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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 2 January 1863, Page 2

UEryFORCEMESfT OF THE BltlTlSir Ft/EET IST Tnii West Indies. — Tho Army awl Navy Gazette says Admiral Wilkes, of Trent notoriety, having been ordered by the Federal Government to proceed to the v'.cinity of the Bahama Islands, with a view to catting off all intended supplies i".om that quarter for the Confederates, the British authorities have very wisely, in the anticipation of nny complication which might arise from the rxeess of energy well known to exist in FlagOiTu er Wilkes, ordered l'cinforcements to be despatched to the Admiral in the West Indies. We believe that the Emerald and the Galatea are under immediate orders to proceed to Bermuda, whence they will be sent to any quarter where Sir Alexander Milne may deem their presence necessary. The Nastiness im Perfumes. — Some of the most "delicious " perfumes are made by chemical artifice, and not, as of old, by distilling them from flowers. They are generally derived from substances of intensely disgusting odcur. A peculiarly fetid oil, termed fusel oil, dis:illed with sulphuric acid and acetate of potash, gives the oil of pears. The oil of apples is made from the same nasty fusel oil, by distillation witli sulphuric acid and bichromate of potash. Tlie oil of pineapple is obtained from a product of the action of putrid cheese on sugar, or by making a soap with butter, and distilling it ■with alcohol and sulphuric acid. Oil of grapes and oil of cognac, used to impart the flavor of French cognac to British brandy, are little else than fusel oil. The artificial oil of bitter a l . Aonds, now so largely employed in perfuming soap, and for flavoring confectionery, is prepared by the action of nitric acid on tho fetid oils of gas tar. Many a fair forehead is damped with cau de mille fleurs, without knowing that its essential ingredient is derived from the drainage of cow-houses.