The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-21
ground of his singular and most impu-

: secured his life and liberty. hayinp
escaped punishment, he now demand.
to be rewarded. lie reminds of TIL,
, burglar in this city, some years ago
who, being acquitted on trial, for lacl
of evidence, demanded that the polio
shouldIestore him his Jimmy, skeleto
keys, brace and bit, and the other tool
ofhis profession, which they had takeI
from him. Franklin, in reply to n
English demand about as impudent a
this Ferguson's, told the story of III
irascible Frenchman who rushed int
the street with red hot poker, and at
tackled by mistake n stranger whom h,
: took to be his enemy. The strange
satisfied him that hei had attacked tn,
wrOngperson, and the Frenchman mos
humbly apologized; "but, said he, "cai
you not pay me for heating the poker?
Mr.. Ferguson has apologized to the
United States for attacking them. hui
he would like them to pay him for heat
ing his poker. We are not paying tina
kind ofbills now.
Du CHAILLU's DISCOVERY OF AFRICAN pIGMIEs
An English paper says, IF we are &,
believe M. Du Chaillu, the dwarfinhab
itants Of Western Africa are Il peculiarly
exceptional race. They have only short
/ u
thus strikingly different from the less
nomadic races whose heads are covered
with hairy turrets. They have wild,
anxious, and timorous expression in
their eyes. Although NJ. Du Chajlu
gave several beads to induce some oil
them to remain, and was brought to
them stealthily by the natives, all the
men, except a young adult, disappeared,
leaving few women behind. Itwou Id
appear that his visit alarmed them; for,
although he stayed a week in the ada
cent village, the Obongo--as they are
termed--were no more to be heard OF
The following are the measurements he
was enabled to make: The only adult
| male measured 4 feet 6 inches; but as
! one of the women reached 5 feet an
inch (she being considered extra0rdi-
nary talD, M. Du Chaillu has no doubt
| that some of the men are equally tall, or
| even taller. The other women whom
| he measured had the following heights !:
feet 8 inches; 4 feet u inches; feet 5
inches; and the smallest feet AZ inches
He considers the average height to he
from feet 5 inches to feet O inches
The smallest woman had the largest
head, viz: foot l0i inches in circumfer-
ence; the smallest was l foot 8 inches
round.n Eln 1856 1as
THE TR1BULATIoNS OF JOURNALISM IN FRANCE
A recent French statement is thus
summed up by an English journal:
"Thorny are the paths trod by gentle
men of the press In France under Napo-
leon Ill. During the year which has
just terminated there have been twenty
one warnings, sixteen trials followed by
COMBINATIONS, two seizures, four sup.
nd e
territory to say nothing of the rnprI-
cious confiscatiOns to which foreign
Journals are daily exposed. The judi
cial COMBINATIONS of 1865 represent in
fines 10, mot including law COSTS,
and in Imprisonment eight years four
months and twenty-Onei days. Editors
have had to pay 6,125f., and to undergo
eight months of prison; printers, |, 250f.
and three months and fifteen DAYS of
prison; and writers, 2,SOOf. and seven
years five months and six days of prison.
The chief result of this severity has
been to confer Importance on individuals
who would otherwise have been insig-
nificant, and to gives wide circulation
to writings which otherwise would have
been little read.'' ~ 8a
FOREIGN ELEMENT IN THE FEDERAL ARMY
AT a dinner given i'm New York by the
New England Society" to celebrate the
anniversary of the landing of the Puri-
tans in America, The Rev. DIR. Bellows
of New York in abiding to the number
of foreigners who were in the Federal
army in the late civil war, remarked
that ninety per cent, of the army were
purely Americans i ~.
This assertion by the reverend gem
tleman, may make an impression upon
many that such statement is correct, but
an inquiry into the facts will show that
it is far from the truth
There are as yet no complete published
statistics relating to that particular, but
| as far as have appeared the most COM
prehensiye are those compiled for the
United States Sanitary Commission by
Mr.. Il. b. Elliott. These statistics were
gathered at the close of the year 1861.
AT that time, out of the two hundred
regiments, taken at random from each
division of the army in the field, which
were examined, seventy-siX and a half
per cent, OF them were composed of only
little more than half of native born.
and six and a half per cent, showed n
majority of Germans, and five and n
half per cent, majority OF Irish. and n
half Of the native and foreign were about
equal, and the report says that it was at
the Time oil the Inspection "a fair repre-
sentation of the whole army.
The more complete portion of these
statistics has been published i'm berlin
and shows that there were twentv.siy
Thousand two hundred and thirtv-nine
soldiers examined, and of that ,,umher
nine thousand eight hundred and thirty.
i've, We're from the New FnoI.,,d
States (Which have always claimed To
he the most patriotic portion of fine
United States), aud of these. two fbo,Is-
and nine hundred ana sixty. seven. or
nearly one-third, Were of foreign birth
Inc Secretary of the United States
sanitary Commission, in his report
ABOVE mentioned to the Secretary of
war, IN December, 1861, sums up nv
saying ~
The relative portion of FOREIGN md
native born in the volunteer army can
not at present he stated with aec1 racv
1t is certain, however, that it is not trIe
! as has been stated, that the maioritv of
the army is of foreign birth. IL would
probably be near approximation to the
truth. TO state that about t,co-fhircls of
our volunteer soldiers are American
born.p
AT that time the army fnearIy zoo. 900
stfong) was composed only of volunteers
VINO were stimulated, ii is claimed by no
other motive than patriotism-before
the payment of bounties am before the
transcription Act was required--andth the