Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-01
A Heavy Description Of sonatobia, Kiss.

the Charlottesville Va. Chronicle OF
that date Finding it in budget of old
papers, we take the liberty of rescuing
it from oblivion, and reproducing it as a
matter Of scientific interest:
We are surprised that the Richmond
ETaminer, usually so accurate and
ample in its information, should doubt
the existence of this place, and fre.
quently throw out such sneering and
incredulous remarks as; Senatobia,
wherever that may be.
Senatobia is not only an entity, but a
most remarkable one. 1t stands in De-
soto county, Mississippi, on the railroad
leading from New 0reaus to Memphis,
about forty miles below the latter place.
1t is not dependent, however, upon
railroads or the cumbrous machinery of
telegr aph wires and batteries for the
startling and astounding information it
gives 10 the world, from time to time,
through specials to the Register and
AdUertiser.
Senatobia is in truth, the electro.
magnetic center of the globe-just as
Lake Winnepeg is the geographic and
photographic center of this continent
This remarkable sheet of water (situated
in the British possessions) is the very
centre of the canoe navigation.
From this point it is possible to travel
by water to Hudson's Bay on the north
east, to the Atlantic ocean on the cast, to
the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to the
Pacific ocean on the west, and to the
Polar sea on the north and northwest.
Considering that some of these dis.
tances are upward of three thousand
miles, it will be perceived that Lake
Winnepeg holds a singular position in the
photography of this part of the world.
Just such position does Senatobia
hold to the electrical currents OF this
planet. 1t is the great Sensorium of the
earth's nervous system. This fact was
discovered some years ago by the scien.
tifc corps sent out to test the truth Of
Mr.. Calhoun's declaration, that the Mis-
sissippi was great inland sea-
Struck by the fact that news could be
heard at Senatobia which was never
heard anywhere else, they instituted a
series of observations, and discovered the
startling fact we have mentioned above
that it was what the Romans would call
the Sensorium, or the Greeks the Ompha-
los of the globe-and accordingly gave it
the name it now BEARS just as Senate
means the highest deliberative body of q
nation, so Senatobia in fuller and more
cosmolitan sense means
"The Parliament of Man, the Fedora
tion of the world"
It's not a cluster of houses as might be
supposed, but huge Phalanstery SINH
lar to that which Fourier proposed to
erect on the shores of the Bosphorus,
when he ignorantly supposed that to be
the true geographic and nervous centre.
In the middle of this building is nam
moth recording instrument which goes
on clicking day and night increasingly,
like a perpetual water ram. From this
point innumerable wires radiate to the
| various compartments in the building,
| so that every citizen is provided with
one, and gets instantaneous and accurate
information.
OF course no newspaper is published
in Senatobia, for it would always be far
bahind the news. Perpetual silence is
the law of that mysterious community.
1t is said that a man once ventured to
speak there, but only uttered one word,
and that one word was " Lightning
There they lie and listen as wave after
wave of news comes rolling in. All the
sorrows and all the joys of earth are
brought to them. During battle they
experience its varying turns-the assault,
the fierce conflict, the retreat, the pur-
suit, and all the currents of the heavy
Gcht-now they feel the shocks of an
earthquake, and now the rush of the
striding tornado - presently a lover
VOW is whispered to them, aud then they
hear the newborn infants cry, or the
huddering groan of some departed
sp rit. >.
I. .ous Napoleon never utters Machi-
vnG an sentence at the Tuieries, Mr..
Lincoln never perpetrates a bad joke IN
the "blue room" but it is instantly
known Mt Senatobia. They know what
everybody is doing everywhere; and,
from the difference in time, they fire.
ouentlv know = thing before it happens.
They are very Indifferent to the opinion
of the world, for be'ug in advance of their
age they find that nobody believes them.
Occasionally, however, as an indignant
proof that still they live, they send spe-
cial to the Mobile Regist,'r and Adrer-
HseT.
Their last declaration that peace IS at
handi is well worthy of eredence when we
remember that they must know a u that
passed between President Davis and Mr..
Blair, and we may also place full cont
dence in their statement that Intervention
is imminent, for they know the secrets OF |
every cabinet from St. James to St |
Petersburg.
four article we're not so long we would !
like to give full account Of Senatobla |
and its inhabitants. For the present, we
can only state that everything aboutltis |
in highly electrical condition. The
men wear no hats, as their hair is always |
standing on end, and the ladies need no |
crnoline, as their garments are expanded |
to their utmost circumference by the per
peiual galvanic currents.
Until you become charged yourself, the |
touch OF an Inhabitants hand shocks you |
like the electrical eel. They have q
thunder cloud every day, and an aurora
borealis every fair night.
Strange that the Examiner should |
never have heard of the wonders Of
Senstobia
THE Lynchburg IVA Ners announces
the arrival there of another party OF /
English Immigrants, under the auspices
of the Virginia Immigration Society.
The Richmond papers say that these
Englishmen will take the places of the