the carolina watchman vol viii third series sa1isbuey h c febeuiip 8 1877 ho 17 pcdlisbei weekly 1 j bkinku ed and prop t k bi.l'nek associate ed su11schiption rates : ppr year payable in advance f no six months l k advertising itates : one inch one publication 1 oo •• two publications l 50 contract rates fur months or a vear fast fell the flakes upon the ground as he glided into view is this tin editor it is sir will you publish beau — " ' but eie he could pronounce the rest the querist met his fate — he doubled up and calmly died struck with a ] ia per weight he perished in the nick of time for well the editor knew tliat he meant to add tiful snow when he cut him ofl at beau ft r.l.imlkl by kl.l.1 t a half hard and half soft shkll baptist what he thinks of the presby terians a lady correspondent of an exchange gives a sketch of a sermon she heard in georgia from which we give an extract : the preacher was apparently about fifty years of age muscular and well proportioned on entering the pulpit he took off hia coat and hung it on a nail be hind him then opened hiscollar and waist bands and wipped the perspiration from his lace neck anil hands he was clad in striped-cotton homespun and his shirt was of the same material he had trav elled several miles that morning and deemed almost overcome by the heat but the brethren sung a couple of hymns while lie cooled off and when he rose he looked comfortable and good-natured he had preached there once or twice before but to most of the audience he was a stranger hence thought it necessary to introduce himself as old club ax i av in from seiiven county a half hard and half soft-shell baptist i have given myself that name said lie because i believe the lord elected inc from all eternity to go ahead in the backwoods and grub out the path and blaze the wa for other men to follow af ter the thickest of it is cut away a good warm methodist brother will come along nud take my trail and make things smoother aud a good deal noiser and ul'tcr all the underbrush is cleared out ami the owls and wolves are skeered back and rattlesnakes is killed oil a presby terian brother iu black broadcloth and white cravat will come along and cry for decency and order and they'll both do good in their sperc i don't despise a lift man even when he don't dress and think and do as i do you couldn't pay me enough to wear brodcloth summer nor winter and you couldn't pay a presbyter ian brother enough to go without it bid didn't make us all alike my breth ring ; but every man has his own spore when god has a place to iill he makes a man and puts him in it when he wanted general jackson im made him and set him to lightin injuns and the english when he wanted george whitefleld he made him for to blow the gospel trumpet as no other man ever hlowcd it ; and when be wanted old club ax davis he made him and sent him to grubbin in tlie back woods but my shell isn't so hard but 1 can sec good pints in everybody ; and as for the presbyterians they are a long way ahead of us baptists ami methodists in some things they raise their children better that any people on the face of the earth only a tew days ago a methodist class-leader said to me : brother club ax i was born a methodist i was raised a methodist and by the grace of god 1 liope to die a methodist : but thank ood i've got a presbyterian wife to raise my children and i believe my blethering il the lord should open a way foi me to many agin i'd try my best to find a pres byterian woman and run my chances of break in her into the saving doctrines of feet-washin and immersion afterwards lust at this point he was interrupted by two spotted hounds that had been con tinually running up and down the pulpit stairs one of them jumped upon the seat and lk'gan to gnaw his coat-tail in which was something he had brought along for lunch he tinned slowly around and took him by the ears and tail and threw him out ofthe window behind him as easy its if he had been a young kitten the other took warning and got out as rapidly as possible though not without howling and yelping as if it had been killed he then turned to tin audience and said smiling ly st paul exhorted the brethring to beware of dogs 1 wonder what he would do if he were in my place this morning it appears like i am compassed about with dogs as david says he was he had scarcely commenced preaching again before there was a terrible squeal ing and kicking among the mules and horses that were tied to tlie trees close by he put his head out of the window and raid : no harm done my blethering bist a cretur with a side-raddle on 1ms broke loose will some brother head the animal t for no sister can walk home this hot day quiet being restored he continued : well my blethering i will now try to kay what i allowed to aliout the presby terians as i said before they raise their child ren a heap better than ive do they behave better in church and keep sunday better and read the bible and lam the iitecliisni better than ours do i declare my blethering their children are lamt that westminister catechism by the time they inn begin to talk plain it ain't three weeks since i was out a cattle-huntin for two of my yearlings had strayed ofl and i stopped in at old broth er ilarkey's on mill creek and took din ner lie's a deacon in the presbyterian church over thar well as true as i stand here my brethring sister harkey had her little gal astandin right before her witli tors just even with tlie crack o the floor and her hands wer bangin down her side and her mouth turned up like a chicken when it drinks and she was sputtin this question to her out o that cataehism : what are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification adoption and sauctification v now the question itself wns enough to break the child down ; but when she had to begin and say that question all over for that's t lie way it was in the book and then hitch the answer to it which all together made this : the benefits which iti this life do either accompany or flow from justification adoption and sauctifi cation arc peace of conscience joy ofthe holy ghost increase of grace and perse verance therein to the end 1 thought the child was the greatest wonder i'd ever seen in nil my life she stuck it through too without balkin or missing tlie lirst word and she spoke so sweet and look ed so much like a little angel that before i knowed it the tears were a runnin'down my cheeks ns big as buck-shot i've seen ihe day when i could have mauled and split a thousan1 rails quicker and easier than i could have hunt that tiling and said it ofl like she did now my blethering that child didn't understand or know tlie meaniu1 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 hack to her and her character will stiffen up under it and she*ll have the back-bone ofthe matter all hey life now i can't put things into my child ren that way notiiin don't stay sonihow it's like drivin a nail into a rotten log i tell you my blethering lie contin ued if your children had a little more catechism and the presbyterians a little less it would be better for both then we don't pray in our families like they do i know their prayers are mighty long — they pray till over creation but after all its the right way it's bet ter than prayiu too little " now my father and mother were good baptists anil raised their children to be honest and industrious but i never heard one of them pray in my life and i was most a grown man before 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 tliere that i wanted to see so i borrow ed a little jersey wagin which was a sty lish thing in them days and went over to hei house and stayed all night and en gaged lii'r to ride to meetin with uie next day wliich was sunday we went and had a glorious time — and i might as well say right here that she was afterwards my wife bntacomin'homc i met with a powerful accident that i never got over to this day as i was comin down a steep hill some part of the gearill1 give way and let me out of the wagin on my cretur's heels : and bein young and skeery and not much used to wheels she wiggled and kicked and ton from one side ofthe 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 expectin to be killed every minil i thought i ought to ask the lord for mer cy i5ut as i had never prayed in all my life 1 couldn't think of the first thing to say but the blessiu my father used to ask before eating when he had company and which was this lord make us thankful for what we were about to re ceive now my blethering do you spose any presbyterian-raised boy was ever put to such a strait as that for a prayer ? no he would have prayed for himself and gone off after the jews and heathens whilst i was huntin up and gittin id unit bes sin lord ponsonby under the instructions of lord i'alinerston was at mrussels ad vocating the imposition of the prince of orange upon the belgians as their new king on m de wcycr's declaring tliat the people would have nothing to do with orangeism lord ponsonby exclaimed the people the people ! are you aware that withiu eight days 1 could have you hung from the lirst twv in the park by this very people upon whom you rely f yes was the reply i believe that witli time and plenty of money you might but i could have you hung in ine min utes and hung gratia don't let us play at this game the two gentlemen laughed and shook hands woman's honor is nice as ermine — it will not 1h.it a soil a colored prophet foretells of his people the white man shall join a strange nation a correspondent living in rawamba county mississippi has sent us a curious prophesy recently made by a colored preacher named lewis saxton de costa and causing it is said immediate sensa tion among the blacks in that part of mississippi de costa is a very old man who claims to be the son of african pa rents ; his father who was a prfnccg hav ing been with saxtou's mother kidnap ped some distance up the niger by a slaver who sold them to pedro blancho the great trader at the galinas they subsequently belonged to the de costa estate iu florida where lewis was rais ed after forty years of slavery he got his freedom by saving from a burning building the children of his mistress he is said to be a man of remarkable purity of life and an army officer captain van ylect who heard him in georgia declares that he was the most eloquent man he ever heard in his life during the war he could not 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 nor strange that they should be deeply moved by his words a vision lo ! my eyes are open and 1 see clearly for many days i fasted ami prayed ; i put away from me all malice and sought to make my heart clear my life before god alas the heart id man is prone to evil like the dumb ox he learns wis dom slowly i confessed my sins ; i trust not in myself then wisdom came ; my 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 don't iod always raise up those who have been debased i asked no he replied more often debasement goes be fore extinction ; open thiue eyes anil see the future of thy people they are proud they trust in themselves rather than in ood they have forgotten the gospel rule bless your eiiemios pray for those ho wrong vou thev speak bitterly i * ihey 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 slowly rising above wrong and prejudice then there went forth two bearing 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 lay all day under the shade trees in vain hope of sometime taking all the property ofthe white man others crowd ed into liquor stores and spent their time in speaking bitterly of the bad past aud wishing for revenge the white people upon whom the vials of wrath wen pouted became bitter against the colored man they said there are ten millions of us whites while there arc only five millions of these blacks why should we bear with them longer they seek now to oppress us they are our enemies we will put such burden | upon them that they will be driven out or blotted out as a people we no longer need their labor we can hire men from asia we can get these men who will work harder and be glad to get for a | year's work what we pay a black man for i working one month j then i saw millions of people brought i with exceeding swiftness from asia and i they filled up the whole southern country ! and they were everywhere preferred to j colored men and they settled in the land ! then hard laws were made against the ; blacks and they became outcasts and • vagabonds the angel brought me back to my own place and said they that seek strife and i bitterness shall perish thereby and i wept much for the calamities of my peo '. pie a remnant may be saved if they j seek peace with all men and labor as god has appointed them lewis saxton de costa august 26 1867 , — . ■ cl ■ — drunkenness is said to be on the de crease among the well-to-do classes of england who look upon it as an evidence j of bad breeding or bad taste but it is in creasing among lhe poor we think it quire possible that the same state of things exists in this country the drink ing usages of society are becoming less drunken and as the destruction of the i poor is their poverty so their habits of drinking become worse and worse this is shown by the increase ofthe sale of in toxicants which far exceeds the increase ofthe population political the electoral count special dispatch to the x y.heral.l 29th inat washington january 88 on thm**1 day at one o'clock tlie two houses will assemble in the hall of representatives the vice-president will then proceed to open the certificates in his possession be ginning with that of alabama and proceed ing alphabetically and as he opens each he will band it to the four tellers two from each house — who wjll be previously appointed when the first certificate is read the vice-president will call for ob jections if none aie male be will then pass to the next state iif objection is made it must be immediate iii writing concise and without argument aud must be signed by at least one memlier of each iioum such objections being thus pre sented tlie semite will then at once with draw to its chamber ami eaeh house will vote upon the objections two hours de bate only being allowed upon each state if the two houses concur in rejecting the vote of a state it will be received when ever however the vice-president shall open two conflicting certificates from the same state these returns will be at once submitted to the electoral commission and the opening aad counting of votes will cease until the commission renders its decision this decision will then lie voted on by the two houses acting separately and unless they concur in rejecting it it will stand th vote which is thus de clared legal and proper will be counted and the opening and counting will proceed until other objections are raised or until another set of duplicate certificates is reached it is not probable that objections will be made to tie reception of the fust six states florida stands seventh on the list and appears with two sits of returns here the first day's count will stop and the returns will im sent to the commission tor its examination while the commission is engaged upon tin vote of florida the two houses will separate and may until they receive a report upon the state proceed with other business if florida should be decided foi mr tilden tliat would of course de cide his election if it should be given to mr hayes the count would then pro coed until after six more states had been ' counted louisiana was reached here another set of double returns would be j submitted to the commission louisiana being decided oregon would be the next state turned over to the commission and south carolina the last the peculiar condition of the florida vote as well as the fact tliat it is the first | state to come up with double returns j make lhe vote in that case of uncommon ' interest the florida committees have ! mu yet reported aud no facts are officially j before congress about the vote of the con ' duet of the returning board except the i statement of senator jones made on pri i day the commission will come to some ! definite conclusion as to its powers and i plan of action for the first time when it j gets the florida rei urns hence there is i likely to lie more delay about this case ' than any or perhaps all tlie others because i when they have once laid down their ' course of action they cau rapidly decide all the other cases on tiie principles they have laid down for their own guidance ; j hence while florida will be reached on | thursday the decision may not be report ; ed to the joint meeting until the following week tliere seems to be no reason to , doubt however that the whole count will lie completed by tin 14t!i 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 since the kith of november it will be noticed that the electoral bill provides that the joint meeting shall be held in the hall ofthe house of ueprcsen ! tatives this is in accordance witli an ! almost unbroken custom the two houses having met in the senate hall only five times aud then only iu the earlier period of our history j the counting has already reached in alphabetical order the state of florida and the grand commission is now consid ering the case of that state what has been established the new vork sun wliich puts the matter more forcibly than we could pro ! bably do thus speaks of the political situ ation in its consideration of the electoral • bill lt says the debates upon the ar ' bitration bill at washington last week which ended in the passage of tlie bill in each house by a majority of more than i two-thirds have not determined who shall ! be president but they have established i beyond all future disturbance or denial i i a few points of importance which are j really worthy of pnblic attention i the proposition tliat tlie constitu tion confers upon the president of the ; j senate the power to count the elector i al votes in a presidential election inclnd ! ing the power to determine when there is more than one certificate from any state which of these certificates shall be count ed and to declare the result while the ! two houses of congress aie present inere i lyas witnesses and spectators — this propo sition has now been subjected to an ex ! haustive discussion in which the consti i tution and the constitutional history and practice ofthe country have been thorough ly explored and every principle and every fact bearing upon the subject brought to light rand the judgment is that this proposition is utterly baseless without anything to stand upon a mere device ! land invention trumped ap for the occasion and brought forward for a partisan pur pose without any reason or fact or truth or law or precedent to justify or support it ! ii it is established that the scheme of counting the electoral votes of florida and louisiana as certified by the return ing boards of those states in favor of hayes and wheeler when in fact the peoplo of each state gave a majority of their votes in favor of tilden aud hen dricks is a scheme that cannot be main tjjjlned mid carried through by any means itytherwcriown to oui laws iii it is established that the claim of ae republican tluit hayes and wheeler were elected in november by the action of the retiring boards of florida aud loiusi_uia>t a sort of claim that the re publican majority of the senate do not regard as substantial enough to insist upon pvr.t3|lis further established tliat pro cee-ung'j^ppn this unsubstantial and hol low claim and maintaining tliat the frauds in florida and louisiana were not frauds eertain of the republican managers luul conspired to declare hayes president to inaugrate him and to put biui ui posses sion of the government without an legal or equitable right whatever v it is established that these repub lican managers had conspired to do this through the usurpation by the president of the senate of the power to pass upon 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 ofthe debates were devoted to over throwing and annihilating this pretended power of the president of the senate vl 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 in hayes by the senate only would not have been a thing for anybody to be afraid of to this consummation president grant was pledged for this purpose he had brought troopsto washington from distant posts this design he has clearly an nounced on several occasions and it has been boldly expressed in the national //«• publican newspaper the party organ at washington this design and the mili tary preparation formed the only real substantial element in the republican case vii this conspiracy has now been decidedly checked the pretended power of the president of the senate has been exploded and rendered ridiculous the conspiracy to declare hayes elected by the frauds of the florida louisiana re turning boards has been 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 been anticipated and stopped : and hence all the pnblic satisfaction over the passage of the bill vii 1 all these things have been done declared and established by a majority of more thau two-thirds of each house of congress what may be 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 gross are positive and indisputable action of cold upon milk prof maurice perkins of union college translates for tiie country gentleman from i the paris complex renting some state ments on this subject wliich are of in terest in connection with the discussions now going on here with regard to the ! hardin and other systems of setting milk ! for cream it is an abstract from a pa per by eng tisserand read we presume before the french academy : numerous experiments have lieen made by exposing milk to different tenrper j attires varying from fc leg f to 100 deg p and the following facts have been elicited : 1 the rise id the cream is the more rapid is the temperature to which the milk is exposed approaches 1*2 deg • 2 the volume of the cream is greater when the milk has been efficient ly cooled 3 the yield ofthe butter is also greater when the milk has been exposed to a very low temperature 4 finally the skimmed milk the but ter and cheese are of better quality when prepared under the above circum stances while it is impossible to oiler a satis factory explanation as to the reson why artificial cold should produce a beneficial effect upon the yield and quality of the products derived from milk it is proba ble thai it may tend to arrest that fer mentative decomposition wliich is so prone to set in with organic fluids aud thus by preventing incipient alteration indirectly to improve tlie quality ofthe material the practice of warming the dairy in winter time so as to maintain its atmos phere at a constant temperature of about jo deg is therefore objectionable the pans should stand in running water at as low a temperature as can ik practically obtained it is farther suggested that the forego ing facts should lie brought prominently before the notice of those who are engaged in the manufacture of dairy products iu order that the many erroneous notions on this subject may ik gradually elimi nated the danbury news says : the mod ern cook stove is approaching a degree of perfection which will require a compe tent engineer with a stated salary to run it art and science dr schl_o_nai.n's letters to tlie loiw-ot times continue to giv roost interesting details of bis discoveries tn one tomb were three liodies jrofeilerfhlly pre all three weie o^gantie proportions and appeared to have been squeezed witli force into the small sjwee of only six feet which was left for them between the afore said walla the bones of the legs wft ich are nearly uninjured arc really of enor mous size although the head of the firtt man was covered with a massive golden mask his skull crumbled away ou being ex posed to the air and but a few liones could be saved beside those of the legs the same was the ease with the second ikmiv which hattbeen pbmdered in tn tiquity but ofthe third body which hu nt the north end of the tomb the round faee with all its flesh had been wonder fully preserved nnder 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 that luul l>een pressing upon it was wide open aud showed thirty-two beautiful teeth by these all the physi cians who came to see the body were led to believe that the man must have died at the early age of thirty-live the massive golden mask which cov ered the head of this body and which 1 mentioned iu my last letter is 1*2 inches long and 12j inches broad it is so thick thai the enormous weight which for ages has been pressing upon it has made no impression on it it shows a round face with large eyes and a large mouth much resembling the features ofthe body when first uncovered and i feel now more con vinced than ever that all the golden masks faithfully represent the features which they cover in fact a single glance on these splendidly-made masks mast con vince every one that they are real por traits and not ideal types the golden breast-cover of this body which 1 like wise mention iu my last letter is 14 2-5 inches long and 8 4 inches bread at a distance of hardly more than one foot to the right of the body i found eleven bronze swords of which nine had more or less suffered from moisture but the other two were well preserved all these treasures are sent to athens where they are to remain permanently apart from the inscriptions found on egyptain monuments our only source of information concerning tlie history of that country is a certain number of dilapidated fragments of a list of pharaohs which manetho a priest of lleliopolis under ptolemy philadelphia 04 v a had placed at the end of a chronicle he had written and which is now lost except a few passages quoted by josephus julius afiicanus and georgia syncellus a coptic scholar m eugene revillout has just made an important discovery at the paris national library and which prom ises to lead toothers we should premise that there are three sorts of egyptian writing the hieroglyphic which is popu larly spoken of the hieratic which was used for literary compositions ; and lastly a later one the demotic which dates from the twenty-fifth dynasty and was used in the ordinary transactions of life two years ago the national library purchased a demotic papyrus no ij that baffled the efforts of all egpytologists it has live columns on the lirst page ami sev eral more on the back by another hand it is mutilated for all al ing the edges there are traces of other columns it lie gins with the sixth chapter of a chronicle of the same nature tis those which manetho must have used and goes down to the thirteenth it treats of the period lying between the years 110 and 845 b c and comprising three dynasties and about ten princes the greeks were the allies ; the egyptians against the persians who alter a series of bloody conflicts were at first repelled but ultimately became the conquerors the papyrus casts some light on the part played by egypt in this contest those of the greeks and persians being well known the author of this fragment was evidently a priest as may be gathered from the solemnity of his style and his religious enthusiasm whenever egypt is stricken down it is owing to her impiety : whenever victory crowns her efforts it is for the triumph of law and right the papyrus rectifies many an obscure point of history we must con tent ourselves with mentioning the case of nectaneb l son of amyrta'iis erron eously placed at the head of the mende sian dynasty whereas he only occupies the seventh place in the same ga lignani the oldest piece of iron wrought iron now known aie probably the sickle-blade found by belzoni under the base of a phinx in karnak near thebes the blade found by colonel vysc emlieddcd iu the masonry ofthe great pyramid : and the portion of a cross-cut saw exhumed at nimrod by mr layard all of which are now in the british museum a wrought bar of damascus steel wns pre sented by king fore to alexander the < meat and the razors steel of china for many centuries has surpassed all europe an steel in tern per and durability of edge the hindoos appear to have made wrought -— '■ ■ r ■* - > ■ b iron directly from the ore without pass ing it through tiie furnace from tune im memorial , and elaborately rought masses of irou are still found in imfi wliich date from the eariy centuries of 0m5 christian em iron ore ha been fctnnd in the has arcbaagh distric^fvlwlia which is said to contain eighty per eent of pure metal together with a slight admixture of man ganese tl_e.mia.-_wd to be 300 square miles of this ore in tha diamado coal fields - — h — ~ the liquor tjuffic in england there in a very strong agi tation and a very earnest effort in favor of dealing vigorously with the als-mina tions of the liquor traffic some form of what is known as the gothenburg system is warmly advocated by which the sale of liquor is placed in the hands of men who cannot ik pecuniarily benefitted by the amount spent for intoxicating drink whatever may ih the defects of the sys tem it is generally acknowledged that it has been followed by great improvement fifty-seven swedish towns have adopted it and it is to ik introduced iuto stock holm next year it is one of the anomalies of the better phases of human nature that it is so im practicable tt secure any leal unity of effort in the way of dealing with this monster evil excellent people differ so greatly as to the proper methods of meet ing the enemy that there is no united 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 in fluences that elevate and fortify personal character but it is also true that com muiiiiic have both the right aud power to reduce dangerous and destructive agencies to a minimum it is criminal folly to allow manufactories of crime poverty disease and debauchery to mul tiply themselves without limit their toleration ought certainly to involve full pecuniary and legal resihiusibi.it for all the loss and injury that result doubtless it is the political power of the groggery that makes it such an impregnable for tress but if our good men would unite upon a plan of action it would s<mui iks discovered that our homes and our church es bail more than enough vote to over come the sons of belial music and plants in the dearth of original ideas says the rural new yorker the following from the english mechanic may have some inter est to all lovers of plant we in whatsoever form : on account of ill health 1 went to trcfaria spain on the other side ofthe tagus the soil here — even of the moun tains was entirely of sand and so sterile that in the whole ticighltorhood there was not a scrap of vegetation to lie seen on becoming convalescent 1 had a green house built and cultivated roses and other flowers known in the country they did not however thrive well i had a har monium 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 i was surprised to observe a gradual yet rapid recovery of health on the part of my plants the recovery was so marked that i have often thought it quite possible to impute it to the influence of music the whole country as 1 have said was barren and with the exception of a few sparrows entirely void of bird life and song i have often thought that in this fact there might lurk a proof that music was to some extent a necessity of vege table life at least ; that music the song of birds especially was conducive to the health of plants or i may otherwise state it that nature is not complete without music a friend of the i^ntdon garden upon reading the above suggested that the fine development of the trees in some of their squares may now ih easily accounted for seeing that there are so many organ-grin ders ! n y obrnvrer an artesian boring at fort wayne has readied a depth of 3,000 feet : the first ss feet were of drift and then in entered a niagra limestone and continued through limestone calcareous shale to 2,."i00 feet ; thence through soft calcareous rock to its present bottom in the lower silurian the temperature at h 1(10 1,000 1-500 and 2.63 feet registered by the ther mometer was l 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 water at 100 500 1,000 and 2.27(1 feet the tempera ture of the water obtained was iol deg f the thermometer was one made for the purpose by james green of new york mr cox says that the inference to ih drawn from the uniform temperature of these wells is that they are filled with wa ter that comes from an upper stratum in another well l,.-2_ll feet deep at terre haute penetrating the coal measures and devonian and stopping it is believed in the niagara the temperature obtained throughout was sl deg f ; and this re ferred to waters from the lower part of th well filling it — am jomtmaof science ai ' art