The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-28
AsTIDoTE AGAINST FEvER-Ths Albany Eve.
ming Journal SAYS:

hICHMOND. URS
AsTIDoTE AGAINST FEvER.-The Albany Eve
ming Journal says:
AS scarlet fever often prevails 10 our cimss
70 considerable extent among children, The sub
Joined extract from Coxes Dispensatory, . stand
etu authority among medical mer, will be reat
"nn interest by parents 1t would seem worth
alaI' and can easily be prepared by any druggist
tnousn the better plan is rst to consult your fam
lily physician.
About 1920 or 1921 It was announced IN Berlin
snougn first noticed In Leipsic that BelIadonna ID
preventative against scarlet fever and In
dufeandts Journal. we find 1t further noticed by
! Dr bsrndt He used the extract: two grains dis
soived in one ounce of water dose for an infan;
| OF one year. two or three drops morning and eve.
ming; two years, three or four drops, and so on,
according to the age, up to twelve drops, tke
maxim dose One hundred and eighty-one chill.
dreu, OF one hundred and ninety-fve using 1t,
were exempt from it, although exposed; and in
those who took the disease, its symptoms were
less severe. DIR. Muhskbeck, in the same journal
confrms the sane, after an experience Of seven
years"
Its stated that the first discoyerer of the eff
cscy of Belladonna in scarlet fever, as DR.. Hahn
nemann, the famous founder of Homeopathy. The
physicians of that school have a preparation Of
Belladonna, differing from the EXTRACT" and
which is said to be very eficacious They pros
hibit the use of coffee. vinegar, &c. whilst using
the Belladonna. The use of Belladonna as pre-.
ventive of scarlet fever is very common in the
continent of Europe
THE PRICES OF FooD.-It appears that the
prices of food in the markets at PhiIadelphia are
as high q. they sre In this city. The Ledger says:
The year is nearly advanced into summer and
vegetation seems growing luxurianuy, though a
little behind, which few days of sunshine, like
" UprU mir On tpto
markets and we SEE the stalls supplied about as
literally as usual at this time of the year with the
pr odncts of the garden and with butchers meat, ,
yet, judging from the price asked, we would seem
TO be on the verge of starvation. Twenty cents q
pound for beef fl. to be eateD thirty seven and q
half and forty cents for pound OF butter, twenty
cents bunch for common asparagus, and one cent
piece for spring onions were the prevailing prices
on Saturday, everything else to correspond -
There is no scarcity which warrants such extrsv-
sgant prices, and were pleased to see that tub bs
OF butter remained untouched the people
to try the effect of hot weather upon that melting
article, since abundant grass has failed to reduce
the price.
THE STEAM FRIGATE MINNEsoTA.-This splen-
did steam vessel leaves Philadelphia to day for
Norfolk, where Hon w. B. Reed, United States
Minister to China will go on board. The Phil adel-
phia Bulletin, giving description of the vessel and
her armament, says:
There are two pivot guns, each of them weigh.
ing, with their carriages or slides, about twenty
one hundred pounds The slides are u carriage
on brass wheels, by which (running on brass
ways'D they can be pointed in several directions
The ways are a series of bars screwed to the
deck in some curious convolutions, which excite
much curiosity on the part of visitors. Those two
guns fire l2O balls. and are ten inches In diameter.
ln addition to the pivot guns. the Minnesota will
carry % niue inch guns and IA eight inch, of
which will be taken on board at the Gosport Navy
Yard, where the vessel will touch previous to her
sailing for China, with Minister Reed on board -
The Minnesota is pierced to carry sixty guns but
the above will constitute her armament, except two
brass howitzers which will be used in toe ships
boats, on cutting out expeditions and other boat
Service. Some of the guns OF peculiar con.
struction, Invented by Captain John A Dahlgreen
head OF the Ordnance department! at the Washing-
ten Navy Yard.
9Passipg do the hatch the visitor en- ers a region
whiched seem rather dark, coming light ou! of The
golden blaze of to-day's sunlight. This is the spar
deck, and at the stern are the splendid apartments
of Minister Reed which are the centre of attrac-
tion The windows look out on each side of the
rudder, and the entire accommodations, consisting
of four rooms, comprise an area Of so by 43 feet,
the prinkipal saloon or cabin being 25 feet by %;
the others are the library and two sleeping rooms.
All are painted in white, with gilt mouldngs The
furniture ia of black walnut, consisting of sofas,
tables, bedsteads, book cases, etc, all of which
were made 1t the Navy Yard.
Mr.. Reed takes with him less than six book
filled with works doubt selected with c!as-
sc ~ we'll as legal eye, and with their help
imagine that the luxuties of home ght resignedly
be dispensed with under the circumstances
The Minnesota being q three-decksr the visitors
descend to still darker deck, where one feels so
the beams overhead ming do en- upon him -
At the bow, this deck, is the sick bay divided
OH by wooden bars Curious giancss are cast within
this spac., and hopes the sick ls will be sma
on the beautiful Minnesota.
From this deck you descend to the engine room,
and lose yourssf in wonder at the boilers pipes
can ks shsfs, wheels, which surrouAd you like the
work of giants The engines two in numbsr aud
800 horse rover. There are four of MARTINS tubu
lar boilers" and the power Is applied to two bladed
screw by means of immense shaft running from
about the middle of the ship to the The
10 packed at .he stern just like the head of cylinder
The screw Itself IL made Of composition of bras.
and zinc. and weighs 20 tons Itis II feet in diane
ter with 2S fact pitch and be lifted out of the
wster when the vessel is under sanvas is the
with the screw of the Wabash built at CUR Nary
YsId.
The average speed Of the kinresota under steam
s nine knot per hour but as she is Of hall clipper
build, with top gaants and fair wind it 10 expected
that undsr canvas alcne she will average fourteen
knots per hour. Her dimensions, are-iength, 28l
feet on The spar-deck; width, 81 feet inches.
FROM KANSAS Dates from Kansas to the 2lst
have been received. Acting Governor Stanton
had issued proclamation for the election of dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention, on the 3i
Monday of June. The returns from nineteen
out of the tweuty-six counties of the Territory
give 9251 legal voters. 1t is said that many re-
publicans going over to the Free State Nation.
al Democracy. Also, that an attempt Ia making
by the northern Democrats to send the Free State
men of that party to the Convention.
THE STEAM FRIGA ATE MiNNEsoTA.-The United
States steam frigate Minnesota is now at anchor
off the navy yard Philadelphia, fully manned
equipped, &c, and only awaits the Secretary oi
| the Nays orders to start for Norfolk, where Mr.
Reed, the Minister to China, will 60 on board, and
will start abou. the 1st proximo for her destination
She has now mounted Al guns and the officers
marines and crew consist of 62l persons
THE FRUIT CROP OF KENTUCKY.-The execu
tive committee of the Kentucky Horticultural So'
ciety have made q report in relation to the pros
poets Of the fruit crop in that State 1t expresses
the opinion that the fruit crop generally will ex
eesd the average but that the yield Of peaches viii
be light.
RAILROADS IN MINNESOTA The Legislature
of Minnesota have disposed of the lands granted
bv Congress to the Minnesota and Pacific, the Rcot
River Valley and the Southern Minnesota and the
Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad Com panes
SUGAR AND MoLAsSEs During Friday, Sat.
urday and Sunday there arrived at the port of N-~
York IA 29 hhds of sugar aud 2770 hhds n o
lasses in forty.fve vessels. These heavy receipt
should have the effect to lowes the present his b
prices.
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