The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1855-03-24

CouPtC Sct OUt tUr gAtfuH Tue Dckh1ticHuo III tu0
world. 4M withal the most 4 de- nate lovers
Huee efor We discounted Baroness r -, sllA
is. most amiable personage, and am in dis
pair that one should have torn from her one OF
oar most pleasing illusions.
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Why Estdenies Rage at Night.
1t was in one night that four thousand per-
sons perished of the.plague in London. 1t was
| by night the army OF Sennacharib was destroy
ed. Both i'll Englandapd on the continents
large proportion of cholera cases, in its several
forms, have been observed to have occurred
between one and two o'clock in the morning.
The danger of exposure to the night air has
tscca thvrsr off l,,ysacanayn tiases ifns&
| mortal ;ebut it is remarkable that they have
| never yet called in the aid of chemistry TO ac-
fcount for the fact. Il is at night that the
| stratum OF air neernk the ground must always
be the most skArsed( kith the articles of animal
ise+; matter given out from the skin, and'dele-
tcripus gases, such carbonc acid gas tire
! product of respiroton, and sui phnretted hydro
| gen. the product of the sewers. In the day
gases and various substances of all kinds rise
in the air by the rarefaction of the heat. At
night when this rarefacton ceases, they fall by
an increase OF gravity, if perfectly mixed with
the atmosphere, while the gases evolved during
the night, instead of ascending, remain at near
lv the same level. 1t is known that carbonic
acid gas at a low temperature. partakes SO
nearly of the nature of Il fud that it may be
poured out of one vessel in another. 1t rises ut
| the tcmpcra turc at which it is eNhaied from
the lungs, but its tendency is towards the floor,
or the bed of the sleeper, i'll cold and unvcnti-
lated rooms.
At Hamburg, the alarm of cholera at night
| in some parts Of the city was great that many
refused to go to bed, lest they should be at
tackled unawares in their sleep. Sitting up
they probably kept their stoves or open fires
burning for the sake of warmth, and that
t warmth giving the expansion to any deetcrious
gases present which wonld best promote their
escape, and promote their dilution in the at
moslherc the means of safety were then un-
consciously assured.
! At Sierra Leone the natives have practice
in the sicklv season of keeping fires constantly
burning in the huts at night, assigning that the
fires keep away the evil spirits to which i'll their
ignorance they attributed fever and ague.
7 LnttcrIy, Europeans have begun to adopt the
same practice and those who have tried 1T as
sert that they have now an entire Immunity
from the tropical fevers to which they were
formerly subjected In the epidcmics of the
middle aves fires used to be lighted III the
streets for the publication of the air; and III tho
,,ayae of Le"eoa in 1855, Gres in the streets
\ were at one time kept burning incessantly, tn
f extngushed bv violent storm of rain.
Lattcrly trains of gunpower have been fred,
and cannon discharged for the same object; but
it is obvious that these measures, although sound
in principle, must necessarily, though out of
doors be on too small scale, measured
against an ocean OF atmospheric air, 10 lTottucc
any sensible effect. Within doors, however, the
t case is different. 1t is quite possible to heat q
/, room sufficiently to produce rarcfaction and
, consequent dilution of any malignant gases 1T
may contain, and it is of course the air of the
J.. COON, and that alone, at night, which comes i'll
e39ontact with the lungs Of the person sleeping
e = " cstninister Rcr1cW.
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~ Trifes and Consequences.
/ If, in the world Of spirits, the consequence Of
every txining act of an individual shall be plain
G ly visfkjcNo him. how great will be the rcinorsc
. Of those<Vhose evil works and words nn-
mcrous as Me sands of the sea shore. Who is
there that caifot trace back to the most triiing
# Incident or accident the cause of an entire
l, change in his whole life? Some have been
e made immensely rich by the turning of feather,
d their children educated, given influence, and
r. perhaps charged with the destiny of nation
4 while another has become poor in consequence
d ofsomc slight and almost mperceptible incident
h Poverty has brough ht disease or dissipation
s. and vagabond's life drunkard's grave be-
come his portion. Some of our richest and
al most influential merchants, sons of farmers, car
"a trace their coming to New York to the meeting
e. of play-felIow in the streets, or the running
to away of colt, or perhaps, as in an instance w
III have heard of, the breaking of bowl. 1laC
Il. these boys remained at home, and been farmers
r NApW>~ltferent would have the situation of the
IT. families Their daughters instead Of Haunting
no opera might have been engaged in the more
de worthy occupation Of making butter and cheese
I'd Steamships that now form regular lines to dif
fcrent quarters of the globe and affect the dcs
a tinv of nations, would not have been built; wars
he might have been made or avoided, as subsequen
M circumstances have dictated.
IN Thirty years ago, two boys in New llanI'
on shire uuarrclIcd about box Of blacking.-T'
ill get rid Of one of teW- >13pc~was sent to New
/" York aud Is low one Of our first shipping mcT
ed chants, a director in bank, owner of a line o
ng steamers. a dispute about tin dipper witt
his the steward of steamboat, resulted in a law
ed sut that cost a thousand dollars, aud laid th
SIS foundation of fortune Of one Of our illonares
elk who now owns more tin dippers and steamboat
as than any other man i'll the world-once
deck hand of a boat now the captain of tn
,ss ..uupcr ten" An accident made him. an acc
IN dent may unmake him.
ed NAPOLEON became soldier in consequence
bv one disobedent act to his mOther-then Ger
of eral, Consul, Emperor and exile! Washingto
he became, in early life, favorite with men (
influence and power, because of his obedicn1
mt to his mother An accident made this know
ek- to one who never lost sight of the obedient bni
to which resulted in his becoming the head of I'll
Ike American Army.
es- One single cote sent Oliver Cromwell to til
,he Long Parliament, Charles Stuart to the sea
a fold, revolutionized England and made Grca
Britain free. .Aek
ed Four votes in the CITY of New York,