American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-23

| SefVtle ana SuperStltlOuS NeneratlOn.
In Q word, the resolution contem-
plates testing the constdtutionality
of the various acts OF Congress,
affecting the rights and existence OF
these States, before the Supreme
! Court. of the United States.
4 have just learned that q new
! plant has been added to the resources
,ofour tropical Regional new textile,
which will furnish the world with
clothing, knowledge, and anew means
of living | have seen long skeins
of a cotton-li fibre, cetton-like IN
wilderness, softness and fneness, but
much stronger, which is now pro
duced at the rate OF five crops per
| year in the State of Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, where it has been cultivated for
five Years by a Belgian naturalist
and botanist, who went there to
pursue his favorite studies and occu-
patton, in soil and climate similar
to our own. The plant is called the
Rdmie, is a native of Java, was intro
duced into the State of Vera Cruz,
and has been pronounced natural
lied plant of this continent. Its
present visit to this rity will speedily
cause its Introduction into the fields
of the Gulf States, and to which it
will permanently pertain The Ra-
mic (which is its Javanese name,) is
a plant like hemp, contains in its
stalk thp fibre for which it is raised,
and which is grown like the sugar
cane. from, being planted in lengths,
or from its stubhle; with this adVan-
tage over the stRbble of the cane,
that each succeeding year it grows
better, and that in Cuba and Lower
Mexico it will furnish five, and here,
at least three cuttings III the year.
BY a new process, and some simple
machinery invented by Mr.. Beneto
Roezl, the lint can be prepared from
the stalks, taken fresh from the
ground, in twenty-four hours. Eight
hundred pounds of lint to the acre is
to be expected from each cutting OF
full growth, in tail land, The culture
is similar to that of cane, but as the
plant when once set, is hard to Grad
icate, grows vigorously, and defies
tie influence of grass or rival plants,
cultivation is onlyneeded to promote
its growth. When lipe, it should be
cut; but neglect to do this causes no
special damage, so that it may re-
main uncut DAYS or weeks, at the
will of the cultivator. The fibre is
long, fine and strong; the plant easy
to raise, and hardy in a southern
latitude; its preparation for market
is simple and cheap in cost. Under
these circumstances, | may safely
say that it will at an early day take
a high rank among our staples.
A prize fight came off OH Saturday
morning, at the Metairie race course,
between two men known as JOice
and Turner. The contest lasted an
hour and a half; fifteen rounds were
fought, and at the end of that time,
Joice threw up the sponge, and Tur-
ner was declared victor. a party of
Yankee soldiers was despatched to
the scene of action to arrest the com
batants, but before their arrival the
fight was ended. ...
There is to be a Bal NdSgue at the
Moresque tonight. Ristori, the great |
after reaping field of
cold here, has gone to reap another
field of gold in Mobile. La Belle
Louise, the lion queen, has gone off
with circus company. The crevasse
has been stopped, for the present,
particularly as General Mower has
taken command of this post by order
of his excellency, General Sheridan,
the military satrap of the Territory
of Louisiana. We have the same
amount of fires, and the usual num-
Der of hOnicides-the last of the
students have departed
strawberries are as plentiful as black
berries in June--the sun shines once
more, and the ladies have again as
Semblcd on the grand boulevard,
Canal. to celebrate the event by eat.
ing ices, and cream cakes, and drink
ing soda water at Bellanger's. And
50 that with taste, Shakespeare,
and the musical glasses" the operas,
bazaars, concerts, bal Mosques, trag-
edies, comedies, comediettas, vaude-
yilleS, music halls, academies of mu-
sic, Burnell's museum, and political
we may be said to be in the
midst of social and political revO-
luton. The last sensation report
being that Sheridan intends remOv-
ing Mayor Monroe, Governor Wells
and the whole body of the police,
these last giving way to discharged
Yankee soldiers. Alas, poor Louis
ANA Adieu.
"r CAPT. SHANDY.
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