Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-03-27
ARKANSAS AND rHs UNross. The Memphis Bull
stin publishes the following, styling it "reliable
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letter from,L Little Rock" r@g -sr
LITTLE Rock. March 1.-THE Convention has
been ia session hers now one whole week, ana no
thing material has been done. Various RESOLUTIONS
have been offered and referred to appropriate com
mittees, looking to an endorsement on the one
hand Of the doctrine OF secession and the right and
duty Of Arkansas to secede, andon the other 70
clear definition Of the position Arkansas snoalo
take stopping short of secession with view 70 the
security Of her rights in the Union. One tning IS
certain and fixed. Arkansas will not change nef e
lations to the Federal Government 80 long as snmgs
remain in statu quo, and there is nope Oh ootaihng
the guarantees demanded by the South: We have
. ms;or;tv Of s;x-forty members in all-good and
true firm and staunch, perfectly understanding eacn
other and acting in concert; and it Arkansas snoulo
be forced to secede they intend that the Poucians,
who have their own selfish aims in view, Shall not
thereafter control her destiny. Never tear that Ar
kansas will desert her border sisters She will stand
the contrary. ...s.
The bulletin of the 18th has the following later
intelligence upon the subject
We learn from a reliable source at Little Rock
that .the ordinance of secession will be voted down
by thrty-nine to thirty-fve." conditional ordln-
ance of secession is being debated with clause re-
errng it back to the people for ratification or re.
cannot pass" 1t seems to be understood that the
Convention will pass resolutions approving the
propositions of Missouri and Virginia for Confer
ence of the Border Slave States and provide for
sending five delegates to said Conference or Conven
ton, and agree with Virginia, to hold said Confer
ence at Frankfort KY, on the 9th of May. The
Convention, having taken this action will probably
adjourn early this week-perhaps over to some DAY
next fall subject to be called together sooner by the
President. Our correspondent adds: lone thing is
very certain-Arkansas is not going now to secede,
and you pay confidently deny any statement or ru-
NOR to the contrary. A majority will vote against
any sort Of secession ordnance"
MIAsM AND PUBLIC HEALrH.-An interesting COM
muncaton has recently been addressed to the Acad-
omy of Science by NJ Grmaud de Caux, who, as our
readers may remember, gave, some months ago,
description of the system employed at Venice in the
construction of cisterns. In his present paper, NJ.
Grimaud de Caux remarks on the different effects
produced by the emanations of saline and those OF
fresh water Venice, for instance lies, as We know,
in the midst of salt lagoons while the surrounding
districts Nasty through the agency OF fresh wa.
ter, which the Venetian Republic had, BY vast and
costly hydraulic contrivances, carefully excluded
from the lagoons. Now, although this marshy soil
is constantly immersed in the emanations from the
lagoons, it is fact that the ague is very rare NAL
ady at Venice, while it is proverbially endemic in
the adjoining marshes, and to such an extent that
the custom house officers stationed at Fusne, some
years ago. were entitled to daily ration Of quinine
at the charge Of government. Hence it appears
that while fresh emanations relax the 6bers
of the human body without any other Iedeeming &C.
tion the emanations from salt water, although they
have the same tendency to produce relaxation, yet
at the same time, are pregnant with corrective
which neutralzes that effect. M. Grmaud de Caux
proceeds to examine the Of noxous exhalations
in the dwellings of the humble classes of Paris. In
such dwellings there is generally paved court and
pump yielding spring-water. The court, which is
generally of less than moderate dimensions receives
all the foul waters from the Sinks which is carried
away by the cutters and while the water which
occasionally runs waste from the pump washes both
the court and cutters, it also filters between the
paving stones carrying with it some of the putrid
particles which it is supposed to wash away. The
consequence is that, in the course of very short
timo all the ground under the pavement becomes
infected; if stone be- removed its bed is found to
be black and fetid that it is not surprising if its
efava produce the same effect as the marshes around
Venice. To remedy this, N. Grimaud de Caux re.
commends, among other things, the adoption Of a
better system of paving and drainage. and suggests
btumen tagging as an admirable material for the
paving of courts and foot-walks Many parts of this
paper are we'll deserving the attention Of those to
| whom are conided the sanitary interests Of New
York, and other baldy-sewered and densely popula
! ted American cities.