Faithful Ministers Of Health

In examining the vessels at Mie various wharves we find among tlie curiosities of our comnierce the brig Miranda, just in from Truxillo with a cargo of Honduras Sarsaparilla for Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell. So particular are this firm as to the articles used in compounding their various remedies, that they have this drag, Hke some others they consume, gathered for thera by a skilful agent of their own in the tropical regions of ita gröwth. lle informs us that there are many species of this plant, but two of w hieli are really valuable in medicine ; the qualities of these are also aifeeted by the time of gatharing, mode of curing, etc, operations which in that región of unreHable workmen iniposes a heavy labor upon liim. One of the inert varieties of Sarsaparilla grows wild in our own foresto, while several others, nearly worthless, abound in Central and South America. The intelligent agent assured us that the virtues of this drug had never been fully told, and that the reason of the low esteem in which inany liold it is mainly due to the iniportation of such immense quantities of the worthless varieties. His accounts of his trips to Honduras and his business excursions along the Gulf of Dulce and the rivers of Montagua and Santiago and among the adjacent niountaius were oi' intense interest. We can but commend and honor his employers for the faithfulness and energy with 'hich they execute their tru,st as miniers to lte public health, and we suspect tnït this fourse is at least one of the rcasons why their Medicines are held in siuh exuaoidniory favor 'hroughout the civilized world. - Neto York City feta,