The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-15

and rush a. The tide reaches afsssl height-tost
line which rIos be passed without bcubdless de-
stIE tien OF property, mt Of lie. The green
meadows then he under the sRls sea--she casls
shusee in The waves. and dykes, mtls and villages
melt doe a. II the deluge had como again.
Elsewhere, this articular ear, 1t has been fre.
! To Americans there Ia nothing surprising Ia the
forest fires caused By the passage OF em'g ANTS "
Indians; and In ordinary years such fires come Pre-
sently to IN end, sfter having done perhaps more
good than barn. The log left burnicg In the WOO Is
in the morning, when the family wagon leaves che
cmI irg place, or the grass on the prairie, set on
hre by Indians wbs t1ey desire to eace The trail,
may, ard ofen DO, spread over few scores Of acrss
and then &, out In swamp, or under sho ger. IL
even believed till very lately, aud probably Is
believed still by some, that the Indian sum ner'-
the few hazy warm days in November which are 80
called may be accounted for by the Iodisns making
fires In the woods, and an even diffusion OF the
blue smoke in the air; and no one thought Of
pspic about such fires. But, when all the
vegetation within circuit cf miles curs us and
drops In puffs Of powder; when wild animals come
among TIE farms, AMI rush Tito toe ponds and
likes; when ire ponds begin 20 steam, then sink,
and disappear with q hiss; when large trees, Of
which le man remembers the planting, totter aud
fall, ore after another, and flames shoot up through
the cbasm, and the whole landscape bursts into
col at once, must say that the witness
es may be excused for believing that the end Of the
.orlo has come. As for the loss Of property i is
to great 10 be estimated. BY the published tables,
the In mediate and apparent destruction b. the
fires In the United States curing the month Of An
gust is vslued at between four and five m,lli0na Of
dosis, Of which the fires in the woods constitute
soneshat less than fourth. Thus, to national
dangers from the earth, from wind and from water,
must now be added tnat from fire. 1t may be doubt
cd whet the Americans will ever again feel quite
Sc cure from this terrific result OF long Drought.
Ard how is 1t with US in our islands-iast an hor.
ed in the deer, where the winds come tempered
over the ocean, and the tides give long warning
wbtfe The laws OF nature compel the n TO eocrcach
or recede? We are laturally free from alt these
IT. me perils; and privilege therein is unsfeak
ably great. With our gratitude, however, we should
min lie prudence. Some of our reade have probi
bly, just remarked 70 themselves that we have our
perIs from ~ater-that death, sickness, and great
lose have or late years come by floods. This Il true;
but 1t Is Dot that nature has Changed her ways, bui
we ours. In our pIaisewortby lions 10 improve
or Agriculture, We nave 60 Grained our lands as ID
Jour ont at once more water than the existing
channels (stt mfeves deteriorating under neglect)
can cary away.
We must look 10 our ar'erla drainage, or lose
that immunity frcm great nssoral calanitics which
dlstfbs ushts our lot from that of 80 many other
Iations. We have removed the barriers Of Law aad
the shoals OF bad policy which obsructed the dis
tnbuiion OF tood sb Dad al d at home. We mast
Dow set 10 woG whatever labor we can command
Briiisb, sh, Rus sian, or what MOTTO deepen our
river ses, r.mJve shoals and bars turn water
mills jnto steam nillls, and. Ia short, ensure frea
and ample passage for our floods 20 the seq. rnas
done, we NAY ht pa for many moro bountiful har-
to apprehend from earth, air fire, or water, We
shall be the happy peop that we may.
Russia.
THE FAIR OF NovGORoD.
The fair annually held NJ Nijay Novgorod upon
the night bank OF the Volga, is the great mat OF
Russian commerce between europe and Asia. In
rbe course o. the last twenty years, however, IL has
become more and more market for the interchange
offbe products Of :be ation iDduss o wing 70 the
Establishment OF Armenian houses Of business AZ
Moscow. On the other hand, Io to 1853, British
manufactures were gradually supplantiug those Of
Russla, no, withstsnGiDg the protective system
adopted by the Emperor. An Off ial account oas
recently been published Of the business done ut this
fair in the year 1858, from which it appears that
there were taken to IL Russian merchandise, valued
ct AZ 2Ss 100 rcubles; European and colonial, 7404
S25 roubes As attic, 7766,35O ronbles--m. king Q
total OF SO 1925 roubes This amount was iees
by 1,606,G04 ruubles than at the fair Of 1852.
TIE taes produced gross sum Of 34,4l7 705
Ioubles, pe'ng considerably lsss than the amount
in 1851, wen the value sold was returned at
400 ubles. The receipts Of the restaurants
cafes ard shops mcst Of which mere stalls but
Of which regular account b kept-shov q CORES
por ding dipinution Ia 1853 com AIRED with 1852.
Among the As,atic articles brought to the fair
tea from China to the value Of 1914 500 rcuolcs.
And IL speaking OF thoea produced by Russia, tae
report says that TIE ordinary cotton fabrics made by
the rative manufacturers continue TO hUld to FIRST
aDk in competition with those Of foreign pr,d J..
lion. Their value was the greatest Of eli the ar i
cles enumerated among the produce Of Russis, Y tn
the exception Of wrought iron, FIR II is put do
8,1S9 100 Ioubles, or ones'xth of the whole. The
common and aversge qualities Of these fabrics salt
exsctly the Ia te and circumstances Of the people
and some credit y taken for the dminntion Of the
buSpess IN 1853, sompartd with thai of the presd
i b added nat lie ssrregsis diminution vas main
" cause BY tho<ra or the fear Of Il. IL is signi
fcapt fact thai the circulation Of cnn both god and
silver, was less IN 1853 tran in 1852.
American Female Medical Graduates Ia
The Edinburg Bcotland) CoGraaf, Of September
rs, publishes the following discourteous rsf1-al
given by the medical men Of the Royal Iasifmary 20
. very simple request Of . sister graduate from
America:-A few weeks ego the manayrs Of the
Royal Inffmary, Edinburg, received an application
Of rather novel character on this side Of the At
!antic; laSy graduate Ct Cleveland College. Ohio;
eht II time IN tie Royal Maternity Hospital, sp-
piled TO the msnsgers Of the Royal Iufrmarv for
leave to vis. the female wards Of toat institution.
all times mott readily GRANTED to gentlemen Who
baye graduated at Eoglish or foreign universities,
ard who may, on visiting slis eity, desire il. The
request OF the lady, however, was to the managers
an unprecedented one, ar they considere il TO be
their duty respectfully to decline acceding to 1t.
Henry Ciay.s Home and Grave
From TIE Cincinnati Gazette, September 20
We made q promise some oaJ 9 ago to give an az
count q cur visit to Ashland, which, for 90 many
gears, was the home Of Hen ~ Clay, name dear to
the American people, and to which the memory
clings like ivy to the oak. Ashlsnd has often been
described by abler pens than ours and its nime has
gore forth to the ends Of the earth. Those VINO
have proceed US, however, saw Ashland when Ia
ire, and when the oc upant was in lis psle Of
place, fist III the race OF men. Those days have
passed away never to return. Not only has the