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THE FEDERAL UNION. JiKIN G. EDITOR. MIUEDQEVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAT A, 1831. VOLUME 1, KUMBEH 43. % „ THE FEDERAL UNION is published tLJ ri - B . a at i’MiiEED i lars (> r annum, in ad- ** er y , r foOR if * * I a *d before; the end of tlwyear.. T X " C 0&SL- 19 0“ Wiy* 6 ■ street, opposite McCombsTa- \DVERriseMKNts published at the usual cates. ., -jo nic.i i/itaiion by tite Clerks nl the Courts of Or- din-irv that applicaii-j* has been in ide for Letters of Ad ministration. mjst t»e pubUshed Thirty oats at least. Vntice f»y Executors and Xdinimsliuors lor D btors and CieJUors to render in their accounts must be publish ed 'IS >'EGK9- Sii-9 of na*roc9 by Executors and Administrators must be advertised Sixty DATs before the day of sale. Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate and intestate estates'b- Executors and Administration* most be advertised Forty days. No sale from day to day is valid, unless so expressed in the advertisement. Appiicauin* by Executors. Administrators, and Guar* diaot, to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land must be published four months. Applic ttions for Foreclosure of Mortgages on Real Es tate must be advertised once a month fi>r six months. Sales of Real Estate by Executors, Administrators and Guardians must be pubhalied sixtt days before the day of sale. These sales must be made at the Court House tfoor between the hours of 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. Ordersuf Courtof Ordinary, (accompaniedwith aco- of her tribe,) was busted in making cakes of the cassava root, and preparing the family meal, against the return of her husband, who was fishtog at some distance op the river; her eldest child, about five or six years old, assisted her; and from time to time, while thus employ ed, the mother turned her eyes, beaming with fond affection, upon the playful gambols of two little infants, who, being just able to crawl a- lone, were rolling together on the ground, laughing and crowing with all their might. Their food being nearly prepared, the Indian woman looked towards the river, impatient for the return of ber husband. But her bright dark eyes swimming with eagerness and affec- tionate solicitude, become fixed and glazed with terror when, instead of him she so fond- lv expected, she beheld the attendants of Father Gomez, creeping stealthily along the side of the thicket towards her cabiD# Instant ly aware of her danger (for the nature and ob ject of these incursions were the dread of all the country round,) she uttered a piercing py >fThe bund, or agreement) to make title* to Land, Jshriek, snatched up her infants in her arms, and. UVixl oe adv&rtisrd Three months al least. Shct ifF x sates under •iX'-cutb'i's regularly granted by the courts, must be advertised Thirty days. Sheriff's sates inder mortgage xecutions must be»d- vertUed Sixty days before the day of sale. Sheriff’s sales of perishable property under orderof Gourt must be advartised generally Ten days- \i! (laueiu far A J-ertisenienta will be punctually at tended to. *«,* All Letter* tirected tutheofilcc, or the Editor, mast S ■ pmt pa 4 entitle them to attention. FO.I&TttY. - • (From liic Irishman ) A WOMAN’S HEART. BY MARY ANN BROWNS. ***Alas! that man should ever win, So street a shrine to shame and sin, As wcraan'i heart.”—L. E. L. Say what Is woman’s heart? A thing Where all the deepest feelings spring; A harp whose tender chorus reply Unto the touch in harmony; A r^ord iviuse fairy scenes are fraught ,i v V it's till the colour’d dreams of thought) A 1)ark that still will b'uidly move \Tpan the treachorous setts of love. VV i ii u its lore? A careless stream, A cVaogHess star, an endless dream, A smiling flower liiat will not die, l '\ beauty and a mystery JL storms as light as April shower.r, li.s jays as hrigtd as April flowers ; jis h ,p«.» as sisect as summer air And aailt as wnit- r its despair. Wlnt ar* i s hopes? Rainbows that tbro’fif A radiant !i?!ii where’er they go, Smiling when Heaven is overcast, Vat melting into storms at last; Jlr igi't clieat- 1 that come with siren tvord3, Jj g'uling it, like summer’s birds, Tint stay while nature round them bloomy, Hit fl e a way when winter comes. U ii it is its h it.? A pass ng frown, A single weed mid blossoms sown, "That cannot flanrish there for long ; A ! i trsh note in an angel's song ; A s.imin *r cloud, that all tha while Is lightened by a sun beam’s smile; A passion th it scarce hath a part Amidst die gems of woman’s heart. Am! wb d is its despair? A deep Fever, that leaves no tears to weep ; A ivo dial works with client power, As canker worms destroy a flowery A vij'.r that shews not its rvakes, l the heart it preys ori breaks'; A inisi that robs a star of light, And wraps it up in darkest night. Then wh.it is woman’s Heart? A tiling Where all the deepest feelings spring ; A harp whose tender chords reply Unto the touch in harmony ; j A 'vor I whose fairv scenes are fraught^ With al! the colored dreams of though:, A hark that still will blindly move Ur-on the treacherous sens of lovCj miscellaneous. THE INDIAN MOTHER. BY MKS- JAMESON We extract the tender ami affecting recital which follows, from the Amulet, lor 1831. It -illustrates the method by which the Spanish •Catholics were wont to convert the natives u! South America Father Gomez is the iron- hearted missionary who had charge of their converting machinery:—Star 4r Index Among the passions and vices which father Gomez had brought from his cell in the convent of Augustara to spread contamination and op pression through his new domain, were pndr & .avarice; and both ww-re interested m increasing the number of his converts, or rather, of his slaves. In spite of tho wise and humane law ol Charles the Third, prohibiting the conversion of the Indian natives by force, Gomez, like others of his brethren in the more distant missions, of ten accomplished his purpose by direct violence. He was accustomed to go, with a party of his people, and lie in wait near the hordes of nnre- Claimed Indians; when the men were absent) he •vould forcibly seize on the women and chil-- dren, bind them, and bring them off in triumph to his own village. There, being baptized, and taught to make the sign of the cross they were called Christians, but in reality were slaves. In general, the women thus detained, pined a. way and died; but the children became accus tomed to their new mode of life, forgot their woods, and paid to their Christian master a williug and blind obedience ; thus in time they became tho oppressors of their own people. • Father Gomez called these incursions, la Zpnquito t spiritual—*he conquest of souls. One day he set off on an expedition of this nature attended by twelve armed Indians; and after rowing some leagues up the river Guavi- are, which flows Into the river Orinoco, they perceived, through an opening in the trees, and at a little distance from the shore, an Indi an hot. It is the custom of these people to live isolated in families; and so strong is their passion for solitude, that when collected into villages they frequently build themselves a lit tle cabin at a distance from their usual resi dence, and retire to it, at certain seasons, for days together. Tho cabin of which I speak was one of these solitary villas—if I may so apply the word. Within this hut a young wo nan (Whom I shall call Gqz&be, from the name calling the other to follow, rushed from the hut towards the forest. As she had considerably the start of hei pursuers, she would probably have escaped, and have bidden herself effec tually in its tangled depths, if her precious bur then had not impeded her flight; but thus en cumbered, she was easily overtaken. Her eld est child, fleet of foot and wily as the young jaguar, escaped, to carry to the wretched fath er the news of his bereavement, and neither father nor child was ever more beheld in their former haunts. Meantime, the Indians seized upon Guahiba -•-bound her, tied her,two children together, and dragged them down to the river, where Father Gomez was sitting in his canoe, wait ing the issue of the expedition. At the sight of the captives his eyes sparkled with a cruel triumph; he thanked his patron saint that three more sonls were added (o his community; and i then heedless of the tears of the mother, and J the cries of her children, he commanded his followers to row back with all speed to San Fernando There Guahiba and her infants were placed in a hut Under the guard of two Indians; som food was given to her, which she at first re fused, but aftenvards, as if «n reflection, ac cepted. A young Indian girl was then gent to her—a captive convert of her own tribe, who had not yet quite forgotten her native language She tried to make Guahiba compreheud that in this village she and her children must re main during the rest of their lives, in order that they might go to heaven after they were dead Guahiba listened, but understood noth ing of what was addressed to her; nor could she be made to conceive for what purpose she w«9 torn from her husband and her home, nor why she was to dwell for the remainder ofh®^ i.fo ~ people, and against ner will. During that night she remained tranquil watching over her infants as they slumbered by her side; but the moment the dawn appear ed, she took them in her arms and ran off lo •he woods. She was immediately brought hack; but no sooner were the eyes of her keepers turned from her, than she snatched up h*>r children, and again fled;—again—and a- gehi! At every new attempt she was punish- ( J with more and more severity; she was kept fiom food, and at length repeatedly and cruel tv beaten. In vain!—apparently she did not even understand why she was thus treated; and one instinctive idea alone, the desire of escape, seemed to possess her mind, and gov ern all her movements. If her oppressor 3 on ly turned from her, or looked another way for an instant, she invariably caught up her chil dren, and ran off towards the forest. Father Gomez was at length wearied by what he term ed her “blind obstinacy;” and, as the only means of securing all three, he took measures io separate the mother from her children, and resolved to convey Guahiba to a distant mis* sion, whence she should never find her wgg back either to them or to her home. In pur- Miance of this plan, poor Guahiba, with her J’ands tied behind her, was placed in the bow of a canoe. Father Gomez seated himsell at the helm, and they rowed away. The granite rocks which border the river, and extend far into the contiguous woods, as sume strange, fantastic shapes; and are cover ed with a black incrustation, or deposit, which, contrasted with the snow-white loam of the waves breaking on them below, and the pale lichens ivhich spring from their crevices, and creep along their surface above, give these shores an aspect perfectly iuneral Between these melancholy rocks—so high and so steep that a landing place seldom occurn-d for leagues together—the canoe of Father Gomez slowly glided, though urged against the stream by eight robust Indians The unhappy Guahiba sat at firrt pertectly unmoved, and apparently amazed and stunned by her situation; she did not comprehend what they were going to do with her; but after a while she looked up towards the sun, then down upon the stream, and perceiving, by the direction of the one and the censure of the oth er, that every stroke of the oar carried her farther and farther from her beloved and help less children, her husband and her native home, her countenance was seen to change and as sume a fearful expression. As the possibility of escape, in her present situation, had never once occurred to her captors, she had been ve ry slightly and careles?’y bound. She watched opportunity, burst the withs on her arms, with a sudden effort flung herself overboard, and dived under the waves; but in another moment she rose again at a considerable dis tance, and swam to the shore, Fho current, being rapid and strong, carried her down to the base of a dark granite rock which project ed into the stream; she climed it with fearless agility, stood for an instant on its summit, looking down upon her tyrants, then pluoged into the forest, and was lost to sight Father Gomez, beholding his victim thus unexpectedly escape bin*, sat mute and thun derstruck for come moments, unable to give utterance to the extremity of bn rage and as tonishment. When, at length, fee found voice ho commanded bis Indians to pnH with all their might to the shore; then to pursue Che poor fugitive, and bring her back to him, dead or alive. Guahiba, meantime, while strength remain ed to break her way through the tangled wil derness, continued her flight; but, soon ex hausted and breathless with the violence of her exertioas r she was obliged to relax in her efforts, and at length sunk down at the foot of a huge laurel tree, where she concealed her self, as well as she might, among the long, in terwoven grass. There, crouching and trem bling in her lair, she heard the voices of her persecutors hallooing to each other through the thicket. She would probably have escap ed, but for a large mastiff which the IndiaDS had with them, and which scented her out in her hiding place. The moment she heard the dreadful animal snufling the air, and tearing his way through tho grass, she knew she was lost. The Indians came up. She attempted no vain resistance: but. with a sullen passiveness, suf fered herself to be seized and dragged to the shore * When tho merciless pnesl beheld her, he .determined to inflict on her such discipline as he thought would banish her children from her memory, and cure her forever of her passion for escaping He ordered her to be stretched upon that granite rock where she had landed tr*m the canoe, on the summit of which she had stood, as if exulting in her flight,—the Rock of the Mother,—as it has ever since been de nominated—and there flogged till she could scarcely move or speak She was then bound more securely, placed in the canoe, and carri ed to Javila, the seat of a mission far up the river. “It was near sunset when they arrived at this village, and the inhabitants were prepar- ing to go to rest. Guahiba was deposited for the night in a large barnlike building, which served as a place of worship, a public maga- z ne, and, occasionally, as a barrack. Father Gomez ordered two or three Indians or Javita io keep guard over her alternately, relieving each other through the night; and then went- io repose hirnselt after the fatigues of his voy age. As the wretched captive neither resist, n ” r *mp! ooed, Father Gomez flattered himself that she was now reduced to submit* s ., L:iiie cuiild ho fathom the bosom of this food mother! He mistook for stupor, or re* signation, the calmness of a fixed resolve. In absence, in bonds, and in torture, her heart throbbed with hut one feeling; one thought h. lone possessed her whole soul:—her children— her children—and still her childreol Auiong the Jn/ltano inwi"'*- 1 .'- —*- L 1 v»„r, a jJxiiu, about eighteen or nineteen years of age, who, perceiving that her arms were miserably bruised by the stripes she had re ceived, and that she suffered the most aGute agony from the savage tightness with which the cords were drawn, let fall an exclamation nt pity iu the language of her tribe. QOick she seized the moment of f eling. and addressed him as one of her people. ‘Guahiba,’ she said, in a whispered lone, thou speakest my language, and doubtless thou art my brother! Wilt thou see me perish with, out pity, O son of my people? Ah. cut these -bonds which enter into my flesht 1 faint with paint I die!’ The young man heard, and, as if terrified, removed a few paces from her, and kept si lence. Afterwards when his companions were out of sight, and he was left alone to watch he approached, and said, ‘Guahibai-i^our fath ers were the same, and I may not see thee die; but if I cut these bonds white roan will flog me: will thou be content if I loosen them and give thee easel' And, as he spoke, he stooped and loosened the thongs on her wrists and arms; she smiled upon him languidly, and appeared satisfied Night was now coming on. Guahiba drop ped her head on her bosom and closed her eyes, as if exhausted by weariness. The voung Indian, believing that she slept, after some hesitation laid himself down on his mat. His companions were already slumbering in the porch af the building, and all was still. Then Guahiba raised her bead. It was night—dark night—without moon or star.— There was no sound, except the breathing of the sleepers arouod her, and tho humming of tho musquitoes. She listened for some time with her whole soul; but all was silence.—She then gnawed the loosened thongs asunder with her teeth. Her hands, once free, she released her feet; aod when the morning came she bad disappeared Search was made for her in every direction«l>ut in vain; and Father Go mez, baffled and wrathful, returned to his vil lage. The distance between Javita and San Fer nando where Guahiba had left her infants, 19 25 leagues in a straight line. A fearful wil derness of gigantic forest trees, and interming ling underwood, separated these two missions, a savage and awful solitude, which, probably, si(|pe the beginning of the world, had never been trodden by human foot All communi cation was carried on by the river; and there lived not a man, whether Indian or European, bold enough to have attempted the route along the shore. It was the commencement of the rainy season. The sky, obscared by clouds, seldom revealed (he sun ky day; and neither moon nor gleam of twinkling star by mght.-- The rivers bad overflowed, aud the lowlands were inundated. There was no visible objetf to direct the travellers; no shelter, no defence, no aid, no guide. Was it Providence—was it the strong instinct of maternal lovfe, which led this courageous woman through the depths of the pathless woods-—where rivulets, swol* len to torrents by the rains, intercepted her at every step; where the thorny lianas, twining from tree to tree, opposed aa almost impene trable barrier: where the mosquitoes hong in clouds upon her path; where the jaguar and fbe alligator larked to devour her; where the rattlesnake and the water serpent lay coiled! up in the damp grass, ready to spring at ber; where she had no food to support her exhaust ed frame, but a few berries, and the large black ants which build their nests on the trees?— How directed—how sustained—cannot be told: the poor woman herself could not tell. All that can be known with any certainty is, that the fourth rising sun beheld her nt San Fernan do; a wild, and wasted, and fearful object; her feet swelled and hleediug—her hands lorn— ber body covered with wounds, and emaciated with famine aud fatigue—but once more near her children! For several hours she hovered round the hut in which she had left them, gazing on it Irom a distance with longing eyes and a sick heart, without daring to advance: at length she perceived that all the inhabitants had quit ted their cottages to attend vespers; then she stole from the thicket and approached) with taint and timid stops, the spot which contained her heart’s treasures. She entered, and found her iniants left alone, and playing together on a mat: they screamed at her appearance, so changed was she by suffering: but when she called them by name, they knew ber tender voice and stretched out their little arms to wards her. In that moment the mother forgot all she had endured*—all her anguish, all her fears, every thing on earth, but the objects which blessed her eyes. She sat down be tween her children—9he took them on her knees—she clasped them in an agony of fond ness to her bosom*—she covered them with kisses—she shed torrents of tears on their lit tle heads, as she hugged them to her. Bud denly she remembered where 6he was, and trby she was ffcere: new terrors seized her; she rose up hastily, and, with her babies iu her arms, she staggered out of the cabin—fainting, stumbling, and almost blind with the loss of blood and inanition. She tried to reach" the woods, but too feeble to sustain her burthen, which yet she would not relinquish, her limbs trembled, and sank beneath. At this moment an Indian, who was watching the public oven, perceived her. He gave the alarm by ringing the bell, and the people rushed forth, gather ing round Guahiba with fright and astonish ment. They gazed upon her as if upon an ap parition till her sobs, and imploring looks, and trembling and wounded limbs, convinced them that she yet lived, though apparently nigh to death. They looked upon her in silence, and then at each other; their savage bosoms were touched with commiseration for her sad plight, and with admiration, and even awe, at this un exampled heroism of maternal love. While they hesitated, aod none seemed wil- her, J*atKer'txomee, who had just landed on his r- turn from Javita, approached in haste, and commanded them to be separated Guahiba clasped ber children closer to her breast, and • he I.idians shrunk back. “Whal!” thundered the monk, "willyesof for this woman to steal two precious souls from heaven?—Two members from our commu nity ? See ye uot, that while she is suffer fed to approach them, there is no salvation for either mother or children? Part them, and in stantly!” The Indians, accustomed to his ascendency, and terrified at his voice, tore the children of Guahiba once more from her feeble arms; She uttered no word nor cry, but sunk in a swoon upon the earth. While in this state. Father Gomez, with a cruel mercy, ordered her wounds to be care fully dressed; her arms and legs wore-swathed with cotton bandages; she was then placed in a canoe, A conveved to a mission far, far off, on the river Esmeralder, beyond the Upper Orino co. She continued in a state of exhaustion and torpor during the voyage; but after being taken out of the boat, and earned inland, restoratives brought her back to life, and to a sense of her situation. When she perceived, as reason and consciousness returned, that she was in a strange place, unknowing how she was brought there—among a tribe vho spoke a language different from any she bad ever heard before, from whom, therefore, according to Indian pre judices, she could hope nor aid nor pity;— when she recollected that she was far from her beloved children;—when she saw no means of discovering the bearing or the distance of their abode—no clue to guide her back to it: then, and only then, did the mothers heart yield to utter despair 1—and thenceforth refusing to speak or to move, and obstinately rejecting all nourishment, thus she died. The boatmen, on the river Atabapo, sus pends his oar with a sigh as he passes the ROCK OF THE MOTHER. He points it out to the traveller, and weeps as he relates the t^le of her suffering and her fate. Ages hence, when those solitary regions have be come the seat of civilization, of power, and in telligence; when the pathless wilds which poor Guahiba traversed in her anguish, are replaced by populous cities, and smiling garden?, ^’pas tures, and waving harvests,—still that dark rock shall stand, frowning o’er the stream; tra dition aud history shall preserve its name and fame; and when the pyramids, those vast, vain monuments to human pride, have passed away, it 3hal! endure, to carry down to the end of the world the memory of the Indian Mother. From thr Macon Telegraph. LETTER FROM CUBA. Matanzas, Island of Cuba, Feb. 183!. Dear Sir,—As I intimated in one of my ear ly letters, I have been collecting materials for a brief description of some of the fruit's of this delightful Island, and now present you the re sult. 1st. Of the orange there are several varie ties, alf too well known in the United Staten to require a description. t ' 8d* Ther pine apple i? equally trbli known: the tree in small, the stem scarcely grows a* bove the surface, each plant producing but onS fruit, and this grows directly upwards from the top oft he stem. -3*1. The cocoa nut tree grows sometimes to the heigbth of fifiy feet or more. The only foliage it has, caps the top of the trunk: ibe fruit bangs in a cluster at the top. 4th. The lim«* tree grows to a considerable beighth. It is also frequently used as hedger, and from its beautiful bright green foliage in much admired for ornamental grounds-it bears fruit in great abundance. 5th. The lemon tree is less beautiful; it hr usually but a bush, it bears fruit iu less abun* dance. 6th The shaddock is a Fage fruit of a pare yellow color: it is of the orange family, in ttze as large as a goodly sized cocoa nut with the outward busb taken off; its taste is not unptea* sant but the orange is always preferred 8lh. Eve’s apple or the forbidden fruit, is another variety, nearly as targe as a shaddock: it is not very palatable, bat is always tasted bv the ladies, probably for the same reason that our great grantl-dame. whose name it bears, was induced (o taste it. On the surface, it has several identaticns, said to be made originally upon it by our first mother The dens look like impressions of the fingers. 81 h. The papaya grows on a tree fifteen to twenty feet in height: the fruit when ripe is of a beantdol yellow, about the size of a large or ange, rather insipid t» the taste, though fre quently eaten by natives of the country. dth The plantain and banana-the tree U?U # ally about fift. en feet in he>ghtb:the fruit grows in a slngie cluster at the lop. The principal difference in these fruits is their siz»- -The cluster of fruit on each tree, when ripe, would weigh from twenty tt> thirty pounds. It is 3 very valuable tood for negroes, and when cook ed constitutes a considerable p.*ir ; of their liv ing; it is also esteemed as a luxury on the ta bles of the whites. lOlh, The bread fruit, originally from the South Sea Islands, is cultivated m ornamental grounds, and is, a beautiful tree. The fruit i» nearly as large as a cocoa nut. and when tho outw.»rd covering is stripped off, presents tho seed or hull about the size of large chesnats — The fruit is but little used here 11th. The sour 6op is about the size of tho bread fruit. It is a pleasant acid, and is much esteemed by some; when cooked, it makes act agreeable sauce. 12th. Gunyaba, (pronounced guawva } Thi$ is a tree much resembling the quince tree of tho Southern States. The fruit is round, about ais inch, and a quarter in diameter, yellowish rough skin, and resembles a small apple; jt has an a- greeahle taste and odor: from it a celebrated 1 jelly is made, called the gUayaba,jelly. B very little larger than.the guayaba, of a light green or yellow color. When opened, it con tains two large black oblong seeds, which arn said to be poisonous;, the pirlp smells very fra grantly, like the rose-hence itsname:ihe taste is not unpleasant. I4th. The pomegranate is aboot the size or the rose apple*, the fruit, when opened, isfull of seed, O- an agreeable acid; the tree is smalt and somewhat ornamental; it has a small leaf of a dark green color. 15:h. Z-ipote; this is a small purple-colored fruit, about the size of a common Southern ap ple, tasting very sweet when ripe. It h^s one peculiarity: the day previous to its ripening, it has a disagreeable taste, and is unfit for use. On the day it is ripe, it is very delicious; but on the next day becomes sour and unpleasant.-* lienee it requires watching very closely, to en joy its frail—the tree has a beautiful foliage. 16th. Mango: some esteem this an excellent fruit. Those I tasted were not quite ripe. Hence I could not well judge its qualities. It is in a conical shape, a greenish yellow color, the size ot a full grown apple, aad has a atone dr pit about the of a peach stone. The tree is beautiful, is much used lor avenues ami makes a very close shade. itth Mamon. (sugar apple) Eng.) a large green fruit, said to be very mealy and pleasant when npeV it has a rough skin, and when full grown, is three to four inches diameter. The tree resembles very closely aa American appfer tree. 18th. Aligator pear, this rs not notp^in sea son. It is said to be a very delicious^ruit whett ripe, something larger than tbe largest sized American pear. By some it ts called the vege table marrow l&h. Cereta, (cherry, Eng.) a fruit of the size of a large plum, has a stone the form of q peach stone, tart, and makes a very excellent preserve. 20th. Mama, coforada, n fruit m a conical shape, about the size of an orange, with the external covering, a brownish yellow: it re ceives the name ot colorada from the internal color of the fruit, of a reddish hue. It is said to be pleasant to the taste The tree has a bean’ifol foliage: that which I saw was about the siz of a well grown apple tree. 21st Mama, of St Pomingo, another varie ty of the last mentioned: it is said to bo more delicious than the other, and somewhat lin ger. 22d Tamarind: the fruit grows in a pod, fs well known in the United States aa cor tan-mg a pleasant acid, and, sold in the apothecary shops. The tree is beautjfnl for ori)r»a*#Rtal grounds It grows tolerably large, but not taD, and has a wide spreading foliage 23d. Calabash; it cannot properly be ca’led a fruit, though it grows on a tree, and hangs by a stem like apples; the calabash is princi pally used for the same purposes as the $, urd of the Southern States by negroes—to bold liquids and such like domestic purposes: they hold from one to three qnarts, and atv nearly rounder 10a conical form. Tbe tree is a rug ged scrbbbty growth, end makes a close shade. 24th Chicota—grows on a vine, and should more projtwht .be t&lled agarddb vegetable