Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-08-15

ltoeetherswe we're delighted with these
exercises and nov we want our people to
come up nobly I'd the support of this In
stitution. The stockholders, we under
stand, have made arrangements for the
erection of alafge and commodious brick
building at Thohasvillc Depot, within
mile of the preselt location of the Institu- Z.
tion. sufficient to accommodate fifty board. !
ers aud one hundfsd and fifty pupils. Let
our county be lroud of this school and
cherish Il. and it vii be blessing to u.s.
DAVIDSON.
Electricity VS.. Mercury
a correspond reports TO the n. X
Evening Post aass=ee tlaa alliisz
mination of Mercury from Tie human sys-
tenn by electricity
THE CAsE.-Mr. Fredemann, German
mining engineer Of Union county, North
Carolina, wasattacked with congestive chills,
in the month Of July 1854, the third 'spelP
of which, in. the dialect Of the South, is
reckoned extremely dangerous. Mr..
Friedemann being at the Eouse of a plan
ter, and having no regular physician, there
was administered to him, according to the.
common custom of the country, large guam
/ titles of mercury, in the form Of calomel,
! which resulted in checking the chills, but
which left the patient badly salivated. -r
When Mr.. Partz first saw Friedemann, he
was scarcely able to articalate, and was suf
fering from severe pains in the head, par
4 ticularlyin the jaws, which had been bro:
Il ken. MFR. Partz says that Immediately UP.
on beholding she condition Of Friedemann,
the question arose in his mind; if it is pos
sible by means of the electric fluid to ex-
tract any metallic substance from it's solution
or otherwise, in a vessel, may it not also be
: possible by the same means, to extract the
: mercury from the human vessel -t.-...
The hypothesis seemed to him plausible,
: and unoppressed by any theoretical objec-
J., ton, and he therefore resolved practically
[ to test the value Of the suggestion That
0 this might be done, Mr.. Friedemann was
: speedily removed to Charlotte, where Mr.
i Partz had a, galvanc battery, well suited to
r his purpose, and the experiment Of extract
ing the mercury was successfully tried in
" the presence of (incredulous) Mr.. Graham,
a an officer of the U. S. Mint, of that place.
O Mr.. Partzs took single element of
:, Bunsen battery (coal and zinc, the zinc
d Cylinder of which is about nine inches high
and seven inches in diameter. Silver coin
were attachedto either pole Of the. battery,
/, and placed in the mouth of the patient. Tone
ton either side, between the check and jaw
Ie Left thus few minutes, the positive pole
It was taken from the mouth, and placed in
j. fthe hand ana aoafks III a few minutes chang
r. ed to the mouth, and so on alternately du-
is ring half hour, when the coin on the neg
70 alive pole was removed from the mouth and
J. found to be covered with heavy coat of
,e Anralgam !!
Of On the morning following this very sat-
st isfactory experiment, the application was
is again made-this time behind the ears of
the patient. At the expiration ef forty
- minutes, the negative pole had produced a
}v blister, whence exudeda yellowish white mat
IS, ter, and at last a very small quantity Of
st, blood, when the coin wasremoved, and again
*. found, as before, coated with amalgam
Ill In the first experiment. the coins were
We used uncovered, and Friedemann was almost
ms entirely free from pain at its expiration
no During the second application, the coin;
3ol were enveloped in wetted linen. On the
ere day upon which the last experiment was
tried, experiment now no longer,) Mr.
he Friedemann- returned to his duties at the
ith mine, and has not since discovered any in
ar dieation of the presence of mercury in hi
M system! This discovery, so simple in it
ON principle and easy of application, is destin
,th. ed to be hailed with acclamations of thanks
IN giving by thousands suffering from that ter
asy rible, and,' hitherto incurable malady-t
les mercurialzed system.
,ed Should any Of. the readers of the Age de
nu- sire to test by experiment the efficacy an
ith praeticability Of this remedy, let them OBJ
9on serve the following: a =
Your battery should consist Of only on
9ld or two large elements, so as to produce th
sci. required quantity of electricity. To prc
en- duce chemical action, you must have quar-
lral tity. To act physiologically or upon tt
nv, nervous system. intensity is required. II
etc one is obtained by sin gle large element
did the other by multiplying the elements.
The The proper apparatus secured commc
and sense will suggest to nearly every one tt
on proper place for the application, and Il
ting tlme necessary Tor the eHect.-
$ Of These observations and directions are
ably course intended only for the non professions
our Hoping this discovery. will attract fro
most the profession, also, that attention which
era. transcendant Importance SO lnanifestly. d
Wo. mands, remain very truly yours,
hit D. G. STURGES.
e,;.L o;4 WANDERING SHowMEN.-It would be W
iSn for citizens to look to their personal proper
laey in the shape.of comely mulatto girls VIII
MISS Circus Companies make their appearance
was this vicinity. The National American We
hieh- truly says, most Of these peripatetic she
mes men haye-a large proportion of the wo
r;zot class of Northern men in their employ. a
- - itisreasonableto suppose that they carry VI
Wtp them, wherever they go, those abolition a
Y al incendiary ysentiments which they are tau
-oore at home. 1t is well known fact in the cir
=. business that where one of the employ
dress happens to have gentlemanly instincts, th
and are fifty who are entirely devoid of anv f
Rch- ing Of decency or self-respect. We do
-. hesitate to say, for the most part, they
was was privately brutal black guards, whose vici
ouuo propensities are only in subsection throl
e I'M fear, These instincts after simmering ,
aimed some time boil oreY in other localities.
bloody fights ensue between them and
n fn inhabitants. This has been the case one
2. -. twice in our own State Our doe;rr in