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1 , ' rr, r, : 'A . . ..... .-.- .,.. A. - -. - - ;. ' . -i . - s LIBERTY....THE CONSTITUTION... . , UNION. VOL.XVI. lUUi.IUED BY THOMAS WATSON. Three .dollars per mum-pyable in advance No paper will be discontinued ( but at the dis cretion of the Editor) until all arrearages have been. id up. NEWBERST, MONDAY, SOSTEMfiKR 19, 1832. ------- - " 4 " NO. 821 it in cash in England ; and I never heard of such a thing as that. Merchant. And so I certainly should, if the tariff prices of goods were to continue; but if I could bring all tne goods which your cotton would purchase, into this country, and other merchants could do the same.- (that is if the la- . ' 3- Remittances by mail will be guarantied-by Tff were abolished) the. first and only effect, for the Editor. a very short time, would be, that goods would 1 fall forty per cent. That would help you tar- from the Milledgeville Ga.) Recorder. The Forty Bale Theory" Examined. fellow-Planters: Could the ridicule of the world have -always triumphed over truth, we should at this day be ignorant 'of the sublimest truth's of philosophy ; deprived of the most useful inventions of art; and robbed of the con solations of even our blessed religion itself. Indisputable as is this remark, the world is just as closely wedded to old opinions, and just as re idy to d aounce, reject arid ridicule novel ties, as it has ever been. Hence it is, that the s;.f-vident proposition of Mr. McDuffie is not aiiiitted by every man who sees it. It is ,hls The duties on goods imported" from abroad, are paid, not by the consumers of those 1 lfc -I a. ajC a. ... mers very muen. xui me next eueci wuuiu ut, that those manufacturers who are now sending their goods here to compete with British goodst and all the merchants who are trading on their goods, would be running here, as they used to be, to buy your cotton to purchase goods with in England. The demand for cotton and Bri tish iroods would be both wonderfully increas ed. Goods would then rise, and so would cot ton, and as it takes but a small part of your crop to supply your farm, you could nvell afford to buy that a little dearer, to sell your whole crop for two or three cents in the pound more es peciallv as the articles you consume would even then be cheaper than they are now. Or there might be no rise in goods; and vet from the ready sales in England, they might afford rri( 1 snoods fniffnt i i . 1 a. L. nrK a sw 4 n i n tf O 1 ; r "m T is, out uy ine jcisu.io way ijiwuuh, wi uiuv. to nve more lor cotton.. iav. . ... . . r . - the articles in this country, winch are given in fali an(j cotlon r'se . just as the merchant may aiford to sell very cheap, and; buy pretty dear, if he can turn his penny very fast. This, if 1 understand it, is McDufhe's 44 forty bale theory," plainly set forth. He says the idea, that the merchant, after paying the govern ment forty per cent,,-tacks that amount on to the balance of goods in hand and his profits be sides, and throws the whole upon the consumer, is all stuff. And I think I shall prove to you that, as a general rule, this is impossible, and that lew men would ever sell a yard of British goods in this country, if that were the case. J A GEORGIA PLANTER. cxcii :nge for them." He maintains, that an import luty 0:1 the goods thus brought into the country, is, just the same as an export duty to the -amc amount, upon the articles given for those goods. - To prove this, he supposes cot ton t be tke article, raised in this country, which is given in exchange for British goods; nnd 10 per cent, to be the import duty upon the ,r,ds. Now, continues ho, "suppose iwo planters about to set sail for England wUh their rr.jis of a hundred bales each, to exchange for o-opds; Before they sail from Charleston, the Trovcniineut demands of one of them, 40 per ct. upon the amount of his crop; and he delivers over f rtv bales in the, hundred to the govern ment, r, what is the same thing, sells forty, and' hands the money over to the 'government. T h v now s;ul lor Lngland, lie with sixty anu lis neighbour with a hundred. They invest their rottm in goods; and on their return", the government takes from his neighbor forty bales worth of his goods." . He asks whether they will : )t both be left with precisely the same ";niUunt of goods, to wit, the : worth of sixty, halo; and whether they will not both have lost forty bales of their crop ? Having thus placed it beyond dispute, that if the planters carried their '(.rn crops to market, every one of them would lose forty bales in the hundred, he next supposes the merchant to take their crops to England for the same purpose The. only dif ference, says he, is, that the merchant remem bers that he has to give forty bales to the go vernment, and therefore will only give the planter the price of sixty tor his hundred that is. he deducts from each pound of the hundred, as manv cents as will reduce the whole to the nrli; of" sixty in England. He admits is next considered, and the resultldeduced from with a drunken husband, and she has not had me Official returns IS as follows -4 nt mnmont'scomfort onlv sinre Iioinpn. R. " The average annual tqnnaee fentered int fore I ioined I had neither - tables or cheers, the United States from the Britiih American nor anv pots in the house; but now jr have colonies during the year IS:S, and 1830, plenty of cheers, and tables and a good fat is American, 92,77-; British, 33. Total piff in the cote. (Laughter and applause.) is ii()tiiirtg saia aooui.iuia m nauc, farmer or merchant ; perhaps neither inriiy .tne price nappeos to oe juai what' iuf but tne natural course ana opera tion oftrade brinsrs it to this. The actual state nf tl.irYfrs hetwe.en them, if sooken out, would n. - run thus; Farmer. What will you give me for these hundred bales of cotton? Merchant. I will give you eight cents, (62, 100.) : Farmer. What do you mean to do with this cotton, after you ect it? Mercbant. I mean to take it to England, THE WEST INDIA TRADE. 'O, Til AT MINE ENEMY WOULD WRITE A BOOK1." Well' may Andrew Jackson and his friends indulge in the strong ejaculation, if there was any assurance left, that truth would guide the pen of the book-maker. : We are forcibly reminded of this saying by an article which we have justfjEad in the New York Journal of Commerce, based on the offi cial rsturns of our commerce with the British West. Indies. The Journal of Commerce, a is probably known to all our readers, is a most toryfied paper, and opposed to the national ad ministration. Nevertheless, it is a valuable Commercial paper, and in commercial matters it is compelled to study impartiality. Figures, in truth, hardly admit of a successful perver sion, so far as commercial interests are in volved. Various views of the West India trade, affected by Mr. 3lcLane's arrangement, are presented in this article of the. Journal to which we refer. And the result of each most trium phantly illustrates the very great and impor tant service which the national administration has rendered the country in this one depart ment of its negotiations. We . shall present a 96,304. In 1831 American, 02,6; British 82,557.' Total 175,C29. Decreasebf American tonnage in consequence of Mr. JIcLane's ar rangement. 100 tons; increase f aggrrezate tonnage, 7h, 025. i ! The average annual tonnage departed from the United States for the same cobnies during the years i8i8, 1829 and 1830, isUAmerican, 91.539; British. 11.831; total, U4,l40. De crease of Ameriean tonnage in ednsequence of the Colonial Trade, K175. ln-ease of ag gregate tonnage, 70,770 So much for the British American Colonies. We shall now brins the whole liatter into a single view, that the reader may se at a glaoce how the case stands in leference tothe Colonial Trade, and how far trade has beei affected by the arrangement of Mr. McLane. lhe hfures heme ffiven tor earn year tne ,.r OO Journal thus recapitulates the result: 44 Heiice it appears that the aggregate ton nage arriving in our ports from the British West Indies and British American Colonies in 1831, when Mr. McLane's arrangement was in operation, greater by 86,r 9 ions, than on an average of the three preceding years, when it was not in operation : and the tmnage departed from the United States for the same- islands and colonies was greater by 7?,7b4 tons." Reader, what more can be required to esta blish the claim upon the people of the present national Administration for continued support? Let it be remembered that this Iranch of our trade, thus regained and increased by Jackson and his cabinet, was destroyed, lost by Adams and Clay during their stay in power. Do the people desire to re-instate those men, tothe exclusion of the statemen who have been so successfully engaged in repairing the Com merce of the country ? Let political aspirants and demagogues say what they may, and mag nify minor faults into unpardonable offences, and still the people wi.ll discriminate real ser vices from moonshine pretention-, and repeat with us that President Jackson may safely ex caim, '4 O that mine enemy would write a 600A," provided only, that truth would guide his pen. Maine Argus. few of the conclusions to which the Journal is necessarily led, on examination of the offi cial returns. After giving the trade of each year, with the British West Indies only, for 1828, '29 '30 and '31,. the Journal says : 44 Hence it appears, that on an average of three years before Mr. McLane's arrangement went into operation, the amount of American .tonnage entered into the United states per annum, irom the British west muies, was 20,785; and of British, k-70. ' In 1831, Ameri can 38,046, British 23,760. Increase of Ame rican tonnage entered from the British West Indies, in 1831, in consequence of the new ar rangement, 11,261; do. of British, 23,519. Total, 34,780. The annual average of American tonnage departed from the United States for the Britr ish West Indies during three years prior to 1831. was rS.2fV.A- Rriih 1IU. Tn Amp. will not pass, there, and therefore I must get Hcan tonn 40,922. British, 17,903. In- yum 11 r siiv?f. iv iiu.ii x Laiiuut ii n Q J - t J and buy goods with it. Farmer. sow much cash can you get for it in England ? Merchant; Very little indeed more than I offer you just enough. to pay freight and insu rance, and pay me a small profit for my trouble in taking the cotton to England. Farmer.- Why then don't you take your mony to England, and buy goods with it? Merchant. First, because our Bank bills would be inconvenient and hazardous to trans port if 1 could ; or I must buy bills of exchange on Fngland, and pay eight dollars in every hundred for it, after running up and lown the country, I know not how long, before I can find a person to sell ine one, and after all, it may come back protested, and then I shall lose a whole season of business, and all my mo ney in the bargain. Now your cotton , is gust 'is gwnlto me as cash and rather better, for reasons just 6tated. If cotton should rise be fore I get yours to England, I shall make a pro fit on it; if it fall, the loss will come upon me. But these are the mere chances of trade. My object is not to speculate on you, but on the goods which your cotton will purchase for me. I'-i Woll prl ri n I vT ' if vnu l5L- t V o f crease of American tonnage departed from the British West Indies in 1831, in consequece of the new arrangement, 35,660; do. of British, 17,779. Total, 53,439. But the Journal proceeds to say 44 In order to see the full operation of the arrangement, so far as the West India trade is concerned, we must take into the account not only the British West Indies, but also the Danish and Swedish West Indies, which were the Islands principally resorted to by vessels from this country, as places of trans-shipment and de posit." , The statistics are then given in detail, of the tonnage, American and British, that entered the United States from, and that which departed 1 from the United States for the British, Danish and Swedish West Indies, during -the same -j a" ; f?., v uuui auu risK 01 gc 1 11 11 o - 11 u "y years ; and thereupon recapitulates as follows : or dian I would sell it in Efngland myself. But j what amount of goods will my cotton purchase in England? Merchant. It will buy an amount worth about $2,400 in England ; but worth $3,360, (10 per cent,) in this country ? Farmer. Well, surely, you can afford to give tne more than eight cents, or twenty-four .. hundred dollars, for mv cotton then ? Merchant. I certainly could, were it not for the ffoverntnpnt hut vnu -will remember that ..., j w . ..... I have to give the government nine hundred and sixty dollars worth of the goods, or that Much out of my pocket, to protect domestic manufactures: so that I shall only bring home twenty-four hundred dollars worth. Now, if ou were to carry your own cotton to England, you would bring home no more goods; for you would have to pay the same amount to the go vernment. Farmer. Well certainly, you would be able to give, me more, if the tariff would let you: but a strange thing occurs to me here ! According to your account, you would be able to give me moxc for my cotton here than vou could get for The average American tonnage entered into the United States, per annum, from the above Colonies, in 188, 1829, and 1830, was 86,759 ; British, 7i. Total, 87,030. In 1831 American, 70,34ur British, 24,94. Total, 94,634. Increase of aggregate tonnage in con sequence of Mr. McLane's arrangement, 7,604. Decrease of American tonnage 16,419. " The average American tonnage departed from' the United States from the same Colonies per annum in 1828, 1829, and 1 830, was 82,600; British, 257. Total, 8 ,857. In 1831, Ame rican, 89,851 ; British, 18,020. Total, 107, oi 1. Increase of American tonnage in conse quence of Mr. McLane's arrangement, 7,251. .aggreSate tonnage 25,014. 1 nu, we conceive, is as correct a view of tut- c-ec uj ,r. .ucL.aneys arrangement upon our trade with the West Indies, as it is possi ble to arrive at by means ' of the official re turns. M We have taken the liberty to italicise a few lines of the foregoing qutation, for the special consideration of the reader. The trade with thp RritlcK a. : , American VOionies- Rimmer's Spkech At the Manchester Tem perance Society's Tea Party. We are much indebted to the politeness of the Editors of the 44 Old Countryman," for a scrap of the Man chester (Eng.) 44 Times" of June loth, contain ing an account of 41 a meeting of upwards of 400 members and friends of the Manchester Society in the Exchange buildiSs, whvrc they partook" of a beverage of tea instead of alcoho- . -a -a rmn 1 i lie drinks. lhe several speeches are given, including some from Rev. Clergymen, &c. but we will pass themj all for the present, to give 1 r - 1 " "l K 1 ' 11 1 f ll-'ii the loiiowintr, wnicn win oe touna tuehiv in structive, as well as graphic and amusing By the way, we could wish that temperance meet ings in this country, were oftner held on the plain republican plan, so common in old Eng land! in which the common -aboror vies with the statesman, the jurist, the physician, and the prelate, in illustrating ine oenems 01 ine xem perance refprmation. Robert Rimmer, a journeyman dyer in Sal ford, then addressed the company to the fol lowiner effect: Mr. Cheerman, and ladies and .1 r 1 1 .1 1 gentlemen: 1 nave Deen as urunnea a. leiiuw us was ever known in Manchester or Salford. Before I knew of thse temperance societies, was without employment I could get no work, and I was like a noor lost sheep wandering about in the streets this day twelve months : and had it not been for the temperance societies I should have been like a vagabond in the streets yet. I was out of employment, I said, and no a master in our trade in the town would give me work. But there was a masier silk dyer who had started in the country, ind I though it would be a place where I was ot known. I went and axed the master for a situation. He axed me what trade I was: and I said a silk dyer. He said, 44 Do you know any of our men ?" I said 44 Yes," and I told him the names of some of the men: but then I began to be ra ther frightened, for fear I should be found out Then he went to inquire into uy character and when he was gone I thought lo myself my job's done, (laughter.) He sooft came back and said, 4 We don't want anv." I then went up to the men, who had gone with me there and said, 44 1 may as well be a thief as a drunk ard, I have found that out. This man said he had been lo a temperance meetihg in Camp field, and had heard some very god discourse from a gentleman from Ecclest I said ' what's the meaning of these temperance meetings?" and he told me that they were meetings of men who had refrained lrom ardent spirits. 1 saiu to him, when is there another meeting?" and he said he eould not tell me. But as we "were going up to Salford he saw a bill on the wall, and he read it for me, for I could not read my self but now l ean read a bit, (Applause.) The bill said that the meeting was in Broughton road, on Tuesday next. 1 went to it and liked 11 very well. 1 attended the next meeting in Grarel lane, and I liked that better ; and the next was in Bloom st., and I liked that better still. The next meeting was in Canal St., Old field road, on the 1st of August last, and there 1 was convinced it was a good, thing, and pray ed to God to keep ine to it. (Cheers.) I thank. 1 have left off drinking altogether, except a gill of beer at my meals which I send for to the Tom and Jerrv shons. Those Tom and Jerry shops. Sir. arp m hiw nuisance men are rolling about from them on Sabbath mornings, and they are worse places, Sir, you may depend than me gin shops. (Laughter.) I thank God that Temperance societies were raised in Manches ter. Yesterday twelve month no. Whissun tide is sooner this year, I think but last Whit sum Sunday but one I was on Kersal Moore drunk, without shoes, coat, or hat. Yesterday meand my wife went arm in arm to Christ Church, and it was a blessed day to me. Who will then say there is no benefit 'in Temperance Societies? I thank God I have joined, 1 have how a good coat on my back, and I have the honor to say it is paid for. (Cheers and laugh ter.) Every thing I have in the house is paid for, and I am never without a shilling in'my noeket. (Renewed cheering.) My Misses says and declares she never knew comfort in the house, until I joined the Temperance Society, and she tells the neighbor? she is sure she has got a new husband. (Laughter.) 1 pressed on her to come to the tea party, for I said I shan't be comfortable there without thee; but she goes out, you see. a washing fofgentlemen, and she said she could not come, bu- she said I shall be quite comfortable when thou'rt out, for I shall know where thou art, and that you will come home sober. (Cheers,) I will say this of her, there is not a better wife in the land. (Cheers and Laughter.) I hav?j served in the army years, but i would not take I 10,000 to part from tne temperance regiment.. When my wile used to travel on the baggage-cai t, the other women would say come Mrs. Rimmer, and take a glass of gin.' And my wife would never take it, but she said it always starved her; and it does starve people, Sir, you may depend on it. (Loud Laughter.) 1 think that the happiest neet ol myliie that 1 signed the pledge in Old field Road, I lost one of my lads about a month ago, he was drowned at Broughton Bridge. When i was a drunkard he used to get oil to bed before 1 got home for fear of me. but when became a sober man he never would go to bed till his father came home, he loved me so. (Hear, hear, and Cheers.) I have another about IS years ol her age; and a man what works with me said to me one day, 44 What benefit has thou, Rimmer, in the Temperance Society? I said to him, 44 Ax our Charley what benefit there is." -He said, 44 Well Charley, is there any bent fit in these Temperance Societies?" And Cha:lev said, Ve. I ire.t more bread and in political schemes and prospects, in the strife for igain and fame, as to be deaf and blind to its lan guage, instruction and beauty. Some of the strong, contemplative ami senitive minds are intensely af lecteJ at this season of the year. Their soula enter so deeply into the subject which affords eo soothing1 and pleasing, but melancholy eeqsations, that they are -almost voluntarily borne off with the general decay. Bos&n Traveller. Hie From the Boston Morning Post. t inter. With a nmnim f . and now, has saluted us for a few day.- past to thp. tune of 30 to 39 Fahrenheit, but, thanks tothe heats of political contests, nobody has thought ofdiiverinff or turning blue but the minority ; and as none acknov ledge themselves m the minority, of course 110 one feels blue, except a few tho Police iconrt have sent t.o Fuddle Island to recover their carnation. On Sun day about two or three dozen flakes of snow fell hard ly enough to afford sleighing, but sulHcient to' make us think of the belles bless their tinkling! Every one, we trust is prepared for winter. There is plenty of fuel in the city, thanks to speculators who hope to make their fortunes; enough of every thing else to make us comfortable, if we have an inclination to enjoy it. The city is iiealUiyand prosperous; we have a tew alarms ol fire now and then, to keep us vigilant, and to encourage the insurance offices some accidents by flood and field to employ the news carrier; now and then a muitary company parades, giving a par ting s duu belbre they go into winter quarters : pump. khis are turning yellow for thanksgiving; turkiesare gob!. ling lor Christmas ; and porkers are preparing to go tout le cochon, the whole pardon, at the ensuing elections. Every thing is in the full tide of successful experiment ; we thcielbre bid winter welcome ! From the Baltimore American. The liip Trinity, which sailed from Bordeaux on the 12th August for New Orleans, with 36 nassen- gere and a crew of 14 persons, was wrecked near the mouth of the Mississippi, on the 13th ult. under the following circumstances: The Trinity was a new ship, and owned by the captain. During the whole ol the voyage she cxpe rienced good weather and favorable winds; but the current carried her so far astray as the Bay of St. Ber nard, off the coast of Attakapas, where she struck oil a sand bank, in three and a half fathoms watef. The captain thinking to pass it, kept on; but in a short (inie the vessel bilged and began to fill, and all oil board were obliged to take refuge in the tops, where they spent one night. The next day a raft was form ed, on which all on board embarked, and made for the land. On the raft they existed 36 hours, living on a little dried corn ami one or two cats. On reach ing the shore they were obliged to find their way through the swamps and shaking prairies, until they arrived at a human habitation, where they were hos pitably received by the planters. Nothing whatevev was saved from the wreck. cheese now." (Laughter.) I think to myself 4 U J very often what can I do to make my wife amends for all mv ill usugc to her. She has 1 had the sours, and now she shall have the sweets. If God Almighty lets me live I will make her amends for the life I have led her for twenty- seven years. 1 hope in a few weeks to keep her out of the washing tub she has given no tice to two or three places. (Cheers.) She now often says, 44 1 never passed such a year since I was tied to thee." I read, now in the spelling-book, and when she has doiieher work she gives me a lesson. I have found it easier to engage a downreet drinker than moderate one. I am raising recruits. I have formed a section ; and soon hope to get a division and even a company. There's a many folks have said that Rimmer often gets drunk now, and that they have seen me come rolling out of Jer ry's shop; but I dont mind them, for they think they are doing Temperance Societies harm, but what they say is doing them good. The speak er after a few more remarks retired from the platform amidst thundeis of applause. The company was afterwards addressed by other individuals; and the prooceedings closed about ten o'clock, a vote of thanks having pas sed to Rimmer, for his beautiful graphic speech ; and to Dr. Hull, for his kindness and courtesy in the chair. It will be seen that the annual meeting of the Manchester Temperance Socie ty will be held on Tuesday evening, at the Mechanics' Institution when Mr. G. Carr, foun der of Temperance Societies in Ireland, intends to deliver a lecture on the occasion. Bet urn of Dr. Kirkkmd. The learned Dr. Kirk, land, formerly President of Harvard College, accom panied by his lajly, reached the city yesterday morn ing, from, a tour of nearly four year' duration thror Euiope, part of Africa, and Asia Minor. From eve ry account our travellers were highly distinguished by the learned in the various countries -they visited. From France and England they passed to Italy spent several, months in that interesting country visited the classical land of Greece took shipping for Alexandria in Egypt, and went up the Nile as far as Cairo and the Pyramids. Returning to the sea shore, they took passage to Syria visited Jerusalem the Dead Sea and were in Constantinople when Lord Stranglbrd, by a favor of the Sultan, was per mitted to visit the inside of St. Sophia. Probably Dr. Kirkland and his lady are the only Americans who ever saw ihe inside of that celebrated edifice since the conquest of Stamboul by Mahomet the Se cond. Our travellers then left the capital oF the East passed through Adrianople crossed the Balkan, and reached Vienna, by travelling up the valley of tin' Danube. From thence they returned to France and England, and have at length reached in safety thcii own country, in fine health, good spirits, and with materials sufficient to form a volume of traveb the most interesting ever published in this county Y. Y. Globe. Autumnal Leaves. The beauty of the North American forests in the decaying state of their foliage has often been remarked and admired ; and it is said to be peculiar to the wooits 01 this region, it is now at this period at its height; and it struck us, inn short ramble the other day, that it exceeds all we have before witnessed. Let a spectator place him self on an eminence hard by a forest of promiscuous trees, and attentively view the scene, and he must a imit that it is one of surpassing beauty and richness. The north-western environs of this town afford the best situations fo-- observations of this kind. This beauty of the fort st, (although a dyinrr one like the dolphin which is said to throw out the most beautiful hues 111 its expiring moments.) we believe is greatly overlooked by most'peonle. The colors are not of that glaring and gaudy show, which im mediately arrests the attention of every one ; but the eye once engaged and fixed upon the scene, a most rich, mellow, variegated picture, is presented, and one tnat sweus and sollens m beauty and richness the longer the eye rests upon it. There may be seen all the hues of the rainbow, the rich scarlet of the maple, the golden yellow of the bach, the crimson of the oak, the unchanged and living green of the pine, and every intervening shade. It may be considered an odd topic, and a solemn subject out of place ; but to us, and we believe, to most men, there is an irresistable appeal to the feel ings in this language of . nature in her dying mo- God I did do so. Ail old master of mine was ment; this "elder scripture" spraks in tones that the Cheerman that night, - and he said to me, ; fan not pass unheeded , n tllUU IIOU LUIVv "'J hike years ago, thou would now have been worth one hundred pounds;" and I h.ve since found his words were true. Now I can draw my wa ges comfortably, and when I get my money I put it in my wife's lap, because I know she will Tho fhnncrintr seasons often, and beautifully held up as an embb m ol man's life; and the similitude is f ' ling, h is not mawkish sent i men mfcty, but the pure feeling and language of nature. Well hath the poet sung: "Behold, fond man ! see here thy pictured life" r.-. rn .!... ,D!1nn of the year, we believe that lay it out to the best advantage. '(Applause.) autumn addresses itself most closely to the feelings for twenty six or twenty seven yars before I 0f the heart ; and we most pity ine man who i&so joined lhe Temperance Society, she was plagued entirely engrossed in the "business of the world" Physic. Many unfortunate people have a sad propensity for amateur phvsickins! Bishou Berkly drank a butt of tar water. Meyer, in the course of chemical neutralization, swallow ed I, UU pounds of crab's eyes. One person took so much elixir of vitriol that the kevs were rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through his skin; and another turned bine from the quantity of argentum nitratum which had been administered to him. " A Lowelpapermakes these judicious remarks upon this article: The above from an Engligh publication is a good hint on the practice of "amateur physick ing." In these times of cholera excitement, it is especially necessary that we guard against breaking down the constitution by the unneces sary use of drugs, whether as "preventives" or for any thing else. No medicine should bu taken without competent advice, Domestic Treatises" (we believe they are called) on me dicine, cause the inexperienced reader to be lieve that he has upon him lhe symptoms of alf the "ills that fiesh is heir to'2 and a course of 'doctoring" is resorted to, with often times fatal mcnttc Tinting oxrlaim with valiant Pistol , . "Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it !" or imitate the example of the veteran tar, who after suffering amputation of a limb, replied to the request of the physician, "that he should take a few bolus&es and pills," 'No, no, doctor, batter my hulk if you please, but yon shan't board me !" y The Editor of the Nantucket Enquirer drily relates the following anecdote, which bears in dubitable marks of coming from the sea serpent part of the coast: " About thirty years ago, a very small child was noticed to steal away regularly from its meals and to carry its plate of victuals with it This, had 0 been repeated so often that the pari ents determined to watch its movements. Fol lowing the child, unperceived,they saw it go to a snug corner of the yard, seat itself on the ground and, disposing its plate before it, separate the provisions into two parts, and then quietly wait, as in expectation of company. J was not long' before a large rat, to their great surprise, made his appearance from a neighbor ing hole, and seated himself at the side ofM platopposite the child with all e1famii"P t of an old acquaintance. Immediately forn 4-y i . ! 41 I r- - -
