Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-18

crew, sir. Everything shall be done
to save it, and if we fail it will not
| be from inaction. Bear a hand,
every one of you, at the pumps"
Thrice during the day did we de-
spair, but the captains dauntless
courage, perseverance and powerful
will mastered every mind on board,
and we went to work again.
Il will land you safely at the
dock in Liverpool said he, ''if
you will be men,
And he did land us safely, but the
vessel sunk, moored to the dock.
The captain stood on the deck of
the sinking vessel, receiving the
thanks and the blessings of the pas
sengers, as they passed down the
gang plank. I was the last to leave.
AS l passed, he grasped my hand,
and said:
Judge P, do you recognize
me ?"
I told him that was not aware
that ever saw him until / stepped
aboard his ship.
''Do you remember the boy in
Cincinnati ?''
Every well, sir; William Haver-
ly."
Il am he,' said he. "God bless
your'
'sAnd God bless noble Captain
Haverly."
The AMAzoN.-Let us, following
of !, 90
Orion, touch upon some prominent
characteristics of this great ocean
river. 1t rises in the little Peru
Wan Lake Of Lauricocha, just below
| the limits of perpetual snow. For
500 miles it flows swiftly through
deep valley. Then, turning sharply
eastward, it runs $500 miles across
the great equatorial plain. Two
. thousand miles above its mouth its
width is mile and half, increas-
ing to more than ten miles at the
head of the delta, where it divides,
and, after running 400 miles, re-
sents front of $50 miles upon the
ocean. For great distance it is
bordered by side channels or ebay
ous'' as they are called upon the
Mississippi, named by the Indians
ingrapes, Or "canoe-paths." From
Santarem, the principal town above
Para, one may paddle thousand
miles parallel to the river without
once entering the stream. For
twenty-fi five degrees of latitude every
river that flows down the eastern
Ie1 IF tho Ar1oc or, off nf
the Amazon. 1t is as though all
, the rivers from Mexico to Oregon
; united their waters in the Mississ-
ippi. A half score of these tributa-
ries are larger-the Danube excep-
ted, than any European river out Of
y Russia. The volume of its waters
, is greater even than the breadth of
, the river would indicate. AT Nauta,
, 220O miles from its mouth, the
depth is 40 feet, increasing rapidly
: as it approaches the ocean. The
largest ocean steamer could doubt
less steam 1000 miles up the Anna
I zon.
! The vegetation Of the valley is
exuberant. There is bewildering
diversity of grand and beautiful
trees, a wild, unconquered race of
vegetable giants, draped and fes-
! tooned by creeping plants. The
; moment you land upon the shore
: you are confronted by solid wall
y of vegetation, through Which, if you
p wish to proceed, you must hew
your way with axe or nacheto.
D,l,,, n .,,l,;ob tl,;rt,, yor;ot;oS oro
!. noted, constitute the majority of
:. trees. Then there are "cow-trees,''
a hundred and fifty feet high, yield
ing milk of the consistency of
cream, used for tea, coffee, and Gus
tards. The sscaucho," or rubber
tree, though of a different species
from that of the East Indies, pro-
duces q gum which constitutes most
of the rubber of commerce. Agas-
siz puts this tree, forty or eighty
feet high, in the same class with the
. "milk- weed of our American pas
Tres. Of ornamental woods there
is no end. Foremost among these
, is the Nora p Pininsa, or ''tortoise-
shell wood" the most beautiful in
grain and color of any in the world
!, Enough of this is wasted every year
: : to veneer all the dwellings OF the
civilized world For many years to
come the exports of the Amazon
: Valley must be mainly the products
of its forests. Yet, strangely
: enough, timber is now one of the
chief articles of imI ort at Para. A
city Of $4,000 inhabitants, lying on
! the verge of a great forest, buys
!, pine Eoards from far away Maine!
,, This folly will in time come to an
end Contrary to all that we might
;. - expect, the climate of the Amazon
!, Valley is temperate rather than.
tropical. 1t is more equal than in
any other region of the world.
Year in and year out ranges !rom
"A deg, to 81 deg. the fair mean
:. be ing so deg From ''The Andes
and The Amazon" by A. H. Guern-
;. sey, in Harper's Magazine for Feb
! ruary.
/ A CHINAMAN' OPINION OF THE
| CRUc1F1xroN.-Cn Good Friday last
i Chinaman who keeps a wash
, house in Barkerville, noticing that
. the banks and shops were closed
? during the day, and desiring, as a
= new conner, to post himself on Brit
/ ish laws and observances, entered
3 the shop of his next door neighbor,
, xror+h- con Of Ct Gricr,in for tho