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A GEORGIA NEaREss IN AFRICA. The
Charleston AdUocate is publishing series
Of descriptive letters from the pen Of the
Rev. G. W. Thomas, Chaplain in the United
States Navy, now in Africa. We subject
few extracts:
In passing through the native market
next morning in company with Lieut.. NJ,
our attention was arrested by stand of gin
ger cakes and bear, behind which sat an old
black womap in neat calico dress and white
head-kerchief with the unmistakable tie and
setofthe low country house girl ofthe South
ern States This reminds me of Georgia.
said one of the party, Il come from darep
exclaimed the old lady, rising to her feet.
,'From where ?'asked Lieut.. NJ. From SaTan-
nah.' What is your name?e 'Catharine.'
where did you live9 'At de 'Our House,
Mossa.' Did you know Col. Mp said !,
referring to the father of my companion, an
old and distinguished citizen Of Savannah.
20 yes, Mossa 7 said she, mentioning at the
same time the names of several of the family.
Would you know Julian now said I, cast
ing glance at my friend. Dunno, Mossa
julie be little buy den.' 'Look at this man.
said I.
She gazed moment, and grasping his
hand, exclaimed de Lord help my poor soul,
if this aint Moss julie! Tank de Lord -
Praise the Lord, see some my people one
time more p Then followed many inquiries
after old friends, sketch of her life since
she left Georgia, and the touching question,
Cant you take me back to my people p
He explained that this was impossible, and,
emptying the contents of his purse into her
hand, said good bye with softened voice.
Tell my broder an sister of Andrew Marshall
church, said she 'that I been see heap
trouble; but my Jesus been wild me and I
try meet um ober yonder.'
Poor woman! she had been set free at
the age of forty and sent to Liberia, but her
husband becoming dissatisfied, came to this
place, where he died, leaving her helpless;
but the white residents buy her cakes, and
she makes scanty living
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s@ In 1882, girl near Paris was at
tackled with frequent vomitings, at which
time she cast up spiders, caterpillars, snails
and other insects, and it was finally discov-
cred that, from some extraordinary inclina-
tion, she had been in the habit of swallowing
those insects, and that they had remained
in her stomach until elected, sometimes for
seven or eight months. A poor woman Of
Coburg is reported to have entertained, in
her stomach, for some time, a snake half a
yard long. In 1875, shoemaker in Europe,
who had suffered for many years with pains
in his abdomen, died, and after his death
a serpent, the length Of a mans arm, was
in his voppin.
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NO. 21.

those high intellectual endowments, which
were destined in after years, TO elevate him
to more distinguished position. Having
some years previous, been called to mourn
the. loss Of The 'amiabie and devoted wife,
who had shared With him in his joys and
pleasures and tolls and trials Of his early
manhood ,:he married, about this time, Mrs.
Dunlap, srefued'and accomplished lady
Not far from this date, too, he was elected
Bfigadisr General, which successfully paved
theaway for his promotion to higher civil dis
tinction. In May, 1s4s, (f we are not!
mistaken) he was elected to FILL Stheunex-
pired termj made vacant by fhel death Of
Hon. James, A. Black, in the most, hotly
contested canvass we have ever known, ~
beating one of his opponents, the late H.
e.. Thomsenj of.our town, by majority of
only FIVE votes. He was again elected for q,
full term, and served during the exciting
sessions of 1850 and '51--even those op.
posed to him in the political views whiehhe
adyecated, were free to,acknowldgehis abil
ity and the strength of his arguments, and
all accorded to him fidelity and sincerity, as
their representative. His history during
this period might well serve as a theme of
extended comment and just eulogium, but
as it is o part of the history of the country,
and is fresh in the memory of all, we are
content with the simple expression of .opin-
ion we have Just recorded, as compromising
aH'that'is necessary, or perhaps properto to be
said in this connection. -. t.,'
AS a crowning honor Of his public life
many Of his friends desired to confer upon .
him gubernatorial distinction, and his name
was mentioned with much favor in cennec-
tion with tie Office, but his failing health
prevented any further canvass Of his claims
After the death of his second wife Gen.
Wallace married Mrs. Star, Of York" Dis.
trict, annost amiable and highly accomplished
lady, who during his long afiiction, watched
over him with the utmost tenderness and
affection. @..' -.'. '+'"' u @
This, although hasty and imperfect
sketch Of his life, will interest all Who knew
him, and with many regrets that it has been
necessarily hasty and imperfect, we offer It
asa very feeble tribute TO his memory, hoping
that some one better fitted for the task will
furnish more just and complete biography.
For the Comfort and consolation of friends
and relations at distance who may not have
heard, we would state in addition, that Gen.
Wallace some months previous to his death
'professed conversion and connected himself
with the Methodist Church. We trust,
therefore, that however sad may be this be-
reavement, and however much his loss may
be deplored that death to him has been
release from pain and the entrance to eternal
joys. Those to whom he was near and dear
and who cannot but weep, however rich in
promise ofa higher and better life may have
been his death, have our sincere and heafta
feltsympathy.
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p@ Dow, Jr., closes short patent SER
mon on matrimony, with the following recon-
mendation. my brethren, you should never
marry very young. Life is feast; after
you have enjoyed the substansials, let wife
come in as dessert"
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entire day no single act. Of turbulence occur
red, as far as have been able to discover.
The cause of this can only be found in the
entire unanimity of thespeople IN their ha-
tired of Austria, which, so far from being
confined to Lombardy and Piedmont, Is uni
versal throughout the peninsula. Before 4
in the afternoon, it was knoyh thst the Grand
Duke would quit Tuscany with all his fam
lily, rather than abdicate jn favor Of, the here.
ditary Archduke. An address was immedi.
ately issued to the people, declaring, that
Leopold III, though his opinions ooincided
with those of Tuscany, was on the point of
abandoning his countfy.a second time, with
all his family" In.ordsa to- avoid allowing
the country to run the risk ofastate Of anar-
ehy, Junta was IN process of formation,
which, without wishing in any way to fnfu:'
ence the future, would undertake 10 main.
tain order and give up its authority at the
earliest possible momeGt. In the meantime,
the wishes ofthe army of Tuscany would Be
satisfied, and the Dictatorship of Tuscany of.
fered to Victor Emanuel during the war.
General Ulloa Ct continued) the 'illustrious
defender of Venice, was already on his way
to Florence, ssntsby the King of Piedmont.
The Tuscan army would be proud to6nd him
atits head. After an exhortation to order,
the first and most solemn act of 'patriotism,
the. address wound, up with the statement
thatthe names of'the provisionaFg government
would be given at the earliest moment. ''
At g, the Grand Duke, with his family and
band Of officers (to see him safely to the
frontier left Florenceb eby the Porto Romano,
and, crossing the iron bridge above the city,
made the circuit Of the walls, and followed
the road to Bologna from the Porta San
Gallo. At eleven o'clock, the most perfect
tranquility reigned throughout the city.
PosTcR1pT.-At at early hour this morn
ing (April 2S) the following proclamation
appeared S>t.. az, ~ r-;s-s
9he Grand Duke and his Government,
rather than satisfy the just demands of the
country, manifested IN so many ways ard for
so long time, have abandoned it to Itself
At this crisis the municipality of Florence,
the only element OF authority that still exists,
wishing to meet the emergency of Tuscany
left without government, have nominated
the aforementioned to act Professionally:
Cav. 'UBALDfNO PERUZZE.
Magg. VINCENZO MALENCH1NI.
- Magg. ALEssANDRO DANZ1NI.
THE RIVER TIcINo.-Casar's decisive
step was the "crossihg of the Rubicon," ," and
the step conceded on all hands to be decisive
of peace orwar, is the'Austrian army's cross
ing the 4icino. This stream is small river
rising at the foot of Mount St. Gothard in
Switzerland, flowing southwardly through
Lake Maggiore, and finally entering into the
Po near Pavia. During the latter part Of
its course it forms the boundary line between
Lombardy and Piedmont, and hence it's. i'm
portauce in military point of view. Is is
easily crossed and not strongly defended, lis
remote from the centres of Sandman popu-
lation and strength, and hence is naturally
chosen as the most feasible entrance for the
Austrian troops into Sandman territory. g.,
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ing the full copy Of the letters of Prince
Napoleon and the Emperor Of the French
to the King of Sardinia, by whichit bes
comes clear that the war in Italy is but a
secondary object-that the ultimate end is
the bessowal of Lombardy on King Victor,
Rome on Prince Napoleon, Naples on Prince
Murat, and the. overthrow Of Austria, which
leaves the road open to Russia ? and then
hurrah for the long cherished idea of the
attack on England! ai -,
Every step which has hitherto been taken
by Austria has beenjthe result of mature
deliberation amongst the Imperial family,
every member Of whickths young Emperor
is regarded as o, precious .l,harge eonfded to
their care The Imperial family of Austria
assemblies at its council boatd sixteen Arch:
dukes, all in the prime Of life, of vigor, and
intelligence; all moved blythe same inter
ests, and all as friendly and united as every
family should be. No meabure of vital i'm
portanee~isrever undertaken without the ad.
vice Of all and the adhesion Of the majority.
This assembly, appealed to on. the present
occasion, was unanimous inyits decisiou-the
Arehduchesssophi even more urgent than
the rest. How proud and glorious she must
have felt when. her son, rising in the midst
of his relations, laid his hand upon bis sword
and, in answer to the proposition of France,
which had been discussed, exclaimed, "Let
the Emperor Louis Napoleon Be told that I
am as yet too young to abdicate. He wants
torplume (pick) the Austrian = eagle; better
to try and cut his throat One thing let
him remember in the coming struggle, that
the game is far from equal between US. I
risk province he stakes his empire on the
issue of the war"
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he tossed the glass which he had Just emp
tied into the air, that it might fall heavily
upon the table. 1t did so, but--withou'
breaking. The young soldier stood aghast
Three divisions Of the French army, a
mounting to 100000 men, are advancing in,
to Piedmont; the first, having already reached
Chambery, are perhapsat this moment. in the
pass of Mont Gents. The second, from
Grenoble, are marching by way Of Briancon
and Pignerol. The third have embarked for
Genoa, to be reinforced by detachments from
Algiers, also now at sea. The Austrian in
vading force is estimated at 100000. men,
whom, you will think, 10000 Sardinians
may be insufficient to keep at bay until the
French arrive: - r., 80 .~:'t
THE CAUSE OF THE WAR.-Austria claims
that she right owns and controls Lombardy
and Venice that she has right to control
them as she sees fit; that in order to. this she
must maintain with the several neighboring
Italian States such an influence as will rem
der her Lombardo- Venitian sovereignty safe,
Therefore she keeps up partial military oc-
eupancy of the central italian States, and
virtually rules in all Italy. Sardinia is the
only large Italian province which is an ex-
ception. There Austria has no power, and
the policy of Sardinia, which is favorable to
the establishment of constitutional govern,
ments in Italy, is hostile to that Of Austria,
which tends to the maintenance of the stric-
test military despotism. Sardinia, and France
sympathizing with her, on the contrary claim
that the Austrian occupation of Italy iDju-
rious in its effects on the italian States, pre-
vents the developemert of that country, and
is virtually in violation of the treaties and
compacts of 1914. They demand the abap-
donment of the Austrian occupation Of, Italy
and the Sandman frontier, and that Austria
shall cease to exercise any more control in
Italian affairs than,the other great powers.
These demands Austria refuses to comply
with, alleging that her policy in Italy is nec-
essary to her own protection in her own de-
Tendencies of Venice and Lombardy. These
matters have been in controversy for three
years. Franceand Sardinia proposed in 1856
the consideration of this subject by the Con-
gress of fthe European powers. Austria. would
not consent to this. Diplomatic negotiations
were carried on, however, between France
and Austria, but the difference has grown
wider and wider the longer the discussion
has continued, until now they propose to
settle the whole affair by resort 10 arms.
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quires out of the funds which his obsequi-
Gus assemblies have voted. Then there is
the loss which inevitably attends rapid mar
ches in such inclement regions, and it may
be predicted that the ambulances which fol-
low in the rear of the army will have plenty
occupants before the plains of Piedmont are
reached. But there is, on the other hand y
more favorable picture, The. French have
the command of the sea. 1t may be said
with confidence that if France could only.
reach Italy across the. Alps, the. Austrians
might seize the country and crush each di.
vision as it emerges from the passes. But
the town and harbor of Genoa, almost i'm
pregnable, are in the hands of the .Sardini-
ans; we may say, indeed, = in the hands of,
the French. French troops are arriving
daily, and in a few daysthese will constitute
an army which, in conjunction with the Sar-
diuians, at Alessandriaa, will be too>formid-.
able to be leftin the rear of an invading
force. If there be one thing which especi.
ally shows the mihtarygenius Of the French, :
it is their transport Of troops by sea. In
the Russian war while we had our Himaia--
yas and Jaseus, theyhad only their own lit
tie trading vessels, most ofthem engaged in
the channel scabotage.' Yet in every little
brig, which probably had, till within a few
months before, traded between St: Malo and
shoreham with eggs, the French managed
10 pack some one hundred and fifty men, and
send them two thousand miles to Sebastopol.
Their present means Of transport are i'm
mense, and the distance from Toulon to Ge.
noa is hardly three hundred miles. We
cannot doubt that in few days fifty thous-
and French will have joined the Sardinians
at Alessaudria, and then it is hardly likely;
that the Austrian commanders will risk q
march on Turin. Without venturing to pre-.
dict the course of events, We may say that
unless there be news within forty-eight hours
that the Austrians are before the Sandman
capital, We shall believe that they have de-
termined to limit themselves to the defen-.
sive warfare for which their position gives
them so many advantages"
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We condense the following sketches OF
some of the leading men in the impending
STRUGGLE. from various sources:
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The London Times thus sketches the
opening of the campaign between France,
Sardinia and Austria. TO those who wish
to keep up with the progress Of the struggle
it will be found Instructive
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
Our Scrip 8ook
A Child's Faith

In the Highlands Of Scotland there is q
mountain gorge twenty feet in width
and two hundred feet in depth. It's per
pendicular walls are bare of vegetation,
save in their crevices.in which grow n u
merous wild flowers Of ARE beauty
DESTROYS of obtaining specimens of these
mountain beauties, some scientific tour
ist once offered a Highland boy a hand.
some gift if he would consent to be low
cred down the cliff by a rope, and would
gather a little basketfnl of them. The
boy looked wistfully at the money, for
his parents we're poor but when he gazed
at the yawning chasm, he shuddered,
shrunk back, and declined. But 6lal
love was strong within him, and after
another glance at the gifts and at the
terrible assure, his heart grew strong,
his eyes flashed and he said
"Ill go if my father ~W hold tn
rope r
And then, with unshriking nerves
cheek unblanched, and head firmly
strong he suffered his father to put the
rope about him, lower him into the wilC
abyss, and to ~suspend-him there while ht
filled his little basket with the coveted
flowers. 1t was a daring deed, but his
faith in the strengtA%s fathers arm
and the love of his ssther's heart, gav'
him courage and power to perform it.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-11
The Frozen Well.

A correspondent Of the Boston Journal,
at Rutland, Vt, gives the following &C.
count of a visit to the frozen we'll at Bran
don:
GA visit to the frozen we'll at Brandon.
II miles distant, and the tertiary deposit
of brown coal in which fossil fruit is
found, will reward one for the trouble,
Iron ore Of excellent quality, a remarka-
bly, white and pure pipe. clay and a bed
Of maganese, make, together with the
brown coal, a combination of deposits
curious and valuable. The frozen we'll
is dug on the easterly side, near the foot
of a high gravelly knoll, probably a gla-
cial moraine, through which the road has
been cut, showing beds of clay of three
or four feet thickness, in~terspersed among
the gravel. The well was dug in Noyem.
Der last, through % feet Of gravel and
Is feet of frozen earth, when water was
found. The well was then stoned ND and
has been frozen up eyer since. Last win
ter it vas necessary to descend and cut
With q Ratchet a passage for the bucket
to the water beneath the ice.
By the aid of a mirror, the sun light
can be thrown into the we'll, and about
three feet from the bottom q rim of ice
at least six Or eight inches thick, can be
seen projecting from the sides, leaving
barely room for the bucket to pass
through. The stones for six or eight
feet are incrusted with frost and ice.-
Occasionally Q current of air can be felt,
cold as a snow bank, which may come
from below, or may be the outer air sud-
denly cooled. The water is excellent
remarkably pure, and, of course, icy cold.
The well is 'puzzler' to the Swans,
some Of whom, at Burlington, have ap.
propriated $500 to Investigate the phe.
nomenon, and propose to sink one or
more wells in the vicinity, to see if the
same result follows. Whether this ice is
formed by chemical combinations in the
earth, whether it is caused by currents
Of air passing over the water, producing
rapid evaporation and consequent refrig.
or whether on iceberg stranded
there long ages ago and was covered
by accumulations of clay
and gravel, being thus preserved from
melting away-who knows ?"
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was charging with powder a hole drilled

vas charging with powder a hole drilled
IN a rock for the purpose Of blasting. 1t
IS customary in filing the hole to cover
the powder with sand. The charge was
adjusted, and directing his assistant to
pour in the sand-his head being ayerted
at the time-he dropped the head Of the
iron to consolidate, or stamp it in" as
it is usually q. ned. The assistant
failed to obey tas order, and the iron
striking fire upe4 me rock, the 20
ed powder ri ignited, and the con
sequence was an explosion. The bar of
iron was projected upwards, passing
completely through his head and high
into the air it was picked up at a dis
lance of. some rods from the patient,
smeared with brains and blood.
The attending surgeon scarcely be.
lieved the fact Of the iron having passed
through. The wound Of the cheek
was very much stretched l~aterally, and
was discolored by powder and iron rust,
or at least appeared 80. The patient
persisted in saying that the bar went
through his head. An Irishman standing
by said, "Sure it was, Sir, for the bar is
lying in the road below all blood and
brains" The mar also said he would
have brought it with him, but he thought
there would be an inquest, and it would
not do.
From this extraordinary wound the
patient quite recovered his faculties of
mind. and body, with the loss only of his
injured eye,
A remarkable instance of the preser.
walton of life by the materials with which
the ball in contact, happened at
Waterloo. A colonel of artillery was
wounded in the breast the most careful
probing failed to discover the ball. He
recovered. Subsequently the ball was
found lodged in a PRONUNCIATION of the
leather sword belt worn across the
breast, which it had carried into the
wound like the finger of a glove, and of
course was removed when the wounded
officer was undressed.
The case of the late VIM. Poole, whose
death was caused from a pistol shot
wound, and which created so much ex-
element at the time, served to illustrate
liz II Gan nnlNA Aab0LO Jill LAC
ges in. The ball sspassed into and was
lodged in the substance of the heart be.
tween the ventricles no symptoms
arose to indicate its presence in that del.
icate and hollow organ, and the whole
phenomena were remarkable and singu.
lar.
. Baron Larrey, the celebrated surgeon
general of the French army under Napo'
leon l., records an instance of a mar who
received a wound in the thorax from a
musket bali. He went about laboring.
apparently, without much suffering, or
without manifesting any serious symp'
toms, when he suddenly died. The
bullet was found free in the cavity of the
left ventricle of the heart.
Now we have case of Virginia
Stewart, which is almost as remarkable
as any Of the above.