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The Low Country of the Southern States. It has been a question, agitated by the curi? ous, whether the extensive tract of low, flat country, which fronts the several Southern States, and extends back to the hills, has re? mained in its present form and situation ever since the flood ; or, whether it has been made by the' particles cf earth which have been washed down from the adjacent mountains, and by the accumulation of soil from the de? cay of vegetable substances; or, by earth washed out of the Gulf of Mexico by the Gulf stream and lodged on the coast; or, by the .recess of the ocean, occasioned by a change in some other parts of the earth; or, from other causes unknown to us. Several phenom- i ena deserve consideration in forming an opin- I ion on this question. ; It is a fact well known to a person of obser .'.vation who has lived or traveled in the South? ern States, that shells and other substances which are peculiar to the sea shore, are almost invariably found by digging eighteen or twent ty feet below the surface of the earth. Many " miles from the sea, where wells are sunk at a depth of twenty or more feet, it frequently transpires that something having the appear? ance of a salt marsh is encountered, that is, you find marsh grass, marsh mud, and brack? ish water. In all this flat country, until you 1 ?come to the hilly land, wherever you dig a j . well, yon find the water at a certain depth, fresh and tolerably good, but if you exceed j that depth two or three feet, you find a saltish j . or brackish water that is scarcely drinkable ; and the earth dug up resembles, in appearance and smell, that which is dug up on the edge of the salt marshes. j On and near the margin of the rivers are ? frequently found sand hills, which appear to ? have drifted into ridges by the force of water. At the bottom of some of the banks in the rivers fifteen or twenty feet below the surface of the . earth, are washed out from the solid Sound logs, branches and leaves of trees, and e ..whole bank, from bottom to top appears streaked with layers of logs, leaves, ana sand. These appearances are seen far up the rivers, ' from eignty to one hundred miles from the sea, where, when the rivers are low, the banks are from fifteen to twenty feet high. As you pro? ceed down the rivers toward the sea, the banks decrease in height, but still are formed of layers of sand,' leaves and logs, some of which are 'entirely sound, and appear to have been sud? denly covered to a considerable depth. It has 'been observed that the rivers in the Southern States frequently vary their channels; that the swamps and lowlands are constantly filling up, and the land in many places annually in? fringes upon the ocean. It is an authenticated fact, that no longer ago than 1771, at Cape Lookout, on the coast of North Carolina, there -was an excellent harbor, capacious enough to receive one hundred large vessels at a time, in a good depth of water. It is now entirely filled up and is solid ground. Instances of . this kind are frequent along the coast. It is observable, likewise, that there is a gradual descent of about eight hundred feet, by meas? urement, from the foot of the mountains to the sea board. This descent continues, as is dem? onstrated by soundings, far into the sea. . It is worthy of observation that the soil on the banks of the rivers is proportionably coarse or fine according to its distance from the moun? tains. When you first leave the mountains, and for a considerable distance, it is observa? ble that the soil is coarse with a large mixture . of sand and shining heavy particles. As you proceed toward the sea, the soil is less coarse, and so on, in proportion as you advance, the soil is finer and finer until, finally, is deposited a soil so fine, that it consolidates into perfect clay, but a clay of peculiar quality, for a great part of it has intermixed with it reddish streaks and veins, like a species of ochre, brought, prob 'ably, from the red lands which lie up toward the mountains. This clay, when dug up and exposed to the weather, will dissolve into a fine mould, without the least mixture of sand or any gritty substance whatever. Now, we know that running waters when turbid will deposit first the coarsest and heaviest particles, mediately, those of the several intermediate . degrees of fineness, and. ultimately, those which are the most subtle; and such, in fact, is the general quality of the soil on the banks of the Southern rivers. . It is a welI-known fact, that on the banks of the Savannah river, about ninety miles from the sea, in a direct line, and one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles as the river runs, there is a very remarkable collection of oyster shells of an uncommon size, running in a north? east and southwest direction, nearly parallel with the sea coast, in three distinct ridges, which together occupy a space of seven miles in breadth. These ridges of fossil oyster shells are perhaps seventy feet higher than the sur? face of the river, and from three feet to thirty feet below the common vegetation surface. The shells are from fifteen to twenty inches in length and from six to eight inches wide, and from two to four inches in thickness, and thin hollows sufficient to receive an ordinary man's foot. The question is how came they here ? It cannot be supposed they were carried by land; neither is it probable they were carried in cauot s or boats to such a distance from the place where oysters are now found. The un-1 civilized natives, agreeably to their roving manner of living, would rather have removed to the sea shore than have been to such im? mense trouble in procuring oysters. Besides, j the difficulty in conveying them would have I been insurmountable. They would not only have had a strong current in the river against them, an obstacle which would not have been easily overcome by Indians, who ever had an aversion to labor; but could they have sur? mounted this difficulty, oysters conveyed such a distance, either by land or water, in so warm a climate, wonld have spoiled on the passage and have become useless. . The circumstance of these shells being found in such quantities, at so great a distance from the sea, can be ra? tionally accounted for in no other way than by supposing that the sea shore was formerly uear this bed of shells, and that the ocean has since, by the operation of certain causes not yet fully investigated, receded. These phenomena, as they cannot be otherwise accounted for, prove as far as it can be proved, that a great partofthe flat country which spreads easterly of the Al leghany mountains, had, in some past period, a superincumbent sea or water; but it is be yona the abilities of man to account for the change in a satisfactory manner.? The South. ? A Chicago clergyman relates the follow? ing anecdote: I-once married a handsome young couple, and as I took the bride by the hand, at the close of the ceremony, and gave her my warmest congratulations, she tossed her pretty face, and pointing to the bridegroom, replied, *I think he is the one to be congratu? lated." ? Rev. Jesse H. Jones, of Abingdon, Mass., holds that man has a natural right to as much land as he can work with own hands; that land should not be bought or sold, and that no man has the right to make a will, for the reason that when he is dead it is none of his business what becomes of what he leaves be? hind. The Sad Effects of Stimulating Drinks. Under this head an article has recently ap Eeared in Hall's Journal of Health, whicn we ave read with the greatest interest, and which we gladly transfer to our columns, and recom? mend most earnestly to the perusal of our readers. We have long entertained the same general views upon the deleterious effects of stimulating drinks, especially upon the intel? lectual and moral faculties of our most gifted men, but never have seen them presented be? fore with so much clearness and force. How stupendous and widespread is the evil herein delineated. How the progress of science is clogged; the advance of refinement impeded; the full development of mind obstructed; the capacity for practical usefulness lessened ; the growth of all the virtues which most adorn humanity, and are most promotive of social repose and national prosperity checked aud undermined; the length of human life itself fatally lessened by the causes which are in this admirably written article so -graphically and impressively portrayed ! Let no man hope for the perpetuity of free institutions in this Re? public, of which all of us are so justly proud, unless in some way the giant evil of intemper? ance can be stayed in its devastating progress. Let no man expect that the principles of civil order will be maintained, public concord up? held, healthful, religious, and moral influences be kept alive and be given a beneficial diffu? sion, matrimonial happiness be secured, the education and training of our children be judi? ciously and effectively provided for, our rank among the civilized nations of the earth be preserved or the fruition of all our hopes of national grandeur and power be realized, unless some speedy and all-conquering remedy can be applied in time to save us as a people from consequences, the direful nature and ex? tent of which no pen is capable of adequately delineating, and no single mind, perhaps, ca? pable even of conceiving in all their fearful magnitude. Listen to the words of wisdom, and be warned in time against mischiefs, which, when once fully realized, leave no hope either for individual man or for communities of men, however blessed in other respects with the means of attaiuing the highest prosperity and happiness which earth is capable of supplying. Here is the article: "The man is a maniac, a deliberate suicide, who drinks tea, coffee, or ardent spirits of anv kind, to induce him to perform a work in hand*, and when he feels too weak to go through with it without such aid. This is the reason that the majority of great orators and public favor? ites die drunkards. The pulpit, the bench, the bar, the forum, have contributed their legions of victims to drunken habits. The beautiful woman, the sweet singer, the conversationalist, the periodical writer, has filled but too often a drunkard's grave. Now that the press has be? come a great power in the land, when the mag? azine must come out on a certain day and the daily newspaper at a fixed hour, nothing waits, everythiug gives way to the inexorable call for copy. Sick or well, disposed or indisposed, t writer most compose his article whether he feels like it or not; and if he is not in the vein for writing he must whip himself up to it by the stimulus of drink. Some of the great? est writers of the century have confessed to the practice, on urgent occasions, of taking a sip of brandy at the end of every written page, or even oftener?Lord Byron at the end of every paragraph sometimes! It may have escaped the general reader's no? tice that more men have died young who have been connected with the New York press with? in ten years, and that too from intemperance, than in all other educational callings put to? gether ; young men whose talents have been of the very first order, and gave promise of a life of usefulness, honor and eminence. The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too tired to perform a task or too weak to carry it through, is to go to bed and sleep a week if he can; this is the only recuperation of brain power; the only actual renewal of braiu forces, because during sleep the brain is, in a sense, at rest, in a condition to receive and appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood which take the place of those which have been con? sumed in previous labor, since the very act of thinking consumes, burns up solid particles, as every turn of the wheel or screw of the splendid steamer is the result of the consumption by fire ofthe fuel in the furnace. That supply of brain substauce can only be had from the nu? triment particles in the blood, which were ob? tained from the food eaten previously, and the brain is so constituted that it can best receive and appropriate to itself those nutriment par? ticles du ring the state of rest, quiet and still? ness of sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in themselves, they only goad the brain, force it to a greater consumption of its substance, un? til that substance has Deen so fully exhausted that there is not power enough left to receive a supply, just as men are sometimes so near death by thirst and starvation that there is not strength enough left to swallow anything, and all is over. The capacity of the brain for re? ceiving recuperative particles sometimes comes on with the rapidity of lightning, and the man becomes mad in an instant; in an instant falls into convulsions, in an instant loses all sense, and ho is an idiot. It was under circumstances of this very sort, in the very middle of a sen? tence of great oratorial power, one of the most eminent minds of the ago forgot his idea, pressed his hand against his forehead, and, af? ter a moment's silence, said : 'God, as with a sponge, has blotted out my mind.' Be assured, reader, 'there is rest for the weary,' only in early and abundant sleep, aud wise and happy are they who have firmness enough to resolve that 'by God's help, I will seek it in no other way.'" Activity Leads to Happiness.?We should all live more healthful, more useful and lon? ger lives, says the Philadelphia Ledger, did we so employ our activities to extract from them that enjoyment which is their natural and le? gitimate result. Let every one be sure that, if his work is toilsome, arduous and depressing, there is something wrong ; some of his faculties are restrained, while others arc overburdened : some of his powers are exhausted, while others are dormant. It is not rest so much as change that he needs; not to lay down his work and fold his hands in idleness, but rather to em? brace other fields of action, hitherto uutrodden. It will doubtless be difficult to apply this to all the details of practical life, but we shall have gained one important stop towards it, if wc ap? preciate and firmly hold to the truth, that real happiness can only be attained by activity of mind and body, and the more fully and har? moniously all our powers are exercised, the ful? ler will be our life, and the more real enjoy? ment will it yield. ? In Parson Brownlow's prospectus an? nouncing a resuscitation of the Knoxville Whig, he declares that he "will wage war un? ceasingly upon the iufamous civil rights bill, now before congress, or any other like odious class legislation." He proposes to commence the publication of the Whig as soon as he re? ceives "from three to five thousand subscribers, which he expects to do at an early day." awake, that copy must come; the A National Convention of Peace and Recon? struction. The New York Herald has been urging with great ability an early meeting of representative men from all parts of the country, to ascertain and settle the prime needs of the nation to? wards bringing about peace and reconstruction. The following extract is taken from a recent article in its columns: In the present condition of the country there are only two subjects of immediate urgency, and even these two ought to be separated and one of them postponed, because they are rela? ted. These two subjects are the currency and the condition of the South. The free trade is? sue is au impertinence until after these two have been decided. It is a question in which there is at present no popular interest. Of the two thousand newspapers of the country there are not ten that discuss it at all, and in those ten nothing is so certain to be skipped as a free trade article. The attempt to force it as a po? litical issue until questions of more interest are disposed of only obstructs political unity and concentration. Even the currency question, in which there is altogether more political life, only serves to distract attention from what ought to be the leading issue. Since President Grant's veto the country feels that there is no danger of further inflation, at least so long as he remains in office, and on the strength of this assurance it is content to have the ques? tion adjourned for a year or two. The really great question of the time is the condition of the Southern States, and on this ground the ensuing political battle ought to be fought. The really commanding issue tu the campaigns for Congress now, and for the Presidency later, is the proposal so welcome to the South, and so grateful to honest men in the North, that these States should meet in a national conven? tion of peace and reconstruction. Had the reconstruction measures worked well and fulfilled the promise of their authors, that question would long ago have disappeared from our politics. After the lapse of nine years since the close of the war, it cannot be said that those measures have not had a fair trial. They must be judged by their fruits. They have not brought tranquility; they have not revived Southern prosperity; they have not restored fraternal feeling between our countrymen who fought in the war; they have not reinstated republican government in the South; they have not enabled us to withdraw military coercion from that afflicted section of our common country. The new State govern? ments are rotten with corruption. Their Leg? islatures are hotbeds from which there has shot up a rank growth of pecuniary infamy which has no other palliative than the gross ignorance of the negro members. The proper? ty of the South has been burdened with swind? ling taxes until it has become, in many locali? ties, nearly worthless. This monstrous injury to the South is also an injury to the North. The whole country is taxed to support the soldiers required for maintaining order in the Southern States. The burdeu of government rests with increased weight on the North when debt, poverty and prostration disable the South from bearing its proportionate share. The very foundation of our free institutions is sapped by accustoming the federal government to intermeddle in State affairs, and set aside the result of regular elections. The frequent breaches of the peace in that section are the shame aud scandal of.the times. The para? mount necessity of the country is to have this state of things remedied, and the remedy will come more readily after being considered by a national convention of peace and reconstruc? tion. The great pressing national want is a restoration of order, tranquility and govern? ments which, resting in the free choice of the people, do not need constant propping by fed? eral bayonets. Until this great issue is decided and set at rest, ail others are of subordinate consequence. The country does not ask the republican party to undo its work in the South, but to rectify and repair it. The country does not object to the fullest civil rights to all men, but it asks that the new privileges aud franchises be reconciled with peace, order and prosperity. If that party is incompetent to bring negro rights into harmony with good order and hon? est government, the country will demand that the task be put into different hands. This is the great issue. When this is settled, the cur? rency will be next in order, and it can be dealt with more intelligently when it is seen how much money is wanted in the South in a con? dition which re-awakens confidence and enter? prise, and sets all the wheels of industry in motion. Next in order, after a sound currency, is the question of free trade. Free trade as a i political question means free trade with foreign nations. We already have it in our domestic commerce. But before we can establish our ! commerce with the world on a sound basis, we must first adopt the currency of the world as the medium in which it is transacted. By thus separating public questions and settling each in its order, we might restore dignity and respectability to our politics, and enable the people to vote intelligently on every great issue without mixing aud confounding it with others. A Good SroN'.?One of the most cheering indications of the fact that the West is begin? ning to understand the condition of affairs in the South, and to call for a change in the poli? cy of the Government towards this section, is found in a resolution passed by the Liberal Re? publican and Democratic Convention of Min? nesota. It is the first plank in the platform, was adopted unanimously, and has a pleasant sound to Southern ears. Here it is : "Believing the present disastrous condition of the Southern States to be largely due to the corrupt rule of carpet-bag politicians, who have plundered aud impoverished the people, inten? sified the prejudices of race and driven these communities to the verge of civil war: know? ing that this state of affairs has been devel? oped during the administration of President Grant, and been fostered by the course of the Republican party, and despairing of relief, ex? cept through a radical change of policy, wc demanded the maintenance of a just and impartial policy towards the people of the South, whereby both races will be protected in their rights ; the expulsion of the thieves, aud perfect equality before the law for all per? sons, without regard to race, color or political opinions." This is all the South wishes. Let her get rid of the thieves, who are bleeding her to death ; let tho Administration allow the people of the South to control their own domestic affairs and to exercise the right of local self-govern? ment, and there will bo no more trouble. ? Any man can be cheerful when in the midst of prosperity, brave when there is no danger, and trustful when there is no cause for suspicion. True manhood is not fully tested until confronted by adversity, brought face to face with peril, and assailed by doubts as to the existence of human virtue and good faith. ? When boys stand on their heads they ap? pear to occupy a false position in the world. HOW GEN*. ADAIR ELECTIONEERED. an" incident in an^old-time kentucky canvass. In the poor] old times political matters were managed differently from what they are now. In fact, they were left pretty much to manage themselves. In those days the oflicc sought the man, and not the man the office. This was signally illustrated when the friends of Gen? eral Adair brought him out as'a candidate for Governor long years ago. The General re? mained passive, neither seeking or refusing the position assigned him. After a while, how? ever, as the time for the election drew near, the opposition began to assume formidable propor? tions, and the General'* friends began to be apprehensive that his success was endangered by the extreme electioneering activity of his popular competitors. Some of them, indeed, went to General Adair and endeavored to per? suade him to take the stump, or, if he would not do that, to travel around through the State, show himself to the people and mingle.freely with them. But the General refused; he would not depart from the settled rule of his life, which was neither to seek nor decline pro? motion at the hands of his fellow-citizens. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, nor Jove for his power to thunder. Thus matters stood, up to within three or four weeks of the election, Adair's prospects apparently growing darker, while those of his more active competi? tors seemed to become brighter each day ; when one bright morning in July, one of the Gener? al's most intimate friends, Col. II-, who had long vainly endeavored to prevail upon him to turn out and mix among the people, standing in front of his office on the main street of Harrodsburg, descried him coming into town mounted upon a splendid horse, with a well-filled portmanteau strapped behind his saddle and followed at a little distance by a colored groom similarly mounted, both evident? ly fitted out for a journey. On riding up, and after exchanging the usual salutations, Col. M- felt curious to know the General's destination, hoping, of course, that he had at least determined to go around and mix with the people, and said to him : "General, you seem to have started upon a journey, and if it's no secret, I would be glad to know your destination ?" After a moment's reflection, General Adair responded : "Well, sir, I don't mind telling a discreet man like you, but I shall do so in confidence, and trust you will say nothing about it in pub? lic until the result of my visit is known. Of course, you remember that General Andrew Jackson, in his official report of the battle of the 8th of January at New Orleans, used lan? guage highly derogatory to the courage of the Kentucky troops present on that occasion. He went so far, in fact, as to charge that in the very crisis of the battle they "ingloriously fled." Now, sir, this expression is so unjust to my command, and so well calculated to fix an undeserved but indelible stigma upon the honor of Kentucky, that it has rankled in my mind ever since its publication. And now, sir, I can stand it no longer. I have determined to visit Nashville, see General Jackson and have it out with him in one way or the other. He must either withdraw the objectionable expression, which I think he will do when he sees the proofs I shall lay before him, or?sir, I need not tell you what will follow. General Jack? son must undo the wrong he has done a noble State, or he must answer for it in single com? bat according to the rules of civilized private war." Colonel M- was, of course, overjoyed to hear this. He saw at a glance that no bet? ter electioneering strategem could have been devised if all the genius of Frank Blair, Sr., and Amos Kendall, Jr., combined, had been brought to bear upon the question, than this chivalric determination of the gallant, single minded Adair to obtain justice for Kentucky from the then all-powerful Hero of the Her? mitage. He bade the Geueral God speed with hearty gusto on his knightly mission, and then went to work to let all the leading men in the State know, in the strictest confidence, aud "not under any circumstances to be published in the newspapers," that General Adair had gone down to Tennessee, single-handed and alone, "to beard the lion in his den, the Doug? las in his hall," for the honor of Kentucky. Of course the intelligence, thus privately cir? culated, was soon known to nearly every voter in the Commonwealth ; and the result was that General Adair was elected Governor by a ma? jority approaching unanimity. Indeed, when it became k uown, as was soon the case, that I his mission to General Jackson had resulted iu complete success, though amicably?that the old hero, on being convinced of the wrong he had unintentionally done, had hastened to make the amende lionorable?General Adair's popularity throughout the State was heightened indefinitely?as was also Geueral Jackson's? and he remaiued in truth "Kentucky's favorite son" to the day of his death.?Frankfort [Kij.) Yeoman. Love's Mishaps.?The Boston Journalsays: "There is a young lady iu California who has had a very unfortunate courtship. She resides in San.Francisco, and one evening her lover was accompanied by a friend. As the gentle? men were about to depart, the friend put on the lover's coat by mistake, and finding a pistol in the pocket, accidentally shot the young lady with it, the ball entering her arm. Subsequent? ly he showed his regret for the accident and his solicitude for the lady by frequent calls to sec how she was getting along during her illness. The result was that the original lover was cut out; it might be said that he was shot out. An engagement soou followed ; the wedding was to have taken place during the month of August. But a few weeks ago the couple went out for a drive, and while making one of the numerous turns in the road selected, the buggy was over? turned, the lady rolling down a bank and al? most into a stream, coming so near the water that her clothes were saturated. A broken leg and other severe injuries were the result for her. The lover escaped without injury. He is a precious fellow to think of getting married. The wedding is necessarily postponed several months. It ought to be postponed till the lady finds some one who is not likely, ultimately, to kill her by accident." Stop Coughing.?In one of his Boston lec? tures, Dr. Brown-Sequard gives the following simple means for checking coughing, sneezing, etc.: "Coughing can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lip in the neighborhood of the nose. A pressure thcro may prevent a cough when it is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped by the same mechanism. Pressing, also, in the neighborhood of tho ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so, also, of hiccough, but much less so than for sneezing or coughing. Pressing very hard on the top of the mouth, inside, is also a means of stopping coughing. And I may say that the will has immense power there. There was a French soldier who used to say, whenever he entered the wards of his hospital, 'The first patient who coughs here will be deprived of food to-day.' It was exceedingly rare that a patient coughed then." The Edgefield Disturbance. The annexed statement of facts connected with the recent disturbance in Edgefield County is copied from the Charleston News and Cou? rier : Edgefield County, September 25. Apprehending that exaggerated and incorrect reports of the late disturbances in this com? munity may be in circulation, we beg to make a statement of the facts to the public: There is a negro captain of militia by the name of Ned Tenant, who lives on Mr. M. 0. Glover's plantation, and is a very turbulent, disorderly person. He alleged that on Satur? day night, the 19th irist., two or more unknown parties fired into the door of his house, and that thereupon he tapped his drum and began to assemble his militia. The whites hearing this and that this man had threatened "to burn Mr. Glover and Mr. Doly out and clean out the country." began also to assemble. By twelve o'clock the next day, Sunday, the negroes had collected with their arms at and about Ned's house in considerable numbers. The whites in the meantime had assembled mounted, and had partially surrounded the ne? groes. The negroes ascertaining this, sent to Col. Butler, in immediate command of the whites, proposing to capitulate. They were allowed to disperse without molestation and return to their homes. Reports of the probable collision having been rapidly circulated, several detachments of white men and two companies of negro militia reached the viciuity that even? ing and night, and a small detachment of United States croops, but upon being informed of the situation returned to their respective homes. Prior to the organization and arming of the militia the most perfect tranquility and good order prevailed in our community. The placing of arms and ammunition in the hands of ignorant negroes in a time of profound peace and tranquility, when it is not even pretended that their rights, persons or property are threatened, much less violated or disturbed, in? stigating them to bravado, acts of violence and threatening deportment, is entirely with outjustification ; not only without justification, but a reckless tampering with and disregard of' the safety and peace of mind of the women and children and helpless of the country; a fire? brand, to be used at will by such incendiaries as Ned Tenant. We are sure that those who know us will believe that we deprecate a collision with negroes as entirely beneath the dignity and character of law-abiding citizens; that we appreciate how little is to be gained by lawless? ness, bloodshed and disorder, and how essen? tial to the well-being of society is the preserva? tion of order and due operation of law, and that we have withheld merited punishment from these people when they were in our power, in deference to those elevated principles of en? lightened forbearance which we claim to pos? sess as intelligent citizens. The leaders of these misguided people, who are responsible for their violence and lawlessness, must not misconstrue this forbearance into a temporizing with their recklessness. A recurrence of such scenes as disgraced the last Sunday in our midst, will cause to burst upon their heads a storm of repressed indigna? tion and patience long abused, which will be bad for them. We condemn the act of firing into this man's door as entirely unjustifiable aud lawless, and if he had resorted to the remedies which the law has placed in his bands to vindicate aud protect himself, instead of appealing to an armed mob, he would have had the support and countenance of every good man in the country. Signed: Thomas B. Reese, A. P. Butler, B. R. Tillman, Silas Lanier, S. S. Horn, J. M. Holder, John Briggs, Elbert Munday, T. H. Roper, M. C. Butler, H. A. Shaw, Jas. Meriwether, W. E. Dobcy, M. 0. Glover, W. G. Harris, S. W. Mays, Thos. P. Straw, Rev. T. P. Oetzen, Rev. J. P. Mealing. Ax Aggravated Burglary.?I have be? fore mentioned the fact that it is a common practice in Philadelphia to build thirty or forty houses, all precisely alike, in a row, so that a man who lives in the middle has to begin at the corner and count in order to reach his resi? dence. My friend Partridge, who occupies one of these houses, has been spending the summer in the country, his residence being closed mean? time. A few nights ago be happened to be in town, and, passing by his dwelling, he saw lights in the second story. He knew at once that burglars were engaged in routing out his valuables, and he instantly flew to the police station and obtained a squad of policemen to capture them. Two officers were sent around into the back yard, and the others pried open the front shutter window, and together with Partridge entered the parlor softly, with the intention to surprise the burglars. The parlor and hall wero dark, and the squad proceeded up stairs, feeling that they had everything in their own hands. Just as they reached the first landing, they met one of the burglars coming down in the darkness. They grabbed him, and as he yelled a good deal they knocked him on the head a few times, and after manacling him, laid him out in the entry. Proceeding to the front door, they broke the door open, and found nobody there but a woman who was scared half to death. The officers were about to seize her, when Partridge came in, and rec? ognized her as Mrs. Kellogg, the wife of the man who lives two doors below him. In fact, it was Kcllogg's house, and Kellogg was lying below in the entry with chains on his legs, and a lump as big as an egg plant on his head, aud mad besides. Partridge's houte was as safe as ever. Then the policemen swore, and went home, and Partridge remained to soothe the Kellogg's. It cost him $-100 in cash, and even then they were down on him. He is gang to move. He wants to find a pink house with a green cupola, in the center ol'a thirty-acre field. He wants a couspicious house that he can rec? ognize at a distance.?Ma.v. Adeler. ? A prominent New York publisher told us one day that when he casually remarked to a bookseller, who had come on to the city from a distant part of the country to attend the annual trade sale, that they had often talked on business together, but never about their souls'welfare, the heart of the sinniger overflowed with gratitude at the mere mention of religion, and said that he had long been waiting for some one to say a word that would lead him to Christ. He had long been almost a Christian, just on the threshold, without going in. The result was that the one word in season led him into rest and triumph. When Livingstone told the chief of a heathen tribe the story of Christianity, the latter replied: "How long have you known this?" "Oh," said the traveler, "my fathers knew it." "Then why did they not tell me about it ?" was the response. The barbarian's questions applies equally well to Christian lauds, where there are: multitudes of people who have been many years in connection with the Church, and yet have never manifested a personal interest in the salvation of those nearest them in many reiations. ? Life is made up of littlo things, and in New Jersey they're chiefly mosquito bites. ? It has been noticed that nothing makes a woman laugh so much as a new set of teeth. Treatment of Diphtheria. The following communication from a physi? cian of high repute appears in the New York Tribune: Diphtheria has prevailed so long and terribly in Brooklyn and this city that the opinions of the wisest and most experienced physicians should be sought, in the hope of finding some remedy for it. Among the poor, bad air and food are among the most active causes of the great mortality from it j but still it will only too often single out and kill its victims amohg the children of the rich, cleanly and judicious. In every case of the disease of course pure air, if possible; and good food, even if it nave to be begged, should he procured. Any really good home-made soups, be they of beef, mut* ton, chicken, are just as good and often far better than beef tea; and they may be changed from one to the other as they pall upon the patient's taste. Good, undiluted milk is quite as useful as soup of any kind, and it may always be prevented from turning sour, or making the patient bilious or feverish, by the addition of a large pinch of soda to each tea-cupful of milk. Beef tea, soup or milk should be taken fre? quently and in as large quantities as the stom? ach will bear and digest without danger of causing disgust or nausea. If stimulants are required, and they are gen* erally wanted early and abundantly, milk punch is the best; but it should always be made with the addition of soda or lime water to the milk, for the reasons above stated. If milk punch becomes distasteful, barley water, rice water, arrow root, &c, may be used as a bland vehicle for administering stim* ulants. Then of all the remedies that a long experi* ence (over thirty years) has proved eminently reliable, chlorate of potash is the best; but it should be given in one way only, and also thoroughly. It should be given dry upon the tongue, pure, not mixed with sugar, and not in solution. By giving it in this way, it dis* solves slowly in the mouth, and gradually and efficiently comes in contact with all the diV eased parts of the throat. It is slightly disagreeable at first, but the youngest child soon becomes accustomed to it. It takes away the supposed necessity for forced local applications to the throat, and if the lit? tle patient be taught to open its mouth widely, without straining, and to draw in its breath deeply at the same time, the curtain of the palate will be drawn up, and the whole back part of the throat, down to the windpipe, will be exposed to view, without the use of any harsher means to obtain a view of the parts involved by the disorder. This treatment must be persisted in, the chlorate of potash being given in doses of two, three, five or more grains every hour at first, until some decided improvement commences, or for one, two, three, or even more days, with* out hesitation or faltering. Often no apparent improvement seems to take place for one, two, or more days; sometimes not until nearly up to the fourth day. But courage and pereever* ance will almost eertainly be rewarded with success; certainly four or five times out of six. This treatment is considerate, but efficient) the child never becomes afraid of its physician or attendants; and generally, with a little management, takes or does all that is required of it, because its handling is always gentle, or at least not harsh or distressing. If the debility be very great, muriate tinc? ture of iron may be required. If the mouth be dry, glycerine may be put into it frequent? ly. It may be true that in the most destitute, filthiest and careless classes the beginning of diphtheria may be the beginning of death, Tmt I am very sure that a vast number of lives can be saved bv the treatment above indicated. J. C. P. New York, September 8, 1874. Fertility of Fruit Trees and the Rationale of Frnit*Bearing. There are certain well known laws in vege? table growth which should be kept in mind, and occasionally brought into notice, serving as hiuts to those who may be iguorant, or forget? ful of their application. Unproductive fruit trees may often be brought into bearing by a process which has long been known, but which has lately received more at* tention, viz., by beading down the erect, up* ward growing branches into a horizontal of drooping position, and keeping thorn so, through one growing season, ~o as to give tbem perma? nent shape. It is related of grape vines?-one trained ver* tically, one obliquely upward, one horizontal aud one downward, that the last bore thp heaviest crop. Many years ago I had a pear tree which grew vigorously, pus! ':ig annually strong upright shoots, but never Uoworing. By attaching weights to three or four of these up? right limbs so as to bend them downwards and keep them in that position all summer, the over luxuriaut growth was arrested, and flower buds formed ; aud the next year these branches bore fruit, whilst other vertical limbs remained unfruitful*. The rationale of this is, that the flow of sap is most abundant in the upright or vertical growth, and the tendency then is to form wood and leaves only. This is the case With all vigorous trees. It is not until the limbs begin to assume a drooping position that bearing oe gins. The reproductive organ of a plant (flmoers and seed vessels) are only metamorphosed leaves ?leaves arrested in their normal growth and transformed into calyx, corolla and fruit. Any? thing therefore that disturbs 01 impairs the ex* cessively vigorous growth of a plant, has a ten* dency to throw it into a fruit-bearing conditiou. That which would have gone into leaf and wood is diverted into more profitable channels. The practical farmer and fruit grower know this very well, though they may be ignorant of the reason. Cotton is topped to arrest the upward lux?' riant growth, and to force the sap into the hori* zontal branches, which being retarded is de? veloped into flowers and fruit. Many of our garden vegetables may be over-stimulated by high manuring, so as to run into leafand stem at the expense of the fruit. We must keep this principle in view, viz., that excessive luxuriance tends to the forma? tion of leaf and woody fibre (the increase in size of the individual plant), and that it ia not until this luxuriance is disturbed and somewhat impaired that flowers and fruit are developed, (the reproduction of species.) It is found too, that wheu practicable, as in the case of grape vines, the limbs should be trained straigiit horizontally and not curved. When straight, the flow of sap is uniform throughout, and all the buds are developed alike; if curved, the uppermost buds get too much, and the lower too little nourishment, so that the object is in a measure defeated. This principle in vegetable physiology is of wide application, and the observant culturist will be able to see in it the explanation of many things, which otherwise would have been obscure. H. W. RAVENEL. [Rural Carolinian for October.