Daily national Democrat., 1861-02-23

lHlfOHIHeu uN IA EIS, IlnNSIcldHe, MINISTERS,
and every other class of persons In san
Francisco, even the ladies have gymnasium
We need one here, and we hope to see some
one take hold OF the subject, and put it
through without delay.
TuE NIcToR. This swift and fine boat tied
up at the upper landing, at half-past four
! o'clock on Sunday afternoon. She brought
| some 80 tons of freight, hut only few pas
,enecrs There was considerable return
freight awaiting her here and at Tehama-
Oar thanks are due the gentemanly Clerk,
Mr.. Andrews, for Myors, and to O. i. Smith,
}. X, Wells Fargo & Cos attentive Mes
senger, for files of papers.
ScgUB RACES Our usually quiet town has
been the scene Of quite a number Of scrub
races during the past ten days. 1t is folly
for Us to attempt to name the horses, the size
of The purses, and the time made; suffice it
to say a great deal OF fun was had by the
boy, and from .ae appearance 6 those who
attended, on their return from the track. we
should judge they had enjoyed themselves
hugely. The upper end Of Jefferson street is
used as track,
T. STARR NiNG oN THE BIG TREEs.-Thc
following is an extract from letter of T.
starr King to the Boston Transcript:
The afternoon hours we passed in the Mar
| jposa grove were strangely short one needs
a long summer day for the proper study even
of half dozen OF the chief Senators in the
! group What is an afternoon among six hun
dred | lay for haifan hour alone at the
root Of the most colossal bole-my compan-
ions out Of sight and hcaring-aud watched
The golden sunshine mounting the amber
| trunk, and at last leaving hundred feet oi
it in shadow to flood its mighty boughs and
locks with tender lustre What silence and
what mystery How many centuries of
summers has such evening splend0r hurnish-
ed th0s the summit Of the completed shaft :
| How long since the quickcniug sunbeam fell
/ upon the first spear of green in which the
! prophecy of the superb obeisll was enfoil-
| cit Why cannot the dumb column DOW ue
| couHIcu.id? There comes breath of
| wind, cooled ly the snow on higher swc,ls
/ 1i the eierras, which can be seen from the
western edge Of the Croyc;-why will not
| the old patriarch take advantage of that l.r-
| pie through his leaves and whisper to me his
agc2 Are YOU as Oh as Noah2 DO Won
/ span tucccatUries as far a Moses? Can Won re-
mcml,r Tie time Of Solomon? Were You
| planted before jhe seed of Rome took root in
| i'a'yE At any rate, tell me whether or not
| your b,rth beiouL- tao othe Christian centuries;
whether "e mast write "B. c. or a. D.
against your infancy. promised The stall
Wart grcyLoard that | would tell nobody, or
at most only the Transcript, If he would lust
drop into my ear the hour of his natiyitV.-
Perhaps he would have told me, If my parry
had not returned to disturb the conditions Of
n communications Possibly he would have
said that bis memory was troachcrous, and
that must ask the scientific men
have asked them and they differ One
ca,oulation led Mr.. Greeley TO believe that
the oldest Of these trees were of substantial
size when David danced before the Ark
whom ThescUs rul i in Athens, when .Uucas
He'd from the burning wreck Of Troy. In an
English Jurual they were estimated by dis
'ing'i-hcd botauist at lArec thousand years
Dr. Higelow, ~ counting the rings in Sec
tlon Of the trunk OF one of the largest, which
had been tcIIed, and computing from that,
reduced these pretentious materially. lie
made il about 1900 years old,--a tender con-
temporary of Cicero and Julius Cesar. But
since then, q merciless savan, Dr. TorreV, the
botauist, declares that he has counted every
ring on the tree that was cut down, and his
| iCurcS have tclled a vast pile of our poetry
" hY mast there he scientific men, who de-
LIGHT in botheIing thoO,ogIaus, and in erect
ing their cbs"aHr de tri2~ in the path of all
gllIopiug rUmauccI He makes our tree
about 100 years DID, If thi, celebration he
Trustworthy, the column at whose root | sat
took its first draught of sunshine in the time
of Ch"rlomacue. Itis three hundred wears
Older than the Norman Conquest and the
great lIiIdebrand. 1t was giant in the
time of the first Crusade And it antedates
the foundation stone Of the Oldest Gothic
sPlr' of Europe. A genial evening of life to
the Methuscahs of the wilderness, who were
babies OF century thousand Years ago.
SrArG rics--Apour THE WHEAT Cnor.-
There is no one article of production of
greater Importance to the commerce of the
world than that Of wheat 1t is the chiefar-
ticle of consumption throughout nearly the
entire civilized world. The s. f. Mercantile
Gazette has recently published an article
prepared from the New York Shipping List.
and the New Y ork World, in reference to the
relative wheat exports from the East aud
West. The exports Of wheat from domestic
Atlantic ports TO Great Britain and the con-
tlnent, out of the harvest of 1860, are shown
in the following table:
Bushels. Nushels
New York, 1o,ol27SS, New Orleans 228,g35
philadelphia, S93,525, Boston, 10,3l5
Baltimore, az, l52 Other ports, 1,i20,465
Total bushels Of wheat 13.393.211
The port of New York has been the outlet
through which has gone four-fflhs of the
entire exports of the Eastern States proper
and the greater portion Of the surplus of the
Northwestern States has likewise found its
way abroad through the same direction of
the harvest of 1860, California exported to
Great Britain, up to Dec 4lst, 04G;20O BUSH
els OF wheat, through the port of san Fran
ee'Sco; larger quantity than was shipped
''T'I' In any other port except New York. To
az countries California has already exported
VI I'sI years crop, 1863, ,SI3 bushels of wheat
ana II Is thought will be able to spare enon.rh
10 make total OF three millions. The Cali
lorna crop oil course, includes any quantity
of wheat that may have gone in tIdt ,t,'.''S d;r,S
ton from Oregon. '''' ''i'V-
The surplus of the crop of wheat IF 1Qco
raised in the Eastern States which conld [o
spared for shipment abroad has been pivon ot
Q GOO bushels The above table, which ev
hibits the shipnents already made, includes
a considerable quantity of the product Of
of Canada which has cone through Ameri-
can ports. The surplus of the Atlantic and
Pacific States for 1860. may be stated accu
rately at 100000 bushels, of which the
Pacific side furnished a quota of twenty five
] per cent.-Portlatd AQ9erLSer.