New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-29


pass them.
Pfrmbago-A rich mine OF plumbago--blaek
lead-hs, been opened In Jeffrey, ~ IL. nj the loot
Of the Monsdnock mountain. IL brings sboot s13
per ton The mine was purchased 'or the sum OF
fifty dollars.
Developments Of AS AdsifeTafs0n Of NcsssEe-
From a printed circular by the Trustees OF the
College Of Pharmacy New York, the following
passages cited in the last issQe OF the ADeIcan
Journal of ScicHoS and Arfs Bloc pill Is imported
containing per centaee Of mercury from ten down
10 seven and halt-mixed with blue clay and
PrGssisn biae-to give the proper dcnsity and color
Two importations OF this KIDD from the mandatory
OF William Bailey Of Wolyerhs hampton. have already
been exposed-the first in lst5 and the other re-
Gently. lts composition. according to the analy sis
OF our Professor Reid. 10: mercury. carthy clay.
Prussan blue used IN coloring sand in oombra alton
with the clay, soluble saccharine matters nsoluble
organic matters, aud water
Very large quantities OF hhubarb. much de
cayed the better parts OF which dark ooored.
with scarcely any taste or smell, having probably
been exhausted 10 make extracts. come from Eng.
land iuvoiced there from 70 pence sterling
per 10. IL Is intended and used for powderins,
color being given to il by turneric, &c.
The article called Oxide OF Zinc on the Ensish
labels is generally carbonate OF xisc. being i'm
ported it 10 said. AZ price which prcciades the
possibility OF honest preparation.
All that is received under the name Of precipita'
ted salphur-or lac sulphur tho merchants
COMMONLY term it--except when L 10 expressly
ordered. from honorable manufacturer contains
from 20 70 IS per cent OF suphste OF lime.
Opium is often invoiced az 0nstbird the value OF
good quality and IL found upon examination not a.
De worth even that The same may be sad OF
Scsmmony Most OF the foreign extracts are not
what they profess to be- aud cannot be relied upon
IN the treatment OF disease The salts OF q uinine.
Morphine, and all the more costly chemicals, are
greatly sdulterated.
The agent OF an English manufacturer of chem.
icss. extracts, and many other preparations used
IN medicine has sald-and his remarks are In print
that IL Is regular and systematic business, car
red on by his principal aud others in his line. 70
make articles for the American market OF different
qualtes-one FOR The Atlantic cities and another.
very much inferior for the West meaning
thereby our Western States. He gives US, for In
stance the following quotations " Compound es
tract OF Colocyn,h, rs. Cd do. for the West ~
the latter. as allowed to infer containing No
scammony only the poorest sort OF aloes. and but
little ii any, cOlocynth. or extract from H. Again
We have q" Blue Pill 3s I'd. for the West To-
sd"
Is il wonderful, remarks Sliimdns Journal that
such uncommon doses as We hear OF. are taken.
and indeed required. at the West and that disap.
pOntment is everywhere experienced by physi'
cians In the action OF medicnesi And these ex-
| ampes are but few out OF many that might be
given.
A stringent law rigidly enforced, should at once
be applied to the removal of this mons,rous evil.
Scientific Honaopathid.-Dr. Is. +. JosLiS com
municates a paper to the January issue OF SiHi-
mans Journal, In which 10 finely illustrated the
Principle OF the Limit of Subdivision by Trituratiou
and Solution. He remarks, predatory TO an article
OF eight pages, that II any coarse and dry sub
stance is triturated by itself il will continue to be
permanently divided and subdivided to certain,
but limited extent for beyond that tho blow would
either leave the parts each other that they
would instantly reunite by the power OF the CO.
hesye forces and again become Que sofid body, or
would drive these newly separated parts against
others or each other and effect their union BY
| bringing them within the sphere OF cohesion. This
| principle is illustrated by tho example of hint
stoue III pulverized In mortar II would at length
become 90 fine that some OF the finest of these In
visible flint stones would. after any farther division
be soon reunited. All that would be necessary tor
| Tor their reuoon and the restoration OF their prev
Gus hardness would be 70 bring the parts or their
mutually attractive poles as near to each other a.
before their separation for the strength OF their cohe
sion depends the degree OF their proximity Inc
1 approximation and union OF some of these smaller
l than microscopic pebbles, would bs promoted by
the pressure Of the pestle; the same blows that
severed some would unite othes-so that tho
| average size Of the parts would remain unchanged
| From this much, p<ellmlnarily DR. Josiin proceeds
70 i,duce the principles OF tho various degrees OF
of trtura,ion the use OF sugar OF milk. tbs limit OF
subdivision and the addition OF other substances-
medicinal or otherwIse-to still farther extend that
limit His observations will DO found very inter.
| esting
DEMONSTRATION of Foreign animals az tie Jariin
| des PaHtes, ParIs.-At the sitting Of the Paris
| Academy of Sciences Ia October, NJ Isidore Geof
| frey ST. Hiare made communca alton 10 the Acad.
! envy respecting experiments for homestead ing
some Of the animals at the Jardin doc Plantes lie
has sBcceeded in obtaining broos OF the lao called
| Egyptian goose-but which, IL 10 believed-is OF
| Nubian origin although accmated in Egypt and
there il reason to believe that this bird which 10 of
| beautiful plumage. may be IN time propagated 10
such extent as to furnish valuable addition TO
| our alimentary substances. NJ st. Hisire also
states that several colts have been obtained from
! the hemione. or dsiggetdi, which partakes OF the
| horse and the ass, aud which In Hndostan IL very
| useful animal for agricultural labor The hemlones
at the Jsrdin des Plantcs although allowed 10 run
| in the open air during tho day, have been placed
in heated stables at night but there 10 every reason
To suppose that the progeny will endure the eli
mate.
| Acfi0n Of Sal on Vegefafion.-At the same meet
ing OF the Academy NJ Becqucre communicated
the results Of some experiments relative 10 the ac.
ton ofsalt on vegetation. He has found saline 80.
lutons rather injurious than useful but he 10 not
yet sufficiently advanced with his experiments 10
warrant him In saying that this Is also tho case
with salt used In the gransated state
The Runs Of Nlnereh--Mr Azariah Smith, in
letter 10 Prof Silliman extract OF which 10 given
in the last number Of the Journal remarks that II
was his rare fortune TO travel, few weeks previ.
oosly, in company with Mr. Laysrd-the English
gentleman who. aided by scientific Society d
Great Britain, has been employed for the last year
or two in making excavations about the Rains OF
| Nineyeh His main work has been done Ut MIN.
rood, at or near the junction OF the LAB and the
| Tigris some twenty miles south vi the excava-
| tons made by Mons BOtta, at kborsabad. From
Inscriptions partially deciphered, il would appear
that one Of the three palaces dsentombed at MIN.
rood, and that at khorsabsd, were built by father
and son, or other relations; and from other In.
scrp tions disentombed by Mr.. Layard from tho
mound Of Zoyumjon k-the mounds Of long repute
directly opposite the City Of Mosul-it would sp
pear that that also sustans similar relation 10 the
others. From this fact, the yew formerly assumed
that Nineyeh atterly made up Of several col
lect0ns Of houses Interpreted with gardens, re
ceiyes additional support, and NIL doubt 10 now re-
moved from those passages Of Sacred and Proiane
History which make it an exceeding great city Of
three days journey.
Among other most interesting stones, scalp
tured and carved sent 10 England from the Olsen