The Southern Intelligencer. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1867 Page: 2 of 4
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ing of this article only a grouping of
words for the parpóse of attracting
attention. Let the seqnel determine
whether the caption is not pertinent
and suggestive of matters it were
well for oar people to think of. Just
at this time every effort is being
made to induce emigration to Texas,
by praises of its productionB'and cli-
mate. All other considerations be-
ing equal, it is safe to assume that
the tide of emigration will naturally
flow to those countries where lands
are cheap, the soil fertile and the
climate salubrious. With millions of
acres of the best arable lands, and a
climate unsurpassed by any other
portion of the world, our people won-
der why it is that emigrants from
Europe and the older States of the
Union should pass Texas by, to find
homes in the less attractive regions
of the north and west. Á little re-
flection would solve this problem,
and show us why it is that our fertile
prairies are unbroken by the plow,
and our great forests are not felled
and fashioned into comfortable a-
bodes for men. Men of peaceful
habits, husbands and fathers of fam-
ilies, will not be tempted by mere
richness of soil and salubrity of cli-
mate to settle in a country where
external appearances indicate a ne-
cessity for carrying arms in city
thoroughfares, and even to church
for self-protection. In this, country
from the necessities of frontier life
in the past generation, and from the
mere force of habit in the present
time, a large proportion of our peo-
ple have carried and stiil carry on
their persons fire-arms and knives,
as if surrounded by enemies and
their lives in constant peril. While
conceding that there is no real neces-
sity for this practice, it is obvious to
the reflecting mind that such habits
thoughtlessly indulged are seriously
detrimental to the fair fame of our
State, and to the reputation of our
i "pie as peaceful and law-abiding
ueu. Admit that it is an innocent
matter of taste, in which every one
l.iis tie right to exercise his discre-
tion ; io it may be said of wearing
slippers in winter and overcoats in
summer. It is hardly reasonable, how-
ever, to suppose that a traveller in a
country which might be as. perfect as
&kn, but whose inhabitants exor-
cised their rights of going barefoot
in winter, and wearing cowhide boots
in summer, would be so favorably
impressed with their intelligence as
to be willing to locate among them
and bring up his family under the
influence of such customs. Perhaps
it has never occurred to the reader,
that the too prevalent fashion of de-
corating the person with useless re-
volvers and knives, in the eyes of a
stranger suggests only dangers ap-
prehended or mischiefs intended, and
has a most damaging effect on the
estimate whieh observant travellers
put upon the morality and civilization
of oar country. They do not see in
this practice simply the relics of the
frontier habits of our fathers, but
look on it rather as an ocular de-
monstraron that the law is powerless
for die protection of life, and that a
prudent regard for personal safety
comjiHels men here in the*r ordinary
business to go armed. With such
impressions of the laxity of law and
insecurity of life, which this habit of
our people naturally gives rise to in
the minds of strangers, it ought to
bo no marvel that emigration is mea-
gie, ear towns and cities languishing,
and our vast tracts of fertile lands
lying waste. In this way it is that
that the bad taste displayed by too
many of oar people wearing deadly
their persons when no
may be considered
as one ef the ebief causes whioh re-
tard the settlement of our oountry by
industrieiM and quiet emigrants,
who now leek homes in countries of
leas natural advantages, but where
the doily exhibition of pistols and
knives does not suggest the insecu-
rity of Mi and ths weakness of the
laws. - ♦
man hot been
Mexioan
Gen. Grant on the SuffrIge
Vtfro.—The New York Times of the
9th inst. has a special dispatch giv-
ing Gen. Grant's opinion of the Dis-
trict Suffrage Bill and the Veto. It
says that the General was present at
the cabinet, meeting by request, with-
out any previous knowledge of the
subject to be discussed ; and that he
took no part in the discussion, and
when all were through, rose to leave,
when the President desired to hear
his views on the subject. The Gene-
ral replied briefly, that the objection
urged by one member of the cabinet
against the bill, that it was. uncon-
stitutional because it disfranchised
rebels without trial, was, in his esti-
mation, the best and wisest feature
of the bill. With reference to giv-
ing the righ^of suffrage to colored
men of the District, he thought it
inconsistent on the part of Congress
to confer such right here, while it
was refused to the same class of men
in their own States. Either Con-
gress should extend this right at
home, or wait until asked by the
people to do so here. Upon the ar-
guments and principles involved in
the Veto Message of Mr. Johnson he
expressed no opinion.
Another National Convention.
—The democratic State Convention
of Connecticut, in session on the 8th
inst., passed a resolution requesting
the National Democratic Committee
to call a convention composed . of
delegations from thirty-six States, to
meet in New York on the 4th of
March next. It will be remembered
that the Chicago meeting which put
McClellan in nomination for the
Presidency, authorized Mr. Auguste
Belmont to convene the party chiefs
in convention at such time as the
exigencies of the country or the par-
ty might require. The pressure for
a new convention, and a new policy,
has lately been felt at headquarters,
and it is reasonable to look for an
authoritative call to be issued soon
commanding the sachems of the de-
mocratic wigwams to meet in council
to devise ways and means to have
the'Southern States represented in
the next Presidential Convention,
and have their votes counted. in the
next election.
kit mtai
That Address.—Messrs. Rob-
erts, Burnet, Epperson, Branch and
Chilton, have been in Washington
for some time past, feeling about for
the latch-strings to the doors of
Congress; becoming weary of their
fruitless labors, have closed their
mission to the Capital by issuing a
long and insipid address to the Con-
gress and people of the United States.
Some of our contemporaries are find-
ing space in their columns for this
political syllabub, composed of the
lees of sophistry and chalky waters
of weakest argument. The Galves-
ton News publishes without reading
it, and thus bores his readers with
twaddle that he would not waste
time with examining himself. Flake,
on the contrary, read it, and declined
publishing, but gives his opinion of
the document in the following pithy
remarks:
"In the language of the Holy
Writ, 4 it is milk for babes,' and
skim-milk at that. It is a matter of
mortification that five gentlemen re-
presenting the ' intellectual stamina'
of the great State of Texas, should
compose and put forth a dooument
that has but little more relevancy to
the questions at issue than the cack-
ling of a half dozen old women over
a new born babe."
Going to School.—It is reported
that Gen. Howard, in his address
delivered to the freedmen of Colum-
bia, S. C., on the 8th inst., pressed
upon his hearers the importance of
sobriety, honesty, industry and edu
cation; and said that there were
now one hundred and fifty thousand
children of their race who were reg-
ular pupils in the primary sohools of
the South, receiving an eduoation to
fit them for the' discharge of the
varied duties of men, women and
citizens of the greatest repulse of
modern times.
Staff of Life.—The oorn orop
of the United States for 1866 is <
timated at 880,000,000 bushels, near-
ly 80 bushels for every man, woman
and ohild in her territory. Whatever
other ills may befall our oountry, if
this statement it correct, wo «hall
not be without the staff of life in our
troubles. ______
Suriwtt,—It is stated in some of
our exchanges that Uto triol of this
individual will take place some time
thquakbin OrEOOJT.-Z-A tCr-
rible shaking of the earth, and fright
ful groundswell was experienced at
Fort Klamath on the 8th inst. The
air was filled with ashes and vapor
coming up from the Klamath marsh
and darkening the heavens. It is
said that Klamath lake filled about
six feet or more, while the running
waters of Crooked Creek were com-
pletely dried up. Mount Hood, in
the Cascade range, is supposed to
have been the centre of the disturb-
ance, it having formerly been a vol-
canic mountain, but whose fires have
long been deemed extinct.
Sympathy for Cretans.—a
meeting was held in Boston, on the
7th inst., for the purpose of raising
funds for the relief of the Cretan
Christians, now hard pressed by the
infidel Turks. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Rev. Dr. Huntington,
Wendell Phillips and Ex-Gov. An-
drews. A committee of relief con-
sisting of forty-six prominent citizens
was appointed.
Colored Lunatics.—Under the
provisions of an act of the 11th
Legislature, the homestead of Mr.
D. L. Cross, which lies contiguous to
the State Lunatic Asylum grounds,
has been recently purchased, and we
understand the buildings thereon are
to be fitted up for the use of lunatic
freedmen, and that the Superintend-
ent of this institution will be ready
for the reception of this class of un-
fortunates of the African race, as
early as the 15th of February next.
The prophesy—" Many shall run
to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased," is believed to refer spe-
cially to news-boys; and in them to
have been aptly illustrated and ful-
filled to the very letter.
In California it has become neces-
sary in the employment of lady
teachers to select only married ones
or the ugliest spinsters; the pretty
misses can not be relied on for any
stated length of time, being constant-
ly in peril from the casualties of
Cupid's archery.
Simon Cameron has been chosen
U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania,
and Roscoe Conkling from New
York; both republicans.
It is correctly reported that quite
a number of prominent politicians,
now sojourning at Washington city,
are afflicted with the premonitory
symptoms of Presidential fever on
the brain.
A Change.—The Confederate
prison pen at Salisbury, N. C., has
been converted into a school for
freedmen.
Farming in Kansas.—The St.
Louis Republican says:
Mr. Jacob McGee, residing two
miles from Lawrence, Kansas, last
season raised 1,002 bushels of wheat
on thirty acres, being thirty-three
and four-tenths bushels to the acre.
He also grew 430 bushels of barley
upon fifteen acres, an average of
twenty-eight and two-third bushels
per acre. Also, 566 bushels of po-
tatoes on four acres, besides supply
ing two familes with potatoes while
the crop was in the ground. The
crops of these forty-nine acres were
worth, when grown, over $3,500.
A Speculative Age.—An ex
change says:
" In these days religion is regard-
ed by too many as something specu-
lative."
And he might justly have extend-
ed his remarks to include politics,
and every mother's son of the nume-
rous family of the virtues and graces
(so called) of modern civilization
Piety, patriotism, and the practice of
the abstract virtues, are all graduated
to suit the times' exigency, and
exhibited in such forms as are likely
to please most people and secure the
largest profits to holders of these
commodities.
The bark Suwa, with 112 immi
grants from Bremen, consigned to
Kauftnan & Co., is reported to have
arrived at Galveston, on the 17th
instant
Sheridan a Candidate.—A New
Orleans dispatoh of the 3d instant,
to the New York Herald, says:
A confidential correspondence has
taken plaoe among the prominent
Southerners and conservative politi-
cians North, with a view of making
lift SIT ^ • -
Phil, Sheridan their candidate
for the Presidency, It it asserted
that this wat the object of Frank
Blair's vitit to this city. Blair's two
hours1 interview yesterday with Sher-
■wx—■X 10 tku'
Mdiag aad TylSf.
It frequently happens whefe two
travelers are proceeding to the same
destination, and have but one horse
to ride, in order to expedite the jour-
ney and make the honors easy, they
resort to what is oalled in backwoods
parlance " riding and tying." Re-
cently we have given more than or-
dinary attention to the political signs
of the times, and our observations
have led us to suspect that those
grave and potent bodies, the 39th
and 40th Congresses, have let them-
selves down to the practice of the
same vulgar expedient to accelerate
their progress. While there are ma-
ny ridable hobbies in the political
stables at Washington, there is none
better groomed than congressional
reconstruction, not even excepting
Andrew's famous Rosinante, "my
policy," which was badly blown in
the steeple chase around the circle a
short time ago. Reconstruction be-
ing the national favorite, neither the
39th nor the 40th Congress is willing
to forego the honor and pleasure of
riding it. And for want of room in
the saddle for both at onoe, we in-
cline to think an agreement has been
made for the 39th to ride to the
half-way station and tie, and when
the 40th comes up on the 4th of
March, it will mount and proceed to
the end of the journey with all con-
venient haste. What the exact dis
tance is from the half-way house to
the point of destination, and what
length of time will likely be consum
ed in reaching it, we have no very
satisfactory data from which to make
an estimate. These are questions
as yet involved in doubt and obscu
rity, and the details of political sur-
roundings at the terminus of the
journey are all matters of sheer spe-
culation at present. While these
things are sources of unrest to patri-
ots, they are cheered by the growing
evidences of the settled purpose of
Congress and the people, to entrust
political power only in the hands of
the government's friends. There is
every assurance given that the cen-
tral idea in the work of reconstruc
tion, is loyalty to the national gov-
ernment, and whether these disturbed
and abnormal States are siihjecud to
the territorial crucible, or manipula-
ted into civil shape by enabling acts,
loyal men shall govern them, and
those who once deserted the post of
duty shall not again be put on guard,
for a season at least. With this sort
of reconstruction the government will
be secured against the machinations
of its enemies, in the act of reward-
ing the fidelity of its friends. And
the leaders of secession, whose breath
of life has been enmity to the nation-
al government, and whose mental
capacity is only attested by the ruin
they have wrought in the States,
whose people honored them with offi-
cial position, ought not to be heard
complaining of their exclusion from
office, which is but an act of simple
justice to them, and demanded by
common prudence on the part of the
government.
"The Third House."—Flake,
in his Bulletin of the 19th, says:
We have often spoken of the third
House of the American Congress,
that irresponsible but political body,
known as the Southern Loyalists
Association. For many of the gen-
tlemen belonging to this association,
we have the highest personal respect.
Their devotion to the Union in the
day of its danger demands our admi-
ration, and the honesty of their pre-
sent zeal is unquestionable. But we
must say that as we see it, they are
transcending the legitimate province
of citizens when they meet in Wash-
ington and sit in perpetuity to frame
bills and engineer their passage thro'
the national legislature.
The Alabama Legislature closed
its labors on the 7th ult. Acts were
passed to form a new county to be
called Clay, from portions of Ran-
dolph and Talladega.
Also, to form a new county to be
called Baine.
There was a spirited debate over
the proposed constitutional amend-
ment in the presence of a large audi-
ence. The Senate refused the amend-
ment by a vote 27 to 2.
In the House, a motion to refer
the amendment to the people was
tabled by a vote of 49 to 29. A res
olution to ask Congress upon what
terms the representatives from Ala-
bama would be admitted to their
seats in Congress was laid on the
table—65 yeas, 19 nays. A motion
to postpone the consideration of the
amendment till the 15th of January,
1867, wat lost—yeas 23, nays 50.
Finally, the vote being taken on the
Senate resolution refusing the amend-
ment—stood, yeas 69, nays 8,
During the discussion, a dispatoh
was received from Gov. Parsons, who
was in Washington, urging the Le-
gislature to refuse the amendment
and sustain the President.
The Legitlaturo adjourned to the
15th of the protent month.
Immigration.
The New York Staats Zeitung, one
of the ablest German Conservative
papers published in this country, in
speaking of the effort being made in
tnis State to indnce the settlement
of foreign immigrants, says:
It is just in proportion as a State
has made liberal and generous laws
in regard to foreign immigration, that
the better part of those strangers
have been attracted to its territory,
and cast their lot among those who
showed themselves willing and anx-
ious to receive them. The Western
States, by their wise policy, have
thus increased in wealth and popula-
tion, and left other States less liberal
far behind them.
Since 1790, when the first census
was taken, till now, over six millions
of immigrants have landed upon our
shores. Each one brought with him,
at the least calculation, one hundred
dollars in gold, amounting to the snug
sum of six hundred millions. They
also brought personal property, tools
and other useful articles, worth at
least as much. This large monetary
capital and their other property have
assisted in the last seventy years to
increase the wealth of the couutry in
an immense degree.
But all this was the least part of
the material wealth brought into the
country by these strangers. What
was far more valuable was their
strong arms and hard hands, their
habits of industry and energy, their
knowledge of agriculture and Euro-
pean arts and handicraft, all of which
were unceasingly used to develop the
then dormant wealth of the Eastern
and Western States, and which has
raised them to their present condition
of unparalleled prosperity.
These six millions of people, like
an immense human stream, have
spread over the western part of our
great republic. They tripled their
original number, and have peopled
States and changed territories into
States. They have cleared the forest
and civilized the wilderness, and
made waste places bloom like rose
gardens. Tbey helped to build up
our large cities from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. It is a popular mistake
to suppose that our white population
descended either from the Puritans
or Cavaliers. Our unfailing statis-
tics will show us without the least
doubt that the greatest part of it
descended from those six millions of
immigrants who have come into this
country since 1790.
Moonshine.—The Houston Jour
nal says that the Convention which
has been in session for several days
in that city seems to admit of no re
strictions in the range and extent of
the subjects which come before it.
The Journal gives some instances of
the wide range taken by learned
members, which shows that the spec
ulative and fanciful are making a
pretty even contest with the tangible
and practical. Th§ fact is that the
convention or conventions alluded to
give one a pretty fair reminder of
Dickens' description of the Universal
Association for the promotion of
Every Thing. The Land, Labor.
Blooded Stock and Editorial conven-
tions seem to have run into and har-
monized with, each other, in a manner
that should satisfy the most ardent
admirer of consolidation, or the most
subtle cosmogonist. The relations
of capital, labor, and the " interme-
diate agencies," who possess no great
amount of the former or love for the
latter; but who make it their busi-
ness to decide upon the relative
profits and proper application of the
others, like the sagacious monkey
who acted as umpire between the
cats on the cheese question, are
pretty well exemplified in the dovetail
action of the joint and several or-
ganizations.—Civilian avid Q-azette.
We clip the following item from
the New (Tex.) Era of the 18th inst.
While in our office on Monday af-
ternoon we were startled with cries
of " catch him." Looking out we
perceived Thomas Flack galloping
off at full speed and flourishing a pis-
tol over his head. Going over to the
Court House to learn what had hap-
pened we found that Flack's securi-
ties—he was under bail for murder
--had brought him in and delivered
him up when some disturbance occur-
ring in the Court-room acting Sheriff
Bowers received a stunning blow on
his head while Flack made his escape.
Two opinions obtained in reference
to the escape, one of which is that
Flack fled through fear of losing his
life; while the other belief is that the
whole matter was made up in order to
release the securities.
. -practical joking ip ,
idea they had such
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which wo pick gpUl( * '"«it.,
make any one laugh: *ül
Joe and Commodore
ther blacksmiths, in
WU„ hav. a
being practial jokers. W ' for
Joe boughtan old-fashion^^
.... . churn> for the purpose of T *4
Fudiciarv turing their own butter
Also, a bill to establish Commodore was a widn J* ^
with Joe, all such work
naturally fell to him. One d *
supper the first churning
ready, and the Commodore "
vited to churn. m-
"Hold on," says he, "a, ,
down and get some tobacco." 80
A Growing Town.—The first
house in Sedalia, Missouri, was built
in 1860. Statistics just published in
the local paper show a population of
8,500. Six ohurches have been built
within the past fifteen months; a
hundred and fifty new buildings have
been erected within a year; and there
are a hundred and thirty-six business
houses in the town, whose aggregate
sales for the year amount to between
three and four million dollars.—Ex-
change.
" What is that dog barking at ? "
asked a fop whose boots were more
polished than his ideas. "Why,"
taid a bystander, M he teet another
puppy in your boots \ "
CewwMiswAf. \
Washington, Jan. 18.—In the
House, the first business in order
being the call of the States for bills
and joint resolutions, the following
were presented :
A bill declaring for the future for-
feiture of the privileges of citizen-
ship for acts of rebellion against the
United States, and providing for the
restoration of the privileges in cer-
tain cases—referred to Judiciar;
Committee.
civil government in the States lately
in rebellion, referred to Committee
on Reconstruction.
A petition for reconstruction on
the basis of equal rignts was present-
ed, which was referred.
Several petitions were presented
urging the passage of the tariff bill.
In the Senate, Senator Ramsay
presented a petition asking an ap-
propriation for improvement of the
Mississippi river: referred to the
Committee on Commerce.
Jan. 14.—The House Committee
on Territories have instructed Ash-
ley to report his amendment to the
bill to re-establish civil government
in North Carolina, as a substitute for
Stevens', now before the House.
A bill was introduced and referred
to the Committee of Ways and
Means, to repeal so much of the
internal revenue act as imposes a tax
on unmanufactured cotton.
Mr. Loan of Missouri delivered a
speech on the Retzer resolution to
impeach the President, in which he
made use of the charge of usurpation,
&c., indulged in by radical orators.
Cook of Illinois reported from the
Committee of Judiciary a bill amend-
ing that portion of the law approved
February 24,1864, which authorized
the Secretary of War to appoint
Commissioners in each of the loyal
States to award compensation to
owners of colored volunteers, so as
to suspend the powers and compen-
sation of said Commissioners: the
bill was passed.
A resolution was adopted declar-
ing it to be the duty of the 0-^ern-
ment in giving effect to the manifest
wishes of the nation, by declaring
against further importation of coolies
in this hemisphere or in the adjacent
islands.
The Nebraska Bill was taken up
and discussed at length—the bill will
be taken up to-morrow.
The Senate was engaged in the
discussion of a bill to regulate the
tenure of office. Adjourned without
a vote.
Desperate Affray at Black-
jack Grove—Three Men Killed.
—A difficulty, we learn, occurred at
a horse-race, at Blackjack Grove,
Hopkins county, on Christmas day,
between two men named Frye and
Newsome, on one side, and a man
named Brumley on the other, in
which B. was killed. A general
fight then commenced, in which the
bystanders finally became involved,
and a regular battle ensued for seve-
ral minutes, resulting in the death of
Messrs. Frye and Newsome, the two
remaining instigators of the difficul-
ty, and the wounding of several
others. It is said that Frye and
Newsome were killed by a younger
Brumley, brother of the murdered
man first mentioned.
We have no further particulars of
this disgraceful affair.—McKinney
Inquirer.
Stores Robbed.—We learn that
on the night of the 2d inst., the store
hocuses of Messrs. Thompson, and
Largent Bros., at Farmersville, in
this county, were robbed—the first
named of about $600, the latter of
some $200, principally in dry goods
and groceries. The robbers were
traced along the Rockwall road some
distance by portions of their ill-got-
ten booty lost in their rapid flight.
They made their escape, however,
and up to our latest information no
arrests had been made.—lb.
We learn that on Christmas night,
at a negro ball, at Honey Grove, in
Fannin county, three negroes were
shot and killed by parties outside the
house. It is not known whether the
assassins were white or black. What-
ever the color of their skins, however,
every effort should be made to ferret
them out and turn them over to the
law.—lb.
Items from the Corpus Christi
Advertiser of the 12th inst.:
Bad News for Rogues.—Nueces
county is in receipt of an iron jail,
jug, calaboose, trap, or whatever it
may be called, per schooner Alice
C. Noyes. We have not seen it, but
are informed that it is iron, weighs
several tons, and is built upon the
bird-cage principle. It is capable of
accommodating ten or twelve birds
at a time. There'll be no use for
the incarcerated to wish they had
the small pox so they can u break
out," or that they were yaller do
se they can "git eoutit can't
did. Hooray for the trap !
Mail Rider Frozen to Death.
—The Rio Grande City mail rider,
(a Mexican,) while en route to this
place last week, was froten to death.
We fe*r the fate of that poor fellow
hat been the fate of others who
ohanoed to be upon the road during
the recent inolement weather.
Beauty it the woman you love
whatever the may teem to othen.
here's
labor.
He went, and while gone .W >
the churning, took out the \ J*
and left the buttermilk in LT*>
The Commodore returned tfr
the churn, took off his coat i *
" Wa'l old churn, it's you ^A^
After churning a counle of i
he remarked that he «,1^
would be cheaper to buy but^V*
to make it." " I think so too "ÍS
Joe, " if you are going to cW.
out of buttermilk! lt
A few days after th t eh*,
process, Joe put one end of &
bar of iron into his forge fire
the bellows three or four
stepped into the back shop. \Vhil
gone the Commodore heated the in
to a black heat, and then changed
ends with it and stepped oat of the
front door to watch the progress. IB
came Joe, took up the iron, but drop-
ped it instantly, holding up his bun.-
ed hand, and roared with pain.
" Put on sometbutcer-milk, Joe-
it's good for a burn !" said the Com.
modore, as he made a masterly re-
treat amid a shower of boqueta com-
posed of hammers, hard coal and
horse shoes.
Candy Adulterations. Tfo
adulteration of sugar candies and
spices is a trade largely and regular-
ly carried on in this city. Instead
of plaster, which entered so largely
into tí * manufacture of confection-
ary, in. pHce of sugar, a new article
has beer -overed called terra aJh,
or white It comes from Ire-
land, and c í the barrel one and
half cents t ound, while loaf
sugar costs about seventeen cente.
The bodies of candies, ttbe coating of
almonds and lozenges, are n?iadefron
this earthy material. It is whiter
than plaster, is very much used in
the adulteration of flour used ir this
market. A glue, paint and oil m^.
ufacturer of New York has sent
round his annual circular, which 1
have seen, to the principal confec-
tioners, calling attention to a fresh
arrival of this white earth. I have
seen an ounce of lozenges dissolved
in water, in which two-thirds of an
ounce was of terra alba, and nota
particle of sugar in the lot. The
common method of flavoring candies,
almonds, sugar plums, &c., is with
deleterious substances. The pine
apple flavor, the banana and the
peach, are made from fusel oils which
are very poisonous. Bitter almond
flavor is made from prussic acid una-
dulterated. Pineapple flavor is ob-
tained from rotten cheese—very rot-
ten and nitric acid. Gum arabic for
pure gum drops is very costly. An
article has been invented of the most
beautiful appearance that is used
instead of the gum. It is very cheap
and very poisonous. In pure candy,
cochineal is used to color red, and
saffron yellow. But in the common
candies poisonous coloring is put, the
same that is used to color wines and
liquors. One of the most common
is " carlot," into which arsenic large-
ly enters. A few grains of the sub-
stance will color a cask of wine. Li-
quorice drops for the trade are made
of poor brown sugar, blue and lamp-
black, flavored with liquorice. Am
for the Western trade much of this
vile wt.nff is packed and sent west to
be put up in boxes to suit the market,
of which from seventy-five to ninety
per cent, is terra alba. This mate-
rial enters largely into the common
chocolate and spices. Much of the
cream of tartar used for bread
made of terra alba and tartaric a« •
—Boston Journal.
The total French force in Mexico
is 27,000 men and 4,000 horses.
It has been decided in one of e
French courts that to call a wom*tt
a " female " is to insult her, and
finable. f .
Crosses in commemoration ot
late war are now being manufact
at the royal mint at Berlin.
The cattle plague in Hoik",
increasing. In the week ending -
November, 3,257 head of cattle
attacked, against '1,595 inthe^P1"
viou8 week. . ,01 «aa
In 1859 Russia had 7o,4«>l^
inhabitants; in 18t 0,
1861,77,S28,000; 1862,78,384,^;
1868,79,268,000; 1864,80,284, (HH,
1865, 84,257,000, and in 18t*>,
272,000.
Fine sensibilities are like
bines—delightful luxuries ot be .
to twine round a solid, upright
of understanding, but verv 1
things if unsustained by
they are
ground.
left to creep
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