Vincennes Gazette, Volume 14, Number 48, Vincennes, Knox County, 1 May 1845 — Page 1

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THE FADED FLOWER. I keep it still, that faded flower. Through long and cheerless years, la memory of that happy hour, Which time the more endears. When from thy hand the gift I took, A tul saw the tear ihop start, Aul clasped with fonJ an ! srentle look.. The giver to my heart. That ti.ovtr, lika her who gave it, then Was loveliest of its kind; And vainly might I seek ajain So fair a flower to find. Bat brief alike the joy and blocm. It withered in a day, And reft of hope and wrapt in gloom, I bore it far away. In distant lands midst care and grief,That flower was yet more dear, And often every cherished leaf Was moistened with a tear: And mill I keep the faded tl iwtr, And hold while I if- aha!! lat. The memory of that happy hour Which consecrates the past. The report of the American Tempe. ranee Union fur S42, contains the fol. lowiug. It merits attention, especially from young men who are gifted with nice gustatory organs, and are enable 1 to discriminate very closely the taste end peculiar flavor of different samples ol Brandy and wine. There is no doubi but that the statement contained in the latter ere true. ADULTERATIONS. L u:sv.LLK, Kv., April 2d, ISV2. ror the information of those persons ci oo-h txf, who still continue to drink sn i use their Ltvoiite beverages of Whisky, Brandy, Wine?, Cordials and Syrups, 1 have th. night proper, for their es pecic.i benefit, to publish to the world a number of ihe art idea that are ued in their composition. Having been engaged in the H ciifying and Mixing of liquors for the iait twenty years, I presume few will dispute my authority. If I had time I would give a more extensive expose, but enough wul be found in this communicntiOii. tj fho.v iihat wie L qiiorii, Wiues and Cordials used in this nation, are a perfect potion. French Brandy is made of double or treble rectified Whiskey, or Apple Bran dy, by running through charcoal, to which is s.uk-d New Kng'and or New Orleans nun, gum kino, spirit cf nitre. Spanish satTron, or Spanish juice. Rectified Whiskey is run through char coal, end when too weak they add oil of vitriol, cut with iweel oil and a'choholCi:t if Whiskev run through charcoal there ii added juniper berries and oils of very pernicious nature distilled, and then it is caded Gin flavoring. Champaigne Wine, so called, is nothing more than a solution of sugar of lead, ugr and whiskey and fixed air Cider his been tiied, but whiskey is the bet There is nosyrupthat can be made with, cut alcohol to cut the oils. Ninety-hundre ilhs of all the wine drank in this country is also made of it, and the process mostly used is as follows: lake whiskey and pass it through char coal and extract alt the oils which flavor it. then mix with the various species cf w ine thev wish to make, and color with burnt iugtr. The following are some of the article that are used in the trade: Henbane, capsicum, copperas, sulphu ric acid, nux vomica, grains of paradise hartshorn, shavings, c'oculis, indicus. quassia, jjreen vitriol, salt of steel, logwood, slum and dirty water. I would give the exact quantitiei, but thero might be found persons who would lake the advantage oftheir acquired know 1dge and make more of the poisonoui drug. Repectfullv, &c. AN OLD RECTIFIER. !dea. A I n late public j'vk; says the Telegraph ' 'g dwe.U-a few mo '-i-,9 nature and extent r 'Among the AlleghaV' k s a spring so small rr -ci" .. the trie i ,i . . ' i n H'jtpier'a day could J.-.-m r !: "- t. i-s unobtrusive way oiiiuoti iiie mils, till it spteads out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away more than a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a hundred villsges and cities and many thousand cultivated farms; and bearing on its bosom more than half thousand steamboats. Then join ing the Mississippi, it stretches away and awey some twelve hundred miles more, till it falls into the great emblem of eter nity. It is one of the tributaries of that ocean, which, obedient only to God, t hall roll and roar, till the angel, with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, shall lift Up his hand to Heaven and swear that time shall be no longer. So w ith moral influence. It is a rill a rivulet a river an ocean, boundless and fathomless as tiernity.' Au oroen door will tempt a same.

'Can you Keep a Secret?' 'Dorothy,' said Iehabod, pale and trem

bling, to his wife, 'Dorothy, I have a secret; and if I thought you would keep it inviolable, I would not hesitate to reveal it to yon; but oh, Dorothy, woman ' 4W hy. Iehabod. it must certaimy be a secret of great importance, for you are in a woful agitation. You know, husband, you can place implicit confidence in your wife. Have I ever given you any occasion to doubt my fidelity?' Never, never, Dorothy; but the secret I have to communicate is one that requires more than ordinary faithfulness and pru dence to prevent you from divulging it. Oh! dear! I shudder when I think on't!' Why, husband, do you know how your lips tremble, and yo ir cy--s ioh.r W hat is the matter' Iehabod! your surely can not mistrust the confidence of one who vowed at the altar to be faithful to you. Come, unbosom yourself.' May I rely on your fidelity? Iehabod, you know you may.' Well, then, we are both ruined! undone! I have committed murder!' Murder!' 'Yes, murder! and have buried him at the foot of a iree in the orchard!' 'Oh! awf;'! Iehabod. Committed mur1 I f I -11 1 uer! 1 hen inoeeu we are ruined, and our children with us!' Ichaboc' left the room, ana Dorothy hurried o.T to a neighbors. Mrs. Prattle observed a great change in Dorothy's countenance, and in her general appearance, so great as to induce her ti inquire into the cause of it. 'Oh! Mrs. Prattle,' said Dorothy, am the most miserable cf women! I am ruined forever!' 'Mercy! Dorothy, how gloomy and distresst-ii you louk! What has turned up to make you appear so dejected? Why, how you sigh! woman. Tell me the cause.' 'I wish I might, Mrs. Prattle; but li e oecas:on of my unhappiness is a ecre' w hirh I am not permitted to divulge.' Oh! you may ttllme, Dorothy I shall never speak of it ngain.' 'Will ou p;omis3 never to reveal it to any person living?' 'You know, Dorothy, I never tell secrets.' Weil, Mrs. Prattle I scareelv dare say it my husband has commuted mur der, and buried him at the foot of a tree in the orchard! he told me of it himeelf. For heaven' sake don't name it to any one!' Murder! Your 'husband committed murder! Indeed, indeed, Dorothv, vou havo reason to think yourself ruined!Poor thing! I pity you from my heart!' Dorothy went home weeping and wringing her hands; and .U:s. 1 faith leaving her dough half kneaded, and her infant crying in the cradle, hastened to hold a tete-a-tete with Mrs. Tellall. Soon after this last confab was ended, the report of IchaboJ's having committed murder became general, and the disclosure of the fact was traced to hi wife Dorothy. Process was immediately issued pgainst him by a magistrate, before whom, and in the presence of a multitude of anxious spectators, he gave the following ex planation, and pleaded guilty to the charge of murder. .My object,' said Iehabod, in the course I havo pursued, ws to test my wife's capability of keeping a secret I have committed murder in as much as I killed a toad, and buried it at the foot of a tree in my own orchard. How far my wife is capable of keeping a secret, has been sufficiently proved; and with respect to the murder, those who feel an interest in it, are at liberty to inspect the body.' Soon Ripe, Soon Rotten. A writer in the Baltimore Sun, says there is a proverb declaring, that a great man at twenty-five was a gone gcose at forty,' which has been exemplified in ancient and modern history. Napoleon, after early success, died in inglorious exile. Byron, the author of 'Childe Harold at twenty-two, expired at Missolonghi at thirty-seven without being able to add military glory to his literary fame. John Randolph, a premature genius, when asked by the Speaker of the House, 'Are you of age?' answered, 'Ask my constituents!' yet died at G7. like Swift, a 'driveller and a show, a relic rather of former greatness than of present ability. Caleb McNulty, possessing in early youth a precocious ability, and exhibited a pattern of sobriety 'and honor, lamentably fails, through imprudence, even before reaching the age of 40. On the other hand Cromwell did not fairly commence his famous career until 40 years of age, and after that period entitled himself to the notice of distant posterity. Dryden was 40 before he was distinguished as a poet. Mahommet was more than 40 years old when the idea of establishing a creed entered his mind. The Sunflower. It is said of this unornamental butintrinsic flower. that itisdes lined to be one cf our most valuable agricultural products. One hundred pounds of the seed afford fo ty pounds of oil. The refuse of the seeds, after expression, furnishes an excellent food for cattle. From the leavei of the plant cigars are manufactured of singular qualities; the stalk affords a superior alkali, and the comb of the seeds is a nice dainty for swine. lloston Cultivator.

A V, ' n k-M Frorn the Western farmer and (Jardener. : t Forcing' Fruit Trees to Bear- I G iu: en cr County, Ky., March .'J, 1SI". , Dear Sir: lining addressed you an epistle a fortnight ago, I did not intend to write you again until I saw your comments upon the project proposed in that letter; but beinj; under the conviction that I ; eon Id .n't v.rite too much lor the good of tht honest hearted yeomanry of the land, pro- i vided I kept within the limits of valuable j information, I have, by the idea of facilitating the labor of the producing man in. some measure, been prompted to address, you at this lime. The main object is to apprise the agricultural community of a novel mode of raising apples. I do not w ish to be understood thit it is novel w ith all, foi i: has been practiced in Europe for: .- i... .i,, r :.. f i in particular, who probably are the inven tors; but I mean that it is novel to me, and if not to all, in my knowledge at least, it is not practiced by them. j The efeps to be tikeu bv the farmer to force his fruit trees to bear, as il is termed, are of a very simple nature, and conse quently can be executed by any person who turns his head to it without the aid of a practical operator, further than a description of the process. I hope, there fore, that my agricultural friends w ill not deem the description which I am about to give of the process to force trees to bear, unnecessarily minute. With a sharp knife (the blade of a penknife is the best) make a cut in the hark cf the branch which is meant to be forced to bear, and not mote than eight or nine inches from the place where it is connected with the stem, or if it is a small bnnch or shoot, near whore it is joined to the lirge bough, (three inches or less.) the cut is to go around the branch, or to encircle it and penetrate the wood. Care must be taken not to cut the wood, which would necessarily cause detriment to the branch, or shoot operated upon. A quar ter of an inch or nearly, from the first cut, make a second cut the ssme way round toe oranch or shorn, fo thai ootti entirciing the branch or shoot, a ring is formed there on a quarter of an inch broad between the two cuts. The bark between these two cuts is taken clean away with the small blade of a penknife, dow n to the wood, so that no connexion whatever remains between the two parts of the bark, but the bare and naked w ood, which appears white and smoothe; but this bark ring, to com pel the trees to bear the same season, s.Omiist be made at the time when the buds are strongly swelled, just before brea! ing out into blossom. In tho same year i f this operation, a callous is formed at the edge cf the ring on both sides, and the connection u the bark, that has been interrupted, is restored again, without any detriment to the tree or branch operated upon, in which the artificial wound soon soon "rows over. By this simple means of forcing every fruit tree with certainty to bear, the most important advantages w ill be obtained by those who watch the lime nature is ripe for it. Three years ago 1 made an experiment upon an apple iree. Being somewhat cautions of humbuggery, I confined the experiment to one branch of the tree, which was about the fourth part of the whole top of it. I did not notice it again until May. 1 had partially forgotten it, as I had but little faith in its having any effect tow-arc's making the tree bear, and called by. rather to see if the limb I had cut was not dead, than to observe anything else; but to my astonishment 1 found the limb which I had expected to find dead, in a vigorous state of life, with as much young fruit on it apparently, as all the rest of the tree. On examining the young fruit, I found that on the branch I had cut, to be sound and firm, while that on the other parts of the tree were dwindled, and very mnch decreased. I supposed at first that it was owing to the cut which I had made on the branch, but I satisfied myself by examining other trees, which I found to be in the same way, and which I found shortly afterwards to be falling off. In September, when I gathered the apples, I found that the branch of tho tree which I had made the experiment on, had five bushels on it, and the rest of the tree had not above one bushel on it, and that was inferior fruit. I would therefore recommend that farmers, who have orchards, should try the experiment. It would be well for them to be particular in the operation at first, for fear of damaging the tree. WILLIAM R. THOMPSON. Advantages of Planting' Fruit Trees on Declivities. The following communication from a Mr. Walker lo the Farmers' Journal oh this subject, we consider well worthy the particular attention of every person en eased in orcharding. It is remarkable. too, that whenever those who have been engaged in ihe business, in the fruit raising districts of Europe, come to this country and plant their own orchard or vine

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yard3, ihey invariably select a gently eloping hill with a Southern aspect; experience having taught them, as ihey all will tell 'jfu, ihat such is the best situation for an orchard or vineyard: D o darl first observed that trees pushed their branches in a direction parallel to the surface of '.tie earth. If a tree stands on a f teep it pushes both towards the hid and towards declivity; but on both sides it stih preserves its branches parallel to the surface. As there is attraction betwee l the upper surface of the leaves and light- 1 am also persuaded, though not equa1 y Certain of it from experiment, that there is an attraction of the same nature betwfe i the under surface of the earth. Thi-v-r- onside r the true cause of the phenoiire .on: 1 had long observed that the most fruitful orchards and most fertile trees are Tp.e planted on a declivity, and the steeptr it is, though not quite a precipice, the mure feriile they prove. It is well known that the spreading of trees always rend'--s them fruitful. On a pliin they inc!i'4o to shoot upwards; and therefore art isemploved by skilful gardeners, and applied in various ways to check their perp-ndicular, and to promote their lateral growth. But this point is obtained on a di -eiivity by nature. There a tree loses its tendency to shoot upwards, snd in order to preservo its branches parailt I with the wince, is cons trained to put them in a lateral direction. Hence au important

rule in the choice of orchards and fruit gardens. Cure For Peach Trees. ThK3 a light hoe and remove ihe earth from the trunk of your trees. If there are worms there you may detect them fro ..de g in which has exuded, or by the chan lols which they have m;ide in the bark, or if by neither of these, by thedis-l colo a'.ion of ihe bark in spots. Scrape t'.ie 'inrk gently with the back of a knife, ar.-d- you can easily detect the traces of wori is if anv are there. Cut freeL and Iro'.hv both vvavs alonij their track so r.s to. l.-.y bare the channel in its whole length n niove the worm, and the bark will soon iieal. Sometimes four, six and even more wiil be found in one iree. The asAii s of stone coal, blacksmiths' cinders, wotd ashes, lime, the refuse stems of tolUacco, p anting t3nsey around the trunk. these, and dozens ot other remedies are pro' ised. ror our own part we rety sole iy r Jsckknife. In Mareo or April, ai.v0 ngi'-iti oi August or tfjrtt-ai'oci , cordirg to the season, we search tfie trunk thoroughly. We can attend to twenty trees in au hour or to; and when eating freely of delicious peaches we never had a quaJm of regret for hiving so spent the time. We have practiced sowing salt under fruit trees with decided advantage. II one pound of saltpetre be added to every s x pounds of salt, il will yel be belter. We sow enough to mane the ground look moderately white, and prefer to do it in wet weather. Indiana farmer una Gardener. Pruning IL:rdif Crapes. There are many cf our readers who cultivate the fine varieties of hardy grapes, such as the Ca tawba, Blnn J. Issabella, Black Cluster, and others, wtio obtain a very inferior fruit from wanl of a proper pruning and culture. Let this work not be passed over another season. They may be pruned any time during winter, till a shorl time before the commencement of the flowing of the sap. If put off too long, the bleeding or effusion of the sap from ihe wounds will seriously injure them. A week or two is generally sufficient for the freshly cut face to become dry enough to close the sap pores. Sometimes during a long cold season of freezing weather in spring, moderate pruning may be given in safety, which in milder weather would be highlyimproper. It is hardly necessary to give any special directions for pruning hardy grape iues. Those who know how to cut out Ihe thick, crooked, and superabundant branches of fruit trees, to produce thrifty growth of the remainder, and let in the air andsun, can hardly fail in applying the same rule to hardy grapes. Albany Cultivator. To hirRovE Fruit. A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator, remarking on the decline of fruit spoken of by n Mr. Hills on his russei pearmains, indicated by black spots and cracks, says: I think he is mistaken, for I have seen both apples and pears which grew on young trees that were not grafted, in the same state that he names. Nine years ago, I bought the place on which I now reside, and the fruit which grew on the tree that bore the apples I handed to you for a name were in the same condition he represents his russet pearmains to be in. But two years ago I 6etsome plum trees under and near the iree, and wishing to destroy the curculio, if any there were in the ground, and to make the tree grow, I sowed salt about the first of April, at the rate of 4 quarts to the rod. and last spring 1 sowed salt in like manner, and the apples were large and fair. Now 1 think the black spol3 and cracks were a disease, and as the salt has cured ray fruit, I think it will his. A wild goo?e never laid a tame egg.

To the Editors of ihe Louisville Journal: Evansville, Ia4 Aj ril U, 1813. Gentlemen: Will jou permit me to avail myself of the eiiensive circulation of your newspaper in my State, as also of your single-hearted and unfaltering devotion to the Whi cauve, to address a few considerations to the Whigs of Jndiaria.' W ithout further preface, I humbly sumbtnit the following: To the Whig of Ssulian.i. Is the momentous convasa of the coming summer to bo surrendered to your political adversaries? Are you prepared

tamely to yield to the destructive spirit cf Locofocoism, the pressing interests of an indebted State, a violated. State honor, ail hojitst apyoi iioamcu of your rtjirtsenltition, the high character of your sujjraue bench, and your voice in the Senate cf the Untied States? Are these (the very elements of your prosperity and honor) to be made, unresis;ed, the spurt of demagogueism and the spoils of corruption? Whigs of Indiana! ihera is much in the indications of your political horizon to warrant the blunt earnestness of this appe;ii! You are too tame, too listless, too much like men who feel that tie yoke is upon them, and that opposition were in vain. It would seem that the storm, which has so lately passed over you, had buwed your energies, and inclined you to submit to thai fate which you so nobly, but fruitlessly, struggled to avert. This must not be the pervading tone of the patty, fellow comrades, unless you have determined thai from hence forward ihe Whig parly in Indiana shall be disbanded! On ail hands you are met by honeyed demagogues (in many instances by sin cere but timid friends) with the suggestion that, lor four vears, Locofocoism must have its sway; and with the craven deduction that, in the mean lime, Whig organi zation f.ud exertion are uselees; that it will be-the time for effort when the present administration bhall have expired. The folly of this suggestion is only equalled by its cowardice. Acting upon such counsel as thi. what a brave army will answer to a Whig rally in ISIS! How noble and wise the thcties which should disband all the military force of this coun try, -relax all rules of martial discipline, leave the men of-war to rot in idleness and our ordnance to rust in sloth, that a success: engagement, with a constantly . dtiotrd i.r.J powerful enemy, aw-y tc fought four years hence! And this is the deceptive and false policy, which, urged by your foes, and echoed by some of your friends, meets the ear hi by far too many quarters of this Commonwealth. Perish such madnes?! It will be to the unshaken firmness of our organization, to our constant exercise of strength, to our unweari- (I and mi nut-! preparation in every particular, lhat the Whiff triumph of 1 SIS v- ill owe its glory and beneficence. But asioV from this general consideration of the iTictof thi false policy, what, let me ask you. has Indiana to hope from the sway of this spirit of misrule? When has Locofocoism exercised power in this "State, hut to hl.ist and de-nr nd .'A fevv years ago, and an accidental majority of that boi3y"-m.Jir House of IJeprci-entaiives, hy the arhitraryvand unconstitutional art of ejecting from his seat a .legally elected Whig member, and the substitution of a member of their own class, aided by the treachery of a pledged I,occfco Senator, who appeared as the instructed representative of a Whij majority of twelve hundred, succeeded in so altering the complexion of the Legislature chosen by your votes m to install as your representative, that veri est of all devotees to the faction which you op pose, Hon. Ldward A. Jlannegan, in Ihe Senate of the United Stater-'. And well has he perform ed his part in withholding from your needy treasury its share of the public domain, in aiming deadly blows against the protective system which you cherish, and in handing over your free policy to the peculiar' favor of the South! The next scene in the drama was the memorable campaign of the present Executive. The present Governor of Indiana, au active aent in the system of internal improvements, stood opposed to a competitor who had no pa't or lot in that misjudged adventure. In his canvass he pledged to the people relief from the consequen-. ces of that enterprize, in the liquidation of the Stato debt, he denounced the illiberal spirit of party and proscription, promised better times and a parental exercise of power to all the people, without reference to mere political consiJerations. He succeeded, and did ever ma-k conceal features of more political depraviy? His rule commenced in the avowal of a publication, by himself, of an insidious partisan pamphlet, leveled at the tariil" policy,- his progress found him a partv stump-harranguer, whsrever faction called him his limited patronage was invested with a strict eye t his political confederates the 'liquidation' of the State debt is found in the felon brand of practical repudiation, while -relief to the people' speaks in the fearful accumulation of a debt (perchance) upon posterity, and a degraded public faith! And need I turn yo:r memories t the scene of the past winter, as illustrative of the 'tender mercies' of your kind foes1. During the contest of last summer. Indiana waj convulsed with a struggle to settle her representation in the United States Senate. The 8borbiii2- questions of ihe t&nlF policy and the Texas scheme aroused a ferver and strength of exeition altoacther without parallel in our borders. The Senator was the i-sne the Senator to be cho.-en in joint ballot bv the selec'ed legi.-btor-. The contest en 1ed in ywtr t iumph. You sent to y otr capitol a clear majority f t' ekht H j inl ballot,- h'i. in the Senate Jvour r pponents bvancr J y our strencth. Vet Lot abortive proved ell your 'fiord-! In vain did the Whj-; voire, speaking through thr House of Representative, in the name of the constitution rf the majority of the voterin Indiana, and by the olemn sanction of their re coid?d oath, call upon th rcrent Locofoco;

portion of the Senate to im-i t in convention for the purpose of selecting in joint ballot, a "atio. al Representative! Ha-ing barely the power lo violate the constitution, they clung toil without conscience or remorse. After repeated lying pretences, such as agreeing upon a day future in the ctssion for the purpose, that party rinelly shamelessly resolved, aided by the casting vou of their presiding officer, that no United State Senator should be elected! And thus, hy an act ut once God-defying and man-defying, tvai your majority spurned, the provisions of th constitution set at naught, and your presence discarded from the most impoitant branch of th councils of your country! IS'or will you, Whigs of Indiana, fail tu ramember (shocking as was this revolutionary outrage) that even a mote guihful invasion of our interests as a people whs attempted, in the power exerci ed by the h'xecutive of that party. For purpo-es basely and purely partisan for the incari and sole object of rewarding wiih salaries factional stump brawleis of the Kjmmer campaign. Gov. Whitcomh sought to supercede two of tht dUtinguirhed members of the supreme bench, by sending, for confirmation by the Senate for that high post, the names cf such beer house politicians as Mr. Charles Test and W. W. Wickf The ciime of these members of that high tribunal, was not that of incompetency, or want of personal character. As lawyers, they have shed a lustre of jurisprudence of the age in which they live their adjudications are quoted with commendation as authority in every State in the Union they are the pride and boast of the bar of the State, without any party distinction. Then fault is said in a word they are Wu'gtf And therefjre, ar.d for ihe sake of the pecuniary promotion of the veriest frothy mouthed hacks of party, the snpieme bench, that last resort of legal refuge, was attempted to he huckstered away, and with it the protection of the laws of the land.

Al this moment these judges hold but a temportry tenore should Locufocoistn reign in tho next Legislature, assuredly will they bo deposed, and the crime be transferred to, and disgraced by, mere barbecue orators. Such, then, is the experience uf Loccfcco do mination in our own beloved S!ate- Sure'y ' is all-important to Indiana to preserve her boxders from the contamination, though the monster should sweep, with its desolating tride, ovtr every other spot in the Union. In another number of the Journal I wiil advert to other matters connected with this great subject. In the meanwhile I am Your fellow-citizen. AN IDIANIA5T. THAT ABM. In our paper a week or two since wo gave a description of a wonderful artificial arm, just invented m Paris, by a Dutch sculptor, named Van Peterson. Dr. Hoan, a native of this city well known among the curious and scientific as one of th-i most ingenious men alive, the inventor Mid iuiiMoter oi" severe! eorgicai instruments, and the constructor, for the State of New York, of sn improved forge at their Stale Iron Works has since called upon us with the model of an artificial arm. It is certainly in every way equal, and, if we can judge from description of the foreign and examination of the American crtiele, it is in many respects superior to the arm of Mr. Van Peterson. Ten years ago Dr. Bean's attention wa called to this suLjct by the case of a friend who had lost his right arm. He immediately applied his ingenuity to tin production of a substitute, and tho model, which was highly approved by several eminent surgeons, and by a committe of the American Inititute, has lain in a trunk -vi 1 - tl - ever since. Kiier an i more universally useful inventions have claimed his attention. But although this truly wonderful contrivance has lam so I mg, it is now in good wot king order. It would be no bad model to teach 'lie principles of muscular motion for each finger is regularly supplied with flexor and extensor, and by a very simple movement the wearer may take hold of pin or a handspike a drinking vessel, or any other usual object. The finnTS are closed bv a movement of the arm, unaided and untouohed by the other hand; an 1 the hold is released by a simple shrug of the shoulders. It is truly a mo?t wonderful contrivance; and tha many vears by which it antedates Mr. Peterson, gives Dr. Bean the undoubted riiiht of discovery. Had not the revolution broken oul in Mexico, the Doctor would, ere this, have laken the dimensions of Santa Anna's missing limb, and have had a new one under way for hira; an invitation to that service having been officially communicated to him. But a more wonderful because wholly inexplicable contrivanre, is one which ihe Doctor has prepared, and put into experimental operation, for the making of tiles. Hilherto machine made files havj been found altogether inferior lo ihe article made by hand. This file is not only superior, but is made in a way which np workman by hand can possibly imit3to or fquul; and the rapidity with which files can be made by the new process is as ten to one. The most cursory examination will satisfy any machinist of the truth of what we have here said. Dr. Bean has several other curious matters, complete and in progress, which wa have neither time nor liberty to describe. The file, however, may be looked upon as most important. It may, indeed, be termed a nutivxal betuflt as the state cf our country will permit the introduction of such labor saving contrivances, whi in others they couli not be countenanced or used, without rau-nnz misery and perhrps starvation. Philadelphia Sat. Porf. Begin nothing till you have coasidered how it may be finished. A crowd is not cpmp'Sny-.