Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-03
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Fa-mers.-We question much whether
the growers Of produce-vegctables, fruits,
&c.-for the Washington markets will realize
much more money during this year, of unex-
;lmpied abundance, than in the last, Of unex-
ampled scarcity and failure of such c-ops.
Their Proft-increased proft-of the season
IS to result almost altogether in what their
abundance at home may enable them to save of
money otherwise to be paid out for the support
VI their families, and in the much greater ae-
cum uiation OF domestic fertilizers resultingfrcm
the refuse of their greater abundance Of things
raised Very few vegetables and fruits are now
worth In Washington more than the cost of
DrinSinS them to market. Cabbages, such as
sold readily last year at from twelve and hale
twenty-five cents per head, now sell slowly at
from two to four cents per head; tomatoes will
not bring an average of twelve and half
cents per bushel to the grower; peaches not
more than twenty-five cents per bushel; aver
age cantaloupes from two to three cents each.
and WaterInelons from six to eight cents each:
okra finds no sale, nor do we find that other
arucies' usually raised on market garden
farms, command prices more likely to stimu-
late the grower to send marketer and team n
oOhen miles In the hope of realizing anything
IN this city as the result lin money! of his sea-
soh s labor and investment Of capital.
We lave practical knowledge of the subject
knowing, to our cost, the truth of what we say
above The parties favored through this SUI
peTabandance of Natures bounty, are the
city consumers and the retailers who buy from
hrst hands. Theirs, and theirs only, is the
profit. This state of things enables families
disposed to live as they should for health's
sake at this season of the year, pretty much
on fruits and Vegetables greatly to economize
their household expenses, and in that way it
may benefit veiy large class of our fellow
citizens of Wa hington; though we fear that
universal (AmeIican) want Of system in fur
nishiDg the table must result in the loss of
this great advantage on the part of thousands
who should avail themselves of it,
Greet Cry and Little Wool.-We place no
corfdenec whatever in the shouting of the
English over their pretended victory at Swea
borg. We recOllect that when they sacked
the undefended city of Kertch, under Sir
George Brown, disgracing the character of
civilized warfare by their atrocities then and
there committed, they set up just such another
cry of triumph, as precursor to their disas-
trous and overwhelming defeat before Sebas-
topol, under the same Sir George Brown,
week afterwards. In this case, their pretepee
OF having actually accomplished something at
Sweabors is evidently hollow and false. Swea.
borg is merely a cluster of little islands. on
which some defences Of the approaches to Hell
singiors are erected. Helsingfors is the city,
which is strongly fortified, and contains the
great Russian navy-yard and depot in tina.
quarter. SweabOrg is a cluster of little and
nnimportant suburban villages on little islands,
IN which there could have been no other Coy
eminent property than the armament and
ammunition for the Notifications to defend the
approaches to the city to which we refer above
These villages and their contents were de.
sfroyed By the British feet, firing fireworks
troeketS, shells, &C., from distance Of three
miles, and, Of course, from witbou, the rorc.
even Of the guns Of the Sweaborg works, with
IN the cover Of which nothing appears to have
bee harmed.
1t strikes us tina. all the blatherskiting over
this SwsabOrg affair, amounts simply to an
effort to give eclat to Victoria's visit to Napo-
leon--to nothing more whatever. They ur-
derstand humbug on that side of the Atlantic
TO q charm. Barnum himself is not a
" Priming" to them.
oirty Paws.-Among the distinctive habits
OIL TOO many Of the people of the emitted States
one that is apt to mark an American abroad |
quickly TO the eye of an inhabitant of the Old |
worlds the vulgarity of lingering gems of
sculpture and paintings. Some Americans
are not content with viewing piece of art
win Teasing their eyes upon masterpiece
out they must feel 10 with their fingers. On.
u 'his class has not satisfied himself of II.
iHst''s until, if it is bust, he has stained the