The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 08, 1874, Image 1
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.