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f you have now, and the thing’s settled.’
‘l’ll let you sec for yourself,’ said the
f widow Stokes, and taking att ear of corn
5 out of a crack between the logs of the ca
bin, and shelling off a handful, she com
s inenced scattering the grain, all the while
’ screaming, or rather screeching ‘chick—
, chick—chick—chick-ee—chick-ec-ce?
Here they came, rooster and lions and pul
lets and little chickens ; crowing, cackling
chirping; flying and fluttering over beds,
chairs, and tables ; alighting on the old wo
man’s head and shoulders, fluttering a
gainst her sides, pecking at Iter hands, and
creating a din and confusion altogether in
describable. Tito old lady seemed deligh
ted, thus to exhibit her feathered “stock,”
and would occasionally exclaim, “a nice
passel ain’t they ; a nice passel!” But she
never would say what they were worth ;
no persuasion could bring her to the point ;
und our papers at Washington contain no
estimate of the value of the widow Stokes’
poultry, though as she said herself she had
‘a mighty nice passel.’ •
From, the Macon Messenger.
ANCIENT REMAINS.
Last week we mentioned that an entire
tree had been dug up on tile Central Rail
Road, which was embedded in the earth,
thirty-four feet below the surface. Since
that time two others have been found at a
bout the same depth, within a few yards of
the first. One of them was a tree of largo
size, and when found was near two feet in
diameter, All are of the same kyid of wood
which, seems to be wild poplar, and the sur
face of them more 01 less charred. But
tile most singular matter connected with
them is thnt two of them were incrusted
with rock, and part of the other with a thin
outer surface of rock, and within that, one
composed of metal, some of which common
iron ore, but principally it is of a bright ap
pearance and in the form of chrystals from
the smallest size to that of a pea. These
often cover a considerable surface, and pre
sent a very beautiful appearance. Also
the same metalic substance is dispersed
through the crevices of the log in various
forms, suiting the cavities, in some it isquite
hard, and in others the substance is soft and
appears to be in a state of formation. The
metal &c. has not yet been examined by a
competent scientific professor, but it is be
lieved to be the sulphate ofiron, and readi
ly dissolves in sulphuric acid. We regret
the absence of of Professor Darby from the
city, or we might be enabled to give more
satisfactory information respecting it. Spe
cimens however, will be deposited where
they may be preserved for the gratification
of the curious.
The place where these remains are found
is half a mile East of this city, a few yards
from the base of the large mound. The
ground, is high and dry ; and has all the
regular strata of sand, gravel, clay, &c.
usually found in the vicinity. There is
not the least appearance, or even the prac
ticability of the soil having accumulated at
the place to any extent. We will leave it
to those more competent to suggest by what
means or when the depositos were made.—
They furnish an abundant field for specu
lation, but nothing to our mind for any sat
isfactory conclusions.
INDIAN JUSTICE.
The Dubuque (Iowa) Express says; “We
have been informed by a gentleman recent
ly from the Indian country, that two mur
ders of a most unatural kind were recently
perpetrated. The circumstances were these:
An Indian woman, on some slight provoca
tion, seized her brother a boy of ten or twelve
years of age, and stabbed him with a knife
so severely that he died during the day.—
Her husband, known in his tribe as Black
Wolf, and another Indian, the Prophet, took
the woman out of her lodge, and beat her to
death witli their war-clubs. The cheifs
of the tribe held a council, and, after some
deliberation, they acquitted Black Wolf
and the Prophet of all censure.
Heavy Men —The largest person ever
known in Ireland, with perhaps the excep
tion of Phi!. (i Macoule,the celebrated Irish
giant, was Roger Byrne, who resided in
Ossory and was buried on the 13th of May
1787 in the church yard of Roscnnallis, in
Queen’s county. The coffin and its contents
weighed five hundred and seventy eight
pounds. It was borne on a very long bier
by thirty strong nten, who were relieved at
intervals. Roger Byrne died of no other
disease than suffocation, occasioned by a su
perabundance of fat, which stopped the play
of his lungs, and put a period to his life in
the 54th year of his age. He was one hun
dred pounds heavier than the noted Bright,
of Malden, in England, who weighed four
hundred and sixty pounds—and within the
circumference of whose waistcoat seven of
the largest men in that town could be inclo
sed without constraint, and one hundred
and eighty pounds lighter than Daniel Lam
bert, who died in 1809, and weighed seven
hundred and thirty-nine pounds !
We believe that the heaviest man ever
known in New England was Caleb Towle,
an industrious, wealthy, and respectable
citizen of Centre Harbor, New Hampshire,
who died in 1833, from an extraordinary
increase of flesh. Though short of five
feet ten inches high, he weighed five hundred
and fifteen pounds !—Boston Journal.
Singular Marriage. —A circumstance of
some novelty in the annals of matrimony
occurred a short time sicce at a village
near Bangor, State of Maine ; it was the
union of two couple, whose previous rela
tive connexion was such as to produce con
sequences, in the sequel of a most extraor
dinary and ludicrous description. An old
man of the name of Uriah Sale, aged 76,
appeared at the altar with a girl of seven,
teen as his intended bride ; whilst her sis
ter, two years older, was led thither by the
grandson of Sale, age 19. The curious re
sults of these alliances are as follows:
The old man recognizes a brother in his
grandson, and a sister in his wife, his
spouse must submit (bow much soever a
gains! her inclination,) to the venerable e
pithet of grandmother from her eldest sis
ter? and the young man may address the
damsel of 17 ns his grandmother or sister
at pleasure, while his wife may claim as
her just right, by reason of maturer age, the
submission of her sister, or to be called upon
to exercise all the respoctful docility of a
grand daughter towards her.
Anecdote of Washington. —At the com
mencementofthe Revolutionary War,there
lived ut East Windsor, in this State, a far
mer of the name of Jacob Munsell, aged 45
years. After the communication by water
between this part of the country and Boston
was interrupted by the possession of Boston
Harbor, by the British fleet, Munsell was
often employed to transport provisions by
land, to our army lying in the neighbor
hood of Boston. In the summer of 1775,
while thus employed, he arrived within a
few miles of the camp, at Cambridge, with
a large load, drawn by a stout ox team. —
In a part of the road, which was somewhat
rough, and where the travelled pathway
I was narrow, he met two carriages, in each
[of which was an American General Offi
cer. The officer in the forward carriage,
when near to Munsell, put his head out of
the window, and called to him in an author
itive tone —“ Damn you get out of the path.”
Munsell immediately retorted— “damn you,
I wont get out of the path, get out yourself.”
After some other vain attempts to prevail on
Munsell to turn out, the officer’s carriage
turned out, and Munsell kept the path.—
The other carriage immediately came up,
having been within hearing distance of what
had passed ; and the officer within it put
his head out of the window, and said to
Munsell —“My friend, the road is bad. and
it is very difficult for me to turn out; will
you be so good as to turn out and let me
pass ?” ‘With all my heart, sir,’ said Mun
sell ; ‘but I wont be damned out of the path
by man.’ This last officer was General
Washington.
The writer of the foregoing, article, ha
ving heard the story at the time of the trans
action, inquired of Munsell soon after the
close ofthe war, as to the truth of it. He
said it was true exactly. His word wasen
tirely to be relied upon.
Hartford Ccurant.
What’s in a Name. —A raw Irishman, in
the employ of our friend Fenimore Cooper,
at Cooperstown, was sent by him a few
days since to the post-office for letters. On
receiving those for Mr. Cooper, he enquired
if there were any letters for the ‘ jintleman
who was staying at the hall, Mr. Brickbat.’
The postmaster, after looking carefully
through, said that there none, and asked
Pat if he was certain that was the name?
Pat protested vehemently that it certainly
was, as he was charged particularly to re
collect it. A friend of Mr. Cooper’s, pass
ing the office at the moment, the postmaster
inquired of him what gentlemen were visit
ing Mr. Cooper ? lie replied that he knew
of no one except Capt. Shubriek. “ Och !”
cried Pat, “ that's the name , but faith didn’t
I come near it though ?”
N. Y. Tribune.
SAYINGS OF A PRINTER.
The man who stops a newspaper because
he is going to get married, pays a poor
compliment to his intended, and probably
expects to have no children to learn to
read. The man who patronizes a foreign
paper in preference to one of his own coun
ty, should be made to pay double for adver
tisements, necessary to be published in the
county and not to be allowed the privilege,
inserting either obituary, or marriage no
tices, without paying for them as advertise
ments; besides he should be excluded from
all posts of trust, profit or honor.
The man who takes a paper from year
to year without paying any thing on his |
subscription, ought to come to a crust of
bread, and be obliged to pick his teeth with
a hobnail, that he may know how good it
feels for a printer to make himself poor by
paying out every dollar he can raise, for
paper, ink, and labor, for the benefit and
gratification of : ome 5 or 600 gentlemen,
who pay him in “patronage,” to wit: such
patronage as taking a paper year after year
without ever paying a farthing for it.
The ma. who attempts to tuu for an of
fice without taking a county paper, should
be struck with the string-halt, ring-bone and
spavin, all at once, if there be no other w’ay
to beat him!
The man who orders a paper discontinu
ed without paying up is an unrelieved sneak
and ought to be set afloat in the Leckawax
en on an unpealed saw log, and landed on
the Jersey side ofthe Delaware.
The man who takes a paper and pays
for it in advance, or which is well enough,
within the year, is a gentleman and a good
citizen in every sense of those terms, and
deserves well of his country.
Toadyism. —Modern fashionable society
finds it convenient to have whimsical soft
ened names fora number of things which
good nature and the subdued tone of polite
life forbid to be spoken of in the plain speech
used by our ancestors. The kind of person
whom Horace and Juvenal would have de
scribed as a servile parisite, is now, there
fore, delicately hinted at by the appellation
of a toad-eater. An anecdote is told as to
the origin of the term. A great personage,
wishing to get quit of a troublesome hanger
on, caused a dish of toads to be served up
one day instead of a dish of fish. The in
tention was seen; but the dependant knew
too well the value of the connexion which
he had established, to take the hint. He
partook of the toads with all the appear
ance of relish, never letting it be presumed
that he thought them any thing but good
fish. Thereafter any one who was content
to live on the bounty of another, at the ex
pence of a few occasional insults, was said
to eat that persons toads; to be, in short, a
toad-eater. The story, it must owned,
reads a good deal like some of the ancient
fables which are told as to the origins of
things ; but however this may be, certain
ly for the last fifty years, the mean-spirited
dependant of the great who clings where he
is hardly welcome, and endeavours to re
pay worthless favours by worthless obse
quiousness, lias been called a toad-eater.
THE TRUE SUBLIME.
The admirers of Ossian will find some
thing to their taste, in the following extract
from the Alabama Tribune :
“ the great champion ofourcauso
its only living impersonation —the • cast i
ron’ image ofitsown indomitable courage
and undying patriotism. We think we see
him now—rising at one time like a mighty
exhalation from the universal mind of the
age—at another, standing like a giant be
tween the hosts that muster for battle, and
with outstretched arms beckoning them on
on both sides to the contest.”
That’s what the Tribune says of Mr.
Calhoun, and we have never come across
any thing so sublime since, in our juvenile
days, we read Byron’s “Calmar and Orla”
a story of two cloud-riding, fog-inhabiting
heroes who never breathed freely except in
a mist. Read:
“He looks down from the eddying tem
pests, he rolls his form in the whirl-wind,
and hovers on the blast of the mountain.”
That’s the Hon. Mr. Calmar. He’s hard
to beat, himself, an’the? But here’s anoth
er ‘ wusser nor him ’ a fellow that can bridle
a hurricane or ride a fog or any other “ex
halation” with any of them. Go it Orla !
“What form rises on the roar of clouds,
whose dark ghost gleams on the red
streams of tempests? His voice rolls on
thunder! ’Tis Orla; the brown chief of
Oithona.”
Barring the improbability of a ‘cast-iron’
exhalation ever making any considerable
figure as an aeronaut, we think the Trib
une’s metaphor quite poetical and consid
erably sublime. East Alabamian.
THE YANKEE IN MAIN STREET.
“ I calculate I couldn’t drive a trade with
you to-day,” said a true specimen of the
Yankee pedlar, as he stood at the door of a
merchant in Maine-street.
“ I calculate you calculate about right,
for you cannot,” was the sneering reply.
“ Wall, I guess you needn’t get huffy a
bout it. Now here’s a dozen real genuine
razor strops, worth two dollars and a half
—you may have ’em for two dollars.”
“ I tell you I don’t want any of your
trash ; so you had better be going.”
“ Wal now, I declare! I’ll bet you five
dollars if you make me an offer for them are
strops, we’ll have a trade yet.”
“ Done,” replied the merchant, placing
the money in the hands of a bystander.—
The Yankee deposited the little sum, when
the merchant offered him a picayune for
the strops.
“ They’re yourn,” said the Yankee, as
l:e quietly fobbed the stakes. “But,” he
added, with great apparent honesty, “ I cal
culate a joke’s a joke, and if you don’t
want them strops, I’ll trade back.”
The merchant’s countenance brightened.
“You ar not so bad a chap, after all;
here are your strops, give me the money.”
“ There it is,” said the Yankee, as he
received the strops and passed over the pic
ayune. “ A trade’s a trade—and now you
are wide awake, in airnest, I guess the next
time you trade with that are pic, you’ll do
a little better than to buy razor strops.”
And away walked the pedlar with his
strops and wager, amid the shouts of the
laughing crowd.— St. Louis Ariel.
ANECDOTE.
The following anecdote is related in the
Evangelical Magazine:
“ An African preacher, speaking from
‘What is a man profited if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul ?’ men
tioned that among other things, many lost
their souls by beiug too charitable ! See
ing the congregation astonished beyond
measure at his saying it, he emphatically
repeated it, and then proceeded to explain
his meaning.
‘ Many people,’said he, ‘attend meeting,
hear the sermon, and when it is ovr-r. they
proceed to divide it out among the congre
gation, that part for that man, and that part
for that woman, and such denunciation
were for such persons ; these threats for
you sinners—and so,’ continued the shrewd
African, they give away the whole sermon
and keep none for themselves.
Hint to the Fair Sex. —We understand
that the unmarried gentlemen of Northum
berland have resolved to form themselves
into an Association, to be denominated the
“Shirt and Pie Club,” the principal object
of which is to insure suitable wives. To
effect this, each member is bound under the
penalty of £SO not to marry any lady, who
cannot by two credible witness, be proved
to be able to cut out and sew a shirt, make
a pie, and darn a pair of stockings ; and he
must, within six months after his marriage,
under a similar penalty, be able to estab
lish that his lady has made at least a dozeu
of shirts, baked a dozen of pies, and darned
a dozen pair of stockings. The idea has
been borrowed from a club in the south,
where the scheme has been eminently suc
cessful, as the ladies, seeing that what in
modern parlance are usually denominated
accomplishments, were at a discount, turn
ed their attention to what was really use
ful, and were, consequently, rewarded with
good husbands.
A Locofoco paper says, “ the snow has
been falling upon the Whig party in Indi
ana”—to which a Whig jourpal replies,
“so it has; but beware ! when that snow
melteth, then will come a flood, that will
sweep before it every trace of Locofocoism.
There was a similar Whig snow storm in
1839 ; but in 1840 the flood followed, and
so it wiH again. Boston Atlas.
I advise you to put your head into a dye
tub, said a joker to a sandy-haired girl, for
it is rather red. I advise you to put yours
into an oven, for it is rather soft, was the
prompt reply.
The rich and poor have one day of e
quality— at the ballot-boxes.
From the Georgia Journal.
IMPORTANT TRIAL IN BALDWIN
SUPERIOR COURT, BEFORE IHS
HON. JUDGE CONE.
Chas. J. McDonald, Governor &c.
vs. > Debt.
John W. A. Sandford, and others, y
This was an action brought on the Bond
ofthe late Thomas Haynes, for the faithful
performance of his duties as Treasurer of
the State.
The action was against his securities a
lone, and the breach of the bond assigned
was, that the late Treasurer had received
when in life, and whilst he was exercising
the office and discharging the duties of
Treasurer aforesaid, a large amount of
money belonging to the State of Georgia,
and for which he had not accounted and
which lie had appropriated anddisposed of
to his own use.
There was an irregularity as to the ser
vice of Mr. Tennille, one ofthe defendants,
which was waived by his counsel, at the ap
pearanee Term ; and all the defendants ap
peared and pleaded ; Ist, That they owed
the plaintiff nothing on said bond, and se
condly, That their principal, the said Thom
as Manes, had kept and performed all the
conditions of said bond.
The plaintiffin support of his action, of
fered in evidence, the bond executed by the
Treasurer and the defendants as his secu
rities.
Defendant’s counsel objected to this bond
on two grounds.
Ist, That there is no law authorising
such a bond to be taken.
2d, That admitting that there is a law
authorising such bond to be taken by the
Governor, that the bond presented is not ta
ken in pursuance of law, but contains con
ditions not authorised by law.
The plaintiff read a resolution of the Le
gislature of 1825, requiring the Treasurer
to give bond and security’ in the sum of two
hundred thousand dollars, conditioned for
the faithful discharge of the duties of his
office ; and it appeared that this was the on
ly action of the Legislature upon this sub
ject.
The bond presented contained several
conditions all of which however were such
as it is the duty ofthe Treasurer to do and
perform. The last condition was in sub
stance the one prescribed by the resolution
ofthe Legislature.
The Court decided first, that the bond
was good at common law, inasmuch as there
was nothing illegal, immoral or against
public policy, in any of its conditions, but
that on the contrary, public policy loudly
demanded the giving of such a bond by the
Treasurer. Secondly, that the bond was
good, as a bond taken under the resolution
of 1825—that the provisions of that resolu
tion in relation to the condition of the Treas
urer’s bond had been substantially com
plied with in the bond under consideration,
that the conditions of the bond objected to
were nothing more than an enumeration of
the seperate duties of the Treasurer—that
they were all included under the general
condition, for the faithful performance of
the duties of Mr. Haynes as Treasurer—
that the insertion of these enumerating con
ditions imposed no other or greater respon
sibility upon the defendants than would
have been imposed provided said conditions
had not been inserted in the bond ; and that
therefore they did not vitiate the bond.
The Court further decided, that admit
ting there were some conditions in the bond
not authorised by lay, and others that were
in accordance with law, that the whole
bond was not, thereby, vitiated, but that the
bond was void only as to the illegal condi
tions, and good as to such as were legal.—
The bond was therefore ordered to go in e
vidence to the jury.
The plaintiffs next offered in evidence a
printed document purporting to be the re
port ofthe Treasurer, to the Legislature,
for the political year 1841 ; plaintiff pro
ved that the original report sent by the
Treasurer to the Legislature for the year
1841 was in print, and that the document
offered was a duplicate original of that re.
port and a correct copy.
Defendant’s counsel insisted, that an ex
modification, under the hand and seal of
he proper officer, who had the custody of
the records of the reports of the Secretary,
was the highest and best evidence. The
Court decided that there was no law of the
State, requiring the reports of the Secreta
ry of the Tretsury to be recorded ; and of
course such evidence as was required by
defendants, did not and could not exist—
that the original was not within the control
of the Court, and that therefore, a dupli
cate original or an examined copy was the
best evidence.
Defendents then objected to the report
going in evidence, on the ground that it was
made before the creation of the bond, and at
a time when there was no privity between
them and Mr. Haynes. The Court deci
ded, that the report could not be given in
evidence for the purpose of proving at what
time the defalcation of Mr. Haynes took
place, but that it must be admitted as pri
ma facia evidence of the situation of the
Treasury at the time the report was made,
and of the amount of money then in the
hands of the Treasurer, leaving it to defen
dants, ifthey thought proper to show that,
the report was not correct.
Plaintiff then offered in evidence the
Books of the Treasury Department as kept
by the late Treasurer, for the purpose of
shewing the state of accounts between him
and the State of Georgia, from the time of
his report to the time of his death. Defen
dants objected on tjie ground that exempli
fications of the books under the hand, and
seal of the Treasurer, were the highest and
best evidence. The Court overruled the
objection and allowed the books to be gi
ven in evidence. The books of the Comp
troller General’s office, were then offered
in evidence, and received without objec
tion ; and after offering testimony as to the
amount of money found in the Treasury
immediately after the death of the Treas
urer, the plaintiff closed his case.
Defendants then introduced the books of
the Comptroller General’s office, and also
the original warrants drawn on the Treus.
ury Department, during a portion of the
time for which Mr. Haynes was Treasur
er; the defendants further introduced the
evidence for the purpose of showing that
the defalcation accrued previous to the time
of the execution of the bond upon which
the defendants were securities, and then
closed their cese.
The Court after recapitulating the testi
mony, charged the jury, that when a pub
lie officer who has charge of money belong
ing the State, makes a defalcation, those who
are his securities for his faithful discharge
ofthe duties of his office at the time the de
falcation is discovered, are prima facia lia
ble for such defalcation but it is competent
for them to show that the defalcation did not
take place during the time of their securi
tvship, but at a previous period. In the
case under consideration, the money in the
hands of Mr. Haynes, at the time of his re
election, and at the time of the execution of
the bond under consideration was not coun
ted, so that it is impossible to say from any
positive testimony, whether the defalcation
took place previous or subsequent to the ex
ecution to this bond. If the jury believed
from the evidence produced, that the defen
dants had successfully rebutted the pri
sumption arising from the fact ofthe default
being discovered during the time of their
securityship, and had satisfied their minds
that the default did not occur during the pe
riod of their securityship but a previous pe
riod, they would find for the defendants,
but if in'theiropinion the presumption had
not been rebetted, in that event they would
find for the plaintiff, the amount of the de
falcation as proven, which was about $19,-
000.
. The jury found for the defendants.
Counsel for Plaintiff. —A. H. Reese,
Sol. General, M. 11. McAlister, Savannah,
Col. F. 11. Sanford, Milledgeville.
For Defendants. —Col. Seaborn Jones,
Columbus, Messrs. Harris & Day, Baldwin,
Wm. Y. liansell, “
Wm. H. Rockwell, “
Who oppose the Tariff. —In the Tariff
controversy in this country, says the Phila
delphia Independent, on what side do the
British Government, British nobility, Brit
ish manufacturers range themselves?—
Why. truly, on the side with our Locofocos.
Like them, they are in favor of destroying
our manufactures-—like them, they are d:s
posed to transfer all our workshops and our
mechanics to England, to build up aristoc
racy, nobility and monopoly, and to crush
the rising greatness of this republic ! Eve
ry word uttered by our Locofocos in favor
of destroying our manufactures, and build
ing up the manufactures of England on
their ruins, is merely an echo of the argu.
men?s of the British Government, on the
same subject.
From the Baltimore American.
The Charleston Mercury expresses its
“ deliberate conviction” that Mr. Van Bu
rdn cannot be elected against Mr. Clay ;
that every vote cast against him in 1840
would be cast against him again, for that
he “ is just as odious now to the majority
which put him down in 1840, as he was
then.” The Mercury further declares:
“ There is scarcely a Southern Slate which
Mr. Clay could not carry against Mr. Van
Buren.” The downfall of the ex-Presi
dent is ascribed to his own “ want of man
liness and elevation in statemanship, and
the utter unpopularity of the men he brought
about him as his confidential advisers.”
Perhaps the destructive tendency of Mr.
Van Buren’s political principles and policy
had something to do with his overthrow.
The country had suffered enough from his
•injudicious measures to render him and his
system alike obnoxious.
But with regard to the Mercury’s declar
ations and predictions as to the result of an
other contest, with Mr. Van Buren in the
field, they are founded we believe on an
accurate perception of facts. His friends
however seem to take a different view of
the matter altogether. They regard Mr.
Van Buren’s defeat in 1840 as the result of
fraud and of popular debauchery ; they do
not scruple to charge the grossest corrup- 1
tion not only upon the Whigs, but also up
on those of their own ranks who were sedu
ced from their party allegiance; and they
esteem the general intelligence and virtue
of the people so lightly as to affirm that mul
titudes of them were induced to abandon
their principles by means of hard cider, log
cabin processions, the arruy of coon-skins,
songs, and “ ravings called speeches.” To
those who think thus, Mr. Van Buren’s de
feat in 1840 now appears in the light of &
martyrdom ; he must be elected because he
has been defeated, in order that democracy
may triumph in a transcendental point of
view.
We have no objection— not the slightest,
—to pul the question on this issue. Let it
be determined by the next contest whether
the revolution of 1840 shall be made good,
or be stigmatised as an outbreak of popular
insanity. Let those who think that Mr.
Van Buren has not had justice done him
at the hands of the People, prepare to see
the full measure awarded to him next year,
and to that end let them make him the can
didate of their parly.
Cast Iron Buildings. —ln illustration of
the fact mentioned in one of the recent let
ters of Gutzlaff, that the construction of
moveable cast iron buildings, whose inven
tion, reputed of modern origin, has been ac
credited *to English science and skill, was
practiced ages ago bv the ingenious natives
of China, that eminent missionary describes
a pagoda which he visited, near the town
of Tsing-Kiang-Fou, in the province of
Kiang-N'au, built entirely of cast iron„cov.
ered with basreliefs and inscriptions, whose
dates and style of character refer back to
the epoch of the dynasty of'Eang, who fil
led the throne sometime during the fifth or
sixth century of the Christian era. The
monument is, therefore, upwards of twelve
hundred years old. It presents the form of
an octagonal pyramid, forty feet in height,
and eight feet in diameter at the base. It
consists of seven stories, on each of which
are traced some very curious historical re
presentations. The edifice is allcdgcd to
be of extraordinary elegance, surpassing
every thing of the kind which the writer
had beforu seen in China. *■
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.
A bale of Co*ton, which had been long
stored in a warehouse in this town, was last
week removed to the Koukflsh Factory, and
being temporarily exposed to the sun, be
fore packing away in the Cotton shed, soon
look fire, and would have been consumed
but for the prompt discovery. It seems it
had imbibed a portion of Linseed Oil whilst
in the warehouse, and the action of the hot
sun at once kindled a (lame from the two
substances.
Since this occurrence, it has been recol
lected, that some hales of cotton which had
been packed in a wagon with bacon, were
deposited in the large warehouse in’ this
town, which was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 6th ult. It is thought quite
possible, and indeed probable, that this fire,
which may have arisen from the oil of the
bacon penetrating the cotton.
We learn that the waste from one of the
Factories in this place, which is regularly
removed from the mill every night, and de
posited in a remote place, is consumed by
spontaneous combustion as often as the heap
becomes large enough to imbide the neces
sary degree of heat.
Too much care cannot betaken to avoid
saturating cotton or wool withany oily sub
stance.—Fayetlville Observer, 20tji inst.
A story is told of a preacher who always
borrowed a five dollar hill on Saturday
night, anti teturned the identical bill on the
Monday following. He was asked by his
friend the reason why he borrowed and in
variably returned the same bill. “My dear
sir,” said he, “ 1 can preach a great deal
hetter when I have in my possession a little
worldy independence.”
C O M MUN I CATION.
FOR THE NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
Congestive Fever.
This disease generally makes its appear
ance amongst us during the months of Sep
tember and October, and because it is so
often fatal, always produces great terror.
Many persons are alarmed on account of it
when there is not the least danger; after
mistaking (because of the appearance of
some unusual symptom,) the bilious fever
or a common case of fever and a'Nie, (or
Congestive fever ; and the consequence is,
the families and friends of sick persons, ex
perience unnecessary anxiety and distress.
In order to remove this groundless alarm,
the following short description is given :
The Congestive Fever is sometimes an
unfavorable turn in the symptoms of the
bilious type ; but the disease is frequently
congestive from the beginning. The dis
tinguishing symptoms are, constant coldness
of the extremities, with blueish nails, the
surface of the body being hot; livid lips; i
embarrassed breathing; sense of weight at
the prmcordia, or region of the heart; con
tinual efforts to vomit; severe cramps of
the legs, and cold sweat about the face and
neck. When the bilious fever assumes the
congestive form, the change is very sudden.
The patient left with a hot skin, frequent
pulse and easy respiration, is, in a few
hours after, found with a cold surface, pulse
slow and feeble; or entirely gone, and diffi
cult breathing. The danger is far greater
when the congestion is a change in the bil
ious type, than whet) it begins the attack ;
in the one case it is occasioned by exhaus
tion, in the other by depression of the vital
powers.
The above is a description of what is
called by medical writers, an incomplete
case of congestive fever, which is the kind
that usually prevails in this country ; a
complete case, that is one where the entire
surface is cold, being rarely seen. The
symptoms of this disease are produced, as
the name indicates, by the congestion or ac
cumulation of the blood iri the great cen
tral organs ; and these symptoms vary ac
cording to the part at which the congestion
predominates. If the head be the seat of
the congestion, it produces coma or stupor
precisely similar to that witnessed in cases
of apoplexy. If it should piedominate in
the lungs and heart, difficulty of breathing,
and embarrassment of the circulation are
experienced. If the accumulation of blood
should be greatest, in the abdomen, it pro
duces vomiting and diarrhea, together with
the other symptoms usually attendant upon
Asiatic Cholera ; the two diseases in this
case, being exactly identical.
In common cases of chill and fever, it is
usually the case that the fever immediate
ly follows the chill ; but it sometimes hap
pens, that the chill is greatly protracted, or
to speak more accurately, the surface re
mains cold after the chilly sensation has
passed off. A patient in this situation
would exhibit to the careless observer most
of the symptoms characterizing a complete
case of congestion. This state of things
has often led ignorant Practitioners to pro
nounce such cases congestive fever ; and
accordingly they take to themselves credit
for having cured this dangerous disease,
which any old lady could do as well as
they, by administering hot tea.
LOBELIA. A
Wilkes county, Sept. 30, 1843
