SINGULAR FACT.
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beppar was found in one Of our streets,
a few weekssince, in squalid and filthy APP


parel, and dead, without apparent cause


The coroner upon examination ct the body,
found money to the amount o. aoout two hun
dred and seventy dollars Oh it, part OF
which he had no doubt was the cause OF his
death. Fourteen whole anh one halt Joes
quilted together, wete enclosed. n the neck
cloth, and formed a hard lump lmmt4!ately
under the iugular vein the man lying on his
side, and occasioning direct pressure on It,


probably stopping the circulation ot the
blood and occasionlng apoplexy. Statesman.


A. friend of ours who has often for the
space oftwenty five years sailed as master
of a vessel between Baltimore and the Ha-
vana, states that during the whole OF this
time he has never lost single hand by DIS


eases incident to the latter climate. The
mode in which he has been thus far success
ful in preserving his crews from that danger
GUS malady, the yellow fever, is peculiar
and we publish it il the hope that 1t may,
under divine Providence, be the means OF
rescuing the lives OF our conntryInen IRON a
climate which has been 50 fatal lie caas-
ed a double awning to be spread over the
deck, imperyious to the r4ias and dews.
Boards are then placed sideways upon deck,
on which others arc laid with Hat surface
uppermost, on which the hammock or
biankes of the crew arc deposited II the
rain falls during the night, it Is carried oil
without injury to the slcepers. He states that
in that hot climate, when the hands sleep II
the forecastlc, they are called, rocking with
unnatural perspiration, on deck, exposed to
all the nocturnal dews descending IN such
abundance This terminates in fevcrs, and
in all those malignant disorders to which so
many Americans have in that country fallen
victims On the plan which has been SC
successfully adopted, the crew rise from their
sleep refreshed and with none OF that unna-
tural heat which is endured by sleeping in the
confined forecastle. In the day time nc
allows the sailors plenty Of lemonade out nc
ardent spirits except what he mixes and -,


ministers with his own hands. He at' al
likewise to their daily meals and st.erin'
tends the cooking of their victuals. As II,
sickly season is approaching and or coz.


1nerce with the Havana is SO extensive, it i
hoped this Intelligence may be as eAtcn,i.c'
ly beneficial. BaHimore ameF3-eh.