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- ^ ^ ' : ' * ^ ^ 'I ' y/' /; '', An Independent Family Newspaper, devoted to Politics, Literature,'and^General Intelligence. 07/7* motto is?Truth without Fear. VOL. 2, NO. 20. BEAUFORT S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1872. ' ?2 Rcaufort County Republican THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1872. 1 "BLANK DEEDS Legal Cap Paper, etc. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE OLD ESTABLISHED. "yyEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, A\r> SEMI-WEEKLY TO BEAUFORT, S. C. The Steamer PILOT BOY. Captain W. T. McNeltt, Will leave Beaufort every M o x v a y Afternoon, a: p 3 o'clock for Savannah, Hilton Head and Spanish Wi 11 Returning will l>*avc Savannah every Tuesday Morn ing at ? o'clock, Beaufort every Tuesday AfUrnoou at : o'clock. Will leave for ' harlestnn, Pacific and Chiaolm.s Land lo^s every Friday Morning at k o'clock. Making clost connection at Charleston with New York, Baltimore am Phihide'phia steamships. Freights received at all tiruos, stored and forwarJct free of charge. For Freight or Passage, appv to WM. IIARRISSON, A r -nt at Beaufort RAVEXEL, HOLM ICS. A CO.. Agntsat '"harleston JXO. F. ROBINSON. Ag nt at Savannah. BOSTOYMilVVOBk AND BEAUFORT Freight Line. 'J'FIE SCHOONERS ALTOONA ANF FARRAGUT are now permanently or the ab-.ve line in connection with the Fori Ro\al ^kw Mill. . The AUo na will leuve B ?s*nn ahout, the l Aih nf.Iftiiiiarv and YrW Yolk the 2 Ah | AVVi I " w?* .? ? direct for B HUrort. I Any inf'?rmaM?>n in regard to frieght 01 ^ other particu'a's <**n b h*?t ??f JOHN s. EMEllV. or LEWIS & HALL. Commission merchants, Xo9Mer chants Row Boa'on EVANS BALL & CO., South street, N> w Y<?rk. ??r D C. WILSON A CO, Proprietors P ?rt Royal Saw Mill. B? aufort, S. C. jan.4*f Agents. FARE REDUCED ON S.EAMKU PIL 01 B 0 Y, FROM BEAUFORT TO CHARLESTON HI sivAiim. On and after this dute the passage wil be: From Beaufort to Charleston, meals and berth i eluded. S3.(X From B -aufort to Savannah, meals and berth included, 3.CK Wm Harrison, Agent. Beaufort, January* 17, 1872. jan. 18-4 PORT ROYAL SAW MILL BtiAUFORT; S, C D. C. WILSON & CO. Manufacturers of and Dealers in YELLOW PINE AND CYPRESS; LUMBER AND SHINGLES. Builders and Contractors, ORDER* FOR LUMBER AS'D TIMBER BY Till CARGO PROMPTL1" PILLED. TERMS CASH. D.C. YVILSOX <*<71151 ItlOii no*2S Just Received, A splendid stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS and CAPS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, I CROCKERY, J TOBACCO, 1 CONFECTIONERIES, TINWARE, &c., Ac. ' at the store of F W. SCHEPER. BAY STREET, HEAD OP NO. 2. DOCK, which he will sell lower than any othei store in BEAUFORT. jan:4-iy. JL Monomaniac's Ex crimen ts* The St. Louis Republican prints tlie following incredible (but readable; story .n the form of a letter from Paris. I promised you some extracts from the journal of the Marquis - , the mysteries of whose chamber? were recently invaded and. disclosed by the police, and gave you a brief description of the hidden dungeon, wiih its curiously contrived closets and manifold appurtenances. Among the couients of these secret closets were enumerated several manuscripts in the handwriting of the murderer, giving in detail a minute account of his various experiments in resuscitating the lives of persons whom he had decoyed to his den and artistically killed?all in the interests of science. It then became plain that he was a monomaniac, searching lor the .earful se ret of the sources of life, and his deeds rival in tang froid any of the most reckless alchemists of the thirteenth century. i translate cerbatim from the originals now in the office of the Prefect of the Second Arondissenu-nt, to whose known t?iirt.in.iitv t<-> a nihricani I am indebted for 1 thi . and many similar favors. After detailing various experiments on the inferior 1 i animals, the manuscript recites as fol. j lows : | | iSo. 3. The subject of this trial was about -thirty years of age, of nervo-san1 guine temperament, an., full muscular develop nent. The fumes ot charcoal was then employed to suspend the vital forces, and was a<niiui-te,ed slowly and unkno vn by the sub ect in ord r to derange as little as possible the arrange.1 m nt and re.ative position of the various oig us and vessels o* the body. . 1 | At the instant of unconsciousness the J femoral ait^-ry was opened near the knee, and every drop of blood extracted Having liga urcd the artery in such & manner that I coul I open and clu.-e it at will, J then opened the large veiu in the left arm. prei aratory to introducing the artificia blood already prepared pursuant to ) the Jormula to be found n MS. tome Hi, j p. 33. 'i llrough this was caused to pass j . t a current of e'eetricitv on silver wires, ; joined at the ?nds iu a ball of platinum, . i until iho thermometer ind ented the sa.i.e I tenipcrat .re whicii the l>nly then held; j having prtvoua y adjusted the voltaic r j p lc t<? the :o m of the sub ect, the Und ' 1 war? iu e. ted by a movt pouer.'ul syringe j ] to the amount of about twenty pounds i 1 ' (i.ug ish weight . attd as soon as tl.e heart j j was filled the whole fi.tv-jar battery was | < appl.ed, and simultaneously the l.gatuie | i on the artery was bosened. Tlte intiux j of the blo<xi ft ti'i being kept np, a cur. , ] Y r nt was at once established, but without | action or ofort by the heart A local tip- ' j plication of the electric current was then ] made to that muscle, and to tnv delight, a j | faint but rather spar-modic action occurred. | The aitcrv, which had been discharging fclowly, was then tecured, and the air bid- j lows were applied to the oesophagus with regu ar movement. The lungs 1 j filled at on< e, and the same spiymiodic ac- j t on wag developed. The currents of ek-ctricity and of air were now applied at ; ! regular Intervals, corresponding as clovely ! | as possible to an ordinary pulse-beat and j 5 to the regular breathing. To my intense j I delight it now simulated every appear- j ance of life., but remained plunged in a ! torpor which my utmost etfoits aud ingenuity could not dispel. llad 1 tiien succeeded in producing animal life, but devoid of seusuous perception and the power thereof'! What is the tiling want- j ing to arouse this intelligence, and how I connect the action of the physical organs with the nervous system ? 1 retire for the I night. A night and day have passed in deep re. ection. The body remains in the same position. The pulse l>eat8 regularly but faintly at about forty five and the breathing is dec ded, but faint aud noiseless. I had during the day } re pared a solution of ' [ iron and other material,according to formula, tome 111., p. 12, and new charged the same heavily, and the minerals ro; tamed the subtle iluid magnificently. Sc p werful was it that staudiug on an insu! * - * ~'l mA?e me tnv liOltH lit lllA ? lUltTU aiuut AIIV& IU111IT 4 O-... t tlu.il, 1 could plainly eel it spreading 1 1 itself through my l>ody. g I proceeded to eject this solution into r the stomach by the process of Dr. l)es fc ] o dfs, and the result was astounding. v A lius i speedily over6j>read the face, the | pupil of the eye slowly dilated a;.d fl assumed a look of intelligence. The tongue wus loosened, and obstructed the c breathing, which became stertorious. The pulse became stronger, and the action of both heart and lungs was visibly natural. 1 removed bim at once from all contact with the voltaic pile and the batteries, <3 and made him assume a position parallel t With the niagueiic currents ol the earth, t and then retired to the upper room and t ! closely watched his movements, myself ! t j concealed. I t As the fumes of the injected solution ; 1. Increased in volume, a movement of th? i a , j feet and hands be;an. which, to all ap- j s pe?rAncor. wi\s controlled by the will, and I o this action yrniuf?lly extended itself to j t< tlie a hole body. The leys and arms were i 1 moved and stretched. The muscles obeyed | I volitun The arms moved under hint, and p With a seeming effort he sat erect and t looked around him. He stretched out his h hand toward the gas jet which was burn- p f ing brlgb ly. and then looked at his palm d in evident surprise. He attempted to n Stand erect, ut at the first step staggered 6 and fell He then crawled on his elbows e machinery, tor good or for bad, la subordinate to mind in relation to Idea*. History in nothing but logic. Not an invading army, but an unsound syllogism, will bring a nation to nothingness. The impassive, and sometimes, it is to be feared, ironical, Time spirit sits with a face of a sphinx, proposing logical riddles to the nations, supplying premises, and waiting to boo who will have courage to draw legitimate conclusions, suggesting sophisms to try the children of men, giving to those who can answer her questions the mo.nt splendid rewards, and ever herself working out with the soreness of the stars the problems of her superb dialectic. If we can lay hold of the logic of history, the events of oar own time ought to be as intelligible as those of the past, with which they are inseparably linhel; and even something of the future ought to be deducible when, having ascertained ; by observation a major premise, we sup | ply, by prudent conjecture or prophetic gift, a minor.?" France and Pruuia," in 1 the Contemporary Revieto. Mahomot. . ind knees to various shining objects in ,he room, and invariably carried them to lis mouth. I watched him in silence and it last addres-ed him by name, but to my lalutation he returned lnartioulate sounds, md his attention instantly wandered. The mystery was soon solved. 1 had sucsee-led in restoring animation to the body ; bad put in working order the heart, lungs, stomach, and nervous system, but ill the efFortB of my art could not restore bis lost humanity. He was an idiot. The Intangible something which bad heretofore made him a resjonsiblt- human being was gone forever, and my reason at on e told me that further than this art eould not go, deeper than this science could not look, and I stood rebuked on the very threshold of the temple, with not even a glance at its real mysteries. The causes of all that I h& I seen still remained hidden, and shallow as Bjthe>da's was the pool which 1 ha. troubled, and no healing wa< in its waters. A deep disgust for knowledge followed my ^te enthusiasm as or.e wn\? succeeds another, and my only feeling as one of anger and envy towards the first great cauae wlrnae doings I had thought to duplicate ? whose secrets to unravel. The grovell ng thing lelow me, gih. beiing in the g'are of the gns-.i lit se< iued to nv>ck me. and w.th ar.ger am] despair I closed the aperture, tuiuel on the aphyxiatiug gas, and in a few ino men's he was beyond the reach of resus citation through human means. What if the measure of my guilt as weighed by legal standard, and in how far would fliave been a murderer had not the last sceno been en>?cted ? So closes one chapter of this remarkable document, and if the evidence wer< not so positive one would doubt the statement contained therein. The house which covered these scenes has been ra'ed by order of the Government, on petition of adjacent property owners, and svery vestige has been remov-d. Tin name of the murderer has been erason from the heraldic records, and his memory as far as possible, consigned to oblivion. [tencral Anderson?A Sumter Mem' ory. The editor of the Savannah Ttfi?ub!ir/in, who was present by invitation of Captain ll.irtstein at the evacuation of Fort Sum t?r. des Tines nr. interview with (Jeneia liobert An Icrson at that time, two points which are worth copying. The writei says: " We enquired of Major Anderson why he nbandoi ed Fort Vou trie after hisposi(ive engagement with a committee of South Carolinians not to leave it Ills reply was. that mutual obligations were- entered into?ha to remain, nnd the Carolinians not to d stui b whl'e in possession oj the foit. lie believed those who gave the tssurance acted in good faith, but t-l.ey ?uld not contro' others. He le!t Fori Moultrie under reliable information thai without the consent of'the authorities o1 Carolina, a plot had been formed ir Charleston; by the more impulsive portion )f the population, to attack the fort in tin ear. lie had unquestionab'e evidence :hat such an expodition was on foot, and >elieving that the work was not defensible. he evacuated it and transferred hia >arrieon to Fort Sumter. And just bore, it may not be uninterestng to relate another cir umstance in the tame tonnectlon. Late iu the evening, af,er the Itabd had le:t 'or the bar with Major An lereon and hw garriron, the 4etmer tie* ? al C.incJi, with a a^gu and >:ithusi?st:c crowd on board, turned her >ro? towards tlie city. The capture o* he fort and gnrriron was on every tongue ind the wildest rejoicing pervaded the resael, many le'.ieving the war at an end md Southern n epeudence accompli-bed. )n deck there was a pile of cotton baler, tnd when nearing the wharf we ois :erned ('a: tu n iiartstetn rooming on tne op of them. evidently making and apparutly taking no part in the general en hu-iasm. Passing by, we addrra-^ed lirn. and inquired if he felt uuwe 1 und< r lie iatigues of the day. " No, not sick," le rent rkod, " 1 was only occupied with k-rious thoughts of the j'uiurt, while the est are enjoying the present. I am a Southern man and sympathize with inv * .pie in their wrongi; but I have long >eeu in the service o.- the Unite i States, ,nd know her spirit and i<ower. I was mly thinking how terrioly she wonld venge this dishonor to her flag." The Force of Mind. If the war of France and llnssia has lemons ia:ed anything, it his demons'med that no force o.i earth is master of hingsbut mind. The pointing of a gun e .s more than its weight of metal. A hinking^Jeneral is worth twenty fighting ieuerals. Already there has Hrisen a e^end of Moltke?descendant of Woden, rmed with cap of darkness, shoos of wiftness, and irresistible hammer?typo f the heroic strength and prowess of inellect. Matter has been busy heaving tself up, hoping to conquer by its stupid iulk. but it has only served to form a oint of ascent, or airy platform, foi mind o leap from and soar. In a higher sense, lovrever, Je mind supreme than In its apiliir?tUn ?? miwViinerv the machinery of liscipline, transport, commissariat, buraflg of villages, crganiratim of robberj, booting down of oon-conibatauts, and acfc lite. Ail tbic salad in relation to Tho Arabs, before the mission of Maiomet, were Sabxns, or worshipers of the stars. To the distinguished tribe of tho . , the Koreish belonged the charge of & black stone, which was regarded as Ihe national palladium, and was kept at Mecca. ( To this tribe belonged Mahomet, who, tnrough his intercourse with the Jews and L Christians, learnt to prefer Monotheism to t 1 the Polythe'sm of his countrymen. After attaining an independent position by marriage wilh a rich widow, he gave himself j up for a while to a life of religious retirement. and in his fortieth year re-appeared ( : with the doctrine that there was but one ; God, aud that he, Mahomet, was his prophet. At first, he not only found but few adherents, but a riot forced him to leave Mecca for Medina on the ICth of July, 622, from which, as the Hegira or Flight of Mahomet, the Mahometans compute their years, as the Christians do theirs from the birth of Christ. While at Medina he comp< s *d some of the frogmen's of which the holy book called the Koran consists. Short ly afterwards he was acknowledged by the Arabians as tbe appointed messenger of the Deity, and after hia death, in the year i j 6:12, his tomb at Mecca became the retort for pilgrims. The religion which 1>? left I behind h'm taught the unity of God as the 1 creator aud preserver of the univer-e, the resurrect on or tne acan, ana a i.re nere after in wHc'i the good would bo rewarded ' and the bad pun sited. To the ceremonials j of the faiih belong frequent ablutions, the ' J offering of fire prayers daily, fasting, and ; pilgrimages to Mecca. The asving of alms was commended, polygamy within certain liirvts was allowed, and wine and pork was I prohibit? 1. A very practical precept of i the Koran was the duty of diffusing the r true doctrine by fire and sword, if necest sary, and all who died in the pious cause t were promisod & paradise full of sensual f delights. l i ^ The Way Texan Wild Horses are ^ , Broken. [ A lenthor strap attached to the " bosal n (a kind of halter) is pulled over the horse's- eyes, and a saddle-blanket is dropped gently on h's back, but very seldom rema ns at the first trial, as he will almost invariably shake it off After one or more tria's. however, he submits to both blank-t and saddle. The latter is i strapped on tightly with two girths, fore and flank, strapped tightly. The rider j then adjusts the Btake-rope Into reins by | tying it securely to the bosal, leaving a ! long end by which to hold on, in the event i ! the h< rss ehould succeed in throwing him. He stands directly facing the horse, abreast or a littlo forward of the shoulder, seizes the under part of the boeal with his left hand, pulls the horse's head round near him to prevent him being kicked, take* the stirrup in h's right hand, and turn ng it toward him, places his foot in ; it firmly. Grnsping the pommel, he now gives the saddle a shake or two, makes one or two feints at mounting to see how his horsewhip will take it, and then suddenly spr'ngs, seating himself eecureiy in the saddle. The bi nds, of course, are still over the eyes of the horse, and as a general thing be .stands, his neck stretohed out and head partly down, a picture of awkwardness. When ready for the start, the rider reaches i gently forward and slips up the blinds. 1 Naturally the horse is rather astonished ; and at first refuses to more. A sharp ap plication of the whip and spur, however, readily induces liim to change his mind, j lie takes timidly one or two awkward step*, then suddenly doubling himself np un'il he resemb'es n camel, and throwing his head down before his fore feet, he begins a series of pitches, which consists in jump'ng as high and as far as he can, : cotirng down stitT'-leggc 1. Home of the more vicious will lie down when the saddle Is buckled on, ana it re quire? a tremendous amount of whipping to get them started ; some will rear and fall backward, occasionally killing their riders; some will pilch straight ahead for quite a diarance ; while others will pitch straight forward for a few jumps, and ; then, as the Texans say, " swap ends so | qu;ck that it makes your head swim." For'unately they soon tire of such violent exerc se. being wholly unaccustomed to a I saddle or weight on their backs, and break down completely in & fbw hours. Zoological Observations on Insect Life* Several rears ago, while on the " lookout" of one of oat [large elevators, I noticed a plump spider fall npon the metal roof beneath me, and a wasp darting after it, immediately secured it in a sort of basket formed by its legs, and then flew off with its prize. The question now was, what use has the wasp for the spider? The next season following gave me an opportunity of solving it. Noticing several wasps about some dingy windows in the area, I concluded to watch them, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing a few depart with their game. I traced their destination, and found it to be a number of clay structures under the eaves of a neighboring dwelling. These formations had numerous perforations,, about which the wasps busied themselves. Some time after they had abandoned the neigh- ; borhood, I gained admittance to the house and removed several of these adobe nests. 1 opened one of them, and found a cell containing an egg or larva?; the cell beside it was filled with spiders in a torpid state, both great and small, packed closely, with their front legs turned over their j backs. The same order of arrangement was observed in the balance of the nest. ! I came to the conclusion that the spiders ; were placed there to keep a necessary j temperature for the larvre. I was not satisfied, however, and began a search among various authors, until Darwin, in his "Researches" set me right, by describing 1 "certain warp-like insects which construct : in the corners of verandahs, clay cells for j their larvae. These cells they stuff full of 1 half-dead spiders and caterpillars, which they seem wonderfully to know how to sting to that degree as to leave them para; lyzed until their eggs are hatched, and j the larvae feed on this horrid mass of powerless, half killed victims.'' I might go on and relate instances of the courage and ingenuity of the garden spider, but a fear ; that I am encroaching on your valuable space forbids it. I will close by giving ! auo'iier instance of the usefulness of ob ! servatlons of insect life. A Scotch raathei matician, in mt-asuring the angles of a bee cell, discovered an error in a table of ' logarithms "sufficiently great to have occasioned the loss of a ship at sea, whoge captain happened to nse a copy of the same logarithmic tables for calculating ! his longitude."?II. W. Buyer, Buffalo, , v. r. Tho Droad of the Monkey Toward Snakes* Brehm gives a curious account of tho instinctive dread which his monkeys exi lnbited toward snakes ; but their curiosity was so great that they could not desist from occasionally satiating their horror J : iu a most human fashion, by lifting up j the lid of the box in which the snakes j were kept. I was so much surprised by his account that I took a stuffed and coiledup snake into the monkey house at the Zoological Gardens, and the excitement thus caused was ono of the most carious spectacles which I ever beheld. Three species of Cercopithecus were the most . alarmed; they dashed about their cages j 1 and uttered sharp signal cries of danger, i which were understood by the other mon- ! keys. A few young monkeys and one old Anubis baboon alone took no notice of the I snake. I then placed the stuffed specimen i on the ground in one of the larger com- j partments. After a timo all the monkeys collected round it in a large circle, and i staring intently, presented a most ludi i croue appearance. They became extreme- ; ]y nervous ; so that when a wooden hall, ^ with which they were familar as a play; thine:, was accidentally moved in the straw, under which it was partly hiddent | they all instantly started away. These | monkeys behaved very differently when a i dead fish, a mouse, and some other nevr objects were placed in their cages; for : though at first frightened, they soon ap- ! proached, handled and examined them. ' I then placed a live snake in a paper bag, : with the mouth loosely closed, in one of the larger compartments. One of the monkeys immediately approached, cau' tiously opened the bag a lHtle, peeped in ! and instantly dashed away. Then 1 wit! nessel what Brelim has described, for I monkey after monkey, with head raised I high and turned on one side, could not re ; sist taking momentary peeps into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quiet at the bottom. It would almost appear as if monkeys had some notion of zoological affinities, for those kept by Brehm exhibited a strange, though mistaken, instinctive dread of innocent lizards and frogs. An orang, also, has boon i known to bo much aWrraed at the first | sight of a turtle.?Tht Dctetrtf of Man, by C. Darxein. Captain John Smith. Tie celebrated Capt. John Smith, some time President of Virg:nia, and one of the' most extraordinary men that ever appear* d on the theatre of life, when young, served in the Transylvanian army, wore he greatly distinguished himself. In a battle neer j Rotenton, in which the Turks and Tartars were the victors, Capt, Smith wassevere'y wounded and taken prisoner. He was sold to the Basha Bogal, who sent him as a prisoner to his mistress, Tragabigzanda, at Constantinople, accompanied with a message as fall of vanity as void of truth, that he had conquered a Bohemian nobleman, and presented him to her as a slava u&oiul imorinauon. To Make Gl03S- Slilrts* Put & ittle common whit? wax in your ? starch, say two ounces to the pound; then< if you use any thin patent starch, be sore' you use it warm, otherwise it will get cold and gritty, and spot yonr linen, git* ing it the appearance of being stained with grease. It is diffeieni with collar starch?it can be used quite cold; however, of that anen. Now, then, abont polishing shuts; starch the fronts and wristh&rds as stiff as yon can. Always starch twice?that is, starch and dry; then starch again, Iron your shirt in tb* usual way, making the linen nice and firm ; but without any attempt at a good finish ; don't lift the plaits ; your shirt it now ready for polishing, but you ought.to* have a board the same size as a common shirtboard made of hard wood,' and covered with only one ply of plain eotton cloth. Put this board into the breast of your shirt, damp the front very lightly with a wet sponge, then take a polishing' iron which is tlat, and beveled a little at one end?polish gently with the beveled part, taking care not to drive the linen upf into wave like blisters; of coarse, this re*' quires a little practice, but if yon artf caroful, and persevere, in a short time you will be able to gave tha enamel-.ike finish: which seems to be so much wanted. ' An Erect Position. A writer on health very justly condemns the habit of lounging, in which a' large number of persons indulge, as in, arious to health. he says: "An erect bodily attitude is of vastly more importance to health, than is generally imagined. Crooked bodily positions, maintained for any length of time, are always injurious, whether in the sit.ing, standing or lying posture, * bother sleeping or waking. To sit with the body lean ng forward on the stomach, or to one side, with the heels elevated to a level with the head, is not only in bad tai-te, but exceedingly detrimental to hea.th. It cramp* the stomach, presses the vital organs, interrupts the free motions of the che.it, and enfeea.es the functions of the abdominal and thoracic organs, and, in tact, unbalances the whole muscular system. Many children become flight y hum.-backed,of severely round shoa.dered, by sleeping with the head raised on a high pillow; when any person finds it easier to at or stand, or walk or sleep in a crooked poelt on than a straight one, euch person may be s re hi* muscular system :s badly da*' ranged, and the more careful he Is to proserve a straight or an upright position, and get bock to nature again, the better." Thnmpa In Pigg In fall and winter the pigs in this conntry are very apt to be troubled with a cough, It only seems to attack the younger siock,and they wheeze and pant for weeks, and! frequently die, and mnch loss is occasioned by this asthma amoag the swirre: yet it is easily cured. If a poit mortem examination! be made of a pig dead from this disease, inf the air tubes of the lungs will be found great numbers of worms about an inch long, looking like bits of white thread, except for a si uggish wriggling capacity,leaving no room for doubt tto to the cause of death. For a remedy, flavor the feed with spirits of turpentine; this I believe to bo an infallible cure. A choice Berkshire, which was so far gone that it could not eat before the na ure of tho trouble was diec >vered, was ^aved by pouring a teaspoonful down his throat. This was ttpw rds of a year ago before that wo lost nearly all our stock since then, none. The turpentine proves to be a specific. ? ? , Watering Horses. We think both man and beast are gen?-" rally watered too much. Men and horses at hard work in warm weather, perspire jusf in proportion to tho quantity of fluids taken into the stomach. Frequently drinking in hot weather, according to our experience,- # emasculates instead of refreshing. Sonio years ago, being at Cape island, In driving out in one of the stand coaehe.s of the place/ on a very hot day, we a-ked the driver how it was that his horses perspired so little, while the horses of private carriages, going at a slower speed, were covered with foam, lie replied that he watered his horses three t tnos a day only, though he sponged their months frejuently, while the private drivers watered their horses whenever they stopped. He said, and it seemed to us very sensible, that tho frc juent watering of horses ellectol no good purpose,while it made them very uncomfortable and lethargic. Horses, no matter what their work was, did not need watering oftoner than three times a day. Our ??wn ex-' perience w tU horses all oar life is to ili?f same effect. - m m ? V The chirping- and singing of the oricket and gra-shopperare frequently gpokea of: d* bat they do not sing?they fiddhr. By rubbing wings and legs together?each ia a manner peculiar to the specie#?thesa insects produce the soands which characterize them. Perhaps oar beat Instrumental performer is the "katydid." Eacfe wing contains a little tambourine, and by the opening and shotting of the wing* these are rubbed against each other, and produce the sound of 44 katy-did-ahe-dtd,^ which can be heard at a long distance, au4 givee the insect Its name.