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Scientific Wonders. —The general faith in science
as a wonder-worker is at present unlimited ; and
along with this there is cherished the conviction
that every discovery and invention admits of a
practical application to the welfare of rnen. It is
anew vegetable product brought to this country
from abroad, or anew chemical compound discov
ered, or a nominal physical phenomenon recor
ded ; the question is immediately asked cut bono ?
What is it good for ? Is food or drink to be got out
of it? Will it made hats, or shoes, or cover um
brellas? Will it kill or heal ? Will it drive a steam
engine, or make a mill go ? And truly this cui bono
questonhasof late been so often satisfactorily an
swered, that we cannot wonder that the public
should persist in putting it, somewhat eagerly* to
everv discoverer and inventor, and should believe
t-hat if a substance has one valuable application,
it will prove, if further investigated, to have a
thousand. Gutta Percha lias not been in this coun
try ten years ; and already it would be more diffi
cult, to say what purposes it has not been applied
to, than to enumerate those to which it has been
applied. Gun-cotton has not proved in the sad
dest way its power to kill, before certain ingeni
ous Americans, showed that it has a remarkable
property of healing,and forms the best sticking plas
ter for wounds. Surgeons have not employed
etierandcfo o or mas anoesthct’csjfor three vears;
and already an other steam-engine is at work in
Lyons, and a chloroform engine in London. Os
other sciences we need scarcely speak. Chemis
try has long come down from her atonic altitudes
and elective amnities ; and now scours and dyes,
brews, bakes, cooks, and compounds drugs and
manures, with contented composure. Electricity
leaves her thunderbolt in the sky, and like Mercury
dismissed from Olympus, acts as letter-carrier and
message-boy. Even the mysterious magnetism—
which once seemed like a living principle to quiver
in the compass-needle, is unclothed of mystery,and
set to drive turning lathes. ‘I he public perceives
all this, and has unlimited faith in man’s power to
conquer nature. The credulity which formerly
fed upon unicorus, phoenixes, mermaids,vampires,
krakens, pestilential comets, fairies, ghosts, witch
es, spectres, charms, curses, universal remedies,
pactions with Satan, and the like, now tampers
with chemistry, electricity, and magnetism, as it.
once did with the invisible world. Shoes of swift
ness, seven league boots, and Fortunatuse’s wish
ing caps,are banished even from the nursery; but
an electro-magnetic steam fire-balloon, which will
cleave the air like a thunderbolt, and go as straight
to its destination as the crow flies, is an invention
which many hope to see realized, before railways
are quite worn to pieces. A snuff-box full of new
manure, aoout to be patt.cnted, will fertilize a
field ; and the same amount of the new explosive
will dismantle the fortifications of Paris. By
means of the fish-tail propeller to be shortly laid
before the Admiralty, the Atlantic will be crossed
in three days —Edinburgh Review .
Cholera . —The Bombay Telegraph contains a
hn sr account ot Dr. Mosgrove’s successful treat
ment of cholera with cold water. In true Asiatic
cholera there is ever an urgent desire for cold fluid.
Even in the last stage of the disease, the last fee
ble murmer is for “water, water.” Dr. Mosgrove
urgently recommends the free administration of
cold water in cholera. “Half measures,” he says,
“are useless ; it is necessary that the fluid, wheth
er it be water or soda-water, shall be unremittingly
given while the thirst continues ; as soon as one
draught has been ejected, another should be given ;
the cup should be constantly at the patient’s lips,
so that he may drink whenever so inclined. Again,
he says water should be given continually; and
the various stimulants which are likely to arouse
the nervouse energy should be unceasingly em
ployed. He describes also various remedies that
may be used with advantage, in addition to cold
water, in the several stages of the disease; but
he exhorts his professional brethren, and the pub
lie generally, to give a fair trial to the free use of
cold water, and he sincerely hopes that it may
prove as beneficial in the hands of others as he in
his experience has found it. In such a hope we
cordially join.
Amusing Blunders . —Persons who are not fami
liar with the practical operations of a printing es
tablishmen, are frequently surprised, and perhaps
indignant, at little mistakes that occur in “making
up,” as it is termed, of the “form.” Sometimes
the proot-reader fails to mark an error, it may be
only a single letter, and the funniest result is be
held next day; puzzling, perhaps, twenty thou
sand readers. We have seen some amusing spe
cimens of these blunders in our day ; an announce
ment of medicine, for instance, “whose effects were
exclusive infernal;” or of the overturning of a law
yers pig; or of a lover who presented his mistress
with a large bunch of tinted noses . But the best
joke ol the kind, perhaps, is that of a dancing mas
ter scard ol respect, where, as in former cases,
only one letter was changed, making him “offer his
most respectful shanks to all who had honored him
with their patronage.”
Ilisonriblc. —A drunken fellow stumbled into the
river at the foot of Vesay street the other day, and
when hauled out he was in a towering passion with
the authorities. “Vy don’t they,” said he, “put
chains around the docks, so that ven a fellar falls
in, as he vil do sometimes, he could ketch hold o’
something.— N. Y. Globe .
She had him. —A lew days since, a young man
was boasting of the fine accomplishments and
naive appearance ol Ins intended, when he was
interrupted by an old lady, who exclaim’d : “Well
’twasn’t so in my days; folks was respected then
for bein’ honest, and not for bein’ a knave
A French Crime. —A crime has been committed
in t lie department of Loiret. The Sieur X ,
medical doctor, aged GG, possessed a fortune of
100,000 francs, lie married lately a third wife,
aged 21, to whom, by the contract of marriage,
lie gave all he possessed. A few days ago he was
found huncr about four hundred yards from his
dwelling. The police. being suspicious arrested
the wife and a young soldier, whose mistress she
was said to be. It appears that M. X was
strangled and then hung.
The Ploughman*s Revenge. — In Kentucky, a
ploughman became enamoured of a milkmaid on
a neighboring farm. His addresses were rejected,
and the disappointed swain, full of melancholy
and revenge, procured a rope, went to the barn,
and —tied all the coirs tails together.
A gentleman of Paris when he had considerable
company to dine would not let his son, about six
years of age, sit at the table with him, saying,
“The boys beard is too short.” The boy took a
seat at a side table, where a large cat tried to take
away his food, whereupon he exclaimed, “Go and
eat with my father; your beard is long enough.”
Apersian House. —The most-romarkable dispo
sition of the palaces and houses of the Mussul
man is divided into two very distinct parts; one
for the master of the house, and the other for the
women and the family. When the house is of
any importance, the woman have a part of the
building set aside for their separate use. In the
interior are two open areas ; into the larger of
these, planted with shrubs and refreshed by foun
tains, open the apartments of the men, and the
smaller corresponds to the rooms of the ladies.
Malcolm speaks of a ventilating apparatus placed
on the roof of a Persian house, which receives the
wind from whatever quarter it may blow, and
cools the air in the different rooms of the building
m o
The beds are spread on a kind of platform, with
out any other covering than the vault of heaven.
The Persian palaces are of large dimensions, and
besides innumerable apartments they contain baths
kiosks, libraries, aviaries, and fountains of every
kind. According to this author, there is no buil
ding of a more striking apperance than a palace
at Ispahan. The spaceous hall in the centre is
open like, the stage of a theatre, and is supplied
with a fountain, from whnece springs a jet sur
rrnn A orl until floxv-oro it is supportocl on elegant
piers, carved and gilded with the greatest care.—
The dazziiing brilliancy of the light, admitted at
large windows, is softened by stained glass of an
artistic character. A gallery, communicating with
the harem, runs at a certain height round this hall.
This gallery is devoted to the use of the woman at
feasts and galas.
“ Between the porpliy pillars, that uphold
The rich moresque work of the roof of gold,
Aloft the harem’s curtained galleries rise.
Where through the silken net wtrk, glancing eyes,
From time to time, like sudden beams that glow
Through autumn clouds, shine o’er the pomp below.’*
Before eachof these structures is a large open
space with a fountain, near to which the menials
stand watching for the orders of their master,
mostly seated atone of the windows. These con
structions are usually of light and graceful style,
and glittering, from the enamelled bricks by which
the} 7 are covered.— Architect and Building Opera
tive.
To Cor rcct Sourness in Milk , Cream and Bread. —
It is not generally known that the sourness of
milk and cream may be immediately corrected by
the addition of a small quantity of the common
carbonate of magnesia, in powder. Half a tea
spoonful, (about equal to four grains) may be ad
ded to a pint of milk or cream, if only slightly
sour; a larger quantity in proportion to the degree
of sourness. From two to three grains may be
added to every pound of flour to prevent sourness
in bread—so injurious to the health. Carbonate
of Soda is sometimes emyloyed for the same pur
pose, but it communicates a very unpleasant fla
vor to the bread ; and, in the case of milk or
cream, is worse than the disease.
Scene in a ’Buss . —The New Orleans Delta —
which by the way, has just come out in un elegant
new dress, bright as a cent fresh from the mint—
stands chargeable with the perpetration of the fol
lowing story :
As one of the otnnibusses was passing the cor
ner of Bienville, the idea suddenly occurred to a
worthy old female, that she wanted to be put down,
so she gave a tremendous pull at the strap enforced
with the whole impetus of at least 190 pounds.—
“ Pull away,” suid a phlegmatic old gentleman
sitting in the corner, “ pull again, and he will come
through.” *WhoT come through?” said the lady
very spitefully. “ The driver of course,” replied
the old gentleman, quietly taking a pinch of snuffi
“ I was trying to stop the coach to get out, Mr.
Impudence,” rejoined the old lady. “Oh ! is that
all! I thought you were Uying to pull the driver
through.” The omnibus stopped—the old ladv
moved out —the ’bus moved on—and then the old
gentleman put his finger to his nose, pretending
again to take a pinch of snuff’.
A lIIISB ei’ fii MM,
E. J. PURSE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
NEWS ITEMS.
The ship Europa from Boston, bound to the
West Indies, put into our port for repairs on
Wednesday afternoon dismasted. She was struck
by lightning about the 15th ult., when in latitude
39, longitude 59. No person was injured.
Coroner's Inquest. —An inquest was held on Mon
day, on the body of a man named John Brown,
who was found under the Bluff at the foot of East
Broad street. The deceased had his collar bone
and two or three of his ribs broken, and the jury
was of opinion that he had come to his death by
being run over by an omnibus or some other vehi
cle, while laying on the ground in a state of intox
ication. He left his boarding house between 7
and S o’clock, on Sunday night.
The weather , has been very fickle during the
past week, the change in the thermometer has
been nearly fifty degrees. On Tuesday it stood
at 8 o’clock A. M., at 30. But the mercury has
again assumed an upward tendency.
Suicide. —A Coroner’s inquest was held yester
day, about two miles from the city, in the Ogcc
chee District, on the body of a man by the name
of John Cooper, a ship carpenter by trade, for
merly of Aberdeen, Scotland. It appeared in evi
dence before the jury that the deceased left his
boarding house on the 22d ult., in a state of men
tal derangement, and was not seen until } r esterday
when he was found suspended by the neck from
the limb of a tree. The jury were of opinion
that he had committed suicide.
The Hudson River Railroad has made contracts
for extending that road one section beyond Pough
keepsie. The contractors offered to take Bonds
and Stocks.
Mr. George Copwav, a Chief of the Chippa
way tiibe of Indians, has submitted to the consid
eration of Congress a plan for the “ Organization
of anew Indian Territory, east of the Missouri
Kiver.”
Mr. Hannigan, our minister to Prussia, has been
confined to his room fora period of three months,
by rhumatism in one of his feet. It is said that
he purposes visiting England previous to coming
to the United States, and may be expected here
shortly.
The telegraph announces that the testimony in
the case of Mrs. Chines, has all been submitted
to the court, and that the counsel have commenced
to sum up. The evidence is contradictorv, and
it is supposed that a week will elapse before the
trial will be concluded.
G. Montesquieu, the young Frenchman who re
cently killed one or two persons at the holel in St.
Louis, has been indicted for murder in the first
degree, and his brother Rainard is detained as a
witness in th case. The trial will come on at the
present term of the court.
The Charleston Courier sa} r s that there were forty
six wreckson the Florida Reef and uring the past year.
The cargoes of the vessels wrecked were valued
at $1,305,000; salvage and expenses $*219,400;
salvage $127,570.
A writer in the Boston Traveler says, that Col.
Strafford, a large landlord in Ireland, paid the pas
sage of eleven hundred of his pauper tenants to
the British provinces, and that on their arrival in
the provinces, the authorities there paid the pas
sage of nine hundred of them to Boston, by water
to Portland, and thence by railroad to Boston.
Lola Montes. —The indomitable spirit of this
singular woman, is well exhibited by an incident
which took place in Poland, in 1845. It seems
that site was fulfilling an engagement as a dancer,
in the theatre at Warsaw, when the Russian Min
ister of police became captivated with her, and
pertinaciously followed her with overtures, backed
by costly presents and devoted attention ; but'ei
ther from caprice or principle, the charming Lola
treated him with perfect disdain. The nobleman,
Russian like, became exasperated, and set about
revenging himself. For this purpose he engaged
a mob, at so much a head, to hiss the dancer; and
poor Lola, at her next appearance, instead of the
usual greetings of wreaths and boquets, received
nothing but insult. She paused upon the stage,
and waited for the confusion to subside, instead of
which it was redoubled. Then the spirited wo
man took her resolution at once: she marched
with a haughty step down to the foot-lights, raised
her voice, and related the whole story of her per
secution by the minister of police—thus braving
the renewed anger of that functionary, who had
the power to throw her into prison, and the body
of siffiuers in his pay, who thronged the house :
nevertheless, she succeeded in cuasing a reaction,
and the audience gave her three cheers. The
minister of police dared go no further, though he
would gladly have sent her to Siberia. —Message
Bird.
Schoolmaster—“ Robert, compare the adjective
cold.” Robert—“ Positive, cold : comparative,
cough ; superlative, coffin.”
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILy
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBUARyTTT^
HAND THEM AROUND. .
We feel it our duty to caution the press and public
company of Singers, the Creole Mojl'i'' 4
of which C. T. Rogers was the agent when in our c V
week. Although they drew fair houses, yet they ] (> y t
Printer’s and other bills unsettled. The too frequent
rence of this mode of proceeding, is beginning to sour o U i ?
position, and we shall be down upon another individual re; i"**
in Richmond, Va., if we do not receive somethin* ‘
ble than promises.
AMUSEMENTS.
On monday evening one of the lurgest and most select
ences assembled at the Athenaeum on the occasion of ]yj a( ] fl
McAllister’s benefit, who were delighted with the pp r f (ir .,
ces. They will give one or two exhibitions next week
MR. C. C. REISJNGSR.
In pursuance of our system of candid and impartial ra
cism, we feel compelled to speak of this artist in terms 0 f •
highest commendation. Whilst listening to his perform
wo knew not whether to give precedence to astonishment ~
delight; the one excitedly his execution of the most asto u o
iug difficulties, an I the other by tho graceful beauty of )
melodies, his while performance, in fact, being the embu
ment of artistic excellence. Our only regret on Thme
evening was, that so few were present to participate i n the J..
thusiasm so unanimously manifested, and wo hope slm
another opportunity offer that a crowded hall will verify
truth of our remark. In connection with the concert\ Vecr
notomifour meed of praise to the Orchestra, under the direr,
tiou of Mr Mayer, ad Jing, as it did so materially, to the j,j oa .
sure of tho evening.
OAKRA AND TOMATTOES.
far.’ DeMartin, corner of Whitaker and Bay*Sfrocfs, has a
supply of these vegetables, received per Prince de Joinville,
from thelWestlnbies,together with a large assortment of tropical
Fruits.
MR. GUI LM ETTE.
This gentleman concluded his “ vocal course of instruction”
to his large class of adults on Monday evening last. Theory’
or system of personification as pursued by Mi. G. display
more richness of invention than any wo have before
While it imparts an extraordinary amount of knowledge to the
learner, it keeps up a happy excitement, excludes tho possi
bility of “ ennuis and holds forth the strongest inducement to
ihoso who feel a slight desire of acquiring a knowledge of
the science of music but hesitate from want perhaps of suffi
cient time, or a lack of energy and perseverance to tread
the paths of study in the manner ns heretofore adopted.
So much satisfied were those who followed the course
through , that a committee of gentlemen waited upon the
Professor with a request to repeat it; to this Mr. G. po.
iitely declined, having previously determined to go farther
south. This is to be much regretted, because the res' deuce
of such a professional character in our community irodd
prove of incalculable benefit as far os regards both the true and
correct physiological development of the voice, and the diffu
sing oF a refined musical taste.
We have been kindly furnished by one of our fiends with
a brief biographical sketch of Mr. Guilmette’s musical career,
which we take the liberty of laying before our readers, all of
whom we know are great admirers of the noble artist.
Mr. Charles Alexander Guilmette is the seventh son of Ma
jor Louis Guilmette (who served under the Km per or Napolcm
upwards of nineteen years.) and l>oru iu Dumfries, Scotland.-
At a very early age he displayed such a fondness for music that
the leader of the’ Philharmonic Society, then flourishing re
quested of his parents to permit his becoming a member, anJ
hi which society we hear of h:s figuring with great success.—
So remarkable was his embouchure for wind instruments
&c., that as soon as he acquired a fair command of one,
another was placed in his hands by his astonished leader.—
Strange as it may appear, instead of its injuring his voice it
seems to have assisted the development of its power and com
pass. When twelve years of age we find him singing the alto
part of one of “ Sir Henry Bishop's ” Trios, in
company with *• Madame Baity,” (a much admired “ Frima
Donna,”) which was performed at one of the Philharmonic
Societies concerts, given in presence and under the patronage
of the DuJcc and Duchess of Buccleugh Aye., Aye.
His voice at that period was remarkable for its mellowness
and richness. The success his youthful talents so deservedly
merited on the above occasion, was so great, that it induced his
father to bestow upon him a good and sound musical education,
and for that purpose he was placed under the care and instruc
tion of the best French, Italian, and English Masters, during
which time we also find him attending medical lectures for the
purpose more of tracing out those diseases &.C., which so
frequently annoy that delicately constituted organ, the voice;
as well as to discover the construction of the mechanism of
those parts producing different registers of sound, a kuowledge
of which is evident he must have obtained, as wo know of no
other “ Basso Canlanle ” who professed to have, and used
three octaves in the compass of one voice. This much we do
know, when an individual becomes acquainted with the princi
ples of the government of a thing, that person then fully un
derstands the greatest extent to which it may be carried as re
gards everything therein concerned,
The next prominent display of his talents is in the “ French
Opera,” then In company with the great Violinist “ Oltßullh
also “ Leopold De'Meyer ” the renowned “ Liore Pianist ”
who always evidenced much pleasure in accompanying Mb
Guilmette.
The more important part of his career is, whero we
him in company with a celebreted Pianist, Madame Haw.
merskold, who devoted much of her time in studying the ac*
companyments to his Grand Scenns, <3cc., translated aod adap*
ted by himself into English. His more admired pieces,
such as, “ The Mania c,” “ The Wandering Jew,” “
Gambler's Wife,” Aye., were usually given by him with thril
ling dramatic effect.
The beauty lays in the clearness and distinctness of his uf ’
terance—the varied vocal effects, and the strong expression o
countenance, completely captivates his audience. One nio
ment we see them melt in tears at the mighty appeal 3 of b‘-
singing eloquence, and the next fairly convulsed with laught l! ‘