The Greensboro patriot [March 4, 1869]

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from expressing our notions of truth
in small as well an great affairs.
We are enabled however, to present
a more practical plea for our feathered
friends, in the conviction, growing ev-ery
where, that the birds afford the
JOHN ARMSTRONG. ^ ^^ p,.^-,,,, „, tlie Teg.
etables and fruits of the garden ami
the field against destructive insects.—
So evident has become this fact, that
some com in imi lies, north and west.
have jietitioned their legislatures for
the enactment of laws to protect the
birds against destruction by sportsmen.
Even the crows, hitherto considered
the most saucy of thieves, are vindica-ting
their character in the estimation
of some of the most intelligent fanners,
and assuming the position of protec-tors
instead of foes of the cornfield.
In a lecture on Insect Enemies be-fore
the Vineland Agricull ural and Hor-ticultural
Society, by Mr. Treat, the
following observations occur:
^/'tENSBORO^-
"DOLORES," At Book Store.
THE BIRDS.
BY Tim F.liITOK.
He prayeth best who loveth best
All thinga, lmth great and amall.
For the great God who loveth us
He made and loveth all.—Cobridgr.
It is difficult to teach the boys, or
their daddies either, that it is wi-ong
to kill the bird
excuse : but fur grown-up men there
is none to be found. There can lie no
'■Carry all the toads yon may find to
your gardens. They will devour im-
Apiieals to their hu- I men,f na"?be" "f ™,«8- .A ,,,!1'1 ","
..,„,, , „ swallow the largest specimen of the
inanity or chivalry tall upon dull e:»rs; tamaUt worm, though sometimes h- will
or if they have a glimmering recogni-1 |,.,Ve a hard time of it. Snakes, hens.
tion of-the cruelty of the thing, it is ( wasps, spider.s.aieiillilevoiireiso! your
BOOH smothered l.'vtheexcitemento. the i •'nemics. A common dock wil go up
■ , ; and down rows ot tuniato anil potato
sport lor the boys, who are merely i vjni,s .lM(, ,,i(.|- (lff thp largif Worms
following out the instigations of the i usually found on such vines, as fast .is
old Adam in them, there may be some it can see them ;awl lliev will see 8 half
dozen when a man would not see one.
Young turkc.vswill doflies.imeservice.
| thiiu.'jli they arc not easily controlled
rational compensation to any MAN for ' and guided. All fallen fruit is to In-such
slaughter of the innocents as at- j picked up twice s day—at any rateone
tends a day's s,K>rt among the little i time-boiled ami then given to 1 , . .. , voiir cat.'le to be devoured. By doing
birds. I here can lie no humanity in ; t,|js jf wj|f ,,,„ ,imM (lV(.r :||1(, ,h<,
if: for there can lie no right to take, ! result of it will lie that next year you
for mere sport, any life which Cod has | will not have insects."
given and which you can never restore. , Speaking of turkeys, we are remind
There is no chivalry in it; liecause. in- : cd of a scrap of information obtained
stead of addressing yourself to com bat ' at one of onr Greensboro agricultural
with an opponent "worthy of your meetings, last summer. (We had. some
steel." you match your skill and power I yeavsago.an agricultural soei.-ty organ-against
the weakest and most innocent ' ized in our town : and another, got up
if Cod's creatures. The father who j last summer. The first.diedofflatulence,
furnishes his little son with a gun and an,i ti1P lust for lack of wind.) It was
powder and shot, to indulge in the mentioned, at one ofthe meetings, that
spoft of killing birds, under the exense, j a flock of turkeys made most efficient
of fostering" manliness" in him. will ; '•hands'' «t worming tobacco. A mem-have
done something, he knows not- ' ber said one of his neighbors told him
how much, to educate him in cruelty, that he had an old gobbler who would
and to harden his heart against the go out with him and take row for row-more
tender impressions and higher with him. and pick offthe worms clean-and
holier aspirations which bless and er than he could himself After he got
adorn human nature. I enough, he would pick them off and
The good English hard, whose life scratch them to pieces, for the fun of
and whose poetry assimilated as near- the thing.
ly as any man's the purity and bold- ' We clip the following from the re-ness
of an angel's, says in a passage port Of proceedings of the Farmers In-doubtless
familiar to onr older readers: stitnte I'lub, Hew York :
" I would not enter on my list of friends I{. U. Bascom. < Ircensbur.v. Ohio:
(Tim-graced with poli.liedmanners anil line How can we get rid of cut worms?
wnsr. A. S. Enller—Ever since I coiumene
Yet wanting sensibility.)the man ed keeping crows I have not been
Who needle-six- «et* foot npon a worm. : troubled with cut worms. I have a
An inadvertent step mv crush the snail " tame crow that will destroy more cut-
That er.ixvl, at evening in the public w»rms than six men. and when he eats
path.
But In- that has humanity, forewarn 'il.
Will trend aside and let the reptile live."
... •• Xko sum i» this : if man's
Convenience, health or safety interfere.
I all he wants, he kills them for the fun
of the thing, ("rows are as easily
! tamed as hens. One morning I coun-
\ ted 108 rose-hugs that mv crow ate for
' his breakfast. I would keep a dozen
of them if the neighbors were not so
Ilia rights are paramount, and iheirs must i,r,.ju(|i,.p<l. Mv crow will limit worms
yield." j liy turning over leaves and lumps of
Hut man is not justified in destrov- dirt, the same as a man. One under-ing,
in wantonness or sport, the life took to go to town with me one day.
..... r- .i i I - n I but he came across a man with a gun.
which the common Father has kindled , , . , •
who shot him.
in any of his creatures. "My uncle To The I'hair -1 once had a crow that
by." when he turned thelly out at the would Ilv into my neighbors' windows,
window and said, "go. poor devil, there and comeback with silyer,.lates.l.re:ist-
, • .. xic_ i .i !•• nins. watches and all kinds ol Jewell v.
is room enough in the world for us both! J". . . . , .. . f, [■
Ol course. I had-to dispose ol him.
snowed forth the true spirit of the |)r, Trimble—<'rows are of areal use.
Christian mini; h
the act.
Jesus said, "Are not two sparrows
sold for a farthing f and one of them
shall not fall ou the ground without
your Father." Xnw, although the
sportsman may himself be "of more
value than many sparrows," will the
Almighty i-'ath.T, lie
"Who sees with cqnul eye. as Lord of all,
The hero peril h or the sparrow fall,'
hold him guiltless of the life of His
humbler creature!
lorilied Cod by for ti,pv kill mvriads of grasshoppers
and cock-ehaff.rs. which destroy timo-thy
grass. The crow and the rook are
the niost intelligent ofall birds. They
know by! the looks ofgrass when worms
pre workinc at the roots.
T. ('. Deters—He is the most useful
bird on the farm. I hnvcncverkiiowii
a crow to destrov birds nests, and it is
a great fallaev lo sav thai he destroys
corn I always make a bargain with
him in the Spring, to give him all the
corn he will cat. if he will let the plan-ted
alone. They dig worms all the
while, and the complaints fanners
make about insects will increase, if
Head over ao ain the verse at the be they continue to ki!' thi eerow. Skunks
ci ■ .-i c ._i.. .. I,,-..., are also most useful ill lies I roviiiL' bee
ginning of(his article. Surelj a large ■£* „, Si.1|iiM!ln(, <,,„„„. tll(,v ,,„,.
measure ol IBS] .nation from the Source nof ^^ B (.xw,,t by the help of
of life endued its author: his lips had these animals, and the fanners value
been touched p.ith a live coal from the them as much as their cows. Crows
altar: his utte. ante is the logic of hu- P"" "» con. ^***"?,*™r
>™!
, , . . ■ lmt thev never eat it unless tne\ are
mamt.v and rel igion— starved. A peck of corn will save ten
"For the grea t God who loveth ua. acres.
He made au d loveth all!" |>r. Trimble—Thev do null np corn.
Should we, i room God loveth, apart but it is to got that which is soft for
., , .... . ,-, „,„ then voung. Hard corn they will not
with the hie of any cn-ature which the Iv_""j/
same Coil love th ! This is oneof the ' I . ... «... _
To the above we append the follow
•ommunicateil to the Hearth ntiH
is, I think, not a matter of doubt It
is true that he, as well as the black-bird,
will sometimes take a hill of corn,
but this can be easily remedied by put-ting
a very mnail quantity of ga«-tar ou
the corn before planting, thus render-ing
it unpalatable to birds, fowls, and
insects. Before I used this means of
prevention I was much bothered with
both the crow and the blackbird at the
planting season, but, instead of shoot-ing
and poisoning them, as was com-monly
done, I used to feed them by
f sowing soaked corn over the field, thus
inducing Hiem to build their nests in
the cedars on my farm. The grass-hopiiers
last summer, did more mis-chief
to my young clover than all the
crows and black-birds would do, ifdue
precaution were used, in a life time."
The woodpecker, as well as the crow,
i comes iii for a word in his favor. Aa
exchange paper says:
" We have seen planters killing the
1 woodpecker for sport. They are re-garded
as a nuisance, because they
|M?ck holes in the shuck, and. are
charged with eating young corn. But
in this last particular injustice is done
them. If you will go to every ear they
I have picked, and examine closely, yon
! will find that a worm has been there
| eating the corn, but it is not there then
| because the wood|iecker has taken it
i off the ear and swallowed it. Instead
of eating your corn it will protect it
from the worm. He is. therefore, your
friend and not your enemy, and you
should not kill him.-'
' How, if so little real excuse exists
for the destruction ofcrows, blackbirds
and woodpeckers, what can lie said in:
extenuation of the killing of robins,
sparrows, doves, mocking birds, fee,
confessedly so harmless in their habitsT
If we could never more see the glance
of their bright wings as they flit among
the trees, or hear their cheerful twitter-ing
or their glad songs in copse and
wild wood, what a dreary scene the
face of the earth would be to us ! It
would lie like the departure, of the
angels, sung in the matchless lines of
the poetess—
" An- ye forever to yourskii-9 dcpartc.1T
(Mi! will ye viait this dim world no more T
Ye xrliose bright win'** a solemu splendor
.billed
Thr.tnjh Eden's fresh, and llowery shades
of yore."
And such has been the efficacy of the
English sparrow in destroying trouble-some
insects, that they have been
brought across the ocean and turned
loose to multiply and replenish, on ac-count
of their practical usefulness in
this respect. This has been the oc-casion
of the following mellow verses,
written for the Hearth ami Home by
the most highly gifted of American
poets:
TIIF. OI.D-WORLD SPARROW.
11V WXI. e|-I.I,KN BRYANT.
We hear I lie note of a stranger bird
That ne'er till now in our land was heard.
A winged Mill, i ha. taken his place
With Teutons and men of the Celtic race;
He ha-followed their path to onr hemisphere,
The Old-World sparrow at last is here.
H.- meets not here, as beyond the main,
The fowler's snare and the poisoned grain,
But -nug-built Innnes on the friendly tree:
iinl . ruir.hs for his chirping family
An- strewn when the winter fields are drear,
For the Old-World sparrow is welcome here.
The insect legions that sting our fiuit
And strip llie leaxes from the growing shoot,
A swarming, skulking, ravenous tribe.
Which Hani-and Fliut SO xx-cil describe,
B.n cannot destroy, may quail with fear,
For the OhMVorld sparrow, their bane, ia here
The apricot in the summer ray-
May ripen now on the loaded spray.
And the nectarine, by the garden walk,
Keep linn its hold on the parent atalk.
And ihe plum ils flagrant fruilage rear,
For the Old-World sparrow, their friend, ia
here.
Thai pest of gardens, the little Turk
Who signs, with the crescent, his wicked
work,
' And causes Ihe half-groan fruit to fall,
Shall lie seised and swallowed in spile of all
His sly devices of cunning and fear.
! For I ho Old-World sparrow, his foe, ia here.
: And the ariiiy-xv.rm and the Hessian fly
' And the dreaded esnker-werai shall die,
And the lluip a:.d-lug and frnil-inoth seek.
In vain. I" escape ihrit tinsj beak.
' And fairer harvest* shall crown the year.
j Foi Ihe Old-World sparrow at last is here.
[I hope i -av» Mr. Byrant) I have not said
[ too iiiuib for the sparruw. The innllipliea-
I ion of insects in this conntry within a few
rears past has occasioned ibe lixsa of maiiy
'kinda of fruits, and tkciutroductionof » bird
which pr. pagai. a in vast numbers, and feeds
.,„ ahuosi iv.ry kind of insect, is a remedy
which promises more than any other that 1
know "f. In (ir.-ai llriiaiu. the house-spar-i..
xx -••■;.\gUla ..'..,..-(.-••.—ia by moat farmers
regarded a- a nest «« mischievous as the most
noxious vermin, and is pursued and destroyed
a* remorselessly by traps and poisons as rais
-ind mice Yet setae naturalist* bold that
thev do as much geoat by destroying weeds
and insect* a, bairn by destroying crops and
fl'iil- It is eel lain that the insect pests
which make inch I.aviso among our fruits do
comT.arativ.lv lirtl" mischief in Great Britain,
probal.lv, as it sc-ms t.. me. because ol the
»:II-carried ou against them by the multi-tndea
tsf sparrows.]
verses which e very boy, big and little,
should not onlv .commit to memory, ■■*•
, , .«..," ,i Home hv a farmer of Abington. Penn-but
•• get by heart.
Such is the higher view of our sub sylvama :
ject. We a re aw are that it may pro- ■ " That the crow is the farmer's friend
The while and colored troops ntFor-
Bayard, New Mexi.-o. get on very bad
ly together, and several of the latter
have been killed and wounded in qnar-lels.
SOUTH AMERICAN LETTERS.
(EXTRACTS.) NO. IV.
Morales, U. S. Columbia, >
Sept. 1st, 1868. (
• • • In this country
one wastes jths of life in trailing to see
some one, or for something one needs,
before being able to begin some enter-prise.
The only place where they
dont trait, is on the boats ou the river,
—but in every other place in society,
you are subjected to this ever present
annoyance, even to get one's meals.—
ito much does this habit penetrate
every rank of society and station, in
life, that you might always be safe in
asserting, that an American lives more
in ten years, than a Colombian in sev-enty.
'Now and then its monotony is re-lieved
by an incident of interest, but
this rarely occurs, and these incident
from the interest around which are
woven those ideas of a tropical life,
which are as false iu reality as is such
an existence devoid of all that makes
life comfortable or useful.
The Tiger hunt was in Morosi as you
will remember. One morning we were
all awakened early by a cry (which
brought everybody into the streets in
a moment) el tigre! el tigrc! (the tiger!
the tiger!) of course every one thought
the beast was iu the middle of Ibe
town, but the facts were, that some
hogs belonging to a towuswoman had
just como iu frightened, and their
instinct seems to serve as a warning.
The woman herself missing some of the
porkers, went out on the road with her
son. both armed with "machete*," (long
knives) and meanwhilo a party was
formed of which I made theSth armed
with four guns, ond four armed with
lances. In twenty minutes we took
the road, and soon met the women and
uerson, who had just wentont.with the
news, that they found three hogs dead,
and a hslf of a fourth one near the
edge of a piece of woods, about two
miles from town, and in the level plain
which reaches the foot ofthe mountains.
We soon arrived at the spot, and
found the hogs lying as they had been
killed, about 12 or 15 yards apart.—
All bore the same wounds—of the
claws in the hams or belly, and the
bite of the teeth in the nape of the
neck, which is the finishing wound the
tiger always makes.
Of the dogs, we had only two or
three that were of any value—one par-ticularly
was the only dog worth the
name, this latter olio took the scent in
an instant, and all the party followed
]H'll uiell. In ten miuutes, and but a
short distance from the entrance of the
jingle—the barking of the dogs, and
the growling that ensued, made il sure
that the beast was at bay. and each
one separated iu a circle so as to sur-round
him on two sides. The dogs
found him under a tangled mass of
vines and limbs, eating the half of the
hog that was missing, but he soon kill
ed two of the dogs, disputing with
them jiossession of his prey.
The presence of the party however,
and he being hemmed in on all sides.
made him take to a large tree. The
density of the foliage and vines made
it almost impossible to cover him with
the sight of the gun. till he had reach
ed a large projecting limb upon which
he stopped, and turning around looked
down upon men and dogs giving a
howl which made the very trees trem-ble,
causing both men and dogs to
slink back. As he raised one paw.
and seemed to defy us with a ferocious
snarl, I i-overed one particular black
sjiot at the point of the elbow with the
bead of my rifle. A snap and a ciack.
and tho brute fell iu a heap at the foot
of the tree, the dogs rushed in. and
the lancers plied their weapons w ith a
vengeance, and so they killed him orer
again,—of course each one must show-blood
ou his lauce—but the ball had
already done its work too well, for he
did not move a limb after touching the
ground.
The men cut three poles, lashed
them iu the middle, and with a grape
vine the lieast was slnng and carried
by six of them (a man at each end of
the jioles) to town. He was a splendid
specimen—measured 9 bet 10 inches
from tip of nose to point of tail, and
was in such a fine condition, that the
fat aWfer IsJUSJ rendered yielded 01 lbs.
weight. (20 lbs is an ordinary yield.)
His weight was probably from 4."i0
to 500 lbs. He was a male and had
killed at least 12 or 15 cattle and calves
lieaides several hogs, this accounts
reasonably for his being iu "good
killing order." I took out his* tusks,
and have altogether the tusks of live
1 i
different tigers, I have had the fortune
to kill, which I preserve as trophies.
These are not really Tigers although
they are called " South American
Tigers" but the animal is the "Jaguar."
Those which are bred in the mountains
are lower and stouter and have the
spots all black; those bred in the
jingles of the low lands are taller and
more trimly built, and in the center of
each black spot there is a white circle
or ring. There is still a smaller variety
of this latter kind which has the shaiie
of the leopard, a longer body and neck
(proportionately,) larger limbs and tail,
and longer jaws, which is more feroci-ous
and harder to kill. I caught one
three or four years ago, in a trap set
for a hen thief, but have no great disire
to get in close quarters with another.
To get him ont of the trap, I put a
rawhide lasso doubled on his neck, ami
half a dozen men could not hold him.
I had a cutlass in hand, and as he
sprang at me, I laid his head ojien at
the first pass—but before he was dead,
I had literally to cut him into mince
meat, the struggle was a fearful one,
for it left me completely exhausted.
To a hunter this is noble game and
the •• dwarf tiger" or " tigrills" is the
most ferocious of all the South Ameri-can
beasts.
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THK SUKZ CAittL.—A contributor
to the Washington Chrxmieit thus re-marks
on this great work:
The Suez Canal will not only be the
shortest and cheapest route from all
parts of Europe to the ladies and Chi-na,
but it will be the cheapest route
from our Atlantic ports for the same
trade. The average distance from Eu-rope
to the Indies and China via Suez
will not be halfas great as the distance
via the Pacific Railroad, with 3,000
miles of transportation by rail, with
two reshipments, the cost of land car-riage
alone being more than three times
the entire cost via the Suez canal, with
no reshfpments. Our Western States
will be supplird with Eastern goods,
teas, coffees, silks, etc, by direct trade
throngh San Francisco. New York
and other Eastern cities will merely
supply the immediate Atlantic States,
and an immense domestic trade will be
lost. To make up for this change and
loss of trad* through the completion of
tho Suez Canal and Pacific Railroad, it
becomes of paramount importance that
the Atlantic and Gulf States should
make immediate efforts to construct a
canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
The distance from New York to Canton
by this route is the same as by the
Suez Canal, but it would be far prefer-able
for sailing vessels on account of
the daugers of the Mediterranean and
Red Seas.
TEST OATHS.
Congress, in persisting in the system
of test oaths, is doing, if possible, more
injustice to its good sense than to any
other principle of action. Even the
majority must agree thai "it is a greater
honor to the Southern people than any
achieved on battlefields that, though
impoverished by war, and in mauy ea-ses,
iu absolute need of the necessaries
of life—though the masses of the peo-ple
were involved in war without- the
exercise of their own volition, they re-fuse,
with a few exceptions, to swear
that they never yielded voluntary sup
pott to the. Confederacy. They are
willing enough to take the test oath
to Support the Constitution and the
Union."
Their adherence to truth and con-science,
says the New York Ejr/ireu,
renders them most trustworthy official
agents, and yet these good qualities
are made the cause of their punish-ment.
Reasoning ou the involuntary
support given by the South, the late
Attorney General Stanbery argued for-cibly
and truly, that when insurection
takes the form of a de facto govern-ment
and enforces laws over tho peo-ple
within its territory, individual
rights and obligations undergo mod-ification,
and the rightful and dis-placed
authority, when it again comes
into place, must consider things as
l ightfully done, which, in mere insur-rection,
would have no color of legali-ty.
This principle was enforced in En-gland
by statute and decisionsof courts
as early as Henry the Second. The
established law is that obedience to
thenV facto government, established
Under a usurping monarch. 8oeS not
involve a subject in the guilt of trea-sou
to the lawful king. Cannot a Re-public
afford to lie as merciful as a
Monarchy T Ought not some respect
to be paid to Ihe virtues of a people
who esteem personal honor above pub-h.•
office f Must this thing of test oaths
endure until cosciences ltccomescared,
or oppression makes them mad t
To MAKE TAFFY.—Mrs Julia. A.
Young, in the Western Rural, gives us
her mode of making this sweetmeat of
which children are so fond, as follows :
Put into a pan, or some shallow vessel,
a quarter of a pound of butter and a
pound of brown sugar; set it upon tho
stove and stir together for fifteen min-utes,
or until n little of the mixture
dropped into a basin ofwater will break
clean between the teeth without stick-ing
to them. Any flavoring that is de-sired,
as lemon, pine-apple or vanilla,
should be added jnst before the cook-ing
is completed. The taffy, when
done, should be poured into a shallow
! dish, which is battered on the bot-tom
and edges. Hy drawing a knife
across it when it ispartiallyeo61.it can
easily be broken into squares. Molas-ses
may bo used insteatl of sugar, but
is not so brittle. This taffy is a most
excellent thing for a cough, and one
which children are easily persuaded to
take.
IU I IIF.lt THK BF.TTKR OF GRKKLT.-
The following we copy from the New
York WorM :
"The HAWK gravely announces
that all efforts hitherto made to civil-ir.
c the American Indians have 'failed
for the reason that those who mada
them did not consider that man pro-gresses
by short advances, never by in-cluding
in one advance and in one age
the aggregate of advance! which have
marked through many agei the progreei
of the Caunulan race.'1
"Are you there, old Truepenny t
"What chastisement, then, do not
your Radicals, in and out of Congress,
deserve who have risked the whole
future of Amertean liberty by insisting
that we shall 'include in one advance,'
for the ignorant and degraded slaves
of the South, the 'aggregate of advan-oes
which have marked through many
ages the progress of the Caucasian
race' from tribunal servitude in the
East up to universal suffrage in the
West!"
THF. DKSPOII.KU'S TRACK. -The ed-itor
of the Valley Spirit, of Chambers-burg.
Penn.. has recently si>ent some
time iii South and North Carolina, and
witnessed the vandal destruction by
Sherman and his hordes, in his march
thorough those States. Hcthuss|ieaks
of the appalling and sickening scenes
of devastation which met hiseye:
"We crossed the track of Sherman's
army on our route from Charlotte to
Columbia. No guide was needed to
point out to us the ground over which
that army passed. Tall, blackened
chimneys Stood like grim sentinels ov-er
it.as if the spoiler had set them
there to warn the former occupants ne-ver
to return. Though voiceless, these
chimneys, from which once curled the
smoke of happy households, speak
trumpet tongued, and woe to those
against whom they spank. If Cham-bersburg
in her ashes looked like the
crater of hell, this track of Sherman's
looked like the road over which the
blazing wheels of Satau's artillery had
rolled, consuming all that came in
I their way. Eor two hours we ran
| throngh these blackened monuments
i of our country's shame. I pity the
' Northern man who can look on them
I with complacency."
Bleeding, which was formerly a fav-orite
remedy in France, being prescrib-ed
even in cases of consumption, it Is
asserted, has now fallen decidedly into
disuse. As an indication of the pres-ent
practice, it is Stated that in Perls,
at the central bureau of the medical
establishments forming the department
of what is called " I.'Assistance Pub
Hoe,* 6*51 prescriptions and 151.1 ver-bal
consultations were given in the
year IKC.7. Out of these 7604 cases
there were only two in which bleeding
had been peeenrtbed. In the year
1852 the Dumber of cases in which
bleeding was prescribed amounted to
1256.
The Ilillsboro Recorder gives an ac
count of a Miss Pendergrast having
fallen into a Il—l II. a few days lieforc
her death, and, upon her restoration to
consciousness, making a statement of
things seen and heard, and events to
take place, which, in their character,
were truly astonishing. The events
predicted came topass lieforc her death.
POPPIKS.—It is reported that tho
cultivation of the poppy plant will bo
introduced into Louisiana. A French
Gentleman at N'atchitoches, it is stat-ed,
has annouueed his intention of
planting in the spring of 1869 several
acres of [Hippies, and of manufacturing
opium. It is asserted that an acre of
poppies will make fifty pounds of opi-um,
worth fifteen to twenty dollars a
pound at a cost of less than four dolars
a pound for manufacturing, and that
one man can cultivate three acres.