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SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.
I had been shut up all day in the tavern of the
little town of B . I did not know how to
while away the time, and as Irving says, “ was
terribly hipped.” There was not a soul to talk
with but the landlord, a prosy old gentleman in
squeaking boots. My wife had gone to take tea
at the parson’s. Wretch that I am s why did I
not go with her? I waded through the “Far
mer’s Almanac,” and tried hard to laugh at three
dull jokes on the first page. I pored over a dirty
newspaper, and racked my brain to find out what
the letters at the bottom of the advertisements
meant. I smoked four segars, and sipped a bran
dy toddy. 1 thought it full ten o'clock, and looked
at my watch —it was only half-past eight. —
“Death,” said I, “ what shall I do?” I could
not think of going to bed. The genus pulag, or
common flea, had badgered me all the night be
fore. In despair, I rose and paced the floor. —
“ Time kills me,” I ejaculated. “ Would that I
could kill time.” I glanced around nervously;
mv eye fell upon a show-bill posted in one corner.
I wondered 1 had not seen it before. There it
was, in staring capitals—“ Scientific Lecture at
the Town Hall written at the bottom with red
chalk, “Admittance 12 1-2 cents.” In any other
slate of mind, I would not have given a “scien
tific lecture” a moment’s thought. Now it was a
God-send. I went.
When I entered the hall, the lecturer, a large
man, with bushy whiskers, commenced an exper
iment, “ to convince the audience that they heard
with the teeth, and not with the ear, as is com
monly supposed.” He had an ingenious way to
prove this. He held in his hand a watch. Call
ing to him one of the spectators, he asked him to
stop his ears with his fingers so tightly, that no
sound could enter. Next he requested hi n to
hold the watch in his mouth, by pressing his lips
closely against the case. “Now,” said he, “do
you hear the ticking ?” The man replied by sha
king his head. “ Now,” continued the lecturer,
hold the watch in your teeth, instead of your
lips. Do you hear it. 9” The man, with a tone
of surprise, replied he did.
While this was passing, a fellow, a little over
come by the ardent, had annoyed the lecturer
very much by his loud remarks. I afterwards
learned that he had kept up a running comment
during the whole of the evening. He now shou
ted out, “ O , why don’t you say we see with
our noses?” The lecturer slowly turned to him,
saving, in a peculiarly bland manner, “ I was
about to introduce an experiment to prove that
very thing. Will you please to step upon the plat
form, where the audience can see you sir? Now,
sir, have the goodness to be seated in that chair.
Sit as firmly as possible. Take hold of the arms,
if you please. Now, I tell you beforehand that
this experiment is rather painful; but if you have
a mind to try it, shut your eyes closely.”
“ Go ahead, old boss, you can’t bluff me off.—
You needn't think you are agoing to scare me
out of it. I should just like to have }mu make
me see with my nose. Y r ou can’t do any such
thing—you know you can’t,” said our noisy
friend.
“C!os3 your eyes as tight as } r ou can, then,”
said the operator. “ Can you see any thing?”
“No.”
“ Well,” said the scientific gentleman, drawing
back his fist, and striking such a powerful blow
upon the nasal protuberance ot the victim, that it
sprawled him upon the floor, “you see stars
now.
I expected a general fight to ensue, but the joke
was too good. The poor fellow, who it seems,
was a wag himself, saw it in an instant. Slowly
gathering himself up, he exclaimed, “Thank God,
it’s no worse, as the man said when he broke both
his legs. Wont you step out and smile ?” After
the lecture, I saw both gentlemen in the bar-room,
smiling at each other very happily.
That night the fleas gave no trouble ; but while
1 was sleeping heavily, someone shook me vio
lently, and awoke me. “ What is the matter,”
cried I, starting up in bed, “is the house on fire?”
laughed so loudly in your sleep you fright
ened me. I thought you had a fit !” replied my
anxious wife.
Intemperance and Cholera. —Ardent spirit is com
posed ot alcohol and water, in nearly equal pro
portions. Alcohol is composed ot hydrogen, car
bon, and oxygen, in the proportion of about 13,
52, and 35 parts to the hundred. It is in its na
ture, as manifested by its effects, a poison. When
taken in any quantity, it disturbs healthy action
in the human system, and in large doses suddenly
destroys life. It resembles opium in its nature,
and arsenic in its effects ; and though, when mixed
with water, as in ardent spirit, its evils are some
what modified, they are by no means prevented.
Ardent spirit is an enemy to the human constitu
tion, and cannot be used as a drink without injury.
Its ultimate tendency invariably is to produce
weakness, not strength; sickness, not health ;
death, not life.
Ardent spirit, as a drink, is not needful. All
men lived without it, and all the business of the
world was conducted without it, for thousands of
years. It is not three hundred years since it be
gan to be generally used as a drink in Great Bri
tain, nor one hundred years since it was common
in America. Os course it is not needful.
It is not useful. Those who do not use it are,
other things being equal, in all respects better off;
than those who do. Nor does the fact that per
sons have used it with more or less frequency, m
a greater or less quantity, for a longer or shorter
time, render it either needful, or useful, or harm
less, or right for them to continue to use it. Four
fifths of those who are swept away by that direful
malady, the cholera, are such as have been ad
dicted to the use of intoxicating liquors. Dr.
Bronson, an eminent physician, says: “ Intem
perance of any species, but particularly intemper
ance in the use of distilled liquors, has been a more
productive cause of cholera than any others, and
indeed than all others.” In Montreal, after 1,200
had been attacked in 1532, it was discovered that
not a drunkard had recovered of the disease, and
almost all the victims were moderate drinkers. In
Paris, the 30,000 victims were, with few excep
tions, those who freely used intoxicating liquors.
Cholera everywhere searches out the haunts of
the drunkard, and seldom leaves it without bear
ing away its victim. Even moderate drinkers are
but little better off. The Morning Herald news
paper, in 1832, said: “ The same preference for
the intemperate and uncleanly has characterised
the cholera everywhere. Intemperance is a qualifi
cation which it never overlooks. Often has it
passed harmless over a wide population of tem
perate country people, and poured down, as an
overflowing scourge, upon the drunkards of some
distant town.” All experience, both in Great
Britain and elsewhere, has proved that those who
have been addicted to drinking spirituous liquors,
and indulging in irregular habits, have been the
greatest sufferers from cholera. In some towns,
the drunkards all died. .Monsieur Huber, who
saw 2,160 persons perish in twenty-five days, in
one town in Russia, says : “ It is a most remark
able circumstance, that persons given to drinking
have been swept away like flies.”
Statistics of Great Britain . —The number of men
from fifteen to sixty years of age, is 2,244,847, or
about 4in every 67 males. There are about
90,000 marriages yearly, and of every 63 mar
riages, three only arc observed to be without off
spring. The deaths every year are about 332,-
700; every month, about 25,592; every week,
6,398; every day, 214; every hour, about 40.
The proportion of the deaths of women to those
of men is as 50 to 54. Married women live lon
ger than those who are not married. In this coun
try there are, on an average, 4 children born of
each marriage; in cities and large towms, the pro
portion is 7 to every 2 marriages. The married
women are to all the female inhabitants of a coun
try as 1 to 3 ; and the married men to all the
males as 3to 5. The number of widows is to that
of widowers as 3 to 1; but of widows who re
marry to that of widowers as 4to 5. The num
ber of old persons who die during the cold weather
is to those who die during the warm season as 7
to 4. Half of all that are born die before they
attain 17 years. The number of twins is to that
of single births as lin 65. The greatest number
of births is in February and March. The small
pox, in the natural way, usually, carries off 8 out of
every 100 it attacks ; by inoculation, 1 dies out
of every 300. The proportion of males born to
that of females is as 26 to 25. In our seaports,
there are 132 females to 100 males, and in the
manufacturing towns, 113 females to 100 males.
Old Boerhaave says the healthiest children are
born in January, February and March. Only 1
out of 3,125 reaches 100.
There are some minds so indolent, that they
prize nothing which they can obtain with facility
—desire nothing with sufficient intensity to labor
for its acquisition ; their conduct being ruled by
the line—
“Take tlie goods the gods provide thee.”
There are other minds so craving, so energetic,
so ultra-active, that they only value acquisitions
in proportion to their difficulty of attainment.—
Give them what they ask at their first bidding,
and, obtained, they fling it from them in disgust,
though a priceless jewel; refuse their bidding,
and they will pine and fret, and toil, till life itself
becomes a burden, in pursuit of what may prove
a worthless bauble.
To remove Peach Stains. —The tidy'house-wife
dreads the coming of peach season, from the te
naceous, dirty-looking stain which the juice of that
luscious fruitleaves on handkerchiefs, aprons nap
kins, table linen, &c., and we are sure she will be
glad to know that it may be removed by soaking
the stained articles for a short time in whiskey or
alcohol of kind, and then washing.
There must be something intensely powerful in
the influence of the human voice, when its very
cadence alone can elevate to rapture or stino- to
madness. Who has not felt the ecstacy of some
one brief word from “ lips beloved,” ~afier lono
years of absence ? And who has not experienced
the tumultuous conflict of angry passions that
rise unbidden at mere sound of speaking from
those we like not.
“ Don’t you think my eyes look quite killing
this morning?” said a country dandy to a smait
girl; and he twisted his leaden visionaries in the
most cruel and fascinating manner. “They re
mind me,” replied the damsel, “of a codfish dy
ing of the toothache.” She can pass.
“Ma, where’s the State of Matrimony ,” asked
a rosy-cheeked miss of her anxious mother.
“It’s one of the United States,” replied she.
BXAKXTS PATENT,
FIRE-PROOF PAINT, FROM OHIO.
THIS Singular and valuable Substance is sold in fine powder,
then mixed with linseed oil to the consistency of thick paint,
and applied with a brush, and after an exposure of a few months to
the atmosphere, this coating becomes a perfect slate or coat of mail
protecting whatever is covered from the action of the weather and
fiom fire.
It is a mineral substance, and has been found upon analyzation
by Dr. Chilton, of the city of New York, to consist of larger pro
portions of Silicia Alumine, Prot. Oxide of Iron and Magnesia,
with lesser of Lime and Carbon. It is used extensively for cover
ing roofs of either shingles, matched boards, tin, zinc,sheet iron or
thick paper, if your shingles have been on for years, you have only
to sweep off thernossand lint, with a stiff broom, and cover with
two or three good coats, and in a few months you have a perfect slate
roof, impervious to the action of the weather and fire. There is
nothing equal to it for steamboats and car decks, for all kinds of iron,
it forms a coating nearly as hard as the iron itself, and never cleaves
off’. It should be used for everything that you wish to piotect Irom
fire and weather.
In some places a spurious article has been sold as the genuine,
therefore purchasers should be careful to buy of authorized Agents.
Every Bbl. is marked BLAKE’S FIRE PROOF PAINT.
The above Paint is for sale by C- A. L. LAMAR
sept 13 ts Savannah, Ga.
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING.
TO the Merchants of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama and Florida.—The subscribers having established a
house in this city for the sale of READY MADE CLOTHING in
connection with an extensive Manufacturing establishment in New
ark, N. J., where one of the firm gives his personal attention en
tirely to the manufarture, while the other devotes himself to the
receipt and sale of the same in Savannah. Possessing these advan
tages, we (latter ourselves that we can compete with any establish
ment in the United States in Price, style and workmanship, IVe
are now receiving our Fall and Winter supply, to which we invite
*he attention of merchants, planters, and the public in general,
sept 6 PIERSON & HEIDT.
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING!
JUST received per brig Clinton, a splendid assortment of Tweed
Coats, Frocks and Sacks, fancy Cass. Pants, fancy Silk and
Cass. Vests, together with a large assoitment of Twilled Cloth
Pants and Jackets, Satinet Pants and Jackets, Corderoy Pants,
Beaver Coats, Sacks, Blanket and Flushing Coats and Over-Sacks.
For sale, very low, wholesale and retail, at No. 10 Whitaker-street.
sept 6 PIERSON & HEIDT.
R. S. HARDWICK & COOKE,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Savannah, Ga.
THE Undersigned have associated themselves, under the above
style, in the business above specified. Mr. Hardwick is a
Planter of Hancock county, and, of course, identified in feeling and
interest with his brother Planters. Mr. Cooke is a citizen of Sa
vannah, and is thoroughly acquainted with all the branches of the
Commission Business.
We are prepared to make liberal advances on produce instore,
and will fill orders for Plantation and Family Supplies with scrupu
lous care.
We are mutually bound not to speculate in Cotton or any other
article of Merchandise.
We respectfully solicit patronage and pledge ourselves to deserve
it by faithful attention to the business entrusted to us.
R. S. HARDWICK,
aug 23 J. G. COOKE.
dentistry,
DR. PANCOST has removed to Brvan street, East side Mon
ument square, near the State bank, ’where he may be found
at all hours, night or day, fully prepared to wait upon his friends and
the public generally.
N. B. Artificial teeth inserted fiom one to a whole set, and in
ured to give satisfaction to the wearer.
N. 13. Chaiges greatly reduced. Gmo aug J)
Slaves.
PERSONS in the country desirous of engaging in getting out
Slaves, are informed that the preparation required for foreign
export is as follows :
To be made either out of White Oak or Water Oak Trees.
Length, from 42 to 44 inches.
Breadth, not less than 4 or more than 7 inches.
Thickness, not less than 1 or more than 2j inches on the thinest
part of the thinest edge.
The back and edge of the Stave should be dressed down to the
same thickness—should have a clear cleft or split, and be free fiom
knots, crooks, and worm-holes.
Staves prepared in conformity with this specification will be re
ceived at the full market price during the ensuing autumn and
winter. Present value, thirty-five dollars per one thousand pieces.
Aug 2 ANDREW LOW & CO.
Notice.
The Firm of GEORGE & HOGARTH, Savannah, Ga., and of
Jacksonville, Fla., is this day dissolved.
The Concern in Savannah will hencefoith be conducted by John
A. George only.
With manv thanks for past Patronage, the Subscriber would be
most happy to see all his friends and the public generally at the Old
Stand, No. 80 St. Juiian-stiect, where their orders will meet with
prompt attention. JOHN A GEORGE.
u g 12mo
ALFRED HAYWOOD,
CORNER BRVAN AND BARNARD STREETS, MARKET SQUARE
SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
Dealer in choice fruits, candies, nuts,
FIRST QUALITY ORANGES, LEMONS, APPLES
AND POTATOES*—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
hirst quality 1 hunderbolt Oysters, Fish, &,c. Newark refined
Champaigne Cider, and Albany Cream Ale, by the bbl.
QIF Orders from the Country, accompanied by the cash, or Citv
reference, punctually attended to. auo . 9 J
JAMES SULLlVAN,—Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of
TIN WARE—Worker of Sheet Iron, Copper and Zinc, and
dealer in Japanned, Britannia and planished Ware, also in all kinds
of STOVES. Some of the best and most approved patterns of
COOKING STOVES will be kept on hand duYingthe season u
well as a variety of other Stoves Stove work of all kinds will be
promptly attended to. Bathing tubs and Pans, also Hand Shower
Baths for sale. All orders for Tin Ware are solicited. Cashnur
chaseis will be supplied at prices as low as thev can buy in New
York or anywhere
Aug 2 No. 12 Whitaker-sfreet, near Bay.
PAINT AND OIL STORE, west side of momimem’
square. JOHN G. F ALLIGANT invites his friends and
the public generally, both from town and country, to call and ex
amine his stock before they purchase. Every article is selected by
himself and will be warranted of the best quality, and he will sell
at low prices and on accommodating terms. * Au 2
WHITE LEAD.—IO,OOO LBS. Atlantic White Leadfwar
lanted pure ; 4000 English do. do. do. For sale by
J- G. FALLTGANT.
WIN DOW SASHES ANiTbLIN Ds7—sooo
Sash; 2000 do 30 by 32 do; 3 000 do assorted sizes” 300
pair Venetian Blinds, assorted sizes. For sale by
Au g 2 J G. FALLTGANT.
ftffJass*
BOXES Ameri an and French Window Glass, from
til/” “ to 16x18; do. do. do. Coach and Picture do
n 16 2xlß to 33x44. For sale by
Aug 2 * J. G. FALLTGANT-
Turpentine, “ ~
*1 l Tk BARRELS City Distilled, for sale by
Aug 2 j. q. FALLTGANT
EASTERN HAY;
‘t AA Bundles Eastern HAY. For sale by
s'nt V . s - c - dunning,
- Whitaker-st.
„ SITUATION WANTED,
A 8 • °f EUK or , BOOKKEEPER, by a young man. Good
Appw 7m md: g,ven ,o an - v person ,r di^
HOWARD HOUSE,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA
WE are gratified to inform the public, and especially trav i
from the low country, that the Howard House h* •
passed into our agency, we are determined to do away wjt ? V|n s
complaints that Marietta does not afford the requisite conveni
by^ which visiters would be induced to sojourn in this delightful
The Howard House is now renovated, and accommodations and
pared which cannot fail to please. Ihe chambers are pleasant
conveniently furnished. The table will b e amply supplied ’
every luxury the country affords. Attentive servants aie ene*
In short, if agreeable quarters, a well spread table,
attention, joined with moderate charges, can please, we
patrons that they will be found at the Howard House.
_J e P 6 DIX FLETCHER.
Swift, Dcnslow A; Webster.
Dealers in Groceries Provisions, Foreign
and Domestic Liquors, Oil, Gunpowder, Shot Prints
and wrapping Paper. Corner of Bay and Whitaker-stnJ*
Savannah, Georgia. eet *
EDWARD SWIFT, ALLEN A. DESSLOW, JOSEPH \Y. WEBSTr
July 25 LR ’
A card; ‘
THE undersigned having re-opened, with* an
entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS „
FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughton
street, (formerly Walkers Marble Yard,) is now ready to
furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SOD\
WATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of
the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state
of perfection.
Prescriptions put up with care and despatch.
The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully
respectfully solicits a share of their patronage.
pr 26 TITOS. RYERSON.
Summer Itcfrea! on flic Sails.
AT MONTGOMERY,
TWELVE MILES FROM SAVANNAH.
A DONALD respectfully informs his friends
, and the public generally, that from the 21st inst.., lie will
be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promises
good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and
intelligent servants. Persons may be accommodated for board
per week, month or day, at the following rates, viz:
Board and Lodging, per week, $5 qq
Do. do. per day 1 50
Horses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per day.
N. B. During the season there is an abundance of Fruit
011 the place; and the table will also be provided with all kinds
of fish that the river will afford. apr 26
To the Planters and Farmers of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tenn
essee and Florida.
T AM THE AUTHORIZED AGENT for the
JL sale and purchase of the CAM ELINA SATIVA or
GOLD OF PLEASURE SEED, a native of Siberia.
1 am now ready to fill all orders for the seed, and being au
thorized by the Company to purchase the same, I will pay the
highest market price for nil that may be shipped to me in
Savannah. WM. HUMPHREYS, Jr.,
may 31 Agent for the Company of New \ r ork.
Siltialioai Wanted.
BY A YOUNG MAN, as Clerk or Book keeper,
good references can be given to any person needing his
services. Apply at this office. may 31
tLOTHIHG.
DIERSON & HEIDT offer for sale Clothing,
_L Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices. No. 10
Whitaker-street. apr 26
To the Public.
rpHE Subscriber, having entered extensively
JL into the making of BRICK of a superior quality to any
manufactured in this city, is prepared to fillorders at the short
est notice, and as low as any establishment of the kind in or
near Savannah. “ WM. H. LLOYD.
June 21
ROBERT N. ADAMS,
CABINET-MAKER AND UNDERTAKER,
No. 93 Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.,
IS prepared to execute all orders in his line at
the lowest prices, with dispatch. Orders from the country
promptly attended to. Ready-made coffins always on hand,
and made to order at short notice,
june 28 3mo
111. A. Polien.
(Late of the firm of S. Solomons Cos.)
Curasao* mb’ forwardikg ieniut.
SAVANNAH, GA.
Agent for steam packets 11. L. Cook and Ivanhoe.
may 10
MARSH & WEB ST ER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
175 Bay-Street—Up-Stairs.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Mulford Marsh. Andrew M. Webster
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Os nil kinds, executed nt th! Office, will, ncutueu and
despatch.
HAVING lately put our Office in complete order
and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex
tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to
execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING,
with neatness and despatch, and on the most accomodatiug
terms. Office 102 Bryan-street, entrance on Bay Lane.
Savannah, March 22d, 1849. EDWARD J. PURSE.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY,
A WEEKLY SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY. BY
EDWARD J. PURSE.
TERM S:—T WO DOLLARS A YEAR-
Three Copies for one year, or one copy three years, $5 00
Seven Copies, 10 0)
Twelve Copies, - - - - _ . 15 00
*** Advertisements to a limited extent, will be inserted
at the rate of 50 cents for a square of nine lines or less, t° r
the first insertion, and 30 cents for each subsequent insertion*
Business cards inserted for a year at Five Dollars.
ILF 3 A liberal discount will be made to Post Masters who
will do us the favor to act as Agents.
Postmasters are authorized to remit money to Publisher 9
and all money mailed in presence of the Postmaster, sod
duly forwarded by him, is at our risk.
E3P All communications to be addressed (post-paid) to
E. J. PURSE, Savannah,