Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 February 1829 — Page 2

The Genius of Death, is beautifully represented in the Gem. as Winged Hoy, his weeping eves covered with his left arm, ?c trailing a torch reversed in the ripjt hand. The style t the ilh'trationby the Uev. (i.C.mly. resembles one of our Elizabethan puct and befits the deu, being one of giMrc, not iloom, and of tenderness, rather tlnn of terror. L'-ndon Lit. Cuiz. What is death? ' Tis to he free ! No more tohnc, or hope, or fearTo jm the givat equality : All alike are humbled there! The mighty j;rae Wraps lord and blave; Nor pride nor poverty dares come Within that refuge home, the tomb: Spirit with the drooping wint;, And the ever weeping eye, T!ri of all earth's kings art king1 Empires at thv footstool he Ucne.ith thee strewM Their multitude Snk like waves upon ihe shore; Storm shall never lcuiie. them more ! What's the rvandeur of tho earth, To the sr.u.di.ur routu! thy throne? Riches j;lory, be auty, hnth, To thy kingdom all have gone;

Before thee stand The wond'rous hand; R.irds, heroes, s.iges, Av ,y side, WhodarkenV nativ.r.s ivu they died ' Earth has hosts, lint thou canst show Man a million for her one; Through thv gates the mortal flow lias tor countless years i v il'd on; Hack from the tomb Nu ste p has rxmr; There bx'd till the last thunder's sound Shall bid thy prisoners he unbound 1 THE M VI UIMONl . RULE, Iincribcu in the Album of a oung lady on the eve of Marri oe. Tis morning ! o'er the new waked earth The rv;-i ';s brightest radi-mce flings, And nongh' s leard save sohivE of mirth, And all around with gladness rings. Anon light clouds begin to ri-e, While eddying breezes sweep along; Dark, and more d uk. they v il the skies, And storm -wiridi drown the voice c;f song. So, lady, do we of' n see The morn of matrimonial life, All smiles, all j.iv, all gaiety. Its noon obscured by feudj and strife. But would you know a charm of power To assure the sunshine of the heait, To break the tcmp-sts that will lower, To blunt the point of discord's dart

Br ah, and forum u ! no wiser given Than this short rule, which, practised Makes marriage e'en oik earth a heav'n; Neglected turns it to a hell.

VAliUSTY.

well, F.S.

AN EtiAY ON BILIOUS FEVER AND CAEOMEf .. By Anthony llunn, M. CIF D. No. II. That a continuation of drastic purges, especially ot calnmrl (the Hector of the present medical Troy) will in every instance throw the liver into a marbid action, almost convulsion, by which bile is secreted in an rnnrmous quantity & of a most dele tetious quality. I am assured by long experience. Any person may con vince himself" of it. if he will give, or lake every thtec hours three grains of calomel. The first day natural bile, tkt! next brown, the next green the next bile like pitch or tar, will be discharged On the first day a distress ri - inn sensation about the stomach and

the fourth day he treated with a glass

of wine at his breakfast ; at the same

time pointing with tears in his eyes at the newly heaved graves near his - a A a

garden. A very worthy brother

physician observed to mc at that time, in objection to my theory, that the

bile, if not discharged, must enter in

to the blood & produce tinth us fever;

I answered how was that possible, when there was no bile created to be

absorbed? Besides in all my cases

not the least tinge of yellow on the

skin, no bitter taste ; not the least

mark of bile was discovered from the

beginning to the end of the fever What becomes then of the bile if ab sorbed ? It must have got spiritual ised and vanished like a ghost ! a

nother very rich and intelligent old

gentleman near Stanford, called on

me for his ladv who was sick witl

the 4 bilious fever." as he would have it. I promised him. smiling, that he

should not cee one drop of bile thr

ough the whole process of the fever, and that hi? lady should nevertheless

net well, lie shook his head doubt-

ingly. I kept my word, but he per

sisted in sav ino, that still it would

have been better to eairy off the bile (where there was none!!) A regi

ment of fiends are ea-ier to conquei

than one single prejudice

Modern cookery, the excessive use of spirits, cordials and fc hitters and in the western states, in Kentucky particularly, t he enoimous use of animal food ; to which I may per haps, and justly add, of "corn bread," or maise keep the livers of the pies ent generation in a chronic state of morbid excitement and of course debility. Hence the almost universal picvalencc of dispepsia, apepa. indigestion, and all kinds of liver complaints. It to this general predisposition towards hepatic, disorders a fever supervenes w e must expect the liver and stomach they being the weakest parts,) ea? ly and principally to be affected. An unequallity will be protluceed. greatly, to the detrim ent of the liver, (weakenened as it was before.) 6c which calls pressingly upon the attention of the physician But what is to be done? Physiology certainly tells, what is the matter There is fever with an enormous

it may be said, that man is the

manifest thought of God, and that

the universe is his imagination ren

dered sensible. Those who have ad

mitted the beauty of nature as a proof of a superior intelligence, should have

remarked a circumstance, which pro

digiously aggrandizes the sphere of

miracles. It is. that movement and repose, darkness Sl light, the seasons the march of the stars, the various decorations of the world, are successive only in appearance, and in reality arc permanent. The scene, which is effaced for us, is repainted for another people. It is not the spectacle but. only the special or. who hath changed.

God hath known a way. in which to

morbidity of the liver and stomach, which throws the former into a con vulsive oscillation, causing that vital viscus to bear an unequal & danger ous share of the febrile action. Can we remove the cause by adding to it? Is fire to be quenched with tar? Is the morbid excitement of the liver to be soothed by calomel, which we know produces the very czcHment we wish to allay! livery intelligent man, physician or not, must at once see the impropriet y of Mich a practice. If would he like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

liver will be felt, which increases every day ; a general morbid action (fever) will ensue, and I believe the patient will die. if the course is persisted in. precisely in the same manner.

astlncwho(heina;;(erer, a j have diseased livers; not so with it is called. Eight or ten years those that feed on small grain, slop or fr:vcr with -black -tools' 'was epi de-! -over. In Europe, where they never

., and the number of deaths tr.m i on maise. puddings ot nogs liver

The liver, stomach, pancreas, mesentery and bow els of a hog have

a striking resemblance to those of man All the hos fattened on maise

they would open to view the abyss of eternity. But such spectacles will never terrify men, before that day, when God. quitting the reins, wiil need no other means of destroyir the system, than to abandon it to itself. Q Ch alauh ria 1 d. The following short and beautiful quotation is from the pages of the ele

gant, the benevolent, the inspired Mackenzie. Speaking of those who profess a dii-beliefin religion, he expresses himself in the following heart touching manner: "He who would undermine the foundations upon which the fabric of our future hopes is reared seeks to

unite absolute progiessive : duration j bcat down lhat column w hich supin his work. The first is placed inil)0,t thc feebleness of humanity :

time: the second in snace. T5v the I lct 111,11 1,1,1 a moment, anu ms

former, the beauties of the universe are one. infinite, always the same

By the oilier they are multiplied, finished and renewed. Without the one, there would have been no arandeur in the ei cation Without the other it wotdd have been all monotony. In this way, time appeals to us in a new relation. The leasr o! its fractions becomes a complete w hole, which comprehends every thing and in which all things are modified, from the death of an insect to the birth o a world. Kverv minute is in itself a little eternity. ii g together, then, in thought, the niot heaotilul accidents of nature. Suppose that you sec, at the same time, the horns of day and all the seasons; a morning of spiing and a morning of autumn ; a night bespangled with stars, and a night covered with clouds: meadows enamelled with floweis, and foiests robbed ot their foliage by storms ; plains cover

ed with springing corn. & gilded with

harvest You will then have a just idea of the universe Is it not astonishing, that while you admire thc sun sinking under thc arches of the w est, another beholder observes him springing from thc regions nf the morning By w hat inconceivable magic is it, that this ancient luminary that i eposes, burning and fatigued in the dust of the evening, is the same youthful planet that awakens, humid with dew under the whitening cm tains of the dawn ? At every moment in the day the sun is rising in the zenith 8f setting in some portion of the world: or rather, our senses mock u-; and there is truly neither east, nor meridian nor we&t. Can we conceive what would be the spectacle of nature if it w ere ab

andoned to simple movements of matter? The clouds obeying the laws of gravity, would fall perpendicularly on the earth, or would mount in pyramids into thc upper regions of the air. nit- i r. . t if

i ue moment aucr. me air would i

become too gross, or too much rari

lied tor the organs of

heart will arrest the cruelty of hii

s purpose would he pluck its liitlc

treasure irom the bosom of poverty ? Would he wrest its crutch from the hand of age, and icmove from the eye of aflliction the only solace of its woe ? The way we tread is rugged, at bet ; we tread it, however, lighter

j by the prospect -f the better country j to w hich, we trust, it will lead. Tell j us not it w ill end in the gulf of eteru-

ai UI2SUIUI.UN. or ureak on m some wild, wliieii fancy may fill up as she pleases, but reason is unable to delineate; quench not that beam, which anmU the night of this evil world, has cheered the despondency of ill requited w orth, and illumined the daikness of suffering" A Trading Animal. Some one, we forget whom, has defined man to be a trading animal," and to illustrate his definition, says that one dog docs not bargain with another for a bone. This may be very true, but nevertheless docs not prove that dogs i. e. your well informed sort ot dogs are not trading animals. On the contrary, every body knows that a dog wags his tail for that is in consideration of a bone. Is not this bargaining, after the mannner of men? The human animal, when he wants an office, flatters the people, or lawns upon those in power, and expects the office in consideration of his spaniel like behaviour. To be sure the dog and the man work with difIcrent ends; the dog wags his (ail for a bone, the man wags his (ongue for an office. They are then both 1 trading animals." and the definition of cur philosopher if it prove any thing either proves a dog to be a man, or a man to be a dog Which horn of the dilemma would the fawning office seeker prefer?

SWAIM'S PANACEA. Doctor E.'Mc.NAMBFJT

y 5 ii'ixu t'LLi miorms Uic pus:

tiat he lias accented the agency ot tne proprietor Mr. li':: ;r.f.v,uf Philadelphia, for the sale of Ids truly celebrated i;,v.-;c,

lespiration. j for Uiis Male, and the slate ol Illinoh This

The moon, too near, or distant from ' MC(!lcl- recommended for the cure of

UK'

t was alarming; from what I cov( cam they were all treated with calo nel from all my patients at that time, ind which amounted to more than 100. not a spoon ful of bile was dis:harged, and 1 believe they all got vi II. I gave, not one grain of calonel, nor en v kind of pur ge whatever, wotdd mention names if the eii cum-ta-ices were not notorious in the Vieighboih od of Danville. A very cspectahle and honorable gentleman who had buried ev era I of his ehildien by the - black stool fever." sent for me w hen he was on thc eve of his exit by the same malady ; he was restored speedily by nothing but setting out the calomel, by cordial?, restoratives.

is a delicious morcel, when in Ken

tueky.it is justly detested Maise appears to me to possess, besides its nutritive quality, which certainly is great, a power to stimulate the l vc r in a specific manner; besides that it must be eaten hot w hich circumstance

itself greatly debilitates the digestive powers. General Spectacle of The Universe. ' There is a God. The grass of the vuHey & the cedars of the mountain bless him. Thc insect hums his praises. The elephant salutes him at the dawn of day. The bird sings for him under the foliage. Thunder displays his pow er, & the ocean declares his immensity.

us, would be at one time invisible. &' at another would show herself all bloody. covered w ith enormousspots, or lilling with her extended orb all: the celestial dome. As if possessed;

with some wild vagary, she would

sciiofl'La, or the

king's evil, ulcers, R II E U M ATISM, SV T It 1 Li -TIC, MERCCHXAL Uhd LIVER COMPLAINTS.

And n; est Diseast s anting in dt bditatcd can ttitutiens. or frzm an imhure str.tr oft.:

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0(1, o c. o c.

either move upon the line of thc cclip- j several highly respectable physicians S: tic, or, changing hei side, would at ! su,'&s r He cities of New Yc ik ar d philength discover to us a face, which ! fP1' 'sc 'cccn.mcnd-uot.s a,cl'lIIr .. 0 , . . ' 1 ded upon their own experience in lib usdui-

Doctor Mc.XAMEE continues to

stars wotdd show themselves stricken j kep a Kcrcral asso.tmcr.t officsh with the same vertigo, and would! Druggs and Medicines, henceforward become a collection of far sale at hb Aro i hecaui-'s Siork- in actct rifie conjunctions. On a sudden, d!ti.OI) to wMcharc tLc folio.-.ini; pi.a-i.t M the constellation of summer would ; Tjianr Posters far Horse, be destroyed by that of w inter. Patent Horse Poudcrs, for Coughs, Boole. Would lead the Pleiades; and, Fever and Ague Powder., ihe lyon w otdd roar in Aquarius (I:ch 0intmct:t HVrw Ta ltc &c. There the stars w ould tleet away V.n.cnnc,, 1 323. w ith thc rapiuiiy of lightning. IIctc lorJ -ti.ues , , , J ? 1 e j to aid Doctor McNan.ec m the above huiithey W OUld hang motionless. Some- j ness, and in the piacticc of PhyHc cr.d Sur. times crowding into groups, they !.?ryle resides on second street, in u,w ould form a new milky way. A j housc occ"Pct-b' lhe late a. u. c. zua gain disappearing altogether, & rend- i 77!! Yt UT V mf 6 P ?' hc P 1 Al 0 0 r .. n,i- ttt -ound at the Apothecary Store. M-. lUg aSSUUder thc CUrtain Of Worlds,; ket street, cn not otherwise engage! ' '