Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-18

property at the old Wythe lead mines, and
only estimating it according to the yield up
to the present time, at a moderate profit in
the ground, and our figures would run into
Millions"
The Liquor Traffic IN Russia. A con-
siderable portion of the revenue of the Rus
sian treasury is derived from the monopoly
of the sales of liquor. The agency or rath-
er the privilege Of selling the article in the
different districts and provinces of Russia,
is disposed by the Russian Government at
auction, to the highest bidder. A St. Pc
tersburg correspondent Of the New York
Tribune, writing under date Of July last,
thus describes the selling:ws - s7 H
During the last fortnight one who dali
Der of carriages stationed before the great
Senate staircase; and if, curious to know
the occasion of this great assembly, he
should enter the hall of the second story,
he would see an extraordinary commotion.
There is a discussion-a cry Of voices
Here is an isolated group of persons talk
ing in low voice, and apparently arrang-
ing matter of the gravest Importance !;
there, on the other hand, are individuals
arguing with the greatest vivacity; then,
suddenly there is silence; you hear again
cry Of price; anxious attention is painted
upon all faces, and EXPLANATIONS and dis
cussions are again heard. This hall where
have put you is the hall where are made
the sales by auction by the farming of the
sale of brandy. A great game is played in
this place game Of millions and drunk
enness and vice are the cards which are
used.
'The game is coming to an end. Moth
ing remains but the farming out of a few
districts. A few days more, and all will
be over it remains to be seen on which
side is the gain, and on which the loss"
In consequence Of the building Of rail
roads through the Empire the sales of the
agencies have been vastly higher than ever
before. In sixteen provinces they have in
creased from eight millions of roubles to
twenty millions. The Emperor Alexander
in view of the great increase of intoxication
throughout the empire which is supposed to
be exhibited by these sales, is said to have
remarked: 1t is sad to feel any satisfaction
at such an increase of revenue p
A Comfortable EstaJ1ishn,ent.-A cor
respondent of the New York Independent
thus describes the domain OF the Duke of
Devonshire at Chatsworth
"The domain of the Duke of Devonshire
would cover one of our largest countless
The park Immediately surrounding the pal
ace is eleven miles in circumference. and
contains three thousand acres. The prin-
ciple garden for vegetables, fruits, green
houses, &c, is twenty-five acres There
are thirty greenhouses, each from fifty to
seventy-fve feet long. We went into three
or four containing nothing but pineapples,
ripe; others contained nothing but melons
and cucumbers. One peach tree on the
glass wall measures fifty-one feet in width
and fifteen feet high, and bears one thou
sand peaches. It is the largest in the world.
The grape houses five or six in all, are six
hundred feet long, and such grapes! We
saw pineapples weighing ten or fifteen
pounds each. One greenhouse had only
figs, another only mushrooms. But what
shall be said of the great conservatory filed
with every variety Of tropical plants? It is
one Of the wonders Of the world. It COW
ers an acre of ground, is one hundred feet
high, OF an ovel shape, and cost $500, OOO-
It is heated by steam and hot water pipes.
which in all are six miles in length. The
apparatus consumes six hundred tons of
coal in year. We saw banana trees.
twenty feet high, with clusters Of fruit, SUI
gar cane, coffee trees, bamboo, and in short
every tropical plant that can be named
Several of the palm trees are from fifty to
sixty feet high. The smoke Of the immense
fire underneath is carried in pipes under
ground to an outlet in the woods. The
coal is brought in a tunnel six hundred
yards under ground. One fountain throws
o jet of water to the height of 275 feet"
RED AND WHITE WHEAT From what
we hear from our country friends and see
In our exchange papers, it appears that the
weevll confines it's destructive operations
exclusively to white wheat. In some in
stances, where part Of field was in white
wheat and the remainder in red, the white
was destroyed whilst the red sustained no
injury whatever. In Lancaster county
many Of the farmers intend to raise red
wheat altogether till the weevil disappears,
and it might be well for our Franklin Coun-
ty farmers to do so too. In some parts of
Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, the wheat
crop was almost entirely destroyed for sew
eral years in succession by the weevil. If
its .ravages can be stopped by cultivating
red wheat only, our farmers will certainly
do well to give the white wheat the go-by
till the MeeYil disapnears.- CLnanA rsba.rn