Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 21 February 1829 — Page 4

POKTIOAL ASYLUM FROM THE X'.TIOXAT. IKTF.LMGENCER. TUF. I1 AHT1NU YEAH. What is time? fitrtbrj mcsnengcr. H7af is life? .1 v a fiour. I acked an acd man in ui cf cares, Winkled aa 1 bent, and white with hoary hairs: Time is the warp of life," he ttl ( )h tell The viri'!?. the tr.iv. the fair, to weave it well!"

I aAr the anciei.t, rntrab!e h-;.;i i S ves who wrote, wuX warriors whu!)!ci: Inun the coltl iave a hnllaw nun www Unwed, 44 Time sowed the seed e reap in thi.- aV;i!c !" T asked a dvini; sinner, eie the tide Of life had left his veins : " Time ,,? he replied, le I oo. it: ah ! the tre isure !" and he died. I asked lit- i;h!en Sj;i, and silver Spheres Tiiose bright cronmnetet s of days and ears : Tiiey aus. voted: 44 Time is hat a metcrr glate And b id.' ns for eternity prprae. I asketl the Seasons, in their annual round, Which beautify or derolate the rjnmnd : And they replied, (no oracle more wise) " lis folly's blank, and wisdom's highest prize !" I asked a'spirit lost : bat oh' the. shriek i'hat pierced my so d ' I -hndder while I speak ! I': cried, 44 A partic le a speck ri mite, K )t endless eai s. aua.'ion infinite; ( V things ii.at:ie..aa , my 0, A I ( -n-mUd ; it made ne t!s rcpiy : " Time is the seavn fair i hv;u:r. well lhe path of r;lory, or ti e in.'dto hell!" I t'ked my lbbl. v.d nm. thinks it said: ' Time is the pre ei.t h nr ; the pust is fed : Lie ; live to day ; to-morrow never et Ou anv Unman h m ; rose or set." 1 akei; old t'ath.:r Time himself at last ; 1 at in a m-.-ue at i' Il . w ::vtt'i;. p:e.t. H's ch iriot was a eh.ud, the re i'.: less wind Hihn a-eless steeds, shieh h ft no trace behind. I l !.'d the mr .hty Aniet, w ho shall stand ( bi.- f ).- t s.-a, and one n --.lid land : I !',(ih dj- la'e the mi-tery i ?;er- more ."' " '1 ime w he cried, 4 but Tune shall be no

likewise cease, and that such a prac-1 ticc should without delay be universally adopted ; because by it the svs tcm would be equalised, & to cqiial f.ve' as Rush well says iis to cure.'11 Such a method now I have disco v cred. and after a practice of 20 years.

have found its great utility confirmed by experience. Is there any impudence, forwardness, or impertinence in my announcing so beneficial a dis coverv ? Or is it not inv imperious duty as man, as citizen, as christian, to publish in the most notorious manner a theory and practice by which

thousands of lives may be preserved.

and which "may disarm the yellow fever itself uf its most poisonous arrow." . 1 shall employ my leisure hours in the continuance of this subject, and humbly request all editors, who are friendly to the advancement of the

sciences in general, and the medical

cience in particular, to open a "stran

gers place" in their columns for this, and my following numbers.

VAiUKTY.

AN KS.S AY ON lULlOrS Fl'.VEK AND CALOMEL. Ihj Anthunti turn, M $ CH D. No. I My annunciation of a new theory and pra-.'tice of what is called the JUMOUS FiVKU, has not been rccei v ei I by m n y , a n 1 particularly by gentlemen of the medical profession, with that liberality and-candor which such a discovery, if my principle and niactice are not altogether mistaken, so eminently deserves. To prevent further misconstruction of my tenets and motives, i intend to publish a few numbers, explanatory of those physiological facts, which have led me to the adoption of principles and a practice so diametrically opposite to all

medical docti iocs adopted from the

time of Hippocrates to this day.

Kevvr is a mornul action or me

wL. x - - - - - whole human frame, with a distress fid sensation of a specific nature

which is indiscribable and can be known only by being telt Fever

then is a unit, and it is as improper to

call a fever ;tatc. a bilious erer, be

caue the morbid action of the liver,

which pat take 5 necessarily of the

morbid tate d the v hole system, secretes bile, vitiated both in quantity, a it would be to call it a head uclie fvx'cr. or a buck itchc fevtr. because the head and back are also m 'rbidly affected. Pole is produced by achy

mic animal process of the livtr only. out of the mas of the blood. There is not nor can be any bile unless it be thus fabricated. It must then at first s'p'ht be found moi e scientific Sc benelicial t) the patient, to remove or regulate that morbid action of the liver, and consequently prevent the secretion of vitiated bile, than by vomits or acrid purgatives, such as Jalap,

( ajomcl, etc. stil! to increase that

holy no pro. It was carl v in clas.-ic (lavs, that

this most pleasing affection or the mind, was personified in the charms ofabeaiifu) maid. With eye brows higharehed & lids that curved gently over the eve, with forehead elate, and cheeks raised and full, an expression thai seemed directed to some thhfa hove this world, a breast that swelle with celestial enthusiasm stood forth, confessed a goddess. Holy Hope. Fear, her necessary companion, was cast, like shades to a brilliant picture, on the back ground ; while worldly cares and toils, and troubles compos ed the pediment of this fair divine An anchor was pendent from her breast whose cord hung loosely, & festooned by her side. When commission ed to assume her high and noble ea paeity, she was charged with love to suffering humanity, and commanded to attend every mortal to the dying hour, and then not forsake him till the spirit left the body, and even at that moment to point out the way to the mansions of eternal peace. In a few instances only has she deviated from this strict injunction, and those few how melancholy! Vhenaround the death bed of him, who

lordship issued a proclamation, re

quiring of the inhabitants ot the

colony that they should not longer take part in the contest, but continue peaceably at their homes, and they should be most sacredly protected in property and person. This was accompanied with an instrument of

neutrality, which soon obtained the signatures of many thousands of the citizens of South Carolina, among which was Colonel Ilayne.who nowconceived he was entitled to peace & security for his family and fortune. IJut it was not long before Lord

Cornwallis put a new construction on the instrument of neutrality, denominating it a bond of allegiance to the king, and called upon all who signed it to take up arms against the rebels! threatening to treat as deserters those who refused! This fraudulent proceeding in Cornwallis rou sed the indignation of every honest and honorable man. Col. Ilayne being now compelled, in violation of the most solid compact, to take up arms, resolved that the invaders of his native country e hould be the ob jeet of his vengeance. He withdrew trom the British, and was invested with a command in the continental service; but it was his hard fortune to be captured by the enemy & carried into Charleston. Lord llaw. don, the British commandant imme

diately ordered him to be loaded with irons and after a sort of mock trial, he was sentenced to be hung! The sentence seized all classes of people with horror and dismay. A

petition headed by the British gov ernor Ball, and signed by a number of royalists, was presented in his behalf, but was totally disregarded The ladies of Charleston, both to ries and whigs, now united in a pe tition to lord liawdon, couched in the most eloquent and moving Ian guage. praying that the valuable life of col. Ilayne might be spared; but this alas was treated with neglect. It was next proposed that col. Hayne's children (the mother had recently expired with the small pox) should, in their mourning habiliments, be presented to plead for the life of their only surviving parent; being introduced into his presence, they fell on their knees, and wit It clipped hands

md weeping eyes, they Ireped their

accompanied him. As soon as thay came in sight of the gallows, the father said, "now my son, show yourself a man! that tree is the boundary of my life's sorrows. Beyond that, the wicked cease from troubling an 1 the weary are at rest. Dont by too i . . .

muen at heart our sepa; ahon .m you it will be but sbo: t. It was hut lately your mother died To day, I die, and you, my son, though hut young, must soon follow us." "Ye my father," replied the broken hearted youth. I shall shortly follow yu, for indeed I feel that I cannot live long." On seeing, theiefore. his father in the hands of the executioner, and then struggling in the haher, it: stood like one transfixed, and moii onless with horror". Till then ! e wept incessantly, but as soon as he saw that sight, the fountain of hi , tears was staunched, and he : cer wept more. He died insane, and in his last moments often called on the name of his father in terms that brut tears from the hardest heart. At Bremen there is a wine-cellar called the Store, where five hluis. of Rhenish wine have been preserved since 1025. The five hogsheads eo. 1 .COO francs. Had this sum been pur, out to compound interest, each hogshead would now be worth above a thousand millions of money; a bottle of this precious wine would cost 21 .709 180 francs, or about 03 3 1 1 :

and a single, wine glass or about 13A0M

2 7:3 800

1 14 b

through life and to the last, had been

a felon to the laws of his country and j father's name, and nlead irfost earn-

God.she has hovered like an angel ofjes()v for xs (Cm (ucader! what is mercy, and bending over the despair-! youY anticipation? Do you imagine

ing sunerer, nas laboured in vain to t that lord Rawdon, pitying their mo i . ir .i i ..-11 . 'i j "

insinuate nerseu ; men anu not lit! then, weeping Hope tunis from the child of wo and rends the golden cords and casts her hopeless anch(V

deep in tlie abyss of despair. Butinstill remained inexorable; he suffer-

describable arc her influence 6c power

in the world she is the Atlvs on

which it rests, and the Olympus to

therlcss condition, tenderly embraced these afflicted children, and restored to them the fond embrace of

their father? TSTo! the unfeeling man

ed even these little ones to plead in vain!) -His son, a youth of K, was

permitted to stay with his father in

whichit attains she is theday spring j l)rison who beholding his only par

ol its anticipations, and the twilight

of departed years she is the rose on the cheek of youth, and silver to the gray hairs of age a staff to the pilgrim, and to the wanderer a welcome home. The sailor, as with thought

cut loaded with irons, and condemn

ed to die, was overwhelmed with grief and sorrow. 4Why,"suid he, "my son, ill you thus break your father's heart with unavailing sorrow? have I not often told you that ve

came into this world to prepare fori

fu! : e he paces the deck, while thr

truuMed ocean heaves beneath and j better? For that better lile, my dear

, . , , , , counistne long moments or tne mgnt- bov vour father is now nreuued hen:Uie convu sion by which a those. . . , uo , j uui iuuu is now pitpaitu.

:v i , , waien, sees me comming storm anu i , , . . ...

j r.:,unv, . . -.-uu ; hfars it whistle thfoimmhc tremulous oi uecpmg, rejoice witn m-e so .U.erous ami distressm- to : shrolu,s aml vivva t)e stars as thcy me my son, that my troubles are so the patient, a tul so alumiing to the',; sappcar one l)y one bc(ort. a ,,cm near an end To morrow I set out nt.y,i -.:. ! c g. head ao he he an; j , , , . - . lonm ..., lor immortality. You will accomp

tn-iient svmptnm in levers, would it,ii,i i .,i-i,.... nu... i any me to the place olmv execution.

liaiiiitirii.iiiii'iiiiiiiiif iiriiiiitiir i J 7

iiiiiVnur a dvifuv en,, rnn fpllrhp ' a!1d when I am dead, take me & bj

A London paper asserts tl

Moore was offered a guinea a line to write for the Keepsake, but could not spare time from his other enirae. ments. Poetry worth a guinea a line should be printed in gold. Disgraceful Procedure. We an; informed by a gentleman from Hartford. Conn, that on the evening of Thursday, January 8, the effigy of Gen. Jackson was burnt publicly at that place. What adds to the disgrace of the persons concerned, is that the news of Mrs. Jackson's death, arrived there, a few hours previous to the commission of the outrage. The contempt and abhorrence of all men pretending to decency, will rest on the perpetr ators of this act. That such scenes should occur in the "land of steady habits," is indeed wonderful. O Connecticut, Connecticut!

Shame on thy degenerate sons ! Albany Advertiser. It is said, as a credit for Georgia females, that of the only two senten

ced to the penitentiary during eleven years, one was afterwards found to

be entirely innocent, and the other, only a participatcr with her husband in the crime of forging small change bill.7. Our young men in search of wives had belter look thatwa' for mates. Huston Ihdlelin. An Irishman who had blistered his lingers by endeavoring to draw on a pair of new boots, exclaimed, " by Jasus, 1 belave I shall never get them on untel I wear them a day or two'

be proper to increase the congestion towards the head by hot applications exter nallv anil internal stimuli ? Ocr-

fa'ndv not ! T'ds would he medical i

fren.w We equalise the system by ahstiMctinii morbid action from the had by blisters, antiphlogistics, &c. W'oy not act towards the liver in a -.-miiar way ? These few prelimina y oher ations will force upon the v t! r conclusion, that if the morbid a-'tion could be abstracted from ihe lie ind ils functions regulated, i'd bill iv: r vmptoms in fever would

nursing a tlvmir son. can fe the

lover ran tell -but best he who seesl'T nic by the side of your niother."J

f H I . . . . ..I. I I'll I i-.i

eternity before him, himself on the 1 lK OUIM. ncrc ms tners

neck "Uli. my lather! my lather!

veriic.

other friends retiring, this

friend advancing, taking him by the hand, and pointing out to him the

gates ot Paradise. " Unfading Hope ! when life's last oijucrsbuni, When musI U hc ul, ami dust to dust'ren n, l'hen s'a.iU thy triuinph, and t!iv tr.ainre ben, And all the plus nix spirit burn within.'.' Murder of Colonel Ilayne After the city of Charleston had fallen into the hands of Lord Cornwallis, his ' 1 "? - '

t(ir

I will die with you!" Col. Ilayne would have returned the strong cmbrace of Ins son, but alas! his hands

were confined with irons. uLivA" not to remember them.

said he, ;miy son, live to honor Gocl) When honor becomes mercenary

by a good lite; live to serve yourfmoney w ill become honorable.

PIlOrnnns.A fool's tongue h long enough to cut his throat. A hand saw is a good thing, but not to shave with. A good servant, always makes a good master. A handful of common sense, i worth a bushel of learning. A bad workman, has to quarrel with his tools. A wild goose, never laid a tame

The best remedy for injuiies, is

country; & live to take care of your brother and little sisters'" The next morning col. Ilayne was conducted to the place of execution. Uis son

Worth in base minds, bejzets envv;

in great souls, emulation. Wolves may loose their teeth, but not their nature.

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