Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-10
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

GuANo-The Petersburg (Va.) Inteil,gencer
warns its country readers against purchasing
large quantities Of guanO at current rates-S60
Per ton of 1000 lbs. Well it may. The Fred
ericksburg Recorder, published in the heart of
the region of Virginia where guano has been
most resorted to of late years, shows from the
results of the sale of the crops of six different
estates in its neighborhood and the cost of the
guano used on them last year at S55 per ton
the wheat selling at Sl.4O-that is, guano So
lower and wheat 10 cents higher than at this
time, that 1t required nearly one-half Of the
whole crop TO pay for the fertilizer. Or, in
other words, that last season guano paid very
few agrieulturists indeed. Throughout much
Of Maryland and Virginia the fly, joint worm,
and other insects have come to be so pestiferous
rs that the farmer now very rarely calculates
to gather more than half the crop his land would
produce with the use of guanO, even with the
most solicitOus care on his part to guard against
their ravages.
Under these circumstances, we trust the warn
ing of the Petersburg LateiIigsncer may prove
OF avail, and that the agricultursts of this Sec
tlon OF the Union will at once turn their atten-
ton to otherferhlizers. Experience proves that
more labor expended on the farm in collecting
outstanding and preparing the fertilizing ma
terials made at home, with the use of lime,
ashes, dc, not only results in the production of
more rcmunerating crops than are now OBJ
tained from the use of guano, but more certain
crops, and also far more permanent fertilization
Of the soil. The reason why they are not resort
ed to as they should be, is simply the trouble
labor-necessary in their preparation. A very
few years Of such wheat cropping as the last
will, however, compel the farmers in this region
to fOrego the use of guano, if but because it will
have eaten up their means of purchasing it,
Large crops of wheat were grown in this region
In the past season only because a much larger
breadth of land than ever before, was devoted
to Its production and the expenditure for guano
with which to fertilize ii was out of all reason
Nothing short of full crop would have fairly
remunerated the farmers for its cost and though
the aggregate raiseds was larger than usual, it
was by no means sufficiently large to reward
the farmers for all their OUTLAWS in its produc-
ton at present prices.
BENEFITS VERY LAST HUMrUG. 1t does
the New York Herald so much good to sheer at
and cry down Virginia, as that il Is almost an
act of uncharitableness to interfere with its en-
joyment of that its pet especial sport. Never
theless, as there may be fools in the world, in
these times, who will venture their money on
bogus speculations pulled by the Herald as in
the days of . Parker Vein and - Potos,'' it
may not be proper for Us to refrain from eau
tioning them against the danger Of dabbling in
Benefits very last, which is as follows:
VIRGINIA LANDS IN MARKEr We have not
heard recently from our chivalfous friends in tbe
Old Dominion who threatened to hang Mr. Eli
Thayer because he desired to put some money in
their pockets: but W. see by the following adver-
tsement IN a Florida paper that his idea mas been
taken uP oy some resident Spectators
"A HOMESTEAD FOR S10-Thiy{ Dirjsfoa-
s3l0sOO worth of farms and building lots in the
gold region OF Culpeper county, Virginia, to be
divided amongst $1,000 subscribers on the 1th
of December 1857. Subscri ptons only : II down:
or SIS, oneh half down, the on delivery Of th.
deed. Every subscriber Will get a build ding lot
OF farm, ranging III value fIOm < 10 to SIS 100
These farms and lots are sold So cheap to induce
settlements, sufficient number bein9 reserved
the increase in the value of which will compen-
safe foT the apparent low price now asked Up-
wards Of $50 lots are already sold. and Il com
pany OF settlers, called the RappahannOck Pioneer
Association, Is now forming and will soon COM
mence settlement. Ample security will be given
for the faithful performance OF contracts aod
promises Yearly IS 600 acres of land in d tferent
paris OF virginia, now at command and will be
sofa 10 settlers al from 81 up to 500 per acre
Inquestionable titles will in all cases be given:
IL Is good deal like send ing coal TO Newcastle
TO advertise wild land in Florida; but we will
give the scheme the advantage Of publicity ont
OF the regard we have for old Virginia The only
way by which her resources can be developed il
by bringing in fresh blood fresh laborers having
al actual interest in the soil. The first families
may hold conventions and make long orations
but they will not do the hard work IL is moi Al
all In their way. So let every man who can raise
ten dollar note, and who cannot find lucrative
employment elsewhere, take up the shovel and
the hoe, and join the Rappahannock Pioneers
No matter how the thing is done so il i, done
The result Cannot Tail to be beneficial TO all
hands.
We have to say that this scheme is a syindlc
from beginning to end, neither more nor less
In which no Virginian has lot or part A peri
patetic Yankee bought up tract of land in
the lower part of Culpeper county, Va, not
very long since for four or FIVE dollars per acre,
paying far more than its value at that. and i,
'dOing" his own people for the most part bv
selling il out at ten dollars per lot, or some
hundred dollars per acre lie sells altogether
III q distance by means Of such staring adver-
tisemsnts published in distant papers. His
$4,000 worth of farms and building lot. in
the gold region Of Culpeper, cost him some.
where between $50 and $500. Not a house
IL there upon IT, nor does he dare show his nose
within reach of the digital of any person resid.
ing in the immediate vicinity, owing to the pop-
ular indignation existing there on account of his
bold effort to swindle the unwary through thi.
scheme.
The land in question i. the very poorest in
the county, and the idea of ever making a town
upon il is simply it's scheming owners trick.
by way Of obtaining somebody 8 money by hook
or by crook. However. his enterprise makes
just the sort Of capital for the Herald concern
ing Virginia, a. that in which that journal de-
hghts-being good enough Morgan for its pur-
poses, as well as for extracting from over eager
gulls ten dollars each.
IBE ANGLo-FREsCH ALLIAScK.-The New
York Journal Of Commerce seems to speak
authoritatyely concerning the aim and results
ofthe visit OF Louis Napoleon to England in pub