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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. Pnmping the Human Stomach.—The in- stniment for pumping poisonous substances from the stomach was used last week,, understand, by the physicians of thw tpWp with the most complete succes9.-3-|t was' employed on a gentleman who had swallow ed a prodigious/dose of muriate of mercury or corrosive sublimate and laudanum, and that too, four hours after the poison had been swallowed, and aftqr hehad been in a siateof convulsions and total insensibility for at least two hours. lie was in a deep state of insensibility when the tube was introduced into the stomach. A pint and a half of lime water (the antidote to the poison) was first injected, aud it was pleasing to witness the immediate good effects. It was suffered to re main a few minutes; and even before it was withdrawn from the stomach the convulsions had ceased and the patient articulated several words as distinctly a3 the apparatus in the mouth would permit, and rationally. Thelime water injected was as limped and as pure as lime water always is ; but when it was pum- pgd out, it had assumed the orange colour testing the presence of the muriate of mer- otn*y. This test, however, was unnecessa ry, as a quantity of the poison that had not been swallowed oroved the nature of it. We are happy to state that the patient has recov ered from the effects of this dose. We the more readily publish this case be cause we are rather inclined to believe that this may have been the first instance in which the instrument has been employed in [this slate. And as we understand that the deration is so easy both to the operator and £c patient, we cannot but think it should ^videty extended, . Melancholy instances Ijsonmcr arc but too frequent. The nc- poison is often so speedy, and the Iry of having swallowed them is fre- " so late as totally to preclude all re bellowing remedies, in consequence feasibility of the patient. This op- 1 then the only resource left; and it ttory to know that it is so very prac- so efficacious.—Columbia Tel. the cock to all a] jpcarance having th cided advantage over his more wiley th less nervous adversary, dealing his bli quick succession employing alternate bill and spurs with,true pugilistic ski science. But the c aware that victory must was by fair combat, brought into requ tion of the innate cunning for whic! reptile has been celebrated from the beginning of the world to the present time ; and seizing his antagonist by the thigh, in the rear, he completely secured himself from any further danger from him.—Thus situated the cock very naturally thought his only “ safety was in flight,” he accordingly cleaved the air majestically with his wing, the snake keep ing fast his hold, and dangling like a tag lock underneath, until the cock over come with fatigue, alighted on a neighbour ing apple tree. The snake immediately coiled his tail round a branch of the tree— the cock again attempted flight, but he could scarcely clear the limb, from which he hung with his head downwards, making every effort to escape, but all in vain, until the farmer came to his assistance—killed the snake and set him at liberty.—Schoharie {N. F.) Republican. jB kpressure or re. as shown by the •wfcins and air pumps, lon'every square.inch, so tha [ntirely squeeze tartthe air be- fcwo hands they would cling to- a force equal to the pressure of weight, because the air would both bands ; and if we could squeeze or suck *out the air be- wall, the h Athens, Aug, 2&, 1827, Forsyth and Talbot.—The fruitless eflorts which have been made, and are making by the partisans of Capt. Talbot to enlist again the angry passions of the last contest—the concurring testimony of those who have examined the tone of party feeling, and the apathy attending bis announcement in the west, augurs well in favour of a majority of tea instead of jive thousand, as first estimated by the friends tf Mr. Forsyth. Were we left to jt sue of the pr “ '" ' “ of editorial i of the triurapl] SO that ifj irretrievable da facts, howevejy with; Mi the ties are also vour of the rnance toJ which bos been said ijfc " i **\either in folly or , northern coun- T9, nearly fifteen pounds on ev- inch ofttie hand. By a late most iscovery of Sir Everard Home, it is it this is the very process by which /and other insec ts of a similar descrip- 1, are enabled to walk up perpendicular irfaccs, however smooth, as ~tfrcf sides of Avails and panes of glass in windows, and to > walk as easily along the ceiling of a room with their bodies downwards and their feet over head. Their feet when examined by a - microscope, are found to have flat skins or flaps, like the feet of web-footed animals, as duqks and geese; and they have, toward the back part or heels, but inside the skin hr flap, two very small toes so connected with the flap as to draw it close down upon the glass or wall'the fly walks on, and to squeeze out the air completely, so that there is a vacuum made between the foot and the glass or wall. The consequence is, that the air presses the foot on the wall with a force greater than the weight of the fly which is thus retained in its position. It has like wise been found that some of the larger sea animals are, by the same construction, ena bled to climb the perpendicular and smooth surfaced of the ice hills among which thev live. Some kinds of lizards have the pow er of climbing, and creeping with their bo dies downwards, along the ceiling of a room In the large feet of these animals, the con trivance is easily observed of the two toes or fighters, by which the skin of the foot is 'pinned down, and the air excluded in the act of walking or climbing; but it is the ve ry same, only upon a larger scale, with the mechanism of a fly’s or a butterfly’s foot and both operations, the climbing of the sea horse on the ice, and the creeping of the fly on the window or the ceiling, are performed by the same power, the weight of the atmos phere. Intelligence o f a Wasp.—Dr. Darwin, in his Zoonomia, relates an anecdote of appa rent ratiocination in a wasp, which had caught a fly nearly as large as itself.— Kneeling down, the Doctor saw the wasp dissever the head and tail from the trunk of the fly, and attempt to soar with the latter but finding when about two feet from the ground, that the wings of the fly carried too much sail, and caused its prize and itself to be whirled about by the breeze that had arisen, it dropped on the ground with his prey, and deliberately sawed off with bis mandibles, first one wing and then the other; having thus removed these impediments to its progress, the wasp flew away with his booty, and experienced no further molesta tion from the wind. ajj.having combined in fa- ig with the invincibility of phalanx the first of October, on which they" will prove their political courage by uniting bis support, while expecting with fearful appre hension a result which it is known will be. inevitable. In addition to a simultaneous burst of enthusiasm, as vinced in different quarters by certain electioneer- ig efforts, Col. Tatnall is charged with having com bined his influence with the party against which he opposed in feeling, principle, and policy, in aid of the election ofCapt.Talbot: we should blush, were this the case, for his opostacy from those principles,in the sup-’ port of which, talent and fearless intrepidity hayebeen displayed, & wish the mantle of oblivion thrown over bis character, while it rested under a twofold impu tation of dereliction from duty, and a base abandon ment of friends: hut of Col. T. better things are ex pected : the motive which has led to this association, while it is understood,; will also be regarded. among the politiea| .machinations enforced by n< rity on those who thus endeavour to supgc waning glory of an expiring cause. ^ Comparisons between the indivi the public will soon bestow Its dy been instituted, their qua) their claims weighed, their political Integrity $k*u- inized, while the result of the pubjip verdiet A few days since a farmer in the town of Jefferson, hearing loud talking and angry words, bandied about among liiis dung hi! fowls, bent his course towards the scene of cackling and confusion. Arrived in the vi cinity of the disturbance, he observed his dung-hill cock, in enjoyment of a great pugilist, and his physical strength mbat with a striped 20 inches in length si pro v: me.it, among others, ..dVi-ionarv, without prac- cy to a full cicvelopcment of aergics of a people, tations at this time, which lu e, or restricted by a ihial or local advantages may impose! ^•/jfterprise,, there are many c the growing interest of the public in things cpnected with the general improvement of the statdas essential to its rise and ultimate dis tinction i the scale of weajtn and influence. As the claimjof expedience and policy have heretofore, however till established, borne but a proportionable weight wih those arising from necessity, in control ling the miasures of government arid people, we are among thdhwnbcr whose hopes pf such enterprises are founild on a conviction that the apathy and in difference Sow prevailing, will yet bend to necessity, while combined and sinmltaricous efforts are made which willjeventuatc in the accomplishment of some object important to the future destiny ef Georgia. The former Anguishing condition of Savannah, may be traced to the absence of a due regard for the in terests of the state: her produce has enriched other marts; her capital hasbeen iiiyesteil in other places; capitalists have been wrecked; confidence destroy ed. We would now look for a restoration of her prosperity in the energy, perseverance, and enter prise of her citizens, who have long slumbered over her decline, and regard the spirit for improvement which has been {.wakened among them, the begin' ning of a new era in the history of her commercial arrangements.—An article from the “ Georgian,” copied into this dayspaper,. detailing a plan of com munication between Fort Gaines and that city, strikes us with mucli force as to its utility and prac ticability. By its execution a considerable portion of the trade of the GMf of Mexico might be engrossed and concentrated in Savannah, without encounter ing the danger attending the navigation around the coast of Florida, the loss by which is annually very great. We confess ourselves among the advocates of such suggestions, however fruitless they may in the end prove; if not practically useful, they at least develope the views of others, and the practicability of the result, without which the attention of the pub lic can never be brought to operate effectually upon any point.—A Depot at Nichols’s Fort, or the juno tion of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, (to which place vessels of an ordinary size ascend,) for trade thence to Savannah .by the contemplated improvc- i and speedy communica- between New Orleans it a part of the trade , and an increase of ent direction to that se .seek an outlet through the However fatile such a scheme may at first appear, its practicability must be admitted by those at all conversant with the success which has attend' similar enterprises in other sections. The topogra phy of the country through which it would pass, as well as die material, with which it abounds, are, we believe, well adapted to the purpose: while the pro fits arising from such an-investment of capital, would enlist the eager attention of capitalists abroad, (if such could notjjjej found at borne,) to whom money is a burden when it fails, as at this time, to yield the legal interest"©wing to its great abundance. the latter gentleman will receive in the eas tern District a large majority .over his oppp- nent, the assertion of the ** -respectable cor respondent” to the contrary notwithstanding. If the friends of My. Talbot are as much de ceived in his prospects westwardjy/ka they are in the east, he will he beaten thtough- out the State by an overw helming vote. So much for “ Talbot in the East.”—Sao. Rep. A “ Sign” in New Yorl;.—The N. Y. Enquirer of the 4th, informs us that “ The Republican General Committee, has by a vote of IS to 8, ordered that their official notices should no longer he published in the National Advocate.” We have noticed the devious course of that print for some time. It ould not commit itself; it has now and then, urged truths and real objections to Adams, Clay and Jackson : but kept aloof; always full of ambiguities. At length, Mr. Otis came to New York, and set to work, as We have seen it hinted ; and the Advocate and other papers in the interior (where they vent) threw off all disguise, and suddenly became the very pinks of chivalry in sup port of the administration. The Chairman and Secretary refusing to publish their noti ces in the Advocate, it was made a question inthe Tammany meeting, at the instance of the discarded Editor. The question of his seceding from the Republican party, and going over to the administration and oppos ing Jackson, was warmly discussed. The victory was complete. The influential members of the committee all voting with the 18, among them the late mayor of the city. The concert with which the Republicans i n g round the point otVFlorida. act in New York, and the influence of nom- 1 inations there must have been often remark ed by every one. This decision will there fore be felt by the adminif Nation, and is the most inauspicious “ Sign” for them we have seen from that quarter. The Courier says the event has astounded the Adams men, and that, without overrating, Jackson’s strength in the state, may be counted at not. less than 24 votes. It will be seen by the following extract of a letter from the American Consul, at Rotterdam, to Gov. Troup, that the services of Germans of honesty, so briety and industry,^ can be had on good termsfor any purposes of agriculture, manufactures, or internal improvement. Men of capital might make them useful and profitable in either of those departments ef industry in their man fell- free cidedly in favour of the individual who mination to the people, who long since dctcr- riined that he should role over them. Of Capt. Tal bot, of whom much might be said, we are proud to peak: we revere his character; but though unsul- i.-d with suspicion, and unstained by accusation, still his claims come in questionable shape—unsup ported by those distinguished services and that splendor of'talent which has marked the political career of Mr. F.: he appears before the public the andidate of necessity, as unexpected as be was un- alled.—What may be the result of the unexampled measures which his friends “ in Milledgeville, Clin ton, Macon, Forsyth, Zebulon, Thomaston, at the Falls of the Chattahoochie, in M’Donough, at the Social Circle, in Monticello, and Washington,” are about to use, must be left for time to determine. Barbacues may relieve their physical wants: but the regeneration of a political efficiency to answer ttie coming emergency can only be effected by a different appeal. Should these combined efforts succeed, the result will form a. new era in electioneering history, at least in Georgia, arid: will, we venture to assert, be nomenclatured as the first Instance of roast pigs forming a “safe precedent” or a step-stone to the Executive chair. The complete triumph which is said to await Capt. T. in the west, must, if the signs of the times can be relied on, disappoint the expectations of his friends, unless a general support of the cause of Mr. F. can constitute a triumph. The event is awaited with the confidence which certainty of success usually begets; and the warm and unde viating adherents of Mr. Forsyth will, on that day, publicly denounce the falsity of statements that un- blushingly assert in the face of truth that the tri umph of Talbot in tlj® west will be complete. Eve ry breeze brings tidings of a contrary nature, and if reports arc entitled to credit, some of the strong holds of Federalism have been broken up, and many veterans of the cause, since the last straggle, have thrown off their allegiance and enlisted under the banner of Forsyth and Republicanism. Even while we write, intelligence reaches us that confidential letters have been received by a leading member of the Federal party in an adjoining county, urging the necessity and importance of secret meetings in fa vour of Capt Talbot.—What a triumph! 1!—Barba- cues and secret vistructions speak a doubtful language! tnt sections of our country, arid nd character qualifying them “ ey and their posterity would of our community, as they ■* erStatesoftheUnion.— an States Consulate, , 2Irf April, 1827. Id regain? your Excel-' g therewith copies of ble gentleman' sobriety the subject to your xtf Wirtemburg, and expres- cs§,raging amongst ils sub, > maintain tranquillity, and ? the government, passports ' them for their emigration to ‘ led they make kuown their respective district s. And sections of each mile drawn, and, generally speaking, there will not be a planter near the road that will not engage to do the la- hour with his own people, and possibly take the stock of the company in payment. It will ohly be necessary to let the people see what they haveffo effect, and this the work ing sections will do; and, if the surface of the territory be as even as I take it to be, the execution of every mile of this valuable work would be withinlthe reach of every in telligent farmer in tfcq state. Ten able bodied negro labourers to each mile would be 2500. The negro popula tion of Georgia is 160,000, and nearly 40,000 between the ages of 18 and 45 : so that surely there would bo no difficulty in hiring the 2500 labourers, if, on opening the subscriptions, (the plan of the Baltimore subscription to be observed, not to permit more than a certain number of shares to be subscribed for by one individual in the first instance,) there should not be enough of contractors in the character of stock holders. Twenty-five hundred negroes oould be hired for §100 per annum, or $250,000. If ten negroos could, in six months, do one mile, or 16,000 feet,* it would be 2666 feet in one month, or for each negro 266 i. e. 90 yards, or not 11 feet a day; so that whatever might be the surface, it is evident the labour of 2500 negroes would effect this object in one year; but I cannot avoid thinking I might say six months. RENNIE. P. S.—There wer§ $ 700,000 lost by the Insurance Offices, in ^25, on vessels pass- This is a great point tohe cori|ldered. Another is the making ^eorgiaftlie great channel of conveyance froiih N. Orleans to the Atlantic. [* Wc copy as we find it in the paper from which is taken, though wc do not precisely understand the calculations; very likely there is a misprint iia these two places.—5280 feet are a mile.] From the Savannah Gcoreian. RAIL ROAD TO FORT GAINES. Sir,—Concerned as you arc in the pros perity of Savannah,.you will, 1 trust, excuse the liberty I take in addressing you on a subject peculiarly interesting to its welfare It has been ascertained that there is an uni form steamboat navigation to Fort Gaines, and at times to "Fort Mitchell. The Steu benville steamer arrived at Fort Gaines in four days from Mobile. The river was in a low stage (28th June, 1S27.) The Ogeechie Canal of 16J miles leagth has already cost $ 77,449 21 That yet to be executed will amount to 64,392 65 Extraordinaries, S 141,841 86 18,158 14 $ 10,000 per mile, A Railway along the route, calculating in despite of the superior abundance and cheapness of pitch pine in Geor gia, that it doubles the Mauch Chunk Road in amount, would be $ 3,000 per mile, or, $ 160,000 00 48,000 00 Leaving the difference of $ 112,000 00 Being $ 138,000* less than would make Rail Road of 250 miles to Fort Gaines from Savannah. What, Sir, is the distance between Sa vannah and Fort Gaines? On a straight line it is 250 miles. I am not aware of the character of the country through which it would have to pass; but, I apprehend, it is such a surface as not to offer any serious impediment. But this I shall assume as correct. The passage of the Steubenville steamer proves that the Gulpli of Mexico is open to Savannah, and there is no one good reason „ . lency’8 notice and further ,*vhy the already increasing prosperity of support, inasmuch as those who wish to go to Geor- Savannah should not be still further aug- gia, will ultimately become settlers and an acquisi- . ,, . ... - , - , ♦innfnniirstaf p.—Manv of them. un(ortnnnt*»iv h»v<» iBenteo by the establisnment of it depot at Fort.-Gaines, and the laying down a rail In again drawing the attention of our readers to a subject to which we have before adverted, we are aware of the force of prejudice which is arrayed against, and of the indifference with which any mea sure of this nature is regarded, the piacticability of not been demonstrated by positive experi- iv: . 1 ‘ : tion to our state.—Many of them, unfortunately, have not the means of paying their passage over to the U. States. To any who would advance these, they would engage their services and time, say for two years. The expences of the Germans bound from this for any port in the United States, are estimated at about $40 per person, including their sea-stores. This amount waB paid for all those, shipped last year for Baltimore. I have the honour to remain your Excellency’s most respectful and obedient servant, E.WAMBERSEE. Talbot ih the East.—We from a very respectable so an opinion, upon what it good authority, that Mr. Tatti and consistent supporter of will lend his influence in aid or election. Our correspondent large majorities in the lower c almost a unanimous one in Chai triot <£ Statesman. It is by such articles as the above, many of the yeomanry of this astray. The name of Tatnall lugged in to support a sinking cause. ' Now, the fact is, Col. Tatnall has not been within 1000 miles of Georgia for the last six months, and we hazard the tion, that he is perfectly ignorant, that thew Talbot, Esq. is a candidate fo: Gubernatorial Chair of this state.® then, could the * respectable correspond communicate such information? It been done without authority, and the views and feelings of , an honorable, high minded man grossly misrepresented. Col. T. is too consistent, too pure to suffer private feeling to sway him from the path of correct principles. He is no changeling, no politi cal cockatrice, but a straight forward dis interested patriot. We believe that if Co lonel Tatnell is at the polls in October next, he will put in his vote for John Forsyth. The story of Mr. Talbot’s getting “ an al most unanimous vote in Chatham” is all stuff—Forsyth will distance him a lorw^way. We speak advisedly when wc say thNt that road rail nativi wouli thence to Savannah. A wooden uld be cheaply furnished by the wth of the forest, the. pine. I but a temporary one, I grant. but it affords the funds and the means for mg another by its tolls, and its cheap eyance of any material necessary to _ ermanent road. For I should recom end, on the laying out the road, that room be left for the site of that which was to be constructed on durable principles. Hence, this road of 250 miles would be constructed for $750,000; and would, in the very first year, convey 200,000 bales of cotton to Savannah. These 200,000 hales would certainly pay $ 1 per bale, or § 200,- 000; thus yielding an interest of 33 per cent on the expenditure of a capital $ 750,000, or a little more than fou’- times that expended in sixteen miles of canal— the one 16, the other 250 miles : the one benefiting the trade of a few districts in Georgia, the other bringing to Savannah the Atm ) trade of the Gulph of Mexico. How is it to be effected ? I reply, by the negro labour of Georgia herself, aided by ' state and if the citizens did not take he stock, by the Insurance Companies Manufacturing associations in the north, s to the first, no premium will pay them b immense risk to vessels going round the point of Florida. As to the second, the ser vice they would derive from hastening the fine N. Orleans cotton to market in the fa!, would at once enlist their feelings, and lead them to produce their capital for the under taking. But, in order to keep as much as possible of the capital to be expended in the state, I should hope the Legislature qf Georgia would subscribe one or two fifths in cash The other four or three fifths might be con tribuled partly in labour, and partly in cash Let the company formed for the purpose have the surveys made, the w orking IMPORTANT TO COTTON PLANTERS. Extract of a letter from an intelligent gen tleman now travelling in New England.— “ In Connecticut, and in Providence, and its neighbourhood, I made enquiries respect ing the manufacture of cotton-bagging out of cotton. I had many conversations with owners, agents and superintendants of small and large works. My inquiries were, what would be the actual cost of bagging 42 in ches wide, weighing 1 1-2 lb. per yard, and at what price they would make it, the stock or material being found ? I showed them the coarsest sample 1 had manufactured out of cotton by Mr. Allen, of Nashville, Tennes see. The following is the result: One of my informants estimated the actual cost for la bor at 2 1-2 cents ; all other expenses 2 1-2 cents ; at 20 cents he would turn out any quantity. He supposed that one woman could weave 160 yards per clay on a power loom. Another said it could be made ; for 15 orlS cents, and that one woman can weave 80 or 100 yards. Another cost‘6 cents, sold at 17 cents. Another could de liver the cloth at 5 cts. and could r&kd 50 yards on each power loom. Another says 8 cents and 50 yards per day. Another 3 or 400 per week for 4 or 5 cts. Another for 4 or 5 cents. It was a new article to them, and it was with difficulty that I could get some of them to express an opinion as to its cost and what they would make it for, as many of them are in the fine goods line, and did not wish to change their machinery for small considerations. Indeed some of them were at a loss what changes would be requisite. However, from what I saw and heard, I think one of their machines could be used with little or no alteration for the warp. For the filling there might be no difficulty. Sheeting 27 inches wide sells for 13 to 14 cents. One pound will make 3 yards. Waste, 10 to 14 per cent. Shee- * ting costs 1 1-2 to 2 cents per yard for wea ving.”—Nashville Banner. American Ingenuity.—Mr. Perkins has been engaged by the French Government to build steam artillery. A piece of ordin ance is to throw 60 balls, of 4 pounds each, in a minute, w ith the correctness of a rifle musket. A musket is to be attached to the steam generator, for discharging a stream of lead from the bastion of a fort; it is to throw from one hundred to a thousand bullets in a minute, as occasion may require. A sc ries of satisfactory experiments has taken place at Greenwich, attended by French en gineers, appointed for the purpose by the Duke d’Angouleme, with one of his aids, and Prince Polignac, Lord Wellington re marked, that a country defended by this kind of artillery, would never be invaded. Lord Exmouth, after witnessing a few show ers of lead, said he believed the time would come, when a steam gun boat, with two guns in her bow, would conquer any line of bat tle-ship ; and Sir G. Cockbum said, the mischief of it was, it would be to nations what the pistol was to duellists-rit would bring strong and weak on a level.—-London Paper. ' Gen. Lafayette was, on the 23d June, elected a Deputy of the Department of Seine and Marne. He was opposed by Tronchon. The votes s wer4 for Lafayette, 280—M. Trouchon, 1%—majority, 141. This tri umph of public opinion had , caused much rejoicing ampngst the liberals. The-Minis try had given out, that in the event of Gen. Lafayette’s being returned, the Censorship of the Press would be re-established, and the very day after, the Ordonnance of the King appeared, re-establishing that odious system. The election' of Gen. Lafayette to the Chamber of Deputies is no ordinary event.