The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-17
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Tuesday Morring, March ~, 1857.

MEDICAL TESTIMONY IN MURDER viii bs
recoeoted that In the of the murder
OF DR.. Burdsil before Coroner Conuery some Inn. j.
portsnt conclusions were arrived at from The micro
scopic examination OF stains Of blood. elmll.r
testimony was resorted TO 10 q recent trial for mur
der In the State OF Aana. The question thsrs " Ar
whether certan siAps upon knifs ware those of
sleeps blood or human blood The Portland ADJ
vsrtissr publishes the testimony given by the med
ich wltnsssss'
The blood Of q man does not differ much from
the blood of other animals In its chemical proper
,ias and constituents. But when subjected to the
microscope It ct snce reveals important physical
diffsrenoea To understand this, Is should be pro-
missed that blood 10 not, as It appssrs when first
drawn, wholly fluid. bnt consists Of two or three
dlsnc, bodies of which one class 10 known as Rlob.
ules. Iosiead OF being round, a. one would sup.
pose, these bodies In the higher animals have the
form Of discs, circular thick at the edge and thin
10 the middle, like two watch crystals placed back
80 back. 1hs shape OF the globules Ia retained A.
ter the blood has coagusted and their size Ii csps.
pable OF meAsuremeut by microscopic apparatus.
II. 10 the sZs OF these masses which 10 said TO af.
ford the test between human and other animal
bloo they being In the blood Of some animals
larger and ip others smaller, than il the blood #
man. Dr. Hubbard stated that the elephant ranks
Just above mau, and the monkey just below, as
regards this point of si1s In the same species OF
animals the giobules vary In dimensions within u
small range of some or per cspt.-and the same
variation ID observable in person in health and
sickness.
But In comparing human blood with sleeps
blood-which was particularly within the scope of
DR.. HAYES tesSimopy-it wculd seem that the difs
foreuce of sls Is such as to allow ground tor
fusion it having been recorded in the tables OF sew
eral careful microscopic o0ssrvsra 10 show the
extreme picety Of observations we quote from Dr.
Hayes: "Ifyou divide IN noh IN 10 0CO parts, HE
length OF one OF th,ss measurements will be cover
Sd By 5000 or 3400 Of the blood discs of human
SloCd. Using the same measures, the average
number CT + 300 Of the discs of sheep blood will be
required 70 iii the same length of the scale. This
measurement made In different countries, by diff
ferent observers, corresponds closely"
DECLINED LIh,RrY--soms few years ago,
negro woman IN Cumberland county, North Caro-
lima, gave birth TO twia cbidren more siugulArly
and Wonderfully united than ths famed Slamesa
twins. They wesa Eurchased by Captain J O.
Pervis of this place, aud sold 70 ! L. Smith ESQ ,
of AnsoD county. North Caroliaa, who entrusted
them 10 Brewer & Shelton. They ware taken to
New Orleans for exhibition, where they we're trick
ed out OF them. Recently, Mr. Smith heard they
were On exhibition in England Knowing that he
could not reclaim them as slaves, he purch as ed
their mother, cd took her to England 70 reclaim
her children. POE reaching that country he heard
they were in Scotland, where be proceeded He
found them Ia Edinburgh. and the mothers claim
was respected even In abolition England, where the
rights of the master are unknown or disre5ssded.
No effort spared to induce the mother Of these
children desert her master and remain In England
She ssii she had seen white slavery aud 1t was far
wors. in civilized Eo gland than African slavery In
ths United States. Indeed, strongly was she
Impressed with sh. misery OF white slavery that
she sl,ng to her master and returned with him
home. to e.d.;re she misery OF negro slavery 10
North Carolina, no. MY choice Of evils but -
the happiest cordlsion Of tia African race. Mr..
Smith and bis Negroes arrived atih,s pace on Mon
day iast-ChSTos (S c. Ga.,ssa