According to the Mobile Tribune the wild superstitions of savage Africa still linger among the negroes of the South, and they are occasionally detected in fetich worship. An occasion of the kind lately happened at Mobile, which is thus described: "In company with a few policemen we went last night to a house situated beyond the Gas Works, and occupied by an old negro who claims to be an Obi Man. Approaching the house carefully and peering through the crevices in the walls, a wild, weird spectacle was presented. Around a small fire of pine in the middle of the floor—or room, for floor there was155none—and over which was hung a pot, sat a group of negro men and women, entirely nude; their hair, or wool, twisted into pig-tail curls and ornamented with sprigs of some kind of herb intermingled with dried roots, their eyes closed; the master of ceremonies or High Fetich Priest, with a snake skin around his neck, and his wool grizzled with age, and garnished more profusely than the rest, was chanting something in a droning voice while the remainder of the 'congregation' responded, as it were, with a low, long-drawn howl. The old negro with the snake skin clapped his hands and the whole party rose and commenced a most furious stamping in a circle around the pot. This over, they all squatted down again and the 'Obi man' resumed his chant, at the same time holding in his hands a covered basket, from which he drew and dropped into the pot, first, a dead snake, then a frog, then a young alligator about a foot long, now another smaller alligator or lizard, and last of all the herbs and roots from his own and the heads of the other negroes. Silence was observed by all for some minutes after the last deposit had been made, after which the pot was taken from the fire, and while the nauseous mixture was yet reeking hot, they each dipped the end of the middle finger of the left hand into it and applied the end of the finger to their tongues; another dip into the pot was taken with the middle finger of the right hand and certain cabalistic characters described on the breasts, foreheads and shoulders—one assisting the other in the operation. Not a word was spoken until their clothes had been resumed and they had got clear of the house. Although on high occasions the Fetich or 'Obi man' may demand a human sacrifice in his hellish rites, and which is generally a young child, nothing of the kind was attempted in the Vondoo pow-wow of last night. The presence of the police would, of course, have prevented anything of this nature had it even been thought necessary by the old negro conducting the affair. Old negro women were sometimes 'used up' as 'material' in these meetings at Vondootom, near New Orleans, one of whom escaped the sacrificial knife on one occasion and caused the arrest of the whole gang."