Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-26

Climate ? climates, rather We have all the good
without an admiNture of evil climate of the globe
NO eplcure OF air and temperature, and water, and
medicinal fountains and food, but that he can within
lew miles of any given spot, crafty his uost
luptuous whlm IN them ALL Whether In the strong
embrace OF the breeze Of the Pacific sopes and the
den gates-whether in the soft, luxurious zephyrs of
the valleys of the Sacramento, the San JOAQUIN the
Feather, aud the Yuba of Santa Barbara Los An ees
and San Diego. Or whether in the pure and lucid
ether OF the Sierras. where cloud nor fog is
in the transparent azure where there il no de-
cay, where flesh djes not corrupt, where the beef
mutton and venis0n preserved by the curing chem
istry of the pellucd air.
1t is related of Charles the Second, that when his
courers discussing the merits of various Euro
pean climates that he remarked, that they had neg
lected TO state the best quality Of the English climate
which was that permitted aman to be out of doors
in 1t more days in the year than any other Our c-
mate invites a man out in It day and night, almost
throughout the year-It bed chamber and drawing.
room TO tn most fasudious constitution The con
sumpve sleep in 1t and not only live, but thrive
into perfect hea Ia uponit This fable there are
hundreds of citizens whose present robust health
has grown from their once emaciated frames by the
invgoIation of our cline.
In the summer time the market place of classic
Athens and the forum of military Rome, were filled
with citizens 'who sp mt their time in nothing else but
either IT, tell or hear some new thing" rhe Mont
gomery streets Of the cities Of California are filed with
citizens, winter and summer and though they be of
the money-making universal Yankee nation, they are
seduced to 1t money making alone, and invited
by our more invigorating air with zest beyond the
Athenian and the Roman.
But what is of more Importance far the farmer and
the laborer work in the open air from the begin
ming the end uf the year. and gather elastic vgor
from his toll. Here labor does not bring stinened
limbs and rheumatic joints, premature wrinkles, old
age and decay, as 1t assurediy does in other lands.
Here the laborer grows the better and the worse
r wear. California is the Paradise of the working
man. Here the winters do not eat up the summers;
the summer is not long struggle to provide food, and
raiment and fuel for the winter.
One Of the most hopeful of all the signs behold In
the state, is, that whilst behold with sorrow, in
sister States the inhabitants fleeing from their inhos
ptabe farms to what they deem to be the more congo
nial empoyments of towns and cities; here, with
much greater forest shted wisdom, the inhabitants
turn their backs upon the city and town for the glori
ayocatons of agriculture The best inellects Of
the State, and among the best men, are engaged with
the soil
No second-rate men, either in education, informa-
tion Or manhood compose this Agricultural Society,
This Society has originated an intelligent ZEAL has
newly applied sience; has sGillfuly directed labor,
til, without any braggardism, you have beaten the
world Aud all this in climate-in climates (for We
have many) unknown heretofore to you all.
Whole farms have been made to yield 23h0 bushels
of potatoes the acre 80 bushels of barley ITO BUSH
els of corn 60 bushels of wheat, and from fifty to
hundred thousand pounds of carrots, beets, turnps
and onions to the acre. The same land has been
mats to produce four crops of peas in one year, and
ST. awberries TO yield during seven months of the
twelve. -
What unparalleled impetus all this mas gwen TO al
branches of industry, naturally and dfec;F growing
out of 1t. The honey ybee, utter stranger to thes
shores has been imported Continent TO disport
among our flowers, whose name is legion, and now
hundreds OF hives treasure up their classic sweets
The choicest refined sugar has been manufactured
from our beets, The first sugar was made just four
months alt,r tne arrival of the seed Of the beet
Pure white wine, rivalling the champagnes of
France is manufactured Large manufactures OF
starch have been started.
1t is claimed that California invention has succeeded
in producing tine best reaper yet known In any and.
its existence to the genius OF an nhabtant OF
Santa Clara county With two horses and two men 1t
reaps tweLty five acres in day, and though the grain
be lodged and tangled picks It up and does its work
thoroughly that scarce head lett ungathered.-
We had scarce gotten through the understanding of
the merits OF tn machine, when, the same day, we
introduced to perhaps s lmore marvellous in
strument-the invention of . gentleman Of Alameda
county This nlig ghty machine went into the field OF
the standing harvest and swept along, it reaped
aud threshed, and cleaned, the golden grain one
sack in each minute OF tmel The whole world has Gs
yet seen nothing like 1t !
In the same egiun now lives the man (Nlr. Level
ug) surrounded by hundreds OF thousands of trees
VINO brought the first ruit trees across the Rocky
Mountains. And his negibOr, Mr.. Myers,) sur
rounded IN Ii ,e manner, the man VINO brought the
first fruit trees (ouside the old MissOa) to California
lie has produced perhaps he best peach in California;
which has been honored with his name, myers seed
Hngn
We have the authority Of well Informed travellers,
to assure tnat, perhaps, the best Flour Mill now
stanuing the Earth, this State, in the county
Santa Clara II has been erected at cost of half
mnllOn OF dollars. 1t is finished with mahogany
and rosewood, mounted with silver. Not an inapprU
pirate adornment to the perfe works. the pondeous
ana best possible machinery within, that turns out
upon the enraptured eyes the unsurpassed flour that
gives visions uf ambrosia bread.
Two PERIODICALS. devoted To llusbandry, have been
started into vigorous lie, and have made their way
to pubic support and respect in even this land Of
Newspapers.
The goD trailing Miner, the pounding Quartz-man
the Manufacturer, ana the Naturalist, and these who
contend in soul and body stirring teats like the
cieut OiympaLs-al have come up, to share your
nonors, to contest your prizes, and to divide your
spoils
The mental impetus aiyenby this Association. Will
soon brng about the means whereby the sacramento,
the san joaquin, American, the Feather and the
Yuba rivers wil be turned ON their to water
these mighty plains, like garden of herbs. Aud the
gorles OF the valleys Of the Nile and tGe Mississippi
will pass away like a tale that is told
But, LAST OF ALL, repJse the utmost confidence
in such societies as these that they will so apply
they will master most of the vicssitudes of the
heavens and the earth so that in the most barren
seasons there will be comparative abundance.
Famine Is the ghastliest conqueror of the human
race. But Science and Skill twin daughters of such
a ) icety a. tins, can conquer Famine itself They
can almost crop from the unwilling soil, though
there be neither dew nor rain, nor sunshine Already
they have almost delivered the world from the dread
Of want that heretofore, in all ages in almost period
ical returns, have swept off the human family.
The lunne in Ireland, and in the Cape de Verd
Isan"s and other lands, are within our own recol-
lection. History gives many most appalling accounts
OF the ravages of famine, with the pestdence that
ever follows IT, Perhaps the most notable Of them all
happened in the third century Of the Christian Era.
In tuat dread period for to live on the dead
bodies of their relatives, common. Scarce an
infant or Il child was preserved through that time.
They were devoured by their mothers The in
hab.tants of the Earth separated from each other
through fear; they lived apart and alone lyena IKE
There was thought in all the world, but chow shall
/ keep from starving to deathY" The human heart !
was sapess. The human spirit became as that OF ?
beast OF prey. When men met hey glare upon each
other vampire ike--like ghouls Of the grave and
skuiKed away with eyes still fixed upon each other,
through fear of being sprung upon and eaten for iood
And after the famine came the pestience tht snote
the skeletons that left. 1t visit Of I'd attn
on the Pale Horse" And Hell followed with him.
And there fell one half of the human race
our Society, and such as yours, under nercllul
Providence, will save mankind from these and from
all kindred woes.