Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-12-29

tended importation ever made, makes description
of the animal, at the present tme of considerable
interest The lama belongs to the group Ruminani-
tia, which is divided into four famiss-the camel,
giraffe, deer and ANTELOPE and oxen The genus
Auchana differs from the camel in being destitute
of the humps on the back The legs are shorter
than in the camel The neck is lopg-more vertical
The ears and hoofs are long. The toes are sepa-
rated, or not united, in the camel by callous
sole. The actual species of this genus belong to
Ibis continent exclusively, where they represent the
camel of the eastern. They are confined to the
mountainous regions of South America. The lama,
The most common of the species, is as large as a
stag, and was known at the time of the conquest of
Peru by PizarrO in 1884, and indeed was the only
domesticated animal, being to the Inhabitants OF
that country what the reindeer is to the Laplander
The importation is a speculation, the design being
to introduce them where sheep and alpacas flourish
This animal is extremely hardy and is said to breed
rapidly They will be valuable only for their wool
We presume that our friend, General HARDING, will
not let the opportunity slip to secure for his beauti
full fields specimens of this last importation of
animals.
Figures are given in some Of the Northern papers
t9prove that even with the abundance Of wheat in
the country, failure TO send forward TO the East
from Chicago before the lakes freeze may cause a
state of things which will render importation from
the Black Sea cheaper than to transport by rail
from the West.
These northern papers" have not heard of the
Tennessee wheat crop. They will learn that the
South, which never freezes up, can supply all de-
mands for the article in New York, without the re-
cessity of looking to the Black Sea.
GEN. SCoTT's ANNUAL REPoRT.-The annual re-
port of GEN. ScoTT strongly recommends an increase
in the army, urging, he says he had done IN pre-
viOus reports, that the various regiments, horse,
foot and any thing but peace establishment.
For years they have been almost constantly in pur
suit of hostile Indians, through swamps and noun
tains, in heats and SHOWS, and with no nconsidera-
BILE loss of life from frequent cOmbats and still
greater mortality from excessive labor deprivation
and disease In other wars those hardships &C.
casonally broken by rest and comfort, how long IN
known 10 nine-tenths Of our troops; and hence
another great evil, the numerous assertions which
daily thin their ranks In order to mitigate these
evils the General suggests augmentation of at
least one regiment of horse, dragons, cavalry
rifemen) and at least three regiments of foot, n-
fantry or rifemen.) This augmentation would no
more than furnish the achievements now greatly
needed in Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California,
Oregon, Washington Territory, Kansas, Nebraska,
and Minnesota, leaving not company for Utah.
He speaks feelngly of the that should be taken
to provide moral and religious culture to the army
recommends more comfortable quarters in fOrti-
ications-and concludes by asking revision of the
pension laws, whereby the army both regulars and
volunteers may be put on the same footing, as re-
CARDS pay, with the navy.
TIE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.-The Dublin University
Magazine says:
Dictionary English is something very different
not only from common collOquial English, but even
from that of ordinary written composition Instead
of about AZ, 900 words there probably no single
author in the language from whose works however
vOluminous, so many ten thousand could be col
lected OF the 10000 words there are certainly
more than one hafthat only employed they are
employed at all, on the rarest occasions. Why
should any of US be surprised to find, if count
ed them, with how small a number of words we
manage to express all that we have to say either
wit our lips or with pen? Our common lite
rary English probably amounts to 10000 words
our common spoken English hardly to $1,000"
TAKE NoT1CE.-The West Chester JefsrsoHicr, one
of the abest and most reliable Democratic papers
in Pennsylvania, sumsup long story, very cOnclus
lively and in very few words, as follows:
DOUGLAS Us. DOUGLAs.-The distinguished Sena-
tor from Illinois, who has just taken flying leap
towards the Republicans cannot object TO being tried
by his own standard.
The squatters IN California, without an act of
Congress or a Territorial Legislature, elected Con-
vention which made State Constitution. Senator
Douglas was g vehement friend fer her conversion
under it, though never submitted to people.
More recently he voted for TOombs bill, which au-
thorzed Convention to be called in Kansas to frame
State Constitution. That bill did not require the
instrument to be submitted TO the people.
Last summer, in public speech in illinois, he as
serted the legality of the Lecompton Convention,
and promised to abide by its decision.
In a letter to President Buchanan, he has COM
planned that his State was overlooked in the disri
button of the Offices under the general government.
We fear that there is some personal feeling in his
present hostile attitude to the Administration. How
ever if it possesses the peoples confidence, Judge
Douglas will bolt in vain
RECEIPT FOR GROWING BIG MEx-Dr Holmes,
the celebrated Boston poet and anaomist, has given
us a new theory for the manufacture of of
alrge growth, which is going the rounds of the pa
pers. The DR.. says:
In Kentucky, Ohio and Western Vermont, men
grow to larger sizes because of the limestone fOrma
lIon under the soil. Parts OF families have emf
grated to these regions and the result In the next
generation has been a larger bone development in !
those who remained. Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa will
grow great men. The finest figure in the world will
be found in the valley Of the Mississippi in a few
generations. Indoor labor, so unnatural for men,
will weaken the vital powers and stop the growth in
large cities, but the great aud glorious West with
lis broad prairies, and compensate for the growing
Teebeness of the eastern States.
ia Our friend WILLIAMS ofHickman, has won a
compliment from the Columbia Mirror paper rather |
;hary in its praise of Democrats. We copy:
SPEECH OF JUDGE WILLIAMS ON THE BASKs.-We |
nave received pamphlet copy of a speech on the
Bank and Currency Question" delivered by Judge |
]. J. Williams, of Hickman, in the House OF Repre-
on the I'd inst.
Judge Williams, although one of the youngest |
members of the House, is of the most energetic
md industrious. His speech is brief and TO the
,ont-a merit which few speeches emenaGng from
,ur legislative halls can boast His opinions to
he best method of regulating the currency Of the
country are clearly set FORTH and akin 10 those
le Id by other leaders of the Democratic party We
lid not read his speech with the intention Of assa
nC his position. That position may be right; it may
q fslse.-we shall not attempt 10 determine which
NE wisest statesmen of the nation have failed to
evise a practical method by which a periodical
urrence of thelate financial crash may be prevented
Without resortng to an exclusively metallic currency
nd a total abolition fthe credit system-a scheme
rom which something might be hoped, did not its
place it beyond the reach OF hope
L is not to be expected then, that the wisdom OF
ountry newspaper shall prescribe an antidote TO the
financial wound which has been inflicted upon the
ation by the extravagant rascality Of the banks,
nd the raseally extravaganza of the people.
THE HERMrrAGE AND MILITARY SCHooL.-lt is
kelly that the Hermitage property rendered to the
Tnitsd States, upon the condition that the Govern
nent will establish thereon a Military School, viii
e accepted during the present session of Congress.
will be remembered that the tender was made dur
no the last session. but Al late period, that 10
Ian Reorganization for the school mstured, ana
he tender was not accepted for this and other
essOns
Gen. Zollicofer the Representative Of the Hermit
age District, has a bill which be viii shortly in
roduce and which, we think, win certainly meet