The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-12
EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION on THE AFRI

CAN RACE.
From the London Times
'There is no blinking the truth. Years of bitter
| experience-years of hope deferred of seIfdeyo-
ton unrequited, of poverty, of humiliation, of
prayers unanswered, of sufferings derided of in
suits unresented, of contumelv patiently endurad-
have convinced US of the truth. 1t must be spoken
out, loudly and energetically, despite the wild
mockings of 'howling can't The freed West India
negro slave will not till the sofor wages; the free
son of the exslave is as obstinate as his sire He
will cultivate lands which he has not bought for his
| own vans, mangoes and pantains. These satisfy
his wants; he does not care for yours Cotton, and
sugar and coffee, and tobacco-he cares little for
them. And what matters it to him that the Emo
lishman has sunk his thousands and tens of thon
sands on mills, machinery and plant, which now
totter on the anguishing estate that for years has
only returned beggary and debts He eats his
yams and singers at 'Buckra.'
owe know not why this should be; but it is 40
The negro has been bought with price-the price
of English taxation and English toll He has been
redeemed from bondage by the sweat and travail
of some millions of hard-working Establishment
Twenty millions of pounds sterling-one hundred
millions of dollars-have been distilled from the
brains and muscles of the free English laborer of
every degree, to fashion the West Indian negro
into free and independent laborer' Free and in
depent enough he has become God knows; but Ia
borer he is not; and so far as we can see, never
will be. He will sing hymns and quote texts. but
honest steady industry he not only detests but de-
SPises. we wish to Heaven that some people in
England-nelther government people, parsons
nor clergymen-buts some just-mnded, honest-h heart
ed and clear-sghted men, would go out to some of
the isands-say Jamaica, Dominica or Antigua
not Tor month or three months, but for year
would watch the precious protege of English phan-
thropy, the freed negro, in his daily habits; would
watch him as he laziy plants his little suuatting:
would see him he proudly rejects agricultural or
domestic service accepts it only at wages udic-
rousiy dlsproportionate to the value of his work
We wish, too, they would watch him while, with
hide thicker than that Of hippopotamus and BODY
to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an
annoyance, ne dronngy lounges over the prescribed
task on which the intrepid Englishman, uninured to
the burning sun, consumes his impatient energy and
too often sacrifices his life. We wish they would
go out and view the negro in all the blazonrv of
his deness, his pride, his ingratitude, contemptu-
ously sneering at the industry of that race which
made him free, and then come home and teach the
memorable lesson OF their experience to the fanatics
who have perverted him into what he isl
ELEcrRICITY IN GAS MAINs.-At Springfield on
Monday, Prot. Siliman, jr., gave an account of
some cases of Discharge of atmospheric Electricity
through Gas mains. On the last Sunday of June
1858, about P. NJ, violent thunderbolt fell on
the spire of a church in New Haven. 1t was con-
Quoted down the rod to point of 20 feet from the
ground, and then, owing to imperfect ground ter
minatlon OF the rod, itpassed through brick wall
~ inches thick, to gas pipe on the wall opposte
Thence il passed down to the Distributing main
and was traced no further. Afterwards, however.
the escape of gas in front of the church was no
tlced, ana on examination every Joint in the street.
about 30 in number. was discovered to be leaking
badly. The inference seems unavoidable that the
leakage was caused by the electrical discharge
During the last week of July, 1859, another ener.
getic discharge fell upon house in New Haven,
supplied with gas; little damage was done to the
house, and none to the inhabitants. All the gas
mains in the street. 60 joints in ALL were found
to be leaking very badly. This effect is plainly due
to the sudden expansion of the gas in the main, at
the point of electrical discharge, and notwthstand
ing the enormous extent of the circuit, over 90
miles of pipe of to II inches diameter all buried in
moist earth, the restoration of electrical equilibrium
could not be accomplished without this hitherto I'M
observed effect of expansion the gas in the
mains.-Boston Adrertiser.
The MEERscHAUM MANIA.-lt may chagrin Young
America to learn, but nevertheless it is fact that
the meerschaums popular in this country at the
present day, costing from 81 to So are mere shams
The genuine meerschaums, or that portion in which
the cigar or tobacco is placed, is MADE in Vienna,
of CLAY found in Asia This CLAW resembles the NOR