Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 28, Vincennes, Knox County, 10 December 1836 — Page 1
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"mini without rrAn' VOLUME VI. VlJVCEXEs?, SATURDAY MORALXG, DECE3IJ3EII 10, 1S:3G. NUMBER 28
The
ti II r.e
true; They sav I hav
so feu : That in the iv ili-t lot; My petty critic a! them not. It iTi a v bo o: tho ' druiht. VLieh those whcJ oa l.o:
; I .
The Lonely ITeart. I am haj'-py, a;: 1 I tiy
ik it
no ear.se to w eep.
:!.i.-t s, w
r.v sorrows arc
ine u a l.ivore-a
described by future naturalists as a d- friends neglect him, he heedeth it not; aedistinct species; liomo ftisrua shall be ; quaintanees cut him, he regardeth it not; thine appellation, and thou shalt rise to ' creditors dun him, it troubleth him not; he Kmie the name of him who first dares to qnizreth the bailiff that arrests him, and publish thy discovery to the admiring cracketh jokes with the turnkey who lockworld. Verilv I am moved to indite a:oth him in. treaties on thee in proper person and pre-J Methinks I lieara faint voice trying to sent it to the Royal Society, hut they are'groan itself into existence; Ah! Sir I)o!esrrowing jealous of rising genius, and I ! ful, is it you again? There, unfold thy tear my discrimination would not be ap-j budget of sorrows into my ear. 'What! predated. 'undignified'' laughter undignified?
;! I
:v a bitter
ili'i t lip-; have sijiil-
It niav Ik a lar,
iin sorrv aK.r.i.;
sh.ue.
taey jn;i .eil. e.n.t t'i! wh.it others have t:
l
I I f to
to-
Tkev lii.l in,- to Ih
goo-!; Their lnu-hur an ', thc-r brrat: Thev call tor mu.-ie an.! mi'.iar strain f i!j-h awsy the t'tHio-r a -rain. But Oh! my s; i.:t :hr a scene Ofcarlr hop.- ti.ov orv.sh cj i!rnir: -e;
ston t tho -.
tho stream. :i'.niS u;- -u :
board-
mother heart my I iro, a sirulm-r
rovo'.rv are torture to nn
fa-
. th.-:i tarn a-i.l smilo
.nl'
An.lh;
t;
c i
a i'.r-- e.v
Tho watchful rov br The smi'o's . now ' AnUii'f-l lithe to; There rn-i he heart.
e-crs o er c:eii
ea-.'a lov-
- i:v.iri:iuri:i j
re enze i;i-on
e.i ee 1 e t. X when t' th It no co-r;
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!uic;s ft
The enclosed he:n;tt u I and expressive "praver,'" was la'.t dv received from his ab-
cent wite, hv a o-eir.ifman ot tins oitv.
who has for mativ months experienced the
' wav waruu
of
lortune.
Phil. I'. S. Gaz. Traycr for an absent Husband. Father in He.nvn! Behol.l. he whom I love, i- eai'.v trea!in T!ie patli of life in heaviness ,.f sou!. 'itlit'ie t'a'uk i!aikne;5 now ;'.r --.::iJ him Fpreai!-
He !o:,.; Oh thou mot kin.?, ! Father i Thmwh.i o..t; !;e..!- .1 A n.l rai-e.l the weary I.rt !i:::i n.'t sav. hi- ; w 1 .0-1 he ' Down t-t!u.i. e:.ai-
!.a!h striven. eak not thf ij. Men howl.
IK-.v ;e t r. ' irit i-
., a-le.', w ;th ra -arte.!,
,i, -
t.i crant to in Let i'(-aeo a T!iat his t"rn '.
Let
Ob nv
'T;l!
V
l l r--t t'.v-s; iM-t thy 1 M.iv n.-t .:i a:i ;e!s w
Fat!
-r in II tivo.l o
i:p in c atit'.n'.e 1'eih-thejo; Tulaiah ci
a lee
n.l Live, if! I a - 1,
Where didst thou live? what was thv
name? or wast thou so distinct from ordinary mortals as to need no distinctive appellation? II ads t thou a a wife and children? I trow not thou couldst not have 'laughed at that.' I fear mc thou art dead crejthis, yet I warrant that thou met'st King Death with a smile, though per chance it bordered on the Sardonic. -N ot a dry eye was seen at thy funeral happy fellow! thouoh doubtless that was the fust cause of grief thou hadst ever given to thy friends. 'Lauirh at that' laugh at what? my friend didst thou ever hear of the poet, who almost worn out with the incessant and importunate asseverations of the harmles insect which ever cryeth, 'Kitty did,' in a fever of curiosity cried out, 'what did poor Katy do?' Thy question were as sensible. Laugh at what? anything or everv thing; laugh at your granny. Thou frownest, as if to say that were disrespectful; and what an it were? 'Dost think because thou art grown virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? go to i i i. . i . i
it ist expect to nave tny name nauueu down to posterity as suppressors of anile
cachiunaiion? an' thou dost, thou'rt mightily mistaken, for so long as grannies have trraml-clnldren, so long shall the dear little innocents' find cause for mirth in their progenitors.
poller ol
sport. How many funny ideas have been nipped in the bud, or strangled in their infancy at the very name of the thing. Oar little brown man was commendably deficient in that same abominable quality. No phrenologist ever discovered any veneration on his noddle of a verity no! 1 le respected not wearing apparel. The mind cannot conceive of his brown coat, without incontinently attaching the idea of a hole in the elbow of it; and here let me remark that your truly merry fellow reirardeth not the exterior, and for a very obvious reason, for dress eauseth trouble, and trouble brecdetli care, and care breedcth sadness, the tiling he most abhors. W'o.u'dst know ho w to distinguish your merrv tellovv; von mtiv know him bv his b'-.t stop, shall uivulsrc secrets
I deny it roundly; man, thou'rt besid
thyself; much grief hath made thee mad. Dost not know that laughter is the distinguishing attribute of humanity; the silly deer sheddeth tears, and even the pig has his squeal of grief, but can a cat rUuoh'
hath a dog the sense of the ludicrous? 1
trow not. Dignity! poor fool; thou hast
no idea of dignity except that ot ISiobe. But laughter, like every thing cood
hath its abuses; and first and most atrocious
is its senseless 'counterfeit presentment,'
ycleped simper, which, serve'.h the purpose
of indicating an empty pate, or the more
dangerous one of unmasking a battery of
beautiful teeth to dazzle unwary youth.
This vice, (ladies I depreciate your ire,)
is a lemale one. An abuse less niqiutous
perhaps, but more disgusting to your true epicure in latnrhinir, is the boisterous, horse laugh, or brutal gutfaw. I look upon the perpetrator of this atrocity, with much the same feeling with which a gourmand sees a poor bolt delicate venison in three inch cubes, or swallow 'London particular' out of a quart pot. Laughter
should be sinned, not jrulpcd. Laughter
is of six kinds: first, ultra tfcsK.-i.
gone. Who lias it." What name sir." "They call mc J 15.' 'One cask to J II ,at a dollar a oallon Not no! stop friend! you dont think I'm such a tarnal fool to take all this with
out something to s eeten it, do you? I
together w ith the vessels required tor its preparation; but it was not until 1071 that the first house was opened in that city for the sale of the prepared beverage. Coffee houses date their origin in London from an earlier period. The first
l'rom the report of these gentlemen, a correspondent of the National Intelligencer gathers the following extraordinary fac ts : I .a u i till Jo u male. 'The rifle, it appears, was fired 1003 times, and was in the same order at the
Here tnc umortunatc iimncr-tu U seems
l"s 'train oi
cominen-
to nave put an enu to my n ieiu:
thought' forever, just as he v. cing a serious analis of t'.u
jeet.
shall I brea
MviT.is if! Disrespect! w do L-ctwei n relo.t t have it come
w ho:n nature has deprive me of the
mine oa;:i ty
the
y. what 1 ath m! 1 slum between me
-- .i. ( oi n"- o . it '
-.- plea.-aut mo
ml!
fe-
Ttl
01
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MI--
t!
iimiio in r--a
M.
ii'iovo. St I,.
Froht the "' ; .1 ,-!' Muzazinc. X.AUGIITEK. a rK.vny.F.Nr foimi amonc tiih m m--SCX1PTS OF THK LATH 1 11U1S 1 Ol'IIF.R c kv MP, i KTI.KM A N, Pi:c:: AS r. P.
My deceased friend Christopher had a
strange propensity tor scribbling, which he induloed to such an extent that at his death, no less than seven barrels of essays t tc. were found among his effects, but singular as it may seem, not one of them was furnished with that most desirable appendage, an end. I was aw are of this peculiarity in my friend's writings, and
once spoke 'o him on the su;qcct, wnen
he told me that lie attributed it entirely to the injurious and irrational practice ot dining. He assured mo that he never got comfortably absorbed in a subject, but he was interrupted by dinner's ready sir, and that in dropping pen to take up knife and fork, he invariably lost, what he termed, -the train of his thoughts.' and was
he
never able to regain it. lie sum
endeavored to avoid the evil by adjourn
ir.his dinner to a later hoar, but the next .lay while he was wrapt up in the eestscv of a new idea, and conaratulatin j himself upon the prospect of following it out, the door opened, and in walked Mrs. Crump for Chistopher was married followed hv a stout servant, bearing
a waiter loaded with forage sullicient for a
whole corporal's guard, which she was pleased to call a 'luncheon,' and which she told him. (kmd soul that she was.'1 he must
eat, or he would not survive the dav
Christopher saw his fate
an I he met it like a man. The fragment below was
that it oossesed any peculiar merit, but
because it happened to lie on the top of the first barrel. niiLO crvmp. I)"vo ser, mys ho, my phin, My pla-i d'yo sec, says he, Is to lauirh at That.
of l.i-.te'hter that have
compense for years of boredom. Sir, assert that relations were given us expres
Iv as food for our cachinnatorv appetite-
vea. anil I will maintain mv po-mou
'nuzmi an:! calctbus, tm.iefv ..'- ro-
tro,
1 his is the more to be rc-oretted sip.ee tin
interruption took place, as usual, at the most propitious moment for writing clearly and forcibly, the system not being overladen with viands, hut light, and spiritually inclined. It was ever so with Christopher, whereby the wolrd hath not lost the benefit of his clearer and happier cogitatations, but he hath himself lost the repution of being one of the great enliiihteners
of the nineteenth century. E.
" From the Portsmouth X. II. Cuzrtte. NEVER TRUST TO APPEARANCES. In the late war with great Britain, a
large v est lndiainan was taken bv a Pri
vateer belonging to the port, and her ear
go, consisting of f'iiin. Sugar, tVc. sold
at auction. Kum at that lime was n choice
article, and W3s worth horn ti l-"i to 3 l-Z
dollars per g dlon by the qusiaiitv
un ttie morning ot t::e sale, a rusty
lookins old fellow, wii!i Siotiit-s-i!
land cor.Ierov- pantaloons, was (
i . ,
s j:ne ; on tue whaii, now smelling vould; holes, and anon catching a dn
the eno ot his tongue, as it tr a stick which he oecasionallv
rather guess, as I dont come to town often, Street, by one I'asqua, a ( J reek, who was
I 11 take ten casks! irom one to ten casks was your tarms I believe!' 'I-I-y e s' said the Auctioneer but with respect to this cask, that was not exactly the understanding. 'Hut it was the umlerslanding said old Corderoy, who became suddenly as
uprignt as aiiaml spike, as sober as ail
con before breakfast, 'and I will appeal to the present company, if I have not a
right to take ten casks, agreeably to the conditions of the sale.' 'The old man is right!' said one. l'airplay!' cried another. 'It is in strict conformity to the conditions of the sale and ten casks are fairly his!' was the general voice. 'Caught! caught! Fairly caught!' said the Auci'onecr. 'I am not to blame. The owners are present will they have
was opened in George ard!, Lombard termination as at the commencement of the
. to
ill
he lot:
d
lie ins
which, for the benefit of the ladies
was inevitable,
elected not
c-ins mem!'
mc"'
rrilv.
The little brown man." B;.k oem. Happy philosophy'. Little brown man, thou art immortalized. Thou shalt be
1-'idemi s "tooth and nail."' 'Laughter,' quoth the aforesaid Linkum in his great work, 'Derubus omnibus and quibusdam aiiis,' laughter hath fourfold uses; first it disprlleth vapors; second, it promoteth a gentle motion of the spirits from the centre to the surface; third it purgeth the blood of ill humor, (Bentley's edition lacketh the s in humors:) and fourth it opuuth the mouth.' Some critics have denied to the last any right to the name of a use, contending that it is a mere incident. On the contrary I maintain that it is not only useful, but the chief use and the chief source of that animal gratification which rcsultcth from a hearty laugh, and as such hath been .worthily placed by the illustrious I'idelius, at the head of the climax. For is not the mouth the chief inlet of enjoyment aye, and outlet too. Speak lightly of the pleasures and use of opening the mouth to the gourmand, and see how he will treat yon; suggest to the propriety of keeping it shut to the gossip, and I will answer for her displaying to thee how much she delighteth in opening it. Hut I perceive that thou art satisfied,
and ready to admit that the sage Linkum was right.
Il.it, savs Sir Doleful, this everlasting
grinning betokenelh folly. .Most lachyrmose sir, thou art right for the first time in thy life, and yet thou art entirely wrong, inas much as thou hast totally mistaken me; and thou thinkest to gain credit for wisdom bv running into the opposite extreme.
Thy foolishness bears its punishment with it. Know then, most ignorant man, the laughter I speak of, often existeth without the outward manifestation thereof. It consistelh not in the opening of the mouth nor the screwing of the face, but in an ever present disposition to look on the bright side of things, and endeavor to extract from them food for merriment. What though the possessor sometimes smile at the misfortunes of his friends, he grceteth his own with a hearty laugh. His is the true philosophy, depend upon it. It is like Warren's blacking, 'Try it and you'll like it.' Yes, j our merry man is your true philosopher; he mectcth the'
trowns ot fortune with a smile and disanneth them cf half their terrors;
the cask. 1L amusement bv
and the singular contorlio lustre countenance, as the !
coat
is o -serve it the bu:
j or two on
c.vled from
tiirust into
ei
excited a rood deal the oddity of his rcmar
1 o
his h
!.-
burning liquk
pleased or was disagreeably to his palate.
In tine, by ehnt ot tasting, he was, or appeared to be pretty well iti for it, and bv
the time the sale began he was apparently
obliged to hold on with both hands.
No sooner had the auctioneer mounted
the rostrum, and announced, the terms ol
sale, which were Irom one hhd. to ten. Cash, than our boozy green horn bawled
out "Hilloo, mister? what d'ye ax foi
lliis , ere rum?"
"Kum! my friend! I should think you
had cnouge ot it.
"Not as you knows on! I keeps a
ieetie store up in me uusii, ami wants a
Ieetle to 'plenish out the stock." "Well, well we shall see. The highest bidder has it. "Come g-. ntlemen!
what will you give mo a gallon? Two
dollars two and a half two seventy-five three no more gentlemen! three and a quarter three and three eights going gone. Mr. II. has it at $J,:i? 1-ti cents a gallon." "My sorrows!" said old Cordery "it will take a fortune to buy one of them 'ere casks if you don't sell cheaper I must pickup my duds and be off that's fact." The old fellow had made scleral dives at the proof glass, and at length succeeded in getting it, he drop'd it into the
third cask, against which he was leaning, and drew forth, rather awkardly, a sample. This he had no sooner put to
his lips, than he commenced sputtering
like a red hot spike thrown into cold water,
and amid a thousand contortions and wry
faces, sputtered out 'smoky! smokv!
smoky as the devil!' at the same time he handed the glass to the company. It was
a fact, this rum was smokv to a degree
absolutely nauseating. I!y this time another cask had been disposed of, at a price a shade higher than the first, and the
voice ol the knight ot tiie ivory hammer
was heard above the haws! haws! of old corderoy, who was much pleased with the effect of the smoky rum on the customers, de m a nd i n g ' i V 1 i o bills." But no one appeared to like smoke, and the Auctioneer for the third time demand-
t'.ie goodness to decide?'
The owners i dmitted the fairness of the purchase, and after offering the old man the smokv rum for nothing, and two or three hundred dollars to sweeten it, (as he called it) without effect, they took the cash, about 81(100, and sui'ered him to take the ten casks, worth about at least three times that sum. ...,.. COFFEE. Coffee is the seed contained in a berry, the produce of a moderate-sized tree called the Cojfac .Irahiac, and which has also been named JasmiiUua .iridnciaii. This tree grows erect, with a single stem, to the height of from eight to twelve feet, it ii i
and lias long unuiviuea, sterna r oranciies.
bending downwards: these arc furnished
with evergreen leaves, not unlike those of
the bav-tree. The blossoms are white,
silting on short foot stalks, and resembling the llower of the jasmine. The
ruit which succeeds is a redberrv, resem
bling a cherrv, and having a pale, insipid,
and somewhat glutinous, pulp, enclosing
two harel oval seeds, each about the size
of an ordinary pea. One side of the seed is convcxed, while the other is Hat, and
has a little strait furrow inscribed through
its longest dimension; while growing, the
llat sides of the seeds are towards each other. These seeds are immediately covticj Lr o coiiiiiigiiiuus iiieuiurane w hieli has received the name of the parchment. Botanists have enumerated several varieties of this tree as existing in the Eastern
brought over in 1032 bv a Turkcv mer
chant named Edwards. The first mention of coffee that occurs in our statute books, is found in the act 12 th (Jar. ii, cap. 21, (in the year 1000,) by which a duty of four-pence per gallon, to be paid by the maker, was imposed up
on all collec made and sold; three years after this, coffee-houses were directed to be lisensed by the magistrate at quartersessions. Collec cannot he cultivated to advantage in climates where the temperature at any time descends below 33 degrees of
1'ahren heit's scale. The trees llouri.-di most in new soils on a gentle slope, w here water will not lodge about the. roots. In
exposed situations it is necessary to mod
erate the scorching heat of the sun bv
planting rows of umbrageous trees at cer
tain intervals throughout the held. The trees begin bearing when they are two years old; in their third year they are in full bearing. The aspect of a collec plantation during the period of flowering, which does not last longer than one or two days, is very interesting. In one night the blossoms expand themselves so profusely as to present the same appearance which has sometimes been w itnessed in England when a casual snow-storm at the close of autumn has loaded the trees while i-till furnished with their fall compliment of foliage. Tin1 seeds are known to be ripe when the berries assume a dark red colour, and if not then gathered will drop from the trees. The planters in Arabia do not pluck the fruit, but place
clothes lor its reception iicneain me trees.
which they shake, and the ripeneu berries drop readily, These are afterwards spread upon mats and expose to the sun s rays until perfectly dry, when the husk is broken with large heavy rollers made either of wood eir of stone. The colfee thus cleared of its husk is again tlricd thoroughly in the sun, that it may not heliable to heat when packed for shipment. The method employed in the West Indias differs from this. Negroes arc sent to gather such of the berries as are suf
ficiently ripe, and lor their purpose are
provided each with a canvass hag having
an iron ring or hoop at ns mouth to keej
it ai wav ? ihMcm!
and western Ileinis
Li
re.-
iccideiit.j
ecu
. These variof soil and cli-
pro;:
UC(
e-tics result trom
mate, and must have
scqucniiy to die naturalizing of the plant
in America, since it is pret'y certainly show n, that all the colfee trees, ci.llivale.l there are the progeny of one plant, which so rece ntly as the yt ar 17! 1 was presented by the magistrates of Ar. isterdam to Louis A I V., King of Trance. This ohmt was
so
.a o.
as to le
ili.n,
i ve
i.
a
ill hands is filed.
are transferred to a huge hasconveuienilv for the purpose.
u
.i ,
!cr the- care Jus.-ieu, and ifter this that
nnam, v. avenue and ivaiion must have af-
e
it was plants
ds? C
Dine gentlemen, m:
make
ed, 'who hitl
me an offer? 'Tis tarnel smoky that's fact,' said old Corderoy, s'spose it'll g'ie yc a dollar a gallon.' One dollar is bid no more! going
placed at Marls
celebrated Mons. de not until some years were conveyed to S; Martinico. The ct:
forwards spread pretty rapidly through the islands, since in the year 1T:12 the production of colfee was considered to be
sullicient consequence in Jamaica to call
for an act of the legislature in its favor. The use of coffee as an alimentary in
fusion was known in Arabia, long be-fore the period just mentioned. All authorities agree in ascribing its introduction to Megrlleddin, Mufti of Aden, in Arabia Felix.
who had become acquainted with it in Per
sia, and had resource to it in medicinally when lie returned to his own country. The progress which it made was by no means rapid at first; and it was not until
:c vcar i.yoi mat coiicc was puuiteiv
old at Constantinople. Soon after its introduction into the cai
itol of Turkey, the ministers of religion
laving made it the subject of solemn cuin-
uaint that the mosques were deserted
while the collec house were crowded, these
utcr were shut bv order of the niuflit.
who employed the police of the city t
prevent any one from drinking colfee.
1 ins prohibition it was louud impossible
to establish, so that the government laid a
tax upon the sale ol the beverage, which
produced a considerable revenue.
1 he consumption of codec is exceed
ingly great m 1 urkey, and tins fact may be in a great measure accounted for by
the strict proiuoition wnieii tne Moslem
religion lavs against the use of wine and spirituous liquors. So necessary was coffee at one time eonsidereel among the people, that the refusal to supply it in reasonable quantity to a wife, was reckoned among the legal causes for a divorce. Much uncertainty prevails with respect to the first introduction of ceillee into use in the western parts of Europe. The Venetians, who trade much with the Levant, were probably the first to adopt its use. A letter, written in 1013 from Constanti
nople, by l'etcr eh: la alle, a enetian. acquaints his correspondent with the writer's intention of bringing home to Italy some coffee, w Inch lie speaks of as an article unknown in his own country. Thirty vears after this, some gentleman returning from Constantinople to .Marseilles brought with them a supply of this luxury,
around the nee
at liberty. As often as the !
the content ket placed
It is the usual calul.ition, that each bush
e l ci I" ripe hi Tries will yield ten pounds w eight merchantable coffee. In curing collec it is sometimes usual to expose the berries to the sun's ravs in lav-
live er six inches dee;) on a platform, this means the pulp ferments in afew and having thus thrown oil" a strong
I
ers. 15 v d.i
aciiiu! about
ous moisture three weeks
line:
the
, gradua
lmsks
!!,- ,t,
rt
u ring
for
wards separated from the seeds in a mill
Other planters remove the pulp from tin
seeds as soon as the berries are patherei
The pulping mill used for this purpose
consists of a horizontal flutter roller, turn ed by a crank and acting against a move
aide breast hoard, so placed as to prcvci the passage of the whole berries betwee itselfand the roller. The pulp is the
separated irom the seeds Oy waslimg tliem
and the latter are spread out in the sun t
drv them. It is then necessary to remov
firing. In order to test the influence of rain and wet from other causes, water was put into the chambers, and left them for an hour and ten minutes; the rifle was then discharged, and with the same ease and c fleet as previously. The cylinder in this rifle thus contained nine chambers, and in a comparative trial instituted between it and Hall's carbine, both pieces having been loaded, the whole nine discharges were made from the rille before a second could be mad" from the carbine. During the whole trial not a single cap missed lire; and at the distance of 150
yards, with ten grains of powder, the ball perforated an inch pine board, and was flattened against a briidc wall behind it. Some apprehension was cntertainc-I that from the contaguity of the charges, accidental ignition might be produced. To prove the entire freedom of his rifle from this danger, Mr. Cochran placed loose powder in the chambers, over the balls, and around the caps, and, so circumstanced, it was discharged as safely as before. Cr-.pt. Kamsay observes, that with the closest scrutiny he could not discover any objection to Mr. Cochran's invention; and Lieut. Scott says, that for simplicity it surpasses any thing of the kind he has ever seen, and that its quality as a lire arm can be summed up in three words, "IT is IM'.KFi.OT." From the Globe of Jfuiday. Si'.cctf: Circct lar. We extract the following from the last United States Cazette: J'.nd of the Ilumhuz- The St. Loub Republican says: "We have understood that a Treasury Circular has been issued to the disbursing oflicers of the United States in the Wrest at least directing them not to draw vpon the depoxit clank for zold or silver, except in cases in which it is 'absolutely necessary." The public will he pleased again to take notice that the whole of the above statement is another Opposition humbug, as we learn that no such Treasury Circular has ever been issued. Globe.
The public will please to "take notice" that this; affected denial by the Official ii a mere evasion, deceptive, if not intended to deceive. It is a fact, which the official paper may deny if it chooses, but is not the less an undeniable fact, that a Cireidur hus hcen i-tswd to disbursing officers of the I'nited States, directing them as above stated. The equivocation consists in tho denial that a Y'rcasun Circular has been issued to thia effect. The Circular has not been issued In the Treasury, hut by the heads of the official bureaus, to whoso orders the elisbursing oflicers are subject.
The subslance of the statement of the St.
Louis paper is, beyond doubt, true.
the membraneous skm or parchment, winch is effected by means of heavy rollers
running in a trough wherein the seeds ar put. This! mill is worked by cattle.
The seeds are afterwards winnowed
to
separate tho chaff, and if any among them
appear to have escaped tho action of the
roller, these arc again passed through the
mill.
The roasting of coffee for use is a pro
cess which requires some nicely; if burned, much of the fine aromatic flavor
will be destroyed, and a disagreeable bit
ter taste substituted. 1 lie roasting is now
usually performed in a cylindrical vesse
which is continually turned upon its axis
over the fire-place, in order to prevent the
too great heating ot anyone part, and t
accomplish the continual slutting ol the contents. Coffee should never be kept
for anv length of time after it lias been roasted, and should never be ground until it is required for infusion, or some portion
of its fine flavor will be destroyed.
1 he quantity ol couee consumed in
Europe is vcrv great. Humboldt esti
mates it at nearly one hundred and twenty
millions of pounds, about one-fourth of
which is consumed in France. Since the
time when this estimate was made, a vast
increase has Vieen experienced in the use
of coffee in England. This was at first occasioned bv the vcrv considerable abate
ment made in the rate rd' duty, and ihe
public taste has since he-en continually
growing mere and more favorable to its
consumption.
COCHRAN'S UIT1.V. This weapon, which has attracted a large share of public attention, was recently submitted to a full trial at the U. S. Arsenal at Washington, under the supervision of Capt. Uamsayand Lieut. Scott.
If'anhinzton Sun.
.lurcdnc tf Van J'uren. The following anecdote of Van Uurcn was related by the Hon. I'ailie Peyton: "There was a certain lady about Washington, in w hose society the President was in the habit ed spending a great portion of his leisure time. The lady w as in tho habit of relating every little occurrence that she thought would jdcase the idd man, and Van was not slow to find out this avenue of the General's feelings. Accordingly, he chooses an opportunity when in company with this lady, and introduces the topic of great men. Said Van, Cicero and Demosthenes were great men; Charles All. was a great man; Washington was a great man; but. Madam, of all the great men the world has produced, (len. Jack
son is the only great man who is entirely without a fault. Put, my dear Madam, I would nt for the world that you should whisper to ('en. Jackson that this is my
opinion el Jinn. til, the lady, as an
fore knew, and intended she should, tells
the President every word that Van had
aid. When the old man heard it, tho
tear trickled in his eve. "Ah! Madam."
lys he, "I always knew that man loved
me he loves me he loves me he can
not conceal it from me. I can always tell my friends from my enemies." "
Chapped Hands. The Boston Tost
tells us how chapped hands are obtained.
nothing easier,) and how also they may e prevented. The ihscasc is ascribed te he injudicious use of soap, which affects
them more in the winter than in the summer, because in the former season the hands
ire not moistened with perspiration, which
ountcracts the alkaline effects of the soap.
I'o prevent the chapping of the hands af
ter the use of soap, in the summer, the
oilv property of the perspiration answers die purpose; but in the winter, a very lit
tle vinegar or cream rubbed on the dried
nnds after the use of soap, will comrdele-
v neutralize its alkaline, and thereby ef
fectually prevent thechappingof the hands.
vnv other acid or oilv substance will an
swer the purpose. This is worthy of a trial, as the sufferings of many from chap
ped hands are exceedingly painful anl
troublesome.