Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 42, Vincennes, Knox County, 22 March 1834 — Page 1

W voLimn 3. tI.YCi:Y.Yi:$, I.YHI.'gJV.J MARCH 22, 1834.

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Ar.vitis.mcMts mt v.-t !ont . .rd. r?. will in tack, and a till less nntnber wlio par took 1 the Puianic treatment If in this thinorWlv' ,"S,;,U"1 ,inll,r!li-a,'Jcliar,Jof it according to the rfitcctious. We are mistaken, we are ready to he corn

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family, will he received in payment lor niscri;. lions, auhenunUet price, deliv-red ia cennes. it r: 1. is nr. d hy particular nr.vui st j From the Columbus (Ohio) Hemisphere . Mr. Editor: Having seen, in your la-t paper, what purports to he the Fin il Be port of the Board of Health, irlaiue to Cholera, we ask of you, and of al! tho-e who may have copied that ailicle info their columns, to insert ibe following reThe whole intent ol the article in question, appears to be. to give the official trs timonj of the Board of Health in Columbus, against the use of the Thomsouian Medicine, as a preventive or cure tor Cholera. We do not for a moment ques tion 1 he purity of motive by which these gentlemen were actuated, but we ask them publicly, in the first plaep, to correct the error which all readers unacquainted with the facts will fill into, in supposing that that communication was an ofii'-i.il report trora the Board of Health. Wp piesume it was, and is the honest expiession of the opinions of the signers, but we deny to it the character of an official report One, if not more of the Board, refused to sign it, and many, from some cause to us uolinown , did not. As to the merits of the communication itself, we w ish to say, that it proceeds from a class of men always deeply prejudiced jigainst the 1 homsonian System, and who Uuow little about its principles, except fiom the denunciations of its enemies, and still less, from personal observation ! irf the practice which has occurred in this town

We are informed that Mr. Wilcox, Mr. jcase of relapsp. Kcltey, and Mr. Buttles were absent du- But, if we are. not mistaken in our ring a great part of the time; and we are grounds, only about fifteen of those who sure that neither of those who signed that had partaken of the 6 rup, previous to me report. hnve taken any measure tor obtain-iattack, died of Cholera, and a still le-s ing correct information from those best ac-'number of them were attended by Thorniiuainted with the. facts They have con-; sonian" If so, it will tie bird fr the

siantlv associated with Physicians of the f!d fchool, and others who were daily and hourly in the habit of denouncing, in unmeasured terms, the system and practice of Dr Thomson Is it reasonable to sup pose that such men couid so far divest themclves of th feelings of human natire, u to be competent witnesses, or unpartial judges ? We believe not, and thus believing,

we feel bemd so present to the world , disavow the responsibility properly belongfinr testimony in direct opposition to ing to the other Four ot these were 111

theirs. In so doing, we claim for our

eelies all that honesty and disinterest-j of relapse brought on by the excessive cdness of purpose which we grant to ; fatigue, care and anxiety consequent npon them. i the sickness and death of others. The These gentlemen say: that they brlieve next. Mr. Maynard, was much debiltitatthat the long-continued stay of the Chole-. ed by the ague prev ious to the attack, and ra, w as especially attributable to the f ree j was not solely under the care of Thomsous.e of stimulating medicines, meaning thejnians. He was so far gone that medicine Cholera Syrup. I had no fleet. Mr. Beard was iu ihe

How are the facts in respect to thijsame situation, and obstinately retused point? to take medicine until it was too late. .hisrcr WThen the disease first appear- Airs. Beard was under the care ot Dr. cd in this town, there was a very general j Davis, a physician of the Worthington resort to these medicines, and notwith-i school, though Thomsonians found 00 standing the Physicians of the old school j fault with his treatment. She sank, the str ongly and totally condemned it, the use j easy victim of grief, care and fatigue. of it continued for the space of some three j The child of Mrs Beard was for many or four weeks, during which time there days laboring under disease, hut during were but tew deaths from Cholera; these j the illness of the mother and lather, was were of tboe who did not partake of the j unavoidably neglected; and fell a victim syrup, and neaily all of them were under to Cholera, timeline Bike .ras an invalid

the hands ot the old physicians. But, in the progress of the disease. Martin L.'

.'wis and Augustus Pi alt, having been i!er the rare of Dr. Hersey after the col j tVe the undersigned not being acquaintmuch exposed to the cholera, and whollapse had come on. Mr. Tobins child, jed with some of the particular fncts set were known to have partaken of the mod-! was put under the care of Mr. Johnson, , forth in the above statement, decline seticine. took the di-ease in its most malig-'in the same state Mr, Sweel.er was ta jtingour signatures to them; but believing nans form. They wcie both raised from ! ken in the country, and rode five miles at j that the Thomsonian or Botanic Remedies the brink of the grave, but it demn-tra!- r e r he was attacked ami then near an j generafiy, were more successful in the ed that it was possible for some who took! hour elapsed before he obtained help. jcure of the Cholern in the town ofColumthe syrup to take Ihe disease also; a fact j He wa violently cramped aijd coll apsed, bus than those of the Old School, we deem

always admitted by all Thomsonians. One or two who died had been under the care of Botanic physician soon after, ,md the tide of public opinion re-a;ted Dennnciations and warnings of DEATH to all who tasted Cholera Stjrup, were so com-

mon and fiequeni that many w ho knew ', mny oe one or two more, which a close innot the nature of the syrup, left its u-e,' ve?tiration will br ing to light But even

and fled to drastic purges t rom this p - riod the disease increased in frequency; and malignancy, so that, when the syrup was freely used; there was less disease, and when abandoned, there was more. We believe these ar e mailers o fact which all will admit. Bui whether the sy rup was or was not a cause, we leave it for others to decide . The next position of these gentlemen is relative to fad no opionion The substance of the assertion m, that a far greater proportion of those who took ol the syrup, took the disease, than those who fiid not; and, of those attacked, after using this medicine, very lew recovered Now this is a matter of fact, recorded audi

certified to by these gentlemen, ne re

"F"-"iiv can upon utem ior names, cas-jtnat during the Infer pari of the prevales, and particulars It is not to be sup-jence of the disease, hut few of the popupoed that (hey would make thi whole-j lation dared to trust themselves in the sale, sweeping assertion, without farts he hands of Thomsonians. This is true to a lore them for reference. A mistake, in .great degree; hut if ne inquire what was this point, would go far towards invalid-; the consequence, we shall find a fearful ting the whole testimony. And yet wpjarray of death on the side of the mineral confess ourselves ignorant of (he fact? set! faculty. If we are not greatly deceived, forth In looking over the list of deaths'there were during one period of fifteen

I,rr?pp f etl h? lho Board, wp cannot find J more than fifteen who are known even to h ive lasted the syrup previous to the at ;

permanently hy this meuirme; rut, it;the cored of Cholera by the M. Doctors Via-jthere was one fatal case of Cholera in the: during the last four week of the disease.

I town of Columbus, where the printed ttertions accompanying the syrup and

powders were strictly complied with, wejjeporl of the 'buard" of health. Once know it not. This remark is also aoplica-1 more and we have done To show be hie to those cases which the "Board" say'yond question the pernicious effect of the were temporarily checked or smothered ,; medicine, they refer to two or three famiand then broke forth with red ubled r iv ; lies who were sorely afflicted. This lence and fatality would possibly have some weight if the We would fiope that lhee gentlemen like had never happened under other would deal fail ty with us, and when we treatment. But e ak these gentlemen, call for the names of these cases, that , where is Mr. Mills' family ? Where i the they will confine themselves to uch only family of Mr. Woods, the Brewer? Where as relapsed in consequence of the ?se of ja the fanily of Mr. Woods, the Englishthe means recommended, and nt in coo-jman? Where is the German family which sequence of their neglect of thoie mean4 was under the care of the hoard in the These gentlemen know there is a wide pat part of the town? Where is the

''lift rence in these two positions, and yet 'it i poih!e they have mistaken the latter tor (he former At all events, they have ,

asserted as a fact, w hat we cannot admit Vr Thomsonians or their medicines are ne to !e such, as at present infoimcd, and wcjcountable for all these deaths And yet, call tor the proof because two or three families who trusted Thomonians have never held out any! in Thon.sonian remedies, were sorely afenronr igc merit to cases of relapse, but, i flirted, it i- thought that entire, coudemnaon the contrary, they published card atler J nun tdiould pass upon Thomsonianisrn. card, cautioning all persr'ii-. at the peril of Ever man of sense knows that certain their lives, to guard against them, as not j r.irr umstances may to combine, as to ren one in a thousand could expect to recover der it as contrary to the laws of nature from a confirmed state of relapse. It. for rneiiicine to cure disease, as it would

therefore, they have checked the disease, "or smothered the jVc.-'as the Board have it, they should not he chargeable for a relapse, brought on by the imprudence of the patient. But why do not these gentlemen say that, in such rases, their boa? ted physicians have had no better success Surely they might have said thus much All physicians, of all grades, agree, that there is no human aid can save a contif med Board to make out their 'far greater pro-! riorfi'cm."1 In regard to the whole num her of oeaths by Cholera, this board haw given as the names of ninety two. Nw in looking over this list, we can see only tour teen for which the Thomsoman or steam practice, incluooig Ilowaiiis. should he accountable. We put the two system together, because the board so class them, though the fiieinis et each Howard's family, two of which were rase? j for many years One coloreu woman, and a child of Mr. Heeler, were put un - long before the first dose ot medicine was administered. Here are fourteen persons, making the ; whole as far as we know, of the list of ! ,,inet v -t wo, who were in whole, or iu part, dnctored bv Thomsonians. Possibly there 'then, the array ot more than bh EiN I I names, to be divided amongst other I nysicians, will not make il out that less than

H I' I, Fhe -'board'1 have noticed one outer fact, which, with its accompanyiDg cir

20 is a "ar greater proportion 01 pat lorin some nays since uy tne ixew w hole We believe it will stand fourteen j York Sun , setting forth that a sailor by to SEVENTY EIGH T Sure this is not-the name of Frederick Williams, board an evidence of the utter worthlessness ofjing in Essex street, had had a black snake live Thomsonian system in cholera But) four feet five inches long, taken, or rather when the full and accurate census shall coaxed out of his stomach, and that it had have been taken, and the whole number of deen preserved by the phy sician in attencases, their treatment, and the result, dance as a wonderful curiosity. All the sh illh ive been published, we think the circumstances of the case were given with contrast w ill he f ar greater Such a ten- j much minuteness The statement will sus will probably he taken, and the correct probably go all over the United States rosnlt l.ubli-hed B ; PV to spoil so good a story, but

ctimafances, deserves notice. Thev sav,

days, fifty-one deaths, and all of them under the hands of the Regular medical faculty ; or at least not one of them under we rect mi. At all events we ask fir th list of di-!Ve ask it as a matter of right that the ; public mi v ridge correctly of this final McFarland famity. under the care of the hoard in the north part of the town? And w here is the Putnam family ? Sure neithbe for if, under other circumstance-, to put out the flame of a burning hou-e . or arrest the falling tree. These circumstances may render the particular patient insensible to t he ptject of any medicine, and yet the medicine ued on that occasion may prove efficacious in ninetyone just such cases; the Accompanying cir cumstances being absent. Fatigue fear care incessant wafch fulness and anxiety all combined in one family where Cholera is raging, is sufficient to biifile all skill When thus cir cu'nfanced, it only becomes man to bow m bumble submission to the wilt of Him I who always doeth light. In closing our remarks, we repeat, that we do not impute any improper motives o t tie authors of the report we have re viewed; but believing they have erred, '-ecause they havn adopted too hastily the assertions ot' others, which are destitute of truth, record our opinions against theirs, with our reasons in purl for differing, and respectfully call upon them to substantiate the ftcts they have asserted. For eureelves, we have -een the effect ot

the medicine -we have fell its influence-- erer liud been Mayor, and none on em and we record our deep and solemn con-(ever sent an Eagle to the Gineral; but one vi. (ion. that in the i.revpntion and cure of,' said he had the honor of makm the furoi-

Cholera, it is decidedly lo be preferred to ' 1 the medicine of the Old School. M J EWE IT, T IIEBSEY. HOBT CLOUD. EBENEZEK BABCUS, JEiiSE F V. IXOM, E CLOVER. DANIEL S TONEA. JENKINS, JOHN D ROSE AUGUSTUS PL ATT, WARREN JENKINS, MARTIN L. LEWIS, F. II. CLAIT, CALVIN HILARY. LUTHER HILARY, W. HANCE, LEWIS MILLS. JAMES M. DAVIS. ; TO Till' PUBLIC. ( it no more than right that thosP practitioners should have all the credit which is their just due especially as reports to the contrary have been published from this ( town. : L,otumuus, Aov 10th, lb DAVID SMITH, PETER L AW SON, M R S BURGEON. Wonderful Snake Storu. A story was I . r . 1 . . . . :neveriiieiess, it 19 all a tioax. Journal oj - J Comment.

MA J. DOWMNfi's COKRKSl'OXDEXf E.

To My old friend Mr. Dvighi nf the Nezv York Daily Advertiser. Washington-. Feb 21st, 1034. In my fist letter I telled von about mv presentin to the Gineral them two Committees from New York one of the Merchants and traders, and (other of the Me chanics, and how the Gineral thought the last come right from Tammany Hall, and got into a plagy mistake about it. But I telled you that the rale Tammany folks did come, and now Vtn goin to tell you what a high time we had here. I got the !i-t of names of the Committee, and I and the Gineral went to work readin on em over and over, so as to git em glib so w hen the hour come, we got the room to rights, and the Gineral took his stand right in the middle out, and I stood a lit tie. ahead on him, and Dennis M'Looney, who I te!li you about in my last, he said he best pit by the door with the lis! of names, and call on em out for us, and so let em come up to the Gineral one at a time, and then theie would be no mis take he said that was exactly the way at all the gieat folk's houses :n Ireland. Hut when they come, you never tee sich work as Dennis made out he stopped the first one. and instead of lettin the man ell htm w hat his name. w:s, Dennis want ed to know if he was so arid so he took the first name on the list and ater he'd tried em all round, he took the next name and tried em a spell at that, and so on. I couhl'nt hear all that was said, for Den ony opened the door jist wide enut to put his own head out, and kept talkin and scoldin like all nalur; 30 to rights the Gineral cailM out, and says he. Mr M'Looney, stand aside, says he, and let our friends come in; but Dennis jamM the door right too, and turned and telfd the Gineral, he didVit believe they were the persons the Gineral expected, and so 1 had to go and let em in myself, and to keep Dennis out of trouble, I tell'd him to go in a corner, and look and lenrn soaiethin, of American manners, afoie he come to play Irish here ; and so in they come but theie was ony three on em, and that made things easy for me, and as the Gineial remembered as many of the names, he frtepped up to em, and shook hands with em and called em to welcome the man ho was once

Mayor of New York, and 1 hope to seetvenin with threads of fine gold and silver, at

you. Mayor, agin says the Gineral and you my friend. 1 thank you, once more for br inging me on here jtst arter my first ee ction, that big bald headed Eagle I was so busy then 1 had not time to do it I am sorry to tell y ou that noble bird is dead, but I presarved all I could of him. I stuff my arm cushion with his feathers my friend Mrs. E made a fan of his tail, and I keep his quills to write my Proclamations and Vetoes with; and so the Gineral shook hands agin, and to rights, says he, where i3 the rest on you; and he took up the list and read all their names over, and then come trouble. They told the Gineral, nary one on 'em 1 1 tur for the Ginerafs room, when he was on al York, on the Grand to-jcr; and then he handed the Gineral his card, tellm about his work; and another sterd up and j telfd the Gineral he had the honor of sellin it at Auction arter the Gineral was done usin ou'l; and he gin the Gineral another card, telliu what his business was in Yoik. The Gineral looked at 'em a spell, and then he looked at lother one, but he had no card; he said he did'nt do no business, because he had an office under the Government. The Gineral begun to think there was another mistake, and he look'd al me, and I tipM him a wink, and jist whisperM in his ear, "try 'em on Glory a spell, Gineral, says I, and there will be no mistake arter that;1' and so the Gineral went at it, and sure enuf you never see criturs spruce up as they did; and the further the Gineral got into

Glory and Reform, the louder these criturshj.!. simms, Captain Pasons, of Ports

hurraw'd for us; and Dennis got at it too, and that made just six on us, and we set tled up matters as clear as a whistle. There warnt no distress no where, one said Mahogany was as cheap as pine boards was a spell ago, and so was labor; and if the Gineral would ony go on and put down the Bank, and would give him an order to make him some tables, he would fhow the difference, another said, times never was belter for his business, for he expected this spring to have the sellin of nigh upon all the household furniture in New York; and the other said he was content so long as the party hung together, for he got his honest livin out ofthe public money, and that did'nt belong to nobody but the Gineral; and then we all turn'd too agin and hud another spell of Glory and hurrawin. The Gineral was tickled most despar ately, and he tell'd 'em all to stay and take dinner with us, and as soon as Uon gress was let out we had a good large rarty, and we all set down and talked over matters, and as we had now jist the kind of folks from New York, to tell the Congress folks and all our other fiieods what the rale slate of things was North, and that there warn't no distress there, and them other fellows I tell'd you about in my last letter, ony come here to throw ,du9t4n cur eyes, every thing was no'.v as

light as sun shine, and it will lake a good many Committees and Petitions too to make the Gineral budge an inch now. The Gineral tell'd these good folks from Tammany flail, he'd like to have em stay here as long as Congress remains here, and they may come and put up in the White House, and they shant spend a cent of their own money. As soon as tho Gineral said that, one on them got up

from the table and walked round to the Gineral, and whispered somethin in the Ginerafs ear. For a spell the Gineral looked plagy blank, and all I could Tiear him say was "What" "Renf "Can't pay.' "I ere," P;1yS the Gineral, "hov? it is that's Riddle's work I'll disappint him" and with that he calfd Amos, anil whisper'd something to him, and he whispered something to Tawney, and he whisper'd agin to Major Blair, and so it went round till one on em got up and went over to the Treasury, and brought in some money and the Gineral settled up that matter pretty quick and so that's pretty much all Fve got to say about this Tammany Committee and if you want to know about some other things that's goin on here that I haint got time to write about, Fd advise you to read Dennis MLoone'ye letters; he writes a leetle evry day to his friend? in Ireland, and to giC it home safe he send his letters to Mr. King, who prints the New York American. Dennis and I are pretty good friends, considering but he says he don't like the Yankees a bit, and to be even with bim I tell him I like bis country men amazingly so we won't quarrel on that hook. From your friend, J. DOWNING, Major, Downingville Militia, 2d Brigade. From the ll'as'iuigton Globe. We bavo seen .1 yfiy beautiful ncarf, a tissue of gold, Hiid silver, and silk, prrcntcd ly toe faroou traveller, IliLcy, to Gen. Titt in, Senator froru Indiana. Tho coloring of the s-iik surpasses even tlio .lendor of ttio metals 11 ti which it is interwoven. As a specimen of tho ;irt3 amon; the barbarous people, it is worthy a place in a museum of curiosities TIiq history of it is given in the following letter lo lien Tipton, accompanying the present: W ashinuton, Sept. IT, 1833 Dk.ak liKsmAr. : Accompany this, will be banded you a Moorish cnrf. sash or trirdle. It was raado froru the raw silk of Spain, and woFez, the capital of the Kmpire of Morocco. Mr Will-hire, who ransomed me from slavery, in ioH, presented it to me at Magadore, July L25lh, 1823. I beg you to accept this srart, and show it to your neighbors, as a epecimru of the arts f coloring and weaving, as well a? of the costMPe of a barbarous people, and, permit me to add, 11s a testimonial of the high esteem I entertain for your exalted public and private character. With great consideration and regard, 1 have the honor to be, sjir, your devoted friend and obedient servant, JAMKS RILEY. Hon. Joii.t Tii'iorr, Senator in Congress. Heavy Timbered Land."a the land well timbered?" enquired a person of a Vermonter, who was offering a tract of land for pale. "I vum," replied the vender, "it is a most mighty piece of land, and so heavy timbered that a humming bird could not fly through it. As 1 was going upon the road alongside of it t'other evening, I heard a loud cracking and crashing among the trees. I looked to sec what it "was, and I'm darned if it warn't the moon trying to get through the branches, but it was so tarnation thick she couldn't do it, so down she set again, and I had to come home in the dar k." Sickness at Havana . We learn from na officer of the Moro Castle, arrived some days since from Havana, that dnring her stay at that port, there were more than twenty deaths of yellow fever Among them there were those of Dr. Clark, a respectable American physician, who was actively engaged in business, and to whom our informant had sent a patient. Mr. Leach, of Manchester, Mass. mate of the mouth, was well on Christmas day, and died on the 28ih December. Of the brig" Delta, of Boston, two hands were taken sick in Ihe morning, and died before night. Two ma'ters and a mate of French ships, died suddenly the latter part of December, of the fever, and the shipping was dressed at half-mast in consequence.When the Moro Casile sailed, there was no particular excitement about the fever. Sat. Courier. Recipe for Scarlet Fever. A very simple remedy, says a correspondent of ,ihe New York Commercial Advertiser, for this dreadful disorder, is now using in this city with good effect. It is merely a mix, ture of Cayenne pepper, salt and vinegarused as a gargle. Sat. Cuur. One of ,4o?ir subscribers" stalked into the office the other day with a very waggish face, and addressing us, said "S.r I 1 1 t rnul 11 mi r Tinner no Inner. am resnivfu 1 ."-- 1 i - er pi vVe expressed our regret, ann pulled out our leger wneu wic s-uosci iuer added, "1 will, for the future, read my own papercredit me witn a year rn aj vance 7 V e need noi say now we aumrred the conclusion of his remarks, and how heartily we wish, all of our subscnbera rou!J read tfair ovn jpers.