Something New Ta The Wood

We have been shown 3 Sfiiaple of very aromatic wood, sent dow: from Alaska, wl.icli bg taa to bs ;i species of yellow eed ar, haviug a most pnngtnt imd . lar odor, euiirely different frotn anyihiog we havo ever encouniered. The urooiitic nature of the ttood fendcrs it ex'.riiinuly vuiüablc For truokd to tuin (Hilen clütbiní, furg, ami micÍi gi o !i m are lUWe to destruction from tnotüs adttiirably calciilated for eholviDg Fut olotb ;:üd clotliing stores. It U au exceli :i( ttia(eriI forboat building, aW, in Minucb as thu toredo, or boring worm, w'.ll aot (oaiL it - on tho contiary turna up Lts sljaip noso at it. As llia w'jod is u'i'jup, an can bu shipped bera and aold at a moderate jriee, it will, rio doubt, coiuj ir. tu use. Tliu du.st and shavings, if spread over tho ground, is death and düimctioa to auts and verrain, and wo'ild be a luxiiry to any do for a bed, as it viu!d leuvu hint to sloep urriistuibed by hl natural enemy, tlio littlo in du.triouá flea, whiori , in UHfornia every man and woman parraelh. WLcn iu Alaska, Scwurd liad several loga oí it sent down, üud thenco East, toibo used in his houso. The wood ia fiuo -gruiuud, aud adiujts of a bigb polish. Tlie Chicago Tiibune, n epeaking of the decisión oq tbe Miobigan llailroad law, eays the people of ihat State, " who have buc:i reaoucd by this judicial deoisioo from a dobs of 87,000,000, whioh for half a ceutury would hang na a mortgago upon their property, wilt, b. foro long, admire tbo wisdom and tho firmness of the courc which haa thua interposcd tho oonstitution to save thein from iateruiiuable aud coasuming taxation." Five lead'mg wholesale dry good ñrrns of Portland, Me., did a business of $3,541,672 during tlie year ending May 1, 1870; the previous year 83,393,1209; increaso $151,463