New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-23

mud. new are gflIeIdHy pita'u'o
drough,s and electrical appearances in the arr
Newburyport Herald
y;ss, Ia New-BrunswIcIt, No. 2.
The climate of New-BrunSwicx Is similar TO
that Of Maine although perhaps somewhat nois
ter near The seaboard, owing tc the great PreNa-
Icnce of fog st certain seasons OF year, when
the wind blows at any point from East 10 South
west it is certain TO bring in thick log upon Tue
coast extending from twenty Is thirty miles inland
and sometimes much farther. here Il something
very curious about this fog. 1t IS supposed that
the vast column Of warm water there is brought
from the tropics, in the Gull Stream ana WHICH,
meets on the Grand Banks a counter current OF
cold water from the Polar regions frequently bear.
ing along with it immense fields of ice, Is one oil
the chief causes in generating the fog, which so
Frequently overspreads Massachusetts Bay, and
growing denscr at the Eastward, is sometimes so
thick in the BAY of Fundy, that the common eH-
preston Is taat you can cut it with knife.
This fog is said not to be unhealthy except to
those affected with lung complaints. during the
sultry DAYS in July and August, this fog most usu-
ally, about the Bay of Tundy, comes III over the
land every evening, cooling the atmos Phere, SO
that a, ST. John and Passport, the inhabitants are
said never to suffer from the Inconvenience OF a
hot night. When at St. John, took ride one
afternoon into the country upon the Carleton side
Ii was thick fog in the city, but after going about
Two miles came suddenly out of it into bright
sunshine. When looking behind, the fog presented
perpendicular front, resembling wall, and eX-
tending TO the right and ef, as far as could Sec
1t would occasionally advance seeming to be pushed
| forward by the heavy In the rear, and teen
would recede, as it met with flaw of wind from
the land. 1t was interesting to see this struggle
| for mastery between the powers of the land and
the sea, and witness the shifting position OF the
| advancing columns of the fog which after an IN
cffectual struggle against the wind and sun, at last
gradually moved off the Bay, and looked like
the broken masses of discounted army.
In New Brunswick. in Maine, the great COM
plant among tae farmers is the prevalence OF
early frosts In the first settlement CT New Bruins
wick upon the ST. Johns river in 1888, it was no.
ticed that the winters long aid cold that a
rreat abundance of snow fell and that the sum
mers were hot and that alcrops including Indian
corn ripened well. Subsequently, the winters be-
| came more open, and the summer much colder
having frosts during some seasons, n every month
of the YEAR 1t was the opinion of Il writer, CIV
ing some account of New Brunswick, that there
was cycle of seasons, depending, principally
upon the influence of the and moon, and that
the cold, warm, and dry seasons REQUIRED nearly
at stated intervals The writer referred to the
warm seasons that succeeded them, and seemed
10 think that the cycle embraced about twenty
years There is some plausibility in this theory,
and if it could be demonstrated TO be true, and
the general course of the seasons known before
hand it would be one of the most important dis
c.,veries an record However this may be, it
seems pretty certain, that there is part of the
United States, where the huSbandman s sure OF
GOOD CROP every year. Its not unfrequent, that
the cotton and sugar crops OF the Southern States
are much injured from early frosts, and the grain
crops Of the Middle States damaged, if not Who'll
" DESTROYED by the blight, rust, weevi or some
,ning of the kind. Take ten or twelve years to-
ge,her the crops in New Brunswick and Maine
are about as sure as in any part OF the United
States.
Agriculture has been altogether too much neg
Iected in New. Brunswick. As u community, 1t
cannot prosper so long as it sends abroad Cor so
much of its provisions and biead-stufls. Nearly
all the earnings of her Commerce and Navigation
are absorbed in paying for the necessares of life,
which are purchased from abroad when they could
be raised at home, and the money saved among
themselves.
When at Calais / saw an account Of the I'M
portat;ons of corn and flour into that place for
l64I. 1t amoueted to ten thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-six barrels of flour, and forty
two thousand one hundred and siXtytwo bushels
of corn We sec here the enormous Importation
of about one hundred thousand dollars worth OF
bread stufis into the town OF Calais, containing
about three thousand inhabitants. In proportion
to the population and business, suppose Calais
is fair sample for St. John, Bangor and other
numbering places in Maine and New-Brunswick
and the lumber trade must be in unhealthy and
unnatural state, when it requires an importation
30 large as this. into country which ought and
could, by proper cxertions raise its own bread
Stuiis. The lumber business should BE carried on
ia proportion TO the ordinary of the country
whenits exceeds Insists liable to great fluctuations
and the reverses of one year sweep away the gains
| Of u former one. If the lumber business is forced
at ALL trases the price labor, exctes speculation
| and damages the community by divcrting TOO much
| labor from the soil, Bangor Wing.
7 IFE and SPEECHES OF HENRY