The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-09-24

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which animated the corps of ten thousand in
the north extended TO the utmost bounds. They
received orders to march from ST Petersburgh
to meet the advance of the French army; the
emperor reviewed them, and's said to have shed
tears at their departure. Arrived at the place APP
pointed ,Witgenstein ordered them to fall backto
n certain point, but they answered emo ;the last
promise we made the emperor our tnther was
| that we would never fly before the enemy, and
we keep our word" Eight thousand of their
number died on the spot and the spirit which
| animated them fred the seris throughout the
whole empire. The scholar may sneer, but
defy him to point to nobler page in Grecan
or Roman history.
FAMrNEs IN INDIA. A pamphlet has lately
been issued in London by a Provisional Com
mittee for forming British India Society, for
the laudable purpose Of lettering the condition
of the inhabitants of the British dominons in
India-and thus preventing the periodical
famnes, which desolate the tairest provinces of
British India, carrying off thousands upon thou
sands OF the population, though surrounded
with all the means Of existence. The follow
ing is an extract from this pamphlet
"The fact of frequent and inconcevably
dreadful fanines throughout the British Terri
TOTES of India, is one that has been little known
and still less inquired into, by the people of this
country. Few, comparatively, (for example,)
are aware of the extent of the morality amongsi
our Indian fellow subjects in the upper prov
inces Of Ben gal during the past year. In few
short months more than half million perlshed
by famine, and the diseases produced by that
calamity. At this moment other parts of India
are subjected to similar visitation. Yet down 10
| the present time, there has hecn no public in
vestigalion into the causes of these frightful e.
verts. Their occurrence is here scarcely known.
They have hitherto awakened in this country
no effort, no sympathy-led to no relief. How
far they IRE avodable how far they can be a.
| verted-or their consequences mitigated when
they arrive-are questions yet to be asked. And
shall not these questions be asked, and a tue
and explicit answer be demanded Since
1870, (when famine in Bengal swept off, it has
been computed three millions) there has been a
succession Of famines, which have destroyed the
lives of immense mul,itudes Of human beings
these human beings have died in a country
once deemed the weahiest in the world and
upon one of the richest and most productive
soils upon the face of the globe"
We copy the following for the especial conso-
laton of those who indulge in the filthy habit,
as DR. Muzzy calls it, ofusng tobacco.
Tobacco life Preseruer. DR. Howe of Biller.
lea, writing to DIR Smith, of the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, commences his let
ter thus: 1T is said that old Mrs Lethbridge's
great Bible, that one might open it from Genes
is to Revelations, and take punch of snuff from
between the eaves.' The Doctor does not re-
peat this remark as an evidence of the old lady's
pety and devotional feeling-for he is not wri.
ting her eulogy, although no doubt she merlted
one written by as able pen-bu text on
which to hang a memorandum touching the
question whether the Use of tobacco shorens the
lille of man. lie kept list of the names of the
oldest men, dead or alive within the circle of
his ordinary practice, ing back 20 years, and
he finds that of Strty seUsn men, from 70 to 90
years of age, average fraction over 7S) 81
were smokers or chewers, were non consumers
and A were doubtful.
| He never heard, however, ofbut one case of
| life prolonged by the use of tobacco, accompa-
MED by satisfactory evidence. At the ever me-
morukle battle of Bennington, there stood in the
ranks New Hampshire MALTA man, by the
name of Jonathan Wheeler This Jonathan
was q man of Herculean strength, with red bushy
hair, peculissEssqupt Of the eye, and with fight
ing propensities strongly developed, he was,
moreover dead shot-cool deliberate, and cal
culating. He was prepared for action, and in
his cartridge box were twenty tour rounds Of
ball cartridge; in his canteen n pint Of potatoe
whiskey in his breeches pocket an iron tobacco
box of ample III nensions, which had belonged
| to his grandfather, old Adonijah Wheeler, of
Scataquog. When the heat of the battle was
over, and Jonathan found time to take quid of
the tranquzing weed, upon drawing the box
from his pocket, he found with establishment
unutterable, the indentification of a musket ball
upon the lid. His trnsiy box had received the
charge of some sharpshooler, and in all probable
ty, prolonged the life of as brave fello" as
ever swung knapssck.
A FACT. A physician in this vicinity called
a few days since to see young man who was
quite sick, and among other things he leit bis
ter plaster, which he ordered to he placed the
Young mans chest. He called next morning to
see his patient, and on enquirng how the blister
operated, was informed by the lady fthe house
that, as the young man had no chest she had put
the blister on his trunk; and sure enough, there
the blister was, stuck upon a large wooden trunk
by the side of the bed.-Patctucket Gazette.
Effects Of Speculatiom--A Spectator at the West
recently said TO frend-"Whon I first came to
Chicago had not rag to my back, and now
am covered with rags"