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Tnesday MTorniffg~June 19, 18G6. 3
cy We return thanks to Col. B.
W. Frobel for late copies of Baltimore
and Virginia papers.
REPRESENTATION AT WASHINGTON
Is not what the South most needs
or asks for at present. It is true our
feelings are wounded by the persist
ent exclusion of our people from rep
resentation in Congress; but that is
something easily borne. We are stoi
cal enough now to bear the ills of non
representation without being wounded
in feeling to any great extent. What
we most want is capital. Let enter
prising business men of the North come
South and set a few millions afloat on
the channels of trade, and Stevens and
Wilson may go on with their political
machine. Give us a start—help us
develope our latent but unsurpassed
resources—help us build manufacto
ries of every description—buy our
lands and introdnee your labor-saving
machines—invest in our Rail Road
Stocks—and in any other way you
may see proper direct your energies
and your capital—do these things,
and it is to us a matter of the utmos.t
indifference whether or not a Southern
man ever gets admitted to Congress
during the natural life of Thad.
Steven6.
We are in trouble, but it does not
arise from distress at our political os
tracism—it springs from our lack of
money to clothe and feed our families,
and properly educate our children.—
This is the “winter of our discon
tent” which never can be made “glo
rious summer” by allowing six or
seven citizens of Georgia to sit in
council with Stevens and Washburne.
Who thinks of calling a political meet
ing in Georgia to remonstrate against
the political wrongs which are done
us? the man would be thought crazy
who should suggest such an absurd.
thing. But we do hear every day of
men and women hurrying to and fro in
search of work, by which to earn a
bare subsistence for themselves and
families. We hear of the Governor of
Georgia going to Atlanta to superin
tend the distribution of several hun
dred thousand dollars worth of corn to
the starving people of the State. We
see every day men who were once
rich in this world’s goods, doing their
own gardening and marketing, *and
going to church, on Sunday, in clothes
that their former slaves would have
thought not decent enough for them
in the days of their enslavement.—
These, and hundreds of similar things
are occurring every day iu our midst,
and we earnestly pray for relief from
such distress. Not one man in fifty in
Georgia cares a snap of the finger for
all the Reports the Reconstruction
Committee may make, between this
and the day of its death. They are
too busy trying to reconstruct their
shattered fortunes to read these Con
gressional reports, or talk about their
probable future bearing on the polit
ical status of the Southern States.
No, Mr. Stevens, if you think you
punish us by shutting the doors of
Congress against us, you deceive your
self, and waste your time and breath
to no purpose: but if you block the
channels of trade and commerce with
us—if you keep good .men from com
ing into our midst with their capital,
and deter them from investing in pro
perty or public and private enterpri
ses here, then you do punish us, and
we feel deeply the injury done us; for
that concernsour domestic affairs, our
hearths and our hearts.
But do as you please, you cannot
wholly repress our energies. We are
struggling with fortune bravely, with,
the assurance that a just and merciful
God will surely help us, if we help
ourselves.
On, then, with your political ma
chine—make all the amendments to
the Constitution your ingenuity, or
malice can suggest: we are too busy
Mr. Stevens making cotton and corn
to listen to your railings and rebukes.
The trial of Jefferson Davis having
been postponed till October, aatrong
effort is being made to bail him or
have, him released on parole. It is
said that Horace Greeley has been to
Washington City to lend his influence
to the proposition to release Mr. Davis
on bail or parole. We feel pretty
well assured that Mr. Davis will not
be kept in confinement until October
and we are strongly of the opinion
that if he is once released, be never
will be brought to trial. The North
ern people care very little about the
trial. Only a few madcaps like Wen
dell Phillips and Anna Dickinson cry
out for Mr. Davis’ blood. The more
sensible and humane Radicals like
Beecher and Greeley can Bee neither
sense nor justice in punishing Mr. Da
vis and turning loose thousands equal
ly guilty of treason, if treason : be his
crime. We look for the early release
of Mr. Davis with hope and confi
dence. » -
musts of Foists
Decided bp the Supreme Court of Milledgevttle, Ga.,
JURE Term, T866.
[Continued.]
Jones l • m " .
vs. >In Equity, from Richmond.
Linton. )
Walker, J —1. An answer founded onbe-
lief or information may be overcome without two
witneesee, or one mines* and corroborating 1 cir
cumstance*.
2. If goods are supplied to an administrator Who
represent! estates which are two in law but one in
fact, the creditor is not bound to show for which
of the estates they were famished.
3 In this case there was soma evidence tending
to establish that the effects of the two estates bad
never been sepaiated, and therefore the charge of
the Court on that subject was not irrelevant.—
Judgment Affirmed.
Starnes for Phiintiff in error.
Lalierstedt for Defendant.«
■From Richmond.
WttMMT
vs.
The Ga. R. R. & B’k. Co
Harris J.
Xo motion for a new trial having beep made in
the Court below on the ground that the verdict
was contrary to evidence. the verdict wijl
not be disturbed in this Court.—Judgment Af
firmed.
Pottle for Plaintiff in error. '*'•* • ***•
Starnes for defendant.
Judge Lumpkin being a stockholder in the
Georgia Railroad, did not preside m this case.
8PRINGER
PASSAGE OF THE CONSTITU
TIONAL amendment.
from bah to worsk.
The Radicals have been fighting the
President with all sorts of amendments
to the Constitution, ever since Decem
ber last. Failing tp convince the
masses of the people that they were
right and the President wrong—that
disunion and discord were preferable
to union and harmony—they now lev
el their batteries against the Govern
ment. The President, as was his duty,
exercised his power to crush the
movement of the Fenians against the
British authority in Canada, and all
at once the Radicals very indig
nant and express great sympathy for
the Irish. The Radicals were Dot
overly fond of Irishmen heretofore,
because the latter were Democrats al
most to a man. But they see a small
chance to stir the Irish up against the
President, and they would rather have
the U. S. Government saddled with
another war than lose a chance to per
petuate their power as a party. We
would not care how soon these bloody
Radicals got John Bull and Uncle Sam
to blows, if there was the slightest
possible chance to get the Radicals to
fight. But not one lick would they
hit. From Stevens down to Forney
they would lay low, and steal all the
money while the fight was going on;
■■■ i
"Sick of it.”—It was but a day or two ago
that we heard of Thad Stevaos’ serious illness.
Now comes a report that Sumner is also in a bad
way. Here it ia:
“It is reported that for several weeks past the
impaired health of Senator Sumner has excited
the anxiety of hi* friend*, who htre urged Iiitn to
leave the scene of his labors for the sake of re
laxation and rest. He suffers at times from severe
cerebral and nervous disorder, preventing sleep
without the aid of powerful narcotics."
We don’t see why Sumner shonld ieave the Sen
ate if sleep is all he needs. If the daily bar-
rangues of Wade. Wilson &. Co, on the eternal
nigger won’t put a man to sleep, it seems to us
that his esse ia out of the power of medicinal
narcotics.
Fish J Statutory proceeding against
vs. > tenant holding over. From Rich-
Vam Winkle )mond.
LUMPKIN, Ch. J.—-1. The Jury may consider the
evidence of an impeached witness. This proposi
tion is correct law of itself; and is certainly so
when limited with the proviso thst the evidenoe
be in harmony with truth, and corroborated with
other evidence.
2. A charge that an offer of recision is not too late
if made within a reasonable time, and that the in
tervening occurrences may be considered ou that
question, is as favorable to the party moving for
the recision, as he has a right to ask.
3. So, also, is a charge that a trade induced by
untrue representations is vitiated. This is going
to the uttermost boundary of the law.
4. Where no motion for a new trial has been
made in the Court below, the Supreme Court will
not pass upon the question whether the verdict
was contrary to law, contrary to evidence, con
trary to law and evidence, contrary to the weight
of evidence or contrary to the charge of the Court.
Judgment Affirmed.
Sneads & Lalierstedt for Plaintiff in error.
Starnes &. Johnson for Defendant.
Jackson, Adm’r, )
vs. r Mn
Johnson & Wife, j
Harris, J.—1. The decisions of the Courts of
other States, are not binding here as authority.
They are only guides so far as their reasoning
may be satisfactory.
2. An administrator appointed in Alabama,
residing there, solvent himself, and under bond
for tbe due performance of his trust, cannot, up
on coining into this State on a visit or for pur
posee of business, be called to account here, in
a Court of Equity, at the instance of distributees
residing here, for waste or maladminetration.—
Judgment Reversed.
Dougherty for Plaintiff iu error!
Bigbam for Defendants
The
.vs.
State.
Robbery. From Spalding.
Harris, J.
If wliile the trial is in progress, one of the
Counsel engaged .in the prosecution, entertain,
and protect for a night, free of charge, the hofses
of some of the juror*, a verdict of. guilty after
wards rendered will be set aside and a now trial
granted.—Judgment Reversed.
Peeples for Plaintiff in error.
Hammond, Sol. G*n’l. for the State.
i Equity from Richmond
A member of Judge Lumpkin s family being
related by marriage to one of the|parties. he took
no part in deciding this aasc.
Abbott
Equity from Fulton.
vs.
Dermot.
| In Ec
fact
Lumpkin, C. J.—l. Ignorance of
cause for resciding a contract.
2 On the first of May, 1865, after General
Tohuson had surrendered the forces ai»d territory
under his command, and before that event be
came known in Atlanta, Dermot sold and con
veyed to Abbott certain real estate in that city,
receiving from him the agreed price in Treasury
Notes of the Confederate States, both partie* be
ing alike ignorant of the surrender. The cur
rency became valueless very soon after new* of
th* surrender was received: Held—That a Court
of Equity will not rescind the contract and cancel
tbe deed at the instsuce of Dermot, the vendor.
Judgment reversed.
Hammond, Barnett & Bleckley for Plaintiff
in errer.
Brown A Pope for Defendant.
McLa UGHLJN Jti CO. )
* > Assumpsit from Richmond
O’Dowd. ) -
Lumpkin, J.—-1. Under the Ordinance of the
Convention, the jury, in adjusting the equities of
tbe parties, are not bound to reduce Confederate
money to its specie value. The Ordinance wise
ly gives the jury a wide latitude.
2. Tbe Court can discover no distinct legal
reason for setting aside the verdict in this case.
C*m*Mswamii at Athena.
The Commencement Exercises of the
University of Georgia commence on Sun
day, Jnly 1st, with the Commencement
sermon by thq Chancellor. Tbe Sopho
more exhibition takes place on Monday,
2d; the Jouior, exhibition on Tnesday,
3d; the Commencement on Wednesday
4th, and on Thursday, July 5th, the Hon
H. li. Jackson, of Savannah, will deliver
an oration before the literary societies.
—————s —
Quick :—We received New York pa
pers of the 14th, on Sunday the 17th inst.
This is about as quick time as has ever
been made by express between New York
and Milledgeville.
ty Coi. Sami.,. Buffington, formerly
a citizen of Milledgeville, died at St.
Augustine, Fla, on the 1st inst..
The Slay Taw.
The Supreme Court was engaged for three days
last week, in hearing argument for and againt
the constitutionality ot the Stay Law passed at
the last session of the Legislature. The argu
ment was opened hy Ex. Governor Brown in fa
vor of the law. He was followed by Gen. Cobb
against the law. Wi.lis Hawkins and S. Hall,
Esq , followed him in favor of the law. Then
Judge Lyon spoke against the. law, ami Judge
Linton Stephens and Barnard Hill, Esq., followed
him in favor of tbe law, and General Cobb closed
the argument againt tbe conatitutionality of tbe
law. We learn that on Wednesday the Court
will hear the Hen. Alexander H. Stephens in
favor of sustaining the law. Much eloquence
and legal learniug has been displayed on both
sides ; and as it i» a question of great importance
to every man in the State, the decision of the
Court will be looked forward to with great inter
est.
Central Rail RaaR. »
The first through trains on tbic Road
passed over on Wednesday last, without
accident, and but a slight detention to tbe
up train. The regular passenger trains
leave Macon daily at 7 A. M. aud 6 40
P. M : leave Savannah daily at 8 A. M.
7 05 P. M. A dally train leave* Milledge
ville at 3 65 P. M. and returns at 8 15 P.
M, connecting at Gordon with the up day
train on C. R. R. for Macon, and down
train for Savannah. « -
Judgment Affirmed.
Miller for Plaintiff in error.
Walton for Defendant.
Holland f
vs > Misdemeanor. From Murray.
The State. ) ,
Walker, J.
Distilling whiskey from the seed of millet
sugar cane, was made penal by the Act of 1862
under the terms ‘other grain.” A legislative con
struction of these words, to that effect, is deduci
ble from the Act of 1863 —Judgment Affirmed
Dabney for Plaintiff in error.
Parrott, Sol. Gen. for the State.
Coulter 1
vs. ^Complaiut. From Floyd.
WlLET. )
Harris, J. .. . > .
A was indebted to B by note, and was the hold
er of a note on C for nearly the same amount. He
stipulated with B for twelve months indulgence
and turned over to him C’s note as collateral seen
rity. taking B’s receipt therefor, expressing that
tbe collateral note was to be delivered to A when
ever the principal note was paid. A low days be
fore the period of indulgence had expired, B put
both notes In the hands of his attorney for suit
The attorney sued on the principal note as order
ed, but with the maker of the collateral note
he entered into a contract to indulge him for
twelve months at the'price of forty dollars per
month On reporting this arrangement to hiscli
ent the latter disapproved of it; whereupon, the
attorney advanced to him the whole amount due
on the principal note, less a collecting fee, and be
came, himself, the owner of the note. Afterwards,
the Client refunded to the attorney what he had
advanced, and took the note back. All this time
-the suit on it was still pending: Held—
1. That B the creditor, was bound to ho dili
gence touching the collection of the collateral
note: and was not even authorised to put the
same in suit.
2. That he was not precluded by the foregoing
facta from collecting the whole amount of the
principal note iu the pending action.—Judgment
r*agr«M and lira Fenians.
We-c«n imagine nothing more demisa
ble than the attempt of the Radicals in
Congres* to make political capital against
the President of his honest attempt to en
force the laws ot the country against the
Fenian invaders of Canada, a country
with which weareat peace. The object
is to carry the Irish vote in future elec
tions, and in order to accomplish the pur
pose, they do not seruple, themselves the
law-makers, to encourage and patronize
contempt of law. The proclamation af
forded an opportunity of thrift by Aiding
with the wrong, which they had not the
honor, and principle, and patriotism to al
low to pass unimproved. By offering to
side with the violators of tbe law, they
might win their *upport, and to tbe same
extent alienate the people from the Presi
dent, and they have r.ot failed to do it.
Our despatch dees not state what par
ticular action has been taken by Congress,
but as the New York Tribune is out
against the proclamation, and quotes
with apparent satisfaction, the blasphe
mous denunciation of the President by it
Fenian, “G—d d-m the Southern heart of
the black mouthed Southern skunk! By
the eternal! he shall never be President
of the United Staths again.” We pre
sume the I ribune’s friends in Congress
have taken the course of their newspaper
organ as their guide.
What must become of a country that is
long in % the hands of such men!—Tele
graph.
Affirmed.
Aiken for Plaintiff in error.
Underwood for Defendant.
Stanton _
Debt. From Newton.
01(1 Timm Revived.
We received the Savannah paper* of
Thursday last on the day of publication,
the first time this has happened *ince the
20th of November 1864. We congratu
late our brethren of the Savannah press,
the people of Savannah, and our own
citizens, on the re union which has just
taken place. May it be perpetual, and
mutually pleasant and profitable to all
pai ties.^ Send along your cheap ice, and
let us keep cool under the pressure from
W ashington.
I.Rfrvt New*.
I he last news from Europe represents
a war as inevitable. Cotton has taken a
sadden fall, and geld has bounded up. A
financial crisis will seon be upon us, bat
we poor devils dow.n in Dixie have got
nothing to lose by tbe storm when it comes.
We have had a storm for fqur or five
years.
Lumpkin, C. J.
1. A plea of nos est factum may be filed aud
sworn to by an executor. And it may be done af
ter the appearance term—even ou the appeal.
2. An affidavit to tbe truth of a plea, purporting
to be sworn to in open Court, is good on demur
rer to the plea, though unattested by the Clerk or
anyone else.
■a i cbar K e t * lat W8S incumbent on the plain
tiff, after plea of non est factum, to introduce evi
dence raising a presumption of the genuiueness of
tbe note, in order to entitle him to go to tbe jury,
and when this was done, that it was still ineum
bent on him to satisfy tbe jury to a reasonable
certainty that the note was genuine, is not erro
neous.
4. The verdict in this case, is sufficiently sup
ported by the evidence.—Judgment Affirmed.
Clark for Plaintiff in error.
Floyd for Defendant.
Perrt and others _
Scire facias. Fcom Gordon
vs. ,
The State.
Walker,
A recognizance given by the roaster for the ap
pearance of his slave to answer a criminal charge,
m no longer operative, since the abolition of slave-
ry.—Judgment Reversed.
Aiken for Plaintiffs in error.
Parrott. Sol. Gea’l. for defendant.
Galt J
_ /Misdemeanor. From Whitfield.
The State, j
Harris, J
A druggist selling At his drag .tore whisky,
leas than a quart, ou tbe stateroom of a physician
♦kat it is wanted for medical purposes, is, if not
licensed as a retailer of spirituous liquors, subject
to indictment and conviction for retailing without
e license.—Judgment Affirmed.
Aiken, for Plaintiff in error,
Parrott for defendant.
The-Southern Press.—The following
just and fitting tribute to the tone of
the Southern -press, under the circum
stances in which these States are
placed, is from the Rochester (N. Y.)
Union and American:
••Having watched with care the
progress of events in the South since
the cessation of hostilities, and having
looked with no little solicitude to the
press of that section with a purpose
to know how the situation was ao
cepted, we are compelled in candor to
concede that the developments, so far,
are as favorable as true Union states
men could expect, or the most san
guine hope. The leading journals of
the South accept the’ situation in
which they find their States fit the
close of a war that terminated adverse
ly to their hopes, and regard the Union
as inevitable. They, therefore, have
set themselves about helping the peo
ple to make the most and the best of
their situation—to get into fraternal
relations once more with the States
that remained loyal*—to enter the
>ath of peace, there to cultivate the
soil and pursue the avocations of civil
life, that will make thhm again com
fortable, and repaii*, in some degree,
fortunes shattered in the conflict.
No one c«n read the Southern pa
pers with fairness, and without'bias,
andoot admit theirtone under the cir
cumstances. To charge that they are
offensive, and not conducted with de
cency or propriety, is, to say the least,
very unjust: but these charges go out
from a source where fairness cannot be
ookt d for—where there is not even
that magnanimity for a fallen foe that
characterize tribes of men who are
not classed as civilized. We know
that now and then something offensive
may be found in a Southern paper, and
this is of course seized and circulated
and fed upon as a choice morsel by those
whose aim is to disturb peaceful rela
tions everywhere, and who, in their
madness, delight to ride upon the
whrilwind they can create.”
, Washington,’Jane 13.
-In the Satiate to-day Senator Doolittle
called up the resolution yesterday reques
ting the President to communicate to the
Senate any information in Lis possession
relative to the departure of Austrian troops
from (?) Mexico. He said be had reason
to believe the above would bring informa
tion of a very satisfactory character, and
felt confident that Mexico was about to
bo evacuated by the French troops.—The
resolution was adopted.
The Legislative Appropriation Bill was
considered. Tbe House proceeded to the
consideration of the Constitutional
Amendment as reported from the Recon
struction Committee, which was hereto
fore passed in the House, and was amen
ded by the Senate, referring to the basis
of representation, repudiation of Confed
erate debt, See. Stevens proposed 1 , and tbe
House attempted to debate the subject for
a short time—the speeches being limited
to fifteen minutes. Stevens closed the de
bate by saying that the amendment was
not such as he desired, as they did not
recognize the right of the black man to
vote. He, however, trusted that some
thing on this subject would be adopted in
future legislation. He took occasion to
Btigmatise the President as a usurper in
undertaking to establish civil goxernment
in the seceded States. Under his de
mand for the previous question the House
concurred in the Senate’s amendments to
the Constitutional amendment by a vote
of 120 to 32. Tho speaker, therefore, an
nounced the joint resolution passed. Sev
eral gentlemen announced their reasons
for tho abaenco ot their colleagues, who,
they said, it present would have voted for
the proposition.
M. Eldridge, as a lake off upon these
gentlemen, said that if Brooks and Voor-
liies had not been unseated, they would
have voted against the proposition.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Schenck retorted by saying that he
had no doubt if Jefferson Davis was a
member of the House he too would have
voted against the Amendment.—(Laugh
ter ) _
On the Republican side, the vote con
solidated the Republicans of every shade,
including Smith of Kentucky, Raymond
of New York, and Whaley and Lathrop
of West Virginia, the negative being
wholly composed of decided Democrat
The proposed Constitutional Amend
ment will now be submitted to the Legis
latures of the respective States for thei
action.
Stevens proposed a substitute for the
pending bill reported by the Reconstruc
tion Committee to enable the States late
ly in rebellion to regain their privileges ii
the Union. The material point in th
substitute is tbe admission of Tennessee
with her present Senators and Represen
tatives, but she is hereafter to be excluded
unless, before the first of January, she ex
tends the right of suffrage impartially to
every class, besides ratifying the Consti
tutional Amendment to which reference
is made above.
Gen Steedman and Fullerton have fur
nished to the Secretary of War their re
port of the operations of the Freedmen’s
Bureau in the Military Department of
South Carolina and Florida. They high
ly commend General Scott, the Assistant
Commissioner in South Carolina, for the
wise policy that prevades his system of
governing and feeding tho Freedmeu
They recommend the discontinuance of
employing citizens in the Bureau, and in
stance several cases of evil designed agents
b^ing interested in the working of planta
tions. They finally recommend lhat the
sea island lands given to negroes by Gen.
Sherman’s order, be returned to their ow
ners, provided tboy pay the freedmen for
all the improvements which the latter have
made while in possession of the property
Charles O’Con or aud Ex-Governor
Pratt had a protracted interview with the
President this afternoon with reference to
the release of Mr. Davis on parole
The President has pardoned Lewis M.
Coxetter, of Sooth Carolina, late an officer
in the Confederate Navy. Senator Pome
roy made a personal application ,iu-his
favor.
Representative Green Clay Smith was
nominated to-day-for Governor of the
I erritory of Montana. About an hour af
ter the nomination had been sent in, this
professed political friend of the President
voted forthe Constitutional Amendment,
which it is known the President firmly
opposed.
With Trirkl*,.
Wwhiqgto, May 31.—Tlte following,
“ a copy of a dispatch received at thf
State Department from ourCounsul at Fl
uinore ;
Consulate of the United States of >
America at Elsinore, May 9 ](#$ (
•/*«.
Sir: From our American papers I
tica that the question of trichine in bo*.
also commence* creating some exeit*™.- !
in tb. States. The report "wS
mortality in Germany, caused hy eatineof
pork affected with the trichine, created
great excitement here, and many examin*
tions of pork and bams, as well in tbe raw
state as salted, smoked and cooked have
been made. From the careful manner in
which these examinations have been made
and from published results, I am fully De /
susded that pork, thoroughly salted and
smoked, and well cooked, is as harmless as
pork ever has been. It is tbe eating 0 f
the unboiled or but very imperfectly
smoked and salted meat as sausages, etc
so largely consumed in Germany, where
the presence and danger of live trichine
may be expected.
I shall take the liberty here to allude to
a few of the examinations which have
been made here, and their results, not
so much because they may add anythin
new, but that they may be useful m sus
taining facts already reported on.
One of the first experiments was mad-
with a smoked ham, which was f 0 u B i t
contain trichine in the capsules, notwith
standing tbe bam had been smoked and
salted. The finding of these trichine
created a great panic at the time, and the
police finally succeeded in finding the
counterpart of the ham. Experiments
were at once made with them both. I
shall not here detail the minute exami
nations, but merely give the desired re
suit.
Arrest of a. Negro Swindler.—Augusta,
June 12.—J. E, Bryanf, editor of the
“Loyal Georgian,” a freedmen’s organ,
was arrested by the civil authorities this
afternoon for attempting to defraud the
negroes out of money borrowed of them
when he was an officer of the Government.
H® was subsequently released, a colored
man becoming his surety.
One pound of this bam was fed to a pig
which a previous examination had satisfied
the examiner to be perfectly free from tri
chine. The meat was eaten with great
avidity hy the pig. After an expiration
of some length of time, the pig was killed
and examined, and found to be perfectly
free from trichine. A piece of raw pork
was next exanined and found to contain
trichine. The experiment with this pork
was made on rabbits. Tho two rabbits
which was fed with this meat was after
wards found to contain trichine, but to no
very great extent.
A third experiment was made with a
smoked ham, and the animal eating there
of wa6 found to contain an astonishing
number of trichene, the examiner calcula
ting the number to have reached a couple
of hundred thousand. The weight of
the muscles of the rabbit was nearly a
pound, and it is certainly remaikable how
so small an animal, containing so enormous
a number of parasitical animals, neverthe
less felt as well as the other rabbits and
had as good an appetite as any of them.
It became a querry how so large a quantity
< f trichene could havo developed them
selves from the small amount of meat
which had been fed to the rabbit, and the
examiner therefore confided that tbe
rabbit must b«ve eaten some other meat
affected with trichene, aside from that fed
to it, thus causing a greater infection.
This opinion was farther stieugthed by
the fondness of the rabbit for meat,
borne ot the rats found on the premises
were therefore killed and examined and
found to contain trichene, and some of
them to an astonishing degree.
A number of other examinations of rats
took place with the same results, and there
can be no question that the rats are a
great cause of affecting the hogs with tri
chene.
A very elaborate examination has also
been made to find whether the method of
moking and salting as used here is suffi
cient to kill the trichene in the hogs, and
the results have been though smoking and
salting would kill the trichene, the nsnal
mode of boiling and frying was also fennd
snfficient to kill the parasites.
If a small rabbit can fee! comfortable
with a couple of hundred thousand tri
chene, in its muscles, and that the Tats
which were found to contain certain tri
chene were as lively as rats well can be,
the poisotiing by triehene sinks down to a
very small affair, if a little precaution is
used.
I trust our pork raisers and pork consu
mers will not be over alarmed, but cook,
smoke, salt, boil and fry our excellent
American pork as usual, and feel perfectly
safe in eating the same. We have the
trichene here, but people have got ovsr the
first scare and eat as much pork as ever.
We bave no rinderpest or cholera in
ftbis country as yet.
I have the honor to bo, sir,
Your very obedient servant,
George R. Hansen,
U. f>. Consul at Elsinore.
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The kind instrnetress leaned to the “sa-
tenement of an immortal soulA’ and
said, with an angelic kindness beaming
through her emerald glasses, “Dear Dis-.
I®y> 1 sm soon to leave you, and may
never return. Yon must be a good girL
and apply yourself diligently to your
books* Ob, how I love you, aird all my
dear colored pupils. Tell ell of them yon
meet I have had my photograph taken,
and have one for each of them. They
must &ack bring a dollar and get one ”
Ths War was fought out, and all attempts te
make use of the result to establish a despotism
over ths South will soon be pispti oat.
A juror’s name was called by the clerk.
The man advanced to the judge’s desk,
and said:
“Judge, I shonld like to be excused.”
“It is impossible,” sai-d the judge de
cidedly 13**** -t
“But, judge, if you knew my reasons ”
“Well, sir, what are they?”
“Sir,” the fact ia—and the man hesi
tated.'
“Proceed,” continued the judgej’
“Well, judge, if 1 must say it, I’ve got
the itch.”
The judge being-* very sedate one,
turned to the clerk and said, clerk, scratch
that man out.” - - .
A significant fact connected with the
management of the Freedmen’s Bureau
has just come to light, It seems that
General Howard lias addressed a comn-
nicatiou to. tbe President apologizing for
his letter recently published in New York
in defense of tbe officers of the Barean in
the Southern States. His excuse for
its publication was that it was writ
ten hastily and before his knowlede of the
facts set forth in the Steedman and Ful
lerton report. His confidence in Gen.
Fullerton is such that he is naw compelled
to believn those charges have much, foun
dation in fact.—Cor. tf. Y. Times.
IVhatio Say in Order to Look.—When
lady would compose her mouth to a
bland and serene character, she should,
just before entering the room, say “bo
som,” and keep the expression into which
tb6 mouth subsides until tbe desired ef
fect upon tbe company is evident. If, on
tbe other hand, she wishes to assume a
distinguished and somewhat noble bear
ing, not suggestive of sweetness, shi
should say “brush,” the result of which is
infallible. If she would make her mouth
look small she must sav “flip,” hut if the
mouth he already too small and needs en
larging, she must say “cabbage.” If she
wishes to look mournful she must say
“kerchunk.” If resigned, she mnst for
cibly ejaculate “s’cat,” Ladies when
having their .photographs taken may ob
serve these roles with some advantage.
The Test Oath at the South The late
report is confirmed, says a Washington
paper, that the Secretary of the Treasury
is now sending notices to the officers in the
South who have been unable or unwilling
to take the test oath, that they will be
required immediately to vacate their offi
ces. Mr. McGuHocb, it seems, has deter
mined to enforce the lew to the letter, and
trusts to the action of" Congress to reme
dy the evil that may result from the va
cation of important revenue offices.
Secretary McCulloch intends recom
mending to Congresa tbe appropriation of
a special fund to compensate all such em*
ployeea for their past services,