Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-10-06
MULBERRY Paper.


Should the experiments referred to in
the following paragraph from the Rich
moHd EnGdivcr be confirmed, our coun-
Try will be enriched with q new source
ut .Yealtil. tBut we recommend caution.
aud moderation. We are SO pFoue to
pecuniary enthusiasm, that the spirit of
enterprise is often tAwarte,i by its own
extravaganza. thousands rush into a
new pursuit, at great sacrifices, and alb
afdon II as promptly, 1t their noralnate
expectations are uoi once realized. Let
Us have no new ..snulticaulis lever,'' To
lie followed bv inevitable iansuor and
disgust. We wisI, ali success to the en-
terprise, arsl to It's author. DIR. SPENCER,
IN whom we are happy to recognise an
old friend :-Specta,o,.
The Petersburg. papers speak Of good
paper being made OF the leaves Of the
nosus lnulticauis! The Petersburg In
teligencer says : Some twelve months
ago. our towusman, Or. P. c. Spencer.
conceived the a!ea Of manufacturing pa
per from the leaves Of that (Jt ate) much
neglected plant, the morus mul;icauiis.
and communicated bis ideas Oh the sub
ject to our neighbur. With the asss-
lance of Dir. William Miller, the mana
yer atlhe Matoaca Paper Mil, Dir. Spen-
Ger has succeeded III manufacturing ex-
cellen1 paper from morus multicaulis
leaves, and we have now in our possess
sion several numbers of our issue Of to-
day printed on this paper. The iiscoye-
ry of Dir. S. will prove, we have no doubt,
highly useful. The difficulty Of procur-
ing suitable rags has been drawback ON
the operation of paper mills. This diff
iicu!ty will now be obviated. Such is
the prolific nature Of the morus multicau-
lis plant, that in one years time a~suiIi-
cient number can be raised to supply
stock to all the paper mills in the Uni
ted Stated. DR.. SIS discovery, we have
doubt, will be much improved upon and
we should not be surprised if, in The
course Of a year or two, the use of rags
in the manufacture of paper were entire
~ abandoned"
We have seen specimens of this paper.
1t is very substantial and strong, yet
dark but Dr.. Spencer, with whom we
have communicated upon the subject,
states ''the process OF bleaching to be
very simple. and within our power to ac-
couplsh." He is about to tiy whether
it cannot be manufactured iuto letter pa
per. Such is his present impression. We
sliaili,ail this discovery, If can be turn
ed to useful account, with great pleasure:
since the multicauis seems to have fail
ed for the present as an agent for the
profitable supply of silk. We should re-
joice to see it usefuily turned into the
the manufacture OF paper.
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Butchery IN China The following
paragraph Is from the London San of the
81 inst. relative to the last battle in
China:
Arrangements were made for an at
tack ins three columns, two of which were
calamity led by Sir II. Housh and Sir
w. Parker in person. Nothing could
exceed the bravery, of the troops. They
contrived to surround the Chinese. and
quite bewildered them. yhe carnage was
dreatltnl, being more butchery than a
battle. ignorant of the laws Of civilized
warfare. the poor creatures knew not
how to surrender, and were massacrej.
Not less than thousand of them. in
Guiding a great number Of Mandarins,
were killed or drowned in the canals !;
whereas of the British troops only three
were killed and twenty-five wounded.
The encamplnents, and such of the bull
dings as had been occupied by The enemy,
were burned. and the grain magazines
thrown open to the populace, who speedi-
" emptied them"
ESQ
The Tariff.-Read the following ex-
tract from one OF the leading commercial
papers in New York, the Journal of Com
merce, "a Wing paper too. 1t will be
seen that the Wing merchants are alrea-
dy getting very sick of theshigh Tariff.
The Tariff, through a great relief
from the dangers OF 20 law, is yet operat-
ing very severely upon merchants engag-
ed in the foreign trade. a friend of ours
who happened to be yesterday in the
store ol an importer, seeing a row Of
packages of dry goods which appeared TO
have been recently imported. inquired
of the merchant as to the operation Of the
new tariff. The duty ON the first pack
age, said the merchant, is 90 per cent.
on The cost; on the second. l0ope cent;
on the third, 400 per cent; on the fourth,
SO per cent. on the fifth, 900 per cent;
Oh the sixth, 60 per cent; and on the
rest. so to rs per cent. The duties, it
will be remembered are levied from the
day of the signing of the act, upon goods