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VOLUME VII.—NUMBER 2.
THE STANDARD OF UNION,
BY P. L. ItOBtNSON,
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book, containing several thousand names.
AIM ERTISEMENTSinserted at the usual rales. Sales of LAND,
by Admniistral«*rs, Executors, or Guardians, arc required by law to be
held on the tirst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in
the forenoon and three in the afternoon, al the Court House in the conn*
*ty in which the property is situate. Notice of hese sines mest be gi
ven in a public gazette SIXTY DAYS previous te the day of salp.
Sales ut NEGROES must beat public auction. On the tirst Tuesday
•f the month between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public
J, R J! 1 ( be county where the letters tes(imentarv,nf Administration or ’
Guardianship,may have been granted,first giving SIXTY DAVS no
inane at the public gazettes of thia State, and at the door i
el the Court House where such sales nre to ba held.
Notice lor the sale of Personal Property must ba given i« like men- •
* ne Jj I’V'IA VS previous to the day of sale. •
IFORTY the Dohtort and Creditorsof an Estate must be published j
Notice that application will be made to the Court as Ordinary for .
sell LAND, tauM It* published tvr FOLR MONTHS.
Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, mast be published for FOUR
MONTHS before any order absolute shall be made bv the Court
uheraon.
N»»ti« e «»t Application for Lettere of Administration must be oubliab*
'wd THIRTY «> \ VS.
Noth aol 4pplk*Htion for Letters of Disinis«ion from the Administia
tion of an Estate, are required to be published monthly for SU
MONTHS.
I
THE FATHERLESS.
BY MRS. ABDT.
:Saek not the smiling vale, sweet boy.
With early wild flowers gay,
Where birds pouf forth a song of joy,
And silver walers play ;
Though violets spring beneath iby feet,
Though blossoms scent the aii.
No welcome shall thy presence greet—
Thy father is not there.
Seek not the room remembered well,
Where often thou would’st glide,
Eager thy childish tale to tell,
Close to thy father's side ;
How would’st ihou count his treasured books,
And praise his pictures rare.
But never shall a father's looks
Again rejoice thee there.
Some bid thee turn to yonder mound.
Where mournful yew irees rise.
And tell thee, in its hallowed ground
Thy cherished father lies;
Oh! seek his grave with sorrowing heart,
Strew it with flowrels fair,
But ’tis thy father’s mortal part
Alone that moulders there.
He lives above tho vaulted skies,
With spirits pure and kind;
And casts, perchance, his watchful eyes,
On those he left behind :
May all the counsels he has given—
May all his pious care—
Aid thee to turn thy thoughts on heaven.
And lead thy footsteps there !
Vain, dearest boy, tby earthward gate—-
Vaia thy beseeching sigbs—
The guardian of thy infant days
Can glad not here thine eyos;
Y*f still pursue thy search of love
In faith, in hope, in prayer,
Till thou nball reach the realms above.
And meet thy father there
NEVER LOOK SAD.
Never look sad—nothing’s so had
As getting familiar with sorrow;
Treat him to-day in a cavalier wav,
And he'll seek other quarters *a>-merrow.
Long you’d not weep, would yen but peep
At the bright side of every trial;
Fortune you’ll find is often inoal bind.
When chilling your hopes with denial.
Let the sad day carry away
Its own little burthen of Honow*
Or you may lose half of the bliss
That comes in the lap of to-morrow.
When hope is wrecked, pause and reflect.
If error occasioned yonr sadness;
If it be so, hereafter you’ll know
How to steer to the harbor of gladness.
WOMAN’S LOVE.—The love of a virtuous wo
man clings to the idol of her affections, even beyond
the grave. There are none on earth so firm, so
faithful, and affectionate, as dauntless loving woman,
a true, self-sacrificing consoler in adversity, angel of
unercy in affliction. Where she has garnered up
the treasures of her heart, there will she cling,
unchanged by sickness, misery, or crime. No
hovel too wretched for love to enter, no danger so
terrible hut what that love enables her to brave.
The dark and gloomy dungeon finds her hovering
around it with blighted hopes and breaking heart,
but firm and faithful to the last. When every earthly
friend has vanished, she ram >ins to foster, to encour
age and console. She follows the culprit, step bv
step, tlie whole course of arrest, imprisonment, trial
and condemnation, and without shrinking, bears him
company even to the scaffold and the grave.
PRINTERS.—No less than twenty-eight printers
lost their lives at Fannin’s massacre in Texas. Prin
ters are always among the first to dip into any affair
where the liberties <>( their fellow men are at stake, or
the yoke of an oppressor needs to be broken.— N. O.
Picayune.
, Dr. Sptirzheim, strolling through a church-yard in
France, perceived a grave-digger tossing up the
earth, amonu which were two or three skulls. The
craniologlst took one up, and after considering it a
little time, said ; “ Ah, this was the skull «f a philoso
pher.” Very like, sir;” said the grave-digger, “ for
I do see it is somewhat cracked.'
“ We won’t indulge in horrid anticipations,”• as the
fcrifept' l ked husband said, when the parson told him
he wo|g|d be joined to his wife in another world, never
to from her. “ Parson,” said the disconso
late, “ I you wouldn’t mention that circumstance
again,”
of Union.
LORD BROUGH AM’S SKETCHES.—In de
daring Lord Broi gham to be the most remarkable
lit< rary character of the age, we are only repeating a
hackneyed saying—one however, not the less verita
ble from its frequent repetition. Lord Brougham is
an extraordinary man in almost every sense in which
the term can be intellect!! liy applied. Whether we
• egaid the gigantic mould in which his great mind
has been cast, the force, vigor and comprehensive en
ergy of his genius, the variety ami sterling character
of his attai.iments, or the wonderf.lly systematic la
bor, and industry which distinguish his pursuits, it
must acknowledged that lie is preeminently entitled
to the ap|H‘llation of(■.ctnt<>rt/iHtiri/." Yet w ith all
this opulence of intellectuel resources, this command
of varied and unlimited erudition, those who are fa
miliar with his writings will agree with Mr. Cotnbe
"ho felicitously pronounces him a Herculean, rather
than a profimml mind. The grasp of' his faculties
is more compicious than their depth. In shrewdness
and * igacity, in acuteness of discrimination, in the
power of com entrating his iron intellect upon any sub
ject, and of developing it forcibly and happily he is
unsurpassed by any contemporary author. But he is
not particularly a close, cogent and rigidly logical
writer. He seldom attempts to penetrate into the
remote sources of cause mid effect, to trace the nice
and hiildeu link, of logical sequeiice.—This, tve have
little doubt, arises in part from the ardor of his tem
per.i meut, which renders him too vehement for patient
Lord Brougham’s style is pleasing .though peculiar.
ILssent'ii es are I ihnsonian i;i pile respect : That is,
th-x are mossy, id.borate, and involuted; hut their
pure mid r» y Englisu is as opposite as possible to the
•rttftcial structure, sm» irouspomp of phraseology and
labored latiuity of the iitei wry leviatian of the eigh
teenth century. They are long and parenthetical ;
yet such is the cle.ru ss of his u«i b rstaudiim, that the
meaning is never obscured. Nor do they fatigue the
ear by a too tMunotcnous and m«deviatmg rvthm.
This constant p< r-picuity of style, illumined by a
highly original intellect, and bcmiiig with kuov.l
edge, wisdom, and practical good sense renders bis
• orks uniformly interesting, and <ives to his wore ab
s'ruce disquisitions a degree of attractiveness that
causes them to be relished by even ordinary minds.
Hr have perused the"“ Sketches” of sta'esmen of
th* time of George HI, b» this eunHrnt personage
• ith iimningled gra'iti. wtion. T’he second series,
• hi< h has lately been republished in this eiumtry, will
re eive even more general aitention, and will be read
with deeper interest. The gifted author has in these
volumes undertaken the analysis of some of the
niasier-spii its of’ the American revolution. He hast
limurd the portrait of Washington, contrasting its
mild and love-inspiring traits, with the bold and start
ling outlines of the blood-stained conqueror of Eu
rope. How faithfully and beautifully he has accom
plished this task, all •ho have perused these sketches
• ill not hesitate to acknowledge. The truth anil jus
tice with which Lord Brougham has delineated the
character of Wakhi vgton, is a stringing evidence of
the inherent liberality of noble minds. Without a
•ingle trace of a prejudice, which t»te impartial obser
ver might Wt II consider venial, he has pourtrayed the
“ Father of his Country” in . light so pure, holy,and
beautiful, as to leave no doubt of the veneration in
which he held the memory of the illustrious dead. It
is a grateful spectacle to an American to •itness the
exalted, the peerless reputation of Washington re
ceiving so rich a tribute of respect from the pen of a
subject oftlie King <*f Great Britain. Similar obser
vations apply to.the sket- bes of Franklin, Jefferson
•nd Carr'dl, in aU of whicli, Lord Bt »Uizb*uidt*play s
•n intimate familiarity •ith the conduct ami charac
ter of the subj- ct, coupled with a degree of iilwralitj
in feeling, that does imn infinite honor.
Ot the sketche of Englishm-n, tint of George IV
is particularly valuable, li is only of 1 tr> year' t at
historians have beuun to appreciate, at their proje-i
estimate, the qualities of the “ Fi st Gentleman in
Europe;” Lord Brougham’s remorseless scalpel lays
bare his hea> tlessness, selfishness—his desertion of his
friends—his coalition with his enemies—his unmanly
and utiini'igat d persecution of Queen Caroline—his
courtly perjuries—his vices—hi' follie and bis
crimes. His biographer spares not • single revolting
tr.it, nor stiff i s a solitary feature to as'» >e inspection.
Lord Brougham was well knosn as the ardent h» I
fearless espouser of the unhappy victim of that mo
narch’s avarice and crueby ; and the impaiiialitv of
his evidence might be questioned, if we were ignorant
of his scrupulous integrity ori the one h ind, and of
the concurrent testimony of contemporaneous • liters
on the other. The sketch of Lord C.astler-ach.
“ carotid-arlery-cutting,” as he has been termed by
Lord Byron,is not only amusing, but worth attention,
from the somewhat favorable li.ht in which it views
the actions and opinions of a slateman, who h». been
very generally subjected to unspairing ridicule*—
New Orica ux Hee
AMERICAN CLARE I'.—The editor of the
Mobile Journal says tint he has last. 4 some excellent
Claret made ot grapes produced# Washington
county, Alabama. He say* —It had an excellent fla
vor, con«x|eri«ig its age, anti showed clearly that
grapes r*i-»d in this country can be made to furnish
delicious wines. Sonic day in the latter part of this
century, our descendants, then possessed of a»t exten
sive vine region in his quarter, and furnishing the
whole country with a<e.at quantities of wines, in all
their varieties. v. i I w- mt-.r now their ancestors caw.e
to overlook such a p«'p«ble source <»f ui with, and
gave up to s’erility pl tin* that might have been made
to team with abumt-ince «<,d beauty!
ELECTRIC! I l IN TIC DOLOUR EUX.—
M. M tgeridi ■ has obtained the I. q>pit St results from
the application of electricity in affections <h’ the sen
ses, particularly in that acm- disease termed the tic
doloureux. He causes the electric current to pass
over the nerves by means ofne< tiles of platina, placed
at greater or less intervals. In some instances, a sin
gle application is said to have been sufiicit ru; ami, in
one case of dreadful suffering, in which the patient
had long been forced, from the pain of speaking, to
express his desiics by writing, six applications to the
net ve entirely r* moved a malady of three years du.a
■tiome—Loehc't Nnc Etn.
OUR Ct)NBC IE N C E —O UR COU NT R Y —o UR PARTY.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4,1840.
GOOD I ELLOWS.—Now, while they had been
in the fish shop there had been three or four mischiev
ous boys standing out'ide and watching them, and
whether they conceived Dr. Twinkle, having
wiped his mouth after his reptsL had no further occa
sion for his handkerchief, or wTiether a mere love of
gain prompted them, they resolved to ease him of it.
The three gentlemen paused ‘o look at a number of
chairs, tables, and boards, and tresscis which were ar
ranged along the wall of the large building: and
Turnus explaining that on these industry would
spread its stores in the after part of the day, Davy in
stantly quoted the poet—
“All is tho gift of Industry; whale'er
Exalts, embellishes, mid renders life
Delightful.”
and this beintT deemed ‘an eligible opportunity,’ one
of the youthful Hebrews inserted two of his fingers in
to the coat pocket ol Dr. I winkle, and then, very na
turally. began to withdraw them, when he discovered
that he had been in an improper place, but some how
or other, one end of the handkerchief got between the
two linger entk of the Hebrew, and so it followed
when he w ithdrew them. Alas, for the vanity of all
I human hope*! at that moment Dr. Twinkle felt his
I ‘real India’ moving, and instantly turned round and
collared the delinquent—we say, ‘collared,’ because
that is the usual term; but as the lad bad no coat on,
and his waistcoat was minus any collar-like append
age, Dr. I winkle was obliged to catch hold of what
he could. Davy, in this, resembling many other pro
found people, liked ‘ combiued movements ’ so he
seized another ol the party: and Mr. Turuus follow
ing up the principle, wheeled round and observed
which way the third boy ran. ‘I aint done nothin,’
sir,’ sa:d Davy’s prisoner. ‘You are a youug ras
cal,’ said hi. captor. ‘No, sir, I’m er honest lad—a
tailor by trade.’ ‘Let him go,’ said Twinkle, ‘ho
hasn’t done any thing.’ Davy allowed the voung |
gentleman to depart, and he repaid this kindness bv
running to assist a third lad in collecting a crowd
about our friends. A good number of—not a num
ber of good—Jews had already gathered together,
and began to show their zeal; zeal never does dis
criminate; for the Hebrew faith, by applying certain
uncivil epitlwts to the capture of one of their persua-'
siou. Some gathered up handfuls of mud, others
turned up the cuffs of their coals, (when they were
possessed of both) and the women made a threatening
movement armed with toasting forks aud'other un
pleasant weapons.—‘Where is there a constable ?’ ask
ed 1 winkle. ‘A cou'table!’ echoed the mob, with a
mixed grin and a laugh. ‘A constable, tuy dear, we
never have any constables here,’ observed a smart la
dy, with a kind of bag hung before her, full of clothes ,
aud old shoes: at her speech there was another laugh.
‘Levy, love,’ said a smiling damsel to a voiiue ma*
standing near her, ‘be so good as to fetch a coustable
for the gentleman—if yon can get one to come;’ and
here the facetious assembly roared again. ‘Very pre
yoking,’ muttered Davy. ‘Can’t 1 get a constable?’
inquired Twinkle with indignant looks. ‘l’ll hold
him. while you fetch one,' volunteered an individual,
whom you would have picked out if you had wanted
to discover for the possession of how small a sum a
man would have become a thief. ‘Who’ll fetch me a
constable for a shilling?’ demanded Twinkle. ‘I 1
—l’ exclaimed a good half hundred. ‘Don’t be fool
ish,’ said I urnus iu the doctor’s ear; they’ll never let
that boy go from here; let him go.’ ‘ him go,’
said Turnus, aloud. ‘Ay, ay, that’s right!’ exclaim
ed the assembly; ‘the ge’ileman’s quite right.’ ‘Then
be off with you; you young rascal!’ said Twinkle,
•etting the boy free, first giving him a shake, to which
the recif sent made no particular objection, ‘and learn
some more honest way of getting your living.’ The
bos retreated as quietly a posiible, the crowd sepa
rated, and some persons shook bands with Turnus,
irnl swore he was ‘a good fellow.’ It is rather »
curiou. circumstance, that indi.iduals are always
’e,'* rd ‘uood fellows.’ when they have done some
thing obliging ; !H1 a d,ei'! is a ‘good fellow ,’ w hen he I
assists a modern saint; a swindler is a ‘good fellow,’
when he pays an honest tradesman with the proceeds
ol o her ptnqde’s property; a thief is a ‘good fellow,’
when he robs your neighbor, yet touches von not; a
riotous uoble is a ‘good fellow ,’ when he plavs the de
vil with every one else, y< t pays the landlord; the de
stroyer of female innocence is a ‘good fellow,’ wi’h his
boon companions; and the vilest of mankind are all
‘good fellows,’ at particular timesand with particular
people.— Memoirs of D. try Dreamy.
QUARRELS. —One of the most easy, the most
common, most perfi-ctly foolish things in the world, is
to quarrel, no matter with whom, man, woman, or
child; wr upon what pretence, provocation, or occa
sion whatsoever. There is no kind of necessity for
H, and no species or dogree of beitefi’s to be gained
by it; and yet, strange as the fact may be, theolo
gian* quarrel ; and politicians, lawyers, doctors, and
princes quarrel, and the state quarrels; the church
quarrels, and nations quarrel, and tribes, men, wo
men, and children, dogs and cats, birds and beasts,
quarrel a* mt all manner of things, and on all man
ner of occasions. If any thing in the world will make
a man feel bad, except pinching his fingers in th*
crack of the door, it is uhqestionably a quarrel. No
man ever fails to think less of him* If after, than he
did before one ; it degrades him in hrs own eyes, and
in the eyes of others ; and what is worse, blunts his
sensibility to disgrace on the one hand, and iocre«-es
the power of passionate irritability on the other. The
truth is, the more quietly and peaceably we all tret on
together, the better; the better for ourselves, and the
better for those around us. In nine cases out often,
the wisest course is, if a man cheat you, to quit deal
ing with him; if he is abusive, quit his company ; if
he slanders you, take care to live so nobody will be
lieve him. No matter who he is, or how he misuses
you, the wisest way isju-t to let him alone, for there
| is nothing better than this cool, calm, quiet way of
, dealing with the wrongs we meet with.
An editor apologize* for the lack of editorial matter
by saying, that he carried several good and interesting
; articles to a wedding in his hat, and the girls coaxed
them all out of hrm, to wrap up bride’s cake in !
\ That’s the last ex use we have heard.
We dont b*li»ve a word of the above. Printers
I do not viwjt such places—ninnies often do. i
H SEXES. The following is an amiable and
sensible hint to the Miss Martineaus, Fanny Wrights
Mary Wolstonecrafts, and all geutlmenlike indies
These observations are from the bead and heart vfan
accomplished lady, who knows the station of her sel
and practices its duties.— Balt. Amer.
“ He wanted to persuade me that women were
equal to men as to intellect, and brought a hundred
reasons and sundry examples to prove it. I do not
know whether he was serious or not. 1 never give
them credit for beiugso when thev say this, but ima
gine it is merely to slitter, although they defend their
opinions, and appear in earnest. Compliments and
flattery ate such coninon coin, aud so well received
tu general, that they tre dealt without any considera
tion for the pain theyinflict upon sensitive minds, or
those w hose vanity is not sufficient to give them cur
rency. A sense of deficiency, a consciousness of not
deserving it, often cot verts what is meant as a com
pliment into the Idt -oyst reproach. Many a time I
have writhed under ie, and tried to simper and look
pleased, merely not to disappoint the good natured
intention ol the complimeuter, while my heart has
been secretly smiting me.
“ But to return tu my friend aud his opinions.
However ingeniously they were put forward, I should
have been very sorry had she shaken mine on the sub
ject in question. His theory would have utterly de
stroyed all ot the beautiful relationship between the
sexes; that dependence on the one side and protection
on th” oilier which seems to be the natural order of
Providence.—This is subverted by the attempt to
equalise their powers, either mental or physical; for
one may as well think of doing so with respect to the
latter as the former—both would be equally absurd.
The pen of a DeStael, the pencil of an Angelic Cauff
man, hate been given to the world, ’its true ; but,
like all other exceptions, they only prove the rule
from which they differ. It was no human voice that
said, ,r l he head of the woman is the man.’
“Ano it is well for her this should be so. A wo
man s heart and her head are generally her guides.
Yielding to her impulses, as she often does; apt to he
led away by a lively imagination ami acute suscepti
bilities, what would become of her, should she not
stay her weakness upon the sound and sterling quali
ties of the stronger sex ? Women never aim so sui
cidal a blow against their own interest as when thev
try to do away with, or revolt against, this doctrine
of their inferiority. They throw aw ay their props,
reject tire guidance and guardianship with which the
tiooduess of God has provided them, and absolve the
lords of the creation from that protection which they
are so willing to afford.
“ Thus the bond is broken; one party at least is a
sore loser, and perhaps both. Woman is left helpless
and isolated, and man is denied the generous gratifi
cation it must always yield the strong to support and
sustain the weak.
“TEXIAN ELOQUENCE. —The fiilkiwing is
reported to be the conclusion of a Texian recruiting
seargent’s address to his teen :
“Corn crackers, hoosiers, pukes, wolverines, and
suckers—if the voice of piety cannot m >ve you to ob
literate the Mexicans aforesaid; if tlte sacred voice of
Texian liberty strikes no sympathetic chord in tour
bosom, if tlie cries ol bleeding humanity cannot draw
yoa to deliver the freemen of Texas from the unparal
leled, the unprecedented oppression of hard work,
why you are not the men I take you for, that’s all. I
see you rising indignantly en masse to resist interfer
ence of property,-even to the blood of the cursed val
ler skinned .Mexican emancipationists. I see the
breath of Texian freedom animates you. Come then
and rally round the standard of an insulted country,
ami with teeth s»t and fists clenclted, swear to fight
knee d> ep in blood for that constitution which was
founded on the bones of your martyred countrymen,
and cemented with the blood of expiring saints and
heroes. Let’s go aud liquor.”
WINE.—An oflh er of onr navy, writing from
Madeira, says : —“ There are about 30,000 pipes of
wine produced here annually, am) of that, not more
than 10,000 pipes are ever sent to the United States ;”
ami it is no less true than strnnge, that at feast 50,000
pipes are annually served up at the Un't”d States bo
lt Ls, under tl* name of Madeira. The extent t»>
w hich winos are luaaufaictured is astcnisliiug. The
question, whether ardent spirit is a poison, has been
often discussed, (and very unprofiably ;) but if sugar
ot lead, arsenic, bic., are poisons, it will n >t b« diffi
cult to settle the question respecting our wirms. It is
well ascertained that the most deleterious drugs are
often used in making imitation wiues. Indeed, an
alarru should be publicly sounded respecting the dan
gers of alcohol. Imitation wines combine the two
evils—-poisonous drugs and alcoljoL
BANKS.— Banks grow rich upon their own debts.
If one individual gives his note to another, he pays
him interest ; the banks give an individual their
notes, (promises to pay,) and the receiver pays them
interest on their debts. The more they owe, there
h.re, the more money they will make, and the richer
they become. How we would like just such a privi
lege !
Os all the actio** of a man’s life, his marriage does
least concern others ; yet of all the actions of our.
life, it is the most nxeddled with by other people.
Mtirriaife is a desperate thing! The frogs in TEsop,
were extremely wise ; siiey had a great mind for some
water, but they would not leap into the well, because
they c«uld not leap out again.
$
Mr. Walsh, in one of his instructive letters from
Paris to the National Intelligencer, observes :
The 25th Nov. was the thirteenth anniversary of
Ltuis Philippe’s marriage with Queen Amelie. Her
royal relatives of Sicily were averse to the match, for
the same reasons which are said to base been candidly
given to him by an eminent merchant of Philadel
phia, whose daughter, a woman of beauty and excel
lent mind, he wished to obtain. His fortunes were
thought to be t"o precarious.
Obstinacy >’ an adv*t»ta»* to our enemies, a trouble
'to our •friends, and the assured overthrow of ourselves.
P. L. UOBINBOM, Proprietor.
WHOLE NUMBER 314.
Ilt'naa tha U. S. Guattte.,
WATER-PROOFING CLCTH.-Those who
have been compelled to “bide the pelting of the pity
less storm” have often enough wished that they could
fijtd Gouiedtiag to cqprn between the rain and their
skin, »oma covering impervious to the driven rain.
Sailors at their watch, o» duty, aud men gen-~
erally who have U) use their own legs for locomotives,
have a hard time to make the radical beat of their bo
dies contend, even tor a little while, against the radi
cal moisture of the clouds. The inveuliou of India
Rubber cloth promised much, aud does much, to pro
tect the wearer against the aggression of the raiuj
but it is also air tight, and soon becomes uncomforta
ble, and is perhaps uoLprornotiveof beaith. To meet
this difficulty, some ingenious persons of New Eng
land Lave invented aud wade a kind of cloth, which
in appearance is like the common cloths of the stores,
but which is impervious to waler, though it transmits
the air. A companjjm), been formed in Massachu
setts article, and we may cxnect
sm>n to see it m general -nr-” ■’ , ntpum tJu U'flrvli
it is properly destined. In the Boston Times we find
a notice of the article, which we subjoin;
1 he pieces ot cloth left at our offi< e some days
since, we have tried various experiments with, andi
Imve come the conclusion that it is a capital article..
»v e do uot know the scctet,” but will state some philo
sophical principles that may govern a process of rem
dering cloth in good degree water proof; ar.d then
give a statement of some experiments.
In the ordinary stole of dyed cloths, water flow*
freely upon the fibres, and almost instantly permeate*
the wltole substance, rendering one side almost as wet
as the other, because it easily receives, cuinotuai
cates, and parts with the particles of waier. The ob
ject of this process of waler-proofing is so to aCect die
fibres that water will have no affinity fcr them, and
not flow upon their surface. The effect upon eachi
fibre may be imagined to be similar to that of greaa
ing any substance, glass, for instance, so that water
will collect upon it in masses, instead of spreading
easily and rapidly, as it would upon wood, or per
meating the mass, as it would paper in its ordinary
stale.
Whatever solution may produce this effect upon fi
brous substances, will render it, in a greater or Lexa
degree, water proof; and in the sample before us it is
done most effectually in the new cloth. How long it
will prove a resistance of water in the course of wear,
it is impossible for us to state of our own knowledge.
It certainly is not removed easily, and may be as per
manent as the cloth itself. Taking it, however, a* we
now find it, the introduction of the art must prove a
great blessing to the community. The effect i* to
render cloth absolutely impermeable to water, except
upon tlie exertion of a considerable force, such a»
squeezing, or severe blowing; while, at the same time,
there is nothing in this application to the fibres which
prevents the passage of air aud vapor, any more than
in common cloths.
The advantage gained is a protection from wet in
rain, unless it should be severely pelting, aud thcu tro
water would pass except such drops or globule* a*
might be forced through by the absolute power of the
w ind. This is protection enough for the most of the
season, and for the ordinary uses of life. The disad
vantage avoided is, that the easy escape of the per
spiration and a free circulation of air are not prevent
ed, as must be lite, case with all imporous prepara
tions, such as India Rubber.
Several experiments have been tried by the proprie
tor of the art.
Ist. A man has been made to stand under the
spout of a three story building, half an hour, working
his arm in the rashing water, with a coarse water
proof coat on. No water passed through.
2d. Water has been poured Horn a third story win
dow for some time upon a piece of the cloth extended
over a tub. None passed through, although it mast
have fallen with great force.
3d. It has been boiled in soap suds for a considera
ble time without losing any of its repellant powers,
4th. It has been scoured it» the scouring room of a
woollen factory, but retained all its virtues.
sth. The most satisfactory of our experiments was
to rub a piece of the cloth severely—soak it in scalding
water—rub it as much as we could, dry it sad rub it
severely again—then make a hollow or cup in the
cloth, pour in cold water, and rub the Waler round
with the fingers, for four or five minutes, with a con
siderable pressure. After thus rubbing or stirring a
cup of water, we found the nap wet, but no appear
ance of moisture on the other side.
Tbc experiment of allowing water to stand upoa
the cloth in large quantities, for any length of time,
was shown at the fair.
We conclude, with good reason, that the chemical
applicclion is eflectual in resisting the passage as wa
ter, unless upon the application of utnvwal force —that
it is a permanent effect, which ordinary swnkiwg »*d
washing will not remove—that it will render ckxhrng
impervious to water under the usual showers and
storms vs our climate—and, therefore, that it h ■■
admirable invention for comfort and lire preservation
of health.
The character of the gentlemen who compose the
company, is a sufficient warrant that no imposition
will be practised or allowed in this manufacture. The
Messrs. Law rrr.ee, of tlje Middlesex Company, and
Messrs. F.B, Curtis, and T. C. Gratton, lire British
Consul, with a few similar associates, are not the men
to palm upon the public that which they d* not be
lieve to be real and true. Mr. Curtis has authorized
us to say, that the uniform coats of any military com
pany in the city, w ill be subject to the process, and if
they do notjurn out to he all that is stated, that is,
impervious to water, and indestmctifile by moths,
(another property of the solution,) nothing shall be
charged for the operation.
It is needless to say, that such an improvement is
of the very highest importance for such a climate and
such a community as ours. We shall test its virtue?
by actualwear, and will report hereafter.
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