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THOMAS BEALL,
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Vl ; ’yAA AT LAW,
A GOODE,
A 1 1 m, lv> .k :i ’ :Vs AT LAW,
i . V !s__.t- HOUSTON CO., GA.
o. A. MILLER^
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X; . ij, :i; J classes of Dental Opera-
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IST otice.
AAf ‘A 1 * ioa bb for several years past, I have
and mvt i 11 I[ H e inclination to practice Medicine, or to
srs happi'T * lse —and, if possible, cared less. But I
tarktVri l .° ln *°nu my old friends and patrons that
letr N Ui " x ln uch better, and if they desire to re
y calir lollner relations, that they can easily do so
,'s.'’A me “'hen my services are needed. I will
ability i ‘ SCII 10 -erve them to the best of my skill and
iv)\ A “Id stand, the Drug Store, now occupied
niar3 R. HARWELL.
C 0 N C E R T H ALL,
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A.*C, MOORE,
Adulteration of Liquors.
The following letter of Dr. Higgins, in
reply to an inquiry propounded by the
Judge of the Criminal Court, will be read
with interest. It adverts to a subject that
is just, n av deservedly attracting jmhlic at
md it contahu} ceally useful infor
l. i . r : in i'-'gfu-i to a great evil by which
ei! classes in tu>-c*>nmmnity are more or
Lsscbr- (1. Tip’ exi>t nee of poisonous
r daily con
sm.trd by .air citizens is unquestionable.
Eh neaps of the . jiresenee of
these poisons are detailed by Dr. H., and
the dc ’Cription given of their effects upon
the mill 1 and body, ought to be sufficient
to. d>. ter ‘..ane nvu froiii vt-iunlarily seeking
; . n- 1 ii.d ei-rtaiii death by their
u- . i ; i left rv is laid before the Grand
Jun liy Judge Stutnp, and upon the ad
i u; ament of that body was kindly furn
ished to us for publication :
Baltimore, June 27th, 1859.
To Ilis Honor Henry Stump , the
Judge of the Criminal Court of Balti
more city.
Sir : —Protracted illness and urgent en
gagements must be my apology for not
sooner responding to the inquiry which
some months ago you made, and have re
cently renewed to me.
In compliance with your request, I pro
pose nothing more than to give you a brief
summary of the analysis, which, from time
to time, I have made of whisky and other
liquors, their adulterations, intentionally
made, and their deleterious compounds
produced in the progress of distillation.
It might be premised that if one of the
principal characteristics of our epoch in a
commercial point of view, is the immense
progress which every department of pro
ductive industry has achieved, it ought to
be admitted that the arts of adulteration
and sophistication have more than kept
pace with that progress. And it could be
added with perfect truth, that these arts
have invaded the luxuries of the rich and
the necessities of the poor ; raiment, food,
medicines, furniture, the means of life, and
the requirements of disease, all that can be
mixed, twisted, ground, pulverized, worn,
pressed-—all articles of consumption in
trade, in manufactures, in the arts, in a
word, all that can he made matter of com
merce, and he sold is adulterated, falsified,
disguised and drugged. Incertitude and
falsehood are everywhere the sure brands
on packages. The very necessaries of life
are mixed with poisonous substances, and
the medicines sold to cure the diseases pro
due- and by them, are frequently so adulter
ated, as to be equally injurious with the
substances whose effects they were pre
scribed to cure. Almost all of the licjuors
sold in our markets are adulterated more
or loss, and some of them are injurious from
want of skill in the manufactures, or by
carrying the process of distillation too far.
1 have examined many specimens of
whiskey, and have found in most of them,
the existence ot fusel oil (produced by im
proper distillation) and sulphuric acid. —
The latter is an intentional adulteration.
The presence of fusel oil in whiskey may
be detected by the following distinct, sen
sible properties.
1 ‘• as to smell. This is burning and
I •;i v - : n- ■ .It tings of putridity.
\\ .. v or b: • Av. which eon tains this
oil. has a liot, burning and scalding taste.
T. earning .- nsation is different from that
produced by hot water, cayenne, pepper,
•uMard, “i- uio-f. of the vegatcble substati
on. [A vapor breathed for r. yhort time
produces asahiiiMtie pain, with cough and
vomiting, it's effects on the stomach are,
first lhat of a burning heat which must
lx reti ‘<• i by an A-taut drop of cold wa
o-r. oi voiinting will cm ue and be accom
f \ isoid frothy
he stoi lack and throat. Its
‘•t not a is to produce dyspepsia,
hi sickness of the Stomach w ith
*i t. n i ii!al and i hvsical ]rostration, and
all the evils incident to want of nutrition,
d< raved secretions of the liver, and gener
al disorder of the digestive-organs. It also
materially lessons the quantity of urine,
and makes it high-colored and loads it with
urea uric acid.
Sulphuric acid is used in adulteration.
Whiskey or brandy adulterated with this
acid may he distinguished by its cooling
taste on the tongue, and its agreeable aro
matic odor. It neither heats the stomach
nor burns the tongue ; its physyliogical in
fluence. however, is very deleterious, pro
ducing a sort of delirium analagous to that
produced by laughing gas, and depriving,
for a time, the recepient of it, of all men
tal or physical control. The first effect is
one of wild, jubilant delirium, then stupor,
and frequently total unconsciousness fol
lows.
To a mind like yours, familiar with med
ical jurisprudence, I know the inquiry will
readily suggest itself, whether a person, m
justice , should be punished for a crime
committed when under the influence ot
liquor so adulterated. Ought not the pen
alty of the law to visit the fabricator of
the cause of crime ? Asa Judge you can
much better answer the question. Asa
i citizen, and a man of spme experience, I
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
TIIOMASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8,185 ft,
have no hesitation in saying that he who
commences the “fray” ought to take the
blows. But lawyers and legislators must
fix the matter.
There is a popular error that strychnine
is placed in whiskey. When investigating
the nature and cure for the hog cholera, I
had abundant opportunity for information
on this subject, and can safely say that it
is not used in whiskey or brandy. It could
effect nothing if used, and could not he
profitably employed. It is used in beer,
ale and all of the malt liquors for the pur
r ose of imparting bitterness, hut in quali
ties so small as not to occasion injury to
those who make use of them.
1 have used no technical words in this
short communication, and for the reason
that 1 wish to be understood. You may
make whatever use of it you think proper.
I have the honor to he your obedient
servant, James Higgins,
Analytic and Consulting Chemist.
Dandies.
Dandies are not good for much, hut
they are good for something. They invent
and keep in circulation those conversation
al blank checks or counters just spoken of,
w’hich intellectual capitalists may some
times find it worth their while to borrow
of them. They are useful, too, in keep
ing up the standard of dress, which, but
for them, would deteriorate and become,
what some old fools would have it, a mat
ter of convenience and not of taste and art.
Yes, I like dandies well enough on one
condition—that they have pluck. I find
that lies at the bottom of all true dandy-
ism. A little hoy dressed lip very fine,
who puts his finger in his mouth and takes
to crying if other hoys make fun of him,
looks very silly; hut if he turns very reel
in the face, and knotty in the fists, and
makes an example of the biggest of his as
sailants, throwing off his fine leghorn and
thickly buttoned jacket, if necessary, to
consummate the act of justice, his small
toggery takes on the splendors of the cres
ted helmet that frightaned Astyana. You
remember that the Duke and his dandy
officers. The “Sunday Blood,” the super
superb, saritorial equestrin of our annual
Fast-day, is not imposing or dangerous.—
But such fellows as Brummel and D’Orsay,
and Byron are not to be snubbed quite so
easily. Look out for la main, dc fer esus
la gent de ia ours. A good many powerful
and dangerous people have a decided dash
of dandyism about them.
There was Alcibiadcs, the “curled son
Clinas,” an accomplished young man but
what w’ould be called “a swell” in these
days. There was Aristotle, a very dis
tinguished writer, of whom we have heard
—a philosopher, in short, whom it took
centuries to unlearn, and is now going to
take a generation or more to learn over
again—Legular dandy, he was. So was
Marcus Antonins ; and though he lost his
game, he played for big stakes, and it w r as
not his dandyism that spoilt his chance.—
Petrarch w as not to be dispised as a scholar
or a poet, but he was one of the same sort.
So was Sir Humphrey Davy ; so w\qs Lord
Palmerston, formerly, if I am not forgetful.
Yes, a dandy is good for something as
such, and dandies such as I was just speak
ing of have rocked this planet like a cradle
—aye, and left it swinging to this day.—
Still if I were you, 1 wouldn’t go to the
tailors on the strength ot these remarks,
and run up a long bill which will render
pockets siipefiuity in next suit. Elgan’s
i: nascitur non ft.” A man is born a dandy
as he is born a poet. There are heads that
can’t wear hats; there are necks that can’t
lit cravats; there are jaws that can’t fill
out collars ; (Will is taught this last point,
on one of his earlier ambrotypes, if I re
member rightly) there are tournures noth
ing can humanize, and movements nothing
can subdue to the gracious suavity or ele
gant langour or stately serenity which be
long to the different styles of dandyism.—
The Autocrat of the BreaJcJast Table.
Early Locomotives. —According to the
American Bail Hoad Guide, the first loco
motive in the United States was imported
from England, in the fall of 1829 or spring
of 1830.” The first Stephenson locomo
tive ever imported was the “Robert Ful
ton,” in 1831, for the Mohawk and Hud
son Rail Road. The first locomotive built
in this country was constructed at the
West Point Foundry, in 1830, for the
South Carolina Rail*Road. The second
was built for the same road, at the same
place. The th ird was built by the same
establishment in the spring of 1831, and
was the first locomotive ever run in the
State of New York. David Matthews,
who first run this ingine, is still living in
Philadelphia, and is one of our oldest in
ventors and locomotive engineers.
Historical. —A young prince of the il
lustrious house of Monaco was asked why
lie had married a rich old woman. u JIa
foi,” was the gay young prince’s reply,
“let me ask you, what poor man in a hur
rv to get an enormous bank note cashed,
troubles himself to look at the date of
it ?”
A Patent Sermon on Pike’s Peak.
“Where cle hen scratch, dere she spec to fin a bug.”
My hearers : I am informed that a dark
complexion preacher in Columbus, Ohio,
once took the above text, and proved from
it that parents fell out of an apple tree in
to a mud-hole, which caused their first
born to be as black as your hat. I’m
afraid that my colored co-laborer has made
more out of it than I can, for turn it over,
set it up on an end, lay it down, spread it
open —after all, this rooster don’t find much
to peck at.
In the first place, my brethren, I will
propound a pious conundrum : why are
men like watches ? Because you have to
look inside for their good qualities, and
judge of them by their “works.”
Well, my brethren, the work of men
and women, in general, consists, for the
most part, in scratching, and the prospect
of a hug is the incentive. You may no
tice, brethren, that whenever a hen makes
a scratch she always gives a pick ; but
whether she gets a bug at every dip is very
uncertain. I imagine not. Nevertheless,
“where the hen scratches there she expects
to find a bug.”
Expecting is one thing, you know, my
friends, and finding, another. You may
turn over many a stone, in this precious
world, and find no bug at all. Phreno
logicallv speaking, the human head is one
vast bump of expectation, and nothing
else.
There are various sorts of hugs, gentle
men, in this buggy sphere. There are big
bugs, little bugs, tumble hugs, bed bugs,
straddle bugs, hum bugs, and bug bears.
But you needn’t scratch about much to
find any of these, for they are everywhere,
thicker than skippers in a three year old
cheese. To find the bug you so earnestly
desire requires diligent scratching ; and if
by so doing you don’t happen to catch it,
you can comfort yourself with the refiec
tion, that you put in the licks for it, and
it ought to have been yours.
If a young man takes a girl round to see
the shows, feeds her on tit-bits, and buys
her pretty calicos, his title to a kiss is in
disputable, for “where the hen scratches,
there she expects to find a hug.”
The bug that you are all after, my bre
thren, is the gold bug ; but lack a day,
how many of you scratch in vain ; yet, it
is found in manure heaps as well as in au
riferous places. The farmer turns it up
with his plow, and the gardener with his
spade, and yet thousands keep scratching
here and there without finding nary a bug.
And now you all want to go to Pike’s
Peak country ; but there are so many dif
ferent ways to go there that you are in a
quandary which way to choose. It’s like
getting to Heaven. The Catholics insist
on going straight through purgatory, the
Baptists go a round-about way, and keep
where there is plenty of water, as they be
long to the class known as amphibia. The
Presbyterians think their road the safest,
though rather hot ; the TJuiversalists de
clare theirs to be the most pleasant, while
the Methodists shout hallelujah and scare
up rabbits as they journey on the good old
Jordan route. But wlien you are once,
there (at the diggins I mean, for I’m sure
you’ll never reach the other place,) one
stands as good a chance as another, and I
don’t know but a little better.
You all have an equal amount of hope,
if not pluck, and you will probably pitch
in and dig with all the energy of a terrier
atagoplier hole; for “where the hen scratch
es, there she expects to find a bug.”
Let me make another application of the
text, my brethren. Beware of an oily
tongued sycophantic friend, who is ever
ready to do small favors ; who professes a
willingness to serve you at all times ; who
praises you as the fox did the crow, for
while he is thus “squeezing” himself into
your good graces, he has au eye on your
purse—yourself forgetting—for the mo
ment, that “where the hen scratches, there
she expects to find a hug.”
My iriends, how uneasy is the immortal
mind in its pent-up prison of clay ! How
it seems to exult in its freedom while wing
ing its way to yon azure field of light and
glory, or wandering amid the green old
bowers of the past, where none but itself
are permitted to roam !
A hat, then, must be its delight when
forever released from its thraldom of fiesh,
and no longer dependent upon bread, beef,
and potatoes ! The day will come when
liberty, such as mortals have never yet
known, will be blissfully realized in the
eternal sphere, where—where—“where the
hen scratches, there she expects to find a
bug.” Dow, Jr.
tfST One of our loquacious and jolly
citizens approaching a Baptist minister,
said to him with much seriousness, that
hoops were wholly inconsistent with the
doctrines of his church. The clergyman
being at a loss to know why, rather struck
at the idea, inquired the reason for such a
notion, wlien the wag stated to him that
they forbid close communion.
Trust not the praise of a friend, nor the
contempt of au enemy.
Entirely Too Much Nigger,
From the Washington correspondence
of a State cotemporary, we extract thcfol
| lowing paragraphs, and we think that ev
ery man who is not buried over head and
ears in the mirage of Lecomptomsm and
Black Republicanism, will realize it as it
is an unpleasant fact :
When any one asks me the news, now
a-days, I invariably answer him—“too
much nigger.” We have too much nigger
in Congress, too much nigger in the news
papers, too much nigger between the two
parties and too much nigger in our own
party. lam indebted for this idea to a
negro woman of Maryland, who, when
quite young emigrated to Liberia, and who
returned to the United States, a few years
ago, under the following circumstances :
She had been living about ten years in the
interior of Liberia, some sixty miles from
the sea coast, and on hearing that a vessel
had arrived from Baltimore, she packed up
her clothes, bade good bye to her friends
and started on foot to the port where the
vessel was to he found. Less than three
days travel brought her on board the ves
sel and in the presence of the Captain.—
When he asked what she wanted, she said
—“Good Massa, I want to go back to Ma
ryland again, and I will cook, wash and
do other service for you and the crew to
pay you for carrying me across the ocean.”
The captain endeavored to argue her out
of such an intention, and tried to persuade
her she was in just the country where all
of her color ought to be. Fearing from
this kind of talk she would be refused a
passage, the woman poured out a torrent
of tears, amid the most distressing sobs,
and sometime elapsed before she could con
trol her emotions sufficiently to allow her
to speak. As soon, however, as she was
able to do so, she renewed her entreaties,
and promised to serve the captain as a
slave for life if he would only take her out
of that country. The generous Captain,
overcome more by the distress oi tie wo
man than any hope of gain iV ui her servi
ces, finally agreed to bring Iter back, bn.
had to ask—“what in the name of to •
Lord made her 86 disti about living
in Liberia, and so anxious to get back to
Maryland.” ISlie answered him almos*
word for word as follows :
“Too much nigger here for me, massa.
too much nigger ! It’s nigger in the mor
ning, nigger at night, nigger all the week,
and nigger of a Sunday, and when it ain’t
tame nigger then it’s mild nigger. No
white man or woman ever to be seen here,
sir, hut it’s nigger, nigger, nigger every
where, and nothing but nigger. Nigger
was bad enough where I came from in Ma
ryland, but the white folks kept him in
order there, and he did not show cdl his
wool! But here you see the nigger all
over ! Good Lord, Massa, 1 can’t stand
so much nigger, no how, and blessed be to
God if I can’t get away with you, I’ll
drown myself right under your vessel. I
must go where I can see the faces of white
folks now and then, indeed I must, sir 1 —
Olf hush ! Can’t go back among all them
niggers any more, not I. Carry me back
to Baltimore, and I’ll sing hallelujah all
the way over. Too much nigger in this
country for me—entirely too much nigger ”
Well, as it was with that amiable fe
male darkey in Liberia, so it is with me in
these United States in the present condi
tion of parties. There is entirely too much
writing and talking about the negro, or
the question of slavery in the Territories,
which is the same thing. Wo have too
much about intervention and non-inter
vention by Congress with slavery in the
Territories ; too much about the Supreme
Court, and the Dred Scott decision ; and
too much about the time when the people
of a Territory can legislate for the admis
sion or exclusion of slavery.
A Sudden Sensation. — A Philadelphia
paper tells the following singular story :
While the fire was burning at Ninth and
Market street, a gentleman was passing
that vicinity. He was a man ot large
stature, great dignity of appearance, and
walked with the air of one who was above
all anxieties as to the things of this world,
being evidently the possessor of ample
wealth. As he passed up Ninth street, on
the other side of the way from the fire, he
was saluted by two splendidly attired la
dies. Greatly to their surprise, at the very
instant, instead of a bland reception of
courtesy, the gentleman sprang into the air
about six feet, and gave utterance to a yell
that Mould have done no discredit to a
most ambitious stipe in the tragedy of ‘3b -
tamora.” As he alighted on his feet he
struck off his hat aud began to tear his
hair in such a manner that the ladies
shrieked with mortal fear, evidently as
- that their friend had gone* in
sane. A policeman pick’ dup th<* v i ! -
man’s iiat, an inspection of v. i.Aii
torily elucidated h .o \. -a a
demonstration. A ; i .>* ■ it; ler. u> e
as a {igcon’s < • :r, tbv-ovn fivea tl • fin re!
Upon the top of his hat, burned a hole
through it, fallen again upon the gentle
man a heiiti, .mu bliiiicU. Its way tiuYvii op
qix the scalp.
The Follies of a
Not a thousand miles from here lives
one James 1* or as he is familiarly
known among his host of friends, Jinn—
Now, the aforsaid Jim is an eccentric in
every sense of the word, yet moreover, gen
erous, noblehearted and possessed of more
genuine courage than usually falls to the
lot ot man. The following is, as nearly as
we can give it, a relation of a night’s ad
ventures :
One morning we met him on the street
looking rather melancholy, when he said ;
‘•Yesterday I felt a little bad, and mark
you, 1 went and took a small drink, and
that not improving my feeling, I took an
other, and another, don't you observe ; and
finally I got a little tight. In tho evening
I went out in the country with a friend,
mark you, and thinking I would cool off,
I took several more drinks, when I got
there, don’t you observe, yet strange to
say, the more I drank the tighter I got,
until, mark you, 1 was totally unconscious
when 1 went to bed.
During the night I woke up, don’t you
observe, and I could not imagine where the
d—l I was, mark vou. The room was dark
as Egypt. I heard a clock strike two in
some part of the house, mark you ; l be
came very anxious to learn my wherea
bouts, don’t you observe.
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Finally I determined to explore the room,
don’t you observe, and for that purpose
arose from my bed, mark you, and after
stumbling over about a dozen chairs, don’t
you observe, I came to a table. Now, mark
you, I reflected that the generality of
apartments are a perfect or an oblong
square, don’t you observe, and m v<
that the generality of
an ! I deduced from ■;>. ar . v<-u 7 (;• L
by feeling along lh< tai-a- unt < 1 com :•
a corner I could g
reach a corner if the room aa>: jr sm , h i
guide by the wall to a door or window.-
don’t you observe. Fallowing out this
idea, mark you, I began carefully t > f< el
along the edge of the aforesaid table” end
finally gaining confidence I went a little
faster ; the idt a struck mo that i could
not get to a corner, don’t you observe, yet
I persevered and finally day broke an 1
when sufficient light pen- !rat -d the apart
ment 1 saw, mark you, that L had l - ‘n
following ad and rout, ! table all nr
looking for a corner, and >n’l you ohr.ervo.
To Yosissg WLi't'. a- -A
The Buffalo Republic refill ia <a- that
contains a moral for the consul rnuoa .oi
young people. Not many years ago there
were two young men in that city, one of
whom was the son of a rich man, and
whose accomplishments consisted in being
able to dress well, and having a rich full
er. On the other hand, the other ot the
two young men was a mechanic, working
twelve hours in the (lay at his trade, and
devoting four to study and improvement
of his mind. Both young men were in love
with a lady who had wealthy relations and
bright anticipations. The mechanic, al
though for a time snubbed and rebuffed,
kept on with his attentions, determined to
overcome her } rejudices, while the fop
twisted his moustache in anticipated suc
cess, and fairly captivated the young lady
with his expensive dress and habit. The
mechanic kept on, however, until he over
heard her say that she would never marry
a man who was in the habit of ‘‘doing
something” for a living, when his visits
were suddenly discontinued. The young
lady married the fop, and their two for
tunes together were a fine independence.
Tc-day the young mechanic is worth a
hundred thousand dollars, or more, and
has a beautiful loving wife and several
charming children, has retired from busi
ness, and is doing nothing. To-day the
fop is at Auburn, clad in parti-colored rai
ment, “doin'/ somethin// , ” if pecking stones
ran be called doing something, while the
wife with the sickly children are in the
poor house, dependent upon charity. This
story is not only true, hut bears a moral
with it, and that is “doing something,”
and never he ashamed of the faculties that
cau bring bread and happiness from the
earth, the air, or the water. To those who
have been brought up to do nothing, we
trust this short moral varn will have a sig
nificance, proving that idleness (instead of
money) is the root of all evil.
Scene in a Printing Office. —A pal
trou of a village newspaper once said to a
publisher :
‘3l r. Printer, how is it that you have
not called on me for your pay for your pa
per
‘Oh,’ said the man of types, ‘we never
ask a gentleman for money/
Tuff replied his patron, ‘fir n Low
do vou mnnagt to get along when they do
not pay F
‘Why,’ said the editor, ‘after a cerium
tune we conclude that a man \\ho- lulls to
oar ibr his panel h not a gentleman, then
we ask him.’
ah, yes ! 1 see, Mr. Printer please
give me a receipt (bands lifm two dollars)
a.; - - p* : > acj lian.w ail iig.ii li.
your books.’
Number 17.