The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-11-15

EFOIf tfIt NFlINTIITIdtI UdLVlto,
Grape Culture In Georgia.


man ot Georgia, confirms the accounts re-
cehNy published of the wonderful product
Nehess OF the Catatcbd Grdpe in that sec,
uoi oi 'le eountry--so near to its native
; locality:
Il have visited vineyards in our State
three and four years old, planted by Mr..
Axt The vines are trained on sIats ma
stakes, 81 feet high. found on some Of
the vines three years old over one hundrsd
punches, and the vineyard would average
forty punches Of well maturcd grapes to the
vine. Those Of four years old are trained in
the same way, with from three to five canes
each, and counted on some of the vines
threo hundred punches Of good grapes, well
ripened. pressed some OF them and found
that sixty-fcur lunches, average size, made
gallon Of juice; and forty punches Of tho
largest size made gallon
ltappears to Inc tina; the vines have borne
too much for their good, and you will oblige
me if you will lot me know, whether this
will be, in your opinion, temporary or q
permanent injury 10 the vines.
The vineyards thai Mr.. Axt PLANTS, he in-
sures 10 make ], 900 gallons to the acre tho
third year.
Our land here is free from lime, the soil is
shaIlow-of grey and red color, with .
rcd, porous clay su '-soil. VIII il he nesss-
sary to add lime to the soil in our vineyards?
! wish very much to procure a vinc-dresser
from Cincinnati. Please send me one"
lhe Catawba Grapevine was first found
growing Mid, in Buncombe county, n. Z.
II has since been discovered in Arkansas, in
the same parallel Of latitude, 1886 From
recent accounts it is more productive in
vineyard culture in Georgia than any other
part OF the United States bat whether it
viii be subject to the .'rot" tour great
enemy here after tho fifth year, or whether
the vines can bear succession Of such enor-
nous crops as reported, without permanent
injury to them, has yet to be tested.
Mr. Axt promises 900 to :, 800 gallons
TO the acre for the fourth and successive
years, sri he only plants 1000 vines to tho
acre. Our average planting in the Ohio val
ley Is 2,ioO, and our average yield on tho
best vineyards viii not exceed 800 gallons
per acre, for a series Of years. Il would be
well for some of our vine-growcrs to visit
that favore,. region and Judge for themselves
OF the prospects Of producing such immense
crops from so few vines, aud whether tho
mode Of culture there is superior to that
pursued in the Ohio valley.
X. BvcuASAS.
CINCINNATI, Oct. ii, 1856.
SON:tin. III brOahVay.
A very singular wedding is said to have
lranspired in New York recently. The no
vel msnn,r in which it was brought about is
ttEs related
A young ard very pretty Irish girl the
sister of one OF our Common Councilman
was walking up broadway, y. Y. when she
sttrac,ed the attention OF wealthy man,
vino had lived all his life bachelor and an
2scetic Rlm0r says that he was foiled in
an aHilire du cUar, and carried thenceforth
in his breast heart impcnetrable to the
Ssert influence of the tender passion.
Well, this gentleman on the promenade
was attracted by this Irish girl to such de-
gree that he arrested his steps and ventured
to adiress her:
"Wih you pardon the liberty. Miss, il
,fhc girl timidIy surveyed Eic,, ana appa-
rently satisfied that no mere curiosity
prompted him in the query, and that he was
a gentleman, she acceded.
MY name i Mary Ok, SIR"
''Darc ! a>!, YOU another question, Mary
I mean Miss O'K-:"
Proceed, sir, she replied good hunor-
edly.
Then should like to ask you-and you
viii confer an infinite obligation upon me by
answering truly-whether you are engaged
in marriags to any one, or whether your
feelings are interested in any person what
eyer."
The question was decidedly home one,
but there was so kind and gentle an express
sion in the old mans eyes, and such an evil
dent carnestnesS ia bis tone, that she an'
swerei him freely
''Not in the least, sir"
s'Ihcn allow me without any further cere-
mony to place my card in your hand, aud
with Il The offer of myself and fortune
Commission any friend you please to mako
enquiries concerning me you may deem pro-
per, and lot me know your determination
tomorrow"
The girl, overwhelmed with surprise, de-
posted the slip of pastc-board in her resi-
cue and passed on. On Wednesday alter
noon her brother called at the hotel where
her sd,.;irer resided and informed him that
Mary had concluded to accept him. They
were married the same evening at the resi-
dcace OF the brides mother, and the old
/ gentleman settled on her 100000 on the
spot.
The gent'eman-hc would not like mo to
give his na,ne-has held agreat many public
Offices in his time, was formerly Major in
the T. S Army and afterwards Assistant
Indian Commissioner. His real estate in
this city is worth more than $780, 900.
Dip THE AYCiESrs SMoKE?-The question
as 70 whether smoking was known to the
ancients has Just been started in Germany
by the publication of drawing contained
RecueU des .ARtiqu.tes Suisscs Of Baron do
/ Bons,otien, which represents two objects in
| clay, which the author expressly declares TO
be smoking pipes. The authors of the his.
/ tory of the Caution of the Grisons had Al
ready spoken of these objects, but had classl-
fled them among the instruments made use
Of by the sooth-sayers. The Abbe Cochet,
in bis work on Subterranean Normandy,
mentions having found similar articles either
whole or in fragments. in the Roman necro-
polls near Dieppe, which he bad first con-
sidered as belonging to the 18th century, or
! perhaps to the time Of Henri III and Henri
! ". The abbc, however, afterward changed
! his opinon on reading the work Of Mr.. COL
! linSyooI Bruce entitled The Roman Wall"
! in which the author asks the question whe-
/ ther the pipes discovered at Picrve Bridge,
Z ia Northumbcilan1, and in London, at places
where Roi.ap stations were known to have
existed. belonged to the RomansY
| Mr.. Wilson, in his Archaeology Of Scot
land, states that tobacco was only introduced
as a superior kind cf narcotic, and that
hemp was already known to the ancien&s as
sedat'e. Inc pipes 1ound IN Scotlahu ov
Mr.. Wilson might have served for using this
latter substance. Mr.. WGchter, in ms
"Celtic Monuments of Hanover" says that
clay pipes Gsom six to eight inches in length
had been found in tombs at Osnabrqck,
which proyed that the ancients smoked. NJ.
Kef.rsteip. in his "Celtic Antiquities,
holdly declares that the Celts smoked
CIemm in his "IIistory of Christian Eu.
rome" states that the smoking Of intoxlca1;
;,,r ,,',,rts was known TO the Scythians and
6 Airirans rI long before the introduction Of to-
bacco into Europe. Iicrodotus, in speaking
of ,Le Scythians, does not go quite 50 far,