Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-04

"lS'l"us HeL. ElteckoLs1s 'Ainta land enOnRhl
to supply all China With hcg aud honiiay.
put take a the supply OF settpn amay from
the English mnn1fartoftes, and of goes
Queen Yie's crowu like Boo kinrhau,fs l1r,d
in the play n" e = - / :.
right pleasant ptctnte to paint ,1es.
Pite his little .fOibleS, is,Ourl Young cotton.
planter with las fiue wines and cignrs his
1ne dogs audi guns and horses. aud his
hne selt,-nOble, ihigh-spiFiIetl, eeItr1nss
polite, well-edpc as we'll ed :
ntated ms cSn be expected OF the small
prePnFatory schools which in,this country
we dignity with the names Of colleges and
universities. And though de is in A new
placei"in the woods p with the sUecfres Of
black, dead treesi cFowdIpg-up to his very
doors, and provided, -as! he tnodestiS ftiSs
ciares, with ne cOnYeniencesr Of f;.ciViIIRa-
ton Whatever, yet lie lie hs hospita6le as
the day, and 'pethaps even has q servant at
ihe gate whose business II is TO invits an
efcsat !, looking 60 strangers to stop aud res
The sugar Pines OF tht sierras, or tlss
te9 CallfOrnio!G Giants. Il
From California Letter in tie Boston rranserfptI
We were very tired when, we d,smounted td
at Clarke,s log hut and canvass diningtent
IN the glorious forest, thirty miles from
Marippsa-tired in body and in brain. !.
tired by our seven hours of horseback.
riding, aud by the perpetual feast OF floral
beauty and sugar. pinemagnifrence which
lad delighted eye and heart. But IL did
not require long time to restore us. Hnlf
an hours rest under, one, of the stately fra
thAt'toWered above tie cabin, and a cur,
OF ten with our po9nFmenl, fit for man
DARN, put MS in good working trim for the
afternoons excursion. We were only, Eve
miles from the mammoth trees. An easy
Qpland ride OF an hour would lead ~ to
the grove where thesyegetabIe Titans we
had so often read about, with a wonder
TN ;ed with nnbelief, held their solemn
Court li3ssrl aA5I 100 5a54t
And ] confess that began to doubt. as
the time for mounting again approached,
as to the. existence Ofilhe marveis. Wasit
possible that, before s1nset. Iwns to stand
,oy living tree more than ninety feet in
circuit and three hundred feet high?-
Think.what these figures mean, my hnsiyi
reader, when transformed into solid bark
and fibre. Take bull of cord, measure n
hundred feet from II cut IL and lie the.
ends, and then, by, tia aid of four or five
ofyonr rcompRnions, tretch it into a circle
Gf you have a paTl9r spacious enough to
permit the eXperiment) and imagine that
space tilled with a;column of vigorous re-
dnr. Now conceive this tree rooted on tho
Common just before the entrance: What
do you say to looking up its smooth trunk
10 point higher than the topmost leaf of
any elmsOn the Trefuont street mall, and of
seeing there hopgh thicker than the
lnrgest Of those elqs shooting out from, IT?
What do you s5Y to the fact that its
plumes would nod0 hundred feet above
the yRue at Park ST teet spire? What saw
you to the possi6ilif Ia LAY .holloIg d rS.
on tue 'gr0uud3 et ifing y bArbuchs aud
four through it without being able to touch
the highest POfntlof its curVeil ceiling
with ten foot pOle?h Then think of il
cut up into six thousand cords of wood
Tue Mntiposa grove stands as the Crea.
tor has fashiOnedit, upprofaued, except by
fire, which long before the advent OF thsf
Saxon white men had charred the base of
the larger portion Of the stulwArt trees
We rode on for nm hour, climbing NIL the
time tll we reached a forest plateau five
thousand feet above the sea. This, in New
England, is the heightof Mount Madison,
where not scrub can grow. Riding on
a few rods, through ordinary evergreens
with dark stems, NC Nt last cAtclIR glimpse
of II strnnge color in the forest. II Is "A
tree in tue distance, of light cinnamon
hue. We ride nearer, seeing others of.the
same complexion starting out in the most
impressive contrast with the sombre col.
umns of the wilderness. We are now in
the grove OF the Titans. We single ont
one of them for alirst acquaintance, and
soon dismount at its roots. / must con-
fess that my own feelings, as first scam
ned it, and! let them roam up its tawny
pillar. was of intense disappointment.
But then snid to myself, this is doubtless
one of the striPlings of the Anack blood
only small affair of some forty feet in
girth.- j took ont the measuring line, fas-
tened u TO the trunk with a knife, and
walked around; sunRinding as 4 went
The line was seventy feet long. I4camc to
OF the line before completing the cir
cult. Nine feet more were needed. bad
dlsmounted before a structure ciehty-four
feet high, and should not have Guessed
that it would measure more than 6 ifteen feet
through. 1t did not look to meltwtce so
large as the Big Elm on the Common,
although that is only eighteen feet in cir
conference, md this WAS twenty y-eight in
diameter! During The day had seen
dozen sngar pinss which appeared to be
far more lofty. The next one Il e measured
was eighty-niue feet aad two inches fni
gfrth; the third was ninety feet There
are nearly three times as many Of the Fi=
ant species in this grove as in the Calaye-
ras cluster. Divided into two groups,
there are six hundred and ifty OF them
within space Of one mile and three-
quarters. Col. Warren, the faithful and
sclf-sacrifcilg friend of agricnIturel inter-
ests In this State, proprietor and editor of
the California Farmer measured the priu-
ciPal trees of one groupe on this ridge,
some three years ago, and found enc OF iO2
feet, two OF 100 feet. one of 81. one of 80,
one Of 80, one df 80, two Off, three of 10,
and thus gradually diminishing, till more
than hundred trees were on his list that
measured fly feet and upwards in circum-
ference. This crowd of majestic forms ex-
plains the disapPointmeat in tirst entering
the grove, TIE generai{ scalt 5is5too i'm
rnense. Half 4 1nzen nf the lnrnaatr4rans.