The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-12

| command. Like "Csusin Joe" in the play, he
will be buttons all over" and gold lace nd i6i-
tuns. There is a necessity for this, as all mill
tary men will understand IN. Y. World Cores.
pondence. Bah!
Run ON THE UNION BARx.-There was quite
run on the Union Bank of this city to-day,
aud the bank redeemed its notes and the notes
of its branches at seven per cent. discount, in
coin. The run continued with little abatement
until the close of the banking hours. Crowds
of people we're choked off by the inevitable
o'clock. What effect this little episode will
have on the money market, is hard to tell but
one thing is certain, if the Union Bank can stand
up to the pressure and redeem all its circulation
at seven per cent, it will make nice thing of
it. And If that would end the concern, it would
be cheap radiance.
LArER--Toward the close of the run the
bank would pay but ninety cents on the dollar,
and the people seemed to be satisfied to get that.
missouri Democrat
A New Source for the Supply of
Cotton.
Mr.. R. G. Kendall, from Northern Mary
land, has called upon US with the impor.
tant announcement that he has discovered
new source for the supply of cotton. A
long conversation with this gentleman,
aside from his testimonials, has satisfied
us of the genuineness of his discovery
one whose importance ct at this juncture
cannot be easily overrated. Several years
ago, while an employee in the Patent
Office, Mr.. Kendall, who is Northern
man by birth, received and accepted lib
eral offer made by a Chilian gentleman,
and removed to South America. While
exploring the country in the region of the
Andes, and not far from the fortieth par
allel of latitude, he came upon magnifi-
cent cotton tree, differing in appearance
from any plant of the kind that had ever
before come under his notice. In the
month Of May (our November), when
the ground was covered with several inch
es Of snow. The elevation of the locality
was such that snow usually on the ground
for three months in the year. At that
time the tree had shed its foliage, but the
cotton pods remained, having fully burst,
and covering the tree with rich growth
of the glossy fibre. Subsequently Mr.. X.
lighted upon large numbers of the same
plant, learned its habits and undertook its
culture
The Peruvian cotton tree (Gossypuma
4rboiruaa is not an annual, like that cul-
tivated at the South, but perennial plant
attaining, it is said by the natives, the
age Of nearly a century in some cases. 1t
may be propogated either from seeds or
cuttings; the former, however, it does not
produce in such perfection until seven
wears old. But about the third year it
begins to raise crop Of hollis without
seeds, which grow at its extremity after
the plant has reached maturity 1t will
thus be seen that the ginning process is
thus effectually dispensed with.
The size of the tree is found to average
that of the peach in this country, the
bushy portion forming beautiful pyramid
resting on stem which is sometimes six
or eight feet high and as many inches in
diameter. The heighth of the tree first
observed by Mr.. K. was eighteen feet,
and its diameter, at the thickest part,
about twelve inches. Its crop he estima-
ted at nearly one hundred pounds in
weight. The hollis are usually found
twice the size of those borne by the herb
aceous plant, with firmer fibre, and a
longer staple, as it approaches the colder
regions. M. K. is confident that it can
be successfully cultivated on suitable soils
in any part of the belt where Indian corn
now grows.
Returning to this country some four or
five years ago, the discoverer made YER
bal statement of the plant at the patent
Office, where he also left specimens Of
seeds and cuttings. As is too apt to be
the case about "circumlocution" establish
ments, no attention was paid to the mat
ter, and Mr.. Kendall proceeded to make
trial of the new plant on his farm in
nofthern Maryland. The results of his
experiments he communicated to large
number of gentlemen both North and
South many of whom visited him and salts.
fed themselves, carrying off cuttings to
such an extent that he was left but a
small supply. He has also brought the
subject to notice through some of the agri
cultural journals, among others Mape's
Working Farmer.
In its general qualities the fibre of thi.
plant has been pronounced by cotton bro
kers equal to the best Sea Island variety
A few bales of it have been sold in one o.
the South sAmerican markets at sixteen
dollars per hundred pounds. The quality
of this product is not the only point il
which it excels, the quantity being twice
or three times as great as that ordinarily
produced on our Southern plantations. Nj
K. claims that in certain favorable soil
and situations two thousand pounps car
be produced on single acre, and h.
claims that half that amount can BIZ
depended upon on an average. A bale
to the acre Cess than FIVE hundred pounds
is held to be a good yield at the South.
Assuming that our informant is strictly
trustworthy, and has not been carried
away by temporary excitement-in boil
Of which respects appearances are every
way in his favor-we need only allude t
the fact of such discovery at the presen
moment, as its showing incalculable impor
lance. Cotton, we may fondly hope
will yet be successfully grown on the
banks of the Hudson, the Delaware an,
Connecticut, as well as the Tombigbee o.
the Arkansas. Northern farmers vii
vet raise their own crops of this faoccu
lent fibre" as they now do buck-wheat o
Isabella grapes. Why this glorious per
ennial should have remained 10 loug il
obscurity, can be explained when thou
sand other discoveries and Invention,
Just 10 the nick Of time, have been ac
counted for. Mr. Kendall, we learn, vii
shortly bring the subject before our citi
gems in lecture in the Cooper Institut,
or elsewhere.-[N. Y. Commercial Adver
tiser.