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large ; color, dark purple, approaching 

 to black, with a purple bloom ; skin, 

 firm ; flesh, tender, juicy, sweet, spright- 

 ly ; quality, best. Some gentlemen 

 who tasted it pronounced it the best 

 grape in tlie collection. 



Halifax Hybrid, No. 38 (F. Halifax, 

 M. Delaware), is another grape of 

 great beauty and promise. It is of a 

 dark red color, with a purple bloom ; 

 but, having mislaid the notes we made 

 on it, we cannot describe it in detail. 

 It is one of the most promising of all 

 for general cultivation, being perfectly 

 hardy, free from disease, and apparently 

 suited to all kinds of soil where any 

 grape will grow. Its foliage is that of 

 the Labrusca t}'pe. 



Halifax Hybrid, No. 30 (F. Halifax, 

 M. Delaware), a black grape of a fine 

 delicate flavor ; and Halifax Hybrid, 

 No. 49 (F. Halifax, M. Delaware), also 



a black berry of high vinous flavor, are 

 both grapes of great promise, of which 

 we shall publish detailed descriptions 

 in future numbers." 



[We clip the above from that valu- 

 able monthl}", The Rural Carolinian., 

 and hope to hear more of these very 

 interesting seedlings from Dr. Wylie 

 himself, and may present our readers 

 with some illustrations of them. There 

 is room for improvement still, and we 

 welcome with delight every new seed- 

 ling of superior merit over any of the 

 older varieties, may it come from the 

 south or north ; although we warn our 

 readers not to be too hasty in planting 

 any new and untried variety on a large 

 scale. There is no reason for adding 

 to our already large list of varieties, 

 unless we can add something realty 

 better, in some respect, to the varieties 

 we already have. — Editor.] 



THE COMING MAN WILL DEINK WINE; or, COMMON SENSE 

 vs. PEOHIBITIVE LAWS.— VI. 



My theme might further be illus- 

 trated with that crying evil and shame 

 of civilized society, the prostitution 

 of great cities ; a shame and an evil 

 of so vast a magnitude, involving in 

 itself 80 much of misery and degra- 

 dation for women, so much of heart- 

 lessness, coarse-mindedness, and cru- 

 elty in men, and permeating societ}^ 

 at large with such a mass of hypoc- 

 risy, that but for faith in freedom and 

 progress, it might be doubted ^vhether 

 oriental or mormon polygainy, or sav- 

 ageism itself, were not a preferable 

 state to that where a large jjortion of 

 society seems offered up as victims to 



the rest. In fact, it must appear evi- 

 dent that an endless comparison might 

 be made of the necessary use of all 

 things, and the unnecessary abuse that 

 prevails amongst some; but let what 

 I have said thus far be sufficient for 

 to-day ; it is plain that everything 

 upon the face of God's earth has a 

 design^ some good purpose to fill, 

 which by man can be carried to 

 excess, but is that a valid reason 

 to deny even the moderate use of 

 things? 



" But why do you laugh at total- 

 abstinence men V wrote to me lately, 

 in a fit of hateful anger, a corrcspon- 



