Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-06-25

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He bushes quite up TO the eyes
I can't make him Jealous I've tried IL, d
And Ttis no use my being unklnd.
For that's not the way am certain, I
To get him TO make up his mind.
I've sung him love sonnetsby dozens,
pye worked him both slippers ana nose, !
Aud we walked out by moonlight together, ,
Yet he never attempts TO propose
You really must ask his intentions,
Or some other beau must ind,
For, indeed, won't tarry much longer,
For one who can't make up his mind
THE CRIME OF POISONING.
The crime of poisoning has evidently In
creased in this country Of late years. Scarce
IL a week goes y that some new and startling
case does no. occur. Several persons are now
under arrest In New England, charged with
having poisoned husbands or wives, and it has
been suggested in various quarters, that rigid
system should be adopted, In relation to the
sale OF poisons. The recentirightful and doubt
full disease at Washington has llso directed ut
tention to the matter in an especial manner, es-
recialy as not few of the sufferers believe
that they were poisoned. The crime is fear
full one and it is the most appalling, because |
of the secret an mysterious manner in which |
this method OF taking human life was resorted
to, to q most awful extent, and in many cases
with IMMUNITY. At an annual meeting of the
College Of Physicians, held In London, in
1852, Sir Henry Halford read paper on the
poisons of the Ancien.s, in which lie inyestiga-
ted the causeS of the death Of certain colebra-
ted characters of antiquity. sit is said that
Hannibal destroyed himself by poison, but the
nature Of the fatal preparation is not describ-
ed. Modern chemistry has discovered many
1pbtk& poisons that might be introduced into
- sss nd under certain circumstances destroy
life. One drop of prussic acid might produce
paralysis, and ii taken into the stomach, wonld
instantly arrest the current of being. II is not
likely that the Carthagenians were acquainted
with prussc acid. Libya most probably, pro-
duced poisons sufficiently subtle and destruc-
tive, to accomplish the fatalpurpose of Hanni-
bal Alexander the Great is said to have been
puisoned but this is inconsistent with the de-
tailed account Of his illn IS, as given by his
biuglapher. The report Is, that the poison
was sent by Antiphou, and was of so peculiar
nature, that no silver or metallic substance
would contain it, and it was conveyed in the
'hoof of MULE" Another account attributes
tie death Of Alexander to intermittent fever;
but the most generally received is, that he died
of combined fever and iptemperance. One Of
the ancient historians relates IN account OF
poison so subtle, tuat Persian princess pro-
dnced the death of a rival by rubbing one side
Of the blade of knife with the envenonled
substance, and then carving a pheasant, taking
care 10 place the part that was cut of with tue
poisoned side Of the knife on the plate of
her too cOnhding guest, who died almost i'm
medately, Then the ancient Roman poisoner,
Lncusta, who lived in the time of the Emperor
Nero, and whose name and memory are iustly
condemned 70 iutamy, invented pcsons that
would either sill in all hour, or at periods vary
ing from dry to six or twelve months. Nay,
she could produce death by The smell of Il
nosegay, ami many an automatically poisoned
flower has proved a precursor Of the Tomb
The nuriers by such insidlous and fatal means
committed by Borgia family, in Italy, are
too well known to require recapitulatfon and
it is remarkable that in certain periods Of the
Middle Ages, powder was nllde and sold by
professional prisoners, called Inheritance Pow
der, 10y the administration OF which, many an
iraitiCi ted nature in the death oftheir faith
err, uncles or other relatives, TO tie possession
Of whnSeprt perty they succeeded. The death
o Sir John Oye rbury, in con equence Of partak-
Ing of pic poisoned by ord, + $50 runs history
Of Carr, Earl or Duke OF Somerset, III tile reign
OF James IL, is also well attested fact
I he poison 50 freely administered By the Ital.
ians IN the ST venteenth century, was knoWn by
the lame OF the woman TOianl, who made and
sold it in small pitfalls. She carried on TIL,
terrible traffic for nearly half i century and
WIS arrested ut last, when she confessed thai
she had been adirect party tot the poisoning o
Rome and other persons We're implicated b
heE, and number were publicly executed. a
intense excitement WAS produced tnroughot
Italy. Hundreds Of the suspected He'd, an
several Of lsh s TsFs pfsnar
ton was chiefly used by married women VII
were tired OF their husbands--anl, at one tim
the mysterious decease Of several HUSBAND
caueed suspicion in the authorities, and il WI
discovered that many Of these infamous nll
"A IN, hi
an association to aid each otheI in the diabr
Zeal aud deadly work. Four or six drops
the fatal preparation constituted dose, b
the effect was not sudden, and therefore IL
suspected. The liquid was as clear rs waite
and was exported from Italy by Tot;aA, und
the name OF the t.Manna of St. Nicholas
The chemists of thS day failed to discover
real composition. An official proclamati,
described it as aqua FORTS, distilled into arseni
while otherS considered il rs q solution
chrystalized arsenic. The secret of It's prep
tlonwa conveyed to Paris, when the MarchiO
ess de Brinvilers poisoned her father and ~
brothers, and was executed while the COZ
Founders of the death dealing dlstiilatiUn We
burnt alive. it is stated that so penelrati
and dangerous was the process, that those e
gagged in the manufacture OF this poison, we
compelled to wear gloves and masks, aud
breathe through very fine gave. Accom-
was also regarded by the ancients Us a tprril
poisoni and hence it was tabled to he the
veution OF Hecate. Persons only hy snelli
the full blown flower, were said to have be-
seized with swOoning fits, and lost their sig
fol two or three days while a criminal was !
to death, by swallowing dram of the aeon
root. Nicotine is another deadly poison, VIII
the death Of Socrates, caused by drinking jul
Of hemlock, is familiar to every classical readt
But the subject is painful one, and we ha,
only alluded to- il, because OF the rapid incret
OF the crime in our time, and with Il view
induce extra precautions.
The RESURRECTION FLoHER.-Dr. Deck
The city Of New York, has in his pOssrsyio
an extraordinary floral production, which Il
obtained while he was upon a visit to Eygy
inspecting some lead and copper mines, upo
the upper Nile. An Arab was taken III, All
me doctor rendered him his medical ail, an
when tue Arab recovt red, he gave the doctc
TINS extraordinary plant, and the history fu
nished OF it was, that il was taken from tn
bosom OF an embalmei Egyptian princes
found In one of the vaults containing the r
mains OF y pic royalty. 1t is to all appes
ances, dead Substance, resembling the latte
eu mead OF poppys or the cup oil an ncor
with a short, woody stem, but upon plucl
the stem in water, the corro!ia begins to
pa Ike u suu.nowrr or dahlia, and in
course Vi fifteen minutes it will not only uni'
but il will turn its entire leaves backward I
till they hang downward in Q fringe like
passion flower, leaving an exquisite purl
he at exposed, and forming blossom Of ~
mctrical beauty. Since it has been in DR..
possession, " it has bloomed some eight
nine hundred tilnes"' Two other specime
OF this rare flower, arc known TO exist-unn
owned by the celebrated Baron Humbclt, a
the other hy distinguished European Sa,a
DR.. Decks rational theory is, that ii is a ser
nal vessel, and may drft about with its Sc
carefully folded up, for ages in the dry dos,