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NORTR.CAROUNA SENTINEL, AND NEWBERN COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL AN0 LITfiRAtlY INTELLIGENCER.
" THE LOST CHILD.
Lucv was only six years bid, but bold as a
airy;' she had gone by. herself a thousand times
I . - j i T
about the braes, ana ouen upon erranas xg nous
es twp or three miles distant. What had her
parents to fear? The footpaths were all firm,
and led through no places of danger, nor are
infants of themselv'es incautious, when alone
in their pastimes. Lucy went singing into the
coppice-woods, "and singing she re-appeared on
the open hill-side. With her small white hand
on the rail she glided along the wooden bridge,
or lightly as the owzel tripped from stone to
stone across the shallow streamlet. ' The crea
ture would be away for hours, and no fears be
felt on her account by any one at home
whether she had gone with her basket under
her arm to borrow some articles1 of household
use from a neighbor, or merely for her own soli
tary delight, wandered off to the braes to play
among the flowers, coming back laden with
wreaths and garlands. With a bonnet of her
o wn sewing, to shade her pretty face from the
Fun, and across her shoulders a olaid in which
she could set dry during an hour of the heavi-
csi ram ocncaui tne smaiicsi Dcim ; ivjcv p3cu
man v lonrr hours in the dav-liffht: and thus
Knew, without thinking of it, all the topography
of that pastoral solitude, and even something
of the chingful appearances in the air and
ff he happy child had been invijed to pass a
whole day, from morning to nightatLadysidc,
(a farm-house about two miles' off)' with her
playmates, the Mayncs ; and sheleft homeabout
on hour after sunrise. -She was dressed forja
holiday, and father and motjier, and Aunt Isabel,
ell three kissed her sparkling face before shje
set offby herself, and stood lisiniug to her sing-
inilil.l hcrsmall voice was lost in the murmcr of
"the rivulet. During her absence, the house was
silent hut. happy; and the evening being now far
advanced, Lucy was expected home every mi
nute, and Michcal, Agnes, and Isabel went to
meet heron the way,. They walked on and on,
wondering a little, but in no degree alarmed,
till they reached Ladysido; and heard the cheer
ful din of the imps within, still rioting atthe
close of the holiday. Jacob Mayne came to the
doorr-but on their kindly asking why Lucyjhad
not been sent home before daylight wjtt over,
" he looked painfully surprised, and said .that she
Jiad not been at Ladyside. 1 T
Agnes suddenly 6et down, without speaking
a word, on the stone beside tr?e door, and Mi
jr'hael, supporting her said.- 'Jacob, our child
left us this morning at six ofclock, and it is now
.'near ten at nightl God is merciful,, but, per
f laps, Lucy is dead.' Jacob Mayne was an or
r dinary common-place, and rather ignorant man,
: but his hcajrt leapt within him at these words,
and by this time his own children were standing
about the door. " Yes, Mr. Forrester God is
merciful and your daughter, let us trust, is not
dead. Let us trust that she yet liveth and
without delay let us go to seek the child Mi
chael trembled from head to fool, and his voice
was gone; he lifted up his eyes to heaven, but
it seemed not as if he saw cither the moon or the
stars. Run over to Racshorn, some of you,'
said Jacob, 'and tell what has happened. Do
- yoii Isaac, my good boy, cross over to a' the
. towns on tlie Inverlelhen side, and Oh! Mr.
Vorrester Mr. Forrester, dinna let: this trial
overcome you sac sairly ' for Michael was
leaning against the wall of the house,-and the
strong man was helpless as a child. 'Keep up
your heart, my dear son, said Isabel, with a
voice unlike her usual, 'Keep up your heart,
lor the blessed bairn is, no doubt, somewhere
m in the keeping of the great God, yea, without
ahair of her head bcinghurt. Atiundred things
may have happened her, and death not among
tlie number. Oh ! no no surely not death-
hat would indeed be too dreadful a judgrnent. '
And Aunt Isabel, oppressed by the j power of
that word, now needed the very comfort that
she bad in vain tried to bestow.
Within two hours a hundred people were tra
versing fhc hills in all directions, even to a dis
tance which it seemed most unlikely that poor
Lucy could have reached. The shepherds and
their dogs all night through searched every nook
every stony and rocky place every little
shaw -every pcice of taller heather every
crevice that could conceal any thing alive or
dead, but no Lucy was there. Her mother
! who for a while seemed inspired with supernat
ural strength, had joined in the search, and
with a quaking ? heart lopked into every
brake, or stopped aud listened Jo every shout
itfnd IioIIqw reverberating among the hills, if
she could seize on some tone of recognization
j or discovery. But the moon sank,, and then all
; the stars, whose increased brightness had for
a short time supplied her place, all faded away,
and then came the grey dawn of morning, and
then the clear brightness of day, and still Mi
chael and Agnes were childless. She has sunk
into some mossy or 'miry place, 'said Michael
to a man near him, infowhose face he never
; Joked. ;A cruel, cruel death for one like
her! The earth on which my child walked has
knees beside her, or with our faces prostrate
upon the floor ;
Agnes opened her eyes, and beheld Lucy s
bonnet and plaid laying close beside her, and
then a silent crowd. Her senses all at once
returned to her, and she rose up ' Ay, sure
enough drowned- drowned drowned but
where have you laid her? Let me see our Lacy
Michael, for in my sleep I have already seen
her laid out for burial.' The crowd quietly
dispersed, and horse and foot began to scour
the country! .Some took the high roads, oth
ers, alj the by-paths, and many the trackless
hills. Now that they were in some measure
relieved from the horrible belief that the child
wre AonA till tVfJTSt other calamity seemed no-
thin v for hope brought her back to their arms
Agnes had been able to walk to Bracken Braes
and Michael 'and Isabel sat by her bed side
Lucv's empty little crib was just as the child
had left it the morning before, neatly made up
with her own hands, and her small red bible
was lying on her pillow.
Oh ! my husband this is being indeed kind
to poor Agnes, for much it must have cost you
to stay here, but had you left me, my silly heart
must have ceased to beat altogether, for it wil
not lie still even now that I am well nigh re
signed to the will of God.' Michael put his
hand on his wife's bosom, and felt her heart
beating as if it were a knell. Then ever and
anon the tears came gushing, for all her strength
was gone and she lay at the mercy of a leaf or
a shadow across the window. And thus hour
after hour passed on till it was again twilight.
'I hear footsteps coming up the brae,' said
Agnes, who had for some time appeared to be
slumbering; and in a few minutes the voice of
Jacob Mayne was heard at the outer door. It
was rip time for ceremony, and he advanced in
to the room where the family had been during
all that trying and endless day. Jacob wore a
solemn expression of countenance, and he seem
ed from his looks to bring them no comfort.
Michael stood up between him and his wife, and
looked into his heart, bomethmg there seem
ed to be in his face that was not miserable. If
he has heard nothing of my child, thought Mi
chael; this man must care little for his own fire
side. 4 6 speak, speak,' said Agnes, ' yet why
need you speak? All this has been but a vain
fcclief, and Lucy is in heaven.' ' Something
like a trace of her has been discovered a wo
man with a child of hers, was last night at Clo
venford and left it by the daw'ing.' ' Do you
hear that, my beloved Agnes?' said Isabel,
'she'll have trampled away with Lucy up into
Ettrick or Yarrow, but hundreds of eyes will
have been upon her, for these are quiet, but not
solitary glens, and tho hunt will be over long
before she has crossed upon Hawick. l?knew
that country in-my young days. What say ye,
Mr. Mayne? there's the light of hope on your
face.' ' There's nae reason to doubt, Ma'am,
that it was Lucy. Every body is sure o't. If
it was my ain Rachel, I should ha'c nae tear oi
seeing her this blessed night.'
Jacob Mavne now took a chair, and sat down,
with even a smile upon his countenance, ' I may
tell you, now, that Watty Oliver kens it av&s
your bairn, for he saw her limping after the
limmeratGalla-Brig, but ha'eing nae suspicion,
he did nae tak' a second leuk o'ner but ae leuk
is sufficient, and he swears it was bonny Lucy
Forrester.' Aunt Isabel, by this time, had
bread and cheese, and a bottle of her own elder
flower wine on the table. ' You have had a
long and hard journey, wherever you have been,
Mr. Mayne tak' some refreshment' and Mi
chael asked a blessing. Jacob saw that he
- - i
miht now venture to reveal the whole truth. !
O , I
' No no Mrs. Irvine, 1 m ower happy to eat
or to drink you are a' prepared for the bles
sing that awaits you your bairn is not far aff
and I mysel' for it was I myscP that faund
her-r-wili bring her by the han' and restore her
to her parents.' Agnes had raised. herself up
in her bed at these words, but she sunk gently
back on her pillow. Aunt Isabel was rooted
to her chair, and Michael, as he rose up, felt as
if the ground were sinking under his feet.
There -was a dead silence all around the house
for a shqrt space, and then the sound of many
joyful voices; which again, by degrees, subsi
ded. The eyes of all then looked, and yet fear
ed to look towards the door. Jacob Mayne
was not so good as his word, for he did not
bring Lucy by the hand to restore her to her
parents, but, dressed again in her own bonnet,
and her gown, and her own plaid, in rushed
their child, by herself, with tears and sobs of
joy, and her father laid her within her mothers
bosom. ' '
cannot be raised obove a dennite limit. Cer
tain functions the most important in the cau
ses is perhaps the free and copious perspiration
that is induced preserving' the body at a cer
tain equilibrium a3 it regards its temperature,
and to prevent the accumulation of heat ; water,
if confined in a close vessel, may be raised to a
red heat, but it the steam or vapor be suffered to
escape, its temperature is limited.
The secret of fire eating was made public, it
seems, by a servant), to One Richardson an
Englishman, whoappeared in France about the
year 1567, and was the first performer of the
kind who ever exhibited in Europe. Accor
ding to his statements, it consists in rubbing
the hands and thoroughly washing the mouth,
lips, tongue, and other parts thai are to touch
the fire, with pure spirits of sulphur; this
burns and cautorizes tlie epidermis, or upper
skin, till it becomes as hard as thick leather,
and every time the experiment is tried it is
easier than before. But if, after many repea
ted trials, the upper skin should grow so callous
and horny as to become troublesome, washing
the parts affected with very warm water or
hot wine, will bring away all the shrivelled or
narched onidermis : the flesh, however, will
continue tender and unfit for further experi
ments until it has been frequently rubbed over
again with the same spirits
In broiling veal cutlets, in his mouth, he first
laid another very thin slice immediately on his
tongue, then .he red hot charcoal, and upon
that the cutlet,- to be broiled, so that the coal
could not burn him before it was extinguished,
on the under part, by the saliva
This preparative may be rendered much
stronger and more efficacious by mixing equal
quantities of spirits of sulphur, sal amoniac, es
sence of rosemary, and juice of onions. The
bad effects which swallowing red-hot coals,
melted sealing wax, brimstone, phosphorus,
and other calcined and inflammable matter
might have had upon his stomach, were preven
ted by drinking plentifully of warm water
and oil both before and after swallowing the
substance. Assoon as he left the company, he
vomited all up again
My author further asserts, that any person
who is possessed of this secret may safely
walk over burning coals, or red-hot plough
shares, (as Queen Emma is said to have done)
and strenthens his assertion by the example o
blacksmiths and forgemen, many, of whom ho
says acquire such a degree of calosity, by often
handling hot substances ; that they will carry a
glowing bar of Iron from the furnace to the an
vil, in their naked palms without any pain.
M.
Spirit of sulphur is a combination of crude
titi? pi?TiATVrr ATMTI Till? fi ATT.OR. (diminished, the nrnc.ess rra tUr
i i- j . anu ine cunsuinems more ntimia . . -t
A man oi learning uvea upon me oaiiKs uia - . -v comoinM
: 1 i i than has beendone in anv known ucq
river: ne was not one oi inosc veneraoie sages , , " t'css; nenrf
m d . m -m .1 I Wr I III IFIIflll IIIH Ll-"1171 I K I I 1 CZ flAT "
who en ov in solitude the truits oi their studies, & . - ""reasonable tr
but a real pedant, overflowing with Greek and i ne sample forar.
Latin, who incessantly tormented every oooy -
he met, with quotations, metaphors, &c. it " V 4 Zs.''ltne- Mr.
, . . , i . i j.l iiuinne writer uaicu mav n. i n.-s i r
ie had but contentea nimsen wun auuicssmg - . - -ne year
hose who were able to understand inm out -s-. - ' :ta A AlIT m , wmh much
ie was surrounded by poor peasants, who fosm was abstracted fron i oil of turpentine after
infiw little beyond their field and plough, and has been distilled from vater" Tv
, .1 ' u-m 4,; K.,c uh on oi turpentine 1 sena you is pure, nr
KCt ne aCCUIllUaUicu mem inn iiihi. iiuh . .
xr it1 nn,i CnnhnM witlirmt prpn I so, and is, 1 think, an ar
transla ing hir quotations. "Sir," said the .mportance It d.ssol singly caoutchouc
peasants to him, let us till our neias, anu w4ry-,r, VC 7' M "ULRnotcon.
plant our cabbages-if we spent our t.me m : . X " r"f..w"h.
fillinsr our head with things we do not unaer- M"" wun alcohol
Yipt in I it burns in a lamp witnout lea vmsr small r.c -. '
StanO, VOUr cuuiv nuuiuuuu "u " I . - . . . , 'movs
market, and you would not have sucn nne iruu r- - . - b scintil-
, r iu0 Nations, observable in the flame whpn
upon tne taoie. rui msitau ui aiug . - . , " vu"itnon
mith of this observation, he exclaimed, with oil of turpentineisused.-. Y.Jour. Ccvt
much self-satisfaction. "Labor improbus om-
sulphur, essence, alcohol, and oil.
nia vmcit.
Not far from this pedantlivcd a sailor, a droll
fellow, who was always merry and happy, con
stantly simrincr, and was considered very skilful
in his profession. One day the Pedant had oc-
a. i 1 il J r iu tt s n tin
inn T n rro in i ir nmPT siu ui Lim iivci uu
went on board the sailor's boat, who immediate
ly took his oars and pushed off. On the way
the followinn- dialoffue took place between
them :-
" Friend," said th
The effect of exertion. Many-years aa .t
present governor of Vermont met one nfV
oldest and most respected citizens, in anoth
part of the state, and said to him, fcSir, I am de
sirous of obtaining an education. Mv n-
. , . . - PdrCRlS
are poor owing to a deficiency in one of ra .
hands, I am incompetent to do any work imn
the farm, and my father is unable to do an?
thing for me. If you will allow me to rnm
and study with you, I will serve you faith
luiiy, ana ao your menial olhces.
v nur rnpnini niri on,, mi
1. il -1 l I J J i h
tne passenger 10 uie uodiuw.., offer was accented. He annli.n
you seem to be very cheerful and happy, and tQ fitud and in gix Qr MWJ - -ufe
I suppose you are very well satisfied with your- acquired an education, and a fund of imnL!
-r. : n: .1.. , -r-'wui ,
T A. r, information. His patron then gave him twpnt,. 1
I not be satisfied? said donars, a horse and waggon, and bade him fili
:ooduseofmytime,and A ew ycarg ?tenvards? hc W
sei.tr;
"And why should
the boatman; "I make g
have no cause of sorrow.
" Ah ! you make good use of your time
I should be glad to know whether you deserve
to be so happy. Can you read i
"No. sir, not a letter."
'" Poor wretch! you cannot read, and yet you
truly
that a right application of his intellectual nm
ers had made him a member of Congress nn
ins siup was to me viuci magistrate s chei- i
of the State of Vermont. Conn. Mirror. "
Christian
si nof
t
Why,
Charity. " I have killed vnr
, 1 a J. ll 1 1 r 1 ,, !. -mm . -
v-va. r icaT n II ll'l I I 1' i I l I . I I I 1 I I I 111 ' io n l . 'i 1 r i m r unin I li n iota i i .
life!" less celebrated lor his eccentricities than hU
I'V. "L 4 .-w-, n- AX A -nni n noirnv Tint rntinilf,n (O l iv or1!ol c-L- ill f m net nonfoco tliat - i
X He Uualilldll v i il uui au.in n ivut v-- ...... v v i in,viiai m. iuno 1111,0.1 uiai Illy mf(1"
,- f . 1 1 A A ..1 i A X At 1 , I J il r 1
sing. Soon alter tne peaani coniumcu 1 oi ireairneni nas oeen uie ueain 01 mm ; 1 err. :
"Can you write?" tainly did mistake Ins case." The new-mado
"Why to be sure not! I told you L could not widow shed a profusion of tears, but tho Dor-
read, so how should I write? tor received next morning a pleasing testimo
"What! i oucannotwnte, and yet so cheer- ny ot her not " bearing malice," in the ehnr
,- -r l 1 a. a I. ..oM..mi.l? 1 1 r
iui s iou nave iusi uikjuici uuai ici ui yuwi mi a nne nauncn of venison.
life !"
The boatman shrugged his shoulders, but
did not seem less cheerful than before. Pres
ently the Pedant began again
-.
"Boatman, do you understand mineralogy,
ornithology, zoology, astrology, physiology,
anH nsvrhn ftffv. v,C. that bcneht liiiv be derived Irom th'rm if
r J J t I J -AAA. J,
"The deuce take all your foolish long names! they are properly attended to. If nothino-ncv
nunAx. Ecoaroxvrz.
FRUIT TREES.
Messrs. Editors I submit the following
hints .for vrour Agricultural readers, brlirinrf
may
OPINIONS OF GREAT MEN.
Lewenhocck a distinguishedphsiologist among
the ancients, supposed the semen maris of all
kinds of animals to be amore congregation of
animalcules, and that a particle of this peopled
semen not larger than a grain of sand, whose
diameter is but the hundredth part of an inch,
contained 3,000,000,000, of animalcules sui
generis whether men or elephants ! AVe are
not informed whether this mighty army of
hokiniciili who parade in an animated globule,
are in uniform, booted and spurred or appear
in the character or Grecian gymnastics.
The celebrated Mr. Winston accounts for the
Deluge as follows :
Our earth was orignally a shell enclosing a
vast body of waters, till the tail of a comet ap
proaching too near it, so agitated the internal
waters as to cause its shell to burst, we suppose
something like a rotten egg, and the waters to
pour forth and deluge the surface ! This theory
What do I want with them?"
"How! You know nothing of these fine
things, and yet you fancy yourself happy !-
Why, you have again lost a quarter of your
life!"
During this conversation, a storm had sudden
ly arisen, the waves tossed the light boat, and
at length drove it on a rock, on which it could
not but perish.
"Sir," said the boatman to his companion,
at this critical moment, "can you swim?'
"io indeed. 1 cannot; iJiavehad more im
portant matters to attend to."
is contained m them, they may remind soni
of matters proper to be attended to nt the pre
sent season; and which, if neglected, -may oe-
casion loss and regret, when too late to ap.
ply the remedy.
Our Peach-tress, particular .when jjoun:,
are very subject to attacks of the curcnuo, c
grub, as it is generally called. They origi
nate from the egg of a fly in ihc summer end
fall; and soon become a white worm or grub,
with a dark coloured head, of an inch or moro
in length. They penetrate tlie bark at or notir
the surface of the earth, and work downward
"Well, then, 1 tear you have lost your whole to the root. In the course of a year or two,
life.11 they frequently destroy the bark quite around
Thus saying he leaped into the waves and the tree, which, causes it to perish. Or it
swam on shore. He suffered the pedant to not destroyed, it becomes sickly and un-
struggle a while in the water, and pretended fruitful. The existence of the grub at the root
not to hear his cries for assistance. At length of the tree, may easily be discovered by thcooz-
he helped him out of the water, and ing of gum at the surface of the ground. The
took him home half dead with fear, dripping' remedy I would recommend, is, at once to di
wet, and trembling with cold.- Since that time the earth from the tree as dceD as the roots
is directly opposed to a more modern great man,! thc pedant is said to have lost most of his pride, will permit then open the bark with a knife
From the New York America?!.
THE SECRET OF THE FIRE EATER.
Astonishing powers of the animal system in
resisting the influence of heat, as well as the
wonderful mechanical inventions which have
for some time past excited the curiosity and
wonder of the old world, are how eliciting al
most an caual deorep nf wnndpr nnH amaze-
closed over her, and we shall never sec hcrfment with us; but when submited to the scru
more : 7
At last a man, who had left the &earch and
rone in a direction towards the high road, came
.Tunning with something in his arms, towards
the place where Michael and others were stand
i ng beside Agnes, who lay apparently exhausted
almost to dying on the sward. lie approached
hesitatingly ; and Michael saw that he carried
Lucy's bonnet, clothes and plaid. It was im
possible not to see some spots of blood upon
the frill that the child had worn round her neck.
Iurderedt murdprcd-4-' was the one word
whispered or ejaculated all around ; but Agnes
fiwird it not, for-worn out by that long night of
hope and despair, she had fallen asleep and was
perhaps seeking her lost Lucy in her dreams.
.ook the clothes, and narrowly inspect
VSJiTt vye and hand said with a fervent
vmce that was heard even in Michael's despair,'
jATl.-Vong the living There
uie iiu luai iv b Ui YlO
lence On thn mrmontc- nfiVto
innocent no murderer's hAu
tu, n j i s haid has been put
; here. These blood-spots have been nut there
to deceive. Besides, would not t P 5f
j have caried oST these thin
- would he have murdered her ? But ohi vLr
despair! What speak I of? For wicd
this world is ay, desperately wicked there
is not on all the surface of the wide earth a
hand that would murder our child! Is it
- plain as the sun in heaven, that Lucv has bppn
stolen by some wretched gipsy, and that before
I hat f tin ha get she will be gaying her prarcrs
tiny of the western hemisphere are soon divested
of their apparently supernatural phenomena,
and as soon met with successful imitations.
The automaton chess player encountered a rival
from the land of steady habits, ere his reign
had fairly commenced ; and our attention has
recently been directed to an American Fire
King, who offers to perform all the wonderful
feats of this important potentate? and may,
perhaps cap the climax by proposing to devour
Monseur Chaubert himself : be this as it may,
whatever design hejuay have on his personit
is clearly evident he would relish a slice of his
profits. ;
The power of the animal frame in bearing
with impunity high degrees of temperature, has
been the frequent subject of experiment and
observation; entertainments have been given
in ovens where the guests have remained with
impunity while the process of cooking the meals
were going, n; in the more extensive baking
establishments on the continent,children,havintr
on wooden jshoes, are in the practice of carry
ing and despositing the loaves' of bread in
the" different parts of the oven. Drs. Fordyce
and Blagden, withoutany previous preparation,
endured the temperature ot an oven heated al
most to redness; and the latter exposed himself
in an oven to a heat of 257', in which water
boiled though covered with oil.
This power of resisting great degrees of heat,
seems to depend upon a law of all substances
v:z: that the feroDcraturc of livin? bodies
who suDnosed the earth a scintillation from the
sun, and only superficially cooled while its in
ternal fires still rage unquenched. Capt. Sym
mes differs from both the foregoing great men
and supposes the earth partially hollow and in
ternally habitable.,
A contemporary of the ditinguishcd Wins
ton supposed the.all cheering sun which lights
us to our morning anthems, to be the great local
hell, where are punished the souls of the
damned; while his great colleague Mr. Wins
ton supposed " the comets are so many hells ap
pointed in their orbits alternately to carry the
. 1 1 m '
damned into the conhnes oi the sun, there to be
scorched by its violent heat, and then return
with them beyond the orb of saturn, there to
starve in these" cold and dismal regions"!
Descartes, another great astronomical man,
supposed the planets were borne along their
orbits by ctheriai vortices.
The great Dr. Herschel supposed the sun an
opake body, and habitable, and that all the light
and heat of that apparently splendid and burn
ing body, are derived from its atmosphere, con
sisting of brightphosphorescentclouds. uoubt-
less the learned Dr. will not allow the olar
Coroners to report many deaths by freezing.
Dr. Galen who, (see Dr. Cullens preface to
Materia Medica) led by the nose all the physi
cians of the cirilized world for 1500 years, be
lieved in the healing power of amulets, and that
the threads wherewith a viper had been choked
to death, .when tied round a patient's neck,
would cure all kind of tumors arising therein.
The Honorable Mathew Hale who devoted
15 hours of the 4 to the pursuit of knowledge,
and who was knighted, and made chief baron
of the court of Exchequer, elevated to the chiei
Justiceship of the Kings Bench, believed in
witch-craft and presided when the accused were
condemned for this imaginary crime.
Alexander the great was a great sot, and the
monarch before whose sceptre the world trem
bled, was a slave to thr most beastly vice !
We could give a much longer catalogue of
the opinions ol great men, wnnoui applying to
fabulists and the writers of metamorphosis; but
the above will suffice for a fair sample of the
superlative frivolities of great men
Mammoth Turtle. During the late storm, a turtle
of extraordinarv dimensions drifted ashore on the
Flats at West Farms, and was taken on the salt
meadows of Mr. Richard L. Hirst. This Turtle was
immediately purchased by Mr. Scudder, proprietorof
inc Am men can Museum, lor tne Bum oi ouu aouare,
and was brought to the city and safely placed in his
establishment alive vesterdav its weight is four
teen hundred and sixty-two pounds,being some 400
or 500 pounds heavier than the celebrated Turtle
taken several years ago in Sandy Hook Bay, which
is sun esjuDitea at the same museum, inis is uter
where the worm entered, -and follow it dowrr
Silliman's Journal. We have before us till you-iind and destroy it. Leave the ground
Silliman's Journal of Science and Arts for Oc- open till Spring, and if any should have escaped
tober. It sustains the high reputation of its your search, the winter will generally deslrov
former numbers. We have been particularly them. Aftpr removing the worms, some people
interested in reading an account of several che- cover the wounded part of the tree with a
mical operations performed by S. Guthrie, Esq. composition of fresh manure, mixed with
of Sacket's Harbour. In introducing them to lime, sand,' or ashes and water, bo as to form a
the notice of his readers, Prof. S. remaks, " I thin mortar. This is preferable to leaving the
presume it was little suspected that such things part entirely exposed. Other remedies ore
ally a great v
;r:osity,
were doing in a remote region on the shore of
Lake Ontario." Mr. G. has ascertained by ex
periment, that mercury exists in the fumes ari
sing during the formation of fulminating mer
cury. Large quantities of the latter he has
manufactured as a matter of business. Within
three or four years he has manufactured 1200
lbs. of chloride of Potass, 25,000 ounce can
nisters of percussion powder, 120,000 gallons
of vinegar, generally by processes peculiar to
himself, 100,000 gallons of alcohol, and 300 lbs.
of the " Yellow Powder, on which he makes
the following remarks in a letter to Prof. S. of
May 8, 1831: .
Some years ago, I introduced the " Yellow
Powder" to the notice of sportsmen; I had
long found v much disappointment in my gun
ning excursion, from the slow fire made by
using common gunpowder as priming; this in
duced me to melt the common fulminating
powder, made of nitre, pearlas lies and sulphur,
and when in a state of fnsion, to withdraw J
from the fire, immediately before it should ex
plode, and then to grain and use it as priming.
The operation was of singular difficulty and
danger, and although I met with frequent and
terrible disasters, having been burned by it
nearly to death, yet I pursued the business un
til improvement seemed to be nearly exhausted.
Molasses from the Potato. I have been for
some time persuaded, says Mr. G. taking the
data furnished by chemists as correct, that su
gar might be advantageously made, in towns
remote from the Atlantic coast, from the potatoe
and one year ago, Capt. K. G. Patter, at my in
stance, with great ingenuity, devised and con
structed machinery, and apparatus for prosecu
ting the business. A6 this is the first attemnt.
within my knowledge, tomake sugar from po
tato on any considerable scale, I propose giving
you a full account of the business so far as it has
proceeded.
The molasses forwarded by Mr. Guthrie is
very rich, and apparently pure syrup, ' and has
only a slight peculiarity" of taste, a little like
that of an oil, that could enable one to distin
guish it from the best cane molasses. The syr
up is nearly as rich as that from the sugar ma
ple; aUd not improbably may yet afford crys-
taiized sugar. ,
i r , - r Art .i . ,
un fowaer.LT. ijrutnne nas made gun
powder on a new principle of his own invention ;
by which the danger of the manufacture is much
sometimes used, such as pouring boiling water,
or putting a quart of unslacked lime around
each tree, after removing a little of the earth.
Ihcre arc many individuals in this vicinity,
who have choice fruit trees in their orchards or
gardens which they have procured at considera
ble expense, and I think' I could safely say, ir
they will examine, they will find not one in five
ot the peach and nectarine free from theworcn
They are more subject to these attacks then
other trees. But it would be well to examine,
and remove the earth from the roots of the ap
ple, cherry, plum and apricot. The writer ot
this article a short time since, on examining-the
roots of hH.fruit trees, found that nearly eve
ry one of them had suffered more or less from
the worm. One, apparently a thriftv tree, ot
the peach-plum he found had "been attacked
below the surface of the earth by insects con
monly known by the name of white ants w
wood lice. Thev had 1
thempekes IB
large numbers in the inner bark, and f aten'U
entirely away, together with consideraglc of
the wood, for three or four inches. It was v
course, destroyed, A few of the same insects
werefoundonthe root of a cherry tree,cc ina
several times seen them in the roots oi gr
vines-particularly those which have decayed
wood attached to them. They arc mnni;
more to be dreaded than the grub, as they apPca
to effect entire destruction in a short time; an
that, before vou can discover any symptoms
of their existence. A timely examination oni;
can save them; for which I would always re
commend an-examination of the roots of fro1
trees and vines, during the fall or winters"
son particulary if they grow in gardens. 1
satisfied that they are greatly increased, and o.
course more destructive, where there arc pos -and
stakes with the bark upon them, whicn in
frequently the case in gardens. They arC '
most certain to be found in these, and live
the bark and sap-wood, from which they-spre
to almost any tree, shrub or vine tnai
fer. It is prudent never to place such etak
near them, unless they are well charred, wn
will prevent their depredations. Vine jo
are also sometimes attacked by a sPclCSffI1
grub resembling those which are here kno
by the ; name of sawyer, which often cut
root entirely asunder. By pursuing the cou -I
have recommended, of removing theear-
!th ese may also generally be detected.