The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-15
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smaller game, 1T is not to be Compared Daor ell
ing, elk and moose hunting are not to bo Sasr;aaS
and where there is no better sport, perhaps q man
might find pleasure in running a fox; but he will
not touch the limit of physical excitement until he
has chased buffalo on a western prairie
The vegetation along the valley of the Red River
is as luXuriant as any that have ever seen. The
black loan of the Indiana and Illinois prairies
would be out of place in these higher latitudes-
Instead OF that the soil throughout the valley is of
ciayey character, impregnated generally with
lme. SIrong chalyoeate springs ooze from the clay
| banks below the mouth of the Red Lake Fork and
saline springs have been discovered in many noces
| The primary formation, which divides Minnesota
from northeast to southwest, is succeeded to the
| northwest by the ascending series of sedimentarv
rocks. The waters of the Red River are tnrhid at
! all times, and the current moderate but when the
wind rutfes the surface of the water its necnliar
redness at once discoses the character of the soil
through which it has dug its channel and the rea-
| son why the French traders who ranged these for
tile Prarles two centuries ago, gave it the name of
La RiUiere Rouge.
! Were not this letter already too long. 7 sbouId
| add other particulars that find in my memoran-
dnm book, but they are such as will be made more
useful by the more extended observation which
hope to enjoy return by Fort Garry Bad
management, bad carts, bad roads and other causes
not necessary to be mentioned, have DELAYED ma
seriously thus far, but here we have outftted anew
with new cBrts, fresh horses, and pemmican and
shall be able in the next month or two to see
great deal OF the northwestern areas. From here
our route leads US westward to ST. Joseph, thence
we go to Turtle Mountain, which is on the 10th
parallel, and from there northwest across the AS
snlbolne and Monse rivers to the south bend of the
saskatchewan. NJ. NJ.
NATURALIZATION OF EXOTIC PLANTS. &c.
recent visit to the Government Grounds and
COnservatories on Missouri avenue was one of no
ordinary interest These grounds and the green
houses they contain have been made what tbev are
under the care OF the Agricultural Department of
the Patent Office, and have already produced re-
suits that bid fair to be Of great moment to the
wealth, resources comfort, and Independence of
the whole country. As a propagating establish
ment for those two important items of national ex-
penditure, the produce of the tea plant and the
wine grape, it could hardly be more successful.
About one hundred Thousand perfectly healthy and
vigorous tea plants will be ready for distribution
in the course of the coming three four months
enough in fact to occupy hundred acres of ground
1t is intended to distribute these plants in every
part of the nation, placing them in such hands as
will be most likely to favor the designs of the De-
partment in extending the culture to the utmost
possible extent. sight of the house in which the
plants are now gaily growing nay, almost smil-
ing at the spectator, is something to be readily
| forgotten Should any thing like the same sue
attend the cultivation of the plant in the hands
| of the distributes may look for the entry of
| American grown tea into the market within five
years. And then, perhaps for the first time in the
! lives of every ninety-nine hundredths of us, we
shall be enabled to Judge of the vast difference
which travellers assert exist between tea as pre-
pared fresh in China the land of its growth, and
/ lnuSlOnS OF the same article after having
| navigated the globe. Equally energetic have been
the efforts to render the people the United States
in some sensible degree, independent of their pre-
! sent reliance on the wine-growing regions of Eu-
rope, (not to mention the wine and spirit factories
of New York and other cities, by collecting all the
| accessible vines of any value of the Old and New
| Worlds, and making practical comparisons of their
| qualities, adaptation, and worth. China Egypt,
and California besides the civilized countries of
Europe, are here represented in their grape-vnes
and all quarters of our own republican Empire have
been ransacked and the spoils carefully propa-
gate, which, in the great majority of instances,
| they have done to an unexpected extent.
Highly serviceable experiments have been set on
foot to test the values of hundred and twenty
six species of wheats from all countries and of all
| descriptions. Of these about twenty show highly
superior qualities and challenge the regard of the
! agricultural community. We cannot pretend to
! enumerate all the specimens of plants and vegeta-
| bes which have been collected and grown here
| with view to adding to the economic of
| the nation, but may call few to mind. Thus
| there is very valuable sweet potato from Africa;
the vegetable tallow from China; the sycamore or
Zaccheus fig from Egypt; the vegetable wax from
| JAPAN the funeral cypress from China; superior
| pot herb from Egypt; and the wild chamomile from
Circassia Persia the plant from which the cele-
| brated insect powder is made. One remark more
| and we have done. The tea plants and those of
warmer climates than our own are necessarily pro-
| pagated in the greenhouses, which we were
prised to lind are not warmed by any fires other
| means more artificial than the thorough applca-
| -
| ures. The field around the greenhouses is kept
| covered with a growth of Chinese sugar cane and
this supplies most of the heat for the greenhouses
| the whole year long. 1t is cut down, pressed into
| alleys properly constructed to receive it, and
topped with little long stable stuff, from which
| heat is generated that in the codesr weather does
not allow the temperature to fall below 55 degrees
| of Fahrenheit. 1t is certainly the most economi
| cal and cheapest managed greenhouse we ever saw
Nat. hteligencer.
FroD The J1St Punch
RECOLLECTlONS, BY JOSEPH T0DGERS.
| The remarkable success of a volume which has
| lately been published under the title of Recollec-
| tons, by Samuel Rogers, has filled Mr.. Punch with
envy. And being one of those persons of whom
there several, who have hesitation in trying
to trade upon the good fortune of another persons
| idea, he has been sedulousy at work endeavoring
| 10 get up an Imitation of the novelty. He has
| happily succeeded in securing the MS. of an old
| gentleman, who hy curious coincidence is named
Joseph Todgers, and who is in the habit of writing
| down the smallest remarks made by individuals
whom he meets in society and whom he couceives
to be distinguish ed These iottings are so exactly
in the manner of the late poet banker, Mr.. Rogers
that another instance is afforded of the saltatory
| powers OF great wits. Mr.. Punch hasens to give
| his Todgers' RecollecOns to a discerning public.
VIsCoUNT WuLIAMs.-Met him near Bethlehem
Hospital He remarked that it was curious that
though spelt Bethlehem, it should be pronounced
Bedlam.* Hoped it would not rain, as he had not
| his umbrea.f
Said he had not been to the Victoria Theatre but
had often the Victoria Tower, which latter he
| remarked was great height.
Had not read the NorniHg ADVERTISER and added
that he should not it until late in the day it
would be afternoon Adcertiser for hint
Did not know who had written Adam Bede. In
deed hadn't heard OF the book. Had heard Of Adam
| Smith.
The House of Commons occupies much time
| if a Member attends Committees and all the de-
! bates.
Quoted the "ttle busy bee improving each
| shining hour" adding that we must be more than
bees, for we must improve every hour whether the
sun shOne or not.
Had been very much struck with Johnson's Die
tionary.
Never smoEed.S
Could not bear the smell of pickles.
'But many names are pronounced otherwise than they
| are spet Pail ifall for instance.
This will remind of George Cannng's Quos mum
land this the to whom the faculty of ready wit
was denied by sco1ersl tempOra, o mores'
lMr. Cox, when NJ P, confirmed this statement.
SDiSagreeing therefore, with many persons whom !
know that he respects. Non onnig poSS1mus ompes
AMERICAN OUTRAGE ON THE ENPERoR-It has
| been said that the Americans admire Louis Napo-
| leon, and in the event (omea dii orertun0 of his
supposed interests and those of England being an
tagonistic the former would be favored by Brother
| Jonathan. Mr.. Punch, however can state upOn
| the best authority, American authority, that this
| is not the case. In leading article in the New
York Herald, now lying before Mr.. Punch, are
these words:
"We are seriously of opinion that if Louis Napoleon
were not Emperor of the French, would have made
frstate newspaper Editor His style that of the
| American papers,
Perhaps bitter savage scorn of a man could
hardly be carried further, and would not reprint
such an insult to the Emperor but for the purpose
OF showing the extreme contempt in which re-
| spectacle Americans appear to hold him. For
| ourselves, despite many objections we may have to
his Majestys antecedens, and relatives (includiDg
| Plon-Plon) we by means think so meanlv of
him as does the New York Herald.
| ExAcrIoN.-The lawyers claim when the action
| is over.
How TO KEEP FooD on A WEAK SroMAcu.-Bolt it
| down.
| LIBERAL TO A FAULT.-The Liberals are twitted
by the tories with the fact that their members were
! in a majority among those unseated by election
petitions for bribery and corruption. As if-says
| the free and independent but purchased elector-
there were anything in paying handsomely for a
vote inconsistent with the most extreme liberality!
LIEUT.. MAuRY's FIRST MARRTAGE-A SroRY
| 'FINIsHED."- MIR. Willis, under the title of 'Each
| Mans oldest Happening" last week published a
curious story, related by Lieut. Maury in CONVEX
saton the latter was holding during recent rail-
| road excursion. Each man, it appeared, told his
"oddest happening" and Lieutenant Maury, feel
| ing more than usually communicative, contributed
the romantic story of his marriage for two months
to young and fashionable daughter of a South Sea
| Island Chief, with whom, owing to the sailing of
his ship, he enjoyed but a few months of connubal
felicity. This strange and interesting narrative
which was set off with all the graces of Willis's
| Home Journal style, had hardly begun to 90 the
| rounds of the whom Al