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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1843)
f you have now, and the thing’s settled.’ ‘l’ll let you sec for yourself,’ said the f widow Stokes, and taking att ear of corn 5 out of a crack between the logs of the ca bin, and shelling off a handful, she com s inenced scattering the grain, all the while ’ screaming, or rather screeching ‘chick— , chick—chick—chick-ee—chick-ec-ce? Here they came, rooster and lions and pul lets and little chickens ; crowing, cackling chirping; flying and fluttering over beds, chairs, and tables ; alighting on the old wo man’s head and shoulders, fluttering a gainst her sides, pecking at Iter hands, and creating a din and confusion altogether in describable. Tito old lady seemed deligh ted, thus to exhibit her feathered “stock,” and would occasionally exclaim, “a nice passel ain’t they ; a nice passel!” But she never would say what they were worth ; no persuasion could bring her to the point ; und our papers at Washington contain no estimate of the value of the widow Stokes’ poultry, though as she said herself she had ‘a mighty nice passel.’ • From, the Macon Messenger. ANCIENT REMAINS. Last week we mentioned that an entire tree had been dug up on tile Central Rail Road, which was embedded in the earth, thirty-four feet below the surface. Since that time two others have been found at a bout the same depth, within a few yards of the first. One of them was a tree of largo size, and when found was near two feet in diameter, All are of the same kyid of wood which, seems to be wild poplar, and the sur face of them more 01 less charred. But tile most singular matter connected with them is thnt two of them were incrusted with rock, and part of the other with a thin outer surface of rock, and within that, one composed of metal, some of which common iron ore, but principally it is of a bright ap pearance and in the form of chrystals from the smallest size to that of a pea. These often cover a considerable surface, and pre sent a very beautiful appearance. Also the same metalic substance is dispersed through the crevices of the log in various forms, suiting the cavities, in some it isquite hard, and in others the substance is soft and appears to be in a state of formation. The metal &c. has not yet been examined by a competent scientific professor, but it is be lieved to be the sulphate ofiron, and readi ly dissolves in sulphuric acid. We regret the absence of of Professor Darby from the city, or we might be enabled to give more satisfactory information respecting it. Spe cimens however, will be deposited where they may be preserved for the gratification of the curious. The place where these remains are found is half a mile East of this city, a few yards from the base of the large mound. The ground, is high and dry ; and has all the regular strata of sand, gravel, clay, &c. usually found in the vicinity. There is not the least appearance, or even the prac ticability of the soil having accumulated at the place to any extent. We will leave it to those more competent to suggest by what means or when the depositos were made.— They furnish an abundant field for specu lation, but nothing to our mind for any sat isfactory conclusions. INDIAN JUSTICE. The Dubuque (Iowa) Express says; “We have been informed by a gentleman recent ly from the Indian country, that two mur ders of a most unatural kind were recently perpetrated. The circumstances were these: An Indian woman, on some slight provoca tion, seized her brother a boy of ten or twelve years of age, and stabbed him with a knife so severely that he died during the day.— Her husband, known in his tribe as Black Wolf, and another Indian, the Prophet, took the woman out of her lodge, and beat her to death witli their war-clubs. The cheifs of the tribe held a council, and, after some deliberation, they acquitted Black Wolf and the Prophet of all censure. Heavy Men —The largest person ever known in Ireland, with perhaps the excep tion of Phi!. (i Macoule,the celebrated Irish giant, was Roger Byrne, who resided in Ossory and was buried on the 13th of May 1787 in the church yard of Roscnnallis, in Queen’s county. The coffin and its contents weighed five hundred and seventy eight pounds. It was borne on a very long bier by thirty strong nten, who were relieved at intervals. Roger Byrne died of no other disease than suffocation, occasioned by a su perabundance of fat, which stopped the play of his lungs, and put a period to his life in the 54th year of his age. He was one hun dred pounds heavier than the noted Bright, of Malden, in England, who weighed four hundred and sixty pounds—and within the circumference of whose waistcoat seven of the largest men in that town could be inclo sed without constraint, and one hundred and eighty pounds lighter than Daniel Lam bert, who died in 1809, and weighed seven hundred and thirty-nine pounds ! We believe that the heaviest man ever known in New England was Caleb Towle, an industrious, wealthy, and respectable citizen of Centre Harbor, New Hampshire, who died in 1833, from an extraordinary increase of flesh. Though short of five feet ten inches high, he weighed five hundred and fifteen pounds !—Boston Journal. Singular Marriage. —A circumstance of some novelty in the annals of matrimony occurred a short time sicce at a village near Bangor, State of Maine ; it was the union of two couple, whose previous rela tive connexion was such as to produce con sequences, in the sequel of a most extraor dinary and ludicrous description. An old man of the name of Uriah Sale, aged 76, appeared at the altar with a girl of seven, teen as his intended bride ; whilst her sis ter, two years older, was led thither by the grandson of Sale, age 19. The curious re sults of these alliances are as follows: The old man recognizes a brother in his grandson, and a sister in his wife, his spouse must submit (bow much soever a gains! her inclination,) to the venerable e pithet of grandmother from her eldest sis ter? and the young man may address the damsel of 17 ns his grandmother or sister at pleasure, while his wife may claim as her just right, by reason of maturer age, the submission of her sister, or to be called upon to exercise all the respoctful docility of a grand daughter towards her. Anecdote of Washington. —At the com mencementofthe Revolutionary War,there lived ut East Windsor, in this State, a far mer of the name of Jacob Munsell, aged 45 years. After the communication by water between this part of the country and Boston was interrupted by the possession of Boston Harbor, by the British fleet, Munsell was often employed to transport provisions by land, to our army lying in the neighbor hood of Boston. In the summer of 1775, while thus employed, he arrived within a few miles of the camp, at Cambridge, with a large load, drawn by a stout ox team. — In a part of the road, which was somewhat rough, and where the travelled pathway I was narrow, he met two carriages, in each [of which was an American General Offi cer. The officer in the forward carriage, when near to Munsell, put his head out of the window, and called to him in an author itive tone —“ Damn you get out of the path.” Munsell immediately retorted— “damn you, I wont get out of the path, get out yourself.” After some other vain attempts to prevail on Munsell to turn out, the officer’s carriage turned out, and Munsell kept the path.— The other carriage immediately came up, having been within hearing distance of what had passed ; and the officer within it put his head out of the window, and said to Munsell —“My friend, the road is bad. and it is very difficult for me to turn out; will you be so good as to turn out and let me pass ?” ‘With all my heart, sir,’ said Mun sell ; ‘but I wont be damned out of the path by man.’ This last officer was General Washington. The writer of the foregoing, article, ha ving heard the story at the time of the trans action, inquired of Munsell soon after the close ofthe war, as to the truth of it. He said it was true exactly. His word wasen tirely to be relied upon. Hartford Ccurant. What’s in a Name. —A raw Irishman, in the employ of our friend Fenimore Cooper, at Cooperstown, was sent by him a few days since to the post-office for letters. On receiving those for Mr. Cooper, he enquired if there were any letters for the ‘ jintleman who was staying at the hall, Mr. Brickbat.’ The postmaster, after looking carefully through, said that there none, and asked Pat if he was certain that was the name? Pat protested vehemently that it certainly was, as he was charged particularly to re collect it. A friend of Mr. Cooper’s, pass ing the office at the moment, the postmaster inquired of him what gentlemen were visit ing Mr. Cooper ? lie replied that he knew of no one except Capt. Shubriek. “ Och !” cried Pat, “ that's the name , but faith didn’t I come near it though ?” N. Y. Tribune. SAYINGS OF A PRINTER. The man who stops a newspaper because he is going to get married, pays a poor compliment to his intended, and probably expects to have no children to learn to read. The man who patronizes a foreign paper in preference to one of his own coun ty, should be made to pay double for adver tisements, necessary to be published in the county and not to be allowed the privilege, inserting either obituary, or marriage no tices, without paying for them as advertise ments; besides he should be excluded from all posts of trust, profit or honor. The man who takes a paper from year to year without paying any thing on his | subscription, ought to come to a crust of bread, and be obliged to pick his teeth with a hobnail, that he may know how good it feels for a printer to make himself poor by paying out every dollar he can raise, for paper, ink, and labor, for the benefit and gratification of : ome 5 or 600 gentlemen, who pay him in “patronage,” to wit: such patronage as taking a paper year after year without ever paying a farthing for it. The ma. who attempts to tuu for an of fice without taking a county paper, should be struck with the string-halt, ring-bone and spavin, all at once, if there be no other w’ay to beat him! The man who orders a paper discontinu ed without paying up is an unrelieved sneak and ought to be set afloat in the Leckawax en on an unpealed saw log, and landed on the Jersey side ofthe Delaware. The man who takes a paper and pays for it in advance, or which is well enough, within the year, is a gentleman and a good citizen in every sense of those terms, and deserves well of his country. Toadyism. —Modern fashionable society finds it convenient to have whimsical soft ened names fora number of things which good nature and the subdued tone of polite life forbid to be spoken of in the plain speech used by our ancestors. The kind of person whom Horace and Juvenal would have de scribed as a servile parisite, is now, there fore, delicately hinted at by the appellation of a toad-eater. An anecdote is told as to the origin of the term. A great personage, wishing to get quit of a troublesome hanger on, caused a dish of toads to be served up one day instead of a dish of fish. The in tention was seen; but the dependant knew too well the value of the connexion which he had established, to take the hint. He partook of the toads with all the appear ance of relish, never letting it be presumed that he thought them any thing but good fish. Thereafter any one who was content to live on the bounty of another, at the ex pence of a few occasional insults, was said to eat that persons toads; to be, in short, a toad-eater. The story, it must owned, reads a good deal like some of the ancient fables which are told as to the origins of things ; but however this may be, certain ly for the last fifty years, the mean-spirited dependant of the great who clings where he is hardly welcome, and endeavours to re pay worthless favours by worthless obse quiousness, lias been called a toad-eater. THE TRUE SUBLIME. The admirers of Ossian will find some thing to their taste, in the following extract from the Alabama Tribune : “ the great champion ofourcauso its only living impersonation —the • cast i ron’ image ofitsown indomitable courage and undying patriotism. We think we see him now—rising at one time like a mighty exhalation from the universal mind of the age—at another, standing like a giant be tween the hosts that muster for battle, and with outstretched arms beckoning them on on both sides to the contest.” That’s what the Tribune says of Mr. Calhoun, and we have never come across any thing so sublime since, in our juvenile days, we read Byron’s “Calmar and Orla” a story of two cloud-riding, fog-inhabiting heroes who never breathed freely except in a mist. Read: “He looks down from the eddying tem pests, he rolls his form in the whirl-wind, and hovers on the blast of the mountain.” That’s the Hon. Mr. Calmar. He’s hard to beat, himself, an’the? But here’s anoth er ‘ wusser nor him ’ a fellow that can bridle a hurricane or ride a fog or any other “ex halation” with any of them. Go it Orla ! “What form rises on the roar of clouds, whose dark ghost gleams on the red streams of tempests? His voice rolls on thunder! ’Tis Orla; the brown chief of Oithona.” Barring the improbability of a ‘cast-iron’ exhalation ever making any considerable figure as an aeronaut, we think the Trib une’s metaphor quite poetical and consid erably sublime. East Alabamian. THE YANKEE IN MAIN STREET. “ I calculate I couldn’t drive a trade with you to-day,” said a true specimen of the Yankee pedlar, as he stood at the door of a merchant in Maine-street. “ I calculate you calculate about right, for you cannot,” was the sneering reply. “ Wall, I guess you needn’t get huffy a bout it. Now here’s a dozen real genuine razor strops, worth two dollars and a half —you may have ’em for two dollars.” “ I tell you I don’t want any of your trash ; so you had better be going.” “ Wal now, I declare! I’ll bet you five dollars if you make me an offer for them are strops, we’ll have a trade yet.” “ Done,” replied the merchant, placing the money in the hands of a bystander.— The Yankee deposited the little sum, when the merchant offered him a picayune for the strops. “ They’re yourn,” said the Yankee, as l:e quietly fobbed the stakes. “But,” he added, with great apparent honesty, “ I cal culate a joke’s a joke, and if you don’t want them strops, I’ll trade back.” The merchant’s countenance brightened. “You ar not so bad a chap, after all; here are your strops, give me the money.” “ There it is,” said the Yankee, as he received the strops and passed over the pic ayune. “ A trade’s a trade—and now you are wide awake, in airnest, I guess the next time you trade with that are pic, you’ll do a little better than to buy razor strops.” And away walked the pedlar with his strops and wager, amid the shouts of the laughing crowd.— St. Louis Ariel. ANECDOTE. The following anecdote is related in the Evangelical Magazine: “ An African preacher, speaking from ‘What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?’ men tioned that among other things, many lost their souls by beiug too charitable ! See ing the congregation astonished beyond measure at his saying it, he emphatically repeated it, and then proceeded to explain his meaning. ‘ Many people,’said he, ‘attend meeting, hear the sermon, and when it is ovr-r. they proceed to divide it out among the congre gation, that part for that man, and that part for that woman, and such denunciation were for such persons ; these threats for you sinners—and so,’ continued the shrewd African, they give away the whole sermon and keep none for themselves. Hint to the Fair Sex. —We understand that the unmarried gentlemen of Northum berland have resolved to form themselves into an Association, to be denominated the “Shirt and Pie Club,” the principal object of which is to insure suitable wives. To effect this, each member is bound under the penalty of £SO not to marry any lady, who cannot by two credible witness, be proved to be able to cut out and sew a shirt, make a pie, and darn a pair of stockings ; and he must, within six months after his marriage, under a similar penalty, be able to estab lish that his lady has made at least a dozeu of shirts, baked a dozen of pies, and darned a dozen pair of stockings. The idea has been borrowed from a club in the south, where the scheme has been eminently suc cessful, as the ladies, seeing that what in modern parlance are usually denominated accomplishments, were at a discount, turn ed their attention to what was really use ful, and were, consequently, rewarded with good husbands. A Locofoco paper says, “ the snow has been falling upon the Whig party in Indi ana”—to which a Whig jourpal replies, “so it has; but beware ! when that snow melteth, then will come a flood, that will sweep before it every trace of Locofocoism. There was a similar Whig snow storm in 1839 ; but in 1840 the flood followed, and so it wiH again. Boston Atlas. I advise you to put your head into a dye tub, said a joker to a sandy-haired girl, for it is rather red. I advise you to put yours into an oven, for it is rather soft, was the prompt reply. The rich and poor have one day of e quality— at the ballot-boxes. From the Georgia Journal. IMPORTANT TRIAL IN BALDWIN SUPERIOR COURT, BEFORE IHS HON. JUDGE CONE. Chas. J. McDonald, Governor &c. vs. > Debt. John W. A. Sandford, and others, y This was an action brought on the Bond ofthe late Thomas Haynes, for the faithful performance of his duties as Treasurer of the State. The action was against his securities a lone, and the breach of the bond assigned was, that the late Treasurer had received when in life, and whilst he was exercising the office and discharging the duties of Treasurer aforesaid, a large amount of money belonging to the State of Georgia, and for which he had not accounted and which lie had appropriated anddisposed of to his own use. There was an irregularity as to the ser vice of Mr. Tennille, one ofthe defendants, which was waived by his counsel, at the ap pearanee Term ; and all the defendants ap peared and pleaded ; Ist, That they owed the plaintiff nothing on said bond, and se condly, That their principal, the said Thom as Manes, had kept and performed all the conditions of said bond. The plaintiffin support of his action, of fered in evidence, the bond executed by the Treasurer and the defendants as his secu rities. Defendant’s counsel objected to this bond on two grounds. Ist, That there is no law authorising such a bond to be taken. 2d, That admitting that there is a law authorising such bond to be taken by the Governor, that the bond presented is not ta ken in pursuance of law, but contains con ditions not authorised by law. The plaintiff read a resolution of the Le gislature of 1825, requiring the Treasurer to give bond and security’ in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office ; and it appeared that this was the on ly action of the Legislature upon this sub ject. The bond presented contained several conditions all of which however were such as it is the duty ofthe Treasurer to do and perform. The last condition was in sub stance the one prescribed by the resolution ofthe Legislature. The Court decided first, that the bond was good at common law, inasmuch as there was nothing illegal, immoral or against public policy, in any of its conditions, but that on the contrary, public policy loudly demanded the giving of such a bond by the Treasurer. Secondly, that the bond was good, as a bond taken under the resolution of 1825—that the provisions of that resolu tion in relation to the condition of the Treas urer’s bond had been substantially com plied with in the bond under consideration, that the conditions of the bond objected to were nothing more than an enumeration of the seperate duties of the Treasurer—that they were all included under the general condition, for the faithful performance of the duties of Mr. Haynes as Treasurer— that the insertion of these enumerating con ditions imposed no other or greater respon sibility upon the defendants than would have been imposed provided said conditions had not been inserted in the bond ; and that therefore they did not vitiate the bond. The Court further decided, that admit ting there were some conditions in the bond not authorised by lay, and others that were in accordance with law, that the whole bond was not, thereby, vitiated, but that the bond was void only as to the illegal condi tions, and good as to such as were legal.— The bond was therefore ordered to go in e vidence to the jury. The plaintiffs next offered in evidence a printed document purporting to be the re port ofthe Treasurer, to the Legislature, for the political year 1841 ; plaintiff pro ved that the original report sent by the Treasurer to the Legislature for the year 1841 was in print, and that the document offered was a duplicate original of that re. port and a correct copy. Defendant’s counsel insisted, that an ex modification, under the hand and seal of he proper officer, who had the custody of the records of the reports of the Secretary, was the highest and best evidence. The Court decided that there was no law of the State, requiring the reports of the Secreta ry of the Tretsury to be recorded ; and of course such evidence as was required by defendants, did not and could not exist— that the original was not within the control of the Court, and that therefore, a dupli cate original or an examined copy was the best evidence. Defendents then objected to the report going in evidence, on the ground that it was made before the creation of the bond, and at a time when there was no privity between them and Mr. Haynes. The Court deci ded, that the report could not be given in evidence for the purpose of proving at what time the defalcation of Mr. Haynes took place, but that it must be admitted as pri ma facia evidence of the situation of the Treasury at the time the report was made, and of the amount of money then in the hands of the Treasurer, leaving it to defen dants, ifthey thought proper to show that, the report was not correct. Plaintiff then offered in evidence the Books of the Treasury Department as kept by the late Treasurer, for the purpose of shewing the state of accounts between him and the State of Georgia, from the time of his report to the time of his death. Defen dants objected on tjie ground that exempli fications of the books under the hand, and seal of the Treasurer, were the highest and best evidence. The Court overruled the objection and allowed the books to be gi ven in evidence. The books of the Comp troller General’s office, were then offered in evidence, and received without objec tion ; and after offering testimony as to the amount of money found in the Treasury immediately after the death of the Treas urer, the plaintiff closed his case. Defendants then introduced the books of the Comptroller General’s office, and also the original warrants drawn on the Treus. ury Department, during a portion of the time for which Mr. Haynes was Treasur er; the defendants further introduced the evidence for the purpose of showing that the defalcation accrued previous to the time of the execution of the bond upon which the defendants were securities, and then closed their cese. The Court after recapitulating the testi mony, charged the jury, that when a pub lie officer who has charge of money belong ing the State, makes a defalcation, those who are his securities for his faithful discharge ofthe duties of his office at the time the de falcation is discovered, are prima facia lia ble for such defalcation but it is competent for them to show that the defalcation did not take place during the time of their securi tvship, but at a previous period. In the case under consideration, the money in the hands of Mr. Haynes, at the time of his re election, and at the time of the execution of the bond under consideration was not coun ted, so that it is impossible to say from any positive testimony, whether the defalcation took place previous or subsequent to the ex ecution to this bond. If the jury believed from the evidence produced, that the defen dants had successfully rebutted the pri sumption arising from the fact ofthe default being discovered during the time of their securityship, and had satisfied their minds that the default did not occur during the pe riod of their securityship but a previous pe riod, they would find for the defendants, but if in'theiropinion the presumption had not been rebetted, in that event they would find for the plaintiff, the amount of the de falcation as proven, which was about $19,- 000. . The jury found for the defendants. Counsel for Plaintiff. —A. H. Reese, Sol. General, M. 11. McAlister, Savannah, Col. F. 11. Sanford, Milledgeville. For Defendants. —Col. Seaborn Jones, Columbus, Messrs. Harris & Day, Baldwin, Wm. Y. liansell, “ Wm. H. Rockwell, “ Who oppose the Tariff. —In the Tariff controversy in this country, says the Phila delphia Independent, on what side do the British Government, British nobility, Brit ish manufacturers range themselves?— Why. truly, on the side with our Locofocos. Like them, they are in favor of destroying our manufactures-—like them, they are d:s posed to transfer all our workshops and our mechanics to England, to build up aristoc racy, nobility and monopoly, and to crush the rising greatness of this republic ! Eve ry word uttered by our Locofocos in favor of destroying our manufactures, and build ing up the manufactures of England on their ruins, is merely an echo of the argu. men?s of the British Government, on the same subject. From the Baltimore American. The Charleston Mercury expresses its “ deliberate conviction” that Mr. Van Bu rdn cannot be elected against Mr. Clay ; that every vote cast against him in 1840 would be cast against him again, for that he “ is just as odious now to the majority which put him down in 1840, as he was then.” The Mercury further declares: “ There is scarcely a Southern Slate which Mr. Clay could not carry against Mr. Van Buren.” The downfall of the ex-Presi dent is ascribed to his own “ want of man liness and elevation in statemanship, and the utter unpopularity of the men he brought about him as his confidential advisers.” Perhaps the destructive tendency of Mr. Van Buren’s political principles and policy had something to do with his overthrow. The country had suffered enough from his •injudicious measures to render him and his system alike obnoxious. But with regard to the Mercury’s declar ations and predictions as to the result of an other contest, with Mr. Van Buren in the field, they are founded we believe on an accurate perception of facts. His friends however seem to take a different view of the matter altogether. They regard Mr. Van Buren’s defeat in 1840 as the result of fraud and of popular debauchery ; they do not scruple to charge the grossest corrup- 1 tion not only upon the Whigs, but also up on those of their own ranks who were sedu ced from their party allegiance; and they esteem the general intelligence and virtue of the people so lightly as to affirm that mul titudes of them were induced to abandon their principles by means of hard cider, log cabin processions, the arruy of coon-skins, songs, and “ ravings called speeches.” To those who think thus, Mr. Van Buren’s de feat in 1840 now appears in the light of & martyrdom ; he must be elected because he has been defeated, in order that democracy may triumph in a transcendental point of view. We have no objection— not the slightest, —to pul the question on this issue. Let it be determined by the next contest whether the revolution of 1840 shall be made good, or be stigmatised as an outbreak of popular insanity. Let those who think that Mr. Van Buren has not had justice done him at the hands of the People, prepare to see the full measure awarded to him next year, and to that end let them make him the can didate of their parly. Cast Iron Buildings. —ln illustration of the fact mentioned in one of the recent let ters of Gutzlaff, that the construction of moveable cast iron buildings, whose inven tion, reputed of modern origin, has been ac credited *to English science and skill, was practiced ages ago bv the ingenious natives of China, that eminent missionary describes a pagoda which he visited, near the town of Tsing-Kiang-Fou, in the province of Kiang-N'au, built entirely of cast iron„cov. ered with basreliefs and inscriptions, whose dates and style of character refer back to the epoch of the dynasty of'Eang, who fil led the throne sometime during the fifth or sixth century of the Christian era. The monument is, therefore, upwards of twelve hundred years old. It presents the form of an octagonal pyramid, forty feet in height, and eight feet in diameter at the base. It consists of seven stories, on each of which are traced some very curious historical re presentations. The edifice is allcdgcd to be of extraordinary elegance, surpassing every thing of the kind which the writer had beforu seen in China. *■ SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. A bale of Co*ton, which had been long stored in a warehouse in this town, was last week removed to the Koukflsh Factory, and being temporarily exposed to the sun, be fore packing away in the Cotton shed, soon look fire, and would have been consumed but for the prompt discovery. It seems it had imbibed a portion of Linseed Oil whilst in the warehouse, and the action of the hot sun at once kindled a (lame from the two substances. Since this occurrence, it has been recol lected, that some hales of cotton which had been packed in a wagon with bacon, were deposited in the large warehouse in’ this town, which was destroyed by fire on the night of the 6th ult. It is thought quite possible, and indeed probable, that this fire, which may have arisen from the oil of the bacon penetrating the cotton. We learn that the waste from one of the Factories in this place, which is regularly removed from the mill every night, and de posited in a remote place, is consumed by spontaneous combustion as often as the heap becomes large enough to imbide the neces sary degree of heat. Too much care cannot betaken to avoid saturating cotton or wool withany oily sub stance.—Fayetlville Observer, 20tji inst. A story is told of a preacher who always borrowed a five dollar hill on Saturday night, anti teturned the identical bill on the Monday following. He was asked by his friend the reason why he borrowed and in variably returned the same bill. “My dear sir,” said he, “ 1 can preach a great deal hetter when I have in my possession a little worldy independence.” C O M MUN I CATION. FOR THE NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. Congestive Fever. This disease generally makes its appear ance amongst us during the months of Sep tember and October, and because it is so often fatal, always produces great terror. Many persons are alarmed on account of it when there is not the least danger; after mistaking (because of the appearance of some unusual symptom,) the bilious fever or a common case of fever and a'Nie, (or Congestive fever ; and the consequence is, the families and friends of sick persons, ex perience unnecessary anxiety and distress. In order to remove this groundless alarm, the following short description is given : The Congestive Fever is sometimes an unfavorable turn in the symptoms of the bilious type ; but the disease is frequently congestive from the beginning. The dis tinguishing symptoms are, constant coldness of the extremities, with blueish nails, the surface of the body being hot; livid lips; i embarrassed breathing; sense of weight at the prmcordia, or region of the heart; con tinual efforts to vomit; severe cramps of the legs, and cold sweat about the face and neck. When the bilious fever assumes the congestive form, the change is very sudden. The patient left with a hot skin, frequent pulse and easy respiration, is, in a few hours after, found with a cold surface, pulse slow and feeble; or entirely gone, and diffi cult breathing. The danger is far greater when the congestion is a change in the bil ious type, than whet) it begins the attack ; in the one case it is occasioned by exhaus tion, in the other by depression of the vital powers. The above is a description of what is called by medical writers, an incomplete case of congestive fever, which is the kind that usually prevails in this country ; a complete case, that is one where the entire surface is cold, being rarely seen. The symptoms of this disease are produced, as the name indicates, by the congestion or ac cumulation of the blood iri the great cen tral organs ; and these symptoms vary ac cording to the part at which the congestion predominates. If the head be the seat of the congestion, it produces coma or stupor precisely similar to that witnessed in cases of apoplexy. If it should piedominate in the lungs and heart, difficulty of breathing, and embarrassment of the circulation are experienced. If the accumulation of blood should be greatest, in the abdomen, it pro duces vomiting and diarrhea, together with the other symptoms usually attendant upon Asiatic Cholera ; the two diseases in this case, being exactly identical. In common cases of chill and fever, it is usually the case that the fever immediate ly follows the chill ; but it sometimes hap pens, that the chill is greatly protracted, or to speak more accurately, the surface re mains cold after the chilly sensation has passed off. A patient in this situation would exhibit to the careless observer most of the symptoms characterizing a complete case of congestion. This state of things has often led ignorant Practitioners to pro nounce such cases congestive fever ; and accordingly they take to themselves credit for having cured this dangerous disease, which any old lady could do as well as they, by administering hot tea. LOBELIA. A Wilkes county, Sept. 30, 1843
