The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-07-29

Tho English director In the board Of
management In the Suez canal has recently
written letter In reference to the traffic
over this route. Hitherto the Suez canal,
for its entire width, has been completed from
Port Said only as far as Lake Tlmsah, and
smaller canal called the Sweetwater canal
was continued from that point TO Suez. The
trade was therefore carried on In barges. In
connection with the Abyssinian expedition,
1909 packages were sent over the canal for
the Victoria hospital at Suez, and an official
certificate states that the goods were received
correct In number, promptly and In good
condition, and that considerable saving In
time and expense was secured.
The rate for all kinds Of merchandise
(coal excepted) from Port Said to suez is IS
per French ton Of 900 kilogrammes or 1904
pounds avolrdupois English. The rate for
coal Is S4.50 per French ton, or "a per ton
when sent by the cargo Of 800 French tons.
The charges for unloading and loading at
Port Said from ship into the company's
barges are So cents per French ton, and I'M
loading from the barge and placing on the
quay at Suez IS cents, making total OF 90
cents for transhlpment. The Peninsular and
Oriental Steamship Company has already
sent 200 tons Of coal to Suez, and are max
Ing arrangements for 5000 tons more. The
ofirial report Of the receipts Of toll give
f21O,04 as the revenue up to Nov. !, 1868.
There are sixteen steamers plying monthly
between Alexandria and Port Said, and six
monthly steamers from Suez to Bombay,
Madras, Cslcutt., and other ports Of the
arrived nt Port Said a,oss vessels, moasur-
Ing In the aggregate 874, 04S tons, and
10000 tickets were Issued to pass over the
canal.
Some trouble has been experienced from
the duty imposed in 1866, by the Egyptian
Government, upon all goods belonging 10
private individuals landed OF Port Said,
where custom.house was established In
eo con, q, S Of the ,muggl!ng from that
Insists that the charge OF nfteen per cent.
upon Its revenue should exempt from duty
goods In transit, aud the protest seems to
have been effsctual.
The question as TO the terms upon which
the vessels Of tho British naval and mercan-
tile marine should DO allowed 10 pass through
the Suez canal was recently asked In tho
tary Of State, Mr.. Otway, replied that the
sixth article OF the grant 10 Mr.. L.sssps pro-
vided for the equality Of the tariff Of rates
for all nations. These rights, however,
should be secured by treaty With the Sultan
and Vlccroy of Egypt.
II CONGRESS, the President and General
Nfhpy wal WIN ihTlN anu
| squarely, and accept and consummats our
| well-meant work, tho people Of Virginia will
soon be In situation to make their great
| Commonwealth not only ono Of the political
pillars Of the Union, but one Of its chief
financial props and social ornaments. As
soon as our political affairs are settled on
permanent basis, a load will DO taken on our
minds and shackles will be removed from
our, energies. We will oil go to work With
l n mi tK1 49, l..
since 1861. We will feel that what We work
for and accumulate will not DO liable to BE-
swept from us by those who have no prop.
erty, pay no taxes and live by plunder. We
will feel that our works of Improvement, Oh
which SO much money has been expended,
will be safe from spollation, and that our
institutions Of learning will be rescued from
ruin. We will feel that We arc once more
free, and will put forth all Of the energies OF
| freemen.
Our old reverence for the Union and tho
flag will return, and our hearts and homes
Will be open to strangers as they are 20 those
| OF our own State. Men with chains around
them are CALLED, and do not feel like singing
pGans to those who imposed them. Much
has been said about Social ostraclsm" of
northern men and federal officers. Let your
political ostracism cease, and see how soon
our much-complained Of "social ostracism"
will also cease. A high-minded people will
do spontaneously what years of attempted
coercion would never accomplish. Give us
reconstruction upon tho basis OF our cleo
tion, and you will soon see how nobly Vir-
ginia will vindlcate herself. She will blot
out the painful past and prepare to enter
upon career OF political peace, social i'm
proyement, educational development and in
| dustrial progress that will make her an ex-
ample to all her sister States. Do her Justice,
and she will repay you q thousand fold
Richmond Wing, july e..
The NUTMEG TREE.-Wo have noticed In
our exchanges lately repeated statements to
the effect that the nutmeg tree Is an inhabl-
tant OF the Sierra Nevada mountains OF Cali
fornla, and that its fruit has been collected
OF quality equal 10 that OF the Imported
article. To these assertions we present a
positive contradiction, as the tree in ques-
tion, though called the nutmeg tree, Is of q
totally different character, being the 7orrSya
Cdlyornicd, one OF the conlfere or pine fam
lily, with leaves and foliage resembling some
| what those OF the yew and attaining height
OF hfty TO seventy.hye feet. The fruit Is un-
covered, and Is indeed very similar in ap-
| pearance to a nutmeg, but lie tasteless ex-
| cept so far as percentage Of tuTpentine
gives 1t reslnous flavor, They lnhabit the
higher parts Of the mountains Of California,
| requiring cold climate for their support.
The true nutmeg (Myristied) on the contrary
IL a native Of the hot region OF the Moluccas
and adjacent islands, and Is cultivated be-
tidcs In sumatra and Java; II has no rela-
ton whatever to the coniferIc. The nutmeg
Is the innormost kernel Of the fruit, enclosed
in thin shell, which Is surrounded by the
mace, and the whole Is contained In tough
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