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SOUTHERN
RECORDER.
VOL. I
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1320.
No. 25.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
(on tuespays)
J1Y & GIM.YTL.1ND <y It. M. ORME,
AT THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR
DOLLARS AT TIIE EXPIRATION OF THE
Year.
ILf* Advertisements conspicuously inserted at
the customary rates.
CONGRESS OF ’76.
It may gratify some of otir readers to
Tiei u»e the following very brief notice of
the signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. It will be seen, that of num
bers of them we have no account; and
yet the article is furnished us by a gentle
man whose sources of information areas
various as those of any person in this vi
cinity. Of the whole number, one tilth
part were natives of this Stale.—The
Survivors are only four—John Adams,
William Floyd, Charles Carroll, and
Thomas Jetfcrson....lYorcester Gazelle.
Delegatesfrom New-Hampshire.
Josiah Bartlett—Born at Amesbury,
Mass, a Physician : previous to the Rev o
lution, a member of the Legislature, and
afterwards Chief Justice and President
of the State of Ncw-llampshire. Died
May, 1795,aged 66.
Willum Whipple—A Brigadier-Gene
ral of the Now-11,impshire troops, in
1777, aftervvards a member of the Coun
cil, and a Judge of the Supreme Court.
Died November, 1785.
Matthew Thornton—Chief Justice of
<iie county of Hillsborough, and after
wards a Judge of the Supreme Court.
Died June, 1803, aged 88.
Delegate* from Massachusetts.
John Hancock—Born at Braintree,
President of the Provincial Legislature,
and afterwards Fresin'pnt of the Nation
al Congress, the first Go vernor of Mas
sachusetts after the Revolution, first e-
lecled in 1780, and again in 1757. Died
Oct. 1793, agen 56.
Samuel Adams—Born at Boston, 1 722.
Secretary of the State, and President ef
the Senate of Massachusetts, elected Lt.
Governorin 1789, and Governorin 179-1.
Died Oct. 1802, aged 00.
John Adams—Born at Braintree, Oct.
19, 1735—now living, in his 85th year.
Elbridge Gerry—Born at Marblehead,
1744, a Delegate to the Convention
which framed the Constitution of the U.
States, Envoy to France 1794, Govern
or of Massachusetts, and Vice President
of the United States. Died November,
1814, aged 70.
Robert 'Treat Payne—Born at Wcr-
mooth, 1731—Attorney, Judge of the
Supreme Court, and member of the
Council of Massachusetts. Died May,
1814, aged83.
Delegates from Rhode Island.
Stephen Hopkins—Born in Provi
dence, 1707—several years Governor
of the Colony, a Delegate to the Con
gress at Albany in 1754, Chief Justice of
■Rhode Island, died July, 1785, aged 79.
William Ellery—Born at Newport,
1727—sustained various civil offices pre
vious to the Revolution, afterwards Com
missioner of the Loan Office, and Collect
or of Newport. Died February 1820
aged 93.
Delegates from Connecticut.
Rover Sherman—Born at Newton
Mass. 1721, one of the Assistants and
Judge of the Supreme Court of Connec
ticut, Member of the Convention which
framed the Constitution of the United S
Representative and Senator in Congress
Died July, 1793, aged 72.
Samuel Huntington—Lora at ind
ium), member ofthe Legislature, Attor
ney Geueral, Judge of the Supreme
Court, and member of the Council of
Connecticut, President of Congress in
1779, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor,
and Chief Justice, and in 1786 elected
Governor of Connecticut. Died January,
1796, aged 64.
William Williams—Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and member
of live Council of Connecticut. Died
August, 1811, aged 80.
Oliver Wolcott—Elected Governor of
Connecticut in 1796, and died Decern
ber, 1797, aged 71.
Delegates from New-York.
William Floyd—Now living in his 87th
year.
Philip Livingston—A Delegate to the
Congress of 1765, and agaiu elected in
1774.
Francis Lewis.
Lewis Morris.
Delegates from New-Jcrscy.
Richard Stockton—A Judge, and mem
ber of the Council of the Province. In
1776 he had an unequal number of votes
on the first balloting for Governor of the
State with Mr. Livingston, who was sub
sequently chosen. Died March, 1781.
John Witherspoon-Born in Scotland
1722. Came to America, in 1768, and
was President of Princeton College from
that time until his death Nov 1791, aged
^Francis Hopkinson—Born in Pennsyl
vania, Judge of the Admiralty and ot the
District Court. Died May, 1 '^E
John Hart.
Abraham Clark. t
Delegates from Pennsylvania.
Robert Morris—Born at Manchester
England. SupcriuteuJ<iul of the. I iffiW* Ivvir
ces of the United States from 1781 to
1785, afterwards member of the Assem
bly of Pennsylvania, and a Delegate to the
Convention which framed the Constitu-
lion of the United States. Died, 1806
aged 72.
Benjamin Rush—Rom in Pennsylva
nia 1745, Physician General of the Mi
litary Hospitals, for the Middle Depart-
menis, in 1777, Member ofthe Conven
tion which framed the State Constitution,
and Treasurer ofthe Mint of the Uni
ted States ; one of the first Physicians
and medical writers of the age. Died
April, 1813, aged 69.
Betij iniin Franklin—Born at Boston,
Mass. 1706 ; Member of the Congress
of 1754; Agent of several of the Colo
nies in England, 1757 ; President of the
Convention which framed the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, 1779. The same
year he was sent Minister to France,
and, together with Lee and Deane, for
med the treaty of alliance ; assisted in
forming the Treaty of Peace with Eng
land, 1783; President of the Supreme
Executive Council of Pennsylvania,
1785. Died April, 1790, aged 85.
John Morton—Speaker of the Assem
bly Pennsylvania, in 1775 ; afterwards
a Judge of the Supreme Court.
Geo. Clymer—Joint Treasurer of the
United Colonies, with Air. Ilillegas. iri
1775; Delegate to the Convention which
framed the Constitution of the United
States ; Supervisor of Excise for Penn
sylvania, 1761 ; first President of the A-
cademy of Fine Arts Philadelphia, 1805,
Died January, 1813, aged 75.
James Smith—Appointed in t780
Judge of the High Court of Errors and
Appeals for Pennsylvania. J
George Taylor—Member of the As
sembly previous to the Revolution, and
of the Committee of Correspondence in
1774.
James Wilson—Alember ofthe Con
vention which framed the. Constitution of
the United States, and of Pennsylvania ;
ppointed in 1791 .Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States ; Professor
ol’L vW iu the University of Pennsylva
nia. Died September, 1798.
George iioss—A Alember of the As
sembly previous to the Revolution ; af
terwards Vice President of the Execu
tive Council of Pennsylvania.
Delegates from Delaware.
Cmsar Rodney—Member of the Con
gress of 1765 ; Speaker o r the Assembly
of Delaware, 1774.
George Read—Vice President ofthe
State ; Judge ofthe Court of Appeals in
cases of captures by sea ; Alember ofthe
Convention which framed the Constitu
tion, and Senator of the United States.
Thomas M. Kean—Speaker ofthe As
sembly previous to the Revolution ;
Alember of iiie Convention which train
ed the Constitution of Delaware in 1776,
and the first Governer of the State ;
President of Congress in 1781 ; Chief
Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania.
Died Jan. 1817, aged 84.
Delegates from Maryland.
Samuel Chase—Chief Justice of the
General Court of Alary land, and after
wards a Judge ofthe Supreme Court of
the U * d States.—Died June, 1811.
William Paca—Judge ofthe maritime
Court of Appeals, previous to 1782, and
was that year elected Governor of the
Stale ; appointed in 1789 District Judge
of Maryland. Died 1799.
Thomas Stone—died October 1787, a-
ged 44.
Charles Carroll—now living.
Delegates from Virginia.
George Wythe—Born in Virginia,
1726 ; Speaker of the House of Bur
gesses, and Chancellor of the State.—
Died June, 1809, aged 81.
Richard Henry Lee—President of
Congress 1784 ; afterwards a Senator
from Virginia.—Died in June 1791, aged
68.
Thomas Jefferson—now living.
Benjamin Harrison.
Thomas Nelson—Alember ofthe Coun
cil, and elected Governor of the State in
1781.—Died Jan. 1789.
Francis I.ightfoot Lee—died April,
1797, aged 63.
Carter Braxton.
Delegates from North Carolina
William Hooper.
Joseph Hews—died Nov. 1779<
John I’cnn.
Delcgantcs from South Carolina.
Edwards Rutledge—A Member ofthe
Council, and elected Governor of the
State in 1793. Died Jan. 1800.
Thomas Heyward.
Thomas Lynch.
Arthur Middleton—President of the
Council ofthe Colony beiore the revolu
tion.
Delegates from Georgia.
Burton Gwinnett—President of the
Council of Georgia. Killed in a duel
with Gen. M’lutosh, May, 1777.
Ionian Hall—Governor of Georgia,
in 1783, Died Feb. 1791, aged 66
George Walton—Chief J ustice of the
State ; Alember of the Convention of the
United States ; Governor of Georgia,
and Senator in Congress, Died 1 eh.
NATIONAL PAINTING.
From the JVt if- Fori Daily Advertiser,of July 6.
It is with great pleasure we learn that
Col. Trumbull’s splendid painting of the
surrender of Cornwallis,” executed
for the Federal Government, and design
ed for the Hall of Congress, is finished,
and is about to be exhibited to the pub
lic at Washington Hall, in this city.—
This magnificent picture, winch com
memorates one of ihe most brilliant as
well as most interesting events ofthe
War of Independence, w ill he better un-
lerstood, by refreshing the inemors with
the following historical facts immediately
connected with its great subject.
Lord Cornwallis, one <5f the ablest and
most distinguished officers iu the British
service in tins country, during the years
80 and 1781, had overrun and sub
dued a large portion of the southern
country. Among the achievements which
had attended his victorious career was
the capture of the city of Charleston,
ind the victory at Camden. Indeed, such
was the success ofthe expedition, that it
seemed to threaten, at least, if not to ac
complish the ruin of Ihe cause of Ame
rican Independence. In 1781, consider
ing his great object so far accomplished
that his immediate presence was no lon-
r necessary at the south, he moved
with the principal part of Ins troops in
to Virginia, where, for a while, he was
equally successful. But the admirable
mhined movement of Gen. Washing
ton and our French allies from the north,
and of Count de Grasse, with the fieet
and army of France, from the West In
dies, turned the ec.ule, and forced the
British General to shut himself up in
York-Town, Virginia, and attempt to
defend himself there, until he could he
relieved by aid from the British army at
New-York. J1 is hopes and expectations
from that quarter failed him ; and on the
16th of October, 1781, he surrendered
his whole, forces to the combined arms
of America and France. This great e
vent, which was produced by one ofthe
most consummate displays of generalship
that is to ho found in the history ofmili-
tary operations, put an end to (he war,
and I’d to the acknowledgment of our In
dependence.
When the British army captured Char
leston, General Lincoln, who command
ed the American forces in that city was,
by Lord Cornwallis, denied the honor ol
Alarching out with colors flying. The
British General, who, by the reverses
of war, wh3 now under the necessity ol
surrendering his army, was denied the
game honor, and at the same time obli
ged to deliver up his sword to the same
American officer whose submission he
had superintended and directed at Char
leston, about a year and a half before.
The American troops, on this interest
ing occasion, were formed on the right
of the road leading to \ork. YVashin
ion and the American general olheevsor.
their right—the French troops on the
opposite side of the road—Count Ro
chambeau and the principal officers ol
the French army and navy on their left.
The British troops marched out of the
town “ with shouldered arms, colors cas
ed, and drums beating a British or Ger
man inarch”—they passed between the
two lines of the victorious armies, to a
lace appointed, where they grounded
itn-ir arms, and returned to their en
campment.
1'lie time chosen by the painter is the
moment when the principal British Of-
ficers, conducted by General Lincoln,
are passing the two groups of American
uid French generals, and are entering
between the lines of the victors. By
tins means, the most distinguished figures
ofthe three nations arc brought together
sufficiently near to udlmt of their being
lortraits. In the distance and centre of
the picture arc seen the entrance of the
toon, with the captured troops march-
_ out, and a distant glimps of York riv
er, and the entrance ofthe Chesapeake,
as seen from the spot.
This painting occupies a canvass of 12
feet high by 18 feet,.and contains no k*s
than 34 portraits, nil of which, except
the few British officers, are likenesses
taken by Col. Trumbull from tbd life.
The force and cfleet which arc derived
from the military display, and the line
figures of the officers, a great part nt
whom are mounted, cannot he described,
nor easily imagined. To he realized,
the work itself must he viewed ; and we
have no doubt it will be considered by
rsons of taste and feeling, as one of
the first specimens of the art which mo
dern times have produced. We never
see it but with new emotions of admira
tion and delight. The opportunity ol
viewing so many of the distinguished
■Jiaracters of the revolutionary ■var, both
>f our owa country and of Frmce, who
were engaged in the service, assembled
an so interesting an occasion'—-to view a
lelineatiou of their living countenance
ind ofthe scenery by which they were
surrounded, brings home lo ihe eye :
that ever fell to the lot of any known na
tion. As they are nvtde up of contradic
tions, it would he unjust to give them
uny uniform designation. There is scarce
a virtue that adorns (lie mind, or a vice
that disgraces human nature, but may he
ascribed to theta, as a part of their na
tional character. But the former are
often rendered ineffectual by misapplica
tion, and the latter qtnlfied by a levity
of manners, which shows them not to be
constitutionally prevalent. An English
man will treat his enemy with great gen
erosity, and his friends with ingratitude
and inhumanity. Ho vill he lavish of
his wealth w hen he Inn hut little of it,
and become a miserable wretch when for
tune pours tier favors uto his purse.
He will brute the utmud. hardships,
and encounter the severtW trials with
heroic fortitude, and will (town or hang
himself because the wind ban the east.
He will lend large sums to 'stranger on
the slightest security, and refuse his
nearest relation the means of subsis
tence. To-day, his heart extands with
social benevolence ; to-mornw, lie is
cold, sullen and morose. Jo-day, he
possesses the wealth of a nabob; to-mor
row, lie refuses a sixpence to i bugger,
lest he should lie himself reihcod to a
want of th it sixpence. In a vvetd, con
tradiction and absurdity make in Eng
lishman.
The extreme ignorance of tin com
mon people of this civ ilzled countiy, can
scarce he credited. In geueral, they
know nothing beyond the particular
branch of business which their jarish
happened to choose for them. This,
indeed, they practice, with unrcnUling
diligence ; but never iliink of extending
their knowledge further. A manufac
turer has been brought up a inuket of
pin-heads : He lias been at this businas*
4U years, and of course makes piu-lieals
with great dexterity—hut he canum
make a whole pin for his life. il«
thinks it is the perfection of human na
ture to make pin-heads.—He leaves o-
Uier matters to inferior abilities. It is
enough fur him that he believes in the
Athandsian Creed, reverences the splen
dor of the court, and makes pin-heads.
This ho conceives to be the sum-total ol
religion, politics and trade.—He is sure
that London is the finest city in th •
world ; Blackfriar’s Bridge the most su
perb of all bridges—& the river Thames
the largest river in the universe. It is
in vain to tell him that there are many
rivers in America, in comparison ot
which the Tnataes is hut a ditch ; that
there are single provinces there larger
than all England, and that the colonies
formerly belonging to Great Britain, but
now Independent States, are vastly more
extensive than England, Wales, Scotland
M Ireland, all taken together. He can
not conceive this. He goes into his best
parlor, and looks ou the map ut England,
4 feet square, and on tlitf other side ol
the room, lie sees a map ot North and
South America, not more than two feet
square, and exclamee—“How can these
things possibly lie!—It is altogether
quite impossible!”—He has read the
Arabian Nights Entertainment, and he
hears this wonderful account of Ameri
ca—lie believes the one as much as the
other—that a giant should rise out of the
sea, or that the Delaware should be larger
than the Thames, are equally incredible
to hi in. Talk to him ol the British
Constitution, lie will tell you “ it is a
glorious Constitution /” Ask him what it
is and lit is ignorant of its first principles I!
But lie is sure that he c in make and sell
pin-heads under it.—Mention the free
dom of elections, mid lie will tell you
that he docs not meddle iu these matters;
that he lives in a borough ; and that it
is impossible hut that squire Goose Lap
must represent lint borough in I’arlia-
ment—because squire Goose Cap is ac
quainled with the Prime Minister—and
his Lady comes every Sunday to tire par
ish church in a hroauled grown, and nts
in a pew lined with greencloth. .tow
then can it be otherwise ? But these are
things in which he is not concerned, lie
believes in the Athanasian Creed, ho
nors the King—and makes pin-head*—
and what more can be expected of man ?
I am an American—I was rocked in
Ihe cradle of liberty—l have arrived ut
a certain age without once deviating from
those opinions which do so much honor
to men who find their ow n happiness in
that of others without any distinction of
party or classes, and who contemplated
with respect and even reverence the
subjects of Spain or any other country,
w hen their sentiments are in unison with
the sound precepts of the Christian re-sUuited States. I have documents in my
who (as I before stated) stand in need of
each other, and who, united by an ami
cable treaty, would not envy the whole
world. • > ■
1 lore my country most cordially. I
possess the purest friendship for the
Spanish nation, and I am desirous of see
ing the bonds of amity most strictly ce
mented between both. All the above ideas
Imve been printed in the papers of the
to the heart, a train of feelings of the
most solemn and impressive description.
CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH I’F.orU*
BV F. HOPKINSON.
The general character of the English
it certainly the most fantastic and absurd, with theirs ?
rROM tor. vigilante, a Minr.in paper.
Mr. Editor—Have tlip goodness to in
sert the following article^ your paper.
Let us lay aside all personalities, and
commence by discussing a subject so ma
terially interesting to the Spanish, nation
and to the United States of America, the
only two countries (we can truly assert)
that ought to he most closely united by
the similarity of their political institu
tions, which fortunately have lately been
re-established in Spain, and although they
vary triilingly by the name of the consti
tutional monarchy and r. constitutional re
public. they are essentially the same, be
cause they both acknowledge that the
sovereignty resides in the people ; and
if, (as 1 believe it will not be difficult to
prove ;) that the new Spanish constitu
tion will be obliged to support itself a-
gainst the fanaticism ofthe holy alliance,
ligion, namely—not “ to do unto others
what you would not have others do unto
you”—under these simple principles, 1
would wish to he informed by you thro’
this or any other medium, what are the
real motives for not having ratified the
treaty concluded between Spain and the
United States, signed at Washington on
the 22d Feb. 1819.
Some persons unacquainted with the
true state of the relations existing be
tween the two nations, have wished to
insinuate that the Spanish minister may
have exceeded his power in signing the
said treaty—how is it possible to con
ceive so gross an error, when that gen
tleman lias since been Appointed by his
majesty a minister to the court of St. Pe
tersburg, and lately, with the approba
tion of the provincial junta, ambassador
to the court of Naples '! If he had been
guilty of making n treaty for which he
w as not authori-cd, it is almost incn.-dihle
that the two governments would have a-
guin employed him on commissions of so
much responsibility ; 1 cannot therefore ;
help believing that Don Luis de Onia
(who has occupied nearly ten years in
arranging the treaty in question) con
cluded it with ample powers nnd with
full knowledge and (even more) with
wisdom nnd intelligence that when its
minute shall lie laid before the world,
will do equal honor to him as well as to
the nation he represented.
I hare seen in one of the papers a pa
ragraph which states that a person na
med ."’error, accuse the then Spanish se
cretary of state, Don Jose Pissarro, o;
having formed the said treaty. I have
attributed this intelligence to mistake.
Pissarro left the office ofthe secretary of
state and was banished in the month n|
September 181 it, and the treaty was not
Hide until the 22d of February, 1819.
The.treaty was signed during the pe-
•iod that ihe marquis Yrojo acted as se
cretary of state, hut it will lie said that
Fizarro formed the instructions under
which Ouis acted. I have understood
that strict orders were sent during Pi/.ar-
ro’s i< (ministration for the conclusion of
the treaty in question, hut were not these
instructions previously laid before tin
conn: il of state l wore they not approv
ed of by the said council, and particularly
by Ins majesty ? Biz trro being banished,
it was reported among the people in this
city who had some interest in the busi
ness, thatYrujo thought it his duty to
ill ameeting of the council of state, that
it might ratify the instructions given to
Don Luis de Onis, tliis being effectually
done, they were forwarded by the latter
secretary of state and the treaty was sigu-
ed and concluded.
The treaty accompanied by all the
necessary formalities, arrived at Madrid
ratified on the part of the United States,
and to the astonishment of all Europe
mid America by one ol those intrigues,
which unfortunately Spain has been a
martyr to, /or the last six ye irs, the trea
ty was not ratified, and this moment was
seized upon for banishing the marquis
Yrujo, minister ad inter, lt was said
that the persons who figured principally
in th* intrigue, were the ex-minister
Lozano Torres, a cannon councellor of
slite, and the other a grandee of Spain,
he this as it may, the treaty was not ra
tified, and wo are on the point (not know
ing wherefore) of having war with that
n itiou to winch it is our liveliest interest
to be most united.
It is now officially known that the go
vernment of the United States has deter
mined to occupy the territory ceded in
virtue of the treaty, as an indemnifica
tion to the citizens for the demands ac
knowledged as legal since 1802, and the
Spanish nation, perfectly ignorant ot.^and
in no way accessary to the shameful in
trigues of a few courtiers, is now exposed
to the contempt, ami even to a war with
a nation that hi)s the fate ofthe Spanish
Americans in its hands. 1 must also add,
that it is officially known that the treaty
was made and signed with the full know
ledge, and by the mediation ofthe French
government-*—that England likewise ol-
fiiciutly recommended its ratification, and
it is even reported that the emperor of
Russia made, the same insinuation to the
Spanish government. Under all these
circumstances, I wish to know the real
motives which have instigated the Spanish
government to refuse the ratification of
the treaty, and expose itself to the most
fatal consequences. If it should result
that the intrigues of a few courtiers have
caused all this trouble, and that these are
now (where for the happiness of this he-
roical nation they ought to have been
possession to prove the justice which an*
imates my country to exact the fulfillment
ofthe treaty in question.
If unfortunately, a happy reconcilia*
lion cannot be effected between the two
nations, 1 shall at least have the satisfac
tion of exposing the intrigues of a few
courtiers who were capable of plunging
the nation into a war and discrediting
her with the whole world, merely with
a view of gratifying their private inter
ests, their personal animosities, constant
ly occupying themselves in their intri
gue* of court whereby ministers were
placed and displaced at their will, while
at the same time they did not possess one
single quality necessary for the manage
ment of an heroic nation whose very vi
tals they were destroying by absurd and
tyrauicul decrees
A Citizen of the United Statei.
w here ran they look for that support j for many years since) confined to their
more effectually, than in a nation, whose i houses, a prey to the contempt ot a great
interests, geographical situation, and po-1 and magnanimous people, why should
litical institutions are so closely united j there not be an end to this business which
* ‘ causes a division between two nations,
Tnov, July 11.
Spontaneous Combustion.—Three years
ago an instance of spontaneous comfit,s-
tion occurred in Troy. A heap of ma
nure, containing considerable straw and
litter front a cow stable, during the hot
weather in a dry summer, actu dlv took
fire. On entering the garden, the owner
observed a smell of smoke, and aftec
searching on the lots, each side, discov er-
cd the cause ofthe tire. Several loads
ofthe manure were removed and thor
oughly wet with water. It was fie nd
that several pieces of the manure w- re
perfectly chared, and at a depth of a foot
or inure, the heat was insupportable to
the hand.
Another instance of spontaneous com
bustion has also occurred in 'Troy. 'The
fact is related ypon the veracity ofa re
spectable house painter in this city. A
few years since, this gentleman mixed a
quantity of lamhlack with boiled linseed
oil, so us to constitute'a thick paste, for
the purpose of adding oil to make a black
paint. This was done at evening—in
the morning his painting pot began to
smoke, and in a few hours afterwards it
actually hurst into a blaze.
Another instance of spontaneous com
bustion occurred at Albany. During the
late war, a painter had planted some
hundred knapsacks black, an9t>ilml them
together—they took fire and were con
sumed.
A great number of instances are on
record of spontaneous combustion from
various substances. If these facts were
more generally known, it is probable
that the origin of many fires w ould not be
attributed to the act of incendiaries.
The Heather, for the last week has
been extremely hot. Every day but one,
thermometer above 90. There was a
small exhilarating shower on Wednesday,
and on Sunday last, we had a copious fall
of rain. Vegetation is suffering much
with the drought. On the 5th, at *.2 o-
clock, the thermometer stood at 97 1-2,
and at 6 o’clock, 93. On the 1 Oth at 3 o-
clock, 96 degrees.
FROM THE KtW-TuKII DAILY ADVERTISER.
BURNT CORK.
The season lias returned when bilious com
plaints, and disorders arising from debility
(which always affect the stomach) periodi
cally make liteir ravages on human life. Let
parents especially remember the simple re
medy first published iu your paper a year
ago, and make a timely application of ear-
lion of Cork. There is nothing more harm
less ; it may be given to an infant, only ob
serving that it be thoroughly burnt. Pour a
tea-spoonful of brandy on a cork thus pre
pared, anil mash it well with loaf sugar and
a little nutmeg, or peppermint essence and
water. The publication of this recipe has
already saved many lives in cases of Cholera
Morbus and Billious Cholic, and for the
Summer complaint,” in children it is h spe
cific if taken in time ; the quantity may be
increased at pleasure, without the least dan
ger. Every family should he provided with
i supply ready for the moment, for it often
happens that a person is suddenly violently
attacked, perhaps in the night, when it is
xtremely inconvenient, if not impossible to
prepare it. MED1CUS.
Density, Weight, tfc. of the Earth.—From
the experiments of Maskelyne, and the cal
culations of Hutton, Cavendish, Laplace,
kc. it appears, that considering the. specific
gravity of w ater, as uni'y, the mean density
of the earth would he according to Hutton,
4,95, or according to Cavendish, 5,48. The
mean most commonly adopted is 5,4. Ta
king this as our ground work, we may now
proceed to that most singular question of
weighing the earth. Assuming 7820 miles
as the mean diameter of the earth, the num-
lier of cubic miles will be 481,979,311,961.—
Now, each cubic mile contains 174,197,952,-
000 cubic feet; also, every cubic foot of wa
ter weighs 1000 avoirdupois ounces. Hence
a cubic mile of water will weigh 4,107,085,-
714 tons, and consequently a globe of water
of equal dimensions with our earth, would
weigh 985,594,985,000,000,000,000 tons,and
that multiplied by the calculated density 5,4,
gives 5,322,212,919,540,000,000,000 tons for
the weight of our tdji\i.~-Petcrsburgh Adis
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