Locomotive, Volume 9, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1849 — Page 2

all very right and propef : but it is not quite polite for them to be peeping in at the window of a lady's bedchamber, ( flattering themselves that they were unobserved, though they should remember that persons are not always asleep when their eyes are shut;) and as the young gents parted the nicely adjusted curtain " the least bit in the world," and were evidently chuckl ing over their success in seeing a " model" free of charge, the long and the short of it is, the circumstance was being dotted down as an item for the Locomotive, by. A Reporter. There is a widow near the corner of M. and W. sts. where a herd of creatures, vulgarly called hogs, are wont to assemble every day. And there they perform the wonderous feat of standing on their hind legs, with their. noses protruding through the broken panes of the window. They also perform the science of eating the crums as they fall out by baskets full. We invite the citizens to witness the scene. No charge is made for the sight. We do hope that, in " that good time, coming," which the council are trying to hasten, hogs will, at least, not be allowed "equal rights" with human beings.' JEW. Mr. Editor : Having a few moments time, Idid not know how I could better improve it, than by writing a few lines for the Locomotive. The 3d of July, appointed by the Mayor, jn accordance with the recommendation of the Clergy, was generally observed as a day of humiliation and prayer. The principal stores were closed at the commencement of the services, and many remained so until after the Fourth. There was not much excitement during the Fourth. The Cadets of Temperance." and the "Light Guards," paraded the streets. Many persons took a steamboat excursion, up and down the river, while others left in carriages for the country, to breath a little purer atmosphere. In th evening there was quite a display of fireworks, from almost every corner of the city. Since last Thursday the cholera has been on the decrease. Thursday last there were 137 deaths reported. On Friday 91 ; on Saturday 85; on Sunday 74, on Monday 78. The weather has been quite pleasent until yesterday Sunday, and last night we had very severe thunder storms, and the weather now is quite warm, little or no air stiring. There has been several fires lately, and our firemen and citizens who work energetically at fires, have been exposed to the hot sun and I should not be astonished if the number of deaths increased for two or. three days. Yesterday, a fire broke out between Walnut and Vine, near the canal, and consumed a Pork House and Lard Oil Factory, with its contents, almost entirely destroyed. While the firemen were engaged at this fire, the Court House cupalo was discovered to be in flames. The sparks from thu other, which was nearly two squares distance, hud set fire to its dr timbers. A few of the engines came from the other fire, but the flames were, too high for the engines to reach. All the papers and documents of any account were saved. The court house was built in 1813, more for service than show. Every person seems to exult over this loss of the court house, but I think they will change their tune, when they have to pay an additional tax to build another. F. CinciiJi. uii, June 10 '49. Cholera in Indianapolis. In t'at so cholera times, an thing to give variety to the dull amusements in vogue is quite refreshing. The following occurred mder the writers own eyes, and it goea far to show :h it such a thing as fear of the dread scourge, has no place Lithe minds of a poition at least, of our citiz. ns. While suiing in the barroom of one of bur hote!3, not long since, th great topic of conversation was the cholera, preventive, cures, ecc, which were presented and discussed by

the various persons forming the knot of idleis. .An itene.ant pedlar forming one of ihe party, boasted of his skill in curing the cholera. It was evident from his manner of interlarding his sentences with the well known hick of topers, that he had been engaged in building, or at least, had a brick in his hat." Accordingly, some of the b'hoys resolved to put his medical skill to the test. One of them was selected to personate a cholera patient, who had been given up by most of the physicians, and pretending to have confidence in the pedlar doctor, he submitted himself to his treatment. The pedlar proceeded to work very energetically, first ordering a poultice of hot bricks to he applied ' to his seat of honor," to stop the di.irrhea, then followed a mustard plaster on top of the head, effectually attacking the disease and patient in front and rear at the same time. This having a very happy effect on the patient, produced a corresponding one on the doctor; .who, rubbing his hands, emphatically declared, that he had never, hie, lost a, hie, patient in his, hie, life. He immediately ordered some brandy and camphor. As the sick man's friends were unfortunately out of the needful, the doctor supplied the deficiency out of his own pocket, to the aroonnt of two tens, vulgarly called dimes, and two of the boys were immediately dispatched for the article to the vender of drugs, but being in a hurry, they concluded to shorten the distance and stopped at a grocery, where, being suddenly attacked with the fatal simptoms, they expended the money for brandy alone, and drank it themselves, which immediately dispelled the disease, and they filled the bottle with molassess and water, innocently supposing it would do as much good as the other. In the mean time, another of the boys was taked very bad in an adjoining room, and dispatched .one of his friends in post haste after the pedlar, who rushed to befriend afflicted humanity with a zeal truly praiseworthy. Having nothing in the shape of medicine, except a bottle of No. six, which he thrust into the patients mouth and gave him ptr force, a very large dose thereof. This was " a trick which was not in the bills," and effectually turned the tables in favour of the doctor, as it immediately cured the patient, who rose from the bed and walked, muttering something about carrying the joke too far. The doctor was in estacies and declared he would have all the patients before the next night. At this stage cf the proceedings, doctor Put, of the depot, was introduced as one of the regular physicians, Hnd appeared very much enraged, to find a n-! va! in the field, and picking up an almanac, he read the law, 1 regulating the practice of physicians, according to which ! any person practicing as a phjsician, and not having a regular diploma, was lial.le to the penitentiary. This frightened the poor fellow out of his practice altogether, and he forgot his patient in thinking of himself, and so excessively frightened was he, that the united persuasions of the whole company failed to convince him that he waain no dangerof the penaltus of the law; Cut when he recovered from the 1 fright' and the effects of the medicine he had taken himself, he declared, however well he got off this time, nothing would again induce him to descend to the discreditable occupation of a doctor. Thus ends the histoty of the only cholera cases we have had in our city as yet. Jack.

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"This has no allusion whatever to the very select pic nic. that came off at ihe Ripple, for we were fully inlormed of all the doings then and there." The above extract we clip from last week's Locomotive. It was penned, no doubt, without any disparagement to the pic nic, though a great many of its contemptible opponents seem to rejoice, most lustily over the slur which they suppose it contains. This ''very select"' pic nic, about which quite a tea-pot tempest has been raised, was gotten up from the remains of one contemplated on a large and general scale. It had no advocates but those composing the "select," and they, thank fortune, were too select to give one for the benefit of the town at large, or for the pleasure of a gallant (!) ex-army officer, and the rediculous imitator of a rowdy b'hoy.

Like the day on which it came off, and the conduct of one person there, we can assure all that our independence remains unshaken, and we care very little about the above extract, the talk which it created, or the sneers and insinuations of hypocritical friends ! To sum up the whole matter, this tremendous excitement about nothing, arose from personal malice. , and like its authors, will be treated with the scorn and contempt which it deserves. SELECT.

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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1849.

Various and sundry communications and editorials are omitted this week for want of room when we enlarge everything shall appear. The report of the Board of Health for last week was handed us too late for last Saturday's paper, and as it is better than a week old we have concluded i ot to publish it. If the Board would meet in time each week to have their report published in Saturday's paper it would be much better. The report confirms the healih of the city, and reports no cases of either small pox or cholera. Some things we like and some we don't. We like to fee men of taste beautify and embellish their residences and grounds, either public or private, by setting out shade trees, and, after they have become of proper 6ize. training and keeping them in order we like to see this But we don't like to see them leave the limbs and leaves lying on the ground at the roots of the trees after they have been trimmed, to decay and taint the air; this appears to be ;n bad taste, as the limbs certainly looked better on the trees than the brush do on the ground; besides, we don't believe it ornaments the ground. Now this is our opinion of the matter, and as we may be mistaken, we would like to have every person visit the Governor's circle and form an opinion for themselves. We can't say at present who had the trees in the circle trimmed, but we think we can find out by next week we know we can if they are not removed. Good Egg. The pavement in front of Vandegriff &, Greer's grocery has Deen relaid with new hard brick, making it again fine walking. There are still a number of u chuck holes" on the side walk, that greatly need something done with them. We were considerably amused, on accidentally reading a private letter of one of our correspondents, addressed to his friend, and containing a communication for the Loco, to Bee is plicate opinion of our little paper. He said "he didn't like to wilte for the little paper, but it was read, and that, too, in the very class he wanted his writings to appear. What more could he ask? The Town Pump. The pump in front of M'Millen's store gave out the beginning of the week, and hundreds of thirsty humans lifted the handle of the old pump in vain. The old thing's sucker is gone, therefore it must be a gone sucker, and many that sought water and found none were disappointed suckers, for they cou'dn't get their sucker in there certain. This pump has been more generally used than any other in town, and it has seldom failed to quench the thirsty when called on, and we trust a doctor will speedily be employed to cure it, for we can't get along without the eld pump. An Item. A tame pigeon was setting on the telegraph wires yesterday morning, when it sudcently fell to the ground dead, supposed to have been killed by the magnetic fluid passing over the wires.