The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, September 25, 1867, Image 1
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VOLUME XIV.
?Ma! F. T O W N E 8,
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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
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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
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GREENVILLE. SOUTH CA1
Hv. together In p?io<f prwp.rU;, hiplut^
li.rmoajr nod liberty, 1 want to ?? our
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??"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.
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(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
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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.
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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
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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. . <
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