The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-23

IHE GUASo SUpPLY.-A recent lecturer on GU
ano and the Guano Islands, before the royal agri-
cultural college, says: "It is now twenty-five or
twenty-three years since the first crop of Guana
was imported from the Chinca Islands, on the
coast OF Peru These islands comprise three rocks
| the joint area of which is under three thousand
statute acres; and tho quantity OF guano still upon
these rocks is commonly estimated at fifteen mil
lions OF tons, valued at moro than one hundred
millions Of money" His brother had visited the
Guano Islands last year, and, to the result, We
have the following, statement: .His account OF
these islands is totally different from any have
ever yet seen published for instead of the guano
being exhausted in eight or ten years, which most
writers assert he says that the supply, compara-
lively speaking, is inexhaustbe the beds of guano
being in many places more than one hundred feet
thick, and two of the three principal islands being
yet untouched.
On climbing the cliffs an innumerable quantity
OF skeletons OF large, marine animals we're pre-.
sented to his view, such as those OF the seal and
walrus or sea-horse, striking up out of the surface
in such quantities m that the place appeared to be
island he could scarcely take step without his
foot breaking through into hole in which the
guano bird makes its nest. These holes extend
nVe or SIX yards into the bed of the guano, and
the birds are continually occupied in fetching fish
| from the sea to feed their young ones. The NUM-
ber is so immense that the air seems completely
| ahve with them. By this account it seems that
gnano Is not all excremenitious matter, as we have
hitherto been led to suppose, but consists of q
considerable ID amount of decomposcd animal mat
ter, IN addition to the excrement Of birds. It is
evident from this brief sketch that the supply of
guano will be at present by.no means limited
PERSONAL lSTELLIGENcE-Hon Paul Dilling-
ham, who has been elected Governor Of Vermont,
was one OF tho old line Democrats, and in years
past was run by them, OF course unsuccessfnlly,
for Governor: The Democratic papers have had
some fun ont Of him in tho canvass They have
exlumcd letter written by him to John 3. Floyd,
Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of War, asking an op-
portunity to buy the Fort Smelling property In
Minnesota. He says he wants to remove from
Vermont, "where genuine democracy is SO poorly
thought of by the great colored party who rule,
and always will here" He refers the Secretary to
several gentlemen who, he says, "will youeh for
me as man standing well wherever known" !
New ORLEANS, September 17-Two-thirtls Of the
people of Ayoyelles Parish, Louisiana, are in a
destitute condition, and an appeal has been made
to Gen. Candy, who has ordered immediate relief
A serious row occurred on Rockets grounds be-
tween the creoles and negroes on Sunday, and
fears Of another outbreak next Sunday has been
prevented BY military order. -.
General Swayne, Of the Freodmen's Bureau in
Alabama, alluding in circular to the impression
prevailing among negroes that plantations will be
parcelled amongst them at tho beginning of the
next year, tells them they need mot hope for any
thing Of the Sort but ntist go to work and behave