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14 CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 16, 1853. NUMBER. 33^
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The Cscape of Air. O'Bouolaete.
Mr. Patrick O'Donohue, one of tlie Irish
patriots and exiles in Australia, who escaped i
and arrived in San Francisco on the 22d of
June, and who reached New York on Monday, j i
in the steamship Noithern Light, has declared
his'intention of becoming a citizen of the Uni- 1
ted States, atuL went through the usual forms
at San Fiancisco on the 23 J ult. He has pub- I
lished a full aod very graphic account of his I
adventures in Van Diemau's Land, and the |
trials iucident to his escape. I
1 It appears tbat Mr. O'Donohue went oil I
board a steamer at Lannceston at 8 o'clock on i
the 29th of* December last, ami" was concealed \
in a part of the vessel which the police failed ;
to pcnetraFe after a vigilant search. lie says: ;
It was hastily agreed that 1 should meet on t
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til ill eVeUNIg ill III*' iivuac VII i?*i. }..., ,?..U ...v..,,. ,
change u>y dress and accompany iiim on hoard ,c
at eight o'clock that uight. 1 hastened to my t
lodgings at the house of my worthy friend, .Mr. 1;
K., ot ktdiilhill, and packed up my wardrobe, a
which was very scantily supplied still; scanty s
though it was, 1 was obliged to leave it and f
sixty v.ilmncs of hooks behind mo. O N. and li
] met at Mr.'G's. house at 8 o'clock, I put on c
a sailor's jacket, and we walked at a quick a
pjice to the V. Y..steamer; lie look me T)ii g
board a?ul placed Hie in lii$ own berth, from t
r which he removed nie at d;ly break next morn- h
ing, to the platform of the engine rooin. At
7 o'clock he removed me thence to the fur- r
liace room, and placed me in a stove, which ; t
was locked upon me. 1 just fitted into it like i a
a monster pie in an dveii, and ccr.ainly rescm- }
bled a large black, begreased, bedaubed aui- v
inal about to undergo the process of baking. 1 o
had'becii io this domicile for the space Of an ti
hour, when O'N. unlocked the door of it, and }
with consternation pictured in- his face, he sta- l
ted that Mr. S. the other of the ship, had fl
consulted with him, and that tliey arrived at" h
the conclusion I would be suffocated if I re- a
mained in the stove,mid that as the police weie
about to commence'their customary search, I n
limst.go ashore. This was a mo>t appalling f
amiouncernont It was the 9th December, my p
liichd D. had his arrangements made in Mel- ! f
6oume for lruin.il
thence; my o\tn hbpesAvore. buoyed up to the'T
highest pitch of excitement?and all thus un- : si
V exik-ctedJy frustrated! There was no time, j I
however, to he lost, as (he police were prow- |
liq? about; 1 hid poor m good morning,' <
and sleppcU>on tlie wharf, Pondering at what i
had just pee uncd,,aud viewThg" ni y grotesque <
appearance in a sailor's uniform, scented with ; i
tar and grease, as I made my way through the i
black slums, I burst into loud laughter! But i <
what gloom, despoudenqp and sorrow pressed I
upon me a liltle* afterwards, as I beheld the ;
vessel with her steam up gliding down the , i
Tamer! . i
I uow-anxiouslv looked forward to the re- j
tuin of D. from Melbourne, and on the 17th | I
December' the Y. Y. iigain bore np the river; J .
and on hastening to the quay, I found my | j
friend coming ashore in a boat; 1 also saw j
O'N. busy about the deck. D. and 1 had a '
shoit interview and met by appointment that >
eveuing. We then arranged to see O'N. i cxt j'
day, and accordingly met irim, when, after a
brief conversation, it was resolved that I should ! <
again go on board the steamer at 8 o'clock on j!
Sunday night, as 1) o'clock on Monday even- j
iug, the 20th Decernl>cr, was fixed upon for the j
vessel sailing for Melbourne.; and live or die, |
f I should proceed in her. On Sundav, the LSlh, |
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o'clock he accompanied me to the- steamer,
when O'N. placed me in his berth, where 1 lay
until 4 o'clock, and was then removed to the
engine-room ; and at half-past 7 o'clock O'N.
led me through the furnace-room t<? the receptacle
used for holding the coals consumed hy
the furnaces. It was adjoining the furnaces,
but partitioned oil* with sheet iron, in the
centre of litis.was an aperture, or trap-door,
which opened into a cavity underneath. This
cavity, surrounded every where with bunting
flames, was selected as the apartment that 1
was to occupy in making my exit from the >
perfidiou: Denisi-n. The chances were gloomy
in the extreme. The danger to me of suffocation
was too apparent to poor O'N ., whilrt with j
quivering lips he hid me enter; for,
"There be things which we must dream anil dare,
And execute ere thought be half aware;"
and without further reticcliou I pushed forward
into the first chamber on hands and feet. O'N .
having foucd the trap door, he launched me i
into the cavern beneath it. lie then closed j
the trip door, and directly filled the entire j
space with coals. I was thus ciis-concec1 in a |
compartment about seven feet in length, three j
in width, and two in height, and hy its forma j
tion I was obliged to lie in a recumbent pos
..-o fr hnitiir lined mi nil ships with sheet !
LUlt. -w
iron", when the furnaces came to blaze in full i
Strength, the heat and want of air made the !
den very insupportable. I dreaded instant
death by suffocation or apoplexy. The ordeal,
too, was terribly tedious. After about an hour,
O'N., dreading fatal consequences, caused water
to be pumped into mv dungeon by means
of an opening in the ship's keel. I was then
f placed between the two great elements, lire J
and water?saturated from head to foot with
water, while lire raged all around me.
The police search occupied two hours, after
which O'N. opened the trap door, find helped
me into the coal reoess, from whence lie brought
me to the engine ronfm. I was greatly exhaust-J
ed, but soon rallied. '
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Thus ended the police search at Lauuccston ; |
but on reaching George's Town Heads, being ] [
40 miles down the river, O'N. informed mc that | r
I should again conceal myself in the same place j,
that I had just been in, as the sl-arch in George's j d
Town for prisone-s was even more rigorous j n
than at Launceston. The anticipation of the |(
sccon^life or death ordeal made me very un- p
comfortable, and I looked forward to it with |,
much anxiety. Having 'arrived. at George's (j
Town I' was again removed to the fiery dun- p
geon, where 1 was kept three hours, while e
search was made; and my escape was indeed a
very narrow, for the .place set apart for coal Ir
over my head was searched closely by the po- n
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On releasing me foul this purgatorial recess 0
a sccmid time, I was considerably weakened. Jf
On putting my head through the trap;door, it k,
closed half way upon me, and in a harried ef- gj
fort of poor O N. to disentangle me, I narrow- w
ly escaped. On regaining the engine-room, |1;
this fine Irhhrnau wept over- me like a fond parent,
as he cried out, "What do I care, now s|
that you are free ?" ^. w
1 was now again placed in ON.'s beith, to
where I remained from Monday evening till C{)
Wednesday at noon, when we reached Mel- re
liotirnc wharf. On arriving at Williiunstown hii
larlmr the previous night, there was- a strict j
inlice search; but 1 lay undiscovered in my ; p:i
jci tli. Immediately on castingMiichor at Mel- j cc
ituirne, on Wednesday, the 2'2d of Decern her, 1 sti
Messrs. J. L., B. and I).?three gentlemen who j |u.
,verc aware of my contemplated escape, came I th
iboard; and it was determined 1 should walk j w;
ishore just as I was dressed, in an old blue pr
rowscrs and check shirt, black and greasy, \V
Hid haggard as aiiy fireman could look. The I|
|uay was crowded with people, and amongst in
hem a large sprinkling of polios and detectives,
lorse and loot. My friends siepped ashore j 30
md Carelessly walked on. I followed in their |;li
teps, and in a few minutes ihey_ entered a Sa
riend's house, where I also entered. Alter rie
laving had a litile refreshment, my fiends pro- JM,
urcd a vehicle drawn by a line spirited horse; eo
nd myself and D.-, B. and L. drove off at a an
;allant rate to the mansion of .Mr. Michael h., tin
he brother-in-law of Mr. B., about four miles I \
icvond Meibourne. mi
My friends returned to Melbourne, and I jnt
emained at Mr. L's. during Wednesday night, at
he entire of Thursday and Thursday night, lcs
nd on Friday morning, the 24th December, co,
4r. I\ L'. and Mr. Kitz, of Melbourne, having w;:
isited and consulted with me on the previous cl:i
veiling, it was deemed advisable,.for my bet- hi
er security, to remove a long distance from -ir<
Melbourne to a secluded and remote part of j,u
be forest bordering On tlie sea-shore. A part
if Port Philip headland, on one of the solitary 0f
iwiehi s of riobsou's bay, was thereforeseleckd ; 22
s my rendezvous for the present. j pr
\err?rrliii<rl v. :it siv o'l-ln.'k on the mnrniiKT /!.
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f Friday, the 24th, an Irishman named Hill tin
). was chosen as my guide, and having been ijv
iresonted by Messrs. (J, and l'ilz with two
irfice of pistols and a supply of ammuuiti m, I '
niilc lo-ivi' lit my in-nerQiw f ru-Jt?.-r Im-outi. 1?
ul Sister, :*iiss GTaco, Mi\ L.., air. L/. aiul litz; j au
aid mounted, armed, and accompanied by Bill j. (
l)., entered upon inv journey. 'J'lie throng of
leasurable emotions which that morning glad- j
leijfRl my soul?the feeling of triumph at hav. |a|
ng, so Jar, baffled the luttilcss Deiiison?the
mthosiasiie and fond regard manifested towards j
ne by the hospitable inhabitants of Melhourne
?the cheering prospect before rue of final fine- ev
;ess in effecting my escape, and the consequent ;(|
mpe of hcing restored to the home of inv loVo, ,T
mil to a land of liberty?all these heart-stirring
reflections rushed so impetuously through
my brain, that I was almost bewildered with aj
joyous excitement. Hut yesterday, and I w as ^
the fettered slaw of the veriest wretch tint p
Fnglaod comprises in her hideous category of
[?etty tyrants? tt)
"Such a long power and ovorgorcd successs ;j|
Concentrates in all that's merciless."
And to-day, all but a manmniscd freeman! >u
The thought overwhelmed me with delight. vv
After many adventures and hair-breadth cs- ; ^
capes, he succeeds in lining the captain of the ; m
small cutter Oberon, then about to sail to the 0,
South Seas for tortoise shells, to convey him ' S(
to Taliiti, that island being under the protec- j (),
torate of the French. 'Tiny sailed Tuesday, ; \
Rth of February, and reached Tidiiti the 3d of j \\
April. During-the last three d ijs of the vov- i e,
age they suffered much for want of water, un- I m
til relieved on the third day by jhe commander 0,
of the barque Sarah Hooper, an Amciican ves I
sel, bound Iro in San Francisco to Sydney.
Upon lauding O'Donohue eoiitiimes: " I j ('
went ashore, and waited on Capt. Kellv, the ti
American Consulate, at his private residence. ' a
1 stated to him the particular circumstances in 'J
which 1 was placed,?satisfied him of my ei
identity as one of the Irish rebels of 1848? ti
and requested that he would afford me the pro-! e
tevtion of the American flag. He received d
uie with great urbanity, and without hesitation gi
placed me under the protection of his flag, and 0
of llie American government, so far as he was M
empowered to do so by virtue of hisoflice. lie |,
informed rue that there was a British Consul, ,\
Mr. .Miller, residing at 'lahili, and, to avoid 8
collision, he advised that 1 should remain in- h
roynito during my stay at Tahiti. j gi
1 had, since leaving Van Dieman's land, as- a
sinned the soubriquet of John Thompson, and j.
(Jqit. Kelly now deemed it prudent that I <.
should continue to use my assumed name, j
There were thirteen vessels lying at anchor,
two or three bound for American ports, by way s
- i ? .1 I:I. i.. 1 :i
Ol lioril?UIII none > mnn imnv idmiii j(
for snme months, and Capt. Kelly iiifoniii'd me "c
that it was necessary I should obtain a passport
from the French Citinmissiiiat of Police,
authorizing ine to remain ashore. He accord- v
ingly wrote a letter to the proper authorities I j(
on my behalf, and making himself responsi-1 v
ble for me, uj)on the presentation of which 1 j {
was furnished with the necessary passport. ?
Capt Kelly apologized for not heing able (o
accommodate me at his establishment during j
my stay at Tahiti, but every room was ocru- I (
pied by American captains of vessels in harbor
, however, he sent for the proprietor of the
Washington Hotel, and gave me in charge to ?
him, with strict injunctions to make me com- t
lortahlc. I bis courteous and kind reception
by the representative of the American govern-' <
incut inspired me with new confidence. I I
It was now one hundred and five days since
escaped from Lnuiiceston, during which pe
iod 1 had suffered great privations, and the
itonse heal of the climate of Tahiti soon pro
uced a sensible change for the worse in my
'eneral health ; languor, extreme del/dity and
jss of appetite rendered me quite prostrated,
lesides, my anxiety was not altogether allayed
ecause in the event of the British Consul get
ng information respecting my identity, it wat
robahie lie would call upon the French Gov.
rnor of the Island to place me under arrest;
nd, hi such case, it was dillicult to see what
light- be-llie consequence. It is true I iiatl
iv gallant friend, Capt. Keljy, to shield me;
:ill the question would in all probability have
ecnpied a good deal of negotiation between
Ingluud and France, and meanwhile I might
live been detained in custody. These conderations
weighed heavily upon me, and I
istliil|y gazed every sail that entered the
irbor, in the hope of speedy relief.
At length the .bark Otrauto, an American
lip, Capt. Kcndrick, cast betappJior. She
as on trading voyage jfranciscn
' the Society islands, unc^nod iuostT of her
-rgo of orarfg'es, pigs, goats "and cocoa-nuts alady
on board. She was not five minutes in
irbor, when Capt. Kelly sent a confidential
ntleman, Mr. Adams, on board to secure a
issage fur ine to San Francisco, which lie acirdingly
obtained, although the vessel had
ill to touch at two other islands to complete
r cargo. Capt. Kcndrick sailed for one of
esc islands (Emio) on the 19th April. It
is only twenty-five miles distant, and he
omised to return for me. Accordingly, on
ednesday, the 27th April, he returned, and
eft Tahiti and crossed over with the captain
a whale boat.
We s tiled in the Otranto from Emio on the.
ih of April, and after touching another is
nl, where we were detained two days, we
iicd direct for San Francisco. We were carid
a considerable distance to the westward,
d to the leeward of the Sandwich Island-,
n?{quciit!y our voyage was tedious, calms
d head winds having prevailed. After putig
to sea 1 disclosed to C'apt. Ivendrick who
va*, and lie treated me with kind attention ;
r provisions being short, we should have put
o the harbor of Honolulu ; but I lie captain
my instance and request, declined to do so,
>t I should^run further hazard, as a British
nsul is resident there, and a British man-ofir
generally lying at anchor. Capt. Kenick
is a native American, and grandson of an
slirnau who emigrated during the rcvolutiony
war, and took part therein. He is a genutrue-hearted
republican.
After a dreary voyage T readied the free soil
the western republic, on Wednesday, the
il.ol June. 1853, with a light heart and in
i feet health, after having heeti altogether 185
ys in effecting tny escape, compiitiiig froni
,'dav I left \ jui I)iemanU.Land until I tired
at San Fraircisco.
Industry is Talkxt.?We often hear perother
fails in the same pursuit, hy nttribu
ig to one a talent for his l?u-iness. but refuig
It to the other. Yet, without tliat some
dividual* have a greater aptitude for parlicur
avocations tliap others have, we think that
e problem in question could beteasier solved
saying, that the successful man was indusions,
wliile the other was not. Hulwor, for
ample, is considered a man of the highest
ii!ities as a novelist. Yet when Htilwer belli
his career, he composed wjth the utmost
llieulty, very often writing lii.s fictions twice
'or. IJe persevered, however, and now stands
most at the head of his class, his latest pro*
ictions, moreover, being regarded as the best
inn his pen. Every school-boy is familiar
ith the fact that Demosthenes became an orar
only by pursuing a similar plan. Nor are
iistruiions of the great truth, that industry is
lent, coi.fined to the higher intellectual purlits.
When (Jirard trusted the customer,
ithout an endorser, who carried his goods
me on his shoulders, the shrewd old Frenchall
was acting on this truth,deduced from his
>vn experience of mankind. All eminent perms,
whether mechanics, merchants, lawyers,
statesmen, were iinluctiious, from Watt and
orris down to Tlmrlow and William Pitt.?
I'a-hington, Franklin, .Marshall,Madison, and
/cry other distinguished American, were, lnisy
icn. Industry, in short, is talent nine times
at of ten
Scotch Morals.? In the British House of
ominous on the 22d nil., the bill fur regidaug
licences for public houses in Scotland ocisioiicd
a discussion, with awful statements,
'hat country wascmphatically called a "drunk?"
one, its statistics of potation and iutoxica
un lieiiig matchless. The Lord Advocate proI
aimed that the evil against which the hill was
irected was "the National sin of Scotland, a
in which overshadowed all other-social evils
f the country."' Mr. Hume said that lie would
eadily vole for 'lie introduction of the Maine
liquor law?which excited "great laughter."
Ir. Henry Drummond affirmed that every
atiirday night thirty thousand men got, drunk
i (ila>gow, and lay in a perfect state of insenibility
until Monday iiioriiing. We might add
large or small proportion of the fair si xe It
;sai(l that a Scottish preacher designated al
ohol as Satan's blood.
A Lad ok Promisk.? "Nehemiah, my love,"
aid. Mrs. Wilkins to her first born, who wa?
ust entering his twelfth year, "what has he
nine of your Sunday pautloons ?"'
"1 swapped 'em away, mother, for a hook."
"f . i - i "
"i am ueugnieu, inv son, in mm vnii sn ut
nled tn study. Not Cor twenty pair of pantnous
would I baulk t lie bent, of genius. Hut
vhat bonk do you find so irrcsistably attrac
ive my deaHmy ?, 'Pilgrim's Progress,'or tin
Whole Duty of Man?"'
No, ma'am, it wasn't zaclv that, but some'
hing of the same nature; it was tlie 'Whole art
if Itoxing.'"
'Von Platter,' me," said an exquisite tin
ther day, to a young lady who was praising
lie beauties of bis moustache.
"For heaven's, sake. ma'am," interposed an In
liana lioosier, "don't make tli.it chap any/"'
rr llinv he is now /''
: ".Education : A Dcl>t Due from JPr
eaat to Future Generation**"
We copy from the New Era (Guldsboro,
C.,) the following most excellent nriiclc u|
tne subject of education. All that' we 11
.say is that every remark applies to tliislatit
1 as well as to that of North Carolina.
Railroads and mines, rising towns and
proved farms, are each in their turn receiv
due attention. Nor are county Societies ;
Slate Fairs, Circuses and musical troups,
i behind the curtain. The man of pleasure 1
the utilitarian have each his appropriate thei
' and freely and steadily does he descant iif
! it. This, we admit, is all right, lint wl
we would have all these things (circuses
; eeptcd) properly and prudently attended
! we would never forget, as the golden suhj
j of all our thoughts, the Comnion Schools
; North Carolina.
No thinking innn can fail to perci'ivc I
1 beauty and force of the exalted sentiment
I the head of this article. It is a maxim, 01
j uttered by the celebrated (Jon. Peabody, \vh
| ought to bo written on tables of stone, with p<
i of adamant. "Education: a debt due fr<
I present to future generations!" How, friei
[ ly reader, shall this debt be paid ? The w
j to pay it is clear, but the will, we fear, is wa
j ing. Our Common Schools, the only agei
j by which we can discharge this honorable de
I lie almost neglected and forgotten. Now a
1 again, it is true, we can hear the voico of soi
good man raise itself above the din and claim
of the giddy masses, and earnestly plead t
caase of education; then, again, it dies up
(lie ear, and the greatest of all subjects i3' f
gotten. In this way noUdng good will lie i
complisbed. Too much time lias already be
wasted in moody deliberation on this subjc
Nothing, as yet, worthy of notice has be
done. Our Common Schools arc far behind t
age. Our teachers are uneducated and bat
paid, and our children are growing up in
uoraiicc. To remedy this evil i* no hard tni
i ? ?- i .L..? r ,1 :11
anu we ut) nope uiai rcuivuj win mu i?j>wu
applied.
As good old Edgconibe is about to take t
Ie.id in everything that is honorable, so, '
learn she is going to set the example in tli
by placing her Common Schools on a pern
nent and proper basis. She is at this tiinen
tilling the question oflevying a school tax tl
will afford to every man within her horde
the means of educating his children. In tl
she does well, and when it is done,the orph;
the widow, and the poor man,, will bless h
and, in less than two years, every county
North Carolina will be constrained to Iblh
such a bright example.
The Common Schools of the country shot
he in operation at least forty weeks out of fifl
two, in each year. And if, perchance, the i
fortunate children of some poor men could r
attend so long, yet the neighborhood seht
ought never, during this period, to be clost
We believe that Edgecombe is endeavoring
secure such a state of things as this. Edj
combe already renowned for her fine farn
proper system of peimaucnt schools, where I
children and youth wHl receive instruction.
Lot her persist in this matter until she I:
achieved a conquest, and what son of hoi
may we ask, will obstruct her progress.
'In sustaining bur Common Schools, wl
else are we doing, but sustaining our own cl
dren?building our own house, sweeping a
making cheerful our own fireside! We ;
driving ignorance-and vice far away from
1 ni.inn unit inlpllicrpimn the rich
aim minting hiiuv ?..??? ...v..,-.
heritance of our sons and daughters. '1\\
paying of a small annual tax, to secure and p
pagate the blessings of general education, lit
or but few men of wealth, will object. A
where such arc found, it is not because of 1
amount to be paid, but because it comes
them as some liing new or unexpected, a
therefore unnecessary. IJut the poor nia
child is a chief object of concern, in no St
or county perhaps, is education at a lower c
among the working classes, than in North (
rolinn. In this respect, they hang as an in
bus upon the literary character of our State
fact clearly deducible from the last census
port. North Carolina has produced, in p
portion to her population as many "great int
as any other State in the Union, and yet I
more persons within her borders, in the sa
proportion, unable to read and write than ;
other State, old or young, in the Union.
Is not this humiliating? And, is it 1
strange that while our good people arc able.";
willing to pay the enormous sum of SGOO.O
(six hundred thousand dollars) annually,
imported liquors, that cannot possibly.do :
good, they cannot, or rather seem unwilling
raise ^100,000 (one hundred thousand dolla
for educational, purpose? This unfortun
state of things clearly exists, but it is no h
matter to remove it, for our people, wl
taught what is"right, wo sincerely believe,
sure to practice it.
We see that the expediency of levying
school tax in Kdgecotnbe is now undergoin
strict investigation at the hands of the pen)
We invoke tliem, by their patriotism and a|
cultural lame, by (lie love which they bi
?i .1... ,i... t.: .u ? ?i.:t i.
til HI UH5 UUIJ UIIIUN illij I" till II Ulllivn
by tlie philanthropy of Washington and
brij?lit exaiiiplo oi himself and all his suet
sors, as scholars and patrons of education,
raise the standard of their Common Sola
high?so high that every county in the St
i may read the inscription, and adopt it as tl
own.
Salkuatus.? Salcratus is said to be inj
> ons to {lie human system, and that it dostr
thousands of children and some adults ev
year. In New lit imswick, contiguous
Maine, the physicians are wont to say thai I
the children are killed bv the use of salera
, The evil is last spreading throughout
l. uion, Families of moderate size already
from ten to twenty live pounds yearly.
^ Remarks of the New Enylitml J'armet
Storekeepers -who have been engaged in
business for many years, ha\^ told us that
merly they used to purchase three or four sn
; kegs of salcratus for a years supply iu a ei
try village, but that now they purchase m
than as many large cases, weighing six or ei
hundred pound each. Largo quantities
used in making bread, tbo most common f<
es- and or winch all partake. Milk shoultbtnke its
place there. Many persons are in the habit oi
^ adding a little saleratus to most kinds of pastl>ou
ry' are hielined o believe the remarks
eecj quiled above have much truth in them; We
uje do not lui?w how far the power of s'alcratus
may Ire neutralized by a mixture pf other suj>.
jm> stances used as food, but it may be kmjwn to
jI(? the chemist, and should be explained to the
ind P^P'V- . - . ; left
hat is saleratus ? W.ood is burnt to allies,
md ?ashes are lixiviated?lye js the result. Lye
ne is evaporated by boiling?black salts Tire the
1on' rcsidum. The salts undergo a purification by
lile ^,e? an(^ *'ie Potash of commerce is obtained.
x I By another process we change the potash into
pearl.tsh. Now put this into disks and place
ec[ tlicin over a dislilery wash tub. where ihe fur0I*
mentation evolves carbonic acid gas, and the
pearlasb absorbs and renders it solid, the protj
G duct being heavier, dryer and whiter, than the
nnfirhiuli If ic iiimu oilmmhia I l<uu mm*lt
, at I K""*" " ??? ijwr. .iiuv..
,ce salts of lye and careonic acid can a human
ich j stom!l<-'h boar and remain healthy, is a question
I for the sulcratus eaters'.
,(|. Psycoloi;} and SpiriMial Rappers.
ay The Southern Patriot iii -commenting upon
nt- an article from Professor Faraday, on the subits
ject of table moving, published in the National
bt, liitelligenccr,"says:
nd "Many years ago, we remember to have
me seen hi* Honor Chancellor Dargan perforin
uir i some very extraordinary experiments. Lately
he be has been most sucoe-sfd 11Y psychology.?
on Whilst holding court the other day, at Auderor
son, he performed some experiments inN the
ic- family of Judge Whitney, as remarkable as
en anything the spirit rappers have attemptd.?
ret. He gave^a little son of the Judge's 2 dollar
cn to look at for ten or fifteen minutes', and then
he muciiea a nerve passing irom me uanci to me
fly shoulder, making sundry manipulations, and
ijj- closed the little fellow's eyes. The Chancel4tf!
lor then said to him. 'You cannot open your
ily eyes,' and he could not, with all the efforts
he was capable of making. From that mohe
m.-nt, the little son became entirely subject to
i\e the Chancellor's will, supposed his hand was
lis, wood, and permitted it to be touched by the
ia- knife, without Uinching! He believed himself
gi. anyone, and would personate any one willed
iat by the Chancellor. Many most extraordinary
rs, things were done. But at length the Chancelhis
lor said to him, Elian, I w ill now take- off the
in, influence to which you have been subjected,
er, but when I will it return, you must obey me
in again.' The next morning he reminded Elias
>\v of what had been said, and shipped his hands
commanding him to return to the -situ.-tiioa-in
ild which he was the preceding evening. No
ty- sooner said than done. Elias became again
in- the subject of the Chancellor, and believed,
lot felt and acted as willed by bis Honor. Many
iol ludicrous things transpired, which ive will nut
jd. report. When the charm was taken, off each
to time, Elias, could uot believe that he had acted
je- as he was informed he had. lie had no conns,
ciousness whatever of hik action.
ier~ markuoie'experiments niaile by him on a serZ
vant J>oy which lie has. They are equally
ias marvellous wiih^any of the experiments of the
's, Misses Fox, and very nearly of kin to them.?
After placing the servant- in a psychological
iat stale, he requested him to call up old aunt
nil Pliillis, who had been dead some time. * The
nd- boy did so, and said he saw her, that she looked
J .1.1 I J I ! .1 I _
ire very beautilul, unci saia sue was periecuy napus,
py. He was then told to ask her to show herin
self to him in Heavenly dress. Instantly the
the hoy expressed himsell'aniazed at the beauty and
ro-. splendor of .aunt, 1,'hillis's dress. He said it
inc was all spangled over with yold, and that she
nd wore a crown and "old slippers.*
the The boy was then directed to call up a serin
vant who bad been supposed to be murdered,
md The boy bowed, and said uncle Sain was ben's
fore him. lie was requested to enquire how
ate be died. Uncle Sam said he had been mur'bb
dered and thrown into a ditch ! He was asked
2a- who killed him, and lie refused to tell. .The
cu- question was put to liiin again, and again, and
a he was asked why he would not tell if he
re- knew. His reply was that it would be wrong
ro- to tell; that lie was happy, and did not w ish
:n" any one to punished for his death !
lias Again, the boy was requested 'to call for .a
me servant who was dead, and whom be bad nevmy
er seen, but who was well known by the Chancellor.
He said there was some negro, a strange
not looking fellow, had answered his call, but who
md seemed shy of him, and who appeared'to be
00, unhappy, lie described the negro exactly, as
for be was remembered by those who knew hiin
my with one leg and arm crooked, .and walking
to hideously! He was told to ask this poor loirs,)
low it lie was happy. The reply was that he
ate was n?t happy, but sulfating very much, hi
ard life be was a bad fellow. The boy was told
lien to ask the reason of his not being happy, and
aie be replied 'lie had sinned against God.'
When this boy was restored to bis proper
t a state, be remembered not one woul of what lie
g a* bad said or done! He was n simple, good
pie. follow, and could not have practiced a trick
ijri. on the Chancellor, if he could have been dis ar,
posed. He had not sense and cunning enough
en, to do so. Moreover, lie was unwilling to bo
lilt? j'UO III IIIIO iu\ Dllivi IV Ul I Cj Viiviv^.v... W......
;os- Ilow then do wc account for these strange
to experiments? It is simply this: The subject
nils is in the power of the operator and obedient
ate to his will. He sees, as the operator sees, and
icir feels, as he feels and thinks, as lie thinks. Chancellor
Dargan pietuied to his own mind the
Heavenly dress; the peculiar form of the hrotiri
ken legged boy, and knew lie was a bad fellow,
nys He thought he ought not 10 he happy, and he
cry knew that I'hillis ought to be. In this way, all
to the answers were given. Hut this is strange
ball* and most wonderful, that one human mind
tus. should have such power over another. The
the power of the magnet is equally strange, in
use pointing to the north pole, and equally strange
is the power of attraction, and falling'of an
apple to the ground; and not one whit more
the strange are the taldc movings."
for- -
mil "Which, my dear lady, do you think the
mil- merriest place in the world?" "That inline
lore diately above the atmosphere that surround:
iglil the earth, 1 should lliink." "And why so?"?
are "llecause 1 am told that there all bodies Ies<
>od, their gravity."
i - lite Jt-ever 111 ncw?uijeai?.
F We notice in the New-York- JUerpjii of. the
5lh a letter fcqitt a coinmiUcc.appointed by-tlior
! Howard" Association, a /charitable society i t
: .New-Orleans, appointed for. the pu.p<.?se<?f -solimiting
subscriptions in behalf of their<iii8*Utti>.
tioD. The letter says, the fevcr^hus become ^
i epidemic, and is more npilignanl in type than
ever before known, the deaths being fully sevcnty
per cent of all that are attacked. The
members of this association are most active in
their personal exertions to relieve the suffering
and -the dying, ITut their means are becoming ' J
exhausted. The sum appropriated by the" City Council
is already, gone, and they now-Tely
upon the charitable to aid them in-their noble
work. ,
Accompanying the above, is a letter received
by the Rev- Dr. Hawks,- which gives a vivid picture
of the sickness', distress and suffering
in that community which we subjoin.
Extract of a letter to Dr. Hawks, from one
of the EoiscnpaJLclergy in New Orleans dated
July 27, 1853:
" Ere this, no doubt, you have received no
tree of a'resolution passed l?y the Howard Association,
requesting your--help." 1 feel confdent
that you will do all you win, and there- # c
fore shall not iuge you, Imfwill give yog
true state and condition of affairs._ Others. !
may endeavor to,smake peofJe abroad believe '
there is no danger, whild there<is really at this
moment raging one Of the most fearful .epfdemits
that was ever kuowtir. 'ftie fever is of
a frightful type, nearly overy case blacic foiTtit
in eg!.tor ten hours, i.f.er Cie attack, and .the
mortality'is unprecedented. Dr. L., who, you
know, is one of the most eminent) oi ourpbysi- ;
cians, told me,'.this day, fliat there-\?ere- more- *
deaths than he ever knew at'ariy'olhgr period,
and the suffering exceeds anythingl^iave. eV*r* . .
ivii nr><c<>rt I hnro tlii* fnri v.fniir
) persons sick with the fever, and by-fo-morroW'
| do not expfcet io find ten of thein irljtfe. JLam ;
I going from house to house, front one scene of
j the .most appalling Wretchedness only to. see*
I another worse, if that be possible, than'the.I
last. D.vath is- all around--me, in -his^tnorfT
j frightful form?yet my dtry is"a plain one, not
' only to preach the gospel, hdt to help bddijy
! the pfior stiffl-rer wtib hasmo friend; My dear
friend, for God's sake help as. Get'.what you
! canj and remit it to me for the Howard Assa-ciation,
(you know all about'it, Tor you 'are ft
memher,) and the poor will'bless you. This
morning I went to a lonely little hut, and there %
found the father dead, the mother hugging her
i hube, only lour-'dnys old, to her breast, striving
to nurse it, while the black vomit-was actually7
streaming from her mouth. Sucb.are the objects
for which 1 plead. The mother is since*
dead, the babe is alive, I took it and.got .it
! black woman to be.its mother; not one ceift ? *
| had these people. My friend, I cpuld give you
I a great many similar cases of suffering, hut I *
! forbear : you will, I know, help us to help these r
i poor dying creatures."
! As a very large number of the parishoners
I of the Calvary Church are now absent fi-om^ >'
Ibqueti-s, jiinJum tins meet their >.ye, that hiey
j would Temii to him such sums ns their benev-.
! ol>Mice may prompt them to bestow, to be-eout
without delay to the Howard Association of
New Orleans - *' .
The New Orleans Picayune says it isfre- '
quently asked, in what consists the duty of ft
member of the Howard Association^ and in
w hat manner the relief, is applied to applicants."
It is briefly this:?the members are detailed.
for duty in their respective districts. It is the
duty of a member to patrol his district an4
search out the' sick, by entering every hovel
where disease is likely to be fouhjd,-and by giv?
ing timely relief to stay its progress. If the
patient can be removed with safety, he is put
into a cab and sent to the hospital; if not the
ii .j _ u-r..?
piiysicmn IS caiieu,_li iiunse, 11 iutjuucu,.iii lui-nished
and the prescriptions prdcured and applied
by the member, who visits the patient at
least twice a da)'. Sould the patient have a
family, and have his home and.nothing .from
its locality to prejudice a rec'ovcry, he js permitted
to remain; and when, as is jnost, fre-,
quently the case his daily labor is their sup* *
port and maintainance, his family are supplied
with provisions until lie is restored to usefulness.
Frkskrvinq Fruit.?Take the fruit to be
to be - preserved, and add as much sugar as if
for present use, then stew it precisely like,$mice
for the table, and after it is done put it boiling,
hot, into bottles, which must be corked apd
sealed tightly, ilt Older to exclude all airafter
this has been done, ]daoe the bottle in the cellar,
or in any other cool-place,wid the fruit
one year I'roiu that time put i>p, cannot be distinguished
by taste from fresh and new sauce.
The bottles, before putting the fruit in them,
must be heated to the boiling point, by placing
them in cold water which must be brought to
*212 degrees over a slow fire.
'I his method of preserving fruits is preferable
for many reasons. It is less laborious and
more economical, as it takes no more labor or
more sugar than the common sauce intended
for immediate use.
'* I!? n|| Liinl, < r fi-iiils Tim tvi-Ifpp
II ;ij'|iiUO ku kill nmuii vi <> ? .. .
of this has had on his table, at New Year,
peaches, grapes, plumbs, gooseberries &c-, nil
as fresh and nice as when put up .?Bailor
Xcwxpnpcr.
Arc you hind to your mother ? Who guarded
you in health, and comforted you when ill?
Who hung over your little bed when you wero
fretful, and put the cooling draught to your
parched lips? Who taught you how to pray,
and gently helped you to learn to read? Who
has borne with your fault?, and been kind and
patient in your childish ways? Who loves
you still, and who contrives and works and
prays for you everyday you live? Is it not
your mother, your own dear mother? Now
let me ask you : "Are you kind to that moth;
er?"
A young physician asking permbsion of a
lass to ki>s, her, she replied, "No, sir, ] never
like a doctor s bill stuck in my face."'
3 "A (Jentleman," it is announced, "is one
- who promptly pays lor his newspaper." What
? truth and simplicity ! How-brief, >? d yet how
complete!
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