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Saying Pork and Making Bacon.
It would probably, just at tins time,
be a more acceptable service to many
t)f ouji^eaders, to tell them how they
•are to get pork, then how it is to' be
saved. This however, does not lessen
the importance of the proposition
with winch we set out; and as ow\ddr
vice would'not be available in the one
case, we proceed to the consideration
of the other. It is indispensably. ne
cessary, to perfect success that the
hogs which are to be converted into
pork should be fat, and made so by
• -healthy, solids food—otherwise the
meat will be soft, and subject to much
shri 1 lkagcmid..^vaste in drying. Hogs
sometuiie§ axe slaughtered when in a
declining'state ; ih all such Cases the
hiss is considerable in converting to
haoon—^nd the meat, when boiled,
seems to grow less, and. the bones
ftUqk'.^uVn s though- too large for their
(envelope. Fine bacon can therefore,
Sfot beeVpcctcd from' poor or decliri-
ang begs ; nor may sweet, juicy hams
he made without proper care and at
tention- to -the-putting irp of the pork,
y’he slaughtering and cleaning should
be conducted with neatness—the
scalding and removing the itahq. re
quiring judgement and skill, that the
,ope may be neither more nor less than
jnay be, necessary to the accomplish
ment of,the other. -All the hair
.this is‘not only neater, but in better
condition to be saved sweet, and kept
■free from worms. -After the pork is
'killed r and has hung long enough to
is a middle exop,. with, little ekess.—
The third piece is nearly all chess,
and not WDrth harvesting. The editor
adds the remark - r ‘that the facts stated
ate of much value, agd the practice .of
sowing a few oats with winter wheat,
ok soils on which it is Opt to -winter-
kill, should be more generally adopted..
The oats kill out in the- winter and
afford protection and manure to the
wheat plant.
The Tekscope-—Hs iU«ge*
IX is a well known and often proved
fact, that light travels two hundred
thousand miles per second; and elec
tricity speeds oyer copper wire at- the
rate of two hundred aiid' eighty-eight
thousand miles in t1>e same time. The
mammoth telescope of Lord Hesse is
capable of penetrating so Far.into spaee
tliat it would require two hundred and
fifty million years for light to traverse j ^^ ^ ^ they' poured
the immense mterval between ns and „cmA;n
the remotest point brought to our view
by that giant reflector.
Inference 1.-Swing it upoK'its pivot
to a section diametrically opposite, and
an cqualdegree of remoteness is reach
ed on the other sale ofonT stand-point.
Direct it towards various other quar
ters, and the extremities of these long
radi, if joined together, would form
•quite a capacious sphere. -.
revealing the existence of f those dis
tant tracts of visible matter, proves
that they must have existed a least
two hundred and fifty million years. •
Inference 8. Their very existence,
have-drained and di ied well, opera- _ noW . demonstrated by occular evidence
lion of cutting out may commence.
Thisis too well understood to need
any instruction from us, further than
to remark, that some skill and good
taste may be - displayed even herein
thc SlmpcOf the ham. and some real
advantages are 'obtained by Smooth
cutting, leaving-no- gashes for the fly
to-fen ter and deposit &s eggs.-. After
tlm cutting up, all tlie pieces should be
laid <nw«Vy T v sprinkling each piece with
^alt' -ahd there permitted to remain un
til the -animal heat.is all gone, and the
marrow in the bonerishalLBec’dme cook
To accomplish this, most speedily and
successfully, it should not be bulked,
but. laid in single layers, if possible.—
If this is properly done, a single night
will usually suffice. Then the salting
snay commence. There-is much dif
ference of opinion—some who. claim
vei‘y good success, do not rub at all,
but simply pack away, in salt. Our
practice, and the result of our observa
tion, have been different. We should
therefore recommend that all the
joints be well rubbed with salt before
jpadkin.g Where much is to -be done,
the hand would become tender by
long rubbing ; tlrismay • be remedied
by using the ear of the bog for a rub
ber. This rubbing .y ifch salt is done
.almost exclusively .on -the skin side,
and is continued Until the skin appears
chafed and softened with ’salt. A lit
tle salpctre should be .added to the Salt
—some four or five tablcspeonful, well
pulverized, to each bushel. Thisaidn
the salt in striking m, and reddens* the
■ texture of the ham. Too much, hgw-
cKi-, a,.... r..,-... .xjto-b
too dry and hard. After the ruboing,
Jet the pork be packed away, covering
each piece well with salt It is bet
ter to Waste salt than to lose meat.—
There is much diversity of opinion as
to whether it Is-best that the joints
should be covered with brine or pickle;
we think that it would be better to be
bqvqred. .With very large meat, it is
Uj ofitoi* Tvrtrtrr <YT
^n^UWj Uiroi
jthree w-eeljs, to Tub She joints a second
jtime.yith salt, and pack away again.
The weather should be cohl when
this is done- When it has been in
Is- *rrorvl.-o /n.n/1 if tKp. IVPilfJlPJ*
EIMt tlAii iv v.vr.D, ~
lias been very cold, five wilt not be too-
long) ft should behxlng Up to dry.—
The hftms should be hung so .that the
hock may be down. This should be
done m eojd weather also, and if windy
the better, as it. will aid very much in
frying and -hardening the surface.;
•The smoking should now commence,
and be kept up constantly for about
four weeks^ or until the meat is fully
cured. Be careful not to hurt, by
having too much fire, and the meat’
, lmng too low. The smoking may
ihenbe suspended, but in all damp,; '
wet seasons, should be renewed suf
ficiently to keep the bacon and inside
of thebouse free from moisture. Some
persons report-very good success bv
doing nothing more. Our' advice
would be, to take the hams all down
the last week in February, if well
dried, (and they should be,) and pack
thema-way in dry ashes. • A good plan
for xhis is to luivc shelves in the smoke
house, and lay some of the meat sticks,
corn cobs, or any thing dry and .hard,
upon the shelf; then- lay the liam,
skin side down, upou these—first
Covering the-wliole surface of the meat,
And carefully filling all the little cre-
with dry ashes. They are then
;j,n a 'coifilition to be easily seen and ex
amined (.though the summer—and if
the porlf b^ been well made, and the
hams put np in good time, little trouble
jnay be expegted,.more than occasion
ally to scrape.off g,little mould. The
smoke should l>£ J^ade with green
^licory or oak wcodT most
^convenient articles which we have
irw&jis ground ten bark, .fjftev ^ l** 8
been used and .thrown frontthe vat.—
This gives.the bacon a beautiful brown
appearance, and tbenmoke iis kept up
with little trouble,-—S)i.l &f .ike Soyitb.
•Sowing oats with Wheat.
An Illinois correspondent of the
/Sfenesee Farmer, says lie has repeated
ly tried the experiment of sowing oats
with wheat as a protection from .the
severity of the winter. lie .first sows
one bushel of qats per acre, and then
E uts the usual quantiiyof wheat and
arrrows them together. , .He has .this
season three different pieces °t l v M eat
on the same ground aH prepared alike.
,Gh the first piece he soared yith the
.wheat one bushel of pats per acre ;,pn
iho second half a bushel;. onihe third
'to oats at ail. The first ptoMkj 8 good
% ithout any chess. The
allows the vast durability of light, and
that the creation must have commen
ced considerably more than six thou
sand years ago.
j SkyBeeaery.
The following description of a scene
from a ISftTv saqntift of the Himalay
an xange.-of mountstns is from-the {ien
of Bayard Tayfcr:
I was called, -however, *la witness
another remarkable phenomenon.—
Turiting from tbefading hills, I looked
to the South. The Debra Dbpon was
buried under ,a spa of snow-white
clouds, which rolled and surged against
each-other, sinking and rising like the
billows of an agitated sea. IV here we
stood, the air was pure and serene; but
"far away, over that cloudy deluge—
which soon tossed its waves above Hie
peaks of the Siwalik'Hills-miowr than
a hundred miles away—and high in the
air, appearantly, ran a fhinfc blue hori
zon line, like that of the sea. It was
the great plain of Hint oston, but so
distent that- the delusion was perfect.-
The great white billows rose and rose,
whirling and tossing as they' poured
into the clefts of the hill, presently we
stood pn a little island in the midst of
a raging sea. Still they rose, disetos-
focr enormous hollows between their
piled masses; cliffs, as of wool, toppled
over the eavities; avalances slid from
the summits of the ridges,.and slowly
fell into the'depths; -and as I looked
away for many a league over a cloudy
world, there was a-motion everywhere,
HivoTunfafy'ala ini lest we should ~Be
overwhelmed. But to our ycty feet
the deluge came, and there rested.;—
Its spray broke against the little pinna
cle whereon we stood, but the billows
kepttheit place. It was as i( a voice
bad said i u Thus for shalt thou come
. CciuHierce of Nov York.
The imports otZfew York, from for
eign ports, for the month of Septem
ber, wc. learn from the Journal of
Commerce, show an, i ncrease of $1,300,-
D00 in dutiable goods entered for con
sumption, but foiling qff in goods
wherelioused, and a decline also hi free
goods- and specie, which leaves tho to
tal imports for the ©i.ontii $245,163,
less than for the corresponding month
of last year, and $8,27<L979 less than
for September 1853. - The total im
ports of the month amounted to $14,-
021.73. The imports at that port,
since January 1, amount in value to
.$114,784,500, which is ,$37,608,246
less than for the corresponding nine
months for last year, and $40,617,008
less than for the same period of 1S53.
The decline extends to-aU the items of
direct imports in the summary, but
the withdrawals from warehouse
for consumption since January 1st;
shows an increase, • The exports from
Ne\v York to foreign ports, for the
month of September, (exeiasrve of spe
cie.) are $1,287,275 greater than for
September last year, and only $564,-
305 less than for September, 1853.—.
This increase, as compared with last
year, has been wholly in domestic
produce. The total exports of the
t ^"of s *^!rt*o$57«fa.9o5'~fh;r5-:
ports since January 1st, exclusive of
specie ar&Only $1,004,278 less than
for the corresponding nine months of
last year, and arc $3,270,979 greater
than for the same period of 1853v The
exports of specie from Boston, is, liow
ever, much larger this year, than in
either 1853 or’54. The total exports;
from New York for the nine months
i . * _ i a a.71 iOA mi
nave araounreu «j L, 1:017,4.^7^ ui
which $24,450,196 was of specie. The
Journal says the imports i» September
have not been a3 large in gftneralmer-
chandize, 0s wasjxjieeted, but the ex*-
J)0rts ija¥C iuCrGiraCd rayT6 tuau i?«S
anticipated The exports for the next
two moths promise to be very large,
almost all the Available freight in reg
ular lines of ships befog already en
gaged for the remainder of the year.
Objccf <rf Embalming in Egypt.
A French chemist. M. Julian Fon-
tenelle, in a discourse pronounced on
occasion of the opening of an -Egyptian
mummy in the amphitheater of the
Sorbonne, at Paris, has -delivered an
opinion respecting the catose ofcmbalm-
ing in Egypt, that the Egyptians were
led toit from physical necessity. During
four months of every year the inunda
tions of the Nile cover,almost entirely
Battle in lexica between texts
Mangers, Mexicans and Indians.
By the steamship. Louisan*, just in
from Indianqla and Galyeston, we have
a Gal vestoh'Oiviliah. extra, dated
day, 14*thinst.,.•containing
from Capt. Callahan of the
gers, to ihe people of' Texas,
Eagle Pass, Oct. 4, giving among
er things, an acopjunt of a battle fought
by his commamlNn that day with a
force of70fi, composed of Mexicans,
Lipans and Seminoles. The battle, it
{mpea.rs, lasted about three hours, when
the enemy retreated to San Fernando,
about twelve miles- distant. Four of-
Capt. Oallakan’-s eommand were killed,
and four wounded—about 85 of the
enemy were killed and 100 wounded.
Capt. Callahan (as we gather from
h» address) was appointed -cartunander
Of expedition to destroy the encamp
ment of-tlie Lilian lodjans, and to ex
terminate the warfare of the tribe. He
the officers and men of Eni -Command
for their brave and gallant conduct,
says that he Is occupying the
♦^■*WMaPedraa iCegras, o\ "
A»nd intends to h<
Mtion until reinforced fi
dements. The Mexicai
basely betrayed his
pretending to. favor their ex7
against the Lipaos and then atterrip-
to draw them into aanare at the
On the 24th of September I was
joined oh the Leona by two companies
of volunteers .under Capts. Wm. BL
Henry/of San Antonio, and Nat. Be
ton, of Seguin, and proceeded by reg
for marches from that place after the
Indians, arrived on the 29th of Sep
tember on the Bio Grande, af the mouth
of Los Moros.
great
nobilit;
nent am
chants, lawyer*,
land—the tashi
tiiig
,—the rich mei -
i'ops of Ed^-
le hotels, and pri
vate tables -of wealthy men a& over
Europe, who would naturally proeure. gf
the b«t r wines to be‘had at any wree,^^
— anct ften have enough left to keep
all the hotels, private houses and drink-
f the Western Continent
have sae-
Sfhis men
odds. He
account of the high water in the Rio
Grande. He waited a few days for
the water to subside to no purpose, and
then marched to Eagle Pass, with a
view to cross the river at that point,
and proceed directly to the camp- of
the Indians, situated about thirty-five
arid no further, and here shalt thy proud miles west of the river, hear the city of
waves he stayed.”
A Fair Oflcr.
■ Dr, Franklin onee made tlie follow
ing offer to a young man: n Make a
full estimate of all you owe, and of all
that is owing to you. Deduce the
same to a note. As fast as yod can
collect, pay over to those you owe. If
you eahnot eollect, renew your note
every year, and get the best seeunty
you can. Goto business deligently,
and be industrious; wast nq idle mo
ments ; be economical m all things;
discard all pride; be faithfalin your
duty to Goo, by regular and hearty
prayer morning -and- might; attend
church regularly every Sunday, and
do unto {61 men as you would they
should do unfo you. If you are to
too needy circumstances to give to
the poor, do whatever else in you pow
er for them elieerfull v, but if your can,
always help the worthy poor find n»
fortunate. Pursue this course, for sev
en, years, and. if yod are not happy,
comfortable, ana independent in your
circumstance*, come to me and I will
pay your deiite5
Lacooit,
The fid tawing rirthe dispatch of Gen.
Simpson, the British. Commander-in-
chief, announcing the assault upon Se-
hastop’>k-^- << The French attacked Mal-
respondent remarks: u Antithesis can
no further go; the vigor of that fonn
of narrative was never So happily H ; ,
lustrated, Simpson deserves credit
for owning tip tnus handsomely—bo
French General would have failed to
so envelope, bis statement—liad he;
such an one to make—in a cloud of
attenuating circumstances.”
To the Point.
An Athest on a western steamboat
glorying in his atheism, avowed that
the present life was ali.of a man, that
he had no spul and no hereafter. '‘And
so you. say you. have no soul ?” said a
gentleman in the group." K No,” was
his reply; “ not a whit more than a
pig.” The gentleman was about to
argue with bin*, whon a Scotch lady
said, “Sir, I hope yod will not spend
your brbath arguing wx v the creature;
by his ain confession fie has no more
soul-than a p'g, and ye wad b»e argqe
wi’ a pig.”
ostris,foran extent of territory of aboirt
2.250 square leagues, according to D T
Anvifle, there would be a papulation
of 6,222 persons per square ffeaguc,
which would preset^ 350JMX) deaths
per annum. These corpses must be
gotton rid of either by burning or by
inferment; if the fattet, they must bo
buried around the inhabited spots, or
in those which were inundated by the
Nile, and then the doeomposition of
those bodies would have been a source
of destruction, and for burning there
was an insufficiency of wood. But the
soil of Egypt abounds in springs oft
tratkm—subcarbonate of soda—and as
this substance is perfectly antiseptic,
the inhabitants were naturally ied to
preserve with it the corpse of the dead.
In support of the opinion that sanato
ry views were the cause of embalm
ment down to the third oentury before
the Christian era, when the practice
was abandoned, M. Fontenelle observes,
that during, the whole of that period
the plague was unknown in
where it is now endemic.
t-iF*’ Never teach false morality,
says the. Bev, Sydney Smiths • How
exquisitely absured to tell girls that
beantysds of np valae, dress-of no use l
Beauty is of value; her whole prospects
and happipess in life very often depend
upon a new .gown or a becoming bon
net; and if she has' fete grains of com
mpn sense she will fftiid this out. 'Thi
greaUhliig istp teach ner tli#ir jnst val
ue, and that there nnist be Something,
bettor under the bonnet than a pre^y
fece for real happiness, Btfi never sac
rificc tru,th. ‘
\ 11U01 UU
San Fernando.
At Eagle Pass he received from the
Alcalde of Piedras- Negras, opposite
that town, and from the citizens of fhe
Bio Grande generally the warmest as
surances o4 assistance - by inch and
means to effect his object.
On the 2d inst/ he crossed fhe river,
and on the 3d marched toward the In
dian encampment at the head of one
hundred and ‘•eleven Regulars and
•vojanteers. Capt, Callahan proceeds
as follows i
At noon We encamped on a small
stream ten miles, west or the Rio Grande;
where we refreshed ourselves and
horses. Up to this time the Mexican
authorities and citizens Tiad shown us
much kindness, and evinced their
good wishes as to the suctossof the ex
pedition, and many even volunteered,
to enlist rtuder me, but none were re
ceived. . ^
After nooniug it an hour or two,
we marched on toward San Fernando,
beyond which were the Indian camps.
” 11 —— fcn miles
over a
widely extenoea praine, about 3
o'clock in the afternoon while march
ing liesurely along, we dpscried three
horsemen approaching US from a mot
of timber aboat to the northward. At
first these men were not noticed; we
supposing them to he Mexican herds-
men—but on their approaching within
2Wjr*rdspf uf^
battle ground, which «r<
seeded but for the bray<
against the overwhelming
then proceeds: *
I informed the prominent
this place this morning that
not come here to fight the . Mexicans,
but to whip and exterminate the In
dians. and that we do not yet desire
to fight them, although they have
killed and wouuded several of ouj*
best-men. I have told them that they
must deliver up to us the_ Indians
otherwise the Texans will make them
.responsible for the murder of their
wives and children, and the depreda
tions upon their property? Itfli now
clear that they combine with and prO-
ct the-Indians. -
I have tried to explain to them the
injustice of their coarse, and have ad
vised them that we wilt invade their
country, and burn the last of their
towns, if Ihev Gontinure to protect and
wnos&nanils arfe still reeking in tne
blood of innocent women and children,
beneath the tomahawks of relentless
savages. We molested none of their
property until we found them fighting
side by side with the Indians, whose
demoniac hands are stitl rfet with the
blood of Texan women and childrep .
And we have since.troubled nothing
save what was necessary for our Wo
support, and safety, llad „w« sup
posed the Mexicans would nave uni
ted With the Indians .against us, we
would never have crossed into their
country with our number of men—
but #e arqnow-diere, and intend to
hold a footing until something is- ac
complished. _
Capt. Callahan concludes his address
by calling’on the Texans to corse to
his assistance, remarking:
We are well fiortjfiea here, with
cannon for our protection, -and have
support at hand sufficient to shield Us
from destruction till we receive rein
forcements. We have brought all
our wounded with us. and they are
well rated‘for at the hospital at Eagle
Pass. Our dead shall be brought in
and receive decent Interment on Amere
ican soil*
We are in hourly expectation of an
attack from a thousand Mexicans and
Indiana, but we can whip them.—
Again, I eaH on you for assistance for
the sak% -of your individual protection
and-that of yotir common country.—
The Indiahs say they are determined
to kill as they go, and they cross the
Bio Grande for your settlements almost
weekly. If not exterminated any
hour may ring the death knell of some
of your kindred and friends.
There will be no safety for your
frontier settlements hereafter. The
may be considefed somewhat question
able. • _ *
OTHBfc WINVS.
The Udmanee Ccfnh wme,
grows only on a form of mxitcri
half. The sooth side of a tingle
Germany procnces all th< _
in the world; and yet anybody who
chooses to order Jofianoisberg at any
hotel, or*>f any wine deafer in toe city,
will have it deKvered at vervshort no-,
tice—though accompanied by a
long bill A single small vaBt, - v _
Madeire produces nil. the Malmeeg
wine. Many dT toe choicest kinds of
•’ —-Ywif only on the sites
wme ean
and painted for battle; and they were
evidently tiying to decoy us from our
position.
them to,
XTVtWtenuii
I^^The excitement in j-egaerd to
the Indian murders in Northern Cali
fornia. was about over. Many Indians
had been; killed, aqd five-who were
supposed to have been concerned in
the niurjete were under arrest on the
reservation iq Oregpn, .awaiting a re
quisition from the governor to Califor
nia. The following is the aocount
given by the Herald of the origin of
the trouble. Among civilized people
it Would be regarded as a very tolera
ble -casus belli: 3
A white man bargained with In
dian to give the lafter a horse for a.
squaw. The Indian not being aide
to suit aim from the stock of squaws
under his control, wen trover ana stole
a squaw from-the Applegate tribe.—
Big Tom, the white man, was so well
pleased with the. -stolen squaw, he
would not give her up to her people
when required, notwithstanding be
was urged thereto by his partner and
the other whites. The conseqneftoe
was the massacre of all the whites by
toe Indnos, and to mark their particular
animosity against Big Torn, they cut
him up into athousandpieefs, refraining
at the same time from
others.
Sr 10if)k in the Bridal Chamber.
—-Miss Clare Haskins was found dead
in her bridal dress and chamber near
Natchez, Mississppi, on the 2nd inst—
After being dressed by h|r Mides-
rnaids, she requested them to retire
for a short time, and when
turned they found her lyii
upon her conch, with an <41
which had contained prussic
clasped in her tend
ed the desperate, alternative of
struction rather tbsti marry a man she
could not love, in Obedience to pared'
tel authority. fe^--
A wife foil of troth, innocence and
love, is the prettiest flower toman can.
wear next to his heart. * *
the battle—form tlus time large
here of them had emerged from the
timber, seemingly with the intention
of attacking us; they soon spread out
in front of us, and to our right and left,
to to® auiount ofseveral hundred horse-
men, and commenced to fire on us.—-
About this time one of my men fired
on a chief, about 200 yards distent and
broke a leg. of liis horse. Perceiving
that the enemy, composed of both In
dians and Mexicais, were trying- to
outflank us, I ordered my men lo
charge, which was executed in fine
style, and thirty of thq enemy were
slam.
While making Our charge, the left
flank of the enemy, which, extended
/or near half a mile, came in on onr.
rear and opened on us a Veiy severe
fire during wfiioh four of our gallant
men were killed. The front and
right flank on which we charged, af-
t&i a galling fire fled before -us, leav
ing us ih possession of the position
which it yfas our object and determi
nation to gam. 'Then we discovered
that our eaenay numbered some six or.
seven hundred) as all their footmen
Were concealed in the timber and had
not advaubed iu view on the prairie.
My men formed in a strong position
beneath toe bank of .a small creek on
which the enemy had been encamped,
and their whole-fore coming up against
ns, w« continued the battle for about
three hours, when they fled in to* di
rection of San Fernando, leaving, as
we beard this evening, apme 83 killed
and with the loss of„ lOto Wounded.—
This we learn from some Mexicans
who were engaged in the battle and
from other sources since my report to
His Excellency toe Hon. EL M. Pease.
The sanrit Mexicans have atop in
formed me that toe actual number of
our enemy were 750 men. After the
retreat of the enemy, which was about
dark, we, supposing that thfey would
pome on us again before day with large
rein-foreements, fell back to the Rio
Greude, where we would be safe from
any number Of men and any quantity
of artillery they might- brmg Egainst
us^ * m
Approaching the town of Piedras
Negraa about sunrise, we too ^omea-
non of it, and««w occupy a position
opposite Ea^e Biss, on the Vest bank
The men v who were killed of my
command are W‘. II. Clopton and
Augret.gmith of my company, - An-
gers. ftfillis Jones of Capt Merits
company, End H. R. Holland of Capt.
Bentons Company of. Volunteers.—
The men wounded, are John .Gregory
(dangerously) of Capt. Henry’S com*
■Any, -Capt Nat. Benton slightly, and
Fret Lieutenant Henry B. King, aligbt-
^ Hatton slightly, and Eustace Beaton
(mortally) m my'company. . :
.After paying some oompliments to
•ly on tne
-of extinct volcanoes. Stetntyfrg wme
grows excltwvely in the -vineyard of
^monastery.
a suppressed monastery. The distnet
of Xeres, from which A'herry is produc
ed, is of very small extent and its lim
its are very accurately defined. Gen-
uu»»^ >p ‘ nW*
the same thing**holds true of l
presume we should run no risk
in saying that-there has never been a
single bottle of genUine CVas Yougeot,
Romatiee Conti ’ or Johaniiisberg wme,
within the limits of toe ’ United g 1 -* 1 -
We beard one of the largest Wine
ers of this city say, not a fortn
since, that he„would lav.* wage*- ora
thonsand-dollare that there was not, in
Nev^York city at' the present moment,
a Stogie gallon of genuinn -Pdrfc We
presume that no one lapposes that one
bottle in ten thousand of the Cham
pagne drank in this country, is gentjr-
-- —" -' r " ^——- ' And
blood and outrage so long as they re
main URchastiseJ. We fought all
tlicec tribes yesterday, and, as we learn,
the celebrated Seminole chieftain, Wdd
Cafe
Wiae «*4 U iojK Drl»lteis,
The most thoponghly bambocmhed people*
.It would be difficult to - pick out the
ten persons ia rl»ia mty who are more
thoroughly and Completly humbugged,
than any other ten. -We shonld not
know precisely where to look for them;
—-but we are inclined to 'believe that,
when fodnd, they would proveto have
their gouty feet under the- mahogany,
at a late dinner, holding up wine glas
ses to-toe hgbt, ripping thei^poatents,
discoursing of its splendid bouquet, re
hearsing its history, counting its. age
and delighting each other .With stirring
Darratiyes of the extraordinary adven
ture* by which such' choice brands
Wfere brought into the family, -and of
the wooderfuigBare which has prolong
ed their existence to the present day.
Yfe have very little doubt that thfe
most thoroughly bamboozlad people in
this community, arc those who suppose
they are drinking choice'and rare vari
eties of genuine and delicate wines,—■
op even genuine wines 0/ any sort, such
as port, madfeira, sherry or champagne.
The people whb- believed in Joyce
Heth and the Feejee mermaid, were
not one whit more badly sold,—and
they had the decided advantage over
the humbugged wine-driukefs, In not
being charged a hundredth port^o high
a prioe.
If the reader will took at tb& irin«
List ou hfeBill of Faffe, the next time
he dureMtowny liotek or ferge eating
house’, hewill find that by calling for
it he can have Clo^.\ougeot, Romanee
Conti, Mont Racket?Johannisberg, Ru-
desheimer, Steinberg,—in short any kihd
of wine he may prefer,—at rates run
ning from $3 to $1£ tlite bottle. ’ And
as for choice Sherry, Madeira and
Porfe they'can be supplied ad libi
at each and every hotel, eating-hoi
and drinldug saloon in toe city. Be
fore he calls for them, perhaps it would
be well for him to consider a- moment
where these superb tomes come from,—
not from mere curiosity, but for the
purpose of forming a conjecture as to
the probability of his getting toe genu
ine article by calling and paying for it
If he will look into a little book on toe
“Witte Duties,” just published jqjEng
land by Sir Jambs EMEBsmsmB_
he will find some frets wkueh may aid
him h> coming to a conclusion on this
subject. # ^
CLOS vougeoT.
He wiU find, for ^teample,. /hat all
the wine in the world known as the
Chs Youffret, grows on a singfo fiuu
in Burgundy of fifty acres ; owned b;
a great npblamah, who uses a great
deal pf it likmeU sends a great deal
r great people,
residue. But
f.that/^y acres
>}y all these
mg
he hqtels,
stanoysnf
constant^ supplied with Gbs Yougeot,
idefed 1
ine, vineyard-grown Champagne,
more than nine-tenths of all t'
consumed in toe United States comes
no nearer being the' 1 genuine article,
toan the Fefejee mermaid came to be^
ing the genuine, bona-fide, song-singing,
looking-glass, disporting virgin oFtne
sea, that BabkOm and the crowd took
her to be. ' -
The fact is, nineteen-twentieths Of
all toe wines and brandies drank in this
country,—and nine hundred and nine
ty-nine thousandths of all the rare and
costly wines oyer whieh our high livers
snack their lips, and roll their eyes
and astonish their epicurean friends^
are manufactured for me7narket,—mad&
up by a skillful compounding of
with infusions of flavoring matter
a basis erf alcoholic or vinous materi
so as to resemble any brand or any
sort of liquid that may be desired,-—
England and France are the great fields
of tois manufacture,-—though it is be
ginning to be prosecuted in this coun
try to a very considerable extent. But
an order for any kind of wine that may
be wanted—for Clos Vougeot, Johannis-
or Aspecially delicate bouquet,A^ent to
England, will be filled promptly and
to any extent , More of any brand can
be brought over in a single cargo, than
the entire region where done it grows
can produce in years! A' little more
than a month ago, (July 24,) w'C cop
ied from a London police report tne
.evidence of a frmous Wine-dealer nam
ed Osborne, ia'which he stated that it
was his practice to buy up all the spofl-
our red French wines he
at-lo
vSi
_ them
intoJarge vate-»-mix with them a-cer-
I?««rvn/»V> Kyon/Iit. _ Wl-wf
Uitllkuy Ui A IVUOM
em also certain ‘preparations" of
Oliver, a me
tha* State.
ricafetfag Eirt^
ilst sonte of the foreign jou
up with the part* rocw! 8 *
at. BebaetopeU boasting of the a £
ity of the Aftire to conquer other na
toons as well M the Russians, the W.
don Mercantile Gazette of the 15m
nit, publishes toe following pregnant
paragraph:
“All eyes are now directed to Amen
ica. Twelve French * buyers Went
out by .last week’s steamer, and laro C
orders have gone from England fo,
breadstuffs, so that we shall soo n
know whether the. boasting account*
of their crops can be substantiated.”
So long as all eyes iitt the old workl
look to America for fbe staff of life
are in no danger even from the
projects of Louis Napoleon.
Happily we can supply all Europe
without inconveniencing ourselves.
The N.Y. Express says that, accor
ding: to a careful calculation,, the Mia.
sissippi vallev afone has raised corn
wheat enough the past season, to
feed the whole, country for a wbefe
year,
k. E-Sto OF aJjWJBIRITE, CoETMCNipfe
as the North American Phal inx, New
‘Jerseyf has^iterally gone to smash.—
All its real estate, in which some $100
000 had been invested, came under the'
the. hammefr Wednesday and TtersdW
-and produced, to the aggregate, $56,'-
000, or a little over $82 -peracre:^-
| This, with the estimated proceeds of
its moveable property, will enable
them to pay from sixty to seventy per
cent, on the stock issued. The mem
bers of the community have nothing-
to show for .the twelve years that tiie
institution has been in existence.—
They admit that it has proved a conn-
uge
Con veesers.—Ed uca?
apportioned, females
toe Sherry torn being
•re better conversers than men. They
have quicker perceptions, less egotism
mmre sensibility, more disinterested
ness, what gives a charm by its spright
liness, they have more imagination;
this may not be under so good control
as fhat of men, but it is always more
chaste. They incline to speak as
the -heart prompts. Of course their
expressions are not studied. This
gives to their manner more grace and
nature. Men are apt to wait for the
slower working of the understanding;
hence they, are often deficient in ease.
.To Preserve Smoked Meat.—
How often are we disappointed in our
hopes of havingsweet hams during the
summer ? After carefully curing and
smoking, and then sewing them up in
cotton bags, we find that either tho
fly has commenced a family in our
bam, or toat the choicest parts round
the bone are tainted, and the whole
spoiled.
Now this can be easily avoided by
" * Prized charcoal.
prices,—pay duties on them as
- London
low prices,—
legan-r-store
the? 1 to the
Docks—take them out and pour
e vats-»-mix with them
CTUSl
into them
his own—put them up into
marked Old Port, and sell them as the
choicest Port wines at from $100 tor
$140 a hogshead. This, there is no
doubt at all, is very extensively pnu>
ticed-by large dealers in France and
England;—and those who buy from
them to supply the American market,
when they are .not their accomplices,
are their victims. And the wine-drink
ers of the United States, from the low*
est to the highest, swig tlje deooctions
of these wine-fabxicafors in niuetv-nine
cases -out of it hundred, instead of toe
juice of the grape, over which they grow
so rapturously and poetically eloquent.
charcoal itself will decay.
Batter, too, put in a clean crock
and surrounded by pulverized char-
ooap will not become rancid.
' In airing a room, both the upper
and lower parts ofthe windows should
be opened, as the heated air, which
from its lightness always ascend, will
pass out of the top, and the fresh, cool
air come in at the bottom.
Mr. Winchester, who made a balloon
ascension en tke 2d insfe, nearly three
weeks ago from Norwalk:, O., has not
yet bfeen heard from. When he star
ted he said that he intended to go high
er and further than any other Aeron
aut had ever dared to think of. Win
chester bds a family residing at Milan.
Seere-
at
Our Government, says the. New
Yofk Herald, having experienced
great difficulties from the Wanfeof salt
petre during the Revolution, as wett
asnn the war of 1812, has since been
more provident for future contingen
cies, and-Congress has for some twenty
or thirty years .past appropriated about
$20,000 per-annum for the 'pOictiWc
and storage of saltpetre, 'so' that we
might now probably stand a five or
ten years’ war even without entirely
exhausting our supplies. This pre
caution was the more necessary as the
most, prolific mines iu the world, on
’ie tributaries of the Gances, in India,
ere under the control of England.
As great as the recourses of this coun
try are known to he, yet so far they are
found to be, deficient in supplies of
saltpetre and tin. In case of war we
xan get on without the latter, but not
without toe former. To be equal
other nations we must have ample
'saltpetre, the chief, element in
lion of gunpowder.
jggT’ An address to the
the UniteiStats has been issued..! .
the committee by the late Leringtaa jthat the American party has
(Mo.)Uoaventiou, denouncing the sen- • ' "
ding of emigrants to Kansas by socie-
w thick thelffies, hams will keep
quite as sweet as when they were pack
ed for years. The preservative quali
ty of chrrcoal will keep them till the
-The
Ti^e Norfolk Dead.
tary of the
Norfolk, writes as follows
T>ut.of a population nbt much ex
ceeding 7000, over 2000 are now en-
toomed. Of the remaining portion
nearly nine-tenths had the fever. In
many instances .whole families have
been swept away—others, a- small
child remains as the representative of
a once large and happy family.”
j^It is stated that the war has already
imposed upon Turkey expenses to the
amount of over ,300.000,000, francs;
of which 220,000,000 had been met
from itsown resources, and 80,000,000
would toe provided for ^by the new
loans guaranteed by the Western Pow
ers,
A Nantucket whaling , vessel ha*
discovered a pew island in the South
Pacifie Ocean. It is situated about
two hundred and fifty miles South of
Desolation Island, and the ship which
encountered it took from it, in less
than a week’s time, four hundred bar
rels of sea elephant oil. Two other
ships are said to be now in course of
preparation to return thither, for the
* 1 this valuable
f emigrants to juuieas by socie
ties in the free States, as dangerous'
lealated to circumscribe slavery
and calculated to circumscribe slavery
to its present limits, and defeat the
lie indent of the Nebraska bill. The
” ’ o declares that the rejection
as a slave State would be a
gross insult to the SoOth ; an assertion
that slavery is incompatible with re
publicanism, and-an equivocal step to
wards disunion. The document is
signed by J.'A. Nap ton, late Supreme
very.
The American'party of NashviHu
have elected their ticekt for Mayor-
and Aldermen.
Later fro* Califoraia*
By thwarrival of the Piladelphia we
hare received dates from San Francis
co to the 20th ulfo fifteen days later
than previous advices. It will he seen
that the American party hap declared
its' supremacy, in the Golden Statein a
most tteci led manner. The official re
turns from afirjlarts tf the State, baa
not been received, but as far as heard
from, Johnson’s Majority was &*2**'f
From toe Son Francisco Evening News
ofthe 20th, we extract the following : .
Governor—3. Neely JoHNSOJf* ot
Saqrejneato.*'. .
Lieutenant Governor—R. M. AN®* 1
[fuif 4terra,J v- ■