* il*s^*#v>,v fttt flltftff salisbury n c august 19 1870 no 33 vol v job printing the undersigned lias the pleasure to an nounce to bis patrons and the public that within the lost few months he lias made im portant and valuable additions to bis office in new ttpks and p he-bbs and other facili ties for job phintino and is now better prepared to meet promptly and well any orders sent him than at any time since 11 his more recent additions of materials were selected with especial reference to the print ing of school catalogues wedding cai-m1s party tickets tubct'larti pampiilkts *» nnd blanks ile believes lie is prepared for anything in hla line and likely to i.e called for ami that he can could as near giving entire satisfaction in the matters of styi.k iimi nml l'liu r as enn be reached l.y any printer in lhe state orders from a distance promptly met address 1 j bltunklt junc2 70 salisbury n c valuable property for sale ! i will sell tor cash at the court house iu mocksville davie co n.c on the 1th day of 0ctobeh being tiles \ day first week superior court the well i known county ll \ ■•: p ***. a p a * k ty which is one of tin lias country stands for merchandising in western n c beiug situ ated 2h miles from salisbury ii the wilkes j born itoad ki miles from statesville in a fine neighborhood with n good two-story storehouse with all necessary warehouses for a general ' trade also good dwelling house out houses ice blouse good orchards and some two or three hundred acres uf very tobacco laai and is upon the whole one uf the most de sirable places in the couutry any one wishing to examine the property o.c will please call on j w urav or the messrs stimpsons who are now ill bus iness at that place nnd for further particu lars address me at eagle mills iredell (',,., j n.c t.n.cooper _ july 33-39 uw phillips i & bkotiii.rs , two dooms aug ve the court house on main street rktl'ltx tiik it t ii a n k s to t tl i publio for ihe vary liberal patronage en joyed by theni during tho post year and hopo by fair dealing aud strict attention to business to merit a continuance if uol an in reuse ofthe same we will ornithine to keen on hai d a good sun ply of family oxlocz.kxbs in eluding fresh and salt 1'i-li — of every v iuetv whiskeys brandies rum gin d ■ , d c also loots shoes domestics piece goods yankee notions ! in fact almost everything usually kept in a va j riety stun all of which wo will sell low for j cash or country produce at the high 1 est market price i'll i.i.i i's & iliii'tiikl's feb 18 1870 '.— tf 1.000 rewakdt selling's via fuga i-ni'f all liver kidney and bladder diseases orgauio weakness female afflictions geuorui de bility and all complaints of tlie urinary i gans in male and female 91,000 will also bu paid for any case of blind bleeding or tolling biles thnl hi lling's 1'ile remedy fails to cure debing'a magic levi me nt cures rheumatism pains bruises nud swelled joints in limn and beast sold everywhere send for pamphlet laboratory — 143 franklin st ilnltl more md npi*23 i y william valentine tiih bakbtfr rkti'iins ihs thanks to hi old fiiikxds and llu public lor thn liberal patronage hereto lure extended to him llu now informs them that he hai lilted up n new and commodious shop in dr henderson's uriclt building room l.o 3 where he would he pirn ed i • co them lie guarantee to give stitiafn ■ . a o he has lu his ample of the bi * hair dressers iii western ji'orth carolina uerenncsti n call from all salisbury n c doc it 1 '' 50 if y'liihohoi oil hoi sic ravettevill stbk1 t ral e i h ii , n . c . having uo connection with any uthor botol iu baleigh 1 shall mako thu varboroucmz house wii it it ii vs iimiin the only first class hotel in th city j 11 ii lair march i -*— tf pmprletor mansion house charlotte n 0 this well known hoiue having been skwt.y i-i'iimsina nnl inai tri:i in v rv di part , is now open for lit nun dntion of travel i j imbl1c 9*omnihug at i i.|...i mi arrival oftrain i.aii fab 4 6tf ii . . i a i i ] s prtni'r mrs henry w miller's boarding house cob ni.\s'i;i:i;n a im ks i.n sth it iii4.ii v c fcbll — tf j*l si i k0vemu1 ii i 0 | north carolina i superior court ijavie countv $ spring term 1870 ellsebeth sprouse assignee plaintiff against 1st george i sprouse of yadkin county a brother of robert sprouse deceased 2d george r carter robert daniel and wife hannah david kendrick and his wife harriett lucy hollingsworth chil dren of amelia sprouse deo'd a sister of robert sprouse 3d a thomas jones george jones aud two other children of sally jones dec'd who wa a daughter of martha sprouse dec'd a sister of robert sprouse i b jas smith and two other children ft jauu a daugh ter of t.iii.1 mbi-ttia s'liroiiiae l'etitionfor partition to george r diner robert daniel nnd wife nancy george w kelly ami wife hannah david kiudriok and wife harri ett and l.uey holliugsworth eliihlren nud heirs al law of amelia sprouse am i in a nas jones george jones mid two oth . er children of sally junes whose nre un known and dailies smith and two other eliihlren of lane smith dee'd noii-resi ileiits : you ar hereby notified that a summons in the above entitled ease has issued agaillg ynu and the complaint therein was tiled iu i ihe superior court of davie county on the lllh day of july 1870 you arealso notified that the summons in the ease is returnable i the judge of our su perior court to be held for the county of da : i via at tha .' 1 house in mooksville mi ihe i second monday after ihe third monday of , september 1870 when and where you ale hereby required to appear and answer the complaint — in default whereof ihn plaintiff will npply to said court for tho relief deman ded iu tin complaint witness ii r austin clerk of our said court nt olliee iu the town of mocksville on the 20th dayofjuly a i 1870 ii it austin clerk superior court davie county aug5-3l:0w pr ti e*15 north carolina in the superior cm.i.wi.i.i county i court m a bernhardt executor of henry smith deo'd against lewis s hartley and wife clarrissa i w i're.-suell nud wife elizabeth maria hays unfits sniitii ephriam smith willis stan ly and wife selena john moore and wife ! emily w w barnes anil wife caroline marcus smith marion smith phillip w barnes hardin barnes ami ida barnes to ephriiun smith william stanly ami wife selena john moo e and wile emily non resident defendants in the above entiled pro ceeding you an hereby notified lhat summonses in tlie above untitled proceeding nav iss.i-.i ngainsl yon aud ilu complaint therein was tiled iii the hi i'll clerk of the superior court of caldwell county ou the i lib day july a d 1870 vou are further notified lhat lhe sum moil in this proceeding is returnable to the office of the clerk of the superior court of the said county on the 1st day ot september next when and where you aro required lo appeal and answer llio complaint — in default whereof the plain ill will apply to the court for the re lief demanded in lhe conipiaint witness r r wakefield clerk of 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00 25 ml 37,50 j column 1 1 00 16 00 30 0030 00 45,00 column 18 00 24 00 30 00 15 00 75 on i column 28 00 40 no 50 00*80 00 130,00 particulars of the riot at ii a rroiks burg five men killed and many wounded a bloody affair from a gentleman who arrived in the city from uarrodsburg kentucky on wednesday we learn tho following par ticulars of a bloody affair in that town on monday last : a large number of negroes were in the town and all of them were voting the radical ticket white radicals were at the polls and challenged every demo cratic voter the election passed offqui ctly unlil about five o'clock iu the after noon when a difficulty arose between ii young man named 8 r p lawrence and a negro the engaged in a hand-to-hand fighl nnd a short distance from lhe court house lawrence shot the negro and then . cut his tliroiu nearly severing his head from his body killing him instantly the fimu ....... j grem ia . :. short time about two hundred negroes armed with muskets and shot-guns col lected in the vicinity of the court house and one of them shot lawrence through the body inflicting a wound from which bedied instantly a bhot fired by the negroes struck a young man son of mr green johnson who was sitting near the bank and who had taken no part in the affair killing him instantly w ii hawkins white was seriously wounded and matt rradehaw while had his throat cut with a ball about one iiokcii ! white men were engaged iu the difficulty several others besides the above named wen slightly injured two negroes were mortally wounded and have since died and eight or ten others were wounded — the whiles were armed only with pistols at least five hundred shots were fired — the negroes then retreated towards the suburbs ofthe town when the peaceably disposed citizens interfered nnd quelled the disturbance and placed a strong guard over the town the most intense excite ment prevailed and the bloody riot was very nearly renewed on tuesday by tin attempt of young hawkins to shoot a ne gro named snend whom lie accused of having killed lawrence the negro seiz ed the pistol just ns hawkins wns about : to fin and held il until colonel clionn worth and oihers succeeded in disarming hawkins li is baid that both of ilie par ties between whom lhe difficulty origina ted were under ihe influence of liquor the guild citizens of lhe place deeply | regret the dreadful occurrence and a strong guard is slill kept in ill town i i prevent a repetition of lhe bloody scenes louisville courier rapidity of life — human life is like a path lhe end of which is a frlght i ful proclpice wi are lobl so at the be ginning wo try i check our onward slop bill no it is decreed that wi must march march an invincible power drags us on ou uncensingly to iln tear ful gulf a thousand tumbles crosses i vexations besot our path j but where are ! they if wo could only avoid lhu frightful i end ? no no march march hasten on from time lo time objects pleasant to the traveler running waters and flowers which quickly pass tempt to amusement wi rejoice because onr bands grasp a few flowers and fruits ; lowers which fade ere the c use of day and fruits which am lost in the lasting what delusion ! enchant ed dragged on nearer nearer the gulf already llie joys of life lose their bright ness ; the gardens for us bloom less pwcet ly : the gay flowers become dim ; lhe plains lose iheir smiles and lhe waters their transparency death throws its shadows on all things we feel that we are nearer and nearer tho brink ; one step inore ; horror seizes our senses nil is confusion ;• and w0 nre dead all american 1 lentnl association which bus been in session at xnsliville tenn for tho past lime days adjourned sinedie mi thursday evening the next meet ing will be held at atlanta la gladstone put england's neutrality on llu ground ol humanity without a single hint ut trade brilliant descriptions of the battles of l<ast week the prussians adopted a strategy al most identical with the french but with the same boldness which resulted tor them so fortunately ut sadowa they allowed their two converging armies to disregard any connection with each other and mov ed up at onco to attack the french at the two points upon which the emperor bud apparently designed to make the attack himself the first movement was a prus sian raid upon the railwn ljy whicli mc m.-irmn communicated with tlic french centre and left the nex was the affair at saarbruck last tuesday when gonor al frossiird seized tho railway connecting tbo forces of the crown prince with llie prussian centre and righl that no at tempt had been inaile lo defend ihis line and no anxiety was manifested to recover it slimieil ihai the crow n prince was confident in his own strength t conduct an independent campaign marshal mc malioit meanwhile had moved down from strasburg and established his headquar ters at hagetiau while two of his divi sions occupied the fortified of weisenburg situated directly on the frontier at the foot of the east spur of the vosges as im was reinforced during tho icceut b.nile by portions ol oanrobert's corps from so far hack as clialnns it is probabblo lliat the hoops had already been ordered lo join hi ni in view of an iuiinedi.ite ad vance thus at lhe beginning of iho great bat tle which raged from thursday until sat urday nighl wo find mcmiihon with a powerful corps of picketed men at the angle of the two lines which formed the french position threatening two avenues of appronctl into germany and covering lhe whole valley in his rear on thurs day the crown prince with portions of the fifth and eleventh prussian corps and a corps of bavarians f i upon mc million's front carried wiesonburg by assault cariied tlie heights of ieisburg in the rear drove iu the two advanced di visions and moved several miles into the french lines tearing up tho road iu the direction of hogennu and compelling mc million to move hurriedly to tlio left and concentrate in tho neighborhood ol uilcho uy this brilliant operation the angle of llie french lines was driven in and iiol only was mcmahon's position lurnod but the crown prince threatcnod lo take the l.-i . i ' -.-* - ....-:. l . .. and rear and roll theni up both parties during tho nighl concentrated for a deci sive battle mcmahon drew five divisions from general tie failly's fifth corps at llitche and lhe next ram iii g with a force reported by the french al 150,000 made a ferocious attack at worth a little village a few miles northwest of uagenau the battle lasted until nightfall was re sumed on saturday and ended late in the afternoon with a complete prussian victo ry four thousand prisoners thirty guns six of tlie famous mitrailleuses and two standards were among their captures and sunday beheld the gi cutest of french marshals in full retreat across the vosges striving to recovor his connection with tlie main body of the array and at the same time to cover the important city of nan cy simultaneously with mcmahon s at tack at worth on friday morning gen frossnrd attempted a forward movement from saarbruck with the second corps but wns at once assaulted by a portion of the prussian centre under steiniuctz.nnd after n sharp engagement with heavy losses on bolh sides was defeated almost as signally as his comrade ou tho right thus with tho right wing turned and cut off the centre driven in ami the rear in imminent danger of nttnek tho entire french army was and perhaps is in a iiinsl critical situation for two days mcmiihon was entirely unable lo cntnnni nicnto with headquarters tho emperor bail no choice but to fall back aud swing his lino toward nancy bo i hat now sup posing this inana'iiviu to have been sue cessfully executed he is nearly perpen dicular i iis for r position the prus sians on their part are pressing forward iheir light w.'s moved from treves toward saarbruck and is close up with lhu cen tre ready for'n move southward along the western slope of tho vosges to inter cept mcmahon while lhe crown prince is still iii tin beaten frenchmen's rear nud lhe troops of baden nrc pouring n cross the river into tho valley irom which mcmahon has just been driven nt a york tribune if col kirk has done no other good while commanding the north carolina militia ho has accomplished much in ex posing the weakness and cowardiee ul ilu secrit politicnl organization of tin ku klux klan or white brotherhood lt is shown that they are i'uw in numbers and havn wielded power and created ter rorism only becauso of the timidity ol ihose opposing then this exposure hai made the organization appear ridiculous and instantly its strength is gone i ie york tribune a novel ucmcdy for swearing a california paper col anting upon till gie.ii temptations i lhe sin of profanity in iimi country says : an hiti'lligonl la dy of our acquaintance whoso little boy was begii ning this strange talk anxious lo explain to ini child the horror ol pro fanity iiil upon the novel process of wash ing out his mouth whenever he swore it was an effectual enn the boy under blood his inoiliei's sense of tho corruption of an .. aih and the tn do of ■ ud . which ... a ilu r i luceil llu ilei if 1 ie nil president grant on the french and prussian war a correspondent of the new york sun profesaes lo have had an interview with president grant at his cottage at long branch during which the following con versation on tbe war in europe occurred : american sympathim the correspondent having suggested that americans sympathize with prussia the president ic*)lied : yes 1 don't know but what we do — our sympathy is tlie result of commerce i german emigration arid because tho ger mans look our bonds mid stood willi us during our war france didn't like king william nnd bismarck sent three tele grams of congratulation tons not one came from napoloon who on the contra iy was ut tbo time hilling us siy dabs in mexico howard lot him hit because his nrmy was all llie time eating up the beef and tanning the bides which otherwise would have gotten into the rebel nrmy — iu fact maximilian wns a sort of provi sion destroyer in mexico if we go back of the liiht war then is no reason why we shouldn't sympathize with france na poleon sent troops nn.l i iluyctte come to help us while frederick llio freat hired out a lot of hessians to great britain correspondent and if you go now about five miles from potsdam you will sec a marble monument on which is writ ten in clumsy gorman sacred to tlio memory of 8,000 german braves who died heroically in tha american war — what do you think of the capture of saar bruck general 1 gonoral grant little skirniissl.es and a reconnoissance now and then don't amount to anything sometimes in check ers n man gives away one man and by aml-by takes three so in wnr then saarbruck don't seem to have been a ger man town it was like the the rebels ta king bowling green kentucky or little hock it lather belonged to them but j when general steele retook little hock 1 that was i victory i think mayence will be the fredericksburg of tlie war and maybe tho black forest will be the wil ' dcrness at least i should think thut modern warfare bail demonstrated the fact that it is foolish to assault a fortified town when vou can just as well march 1 :. > ... •• l._j ... \ to starve or come out nnd fight yon — genera hooker and general burnside i | both stormed fredericksburg ; but i ■ : think if they had it to do over again you j would see them marching right around to ! the rear mayence coblentz and even elirenbreitenstein the gibralter of the rhine if managed at all will have to be i managed as fredericksburg wns at last you can't storm elirenbreitenstein any more than you could vicksburg from tlie louisiana flats you can lombnrmd it but when taken it will have to be starved out now 1 don't think these french fellows are much on tlie starve-out pro i cess they're too fast ; nnd here prussia has the inside track correspondent : what will be the pro bable strategy ofthe prussian army ? general grant it will undoubtedly remain strictly on the defensive the prussians are now whore the austrinns were during the last war they will find defending themselves agninst the french far different from conqueriug aus tria the victory of konniggratz was won without a prussian quartermaster's department — without even a base of sup plies they started like general pope wiih hoadqnartcrb and hindquarters in tho saddle this strategy is only safe with victory it would have been as disas irons with king william at konniggratz as it was with general popo at centre villi had ho met with a repulse the austrian campaign was successful but it would nut do for king william to fighl ; ihe french in this way llo must stand still entrench j and the french must , dig him out out or work in the roar — ' spades will be trumps again as at vicks , burg there is a sinking analogy be ! tween the french nnd prussian armies ■ and llie old union and rebel armies if ; i she tiikes the nggressive penetrating i french territory the same result will un • j duiilitcdly await her that awaited lee ill . pennsylvania gettysburg and antiets.m . both weakened the rebels moro llinn years i of defence warfare konniggratz will not be repealed during this war correspondent i what will be theoffect of ihe war on this country i i general grant history ill repeat it i self our war jnis.-d value not only - here but all over ilie world people i couldn't live in europe after one nor one : half as cheap as 1 fore the present . wnr will raise values in europe amur , icons will come homo iron leather and - coal will advance ihere then wi can f compete wiih tll.'lll without u tariff the < war will be a self-imposed high taliff im , posed on every urticle of foreign importa tion thin war nl.il here the general was enthusiastic will be the greatest blessings lhat could be afforded to amcr , ; ii it will raise europe np to an equi i librium of prices und lubor our facto ries will tart again importations will cease they will ii longer bo able to make a coat cheaper in europe lhan in i this country our breadstuff's nnd bncon will have to furnish iheir quartermaster's department indirectly pork will nd . v.uicc iixl general farm produce will bring corresponding high figures if the war lasts as 1 now think it will our bonds will eoiiie imm al first bul thoy will be quickly absorbed they are safe and foreigners are even now making large deposits of them jn american banks — many are coming back ; but few want to realize on them thoy make a sure revenue for them no matter how the war turns out at home — -»^_»* the press on the military situation in europe there has been hesitancy and lack of nerve in the opening of the campaign on the side of the french due in great meas ure no doubt to the wr.tehed health of tho emperor bnt also to tho fact that in early life although a professed student of the art of war he did not have un oppor tunity to acquire pructical knowledge of the handling of troops lie must have available the right men into whose hands to give tho command as a statesman he will not be slow to recognize the ne cessity for that course and act upon it the curtain has merely risen upon the theatre of war and wo huve not seen enough to authorise any ono to suppose that the french are doomed to certain and signal defeat in this contest witli prussia — n y world franco cannot consent to peace while she still lias resources sufficient to restore the honor of her anus ; and prussia can not consent until ho enemy who has so rashly provoked her to the field shall be deprived for llio present at least of tlie power again to disturb the repose of eu rope tho war will doubtless go on ; but such victories as those of sunday show ) that there is after all a possibility of its i being made a short war another blow like this aud the danger that all tho other powers of europe may be involved in llie struggle will be greatly diminished if not removed altogether — n y sun tho extrication of mcmahon from his present isolated position and a success in front of met would place tho combat ants onco more on a footing comparative ly equal and open a new and perhaps a long campaign ; but us affairs now stand tlio future is black with omens of danger v t tribune a victory was scarcely expected for prussia at this stage of the campaign und its moral effect iu arousing the enthusi asm of all tho german people to make even greater efforts than heretofore for the realization of the great idea of a free and united germany can scarcely be esti ffiitfia j/il^fu y^wehf^vfwi'l i\!mtj luttl equanimity ; and if tliis victory is but the precursor of others even more glorious the world expects that the conquerors shall take the lead in freeing europe from tlic fetters of feudalism that still bind its people and become the champion of lib erty — philadelphia enquirer judging from present indications the war promises to result in a speedy humil iation of the french government and in a dethronement of the napoleonic dynas ty forever the career ol this remarka ble family seems to be coining to a close even if the prussians do not succeed in occupying paris the loss of prestige of the empire will react terribly against it the most important consequences aro ul ready looming up among the possibilities dependent upon the success of the ger man cause — philadelphia press the election in north car olina the returns indicate conclusively that the democrats have carried nortli caro lina by a large majority they have in sured the election of a democratic united stales senator in tlie place of senator abbott whose term expires on the 4th of march next and live of tbe seven mem bers of congress in 1 fads the state gave grant over twelve thousand majority and it is now estimated ihut the democratic majority in the recent canvass will reach nearly ten thousand it is not difficult to account for so mark ed a change in political sentiment in north arolinn when we consider the tactics which have been pursued by those who have been iu control ns the repre sentatives of the republican party the policy adopted by gov holden was in onr opinion ill-advised nnd precisely such as was calculated to exasperate the people nnd alienate them from us lie undertook to conduct the campaign upon the extreme prescriptive plan which had been pursued in previous years and the result has been that lie went llie right way to work to render ihe democrats vic torious the appeal in behalf of tho ne gro which was the pretext of gov i lol den's extreme measures was not respon ded to even by the fr edinon themselves the whiles were 0 nsulidnti il in iheir op position to what was regarded as outra geous assumption of authority and an uu ncccssary exercise oi n ilespnlic power now yuri tiiites willi respect to mi dickens family it may be news to many to hear tlllll hn had ten children eight of whom nro living namely two daughters and eight sons of tlic sons one is in iho royal navy and now stationed at valparaiso ; one in in dia ami two shoop-faruiiug in australia near melbourne the juungest ol ilu sun is at college ami the eldest is now conductor of all the year round ofthe daughters one is married to charles col linr brother ol wilkin collins she is the heroine of millais famous painting ol tlie black brunswicker the uumar rid daughter like miss tliaekery i.s a novelist of more than average talent her best w orks being vim i margaret's trou ble m.ilu iv progress anil veronica the mare is mine now an old gcntieman had an only son and concluded to put all bis property into hit hands on condition that his son would maintain him as they had but one horse the father rode and the son walked to the justice's office to get the business done — the writings wero drawn aud executed and the son put the deeds in his pocket the old gentleman then walked oat of th room and was in tho act of mounting when john steps up takes tbe bridle out of liin hand and rides off saying fath er the mure is mine now and left tbe poor old mane to trudge home alone next day the father who kept his sor row to himself was sitting before a hla zing fire when he called his son and said johnny i have been thinking of some more property which was omitted in the deed yesterday nnd i don't know wheth er it is best to give it to you now or wait till i have done with it oh said the son the deeds havo not been sent away to the rcgistor and it is best lhat tho business should all be done together well then says the father get the papers the son hastened to his old bureau and brought them to him the father asked if they were all yes says john then tlie father tucked them under the fore-slick and turning round cried out : johnny the mare is mine now a noble act the new york herald of monday has tho following which will be interesting to the many friends of dr deems iu this state : for two years the church of the stran gers has been worshipping in the large chapel ofthe university dr dooms suc ceeding his friend dr hawks in the oc cupancy of that chapel the church of tho strangers is undenominational aud unsectarlan ; a christ in church requir ing only faith in christ nud good living for membership some time since the board of trustees thinking the chapel not exactly adequate to the wants of the con gregation decided to purchase tho mer cer-street presbyterian chinch for the bum fne^ilflc'lpdlie vtlll-yi il.nlliwuove v**tt'u_r hilt came forward and placed in the hands of dr deems a certified certificate of de posit for that amount mado payable to the doctor with the understanding on tlie part of mr vanderlilt that it should be applied to the purchase of the proper ty it is proper to add that this was a spontaneous offer on the part of the com modore without the slightest hint or so licitation on tlie part of either dr deems or any member of his church this is indeed a mobt noble act on the part of mr vanderbilt aud long after tho bronze statue over the hudson river railroad depot may have been melted down to make other monuments history will perpetuate the fact that cornelius vanderbilt gave a church to a congrega tion representing no sect but the largo and catholic religion of jesus christ where wood comes from if wc were to take up a handful of soil and oxnmine it under tho microscope we should probably find it to contain a num ber of fragments of wood small broken pieces of the branches or leaves or other parts of tho tree if we could examine it examine ii chemically we should find yet more strikingly that it was nearly the same as wood in its composition per | haps then it may be said that the young plant obtains its wood from the earlh in which it grows the following experi ment will show whether this conjecture is likely to be correct or nol two hun dred pounds of earth were dried in an oven and afterwards put into a large earthen vessel ; the earth was then mois tened with rain wather and a willow tree weighing five pounds was planted there in 1 hiring tlie space of five years tho earth was carefully watered with rain wa ter or pure water tho willow grew and flourished and to prevent the earth being mixed wiih fresh earth or dirt being blown upon it by tlie winds it was cov ered with a metal paste full of very mi l nuto holes which would exclude every thing but air from getting access lo tl.o earlh below it alter growing in tho earth for five years lie tree was remov ed and on beiug weighed was found to have gained ono hundred and sixty lbs and tills estimate did not include tho weight of tlic leaves or dead branches whicli ill five years fell from thn tree — now came the application of the test — was ull this obtained from the earth ? it had not sensibly diminished ; but in or i dor to mako thu experiment conclusive it was again dried iu an oven and put in llie balance astonishing the result — the earlh weighed only two ounces less lhan il did when the willow was first planted in i ! yet the tree hndgaincd 161 pounds manifestly then the wood thus gained in this spare of lime was not ob tained from llio earth *. we are therefore compelled to repeat our qui stinii : where does llie wood come from '.'" we are left with only two altei natives lhe water with which ii was refreshed or the air lu which it lived lt can bn shown thut il was not due to water ; wo are consequently una ble to resist the perplexing and woildci ful conclusion il wus derived irom tbo air life uf ti tree