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MXMOTRS OF THE REV. SYDNEY Surra—By his Dangh- ter, Lady Holland. 2 vols. Harper & Brothers. ‘The subject of these volumes was a writer whose ume was not confined to the cther hemisphere, but whose wit and brilliancy of thought and expression are widely ‘mown and appreciated in this country. The work will, therefore, find an extensive sule in the United States. It ‘opens up a vista of Fnglish life in many phases—high and Yew, social and politich!; ond in that point of view alone would deserve and receive populority here, But the sub- Jeet of the memoir himself is one round whom 80 many plonsont feelings are entwined—about whom so maoy ‘ancedotes, real and apocryphal, are told—that were the Book even barren in all but that, it would be still a most weleome and desirable one. Who is it that has not heard and laughed over some of the witty sayings of Sydney mith? ‘The authoress furnishes in the preface a proof o «he seputation which her father enjoyed among his co- temporaries, We quote the paragraph: 2 must add, with respect to the lettera collected from various sources, that it is a remarkable fact, aa testity- ing the estimation in which my father was held by his eotemporaries, that there are among them many small notes merely containing some trifling message of an in- vitation to dinner; things without the slightest. merit or value in themselves, yet carefully folded up, dated, and ved with the greatest care for years by those who ad received them frem him. ‘his little irait speaks, think, volumes, "i ¥rom these jetters Mrs. Austin has selected those most, ‘aalculated to interest the reader, or in any way to iMus- trate my father’s feelings and character, without special reference to their talent only. Another instance of the same feeling is also recorded:— One evening my father was at his old friend Lord Woodhouselee’s country house, near Be uborg, when a wiolent storm of wind arose, and shook the windows so as to annoy every body present, and prevent conversa- tion. “Why do you’ not stop thems’? said my father; “give me a knife, a screw, and a bit of wood, and Iwill eure it nomont.” he soon elfected his’ pur- is tle bit of wood, and it was christened Fifty years after, one of tho family nding Mr. Tyler papering and patiting this room, ex- élaimed, “Oh, James, you are surely not touchlag 8; ney’s button?” but on running to examine the old plive at the window, she found Sydnoy’s batton was there, preserved respected amidst all the changes of maaters, time and taste. The meme wiitten iv @ tone of pleasant and genial wimplicity, The daughter's love ant admiration of the father are evince! thionghout. Whether the warmth and Kindness of heart of the man. the inimitable wit of the humorist, the true Christian feeling of the preacher, or the humane and enlightened sagacity of the politician 13 treated of, we cannot but feel the same aontiment of ad. memoir. The following ancettote, Muvtrative at once of his genial end humovow manners, wil! suffice on that he: But the pleasantest society ppers. whi giving a general iny who used to ex bg to and varyir guests, At these suppers th attempt at dis- Play, woihing to iempt the palate, bat they ware most eagerly sought after. * ¢ Jt was on ion of one of these suppers that sir Ja to bring with hin @ Higiland regiment, On hearing the name ol he suddenly turned round, and, nudging Sir Jar in an audible “In that the geeat Sir Sudney?? 7 ch amusod; and giving the assumed the mili- » hero of Aere to “Yes, yes,” my father’ th tary charactor, performed the fection, fousriat all bis lvtth ew he he ged the Turks, the young “cot r Kindness and condeceasion of “the great Sir Sudney,” as he calle! him, and to the absolute tortu other guests, who were bursting with suppres at the scene before them. At Inst, after an evening of the mort inimitable acting on the part both of my father and Sir James, nothing would serve the young High- ander hut setting olf, at twelve o’clock at mght, to fetch the piper of his regiment to pipe to “the great Sir Sud- ney,” who said be hod never heard the bagpipes, epon which the whole party broke vp and dispersed instantly, Sor Sir James said his Scotch cousin would infailibly ent his throat if he discovered his mistake. A few days afterward, when Sir James Mackintosh and his Scott edusin were walking in the streets, they met my father with wy mother on his arm. He introdneed her as his wife, upon which the Scotch cousin said in a low voice to Six James, and looking at my mother, “I did ma ken the the great’ Sir Sudney was married.” “Why, no,’ said ir.James, a little embarrassed, and winking at him, “not. ex-act-ly married—only an Fgyptian stave he drought over with him; Fat you know—you uniler- My mother was long known in the little circle as Fatima. ‘The practical nature of his mind is exhibited in the following exiracts from his cssays:— Bappivess is not impossible without health, but it is of very difficult attainment. T do not mean by health merely an absence of dangerous complaints, but that the body should be in perfect tune—full of vigor and alacrity. The longer I live the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca, and that balf the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages, from a duct choked up, froin food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexi duadenain, or an agitated . « ¢ @ Pre ae have nothing new to say upon which the body requires the management the common rules are the Dest; exercite without fatigue; generous living without excess; early rising, and moderation in sleeping. These eve the apothegms of old women; but if they ave not at- tended to happinces becomes so extremely dificult that very few persons can attain to it. In this point of view, the care of the body becomes a subject of elevation and dmportance. A walk in the field, an hour's lees sleap, aay remove all those bodily vexu tions and disquietudes whieh are such formidable enemies to virtue, amd may enable the mind to pu i n resolves, without “that constant train of fo resist, and ob- Ftacles to overcon from the bad organi ays every man i: suppose, that he he period toward his fel assume a character of g Sings, and that, feeling jain, he beomnes ina if this be true of gre ss, it fs troe ina loss deg ‘of the smaller ailments ot the body. no benevolent dispo weereatnres, but that bh tv afinity to hi ‘The following definition of a wive perwon’? ix very | good:— Anice person is neither too tall nor too short, looks feature, makes no TY dehly affronted, end is void of atte Anico person helps you well a you, is always gratetully received b and tory, grave and gay. There is something in the very air of # nice which inspires you with confidence, mak ? talk without fear of malicious ix feel that you are reposing upon « nature which made kind, and created for the benctit and happines« of society. the effect upon te iaind which soft wir te have upon the body ‘A nice person is clear of ti acknowledges superiority , Pardons adver dinner, understands young and oli, whig delights in tal y, (orgives deliciene: all men’s rights, never stops the botile, is never long and never wrong, slways knows the day of the month dhe name of everybody at table, and never gives pain to Ma pom being, anybody is wanted for a part Drat thought of; when a child is Gaughter is married—ail the joys of ‘to nice people; ihe hand of (he Aying wan is al out to a nice person ‘A nice person never Aoes not tread wpon cat, eats soup without ne and has a watch/u! und attentive eye, The Mberality of Sydney “mith's views was shown in the public stand Le took in opposition to the oppres Jawa in existence in Ireland against Roman Cathotios, In ® pnblic speech which he made on this subject under tory administration, and ogulast the feelings of the clergy g nice person ix the stened, when the fe wry coumunicated «held nocks over wine or melted butter he fog's foot or inolest. the family e Iwughs in the right piace, of his diocess, he says, alluting to the eff these laws were producing in Ireland: We preach to our congregations that a tree i known by its fruits, Whot has your system sone ‘Ireland? © Her children. safe wnder no law, live very shadow ofdenth. Has it made Ireland mace Ireland loyal’ haa it mode Ireland r made Jreland happy? From the principies of this sys iem, from the cruelty of these laws, 1 turn, and turn with the of my whote heart, to the memorable Po myer h of these realas bas tely made to his dominions of Hanover: ‘That noma be anbjected to civil incapacities on account of rel opinions.’ This sentiment, in the mouth of a ing, deserves, more than shi glories and victories, the notice of the historian who is destined to tell to future woges the deeds of the English people. I hope be will Javish on it every gem which glitters in the cabinet of genius, and so uphold it to the world that it will be re. membered when Waterloo is forgotten, and when the fall of Paris is blotted out from the memory of man. The following parograph from a letter to the editor of the Bétinburg Review. is aloo WMusteattve of this Hberolity et principle. He says — T hate the insolence, persecution aud intolera hie! so often pass under the name of religion, poo Mp y ; know, have fought against them. ut | have unef tected horror of tralgion and troplety, aad every princi ple of suspicion and tear would be éxcited im ane by a man who professed himself an infide\, ’ ‘The Irish poet, Tom Moore, was ® lroyuent guest ami admirer of Sydnoy Smith, and he has recorded hisapinton ‘of him in those verses:— Raye ydney! Leer the stall where be si: iy every Lonor he deigneth to clim » ‘Hes Pnglond archy form’t all of wits, Whom but Sydney would Engla: aim ps m but Sydney would England proclaim o< 4 find long may he flourish, frowk, mercy and brave, * Wo feast with, a Pavea! to res ae all is nie, but ply Sydney crows We sbail then think the church is | dangor indeod. We regret that v2 can find room for no mare extracts from this memoir of one of tie wost genial of buryor- Site and wisest and bes of The beok will, how- ever, find fe way into the hans of all bis admire and therefore, perhaps, farther « vet Be capreostary, ere if we o from ft would We ther wld | ' condition—wnd in ihe NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1855 Onmurerey or Common Lirs. By J. F. John- ae Appleton & Co. *y ‘The want of a popular chemical literature, which would place the scientific basee of familiar things within the grasp of the humblest intellects, has long been felt, but strange to say, but few have attempted to fupply it. ‘The present work appears tous one of the most successful efforts of this sort that has as yet been made. The sub- Ject# handled are thése which may be said to make op the sum of cur physical existence, such, for lastance, as the air we breathe and the water we drink—the soil we cultivate and the plant we rear—the bread we eat ard the beef we cook—the beverages we infuse—the swoets we extract—the liqnors we ferment—the narcotics we in- dulge in—the odors we enjoy and the mnella we dislike— what we breathe for and why we digest—the body we cherish—and Jastly, the circulation of matter, These topies are all treated with a knowledge of causes, a fe- icity of illustration, and a freedom from technical pedan- tay, which render the work what it{s intended to be— manual of science for children, as well as for adults whose opportunities do not afford them leisure for more miaute researches. We recommend the book to the expecial no- tice of all educational establishments. PANAMA IN 1855. By Robert Tomes, Harper Bro- thers. ‘The Panama of 1855 !s a very diferent plaice from what twas halfadosen years ago. The railroad, and more recently still the electric telegraph, have done their worl: of transformation. Socially, {as well as commercially, everything is now very different irom what it was at the period to which we refer. Most of the Jocal trade in Pa- nama and Aspinwail which was fostered by the delay of the California passengers on the isthmus route, has boen killed by the railroad. Most of the ol familiar faces, too, haye disappeared, and railroat employés and railroad ar- rangements have usurped all the old personnel and ma- chinery of the old clumsy end painful modes of convey- ance, ‘The little volume before us gives us & picturesque view of the Jnthmus under its ni ‘and wll) be read with much amusement and interest. Lancanrp’s ENGuanp--Joln Murphy & Co., Balti- more, Qhis is a carefully compiled abridgement of Lingard’s admirable history, the volominousnoss of which renders it inconvenient for the use of 1s, All the principal links in the chain of historte re peserved, whilst the spit of the narrat nothing from the pro.ess of curta abridged, will pass into very general use with educational establish- ments. Scxnes in the Praoricn or EON, By Edward EH. D ‘The Diary of a Yate Yhysi 4 New Yorg Sur- 1, M.D. an’? was too succe: nt ahit not to find wany imitators. Bat few, however havo be rts the power displayed in that est of the present yol wn veclation of its model, than from the local, and, in ces, well known Us will recall to inind » more or less na abjects. ich ircles, from their singularity. present form will revi by which they wer chavacte ve obtai production in the many of ihe paint companied. Tar Worss or CHarirs edition. ‘This is is one of the best and cheapest editions of this popalar writer's works that has as yet been issued, either from the European or American press. No Ubvary can be esteemed complete without it, Hanrrs anp Men. By Dr. Doran. Redfield. This is an exeoedivgly curious and amnsing work, thongh at best but a ‘thing of shreds and patches.”” Dr. Doran might Lave turned his extensive reading to more profitable account, biti his mind seems to be rather of the old “curtosity shop” order, delighting in the accu- mulation of quaint rubbish. Take the book, however, as it is, and it will do that which many a work of more elevated purpose will fail to accomplish—that of enlisting one’s interest to the end. McCuers’ AupHaners. Appleton & Co. This is a most useful text book for engravers, painters, lithographers, die sinkers, and others, It aifords an in- finite variety of combinations in the formation of floral alphabets, which we did not suppose them capable of. VRANK LESLIE'S GAZETTE OF FASHION AND THE BEAU MONDE. ‘The Octoder nmaber of this excellent periodical 13 out thix month earlier than usual. It presents its readers with a very full andelaborate account of “the open- ings’ of the fall fashions, with minute descriptions of the most noticeable articles in all the leading hou.es. We observe that the literary portion of this magazine has undergone great improvement of late. {t is now in all respects a desirable addition to the drawing room table. MEDICAL WORKS. rer Hoxie, of this city, who is alren treatment of dis Dickens. Peterson’s y so emi- of the chest, Beart and has added to our metropolitan literature by the m of a wonthly mewspaper. alled the yectalist, and is brought out by Sherman & Co., , very elegantly, both as regards paper and The journal is devoted to the diseussion of the causes and trea of diseases of the luni chest, but it contains «0 much use that it in worthy of a place om the 1 table of every able family. The preeent mumber has excoller on medieated inhalation, diseases of the throat ul specialiiies, nasal eatarrh, the pre valence and importance of Juberculous diseases, ant other subjects, We transfer to our columns the tollow ing ably written article on Inhalation, which is pregnaat with useful information to the ng: DICATED INHALATION. ent We hore pre from. whence k eatment of consumption and kinds by inl on, Was first bronglt prominent. d profession of the United 5 7 jonrnal, an explanation of this mode of praciice will naturally be expected to form peentiar and pr it ftom 5 an ‘There is, po haps, no educated physicians know so litle, or entertain suc @ und erroneons impressions, as they do In regard he uction and witleasy of medicated inbalutions, “Bur this is not surprising when we consider that tho little which has been written 0p the «ut serme and un satisfactory in the extreme ‘The great errov i chick the earlie aivoeates of in a speciils remedy form of palnowary . Instead of the facts within their own knowledge and experience to systematic onder, aod, by availing themselves of the observations of otaers, to establish roles for future guidance, they occup'ed them-olves in vain and jealous contentions with each other, about the relative merits of their respective reme dies. This seliien and waphilosophic apiett could only lead to one result, The practice never attained that in portance to which it was ontitlod, Ly pavsned into com) arative tfulnes, without haying beea sab- mifted io any ea s j it was posaitile t venvedial means. tn the wri t Bonnett, Ceient reogan, Mer vhiek the physic tration of medic little more than tire po by inhalation: They p ity and salety of in into the lungs in a state of vapor. cinal agents emplored by them were, ia most fastances of a highly irritating character, and, in the form and manner récommende!, possaas but very Kinidod curative powers. The spparatas used by them mye dec tly eb for the purpose required, whi for testing the success of their own’ ted and finperfect. These opposing intl tun! jealousy exiting among the advooat clige— their want of expecionce—-the injudigioas »elec- tiom of the most active and ireitating ramedios—eand ch: want of suitable mechanical conteiyances—at will ceadily be roen were insnperabie obstacles to the estaiiish invent of » new practice, iu direct comtroverston of the w and teachings of the medical schools of their day. But although they fatied to establish the practtee of imhals r jou On a seeure basis, their lahors have aot beeo fruit less. They acquired’ much of the practical knowledge which was useful, wud so necessary to vciewe, be further progress could Le made ia the investigation in addition to this, it will not be dificult to show, ‘1 even thelr er atiompis at the cure of gousumptiong were aitended with much more success than las even heen attained by any otier form of medication. The basis upon whieh this mode of practice rests, may he explained ina few words. The air we broathe (4 av framediately concerned in the production of disease (hue any other intinence to which we are exposed. It ix sub- Jeet to changes in its tempernture—in {ta density—inr brs amount of imparities whish it comtains—all of which our feelings ond our health. it iu internal surface of the lunge th change in ite temperatnre and © Throgs lungs it acta on the blood, and through the blood on every organ, and mugele, and nerve, pad tissue of the bod Fither in some radical change in the ai Mf, or in the po the carrie < gases, vapors and particles of wh lie the eauses of © continued leve niague,”’ “ yellow fever,” cholera,”’_' ague,” eozs,”’ ond many other waladies, Thr medium the virus of other common ‘iad seal pox,’ *‘ scarlet fover,’”’ and tiseases is spred from house to wa, until it has traversed the hma” has unquestionably an igin, snd “ whooping cough’ we know to be transmitted frou one child to another by the breath. ' bat Mg ainoases, the cause is Inlialed be Peyad ngs, ence taken np by the blood, whic thus vitiated, end the ireulation of which, carries the ptive poison from organ to organ, dept thetr vitall and deranging their tontona, Te Bes ‘of mor’ otur bopee is extablished which involves theentire body. Shis ye the trve rouree of all so-enlled idtopathie diseuses. lu che sass even of | menta, and bolore | ft coal value asa | ‘There are other affections which directly from ‘the action of the sir onthe lining the atr passages. puch are quinsy, laryngitis, croup, and bronchitis, Coprcmption, in the adult, arises trom a vitiated state ofthe Hata tedeted tlines bo abrectieaaian as taoeee air, or by local obstructions, as from eatarrh or bronchi- hich tuteriore with ita state of the weather. The despondency arixing from this ina] on the nervous figiem aero rise Lo the old Srubt ihak te many sernces, ths rpceesioe moses man: ot mount 1e a wi the Mey 4 prevails during ‘mon! ee induces in travellers a suici- dal tendency extremely difficult to restrain. We note rom a change in its electrical state) on the nervous sys- tem, but the probability is, that the influence ix com- pound, and acts both on the blood and on the nerves. ‘We might mention other influcnces of the air, aud its impurities, on our health, of a purely mechanical charac- ter, as the inhalation of ‘the dust of workshops, which frets, irritates, and finally cau-es ulceration of the deti- eate Muing of the air tubes, giving rise to destructive disease; but our aim has been merely to draw attention ‘o the fact that the mort prevalent and fatal discases on- ter the system through the lungs. ‘The knowlege of these {xcts, the strong indications of nature, the rationality of acting on the system through be sane channel by wisich the cause of the disease gains entrance, the case With which we cam medicate the blood through the lungs, and the unquestionable importance of acting directly on the seat of the discase in all pulmonacy affections, led us to tyrn our attention, enzly in our pro fessional life, toa field of such vast and inviting inquiry— to reek for » remedy sufficien' ly potent to stay the ravages of pulmonary consumption, Wewere encouraged to believe rom the hopelessness of the disease, and the acknowledged nefiiciency of cvery well knownand customary treatment, at the cause of failure was to befound in the roundabout and unnatural manuor in which medicineshad been wiinin- istered, rather than in the nature of the disease itself, or the inefficiency of medicines. We observed, that ¢on- sumption manKests itse'f first in the lungs, and is in- duced, in the great, majority of eaves, by some cause which’ directly interferes with their function; that the oxygen of the air reccived by the lunga is the cement of agsimilstion, and regulates to the weight of a grain, the amount of nutriment which can be built upinto the body. We knew that the digestion of food might be perfect in the stowach, end yet that the nutriment so prepared could not nourish the body without the lungs supplied Themenne of its appropriation. I was evident to us that, the disease, by obstructing the air tubes and des- troying the air cells, seriously diminished the quaatity of air received, whilst in a corresponding degree the body shrupk from ‘defective nutrition, and kept pace in rts wasting with the encroachments made by the dis- ease on the capacity of the hugs. And, fom these tucts we became convinced, that if ever a successful treat- ment for consumption was found, it would be, not by striving to acton the lungs through the stomach, but in 4 persevering effort to restore their function, and the purity ot the blood, by following the course of nature, and attaching the disease in the lungs and through the lungs—the channel by which it had gained access to the BY! Imbued with this conviction, we began our historical research of the subject; we dug from among tho mesical iveasures of post ages the forgotten wilting: of ee, Aristotle, Dioscorides, Coleus, Galen, Ort cuna, 4 Alexander Trallian, Rhaves and Seve (4deon Harvey, Sycenbam and Morton, We «i the cobwebs from the neglected volames of yion, Wright, Thompaon, Young. , Fothergill, Rush, Baillie,’ Bed Crichton, Murray, Seucam r and waded through the Fi i ations of Desault, Liewtand, Dufresnoy, Bayle, Valentin, Lonis, Taennee, , Schenck, Fuster, Datnisseax, ‘Turek, Cazenave, Blache, Wetver, ‘Bo: Montezean, ‘Youlny Despartes, Cannal, & Having thus made ourselves acquainted with all (hat had been previously written on inhalation, we em menced aur practical investigations with the advantage of their experience to encourage and divect us; and though we derived more aid from their failure than from their success, both contributed to lighten the labor of and hasien its completion. We remodeiled the inhaling inetrument ; and adapted it, both in the size and shape of the globe and in the length and calibre of the tubes, to the purposes required. We tested experi- mentally, on our own perton, every remedy that is volaiile in its vatural state, or which can be réndsred so by moist or dry heat, and repeating our trials and con- firming their results in the charities of an extensive practice, we thus acquired a practical knowledge of she action of inhaled medicines, not only on the lungs lo- cally, but on the genecal system, by means of their ub- sorption by the extended surface which the lungs pre- sent to the air. The crude materials of the past formed only the basis of researches which on our part have been laborious, protracted, and prac- tical to a degree seldom attempted, and never at{uinable but by those who, in the investigation of medical truths, devote themselves to a special object of inquiry. Having reduced the experience and observation of years to a syatematized mode of practice, applicabie to the various phases of pulmonary disease, we introduced it to the attention of the protession and the public of the United States in 1851. From tbat period we have constantly and with great success carried out the practice, and, in addiion to the publication of a short treatise on diseases of ibe lungs, we reported from time to (ime numerous cases successfully treated by inhalation. In the autumn of 185:, encouraged by the favor with which the smaller work was received, we published a inore comprehensive mphlet, adapted both for popular and professional read- ing. ‘The design of this work appeared to answer the purpore so well that, early in the winter of 1854, wecom- monced the publication of a series of lotters, eighieen in nmoumber, ex vofthe views entertained by us on the nature, 8, and treatinent of aifections of the throwt and lungs. In the month of bronn Mor geols, Chevalicr, he, Lepais, Billard, Van Swieten, ch of the present year we gave to the pages of the American Medi- ion of the practice. The desire sonally and by letter for wiion, smong other respons, induced smmence this Journal: ond we propose now to into such details as appear to be requisite for a Letter undersianding ¢ whole sub- ject, We shall ibrough these pages, lay be‘ore the pro- tessiov and the public, and as rapidly as the time which be «pared trom our pressing professional engage- ments will permit, the respits of our accumulated and g experience, | From a close observation of many thousund ¢ | yents On OUF Own pereon, we have arrf } sions ia relation to the action of which ean be vols , that may not be inhaled with eu ie dose is known, the ™ ned! or regulated « by inhalation, cannot » quaniities of the same Les, Bd. That the o hated, bears pet a tion “of the «ame the stomach; their use, governed by thore priaeip! nece for a dee when given by the which gui winistration through the stomach. { 4th. That inh medicines not only act with great | energy as local applics tions also more speadily. and with greater power and oeztainty, than in ony other form aiininistration, na constitutional alte i loca! cffect, 5 ig, south. foal ap- body, oan by suitable © old remedi ineture of iodine, sed for inhal: ‘vapor of tar,’ chlorine gas,” axe too sti he form usually sed, and” unl t judgment, in- me (he Wings # © progress of the ‘very uisease they are cmployed to cure. Theis efficacy as inhslowts is Umtted, and they should uever bo | Ploged ept in combination with other remedi ith. 1 temperature, at which medicated vapors should be inl epends on the kind of vapors it is cessary to employ, andon the effect to be i P til number and in most ins hers require to be dec ly compound 4 uporated fr sand-bath, burned as pastille or gou (ed by chemicol reaction, the vapor being diffused ovgh the oir of the patient's room, But the largest nd most eificacious class of medicines used as inhalant 7 ble infusions and extracts. These are inhuled of sneh temperatere as to produce a vapor of the wareatt the breath, which of ali others is the patural, most weeable to the patient's feet ihe moet curative tn its olfecta, tA claim no merit for priority in suggesting the teasi- ity of tnhaling medteines, To iahale is as natwenl as and has probably occurred tothe miad of a thousand times. To chim a “new syx- ape te heplphabenrentm 4 is- » of breathing, ov a new passage to ch. But it is one thing Yo kuow tat we one iclues, and naother ta kaow what medicines we ought, and in what proportions we should fabale thew to ere disuwe. The former is within the obscevation of every out, while (he latter can oniy beeaue knowa to the wost proound phyecian alter loug and patien! expe- nougd that he is experienced in the tion of medicines Ly the stouich. Some medi nas been already stated, boar no relation, @ithor or action, when labeled, to the same melicines exhibtved by the stomach. Some remedies which are #9 simple in their x¢tion when taken into (ve stomach, that we dees dispoved to queation whether be mot wholy inert, act with great violence when inhaled. Others, again, which are potent in the stomach, are almost wita- out apparent effect in the lung. We are prompted by experionce when we afin that theerizing in regard to the action of medicines i the Wriewt quackery moginable. There is but one test oftheir efficacy, and that i We Laveao it to aswumee any feet with eo to the therapentic eifects of ang medicine; but whatever is established as the frat of experience cannot be controverted, and {5 above all thoory. The early experience of Retr Mae roe after bemg fully instructed ia the principles of inbalstion, Will surprise him by most unexpected results, and he vill soon learn that all bis knowledge, of the doses and oyeration of medicines in the stomach, is of littiewervice a6 guide to inhalation, We bayo attained the following results from inhalation in (ue treatment of pulmonary disease — Jet. Iu chronic eatarrh, idhalation, when combined of the catarrh ayringe, ig an almost ‘4. In eheonié affections of the larynx, uncompliea te wich phthists, and in ehronie bromehitis, a proper yer persevering use of the inhaler will seldom disappoint ‘he patient of core. In most cases the action ix apeely, and ae apparently specific, as in catarrh. id. In incipient consumption, when the const! ioe, enables np to arrest the ent of and ly to attain com; | cere plete restoration of the every phy tom ofinhali ie 4th. In the recond of consumption, the de- itions exiet as crude tubercles, the disease con. ned to a cirewmscribed part of one hae, one the stitution Nes ghey Sa , cue takes place a two ways:— abeorpiton, sometinnes fol ten ition of Nneleesstos matter; and second, by the ening of the tobercular matter and its expulsion from the lungs by expectoration, leaving an open excava- tion or phen ge fr iw au mavently “featrized under the uetion of the inhaled '. Sth. In the last and confirmed of consumption, é. , when a greater or less proportion of the jung is alread: broken down, forming an ulcerous excavation, the poxsi- bility ofcureglepends whoily on the extent of the dis- ease, and the amount of constitutional taint and dis- turbance, If the destruction is limited to a part of one lung, and circumscribed by healthy lung, as ts often the case, cure takes place clcatrization of the cavity, in the ame manner as in the second stage. If the disease, on the contrary, involves the whole of one Tong, the prospects of recovery are greafly diminished; but still cure is povsible, ‘80 long an tbo other lung retafos its integrity and is un- obstructed in its function. There are in this city many such cases, whose recovery under treatment by inhala- tion, from a condition almost hopeless, has proceeded so far that th song and expectoration have entirely sub- sided, and they gained considerably in flesh and strength. Wo have particularly observed in all such cases, tbat they zemain stationary in flea considerably below their former standard; which fact proves satisfic- torily how entirely the capacity of the inngs regulates the appropristion of nutriment. They are cavily put out of breath; the number of respirstions per minutes in- Canty hae OH often to Sweat paves, aud in a cor- ree ce the frequeney of the pulse, When both Jung: spauneny.s in extensive disease, cure is imposible, and it is folly ever to hope for so great an improvement in. the healing art as to embrace these cases among the list of curable, The most that can be accomptirhed is to afford relief. Weean De nyo cleanse the Jungs from the mucus and pus which ob- structs the bronebial tubes, and thereby add greatly to the easo of breathing. We can also soothe the congh and allay the irritation of the lungs, so as to promote sleep snd make the patient. compara‘ively comfortable. But, in deflance of any skill within the power of man, death is inevitable—the duration of life is buta ques- tion of weeks or months, 6th. In spasmodic asthma, depending on irritability of the pulmonary nerves, or arising from chronic bronchial disease, inhalation affords prompt relief, and in the great majority of cases so alters the condition of the mucous membrane, and overcomes the morbid sensibility of the nerves, a8 to entirely break up the disease, even though of many years’ duretion. th. In whooping cough inhalation is prompt and radi- cal, effectually breaking up the cough in from ten days to four weeks. 8th. In chronic pneumonia, and in the acute form after the active symptoms bave been subdued by antipblogistic treatment, convalescence is greatly hastened and ensured Dy the vse of warn soothing inhalations. ih, In typhus and searlet fevers the bronchial compli cation, on Which oll the suifering and much of the danger depends, is promptly relieved by suitable inhalatlons. 10th. Inall chronic coughs, especially those affec old people, and arising frou dry or humid bronehiti from morbid rensibilfty of the pulmonary macons mam- brane, inhalation aflurds the greatest amount of relief and comfort, ‘These results are drawn from an extensive field of ob- sevation, embraciug a yery large number of cases, the history, progress, and termination of which we have 'y carefully recgrded, In the present instance, our de merely to introduce inhalation to the profesion as @ a7s- tematized mode of practice, reserving the full elucidation of its principles until a future period. When we have completed the history of inhalation we shall faraish a statistical report, showing the gross nuinber of cases of nimonary diseace treated, the number of each form of ase, the number treated in the first, second, and oh third stages of consumption reepectively, toguther with portion of recoveries aud deaths i each. In discussing the metita of inhalation, it is our inton- tion to deal in facts only, and we may as well state heve, that we cannot consent to engage in any idle speculations, as to whether consumption arises from {impeded function of the lungs, which we regard ws the chiet if not the ouly cause when occurring after five years of age, ovis merely a secondary affection symptomatic of an inherited consti- tutional ‘dikease, as it is usually regarded. This latt cpimon—tbis doctrinal dinthe-Le—seems to ua to have eu- dured too long for the eredit of medical selence, or the good of the afilicted. It certainly nas been attended by no beneficial influence, wither in extending our kuow- ledge of the disease itself, or anadvancing the eflicacy of the treatment usanily employed. It is a vague and un- ratisfactory theory, and obviously calculated to baille re- search, and retard @ true and_phillosophloal explana’ ion of the nature and causes of pulmonary consumption, Inhalation, as a systematized mode of practice, is es- sentially distinct from that indiscriminate use of par- ticular medicines which we have daily to deplore. When we have completed our explanations, and laid the statis- tics of our practice before the profession, the whole mat- ter will properly form a subject for review. But at the Prevent time, we cannot but regard the physiolan as standing in the same relation to this practice, that the student does to the prinelples of medicine. He knows no thing about it from previous education or experience, and requires to be not ovly taught the principles, but per- mitted to observe the practice, befure he can become in any degree able to judge of its importance, or to employ it with success. Our daily experlence furnishes ample proof of the correctness of this observation. Recently wo were called toattend a gentleman suffering from subacute pneumenia, and after a careful examination of the state of the lungs, imformed him, that his was mo ene for holation at that tine—in fact, that it would rather do him harm than good. “But, Doctor,” said he, «I have Leen ivhaling;’ and, on inquiry, to our great astontsh- ment we Jearned, that the medical man in attendance had actually ordered on inhalation of fodine, which he had been veing for nearly a week. Of course the inflam- mation had been aggravated, and the patient's live perll- led thereby. And let it not be supposed that the fiyat cion in question wos a mere tyro in practice, He fiad the advancage of age, a high professional reputation, and Lolds a proteseorship! Now, the cause of the doc- error was very shmple, A short time previous to the above cecurresee we were called to attend a case which had also been under his care. ‘The diseaso was chronic pucumonia, ending in an abseoss. He bad pro- nounced the ease hopeless, probably from supposing there were also tubercular depositions. This caxo rapidly re- covered under inhalation, and doubtless, produced a strong impresston on his mind. In the second ease he wus Cetermined to be the tirst to propose {nhalation, and the experiment nearly cost his patient’s life. Reprerp, of Beekman street, has brought ont the se- cond edition of Doctor W. Bodenhemer’s work, entitled ‘Practical Observations on some of the Diseases of the Rectum, Anus end Contiguous Textures.” The book is Ww U printed and bound, and illustrated with plates fhith- fully exeoutcd. Doctor Bodenhamér’s treatives on the vatomy and physiology of the reetum and anus, with 3 theory of t ‘1 consequences of consti- Htion, pil ses caus tula in Which are incident to those hidden corporate regions are plausible but not at all new. His reavons for condemn ing the modes of care, by excision and cauterizetion, pur sued by surgeons from the the lime of the European pr of our own surgeons, are wot of treatment cannot be ca of Hippocrates down to ors, with that of some explained. His own plin seedas it is not alle to fally. At poge No, 80, the chapter on ‘Superstitions ‘Treatment of Hemmorrhotds,” would have been well omiited. It is doubtful if practice of the “priestly and monkish" philanthropists of the early days of Christiani ty was not as beneficial as that of ihe modern plans of Jol Tong, some Brighton (Eng.), ‘anal «trieture’? spiritual electrists, or that of many othe clieal readers ean judge. WORKS ANNOUNCED. Jacnson asp New ORnE. s.—-Though unqnestionably the mort resarkable military event im our anaals, and one of the most surprising In its results of moiern b tory, it is strange that Jackson's great defence of Orleans in 1814 and 1816 should have heen 46 vag and variously weitton. No two aceouuts have ever agreed upon even the chief ocourrences of this campaign, Many assorted facts, witch have heretofore been received and reproduced dy all historians, have heen pronounced by those who onght to know, obvions fictions, But the refictations are yet far behind the fletlons, Thus we Gud engraved on the land warrants lately tsaved by our gov- ernment, for military services, a picture of Jackson at New Orleans, mountes! on « fine horse, helind cotton bags, directing the defence of his lines, with the British in the background charging the Amerteans, This is « reprodue- tion, under the national imprimatur of two dictions, which will be recognived by all persons who fgaved om this inte- resting occasion. The firat, as to the cotton bags, which in faot composed no part of Jackson’s lines, and second, i moantiag the Geeeral and his aids on horsenack, wi would have unneceseartly exposed them to the British fire. We cite those as instances of the carelessness with which gur annals are written ; how our own governmont lt been made a party to the perpetuation of radical bistori- cal errors. Weare pleased (o learn that we are soon lo have an authentic history, which has been written ou the spot with groat cure and Sadustry, as well as with graphic power and intevest, of that brillfant campaign which rescued the great commercial emporiam of the South and the valley of the Missisaippi from Britieh do- mination, and constitutes (he brightest page in our hi+ tory. This work will issue in a few weeks, from the press of J, 0. Derby, and ts entiied “Sockson ond New Or leans,”’ Portions of it have appeared in a Sunthern journal, and have olicitel very warm commendations. It is said to,combine the graphic ond dramatic interest of 2s romance with the solid reliabloness and authenticity of history. Mrs, Sonthwork’'s mew work, The Deserted Wife,’ will be published at the end of the present wonth by Peter- son, of Philadelphia. Report «peaks favorably of its me- vits. Mrs. Anne $, Stephens’ new novel of the ‘Old Home- stead” will be published by Bunce Brothers carly next wenth. The evme publisheralso annonnces two stories by Marian Janne, entitled “The Rider sister,’ and “Bthel, or the Donble Error.’ men, specialists. ‘ow oly Norvoux, Sept. 20-1234 o'clock. The news continues very sad. The firm of O’Brien & Quick will close to-day, on account of the illness of the remaining partner, Mr. Benj. Quick, who is very low. This firm closing, there will be but one firm remaining to at the dead. How they are to be interred, God only ows. Tt appears that, from the opinions of physicians in our city, the weather for the past two or three days will prove most disastrous to those who are now sick, but will prevent many more new cases occurring. Among those now lying very low, I am pained to cite Fara T, Summers, one of the City Fathers, and a most active laborer in the cause of suffering humanity. Mr, Summers has rendered himself quite popular here, by his suecess in pevatining what is called ‘‘the bile fi acta which he has been patupe dy. es 5 Surrey, or some county, is very low. Doubts are entert: poy a he Granier, a ysician of Norfolk, has been sick, but is poe wel 008 the arduous duties of his pro- Alexander Galt, postmaster of Norfolk, is reported Heke Tags Sntetinge by Charioston. piscine that nearly all ihe Southern doctors are down. God help us in our extremity ! for the simoon of disease is sweeping us away like stubble before the wind—notbing can resist its yrogress. ‘ihe disease in the now cases has assumed a more malignant character, ss ap the victims off be- ‘ore the remedies applied ean ac! James and William Limley, two well known young wen of our city, Yam pleased to inform you are conva- ‘escent. My letter to-day in very much dissonnocted. J have written in haste.and_ much anxiety of mnlnd, being con rected with the firm of O’Brien & Quick. The deaths during the twenty-four hours enting at the time J write, are as follows:—Captain Arm- strong, Mrs. Cane, John Thomas, Miss Hurst, Pe- {ex Mines, (colored) Abram, (save of Thomas West,) Patsie Buskte, et "Downs, Kdward James, Mr. Hule and wife; Newton Armstend, Miss Mary B. Dudley, Geo. Howlct, 2 eons ot W. Sorey, Mr..Parr, A. Vell, 4 years ; Miss A. Briggs, Catharine Taylor, Thomas ‘taylor, Wm. Gibson ‘child ors. Veala: Polly Wallington, (colored); Miss A. E. Shuister—total 23. ‘The tollowing 1 obtained by the kindness of the gentle- manly principal oi the Howard Infirraary, Dr. Charles Robinson : REPORT OF TEE HOWARD LNFIRVARY SINCE URS ESTHIISIMENT. ‘the total number of white patients was:— Adults, male,,., De. female, Children, male. Lo. — femaie., ‘Total,... peeseseaseese ‘The total number of deaths was Adults, mate To. femal Children, male Do. femal To number 4 Adults, male.. Lo.’ female Children, male To,’ femal Total Number » Crand total, ie 162 Nate of mortality to the 19th inst., forty-eight and one fourteenth per cent among the whites. Total number of the colored patients of Howard Infir- mary — Admittances to the 1th inst., mgie and female 67 Deaths. Ne . . tee Discharges, Remaining. Total......+ Rate of moriniiiy, 10 44-100 per cent. Although the eliange of weather has obliged us to light fires in the infirmary, its effect is more banetul on the fatients now under treatment than it| would otherwise have been; but probably if ft still continues, we shall feel the benefit on those n attacked. We ‘to an- nounce that, by over- ‘ion, the nurses are way, and mumbers of them are at present on the sick list. Mrs. Seaman is very low. CHAS. ROBINSON, For Howard Infi ‘. The admittances to day were:—Emma, a slave; N. How- ard, from Orphan Asylum. Deaths to-da Mrs, Chary and W.Inge. No disc on account of the weather. Dr. Charles Robinson, principal of the Infirmary, is left almort singly and alone to disc the duties of his proudly eminent position. God help him! We would wehed some more like him. ea apt. Fer 80D, e energetic President of the Howa: ‘Areotiaisont toate sie ‘The weather to-day is quite coo!—overcoate are found comfortable. NORFOLK. RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERERS BY THE LIQUOR DEAL- ERS OF NEW YORK. We understand the liquor dealers have appointed com- mittees in the several wards to canvass them for the re- lief of the Novfolk sufferers. In the Third ward, through the actixe exertions of Mesars. Harrison & Malony, $700 have been raised, Mesers. Treadwell & Acker, of the ft. Nicholns Hotel, have liberally subscribed $500 fur the rnme object. THY RELIEF FUND. 13 Georgetown, D. C.. 400 New Haven 02 Taneaster, . 1,709 Brooklyn Navy Yard 1,500 Philadelphia do. 2,200 Charlestown do. 1,600 weve 1,350 1,063 1,000 Gneinnatl...'. 1,000 Raleigh, N. C. 1,000 Lynchburg, Va 1,000 Augusta, Ga. 1,000 Mobile 1,000 Newark, 3 Sulphur § 1.000 Wilmington, Del _ Other sources...... 10,000 Total,.... cee BITS, 166 Obituary. 11 is seldom that upon the records of death is placed a nome that bears with it so many associations caleulated to fill the heart with sorrow and sympathy for the be- reaved, as WaRwerpus Coren. We need hardly mention the fact that he was the son of the Rey. Elias Cooper, who was for thirty years rector of St. Paul's chureh, Yonkers, ond cba; lain in the Con- tinental army. ‘Ihe name of Elias Couper is still nel! dear in the hearts of tho old_resiients of Westchester county, and the services rendered by hin will ever be gratefully remeinbered by posterity. For reventy-lour years he had been a fuithfal solifer in the ranks of life, semiily advancing to the grave with an upwaver'ng step, serving his God with an humble confidence in his wisdom that onde his lntter days one continuous ee, of sunshine, whose warmth was felt throvghort the large cirele that surrounted him, whose rays will linger sround the hearts of many devoted friends, diffusing a boly influence over thefr path where Le has gone before them. It was not only in the service of his God that he was | ‘was not forgotten, and upon that list which every American holds sacred, his name is en- rolled as cne of her defenders. A veteran of 1812 he lived and died, remaining (o the last» firm supporter of that constitution whose infeney he had witnessed, and whose wide-spread inftucnce of “dlaseminating happiness to the whole human race was mede manifest ere the cur tain dsopped upon the scenes of carth. ‘Thus, cue by one, the connecting links between the past and-prosent are being severed; soon the last living witness to those hallowed times of bygone days will have passed away, The records of those good men’s lives Should be engraven upon our hearts, and cherished as a sacred memory, Bees MAJO# OFNERAL SIR NOVERT NICKLE. News has arsived ot the death of Major General Sir Robert Ni-kle, commander of the British forces at Mel- bourne, Australia. This officer entered the army in De cember, 1798, as exvign in the S8th regiment. On the Tah ot Joly, 1807, he volunteered aud led the forlorn hope at Buenos Ayres, on which occasion he was very s- verely wounded. Two years afterwards he embarked with the 88th for the Peninsula, and remained through- out the whole of the Peninsular campaign, from 1809 to 1814, with the exception only of a few montha’ absence, rendered necessary to recover from his wounds, At the veeegnized; bis count final battle of Toulouse he was dangerously wounded. | borheed to soothe the raving Teniente, ' Heerved efterwerds tn the Americas, wat, und bero, | rambu,”” said he, Le hus ridleuled the ‘law,? and he too, he was wounded, leading the advance ‘across the | shall sleep with hix neck in the}etocks.”” The 7 Saranac river. When’the insurrection jn Canada broke | of the foundry did noi resist) ‘but simply dec he out, in 1837, Sir Robert Nickle offered his services, which | hed not been guilty of what hewas secused, and that were accepted, In 1863 Six Robert was tid com- | slive he would not have his in tno stocks. mander of the forees in Australia, Riots out ut | Whilet a light was Leing by which to the gold diggings in December, 1864, and Sir Robert “stocks,’” a party who stood by hastened to cafe proctsaes to ao boy : Mrs force * | p e nee) eee known to posvoss great in- well them, wewer, thoug! force at isposa’ vence over the ote. wie larga, be rote without ecort among the dggess ex: | ah tbat sarty reached the oct, the Tentente wae horting them to peace; and such was the effec we i + v! proprietor ous ieagures slong with conciliatory. manners 1 ee 6) Goes eds whiopered in bie eat, however, by tranquillity was restored. It was midsummer in the antipodes, and the hottest tummer which had been seer Fir fichert, whilé sbiy and hgoancly performing Mi sun, Sir Robert, while ably a: mmanely is duty, was struck with illness, which ended fatally in the month of May following. He was under ve when he died, bot wat not twenty-one when he frat 9 forlorn hope, His military career was arduous, extending itself over many parts of the world, and was moreover distin- guished by repeated proofs Doth of calm judgment and impetuous bravery. Hon. Thomas Doveras died in Jacksonville, Morido, ow the th instant. Judge Douglas was United States At- torney for the Northern district of Florida, before it be- come n State. Mr. Piscnor, fora great number of St Genevieve. Miseoori, died on the 16th inst. was often accused by persons there who were acquainted with his carly escapades, of ning to Latitte’s band, ‘and fought under tbat pirate’ flag. The charge was ne. ver ‘and hax copequently asumed the shape of eo As he was, beep " nee ~ vd _ citizen, ne one thought eoanrary 5 with Win. of 9 wenther- beaten fa Seeperate and bravely fought battle Hanvay Persist, of Attica, Wycming county, N. vated on the 20th lnst., aged (2 years, Me. P. was an and respected meander of the bar at the tit onl ide gd sited segeral ineportaoh sooreree, of his pte nee with credit to welt and useful to public. He wae several years in the State Senate, pnd subsequently e representative ip Congiens, years a citizen of Our quiet village was thrown into great excitement on. Wednesday evening, by a stabbing affray, of which the result is likely to be fatal to one of the parties engaged. ‘The particulars of the case, as I gathered them on the- spot, are as follown— A German named Meyers, who follows the occupation of a shoemaker, and resides on Lackawana street, # very respectable man withal, and highly esteemed by his neighbors, had for some time entertained suspicions of the fidelity of his wife. There were circumstances which induced him to belfeve that she was on closer terms than she had a legal right to be with a man whom he had re- cently employed as a journeyman in his shop. The in- dividual thus suxpected of usurping his marital position ‘was an Irishman of the name of English, who had been in the village only about a month, having come last from New Orleans, On Wednesday evening English left the shop at about nine o’clock, with pair of boots in his band, aeging that he was going to take them-to the owner, leaving Meyers at work in the shop. Meyers, suspecting this was only a cover to the design of visiting his wife, left the shop (which is within the house where he resides) soon after, proceeded softly to the entry, and listened at the door of his sitting room, where he overheard his false spouse and her paramour fn affectionate conversa- tien. Meyers at once opened the door, and entered upon he guilty pair. But the scoundrel who has destroyed bis peace was not unprepared for the wy, and wasas ready for further outrage as he had been {9s the first wrong. Without any. other provocation from the injured husband than that of being discovered by him, he rushed upor him immediately upon his entrance, drawing long shoe knife which he had kept about his person, well sharpened in anticipation of the occasion, and plunged the deadly instrument three times into his bod; Eavice in the upper part of the abdomen, and once in the groin. The alarm was soon given, and a crowd collected, among them several oflicers, who found the murderer still re- maining with his victim, He had made no effort to excape, and readily guvo himself into the officers” bry pre lie 4 ng bgt kg Be the party ‘hat had done the . now Hes iting ti a rnlt of is murderous assanit. mamas erating the re feyers was immedia’ely removed from bis own bouse: to more comfortable quarters in the Mansion Honse, near yy where he was d by « physician, who declared the chances of his recovery very slight. The mental con- oitien of the wretched woman whose infidelity was the jeading cause ig horsible transaction, is anythh but enviable. i ehetind ‘This village, (a portion of the town of Kingston) the termini of the Delawere and Hudson cansl, is, under the Mimulus of the coal business, growing rapidly. Ita popu- Intion, between the cenvorial periods of 1850-6, has about doubled. About twenty steamboats (owaed in considerable part here) #re connected with the place, there being 2 regular daily sveamboat communication with New York. It# prosperts for the future are so that some of its neighbors are getting rather jealous, and are enceavoring to undermine the causes of its prosperity. he Fougbkeepsions seem especially distarbed. They have now in Land the project of a turnpike to run from Moyd's juniing to Wawareing, by which they hope to t the canal traflic to their own town, It is ‘announce? in the Poughkeepsie journals, that the tock is nearly all taken up, but the faeb is, the Fovgh\eeprians themselves have little faith in the enter- prise, It will probably fail, but even if the road should be constructed, it will take more than this turnpike to Givert the strenn of proxperliy that now flowy upom tondout. ivert a large portion Our Havana Correspondence. Havana, September 12, 1855. The Palace of the Caplain General— Apartments to Let in it —A Republican in Search of Rooms—Hor Ha Liked the Accommodations— Official Treatment of United States Citizas—A Large Capitalist ond a Small Lieutenaat. You have been in the Havana, and are aware that the ground floor of the palace is occupied on either side, and in the rear, by tailors, a coffee and soda water room, # fonda, or eating house, and by « barber's shop. Untit recently, in the north side and in the front or the build- ing, there were the offices of various notaries, but these were forced to remove to afford additional accommodation to the officers on guard, and to afford the electric tele- graph an office close to the residence, or rather in the same building in which the Captain-General resides. Fntering a tailor’s shop on the south side of the palace (above which, in large letters, is the seductive words Frotolipode la Moda), a few days since, with the view of being measured for a coat, my attention was attracted by a placard at the docr, exhibiting the words “Se Alquila uartos para hombres solos’ (rooms to let for or to single men), it occurred to me that I, albeit a plain republican sTam, had as perfect a right to occupy rooms in a lace as even the high and mighty General Concha him- elf, so I enquired of the tailor if I could ree the apart. ments, ‘Certainly, sir,” he replied, and inetantly conduct. «d me up stairs, where there were two suits of “rooms ty et. Neither of them, though, suited my taste. They avye'not sufficient height, and there is but « single win- dow to each room. They are floored, too, to use a bull, with ordinary bricks. Is it not significant that there ould be rooms to let in the very palace itself? The building, as you know, is not of such vast extent as to lead to the supposition that it would or conld not be en- tirely oceupied by the Capt.-General and his euit. Yet such is not the fact, and fora poor twenty dollars a month; the rarkest filibuster in Mississippi, even Gen. Quitman him. self, wight occupy two roomsin the palace of theCaptain General of Cuba! I must, however, add, that they do not possess any of the modern improvements ; there |< not even a “‘cloget.’’ much less a bath room, attached to them; and for mysalf, I would not exchange my comfort- able quarters in (you know where, but General Conche oes not), noteven to reside in such rooms, beneath the some root with that important personage himself, A citizen of the United States—a quiet, inoffensive man —has recently become the proprietor of the foundry aud machine shop at Bemba, which is situated some six leagues from Cardenas. The establishment ia one of great convenience to the orga in its immediate neighborhood, they being enabled to obtain any requisite repairs io their machinery or agricultural implements, which but for ite existence they would have to send many miles to have performed. Some six weeks age 4 meseenger came to the proprietor of the founary with a message trom the Tenfente (Liew- tenant) of the Partido, (district), requiring him to forth- with send a man and horse to go upon patrol. The pro- prletor of the foundry sent a civil messsge in reply, that he exceedingly regretted it was out of his power to fultit the command ; that his men were upon wages of four oliars per day, and his horses been so over- worked as to Ue entirely unfit to travel. To thiy civil reply was returned a command conched in no gentle terme ya: Seo the man was not of so much consequence, but that the horse must be seni. vaahle to go te the country to-day,’’ said the pro- prietor of the foundry, “although business called me bere, in consequence of the bad coulition of —. ard 1 cannot, therefore, send one; but let a jnired, and I will pay for it.” ‘The only answor to this wae ontice that a is of eight dellsrs had been imposed, which must be paid in stam) pare: within forty-eight hours. To pay this fine of cight dollars two sheets of siamped paper would have been requisite, and as ther: rheets each cost five dollars, the fine hoposed was posi tively ten dollars. As no further demand was made for the it wae suppesed that a little calm second thought had led to the conciusicn that it woul be exceedingly unjust to impose so heavy a fine vnde: the mstances of the of the 6th ins:., the pro- ¥ ense, lowever, on the eve j prietor of the foundiy war ritting, taking a reireseo with — two friends at the Dominica at Bembe (they havo Do- minica in almost every little town in the {siand), when the -Teniente of the Partido” entered. After the custom ary sa quired, to boy the other day?’ when the Teniente rushed ot him wit! the ferocity of @ bull deg, setzed him by the shirt bosom end vest, attemptcd to swore he would put ils neck this, Imay observe, | \* dignity that can be offered to the white man. In vein did all the respectable persona in the immodiate he gentleman above 16 to, soon 4 ' ning maligne nt), upon the ot os meee eer tee bi has over me, do not sleep thi- ight with your neck in the stock” The portion here mor! tenicnte sent a special dix 4] ted. Ps ‘count of t) ‘tale, This tein to Pembe, when be sent for the foundry, who, however, had been a of the by the waltreatment he bad endured, as to be to hiv bed, where the captain vette}, and told him state ment that the teniente bad made relating to mat ter. Upom being mace acquainted with = of ibe cave, the captein said, OT it must be so; f bave known you three years’ and. willing to obey the laws, quiet ene must have been efiber mad or 7 ieprimond him, and give bim orders not to you again, bat that if he has any ocession | iny messages to do so through your clerk.’ 12@ satisfaction a respectable mam can of and treated a murcerer or @ robber. ‘Ube S;anish steamer Hal s TL fret prt ere oe . io fpein some Ls red lelleve afew esbln ecotcely, I al 1 +o wueb, a8 ? ‘@ report that the leerel . e har nd that be