The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-14

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negn NJ. Montgny French Consul in China,
soys that the Chinese mix arsenic freely with the
tabaccc which they smoke, and those who do so
are described as s,stout fellows, with lungs ike a
hacksnith's bellows, and rosy as cherubs !" This
statement has called out letter from DR.. Londa,
who announces that some time ago in the course
of discussion at the Academy of Medicine, on
the agents to be employed to cure tubercular con-
sumption, he told the assembled doctors that he
had found but one means of combating this
dreadful disease, viz: the smoking of arsenic, and
the doctor re-afiirms his Communications of tLat
remedy.
tSF Lloyd's forthcoming Steamboat Direct
ory gives a thrilling instance of the necessity of
women knowing how to swim. When the i'll
fated Ben Sherrod was iu flames the kzisss
ippi river, and the lady passengers who had
thrown themselves in the water were drowning
around the boat, the wife OF Capt. Cas.ieuan
Jumped into the river, with her infant in her arms,
and swan ashore, distance of half nile, be-
inc the Only woman saved out OF sixteen. She
had learned to swim when girl.
RAA- The longer live, the more I am certain
that the great difference between men-between
the feeble and powerful, the great and the insig-
purpose once fixed, and then Death or victory
That quality will do any thing that can be done
in this world; and no talents, no circumstances,
opportunities will make any two-legged creature
man withoutit Sir F. Banton.
~The Montreal Gazette says hat the Hud-
sons Bay Company have guaranteed to the Rus
sian authorities the unmolested possession ofthe
Russian territory upon this continent, while the
war shall last, upon condition that the posts and
trading operations of the former in the neigh
horhood of that territory shall continue during
the same period to be free from attack by the
latter.
peA. The Vermont Senate has passed res
olution authorizing the Governor to appoint ar
agent to go to Michigan to obtain the sword
pistols and military garments once belonging
to Ethan Allen.
neA- In airing room, both the upper ant
Hover parts Of the windows should be opened
as the heated air, which from its lightness always
ascends will pass out at the top, and the fresh
cool air comes in at the bottom.
fAr A negro boy, belonging to Dr. Tucker
Of Mobile, was recently recognised and appre
Ihended as q fugitive, in Boston and shipped OF
ayessel bound for Mobile, without the slightes
interference or notice on the part of the aboli
tionists
BSr Within the past six months eleven post
masters in Ohio have been arrested and held :
bail on charges Of robbing the mail by embez
King letters coptaining money.
ma line of Spanish steamers have com
Imenced running betwee1 he ports Of spain an
Havana, Vera Cruz, etc. Ihe 1lx11 lc6 q q
! line has arrived at Vera Cruz She 4 called Il
Mexico. So sz1
isr-The depth Of the Niagra river, under u
r4< sion bridge, j. estimated by the engineer
HLt pulQfe This Is deeper than any othe
~ For faing stream 10 the world.
Z q { se Cincinnati Conmon Council passe
: d Vote recently, that the members ssshouldn
I. smoke and do other immoral practices durin
y their sessions !" s Sc Il $50
- II shs nslghhsIhesa ii clsF 1,sts, a
I ifornia, says fhe State Journal, m1y be foun
! hills composed almost = n " u e1asl Wikh whic
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