Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
SCROFULA AND OTHER MALADIES CURED 
BY PLANTS. 
GARIBALDI, THE YOUNGER 
corruption and treason wherever it may exist, 
keeping well the maxim before US that "the lib¬ 
erties of the people are the gift of God.” 
Van Buren Center, N. Y., 1863. C. E. Bentley. 
unoits 
Small Pox.—Last autumn a gentleman named 
Lane obtained from an Indian tribe in Nova 
Scotia, their secret cure for this disease, which 
proved to bo a plant known as the Sarruoeuia, a 
native of low grounds, whose foliage and flowers 
are unique and highly interesting to the Botanist. 
DtAituuEA.— Since this has become so preva¬ 
lent in our armies, special attention has been 
drawn to the tree known as Liquid Amber or 
Sweet Gum, which is very plentiful in our forests, 
from Long Island to Carolitia. It is the inner 
bark which comprises the sovereign remedy 
against this disease, often curing it by a single 
dose, A large establishment has now been 
formed at Washington for the preparation of this 
curative. 
Scrofula ok Evert Phase.— A sovereign 
autidote to this, the most direful of all diseases, has 
at length been found in the Veronica quinquc* 
folia , or Scrofidarict, a plant thnt at one time 
grew very plenteonsly on Long Island near the 
sea, but which has now become rather scarce. It 
is a most thorough purifier of the blood, and the 
emiuent Dr. Ogden has stated that twelve ounces 
of the root of this plant will restore the blood of 
an adult to the purity of that of au infant. It has 
been most successfully applied to the whole range 
Of scrofulous diseases, such os erysipelas, leprosy, 
salt rheum, dropsy, gout, rheumatism, cancer 
and all cancerous humors, cutaneous (skin) dis¬ 
eases. and ail other maladies arising from impu¬ 
rity of the blood ; and what is deemed the most 
THE “TRY COMPANY 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 
The right of revolution, when provoked by 
despotic oppression, has been conceded by all 
impartial historians. From remotest antiquity 
down to the present hour there has been au “ irre¬ 
pressible conflict” between right aud wrong, 
liberty and despotism, and surely we must, admit 
that, if “coming events cast their shadows be¬ 
fore,” the end of this warfare has not yet arrived. 
Nearly two thousand years ago C esar's victo¬ 
rious legions crossed the Rubicon and vindicated 
upon the bloody field of Pharsalia the rights of 
the Roman Republic. Hereditary aristocracy was 
subverted, and upon its wide-spread ruins was 
laid the. broad foundation of a true democracy. 
At a later period we note the fierce contest be¬ 
tween Cavaliers and Roundheads—the defenders 
and opponents of a pernicious feudal system,— 
ending in the triumph of Cromwell and his 
puritanic followers j and s till more subsequently 
the great struggle for American Independence, 
and the final formation of our Federal Constitu¬ 
tion—thp Magna Charts of democratic freedom. 
But perhaps there is no period in the history of 
nations in whic h evife so deeply rooted in the 
laws aud customs of a people, aud bearing the 
growth of many ages, have at once encountered 
so formidable a barrier as did those evils which 
overthrew the Bourbon dynasty of Louis XVI, 
and heralded the bloody epoch of the French 
Revolution. France had long borne the "pa¬ 
tient marks of despotism ” — for weary centuries 
even had her toiling millions bowed beneath the 
oppressors yoke; but "God's own time” at 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
TIME IN MILITARY MOVEMENTS. 
There is a tradition here that Col. Baum. 
while on his march to Bennington, was met by 
two men pretending to be deserters, who in¬ 
formed him that the Americans occupied that 
place in great force. Believing this report, the 
Ilessiau leader was induced to halt and send 
back to Buruoyne for re-enforcements, who de¬ 
tached Bretman to his relief. This delay gave 
the Americans time to rally under Stark and 
win the first decisive victory gained by our 
armies during the Revolutionary war. It wa9 
the first gleam of light that shot across the sky of 
A gentleman who was riding in the cars 
noticed a bright little fellow, between five and six 
years of age, engaged in the nttempL to unloose 
a knot in a siring that bound a small parcel. 
The knot had become well compacted, and the 
child's liny fingers seemed to make no impres¬ 
sion thereon. The patient earnestness of the lit¬ 
tle fellow was contrasted with the apparent 
indifference of his parents, who made no attempt 
to assist Mm. At last the gentleman, whose sym¬ 
pathy with children was warm, could bear the 
signt no longer ; so. partly to help the child, and 
partly to rebuke the parents, he took outhlaknife 
and handing it to the hoy said : 
‘'Here, my little fellow, try the virtue of a sharp 
blade. You can’t undo the knot” 
Something to his surprise the knife was not 
taken, hut instead the cMld answered with a 
smile,— 
“Please, sir, father don’t allow me to say I 
can’t I belong to the ‘ try company.”' 
“Indeed,” said the gentleman drawing back 
his hand. “ I never heard of that company be¬ 
fore.” 
“Uhl I’ve always belonged to it—haven’t I, 
father ?’’ 
And the child turned with an expression of 
loving confidence in hia face toward his father. 
“ He is a worthy member of that excellent as¬ 
sociation, six,” said his father, now speaking to 
the gentleman, aud smiling in a pleasant way. 
“ Ah I I understand you.” 
Light was breaking in upon his mind. 
“ This is a part of your discipline. You never 
permit your little boy to say l I can’t,’ but instead 
• I’ll try, sir.’ ” 
“ Expedient I” said the gentleman, “excellent'. 
That is the way men are made. It is the ever¬ 
lasting ‘ I can’t,’ (hat is dwarfing the energies of 
thousands upon thousands all over the land. A 
feeble effort is made to overthrow some difficulty, 
aud then the arms will wearily fall, aud the at¬ 
tempt is abandoned.” 
“ And who it most to blame for this ? was in¬ 
quired. 
“ Parents,” was the uhesitating reply. “ Parents 
who fail to cultivate patience and perseverance 
in their children. Parents who carry them when 
they should let them walk, even though their 
feet he weary. I see it all as clear as light, and 
' see my own fault at the same time. I cut the 
knot of difficulties for my children every day, in¬ 
stead of requiring them to loosen It themselves. 
•But, sir, they shall join the ‘ Try Company' after 
f M s I’ll have no more knot-cutting in my house. 
which his father had begun. The wild supersti¬ 
tion of the Italians — their belief in the super¬ 
natural—is amply flattered in the story of 
Menotti, and he is pointed out as the chosen one 
of God. At Aspromonte, where his father re¬ 
ceived the wound which has rendered him help¬ 
less for awhile,yUenotu, who was fighting by his 
side, received a ballet in the thigh, and fell with 
the shock. This gave rise to the repurt of his 
having been more severely wuiiuded than his 
father. But soon the joyous news spread along 
like wildfire. Menotti'e life was not in danger. 
The hall which had struck him, by one of those 
strange mysterious chances which happen so 
seldom that they seem impossible, aud are there¬ 
fore deemed miracles, hail struck the thigh-bone, 
and, instead of shivering it to splinters as it 
passed through, had flattened itself against it, 
and been repelled l The doctor who withdrew 
it has kept it as a trophy, before which Italian 
enthusiasm is ready to bow in adoration, as rep¬ 
resenting the Divine power and the Almighty 
protection vouchsafed to their idolized Menotti 
Garibaldi; and they say that the young man 
possesses, in addition to his father’s qualities, all 
those in which the old Garibaldi is wanting as 
| well. He is less demonstrative—less liable to 
be imposed upon by the designing —less likely 
to be made a tool of by the cunning and unprin¬ 
cipled. He talks less.in short, and never writes; 
while his bright young honor stands without 
speck or stain before the blinking eyes of Ms 
countrymen, who can ouly wonder at the strange 
objection he manifests to falsehood and subter¬ 
fuge, without attempting to understand its utility. 
Menotti’s admiration for his father amounts to 
adoration: while the paternal love and pride of 
the latter toward his young Bon partakes of a 
strange kind ol' reverence, inspired by the stead¬ 
iness of principle he has always manifested. 
His individual character would do much toward 
elevating that of the people he would undertake 
to command, while the prestige of Garibaldi's 
would inspire confidence and faith in the 
that gloomy period, and raised, as if by magic, 
the drooping spirits of our countrymen during 
the darkest days of our history. It was the 
turning point in our conflict with Great Britain, 
and paved the way for the triumph of our armies 
at Saratoga end Yorktown. We may say of 
Baum that he was defeated and lost his life, not 
by making a false movement but by stopping 
two days short of victory. 
In the present war, at tho first battle ot Bull 
Run, Patterson was behind time. At the 
second battle, so disastrous and bloody, it was 
Porter. At the first battle of Fredericksburg, 
it was the pontoon train!}: rnd, plague on the P's. 
if our officers do not mind them and their Q's 
i quarrels) better, we shall not soon subdue the 
rebels. Oh, for Generals that would study his¬ 
tory and profit by its instructions. The Roman 
army never suffered a more complete and total 
overthrow than they received at the hands of 
Hannibal at Tkrasymene and Cawne. Yet 
these conflicts, the bloodiest in history, failed to 
be decisive, because the Carthngeuian hero, with 
all bis great qualities as a leader, overlooked 
the importance of time in military movements. 
After these great victories be might have entered 
the streets of the Eternal City as a conqueror. 
But he delayed a few days for repose, aud those 
few days sealed the fate of Carthage, and made 
came the resolve to uurst tne letters oi ieuuui 
bondage. She had outgrowu the vassal gar¬ 
ments of feudalism, and was prepared to clothe 
herself in the habiliments of social and political 
equality, tt’hile we enjoy, as Americans, the 
ble-siugs and benefits of a free government, we 
are at the same time apt to forget that the eter¬ 
nal principles of justice are universal, and would 
not justify France in her opposition to wrong, 
forgetting that it was but a “different applica¬ 
tion” of our own cherished principle—resistance 
to oppression. 
If “taxation without representation” could 
justly provoke a rebellion'gainst Britain’s haughty 
rule, then the unequal and unjust mode of taxa¬ 
tion which France imposed upon her subjects 
was, in itself, a sufficient cause for revolution. 
But tyranny did not stop here. The atrocious 
system of caste, so deleterious, In itself, to the 
growth aud prosperity of republican principles, 
prevailed in this unhappy country to an extent 
hitherto without a parallel in the world’s history. 
Privileged classes—comprising the clergy and 
nobility—had long fed at tho “public crib,” 
faring sumptuously every day; while earth’s true 
benefactor, the laboring man, could neither share 
the Government revenues nor hold any office 
under the crown. 
Rome the mistress of the world. Napoleon’s 
campaigns were almost always short aud deci¬ 
sive, and he often defeated his enemies more 
by the legs than arms of Ms soldiers. In our 
civil war it is not the sword, rifled cannon, men 
or money. It is Time and time alone that is to 
decide the contest. There is a limit to the pa¬ 
tience, patriotism and perseverance of any peo¬ 
ple. It is then the duty of our Government to 
fix a time within all these, and our final triumph 
over the rebel armies is certain, and we ahall be 
again a united, prosperous and happy people. 
Cambridge Valley, N. Y., 1863. H. K. F. 
name 
success of the cause. 
THE UGLIEST PLANT IN EXISTENCE, 
FEEDING THE PIGEONS 
ANECDOTES OF BIRDS 
Some years ago a man loft some money to the 
city, directing in hia will that at two o'clock 
every day, in one of the public squares, all the 
pigeons should be fed. Now, perhaps, you may 
think that pigeous do not know bow to count, 
and cannot tell the difference between two o'clock 
and four o’clock, or between a quarter before 
two and a quarter after two. Well, 1 do not sup- 
pOHC that, they can tell the time by looking at the 
large clock, or that they can count; but this I 
know that they can tell when their dinner is 
ready aB well as any of the children who read 
this paper. A large bell, and it is a very large 
one, strikes the hours, and a smaller bell strikes 
the quarters. Thus the little bell says one, two; 
then the great bell say a one. That means two- 
quarters after one, or half-past one. By and by 
the little bell strikes one, two, three, and the big 
bell strikes one ; that means three quarters after 
one, or, quarter before two. But pigeons do not 
mind that at all. In a Little while the small bell 
says one, two, three, four. Then I saw crowds 
of pigeons coming in all directions, over the 
houses, through the streets and lanes, and by the 
time the big bell had struck one, two, a great 
number had collected, and they kept coming for 
about a minute. After they had picked up their 
tlinuer, they flew away, and paid no moro atten¬ 
tion to the big bell or the little bell, although 
they kept on striking the hours and the quarters 
just as before. No more pigeons came until two 
o’clock the next day. Can any of tho cMldren 
tell how the pigeons know when the clock strikes 
two? And are the little readers of this true 
story as punctual to their duties as these pigeons? 
—Ohild at Home. 
SULPHUR MOUNTAIN IN ICELAND 
people suppose. An instance of that occurred in 
a slate quarry belonging to a friend, from whom 
I have the narrative. A thrush, not aware of 
the expansive properties of gunpowder, thought 
proper to build her nest on a ridge of the quarry, 
in the very center of which they were constantly 
blasting the rock. At first she was very much 
discomposed by the fragments flying in all direc¬ 
tions, but she would not quit her cho-en locality. 
She soon observed that a bell rang whenever a 
train was about to be fired, and that, at the 
notice, the workmea retired to safe positions. In 
a few days, when she heard the bell, she quitted 
her exposed situation, and flew down to where 
the workmen sheltered themselves, dropping 
close to their feet There she would remain 
until the explosion had taken place, and then 
she returned to her nest. The workmen ob¬ 
served this, and iiarrated it to their employers, 
and it was also told to visitors who came to view 
the quarry, 
At the foot of the mountain was a small bunk, 
composed chiefly of white clay, and some sul¬ 
phur, from all parts of which steam issued. As¬ 
cending it, we got upon a rldgo immediately above 
a deep hollow, from which a profusion of vapor 
arose, and heard a confused noise of boiling aud 
splashing, joined to the roaring of the steam 
escaping from narrow crevices in the rock. This 
hollow, together with the whole side of the moun¬ 
tain Opposite, as far as wo could see, was covered 
with sulphur and clay, chiefly of a white or yel¬ 
lowish color. Walking over tliis soft and steam¬ 
ing surface, we found to be very hazardous ; and 
we were frequently very uneasy when the vapors 
concealed us from each other. 
The day, however, being dry and warm, the 
surface was not. so slippery as t,o occasion much 
risk of oht falling. The chance of the cntBt of 
sulphur breaking, or the clay sinking with us 
was great; and we were several times in danger 
of being much scalded. Mr. Bright ran at one 
time great hazard, and suffered considerable pain 
from accidentally plunging one of Ms legs into | 
the hot clay. From whatever spot the sulphur 
is removed, steam instantly escapes; and, in 
many places, tho sulphur was so hot that we 
could scarcely handle it. From tho smell we 
perceived that the steam was mixed with a small 
quantity oi sulphurated hydrogen gas. When 
the thermometer was sunk a few inches into the 
clay, it rose generally to within a few degrees of 
rite boiling point. By stepping cautiously, ami 
avoiding every little whole from which steam 
issued, we soon discovered how far wo might ven¬ 
ture. Our good fortune, however, ought not to 
tempt any person to examine this wonderful 
Although, this privileged aris¬ 
tocracy possessed two-thirds of the landed estate 
of France, yet these lands were wholly exempt 
from tax, notwithstanding the poor peasant was 
compelled to throw half of his yearly substance 
into the coffers of the General Government. In¬ 
deed, arbitrary oppression was only surpassed 
by the pride and insolence of the favored class. 
These “ petty lords ” were taught to despise the 
man who laid no claim to “titles, power and 
pelf”—would recognize no tiers etat — and they 
regarded the inalienable rights of mankind as 
ouly a pleasing array of “glittering generalities.” 
The effect of such a system, based upon Aristoc¬ 
racy as its chief corner stone, is at once appa¬ 
rent to the most ca=ual observer. 
Where wealth is preferred before true merit, 
and favor precedes integrity, either in the politi¬ 
cal or social administration of Government, we 
shall find the invariable results of such a course 
to be the corrupting of the nation’s honor and 
the breaking down of the proudest bulwarks of 
society. With a people who had so long suffered 
such manifold abuses, forbearance at length 
“ ceased to be a virtue,” and it needed but the 
spark which the struggle for American Independ¬ 
ence incited to kindle the flames of civil revolu¬ 
tion. It soon came, and the memorable attack 
upon the Bustiie, the storming of the Tuilleries, 
and the terrible massacres ot September, were 
but faint foreshadowing* of the mighty Napole¬ 
onic power that shook the kingdoms of despotic 
Europe upou the blood-crimsoned fields of Ma¬ 
rengo, Wagrarn and Austerlitz. 
We have vainly endeavored to institute a 
parallel between the caitsea that produced a 
revolution in France aud the rebellion of a 
slave-holding oligarchy in our own country. 
The one was a general and indignant uprising 
ot a down-trodden people against the servile 
oppression oi' a privileged aristocracy—the other 
a Satanic attempt of unprincipled demagogues 
“mildest 
The visitors naturally expressed a e R ual ; 
wish to witness so curious a specimen of intel- titan th 
lect; but as the rock could not always be ready ground 
to be blasted when visitors came, the bell was *' ar SCI ' 
rung instead, and for a few times answered the an( i s ti' 
-ante purpose. The thrush flew down close to °f 8de 
where they stood, but she perceived that she was 
trifled with, and it interfered with her process of 
incubation; the consequence was that afterward, 
when the bell was rung, she would peep over the By t 
ledge to ascertain if the workmen did retreat, and garded 
if they did not she would remain where she was, ol Mm 
probably saying to herself, “No, no, gentlemen; shores 
Fin not to be roused off my eggs for your amuse- to rob! 
meat” dispati 
Some birds have a great deal of humor in poinfe 
them, particularly the raven. One that belonged ueed o 
to me was the most mischievous aud amusing ^ ot 
creature I ever met with. He would get into the the pe 
flower garden, go to the beds where the gardener hands 
had sowed a great variety of seeds, with sticks God v 
put in the ground with labels, and then he would miral, 
amuse himself with pulling up every stick, and “And 
laying them in heaps of ten or twelve on the work! 
path. This used to irritate the old gardener ol Go< 
very much, who would drive him away. The air ot 
raven knew that he ought not to do it, or he had lo 
would not have done it. He would soon return uncon 
to Ms mischief, and when the gardener again tient c 
chased him, (the old man could not walk very iu Gc 
fast,) the raven would just keep clear of the rake statuh 
or hoe in his hand, dancing back before him, and him w 
singing as plain as a man could, "Tol de rol been] 
de rol!—tol de rol de rol! ” with all kinds of mim¬ 
icking gestures. The bird is alive now, and con- jjxs 
tinues the same meritorious practice whenever p 0we] 
•he can find an opportunity.— Maryatt. the q; 
A Curious Problem— Three brothers were 
heirs to their father's oxen, seventeen in number. 
According to the Mohammedan law of inherit¬ 
ance tho eldest brother was entitled to one-half, 
the second to one-third, and the youngest to one- 
ninth of the whole number. As the animalscould 
not bo divided without destroying them, the sub¬ 
ject was refered to the decision of the Faithful. 
Ali. The caliph added an ox to the number and 
then made the division. This gave each brother 
more than his share—the eldest nine, the next 
and the vounsrst two— and yet left the Prince 
fit overthrow, without provocation, the 
and most benificent Government upon earth.” 
•• Might does not make right,’ i care not whether 
it be wielded by a corrupt and Confederate Presi¬ 
dent, who would destroy the Union to gratify 
unholy ambition, or whether it be exercised by a 
powerful monarch in enslaving his subjects by 
an unjust mode of taxation. Power used to 
accomplish such ends generally falls short of its 
> desired object. Let despots beware how they 
■>, abridge the God-given rights of a free people, for 
they are gifts that had their origin, not in the 
wl mind of man. but are stamped with the impress 
' j of a Divine Being — immunities not the result of 
1 N 1 .1 11 1 • O .1 
Children.— In our early youth, while yet we 
live only among those we love, we love without 
restraint, and our hearts overflow in every look, 
word, and action. But when we enter the world, 
and are repulsed by. strangere, forgotten by 
friends, we grow more and more timid in our ap¬ 
proaches even to those we love best. How de¬ 
lightful to us then are the little caresses of chil¬ 
dren 1 All sincerity, all affection, they fly into 
our arms; and then, and then only, we feel our 
first confidence, our first pleasure. 
Beauty of Youth. —Is it not true that the 
young not only appear to be, but really are, most 
beautiful in the presence of those they love? It 
call 3 forth all their beauty. 
