The Arkansas advocate., 1834-11-28

uuiinS tiie session oI me Aentucky ilegiSia- lure of 1923, severe law was enacted against the odious and demoralizing vice of Ga4aiag. This law is generally known as "Wickiife's Laic," having been introduced into the legislature by Robert Wiekliffe. Esq. of Lexington, then Senator from Fayette county.
 f,i the present ierIno the rayeiiv cir cult court, Judge Hickey presiding, the laws against gaming were particularly adverted to la the charge to the Grand Jury, and the duty of enquiring into all cases of private as well as public gaming, was strictly en- joined.
 In pursuing the enquiries which they deemed necessary, in order to effect the object contemplated by the Leeisture, the Grand Jury had various persons summon ed before them, in order to give testimony among them, Charlton Hunt, Esq. Mayor of Lexington, 4. k. Woollcy, Esa., and c. l.. Postlethwaite, one of the proprie- tors of the Phoenix Hotel. These gentle men, refusing to answer the interrogatories pfopounded to them, were fined in tie sum of $30 each, and ordered to jail, for con tempt of court.
 1 In the interim between the summons of Messrs. Hunt and Postlethwaite before the Grand Jury, and the imposition of the fine Imprisonment, the Grand Jury, had been dismissed for week. On re-assenibling, the charge ofthe Judge in relation to gam bling was so modified, as to make 1t discre- tioaapy, instead of obligatory, on.the Grand Jury to prosecute the enquiries enjonec in the original charge. Under the impression, from the altered tone, or what they conceiv- ed to be the altered tone of the Judge, that witnesses would notibe compelled to give testimony Tn cases. of priUate as well as professional gaming, the Grand Jury unan- lmously resolved that they could not effect ually pursue their enquiries regarding vio-
 atlons of the laws agaInst unlawful gaming, and requested to be discharged.
 The Judge expiained-and the witness ses having been brought before the Grand Jury, and refusing to answer, were fined, &c. as above stated.
 The Grand Jury subsequently, presented another communication to the court, impu- ting delinquency on the part of tho court in the discharge of its duties. The Judge alleged this to be contempt, and seven ] of the Grand Jurors refusing to purge l themselves on oath, of an iutentional ceasuae 1 of the court, were fined in the sum of $40 each, and imprisoned 24 hours, for con- tempt.
 " have been compelled, for want of ] fo summary ofa procedure which created con- siderable excitement in Lexington and Fay cite county. The fntelligeneer of the 10th, contains full report of the whole natter 4 aEffaysvsl}s klzs!f.99 lHz3sf99 EEasls. l Discovefg of inlcresiine. .Afaaascrspfs.-
 From the Asgsst number of the Month ly Magazine, we learn that M. Ruppel, ar l accomplished traveller, now on his return from Abysainia, has discovered, and brings with him a number of manuscripts O | great value. The most remarkable O these is copy of a Bible containing an ad
 ditonal book of Solomon, one or two add tional of Esdras and a considerable addi Il ton to the book of Esther none of these representations of the Bible have yet beer
 heard of in Europe. II contains also the ) book of Enoch, and the fifteennew Psalms l the existence of which has been for some l time known among the learned. Anothei curious manuscript IS a species ef code
 which the Abyssinans carry as far back as
 the Council of Nice, when they say, 1t was
 promulgated by one of their pings. Thi.
 code is divided into two books the first o which relates to the canon law, and treats Q the relation between the church aud the tenn poral power; and the second Is purely civil code. M. Ruppel has also with hin
 some Abyssinian church hymns, which dis play the only indication of poetry which has l been found to exist among the Abyssinians A great discovery in Chemistry, has late
 ly been made by Dr. Reichemback, o
 Germany; he having succeeded in extri
 eating from tar and smoke hitherto un known substance, which he calls Kreosot (aesh preserver.)
 This substance possesses the propert, , of resisting putrefaction, in most eminen 1, degree, and when diluted with water, fresl uSutcieu nedt, dltei DdVluS occn lulIueIS ed in 1t for few minutes, may be kept il
 the open air and in the hottest weather, fol any length of time. without becoming il the least affected.
 This fact led several eminent physicians
 to experiment with it, in the treatment O
 human diseases, applying 1t both internally :. | and externally, in which they have beer
 crowned with the most striking success.
 People afflicted with the horrid dseas, Cancer, after having been despaired of by