The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 November 1841 — Page 2

THE .WABASH COURrER.

COWARD fc HARRIS*

Fabliafceye.

TERRE-HAUTE. SATURDAY NOV- 6. 184lT

The communication signed Honey Creek, is too long, and besides, contains matter inadmissible' One ortwo passage*,

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worthv of quoting. Why '^e J11^' says this correspondent," take so muchpains to fasten upon the shoulders of John Tyler, the failures of all the late whig elections I am

apologist for President Tyler, but

should like the saddle put on the right horse and to know what Ty.lur and his vetoes had lo~4o with the August election in Indiana, which took place long before any vetoes came forth,—and the result of which election every one knows See."

There is pertinency about that" question which mnkes an answer a litt'e awkward. Suppose the fudiuna election had not taken place until October, and had resulted preciseas it did, to a vote what would have been said why, that the vetoes had done all the mischief, and our failure in ihc State would have been ascribed to them. Now we kn^w very well that was not the cause,—and this mokes it a I most a musing,to hear Jndiuna wbigs complain so bitterly about the loss of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, &c. Indiana whigs at least, must console themselves in an* other way, nrid find other causes for their defeat,—for defeated they were, when every thing was in their power. They could have gained all. But they lost, without being able to lay the failure upon Congress, or the President, or Washington City, or any bod}' connected therewith. This must be true so far us regards Indiana. And for the present, we nre willing that other states may answer for themselves. The cause of our failure was probably not an unnatural one, nor very difficult to explain. The whigs are a working people, and it is only when aroused to a sense of real danger, that they can be drawn from tlie occupations of life,—from the calls of business. They love home und independence. Their hearts are more generaly set upon maintaining their families, and laying up for old age, than upon party drill, or the mere politics of the day. For the last year or two the culls upon whigs have been pretty strong. They have been taken from their ploughs, their work shops, from their siores, nnd made the elections almost a sole business They gained the day triumphantly and then relapsed into sober settled habits—turned their thoughts honestly upon the domestic affairs of business life. But they are not dead far from it. They are only slumbering,—

And when danger shall bo considered imminent. they will again arouse. After a long contested Presidential Elec tion, the victorious party not unfrequently settles down into a culm. This was very much the case in 1828 and *32. The Jacks»"»n party after those election vyaa routed in all aircctions,—but they again rallied and were successful. So it will be with the whigs. They have the power, and will again make it manifest. They will rally without fuil, when absolute necessity appears. That is, what they deem absolute necessity. Hero we think whigs are remiss—as we believe that the duty to keep what we have gained, is as great was the demand for victory in the firs! instance.

There is no great propriety in holding up the present Pennsylvania United States Bank as a scare-crow to all the world,—and as a sort of beacon-light warning against any future attempt ut a properly organized NationaJ Institution. The Pennsylvania U. S. Bank, ihas been for years, nothing but a local, State Institution,—and as such, has all her own sins to answer for, in her own way, without any connection or association, beyond what attaches to many hundred other bnnks distributed over the country. With this drawback, however, on the debet side, of having to pay a bonus to the state in order to secure hor charter that would have ruined any institution in the world. All the U. S. Banks, properly so oalled, have prooved beneficial to the country, and safe depositories, on all occasions, and at all times, without the loss of a dollar, to cither public or private interests.

In the Senate of Pennsylvania, we believe aftor all, the wbigs will have a majority of one vote. This is mentioned to show the importance of one vote. In the Alleghany District for Senaator, it appears that Mr. Darsro, the whig candidate, was elected by a single vote over his opponent. Thus ono single vote, places the Senate of Pennsylvania in a position to be a check on the acts of the other House.

The New-York Times & Star speaks in the strongest terms of the absolute necessity of a decided Clay press in the city of NewYork one that should be all Clay, and nothing but Clay,—and does not hesitate to acknowledge, that 1 would be willing to accept so desirable a position.

IOWA.

The good citizens of Iowa arc desirous of forming a State Govorument. .They are «ow taking measures preparatory to an application to the next Congress for admission into the Union. The population of this Territory is expected to be so much increased as to exceed 60,000 by next Spring. By becoming a State, she will also bo entitled to greater advantages under the provisions of the Distribution law. This also forms another inducement. Some of the enactments of the last session of Congress may prove beneficial to tins section on being admitted into the

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*«*LEOD.

It would seem this individual did not sail wrEngland from Boston as was reported tP01® mystery was probably thrown round jots movements immediately after his acquit-

But the Uue state of the case probably is, tb*t be was eoeortod directly to Montreal. His reception there,-oa the arrival of the boat, it disenbed as having been full of excitement and enthusiasm. A public dinner was also given him, by a number of persons in Montreal who resorted lo this method of testifying their sympathy for their countryman, &c.

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T** referring to his impris-

frc.-Mo which McLeod replied, in

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fci*®ry

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*2* of, and recom-

cute ted to tmm any future diftcohy hi caat of cntmmh escaping trim one country -to the other. ...

WABASH BRIDGE.

In another column will be found a communication on the subject of a bridge over the Wabash at Tcrre-Hauie. It is fought from appearances* that a bridge ttjr the United States, cafhaoLbe completed for seVerai years. There is nothing to justify the bftiief than an appropriation can be made for a year,or two, or perhaps three,—and then several years must elapse in the construction to completion for use. In the mean time, of what incalculable advantage would a bridge be to the community. The whole country far and wid\ on both sides of the river is deeply interested. And as for the town iUelf, the immediate benefit would be great—the uumbcrpf workmen at once necessarily employed and brought to town—the demand of various kinds of materials, would give a life and impulse to business. Add to this, the permanent advantage to the place, in the way of increased travelling. The certainty of always being able to cro?s ilie river at this point, would secure the travelling of thousands who would otherwise never see our place. The increased chance of trade and market—of a more certain deposit, &c. arc all matters worthy of consideration.

The object of the communication seems to be, to draw attention to the project,—and to elicit the opinions of the community on !tf subject of great interest to our citizens generally.

WESTERN ARMORY.*\

It will become the duty of the next Congress, to fix the location of this establishment. There is considerable strife among some of our western towns at this time, as to which shall have the honor and preference. Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Loim, Hamilton, Dayton, die. each putting in its claim as the proper location. Why not Terre-Haute, we would ask, on the banks of the noble Wabash, within three miles of Fort Harrison

If any one will furnish us with a well written communication, giving good and substantial reasons why Terre-Haute should be selected, we will certainly give placc to the article.

INDIANA MARBLE.

It is said that a quarry of fine Marble has been discovered in Fayette comity, near the White-water Canal. The marble is considered of a superior quality, and to exist in abundanco,in strata of a good thickness, from eight to eighteen inches.

Whocan bbat tins Beet.—-Mr. WM. E. Clarke of Otter-Creek township, raised a Beet this season, four feet two inches in length and about six inchcs in thicknes,sound and healthy.

It is stated in several eastern papers that Daniel Webster will soon resign the office of Secretary of State with the view probably of resuming the practice of the law. *, _v.-.

The President of the United States, at the last dates had teached Norfolk, accompanied by his private Secretary, John Tyler, jr. and Comodore Morris of the United States ship Delaware.

DEATH OP MR. FORSYTH. Tho Hon. John Forsyth, late Secretary of State, of the United States, died at his residence in Washington city, on the 21st. ult. in the 61bt year cf his age, after short illness from congcstive fever.

Mr. Forsyth, has been Attorney General of Georgia,—Representative in Congress,— Member of the United States Senate,—Minister to Spain,—Governor of Georgi.-i,—and Secretary of State.

FOREIGN NEWS.

By the arrival of the Columbia at Boston, lu»c news is brought from England—extracts of liich will be found in ourcolums—London dates ofthe 4th and Liverpool 5th Oct. Tho M.nistry hud not disclosed, precisely, the course that would bo adopted in reference to the Corn law, and much dissatisfaction was| manifested in consoquence. There is great distress in many sections of the country.

In Frar.ce the King and royal family had jnst returned to St. Cloud from Compiegne. By thearrival ofthe Narragansett, we learn that a formal and tremendous attack had been made upon Canton, by the combined British forccs. Unless sonic terms were immediately agreed to, the probability is, that Canton ere this, has fallenand yielded to he powers combined against it. Some particulars will be found in another column.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. From all parts of the counrry, we sec organizations on the subject of the cnuse of Temjerancc. Tho evils of Alcohol are becoming more and more observable to an enlightened community. This poison operates so slow,nnd in a way^o quiet and secret—cause and effect arc often so distant, and so apparently unconnected, as to require the experience of a life almost to detect tho hidden and latent evil. But, !on,t experience—closo observation—and the influence of science—all combined, have been at length, sufficient to arouse attention to this subject.

Not only aro spirituous liquors, not necessary, but absolutely injurious to the human system. This is known to every physician. The reform in the use of liquors, is pervading and extending over many portions of the world. It is stated by persons who have lately travelled in Ireland, that scarcely an intoxicated individual is now to be met with— so great has been the influence of Father Mathews in that country. In our own country too in the large cities particularly, the force of precept and example are operating far and wide, through all grades and chsses of society. In Pittsburg. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, dcc. kc. associations have been formed, and are continuing to form with the hapiest effects. The beneficial consequences are already apparent, in the health, comfort, and improved circumstances of all who connect themselves with these different societies, in the abandonment of intoxicating

It is stated as an extraordinary occurrence of a young man named Cooledge, of Framing ham, Mass. That immediately after shaving the face of his deceased father, used the same rasor in shaving himself—That his face directly began to swell, and in a short time he was himself a corpse. The father had died a natural death, and nothing at all remarkable had been observed in the manner of bis deceaae.

A new line of coramuaieatioo between. New York and Boston is about to be formad.. Via Long Island rail reawf and New HaftW, vs-r

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SUMMARILY.

Eghteen hundred years before Christ, the art was possessed of tempering copper tools so as to cut the hsrdest granite, with the most minute and briUiafit precisian. This art we have now lost. The widow of the late Tyrone Power, lias just administered to the effects of her husband.—Mr. Power it will be recollected was a passenger on board the steamer President. In Derby. England, last August, a young girl about 18 years of age, complained of being unwell, and finally was siezed with vomiting. Her mother gave as an emetic, some .*nlt and water, when to the astonishment of ail present, she threw up a live frog. The frog had been generated in thg smomach, she having eaten some watercress, possibly collected from frog-spawn water. It is thought that the number of emigrants at Quebec this seafon, will reach 30,000 souls. In J4ingham, Mass. there is a meeting house 1G1 years old.—The frame of which is of white oak, and perfectly sound. Semms the murderer of Prof- Davis, who was liberated from prison, on $25,000 hail, hns made default, and the b-i) will be sued. There were 5,390 passengers carried between Albany and $chenactady from the 29th of September to the 6th of October.—

At the cattle show in Otis, Maw. on the 28th of September, it is said a team was driven to the show of 28 yoke of splendid working ox* en. I He residenceof Mrs. Mayo, (the noth-

er-in-lnw

of Gen. Windfield Scott,) situat

ed one mile from Richmond Va. was burn! to the ground on the 8th ult—It is said to have been one of the most splenpid private residences in the United States. Mr. John P. Teeple of Lnport, has a Calcutta Pig, which, at tho the age of seven months, weighed two hundred and sixty-six pounds. The tadies of Lockport, NewYork, have formed a society, and are now collecting funds for christianiz. ing the Jews An ellegant marble Sarcophagus, prepared by the direction of the citizens of Washington city, has been forwarded to North Bend, to receive tho remains of tho lamented Harrison. An Ohio Drover, imed G. Bates, was robbed near Philadebphia, lately, of upwards of #7000 The Keel of a new Government Steamer, with Hunter's or Ericson's propellers, has been laid at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. The The church of St. Severia, in Paris, was 800 years old at the discovery of America, and has now been standing more than 800 years upon the ground where a church was first erected about the year 600. The members of tha Temperance society, near Beaufort, Canada, have erected a column of the corrinthian order forty feet high, in con.memoration of the great success ofthe temperance cause. A splendid Tigor belonging to the Menagerie of Tilus, June, Angevine, & Co. exhibiting on Green Street, Louisvi le, escaped from his keepers on Friday—He wns shot by Mr. Joseph Potter, piano forte manufacturer—Ho inflicted a slight injury upon the arm of a man who was endeavoring to head him," by a blow from his paw. Mr. Harvy Strong, in the vicinity of Laport, Indiana,has sheep from which he has sheared ten pounds of wool this year. On the farm of the Rev. Isaac Van Tassel, Wood county, Ohio, a watermelon vine, which sprang fro'h a single seed, during tho last summer, bore 28 mellons that avaraged 18 lbs. each—504 lbs. of watermelons from a single seed. Col- Woo J, late representative for the city of Natchez, has sailed for England with documents sufficient to prove him tho rightful heir to ftie great Wood estate—The Col. will only be woith about $13,000,000. By the late census, it is ascertained, that there arc iu the United States 7,249,266 white mules, and 6,939,841 white females. Total, 14,189,107. Fr«e colored persons, 386,242 Slaves, 2,487,213. Grand total of the population of tho United Suites, over seventeen millions. Brussels lace is of the most delicate of fabrics,—the flax frori which it is made, grows near Hal the finest sort costs from 300 to 400 francs per pound, nnd is worth its weight in gold every thing depends "on the tenacity of its fibre. Mr. Webster has been elected President of the Boston Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge. A person named Argent, lately residing in Cambridge, England, possessed of some real property, divised it or part of it, to a niece, upon condition, that before he was buried, his head should be cut off", he having been under the impression that he should be buried alive—His extraordinarywish was comp ied with, tho niece of course claimed and obtained the property. Secretaries Forward Wickliffe and Upsher arc widowers, and Mr. Legare is a bachelor. There ste now living in the town of Ipswich, R.sex co Mass. Abraham Perkins, John H. Boardman, Jeremiah Ross, and Samuel Lankaster, all of whom were in the battle of. Bunker Hil—-In the same town are now living 10 soldiers of the Revolutionary War. At a recent meeting of the British Association for the advancement of science, a statement was read, affirming that in the course of the year. 500 vessels had been wrecked on tho coast of that country. The annual loss of lives being 1200, and of means, £3,000.000. It is said that the trafic on the London and Birmingham Railway, has risen to within very little of £20,000 per week.

THR PROSPECT FOR THE FUTURR We invite attention to th« following. 11 is calcalaled to infuse tome spirit into such of oar Whig friends as are in the habit of giving op every thing immediately after every unimportant detest. The gloom ol iodsy is often the precursor of sunshine sod prosperity to-morrow. Better far that wetfimild bedeleaied now in oar legislative matters, than at oar next contest for Congress, or our next strazgie for the Presidency- The Charleston writer state* facta- facts, however, which the great mass have forgotten. The remits of the recent contcft throughout the country, will we venture to predict, when they come to be thoroofhty analysed, prove that the Whigs have lost by apathy and indiffertnee, and not hy any accession of strength to their political opponents In this city for example, hundreds of oar friends refassd to go lo the polla They were dissatisfied, had bonnets to atteod to. or did not think the contest safficienrly important. Three year* hence, or indeed much sooner, wa trust to be able to tefl another stotj. The mooster, moreover, is reallv dead and it is to be booed that the carcass of so fr^ntM a concern witl not be dragged into the political atmoa any future occasion. That exploded bank has been ft moat unfortunate aftairt bai a tramp card for our opponents. They have made almout as modi political capital oat of it as was lost in real capital by the atsfortuoatc stockholders —Prm*. E*f*irtr.

US IT BO STATES BX POUTS. .. Tfeepradacts of the fisharissof the United States, exported during the pear coding 3eptember 30, (1840, aaMmated lo $3,193*370.

The products of the fonst to #5,333j065/: s* Of animals, to 13.006 034. Ot craia, potatoes, apples, and rice, ta.598j691. Of tobacoo, S9.883.9S7. Of cotton. #63.870 JOT. Of Ihi snd. hops, hrowa aacar mmd isdif), $177,364. Of manafsctam, saeb as aoap, boots, farokiaa, Ac-, •W.JiT. •*.rr,,

Of cotton gmkh. §3.449.607. Of flu aad boms, weariag ifnid, glass, itc^ goto and

Oar to'aldoasCTTtebeing §113,fl*5~£»r

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COMMUNICATED.

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To tbe Editorsor the Wabass Cocarea.

little city, shoaid bs to little tEagbi of by the ctttsens

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the Idea of having one built «t the^ .i nnrmi»tl as ail ooiiw on the minds of the expense, has uperat quite evidrnt f«^ragttoW-h2b BSS iiM not built .h^

.nd plentr »f

work at hand. We have an assurance that one can behuihfor tbe sum of »I0,000 »"d .t is *lr«dyc«lculated hy one of «ur most sbte financiers, end one well acquainted with the profits bridge would st such cost, per immediate!yjo t*r cen^ per annum,1 and all those who know the efect that the first bridge over a nvrr of magnitude, tes upon the country, to increase travel, and of course business. wiH readily perceive the propriety of expecting twice as much by the third "yean end that, together with the ptensure of having a bridge, without watting th# slow action of "Uncle Sam." and until other towns vounger ihan ours, shall have their

bridges,

Mr. (toes should be insensible to pain and decay of tbe stomach, have a good appetite, enjoy sound and refreshing sleep, and a high flow of animal spirits and his stomach in this state, is a case unparallelled in the annals of medicine. That chronic inflnmation of the stomach and bowels was, and had been his complaint for years before his death is my cl$ar conviction, and that those organs were measurably restored before, the relapse, is to my mind equally clear, in fact there is no other conclusion can be arrived at unless the ground tie assumed that there was nothing the matter when I commenced my course of treatment, therefore my enemies are driven to the alternative of admiting that I cured him of all other diseases as there was no other disease spparent or.examination, sufficiently developed to have produced his sufferings. Although his liver, heart, snd lungs, were supposed by tbe oldest and most experienced Physician present, to be diseased, they proved lo be in a healthy condition, at least the heart and liver were so, and tbe lungs, although full of tubercles, without some exciting cause, might never have become developed had he have lived to the age of 70. It is not generally known to the public that Mr. Ross came home from Vincennes with his health very much impaired. and in a fi days a severe fever set in, but was speedily overcome by my treatment, and that.forsevera! days previous to his death, he had been taking bat little medicine except bitters to strengthen his digestive power*. Now if it was my hot stimulating medtcine which produced the inflamation of the stomach, is it not a little surprising that it only produced this effect when its use was measurably suspended? The fact is, if I committed an error at all, il was that of suspending my active treatment, and depending too much on the recuperative power of the system to overcome the debility consequent on a sudden cesation of the high febrile action. It has been said by some, thr.t Mr. Roes died in the steam bath, and by others that he died under the immediste influence of Lobelia. But where this information was obtained, I am at a loss to know. I would to God hoes powerfully efficacious means had been resorted to when be first became distressed at his stomach at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, or even at eleven, when I directed 2 tablespoons full of strong saturated tincture to be given in case the strong ^wsmodie action of the stomach oominoed, which directions were not attended to, owing no doabt, to the confusion which pervaded the family daring tbe few hoars previous to bis death. Had those instructions bjen attended to, even at that late boar, I am not sure bat the erritating cause would have been removed, and the fatal stroke averted, for I solemnly declare, that I did tbea and do now (although for reasons which I here omit,) believe that the egg costard which he ate at 2 or 3 o'clock, was the irritating cause which threw his stomach into violent spasmodic set ion aad terminated his earthly existence. I repeat, ifaat so for from Lobelia being tbe cause of his death, he died tor the want of it, or that it would have been one of the very best medwmes that could porably have been given, as it is acknowledged on ali hands, to he one of the most prompt emetiai, and anti-^wsmodics ever given to man. and at the same time possessing no narcotic, poisonous, or other detractive powets. aod therefore plainly indicated notwithstanding the atooMch was, and had been in a somewhat inflsmad sate, for I venture the remark «pon good aathnritv. that thefr* is not ooacaat in tea of Gastric snd Billions disorders, bat wbst are theoooseqwmoss of sceats, or chronic Grastritis, in plain english, inflamtion of the macoos membrane of the stomach, and ii jb this case aa emetic wascoatra-indicatsd, they are dearly so, ia every ease of Billions or other fevers bat tbe font that I have cured this season 49 o«t of 50 sacfa casi a by emetics, stimalanta, aadarifick, aad tooics, (nagthanics) will answer me ia tbe absence of better prow that they are tfce proper rasMties.aad should never be neglected until better means are known As to the report of Mr. Rom dyiag in the bath. I sm sorry to say, altbooah stilt mora plainly indicated tfpnmiMe, than the Lobelia, to warm ap and etimalete the cold clammy collapsed snriser, it eaM not at that late boar of tbe atgfct, with ao o#aw nieoees, be sdminwtared, •ad therefore se I arid of tbe Labriia, as say I here, he

If died for tbe wast of it it not tateaded

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and be drawing

much foreign travel from us, shou'd stimulaicus to immediate notion. Does any one say, what can we dot Let us meet and consult it may be. that wc con find some tew, willing to try for a charter this present season, by getting up a petition, to present early next session of our Legislature, for an open bridee ol suificient bight for flat boats to pass under in high water, with a draw and wharf sufficient to insure a rale ana expeditious passsge to Steam boats. If a arant can ne obtained curly in the session, a company formed, and the contracts made dir«*ct, the timber might be cut in a good! season of the year to

ensure

durability, and a

bridge constructed *nd ready for use before the close of the yesr* It is not necesnry to atpne the subject, to nrrouse the attention of those active spirits ever*to be found in their countrvVi cause, hut to those of whom it has been said 'Mhey acquired their money hy the littles, and oil! how they hug it!" who cannot always be prevailed on io enlist in projects, even ol a kind promising much benefit, it is hoped that this schrtrte will give sufficient inducement to ensure a ready sale ol the Btock to the best of purchasers.

Fellow-citixens, let us have a meennc on this subject. sometime soon, inviie in our friends from the cduntry. such aanre friendly to public improvements, and hear what may be said, and eee whnt can he done.

Hoping some one or more may feel sufficiently interested to call a meeting on some stiitn'de lime nnd place for tho consideration of these things, I will rest in hope of yet seeing abridge over the

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WABASIL.

For Ttifi Wabash Cookie*.

MESSRS. EDITORS:—Permit me through the medium of your useful Journal to correct soma mischievous and erroneous impressions which have, and still are being made in the minds of many of our Citizens, in relation to the circumstances, connected with the last illness and death of our much lamented friend and fellowcitizen, Mr. Russel Ross It is seldom thought of by the community on the demise of a fellow-citizen, to enquire minutely into the origin and progress of the disease, the treatment given, the effects produced, the final winding up of the fatal catastrophe, the post mortum appearances, &c. But in thisenso, it seems, ench of these topics havo received their full share ofanimadvt rtion. The cause of this sensitiveness will be made moreapparent in the progress nnd sequel ofmy remarks. Were these false statements ami wrong impressions to effect only my humbloself, feeling ns 1 do, a conciousness of having done my duty, I should not condescend to give them this public notice. But as they nre intended to exert a lasting influence for good or for evil on a respectable portion of this community, I feel my* self called on, to meet nnd refute them. In regard to the origin and progress of the disease of which Mr. Ross died, there seems to be two ideas. One is, that it wns produced by the treatment given him durinar his Inst illness, and the oilier is, that he has been effected for series of years with the same chmnic disease that he was found on examination to be effected with, and which preyed upon that vital organ (ihe stomach) until the last brittle thread of life was cut. That this last opinion is not without foundation, is prohable from the Inet, that he hfls been sick ns his wife supposes onefourth ofthe time sinee their connection a period of 19 or 20 yeftrs. Now that a man could be sick that length of time, and his stomach mnde the recepticle of the large quantities of corros ve, vegitable, and mineral drugs which he used in his numerousspclls of sickness without being worn thread bare, cannot he supposed. The writer has been personally acquainted with Mr. Ros9 since the summer of 1819, at which time he suffered severely with, probably, his first attack of billious .fever, and hardly recovered until he had another attack |tn 1890. How manr other spells of sickness he has been afflicted with since, it wonM be Itnp'issible for even his own family to tell. It would bo superfluous to enter at this time into a minute detail of the suff rjngs and symptoms with which they were characterized previous to his applying to me for medical assistance on the 10th of July, of the present year, at which time there w: painful destention and flatulency of the stomach, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, dough-like swellings of the lower cxtremeties. and great debility of the whole system Under these circumstances, I commenced treating him according to the Thomsortian Sj-etem, and that he gradually improved in every way until he exposed himself on a journev to Vincennes and brought on the relapse with which he died, cannot nor will not, bo denied by any acquainted with the facts. Now, I ask those who are so industrious in circulating the report that, his stotnach was burned up with Cayenne, Lobelia, &c., upon whnt principles of pathology or physiology, thev account f-r the fact, that for two months or more, while under the most active and persevering treatment, that his eenernl health improved, if indeed the stomach the great centre of sympaihy, and throne of the vital powers was in a hieh state of inflamation and consequent dilapidation! that the stomach as well as the other vital organs loose this sensibility as death approaches is not denied, but that

ro meet aod refr*« att tbs mVs standcrr, mierepre- tbe efodioaa of 1*43 will go much as they did in l«40.

aentationa. an4biHingsgate*1ang which has, and aribe I heaped oa nfe^ad the syatem I advocate, ia conocqaence of thia unfortunate death, such stuff from suca I a source will never teceive any notice lrom met bat there are prejudices existing in the minds of many

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aiast of tbe leading art idee af the Thompooaiaa Sfetiea, which I feel Utspoetid briefly toootics. I sllnde to cayenne pepper and Lobelia I6flata. It tfe usually objected, jfett the fittt of thtfR-artWce is too pungent, and simulating, to be used in ipflamation.or in any case where there isaay febrile tqioa, and ol the Lobelia the dupes and alafts ol medical tvraany are constantly prating about ita beiog a deadly puison. that never fail* to produce death, it it ia not carried off by emiaia or catharsis, to these objections I shall oppose stubborn facta (not hypothesis) and leave the reader to draw his own conclusions.

Fact first. I waa summoned on the eleventh of August, to the hoase of John Wood, now ef this town, then living on the Cross cut Canal. 6 miles from town, to seeS of his children wao were laboring under Billious fever. I soon msde up my mind aa to the treatinent of two, the other, a boy IStor 14 yeara old hid 1 puked and purged, as hispareniasupposetl.andaa the vr«sel uawl clearly showed a quart or more ol blood, hero I confess I wns a little at a loss, and my faith was a little I shaken, I thought if in any case Cayenne and Lobelii I would be inadmisable thia was theone, when the inrt!.cine must necessarily come in direct contact with the cbraded and bleeding surface of the stomsch and bowels, and might atimulatethetn to excessive discharges I fi nally reasoned away my prejudices. (I'll tell you trader sometime whan I have the si earn up how reasoned,) and administered those very incdicinrs with nn unsparing hand, tho result was, that the hemorrhage at once step el—» profuse perspiration touk the place of the parched constricted surface, and the boy was soon in a slate of convalescence.

Case second. Mr. Perry, (cabinet maker,}commenced the Botanic treatment for chronic itiflamation of the stomach on the 4lh of August, had all tho symptoms characteristic of that complaint, and a very inflamed sore mouth, produced no doubt by the use of mercurial medicines in his previous sickness, he begged me not to give him much hot medicine for it wss like taking fire into his mouth, I assured him that Ins sore mouth would soon get well, the hot mctlicine was given freely, the result was. his mouth, in 3 or 4 days, was nearly or quite well, and his general health has gradually improved, though not so fast as it would have done, if the nctive treatment had boon continued long«-r Say reader, d» you think this medicine will cure inflam.ition in the mouth and throat and produccit in thestomachf That a gargle ol Cayenne is the best remedy that can be used for inflnmation of the throat in scarl fever is acknowledged by the Authors of the American Dispensatory, and by most physicians of both the old and new school that I have used itSHCorflslully in the healing of ill-condiiioHod sores I can easily prove, bui it will not do say our enemies to go down the throat say reader, which do you think would hurt the stomach worst if it happened to slip down while gargeling, Cayenne or Sulphuric acidt Thi? is quits a popular remedy when people hare black canker or mortification of the tongue, movable palate, gums, &.C-. produced by mercury. A lady asked me to examine the contents of a phial the other day that she had been directed to use as awash for what was said to be black canker, I hnpfened to let a drop fall on my pantaloons, and the way it took the filling outof them was not slow! Say reader, would an article that would burn a hole through apiece of cloth as quick as afire coal be as bad for the stomach as Cayenne? I am not disposed to interdict the use of poisons to those who will have them in place of medicine, but I am conscientiously opposed to such persons making a fuss because their neighbors will not consent to use poisons and die a fashionable death, such is the tyranny of fashion, now adays, that it is thought that it will not do to die nny other than in the fashionable way! People are dying every dnv wiih their to "guee as black as myhat= their throats ulcerated, their skin yellow as pumpkin, yet it is not oncesuspacted that these morbid appearances are produced by poisons? Iu fucIi casta the friends console themselves by saying every thing was done that could be done, "The Lord givetli and the Iiord taketh away." I won-lrr if tho Lord ever baffles the steam doctors efforts? Why cannot the unfortunate cases under Botanic ireatnuiu be covered with this broad mantle.' I could, were it necessary prodtico a host of testimony in lavor of the use of this article even in high inflamaiion, but these must suffice for tho present. I shall now bring forwards case or two to show the fallacy of the opinion entertained of the action aid qualities of Lobelia, '"that it kills if it does not puke or purge." Il the public thinks what I am about to stale is untrue, let them a*k Mr. Bishop, and Isnac Thomar, both respectable citizens of this town, whether iltey were killed hy Lobelia after taking as I should think pretty freely without eitlter puking or purging but. lest the inquiry be not made I will relate the ense of Isnac Thomas in as low words ns po«iMt and dismiss the subject. I wns called on by Mr. Thomas in the summer of 1831 to administer inc ltcinu for the ciiill nnd fever, he said thnt he could not he puked by nil tho medicinc I hnd. Nothing daunied ot nis remark, commenced giving the Lobelia and con tinur.fl ii until I hud given two thirds of a six ounce phial of the strongest tincture, a quantity sufficient to puke twelve or fifteen

ordinary

poreons, thinking it

would puke him after while, I commenced feeding milk porridge, I think he look a quart or more,he sweat freely, but if neither puked, purged, nor produced any other unpleasant serteation af'erhe was done taking it. The next day the chill returned, nnd again he went through the same operation taking even more Lobelia than before, and with the eainc effect, it nei-

ther puked or purged, hat entirely broke up the fever, this season he had another severe attack and was again cured by twoopperations, but in thisenso it pukwl jiim kindly and effectually. Now I ask the unprejudiced reader, if th^w are facts, wlmther ho can so far violate every principle of reason and common sense, as to fall in with the nugh and cry that Lobelia is deadly poison. and if it does not puke-or purge it will destroy life" Surely if it is so I must be as stuped as Balatn's saddle nag, or I should havo discovered it, in giving it in more than a thousand instances. But it is said that the verv fact of its puking shows it to lie a poison. Indeed, when a child sucks its mother and pukes, is it poison? what a pity thnt mothers arc so cruel to their tendrr offspring as to poison them in this way. Again salt and water acts as a very prompt emetic, is this poison? Many pereonspuke freely from iho tossing of a boat or ship on the troubled ocean, and this too you call poison, ha! Oh judge! I have said more than I intended when I commenced, I have been insensibly lead to niakr some remarks in allnsion to the ancieni practice without having any of tho honorable faculty in view, lor many of whom I entertain sentiments ol high respect, but it has been my lot to entertain opinions diametrically opposite to theirs and I must claim what I eoncode to others, the right of private judgment nnd public expression. TIKI'S. PARSONS.

From the Connecticut Courant.

Tilt Wbios.—By examining the nccounts of some of the late State elections, it will be found that, as far as gains to Locofocoiim have been realized by that parly, it is owing in a great measure, if nor entirely, to remissness on the part of the Whigs, who have in great numbers staid away from the polls. This has given the former sn opportunity to succeed in places where they nre well known io be in a Jecided minority. A variety of things have combined, for the moment, to cool the zeal and slacken the exertions of the Whigs. One of the events which wnscalculaicd to produce this result was th« refusal of President Tyler to approve and vign the bills that were successively pnssed bv Congress for the establishment of a National Bank. The great body of Whigs have long considered it indispensable to the restoration of credit and sound currency, and of course to the public prosperity, that such an invitation should be formed and supposing as they did, that President Tyler entertained similar sentiments, upon finding that he had defeated this m«a»are they were disappointed, and their feelings greatly excited and hence it has followed that multitudes withheld their votes on the occasions above alluded lo. Further reflections will probably show them that the question is one that directly interests themselves far more than it can President Tyler. He is not candidate for re election, and of coarse they were not called upon to vote

for

or against him. He is now the head

ofthe Government—placed there, it is true, pro videntally, bat indirectly by their agency. Nothing that thty can do at the present time can affect tbe tenure by which he holds his office. He is, and mast be, if his life is 'spared. Chief Magistrate for more than three years to come. By staying awa/ from the elections, the Whigs, whilst they are manifesting their feelings ef dislike towards Pres drnt Tyler's course, sre in reality encouraging their dangerous and deadly political adversaries to renewed and persevering exertions to regain tbe ascendency inlthe Government. No other possible effect can be produced by withdrawing from the elections, because no change ol Administration csn take place for mors than three years to come.

From lit Neto JJamptAirt Courier, Oct- 22. Tit Lat*a*i Costw EcicTwas*—In all tbe elections that have taken place since the "blow ap" ol the Cabinet at Washington, about 18 per cent, on an average, of the Whig party have not gone to the poUfc and the consequence is tbe loss of Slate after Slate. With all the efforts of tbe opposition, tbe votes of the Um do not increase from last year, and their gam trsa from tbe stsying at borne of tbe Whigs It waa to be expected that the elections in Pennsylvania and Ohio shoaid have gone against tbe Wbigs, as tbe same caases operated there as b»vo influenced other elections New York, too, end Missimippi and Michigan, may next month be foot for a year in tbe same way hot all ibis need am alarm a single Whig, sw there sre ss many Whigs ia the Union now aa there was Im aatama. and not one of them votea tbe Lies foco ticket and when omttrrs get into a good train at

Washington, ihev will rally again and carry all before them. There area few diasppoiated ofice nankars who may probably go over to tbe Locos, bai ao maa of principle will leave tbe Whig party when all tbe, Brrmriples.are aaatained at

Wj«Kin«ton,

ssve one. Wo

beg oar friends everywhere not to be ia the leoot alarmed si tbe resell of the elect ions in StpiMibcfi Ottobctf! and Xowrober of tbe present yetr, bat bs assured that

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BAYS LATER fSOif ENGLAND. Tbe Columbia arrived at Bo*Ub*arly on Tbaredav morning, having left Liverpool en tbe Sib. Her pu? sags lalfalifox was awde ia thirteen days, not with-rr steading a **7 ragh osataad hnvy hand galea.

The steamer arriwd at Boston oa Thursday aon^ lag aboat asvoa o'clock, ftvm Liverpool, whence tMH sailod on the 5th iooiant, making her passage in fifteen days nnd a halt

GREAT BRITAIN.

la the Rome of Lorda, Sept. 90, Lord Brougham presented a petition from the.British and Foreign AntiSlavery Society, setting forth that British subjects were still concerned in praaoting several hntiicbes of the elave trade.

In the Houee of Commons, Sep. £0, Sir Robert Peel* saidit wma the intention of Go vera men to carry into' '•Bert the Irish poor, law Act. and also to maintain the leading principles of the English Poor-law Bill, though he shoaid be toady to consider, in the next aassion, any proposa-for jis improvement. Mr. Ferrand saw that the bill had destroyed the last gevernmeat, anrf that it would destroy any government which woukf identify itself with ita harsher meaetire*

Sept. St. On the moticn for going into Committee tor Supply, along debate enaued on tho state ot the country. Sir Robert Peel aaid ho would not deny or under-rate the present distress, bat he trusted it wss not so severe aa some represent it to be. The House resolved itself into a Committee ol Supply, and voted a sum of bet net«ten and eleven millions sterling, to make good the supplier granted in the last ssstion. The House then sdjourned to thetfih Sept.

Sir Charles Napier called the attention of Sir Robert Peel to the danger of Mr. McLeod, and hoped Parliament would not be prorogued without means being taken to protect him Sir Robert Peel could not give Sir Charles Napier anv assurance on the subject. The Poor Law bill was discussed at considerable length, and several motions were made to amend the law, but they were all defeated by the Ministry.

Both Houses met again Oct 4th it wns announced in the Ministerial organs, that Parliament Would be prorogued on Friday. Oct. 8, not to meet again fox business till Feb. 1848.

The Leeds Intelligencer announces the failure, of ir large and long-established manufacturing house at Hudderstield. It is said that certain woolataplers in Leeds alone, are sufferers to the amount of X20.000. Tbe occurrence created a painful sensation throughout the manufacturing districtsol the West-Riding.

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There are hundreds without a bed to lie on, having parted with it for food. Cases are occurring every'day, thai weavers nre parting with their l«ioms aud touls to obtsiti food for their starving family -thuse being the only things left, of any value, that the can dispose of, and when they are gone, they arequite destitute—not" a l»ed to lie on—not a chair to rest on, nor tools tir work with. This is the heart-breaking hi nation of many liu idrcds of the useful, industrious Spitalfield weavers.

A movement ogn in»t the Corn-Low ia going on "on| of doors." which, perhaps, indicates a more deeprootf. ed and general dislike to that law than all the outcnta-d tious agitation of the rummer. Meeting* are recorded? In a great number of places, lo petition the Queenr ngninst prorogation until the question of the day shnlr have been fairly discussed in Parliament. Mancheairr began the new movement a few weeks back, end it hns increased in strength from week to woek- It differs in many essential circumstencrs from any previous ngitaiion for the same object ii is evoked under the auspices of no party in power, it occurs on tl»e vciy. hrtsls of a seeming defeat nt the General Election, tisij immediate purpose is more sure than ever of being frn«^ rated at once, for cart-loads of memorials to tlia£. Queen will not prevam the now Ministry from prorogtiring Parliament next week,

The morning Advertiser says—"^The Indrprnnrut luhorer is reduced to the condition ofsubsistjng without the ordinnry necessaries of life, while the idlers of society are rcvulling iu nbundnnce! How astoundinc would such a fact as this lie," hnd not our experienco familiarized us to itsexistence! As (he national wealth haa increased the comforts and enjoy nients of the laboring classes havo been diminished As the tnennsor abridging manual labor have been maltiplied, thn toil! of the laboring classes has become more severe an«F protracted. As the power of facilitating ami multiplying productions has Keen enlarged, the consumption of the laboring portion of community has been curtailed. Instead of increasing in comfort and happiness, in proportion as the country has increased in scientific knowledge, and its application to thepnrpoees of production, the industrious pnrt of the populstion hat become impoverished nnd debased, and deprived of one comfort after another, until they are found—we speak upon Parliamentary authority—-alisolutely lying by hundredsin one locality from utter inanition!" This is the state of things that Sir Robert Peel isesllod on toremedy, but for this he has no remedy, oril he has he declines to make it known.

The Chronicle relating to certain rwmers respecting disscniions in theCabtnrt, soys:—"It is tolerably certain that if any material change is to take place in the Corti-lnws, the Right Hon. Baronet must gat rid of Opme of his colleagues in the interval between this and the next session. If we could suppose Sir Robert Peel to t*elieve cither that there was no distress in the country, or thnt the distress was not mainly caused by tho operation of the Corn-law, we might nlso suppose that i«m much importance has been sttached to tne snpposed division* of ihc Cabinet. But the belief has very generally gnittcd ground, notwithitandingiwme equivocal speech's rif tho Premier, that he is anxious to propose a much more important change than his present colleagues will consent to, and that the Cabinet must therefore undergo, ere long, a material change." Whatever change may take place in the Cabinet, between this and spring, one thing is certain—the changa must lie for the better, for it cannot possibly be for the worse. (From the Sun of Oct. 4.) The Duke of Wellington1 stuted in the House of Peets on Friday evening, that "there was no real distress in the country for want of food." that "ii was utterly impossible that any enquiry should be made at present," snd that "he had no objection to take on himself the responsibltty of advising' her Majesty to prorogue the Parliament The Duke and nis collesguea, therefore, agree on tha subject of no distress, hut while Sir Robert Peol endeavors by quoting 8svings Banks and Fever Hospital returns, to prove tlist there is nothing hut health and prosperity, the Dukeof Wellington bluntly asserts it. They both agree in opinion uwy only differ in the mode of their expression-

At all the pablic meetings held st Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Warrington, Ac. Ac., language tho very reverse of that used by these two statesmen has been continually employed, and no person has stood op to gsinsay it. A greet difference of opinion, then, sxtsto between the Cabinet and tho manufacturing papainlion, concerning its condition.

The Carlisle petition to tho QtMen. praying her Majesty not to prorogue Psrliament till the question of the Corn-laws is considered, woo signed by 3,750 persons. The Bath memorial, praying her Majesty not to prorogue the Parliament till some measures bavo been devised for alleviating the distressoC country, was forwarded lor presentation Oct. I, having received a 4 0 0 0

Alderman Pine was elected lobe I/rd Mayor of London for the ensuing year. "He had little thoagbt" he said, "forty years sgo, whan he came up to London poor lad from the banks of the Tweed, thai so high an honor awaited him."

Hie London papers are fall of tho now* from thia side, carried by tha Britannia, of tho breaking op of Compress, the aetoes, the disolution of tho Cabinet, McLeod. Ac.

Great dirt res* prevailed at Bary, many operatives le«

ing only partially employed, and at one-third of the wages ohtained tnree yeara ago. At Leicester, tho

t^hr

hoaiers coinplaiu of the difficulty they experience in obtaining the smallest profit on their sales, nnd, in some cases sacrifices are submitted lo, with the view of clearing off stock. Business was far from being in r* healthy or satisfactory condition, but wool was firmr without alteration ill price-

Stale of the Winner*. There nre about 14.000 looms in Bethnall-grcen, Spitaltields, Shored itch, &c about 3000are quiteM|tof wurk, and tbe 11.000at work are only three fourths of their timo employed which causes great distress and privation among those who are considered the respectable portion of tho district^

The average earnings, when at work, are about 7?. 6d.ench loom, from this ts to be deducted 4r. C.per month, or Is. 1 1-2J. per week, for expenacs of turning in and twiating in, which leaves the miserable starving income of 6s: I-2d. per week.

There are about 800 souls in the Dethnnl-grpen poor-, house, and about 1600 receiving out-door relief Meat, tea, sugar, milk, butter, beer, Ste., are luxu-1 riesseldom tatted by those who have work.

The political news io very nMagia aad devoid of m*

terest. The coolest article in the English paper* is a para graph in the London Times, touching remaaeratien to McLeod for hie twelve months confinement.

The new Parliament woe to adjoara in a few days until Janeary or Febreery. Daring the rectos of Parliament, polities are doll.

In Franca all was quiet apparently, nor indeed does there e«peer any thing of lamnit or dworder, or of tumors of war or difficulty any where on the continent, and benee the paper*are,in the estimation of political fuii aimes, dell. 4

A public meeting was held in London on the 1st !nrtant, convened at the instance of Mesers. Barring, Brothers ACo., Rothsehild, Mastenaan A Co.. Barday A Co., and other eminent Loidon bankers, to expreso their thanks to tbaXoarfoa Tiaut, for tbe perseveriag, eootiy and ilisiiifMasiiil efforts through which It bed succeeded in breaking ap a system Continental ewiadling, under forged letters of credit, and the ooarae which it had adopted to defend an expensive lawaait. Oar readers may reaicmber. tMt wc poM»°ed aa abetractoi thiseaas. ucier the title of Boaieer Lawson Encomiaetie reoolutiooe were poesso. o«» a committee raised to obtain and pwwi w* p^r euhetaatial svicsoce ef tbegntM of tbe banking aad

"m',"!£££. of St. James, has engaged his passage in the Great

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