New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-13

10 be considered worth lie extra cost BY those VINO
| have tried II.
Prof john Wilson, weIl-known in America, SIS
sures me that the tile -laying machine, Of which
only drawings and descriptions, SO far as am
aware, have reached our country, 10 commencing
| itself 10 the Judgment Of British mprovers. This
machine, now worked with movable steam instead
Of be rsepower takes up its position at side Of
| the field 10 be drained, and commences the first
drain at the point opposite on the other, slowly
! drawing thence 10 itself chain, TO which is at
tsched an apparatus which eats a mere crease from
| the surface downward to the required depth 81
which il makes hole barely larger than the tiles
which closely follow on a string, being firmly at
tached 10 the perforating apparatus, and paid out
| from the starting point just as fast as required
Thus each foot of the drain perfected the minute
after il il begun, while the labor Of throwing out
and replacing several cubic feet of earth for every
foot of drain is obviated. Obviously, this would
not answer in rocky nor in mify soil, though IN
the latter this mode of cutting would tend TO give
frmness TO the earth Immediately surrounding the
drain. at least for time. / shall try to see ma
chine of this sort at work in England, and wish
some extensive, thrifty, wealthy, improving land
owner in America would import or construct one
On the broad prares on the fertile nteryales OF
Western New-YOrk il ought TO work well.
1t is unsafe TO condemn what you do not fully
comprehend, but many Of the European c0ntrlV'
ances for moving. reaping, &c. by horsepower
seem absolutely puerile compared with those
known in our country. 80 the machines for thrash
ing aud cleaning grain here exhibited seem gen
orally such as We have for the last twenty or thirty
wears been superseding BY better, and some OF
item clumsilv made and in bad condition, as if
they had been brought here from an old lumber
ROOM without cleaning. This is not what one ex-
poets or is accustomed TO see in Paris. On the
whole do not believe any decided impulse Will
be given to Agricultural improvement IN France
by the Exhibition, though in nothing except gov
ernment) has France more pressing need OF prog
ress
Yet let me not close without tribute to the
enlightened few in and near Paris who are making
most spirited efforts for such improvement re-
CARELESS of the louts and sorry jokes wherewith
stubborn Ignorance is ever set on 20 oppose such
efforts. AT the head of these laborers for human
good place the working members OF the Society
founded here last Winter under the auspices of the
philosopher St. Hlaire, which has for its object the
dome ticatiOn Of animals hitherto useless to man,
and the introduction to France OF those which
have been proved useful in remote regions, but
have not vet been naturalized here (Ihe attempt
now being made by our Government 10 introduce
the Camel and the Dromedary tOthe Wild scarcely
peoped region which separates Missouri from Cali
fornia is far narrower, but of the same nature
with this The acclimatlOn OF Plants als0
is likewise to be vigorously prosecuted, and learn
it already gives promise of important and not dis
tant results. An edible root from China may be
relied on to take the place OF the Potato, should
the disease by which that root has been afflicted
for the last ten years prove incurabe; while new
and far harder Silk-Worm has been discovered In
Australia, which will thrive on the foliage of the
oak and other trees common to our forests, pro-
ducing therefrOm a staple quite as seryceabe,
though not quite so delicate, as that for which
Europe was originally indebted to Eastern Asia.
The absolute value of these and kindred additions
10 Mans available resources remains to be settled,
but none can seriously doubt that many blessings,
hitherto unrealized, will yet crown the peaceful
labors of Science impelled by Philanthropy.
have Just had a conversation with Mr.. Wray,
an intelligent English planter from Natal, (South
Africa who has been sugar-grower in both the
East and the West Indies and who is confident that
plant known among the Cafires as the iaty might
be advantageously naturalizei and grown in all tenn
perate climates for the production of Sugar. He
says it will grow wherever Indian Corn will ripen,
though it likes hot, bright Summer; that two
crops year may be harvested in our Cotton States
and one in any part of our country south OF 40
that il does not require replantng oftener than
the Hop, (say four times in a century, and that
it will yield three to four thousand pounds OF
choice Sugar to the acre at each harvest. A plant
similar in species but inferior in kind has re-
Gently been brought hither from Northern China,
and is doing we'll The expressed and boiled juice
Of this plant has hitherto been supposed incapable
of granulation, but Mr.. W has discovered pro-
cess which obviates this difficulty. | heartily
trust this subject will receive due attention in
America, and think Mr.. Brown, in the Agricul-
tural department of our Patent Office, can give
further information with regard to it.
Nj Wray is also confident that the Date
may and ought to be naturalized and extensively
grown in our Southern States. He says it begins
TO produce five years after planting, (the ground
being devoted TO corn, cotton or other crops mean
time,) and that, with very little attention there
after it will yield fire tunS per acre OF fair Sugar.
VIII not the South look into this
i bid adieu to the Worlds Exhibition of 1856 in
the saddening conviction that have not hall seen
it, and that nine-tenths of its visitors are even
more ignorant of its contents than | am. Its i'm
mensty tends to confuse and bewilder; the eye
eances rapidly from one brilliant object TO anoth
err while the mind fixes steadily upon none; so
that he who wanders ftfully gazing from court TO
court, from gallery to gallery, may carry away
nothing positive but headache. You will see
hundreds jostng and crowding for peep at the
Imperial diamonds crowns &c, which are said
to have cost several millions of dollars (by whom
earned how taken from them y where dozen
can with difficulty be collected to witness the
operation of new machine calculated to confer
signal benefits on the whole civilized world. Who
looks at the SelfAdjusting Windmill, which was
hrst exhibited in our country last year Yet that,
If II prove what it promises, will do mankind
more service than all the diamonds ever diverted
from their legitimate Office of g4ss-cutting to lend
false, decetful glitter TO the brssSs of Tyranny
and Crime. Here is poor French artisan with
very simple contriyaDce for taking the long coarse
hairs from rsbbit-skns, leaving the fine, soft fur
TO be removed by itself-the machine possibly
costing twenty francs and the dressing Herewith
of "a al hardly a oar, ,.k;Ia ,ka valua &c Tho