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From the Georgia Citizen.]
This should be the motto and the fixed
resolution of our whole population. Our
safety, our interests, aud our duty to our
S e!vc- and those amontr us, whether “ freed
roen,” or those from other eouutries, demand
this at our hands The warnings and sug
gestions of the venerable ritshop Elliot, on
these points, are most wi-e, timely and ap
propriate. Books we must have. It comes
then to this: we nulst cither provide and
furnish them ourselves, or depend upon
others in distant countries lor them. The
former is orr only true policy, our bounden
duty. The latter will result in manifold
,»vils It will drain off out of the South the
cost and profits of their manufacture and
importation, though, we have not a dime to
spare We must lake such also as we can
get, be they suitable or unsuitable. The
opening of lfae door for one class of bo..ks
will leave it open for all other kinds. We
well know what kinds, at once demoralizing
and pervertive ol all sound principles, have
been scattered broadcast among us. Ihe
ipast will repeat itself. Let us beware, be
fore it he too late. “ OL*ta nrincipus” —
shut ou r the beginning of evil Be this our
steadfast ei.de not. Books which arc the
t-flux of the present perverted mind and
heart of the North, will never suit us.
.Nor is tb< re the slightest necessity that
anv such works—those for family and selm
lastic u-e—should ever he imported. The
South has learning and ability adequate to
any demands that may he made f r any
such purpose. (Jive her a fair field and she
will achieve all desired results.
But I proceed to state “ facts” which
should beat' with icsistles force upon every
Southern mind. Ihe stati.-nics ol “Com
mon School Education” in N- r h Carolina
show, that, fur several years previous to the
war, -me u iHion doll is worth of school
h ,oks” p r annum were import, and in to that
State from tfie North. Now it is but fair to
infer that *n equal amount was expended
lor the same purpose by each of tlie South
ern States —art aggregate ol more than ten
millions yearly, for tfie-single article of
‘•school hooks” —in ten year., a hundred
milli'ins. the probability also, is, that for
other kinds of books, pamphlets, periodicals,
pictures, engravings, &c , a still greater ex
penditure was annually made, making, in all,
two hundred millions in ten years, and in
the last twenty years, before the war, four
hundred miltams,
ln view of th- aspects of our dilapidated
country, and our low tide pecuniary condi
tion who is he tlmt can do otherwise than
npinhim i o'e.-.'egfading and ruinous policy?
,;[y w-hcu it is known that tin re are
scores ot able , in ,) excellent Southern works
u pm/ t., .- e t ! e light, and leap into the
t'., sYi.-i of each family and school, could
tv '«• fished on Southern soil. “ !”
*.> i, •w. are too poor, we are riot able
to pit* vh.” Then who will say that, we
can aft oil t > lie made ten times poorer by
our present neglect of a known duty ? .lust
h»re a reflection and an incentive! Had the
more than four hundred millions drawn
diom the South in the last twenty-five years
been retained and employed in the same
lines of production at the South instead of
the North, how tinny mammoth establish
ments, with ample and complete ouili’s for
n fl the purpo.-es of publishing, binding, cn
gravin''. f.’'d distributin': through all the
Stoics nii"-ht since have been found
among us? How mmy tli e,-d:.ds of em
ployees would thence have receive 1 their
supp.irt ?
What energy, effort, skill and taste would
have been displayed in the different depart
ments! What tli lift would have been pro
duced! How different an aspect would
have been given to our whole character and
condition as a people !
And now that our resources have been so
largely cut oft, necessity demands that we
take the wise counsels of “ experience,” re
pent and do our long neglected and lty. Let
patriots and capitalists reflect upon these
facts and aspects of our condition—take
measures to wipe away the reproach ol this
shameful dependence, and shut down the
gate against this ruinous wastcagc, and in
augurate for the whole fraternity of those
engaged or about to engage in this noble
and beneficent bu-itiess, anew era—one of
permanent thrift rid widely extended use
fulness. Think ot twenty or thirty millions
per annum expended among our own paper
makers, authors, editors of periodicals, pub
lishers. engravers, printers, binders, sales
men, &c &<• How 'numerous and great the
beinfi’s tii them, and how salutary the re
sults to our whole country ?
Auctor.
The Coming Intestine War. — The
Rev. Horace Greeley calls Mr. Raymond's
disclosures of the bloody plans of the Radi
cals, *• Chinese thunder.” Mr. Raymond in j
an editorial in the Times, retorts crushingly : i
The muttcrings of the storm which her-j
aided the rebellion, were, in the Tribune's
judgement, merely •' Chinese thunder."—
The firing at Fort Suinter was only “ gong
heating,” to be laughed at as of little moment.
Through all the early stages of the war, our
coteuiporary displayed the same foolish bra
vado—the same inability to comprehend to
kens of danger, or th<> same dishonest desire
to belittle them. For months it assumed,
the most valorous airs, being always ready
at any moment, to undertake the suppres
sion of the rebellion by contract. At length
• consciousness of danger came ; and then
where was the Tribune? On its knees
pleading for peace, down on its marrow-hones
echoing the prayers of Colorado Jewett lor
an abandonment of the struggle for the Cn
ion ; running in sore .affright to Niagara, to
hob nob with the Thompsons and Sanderses
of the rebellion, and to patch up the terms
of *n inglorious surrender.
The great railroad bridge over the
'usquehanna at Havrc-de-Grace was reeent-
V wtffiTMl hr a tornado. Loss ?!
don
SOUTHERN HERALD.
BV D. MAKTIV & CO,
S o u t B c r n i) r v a U).
«.» itlin, Georgia, August!). ls(j<».
ir-i—-i i-r—■ m■ i
SI. gilt I v Mistaken.
Montgomery Biair, in a letter to the Xa
tional Intelligencer, requesting the publica
tion therein of a letter he had received from
the Hor.. A. 11. Stephens, refers to the lat
ter as the “recognized exponent of the
Southern sentiment at this moment.”
The Maryland gentleman, according to
our view, is sii.-htly mistaken in reference
to the status of his Georgia friend. Mr.
Stephens never was, during the whole war,
entirely up to the popular standard—rather
being led, or pulled, than leading. At pres
ent, we think he has got a little too far
ahead of the slower masses The latter are
jogging along by the light of their men ex
perience, and though Mr Stephens has been
put forward, obtrusively, as a “ rceogniz-. -1
exponent,’ we doubt exceedingly whether
lie is so regard, and by one in ad- zen of the
old sinew and backbone of the staunch yeo
manry of the country.
It is tru that nearly everybody, when
called upon, will sign a request for .Mr. Ste
phens to mate a sptecli; most of the news
papers will reproduce the aforesaid speech
when it is delivered—and it generally is de
livered—and pav it some dainty little com
pliment, full of perfume ; editors will invitg
him to their sanctums, hold long conversa
tions with him. atol thereupon dotty! that
perhaps Mr. S is nanynine, or Mr. S iv'eva
on 'the fad (lection*, or Mr. S. inculcates
faith, h ye, <tttd (han't)/, &e., &o. ; and these
morceaus. gingerly cut up in paragraphs,
will run the rounds of newspaperdom ; and
yet, after a'l this, it never strikes one that
these dfjnoi.strai ‘‘T>s are any thing more
than the more negative, passing courtesies
we ijallanthj give to those we wotlic: not of
fend.
The real truth of it is, tint*, those who are
fitted to be recognised as “ exponents ol the
Southern sentiment ’’ are either in their
graves, or in chains, or in exile, or are nutet
at liter homes, discreetly reticent, cios ly.
watching events, compromising not them- |
selves or their friends, determined sullenly
to retnaiu enslaved rather than be eternally
begging and dingdonging for a precarious \
freedom at the hands of a treacherous mas
ter.
Their Status not Changed.—Mcny of
tJ’.e Radicals of the South arc frequently al
luding, rather complainingly, to the fact 1
that the Secessionists arc not willing to uffil .
iate with them so, AiUy —thinking themselves :
superior to the Cnion men. This is one al
legation the said test-oath Unionists arc j
making, about which we find no cause to
quarrel We quarrel with them, however, i
for the reason that hey (the Southern Rad
icals) are trying to get it out that they arc I
ostracised from good society sob Ij on ae \
count of their l monism. They do not make
it convenient o recollect that most, of these
complainers were shut out from fiist-class
circlcs, \ears and generations bes-re Seres
siuii or l nioni-tn was ever dreamed of—or,
at least, ever seriously di.-cu-scd.
The incense burnt in the Chinese
empire in idol worship is said to cost §450.-
000,000 an uually Exrhamje.
That is no money at all. A certain over
poweringly-delieious incense —Eoquet d’Af
rique—i:i this country has already cost the
Government five billions of dollars, within
the last live years; and as this precious per
fume is getting, daily, more and more ad
mired, finite Arithmetic palis before the task
of ciphering-tip the untold sums it threatens
to cost in the undevelopedT’uture.
Richest Joke Yet—The Richmond j
Examiner , —a journal accused of having
damaged the Southern Confederacy, design .
edly or undesigncdly, more than any other
half dozen papers all combined —lias been ex
ercising itself in a patriarchal homily to
“ thus ■ impractieahles at the South who would
reject the invitation extended to it, to;
s nd delegates to the Philadelphia Convou
- e
] non
Something New in North (-akouina.
! The editor ot the Raleigh Standard has
seen anew invention called the V\ atcli Dog,
or Sleeping .Man’s Protector—an iron box
nearly square, weighing sixteen pounds, con
taining a gun or small cannon, and so ar
ranged by wires that it will explode at a
slight touch. The rammer of the gun is
used as a lever to raise a strong spring,
which, when set, may he released and thrown
upon a percussion cap which discharges the
I gun. by the touching of strings which are
: attached to four wires and may he extended
to any distance. The noise of the explosion
will 'itself startle a thief, to say nothing of
! the shot from the gun.
This invention is by Mr. M. 1 Hepstin
stall, of Halifax county, N. C. It may he
used in stores, smoke-houses, corn-cribs,
barns, orchards, and indeed in any situation.
A Grand National Convention of the
colored population is to he held in Nashville
the Ist of January, I§G7.
• ! lU.N4ES (T Orv. jonssToy; — tier Jo
seph K. John t in U serif.'..-iv HI in RaUn:-re
“Tl.e I’rn is Hiclitiir lliun tin- Suoril."
liiiimv, CEofiwi, Tiimsim uohmxu, must 9, istic.
The Atlantic Cable.
BY A. R WATS- N.
G«*4 !*<* praised! The deep id spam.td,
Af«l through lb’ astonished water,
i 'lb*- iiM»tiier-iai*(l. wall lips ol tire,
feuiutt-s her p ame uaugLter.
The old m «1 new rre trebly bound
Ia < utiiliations.
Six hundi*-»J leagues of iron tongue
Are talking to the nations.
Praided Itt t!»e wi k! AVbst ruun has done
Is Godsglory;
I 11 1 tightniiig i> the t-lonu^ra-e
That tells the world the story.
A whisper through the silent deep
Rii g- r and the earth like thunder,
l We greet tlo* new apocalyj *e
\\ ith gratitude and wonder.
Now God be praised! What he hath done
Between thedistu t nations
blinll ring, with giory to His name,
AJowii llie generations.
Praised he His name! The end achieved
Has justified tin* pn'snpv*,
>ou let us telegraph to Him
A universal messag**,
That Flu to glorify liis power
Made man tin* humhle lever ;
And l»*t tie- iWme, with rapt acclaim,
i G«» soundii g oti forever,
i
i And while the world withs uggidi sense
Begins to learn the M-uy,
Wc-ll wiite the nan.e of Hyra* Field
A top the mast of glory.
Gcuei al Miles and ui gt on ( raven
AN EPIGRAM.
Ontf, Mi le* sfbod for soldier, or for hero,
! And ('raven meant a poltroon, or a Nerr, —
Now Milt* turns out to he a heartless coward.
And (fhiveii proves nnotlur rarne for Howard.
£ A nut Lit Battle in Selma.— The Selma
( Ala.) Me*.'* mjt r of the 25th says “ the quiet
of t!io city has been broken for two nights in
j-uectssion by rows between freed men and
the Federal >oldiers. The trouble began by
: an unprovoked attack, go far as we can learn,
ol Mime hall a dozen soldiers upon the ne
; grocs at a freedmciTs ball, with the design
jof robbery. The frredtntn defended them
selves, and a liberal use of fisticuffs and firc
j arms followed. On the second night, the
j firing near the Baptist church, we utider
j stand, was still more lively. We can hear
! of no one who is seriously hurt, hut it is
i high time that these grave disturbances
| should be suppressed. The soldiers are vow
j vergenm o against the negroes, and the
1 negroes arc arming tin him Ives for defense
ainstthe soblier.-, and it has become unsafe
t"r ou?h ,#( ® ers * even <0 vonturo ndo the streets
aft-r „ Jhth.V. XVe lu, P c ,lic civ!l
i l ry riMM W.','. 1 w-epeiMte u. preserving
the petfec of the city, f.,' ‘Wmmgl, it nee
ry, both the a'lhlbTs :ma ,'‘ lu ["grocs.
A» i ‘ample of the feeling existin'? „'" lwce J>
the two'"las-c-. Carter, an indintriousarid wci.
conducted freedman in ihe employ of Smith,
Motes, A- Cos., wl.o had not been "If his em
ployer’s premise- Ur the two nights in ques
tion. was ye-ferd v ln-oiiiiiir knocked down
and severely hea'en by two soldiers, who
cltaroed with p . "itsitiun in t lie melee.”
Wu publi h tli • 1 've lor tin* special edi
fication of the New Y'rk lrdnint, whose
editors s-tin very fond of put ailing In fore
their readers evidence of cruellies practiced
on 1 reedmen by southern rebeis— L'olum
bm Sun.
Wigwam eor the Ptiiladei.viiia Con
vention —A great “ wigwam ” for the ac
commodation of the National Union Conven
tion i» to he erected in Philadelphia. The
News refen ing to it, says :
The plans are now in the hands of the
architect. They will be rapidly carried into
execution, and the building probably com
pleted by the 10th of August. The wigwam
will he the most extensive pyramid of can
vass ever crec'cd in the United States. It
will exceed in size the ever memorable wig
wam in which the Chicago Convention of
IbUO assembled. It will seat ten thousand
persons. A special gallery lor ladies will be
a prominent feature of the building. It will
he erected on the Central Skating Park of
Dr. Jausen, at. Fifteenth and Wallace streets,
: and will occupy nearly ail of that, quadrclat
| oral. The Convemi m that is to be assem
| bled within three weeks will be the largest
| and most important body «» statesmen over
i Convened in America. The wisdom and
| forethought of Die National Union Johnson
Clip of this city in erecting it is commendu- j
hie. Without it, no place of meeting for i
the Convention could have been afforded in j
the city.
OitE Candid Witness. —Mr. B C. Tra-i
man, special correspondent of the New j
Yoik Times, thus writes from Georgia:
“ The more 1 sec of Southern people, and |
the more ooportunit.irs 1 have of witnessing j
their deportment.the more 1 sympathize with
tiiem in their gloomy hour. I candidly be- i
lieve that, ha i wc taken ihcut by the hand i
and treated item like brothers, as it seemed j
we would do immediately after the surrender’
of their armies, a better state of feeling would
have presented it- if now than has existed
before in thirty years.
ggt, The Hon. Obadiah Browne and Mrs.
Cura Browne were re married a short time
since, at New Haven. They were firA
married nearly a quarter of a century ago;
lived happily together for some time, and
became parents ol two sons now grown up.
Trophic came and they were divorced. Mr.
Browne married again, and after living with
his second wife,-a number of years, removed
from her lie finally renewed the acquain
tance of his first wife, an-1 the result va.s
that he has now led her to the altar for the
second time.
AdS" The Nashville Dispatch gays of Gen.
Sherman : ” Whatever else tnay be reserved
for our astonished gaze by the wheel of po
litical change, of one fact we may be as
sured —to wit, that the crazy incarnation of
the demoniac fiend of civil war will never be
called ly the Jrccly given votes or his fcllow
i itiz -n* foh'e the Representative and Exec
utive~"f tr 'evr TMi. ver*t> U-pM/Dan tv o
How 10 Mrtke loffcc
»T CUtXUX A. IEA.LT.
The virtue of coffee consi.-,ts in ils volatile
aroma and its fixed extractive matter. The
happy combination of these with hot water
jis the pr<di!rtn for the C'-ffec maker. This
happy c in fin at ion, in my opinion, when re
alizeii itSperlecuon, implies that all the aro
ma ami ail the extractive matter of the
enjund coffee he got into the hot water, and
retained there. It seems to me that no ar
j?mnent is required to show that any aroma
1 which escapes into the air, oi any extractive
i matter lef in the grounds is so much virtue
wasted Now, to f?et at the same time the
whole of the constituents of coffee has seemed
very difficult. It boiling water he filtered
through ground coffee—this is the French
plan t.e aroma is promptly extracted, aud
I very little else, for the tix--d matter needs
more coaxing. If the ground coffee ho boil
!cJ a lon - time in water —the Turkish and
more common American plan—the arouiu
j escapes with the sf am. The French waste
the extractive matter ; the Turks, the aroma.
The plan which secures one of the ingre
i dietit.' allows the other t.i escape,
i Baron Liebig has investigated this suLp ct,
1 and those who have read his inter,sting pa
mrs published in the ,S' irntijic American a
short time since, will perceive that so far I
have only repeated his ideas. lie proposes
ito avoid the difficulties in the case in this
way . lie boils three fourths of the ground
coffee, and thus secures all the extractive
matter from that; the other fourth he adds
after boiling, and secures the aroma from
j that. 1 know that Liebig's coffee is excel-'
j lent, for I havo made it; hut I respectfully
submit that it is not the perfict coffee, it is
not the happy combination, which wo arc
seeking for. Liebig loses aroma l'roui three
fourths of his coffee, and extractive matter
from one-fourth.
I now { ropo.se a plan which on reflection
and after a considerable < xpcrience I find
to l e nearer perfection. My coffee making is
a continuous process, and may In- carried on
for a life time. It takes two days to get well
started, hut after that there is a daily routine.
To begin, L take ra'licr more than the usual
amount of coffee, and pour on it hot water
when it is ready to he used ; in other words,
I make French coffee. The grounds from
this operation I leave to soak in the pot till
the next day, when l begin coffee making
by pouring hot water on these grounds,
which hot water 1 use according to the French
plan in making coffee from fresh ground
coffee. The process is now in full operation,
and every time coffee is wanted the inani-
I pulations of the second morning are repeated.
1 thus extract all the soluble and useful mat
; ter of roasted coffee, and waste nothing.
! To put the art in the most practical form,
| 1 liuT" found it necessary to modify the coffee
not. I’erhapS the simplest apparatus is the
i ;, )o<t 0l '-'nary pot p.-ovided with two strain
ers. The strain*.? ot>'? form, and fit
into each Other nn,l inr- tliC top C flic pot
For use I set a strainer on the toj, oJ tlic P 0 !'
and into the strainer 1 place fresh grou,.. C 0 ‘
tec j over this 1 use the second strainer, con
taining the grounds of the last operation.
Now hot wafer is poured into the upper
strainer, and percolates down into the pot,
carrying with it all the goodness remaining
I in the grounds, and the aroma and much of'
the extractive of the fresh ground coffee.
When the water has passed down, I throw
away the now useless contents of the upper
strainer, and upset the contents of the
lower strainer into the po‘. Delicious coffee
I ii now ready to he served to the appreciative
household . — Scientific American.
American Opium Cultivation —lt has
long been known that the species of poppy
from which opium is obtained, is indigenous
in Northern Mexico, where it grows in great
profusion in the extensive plateaux of that
country. According to the report of Maj. !
Duffield, United .states Marshal in Arizona,
this plant is also found growing in its natu- \
ral wild state in the valley of the Santa Cruz ;
River. j
Mr. Emanuel Weiss, of Pennsylvania, has j
recently visited the regions where the pop- j
py is found, for the purpose <>f examining j
the country with reference to its availability J
for opium culture. In a circular which he |
has just issued, he exhibits .the China trade
with England and the United States, from
which it appear, that the British Govern
ment exohangu opium’with the Chinese for
tea, and transfers a large quantity of the lat-
I ter article to the United States for which we
pay in gold. If it lie true, as set forth in l
I this circular, that “ two families with but \
: two able field hands Can put ten acres of
| poppies under cultivation, which will yield
! about 1,200 pounds of merchantable opium.
I containing nearly ten per cent, of morphine,”
I it will prove one of the most profitable crops
jin this country. The poppy matures rapidly,
| and is harvested within 100 days from the
S date of planting. The greater part of the year
’ could therefore he employed in the production
of other cro{«, in stock-growing, or in mining
1 operations, for eithe of which the Territory
; of Arizona affords ample facilities.
1 The production of opium as an article of
export would add materially to our corn
j merce, and would remove the necessity for
a large exportation of the precious metals.
A'. Y. Tribune.
Slave Trade Probably.—A sloop was
overhauled in Mobile J."wer Bay early on
Tuesday morning, July 17, by a United |
Statc-S cutter, having on board 160 negroes, 1
whom the parties were about to carry to 1
Cuba and sell into slavery. The negroes had
been collected at different employment offi- j
ccs in Louisville, Nashville, and Memphis,
under a promise ol SoO per month to work
on a plantation. The captain and crew of
the sloop were ironed and placed on board
the sloop ot war Augustine for safe keeping,
and will be forwarded t« Washington
Joan or Are. —The Emperor Napoleon
has just subscribed ten thousand francs to
wards the e rection of a monument to Joan of
Are, and the restoration of the donjon town:
a! I’.- in, where ’-hr wa« tortured.
10L. I, NO. 33.
A Irw < ure.for Cholera.
Great interest is just now felt in the suc
cessful cure of cholera by Dr. Kubini, of
Naples. Camphor, as a cure for cholera, has
long been used by both school* of medicine.
'and Dr. Kubini’s innovation consists in the
' method or preparing the remedy. The es
sential fact- of the case 1 will n >w *t.Uo as
they have been reported hero by an Lug-
I hah geutieiuaa :
Dr. llubini's prep aration consist* of equal
; parts by weight of camphor and spirits, and
to the power thus obtained he attributes his
j success in the treatment of th* disease—
j And here 1 may say that the quantity of
; camphor which water will lake up is small.
To obtain, therefore, the “ saturated spirits
of camphor of llubini,” it is necessary to
distil spirits of wine, aud get rid of so much
of its water as will bring it to sixty degrees
over proof, in which condition it will d®
solve and hold iu solution ita owu weight of
i camphor.
With this ‘ saturated spirits of cample r,"
!’r. llubini, an eminent Neapolitan phyfi
i eian, has treated in Naples five hundred and
ninety-two cases of Asiaatic elioU ra, without
j the loss of a single patient. Os .those five
; hundred and ninety-two eases, two hundred
j were cured in the lioyal Alms House; eleven
■ in the Royal Poor House, and otic hundred
j and sixty-six in tho Third Swiss Regiment
jof .Wolff. That the three hundred and
j seventy-seven eases treated by Dr. llubini in
■ the public institutions were all genuine eases
i of Asiatic cholera, and some ‘ terribly sc
| vero,’ and that all recovered, the evidence
jof the following distinguished individuals,
with their offi ial seals attached, sufficiently
attests—ll Generale Governatore Ricci; 11
Maggioro Gominandanto Nicola Sodero;
Generate Coummndante Filloppo Kuoci;
Colonel KJuoro Wolff. ‘ The method oi
i cure ' is as follows : ‘ When a man is seized
■ with the cholera he bhould at once,’ says
llubini, 1 lie down, he well wrapped up ip
blankets, and take, every five minutes, four
drops ot the saturated tincture of camphor,
in very severe cases the do es ought to be
increased to from five to twenty drops every
five minutes. In the caseof a man of advanced
age, accustomed to wine and spirits, where
the drug given in drops has no effect, give a
small coffee-spoonful every five minutes, and
in a very short tifne the coveted reaction
will occur. Ordinarily, in two, or three, or
four hours, abundant perspiration will come
out, and then cure will foil w.’ ‘ The pre.
ventive method,’ writes Dr. Dubini, ‘is this:
let those who are in good health, while! liv- -
ing in accordance with their tieosl habits,
take every day tivo drops of the raturated
spirits of camphor upon a small lump of su
: gar (water must ne'er be used iwt a medium,
lor the camphor will become solid, and its
| curative properties cease,) and repeat the
; dose three or *four times a day. Hpices,
, aromatic herbs, coffeC, tea, and spiritous
, liquors should he avoided.’
| Ingenious Mechanism.—One of the
i most rematkau.o curiosities in mcbiutuu*,.
| recent invention, in London, is so worthy of
that we send your readers a minute
description. D a w?tch belonging tnt a
member of Parliament, designed and made
expressly for him, by James }' erguson Cule,
the celebrated London sratcb and ohrouou*-
jetcr maker. This unique packet chronoitt- J
j eter litis a silver d>al, on which are fi* o I
hands indicating respectively the Imart,-1
minutes and seconds ; tl>« days of the week ;
! the days of the m-mth; the month of the
year, [t eorn-cts itself for the unequal
months ; that is to say, change* when they
have thirty and when thirty one days ; anil
also corrects itself for leap year. Tt is so
constructed that any flight agitation of the
watch, such as the ordinary cxcreise of
walking, winds it. Thus it may he worn
and will go perfectly for years, without re
quiring even to he opened, although it can
also he wound by a key in the usual manner.
The dial is arranged in five circles, and with 4
in the largest, the hour circle, is a semi
circle, showing the moon’s age and phases by
means of gold on a ground of blue steel.
At the hack of the watch is a gold i'.dica
tor for ascertaining the time in the dark by
touch. The complication of the meehaiistti
may be imagined, and yet the watch is of
l ordinary dimensions and may he convenient'
jly worn in a gentleman’s pocket. It Cost
the sum of three hundred guineas. Mr.
Cole the inventor, is at present engaged In
bringing out n work on horology, wich,' it ia
believed, will contain more interesting mat
ter relative to the science than has eves be*
I fore been published. *>• ' ■*» vbr.
An Interesting Baptism —■“ Old
Christ Church,” in Lancaster county, Vir
ginia, was recently (during a convocation of
clergymen of the Northern Neck,) the scene
of a most interesting baptism-.! ceremony.
An observer on the occasion g ves the follow
ing description : s
The ample shade of the grand old walptlt
trees was soon shared bj an immense con
course of people, anti ere the hour arrived,
every scat and resting plaCc and nook was
filled. There was a secret inf dehec pend
ing the minds of that multitude, saying, i»
the silence of their hearts, “yourftthers far
generations past have worshipped within
these venerablo and majestic walk.” The
services of the day were very aolenrn.
The pure white old Italian marble font, of
three feet diameter, was to be need. Mark
S. Ashburnc was baptized, and then present
ed his little boy.
“ Name this child,” wus pronoun ?«d by the
; rector officiating. j
Ali was Mill in that kr*ge old churek, as
the standing congregation had every «yo riv
eted on the foirtal scene. But *hat a death
like silence c-amo over theta when the lather
aaswered for the child: »
“ His name is J offers at Davie 1” > .
The minister faltered as ho akwK- pro
nounced that name. Tears bedewed many
cheeks as they trickled down; hearts were
bleeding, battle fields, the buried dcsifphe
casemate and the prisoner—thi/ was ‘the
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NEWS, FACTS, AC
Mr. £• wud, it ut staled, tUcUrcd moni
emphatically, a few days since, that
Mexican ijmxliua would be tctied within
ninety day..
It is a-‘ rtod ia r..r;» that Au-tria bar
consented to retire fr-jra the t7ermaTj Con
fedvMtlon
It is said tl at tho President has determ
ined to remove Lav- Newton, Cvmtnumontr
of Agricniture.
Googratui i Uiry -iupatciic* liav* pa*»ed be-
Iwctu the of England, and the Presi
dent oftbe I nltcd States, on the completion'
of the Atlantic cable.
Tho river Danube flows through two
Kingdoms aud empires. It begins ass
Protestant xituh t, (ben becomes a Rumau
Catholia river, and fitmlly turns Taric.
Tho Uoxo CtHirUr says that the story re
cently published of is negro who hod de
tained a white woman several days in th®
woods, and. at her request had been skinnhd
alive, is s lie twit of whole sloth.
A prnat wigwam m beirur creeled in Phil
adelphia for the Aconijtmodalion of the Coe
veation. It will be the Jgiost extensive
pyramid of canvass ever erected in the Uni
ted States, and will seat Tft,Ooo persons.
The Freed men's Boren u In Princess
Anne c-mr-ty, Va , bars a- eldnyl that a ws
gm who sto'o a gentleman * br> udiag sow,
and kept her until she bad pigs, is entitled
1 1 the pigs if he returns tie sow.
Mr. Rogers, on the 28th July, m*Jc *
minority report from the .To lidary Fommit
teo, showing the perjury and utter worth
lessness ot the ovidsece to ssttbliSl: (hb al
ludg'-d guilt ol' Mr. Davis, and others, in the
tuc-assiuLtion ot Mr. Lincoln.
George l'.l’.i jtt, (Miss Evans,) after s*cing
leer la-1 .book, “ 1 etix Ilglt,” out of press,
took the money she rcceivod for it, t'2o,flOO
nnd went abroad, to svoid reading
i blc notice* of it.
A Kziiwta papir says: ,l Two men of tho
boro thieving fraternity danoed in tbo air
on Lightning Creek one day last week.
They immediately retired to a hole
ground after fhtir exorcise."
Reports received from various porU of
Illinois, Wiseonain, lowa and Indiaaa.M*
to tho effect that tho wheat crop will bo
more than an average oqc in respect to both
quantify and quality. The barley,' oat, and
rye crops also protnise well.
Mm per ot- Mns »rnn.\'T*f—Tt was
positively provedj on tire examination of
Merritt, tlmt tho Secretary of War. Edfia
M. FtantoD, jaid heVwceu five and
six thousand dollar-t for his serripcs as a
witness before i htt'-mtht ary eornmiwdon
’ liroehh/* KdtfU
<toMi>RAM*T*n;-aTh* Now Vofk (Jidsea
says: J ,‘ Wc bive authority to ooutradiaUtlao
rupoft .that, Jiff. .Davii lepudiatea. stiy por
tion of Col. Craven's Ito A. On thp contra
ry, Mr. Davis lore testimony no hiicr than
last Tuesday loHhc tnarOelous accuracy with
WnICQ tllff COflaaa v s«yv... * V., .•
»* Priaon Idfe addjng tbit be vitdied Cra
vea badmvt hutn so accurate, as toms of tho,
reported remarks about South or a politician*
andgoncr'alswore extremely embarrassing.'"
I'n-ntice says that tb* man who
to tlitf adoi litnent of (tonfbderale grave*
would aeateWy hesitate tw violate tbem
Tnr l*irTr,ADft.M!fA v fiSfr#*v+ufS‘ro rf*
L'noivttw ui* nv UrAidite—Tho eom-spon-t
dent oi' the New York. Cwasnaercfo/ Wfitco
from i’bil.Hlelpl.ia :
The tA'mvcntion to bo keld here in At
gust iindet tho dircotiwn of Mersrs. Doobltie
and Doinpsny it re*arded with great disfa
vor here Tbn returning r tldiera and fin
companies Dooly and openly dcckro that they
intend to break up the gatheiaWg, autl a
amvetnont Ibokibg to that cad is now laid, to
be on foot. ' Thuro are a large number of in
valid and oobvnlescoot aoidieca atitt about tb*r,
hospitals here who aOtiate to a conwdetabie
extent with the firemen, anfl assert that they
can prevail tho balding of aEyaued! mart
in g, especially WpuWiO mntmaawt is agpansf
it. Ant violetiee,’ bowovor, wib of coortobe
Enmnrarily headed off audptrtbhdtL hartaa
rive prepartttens art- being made to tender
a warm greeting and welcome to those atten
ding tK£Pe#ftvrMJoioa*€**teß*i«» wWoh
iucet? in h’cptembw»r adoL
The pmpoi-ftloTto p toll
lion and it half of dollars ftp the ffepsfir «#
the IcveCs of tho M» saippt rivor, wat re
jected by the Roprasengatigea on
tim 27-th ult. The House that would not
vote this sum for the preservation of proper
ty (h Which mHJioiwi of both whftn hid
blacks arc ad deOply interested, appropriated
cloven millions w*U a half to continue the
Freedmtn’a Bureau in the Sooth for oao
year longer. The repair of the levoiJ Would
have secured gt&d wagt* and good homes tot
a'millionof freed men ; while tho RarceW 4teb
not promke ahcai smplkmrg that k eot ae-
OBftd to them by **w without ka agency.
Tiir- ALTY st (t*nTca -J-Aw*fl»appy
PrUMnan inveoH r me t lueklc&ely aanomrod
Just at the pmseut jtutegare bia diaqpvcqr rs
i«* cartridge and a terribly ex
plosive Lufiet, two eecreta which it la »>d
WiH ffrakd'the PrnMart army ItfviWeiMd ted
so tUtercnof i is thr fhavammat ikdtth®
secret shall a Aeao3pc # that,ibe mao iaguard
wl night day by *; quad o| twelve aol
diofc ; every letter whmh he writes « in
spected, and he b not allowed to eommum
cate e illy with -awjr pevwte, oatept i« tea
fdemmoeofhisgward. Balbte aWefte*
alty for genius. . ... g . 1 #• ;1
A named Horace Greeley has
been arm ted ia Charleatoa for the aanier
kuiUS- Khett. Ua coofi-saea that h»Md
another negro, named John
the deed. . ...
If rtfs rirc tl&t tod gftve asi/hjeet to jdt>
on, we would ks that it a h«t a repeWtkm
of history ; for was not Mr. Rhett, the great
advocate of ncecsbiee, killed by
Horace Greeley an the fcpreaefttbUm dl tka
anti slavery feelingnf the
John Bull — Ave/Hsta Pr-i«-
