Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-04-16

had to be gone through boldly or long de
tour made and despite the heavines
of the stream, they pushed the vesse
through in her proper course. Two or thre
shocks, as she came in contact with som
large pieces, were unheeded and the me
ment the last block was past the bow tn
officer sang out, $780, steady as she goe
on her course" and came aft as if nothin,
more than ordinary sailing had been goinl
on. Iobserved our own little bark nobly
following in the Americans wake; and as
afterwards learned, she got through pretty
well, though not without much doubt of thu
! propriety Of keeping on in such procedure
after the mad Yankee as she was called
by the mate.
"If I had ever before doubted the daring
and enterprise of the Americans, whatI saw
and heard on board of the Advance would
have removed such doubt, but these pecu-
liar features in the children of the Stars and
Stripes were always apparent to me, and
admirably acknowledged. ! will give brief
history Of their voyage to the present time,
as also an outline of their future plans"
DIET OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS.
To those of our readers who may be in
terested in the subject of dietetics, submit
the following statistics, CLEANED from sour
ces which Iregard as entitled to confidence.
The Greeks and Romans used no alcoholic
liquors, nor tea, coffee, chocolate or sugar.
Butter was very rarely used among them
Galen says he never saw any butter but
once in his life. The Greeks and Romans
were also ignorant of the most of the tropi-
cal spices, such as cloves, ginger, nutmeg,
Cayenne pepper, mace, pimento, SC. They
know nothing of spinach, sago, tapioca, ar
row root, or the potato; nor, among the
fruits, of the orange. They were unacquain-
ted with tobaceo.
Beef was ordinarily the principal article
of diet among them. The flesh of the SOW
and the wild boar, being supposed to be
much like human flesh, was considered as
peculiarly nourishing; athlets, when train
ing for the amphitheatre, consequently pre-
ferred this kind of flesh. The ancients ate
mallows, acorns, lupines, white raddish, let
tuce and sorrel abundantly. Some kinds of
animal food rejected byus were held in high
esteem by them, as the wild ass, young
dogs, dormice, foxes, parroquets, lizards sc.
The dormouse was eaten before its winter
sleep, and when fat was esteemed a great
luxury, and served up with honey end pop
py. The peacock was much esteemed as an
article of food SO also the wings and brain
of the ostrich. For one dish of ostrich
brains, 800 in number, the emperor Holio-
gabalus was at an expense of30, 900 pounds
sterling. The crane and the swan were
fashionable dishes at Rome till the time of
Augustus. Young cocks which had been
drowned in Falernian wine the most es-
teemed wine of that time, and afterwnrd
macerated in it, were reckoned luxury; the
liver of the goose made into paste with
milk and figs, was an invention Of the con-
sui Metullus, and was in high repute.
Among the earlier Greeks and Romans,
fish were considered an effeminate sort of
food; but at late period they became a
principal article of diet among the fashiona-
bles. Sometimes single fishes were sold at
a greater price than the cost of slave
The fresh water lamprey brought immense
sums; the sturgeon was deemed worthy a
place upon the tables of the emperors and
the noblest Romans, and was served up with
great pomp. The mackerel and funny fish
were in great repute, and were eaten with
rue and saf9tida. But the roach and null
let were the ne plus ultra of Roman luxury.
Three cost about 500 of our money
The epicure Ap!cius made voyage to At
rica in pursuit of certain kind of fish, but
it is not known exactly what kind it was.-
He afterward committed suicide from fear
of wanting means of gastronomic indulgence;
although he possessed fortune at the time of
his death of nearly $500,000.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE
The trial of case of breach of promise of
marriage, is in progress before the District
Court in Philadelphia. The Statesman says !:
The plaintiff is young gentleman appa-
rently about 25 years of age named Samuel
+. Earl, having prepossessing and intel
lectual cast of countenance, and is an artist