The North-Carolina standard., 1850-09-04

ON THE USE OF MULES. 1. Mules on a gener-
al average live more than twice as long as horses.
They fit for service from three years old to thirty.
At twelve horse has his best days and is go
ing down hill. but mule at that age has scarcely
risen out of his colthood, and goes on improving till
he IS twenty. Instances recorded of mules living
sixty seventy years, but these exceptions The
general rule is that they average thirty.
9. Mules are never exposed to diseases as horses
have spent considerable time in studying the
diseases of horses from ring bone up to poll evil.
But who ever heard of ring-boned, spavened wind
broken mule. Immense sums of money are annually
lost in the premature death high spirited horses by
death and disease. The omnibus lines in New York
city have not been able to sustain their losses,
and are beginning to use mules as less liable by far
even to accidents as we'll as disease. this results
from the next consideration, which is that
3. Mules have organs of usion and hearing far SUI
perior to those of the horse. Hence they seldom
sheer, and frighten and run of. horse frightens
because he imagines that he something fright
ful. but mule, having superior dscernment, both
by the eye and ear understands every thing he meets,
and therefore is safe For the same reason he is sur
er footed and hence more valuable in mountainous
regions and dangerous roads. ! doubt whether
on the Alpine paths a mule ever made msstep. He
may have been deceived in the frmness of the spot
where he sets his foot but not in the proprety of the
choice, all appearances considered.
4. The mule is much more hardy than the horse.
A pair of these animals, owned by neighbor of
mine, although small in size, will plough more land
in one week than four horses. In light harness or
under the saddle, in hauling iron ore OF on the turn
pike before Conestoga wagon, one mule in a life
ance is almost incredible.
S. Another very important fact is, that, in the mat
ter Of fooa, mule will live and thrive on less than
one half it takes to keep horse. The horses Of Eng
land, at this present time, are consuming grain which
would save the lives of thousands of British subje
particular friend of mine, who has returned from
visit to Ireland, informed me few days ago that, in
the county of Antrim alone, there Were eight poor
houses, containing from eight to nine hundred pau
pers each. We're the nobility disposed to substitute
thousands of victims who sarve to death for want of
the grain that horses consume. In our country how
ever, the saving of grain is object. In national
point of view, the agricultural interest is so great
that the greater the demand for grain of all kinds the
better for the farmer But yet the individual farmers
who are in debt and whose land is not improved,
would find it profitable, in the course of ten years, to
have the labor of full team, and half and
of the food necessary to keep it up as might be
the case in substituting mules for horses.
REMEDY FOR THE CHOLERA. The following letter,
giving the experience Of respectable shpmaster of
the effects Of simple remedy in cases of cholera,
has been furnished to the New York Evening Post
for publication. The method is that resorted to by
Dr. Dickson of Lond and the school of practitioners
to which he belongs. He maintains that the cholera
is produced by the spasm or palsy of the eighth pair
of nerves-that is to say, the nerves which commu-
ncate between the brain. the stomach and the lungs
and founds this doctrine some remarkable expert
ments of the anatomist. Dupuytren, who showed
that by the simple compression of this pair Of nerves,
asphyxa is produced, which can be continued till it
proves mota and that during this asphyxa the blood
becomes of black coal color, and that it is atten-
ded with violent efforts to vomit. The practice foun
ded on this view Of the Of cholera is the ad
npictro If ard md
in warm water, are sometimes given; sometimes tar
emetic, the Italian practice sometimes ipecac;
sometimes blood-warm water. This practice, and
the reasons for it, have been set forth in various pub
addressed
New York, July 20, 1850.
To DR. TuRNER-Dear SIR In compliance with
your request respectfully reply than in January last,
in the packet ship Isaac Wright, under my command
sailed from Liverpool with 205 passengers. With
in forty eight hours after sailing, of cholera ap
peared on board, which treated for some time, ac-
cording to the book, with such bad success that,
within ten days, had thrown overheard twenty-sev
en- of the passengers dead with cholera. then rec
collected method Of treatment suggested to me by
my friend and predecessor; Captain Alexander % A. A;
tea spoonful of red pepper, in half pint of hot
water tried it with such success that did not
lose another patient during the passage, nor since.
was seized violently myself with the cholera,
and cramps and so on, and this medicine carried me
through. The medicine acts very promptly as an
emetic, say in one or two minutes. 1t brings up
very offensive matter which sticks like glne. 1t was
given, among others, to old woman Of eighty-four
years of age, who was on deck, Though weak Of
course] the very next day. l have known it TO be
successfully used on board their ships by at least
dozen shipmasters besides myself. Its is quite
general in LIVERPOOL where even some of the regular
doctors find it to their advantage to resort to it. Pro-
vided with this simple recipe, no longer consider
the cholera an unmanageable disease.
Master Of packet-ship Isaac Wright.
A FEMALE ERoNAuT. Mrs. Graham, with three
of her daughters and her son, ascended from Bays
water on Monday week, in new balloon, called the
Victoria and Albert The party descended safely in
Richmond park. Mrs. Graham has written as follows