New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-11
&C.,, r.rr,,sr,-ro. 2.-Its value.

Northern and latitude 100 N as the Southern
boundary of this territory, we shall have an area
of abou, III 600 900 OF acres, of which, accord
ing to the latest and best hority-Farnham
Travels, &c.-only 10,o00,e0e ere ii.ia0ie' ABOUT
90, 600 coo suitable for grazing, and shout w
oDo. coo acres of mountain land unfit for tiilage
or pasturage, but covered with heavy forests
Thus it seems only so, 900 out Of 1000 soy
of acres are available for the business ard rnelnie
nance of population.
Th;s asitiiTi.ata appears to have been made upon
rather minute observation. The following is the
Substance of Mr.. F.'s account of the country b.
districts. The valley of the south Branch OF the
Columbia, commonly called Lewis River, is
desert of volcanic debri.-aot 1000 acres on all
its course susceptible of cultivation and not TIM
Der enough to supply the camP-res of the traveller.
The valley of The Columbia, above its junction
with the south branch, Il little tettsr. 4 small!
nook here end there; at intervals Of many, often
times hhhdteds Of miles, will produce the small
grains, Indian corn, and the vegetables OF North
crn attitudes. But these productive spot, a.e
merely spots-slands of green among endless
wastes of rocks and light, oamy barren soil
High upon this stream, near The altitude of per-
petual frosts, extensive groves of pine and &C.
dar but as the fruitful parts of the territory are
we'll supplied with timber, it is conceived that
these can be of little value. The coNnt.y lying
eastwardly, and between this part Of the Columbia
and the south branch, is generally barren. Small
tracts along the streams may be rendered mode
rately productive by irrigation, and not otherwise
These tracts; however, constitute 50 email tor-
ton Of the while surface, tina, they should be
toned only to qualify the word desert, which
would thu, truly describe this district. The same
remark may with truth be made of the whole re-
gon which lies east of the President, range
This ridge of mountains, in that Part OF the terri
tory lying south of the Columbia runs in north
and south direction within 100 miles of the sea-
North of the Columbia it approaches the see ra-
pidly till in latitude 40 n. It's lower hills border
cIcsely down upon the waters surrounding Van
couver's Island, and continues its neerness to the
sea till it reaches high Northern latitude.
The agricultural capabilities of the land, lying
between these meuntains and tie 5ea, are limited.
There are ch ts part OF it lying south of the Co
lninbia; along the banks Of the Wilhammith, large
tracts of prairie land, ntersperscd with groves Of
pine fir, &c. but these praires are not 7ery pro-
dlctive. The What crop yields average
about is bushels to the acre. Other crops follow
nearly in the same ratio.
The tract lying north of the Columbia and be-
tween these mountains and the sea, is generally
clothed with the heaviest forests in the world pro-
duced by the salubrity OF the climate-thc unnte.
rupted growth of ages rather than the richness OF
the soil. It Is more than the land is or will be
worth during the next hundred years, to clear il
and subdue it; for the soil is thin vegetable
mould resting on stratum of blue clsy--a sol
that every where becomes worthless after few
years cultivation, More anon.
! MIGHIoAs.-Thc Legislature Of this State ha.
divided It into shrcc Congressional Districts-as
foa&s:
w'yns w sss as.s c5 s5s5sss fs ss
H.. s;isn,n B Bsrrsn S u.s. Calhoun Cain
Ottawa, st Joseph, Van Burcn, Pop. 1854
H.. Chippewa, Clinton, Gen.see, Ingham,
Livingston, Lapeer, Maknaw, Macomb,
Population 50 ,lfs
70 l. is most Eastern; II. Sohthcrn; III
Northern. Politically The Wings carried all ir
1910, and The Eocos ever since. L. and III. vii
be hard fought next November.
/ 90 The PoEr. ND POETRY OF CosNEcrIcU1
will shortly appear in 8 large and beautiful volume
edited by Rev. CHAs.W. EVEREST. The mine is ,
rich one and we arc confident will be well wrought
Hillhouse, Percival, G. D. Prentice, brainard, Mrs
Sigourney, &c. &c. ate among the medern bard.
of the Land of Clocks, to say nothing of Dwight
Barlow, Trumbulr. and their cor p5ers OF the elder
school. w. H1tlk Tor the appearance of this volume
with decided interest.
20 A very neat and useful publication entitled
The Juvenile Naturalist y has. Been lust pub
llshed by Messrs. Turner s. Fisher, Chatham. st
tits arranged from Ruscbcnberger's series of Grs
books of Natural History, and appears in parts
separately devoted to distinctive branch Of thai
interesting subject, Two parts ere now before us
one treating of euadrapeds; the other OF Anatom,
and Physiology. They are appropriately illus
trated BY numerous correct engravngs.
MNEMoNEcs. following paragraph concern
Ing the moss re,sr.ssSS.e exhibitions Of memory b,
, Professor GoURAuD, now in this city, is from ths
Commercial Advertiser of Thursday. Prof. G..
who avows that this is owing, not to any extraor
binary power of his own, but to the practice of
system of Mnrnonics, which may be learned by all
will give further examples of its extent this even
ing at the American Institute.
h TIE sy,tero az ar,iBr;sI rnep,or, ;,yentsd \,
Mr.. Gouraud, and partially exhibited by him in it