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Jtoajrsi and partis.
??A recent decision in the New Orleans courts
that debts incurred for the purchase of slives before
the war are null, involves nearly one hundred
million dollars in Louisiana alone.
Water in small quantities may be frozen in
a red-hot crucible, by mixing it with a small quantity
of sulphurous acid. In the same way, water
may be carried in a metal seive, provided it is heated
to redness.
The report of the auditor of public accounts
of Virginia, compiled from the returns of the commissioners
of revenue, shows an aggregate of 124,702
white men and 73,001 colored men over twenty-one
years of age.
r The Richmond Enmiirer says that the number
of acres in growing wheat in the Valley counties
of Virginia, is greater than in any year before
the war. The prospect for an uncommonly heavy
yield per acre, continues very fine.
The National Intelligencer says: _ "We have
9een letters from Arkansas to friends in this city,
which give an appalling picture of the destitution
and suffering which prevail in portions of that
State."
?r-An eccentric man in Bath, Maine, was asked
to contribute to foreign missions. He gave a
quarter of a dollar, but . stopped the agent as he
waa denartine. and said? 'mere's a dollar to pay
the expense of getting the quarter to the heathen.''
The New York Commercial publishes upwards
of two columns of reports on ciop prospects,
comprising 110 aocounts from different localities.
North ana South, all of which, with four or five
exceptions, unite in representing the prospect as
being most encouraging, for both cereals and
fruits.
The English Army and Navy Gazette, remarking
upon the recent invention in France of a
wonderful cannon, which can be carried by two
men, says that "just as one set of inventors is engaged
in devising means of carrying maimed men
out of the battle, another set is employed in improving
the means of maiming and rendering them
more portable."
The Bureau of Statistics is making preparations
to take the census of 1870 through the internal
revenue organization. A series of reports have
been orderedj to perfect the revenue organization
for this service. These reports show an increase
of 3,000,000 population since 1866. The Southern
States show a decrease, while the Eastern States
have increased slightly, and the "Western largely.
An obvious improvement in forks has been
introduced by a Birmingham manufacturer, which
consists in making the fork whole, and hollowed
or fluted for about two-thirds of its present length,
leaving the prongs of the sufficient length of half
or three-fourths of an inch, the implement becoming
thus a partially ^'split spoon,' convenient for
small particles, liquid or semi-liquid ingredients,
peas and the like.
Many persons seem uncertain as to the construction
of Gen, Sickles' order against carrying
"deadly weapons," and are afraid to hunt squirrels,
&c. We are assured by an officer on the
General's staff, that the order is only intended to
prohibit the too common practice of carrying connrvnn
fVio nnrsnn flnfl tfl chflefe the
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lawlessness so prevalent in certain sections of the
country.?Union Register.
The New York Evening Gazette tells young
ladies that if they would have a fresh, healthy ana
youthful appearanoe, they must beware of late
hours, large crinoline, tight corsets, confectionery,
hot bread, cold draughts, pastry, aecollette dress,
modern novels, furnace regulators, easy carriages,
late suppers, thin shoes, rear of knowledge, nibbling
between meals, ill temper, haste to marry,
dread of growing old.
Gen. Wager Swayne, commanding in Alabama,
has been applied to by the State authorities,
for information whether payments from its Treasury
for the relief of maimed soldiers of the late Confederacy
are to be considered as forbidden under
military order. The General's reply permits the
furnishing of artificial limbs as a donation, but not
a payment, and directs that they be given also to
those injured in avoiding conscription and serving
the United States.
According to the late census, New York has
] negro to 77 whites; Connecticut, 1 to 43; New
Jersey, 1 to 25; Ohio, 1 to 63; Pennsylvania, 1 to
59; Illinois, 1 to 223; Indiana, 1 to 116; Michigan,
1 to 108; Wisconsin, 1 to 445; Minnesota, 1
to 732; Kansas, 1 to 152; Oregon, 1 to 47; Nebraska,
1 to 340; Nevada, 1 to 151; Ca,;fornia, 1
to 43; Maryland, 1 to 3; Delaware, 1 to 4; and
Kentucky, 1 to 4.
A Radical in Tennessee marked it as a significant
omen, a few mornings since, that the garden
of a Conservative was destroyed Dy frost, while
that of a Radical near by was fresh and green, and
says: It signifies that Brownlow, the righteous,
shall flourish like a green bay tree, while Etheridge
shall be cut down by the rigorous frost of
justice. The "frost of justice" will come some
night, when onions are about half grown, with a
basket on his arm.
Scientific writers inform us that wood, when
continually exposed to a very moderate heat, such
as that of steam and hot water pipes, will, in a
space of time varying from eight to ten years, become
so inflammable that it will take fire at a temperature
very little over that of boiling water. The
wood undergoes a slow process of charring, and it
is said, only awaits the admission of air which it
gets by shrinking and cracking?to burst out into
name.
In the upper portion of Georgia the wheat
crop looks fine. In some localities the fly has injured
it, and in others some rust upon the blades
is now reported, but there is a prospect of a tolerably
good crop. Corn is not _ doing so well. In
many localities, the cotton crop is likely to be almost
an entire failure. The cold dry weather, so
favorable to wheat, is ruinous to cotton and not
good for corn. Some planters are ploughing up
their cotton and putting corn in its place.
A new style of railroad ticket has been adopted
on a Maine railroad, which deserves notice.?
Slips are sold at the several stations, good for five
hundred miles of travel. As often as thirty miles
have been passed over, the conductor cancels that
portion of the ticket, and this process is continued
until all the miles have been consumed in journeying.
The mileage tickets, as they are called, are
sold cheaper than others, and are good for any day,
so that the public gains both ways.
The Hickman (Ky.,) Courier is responsible
for the statement that a Miss Mary Godsy, living
near that place, has been asleep for twelve years.
At the age of twelve, after an ague fit, the voung
lady went to sleep, and has been in a state of coma
most of the time since, and she is now twenty-four
years of age. She wakes at regular intervals for
the purpose of yawning, but soon sinks into a slumber
again, from which it is impossible to arouse
her. She takes kindly to this condition of things,
has grown considerably, and preserves her beauty
and plumpness.
Prominent Tcnncssceans in "Washington say
that Governor Brownlow and the eutire Radical
ticket, including all their Congressmen, shall not
be elected; it will be difficult to explain why. The
way is prepared with certainty 01 success by the
regime laid out by legislation. A collision of raws
is considered inevuauie ere long, rrancmse is me
will of the Governor, who has power to set aside
registration, or have registration made to subserve
his purposes, with an armed militia to enforce his
will Already the registration in nine counties has
been annulled and set aside by Gov. Brownlow.
It is stated in a despatch from Washington,
that the expenses of the War Department for the
fiscal year will be five or six times greater than the
estimate. In the last report of that Department
it was estimated that the expenses would he about
thirty three millions, whereas thev are likely to
foot up one hundred and filly millions. Part ol
the increase may be accounted for by the war
against the Indian tribes, in which Gen. Hancock
is now engaged, and which was probably not foreseen
; but undoubtedly the greater part is caused
by the substitution of military for civil government
in the South.
Those who have been in the habit of smacking
their lips over "old Amontillado," fresh from
"original packages," will not relish the following
extract from the Madrid correspondence of a morning
jpaper: "An inconsistency in their invoices
having been pointed out to the merchants, they
smilingly explained that the stuff sent to the United
States was not sherry at all. 'It is slops,' they
said, 'used to wash out the tubs and for otner dirty'
work about the stilk'" If the slops are so delicious,
the real wine must be nectar itself. Some
generous "Ikm" might afford to send a bottle of
genuine sherry to the benighted people on this side
the water, but if not, the wine merchants of Spain
ought at least to send ubclU the slops.?Charleston
Mercury.
A New York merchant, engaged in but a
small business, advertised last week for a clerk, application
to be made by letter. By noon of the
day on which the advertisement appeared, he had
received eighty applications for the situation, and
before the next day had passed, the number had
reached one hundred ana nineteen. The salary
was small, the inducements were few, and the work
required close attention, and yet the anxiety for
the place was so great as to be but fully shown
by the number of applications. Many of the applicants
could speak two or three languages, and
claimed to be possessed of various valuable accomplishments.
The New York Times considers this
great rush after so unpromising a place to be "but
one of the many proofs of the wide-spread stagnation
of business, and the redundancy of labor in
many departments of activity.''
We saw the fat baby yesterday afternoon.
He is bully. The child, Samuel Bishop, was born
in Surry county, in the year 1862, ana is now in
his fifth year, and will weigh considerably over two
hundred pounds. He measures more than forty
inches around his waist, and his arms and legs are
larger than those of a full grown man. His head
is enormous, and is covered by a heavy suit of long
black hair. He does not walk much, and manages
to shuffle over the floor by the use of his hands and
feet His health is good, and he seems to be
sprightly in mind, but so far he has not had any
attention paid to his education. He is with his
mother?his father having died some time since.
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A part ot last year inrs. joisnop naa mm ou wmbition
at Barnum's Museum, m New York; and
she speaks of again taking him on. She is a poor
woman; as it takes all her time to attend to her
child, it is necessary for her to do something for
the support of both.?Petersburg Index.
Ihc forMtc
EDITORS *
JAS. E. WILSON .'. JAS. F. HART,
YORKYILLE, S. cT:
! THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1867.
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CROPS IN THE STATE.
Our exchanges generally give favorable reports
of the crops in their respective Districts. Wheat
and Oats are doing finely ; in some sections rust
has appeared, but not in sufficient quantity to injure
the crop, which will probably be abundant if
. the next two weeks are favorable. Corn is also
reported to look well, though we are surprised to
learn that a comparatively small crop was planted
in some localities, jrnere is yet time rcuieuy
this error, for it certainly is a great error, if the
present distress for food throughout the-State is
any criterion. Cotton has been injured somewhat
by the late cold and wet weather, but much has
been replanted and the present indications are that
we will have a large crop this year. In this District,
so far as we can see and hear, the above remarks
are also applicable, except that we believe
the proportion of grain planted is larger than
usual, though we fear there is not yet as much
corn in the ground as there should be.
RECONSTRUCTION.
The opinion of the Attorney General on the interpretation
of the Reconstruction acts has been
delivered, but it has not yet reached us. The Raleigh
Sentinel furnishes the following summary,
which we presume embraces all its main points.
1. Persons, in order to registration, must be citizens
of the United States and of the State.
2. They must be 21 years of age, at the date of
applying for registration.
3. Militia ana municipal officers before the war.
who engaged in rebellion, are not disfranchised.
4. The terms "Judicial, Legislative ancT Executive"
officers, who are disqualified, certainly embrace
the higher order of such officers, who were
such before the war, as, for instance, under thq
head of Judicial, Judges; under the head of Legislative,
members, but not subordinates; under
the head of Executive, Governor, Treasurer,
Auditor, Secretary, &e.
5. Besides these there are a large number of
officers, whose status is in some way to be defined
?"such as Sheriffs, Justices of County Courts,"
&c., who have jurisdiction over but a County, and
yet others whose jurisdiction is restricted to the
smallest civil sub-divisions. The Attorney General
has ordered abstracts to be prepared for each of
the States, showing the character, &c., of these
officers, and he reserves till then an opinion as to
which are, and which are not, disfranchised. #
6. Engaging in the rebellion means a direct,
overt act,?not common acts of humanity or charity.
Subscriptions to Confederate loans, and voluntary
contributions in aid of the government,
however, will disqualify, when the party had previously
taken the oath, in any of the prescribed
official capacities, to support the Constitution of
the Unitea States.
7. So, too, the performance of official duties
during the war, not incident to _ the war, but in
preservation of order and the administration of justice,
was not "engaging in the rebellion."
CHURCH UNIONS.
Consolidation appears to be the order of the day.
The tendency in politics is decidedly to a centralization
of power in the general government, and- a
breaking up of those minor law-making and government-dispensing
establishments called States,
which were once considered of paramount importance.
The result of the late war has disturbed
the delicate balance between the central power and
the lesser ones, which formerly revolved around it
as planets do around the sun. The consequence
which philosophers tell us would follow, if the centrifugal
force were destroyed in the solar system,
seems likely to be illustrated in our political system.
The lesser bodies are gravitating towards the greater,
and bid fair to be absorbed in it at no very distant
day.
The same principle is operating in the religious
world. The sub-divisions of different sects are
making efforts to do away with the so-called unimportant
differences which keep them apart. In
some cases, distinct denominations are moving towards
a union. The two prominent divisions of
the Presbyterian Church iu the South, known as
Old and New School, have already been merged
into one. The corresponding denominations in the
North are discussing a consolidation. A joint
committee was appointed last year, to prepare a
basis upon which the two sects could unite. The
Old School Assembly, now in session at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and the New School Assembly, at Rochester,
New York, have both received the report
of this committee, and though neither has yet acted
upon it, the probabilities are that the proposed
uuion will shortly be consummated, so far as the
Assemblies have power to act.. The basis of union
must receive the approbation of three-fourths of
the Presbyteries of both branches, before it takes
' effect.
The Methodist Episcopal and the Methodist
Protestant Churches arc likewise negotiating a union.
The Montgomery papers publish in full the
negotiations on this subject, which were presented
to the Convention, now in session at Montgomery.
The following resolutions were offered, as expres1
sing the sentiments of the Convention, in lieu ol
the various reports of the Commissioners:
Resolved lsf, That we hereby express our highI
est appreciation of the Christian candor and courtesy
with which the Commissioners of the Metli
odist Protestant Church, South, have presented
the subject of their mission to this Convention,
and to the Commission appointed to confer with
'them.
Resolved 2d. That we recognize with grateful
joy the present occasion, as a most auspicious event
in the history of Methodism, when the prejudices
and animosities of the past have been so far forgotten
and laid aside, as that the representatives of
the two branches of the Methodist family, long
and unhappily divided, have been brought together
in council to discuss terms of union between
their respective churches.
, Resolved 3d, That, while we regard the proposed
union as highly desirable both for the interests
of Methodism and of our common Christianity,
this Convention does not deem it expedient or proper
to take authoritative action, binding the Conferences
here represented to any particular course
upon this subject, inasmuch as these several Conferences
are variously affected by local causes and
influences, but would refer the whole subject for
final decision to each Annual Conference.
PENITENTIARY MUTINY.
About two weeks ago, the convicts in the
Tennessee penitentiary, at Nashville, made a fruitless
but desperate effort to overpower their guards
and gain their liberty. The great majority of the
prisoners were ignorant of any plot for this purpose,
but eleven of their number had determined
upon the effort at any risk. Their leader was one
Martin Coffee, an ex-Federal cavalryman, who had
been consigned to this retired asylum, for the onoe
patriotic but now criminal amusements of-houseburning
and robbery. This heroic sustainer of the
"old flag" suddenly gave the signal for rising, just
after the convicts had finished their supper, by
waving his cap and shouting "now is your time,
boys! Strike! Strike for your liberty!" The
whole three hundred convicts comprehended the
plot in an instant and rose to their feet, Coflee's efforts
to arouse them being ably seconded by an old
Confederate soldier named Holt, who once wore
the gray in the ranks of a Texas regiment
There was but one guard in the room, who ordered
Coffee to be seated. Instead of doing this,
the convict seized a knife from the table and attacked
the guard, who skilfully defended himsel:
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wnn a ciud, until re-iniorceu uy tun uwu guu>w
each armed with a revolver. The mutiny was ai
once quelled by this energetic action, and the lead'
ers were bound and treated to a severe whipping
, and the remainder of the convicts were marched tc
their cells. There was one exception to this sub
mission, in the case of a negro who had slippec
out of the room during the excitement and con
cealed himself under a wood-pile, from which h<
refused to come out, until he had been shot twia
: by the guards. The convicts were set to worl
again on the next day, and no further trouble i
anticipated from them.
THE HARDENING POWER OF WEALTH
: Young men generally have a strong desire t<
. be rich ; not for the sake of wealth itself, but fo:
the advantages which its possession gives to th<
| owner. They imagine that when they have ainas
i sed a fortune, they will live like princes and mak<
hundreds happy by their generosity. Alas! these
dreams are seldom realized. The vast majority
" ft.il to seem roan independence; some early contrac
, habits of vice and dissipation, which sink then:
into social degradation and effectually prevent then
from accumulating property. They-become out
casts from the abodes of virtue and honor, pests tc
. the community in which they might have shone a.1
ornameflts, and not unfrequently fill a drunkard*!
grave or a criminal's cell. Others remain in com
parative poverty, because they are of too noble anc
generous a constitution to hoard up money. W<
do not allude to prodigals or moral cowards whe
cannot say "no," but to those who, though noi
lavish upon themselves, cannot turn a deaf ear tc
the appeals of suffering.
If a young man does succeed in making money,
his success is apt to breed in him a sordid love oi
money, and to make him insensible to the claim?
of his fellow-beings. If he is not careful, he wil
find himself growing every day stingier, grcedici
and harder in heart. No passion so thoroughly
dries up the fountains of human sympathy, as avm,Arrra
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til lUU , ttliu IIUIIU ^luno 1UV1U iuj/iui; ujivu
which is the food of all passions. It sometimes
happens that a man becomes suddenly rich, by an
unexpected legacy, a lucky speculation, or some
other freak of fortune. And how often docs this
transform the whole-souled, liberal-hearted man ol
yesterday, as if by magic, into the close-fisted misei
of to-day!
These remarks were suggested by an anecdote
of Gerard Hallock, for many years editor of the
New York Journal of Commerce, which anecdote
1s credited to the Christian Intelligencer. Mr. H.
was a man of great liberality and at the same time,
was very successful in making money, in proof oi
both which facts it is stated that ho built at his
own expense, a church which cost $100,000. Wher
complimented on his "large purse and large heart
in disbursing it," Mr. Hallock made the following
reply, which should sink deep into the heart ol
' every man, and particularly every young man whe
reads it:
11 From my boyhood, I have observed that ever%
man grew covetous as he grew rich, if he did not
keep giving. I am making money and must givi
. it.
MERE-MENTION.
The death of C. J. Elford, Esq., a prominenl
citizen of Greenville, is announced. The rates
of freight and passenger fare on the Charleston
and Savannah llailroad, have recently been reduced
twenty per cent Quite sensible. The
Journal announces the completion of the Camden
branch of the South Carolina Railroad. The
greater part of the plantations South of Memphis,
on the river, are overflowed, and the planters are
in a starving condition. An order from the
Secretary of the Treasury dated the 1st instant,
suspends the collection of direct taxes in the Southern
States. A number of prominent Louisianians,
of all parties, are in Washington, seeking
Sheridan's removal as District Commander, and
asking that Meade be sent in his place. Returns
of the registration in Louisiana show that,
on an average, seven negroes are registered in each
parish to one white man. About $20,000
worth of confiscated liquor was emptied into the
gutter, at .Boston, on Thursday. There is a
mule in Alabama that refuses to work unless lie
is ridden, and to save a hand they have mounted
an artificial monkey upon him, and he works steadilv
now. James Gordon Bennett returns an
income of $119,967. The Mississippians are
inaugurating a movement to raise means to purchase
a home for Mr. Davis, at the capitol of the
State. Kelley, the peripatetic Radical, refrained
from speaking in Augusta, because of an
intimation from General Pope that there had been
controversy enough in his line. Gen. Pope
has appointed a colored man as one of the registrars
in Georgia. A man in Northampton,
Mass., has sued his brother for $20, for the board
of himself and wife during a visit which they paid
him three years ago, when first married.
A sale of property for Confederate funds has
just been declared void by the Court of Nelson
county, Virginia. A citizen of Bridgeport,
Conn., lately refused an increase of wages to one
of his servant girls, saying he considered the privilege
she enjoyed, of living in a Christian family,
worth $5 a month. The Secretary of the
Treasury expresses the opinion very freely, that nc
further reduction of the public debt need be expected
at present; indeed, the chances are that the
, debt will be increased within the next three
months. General Sickles has been brevctted
Maj. General in the regular army, for gallantry and
meritorious services. Ex-President Davis arrived
at Montreal, Canada, on the 21st inst. A
man in St. Louis was placed under a bond of $15(
the other day, to keep the peace towards a dog,
which lie had threatened to kill. The projeel
of abolishing slaverv on the Island of Cuba is onen
ly mooted, and is likely to be accomplished at nc
distant period. One charge iu a lawyer's
bill against a client was, "For waking up in th(
night and thinking of your business?five dol
| lars." A Miss Lovd, owner of extensive lam
[ ded estates in Scotland, has ejected all her tenant
from her premises because they allowed their wive:
i and daughters to wear crinoline.
The Iwdy of Col. W. D. DeSaussure, who com'
manded the 15th Regiment, S. C. V., in the late
' war, and who was killed at Gettysburg, arrived it
Charleston from Baltimore on Sunday last. Ar
' official report, just printed, by the Indian Bureau,
gives 300,475 as the estimated number of Indians
within the United States. Mr. Youatt, the
famous veterinary surgeon, who has been bitten
eight or ten times by rabid animals, says that crystals
of nitrate of silver, rubbed into the wound,
will positively prevent hydrophobia in the bitten
person or animal. Gen. Sherman, H. Ward
Beecher, Miss Maggie Mitchell, the actress, Mark
Twain, the humorist, Heniy Gwinn, the negro orator,
and Robert Hendershoot, the drummer boy,
are registered as passengers on the steamship
Quaker City, shortly to sail for Palestine.
LITERARY GIFTS TO THE SOUTH. a
Mr. Peabody's liberal gift for the educational n
wants of the South, has stimulated other moneyed h
men of the North to follow his example. The I
publishing firm of the Api'LETONS' lately contrib- b
uted one hundred thousand volumes of primary t'
school-books for the use of the trustees of the ii
Peabody fund. More recently, Messrs. A. S. p
Babnes & Co., have presented the trustees with t
thirty thousand volumes, twenty-five thousand of v
which are "school books for intermediate classes;" e
and the remaining five thousand are sets of the p
"Teacher's Library," a series of works intended to
assist teachers who have not had a thorough edu- 0
cation. ?
1 These are really liberal contributions and are ev- |
! idence of a solid interest in the educational destitu- a
tion of the South. We have no reason to doubt f
' that the motive of the donors was good, as was that
! of the originator of this scheme, Mr. Peabody.? 8
But there is some danger of this well-intended gift *
proving a Trojan horse in its consequences. The (
1 "Peabody Fund" may become a political engine f
" of no small power, if its trustees are to be furnished i
' with school-books by any one who chooses to wield J
1 an influence upon the minds of the rising genera- ]
t tion. .
The sentiments expressed in a school-book exer1
cise a controlling influence upon the character of
* the scholar, who uses theta at the most impressible
time of life.-'1 For this reason, the school-books
1 introduced at the South ought to be scrutinized
with a most jealous care. Most of the books used
5 as text-books in Northern schools are tinctured
1 with sentiments that our people cannot approve.
c Their fruit is to be seen in the prevailing Radical3
ism and unsettled religious belief of the North at
this day. And if the same seed is planted here,
by an indiscriminate use of Northern "donated"
j books, the same fruit may be expected. This is a
r danger that should be guarded against, more es2
pecially by our teachers, to whom our rising youth
. are committed as a sacred trust Theirs is the
> responsibility, and in view of a possible distribu2
tion of these donated books, it is respectfully but
j earnestly urged upon them, to accept nothing unt
til after a thorough examination.
i It may appear ungracious to be critical in accept!
ing a gift, at a time when "gratitude" is the pro.
gramme sketched out for the South. Our people
, are told to be grateful for food, grateful for the
3 magnanimity of their conquerors, grateful ,for the
5 release of Mr. Davis, grateful for the Union, the
. flag, the test-oath, reoonRtruotion, emancipation,
[ military government, &c., and of course, they ought
. to be grateful for books, which are to shed light
) upon their darkened understandings. But we are
t grateful for food, because it is nourishing; if poison
> is sent us, when we need bread, a little hesitation
in accepting it would be excusable. In like manner,
if they send wholesome food for the mind,
f it should be received with thanks. But if they
; send us poisonous mental aliments, let us risk be[
ing ungrateful, by rejecting it The books con:
tributed by the New York firms may be of the
r former class, but it is not certain that they are,
. nor can it be, until they have been examined.? J
Histories, in particular, will bear watching, it' we
wish Southern children to learn facts.
1 EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
f Capture of Maximilian.
1 Despatches lately received at Washington,
from Juarez, announce that Querctaro, Mexico,
was captured on the 15th. Maximillian, Miramon
and other prominent officers of the imperial army
are prisoners. Alas, poor Max, we fear he has
1 really "gone up," this time.
! Military Releases.
The Charleston papers of the 27th instant,
' contain Special Order No. 54, from Gen. Sickles
^ releasing the persons concerned in the late street5
car riots, with the exception of two ringleaders
1 who manifested more turbulence than their com'
panions. These two are remanded for trial by a
> Military Commission. S. C. Smith, the fireman
! who insulted the National flag by cutting it with a
) knife, at the parade on the 27th of April, is also
released, in compliance with the petitions of in[
fluential citizens.
| Tobacco Proscribed.
A paragraph going the rounds of the press
states that the Vermont Methodist Conference has
forbidden the use of tobacco to its members. No
; person who uses the weed will now be admitted
i into that church. This may not be true, but we
i have not yet seen any contradiction of the state
ment. If that church has taken this ground, it is
i certainly straining at a gnat. It would be no more
i than proper to forbid the use of tobacco during
t the performance of divine service, as chewing tobacco
and spitting all over the floor cannot strictly
s be considered as devotional acts. But the piety
i which would shut the gates of Heaven upon a poor
sinner, because he loves the weed, bsars the earmarks
of hypocrisy.
' Swinging as a Remedy. .
' We see it stated that "Dr. Brown Sequard,
an eminent physiologist and physician to one of the
Parisian hospitals, recommends the use of the
swiner as a preventative of nervous attacks, which j
i recur periodically. In certain cases of hysteria and
1 epilepsy he has prevented the coming on of the fit,
! by engaging his patient in violent swinging at the
> first indication."
Tills is a simple and, to most persons, a pleasant
I remedy. But some people find that swinging produces
a feeling of nausea, very similar to sea-sicki
ness, in which case the remedy is nearly as bad as
the disease. This faintness from the use of the
swing is most likely to attack young ladies, and is
' doubly dangerous when there are young men around
to administer consolation. At least it was
i so when we were younger; but as our swinging
i days glided into the past some years ago, it may
! not be so now.
A Mistake of the Wires.
The Utica (N. Y.) Herald tells a little story,
1 which strikingly proves that the telegraph will oc1
casionally make mistakes, in the transmission of
messages. It seems that a gentleman of Albany
; telegraphed to some New York ladies, to announce
i the advent of a lady who was going to that city to
complete her bridal trousseau. The wires, by some
! hocus-pocus peculiar to electricity, delivered the
message as follows:
"Miss goes down this evening to complete ,
i her bridal trojcscrs." ]
i It was cruel in the operators to credit the ex- >
pcctant bride with so early a desire for the em!
blcmsof authority in the wedded state. Still there ]
! could be no great harm done by"the insinuation, as <
[ it is generally supposed that brides, though they (
I may not prepare the article in advance, will even- (
tually coiuc into possession of a pair of trowsers. ,
. Struck by Lightning.
) The Charleston papers state that St. Mi- 1
, chad's Church, in that city, was struck by light- 1
t ning, on the evening of the 20th iust The flash first
struck and ran down the lightning rod; but a por- (
) tion of the electric fluid made its way to the wall, ]
> slightly damaging the plastering on the interior, c
; and passed out below the door, breaking the flag- j
- 1 5 -a. mi_ ~ ofnfiAnn/) in flio '
Stone unuer 1U xue Vfawuiuau, Diauumu ill fcuv
steeple, escaped with a slight stunning; but a par- J
5 ty of ladies and gentlemen, five in number, who (
i had taken refuge from the storm under the portico t
of the Church, did notget off" so easily. They were
knocked right and left by the shock, but strange to 1
i say, none of them were killed. When the acci- c
i dent was examined into, it was found that, as the fj
i lightning had struck them from the ground, their r
i injuries were exclusively confined to the lower part c
i of their bodies. The pants and boots of the gen- s
> tlemen were burnt or torn off their right legs, and c
i a gaiter was torn off the foot of one of the ladies. J
The dresses of the ladies were scorched, and their ^
steel hoops twisted and melted by the electricity, t
i This was certainly a wonderful escape from in- 1:
stantaneous death. ^
Effect of the Bankrupt Act. '
Washington despatches state that Mr. Chase ?
has nominated about one-third of the registers in t
bankruptcy, most of the appointees being for the j.
Eastern and Northern States, Georgia and Louisi- e
na. He has left the confirmation of his appointients
to the various District Judges, as being bct3r
acquainted with their qualifications than he is.
or this reason, the names of the nominees have
een with-held from the public. It is still asserted
hat the Act will go into effect by the 1st of June,
F the Registers and Commissioners have been appointed
and qualified by that time. We suppose
hat Districts not provided with these officials
rill have to wait until they get them. With refrence
to its effects, Leo, the Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Courier says:
The Bankrupt Act will have the effect to throw
. large number of persons and cases into the Fcdral
Courts. This will operate in the Southern
states in favor, as is supposed, of the Federal
Jnion. The people for some six years were quite
.lien to these Courts, but now they will be made
aniiKar with them again.
The Bankrupt Act is in itself a strong and loug
itep towards consolidation. It was because such
in Act would have this tendency that Southern
itatesmcn, with some exceptions, opposed it. Mr.
Calhoun opposed the Bill of 3841, partly on that
ground. Mr. Lowndes had, however, as Chairnan
of a Committee, drawn up and reported a
Bankrupt Bill in 1821, which faded. This Banknipt
Act is very different from the original idea of
in Act, which the framers of the Constitution had
n view. They contemplated only the bankrupt
ivstem of England as it then stood. They were
ilso all firm believers in the efficiency and proprie;v
of imprisonment for debt. This act sweeps off
hat practice as well as all State Insolvent and Stay
Laws, and brings all debtors and creditors into the
Federal Courts for the adjustment of their rela;ions.
Since the Constitution was adopted, the |
vorld has made wonderful progress in legal reform.
France has recently abolished imprisonment for
lebt, and England is about to ao it General
Sickles abolished it by Order No. 10 in the Caroinas,
and it will probably never again be practiced
in any State of the Union.
To Tell the Age of a Horse.
The Rural World gives the following as the
most accurate rule for ascertaining the age of a
iiorse over nine years old:
"After the horse is nine years old, a wrinkle
wmes on the eyelid, at the upper corner of the
lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one
veil-defined wrinkle for each year over nine. If,
for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is
twelve: if four, he is thirteen. Add the number
jf wrinkles to nine, and you will always get it"
Baptism and Marriage.
The Augusta Chronicle publishes the following
incident, which relates how a sinner was saved
[theoretically) in the very nick of time, by matrimony?which
is not the first instance on record,
if the saving powers of that institution. It has
seen suggested to us that tho conduct of the officiiting
clergyman, in marrying his convert beforo
baptizing him, savors of Roman Catholicism, inasmuch
as it consigned him to purgatory on his way
:o heaven. But we repel the ungallant insinuation,
as worthy only of a confirmed old bachelor.
Says the Chronicle:
?.In all the colored Baptist Churches in and around
Augusta, a great revival nas been going on
for some weeks, and many have been baptized or
mmersed. This contagion has not confined itself
jo the Georgia side of the Savannah River, but
spread into South Carolina, with like glorious re*a?1ta
fViA inotonnl Ar wlinf WflflnPPPQsihlft.
JU1LO, Ulltll tub I U IT UlUbVi 1U1 VI If liWW mumhwvwww.^.vj I
was well nigh played out On Sunday, however,
i solitary subject was found, and he, headed and
surrounded by the minister and a large crowd, took
jp the line of march for the Savannah. On arrinrg
beside the swift running stream, and when the
subject was almost in the attitude of the eunuch
with whom Phillip rode in the chariot, "Here is
water?what doth hinder me to be baptized," the
Door candidate's eyes were suddenly opened by the
ninister propounding to him the solemn question,
'Are you married ?'' "No, sir.'' ' 'Then you can
lever be baptized so long as you are living in illicit
ntercourec with a woman, though you may consider
her your wife." This fell like a bombshell
nto an enemy's camp and set him to thinking, but
lot wishing to spou the show, and jeopard hjs
jhances for kingdom come, he soon made up his
nind and intimated his willingness to comply with
the letter of the law, and the woman (dressed in a
plain calico, and standing unsuspectingly in the
;rowd to see him dipped,) was trotted out and bethrc
the assembled throng, the knot tied on the
lank, and her husband accordingly immersed with
ill the rites and ceremonies.
Fashions for Gentlemen.
The blockade experience of our people during
the war has, to a great extent, freed them
irom the remorseless tyranny of fashion, which
mce held them in galling bondage. Our ladies
still couform, in a degree, to the pictures which
ire sent them from time to time, from the mysterious
regions where the "latest fashions" are manactured.
It is true, the dear creatures are frequently
so far behind New York, that if they were
o visit that renowned metropolis, they would be
:onsidered relics of a past age. But so long as
they can keep up with the progress of the changeible
goddess of Fashion in the South, they are consented.
It is new here, and necessitates a purchase
)f fresh dry-goods?an arrangement which is mutually
agreeable to our ladies and our merchants,
rhe sterner sex, on the contrary, rejoice in a glo'ious
independence from Northern tailors, however
reconstructed they may be in politics. Every
nan wears clothes to suit his taste and his cash,
his credit is played out) and the result is an agrce.kla
nnwnJn r\f nnlnr nri/1 natfnm in flmir msSlttlM
lUIVy VU&XUtJ V/X VVSAV/X MUM ?u VMW.?
[n coats, the "spike-tail," the "high-water," the
'long-tail" and the jacket?all have their admirers.
But we feel it our duty to keep them posted on the
;hangcs of style in more pretentious sections of the
sountry. It may be that some of our readers will
risit New York this summer, and if so, they will
)f course wish to "cut a swell," to dazzle the eyes
)f the New Yorkers. For the benefit of any such,
ve transfer to our columns the following extract
rom the New York Gazette, which will give them
he necessary information:
"Everything for men's wear, in the shape of
oants?with the exception of plain black, which is
ilways fashionable for professional ana elderly
jentlemen?Is striped. The favorite colors seem
o be black and white, blue and light gray. They
ire every day growing smaller and smaller in the
eg, and some of the poor creatures already look as
f they were in distress. White vests, and black
Drown velvet coats and vests were worn yesterday,
jut the English walking coat seems to be most
ashionable. Light colored kid gloves were everywhere
displayed, and low crowned hats are altogether
worn. A few men were seen leading poolle
dogs attached to long strings. The smaller the
log, the inore fashionable. It should be so small
ma delicate as to oblige its owner to take it up by
;h.e nap of the neck, l>etween his thumb and finger,
md lift it over the horrid pavement, fit only for
iorses and carriages,
rraveling on the Great Eastern.
A passenger on the Great Eastern during
ler last trip from New York to Liverpool, gives to
he N. Y. Evangelist the following interesting ac;ount
of the pleasures of a journey on board of
;hat mammoth Steamer. Speaking first of her
fast size, he says:
She is immensely larger and stronger, and we
Dclieve safer, than any other ship in existence. A
iroof of this we had early in our voyage. The sec>nd
day' out brought a heavy blow. Captain Anlerson
said that never since he had been m the
Great Eastern had he encountered such a gale. It
nade us quite uncomioruiDie, dus as w saieiy, n
lid not give us for an instant a feeling of insccuriy,
We were so high above the waves that we
ooked down upon tnem, and saw them breaking
igainst the sides of the ship, as harmless as on the
ocks of the shore. Indeed we could not realize
;hat it teas a gale, except as we looked' out upon
Jie sea, and saw it covered with white caps.
But in another respect we were disappointed.
iVc had flattered ourselves that this ship was not
>nly free from danger, but from sea-sickness.?
Vlas, for the vanity of all human expectations!
That gale brought many of us down. The ship did
lot indeed "pitch." She is so long that she rides
>ver half a dozen waves at once, which keeps her
toady; but she had a motion sidewise that is not
omfortable. She is so light and so high out of
rater that she "rolls" very heavily. This, we are
old, might be obviated by putting a few thousand
ods of coal or iron in her hold; but the preparaions
for her departure were so hurried, that this,
ike many other things, was neglected. No doubt,
rhen all is done, it will be greatly relieved, and yet
. am inclined to regard sea-sickness, as like death,
. thing not to be circumvented or escaped. 1 'There
s no discharge in that war." But our oldest
ravellers agree, that the suffering from this cause
3 much less than in any other ship in which they
ver crossed the sea.
But the chief and indisputable superiority of the
Gr?at Eaxtmi id her spaciousness, which renders
possible every'accommodation. Her long decks
S've a promenade almost eaual to a walk in the j
entral Park. Her ample saloons, half a dozen of c
them, opening into each other, and into the state- C
rooms on either side, furnish the meaus for perfect
ventilation, and a freedom from that confined air
and those "ship smells," which make up the horrors
of the sea. In these spacious apartments
there is a comfort, which makes it possible not on- n
ly to exist but to enioy life, and even to work as on o
land. If you could look into the saloon where I o
now write, you would see a drawing-room as large 0
as any in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where parties
are reading and. writing as quietly as if at home.
Here I am able to do a good day's work, undisturb- *
ed by the motion of the ship. For the greater part o
of this week, I have written every day about as s
many hours as I should spend at my desk in the
office
' I
CAMDEN CORRESPONDENCE.
Camden, S. C., May 21st, 1867. t
Messrs. Editors: ? If a short communication
from this place will be acceptable, I will endeavor j:
to report, as correctly as I can from memory, the h
proceedings of a meeting of white and colored citi- t
zens, held in our Town Hall, last Saturday at 8 e
o'clock, p. m. The meeting was called, I believe, '
by the freedmai, a committee of whom waited c
on Gens. Chesnut and Kershaw, a day or two <]
previous, and solicited addresses. The citizens f
having assembled at the appointed hour, on mo- t
tion of Capt. Wm. Deas, (colored), Mr. W. M. a
McDonald was called tothe Chair, and Capt J. r
A. Schrook, requested tottef as Secretary. t
The chairman having stated that the meeting f
was ready to hear the addresses, Gen. Chesnut de- F
livered the opening speech in his usual easy and 11
graceful manner. He spoke very explicitly, wel- jj
coming the colored people to freedom, giving some c
of the strongest reasons why there should' be no a
spirit of enmity between the two races, showing t
the identity of their interests, and especially urg- 0
ing them to join no party.
Gen. Kershaw followed in a fluent and forcible t
speech; and among many other good things, he y
stated that he could prove by the record^ that the s
people of South Carolina should not be censured *
for holding slaves. That more than one hundred *
years ago, in Colonial times, her Legislature passed ^
an act prohibiting the importation of African slaves ?
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Britain, finding the slave-trade profitable, pro- t
nounced the act null and void, thereby forcing 11
slavery upon us. c
Wlrile Gen. Kershaw was speaking, Rev. Mr. j
Randolph (colored) from some of the Northern
States, having just arrived from Columbia, enter- j
ed the Hall and was conducted to the platform by t:
one or two of his colored friends; and after Gen. v
Kershaw concluded, the chairman invited him to ?
address the meeting, which he did. The substance
of his remarks was, that the freedmen wanted their fi
perfect political equality as conferred upon them by ii
the "Reconstruction Bill" ; and if the white peo- i>
pie of the South were willing to concede this, they a
asked for nothing more. He said they were ad- t,
vised to be conservative, but he could not endorse a
such a course, for fear their rights would be abridg- t
cd if they adopted conservative principles. His f
views, if I understand them aright, I think were 11
ill adapted t<f those of our people, as they werede- e
cidedly too Radical.
Gen. J. D. Kennedy, being then called upon
by the audience, spoke with his accustomed readiness,
ease and enthusiasm. He said if he was not t
disfranchised, he intended to register and vote fbr
a convention. He also gave the freedmen some
very salutary advice. c
After this, one or two freedmen of this place j
being called upon, made short speeches, which 1
terminated the proceedings of the evening. Har- \
raony and kind feeling pervaded the assembly, and ^
I hope it may result in much future good. g
I feel, perhaps, a deeper interest in the welfare \
and prosperity of our crippled and prostrate coun- 9
try, than I have ever felt before; and think it high- *
ly desirable that similar meetings should be held ?
throughout the State, in order to cultivate, as much (
as possible, feelings of amity between the two races, i
and to counsel the freedmen on the political ques- i
tions of the day. The Radicals are leaving noth- f
ing undone, and we, certainly, should not be too j
lukewarm. Will not my old native District, in f
which I feel an abiding interest, follow the patriot- j
ic and sensible example of this?my adopted Dis- i
trict ? i M. J
? , i
WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE. 9
Chicago, Illinois, May 18th, 1867. g
Dear Enquirer ;?Our eyes this day beheld one ]
r\P TBAn/Joiia aP flin TUArl/] fllfi nrAflf. oifv nf f
VI U1Q nuuuuio VI VUV ?VI IV? vuw Q*vw. v. v
Chicago. We cannot yet describe it, for we have I
seen almost none of its wonders. We will content '
ourself with giving you some more notes of travel, c
which we took on our way to this place. *
The Southern Baptist Convention adjourned on
Tuesday morning last, at about two o'clock. It
was an affecting scene to behold the delegates giv- >
ing the parting hand to one another, amid singing ^
and tears. a
The next day we stepped into the cars on the
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Rail Road, e
and as night came on, we went into the sleeping J
car and lay down, and slept as well as we could t
have done at home. The next day we passed
through Kentucky, and arrived at the city of Lou- c
isville in the evening. There is some beautiful r
scenery lying between Memphis and Louisville.? 11
We passed over the ground where Buell and Bragg s
played at chess. j.
Louisville, Kentucky, is indeed a beautiful city; r
it lies along the Ohio River, about six miles in h
length, and has about 100,000 inhabitants. The ?
people are kind and friendly. They are the finest 11
looking people we ever saw?the very picture of jj
health. We would advise our young friends of
our sex to come out here and marry a Kentucky t]
wife, were we not afraid of hurting the feelings of a
our own young ladies of South Carolina. 8
After spending two nights and a day in this 81
beautiful city, we set off on Friday morning to- p
wards Chicago. At the lower end of Louisville, t
wc crossed the Ohio River on a steam boat, and v
soon set our foot on the soil of Indiana. 8
When we crossed the river we were in the de- j
lightful city of New Albany, Indiana. Here we d
took the route of travel which leads through In- t!
diana, by way of LaFayette and Michigan City.? ti
Indiana is one of the prettiest countries I ever saw.
For the first sixty miles, we passed through a rich ?
and beautiful valley, fenced in on both sides by the p
knobs of Indiana. Leaving these mountains, we y
came into a flat, fertile region, well timbered and ii
watered. Every eight or ten miles we passed f
growing towns. The Northern part of the State
is one vast prairie. Some of this rich land has fj
been brought into cultivation and produces the g
finest of corn and wheat. The people here have n
just begun to plant, and the trees are just putting c
forth their leaves. We passed several fields to-day, J7
where the corn had not been gathered. It has jj
hung in the field all the winter. In one instance c
we saw a large pen of corn near the Rail Road, far g
away from any house. We stayed last night at
LaFayette, a city of some 20,000 inhabitants.?
This morning, about two o'clock, we reached Mich- *
igan City, on Lake Michigan. Hero we first be- ^
held the blue waters of this great lake. Michigan w
City is on a sand bank, surrounded by mounds of p
sand many feet high. It contains about 5,000 in- ^
habitants. We soon left this place, and going a- ^
long the South-west end of the lake, we reached ^
the great city of Chicago. The blue waters of lake j
Michigan are in front, and the boundless prairies ti
of Illinois in the rear of this city; while the smoke c<
from a thousand steam engines rises like a dark h
cloud above it I will try in my next to give you
some items in regard to this city. t]
The National Anniversaries of the Baptists are fi
to begin here next Wednesday. The people are ^
expecting three thousand delegates. It will be ?
one of the grandest convocations ever assembled !j
on this continent You will hear something more d
of it, anon. / G. 'a
LOCAL ITEMS.
FEW. ADVEETI8EMEHT8.
. 6c E. B. Stow??Yarn at ?1.75.
Jarroll, Clark 6c Co.?Clearing Sale?.
!. E. Bechtler 6c Co.?Watch-Making and Repairing.
FIFE 0AT8.
We were lately shown a specimen stalk of oats,
leasuring six feet in length, taken from the farm
f Mr. J. Durham Currence, eight miles N. E.
f Yorkville^ Mr. Currence has ten acres of
ats sown last September, of which the stalk sent
s is said to he an average specimen. No fertilizers
rere used in the cultivation of this field; the oats
we their luxuriance entirely to good seed, rich
oil, and favorable season.
IMPORTANT TO DISTILLERS.
Ieadquarters, Second Military District, 1
Charleston, S. C., May 20th, 1867. )
General Orders No. 25.]
It appears from sundry petitions and official repesentations,
that the present scanty supply of food
ri the Carolinas is seriously diminished by the
lrgc quantity of grain consumed in numerous disilleries,
put up and worked in defiance of the revnue
laws of the United States: it is reoresented
hat few or none of the requirements of law are
ibserved in any of these establishments; that the ifficers
of the internal revenue service, while enleavoring
to assess and collect the whiskey taxt are
requently treated with disrespect and sometimes
nenaced with violencej and that when offenders
xe prosecuted in the civil courts and violations of '
he internal revenue laws indisputably proved, ju- '
ies fail to convict the parties; it is further shown
hat this unlawful traffic makes food dearer in
laces where large numbers are depending upon
inblic and private bounty: that the government
?, besides, defrauded of a large amount of reveiue;
that the authority of its civil officers is brought
a to contempt; and furthermore, that the mischief
omplained of tends to increase poverty, disorder
nd crime; therefore, in the exercise of the auhority
vested in the Commanding General, it is
rdered that,
I. The distillation or manufacture of whiskey or
ther spirits from grain is prohibited in this Milk
ary District. Anv person so engaged or employed
rill be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The posession
of a still or other apparatus for this purpose
rill be considered presumptive evidence of a violaion
of the revenue laws, and the party or parties
sing the same, or on whose premises, or in whose
fossession the same may be found, will be arrested
nd brought to trial before a militaiy tribunal, comtosed
of the Commanding Officer of the Post and
wo officers of the army next in rank on duty withri
the territorial limits of the Post' If the exigenies
of the service do not permit the detail of other
fficers, that fact will be duly certified, and the
tost Commander will hear and determine the case.
II. The penalties, punishments and forfeitures
irescribed by the several acts of Congress for disilling
or manufacturing whiskey or other spirits in
iolation of the revenue laws, will be imposed and
xe rated by the military tribunals hereby authorsed
III. No sentence extending to imprisonment,
irfeiture of stills, liquor or other property, or the
11 position of a fine or other penalty, mil be carried
ato etfect until reported to tnese neaaauaixers
nd approved by the Commanding General.
IV. All troops of the United States, Magisrates,
Sheriffs, Constables, Police and others in
uthority. are required, and all citizens are solicited,.
o be vigilant in detecting and Dromptin giving inarmation
of the violation of tnese orders. Comtianding
officers will be held responsible for their
nforcement
By command of Mai. Gen. D. E. Sickles.
J. W. CLOUS,
Capt. 38th U. S. Inft. A. D. C. & A. A. A. G.
Official: Alexander Moore, Capt, 38th Infanry,
Aid-de-Camp.
THE HOME PRESS.
What tells so readily the standard of a town or
ity as the appearance of its newspaper; and its
outh or age can as well be defined by a glance at
ts newspaper, as though a personal observation
lad been made. The enterprize of its citizens is
lepicted by its advertisements?their liberality by
he looks of the paper. Some papers show a good,
olid, healthy foundation, plethoric purses and a
veil-to do appearance generally; others show a
triving to contend with the grasping thousands
rying to wrench out existence from the dose-fisted
ommunity around them. An occasional meteoric
lisplay in its columns of telegraphic, of local, or
>f editorial, shows what it would do if it had the
neans; but it cannot continue in the expensive work
intil the support come which ought to be readily
punted. A newspaper is like a church; it wants
ostering at the commmencement for a few years;
hen, as a general thing, it can walk alone, and relect
credit upon its location. Take your home
>aper! it gives you more news of immediate inteest,
than the New York or other distant-city pajers;
it talks for you when no others will speak
n your favor; when other localities belie you, it
tands up for your rights; you always nave a
ihampion in your home paper, and those who
tand up for you should certainly be well sustained,
four interests are kindred and equal, rise or fall
ogether. Therefore it is to your interest to sup>ort
your home-paper?not grudgingly, but in a
iberal spirit; as a pleasure, not as a disagreeable
lutyj as an investment that will amply repay ex>enditure.
WHISKEY FROM CORNSTALKS.
On the 28 th of the present month, letters patent
rill be issued at Washington to Messrs. James
*leely and Allen of Buckingham county, Virinia,
for the manufacture of alcoholic spirits from
, material heretofore regarded as worthless.
By this valuable and important addition to modrn
science, an immense quantity of grain and poatoes,
of which ardents spirits are now manufacured,
will be saved for the natural uses for which
hey were intended.
The invention is no less beneficial than extraorlinaiy
and surprising, and is destined to create a
evolution in the manulacture of all kinds of spirtuous
liquors. The simple and unpretending corntalk,
when shorn of its ears and fodder, formerly
ubbish and even beneath the notice of a hungry
ioree or cow, has been found by the inventor to
iosscss every necessary qualification of the distilltion
of liquor of a superior quality and flavor.?
;0 the genius of Mr. James Neely, of Buckinham,
3 the country indebted for this wonderful discovey,
and we are happy to say that both the Goveralent
officers in Washington, and distillers in the 1
forth who tested his samples, have not only given
be most flattering assurances of the great value
nd importance of nis invention, but have also conratulated
him as the fortunate possessor of such a
ecret.
The usual processs of distilling is all that will be
equired in the manfacture of the new material in9
ardent spirits; no additional expense is incurred,
rhile, on the contrary, it will prove a source of
reat revenue, and a messing to the country?the
vil will in future have this much of a modification.
Ldded to this, the culture ofcorn will now become
bubly valuable, and the farmer will realize from
be sale of his stalks nearly an additional half of
he usual proceeds from his corn crop.
The sample of the article we have seen, which
ras manufactured in October last, is all that the
aventor claims for it, and, unlike some of our extensive
brands of whiskevs, readily mixes with
rater?not evincing that oily nature so often seen
a fine liquors, and which has always precluded the
lossibility of making what is generally known as
'good grog." This quality, we may add, most
larticularly recommended it to Commissioner Rolns
and the Executive Department at Washington.
Several capitalists from the North have already
aade propositions to the inventors, with a view to
ommence an extensive business next fall, but as
et no plans of a definite nature have been agreed
p'on, though many are projected. We expect to
tear that some of our Richmond distillers will seure
the right for the use of this invention in this
itate.?jxicnmona Times.
J. Wilkes Booth Still Alive.?A letter from
Andrew M. Wilson, at Galveston, Texas, to die
few Orleans Picayune, gives an account of an insrview
with a gentleman in Calcutta, who had
ron a bet of $500 that Booth was alive, and had
reduced the oath of two men, selected by the man
rith whom the bet was made, who swore that they
ad seen him.
This writer says that Booth's whereabouts is
nown to five persons only, who know that he is
tooth. He is living in obscurity, far from his nave
land, and is perfectly safe, as his disguise is so
Dmplete that his own brother would not recognize
im.
Size op Nails.?Whv are nails designated by
be terms six-penny, eight-penny, etc? In Shefeld,
England, they used to be sold in small qnanities
by the hundred, and the terms four-penny,
ix-penny, etc,j referred to such nails as were sold
t fourpence, sixpence, etc., per hundred npils.?
Tie length of the nails of that day, that were so
esignated, is exactly the same with the nails that
re now known by these designations. ,
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