Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-02-23

Is NnUsl singular VI al 10, 'ho' io"
Mpxicans who were lef, unburied are
still on the battlefield entire. Neither
putrefactIon nor the wolves prey upon
them, but they are dried up like num-
mics. The only way | have heard il ex-
planned is, that the Mexicans eat SO much
/ pepper that it preserves their bodies
from pulrefaction and al the same time
spoils them from the taste OF wolves.
Certainly they do not decay, and the
wolves will not prey.
Chloroform dnd Ether.-The advan-
tages which chloroform possesses over
ether are-1. The smaller quantity res
quired; thus rendering it more portable.
Half drachm of chloroform will almost
always succeed in producing perfect ma.
ocotism.-2. The absence Of the stage
OF excitement or stimulation, which al
most invariably attends ether, and some.
times 10 an announcement extent. 8.
The greater ,ra pidity and certainty with
which the patient is brought under its
influence. The more complete and
longer continued Stale Of perfect insen-
sibiIily produced.-5. Chloroform does
no, leave any disagreeabIe odor about
the breath or clothes of either the patient
or operator; in fact, chloroform has a
very pleasant fruit like, though transient
smell.--6. No headache or unpleasant
effect is left behind.-Dr. Prothoroe
Smith in the Lancet.
Wonders of Art.-There is man
in London who has glass eye and spec
tacles, wig, one arm and both legs Of
woud, nose which is fastened to the
skin Of the forehead, "a lower jaw of silver,
an artificial set of teeth, part OF the
skull of caoutchouc, and palate and
both ears of the same substance, as we'll
as large part Of the abdomen. We learn
that he was formerly employed in sup
plying Steam engine with coal and i'm
an explosion of the boiler was mostshor-.
ribly mutila,ed. Dr.Kemblesuccee
almoslb a miracle, in saving his life,s
and made hinlwhat he now sis 5alest;
az artificial. .yet. breas hing ma
3
lid aae ii ever sufficiently admire the
eniiire elegance fthe habits and p1r.s1
;een,;;tse of hees2-.fbeir extra aclion of Moth
ing ing but the quintessance ofthe flowers;
their preference of those that have The
finest and least adullerated odOl;slheir
avoidance Of every thing squalid ESQ un>
like Aies); their eager election or exclu-
sion of fit from the hive, as in instances
of carcasses of mruders, WHICH, if they
cannot drag away, they cover up and
enlomb; their love Of cleun, quiet and
delicate neighbourhood, thymy places
with brooks; their singularly clean man
agcmsnt of so liquid and adhesive
thing as honey, flom which they issue
forth TO their work as if they had nothing
to do with it; their combination with
honey-naking of the elegant manufac-
ture of wax, of which they make their
apartments, and which is used by man
kind for more than patrician or other
choice purposes; their orderly policy,
their delight in sunshine: their atten-
lion to one another; their apparent in.
difference 10 everything, purely regar-
ding themselves apar, from the common
good? Beautiful ale those iapers, with
out doubt; and well might the poet ex-
press lis admiration at their being the
result of the work Of the little uncon-
scious insec, who compounded the MAJ
lerial. So in every wealthy house in
England, every evening, when lamps do
no, take its place, the same beautiful
substance is lit up for the inmates 10 sit
by, at their occupations of reading. or
music, OF discourse. The bee is there
with her odorous ministry. In the
morning she has probably been at the
breakfast table. In the morning, she IS
honey;in the evening, the waxen taper;
III The summer noon, 'olCo ih lhc S"'
den of the window; in the writer, at ali
oherlimes, a meteor of US in books
Leigh Hunts Jar Of Honey.
LETTER FROM 'MUSTANG.'
The following is letter from the
New Orleans Delta, Mustang" dated
city of Mexico, Jan. S: Two days age.
some ten or twelve Of the lst Fennes>
see volunteers went out from San Angel
(heir present camp), some few miles in
search of one of their men, who had been
missing several days. They without
arms, except small revolver, and while
in their search they were attacked by
about hundred Mexicans with stones,
clubs, and knives. Thay succeeded in
keeping the Mexicans at bay until all
the shots were fired, when> they were
compelled to make an attempt 10 reach
camp. While tho row was going on IN
the fields, Col Burnham, of the N. Y
Regiment, happening to pass road in