Litchfield enquirer., 1856-09-25
Fruit Growing at the South.

the Bartlett and the Duchess fAugouieme
 -whieh found here ripe in August, Gin New
 York they do not ripen together) I fonnd the
 importer of them 2 Mr. Newhall, and gen.
 tlepan from Mississippi, Dr. Turner, from
 whom obtained interesting particulars of the
 nursery in which they grew. To-day went to
 Mr. NewhalFs store and weighed Bartlett
 and six Buerre d'0ef Tbe former weighed
 fourteen ounces, the latter (together) four pounds and fourteen ounces. Several gentle
 men pronounced them to bc the best pears they had ever seen.
 They were grown on the plantation of Col John Hebron, Warren County, Mississippi, called LA GRANGE, lying seven or eight miles back of Vicksburgh. His pear orchard con sists of 10000 bearing trees, and of 35, 900 which are growing. The product this year of his fruit of which he has several kinds will reach $3o,000. He ships 400 boxes of peach es. pears and apples per week. his markets be- ing New Orleans, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincin-
 mti aud Chicago Those for Chicago go hy the Illinois Central R. R. to this place. The freight is 50 cents per box to Cairo, and sl. 50 per box from Cairo, which added to the cost of the fruit, $40 per box, makes $6.50 as the cost here. It takes from seven to eight days for transportation at ordinary stages of the water, but steamers are now so much delayed by low water at Island No 54, about 50 miles below Memphis, that much risk attends the traffic. The water at the bar there, has for the last few years fallen to six feet, much to tho dismay of all persons interested in the riv- er at that point. The Alick Scott, on her late voyage up, although drawing but 6 l-2 feet, fn uf,,ry, fr hal 200 hogsheads of sugar and molasses, before she could pass by the island A steamer bound down, had to put her wheat ashore, exposed Eo storms, to enable her to go over the bar, Afd at the same time another steamer on her first voyage lay there aground and in danger The Mississippi is mighty riEer, and persists
 in having its own way and unfortunately all human power seems unequal to the task of such peculiarities. Mr NeWhall has therefore been obliged to discontinue his purchases for the present season.
 Col. Hebron named his place La Grange in honor of La Fayette, with whom his father as m officer of the Revolution, participated in the defeat of the British at Yorktown. He s a Xirginiansby birth, and cultivates bis nur- sery fy kEnvc iaBcF. He has eighty negroes. Mr. NewRall spoke with great earnestness of thc intelligence and responsibility of Col He Dron's foreman, one of his own slaves, who su- perintends the planting, budding and pruning ,f the trees-a white nursery man is subject to lis direction The land on which the nursery s planted was originally covered with veget- lble mould foot in depth but the original ,wncrs turned it into cotton, or by careless 'nltivation allowed it to wash into the valleys. The general form of the country is that of lnobs, and being destitute of its original cov- ,ring, it now abounds in yellow hills, composed # clay, in which there are vast quantities of 'hells. In this soil, which is underlaid with gravel, the trees are planted, and with such success. that fruit-growing is attracting much attention in the vicinity Col. Hebron raises lmong the trees cotton. You know that this llant is cultivated with the care of a garden, md hence the nursery is kept clear of weeds. pr. Turner highly intelligent gentleman, told ne that at the beginning of the season, Col. Hebron had refused an offer of $l5, 900 for the Tear's produce of the place, and that with his ,wn meaus he intended to build railroad of two and half miles to Borina, which is the station nearest to his nursery.
 The extent or the establishment, and the skill and success with which it is conducted, gives it a rank along with I.ongworth's in the business of fruit culture 1 feel particular
 to Col. Hebron and Mir. New hall, for giving me an opportunity in this new quarter of the world to purchase the fruit raised at La Grange. Tine dealers declare that the several specimens of the pear are superior
 in sire, flavor and completeness of shape, to any grown on the sea-board, or in Western New York The man who has converted the deserted plantations of Western Mississippi to this new use, and aided to develope power of production of such consequence to the South,
 deserves high houof. The system of cultva- ton pursued on cotton fields, is generally one of rapid and thorough exhaustion of the sod The houses are consequently roer and slight, and the surroundings dcsod of taste, because the owner expects to desert them and wear ont other lands The example of Col. Hebron will change this state of things. and lead to the tasteful embelishment of Southern dwell lings. He bas now ( brick-yard in operation on his own plantation, for his use in construct ing substantial and elegant residence. Eve y Northern citi1eA ought to rejoice as new means of prosperity aud usefulness are opened to onr Southern bfethren. but alas how many are invited by om sectionel papers to look up- on them with hatred, so that estranSement must Dc inevitable. The curses of posterity will be aimed forever at those who are princi- cipally in making the people of the United States two in sentipent for such a division rcn- ders complete sqparation nose . matter of form than of subtapce 0. B.
 THr Halifax Journal says the subuerged