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* . . . VOLUME XIV. ?Ma! F. T O W N E 8, k editor. T 9. t. BAZUT? Proyriotor mi tnWMitw. ORIGIN AL> PWot tkt losthtni enterprise. if tan. EMon?Whereas. tbers are many thing* la elroulstfda. and the Aublte mind la wnh agitated in ralaUon to the object of oar organisation, known aa the Union Republican Party, lU true position and stand IM la the State, and oar doolrine and I polioy having been assailed by thoc* who are endeavoring to paralyse and destroy oar laAsenoe and prostrate oar moral and rellgioas eharastsr, t aak of yoo a pines to 7 yoar paper, by wbleb I may vindicate oar sense end place thhlgs aa they are la their ' proper light. I claim it, gcotlsraen, to be the Inenntrst able, inalienable aad lndsfeaaabls right of every man to apeak or write end publish bis sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the ebuse of that right. I am a David Crockett sort of a man?I never enter Inte a thing until I believe it to be right, aad tfaan I go ahead. I always have tried to sot and liva for ray Country and Country's God. This mj passed life and eharae. tor will prove. The identification of myself with the groat National Republican Perty l? a right, I think, I ought to elsim, living in a fires and Republican government, and no men has a right to sav what dos*t thou. This right I claim; I ?ohcede the same to others. I lake thie oouree because these are the honest convictions of my heart.? The Republican party is the party for the Booth. I know that many of my old friend# win aod hare denounoed, dieearded me.? Many bare turned to ma the eold ehoolder. Brethren with whom I have saaooiated aod labored, and brethren whom 1 love, hare treated me with oontempt, and acted aa l' they knew me not But ell tbla ia to me an en idle tale. G?d forbid that there ehonld be In my heart a single thought of revenge or retaliation. Bui, rather, let me any aa did the adorable and dying Jcsm. M Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.1* Knowing, gentlemen, that educational prejudice prevail# to an alarming extent In thia eonntry, it would betray pnarile imbecility, or enthuaiaatlo weakness. in me wera I to flatter myself that J wonld he able to give entire eat lef ictlon to everybody. Ae to the Uoion Legue, which is so much apoken against, its aim# are the moat palri die. It# rituals aod ezarelaea contain not one word any loyal man would refuse to heartily endorse. Its teaoblnge are loyalty, peace, law and order. Thoee who attempt to stir np prejudice against this organisation, and to create the impreaelou that its object la to create atrife and dlvieion in the country, confiscate, repudiate, produce social equality with the negro, and all such hobgoblins an these, are ignorant of Its aim*, objects and proceedings, or are guilty of the basest mlsiWDreasntatlona We ere tb? pMo*-Diklng ptrtj of ih? South, u w?ll as U>? champion# of Iho Republic, and although ita labor U in tha vary precent, ita frnita will bo repaid by all future genera tlona to come. Wo now number otir twenty-flee hundred In the District of Greenville. We ore trying to build up what has been brokan down. I know tha grant objection is to tha ability and eompatooey in this organisation, for this great nod vary important work of roeonatruetlon. But because we feel our inability and Incompetency in this matter, I ask, in tha nam* of God, must we let It alumber in the dnet f If we would rebuild our State government, we must take and build it with just auch material as we havo. Ail we want now, is men, vigorous, square up aod down men? men with decided principles and resolute purposes. Come, gentlemon, let na take off the rains of tha great temple of natioos and rebuild this gigantlo atrnetors, this great republic. Wa want, we nonet have a eivil, loyal Republican government in 8outh Carolina?that la an abaoluta necessity?and wik'tror Win vove *or mat, i?t htm toU and vileoni, if b? knows nothing eleo bat Jast to east his vote, ssnsibly sad right ? Mm talk about military government* * government of the beyoaet directed by a alngts man. Why, gentlemen, a military government is a blight upon the nation.? We want eivil government, law and order; I natil then, capita! will not seek investment In the Booth, laber oannot find employment We went e government springing from the people in the State. Let no ell heartily eo ? operate In tbie greet work of reeooetraetion, which will give us fraternal sympathy, ? mapper* and proUetkm from the Federal Government h them a man ta all the brand Booth so stopld and tooono as to say that oivil government to day lo not the great * want of tfao State of So nth Carolina. Be Jar as social equality, recalling freee Sho elective fraoehtoo la eoaeornod, it io too inaignifioaat to talk about. It ie a perfect diagraso Is the Anglo Savon race. I have tee exalted an opinion of any own rsss than te behove lis taste ean be eosropted; or its virtus prostituted*, by an net ef Justice to or unfortunate people, no the negroes ere, and be who otters the senlimont libels htfe grothen and (loaders his kindred. May I never as far forget any sense of ilgeity, and We feeling of respect doe to my country men* as to think it nsessoojy to dafcod them P4?-AHI(nMBfI F" n .Jft V REPLI gainst so disgusting sn Imputation. Let him who utters such sentiment* b?Ue*? it? I will Congress, la all its legislation, has never intimated any sneh reckless and Qnbeooming nonsense at social equality with ths ncgts race. All they have askad ot as it simply concede to ths negro the right of shffrage, reconstruct, reorganise yotir Stats government upon ths bssis of political equality, and In conformity to ths Constitutional Amendment of the United Stat?a| and your State shall ba admitted In the Union. Every man has the right to regulate bis own household. He has a right to ay who ho will admit io his house, and who ba will not. Ths negro has the same right to exelud* you or any other man from house, If he sees proper. This Is a matter ws must regulate according to taste." While 1 am willing, as a matter of poliey end Interest to our Government, to eoncede to the negro the right of vote, I am as mush opposed to, and as far from, social equality, as those who are puffing about it eo much, and perhaps mora ao. But all this fussing, ramping, sneering and snuffing, on the part of our enemies, does not amount to much 1 it is only to intimidate the weak, and thwart the plan of reconstruction. But, Hp on, gentiomen, you had just as wall fight against ths wind, or undertake to heave ths oeean, or roll a mountain, aa to undertake to impede or stop the progress and interest of this organisation. The people are sick and tired of this fussing. We want peace, and ws are going to have it on such terms as ar? proposed. We are going to reorganise, reconstruct, our government, and, if you will not help us, we will do it ourselves, if not the best, the best wa ? <>. Let as all repent of the tin of secession, and be baptised in the faith of the Union, liberty and Republican ism. Let us get back In tha Union, and we will hare better times, cheap goods, coffee and augar. and plenty of money, and then we can all pay our debts, ride on the railroad*, and g?to the White lieuee, if we wiah to. Aa regards confiscation, I have always been opposed to that The South has already Buffered onough. My friends, give youraelvea no .uneasiness about that matter at all. If your property is never confiscated until we or any State power confiscates, you will bold your lands for many long years yet to come. It Is beyond 4any State power to confiscate. The Constitution of tha United States says, Articte 1, Section 10, no State shall pass any "late impairing the obligation of eontrmde " Tha only dangar of confiscu i >n, that I can see, is In the rejection or refusal on our part, to recognise the sovereignty of the United States Government, and the ratification of the Consll tntional Amendment. Congress may, and perhaps will, be provoked to confiscate the property of all those who vote against a convention, und also disfranchise them.? From the very commencement of secession, I fait as Jf the subject was fraught with disappointment, devastation, desolation and S. ( .i- /a?#.j ? ? * ? ?<! ?? ui tug viuuicucrmcj, 1 Danavea in contending for onr right* In the Union ?o?l under the Constitution. TliU I expreesed to many friend*, not that I pretended to know anything much about governmental mattera, hut yet 1 felt it my duty to go with my State, and tbi* I did. I felt that my home and interest* were here. I, therefore, gave my Influence to the Interetta of the Confederate Government, a* a matter of poliey, and to gratify my friend*, and not aa a matter of principle. Because I always thought that It wai better to give op atavery than to give up the Union and Involve the eouotry in a civil war. These were the honest conviction* of my heart, and yet I did a* much for my country, rave that of fighting, a* any man, according to my ability. I mounted my two boy* on a good horse, each of them, fur which 1 paid ovei two thousand dollar*. For nearly twelvr month*, I labored with and for the soldier* aa a minister of consolation. I preached tc them, prayed for them, stood by thsm wher sick, buried them when deed, end presetted many cf their fanersla. But why multiply t In a word, every resource In the power of the Confederacy both physical end Intellectual, were brought to hear?end honorably too, I muat eey, U the credit of every soldier in the field?tc aehieve oar Independence. But we foiled; we ere conquered ; the flag of our Govern lent ie under the foot of our eonquerors; we ere subjugated; the war is over; the whole Confederate Government la snrren dcrsd; we ere at the merey of those whc conquered ue. Why,then, eontiowe against the great powers of the United States, the greatest, the mightiest nation in the world 1 Why dwell upon the past, revive and strengthen the hatreds that were engendered by the contest, about slavery f The thing ie gone, and gone forever. Now, let us, as a State, eheerfully end in good faith, reorganise our State Government a pea the principles of the haws parsed by Congressthen there will remain ao causes for differanees between the vaiieus sections of tbi sown try. If the purposes of Congress are aset in the yropes spirit by the people si the Booth, the natioa wilt at oooe employ Its immense reeoarses aid pewev ft>r the development of our regloa of the country, and'In a abort period of time, not only will the evldeneea of war have disappeared, but the reorganised States will be la the enjoyment of a degree of prosperity not before realised. I want to see my eounU/nien all I * - tSa v ; ?v ' j\iv ???m-? SX OF IPC GREENVILLE. SOUTH CA1 Hv. together In p?io<f prwp.rU;, hiplut^ li.rmoajr nod liberty, 1 want to ?? our 1 ! ??"uvrj, wiiu iw woontm an netiaa, Mtont, under th? Influence of our Institutions, the beat, the greatest, the wiaest, the mightiest nation on the globe. But the great appalling question with some is, " Ichabod"? * the glory is depart-* ad." All men In the country, with a few exceptions, learned enough during the late wan shout military matters, to recognise the difference between a " eounter-mer'eh ' and a movement " by the left fl int.11 By either movement, a battalion may be made to occupy precisely the asms ground; bnt there Is an important difference. A counter" march does not change the lea^rs, while a movement hy the left flank puts those in front who formerly were In the rear.? Mow. Messrs. Editors, f suppose that the great objections to the plan of reconstruction, is not so much the negro vote, but it is the left flank movement. We have been try ibg for two years end* over to exeoute it by the counter-march, but St cannot be done lo that way. Mow, lot there be placed iu front those who, six years ago, were in the rear, and the evolution may be performed. Let our people rally to tho Hi-publican party, let them put those in the lead now who went reluctantly, or went not at all, after secession, or those who are willing to co operate with the great National Repub lican Party, and next winter will find us onee more in the proud possession of our rights in the Union, and under the protect 1 ing folds of tho Constitution of the great Republic. I know that there are many of our best, ablest, and wisest statesmen disfranchised. Bat Congress lies made provis- ( ion for all those. Let them get up a , petition, stating their return to loyalty, their acquiescence with the acts of Congress* , and their recognition of the sovereignty of the United States, and Congress will by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability. I would bke to see all such disabilities removed, and I hope they will be io due time. I will sign all such petition*. Let the time past of our live* hi flic e ua to have wrought the will of the Gentile* Let ua all turn our eyes forward, and all atrike hands for the hopeful future. Let Gov. Brown of Georgia, and the brave Gen. Longatreet, and a host of others, be our example. Let ua hope, wish, and pray for belter times. Let as know no South, no North, no East nor West, but one great and grand Republic, ot a free enlightened and happy people. J. M. RUN ION. [prai-ianan nv request.] Two Months' Sojourn in Spanish Honduras. BT J. W. oot.nSMtTB. (CONTINUED.3 Wo continued our iourney to the eapitol, and boing disappolntod in meeting President Widens thore, star tod, after resting one (lay, for Tegucigalpa, twenty leagues south. We saw, In travaling this short distance, every variety of country that is to be seen in tho bulled States. Every variety of soil, of seenery, of depth and height; from the richest to the poorest soil | from the towering mountains, far above the moving clouds below, to tho quiot little valleys wrapped in shade find gloom till near midday. These mountains arc ascended from terrace to terrace every few bundred yards distaut. Tbey are fertile and admirably adapted to cultivation. Through them auo trie purest streams of clear water. On descending a great distance, on the opposite side, we enter a heavy wood and find a creek. The conclusion is that we are at the base, and we givo utterance to a feeling of gratification that tho mountain is passed, and the rido is , to be over a plain. But traveling only a few minutes and our fatigue is forgotton. Hiding out of the wood a lovely sevno is presented.? A beautiful valley is seen ono or two thousand feet below. The picture is grand beyond des' eription. Major Malcolm gives us the bene> fit of all the poetry he has stored away that ' is appropriate to the occasion, and frequently, > when that is exhausted, we are not denied I some that is foreign. But we feel poetic, and none Is rojocted. Col. Watkins, too, is alivo to > tho scene. Drawing np hia bridlo reins, ho cheeks his mule, and, by way of change, drops i, his foot from the stirrups to the ground, keeping , his seat in the saddle, resting his animal, (he ( is partial to small mules,) and makes his speech, forgetting bis weak roioe. Tho guide and I were always alUentive listener*?he being delighted with their smiling faces (not boing able to understand a word,) and I with ' their beauty (not of their faces, but words.)? No better travelling companions livo than ' these two gentlemen. We are now ia a delightfol region. No * country of the same extent possesses a greater ' variety of climate, or offors snch facilities of adaption to all kinds of production*, and every nation of people, from the extreme north or i south, either accoetotned to loo and snow or burning sun and paeohed sands, ean And a place where he can live to comfort, plenty and ( health. The rlimute te generally mild, nearly equable, and salubrious. The season* and tcmperatue vary in districts. There are two seasons peculiar to Central America?the dry and the wet. The dry season is net, as many ' suppose, a continuous drought. Rains fidl frequently during this season, but are confined most generally (o eh ewers at night. Instead ' of uagitoiion dying oe the stsueine drying up, ' lbs former never lose their verdure and the I latter rarely fail. The wet season, wbieh usul ally seta In about the Irst of June and ends about the middle of February, has mueh fine i weather. This is said to be.the most deltgbt1 ful season of the two. The morning* as* love a II <0? XPTJL^R, r? /-** tvi ? "? nubiiXA. StrilSMMlSU 25, ly and delightful, th?i ran coming up clear and beautiful, while tba atmosphere la balmy and laaiio. Tho rains ara generally confined to th? evenings and ulgfata. Wet weather will, bow? ever, sometimes oontlnuo for a woek or more, as in the States. This usually occurs in tho middle of tho season. The temperature varies according to elevation. Throughout the year, on tho derated plateaus, it rarely fait, below 60 dog., nor rises above 80 deg. Fah. On the sea ooast and lower plains, it rarely falls talis bo/ow 85 ? or rises above 90 ?. Tho temperature is from 20? to 30? cooler during the oolder days of the w-t, than the warmer of the dry season. Bqpw is of unfroqnont occurrence. It occasionally falls on tho elevated plains, but immediately disappears. We made diligont enquiry in regard to the tomper&turo of the difforont sections through whioh wo travel led, and mads daily notations during our sojourn. An educated gentloman, a' native of the country, sixty years of age, informed us that, within his knowledge, the thcrmomoter had only onco gono above 100 deg. The hottest day we spent In tho country tho thermometer was 98 dog- at 3 p. m., but for a few minutes only. Tho following morning at 6 o'clock it rogistorod 74 dog. During tho dry season, at titnos, the mornings and evenings aro frequently so cool as to predispose to exerciso, and almost every uigbt covering has to bo brought into roquistion. On the coast tho tcinporaturo ranges flrom 72 to 98 dog. during tho dry season, sud in tho wot 60 to 86 deg.; while on tho tabludand, in the vicinity of Lake Yojoa, soventy-fivo miles from tlio sea board, with an olovation of 2,500 feet, the thermometer, in tho dry season, ranges from 60 to 82 dog., and in the wot from 50 to 72 deg., but soraotimes going above and below these figures. Tho variation of temperature any one day during our stay, would sverngo 12 deg. For instance, at San Predro, in Suln Plain, tb? thermometer would mark 74 dog. at 6 a. m.; 82 deg. at 12 m.; 86 deg. at 3 p. in. (this always being tho wannest hour;) 79? at 6 p. m., and 77? at midnight. From 10 a. m. to 4 p. in., the sun is intensely warm: while iu the shado, In consequence of the sea broexe, It is pleasant. In mid-summer here tho writer bos often felt it as intensely wann as in any part of Honduras traveling for weeks exposed to its rays, in tbo warmest per* tion of their year. Tbo dry season is both tbo winter and summer. During this tiino the leaves full, and hcnco they call it winter; as most of the fruits ripen, they call ir summer. The nights are vory fine during this season. Tho moon and stars seem to shine with greater brilliancy than in the States. The stars, in absence of the moon, afford sufficient light to travol without inconvenlenoo. Water is everywhere abundant, though not so cold as hero, being about the temperature | of our rain water of oarly summer, bnt no where to bo exceeded as to purity and clearness. " From tho cloud-capped mountains descend copious streams of crystal water, and | mooting upon the plain below, tbey expand I into mnjestic lakes, stooping in placid stillness, cradled by the hills, or swell into noble rivors," leaping tbo cataracts which (oam in awful grandeur, roll on in nature's solemn pomp, canopied with lofty vorduro, falling into tb? ocean whieh, ou cither hand, waits to receivo them. Besides Yojoa, many small lakes were seen, around which numorous herds of cattle were feeding. The rivuloU and crocks arS numerous, and a groat many mill-scats, unsurpassed by any In tho world, arc to be seen. The number of those small stroains may bo imagined from tho number of large rivers that travorso the p'.ains. The Ulua is tho first in site, in tbo Sula Plain, and is perhaps the largest in Honduras. This river is formed hy tho Ilurnua, Santiago, aud Blancha, which form tho Ulua at the town of Santiago, aboat lorty miles fro'm tho sea. It drains an cxtensivo territory, and is navigablo all the year for steamboats drawing throe feet water. The Blancha is the only tributary that is navigable in the dry season. Of this beautiMl river wo spoku in the first number. Th<~ lluratta is navigable in wot seasons'as far aa Cotnayngna. The Chamilieon is the second in sixe, and perhaps the most important just now, as our einigrnnts arc locating upon it It is very long, and is nnvi. gable at all times to a point within six miles of Medina for boats drawing two feet water.? Above this plaoo we wore told it could bo narigated only in tbo wet season. Tho capacious harbor of Puerto Cabsllos, the host on tho Caribian sea, is oniy twenty-fivo miles frotn Medina, tho town of tho colony. Tho soil, almost everywhere productive, is by noturo clothed with an iDfiuite variety of plants, from tho minutest fungus to the stately tnonarcbs of tho forest. Among these are many of the exotics which are treasured in the hot houaps of the United States, brrt hero aro trodden down*, with the Moss Roso and May flowers that are prised in our flower gardens, grow .wild. The Plain of Sula, and even the valleys at considerable elevation, aro covered with dense, primoval shades. There flourish togo tuer tender herbs, tbo prickly busli, the succulent cactus, tha graceful and dirersfiicd pHms and pultnottoes, with many varieties of gigantic trees, tbalr branches laden with puraeiticrrl phmts, whuaa wax-like towers assume every abapa that fancy would suggest or tact a execute. *Tho whole promiscuous assemblage and compact mass of vegilrtion is bound together by a alosa not-work of innumerable vines and tenacious tendrils of myriads of smaller creeping plants. From this intricate jungle tbo ana's rays are excluded. The rank mass, varying from 150 to 200 feat In height, is impenetrable to man save by aid of bia inatchoto. The. natural productions in varied, rich and almost Inexhaustible. Tbo forest abounds in woods of One textore foi building and ornament, with many laden with fruits, and others valuable bit their medicinal properties. V * , r V ifrrfi ?-v, TT'TTTrnvrnnr-i JJU v PiXM JL , 1867. Stately cedars two hundred foot high, wild ' cotton, liquid amber almost as largo as tho eedar, yielding from 300 to 300 gallons by I simply tapping. This liquid is prised highly , mug tJW n a tires for its healing virtues, ss- , peciuHy (or bruises on man or beasts. Insects , will not come where It is used. Xt is the na- j tire's Dalm of Oilead. The lard tree, from which they sometimes make soap; the tallow tree, tho sap of which makes a beautiful wax, from which candles are made; pines, oak, of many varieties, guniaeum iron tree, cocoa or ' chocolate, modra do eaeoa, drago or dragon's 1 blood, sometimes called Balsam of Porn, pal- I ma ebristi, as largo as peach trees, Ule or In- I dla rubber, guaco, for snake bites or bydro- 1 phobia, mahogany, logwood, olnchona, Bratll 1 I wood, indigo, almond, orange, lemon, bananns, pino apple, shnddoc, saportc, mango. Ouava ( fig, plum, npple, quiuce, taturrino, pomsgrsn- , ite, gradslla, sea prapo, papie, mamle, star and ^ custard apples, coco nuts, plantains, are some ( of tho vast multitude of trees, with the beautiful cochineal, dye woods, sarsaparilla, vanils la, and an innumerable number of plants whose nomcnclaturo would exhaust tho pati- euce of tho reader. Wo saw cauo in the up- 4 per valley which grew to to height of seventy ' or eighty feet, of which fences and house rafters are made. Among the products we enumerate cotton, ' oorn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, coffee, cocoa, I sugar cane, arrow root, tobacco, rice, gin. ' gor water and musk melons, sod Indeed all I products peculiar to the United States grow 1 In great perfection. The natives do not 1 cultivate any of the products. Almost t every family has a small patch of from one 1 eighth to one acre, and iu this they hare a c little corn, plantains, eto. On theae, with 1 the fruits of the forest and game, they sub- 1 1st. lite land is cleared in the plains by t first cutting out the dense undergrowth with a large nintchette, or knife. The trees ' are then 'oiled with an ax. This is nsually 1 done in the dry season. After it lays s few > weeks, fire is applied when the wind is I high, and the whole is consumed. With a < sharp slick a hole is made in which the I seed are plantod, and no further attention > is given it until it ia gathered With no 1 further work than thia we have acen corn, ' cotton, angar cane, rice and rome other * products far excel the moet elaborate cultl- 1 vated farma in this country. ' We apeut some time with a Frenchman who had resided in Honduras nearly a year, j lie cleared four and a half acres at San Pc? , dro and planted the aarae in Sea Island cot- { ton, in four feet hills rach way. When i first aeon hy us in the middle of April, It was eight feet high, and with its branches completely locked, bending under its weight of numberless bolls. This gentleman asseverated that up to that time he 1 had picked 16,000 pounds of seed cotton, ' (and hi* patch was then whits.) with a yield of 811 ^ per cent, of lint We counted tweuty-two ginned bales of 100 pounds each, forty two bales in-1|)< seed of 110 pounds each, and saw quite.s quantity in a room which we had no means of estimating By the first of June it had taken its second growth, was full of green leaYes, had grown two feet higher, and had the appearance of our cot ton just before it blossoms. The work this cotton baa had was a little chopping with the hoe when it was young. The people here never saw a plow. It will r quire no future work in ten years efceept p -uning. The ground is so densely shaded that grass and weeds cannot grow, Each aucoeeuing crop- < to crop* are picked in one yea:-"^ ire raid to yield much more than t > first. This ia the only cotton we raw cultivated in the country | bat saw tome grow* ing without attention, the staple of which is not inferior to our upland. We saw soma stalks several years old which were ae large aa medium sis<-d peach trees. We heard of large yields of sugar, rice, corn, wheat, potatoes, etc., but are unable to speak from personal knowledge of the yield per acre. The animal klflgdtrtfi is numerous and exceedingly prolific^ embracing, w6 suppose all those of the Southern States and a long catalogue hesidea. Horses and mules are numerous but not so large as ours, though cry hardy and serviceable ; cattle in great numbers, equal to those of Texas; hogs as fine as those of Kentucky and very numerous; sheep fine but not numerous?only being used as pets; goats numerous.? Among the wild animals are deer, peccary, wnree, lapler, manatus, monkey, raccoon opossum, squirrel, rabbit, pnma, leopard l>.tumors, uger ana many others of less note. Together with all the feathered tribe of the south are mingle*? those of the tfopicC, delighting the eye with their beauty and pleasing the ear with their carolling*. Vast numbers of turkeys, duck*, chickens, gain- , as, hawks, vultures, buzzards, sea eaglea, , crows, black birds, Jays, doves, partridges | rice birds, pigeons, swallOWa, rainbirds, humming.birds, etc , are seen associating with the qultzal, micaw, parrot, toucan, pel liuan, curlew, plover, darten, etc. | Honduras in ber mineral and precious I stones is said to be nnexoslled by any other country of the same extent. But this interest has suffered vastly from civil dissen ions and the wars of twenty or thirty years sine?. The mines were covered up and i abandoned, and for the want of means, skill nd industry, tbey are still nnworked.? The owners employ their former laborers as herdsmen and their estates as haeiendas, whore aie raieol luinwusc lords of cattle r ( ? *' r # * ' * * 0 0V m ??< mmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmm no. ia These mines ware never worked eeientlfkoally, or to extensively aa their yield might loduee oe to believe. Silver Is very abundant. We were eredltably informed that it Tegucigalpa, and to Qraeias, mines fielding 36 per eent. were worked. Qo'd la foand in moot of the streams, from wbieb Ibe women, in many localities do a good business on Sunday with pane. Copper exists in vaat quantities, Wa eaw large monotaina apparently aolld maaeee of topper ore. The dirt mixed with it baa all turned green from the metal. Mioee yield mg 80 per eent. of pure copper are worked near Onmayagua. Lead very rich, and Iron in abuodanoo la found. The letter wa aew worked from the ore et a blaokamtth ebop. Quicksilver, ithcrage, coal, oehre, gypsum, aaptha, opakr, jasper, precieoa stonee, and pearl fisheries are found. We heard much nf these metals, and saw some vary fine peeirn us, sufficient to convince us that the mineral wealth of Honduras is almost lr> f>nd computation. Marble of the finest iescriptlon, in inexhaustible ^uerriea, te found near Medina, oo the Omoa mountain*. The Boiling Springs of Comayaguk and Yojoa are doubtless valuable, if their qnalIties were tested. We oonld let our finger* remain in the water but three second*.? Two natives with us could only endure the icat of the water the same length of tlme^ h the branoh which runs from theee sprioge, v?re seen a number of toads scalded till hey had turned white and perfectly cooked, h ten feet of one of these springs is a clear, lold water spring. Their waters unite vithin ten paces of the springs, and empty tito a beautiful creek not more lb an twiio bat distance off. Mineral and limestone springe were also teen. There la no lack of anything that lature can beetow to sustain, or eattafy, tnd to delight. Her bountiful hand baa >een ao lavishing that none are in want, md the great profusion which would am>ly sustain millions is suffered to decay ?ason after season. The air, earth and eater teems with life. Honduras approxinates so nearly the picture drawn of Adam's irst abode that, were he alive and go that tray, without the remembrance ol hie note would claim it as hie own, R p.* ark able Discovsntms.?Wehavebc<n placed in possession of a private letter, reoelvsd by one of our most prominent stationers from a correspondent in Norwalk, Conn., communicating facts in reference to an improvement in the printing business, wbioh, if not exaggerated! are well calculated to put the wonderful inventions of Hoe to the blush.? The writer says that bis neighbor, whose tiante, for the sake of fame, We regret to say is not given, but as to Whoso identity and extstencs we can entertain no possible doubt, has invented a press capable of printing four thousand copies of the Now Testament per diem, or four hundred copioa of a newspaper of the site of tho New York Times, (a quarto) per minute. The same gentleman has discovered a process fojr manufacturing paper front Common sedge (or marsh) grass, Which abounds in Immeasurable quantity on the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Texas, and which, though by no means inferior to that upon which our daily issues are printed, can be tarnished for consumption at a cost of ten cents por pounds-something less than fifty per cent, reduction upon our bills at the present day.,? We gratefully mention these items as Indies t ins of the progress of the age, and the fecundity of American gonius. Should the results of this double discovery of the son of " the la id cf steady habits" justify the twininnovation upon the material and manufacture of A newspaper, our subscribers may have cause to congratulate themselves upon the reduction of the subscription price of the Courier, and we, on the increase of onr circulation, which will follow beyond pcraJtenlcire. [Charleston Covri?fl Personal.?Ex-Qov. Vanee, the favorite an of North Carolina, and very deservedly the pet of all the good men and handCome women in Bip-Van-Winkle-dom, returned from Charleston oh Saturday in ?ofri peny with his Excellency Got. Orr. In th# evening, an impromptu but pleasant Interview took place at the residence of Col. L. I), Child*, between these gentlemen and Gen. Wade Hampton, Hon. James &. Gibbes, and Major John S. Preston, Jr. ft may be supposed that the " situation " was tolerably well reviewed. f Columbia Phanixi A TKRRtrto boiler explosion Occurred Monday afternoon, at No. 268 Weal Twentynight street, New York. The boiler wae hurled through the air a distance of ortf hundred and fiAy yards, falling upon the root of a four-story dwelling, and crushing1 its way to the cellar. The forertata, engineer, a man and two children were killed,and several others were severely injured. T?? ?ee?e# - QvW**At Canbv, who has been appointed to supersede Oenerai Sickles in the command of this department, is, we learn, art old army officer, who has been in eomtnand of the District of Columbia fur * length of tinK.^ I.otno* Ik nut tlie largest oity fn thtf world. Jeddo, the oapital of Japan, has a' population of fr.OOO.OOO. It contains h.HOrt'.000 dwellings; and many of its streets afe 22 miles long. twx A? eantifol woman I' poor a' Otihf use a double eircnmsptcllon ; for h t beauty will tempt others, her yove ly tier*elf. . < (? otion i 1