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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-