From the Isnsinpbnrp Gazette.
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Tle "Bohon Upas Tree. .''-The article alluded to by tie writer of the following nOte was published in ths, and many other papers, some time in the year1S30. We have many accounts relative to this singular tree, but the following statements, by an in telkent and highly respectable gentleman, who has Iesided in the islano of Java for number of yeas, nearer to the truth, believe than any we have yet seen, and il is with no small degree of pleasure we give them place in columns:

 Tolhe editor ofthe Lansingburg Gazette

 BATAVIA, (Java,) April 15, 1881.

 Dear Slr-In the NewYork, Evening Post, of Dec, 6, 1880. observed an article headed the "Bo- hon Upas Tree," purporting to be facts taken from the journal of botanst, sent by the Emperor Ma poieon to this country in 1610.

 The Bohon Upas grows almost in every forest on the island but the story from which the botanst has taken his remarks is all fable and such tree he describes, possessed of such deadly qualities as to affect the atmosphere for miles in circumference, does not exist A short time since, when in the country, sat under the Bohon Upas, from which the natives procured a substance for poisoning their weapons, which is obtained by cutting notches in the tree, and substance thus procured mixed with the juice of lemons is rubbed on the blade. The botanst observes, the ''poson is gum, which

 like camphor, issues from the bark"" Now cam, phor being eff dry nature, does not exude from the tree, or manifest any appearance on the outsde.- The natives. from long experience, know whether any Is contained within, by striking it with stick. In that they cut it down and split with wedges into small pieces, finding the camphor in the inter- stices in the state of concrete chrystalzation.- Thus you see the comparison is not good one, and he knew nothing of the camphor tree.

 Some of the Java weapons are so poisonous as to require but slight incison to deprive of life in a few moments but is necessary to renew the poi son every few years. as age destroysn great mea- sure it's strength. hope you will give the above publication, that the rising generation may know, that although the Bohon Upas affords poison for the natives weapons, it is not possessed of those deadly qualities often related, and that vegetation beneath its branches is fourishing as at any distance from it, and the traveller may rest his weary limbs beneath it's shade without the fear of the least injury.

 The name inthe Javanese language means YohOn, tree; Upas, poison. Yours truly, F. ". B. M.

 svidc Marsdens History ofsumatsa.