Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-01-22
VOL. xvII.--NO I.

The MEN WITH TAlLs-A year or two
since French travellers in Africa reported tho
: existence of negro tribe with tails. Lately
!: Count de Castclnau, the explorer of South
America, well known in the United States,
communicated to the Geographical Society of
Paris the result of some personal inquiries at
Bahia, which seem to confirm in measure
the direct report:
81 found myself there" hc says, in the
midst of host of negro slaves, and thought
it possible to obtain from them information
of the unknown parts of the African conti-
nent. soon discovered that the Moliam-
medan natives of Soudan were much further
advanced in mind than the idolatrous inhabi-
tants of the coast. Several blacks of Haous-
sa and Adanlawah related to me that they
had taken part in expeditions against nation
called Niam-Niams, who had tails. They
traced their route, on which they encounter
ed tigers, giraffes, elephants, and camels.
Nine days were consumed in traversing AZ
immense forest. They reached at length
numerous people Of the same complexion
and frame rs themselves, but with tails from
twelve to fifteen inches long. This organ or
excrcscence they described as smooth and
motionless. The Houssas massacred tho
greater part of the tribe: among the bodioa
were some females with the same appendage.
Both sexes went entirely naked. Some lived
in straw novels, but the greater part lived in
caves. The only article of furniture seen
among them was a wooden bench, pierced
with hole for the accommodation Of the
tail"
This last circumstance is comical enough;
the witnesses were seven or eight who de-
clared that they had handled the cxcrescenee,
cut it, and so forth. The Count does not
guarantee the statements; he intends to
publish separately the interrogations and an
swers, along with the maps, vocabularies, and
portraits of distinct tribes, which he procured
in his researches in Brazil.
CAPT. TALcorr, who recently surveyed
the route for the Richmond and Danrille Rail
Road, discovered, while surveying in the ri
cinity of Milton, N. c., that the territory on
which that town stands belongs to the State
of Virginia, according to the true limo Of
boundary between Virginia and North Caro-
lima, which, it is maintained, runs East and
West in straight line. IF the line runs, as re-
ported BY Capt. Tit not only gives Virginis
Milton, but four miles of the territory now
composing part of the county of Cassville.
It is thought that if an accurate survey throws
Milton, N. e. into Virginia. DanYile in that
State will be thrown into North Carolina
6ai;1 ~ - E..s,ia1r Nara
pr5ssp uf4K55lae. fK5 ..--iI,a.... N,
Christiana treason trials up to tflt
EIannaway's acquittal, is said to be $4,000.
When it is remembered, that understhc pre-
sent revenue system of the government, the
slave-holding States will have to contribute
about thrce-fourths of the money to pay
these expenses, it will not be hard to eyphsr
up what the South gains by the Fugitive
Slave law, to say nothing of the loss Of the
slaves escaping: 80.
GRAEr STORM AT BATox RouoE.-Thsrs
was severe storm of wind and rain at Ba-
ton Rouge on the the 30th ult., says tsle-
graphic dispatch to tho ~ o. Picayune, and
several houses in the neighborhood wore
were prostratcd. Tho stand and fences of
the Magnolia Race Course were blown down,
and the sugar house Of Dr.. Perkins, in Wost
Feliciana, was destroyed. Dir. Perkins. and
ton negroes, reported to have been killed.
The telegraph lines for a long distance
above have been torn down by the storm.
A You've MEMBER OF CoxeREss.-IIon.
Golusha A. Grow, member of the House of
Representatives, from Pennsylvania, is tho
youngest member of that body, being only
twcnty-six years of age. 1t is said he came
to Amherst College eleven years ago from
the backwoods of Pennsylvania, to COM
mcnce his education. Previous to which
event he had been engaged in rafling loga
down the Susquehanna, and in deer hunting
in the Allcghanies. He soon took a high
rank in his class. became good speaker,
subsequently studied law, and last year WAS
elected to Congress without serious opposi-
ton.
THE N. o. Picayune says, we are inform
cd by the officers Of Philadelphia that Judge
Sharkey had not yet been recognised AZ
American Consul ut Havana when that
steamer left that port.
Pass HIM RoUsp-The .namo Of the
Spaniard who pleaded with the Captain Gem
eral of Cuba to spare the lives of the Ameri-
cans who were assasinatcd at Havana who,
when interccssion was in vain, took charge
VI tlclE ny liiS HeSSaSCss uho oy Whos'o -
ertions the bodies of Kerr and Crittcnden
werc recovered, was Antonio Costa. Let
him be remembered!
A New ORDER OF BAprIsTs.-We un-
derstand that the difficulty of the Baptist
church in Caldwell county, with tho Rev.
John B. Powell, for preaching the possibili-
ty of apostacy, has resulted in the forma-
ton ofa separate and distinct denomination
of Baptists, called the Baptist Reformed
Church, numbering at this time upwards of
one hundred members. Their doctrine is in
direct opposition to the original Baptists in
that county.-Lincolnton IN. CO. Republic.
can.
Two hundred and twenty emigrants, from
Wexford, Ireland, arrived at Savannah, Ga.,
on one vessel and the News remarks: aWe
have never seen finer body Of people from
the old country than the passengers on tho
Glenlyon. They are healthy looking and
well clad, having the air and manners OF
worthy and industrious people. Many OF
them come highly recommended in their va
rious occupations"