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THE DEATH WATCH.
B V T . HOOD.
In the Free City of Frankfort no-the-
Main, the bodies of the dead are not kept
for several days, as with ns, in the house of
mourning, but are promptly removed to a
public cemetery. In order to guard, how
ever, against premature interment, the re
mains nre always retained above ground,
until certain signs of decomposition are ap
parent; and besides this precaution incase
of suspended animation, the lingers of the
corpse are fastened to a hell tope, communi
cating with an alarum, so that on the slight
est movement the body rings for the help
which it requires for its resuscitation —a
watcher and a medical attendant being con
stantly on hand.
Now the duty of answeting the Life-hell
had devolved on one Peter Klopp—no very
onerous service, considering that for thirty
years since he had been theofficLl “Death-
Watch,” the nietalic tongue of the alarum
had never sounded a single note. The de
funct Frankforters committed to his charge
had remained, one and all, man, woman and
child, as stiff, as still, and ns silent, ns so ma
ny stocks and stones. Not that In every
case the vital principle was necessarily ex
tinct ; in some bodies out of so many thou
sands, it doubtless lingered, like a spark
amongst the ashes ; but disinclined by na
tional phlegm to any active assertion of its
existence.
For a German, indeed, tliern is a charm
in a certain vaporous dreamy stale, between
life and death, between sleeping and wa
king, which a transcendental spirit would
not willingly dissolve. But be that as it
might, the deceased Frankforters all lay in
their turns in the Corpse-Chamber, as pas
sive as statues in marble. Not a limb stir
red ; not a muscle twitched ; not a finger
contracted, and consequently not a note
sounded to startle the ear or try the nerves
of Peter lvlopp.
In fine, he became a confirmed skeptic as
to such resuscitations. The hell had never
rung, and he felt certain that it never would
ring—unless from the vibrations?if an earth
quake. No, no—Death and the Doctors
did their work too surely for their patients
to relapse into life in any such manner. And
truly it is curious to observe that in propor
tion to the multiplication of Physicians and
the progress of Medical Science, the num
ber of Revivals has decreased. The Ex
animate no longer rally as they used to do
some centuries since; when Aloys Schnei
der was restored by the jolting of his coffin,
and Margaret Schoning, leaving her death
bed, walked down to supper in her last linen.
So reasoned Peter Klnpp, who, long past
the first remorse, and fancies of his novi
ciate, had come, by dint of custom, to look
at the bodies in bis i are but as so many logs
or bales of goods committed to the tempo
rary custody of a Plutonian warehouseman,
or Lethean whranger. But he was doomed
to be signally undeceived.
In the month of September, just after the
autumnal Frankfort Fair, Martin Gath, a
middle-aged man, of plethoric habit, after
dining heartily on soup, sour krout, veal
cutlets, with bullace sauce, carp in wine-jel- 1
ly, blood sausages, wild boar brawn, herring
6alad, sweet pudding, Leipsio larks, sour
cream with cinnamon, and a bowlful of plums,
by way of dessert, suddenly dropped down
insensible. As he was pronounced to he
dead by the Doctor, the body was conveyed
as usual, within twelve hours, to the public
cemetry, where being deposited in the
Corpse-Chamber, the rest was left to the
care and vigilance of the Death-Watch, Pe
ter Klopp.
Accordingly, having taken a last look at
his old acquaintance, he carefully twisted
the rope of the life-bell around the dead
man’s fingers, and then retired to his own
sanctorum, lighted his pipe, and was soon
in that foggy Paiadise, which a true Ger
man would not exchange for all the odour
of Araby the Blessed, and the society of the
Houris.
It past midnight, and in the Corpse-
Chamber, hung with dismal black, the life
less body of Martin Garb was lying in its
shroud, as still as s'marhle statue. At bis
head, the solitary funeral lamp burned with
out a flicker; there was no breath of air to
disturb the flame, or to curve the long spi
der line that hung perpendicularly from the
ceiling. The silence was intense. You
might have heard the ghost of a whisper or
the whisper of a ghost, if there had been
one present to utter it; but the very air
seemed dead and stagnant; not elastic enough
for a sigh even from a spirit.
In the adjoining room reposed the Death-
Watch, Peter lvlopp. lie hail thrown him
self, in his clothes, on his little bed, with his
pipe stiil between bis lips. Mere, too, all
was silent and still. Not a cricket chirped
—nor a mouse stirred—nor a draught of
air. The light smoke of the pipe mounted
directly upward, and mingled with its cloud
like shadows on the ceiling. The eye would
have detected the flitting of a mote, the ear
would have caught the rustling of a straw,
but all was quiet as the grave, still as its
steadfast tombs ; when suddenly the shrill
hurried peal of the alarum hell ; tlio very
same sound that for fifteen long years he had
nightly listened for; the very same sound
that for many long years lie had utterly
ceased to expect, abruptly studied the slum
bering senses of Peter lvlopp !
In an instant he was out of bed, and on
his feet, but without tho power of further
progress. His terror was extreme. Tone
waked suddenly in a flight is sufficiently
dreadful ; but to be roused in the dead of
the night by so awful a summons ; by a call,
as it were, from beyond the grave, to help
the invisible spirit; pea Imps a demon’s ; to
reanimate a cold, clammy corpse; what
wonder that the poor wretch stood shudder
ing, clinking, gasping for breath, with his
hair standing upright on his head, his eyes
starting out of their orbits, bis teeth chat
tering, his hands clutched, his limbs paralyz
ed, and a cool sweat oozing out from every
pore of his body ! In the first spasm of hoi
ror his jaws had collapsed with such force,
that he had bidden through tlie stem of his
pipe, the howl and stalk falling to the flu >r,
whilst the mouth piece passed into hit; thro:.r,
and agitated him with new convulsions. li
the vety crisis of iiis struggle, a loud crash
resounded from the Corpse-Chamber; then
came a rattling noise as of loose boards, fol
lowed by a stilled cry ; then a strange, un
earthly shout, which the Death-W atcli an
swered with as unnatural a shriek, and in
stantly fell headlong on his face, on the stone
floor!
“ Poor fellow ! Why, it was enough to
kill him.”
It did. The noise alarmed the resident
doctor and the military pattol, who rushed
into the building, and lo ! a strange and hor
rid sight! There lay on the ground the un
fortunate Death-Watch, stiff and insensible;
whilst the late Corpse in its grave clothes
bent over him, eagerly administering the
stimulants,and applying the restoratives that
had been prepared against its own revival.
But all human help was in vain. Peter
Klopp was no more—whereas Mattin Garb
was alive, and actually stepping into the
dead man’s shoes, became, and is at this day,
the official Dead-Watch at Frankfort-on-the-
Main.
YME IF AUME G3 □
Corn-Stalk Molasses. —Wc have recently
been presented with a bottle of this molas
ses, which is the richest article of the kind
we have ever seen. It was made in Pen
dleton District, S. C.; and without machin
ery to grind, or proper kettles to boil it,
from one acre of common land, not particu
larly enriched, was made ninety gallons of
the article in hand. This specimen, as we
have stated, is finer than any tiling of the
kind we have seen. Two-thirds seems to
be sugar,thick and delicious enough to make
even a sick man’s mouth water; and what
could not a well One do in the premises, in
a fair set-to with good warm corn, or buck
wheat cakes, with fresh butler and this de
licious article ■proportionally.
We bear with great pleasure, of various
experiments being made for the production
of this article. We entertain no doubt but
that Georgia can produce her own Sugar
and Molasses, and from her own native corn
stalks, abundantly to supply her own popu
lation. And wc have just as little doubt
that duty, os well as interest, imperiously
requires her to do so.
Wc shall keep this bottle of Corn-Stalk
Molasses in our counting room for the in
spection of those who may desire to look at
it, and especially our agricultural friends,*
whom we invite to inspect it. And we
would, when they do look at it anc discover
its exceeding richness, (for this is really su
gar-house syrup, and worth at least double
the common molasses) —we repeat, when
they have looked at tLis fine article, and are
told that in the up country of Carolina, from
common land, ninety gallons, worth at least
sls, was the produce of one acre, we shall
emphatically ask them ti e question —what j
other crop can they offer to put in competi- j
tion with this, cither on the score of com
fort for their families, or in actual receipts
by its sale ? It is time, liigli time, that the
rally cry above all others, of our State from
the mountains to the coast, should be, in re
lation to the fair and energetic development
of our means of prosperity and happiness,
“Georgia experts every tnan lo do his du
ty.”—Millcil^ertile Recorder.
CC/ 5 * In the hope that many of our plan
ters will try the experiment of making mo
lasses from corn, we give below, for their
information, the letter of Mr. W. C. Rogeis,
of Tennessee, to the editor of the “ Nash
ville Banner,” in which the process of ex
tracting and boiling the juice is fully des
set ibed :
Dear Sir —l have received various letters
asking information about the construction of
Mr. Vaughan’s Mill for making Sugar from
Corn-stalks, the manner of cultivating the
corn, process of manufacture, See. To save
the trouble of future enquiries, I send you
this communication, which you will oblige
me by inserting in the Banner.
The mill is composed of two upright rol
lers, one 48 inches in length, the other 40,
which arc secured by a strong frame 8 feet
long. 3 feet wide and 30 inches high ; 17
cogs on one roller work in an equal number
of cogs in the other, and are moved by a
sweep ; the short roller lias a body 24 inches
long, 20 inches diameter, a neck piece at the
top to be inserted in the frame S inches long,
10 inches diameter, a cog space immediate
ly under the top neck G inches long, and 17|
inches diameter, and a neck piece at bottom
S inches long, 10 inches diameter, making
its entire length 4G inches. The long roller
is of the same dimensions, withsimilar body,
neck piece and cog pieces, with the excep
tion that 12 inches are added to the top neck
of the long roller fit the insertion of the
sweep.
In grinding, the stalks are passed by hand
between the rollers, and the juice is squeez
ed out on their passage. If not sufficiently
pressed out on their first passage, they arc
returned a second time between the rollers.
The juice is caught by the bottom piece of
the frame, which is three feel wide like a
platform and sloping on one side so as to
make it run out into a vessel placed there
for the purpose.
After the juice is obtained, it ought not
to stand more than an hour for fear of fer
mentation. It is then placed over the fire
and ns it begins to boil carefully skimmed.
When boiling, the scum should be rapidly
removed as it rises.
If some of the syrup can be taken be
tween the thumb and finger, and when mod
erately cool, a thread, a half inch or inch
long, can be drawn, it is thought boiled suf
ficient. If you wisli only to make syrup it
is not boiled quite so much. To make it
grain into sugar a few spoonsful of limewa
ter lias been recommended.
The only fixtures used by Mr. Vaughan ;
in boiling were a common ten gallon pot j
and three other pots of about the same size, j
The process is neither intricate nor tedious, j
Corn standing in the field may be cut, ground |
up and converted into elegant syrup in three j
or four hours.
Is it profitable ? is a frequent question.
Mr. Vaughan thinks he can make sixty gal- j
lons of molasses per acre which at present ;
prices retailing in this neigoborhood would
yield a profit of 25 or 30 dollais.
When the manufacture becomes commo 1
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in the West, such is our unbounded capaci
ty for making corn, of course the profits
would ho nominal. But if only made for
family use it will be n great saving and be
come, when we get in the way of making
plenty of molasses, an actual blessing to
children and negroes. Three are suf
ficient to grind up and make GO gallons of
moiasses, and the wotk will come on at a
season when the time can be easily spared.
The refuse juice is alone valuable for ma
king a most grateful beer and good vinegar.
The corn I had like to have forgotten jo
mention, is the common sort of corn, plant
ed and cut in the same manner as any <"0171,
with the exception of removing the shocks
as they appear. Mr. Vaughan cut bis corn
as the fodder began to ripen, at which time
lie thought the juice would be most apt to
be matured ; of course lie stripped off tbe
fodder before he cut it. Cost of Mill $6.
From the “ Macon Telegraph.”
IIOW TO MESMERIZE I.ICE ON PLANTS.
Dr. Bartlett —ls von think the following
is worth anything, you can let your readers
seeit. I don’t think there is any mistakciii the
matter. 1 tried it on two plants that were
covered with lice, and out of 1110 whole
number, 1 could not find one live one. I
have found gient difficulty in saving Ruta
llagn Seeds, and this year they were ruined
before I could find a remedy. After trying
a great many other things, I thought of the
following, tried it and found it effectual.
Take a little barrel that has hut one head,
and enclose the plant that contains the ani
mals to he mesmerized under the Darrel,
then with a pipe, (or any other way) fill the
haiTel with tobacco smoke, then draw tin*
dirt carefully round the mouth of the bar
rel, so as to prevent the escape of the smoke.
Let the barrel continue there for twelve
hours, (pethaps a less time Would answer,)
and it will lie found that the animals nre one
and all, completely mesmerized. No mis
take about this matter. So if plants that
have been left for seed are treated in this
wav, it will he found that llieir liceships are
completely disqualified for doing mischief.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Prospects of the Crop. —A correspon
dent writes us from the country, that the
prospect of the crop is decidedly the most
gloomy lie lias ever noticed—arid he lias
been an attentive observer for fifteen years.
He concludes by predicting that the present
crop will not exceed one half of the last.—
It will not do to predict on the limited ob
servations of one man or one section of the
vast cotton growing regioif. The crop may
be wholly cut off in South Carolina and yet
the aggregate he large. This much howev
er is certain—that the spring has been
throughout the country singularly cold and
backward, and that such a season is very
unfavorable to cotton, which requires a long
per iod of warmth. In our own part of the
country, the winter cold of March was suc
ceeded by a remarkable drought, which
continued without alleviation to the 10th of
May. The cotton had been long in the
ground and came up very irregularly and the
plant was not healthy. In this miserable
state it was overtaken by the late cold rains,
not the least trial to which it has been sub
jected The Sea Island cotton in particular,
can scarcely make head against this succes
sion ofbostile influences, and the prospect
•>f anything like a full crop is gone.—
Charleston Mercury.
MQ©©IE[ULAK]Y-
Female Heroism. —While these events
(the Revolution) were in progress, the arm
of female enthusiasm arrested the course of
Marat, one of the tyrants. Charlotte Cur
dav, a native of Rouen, at the ago of five
and twenty, was actuated by a heroism and
devotion above her sex. Gifted with a beau
tiful form and serene temper, she deemed
the occupations and ordinary ambition of
woman beneath her serious regard ; posses
sed of more than masculine courage, she
had lost nothing of female delicacy. One
only passion, the love of liberty, concentra
ted the ardent aspirations of her mind. Her
enthusiasm was awakened to the highest
degree by the arrival of the proscribed Gir
ondists at Rouen; all the romantic visons of
her youth seemed blighted dy tlie bloody
usurpations of the ruling faction at Paris.
Marat, the instigator of all the atrocities,
she imagined to be their leader, If hecould
be removed, no obstacle appeared to remain
to the reign of justice and equality—to the
commencement of the happiness of France.
In the heroic spirit of female devotion, she
resolved to sacrifice her life to attain this
inestimable object. Having taken her res
olution, she regained all her wonted cheer
fulness of manner, which the public calami
ties had much impaired. Deceived by the
appearance of joy which she exhibited, her
relation allowed her to set oft’ on some tri
fling commission to Paris. In the public con
veyance she was chiefly distinguished by
the amiable playfulness of her demeanor,
uninterrupted even lv the savage conversa
tion of some Jacobins who were present.
‘l’lie first day of her arrival at Paris was
employed in executing her commissions,—
On the second day she purchased a knife at
the Palais Royal, to plunge into tlie bosom
of the tyrant. On the third day she with
difficulty obtained an entrance to Marat.
She found him in the bath, when she eager
ly inquired after the proscribed deputies at
Caen. Being told their names. “ Tliev
shall soon meet with flie punishment they
deserve!” said Marat. “ Yours is at hand!”
exclaimed she and stabbed him to the heart.
He uttered a loud shriek and expired.
Charlotte Corday remained motionless in
t! e apartment, and was seized and conduct
ed to prison. On the day of her trial she
interrupted the prosecutors, who were be
ginning to prove the death of the deceased.
“ These formalities are unnecessary. I kil
led Marat!” “ What templed you to com
mit the murder ?” “ His own crimes !”
“What do you mean by his crimes V “The i
misfortunes which he has inflicted on France i
since the revolution, and which he was pre
paring to increase!” “ Who are your as
sociates V’ “ I have none: I alone conceiv
ed the idea.” “ What did you propose to !
yourself by putting Marat to death I” “To
stop the anarchy of France. 1 have slain
one man to save a hundred thousand—a
wret®i, to preserve the innocent —a savage
monster, to give repose to our country. I
was a republican before the revolution, and
I have never failed in energy 1” “ What
do you understand by energy ?” asked the
president. “The sentiment which animates
those who disdaining the consideration of
their own safely, sacrafices themselves for
the sake of their country !” Upon hearing
her sentence she gave a joyful exclamation,
and with a radiant countenance handed to
to the president two letters—one addressed
to Barbarotix, the other to her father.—
Alison's History of Europe.
Western Eloquence —Gentlemen of the
Jury, (said a western lawyer.) it is with
feelings of no ordinary commotion that I
rise to defend my injured client here, from
the attnet which have been made upon his
heretofore unapproachable character. I
feel, gentlemen, that though a good deal
smarter than any of you are, or even the
judge here, yet I am utterly concomitant to
present this here ease in that macmanimons
and heart rending light which its importance
demands ; and gentlemen, 1 trust that what
ever I may lack in presenting the subject,
will be immediately made up by your own
natural good sense and discernment, if you
have got any.
‘The counsel for the prosecution, gentle
men, will undoubtedly endeavor to heave
dust in your eyes. He will tell you that
his client is pre-eminently, a man of func
tion—that he is a man of undoubted and
unimpeachable voracity—that lie is a man
who would scorn to fotch an action agin
another merely for to gratify his own per
sonal corporosity; hut, gentlemen, let me
caution you to beware how you rely upon
any spacious reasoning like ibis. I myself
apprehend, gentlemen, that ibis here suit
lias beer, wilfully and malitiously fitch—
fotch, gentlemen, for the sole purpose of
browbeating my unhappy client here, and
in an eminent manner grinding the face of
t lie poor : and I apprehend also, that if you
could hut look into that man’s heart, and
read there the motives which have propelled
him to filch this suit, such a picture of mor
al turpentine and heartfelt ingratitude would
he brought to light ns has never before been
exhibited since the Falls of Niagra.
Now, gentlemen, 1 want to make a bril
liant appeal to the kind symmetries of your
nature, and sec if I can’t wrap your judg
ments a little in favor of my unfortunate cli
ent here ami then I shall fotch my arguments
to a close. Here is a poor man, with a nu
merous wife and child dependent on him
for their daily bread and butter, wantonly
fotcht up here and arranged before an intel
lectual jury on the charge of ignominonsly
booking—yes, gentlemen, mark the idea,
hooking six quarts of new cider. You, gen
tlemen, have all been placed in the same
situation, and you know how to feel for the
misfortunes of my lieart-broken client, and
I humbly calculate you will not permit the
| gusbings of your simperthizing hearts to be
j squenched in the bud by the? sarreptitious
j arguments of my ignorant opponent on tot!>
er side.
j The law expressly declares, gentlemen,
in the beautiful language of Shakespear,
that where no doubt exists of the guilt ot
a prisoner, it is your duty to lean upon the
side of justice, and fotch him in innocent.—
Ifyou keep this fact in view in Case of my
client, gentlemen, you will have the honor
of making a friend of him and all his rela
tions, and von can allers look upon this oc
casion and reflect, with pleasure, that you
did as you have been done by; but if, on
ti e other hand, you disregard this great
principle of law. set at naught my eloquent
remarks, and fotch him in guilty, the silent
twitches of conscience will fuller you over
every fair cornfield, I reckon, and my injur
ed and down-trodden client will be pretty
apt to light on you some of these dark
nights, as my cat lights on a sasser full of
new-milk.
Appearances. —How many judge of a
man's character by the cut of his coat, his
manners and conversation, or from tbe con
dition in which lie is placed. A person well
dressed is supposed to possess a good mind
and a virtuous heart, while a man with a
thread-bare jacket passes for a simpleton or
a villain.— Portland Tribune.
The above is truth every word of it. At
this age of our “ enlightened age,” a man is
judged by his clothing. The man who pa
rades the streets in broadcloth and silk is
looked upnnasa perfect “gentleman,” when
perhaps his heart is rotten and depraved to
the core. He talks a great deal about the
manners ard customs of the day, wonders
why such a one does not dress better, for he
cannot see how the “more refined class of
community,” can*“ condescend” so “ low”
as to associate with those who wear the home
spun clothing. So it is with the opposite
sex, they too must stalk the streets, loaded
down with silks and a thousand other “fine
ries,” or they will not attract attention. If
they should chance to meet one of their sex
dressed in calico, (and who by the way could
discriminate between plainness and flirta
tion,) they are thrown into spasms. But we
find, on examination, that those who swell
so largely in fine clothing—when robbed of
their ornaments —are mere puffs, while those
who are more plain in their dress, and se
dated with all, are possessed of a good heart,
ti clear conscience, and a whole soul.— New
Yorker.
Another Robbery. —\Ve learn that a most
daring robbery was committed a few days
since in Randolph county, by three men
whose names we have not yet learned. At)
old gentleman who had just sold a track of
land for about five hundred dollars in cash,
was broken in upon at night by three ruffi
ans in disguise, two of whom seized and
confined him, whilst the other robbed him
of his money. Fortunately, however, their
disguise was not sufficient to prevent their
being recognized. They have since been
arrested and the money, we understand,
been recovered. Two of them are now iq
Jail, (one having escaped,) where tliev will
remain until the next Superior Court of the
county, unless they are turned out by writ
of habeas corpus, which we regret to say is
net uncommon thing in South-western Geor
gia.—Albany Courier.
Yankee Enterprise. —A recent letter from
an American in Paris communicates this in
stance of Yankee enterprise, which is both
amusing and striking:
“ Paris, April—.
“ I have been amused lately with an in
stance of Yankee enterprise worthy of no
tice.
“ There was n little steamer called the
Bangor, advertised last summer, to sail from
Boston to the Azores, Gibraltar, and Con
stantinople. She was n little thing, built
strong, and with a powerful er.gine, to run
between Boston and Bangor.
“ This bold push for Europe,amazed peo
ple very much, particularly as they adver
tised for passengers. She sailed, and the
first that was heard of her, she put into
Halifax; which possibly may he accounted
for by the fact that coal is cheaper there
than at Boston.
“ Next we hear of her, she is in Gibral
tar towing vessels detained in the Gut.—
Then at Constantinople, towing vessels
through the Dardanelles ; and lastly carry
ing passengers and pilgrims from Constan
tinople to Trebizonde, on the Asiatic side
of the Black Sea. And I regd in a French
paper, the other day, that one trip she had
500 passengers —pilgrims, Turks, Jews and
Infidels 1
“ This is a fair specimen of Yankee en
terprise.”
The Prince of Wales’ Household. —The
public will see with infinite satisfaction that
the Prince of Wales is about to have a sep
arate household. Some have imagined that
a haliy house is alluded to, hut we have as
certained that such is not the ease, and the
following may he relied on ns being as ac
curate a list as it is possible to obtain of the
projected establishment:
Master of the Rocking-horse.
Comptroller of the Juvenile Vagaries.
Sugar Stick in Waiting.
Captain of the (Tin) Guard.
Black Rod in Ordinary.
Master of the Tran Ordinance.
Clerk of the Pea Shooter.
Assistant Ilattledore.
Lord Privy Shuttlecock.
Quartermaster-General of the Oranges.
It is not yet*decided by whom these offi
ces are to lie filled, hut there is no doubt
His Royal Highness will manifest consider
able discretion in making the appointments
for the “ separate household” which has
been so properly assigned to him.— London
Punch.
Letter from St. Croix—Horrors in Hayti.
—By the arrival of the brig Cashier, Capt.
Allen, at this port yesterday, we have advices
from St. Croix to the 11th ultimo. Capt.
A. states that great numbers of people were
daily arriving from Hayti, some of whom
state the reason of their leaving to have been
that they considered their lives in danger ev
ery moment they remained. The cruel,
blood-thirsty deeds daily committed in that
place, they state, surpassed all belief;* peo
ple were assassinated in cold blood in the
streets, carried to the shore in carts and
thrown into the sea.
President Boyer carried with him to
Kingston more than $300,000, and before
he left Hayti it is said that he sent $300,-
000 to England, and as much more to the
United States. He is now said to possess
more than a million of dollars.
The Cashier stopped at all the Windward
Islands, and noticed that not a single islaffl
has escaped the earthquake. In some of
the islands he saw n large chasms in the
mountains, which had been rent asunder by
the earthquake, some near DO feet deep and
two or tluee wide, and the enormous rock
off St. Thomas, called the Sail Rock, on ac
count of its resemblance at a distance to a
ship under full sail, was entirely split to
pieces.
Business was very dull, on account of
there being no vessels to carry away the
freight, great quantities of which lay ready
for shipping.— N. Y. Tribune.
Remedy for Indigestion. —A friend has
handed to us for publication the annexed
remedy for indigestion, a complaint which
is so generally prevalent in this country. It
was communicated to him by a gentleman,
in Great Britain, who says in !is letter on
the subject—
“ Having suffered much from indigestion
I send you the remedy to relieve you. It
arises by rejecting too latge a portion of the
phosphates of lime and magnesia contain
ed in the bran in making our bread : being
quite suie that our All-Wise Creator, in gi
ving us wheat for our food to suppott our
frames, placed in it every necessary consti
tuent for the health of them, and* made
known to us through progressive knowledge
he is pleased to grant us. When, there
fore, you derive benefit from it, please to
make it known to our brethren in Ameri
ca.”
Remedy for Indigestion. —Boil linlf-a-pint
of white wheat three hours in 11 quart of
water, or a little more if necessary.
Drink half-a-pint of the liquid, twice or
thrice in a week. 9
To make. Wholesome Breads —Six ounces
of bran boiled one hour and a half in five
pints of water ; strain the liquid from the
bran, and dilute it with water, sufficient to
make the bread.
Two ounces of salt.
Five pounds of flour.
Two table spoons full of yeast.
In baking a larger quantity, each article
must he proportion ably increased.
Tou-er of London. A place venerable
for its years, and deeply interesting for the
mass of human emotion, and the mortal and
majestic agonies, that have taken place with
in its walls. Here the most heroical spirits
have been sent to die. Here fortitude was
withered, like an oak-tree of flesh, uncon
querable hut by time. Here common cap
tivity lias knawed its heart out. Here inno
cence and beauty, nay. girlhood, has had its
slenderneck divided on the worse than butch
er’s block. Here ambition—here the
lord of every body, the sovereign protector
of realms —has come to ati end no better
than that of the ox that was slain last week
to feed his household. — London Westminster }
Review.
A Pirate. —A gentleman who came pas
senger in the ship Adelaide, arrived at this
port on Monday from says that
a vessel arrived at that port from the Cana
dies a day or two before he left, with seven
ty-five passengers ; reported that when off
the Bahama Banks they were chased a
whole day by a piratical looking schooner
manned by blacks, and nearly overhauled’
when at last the captain of the Spanish ves
sel mustered all his passengers as well as
the crew upon deck, armed as thorouoj,] v
as possible, and prepared for a conflict, when
the suspicious stranger, seeing her decks
crowded with armed men, hauled off an j
hoisted Haytien colours.— N. Y. Tribune
Good News for the Ladies. — A company
of Lincoln young gentlemen have origin
ated and are carrying out an nnti-Malthoai
ar. plan, which cannot fail to meet the aw
probation and commendation of the fair sex
It is simply this each party pays a shilling
a week, and at the end of every week the
sum is deposited in the Saving Bank ; the
first of the party who marries is to receive
the whole amount of the deposite and in
j terest. — London paper.
Robinson alive yet. —Robinson, of Helen
Jewett memory, is alive yet. A gentleman
of New Orleans, who is acquainted with
the whereabouts of the “ innocent hoy,” and
knows what his occupation lias been for
some years past, proposes to publish his life
i 110 l linson has been drowned, shot, had his
| “ right ami served from his body,” and been
1 gazetted ns a midshipman on board an U.
S. ship of war, at various times and in va
rious papers; it seems, however, that he
still walks the earth beneath the heavy har
den of a guilty conscience.— Phi/ad. Times.
Massacre of the Governor of the Marque
sas Islands and Suite. —We regret to state,
that very melancholy intelligence has just
been brought to this country from the new
French settlement in the Pacific, by a mer
chant vessel, the Sarah Ann schooner, which
left Otaheite on the 23d of October. It ap
pears that the French Governor of the Mar
quesas with fourteen attendants had been
on a visit to the native King, Nicahevor,
and, suspecting no danger, they left his re
sidence to return to the French station, with
out, probably taking proper precautions n
gainst the treachery of the natives. Tliev
were attacked on the way, and the Govern
or and fourteen persons were killed. This
unfortunate event proves the unfriendly dis
position of the natives, hut what will it a
! vail them? The French Government will
; instantly send out a sufficient for ce to crash
all opposition.
The Crops. —The Venango, Pa., Demo
crat lias the following gratifying paragraph :
“From almost every section of this coun
try we hear that grain fields have never, at
this season of the year, presented a more
growing and flattering appearance. It to
these encouraging prospects, our farmers
will move to add large spring crops, may
we not hope that distiess, such ns exists
■ now in our country, will he in a great mea
sure averted for the year to come.”
The Progress rs Murder. —Tl ere is no
subject which should so alarm the public
mind, or that calls so loudly for prompt or
efficient remedy, as the many startling and
dreadful murders which every day brings
forth. There is no rise in flattering our
selves with the reflection that the present
day in this respect is no worse than former
times ; these acts occur with alarming fre
quency, accompanied with the most atro
cious features, and apparently for ends the
most trifling.
Jocnf stock Ranks in England. —A parli
amentary return was published early in
1840 relative to these establishments, from
which it appears that the number of joint
stock hanks in England on the Ist of Jan
uary, 1810, was one hundred and eight, a
considerable proportion of which had been
instituted within the prereeding ten years,
‘l’lie number of partners in these banks va
ries from fifty to one thousand two hundred,
ar.d may average about three hundred.—
‘J here are half a dozen with less than fifty
partners, the smallest number being seven.
Fist y-eight of the hanks have branches, and
fifty have none. The branches, including
tlie parent hank, are from two to sixty
seven in number. There are eight hanks
which have more than twenty branches—
The whole number of parent hanks and
branches is six hundred and fifty-eight.-*—
There are, besides, about five hundred and
fifty private banks in England; that is, hanks
having not more than six partners. Adding
these to the joint stock hanks and their
branches, the whole number of banking es
tablishments will be about one thousand
two hundred.— Merchant's Magazine.
A strange Combat.-^- The Journal de St.
Etienne gives an account of a battle be
tween the bulldog of a butcher and small
monkey, belonging to a traveling showman,
fur a wager between the owners, one of the
conditionsofiho wager being that the monkey
should he armed with a small staff. The mon
key went to work so skillfully, and laid his
staff so lustily over the head of his ferocious
antagonist, that if the showman had not cal
led him off, on the butcher acknowledging
that he had lost the wager, the dog would
have been killed.
Anew remedy for the Tooth Ache.—Net
were on Monday last informed upon good
authority that the hark from the root of
Yellow Poplar, made into tea, and taken in
to the mouth as hot as it can he home and
permitted to remain there until cool, will
after repetition of nine times, prove an effec
tual remedy for the above disease. Wheth
er or not the exact number of times spoken
of must be observed, we are unable to say t
but our informant adhered, to the prescrip
tion and was relieved of a tooth ache which
annoyed him for a week. This smacks a
little of superstition ; but let it be tried.—
Tennessee Miscellany.
There is no widow'so utterly widowed in
her circumstances,as she who has a drunken
husband—no orphan so perfectly desolate
as lie who has a drunkard for a father.