Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-03-04

gion is desirable as an agricultural
cOnutry there are few richer aud better
adapted to European emigration. The
staple productions of Haywood county
are corn, wheat, rye, oats and hay; all
vegetables grow abundantly, and the
whole county is admirably fitted for graz
ing. The level bottom lands on Pigeon
River and its numerous tributaries are
under fine cultivation :. the uplands and
the slopes produce rich wheat; the ash,
the sugar maple, the hickory and the oak,
are abundant; and white pine IS RATED
down the Pigeon River in large quanti-
ties yearly But the exceptional fertility
of most of the ranges throughout all the
counties mentioned is the great pride of
the section. The sides and tops Of tue
mountains are, in many cases. covered
with a thick. vegetable mould, in which
grow fourishing trees and rank grasses.
Five thousand feet above the level Of the
sea one finds grasses and weeds that
remind him of the lower >region swamps.
Cattle are kept in excellent condition all
winter on the evergreen" growing along
the sides of the higher chains. Winter
and summer, before the ravages of tie
war thinned out their stocks, the farmers
kept hundreds of cattle on the mountains.
feeding entirely on the grasses. In the
spring the herds nstinctively seek the
young grasses spring up on the slopes, but
with the coming Of winter they return
to the tops to find the evergreen. The
balsam tree can easily be banished, for,
after being felled for few months, it will
bnrn easily. and in its stead will spring
up thick coats Of evergreen. On some of
the mountain farms corn yields one hun
dred bushels to the acre, and wheat, oats,
rye and barley, flourish proportionately.
In the ''deadenipgs," where the large
timber has been girdled and left to die,
and the underground has been carfuly
cleared, timothy and orchard grass will
grow as high as wheat The native grape,
too, hourishes on all the hil-sides. within
certain thermal lines established by OBJ.
servatou of the elder mountaineers; and
varieties of grapes can be selected, and
so planted as to rlpen at different perions
of the autumn. The negro population is
not numerous in Western North Carolina.
Wherever the black man is found, how
ever he is Industrious, faithful, and usu-
ally quite prospesous. In some of the
small towns, as at Waynesville. we found
gentleman's valet Of other days oficiat-
ing as village tailor, barber, errand boy,
coachman and "factotum."
MOUNTAIN hESl lDENCE.
The cabin where we rested stood on a
very steep hillside, and was composed of
two solidly.constructcd square log build.
ings, connected by a porch. The furni-
ture was Of the simplest character. There
was fireplace, a rough board-table, with
benches around 1t, a spinning-wheel, and
quilting frame, at which three tall girls
were busily working, The rude walls
and the plank floor were bare. In the
other room stood one or two high bed
steAds, of simple pattern; mirror. a
few inches square, hung near them there
was bible and some musty books on the
little stand, and rustic bureau pushed
against the wall. The venerable matron
of the household, with her gray hair
combcd smethly back under her sun-bon-
net, which she kept on, stood guard over
the table, with Hybrush, and served
buttermilk from an earthen jar, while she
gossiped with the doctor.
TUE 'DRY FALLS"
1t was Hibernianism to call this glo-
rious cascade the "Dry Falls; y but the
name was suggested by the fact that one
may pass beneath the giant shelf, over
which it pours, without receiving severe
wetting, although the spray is at times
binding. The river, coming to dizzy
height, leaps with such violence that the
water is projected far from the rock, and
the beholder seems to see lace veil, at
least sixty feet long, dependent from the
hoary walls of the cannon. Passing un-
der it, along the slippery rocks, one comes
out upon another stone under beetlng
precipices, from which little streams run
down, and around which the mist aud
spray rise, and can not the changing
CLEANS of the sunshine as they play on
the immense mass Of foam suspended be-
tween earth and sky. Below, the stream
passionately clutches at the rocks, and
now and then throws them down into the
chasm there are hollows in the stones
which have been worn to considerable
depth by the pattering of the spray Of