Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-03


| over. washed over. ground over, siited oyer--ln
| short, turned into an abominaton of desolation
| which all the guano of the ChiDcha Islands would
| not restore to fertility. Yon can never got from
it second yield Of gold. nor anything else I'M
less probably crop Of mullen or stramonium.--
| The Atlantic diggns. on the contrary. with good
| management, will yield fresh crop ot the gold
| every four years, and remain in the interval in
| condition for n succession of several other good
| things of nearly equal value.
+, The other discriminating circumstance is OF u
still more astonishing nature. The grain OF
| the California gold are dead, inorganic masses.-
| How they got into the gravel; between what
mountain mill-stones, whirled by elemental storm
winds the bosom Of oceanic torrents, the an-
riferous lodges were ground TO powder; by what
Titanic hands the coveted grains were sown
broad cast in the piacers, human science can but
family conjecture. We only know that those
grains have within them no principle of growth
reproduction, and that when that crop was TO
be put in, Chaos must have broken up the soil.
How different the grains of our Atlantic gold, sown
by the prudent hand of man, to the kindly alter
nation of seed timo and harvest. each curiously.
mysteriously organized; hard, horny, seeming
lifeless on the outside, but wrapped up in the in
terror, seminal germ,a living principle. Drop
grain of California gold in the ground aud there
il will lie unchanged to the end of time, the olods
on which it falls not more cold and lifeless. Drop
ground, and To- amystery. In few day sof
tens, it swells, it shoots upwards it is living
thing. Ii is yellow itself, but it sends up n deli
cate spre which comes peeping, emerald green,
through the soil; il expands to vigorous, stalk
revels in the air aud sunshine, II arrays itself
more gorlously than Solomon in its broad ilutter-
ing leaiy robes, whose sounds as the west wind
whispers through them, fall IA pleasantly ON tho
| husbandmans rs the rustic OF his sweethearts
garment;stiI towers aloft spins its yerdant skeins
of vegetable floss, displays its dancing tasscls,
surcharged with fertlzing dust, aud at last ri
pens into two three magnificent batons like
this (an ear of Indian corn), each Of which is
studded with hundreds of grain of gold, every
one possessing tho same wonderful properties As
the parent grim, every one instinct with the
same marvellous reproductive powers. There
are seven hundred and twenty grains the err
which hold in my hand. And now ! say. sir
of this trnnscendant gold of ours. the yield this
year will be at least ten or fifteen times that of
California.
But it will be urged perhaps sir, in behalf Of
, the California gold by some misery old fogy,
who thinks there is no music in the world equal
to the clink Of his guinoas. that though one crop
only of gold can be gathered from the same spot
yet once gathered it lasts to the end of time;
while fhe will maniain) our vegetable gold is
produced only, 10 be consumed, and when con
sumed is gone forever. But this, Mr.. President,
would be most egregious error both ways
II is true, the California gold will last forever un-
changed, If its owner chooses; but whllo 1t so
lasts, it is of no use no. not much its value
in pig iron, which makes the best Of ballast;
whereas gold, while it is gold, is good for little
or nothing. You can neither eat it, nor drink it,
nor smoke it. You can neither wear it, nor burn
IT ms fuel, nor build house with it; it is really
useless till you exchange it for consumnblc, per-
ishable goods; and the moro plentiful it is the
less its oxchangcable value, Far different the
case with our Atlantic gold: it does not perish
when consumed, but by nobler achymy than
that Of Paracosus is transmitted in consumption
to higher lite. Perish in consumption" DID
the old miser sayl Thou fool, that which thou
sowest is not quoSened ercept it die. The
burning pen ol inspiration, ranging heaven and
earth for ,f'similitudrto convey to our poor minds
some not made quae den of the mighty doctrine
of the Resurrection, can find no symbol OK
pressive as bare gram II may chance OF wheat
some other grain" Today IA senseless plant,
tomorrow it is human. bone and muscle, vein
and artery, sinew and nerve; beating pulse,heav-
ing lungslolng all, sometimes overlooking brain.
Last June 1t sucked from the cold lreast 81 the
earth the watery nourishmcnt of It's dlstending
sap vessels and now it clothes the manly form
with warm cordial flesh, qulvers and thrills with
the hve-fold mystery of sense, purycys and min
listers to the higher mystery of thought. Heap
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will strike in the stalwart arm. aud glow in the
blushing cheek, and fash in the beuming eye;-
TIL we learn at last to realize that the slender
stalk which we have seen bending in the
field under the yellow burden of harvest il in
deed the "statf and life which, since the world
began. has supported the toling and struggling
myrlads of humanity on the mighty pilgrimage of
being.
Yes, sir, 10 drop the allegory, and speak with
out a figure. it is this noble agriculture, for the
promotion of which this great company is assem-
hied from so many parts of the Union, which
feeds the human race, and all the humber orders
of animated nature dependent on man With the
exception of what is yielded by the fisheries and
the chase "a limited though certainly not an in
significant source of supply Agriculture the
steward which spreads the daily table of man
kind. Twenty millions of human beings,
by accurate computations, awoke this very morn
ing IN the United States, all requiring their ''da-
~ bro ld,' whether they had the grace to pray
for it or not. and under Providence all looking to
the agriculture Of the country for that daily bread
and the food OF the domestic animals depending
on them;a demand perhaps great as their own.
Mr.. President, it is the daily duty of YOU farmers
to satisfy this gigantic appottc;to fill the mouths
of these hungry millions-of these starving mil
hons, might say. for if by any catastrophe, the
supply were cut of for few days, the life of the
coun'ry-human and hrute-woul be extinct.
NArlvEIsM IN IRELANp.--It will be seen by the
following extract, says the New Orleans Creole,
that lrishmen advocated Native principles many
years ago. Daniel O'Connell once said, .'Iet En-
glish rule Eng land-Frenchme France Scotch
men, Scotland-an in the name of Goblet Irish
men rule Ireland The head and front Of
offending" is, that claim, also, that it is right
Americans should rule America"
United Irishmen The society of United Irish