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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1874)
The Weekly Constitutionalist ~ " — 1 ■ WEDNESDAY. JANTTARY 28, 1874. THE PRESERVATION OF GAME. The wanton and unseasonable des truction of game in various parts of the country, especially in the West, has roused public opinion to protest against it and petition the General Assemblies of several States to frame and pass stringent laws for the suppression of the evil. The memorial of the Mis souri Club and Game Law Association cites many misdemeanors of men who wage wholesale war against animals and birds when out of season and en tirely unfit for consumption. Asa no table instance of the depravity and recklessness attendant upon this unre • strained license of purveyors, the fol lowing cases are produced : “During the first week of March, 1871, seventeen hundred and thirty-five bucks and does were counted, piled upon the pave ments in front of the game depots and com mission houses, and in the warehouses in the city of St. Louis, and there were pro bably several hundred more in the city not counted. Os this number, the larger por tion was in a state of decomposition, and were skinned and thrown away. None of them were really fit for food. The bucks, as usual at the close of the running season, were very poor, their necks as large as their bodies, their flesh dark in color and strong in taste, while the does, far advanc ed in pregnancy at the time they were killed, were not proper diet for any class. In many localities the stench was intoler able. The Winter had been one of unusual severity. For several weeks during Feb ruary the earth in the southeastern and southwestern portions of the State had been covered with snow, upon which a hard crust had formed, and the poor, hnlf-famish ed animals, unable to obtain their food in the swamps a fid forests as usual, were driven by hunger to the corn cribs, barns and grain stacks of the farmers, where, thin and emaciated, and of course tame, they were shot down by hundreds and tnousands, and sent off to market. The slaughter of birds, during the Summer months,when the game is fre quently spoiled before sun-set on the day of shooting, is alluded to. Not only is such sport mere wantonness, but it goes far to exterminate the feath ered tribes and deprive posterity of their usufruct. The Missouri Legislature has prompt ly taken the matter in hand and drafted the subjoined ACT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME, ANIMALS AND BIRDS. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows : Section I.—lt shall be unlawful, in any place in this State, to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any wild buck, deer, doe or fawn, between the 15th day of January and the Ist day of September. And it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pur sue with such intent, any wild turkey between the 20th day of April and the Ist day of of September, And it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, any pinnat ed grouse, commonly called- prairie chicken, between the 15th day of Janu ary and the 15th day of August. And it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or injure, or pursue with such intent, ahy ruffled grouse, commonly called pheasant, or partridge, or any quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge* between the Ist day of February and the Ist day of October. And it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or in jure, or pursue with such intent, any woodcock between the 10th day of Jan uary and the 10th day of June. And it shall also be unlawful to catch, kill or i ijure, or pursue with such intent, any turtle dove, sometimes called mourn ing dove, or meadow starling, common ly known as meadow lark, between the Ist day of February and the 4th day of July. Sec. 2. The foregoing section shall not apply to any person who shall kill aDy bird for the purpose of studying its habits or history, or having the same stuffed or set up as a specimen, or to any person who shall on his own premises kill any birds in the act of destroying fruits or grapes. No person shall destroy, disturb or rob the nest of any wild bird whatever, excepting those of crows, blackbirds j and bluejays. Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any j person to purchase, have in possession, or expose for sale, any of the birds or game mentioned in the preceeding sec- \ tion 1 of this act during the season 1 when catching, killing or injuring the : same is hereby prohibited. Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, express company, steamboat company, or other company or corporation, or private individual, to ! have in possession, or receive for trans- 1 portation or carriage, or for any other ! purpose whatsoever, any of the birds j or game mentioned in section 1 of this I act, during the season when the catch- j ing, killing or injuring the same is here- j by prohibited. Sec. 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act by killing, j selling or offering for sale, or having in possession, any of the birds or game i mentioned in this act during the sea- j son hereby prohibited, or any fresh j venison during the season mentioned ' in section 1, shall for each of the birds, j and each head of game, and each piece j of fresh venison so killed, sold, expos- j ed for sale, or had in posesson, on con viction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than three, nor more than ten dollars, for each bird, and not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars j for each buck, deer, doe or fawn or i piece of fresh venison and three dollars | for each nest of eggs destroyed as J aforesaid, together with costs of prose- j cution. Sec. 6. Any violation of the provis ions of this act may be prosecuted be- I fore any police justice, recorder, jus- I tice of the peace, or any other officer \ or court having jurisdiction to try ! cases of misdemeanor, and the judg- j ment of such court shall be enforced I in like manner as in other cases of mis- j demeanor. I I Sec. 7. Upon the collection of any j judgment recovered for any violation ] provisions of this act, one-half : p 1 ' 1 : Paid into the common school fund, and the remaining one-half to the Treasurer of the Agricultural So ciety of the city, village or township where such judgment is recorded ; but if no agricultural society, then all shall be paid to the common school fund. Sec. 8. It is hereby made the special duty of all constables, marshals, mar ket masters and police offices, to ar rest.all persons violating, or in the act of violating, any of the provisions of this act, and take them before the po lice justice or other officer having ju risdiction to hear and any complaints for violation of the provisions of this act. Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. TVe hope the Georgia Legislature will take this act as a model for the framing of a game law for our State. The only objection we have seen to the passage of such a law comes from the seaboard, where a writer in the Mottl ing News apparently claims that a man has a perfect right to kill game, in and out of season, on his own premises. The same person if he happened to own the land at the mouth of the Savannah river might claim the right of catch ing all the fish ascending that stream. When a man asserts such extraordinary claims he becomes, in some degree, an enemy of the human race and de serves to be taught a lesson of good morals by those who have some rights as well as himself. Legislation is for the good of the many and not for the protection of an accidental mo nopoly. The passage of a stringent game law in Georgia is for the public good and for the restraint of private license. A vast majority of the people are clamorous for it, and its passage is demanded by all, or nearly all, who be lieve very justly that a reckless de struction of game is a sin against na ture and a contravention of the moral law. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. Congress is busily engaged in the effort to mend the finances of the coun try. The greenback scheme has not proved as successful as many people hoped. It has resulted in the pros perity of the few at the expense of the many. It has provoked wild specula tion, panics, labor strikes and appre hension of the wrath to come. Senator Schurz, of Missouri, told some plain truths, in a recent speech. He con tended that “ the power to issue legal tender currency not redeemable in coin is a power to confiscate every man’s property.” This power, lodged in the hands of a Secretary of the Treas ury, who is at the same time a political partisan, can not but be dan gerous to all interests dependent upon money corporations and a standing menace to the liberty of the people.— Senator Schurz attributes the late panic, not to a want of currency, but the in evitable consequence of wild-cat specu lation and personal extravagance. He favors specie payment resumption and holds that, since the shrinkage caused ! by the panic has come, the opportunity j of putting the currency on a specie | basis lias also arrived. The Chicago Tribune has small hopes of any legis lation in Congress on this line of the Missouri Senator ; the main obstacle being the political aspect of tho case, 1 and because “ the wealthy and iyfluen- J tial classes can make more money out jof the shinplaster system.” It sums I up the antagonizing forces operating against the resumption of specie pay ! ment, thus : i i As the case now stands, the banks are j not required to redeem; the spectators have a vast and increasing field to op erate in, by reason of tiie currency fluctua tions ; the trading community fear a de cline of prices, and capitalists are proverb ially opposed to a change. That an irre deemable currency is the most notable de vice for cheating the farmer and the labor ing-man out of their dues ever invented, is as true to-day as when Daniel Webster uttered it. Yet the farmers and labori ng men are either indifferent to its continu ance or in fawor of its expansion. It has been ordained of God that man kind shall learn wisdom by experience, and not otherwise. Legal-tender notes, re deemable in nothing, rising to-day, falling to-morrow, upsetting business calculations, retarding legitimate enterprise and accel erating the illegitimate, are nfaking the feiv rich and the many poor; but until the many find it out and through the wide avenue of their own sufferings there will be no remedy. These are words of wisdom. The National Banks cannot be blamed for making all they can out of a system devised for them and not of their own ; creation. The people who went mad, in 1860-01, and upset everything in this | country, are the original culprits and j must mainly blame themselves for the ■ “ results of the war ” —the money ! trouble being not the least of the many j evils attendant upon the “late un-1 pleasantness.” The remedy remains ; with the • people, at last, through the j ballot-box. Whether they will exercise the power they possess wisely or un- ; wisely remains to be seen. In this whole question, the debtor and creditor ! classes —the West and the South on ! the one hand, and tho East on the j other—must meet on some common j ground of justice and compromise. In j case of their not doing so, the eonvul- | sions of the past are nothing to those j which the future holds in solution. FARM AND GARDEN. \ The greatest benefactors of mankind pass to oblivion, while men remember only those who filled the earth with slaughter. The man who invented the plow did mankind a greater sendee than all the conquerors from Joshua to Napoleon, and yet his name is un known. One of these humble race servers died in Texas on the 11th inst. It w r as Gail Borden, the man who invented the meat biscuit and con densed milk, two articles of prime necessity in long journeys, where milk would otherwise be impossible and meat precarious of procurement. In 1850 he left New York and went to Texas, with the idea of putting to use the immense amount of beef that was a “ drug ”in that State. His meat bis cuit and prepared meat took the pre mium at the World’s Fair, London, in 1851. He next turned his attention to milk, and was the first person who was able to condense it in a satisfactory manner, and at a cost which would bring it within the means of all. Other preparations had been too expansive to have much practical value. Like all discoverers Mr. Borden worked hard and long before attaining successful results, but his final triumph over all difficulties was signal. Your average Georgian is plucky, but his discretion is sometimes very questionable. And here comes Col. T W. Flint, of Griffin, vaunting his de termination to set his “ face of flint ” against the Grangers, and the better to make a stiff fight against that grow ing order, he is going to start a news paper. Well, this will rather help the Granger kite, for kites always need a little adverse wind to fly well. But the question is: Does Col. Flynt know anything about the Grangers? Isn’t he impelled by an overplus of that onargan nature which is very good go ing down hill, but worth little going up ? The bull that fought the locomotive re ceived great credit for pluck, but his discretion was not highly commended as he lay hors du combat in the ditch. As for ourselves, we are rejoiced to see tho Grangers wax strong. They will do good service aguinst monopolies— until they get too strong. Then the danger will be in their becoming a monopoly themselves. But we will not indulge in evil forebodings. There is one good feature about the Grange movement—it utilizes woman’s capabilities for usefulness. Give them a chance to be “ useful as well ns orna mental,” and they will not need the ballot to enforce any political dogmas. In the late meeting of the State Grange at Atlanta they took part—they be came enthusiastic In the objects of the Order—and Mrs. T. J. Smith put this good inspiration into living hope, as follows: Whereas, The depressed condition of the planting interest of Georgia calls for a radical efiunge in our expendi tures as wives and daughters of Pa trons ; therefore, Resolved, That the sisters of the State Grange, being in sympathy with j our husbands, do, for the year eighteen ! hundred and seventy-four, pledge our selves to buy nothing for our own use except cotton goods, and that w r e will use our influence in making calicoes the leading dress among the sisters of the subordinate Granges of Georgia. Here is the spirit that should ani mate every wife and daughter. Help the husband and father bear his bur den now, and when better times come he will not be unmindful of them who bore the “ heat and burden ” of a sea son of extra labor and self-denial. Why this everlasting unrest among farmers and farmers’ sons ? The for mer work and improve as if there were no son to succeed, and the latter dream only of budding into clerkships or the professions. The farmer ought to count every permanent improvement as so much capital laid up. If he builds a good outhouse or fence, it pays him a yearly interest: if he relies on make shifts he must expect to pay interest to his liziness. If he enriches his land, it pays him back with iuversed com pound interest. He ought to do every thing as if it were not for a year, but for a lifetime. Boys who get clerk, ! lawyer or doctor on the brain are in a bad way, as a general rule. Our cities j are full of clerks who are literally I working for their board and clothes, and tho professions swarm with brief - | less lawyers and caseless doctors. It | is far better and more honorable to be j | even an Indifferent farmer than an in- j ; different lawyer or doctor. So we say I j to young farmer boys, stiffle vanity and I l earn to succeed in farming, wherein j bread is sure and competition little, j before you rush into occupations where but few get rich and the mass i merely vegetate. Nature makes a place j f or everybody, it is ODly vanity that ' gets people out of their place in nature. Brutes find out where their talents lie ■ A bear will not attempt to fly; A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a flve-barr’d arate. But man we see the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature. An insolvent of Plymouth. I offered his creditors a compromise of t wenty-five cents on the dollars, which j they declined. He went into bank- I ruptcy, the lawyers got a nibble at the | estate, and now it pays only two and a j half per cent, to the creditors! AUGUSTA AND HARTWELL RAILROAD. Important Statements of its Value. Editor‘Qmx>ihtUonaUxt: Sir— -In compliance with your re questj I herewith present you with a short an] concise report of the advan tages claimed by the Augusta and Hartwellßailroad Company, in the pro posed extension of the line to Clayton, Ga. ( via Walhalla, S. C. The Augusta and Hartwell Bailroad Company was organize] and the route surveyed and located from Augusta, Ga., to Peters burg—47 miles from Augusta—in the year 1870, Thence the survey ran up what is ■‘ailed the Broad River Ridge, ina Elberton, and near Clarkesville to Clayton, Ga., 158 miles from Augusta. The cost of crossing the mountains to Clayton, on this line, being so heavy, and the company getting into difficul ties, the work was suspended for a time. When the great project of uniting the Northwest by a direct line of rail road with'the southeast Atlantic ports was agitated, an organization was formed ly which Augusta was made the Southen terminus of the proposed road, an] Clayton, Ga., and Knoxville, Term., < bjective points on the line to Chicago On examining the map it was foind that a straight line drawn from CUjHon to Augusta, Ga,, passed through the counties of Oconee and Andersen, in South Carolina, and di rectly d>in the valley of the Savannah river. ’ An organization was formed to have a survey made of this route, selecting the town of Walhalla, in Oconee county, S. C., tho present terminus of the Blue Ridge Railroad, as the best point south of the mountains to intersect the line of the Blue Ridge Railroad (now three fourths graded to Clayton, Ga.) The survey was made on a very favorable route to the junction of the Seneca and Tugalo rivers. Thence crossing the Tugalo, it proceeded down the west side of Savannah river, intersecting tho former survey of the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad at Petersburg—the confluence of Broad with Savannah river, 47 miles from Augusta. The dis tance from Walhalla to Augusta by this survey was found to be 117 miles, and the route in all respects very fa vorable. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Augusta and Hartwell Railroad, this route was adopted and the com pany re-organized. They are now ac tively engaged in making up stock along the line, and very soon will be in condition to commence work on the road. In the construction of railroads, es pecially one proposed to connect our Southeast Atlantic ports with the teeming granaries of the Northwest, the greatest consideration should be given to distance, cost of construction, character of the country through which the proposed road is to pass, its capacity for development of agricultu ral resources, manufacturing and min ing interests, etc., and we should not fieglect the consideration of climate, tpcenwy, &e„ as attractions offered to the tlstVeUng pwV>u& —those who seek health, recreation or pleasure. tii all, thajie particulars we claim for the August a and Hartwell Railroad up the valley .of Savannah river and its coihiectiorif with the Blue Ridge Rail road through the mountains of North and South Carolina and Tennessee to Knoxville—a pre-eminence over all ex isting or proposed routes leading from the Southeast Atlantic to the North west, either in distance, cost of con struction or local advantages. First, compare the length of the va rious routes now in operation or pro posed, and taking Augusta, Ga., as a central point on the route from tho ports of Charleston, Port Royal and Savannah and Knoxville, Tenn., as a central point going to Louisville, Cin cinnati or Chicago, we find the dis tance as follows • From Augusta to Knoxville, via Atlanta and Dalton... .380 miles. From Augusta to Knoxville, via Athens, Ga., and the ! proposed extension of N. E. E. R. to Clayton 330 miles. From Augusta to Knoxville, via Washington, Ga., and the proposed extension, via Elberton and Tocca City to Clayton 295 miles. From Augusta to Knoxville, via Augusta and Hartwell Railroad, via Walhalla and Clayton, Ga 204 miles. Showing a shorter route over that by Atlanta and Dalton of 116 miles. By Athens and Clayton 0f... 66 miles. By Washington and Elber ton 31 miles. This proves it to be the shortest prac ticable line. COST OF CONSTRUCTION. This road being located in the valley of the Savannah river, the grades are low and the work comparatively very light; the estimated cost by survey is | less than twenty thousand dollars per mile, and intersecting the line of the Blue Ridge Railroad at the foot of the mountains, the heavy cost of anew crossing is saved. The B. R. Railroad is now about three-fourths graded from Walhalla to Clayton, 27 miles, at a cost of near three millions dollars, j This portion of the country presents j the most serious and costly obstacles ! on the route to Knoxville, and can only be overcome on any route at a heavy expense. By uniting with the B. B. Railroad at Walhalla, this great expense is avoided and all the ad vantages secured. LOCAL TRAFFIC. This road proposes to occupy the centre of a belt of country the most fertile and productive in the South. R has no competing road within from ' twenty-five to fifty miles on either side, being easy of access for the border counties in Georgia and South Carolina, of necessity it will cany all their pro duce and supplies. These counties, comprising the valley of Savannah; river and its tributaries, occupy the j most desirable and attractive portion j of the cotton belt and cannot be sur passed t° c climate, health or fertility of sou- It is well known that the upper i counties in Georgia and South Carolina J ate advancing in prosperity much more { rapidly than those in the lower por-1 ; tiops of the States, their productions j are increasing every year and now de | mand cheaper and more direct com j munication with a market for their pro ! duce and supplies. We can say with j certainty the local traffic on this line j will equal or surpass that of any other | road in the South, and with the natural development of the country by cheap j and rapid transportation, be increased to a large extent. DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTORING IN TERESTS. The Savannah river, on whose banks this road is located, from the city of Augusta to its source in the mountains, offers the finest water power for manu facturing purposes in the South. Water powers equal to those control led by the city of Augusta, and some far superior, can be multiplied almost indefinitely. In the midst of the cotton belt, with a genial climate unaffected by ice in the winter, or extreme heat or drought in summer, with inexhausti ble supplies of building material, stone and timber on every side, they only need easy and cheap communication with the markets of the country to offer to the capitalist tie best opening for manufactures of every kind in the United States. Asa route to attract travel we think this road presents decided and great advantages. In a short route between the cities of the S. E. Atlantic and those j of the Northwest, in the varied and beautiful scenery of the Valley of the Savannah river above Augusta, through which this passes for ninety miles; in the grand and sublime scenery of the mountains of North Carolina—the Switzerland of America—and being the most direct route to the celebrated watering places of North Carolina, Ten nessee and Virginia, these advantages must make it a very attractive route for the traveling public. Now ia sum ming up these advantages in distance, cost of construction, etc,, and its con nection with the coal fields of Tennes see, and the granaries of the Northwest, can we not say with one of Georgia’s great railroad kings “ that this road has more merit in it than any other road proposed in the South,” and if economically built and well managed, offers a safe and profitable investment for capital. Progress. [New York Herald Corresrondent. Jan. 20. JOHN B. GORDON. His Brilliant Debut in the Senate. It was refreshing to behold Gordon, of Georgia, to-day, when he rose on the financial question. Gifted with native eloquence and a confidence in the mas tery of his subject, eschewing manus cript, he gallantly grappled the diffi culties of his theme. Gordon, wh<?was late Major General in the Confederate army, and present at the surrender of Appomattox, is a fine, soldierly ap pearing man, of erect mien and brist ling with intelligence. He spoke scholarly and argumentatively, and at times reached somewhat the ideal of the grand advocate of his stricken and impoverished section. While some doubts had arisen of. his reeonstruct edneßß, he gave expression to such na tional loyalty and deep Heeling for the honor and dignity of the whole country on would warrant tho opinion that the stern school in which he had served during the rebellion brought him out only the purer for it, like refined gold. He tempered the discussion with such beautiful sentiment that one might have said it was not a case of “ hard cash,” but sympathetic fealty. In the course of Gordon’s arguments, which were very good and masterly in figurative allu sions, he drew a painful yet practical j view of the present condition of the | South. It had become unprofitable to | plant cotton, and during the coming i year not more than one-third of a crop would be planted. The South was suf fering for banking facilities and cur rency. He abiy reviewed the ease as I presented by those who preceded him,! and said the panic was produced by j the rigidity, non-elasticity and insuffi ciency of the currency, the system of which had made us a nation of specula tors and gamblers. He endorsed the views of Logan and Morton, show ing what the ill effects of a re turn to specie payments would be and what the benefits of is suing more currency, which would largely flow to the South and relieve it from the heavy interest, amounting to twenty-five per cent., which it has to pay to borrow money. He scouted the idea of specie being a preventive against panics, and instanced the cases of England and France in the past. He referred to what England had done through inflation in the cultivation of cotton in her Eastern colonies. He closed with a fine peroration, saying that it was time the agricultural inter ests of the South should receive special consideration in the legislation of the country. Concentrated capital was hammering at the doors of both wings of the Capitol for a hard money sys tem ; but he, speaking for the South, was for more money with an elasticity, convertible and inconvertible, and hoped tho day would soon come when we would issue a currency, founded on the credit of the whole country. In conclusion lie said that the day the Government issues such a ! currency in dollars, not promises to j pay, that day we would have another 1 Independence Day in enjoying on inde pendence from our own and foreign speculators in gold. The effort was a very fine one on t ho whole, and signifi cant in the extreme, as showing overt ly that the South joined hands with the West and that the Granger influence is quietly but steadily asserting its strength, and may be said mow to hold the balance of power. Chandler fol lowed Gordon, but if he could be un- I derstood as saying anything, it was 1 that he was in favor of more and bet ter money, but not in favor of specie payments, and yet not in favor of infla tion. It seems to be a fact that he is in favor of a relief to the country by a larger volume of currency ; but Iris off hand views cannot be said to be entitled, from the annuncia tion made to-day, to an abid ing place in the' arena of politi cal economy. He spoke some whole some truths, and said we were too rich a nation to imitate the worn out nations of Europe ; but, beyond saying that he was opposed to increasing the | volume of currency, no exact idea ! could be obtained of how he stood on ! the question of the hour. Brownlow I sent his speech to be read by the [ Clerk, his paralyzed condition not ad : mitting his oral delivery of it. He was S for inflation. The specie resumption | ists are having a consultation, and are evidently regarding the situation with great attention. This clasping of hands and kind of huzza elocution by the West and South portend that the hour of final test is at hand and the crisis will soon be over, doubtless car rying victory to the inflationists. DEATH OF THE SIAMESE TWINS. Particulars of Their Last Moments. There are no details of this sad event further than the fact that Chang was partially paralyzed last fail, since which time he has been fretful, very debilitated, and strongly addicted to drinking liquor as a means of alleviat ing his suffering. He had been quite feeble for several days, indeed, so much so as to confine both the brothers to bed, but the illness was not so great as to cause any anticipation of the catas trophe that was to follow. On Friday night they retired to bed as usual, but during the night Chang became worse, and, to the utter dismay of all his friends, expired suddenly about four o’clock on Saturday morning. As soon as it was discovered that liis spirit had left its earthly tenement, and that death had claimed him for its own, Eng became so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for a while, at times exhibiting signs ol‘ great mental aber ation. This attack was followed by what seemed to be a deadly stupor, and all now watched eagerly the fate of the surviving twin, so long and in separably united to his now dead brother. In two hours, it is supposed, from the death of Chang, Eng breathed his last, and in death, as in life, the souls, as well as the bodies, of the cel ebrated twins were once more re united. The wives ands imilies of the twins are in the deepest grief, the chil dren, many of whom are deaf mutes, expressing their sorrow and bereave ment in the most pitiful manner. SKETCH OF THE SIAMESE TWINS. The Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, lately residing in North Carolina, were afflicted with illness in thefyear 1871. They were born at a small village on the coast of Siam, in the year 1811.— Their parents got their living by fish ing, and until 1819, when Eng and Chang were brought to the United States, they made their living by sell ing shell fish. Their mother bore sev enteen children. At one time she gave birth to three and never less than two. But none of these children were de formed. The twins were united at the anterior part of the chest by a pro longation of a kind of fleshy band the size of the hand. This band of flesh is about two inches broad and four inches thick. The whole mass is tough, and capable of being considerably extend ed. One could whisper in the ear of them without the other hearing, while volatile salts applied to the nostrijs of one had no effect on the other, and while pinching the arm of one excited no sensation in the other, still if you but stuck a pin in the exact vertical centre of this connecting link both would fflnch Irom ttie Uuta. tub Mm were seldom observed to converse with each other. They played a good game of draughts, made pretty much the snne moves, and at the same time, and frequently played against each other. After attracting a vast amount of at tention among scientists and physiolo gists in the old world, they married two sisters and settled down near Salis bury, N. C., on a well stocked planta tion. In addition they had at one period ample funds invested through their agent in New York. During the war they continued to reside on their plantation and lived in the same quiet and harmony as ever, until some few I years afterwards. Os course, no one ever thought of drafting them and their negroes prospered, except when out of temper from any cause, it was apt to work itself off in striking the first one that came to hand, from which the best scape was to keep out of the way. The brothers probably never would have had any difficulty, but that their wives, though sisters, turned away their hearts, and children were the cause of this estrangement. Up to the period that each had live children all prospered well enough, but one of them had a sixth, and this awoke envy and jealousy to such a degree that the twin sisters, not being bound together like the twin brothers, would no longer live under the same roof. The brothers were, it seems, about fifty-four years of ago, but one, wo believe, the smaller and feebler of the two, looked, it is said, ten years older than the other.— They could turn either back to back or face to face, but that is as far as the remarkable bond that united them permitted. It is almost certain that should either die the other could not survive, even more than a few minutes, as there is an artery as large as the femoral artery that connects them. A few years since they corres ponded with some of the leading sur- I glcal operators in London as to the possibility of the umbilicus being cut, so ! that in ease of tho death of one the life of the other might be saved. At the request of the London surgeon they visited that city, and many ex periments were tried to determine the safety of such an operation. Among other things a ligature was tied firmly for a few minutes around the connec tion between them so as to prevent the circulation of blood through the artery. But it seemed as if each would expire if this was persisted in. The smaller of the two fainted away and lost all con sciousness, and there were symptoms that the same effect would follow to the other, but the process could not be continued long enough without endan gering the life of him who was the first to faint. Since the breaking out of the late war the twins both dressed in the Confederate gray, and were both mem bers of the same church, having united with a small Baptist Church in their neighborhood, of which they were con sidered very worthy members, though born Siamese. Wilkes county is out of debt, and began this year witli $ 155 31 in her treasury.
