Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-06-22

- SAfsS1SEN III kOuCS Vi ZIG OCOpSos
indignation against the authors Of .his
national aud individual suffering
The depressed husbandman, trader, me.
chanic and laborer whose families have
bsen plunged Toto respected aud unme'
ristd distress,, have traced their ruint TO its
source, aud they found ii 10 the visionary
theories OF moon-struck philosopher,
whose experiments have lost 10 the United
States, ia suspended labor and wasted pro.
perry Go say nothing of the pros.ration Of
rational sprrit,) sum more than equal to
the whole amour, of the national debs
Whether The eisc.ion Of this man and his
adherents. from the confidence OF the A
meficau people, will form an adequate com.
pensa;ion for the wrongs that have been
inflicted, remains to be seen. "a
Wehope, with confidence, that the peo.
pie, in their elective capacity, VIII do shem :
selves the only justice that is lett them
And tina. they will scallto the adminissra.
ZION of their aft airs men, whose enlightened
AID honest minds, will perceive aud Pur.
sue The best interests Of he,r oouniry, ADD
whose bave hears viii with active valor
foot by 'res.rictive energies or self dc
s,raying embsrso S badly assert, and
hfn,ly maintain hes rights against e0ery
aggressor:
G14LVANLSM Professor Robson
has remarked, ,hat drinking of porter our of
pewter po.. produces more brisk sensa
tion than when II is Eaken Out OF glass
vessel; and this he ascrlbes TO gal. an,c
effect. 10 this instance, there is a comb
nascn Of one metal and t1vo dssimilar A..
ids. In the acs of drinking, one side Of
the pewter pc is exposed 20 the saliva ana
HE humidity of the noah; while the o.
Their mstsilic side is !efs 10 coolact with the
porter. Ia completing the circuit in the
act Of drinking, brlsk and lively sensa-
,tion arises, which imparts al agreeablere-
,ish to the porter. This gentleman has al
SO carried ,hs principle of galyaoic iuau.
enee so far, as 10 fancy, that snuff, taken
out Of a metallic stuff b,x, exei!es a more
g.eeab!e .epsa,ion, then waen taken out
OF box oftortoise she'll, or papier macae.
TIE effect Of the discoloration of silver
spoon, 10 the &C, Of eating eggs, is llkewisr
curious gasvanic operation. Carlisle haas
proved The ex stence of sulphur both 10 The
yolk and IN the albamsn Of al egg. A tea
spocn, left I'M msrsed iuto either Of thtse
substances undsrgoes 20 c'scolofat.cn; but
the above remarkable phenomena takes
place 10 the act of eating the egg; the ex
tremity Of ihe epoon which is most ia the
mouth. beiog always fosnd te be the m"s'
disco!ored hence. the galvaaic coinbna.
sionIn this instance. consists Of he sulphur.
a;ed solution, the S leer tea spoon, AID The
saliva. Chemical philosophers assume 1t
as a principle, that suIphurased hydrogen
gas, Is the substance hat causes the dieeo.
losa,ion butt whaI manner does galyan
ism produce it !? Creve has shswn, that in
every galsanic operation water 10 decom
posedi consequently, the preseoce OF sal
phur and the phenomena Of the decompo.
s,,on Of water, readily solves the problem.
The OXYGEN appears to combine with the
metal, whilst the osher principle, namely,
The hydr gen of the water, uni'es with
the sulphur of the egg, forms sp.phura'ed
hydrogen gas, the presence OF which IS
necessary 90 produce the phenomena OF
d,scslosaten. 10 fact, upon the principle
Of simple galvanic combinations, many
cur'ou. phrpomena arc expl'cable.
Besides the above, another very import.
ant Que is the following:
Formerly. in applying copper sheets 10
the bottom of ships, it being the Custom
TO employ iron bolts, it was remarked that
the copper soon become loosened IN the
bar, where the two metals were 10 contact,
consequently, from the data assumed by
galvan,c philosophers, this arrangement