vases in the niches, may be 
made to assume a very rich and ornamental character. 
The windows to the parlor and drawing-room, to the 
bedrooms over them, and to the circular room, should be 
French casements opening to the floor, so as to allow ac- 
cess to the veranda and balcony. 
Two bedrooms are also obtained over the billiard and 
smoking rooms ; the former 15.6x15, and the letter 13x15^ 
with closets to each ; and two more bedrooms, with at- 
tached closets, and an additional large closet, are provided 
over the library and cabinet ; that over the library being 
12x13.6, and that over the cabinet 12x13. The stairs to 
the tower are situated along the external wall of the build- 
ing, over the two closets before mentioned, as shown on 
the plan. 
Access to the fiat on the roof may be obtained by a 
step-ladder, which may be removed when not in use ; or, 
svhat is still better, a flight ofstairs may be constructed in 
the space occupied by the two closets adjacent to the bed- 
room over the boudoir, and inclosed by a door so arranged 
as not to interfere with the symmetrical appearance of the 
hall. Should this latter method be adopted two or three 
bedrooms may be formed in the roof, and lighted by sky- 
lights from the flat. 
The style is Italian. The quoins, the avinaow and 
door dressings, the chimney tops, and the arcades arepro- 
proposed-to be of stone ; the remainder of tire external 
walls of good, square, well-burned brick. Tiie quoins and 
window dressings to the first story are to be of the kind 
of work commonly known as rock- work; that is to saj’-, 
the stones are to be first iia.mmer-dressed, then truly bed- 
de'Fand jointed, and lastly a margin draft chiseled off the 
outer edges of the external surfaces; this draft should be 
about two inches wide, leaving the remainder of the ex- 
ternal faces rough from the hammer. It is. also proposed 
to execute part of the mason work of the arcades and of 
the wings in this style; but the portions of the elevation 
i.n which it is proposed to introduce this description of 
stone-cutting are sufficiently indicated on the engraving. 
The quoins and. dressing to the second story are to project 
from the face of the brick-work, and 'to have the angles 
chamfered off. A good idea of the remaining features of 
the elevation will, it is presumed, be obtained from the 
engraving. 
BISUNION AND ABOLITION I I I 
[as seen THEIOUGH A PAIR OF VERY KEEN YANKEE SPEC- 
TACLES ] 
Wb seldom allow the CuUivator to dabble in any- 
thing that even resembles the “dirty waters of politics,” but 
one of the vital issues of the times is so forcibly and fairly 
presented in the following, from the Providence (Rhode 
Island) Post, that we cannot withhold it from our readers. 
Our Eastern friend characteristically heads his article: 
THE DOLLARS AND CENTS IN THE CASE. 
We have more than once said, and we think we have 
proved, that a dissolution of the Union would injure the 
business interests of New England more than any those 
of any other section of our country. The “statement of 
the case,” as the case is presented to our mind, is simply 
this : We now receive from the South our cotton, onr to- 
bacco, our rice and sugar, and not a little of our corn and 
lumber. In exchange for these we send to the South a 
large amount of manufactured articles — cotton and wool- 
en goods, farming implements, mechanic’s tools, machin- 
ery, boots, shoes, jewelry, notions, nick-nacks, &c. The 
exchange is profitable to us ; first, the articles received 
cannot be produced at the North. We cannot produce 
corn enough for home consumption. Again, it is profit- 
1 able, because we .mmsthave the Southern markets for our 
