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SELECT POETRY.
Foil the Americas.
MATRIMONY A TARODY.
Iluil, wedded love! msleri us law, true sourco
Of human plTniriiiir. s le ppiptiily
In p:iniilisi. of all lliinirs e'.iiuitl ili eli";.
MltT.N,
It must bo so Milton, tlion reason'st well,
Ulso whcrii'.o this pleasing hnpc, this fund
ik'fiio,
This longing after matrimony?
Or, whunci' this secret ilieail, this inwau!
honor
Of dyinp nni'Fpoiiseil : Why slninl;s tho soii
H.tck on hei self, ami staillcs al celibacy,
'Trt human nature that slits wiiliiu lis:
'Tis love that points tho way to happiness,
And intimates matrimony to man,
Matrimony! lltou pleasins, thrilling thought !
Thioiii'.h what a variety ol untried lliinifs,
Thiouoi what new scenes and changes must
we pass !
The cn, ilu! pleasing prospect lies before
me !
IJut shadow?, iloubls, and darkness rest
it nun it.
Heio will 1 hold, if there is any power in
love,
(And that thorn i, all experience proves
Through-nit the wot Id) we must delight in
wedlock ;
And what wo delight in, must make us
happy.
IJut when: or where? the woilj is fill'd
with coquellrs ;
I'm weary of refusal? this must end them,
On this I'm now resolved : death, or a wife,
Mv bane and antidote are both before me :
This in a moment brings me to an end,
Should this last effort prove unpropitious;
but 1 1 snccesstul may I not smile
At the drawn dajrer and defy its point,
Tho' bcanly fades away, and sparkling eyes
Grow dim with ago, and stature diuop in
years,
Vet virtuous friendship shall remain as bright
As immortal youth, Ihronuli llio lapse of time
The wreck of beauty and the loss of cutis
SiNDi itv, Sept. 21.
3, grilling Shctcl).
THE THREE SONS.
A TALK OF MIL)-AMI.
. In a college in the valley of Sallanclies,
near the foot of Mont J31anc, lived old
JSernard and his three sons. One morning
he lay in bed sick, and burning with lever
watched anxiously for the return of his son
Jehan, who had gone to fetch a physician.
At length a horse's tread was heard, and
soon afterwards the doctor entered. He
examined the patient closely, felt his pulse,
looked at his tongue, and then said, patting
the old man's cheek, "it will be nothing,
my friend nothing but he made a sign to
the three lads, who, open-mouthed and
anxious, stood grouped around the bed.
All four withdrew to a distant corner, the
doctor shook his head, thrust out his lower
lip and said : 'Tis a serious attack very
serious of fever. He is now in the height
of the fit, and as soon as il abates, he must
have sulphate of quinine.'
What is that, doctor?'
'Quinine, my friend is very expensive
medicine, but which you may procure at
S.illanches. Between the two fits your fa
ther must lake at least three francs' worth.
I will write the prescription. You can
read, uuiliaumc V
'Yes doctor."
'And you will see that he takes it ?'
'Certainly.'
When the physician was gone, Cuil
laume, .Pierre . Mid Jehan looked at each
other in silent perplexity. Their whole
stock of money consisted ol a franc and a
half, and yet the medicine must be procur
ed immediately.
'Listen,' said Fierre, 'I know a method
of getting from the mountain before night
three or four five-franc pieces.
'From the mountain ?'
'1 have discovered an eagle's nest in a
cleft of a frightful precipice. There is a
gentleman at Sallanches, who would gladly
purchase the eagles; and nothing made me
hesitate but the terrible risk of faking
them ; but that's nothing when our father's
life is concerned. We may have them
now in two hours."
'I will rob the nest,' said (Juillaume.
'.No, no, ht me,' said Jehan, "1 am the
youngest and lighted.
'1 have the best right to venture,' said
Pierre, 'as it was I who discovered it.'
'Come,' said Pierre, 'let us decide by
drawing lots. Write three numbers, (Juil
laume, put them into my hat, and whoever
draws number one will try the venture."
(Juillaume blacked the' end of a wooden
splinter in the fire ; tore an old card into
three pieces ; wrote on them one, two,
three, and threw them into the hat.
How the three hearts beat ! Old Ber
nard lay shivering. in the cold fit. and each
of his sons longed to ribk his own life, to
save that of his father.
The lot fell on Pierre, who had discover
ed the nest ; he embraced the sick man
'We shall not be long absent, father.' he
said, 'and it is ueedlul for us to gu to
gether.' , .
What are you going to do?'
'We will tell you as soon as we r
back.'
(Juillaume took down from the '
old sabre, which had belonged tr
when he had served asasolilit.
sought a thick cord which the moo...
eers use when cutting down trees; and Pi
erre went towards an old wooden cross,
reared near the cottage, and knelt before it
for some minutes in fervent prayer.
They set out together, and soon reached
the brink of the precipice. The danger
consisted not only in the possibility ol lul
ling several hundred feet, but still more in
the probable aggression of the birds of
prey, inhabiting the wild abyss.
. Pierre, who was to brave these perils,
was a fine athletic young man of twenty
two. Having measured with his eyes the
i distance he would have to ditceud, his bro
i
thers fastened the cord around his waist,
and began to let him down. Holding the
sabre in his hand, he safely reached the
nook that contained the nest. In it were
four eagles of a light yellowish brown col
or, and his heart beat with joy at the sight
of them. He grasped the nest firmly in
his left hand, and shouted joyfully to his
brothers, I have them! Draw mo up I'
Already the first upward pull was given
to the cord, when Pierre felt himself at
tacked by two enormous eagles, whose fu
rious cries proved them to be the parents of
the nestlings.
'Courage, brother ! defend thyself! don't
lear !'
Pierre pressed the nest to his bosom, and
with his right had made the sabre play
around his head.
Then began a ter rible combat. The ea
gles shrieked, the little one cried shrilly,
the mountaineer shouted and brandished his
sword. He slashed the birds with its blade
which flashed like lightning, and only ren
dered them still more enraged. He struck
the rocks, and sent forth a shower of
sparks.
Suddenly he felt a jerk given to the cord
that sustained him. Looking up he per
ceived that, in his evolutions, be had cut it
with his sabre, and that half the strands
were severed.'
Pierre's eyes dilated widely, remained
for a moment immovable, and then closed
with terror. A cold shudder passed
through his veins, anil he thought of letting
go both the ties! and tahre.
Al that moment one of the eagles poun
ced on his head, and tried to tear his face.
The Savoyard made a lat efiort, and de
fended himself bravely. He thought of
his old father, and courage.
Upwards, Mill upwards, mounted the
cord ; friendly voices eagerly uttered words
of encouragement and triumph ; but Pierre
could not reply to thein. When he reach
ed the brink of the precipice, Mill grasping
fast the nest, his hair, which an hour be
fore had been as black as a raven's wing
was become si completely white, that
(Juillaume and Jehan could scarcely recog
nise him.
What did that signify ? The eagles were
of the rarest and most valuable species.
That same afternoon they wi re tarried to
the village and sold. Old Bernard had
the medicine, and every needlul comfort
beside, and the doctor in a few days pro
nounced him convalescent.
t F.M:lJIt.MKI CHARACTERS WHO HAM:
JliSTtU WIIKN UVlMi.
It is recorded of one who was going to
execution, that he requested not to pass a
certain street, lest a tailor to whom he was j
indebted should arrest him 0:1 the way. .
Another said to the executioner, iust as he ';
was going to strike, "Do not touch my
r.eck, (or 1 am so ticklish that you will
make me burst with laughter. A fourth
asked for some drink, but seeing that the
hangman helped himself before he handed
the cup to him, flung the contens in his
face, and said, "I will not sully my lips by
drinking alter such a miscreant as thou
art." IVlroiiius, who ws master of the
ceremonies, and inventor of pleasures at the
Court of Nero, when he saw that elegant
indulgence was giving place to coarse de
bauchery, perceived at once, that his term
of favor had arrived, and il was time to
die. He resolved, therefore to anticipate
the tyrant, and disrobe death of his para
phernalia of terror. Accordingly, he en-
tered a warm bath, and opened his veins,
composei! verses, jested with Ins familiar
associates, and died o(I by insensible de
grees. Demoeritus, the laudiing philoso
pher, disliking the inconveniences and in
firmities of old age, nude up his mind to
die on a certain day, but to oblige his sis
ter, he postponed his departure until the
three feasts of Ceres wire over. He sup
ported nature on a pot of honey to the ap
pointed hour, and then expired by arrange
ment. Pompotiius Atticu--, the intimate friend
of Cicero, had fortunately lor himself pas
sed through life without meddling with
politics, and un visited by sickness. Peeling
ill for the fust time in extreme old age, he
assembled his family and informed them
that he had made up his mind to take leave
of this world. He then abstained from all
food, maintained his habitual gaiety and
suflercd nature to snuff herself out by mer
ry instalments. Suetonius relates of Au
gustus, that, throughout his last illness, he
retained his sell-command and habitually
tranquil temperament. Perceiving his end
approach, he tailed for a n.irror, carelully
adjusted his hair, and turning with a smile
to his attendants, said, "Am I not an ac
complished actor ?" When Phocion was
going to execution, a thoughtless Athenian
committed the outrage of spitting in his
face. . smiled, and said to the magis
trater Alio accompanied him, "Tell that
fool' young man not to open his mouth
a 1 so disagreeably." The first Darius,
' hoi Pesia, when dying desired to have
A intellectual epitaph engraved on his
mb : "Here lies Kin-' Darius, who was
ble lo drink many bottles of wine without
staggering."
Jerome Cardan, a celebrated Italian
physician, cast his own nativity, and ascer
tained, by the conformation of his horo
scope, that his death would take place on
certain clay, lie was such a devout be
liever in astro ol'v. that he determined lo
die at the appointed time, rather that his
luvorae science should be detected in an
error. Hu therefore starved himself grad
ually, and calculated with such mathemal
ical nicety, as to hit the very day and hour
foretold. All astrologers should set un
Cardan as their high priest and central pil
lar. The learned Bayle was so occupied
with his critical work, in opposition to Lo
Clercq, that he totally forgot and neglected
a slow fever, which was killing him by
measured advances. He died while cor
retting 'he last iheets. Kacan, in his lift
of Malherbe, his instructor in poetry, gives
a very characteristic anecdote of his death.
An hour belore he expired, ho started tip
suddenly and reproved his hostess, who
was watching by him, for an ungrammati
cal expression ; and when his confessor
repiimanded him for this, and told him his
thoughts should be otherwise employed, he
replied that he could not help it ; ( u', to
the last grasp, he would contend for the
purity ol the Trench language.
When Rabelais was dying, the cardinal
sent a page to inquire how he was. Rabe
lais joked with the envoy until he felt his
strength declining and his last moments ap
proach. He then said, "Tell his eminence
the state in which you left me. I am
going to inquire into a great possibility.
He is in a snug nest, let him stay there as
long as he can. Draw the curtain, tho
farce is over." Such death-beds are start
ling and extrordinaiy, but they are also
fraught with utility, and furnish food for
melancholy reflection. Hobbes, of Wal
mcsbury, seems to have had the speech of
Rabelais in his mind, when he departed
with these words, "I am going to lake a
great leap in the dark." Yet this imagina
ry philosopher, who died with an ambig
uous jest, and denied the truth of Christian
ity was afraid of being alonp, and believed
firmly in witches and spi ctres. In the se
cret memoirs of Viltorio Siri, a learned
Italian monk, he states that Queen Eliza
beth, when dying, seated herself on her
bed, with her eyes on the ground and a
finger on her mouth, and ordering her
usual musicians to be summoned, listened
to them, until her laM breath, with incon
ceivable deli-'ht.
Brantomo, with his usual nuircte, relates
the death of Mademoiselle do Dimeuil. a
maid of honor at the court of Catharine tie
JMcdicis. Young and handsome, she was
equally celebrated for her ready wit and
attic repartees. When she felt the hour
of death approaching she called her valet,
who played extremely well on the violin.
"Julien," said she, "lake your violin and
continue to play till yon see that I am
dead, 'the defeat of the Swiss:' and play
as well as you possibly can. When you
come to the passage 'all is lost,' repeat it
four or five times with as much point and
pathos as you can possibly throw in." Ju
lien did as he was ordered, and the dying
beauty accompanied him with her voice.
Having twice repeated "all is lost," at the
proper moment, she turned round in her ; t
bed, and said to her companions-, "lout est
fl-l UCC 11 l r. ttly, l U UUIb Co ( (I lit , U I 1 IS I 11 I
deeil lost this time, and in good earnest.
While uttering fhese words she fell back
and died.
AISIUIW C It L l.L i I I.V
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Sir. C. L. Br.iee, who has recently re-; dining the recent bickerings .vhen, as he
turned from Europe, is delivering a series - was one evening seated with his family in
of lectures at New Haven, upon Hungary. ! ,is official residence at the gate, a inessen
The Palladium gives the following portions ' . ;nfr,nii .m ,,,, ,,,i,m.,,. nt n
of his first lecture :
Mr. Brace related several instances of
ci ueity on the part of Austria towards Hun
garian men and women, which almost
made the blood of his listeners curdle in
their veins, ami his appeals in behalf of
that sufh ring but gallan
t and warm-heorted
people, eie solemn, iuuluiiii, uiiu in uu
i ..1 i i : i ii
respects most effective.
"Among lire instances of Austrian cm-
city related by Mr. Brace, were these : A
young Hungarian lady was imprisoned at
(Jros Waidcin while he was confined there
He had olten seen her looking out from
j the gratings of her window. Her of-
fence was, loving Hungary more (ban Aus
tria. She was a high born and accomplish
ed lady, who had always lived in aliluence.
Since the lecturer ha.l reached this country,
he had learned, Irom a correspondent at
Vienna, that the woman had been tried al-
ter the Austrian fashion of trial, and been j gmvi'.y, that, in spilo of himself, be began
condemned to truth trocs imprisonment ; to believe in the genuine mission of llio aw
in the horrid place which she had previ- j fid tribunal. The clerk lead an indictment
oiijly occupied !
"Another case was that ol a married wo
man, who for a similar olfeiice, was com
pelled to run the gaunlet through a file of
one hundred soldiers. 1'ach soldier was
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ol the degrcdation and punishment was such
i In make n maniac, of her. The husband
finding his feelin-s insur-poitable aftersuch
a family sacrifice lo the vengeance ol the
tyrants, blew out his brains with a pistol;
and their only son wnsdrafted us a common
oldier in the Austrian army.
"Another cae was that of a soldier, who
had been ordered to receive twenty-five
isb.es for shouting a hurrah lor Kossuth.
It i.i a custom of these tyrants, in th eir
whippings, to make their victims ihank the
lerson who lays on the blows! Oh, the
depths of meanness to which tyrants will de
scend to gratify their liendi.-lr malice. I lie
soldier refused to thank his whipper
ii.linrniitvti. Iin it-ac nnlorml n rneol v I vopn-
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tvventy- rve more laslies were given. At
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i"lli tue tnariKS were exioncu irom nun
but he added at the same time, "mv back
belongs to the Emperor, but my heart be-
longs to Kossuth."
'Kossuth, said Mr. Brace, is the idol ol
the nation, and all classes are devoted to
him with a constancy, and a respect and
love that amounts almost to frenzy. They
believe that he is destined to lead them to
victory and independence and if, said the
speaker, he were to appear in Hungary,
backed only by a hundred men, lie coiini
instantly set the entire nation in a whirl ot
revolution."
A Fact. An cccentrio man in Bath, Me-,
was asked to contribute lo foreign missions.
"Ho gave a quarter of a dullar, but stopped
the agent as ho was departing, and said !
"Here is a dollar to piy the expense of get
iig the 7UHCI lo the hoathen.' "
"WHO iMt'Rl)ERKI noWKIKJ"
About tho end of the eighteenth century,
whenever any student of tho Marischal Col
lege, Aberdeen, incurred tho displeasure of
llio humbler citizens, he was assailed wiih
the qtie.iou "Who murdered Downiu?"
Reply and rejoinder generally brought on n
collision between "town and gown;" id"
though the young gentlemen were accused
of what was chronologically impossible.
I'eoplo have a right to bo angry nt being
stigmatized as nitirderets, when their neon
eers have piobubliity on their side ; but the
"Inking oil" of Pownio occuried when the
gownsmen, so maligned, were in swaddling
clothes.
Hut there was a time, when to be branded
as an nccom plico in Hie slaughter of Richard
Downie, made Ins blood run to the cheek of
many a youth, and sent hiin home to bis
books, thoughtful and subdued. Downie
was saeiist or janitor at Marischal College.
One of his duties consisted in seeming the
gato by a certain hour, previous to which all
the students bad to assemble in tho common
hall, w here a Latin prayer was delivered by
tho principle. Whether in discharging this
function, Downie was more rigid than his
predecessor in office, or whether ho became
stricter in the performance of it nt one limn
than another, cannot now bo ascertained:
but there can be no doubt that he closed the
gato with austere punctuality, and thai those
who were not in the common hall within a
minute of the prescribed time were shut out,
and were afterwords reprimanded and fined
by the principle and piofessors. The stu
dents became irritated ut this strictness, and
took every petty means of annoying tho sac
rist ; he, in his turn, applied the screw at
other points of academic loutine, and a fierce
war soon began to range between the colle
gians and the humble functionary. Downie
took care that in all his proceeding he kept
within the stiict letter of the law ; but bis
opponents wcro not so carelt.l, and the de
cisions of the rulers weie uniformly against
them, iiiid in favor of Downie. Reprimands
and fines, having failed in produc ing due
subordination, rustication, suspension, and
even the exliemo sentence of o pulsion had
to bo put in foice ; and, in the end, law and
order prevailed. But a secret and deadly
rtntgo continued to bo enteilaiucd against
Downie. Various schemes of revenue wero
thought of.
Downie was, in common wiih teachers
and taught, enjoying tho leisure of the
short New-Years's vacation llio pleasure
being no doubt greatly enhanced by tho an
nimnvnuees to which he bad lii'pn soblcetnd
neighboring hotel wished to speak with
hiin. Downie obeyed llio summons, and
was ushered from one room into another, till
at length .he found himself in a I aigo apart
ment bung with black, and lighted by a
snli,1,r' ca,,l,l,!- Mu'r 'aitio for sonic
in this strange place, about lully lignres
j a''" diessed in black, ami with black masks
on their faces, presen'ed themselvi-s. They
! arranged themselves in tho foim of court,
and Downie, pale with terror, was given lo
understand ho was about to be put on his
irial.
A jndgo took his seat on tho bnch ; a
clerk mid public prosecutor sat below : a jury
was empanelled J anJ witnesses and specta
tors stood lilouud. Dow tno ut first set down
the whole affair as a joke ; hut the proceed-
' '"r!3 were conducted wiih such persistent
! charging him with conspiiing agaius tho lib
erties of tho students ; witnesses wero ex
amined in duo foim, tho public prosecutor
1 addiessing tho jury, and the jtnlgu summed
UP-
lientlemen, " said Uovvuie, tite joKe lias
faf e10lI,,i, is ,.,ljllg
1 , i,ii
and my wife and children wi
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. .r ii-ii ...-il ,
and my wife and children will bo geltm
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anxious utiotit me. It I nave been loo sine
. . .
wall you In lime pasl, I am sorry for it
aml 1 assmo 'uu 1 lllKo "K,IC t,a,' 111
uiiure.
1 '(Jeullemou of tho jury," said the judge,
without paving the slighest attention lo this
j appeal, "coi.sider your veidict ; and if you
wish lo retire, do so."
j The Jury retired. During their absence
! the most profound silonco was obseived ; and
eveent icnuwiii the solitary caudle that
- bmlll i,t,6i,0 th0 judge, thero was not the
slightest movement.
The jury leturned and recorded a verdict
of Cfiirv.
Tho judge solemnly assumed a large black
, , , i .i. . .
can, and uauiesseu inu pu.-onui .
. ii-i i n. ...... a I I ih mi v liavo in ani-
.1- ....i :tt .- ..f niiiikMii inn ii-aiust
, nnma;; m.in. e j i
1 the jnsl liberty oud immunities of llio em-
donls of Marisehtil College. 1 on Have wan
lonly provoked uiul rusuiioo uiu.o ......
, lieges for some inonttis, ami jour iu......
ii.. ii.. i.t. ..mi. In-n. luu must
ptepaio for dealh. In fifteen muuiles thu
sentence of the court will bo cariied into
ii I will usauivtni v - n---
ctlecl.
Tho Judea placed In wnlcli on Hie bench
A block, an oxe, and a bag of sawdust, wero
biouchl into tho coutro ot Ilia room, a ug
uro nioie terrible than any that lad yet op.
peared ca.e forwaid, and prepared to act
tho part of doomsler
It was now pasl midnight ; there was no
votind audible save (he ominous ticking of
tho judge's watch. Downie became inoio
and more alarmed.
' Fot any sake, gentlemen," said the tcr-
rilled man, ' let mo homo. I promise that
you never
;ain shall have cause for coin-
plaint."
"Richard Downie," icmarked the judge,
"you are vainly wasting the few moments
that are left you on t in lb. 1 oil are in the
hands of those who must have your li.c.
No human power can ivt you. Attempt to
uttei one cry, and you are seized, and your
loom is completed before you can utter an
other. Every ono here present has sworn a
solemn oath never to reveal tho proceedings
of this night, they arc known to nono but
ourselves; and when tho object for which
wo have met is accomplished, wo shall dis
P'iso unknown to any one. Prepaie. then,
foi death; other five minutes will be allowed
but no more."
The unfortunate man in an agony ol dead
ly terror raved nnd shrieked for mercy ; but
the avengers paid no heed lo his cries. His
fevered, trembling lips then moved as if in
silent prayer, for ho felt that the biief space
between him and eternity was but as a few
more tickings of that ominous watch.
"Now !" exclaimed the judge.
Pour persons stepped forward and seized
Downie, on v. hoso features a cold clammy
sweat bad burst forth. They bated his. neck
and made him kneel before thu bluck.
"Strike !" exclaimed the judge.
The executioner struck llio axe on ibe
lloor ; an assistant on ibe opposite side lifted
at tho same moment a wet towl, and struck
il across tho neck of the recumbent ctim
mal. A loud laugh announced that tho joke
bad nt last come to an end.
But Downie responded not to tho tiproaii
oils mciriment -they In vhed again but
still bo moved not they lifted him, and
Downie was dead !
Fright had killed him as effectually as if
tho axe of a real headsman bad severed bis
bead from his body.
It was a tragedy to all. The medical stu
dents tried to open a vein, but all was over :
and tho conspirators had now to be'.liink
themselves of safety. They now in rea'ity
swore an oalh among themselves : and the
affrighted yoti.-.g men, carrying I heir disgui
ses with them, left the body of Downie lying
in thu hole).
One of their number told the landlord that
Ihcir entertainment was not yet quite ever,
and that they did not wish tho individual
that was left in llio room lo bu disturbed for
Sine hours. This was to give them all time
to escape.
Next morning tho body was found. Judi
cial inquiry was insiiftted, but no satisfacto
ry result could be arrived at. Tho coipso of
poor Downie exhibited no marks of violence
internal or external. The ill-will between
him and the stiiden's was known ; it was
also known that the students bad hired apart
ments in the hotel lor a theatrical represen
tation. Downie had been sent for by them :
but beyond Ibis nothing was known. No
noise had been beard, and no proof of murder
could be adduced. Of two hundred students
of the college, who could point out tho guilty
or suspected fifty ? Moreover thu students
scattered over the city, and thu magistrates
hetnselvcs had many of their own families
imongst the number, and it was not desira
ble lo go into tho allair loo minutely. Dow
nie' v idow and family weie provided for
and his slaughter icmaiiied a mystery until
about fifteen years after it occurrence, a gen-
man on his deathbed disclosed Iho whole
paiticu'.ais, and avowed himself to have be
longed to tho obnoxious class of students
who murdered Downie. H'olilc Tribune.
c iir.oitiru: oi- soda.
The chloride of soda is ono of llio best dis
infectants, if not the very best, in tho world.
It is however, especially adapted for disin
fecting soiled clothes, or those which have
been employed injooiusof sick persons, be
cause it can bo employed in the water for
washing them. It can also be employed for
washing the human body, and for this p.nposo
il is extensively used us a toilet liquid. Tho
way toui'ko rt is known to buttery few, and
it is theielore sold by our diuggUtsul a very
high price. It is generally labelled with the
namo of a French manufacturer, and sold as a
French product ; we have icoiu dollar char
ged for a quart bottle of it, and fifty emits is
a very common price. Wo will inform our
readeis how to make it for six cents the quart
at the very utmost limit, Take one pound
of good chlorate of lime, w Inch can be bought
at any of ttiodruggists, (when it is damp it i
a sigiMhat il inot good, it should bi; perfect
ly dry,) put this lime in a close vessel con
taining a gallon of cold rain water, and slir it
well, taking cure to break all Iho lumps; il
should ihen be covered and left to seltlo all
iii-lil, and the clear ponied off next morning
the sediment may bo thrown away. Then
lake ami dissolve a pound of Iho common crys
tals of soda, in warm water, an J pour ibis so
lution into the clear liquid, Hilling all up
well ; it Ihen been. nes qui''1 milky, when it
should bo covered op wiih aeloth to ptovent
the escape of iho gas. In six hours tho clear
may bo poured oil, and bullied up light for
use ; Ibis is thu chloride of soda, and it will
bo found to be us good usth.it foi which peo
ple have to pay half adollai a, quail. The
soda precipilates the lime in the water, vv bich
falls as a very fine se.litnenl ; the deal liquor
must be very carefully poured oil, ns the sedi
ment is easily disturbed. Haifa teacupfull
can be put into a wash basin along with the
water, lor a person to wash '.outsell with ; il
makes tho water tiuo and soft, and washes
beautifully with any kind of soup,
Wt should estimate man's character by
his goodness, nol bis wealth.
lK.HAI.liS l It l SSI A.
Owing lo tho enormous coms'implion or
Iho army, thu female population of Russia
greatly exceeds that of the males. Women
are or litllo value; the banks will only ad
vance money upon the male serfs, counting
Iho others as over nud above. Wo aie at a
loss fr words to describe without ofTci.cc,
the demoralizing result oT theso things. The
master not so often the lord as tho agent or
overseer, who tyrannizes over thu wretched
people enslaves h own brother, sells his
sister, and often his daughters, into a servi
tudo woi.se than dealh. The lash, tho uni
versal punishment or stimulant, is not spared
to woman. A French gentleman who was
traveling through Russia, was thrown into
prison at Moscow w i'out a shadow of pretext.
Day after .lay the wretched serfs, whoso
master sent them to be flogged by tho obli
ging police, wcro bioughl before llio grating
of his dungeon, to which ho was drawn by
some inesislajlo attraction some spell of
leiror The sights ho witnessed and the
sounds ho heard had such an effect upon his
brain that lie became nearly idiotic.
due day two young girls, milliners, scarcely
SO yeais old, weie sent by their mistress to
bo flogged- "1 hey wcro torn wiih the roil.
They wiiihed and shrieked for mercy. At
the sight of the bleeding bodies of theso un
happy ghls, whoso sinews wcro laid upon
wiih each stroke, the Fienclnnan cculd hardly
keep himself from fainting. At length tho
flogging ceased, but not until one of tho young
girls fell, bathed in blood, and dying to the
earth.
Another traveler in Russia, hearing ono
morui :g tho cries of intensest suffering from
a number of women who wcro being flogged,
could not restrain his tears. The lady of tho
bouse, finding him in this state, and not un
derstanding that the sight of such torments
could so move him, informed him that it was
entirely from kindness and attention to a
stranger that sho had ordered eighty of her
servants to be flogged for neglecting to gather
wild strawberries for his breakfast.
The last instance wo can find space to givo
of the nttcr disregard for the right of human
ity in tho treatment of tho Russian popula
tion, is the forcible carrying oil of the young
children. Tho Emp-ror sots Iho examplo
nnd carries off the children of the Poles and
Jews by hundreds, in pursuit of a remorseless
policy directed against the two races. "Tho
nobles carry off children not only for pleas
ure," says Mr. Mitchelct, "but only as a
means of speculation."
We will cite as an example one who train
ed r:p whole troops of dancers, some of whom
he exhibited in the theatres of -Moscow, and
sold others, at high pticcs, to thoso nobles
who amused themselves with operatic perfor
mances in their own mansion. Wo need not
do more to demoustiate thu universal corrup
tion and debasement that pervades society
under the rrrost puifcct form of absolute gov"
ermeiit.
int. ja(uso,
Of Boston, who is a well known chemist of
that city, has published an article in which
he contends that most of the deaths that have
occurred from tho use of cliloioform should
be ultiibulcd to the use or presence of some
poisonous compound of amyle, the hypothet
ical radical of fusel oil, or the oil of w hiskey.
Having made various experiments upon tho
subject, his conclusions arc as follows:
1st. When chloroform, and tho alcoholic
solution of it called chloiic oilier, was made
from pure alcohol diluted with water, no fa
tal accidents occuried from its judicious ad
ministration. 2d When chloroform was made, as it now
loo frequently is, from common corn, rye and
potato whiskey, deaths began to occur, even
when the utmost care was taken in its ad
miiiistiation. 3.1. In the Chelsea case, vvhero this kind
of cliloioform vvns probably contained in tho
aleholio solution, incorrectly called chloric
el her, death took place in a very sudden
main. er, and the post mortem appearance on
the subject indicated tho usual ellccts of poi
souii.g by chloiofotm.
Fiuin these data, it might justly be inferred
that some puisoiious matter exists in the
cheap chloiofoiiu of commerce, and 1 suspect
ed that it arose from the fusil oil which ex
ists in whiskey. This opinion, ut my sug
gestion, as published by two of my friends,
to put lire public on their guard, and those
gentlemen urgently advised that physicians
and surgeons should return to the use of pore
kulphiu io ether (oxide of clhyh',) as originally
piosciibod by me.
Ho says fui ther :
1st. That all cliloioform intended for r'niu
f:(i(iii us mi uiiuthetic agent should be prepared
from pure rectified ahohnt, to bo diluted with
water when used for distillation from hyper
chlorite ot lime,
2d. That no druggist should sell fur onirs
thetio uses any chloroform which in not
known to have been piepared ns above sug
gested. ;:d. That the mixture cf chloroform and al
cohol, coinmoiciully known under the name
of slioug chloiic either, must be made with
the same piecaulion as chloroform.
I r is stated in the Sandwich Islands papers
that tobacco seed from the Island of Cuba
has been planted in thoso Islands, and the
account states that tho crop i not only abun
dant, but that the cigars manufactured from
Iho tobacco arc of tho finest quality and fla
vor, equal in every respect to the best rega
lias of Havana.
WntN men arid lamps smoke, they are a
nuisance.