American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-04-13


funery costs very little. To one pint of Alcohol
add so drops of lavender, so do Bergamot, 60 do
Essence of Lemon, 60 do Orange Water. To
one gallon of Alcohol put 480 drops of each of the
perfumes. Bait. american.
The following specimen of refined and udicrous
humanity, IS taken from Doctor Michiner's Cooks
Oracle
q The true lover Of an oyster will have some re-
gard to the feelings of his little favorite, and will
never abandon it to the mercy OF a bungling opera
Tor. hut viii open it himself, and contrive to de-
zach the fish from the shell dexterously, that the
oyster is hardly conscious he has been elected from
his lodgings till he feels the teeth of the pisciver
aus goarmand tickling him to DEATH"
Repcrtee-A British Naval officer, prisoner
of Macdonough, told woman in Burlington, that
the only way the id Yankees gained victories
chat they afraid to come out in open fight to
which the woman observed, ,cere there any stumps
sNd traes on the lakes.3
A Dilemma.-Our Hartford friends visit the
commercial emporium, in round numbers, as early
rs the Connecticut is released from the icy chains
Of Winter, for the purpose of procuring tapestry
and fine linen, feathers and telling, rice and raj
sins, for the good people who dwell on the delight
full banks and in the fertile valley Of that noble
river. From congregation of these industrious
and thriving exchangers Of all sorts OF eomnoci
ties, Saving wooden nutmegs and wooden clocks y
We have learned very good story, founded on
facts. and that the unfortunate Morgan had been
discovered safe and sound in Canada. But to the
story MIR. Joseph Morgan, keeper of the Ex-
change Coffee House in Hartford, man of pro-
perty, and respectability and one of the Directors
Of the Etna Insurance. Company, was recently in
Upper Canada on important business for that Of
fee. Being called by name at one Of the houses.
some Of the by-standers instantly supposed that
he was no less parsonage than the rsat Captain
Morgan, in full life. The conclusion was natural
that he would secrete himself IL their suspicious
should be made known to him. They therefore
Kept dark, till darkness had overcome the day,
and "nature's soft nurse had visited the pillow
of MIR. Morgan, and " rocked his senses in forget
fulness" AT midnight, " that dread hour" they
ushered into his bed chamber with suitable NUN
Der of the ministers of justice, reused him from
hs innocent dreams, ordered him to accoutre
himself for march to Sir Peregrine Maitland.
who had enjoined upon them the delivery to him
of the lost, but now restored, Morgan It was in
vain that the unarmed prisoner protected that he
was not the real Morgan they were =tarch CT
that he had never before beer se3ea - threaten
ed to be taken oil to places unkuawn against his
will But all would not do, he was the lost Nor
that he was innocent Of having been run away
with from Batavia This being agreed to, Mr.
Morgan readily satisfied the magistrate that he
was from the land of steady haoity,'' ana there
upon obtdined his release, retarned tohis couch
sleptit out till morning aad reached his tamiy
and friends at Hartford without further molesta-
zion. .Ne0 York Statesman.
''din.er's Cohc'Fhe collie known by this name, ant
which the consequence Of the absorption of white lead
las hitherto been treated in the hospitals of Paris By
ynus, aperients, and opates DR. Pass has published
e treatise in which he shows the great benefits which
have resulted from different mode Of treatment namely
ON the application of leechea to the abdomen, and tn
exhibition of soothing medicines.
The Rev. Robert Cox, a minister Of the Nfetho
.st Episcopal Church, died in Suffolk county, vir
anna, On the 10th ult In his will he made pro
sion fer emancipatlng all his slaves, upwards o
shitty,) and for giving each handsome sum O
money lie had offered to transport them to Afri
ca daring his life, bht they chose to live with hin
and receive Wages.