The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-31
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| THE SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED MAY-Mr Higginson
| recently delivered lecture in Boston intending
to show that high civilization superior TO bar
barsm in developing man in the physical as we'll as
| in the moral qualities. That portion of his re-
marks which related to physical development is
all we can find room for.
He contended that the comparative strength and
size OF civilized and savage men were in favor of
the former, and quoted largely from series of in
eresting statistics published in the 18th volume of
the Journals of the London Statistical Society, the
results OF Investigations made by DR.. Thompson, of
the list regiment, among the New Zealanders-a
race just emerging from barbarism cannibals with
IN one generation, with the taste of their friends
and relations not yet off their lips, and therefore
excellent subjects for the experiments His expert
ments commenced by examining into their height.
He measured l46. Their average height was 5 feet
inches. The average height of 800 young men of
the University of Edinboro' was feet inches
one inch more; and of so students at Cambridge,
feet inches. His LAG New Zealanders showed
an average weight of lao pounds He weighed
several hundred of his soldiers, and found their
average weight to be l42 pounds; and he ascer-
tanned that the average weight of 2,64s soldiers,
taken In England, was las pounds.
The question of weights, therefore was settled in
favor OF the civilized race. In measuring the chest,
he found the average breadth of the New Zealand
ers was 35 36-l00. He measured 600 of his soldiers
and found it 80 7l-100-an average difference of
half an inch in favor of the civilized race. The
strongest man among the New Zealanders lifted a
weight of 420 pounds; that tapered down to $50.
His strongest English soldier lifted 507 pounds and
this went down to $50. The average weight lifted
by the New Zealanders 3G7 pounds; of the
English, 422 pounds. One of these estimates, it
VIII be observed, comes up to onehaf of the weight
now lifted by our athletic DR.. Winship. On all
these points, then, the advantage lies with civili-
zation. The lecturer added that civilization is
the domesticator of man. DomesticatiOn refines
man, but does not weaken him. The hand that is
tJvill hN Nitst
In white kid glove, and any who is n hero
in red shirt in Maine, will be Just as heroic in a
white shirt on Beacon street. The difference is
that civilization gives in addition to muscular de-
yelopment, certain finer power, the nervous or
ganization. 1t changes iron into steel; it makes
the race-horse as compared with the cart-bOrse.
Every gymnast knows that mere brute volume of
muscle IS nothing; it is the quality of the muscle
that tells; and so accordinglywe know that the
English aristocracy as fine type of physical
muscle as can be found in the world.
FROM JEFFERSON TERRIroRY.-A letter to the
Philadelphia Bulletin states that on December 4th,
at Denver city, ga strong wind sprung up from the
N. N. E. and the mercury, which was standing at
torty-tour, went down before O'Clock below zero,
and about three inches Of snow fell. On Monday at
nine o'clock Z. NJ, the mercury went down to SO
deg. below zero and CONCEALED, in which condition
it remained until two three in the morning. 1t
is supposed that the temperature must have been
as low As deg. below zero. This is 80 deg lower
than at any time last winter. The only damage
done here, however, appears to have been the freez
ing ofliquors and the bursting of wine bottles. 1t
is said that whskey had to be sold by the pound
instead of by the quart or gallon.
"The wolves were made so bold by the cold that
they came into town and ate up two calves which
were tied in stable.
"0n the Platte below the ravages of the cold
were fearful. The express delayed by it two
days; of the drivers had his hands so frozen as
to disable Kim. Passengers by the express report
that several persons were frozen to death in coming
to and returning from this city. Express passen-
gers escaped by being able to reach the stations,
while those who travelled by private conveyances
were not, and consequently perished."
HINTON r. HELPER.--It will be recoIlected that
this individual was exposed during the last session
of Congress by Judge Bggs. Not liking the
truthful picture which had been drawn of him, and
supposing that Judge Bggs had obtained his inior-
nation from Hon. Burton Craige, Helper made a
dastardly attack upon the latter gentleman, but
came out second best from the contest. 1t was in.
contestably shown by Judge Biggs that Helpers
conduct while in Salisbury such as to cause
him to take his departure unceremoniOusly-havng
purloined money from his employer and given other
evidence of his want of principle. After having
covered himself with infamy-a fugitive from JUS
ce and disgrace to the soil that gave him birth,
it is wonder that he should turn traitor to the
South and join the fanatical horde Of abotionists
who are making intiammatOrv appeals against
rights and institutions. Notwithstanding it is
shown that this man Helper is bankrupt in char
acter and utterly destitute of every gentemany
principle, yet the anti-slayery men at the North
welcome him in their midst and receive him at
their family firesides upon terms of equality
Oxford (N CO. Leisure Hour.
CHESAPEAKE AND Ono CANAL.-The annual re-
port of the business on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal shows that the total Of arrivals Of boats at
the collectors Office in Georgetown during the year
1859 was BIS. The coal brought down in the
period 300,546 tons of -four l20,8S0
barrels; wheat2l7 1853 bushels 200 PAT bushels;
pmill offa 1886 bushels; oats "A ,242 bushels hay
252 tons wood 1896 cords; tan bark 604 cords; and
limestone 10000 perches. The revenue from tolls
collected at Georgetown was Sl22932, to which
should be added fully fifty per cent. for the tolls
collected at Cumberland and intermediate points,
giving an approximate total Of SlS4, 600 for the
whole revenue of the year. Of this total amount
nearly 600 due to the coal trade alone.
These receipts about Sll 900 than those of
last year. and are in excess of any year previous to
that by tie sum of S29 900. This is principally due
to the increased trade in coal. The quantity of
flour and grain are also in excess of last year.
The Washington Union of yesterday contains the
following.
MARRfED.--On the 25th instant at Columbus,
Ca, by the Rev. Mr.. Hawks, the Hon. George S.
Hawkins and Mrs. Emily Henry.
We notice above the marriage of the Hon. Geo.
S. Hawkins, of Florida. Judge Hawkins paired off
few days since, temporarily, in the House, to Wis
it Columbus to effect pair of a far more enduring
and happy character than any found in political
life; and he returned Yesterday with his beautiful
and accomplished bride.
Mr. Bourcicault, is severely handled by the New
Orleans Delta, for bringing out the Octoroon. The
Delta says:
''rhere is one advantage to the South from this
incident. 1t will no more be called ON to bear with
Charlatans. They will not be allowed to impose
their bad plays and bad acting upon under the
pretence of being, what Bourcicault always profess
ed special friends and admirers Of the South, her
institutions and her people"
The British schooner British Queen, reached
Charleston on Monday from Nassau, N. p. Capt.
johnson reports that on the 2Oth inst near the Ba
hama Islands, he spoke several wreckng vessels
bound to Nassau, having on board cargoes of cot
ton. They reported the wreck of American
ship with cargo Of 400 bales cotton on the west
side of the Bahamas. The vessel would become
a total loss, but the cargo would be saved. Capt.
johnson does not know the name Of the ship.
THE New TREArY.-The Mobile Register, whose
editor was the Minister to Mexico previous to Mr..
McLane's appointment, expresses the following
opinion of the treaty:
"The ratification of the treaty at this stage Of
Mexican affairs and by Government which has
just lost battle, which is reduced to single
city, threatened every moment with capture;
Government which seems in the very act of sharing
the fate of long list of ephemera predecessors, at
fords but little promise of practical utility"
Julius Myers was recently impaled snag
while sitting the larbOard side of a steamboat
in the Mississippi river. A snag came up sudden
ly, striking Myers about midway OF the body, en-
ering between the legs and coming out the side.
A'deck passenger the first to reach and had
to cut and horribly mangle his leg with bowie
knife in order to release it from between escape
side-pipe.
Says the Washington Star of Tuesday: 'Senator
Douglas it is said, is far from being well man,
and his permanent recovery is very remote, if not
doubtful. His disease is said to be gout in the
stomach. His purpose of going to Florida is pre-
vented by his inability to travel present, though
it is his purpose 20 South as as he strong
enough to travel"
A check was recently presented, and paid, at one
| of the Wall street banks, New York. for $50. 1t
was drawn by John Jay, on the Bank of New \ ork,
made payable to the order of "JOhn Brown, of Os
sawatomie" On the back of the check the sig
natures of John Brown and of Mary Brown, to
whom Mr.. Brown transferred it,
Vice-President Breckenridge is the grandson of
the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, one of the most
learned and elegant gentlemen and scholars of his
| day; and his greatgrandather was the celebrated
DR.. Witherspoon, also President Of the Princeton
College, and one of the signers of the Declaration
! of Independence, from the State Of New Jersey.
| FLORIDA LEGIsLATURE.-The Governor of Florida
| sent message to the Legislature the 18th, urg
ing the passage Of law prohibiting the circulation
| of ncendiary publications in that State. bill ex-
cluding free colOred persons from Florida passed
the Senate on the l4th, by a vote of Is to ?.
| Louis Napoleon has given NJ. Aladenize an estate
| near Bordeaux worth $50 000 as a. recompcnse for