Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 92, Madison, Jefferson County, 12 September 1818 — Page 2

prescription for three weeks. To cattle or horses, give four times the quantity prescribed for a man. N. 13. This is the time of the year, August, for gathering it. CURE FOR THE GOUT. A person of respectable character has published in a Brest pae'er a singular pears worthy the attention ot practitioners. It. is well known that the large house-leek has been successfully used against corns. This gentleman asserts, that being one day attacked - with a vjo. lent pain in one of his toes, which seemed to threaten, a fit of the out, he applied the house-leek ; the relief he experienced encouraged him to continue the experiment ; he mentioned it to several of his friends who were subject to the gout ; the .success has nlwavs answered his expectation.

It appears incontestable to him, that the house-leek calms and eases, he does not say cures, this cruel disorder, with which so many old men are afflicted, and he invites gentlemen of the faculty to examine whether chance has not procured him the honorand happiness, of making a discovery which will prove useful to the world. The house-leek is pounded after having the thin outside - skin taken off. Journal de Com. From the Connecticut Mirror ALISMA PLANTAGO. As frequent enquiries have been made, whether the Alhma Plantago is to be found in this pait ot our country we answer these enquiries by informing the public

that some or the above named plant has been gathered and left with us at this oilice, by Dr. Cornstack, of this city, and may be seen and examined by all who have any doubts of its being the genuine plant. It perfectly zgrees with the following descrip tion, copied from an English paper. It is said to be abundant throughout our country. It frequents a wet soil, and is most luxuriant in low standing water, flowering about here, in the months of July and August. It will be seen also, that the following descriptionof the Alhma Plantago, agrees with the one published in our paper of the 6th ult.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Hydrophobia. At the present ceason of the yearj and with several cases of this most dreadful of all maladies aroui.d us, it may be useful again to call the atten. tion of our readers to a discovery made by a Russian peasant of Simbiist, as announced in this paper of the 23d of February last. The specific, which is said to be never-failing, is the bulbous part of the plant, called by botanists Alisma Piamago, or the Great Water plantain ; and to add to the value of the discovery, this simple is to be found in all the countries of Europe In Germany as well as Russia, the extraordinary properties of the Aiisma in the cure if Hydrophobia, is said to have been established by

the physical world; and we hope the physicians of our country will without deiay, ascertain its qualities, and give to it, if found eilicacious, the sanction of their authority. The Russian counsellor of state, Lewshein, has lately published a report upon the subject, in which he bears ample testimony to its eflicacy, and prescribes the method of administering, it. The root which, when divested of the tuft of fibres, re sembles an onion, may be reduced to a powder, which powder may be strewed on a slice of bread and butter, and given to the patient to eat. A The plant an question, grows in water marshes, lakes and stagnant pools, and we believe is to be found in such situations in almost every part of England. A specimen of this plant, gathered in a , lane leading to West Derby is now before us, and we find it to answer strictly to the description of the Alisma Plantago, given in "Curtis's Flori Londmensis," vol. 4, article 28, folio edition. Root perennial, white, some what bulbous, coated, and furnished with a tuft "of numerous fibres. Leaves all spring from the root, standing on long footstalks, ovate, pointed, smooth, ribbed, perfectly entire, upwright, slightly waved, the footstalks semi-cylindrical, at bottom sheathing and purblish. Stalk obtusely three cornered, naked, smooth, from one to three feet in height. " Branches producing the flowers disposed in whirls round the stalk and the lesser branches in a similar manner round them, varying greatly in number,. & naked. Stipulas at the base of each whirl, membranous, withered, and sheathing. Calyx: a Perianthum of three leaves, the leaves ovate, a little pointed, concave, marked with lines, spreading membranous on the edge.

The season of flowering in England in the months of July, August and September ; the specimens we have before us, and which may be seen at our office, are of course not at present in flower, but the identity is indisputable. It may be gathered at any time, but' is best when it has flowered, The roots should be washed and cleaned, and dried in the shade ; when dry it is pulverized and administered as above. Two or three doses, it is said, has always been found sufficient to effect a cure, even after the hydrophobia is declared in the patient, whether it be men or ani. mals. Carolla three Petals, roundish, purple, gnawed on the edge, flat, spreading somewhat remote from each other, claws yellow. Stamina: six Hlaments, fine and tapering, slightly bending inwaids. Ant Iieize greenish. Pistillum : Cermina numerous, to twelve or more placed in a circle. . Styles as numerous as the gcrmina, filiform, upwright. Stigmata simple. The Pistillum magnified.

Lord Erskine, in his Armata, after censuiing the immense expense of law proceedings, especially of stamps, which he falls pictures or portraits of the. king, relates the following anecdote: "In passing through the rooms of the prisoners, we observed 4 persons who were playing , carols together j when my conductor, who was still the same eminent advocate, desired me to stop and observe them. 'That first, (he said, pointing to the man nearest us) is an honest baker, with a large family, who brought a suit against his partner at the table, to recover about 20 pounds, for bread that he sold him ; but for which the other who is a carpenter, could not pay, having a large family also, and his taxes to government in arrear, for which his little effects had been sold. The baker prevailed in his suit, but the pictuiesot the sovereign, (the stamps) andthe expences of the proceedings, beyond what he could charge to. his "opponent , would have left him but lit tie to receive, even if the carpenter could have paid; but receiving nothing at all, he took him to prison for the debt, which was swelled by the expenses to more than double the sum. But the poor baker, thus receiving nothing from his prisoner, and not being able to pay his attorney for the proceedings and the portraits, he was sued himself, ai d was taken to prison aho; and the plaintitf and defendant now sit opposite. But the attorney was just in the same condition as his client, whom' he had sued ; as, by getting nothing from the baker, he was unable to pay for the portraits, which the paper merchant had sold him ; and he was sued and carried to prison himself, where he met with the gentleman - who is now his partner, viz, the attorney for the carpenter ; he having been sued for the portraits also, which he had bought for the carpenter's defence and being cast in the same prison, the jailor I'as got the whole envey. 1 hey have not amongst them all, the smallest coin in circulation ; yet they are as eager at their game, as it the fate of the universe was at stake on every card; and they pay one another with slips of paper, which they pleasantly enough call Exchequer bills, as they are to be paid only by similar slips of paper when they become due.' I never witnessed such a scene. It was inhuman to laugh as I did ; but it would have been more than human to resist."

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the Mayor's court, of bittii,

his wifes nose, and scntend

two years imprisonment n

Penitentiary, in pronou;

sentence upon Peinovie, & pi ing out in ; lively colors the

heard of cruelty and wickei

of his crime, -the mayor sai thanked -God,-that, althouff

crime had been . perpetrated merica. the perpetrator va

an American by birth, and

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our republic:

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( Congressional returns as thev have come to hand.

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been heard from.

Wheat, Rye, corn.

oats,

A dreadful hurricane, almost unexampled in violence, we understand, passed over the Northern neck of Virginia, and obliquely across the Potomac, into Maryland, on Saturday afternoon, prostrating in its course trees, fences, &c. on the land, and on the river committing injuries much more distressing. Several vessels, wc arc informed, were sunk, amongst them one which was carrying several passengers from the navy yard, in this dry, on a visit to their friends below, and which, seeing the hurricane approaching, had come to anchor.

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boat Car of Commerce Mfintrtvi! nn the nrrceedm0

board thirteen hundred aM hut, ivlisve, "'"I

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est number that was evu ;

on the river at or.e tripshort voyage Jive hrUS olace."