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chewed, and snuffed. Suppose it all made into segars, 100 to the pound, it would produce 400,000,000,000. Four hundred billions of segars! Allowing this tobacco, unmanufactured, to cost on the average 10 cents a pound, and we have $400,000,000 expended every year in producing a noxious, deleterious weed. At least one and a half times as much more is required to manufacture it into a marketable form, and to dispose of it to the consumer.

The Madness of Intemperance.

Judge Johnson, in sentencing a culprit to death, said: “Nor shall the place be forgotten in which occurred this shedding of blood. It was in one of the thousand ante-chambers of hell, which mar, like plague-spots, the fair face of our State. You need not be told that I mean a tippling-shop, the meeting-place of Satan's minions, and the foul cesspool which, by spontaneous generation, breeds and nurtures all that is loathsome and disgusting in profanity, and babbling, and vulgarity, and Sabbathbreaking. I would not be the owner of a groggery for the price of this globe converted into precious ore. For the pitiful sum of a dime, he furnished the poison which made the deceased a fool, and this trembling culprit a demon. How paltry this price of two human lives! This traffic is tolerated by law, and, therefore, the vender has committed an offense not cognizable by earthly tribunals; but, in the sight of Him who is unerring wisdom, he who deliberately furnishes the intoxicating draught which inflames men to anger, and violence, and bloodshed, is particeps criminis in the moral turpitude of the deed. Is it not high time that these sinks of vice and crime should be held rigidly accountable to the laws of the land, and placed under the ban of an enlightened and virtuous public opinion?"

The Evils of Opium-eating.

The evils of the too prevalent habit of opium-eating are well illustrated by a case recently reported. Dr. Kozieradzki, in a foreign medical journal, says that he was called to see a lady aged thirty, who had suffered since her thirteenth year from a painful affection of the heart, and had obtained ease by taking opium, increasing the dose from one-eighth grain to thirty grains, so that, at last, two hundred grains were taken daily. After a while, epileptic fits came on. She had a prematurely old appearance, was deaf of one ear, and had lost almost all her teeth. Being one day unable to procure her accustomed dose of morphine, and having to pass twenty-four hours amid pains at the heart and repeated fainting, she became so much prostrated that, when next day her accustomed dangerous anodyne was brought her, she was seized with a convulsive attack, and died.

The Opium-eater's Insanity.

Nothing but a potent determination to abandon the use of the opium will effectually cure it, and compensate for its customary effects. If there be a venous enlargement, extending upwardly to the brain, the fact is against an independence of the drug. You may pacify sometimes, by applying fomentations of bitter herbs to the stomach; and, internally, a teaspoon twice full of the tincture of hops in a little common black tea, without milk or sugar.

Substitute for Strong Drink.

A correspondent asks for information respecting the nature of intoxication, and whether there is any remedy or substitute for it. The case is that of a respectable and intelligent man, who, unfortunately, is a great lover of rum, and often gets beastly

drunk. His passion for strong drink is more powerful than his will, and his slavery is, therefore, absolute.

REMEDY. All attacks of disease and discord are periodical. They are developed and governed by the retirement of one set of forces and the ascendency of another; so that all remedial enterprises must be instituted with strict reference to the week (and particularly to the day of the week,) when the patient usually yields to "the passion for strong drink." Passion is not as a sleeping lion aroused from his lair by the presence of temptation, but it is the reaction of a class of discordant facultiesand this explains why some persons experience and demonstrate anger without any sufficient apparent cause, and explains also why many very noble characters yield to the ruthless government of some silly weakness far beneath their moral and intellectual status. Of course, no patient can be cured of his " passion for strong drink," unless his whole soul be fully inspired with the sublime wish to be a whole Man! Take this as the bottom-work of the foundation, then watch the period of habitual intemperance, and forestall it by shielding the appetite in every conceivable way-by withholding the customary table temptations. This system should commence at least three days before the "passion" is stealthily developed to its overmastering hight. When the patient (commonly termed "the drunkard,") is impassioned and mad for his intoxicating beverage, administer the following:

Extract Hasheesh (Indian Cannabis,) 15 grs.

Sweet Flag-root (Acorus Calamus,) pulverized perfectly,

1 scruple.

Mix well, and divide into fifty powders. Give one every two, four, or six hours, according to the intensity and incorrigibleness of the victim. In some cases a much finer prepara

tion would be required.

Once pass the season of temptation,

escape the period of passion, and the battle is more than halfwon. But there is another remedy for this malady.

An English Cure for Drunkenness.

There is a famous prescription in use in England (says the Springfield Republican,) for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The recipe came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, father of the Rev. Newman Hall, and Captain Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eastern steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness, that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he sought the advice of an eminent physician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for seven months, and at the end of that time had lost all desire for liquors, although he had been for many years led captive by a most debasing appetite. The recipe, which he afterward published, and by which so many other drunkards have been assisted to reform, is as follows: "Sulphate of iron, five grains; magnesia, ten grains; peppermint-water, eleven drachms; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm; twice a day." This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that follow a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks. In cases where the appetite for liquors is not too strong, the medicine supplics the place of the accustomed drams entirely, but Mr. Hall continued the use of liquors at first with the medicine, diminishing the amount gradually until he was able to throw away his bottle and glass altogether, after which he continued to take the medicine a month or two, till he felt that he was wholly restored to selfcontrol, and could rejoice in a sound mind in a sound body.

Physical Evils are Transient.

An uncle of mine (says a correspondent,) aged eighty-five, residing here, after having been a habitual tobacco-chewer for more than sixty years, about two years ago lost all appetite for it, and has had no desire to taste it since! There was no change in his habits, and he was always more healthy than most men. Some Spiritualists say that the love of the tobacco, alcohol, &c., adheres to man in the spirit-life. But may it not be, as in this instance, that, by some peculiar chemical or physiological change in the organism of the spirit, the appetite may leave them immediately on their introduction into the other life?

Natural and Artistic Beverages.

Man is an artist, a natural inventor, and his intellectual endowments, urged by the inward force of his diversal wants, among other necessities and inventions, impel him to compound his foods and to artificialize his drinks. It is, therefore, strictly natural for man, while passing through the transitions from a crude Savagism to a spiritualized Civilization, to drink and eat many hurtful (because artificial) inventions of his own unfolding genius in the direction of art and discovery. But the primordial and instinctively simple beverage is pure spring water. It is the most unartistic, the cheapest, most poetic, altogether beautiful, and the healthiest.

Man's Voluntary Powers.

Our philosophy teaches us that man, beginning his earth-life as an automatic being, will, when ultimately unfolded in all the hidden centers of spirit, become wholly voluntary · that then, solely through the energetic fiat of his untrammeled will, he may direct or withdraw vital forces to and from any part of his organization. In this way, we hold that man will "heal

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