Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 June 1833 — Page 2

svri'HMAV, jim: 2m, We oaiilted last week to ive a list of the Candidates tor the various o.'hces which are to be tilled on the first Monday in August next. We have in this number given the entire list, and can only say, that if the people, out of the names before them, do not choose -'good men and true"" men, "honest and capable,1' to represent them in Congress, the Senate, and the House of representatives, it will be their own fault. The demon of party excite ment I eiug now dormant, if not entirely dead, we consider this a most favorable lime for the people to make good selec tions from among those who are seeking their favor, and we hope sincerely that they will again return to the old republican ntosim above quoted, which of late years has been entirely neglected. ACITATIOV. We perceive that ihe Globe and other kindred papers, are busily striving to stir up the excitement which Mr. Clay's adjustment of the taii ti last w inter so happily allayed. There arc some evil spirits who delight otdy in discord; some, why like Satan alter his fall, could not brook the happiness of our fust parents in Paradise, who are dissaiisfied because peace ?.nd harmony pervade the union because the manufacturer? are contented with their nine vears lease of moderate protection with certainty, and the Southern planters are alo satisfied. Such men can only liv e in troubled water?, and aie only noticed in times of anarchy and misrule, therefore their anxiety to destroy, if jrossible, the irt'ie and contentment with which our

country is now blessed. it i moreover. p0int into European territories. In Jul) ,j the troops. 7G1 died of the camp follownossiblc that the present state of thing- is 'in that year, it attacked A-hacan severe-j ers, about 8000 In general, this disease

.,.r ,,m.tio.w to the v ie ws o f th e " 1 1 cir appatent,' ivhose only hope of succeeding to the Presidency, depends upon keeping alive old party i.-m, or organising something new on an improved plan by means cf a coriupt and pensioned press. We trusi firmly in the good sense ol the American people, and have no doubt, that the machinations of these selfish aspirants will piove unavailing. We look forward with pleasure- to a long period of peace and prosperity. Our manufacturers se-i-ure in the protection they now enjoy, gradually progressing with improvements until no piotection will be required until (bev can compete with the skill and science of the old world, and the prophecies and anxious hopes of the friends of the American S?tem be realized in the established independence of cur country both physically and morally. We understand that Mr. John B. Dillon, printer, formerly a resident of this place, and well known to the people of Vincennes, as a worthy and intelligent vcung mar. has been engaged as a contributor to the Cincinnati Mirror. As a wiiter, Ulr. Dillon, stands on a level with the highest. We rac credibly informed, by an enter)uisir gentleman of this county, that grain cfan, kind staged around a green ot S. --afras will effectually prevent the j weavd from initirino-the grain. We hope I cur urm.r. ,vill nrnbf b v i b is in forma -! lion. The Lady's Book, for June, has been received. Its publishers have promised to make some materkl alterations in the next volume The fourth of July ought not to pass unnoticed. Will the inhabitants of this town and its vicinity repair to J. C Clark's

Hotel this evening at G o'clock, and thereidied inhabitants on an equal space.

make such suitable arrangements fur its' celebration as thev mav deem nrorr? I 1 OR THE VINCENKES GAZETTE. ASIATIC ClIOjLi:iIA. Its llitiory Since the louitecnlh century there ha- not been known in the world so wide spread and fatal a malady. It is not uniformly admitted to be a new di-easP. Physicians of India, who have liealed of it, found records of its existetu t at very ietnote periods It was at Bengal, in 17U2,and can ied off 30.000 persons, ami returned again in 1781 It was at Madras, in 1771; at ttie Mauntius, in 1775. and in Aie-n, in 1GG9 aud 1G7G. However the identity of these diseaseznay be pelt ed , the cholera appeared fust at Jep. re, in August, 1817, a town situai noi th Cd.il of Calcutta, about 100 miles.

In September, it reached Calcutta. During the year 1813, it spread indifferent

directions from Calcutta; nojtliward to Delhi; weMward to Bombay, uhkh it reached in September, 1818; southward to Madras, which it reached in 0 tcber, 1819; and eastward alorg the coast of the Hay of Bengal, to the kug loin of Arra ment of 1810. 1 he whole id the Indian Peninsula, containing six bundled thousand square miles was thus traversed by t fie cholera in about a year. It progress ed eastward to Siam . and after destroy ing 10,000 persons in P.aka or Bankok. the capital of that Kingdom, it passed through the Pcnin-ula of Malacca, successive!) visited the I-lands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo; and in l20, reached Canton, and ravaged a space in Aia, not less than one thousand three hundred leagues in length and a thousand in breadth, or neat ly one hundred and tweuty millions ol square mile?. Its western progress towards Europe, continued, but with .various rapidity. From Bombay, it proceeded m 1821, in one direction, along the coast to the Gulf of Ormus and the Persian Gulf, attacking the Islands also: and crossing the Arabian Sea. It appeared on the opposite shore, and followed the coast there up to j the same gulf, on the Arabian sea. Passing up on both sides in Aiabia and Peisia, it attacked Bussora with great violence, carrying olf fifteen or eighteen thousand, or more than one fourth ot the whole

population in fourteen days. Shortly af-; the cholera broke forth on a scale quite ter it separated into two branches, one of; unprecedented. It appeared nearly at which ascended to Astracan, a larg and t the s;ime time in different parts of Bengal, populous town situated at the mouth of; A' Jesore, in the midst of stagnant wathe Volga, in the northern short -of the ! teis, it assumed its most alaiming aspect. Caspian Sea. which it reached in Septem.j In the beginning of September it appeared her, 1823;and by the other passed through: in Calcutta; whether it arose there, or and ravaged Arabia, Mesopotamia, and j was imported from Jepore, is a question

Syria, to the shores of the Mediterranean, , I in November. 1832. In seven months, the. disease had ex tended itselfover a vast extent of territory, nith undiminished virulence and rapidity. and as earl) as 1823, it was established at t-o nniits on the frnutipr of Europe. During theentiro period from 1823. to 1830, Asia was annually subjected to the ravages of the pestilence, u Inch thus d ayed upon the extreme nuUn. lanes ot th tt continent, and wi h every i . cihtv f c, its introduction across an imaginary line into Europe, especially through toe Mediterranean port Vet it was not until ! 1830, seven vears after its appearance at1 Utmr.-in ih:ii itn:i4pd n v pr mm t b a t ! ' and passing along me i on, u,e ijoip- i

per and the Volga, into Europe, spieadjof its action on those attacked than by the w ith amazHipr raniditv. traveisirifr i si.a e number attacked. In the most severe

of sixteen hundred miles in a Utile moie j than tio months I., ..r.dn.l !l(k-.nr, through Enrone since us mlrod uct nil into ' b" "" '"""" I

Poland bv the Russian a.mv in lb31, n!'d

well known. Its appearance m Canada, last! " ntiP ;mH Q.mrf nfYprivzirrU in thp I Imifd i States, commencing in the north-easi and; travellingonsouth west,is also w c 11 known ) There having been during a period of; fifteen years more than six hundred inup-j tions oV cholera In India alone, the) number ot uruptions has been Jour hun-; ,l,d ...wl iv,;r,, .fl.r0 rl,fi., Cnnriuon! II l IJ (IIIU lllll It 'kill VI . l.IVAit44',IVIII Bombav, twelve tunes; Madras' ' 1 times : nine times. &;e. M de Jonnes. estimates the mortality in India, at two millions five; hundred thousand annually, or thirty five millions for the fourteen years. j ll: T'lnrim nl'mnvpmpnl ic vprv pemurL.I able. Sometimes taking u complete circle round a village, and leaving it untou. bed.' Pass on as if it were whollv to depart f.orn, the district. Then after a f:,pse of weeks.; perhaps months, it would suddenly re-, :.nnP . :,nd Brv.rrplv to.irhin t I.p . . J , , j . f, ... , toimerly attacked, ravage the spot, which had so recently escaped It had been found to increase with the advance of summer, and to decrease or disappear on the approach of winter. In Russia, the! reverse took place: Cholera invaded Bus ; sia in the dead of winter, with the ther-j mometer at ?ixteen degrees below zt ro, and increased as the weather became colder. In general, it has been most fatal in hot,! moist places, the banks of rivers and the sources nf miasmal vapors. On the other :hand, it has attacked with great violence places the most remote from such iuflu ences. Arabia, destitute of water, was fra T 1 ul,-v ravaged, and the villages at the toot ot the Himalaya mountains, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, were also severely visited It has geneially attacked the filthy and those who live in crowded and unclean habitations. It nevertheless originated in a country where frequent ablutions are not only a pleasure, but a religious duty. It spread in India over the province of Caucasus, where there are but eight inhabitants to a squaie league, as well as in Hindostan, where there are twelve hun ll f'as l'ecn tel " respectable autho ru- ne intemperate on.y weie ai....I-. I. ... iu'.ucu, ami ii aiiacueu, irtiuij mcu bui truth compels us to say, that the temperate and the intemperate, the rich and the poor, are alike cut down by the fell destroyer. For proof of this, we have but to look aiound us some of the most respectable men in Nashville and Maysville, have recently died of cholera. Neither climate nor weather, age nor sex, appear to iutluence its pi ogress or severity of attack. FOR THE VIXCKNNES OAZETTE. ASIATIC CUOLHKA. I'nfoi innately we have now cause to eel moie than ordinary interest in relation to this oisorder. A woik upon British ladia. lately published by the Harpers,

contains some useful information cn the subject, founded principally upon the Bombay , Madras and Bengal official reports. In its first progress, this terrible scourge struck the western nations as anew and unheard-of visitation. It has been e?ta hlished, by the researches of the East Indian government, thnt the same disease has from time to time appeared in the East. It ;s very distinctly described, in ancient writing-, in the language of Southern India, under the names of Sitauga or

I-chuchi. It spread desolation throughout Bengal in 1762. It afflicted a oivision of troops marching through Gamgam in 1781 In 1783 it raged in the multitude assemble.! for the great annual festival at Hendevan. In 1787 it prevailed at Bellore and Arcot. The years 1815 and 1 S 1 G in Bengal were distinguished by very striking peculiarities of season and weather. In May, 1810, the heat became intense the thermometer rose to 98 in the shade, and va nous persons, natives as well as Europe ans. fell dead in the streets. A deficiency of the periodical rains was apprehended j until September, when there poured down a complete deluge. I his was followed by low typhus ever and malignant sorethroat. 1817 was unusually moist. The rains commenced three weeks sooner than usual. They fell to a depth one third greater than ordinary ; so that by the mid die of August, the Delta of the Ganges was one sheet of water. During the dis tempered state of the air, thus produced, not et decided. It spared Europeans toi a few la)S, but began to attack t htm on the 5'h, though without committing the same dreadful ravages as in the native town. In November it appeared in the army f Lord Hastings, 10,000 strong, but alluded as is usual in India, by about 80,000 camp followers. 1 he bazaars were -I soiled. The route ot the army was strewed with dead and dy ing. The usual 'bustle and hum ot the camp was charged into an awful silenceonly broken by groans and lamentations. Death followed 'he attack in the native in from three to si x hours; in the European, in from six to twelve. It raged with fury from the lo'h t o t he 23d . and t hen suddenl v ceased . Of stems ...... ueo unit, uy ut- ..t ia. ) e-r, 1818, the entire amount of cases in

the M.idras nrmv. was a- follows: 1087le leu no inconvenience wnaievei nom ,

J out of 10 052 Europeans, and 3.314 out

53.7G4 na-ives. Of the former 232,!s',Iest recollection of any thing that haa

of the latter. CGI died. The Island of -v . . . . . i5"inba v contains a noun ation ot about 210.000. The ascertained cases were 15.9-15, of which 1 1.C51 were medically ueib d, ami the deaths weie 933 about one-si t en! h, or six percent In India, chuWa was only occasionally pre eueu oy .narrnu.-a ; nc European, ivprp esssnbiect o if ihanfiP natives he - --- t --- " higher clases of th- latter less than the! . . . . . tower females suffered more rarely than men children more seldom than adults All derangements of the stomach or bow els. as vomiting or purging, whether oc ClirrillC lillllirallv Of It.oduced l)V PUTlTa

ive medicines. e-pecial!V Epsom Salts,! '". V1 J had a tendency to induce the disease.- pulse was regular though a little too Amcng-t the remedies, the hot bath of a ?lronS' and Ul resj.iration free. He was h.ah temperature, together with friction!'" " "f eatbmg sweat," ivitli yi agreeable of the whole body have been used. After rmth over his body Dr. Oliver bawlrnl I a nP. st i n.ula t iP- ronlials. drv bnaf(1 ,nt0 h,S ear' l)Ulle(l hl3 shoulders p.OCh-

. . " p - 'J and uuremitting Inction weie recommend-i eL 'riino,i;r,c..oD r ki, . r-.. rope and America are the same it exhibit I lie icuuiui; irniuics ji .iiit:ii ill juteo" m h'ia. Some peculiarities have hern manifested. The premonitory symptoms night bow el complaints, giddiness, nervous palpita tions about the heart, for one or more days, are found to have occurred in a much larger proportion of cases in England than in India The febrile symptoms, or re-action after collapse, are more universal and protract ed in English than in Indian cases, and consequently the recoveries are much slower A deeper and more general dis coloration of the -kin, resembling a leaden hue , is more common in the European than in the Indian earns. In England the majority of the cases consist of females, two or three to one male, and in some instances, as high as six to one. A larger proportion of children too, have been victims in Eugland than in India The English practitioners have directed in collapse, or when it is apprehended , the unremitting employment of external heat, by means of heated plates, hot bags of sand, hot bricks nn(i by clothes dipped in boiling water. Steam too, all powerful steam Ihe hundred handed giant of an age steam, so simple in its formation, and yet so unlimited in the variety of it? application so resistless and yet so controlable. Steam, which drains the deep est mines, and surmounts the highest mountains, and conquers the strongest currents steam, which turns the spindle and drives the shuttle, and then can stoop, handmaid of the kitchen, to wash the garments it has made which grinds our grain aud bolts our tlour, and then can heat the oven to bake our bread which car ries the. saw, and drives the plane, and works the lathe to make our bedsteads, and then generated by a coal, and contain ed in a coffee pot, will scald the vermin that infest them steam, raised to a high1

temperature, and diffused over the sur face of the body, has been in England, found very ellicacious in cholera. S J

Fi vm Frazcrs .Magazine. ACCOUNT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SLEEP ER, SAMUEL CHILTON, OF TIN SBURY . Samuel Chilton an inhabitant of the village of Tinsbury, near Bath, was a laborer of a robust habit of body, though not corpulent, and had reached the 25lh year ot his age When apparently in perfect health, he fell into a profound sleep on the 13th May, 1G91, and every method which was tried to rouse him proved unsuccessful. His mother ascribed his con duct to sulleness of temper; and dreading that he would die of hunger, placed within hi3 reach bread and cheese and small beer; and though no person ever saw him eat or drink during a whole month, yet the food pet before him was daily consum ed. At the end of each month, he rn?e of his own accord, put on his own clothes and resumed his usual labois in the field. After a lapse of nearly two years name ly on the 9lh of April, 1630, he was again overtaken by excessive sleep, lie was now bled, blistered, cupped and scarified, and the most irritating medicines applied externally but they were unable to rou-e or even to irritate him, and during a whole fortnight he tvas never seen to opeu his eyes. lie ate however, as before, of the food which was placed near him, and performed the other functions which weie required; but no person ever saw any ot those acts, though he was sometimes found fist asleep with his mouth full of blood. In this condition he lay ten weeks. A singular change in his constitution now took place. He lost entirely the pow. er of eating; his jaws were set, and his teeth so closely clenched, that every attempt to force upon his mouth with instruments failed. Having accidentally observed an opening in his teeth, made by the action of the tobacco pipe, and usual with most great smokers, thpy succeeded in poniir.g some tent wine into his throat through a quill. During forty days, he ubsisted on aboutthree pintsor two quarts

of tent. jnamkebu country. The intelligence we At the end of seventeen weeks, viz. a 'allude to is ot surh a nature, urn! involves bout the seventh of August, he awoke, statements of such disastrous occurrences, dressed himself, and walked about the 'that, on being made acquainted with it, we room, being perfectly unconscious that heideemed it highly necessary to make ruin1 . . . ol,...i i-.. !.-l-.t JaI K r i rv iitmiinc i c f .-k ltd triltli nr r i i-n .i f . 1 1 1 1 ?

lltlll r?ir-JH C IlliltJ V.1IIS nielli. i J I I ll llg , indeed, could make him believe that he had slept so long, till upon going to the fields he saw crops of barley and oats ready for the sickle, which he reaiembered were only sown when tie last visited them. Although his flesh was somewhat diminished by so long a fast, yet be was said to look bri-ker than he had ever done before. I i i . . i- . l i. i t .l. conuntmeni, anu ,ie .uu, u. w.c - happened lie acroruingiy eniereo aIn.nii nn.n hi2 mini onriiMili.tno nnd rnnlm. ..-v..u,.,l.,ru

ued to enjoy good health till the morning j journey overland, according to some, and of the 17th August, lG97,when he exper-jio or 12 days only , according to others) ienced a coldness and shivering in hisjuho informed the Bajah in the presence

! back; and alter vomiting once or twice, he again fell iuto his former stale of pomI . . 1 . ... "'..,. ni: J" " "" , iu numi .c the preservation of these rem arkable facts, I. .n..,.,w, I n h. ol II .ll, m,.,I I....,, .,,,. happened to be at Bath, and hearing of so singular a case, set out on the 23rd of August, to inquire into his history. On his arrival at Tinsbury, he found Chilton asleep, with bread and cheese, and a cup C,J ,"3 uu u.u.nu i..s-w.i uui vvithstanding this rude treatment, he e vinced no indications of sensibility- I inu. i ,i. , ,i, , . . ...... . l,ree(1 uL'th belief that the whole was k'a cheat," Doctor Oliver lifted up his eyelids and found the eyeballs drawn up under his eyebrows, and perfectly motionless! He held a phial containing spirit of s.dammoniac under one nostril a considerable time; but though the doctor could not bear it for a moment under his own nose without making his eyes water, the sleeping patienl was insensible to its pungency The ammoniacal spirit was then thrown up his nostrils, to the amount of about half an ounce; but though it was "as strong almost as tire itself,"1 it only made the patient's eyelids shiver and tremble. Thus baffled to every attempt to rouse him, our ruthless doctor crammed the same nostril with the powder of white hellebore; and finding this equally inactive, he was perfectly convinced that no imposter could have remained insensible to such applica tions, and that Chilton was really overpowered with sleep. In the state in which Dr. Oliver left him various gentlemen from Bath went to see him: but his mother would not permit the repetition of any experiments. On the 21st of September, Mr. Woolmer, an experienced apothecary, went to see him, and finding his pulse pretty high, he took 14 ounces of blood from his arm; but neither at the. opening of the vein ; nor du ring the flow of the blood, did he make the smallest movement In consequence of his mother removing to another house, Chilton was carried down stairs when in this tit of somnolency His head accidendentally struck against a stone and received such n severe blow, that it was much cut, but he gave no indications whatever of having felt the blow. Dr. Oliver again visited him in his new house ; and, after trying again some of his former stimulants, he saw a gentlema-

who accompanied him run a large piningIbis friends so and so any thing will do to

the arm of Chilton, to the very Lone, with out his being sensible of it During th 1 whole of this long fit he was never seen to

cat or drink, though generally once a day or some'imes once in two days, the food which stood by him disappeared. Such was the condition of our patient ill the 19th November, when his mother having heard a noise, ran up to his room u.d found him eating. Upon asking him how he was, he replied, "Very well thank God." She then asked him whether he liked bread and butter or bread and cheese best He answered, bread and cheese. She immediately left the room to convey the agreeable intelligence to his brother; bnt, upon their return to the bed room, they found him as fast asleep a9 ever, and incapable of being roused by any of the means which they applied. From this time his sleep seems to have been less profound; for though he continued in a state of somnolency till the end ol January, or the beginning of Febuary, yet he seemed to hear when they called him by his name; and though he was incapable of returning any answer, yet they consid

ered him as sensible to what was said. His eyes were less closely shut, and fre quent tremors were seen in his eyelids. About the beginning ol tebiuary, Llnhoa awoke in perfect health, having no recol lection whatever of any thing that had happened to him during his long sleep. The only complaint that he made was, that the cold pinched him moie than usual. He returned, accordingly, to his labors in the field, ami, so fir as we c.n learn, he was not again attacked with this singular disease. ji:r:. i n; i, sla rciiTrn. Sumatra The Singapore Chronicle of the 12lh of December, contains the following account of the assassination of no less than three thousand Dutch troops and natires, of the interior of Sumatra, w hither, it appears, they had penetrated with the view of making repiisals upon tho native princes : 'intelligence of much importance ha3 reached this settlement from Siac, relative to the Dutch expedition, which we tnen tioned on the authority of some native traders lately arrived from Camper, as haviing reached Gunoug Berapi in the MeUlC lUlJUU It c uo 'V" ll.-i 'loin v I jriuiuilllij , before we gave publicity to it. The re sult of our in estigation among the several Siac people whoariived during the week, is such as to leave little doubt on our 'minds, of the entire probability of the statements. Our principal infoi mant, on whose account reliance can be placed most, is the Niquodah of a Siac. prow, and on ot one ol the Itajab ot Siac s chief men, rni . . . : i.i - - ; . ,s tVl Slrue, , , ev .ous u n.s leaving jS.ac, some 10 or 15da)S ago, a conhdendential person arrived there from Menanghahu, (a distance of about 15 days !0f this Nanuodah, that the Dutch troops had been cut olf by an immense number of the natives, who assembled at night and slaughtered them in a desperate amc The troops are said to have been stationed at three different places, Paya Kumboh and Along Panjang, in the divisions of Agam anil Kown beyond Guong Berapi. It is stated that the Dutch, hav ing gained; over the IJajah of Pageruyong as an auxiliary, came into easy possession of most parts of the country; for, through the influence of this Bajah, the natives submitted to the Dutch, and allowed them to proceed so far inland as they did, with little or no opposition. It appears, however that the Dutch, too confident of their political strength, abused the power so easily obtained, and treated the natives with such severity and oppression, by raising levies and contributions, that the latter became desperate, and having formed an extensive combination, attacked the troops at the three places above named, simultaneously, (in order to prevent ajunctio) aud slaughtered them with their native weapons, it is believed, to a man. The number of their victims, w e are told, was no less than three thousand." GOOD ADVICE. Never cut a piece out of a newspaper until you have looked on the other side, where peihaps you may find something more valuable than that which vou first in. tended to appropriate. ever put salt in your soup befoie you have tasted it. I have known gentleman very miKh enraged by doing so. Never burn your fingers if you can help it. People burn their fingers every day, when they might have escaped it if they had been careful. Let no gentleman ever quarrel with a woman. If you are in trouble with her, entreat. If she abuses you be silent If she tear your cloak off, give her your coat. If she box your ears, bow. It she tears' your eyes nut,y!e your way to the door but fly. Don't put your foot on the table. True, the members of congress do so, but you are not a member of congress. If you form one of a large mixed company, and a diffident stranger enters the room and takes his seat among you, sayany thing to him, for heaven's sake, even illhough it be only, fine evening, fir." Do not let him sit bolt upright, sulfer-ino-all the apprehensions and agoniea ,f bashfulness, without any relief. Ask nim how he has been--tell him you know reak the icy stiffness in which very de. ' ent fellows are sometimes frozen on the; ; debut before a new circle.