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We arc toh-i that when that illustrious orator and stalesuiftF 8ftw the books which composed his precioii: private library, fairly arranged in the apait meat which he had provided for them, in hi< villa at Antiurn,?he wrote to his friend Atti chs : "Pottea vcro quam Turannio nuAt lihroi dixposuit, men* addita vidctnr vicis ceJibus.' "Mow that my books have been put in theii places by your learned Greek, Tyrannic, a Sou seems to have been added to my dwelling." And our own American Cicero is at this mo ment at your side, sir,?prepared to receive these keys from your hand, iu behalf of tht Trustees over whom he so fitly presides ; and under his auspices, and with the aid of his asso rintoa if. ia l>n,-rllir livn I. o.... - I... Jog, breathing, imperishable soul will have <been infused into this now merely material structure. Yes, my friends, within these walls j- thall soon he gathered,?not merely the migliey masters of philosophy and rhetoric, of liis * ... / .tory aud poetry, whom the Roman Cicero re cognized and revereuccd as introducing a soul \ < inio his dwelling,?hut the great light* of all \ " ages, the wise and learned of all climes,?atul ' .those, especially, who have adorned a civiliza tion, and vindicated a liberlv, and illustrated t Christianity whicb that Cicero never conceivei V;.. . of, shall be congregated around them, lien yi . poou shall many a waiting heart be kindled in .to something of the exultation of that good oh Jtiisuop otjNorwich, when he exclaimed, on l!i< eight of a great library?"What a happiness i: it, that without all olfence of necromancy, J may here call up any of the ancient wortliiet -of learning, whether human or divine, and eon V for with them of all my doubts!?that 1 can a ;'v. pleasure summon up whole syuodsof reverent fathers and acute doctors, from all the coasts o <he earth, to give their well studied judgment n -on all points and questions which 1 may pro pose!" * . f-' And not the reverend fathers and acute doc tors only shall answer to our call;?but hen .'4 also the Poets of all ages shall be ever readj to ting to us their choicest strains;?the Drum - atists ol ail ages to rehearse to us their richer scenes of wit or woe;?Orators of all ages t< V _ recite to us the triumphant argument, or tin ,, thrilliiog appeal, which may have shakeu em ft.' pires from their base, or chaugad the current o the world's affairs. Here, too, ihe practica W&.S Inventor and ingeuious Mechanic shall exhibi v V* to us htospecifications, his plans, aud his draw ijngs. Hera the great Interpreters of flatun jjiv' taball unfold to us the mechanism of tlie lieav -ens, the testimony of the Uock and the marvel 2?.-' ' > land 'mysteries of animal and vegetable life vffll8re.the glowing pictures of fiction aud fanej '{4 : ehall pats and repass before our vision, beneati the magic wand of a Scott* a Dickens, or i Cooper^?the living portraits of Sages au< . PatrioU, of other lands and" of our own land fee displayed to us by a OuuoVor a BrdugUaul geCK' a Carlyle or a Campbell, a Sparks, or an Irving {Eifrt . ?nH >.? o-r?nHnr ninorainu nf .. ' unrolled for us by a Gibbon -or a Gioie, i g?: Hum* or.t li*caulftj^ a Bancroft, a I'rwuoit o py'X "'J 1 . ' V *&s? J?Ha*?i*o* va. Wisdikotoi*.?In' reference t< ?$W' A"**'0139 ,hft^ kave been raised by. tbe lat I'V J',. jfolanje published by John C. 'Hamilton, th ^fP ->!Peter#bnrg (V*.) Expres* ?ay'g: , "'Vlutfus matter of the Faro Well Add re* I whieh i? claimed for Harai 1 ton, upon "grouud a?ib I ?th ar\. areset up id otliercaaea ? ^m-WMpuUA <tuthor?hip,it u time. we think, the Dili'/i, (hn traA-fiiifat'. ihnalii/lu liMiMkf ?W < k.'in H The twice Hangod. id [translated from tiie krench.] I Have only to state that at the moment when the tale I ain about to tell commences IC ! it is noon, in the French town of La Pi rot-lie h that the month is May, and the year 1418 Two men one older than the other, one the father and the other the son, both peasants ? are jogging along the road into tfoe town mounted on a couple of ponies", which trot ' at a pace sufficiently agreeable, considering they are only ponies bestrode by peasants. > "Shall we get there in time ?" asked the r son. i '"Yes; won't take place before two o,clock,'' 0 answered the father, "and it is only a quar[j ter past noon, by the sun." D /It is what I am very curious to see." ul i ? U a unvu iiu uuui'L )UU iirU. 0 "And so lie is to bo hung iu the armor he stole "Yes." "Was the armor handsome ?" "Magnificient, they say, embossed all over with gold." "And he was caught as he was making away with it ?" "Yes ; you can comprehend that the armor was not to be carried oil* without making a horrible clanking and rattling. The people in the chateau were awakened by the " > J .. ? .V. ) "And (hey arrested tlie fellow ?" I "Not immediately ; they were in a fright ) xt first." J "Afraid of whom ) ' Of a ghost. This wretched tliief ofun. coinmo)i strength, held the armor in front of him, in such a way that lii.> head was at . ahout the level of the waist of tho said ar! mor, so that il appeared to Ins of gigantic proportions in the corridor along which he 1 j passed. Add to that a harsh noise which the cunning rascal made behind him, and you can fancy what a terror the valets were in. Unfortunately for him, they went and aroused ttie Seigneur of La 1'iroclie, who cares a straw for no matt, either living or ' dead, who simply, and without anyone's assistance, stopped the thief, and delivered hint up, hound hand and foot, to his own . proper justice*" "And liisown proper justice?" f J'Condemed him to ho hanged, clad in f the armor." 'Wherefore that clause in the sentence?" t, ' Because the Seigneur of La Piroche is not only a brave captain, but a mat) of sense i and spirit, who wants to obtain from this j just condemnation both an example front i others and a benefit for himself. Well, don't 1 you know that whatever lias touched a hani ged man becomes a talisman for its posses\ sor? Tlia Seigneur of La Piroche, there fore, ordered the criminal to be clad in his | armor, that he might take it back again after he was dead, and so have a talisman in " our coming wars." i . "That's a very clever stroke." 1 "T rl.~..IJ . Vii jl ouuuiu liiilllv au IIIUCUU"Let us push on then ; for I particnlarly | want to see this poor wretch hanged." , The father ami son continued their journey, chatting as they went, and half an-hourafierwards they reached La Piroche. There I was an immense concourse of people in tlie t grand square in front of the ch?teon, for there the scaffold was erected?a very J handsome gallows, in truth, made of superb j oak wood. The two companions got as j near as possible to the scaffold, in order to i lose nothing of the events that were about * to take place; and like everybody else, they j awaited the spectacle, with the advantage ^ of being mounted on pony-back, and of see1 ing better, with less fatigue. Their sus1 pense was not of long duration. > At a quarter to two the gate of the chateau was opened, and the condemned man a appeared, preced by the gnards of the Seigneur of La Piroche, and followed by the t executioner. The tbief was in the armor ^ lie had stolen, and was riding backwards . on an ass without a saddle. His visor was f * J down, and he bung his head. He was'led t close to the scaffold, and a picture that must ' have been anything but agreeable to his ' feelings began to l>c sketched in upon the j azure Da^k grounds. , t r The hangman bad just set bis ladder | leaning against the gallows, and the chapi lian ot Seigneur La Piroche, monrtted on a ?; platform purposely prepared, waA reading | the sentence. The condemned man did * not stir. You would have said that b e Li V *r bad played the spectators the scurvy trick dying before there vr*stime to haoghiin vney called out to hiih to' get off bia wa s-- and give himself ,uj> to the bangmao.^ He ? did not budge an inch. We can understand >, bia hesitation. ^Eheo the hangman seized him by elbows, lifted hicn off tba ass's back, it; and set him down"upright pn tb^gr<^dd', 2 Svjwh? w> ?y r, right, wojip^fc.l6j44Ui../ $i?'.w?' ?teH During the change of the attitude, the chaplain had finished reading the aentenci*. ^ "Have you any request to make?" he in, quired of the patient. "Yes," replied the wretched man, in a sorrowful and scarcely audible voice. ! "What is it?" / 1 "I request my pardon I" , I do not know whether the joke was invented on that occasion, but then or never was the time to conceive and utter it. The Seigneur of La Piroche shrugged his shoulders, and ordered the hangman to do his office. That official personage prepared to mount the ladder, leaning against the gibbet, which, impassable, with out-stretched arm, was about to tear a soul out of a li v 'ng body, and he tried to make the criminal mount before him ; but the thing was not easy, It is scarcely credible what an amount of difficulties condemned men in general make. The executioner and his present client appeared to be engaged in a contest of politeness. The point at issue was, who nhould go first. The hangman, to make him mount the ladder, had recourse to the same means which he had employed to make hint gut ofT the ass; he took him by the waist, set him on the third stave of the ladder, aud then pushed him up behind. ''BravoP shouted tlie crowd. There was no help for it, except to mount. Then the executioner adriotlv slipped round llie patient's neck the Tuning noose which ornamented the end of tlie rope, and giving him a violent kick in the back, sent him swinging into open space. An immense clamor followed this expected scene, and a shudder ran throughout the crowd. Qt whatever crime lie may be guilt)*, a dying man is always, for an instant greater than those who come to see him die. The hanged man swung two or three minutes at the end of his rope, as he had right, to do. kicked, writhed, and then remained motionless and stiff. They stared a few minutes longer at the ! sufferer, whoso gilded armor glittered in the sun shine ; the spectators gradually formed into group's, and then went their several ways homewards, discoursing on the ItllU UtlMIL. Tlie next morning, at break of day, a couple of guards walked out of the chateau La l'iroclie, to take down the bod)' of the criminal, and to strip itof the armor belonging to their lord ; but they found what they were very far from expecting?namely, that the gallows and the rope still remained in heir plac es, but that the hanged man was nowhere to be seen. The two cruards rub bed their eyes, doubt whether they were dreafning or not ; but sticli was the fact. No body, and as natural conscquenc.es, no armor. The most extraordinary circumstances was, that the rope was neither broken nor cut, but exactly in the state in which it was before receiving the criminal. The guard went to anounce the news to the Seigneur of La Piroehe. lie would not believe them, but insisted on ascertaining the truth with his own eyes. So puis sant was this same Suigneur, that he fell assured the l>o<ly would be found ia its place, in obedience to his wishes; but he only saw what the others had seen. What had become of the dead man? For the condemned thief was certainly dead the day before, as the whole population had beheld with their eyes. Ilad another thief taken advantage of the night to take possession of the armor which covered the body ? Perhaps so ; but, while taking the armor, he would evidently have left the body, for which he had no occasion. Had the friends or relations of the sufferer determined to give him Christian burial ? The case was far from impossible, except that the sufferer had neithei friends nor relations; and people acting under religious motives would have taken the body and left the armor. That supposition, therefore, was not to be entertained. What,*then, were they to sup 4 JJUMJ f The Suigneur of La Piroche was in dispair! IIo was mad about his suit of armor. Ho offered a reward often golden crowns to whosoever would deliver up the criminal attired as he was at the time of his death. They sear ched the Louses; nothing was lound. Wobody came to claim the reward . They sent for a learned man from the city of Bennes, and put this question to him ; 'How can a man who is banged to death contrive to escape from the rope which jbusv pendsliim in the air by the neck!" 4 ' * The wise man demaned a week's time to . thirtk thei matter over. At the en^ of the week, he replied,uHe cannot manage it.w ' Thftri they put a-aeoond question : "Can i. a thief; who did not succeed in- a fbeTt du-, ??& y ? y3tm - ' Aj J - - " " thief was a sorcerer. Then masses were said too exrcise the evil spirit, who doubtless intended to avenge himself of the Seigneur who had sentenced him to death, and of tho people who came to see him die. A month was spent in fruitless search. Tho gallows still remained in its place, humiliated, downcast, at d despised. Never had a gibbet committed so disgraceful a breach of confidence. Tho Seigneur of Ln Pirochc continued to demand the restitution of his armor from men, angels, or me internal powers, Nothing came of it. At last he was doubtless on the point of making up his mind to this strange event, and Hie loss resulting from it, when ono ^ morning on awaking, he heard a great noise in the square where the execution had taken place. lie was going to enquire what was the matter, when his chaplain entered ' his chamber. I '.Monseiiinenr." ho said." do von Icnow what lias happened?" I "No ;bul I will inquire directly." i "I can tell you- I" I "What is it then ?" "A miracle!" , ' Really ?" . "The man who was hanged" "Well?" % "Is there." I "Where?" "Uii me gaiiows." "Hanging?" t "Yes, monseigneur." 'Willi his armor." "With your armor." "Exactly so ; because it belongs to me. i And is he dead ?" "Perfectly dead. Only" "Only what?" "Had he spurs 011 when ho was hanged ?" "No." "Well, monseigncur, be has spurs on now and instead of wearing the hem let on his j head, lie carefully laid it at the foot of the gallows, so as to be found hanging uncovered." "Let us go and see, Messire Chaplian ; et us go and see at once." I Tllil ^itlrvriAlir T w I'li-Aftlm i">n I I... squar<, wliicli was crowded with inquisitive ! spectators. The neck of the hanged man was replaced in the running noose, the body was really at the end of the rope, and the armor was really on the boilv. It was prodigious. So they shouted. "A miracle !" "lie lias repented," said one," and has come back to re-hang himself." "He has been there all the time," said another,"only we could not see him." "But why has he put on spurs?" inquired a third. "Doubtless because he has come from a distance, and was anxious to rret back quick." "For mj' part, whether far or near. I should have no occasion whatever for spurs, because I would have taken good care to remain where I was." And then they laughed, and then they looked at the ugly grimace on the dead man's countenance. As for the Seigneur of La Piroehe, his only thought was to make suro that the thief was really dead, and to take possession of his suit of armor. They took down the body and stripped it, and then, when stripped, they hung it up again, and the crows set to work with such effect that in a couple of days it was stripped to the bone, and in a week it was like a tatter-demalion, in a fornigbt it had the appearance of a nothing at- all. Eventually the mystery was explained. It appeared that two peasants, returning home by night, and passing close to the gibbet, heard moans, gasping*, and something like | n nrnvpr " llmf 1 *' r ; v. , .....v uv-t %/ucijr *;io>seu lUCM!) * selves, and asked what it could be; that nobody replied, but that the moans continued, appearing to come from the body that was hanging overhead. They then took the ladder, which the hangman had left at the foot o( the gibbet, set it against the arm of the gallows, and the son, moun-ting as far as where thecrim inal hung, 6aid to him, "Is it you who are making these complaints my poor fellow ?" The condemned man, collecting 'all Lis, strength, answered, "Yes." "Yoirare still alive,.then!" ' "Ye*." ; ' "Do you repent, of your crime f" . * "Yes." -'* . *' * *' "Then I will wfnbout untying you j^and/ as the Gospel commands us to'By ceo r those who sutler, and who even cnuse us to sdffer, . I will succor voii, and Restore vou to iifo, 1 that it roa^ lejii you unto good." :T^^ihai*hfe ^ ftteftd ofcomp iW) ug ^ ^ alter libera ted him, and transported him to (heir own home, where ho was handed over to the nursing of tbo mother and her maiden daughter. l)ut he w ho has stolen will steal again. In the peasant's house thelo were only two things to steal; for the money ho had brought from La Poterie did not belong to him. These two things were his horse and his daughter, a fair haired girl sixteen years of age. The ex-hung criminal determined In slo;il liritli1 f?ir tin <*fivr>l??il llin linri.?? uixl was smitten with a passion for the daughter. One night, therefore, lie saddled the hoi.?e put on spurs in order to tr^gel more quickly, and seized the girl as she Was fast asleep iypcarry her off" behind him. But the girl woke up and cried for help. The father and sou came to the rescue. The thief tried to escape, but it was too laie. 1 lie daughter told them ot the violent attempt that hat! been made ; and her father and brother seeing clearly that no repentance was to be expected frotn such a man resolved to take justice into their own hands k,,( ..? .......n.. i.? c..: T? i'ui iiiwic vueruuuiy uiciii inc wci^iicur Li?t Piroche had done. They fastened the scounIrel to tlie lior.se which lift had saddled himself, conducted him to the square of La Piroe.he, and hung him exactly where he was hung before; but they took care to remove Llie liemlet nnd lay it on the ground, to make sure that he should not escape this time ; and then they quietly returned home. As to tlie Seigneur of La Piroclic, since he was in possession of a sure and certain talisman, he joyfully set out for the wars wnere no was Uie very nrst to got knocked on the head. [FOR TIIE I N I >E TEN HUNT PRKS3.] Patience a Tale. Taken from on old newspaper enlled tlie Sun, printed in F.ngland in the year 17'J8 : Twns nt Rome country place n parson preaching, Die virtue of long sufferance was teaching ; And so pathetieallv did exhort. llis wondering congregation, nntl in sliort, I>i.seour6ed so much of Job, and how lie boro, Willi sneli exceeding pleasantry bis woe?, Faitli 'twas enough to make a man suppose Job wished for more. Meaning perhaps, that since 'tis plain, How needlessly we grieve at pain, llow would it be, if mnn, l'ursiied a different plan, And were to laugh an<l treat the matter lightly A .1 ....t ...I ? ? > * w 11 u 11 luii.uicu wini me t*oui ; To make wry fact-8 roar and shout But look agreeable and sprightly. "And pray d'ye think my dearest life, Exclaimed the parson's wife, As after church they sat, In courteous chat "l lint it. 13 in human nature to endure, The sad extremity of wo, Tluit Job you say did undergo, " "i'iis more tlian I could do I'm sure. My denr quoth lie, this diOidence, Shows let ine tell you great good souses A talent in your sex we seldom see, And doubtless the remark is true, As far as it is exten Jed to you Though not. I think to inc. ' No woman, since the world began, Could bcMr misfortune, like u man, Aud in good truth 'twixt. you and ine, And that without much vnnii.v J I do conceive, I my6elf have shown That patience, anil that strength of mind Were not entirely confined, To Job alone. Thus said the modest Priest, and would have said much more, But for the sudden op'uin<^ of tl?; door, When out of breath, in stumps His clownish servant Xumps. With mouth wide open on the Parson gazing, Just like the wight, Who drew old Priam's curtuiu in the night, To tell liiin Troy was blazing. Well Num ps the matter speak, why look sc pale, Has any tiling gono wrong, quoth Numps the ale, What cries the Priest, -"the ale gone sour," (And then his phiz began to bower ;) Turned sour, no master no, replied the fellow, But just now as 1 went, d'ye see To tilt the cask away roll'd he, A II ^ nil ll.. I!#......'. .?ilt ' * * The fact was Numps a cask of ale had staved, Now pry'thee tell rue how, the Priest behav'd, Did he ptdl off his wig or tear his hair, Or like that silly fellow Job, Throw ashes on his.head or rend hip robe, nay now aia no tins- aire niisioriuue Dear, As thus in voice of pious resignation, He to his man, addressed this mild oration; V ?. <*. v V 5v> . Nfay O d confound thee thou d-rd s tupid 5r UiiBenr. {^ba'beirt of Priest's yon feoow will sometin.ca ' V e*ear) ^ That jrou must meddle, must you, With the barrl, and be curst at ye ! I wish thy. paws we're in the fire-^-odd rot em Get thee down stairs, this instant wretcb, Or by jHe living G?d I'll kick thy breech From to$ to bottom. "Nay now rty dearest cried the Dame v Is this your patience, lie for shamu, _ I beg you'll rjeoAjlect yoiir tejt, ... Job wm not half to Whed he'd, his sons and daught era to bewail, I>-4> a *11 bis sons tfnd datjghter*,lty6a cbooM Tho Mormon iJibffl. $ As the Mormons arc just now attracting considerable attention, it may not be amiss to publish what is generally regarded astlie history of tho book, called tho Mormon Bible. The time has not yet arrived when a formal disproof of its being an inspired work is necessary, and a plain story will not bo denied on tho ground of its exceeding the supernatural. Tho opinion is of many years' standing that the uboriyiars (?) of America are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Adair, , in his history of tho North American In dian, adopts tliis theory, and takes great pains to prove it. lie gives a tninuto a?count of some Indian dances, where certain words arc used, (yo-ho-wah,) whi?h,by a little torturing, ho supposes derived from the word Jc-ho-vah, therefore?very cogent reasoning?the Indians came from the lost tribes. Whether this account is more acceptable, or less so, than that of Mynheer Died rich Knickerbocker, in his veracious history of New York, the learned must Judge. Diedrieh speculates far and wide to account for there being people on this continent, bul found the problem attended with as much difficulty as other ethnographers have experienced in accounting for a race of bipeds on the Eastern Continent. lie finally cuts the knot by the sage conclusion that the people of this continent enrae here?by accident. lie this as it may, the opinion of their Israclitish descent has had many supporters, and, it so happening, an ingenious young gentleman of the bar, by the name of Spaulding, in the State of Connecticut, being out of health, and probably out of practice, determined to amuse and occupy his leisure homs, bv writing a romance upon this idea?of the Jewish descent of the North American Indians. Upon this idea he wrote the book known as the Mormon Bible. The writer of lliis article has been assursured, by a gentleman of intelligence ami unquestionable veracity, that lie came from the town (not now remembered) where Mr Spaulding lived, and that he has seen persons of that town who had declared that they saw whole chapters of the Book of Mormons, when in the eourso of composition, shown to them by the author. Mr. Spaulding Qnally emigrated, either to improve his fortune or his health, or both, and went to the interior of the State of New York, where, it seems, ho has been lost sight of. lie 110 doubt died without beiti<? able to find a publisher for his ro manee, which ultimately turned up among some rubbish in the garret of a printing establishment in l'ittsburg, Pennsylvania, where it was found by a journaman printer by the name of liigdon. This lligdon meeting with Joe Smith, (or Joe Smith meeting with him.) tho two rogues together determined to turn the work to account. The book is written in Scriptural phraseology ; "and it came to pass," that Joe and Ricrdon made a bunidinir addition bv way of preface, stating that certain metalic plates had been misteriously discovered under a certain hill?thus and so?nil scrib hied with strange characters, and that, in short, Joe had been illuminated frotu heaven, and empowered and instructed to ''read," whence, according to their account, lo and behold, the book of Mormon came forth of course from heaven ; though some think tho other place has a higher claim to pa ICI till J. The hook, in itself, is not a had romance. ( The author takes up the lost, tribes and has them marched to the (or a) coast, where vessels arc constructed, upon which they embark, and guided by a miraculous , needle, supernaturally provided?by which the reader may bee that the mariner's compass, thongh without a name, is older than anything of the sort known to the Chinese, who know everything except a steam engine : cuided. I sav. bv a miraculons nee , o - ~ t i r? '' * * , die, iliey are conducted to (a) coast where they land. Tbo oast is our own. After landing and o&tipying the country, the author, to provide himself with incidents for "chronicles," introduces the sorpent dipcord and brings about a separation and a long series of wars and conflicts. , V The author, knowning by an easy method of foresight (after the fact) all of the controverted points of tbedlogy, has 'taken care to solve them by indisputable * authority. -Th? niiftstinn nf llift trinity, tlifl V :> -J trines. of free-agency, baptism, <fco., are all definitively settled beyond and farther, dispute for all those who accept the Mormon book as. the fruit of inspiration a very easy method. 7 . It hj4>ut?just to say that the ,book con tains no immortal doctrine,or anythin^ .tor | sboo^ddiacytor refinement. Th^t tbe mT^ k f toihft of its flowers do uot Missouri. Driven from this they settled at Xauvoo, in Illinois, wnctrWSjpP they soon made themseltes offensive to tlieir neighbors, and finally aroused nti opposition which ended in the death of Smith and lligdon and a new exile. At last they ^ fixed upon Salt Lake, in the remote and then unknown West, where'they hoped to live apart from the "Gentiles," as they call 11R. At R-nilt T ..! ? t...... l - - ^?wiv uunv inx:y liUVU iUJCUUJUIiUCU in numbers to an extraordinary extent, most of their accessions being from abroad, including English, Welsh, Danes, and others. They are a hardy industrious people, ab , ; soluUdv blind to everything but Mormonism . to which they are fanatically devoted, under their recognized prophet Brigham1 Young, whose word is, to them the word of God. lirigham Young now raised the standard j of rebellion against the United States, and we are about to enter upon a war which is likely to attract the notice of the civilized world, and possibly may cost much life and treasure: and then, and not till then, will the end be known. It is not generally known, and yet it is true, that Mormons are scattered thouch out most of our northern cities. They aro counted by hundreds in this very city ofSt.Louis, though they keep very still, and aro often employed for whole months without their employers knowing who they are. In our country we can havo nothing to do, governmental!}', with the mormon faith or religion. The 'question is puely one of civil nnlii-v nrnl it ic ?liof , - ? "1^-^ tlie government will vindicate the causa of civilization. as it is bound to maintain its civil supremacy. Hair Specifics. The number of hair specifies which are now vended under the astounding names of "Waphcne," "Tricopherous," &e., is really wonderful. If is professed for them that they restore the hair, (curing baldness,) prevent it falling out, gave it a beautifully soft and glossy appearance, and either kill or cure all the ills that hair "is heir to." Judging from tlio number of establishments where such articles are manufactured, the quantity sold must be prodigious from the prices at which I hey are sold, the profits arising from them cannot be small. That some of these lotions are good in their way there can be no room to doubt; but the merits of the best are greatly exaggerated by by those who sell them. Wo will give a few recipes for making such specifics, so that those of our readers who wish to use them can make the preparations themselves. iNo. 1.?Take ean de cologne, two ounces; tincture of captharides, half an * : ounce;'and add twenty drops of ljivendoK No. 1.?Take vinegar of cantharides, half an ounce ; cau de eologne and rose water, each half an ounce. No. 3. Take an ounce of casor oil, mix it thoroughly with a pint of alcohol, and add half an ounce of the tincture of cantharides. '.'v No. 4. Sulphuric either or.e ounce, tino . ' - < I 4./. r ?t-i -i urn- ui liinuiiii iucs uue uu net', on one ounce, alcohol one pint. ( These four recipes are sufficient. The" V first two are from the wbrk of Erasmus Wilson, F. R. S.. the author of. an able ^ j treatise on cutaneous diseases.' The last two v. V? | recipes are followed by persons who maou- . >#.r| facture the article for sale, and are -better^. rj% than the first two ; they are capable of maK: '' ! ing excellent Tricopl&rous, both for kfief ing the head clean, preventing'the hair/al> ^ ling out, and, ia 6omecaBes, curing T patyial- ' baldness. Tn iisinc them, -tlil head ahou'ld be brushed smartly wi?h a hard hair-brusb, tlie lolion then applied wiih a piece ofspon-i; go, the bend brushed again, and a silk,> nightcap put on. The. best penod to apply* it is just before going to bed, but it may bo used at anytime of the day. The philosophy ofeach hair sfwcifics consista in considering decay in^ha; growth 6t:. . , 'hair to be due to an a^^c'V^f tion in the nerves ..of tho . ^Jp./ Tlus ture of canthftri4es excites action Id tnesb. ? . i f, m rWSfflU-'.1?? nerves, aim us omee )fi to restore. vigor to the baip/ preventin^ its growth keeps tlio skin 59ft, and t)ie ? cent. piroof,"or if will notThetincture of c'anthnnd^ y|?ttMeka? MDwl) coat: