Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1841 — Page 1

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BY 1)0 UU LASS & NOEL. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1841, VOL. 3. NO. 254.

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A lure remedy for Diarrnheen and Cholera Infantum. . fl'UB CKAMINATiVt; BALSA 51, prepared by Dr. David Jayne, of Philadelphia, is, without doubt, the most certain, safe, and effectual remedy ever yet discovered for Dyssentary, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus and Cholera Infantum or Summer Complaint of children, and indeed the only article worthy of the least confidence for curing this Inst named disease; besides, it is so cheap, that it is within the reach of every family, and if mothers could possibly appreciate Its virtues, there would be lew families without it., The following is an extract from a letter received by Dr. Jane from M. L. Lnapp, M. D. of Baltimore, which, coining , from so high a source, is in itself n sufficient evidence of the astonishing efficacy of this medicine in curing diseases of the stomach and bowels. You ask me what proofs meet with of the efficacy of your medicine. 1 can safely say that I never prescribed a medicine for bowe! complaints thnt has given ine so much satisfaction, 'and my patients so speedy and perfect relief as this Whenever introduced into a family, it becomes a standing remedy for those ailments, and is called fora gain and again,- which I think a pretty good proof of its efficacy and usefulness. In the Summer complaint of children it has frequently appeared to snutch the little victims as it were, from the grave. "It has saved the life of my child, and of such and such a child," Ihave frequently heard said. In dysenteric affections of adults, I have time & again

seen it act like a charm, and give permanent relief in a few hours, I may say in a few minutes. In fine, it is a valuable medicine.

and no family should be without it. Respectfully, ML. K IV A PP. M. D. It is to be hoped therefore, that persons w ill not allow their prejudice to overcome their better judgment, as is not unlrequeutly the case with regard to quack medicines, as they are verv eenerouslv and indiscriminately termed; but, whenever

either of the above named disensea occur either to an adult or

the tenderest infant, do not ask "What shall I do? shall I give it this or the other?" do not fold your arms in listless and unavailing sorrow and cry "my child," or "my friend is past recovery," but fly at once and procure the Carminative Balsam, 'Tisthis which has afforded relief after all others have failed. 'Tisthis which has repeatedly snatch'd, as it were, suffering humanity from the verge of eternity, when the last ray of hope .had ceased to be indulged, either by their friends or physicians. Be careful to obtain that which is fresh as it is a medicine which becomes somewhat impaired by age. Jayne & Pancoast being agents for the article, are constantly receiving fresh supplies from the East. Tue citizens of St. Louis and the public generally, therefore, would do well to call upon them in preference to purchasing elsewhere, where they would bc.liable to get that which has been made several years and which, of course, would not be so effectual in its operations. ."J AVNE & PANCOAST, Agents. No. 138 Main si. St. Louis. Sold wholesale and retail at the sign of the Golden Mortar, diicctly opposite the Washington Hall. TOMUNSON BROTHERS, Who are Agents for Indianapolis

DOES 'NOT REASON and Common Sense teach us that expectoration is the most natural as well as the most effec-tual-agent in arresting and curing Pulmonary Diseases? The answer must be vks, because obstruction is either inline diately or remotely the cause of Influi ation and Catarrhal Fevers, producing Croup, Consumption and Abscesses of the Lungs, pain and soreness of the Throat, Breast, Sides, or Shoulders Bronchitis, exciting mucous and purulent secretions, thereby cloggins up the lungs, so as to more or less impede both respira tion arid the free circulation of the blood, causing difficulty of breathing and asthma Pleurisy, Hoarseness and Loss of Voice Dropsy of the Heart and Chest, Rupture of Blood vessels and bleeding from the throat and lungs, and spitting of blood. To remove this obstruction, from which all these alarming and dangerous diseases originate, and to produce a radical cure, nothing has ever been found equal to Jayne's Expectorant, It stands unrivalled t stands pre-eminent try it, and you will be forced to acknowledge that its virtues have not, nor cannot be-overrated; that it stands far above and beyond the reach of competition; that it is the only reasonable, the only natural, and the only truly successful -met had of arresting and curing diseases of the Pulmonary Organs. JAVNE & PANCOAST, Ageuts, 13!) Main street St. Louis, Sold wholesale and setnil nt the sign of the Golden Mortar, directly opposite the Washinglon HullTOMMNSON BROTHERS, , Agents, Indianapolis

Read atd be Convinced. JAYNE'S HAIR. TOMC Having ourselves witnessed the beneficial effects of this article on the persons of several of our inhabitants, we hesitate not to recommend it to all those who have unfortunately lost their hair. We refer such to the certificate of Mr. Holmes, which will be found in another column Bristol Pheniz. - certificate. Bristol, It. I. Feb, 16, 1841. Mr. Rapely Sir: Having about four yearssince, tnroughdis ase lost the hair from the top of my bend, and having Hsed many articles recommended to restore it, without eflect, I was induced, from the recommendations I saw in your I'benix, to try Dr Jayne's Hair Tonic. 1 am now happy to fay, that after using three bottles, my bead is now covered with a fine growth of young and health v hair. Several of my friends and acquaintances have also used it to their entire satisfaction; I, there fore, cheerfully, recommend it to all who are sull'erimt the disa greeahle sensation caused by baldness. James A. Holmes. The above certificate is from a respectable young man who is an overseer in the Steam Mill, whose statement can lie confidently relied on. WYN E & PANCOAST, Agents. Sold wholesale and reatail at the sign of the Golden Mortar, directly opposite the Washington Hall. July 8,184Itljan4'42 TOMLINSON BROTHERS, Acents, Indianapolis

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P. S. Cabinet Frniture,carvtdoiplan,cptconslanty on hand Sofa Springs also kept constantly on hand. All orders from a distance will be punctually attended to, and neatly pack, from a atsta 1838"0 jpgEPH I. STRETCHER. . Transylvania ITniYcraky, Medical Department. THE Lectures ih this institution, commence, as usual, on the first Monday in November, and close on the last day of Feb ruary. The faculty consists of: Ben. W. Dudley, M. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery. James M. Bush, M. D., Adjunct Professor of do. - James C. Cross, M. D., Professor of Institutes and Medical Jurisprudence. . Elisba Bartlett, M. IV. Professor of Theory and Practice. W. H. Richardson, M. D.. Professor of Obstetric and Diseases of Women and Children. The. D Mitchell, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. Robert Peter, M. D, Professor of Cliemistry and Pharmacy. ' The cost of a full course of lecture is $105, payable in advance, in notes of good and solvent Banks of the States whence the pupils come. The Matriculation and Library ticket is !5, nd the Disecttf ticket f 10- Graduation fee, . 20. Boarding and Lodging, (fuel and lishts inc!uded,J from $2 50 to $ 3 per -ek. Bt o"ler THOMAS D. MITCHELL, M. D Dean of Faculty.

, PublicNo. 8. AN ACT in addition to an act entitled an act to carry into effect a Convention between tho United States and the Mexican Republic. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon the presentation of certified copies of such awards as hove been or shall be made in pursuance of the Convention with the Republic of Mexico, concluded at Washington the eleventh, day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirly-nine, in favor of citizens of the United States, to issue certificates to the persons authorized to receive the sums so awarded, 1 lie Itgal representatives and assigns, in the manner directed by the seventeenth section of the act entitled "An act to carry into effect a convention between the United Stales and the Republic of Mexico;" such certificates to be in such form and for such portions of the sums awarded as may be convenient for the claimants, and to be subject to -the deductions provided for by the tenth section of said act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to give any rights to the claimants that are not conferred by said convention, and the i.ct of June twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and that the substance of this proviso be inserted in the certificates that may be issued. JOHN WHITE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAM'L L. SOUTHARD. Pres ident of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, September 1, 1841. JOHN TYLER.

: Public No. 9. . AN ACT to amend the act, entitled "An act to provide for taking the Sixth Census, orentirneiation of the inhabitants of the United States," approved March thitd, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acta amending the same. Be- it enacted, 4c That it shall and may be lawful for the marshals of the respective States and Territories, who have not, before the passage of this act, completed their enumerations, and made their returns, under the acts hereby amended, to proceed personally and by their assistants to complete such enumerations, and make such returns under the said acts; and the said assistants shall be allowed until the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fortyone, to complete their enumerations, and make their returns to the marshals, and the said marshals shall be allowed to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be mnde within the time prescribed in this act: And provided further, That no persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to cnuse to be printed twenty thousand copies of the compendium or abridgment of the Sixth Census, by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment as prepared at the Department of State, for the use of Congress. Sec. 2. And be it futlher enacted, That the Secretary of Slate is hereby authorized to have the Sixth Census documents bound in a plain and substantial manner, the cost of which shall not exceed fifty cents per volume; and that the amount thereof shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 6. And be a Jurtlier enacted, ihat it snail ana

nifiv be hiwfiil for the Marshal or the State of Mary

land, and he is hereby required, under the direction .if the Secretary of S'ate to cause the number of the

inhabitants within Montgomery county, in the State

aforesaid, to be again taken according to the directions of the act to which this is a supplement, and

the same to be returned before the first day of .Decern

her next, and when so taken and returned, shall be

considered as the correct enumeration of the inhabi

tnnts of the said county: Provided, That nothing

herein contained shall be deemed to release such mar

slial and his ossitants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid: And provided further. That nO

persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district of which such

returns shall be made on the first day of June, one

thousand eight, hundred and forty; And provided, al

so. That the said correct return shall not delay the printing of the Census; and that the said corrected

return be printed by itselt separately. Approved, September 1, 1841. Resolution: Public. No. 2.

A KESOLTUION for the distribution of seven hun

dred copies of the Digests of Patents. Resolved by the Senate and House of Represents

lives of the United States of America in Congress

assembled. That the Commissioner ot Patents be di

rected to send to the Secretary of State of each of the States of this Union, Rnd of the Territories of Florida, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the Digests of Patents

published by the Commissioner of Patents, under the act of Congress dated March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; to be disposed of as the Legislature of each State and Territory may direct, viz; To the State of Maine, twenty copies; to the State of New Hampshire, ten copies; to the State

of Massachusetts, thirty copies; to the btate ot Knode Island, four copies; to the State of Connecticut, twelve copies; to the State of Vermont, eleven copies; to the State of New York, ninety-eight copies; to thp State of New Jersey, fifteen copies; to the State

f Pennsylvania, sixty-pine copies; to the S'ate of

Delaware, four copies; to the State of Maryland, nineteen copies; to the Slate of Virginia, fifty copies; to the State of North Carolina, ihirty-nine copies; to the State of Smith Carolina, twenty-four copies; to the State of Georgia, twenty-eight copies; to the State of Kentucky, thirty-one copies; to the State of Tennessee, thirty-three copies; to the State of Ohio, sixty-nine copies; to the State of Louisiana, fourteen copies; to the State of Indiana, twenty-eight copies; to the State of Mississippi, fifteen copies; to the State of Illinois, twenty-three copies; to the State of Alabama, twenty-four copies; to the State of Missouri, sixteen copies; to the State of Arkansas, five conies: to the State of Michigan, nine copies; to the

Territory of Florida, three copies; to the Territory of

Wisconsin, two copies; to the Territory of Iowa, three copies being in the whole seven hundred co

pies; and that the remaining two hundred copies of

said Digest, be left with the Librarian of Congress for fuf uredisposjtion. ; ' 'v Resolved, 5fC. That the sum of five hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-eiuht cents be paid from the Patent Office fund to reimburse what is still due for publishing said Digest. Approved, September 1, 1841.

(Resolution. Public No. 3J A RESOLUTION to provide for the distribution of the printed returns of the Sixth Census. Resolved, djfe. That the aggregate returns of the census for I he year eighteen hundred arid forty, directed to be printed under the superintendence of' the Secretary of State by the act entitled "An act to provide for taking the sixth census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," shall be distributed and disposed of by the Secretary of Slate as follows: to the State of Maine, two hundrnd; to the State of New Hampshire, one hundred and fifteen; to the State of Massachusetts, three hundred; to the State of Rhode Island, forty; to the State of Connecticut, one hundred and twenty; to the Slate of Vermont, one hundred and ten; to the State of New York, nine" hundred and eighty; to the State of New Jersey, one hundred and fifty; to the State of Pennsylvania, six hundred and ninety; to the State of Delaware, forty; to the State of Maryland, one hundred and ninety; to the Slate of Virginia, five hundred; to the State of North Carolina, three hundred and ninety; to the Suite of South Carolina, two hundred and forty; to the State of Georgia, two hundred and eighty; to the State of Kentucky, three hundred and ten; to :he State of Tennessee, three hundred and thirty; :o the S'ate of Ohio, six hundred and ten; to the State of Louisiana, one hundred and forty; to the Sta:e of Indiana, two hnndred and eighty; to the State of Mississippi, one hundred and fifty; to the State of Illinois, two hundred and thirty; to the State of Alabama, two hundred and forty; to the State of Missouri, one hundred and sixty; to the State of Arkansas, fifty; to the State of Michigan, ninety; to the Territory of Florida, thirty; to the Territory of Wisconsin, twenty; to the Territory of Iowa, thirty; to each member of the present Congress, and the delegates from the Territories, the President and Vice President of the United States, to each, five copies; being, in the whole, eight thousand five hundred and ten copies; and thnt the remainingcopios be placed in the Library of Congress for future disposition. Approved, September 1, 1841. ATMOSPHERICAL PHENOMENON.

From the Nashville Banner. A Shower of Flesh and ILood. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Thus spake the Prince of Denmark, and every day we hear of something to confirm the remark. On Tuesday we heard from various persons that a shower, apparently oj flesh and blood, had fallen in Wilson county, near Lebanon, in this State, and that the fields were covered to a considerable extent. The account staggered our belief; but, strange as it may appear, it has been confirmed by the statement of several gentlemen of high character, who have personally examined the scene of this phenomenon, They state that the space covered by this extrdordinary shower is half a mile in length and about seventy-five yards in width In addition to the information just received, we have been favored by Dr. Troost, professer of chemistry in the University of Nashville, with the following letter from a highly respectable physician of Lebanon. We have also seen the specimens sent to him for examination. To us they appear to be animal matter, and the odor is that of putrid flesh. We do not pretend to offer anv theory to account for this phenomenon; we leave that to abler and more scientific hands. When the specimens have passed through the crucibles of Dr. Troost, we will furnish our readers with the result: Lebanon, August 8, 1841. Dr. G. Troost: I have sent you some matter, which appears, from an authentic source, to have fallen from the clouds. With me there can be no doubt of its being animal matter blood, muscular fibre, adipous matter. Please account to us, if you can, on philosophical principles, for the cause of this phenomenon. The particles I send you I gathered wiili my own hands. From the extent of surface over which it has spread, and the regular n anner it exhibited on some green tobacco leaves, leaves very little or no doubt of its having fallen like a shower of rain; and it is stated, on the authority of some negroes only, to have fallen from a small red cloud no other clouds visible in the heavens at the time. It took place on Friday last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, about five miles northeast of Lebanon. I have sent what 1 think to be a drop of blood, the other particles composed of muscle and fat, although the proportions of the shower appeared to be a much larger quantity of blood than of other properties. I am, in haste, your most obedient servant, VV. P. SAYLE.

From the National Intelligencer THE "SHOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD." Our readers are greatly indebted to the Principal of that excellent institution the Alexandria Boarding School, for the following scientific elucidation of the phnomenon in Tennessee, designated by the above heading: Alexandria Boarding School, 9 mo. 2d, 1841Friends Gales -&Seaton: I notice in the Intelli. gencer of to-day, under the head of "Atmospherical Phenomenon," an article from the Nashville Banner, describing what is stated to have been a "shower of flesh and blood," in the vicinity of Lebanon, Tennessee. The saoie account, or a similar one, has also been bublished in several other papers. There are many n,na nfthat nemliar temperament that is unfavor-

' Ov". - I . ably affected by intelligence of so unusual and awful a character; to such it may be a relief to learn that iko Konomnnn nllndfd to finds its ready explanation

in a well-ascertained fact in the economy of insects. In the iulerestincr and instructive work of Kiebt & Cr.-.tr ftn tKo utiim 1 History of Insects." are the

following remarks, which explain the whole subject:

hM.ii arweies of LeviiLnttra. rButterflies I when

they emerge from the pupa or chrisalis state, discharge . .owh fluid, which in some instances, where their

numbers have been considerable, has produced the ap- ., i j i . i . i

pearance ot a shower or niooa; ana oy mis nmurui r.. .11 iKxci. Kl,,..lv stirm-or. recorded bv historians

l aci, . ... w -j v - - -- - - - j as preternatural, and regarded where they happen, as

fearful prognostics of impending evils, are stripped of their terrors.and reduced to the class of events that happen in the common course of Nature. That insects are the cause of these supposed showers is no recent discovery; forSlcidan relates thai, in the year 1553, avast . multitude of butterflies swarmed through a great part of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves buildings, cloths and men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood. But the mosfinteresting account of an event of this kind is given by Reaumur, from whom we learn that, in the beginning of July, 1608, the suburbs of Aix, and a considerable extent of country round it, were covered with what appeared to be a shower of blood. We may conceive the amazement and stupor of the populace upon such a discovery, the alarm of the citizens, the grave reasonings of the learned. All agreed, however, in attributing tho appearance to the powers of darkness, and in regarding it as the prognostic and precursor of some direful misfortune about to befall them. Fear and prejudice would have taken deep root upon this occasion, and might have produced fatal effects upon some weak minds, had not M. Peirese, a celebrated philosopher of that place, paid attention to insects. A chrysalis, which he preserved in , his cabinet, let him into the secret of this mysterious shower' Hearing a fluttering which informed him his insect was arrived at its perfect state, lie opened thH .box in which be kept it; the animal flew out and left behind it. a red spot. He compared this with the , spots of the bloody shower, and found they were alike, At the same time he observed there was a prodigious quantity of butterflies flying about, and that the drops of the miraculous rain were not to be found upon the tiles, nor even the upper surface of the stones, but chiefly in cavities and places where rain could not easily come. Thus did this judicious observer dispel the ignorant fears and terror which a natural phenomenon had caused." Vol. 1, page 35. Those wishing further information on the subject will find it in Cornstock's Physiology, and in No. LXXIV of Harper's Family Library. The instance mentioned in the Nashville account, of flesh appearing with the blood, no doubt was the result of the insect having perished in the process of transformation. BENJAMIN HALLO WELL.

The folllowing article from the Mauisoaian of the seventh instant, will attract no ordinary attention; : PRESIDENT TYLER AND THE WHIG PRESS. It must have caused much pain to every man who has been, from good motives, engaged in bringing about the great triumph so lately achieved over the late dominant party in this country, to witness the uncharitable construction of President Tyler's late course in relation to the Bunk, bill, and the harsh imputations of sinister and selfish motives, made by those who have hitherto professed friendship for him and to the great party by which hea,s elected. If our friends will but forget for a single moment any disappointment which may have been occasioned by the failure of the late Bank bill, they may remember that, although we should admit, for the sake of the argument, that this was a measure upon which the Opposition to the late Administration were united, yet it was by no means the only and paramount measure sought to be gained at the present seesinn of Congress. There were many other great objects sought, a large number of which have been already accomplished measures of the greatest importance to the welfare and happiness of the present and future generations. To them the President has cheerfully given his approbation. Other subjects demanded by the people the removing of unfaithful and unfit public agents the reformation of abuses in the various branches of the Government coming within the jurisdiction of the President, have, to some extent, been attained, and will, we hope and believe, yet be fully accomplished. We ask. then, is it just and is it charitable to assail the President with the abusive and harsh accusations with which some portions of thepress are teemingl Is it just to charge him with unfaithfulness to those who elected him, because he happens in carrying out the long entertained and openly professed opinions of his whole life, to come in collision with a portion of his friends with whom ho agrees and acts in almost aH other matters of public polity? We deem it neither charitable nor wise to impute to him the desire of favoring his bitter political enemies at the expense of his friends. It is as absurd as it. is incorrect, to attribute to him any wish or intention of separating from those with whom he agrees upon nine points of political doctrine, though he may not agree with them upon the tenth. We believe, after the din and clamor now pervading some parts of the country shall have passed away, that our friends will, upon cool reflection, agree . with us, that the failure of a measure which may have been a favorite one with some portion of them, will result in good to all. We are quite certain that a majority of the people are now satisfied that a National Bank of discount is neither necessary nor desirable and we are equally well convinced that many months will not have elapsed before they will discover some unobjectionable mode by which sll desirable ends will be attained, and all portions of our political friends becoi.ie satisfied. Mean time it is to be hoped that men will not seek to discover sinister objects such as have been attributed, in the action of the President. Those who suppose that he has willingly and without great pain to himself, caused disappointment to any of his political friends, or that he has acted from a desire to please his political opponents, are unacquainted with the character of the man, and do him gross in

justice. .

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