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The Grcoriria W'eekly Teleyra-pli and. Journal & Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JULY 25, 1871.
Georclii Practical Business College.
This instiir tioD, which is located in our city
with B. B. Easton, Esq., a? President, enjoys
deserved and increasing favor thronghont the
State. As a business school for'young men pre
paring to enter npon the practical duties of life,
it is inval cable. Here, too, the regnlar graduate,
after leaving oollege, will derive incalculable
benefit by familiarizing himself with the science
of accounts and book-keeping, and thus acquire
method and system in all the after concerns of
life.
From Mr. Easton we learn that Atlanta, trno
to her gobbling instincts, through a rival institu
tion, claiming falsely to be a branch of a
Commercial College of note in Poughkeepsie,
has sought to entice away his students, “through
private notes endorsed in a fictitious style to
avoid detection.” Happily, the fraud was ex
posed, however, by Mr. Eastman, the President
of. the college referred to, as his.published state
ment mest fully shows. These underhanded
efforts must recoil npon their anthors.
Our Macon college is emphatically Southern
in its inoeption and management, and does not
seek to borrow fame from Yankeeland. Each
department is presided over by a competent
head, and as there are no vacations, students
can enter at any time. No better institution of
the kind can be fonnd at the South.
“A Ku-Hlnx Lawyer.”
Wo notice in the Richmond Dispatch and the
Savannah News, of late dates, and under the
above head, a highly colored account of the re-
cent diffionlty in a United States Court Room in
Mississippi, wherein Colonel L. Q. C. Lamar,
formerly of this State, was a prominent actor.
The account in question is, we understand,
taken from a dirty scallawag sheet published at
Holly Springs, and characteristically, and as a
mutter of course, does Colonel L. great injus
tice-representing him as acting entirely at va
riance with all his instincts and antecedents,
both as a gentleman and a lawyer. It seems to
os that Southern newspapers should exercise
more caution in making even news selections
from the things called Southern Republican
journals, especially when they are, as in this
case, palpably intended, to slander snch a man
as Colonel Lamar.
Maboh op urn Cnor.niu.—The cholera is
moving from the Orient towards western civili
zation, much as it did thirty years ago. To-day,
it is reported as raging terribly in Persia, while
it has also appeared in Poland. Thirty years
ago it swept through the east end then advanced
npon Russia, attended with fearful mortality.
It reached the American continent in 1882 and
spread all over the country, the emissary of
terror and death. The frosts of winter do not
stay it, Iiko other epidemics. It is to be fr.nght
mainly by the removal of all causes of disease—
by rigid porsonal and public cleanliness, and a
good, healthy and nutritious diet for the poor.
Filth and scanty food aro its potent adjuncts.
We believe the cholera has never prevailed to
any extent in the pure regions of the Southern
States.
A Knotty Question.—Ono of the oldest ques
tions ever submitted to lawyers is now puzzling
those of Hartford, Conn. It seems that a man
who recently died there left a widow, childless,
but expecting shortly to become a mother. By
his will he provided that if the oxpected child
should prove to bo a boy two-thirds of the pro
perty should go to him, and one-third to the
widowed mother. If, however,’the child proved
to be a girl only one-third of the estate was to go
toherand two-thirds to the mother. The result,
of course, was awaited with an interest even
greater than that usually bestowed npon such
events. The result is—the widow has become
the mother of t^iiis—a boy and a girl.
Concert at Reynolds, Taylor County.—We
are asked to say that the ladies of the Metho
dist churob, at Reynolds, will give a concert
for the benefit of the church next Thursday
night, and to add a good word for it. Well,
we say it is “a new departure,’’ in an eminently
worthy direction, and that every man, woman
and child in the neighborhood ought to do one
of two things: Either attend in person, or
send their money. People never are too poor,
in reality, to help the cause of religion, and we
hope the nett profits of tho concert will show
that the Lord loves lots of people down there.
Affecting.—-The other day an Irish gar
dener at Mopnt Vernon, observed a transcen
dental lady from tho Hob weeping bitterly and
audibly with her handkerchief to her eyes.
With true Hibernian politeness he accosted her
and asked the cau& of her violent grief. “Ah,”
said she, “how can any patriotic American wo
man look upon tho tomb of the Father of her
country, and not pour out her soul in an ag
ony of sorrow?” “Faith, Madame,”eaid he,
“that’s not the tomb—it’s but the family ice
Louse yo see.” - : •
Liverpool Cotton Figures.—Friday’’q report
for the week came to hand yesterday noon. The
market had fully recovered the decline of the
week and advanoed an eighth over the previous
Friday’s quotations, which were 9d for uplands
and 9Jd for Orleans. The sales of the morning
were 20,000 bales, of which ten thousand were
taken on speculation. Sales of the week 09,000
bales.—Stock 000,000—precisely the same as
last week. No report of cotton afloat. Stock
ol American cotton in Liverpool 385,000 bales.
A Terrible Falliko Off.—It is authorita
tively announced that in England a majority of
the clergy of the Established Church give their
adhesion to the doctrines of modern geologists
who boldly assert that the world was not made
out of nothing in six days. This is a terrible
falling off from the good old days of theology,
when heretical scientists were very properly and
conservatively oxodized at the stake.
Deadly Assault on Mormon Faith.—The
World says the Chicago Common Council arc
going in a body to spend the month of August
at Salt Lake. It is understood that their pur
pose is to strike a decisive blow at polygamy, by
distributing Chicago divorces among tho Mor
mons. At the usual fee of 50 cents apiece they
expect to pay their travelling expenses and real
ize a handsome profit.
Louis Blano, replying to some taunts of sym
pathy with the Communists, said: “The Com
munists wero the most infamous scoundrels ever
yomited’npon the earth from the basement story
of helL” White will get out of that, by-and-by,
by saying that he don’t believe in any snob place
and therefore meant nothing by the declaration.
Accident at Forsyth.—We learn that a man
from Atlanta whose name our informant conld
not give us, while repairing the gable endof the
newMftho&st Church, at Forsyth, yesterday
fell from tho scaffolding to the ground, and was,
it is feared, fatally injured.
A Hot Puce.—At Denver City, in Colorado
last Saturday, the mercury stood at noon in the
shade 110, and in tho evening 105. We do not
believe they have had hotter weather than that
in Atlanta.. «•
Monro* Female College begins its next an
nual session Monday, August 7th. Forsyth is
so breezy and blowsy they pay no attention ’to
dog days in that looalily. We need not say tho
College is a first class institution.
A Crisis in North Carolina..
On Tuesday, the 1st day of August, North
Carolina holds an elect ion to determine whether
or no a Govention of the people shall be held
to amend the Constitution in certain particulars
specified in the act providing for the election.
The existing Constitution, which was the work
of carpet-bag and negro politicians, provides
that such a Convention can only be called by
vote of two-thirds' of each House of tho Legis
lature. At the last session of the North Caro
lina General Assembly the Democrats, -though
in heavy majority, did not hold two-thirds of
either House. They, therefore, in order to ef
fect certain constitutional amendments which
they deemed indispensable to the safety and
welfare of the State, determined to resort to
the primary source of all political power, and
obtain from the people themselves by an
election,under statute enacted for that purpose,
a call for a constitutional convention.
We apprehend there can .be no reasonable
question of their right to do it. The constitu
tion itself, is, at best, but the creatnre of the
people, and a solemn affirmation by a majority
of the people, under the sanctions of the law,
that they desired to amend-or to make anew
one, would be conclusive against the conflicting
provisions of the old constitution. The people
cannot bind themselves, as against themselves
merely—no more than one Legislature can bind
another where the lights of no third parties ore
involved.
The tax-payers of North Carolina felt im
pelled to this movement in order to save them
selves from impending ruin. Under this con
stitution and its carpet-bag administrators, the
State debt has been increased from fourteen
millions to nearly forty millions of doliara—for
which there is literally nothing to show—not
even the ill-constructed and non-paying rail
ways which are to be found in some of the
other “ reconstructed States.” The money has
been simply stolen. The civil list of the State
for ordinary expenses has been swollen four
hundred per centum on ante-bellum cost, and
taxation must be levied, if the provisions of this
constitution are carried out, so os to raise a
yearly revenue of four to five millions of dollars.
Now, on the other hand, the carpet-bag Lieut.
Governor of the State, backed by all his party,
declares the movement for a convention revo
lutionary, and having exhausted all means to de
feat it at the polls, will appeal to the Federal
Government. What the course of the Federal
Government is likely to b@, under the adminis
tration of Grant, has been foreshadowed by
Attorney General Akerman; in his speech on
the 16th.
Bad as the case of the North Carolinians now
is—(and it is simply naked robbery of the prop
erty holders through the instrumentality of
vagabond negroes and whites controlled by
Northern adventurers,) it is not impossible
that it may be made mnch worse by this un
timely movement. It is akin to the Georgia
movement-disfranchising the negroes. Noth
ing is gained by making battle where ultimate
defeat is certain. The impeachment of the in
famous Holden, though due to justice, it seems
to us was another misstep. Nothing was gained
by it. It devolved the Governorship on Cald
well, who i3 no better than Holden, and it has
been made a now pretext for harrying tho State
with still greater venom. The Southern tax
payers should never forget that they are in the
hands of their enemies, who seek only occa
sions and excuses to do them harm. The only
hope of tho Southern people is to wait with pa
tience tho revival of better feelings and sounder
opinions in the dominant States. Until then,
the effort to redress themselves only hinders
reaction, and increases their miseries. They
cannot well move with too great circumspec
tion. They cannot be too caref nl to keep with
in the clear and indisputable boundaries of
law and civil and political order. They cannot
be too cautions to give their enemies no occa
sion against them.
Rev. Jabez L. 91. Curry, LL. D.
The successor elect of Dr. Tucker, the
distinguished and popular President of Mercer
University, is a gentleman of commanding elo
quence and high literary attainments. Even as
a student in Franklin College, where tho writer
was intimately associated with him for three
and a half years, hi3 early career gave grent
promise of fnture eminence and usefulness.
'Possessing a fine imagination and ready flow
of language, he was regarded as a leader in the
Phi Kappa Society, at a period when oratorical
distinction was more eagerly sought after than
litorary honors. Graceful in delivery, and ele
gant in diction, Mr. Carry’s speeches always
commanded attention, and sometimes were
splendid specimens of eloquence. His gradu
ating address, based npon this melting conplet
of the poet,— • •*
“No moie, no more, eh never more on mo,
The-fresliness of the heart can fall, like flow,”
by its touching pathos, fervor, and beauty of
conception, hushed into breathless silence the
immense auditory which thronged the College
chapeL It was said to have been a da'guerotype
of the speaker’s own emotions and experience,
viewed from the stand point of an escapade in
love. " .
In after years onr young hero quite recovered
from this eclipse pf the soul, rose rapidly at the
bar, and, entering the political arena became
at once the favorite of the people of his seotion.
Soon be was elected to the Federal Congress,
where his eloquence andgenins commanded the
admiration of the nation. At a period just pro
ceeding the war, he'was justly considered the
leader of his party in the House of Represents-
lives. The records of Congress glow with his
brilliant and patriotic appeals in behalf of
Southern rights and institutions.
Afterwards, Mr. Curry again represented Ala
bama in the Confederate Congress, and daring
the entire rebellion was a warm and consistent
supporter of the South.
When the war ended, disgusted with public
life and its empty honors, he devoted himself
to the serrioe of God, and was ordained a minis
ter in the Baptist Church. His course aa a di
vine, and subsequent election to the presidency
of the colloge at Richmond, are well known to
our readers. Every lover of education in Geor
gia will unite in the wish, that Dr. Curry would
respond favorably to the invitation of the Trus
tees of Mercer University. Hisnamewonld be a
tower of strength to the Institution, and his
presence here exert a benignant influence upon
our community..
Massacre ortho Indians In Arizona.
A Washington correspondent of the World
says that according to an official report from
Lientenant Whiting, the Indian camp which
was lately tho scene of wholesale massacre had
been from last February under the protection of
the United States military. Jt had been desig
nated by the latter as a place of refuge for In
dians desiring to live to peace with the United
States, and about 510 occupied it, living on tbe
most friendly terms with the garrison of the
neighboring fort. ' " ^
On the morning of the 30th of April a band
of citizens, from Tuscon, Arizona, without
warning or provocation of ary kind, surprised
the peaceful and unarmed camp, and began in
discriminate butchery. Of 125 killed or miss--
ing, only eight were men. Many were wounded
and the camp was entirely burned. Lieutenant
Whitman had succeeded in getting some of the
bands in again, and was again trying to protect
them.
General Crook has taken the field .in Ari
zona against the Apaches. General Crook com
mands in person, and will act in conjunction
with the Mexioan troops in the State of Sonora.
Tbe Antecedents of Km. Wbar ton, tbe Al
iened Baltimore Borfia-Her Passion for
■ Dress—-Sbe Announces Her Intention to
Murry One Kan and Bans Away Wlib
Another—A Romantic Story. ' ‘,V_
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, of a
late date, haca long account of the antecedents
and early life, in that city, of Mrs. Wharton, the
alleged Baltimore poisoner, from which' we
make the following synopsis:
Her maiden name was Ellen Nugent, and
she was born in Philadelphia about forty-five
years ago, her father being a prominent and
wealthy importer of that eity. She was educa
ted at Bishop Deane’s Seminary at Burlington,
New Jerey, and after graduating from that in
stitution, soon became one of the belles of
Philadelphia society. Her personal charms
must have been very great at that period, as we
are told, she was of slender and graceful, yet
queenly bearing, with magnificent jet-black hair
of unusual length, dark eyes, and fair complex
ion. But those who knew her well say that
that was the least of her attractions. It was
her engaging manner, her winning ways, her
dashing, inspiring disposition that bound cap
tive at the chariot-wheel of Cnpid so many of
her male acquaintances.
One of her most noted characteristics that
abont this time first began to attract attention,
was an inordinate passion for dress which, as
her father was well able to afford it, was grati
fied to her utmost desire. He allowed her the
pin money of a dutchess, bnt even thi3 did not
suffice, and very soon he was called npon to pay
bills amounting to thousands, which Bhe had
contracted. Investigation showed that she had
not spent the money npon herself, but that it
had been laid ont in presents of lace, jewelry,
eta, for her young friends. Nugent, pere, paid
them of course, and equally, of course, forgave
his beautiful idol.
We come now to the most remarkable event
of her early life. Ope day she announced to
her father and friends that Bhe was soon to be
married to a Mr. Williamson, who had, hereto
fore, been regarded only in the light of a casual
acquaintance. Their surprise was great, but
no opposition was made, and on the appointed
night a brilliant company assembled to witness
the ceremony. The hour came, but no bride-
groom. Midnight came, and he still tarried,
and finally the guests dispersed.without seeing
what they came to see. Her father of course
immediately waited npon Mr. W. for an explan
ation, and was told that he (Mr. W.) had not
contracted the marriage, and knew Nothing
whatever of it. Tins astounded Mr. Nugent,
bnt subsequent investigation proved its correct
ness, and after pondering the whole matter he
conoluded that his daughter was insane and re
solved to place her in an asylum. The night
before she was to have been carried there, how
ever, she eloped with Lt. Harry W. Wharton,
and going to Philadelphia was there married to
him.
The Telegraph article concludes as follows:
Tho runaway couple had not been long from
home until they received assurance of for
giveness, and returned to the house at Gulf
Mills. They also, for a time, lived at Norris
town, and in Philadelphia again. It wasn’t
long after marriage until Mrs. Wharton was in
financial difficulties again, which were again
settled by her indulgent father. After this her
husband, who was captain now, was stationed
at Fort Kearney for some five or S9ven years.
Mrs. Wharton accompanied him, as indeed she
didin all Ms wanderings, even going down into
Texas with him- on one occasion. While out
upon tho plains tho eyesight of the captain had
become defective, and he and his wife returned
to Philadelphia again.
At the breaking out of the war tho captain
got a commission in a Delaware regiment, and
eventually was appointed general disbursing
agent, having his headquarters in Eutaw street,
Baltimore, tight near-liio bouse in "Hamilton
Place.” With the exception of a short time
they lived in Washington, this was his home np
to his mysterious death in 18G7.
Card From Colonel Hardeman.
Macon, Ga., July 21,1871.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: — I was
surprised to see in your telegrams from Wash
ington—as published in your issue of this date
—that the Democratic members of the Con
gressional Investigating. Committee were com
plaining at the tardiness of some of the wit
nesses from Georgia—myself ampng the num
ber. I was summoned to appear on tho 7th of
July, and requested to reply by telegram, which
I did, stating sickness would detain me a day or
two, bnt would report at any time thereafter.
Four days thereafter 1 telegraphed the Sear-
gent-at-Arms, from whom my summons came,
I was ready to report, and from him received
the following reply:
OOFT.
“Washington, July 12.
“T. Hardeman, Jr.: Need not come—Com
mittee have not time for more witnesses.”
[Signed] Jno. R. French,
8g’t.-at-Arms, U. S. 8.
I expected to^havo gone the next day, bnt
this telegram, of oourse, prevented. I write
this simply to says :I was ready and willing to
report, and would have done so but for this tel
egram, wMoh came, as I supposed, from the
Committee, with tho knowledge of the Demo
cratio members. I would infer from the tele
gram this morning that they were ignorant of
the same. Respectfully,
T. Hardeman, Jr.
P. S.—Since this card was handed us, Col.
Hardeman has received another telegram from
the Sergeant-at-Arms summoning him to'Wash-
ington immediately, and he leaves for that city
tMs afternoon at 5 o’clock.
The Cotton Crop of 1870.
The Fic&ynne of the 19tb, speaking of the
crop grown in 1870, says it will be safo to count
upon 4,000,000bales received at the ports. The
overland shipments, too, have been uncommon
ly large—100,000 bales having passed through
Nashville on one road alone. The Picayune
estimates the total at 320,000 bales. The
Southern mills have also largely increased their
consumption, which last year amounted to 79,-
843 bales. Upon these facts, the Ficaytme
founds the following estimate of the crop
Reoeipts at the ports ...4,000,000
Overland direct shipments.;...—. 320,000
Consumption of Southern mill3 «....100,000
Burnt, etc 10,000
Negro to the Rear.
The Tribune calls upon the Southern negroeB
to send the carpet-baggers to the rear. Tell
them, says he, “Go back, you Thieves." But
Greeley preaches in vain. The negroes won’t
do it. Their faith fails them. They can’t re
sist the cheek of the carpet-baggers. Here is
an illustration of the fact given by the New
Orleans Picayune, of last Wednesday. War-
month had his foot hurt on the cars, if we re
member rightly. Whisky too much, perhaps.
He had gone to Pass Christian to give his foot
the benefit of salt air. Dunn, the negro Lieu
tenant Governor, saw it was a good chance to
step into the executive office, and get eternally
rid of Warmouth. He did so. He bursted the
bolts of the exeoutive office and went in. He
flung himself into the executive chair. He put
his heels on the executive table. He took
whisky toddy and a regalia from the executive
lockup. He installed the Honorable Jimuel
Dogfishskto, his private .Secretary, plumply in
a chair beride himself, and the two 8tartod ont
on the business of Governing Louisiana.;' But
did he hold out ? Candor compels us to say he
didn’t. His ignominious flight is thus chroni
cled by the Picayune:
The soene in the Governor’s office yesterday
morning, on the sudden arrival of Got. War-
month, is described by eye witnesses as having
boen extremely comical. Aoting Governor
Dunn had evidently no more thought of the ap
pearance of Warmouth than he had of a visit
from the man in the moon, and consequently
when the door was flung open and the Governor
stood revealed, leaning npon his crutches, with
an arch smile playing around the corners of his
tuiruiL, a., oauntenanca Dorm, aa ha' rose
from his seat, was a study.
To say that he was confused hardly expresses
the fact, and this confusion wa3 doubtless
heightened by the rapid exit through the rear
door of the colored Secretary pro tem., who
had hastily snatched a pile of papers that were
lying on his dssk.
The entrance of a mouser into a barn in
which the mice were holding high revel conld
scarcely have created greater consternation, and
certainly no mouse ever exhibited greater agil
ity even in the moment of supreme peril tb”
did the little colored Secretary when he bol
through that rear door, with Ms hands full of
valuable documents. .... •
Now here was acting Governor Dunn and his
secretary actually running from the playful
smile sardonio of a lame carpet-bagger on
cratches. Why didn’t acting Governor Dunn
straighten himself up—waive .his hand magis
terially,and say in the language of the venerated
Horace: “Go back, ye thief! Go back to the
rear.” One reason might be that ho had not
received this nnmber of the Tribune. At any
rate, by slinking, away as he used to do in old
times, when the overseer caught Mm baking
potatoes in the field of a morning, or stealing
cMckens, instead of attending to Ms work, a
powerful melo-dramatio soene was lost to Ma
lory. 1
*‘Go Back, You Thieves.”
The venerable Horace Greeley, LL. D., in
the New York Tribune of the 19 th, is ont in a
very heavy pronuneiamento under the head of
11 The Thieving Carpet-Baggers." We have
room only for his improvement of the subject
in his concluding paragraph, in which he prao-
tically calls npon the Southern Radical negroes
to throw their white compatriots overboard.
Will they do it? Will they come up to the front
and make pure negro nominations throughout,
and “send these villains to the rear.” That is
the question: Will they respond—
“We are coming, Father Greeley,
Five hundred thousand etroug ?”
Or are they going to permit these miserable
wMto intriguants, to euchre them out of the
offices again. That is the question. Horum,
scarum divo question. Here is the Tribune’s
solemnnposhophe: ' wJ - »
’ Republicans of tho South 1 you have a des
perate struggle just ahead, and you cannot win
unless you send these villains to tho rear. You
cannot rely on their modesty or their senso of
decency; they will push themselves forward
into the most conspicuous posts, no matter at
what peril and miscMef to your cause, unless
you sternly say, “Go back, tMeves!” You
cannot afford to be delioate with men who do
not know what delicacy means. Unless you
show by your acts that you detest peculators
and scorn to be led by them, yon willbe beaten,
and will deserve to be. You can put these fel
lows where they belong if you try; and you
must try. Their effrontery will desert them
whenever they see that you not only loathe ras
cality but do nolhesitate to show your IoatMng.
As you hope to be respected, confided in, tri
umphant, vindicate your, own integrity by
branding the thieves who would make mer
chandise of your party’s good name!
Total crop 4,430,000
The only crop larger than tMs in nnmber of
bales was teat of 1859-C0, whioh was 4,675,770.
The average weight of a bale of cottoif that
year was 457 pounds, which wouldimake that'
crop 2,136,725,890 pounds.
This season the average weight of bales has
been considerably in excess of the foregoing.
A statement was published not long since setting
it down at 404,011 pounds. This we think a
little too low. The average at New Orleans jus-
titles 470' pounds to the bale for the whole crop.
This average weight per bale would bring the
crop to 2,082,100,000 pounds. There is, there
fore, only a difference of 54,625,890 pounds, or
less than four per oent, in favor of the crop of
1859-60, and the total may possibly tarn out as
largo.
Tilton believes in playing billiards for exer
cise.—Ex.
Can’t Tilton, Beecher, Frothingham, Wendell
Phillips, and a few others, get up an apostles’
creed of the new evangel? Tilton believes to
billiards, Beecher believes in novels, Frothtog-
ham believes in adultery, PMlIips believes in
murder; and plenty more conld be fonnd to fur
nish the remaining articles of the eymboL
What a precious compound of frivolity and di
abolism it would be \—Mobile Regtster.
Exports of British Railroad Iron.—The
Parliamentary'statement of the exports of rails
for Great Britain, shows that for the six months
ending June 30, 1871, the United Slates receiv
ed 244,784 tons;-for the month of June alone,
the quantity was 44,919 ton?, against 26,714
tons, and 46,065 tons for the. corresponding
months in 1869 and 1870. j
A Massachusetts Radical Organ on
til© “Thieving Carpet-Baggers.”
The Springfield Republican is one of the
oldest and ablest papers in Massachusetts, and
though of the intense trewly loyal stripe, seems
to have occasional spasms of virtue and verac
ity. In a late issue it has a few words to say
of “the thieving carpet-baggers,” as Massa
Greeley calls them. We print them below with
a glow of serenest satisfaction, and with the
sincere hope that every one of tho tribe within
tho range of onr' circulation may read them.
Says the Republican: r
Mr. Greeley never spoke a truer or more
timely word in Ms life than when he denounced
the carpet-baggers to the people of New York
city. They are doing more harm to the coun
try to-day than tbe locust or caterpillar, or any
other kindred pest. They are teaching the less
intelligent and discriminating Southerners to
despise and hate the Northern people more
heartily than ever; they are debauching tho
freedmen; they ate bringing disgrace upon the
great Republican party and upon the National
Government. That their rapacity is insatiable
and that they steal every penny they can lay
their hands on, are comparatively trivial counts
in the indictment against them. Yet this con
stant plundering is a very serious matter to the
communities which are plundered. It means
increased indebtedness'and heavier taxation.
One specimen job has just come to onr notice.
The Mississippi public schools were lately sup
plied with 7,000 desks at $7 per desk. Market
price $3 50; carpet-baggers’ profit, $24,500,
This is a very small affair, tobe sure, when com
pared with the wholesale stealings in Sonth Car
olina, but it illustrates how the ttong is done.
It is just such rascality that is making the name
of Republican a stench in the Southern Slates,
and bringing suspicion and enmity npon honest
immigrants. And matters will not mend mnoh
so long as needy and greedy adventurers are ap
pointed to responsible Federal offices, and fel
low-shipped by Northern Republicans on the
floor of Congress.
For tho Telegraph and Messenger.] ; • •
Report or Committee to tbe Macon
County Agricultural Club.
You Committee appointed for the purpose
of ascertaining as far as practicable, the amount
of coin and cotton planted this year as com
pared with last year, through this and the con-
tinguous portion of Houston , county—its pres
ent condition and probable result, reports,
that so far as their observation extends, a larger
amonnt of corn has been planted, and though
injured by rain and want of proper culture, yet
with a few days more of propitious seasons ah
average crop will be made.
-They have-estimated the status of the cotton
crop as compared with the same period of last
year at 35 per cent, less promising and recog
nize these causes as producing such results;
1st. Diminution of acreage, 10 per oent.
2d. By abandonment of commercial manure,
10 per sent
3d. Imperfect stand and improper culture,
rains, grass, eta, 13 per oent.
Tbe fraiting of the cotton is three weeks later,
than last year. The crop within the above de
scribed area is for the greater part dwarfish and
sickly. It is proper to state that on red lands,
which have received proper culture, the plant
is vigorous and healthy, but without the average
fruitage. Should the fnture seasons be propit
ious in every respeot, (a tMng hardly probable,)
your committee believe three-fourths of a crop
might yet be made.
Jas. D. Frederick,')
M. Hatcher, >- Committee.
J. Murphy. )
July7th, 187L - .
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
For refusing to obey a writ of habeas corpus,
Judge Schley, of the Savannah circuit, hag
jailed W. VI. Mitchell and Simon Lee, a negro,
of Bulloch county.*. Twenty-four hours with
the Savannah mosquitoes will doubtless put
them in a proper frame of mind.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, of Thursday, re
ports the damage done by the late storm at the
Bath Paper Mill and tbe Langley Factory,
greater than first stated. Both will have to sus
pend work for several months. Not only the
dam, but also the over-fall of the paper mill
was destroyed, which will greatly increase the
labor and expense of rebuilding.
: The Tax Receiver of Richmond county, and
*the Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta Railroad
are at loggerheads. The railroad returns its
new bridge at Augusta at only $25,000, and its
freight depot and lot at .$20,000, while the Re
ceiver insists that, as the former coat nearly
$100,000 and the latter $30,000, its a sinful
game to put ’em down so low. A board of ar-
bitration "will decide between them. — ’*
An Atlanta correspondent of the Chronicle
and Sentinel, under date of the 18th instant,
writes that “Bullock is on one of- Ms extrava
gant sprees again,” and specifies a few of Ms
freaks as follows:
On the 6th instant a warrant waspaidin favor
of E. C. Murphy and W. W. Rasbnry for $6,-
000 “for services rendered under Executive or
der.” This amount was paid them for their
services in the Fish murder case in Macon
county. That murder has been a. most expen
sive one to the State, the various sums paid out
already amounting to nearly $10,000, viz: .To
Colonel W. A. Hawkins and General Phillip
Cook, $1,000 each for legal services; other at
torneys, $500; Murphy and Rasbnry, $6,000,
besides the expenses of the Attorney GeneraL
Bnt Bullock’s latest and best drawls a $5,000
warrant drawn in favor of G. M. Hood for simply
arresting Jamef Oxford, charged with the crime
of murder in Hancock oounty. The circum
stances are about as follows: Some time in 1867
or 1863 Oxford committed murder, was arrested
and confined in tho Hancock county jail. In
October, I860, a party of Oxford’s friends went
to the jail, overpowered the jailor, and released
him. Bullock, on the 31st of January, 1870,
offered (by proclamation) a reward of $5,000
for the arrest of, “with evidence to convict," said
Oxford. Time passed on, and on the 23d of last
March, Bullock, by special order, revoked his
proclamation of 31st January, 1870, and on the
same day (23d March, 1871) issued another
proclamation, offering a reward of $5,000 sim
ply for the arrest of said Oxford, leaving ont
the words' “with evidence sufficient to convict."
When this last named proclamation was sent
from' the Executive office to the Secretary of
State’s office to be reoorded, I fonnd, npon an
examination of said record, the followingnote,
which was Bullock’s instructions regarding said
proclamation: * 'Mr. Flesh (who is one of Bul
lock’s private clerks) says it is the Governor's
order that the above (referring to said proclama
tion) be recorded, but not published in the news
papers, until further order, of which time the
Governor win notify the Department of State,
and that Judge Gibson be furnished with a cer
tified copy.” Said proclamation has never been
published. Judge Gibson was in Atlanta on
the 22d anti 23d of March last, and left on the
24th. Judge Gibson, was' furnished a certified
copy of said proclamation.
The most peculiar thing in connection with
these large rewards is that the warrants are sel
dom presented at the Treasurer’s counter by
the parties named therein, bat by some one of
Bullock’s particular favorites. Don’t you tMnk
tMs rather queer ? Now, who Mr. G. M. Hood
is, I don’t know (maybe Jndge Gibson does),
but the warrant for $5,000, drawn in his name,
wasnotpresontedbyMm, bufbya Mr. McCalla,
the present proprietor and keeper of. the re
cords of the late management of the State Road.
Bullock has paid, by executive warrants, to
one Allen /. Bell, .Mother of the Comptroller
General, $5,000 for making a list of returned
wild lands in the State, when he has been receiv
ing regularly for more than two years a salary of
$1,800 per annum as Wild Land Clerk in the
Comptroller General’s offioe.
" Mr. Jf. Hertei, or Brunswick, has been ap
pointed Master Machinist of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad.
“The Floyd Boat Club,” of Brunswick, bad
their boat, the “Brick Pomeroy,” so badly shat
tered by a stroke of lightning last Snnday, that
it will be impossible to repair it
The Radical majority in Thomas county is
steadily diminisMng. Aaron Wyche, a hand
on the Albany and Gnlf Railroad, was drowned
in the Oeklockonee river, last Saturday.
We dip as follows, from the Thomasville En
terprise of Wednesday:
A Forgery Case.—It appears that Mr. Geo.
Colvin, a citizen of this county, acting under
a power of attorney from one James Bradley,
of Gwinnett oounty, Ga., recently sold lot of
land No. 353 in the 18th district of Thomas^ to
Mr. P. D. Arnold, master of the section of rail
road between this point and the Ocklookonee
river. Subsequently doubt arose as to the gen
uineness of this title, and npon an examination
of tho power of attorney, it was discoverd that
the chirograpsof the writer and signer, James
Bradley, the witness, Prince Williams, and
Jesse Murphy, N. P., were identical. This led
to an investigation of the matter, and Mr. J. T.
Kottman, at the instance of Mr. Arnold, ad
dressed a letter to the Ordinary of Gwinnett,
inquiring after the above mentioned parties.
The Ordinary responded to the effect that there
were no such persons as Bradley and Williams
known in that connty, but that Jesse Murphy
was a Notary Pnblio there. This latter gentle
man, being made acquainted with the facts,
made affidavit that he knewnosnch parties and
had never signed the aforesaid.power of attor
ney. Upon this evidence a warrant was issued
by Justice MoLean on Monday and Mr. Colvin
arrested. He, however, compromised the mat
ter with Mr. Arnold by making Mm titles to
other lands, and the ease was not tried. Mr.
Colvin now pleads that he knewnotMng of tbe
parties, bnt believed them, np to this time, all
right, wMleHr. Arnold , recollects that he (Col
vin) professed intimate acquaintance with them
at the time of making the sale.
The local-of the Columbus Sun, who dotes
on sweet potatoes, is gnasMng Ms- teeth be
cause he can’t buy a peck of the new crop for
less than $1. As some consolation, however,
he boasts that the Macon Gas Company has to
go to Colnmbns to have its retorts manufactured.
The Columbus papers inform ns that.“Skew-
ball” “has again arrived in that city and has
been put to work shoveling coaL” But who the.
is Skewball ?
The Sun,-of Thursday, says:
A Little Boy Killed.—A. son of Mr. James
B. Collier, now a druggist in Montgomery, was
killed Monday in Opelika, by a fall from a
porch. The child’s age was some six years.
He had been playing with a top. 'It rolled off
the porch. He attempted to get to the ground
by means of looseninghis hold on a pillar, when
he fell, struck his head on a rook and died two
hours After. He Wasboriedfa our oemetery
Tuesday. What made it more sad was that the
father had parted with Mm bnt a little while be
fore, taken the train, and had nearly reached
Montgomery, when be was recalled by a tele
gram. He returned to find the bright little fel
low of a few hours before, a corpse. Mr. Col
lier is well known in Columbus where, he was
engaged in busness several years, and his many
friends extend Mm and Ms wife their, tenderest
sympathies.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says:
What Shall we Do ?—Apprehensions for the
future have forced us to make the following
confession: Oar friends must either kill a
couple of woodpeckers that are now destroying
our corn crop, or permit us to raise the sub
scription of onr paper. In behalf of Mr. Willis,
we will state that Ms crop is also in a dilemma,
though somewhat in less danger than ours.
Ask us a hard question. Send down to Ba-
vannah for R. XL, and when he comes mount
him on the fence. If the woodpeckers don’t
recognize him as an intruder of their kind and
go for him instead of the oorn, we’ll treat.
The Dispatch has the following :
Macon Money.—We see a paragraph in the
Sumter Republican, stating that Macon City
Council money is not current in Americas, and
that brokers discount it. Such is not the case
in Hawkinsville. It is on a par with green
backs, and in some instanoes we prefer it. Our
people have unplioit confidence in Maoon’s
ability to pay all her indebtedness.
Col. George H. Hazlehurst, President of
the Macon and Bronswiok, was in town one
day last week and by appointment was met
here with private conveyance by Hon. John
W. Woodward, of Dooly, and the two gentle
men proceeded on their way to look ont the
best and most feasible route for a road, (toward
Eufaula, we presume, though the editor don’t
say so.) *
The Griffin Cultivator says lead, iron and
popper ore, have been fpund recently near that
place, and that a Mr. Matthews an English
miner, thinks he h astound-a leadjnme in Butts
oounty.
Brunswick, like Mrs. Dombey was urged to
do, is going to “make an effort,” the result of
which it is hoped will be a savings bank.
Two bears have turned up near Dalton, and
all'the little boys are Baying their prayers and
promising not to say “baldhead” any more.
Col. David Dobbs, Sr., one of the first settlers
to'Marietta, is dead; aged 80 years.
A man named Skinner dropped dead from Ms
horse, near Marietta, last Thursday.
. Sy the premature explosion of a blast in a
rock’quarry, near Marietta, last Saturday, a man
named Singleton, had both Ms eye3' put out,
both arms broken, and one side of his face hor
ribly gashed.
Arthur T. Sullivan, of Rome, died very sud
denly last. Tuesday night.
Says the Rome Courier of yesterday: .
Important Case Decided.—Judge .Cox sold
some mill property, hear Floyd Springs to John
L. Williamson, in the fall of 1802 for $7,000.
Three thousand dollars was paid about the 1st
of January ,1863, and the balance Was due Jan
uary 1st, 1864. About the first of February,
1864 Williamson tendered the amount due in
Confederate money; Cox refused to receive it,
ana since the war sued on the note. On Tues
day last he got a verdict for $540, but the cost
of the suit was charged to Mm, the plaintiff.
Mr. Lawrenoe Manning, a Northern bona fide
settler in Greene county, died in that county
last Saturday. Feaoe to his ashes!
The Greensboro Herald reports a Most timely
rain in that section last Tuesday, which, it says,
was “worth tens of thousands of dollars to the
farmers of Middle Georgia.”
The Griffin Georgian reports a 'violent rain
and hail storm in that section last Monday
night, wMch did considerable damage in some
localities. The bail stone? were so large end
came down so thickly as to knock ears of com
from the stalk.
A tiger and Ms two keepers wa3 captured at
Atlanta 'Thursday night, and the latter pnt
under $5,000 bonds each. Some other tiger
got jealogs on account of small rations, we
suppose, and “peached.”
Miss Amy Low, daughter of Andrew Low,
Esq., of Savannah, was married at St. James’
Chnrch, London, on June 223, to Lieut. Harry
Tremeriheere Grenfell, of the British Navy.
Mr. John Clarke, of Beech Island, near Au
gusta, while riding to that city Thursday morn
ing, was Ku-kluxed out of his pocket-book and
contents by a Grant voter, who stepped ont of
the bushes on the roadside, and presented a pis
tol at Mr. C.’s head.
Jas. Oxford, who killed a negro in Washing
ton county about a year ago, was tried and con
victed therefor in the Superior Court of the
county last Wednesday, and sentenced to be
hung on Friday, September 1st He is now in
the penitentiary at Milledgeville, for safe keep
ing.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of Friday tells a
heavy joke on some gentlemen of Burke connty
who were out hunting a notorious horse tMef
named Samuel Holmes. They traced Mm to Ms
haunt, and, dismounting, tied their horses and
set out on foot But-Holmes was gone, and
when they came back to their horses one of
them was gone too. While they were stealing
on Holmes he stole the best horse in the party.
How is it Holmes has kept out of office under
Bullock, we should liko to know ?
The Chronicle, same date says:
Daring Attempt to Rob the Mail.—Mr. D.
B. Thompson, of this city, has a contract for
oarrying the mail between Augusta and Cal
houn’s Mills, in South Carolina, a good many
milt3 distant On Wednesday morning the
mail-rider, a young man named Rich, left Cal
houn’s Mills, on one of Ms regular trips. About
one o'clock in the afternoon hareached Rocky
Pond, twenty miles from here. While riding
up a hill in a part of the road remote from any
house, two man sprang from the bushes and
commanded Mm to halt one of them at the
same time, firing at Mm with a pistol. The
ball fortunately missed Its aim, and before.they
conld shoot again, Mr. Rich drew his pistol and
fired at them several times. Astonished at
meeting with such a warm reception where
they'expected to find an easy eonquest and a
rich booty, the cowardly Mghwaymen betook
themselves to flight, and ran into tho woods.
Mr. Rich then continued his journey unmolest
ed, and readied the city in safety. One of the
party who attacked Mm was a white man, the
other a negro. It was evident that their inten
tion was to murder the mail-rider, and then
carry the mail into the woods and rifle the
pouches at their leisure.
The Eagle and Phenix Factory, at Columbus,
will soon commence, the manufacture of cassi-
meres and cloths.
It was so hot.in Atlanta, last Sunday, that, at
night, the calorio was climbing lightning rods,
trees, etc., in order to get higher. An ink-
slinger—we call no names—lost five pounds
of dirt.
The Columbus people who sMpped peaches
North this season lost money, so the Sun says.
The Columbus Enquirer “joins" tho ring of
onriosity mongers, by telling of a wbito par
tridge captured a few days since in Russell
oounty, Alabama.
We.clip the following from the Enquirer: .
Relics of the Past.—We have before us two
rather ancient cotton bills. The first is dated
Columbus, Ga., April 17, 1839, and was given by
King & Hooper, per F. MoMorray, to Wm. O.
Amour, for five square bales cotton at 14o per
pound. The second dated December 21, 1842,
was given by J. L. Ridgeway, per Wm. H.
Mitchell, to the same party, for four bales cot
ton at 4^ and 41 cents per pound. The gentle
men to whom these bills were given still lives,
and brought in cotton daring the present week
to the Alabama warebose. - . - - -.
The Houston Home Journal says the railroad
agent at Fort Valley refuses to 'receive Macon
city ..money for freights, and wants to know
what’s the matter.
There was an exceptionally heavy rain last
Tuesday night in and around. Perry, and the
Home Journal says farms were badly washed.
Ed. Felder, Jr., of Perry, fell down last Fri
day and broke the bone in the stump of his
amputated arm.
CoL Ben. Lockett, of Albany, has only 5,000
acres in cotton this year. ,
Mike Flynn, an Irishman was drowned last
Satuiday evening while bathing in the Fiint
river near Albany.
Mr. B. A. Brown, one of the most estimable
Oltizens of Albany, died last week.
We clip the following from the Albany News:
A Glorious Bain.—On Monday evening last
about dark an immense thundercloud lowered
upon this locality from the northern point of
the compass, and after a tremendous demonstra
tion of lightning, thtinder and wind, poured oat
its torrents and refreehing sweetness. The elond
covered a vast extent of territory, and the sea
son was evidently ample for many miles around.
The blow here was almost a hurricane, and we
doubt not some damage resulted where the
storm spent its greatest strength. This lain
makes the oorn crop in this locality, and we
have reason to hope that the yield will be
abundant Cotton is also greatly benefitted,
and planters are hopeful of fair resalts when the
picking time comes. Tuesday night the storm
was repeated with -increased fury and wider
range. Wednesday was a day iff showers, and
in some places heavy rains. Yesterday was
' partially clear and cloudy,” but pretty hot.
Toe B. & A. R. K—Somebody has informed
the Txlegeaph and Messenger that toe track
laying will reach this oityby toe 10th of August.
The truth is the work is progressing shamefully
slow, and cannot reach here- before the 10th of <
September, if there be not some Improvement. I
We find the following items to the
Sun: *
An Ex-Editor Mabbies.—Mr. John P r
Spence, at one time editor and publisher of tl»
Greensboro’ Herald, to this State, writes us thS
he has got religion, married a wife and moved
to the oountry, where, by strict attention to to,
household duties and a reasonable amount d
work, he hopes to lay the foundation for a Ion?
and useful life. John married Miss Kiltie Don
can, a Pickens county (Alabama) lady, on the
13th of July.
Honobababy Degrees—The Board of Trns.
tees of the Oglethorpe University, at its recent
meeting, conferred the degree of D. D., upon
Rev. Donald McQueen, of Snmter, South Caro
iina; and also upon Rev. B. O. Molnnis, of Or
fora, Mississippi; also the degree of L. L. D
upon the Hon. John A. Inglis, of Baltimore'
Md.; and also upon Rev. George Horne, D. D?
of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, Strati!
Carolina.
’ The last Cartersville Standard makes the fol
lowing good hits' . ’ .
Wanted. A rioh min to report weekly
through the columns of the Standard. Onr
brethren of the Express having taken entire
charge of owe olever neighbor, Col, Tnmiin, in
that way, we cannot even get to report the
building of a new chicken coop on Ms planta
tion. We are forced, therefore, in order to
keep up with the enterprize of our West Main
street friends, to get a man of our own, and
when we do, we’il bet on keeping even to the
way of reporting all that transpires on his place
We propose to give his bill of fare for dinner
every other day. Apply early, for we are to a
hurry.
. The great lease case was taken up in the Su
preme Court at Atlanta, on Friday, and argued
for plaintiff to error by Hon. B. H. TTiii, pend
ing whose argument the Court adjourned till
yesterday. The decision will hardly be an-
nounced before next Tuesday week.
The Covington Enterprise, of Friday, says:
OcUULGSE AND NORTH GEORGIA RAILROAD.—
Misled by the information received last week
we reported the construction of this road as a
fixed future event Having been informed
more definitely, by the agent of tbe Northern
company, the state of the oase seems to be that
Col. Cowles has induced the company to inves-
tigate the project, and they hav6 ample means
to speedily build the road, if satisfied that it
will be profitable- The gauge will also be de
termined by them after the review of the route
by their representative, Col. C. O. Cluto, who
passed through Covington going northward on
the route, last Saturday. The result of his ex
amination will-be announced in a few weeks.
The editor of the Nownan Herald “rises to
explain,” as follows:
Eplaxned.—Boolly, of the Gwinnett Atlas,
left home to search of health-restoring atmos
phere, reoently, and wMle he was absent a man
of good fighting weight came to Lawrencevilla
to see Boolly—for what, the reader may guess.
Boully’s temporary ili health, and the anger of
the fighting man, may be easily explained: the
week before the Atlas contained several veises
of poetry on “Calomel,” wMch were bad
enough to make sick a weakly man like the edi
tor, and stir np the bile,'and render hostile the
healthiest man on earth. A few more doses of
the same sort will do the job for the Atlas, and
the whole of Gwinnett, and seriously effect the
vitality of Boully’s exchanges.
What Shall we Eat, .and How Di
gest It ?—9fo. 1.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : '
Some time since, I read an editorial to your
paper wMch discussed the following query:
“What shall we eat, and how cook it?” As a
sequel to the forgoing inquiry, and wMch is of
paramount. importance in its bearing upon
physical health, is the .query, what shall we
eat, and how digest it ? A correct knowledge
and proper appreciation of the nature of differ
ent kinds of food, and an observance of the
simple laws of hygiene and dietetics, will often
prevent much physical suffering, in warding off
many diseases arising from functional disorder
of the digestive organs,-wMoh may ultimately
lead to permanent organic disease, as well as
predispose the system to attacks of disease ar-
rising from malarial poison. For the proper
understanding of our subject we will spend a
few thoughts npon the chemical qualities of
different kinds of food.
All kinds of nutritious food may be divided
into two great classes: the albuminoids, or
flesh and blood-producing, and hydrocarbons, or
heat and fat-producing. In the former class
may be enumerated flesh, blood, bones, curd,
gelatine, animal membranes and various cereal
grains and vegetable substances; in the latter
aro gum, sugar, starch, oily and fatty matters,
and wax The flesh-producing substances, com
posted cMefly of fibrine, albumen and caseine.
are called by Liebig compounds of protein, be
cause they hold the first rank to affording ma
terial for the support of the organic tissues,
Animal fibrine is found almost in a state of pu
rity in dried muscular fibre, and is converted
almost without change into materials for direct
transformation into flesh and blood; albumen
is found almost pure to the wMte of egg; and
casein, largely present in milk, in addition to
its tissue-making properties, shows the presence
of phosphate of lime for the bony tissue of tlis
young and growing animal.
It ’has been maintained that the value of
food depends mainly upon the per centage
of flesh-producing elements that it contains.
But experiments go'to prove that -an .animal
confined exclusively upon a diet of wMte of egg,
pure albumen, will not only not thrive, bnt will
perish from inanition. So an exclusive diet of
oily and fatty matters, su^tr or starch, will b§
attended with similar results. The union of
these two classes of organic compounds with
certain earthy and mineral substances, as the
phosphate of lime, sulphur and iron, form the
basis of food that supplies ail tho wants of the
animal economy. Accoholio stimulants possess
no truly tonic or nutritive qualities, for they are
incapable of being transformed into the organic
tissues, and act directly upon the nervous tissue,
temporarily increasing nervous energy. Prep
arations of iron enter into the composition of
the blood, increasing its red corpuscles, and
thereby impart tonicity to the m oscular system,
and general physical vigor. Tea and coffee are
not only pleasant beverages, bnt they have the
elements of nutrition in their composition wMoh
entitle them to rank among the flesh-producing
substances. The hydro-carbons, gum, sugar,
starch and oily and fatty matters, are employed
in famishing materials for the elaboration of
heat, sustaining the respiration, and -when ia
excess, for laying up accumulations of fat. They
are'more difficult of digestion than the albumin
oids or flesh-produoing substances, and are
more slowly converted into tbe different tissues,
In the use of food its quality must depend
upon the age of the individual and the employ
ment in which he is engaged. A young animal,
in addition to the maintenance of the ordinary
tisanes of the body, demands a supply of min
eral matter for the development of its bones
and teeth. In human foetal life, the blood of
the mother is sometimes so severely drained of
its phosphate of lime to supply the wants of
her foetus in the development of its bone as to
cause the rapid and almost entire destruction of
her own teeth. The hard laboring man, as well
ai tbe student engaged in intense or prolonged
mental exercise, requires a supply of strong al
buminous food to supply the waste of muscle
and brain matter that is rapidly consumed in
the pursuit of their respective avocations. There
is a rapid process of combustion going on in (he-
animal machinery, the resnlt of oert&to chem
ical changes induced by the action of the ele
ments of-the blood upon the matter no longer
needed in the system.
Exeroise greatly increases the process of the
disintegration of the tissues. The increase in
the number of respirations of the individual
subjected to hard labor is the source of the sup
ply of fuel necessary to burn up the effete and
waste matter. If, therefore, he is not supplied
with food that is easily and rapidly digested,
and fully freighted with nutritious matter, he
rapidly loses flesh and strength. Any excess of
nutritive materials that has been properly di
gested and assimilated is laid np in tho form of
fat for • future use. In an emergency, this fat
is absorbed and supplies the fuel for the evolu-
tion of animal boat, and for sustaining rospira-
tion to cases of prolonged starvation or volun
tary abstinence from food. As a familiar illus
tration of tMs fact, we note the habits of hyber-
nating animals that lie dormant in winter.
Daring the autumnal months they layup a store
of fuel in the form of fat, to kerne them warm
daring their long winter’s nap. Nature, to ac
commodate thefuucfional powers of their vital
organs to their altered circumstances, almost
suspends their operations.. The number of res
pirations is much diminished, the circulation of
the blood is correspondingly slow, and the sup
ply of fat iff wonderfully economized by the
gradual absorption of its globules just in suffi
cient quantity to generate the heat necessary to
support life.
In our next nnmber we will notice some of
the principles involved to tbe prooess of nutri
tion. - ■ J. P. 8.
Newton, July 17,1871.
