New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-22

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',..,on Giving him authority ovsr all the Frenoa
ro..,ssop. in the Pacific Recent discoveries indicss
mo the existence Of goI, may very likely do much 70
q e;ro,e the colonization 30 mueh desired by the
! French Government.
-Ie,ers have been received from Albrecht Roscne',
the intelligent young Ceutral-Atrican explorer OF
| whom mention has frequently been made IN the COZ
urus of The TRBUsE. He was still on the SHORES Vi
the great Lake Nysssa. After nsrrafiDg the hifreaE
mept which be endured at the has DIS OF his servants
while he WIS carried worn out with the FEVER Ia
litter on his long journey from heoosst TO ths axe no
ra,s: "My afrrs for the rest progressing n"eiy'
and my spirs good. The whole coontry as lar Us
Mozaml ique and Cszemte lies open before me- Inc
terrible slave wars In the vicinity OF the Nyasa had
produced great scarcity and want The breadth OF the
lake, at the point where RoscAer was residing Ii SO
great that the largest and most powerful canoes reach
Mslimba the opposite c,ast only after sail OF
day snd half Roseher was awaiting su plies 10 en-
able him to continue his adventurous oarney 10 the d-
rec,i, of Mozambique These supplies we are glad to
learn, were forwarded 10 him in abundance early last
March, by the lbei atty Of some of the merchants in
Zanzibar So great is the interest felt in Germany 10
the lsbors of Roscher that Baron Karl Won der Deck
en- Hanoverisn officer, al the instigaton OF Dr. Barb
has determined to join the intrepid traveller and par
iicjpste in his future explorations. Baron Won der
Deeken left Europe last April for Zanzibar,
under the suppces of the Royal Geographical Society
of London and of the British aud Portuguese Govern
meps He took with him an excellent collection OF in
struments and ample means.
During journey of nearly five years (lS55-59l in
| Russian Asia Gustav Radds conservator OF the Mu
scum of be Imperial Academy OF Science of st. Peters
burg collected more than 80 900 geological specimens
He has inst gone to the Black Sea on brief scientific
tmr Upop his return to the capital, he will prepare
for publication an account of bis extensive travels In
East. m Siberia and in 1863 will under axe, at the In
stspce of the Imperial Academy scientific of explora
ton of the Daehestan which will employ him for two
or three years.
M Faidherbe the geography loving Governor OF
Senegal states in a communication to NJ. Jomard that
he Is unremhtipely purung his efforts to open up the
Seneca mban country and the central regions 70 the
east of the Province. The army officers under his
control were constantly undertaking expeditions to the
interior LeuieDsDts Mage and Pascal returned to St.
Louis in April from successful journey 10 Tagsnt aud
Bembouk. Capt Vincent at the same date had quilted
the ca mp of the King of Tarzs who had ordered the
Aleb tribe TO escort him to Adrar, whittier he had
safely arrived Lieut.. Lambert had been ordered to
the mouth Of the RioNunez river emptyng into the
OCEAN in north latitude To- 80, and go thence to
FoutaD iaon, AID return by way of Faleme. Intell-
Vence had already been received that he had progressed
az fer as Tlmbo The Governor expresses his determ-
nation TO "wipe oct the white spot" on the maps OF
those portions of Africa lying within his reach. Lieut.
Aristi5e Valon has laid before the Geographical So
cety an interesting narrative OF bis surveys OF the
rivers between St. Louis and Sierra Leone he ex-
plored the Salum, Cazamance, Ketafne or Cassini,
Popgo and Malscory, come of which be was the first
European 10 navigate He gives many singular de-
tails Of the ethnolopy and natural history Of the regions
through which they flow.
The region abont Lake Mj5sen, in Norway during
the early part Of the Summer toe scene of an In
undation scarcely less extensive than that which
occurred three years ago in the south OF France.
Bridges and bouses on the Vsina and other streams
were swept away. At Edsvold, only the second sto-
rice Of the houses were above water and the railroad
trains compelled to stop at great distance from
the town. and send their passengers and freight for
ward in boats. Str0mso, built upon hight, was
totally sure unded by a little sea. The hamlet of
Skien was destroyed. In Drammen the water was
several feet DEEP The houses on Muse Island inhsb-
led chiefly by laborers, we're totally submerged. In
Mi0,en the rise wac % feet above iow-water mark.
The ilpp1aion lasted for several days. and very large
amount of property was destroyed.
Charles XIV, the present enlightened ruler OF
Sweden and Norway, whose Typographical maps OF
Sweden, published while he was Crown Prince, are
ell known 10 geogrsphers has pres nted TO the uni
verify of HesiI 9fors in Finland, three folio maps
drawn by his own hsnd. One represents the forests,
another the iron works. and the third the geography of
Sweden.
Hermann Won Sshlagintweit states the longitude
of Mt Everest or as it is styled by the natives Mt
Gapssu gar the highest peak in the llmaaya group,
and consequently in the world to be SO So east from
Greenwich.
The production of the vanilla bean is now carried
on upon large scale in the island of Reunion. The
plant frat introduced from Mauritius in 1917. Ii
ia we'll known that the process of qualification in Mex
co hitherto the largest producer Of this article s Of
feeted by the aid of an insect When the plant was
caned from Mexico to Java whence it spread TO the
MaUriiiuf this insect not taken with it. Conse
quenty, although the plants hourished vigorously 10
the favorable soil and climate of Reunion they bore
fruit until the creole Edmund, few years since, in
vented ethod Of artificial Foundation by of
an ineericusiy contIived instrument Both species.
the c. srse and the fine, now bear sbundanly.
Wilhelm Heine, the artist Of Perry's Japan EXpa-
diton, has published in Germany series of works,
comprising complete narrative Of the operations of
the Expedition third and last of which has just sp
peard at Leipzig The same writer has lately written
volume entitled A Summer Journey to Trpolis'
Berlin, 1861 whittier he went to make drawings of
the localities of the events occurring in the of the
United States against the Babay St4es be used IN
tie decorations Of the Capitol at Was iogton.