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Horses of Speed and Bottom. 

 The National Intelligencer furnishes mi ac- 

 count of the extraordinary performances of some 



California!) horses used by Col. Preniow in trav- 

 ersing a section of Upiier California. It is stated 



that Col. F., with two attendants, performed a 

 journey of eight hundred miles in eight days, in 

 eluding all stoppages and nearly two days' de 



tention. Each of the party had three horses, 

 nine in all, which took their turns tinder the- Bud- 

 die. The six loose horses ran ahead without 

 bridle or halter, .and were kept to the track hy 

 tin: riders. When n horse was wanted tor a 

 change, he was etMJghk with the lasso thrown hy 

 one of the men, the saddle and bridle transferred 

 to him. and the other horse turned loose. This 

 change was made at a distance of about twenty 

 miles. The usual gait was a sweeping gallop. 

 The way was over a mountainous country, much 

 of it uninhabited, and many defiles to pass. 

 Tiny travelled at the rale of one hundred to one 

 hundred ami twenty miles a day, until they 

 reached a city, San Luis Obispo, about half way 

 to their place of destination, which was Monte- 

 rey, on the Pacific ocean. At San Luis Ohispo 

 the nine horses were left and eight others taken 

 in their places. With the fresh horses the party 

 pursued their journey to Monterey, and returned 

 lo San Luis Obispo. Two of the latter horse's 

 had been presented to Col. Fremont hy a Cali- 

 fornia!), (Dou Jesus Pico) and were considered 

 as specimens of a famous breed called "loscana- 

 los" or the cinnamons, from their being of a 

 cinnamon color. These two horses were broth- 

 ers, one a year younger than the other. To test 

 iheir powers, they were at the reiptest of the 

 California!), who had presented them to Col. F., 

 put to a severe trial. On leaving Monterey, late 

 in the afternoon, the elder horse was first put 

 under the saddle, and ridden thirty miles, when 

 the party stopped for the night. The next morn- 

 ing the same horses was again taken hy Col. F., 

 "and for ninety miles he carried him without 

 apparent fatigue." It was still thirty miles to the 

 place which was to he the end of their day's 

 ride, and the California!) insisted that the horse 

 could easily accomplish it; but Col. F. would 

 not put him to the trial! The saddle Was there- 

 lore shifted to the younger horse, and the other 

 allowed to run loose lor the remaining thirty 

 miles. "He did so," says the writer of the ac- 

 count, "immediately taking the lead and keeping 

 it all the way, and entering San Luis in a sweep- 

 ing gallop, nostrils distended, snuffing the air 

 anil neighing with exultation at his return to his 

 native pastures, his younger brother all the while 

 limning at the head of the horses under the sad- 

 dle, bearing on his bit, and held in by his rider." 

 The eieht horses made a hundred and twenty 

 miles a day till their return to San Luis Obispo, 

 when the nine horses that were first taken were 

 again brought out, and the remainder of the 

 journey performed with them at the rate of a 

 hundred and twenty-five miles a day. It is Staled 

 that the grass along ihe road was the food for ilie 

 horses during the journey. They are said to be 

 trained with great rare, and exhibit remarkable 

 sagacity and spirit. Could not Col. Fremont 

 procure a few of the best of these horses and 

 semi them into the Stales? If they are what 

 the account to which we lane refilled repre- 

 sents, they would he the most valuable trophy 

 which the conquest of California has yielded 

 us. — .llbany Cultivator. 



A specimen of Industry. — A correspondent 

 of the Albany Atlas says he became acquainted 

 twelve years agd with a man who owned and oc- 

 cupied a fifty acre farm, kept in the best stale of 

 cultivation hy his own labor. When asked how 

 he managed to do so much, without ever appear- 

 ing in a hurt y, and never behind hand in his 

 work, lie said, "I always rise at 4 o'clock in the 

 morning, summer and winter, and frequently 

 get half through a day's work before my neigh- 

 lifis get fairly to work in Ihe morning, ami have 

 plenty of time to read ihe Cultivator, anil two or 

 three newspapers." lie now owns another and 

 large farm, occupies both, and superintends the 

 manufacture of over half a million bushels of 

 salt yearly, in doing which he travels six miles 

 every morning, and frequently gets to his office 

 before his deputies ; and has apparently as much 

 leisure to read and converse as when he culti- 

 vated the small farm. 



From the Union Magazine for January. 

 The Thriving Eamily.— - A Song. 



BY MRS. L. II. S1GOUKN KY. 



Our lathi r lives in Washington, 



And has a world of cures, 

 But gives his children each a farm, 



Km'U'^Ii lor Ihein and Iheirs, — 

 Full thirty well-grown sons has he, 



\ numerous race indeed. 

 Married and settled, all, d'ye see, 



With boys and girls to feed. 

 And if we wisely nil our lauds, 



We're sure to earn a jiving, 

 And have a penny, too, to spare, 



For spending, or tor giving. 

 A thriving launly are we, 



INo lordling need deride us, 

 For we know how to use our hands, 



And in our wits wo pride us j 

 Had, hrothers, hail, — 



Let nought on earth divide us. 



Some of us dare the sharp north-east, 



Some, clover fields are mowing ; 

 And others tend the cotton plants 



That keep ihe looms agoing; 

 Some hiuld and steer the white-winged ships, 



And lew in speed can mate them ; 

 While others rear the corn and wheat, 



Or grind the Hour to Ireight them. 

 And it our neighbors o'er the sea 



Have e'er an empty larder, 

 To send a loaf their babes to cheer, 



We'll work a little harder. 

 .No old nubility have we, 



JNo tyrant king to ride us ; 

 Our Sages in the Capitol 



Enact the laws thai guide us. 

 Hail, brothers, hail, — 



Let nought on earth divide us. 



Some faults we have, — we can't deny 



A foible, here and there ; 

 But other households have the same, 



And so, we'll not despair. 

 'Twill do no good to fume and frown, 



And call hard names, you see, 

 And 'twere a burning shame to part 



So fine u family. 

 'Tls but a waste of" time, to fret, 



Since Nature made us one, 

 For every ijuarrel cuts a thread 



That healthful love has spun. 

 So draw the cords of union last. 



Whatever may betide us, 

 And closer cling through every blast, 



For many a storm has tried us. 

 Hail, brothers, hail, — 

 Let nought on earth divide us ! 



A Veuerable Tree. 



We received, a few days since, frnm our wor- 

 thy friend and correspondent at Deny, a howl of 

 apples — pleasant to the eye and pleasant to the 

 taste — hut still more pleasant was the letter that 

 accompanied then). Our friend will pardon us 

 tor giving a portion of it to the public. 



"The most interesting fact in relation to the 

 fruit is, that they are the production of a nee 

 planted hy my great grandfather, soon after the 

 first settlement of the town, on the original farm, 

 ami now in possession of my brother. It was no 

 doubt planted as early, if not earlier, than Ihe 

 year 1722, as we now calculate from facts and 

 tradition. The town was settled in the year 1719, 

 and llie stone house in which I was horn was 

 built in 1725, as was indisputably recorded in 

 figures on the cap-stone over the front door, and 

 now constitutes one piece of the underpinning 

 of my brother's present dwelling. Improve- 

 ments were made on ihe farm, fields planted, &c, 

 before the stone house was built. My brother, 

 who is now in his 69th year, says ihat the pres- 

 ent top of the tree is the third since his recollec- 

 tion — it having been the practice of my father 

 and himselfj when the old top became decayed 

 and fruitless, to cut it all away, leaving the sprouts 

 to glow and form a new lop. 1 do not exactly 

 know the number of bushels or barrels the tree 

 bore the last year — hut within a very few years 

 past it has borne large quantities. The trunk is 

 large, measuring near 2A feet in diameter. Dur- 

 ing the last season, while the apples were the 

 size of a large, crab apple, a gust of wind blew 

 down about one third of the tree, splitting the 

 trunk nearly to the ground. And what is rather 

 remarkable, the apples growing upon the rent and 

 prostrate portion were much the largest in size — 

 a great portion of them being within eighteen 

 inches of the ground. Was this extra growth the 

 last struggle of the expiring portion of the tree ? 

 — or did the apples receive nourishment from its 

 proximity to the ground ? — questions for orchanl- 

 ists and proinologists to answer. You will ap- 



preciate the value which the descendants of my 

 great grandfather set upon the tree; and, for my- 

 self] 1 miis! say iis remembrance is among the 

 earliest and happiest of my childish days— not 

 so »uch on account of the tree and its fruit, as 

 from circumstances and associations. Within a 

 half rod of its root, runs, during a portion of the 

 year, a little brook, on which were established my 

 juvenile machinery, and "factories," from which 

 1 realized 30, 40 and 50 per cent, of— pleasure— 

 being as great ill reality as is now received hy 

 many of our modern establishments in money. 

 On this stream we erected sawmills, gristmills, 

 triphammers, and all that important sort of ma- 

 chinery which the ingenuity of that age had 

 brought to the greatest perfection. Such corpo- 

 rations were sole not soulless, and created no po- 

 litical opposition— the opposition to them, when 

 manifested, was parental — not so much on ac- 

 count of the rights of the many being stolen by 

 one— but on account of the time and attention of 

 that one being stolen from moie valuable pur- 

 suits. 



Few of your brother editors can boast of rais- 

 ing apples from a tree planted 125 years ago, by 

 an Irishman .' Where the seed or the seedling 

 tree was obtained, is more than I can tell; hut I 

 do not believe that it has any relationship to tliat 

 which bore the apples presented by our firsi 

 mother in her fi nil dish to her spouse— because 

 that was hard and choaky—unil this is pleasant, 

 and passes down the ttsophasrus without sticking 

 hy the way." — Exeter News Letter. 



HoRTiccLTURE.— We are rejoiced at the mul- 

 tiplied and extraordinary evidences almost daily 

 afforded of the zeal with which the people of 

 this country have entered into the prosecution 

 and advancement of horticulture. For a long 

 time no publication of greater interest and beau- 

 ty has met our eye than the first number of the 

 "Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultu- 

 ral Society." Its teller press is as nearly perfect 

 as any that has appeared, and its plates are ad- 

 mirably executed and colored. It does not seem, 

 however, that the society is entirely satisfied w ith 

 them, beautiful exceedingly as they are, for it an- 

 nounces that the process of chromolylhing is not 

 adapted for a work of this character, and that not 

 only will the future plates he far superior, hut 

 that the present ones will he reproduced. These 

 represent two seedling camciias raised hy Col. 

 Wilder, President of the Society, and the Van 

 Mons Leon le Clere pear and the li'illium's Favor- 

 ite and Baldwin jSppks. The contents of this 

 number are exceedingly rich; but we should 

 wander from the legitimate path of a daily jour- 

 nal should we venture any detailed comment up- 

 on them. Those of our readers — anil we know 

 that there are many in this city of gardens ami 

 elsewhere— who take an interest in the subject, 

 will procure the number. The Massachusetts 

 Society is distinguished tor its energy, enterprise 

 and success. Its President, M. P. Wilrtep, Esq , 

 is an active merchant of Boston, who devotes ihe 

 leisure which industry can win ftoMi the most 

 absorbing business, and the- wealth- which that 

 business supplies, to ihe improvement of that 

 first, best and greatest of sciences— ihe science 

 of the soil. Solomon, we leas'ii, -made or- 

 chards" and "delighted lo dwell in gardens :" 

 and w ith a kindred wisdom and taste, Col. Wilder 

 devotes himself, at his farm in ihe vicinity of 

 Boston, to the improvement of plants. There 

 are illustrious names, ancient and modern, to 

 sanction his course; those most celebrated for 

 wisdom, patriotism and virtue have delighted in 

 that, most profitable of all spheres of ambition. 

 Xenophon and .-Elian, Calo and Pliny, Descarles 

 and Bacon, and in later days many of il, e illus- 

 trious of all countries have been found devoting 

 their energies to this most innocent and elevating 

 pursuit. Col. Wilder has already done much lo 

 improve the horticulture of the United States; 

 and continues lo devote himself with unabated 

 zeal ami liberality to the subject. 



The first see.l that was planted was the first 

 effort of civilization ; am! the highest physical 

 triumph of civilization must he that perfection isj 

 the cultivation of ihe earth which will give bIhiu- 

 dant sustenance to the largest possible papula, 

 tion. That result would effect much 19 lemon- 

 Ihe motives for the crimes and WMfS lhal lave 

 desolated ihe world, and the interest is one which 

 involves religion and all the diui«a of humanity. 



