Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-29

2IS 22s
The Grst Congressional Election, under the Cen
sus OF 1880, wall take place in 1892.
We add The following paragraph, relating 10 this
SUBJECT, rom late number of The Boston Courier
b iac last the population of Massa chusetts
was SCI 725; the ratio n represent alton in Congress
hcing fixed al one member for cvery 40 900 nbabi-
itanis, III Massachusetts, entitled to thirteen Re-
representatives., and there but a small fraction,
namely i726, left unrepreseuted. Should the ratio
be increased only 10000 as seems to be the GENERAL
opinion, Massachusetts will not, as has generally
beeR supposed, lose Of her delegation in the
l1use. IL, as appears almost certain, number
6ooooo, VIC shall retain our thirteen members; and
IT. as is oy no means improbable, we should have
100000 inhabitants, shall gain one member II
is supposed that Rhode Island will number 100 900
ana mus DE enabled to retain her relltive political
Standing.
Cotton Duch-T'he Editors of the New York Jour
nal OF commerce, IN an article the subject of
Cotton Sail Duck, give their own experience IN the
following words:-'Our new schooner Journal of
Commerce, was dressed with cotton suils in Sepem-
Der, 1895, which have been out in all weathers nipht
ana DAY, 10 the present time and will do considera-
ole service yet. They are found To hold wind better
tAan hcmP-and of course better fitted for rapid
saling They also state that few weeks since
they MAJ pened to go on board OF Vineyard pilot
coat of so Ons, then bound to New Bedford per
coIviBg she was dressed with cotton they made par
touiar inquiries as TO its advantages and disadvanta
ees, and found the owner pleased with it in eve
~ respect There was no complaint about mldew
or wearing out toe sooD.
Cotton BHgging-Some Cotton Rapginq made
OF cotton at Providence, is spoken of with much
appreciation in the Veksbnrg pa per in pp and
the editor remarks that If il should be used IA ami
sStute Tor henPen 6agglng, it would consume one
torieth part of all the cotton grown in the u States
and tor that prtion of his crop every planter will
nave sure ind never-failing market.
G.,
will be recollected that we published notice the
other day, from Salem paper, Of fishing boat be-
ing attacked off Lynn. sachusetts, by what was
supposed to DO shark. and respectable citizen
ofthat place lost. The Boston Gazette in copying
the article, asks might be the Sea Serpenti'
The question struck us rather forciby. It was sta
ted, that persons Ill a vessel about half a mile dis
tant from the boat which Mr. Baney was in saw
him swinging his hat and calling for help, and at
the same time saw, what they supposed to be shark
lying across the boat! THIS statement we should
think, would be more reconcieabe with the supposj-
ton that 1t was long and slim sea serpent that had
run across the boat than common shape fish The
account stoted further that the animal disa
Tor minute or two, then attacked the boat and car
RED 1t with It's contents under the water The boat
soon rose again, but The man was never seen more
1t will be rccolected that one of these ANIMALS called
sea serpents supposed be at least hundred feet
IL length, was seen or weeks since in Rootbbnv
barbour. They probably live upon fish, which they
catch upon the shoals and along the coast and
whenever they have been seen they have been dss
cribed az quiet and inofensive vet il is reasonable
10 suppose that when driven by hunger they would
De likely to attack any thing of moderate size which
might come IN their way Portland Courier.
Extract from Professor Eiiclicocks Prize Ess1, nm
alcoholic and Narcotic substances
RUM FoR BLooD.-Ifyou distIl drunka rds blood
you VIII OBTAIN pure alcohol indeed, it has been found
~ the VentrIcles OF the brain Now alcohol IN the
blood cannot nourish any part OF the animal system
because no part Of that system is composed of nI
cohOE and there Is reason to SUPPOSE that this
substance ~ decompOsed after gettIng into the CIR
Caiat'oh' Az the organs, us on ingenious medical
writer remarks, decline this alcohol as the blood
conveys It round to them "The bend soys .rn,,
nerves are calmer my thoughts are clearer without
I'll beg TO be excused: the heart saws nv rnotiono
are noreregnlar,ny affections are purer, without il
II nave no occasion fOrl: the limbs saw our st
- hrmer, our vigor IS more durable without =, Tue
need 1t not;' all say, 1T cannot noursb us il conno,
sustain us-we will have none of it, and al length re
Jeeted by AL except by those organs whose peculiar
ONCE u is TO convey out Of the blood It's rese and
worthless parls 1t is taken up by them and thrown
out Of the body"
StiDulans can bow down to the earth an inteIlec,
oig'ant strength and make It grind in bondage wear
after year. like Samson shorn Of his locks and do.
prived OF his vision. Would TO God here Veve NO,
50 many melancholy illustrations of this position In
the history of drunkenness in land Alas intern
Perance seems to select the brightest nelects as her
victim, that she may show her Omnipoence by crusb
ing them in her ron embraced
But TO pass by the sOt and the druhkard main
tam that the unnatural excitement which a moder-
ate apd occasional use Ofacoh0lc and narcotic sub
stances produces, Is unfaVorabe % cearness and
vi2Or IN mental operations The Dizziness of the
brain, and EXPLANATION accompanying their use es-
pecially that Of alcohol what are thew but ncioen,
dobrum, and the PremOntlons Of apoplexy? The
meniql Op Eatious may, indeed. seem to be outcL.
oned; but 10 what purpose ~ IL. that the machine
- fonously running and buzziDg after tho balance
Wheel is takcu of