u
fit 1 TBI (FlVRMIWA WATOHMAM
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I T ' - W fcJ I j -J. -11 JL uU ! W W -A- " ll V V U U X W LI 1 V II
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S . ; . 1 'i - i . . V 1 11 i l i -i. i t a - i
U0(hiT Letter from Major Downing.
i
: i; Am tiIk roA to tiii: war,
-iU :(. M'.. SLACrr-. 1847.
4 riroAjfV w : Impose you'll be
Jjrtly tlisnp'nff0 ind m away off
fVwhin on ;to the seat of war, and
5Wwl 10 sit ymiwn comc 'hiVgh
ti.'AinC'on. IJut you must'nt blametrie
fVfl -fif IcouWii't'lp it ; the President
ouUf'( let ni call::; he said I was get-x
?iu!tp toohtck ttjith you. writing: let
r iu "and; all t(it. And when he,
PokcnJjoul th le'f's he looked kind of
SindlUowriconiiderahle spunk.
SiiVh'V'Major J Mining, I have put a
wmvI .oK'coiilMnjCc in you as a friend
I imv aminiiiratiou ;; and if you are a
lfrlinutOi't'ou P?usKel Gales and Sea
Vhpbut of their way and havt
BRUNER & JAMES,
Editors f Proprietors. "
A CHECK UPON ALL TOCR
Rl'LEKS.
Do THIS, AND LlBtRTY IS SAFI."
Gen'l. Hurrifon.
NEW SERIES,
NUMBER 17,
OF VOLUME IV.
SALISBURY, C TIRgY, AUGUST 26, 1847
Richie himself.
hp ketched the
should come in tut Mr;
As he opened the door
Xsound of the tvo!ast words the President
Was saying.; :
" Mistakes and blunders !" says Mr. Rich
ie, says he : jwhatj have you got something
more of Scott and I ay lor s blundering iri
Mexico ?
says the Presi-
tve
X . I - i i A 1
ioimng niuir; lu-uay
1 - t i f L I -m a - -m v
oetir. i was ouy lening Major Uowning
how their bfundeb there have came pret-
ty near ruinjng tbe country, and how it is
u" -i i .: -.1 .i .r i
-l fn no i in em inev arp i anw. . i . i. . 1 . .
wuuii, i?- rI j n --j r- ; arsoiuieiy necessary to get the statt out
miwtfieWK.ng ,e,.ers eternally ; ofbeir. ,mnds sohow ror other before.
Vcfcn,atjmJy:administration, all weathers.
.Ufc try. t -kiVp 'Kings ever so snug:
iiWJJiy nyipUnk eve so deep, they are
icrcto'dtg .them!, all Up, lug thin into the
hifiWifcflnd blaie em all over the
coanlff.' tnfoUnd their picturs, they are
W iat!tn)ublesrrie customers an ad
raw'fiitoiicvei hatj ; they've come pret
Cv ncSP"1 m5' ,uo or three times.
i i i ' .
jl jOHiHu my ii ityiu, i w.tru jou not
At!iick"wii tiUles and Seaton
V'i ! t.r ii i , ' OI WHICH UIIUII iiiem,
rffJO'k l. UloneJ, you know I am a ; roun(J and do the busi
irot into about
;eva;r, .j Rut 1 don'tjiknow as that. ne!d
jnake. trie Ijreali: wjtlr Cales andvea-
IV . .. i I ..' .11 f ' . I i :
j. y e l ot- 'ij-oiu;; :. menus o long, ii
id bo kind of;liard for me to ivj; 'em
.fuin ; ind t ddn't hardly think they are
Vo bad! us you thing lor. ' Thev tnav
UpieaiijtQ juo you sp mucti tiurt when
they quite finish the job. I'm going now
to try one more pjan. Mr. Richie ; but be
careful that you don't say any thing about
it in the Uriion, and blow it all up. I
tried once to sencj Col. Renton on for the
same purpose, anil Congress blowed that
up. Then I isentfTrist on for the same
purpose, and Scott has blowed him up.
Now I'm going to; send Major Downing,
not as a regular Chaplain,-but as a sort
of watch upon them, you know, to work
iness up before any
Scott
ith
and
and knock up a
bargain with him I doti't care what he
gives. 1 tie., tact is, iMr. jttichie. tne coun
try needs peace, and 111 jhave peace, cost
what it will. j j
An excellent idea, say? Mr. Richie ; an
excellent plan, sir I'm for peace at all
hazards, if it is to be found any where in
...t f ri inn ;ii t i iiur mmiiiiiiivi r'.inwi xiv .
i i i t - , , i ,,0(,.V knows it. He istnl to go to
ffidS: i . V..." . , no1' Taylor, nor hAve anjf thing to.lo.u
r ",u".V.'rt . , J 'em, but work his way iinto Mexico,
;u " T Jl ; ?r " I rrn Mfrl.f n n Anna
tti wis scrane. vou ve
Af .- . . a. - r - ! . ..I t
T .; ! , x . 5 . . t .wexico inai is, m we can get noia 01 u
lVyr?;rrr " v ' , helbrc Scott or Taylor does. And I think
y pui uieiu
ititto knov
in because they think folks .
WlliU MTUIII Ull. ,l I . 1 tlCII-
4
r.
S C(
jnnkitimeil puts things into .v paper
l fulls lli ip k don't do you no goud.
TbePreid'elit give it wo or three hard
upon hjs cud o( tobacco, and says
V Vw MKi'oif, tlrat's too tru it must be
Lnfsd ? afnl it Janiipys me beyond all
VUcncu. i Uut thru I -have to loigive it
pvrcnoow ii oecauhe ir. lucme uon i;
Vif it S Th old uehtletiian is always
ry (of it, aiid ajwavls willing to take it
:k. , Anil tljen lie'sluch a tulf old fel- ,
!roft2li !the federal sts, I cant have a
Vrt to scold at him much about his mis-
iirs and hlutiders. .
dl, say i I. LoloneJ, being you ve na-
lJ ffderallks. Mwaot to kiuw if any '
wp j.miniJtis i really supposeu to he
ftny v tiete in tie country ntw-a-V
Hff ing isieli awful accounts about
in the. Liiitm panef all thtftime, 1 in-
rt-J nil 'lie wiry ajong through New !
gUml. u-hece tliey vised to be the thick- j
.n1 1 couldn't get track of one ; and
n asked the (folks: if there was any
ir4lisjis;Hhy wieie,;;in thein quarters, ;
) 41 MJirted atiue iind said they tlidn t
uUai! sorti'of Critters they was.1
pUgot to DoUniii'gville I asked on-
'..1.1.1.1 JO. t! . . .--J ii
iiuvhioui ii. ue saut, in tus youn
tilu;re used to be considerable
inyot jeri;iboul,but they wasn't thought
le 3inrtus, for they never was much
vrMightiug. . lJuti he said he guess-
Itrva all died out! lonir aro. for he
Mtcfcine across onel tiis twenty years.
. VUiomei, sas j; how is it they are
Ulick ii Mr. Richie's naner all the
Afthatpif give me! a very knowing
al ol nilooU, and lowered his voice
n'Mrnost to a Whisper ; and says he,
W. I'jl tell you hoWMhat is. When
IVIUIIIO Wilt a VnilMv mmi u lisi-( tn
or Downing is just the man for it a
prifse, reward, and constantly aroused enthtisi-as(n--bu
where then is iBe stock of health
which 'should have! been laid up during these
years for !a whole life ? Exhausted gone.
The franie not half developed, the muscular
powers lejeble, the strength infantile, the vital
system impaired, the nerves shattered, with
what prospects for a wife or a mother does the
girl enter
upon life4"
From the Home Journal.
THE SUITORS. '
Wealth sought the bower of Beauty,
Dress d like a modern beau ;
Just then, Love, Health, and Duty
ook up their hats to go.
Wealth such a cordial welcome met,
As made the others grieve,
Sd Duly shunn'd the gay coquette;
iiove, pouting, took French leave
He did
liove, pouting, took French leave.
.j. j
Old
Time, the friend of Duty,
true stanch democratic republican; and
whatever he doeskvill go for the benefit
of tie Admihist ration. Now the country's
shins are. aching pretty bad with the war.
if! we can fix up fa good smooth peace
right off; arid not! let Scott nor Taylor
have any hand in it, who knows, Mr.
President, but it might make our Admin
istration so popular that you and I might
both be elected to serve another four
years ? Rut when is the Major to start ?
Right otf to-night, says the President,
or,' rather, in the morning before daylight
belore any bodjr in Washington finds
out that he has go back from Downing
villc I have. forbi his calling at the In
telligencer office, and I idon't wan't they
should find out or mistrust that he's been
here. If they should get wind of the move
ment, they would pe sure to throw some
constitutional difficulty in the va', and
try to make a bad, botch; of the business.
The President sjiot mie into his room,
and charged ine not to leave the house,
w hile he sent for Mr. Buchanan and Mr.
Marcy to fixjup my private instructions.
AVhile he was gone, Mr, Richie fixed me
lip a nice little bundle of private instruc
tions too. on his own hook, moddled, he
! said, on the Virginia Resolutions of 9S.
Presently the President came back with
my budget nil ready, and give me my in-
Istructions, arid filled my; pockets with ra
tions, and told me how to draw whenever
1 wanted money j and before daylight I
! was oira good piece on the road to the
I AVar I m ' '";.
I To-day I met a man going on to carry
i letters to the Government from Gineral
Scott's side of the) war, and I madehim
-stop a little whilej to take this letteV to
! you ; for I was afraid you might begin to
think 1 was dead. He says Scott isauite
FEMALE TRAINING.
A correspondent of the New JJfork Conjmer
cial Advertiser offers some valuable sugges.
tions, pointing out the errors which prevail Sn
our system of Female Education, and the treat
ment and habits proper to give vigor of cdnsti.
lution to those whose health and, happiness are
so dear to every family, and so important We
extract from the article tbe following passages ;
I am not partial to large schools. They
merge the eccentricities of individual charac
ter too much in the mass. They mould all in
tellect too frequently upon one model, j They
cramp and restrain and force and blind j. the
mind, until it becomes what the shrubbery is
said to have been in the garden of Louis iKlV
vne grande perfection deV Industrie sitr jVa
ture. I have now in my mind's eye a school,
containing Ihtleshort of a hundred pupils, where
the laws of Draco would be merciful compared
with those which are in operation, j The
piincipal himself told me that he ' regarded the
happiness of girls at school as incompatible
with thorough mental training., J have no
doubt of his sincerity; for I have never seen a
set of girls so miserable as were all wiih whom
I conversed in his School. Every emptionWru'eh
springs spontaneously in the mind of the pupil;
especially if it be of a gladsome nature,! he
seems to regard as a tare sown by the enemy,
which he and his coadjutors are most diligent,
ly to weed out. The life and spirit of 'girlhood
is crushed ; its buoyancy and mirthfulneps he
believes must arise from a sinful nature and
is subdued; its social aflectious but so imjnyj
incentives to temptation, and they are para.;
lyzed With fear. The culture of the mind is the
one great, and prevailing and all absorbing ph.!
ject of the institution To this every thing
must bend every tew, every custom, every
thought, every effort, every energy ofhody and
soul ; and to this they do bend those toiling
.girls, through the cold days of winter land the
long hot hours of summer ; in the morning and
in the night, in their rising up and in their Jy. nations are in favor of Gun Cotton, and that,
jng down, until the freshness of youth has been ! notwithstanding the serious charges I have to
Next call'd to see the fair ;
He: laid his hand on Beauty,
And left her in despair,
Wealth vanish'd ! Last went rosy Health
And she was doom'd to prove
Thkt those who Duty Blight for Wealth,
Can never hope for Love
j; ' Ah, no ' !
Can never hope for Love. ; G. P. M.
'roin the bpirit of the Tim,
GUN COTTON , !
Mr. Editor: The opinions and expertm. pin,on with reucA:
ofscientiHc men upon the subject of Gun Cof.'Vupf !.ior al,',,,d,,s'
innn hoc. lto .. koi',. (W ..'ui: "TtVwary of the SI
a great vafiety of forms, but as a reportiof the
experience of a sportsman, on this head, may
be s'oqiet hiing of a novelty, I have concluded to
send the (p lowing Results of my own observa
tions and i;asoningsi And in order to get rid
of the susjlicion of the bias of judgment which
is-so comtnon against innovations and the in
troduction f new thing?, I would preface my
remarks with the assurance that all my incli
mass, had entered with much of the powr of a
buck shot, and in still further confirmation of
this hurtful property, of the colt rin it willle found
upon inspection, that almost all the shot thrown
by it are jagged and battered into a thousand
forms, as though in their expulsion from the
barrel they are driven, together and abraded a
gainst each other with excessive violence. It
has occurred to me that perhaps the cause of
!h may be the quickness of the discharge,
which of course would have the effect to jam
the shot together, this bruising all from the ire
menduus pressure causing some of the pellets
to cohere. But what is the remedy or expedi.
ent T Hie labor est :
I have thus above briefly stated 4 my quarrel'
with Gun Cotton. No other virion o.ixlitie
-The frothing and foaming ni the
commonly imputed lo the mad t!o
so According to Mr. Youatt. an error
frequently takes place i fl cases of c
epilepsy or nausea, but in rabies exi
a very slight degree. . 1
The dog affected with rabies is !
means always ferocious. This is c
the case, but in many instances tl
mal suffers and dies with patience
quiet. I '
The symptoms however, are too v
to be detected by the inexperience I
son. To all such tbe best advice is to
vent their dogs as far as possible fr :
risk of contagion in street fights ai d ,
rels;.to be very careful of them i;
are ill, unless with a plain and well
derstood disease ; and particularly t
stain fiom the practice of allowii: :
dog to lick the hands or face, by v.
dirty habit the rabid infection has
been conveyed into the sjsteoi
The point of greatest importance
ever is, what measures to take in c.
being bitten by a dog! under sus;
circumstances. Fortunately, the pre
live course is simple and afe.
The rabid poison is of a peculiar n
While the virus,of the rattlesnake h
through the Whole system in a few
utes, and most other poisons product
were noticed by me, but I have been informed
by a gentleman that while in the act of putting I T.. Pns prouuet
the cotton down bis gun with the tod it Mnll short period, the po.sonoi:
AaA i ,:..j.u-- .. cipie mirouucca ov tne one oi a tn;
iiiuiiavMs-u.n.i.w.iuiiruiiiiKUrClWaj ,. ' . .1 " , . ,
that tL wad w nut nnon ih .-oiton .nA I's inactive in the wound for, WCCi.
were both driven ranidlv throush the barrel to. eve" months, before it becomes at
gether, suffice nt heat being evolved by the
compression of the air to cause the explosion.
m . a.
31uch the safer way is to pnt the cotton home
before the introduction of the wad, though il and danger is prevented.
no
mention this accident as a caution to tbe un
wary. i ! .; M ' i :
The- result to which I have 'come from the
above facts is that Gun Cotton upon its present
conditions, cannot be used with the same fit.
ness as gun-powder in the shot gun, for the
purpose of field sports. I hare adopted this o.
ance, on account ot the vastly
in many respects, of this new
"TtVuary of the sportsman. But at the same
tlfne, wve gucij :3 my conclusion. I Mill have
doubt that in i short thnn llipse iinnfrfr.
into the system and produces its v
Consequently if the bitten part be n ;
ca immediately, the poison goes v. n
TLere are however, two object!
ing the knife in this process. (
lost in study, and the character becomes an au
tomaton, performing its parr in learning, as the
body does in their calisthenies, to the authori
tativo command of a master. I j
"The end of all this easily seen. Brilliant
semi-annual examinations, at which governors
and judges .and doctors of divinity sing pslams
to the glory ot female education; annual re
ports paraded in newspapers before the world
in which the great men of the land testify to the 1 freedom from smoke and dirtiness : then too
prefer against it, I still think it possesses so ma- pyrotechnies the Gun Cotton is unrivalled" and
uy lupnoiiuif s auu superior (piaiuies inai it is
one of ihe;prime inducements to niy sending
you this article that it may luckily attract the
attention of able and more experienced exper
imentalists jto this subject. ;
The articles in wbte-h Gun Cotten excels are
at once perceptible, are also of unquestionable
mportancel It. is only necessary to specify its
wonders which thorough training can evolve
from the female mind ; public addresses, laud
ed consecrations, advertised religious; excite
ments schedules of distinguished patrons, pic
torial views of buildings and grounds and beau-
the recoil of the un and the noise of the ex:lo.
sion are in a measure done away with ; no tri
fling advantages on a hard, hot day's fag.
Other superiorities might be readily enumera
ted, but these already mentioned would, in my
estimation iplace the new discovery far in rank
usin
the pain and extent of the wound, t!.
er is the danger that the knife itself.
removing the bitten spot, may carry
poison to a deeper place, and lcav":
fatal inoculation there.
Mr.-Youatt's practice has been to
terise the wound 'thoroughly i with
caustic. Let this, sharpened to a
be applied carefully and thoroughly :
ery recess and sinuosity of the v.
where the teeth or saliva of the a:
could possibly have penetrated. Thi
form an eschar, hard, dry, and iiu
a compound of the animal fibre ar;u
caustic, in which the virus is wrap; ;
and from it cannot be separated. .
short time dead matter sloughs awn v,
the virus is carried off with it. Pre.
to applying the caustic, it will ofte:.
: i .i
experiments have demonstrated its fitness to to enlarge me wounu, Ili.i
throw the ball with precision and power. May I 7 P.art ma' be fwrly-got at ; and ;
the time be not far off when we can employ it ! , ,rst eschar has sloughed off, it wi
to the destruction of the winged game. Reflect, 1 a.dv,sable, to apply the ; caustic a ire
Mr. Editor, how much would be aded to the t,me lo destroy any part that may
pleasure of the hunt ; no noise ; no recoil ; no have received the full benefit of the :
filth ! Why the very birds, themselves, in the operation, or that may possibly have 1
midst of their dying agonies, would experience ! inoculated more byr it. . i .
a sort of joy at the thought that they were slain I This carefully done,; the patient ;
in so genteel a way. I1. . j leel perlectly sate. I he poisonwill I
been removed, and no danger can rei
Mr. louatt himself has been repeal
. a i
lions Will Ue removed, nnd when !hn triall hnr,.
pen in the estimation of the men of ihe gun,
this valuable improvement will be second only
to the invention of the percussion cap, and iii
order to accelerate this occurrence 1 do trust
the sporting world will give some attention to
this subject, for it is only by an accumulation
of results of vaiied experiments that the de
sired end is to be attained. There is no doubt
that already for the purposes of blasting and
tiful scenery around cannot forever blind
the parents of the risins generation to the tor-
rible evils of such a system of education. Rre the deficiencies which more than
Learning indeed attained, hrtlliant scholars nre balance such preeminent advantages
Tkkntox, August 9th, 1S17.
dVotc bu the. Editor. We insert the above
clear article with great pleasure, as it is evi- ! bitten by rabid dogs, and other vcfcrir
dently written by a person who writes under- 1 surgeons also, but after pursuing
UI i i i.i . . . i . i n i .t ..
above its great rival, gun powder. What then fiai 0,nS'.' a"u recuroa ,,,e opmu.ns lo wn.cn ; yuu, nuuc recu xunenueu, iney :
I Counter- onnni uii mo sutriiiii ui r i t:rillieili S. irii rnuicij sruuir a tUllllUCIICC JU
s ? As I That these opinions are the fair deductions from i by the event, as well as by "expend
.,nMh,;;itw WpoJ.iaiA K.,t (,, .Ul,mL if have found them, fhev are. briefly, as follows: u,e experiments, we are not prepareu to stale.
. . . . . . . . . . . I I'l C . . . . I . I C ...1" I 1
war or sportin
of Mexico, but Mr. Tnst is disposed to
wait and see if he can't make a bargain!
1.4
ll.l II I t J . . :
Iheaerallst;, and took a good deal Wril ab1 . Tt 1 rfst. business,; and
lltridWtU Ji .i. .1... wants to push right on and take the city
a .. i .i " . rkl aviAii hut f I n I net is ilicnncnH ft
tnt'S OrhlS VriMtli nil cnmlniiimi lfil.-
ltO hi Im'nwl !...v.l I... O
alV'iUur Uot., .... v w ta Annas men. l shai pushta
I,.! : I .1 . : Inner nc tact nc I tan nl trot mtrt lha niHr
tnes the. way with old people. t. . ; e. - vjr
. . I -. - 'I n,' VlpYIKn it nnccihla hulnlia VAntt tinner
fst used to have the name of a "i f',"-" -y"lt
MfieWr: 1 riiv lii .v,o mm.l 1 n once get hold of banta An-
g V TT 1 (fc llllll II V ' XsWIIIIII.SVV
tlllU UI i , i..w .i .. i .
i i . i r ... i .. na, i nave no uoupt l shall maKe a trade.
, ' I dun t L tin w vpt uihoilm. I oKnll ..l-
city of Mexico ; it
on the news; I get
three times,when
Ministration. ! U
lt6 ;'l Wt kno w!n v man. No mat-
Lr,rrccs Was gathe ring to o verth raw
fSaiihts'jration, Mir.i Richie somehow
l"UOZtfl.J.f ' . . .... i.,
tired at! me. the din't seem to
-itj uo when 1 called to him to fire
beiNvould rouse tip and touch off a,
I 'M' Ayhen they lire crackers on the
4,uiyj and did about as much exc-
0.1 . At hint I fniM nut n ivav tk-.f
Wike theld veteran fight like ti
tflntul linl.l J i ..ii i i. I
-iix uum ijii kh n iiiiiuwirr ii a
t'ving;him a notion at any time that
'as lighting Withf federalists. ; Since
fWeuhat discovery he's been more
te!j AVhcncver.l see the enemy
inching himself around m. nn,l KriUo-.
l; 0Hihattcnt-s to firei'tnto my admin- foot, and a Ii
ttJV !W nilVe w do is to whisper in outside of tli
r-wclne d ear and say, M r. Richie, the
mclli of! federalism ; you may depend
iJlVereis; federalists nbroad some-
ii c i Yin a minute vouVe ho idea with
old gelutleman flies round.
the character which oughl to have been mould- ! . I he first important defect which I noticed in
ed during the years of study? What of the ; the cotton was its want of power. What 1 mean
social affections which should have been de- by this is that I could not obtain in my gun suf.
veloped, and cultivated, and trained for Ihe hap- 1 ticient pow'pr to throw the shot with the force
piness of others ; what of the heart, whith the of common powder. This is owing to the fact
Stream which is to flow from it, beautifying aiid that only a pertain quantity of the cotton will ex
gladdening home ; what of self respeetland self ' pkde in tK gun, so that any excess beyond that
reliance, and above all, of self.thought, so ne ,s projected in its unconsumed state. In my
cessary to the future mother of the family ; nay, first experiments I usctTthe cotion manulactur
What of the health the foundation of all use- ed in Massachusetts, but this ai tide is altogeth
fulness in life if it is to be sacrificed in the : er a 44 Yankee notion," tit only to sell. Afier
f iot set. or. if not saerineenL made at all times wards 1 wias provided with the fabric of the
subordinate to the one great purpose! of-edu- Messrs. -Ije n nig, of Philadelphia, which I found
qating the mind ? ! ..- i vastly superior, and with this, in a great number
! " Nd one who has been abroad can fail to of trials, I found the strength of a load i.e. as
hotiee the physical feebleness of American wo- large a mass of it as could be converted to go
hien in the higher classes, in comparison with the'; in my gun, was, when common powder, as two
women of England or the continent. (With e- is to. three. It may be well to add that on
oual intellect. sDriuhliness and health lin child, these occasions I used a gun of fifteen bore,
I hood and early youth, and w ith more lof beau- a"d my criterion of the force each discharge practjce nas Deen among tbe c
1 tv at the very time when the health should he was by ascertaining how many leaves of paper .. ' . amonfr "horses
most firmi the intellect biihtest, and beauty in 'he shot perforated
n . I . I. . I ' . r I i vnriiilir iC tvintltjtrl 1 i'i iinuliliA tn ni'iLa iYif
' . ' . ... i " .. i. uj:,i.....,u we are considering
me ooserver remaiKs tne .-vmerican women lo , tunmicunciiiuicpun uwuiuiuumuiui,
have failed. An intelligent physician1 said the ' and do not now consider this difficulty insur
other day that every fourth woman kept her '; perable, fur ihe expedient at once suggested it
good health till she was forty ; every foUr hiiii- self of such a construction of the gun that ihe
dredth woman her good looks. Without insis- fire of the tap will be driven into the centre of
ting upon the truth of so broad an assertion, the 'be charge so that an explosion of a large quan-
fact is universally admitted that American wo- Wy ot thejeotton. will take place. L pon tins
plan, 1 am! intormed that, a gun is being made
tried on inferior animals.
The advice, given not byjquacb
indeed, it is the judgment of a gotxl sportsman
to whom the above has been subjected, and by practitioners of skill and experi
who has promised us a answer to it, that our an(J foumej as wi be'cknowledgr . .
friend M. is in error, and that gun Cotton ... Ms ; reasonahe groUnds. is worthy to be t
v 11 11 i and remembered bv nil. as rointinL'
HYDI'OPIIOBIA.
This singular disease is in the minds of
most persons invested with so much ob
scurity and dread, and its prevention or
cure so ill understood, that we are con
vinced that we are doing the public ser
vice in publishing the only reliable infor
mation on the subject we have met with.
It is taken from Mr. Youatt's work on
The Dog, a book of excellent .authority
by a celebrated veterinary surgeon, whose
canine fam-
i I q? miinti oc nmnnff li t r1 nilfl VVnn
Although I reported to a , J . . , . A:nr.n
nas n;tu inucii f xpci iciitc uu uiu ui.ui.
1.. - . l.. .i.i -in....; Lii
0 , ,i -4 . t r - . men uccouib premauiteiy oiu. .Allowing ail
bcott s roadjor laylorsj road to go to-the; that is said about the influence of climate, diet
Will depend a little un-
on tfie Way. Two or
1 1 have been stopping
to rest, I ha'ye beeti looking over my pri.
vate instructions. They are fust rate, es
pecially Mr Richie's -v.- -
I remain jour old friend, and the Presi
dent's private. Embasseder,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING
,r0
vVfhaling Guns. We saw yesterday,
at the store1. of Capt. E. W. Gardner, a
very curious contriyance for killing w hales.
It is a short' gun, weighing some twenty
Uvej poundsthe stock being of solid brass
from which a harpoon is to be fired into
the animal. ;: The handle of the harpoon
) goes into the; barrel of the gun, about a.
ne is fastened to it of course
the gun I- by which the whale
is to be held. - .
There is also a bomb lance, for the pur
pose of killirig the! animal. The instru-j
ment is loaded with powder, and a slow
m.iteb iv ' ft nir. ihti maora7.ine" through
tts; his heaviest Mms nnd sets bi ilio i...m,ii.. ti.u in. I -Ki,-I fw. int it.
WKjy ir ,-par. His shots! fly gun. Whed the lance is fired, in about
KrP :urt anifometimes knock down half it miiiutb the fire reaches the powder
in the heail of the instrument, which in
stantly explodes, k Ming the animal outT
right.- 'At le;ast th s is what the article is
intended to do. .
The wholt apparatus is certainly very
ingenious ; - ijvh'ether or not it is really an
improvement Qti tHe present mode of kill
ing whales, is more than we are able to
saw That is a Question which : must De
settled by the whalemen themselves.
I-: 1 c Ji.i
uress, eany cares, eve, in prooucing tnis mere
is still much wanting much that is unsolved,
in bringing about so universal and disastrous a
result. I believe this will be found; to be an
injudicous early education, and in this almost
alone. The childhood of English and French
women is spent in play. Their girlhood is
physical and menial exercise combined, the
former always taking the precedence, and al
ways insisted upon even if it be to ! the entire
neglect of the other. !
"The English girl spends more! than one-
half 01' her waking hours in physical amuse
ments, which tend to develop, and invigorate ;
and ripen the bodily powers. She rides, walks,
drives, rows upon the water, runs, dances, plays,
swings, jumps the rope, throws the ball, hurls
the quoit, draws the bow, keeps up the shuttle
cock, and all this without having it forever im
pressed upon her mind that she fis thereby!
in Philadelphia, so that we will soon hear the
result of tle experiment. This the first partic
ular in which I find fault with this new aid of ihe
sportsman, but if this wwe its only failing I make
no question, but in the course of a lew years pow.
der would be placed among ihe " things that
have beeii." Unfortunately I find other vices
which appear tome more difficult of cure.
I come now to my second objection to Gun
Cotton. It is this: It has a tendency to
throw the W in masses. This result is sur
prising, but nevertheless indubitable. I do not
mean to say that this phenomenon is noticable
in all cases but it will be found to exist very
; often. It is in vain for the sceptical to suppose
! thau'lhis peculiarity may have been the fault of
the gun; for this, lo a viriety, is not the fact,
for the fowling piece employed by me in my
experiments was one which has been used by
me constantly for several years, and 1 have nev.
er known it to exhibit any disposition to ball
Hydrophobia, or Rabies as Mr. Youatt
calls it, appears to be a species of inflam
matory disease in the dog, affecting chiefly
the mouth, throat and stomach. Its pri
mitive origin unknown, it now appears to
arise, from contagion, communicated by
the bite of a diseased animal, by his lick
in, or any means by which the froth or
spume of "his mouth may come in contact
with wounds, scratches, or other places
not protected by a sound skin.
Its symptoms in the dog are various.
He appears often to be laboring under
a certain preventive for one of the I
dreaded diseases to which human!;
liable. ! ?
With regard to dogB 'which have. !
bitten by rabid animals, Mr.jYouati'
vice is in all cases to destroy the rn. I
the concealment which! the hair nil!:
the skin of the dog, there can" rsv
certainty that there may not. i.lu
1 greatest care, remain ' another . 1 !:
scratch w hich has not been perceivi !
treated, and the life of the animal i.
worth the risk attending it. ,:
With man himself, this difficulty it.
king sure of the extent of the injury
dently does exist. : j;
We may mention in concluding, tl.
persons bitten by a rabid dog; even v.
out medical treatment, but a small
portion are likrly to be infected. J
Hunter mentions a case, where of t i
persons bitten.'only one suffurcj froru
malady. Probably four-fifths of the
sons injured, escape without ill c
quences,- a fact which explains th
parent success in some cases of mpir
remedies administered in ignorance.
Second Presbyterian t'hurcli.
We took advantage of an hour's
a
species of insanity, exceedingly restless, sure, on Monday evening, to. visit th;
i l II !.L L. ;.. . l...'lti.l. nl llAn ...... ?H rtl 9nnmtrts 4 in1
Otten IOllOWing Willi nib tc mu.iiiiii. ui iutr, uuw in rau .iUgitoj, in
imaginary ob"iects,his countenance chang- , with the Uev. Mr. Hoge, who we
. p. . J J . . t ....ii i - ...i . t 'l.ni
wasting her time. Shs does this every day,' the shot, and if any person is desirous of testing
. . . . ... ... . ! . t i.i . , i J
yM,e W kill or beat off the
f'I'l HiAi eVs $f. ministration so per
"i HJiV!1 H mokc that the Vn,
j Uall. tKi4lirne where to
kej!?eVhUeMr.Ilichieisa
fire
ml.
to m? admtnUf
?t!ail ft Mistakes and blunders. '
mu ine ilnAii . I i .
i i mv
until it becomes a habit, which she! will follow
up through life. Her frame, as a necessary
consequence, is larger, her muscularsystem bet.
ter developed, her strength more enduring, and
the whole tone of her mind healthier. She may
not know as much at the age of seventeen as
does the American girl; -as a general thing
she does not, but the growth of her intellect
has been stimulated by no hot. house culture,
and though maturity comes later, jit will last
proportionally longer. Eight hours each day
of mental application, for girls between the
ages of ten and nineteen years, oi ten hours
each day, as is required at the school of which
1 have spoKen, wnn; two uours iur j meats, o?
for religious duties, and the remainder for sleep
Ing and physical exercise, are enough to break
down the strongest constitution, . j'. J j
Stimuli may enable the physical energtei
to supdIv whatis needed until the f end of the
course the t timuli i of competitiori, ambition,
the cotton in this respect, let him put up a load
of shot irf catridge form, t. e. in an envelope of
strong paper and fire it from his gun. Now I
have, that record of these cat ridges with powder
restoring to every expedient my engeiiuity could
suggest to make the shot fly closely, and pre
venra scatter, and in no instance could I per
ceive any differnce from the results of an ordi.
nary load!, while with the cotton in an avarage
twice out! of three limes my gun charged with
cratridge projected the shot like a bullet through
an inch-and-a-quarter board at a distance of
twenty.fiye yards. Of course it is to be under
stood that nothing like this, as a general; thing,
occurs when the load with the cotton is in the
common1 mode, with loose shot, though even un
der these; conditions in one case such was
ed with sometimes a vacant expression,
at other times one of terror, and the eyes
unusually bright and dazzling. A de
praved appetite is a frequent symptom.
The dog refuses his usual food, often with
an evident expression of disgust; and
sometimes after seizing and partly chew-.
ing it, drops it, from palsy ot the organs
of mastication. In this last symptom im
plicit confidence may be placed, the an
imal in which it appears is decidedly ra
bid. He often devours all sorts of filth.
The saliva becomes viscid," glutinous, and
adhesive, clings to the throat and corners
of the mouth, and the dog attempts todis.
lodge it with his paws. To.thissucceeds
ah insatiable thirst. The dog that retains
power over his jaws continues to lap,
while the animal whose jaw and tongue
are paralysed, plunges his muzzle into the
will be its pastor, when it sliall have !
completed. We were highly grail
with what we saw, and though we'
ignorant even of ihe technical phrn
Architecture, it requires neither b ar
fingers' nor wise hands,' nor as erupt;
measurement of beauty by the plum!;
and tape-string, to arrive at the cu
sion, that when it shall have lieen t
pleted. its effect will be j highly str.
whether viewed within or without.
It is purely gothic, without ajiy ;
ture whatever of anv thin? foreign to
style, chasteness of design 'having 1
scrupulously followed throughout. I ;
act dimensions we do not kjiow, bi.t
learn that it will accommodate eight
dred persons with ease. l:sj walls a
massive thickness and strength. A u
nn -tern front, is to rise in the 1
water up tahis eyes, to get water into of 112 feet from the ground, an I t
- . ; 1 U . (1 I-.l I,.. fmir tiinnnrlffS. I ninnr -
the drv a inuamea jaws u mruai. 11 v i. e T
a r ,ui ,t;oac hoinrv ul. 1 dwiirned for each of the lour corn
lience lilcau;UI tma '"b - - i tit i
Mays characterised bv dread of water in the main edifice, and theAvJioWj l.u.l
the do', it u marked by a Uiirst perfectly externally, is to be painted of a sto:
unauenchable. Though in cases of hydro- lor. i ne w inooNs.xor, hci mv
u.n-! bAhia in th human subiect. there is of- finished in tne uomic siy e.ktiiai is t
was the 1 . - lirolAf M, - .,it states havinir the panes and the wood into v
ect, but in almost every experiment which I f" . . . , lhpy Rre inserted cut into tbe arclt
kara mnta uMth i bo nnitiin 1 rMroi vort th that in me raoio uog mere is no w i . j
m...w ovm uiau I . . i- .-j.. . ,i:m.,it ;n uh low- , cu inr 10 lunt oruer me a
scalier was. irregular, and in places some of anct iu - . - , strenath which the buildili'
IU lilg IUVIU WIIV vhi " - j ..II
the pelle
s, welded or bared together in a solid
p pea rat
in its in
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