Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-05-10


m decided to stop the slaughter till the Governor could
he consulted Other districts equally as bad, and
the loss throughout the State will probably be immense.
A Fertilizer.
As some men leave their country for their cOuntrys
GOOD die with greater advantages to those
trv leave behind them. OF such it may be said that
nothing in life becomes them like the leaving it. 1t is
happy thing for mankind that there is in some cases
possibility of such pOsthumOus usefulness, after lite OF
worbIessness 1t would have been far better for the
world and for Themselves perhaps if some men had nev
cr lived Perhaps it would have beer better Tor man
kind if some entire races of had never lncumbered
the earth Yet would seem that some extinct races On
this continent OF whom we have record, and whose
very existence has only very lately become KNOWN II
they have ncumbered the earth, have ncumbered it,
and after death have become incorporated with it, to
some good purpose A short time ago, the remains OF
human head of enormous size found at Peters
burg, Virginia, in lot of Peruvian guanO and the
Norfolk Day Book, of the 18th inst says that in lot
it received at that port have been found the vertebr
and other bones of human being of about twice the
usual size Horatio thought it would be to consider
too curOusy to trace the dust of Alexander the Great
till it should be found stopping beer barrel but Ham
let had the best of the argument, and, by consistent
suppOstion of possibilities, showed that even
"Imperous Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop hole to keep the wind away.
The discovery of these bones seems to show that ages
before Pizrro oppressed the innocent people OF the In
cas- and before the very existence of that people, race
giants dwet where the rivers rolled down their golden
sands and now, their dust, mingled with other more
valuable DUST is carried to distant lands, and there en-
oed in producing the fruits of the earth. Thus re-
yersng Burkes words, is life planted in the seat of
DEATH Thus from the decay of extinct race, spring
the life and strength of those that nhabit the earth
The fertility of the field of Waterloo is said to have been
for some years wonderfully improved by the bodies OF
those buried in it and it has been frequently remarked
that battefelds are, for time fertile than the
adjacent ground though the rule does not seem to have
held good regards the battlefield of Bladensburg but
oil the discovery, invention as the case may be, Of
The dust of giants in Peruvian guano, we believe there
has been no instance of bodily posthumous service tc
distant generations of after the lapse of so long
time.
1t would be needless to speculate to who these 81
ants may have been in their lifetime, and what may have
been their occupations Perhaps they were farmers
and their ruling passion strong in death, tina
even in their ashes live their wonted fres and fit them
mthc alleged Swedenborgian principle of continu
@ce of the business otter death as in life, for al
extension Of their living usefulness by conversion
their dead bodies to uses, base in the opinion of some
but to their minds glorious and honorable.
But we have got far beyond our depth, in the dust
departed Peruvians May they rest in peace.-Globe.