The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-04-14

By LIEUT.. N. v. MARRY.
From very able article in the Novem.
her number of ihe Southern Literature
Messenger. we extract the following line
Descriptions Of This valley:
or more Than iwire The size Of the aIis.
siss,ppi valley. the valley of the Amazon
is entirely in.erropical. Aud everlasting
summer rrigns there. Up To The very
base Of The Andes. The river iisrlI il ma, !
gable for vessels Of The largest class. The
Pennsylvania a. may 60 there. alf
A natural canal through the caciquiari
cnnnecis il with the 0ronoco. Giving
drainage aud fertility Ia immense plains
thai eo,er two millions square miles, il
receives frnm the North and South innu-
merable tributaries, which. il is said. az
ford an inland navigation. up and down. uf
moi less Than 20 or so thousand miles in
extent. Stretched out in continuous
line. the nsvigable streams of that great
watershed would more than encircle the
earth around al its largest girlh.
All the climates of India are there. In
deed, we may sly, thai from The mouth 10
The source of The Amazon. piled up one
above The other. and spread oui. Andean.
like, over sieppe after slrppc. in beautiful,
unbroken succession, are all the climates,
and all the soils, with the capariiies Of
production. that are TO be found between
The regions Of everlasting summer and
eternal snow.
The valley Of the Amazon is the plare
of production of ludia rubber, an article
Of commerce which has no parallel as 10
the increase Of demand for il, save and
except in the history OF our own great
staple, since the invention Of the cotton
gin. We all recolleci when The only uses
to which India rubber was applied were
10 rub out pencil marks, and make trap
balls for boys. But il Is now made into
shoes and hats, caps and rloaks, l,,oi- balls
aud purses. ribbons and cushions, boats,
beds. tents and bags, ponloons for push
ing amies across rivers, aud camels for
lilnng ships over shoals. II is also ap-
piled to variety of other uses and pur-
poses, the meIe enumeration of which
would make us tedious. New applica-
tons of il are continually being made.
Boundless forests Of The Saringa Tree are
found upon The banks Of tins river; and
The expectation Of this gum from lhe
mouth of that river, is daily becoming a
business Of more and more value, extent,
aud Importance. InlSi6--7. pon,oons los
the British army in India, and tents for
the American army in Mexico. were
made in New England irom the India
rubber OF the Amazon. Il is The bes, IN
the world.
The sugar zane is found here in its
most luyuriani growth. and of the richest
saccharine development. Il requires To
be planted but once M 20 years.
There ale produced, also. OF excellent
quality, and in grea, profusion, coffee and
tobacco, rice aud indigo. cocoa and cotton
with drugs Of virtues The most rare, dyes
Of hues the most brilliant, and spices ol
aroma the most exquisite.
Soils OF the richest loan and the fines,
alluyions are there. The climate o( India
Of the Moluccas. and The Spice Islands
are all there. And there, too, lying dor
nan,, are The bnundless agricultural ant
mineral capacities Of the East and West
all clustered together. Il IIcommercc wer,
but once to spread its wings over Tia
valley, the shadow oi il would be like III,
touch Of magiciaa's wand--ihose i'm
mense resources would spring al once in
10 life and ACTIVITY.
In the fine imagery Of their language
the Indians call the Amazon the I" Kin
Of Rivers" II empiies into the Ocea
under tile Lime.
"Seed Long in Dust."-Some time a
go, a man Of d bundled years old. win
lived near Boston, sat down one day a
lone, and medi.aied on the past. Liz
Noah's dove. memory
SLEW Ger the dark floods Of his life,
Nor found one sunny resting place,
Nor brought him back one branch Of grace"
j lie saw lillle else but a waste Of 81
and guilt, but as he called to mind de
parted seasons. he thought Of solemn
Sabbath he spen. when sailor. in on
Of the sea-por,s Of England. his na,iv
country. lie recolIecled sermon whic
-.
he heard iha. day, from the lips Of III
eloquent Flayel; and how the preache
paused as he was abeal 10 pronounce III
benediclion, and exclaimed, 8 How can
invoke Gods blessing on many IN .hi