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LETTER FROM GERMANY.
Berlin*, October 25,1884.
To The Intelligencer: On August 2otb,
we ascended the Breithorn. We con?
cluded to ascend this snow-mountain in
preference to another for several reasons.
Its height and fine position ensure a fine
view in good weather. Then, a guide
costs but about 30 trancs (about six dol?
lars), and one guide agreed to conduct
our party alone. (It is unusual for a guide
to conduct as many as four, but he was
our guide on the previous ice tour.)
To ascend Monte Rosa, each person is
said to require two guides, at 40 francs
eacb, for the Matterhorn, the guides cost
a hundred francs each, and forMt. Blanc,
the ascent is computed at 320 to 350
francs. As to the ascent of Mt. Blanc,
which is 2,000 feet higher than the
Breithorn, the guide-book of Baedeker,
who resides in Leipzig and is perfectly
reliable.says, "In fine weather the ascent
is attended with no serious difficulty or
danger, but travelers arc cautioned
against attempting the expedition' in
foggy or stormy weather." As to the
vicxo, this author says it is "unsatisfac?
tory." As to the Breithorn, he says it
"commands a very imposing view."
I take this opportunity of making this
quotation becausesome who ascend these
mountains picture the dangers rather j
fancifully. It is easy to understand that
the higher one goes the greater the ten?
dency to become sick, and the sicker one
is the greater the tendency to exaggerate
the difficulties, but that does not make it
specially dangerous. In fact, ladies have
made most of these tours and even more
difficult ones than Mt. Blanc.
Of our route Baedeker says, "from the
Theodule pass the Breithorn may be
ascended with little difficulty *? *
lastly mounting a steeper slope of ice
where step cutting is sometimes nec?
essary." *We did not find it necessary to
cut steps, though this would have reo-;
dered a part of the ascent easier. Though
the ascent from the pass is easy, the trav- {
eler who attempts it from Zermatt in one j
morning will be fatigued on arriving at j
the summit.
Several made the ascent ou the day
upon which we did, but all, with one ex?
ception, went part of the way the even- j
ing before, which made the ascent easier. \
We, however, were not sure that the;
weather would be good, and chose to try j
the tour from Zermatt in the morning. ?
We rose before three o'clock, and were at i
breakfast with a young German gentle- 1
man who had engaged a guide to take
him up. This gentleman, with his guide, j
left some minutes before our party.
We departed before four. Each of us !
had naila projecting from the bottoms of
our shoes, which was absolutely necessary
to enable us to climb upon the ice, and
each carried an "Alpenstock." This
"Alpine stick" is about six feet long and
vrry strong, with a sharp irou point in
one end, by slicking which into the snow j
and ice the tourist is enabled to climb j
much more easily and securely. Such a
stick aids very much in ascending
and descending any mountain, and for a [
Boow-uiountain either the stick orau ice- 1
axe is indispensable, and we must often J
trust our lives to our sticks. We had ;
already tested the merits of our sticks on !
a previous excursion where, just after i
passing the Rhone glacier, we had to
descend a snow slope too steep for one to
stand upon it. We had no ice axe and
bad to trust to our sticks. Placing them i
behind us with their sharp points in the
snow, and resting almost our entire weight
upon them, we came down quite finely.
The guide carried his ice-axe and our
provisions, and we carried the rope and a
little wooden flask of wine "time abutit."
Though the weather was fine, it was still
quite dark in the valley, and we could
see but the outlines of the great peaks j
around us. The guide car/ied a lantern,
stopping occasionally to caution us to be
careful, that we were upon the edge of a
steep precipice. The .path was narrow
but it was so dark that we were uncon?
scious of danger, and even the roaring of j
the mountain torrent beneath us attracted
less notice than the sombre forms tower
ing above us. At length the day began i
to dawn and our lantern was left in a |
little hut on the mountain.
The spectacle was sublime. To our
right we watched the rays of the morning
suu as they crept slowly down the tower?
ing pyramid of the Matterhorn, while to
our left we saw the crimsoned summit of
Monte Rosa. In front of us rose the
lovely Breithorn towards which we bent
our step and eye. The retrospective
view of the valley and the surrounding
snow-mountains was also exceedingly
fine.
We journeyed along the moraines of
the glaciers and we could see the glacier
streams leaping over the frozen walls.
Before four hours had elapsed, we had
arrived at the snow on the Theodule
pass. Here we ate lunch and were tied
with the rope at intervals of eight or ten
ft et from each other, and proceeded on
our march over the snow. The precau?
tion of using the rope should never be
neglected in going over the snow fields
or in making ascents upon the snow
mountains. There are often deep fissures
bridged over by the snow into which one
may be precipitated, but where several
are bound together at a good interval
from each other, and one falls into a
crevice or looses his footing on the ice,
the others may rescue him from an icy
grave.
Up to this point the German, with his
guide, had kept up with us, but now they
began to fall hack. Soon we met one
gentleman who had two guides. I
9uppo*e he diil not mind "traveling ex?
pensively," or being "a little (?) assisted
in difficult (?) places" (the way a good
many ascend the snow-mountains).
After passing the little Matterlhorn the
a-cent became much more trying, and we
began to feel the force of the cold wind
which drove the enow into our faces,
: and the effect of the thin air. The guido
cautioned us to tie on our hats and tied
the bottoms of our pants closely over our
shoe?.
It was necessary for us to breathe
much more rapidly, and wo had to use
much more exertion in speaking, in order
I to make ourselves heard. One notices
the insufficiency of the air when he has
ascended 10,000 feet, and some even at
lower altitudes.
Here and ihere were to be seen the re?
mains of butterflies and insects which
had strayed from the genial valley below
and fallen on the snow,
j The last S00 feet of our route was
j quite fatiguing. As the mountain is too
j sleep for one to go straight up we must
! ascend in a zig zag course. On this part
of the route also we pa5$cJ over deep
fissures on bridges of ice and snow.
Sometime before we reached the sum
j mit, as we stopped to* rest a moment and
I stuck our sticks in the snow, the hat of
j one of our party was blown oft", <-;riking
his slick with such force as to throw it
{ out of balance. Before he could seize the
j stick it was gliding point foremost down
I the mountain, and told us what would be
j our fate if we all slipped here.
I The wind blew strongly in our faces and
j almost took our breath from us, but we
I were soon upon the summit.
(Here I quote irom Baedeker the
heights of some of the highest and best
known of the Alps to give the reader an
idea of our altitude: Mt. Blanc 15,7131
ft., Monte "Rosa 15,217 ft., Matterhorn
14,705 ft., Wetterhorn 12,105 ft., Jungfrau
13,671 ft., Gross-Schreckhorn 13.3SG ft.,
Finsteraarhorn (the highest of the Ber?
nese Alps). 14,026 ft., Grand Paraciis
(Graian Alps) 13,710 ft.)
Baedeker, in his guide book, says of
the little village of Zermatt, from which
we had come, "In no other locality is the
traveler bo completely admitted into the
heart of the Alpine world?the very sanc?
tuary of the '.Spirit of the Alps,' " and of
Gorner Grat which we ascended two days
before, and which is just across the gla?
cier fiom the Breithorn, he says, "The
panorama from the Gorner Grat, in par
ticular, though dt tute of the common
attributes of the picturesque, cannot fail
to impress the spectator with ils unparal?
leled grandeur." But the view from
Gorner Grat is limited by the giant peaks
which surround on every side. We were
now upon one of Ihe giants of the Alps
and in the "heart" of this wonderful
region.
We had ascended from Zermatt, in little
more than six hours, 9/570 feet and stood
upon a peak 13,685 feet high. The duy
was pr-riWr No clouds were to be seen
except a few in Italy. Nothing seemed
to obstruct our vision but its own limited
powers. Immediately near us, toward
tbe West, the slender pyramid of the
Great Matterhorn pieiced the blue dome
of the heavens and afforded a speclacle,
which, in point of solitary grandeur, is
unequaled among Ihe Alps. About the
same distance toward the East ro*e Monte
Rosa in Italy. Even nearer to us were
the Little Matterhorn and Castor and
Pollux. The Gorner Grat, which two
days before seemed to us so high, lay
over 3,000 feet below us and looked quite
insignificant.
To the North we saw the great moun?
tains of the Bernese Alps, with their im?
mens" snow-fields, and the deep cut val?
ley of the Rhone, whoso glacial waters
flow 'o the lake of Geneva. Looking
more toward the East we saw the snowy
chain of the. Tyrolese Alps and the
Engadine. Southward we saw the Grand
Paraciis, the pride of the Grainu Alps,
and Westward we viewed the great Mt.
Blanc, of Savoy. Countless peaks ruse
sublimely on every bund. A vast sea ..f
ice and snow and glaciers greeted the
view. The deep ravinesaud gorges seemed
profoundly furrowed in their rocky beds.
The little villages and smiling valleys
were sheltered from view and the pictur?
esque had given place to the awful and
the grand. Here it was more ea?y to
appreciate what Switzerland is. We
could see the great mountain walls of the
ancient Helvetia, which had encouraged
a spirit of liberty among its people and
were a barrier against foreign enemies.
We could better appreciate the exploits
of Pompey and Gesar among the Alpine
heights and we could see the great natur?
al boundary, which had kept people and
governments and languages separate.
Thus these barren heights reveal many a
page of history and many a picture ol
sublimity.
It was, in a word, a view of Switzer?
land.
The guido said we shoulr] stay but a
few moments, and ihe col.J wind admon?
ished us that we should descend.
The descent was quite rapid, but a
little fatiguing. When we arrived at
the base of the little Matterhorn, we
found the German and his guide descend?
ing. He had "seen enough" without
going to the summit. But he saw it too
late. The fact was he was getting nau?
seated. He had already come too high
and though his effort was to got down,
the effort of his breakfast was exactly the
contrary. The two had "disagreed" and
a "falling out" was inevitable. lie had
given up all idea of ascent, but his break
i fast hud not., so he went down and ihe
other "come up." This sort of a "'dilli
cully" is not uncommon in high altitudes
and affects one about like sea sickness.
The French call it "mal do montagne."
Of course the German will have many
tales to tell of the "dangers among the
Alps" and his (?) ascent rather than that
of his brail;fast.
Before we had proceeded very much
farther one of our party (not the writer)
asked to sit down on the snow and said
he Wbs nauseated.
Afttr he had taken some wiue and
rested a fe.v moments he was able to go
down to the inn on the Thoodiile pass.
1 This inn is at tho boundary between
j Switzerland and Italy, and is a lough,
I one story, stone building, containing a
few rooms. It is said lo be one of the
highest habitations in Europe. Here wo
were united and our companion went to
bed. The German soon arrived, and we
saw about three others who had ascended
the Breithorn and were sick.
The rest of our party were not sick, but
wc were all thoroughly sunburnt. We
sat about on the icy rocks and contem?
plated the great Matterhorn and the
; Breithorn, and drank coffee the mo>t
I miserable I have ever lasted,
i At length our companion became well
j enough to descend, and we weie again
j roped together for the tour down the
; upper Theodule glacier. After a few
j hours we arrived at Zerinall about three
! or four o'clock in the afternoon,
j The next morning we walked down to
Visp in the Rhone valley, and went by
rail to Martigny.
From Martigny we went on foot to
Chamonix.
As we arrived at Chamonix the Alt.
Blanc chain was hid from our view by
the clouds, but on the following morning
they began to rise up from the valley
and we ascended "le Brevem," a
mountain just opposite Alt. Blanc on
the other side of the valley, from whose
summit the finest view of the Mt. Blanc
chain is obtained. Upon the Brevent
(8,274 ft.) we found fresh snow. When
we had attained the summit, the clouds
had almost entirely disappeared and we
again had a most magnificent view.
Toward the South and West the pano?
rama was extensive and embraced Grand
Paradis etc.; but the chief attraction was
the Alt. Blanc range, jus' across the
narrow valley of Chamonix. It is diffi?
cult to compare the rival views of the
Bernese Oberland from the Faulhorn and
of the chain of Alt. Blanc from "le
Brevent"; and the valleys of Grindel?
wald and Chamonix contest the palm for
charm. The scenery of the Alt. Blanc
range is, however, more pointed. The
serrated pinnacles (called in French
"aiguilles" meaning "needles") rise aloft
with a fantastic charm which the view of
the Bernese Oberland does not posses?.
The view of Mt. Blanc, with his snow
covered dome rising above all surrounding
mountains, was very grand, but hardly so
impressive as that of the Mattcrborn,
near Zermalt. Alt. Blanc is the highest
of a continuous chain of high peaks,
closely connected, and has large dimen?
sions. His broad summit is graced wilh
snow. But not so with the Alalterhorn.
Its slender, pyramidal spire, too steep for
the snows to find a resting place, rises on
high in bare and rugged .magnificence
fiom a Held of glaciers. Thus .standing
a lone, isolated from surrounding moun?
tains, it is u monument of marvel.
From the Brevent the view ef Chamo?
nix in the valley and the glaciers of the
chain, especially the Glacier des Bossons
and "Aler de Glace," is very lovely.
After descending from this mountain
we ascended "le Flegere," from which we
had a fine view of the immense "Aler de
Glace." This view gives one an idea of
its extent, but is rather too distant.
On the following morning we ascended
to the Moutanvert, just above the "Aler
de Glace."
The survey of this "sea of ice" from this
point is very extensive and fine. This
great "sea" is several miles long and
over a mile broad at the narrowest part.
The wave feature of this great glacier is
best seen in crossing it. As there are no
concealed crevices :it this poir', we
crossed without a guide. Upon the first
part of the route steps are cut in the ice.
When upon tho glacier, amid the frozen
waves of ice, it resembles a "sea" and
hence its name. We descended on the
farther side by the "aiauvais pass" ("bad
pis*"), where an iron railing has been
placed to assist the traveler to the Cha
pi-iiu. At this point the frozen mass of
the glacier descends over a sleep ledge of
rock into the valley, and from the resem?
blance is called the "Fall."
We bad contemplated ascending Alt.
Blanc to the "Grands-AIulets" in the
afternoon, but a rain made further visits
impossible. The "Grands-Alulets" is the
hut where the louri.-ts to the summit of
Alt. Blanc spend the night about two
thirds of the way up. Upon the follow?
ing clay, we walked down to Vermizrz in
the Rhone valley where we visited the
great ''Gorge du Trient." By means of
a wooden gallery fastened on the rocky
wall, just above the roaring torrent, one
goes far into this narrow gorge, bounded
by its perpendicular walls, several hun?
dred feet high. It is similar lo thegorge
at. the "Grindel wald" glacier.
Alontreux, at the head of lake Geneva,
is one of the most beautifully situated
towns on the lake, land commands a
superior view of the lake and the moun?
tains. The waters of this lake have a
blue color instead of green, which the
other fine lakes of Switzerland have.
The castle of Chillon is about a thirty
minutes walk from Alontreux. It is situ?
ated very beautifully upon a rock rising
out of I he water not far from the shore,
with which it was connccled by a draw
bridge. The reader will remember
Byron's "Fri-ouer of Chillon," in which
he describes very finely the prison rooms
of the ancient, reformers ami prisoners of
slate. The description begins,
'?There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,
In Cliillon's dungeons deep and old,'' ete.
Fastened to one of these pillars, upon
which the name ofBonnivard is found, is
yet to be seen an iron ring in which this
: noble prisoner was so long chained. He
; was allowed almost no walking room,
j The pavement close by the base of the
! pillar is worn away, and wo are told that
j this worn spot marks the extent of the
I pri-oner's freedom.
Upon another pillar is to bo seen the
I name of Byron, who visited the prison
? and has immortalized the Castle by his
! poem.
In another dungeon is n beam of tor
I I orto which prisoners were tied,
From this dark, damp pri.-on nothing
j but "The sky, the Alps, and lake Leman"
(Geneva) are to be seen. Much might
be said of the interesting history of tin's
Castle, which is now u>;ed as a military
post. Its thick walls, small windows,
and isolated position give it a peculiarly
gloomy appearance. The room shown as
fiat occupied by the countess of* Savoy
is beautifully situated on the lake side,
and through the long narrow windows in
the thick wall may be seen its dreamy,
blue waters and the great Alps, but even
this attraction does not relieve the apart?
ment of its air of gloominess.
From Montreux we weut by boat to :
Geneva, and from this city by rail to
Luisanne, *on the lake, where Gibbon
concluded his great history.
The view of the Mt. Blanc chain from j
Liusanne is very fine.
From Lausanne wc returned by way of
Bern, Strasburg, Heidelberg and Frank?
fort to Leipzig, stopping in each of these
cilics to visit many works of Art and
places and objects of interest.
The tourist in Switzerland will be
impressed with the life of the Swiss,
which has its trials as well as charms.
When we rise with the'early day and
look out upon the steep, grassy mountain
sides, we may see a little picture of
Swiss life and energy. Some are ascend?
ing the steep paths tn milk the herd on
the Alpine hills and some are ascending
tn little patches of potatoes or vegetables,
which they have high above the settle?
ments.
Here and there we see a little village
or. a high cliff with its wall to protect it
from the avalanche, and the little chil?
dren with sharp nails projecting from
their slices, learning early to stand on
the dizzy heights. Often upon the lovely
green lakes we may see a little boat filled
with large baskets of fruit on its way
from some Alpine hamlet to its market.
To us there is an air of poetry in all
this, but wc must remember the snows of
winter for which they must prepare, and
we may not he surprised that the poor
often beg the traveler among the Alps.
Thus I have tried to give the reader a
fit tut idea of Switzerland as I saw it, but
feel tho inadequacy of my endeavor.
To the charms and grandeurs of the
Alps the poet has dedicated his pen and
the artist bis brush, but there arc gran?
deurs toosublime for song and charms, too
perfect for the artists' biush, reserved fur
those whose privilege it may be to visit
this wonderful land. J. S. M., J?.
The Riebest Woman in America.
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down to place in the vault he said::
"Don't you think it was rather risky for t
: you to have brought the.se bonds down ,
town in a public stage? You should
; have taken a carriage."
"A carriage indeed !'' said she. "Per
; haps you can afford to ride in a carriage,
! I cannot."
The "richest woman in America"
, would seem to be one of the most, penU
\ rious of womankind. She is rich in
: money; but a day will come when her
! great treasure cannot be taken on the
long journey ; she is to go alone, and to j
. an accountability that the veriest pauper \
may be far better prepared to stand, j
; Possibly, like the late Johns Hopkins,]
she is gathering a prodigious store of
money to benefit mankind in her final
I bequest. Lei. us hope that the "richest
\ woman in America" will become the,
I most philanthropic. Then, if she can?
not afford to lake A carriage here, she!
? may ride in a chariot of glory hereafter. I
? Doors have been so far improved by
' a recent invention that now they may be
' hung so as to open either way and from
' either end with equal facility.
! ? Recently the churches of Ml. Zion,
! Bush Liiverand Cross Roads, in Newber
1 ry County, have been entered by unknown
parties and robbed of hymn hooks, bibles,
carpels. &c.
? Seventy-five years ago the first
tomatoes grown in this country were
cultivated as a strange and showy horti?
cultural curiosity in a garden in Salem,
Mass. Forty-five years ago, or a little
more, they began to be used as a vegcta
i ble iu season.
BILL AIM?
TA'ritos of the Beauties of Nature.
Southern Cultivator.
Nature is a wonderful stud)- lo me,
and it looks like the older I grow the
more mysteries I discover. I have been
clearing a piece of forest land where
there are lar^ro red oaks, and some post
oaks and here and there a pine. There
is a small under growth of oak. and hick?
ory, and crab-apple, and red haw, and
sour-wood and blackgum. The large old
trees seem to he all about, the same age,
and when I count the rings alter they
have been cut down I find that they
average about a hundred years. Now
what kind of a forest, was upon this land
before these old trees came up. Was
there any? If so, where are the stumps,
or roots of those that died from old agf>.
There is no sign of any. Did the old
forest that, preceded this all decay and
die at once, and this new one come up?
Do forests come and go in platoons, or
are trees always coming singly ? If you
go into the pine woods you can travel for
miles and find no under gnwth, and all
the pines are pretty much alike in size,
and ajre. Where the land the same,
the timber is the same. What growth
preceded this, or was the land a prairie?
DeSoto marched through this country
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi more
than 300 years aero, and carried tents and
baggage for 600 men. If this country
was then a wilderness of trees, with no
clearings and no roads, how did he get
along?
It we go d'Mvn upon the uncleared
river bottoms we see t:tll white oaks, and
elms, and poplars, all grand and green,
and no sign of decay. No old ones
dying, no young ones stretching up, but
the forest seems a uniform thing; a single
creation of nature, and I have wondered
at it. It is all a mystery.
There ate twelve different kinds of
oaks on my farm : The white, the black,
the red, the post, the water, the willow,
the chestnut, the Spanish, arid four others
whose names I do not know ; but they
are distinct in form and leaf and acorns.
I believe they all have their peculiar uses,
but we do not know much about them,
except the value of two or three. I
wonder if any body known? I know
that sasafrns makes good bows, and sour
wood good arrows. I know that white
and Spanish oak is good wagon timber
and ash is good for shafts, and plow
stocks,, and post oak' and chestnut are
good for posts, and dog-wood and per?
simmon, are good (or gluts. If you will
cut a green persimmon and put it in a
vise and saw out your gluts and let them
dry and season, they will maie the best
wedges in the world, and will split timber
like iron and outlast dog-wood or any
other wood.
They tell mc that black locust will
outlast any wood in the ground, but nabor
Freeman told mc that his grand-pa put a
young round chestnut post in the ground
to hang a gate lo, more than 70 years
ago and it was there yet; but on cross
examination I found that his grand pa
settled tho place in 1S40. He explains
the ditl'erence by saying that ho built the
gale long before he settled the place.
But there are all sorts of shrubs, in my
low grounds and glades, that I don't even
know the names of. My old nabors are
no wiser than I am. There are three
different shrubs that different people call
"seven bark," and neither of them have
that many barks that can be separated.
There is a long corral growth like Scotch
broom with a yellow ilower and glossy
red limbs that borders the creek and acts
as a break water that I never sluv else?
where, and nobody knows the name of.
It grows about as high as my head, and
is almost impenetrable to a dug or a
rabbit, and is still'green but is not an
evergreen.
Then there is the "father graybeard,"
which is a good name for it, but nut the
true one and which my father had a
respect for, for he was the first man who
ever sold A. Q. Simmon's Liver Medi?
cine, and he said the first medicine was a
powder put up in brown papers and tied
with coarse twine string-, and it was
marie of "father graybeard" roots dried
and ground up in a coffee mill. My
father sold thorn for the old doctor at ten
cents iK package and it was a good medi?
cine as long as the old man lived and
made it. But nobody knows what
Simmons Liver Medicine is made of
now. One thing is certain, there is not
enough graybeard in this country lo
make one bottle in a thousa-id of the
quantity that is sold. I know fid people
who use the "gtaybeard" root now lor
chills and malarial diseases, and I havu
used it. in my own family and we believe
in its virtues.
[ stood under a persimmon tree the
other day and observed a number of
small limbs lying on the ground that had
been cut off of the tree and fallen.
Every one had the same cut or ring
where it was sevared. It looked just
like the limb had been turned off in a
turning lathe with a sharp tool held
edge ways, not exactly square down, but
very nearly so. Nobody can tell me
what kind of an insect cuts these limbs
off or why they do it. 1 have found the
same limbs under the hicory trees cut off
precisely the same way, some of the
limbs are as large as a thimble. There
is some explanation for this. The locust
splits a limb and deposits her eggs in the
crack, and when the eggs hatch into a
worm, tho worm swings down to the
ground on its own web, which is fastened
to the limb. Well, I looked all over these
little brushy limbs to find some cocoon
or some sign of a living animal or insect,
but there was none. It may be that the
insect t'jok to the ground for preservation
as soon as the limb came down. Maybe
some of your readers can tell us more
about it.
There is death going on among the
sycamores on my farm. It seems to he
catching from one to another, and is
travelling along slowly, but surely. A j
few years ago they were young and I
vigorous but I notice the first marks now, j
and they always begin at the very top of
the highest branches. I can lind no
sign about the roots but of course that is
feeding at the root. A few years after
the war, the chestnut trees all went the
same way ; trees have their enemies just
like man and beast.
1 used to think that the mistletoe was
a harmless parasite, but I know some red
oaks in the front yard of a naboring
residence that, are living of mistleto. It
has actually absorbed the life of the trees
and is losing its own vitality for lack of
the food the trees have been giving it. I
never saw as much mistleto any where
I else. It is a curious and a dainty thing,
i I have never seen any on a pine or a
I post oak ; indeed there are but few trees
j it patronizes with its company, It has
' a special liking for the chestnut, and lue
Spanish oak, and red oak that has been
topped. Some how or other the mistleto
has had a sacred character of its own for
ages and ages. Pliny wrote about it ISUO
years ago. The old Saxons would not
marry until they had kissed their sweet?
heart under the mistletoe bough. Tra?
dition connects it in some way with the
birth of the Saviour, out before that it
was said to be the tree of knowledge in
the garden of Eden, and had a huge
f pearly delicious fruit that tempted Eve,
and after her fall the Creator let it wither
and die, and destroyed its power to grow
any more in the ground, but the birds
took pity and carried its seed to the bark
of other trees, and grew, but the plant
was dwarfed, and the fruit became a
little berry. It is curious what supersti?
tions were harbored and nourished by
our ancestors. Then again, we find on
the fields and swamps hundreds of
smaller plants that we know nothing of,
but which have their uses. Many of
them have their tiny flowers that sweeten
nature's carpet, und many no doubt have
for arres been secreting a medicine for
man that jvill come to light in due time.
We know the sarsapxrilla, and pink root,
and fox glovp, and May apple and some
others, but there are hundreds we do not
know. J believe that if I had my life to
live over again, I would make botany my
study and live in the woods.
Bill Arp.
The Brown Land Bill.
Pici:ens Sentinel.
Mr. Editor : I notice that the Green
vill Daily News of the 4th instant com*
ments rather unfavorably on what has
boon said by the Pic kens Sentinel, and
endorsed by the Akderson Intelli?
gence r. in regard to the Brown Land
Bill, which was rejected by the House at
the recent sitting of the Legislature.
The News closes what it has to say with
these words : 'The Legislature refused
to grant this perfectly proper request and
permit a transaction which would cer?
tainly have allowed the widow and chil?
dren of an honest South Carolina citizen
to realize on property honestly inherited
from him, and would probably have been
of immense benefit to the State, because
it did not know anything more about the
matter than our esteemed cotemporaries
dc, and, like them, undertook to act
without taking the trouble to learn."
If these remarks are just, the action of
the House in rejecting the Bill
was unjust. It acted, tbe News
says, 'without taking the trouble to
learn what it was doing.' If a legisla?
tive body is not convinced that it is right
to adopt a given proposition, it is certain?
ly safest to reject it. It was the duty of
those who desired the passage of the
Bill, to inform the Legislature of its
merits, but no such information was giv?
en. Yet that supine body, the South
Carolina Legislature, which "undertook
to act without taking the trouble to learn,"
did learn as follows: In the year 1794 a
certain party obtained from the State a
grant for one hundred and thirty acres of
land, lying in the upper portion of Oco
nee and Pic-kens Counties. It is claimed,
on one hand, that this land has come
from the original grantee by descent, sale,
assignment, &c, down to tbe heirs of G.
W. Brown; but these say there is a miss?
ing link in their chain of title, and they
asked for the passage of this bill to rem?
edy this defect. On the other band it
was "learned," that there is an entirely
different party claiming the land in ques?
tion, under the same grant of 1794.
With this party I conversed several times
while in Columbia. He slated that if
the rights required under the origioal
grant had been forfeited for non-payment
of taxes, he was willing and ready to pay
whatever was right for ?ie State's claim.
It is clear, that it would have been very
improper for the legislative power of the
Slate to have interfered, in what is now
or will soon be, a contest between indi?
viduals over rights which apparently
conflict, and that too, without any knowl?
edge as to the legal status of the respec?
tive claimants.
As the Legislature did not have time
to do "all that it should have done,"
as a legislative body, it should not have
wasted^time in discharging the functions
of a Circuit Court.
The Legislature also "learned," or at
least heard that when this grant of 1794
was made, the land otiice had been closed
by an Act of the General Assembly and
was to remain closed for four years.
There is a preamble to this act which
among other things recites that many
persous were obtaining grants lor large
areas of land with no intention of im?
proving them. This graut, therefore,
may be void on its face. Almost the
entire scope of country eovered by the
?rrant of 1794. has been recovered by
junior grants from the Stale, whose
officers it seems have ignored the said
grant.
The House acted also under the vague
impression that there is already a law by
which forfeiter1 lands can be redeemed,
and that it is the prerogative of the sink?
ing fund commission to dispose of vacant
lands.
Moreover, it seems to me, that it would
be a bad precedent for a State which has
courts for the adjustment of claims, and
the trial of titles, to undertake, by legis?
lative enactment, to bridge over the
chasms made by the statute of limita?
tions and the carelessness of individuals.
if the able editors of the Sentinel and
the Intelligencer spoke without
knowing, in my humble judgment, they
spuke well.
Respectfully,
J. *E. Boggs.
A Mistake,
A colored organ published at New
York, editorially says: Color is purely
the result of climatic influences. The
snows of Caucasus will bleech a black
cat white and the sun of Africa will
bleech a white cat black. But blood is
of the same color and thickness and
reason remains the common heritage of
mankind in every age and every clime."
Color is not the result of climatic in?
fluences. Cats may possibly change
their hue, so far as fur is concerned, in
the Caucasus : but no negro will become
white there from climatic influences, any
more than an Englishman will become
black in Central Africa. European
children born of white parents in Africa
remain white, and no climatic influence
can turn the pure-blooded Caucasian into
a negro, anymore than it could metamor?
phose, a negro into a white man. The
negro must be satisfied to remain what
Dr. Haygood calls, "our brother in blue/;."
Negroes live where the thermometer gets
many degrees below z?-ro, hut their com?
plexion does not bleech by cold. The
Caucasian is bronzed by exposure to
boat, but his inexposod limbs continue to
j be white. We believe it was Professor
Agassis! who described about cue hun?
dred physical differences in the negro
and white man. There are also mental
variations, the chief of which is that of
the inventive faculty, which is highly
developed in the Caucasian and coin
i plftely lacking in tho negro.?Augusta
I Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
j ? John B. Clark, clerk of the House
' of Representatives, has prepared an un
i official roll of the membership of the
i House in the 49th Congress. The
j House will contain 132 Democrats, 140
? Republicans, 1 Greenback Democrat
(Weaver, of Iowa,) and 1 Greenback Re
' publican, (Brumm, of Pennsylvania.)
! A vacancy exists in the 19th Congres?
sional District of Pennsylvania.
I ? Schuyler Col fax, Grant's first vice
; President, dropped dead at the depot in
I Mankato, Minn., on the 13th instant.