Some of the States are trying to rival one another in regard to the largest specimens of Taxodium distichum for the World's Fair. Trunks eight feet long are set up. North Carolina has one six feet through; but the specimen growing in the Bartram Gardens, near Philadelphia, is larger than this. But we learn that a Florida specimen has appeared that is fourteen feet through ! Philadelphia must resign the sceptre to this huge monarch of the Southern forest. One thing may be said, that no contention for the world's admiration could induce Philadelphia to part with its huge cypress. The Quaker city, in the spirit of brotherly love, yielded to the application from New Orleans to let the old Independence Bell go to the Exposition, and felt they were making their greatest sacrifice in letting this precious relic go out of their safe keeping for a short time. But in this cypress they have another treasure which cannot be moved; and this may be some comfort to those who are mourning for the temporary absence of the great bell which first rang in the Independence of the colonies.