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that have .settled within their territory du- moot advantageous, be inoet encouraged, time i^atle l>avig an idol, and then split ence of several of these fearful poisons, Kumehuroeha I? between 1734 41819. In
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Immigntion:
We give place to tWollowing from the
Charleston Courier, which speaks for it
self, sad in which our planters, capitalists,
mil are interested:
Meurt. Editor* Charleston Courier:—
You will please publish the enclosed val
uable communication, and in so doing you
trjii confer a benefit ou the State, and 1
tope draw the attention of the Legislature
So the importan ce of the subject of foreign
immigration. B- F. PERKY.
Columbia, Sept. 16, 1865.
To Bit Excellency, B F. Perry, Provis-
ionml Governor of South Carolina :
Kkupbcteo Sib: I had thought that it
’would have been of advantage to Sooth
Carolina, under present eireumstauces, to
awake euons public Act tor the eneourage-
meui of immigration, sod to appoint a
public ofieer to superintend the aauie, to
^protest the immigrant against fraud and
lUipoeH'im, and te advise, direct and assist
him in 'the choice of lands, an! to perform
ouch other duties as might be imposed up
on 4am by the Executive in the further-
airr of the above objects. Please to par
don me ifo’Q fur .addressing you on the
metier.
The preaeut labor system of the State
hmt .uuenired such a shock from which,
nnder ordinary circumstances, it will take
jeara to recover. Our lands tu a great
measure will lie idle, our produce will be
merely nominal, and the,population which
heretofore has been the mam reliance for
cur experts, instead «f being a source ot
income and prosperity, will be a heavy
burden and an additional cause of adver
sity. 1 may possibly be mistaken in these
aurtuises, and 1 would be glad if it
should be so; but it Will be wise, never-
thrlnas, to take such steps as will most
surely contribute te our speedy recovery
from the terrible effects %f our deplorable
lute revolution. 1 think the :uiiuignition
to and aetUemeut amongst Us of nidus
trious and frugal foreigners wi 11 be of great
value to us.
Millions of the good and industnons
people of Ireland have already left their
old homes and settled in the United States.
Other millions of industrious, fm*al and
orderly people have quitted Germany and
other European countries to settle in A-
merica. Most of them have gone to the
Western States and there built up grcai
communities. They have assisted in crea
ting that immense wealth with which the
Western States of the Union are blessed.
Why should the South refuse to profit by
. aueh obvious examples ? The population
et the United State is increased every year
by shout 800,000 immigrants, and gains
much of labor eapaeity and comparative
capital. Our State possesses 30,000 square
miles of territory. This, in comparison
With Ireland, would support a population
of 30,000,000 souls or in comparison with
Germany or France above 20,000,000
oaMla, And yet Germany, in spite of all
fcer increased taxes, the disadvantages of
her innumerable monopolies and corpora
the extravagant prices of
ring the lust thirty years
those States, as likewise all other Western
States, prove their cognizance by their of
ficial acts and the appointment of commis
sioners to encourage and protect immigra
tion. Illinois. Missouri. Indiana, Ohio,
Iowa, and other new States are all great
producers, and are largely indebted to im
migration tor their unexampled prosperity,
in a country like ours, labor i> capital and
population is wealth , and where there-
fore, ihe one system of labor has been dis
organized, another shoulu iitonedi.-ueiy le
introduced w.thuut cavil and with the least
delay. Lands rise in value with every
new settlemcut, and decline with the dis
continuance of any old useful establish
ment. Communities grow in resources
with every increase of their producers,
and become bankrupt where the consum
ers largely outnumber the former. How
are we to expect new settlements, how are
we even to keep up the established ones
without immigration ? There may be some
ill feeling in our State to the immigrant, on
accouutof the large k effective part he has
taken against us in the late war. But if we
view the matter rightly, fairly and justly,
we shall find that the immigrant has only
proved his faith to the community in which
he resided. If the Northern and Western
adopted citizens and their countrymen
have sided honorably with their respective
States, have not the Southern adopted cit
izens and their countrymen done the same
for their Southern States ? I know that
every community in the South, where a
sufficient number of adopted citizens resi
ded, has sent forth its corps of adopted
warriors to the Southern armies. In a
letter which I had the honor to address to
his Excellency Governor Manning, in
1853, on the subject of German immigra
tion, I pledged the faith of the immigrant
to our State in her hour of need. Let us
see how they have redeemed that pledge.
Let us take South Carolina for an exam
ple. The city of Charleston, with a Ger
man population of about 3000 souls, has
sent four full German companies to the
field, and has kept them there until the
final surrender of Johnston, besides hav
ing furnished from her old German Fusil
iers the one half of the brave old com-
these tacts and how the immigrant be moet aurely the idol into firewood, could uo more have
protected and his prosperity insured. been trusted for pertuuncucy than the fluc-
1. I deem it of importance that the tuating waters of the sea. * Let ua sup-
State, by a public Act, should express her pose the “Confederate States’’ to have
willingness to receive and encourage im- emerged from the war triumphant, their
migration. | independence acknowledged by the Uni-
2. That the State appoint a Ccmmis- ted States and the European gorermnenta,
sioner, with power, and whose duty it | and fairly kauched upon a career of indo-
should be, to advertise all over the State pendent nationality. In the first place
for lands j to have them laid off, described,
plaited, appraised ni l warranted, and that
the latter shdfiron tKcTepbrt Of the At
torney Generai endorse the warranty.
3. That the Commissioner should have
printed descriptions of these lands dis
tributed, and should advertise periodically
in the papers of the Northern ports and
of European emigration ports.
4 That the Commissioner, under certain
restrictions, shoud have power to appoint
agents fer these purposes.
5. That he should have an open office
in Charleston, to respond to any immigrant
for advice, protection, information, trans
portation, and such other matters as may
be of necessity.
6. That he should from time to time
.report to the Executive of the State, and
be always subject to his orders and in
struction, and that he should receive his
expenses and a reasonable compensation.
I will not trouble your Excellency any
longer, but submit the matter to your
superior wisdom, with the hope that some
thing may be done soon, and may conn
bute to the happiness and prosperity cl
our noble Palmetto-land.
I am most respectfully,
Your Excellency’s ob’t servant,
JOHN A. WAGENER.
pany of Scotch Union Light Infantry.—
The Irish of Charleston have furnished
two full companies besides nearly uuu listf
of the heroic regimbut of South Carolina
First Regular Artillery. Not another
company has gone from CharlcMon. and
not a regiment from any part of the State,
in wlrch there have not been adopted cit
izens. The German settlement of al-
halla has contributed to Orr’s and l>uno-
vaut's regiments nearly every man capa
ble of bearing arms, and is now almost
destitute of sound working men, so many
having beeu killed or crippled. If I may
mention it here, I can aver that German
blood first died the soil of Carolina in this
contest, my own aiming the rest. This
should be conclusive proof to every lair
the peace between us and the United States
would have been only nominal. The peo-
doubtful if any chemical reagents could
detect its presened iu the stomach or tis
sues. Being an organic substance, it is
often so acted upon by the digestic and
other fluids of the organ sm that it is not
iiy nominal, x tie peo- long before it becomes entirely decompos
ite or inenBwim wonro never us»e rvn- >«»« »»«. wuovt..■>———- .»
pven us the spoliation of an empire.— j its identity is altogether lost. Besides.
England to this day has not for one mo-' however valuable the chemical tests for
ment forgotten the loss of her colonial strychnia may be when the pure substance
jewels. But her feelings towards the is subjected to their action, it is very dif-
Cnited States are love and affection com- ferent when the poison is mixed with or-
javed to those with which the successful ganic matters, such as blood, the contents
dismemberment of the republic would have ! of the stomach, pulverized liver, kidneys,
inspired the Narth.- England for a thou-1 lungs, etc. The indications of the pres-
sand years has scarcely ever been at peace ence of strychnia which chemistry gives
there are signs which unerringly reveal April I82u, the first missionaries viatica it.«
their presence. Take, for instance, strych- islands, and foutid that the people had al-
nia—a half a grain is sufficient to cause I ready abandoned idols, and were singular-
death, and yet. if no more than this quan-1 ly prepared to receive new religious ideas,
tity were swallowed, it is exceedingly | The sou of Kameahatncha 1 visited Eng-
y« .
with France, even though separated by
the channel. What peace could there ev
er have been between two such neighbor
ing nations as the North and the South,
separated by such on act as that of dis
union, haring different institutions, atitag-
omstical in every great interest, and hearts
rankling with the most bitter memories :
We should soon have been compelled to
have become a nation of soldiers—a con
dition which may suit the ambitious few,
but which is ruin to general iodustry, sta
bility. repubiitsniism, life, liberty, and the
pursuit of lisppiness. But even if North
ern hunulD nature in general, and the
Nortl. had cherished only the most affec
tionate and grateful feelings for its own
defeat and mortification, how long could
the Confederacy have held together with
such leaders as those who upset a govern
ment which never wronged th* - South, and
was for dlniost the whole period of its his
tory untjer Southern influence? How
long before the opposite interests of the
border and Gulf states would have produ-
unuthor rtatlliKinn unr) diviftinn f lift
[From the Richmond Republic.]
The Late ^Confederacy."—The Effects
of its Success—What Would Have
Been.
What would have been the condition of
the South if the Confederacy had succeed
ed?
There are visionary minds which imag
ine that we should have had a heaven up
on earth if the Confederacy had been sue
cessful. But that heaven upon earth,
it had appeared, would have lasted about
as long as the primeval Paradise. The
devil Woulu have come in with a long tail
and a three pronged pitch fork and made
Short WOlk. tf In .
there was a strong smell of sulphur about
before the disappearance of the Confed
eracy, and distinct marks of cloven feet
upon a g-iod many of the public highways.
If ever any govarirment approximated a
heaven upon earth, it was this country be
tore disunion. But the tempter came and
invited us to eat the only tree in the gar
den that was prohibited, and told us that
we should not die, but be as the gods. Is
he not a liar and the father of lies ?
Wc say that even betore the fall of the
Confederacy the germ of future discord
and confusion hail been fully developed.
It may not be generally known that, in
us are based upon certaiu changes of color
which it undergoes when brought in con
tact with the proper reagents. These are
laud and died there in 1824, and bis body
was sent home in some state by the British
government. ,
The lata King Kameh&maha IV., who
died in 1863, hud been well educated by
the protestant missionaries, and hia cul-
having become dissipated, lie in 1859 at
tempted to murder his secretary in a fit of
jealousy. He then proposed to abdicate,
but was persuaded to resume bis duties.
He had proposed to visit Europe with his
wile, of whose conduct lie probably had
not the slightest cause for jealousy. But
death having prevented his plans from be
ing accomplished, his widow is now carry
ing out his design. She is said to be high
ly refined and intelligent, still young and
interesting, attracting much attention, and
masked or altogether destroyed by the lady Franklin, in the nobleness of heart,
ami impartial mind that the immigrant ^ the Montgomery congress, which elected
may oesalely encouraged and taken by the Mr. Davis provisional president, the con-
bami as a Irtenii and a brother.
iu the year 1851, according to official
returuaof the Emigration Comission ot
Berlin iu I’russia, 119,000 persons emi-
ced another collision and division? The
border state^ would have been the manu
facturing anu commercial states, the New
England of the South, and slavery would
have gradually beeu concentrated in the
cotton growing region. We should have
had free states and slave states in the new
confederacy as well as in the old. Dem-
agogues iu each would have risen to fan
the flames of sectional jealousy for their
awn •♦Keqmdi^uienL Even durmg the
war it was difficult to suppress the jeal
ousy of Virginia influence which was man
ifested in some of the Gulf states. What
would it have been when the necessity ot
mutual haliuony for preservation no long
er existed ? South Carolina would have
led off onoe more; the Gulf states follow
ed ; secession would have been the recog
nized remedy for every difficulty between
the states and their government, and the
consequence would have been perpetual
strite and war between petty states until
human existence would have become in
tolerable. is it difficult, then, to believe
that providence, in disappointing the
presence of animal matters; and even
when Stas’s process or some other is made
use of to separate the strychnia in a pure
form, there are so many difficulties in the
way of the due recognition of these chro-'
malic changes, that it would be exceed
ingly unsafe to rely upon them if they
were apparently present, or to conclude
that strychnia had not been administered
if they were not produced. Thus, u case
is recorded in which four grains of strych
nia weie certainly taken, the symptoms
came on in an hour, and death took place
in teu minutes afterwards, and yet the
most careful chemical examination failed
to find the poison in the body. In anoth
er instance, four grains wore taken by
mistake, and though death followed with
rapidity, no truces of strychnia were de
tected in the.contents of the stomach. In
the case of Cook, poisoned with strychnia
by Fulmer, no evidence of the presence
of this substance was found in any part of
the body.
But, as vre have said, the poisoner is
not to go free because chemistry cannot
convict him. We cull to our aid the sci
ence of physiology, and if strychnia has ;
been taken into the stomach in quantity
sufficient to cause death, or even in still
smaller amount, we arc able to bring for-
j ward such evidence of the fact as cannot
tie questioned, n u, Die uuVj puWu,
one exception—brucia, and this is also
extracted from nux vomica—which uni
fornily produces %cll marked tetanus, or.
as it is called in the vernaculur tongue,
locked jaw. Arsenic, antimony, and acon
ite occasionally give rise to tetanic spasms
of an irregular character; but’such con
vulsions, as well os the tetanies due to
wounds or eYposure to cold and wet, arc
clearly distinguishable, by the competent
physician from the tetanus due to an over
dose of strychnia. It was by the symp
toms muni tested in Cook that the medical
witnesses were enabled to prove conclu
scheme of a Southern confederacy, has . sively that strycnia bad been the cause of
saved us from ourselves, and instead ot his death But this is not all. The frog
test lor rfte piesideucy was for sonic time
an even one between him and Mr. Toombs,
of Georgia. The vote was a tie vote, and
the election was finally decided by Mr.
denying us blessifigs and prosperity, has
rescued ua from an uutathomablc abyss of
misery and ruin 1
grated from the variousStatesof Geiiwmy, • Barnwell, ot South Carolina, who had
taking along with them 17 million thalers east his vote for Mr. iocmbs, voting for
ia-lUOj in gold, in 1852, according
to the report ot the same Commission, the
number of emigrants from Gennuny am
ounted to lld.oOO persons, with a cash
capital of 15 millions thalers ,fl gold.
The repoits of l859*l*ow 117,OVbpersons,
with 19 millions th ileis in gold. Most ol
these were a farming and mechanical pop
ulation, with health and strength atiU in
dusinous habits, and have enlarged the ^
number of producers wherever they have
located themselves, besides increasing the
momed capital and value of lands. 1’ick-
eus District, which under my own super
intendence and lead, has received a Ger
man settlement, has certainly acknow
ledged that H has been of benefit to her
and increased her resources very consid
erably. I am just now without statistics
and books, and have to write altogeither
from memory, but I do think that the
above premises cannot be disputed, and
will convince your Excellency that immi
gration of the right class will not only be
a great advantage but is an actual neces
sity for our State. The idle lands of our
upper districts, which are so admirably
gram
wine
arable fands, which sometimes is as j immigrant settlements
l)cv
high as 300 to 400 thalers per sere; in spite
•fher enlistment laws that take the young
saan in his very prime from the plough
and scythe to make him s soldier for seve
ral years; in spite of all these burdens
thousand others, is made by the in
calculated for an industrious
and stock raising population, would cer
tainly not be the worse for ever so many
1 immiirrant settlements I presume the
e by tt
dustry and economical habits of her peo
ple to yield sufficient not only for home
consumption, but s small surplus for mar
ket, and has enabled her people to lend to
the United States the enormous sum of
nix hundrud millions ot dollars.
tod Wisconsin, comparatively
an already, and have been
fer a number
owner of 20,000 acres would gladly dis
pose of 19,000 acres at a reasonable rate,
when the remaining 1,000 would by such
set become worth more than hia 20,000
nnder existing circumstances. By a pro
per attention and supervision we might
perhaps choose ourimmigrants. Weeould
perhaps have them of such character and
means, that they would certainly enhance
our general prosperity. It were vaiu to deny
that mistakes may occur, that amoag the
good some <4 the vicious sad worthless
may come in. But it remains to he seen
whether the firmer will Bet predominate
Mr. Davis, it is true that, in the popu
lar vote afterwards, Mr, D. was unanimous
ly ciected. It had been supposed that he
would select Mr. Baruwell as one of his
constttouooal advisers. Instead of this.
Mr. Memumiger was the fortunate (!)
uiau—au able financier, "who soon engi
neered tiie government upon the breakers.
The friends of Mr. Barnwell may have
forgiven Mr. Davis his forgetfulness of
their distinguished leader. But if they
did, wc never heard any evidence of the
fact. The harmony of the first year ot the
administration did not last long. Party
spirit,'as fierce and relentless as it ever had
been in the United States, soon reared its
head. The administration, by its obsti
nate adherence to incapable men, offended
many; the conscription and the impress
ments exasperated more, whilst others ml
leged that Davis, in not retaliating for the
military executions in the United States
was trying to make favor for himself with
the United States government. From
these and other causes, such as the remo
val of Johnston and the substitution of
Hood, the man who was at one time the ido
of the people became the most unpopular
man in the Southern States. If the ex
periment could have been safely tried, he
Mould have been removed from office and
another man made dictator. Nay, more;
to such an extent had personal disaffection
gone, that some of his oldest friends were
preparing for reconstruction, because they
had lost all confidence in the experiment
for independence. These are facts which
no intelligent man io the Southern States
will deny, and they d^uiou.'trate that the
confederacy was bora wit’i tbs seed of
death, tbe elements of diuolutioa, in its
bosom. The feroeity of party spirit, and
the same contempt of law which produced
the overthrow of the United States gov
ernment in the South, gained strength b
Poiions and their Detection.
Chemistry has made such rapid progress
io isolatitg the active principles ef poiso
nous subttatices, and thus giving us in ex
ceedingly small compass agents of tre
mendous potency, that it, is doubtful
whether the advance which has also been
made in the direction of tests and anti
dotes ha| been sufficient to neutralize tbe
additiontl power she has coufered on the
evil tu.fided. Thus the one tenth of a
grain of acomtina, the active principle ot
aconi'c, is regarded by h.gh authority as a
a
small quantity could be so administered as
to attract no attention. There is no anti
dote which can be depended upon, and no
chemicid.test which is competent to estab
lish the fact of its presence iu the body.
Another of these principles—fortunately
unknown to commerce, and scarcely even
heard ot by chemists and physicians—ex
tracted from the arrow poison of a tribe
is one of the most useful animals to man
His posterior extremities and—we tell it
as a great secret, known but to few gour
mands—his liver make dishes, compared
to which nightingales’ tongues and pea
cocks brains are insipid. He has coo-' Unt in their relations to us.
has become her chaperon. Several of the
nobility in England are doing her honor
there. When she conies to thia country
we suppose that the American board of
commissiencrs of foreign missions will be
among the first to pay hor respect. Their
missiuuaiies it is wbo have brought that
nation into being and relation to the civ
ilized world. Their missionaries have
been the ministers of state, occupying all
the most important secretaryships and
public offices, and have given the nation a
written language, a constitution, and sug
gested many of thoir best laws. The re
ligion they have taught is yet the religion
of the musses of the people- There is,
however, the most perfect freedom of con
science and equal lilierty to all religions,
so that Roman Catholics and Episcopal
ians freely establish themselves, the for
tuer mostly French and the latter English,
whose ships visit the port of HononluJa in
great numbers.
On one or two occasions the French, io
their zeal to promote the aggrandizement
of their nation and the circulation of their
brandy, have made attempts to destroy
the independence of the government^ of
these islands. In 1842, alrench admiral
did this, and, as a consequence, the Eo*
glish government, at tbe request of the
king, stationed a,body of troops there for
Ui\s V Ol u\ t h* fat low ing year
the governments of England and the uni
ted States united in formally acknowledg
ing and recognizing tho independence of
these islands, but the treaty of 1846, gave
England the preponderating influence.
In 1851, there were rcnewedly hostile
efforts made by France, interrupted by the
protests of the English and American
consuls. A constitutional plan of govern
ment was formed, by the advice of the
American missionaries and merchant!,
and at lust there was a project for the an
nexation of these islands to the United
States, which was broken off on the acces
sion of the late king, in 1854. There i«,
we suppose, no prospect of this being re
newed ; but the visit of the queen dowa
ger to England and to the United States
will, no doubt, be full of important con
sequences to our future relations with
those islands, becoming daily more impor-
tributed more to theadvrncementof phys
iology than any other creature that inhab
its the earth—allowing his abdomen to be
ripped open, his brain exposed, and his
nerves excised, without uttering a croak
or moving a muscle ; and, after all these
things, he will live on in a state of quies
cent beatitude as long as you please, whilst
hour by hour the scientific physiologist
watches him, and records the observed
phenomena. Now we put him to another
and still higher use. We bring him into
a court of justice, and, before the wonder
ing eyes of judge, jury, and counsel, we
Trial of Win.
The military court in Washington en-
aged in trying the Andersonville priton
_ceper, resumed proceedings in tho case
ou the 19th iust., after an unavoidabla va
cation, owing to the illness of the accused
of an entire week. After conference be
tween the Judge Advocate and Wirxsoonn-
se i and a secret deliberation of the court
in regard to the Government furnishing
time and means to summon additional wit
nesses for the defence from the Southern
jury ...U cvuuoc. , States, it was decided that subpesnaa for
There is no anti- prove whether or not a’murder has been the droir^ p^ •ho^b*«»«d and
1 committed with strychnia ; for so sensi-1 sent to the mil.tarycommandants m whow
live is this gentle reptile to the effects of | departments they are S0 PP 0 ^J®
the poison in questf that ‘ ^ ! Th ? foTd*.
of a fluid containing but a hundred thous
andth of a grain are sufficient to throw
him into a state of rigid tetanus. Thus,
as some one has remarked, the frog reven-
in-
ll'ilCiCvA t,IAVy AaiV/W v/» ** j ^ /» 1. 1 '
of South American Indians, is so power-; pes himself on man for the crueltiea
ful that if the skin of a man be even Aicted on him ; and yet not only so for
scratched w’uh a needle dipped in its sol-' even m his revenge he isfaithfol topnn-
iblv result. There ciples ot utilitarianism. The Nation.
new Countries, an already, aad have been whether the former will BOt predominate, ernment in the South, gained itreugth bv
for w aamheTof yeara, large exporters of. . If your Excellency should concur with exermae. and would, in a very short period,
traine aad hroadstuffs, andthese are near- me io the foregoing viewa. the qnertinn bnve redueed the whole South to Anarchy
(TStelBrivelw produced by immigraote -ill erne, how can immigration be m»de and chaos. The UkUuom tfoMst one
utioo, death would probably result. (
is neither an antidote to its effects uor a
characteristic tea. of its presence. But it
s uot likely that either aconitinu, orcorro-
valia. or other of the high-priced and rare
alkaloids, will be employed by the ordinary
poisoner. It is only tbe adept who will
ever hava recourse to them. Morphia aad
[Prom the Philadelphia Ledger.]
The Sandwich Islands and their Queen.
As it is said on pretty good authority
ued, and a number of witnesses, includ
ing both those who had been in the na
tional and rebel service, were examined,
adding to the testimony heretofore elicit
ed regarding the cruelty and inhumanity
of Wirz, the sufferings and torture* of the
prison pen, tho hunting and tearing of
fugitives by hounds, tho starvation, tho
punishments of the chain gang and Bie
shooting of men at the dead line. Major
Noyes, who arrested Wire at hit home in
Georgia, testified that he was nol aatho-
‘ — ive the p*is-
As it is said on pretty good autnonty ( General Wilson to give tha pws-
that the Queen of the Sandwich f s / aD< ( s > j oner an y promise that he should nob be
who is now in Englind, is to visit the _ rog( , c| ^ c(1 f or j,i g conduct at the prison,
c , c . r , United States before returning to her own ; £ nd he did not think that he ^
strychnia are more readily obtained, and j land, it « natural that we should all wish ^ onii9e Captain Moore, who a»p-
if they are used with discretion, chemistry j to bear in mind the very close and inti- j erintendc(1 the fitting up of tbe greve-
is not apt to reveal their presence in the ‘ mate relations which have ever cx ^ t0 ®» yar( j at Andersonville recently, and mark-
corpse. The latter substance especially, and the propositions at different tunes • t fi e „ ravM 0 f t fi e mtionalsoldiers who
| that have been under consideration be- ^ . n the . n jilted that the num-
tween the United States and those Islands ^ 0 f burials was twelve thousand nine
and also, between them and England. hundred an d twelve, and that the dead
It is now only between eighty and nine- .i. were cked do^ly together m
Te1«nrf.j i i *2 — • *
from its intensely poisonous power, has
been a favorite, aud, from the facility
with which every villaiu with a dime in
his pottket can purchase enough to kill
half a dozen people, has to a great extent
taken the place of the less energetic, bet
tor known, and more easily detected arse
nic, which onoe oocupiod the highest po
sition in the estimation of the poisoner.
Still, though chemistry cannot be ex
clusive! v relied upon to establish the pres-
ty years since these Islands were discov-1 frrm %n C hundred to two hun-
ered by Captain Cook and yet now they ^ . j
are an acknowledged and independent ( u *
power among civilized nationa. This has j In th# XribuBa 0 f the 04 ef Anffte^Mr.
fairly been missionary work. The whole Horace 0reeley handsomely aayet “ I now
thirteen islands were indeed first reduced m« that God s way -as bettor than aay that I
under the government of one strong chief ^out«mpls'cd.■ , ; » dt