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She (fhatlooiya VOLUME 2.i THE CHATTOOGA ADVERTISER PtHUSHF.t) A f SCMHKRYIIXE, GA., EVERY FR IDAY MORNING. KATES OF SUBSCRIPT 1 OX. One Topv One Y -ar :::::::: $2 00 One Copy Six M -nth* ::::::: $1 00i No Subscription!* will be taken for a less j time than six mo. tbs. OUR A H VI-. U TlsWii RA TKs. j 3mor.lis Gmonths 12 men’s T square s4j On s7[ 00 SIOI 00 2 squares sfi! 00 $lO |OO SISj 00 3 squares $ 8 OO sl4 1.00 S2OI 00 4 column sl2 |OO S2O 00 $ .30 |OO i i column S2O 100 $35 100 sGo| OO 1 column 1 S4O 100 $75 100 100 jOO RATI IK>A OS, Western & Atlantic B. R. Change «>t* Schedule. On and after Sunday. February 12. 1871. the Passenger trains will run on the Western and Atlantic Rail Road A* FOLLOWS : night passenger tr ain. STATIONS. —O— TIME. TABLE, heave Atlanta. 10:15 P.M. Arrive at Kingst n, I ls A. m. Arrive at Dalton, 3:20 A. m. Arrive at Cbattanoog, 6:40 A. M. . LeaveChattanoo»a, 5:20 p. J). Arrive at Dalton, 11:11 P. M. 1 Arrive at Kingst >n, 1:51 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta, 1:42 a.m., DAY PASSENGER TRAIN, j Leave. Atlanta. 8:15 A. M i Arrive at Kings! tn, 11:45 A. M Arrive st Dalton 2:13 P. M Arrive at Chattanooga, 4:25 P. m Leave Chattanooga, 5:50 A. M. Arrive at Dalton. 5:10 a. m. Arrive at Kingst in, 10:.>0 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta, ”:00 P. M- E. B. M'ALKEIL aprilGtf. Master Transportation. Quickest and Best Route ** „ TO THE *NORTIT. EAS?&U?ESJ,, * —-r* ftf 1 A" in Ia m isviHo. THREE Dail Express Trains running through from Na.liville to 1.-uii-ville, inak ing elese connect ons with I'rains and Gnats f.r ike NORTH, EAST AND WEST. 7N o ( hnnsjf <>C f I OCIaVIM.K TO St. Louis. t 'injinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, J>itts burg, Philadelphia ana Xeir 1 ork. ONLY ONE CHANGE TO BALTIIORG U WIUXCTOX £ BOSTON ' Quicker time by this route, an-1 better accommodations, than by any other- Se cure speed and ounfort when traveling, by asking for Ticket s By the Wav of Louisville. Ky. Through Tick U and Baggage Checks may lie procured at the office of the Nash ville and Cbattai oosa Railroad at Chatta nooga, and at all Ticket Offices throughout the South. ALBERT FINK, W. H. KING, Gen’l. Sup’t. GenT. Pas sen er Ag’t. Juneß. Saint Louis, Memphis, NASHVILLE & CHATTANOOGA RAILICO.in LITE. CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE! I O Without Change of Cars to Nashville, Me- Kemie, Uni »n City, Hickman, Co lumbus. Humboldt, Browns ville, and Memphis. *——o — Only < >ne Change To Jackson. Tenn., Paducah, Ky.. Little Rock, Cairo, and Louis, Mo. MORE THAN 130 Tlile* Shorter to Saint Louis Thin via Mem] his or Louisville, and from 3 TO 15 HOURS QUICKER!! Than via Cos ir.th or Grand Junction. ASK FOR TICKETS TO MEMPHIS AND TIIE SOUTH WEST VIA CHATTANOOGA AND McKENZIE!! AND TO Pi. Loui* and the Northwest via Nashville and CoiuuiVss —all Rail; or Nash ▼illo a id Hick mail —Rail and River. THE LOWEST SPECIAL RATES FOR EMIGRANTS, WITH MORE Al>\ AN TAGF.S. QUICKER TIME. AND FEWER CHANGES OF CARS pgrTHAN ANY OTHER ROUTE.“©# Tickets for Sale at all Principal Ticket < iffices in the South. J. TV. THOMAS. GrnT. Supt. W. L. DANRt.Y. G. P. k T. Agent. Mareh23.tf. Nashville, Tenn. BULKMEATS Sides. Shoulder* and Slants hi Quantity at DE-JO I RXETT ; f SOXS Rome Railroad Company Change of Schedule. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN- Leave Rome 8:40 a in j Arrive at Kingston 10:80 a m Leave Kingston 1 1:48 a m j Arrive at Rome I o*o p m ! NIGHT PASSENGER TR AIN. Leaves Rome 8:40 p ni 1 Arrive at Kingston 12:40 a ui Leave Kit--"stun 1:18 ami Arrive at Rome 11:20 m j B®,, Connecting with trains on the Wes- j tern & Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, and i on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad at Rome. C. M. PENNINGTON. Eng. and Sup't, MIHC HUAAN KOI S A WONDERFUL STORY. How an Ignorant A urte Girl got up in Her Sleep and Gave Splendid Musical Entertain we/its—S om e thing to Wonder Over, if True. A lady of Indianapolis furnishes The People, a paper there, with the folllowingoxtraordinary narrative con- - corning Lisette Bernard, a little girl j of French extraction, “who was one j of a ear load of orphan, homeless ! children, sent West from New York , by,the Children's Aid Society there, to find homes. My husband had spo ken to Mr. Friedgen, the agent of the society, brother of the shoe merchant on Wasnington street, to bring him a little nurse girl the next car load he should conduct to the West. This was in the winter of 1864-5. That spring, in April, he brought us Lisette. stating that he knew nothing of her | parentage, and that he selected heron j account of her gentle disposition from j a number of favorites at the Orphan j Asylum on Randall's Island, near New York, where she had been for four years. * * * * * * * “There was nothing remarkable a bout her but Iter very mild ways, and dreary, weary look lVotn her deep-set blue eyes. 1 noticed Lisette manifes ted a peculiar and intense interest whenever I played on the piamT'se ■ lections fvgm any of the old operas ' a’n!‘"Ut:)sff''|'ircA<s A f such ’ t!tfi’’ - I ■ would frequently find her sitting in the adjoining room utterly oblivious ito everything but the music; from the effects of which she seemed to re* I cover when spoken to and would then | rouse herself as if from sleep. This ] absorption of hers was the subject of ! frequent remark in our family. One i night last November, about one o'clock, j my husband aud 1 were aroused from our,slumbers by hearing the sweetest i of music coming apparently from our parlor. Our feed-room was off the sit ting-room —all on the same floor, and of course we were frightened. The doors from our room to the sitting room aud parlor were all open—the gas by our bedside was burning dimly, but the parlor was dark. We lay a moment listening to the perfect con cord of sounds from the piano, which we perceived was under the fingers of a master hand. The music was from Bach —one of grand and majestic | movement —but not one that 1 had played on that piano, for I had not | the notes in the house. The playing ceased a moment or two, and then be | gan with one of Liszt’s Fantasias — I one so difficult of execution that none but the highest professors of art ever attempt it. I had heard it the sum mer before at Crosby’s in Chicago, but had never tried it myself. Mr. J. and I hastily dressed ourselves, for I bv this time we supposed some of our I friends had taken this novel method jof serenading us. But who was the i performer then touching the instru ment with a skill possessed by none of my acquaintances, was the puzzling question. We passed noiselessly to the parlor door—the light from our room by reflection made everything in the parlor visible. You may im agine our surprise when 1 tell you that the performer at the piano was ! none other than^Lisettc —dressed in i her gayest suit, with her abundance of I hair put up in a style I never saw be ! fore on any one, but very neat and ' tasty. Her face was from us, and | Mr. J. motioning me to keep silence, j lighted the gas and we both went to j Lisette’s side just as she concluded the fantasia, ller eyes were closed, and her face, unusually pale, was now deadly white. At the same time Lis ette, turning her head toward me and bowing politely, said in a lady like voice—not natural to her—“that was Liszt’s own favorite when I knew him; beantiful, isn’t it? But here is some thing IJlike better,” and turning to the piano, her eyes still closed, she gave with exquisite skill one of Bach s counter fugues, and which is perhaps the most difficult of all compositions to render, but when well delivered, as this was, carries the hearer from earth to heaven. If I could render a coun ter fugue, as a musician, I should he content. I was so absorbed in her theme that 1 forgot who was the fine performer. As it closed, Lisettc rose SUMMERVILLE. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1872. gracefully and bowing said: “That is sufficient for this child to-night ; she must now rest. Please, kind friends, do not awake her in themorn itig, I will arise her at the proper time,” and bowing again with a wo manly grace Lisette had never attain ed. she passed to her room. The next morning .Lisette, usually an early riser, sk*pt until 10 o’clock. We said nothing to her of what we had witnessed, nor told it to any one else ; that day. On the second night liter,! we were awakened about the same j hour by a .-imilar performance in the j parlor. V e went in again. The pieces played were all classic, mostly from Handel—one or two from Booth- ] '• oven—and their execution perfect; only one of which I had ever played in her hearing. Between each she made remarks and criticisms as natu rally as if she were some accomplished performer presiding at the piano, and not our little nurse girl. As she closed this performance, she astonished its more than ever by saying: “Good friends, I much thank you for your kindness to this child; lam her mother, and I am training her unconsciously to herself. Please do not tell her of this practice, for 1 fear she will not remain long with you, as she is very delicate,” and bowed herself out as before, , These performances being repeated every alternate night after, became somewhat annoying—especially since Lisette seemed to be declining rapidly. The physician prescribed for her, but never seemed to understand her case, lie witnessedher musical performance, lie said she was undoubtedly asleep the whole time at the piano. On one occasion she turned to him and said: “Oh, Doctor, I see you don't un derstand this ; Lisette is not before you except in body. lam her mother. 1 can use her body. My name is The rese Bernard. I was reared in Lor raine, married in Paris. 1 t aught mu sic iti Paris, it was my grand passion. | Mv husband died on board n ship as jwe came to America. 1 died in New York a few months afterward. I have ! watched Lisette you need not give her medicine, she will soon be Sne lingered till January last am! died,,a painless death. It was a grad ual fading away. Iter performance cased in December. After her death i Mr. ,J. wrote to the asylum whence i she came, to know what the record j showed concerning her. The answer ! so far as appliablc is as follows : “Bernard Lisette entered January 20, 1861, from Bleeke street tenement house. Supposed to he four years old; mother died of starvation ; said to be a French music teacher. Lisette sent, to Indianapolis, April, 1865. She never touched the piano when awake, but said she would like to learn to play it. Nor did she with but two exceptions play any pieces that were played in our house by any person.” Story ol’Kameda. the Indian Princess Many long years ago, when this old house was new, all the land here about, was shaded by the mighty for est. It was a dreary wilderness, witli here and there a pioneer cabin, or an Indian lodge, from which the smoke might be seen curling its way among the tree tops. The wild beast, and the wild Indian, lurked along the lonesome ways, keeping the white man in constant dread. Peril was in his path, danger hung upon his steps and death await ed him in the by-ways. Such it was when Phineas Muntin first laid his axe at the root of the ancient trees. Deep in the lonely forest, on the hanks of the Mohawk, was an Indian village. Moscha was the great, chief; Karneda his daughter ; and while he ruled the tribe with unusual tender ness, she ruled hirn with a rigid will - Her desire was his creed, her word his law. Karneda was brave as the panther, cunning as the fox; and her beauty had fired the hearts of half the chiefs of the nation; but Ostva was the only one who flared to advance bis claim. He worshiped the smoke that rose from her wigwam; he loved her. A mossy rock overhung a pool of water by the liter bank. Karneda sat upon the rock; Oswa knelt by her side. “The dark haired princess governs the mighty chief;” he said. “She governs the nation ; she rules the fear less Oswa.” Karneda listened, gazing at the image of her own pretty face that looked back at her from the glassy pool. She was silent. “Oswa is a wind in the war-path ; he is fleet in the hunt; his wigwam is strown with trophies. "Will the pret ty Karneda be the bride of Oswa?” “Deos Oswa see her face in the water?” “He loves the water that holds her shadow.” “Oswa shall not have even so much l as the shadow!” she said earnestly- Then she dropped a little pebble in the water and the beautiful image was shattered into a hundred quiver ing circles. Oswa leaped to his feet; his brow was dark. She looked up in his face. Iler eyes blazed—her words were ar rows : “Kamcda loves another!” “Then Katneda shall go with her shadow !” he said fiercely. A heavy blow fell upon her pretty cheek, and Katneda went down to her shadow ’. Oswa was not sorry-' he looked and smiled, hut it was otllcfor bno instant. There was a quick crackling of the brush—a heavy tread behind him, and with a bound he was out of sight.— Then a strong man leaped from the rock, and reseured the stunned and drowning Kauteda. lie laid her upon a led of leaves ; her head rested upon , his lap ; he brushed the dark hair from her eyes and spoke her name. Looking up, with a smile, and realizing what had happened, she said: “Kamcda knows all; she is grate ful. The white man has done well. The chief shall know that bo is a friend, and harms not Katneda.” “Not a hair of her pretty head,” said the man. “Though I wouldn’t like to say as much for that sneaking wolf who tumbled her jnto the water.” A sharp, wild cry caused them to spring to their feet. -Oswa was before them ! A black cloud was on his face; the lightning in his eye. “Oswar is a wolf;” he said. “The wolf drinks the blood-of his enemy!” “Friend or foe is alike to the wolf,” said the man reaching for his rifle. But Oswa heard not the words, he dashed through the underbrush, was out of sight! The whiie man looked in the direc tion with some concern, fearing that in Oswa's hidden' threat lurked a danger. ’He turned to speak to Kami eda, but she had glided away ; ho was alone. Katneda followed the trail of her now hated lover. Her heart was troubled. She knew that horrors were wainting for the white man who iiad.sa vptl b*T,lifunA , if~iti.*wd l atoiie for tie' imuinTt ApV-iwa. -As she Hilled through the brush she saw a group of young warriors. Oswa was among them; he was speaking: “When the full moon rises they must die !” Katneda sprang into their midst. “Tlifcy shall not die 1” “The war riors will go book to their wigwams.” It was Katneda s word, which none dare dispute. The Indians slunk away into the darkness. Like a rock, stood Oswa. lie fold ed his arms; he looked upon the ground. His heart was a burning coal. Kamcda stepped tolas side; she touched his arm, but he moved not. “Does the feral ess Oswa crave the white man’s blood!” she asked. Oswa was silent. , “The white man saved Kameda’s life, that she might return to her lov- “Docs the dark-haired Karneda love Oswa?” he asked sternly. Does the water give back the glan ces of the sun ! Will the flower bloom within his light! Karneda has done no wrong. If Oswa vyill destroy the whiteman, Karneda will save him.” Their eyes met for one moment; each read the Others purpose, and with out a word whirled away into the depths of the forest gloom. Karneda sped through the shadows, but not to follow Oswa; not to her wigwam. It was to the cabin of Phin eas Muntin, who had saved her life. The door was open, and she glided in so softly that no one was aware of her presence till she ntte/ad the fearful warning: “The wolf is on the war path; he drinks the blood of his enemies ! The torch waits for the white man, and he must fly to the willows by river. Trust to the words of Karneda! Phineas Mum tin had no time to ask questions. She flitted out of the door like a bird, aud with noiseless step fled into the darkness. The full moon rose like a shield. — Light gleamed upon the hills, and the tree tops were margined with silver. It glinted upon a score of ready tom ahawks—hungry for vengeance. It lay bread upon the shimmering river, played among the dark locks of Ka meda and sparkled in the drips of her paddle. “The fearless Oswa seeks revenge,” she whispered to herself. “But ven geance belongs to Karneda; she will have it. The life of the white man saved shall he a storm cloud in Oswa’s path; the lightnings will fall upon him.” Karneda landed her boat beneath | the willows. Phineas Muntin was 1 there, with his wife and children, for jhe well knew the horrors that were j suggested in Karneda s warning. “Death hangs upon delay, she whispered. “Puick to the boat. The white faces shall he saved, and Kame da's vengeance will begirt.” Thev were soon on board, Muntin dipped" his oars and braced himself for a hard pull. Kanteda sprang in and seized the paddle. There was a footstep card among the willows strange figures moved a bout in the shadows. ‘.‘Quick! they are here!” whispered Katneda. And the boat shot away into the current. A wild veil was the | answer to this movement. Then twen j ty ntad savages rushed to the water's edge! Their dark forms bordered the | bank; the moonbeams danced upon their knife blades! Strong arms pulled the oars; light | hands dipped the paddle, but the load was too much. The treacherous boat was filling with water; it was sinking. The Schoolmaster of Califor* NIA. —A pedagogue in Curlew, who was “had up,” for unmercifully welt ing the back of a little girl, justified his action by explaining that “she persisted in flinging paper pellets at him when his back was turned.”— That is no excuse. The Town Crier once, taught school up in the moun tains, and about every half hour had to remove his coat and scrape off the dried paper wads adhering to the nap. He never permitted a trifle like this to unsettle his patience; he just kept on wearing that gaberdine until it had no nap, and the wads would not stick. But when they took to dipping them in mucilage, he made a complaint to the of Directors. “Yoing man,” said the Chairman, “es you don’t like our ways, better sling your blankets and git.—• Prentice mulford tort skule yer for mor’n six mentbs, and never said a word agin the wads.” The Town Crier briefly explained that Mr. Mulford might have been brought up to paper wads, and didn’t mind them. “It ain’t no use,” said another di rector, “the children bov got to be amused.” The Town Crier protested that there were other amusements quite as di verting* but the third.eda-ectur here I rose i<nd remarked:. - 1 •I perfectly agree with the Cheer; this youngster better travel. 1 con sider as paper wads lies at. the root of popillar edyercation ; ther a necessary adjunx uv the school system. Mr. Chairman, 1 move and second thet this yer skoolmaster be shot.” The Town Crier did not remain to observe the result of the voting.— San Francisco Newts Letter. Nilsson’s “Thrift.” —Nilsson bus had a grand benefit, which she must stand greatly in need of. I honestly h0p0,41 will enable her to get away in good shape. lam overpowered when 1 tbinlisof the multitudinous charities of that woman. She has stood up arid shown herself elegantly costumed for an hour at a time and sold bou quets at a fair. She was applied to by an old lady who was once a great music teacher here, who being too poor to buy a ticket, had never heard the great diva sing. She asked to be allowed to go in upon the stage and stand at a wing. The generous Swede could never allow that; the aged wo man should have seats in front, and she ordered her to call at her hotel next day; bright and early the old creature presented herself, received the precious pasteboards, fixed her faded trappings to do credit to her benefactress’ presence, went to t.ho Academy and found she was entitled to a perch just under the rafters, where nothing but the notes of the trumpet ever penetrated the peaceful silence that brooded there. Nilsson has been in the habit of sending her small pieces to the house of a friend to put with the family wash, because the swindling laundries ask just as much to wash a collar as they do a shirt. She sat down with a yard stick and pencil and ciphered the amount of silk in a flounce before she rashly yielded to the extravagant demands of u poor seamstress, who wanted live yards—all at once. I thought Char lotte Cushman beat the world for thrift, hut Christine is an awful bur ner of her.— St. Louis Republican. Dr. Greeley and Ills Style of DuesS. —The upholders of personal government affect to laugh at Greeley because he wears a white overcoat and a broadbrimmod hat and has a lingering attachment for a swallow tail coat,. They affect to think that on account of these peculiarities Gree ley should not be elected President. Objections of a similar kind were made against Lincoln in 1804. The ungainly style and not handsome sea tures of the martyr President, were ridiculed and caricatured, just as Greeley’s style and dress are now. But caricatures and ridicule did not prevent Honest Abe from being elect ed by an overwhelming majority. The earnest Republicans who wore for Lincoln then are for Gieeley now. The people do not feel any need for an Adonis in the Presidential chair, but they do want an honest man. greeloy’s white coat and broad-brim med hat will last him through his one Presidential term. Unlike cigars, bull pups, and demijohns, the supply will not need continual renewing; and besides, he pays for them himself. N. Y. Sun. Chop Repouts for April.—The report of the Agricultural Depart ment for April does not indicate a fair condition of the winter grain crop. The severe weather in nearly all localities has reduced it to a far less than the average condition, ex cepting on the Pacific coast, where it is looking remarkable well. The reports from Pennsylvania refer to the severity of the weather and depth of freezing. The fly is reported in several counties. Lack of weather protection caused severe injury in Delaware. South of Maryland and Virginia little wheat is grown, and are mainly for winter pastures. The returns received from those States generallly represent less than the average condition of the grain. The accounts from other places South are various, some promising, others gloo my. In Texas there are indications of increased attention to cereals, point ing to an enlarged area to be har vested this season.— Ex. Relics Os Giants.—They have found traces of a race of giants who dwelt in Canada in some pro-historic age. Some people digging in a field at Cayuga have unearthed about two hundred gigantic skeletons, some of which are said to be more than nine feet in length. With them are hur ried a variety of stone implements and ornaments. If we can believe all the reports that come to us from time to time evidences are freequently found of a huge race of people who occupied this continent, or some por tions of it in times long past. Why do not the sages of Cayuga, and others localities favored with these gint grave-yard, put their hands together and reconstruct the history of the Am«ri»an Titans just -as Prof Agassiz will restore a species of fish from a few fossil scales and frag’ merits of bones; It would lie con genial work for them; and interest ing to the rest of mankind. We are assured that “the,re were giants in those days,” whenever “those days” were, and would be glad to know more about them. An Irish Htorv.—An irishman, named Padly Doolan, readywitted wag, who always had a word for every body, let it Bit which ever way it might. Paddy went into a grocery store one day to buy eggs. “How are eggs ther day?” he ask ed of the clerk, who was one of these over-smart fellows, by the way. ‘,Eggs are egg to-day, Paddy,” replied the clerk, looking quite tri umphantly upon two or three young lady customers who happened to be in tlie store. “Faith I’m glad to hear yeez say so,” replied Papdy, “for the last ones I got here were chiclcens.” Something For Young Men. Few things in the lives of young men tire so impressive, or so full of valuable suggestions as their frequent laments over lost opportunities for mental or moral culture. In his autobiography, Sit AValter Scott says: “If it should ever fall to the lot of any youth to peruse these pages, let such a youth remember it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities for learn ing which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my lite rary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance, and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a i sound foundation of learning and sci i » ! cnee. Edmund Burke grew wise in this I respect while it was not too late to re-; trieve the most of his errors and j losses, for before his youth was entire ly past he wrote to a friend: “What would I give to have my j spirits a little more settled! lam too giddy; this is the banc of my life; it hurries me from my studies to trifles, and 1 am afraid it will hinder me from knowing anything thoroughly. 1 ! have a superficial knowledge of many things, but scarcely the bottom of r. any. Washington Irving, when giving counsel to a young friend, exclaimed, in the bitterness of his heart: “How many an hour of hard laboy and study have I had to subject My self to, to atone in a slight degree, for the hours that I suffered society to cheat me out of.” Even Josiah Quincy, the last man INO. 20 in the world that we should have sus pected of having wasted a moment in his daily life laments more than once his “neglect of that mental and moral cultivation” which he regards as the “noblest of human pursuits.” Oa one occasion he says: “I resolve therefore to be more cir cumspect, to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit—to listen to the suggestions of indolence, ami so quick en that spirit of intellectual improve men to which I devote my life.” Arresting the Spread of Smallpox. Dr. John Day (says the Australian Journal) in a paper “On a Means of Arresting the Spread of Smallpox,” read at a meeting of the medical so ciety of Victoria, explained his method of perfectly destroying the germs by which smallpox is propagated. Ilia belief is, that the virus of smallpox is always associated with pus-cells, and the only way in which it can be destroyed is by oxidation. He pro poses the use of peroxide of hydro gen as the agent for rapidly and thor oughly oxidizing and destroying the virus germs given off from the bodies of smallpox patients. Peroxide of hydrogen, which according to Schou bien, is composed of autozone and water in a state of combination, un dergoes a remarkable change in the presence of blood, and by mere con tact with the corpuscels its antoxone is rapidly transformed into oxone—- the oxygen of combination. The particular form in which he would recommend the use peroxide of hydrogen is that known as oxone ether—being a compound of absolute ether and peroxide of hydrogen. It is highly volatile and may be diffused even through very large apartments, such as the wards of hospitals, by means of a spray apparatus. It quickly destroys sulphuretted hydro gen and other noxious gases, and, when once diffused, it is very persist ent in its action. As collodion, cold cream, anil lard are occasionally used as topical ap plications in the treatment of small pox, ho mentions that oxonic either can be mixed with any of these sub stances without undergoing any per ceptible change in its chemical prop* erties. The recent impeachment proceed ings in Florida furnish a curious in stance of the uncertainty attending such cases. The House of Repre sentatives presented articles of im peachment against Gov. Reed. The Senate took cognizance of them to r the extent of resolving that the pro ceedings under the impeachment should be carried on according to the provis ions of the Constitution, after which that body adjourned without taking further action. Gov. Reed declared that by the adjournment without a trial the charges against him were a bandoned, and that the suspension from the exercise of his duties follow lowing impeachment had ceased in consequence. Lieut.-Gov. Day held the contrary view of the case, and claimed to exercise the powers of the Governor of the State until the im peachment of Gov. Reed should be definitely disposed of. The Supreme Court was appealed to and two of the associate Judges decided that Lieut.- Gov. Day’s view of the subject was correct, while the Chief Justice in a dissenting opinion sustained the posi tion taken by Gov. Reed. At this stage of the muddle the Senate con cluded to go on with the trial, and the matter was finally settled by the ac quittal of the Governor by a vote of seven to ten. The consequence is that Gov. Reed has resumed the func tions of his office, the Lieutenant- Governor contents himself with pre siding over the Senate, and the exci ted partisans who were talking of war have laid away their muskets. — N. Y. | Sun. The Effects of Martial Law. —Tho injury done to business of all kinds aud to farming interests in the upper counties which are feeling the iron hand under the enforcement act, is beyond description. In this county there is scarcely anything doing; in the town, business is almost dead, with but little hope of recovery, while on the farm, in a majority of cases, there is little or nothing doing and the fu> ture prospect is indeed gloomy. And while it is so with us here in Newberry, , the situation is much'worse at Laurens. 1 A gentleman from there on Thurs- I d; iv last says that during the whole iof one afternoon lie saw hut three persons out shopping, one lady and two little girls, and not a living soul in from the country. So fearful are some men of being arrested and im prisoned, however innocent they may joe— so widespread is the fear or doi moralization —that in some intances it is said farmers plough their fields with saddled horses, ready to flee on the nop. oach of an officer of the gov ermeut. The times could scarcely be worse Se wherry Herald