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French Bravery.
[^It would seem that the French, not
satisfied with overthrowing armies of
terrestrial beings, have been trying their
skill in a contest with the clouds. Ac
cording to the following account, they
have been so far successful, that not e
ven hail or storms are able to stand be
fore them.]
M. Leschevin, chief commissary for
gun-powder and salt-petre at Dijon, has
suggested a method of averting show
ers of hail, and dissipating storms. The
memoir in which he has related the dis
covery, as he conceives, is long ; but we
shall be able to present the English
reader with the results in a few words.
1. He would excite in the air strong
commotions, capable of shaking the par
ticles of water adhering to it, so as to
produce abundant rain. This is to be
done by the sound of great bells, the
noise of guns or drums, by the denota
tion of the fulminating powder, and by
the explosion, in the middle of the
clouds, of rockets directed towards the
place where the clouds are the thickest.
2. ile would establish energetic con
ductors between the clouds and the
'e arth, either from fires lighted from a
distance, and kept burning by supplies of
dry substances, or by the disengagement
ol humid vapors; or the combustion of
resinous matter.
3. He would draw off the electricJ
fluid, which is in suberabundance in the
clouds, by a multiplicity of thunder
rods : he would establish these conduc
tors on those sides from whenc€ the
winds chiefly come, and these are to be
fixed on elevated places, high trees, &c.
We are informed that the practice re
commended in this memoir is made use
of in many parts ol France with the
greatest success. [ London Print.]
An operation was performed on
*7 hursday last, in the Pennsylvania Hos
pital, in the presence o! Doctors Physic,
Wistar, Parke, James, Bryant, and o
ther Physicians, and about fifty pupils,
on a Wen upon the face and neck ot
John Butler, from Halifax, North-Car
olina, aged about 28 years, which, when
extracted, weighed five and an half
pounds, and had been growing about se
ven years.
He was an hour and 20 minutes under
the Doctor’s hands, and bore the opera
tion with the greatest fortitude.
The success of the cure of James
*Haycs, froiu whose face, about eighteen
months since, a Wen, weighing seven
pounds, was extracted in the Hospital,
and whose cure having been published
in many of the newspapers, and seen
therein by the above named John But
ler, induced him to come above five hun
dred miles, in hopes of receiving from
the institution the same benefit.
The result cannot be yet known, but
there is no apparent symptom at present
but what promises well.
It is reasonable however to suppose,
that the sooner such protuberances are
removed, the chance of a radical cure
is much greater; it would be proper
therefore for those persons who require
relief to apply for it, before the wen
attains the enormous size above men
tioned ; seeing that by delay their suf
ferings are increased, and the operation
becomes more dangerous and critical.
[Philad. pap.]
On Sunday last, 4 lads, walking in the
north Fields, found deposited in the
trunk of an old tree 21 gold and other
watches, &a quantity of gold jewellery,
which proved to be the remainder of the
goods stolen from the shop of Jabez
Baldwin, on the night of the 24th of Oc
tober, 1805, part of them having been
found in the hospital in Great Pasture
in the winter following; those now found
have doubtless lain in the hollow of the
^ree for nearly 19 months.
mrhc concurrence of circumstances
which have attended the loss and the re
covery of this property, is truly remar
kable. The amount was between two
and 3000 dollars and in articles of such
little bulk as to be easily conveyed away
and concealed. .-From two mere acci
dents, the whole, it is believed, has been
recovered, at two distant periods of
time, and in two different places, with
out the exception of enough to reward
the villains w ho stole them with a single
dollar ; and to tins day it remains a mys
tery w ho the villains were, and a matter
of uncertainty whether they continue in
the bosom of the tow n, or have fled
through fear of detection.
[Salem pap. April 23.]
Mark the Villain !!!
Some time in December last a man
who calls himself IIardy Floyd came
into Cheraw district seeking an over
seer’s birth. After one or two unsuc
cessful applications in the neighbour
hood, he was employed by Messrs.
Mitchell and Hide to attend to their <
farm, in the capacity of an overseer,
they having agreed to make a joint crop.
He began early in January, and continu
ed with them fifteen or twenty days.
But his profession was not that of hon
est industry. He paid his addresses to
a young lady of tender years,—he suc
ceeded—He married her. He remained
with her eight or ten days; laughed at
her unsuspecting credulity, which lis
tened with implicit faith to his belying
tales of love—told her she was the sixth
girl he had ruined, and that she would
never see him after that day. In this
alone she found him true ; he disappear
ed and has not been since heard of. It
is the duty of every individual in the
community, to seek this dark, design
ing villain*
The voice of injured female Inno
cence humbly entreats the public to ex
pel from society this monster in human
shape. The aged father, whilst his
withered arms embrace his fond, de
spoiled, insulted daughter, asks for jus
tice of his country. Shocked at the un
expected misfortune,the affectionate and
infirm mother, sinking in the grave, de
mands retribution to her child. But
| alas / evils that are heard of at a dis- ,
tance but seldom interest mankind.
! Had it not been for this, perhaps the
i tears of anguish had not trickled down
the cheeks of many of those who have
been destroyed by this wretch. Watch
therefore for this man—-stop his de
stroying progress—make him answer
for his deeds-^-brand him with black
and foul dishonour. W.
Camden, 28th February, 1807.
The Printers in the different
States are requested to insert the above.
A Caution to the Ladies.
u Oh let me lay this burning cheek
Upon that snowy breast of thine,
Anri with thy lips’ balsamic clew,
Oh cool these fever’d lips of mine.”
Thus Daphnis spoke—the fire that rag’d
Within him sparkled in his eye ;
Ah, sure ’twould be a sin to suffer
So sweet a youth in flames to die.
I felt his warm cheek’s trembling glow
Upon the soft snows of my breast;
I felt the fever of his lips,
Which madly by my lips he press’d.
But ah/ the fires that flush’d that cheek
And lips, alas! too late I see,
No snow of mine can cool—for oh!
! The subtle flame has melted me!