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totchli) Consiitniicmfißst.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17. 1875. ;
South Caroliua and Mississippi.
It is always a delicate matter for a
Georgian, especially of the journalistic
fraternity, to comment unfavorably
upon the political affairs of South Caro
lina. But Augusta is so near to our
sister State, and her interests are so
closely interwoven there, that It Is im
possible to be always silent upon this
most important theme. The Missis
sippi election and its remarkable re
sult compel us to make some com
ments upon this subject, and we shall
endeavor to do so iu the kindest man
ner.
The overthrow of Ambs and the Rad
ical monstrosity in Mississippi is proof
positive that no Southern State need
long remain under Ethiopian rule, if
the people of that commonwealth ad
dress themselves properly to the task
of redemption. We are firmly of opin
ion that South Carolina can hurl her
Radical incubus from power, whenever
she shall determine to do bo, after the
manner of Mississippi. The people of
that State must primarily be marshaled
under the right banner, led by the
most determined men and backed by a
press unaccustomed to be eccentrically
moved as one regime of carpet-baggers
or scalawags succeeds another. That
the leading men and the leading policy
of South Carolina have hitherto been
failures seems to us indisputable; that
the papers have been, in some way,
wanting, however, honestly, admits of
little question. We take for granted
that the white people of South Caro
lina are not one whit less plucky, pa
triotic and full of enthusiasm, when a
crisis is at hand, than the people of
Mississippi. If they are, terribly have
they degenerated since the days of
1800 -’(35, and grievously are some in
dividuals or influences to blame for the
supposed demoralization of the most
gallant race under the sun. We make
no charges and utter no taunts, but
the facts of history, in the past few
years, appear to indicate, beyond a
doubt, that either the people of the
Palmetto State have been recreant to
their high character, or else they have
been, innocently It may be, misled,
misguided and warped.
It is urged that a revolution at the
bn Hot box cannot be consummated In
South Carolina, except by prevailing
upon the negroes, by hook or by crook,
to vote the Conservative or Democratic
ticket. Granting this, there must have
been something cardinally faulty in
South Carolina leadership or manage
ment, when efforts In this direction
have attended with such barren
results,. seeing iffaif the Mississippi
programme has been overwhelmingly
triumphant, Now, some element,
either of policy, leadership or man
agement, has been to blame iu
the Palmetto State. It may be
that the blame or mistake has
been universal. At all eveuts,
Mississippi has been redeemed, and
we aro virtually told by one of the or
gans of our sister State that South
Caroliua’s chances are uot so promis
ing, because her people aro uot ready
or willing to make the same sacrifices.
Wo aro loth to credit this assertion,
knowing so well the Carolinians of the
bettor day of the Republic, and it may
bo in order to ask, if the allegation be
true, what has brought a once high
spirited and noble race to such an abyss
of supineness? It would be well for
men of Carolina who have chafed un
der the yoke of alien domination to
investigate this matter, to learn for cer
tain whether it be true or false, to
probe to the bottom the causes of dis
aster, and, if the knowledge requisite
to eject a barbarous authority be not
obtainable In their own commonwealth,
to send a committee of inquiry to Mis
sissippi and report progress for the
common weal.
Our own opinion Is that the day and
hour have come for the whites of South
Caroliua to make a supreme effort to
imitate Mississippi, and, to that end,
seek new leaders, anew policy and, if
possible, a now departure on the part
of some of their presses. It is possible
that we mistake the ease, but we think
not. Old systems of reform and old
leaders have signally failed. It would
seem the part of wisdom to either “re
form” the leaders or the policy, or else
try anew tack under fresh comman
ders.
At this juncture, with the hurrahs
from Mississippi freemen ringing iuhis
ears, we see Gov. Chamberlain betak
ing himself to Charleston, vociferously
received by the citizens there, and, In a
public speech, promising all mauuer ol
glorious things. Mr. Chamberlain may
bo sincere, and it may be his intention
<o reverse the traditions of his party;
but there is a reasonable soar of a
Greek when he comes bearing gifts, es
pecially when the Greek aforesaid has
been one of the chief Instruments, in
the past, of making the State of South
Carolina a by-word, reproach and
mockery. We sincerely trust that his
good intentions are what he states
them to be—though hell is paved
with ouch—and that he stands ready
and willing to do for South Carolina
what Mississippi’s own sons have done
for their State. If so, and if it is not j
expedient to bring a native South Car- |
oliDian to the fore-front, let him give
guarantees of his good faith, or else
let the people clear the decks for ac
tion and begin a peaceful revolution in
the Palmetto State which shall, at the
polls, finally wipe out the last vestige
of Republican misrule. That such a
happy consummation is within the
reach of the people we firmly believe,
unless they have indeed fallen from
their high estate and been taught to
look upon seml-Radlcalism as not
such a bad thing after all, just as the
noble Senator Batahd was silenced by
a Charleston man at the Greeley con
vention, because he protested that the
Southern States did not dearly love
their chains, as embodied in the uncon
stitutional amendments, and implored
the Democratic party, for the sake of
the suffering South, to commit no such
monstrous blunder as was there con
templated.
Without attempting to assume any
dictational spirit over South Carolina
affairs, and without claiming infalli
bility in the premises, and with a most
ardeut desire to confer with the people
for the common good of themselves
and us all, we have, in the kindest way
and with the best intentions, thrown
out these ideas or suggestions, to be
accepted or discarded according as they
may possess merit or evince fallacy.
We are not of those who believe that
the people of South Carolina are so
callous that Milton’s linos apply to
them when he says:
"Yet sometimes nations will decline so low
From virtue, which is reason, that no
wrong,
But justice, and sorno fatal cause annexed,
Deprives them of their outward liberty,
(Their inward lost.”
Rather do we believe that the peo
ple of South Carolina only require
a quickening touch, a master-hand at
the helm, a clarion voice calling upon
them to rally, so that in tjjo future, as
in the days gone by, upon their broad
shield of honor shall be inscribed this
golden legend:
“The greatest glory of a free-born peo
ple
Is to transmit that freedom to their child
ren.”
Better Signs for Business.
When the newspapers of the country
concurrently predict better times for
trade and give some plausible, if not
absolute, reasons therefor, we begin to
look for anew spirit as well as anew
life in all departments of trade. The
Nashville American says “ordinarily
this is about the dullest season of the
year for business of every kind, in and
out of the commercial metropolis of
the country. In addition, the election
excitements of last week operated as a
diversion to which merchants as well
as other people had to succumb. With
all that, our exchanges, especially the
commercial papors of New York, are
sanguine enough to believe a much
brisker trade is immediately ahead of
us. It is true that for a week or two
longer we may expect the usual No
vember lull, but that gives way to the
holiday trade, and this never fails to
infuse more or less animation into
nearly all kinds of business.”—
The New York Bulletin thus speaks:
“If the volume of transactions for the
moment is limited, we think it may be
said that there is no abatement of the
hopeful feeling noticeable throughout
the Autumn, nor of the conviction that
the country is making as steady pro
gress to recovery as could reasonably
be expected when all the circumstances
and conditions of the business situa
tion are duly estimated. The process
of liquidation is still iu progress, as the
numerous suspensions and assignments
we have been publishing in our local
column from day to day bear witness;
but as those are, as a rule, the debris
of the wreck of 1873, the disposition is
to accept them rather as matters of
course thau as fresh surprises. ‘Weed
ing out’ often has a disturbing effect
upon the healthy plants around
where the weeds grow; but it is
better, nevertheless, that the weeds
should be disposed of. It is a
sigu of health.” The New Orleans
Price Current states “that nearly all
branches of the wholesale trade there
are doing an active and satisfactory
business. The sales of dry goods par
ticularly are on a liberal scale, and thus
far this season these have been of
greater extent than in any correspond
ing period since 1867.” The Boston
Journal of Commerce alludes hopefully
to the dry goods market, and adds :
“Goods aro constantly being shipped
off In various quantities to England,
China, Africa, South America, the
British Provinces, etc. Messrs. Fa
byan, Bliss & Cos. have had large sales
of plain cottons of the Continental
Mills, for Manchester, England, and
they have orders for 2,000 bales of drills
and like goods for China, which it will
take the Pepperell and Laconia Mills
till the first of January to fill. Messrs.
Joy, Langdon & Cos. have sold a large
assortment of 4-4 Hamilton prints for
Montreal, and White, Payson & Cos.
have sold an invoice of Indian Orcli •
ard brown cottons for Manchester.”
The Cincinnati Commercial takes a
view of the “whole hog,” and thus des
cants : “Packers are moving with cau-
tion, and buying sparingly to supply
immediate wants, as the product of the
last season was sold at a loss, and
present current rates do not pay the
cost of production. Prices of hogs
must decline materially before the
trade will take the products for invest
ment to hold for spring and summer
sales. Corn is abundant, and the Indi
cations are that we shall have a large
supply of hogs later in the season.”
Passing these indications of a hap
pier era in review, the Nashville Ameri
can thinks that "on the whole, the
trade outlook, while not up to the
mark of flush times, is not so dull as
to cause special uneasiness, while there
is a reasonable basis for hope to look
forward to the ‘good time coming.’ ”
We reproduce these cheerful words
of our contemporaries as pleasant au
guries for the future and as companion
pieces to our own views of a recent
date.
Wedlock and Insanity.
In a case of bigamy in ijfew Haven,
Ct., the much-married man pleaded in
sanity, but without avail. -He proved
that he had been In an insane asylum,
but it happened that such a catastro
phe occurred before either of his two
marriages. Recurring to'this matter
and its consequences, the Cincinnati
Gazette says: "The case leaves perplex
ing questions. If, because of in sanity ■
he was not responsible for taking the
second wife, was he for the first? Does
not the verdict make him incompetent
for either, and therefore dissolve both?
A singular fact is that neither of these
young women thought him insane, or,
at any rate, too insano to marry. Prob
ably his insanity was only a mania for
marrying, which is an act in which all
men aro insano more or less. But, if a
man may plead irresponsibility for the
act of marriago because of insanity,
what marriages can be regarded as se
cure? For there are many husbands
and wives who think, in the sober sec
ond thought, they would never have
done it if they had not been out of
their heads.
“And is not love a species of insanity?
It is so described in all literature. Love
and madness are associated ideas in
the universal mind. Lovers aro wont
to conduct themselves in such a man
ner as to seem to others as if they had
lost their senses. Love is called blind
because it takes away the judgment.
What is that but to be insane? It
causes a mental exhalation which
makes extravagance seem proper and
impossible things easy. It has the
common adage that they who are in
love have lost their reason. Let aDy
man ten years married compare the
prosent tameness of his blood in the
presence of the “partnee*>f his bosom”
with the tumultuous current at the
time of marriage, and reflect whether,
if this is sanity, that was not lunacy.
What is the reason that men
are restive when tender wives re
mind them of the acts and expressions
of devotion iu their oarly love, if it be
not that theso extravagances now seem
to them irrational? Society seta up the
high rule that that it is wrong to mar
ry without love—unless there is money
in the case. But love is insanity, and
now horo is a judgment of a court that
insanity makes the party inoompetent
to marry, and thereby annuls the mar
riage.
“In the New Haven case the man was
sent to the lunatic asylum. This may
restrain his marrying mania for the
time. But this judgment has raised
questions which seem to unsettle the
whole marriago fabric. Would it not
bo well for girls about to marry to
have a commission de lunatico inqui
rendo sit upon the candidate to see
whether he is competent? And yet, if
men are to be held incompetent to
marry when insane, who will marry?”
Good Enough.— The Chicago Tribune,
descanting upon the proposed exhibi
tion of the cadavers of Washington and
Lincoln for vulgar sight-seeing at the
Centennial, says: “Apart from all
other considerations, it seems the
height of meanness to make a man,
after he is dead, pay for his own monu
ment.” Now, let Gen. Hawley kill the
monster who suggested this vile scheme
of turning dirty pennies, have him em
balmed, and exhibited at a nickel a
head. If desperate means have to be
employed to make our Centennial pay,
here is a substitute for the desecration
of the graves of Washington and Lin
coln.
Gordon. —The Washington Chronicle
has this political note:
Senator Gordon thinks the currency
question defeated the Democracy, and is
satisfied the party will make a serious mis
take if it takes that Usue into the National
canvass. Mr, Gordon has evidently seen a
light since he called Carl Schubz's hard
money arguments “oracular bombast,”
and declared that the enly hope for the
country was to be found in the adoption of
the 3:65 bond scheme.
Well, Gordon may have “plugged the
melon too soon,” but he has not re
turned to the right track too late, we
hope.
The Devil. —We give, this morning,
Mr. M. D. Conway’s opinion of the
Devil. We shall, presently, give an
orthordox Minister’s opinion, both of
M. D. Conway and the Old Boy.
The Secret of Deliverance. •
Mississippi owes her deliverance from
carpet-bag and Ethiopian rule princi
pally to organization, good leadership,
a powerful press properiy directed, and
the energy and zeal roused masses
of men. We have W doubt also that
the glorious women of the land did
wonders, as they did in Georgia, when
Bullock had sway. We learn from one
of our exchanges that “the enthusiasm
at the white people daring the canvass
was worthy of the great end which
they accomplished. Politics has been
the all-absorbing thought in the minds
of this people for many weeks. A
change of affairs was necessary, or
financial ruin was inevitable. They
felt that the time was at hand for them
to strike successfully, and they gather
ed every energy for the blow. Men ne
glected private business to attend their
club meetings, and were ready to make
any personal sacrifice for the good of
the State. The work went bravely on,
and did not flag until the officers of
the election formally announced the j
polls closed. The people were indeed 1
aroused, and determined to put an end
to carpet-bag and negro rule, and every
nerve was strained to the accomplish
ment of that end. The sick, the blind,
the aged and infirm, every available
voter, was brought to the polls. Car
riages were provided for those unable
to walk.”
Now, let some man of men come to
the front in South Carolina and become
a Carnot for that commonwealth—the
“organizer of victory.” Let the Constitu
tional party gather in clans, call a con
vention, if necessary, fix upon the
policy that has conquered in Missis
sippi and Georgia, unite all good ele
ments for the salvation of the State,
and make use of the proper appliances
and auxiliaries for creating a popular
furore which shall swoep Radicalism
away like a whirlwind. The people of
South Carolina must be willing to make
great sacrifices of time, money and
everytUing else necessary to win the
grand stake of repossession of their no
ble commonwealth. We do believe that
thousands of true men only await the
right leader, the right policy and the
right encouragement to not only emu
late Mississippi, but surpass her. If
this be a mistake, unhappy indeed is
the South Carolina of the present day
and abysmal her paralyzation. But we
scout this idea. Perish the thought
that she is wedded to her thralldom.
Rather do we believe that all she needs
is some powerful hand to break her
chain, dissolve her sleepy enchant
ment, and bid her rise again to her old
stature of impassioned sublimity, not
with the sword or bayonet, but the bal
lot; not on the bloody field of Mars but
iu the peaceful forum of reason and in
the exercise of the will of freemen. The
ball once fairly and properly started,
leaders will be developed, enthusiasm
will kindle her torch on a thousand
hills, and the valleys will respond to
the mountains. If the papers of South
Carolina do not rise to an equality with
the tremondous argument of self-pre
servatioD and deliverance, the people
should put them aside and make a
rally without them. In case they did
so, we predict that lagging would not
long be the order of the day on any
side. Cannot the tocsin be sounded at
Greenville or Anderson? Never in the
history of the Palmetto State has there
been a better opportunity for some
highly-gifted man, now in obscurity,
to make an immortal name. The indi
vidual who shall rescue South Caro
lina from her present bondage will bo
more famous than any of her heroes
who died for the cause of liberty in the
bloody Confederate drama.
Sanitary Administration.
Last September, Dr. Harris invited
Archbishop Bailey to deliver an ad
dress before the Medical Association
on "Sanitary Reforms.” The learned
prelate, in lieu of a formal lecture,
wrote a letter of extraordinary force
and good sense, which was read by Dr.
Steiner, of Maryland, at the metting
of the Association in Baltimore. We
give this extract from the report sent
to the daily press:
The Archbishop says a proper system of
drainage has made towns in England and
Scotland, which were decimated almost
every year by typhus, thoroughly healthy.
There are few things in which cause and
effect are more closely united than bad
drainage and typhus. With us the great
difficulty is in having the sound principles
which science has made known to us upon
these subjects carried out into practice.
This comes, as we ail know, from our po
litical system, which, however beautiful in
theory. Is never more unfortunate in prac
tice, than when applied to municipal mat
ters. The plague spot on the city of New
York is the system of tenement houses,
covering often every inch of the lot upon
which they are built, badly lighted, badly
ventilated aud badly arranged in every re
spect—exoept for the landlord’s purse. No
one who had not seen them would believe
that such places would be allowed to exist
in a city calling itself Christian and civil
ized. I have attended cases of malignant
fever in rooms which had no windows to
them, and where the only light and air
which reached them came through the
door, and out of which, as a necessary con
sequence, the patient had soon to go a
corpse, and, although some improvement
has been made since those times, yet I am
afraid that in the main things have been
allowed to continue much as they were,
chiefly because it would be “inconvenient”
to interfere with the gains of the owners
of these pest-houses. I most earnestly
wish your Association every success, and
trust that tbs able and public-spirited
gentlemen connected with it will never rest
until they have instilled sound principles
upon the subject into the whole body pol
itic.
We leave It to heaven to decide who
ahall be responsible for such utter
wretchedness as Is depicted in the
above paragraph; bat may heaven in
deed have mercy on the man who
thrives on the woes of tenement houses
in New York city! If that man does
not need prayers and aids to salvation,
as well as God’s saving grace, we should
like to know who does ? Wealth ac
quired in that way must bring a curse
here, and, unless satisfaction be made
and repentance sought for, the male
diction will outlast the world and rival
eternity in duration.
Centennial Whims—A Sepulchral En
terprise.
A writer in the Philadelphia Press
j seriously advocates the removal of the j
relics ol Washington and Lincoln to
Philadelphia for exhibition at the Cen
tennial. Hear this ghoul-minded spec
ulator :
What a great pleasure and satisfaction
it would be to every one to behold the real
genuine, honest face of the immortal Wash
ington. Every one in the United States
since their childhood days have wished for
such a great privilege, and I think it would
be the greatest attraction the Centennial
Commissioners could offer, as hundreds
and thousands would go to the Centennial
who would otherwise remain at home were
this attraction not offered. The remains
are perfect in preservation, and could be
removed and returned without the slight
est injury. For my part I cannot think of
a greater honor that could be bestowed
upon the memory of Washington than to
have his body with us in our celebration
I of the Centennial. I know his spirit will be
| there, providing such things are per
mitted from above. And there is nothing
j mercenary or sacrilegious in having his
body with us, beautiful as he is in death.
A suitable building could be erected for the
! purpose, and, In order to prevent the same
j parties from entering it too often, a con
; tribution could be taken from each one who
| enters for the purpose of completing the
\ Washington monument; and I venture to
say double the amount necessary would be
| contributed, and Washington could then
j pay for his own monument, as the people
of the United States appear to be too poor
to do it for him. It was at the tomb of
Lincoln, which I visited recently, that I
thought of all this, and I think it would be
a good idea to plaoe Lincoln’s body by the
side of Washington at the Centennial, and
then the every one could behold the two
greatest benefactors of the United Htates.
It is just such schemes that bring
the Centennial into contempt. All right
thinking Christian people must abomi
nate this cold-blooded speculator; and
since he has no pious care for either
Washington or Lincoln—God forgive
us for the juxtaposition—let him dig
up Jm Fisk, as the representative
American of his clr.ss, and show him
off in a glass case. Between Gen. Haw
ley and the Philadelphia Press resur
rectionist, the Centennial business is
growing into disrepute. To us this is
a matter of regret, for it had originally
the elements of veneration and respect.
The Road to Wealth.
The New York Evening Post has this
suggestive paragraph :
Stephen Girard, the great Philadelphia
banker, was asked by a young man by what
rule he had acquirod his fortune of many
millions of dollars. The reply was: “I
aiway s bought whon everybody wished to
sell—and sold when all wanted to buy,” If
this sagacious man was now on the stage
we would make his power felt in buying
real estate, as everybody wishes to sell.
Before he had been in the market one week
everybody would buy. Foreign capital
will soon seek this investment, as, let it
touch on this island where it will, an in
come would be at once sure of five per cent,
or perhaps ten, if improved. The agent of
the Marquis of Westminister in London
told me that his lordship owned whole
streets of the best dwellings in London that
did not average over two and a half per
cent per annum, and that he would not
change an investment that paid this in
| come. The time must be near when such
| men will put their surplus revenues into
! New York property, and all such invest
ments will then bo out of the market for
ever, as such men seldom or never sell real
estate.
The capitalist has’ undoubtedly an
excellent chance just now, in New York
especially, to increase his store. We
already hear of Vanderbilt investing
some of his surplus millions in real
estate. The tendency of Republican
misrule and financial management has
been to centralize the power of the gov
ernment and its wealth in the hands of
a few men who are already too abun
dantly supplied with authority and
cash. How the people thus robbed of
their liberties and their possessions can
consent to perpetuate such a monstrous
despotism is beyond all reasonable
comprehension. It seems that when
individuals and nations get into the
rut of folly it takes a revolution or
social earthquake to bring them to
their senses.
Reiterated.— The Washington Chron
icle says it is not true that “ten mur
ders are committed in any State, East
or West, where one is perpetrated in
Georgia.” We made that assertion
and stick to it, adding that nameless
outrages, East and West, frequently
accompany multitudinous murders in
the States beyond us. Our sources of
information are the Eastern and West
ern journals. Are they chartered
liars?
Prosperity in France—How a Nation
Thrives.
The Paris correspondence of the
Philadelphia Press contains this signifi
cant paragraph : “Work, work, work,
is the order of the day in France. You
see it in Paris, you see It in the pro
vinces, imprinted in every face, and on
every feature of the country. ‘Labor,
improbus labor,’ Is the all-powerful im
pulse which predominates over and oc
cupies the population at the present
moment;' emancipated as it is from,
and, as T have said, disgusted with,
for the nonee at least, the troubles &aA|
turmoils of glory abroad or sedition
home. Providence, too, fortunately,
has come in aid of these better and
repentant feelings and efforts, and has
crowned them and the year with an
abundant harvest, an increased fruit
crop and a splendid vintage. The con
sequences of this happy combination
of national industry and fruitful sea
sons ate becoming everywhere con
spicuous. Capital abounds and money is
| to be had almost for the asking. I cited
last week two or three examples of
the way in which public subscriptions
are filled in a few hours. The other
day it was a sight to see the crowds of
blouses and bonnets, men and women
of the working classes, thronging the
Bureau to invest their savings in the
new lines of Paris tramways, which
they regard, of course, as peculiarly
their own affair, and intended specially
for their convenience. Building opera
tions, too, have burst forth again al
most with fureur, stimulated by high
prices and the rise in rentals, which,
high as they were before, have just
made another decided step in advance.
I have mentioned before the large in
crease in the Paris octroi, which, levied
as it mainly is, upon the necessaries
and comforts rather than the luxuries
of life, shows increased means and con
sumption on the part of the industri
ous classes The payment in advance
of direct taxation is larger than it has
ever been before; and the returns up to
the present month of the general reve
nue of the country display an excess
of little less than one hundred millions
over the preceding year.”
From this statement, it will be seen
that France has few idlers among her
population, and hence, not only grows
rich, but is this moment, in spite of
war, flood, fire, the German indemnity,
a colossal army, and an enormous
State debt, the only prosperous coun
try on the globe. The South has
vaster elements of wealth-production
than France. Let her people, one and
all, become as thrifty as the French,
and they will become just as opulent.
A slavish dependence upon cotton,
want of diversified husbandry, the lack
of small industries, commercial gam
bling, personal extravagance, too much
indolence, and a fatal habit of going
abroad for the commonest necessities
of life—these are the curses of our
section and keep us poor and dis
tracted.
Sleeping in Church. —Seme pious
and practical person has suggested the
following remedy for sleeping in
church: “Lift the foot seven inches
from the floor, and hold it in suspense
without support for the limb, and re
peat the remedy if the attack returns.”
The Courier-Journal offers a substitute
much more efficacious : “Attach a pin
perpendicularly to the end of a whale
bone six inches long. Bore a small
hole through the seat of the pew, and
fasten the other end of the whalebone
to the under side of the seat, exactly
six inches from the hole, and so that
the fixed end will be near the back
edge of the seat, and the whalebone
perpendicular thereto. Fasten a
string to the whalebone near the pin,
and pass it through a hole in the back
of the pew under the seat, then carry
it up over the back of the pew and tie
it securely round the head just over
the eyebrows. The advantage of this
arrangement over the one suggested
above is that it is self-acting. A front
nod will pull the string and pull back
the elastic whalebone, and then the
sudden back nod, which is sure to fol
low, will release the whalebone, it will
spring back, thrust the pin through
the hole in the seat, and the purpose
designed will be accomplished. If the
nap is introduced by a back nod it will
not start the machinery, but it will
give greater impulse to the succeeding
front nod and thus give more lively ac
tion to the spring. A thorough waking
up is guaranteed by the third nod at
the farthest.”
Sanitary.— Gen. Viele delivered a
masterly discourse before the Medical
Association of Baltimore, on the sani
tary needs of municipalities. He showed
how public health and morals were
dependent upon a pure and plentiful
supply of water. He cited the case of
the city of London, where 100,000 per- *
sons died of plague superinduced by a
neglect of this matter, and it is said
that some of the audience could hardly
believe their eyes when the speaker
handed round a segment of leaden pipe
terribly corroded by noxious gases.
There was in onepart a hole where the
attacking gas had eaten completely
through the metal, and had formed a
scale on the other side resembling a
small-pox pustule.