The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-19

We take the following from Rankn's Abstract Of Med
ica Sciences January number for ls4s promising that
the Hon B. Sutherland, in his Medical Ihes, present
ed 10 the professors of the University OF Pennsy lvania
when he graduated in 1912, proposed TO dissolve NE hu-
man calculus By gaiuan,sm--a inmate description oil
which appeared in OF our medical journals some ten
or twelve years ago:
"Mr OroIi one of the distinguished philosophers
with whom Italy honored, says Beequerel proposes 70
HALL of Norwich conceived the same idea Mr. ltonr
ges de Mortere dissolved calculus out OF The body
But MN Provost and Dumas have gone far towards es
Publishing the possibility Of successfully employing gavan
ism a means OF desiroyn calculus iusble human
calculus placed in water submitted to the action OF
100 pairs Of plates during twelve hours The basis and he
phosphorc acid liberated at their respective poles;
owing the OF the arrangement they reunited
in fine pocder The weight in this period was reduced
and the end of this Time, the calculus was reduced to
fabe, that the slightest pressure reduced TO lii
tie crystalline grains, which could be easily discharged
"These experiments, it must be confessed, render II
probable that this mode of removing calcui may take the
the Annales de Chmie subon observation,
that nitrate potassa dissolved in the renders the
decomposition Of hard compact phospares as easy as m OF
the porous kind They also satisfied themselves that the
vscus is injured during the action of the pile"
The CRops ON THE Rio GRANpE.-Fromup and down the
river have the aterng accounts of the Propee
for abundant crops the present The high price
which has commanded all military posts during
the past year. veragng 81 per bushe has stirred up the
hitherto INDECENT ancheros, and they have entered with
something like spirit into the cultivation OF the land Ac-
the rive-od farms have been enlarged and improved,
and hundreds of opened. The corn ON many
plantations already the fields with mantle OF
green, the late rains having caused uxurant growth
early paintings. Such backward IN planting,
have repent OF their delay the dry weather
being against termination but this is the season for
rain it hardly be doubted that all who are en-
poyng the present time IN sowing VIII reap abundant
harvests from their abors Several sugar. cotton,
tobacco plantations have been opened the river
and the number of hands engaged in the fields indicate
that the spirit OF agriculture has been aroused IN the Mex
leans and they determined if is really the
noen that has been charged them that has kept
them dependent upon other countries tor what they conld
as we'll produce their We satisfied they VIII
find charge has been just and that it needs only proper
cultivation make the lands the Rio Grande produce
sugar. cotton and tobacco equal to the best lands in LOUIS
lana or Texas. We know that many differ with us In
opinion but shall adhere our belief until otherwise
convinced by fair experiment We have been experiment.
ing in small way ourselves, and might point TO our gar
den in support of belief Fifteen days after planting
the Seed garden produced radshes fit for the table
and in days shall have of peas from seed
NOT month in the ground Lettuce, cabbages, caulihow
ers beets turnp archokes tomatoes beans Of different
kinds squashes melons, and different other vegetables
are growing luxuriandy In due ma we shan't care
if corn is S4Oa busnel, for shall have plenty Of it,
aud ''praes" too mistake. How independent we
shall be- if the thieves only keep away from u.s. and they
better, for we've loaded and capped old Sacramento io
their especial beneft.-Ameriean Flag.