New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-14

OF flsef ores ClerllOulft b9A'eAhe"s teo 'uisSN
States canno: fail ~ ntonish the reeder' and lev
Will BE- prepared for the following paragraph,
which presents very different view Of the real
iron resources Of Pennsylvania from thcse COM
monty held:
Entering Pennsyiy snia, the magnetic ores OF the
primsly. azcic, or Huronisn system d~indle 70
shadow. The rcpn,a,ion OF this State for iron has
resulted more from the energetic persevering German
use for century of years. II what do exi, than
um any extraordinary wealth of iron Of which she can
boast certainly not from any actual presminence OF
mineral wealth over her sister States. New.f"rk,
New,Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina far more
literally endowed BY nature in this respect than abe.
The immense magnetic deposits OF NewNork and
New-Iersey almost disappear just amer entering her
limits The brown hemsilte beds ct her great valley
will not seem extraordinary 20 one who has become
familiar with those Of Nc~~iork. Massachusetts and
Vermont Virginia and Tennessee Her fossil ore out
erop Is rot more extensive than lean and uncertain
compared with that OF the >onth. And the carbonate
and lematized carbonate onicrops IN and under nef
coal measures VIII hardly bear COMPARISON WIN thoes
Of the granjer ou,spreai of the same formations ID
Ohio kentncky and Western Virginia. Bnt her
people from the land Of the Stuekoten, the father
land of mneraogy and metslurgy and came people
of peaceful thnfiy and industrious habits, TO settle
midway between the rgurs 1T the North and the ener
walton of the South. to illustrate free SOIL With the
digptes and successes Of free labor.
The iron reputation of Pennsy lvanIa was acquired
before the Importance of Der coal mines ~ The
greater development of this interest was under
stood.
Among the various sources Of information from
which the author literally draws, always giving
full credit for the same wherever due, are several
unpublished manuscripts supplied by Others, and
these occasionally furnish data Of interest nowhere
else 10 be found. Thus is obtained sketch Of tho
rich iron district Of Upper Georgia, little known
and little improved
The great deposits of brown hemsttes, which
have long supplied large portion of the iron made
in the United States, have been an obscure subject
with gcologsts Occurring with the metamorphc
lmestones and those of later formations they yet
seemed not to belong 10 the epochs Of these; and
the discovery by Prof Hitchcock of fossil fruits
among the materials Of one of the beds at Brandon,
W., led him to refer them to the tertiary period.
The study of these beds over their extensive range
from the Ncw-England through the Middle States,
enables Mr.. Lesley 10 present the most complete
geological treatise upon them; and be finds nothing
TO confirm the views expressed by Prof Hitch
cock This whole division is highly instructive.
The red fossil ore of the upper silurisn the
saAe as the Cstswissa ore already referred 10, and
known in Kentucky aud Tennessee as the Digestion
fossil ore is next described in its various localities
in New-York, New-Jersey, aud further south, and
also in Wisconsin. Chapters upon the carbonates
Of iron of the coal measures and upon the bog ores
succeed-the last more fully noticed than in any
other work.
THE vAGABoSD y Ap, n.,,I s.DsAr. lsa"' ~ S'
u is rarely that series of papers written, like these,
to meet the demands Of popular journalism, possess
sufficient general interest 10 warrant their preserve
ton in n permanent form. Nor is the attempt
to portray the features of eminent living characters
free from peril however active the sense OF justice
and delcacy Of perception which preside over the
pertinent. II is small praise, accordingly, 70 the
author Of this volume that he has exceeded the re-
qurements Of his periodical task and produced col
lection of sketches and criticisms with sufficient
stamina to sustain place in literature, without APP
pealipg TO the taste for carcaurc and personal Cos
zip, which he might so easily have been tempted TO
crafty. The work consists mainly Of literary and
artistic essays and cbarao. Of eminent public
men, which, though often provoking question and de-
NAL display little cultivation and thought, and the
command of free and vigorous style The essays
Forrest, The Worlds Own, Charlotte Bronte, Edward
Everett Rachel, and George Bancroft, TO specify no
Others written in spirit OF fine and just apprecia
ton, which is uncommon AZ the happy selection
of language in which they clothed. We might
quarrel with the writer for many OF his positions in
other papers, if disposed to find fault, but We
must accord him the merit Of high tone IL criticism
in general, and more than common power and grace
OF expression.
THE NEW AND THE OLD Ga. C.lWosxi .so Iso.s~
RsiaSric ASPECTS By D. W. fALntr, ~ u. i@no.,
Do. kndd Carleton.
Strange and piquant experences--a curious blend
ing of the tragic and comic-bave supplied the author
with rare material for these high-wrought sketches
His rowing genius had tempted him to San Francisco,
while the delrium produced by the newIound gold
was at its hight, and during that wild carnival, or
rather frghtiu witches sabbath he pungcs into the
midst Of scenes which happily have no parable or
counterpart beyond that first preternstural blossom
ing If California life. His descriptions are evidently
drawn with faithful pencil, and though the color
ing may be sometimes too uxuriant, they bear the
impress Of reality oil which few features could be
bigbtensd by the imag nation After leaving Cali
fornia the changes to india and more decided
transition can hardly BE- conceived than the departure
from the demoniac excitements Of the new FL Dorado
To the dreaming fancies Of the Orient. The author,
however appears TO be equally at home at both points
Of the compass and his narrative never flags IN in
terest never grows cold, bat is always up az beast TO
bood-heat even where it is not highly spiced by pun
gent condiments.
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The first ii these volumes Is made up VI variety
Of pages written several years since while the anthc
was editing an agricultural Journal in the West. IL
cootsins the esssUce Of book farming in q reduced