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It It ten Mt4btin fr-.nn Ut, wtitUt, ttuctrr ia tnj guudia lluiiMklMi, liave U amMtua of Ub'cjuIi'j, ".Inch f.id no rtpo-ne la tha brrt of fiie eituo, aad t-l.Jh will 1 erti4 Ua tula wgwns, The lJm uf UjuLiUki U Mpre,.'' ttre U gritting M coiMctac. , ; f 1. CWu -.. ;;"'L!" " """ I1 " "... 11 11111 1111,1 , " ."r" "'"" i ' 11 BAUSUUiiY, 110 WAN COUNTV, H, V... MOM DAY, MAYs-ltf, 1831. jnm yVl-,,f I. ' 1 ..J a BOIlMN W A4 TRUE. 1 1 The JluhtHi Upat,.er.po'to trt6 otf Ia; Trbm the ingenious imeTraixiurr. ' of truth and fable with which Hi early f,irtf)r was connected, presents, one f the moat remarkable fictloni of mo. 'dcrn t'imei.I Tbr propcrtlet iliribu. ud Co U were "l,th re c,cula(ed i excite ,the greslctt Mtooiihmcnt as exceeding "y tn,n8 "mjurions to an. tn) lif "' the wn0,e '.""S0 lhc vegetable creation. ' It was rrpresen ktd m h tree standing 'ane nl compacted by sny other vegetable but e itself a living source of the most Virulent poison, dealing intunt death tmt only ny one wh wou hve thelrfrity to tmith it, Ul hating uch it ptt'len"tial trooijhre M lo be bc immediattly Uut to any liviug thing whicH eme within ita laftaece. The pni-oa which wai ubiaioed from ita an, mfd b ihe oativei. wh i mmredbv mn4 of criminal coo. demned to death, but whoae puniih. mi nt w commuted to the chance of their rcping with life from the hope. k tht trr. and cBCiix. coJ ooty f"cCteT in iS,e remoie event or a favorable wind occurring to carry offthe noxiooi va r,oar bv means of which they could reach the tree-in safety , a-thaBM-ao rarr as to render the commutation of little avaih - - . of the EohonUpas ha of late years been investigated j taA as usually .happens with most ol those relalions which so highly interest tU imagination all the marvelcis char. aceriic attributed to it are found to he prrftcily reconcilable with the or. dinar laws of naure. It is to be re 'retted that tH p4ges of natural hit. lory, wbitii OU tole thelecord of! rigid troth and factf should be so often disfigured by relations either fabrica ted by unprincipled and mendaxious narfaWfJ,'rirtreduWjie ignorant nd superatitiouaiiatlvca wM are always willing to minister to the uppetite of thia class of men for we unnatural and prodigious. .. jr ia not Tessto- wgrctte4: at such is tReroAeoesflnijnltoa indulge in these monstrous creations of fancy that their ioBuence often re mains long after their utter falsity has been detected. The Bohon Upas has f.iroished the theme of much poetical Illustration and will perhaps continue to exist among the machinery wt the poet with the Hydras and Chimeras, the MermaSnds aod Gorgoos and other monsters of a prurient fancy ignorant of the real and more truly remarkable vondera of nature. The poison cal led Upas and Ipo is used by the na tivea of the Molucca and neighbouring islands and has always been an object of curiosity from the wonderful effects said to be produced by it, and the ex- ..,! ,t,.rr;ntians which travellers Ka received from the Indians of those places concerning it, : The tree, m it is described by Leschenaulr, is large,' rising W the MgHt ofJJcftj and with a trunk of 18 feet in ctrcom. ference at its base. It belongs, in the - tr5riAhimei6rr'l"flrfh moo- itdma m, those having the rt diiferent flowers on the same plant. It is osu. ally found growing in fertile places, surrounded by other plants nhtcb tts neighbourhood h no tort of mju rious effect. Its trunk is straight, and covered with a 'smooth whush bark, and the wood whitish. The leaves generally fall bfo the Bowering wmmences, and unfold agam after "the maTr0owerT1rem-pJiey are of an oval figure of a .tough K i .l at.tvnrV. jk nale irrtett colour, tough to the touch, and covered with thort hairs. ' , 4 The flowers are of two kinds , the " i w:.u numerous, and seated . ar borne nn a Jobr footstalk or peduncle i the sViape of the ' eceptable is much like that of a mush. toom : the temaie u and have not the long peduncle or the - japle the calixis thick and crowded with scales, the get men siogle, stylet two, icparating widely Iron each oth er. The joke of the trunk is very viscid1, of a bittet tite and whitish colours, and exudes topiyusly from the tree, when an Incmon it made. The eihatationt from the juice are like those which "proceed from awny kinds of euphorbia, lumacks, and the ro tachtoeal tree olf uth Anertc?, an'! are dangerous, paruciuny 10 ceruu constitutions which seem more liable to absorb the emanations than others, which are not affected by theat. A Javanese was employed by Leschen- suit to procure flowering specimens from a tree, ti affect wMch, he was obliged to climb the trunk he had not stiended abive 20 Uet btlore he found himself affected with oarjsea and vertigd, aod was obliged to atop and return he continued sick for several lavs atierwanU. Another J4vaneit employed fr the same purpe, moun ted to the top of the same tree, and brought away the desiwd specimens, without experiencing the l-ast Incnn. veniente. . Lnschenuit himself had one of the trees cut dow. and went freqently among the branches, and ev. en rubbed the gum resin which oozed from the cut limb no his fce and hands, but felt no effect from it what ever. Toe various animals which in habited the other trees ii the vicinity, apPVCS iJ2 pialte ooi diytinctiow , t with respect to th: Upas, hot lizarjjt and insects were as commoirly observed on its trunk as o any other,- and birds were as often observed perching on its bmches.""'; The effect which the tree is thin foaftd ta produce-uptm certain tern perameots, is not greany aiuereni from that which characterizes the poi son sumack rhas vernix of our own country. This plant usually grows as as a bush or small tree, commonly in low swarwpv crounds, and on some constitutions it produces a very troub lesome effect, not only when handled, but on comiiig within the exhaUtions wbiduDrorrrdffC0ro.7JtZZi'aintut eruptions and swellings are the conse quence, while to others it is perfectly harmless. The hli"wKcirMdeJc:ibe ruic7oTaiepa7nnrihi preprition ol a poison wun wnicn me inuiaus m Borneo Java, and other neignoounug placci .'tingejhe points of ftTrlf)wj WhlCtrtheV emply to .ne tnasc, m weaponi'of war. The manner of pr. paring this poison is a secret confide! only to a few individuals amoog the natives, whose influence and authority over the rest of the tribe are not a lit tie enbanxed by their knowledge of this dangerous secret. It appears to be used as an ingredient io a mixture of several plants of acrid properties, which are boded together until the de- coction is evaporated to a proper thickness. Its" effects then are ex tremely powerful. Leschenault rasde several experiments with the arrows which nad oten meincaiec wun u. Fowls wounded with them died io one, two or three minutes, according to the greater quantity of the liquid which bad been apread on me arrow points and dogswounded in the same manner, died in about eight tnioutes. They, all exved inf violent convuL iionFcosWih did not appear that the flesh of the game killed with them, wa at all ef fected by tn poison. The 'use -nf-poisoned arrows a custom common -among ,nwi. a men of all nations, ancient and mod. era.--'' We learo from history, that n was known among the ancient bcyth- ians and Oiuls. The African savages according tK the accounts ot Krucc, employ severtl of thesewUdl plants, for the purpose of increasing the de effects of their rude weapons. Among tno-uiGnMBw&-sAj.Mt. notices tome iiouoi cum.v.., ftf t'hi wild Bumacks of those regions. Thunberg mentions that the Ilot'ten. tots are in uc nauti same purpose, the Vejom of serpents and the iuice of a vegetable, the stiler- nrulum loxiferum.1 The various tribef of SoutH Amerisa. savages have, acquired the knowledge of the poisonous properties of many species nf nlants. which they ennvett to simi lar uses; as anroog the Javaneae and the mode of preparing them Is enmi. ted to certain ld anea or mgcun aw mg them. These poisoned arrows were also known among tome of the aboriginal tribes of our own continent, and one of the plant made use of wt the fOw!obut rnacrocarpjust of iich The character of this celebrated minister of Lou'tf XIII. of France, is thus drawn by . E, foc', Esq. irt the Cabinet tydcpedia. " Richelieu was the true monarch of the reign t it was be who stamped upon it the impMs of hit geniu aod despotic charactci. True, he did but dopt and follow us the pUint of the great Henry, in humbling the Hugue nots, the noblesse, and the house ol Austria ; but the eiecution of three uch enterprises in the short spice of twenty year, and by a minister r ien from obscurity, and obliged to act as often in dpite of the monarch as ith his countenance and aid, places Richelieu in the first rank u states men. His address, hit Srmtcis, his sagacity, were unequalled. lie was naturally magnanimous, loving wealth and splendor more as the" symbol of power than as the gr uhcaton ol sel fish vanity. The cruelty ofhis char! acter is its ereat blemih; yrt he was clemenr-Ti-nhrI lachuciottrand shrunk early from the vere sets which he foresaw his pains for raising royalty would throw upon him. In the-amff.fjeneral for" 16 lTie pf i" p'Med to do away with the punishment ol death for political erijnes.vet he soon came to be unsparing to itsTn." diction t and the decanitatbn of each r,ew victim increased in him thit taste for blood, untiil his prelate's robe as. sumed the crimson dye .fthe murder- er aod the tvrnt. On a superficial view, this minister's unvarying success is the rost striking feature of his ca reer i and yet ail of tbJ that his own sagacity might not prodoce, thejrx- treme i m prud enceod l4n: r W j hit enemies may account for. The crime of having trodden oat the iait spark of his coyotry'a liberties, and of UaVTna .cui.vei.ud'ItaonlkilcTrgo ernment into pure uciuoimm, m m.i for which Richelieu is most generally condemoed. -Bttt th aute. f anarchy which he reraoveu was . license, no a.. a a ' iherty.- Tne takk of rccooctli.tg pn vate independence- ith-pubuc peace, civil rights with the existence of jus tice, aod this without precedent or tradition, with out that rooted stock on which freedom, in order to grow and bear fruit, must be grafted, was a conception which, however familiar to our age, was utterly unknown and impracticable to that of Richelieu. With the horrors of civil war fresh in the memory of all, the general desire was for tranquility-and peace,- not lib erty j to which, moreover, had it been contemplated, the first necossiry step was that of numDtmgtoeeriaiocracy? It was impossible that constitutional freedom could ever grow out of the chaos of priveleges, and anarchy, and organised rebellion, that the govern- ment had to contend witn. in ouiid ing up hertocial fabric,- France had in fact ffone wrontf, destroyed the old foundations,"" and rebout on others without solidity or system. To io. troduce order or aJJ a jlidity to so ill- constructed a fabric was impossible j Richnlicu found it ; necessary to rata all at once to the eround. except the central donjon of despotism, which he left standing. Had Richelieu, with all hit genius and sigacity, undertaken for liberty what he achieved for royalty his age would have rejected or misun derstood him, as if did Bacon and Galileo. - He might, indeed, as a man of letters, have consigned such a pn- " . m ....... M at litica! dream to the volume of an Uto pia, but from action or sdmlnistration he would have, oeen as, a urearacr. Liberty must come of chim o the mass : of the general enlightenment, firmness, and probity. It is no great physical secret, which a single brain, fmdioe. may announce and so estab lish ; it is a moral, truth, which, like a rem.' hides its ray and its precions nest in obecurity, nor becomes reful trent. till all around it is beaming with light. Had we space to eax int? the minor detada of Richelieu's admi4 tratioo, much might be found tVab. stract from his mtnt, much to add to it.. MinagctQent of the hnancft was rraspini and unwise. France pat dearly fur her glory and ascendancy The SO. 000, 000 of revenue, that en. abled Hcory IT." taimaif, Twere ejaid ruplrd and yttexpenaJbyTtictiebe the create r part being , wated ere n reached the treasury. : Thus the proud monarchy which Richelieu' founded owed to him also the canker that wat destined to destroy it, .rhe cxtrava. gance and mismanagement of its pe cuniary retources. tot the take ol a certain revenue, there were 0,000 employment! in finance and law left in the hereditary pouetsion of subjects i fen anomaly in a deapotism aenrcety credible. Bnt the minister coojd not venture to attack at once the noblesse of the sword and that of the robe, II destroyed the former, and contented himaetf with humMtng thcr latter. THE WEAVIL It it uile tonl by all N'mrUu that the mkagid upecies oedergo ihrrr biU'tni ttv lit h egfC is hatched inoa wotm rm th worm etudes a sort of fluid from Its sorfaes, which bar drrst into a shell, ' encasing th aoirnal, and t Aniiituting 'he rhrvtalU mate ind i pe Ircm thh; tte. during which it is mttuting Its wings, feet, he. l&JXXhm-JLUlltll'4uU o, ,.. ; . takra injsandnis,aySfw tolls, buU neortts plnrfs. Tlose, who h ben inihe habit of kepi'it silk worn forthck-wnusemenL-far .lofu. wifl - noticed theie ..vafjous .mfttsmophewes, which are almojt a su'prhinir as th i which are rrlud in the benuuful striint ol urn i nrewapnoc n cnaniteu into a I,urrl ind here we hAe sn uly and hsect worm suifdrnJfi ch(jed into a brauuful hiiiterflr, glitteMn? with all !ht t)iif of the riinhnw, and frolicking with mnre thanthc timhy of child. In ihc siik-wrm alone iha fty Is seldom on he win.It lives but a few hou' -revel in .sensuality and urget to fly-, AUlha Rt atj:a Is iubject to thia Jhae fold.-ltiwroaiioo."it is tma of. the MtniM r f h-huttarflyr-f hIi teeli 1 tome of whom 4. wheel their droning flicbti Inthe-sf iiriter'snd h-tnfest-ntr fisjhted room oiijnirl r is lru of the wesvil, which it seen to fly from the heaps of corn in the spring time, with ho- fdls more llnf 4nd hurt at dull, as those ;.lnf iha amalUkt .mhS which flf rouod tha csnule, nttil they parish in the flame. TU tha time Joe tha wesvil to burst Its Utile u cerement," and emerge into the open air. ' Take an ear of corn, (Sc I have examined every varia y, from the rare ripe to the ground seed, white red or streaked,) and you will find some graint that are pier eed with holes soma that look dark, with a hole in them and others, that have apparently no hole in them, be cause the 6lm that covers the receptacle has not Mien off. From the first, the little winged insect bat etresdy escaped in the two (at cites, it is still in th train h the chr? tails state, either about toemert-A from ii, or not matured for ita flight. Must of the grains of corn are not pierced at all. They have escaped the ravers of the tnect. The secret of all thia is now under tiood. Wnila the preen corn it yet stan ding unn the stalk in the tu'nmn, th winei in.ecl vidM it iiiercet it and insert fis est;. The eita remiins in the aofte part ofjfie grain7dutiri(f the win ter. , ' . '., The hcJt of the spring hatches it into the worm, which feeds diion the substsnce of. the Rraiu until it j;rows to about the twK'fif "sw tnh r thirn tirrntnaa a- h"ia-ft lia j and afterwards passes from the grain to fulfil the purposes or its production Lot any one take sn er of corn expose it to the lemperarureof a rwom well warn, ed, with the present geoUl air and hie will wildest what I hive described Richmond Comfiittr. noMii matters; The beauties of spring are begin- flig to unfold themselves around- u. The young buds are atarting upon ey. ery tree,, and the willows, which fringe our streams, are bowing to the breeze, their new and beautiful green nets. The hillt have lost their exey and desolate coloring, and a sprightly and vivid change already evinces, that " The verdure of the meaowiand Ii cieeping to thehilw.". "We. know cf no "place to. which spripg briqgi more attraction than (o our own ciy. Trie Wa-Kifal RJvtr ihe iMouoiaiu ri., ., -,hcjP .j hesdt all ar u, r (If i. tur likd so ma.iythut )f a 'Vnrr ' evening piled fold op-n fld a,t the green, luxuritnt VJjwt ih neat farm hues the t fUUivit-J and -noble farm--the iaiH thetr verd mt tieidrtv-th Wl'uTl all ' coaapire to render an eJaf.,t viih- out tbe: City o'rte ofetcer dipiC4V'i''r.' " Then the city itself it tut ic 0Vcr. looked. Ti true we has othiig ; magnificent to boa-it of bi p t 4VV elegance, taste and comioi tn 0ur private dwellings andjoor pi;c rue. And we hive a popular i,0. thy of the best days of NewCgjgluj sober, moral' and intelligent. raeQ who would not hesitate , ' ' f Ta thafca hd with a kS flpon kttirofiei A ad dm t far la hi majcrt." , -And out" Halisbury ldiefi0i bleat (hem tbry are wor'hy oiet - ter cuUrium than a bachelor luvuf. aelves can bcMw, TIk of the V;;, - of Brod Way, " fouootht' WhynQ ' of our Hariiord hdiei, in a twu , , morning's walk wdl gthf r more ba-ta into her potsf saion, tl.n have k)t by the whtakcrrd dl.ndiea of tham hr the ntt six months ! " M&ntimV, the business part of ot city it wearing a lively aprct Evtt while we wrifcwe can laok out fr'ra . our office window, upon the swollen tide-of -theitOnnmircr,--anid- tr irch" the prorett clone of our '"Compact' Strtm Boats, wendinvUi way throne h the morning miit. like a creature of ile. bucre-r to the boat and its owners. Hartford nd her-pleassnt couaiu of Springfield may now shake nanoa wun eacn otner, 00 terms 01 rfect famihartty; v - . , Lord BgrorCi louhlc,-U the laV. . ter end of the year 1811, I met, ono t vening, at the Alfred, my old scbftol . and f irm fellow, Peel, the Irish Sec retary, He told me, thit in 1810 he met me, at he thought, in StrJamet ' street,but we pissed without apeak 1 le ment loffu ttiH, and -it w v ?- denied as impossible, I being then in 1 ursey., A day or two aiterwarda,he pointed out to his brother a person on thoppethw aide id'ttas-wy-There,'-' said be, is the-msfr I :itook-fftf Uy.- roo." His brother instantly answered.' "Why, it jt,Byron andno one eUe.!.., . But thit it not all t I was teen by somebody to - trrtte down m?r'7Uimg amongst the inquiries after the King's 4 heaUh."K'w at this ver period, a I nearly as I could make our, J, waa HI of a strong fever at Patrat, from tha malaria. If I had died then, this would have been a new nhost ttorV . or yiJduoft Life of Byron , One Swallow doct not make a Summer.' Ore sharp,, frottr tiav ' the late king of England, when PrincV f Wsles, went iuto the Tnatchrcl louse Tavefnl and "ordered "a' bef" iake j but, observing th.it it wat ex ce ssi v t ly cold , desir e d t h e wai te t t -bringTiim first a glass of brandy and water. He emtied that in a twick iog; then a second, then a third. Now,' said the prioce, I a in warns . and comfortable bring my stake."' Un this Mr, shendan, who was prri-,;. ent, wrot ote the following fmprymp'u "i a prince came in and u1 ';w coll, ' "Ina prince i Tbeu put ta bia bead Aha funtwer t- Till itfnUa after tmilivw ttmt, . , Whee he pronntr i l it tunrntrj Evidence of the icmes.S. rojruisfi " X "Olfi IZtC glalSCt iroffl (lit frr4nt. v pcbvaiicB, nu .wnco tne out gentleman put them on, fludinc bo could not see, he exclaimed, m-ircy me, l ye lost my tight I btu , thinking the impediment to vision might be the ' airtiness ot tne glasses, took them 'j!T to wipe them ; when not feeling them. ne, sun more mgntencd, cried out, Wh what's come now, why I have 'ost, my feeling too T" I huppcned to dine with Pitt wheri he took occasion to sk me, "Of all the places where you hve been, where did you fare best?" My answer way,' - in J'oiandf tor the nobility live there with uncommon taste and tjlen dor i their cooks are French, theic confections Italian, and their wine To kay.w He immediately observed, "1 -have heard before of the Polish diet. Sir J. Sinclair's CmcspondtMt
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