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EDITED AMD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
tUBBUO!! aV HIBBS.
It E «» O It T
Os the Pi\ Helen' and Directors of the East
Tenncsee and Georgia Rati Road Com
pan if to the Stockholders.
January 1, 1*49.
In conformity with the requirements of
the Sth apeti nos the charter of the com
pany, the president and directors submit
the following as their annual report.
Inasmuch as no annual report lias been
ma le to the stockholders for several years,
the directory have thought it proper to
embrace in this report the condition and
affairs of the company from the timeof the
se tiement of the suit of the State against
the company. In September, IS4G, that
suit was decided on compromise, and a
decree rendered by the Su reme court of
the State in accordance with the terms of
the compromise.
Measures were immediately taken to
revive and re-organise the company. In
November, I*lo, a few of the friends ol
the enterprise, among whom were some
of the old board, on consultation, suggest
ed and adopted a plan, which has ever
since been adhered to, for the settlement
and liquidation of the debts of the compa
ny. It lias been eminently successful in
its operations, and l>y it the company have
settled and discharged debts and liabili ies
of one kind or another, including princi
pal and interest, something over S2OO 000.
There yet remains of lixed debts and lia
bilities against the company, something
ovet' $30,000, to ho provided for and set
tled.
lit January, after the decision of the
suit,a hoard of directors was elected by
the* stockholders and appointed by the
Governor, and entered with energy on the
discharge of their duties. From lapse of
time and other causes, the affairs of the
company were found to be in ave y un
settled and unsatisfactory condition. It
was impossible, at that time, to ascertain
its true condition ; and it required much
time and labor to make out a satisfactory
s'atoment. This examination and these
labors wore, however, but preparatory.
If was known that the company was
largely in debt. To liquidate the debts,
and revive and re-organize die company,
so as to go on successfully with the work,
were the duties devolved upon the direc
tory. In looking to these objects, and en
deavoring to make headway, the directors
have been met with obstacles and difficul
ties properly appreciated only by those
who have known and considered them.—
To pay the debts, the only resource with
in their control was the sys cm of compro
mise adopted. To raise the means to pay
them in any other way was impossible,
unless coupled with some plan for the re
commencement of the work, by an issue
of news ock, or something else. And to
obtain new subscriptions of stock seemed
impossible, inasmuch as the work hereto
fore done had been at high prices, owing
to the then high prices of labor and sup
plies—the delays occasioned by the injunc
tion of the State, and the consequent loss
of materials, and the accumulation of in
terest and costs—all combined, had, in the
opinion of the community, increased the
expenditures greatly beyond the present
value of the work done: so that new sub
scribers wou’d not come into the compa
ny on an equal footing with tlie old ones.
Here was a difficulty which could not be
overcome without legislative aid. To ob
viate it, the legislature, at its last session
authorized the appointment of commision
ei's, two on the part of the State and two
on the part of the stockholders, to value
the work done on the road, in its present
condition, and to reduce the paid stock of
the company so as to conform to the
amount of their value. Messrs. Luke Lea
and David A. Dcadcrick were appointed
on the part of the State, and Messrs. John
Crawford and David Cleage on the part
of the Stockholders; who, having taken
upon them the duties of their appointment,
valued the work at $454,831, and reduced
the paid stock of the State to $2:24,500,
and that of the shareholders to $230,331 —
being just one half of the original amount
expended up to the Ist of April, 184S ; so
tint on the 4st of April, 1848, the value <>f
the work done, and the capital stock paid
in, are set down ns eqno] to the sum of
$154,831, and go into the present compa
ny at that sum. Hence the books, ac
counts and statements of the company will
be kept and made out in conformity with
said valuation and reduction. The report
of said commissioners is herewith exhibit
ed to the stockholders.
'J he scaling or reduction of the several
accounts of the individual shareholders is
not completed, there being yet some eight
or ten thousand dollars to be deducted
from the aggregate list of paid stock on
the Ist of April, 1818—the only difficulty
being how to make the reduction so as not
to leave fractional shares. It is believed,
however, that a mode may lie adopted
hereafter, that will obviate all difficulty
and be equitable and just between the
shareholders.
A statement accompanying and made
part of this report will show the present
condition of the general accounts of the
company.
All the old unpaid stock of the compa
ny has been declared forfeited, with the
fractional payments thereon, except in a
few cases where there are settlements to
be made with the shareholders. This
policy has been adopted as being absolute
ly necessary to clear the books of unavail
able stock—to preparo for a proper reor
ganization of the company, and to avoid
almost endless difficulties. It was judged
•worse than useless to hold on to unwilling
stockholders, and more especially so when
i‘ was known that suits for the recovery of
the instalments were barred by the stat- j
utes of our state. And as to all who were i
wiling to hold and pay their stock, it was •
believed they would prefer to come in un-1
der the new organization and take new
stock.
The obstacles that had stood in the way
of a successful re organization being prin
cipally removed, the directory were anx
ious to obtain new subscriptions of s'ock,
in amount sufficient to enable them to re
commence and progress with the work.-
The directory, therefore, appealed to the
citizens of East Tennessee, they being
most deeply interested, to come forward
and furnish the means for the cons'ruction
of the road. Efforts were also made else
where. Some success has attended these
efforts, and we believe that when the prop
er efforts are continued, the peopie will
find it to their interests to become identi
tied vvkh the work bv taking s'oek lib
erally; and that by their n : d and encour
agement the enterprise will he abundantly
successful.
In the meantime a proposition has been
made to, and accepted by the directory,
and a contract entered into with Gen.
Duff Green, for him*elf and others to be
associated with him, for the construction
and equipment of the entire road, from
the “Western and Atlantic” railroad of
Georgia to Knoxville. The contract is
herewith presented to'lie stockholders for
their information as to its terms and de
tails. It will readily he seen by an in
spection of the specifications and details,
that the road, when finished, furnished
and equipped, according to the contract,
will be one of the best in the union. It
will he permanent and durable, requiring
but small outlays in repairs—will be of
such a character as to save, in the work
ing of the road, large sums annually in
the wear and tear of machinery: conse
quently, will he more regular and certain
in its profits, and will pay better divi
dends to the shareholder? than any road
constructed on a lighter and less durable
plan. To adopt such a road in prefer
ence to one with only one-third or one
half of the quantity of iron, on a |
wooden superstructure—the pronosi'ion
or contract furnishing (he means for one
as easily ns for the other—the directory
could have no hesitancy. They adopted
the heavy rail—the durable road —and in
this, if in nothing else, they feel certain
they will be sustained by the opinions of
the shareholders. The road contracted
for is a heavy and costly one, and the
directors Igtve not hesitated to promise
a large sum for it: but in doing so they
have not exceeded the chartered means of
the company, nor have they contracted in
such a way as to involve the company in
difficulties and embarrassments, so as at
any time to lessen or retard its operations,
or to suspend or curtail the business or
usefulness of the road when completed.—
The debt to be created is in such form,
and on such time, as to he easily controll
ed at all times by the earnings of the r- ad;
or to ho funded and put in stock or some
other form, whenever the company may
desire it hereafter. In short, the directo
ry regard the contract, under all the cir
cumstances, as one very favorable to the
company. They also regard it. as a good
contract for the contractors, provided they
prosecute the work with energy and des
patch.
This coniract embraces the raising the greater
part of tlie necessary means, as well as doing
the work. It is two-fold in its object, and if it
can he carried out, is the very thing we needed.
The payments are to he made in state bonds,
$200,000; in the G per cent, bonds of the com
pany, at thirty years, $350,000 , in means to be
furnished by the shareholders in Tenuossee, as
the work progresses, $120,000; and in the shares
of the company as earned, $1,150,000. The
value of these means will depend upon circum
stances, and much upon their proper manage
ment by the company and the contractors. To
make them available, a large margin is given
to the contractors, as might have been expected
under circumstances. If with that margin they
can be made available and kept at something
like their nominal value, so much the better for
the state, the individual shareholders, the con
tractors aud the community in general. It is
the interest and duty of all parties, therefore, to
be united in this effort, and to work together.
Under such a contract the road can lie made,
and the directors confidently believe it will he
made—and if made, they are sure it will ho on
terms and under circumstanres that will confer
lasting benefits on ourseetion ofthe state. The
time for doubling and hesitating, we think, is
past. And we would say to each one who
would openly be a friend to the enterprise, to
be that friend now, for now is ths time of need.
It will he observed that the contract with Gen.
Green contemplates a subscription of $150,000
of stock in East Tennessee. But a small por
tion of that amount is yet taken. It is hoped
and believed, however, that during the construc
tion of the work the amount can ho raised and
made available to the contractors. The direc
tory earnestly request and urge every citizen
who wishes the speedy completion ofthe road,
and can take shares of stock, to do so immedi
ately. Agents arc now appointed and author
ized to receive subscriptions, arid it is under
stood they will make an effort to see what the
people will do so soon as the contractors arc
ready to place hands on the work at the lower
end of the line.
Looking to otir immediate connection with the
south ; a connection with the west at an early
day; and the rapid construction of a railroad
from Lynchburg, in Virginia, to the Tennessee
line, it is certain, beyond doubt, that our road,
when finished, will do a heavy and profitable
business, arid that it will pay good dividends to
the shareholders. We will not doubt therefore,
but that the citizens of East Tennessee, will in
good time fill up the subscription required of
them, and much more if it were needed.
After the subscription of the $150,000 is made,
there will still be oftheeapital ofthe company,
unsubscribed, the sum of $45,000, which is in
tended to bo used in liquidation of debt against
the company, or such other e.ontingi ncies as the
road may demand, land damages, &,c. The re
maining balance of debts against the company
must bo paid The means must in someway he
provided, and this balance ofstock is reserved as
one resource for their payment
The company have the right by authority of
their amended charter, and by grant from the
state of Georgia, to construct that portion of the
-oad lying within the limits of Georgia. The
directory have authorized and directed the sur
vcys of ihe different route* spoken of, so ns to ,
ascertain the proper point of intersection ivitli
the Western and Atlantic railroad of Georgia;
and the definite survey and location of the toad
on the route selected. These surveys are now j
being made hy Win. G. Bonner, Esq , engineer,
assisted bv .Mr Mortis and Mr. Cole; and it is
believed the points of intersection w ill he select
ed, and the definite location of that part of the
road completed within the present month. The
change of location at Cleveland is also partly sur
veyed—the practicability of the change ascer
tained—hut the location is not yet definitely
made.
All of which is respectfully reported.
A. D. KEYES, Pres't.
From the Quincy Times.
So;i(hoi’!i Ili-cnri slit (Is.
Heretofore the Southern people have
greatly depended on the north and the
west, for their breadstuff's, as well as their
bacon, their horses and mules. Thous
ands— indeed we may sav millions have
annually been sent out of the southern
states for the purchase of articles which
could have more profitably been made at
home. The annual drain of money for
Flour, Buckwheat, Meat, and other arti
cles which they purchase from the nor h,
has been sufficient to keep the South
poor, notwithstanding the productions of
our soil, our kindly climate, or the en
terprise and industry of our. people.
We of the south have labored—have
exhausted the riches of a virgin soil—have
swept away our forests, borrowed from
our generous lands to the extent of their
capability of lending, and then we have
turned them out as old naked fields, to
be still further exhausted by the burning
rays of the sun And what has become
of the profits of all this labor, of all this
waste of the natural resources of the
country ?
It has all gone to enhance the more
systematic industry of the business man
of the nor h and the west. The western
horse driver has had his portion, the hog
driver has had his portion; the flour mer
chant, the bacon ami lard merchant, all
have had their share, and in many cases
nothing is left to the hard working plan
ter of the south.
Now this is no good cause of any un
kind feeling against ihe northern or wes
tern people ; if they have had the ad
dress to supply us with what we lacked
and found profit in so doing, it is cer
tainiy no fault of theirs. The mistake
lies with ourselves, in not p oducing all
those articles which ate required for home
consumption. To say that the people of
the south cannot raise horses, mules, and
hogs, sufficient for their own necessities,
is as much as to say that their lands
won’t grow corn—which we all know to
he untrue.
The truth is, the soutli has been kept
poor by unlhriftiness, by conceit rating
her whole energies upon one branch of
industry—the production of cotton. The
consequence has been, that when the sea
sons have been favorable, and the
price gone down The planter gets no
remunerating price for his labor; perhaps
lie is left in debt for the hoists, ands r
the bacon with which he fed his hands.
Well, is it any better for the planter when
ihe crop is scant, when the drought or
the caterpillar reduce the yield of his
lands, to the smallest amount—and the
price of cotton per consequence rates
high? High pi ices under such circum
stances do not briug the planter out of
debt.
The only effectual relief of the south
ern planter is, to enter upon a sy tern
for the production of all his necessaries
at. home. In the article of breadstuff's,
of ff ur alone—the people of the south
ern states, are still tributary to the north
in vast amounts. And there is no need
of this, the southern soil grows wheat
of the finest quality; southern industty
if properly directed, can convert it into
the finest (lour. Then why will the south
ern planter continue to labor in his cot
ton field, to grow cotton, to he sold for
p ices which they do not pay for the
food consumed by the hands which make
it, and the expenses of forwarding it to
market—to say nothing of the waste of
capital, and the waste of lands, tncurred
in the business ? There is something
wrong in this business.
Our neighbors in Georgia and South
Carolina are beginning to understand these
matters better, and have ceased to import
dour, to aver y great amount. The Geor
gia flour is equal to any manufactured
in any part of the world. The extensive
railroad enterprises which have been go
ing on in Georgia and South Carolina,
by bringing the producer and the consu
mer nearer to each other, have stimula
ted ag icultural industry in these states,
in a very great degree. The railroads
have opened to the inland planter an ea
sy channel of sending his produce to
market, which otherwise must have re
mained on his hands. When the Geor
gia and Florida Southwestern Railroad
from Macon to Pensacola, shall have been
completed, the people of this section of
country will he furnished with flour on
much better terms, from the interior of
Georgia, than they now obtain it via New
York or New Orleans. And what is bet
ter still, the money would be retained at
the South.
An 01. l writer thus describes a talkative female:
“I know a lady who talks so incessantly, that
she won’t give an echo fair play. She ha’s such
an everlasting rotation of tongue, that an echo
must wait till she dies, before it can catch her
last words.”
41 lion the Count do Grammart, of gallant
memory, was on his death-bed, his wife read to
him the Lord’s prayer; and when she had con
eluded, he asked lier to read it again, at the same
time inquiring by whom it was written.
A poor man once came to a miser and said,
“ I have a boon to ask.” “So have I,” said the
miser; “grant mine first, then will I comply
with thine." “Agreed.” “My request is,”
said the miser, “ that you ask tuc for nothing.”
From the Succnnah Republican.
Finances of Use Stale.
It lias been made the duty of the Gover
nor of the State, since the law went into
operation authorizing the Legislature to
convene only once in two years, to appoint
a Committee during the year that there is
no session, to examine into the condition
of our finances and to report upon the
same. The gentlemen appointed on this
Commit'ee for the year just passed were
G. 1). Phillips, Joint P. King, and W.
11. Mitchell. We learn from their Re
port, published in the Federal Union, that
on the 21st October. 1847, there was in
the Treasury a balance of $362,251 50
That there was received
into the Treasury from
the various sources of
revenue during the fis
cal year end ng the
20th Oct. 1848, the sum
of $367,585 60
Amounting,together with
the aforesaid balance, to $729,837 10
During the same fiscal
year there was paid out
of the Treasury $364,249 37
Leaving a balance of $365. 587 73
During the interval from
28th Oct., to the 28th
Nov., 1848,the receipts
and disbursements make
the balance on hand • $459,555 96
Os this amount there is
vnat al able the sum of $257,935 50
W iiiclt being deducted,
leaves of available as
ses $171,620 46
The Commi tee recommended that at
least SBO,OOO of the last mentioned sum he
appropriated to the bonds which were is
sued for the extension and completion oi
the Western Sc Atlantic Railroad, if it he
found that its completion will thereby be
expedit’d.
The Debt of the State is put down at
$1,903,472 22. During the last fiscal
year it was reduced $178,098 SS.
In reference to the Central Bank—the
Committee go on to the say :
“Without adverting to the state of ac
counts between the State and the Bank,
now generally well understood since the
Reports of Committees of 1546 and’47,
the Committee will proceed to shew, as
nearly as their examination of the Books,
papers, debts, and funds of the institu
tion, have enabled them to do, what are
the liabilities of the Hank, and its means
of meeting them.
LIABILITIES.
Outstanding 8 pr
cent Bonds, $266,693 80
Issue of 7 per ct
Bonds—Act of
1847, 214,000 00
Standing to cred
it of individuals, 33,190 9S
To Bk. State Ga, 20,987 53
To Bk.ofAugus a, 637 85
Bills in Circulat'd, 19,000 00
Amounting to $554,510 16
RESOURCES.
Cash balance
consid’d good, $66,329 *6O
Heal Estate, 500 00
Notes, Bills,
and Specie, 298,000 CO
Amounting to $364,829 60
W liich being deducted, leaves
adeficitcf $189,680 56
“This deficiency varies somewhat from
results arrived at by previous Committees;
and such must ever he the case, where es
timates are founded on data constan ly
changing. The conclusion, however, we
think a safe one, tha the ultimate deficit
of the Bank, will be from 175 to 195,000
do lars.”
The t tal amount of assets of the Peni
tentiary, including materials and munufu- -
tured articles on hand, is stated to be $56,-
705 77. Favorable mention is made of
the condition anti management of the Lu
natic Asylum. The average number of
inmates in the institution during the past
year was 89. The report con hides as
follows :
“As the Western & Atlantic Railroad
has become very intimately connected
with the financial interest of the State,
the Committee, at the suggestion of Your
Excellency, proceeded to inspect its con
dition, look into its management, and en
quire into the progress of the unfinished
work, in the hands of the Contractors.—
They take great pleasure in stating that
the finished Road is in excellent condition,
its management reduced to admirable sys
tern ; and all responsible officers seem to
apprec ate, properly, the responsibilities
of their position.
“The unfinished work is also progress
ing well. The difficulties encountered in
the tunnel, have been overcome, by the
ski 1 and energy of the Contractors, and if
not impeded by difficulties before alluded
to, the Committee believe, that the whole
work will bo finished to Chattanooga, be
fore the meeting of the next Legislature.
“The corttli ion and prospects of our
State, may well he envied among her sis
ters. No Sou hern State holds a position
so commanding, or presents stronger
claims upon the public faith. With light
taxation, increasing resources, and a great
internal improvement on the eve of com
pletion, ami worth much more than her en
tire debt, she has, and will continue to
have, a large annual surplus in the Treas
ury, which may he employed as a sinking
fund for the purchase and extinguished of
her debt long before its maturity.”
Sir William Draper claimed to he descended
from Pepin, the French Kins, and traced the ped
igree thus-.—Pepin, Pipkin, Napkin, Diaper,
Draper. |
Kcpart on Use Cholera.
The following Report of the Committee
appointed hy the Medical and Chirtirgical
Faculty of the State of Maryland, having
been made, and adopted hy the Faculty,
is now, in pursuance of a resolution of said
body, presented to the authorities of eaclt
city, town, and village in the State of’Ma
ryland.
In the opinion of the committee, so
clearly has it been ascertained that humid
ity, with impurity of the atmosphere, pow
erfully predisposes to the extension of the
poison of Cholera, that it is almost need
less for them to adduce acts to prove it.
The commit ee have concluded, howev
er, hat it would not he altogether inap
propriate to mention a few circumstances
connected with the subject, and have se
lected for their purpose some of the con
clusions arrived at by the Sanitory Com
missioners of Loudon.
After an investigation of the facts con
nected with die introduction and spread
of Asiatic cholera over Europe in 1832,
they make the following statement: —
“That, under proper circumstances of
cleanliness and ventilation, this disease
seldom spreads in families, and rarely
passes to those about the sick, under such
favorable circumstances, unless they hap
pen to he particularly predisposed. It
will not therefore, he necessary, where
there is space, and where due attention is
paid to cleanliness and purity of air, to
separate members of families ac ually af
fected bv the disease.”
After this statement, the commissioners
proceed to say, that their investigations
have conducted them to certain important
conclusions, some of which bear directly
upon the matter under consideration, and
will, therefore, be embodied in this re
port.
The first conclusion is, that the mode
of invasion of cholera in the various cities
of Europe has been everywhere st ikingly
uniform. It has almost always made its
first outbreak in the lowest and dampest
part of the city attacked. They verify
this statemen hy references to tit. Peters
burgh, Dantzic, Berlin, Mascott, Breslau,
Warsaw, Paris, Sunderland, Carli le,
Manchester, London, and England gene
rally. The commissioners remark, that it
is the combination of humidity with impu
rity of the atmosphere, which so powerful
ly predisposes to cholera; cleanliness seems
to he capable of counteracting the effect of
mere humidity ; the scrupulous cleanliness
of the inhabitants of Holland was probably
the cause of the comparative exemption
from cholera which that country enjoyed.
These statements are sustained by our
observation o the introduction and spread
of cholera in our city, and the cities gen
erally of tiro I’ni'ed States. In Boston,
where very extraordinary sani ory meas
ures were adopted, the disease did not
spread to the same extent, nor was it any
thing like so latal as in the other cities of
our country, where no such precautionary
steps were taken.
It has also been well established, that
wherever cholera finds the conditions of
increase, a very small amount of the poison
is sufficient to cause its rapid ox elision.
No better example of this fact can he pre
sented than that of certain regiments in
India, which were attacked at a certain
place, and continued to he a tacked during
their march through an affected district,
and at a period of time too rerao e to al
low us to a tribute it merely to an incuba
tive period unusually prolonged. An able
writer gives the following explanation of
these circumstances : YY herever the poi
son oi clto era meets with its conditions, it
will propagate itself; these conditions
seem to be furnished in a high degree by
ihe effluvia and emanations of camps, or
bodies of men ; the poison, once intro
duced amongst such a body, finds in the
moving camp the necessary conditions, as
easily, and as abundantly, as in the sta
tionary city. In this latter statement, the
committee cannot altogether agree with
the author; it may be true when applied
to some cities, but it certainly cannot be
true of many others, and especially of our
own at litis particular time.
The Sanitary Commissioners remark
further: that certain physical conditions
promote both the intensity and the exten
sion of cholera. These conditions may be
comprised iri impure and humid air, in
nutritious food, excess in ardent spirits,
tobacco, and fermented liquors; unsuita
ble or insufficient clothing, sometimes
ill-contrived dwellings, and defective ap
plinnees for the regulation of warmth, or
protection against cold.
In another report the Commissioners
make the following statement : The chol
era districts, the typhus distric s, and the
influenza districts, are the same ; and the
local conditions which favor the spread,
and increase the intensity oftbese, and all
kindred maladies, are everywhere similar.
Die proof of this is found in 'he fact, that
in the districts in which we have already
shown that cholera princi, ally prevailed,
and from which typhus is rarely, if ever,
absent, influenza was twice, and in some
instances four times, as fatal as in the
m ire salubrious parts of London.
Without troubling the authorities any
longer with these details, the committee
would respectfully suggest the following,
as the most expedient and effectual sani
tary measures which can (in their opinion)
he instituted,Mo mitigate the violence of
cholera in cities and towns.
They would recommend that steps be
immediately taken by the proper authori
ties of every city, town, abd village in the
State of Maryland, to cleanse and keep
clean every street, lane, alley, yard, privy,
cellar, or other place where filth may
have accumulated in their respective juris
dictions.
1 he more effectually to accomplish these
ends, they would suggest to such authori
ses die adoption of measures similar to
those instituted in Boston on the approach
of the cholera to this country in 1832, viz:
the dividing of the city or town into wards,
or districts ; to appoint, as a board of san
itary commissioners, three or fi e respon
sible individual.' from eaclt ward or dis
trict, whose duty' it shall be to visit and in
spect every house, yard, privy, cellar, &c.
in their respective districts, at lons' once
in two weeks. Should they ft any time,
o in any place, find impurities of any des
cription, which can be removed or cor
rected, they shall immediately order such
correction or removal; and upon a failure
to comply, within twenty foui boms after
such no ice has been given, they shall pio
ceed forthwith to have the impur ty re
moved or corrected at die ex ense of the
property owner. The c mmittee would
recommend, also, the appointment of a
number of physicians to aid the physicians
of the dispensaries, in attending upon the
poor of the city, when cholera shall make
its appearance amongst us.
To the citizens generally, the commit
tee would most earnestly recommend the
constant and rigid observance of the fol
lowing precepts, as die best means of
avoiding the cholera, or, if attacked, of
conducting the disease to a favorable ter
mination :
Ist. The da ly use of chloride of lime,
as one of the best disinfecting agents for
all damp or badly-ventilated places, priv
ies, See.
2d. The maintaining of a healthy per
spirable condition of the skin, by the reg
ular emp oyment of the tepid bath, or
sponging the person with tepid water, at
least once in two or three days; and the
preservation of a uniform warmth of the
surface, by changes of clothing to suit the
varia ions of temperature.
3d. To avoid sitting in damp, cold
apartments, or permitting wet clothing or
shoes to remain upon their persons.
4th. Tha intemperance in eating, and ink
ing the use of tobacco, or any other habit
calculated to depress the vita! powers,
should be most studiously avoided. The
diet should consist of plain articles of
food, without much variety; mutton, beef,
potatoes, car ots, rice, bread and te?, < of
fee or cocoa, sh uld constitute the regu
lar bil of fare. In the opinion of the
comm fee, the or excessive use '
of ardent spiii s or tobacco is decidedly
injurious and predisposing to cholera.
sth. That as tar as practicable the
bowels should be kept regular; if they
are unusually constipated, they should
he gen ly operated upon hy some mild
purgative, of which rhubarb is the best.
But on the contrary, if they should be
unusually loose, it becomes a matter of
grea importance, and must not l>e neg.
lected. The committee ate very desirous
of impressing the importance of attend
ing to the least disposition to diarrhea ; for
there is a ret tain period, in very many
instances, before the advent of cholera, jss
which the system is gradually approaching
the state favorable to such an attack
1 iiis period is denoted hy the occurrence
of diarrhoea; which at first amounts simp
ly tf> slight looseness of the bowels, but
which, if neglected, soon assumes the se
rous or rice-water character. Now, if
every individual, upon the first evidence
of this 10. seness, \vould resort to and
carry out the following measures, very
many lives would he saved 8o soon,
therefore, as looseness of the bowels is
discovered, call upon a physician; or if
one cannot be obtained, and the individ
ual is an adult, take a pill or powder
composed of pure sugar of lead, five gram ;
and powdered opium one sou th of a grain,
or a powder containing calomel five gi ains,
and half a grain of opium; arid in either
case repeat the dose evety hour or two,
until the bowels are checked - at the same
time keep perfectly quiet in bed, take
barley water as nourishment, and should
there he colicky j ains and cold feet, ap
ply a warm mustard poultice to the ab
domen, and bottles of hot water o. heat
ed bricks to the eet; but l>v all means,
and in every instance, endeavor to pro
cure a physician as soon as possible.
In conclusion, the committee would
suggest, and recommend the city author
i ies, to select an apothecary store in
each ward or district, at which there shall
he constantly kept on hand, ready pre
pared, die above and similar pills arid pow
ders for all poor persons who may call
for them, and that such apothecaries he
paid for the same hy the city.
All of which is most respectful'y sub
mitted.
E W. THEOBALD, M. D )
M. S. BAER, M. D. v Committee
JOHN I). REA DEL, M. D )
R. S. STEWART, M D , Pres. Med. and
Cliir. Faculty of Maryland.
W. 11. Davis, M. D., Rec. Sec. of Med. and
Cliir. Faculty of Maryland.
Is a tight place. —The New York Spirit
says that a well-known Greek, “ Major Duply,”
being asked as to the tightest place lie bad ever
got into, looked reflective, took a drink, and ie
plied as follows:
“ Well, the first time I went down South, go
ing from Natchez to Orleans, on the old Mo
selle, the same that’s bursled her biler sirce, I
coine across a rough, up-country sort of fellow
—a varmint-looking chap, from somewhere hack
of Memphis. I hadn’t been aboard long, before
he and me got yoked at a game of Twenty Deck,
and by- the time wo tied up at the Levee, in Or
leans, I'd got pretty much all he had, (about
four hundred dollars,) and had ’gin him a wrin
kle, in the gineral way, into the bargain. We
both stopped at the same house, in Camp street,
and the first night we got there, just after supper
my up-country friend beckoned me out of the
liar room, and, taking me some ways up a dark
alley that was next to the hotel, lie put his hand
to the hack of his neck, and drew an eighteen
inch howie—a perfect clear or. Gemini ! I thought
he was going to diyide me, and I sung out--
‘ Stranger, put up your scythe —how much do
you want ?’ Maybe I didn’t feel better when
lie broke ins mind to me, and I found out that
he wanted to 1 spout ’ his knife to me for a' 1 e,l »
to go to the Masquerade !”