Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-08-29

thus prepared is purchased at small price by the
Hudson Bay Company and is used to provision the
inland trading posts. Attempt has, on une occasion
been made To prevent the incursons of those people
within our boundaries, but without effect Many
Of these mixed blood desire now to remove to Penn
bina, which is on the American side of the line,
and settle there II permission be obtained from
our government They would constitute formid-
able and Efficient defence to northern frontier i'm
case of Indian disturbancesas they are much feared
by all the different tribes The British settlement
at Red river, in the vicinity Fort Gary, numbers
about five thousand"
A VALUABLE Observation-Disclosures TO
BALD IIEADs.-We have often heard of ssrestord-
toes" Tor the human hair, but have never yet known
OF any thing which actually restored hair TO those
who were bald until discovery lately brought in
to requlsilon in this city, by MIR. Nj. WISE of Rock
lngham county, Va.
Mr.. Wise, who is farmer by trade, has been
experimenting for several years, by attempting to
produce growth OF hair where badness existed,
having taken up the idea that such thing might
be possible, from close observance OF the appear
ance of the pores of skins from which the hair had
been extracted prior 10 tanning. He discovered
tha alter one crop of hair had been extracted there
were second set Of roots below those which were
drawn out OF the upper pores of the skin, and this
peculiar formation Of the skin of an animal he
thought not unlikely TO exist in the human head
Hence II occurred to him, that If the skin on the
Htdu vi person cOuu ne SOitened, and the lower
pores so reached with the right kind ofnvigoraiing
application, growth of hair would be produced.
In this, II seems, Mr.. Wise was correct, and since
his short sojourn in Richmond many OF our citizens
have had ocular demonstration Of the truth of his sup
position.
He has now been in the city about six weeks, or
two months, during which time he has experiment
ted upon the bald heads Of least dozen persons,
some Of whom had been bald for years. Strange to
say, he has been successful in producing a new
growth of hair upon nearly, fnot quite, all of them
When he first came to Richmond, and told what
he could accomplish Mr.. Wise was laughed al and
i, was with difficulty he could get head TO expert
ment on. Those, however, WHIP were at first the
greatest skeptics, now the frmest believers in
the virtue of his discovery.
We have Ourself seen new and luXnriant orowtbs
of hair upon the heads of several of our citizens.
whom we knew TO be almost entirely bald short
time since. In most cases, the hair has made its
appearance in eight or nine days after Mr. Wise's
first applicatlon-and in one instance, only about
four days elapsed before the new hair began to
grow
MIR. Wise, we suppose, will remain in Richmond
some weeks longer, as he has now under his treat
ment number of bald heads.-Rich. Whig.
THE HAPPY VALLEY.-The prosecuted Nor
mons have found refuge in an isolent valley ON
the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in which
we rather hope than expect that they will be per-
o.
scripton, said TO have been communicated by a Moy-
mon resident at the new settlement at the opening
of the valley the shore of the great Sail AXE
10 friend in Ohio, is correct this singular peopIe
have at length found abode rivalling in its attrac
tons Mr.. Mervi!le's Vale of Typee
There is an extensive gold mine here, from
which great many of my neighbOrs arc engaged
in digging gold. Those who work the mines make
from thirty TO $3.50 per day, each. If man wants
gold all he has TO do is TO go dig it. In fact Miles
money is plenty here as pine slabs used to be at
Schoou, Vt. We have gold dust, gold and sill
yer CON- and paper currency for own conve-
| nience paper being better 10 handle than gold dust
''Pure salt abOunds here to any extent | can
shovel up wagon load of salt as soon as YOU
can a load of sand on your Lake shore. There are
hot springs here, that very useful Within
four miles of the city there is hot spring the wa
ter of which is sufficiently hot to scald a hoo in.
There is another spring within one mile of the CITY
the water of which is about blood warm-there we
battle for health also, an oil spring soda spring,
and an alka spring near the Lake. at which place
it requires but few minutes TO load wagon with
as good saIeratus as ever we used-n fact we use
no other. There is not much timber in this country
Game is very plenty, such a. buiialoes anelopes
deer bear, &c. Fowls and fishes of all kinds in a.
bundance.
Cattle can live here the whole year without Ell
ther hay corn, and be fat enough for beef at any
time. There has been one crop raised in the val
ley and there is alarge crop of wheat in the ground
There is canal being constructed here for The pur-
pose of watering fields, there is very little or no
rain in the summer season."
FIRST TowEs IN AMERIcA.-It will seem curl
Gus to those who not of the fact that the
first towns built by Europeans upon the Amer
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