The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-07-07

NEW METHOD OF MAh1NG 1CE.-1nurSQay afternoon
number of gentlemen by special invitation witnessed
the operations of invention which bids fair to
be one of great practical value. 1t is process OF
making ice and refrgerating by machinery in short
space OF tme at comparatively small COST and to an
almost unlimited extent The working of this ma
chinery was exhibited on board the steamship VIM.
Taber lying in the East river the foot of Nineteenth
street, and its utility satisfactorily shown the spec
| tators. This novel invention does two things-it
makes ice with the thermometer at 80 degrees in the
shade, and preserves meats and fruits for transporta-
ton 1t accomplishes its purpose upon the chemical
principle that if all the heat is extracted of any
object it becomes intensely cold. The ice is made in
this way A small steam engine by means of two
pumps subjects carbonic acid gas to pressure suf
cent to liqudise it, In liquid this gas has lost
its heat but RECEIVERS it again when converted into gas
Accordingly simple apparatus is contrived by which
the acid in liquid state is made to surround small
tubes filled with water. Acid then returns to its gas
condition, and in doing takes with it all the
caloric out of the water leaving solid ce There is
limit to the number of these tubes apartments of
water, and large quantity of ice can be formed at
time. Yesterday about twenty tubes were filed and
frozen to an arctic frigidty.
Upon the principle air can be rendered cold
and dry by being passed through these tubes while
carbonc acid is regaining its heat, and then can be
pumped into air-tight chamber. In this chamber
thus filled with dry, frozen air any meat fruit or per-
ishable article can be placed and preserved.
This new process has been patented by Mr. r. S. C.
Lowe and company formed to put it into practical
operation. vessel has been fitted up with air tight
compartments and ice making apparatus and the OBJ
ect of its is to proceed to Texas, buy meat
there at almost nothing, and bring it this market
fresh and cool. In tropics TOO, by this process ice
can be made the spot and the luxury be accessible
to ALL The expenses of the vessel will be about So
900 per annum profits Ss6o,00O At the close of
the exhibition Mr. Lowe invited the visitors includnp
members of the nraSs to in tha
the vessel and at the festive board he himself exbb-
tied some curious experiments of the wonderful power
of the carbonic acid in freezing any object He took
bag full of the frozen acid, and by of it froze
mercury in a very short time; reduced two bottles of
champagne to the consistency of sorbet and passed
it around to his guests then he froZe eggs in two
minutes to such stony hardness that they ratified
along the table like grape shot, thermometer had all
Its heat taken out OF it in no time, and thirty degrees
OF GOODNESS also. The experiments in fact might be
termed brilliant and they fully illustrated the princi-
pie OF bis theory in making ice Carolina Farmer.
ABsINTHE DRINKERs.-The New York correspondent
OF the Chicago Journal makes the following statements
IL IS alarming the extent to which absnthe is coming
TO be used IN this metropolis Most of the bars retail
IL !, out IN the same manner that they do Bourbon
foung and old 60 out to drink and while one calls for
whisky cocktail another will order absinthe One of
the most brilliant writer's of the New York press has
nearly ruined himself physically and intellectually by
the use of this pernicious sedative for year aud
half.
saw, the other day, talented lady, the wife of
one OF the most prominent professional men Of this
city, who has nearly lost her BY the use of alb
sinthe She first took it aay pain; she now takes
tito aay appetite. Her self control is entirely gone
She totters upon the brink of the grave looks forward
JOY to DEATH and frequently undertakes to put an
end to mental snfferings A beautiful home loving
husband, and fine children, together with all the en-
jovments which wealth and refinement can hestow are
not sufficient to deter her from induging in this soul
and body destroying drug
The effects of absinthe seem to be swifter and more
fatal than those Of either opium or morphine 1t OBJ
tans apower control its votares deadens the
sensiblities, and is, indeed the gaiotine Of the
sonI