New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-24

! OF into ron OF the most worthless quality f. for
nothing but sash weights At home but good enough
70. rails AID water-pipes for the United States.
Some years seo large quantity Of these British
piyes y ere imported here and laid down in Water
t,rset A new regulation OF the street some years
afterWard esused them TO be taken up the
intention being to put them down again, but to the
surprse OF one acquainted with the subject they
were so utterly destroyed that very few years
mole would have caused them 10 leak from 8 thou
sand openings. The iron itself seemed rotten 10
the core II wss so utterly worthless that il would
not cell for recastingt to all intents aud pur
poses good for nothing and hsd 70 b. thrown away.
Yet American pipes put down at the same time with
the British, were taken up perfectly sound, were
sgaiL put down, and are doing duty to this hour.
They were cheaper than the other article, at double
the price, Il is strange infatuaton that preeipl-
tates US INTO such extraordinary foies as these. But
Just now, when thousands are idle, it is an outrage
10 give 10 foreign fOunderles the contracts which
our ow n makers would be glad to execute.
Gerrit Smiths intrusion into your coming
elections is ore Of the strangest thlngs-to US
among the many eolOred politics OF your state. AT
this end OF the line are at loss to know how -
treat IT, what to make Of i, or where It Is g)ng TO
end We knew this gentleman was mate up of
crotcbets, but We did suppose be possessed common
sense We cannot believe that he has been operated
on by the sinister influences that shape the actions
man can shut his eyes to the consequences Of the
step which he has taken. After having killed of
your great municipal demagOgue, We did hope your
State horizon clear Of every threatening cloud.
II is possible that Mr.. Smith may turn ont mere
speck. But We shall watch with patriotic anxiety
ts growth or dminution, and pray heaven for safe
deliverance from the consequences OF foly Which
s utterly indefensibe.
The Iecompton Democracy in the First District,
New wJersey, have nominated Mr.. Walker for Con-
eress. He goes in for ensayiDg Kansas, 10 man
Of no ability whatever, tried TO be appointed Prison
Keeper at Trenton, failed there, and now conde-
scends TO 90 to Congress if he can. He is one OF
| those who must have an Office somehow. Next
| week Judge Day ton goes down to aid In stumplng
| the District for Nixon. Judge Randolph, Fill
more Flector and Winter Davis Of Maryland 90
| with him, and as Nixon himself completes the
quartette, the Democracy VIII have lively time IN
| that section. All accounts from New-Jersey en-
| courage the belief that every LecOmptOnite In the
| State will be elected to stay at home.
Don't set your hearts on having a surfeit OF
| peaches the present Summer. The glory OF the
orchards seems to have departed, and this market,
| for many years glutted from Delaware and New
| Jerey, will this season be comparatively bare and
| prices very high. Your hucksters come here and
| clean us out, taking away the good and leaving us
only the refuse for which we are now compelled to
pay oxorbitsnt prices. New-Jersey Is barren OF
| peaches to what che was few years ago. Even
| Delaware, which at one time inherited her profit
and fame as peach grower, s falling into the scar
| and yellow leaf. Mr.. William Reybold of Delaware
| City, who has some 800 acres in cultivation, not
| all in peaches however, has been the great foun-
tain from which we drew our supplies. He for
merly sent 10000 baskets to market daily, to do
| which he had several steamboats, constantly EN-.
| ployed Your city absorbed immense quantities OF
| Reybod peaches, and in fact depended on his or.
chards for supply. In single season he realized
clear profit of $i2 900 from only 20 acres of four
year old trees. His great success stimulated others
TO plant and for some years they did well. 1t was
thus the market was so abundantly supplied.
change, however, is now coming on, and this sea.
son it will be very observable. These celebrated
orchards have been stricken With disease and are
fast diving out. They have been gradually declining
| for four years past Worse than this; the newly
planted orchards dwinde and perish under the same
| mysterious disease, even on soil where the peacn
| had never grown before. Immense orchards of old
trees are now being dug up for hrewood. Is there
| no cure for the peach blight