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Hr. hm£ 'wtt- & '■ MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. j? Spare Diet.—“ There was a friend ef mine, says Mr. Abernethy, who was sup posed to be dying of a hepatic affection ; a tho/ough break up ; he was advanced in life ; his liver was all wrong, and he was dy ing—at least so his doctor said ; but as he was dying, and as a drowning man will catch at a straw, he expressed a paiticular desire to see me , to know if I could order any thing that would do him good. I said to him, upon my life, sir, I should be most happy if I could suggest any thing that was likely to do good, but I am very ignorant of the medical profession, and*if I were not, I really don't think that I could suggest more judicious treatment than has been prescri bed ; but, sir, I-shall give; you a lecture on your diet, in the presence of your medical man- I knew the man before ; lie prided himselj on his virtue ; he drank no wine, but he done that which, for any thing I know, is as bad—he eat most preposterously.— THisfi perfect glutton. Now, said I, I know yofojike milk; I shall give you a cup of wrettrfor breakfast, and you may put a piece in it, but not one drop of the milk risplaced by the bread must be replaced in you may take a new-laid egg to dirtnfcand a piece of bread and butter abQUjtjyr o'clock you may drink some soda yra^f^pn^then have done for the day.— CoOffotoefeat for some time, taking it at the hours in the day. He did and, k egad, the man. got well; he seome^toAave grown young again; he got quite actire, and feajly it was quite astonish ing to, sec t,im. * 'About three months after wards haJjUked fne to dine wilh jum. j^ went, him just , a .ibis told trick, stuffing nfest -enormous quantities of food into ips mouth.—After tdipfhpy, we wallted e garden.; he w.as a m * chant, 6|td n«the:Course ofibjq* yalk) said , AvouTd you'think of ?ni nothing, had raised a small light, if he chose to’go on, f in immense fortune, but that capital: what would t*?. “Why.’’•said he, “I a d d foolthen said to him,' a man w capital increase squ youth would 1, what iaw^ may| * * ink of wealth,, another ou art the man.— 'extremely diffi- . „ when you have 1 ta ^S-^ are it " 'll increase, setoo with compound interest; nature of man .that he will not !l unless he is compelled V and I be- ^^ye you will .find this to be the, lesson of ? human life; if people will not take care of bOTtli, and do well from inclination, they will be obliged to do it from compulsion; but there are those who will even defy ne cessity, and those people go to the devil of course.”—English Paper•« occur ; the uninterrupted action of all laws, and modifications of fews, is essential to, thfc security qf the entire arrangement. But destruction, feat' is annihilation of matter, in the existing constitution of the universe, is ingpossible.* Solids may be disintegrated,, reduced to dust, changed into fluids, or be driven to assume the rorifonp or gaseous state. Still, it can be fojiopart destroyed— it occupies space—possessess new qualities —retains a peculiar modification of exis tence, and is capable of eventually occupy ing a situation similar to that whence it was displaced, and of again returning to the state which it was previously forced to assume.l I American Quarterly Review. .. Magnolia, ginia, ten ’ . - m : ■ Near Fish Creek, in Yir- or twelve miles from the Ohio, there is a grove of the lofty magnolia, and in the season of flowering they fill the wil derness with delicious fragrance for several miles around. The leaves are more than* throe feet in length, and of proportionate width. There are no. other trees of this kind within 500 miles. It.has bfeen stated that the flowers of the magnolia in Florida, have been smelt at the distance of sixty miles. Deafness.—It is observable, that deaf per sons, and several otbers. thick of hearing, 'if a T< hear better and more easily; if a loud noise be raised at the time whejn you speak to them wKich is, owing no doubt,, to the greafeY ten- occasions. Dr. Who if a sion of the ear drum on Willis mentions a drum beat in the room very clearly ; so that drummer for a sen ai might hold r.oaVersa same author men near a steeple co iffeere was a ringing offeree or fourbells.— Chamber's Dictionary. a he The who living hear very well Carriage without horses—A very hand some and ingeniously constructed carriage with three wheels, and one gentleman sitting therein, was yesterday evening seen run- r ,i! - eight to ten miles an hour, propelled, R^ppeared, from fee imperfect view, then obtained,' hy four on with much ease f-i''iorby the IrandpvPlHot alternately ; I t makes ali^Bgfe with much greater cele rity man a coach drawn by horses can do, and can immediately set back with the same rapidity as forward—The maker is under stood to be a Coach-maker in Dublin, who is building another on an improved large scale, intended as a" model, and to super cede the present system of mail and other carriages drawn by horses Dublin paper. Sttrgicat.—The operation for the removal of carious ribs, was performed in this town oo Monday last by Dr. McDowell: about three fourths of the posterior portions of the 5th and 6th ribs were removed.—The ribs were very muph decayed—fee disease had ^ existed upwards of four years; the patient "(Miss Gray) wps extremely emaciated. We were much pleased to hear this morn ing, that more than four fifths of the wound, vby estimation, had already healed, and the patient is pronounced out of danger. We are gratified to understand that fee particulars of this case will be given to the public through some regular Medical Jour nal •: inasmuch as we' are informed it is be lieved to be the first attempt surgically to relieve this otherwise inevitably fatal disease .feat has been made in America. And two Surgeons who first h&d the temerity to un dertake this hazardous operation in Europe, are both still living, and are at this time contesting with one another the honor of priority.-—Fincastk Mirror. An accident of an extraordinary nature took place a short time ago at the Calton. The wife of a shoemaker had been for a con-, siderahln time Iymg ill of a fever, but was gradually recovering. She, however, sud denly relapsed, and, as her husband and friend's supposed, she died on the second day after her relapse, about one o’clock in the afterroon. The usual formalities of stretching and laying out were gone about: her husband procured money from his em ployer, and ordered mourning for the family. Next day about twelve o’clock, as the wrigbt was taking measure for her coffin, she gaye a sneeze and otherwise made a stir wife her bqdy. On taking off the grave clothes, she looked up in a wild manner, and motioned wife her hand asif she wanted something to eat. A. few cordials were ad ministered to her. She was then put to bed, and enjoyed a good sound sleep. She has since gradually recovered, and is now con sidered quite out of danger.—Glasgow Cour. Hydrophobia..—A traveller from Greece has communicated ttr the French Academy a mode of treatment employed in Thrace, in cases of the bhe of mail animals. It con sists in making incisions under the tongue, at any period of the disease, and without any regard to the appearance of the ordi nary pustules there. This remedy is regard ed, in Thrace, as so infallible, that, no ap prehensions of hydrophobia are entertained in that country, w - ns Mr. Pliny Earle, of (Mass.) has thirty thousand s.lk worms preparing themselves for the formation of cocoons: and we learn from particular inquiries, that the most am ple provisions have been made for fee ac commodation and support of their rising generation of silk worms the next season. One public spirited individual, to whom fe cause of interna] improvement and domestic manufactures owes veiy much, informs us that hush all have several acres, entirely oc- cupied by mulberry plants.—This is right, & the forecast of the gen tleman will be most beneficially felt, as an innumerable proge ny of “ spinners” will ask support U. S. Gazette. ... ' ffe will keep them near the Soloman Islands and the Moluccas; and after having finish ed the survey of that Archipelago, they are to return to Russia by the Cape of Good Hope. At the present moment'they must have linished their operations in the Society Islands, and have touched at the Sandwich Islands, and at Silka ; and they are perhaps already engaged on the coasts of Kamts- chatka and the Northwest portion of our continent.:—J\ orth American Review.. Athens, .iiug. 10,1827. doctrines, it exhibited a series' of interesting and im portant facts connected with the history of the Soci ety, and was enriched with a Variety of apt and sticking illustrations. The character and objects of the Institution were happily explained an# ably en forced.—It is understood that the Society have ap plied for a copy of the sermon for*publication. The friends of the Institution have great cause to desire a compliance with this request, as, probably, nothing could be prepared better calculated successfully to recommend its great objects to public patronage. At the close of the religious exercises of the eve ning, a contribution in aid of the funds ofthe Society was taken up, amounting to upwards of seventy dol lars.—The writer has recently been informed,- that jM Society adjourned from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning following, when ..the transaction of the ordinary business of the Institution was com menced ; and that after spending nearly the whole of that day without accomplisbingthe whole business the anniversary meeting was still further adjourned, to meet at the same place on the Saturday next pre ceding the fi-urth Sunday in September next, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Athens, August 6, 1S27. A letter has received, says the Milledgeville Journal, iii’ihat place, from Mr. R. W. Fort, one of the passengprs'on boanHhe sloop Falcon, vriio took to the boitxvhen that vessel'was lost upon Cape Look-out 'Sfyools, which states that they landed in safely on the beach near Beaufort, North Carolina. .The Nashvillp Banner and Whig of the 24th ult. contains an Address from (Jen. Jackson * to the Pub lic,’ in reply to Mr. Clay, which we have taken pains Pi copy into our present number.' It will not be found to disappoint the confidence with which he was looked to forVtn explanation of the case, and, as the Georgia 1 Statesman and Patriot * says, “ is so full,'so clear, so self-evident, and self-defending, that it places the Hero on a vantage ground infinitely too elevated fox' the bowstring of the Secretary.” The harvest of wheat and rye in the northern states, is Said in many of their papers to have been more abundant this; season than was ever before known, and has been all effectually secured.—The Indian corn', fruit, &c. are also stated to promise largely. ————— • The intelligence froim Greece continues to be of the mbgt exhilarating kind, presaging a glorious tri umph to ttfff i iiHbWjfli'i' j|in liberty, and a final feuhjugatiospf Hatb event, wl upon her cl firm the d garded by epoch in the now depressi t their suffering^ of their glory, are yet involvi lations: but the potism has failed ly exerted iw'fai vitude, to ings, liberty anil pathy of Englan speak, and Greece behalf, though cause of this exertion betwei: cy has hitherto thy and i ig 'interest Russian Discoveries.—The quesiioriwhat Spain had done- for the advancement of knowledge, was put by a savant of the name of Mason, and Cavanilles had good nature enough to write a large book to answer that pert and flippant querist; Not long since, it was as comically asked, Who reads an American Book ? It would, therefore, be n p wonder, if it were the pleasure of some critic, in his splenetic hiimor, to put similar queries in regard lo Russia. Yet, as to sci entific voyages and travels, countenanced or supported by Governments alone, we should be tempted to rank Russia next to England, and, at all events, concede lo her equal claims with France. It would be sufficient to point to Coxe’s Travels, (face tiously called by. fee author of the Pursuits of Literature. * Swetzer Russico Kamts- chatka Coxe,’) and to Malte Brun’s «Chro- nological Table of Discoveries in Siberia ; to cite Krusenstern’s, Kotzebue’s, Billing- hausen’s, WassiliePs, and Wrangel's expe- ditions; and to rely on the assurance of the first of these distinguished officers, that, in 1824 ‘ there were not less than four exi ditions in the Pac ific expc all of which tematic form of government An event gratifying to Mutation of Mailer Regarding the of creation as a great whole, we per ceive that an essential part of the qilan is to ke all parts mutually and reciprocally ndent upon each other, for the preser- lon ofdue equilibrium. Change of form dispensable; loss of individual life must were connected with science.’* New dis coveries in feat sen, and survey of fee neigh boring coasts of fee Russian empire are the task ofthe two vessels, the Moler and the Seniavinfi which were equipped in the course of the last Summer, and of which Captain Stanjy Kowitsch and Captain Litka are the commanders. The vessels of that expedition will operate together until they reach the most Southern Russian settle ment on the Northwest coast of this conti nent. On© of them will then pursue the sur vey of feat coast, and of the Aleutian Is lands, while the other will range, as far as practicable, fee Eastern coast of Russian Asia. In the course of the coining autumn, they will meet again in the harbor of St. Peter and St. Paul. The following Winter will be spent in exploring the Caroline Is lands, and, as soon as this object shall have been accomplished, and the season will per mit, the expedition will complete the survey of the Ochotzk sea. The* employment of the vessels during the Winter of 1828-9, * Memoire8 Ilydrogr. Introduction, p. ix. f The, third son of Admiral Krusenstern is amonor the youna officers of this vessel.' The Admiral, we are informed, has been appointed, by the Emperor second director of the corps of marine cadetsT 1 her ! of-her oppressor.' Such an ja relation to its influence or in tending to con- qual rights, will be re- ;y as an important nee distinguished, hut nd of their privations, [gles, the restoration their independence, ;y of human caicu- long night of des- length vigoroos- icipation from ser- ucomitant bless- the active sytn- (who have only to are at last awakened in her lure the probable of interest and calculating poli- s with that apa- belongs to nio- ly between En- «iy nothing of con- recently served as a England, with- lingness to jeo her interest with the Turks, whom events may compel her to (iritploy a* a safeguard and pro tection to her possessions in the east;' against the encroachments of Russia, wjhile the latter, from the legitimate principles of her government, and her anti- revolptionary views, cannot be supposed to engage warmly in the cause of Grecian liberty. Gratiti though-regarded as an equivocal trait in the cL ter of nations, possibly may, in this case, have an indirect influence over the decisions of Englai The co-operation of Turkey in her favour while at tempting to subvert the colossal power of France, ajid to prevent a supposed meditated attack upon her Eastern possessions, has evidently tended to weaken that solicitude, which she might, bearing a different relation, have felt in the moral and political resuscitation of this once noble, but now compara tively degraded nation. The transition of the Greeks, (should an event so much to be desired take place,) from abject servitude, to the rights and im munities of freemen, though without a knowledge of the forms of civil government, yet with motives suf ficiently powerful for restraint and subordination, will .not, it is hoped, prove as fatal to the object of their ambition, as in those instances of like disen- thralmcnt from the jfangs of despotism found in the history of other nations. An unceasing "struggle, carried on without co-operation, without the means and without the sympathy of others, during a period nearly equal in duration to the birth day of American freedom, must have been gradually developing those powprs in the exercise of which they will find their best security for a permanent, efficient, and sys- all, while it is ns honourable to fee Greek, as it will in the end prove advantageous to their cause, lias re cently been effected by the active exertions of Lord Cochrane, which must, from its agency in giving union to their counsels, and efficiency to their mea sures, powerfully contribute to a epeedy consumma tion of their independence.—We allude to a union of the two Greek assemblies, once divided, now the concentrating point of all her energies. It may now, we think, be looked for as an event, m nt, jn the certainty theie is a Union of possible achievement, wit’u probable accomplishment, feat ere long the standard of liberty will be seen Waving upon the walls of the Acropolis, while virtue, philosophy, science, and the art , revisit again fee once r soil of Greece. (communication.)' ) Georgia Edutitian Society.—The fourth anniversary of this Institution was held in the College chapel, on Tuesday evening, the 31st July last. The aqnual sermon was preached by the ltev. Joseph C. Stiles, from Ezekiel, 34, 0,—“ Jlly sheep wandered t bough all the maintains, and apfcU&g *gMgft: geojty flock xeas scattered upo* all the face of the earth, kd none r.Pnrrh nr* err?- jLJL d ; * — * did search or seek after tJityt.v In the opinion of theqeyriter, tliis sented, in the only just and'satisfactc. broad gro unds and reasons of tho high as well as of soip '* “ . amlwhil.* it bree'H-d a .filJnwktf eound TO THE PUBLIC. A letter addressed by me to Mr. Carter Beverly, of Virginia, has lately, without any consent, agency or wish on my part, found its way into fee newspapers, accompanied by a statement over the signature of II. Clay, contradicting and denying, not any thing I have writteja, but feat which he himself makes me to say. It is not the interpifejtatioii given by him to my letter, but my own lan guage find own statement, that I am called upon to defend, and expect to vindicate. To explain the manner in which my opi nions have found their way into the journals of the day, seems, in the first place, to be due both to the public and myself. Mr. Be verly, being on a visit at my house, reques ted to know of me, other gentlemen being present, whether the overtures heretofore imputed to Mr. Clay were well founded, and if I had a knowledge of any of the facts my self. I answered him candidly.; being una ble, as well as unwilling, to refuse telling things I had heard, and knew to be true. A letter detailing our conversation, shortly afterwards obtained publicity in the “ North CarolinaJournal,'^printed at Fayetteville, On the 15th of May last, from Louisville, Kentucky, a communication was addressed to me by Mr.Beverly, stating what before I had not known, that he was the writer of this Fayetteville letter. He explained the reasons for his having repeated the conver sation, and requested to be informed if in any thing he had misquoted or misconceived my meaning. Under such circumstances, con cealment and silence might have seemed mere affectation, or indeed something of a different and even worse character. Publi city having been given to the conversation, and an appeal made to me for its accuracy, I felt it to be due to Mr. Beverly, that nothing of a fabrication should be imputed to him, and to myself, that what I had stated should be correctly understood. Accordingly, on the'6 th of June, and in reply to his of the 15th of May, I addressed him a letter of which the public are already possessed. How, and,>by what means, it found its way into the^columns of a newspaper, Mrl -Be verly has explained : he states to me that he gave it into the hands of Mr. Noah Zane, Wheeling, Virginia,at his earnest -request, perusal, under a pledge of honor that it should be returned ; and with no expecta tion feat any copy of it was to be retained ; tefm his applying for, and demanding the letter, it was refused to be restored until two copies should be made. * He proceeds tp say ^ ( r. Zane, an old and most respectable geritleman,asked the loan of your letter a< a favor; and contrary to all custom and pro foiety in such cases, he, in conjunction with Mr. Clay and his friends, took copies of it, without my knowledge or privity in any way, and without asking my leave to do so. Soon as I understood that such was the use they w’ere making of it, I demanded of Mr. Zane the letter, and remonstrated against the unprecedented course they were taking. He refused to restore it to me, most pe remptorily, until they had satisfied them selves by furnishing to Mr. Clay one copy, and reserving another for their own use.” The original conversation referred to, and the above extract of a letter from Mr. Be verly at Wheeling, dated 25th of May, are presented to show that I have not, as is charged “ placed myself in th£ attitude of a public accuser,” and that whatever publicity has been given to this transaction, has ari sen from no agency or procurement of mine; and that Mr. Clay, in fact, has himself held the matter up to public gaze. In doing this, he should have quoted what I had written accurately and fairly ; for then, the text and his commentary would have suited together; at present his contradiction is a something suggested by himself, and is not contained in my letter. The statement contained in my letter to Mr. Beverly is this: That in January 1825, a member member of Congress of hitrh res pectability, visited me one morning and ob served—“ he had informed fee' friends of Mr. Clay, that the friends of Mr. Adams had made overtures tQ them, saying, if Mr. Clay and his ‘friends would* unite ip aid of the election of Mr. Adams, Mr. Clay should be Secretary of State ; feat the .friends of Mr. Adams were urging, a;; a reason to in duce the . friends of Mr. Clay fe accede to this propdsftfoaj£ta&|£Y was elected Re sident, Mr. Adafhs would be continued Se cretary of StatcJ^inucndo, -there would be no room for Kentucky;) that the friends of Mr. Cfafr stated, fee West did not wish to /urse pre- mer, the is of this, itutions; Clay and his friends, thsy would put an endf to the Presidential contest in one hour ; and h e was of opinion that it was right to fight such intriguer? with their own weapons.” This disclosure was made to me by Mr. James Buchanan, a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, a gentleman of fee first respectability and intelligence. The even ing before, he had communiaated, substan tially, the same proposition to Major Eaton, my colleague in the Senate, with a desire warmly manifested that he should communi cate with me, and ascertain my views on fee subject. This he declined doing, sugges ting to Mr. Buchanan that he, as well as himself, could converse with me, and ascer tain my opinion ; though from his know ledge of me, he thought he could well con jecture my answer—that I would enter into no engagement whatever. It was the mor ning succeeding this infen iew, after Major Eaton had objected to converse with me on the subject, and before I h id set out from my lodging for, the capitol, that Air. Bu chanan came to visit me, and when the con versation I have stated took place. The answer returned, has already been published and heefl not here be repeated. To be feus approached by a gentleman of Mr. Bucbanah'p high character and stand ing, with an .mfology proffered at the time for what flewH&phout to remark tome— one who, as I understood}*.had always to that moment, Been-On familiar and friendly terms with Mr. Clay, assuring me that on certain forms and conditions being assented to on my part, then, “ by an union of Air. Clay and his friends, they would put an end lo the Presidential contest in one hour,” what other conclusion or inference - was'to be made, than that he spoke by authority, either of Mr. Clay Jrimself or some of his confidential friends. The character of -Mr. Buchanan, with me forbids the idea that he was acting On his own responsibility, orthat under an> circumstances, he could have been induced to propose an arrangement, unless possessed of satisfactory assurances, that if accepted, it would be carried fully in to effect. A weak mind would seldom * or ever be thus disposed to act, an intelligent one never. Under all these circuifRances appearing at that time, I did not resist the impression that Air. Buchanan had approachedmie on the cautiously-submitted proposition ofsome authorised person ; and therefore, in giving' him my answer, did request him “ to say to Mr. Clay and his friends,” what that an swer had been. Whether the communica- tion was made to Mr. Clay and his friends I know not; this, though, I do know, that w hile the opinions and course of Mr. Clay * as the election, were but matter of conjec ture with many at and before this time, very shortly after this conversation took place, his, and his friend’s opinion became forth with matter of certainty and general knowl edge. Still I have not said, nor do I now say, that the proposal made to me was “ with the privity and consent” of Mr. Clay ; nor either, have I said that his friends in Cow*- gress made propositions to me. These are Mr. Clay’s interpretations of my letter to Mr. Beverly, and not what my letter itself contains. What I have stated, are the facts of a conversation between myself and a member of Congress of high respec tability. The conclusion and inference from that con. versation—the time-manner—and all the. circumstances, satisfied my mind that it was not unauthorised. So I have thought, and so I still think ; and yet, I again repeat that in this supposition 1 may have possibly done Mr. Clay injustice. If he should bo able to sustain fee averments he has made, and acquit himself of any agency and parti cipation in the matter, I beg leave to assure him that so far from affording me pain, it will give me pleasure. I certainly corn have no desire that the character of my country, through the acts of a prominent citizen, shall rest under any serious imputation: for fee honor of that country, I should greatly prefer, that any inference I have made, may turn out to be ill founded. Mr. Clay declares his great satisfaction, that this matter has at last been brought to light, and to public consideration H«Tfeels rejoiced “that a specific accusation by a responsible accuser has at length appear ed.” To this a passing notice is due. It must be recollected, that in conse quence of a letter from Mr. George Kremer in January, .1825, an inquiiy was set on foot in Congress upon the application of Mr* Clay himself. On this memorable occasion, of guilt im puted on. the one hand, and innocence maintained on the other, Mr. AI’Duffie, it 1 will be recollected, submitted for considera tion to the House of Representatives, as matter of instruction to the committee, the following resolution: “ That the said com mittee be instructed to inquire whether the friends of Air. Clay have hinted, that they would fight for those who would pay best, or any thing to that effect ; and whether overtures were said to have been made by the friends of Air. Adams to the friends of Mr. Clay, offering the appointment of Se cretary of State for his aitffe cfo«t Adams; and whether the friends of day gftfe this information to Jackson and hinted that if his friends would offer the same would close wife them ; and \ pnee sep or say, that in case Mr. Adams shou tary of State; est, and if I would say hdemkfe friends to president, e comWued Se«fey Ipto ther it was said and bfesud thats fet a con-/ sideration for his abandonment of duty to“ his constituents, Clay Secretary of State, and thatYhe said com*• mittec bq. authorised to ser papers, and to compel fee' for to answer upon oath-* Now licre is a resolifti ed,*coverii lrmuea Score- mUled, covering more tha ymore* of.Mrjm?communica tion to Mr. /
