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Ohicker^ Mason & Hamlin Organs ^ th. RECOGNIZED LFADRR3 OF THE WORLD tor T??y cost a ?Ule more than cheaper Instruments, simply because more care ?id **kr material ts used In their manufacture. Only one to buy In s life time- GET THE BEST. ,y. A.? DANIEL. _ AGENT FOR LUDDEN ft BATES. fa list* ri LETTEIt FROM ?EItHANY. BEKMX, October LT?, 1881. To The Ii>t<ll?oftic<r : On August 25tb, 1 we ascended die Hrcilborn. We con? chuled tn ascend thia snow-mountain in preference lo another for several reasons. I'" height and fine position ensure a Gue view in good weather. Then, n guide Costs bul about L'O tram? (about six dui- : lars), and one guide ngrrt'd lu conduct our party alone. (i, ?s umw""| f"r H gUjt|e to conduct us many us four, but lie was i our guide on the previous ice tour.) Toastend Monte Rosa, each prto..;:'-' said to require two guide*, ut 40 franca eacli, fer the Matterhorn, the guttles coat a hu.idred francs ouch, and fur Mt. Blanc, the accent is computed nt 320 lo 3,r,u francs. As to tho acocili ol Mt. Blanc, 1 which is 2,000 feet higher than the Breithorn, the guide-book of Baedeker, who resides in Leipzig and is perfectly reliable.says, "in linc weather the ascent is attended with no serious difficulty or Jauger, hut travelers aro cautioned against attempting the expedition in 1 foggy or stormy weather." As to the view, this author says it is "unsatisfac tory." As to tho Breitlmrn, he says it "commands a very imposing view." I take this opportunity of making this imitation because some who ascend these lUountHiuB picture the dangers rather ancifully. It is easy te understand that he higher one goes the greater the len iency lo become sick, and the sicker ono s the greater tl-.e tendency lo exaggerate ???<- difficulties, but that does not make it specially dangerous. In fact, ladies have ' mide most of these lours and even more li?licu,i ones than Mt. blanc. Ol our route Baedeker says, "from thc L'hcodule pass the Breithorn may he iscended with little difficulty * * aslly mounting a steeper slope of ice vhere step cutting is sometimes nec issnry." we did not find it necessary to ?Ut step?, though this would have ren lered n part nf thc ascent easier. Though he ascent from the puss is essy, the trav ler who alu n ?its it front Zcrnmlt in one norning will be fatigued on arriving ut he summit. Several made the ascent on the day pon which we did, bul all, willi one ex? eption, went part of the way the even ng before, which made ihe ascent easier. Ve, however, were nut sure that the .eather would be good, and chose lo try lie tour from Zertnntt in the morning. Ve rose before three o'clock, und were ut reakfast willi u young German gentle inn who had engaged a guide to take itu up. T!:is gentleman, with his guille, ;ft some m..lute? before our party. We departed before four. Each of us ?id nails projecting from the bottoms of ur shoes, which was absolutely necessary ii enable us to climb upon thc ice, and ich carried an "Aluenstook." This Alpine stick" is about six feet long and cry strong, willi a sharp iron point in ne c id, by slicking which into the snow nd ice the touri-t is enabled to climb inch more easily and cecureiy. Such u ick aids very much in ascending nil descending any mountain, mid for ii low-mountain either the stick oran ice? xe is indispensable, nod we must often asst our lives tn our sticks. We had trendy tested the merils of our sticks on previous excur-ioti where, just after assitig the Rhone glacier, we had to escend n snow slope ton sleep for one to and upon it. We had no ice axe and ail to trust to our sticks. Placing them eh i nd us with their sharp points in the mw, and resting almost our entire weight pon them, we came down quito finely. The guide carried his ice-axe and our revisions, and we carried ihe rope and II lile wooden Husk of wine "time about." hough the weather was fine, it was still ni te dark in the valley, and we could ie bul the outlines of the great peaks round us. The guide carried a lantern, epping occasionally to caution us to he ireful, that we were upon the edge of a eep precipice. The path WSH narrow ut it was so dark that we were uncon cious of danger, and even the roaring of ie mountain torrent betieuth us nttracted ?sa notice thau the Bombre forms tower ig above JS. At length thc day began ) dawn mid our lantern waa left in a tile liut on thc mountain. The spectacle was sublime. To our gbt wo watched the rays of the morning in us they crept slowly down tho tower lg pyramid of the Matterhorn, while to ur left we saw the crimsoned summit ol [onie Rosa. In front of us rose the ?vely Breithorn towards which we beni ur step and eye. The retrospective iew of the valley and the surrounding ?ow-mountaitiu wa? also exceedinglj ne. Wo journeyed along the moraines n ie glaciers and we could see the glaciei reams leaping over the frozen walls. Before four hours bud elapsed, we hac rrived at the snow on Ihe Theoduh ass. Here we ate lunch aud were tiet ith the rope at intervals of eight or ter et from each other, and proceeded oi ur march over the mow. The precau on of using the ropo should never bi egleeted in going over the snow field r in making ascent? upon the snow lountains. There pre often deep fissure ridged over by the ?now into which on lay be precipitated, but where severa re bound together Rt a good interva .om each pther, and one falls into revlca or looses his footing on the ic? lie others msy rescue him from an ic rave. Up to this point the Ger an, with hi uide, hsd kept up ? '.th us, but now the egan to fall back. Boon we met on entleman who bsd two guides. uppo?e he did not mind "traveling ej .eosively," or being "a little (?) assiste ri difficult (?) places" (tho way a got nany ascend the snow-mountsins). After passing the little Matterhorn tl .wcent became much more trying, and v ?egan to feel the force of Ihe cold wir rhich drove the mow into oar fa? and tin- eflVct of th? lliin air. Tho guida cautioned us to tie on our hats and tied tile bottoms ot'our pani-, closely over our shoe*. It was necessary for ns [o breathe much more rapidly, and we had to usu much more exertion in speaking, in order to make oursclvis heard. Ono notices the insufficiency of the air when he has ascended 10,(i()0 feet, and some even at low? r altitudes. Here and lhere were to be seen lin' re mains of butterflies and insects which hail strayed from the genial valley below i lallen on the snow. The lasl .SOO feet of our route was quite fatiguing. As the mountain is too 1 steep for one to go straight up wo must < ascend in a zig zag course. On this part of tue route also we pa ?sp J over deep fissures on bridges ol ice and snow. i Sometime before we reached the sum mit, as we clopped to-rest a moment and * Muck mir sticks in the snow, the hat ul one of our pin I y was blown oil', striking : I his .Mick with sm li force as to throw it 11 out of balance. Before lie could seize the stick it was gilding point foremost down the mon II I ai II, and told us what would bc our fate if we all slipped here. The wind blew strongly in our faces and almor? took our breath from us, but wo were soon upon the summit. (Here 1 quote Irom Baedeker the heights of some of the highest ami best j I known of the Alps to give the nailer an idea of our altitude: Mt. Blanc 1?.7?1 ft., Monte liiisi 10,217 ft., Matterhorn 14,705 ft., Wetterhorn 12,105ft . Jungfrau I 1 1:5,071 ft., dross-Schreckhorn 13.3S0 ft., | l Pinstcruarhorn (the highest of the Ber nese Alps) 14,020 ft., (.?rand Paradis (Graian Alps) 13,710 ft.) Baedeker, in his guide book, siijs ()f Ibo little village of Zertnatt, from which | 1 we hud come, "In no other locality is the traveler so completely admitted into the beart of the Alpine world- the very sanc tuary of the 'Spirit of the Alps,' " and of j Cromer Grut which we ascended two days before, and which is just across thu gla :ier fiom the Brcilhoru, lie says, "The panorama from the Gurner Grat, in par icu lar, though destitute of the common turibules of the picturesque, cannot fail o impress the spectator with its unparal cletl grandeur." But tho view from .tonier ({rat is limited by the giant peaks vhich surround on every side. We were now upon one of tho giants of the Alps md in tho "heart" of this wonderful region. * I I We lind ascended from Zermalt, in lillie | tl nore than six hours, 0.??70 fret and stood lpon a peak l?.O.S? feet high. The d?y | fi (vas perfect. No clouds were to bo seen .xeept a few in Italy. Nothing seemed o obstruct our vision but its ow n limited .o-.vers. Immediately near us, toward be West, the slender pyramid of the j rent Matterhorn pie teed the blue dome ?f the heavens and aflbrdid a spectacle, vhich, in point of solitary grandeur, is unequaled among the Alps. About the ame distance toward the E tsi robe Monte tosa in Italy. Kvcn nearer lo us were he Little Matterhorn and Castor and vollux. The Gurner Grat, which two lays before seemed to us so high, lay iver 3,000 feet below us and looked quite issigiiilicant. To '.he North we saw thc great moun- | g nins of lb? Bernese Alps, willi their im neus- snow-fields, and the deep cut val ly ol' the Rhone, whoso glacial waters low 'n the lake of (leneva. Looking nore toward the Fast we saw thc snowy hain of tbe Tyrolese Alps i:nd thc .^I'gailine. Southward wc saw the Grand | V Wadis, tho pride of the Graian Alps, md Westward we viewed tho great Mt. | h liane, of Savoy. Countless peaks n>se ublimely on every hand. A vast nea nf ce and snow and glaciers greeted the JJ ricw. The <ieep ravi nos and gorges seemed p irofouudly furrowed in their rocky beds, tl The little villages and smiling valleys rt vere sheltered from view and the pictur- h isque had given place lo the awful and he grand. Here it was more easy to | li ipprcciatc ?hat Switzerland is. Wo muid see the great mountain walls of ti e ii .ncient Helvetia, which liad encouraged h l Bpirit of liberty among its people and X vere a barrier against foreign enemies, tl Ye could better appreciate the exploits j if Pompey and Ctesnr among the Alpine t leights and we could see the great natur- g il boundary, which had kept people and a governments and languages separate. Thus these barren heights reveal many a g inge of history and many n picture of b ublunity. d It was, in a word, a view of Switzer- a and. The guido said we should May but a \t nv moments, and the cold wind admon- ,( shed us that we should descend. Hl The descent was quite rapid, but a ?. ittle fatiguing. When wo arrived at 0 ho base of the little Matterhorn, wo 0 bund the German and his guide descend ng. He had "seen enough" without " ming to the summit. But he saw it tc o a ate. Tho fact wan he was getting nau tented. He had already come too high ind though his effort waa to get down, D be effort of his breakfast waa exactly the p wdrary. The two had '.disagreed" and n i "falling nut" was inevitable. He had rjven up all idea of ascent, but hisbreak r4St had not, so ho went down and the ] ither "come up." This sort of a "diffi uilty" is not uncommon in high altitudes ind a fleets one about like sea sickness. w Ihe French call iC'iual de montagne." y Of course the German will have roany ales to tell of the "dangers among the Alps" and his (?) ascent rather than that 1 if bis breakfast. p Before we had proceeded very much t farther one of our party (not the writer) p uked to sit down on the snow and said lie was nauseated. - After be had taken some wine and reMerl a fear moments be was able to go down to the inn on the Tbcodule pms. This inn is at tho boundary between Switzerland and Italy, and is a lough, ?tte story, ftono building, containing a J few rooms. Ii is said to le ono of the highest habitations in ICurope, Here wo were united and our companion went to bed. The Herman soon arrived, ami wo s uv about three others witt) had ascended the llreithnrn and were ?lek. The rest of our party were not sick, but wo were all thoroughly sunburnt. We sit about on the Icy r?eles and content* plated tho great Matterhorn and the Drei thorn, and drank c ?flee the most miserable I have over lasted. At length ??ur companion became well enough to descend, an 1 wc wen- again roped together for the tour down the upper Theodulu glacier. After a few boura we arrived al Kermalt about time >r lour o'clock in tin* afleruoou. The next morning wc walked down lo Vinp in the Rhone valley, and went by rail to Martigny. I'rom Martigny we v.cut on foot tu [ liamonix. As wo arrived at Chamonix tho Mt. Ulano chain was hid from our view hy he clouds, hut un tbe lollop ?ni: morning they began to rise up from tho valley md we ascended "le Brevem," a nountain just opposite Mt. Rhine on Lin- tither side of tbe valley, from who-e ummit the finest view ol tin- Mt. Ulano hain is obtained. Upon ibo Brovent 8,271 ft.) wc found ftes h soon*. When ve bud attained the summit, the clouds tad ulmnst entirely disappeared and we igain had a most ni iguificcnt view, i'owprd ibo Eolith and Went the patin? ama was extensivo and embraced Grand 'a rad ?a etc. : bul Hie chief attraction was he Ml. Illaiic range, jua? aero-s the larrow valley of Chamonix, ll is dilti ult to compare the rival views of (lie 1er nose Oberland from tbe Faulhorn and if the chain of Mt. Hlauc from "le Irevent"; and the valleys nf Grindel* rabi and Chamonix contest the palm for harm. The scenery of the Mt. Ulanc ange is, however, more pointed. The errated pinnacles (called in French aiguilles" meaning "needles") rise aloft dib a fanta-tic charm which the view of lie Bernese Oberland does not posses?. The view of .Mt. Ulanc. with his snow; overeddome rising above all surrounding louotaius, was very grand, but hardly ao tupressivu as I hat of the Matterhorn, ear Zermatt. Mt. Ulanc is the highest f a continuous chain of high peaks, lonely connected, and bas larg." dimcii* ions. His broad summit is graced willi now. Uut not KO with the Matterhorn, ls slender, pyramidal spire, loo steep for lie snows to lind a resting place, rises on igh in bare and rugged magnificence ?om a field of glaciers. Thus standing lone, isolated from surrounding munn nins, it is tt monument of marvel. From the Ure vent thu view pf Chamo is in the valley and the glaeiers of |hc hain, especially the Glacier des Dossom nd "Mer dc Glace," is very lovely. After descending from this mountain e ascended "le Flcgere," from which wt ad a line view of ihe immense "Mer di Mace." Thia view gives one an idea o ,s extent, hut is rather too distant. On the following morning we asccildci i the MonlanvtTt, just above tho "Mc c Glace." Thesuivcy of this 'Sea of ice" from titi oint is very extensive and tine. Th i rent "sea" is several miles long am vcr a mile broad at the narrowest pari he wave feature of this great glacier i est ?cen in cro-sing il. As lhere are m tmce.lied crevices at this point, w rossed without a guide. Upon the (ir* art of the route steps ure cut in the icc ?'hen upon tho glacier, amid the frozei aves of ice, it resembles a 'Vea" an euee its mime. We descended on th irther sido by the "mauvais pass" ("ba nm?"), where an iron railing has bee .laced lo assist thc traveler to the Chi eau. At thia point tho frozen mass < ie glacier descends over a sleep ledge ( >ck into the valley, ami from tho resen lance is called the "Fall." Wo had contemplated ascending M liane to the "Grands-Mulets" in ll: ftcrnoon, bul a rain made further vin! Iipoaaible. Tho "Grands-Mulets" is tl ut where the tourists to the summit < lt. Riane spend the night about twi lirds of thc way up. Upon thc folios ng day, wc walked down to Vernnzrz i be Rhone valley where we visited ll real "Gorge du Trient." By moans wondon gallery fastened on tho rod rail, just above the roaring torrent, 01 oes far into this narrow gorge, bound* y its perpendicular walls, several hui red feet high. It is similar to thc gor t the "Grindelwald" glacier. Montreux, at the head of lake Gene*, i one of the most beautifully situai isvns on thc 1 ike, and commands uperior view of llie lake and the mou tins. The waters of this lake have lue color instead of green, which t Iber fine lakes of ?Sw ii/er I and have. The castle of Chillon is about a thii i i mi i es walk from Montreux. It is sit ted very beautifully upon a rock risi ut of the water not far from thc sho .Ith which it was connected by a dr ridge. The reader will remotnl tyron's "Pri-ouer of Chillon," in whi e describes very Gnely the prison roo f the ancient reformers nod prisoners Late. Thc description begins, ''There are sercn pillan of Gothic rnruld, In Chilton's dungeons deep and old,'' etc. Fastened to one of these pillarv, uj rhich the name of Bonni vard is found et to bo seen an iron ring in which t obie prisoner was ao long chained, ras allowed almost no walking roc "be pavement close by tho base of ?liar is worn away, and we are told t his worn spot marks the extent of riioner's freedom. Upon another pillar is to be seen ame of Byron, who visited the pri nd has immortalized the Castle by ?oem. In another dungeon ia a beam of ure to which prisoners were tied. From thia dark, damp prison notb mt "The sky, the Alps, and lake Lem ?> (Geneva) aro to be seen. Much might IK> Said di* tho interesting history <>l this Castle, which i* now used as a military post. lu thick wal's, miall windows, j and isolated position give it it peculiarly j gloomy appearance. The room shown as t':at occupied by ibo countess ?d' Savoy is beautifully situated on the lake side, 1 and through the long narrow windows in the thick wall may be seen ils dreamy, blue waters and the great Al|>s, hut even , this attr.iv ii.'ti does not relieve the apart- 1 ment of its uir (d' gloominess. Front Munt ren t wi' went hy boat io '< Geneva, and from this eily hy rail to ; ? Liuvintie, .on. tho lake, where Gibbon I 1 c included his great history. The view of the Ml, Blanc chain from I J Luman ne is very fine. Front Lausanne wo returned by way of Hern, Strasburg, Heidelberg and Frank fort to Leipzig, stopping in each of these chits io visit many works of Art and places and objects of interest. The tourist in Switzerland will he impressed with the lifo ol tho Swiss, which has its trials a* well as charms. When wc rise with the early day and lookout upon thc steep, grassy mountain sides, wo may see a tittie picture of Swiss life and energy. .Some are ascend ing the steep pallis to milk tho beni on the Alpine hills nod some tue ascending t > little patches ol potatoes or vegetables, which they have high above thc settle ments. Here and there we sec ti little village on a high dill' with its wail to protect il from (lie avalanche, and lite lillie chil dren with sharp nails projecting from their shoes, learning early to stand on the dizzy heights. Often upon tho lovely creen lakes wo may sec a little html tilled with ?argo baskets of fruit on its way froto sonic Alpine hamlet to its market. To us lin re is tm air td' poi try in all this, hut wc must remember the snows of winter for which they must prepare, and ive may not be surprised that the poor afton bc?? thc traveler among thc Alps. Thus I lune tried lo givo lite reader a [".tint ?ilea td' Switzerland tn 1 caw it, hut feel tho inadequacy of my endeavor To thc charma ..mil grandeurs of tho .Mps '.In- poet lias dedie lied his pen ami .he artist^his brush, but there ure gran lettrs too sublime for song and charms, too perfect f?ir the artists' brush, reserved for ihose whose privilege it may bc to visit bis wonderful laud. J. S. M., Jil Tho Hieltest Woman tu A mer len. Mrs. H. IL Green, who is popularly proclaimed to In? "tho richest woman in America." hail $-150,000 in cash ami S2G, Ml!),ililli of stocks and hoods locked up in lie vaults ol Cisco Ai Hons, who recently ?impended. Mts. Green, when rumors .fleeting the firm's credit began to ho whispered about, wrote lo clo.-e her a? ?omit ami demanded n seulement. The inn replied to Mrs. Green's letter, in forming bertha*, her husband, Mr. K. H ?reen, formerly Vice President of tin louisville and Nashville Itali road, owed hem $8(1(1,000. and requesting her to I How her deposit to remain for the time teing ns an offset to that loan. This shu promptly declined to do, as it lias always n en her invariable rule to keep her own bmitcinl matters entirely separate from hus- of lier husband. Whereupon Mrs. Oreen proceeded to ?tut the screws upon Cisco & Sons, who hen, in the slang ol' the day, "tumbled o (ho racket." Her securilici are safe and will bo re .urned intact. The New York Timen gives tho follow* ng interesting recount of this remark ible woman: lier father, a New Bedford whaler lamed Johnson, died some years ngoaud efl her, il is Hind, about $6,000.000. She ms lived a frugal life, exercised extraor linary keenness in ber Investment?, ami JV embracing every good opportunity hat the stock market ? (lorded she has nore than quintupled lier heritage. Old ?Vail street operators give Mrs. Green T. dil for having as intimate a knowledge if railroad -counties as any person they (now. A broker Mild yesterday that hu cnew of more than ono instance where Mrs. (?reen had gotten un a corner in [{ending stock. She is so largely inter Ried in thc Louisville and Nashville lecurtlics Unit it has been fnquenlly mid that she practically owns the road. The '.richest woman in America" has mme strongly marked characteristics she does business on tho strictest bust less principle?, regardless of sentiment ir relationship, and aha is economical in he most elab?ralo nenne of the word. She seems to have made it a rule of her i fe to indulge in no personal luxuries, she has been known to walk from ber lotel in this city to a social reception brough a heavy snow-storm rather than iay for the use ol a coach. It is related .hal one day, when John Jay Cisco was iii ve, she got out of a Broadway stago in front of his banking ollie,- in Wall street ,vith a bulky parcel uuder her arm. Mr. Disco waa looking out of bis ollice win low ut tho time, and a few minutes later, when ho found that the bulky parcel con ained over $200,000 in negntiaole secu rities, which .Mrs. Green bad brought I [ lown to placo in tho vault be said : j " 'Don't you think it was rather risky for | H ..on to have brought these bonds down j own in n public stage? You should lave taken a carriage." H "A carriage indeed !" said she. "Per- c mps you can ado rd lo ride in a carriage, t I cannot." fi The "richest woman in America" v would seem to be one of the most penu- n rious of womankind. Stio is rich in t Doney ; but it day will coo.o when ber H ;reat treasuro cannot be taken on the f, long journey ; ?ho ls to go alone, and to t MI accountability that the veriest pauper H may bo far better prepared to stund. J Possibly, like the lute Johns Hopkins, die is gathering a prodigious store of n money to benefit mankind in her final f) bequest. IH-L US hope that the "richest .vornan in America" will become the most philanthropic. Then, if elie can not a fiord to take a carriage here, she may ride in a chariot of glory hereafter. - Doors have been so far improved by i recent invention that now they may be Innig so aa lo open either way and from ?Uber end with equal facility. - Recently the churches of Mt. Zion, Bush River and Cross Roads, in Newher- I t ry County, have been entered by unknown I parties and robbed of hymn books, bibles, ] i carpet*. &c. j -- Seventy-five years ago the first j i tomatoes grown in thia country were ; I nilli vated as a strange and showy hort!-11 cultural curiosity in a garden in Salem, , 1 Mas*, .-'Porty-fi ve year* ago, or a little i more-, they began to be used as o vegeta- 1 bl? in season. tl IS1L!. AIU? Wiiii'. of tlir Hos ut lea uf Nul ure. Southern Cultivator. Nature is u wonderful study to mo, and it looks like iiie older I grow the more mysteries I discover. I have been clearing n piece ol forest land wdiere liiere are largo red oaks, ami tome post oaks and hero and there a pine. There H ;i small under growth of oak, and hick ury, and crab-apple, ami red haw, and mur-wood and hluckgum. Tho largo old Irees seem to he all about the same age, rmi when I count the rings alter they lia vc been eut down I lind that they iverngn about a hundred ?rear*. Now iv li nt kind of a forest was upo'n thi-t land before these <>M tree? cam.,' up. Was here any? If so, where are the stumps, ir roots of lhose that died from old age. 1'hero W no sign of any. Did the old forest thal preceded this all decay ami lie at once, and this new ono come up? Do forests come and go in platoons, or ire trees always coining singly ? Jf you ?o into th?* pine woods you can travel for nile.? ami (ind no under gr iWth, anti all lie pines arc pretty nundi alike in size, md age. Where tho land is tho same, he timber is the same. What growth ?receded thin, or was the lani! a prairie? DeSoto marched thrungli this country rom the Atlantic to the Mississippi more lian 300 years HBO, and carried tents and isggnge for OOO men. If this country va-? then a wilderness of trees, with no Jeerings ami no roads, how did he get long ? il we go down upon the uncleared iver bottoms we see t ill white oaks, und lins, and poplars, all grand and green, tul no sign of decay. No old ones lying, tn? young ones stretching up, hut he forest seems a Uniform thing; a single roulton of nature, and I have wondered ,t it. It is all a mystery. There aie twelve different kinds of mks on my f??riu : The white, the black, he red, the post, the water, tho willow, be chestnut, thu spanish, und four others rhone mimes 1 do not know ; lint they ire distinct in form and leaf and acorns. believe they all have their peculiar uses, mt wu do not know much about them, scent the value of two or three. I vomier if any body knows? I know hat sasafrns malees good bows, ami sour rood gootl arrows. I know that white md spanish oak is good wagon timber nd ?oh is good lor shafts, und plow locks, and po*t oak and chestnut aro 'nod for posts, ami dog-wood ami per hunton, aro good fur gluts. If you will ut a green persimmon and put it in a ?se and saw out your gluts and let them I ry and season, they will mako the best redges iii tho world, and will split timber ike iron and outlast dog wood or any (her wood. They tell mr thal black locust will ilthisl any wood in the ground, hut nabor 'recuiun told me Ililli his grand pa puta oung round chestnut post in tho ground o hung u gate lo, moro than 75 years go mid il was there yet ; but on cross xaminatioti I found timi his grand pa i'tlled tho place in 1840. He expiai.is he difference hy saving that he built tho ate long before he settled ibo place Hut lhere ure nil sorts of shrubs, in my nv grounds and glades, thal I don't even now the mimes ol. My old nubors aru io winer than I um There uro three iilferent shrubs thai different people call seven bark," and neither of them have hat many barks that eau he separated, here is n ioiig corral giowtb like Scotch room with u yellow flower nnd glossy ? d limbs thal borders tho creek ami ads s u break water thut I never saw else where, and nobody knows the name of. t grows about UH high as my heud, and *. almost impenetrable tn u dog or a abbit, and ia still'green but is not nu veigreen. Then there is the "father graybeard," .hich is a good name for it, btu not the ruu ono and which my father hud u cspoct for, for he was the tirst mun who ver sold A. (?. Si tn in on's Liver Medi ine, and hes,nd thu lirst medicine was n owder put up iii brown papers and tied Ult coarse twine string?, ?ind it was ludo ol' "father graybeard" roots dried nd ground up in a coffee mill. My i'Jp-i sold them for the old doctor at ten euts H p?ckago and it was a gootl med i ine as long an the old mun lived and lade it. Hut nobody knows whut ii in mons Liver Medicino is made of mw, One thing ls certain, there is not nougb graybeard in this country to ink? ono bottlo in u thousuud of the inuit itv that is sold. I know old people ?ho m>e the "giaybeard" root now for hills and malarial diseuses, und I have sed it in my own family and wo believe II its virtues. I stood under a persimmon treo the Iber day and observed a number of mall limbs lying on the ground that had cen cut off of tho treo and fallen. ?very ono lind tho samo cut or ring ?hero it was sevared. It looked just ko the limb had been turned off in a urning bilbo willi a sharp tool held ilgu ways, not exactly souare down, but ?ry nearly so. Nobody can tell me dial kind of an insect cut? theso limbs ff or why they do it. 1 have found tho ame limbs under the hicory trees cut off recisely tho sumo way, soma nf tho nubs are as largo aa a thimble. There * some explanation for this. The locust plils a limb and deposita ber eggs in tho rack, and when tho eggs hatch into a ronni tho worm swings down to tho round on its own web, which is fastened II the limb. Well, I looked nil over these ittlo brushy limbs to find some cocoon r some Bign of a living animal or insect, mt there was none. It may bo that the nsect took to tho ground for preservation s soon as tho limb caine down. Maybe nine of your readers can tell us more bout it. There is death going on among tho yenmore s on my farm. It seems to be atcbing from one to another, and is ravelling along slowly, but surely. A PW years ugo they were young and ignrous but I notice the first marks now, nd they always begin at the very top of he highest brunches. I can find no ign about tho root? but of course that is eeding at the root. A fow years after he war, the chestnut trees all went the ame way ; trees havo their enemies just ike man and beast. I used to think that the mistletoe waa , harmless parasite, but I know some red aka in the front yard of a naboring osidenco that uro dying of mistlcto. Il ias actually absorbed tho lifo of the trees ind ia losing its own vitality for lack of bo food the trees have been giving it. J. lever saw as much mistleto any where ilse. It is a curious and a dainty' thing! ! have never seen any on a pine or a >ost oak ; indeed there arc but few trees t patronizes with its company. It bas i special liking for tho chestnut and the punish oak, and red oak that has 'been opped. Some how or other the mistleto tas had a sacred character of Ita own for iges and ages. Pliny, wrote about it 1800 rears ago. The old Saxons would cot narry'until they had kissed their sweet leart under the mistletoe bough." Tra litton connects it in somo way with the ??rt h of'the Saviour, but before that it eas said to be the - tree of knowledge io .he garden ' of Eden, and bad ? luigi nearly delicious fruit that tempted Eve, and after her fall tho Creator let it wither and die, and destroyed its power to grow any moro in tho ground, but tho birds took pity and carried itu seed to the bark of oilier trees, and grew, but the plant was dwarfed, and tho fruit became * liltlo berry. It ts curious what supersti lions were harbored and nourished by our ancestors. Then again, we find on tho fields and swamps hundreds of smaller plants that we know nothing of, hut which have their uses. Many of them have their tiny Howers that awecton nature's carpet, und many no doubt have for atres been secreting a medicine for man that ?viii come to light in due time. Wo know the sarfapsrilla, and pink root, and fox clove, and May apple and Home "titers, hut there are h und "ods wo do not know. I believe that if I ?.nd my life to live over atxain, I would make botany my study and live in the woods. BILL A HP. Tho Drown tanti Bill. Pichen? Sentinel. MR. EDITOR: I rmtico that the Green viii Daily ?Vetea nt the 4th instant com ments rather unfavorably on what has liean said hy tho Pirkens Sentinel, and wdnraed by tho ANDERSON ?NTELLt FENCER, in regard to tho Brown Lind Bill, which was rejected by the Hnuse at ho recent sitting nf the Legislature. I'lie New? close*, what it has to aay with hese words : "The Legislature refused n grant this perfectly proper request and kermit a transaction which would cor bin's- have allowed the widow and cliil Iren of au honest South Carolina citizen o realize on property honestly inherited rom him, and would probably have been if immense benefit to tho Slate, hecauso t did not know anything moro about tho natter than our esteemed cotemporaries lo, nm), like them, undertook to net vithout taking ibo trouble to learn." If theso remarks arc just, tho action of ho IIoiiBo in rejecting the Bill vas unjust. It acted, tbe New? ays, 'without taking tho trouble to earn what it was doing.' If a legisla ivo body is nut convinced that it is right o adopt a given proposition, it ia certain y Hiifest lo reject it. It was tho duty of hose who desired tho passage of tho Jill, to inform the Legislature of its nerita, hut no such information wns giv tn. Yet that Hiipiuo body, tho South karolina Legislature, which "undertook onct without taking the trouble to learn," lid learn as lol lows: In tho year I7?4 a lortain party obtained from tho State a [rant for ono hundred and thirty ucres of and, lying in the upper portion of Ooo iee and Picketts Counties, lt is claimed, m one hand, that this laud has como rom thc original grantee by desceut, sale, iHsignmeitt, otc, down to thc heirs of G. V. Brown ; but these say Ibero is a miss ng link in their chain of title, ami they mked for the passage nf this bill to rem dy this defect. On the other band it va's "learned," that there is an entirely liffcreul party claiming tho land in ques ion, under tho samo grant of 1794. Villi this party I conversed several times rhile in Columbia. Hu stuted that if hu fights required under the original ?rant had been forfeited for non-payment if taxes, ho was willing and ready to pay whatever was right for tho State's claim, t is clear, that it would have been very inproper for the legislative power of the hate to havo inlerlered, in what id now ir will soon be, a contest between indi? .ulinda over rights which apparently onllict; and thut loo, without any know! dge as to tho legal status of the respec ive claimants. As tho Legislature did not havo time o do ' till that it should have done," s n legislativ? body, il should not havo fisted time in discharging tbe functions if a Circuit Court. The Legislature also "learned," or at east heard that when this grant of 170-1 ..as made, tho land ollice had been closed iy an Act of th? General Assembly and I'IIS to remain closed for four years, .'here is a preamble to this act which mung other things recites that many lersons were obtaining granta tor large reas of lund tvith np intention of Im* iMving them. This grant, therefore, nay bo void on its face. Almost the mire scope of country eovered by the rant of 1794, has been recovered by unior grants from the Stale, whuse (Beera it Bivms have ignored the said rant. .. - The House neted also under the vague mpreaaiun^hat there is already a law by di ich forfeiter' lauds can be redeemed, nd that it is the pr?rogative of the sink II:; fuud commission todisposeof vacant suds. Moreover, it seems to ne, that it would e a bud precedent for a State which bas nu rta for tho adjustment of claims, and lie trial of tillea, to undertake, by legis* uive enactment, to bridge over tho lia-rus made by tho statute of limita ions and the carelessness nf individuals. If the able editors nf tbe Sentinel and he INTELLIGENCER spoke without mowing, in my humble judgment, they poko well. Eeapectfully, J. E. Boaos. A Mistake* A colored organ published at New fork, editorially says- "Color is purely he result of climat!J; '.nilnonces. The nowa nf Caucasus 'fi)! bleech a black at white and the tun of Africa will ileech awhile cat ulack. But blood is f the came color and thickness and casnn remains the common heritage of nnnkind in every age and every clime." Color ls not the result of climatio in luences. Cats may possibly change heir hue, eo far SB fur is concerned, in he Cuttenbun ; but no negro will become vhite there from climatio influences, any . nore thou an Englishman will become ?lac!: in Central Africa. European hildren burn of ?bite parents in Africa emn?n white,and no climatic influence an turn the puro-blooded Caucasian into - i negro, anymore than it could metamor- - ?hose a negro i o to a white man. The icgro must be satisfied to remain what jr. 11 ay good cal ls_. "our brother in blacl;" Negroes live where tho thermometer gits nany degrees below aero, but their com? ?I ex ion does not bleech by cold. - The Caucasian is bron zed by exposure to teat, but his inexposed limbs continuo to io white. Wo believe ii. was Professor Vgasa?z who ' described about one hun Ired physical differences in the negro md white man. There are also mental rariations, the chief of which is that cf he inventive faculty, which is highly lepeloped in the Caucasian and com detely lacking in the negro.-Augusta Vir onida and 'Constitutionalist. - John B. Clark, clerk of the House if Representatives, bas prepared au un-, imcial roll of the membership of the House in the 49tb Congress. The, House will contain 182 Democrats,. 140-' Republicans, 1 Greenback Democrat weaver, of Iowa,) and 1 Greenback Re* lubllcnn, ( Bruin rn, .bf 1 Pennsylvania.)s. \ vacancy exist* in the 19th CVmgrce-j donal District of Pennsylvania. -'Schuyler Col fa rf, Grant's first vice President, drnnped (feud at thu depot tn Kankato, Minn., ou tbe I3th instant.