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ariKi!,' from "1). C' . (David Christy, Esq.,
. X piip)o.3a.) An authority, too, upon thq
fi.ihjL-l he treat?, and those analogues to
it, ar (rood any in the United States. I
JJiiov "th.ut his- observations, especially iri
jbhe Mouthfrii Ai!eghai)iis, have bepn prac
t!c;if i'.id thoronijh. ; The phenoinnou ex
hibiti'i! -A OirH'tcm, Oa., I have vyitnessed
-'t Uivi.ory'Xut Gap, on the Taad. frora
Aslicj-iila'to Hi,:thci!brdton, and jit other
.j:o:ii1fe- hi She mountains' of Western Nbrth
Otroilna. One of tc most singular arid
vm'U: wli'ects of fo and air currcl.is as.ex-
, liibif'fd ytarly on -Try on Mountain' iri Polk
;o!uny, near the upper waters of tife Saluda
JMvpb."' 'Thiert! 'frost is ncverj knowi and the
pi".c' crop never fails. " In my itivestia-tio:'.:-ii;i
AVer-tern North Carolina I found
Minillr rtfoimtuin sides in otjier ' fcouhtiesj
V.wi;erh for'insfance, th.e leaves are untouch
d hi frost fyr many days later injthe year
than fthose:ajjoming. t -
Waterspouts I have frequently j heard of
and' !;.il tine j!rash-rc - of being itijj a small
,011?; I On !he 'French .Broad , River above
Ttin? lricei, ot one by which a boulder con-
t;iini
V i'vnm
iliF i Mild iii ii.i finr xttHq pnrrlaii
ILIlOb 1UU7 UUUil' VT (jl vUl I
ft 1 1 - h .. '
'yarJl down into the. bed of the river.; The
;tincl of f ho spout was about . thirty feet
'widel' If "occurred many years iiaso. and
II - . " ... j W. y:r.,
f the oid settlers told rre itj was ac
.iiiied by vjrroat wind and noise. In
li;iVoorj county mere was a singular spilt
in tl'iti top of a mountain, said topave oc
curred 'about the same time. I vpited the
Tracil'oi cine. on an old road leading from
tiiii iVarm Siirmcrs to Tennessee. . Just
wlir-ire the 'snout crossed, the roadlhad been
treatl'd with polc3 on the cordujroy plan
In their iMa-ce was an immense ditch, while
, so:nff of the poles were to bo, found in. trees
far ItjiowJ One of the neighbors describ-
ii'sir said, '-tlie spring branch was- as big
as JJroad River. 1 learned 'also ithat they
werJ fre(trieut there, and the roaiil, though
bot and sliorteit'to Tennessee, had to
. be -I'a'ndoned lor that reason. The forma
lion of-the fjari above Was- similar to that
tltheribed iby "D. C." at Clayton and on
the north-east side (in Tcnnessee,j the State
line, apparently straight on "the map, runs
with the Unaka Ridge, hence is zigzag) was
n fa ni noted for its peaches ar)d "grapes.
I tr "id, both myself when none were to be
hadlauvvvherc else for' sixty miles around.
I shall not occupy your valuable ispace with
any theories a to the frost-line lor fosfand
air hirront?. The latter has been well and
. uo 'jloiibt will be fully treated Jy 'D. C."
"'iindil ! know morn ably than I sliould: but
lliele are peculiai itics of formation and lo
cation in the mountains ot Western North
Carolina, .which especially fit th.em for the
t-ul urc o' the grape. I know Jy observa
tion, and it has been demonstrated by oth
ers fin' practical experience.- One of these
pecjiliarities is in many, pointsj a total ab
pcnr o of frost, or, as some terni it, the ex
istiiiee of a line of altitude above which
froit-has never been known. The seeming
mystery is , pi a inly solved in tile action of
fogjand air currents similar to hat so well
des'tribed ;:s existing at CIayto:n. Ga. .'In
omipointl think vD. C." is incorrect:, the
icrtn js noi uaii, out iiakij trom tne aDsence
of jfuv tree-crowth. The Indians viewed
iherc bal'd peak?? with a religious reverence.
. h)iu:j vfpiniuiz 13 hiiiib tuuy iiiiiu an ui jgiu
in lire,, and as the practice of. turning the
, wopul is yearly, becommar Jess common,
t!;cy ;'arc decreasing. Another theory
is ijljat they are caused by the S fierce, cold
vids which svvee the elevated' and expos
ed points!.! Still, I have seen points equally
high in t!e immcUia tc neighborhood cov-
cnil with trees. . Some' of the Indians call
thrfm "Devirstracks.,l,. ,
"J'he W.irm Springs region U one of, pe
, cticiar interest to' scientific men.'" The wa?
teifof the 'Springs has a temperature of. 104
. d'eg. Fahrenheit, contains sulpliuf, carbonic
uua iia, uuu. ,uces 01 some otner minerals.
Tlipy arc. located near the junction of "tlie
. nmestonei anu metamorphic, slates, . As a
v.. mineral region the .'country- Has never been
woll explored ;lead, silver, ahuVoppcr are
pldntv. iron of the bestJ flualitv'abiiridant:
J J .. a 1 ' - . M r
-a largQ mass of corundum opens a few miles
irqm uiq tfpryigs, iiatl lavas jsnovvn a san
T)lfi nf pinrjirtrir whinh wns snid to h.ivo
: bepn obtained from , a creeks about, fifteen
mU'dsi froni fhn Snrinws.'l ' Thrt: Kcerierv is
Wildly grand ctid beautiful, aiid were the
river, bat 'navigable its fame would be world
wide.; i. A. railroad trom Greenville,' S. C,
via.Asheville, N; C, to some point on the
East 'TenD; and Ta. Road, has for , years
been chartered; also an extension of the
Western N. iC. It. R. to a similar point!
One. wiir be bpU; surveys have been made
and some griding done. - The Springs are
located on thb French Broad Riveri twenty
four.miles frbm Greenville, Tenn., on the
East Tenn. an d Virginia R. R. -
j. t 1 ; ; 'HE. Colton.
' IJrooklyn, L. I.; Dec. 27, 1866. : - v ;
' From th Eichmond "Whig : '
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
The London Times alludes to" the general
rise bff prices as one of the characteristics
of the ;presecit generation, and adds "that
nothing haB fisen in value so much as man.
It jdtclares that at thisepoch there are no
glutted labpf 'markets and "overstocked
professions. There is a dearth of appli
caats for admission to the old liberal pro-feaions-
indeed in all inferior . callings
do?vn to that of domestic service. . This
result is j attributed to . an extraordinary
multiplication of demand,! and an equally
remarkable modification of social opinions.
...w;.u.k,gipUjfo. - xiiu nine was wnp.n
here were only three reconid lihpml
prdfessjons. ! We micrht now redkon thirtv.
an what is of still more impbrtanoe, any
6n$ :6f these is thouirht iusfc- n Hh!
' that is fust as becoming to a frentlftmnn
as r$7 !otne Novv-a-days young gentle
men ;gd into counting houses as readily as
.jujf, uum u. lino me uruarus, and are
4.1. ... 1. i. it !.'
uiugut uoii cne worse ot. There is an
mmeuse held of employment, arid' no. pre-!
udices'to interfere with anvbodvs choice.
The i necessary consequence is that all old
ea L! infra RnfFer n Uttlti n!1 m-X.
( nj. fm ..vv.U, UUVl '.VUISC JllUOb- lit
wnicn ttiere was least natural attraction."
: Such1 are lithe results of the multinlica-
tion of-industries and
i- ' j v-- v m 1IIV4UW1 till
deyelopment The world over, there is a
demancf for intelligent labor, and when it
juipivyjuisvii lo most advantage and
without -incurring. social) ostracism in the
physical callings, .as distinguished from
those purely: mental, we must expect these
laucr-ip do 1 Situnneu. it is gratifying to
witness the triumph of educated labor over
hoary prejudices, and to see that intellect
and t energy untrammelled by social re
straints, are 'allowed free scope and 'a field
ior selection, limited only; by the almost
mnumerapief present avocations ot life. It
is to education, to science, that we are in
debted for those almost countless inven
tions that have made labor both easy and
pivubauiu Luat iiiive maue macninery sup
ply the place of human muscle, and have
i .f. . L it- ! ... 1 1? . -i ' mi
id iiiuiii vu wuptrrv is anu airecc it. i ne
reproductive power thus created is wonder
ful to; contemplate. Machinery makes
macmnery, and the more there is created,
anp the greater its capacity, the more extended-will
;!be the sphere for human labor.
th greater the demand for it, the richer
us rewards,: a aa tue more respectablo and
inHuential it becomes. -'
! Physical science is making the world, as
itjwere, a new- one and is breaking down
class distinctions and social prejudices, and
elevating; man. above mere callings "and
professions! The time is at hand when
man makes the occupation honorable, and
not the occupation, the man. . .. t
:-Tu it:. .. j 1 .
, , au khi gutnu marcn 01 improvement, we
the lSouth are larrieraVds' Eninvinirr until
recently opulence that left us scarcely
"'fr''a ; lv wish, wiui ievv large cities,
devoted tol agriculture, the "bulk of our
male population landed proprietors,, the
n j-h mm HAin'ntnnxi A w i t . ........ .. A
'iifn, uijs ai cs unu luuurt'rs we were 'nob
tltrown into competition with other people,
arid were; vqitbaut those incentives to com
mercial and mechanical riursuits that others
had. JWe; lived generously, . comfortably,
inaqieniiy. j laoor was not a necessity,
smce we had slaves to do that labor for iis
In choosing occupations for our young
nien.wo coofined ourselves to the learned
pfof essionsj occasionally embracing com-
merce never tne mecuanicat pursuits un
less compelled to it bylpovertv, or in those
instances, id which mechanics brought-up
their sons In their own business. It is use
less. to deny that class distinctions and so-
cial prejudices txisted.'; They arc not yet
eitirpatd.j . Poor as our people are, there
1 . . . ! ...... . I 1 " T T 1.1 nf - . '
are many wno would, ratner sutler than see
teir sons engage in trades." It is only by.
hard labor in agriculture,' commerce, man
ufactures j anid tho mechanic arts, that we
can ever recover our lost wealth and influ
ence, and; restore the South to its former
mgn estate. . mere is not on earth a State
in : whichi well-directed 5Iabor can accom
plish greater results than in 'Virginia nor
where; the physical sciences and" the me-,
chaftic arts could have a finer field. We
have-as rich lands as there are on the globe,
add mines,! minerals and water-nower vast
arid inexhaustible. We cannot look to pro-
iessionai men to maKetnose resources avail
able. ! Wje must . have educated labor and
muscle fori that purpose; and all that h aye
sb'ns should" teach, or j cause them to. be
taughtr the physical sciences, and encourage
them to engage in some one or another pf
Jhe industrial pursuits.1 instad of in law and
physic. - 1 Productive industry; is "what is
wanted; If it is respectable in England it
shpuTd be respectable in. Virginia. Con
tempt for work and those who have to en
gage in it, i si "despicable enough in those
who"are rich Vut it . becomes absurd' and
criminal when displayed by those who are
ss aepenaent upou u as ourselves, and wno
must be bfeggars without it. - .
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COIJPLICT EI A STATS PHIS0II.
i The'Louisville Courier gives the follow
ing particulars of the insurrection at the
Jefferson ville (Indiana) Penitentiary, briefly
reported by telegraph: V ' '. ' !l'
"A' desperate convict by! the name of
George Henderson, who had been senten
ced to four year's , imprisonment for grand
larceny in the Southern Indiana! Penitenti
ary, an old offender,' and the leader oi ah
outbreak at the Joiliet Illiuois Penitenti
ary, in which he acknowledged having kill
ed the warden several years since, was re
garded with suspicion by the officers of the
prison as being in league with some ef the
f rifthe prisoners for the purpose of in
cuing them to mutiny. Iu the afternoon
while the convicts were at work in fh
wheel shops, where Henderson also u?-
avvonieu, ne was detected by jlr. Sae,
tSYir,d in charge of that department,in
putting un . unusual keen edge upon his
knife at the grindstone the convicts using
these knives about their persons for noth
ing else but to eat with, ordered him to
give up. the knife a-d go on" with his work;
whereupon he jumped upon Mr. Sage,
making an attack with his knife, and would
have succeeded in killing the officer but
for the timely arrival of Mr. .Baugh, the
guard under the wheel shops, who threw
ofl the prisoner, at the same time' firing
four ineffectual shots at him. the nrisoner
escaping the shots by taking refuge behind
a pile of waon wheels, but returtunirfipht
by throwing heavy bars of iron at the of-
ncers. Air. uaugn, tiudmg the pistol shoot
ing of no effect, made an attack tvifh n
wheelspoke, and with one.5 effectual blow
succeeded r m telling . the convict to the
tlOOr. During the -seen A th mmrrlc mnva
promptly at their separate posts, exnectinn-
at any moment an outbreak, which, through
the vigilance of those efficient men, was
Kept under entire subjection. Henderson,
who was still resisting the officers, was
fina,1y;;taIien 1 to: the whipping-post, arid
abou t to have 'the; cat-o-nine-tails applied;
when he was discovered to swoon. ; IL?
was placed in his cell, suspected to be un
der the influence of tobacco, which narcot
ic had been successfully applied on previ
ous occasions by this prisoner in swallow
ing large quantities , of the .juice about the
time a whipping was to come oft. Iri'an
hour and a half, upon a visit to his cell, he
was found a corpse. A nost mortem M-ami.
nation was made by Dr.. McAride, of this
city. The blow from which he is supposed
tn tihxrn tcA wna naA a uuiiU
.
of the head,: producing a fracture of the
skull bone. An inquest was held upon the
body, and a verdict rendered of "justifiable
homicide."
THE ANIMALS OF BRAZIL.
-vs-wu V U3 ItJUlLiLC:!! till 1 IIH. IMII. V 1 I I
The second lecture by Professor Louis
Agassiz, under the auspices of the 'Mer
cantile Library Association of Brooklyn
was delivered last Tuesday evening in tin
Academy of Music of that citv; The sub
ject was "The Animals of Brazil," on which
. jr .j i' . i ' . -' ; -i ' ; -
ne Qiscoursea ior neariy two nours in i
vervv interesting and : instructive manner
He remarked that in submitting a sketch of
the animal world of South America he did
not propose to enumerate the various kinds
of animals which inhabited that portion of
the continent. This would be only a tedi
ous nomenclature. 1 He ' desired simply to
present a. picture of tho , part which the
animal tliere take , in the animal kingdom
at present and in ; past times. There were
only, four plans according to which the
whole animal kingdom had been construct
ed. The question was, what is the nature
of the connection of animals constructed on
one of these plans with those on another
plan? Whether they; were linked together
by a common descent or "whether their
connection was a natural one; i Animals
must be studiedl; anatomically as - regards
their structure,: historically 'to know how
they had grown up, and' whence they came
bv their eeoirraphical distribution. These
evidences went to Drove tha t one order of
animals had not grown out' of another by
a species. of deyelopment, but that each, as
is found by fossil remains, was always the
same- the fish to-day resembling those
which existed in the formation of the pri
mary strata of the earth. ' There were four
plans on which all animals were builtthe
radiates! molluskg, articulates and verte
brates.; Explaining the points of difference
and resempianco m ine construction oi va
rious animals belonging, to : each of these
orders, he proceeded to mention some ot
the animals of Brazil. In our rivers here,
for instance; the North river, were sturgeon,
perch, pickerel, white fish, and in the lower
part a, few; herrings, and" in some, of the
tributaries, - trout., r .There" were pone of
these in :the rivers of. Brazil. . Instead, of
trout, they, had a fish resembling it some
what, but with, a totally different organiza
tion about the back bone, especially about
the neck; arid the organ of hearing was
different. So with ail theother represen
tatives of thesef: "Among reptiles the same
marked difference was observable. . There
were lizards, salamanders, turtles, terrapins
and harmless snakes. In Brazil there were
no salamanders, a large number of lizards
arid turtles, and snakes, ten, fifteen-and
eighteen feetrrr in length andabdrit' the
thickness of a thigh. .They had also a kind
of fresh water turtle as large as the ordi
nary green turtle. There . were vast num
bp.ra of "riarrbta in v Brazil. Terv few deer.
arid those very small; tapirs, wild boars and
i
am as," which have a famt 'rPmM.;
some of the Northern animals. . In examin
ing the structure 'of these, the naturalist
could discover, so much beauty of form
and wisdom.in the adaptation of parts that
it was natural to believe they were, made
by an intelligent cause by Him? who
made man in the image of Himself, in or
der that He might inquire into and under
stand the -wonders of the material world:
Trom the New York World, Jan. 17.
THE STATE 0E ETJEOPE. . .
The two 'great nucstions which nW n'fc
present" engagincr the attention of tho Eu
ropean statesmen are slowlv hut --sfMflilv
approaching their final solution. In Tur-
Key, tne resistance of the Christian popu
lation totlie brutish desnotism nFth Turks
has; since the beginning of the NevV :Year,
largely crainexi in dimeusion and strength.
It- is. no .longer Crete" alone which' is in
arms. The smaller islands in the redlfpr-
ranean have, followed the example set by
v.vii iuici oisver, anu unueo 10 cnase the
Turks " from the seav, Thd nrovince nf
Thessaly, which borders 'upon Greece, is
i , . 1U insurrection, and lurmshes
a convenient , rendezvous for the great
uuijiber of Greek youth who can no longer
res rain their warlike patriotism. In Gree.
the people, with an astonishing unanimity,
are Dnnging an irresistible pressure to bear
upon me urovernment m behalt of an open
suilpdrt of their kindred and co-relimonists
in flic Turkish provinces.' The schemes of
ine Servians m JNort hern Turkey, who are
tlie most warlike of all the CI
arid "who constitute the bulk of the nonuln-
tib n in the Provinces ofs.Servia. . Crnatin
Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro, are
sou more ominous than'-th mntTomunf r
- 1 ww IA V I V1J1 VtiV J I
than the Cretan insurrection has done dur
inr the past emht months. Russia is nuiet-
ly ub firmly maturing her policy for the
and France irresolutely confine themselves I
to a declaration that they will not inter-!
-uppiuauuiiig crisis, .wnue rn 21 and
1 T 1 .
terp as long as Russia remains neutral. ' a
European Conference, whicfi is now much
talked of, has no more chance of success
than.thc. late London Conference fnr fhp
settlement, of the Schleswicr-Holstein diffi
culty. According to present appearances.
ine establishment ot one or two Christian
empires upon tho ruins of the Mohamme
dan power in Euronean Turkev is an ppnt
- HJ
n?1 7ar remote.
4. r- i - . t- .,.' -
In Rome the people are ouietlv awaitinsr
the call of the "committee of action." That
this call will ere long be issued, andtthat
it will be complied with bv nearlv the
whole population of the Papal dominions,!
j.nn 1. . 1..Ui.. fPI..' T1-' I
ment, in the meanwhile, by new acts of in-
tolerance acainst tho foreign Protestant res
idents, and by its obstinate refusal to man
ifest a conciliatory spirit toward the 'tjrov-
. A. X - i !.1 l ! 11 . i -
advances made by the latter, seem to be I
eiuuiLwu. J.UWYV nocwicnstanama: au me
anxious to destroy the last remainder of syfn-
...l. tu.i. 1.. .n ...;.t
pathy that may yet be felt with it as a
temporal power. f f ; ; v
Germany is preparing for the meeting of
the first North German i Parliament. We
hare as yet no official account of the pro
ceedings of the Plenipotentiaries assembled
in Berlin. What has become known of the
Prussian draft of a new German Constitu
tion meets witli considerable, opposition
but at the same time the conviction prevails
generally that more or less unpopular pro
visions .will hardly weaken Uhe impulse
which the meeting of a Parliament elected
by-universal suffrage ; will give to the'nat
idqar unity movement. The idea of., a
South Geniiaii Confederation has been al
together abanuoned, and with Baden and
Bavaria fooking avowedly toward a confed
erative reunion with Prussia, Wurtemburg
alone cannot stay out. ! i ' 5 . ;
rl -The embarrassments of the Austrian Gov
ernment are- jn nowise lessened. The Hun
garian Diet; lias, by an almost unanimous
voce, auopieu a qeciarauon against tno new
military law cf, Austria, and the breach
between Hungary and Austria is, therefore,
a's-wide as-evcr. The new Rcichsfcih. which
the Government has oidered to bo elected
and to be jconyoked within a "few weeks,
Will only tend to make the conflict more
apparent, for the r differences between the
several nationalities ; are still greater '.than
those between, the Government of Austria
and thej Magyars. Though trouble may
riot be so imminent as in Turkey and,Rome,
it is fully as sure to come at the proper
time. " "' -; 1 : ! . ;'"-; - r " ,
' France has sent out the last vessel of the
squad ron that is to bring back . the expedi
tionary, force from Mexico. It appears to
b4 certain "that the Government will so far
yield to , the popular: dissatisfaction with
the new plan for reorganizing the army as
WinCroduceimportant modifications. 'There
is & strong current of pripu lar opiuion; that
the" mili ta ry . f o r ce o f Fra n ce can no t b e made
sufficiently powerful for 'azirressionr; C, f
j .The. Fenian movement in Ireland "'is. for
the present entirely suppressed; -The "re
form agitation : in EngIand; on the other
hand, is gaining strength, though it appears
doubtful.whether it will soon lead to any
practical result; 1 ; - - i v ; .
i "' - - .
Our interesting cotempoTary,t the I JJmtown
Ini: Slinger, mentions1 the : interesting f fact
that it has received, for publication an article
from "A subscriber of tMrty-yeara standing,"
aiid that npoii reference to its books, it finds
that his subscription acconnth.iqhrvm ci n-
I ing'Tfor thirty -fiye years, atleasti . J r u t. i i
tile Greeks in the South, -and the impend
ing outbreak in Bosnia may, therefore, give
uiu iui, 4w a iuw wutitvs. iiiuruirniin p
I From the Kingstree Star 'of tlia StK
: j' TETIRTBLE CATASTHOPHE, 1
We arecalled upon to record one of the
most horrifying and melancholy accidents
which has .ever, occuired within the
limits of this State. M Though an accident
wluch no caution or, foresight could
avoid, , it will send , a .thrill of horror
throughout the .whole - country.: On the
evening o( the -7th instant between the
hours of S and 9 P. M.J the occupant of the
gail heard, very suddenly, a rumbling noise
m the upper stories of the jail, as if the
iron were being shaken, and immediately
followed by the cry of fire. He rushed from
his room, to ascertain whether tho jail was
On fire Or not. arid aftiT wnlkintr mtin the
jail he observed a little smoke issuing from
"lie ui ine wioaows on the third floor.
Hi next object wa3 to 'open the prison
door and extinguish it. , but remembering
that Mr. Barineau, who was the jailor, and
who .was living several hundred yards from
the jail, had the keys in" his possession, he
(the occupant of the jail) immediately de
spatched a messenger for him. Mr. Bari
neau, accompanied by the sheriff, was soon
at the jail. In the mean time, however,
numbers of persons had collected." .The fire,
apparency.! at this time had riot "made as
rapid progress as was shown in a few min
utes, although a dense smoke was issuing
from every window. "
The sheriff, with the assistance of nearly
all the citizens in the village and the gar
rison at this place, immediately took the
most active measures to "save, .if possible,
the unfortunate inmates:;. The door on the
basement was opened, but the' dense and
suffocating smoke prevented any one from
rescuing those who occupied the third sto
ry. As a last resort, strenuous etTorta
then made, with the assistance of Jadders,
to remove the grating from one of the win
dows, which proved ineffectual.- t ; - ,
' At this time the cries and screams of iht
suffering inmates were heart-rending. The
jaii was iu names, ano twenty-two Human
h.iitrrn .TIL 1L 1" X a 1 .. ?
beinS3 were being burnt to death: 'without
any P08?iblo relief. Human agency, could
D S ever7 effort was made to
rescue tneni w,1cb could be suggested, but
to no PurPos The devotiring flames
Buuu uuiisumeu mem, and in the charred
ruins is only; to be seen the ghastly specta
Icle of bones'. " Horrible as the accident msv
be, and as much to be regretted, a", conso-
aiion I01IOW8 ot having done our. duty to
the best ofpur abilities, and that accident
is confined to no place or order of circum
stances. ' ' -r---'f,-f
From the Scientific Ameriaia. - '
r , TEA CULTU2E HI THE SOUTH.
"Messrs. Editors: An artir.In m mnr
I riS3Ue of December 22dr induces .me to
se!T you 7- penence, etc., in the -tea
culture. During the vvar I was living in
Fayetteville N. CI and-there tried the
tea plant with success The general "soil
wi iiiau ecciiuu is eanuy, with an unaerstra-
lam moJe or Ies deeP of cy. The seeds
r ,7 w, Duc 8Prted welj,
1 and in March. ISfi?. T ha J nvor hnnAwaA
- v ' m - aivjaiivji
fine plants, averaeinx eiaht inchesin heinht.
At that time my fence was destroved hv
j the accidents of war. and I naid hur lifti!
attention to the plants until June, when
. ' I -v.w .
i iound many still Uourishing. Dr.;Saml.
J. Hinsdale, of that place, transplanted
them to bis gardens .He has now many
f ii .. ... .j
give more full information of j his own ex
perience. I know the seed were distributed
oy nim, and that.dozens ot persons planted
them. with success., i - - f J- " t (li
TV .Q,-r.;fV r Ml rt .. .1
wamij, iicui vjiceiiviue, o. u., spent
uch time 'and 'money experimenting with
m
the tea plant, but I'donot think the soil
t,. UA I -.fxti' - At' a v -
c "iu w-uuui vviiii sio gooa as mat iurther
south', and east. He," however, said i that
good tea could be produced there at a
comparatively small price.' There is no
doubt that thu3 growing the nlants is the
only way it can be hadpure. ; 7
; On the eastern shores of North Carol
:;; ''tlfV. 1
Carolina!
grows wild
a name" no
doubt derived from the-Yeopim
Iridians to which " botanv has' iriveri thn
uauiu jlivjl, jutoKiam ii, is very similar to
the Matte (Ilex Far"aajai?is)o South :'A
merica. It is crudely cured arid Jused "as a
tea by the poorer classes and boatmen. Its
chemical properties are similar to black tea,
.. . T. f... .I... Ti -Li ' ;- .
while its medicinal arc superior. As a se
dative in fevers," it has no equal. In excess,
it acts on the liver and also produces vomit
ing. -The leaf is or the same size and shape
as Chinese tea, and .from appearance no
one can tell any difference in the two plants
at eight ,or ten'.rnchcs high. " When full
grown and large I think the yopon has a
slightly thicker leaf; but of this I am not a
fair judge,' as I have ; seen yopbn shrubs
fifteen feet high, while I fiavc never seen a
Chinese- tea plant more. than' two 'feet
in bight.; I have no doubt but with equal
nrA iVrTti"r!.Avrvfi-.',i.r,i.rf:i. 1 j
.ui t,uo t iiu out uuuixtvuu VuruilUii WUIIIU
make a tea as good as et er came from China,
while, too, I have no doubt mnch bt the
"pine barrens" of eastern 4orth Carolina
mishtbe made to vield an immense nmfifc.
cultivated in tea plants.'4 Thousand of acres
r u 1 j e l' l ii . . t.
trees, can be bought at from $1 toS3 per acre.
: Brooklyn, L. I. - f ' , IL E. C.
uuo anu large snruus oi the tea 'tree, and i '"""l-u lu j'.viura oauu oi -masKers.
has prepared tea therefrom. The soil' oft -ter drinking five glassesof absinthe in afc
that section is well adapted to the growth j cae on theBoulevards, he betook himself ri
of the plant, and land c an be bought there I t0 lnc I'ont des Arts, ; which he scaled to
very .cheap. I "presume Dr.? Hiiisdala'could Perm l,is last pirouette, h i..n
jrirpmnrft full infrirmntinrt nf.li nn.n' . 1 ! ..ill ' ' ' ...:"'-'-- ':. ...
ua Butu lauu, jroai wmcu, .1110 .turpentine necessity" is once was, to our commercial"
has been worked, can be bought for2j or. I public.; The river can never again, wheth- "
50, cents? an acre, . while . much .equally fit j cr it continues navigable or not, csunie';,'
for corn.1 etc... with turpentine and t?mhr!thf imnortance it n! hithprfn nKvrrT in -
Frcn the VAX Hull Rf. i
smcirs or a huhah iiorcTis.
.The Paris papers cl
" - :- . f lUtf
one who was for. some rears uotoriousJaa
particular section of Parisian society; v It
break of day following the Iastopc?ra ball
masque a strange looking figure waVsecn1
to lean for a moment or two over the part-1
pet of the Pont des Arts and then fo iumpf
mtothe river. Vfahprnvin i
the incident, after long searching brought' "
the body to the surface of the water. .. En
veloped na it was. from head to foot in a,
long hairy covering it seemprl f firef Air-if 1
to be an ape, but was soon recognized as d
uuman oemg. Attempts were made to re-'
store animation, but in vain. In one of the :
pocketsbf the unknown the following letter
was found, which 'bcl'pcd'to 'clear up the,
mystery: " 7
It is useless to attemnf in infl(r mV "
I am the descendant of a noble family, -whom
my fullies have dishonored. All my
patrimony is dissipated, and I prefer suicide
to misery. - to those who affirm that it is
necessary to be bravo to kill oneself, I re
ply that absintho mves conraorp. t nm
drunk; it is thus that I ought to die. ; I
nave been surnamed "Caoutchouc;" let" mo
be buried under this name. , Mnv mi-death
serve as an example to youth.-CAOuxcuouc. ,
V.AOCTCUOCC, says the Pans papers, wars
the old Count Chicard of modern public "
balls. Ilia reputation extended from the
Chateau Rouge to Mabille," and. from the
casino to the opera. There was always a -crowd
to see him dance and it was certain-''
!y an extraordinary performance. In! ap
pearance he was far from prepossessing; he
had a coarse, brutal-looking face, pulled
and pimpled by debauchery; his dull, lustre-
less eyes had an odious leer, and his swol
len, rickety figure also told the tale of ex-
cesses. But dull nd listless as be seemed i
in thc intervals of the dance, the music no ;
sooner struck up than a sort of fury seemed '
X . - I , , T-T- ... . . ......
iu seizs mm. lie writhed, and. bounded;
like a madman, in a quadrille his .steps
were so many convulsions; , none of tho ,
clowns of the "Cirque" could dislocate their;
limbs after the fashion .of -Caoutchouc in
the figure of 'cavallier sieul." .Ho had a -method
of shortening himself, of flatten in tr'
hhrself, of balancing himself on his hips, of1
bounding about a la Quassmodo, which
thrilled the wild Bohemians among whom '
he danced with enthusiasm and envy. Tho
cancan is prohibited by the austere morality "
of the Empire, but Chicard managed to in-';
troduce snatches of it in defiance of the pch
lice. Altogether this old "builbonold,,atL
least, in looks, with his bald head and pirn-:
pled face, his frenzied contortions, his faor- I
rid drunken leer and lewd gestures was
one of the saddest and most- disgusting-4
spectacles that Paris had to offer. '
; This year Caoutchouc was at the head-cf "
the orgies of the masked balls of the opera,
where he excelled himself, so his admirers
said, in the wild cccciitricities of the. quad-"
rille. ' On Saturday, the 22df disguised c
an qurang-outang, he exhibited belore ; tlio; r
crowds in tho theatre of the Rue Lbpelle- -i
tier the marvellous elasticity of his bodr.
He leaped on the shoulders of his compau-
ions, springing from one to the other with "
all the ease and more than the mischievous
ncss of a Brazilian ape." At 5 o'clock in
the morning he was dead.
' On leaving the opera Caoutchouci:dc
DRYHI3 UP OF THE HIS5IS3IPPI.
Old steamboat men declare, that tti kicMrtW"5
f it. . x ' . . O .;
j w ine pat lour.or uvc seasons point to the
permanent 'drying up, of..,' the ; Mississippi
Ri ver, reducing it from a stream, navigable. , ,
for the largest boats the whole 6ca5ou;to
one of uncertain, navigation, like the Mis--
souri, passable at certain seasons; and the v
rest Of the year shrunk to a mere' creek,
winding along among sand bars and shoals
Thcre is certainly some change taking place 1
in our climate that is affectin? orir l-ikpi
and ; rivers. They are greatly di ffercnt in
men iiauua iu wiiai, iiiey vv ere uigiivy year
ago. - The average of water, i3 gradual"
decreasing. v. .Our 'June, rise,' once a3;cer v-.
tain as the coming of the month, has to h
tally ceased. . The heaviest rains, I which "
once would have swelled the river several fl
feet, now do not seem to affect - it iri the '
least. 4 !' 7 " ." '" ' :': . ; ' ,;' " 4 " - - "?
plain this.' One is, that the climate 13 un-1,
dergoing some change, which seems plausi-
bler as those who have studied the. mete
orology of our State are convinced that -
this change is taking pl.-ice. f Another the- 'j
bry is that ;the cultivation of-' the country,' " '
destructionof the forests," arid other phy-Y'".
sical - causes have tended to decrease t "
rainiaii, and retard .the tlowing ot the extra .
moisture into the streanWy ' Z "
Whatever "mav be the cause, the "cfTpcf: "1
certamlv pxisfs. and the. samr thinT . hn .
been on all the Western rivers, which are - a
gradually shrinking up. In our case, how-
ever, the evil is less to be feared; because
nnr rni!rn?id RVStem i3 nprirlw r'proUmxr? Vs
that
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