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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1869)
uonh rmrrroyxngF WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAR. 31, 1369. Serves ’em Bight. THE ERA OF BAD FEELING AMONG RADICAL ■ ' " POLITICIANS. “Mack’s’*- last letter to the Cincinnati Earjuirer contains the following: I believe it was the first administration of James Monroe which ushered in what was known as “ the era of good feeling” in pol itics. The first weeks of Grant’s adminis tration seem to have begun what may be called the era of bad feeling in the Radical party. The reader in Ohio and Indiana can hardiy appreciate or understand the amount of bile and bad blood in the loyal body politic. But just come to Washing ton and enter into a quiet talk with one of the Congressional leaders, and from the fullness of his heart his mouth will speak the deepest kind of damnation on Grant and things generally. Last Spring, just before the Chicago Con vention, I had a long talk with a Radical Senator, in the course of which I gave very freely my opinion of General Grant, the same that I have recently expressed in these letters. I predicted that the Repub lican party, In its admiration of Grant, would share the unhappy fate of the frogs in the fable, who implored Jupiter to send them a king. Jupiter complied by dele gating a stork to rule over them. The re sult was that there was no frogs left a week after the new king ascended the throne. “ Oh,” said my Radical friend, “ you are mistaken In yonr estimate of Grant. He is a thorough Republican.” “Very well,” said I, “ please remember that fable, and if the Republican party is not heartily sick of Grant before the close of the first year of his administration, I’lJ agree to vote for the next Republican candidate for the Presi dency.” I met this gentleman a few days ago. He was returning from the White Hoiise, where he had just been snubbed in the disarrangement of a “slate.” Tiie first words he said to me, uttered in a tone be tween sneering and smiling, were : “ We’ve got a stork this time, as snre as fate.” So it goes. Grant is hurting the Repub lican party by his egotism and arrogance much more than Johnson could hurt it by an honest difference of opinion or policy.— Johnson quarreled' with it on principle. Grant acceedes to the principles, but quar rels as to the men. Hence the fight is over the offices, and in consequence of the smash ing of slates, and he knows very little of politics who does not know that such a fight is much more bitter than any result ing from a difference'of principle. It is bitter because it can not be conducted openly before the people, but must be con fined to private cursing. They dare not go to the country with a denounciation of Grant, because they can not charge him with a betrayal of the party. He can point to his inaugural, and tell them be is as good a Radical as any of them. To com plain would be to acknowledge that the Radical leaders are a set of political har lots, who care for nothing but the spoils of office. It serves them right. The worship of shoulder-straps is about the shabbiest kind of idolatry I know of. When a political party ignores all the men who are con spicuous in the civil history of the country, and rushes with open arms to embrace a West Point ignoramus, it deserves no Dity for whatever ill luck may befall it. Yon baVe no more right to expect political wis dom as the result of a West Point training than you have to look for a successful nav igator in the graduate of a dancing school. It only needs a little more of that trucu lent button-hole worship which led to the election of Grant to change our republican form of government into what history unites in condemning as the worst kind of a despotism—a military “democracy.” I am inclined to think that the universal dis gust which pervades the Republican breast just, now will have a goad effect iu check ing this abominable and dangerous spirit. It will teach men that they cannot gather figs from thorns, nbr statesmanship from drill sergeants. [From the Philadelphia Age. "Words are Things." Alas! too, names are words! History and poetry have both Condescended to sanctify ridicqle when associated with the names and acts of public men. Trivial as it is, yet it is deeply imbedded iu our na tures, and a safe counsellor and wise states man will not willingly forget that he legis lates for the prejudices and passions of his fellow-men, quite as much as for their rea son. Rochester, “ Peter Pindar,” and Can ning have embalmed in ridiculous immor tality the tollies of their cotemporary rul ers. In our own days, the illuminated pages of Punch and Charamri are the recognized expression of the public at whatever is ridiculous in the intellectual or fecial fea tures of the mimic statesmen of their re spective countries. A Witticism has crea ted a revolution in France —and the felici tous courtier, Minister Beugnot, by ascrib ing to “ Monsieur,” on his re-entry into Paris, the pun, ausaUot qu'il a paru, U a pint," reconciled that volatile people to an imbecHe dynasty. The great Napoleon in the zenith of his fortune, recognized ridi cule as a power In the State, and avoided its arrows. When he had conquered the Alps, by his wonderful road across the Simplon, He spanned its terminus at Milan by a heroic marble arch over the entrance gate. The architect designed to place the statue’of the Emperor on its summit. He forbade it—because the wits might say “le char le-tient" (le charletan.) The only pun he is recorded ever to have been guilty of! Examining the officers of General Grant’s Cabinet, by the teachings of the foregoing lessons, how ridiculously has he starred himself and his administration, all over, with names which no man, or woman, can read, not mention, without laughing! His premier is Fish—not “preserved,” but Hamilton, we believe—but fishy withal.— His familiars are WosA-bum, and two or three what the Scotch call “ ncer do-weff*.” Bout-wcß and Cress weZZ. Augur, by name and nature, is a great bore?-, and, of course, our Secretary is a b oree. Here we must pause. The names of the Attorney General and the Secretary from Ohio are not to be spoken of except by allusion. We would pay forfeit for a glimpse at the private let tersof the British Minister to his chief at home, describing the unction with which be availed himself of the diplomatic lan guage of Madame, in making his bow, when the lady addressed can be comprehended in that charming tongue, without pronounc ing her name! —' ' The whole concern are unsubstantial pa geants—a Cabinet constructed or a conge ries of “ nominorum umbra! ” and onr peo ple wfZZ laugh, and the cases and restau rants win resound with ridicule and merri ment at their expense! In the desponden cy engendered by this melancholy mirth we derive some consolation from the hope that the lamentable lncompetency which General Grant has exhibited in these first moves of his civil conduct will awaken the )>eop!e from their Infatuation—even his own party admit, because they cannot deny the blunders! History Is repeating Itself.— u ® . ® 9SOUS Prove that of all talen', mere military talent is the lowest. Even I ht ke I ° f i^ liugton > r?! ’ ve < 1 himself in his Tory administration. His letters and dispatches evince no statesman ship or ability. Mmes. De Stael and Reca nuer and Benjamin Constant, all bigoted anti-Bonapartlsts, who met him frequentlv in Paris and in London, after the Restora tion, pronounced that, except on mere mil itary matters, he had not two ideas' We hope we may be mistaken in our forebodings, but, judging from the men whom Gen. Grant has called to high office, as well as to those to whom it is said he has tendered it, we fear that his civil ca reer will not prove to be an exception from the precedent. [From the Hearth and Home. Southern Land Prospects. There is renewed and sharp inquiry re specting Southern lands. And it is not without reason. The cotton crop has been good, and, in particular localities, and un der use of judicious fertilizers, enormous. Sugar is offering promise—under the present tariff, and the Cuban difficulties, which must surely end in Cuban emancipa tion—of a golden harvest. Good tobacco was never in livelier de ' the wheat of the high regions of the Carolinas and Georgia never more ap preciated ; the fruit crops never more ready of sale; and the lumber and turpentine of Southern pine lands are moving Northward as fast as vessels can take cargo. Best of ail—those who are most nearly interested in the result are mating them selves in healthful earnest with the short lived difficulties of the new system of freed labor, ancl are beginning to see behind those difficulties the promise of a surer wealth and of greatly diminished anxieties. Never was discussion in the South more urgent and pointed in respect to new fer tilizers and methods o£ culture, and never has that discussion borne larger fruit in agricultural practice. We find whole pages in the Southern agricultural journals filled with detailed accounts of successful experi ments with the various concentrated fer tilizers. New and labor-saving implements are supplanting old and cumbrous ones. Only the rice culture lags behind. This by reason of the neglected state of ricefields at the close of the war, and by the necessi ty for greater money capital to put dykes, and gates, and fields iu proper trim, as well as, in some degree, by reason of the dread of the exposures demanded for its culture. But the same thoughtftV attention which is increasing so largely the yield of cotton upon a given area will soon determine methods of doing away the exposures that have been thought incident to the cultiva tion of rice. And we have a strong faith that the allnvial lands of the Carolinas and of Georgia, which are capable of producing the best rice in the world, will, within a few years, reach more than their old values, and produce even more than their old ave rage of crops. Even now, there are planters along the coast who, by dint of persistent personal attention, and a resolute acceptance of tne new order of labor, have realized more un der the new system than under the old.— Every sane man will rejoice in such result as the harbinger of the better days which must so3n dawn. Northern capitalists have through the winter months been prospecting In the high lands of the South, with a view to the estab lishment of large manufactories; and we earn that some of mammoth dimensions are even now under contract. There is unoccupied water-power in this most health rul district of the world which invites such enterprise. The upper country of Georgia and the Carolinas will grow such peaches as can be grown nowhere else. Our half-hardy grapes of the North thrive like natives in Tennes see and Southern Alabama, and coming Northward, there are wheat-lands along the- James and the Shenandoah which more than rival the garden of the Genesee. American energy will; never allow such opportunities to He neglected: No pre judice, no bitter remembrances, no mias matic phantasm, no inaptitude of present working fotce, can stand loqg ’in the way of such development of every fertile region of the South as shall insure agricultural success more brilliant than the South has ever yet known. Horses’ Manes and Tails. lo the Editors of the Richmond Dispatch : In your issue of the 23d ultimo is an arti cle about “ Horses’ Manes and Tails,” in which “An Old Farmer” inquires if any one can exp’ain, upon scientific principles, the reason why manes and tails of horses and colts are sometimes found tied up into knots, vulgarly called “ witch ” or “ hag ” stirrups. We have frequently observed this in our experience, and have never seen it explain ed on scientific principles. It is not caused by accident, nor by the fact that the mane and hair of the tails are gnawed or licked by other animals, as one of your correspond ents seems to think, because we have seen the mane so entirely twisted and tied up that it would require hours to disentangle it. It would be very difficult for any one to do it by hand. We think it can be ac counted for only by the Influence of elec tricity—that wonderfal and subtle fluid which is known to pervade all nature. It is a fact proved by experiment, that there is a current of electricity constantly passing from the bodies of animals into the surrounding media. The different strands of hair composing the manes and tails of horses are so many conducting wires, by which the electric fluid is carried off. Now, we will suppose half a dozen hairs at a cer tain point on the neck to be twisted to- f ether in a spiral form, making a ‘'helix.” ’he outer or cortical portion of a hair Is composed of anon-conducting substance, while the central or medullary portion is a conductor, thus enabling them to form into closer coils withoat suffering the elec tric fluid to pass from surface to surface, which would impair its effect. Now, sup pose another fasciculous of hairs to be twisted together in the same manner of the first, and at a short distance from it, then these two are again rolled together, making a helix that has the capacity of conducting ju«t twice the amount of electric fluid that one of them would. Now, when a current of electricity passes along this coil from the body of the animal, It has the effect of shortening the spiral, and thus contracting it into a knot, forming what is called by the superstitious a “hag * or “ witch” stir rap just at the point where the two fasci culi come together. This is our theory of the matter, which we will hold to until a better one Is pro posed. It is a question sufficiently fall of interest to entertain the scientific mind, as it involves principles of philosophy, pbysi ology, chemistry and mechanics, and much good could be said upon it. As an evidence to snpport our theory, we would state that this apparent freak is most frequently seen In yonr animals and those not often cur -1 rled, and iu those which are in a thriving condition, at which time a larger quantity of the electric fluid Is evolved from the | body. If any one can give a better solution jto the question asked by tbe Old Farmer, we would like to hear from him, at we have I frequently beard tbe question propounded liy him debated upon, but, as ret. h« never heard a rational XSeSii Farmer. -MADFSON COURTHOUSE. [From cite New York Sun. A Monstrosity in Physiology. A LIVE NEW YORK MAN WITH HEART AND LIVER REVERSED. . A well known citizen, a patron of city !!!K eme^ tS ’2 rainage - and the flnc arts, including the feats of the shambles- and human surgery, died a few days ago, foil of f.,, 11 *®' *j l}n S 3 * n d hoar antiquity. AH his ife long be had suffered from a chronic pain jn the left side, and in the region of the heart, while the pulsations of the heart seemed to be on the right side, and when he was much excited he used to say that he feit a flattering there jnst for all the world as if his heart had cot into the wrong pi ice. He was a martyr also to bilious disease. He was obliged to support himself with a stick, and was troubled with great difficulty of breathing and an irritability of temper that made it at times almost impossible to live with him. Notwithstanding these symptoms of com plicated disease, he took considerable in terest in sanitary affairs, and devised a scheme for the efficient drainage of the city by means of a vast system of subterranean streets, twelve feet wide on both sides the main street, vaulted and ventilated, with a stream of water running in the middle of them, and an ample sidewalk. He was a genius, in short, and besides his love for tbe flue arts, he had invented an oigan of va9t proportions, which will play unaided the whole music of several operas. Like all who had gone before him, however, he had his death day, and the medical man who attended him watched his last few days of sickness with a very uncommon interest, so much so as to attract the attention of his family.lt came out afterwards that the physician had tried to persuade him to give up Ills body to tbe surgeons for dissection, his complaints being so unusual and some of his symptoms new to science, so much so as to induce the supposition of some in ternal, organic malformation. The old gen tleman had no objection to offer on his own account, but thought that the fact should be kept from the knowledge of his wife and children. So at last he died; and the physiciau who attended him, and is at the head of one of our medical colleges also, made ar rangements with a resurrection man to steal the body on the night of its inter ment, and carry it to the hospital—all of which happened without misadventure. The family physician wsfs 'present at the dissection of the body, and undertook to demonstrate upon it. When the sternum was divided, the amazing discovery was made that the heart and the liver had changed places—the heart being on the right side and the liver on the left. This change in the two great vital organs changed also the position of the other or gans, and caused an extension of some of the vital ducts. Nature had created order out of the disorder, so that there need be no serious interruption to the vital func tions. The position of the heart and its append ages was simply reversed. The upper bor der of the heart was just hclow a line that would unite the third costal cartilages, and the apex corresponded to tiie interspace be tween the cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs, nearly two inches below the right nip ple, which is precisely its place and ad justment in its natural state on the left side. The two auricles, which have no connection with each other naturally in adults, were in this case connected, and there was a very small aperture of commu nication with the ventricles, instead of a ►large and ample one. In the left auricle, which, if the heart had been on the other side, would have been the right auricle, the Eustachian valve, which is a relic of the ftetal heart, was large, instead of being much diminished, as is usually the case in adults ; and the fossa ovalis, which is usual ly a simple depression on the interauricnlar walls, the opening in the frotal heart allow ing a mixture of the black and red blood, was large. The heart was six Indies and an eighth in length, and three and three quarters in breadth, and nearly three in the antero-posterior diameter. After the demonstration, which we have only given a slight glimpse of, the heart was removed, and when weighed found to be equal to thirteen ounces—the usual average weight being from ten to twelve, and Bouil laud says only eight ounces. The liver occupied the left instead of the right hypochondriac and epigastric regions, below the diaphragm—above the stomach, duodenum, arch of the colon, gall bladder, and left kidney. The upper surface was a good deal flattened. The peritoneum, which divided the organ into two unequal parts, was much decayed, and the left lobe was the largest, The fourth lobe in front of the transverse fissure, the gall bladder lying between it and the lobulus caudntus, wns also much diseased. V The entire demonstratipp has. been care-'] folly recorded for the benefit of science, and Dr. ~the physician, has sent a minute account of it to the London Lancet. Such a; case was never heard of before in human history, and it shows how wonderfully na ture arranges her physiological steps-so as tt> get the greatest happiness for man out of them. * ■ Ethiopian Juries.— They are engaged in some heavy experiments, just npw, with negro jaries in Louisiana. The New Orleans Times 6peaks of one jury made np of eleven' negroes and one white man, who had been trying some difficult and abstrnse questions—one of them a ease in which a colored man had sued the city of New Orleans for $27,000 damages on ac count of the alleged doings of a mob. On tbe day before, that is, on Monday, a difficult and intricate insurance case, which should properly have been tried by a select jury of merchants, was submitted to a jury made up from this panel. One of the lawyers on the side that lost, asked a great, heavy negro juryman on wbat principle he rendered his verdict: “Wall, massa, I dink you cliumpt bought a cat In a hag —dat’s all I got to say ’bout it.” Iu another case the attorney of one of the parties in conrt, aggravated by the monatrons decision ot tbe black jury, remarked to-the Judge, that, “a verdict rendered by a Jnry of stolid, ignorant, and incapable negroes, who ongbt to be in the corn-field instead of the jury-box, should not be recorded.” Thereupon one of the jorytnea, ■ big, saucy, ragged, dirty, squalid specimen of his race, marched within the bar to tbe table occupied by tbe lawyers and addressed tbe Judge thus : “ Mister Judge, I wants to know es dese here lawyers has de right to make dese 'tacks on ns jurusns, and if we aint got no 'dress tor such sich carryings on ? I aint no corn-field band; lis s voter and got my registy papers.” Failing to obtain satisfaction, be went off muttering, “ I’ll have de lawyers wbst in sulted us brnog up under de 'structlon law anyhow.” Tbe annual consumption Englsnd of every kind of intoxicating fluid was 1,02.1,000,000 gal lons ! This indicates a monstrous consumption of strong potations, and would seem to give color to tbe story of an American traveler, that when be called for water at an English inn, with s design of satisfying bis tblrst, the ser vant brought him a wash pitcher and a basin, never supposing that water could be wanted except to use externally. How Supeiphaephat# It Made. Hop. Simon Brown, in his lecture before tbe Agricultural Convention at M Such ester, on “ Artificial Fertilizers,” said superphosphate of lime was made in the following manner : Bones are collected from every possible a p a^Tf >Q -| 8 -- ani ?. gat * M ' r lh "“ in the street* cities; butchers and provision deal* ers save them; men traverse the country with horses and wagons picking up from house to house every pound they can- get, while vessels bring them in large quantities from wherever they can be fouud. These bones are In a raw condition, not having been used by soap boil ers, erfo any other way to lessen their vaine. YV hen epJieeieAand thrown into heaps under cover, each bone is examined, and all such as are suitable to be used in tbe arts are laid aside for turners, cutters, fee., to be used for knpba handles of knives, canes and umbrellas, and the smaller pieces to be made into buttons.— Such as are not fit to be used in tbe arts are tbrowninto iron retorts, each holding two bar rels. The covers of these retorts are fitted so mcactly taat they are nearly or quite air tight. VV hen thus made ready they are let down into a furnace where the whole mass soon acquires a white heat; but no air being admitted, no Same takes place in the bones. In this intense heat all the animal matters, the gelatine, oils ammonia, Ac., are driven off, and in the form ot steam pass through a pipe ho a reservoir prepared for it hi a remote part of the building. Ths pipe through which they puss is immersed iu cold water, so that the oil and gelatine leave it in a thickened state aDd most highly charged with the pungent ammonia. Careful experi ment having taught the workmen how long to nllqw the retorts to remain In the fnrnace, when that time has expired, they are taken out, set upon an iron wheelbarrow and trundled away to be cooled oft The bones are now reduced to what is called boneblaek, or animal charcoal. This is exten sively used in refining sugar. They are of a shining black color, brittlp, and can be easily and readilv ground, not 'into flour, but into quite small particles. Two barrels ot this ground bone are then spread on the bottom ot a wooden vat. Four gallons of the liquids that ran out of the retort are then thrown upon it, and the whole thoroughly stirred. When, the mass is suffi ciently mixed, from fifty to sixty pounds ot sulphuric acid are added' and mingled. A powerful ebullition, or boiling, takes place which continues several minutes during which time the workmen keep the whole mass in mo tion. When it subsides the article has become what is called superphosphate of lime. It is then dried, packed and ready for market. By this process nothing that the bone originally contained is lost, although-it has undergone important chemical changes. -Buch is the man ner in which superphosphate is obtained. Let us apply it to the crops. It iB not equally adapted to all plants. On all the Braselca family, including the cabbage, Swedish turnip, common flat turnip, cauliflower, broccoli, Ac., its influence is usually striking and profitable. The leaves ot the plants grow larger and tbioker and assume a darker green than I have ever seen them under the stimulus ot any other ferti lizer. It is also useful to beets, mangolds, peas and beans, and all other of the field and garden crops. [Correspondence of the New York Times. California, A GREAT EXCITEMENT AMONG THE ORIENTALS —A TERRIBLE SCRAMBLE TOR WIVES. San Fhanpisco, February 23,1369. It has well been understood, among the JDhluese circles, for a week or two past, that the Chinese steamer which arrived yesterday would briug a large shipment ol Chinese wo men, and iu consequence great excitement ex isted among that interesting portion of our community. Every Chinaman considered him self entitled to a wife, and determined to ob tain her at whatever cost. Word was brought to Chief Crowley that parlies were arming themselves and threatening to enforce their rights by the arbitrament of cleavers, iron bars and revolvers. With his usual energy, he at once detailed a large force und-sent them to the dock of the Mail Company to prevent a riot. When the steamer was coming up tbe harbor tbe news spread like wild-fire through the Chinese quarter, and at once crowds Os their people started for the landing. Every possible means ol conveyance was in demand. The high-toued merchants and head men, who were determined to prevent their countrywomen from falling into the bands of. their brethren of a lower caste, provided themselves with passes to tbe dock, and went In tracks and on the street cars ; while hundreds, ol women, with umbrellas spread over thefr heads, crowded into express’and baggage wagons, and tbe reg ular “ pirates,” or saupans, as they are called' in China, hurried to the place on foot. At least 1,500 Chinamen had assembled before the steamer came in sight. Beyond their infernal' promiscuous jabbCr, tbe crowd was quiet until the steamer came to her dock. As none but merchants and bead men who had passes were allowed inside the gates, the rest crowded up to tbe gates or dis persed along the wharves, lining them away down to Main street. As Boon as the officers commenced landing the women from the steer age the excitement became intense, and it re quired a large force to prevent them from breaking down the gates. One Chinaman mnde up assault upon an officer, giving him a blow In' tbe face that brought him to tbe ground. Ail the boats in tbe vicinity were engaged at high prices by the parties to be rowed to tbe side of the steamer, hoping by that means to get access to the women, and-it required strong measures to prevent their boarding the vessel. After the boats were engaged, a terrible tight commenced S to who should occupy them, and many who and paltttheir passage were thrust baek Into tbe crowd!, and their place taken by one who did not sdruple to take r sail at another's expense. .While this confusion on the ontside was going , on. the Women were landed, to the number of 390, and placed hi half a dozen rows; The examinstion-hythe custom-house officers was exceedingly! -interesting. Large quantities of opflura were disc'svered on their persons, stowed away Irt different places. When the search was completed, they were stowed away In large ex press wagons, and conveyed to snch places as the merchants and bead men directed. An officer was placed in front, two on each side, and one behind each wagon, eaeh armed with a heavy club, to beat off any love smitten Oriental who might try to board it. It was an amusing sight to see these wagons going np the hill from the dock at fnil speed, the officers swinging their clubs at the hundreds of men who followed, jabberlDg their disappointment at the top of their lungs. By five o’clock tbe women were safely stowed away under tbe strong protection of the merchants and head men, who will probably resbip them to China by tbe next steamer, or send them over as ser vants in American families. Anecdote of Rev. Dr. Manly.—ln 1824, the Georgia Baptist Convention met at Euton ton. Beveral visiting ministers were present— among them tbe Rev. B. Manly, from South Carolina. On the Sabbath, the Rev. Mr. 8. and Mr. Manley were appointed to preach. Tbe venerable Jesse Mercer sat with them in the pulpit. The congregation was a very large one. The Rev. Mr. 8., who was to preach first, arose in tbe pnlplt, looked in bis quaint way over the assembly, and opened with these words: “ Where shall we obtain bread to feed so great a multitude 7 As for my part, lam penniless and unprovided. But there Is a lnd here,” (turning round and putting bis band on Mr. Manly’s head, as he leaned forward In the pulpit.) “ who has five barley loaves and two little fishes, which, with tbe presence and bless ings ot Jesus, shall constitute a least.” At the conclusion of his sermon, Mr. M. arose, His own feelings had been greatly touched by the personal allusion to him. It was one ot bis happy times. The Lord uulooeed bU mind, tbe fountain of tear* were opened, and It was computed that, dorlng a great part ot the ser mon, there was sn average ol at least five hun dred persons continually bathed in tears. Many year* after, Dr. Manly, alluding to this scene, tald: “ There was nothing in ell this Bochim that to me was so affeettog u when I turned round end sew tbe sympathetic streams eoerslng swlftlv down the furrowed cheeks of Father Mm<m.'’-JUligiout Herald. A Desperate EncocnveS.— Last Thursday evening an appalling rencontre occurred be tween two of onr worthiest citizens, which re salted In the kitting ot each by the band of the ® tb « r - The unfortunate gentlemen were Mr. 8. H. Wilson and Mr. O. W. Boyd. Both were r owners of valuable tots with adjoining bounda ries, lying on the east side of Main street, and occupied hy large buildings. A bayou toOs through tbe Boyd property, and washes a cofo er of the Wilson lot. Mr. Boyd, to prevent the caving and deepening of the bayoq under hts house, had thrown a dam across it, which caused the water, during hard rains, sometimes to back into one of Mr. Wilson’s basements. A misunderstanding eiisaed betwoen them in con sequence, but which their friends thought had been amicably settled seme time sioee. It seems, however, that they had an angry alterca tion about the matter that afternoon, In the course of whiob Boyd streak Wilson in the face with his first. The latter resented the huntk as mortal, and warned the former to be ready to defend hirnseW. as he wonld directly get his arms and seek Boyd, They met soon after on the pavement in front of the store ot W. H. Mangum A Sod, and commenced firing at a distance of about five paces from Web other. Every ball that was shot from each pistol found Us man, and kept pressing forward until they were muzzle to breast. Wilson received fire ballets. Boyd was struck in the right groin, or just above it. and a second ball entered his left side below the ribs, ranged up through the stomach and lungs, and lodged under the skin on tbe right side ot bis chest, towards the back. He was taken home and died next morning. Both were good men, and both leave most estimable families, in deep sympathy with whoso irreparable losses, all citizens, without exception, sincerely unite. ( Yazoo Democrat. Letter from Tebbell County.— A cor respondent of the Macon Journal $ Messenger writes as follows from Dawson, Ga., March 18, 1869; This, the county site ot old Terrell, is a flour ishing little pi »ce. Iu people are wide awake, and look well to their Interests, and on that ac count it is rapidly becoming one oi the most important towns in Southwestern Georgia.— Here is located tbe Dawson Manufacturing Company, at which place are made some of tbe best railroad cars, agricultural implements, etc. Besides this, its enterprising superintendent, Moj. O. O. Nelson, is making a huge effort to sUrt a cotton factory, by increasing the capital stock of the present company, and having the affair all nnder the same head. I hope be may be successful to his efforts, for we need such on institution, and every one that rears Its head on tbe soil of the old Empire Slate only tends to lessen her days of servitude to the Northern capitalists and money mongers. Georgia raises the staple, and why Is it that she cannot make It into cloth ? All that prevents it is the proper energy on the part of her citizens to foster and build up manufacturing enterprises within her borders She teems with water power, which can be made available, and the day is not tar distant when her water courses will be dotted with factories, and the hnm of the spindle and clang of the busy loom will be heard In every direction; and Instead of shipping off the raw material to be manufactured into a fabric abroad, and brought back to be sold to those who first saw it break from IU fibrous prison under the genial rays of a tropical sun, ft will be taken from our very doors ready to be cut into any kind of garment by tbe bandy house wife, and enrich and make prosperous her people. African Therapeutics—Roast Nigger Baby with Turpentine.— Last Friday a little negro girl, in this city, playing about the fire, approached it too near, and her clothing was soon in a bright blaze. Before assistance could reach her, her clothes were burned from her and she was terribly blistered and parched all over her person. As usual, soon after the oc currence the shanty was crowded with curious negroes, from whom the sage opinion was In a few minutes elicited that the proper way to cure the bnrns was to hold tbe child before a blazing fire, as spltten meat Is exposed, to draw the fire from her person, in a moment* thereafter strong hands had seized the undo little sufferer and began for her, despite her heartrending cries of anguish, a roasting pro cess of surgery. The self-appointed sable pby sicians of the moment, as they became too heated in the exercise of their charitable and professional services, were relieved by other Waiting and willing bodies. Strange to say, notwithstanding the child was thus tendered professional service at a very early hour, and that the attendant physicians Were unremitting in their effort, she died tbe next day. After the colored tavants had—in obedience to fop latest dictates of science— sufficiently roasted tbe child she was enveloped in cotton isturated IP turpentine. Tbits was prepared a fit dainty lor tbe cannibal king of tbe cannibal isles. Roast baby with turpentine sauce! The bed of coals upon which Gantamozin was stretched was truly a “bed of rosea ” beside this. Vermin on Cattle.— A Pennsylvania lady writes to the Country Gentleman concerning vermin on cattle. She appears to have been the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, and mUked the cows. She to this way acquired considera ble experience with cows. She states that she tried tobacco, lime, asbes and other things, without success. Finally she applied petroleum witli entire success. She says: ** H was a warm day in January. 1 took a Jug of refined petroleum, and I commenced at tbe bead andpoured lt ail along the hack—that was at dinner timo. I then turned them out In the sun, and such pranks as they cut! I thought they were going crazy-bat it did Its wort About 4 o’clock I examined them, and every louse, little and big, was on the outer end Os the hairs, dead enongh. So I think all (he lousy cows and calves should thank me for the dis covery. About half a pint Is enongh for a large cow. The petroleum did not take T 6ff tbe hair, but It removed the scurf on the skin. 1 sup pose I pnt too much on, as It was my first trial, ana I wanted to be sure ot a kill. —v * Grey. “ Cumberland Cos., Pa." . Certainly sfaemsefl it UVtitilybtft no serious consequences ensued. The petroleum or kero sene 4s generally applied lightly along the back, Id the fore aDd bind flanks, and between the legs. It is a sure remedy. Some persons are timid about using it, but it is as safe as any thing that can be applied. Countess Kielmansegob and Napoleon the Great.— Tbe beautiful but heartless Countess Klelmaneegge, who, In 1812, wae the mistress of Napoleon tbe First, and who died some time since at an advanced age, bag left s manuscript volume of reminiscences, in which she acknowledges that tbe famous Ernst Graf, who committed suicide three years ago, at Dresden, on account of his extreme poverty, was the son whom she bore to the great Empe ror In 1818, She excuses her refueal to ac knowledge Graf as her son on the pretext that she made a vow In 1815 never to admit that she had a liason with Napoleon I. Ernst Graf bore tbe most striking resemblance to bis illus trious father. In 1853 ho went to Paris, and tried to attract tbe attention of Lonis Napo leon, bat was unable to obtain anything at bis hands. At Mannheim, however, he had an In terview with the old Grand Dncbess Stepbanl, nee M’lle de Beauharnals, who was believed to have bad a liason with NapoleOD, in 1811, and she made him a liberal present. His applica tion to the French Embassador at Dresden, though supported by yery strong circumstan tial evidence that he was the natural son of Na poleon I, remained unsuccessful. Gen. Longstrebt.—The Radical press bag been slathering Its fulsome praise of Gen. Long street's defection all over him to each an extent it Is really refreshing to sees Northern paper •peak of him os does the Brooklyn Eagle below : General Longstrect, first cousin of the Dents, of whom is Sirs. Grant, It made Surveyor of New Orleans. He didn’t flop over for nothing, and has not won Sonthern contempt withoat compensation. To poverty and immortality he iss preferred ostracism and wealth, and there It not a genuine man of either party bat de spises hit swift recantation and swifter resetreh for spoils. Lst him go. By the star ot Lea, and fiver the grave of Jackson, alongside of Davis and Breckinridge bo become# Email to ioTiMMHty, and he has forfeited the past more-to blur him down than anything else, but he accepted and procuring shovels, the two went to his lot in thecemetery and commenced digging near lus wiles grave. After working awhile the neighbor told him that be bad carried the iota for enough ond quit work. Pickering, how ever, finished tbe grave before-leaving. Thnre he went to office and remarked, while there, that he would go off in abouttwo hours. Soon after he started for the eemfitery, followed by two or three boys. On arriving at *°® k otr P art bl * clothes sad toid the Boys to carry them borne. A boat half past two be 6ent up to the village to have more comedown to see him kill bimseir, bnt with the exception of a few more boys nobody came. A few »urates before three he drove the boys baek from the grave and beyond the hedge, and precisely at three be shot himself to the temple, killing himself Instantly. He was nearly fifty years of age, and was always of sn eccentric turn of mind. Hts wife died several years ago, and at the time of ber death be exhibited sio gniar traits, conducting himself so as to cause remarks from his acquaintances. [Hew York Bulletin. The Atlanta Acid and Fertilizing Com pany.-We have just seen the bill passed bv the present Legislature, authorizing said com pany consisting of Medlra. Redwine & Fox, John G. Reynolds, Robert Bangh and A. Ley £sf* t 0 manufacture acids and fertilizers. This Mil confers privileges, sueh as to authorize them to teat the experiment whether Georgians cau be supplied, to some extent, with home made fertilizers, or whether millions of dollars annually shall ba sent abroad to purchase an article Inferior to one to be made in onr midst. We know the gentlemen to whom this treat ba* been committed, and from their energy and means, we bespeak tor the planters anew era in the expenses and facilities to procuring fer tilizers. Adda can be made here at one-third less than they can.be laid down here of foreign mannfactnre, and as they enter largely withtho expense of.making fertilizers, we see no rm son why they should not be offered to the pub lic figures greatly below the preeent prices. They have become a necessity to the planting interest of Georgia, and we predict for the above company, not only handsome profits for investments, but that the country will have reason to rejoice at the inauguration of such enterprises as confer benefits upon so large a class of onr people. We understand the com pany will organize at an early day, and pro pose to raise one hundred thousand dollars with which to begin the work. - | Atlanta Constitution , 18fo. The Future or Georgia.— Conversing with' Representative Gove yesterday, be remarked that, ontside of our political bearing and com plications, more interest in Georgia was mani fested In Washington and the North than in any other State ot the Sonth, or of the Union. Oar material condition and resources were sub jects of never ending and eager inquiry and speculation, and the disposition, both to Immi grate to and to invest in this Btate, Is wide spread and Increasing. So soon as the ground less apprehensions ot lawlessness and violence in Georgia abate or disappear, we may look with entire confidence for a rush of population and capital which, In five years, will-place Geor gia In population, wealth and productive pow er, far in advance of any position she has yet occupied, or of any which we have anticipated for her. Contrary to what wonld naturally be expect ed, the moat interest and Inquiry are displayed in relation to the middle and Sonthern sections of Georgia, and not for those parts of the State most resembling the North In climate, toil and products. But tbe whole State la regarded by the North os a country of extraordinary natural resources, and bound to become, at no distant day, one ot tha wealthiest and most powerful States of the Union. —Macon Telegraphy Vlth. Hams and Bacon—How to Keep.—l have never been able to keep my hams and bacon entirely free from the fly and worm daring tbe Summer. For the benefit of those like myaelf, please give ns information. I cannot remem ber that this important Item of domestic econo-. my has been ventilated In your columns. Peo ple who Hve remote from markets are obliged to store bog and hominy, and therefore the question “ How to save our bacon ” become* one Os great Importance.— Rock Spring, fa. Make bags of nnbleaebeff •• factory,” pat the bams in, and then pat to a layer of fine soft hay all around them, sow to make a stratum of hay between the factory and the hams. If merely baggffl, tbe files will thrust their ex positors through tbe factory and sting tbe meat; but tbe interposed hay keeps them oft It Is a common practice to whitewash the bags, but this U not so neat, ana tbe bags cannot be so well need again. Another mode le to bury them in osu or some other grain, bnt'lbey are more apt to become injured from want of yen- - illation. Charcoal daft keep tbe hams wet!,' bnt Is brack and disagreeable, and bard t» get off. Whichever inode ia adopted, ft la of vital Importance that the work be done early in Spring, before the flits are etitTßig. f Country Gentleman. The Clerkship of the Superior Court.— The guo warranto cose against White, acting as Clerk of the SapeTior Court, appears now to be tolly under way. Defendant filed an answer denying that he wosa person of color: and also that If be was, that did not make him Ineligi ble to office. A continuance wae asked for, on to* ground that defendant had qqat toahnjfrto; commission. The motion to over ruled, on the gretradjthat the affiffqVil; did not make a proper showing, according to the law, for a continuance; and that defendant had not sworn that It Was asked for to delay foftjCaie. Mr. Johnson then moved to dismiss the quo warranto, as-there was nothing to it; and it did not present facts upon which a removal front office could be made. He made an argument upon the eligibility of negroes to office,, ytlfich was replied to by Jndge Fleming. The qnM tlon as to whether negroes are eligible to office under the constitotlon or not, baa eeutonp. If that be decided adversely to the defendant, then there remains,to-be tried by jqry tbe,issue of fact—whether of not he la a negro, or bat negro blood to his veins.— Savannah News, 88rf. Steamship Racing.—The Manchester Guar dian. oi February 82d, publishes the logs ot the Russia and City of Paris across the Atlan tic. and notes the intense excitement that pre vailed at Liverpool, the fact being that from land to land the City of Pans was the winner, bnt frem New York to Liverpool, the Ratals by fifteen minutes. Tbe Daily Telegraph, of February 284, adds, the public may take paisa to find out steamers that do not race, and pa tronize them accordingly. However, it stoms that the Cnnardera, who though beaten, retain foe mail carrying, have done a good thing.— They bare reduced their fares; and any one can now go to Europe a* » steerage passenger for ftO, and to a cabin passenger for *BO. which ia about one third Only of the former rale*. Until very lately the Canard boat* re ceived no steerage passengers, but foe success of tbe City of Paris has stirred them up. ■ ■■* !■ lig) ii The Assassination of General Hindman. —Memphis, March 17.— A prisoner to the He lena, Arkansas, fall, yesterday overheard two negro prisoners discussing the assassination of Gen. Hindman. He Informed the jailer, who together with the marshal took one of them out and after charging him with foe crime, be con fessed being one of the nine negroes who bad formed a conspiracy to ham the town of He lena, Arkansas, ana to avenge tbe banging of a negro last September for rape; that three of the party had gone to Hindman's bouse tor tha purpose of bur ulug U, he having prosecuted tha negro who wss bung, and one <m the number teeing Hindman sitting hy s window, leveled a musket and fired, killing hiaa. The ofoere becoming frightened, fled and abandoned foe plot to burn foe town. Five of the nine have been arrested and are now so jail. Tbe author L ties are now searching for the others. 7»s-
