Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 4, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 March 1829 — Page 4

"I'OKTICAL ASYLUM.

RELIGION. Like snow that fall where waters glide, Earth's pleasures fade away; They rest on time's resistless tide, And cold are while they stay. But joys thit from religion flow, Like stars that gild the night, Amid the darkest loom of wo, Shine forth with sweetest lhrht. HcU riou's rays no cloud ohscurc but o'er the Christian's soul It sheds a radiance calm and pure. Though tempests round him roll. His heart may break 'neath sorrows stroke, But to its latest thrill, Like dhunons shining when they're broke, That day will light it still. Froin the Aesv-England Palladium. :iUS. ADAMS WELCOME TO GEN. JACKSON. A welcome, Chieftain, to these halls ' The doors are opening joyously And loud the voice of millions calls Thee to thy glorious destiny: A welcome, Patriot, to this dome, Whore care, before thee long a guest, Hath made these marble walls its home, And broke the hours of balmy rest. Come on Fame's sounding pinion borne, Thy guardian eagle's sun bright wing, With laurels thou hast justly won Come to a nation's welcoming, And let the star--own banner wave OYrhim of Orleans, sternly good, Who sent the Lion to his grave, Where Mississippi rolls its Hood. 'Tis meet for thee to stand where first Immortal WASHINGTON arose His brow still dark with battle dust, And vengeance to his country's foes But where is she the better one On whom to lean thy weary head, When toils and council cares have done, And thou lt bought a quiet bed? I'nle pale is glory's coronet, Wlun she, the lo'd one, cold in death, Hath seen the earth's bright sunbeams set, And drawn, in other worlds, her breath! Ah, Chkiiain ! here thy banner clings In sadness round the standard spear Nor gixes its empire drapery wings To gdd a world's wide atmo.ipherc. THE SCOLD IMITATED FROM BHRMI. To dine on devils without drinking, To want a seat when almost sinking, To pay to-day receive to-morrow, To sit at feasts in silent sorrow, To sweat in winter in the boot, To feel t he gravel cut one's foot. Or a cursed ilea within the stocking, Chase up and down are very shocking, With one hand dirty, one hand clean, Or with one slipper to be seen: To be detained, when most in hurry, Might put ( rise-Ida in a flurry, But those, and every other bore, If to the list you add a score, Are not so bad, upon my life, As that one scourge a scolding wife!

Poetical Albiun.

l.cvi'.'s ruiLosniMiY Ihj Percy Ji. Shell. The fountains mingle 'with the river, And the river with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet commotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In die another's being mingle Why not 1 with thine? fee the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another ' !o leaf or tlower would be forgiven, It" it disdained to his its brother; Aral the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moon beams kiss the sea; What are nil these kisses worth, - If th. a ki- not me?

Trcvi the

rxiusnsreeruiniy tor tuel)octor a

consummation devoutly to be wished" But there is a heavy drawback

on our joy, which the fable of the

boys and the frogs" so ingeniously

portrays ; 44 what is joy to you is death

to us" said Ihe expiring frogs. I ex

pect to show to my impartial reader, that the present calomel practice in fevers, is a calamity in its ravages coextensive with the empire ofciviliza tion, and that war, with all its ghastly concomitants, must hail calomel their master.

The propei effects of mercury

on

Is there any of my readers who would not by this time pray; "deliver us from calomel?" Yes my fellow citizens, you can be, the world will be delivered from it! Only drive away prejudice, that black thundercloud, which ever hovers over truth : think for yourselves, free as republicans ever should think ; consult your precious healths and lives. Every free man should, at least to a certain degree, be his own lawyer his own preacher, his own physician My method of cure in fev er is entirely without mercury & its doleful effects.

the human frame, are 1st. fever, as I , Were 1 even not more successful have before defined it. 2d. It is the j than those gentlemen of the medical

cause oi a peculiar acnon on trie symphatic vessels. 3d. It chymically decomposes the fluids Sc peculiarly the lympha. This is in my o pinion, the true cause of the fetid breath in salivation 4th. In constitutions prone to that effect or under circumstances favoiing it, or when too long used it produces mortifying; ulcers of a specific kind, which hitherto have proved absolute

ly incureable. Its accidental effects are, 1st. Salivation, which may also be produced by other drugs & sometimes appears spontaneously7, and

which is not at all necessary to effect

profession, who trust so much to the virtues of calomel, still the train would be immense: but from facts, enumerated fairly bv myself and

others, I ween I have nothing to fear

from an impartial comparison. From the JSexc York Enquirer. THE BIBLE - It is stated in the

a cure 2d. In a state of great vis

ceral irritability, or when given in

large doses, it proves a sickening and powerful purgative, with a singular

sympathetic affection of the liver,

which viscus is thereby thrown into

a morbid convulsive action, creating

bile, exorbitant in quantity and poisonous in quality ; when in a healthy

state the bilious secretion is mild.

moderate in quantity, and salutary.

Now, it appears to be a law in an-

imalisation, that two distinct fever causes cannot operate at the same

time on the system. Thus, for in

stance, if the infection of the measles

me with it, without knowing its value & I am now translating it into English, and it will be published shortly, with the Hebrew on one side and the English on the other, with notes critical and historical and what is rather extraordinary, I was this day busily engaged in translation, when a glance at your paper rivet ted my attention to this singular and unexpected paragraph, as I had made many previous inquiries concerning it. fu my literary friends, and they had never heard of its existence. The Book, it seems, has been preserved by the Jews in the East, and some few copies were printed in Poland twenty years ago. It is written in that plain and beautiful style that will sufficiently testify its great antiquity, and w hich is the chief cause of my publishing it, with the Hebrew text attached to it ; and how ever much i venerate the sacred scripture, and however infinite I con

sider the distance between this book

I i iirvltol-i r r- n,wp It i r I'npir tudinnrd nn 1 -I. 1 1

"B"3" I'i'tio mm imtKoinianu i lie inspired volume w men we

discovery has been made in Persia oi possess, I am still bold to declare that

iiic uook oi jasncr, mentioned in Joshua 10, which has been procured

its language is equally beautiful, and throughout, one hundrd and sixtv

lodges in the body, when a patient is ! Darius, permitting them to return to inoculated for the small pox, the lat- their native land, was so promptly ter will lay inactive, till the first has accepted, that many religious works

through its course. This law. I i were left behind. We have, at least.

eight or ten Books referred to in the Bible: "Book of the Acts of Solomon," 'Book of the Chronicles ol the Kings of Judah ""Book of bam uel the Seer' 'Book of Nathan the Prophet," "Book of Gad the Seer," "The Visions of Iddo the Seer," "Book of Shemiah the Prophet," "Book of John " The recovery of these books would throw great light upon many important facts, and explain points upon which there exists the most contradictory opinions.

i e shall doubtless find many of

gant.

at a very great expense having been j pages it keeps up the same chaste, ele-

preserveo in tnat country since trie return of the Jews from the Babylon ish captivity. It is in this book where we shall find the particulars of commanding the sun to stand still upon Gipeon. There are many interesting biblical discoveries yet to be made, and it is evident that they will be made in Persia, for the Jews, after their seven ty years'captivity, left several of their sacred books in Persia, which no doubt were preserved by that portion of their brethren who were centent with the administration of Cyrus. &. preferred remaining in Babylon ; in fact, the permission granted by that

great monarch, and confirmed bv

VARIETY.

AN LSSAV ON BILIOUS FEVKll AND CALOMEL. By Anthony llunn, M. Cli I). No. III.

This is the aci a of calomel. The

run

apprehend, has first introduced Mer

cury into the fever practice, and it is

a fact, that if the proper Mercurial action can be produced, the fever

produced by a miasma will speedily

cease, jjut my reader win please to

observe, 1st. that in all fever cases it is extremely precarious and doubtful

to produce this proper Mercurial ac tion, and there are many cases, in

which it cannot be induced at all. Besides that, when induced, it is un

manageable. 2d. If the bowels arc very irritable and weak or in peculiar

habits.it will operate as a purge and

throw the liver into bile creatine

convulsions, like a blister plaster onPlace more likely than Ecbatana. the

the very liver. It will attract more ancient snusnan, me city in w men or less of the febrile impetus upon! the Jews enjoyed the greatest privilthat vital viscus, producing a danger- es after their escape from Haman ; 7 O P i . ..... i- ...

ous inequality, which is called -k bil- j una lve 11 usl t,uu lne discovery oi the ious fever." 3d. After a vast quanti (Book of Jasher may be followed by

ty of mercury has been introduced unremitting efforts to procure the

into thf cvstpm. ivhii'h fnr ivnnt. n f otuers.

the missing books in Persia, and no

sufficient excitability, has lain dorm

ant, if now, by a sudden increase of

present medical practice might well vi.:,i,;i:tv or lmm nlh,,r

dispense with every other drug be- known causcS) it evinces its presence tildes it. 1 own the calomel practice iF ..i:..,; ,u:c-;ii i, r

is hath cheap and easy to the physi- enormous & distressing. The teeth, cian ; lor the whole extent ol both ,ua i..i.i ,.,,,. r

theory and practice 13 give calomel, mnRt Sllu,rnnt:ai -ninvments hpmmn

if that will not help, give more calo-nrken 'u.,..c r.ii .

:ncl, anil il that agam proves abortive worse stj U)c and lowcr ;an, double, treble tnc doses of calomel ln,Kpvfi;,l.,,imtn1,umi,Piim

If the patient recovers, " calomel has

cured him : si he dies, "nothing on

earth could have saved him." The

reader will conclude, that medical sc hools & academies, with the headaching studies of Anatomy, Physiology, Botany. Pharmacology, Chymistry, ha e been laid prostrate by this giant, calomel. Haifa day's, nay, in a genius, half an hour's study will initiate anv ladv or gentleman in all

as I have witnessed in the form of horse shoes ; parts of the tongue and palate are frequently lost & the poor object of commiseration lingers out a doleful existence, during life. A tremendous description this, indeed yet this happens when Mercury performs a cure. In our summer it fall fever the pestilential bilious sym ptoms occasioned or aggravated by it,

carry the patient speedily offin inex-

the mysteries ol the .'Lsculap.an art )ressible torments, & spread the mul

and the "aurca proxis" might swell

the account ot a modern Gallenus to ?100 at the expense of 12 1-2 cents.

tiplied miasma among the mourning family, the umveary by-standers and nurses !

From the London Courier. THE BOOR OF JASHER.

Sir : Having seen in your paper ol the Sth inst. A paragraph extracted from the Bristol Gazette, announcing that an important and interesting discovery in biblical literature has been recently obtained, which will excite the attention of the christian and man of letters, viz : the Book of Jasher, mentioned in Joshua, chap 10, and 2 Samuel, chap 1, and that it was procured at an immense expense by Alcurin, the most eminent man of his time, from the city of Gazan, in

Persia, I beg leave to inform you. for the satisfaction of those biblical students who may read your paper, whether Jews or Christians, that I

am in possession of the Book of

Jasher in the Hebrew language, which I did not procure at an immense expense, but accident threw it in my way in meeting with an Isra elite from Barbary, who presented

historical style as that much

admired pait of scripture the history of Joseph. Ft commences with the creation of man. containing very copious accounts of Jew ish records, not at all mentioned in the scripture, and reaches as far as Joshua. The two places in scripture w herein the book of Jasher is mentioned, arc beautifully cleared up throughout this book, paiticulai ly that in 2 Samuel, chap. 1, v. xviii. ' Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow, behold it is written in the book of Jasher." It also elucidates many other parts of scripture, and w ill set right some of the most perplexing parts of chronology. But I do not suppose that it has came down to us as pure as the sac

red volumes & I have not the least doubt that some few parts of it are of a later date than thebodv of thebook,

nuteven ttiese comparatively modern parts bespeak antiquity of upwards

of tw o thousand years. I have already translated one half of the book,

having been encouraged to the task

by some Christian friends, who possessed a fervent zeal for the House of

Israel, and an attachment to Hebrew literature. When I return to Liverpool, which will be shortly, I shall issue forth the prospectus of the work & it will be published by subscrplion. I should therefore be glad to hear something more about the copy Alcurn obtained, and whether it be in the Persian or Hebrew language. Respectfully your's. M SAMUEL, Of 101. St- James' street, Liverpool.

1S0 man is obliged to think beyond his capacity, and we never transgress the bounds of good sense, but when we aim to go beyond it. The name of an author ought, to be the last

thing we inquire into, when we judge of the merit of an ingenious composition; but, contrary to this maxim, sve generally judge of the merits of the book bv the author, instead of

judging of the author by the book.

He who can find in hii heart to rally, in merry mood, the disappointed, the afflicted, Sc the bereaved, betrays a vulgar and coarse mind; it proves him a demon of malignity. If hc does it, in the expectation of rousinoand cheering the subject of his opera tions, he exposes his own grovellin" views and benumbed sensibilities' that could dream of drawing consolation from such pitiful sources, either for himself or friends. Maxims. Diseases arc the inter, est of pleasure. The timid and weak, are the most revengeful and implacable.