BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ORSINI.

Colonist, Issue 67, 11 June 1858, Page 4

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ORSINI.

Ohsini was born in Romagna, in 1819; j accustomed froni his childhopd to hear i the Government under which he lived accursed by all around him, at the age of 22 he,,first became initiated to secret societies. Three years after (1844) he was thrown into prison, where his had already preceded him,: but so far from opening his eyes,, that event only appeared to make him more reckless. He was tried and sentenced to the galleys for life for :having conspired against every Government in Italy. He was on is way to Civita Vecchia, when the general amnesty of J*io Nono restored him to liberty. He resumed his favorite occupation, that of conspirator, and wa3 expelled from Florence; the Grand Duke had him conveyed in chains to the Roman frontier, where he committed him '. to the tender mercies of the Papal sbirri. Pio Nono's clemency set him at liberty. Orsiiii took a prominent part in the Roman revolution nnder Mazzini. After the fall of the Roman Republic he made his way to Piedmont, slipping , through the fingers of the Austrians in a manner truly marvellous. In March, 1854, he appeared in Switzerland as Tito Celci. The movement he was endearouring to get up failed, and he was obliged to hide in the mountains; his usual luck, however, attended him, and after many hair-breadth escapes he succeeded in gaining the French frontier. He returned to"Switzerland in the June of the same year, and after the failure of one more plot, Hei was arrested under the name of Tito Celci. He, however, managed again to allude the vigilance of his captors, and after remaining for some time openly at Zurich, under the name of George Hedag, he, on the Ist of October, left for Milan. After communicating his despatches to the revolutionary leaders at "Venice | and Trieste he proceeded to Vienna, arid thence to Hermannstadt, .where-he was arrested on a charge of trying to reduce the Italian soldiers there from their allegiance, and incarcerated in the fortress of Mantua. His escape from that stronghold is one of the moat extraordinary on record; he was locked up in a room in the third storey of the fort of San Georgio. His cell had only one door to it, which was guarded by a lentinel day and night. The window, which was strongly barred in, was 90 feet from the ground* and opened in a broad and deep ditch filled with liquid mud. Orsini cut through the bars, manufactured a rope, by which he let himself down, but, when dangling at its extremity, he found it was too short by half; he dropped, however, bruised his leg, and severely injured j his ankle; but, nevertheless, climbed the side of the ditch, swam across the lake which' surrounds the fort, and actually reached London in safety. He then spent some time teaching languages, until he embarked in the plot against the Emperor of the French.

Jonathan Briggs, of New York, has a memory so long that he is obliged to tie it in a knot to carry it about with: him.

Old Sir James Herring was remonstrated with for not rising earlier. " I can make up my mind to it," said he, "but I cannot make my body.''

JbJce for a Farmer. —The French excel all nations in a studied equivoque, but give us a Yankee for the unintentional kind. A western New York farmer writes as follows to a distinguished scientific agriculturalist, to whom he felt under many obli-, gation3 for introducing a variety of swine: —'Respected Sir—l Went yesterday to a fair at M— . I found several pigi of your species; there- was a great many beasts there, and t was astonished at riot seeing you there!' A Witty Reply,— »A man, who daity visits Gloucester from, the Crahham Potteries with a couple of donkeys laden witH pans for sale, was passing through a narrow street in the suburbs the other day, when a termagent in a tremendous rage .opened her door and exclaimed, " I say, master, that pan I bought of thee.last week runsout" "Do ha? Shut .the door then, and keep him in," was the cool rejoinder of the panmerchant; and, giving his donkeys a tap with a cudgel, he passed on,1 crying in a shrill tone " any pans loanted /■" A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales ori the lawfulness of using rouge.—"Why," says he, " some pious men object to it; others see no harm in it; I will hold a middle course, and allow you to use it od oraecheek." -, 'y ■ A witness was asked how lie knew the parties to be man and wife. " Cause I heard the gentleman blow the lady up," was the reply. When Lady Wallace sent a polite note to Mr. Harris, of Covent Garden, offering him a comedy for nothing, he observed that her ladyship knew the exact value of it. 'I meant to have told you of that hole," said an Irishman to his friend, who was walking with him in his garden, and stumbled into a pit full of water. "No matter," said Pat," I've found it." What neat thing produces all manner of untidiness ?—Neat gin When does a fine lady, only move and breathe with freedom?— When she has broken her staylace. A Wife's Retort. —A clergyman of our acquaintance being recently in company where several ladies were present, his wife among the number, and crimes of Mrs, Cunningham becoming the subject of conversation, remarked, with a sort of roguish leer, that when a woman fell she was far worse in her conduct than one of the other sex. 'My dear husband,' replied his wife, 'you will recollect that the height from which she falls is infinitely greater.' What are Chilblains? — Chilblain's are occasioned by the impetuous return of blood into vessels that have been previously emptied, and weakened and prostrated by the chill. Thus it is after coming in from the cold and sitting down by the fire that the great suffering from chilblains ensues; in other words, by the aggravation of a cause which induces an increased rush of the blood's current. Hence also it is that heat in all shapes gives,rise to the production of itching, or increases itching when already in existence.— The Reason Why. Lameness from Contracted Heels. —A farmer of Niagara county,' New York, states some important facts relative to the proper and improper way of Shoeing Horses. He says: —' About six months since I adopted a plan for the cure of this complaint, which has been so-successful in three cases, that I am disposed to communicate it. My opinion is, that nine-tenths of foundered horses are made so by the shoer. Fora number of years my horses were shod by one man, who fitted his shoes very carefully —opened the heels handsomely, by.triming. the frog and the heel of the hoof, and thinned the sole, nicely taking off all appearance of bars—making the shoe nearly straight from the ball of the foot to the heel. First one horse became lame in one foot then in the other; so, on another one began tb be lame, and in spite of all our experiments the third one was beginning to show the effects of this shoeing, when I changed the practice. Now the two latter are perfectly sound, and the first orfe that had become so bad that it wag painful to drive her even upon a walk, is do much improved that she feels and acts like, a" different animal. .Now for the plan.,, rare the foot pretty close; thin the sole in front of the bars, but cut no more off the bars' than that the shoe may not press upon them: fit the. shoe to the shape of the foot, making it come fairly under the heel of the foot and has wide sis' you can have it, and get the nails in. Do; riot open the heels—at any rate cut nothing from the frog, whether ragged or not; if you chose you may take a very little from the heel of the hoof where it comes in contact with the frog, but the practice is questionable. I think the bars and the frog are intended to keep the heels apart; and therefore, save all the strength you can in the former, and do not disqualify the latter from accomplishing its object by putting it away so that it cannot come in contact with the* heels. Now cultivate the growth of the frog by applying daily either soop ; &nd tar boiled together, or soft soap, or urine, which I think best of all. Take up the foot, clean: it out carefully, and make your application to the sole of the foot, the frog and the heel. Standing in mud of blue clay for a few hour's every day, is excellent."— American

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