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A HALF IIAUD AND HALF SOFT- : siiEfy Baptist what he THINKS OF THE PRESBY u TERIANS. flS---.fr - A lady-xCorrepoiileiit of an excliange gives a sketch of a seiinon nlie heard iu Georgia from whicli we give an extract : -Tlie jpreacher was apparently about fifty yearof age, inuscular and well proportioned.. On 'entering the pulpit he took off his coat and hung it on a nail be hindhiin, then opened his collar and waist- bnudfv and wipped the perspiration fmm" hii face, neck, and hands. He was clad in Ktriped-pttou Jiomespnn, and liis shiit was of thsame materml. He had trav elled "several miles that morning, and secuietT almost overcome by the heat. But the brethren sung a couple of hymns while he eooled off, and when he rose he looked comfortable and good-natured. He had preached there once 'or twice liefure, but to most of the audience he was a Htrauger, Hence thought it necessary to introduce himself as "Old (Tub Ax Dav in,rom Seriven county a Half Hard ami Half Soft-Shell Baptist." rTiir5 given myself that name," said lie, "!eeauKe I beueve the Ionl elected me, from all etenuty, to go ahead in- the lmckwotKls and grub ut the path and blaze the wajr ftr other men to follow. Af ter the thickest of it is cut away, a good, warm 'Methodist brother will conic alon aud take my trail, and make things Kiuoother and a good deal noiser. And after all the underbrush is cleared out, and the owls and wolves aw skeered back, and rattlesnakes is killed off, a Presby terian brother, iu black broadcloth and M'hite cravat, will come alongnnd cry for deceiicy and onler. And tliey'll both do giKxl in their spere. I don't despise a lart man even when he don't dn-ss and tliinkand do as I do. You couldn't pay nie chough tt wear brodcloth, summer nor winter, aud you couldn't pay a Presbyter ian brother enough "to go without it. "God didn't make us all alike my breth riug ; Imf every man Jias his own spcre. When Gol has a place to fill he makes a . man and puts him in it. When he wanted General Jackson, lie made him, and set him o fightin'Injuns and the English ; When he wauted Q wrge Whitefield, he inadeani for to blow the Gospel trumpet as no, other man ever blowwl it ; and when he wnnfetl Old Club Ax Davis, he made him and sent him to grubbin' in the back- "But uy lidl isn't so hard but I can see cood pints in every ImmIv ; and as for the Presbyterians tliey are a long way ahead of ur? Baptists and Metluxlists in somethings 'Tliey raise tlieir-ehildi-en lietter that anypeojile on the face of the earth.' )5iily a few days ago a Methodist class-leador Raid to me : " Brother CI ub Ax, I was liom a Methodist. I was raised a Methodist, and by the grace of- God I hope to diea Methodist ; but, thank God, J ve frt a Presbyterian wife to raise my children."- And I believe, my blethering, if the Lord should open a way for me to iuarry agnlPjJ try niy best to find a Pres byterian woman, and run my chances of hn'akinTher into thfe saving doctrines of ftt-washiV ahd immersion afterwards." .: Justat thispoiut he was interrupted by t wo spotted lwunds Hiat'had lieeil xn tinually running up and dow n the pulpit stairs. One of them jumped upon the sent and Vgarrfo g&tvw his coat-tail, in which wsonietlimglie had brought along for Ilwn;Iel?Jlt?1 dowly arouml and took him by he ears and tail and threw him mi of the window behind him as easy as . if he haff 1eeu a young kitten. The other took waruingj awl go out as rapidly ns iwssible though not without howling and .ydpiilS f U luid lcn killed. He then turned to the audience, and said, smiling ly : "St. Paul exhorted the brethring to "Beware of dogs." I wonder what he would do if he were in my place this niorning. It appears like I am compassed ahout with dogsas David sjiys he was." I He had.scarcejy commeuc"d preaching again before'tiiere was a terrible squeal ing and kicking among the mules and horses JthaLwtrc tied t the trvea close by. He put hi had out? of the window and said; aarnr done, my brethering. Just a cretur withiiside-addle on lias broke loose. . Will some brother head the animal foriio lister can walk home this hotdayT ftt f Qtnttored he continued : I "W'ellf ni brethering, I will now try to say what I allowed to about thef Presby terians. , "As I said before, they raise theirjchild- ren a J heap ; better than -we do. f Tliey behave better in churcfr, and keep Sunday better, and read the Bible and larn the Catechism better than ours do.. I declare, my brethering, their children are larnt that WTestminister Catechism by 4he" time they can begin to talk plain. 9 . "It ain't three weeks since I was out a cattle-huntin1, for two of my yearlings had strayed off, and I 'stopped in at old Broth er Harkey's, on Mill creek, and tools din ner. He's, a deacon in the Presbvterian church over thar. .Well, as true as I stand here; my bretiiring, Sister Harkey had her little gaPastandin right before herewith toes jiwt even with the crack o the : "floor, and her hands wer liangin' down her side, and herTnotrtUittrricdup; like chicken when it drinks, and she was sputtin' this question to her out o that Catachism : "What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification ?" "Now, the question itself was enough to break the child down ; but when she had to begin and say: that question all over (for that's the way it was in the book), and then hitch the answer to it, which all together made this : "llic benefits which in this life do either accompany or ilow from justification, adoption, and sanctifi cation, are peace of conscience, joy of the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and'pei-se-verence therein to the end" I thought the cmui was tne gi-eatest wonuer i aever seen in all my life. She stuck it through, too, without Imlkin' or missing the first word. And she spoke so sweet, and look ed so much like a little angel, that lefore I knqwed it the tears were-a runnin'down my cheeks as big as buck-shot. Iveseeu the day when I could have mauled and split a thousan' rails quicker and easier than I could have larnt that tiling and said it off like she did "XoWj liiy brethering, that child didn't understand or know the iiieanin' of one word o' that It put me up to all I know to take it in myself. But jest let that Presbyterian' grow up, and every word of that catechism will come liack to her, and her character will stiffen up under it, and she'll luive the lwiek-lione of the matter all her life "Xow, I can't put things into my child ren that way. Xothin' don't stay somhow. ItVlike driviu' n nail into a-rot ten log." "I tell you, -my brethering," he contin ued, "if your children had a little more catechism, and the Presbyterians a little less, it would be better for Iwith. "Then we don't pray in our families like they do. I know their prayers are mighty long they pray all over creation; but, after all. its the right way. It's bet ter than pray in' too little." Now, my father and mother were good Baptists, and raised their children to be honest and industrious ; but I never heard one ot them pray in my lite, ana 1 was most a grownjnan licfore I ever prayed a prayer myself, and it was in thiswise "There was a big meetin' over in Elbert county, and I know'd a pretty gal over there that I wanted to see. So I borrow' ed a little Jersey wagiu, which was a sty lish thing in themllays, and went oyer to her house aud stayed all night, and en gaged her to ride to meetin' with me next day, which was Sunday. "We went and had a glorious time and I might as well say right here that she w as afterwards my wife but a comin'home I met witi a powerful accident that I never got over to this day. As I was couiin down a steep hill some part of the gearin' give way and let me out of fho wagiu on my cretur's heels j and, benr young and skeery, and not much used to wheels, she wiggled and. kicked, -and tore "from one side of the road to the other, till I pitched head foremost as much as ten feet into a deep gully, and it's a miracle of mercy that my neck wasn't broke on the spot. "Expeetin' to be killed every minit, I thought I ought to ask the Lord for mer cy. But as I had never prayed in all my life I couldn't think of tin first thing to say, but the blessin' my father used to ask lef6re eating, when he had company and which was this: "Lord, make us thankful for what we were about to ' re ceive." - 1 "Aow, my ' hret tiering, do you "spose any Presbyterian-raised. loy was ever put to such a strait as that for a prayer ? No. He wouhljiave pnry-ed, for himself, and gone off after the Jews and heathens whilst I was hnntin' up and gittiu' of that Jies- sin. Iord Ponsonby, under the instructions of Lord Palmerston, was at Brussels ad vocnting the imositiou of the Prince of Orange upon the Belgians as their new King., On M. de Weyer's declaring that the people would have nothing to do with Orangeism, Lord Ponsonby exclaimed, "The people, the people ! Are you aware that within eight -days I could liave you hung from the first tree in the park by this.very4)eople upon whom you rely f" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe tliat with time aud plenty of money you might; but I could have yon hung in five min utes, and hung gratis. Don't let us play at this, game." The two gentlemen laughed and shook hands. Womans honor is nice as ermine it will not hear a -soil. - y A COLOREp PRqPIET FOKETELLS The White nw,n $Judl join a ttramjts Nation. ... ... .A .correspondent ? living , in Rawamba county Mississippi has sent us a curious prophesy recently made by a: colored precherruimed LewliSaxtoft De Costa, and fusing, it is said, immediate: sensa tion among the. blacks in that part of lississippt. '!De Costa is at Very old man Whofiaiml to be tlie son of Africaa 'pV rents'; Lis mther,Vho waji a'princtr hav- inor likn vitti ftVtin'j M.tnn ped some distance up the Niger, , by a slavej, who sold them to Pedro Blancho, the great trader, at the Galinas. ?Tliey subsequently, belonged to the De Costa estate, inFlorida, where Lewis was "rais ed, v After forty years trf shivery lie got his freedom by sarins from a burnincr building the children of his mistress. He is said to be a man of remarkable purity oi me, ana an army oracer (Captaiu Van lect) who heard him in Georgia declares that he was the most eloquent man he ever heard in his life. During the war he could nofc be induced to give' aid to either the Federal or Confederate side, his unvarying reply being that it was his mission to comfort the hearts of his peo ple. Widely known and everywhere re garded with extreme veneration by the blacks it is not strange that they should be deeply moved by his words. A Vision. Lo ! my eyes are open and I see clearly. For many days I fasted and prayed ; put away from me all malice and sought to make my heart clear, my life lefore God. Alas, the heart of man is jn-one to evil. Like the dumb ox, he learns wis dom slowly. ' I confessed my sins ; I trust not iu niyself. Then wisdom came ; rfiy eyes saw the present and the future. The great books of time were opened. So pro found "was my astonishment that' I hun gered not, although I had fasted long. I asked the one who stood 'by me "what means these records ?" , The shinning one said, "They are the lives of nations mighty people, that pass ed away and left no trace." "Dhit God always raise up those who have leeii debased," I "asked. "No," he replied, "more often debasement goes be fore extinction ; open thine eyes and see the future of thy people. They are proud. They trust iu themselves rather than in God. They have forgotten the gospel rule, "bless your enemios, pray for those who wrong you." They sjcak bitterly. They are led. to hate. They are made to stand in hostile array. Look abroad now, and see the vision of the future." Then I was lifted up and through the blue sky of a summer day, I saw all my people, I saw them working on planta tions and in shops I saw them in schools and churches. They were sometimes cheated, sometimes shamefully abused because they; were black, but men wanted their labor, and they were slow ly rising alxive wrong and prejudice. , Then there went forth two, Waring vials of wrath, and these they poured out upon the whole land. Then the sound of busy labor became hushed. My people left the field and the workshop. Weeds choked up the cotton. The weeds smoth ered the corn. , The workshops slept. Some laj' all day under the shade trees iu vain hope of sometime taking all the property of the white man. Others crowd ed into liquor stores and spent their time in sjeakiug bitterly of the bad iast, and wishing for revenge. . The white people upon whom the vials of wrath were poured became bitter against the colored man. They said there are ten millions of ns white, while there are only five millions of these blacks. Why. should we War with them longer? They seek now- to oppress us. They are our enemies.! We will put such burden upon them tliat they will be driven out or blot ted 'out as a oople. We no longer need their lalor. We can hire men from Asia. We can get these men who will work harder, and Ik; glad to get for a year's work what we ity a black man for working one month. Then I saw millions of people brought with exceeding swiftness from Asia, and they filled up the whole southern country, and they were everywhere preferred to colored meu, aud they settled in the land. Then hard laws were made against the blacks, and they became outcasts and vagalxrads. The angel brought me laek to my own place and said "They that seek strife and B,TOnr h,mu ,rT ,luu wept much for the calamities of my ieo- t a.a T7 T pie. a icmuaut uWJ "v " . 1 seeK peace wiui an men, auu uui as w lias appointed them. Lewis Saxtox De Costa. August 26, 1867. rVmnVennrfts is Riiid rn W on thp de crease among' the well-to-do classe of proposition is utterly baseless, without obtained. , , 4 , England, who look upon it as an evidence j anything to stand upon, a mere device ! It is farther suggested that the forego of Imd breeding or bad taste, but it is iu. and invention tntmpel up for the occasion ing facts should be brought prominently creasing among the iox. We tldnk it ; and brought forwanl for a partisan pur Wfore the notice of tW who areengaged quite possible that the same state of IHse without anyason, or fact, or truth,' in the manufaeture of dairy, products, in ldn Vrista in this countrv. The drink- . or law, or precedent to justify or support ; onler that the many erroneous notions on ing usages of society are becoming less j i. r -i...L.i..nU. ii' i.ni.Sf- .f drinking become worse and worse. This isRnownbythe.increaseofthe sale of in- ioxicants, 1iich far exceeds the increase ofthe population. SALISBpRYir, tyJ$Jix&) Hlll.l I If !A I.. ' " Special Pispatcl day, at one o'clock, the two I Houses' 'wflT assemble ia the Hall of RepresentatiTes, J open' thel ttTtifieatesin his posaessioni be- ginning with tliat ;of Alabama and proceed' ing alphabetical!, and, as he bpens b&B; he Mil hand lit to the four tellers- wo from each Housewh,o iU.bprevJottsly appointed. When the first certificate, 3U. read, the Vice-President frill call for ol jcctions. - If nohc are map he' trill 'then pass to the .next b State. -If j objection maue in musr oe i inimeauiTe, in wnttng, concise and without trgiwnentr aud must be ftigncd by ht least oni member pf each House, s- Such olijecnons! Wing ; thus pre aexited, thcj.Senate will then at once witli draw to its ChamWr, aud eadi House will vote upou the objections, two hours' de bate only Wing allowed uion each State. If the two Houses concur in rejecting the vote of a State it will W received. When ever, however, the fV ice-President shall open two conflicting certificates from the same State, these returns will W at once submitted to the Electoral Commission, and the opening and counting of votes will cease until the- commission renders its decision. This. decision will thn be voted on by the two Houses, acting separately, and, unless they concur in rejecting it, it will stand. The vote which is thus de clared legal and proper, will W counted, and the opening aud counting will proceed until other objections' are raised, -or until another set1' of duplicate certificates is reached. ! f It is not probable jtliat objections will W made to thv reception of the first six States. Florida . stands seventh on the list, and appears with two sets of returns. Here the hist day's count will" stop, und the returns will W sent to the commission for its examination. While, the commission is engaged upon the vote of Florida the two Houses will separate, ami may, until thev receive a report upon the .State, proceed with other business. It rloridu, should lie decided for-Mr. Tilden that would, of course, de cide his election. - If it should be given to Mr. Hayes the count would then pro ceed until, after six hiore States had lieeu counted, Louisiana w as reached. Here another set of double returns would W submitted to the commission. Louisiana Wing decided,- Oregon would W the next State turned over to the commission and South Carol iua the hist. '1 lie peculiar condition of the Florida vote, as well asthe fact that it is the first State to come up with double returns, make the vote m that case ot uncommon interest. The Florida committees have not yet reported, and no facta are officially Wfore Congress alnrnt the vote of the con duct, of the Returning Board, except the statement of Senator Jones, made on Fri day. The commission will come to some definite conclusion as to its wvers ami plan of action for the first time when it gets the Florida returns. Hence there is likely to W more delay alout this case than any or perhaps all the others, because, when they have: once laid down their course of action, they cau rapidly decide all the other cases on the principles they have laid down for their own guidance"; hence, while Florida will be reached ou Thursday, the decision may not W report ed to the joint meeting until the following week. Thenvseeins to be no reason to doubt, however, tjiat the whole count will W completed by the 14th of February at furthest and by . that time the country may hope to have rest from the excitement which has so greatly injured all business interests si net' the lUth of No vent Wr. It will W noticed 'that the Electoral bill provides that the joint meeting shall W held in the Hall of the House of Represen tatives. This is iii accordance with an almost unbroken custom, the two Houses having met in the Senate Hall only five I times and then only in the earlier period ( ot our history. The counting has already reached, in alphaWtical order, the State of Florida, and the grand Commission is now consid- eriug the case of tliat State. WHAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. The New York Situ, which puts the 111 :itter morn forcible tlism vi cniilil urn- bablv do. thus soeaksof the ooliticnl Kitu- " 7 1 ation iu its consideration of the Electoral Bill. It savs: "the debates upn the ar- bit ration bill at AVashinjrtou last week, which ended iu the; passage of the bill in each House by a majority of more than t wo-thirds, have not detenu ined who shall j W President, but they have established, THE ELECTORAL COUNT. . -It inedd earned throurfi brairr, means -! " 'a 1,4 HI ithetajipwno our laws. ir J r ., i , U ft X.;Y.nU!,S89tli tfj h HL It is established' Qiaith claim , of beyond all future disturbance, or denial, 4. Finally, the skimmed milk, the but ja few points of ; importance, which are ter and cheese, are of Wtter quality really worthy of public attention. j when prepared under the above circum- I. The proposition that the Constitn- stances, tion confers upou the President of the j While it is impossible to offer a satis -Senate the power to count the elector- factory explanation as to the reson why al votes in a Presidential election, includ- artificial cold should produce a Wueftcial ing the power to determine, when there is effect upon the yield and quality of the more than que certificate from any State, products derived from milk, it is proba which of these certificates shall W count- . ble that it may tend to arrest that fer ed, and to declare the result, while the meutative decomposition which is so prone i two Houses of Congress are present mere- I ly as witnesses and specta tors this proio- h gubjcctod to flU ex. hangtive discussion, in which the Consti - . , , r(nistihlHonjll hiAtnr- nni practicc ofthe country have been thorough- Iy explored, ami every principle, and very fact Waring upon the subject brought" to light; and the judgment is that this JX . t II. It is established that the scheme of counting the electoral Votes of FloritU M Louisiana, as; certified by the Return luffuoamsoi mose u.ies, m Hayes and Wheeler, when, m fact, the people of each State gave a majority of " t:i?Z.Ai.i 'mmmmmm the Refarriiing ' Boards ' of Florida - and mai a sort of claim that -the. Re- usM , MistJ i wmy-iF ta. t r a a is further established that nro. feedi n Fs&Sft f hip unsubstantial and ,LoiU, low clain and maintaining that the frauds . In Florida ana Louisiana were not frauds. certain of the, Republican managers , luvd cuuspireuxq aeciare xiayes,, rresmeui,. 10 inaugrate him, and to put 1dm in posses sion of the Government without an; legal or equitable right whatever. " J V. It is established that these Repub Ucan managers had conspired to do this through the usurpation, by the President of the Senate, of the power to pass uion the electoral votes by virtue of his own alleged authority alone, without allowing either Senators or Representatives to ob ject at any stage of the proceedings, or to call him to account for his action. That was their design is certain, not only from the universal avowal of Republican press and politicians, but also from the fact that most of the del Kites were devoted to over throwing and annihilating this pretended power of the President of the Senate. VI. It is established, finally, that the conspirators had arranged and determined to employ military force to carry out their programme, or else the project of counting iu Hayes by the Senate only would, not have Wen a thing for anybody to W afraid of. To this consummation President Grant was pledged. For this purpose he had brought troops to Washington from distant posts. This design he has clearly an nounced on several occasions, and it has been Wldly expressed in the National Re publican newspaper, the party organ at Washington. This design and the mili tary preparation formed the only real, substantial element iu the Republican case. . VII. This conspiracy has now been decidedly clteeked. The pretended power of the President of the Senate has Wen explmlcd and rendered ridiculous. The conspiracy to declare 1 laves elected by the frauds of the Florida Louisiana Re turning BiKirds has Wen defeated, for the present at least ; and the scheme of using military force to put down the House of Representatives in a revolutionary man ner, has Wen anticipated and stopjed ; and hence all the public satisfaction over the passage of the bill. VIII. All these things have teen done, declared and established by a majority of more than two-thirds of eaaFh House of Congress. What may W the future development in the working of the arbitration act, time alone can show. But these present results from the debates and votes of Con gress are positive and indisputable. ACTION OF COLD UPON MILK. Prof. Maurice Perkins of Uniou College translates for the Country Gentleman, from the Paris Coniptrs Jen(1u$f some state ments on this subject, whicli are of in terest in connection with the discussions now going ou here with regard to the Hardin and other systems of setting milk for cream. It is an abstract troiu a pa- i per by Eng. Tisserand, read, we presume, : Wfore the French Academy Numerous experiments have been made by exjMjsing milk to different temper J attires varying from 32 deg. F. to 100 deg. F.. and the following tacts liave been 1 ' elicited : 1 1. I he rise nfthe cream is the more ranid as the temperature to which the a milk is exposed approaches 32 deg. 2. The volume of the cream is greater when the milk has 1khu eflicieiitly cooled. j 3. The yield of the butter is also greater when the milk has Wen exposed to a very low temperature. to set in with organic fluids, and thus by preventing incipient alteration, indirectly to m the m of the material. I The practice of wanning the dairy in wintpr tillli. . to inaiutain its atmos- ' phere at a constant temperature of aWut GO deg., is therefore objectionable ; the pans should stand in running water at as low a temperature as can W practically t this subject may W gradually nated. elimi- f Tlte Danburv Neirs says Tlie mod- v. ... .V- etui'. 1 a .1 tti t refill 1 1 ft nr . dorrpuA tf .perfwtion whicU wUV require a -eompe tent engineer with a stated salary to run it." peftini TpubiUi.duit Hayes and , fheeler 'x(ii elected in November bv.the action of i. . , A k -Ji .vik - fct.i;f'rt Jt - t'clii.Wle detaihvof Ms faisTvinloin& wer1 three i A amd appeared to hWlieenp squeezed 'Mm force intii thiidtMY'f iwfcieh' left for thehiltweatheurel Atlieghheneaabr tlie rfirit wasedTred wittf niaisir goiden'rniu'; hWskuTVfrrlmDled'nwayn' leirig ex posed to the air'and but" a few ! bones could be tared beside those' of ' the legs! The same was the ease with the second bodyfwTtfehuhTM tiquity. But of the third Wly, which' lay at the north end ofthe tomb, the round face with all Its flesh had been wonder fully preserved under its ponderous gold en mask; there was no vestige of , hair, but both eyes were perfectly visible, also the mouth, which, by the enormous weight tliat had been pressing upon it, hj, was wide, open and showed thirty-two I ln autif ul teeth. , By these all the physi- dans who caine to see the4iody were led to WUe ve that tlte man must have died at the early age of tlurty-five, "The massive golden mask, which cov- I cred the head f this Inxly, and which I mentioned in my hist letter, is 12f niches loug and 12 inches brtKid. It is so thick that the enormous weight which for ages has Wen pressing upon it has made no impression ou it. It shows a round face, with large eyes and a large mouth, much . it . t ii 1 i resemmiug nie. uuiiures 01 uie uoiy wnen first uucovered, aud I feel now more con- viuced than ever that all the golden nuisks faithtully represent the' features which they cover. : In fact, a single glance on these splendidly -made masks must con- vince everyone that they are real por- traits and not 4deal tyies. The golden breast-cover of this body, which I like- wise mention in my last letter, is 14 2-5 inches long iuid 8 4-5 inches broad. At a distance of hardly more than one foot to J the right of the body I found eleven J bronze swords, of which nine had more or less suffered from moisture, but the other two were well preserved," All these treasures are stmt to Athens where they are to remain permanently. Apart irom the inscriptions iound on Egyptain monuments, our only source of information concerning the history of that country is a certain numlMr of dilapidatetl frairmeuts of a list of Pharaohs which Manetho, a priest of Heliopolis under Ptolemy Philadelphia (:)4 u. c). had placed at the end of a chronicle he had written, and which is now lost, except a few passages quoted by .Joseph us, Jul ins Africanns, 1 and Georgius Syncellus. A Coptic scholar, M. Eugene Revillout, has just made an important discovery at the Paris National Library, and which prom ises to lead to others. We should premise that there are three sorts of Egyptian writinj?: the hieroahiixhic. which is point- larlv sunken of : the 'hieratic, whicli was m1 for litemrv compositions : and lastlv a later one, the demote which dates from the twetitv-fiftli dvn:istv and was usel iu the ordinarv transact iiiis of life. -Two years ago Hie National Library purchased v 01 r, l.-.t- i,fflMi the efforts, of all Egpytologists. It luir . five eoluiun on the first naire. and sev- eral more on the liack. bv another hand, It is mutilated, for aU along the edges t : ri.. c Tf iw I irins with the sixth chapter of a chronicle oft.li sume nature as those which Manetho mi.st have used, and iroes down to the thirteenth- It treats of the period lying Wtween tlie years 410 and 345 h. c, aud comprising three dynasties and aWut ten liiinces. 1 he lireeics were me aiues 01 1 .... 1 if l the Eirvotians amiiust the Persians, who. after a'serics of bloody conflicts, were at first, replied, but ultimately lecaiue the .... I conoucrors. The papvrus casts Romer'i"""" ' ' lidtt on the part played by Egypt in this contest, those of the Greeks aud Persians lieing well known. The author of this fragment was evidently a prist, as may W gathered from the solemnity ofhis style and his religious enthusiasm. Whenever Egvpt is stricken down it is owing to her impietv ; whenever victory crowns her efforts, it is for the triumph of hiw and .... I rnrht. Ihe papvrus rectihes many an C7 w obscure point of history. We must con tent ourselves with mentioning the case of Neetaneb I., son of. Ainyrtajtis, erron eoindy pliiced at the head of, the Meude sian dynasty, whereas he nly occupies the seventh place in the same. Ga lignani. 4 The oldest piece of iron (wrought iron) now known are probably the sickle-blade found by! Belzoni under the base of a sphinx in Ktiruak, near Thebes; the Mr. Cox says -that "the mference jto W blade f)und by Colonel Vyse emleddel drawn from the uniform temperature of in the masonry of the great pyramid ; and these wells is that they are nlled with wa jthe portion of a cross-cut saw exhumed ter that comes from ,an P upper, ,stratun.n at Nimrod by Mr. Layard, all of which In another weU,123it feet deep, at Terre are now in the British Museum. A Haute, penetrating the Coal measure and wrought bar of Damascus steel whs pre- Devonian, and Stopping, It Ja belie ved, in sented by King Fore to Alexander the the Niagara, the teruierHture , obtained Great, ahd the razors steel of 'Cliina for throughout was 81 flfg.. F. j raml , this re many centuries has snfpassed all Europe- ferred to waters from the lower lart of ;tliA an teel in temper and durability of elge. well filling it. A m. Journal of Science ai The Hindoos appear to have made wrought .trf. '7 Cult li: . . -r,.r : jflrectV fmtihtoartv .witho'ut'iph'"". oiinm are jstm found in which'iUto I T " . t . . r , . . ... ' r tlf11 - .1 .,''. . ""i "' jot ''WffTti-'Vi1 uuttl 'nil bus .irflin I alJ.- fww4. :p w-i r-" J Eftdttr1l km Jerjtrojig jesi pf Jealing ygqrtwwl Horis the liquor, traGc. f sSomo, form ,of :hat is known as the Gothenburg Systxna t IswuytdWea ! of liquor is placed in tlie hands , of nen- who cannot be pecuniarily benefitted by the amount spent for intoxicating drink. Whatever may W the defects of.thensy- . tern, it is generally acknowledged that it has been followed by great improvement. ; Fifty -seven Swedish towns have adopted and it is to be introduced into Stock- . holm next year. it s: . Jt i one of the anomalies of the 4 better t phases of human nature, that it is so . im . practicable to secure any t real unity . of ! effort in the , way of dealing ; wiU thia t monster evih Excellent people differ so greatly as to the proper methods of meet- . ing the enemy, that there is no united t action, and consequently little effective action of any kind, against the strong- holds of rum. It is true enough that nothing can take the place of : moral ln- flueuces that elevate and fortify personal . ... . eharacter. But it is also true that cora. mmiities have Wth the right and power to reduce dangerous and destructive agencies ton minimum. It is criminal folly to aUow manufactories of crime; poverty, disease andTdebauchery, to mul tiply themselves without limit. Their. toleration ought certainly to involve full pecuniary and legaLresponsibility for all the loss and injury that result. Doubtless it is the political power ofthe groggery , that makes it such an impregnable for- tress. But if our good meu would unite upon a plan of action, it would soon be discovered that our homes and our church- es had more than enough votes to over come the sons of BeliaL. - MUSIC AND PLANTS. In the dearth of original ideas, says the liural Netr Yorker, the following from the English Mechanic may have some inter est to all lovers of plant life, in whatsoever form : "On account of ill-health, I went to Trefaria (Spain), on the other side of the Tagns. The soil liere even ofthe mourt- tains wasuentirely of sand, and so sterile. that in the Whole neighborhood there was not a scrap of vegetation to be seen. On becoming convalescent, I had a" green house built, and cultivated roses and other 1' flowers known in tlte country. They did ' N however, thrive well. I had a har- moninm, which with the view of enjoy- ing the cooler atmosphere of the green- house I had removed thither, and so for some months largely indulged . in music; was surprised to ODserve a graauai, yes rapid, recovery of health otj the part of n' Plt,nts- Tht' very was soanarked that I have often thought it quite possible 1. 2 A. U 4-1. if "p " " """"" " ""T', The whole country, as 1 nave saio, -was barren and, with the exception of a few Kpawows, entirely void of bird life And sontr. I have often thought that in thia "wet there might lurk aroof that music s, to some extent, a necessitj' of vege- table life at leiist ; that music, the song of h"ds especially, was conducive to the hcaltli f plants j or, 1 may otnerwise state it, that Nature is not complete without miiAU "" A friend of the London Garden,' npor reading the aWve,. suggested that the fine development of the trees in some of their max tmtr lv jiki1v nnn n f Al TfiT' ecinR are 80 nuinJ organ-gnu- . ...... i ders! N. Y. Oberrer. An artesian Wring at Fort Wayne has reached a depth of 8,000 feet ; the first 88 feet were of drift ; and then in entered a Niagra limestone, and continued through limestone calcareous shale to leer ; thence, through soft calcareous rock toits - . 1 ... it.. - t - C5M r present bottom in the Lower Sflunan. The temiierature at 00, 100, 1,000 1,500 and 2,C35 feet, registere! by the ther mometer was 5H deg. F. Another well at Wabash commenced in the Niagara limestone and was continued in limestone and calcareous shale to a depth of 2,270- feet, without getting a flow of waters At 100, 500, 1 ,000, and 2,270 feet the tempera ture ofthe water obtained was50J deg. F. The thermometer was one made for the purpose Ii? James Green of New ;YorV., ' t'-f-' ' i ! - m 1 ; . .ir ;' iT'l -.si'- -- t s - t nt 1 . ill , .ft ,5! it .'fjr. Ik- '. 1 ; ix 1 v" 1 i r v .: f( rv ;i i i - ! $ '. i - HI ; A--I . - If :.; 1 ti - , - E - i j S3!'.:; Jf:'. Ill 1-.. M 1 - i ; ' t -
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Feb. 8, 1877, edition 1
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