FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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Jordan Agricultural Jferos. 
By the steamer Europa, we are in receipt of our 
foreign journals up to September 6th. 
Cotton had advanced £ to £ of a penny. Provis¬ 
ions^ Flour, and Grain were a little lower. 
What Americans Have Hone the Past Season at the 
Crystal Palace and Elsewhere. —The following sum¬ 
ming up is from the London correspondent of the 
Journal of Commerce 
“So you see that the United States are of late look¬ 
ing up. We have carried away the palm in ship 
building. We have sent them a reaper to reap their 
grain fields. We have picked their locks which defied 
the world, and have given them in their stead, one 
which has hitherto proved unpickable. We have sent 
them pressing machines surpassing anything they have, 
and, as we believe, destined to supplant, perhaps, 
wholly, those now in use. We have sent them one of 
the great sources of their power, cotton of unapproach¬ 
ed excellence of quality, and we can send it in quantity 
at least abundant enough. We have sent them, be 
sides, wheat, bacon, and tobacco; of the primest qual¬ 
ity—an article of food, the meat biscuit, which will be 
found indispensable to the success of many great mod¬ 
ern enterprises; the utility of which they have not 
been slow to perceive. We have sent them, too, the 
Greek slave; and Colt’s revolver, the greatest modern 
improvement in fire arms, and the most efficient of all 
known small arms. And we might add that we have 
fairly bored a great hole through the continent for the 
commerce of the world. I commend to your notice 
the handsome manner in which the Times calls atten¬ 
tion to our opening the Nicaragua route:— 
“ I have called your attention to these matters not in 
a spirit of boasting, I hope, but as matters of informa¬ 
tion. We receive now on this side of the water so 
manly and heartily an acknowledgement of our suc¬ 
cess, that boasting would on our part be in most espe¬ 
cial bad taste.” 
The Amende Honorable. —It will be recollected in 
our August number, that we took the Times, and sun¬ 
dry other English papers to task, for their ignorant 
and illiberal comments on the American exhibition at 
the Crystal Palace, particularly in that department 
which most concerns us—the agricultural. We 
thought it very ungentlemanly, to say the least of it, 
after inviting the whole world to come forward and 
make a display of its handicraft for England’s benefit, 
to single out the Americans as a butt for ridicule, and 
captious, narrowminded, vulgar sneers. Yet, the mo¬ 
ment our reapers, plows, (fee., are tried, and found to be 
so much superior to what was anticipated, their tone 
changes, and the English press acknowledges its er¬ 
ror in an honorable manner, and accords to America 
all, and perhaps even more than is justly her due. 
The following is from the London Times:— 
“ Taking all things together, British and Americans 
have run a pretty fair tie through the trials of this 
wonderful season. The spring, it must be confessed, 
opened ill for Brother Jonathan, and for a good while 
in the race, we kept well ahead. We had our great 
Exhibition—a real new ‘smart’ speculation, which 
did not turn out a failure, which exceeded everybody’s 
hopes, and which brought about no revolutions at all. 
It was calculated that we should realise $2,000,000. 
whereas we have got over $2,100,000 at this very mo¬ 
ment, with six good weeks before us still. On the 
other hand, it is beyond all denial that every practi¬ 
cal success of the season belongs to the Americans. 
Their consignments showed poorly at first, but came 
out well upon trial. The reaping machine has carried 
conviction to the hearts of the British agriculturist. 
Their revolvers threaten to revolutionise military tac¬ 
tics as completely as the original discovery of gun¬ 
powder. Their yacht takes a class to itself. Of all 
the victories ever won, none has been so transcendant 
as that of the New-York schooner America. The ac¬ 
counts given of her performances suggests the inap¬ 
proachable excellence attributed to Jupiter by the an¬ 
cient poets, who describe the king of the gods as being 
not only supreme, but having none other next to him. 
‘ What’s first ?’—‘ the America.’ ‘ What’s second ?’— 
‘Nothing.’ Besides this, the Baltic, one of Collin's 
line of steamers, has ‘made the fastest passage yet 
known across the Atlantic;’ and, according to the 
American journals, has been purchased by British 
agents ‘ for the purpose of towing the Cunard vessels 
from one shore of the ocean to the other.” Finally, as 
if to crown the triumphs of the year, Americans have 
actually sailed through the isthmus connecting the two 
continents of the New World ; and, while Englishmen 
have been douting and grudging, Yankees have stepped 
in and won the day. 
“So we think, on the whole, that we may afford to 
shake hands and exchange congratulations, after which 
we must learn as much from each other as we can. 
As for yachts, we have no doubt that by next August 
every vessel of the Cowes squadron will be trimmed 
to the very image of the America; there is no doubt 
that our farmers will reap by machinery, and the re¬ 
volver, we fear, is too attractive an embodiment of 
personal power to be overlooked by European mischief- 
makers.” 
Birds—How Can I Learn to Tame Them ? —This is 
not so difficult as you imagine; nor is it fair to lay 
claim to any particular “art” in the matter—success¬ 
ful though we have been in nearly every effort made. 
The “ law of kindness ” is the talisman by which these 
things are effected; a law which, if it were brought 
into more general practice amongst ourselves, would 
make society at large infinitely oetter than it is. The 
spell can be worked at any time by the magic rod of 
“ affection.” If this be properly handled, we must all fall 
before it. Such is the extent of power. Remember, 
however, to use that power for good only, and never 
dare attempt to commit any breach of confidence. 
Your birds will then be tame, and will love you.— Gar¬ 
deners' Chronicle. 
