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CREosoTE.-Creosote, so named from it's great antiseptic power, which exceeds, per- haps, that of any other substance, has been long employed to preserve animal matters from decay The only two ways in which creesc.e is usually applied for this purpose, consist either in exposing the meat, which we wish to preserve, to the smoke of burning wood, of which creosote is the effective con- stituent, or else in immersing it for short time in water containing few drops of crco- sotc Articles of food prepared by either of these methods may be kept for a long time; but both these modes of using the creosote are attended with the inconvenience that the food acquires the taste and sisicH! peculiar .o smoked meat. This may be entirely avoided. During the past summer II struck me that persps the vapors of creosote might be found efficient. The method adopted was the foi- lowing very simple one: l placed a small plate containing little creosotc under each plece of meat as 1t hung suspended in the ! .art.cr, and covered both over with cloth. The crosote soon gave ofvapors which form ed an antseptic atmosphere around the meat, and kept 1t quite fresh three or four days longer than it would otherwise have kept.- | u tiie pidle iS Senuy hcdtcu ocioic eho >.Sss- sote is put into it the yapors rise more quick ly, and if the additional precaution is taken of snspending the meat in box or jar closed with lid the beneficial effect is still more dsccrnible. tried the process during the greater part of last summer with invariable success, and butcher, who tried it on a larger scale, was equally convinced of its efficacy. The meat when cooked has not the slightest smell or taste of creosote. An other advantage attending the use of crcosote

 is, its smell is so disagfeeable to the flies that it frees iarder from the presence of these noxious insects. The same quantity of creosote may be used for weeks, but on being long exposed to the air it loses mos1 of it's smell, and is changed into species oi resin--Dr Stcntouss's .New Mode of Em- ploying Creosote for tAe Preservation ct .Meat and Fish.