Anti Slavery Bugle

Forests and Streams.-That remarkable man, Humboldt, has reduced it almost to a demonstration, that the streams of a country fail in proportion to the destruction of its timber. And of course. if the streams fail, our seasons will be worse; it must get drier and drier in proportion. Every body knows, who can number twenty years back, that the water courses have failed considerably, and that the seasons have been getting drier every year. Humboldt, speaking of the Valley of Aragua in Venezuela, says that the lake receded as agriculture advanced, until beautiful plantations of sugar-cane, banana and cotton-trees were established on its banks, which (banks) year after year were farther from them. After the separation of that Province from Spain, and the decline of agriculture amid the desolating wars which swept over this beautiful region, the process of clearing was arrested, the old lands grew up in trees with that rapidity common to the tropics, and in a few years the inhabitants were alarmed by a rise of the waters and an inundation of their choicest plantations.-South Carolinian.