Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-12-22

This disease would now seem to be passing
away, and the culture of the root conse-
qucntly reviving.
Of Vine. the production is steadily in
creasng. Our importation amounts TO Siz
! Millions of Gallons per annum; our con.
sumption to at least Twenty Millions OF
Gallons so that our home production mus
be not far from Fourteen Million Gallons.
Of Spirii,ions and Mali Liquors, the an
nual product reaches the enormous aggre-
gate of Eighty-six Millions Of Gallons, (siz
gallons for each person old enough to drink
or to know better, Our imports and ex-
ports just about balancing each other
This is a great country The Hop cul-
ture (mainly confined to this state) is ex-
tending.
OF Flar and Heap, the production did
not materially vary from 1910 to 1850
We trust it has in so received strong and
lasting impulse; but Rome was not built in
day.
Our SIX Culture is a ruin. We produc-
ed in 1881 no less than 3S6,790 pounds OF
Cocoons; in 1910 orly 61,552 pounds ; in
1850 barely 14,763 pounds And yet it is
demonstrate that We have every facility
Of climate, soil, unemployed hands, &C., for
this branch of industry, aud that its vigo-
rous prosecution would add largely to the
National wealth. But to secure this end,
present sacrifices are essential; and these
individuals cannot or will not make, and
the nation is too dull, too careless, too fet-
tered by partizanship,to do the thing need,
full. So we run in debt for our Silks, and
leave the children who ought to produce
them,to grow up beggars and thieves along
our highways.
Our Sugar culture is extending. Our
production Maple and Cane togeSher) in
1910 was 155, 100, 800 lbs. in 1850 it was
281, $3.50, 1856 lbs., an increase (mainly in
Louisiana and Texas of 1876, 730,O77 lbs.
Much credit is due for this to the Tariff of
1912. which gave the Sugar Culture an
impetus which it has never lost. 1t ha,
now obtained command of the most admi-
rable and efficient machinery, and is stead
lily working further and further North
ward, through the gradual acclmaton Of
the Cane, and can nevermore be broken
idown.-Richmond IImeS.
GRAND CHINESE FEsTIvAL.-The Chi
nese residents of San Francisco recently
turned out by hundreds to pay visit to
the cemetery where their deceased breth:
rem lie inferred. The procession formed
on Sacramento street, with band of Chi
nese musicians in front, dressed in q holy
day attire, and in wagon neatly and
tastefully decorated. A long string of car
riages, in which were a number of the up
per-ten with yellow silk unmentionables
followed, and the rear was brought up by a
very large cavalcade of horsemen. The
street was literally jammed for long dis
lance, and the balconies of the chinese
House were densely crowded with specta-
tors. AT gwen signal the procession
moved up 10 Dupont and down to Wash
ington, from thence up Kearney in the d.
| rection Of the cemetery. The music began
as the column moved and such noise has
not been heard in the recollection of the
oldest inhabitant. Coming down Wash
ington street, they struck up the Kwang-
rel march with the Yysingtu variations.
Physical force was energeticaliy and inces-
sanity applied to the gong, symbols, drums
and stringed instruments, until the very
heavens resounded with the frightful dis
cord. Not dog or an unbroken horse
could be found within six squares of the
procession. The noise was indiscribably
lawful. An avalanche in the Alps, double
distilled patent thunder, or a dozen priz-
lilies in a cane break, does not even give
an approximating idea of the noise. 1t
was confusion worse confounded in a su-
perlative degree. Fortunately the process
sion moved on, and it was only after the
lapse of an hour that the city resumed its
usual quiet and peaceful aspect.-.Aha
California Of 2Sh.