Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

ne V1lt6u STATES agricultural loclety.
A grave friend, famous for attending wherever
substantial information may be obtainable,
after attaLtively listening TO the recent learn
ed disquisitiors uPcn that very latest agricuI-
tural wonder, The Chinese sugar cane, makes
to rs the following report" Of the result of his
patient listening of late, in the lecture room of
tie Smithsonian Institution:
oh sorghHul SachaTatKm your fame Is so great
You have set our Agricultulists crazy,
And they've talked, AID Ihey we talked, I'LL your
worth urd your fate
Is as doubted a. sea visions, heZy.
Therefore, tits aav:sed-erc We climb to .ha.
height
Tia: to lard again fatal the fall Is,
We turn back our minds TO the fama-and .ke
That amended the POOR msI.ieau!is'
P.s. Remember tie Shangkais, hen raisirs for
Who could not be fa.;ensd, e'ea by ChiEsss
ire corn.
Another correspondent jeyoIet to lgr:cul-
ture az seierce and kindred subjects, less
philosophic than aim vGose JI;ef but txpre:-
sive report wo pint above, thus pitches into
Professor Henry. aII also ict2 What he dc i
cately hints to Go one of the hum5rgs Il tie
day, in advance e lhs recent lecture # tie
Ies.Ied Prcse.zc- T. vhic, was u7oa the
Application Of The science OF me,eoroiqgy 10
agriculture ~ VII lie perceived, Ire con-
uunicstioH 81 cur ;9s-,Ibie friend SHOULD
have appeared son-s days ago, bn. Was
crowded cut for want # room in the .Sto,'s
columns. His dsnder has evidently been
aroused By tic prevalence % the somewhat
Questionable taste for hum6ugging and ma-
king great regulations cut Of very moderate
reading indeed, wh;ch is evident in the publ
oaticIs Of n,Te o. less of the agricultural con-
ysaticns, Societies, 81. of course, re can de-
sign 10 illusions 20 features marking the pro.
eeediDgs of this distir guished associations
graeed g. they are with uore or less names that
appear mos. enviebly. as regularly in those of
the Leading agricultural affairs all over the
country, IA that Of abby Kelly i'll every report
of an anti slavery convention, Lucy Stones in
tba. Of the Eonen's rights conventions, or
again, that Q. TIE Inevitable Horace Greeley,
in the proceedings OF all conventions 10 deter
mine how mahogany plank can be best made
out # Zine sa--dust, or on kindred topics of
vast interest TO The future Of the human race
or this benighted and perverse continent of
oars
M Eaitoy 1 see i: stated in the Evening
Star that Professor Henry will deliver q Zee
trre befo-e the United States Agricultural
Society, which mests to day. on the appiica
zion Of silence TO agriculture
For the honor Of the Ligtly respectable
body before which the lecture IS TO De deliv-
cred, it is 10 be hoped that the learned pIofes-
sor will not content himself With repetition
of the WORKOUT and absurd fallacies Of Euro
pean sclence, bu. that he will advance SONG
thing new, exhibiting originality of thought
something that will be worthy Of his own posi-
ton at tie asad Of al institution in America
established for the increase and diffusion Of
knowledge among men
1t l. hoped that he has revised and amended
his very crude notions, taken from the source
suggested above, relating to the primary
power In natCre--as set forth 10 his lecture
before the Mechanics Institute If ashiagton
at us first Inauguration.
i: Is known 10 soms Of bis audience that
these powers 40 not belong c. stated to water,
wind the tides combustion CT vital action.
1t is known that the power or powers ia nature
belong Il oF are assOeieted with no torla %
matter whatever. that all power CT force in
nature emanates icOm the author of nature,
and is delegated l. or associated With His
laws, that are designed To govern the course
of nature
If the lec,Grer sACuIJ touch upon the sso-
isct C the growth or development Of plants,
wtici. he will probably do before such S..
ciety, Il is hoped he will not attempt to palm
OF upon his hearers. rs truth, the fabulous
doctrine e cell-growth, as Taught in the Ger
man school &c physiology- More especially is
il % DC wished that lie will have more respect
20 the intelligence OF this Society than to ad-
vceste OetJFe II the opinion that the power or
force manifested In certain actions 10 d plant,
called their vital actions, are .eferable to the
bayS cd
electricity, IS supposed by others
jar. ii, 1871. MARYLAND PLASTEs
Having had Cur fun above, We take occasion
20 sag ;sat the recent lecture Of Professor
Henry, which our irasibis correspondent criti-
cis>s so vekemeRely in advance of its delivery,
yas avery Learned 49, satisfactory exposition
Of the .abyIs If tie iaG!itution of which ne
professor Ii IS the head, ia connection With
the science u rleteoroIosy he Is gentleman
Of ..reat s-iertif, trGtition, and may now be
fairly REGARDED - -, the vsry head Of hi.
American coupeerE 70 the branches Of science
10 which lie ieYo:es hiIsss!..
The Current IuyestigsIiop.- "a! cOtempo,
fary, Inc BalIiCOre Sur, always intelligent
IN i,s Decentralization sound IL rs views and
JU.t IL Tia c0ncIu.iOls, Rtler presenting it.
reader yesterday morning WITH synopsis q
the histary of English parliamentary difficult
ties with tie lFess ssys Of he current inves
tiga;iOn under TIC GstloEiiy Of the House Q!
Representatives and the circumstances giving
rise to it, follows:
With this extreme Cf parliamentary fisO!
IL tnat country, We have in ours. or are tend
.Ug toward, tee other. The press Of the
CLiled States is free ~ the utnost-free tC
sp=sk ths trSth. But il should not be ire
sponsibIe Least of all sho2ld the Congress
Il tie United States, b example OF remark
iLeuieste such ar idea. Structures upon de-
bates nay occasionally provoke personal
exFiana.ior, out they are within tbs liberty
1t The prass and must alIgaIl be so 10 The Ii Z.