ANOTHER HIN? i>oo YOUTH-DEMANDED FROM TH !E MISSIONARIES. OSalnE'of the H< mtllen P*.reiit K.«fusc<l— Sjir Mcsrilam» w ella< DccislenSeTeracd. Oar readers, will remember that seve ralmonths ago, a British official in India, Sir ‘Mordant "Wells, compelled the mis-.: sionaries to give up a native youth te his ‘ heather i parents, contrary to his own free c hoioo. Another analogous ■ease has bef jn before the Bombay High 'Court, but a more enlightened and sat isfactory decision was obtained. We •quote feoi n a BojJbtar paper of May If). Jo hn on behalf ot the "Rev. Abix. Forbes, of the Church of 'Scotland ,’s Mission, appeared yesterday in Charo .bers before Sir Joseph Arnould, 'JL, to slaow cause, why a writ of habeas ■corpus should not be issued against him to produce Wittoo, a Camatee, son of .Dkummoo, the corn • plainant, alleged that his son, in refer ■•enco to whom he made the application, was between fourteen and fifteen years of age; thathe had on Saturday, the 7th of May, repaired to the Church of Scot • land’s Mission to receive baptism as a • convert to Christianity, and that lie de clined to return with him to his house. • He therefore claimed the assistance of the Court to procure the custody of bis - son in order that he might exercise over • him the parental authority to which he was entitled. Mr. Marriot and Mr. Green appeared as complainant’s Counsel instructed by Mr. Venayek Hurrychnnd. Mr. Forbes and the youth Wittoo were present in Court. Mr. Forbes being called, stated that the young man Wittoo had been a pupil in the Church of Scotland’s Institution for nearly three years; that he had privately received special instruction in Christian truth during the greater part of the last six months; that be had sought admission to the Mission House of his own accord, and had given as his reason for quitting his father’s house that he was there compelled to practice idolatry which was contrary to his con victions of duty, and that he desired to learn more of Christianity, and to re ceive baptism. Mr. Forbes added that •fWittoo’s parents, anti other relatives, had had free access to him, and every -opportunity of persuaaing him to return to his home; that he did not employ sany restraint or claim to exercise any authority "over Wittoo, but merely re ceived him as a guest. Subsequently, a largo number of wit messes were examined on behalf of the •complainant, with the view of proving that the youth was as alleged between fourteen and fifteen years of age. The .evidence was of the most contradictory and.indefinite character, but the result atlast elicited, was that the Wittoo bad boon'.born in October, 1848, and that therefore bis ago was then about fifteen years, and seven months. This .conclusion did not seem to be •questioned by the counsel on either side.; and it therefore remained for the judge, to.detorinino whether the circum stance,'that Wittoo had not completed tie sixteenth year, (the age of majority in Hindu iaw) entitled his father to claim his custody and to request the Court to make an order for him to bo given.into his charge by force if neces sary. Againsta lindi ugto that effect, Mr. Connou on-behalf of the youth made an eloquent and impressive appeal to his Lordship. Sir Joseph Arnould, in giving judg ment remarked, that in the first place his decision was to be regarded as de livered upon a writ of habeas corpus, that though auch a writ had not actually been issued, yet this arose solely from the extraordinary haste which was re quired by the complainant’s attorney, who was unwilling to delay until the writ could ho issued'M duo form. He observed secondly, that the evidence afforded sufficient, proof, that the youth who had boon brought before the Court was of the age of fifteen years and seven months: that consequently the only question to be decidod was whether '.here was in Hindu law an age of dis cretion distinct from an age of major ity : that Sir Mordaunt Wells had last year in the High Court of Calcutta given a judgment, that there was no such dis tinction, and iiacl affirmed that before a vouth could choose his domicile he must have completed his sixteenth year, but from this opinion of the Calcutta ■edge, he entirely dissented; that ac nording to English law the age of ma jority was fixed at twenty-one, and the age of discretion at fourteon, which was also the age of responsibility for Crimi nal acts; that in India the age of ma jority was sixteen and that at which i responsibility for crime commenced was Ltwelve, the law thus recognizing the igreater precocity of Indian youths; that Recording to strict aualogy the age of Klisoretion ought also , to be fixed at ptwelvc, hut that he was not inclined to. [go so far, but was certainly of opinion I that the period of life at which discre ,7 tion ary rignts commenced Bhould not be |fixcd at a more advanced age that that ,|iu England, and should therefore be re ilgarded as at least fully attained after i-the completion of the fourteenth year. Applying these principles to the present Ijpase, he should, order that Wittoo Dhum- Ptaoo be allowed*to choose the place of tjbis domicile. Sir Joseph Arnould thus liput to the youth in Court the question, Inn you desire to reside with the Eev. ® !ir. Forbes or with your father? when 1‘: L, distinctly expressed a desire to stay lith Mr. Forbes. Although the quos >n was not neccsssary for a decision, o learned judge said he would for his rn satisfaction ask why Wittoo did it choose to go with bis father. It as then answered by Wittoo, that he isired to learn more Christianity and at his parents would hot allow him become a Christian. The order of the Court was then ex ained to the large crowd of Canantees ho had gathered about the Court House, and under the warning that any tneal mixed with corn cobs; and two of attempt at a breach of the peace would these, about two inches square, made up be punished severely, they soon dispers- 'their daily allowance. This fare was ed peaceably. Mr. Forbes afterwards occasionally varied by a spoonful of left with the boy in his charge. boiled wormy beans, and two or three spoonfuls of watery soup. This testimony is derived from a large number of prisoners, whose words are almost identical; from chaplains and surgeons who, as prisoners, had abun dant opportunities of -observation; and from army surgeons, who carefully ex amined the condition of the prisoners when exchanged, i and unanimously agree that nothing but neglect and in sufficient diet could account for their emaciated and helpless state. To strengthen this mass of unimpeachable testimony, eight phetographio plates are given of different prisoners, when first received within our lines, and their skeleton frames must convince all who still pretend to doubt the stories of re bel barbarism. This systematic starvation was prac ticed, not in some distant, corner of the Confederacy, but its •capital, under the eye of its authorities. They can put in no plea of ignorance, for it has been un der their direct cognisance, and a part of their general plan of procedure, if or can they plead a want of proper provi sions or medicines, for they refused to allow either our Government or our citi zens to furnish the needed supplies. This book will go out to the world as a swift witness against rebel brutality. It proves that their generals are allowed without rebuke to massaee helpless cap tives in cold blood; and that their jail-' ors are allowed or instructed to adopt a Bystem of starvation towards thou sands of wretohed prisoners. We hope the volume may be widely circulated through the Ft orth, to nerve every free man to new efforts to crush out the enemies of humanity and good govern ment. We wish it might be sent to all rebel sympathizers in Europe, to make them ashamed of fraternizing with bar barians whose deeds would disgrace the. American savages or the Sepoys of In dia. — Watchman and Reflector. PUBLIC) LIPE. Were-you ever in public life, my dear (reader'? I don’t mean, by that ques tion, to ask whether you were ever Lord ■ Chancellor, Prime Minister, Lea- - der of the Opposition, or even a mem ber of the House of Commons. An au thor hopes to find readers far beyond that very egregious but very limited segment of the Great Circle. Were you everja busy man in your vestry, ac tive-in municipal corporation, one of a committee for furthering the interests of an enlightened candidate for your na tive burgh, town, or shire?—in a word, did you ever resign , your private com forts as men in order to share the pub lic troubles of mankind ? If ever you have so far departed from the Lucretian philosophy, just look back—was it life at all that you lived ?—were you an in dividual distinct existence —a passenger in the railway ?—or were you merely an indistinct portion of that common flame which heated the boiler and generated the-stream that set off the monster train? —very hot, very active, very use ful, no doubt; but.all your identity fused in flame,. and all your forces vanish ed in gas. And do yon think the people in the railway carriages care for you ?—do you think that the gentlemen in the worst ed wrapper is saying to his neighbor with the striped rug on his comfortable knees, “ How grateful we ought to be for that fiery particle which is cracking -and hissing under the boiler! It helps ■us.on a fraction of an inch from Vaux hall to Putney !” Hot a bit of it. Ten •to one but ho is saying—“ Hot sixteen miles an hour:! What is the matter with the stoker. V> Look tolt, O Public Man, whoever thou art, and whatsoever thy degree—■ see if thou canstnot compound matters, so as to keep a little nook apart for tby private life.; that is, for thyself! Let the great Popkins Question not absorb wholly the individual soul of thee, as Smith or Johnson. Don’t so entirely consume thyself under that insatiable boiler, that when thy poor little monad rushes out from the sooty furnace, and arrives at the stars, thou mayest find no vocation for thee there, and feel as if thou hadst nothing to do amidst the still splendors of the Infinite. I don’t deny to thee the use of “Public Life;” I grant that it is rnjich to have helped to carry that great Popkins Question ; but Private Life, nay Iriend, is the life of thy private soul; and there may.be matters concerned with that which, on consideration, thou mayest allow, can not be wholly mixed lip with the graat Popkins Question —and were not finally settled when thou didst exclaim —L have not lived in vain—the Popkins Question is carried at last!” Ob, im mortal soul, tor one quarter of an hour per diem —do-Popkinese thine immor tality 1 REBEL BARBARITIES. A little volume has just been publish ed by Congress, containing the reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, relative to the Fort Pillow massa cre and the starved prisoners at Rich mond, which must doom the rebel authorities to utter infamy. The facts cannot be questioned. They are deriv ed from the victims themselves or from eye-witnesses, who know what they af firm. Hor are they single or extraordi nary facts. They are part and parcel of an atrocious system deliberately adopted and pursed, and defended either by the rebel authorities them selves or by the leading journals which reflect Southern sentiment. The report on the Fort Pillow massa cre is derived from a large' number of witnesses, who Lestify only to facts under their own observation. Their ,testimony is uniform, that the first re bel attacks were easily repulsed; that then the rebels sent in a flag of truce, and dishonored it by moving troops du ring the cessation of hostilities, to ad vantageous points of attack;' that ih consequence of such advantages, treach erously gained, the fort was easily taken and its defenders surrendered ; that af ter the surrender some four hundred of the garrison, white and black alike, were inhumanly butchered; that some of the offers were shot in cold blood the next day, when claiming the treat ment due to prisoners of war; and that the rebel officers subsequently declared their purpose to massacre in a similar way all colored troops, with their offi cers, whenever and wherever taken. If the authors of the Wyoming massacre are held in everlasting infamy, and an indelible stain rests on the memory of Montcalm, who allowed his Indian allies to butcher the helpless captives taken at Lake George, we may venture to predict that Gen. Forrest and Chalmers, with the .Richmond authorities who have tacitly commended their barbar ism, will be pilloried for the detestation and scorn of the world. ' The report on the starvation of priso ners in Itichmond is even worse than the Fort Pillow massacre. No one, we think, can escape the conclusion that a system of deliberate cruelty has been practised on our prisoners to reduce them to the grave, or render them unfit for further duty. The story of their sufferings is heart-rending. They were robbed of shoes, and coats, and blankets, and all money by their captors. They were taken in this destitute condition to Belle Isle in the winter months, and left without tents to shelter them, or blankets to warm them daring the cold est nights. Many were frozen to death by this barbarous treatment, and were found lifeless by their comrades in the early morning. The food furnished was of the meanest quality, not fit for dogs or oats, and the quantity was not suffi cient to beep a oiiild alive. For weeks together they had only cakes of corn T»TTTT..mTi!T,PTT fA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1864. THE METRIC SYSTEM. The metric system is the system of measures, weights and coins which was some years ago adopted in France, and has been gradually making its way among many other continental nations,' and even in America, Russia, also, on the eve of a change in its system, is in clined to adopt the metric, but is waiting to see the course taken by England. The standard of length is the metre, which is a ten-millionth part of the me ridian of the earth. The length of a com plete meridian was deduced from an ac curate measurement of a part of a me ridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona, and the unit of length thus obtained is equal to about 391 Engliso inches; more accurately, it is 39.871 English inches. All linear measures larger than this pro ceed by steps of 10, and the names derived from the Greek prefixes deca-, hecto -, kilo-, so that the terms decametre, hectometre, kilometre indicate respec tively 10, 100,1000 metres ; but all sub divisions of the metre, descending ten fold every step, are indicated by the Latin prefixes, deci-, centi-, milli-; so that the words-decimetre, centimetre, milli metre indicate respectively one tenth, one hundredth, and one thousandth of a metre. It is plain that any given length expressed in metres can be immediately reduced to the multiples or higher de nominations by dividing by 10, 100, 1000; or can be reduced to the lower de nominations or submultip.ea by multiply ing by 10,100,1000, and since the decimal point in a number, as 375.862 metres, sep arates the whole numberstothe leftfrom the decimalor.fraetional part to the right’ the mere moving ofthis point to the right one, two, or three places will bo equiva lent to multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 — that is, reducing it to decimetres, centi meters and millimetres; and the moving it to the left one, two or three places is equivalent to dividing by 10, 100,1000 —that is converting it into decametres, hectometres, and kilometres. Hence there is no other reduction whatever hut the simple moving of a decimal point From the linear measures are deduced the measures of surface.. The unit of superficial, measure is the square of the decametre or length of. ten metres, and is called the are. This derives its greatest importance from its being em ployed in the measurement of laud. Only one multiple and one submulti ple of the are are employed, namely, the hectare and centiare; the.hectare is equal to about 2J English acres. We next proceed to measures of ca pacity. These are the same for solids and for liquids, and would therefore, supercede our dry measure wine, and ale and beer measures. The unit is the litre, which is the cube of the decimetre or tenth of a metre ; but for convenience it is generally reduced to eylind.ric form. Its multiples and submultiples are named from the Greek and Latin prefixes, pre cisely as we have explained in the ease of the metre. The litre is equivalent to'- about If English pints, and the kilolitre to 220 gallons. Of course all volumes, such as the capacity of a room, or the solid contents of a mass of stone or brick work.are expressed in the cubes of the linear measure just as in the English system they are expressed in the cubes of the linear inch, foot or yard. In immediate connection with.the mea sures ol capacity are the weights. The unit or standard is the gramme, which is generally Anglicized into gram, and is the weight of the volume of water con tained in the cube of a centimetre, when the wafer is atits greatest density. All other weights are derived from it, as has been shown in the case of the metre and litre, by the employment of Greek and Latin prefixes. The gram is used for weighing light and small substances, as a medical dose, or a letter, and is nearly 16 grains troy; the kilogram is used for heavier substance, and is equiv alent to,about 2f lbs troy. Lastly, comethe coins.' Tbereare bat two moneys of account—the franc and its hundredth part, the centime. The franc is the unit or standard, and consists of five grams of standard silver, with a small portion of copper alloy; and, as is well known, is equivalent to about ten pence English. . The centime is a small copper coin, whose diameter is a centimetre, and weight a gram; so that one hundred centimes placed in a row would give the length of a metre; or used as a weight they would give a hectogram, or tenth of a kilogram. Hence every centime forms at the. same time a coin, a mea sure, and a weight. We must not omit to remind the read er that though tenths, etc., are the most noticeable divisions in a decimal system, yet'halves and quarters, which are the most natural divisions in common life, are very readily expressed in decimals, as well as in common fractions, and could be employed in every-day trans actions in perfect harmony with the metric system.— Chambers' Journal. RUN NO RISK. Wa the money, if desired, for every lot of Shirts which fail in any respect. 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He has surveyed the whole field as well as the separate portions, and he has ftcmlygrasped and clearly presented the great leading features of the period, and the fundamental ideas involved in the movements The work, in short* is a labor of love, well and faithfully done.” The Now York Evangelist speaks of it as M One of the most valuable contributions to eecSes&eticol history yet made m this country.” The New York Independent, in devoting more than a column to an editorial notice of the work, remarks: “ Bis researches are ample, his materials abundant, his selections discreet, his style rapid and racy, strong without rage, without-o’erflawing foH. He has secured, we judge, a high and permanent place in in our litera ture.” The Christian Intelligencer speaks of it histo rical and biographical narrative, in method, style, and elevation of sentiment, every way worthy of his great theme. His description of Bohemia, prior to the ad vent of Huss, is a master-piece, and reminds one of the very highest efforts of Bancroft in descriptive compo sition.” to jrom good, esq., 921 Svavca SrREEY. The undersigned having used the w RICHARDSON PREMIUM AIR-TIGHT BEPULOHRAXj CASKETS” in their families, deem it but justice to say, that their many excellent qualities deserve their approval, and richly merit public patronage. They are well calcu lated tor what they were intended, and a* aB end joints are discarded by the invention of circular ends, they are much more durable, and greatly relieve the minds of those who may be called to mown the loss of ike revered and beloved of unhappy impressions. Rev. I. W. Smith, 511 South Tenth street, Pfcikula. Richard Gardiner, M. D-, 626 Spruoe shoot. Ed. Hutchinson, 622 Pine street- Stuart Hibbler, No. 40 North Third street. J. S. Morton, 217 South Third street. Jacob Bartholomew, 908 South Fourth street. Dr. David G. Walton, 154 North Seventh street. Robert Johnson, No. 514 North Fourth street. William C. Flanigen,l62o Locust street. Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Providence, R. L Rev. Daniel March. 822 Pine street. 937 fegglS" 13 Tan BEST REMEDY KXOWN PO& ASJi BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, SICK HEADACHE, COSTIVENESS, INDIGESTION, HEART BURN, SOUR STOMACH. SEA SICKNESS, Ao. &C. Dri JAMBS R. CHILTON, the Great Chshis?, says ; **l know its composition,-and have no doubt it will provB most beneficial in those complaints for which it is recommended/' Dr. THOMAS BOYD says: W I strong hr commend it to the notice ofthe public.” Dr. EDWARD G. LUDLOW aa-ys: u I oan with confi dence recommend it” Dr. GEORGE T. DEXTER says: “In Flatulency, Heartburn, Costiveness, Sick Headache, Ac., the SELT ZER APERIENT m my hands has proved indeed a valuable remedy.” For other testimonies see pamphlet witb Bach fectite ANUFAOTURE6 ONLY OY va&basw & Ga-eenwtcli Street, He w Fork ■ 4SS-FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS-®! TEN REASONS WHY PERSONS PREFER THB FLORENCE. It does better and finer work than oan. be done on any other Machine, and never skips sfeitohes. 11. It is the only Machine that can make ftna lock and knot stitches. ___ It is the only Machine having a perfect and tmifonn tension of upper and lower thread. It is the only Machine having the reversible feed motion, euabli'ng the operator to fasten the ends of seams, thereby saving muoh labor. It is the only Machine that will mot vex and annoy the operator by getting out of order. It is the only Machine made on correct mechanical principles,.without any springs to get out of order, and will last a life-time. There is no other Machine that will do so wide a range of work as the Florence; changes from one kind of stitch to another, can be made instantly while the Machine is in motion. VIU. It uses all kinds of thread, and Hems, Fells, Binds, Tucks, Braids, Cords, Quiite, Gathers and Sews on a Ruffle at the some time. IX. It possesses so many advantages over all others that it is universally acknowledged to be the j perfection of Setcivg Machines. x\ There is no riik in buying the Florence- We war rant every Machine to give entire aausiaetion or money refunded, besides, we keep them in order, end give instruction free *»f charge. The public are invited to call and see the operations of this perfection of Sewing Machines- It rmit4 be seen to be appreciated, and costs nothing to its merits. FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, 630 Chestnut Streets N. B. Send for circulars and Baronies of sewing, if voi CEtnnot call at the office. 942—*M
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