The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1866-06-29
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Tha Upap Prea.

me upaB Tree
This tree is u native OF tho Eass
and is found principally in Malaysia,
, CelebeS, the PHILIPPINES and Java 1t
is lofty tree, with beautiful slOn-
der stem, which overtops the neigh
boring plants. 1t is perfectly cylin-
drical, rising to tho height Of sixty or
eighty feet without branch, bears
ar elegant hemispherical crown, and
is usually entwined with many elm
bcrs around its trunk, Its poisonous
qualities are due to peculiar alkaloid
resident in the juice, which, when
freshly drawn from the tree, Is brit
tie gum rosin of light hue iffrom The
young branches, and dark yellow
from the older stem and both turn
black on drying. The poisonous quail
tiles of this gum can be retained for q
long time if it is kept secluded from
the air; but that the properties popd-
larly attributed to the tree do not ex-
ist is evident from the fact that bota.
nistO engaged in studying it underits
branches are not affected by it.
How TRUE.--What plowing, Dig
ging, and narrowing is to land, think
ing, reaecing, and examining is to the
mind. Each has its proper culture;
and as the land that is suffered to lie
waste and wild for o long time will be
oveasproad with brushwood, brambles
thorns and vegetations, which would
have neither use nor beauty, so there
will sprout up in neglected, uncul.
tivated mind great number of preju-
dices and opinions. Which owe their
origin partly to the soil itselfthe passi-
ons and imperfsctons of the mind Of
man, and partly to those seeds which
chance to be scattered in it by every
kind Of doctrine which the cunning Of
statesman, the Singularity of pedants
and the superstition of fools shall raise.
ARTI is WARD ON THE BRINY DEEP.
"A. Ward thus describes his perils
at sea: 'Deth stared us into the face.
But we had ra ther the advantage of
Deth.-- While Deth sta red as into the
face, thar was about seventy Of us
starein Deth into the face. The pros.
pect wasn't plOasin' to us. Not much.
l don't know how Deth lik ed it,
IMpoRrANcE OF PUNCrUATroN.--
Wanted,-A young man to take
charge of a pair of horses of religious
turn Of mind. A school committee
man writes, We have q school.hOuse
large enough to accommodate four
hundred pupils four stories high.
u1a..
RA- The Emperor of Austria is said
to bc devoured by deep melancholy
which he only shakes off in moments
when most occupied by business,
Abandoned by so many in thiA hour
of trial, and surrounded by dangers
of which he cannot fathom the dopth,
it is not strange that at his age he
should feel SO heavily the weight of
his position
In A CONFERENCE of negro preach.
ers in South Carolina, one of the pre-
acherS was charged with having TIVE
living wives, besides tho one at pre-
sent with him. The eoIored Bishop
ruled that he must not "preach until
ho shall be relieved by Providence of
his difficulties" .s.7
D@- Two ministers, Rev. Mr.. Nun
son, and Father Murphy, were fined
five hundred dollars each, at Camp
Girardeau, Missouri, lately for preach
ing without having taken the test.
oath.
The investigating committee report
nearly two hundred crimes perpetra.a
ted during the threo days of the Mem.
phis riots, including murder, rape, ar.
son, burglary, robbery, &c. No ar.
rosts have been made.
The NEW CoUNTY OF CRooKETr.--A
The county Of Crockett, formed at the
late session of the Legislature ont CT
portions Of Haywood, Madison, Glib
son and Dyer, and named after tho
DsVy Crockett, is fully Or
canizad under the act. TIA nreaenk