The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

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NEW BOOKS.

Tray. Monsitalna Or ABYSSINIA. They rise
from the plain, which le about three thousand feet above the
level of these/a-mountain above mountain, to a height of
eight thousand feet ; and by the labour of the Chriatian las-
bandmin they are provided with &sort of terntee•like planta-
tion, on which several sorts of cora are grown. The
summits are crowned with villages and hamlets,
ewer winds Ankobar, the capital of the kingdom
of Shoe, rises mojoeticelly in the background, at
the height of five thoutend feet, from the foot of the moun-
tain. This unexpected sight of the Highland* was so much
the more delightful from there not having been • trace either
of cultivation or human hebitstien, cacept the huts of the
Bedouins, en the whole of our journey from the seashore to
this place, • dintenee of tbnio hundred and twenty-four miles.
—Smug froos Ethiopia. By John Macau Berate.
A MoltneN " THE 1./ANsAISTX."—The ono special
point of romance here (and you must look clime for it), is the
relation in which married teen and girls toad to each other
elsewhere, the attentions of the former to the latter pass for
nothing; here • girl knows that her partner may at any
moment be her lover and her suitor, though hie wife Is
dancing in the sir-11-rid ; and many • flirtation IN buoyed up
by the eircumetance. Men, too, of the brighter sort, love to
usie.tl:rtraition, and carry on mine. that would •
t craft. Bern e& and third wieev take little
the fitting or the wooing; bat you may now end then see a
woman glancing too eagerly round, and from her belt-acne led
jealously end 'Jared, and fear predominating over the other
two, you may gar, what you will be told, that the watcher
la an only liter,
tie: ether women, if they see n, will ream and
tell lerreha is se Mormon to look XI aft, r ber husband, and
laugh at her hellish expectation of keeping an entire husband
to barself. That girl now evidently knows the wife is watch-
ing her, and coquets all the more eagerly with the husband ;
perhaps she way refuse him aßcr all, perhaps not with to do
ao, perhaps Ind herself unable if she vistas ; hut they are
not the only couple followed by eves struggling to see, sad
yet not la believe.-4 Vint to the Bait Lohr. By W.
Manilla&

Tue Yournrut Eixt-ritici.ta.—One day, while 1
learning my Virgil, I continued to carry on the Lumbars of
pounding some rocket mixture; but, as ill-loth
would have it, Bever dincocertd my tonfokl em-
ployment, end inneediately took away the mixture from
nee in considemble wrath. I watched where he pat it ;
It wan on the window-sill of a room which as always
kept locked ; the window. though not glared, had ckee
ken hare through which nothmg could Nan. The cam was
hopeless; I mold net recover nay rocket mixture, but a
=thought struck me, I WWI resolved that no an, elm
enjoy the spoil which I regarded as so valuable. I
•bmehimir gime in my pocket, and I thought of Arr,hi-
wigs Ihe Roman fleet; the sun was Wasting, and I
Mb diem a Semis on the gunpowder, which immediately
lbw ♦ It wet well that the house was not est on Ire :
Ihr pi, I was recialem of ail ounasquisces.—itess&n'a4 rat

TDB WINI GRAPE IN AMERICA.

(From the New York Mrertnuf I Mogreaine.)
A aivul for the suffrages of the thirsty haa already
gained a foothold in the West, ands likely 1.001 to form =
important item. We allude to the Amman wines, which
rare raised in quantities to merit attentive. Concerning the
ems culture in this country, yet in its infancy, we find in a
',rent German publication some interesting facts from the
pen of Dr. Gumprecht. The author explaies the mutes of
the fallen to domesticate the European grapes in the United
State. by thermemetrical and Itygroaletneel statements, and
attributable to the growler proportion of noisture to whim
the vino is here subjected, while the temperature Jr
more favourable in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or Sr. Louie
' than in Yana, Dresden, ur Pnigue. The Catawba
grape, an indigenous variety, is now extensively
cited in the west and south-west, and this Wilke
bids fair to become an important article of comntere‘
In 1661 the vineyards comprised less than 3,000 arras, tan
granter proportion of which was in the vicinity of Ciselnatil,
from whence the grape culture has since spread, slang both
ban= of the Ohio, to Pittsburg and Cairo, and ins southerly
direelen through Kentucky and Tennessee to Alabama, and
westerly into Missouri.
On die Ohio an acre yields on nn avenge 500 gallons of
w WM. , as lumen. yield compared with the engage of Iran=
which is only 200 gallons. In 1853, howesee, edited was the
most fruitful year since 184 e, the yield was moat extraordi-
nary, averaging along the Ohio 650 gallons to the acre, sores
vineyards even producing from 800 to 900 gallons. The mien
growers of Ohio are mainly tiermana and their descendants.
In 1832, on the amipanitively email arra devoted to wine
growing, the produce of wine in the United States won
estimated et 500,000 gallons; and in 1854 the cellar of
Mesas. Lengsworth sod Zimmerman, at Cincinnati, con-
tained 80,000 gallons. In a few wears the product win
doubtless be trebled, since the high prices of wins pay the
producers a largo profit, end the demand is so greet that the
Cincinnati wine clatters sre scarcely able to keep a stock on
hand. The juice is manufactered into either still or
sparkling wine ; the latter is the most Knight nfter, and the
production of sparkling wine Mimed to Ohio is estimated at
115,000 dollars per annum. •
The wine raised in the United States is meetly whites
but little of it being red. The value sa in Europe dep.:ode of
the character of the soil, the mode of treatment, sad the
weather. The years 1846. 1848, and 1851 produced thsbeet
wines both here and in Ea pe • the vintego of 1853 wen
else a geed ono. In gene s 1 the product of the Catawba
raps has the fined flavour, and the greatest durability ; it
upprola, in quality for thirty years. Aceording to =analysis
made in 1846, the American wipes contain from 7to 11.
per mat. of alcohol. A sample of Catawba bock, from
Loneswerth's cellar, seven years of age, was proved by an
andysta to contain hose 11 to 11 6-10 of alcohol, and
sample of red wine waa .faisnd to have 94 per cent. it.•
proportion of alcohol in the American wines is about the
same es throe in France and Germany. The prices of Ame-
rican wines may be considered high Still wine from 6to
8 dollars per deem, and sparkling brought 12 dollars in
1854. New wine ranges from 40 ecnts to 1 dollar 10 cents
per deem.
Of the recent aequisitiene of the United States, California
and Florida will probably, end ere long, be ranked steepest
the wine-producing states. In California the catholic rine-
allegories cultivated the grape successfully, and in Florida,
else, from the domes is =see.
In Canada Wait, where certain species of wild grapes are
very abundant, the there recently introduced manufacture of
trine LW be's attended with the neat signal 'MAMAS.
Durka;lan's Jonernal'pronounces it superior to the imported
pit Willi.