The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-06 00:00:00

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INDIAN APPETITE.—I had been lucky enough to kill a
fawn (the only deer seen since we left the fort), which fur-
nished us a good supper, and no more ; for never did I see
anything equal to the appetite of our Indian. Ribs, head,
shoulders, &c., disappeared one after the other. He quietly
ate everything placed before or near him, without the slight-
est symptom of diminished power; and I was not then
aware of the incredible capacity of Indians, or of their no-
tion that it is impolite to decline proffered food under any
circamstances whatever.—Murray's North America.
GIGANTIC TREES.—In this part of the country there are
but few deer remaining, as the settlements are so numerous,.
and every settler is a hunter ; besides which, the season was
unpropitious for finding game, as in summer they only ap-
pear in the .morning and evening, and retire to the thick
brush to protect themselves' from the heat of the mid-day
sun. But the beauty of the vegetaLle world is unparalleled;
the trees exceed in height anything that I have before ob-
served, and their variety is so great as utterly to confound so
unpractised a botanist as myself. As regards magnitude, the
cotton-wood and sycamore appzar to be monarchs of the
forest; they often rear their enormous trunks to 40 or 50
feet, with little diminution of bulk. I measured one at
about five feet from the ground ; it was 19 feet in circum-
ference : but I have no reason to believe that it was a re-
markably large specimen. These lofty trees are rendered
picturesque and graceful by the vines which twine round
their gigantic limbs, and hang in wavy festoons, making, in
some places, natural arbours of impenetrable shade ;. while
the humbler brushwood is adorned with wild roses and other
shrubs of equal and rarer beauty.--Murray's North America.

MEXICAN MUMMIES.--A. million of mummies, it is
stated, have lately been discovered in the environs of Durango,
in Mexico. They are in a sitting posture, but have the same
wrappings, bands, and ornaments as the Egyptians; among
them was found a poignard flint, with a sculptured handle,
chaplets, necklaces, &c. of alternatively coloured beads,
fragments of bones polished like ivory, fine worked elastic
tissues, (probably our modern India rubber cloth,) mocasins
worked like those_ of our Indians, bones of vipers, &e. It
is unknown what kind of embalming was used for the
mummies abovementioned, or whether they were found. A
fact'of importance is stated, thatnecklaces of a marine shell
are found at Zacatecas, on the Pacific, where the Columbus
of their forefathers probably therefore landed from Hindostan,
or from the Malay or Chinese coast, or from their islands
in the Indian Ocean.

A curious fact connected with hydraulics was mentioned
at the last sittings of the Academy of Sciences. It was
stated, that the water of one of the shafts at the mines of
Pontgiband, in the Puy de Dime. and which is ninety meters
deep, having risen too rapidly for exhaustion by the machinery,
the shaft was abandoned. From that time, the water has
been once a month in a state of agitation, and a large quantity
of carbonic acid gas is disengaged. Immediately afterwards,
the water discharges itself to the height of thirty or forty
feet above the surface, and during this time the quantity of
gas which escapes is very considerable. The eruption of
water and the emission of gas lasts for about fifteen or twenty
minutes, and having subsided, the water remains tranquil
until the following month. It is remarkable that the water
does not in the first instance escape by the orifice of the
shaft, but by the ventilating pipe which reaches to the bottom.
Galignani's Messenger.

A SANDWICH ISLAND VOLCANO.—In one of the late
Hawaiian " Spectators", is a graphic sketch of the crater
of Kirauca, on that island, furnished by Count Stzelecki, a
scientific Polish nobleman. The count has seen the principal
volcanoes, and he says they are all inferior to this in intensity,
grandeur, and extent. He states, that the precipitous cliff
forming the N.N.E. wall of the crater, which he found to be
more than 4,000 feet above the sea, overhangs an area of more
than three million yards of half-cooled scoria, and con-
taining more than 300,000 square yards of convulsed torrents
of earth, in igneous fusion, and gaseous fluids, constantly
effervescing, boiling, spouting, rolling " in all directions like
waves of a disturbed sea, violently beating the edge of the
caldrons like an infuriated surf, and, like surf, spreading all
around its spray in the form of capillary glass, which fills the
air, and adheres in a flaky and pendulous form to the dis-
torted and broken masses of the lava." There are five cal-
drons, each about 5,700 square yards, almost at the level of
the great area; a sixth is encircled by a wall of scoria some
fifty yards high, forming the S.S.W. point. Millions of vents,
all around the treater, through which the steam escapes,
form the security of Hawaii. •
BAN lAN HOSPITALS IN SuRAT. —The Banian hospital
at Surat is a most remarkable institution ; it consists of a
large plot of ground enclosed with high walls, divided into
several courts or wards, for the accommodation of animals ;
in sickness they are watched with the tenderest care, and
find a peaceful asylum for the infirmities of age. When
an animal' breaks a limb, or is otherwise disabled front serv-
ing his master, he carries him to the hospital ; and, indifferent
to what nation or caste the owner may belong, the patient is
never refused admittance. If he recovers, he cannot be re-
claimed, but must remain in the hospital for life, subject to
the duty of drawing water for those pensioners debilitated
by age or disease from procuring it for themselves. At my
visit, the hospital contained horses, mules, oxen, sheep,
goats, monkeys, poultry, pigeons, and a variety of birds;
with an aged tortoise, who was known to have been there
for seventy-five years. The most extraordinary ward was
that appropriated to 'nits, mice, bugs, and other noxious
vermin : the overseers of the hospital frequently hire beggars
from the streets for a stipulated sum, to pass a night among
the fleas, lice, and bugs, on the express condition of suffer-
ing them to enjoy their feast without molestation. The
Banian hospital in Surat has several dependent endowments
without the walls, for such invalids and convalescents to
whom pasturage and country air may be recommended ; and
especially for the maintenance of the goats purchased from
slaughter on the anniversary of the Mahomedan festival,
when so many of these animals are devoted to destruction.—
Forbes's Oriental Memoirs.

• There are three things in great request amongst Americans
of all classes—male, I mean—to wit ; • oysters, spirits, and
tobacco. The first and third are not prohibited by act of
congress, and may be sold in the capitol; but spirituous
liquors may not. I wondered how the members could get
on without them, but upon this point I was soon enlightened.
below the basement of the building is an oyster shop and
refectory. The refectory has been permitted by congress
upon the express ,stipulation, that no spirituons liquors
should be sold there ; but law-makers are too often lave -
breakers all over the world: You go there and ask for pale
sherry, and they had you gid; brown sherry, and it is brandy ;
madeira, whiskey ; and thus do these potent, grave, and
reverend seignors evade their own laws, beneath the hal
wherein they were passed in solemn conclave. It appearsl
that tobacco is 'considered very properly as an article of
fashion. At a store, close to the hotel, the board outside
informs you that among fashionable requisites to be found
there, are gentlemen's shirts, collars, gloves, silks, hand-
kerchiefs, and the best chewing tobacco. But not only at
Washington, but at other large towns, I have seen at silk-
mercers and hosiers this notice stuck up- in the window,
" Dalcissimus chewing tobacco." So prevalent is the habit
of chewing, and so little, from long custom, do the ladie3
care about it, that I have been told that many yOung ladies
in the south carry, in their work-boxes, &c. pig-tail, nicely
ornamented with gold and coloured papers ; and, when.their
swains are at fault, administer to their wants, thus'ineriting
their affections by such endearing solicitude.—Capt. Marry-
at's America.

ANECDOTES OF A ROBIN.—In the summer of 1835 a male
robin in my garden became so tame that lie picked worms
from .the hand of the gardener ; and in the middle of the day,
when the latter took his dinner, he constantly attended for
the purpose of obtaining a portion of it. Upon the knee of
my wife I have repeatedly seen him alight, and take bread
out of her hand as familiarly as if he had been tamed from
the nest. To me he likewise became very much attached.
He continued so during the autumn. One cold morning in
the beginning of winter, as I was standing at the door of my
house, having heard my voice, he immediately flew to Tine,
and, seeming to claim my protection, followed me into the
parlour, where he was quite at ease. I caught him, and put
him into my garret, in which, during the winter, he sang most
delightfully. Being sorry to see him alone, 1 got for him
a helpmate to cheer him in his confinement About the
middle of April 1 set him as liberty, and to my surprise, a
few days after I discovered a very neat nest which they had
built. The outside of it was was composed of the stalks of
dried horehound, which I had suspended from the roof as a
medicine for the cold, and the inside was lined with a few
feathers and the down of the ragwort which I had there kept
for my bulfinch. It shows to what shifts birds have recourse
when deprived of the proper materials for the construction of
their nests. About eight days after this, whilst I was sitting
in the parlour, my old friend flew in, and immediately recog-
nised me.—Mayillivray's British Birds.
THE NECTAR OF THE WEST.—I -spent two or three'days
here (at Rockaway) very agreeably, being at once introduced
to many members of the best society from all parts of the
union. During the morning we strolled on the shore, bathed,
rode, or drove aboutin light carriages, which the active horses
of this country draw at a speed truly surprising ; the even-
ings were passed in music or dancing ; and after the ladies
retired, I joined some of the younger men of the party in
smoking a cigar under the verandah, fanned by the cool night
breeze from the sea, and making my first acquaintance with a
beverage approaching more nearly to nectar than any qiat I
had ever tasted or imagined. The American reader will at
once know how to apply this panegyric; but how shall I at-
tempt to convey to English senses all thy fragant merits, di-
vine mintjulep ! This delicious compound (which is some-
times in the Southern and Western States denominated " hail
storm " ) is usually made with wine (Madeira or claret,)
mingled in a tumbler with a soupcon of French brandy, lime
or lemon, ice pulverised by attrition, and a. small portion of
sugar, the whole being
,crowned with a bmich of fresh mint,
through which the liquor percolates before it reaches, the
drinker's lips and " laps him in Elysium."' This beverage is
supposed to be of southern origin, and the methods of pre-.
paring it vary in the different, states some Carolinians will
assert that it can only be found in perfection at Charleston ;
but I believe that, by common consent the immortal Willard
(who kept the bar of the city hotel in New York for ninny
years) was allowed to be the first master of this art in the
known World.—Hon. C. A. Murray's Travels in North
America.

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DISCOVERY OF TRAVELLERS 13.URDERED I3Y THE THUGS.
—When Feringeea, a Thug leader of some note, for whose
arrest government paid five hundred rupees, was brought to
me at Sangir, in December, 1830; he told me, that if his life
were spared he could secure the arrest of several large gangs
who were in February to rendezvous at Jeypore, and pro-
ceed into Guzerat and Candeish. Seeing nie disposed to
doubt his authority upon a point of so much importance, he
requested me to put him to the proof,—to take him through
the village of Selohda, which lay two stages from Saner, on
the road to Seronage, and through which I was about to pass
in my tour of the district of which I had received the civil
charge, and he would show me his ability and inclination to
give me correct information. I did so, and my tents were
pitched, where tents usually are, in the small mango grove.
I reached them in the evening, and when I got up in the
morning, he pointed out three places, in which he and his
gang deposited, at different intervals, the bodies of three
parties of travellers. A Pundit and six attendants, mur-
dered in 1818, lay among the ropes of my sleeping-tent ; a
Havildar and four Sipahaes, murdered in 1824, lay under
my horses ; and four Brahman carriers of Ganges water, and
a woman murdered soon after the Pundit, lay within my
sleeping-tent. The sward had grown over the whole, and
not the slightest sign of its ever having been broken was to
be seen. The thing seemed to me incredible, but, after
examining attentively a small brick terrace close by, and the
different trees around, he declared himself prepared to stake
his life upon the accuracy of his information. 'My wife was
still sleeping over the grave of the water-carriers, unconscious
of what was doing or to be done. I assembled the people
of the sstrrounding villagers, and the Thanadar and his police,
who resided in the village of Korae, close by, and put the
people to work over the grave of the Havildar. They dug
down five feet without perceiving the slightest signs of the
bodies or of the grave. All the people assembled seemed
delighted to think that I was become weary, like themselves,
and satisfied that the man was deranged ; but there was a
calm and quiet confidence about him that made me insist on
their going on, and at last we came upon the bodies of the
whole five, laid out precisely as he had described. My wife,
still unconscious of our object in digging, had repaired to
the breakfast-tent, which was pitched at some distance from
the grove ; and I now had the ropes of the tent removed,
and the Pundit and his six companions, in a much greater
state of decay, .exhinned -from about the same' depth. and
from the exact spot pointed out. The Caivl",,utties wereafter-
wards disinterred, and he offered to point out others- in the
neighbouring groves, but I was sick of the horrid work, and
satisfied with what he had already done. The gangs which
were concentrating upon Jeypore were pursued, and the
greater part of them taken, and Faringeea's life was spared
for his services,—Ramtweana, b i 41faior Sleensan,

g9b tpp mg Enttlifyint.

FRIDAY, AVG. 2.—Wind S.S.W,

ARRIVED—Trio, Boag, from Monte Video, sailed Ist June—Su-
sannah Cumming, , from Savannah—Christian Benjamin,
Krause, from Danzig—Perseverance, Monnet, from Ostend—At-
lantic, Seatle, from Apalachicola—Superior, Louttit, from St. Peters-
burg- Fairfield, from
SAlLED—United States, Fisher, for New York—Berwick, Chase,
for New Orleans—Elena, Dabinovich, for Trieste—Priscilla, Taylor,
for Pernambuco—Trenton, Snow, for Boston—Palmyra, Croal, for
Demerara—Johanna, Brandoff, for Danzig—Trenton, Snow, for
Boston—Henrich, Gross, for Pillau—Julia Carolina, Torgeson, for
Tonsberg— Cornubia, Be,l, for Bombay—North Briton, James, for
Alexandria, Egypt—Clemente Fillippo, Cordiglia, for Traponi—
Gazelle, Merry, for Savannah—Resolution, Forrest, for Quebec—
Victoria, Lennox, for Charleston—Burrell, Pattison, for Quebec—
and Carteretta, Warren, for Newfoundland.

Beccles, Manthorp, from Odessa at Constantinople, and sailed 7th
July for this port
Fairy Queen, Hart, hence at Ramsgate, for Rotterdam, with loss
of bowsprit, &c. having been in contact with the Bee, from New-
castle
John Dunlop, - ' hence at Tunis
Hydra, , from Archangel, off Shetland, for this port
Fulmar, Harwell; Jersey Lass, Dean, and Ann, Williamson, hence
at Monte Video
Henrietta, Fell, from Cape de Verds, at ditto
Oulton, -, from Chester to London, at Holyhead, with loss
of jibboom, fore-gaff, and sails split
Fairfield, , for St. John, N.B. has put back, leaky : bore up
from long. 21
Herman, -, hence for Baltimore, off Cape Clear
Hibernia,•Cobb, hence for New York, off the Saltees 31st Jul 7
Rebecca, Drake, hence for St. John, N.B. off the Saltees 31st
July
Hillsbro', Lamb, hence for Dalhousie, was spoken 24th July, in
lat. 47, long. 24

SATURDAY, AUGIIST 3.—Wind N.W. light.
ARRIVED.—Mary & Jane, Osborne, from Licata—Elizabeth &
Mary, Patterson, from Riga.
SA I LED.—MAnney, Downes, for Para—Buckingham, Robertson,
for Africa—United States, Barr, and Montezuma, Christianson, for
Philadelphia—Ocean Queen, M'Master, for Quebec, &c.—Water-
vile, Mills, for Hayti—Cheerful; Smith, for Batavia—Champion,
Wan en, for Boston—Jenny Marie, Fischer, for • Elsinore—Hen-
Haahaage, for Nakskov—Gondolfo, Culatto, for Naples—
Sophia, Carling, for Antwerp—Giorgio, Chirico, for Palermo, &c.
and Adrastus, Day, for the Cape of Good Hope.

Henry Porcher, Hart, from Valparaiso, at this port; sailed 16th
April. On the gth June, in lat. 820 S, long. 31 W, spoke the Bri-
tannia, hence for Bahia
itumboul, Brown, for Liverpool, put back to Poole, with loss of
bulwarks, 6:c. and bolt stove
Victoria, Missen, hence at Ric Janeiro
Marchioness of Bute, hence for Quebec, was spoken 20th July,
in let. 50, long. 18
Sarah, , from Quebec for Liverpool, was spoken 25th July,
in lat. 40, long. IS
George M•Leod, -, from Mauritius, off Cape Clear
Thomas Naylor, Ramsay, from Dalhousie, at Lancaster
Irvine, , from Miramichi, at Beaumaris