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TOWANDA:
Siebnesban Amin +, September SO, IRO.
Ti •die Pesple ef humsylvaida.
The undersigned - regumdy appointed the Com
mittee of Publications on the part of the Democ
racy of the city and county of Philadelphia, con
gratulate their fellow citizens upon the harmonious
deliberations of the late Democratic State Conven
tion. Called to fill a vacancy created by a dis
pensation of Providence, which had deprived ua of
an Executive who seemed to have been specially
raised up as the friend of the masses and the ene
my of oppression in every form, the times demand
ed, not only a strong and solid integrity, before
whicl4he blandishments andilfireatening of privi
lege uld shrink abashed and appalled, but a
well pilrised-judgir.ent, a well-trained intellect, a
practical experience, and a vigilant patriotism al
ways alive to the interest of the country. We be
lieve we have obtained these qualities in the pre
sent Democratic candidate for Governor, ?dolma
LoNesvarre, of Montgomestsounty. In this vi
cinity he has thousands of friends, and is warmly
esteemed wherever known. His private character
defies scrutiny. As a merchant be passed through
times of trying peril with untarnished credit, and
without a personal encmy. As a farmer, he is
distinguished tor his quiet deportment, his industri;
ous researches atter agricultural improvements,
and his active and well-cultivated mind. As a
citizen, no man has been more zealous in uphotd
lugthe credit of the State, and none more energetic
and intelligent in his support of her true and sub
stantial interests. 'Politically, Judge LONGSTREiII
is above all suspicion or doubt. He belongs to the
radical Democracy—temporising with no wrong,
and allowing no principle to be sacrificed to ex- .
pediency. He believes our prosperity to identified,
indissolubly, with Democratic measures, and he
believes that these measures can only be success
ful by a preserving imitation of the examples of
tounders of our political Faith. i•
MORRIS LONGSTRETII was bore in Chester coun
ty, Pennsylvania, 'on the 3d of December, 1800,
and is, consequently, in the 48th year of hie age.
On both sides, his family were distinguished iii the
revolutionary annals: His grandfather, on the
mother's side, was an Irishman, an was Made
prisoner at Fort Washington, in 1776, and subse
gently died a victim to British cruelty. His name
was NI'KEE.
His ancestors, on the" father's side, settled in
Warminister, Bucks county, in this State, about
the year 1700, on a farm, which is still occupied
by one of the same name. His grandfather
on the same 'side, whose -name was BENJAMIN
LONOSTRETIi, owned a plantation at the mouth of
French Creek , (Chester county,) where Piton ix v i Ile
now stands. He died in 1798, of yellow fever,
while on his way from Philadelphia, where that
epidemic was then raging. His son Joseph, the
father of MORRIS, was born And raised in Charle;-
town, near Valley Forge, Chester county, where,
Also. Mogan was 'born. Joscpu Lotion - arm
moved to Philadelphia, where he entered the mer
cantile business. He is still remembered by
our oldest inhabitanti as a man of integrity and
piety, and as peculiarly strict and conscientious in
all his dealings. He died early, leaving atwidcw
and five children, three of whom were sons.
_ Left alone with a youthful !gaily, wholly de
pendent upon her for education and support, the
mother of Moans, while relating to her children
the hardships to which their grandfarther Mtr.s
had been subjected, and the cruelty which hurried
him to a premature grave, instilled
. into their
young heads, at the same time, a hearty abhoren
of the oppressors of the their country, and a pro
found,veneration for those patriots whose blood has
consecrated the charter of our liberties.
Connected on the one hand, by the dearer ties,
with that exemplary sect, whose founder, in this
State, was the illustrious PENN; and prok:Rndly
sensible that their peaceful virtues •cannot bl too
warmly.applauded and too often practised, the
candidate of of the republican party of Pennsyl
vania for . Goveraor could not, however i i forget the
history of those wrongs which at .the same time
speak the shame of England, and the justification
o f our country in both her wars for independence.
How powerfully he feels upon this subject will be
seen by his own language, in au addres which
he delivered four years ago to his fellow citizens at
Valley'Grcea, his own home.
."lam a man of peace. Rut rather than see the
rights of my country longer trampled under foot,
her territories seized by fraud and kept by force,
and my fellow citizens murdered, I would, say to
England, welcome 'war, pestilence or famine."
The career of Judge LoticasTarrit is another
example for the youth of the country, and a strik
ing illustration of the benefits of free institutions.
In May last, the Democratic Natronal Convention
placed in nomination for the Presidency, a gen
tleman who left Wilmington nearly fifty yearn
ago, a bare-footed boy, without a shilling in his
pocket. On the 20th of July, Providence took
from the sphere of active and diitinguished useful•
net,-a model Governor who began his career in
the humblest walks of life, and ascended the steps
of tame, wholly by his own exertions. And TOW
we are called upon to notice another self-made
man, in the present Democratic Gubernatorial
nominee.
The death of his father left five children chief-
Ir dependent upon the exertions of their mother
for support. After being three years i pupil in the
Weettown school—an establishment conducted un
-der the auspices of the Society of Friends—Morris
began his business career. When he wasbut four-
teen years of age,following his father's example,he
entered a mereantilil\kouse in Philadelphiai De•
voting the intervals between business hems, to•the
improvement of his mind, already shred with the
precepts of an intelligent mother, be soon gavenvi
dence of future distinction. Belore he had reached
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the age of seventeen, such was the confidence re
posed in him by his employers, and such the intel
ligence, integrity, and decision of ,his character, that
he :was despatched as collector for the firm to the
Western States—an undertaking, which, in those
days, when railroads and telegraphs were scarcely
admitted in the theories of the closet, was full of
hardships and not without actual danger. During
stated periods, for five years, he travelled over the
Western States, collecting and carrying large sums
of money, acquiring, at the same time, a knowl
edge of the inhabitants of the country, their man,,
ners and customs ; and a thorough acquaintance
with the resources of the Valley .of the Mississippi.
In 1824 he entered the mercantile business him
self. For eight years he continued this highly ho
norable pursuit. Through all this time, he bore a
character proverbially above reproach. During the
periad of the bank p a nic—when the timid faltered
-and; the venal deserted—when all the appliances
of wealth and privilege were brought into action to
make the stern old hero quail—then, in the midst
of the foes of 'Jacr.sos—" faithful among the kith
less"—kloams LONGSTRETIL stood firm. He sup
ported decidedly the administration and re-election
of Jacasoa, and zealously pointed out, to all his po
litical friends and opponents, the solid advantage o
the JACKSON policy. Ile is still warmly : reeollected
to this day, for his stern deportment during those
trying hours. In 1836 he was placed in nonaina
lion for Congress•by ttie unterrified Democracy of
Philadelphia city ; an although his election was
hopeless in that era of bank rule and bank oppres
sion, his republican friends could not refrain from
naming him as their candidate, simply as a testi
mor.ial of their respect for his political and pemon
character. When, in 1835-'36, the Bank of the
rnited Stales applied to the Legislature of Penn
sylvania for corporate powers, MORRIS Lose-mem,
then a retired citizen, protested boldly against the
granting of the application : he invoked the sup
port of all in the movement of opposition, and made
no hesitation in bitterly denouncing the final suc
cess of the fraud. How fortunate had it been for
Pennsylvania, if his counsels, and the counsels of
such as he, had been heeded in time !
In 1837 Mr. Lotroararrit removed to his farm,
in the township of Whitenfarsh, Montgomery . coun
ty. In Mara, 1841, he was appointed an Asso
ciate Judge of the Montgomery County Courts, by
Gov. PORTER ; and in 1846, he was re-appointed
to the same place by Gov.-Si:rm. In this position
he gave evidence of new qualities, and rapidly
won the, confidence and affections of his feilow.ci
tizens, by the integrity and intelligence which mar
ked his official acts.
On the 4th of March, 1847, without ever having
occupied any public position but that of Associate
Judge, he was placed in nomination by the repre
sentatives of the Democratic party in State Conven
tion, for the responsible office of Canal Commis
sioner—a choice of which was confirmed at the
polls in the October , succeeding, by the significant
majority of over seventeen thousand votes.
Since Judge Lotion - arra has been in the Board
of Canal Commissioners, he has been thrown, by
the active discharge of his public duties, in constant
connection with great numbers of his fellow citi
zens. - Friends grew up around him daily. His
manly frankness—his varied intelligence—his plea--
ring manners—and, above all, his,fearless advoca
cy of the radical principles of Democracy—made
his sokiety both profitable and agreeable. During
his connection with the lamented SHUN!, he shar
ed his fullest confidence. To no man would that
venerated patriot confide his views more freely,
and to no man's counsel would he give more at.
!ention. And when, prostrated by the disease
which conquered him at last, that fearless republi
can, still chKishing the high principles which have
made his character a study for after-times, would
converse with no one more freely upon the impor
tance of a wise Government, than with him who
is now destined, in the order of things, to be his
successor.- It would have been remarkable had
the result of the State Convention been different.—
Though others were-before that able and imposing
body—men of sound intellect, tried experience, and
unflinching Demociacy—lmen worthy of the confi
dence and equal to all the emergencies of the State
—the preference was for MORRIS Loses-raszn. We
need not add that he will preserve to the - uttermost
of his ability the high trust which has been repos
ed in his hands.
Judge Losr.srarrn is a practical farmer. His
farm bears the marks not only of that careful indus
try which is the characteristic of the Pennsylvania
husbandman, but, else : of that intelligent enlivr •
which is the result of an enquiring and enterprising
mind. He is eminently known ainong his neigh
bors for open-handed liberality, generous hospitali
ty, strict and irreproachable morals, and for that
constant attention to business, and those exempla
ry habits of order, which are always the true ele
ments of the character fitted to govern the helm o
State.
With this sketch of the Democritic candidate for
Governor, the undersioed confidently invoke the
suffrages of the people of Pennsylvania in his be
half. They challenge the most scrutinizing com
• risen of his political and personal character, with
the political and personal character of his competi
tor—assured that the verdict must be, with all in
telligent men, as they believe it will be with.the
great majority of the electors in October, in favor of
Nloaais LosesTarrn, the Farmer,of Montgomery.
A. L RO U M FORT,
JOHN W. FONEY,
HENRY WELCH,
ANDREW MILLER,
BENJAMIN MIFFLIN,
GILDEA.
Philadelphia, Sept. Bth, 18111.
eA good deacon making an official visit to a dy
ing neighbor, who was . a very churlish and univer
sally unpopidarthan, putthe usual question—" Are
yon willbskto go, my friend t" " Oh, yes," said
the sick man, " I am."- 11 Well," said the simple
minded deacon, " I am glad you are, for all the
nciglibor arc trilltnc!" _
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E.
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Inauttruess•or ,DXSUMICIATION TItOX .113 Y
Whin' asillellitude dal Facet
Ma. BAnatorr, who lectured before the Mercan
tile Library Company, recently delivered two lec
tures on the character of Roger Williams. From
the second of these discourses, the subjoined is giv
eLi by the New York Amencan as a 6ne descrip
tion of the perils and discomforts of wandering in a
mid-winter.
" Of all the scenes into which man can be brought
none is so difficult to be gra4ped by the imagina
tion as the deep recesses of a wintry forest. Its
solemn and awe striking influences must be sten
ally felt before they can be conceived. It is shroud
ed in sombre shadows at the brightest noon, and
wrapped. at night in a worse than Egyptian dark
ness. No ray from the glowing sun, or silver moon
or twinkling stars, can struggle through the dark
umbrage to cheer the wanderer. The thick set • 1
trees limit his view to a dim and narrow circle.—
At every dreary step he plunges into the snow that
is spread to - the depth of several feet all around him.
The branches loaded with ice, as they swing' to
the blast, scatter their burden on his head. As be
brushes through them, he is blinded with the snow
flakes shaken from theitelimbis. No traces of life
or motion can be seen.. The hollow chambers and
dim isles of the forest above and around, resound
to the harsh and sudden crackling of branches, ren
dered brittle by congelation, and his ear is startled
by the sharp and loud intonations of the solid trunks
snapping with the frost. He has no landmark to
guide him. Heaven and earth are both shut out
from his vision. Whether traversing valleys, or
climbing mountains, or approaching rivers, or lakes,
or seas, he cannot tell. He listens, aul his imag
ination is impressed and solemnized ley the audi
ble respiration of the forest, more mysterious and
sublime, if possible, than the everlasting murmur of
the ocean.
"This perpetual breathing and moaning of the
woods is produced by the ceaseless motions of the
upper atmosphere, forever agitating the over bang
ing canopy of limbs and branches. If oppressed
by the sense of . solitude, and for the purpose of
breaking up the impression produced upon his feel
ings by this mysterious and unearthly murmurings
of the forest, he raises aloud his own voice, it seems
to fall in broken and suffocated echoes, and to die
away without penetrating the wilderness. And if
to the other_circumstances of such a Scene, the per
ils which hangover it, the impossibility of obtaining
either shelter or susienapee, the danger of being
bewildered and lost, or of perishing with cold and
hunger, and the momentary exposure to destruction
by the sudden assaults of wild beasts, to say noth
ing of the stealthy savage, we make an approach
to something like an estimate; but we do not, for
we cannot, fully conceive the condition in which
Roger Williams found himself the first night after
having been driven from his family, his home, and
christendom itself.
" Can we not see him as be wraps.his blanket
around him, and lays himself down in his bed of
snow, in the dark bosom of the forest. .The night
wind is bowling through the branches that form his
only shelter; and the wolf and the bear have come
forth from their dens in search of prey, but he
closes his eyes in peace, and sleeps sweetly fo,r
his conscience is clear, and his trust is in God."
Curunroon.—lt is a beautiful and wondrous sub
ject, altogether worthy of a deeper investigation
than any with which it has yet been honored by
philosophy, the awakening of a young spirit from
its slumbers in the arms of eternity, amid the dreamy
music which drops from the golden fingers of Nal
ture, in the dim, religious temple of Time r This
spirit, also incarnate in anew form, through which
as an instrument, it is one day to preach there—in
that solemn temple—is, indeed, matter enough for
thought. To my mind, Childhood is a condition of
happy obedience and abandonment. It implies
and dimly shadows forth, the last flight of the soul.
It is a. miniature picture of the innocence of man;
a type, also, of that possible perfection predicted by
the Prophets and Poets of the elder world. How•
great and noble a Being might be made out of the
materials of Childhood ! How gentle and confid
ing it ia! How joyous and rapturous—bow ex—
ultant in the happy life which the good God has
given it ! It lives with the angels all the day long,
and closes its sweet eyes at night to their soft sing
ing, meeting them again in visions of the peaceful
heaven! As yet it belongs to Nature, and feels
safe and happy in her loving arms. Its compan
ions are the flowers and the trees—the hires and
the books—and the green grass of the sunny mead
ows; and its little fluttering spirit Is so bathed in
the element of love, that all creatures and things
partake of its beauty, and the child and them be
come lone and the same being. It is this mystic
union with Nature—which we all feel to have been
ours in childhood—that makes us cling so fondly
to the associations of that happy state. It is be
cause we nave experienced the deep unutterable
joy of communion with surrounding intelligences,
without let or. hinderance from sin, that tee all de.
sire in !MC moments of our hers to be once more a
Add
Ah ! happy childhood ! sweet spring-time oft to a
dreary summer, and an unblest wiuter. Knowledge
is the Bible of the soul, intended to comfort man
in all his ways, and conduct htm to immortality.---
Insensibly does an unseen hand trace ciphers on
the mystic leaves. There they hal in beautiful il
lumination even now, for childhood hoed to read.
Not for ever m sunny dreams must the young spirit
be wasted! It must try its stings-rand soarm-aitil
fad—and rise again. Cast bpand-by into the
depths of Thought—it must struggle there for life
must solve the enigma - of its own existence.
A Goon Tnotrastr.--Says some one, if your ene
my is forced to have resource to a lie to blacken
you, consider What a comfort it is to think of hue
ing supported such a character, as to render it im
possible for malice to hurt you without theraid of
falsehood; and trust to the genuine filmes' ofyour
charactez to clear )ciu in the end.
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Tea Rivet Attszcrs.—The (Wincing recent
and original extract, from a diary kept by M. de
Casielan during h'is voyage in America, will be
read with interest. By soundings and hyd%niph
ic observations, I have, (he says in his diary) as
certained beyond a doubt that the Amazon river is
navOgable for large .steamers, without any obstscle,
as ler as Poage de Manseriche, that is to say, a
distance of more than 1000 leagues from its mouth,
that its principal tributary, the I.irsayale, i • na' iga
ble to its junction with the Rio Tamto (the Apuri
mac) 1200 leagues from the city of Para; and that
the navigation may be extended, by the means of
the Pachrea, to within ten or twelve days' journey
of Lima. As far as the village of Natau (Peru)
there are always frOm five to six fathoms of water
in the main strearri of the Amazon, and as far as
Omaguas, from 10 to 12 fathoms. The Yag,uas who
live in the forests bordering on the Amazon,,have
no other clothing than the long feathers of th 3 scar
let Ara; the are a' mild and peaceful race; they
believe in the immortality of the soul, but they rely
on a universal pardon after death. According to
their notions, God resides behind the sun, and his
principal occupation is to keep that orb in move
ment. They' are not polygamists, and remain
faithful to the wife of their choice; and their af
fection for their children is such, that when they
lose them they destroy every thing they possess,
and burn not only their house, but all that it con
tains, their arms and their most valuable treasures.
When a girl has 'reached the age of womanhood ;
she is shut up for three months in an isolated cabin
in the forest, and her mother alone is allowed to
come near her. When a woman gives birth to a
child, the husband enters his hammock-; and utters
the most piercing cries, While• his suffering wife has
to wait on him and console him for his ima4inary
sufferings. The most curious object I have pro.
cured is a stone statue weighing about 200 pounds
it was discovered in the forest of the Rio Negro,
and according to the traditions of the country, dates
as far back as the time of the Amazons. Until lat
terly I placed but 'little belief in the history of these
' female warriors; but throughout the country, at
Obyilos particularly, I learned that traditions still
existed of them among the Indians. The statue is
of such rough workmanship, that it must have been
the work of a people where the arts were in their
first infancy; it is, however of high interest.. as be
ing the only specimen of this nature as yet dis
covered in the Brazils. The figure is that of a
woman; she is seated, and is concealing her breasts
with het hands. Between her feet is another em
blem, often witnessed in ancient worship, which,
as an allgorical allusion to the Amazon, who dis
dains to be a woman, and who treads the ether
sex beneath her feel , •
AN Aorstso ANrcroovr.;--We transfer to our
columns the subjoined
. amusing story, from the
Buffalo Commercial Advertisers
gi We noticed in an eastern paper a report of a
recent action against a London Chemist on recount
of a hair dye, that instead of turning complainant's
whisker's to a jetty blackness, bad raised a blister,
in consequence of which whiskers, skin and all
had peeled off. This case reminds us of ,another
attempt at hair dyeing, the consequences of which,
if not an distressing, were serious enough to the
party. Tn a country village in this state, some
twenty years ago, the village doctor was chosen
deacon in the Congregational church. The doctor
though a hale hearty man had turned gray in early
life, and at the time we speak *lbis lockstad be
come of -almost snowy whiteness.
He was a gallant man though a sincere Christian,
and his hoary honors somewhat annoyed him. Se
to grace his new dignity, the night before the Sat.
bath, when the "sacrament " as the communion was
termed; was to be administered, he undertook to
dye his hair to s becoming brown, more suitable
to his age. We know not what application he
made use of, but during the morning service, while
the new deacon sat under the pulpit, as was cus
tomary, the action of the light rapidly worked a
chemical and almost magical change in the outward
adornment of his heiid. Some of the locks deep.
ened into a rich brown, while others flashed into a
fiery red, and some gently subsided from their
pristine whiteness into a most. delicate pea green.
All unconscious of these variegated honors, at the
close of the ordinary service the deacon undertook
to officiate, bearing round the consecrated bread
and wine
The communicants were humble, sincere Chris-
tians, feeling deeply the soleranity,of the occasion,
but the new deacon's hair was too much for the
most of them. There was a grim relaxation of
the features of the older among them, who might
have sat for pictures of the old Covenanters, while
the younger could scarcely refrain from an une
quivocal smile. The venerable apostolic man who
ministered to the congregation, and who, with a
most fervent piety, had a quick sense of the ludi
crous, soon noticed the unwonted beating of his
flock and its cause, and as the deacon returned to
the table quietly requested him to refrain from fur
ther service in favor o fan old brother,tossupply whose
place and infirmities of age he had been chosen.
The next day, when the doctor started to visit his
patients, his head was clothed with a nicely fitting
new black silk skull cap, and several months
lapsed before he again officiated as deacon."
New Damma' roa Wouensi—Gun cotton, use
less for artillery purposes, is said to be an excel
lent atypic for dressing cuts - and wounds. Dissolv
ed in ether, and applied to the severest curt, it forms
an adhesive covering of singular closeness, so that
the process of healing is carried on speedily and
effectually. br. Simpson,. of Edinburgh, has sitni
lady applied chloroform and gotta percha. - This
mixture, in a liquid condition, at about the conga
tones 01 - ' thin .honey, is simply ponied upon the
wound; the chloroforoi imsrautlyeattporates, and
the gotta percha remains perfect, kenning it for
weeks, if necessary, without the need of dressings,
bandages, Ikc
MEARA GOODRICH.
tansy Tans 'rue DOCOMPOO37IOII OF WATER.—
We have in a former number alluded to this cur
ious discovery of which the following 'statement is
found in Chambers" Edinburgh Journal : "It was
once remarked by a celebrated chemist, when
speaking of th probable eibaustion of our coal
fields, thsti he ad little fear for that event, as long
ere then the of fit ience would have et abled
manto su the combrtstion of water. Extrav
agantl as this opinion may appear to the unscien
tific, there is nothing more likely. Water is a
compound of oxygen and hydrogen—two gores,
without which it would be impossible to elimin
ate a single phenomenon of combustion. Thus the
gas which we burn in our houses is a carbutetted
hydrogen ; that is, a compound of carbon and hyJ.
men, which on ignition, gives us light and
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only when in a medium-containing oxygen--such
as thO atmosphere. Here, then, hydrogen and
oxygen play most important parts; and could we
resolve water into its elements, which it is- quite
possible to do, all that is necessary to produce heat
and light is a , bale carbon. But we are not left to
speculate on this matter ; the thing has been so far
done by M. Jobard ; and gas made from water,
possessing double the illuminating properties of or
dinary coal gas, has beetused both in France and
in our own country.
"M. Jobard obtains his hydrogen gas by the
decompotik% of steam in vertical retorts filled
with incandescent coke, and unites this gas, at die
montaid, of formation, with hyper-carburetted gas,
produced by the distillation'of any hydro•carbaret---
as oil, tar, uapthaline, and other products at pres
ent rejected by our ordinary gas-works. It is pf no
moment whence his hydro-carburets are produced;
indeed the substances which are rendered useless
and injurious to the manufacture of the gas, by
the present mode of operating, are precisely those
which are the richest in illuminating properties.
M. Jobarirs process and its de'aill have been sub
mitted, since its invention in 1833, to sevsral COW
missions of inqitiry both in Belgium ant 'prance,
and-the reports of these have been uniforin t ly fa
divorable. bo as to its cheapness and the hiigher
il
luminating power of the gas so pioduced.,
In a recent number of the " Bullentineldu Mu
see &Industrie, - the inventor gives a full iaccount
of his process, which is about ,to becemp public
property; and mentions that it has been clam] in a
F manufactory near St. Enemy, in Dijoin and Strata
burg, partially in Lyons and Paris and by private
individuals :in Dublin and London. He modesty
concludes his paper by observing, that he • will not
be accused of exaggeration,when he states that there
is some value in a process, the principle of which
is to decompose water, as a substance of no value,
by means of coke, which is of very little value,
as under this process one pound of oil, which costs
a half.penny, will supply a burner giving a light
equal to ten candles during 20 hours.
M. Jobarin is certainly a discovery of great in
terest, and though not the complete combustion of
water 'predicted by Sir Humphrey Davy, is at all
events, as every one must admit, au important step
in the right direction." •
• MALADIO.—The epidemical maladies of man,
and the diseases of animals, come from corrupted
waters. Physicians who have investipted . the r
causes, attribute them sometimes to the• corruption
of the au, sometimes to the mildew of plants, and
sometimes to fogs;.but all these pretended . causes
we only effects of the corruption of the 'waters
which infects the air with vegetables and animals.
We may almost always attribute this to the im
prudent labors of man. The most nnwholsonse
regions ofthe earth are in Asia, on the borders or
the Ganges, whence mortal fevers issue every
year---That of 1771 destroyed more than a million
lives st Bengal. These come_from the rice planta
tions which are artiboial morasses, formed along
the banks of the Ganges for the sake of cultivating
that grain, which thrives in marshy soils. After
the grain is gathered, the root and stalk ofthe plants
which are left, rot and form infections puddles all
over the stubble, whence pestilential vapors arise.
It is to prevent these inconveniences that the cul
ture of rice has been forbidden in various parts o
Europe, especially in Russia, in the environs of
Orachakof, where it was formerly produced.
TO EXTRACT LAMP OLL FROM A Maass.—lf lamp
oil is spilled up/In a dress that will not be injured
bywetting, lay it immediately in a small tub of
cold water. A portion of the oil will be seen to
rise to the surface; then pour off the water, replace
it with fresh, and still more oil will be seen float
ing on the surface. Again, Pour off the water, gild
fill the tub anew, repeating the process until no
more oil can be discovered on the Indeed. Then
take out the dress, wring It well, and dry on an
iron. No washing is necessary, If lamp oil, tar,
or any othergrease is spilled on a white dress, it
can be eradicated by washing and boiling in the
usual manner.
Mj.3's FaMIDS.—Man hds three Mende in this
world—how do they conduct- themselves in the
hour of death, when God summons him before his
tribunal Money his best friend, leaves him first
and goes nut with him. His relations and friends
smikimpany him to the threshohlQ the br ave, and
then return to their homes. The third which he
often forgot during his life, are his g,boil works.—
They alone accompany him to the throne of the
)ucigethey go before-.speak, and obtain mercy
and pardomoor him.
CO- The we good advice that: John Randolph
gave to's, youita man in TeilltiTir-efl novels and
whiskey punch.' It will be equally good repeated
now, substituting for the princhthe favorite surnmer
intexications ; "Tell your bahet,'.said John, Outfit
Iwizimnenit abstiaente front novel reading ' lnd
paint. Depend upon it, air, they are both
ly injurious to the brain."
*OW
ic.p
omen, as they are like riddles in being unin
to • Ile, so generally resembled them in this, that
th y please es no longer when we once "know
th m.-Pope.
...
- ~. •
•• At.
f-yr.
Amis.-11a pan of water be
inches tin either 11#0eAlthe see"
-in re *egoist* imams; it ll ;041
bight approach it; and . Will be
ing with one ;if its Tea* &ISO
it experiment may be continued
lent beghis to fruit. If a pop , be
Welles:of* rim*, a„amyelvlauseu
ill find it, abut:o the pop may
If suer it has twined wine dis
h be nowoottil and tatted is the
it will muss to its ori gi nal posi •
attempt ; yet, notwithstapditts, / if
grow near each Otritli,andititivy
which they can entwine, one of
&e direction of its spiral - , arid, tiny
I . each-other.
§ in a cylinder of moist earth ;
they • ciainnieime4 to geriadditd,
the plume upwards to the light,
4 11 into the ion. • Allg lea; tke
turned one-fourth round,—and
this was repeated Until iel
'tinder had been completed. The
aten out of the 'earth ;alidirwite
e plume and radicle had bent to
selves to every*
!us to ascend perpendicularly, and
• nil, had formed a perfeet
natural tendency of the roots is
e colt beneath be dry, and any
. i • above, the roots will ascend to
barrlncr or V
placed within
of it young pn
in the course of
foriod'in the m.
on the water. I
nightly until the I
placed eltblo
scarlet runner, Al
he !shifted daily.
twee Up the
opposite direcn.
nun or die in th
two of these pla
no make around
them will alter
will twine MU
some kidney be
after a shint time
of coure sendin
and the root do
the cylinder
again and agai
revolution of the
beans were then
found that both
accomodate the
the one in its eft;
the other to desC,
But althougttthe
down ward4,.i f d
clamp substanceY
reach it. -
MUSTARD.-.--N
Egypt, and has
ny hundreds of
in its natural s
'tiered a whol - -
it is taken—toil:
Zack" when-iii:
to much of it !
take it modem(
i 'ustaril seed was first obtained from
r. .en known and cultivated for ma
`ears.. It is extensively used both
1 .1.. and manufactured, and is con..--
!. me condiment, in Whatever wily)
ss indeed you take it as did " old
men and guns were taken : a little
It assi.ts digestion, provided yon
.Iy, warms the stomach and pro:
There are two varieties, Whit e
sively cultivated.
principally used for garden purpo
is used medicinally. In contgipa
els and all dyspeptic cases-401d
has worked most beneficent,
two table spoon fulls a day, sipped
bier of water and swallowed whole
a complete cure.
mu►es appetite
and Black, ext:
The AVltite i.
ses, and its see
tion of the bo •
cases, too—M
results. One o
from a half to
freqUently wor m
Conomsams.—Add. about a tea
wdered arsenib to about a table
. hed boiled-potatoes: nib and mix
her, and then amble' a third of it
ro Disraoy
spoonful of p
spoonful of in
them well t
bed time, about the kitchen hearth,
up, or nearly eo. by the killowing
creature is very fond of potatoer,
every night, at
it will be eate
morning. Th,
(them greedily, crawls again into its
and devouring
es. 1 had - occasion to have some
e in the kitchen stove, Some six
hole and peri
alterations
months after pi:waned this plan, and fmind bun
dreda of win,
and dried mummies of defunctcock -
roaches. The disappearance was not attended
with the slig test preceptible smell; and_lhongh
five years ha .elapsed , not one has again been
been seen in y kitchen. In putting it into prac
tice, any rem a ining cmmbs should be swept-01Mo
next morning.
u l ni
To MAKE S OTS WATCR-PRl3oF.— Take trees-vrax,
tallow or mu suet, equal' parts, rosin, a tenth
partof the vch le, melt and mix together; apply
hot to your h stand's shoes, and they will last
twice as long, and he will never complain of wet
feet ; the le .- r will absorb a quantity of the mix
ture, and it m , be applied hat, until the shoes are
thorougly sat ed, both soles and uppers.
AN Ouvr.a.—The Salem Regi.4-
ory Daniel Webster was once
pany with several other gentlemen,
• Washington, as a drove of mules
" Webster,` says one of the Smith
"there go some of your constituents_"
'
fitly replied Mr. Webster, "they are
; teach school."
A Rmaxn
ter tells this
standing in .c
in the. capitol
eras going by
ern gentleme
" Yes," in •
going South•
Somsrmso NEW.—At the suggeition of a Mend,.
I have disco? red that glass is an excellent solbstitate
for a beard to cut leather upon. To boot and shoe
~41,1
mannfactn ,itis a most valuable substitute, be
ing in the much cheaper , and does not dull the
edge of a , , knife any more than wood, if as
much:— [Cor Scientific Amdlican
j
WHAT PR
NCT. IVArrs.—"Thf great difficulty
Kristian Enquirer, " that France lacks
t he kindof home education.that comes
She needs the ten commandments
new charter—Fenelons -. mom than
" He is right.
is," says the
religion, and
from, religion
more than
Louis Blanes
Vern most, make least noise. You
row in a barge, they that do Avid
, and off,.and sweat; but be that
Wetly at the stern, and scarce is seen
• They that
see when -
gery-work el
governs, sits
to stir.
tset.y.--A public functionary in Paris,
isited the bespita' Is, asked of thersor
ance, "Doctor, how many insurgents
I" I have only wounded men!"
A Nests. '1
who recently
geon atten
hate you he
was the answ ,
GOOD AND Yri.—lf you are dasironit to Isnrn.all;
and more the good qualities of a
nut till he is dead. If you would
,all
that attaches a person's character, hoot patience
till he gets led.
A critionsi
re wit was asked why ha did eat
g lady tri whom he was mach attach
net," replied he," except the tegatd
e atiathet."
-nlafTY it Yon .
ed.' "4 Imo
we have for
• an exchange livery that Oen. Tay.
o send some-of - those blood bounds in
lel Webster, "not to worry bim," of
ly to ascertain where he is.
Iris said
tor proposes
searell of r.
but
to remark, that the reason why rm
.* ladies looted , le much at the ' tnnon,
ti belief that there •..ras alnan in it.
A wag
married you
Arai the rul
.
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