The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-07-12
A Botanical Wonder.

beeneproduced, it is said, in q Temperature
of artificial cold, in the following words:
This wonderful plant or rather flower. is
found only on the Northern bon ndarics of
Siberia, where the snowris eternal. 1t was
discovered, in 1868, by Count S.winoskofr,
the eminent Russian botanist w ho was en-.
nobled by the Car for his discov cry. Burst
ing from the frozen snow on the first day of
the year, il grew to the height of three
feet, and flowers on the third day, remains
III flower for twenty. four hours, and then
dissoivcs itself into its or:giilal clement
stem, leaves and flowers hcir Of the fincst
| snow. The stalk is about ore inch in III;
ancter; the leaves, three in humber. in the
broadcst part are an inch -and-a half in
width, and are covered wi th infnitcsimal
copes of snow; they grow olly on one side
| "l !hc S'alh,lo the North, c'lrying graceful
ly in tho same direction.
The flower, whcn fully expanded. is in
shape a perfect star The petals are,hreo
inches in length, half an. inch wide in the
| hroadest parts, and tapo,ring sharply to
| point. These are also intcraccd one with
| another, in beautiful rlanner, forminr the
most delicate basket Of frost-work that the
eye ever beheld, for truly ihis is offrost.
work The most won derful.
Ihp day after Tho birth of the "hower of
snow" arc TO be cen on The extremitics
thereof. trembling and glittering like dia-
monds, the seeds o this wonderful flower
ABOUT MS large rs n pins head. Tho old
botanist says wheI Fl rst he behcM this flow
cr:
81 was dumb W it'll astonishment: filed
win wonderment, hich gave way to joy
inc mos! eestatic on bcholding this wonder
III work CT nature, this remarkable phe-
nomenon OF snow; to see this flower spring
ing IRON, the snowy desert born of its own
composite atoms I touched thcstem of one
lightly, but il fell my topch, and q NOR
sci OF snow only re- nained in my hand"
Gathering some of the flowers in snow,
IN order 10 proscrv che little diamond like
seed' nc med to St Petersburg with--to
himI'he mn greatest prize d his life time
n Ire 3!onrt inf ne were kept in
lighted with the br rs sting }ofssss ssear follow
dorful ''frost fowe r." Our friends in Bos-
ton succeeded in obtaining several Of the
seeds, and all TIN ough the summer and
autumn they have been imbedded in snow.
brought ut great expense from the White
Mountains and CO, ,st Of Labrador and they
now have the mos / unbounded satisfaction
and pleasure in o nnouncing that all signs
are favorable to Il 70 realization of their fond
est hopes. the pro, luction of the "hower Of
snow" The snov " and ice are in q large
glass refrigerator. with the thermometer
forty five degrees below zero, and the solid
bed of snow has already begun to show
little fssmes an, a slight bulging in the
centre, unmIstalNa bic evidences Of the forth
coming phenom eI hon.,
THE GREAT !GM IGiATIoN FROM IRELAND.
The Pail Ma, tRsrehe, in a late number,
thus gives the En-, blish view ofthe Irish emf.
grafton:
"Although ] abo e Is scarce and wages high
in every part of Ireland, the exodus to
America is raj idly on the increase. From.
Cork alone arr av erage Of fifteen hundred
embark weekl y, end from the other fish
ports the emi graf ion to the New Morld, by
way of Liverp ool, is propor,ionaby rapid
The master w ish ,bf every Irishman belong
ingto the Low 'cr middle and lower class
seems to be t, lea We his country forever, an
object which, the Irish paterfamiias seeks
TO attain by sc ndi ng forward across the At
lantic his lIart lies and most promising sons
and daughters +, provided with all the money
he can raise to arm more for the transport
of the rest of the family. in this way, not
only an immo ase amount Of labor, but also
m Immense mount Of specie is daily lost
to ireland, an acquired by America The
young and tn, industrious, the flower Of the
population, Dc part--,tho old and the feeble
and the sickly rewai n behind, awaiting i'm
phtsch''J WV VI hV"ho w ioi-
low. 1t is del ,orable that this should be
so, but so ii >. $50
ARREsrEr.-Th'a Charleston Courier
of the 9th So Us Lie ltenant I'll. w. Hen.
bricks, of the police, assisted by detective
officers Farrell and Cotes, has succeeded
in lcrreting ut aud arresting number
Of colored men CHARGED with being i'm,
plcated in th Q muyier of b. S. Rhett,
Esq, on TUESDAY last. The parties
have been comm, II I'd for trial. Lieu-
tenant Hendricks IN d his associate Off
GERS are entitI, d tot be thanks Of the
community for tier vigilance and per-
scvering Efforts inthis case as well as in
the breaking up o the recent band oI
burglars who n(etod this city. The
Investigation of tic parties accused will
come up this monlng.