Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 18, Number 15, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 May 1827 — Page 1

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0 BY EL1HU STOUT. VINCENNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1837. Vol. 18. No. 15.

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tomary tcrmvT Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be paid for accordingly. R EM ED Y FOIIIXFE C TIO V One of the most astonishing discoveries, proceeding from the advanced state of science, is that of a material to disinfect' places and objects of the offensive and deadly vapours inherent in putrefactive masses: and also, in confined situations. If subsequent experience shall verify one half of the benefits which the discoverer (M. Laharraquc a chemist in l'aiis) inters from the instances he has witnessed of its surprising efficacy, c may hope that yellow fever, ami other frightful forms of pestilence which walk invisible, will be banished fiom the world. The discoverer gives distinct insti uctions for the preparation which ?s simple, and apothecaries will find no difficulty in mailing it, so that it may go with perfect safety into common use. The chemical combinations of chloride of soda, and chloride of lime, are the materials which possess the wonderful power of depriving substances of their offensive odours, and of checking the putrefactive process. The cloridc of lime has been applied to the putrifaction of Lazarettos, infected ships, hospitals, manufactories, the persons of soldiers, sailors merchandize ai quaran

tine with the most triumphant success

lowing you will oblige a constant reader. J As Samuel Thompson's publications have , of late years produced much excitement among practitioners and the public at j large, with a view to excite some profes- i sional gentleman to candidly examine those publications, and with equal candor animadvert upon the same, 1 send you a short sketch of Dr. Thompson's theory. , (Should one be required more full with Thompson's illustrations, the Writer of this article will furnish it on 'notice.)

That all men are composed of the lour elements, i. e earth, water, fire and air. That heat is the great principal of life and vegetation, and when it most prevails, provided it be accompanied with due moisture, nature is most replenished with all sorts of living and growing things. That heat is life and cold is death ; if internal heat exceeds the external, a good

state of health exists ; if on a balance, disease and the total absence of internal heat is death ; that ad disorders, however vari ous thesymtonis, and the different names they arc called, arc directly from obstructed perspiration ; that the proximate cause of diseases the human family is subject to, is obstructed perspiration : the remote cause the sudden vicissitudes from heat to cold, the cure lo be effected by rcstoting internal heat, promoting pcispiration, dislodging, discharging and evacuating billious or putrid colluvies, which Thompson terms canker, in ihefirima v a. in consequence of obstructed perspiration. I shall now conclude by quoting a few lines ftom the late Dr. Waterhousc, published in the Boston Patriot, under the signature of an Ecclcctic, one of the oldest and most eminent physicians, formerly lecturer on Materia Mcdica, in Harvard college, Cambridge, speaking of Samuel Thompson, says, JIis discoveries

are valuable or tnsuicant, ins practice a nvisance or a benefit, his writings useful or a tissue of lies and calumnies, his patent honorable or a disgrace to our government ; and it is not beneath the dignity of any physician, divine or philosopher, to inquire into the truth of a scries of experiments, published with so much confidence, and purporting to be for the benefit of mankind.

Let the unprejudiced mr.n who reads! publications, judge for himself. And !

should he boggle at his theory of heat and cold, let him remember that Thompson, without knowing it has adopted a theory of Gelens', and his idea of the preserving power of nature, and the cure of diseases and preserver of life, appears to be the same as acknowledged by Hippocrates," or as Thompson expresses himself, a fever is a friend, i.e. excitement of nature to throw off disease." Yours, A. D.

in the cleansing of sewers. Une instance in proof of the lauer occurred in a (t horrid sewer in Paris, which had been impassable for more than forty years." Eight workmen lost their lives in attempting to penetrate it, in 1782. It had been left to itself from the dread it justly inspired in the workmen and authorities butas: was an accumulating and horrible nuisance, the council of health solicited the advice of M. Labarraque, who offered to supcrintcd the operation. Several workmen had fallen into a state of suspended animation the day before. M. Labarraque caused a large tub, filled with the solution of chloride of lime, to be placed near the margin, and a pail full by the side of each workman who often wet his hands, and face in it, and applied it with a moistened cloth to his mouth and nostrils. The surface and walls of the sewer were constantly sprinkled with it, and the woik was completed in four hours without any accident. M. Labarraque immediately proceeded to the house of one of the men who had been struck senseless. Altho it had been many hours &ince he lost his recollection, inhaling the vapour of the chloride of soda instantly relieved him, and he recovered in a few (lavs. In anothcr case " the patient was unconscious, the breathing appeared extinct eyes closed and insensible. A moistened napkin was immediately placed under his nostrils, when in a minute he uttered a plaintive cry, and opened his eyes. The application was repeated, when after a few minutes the tctantus with its frightful train disappeared he breathed ficcly, and was in a condition to resume his work." The use of the remedy in healing "Wounds, arresting mortifications, modify

ing cancerous and other disagreeable tro- be disposed to costiveness, en account of pical complaints, are among the blessings its astringent quality, a little magnesia added to this discovery. Another impor- , should be occasionally added to it. tant benefit insisted on by M. Labarraque is, that a judicious application of the solu-! Cure of the deaf and dumb In some, lion will divest the dissecting room of i'3 perhaps in many cases, this may be eflecnoxious qualities, preventing these most ted by a surgical operation, as has been severe cases of typhus fever which are pro ved bv a number of cures at Brussels, found among the students of anatomy ' by Drs. Xcwbury and Andre. who thus fall a sacrifice to their love of The follow ing paragraph is from a science, by constantly inhaling an atmos- Brussels paper. phere loaded with pernicious exhalations, j " Dr Andre, of this city, whoscfortuA". I. Times. J natc cure of three children born deaf and -1 dumb, we have already mentioned, has Messrs Printers By inserting the fol- just operated with the same success on

There are now living in Manchester, Essex, three men, aged seventy-lour, seventy two, and seventy, years, two of them soldiers cf the revolution, who are now, and for six months in every year, employed in the fishing business, all sailing in the same boat, which is twenty-two years old. Children's Food A lady of Yorkshire observes, in a letter dated March 2d, that in consequence of losing her first three children, one during teething, and two of inflammation in the bowels, she gave her fourth child a little lime water in every article of food, adding a desert, and some times only a tea-spoon full of lime water to every article, whether liquid or thick. It succeeded in keeping up healthy digestion, and a regular state of bowels; the child instead of being feverish, flatulent, and fretful, as her preceding children had been, continued cool and cheerful, free from any symptom of indigestion and cutting his teeth without any constitutional disturbance. She has continued this practice with two more of her children with the same good effects. We have known this simple addition to the food of childrtn prove very efficacious in incipient cases of rickets, and of irritable bowels, attended with loosncss Sec. ; but if the child

the son of Mr. Maurus, baker, at Drugs, aged fourteen years. The perforation of the left ear was effected in less than five minutes, and at the same moment the boy heard the ticking of a watch and the barking of a little dog. The operation of the other ear took nearly an hour, because the lad, loo deeply affected by his new sensation, could scarcely contain himself.' From Gibraltar By the brig Leader, the editors of the New York Commercial have the Gibraltar Chronicle to the 15th March. Their contents arc unimportant. 1 he Egyptian fleet, which sailed from Alexandria for the Morca, on the

20 November, commanded by .Alohai cm Bey, son-in-law of the Pacha, consists of seventy-eight sail, of which thirty are sloops of war, four fire-ships, and the rest European and Turkish transpoits. There were no troops on board, but money, provisions, and ammunition. The specie on board amounted lo nine hundred thousand Spanish dollars. Smyrna dates to the 9th January state, that great exertions arc making to organize moie 1 uikish troops. Lisbon dates to March 3d state, that since the rebels have been worsted, several of their detachments have mutinied, and demanded the heads of their leaders. Other accounts are tl at the rebels had conccnttatcd their forces and taken a position from which General Clinton, with the English and Portuguese troops were soon to attempt their dislodgment. From France A postscript to the N. York American dated, Saturday 2 P. M. announces the arrival of the Edward Quesncl, biinging Paris papers to the 9th March The Maiquis dc Laplace and the Ma quis Viinti il, both peers of France, died on the 5th March The forme'is the immortal author of the system of the woild ; the latter was one of the gvdiant Eienchmcn who contributed their aid to our independence M dc Castel Bjjac, a passenger in the Edwatd Quesncl, is bearer of despatches for the French Minister. The Eioiieof 8th March give the following important article, on the authority of the Augsburg Gazette: . Uucliares', 13 Feb Private letters

from Constantinople, of 4th ult announce that the Porte had declared through the :

Kcis hffenih, its determination to reject all diplomatic overtures in favor of the Greek insut gents. The motives for this decision arc the same as those expressed on previous occasions. Xevj-OrUans, Jfiril 19, ! 827. The Captain of the Milton, which vessel sailed from Havannafour days after the Ursula, states that he met the Spanish squadron under Laborde going into that port. It was reported that Commodore Porter's squadron had sailed from Key West.--The Commodore will probably proceed towards Porto Cabello, where, at the date of our last advices, there w s a large Colombian f rigate, with two or three smaller vessels, completely armed and equipped.

IVashington. Jfiril 28 We extract the following article, on a highly interesting subject, from the New York American : Griece The intelligence furnished jiy the last Paris papers of the determination ot the Porte to resist all overtures from the Chtistian Powers for the pacification of Greece, is, if authentic as, from the

blind fanaticism of the Tuiks, we presume it to be of high importance, and we would fain hope, of good augury for the real and unqualified independence of Greece. Tl'ie meditation of the European Courts was understood to aim only at obtaining for the Greeks a degree of mitigated independence. They wcie still to be subjects of the Porte, owing it allegiance and paying it tribute. They w ere to be in the condition that Wallachia and Moldavia now are a condition, it is true, when compared with the merciless and rapacious domination under which they had been so long suffering, of comparative freedom Jind happiness. But this mediation being refused, it may be hoped nay, if information derived from reliable sources do not mislead us, it may be staled with certainty that Great Britain, and France, will unite in saying to Ibrahim Pacha, the main supporter of the war, that he must go home, and leave the Turks to settle their matters as they may with the Greeks. . It is from Egypt, by the treasures of Ali Pacha, by his graneries, with his troops and fleets, that the war of the two last campaigns has been sustained. Without these, Greece would, ere this, hay e driven the Turk from her bosom j

but when a British fleet shall imimate to Ibrahim, as will probably be done, that he must go home with his ships, or they will be captured, he will not hesitate long; for the war has been one of great expense and hardship to him, without any return, except Greek heads and ears, and with him will depart the hopes of the Crescent. Against all the powers of Constantinople, the Greeks can protect themselves We arc therefore disposed rather to rejoice at than regret the failure, if so it shall turn out to be, of the proffered mediation of the Christian Powers. Discoveries in tgyfit It is at length placed beyond doubt, that the Nile, of which Bruce conceived he had discovered the sources in Abyssinia, and which the Portuguese had seen and described in the sixteenth century is only a tributary stream flowing into the true Nile, of which the leal source is much nearer the) equator For this information, we are indebted to M Calliaud, a French traveller, who accompanied the predatory expedition of the two sons, Ismacl and Ibrahim, of the Pacha ot Egypt, into Nubia, and who, in conjunction with M Latores, has made known to us a ixw region in t! e intetior of Afiica, more than five bundled miles in length, ai d extending to the tenth degree of north la itudt T his gentleman has likewise de ermined the position of Meroe, of which he found the luinsin the Delta, formed by the Bahrael-AbrieJ, (the White rivei)anri the Bahrael Aziaq (the Blue river,) in the epot where D'Anville had pactd them upon the authotity of an. itnt authes. Avenues of sphynxes, and of lions, p opylea and trmpies in the Egyptian style, forests of pyiamids, a vast enclosure formed with unbaked bricks, seem to point out in this place the existence of a large capital, and may serve to elucidate the much agitated, but still undecided question, Whether civilization followed the course of the Nil from Ethiopia to Egvpt ; of whether it ascended ftom Egypt to Nubia V From the Indianafiohs Gazette. The last Brookville Repository, contains the following important informations We are highly gratified to learn from an authentic source, that the U. Mates Civil Engineers have again arrived in this state, to recommence and compltte the) surveys for canal routs, which they began

last year. We cannot believe that they will neglect the White Water, Mr. Jennings' opposition to it notwithstanding. Edward Tiffin of Ohio, has been appointed by the President of the United StatC3, Surveyor of Public Lands in tho states of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan territory. Mr. Tiffin has enjoyed the confidence of four successive administrations, than which no better proof can bo given of the faithfulness in which he discharges the duties of his office. From the Cincinnati Register. Things that I h-,-ve seen 1 have seen the time when the only boat that floated on the surface of the Ohio, was a canoe, propelled by poles ued by two persons, one in the bow and the other in the stern. I have seen the day when the introduction of the keel boat, with a shingle roof, was hailed as a mighty improvement in the business of the west.

I remember the day when the arrival of a Canadian barge (as the St. Louis boats were called at the head of the Ohio) was an important event in the transactions of a year. I remember the day when a passage of four months from Natchez to Pittsburg, was called a speedy trip for the best craft on the river; and when theboamen,a race now extinct leaped on shote after completing this voyage, they exhibited an air of as much triumph as did the saiiors of Columbus on their return from tho new world. I remember the time when the canoe of the white man dared not to be launched on the bosom of the Allegany I remember the time when a trader ta Orleans was viewed as the most enterprising amongst even the hardy sons of tho west ; on his return from his six months trip, he was hailed as a traveller who had seen the ivorld I remember the day when the borders of the Ohio were a wilderness, and New Orleans was 44 toto orbs divisa " literally cut off from the whole world. I have lived to see the day when the desert is flourishing as the rose when tho race of boatmen has become extinct, and their memories only preserved in the traditionary tales ot our borderers. IUyc lived to ace two iplcndid cities;