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...i:t,' ;:J.4 - 1 -i J. v. ... . I.V.. , J. til :U r 'u: u- ih m 4' ! 1-U !.-! V Mi iflv h-pJ , Mil J&v- t . V S .ft I. ' T k.'f : . ' I V I,, ' -v ... ' 1 ' " v i ' .' -: " ' I, - I v. -, m. i - U :p;ti Hit 'fflfi- ill ii h. - - ' . these horrid tenants hissing and Sha iing their rattles, flecfrbni the house by Seating off the coVering ;)f the roofand escaping ia ai ecP?fl: He VamdionTiiere are. varie fes b smaU Cmelions-r-They are apparently harmless animals ; though wlien we have caught them, they show every disposition to bite They will change ih half an hour to all the co lors of the pi ism. Green seems to be their favourite color, and when on a creed tree that is their general hue. While in. this color, the under part of their neck becomes a beautuul scar- let. ' -' , !'- ; . .:- :'-:- Their throat swells, and they emit n sham note, like that of one .of the larger kinds of grasshoppers, when singing. : We have placed them on a handkerchief, and they have gradu ally assumed all its coloursV Placed on a black j surface, they become brown ; but they evidently .suffer, while under, this colour, as is mani fested by uneasy movements, and by strong and quick palpitations visible to the eye. They are very active and nimble animals, three or four in ches in length. J ; I Ztsraor.r-The Alligator is the most terrible animal of this clasjs. Numbers are1 seen in the slow streams and shallow lakes- of Florida and Alabama ; but they abound most on the Red River, the Mississippi lakes and the bayous west of that river. On these sleeping waters, the cry of a sucking pig on the bank will draw a shoal of them from their muddy re treats at the bottom. The largest alligator that we ever saw - killed in tliese regions, measured something more than sixteen feet from the snout to the. extremity of; its tail. They have at times, especially before stor my weather a singular roar, or bel loy. When moving about on their customary vocations in the water, tiiey seeni lite old logs in motion, lii fine weather, they doze in listless uess ontiie sand bars. j Such is their rer klessness, that they allow the people on the passing steam bouts to come within a few paces of them. The ascent of a steaui-btat on an alligator stream, at a proper season for them, is a continual dis charge of rifles at them. : A rifle bal will gl ance from their bodies, Unless they are hit in a particular direction and place. We witnessed the shots of a man, who killed them nine times in ten. They have large ivory teeth, .which"-contain a cavity sufficiently large to hold a musket charge ot powder, for whichV purpose they are commonly used by sportsmen. The animai, when j slain, emits an intolera ble smell of musk ; and it is asserted that its head contains a quantity of that druur. Thev will sometimes thase children, and would overtake them, were it hot for their inability to make lateral ' indvemet ts. Having few joints in their body, and : very short legs, they cannot readily turn from ; astraight forward v- direction. Consequently i those who uiiderstand their ii.ovemeuts, avoid them without difficulty, by turning off at right aii e, aud leaving the animal to move forward, under its impulse in that di nction Thev are chiefly formida- Lie to mr . v Pi ive and fiiimestic am- mais ol tual bize. , 1 tie shtn of the alligator is valuable for the turner. , j0 . m ; rrn k 1 . - Surgery. A novel and important surgical !peruiion was performed, with complete, success, by' )r S. FotneroyWblte, oi Hudson, in tlie state iilLew iYurk, on the 23d. of Oi loberiast. A Mr. Vanvalkeiiburgh, tailor, aged sixty, w as afilirtVd with a tumour, as l .rge as a child's head, accumulated in ten months upon his left hip, procetdiiig, at was at length found by histrumeutal exa mination; from' an aueucismal sac, of five inches depth :To remove this it was agreed to take up and tie zilutel or in ttrnaliliae artery an bperatipa never befbretterirJed with suicess in! this country and seldom in Europeif Re peated i heinbrrhages, vveakness and ; diaiigerjf UMcieil th'ejpatierit : tofebn-' sent toll be experiment.; ?The artery vas accbrdifiglyta1ien up below the i Gisease, tne .iigaturei passea under (withthe1: Philadelphia needle) one inc h. below; the bi ilu rcatiori rend 6 veH dx wri about; fiverfi itches (w ith Dr. A. B.. Hbsack's knot ppiiator)imdltJecl firinly amd the incised parts united in theual miiier was bti tthe eighth day : at the end bl fouf Weeks' tlie ligature t came?aWarJ d . - i . . "-' - , fSitemQtu- had nradually subsided, vand Uie Was'so far recovered as to his neisbbonrhobdiThe young surr gebn Was assisted by ; his fathetn the nneratibn: and bv ottier physicians in .-.-I- previous I c.bnsujtatipn$Tue. details of the bold and fortunate experiment are given in the American Journal ni the Medical Sciences and we think that facts of this kind ought to be nibre generally ! "communicated, as well for the credit of our r skiltui ana , as tor tne enterprising praciioners common benefit of the public v IV. Y: Statesman. From the American Daily AdverUier. Mr. Paulson: We observed in yoiHr paper a few days since, some strictures on the use and a 1 buseof the Letter H by persons trom. England. The following we give you as a specimen of the refinement oftheLngjl lish Language by some of the respectable, Native?. A Merchant from Lngland, in. good credit in business' aud society, ap- plied at a Brokers Office, in this .xity and expressed himself as follows - I have pot a invoice and BiUof Lading, by;lHarjier Deriods of theii historv. nd ship ; , from Liverpool, and I wanta entry made, Theae is a eiror in thej invoice it calls lor three Packages Marked He, Ihm & en But there aTe but two in the Bill of Lading which are marked el and Hen, so that in making out the entry, you must skip from He to en. ' - IN. B ; There is no exaggeralion or ad dition in the above -it can. now be sub stantiated by one or more respectable persons. ' , ' An instance of Bathos, not found in Martinus Scribltrius.---The following peroration to an eloquent harangue, ad dressed by a Lawyer in Ohio, ton jury, is a rare specimen of climacteric sublimit ' : " ". " And now the shades of night had shrouded the earth in darkness. All na ture lay wrapped in solemn thought, when these defendant ruffians came tush ng like a mighty torrent Irom the hills down upon the ahodes of peace broke open the plaintiff's do,or separated the; weeping mother from her s-creeching in fantand took away "my client-s liflie, gentlemen f the jury, for which we charge fifteen dollars. v V v " We know but one sentence in the Eng lish language that can be compared with the above; A judicious use of the po-i ker is essentially necessary to the well; being of an anthracite fire.. Merchants' Telegraph. f urious Law Case. The Court bl Appeals in Bordeaux is agitated by a suit oi an extraordinary character A young iellow not long 9 nee presented himseli to -n old burgess of that city, who has a !nug estate and no heirs apparent, ami oiaimed to be the old gentleman's sou Robert long before supposed to be tead. The old gentleman put on his pers, and ex amined him from head to ioot ; but probably not liking his looks, or Suspecting that lie was one of those men not born to be drowned, and who are not over-creditable as connections, came to a negative conclusion, and dismissed him. The youngster grew warm the senior ordered him out of doors he refused to vanish into thin air, and the old gentle man landed him over to the police. He mtnedtately fee'd a professional adviser, and 'commenced proceedings to" make - . f - himself the old gentleman's son, whether the old gentleman will or no. What will be the issue, is yet unknowh.-f-iViiV. Gaz. Cotton Seed,li hi&key. -This modern discovery, like many others, was acci dental. The gentleman, a Mr. John Gray, of Georgia, in a careless moment. i nerea nis cotton seed and corn to be brown, together 5 and corn Oeing scarce he thiew the cotton seed with the'corn in- to ihe breweiu The V iesult viz thej quantity d whiskey, arrested his atten tion. He then mixed half and half, and finally sold it without any detection in the iate. He then went on to try all cotton seed, throwing a . peck of meal into each hogshead, to cause ferment at ion. This lro'Juced a vigorous extficatibn of gas 5 and a large quantity of or; b!ack and ot 'a drying qua I ity, wel 1 suited for pa irit ing. was produced ; and tne quantity of wbis- k'eywas 'rSttfa'orjj'iriarif frni.UhefcottotV seeds Alabama Journal. : , : - . . yXmrn Hit Alhvfh' ifioa . c' ci. " I ,iv hmrninu lfit fnr r .ir,Qur L.i . nm m. uu, i rii oui . t irom thVnal f thii fire to the door of the adjoining : room, where the chimnev was. and let thni. selves out df a' breach, Previously inade I by prisoners who escaped on a former I occasion.- j nev verv ceu roust nm out i iirvutc ere iucv creui iurou?n ine onpn mg 1 &ffp.-This rconfiund of fa fand al- kali i of great use inline aUs, and has become an article' of export- from our fountryy hstoryViV& liituxiuiious.!f 11 e ancients, ;it seems,t had no such thing y'thouglvthey bad some" substitutes tor it, of course. -Thus the Hebre ws, we are toldc uiedthe aihes of ifiethprb Rot A 'out! ot which the probabfv made a ty to wa8hthemselves arid their car- i . - - , p' -" icauj . i3u inai mere i' bara5 parV of JEptlled rr nlf uiili ; Ivu read alsoi that there f .: :. -';r:Ufe.?r.'i;:'l whence1 in certain- seasons were taRen large quantities br a salt which incrusjed their borders: when Ithe sub hadi eyapbraf ted a part of their waters. ; This salt was called by 0iree Romans nitrum from J tbename df ih country where tt was procured. By the WayV thtriitrum, is ft ha been translf- ttd into English, atfre, is Known to o thp carbonate tof-4bdai? the same thai t extracted from kelp and Nbarilla. i ht Bona ....... rtainedf hjs a ho h examination ol the arttcle thev found it' there. And their conclu sion is confirmed bv the fnci that atler the Jews. Greeks, and Romans, soda has fPn nsprf hv modern nations to make cnan whirh rannot be made with oui mo(jern nitre: norcan we use tlmiatiet 1 to clean and wash the skin, or garment, t as'we can a solution of the carbonate oi soda " But although the Hebrews were thus ( acquainted with a plant from the ashes oi j fofch they obtained ahalcali, and the I OreeliS anc Romans with the soda, col- I ipcted in Africa, vet none of these n j uon's appear to. have made sap, in ih gn( by c' nhing our authorities (Go I 'ue! and others.Y tht it was probably I filSl invented bv the Germans. We a!s read o(Sapo Gallicus, Gauliah or Freno soap, pf iSpuma Batuvia or Dutch father, and iSpuma Laustica, or caustic toao The Ger nan soap was form f y m k'ui d the best . and cleanest, and ihe Frenci was next in quality aud value ; though in this country, Castile, or Spanish soap. Iras now the highest reputation for cer tairi purposes. From the people of ih north of Europe the knowledge and use of soap passed to the Homans, and after wards to the Greeks. , When the Romans first -became ac quainted with it they called it u'nguentwi ctnerts, or pintment of ashes. And som or the Writers, we see. nave treated ot it under the denomination of " Cinis," ol wshes itself. And they who used soap in those day s were unknown by the appell tio'n of ,' i inerarii" or , ashes users. ( ine Ksineram oi new i oik at mt: present time call themselves Collectors of ashes.) : After a while, however, thit. detergent or cleansing ointment uas dit. linguished among the Romans, during their decline, by the name of " Sapo." I his is probably' of Gothic or barbai ian origin . Among the Panhtans, at least, and some other nations bordering on the Roman empire, it appears that a ruler, or chief, was called Sapor, or guardian of the oublic saleiv. And it has been conjectured that the benefit which they derived from the unguentum cineris, in various ways, and particularly in pro moting their health aud comfort, led mem to can it, py a correspondent ap- pellative, Sopo. The Romans adopto the word into their lanifuape. and the Gret ks boriowed it from them, with onk a slight change, calling it sapon. And hence comes the French sacon. and the ' English soap. ? IV. F. Journalof Commerce, .." Love and Laudanum" Ort Tues day evening, a young lddy on a visit to a friend in Kennington, swallowed a quan lily of laudanum; in consequence of be. ing disappointed in a love nfTtir with a gentleman, to whom she was devotedU attached. The nuptial day appointed was for i uesday, and on the Thursday previous everv arrangement was made for the ceremony,, the ring bought, and suiiitoie apartments taKen lor inerr r ception ; the lover then took his leave, promising to return on the following day, but neve made his appearance.: On the marriage day the y outig lady purchaser laudanum, in small quantities, at diflVt ehi Chemists' shops in the neighborhood, which she swallowed at six o'clock in the evening. (Scarcely had she taken the noxious drug, when the lover appeared to ?PMn h,s absence 5 in an agony of de spair she clasped him in her arms, con tessing at.tne sam?: time what she hart I done. . .medical ,aid was instantly sent tor, and the intended ; bride, upon the pioper remedies being applied, was for tunately saved,,and is now happily in a stafe of Convalescence London Exam. A new kind of manufacture hot altogether legal, however, is mentioned tiie Mdlvflgeville Recorder as having been introduced into the State Penitenti- "'"'og uouar outs ot the branch of the State Ran t tn flf.a n: of the convicts, susm-cfori n l.i .r: T . . uui a. s ' VIJT" I charged with the-offence and one of the Inhered no es being presented to him. he remarked with perfect nou chalence,4 that ll was rue he had rased'some notes,' uul "? uui uy uis wonnD tne Dun?hnp manner that, was done. h ftl ;ln U S. Cutter Marion, supposeVj to be rlhe wo quickest saiiers mtherWest IndieslJ The;distapce.was 2 5- mil es,v aiid the Ala- - r. ,s .v.kirvsi; a mouieoi my pjans ana deposited them 7 :: . " t : " it."5" w tfftlS in the Patent Office'; at the City of Wash- backs.- Our provisions cons of 1 lb. learn Irom the: VaShmg ton paper Ctliat iog on. i W Any person seeing lhem,3 and P "era ble fresh beef, old condemned it isdetermined at the Treasury io pay tbiiiking theni practicable, I.burnbly so-' ?eaiJ. andff tenna, which serves to keep offtfreVw ritb licif them to lendne 5, 10t or;$20 eaeK, u ve, and that' all j this is bur inva- public debW 5iaJ,llb",)? ,afe vt 3 V , , , to put my plans into efieci; 1 should - rhe -officers, prisoners of war, are : Great sailing iucceedI can pay back their money 5 If mewliat belter treated. They have the nuMle:iasVbn,iMth at Kv VV ht i should not! thev can affird "to idse it as wardroom Mhe ship allotted tliem letimn hrio nf iv H0m;..A Well as 1 can all I havf. besides mv iim are nut in irons, nor are they made to ' "; iivihuhici aim ii.T ... . ---- - "-j ..m. i r . miles ahead. tEndUnChaiaJfofalerr. Henry H. Sitler, of GebevapN . V . , has senuo the Secretary of State,? for the: purpose ol procuring a patent, a specification of a plan lor projelling-hbatsf on canals, by means ot an wdlessicharn, to be med b steam engines at fixed distances The same plan, as applicable to the propel ling carriages on rVd . rpais, - has been suggested by Mr, Tredgbid, in his tf ea lies .on rail rodds 'Air,'"', Siller proposes I to us? an iron chain. evt?n .muea. tn length, which; bnSldouMtend f hree miles and a half, passing, at each tiromitv ni iht riisiMirce. rouna atjuii my or tnai uJSiairce, iwmu wheel or drum.1 It is proposed t - - j i - i. zomal .wheel or drum.1 It is proposed to oppbrt the chain .on . the sides ol ahp jo iv path by horizontal Toilers at suitable distances, and at'every deviadon fromt Ntraight line, vertical rollers are to b fix- d by the use of which' rollers', friction would be lessened. Steam engines would be- required at stations, alternately, ol Three and a half miles apart, to turn the wheel and move the chain, up on one ide of the canal, abd down on the other, similar to two buckets over a windlass ; The annua) expense of this plan, for the vhule line ot the Erie-Canal, would b- $408 699- This expense; might be di ioinished by the substitution at various joints, ol water-power for steam Hoio to tell a good Husband. - A fe days since a gentleman irotn the greei sod as engaged in loading his cart with hoards which had recently been drawn Vrqm a raft, and placed his horse in a position which rendered it difficult to pass ; two girls, one of them a smiling little gipsev't not liking the obstruction. lurried the horse out of the wav. Pat. who at the moment was tottering under ihe weight of a heavy plank burst foith a volley of abusive language, when this cmihng girl stretci.ei forth her finger and exclaimed, 17 bet a dollar you your unje. T' - Virtue of kisses The aotion of pro longing life by inhaling the breath or young women was an agreeable delusion; and one physician who had himself writ ten on health, -.vas so influenced by it, that he took lodgings in a boarding school to enjoy the benefit of the propei atmosphere. Philip Thicknssee, who wrote the Valetudinarian's Guide to Health, In 1779 seems to have taken a dose whenevet he could. I am mysel (says he) turned of 60, and, in general though I have lived in' various climates. aud suffered severely both in body and mind, yet . having always pat taken ot (ho hrfitlh nl rnunn unman nhtnfif I I thev lav in mv wav. I feel none of the w-f.wf.v . . infirmities winch so often strike the eves and ears in this great citv of sickness (Bath) by men much younger than my self. W radavs Memoirs. Idleness. The Jews have a proverb, 'hat he who brings not up his son to some 1 : . u : r . . L im iLupimii, maivrs iiitu a mri , auu me iabtans say, that an idle person is the Devirs play fellow. Punishment tor scolding. fn the first code of laws in Massachusetts we find ihe following wholesome provision made to restrain sodding : ".Whereas there is no express punishment by any law hi therto established, affixed to the evil practice of sundry persons, by exorbitan cy of the tongue in railling and scId;ng it is therefore ordered that alt such per sons convicted before an v court or mac istrate, that hath proper cognizance of the case shal be gagged or set in a duck ing stool and dipped over head and ears three times in some convenient place ot iresh or salt water, as the court or ma a istrate shall seem meet." Irish Anecdote. Two Irishmen fight ing together one of them knocked the othVr down, and seeing him lie motion less, thought he had killed him ; taking iiim by the hand he cried, " O my dear raody, now be alter speaking to me and tvincu yuu ten me noney i - 10 wnicn 1 ne oiner 1 answered - io my dear iviac, 1 an't dead at all. but by my shout I am speechless." To the Public. Gentlemen 1 about - ?t four years agoI invented a method of travelling throuiih the air. ,1 thought I would say nothing about it until 1 was bie to make the. experiment myself I went to work hard 2 years, trying to make enough to trv my experiment.' 1 found that I could not : therefore 1 went --. . . .... . to iew Orleans, and published my in ry my plans into effect ; but travelling through the air it was thought : impossi ble,' and I taught at for-' such an idea 'Tlrtfrr ' I wini Ia ivnrlr with .IntiKlu VertSon iv&imr,.: trtino V l r, nHnh in,iiii, .!. i fotnd that I cnild not : therefore, I made and trouble, to make this important ex ? perimenu.eop e in general think,, be-1 cause we have steam boats, .there can he 1 nomoreimVifove si t - j . mm r ft ' vw an . w f u uiiriiiiiii w ( m w r-1 m m J - - WftWCdlLI . . . m J - 7 i . ' m A " . " - ' m m field is bnty fairl y bpen fbl improverhenta. v l; FKANCISSMlTfi. The. above machine will be exhi bited in tlje Rotunda of the. Capital tu, day (Saturday) during the forenoon, and afterwards in therPatent OflSce. J JVIodesiy makes large amends for the pain it givjes the persons who labor under it, by ihe prejudice it. affords every wot. thy persoJ-in its favor, s , Archbishop Usher being requested by a Mr. Botfon to write an. Epitaph on bis fatheri sent him the following : Oh heav n and earth," Ob, stars and polci! .: That graves should be but Botton-holti. " From the 'Baltimore American. We - have been requested to publish the following letter by a friend of one of the unfortunate gentlemen now confined at Rio Janeiro : ' .'. I ' We request that you will give the fol lowing', lines publication ; they arc an impartial desciiption of our place of con finement, in Rio Janeiro, together with a list of its annoyances and distressing at. tendants. - They 'may serve as a chck to Some of our uninformed; and adventu Irous countrymen : and impress others wun a just inuigiianon at tne rental or our unwarranted treatment. We em barked under the Buenos Ayrean flg from motives of an enthusiastic nature tor the blessings of liberty, the Innate principles of Americans, in a cause we considered just in the eyes of God and' ireemen ; and for this causef legally commissioned by Buenos Ayfes, and tve suffering an imprisonnient, which, did it bear date fr m Algiers or any other uo christian power, could not be tiansc-n-dedv As prisoners of war, we would scorn to complain ; but when tne prero gatives settled among Christian nations, fojr the good treatment and partial com fort of their prisoners, are here totally disregarded, we consider ita duty we owe our fellow countrymen and compatriots in arms, to give publicity to facts, that they may know and take steps to avoid a prison big with misery and distress that awaits them, should they be su unfortu nateas to fall into their enemy's hands. The prisoners of war confined on board the Press Gang prison ship, an old con demned 74"? amount to three hundred' and upwards, mostly English, French and mericans, among whom are 90 native Buen s Ayreans. The prison being one allotted to convicts, contains nearly 900' criminals ; among . whom are lobbers, as sasins, and in a word to sum up the vvnoie rernef ralor ot all (hffrimni fhr.t i t. - I, J i I I . I r .. ! - swr " 1 ,c u dCK cawiogae oi impiety ana UVI IIV e. Among such wretches and prisoners of war made equal, bavin? the same allowance of provisions fhe same deck to steep on $ the, same labour to en dure, with j Very little difiereuce. The only mark of distinction they make, is ia ihe quantity of iron, the criminals being chained wiih heavy links about 1.0 feet long in pairs, the prisoners of war have only a simple pair of irons around their uncles, two and two, having each a leg confined, j In this fettered condition are the pri soners compelled to work, Irequenily transported about, the harbour under a guard of black soldiers, on board their , water tanks, pumping the whole day, ia a scorching sun, supplying their ilnus with water. But the day may be com pared to paradise, (if ! may use such an expression,) in comparison with what it tH.nrred during the tardy and sleepiest hours of night. Prisoners and criminals, a 1 before observed, are thrust down in f. - ... a wedged like position in a confined place, scarcely sufficient for one half their number, the position they are stow ed in, remains a stationary one the whole' uigni not ante to seek momentary re lief to their benumned and contracted limbs from their close and shackled con dition. It i will be well to premise, Idiat out of the 900 criminals, there are not 50 white men, the rest being negroes and ruu lattoes, with 'scarce covering enough to hide their nakedness, their tattered gar ments hanging a witness of' the destroy; ing hand of time their bodies exhaling an odour, as if they had long been stran gers ; to the wash tub or bath. Among such beings are. prisoners of war thrust, laying in a filthy deck, its natural colour being hid by dirt a quarter of an inch thick, that engenders myriads of annoy- ing insects. . , Many "other distresses are they a prey to. . Will any one say we merit tins lot being legally captured in war ? If any do, they know, or can form but a very faint idea of our sufferings under our ac cumulated bond of 'misery. . When the feelings of man sometimes rise and re sent the brutality of our tormentors, our back4 apt? made to leel the weightol l the black centties paloes. a laree club they h1 - 5 cany on duty, raore. fit to knock worlt-, i "e,r provisions, fyr the ,IUU,8 .we,nf IHC A U-Vu" ' ' ' . . 1111 aaoon otoae g o, ui n;uauc ii P.. A' mm i ".)
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