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ICHROMCLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
J FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15.
The resolutions below were introduced into
the Senate of this State, by Mr Lewis, the Sen
ator from Muscogee. We have no Idea that it is
his desire that they should pass. If he docs de
sire it, he must cither lie reckless of the conse
quences which must ensue, or is blind to> them.
We think that no patriotic man in has proper
- senses, can desire such a state of things as would
inevitably follow the forfeiture of the charter of
every bank in the State which has suspended
Specie payments. A single glance is sufficient.
The aggregate capital stock of the banks which
have suspended, amounts to at least six millions
of dollars; their liabilities to the public for bills
issued and deposites, docs not probably exceed
one and a half millions. The whole capital stock
of these banks is loaned out, and exists' in the
•hope of debts due the banks from the people.—
Now if the charters of these banks be forfeited,
and they compelled to wind up their afiGuts, we
•hould like to know where the four and a half
millions are to be raised, to pay up the balance
that will be due to the stockholders from the
people! The effect upon the banks would only
bo to compel the stockholder to withdraw his
funds, and invest it in something else, while
..the effect upon the country by the withdrawal of
auch an immense amount from its business chan
nels, would be in the last degree ruinous. Bank
stock is not at present very profitable property,
and no man could feel himself much agrieved by
being compelled to call in the money he has thus
invested; but to the country it would be ruin and
desolation to be compelled to pay up to stock*
hd/ders the amount duo the banks. It may suit
the political demagogue who wishes to profit by
the prevailing prejudice against banks to rail
against those institutions; and it may suit the
miser who has hoarded up his thousands, to see
a depreciation in the value of property, lands
and negroes brought to the block without .the mo
ney in the country to make them bring half their
value; but those who are to be the victims—those
who are to be sacrificed, because they happen to
be in debt onc-third or one-fourth of the value of
their property, should that fearful time be forced
upon them, will raise a ery which will overwhelm
alike the one and the other.
Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.
The following are the preamble and resolu
tions introduced yesterday in the Senate by Mr.
Lewis of Muscogee :
Whereas, it is important that the Legislature
of this State should adopt some measure to pro
tect the interests of the people against the dan
gerous and extraordinary powers of the banks
heretofore chartered by the Legislative-;. and
whereas many of the banks of this State have
recently suspended specie payments, in direct
violation of their charters, which is calculated in
its consequences to set at defiance all legislative
authority and legal obligations; and whereas,
such acts on the part of the banks enable them to
have and exercise a decided advantage over the
people, and open wide, the door to. fraud and
speculation.
Be it therefore resolved, &c That his Excel
lency the Governor be, and he is hereby author
ised and required, to have writs of Scire Facias
issued against every bank in the Slate of Geor-
has violated its charter, either by sus
pCTision of specie payment or any other acts
herein prohibited by law, which may be made
known to his Excellency,
Be it further resolved, That his Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and re
quired. to employ council to be associated with
any of the Solicitor Generals of the Judicial Cir
cuits of the State in which any bank having vio
lated its charter may be located, for the purpose
of aiding such Solicitor General ia the investi
gation against such banks.
This morning at 10 o’clock, in accordance with
m resolution adopted yesterday, the General
Assembly proceeded to the election of slate
house officers. Before I bad to close this letter,
the following elections bad taken place: the
choice of a Surveyor General was going on:
Col. W. T. Tennille, the present incumbent,
was re-elected Secretary of State; Tennille, 213,
votes, Col. W. W. Williamson, 58, W. O. Lit
tle, 11, and scattering, 3.
Col. Thomas Haynes, the present incumbent
Was re-elected Treasurer—Haynes, IG4 votes.
Major John R. Anderson, 120, scattering 3.
Col. J. C. Park, the present incumbent, was
•re-elected Comptroller General—Park, 183, Mr.
Lewis of Hancock, 23, Mr. Mounger, 69, and
blanks S.
The following are, the Committees of the Sen
ate.
On the stale of the Repulse. —Messrs. Hen
ley, Kcnnon, Bates, Brown of Camden, Christian,
Mayo, Lawson, Philips, Smith of Coweta, Wil
son and Bivins.
On Finance. —Vlessrs. Beall, Gordon of Chat-
Sham, Branham, Bostwick, Porter of Greene, Cam
den. Dunagan. Vincent, Payne, Jenkins, Drane,
Johncon, and Robertson of Columbia.
On the Judiciary. —Messrs. Kelly, Alexander
Crane, Brown of Hancock, Williamson, Tracy,
Harris of Warren, Stanford, Miller, Lewis, Pry
or, and Philips. .
O/i Banks, —Messrs. Jourdyn, Springer, For
ter of Morgan, Smith ofTwiggs, Walthour, Wa
ters, Crane, Tracy, Bryant of Stewart, Baker,
and Scarlet.
\ On Internal Improvement. —Messrs. Gordon
of Chatham, Guess, Harris of Warren, Foster,
'jjorter of Morgan, Holmes, Miller, Baker, Huff,
•vtox, Green, and Smith of Jefferson.
. at Da* the Penitentiary, —Messrs. Bates, Beck,
%mev)n, Polk, Smith of Bryan, Williams,
‘Jjhitakar, Bradford, Cochrane, Morgan, Wright,
Cooper, Harris of Taliaferro.
On Printing. —Messrs. Lawson, Lovlecss,
Bryan of Morgan, Graham, Collins, Halloway,
Rawlinson, Scarborough, Morris, Neal, Knight,
Tatum, and M’Gar.
On Public Education and Free Schools. —
Messrs. Billups, Gordon of Jones, Stanford, Rob
ertson of Appling, Camden, Sloane, Jones, Ken
non. Waters, Porter of Green, Lewis and Frier.
On the Military. —Messrs. Williams, Cone,
Scarlet, Rutherford, Mayes, McDaniel, Creech,
Gordon of Jones, Warlhen, Bryant of Stewart,
and Heath.
A petition was presented this morning in the
Senate, praying the icpeal of the licence law, &c.
The petition was read, and the Senate ordered it
to lie oa the table the remainder of the session.
This- morning in the senate, Mr. Lewis, of
Muscogee, introduced a resolution, requiring the
G»vernor to onler scira facias to be issued against
all banks that have suspended specie payments,
or otherwise have violated their charters. One
hundred copieaof the resolution were ordered to
be printed.
Mr. Editor —Many citizens of tho upper
part of tho city desire to express in this public
manner, their thanks to Mr. John Casuim, and
Mr. Edmund Heauii, for their kindness anid con
stant attention to all tho sick within their reach
during the prevalence of the late Epidemic.
In behalf of many citizens.
Yours; TREVOR CAVIN.
The Charleston Courier, of yesterday says r
Our Consul for the city of Mexico, W. D. Jones,
Esq., arrived in this city on Monday last, and
left for Washington the same evening, in the
steamboat North Carolina. Mr. J. is the hearer
of despatches, from Powhatan Ellis; Esq., our
Mexican Minister, to government.
Mr. Jones leR Mexico on the 11th ult., and
sailed from Vera Cruz on the 16th, in the 11. S,
ship Warren, Capt. W. A. Spencer, arriving at
Pensacola on the sth inst. Tho Warren expe
rienced head winds during nearly the wliola voy
age.
The internal affairs of Mexico were in a tran
quil state. At Vera Cruzfl the Yellow Fever
still raged with unabated virulence —it is stated
that there were more than 400 cases in the Hos
pital.
From the Army and Navy Chronicle.
Florida War.
The season for active operations having re
turned, and the public mind, in the army as well
as out of it, being somewhat agitated by the con
tradictory nature of th« reports in, circulation, we
have made inquiry that we might inform our rea
ders what measures are contemplated in the ap
proaching campaign.
Gen. Taylor, by the zealous ami intelligent
discharge of his duties, having given satisfaction
to the department, will continue in command.
The troops now in Florida are the third regi
ment of artillery, a portion of the second dra
goons, the first, second, sixth and seventh regi
ment of infantry. The third artillery having
been much reduced will be sent to the North,
and be relieved* by the first artillery, which has
been recruited and is now lull. The companies
of the second dragoons that arrived at Now York
in the spring, being now full also, will return to
Florida ; and the regiments of infantry now there
will remain.
It is intended to drive the enemy out of the
settlements by occupying the country within and
north of a line drawn from Pilatka to the mouth
of the Withlacoochec, including Fort King,
thence along the western coast, to the Appalachi
cola; and by maintaining posts as low down as
the mouth of the The inhabi
tants will be armed, and the defence of their fire
sides and neighborhoods confided to them, with
such assistance from the regulars as occasion
may call for. The posts on tho Atlantic coast
and at Tampa Bay will be continued, with such
others as the commanding general may find ex
pedient.
Experience having mournfully proved the im
practicability of forcing the Indians from their
swamps and hammocks, so familiar to them but
inaccessible to us, no farther attempts will at pre
sent me made; leaving to> tunc and the gradual
spread of the settlements the accomplishment of
an object unattainable by arms.
The report so extensively circulated, of confer
ences between the Secratary of War and Major
Generals Macomb and Scott, arc entirely without
foundation; no such conferences have been held.
Equally unfounded is that of sending seven
thousand troops to Florida; if all of our regu
lars, now out of the territory, were taken from
their present stations, they would not amount to
the number named. The Northern, Northwest
ern and Southwestern frontiers are quite as much
exposed, and stand as much in need of defence,
as does the Territory of Florida. There has
been no design entertained heretofore of sending
the Bth infantry into Florida, its presence being
considered essential to the neutrality on the bor
ders of Canada. The fourth artillery wilLhestac
tioned between Cleveland, (Ohio,) and Fort Gra
tiot; and tho second artillery will be divided be
tween Fort Niagara and Buffalo.
It is believed that some additional small ves
sels will be built or purchased, and sent to the
coast of Florida, to prevent depredations by the
Indians upon wrecked vessels and their crews.
The approaching campaign then will partake
more of a defensive than offensive- character, as
it will be confined 1 to. driving the Indians from the
settled portions of Florida, where they have com
mitted depredations almost without check. It
having been found impossible to force the Indians
from their fastnesses, any farther attempt toaffcct
that object would only be attended with a need
less sacrifice of life and money.
1 ■“
•These remarks were prepared for the Chronicle
of October 24 ; but since they were written, infor
mation has been received which renders U inexpe
dient to withdraw the first artillery at present (rom
the Canada frontier. The third will remain in
Florida until the exigencies of the service at other
points will allow of its beingrslievedi
The Vermont House of Assembly has passed a
resolution condemning the sub-treasury, by a vote
of 115 to 107.
Special Election.—An election in Pcnn
' sylvania to supply the vacancy in Congress oc
casioned by the death of Mr. Potter, will be held
1 on the 20lh inst.
» .
As old Membeb.—Bennett Low, member of
the General Assembly of Rhode Island, from
’ Warwick, was a member of that body, at the
’ time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution;
’ he voted in favor of the adoption.
i Treasury Notes.—These securities were
. sold in Wall street at 99}. They will go less if'
. a decision made by the Collector, as stated in the
Courier, is adhered to. It appears that a number
• of merchants clubbed their bonds, amounting to
■ $11,453 82. For this, through an agent, they
• offered a Treasury note of SIO,OOO, the interest
■ on which was 2id 16. The Collector refused
> to receive the Treasury note, on account of or
■ ders received from the Secretary of the Treasury,
. “not to receive a Treasury note, unless the per
son offering it had an indebtedness equal to the
amount.” Clubbing then it appears won’t an
- swer, and' the consequence must be that the largo
Treasury notes will he drugs. It is rather a sin
gular decision of the Collectors, if ho has mode
it, and it would be quite as proper for him to re
fuse toreceive Treasury notes from a firm, unless
for tho share of each partner in the liability, a
Treasury note should he given, oF less amount
than. Ms individual indebtedness. The orders
are notto “cut up,” and therefore partners should
not lie allowed to “cut up” their liabilities by ma
king jointstock of them.— N. Y, Dispatch.
Cotton Market.—lt becomes our duty to
notice the downward tendency of prices. Advi
ces from Liverpool to the 28th of September, no
tice a decline there of } to jd—while the scarci
ty of money here, and the strengthened convic
tion of a large crop, operates against its l/eing ta
ken on speculation. From all we can learn, the
present crop will turn out larger than ever before
known. This is owing to the mild fall—frost
has kept off five weeks beyond the usual time—
the season has been. fa,vorah!e-for the opening and
picking out —anti none lias been lost by storms
or rains. An extentive rain even now, by des
troying much of tho unpicked cotton, would ma
terially affect the aggregate of the crop.
Receipts of cotton average 4 to 500 bags per
day. On one day last week, over a thousand
bags, were received. It is mostly stored. Prices
from wagons, 7 j a 8} cents.— Macon Telegraph
of the 12 th,
A suit recently brought in the District Court
of Philadelphia, for the recovery of SIO,OOO,
which sum was offered as a reward to the finder
of SIOO,OOO in post notes belonging to the Com
mercial Bank of Cincinnati, terminated against
the Bank. The jury found a verdict of SII,BOO
in favor of the plaintiff, which included the in
terest.
Beds, now such indispensable pieces of furni
ture-, were to the Greeks and Romans articles of
great luxury. When they exchanged the leaves
and skins of boosts, on which their heroic an
cestors reposed! for mattrasses and feather beds,
the bedsteads were made sometimes of ivory,
sometimes of ebony, sometimes of cedar, and
sometimes of silver. It would be difficult, now
a-days, in the middle ranks of life, to find beds
such as. our ancestors slept on, not only with
their wives and children, but with their dogs and
friends; an invitation to such n couch was then
considered the strongest proof of affection and
confidence that could be given.
We regret to learn that Mr. Welsh has met
with a severe loss in the death of his splendid
, Giraffe,one of the pair which he imported to this
country, at an enormous expense.— N. Y. Star.
'
i A Political Curiosity-.— The St. Louis
i- Bulletin brings to light the annexed extract of a
letter published in the Missouri Intelligencer of
i the 23d of October, 1824, under the proper sig
nature of (Job T. H. Benton. We heartily com
mend it to all the present admirers of tho Missou
ri Humbuggcr,
The principles which would govern Mr. Clay s
administration, if elected, are well known to the
nation. They have been displayed upon the floor
of Congress for the last seventeen years. They
constitute a system of American policy; based
on the Agriculture and manufactures of his own
country, —upon interior, as well os foreign Com
merce—upon internal, as well as sea-board im
provement —upon tho independence of the new
1 world, close commercial alliances with Mexico
and South America. If it is- said that others
■ would p nsue the same system, we answer that
the founder of the system is the natural execu
tor of his own work. That the most efficient
protector of American iron, lead, hemp, wool and
: cotton, would he the triumphant champion of the
new Tariff; the safest friend to interior com-
I merce would he the statesman who has proclaim
s ed the Mississippi to be the sea of the west —the
most zealous promoter of internal improvements,
’ would he the President, who has triumphed over
r tho President who opposed the construction of
1 national rords and canals—the most successful
• applicant for treaties with Mexico and South
1 America, would be the eloquent advocate of their
• own independence.
' THOMAS HART BENTON.
>
Aw.Eunoirx..-—The late Dr. Wilson, senior, fel
-1 low of the Trinity College, Dublin, though a
’ very grave man himself, was very fond of quiz
• zing the country people who came to inquire af
’ ter their friends or relations in the College. One
’ day seeiniga man standing in the court with a
letter in his hand, gaping and staring about, and
not knowing where to go, ho walked up gravely
to him, and inquired what he wanted.
The man answered 1 , “Sir, can you tell me
where I may find Mr. Uclahun 1”
[ “Yes,” said the Doctor; “Do you geo that
! building before you 1”
! “Yes.”
“Then crucify this quadrangle, and take the
3 diameter of the plat beyond it; enter the opening
5 before you and ascend the ligneous grades; then
3 turn to your left, and you find him either pori
‘ patounting in his cubicle, dorminating in his
lectury, or perscopounting through his fencs
t tra '”
The poor man, who.undcrslood nothing of this,
and remembered not one word hut the last, said,
“And pray, sir, what is a fenestra 1”
. To which the Doctor replied, “It is an orifice
[ in an edifice to admit luminous practicles.”
. “O, thank you,” said the poor fellow, and
i walked off more perplexed than before. Jour
i nal of Dr, Adam Clarke.
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[publisher Hr REQUEST.]
i Aii Plssay
i Delivered before the Medical Society of Savan
nah, November‘id, 1839.
BY C. A. WATKINS, Jf. D. A. B. A, M,
To the Editors and Medical Faculty of Savan-
J nab, Augusta, Charleston, Mobile, Fayetteville,
New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia—and ail
other unhappy cities of our common country,
ever ravaged by that scourge of mankind —Tho
f Yellow Fever ! 'The appearance in a late Geor
i gian of an extract from a Fayetteville Editorial
of the treatment of Yellow Fever, by large doses
1 of the Sulphate of Quinine in the first stage, in
duced the writer of this essay to offer to the pub-
lic through tho columns of a newspaper, some
facts of the same nature altogether corroborative
of that mode of practice in the last stage of Sa
vannah fevers, of the present season coming un
der his own personal observation. He will re
mark, however, before the introduction of the
case in point, that ho could cite them to ono hun
dred eases cured by himself in from five to nine
days by Quinine Sinapisms, Carpenters extract
of hark and vine, in good sound flesh and blood
by large doses of these drugs to suit the varying
symptoms ot each individual case of our fevers.
In confirmation of which practice the follow
ing singular case is presented in triumphant vin
dication ol its superiority over all other systems
of Therauuotics, hitherto known to mankimk.
I therefore beg leave to report, that Allied
Thompson, aged 25 years, a Rifleman of this
city, was very ill three weeks ago, seven days be
fore I saw him, having been treated a few days
by Dr. , up to tho morning of my first
visit.
He displayed at that time the following symp
toms and cadaverous appearances ! He was then
laboring under the effects of the past nights ex
acerbation of fever, usually occurring at eleven
P. M. His person and countenance as yellow ns
Kings Ochre; eyes pale—yellow, not jaundiced ;
tongue foul, dark, thickly furred except on tho
edges which were clean; oxtrcmctios cold and
clammy; pulse low and regular ns time itself;
mind wavering, vision obscure so as to recognise
no ono ; gums and sauces bleeding spontaneous
ly ; stomach and bowels spasmed 1 ; throughout
the whole alimentary canal, accompanied with
agonising pain in tho pit ofthestomach and con
stant retelling and vomiting of bile and blood ;
so restless and thirsty us not to he still a moment
in any position, and breathing distressed, aggra
vated by hiccough every minute! In fact many
of his friends who saw him that day reported
him dead and tho Rifle Company were actually
summoned to bury him the next morning.—
Treatment—according to Jus Mentis, ex-necessl
tale rei, i/uui nccesslas non habit Legem and
not Jus Authoritatis et Libri, for nothing at times
is more fallacious, or oftener like an ignis fatuus
beguile Physicians to tho sacrifice of their pa
tients. And we will reason and theorise after
wards, as, Horatio, there is more (thought) in
Heaven and Earth than was ever dreamed of in
our philosophy!
I (to use the first person to avoid mistakes, ns
I administer my own medicines.iu all severe ca
ses, and frequently retrieve my patients before an
apothecary could fill out my prescriptions being
the custom hero,) which saves time at least to
one whoso time appears to be growing short—ap
plied a mustard plaster to his epigastrium for half
an hour, not only to act revulsively by exciting
pains in a less vital part, but to subdue hepatic
and gastric irritation by equalizing tho- engorged
blood locked up in those organs, between them
and cutis vera, and thus by a new determination
to the inflamed capillary vessels of the skin, by
dividing the quantity, lessen thereby the mechan
ical pressure of tho blood upon the nerves of
those deep seated viscera and relieve their pain,
by preventing by arrest, not more than half of
the morbid quota of that fluid entering into and
passing through thesn in a given space of time
ns before. The effect of sinapism was magical
ly sedative and anodyne. I then gave a grain of
Opium mixed with ten grains of Camphor and
one grain 'Calomel, and ordered an enema of the
same with Assafcetida added. This was 10 A.
M. ol the Ist day—in two hours he was perfect
ly relieved from his distressing symptoms. At 2
P. M. when the peculiar nausea of the Calomel
had censed, and the healthy actions of the liver
returned, I gave him 4 grains of Quinine com
bined with a fourth of a drop of 01. black pepper
in pills per hour, till 11 P. M., making in all thir
ty-six grains iu nine hours, when an exacerbation
of his frightful distresses recurred. The tonic
pill was discontinued, the Calomel one gr. pill,
sinapism and anodyne enema rcadininistercd,
composure ensued as before, but when I saw him
next morning about seven, he exhibited much
nausea, rather a dusky and dry tongue, complain
ing of great heaviness, fullness,oppression in the
abdominal region and devoid both of sense and
sight. The nights paroxism had been nigh mor
tal, and the Camphor and Opium had increased
his previous lassitude and imbecility of mind and
body from an ideosynecracy repulsive to those,
otherwise mighty remedies. To counteract those
medicines was now the object and begin anew, or
he was gone. I reapplied the sinapism for tho
same period, and administered 15 grains of Musk
and 1 grain Calomel, which was rejected at once..
I repeated tho same dose as soon as the stomach
would allow, say in 15 minutes after the first was
vomited up. It was retained by compulsion, for
that was the moment ol his temporal salvation,
ami one hour after its inhibition, his intellect was
clear, sight restored, longue soft, his prominent
symptoms abated vastly, and'he conversed socia
bly with his anxious friends for even then “Ri
chard seemed almost himself again.”
The musk having fulfilled all my hopes, as I
had often proved it to be—mark, an antidote to
the morbid “modus operandi” or action of Cam
phor and Opium, as well as a splendid sedative,
anti-spasmodic and diffusible stimulant. At 9,
A. M. I removed the Quinine and 01. Piper Ni
grum per hour, till 10 P. M. I anticipated and
beat hack the paroxism, by Quinine continued,
aad another dose of musk, till 4 A. M.of the 3d
day, which was lighter and less annoying than
formerly. I saw him this day at 8 A. M., re
newed the sinapism, musk and 1 gr. Calomel,
and at the, expiration of 2. hours renewed .the
compound Quinine Pills throughout this day
and night—and on calling on him the 4th morn
ing, found him clear of fever, and comfortable
from a good night’s rest.
For the first three days, I granted the uncon
trolled use of ice and iced water, “to slake his dy
ing thirst” and drink his pills with—and on the
fourth and last day of my attendance, he was
permitted to “go ahead” on chicken broth and
oyster sauce—which proved equally as nulricious
to him as it would have been to the unfortunate
Crocket at tho Alamo, in his last extremity. On
the 6th he rode a mile in a gig, on the Bth eleven
miles, and now locornotes it everywhere at pleas
ure, and looks very well except for his Marygold
hue.
There is one remarkable, indeed extraordinary
fact, iu the above treatment peculiar to myself—
the confineing and closing the bowels for fonr
days by anodynes, without unlocking themonce
even with a gentle aperient, f disregarded the
shadow which is never alarming, while I looked
only to tlie substance. And as the liver was the
great organ deranged, I kept up and promoted its
healthy action, by small intermittent doses of its
own specific—while constipating the bowels, was
the only “ coup de mum” reserved to me to coun
teract and repair the drastic edicts of the medi
cines exhibited by rny predecessor. Had I pur
sued any other course, Thomson would luivo been
found iu a day “amid the tombs of the Capulcts.”
'Fhe foundations of his system had already linen
swept away, by a blind ill fated practice; for
when I planted the first corner stone of medicine
upon the r/uidc sand pedestant of his tottering
, constitution, I scarcely dared (o hope that tho
granite of medicine itself would form a platform,
upon which to erect even a frail superstructure
of convalesenco. Had I hut followed his pre
scriptions, as exemplified by the patient’s suffer
ings, poor follow, his comrades would, indeed,ere
this, have paid the last rites to the remains of their
fellow soldier.
Not to bo 100 prolix, I proceed to tho patholo
gy and diagnosis, and discourse awhile upon what
would have been the probable treatment and re
sult, of tho routine Theorists of the day. 1 pro
nounce tho case to be Autumnal Remittent, Fever,
superinduced by thecommon miasmata of oar city
and vicinity, terminating in general debility and
atony of the vascular system—producing groat
irritability (and u ,t inflammation) of the liver,
stomach and bowels, by the mechanical pressure
ol the cor (cd blood of the venous capillaries
upon ... at . vcs of those vital organs. Moreover,
should 5 grant tho disease to be inflammatory, still
J have established another method of cure beyond
controversy, beside the many of those now in re
pute. First, I begin with L’lroussnis and his en
chanted followers. They would call it the Yel
low Fever, aggravated by the highest grade of
klus/roc-Waited lit and Hrain Fever, And treat
ed it by cupping the epigastrium, shaving and
blistering tho head, and a great parajihranalia of
diluent and oleaginous drinks ami other depleto
ry measures altogether repugnant to science in
that stage of the game. Why 1 Because in the
congestive stage of fever, if blood is drawn from
any part of tlie system before reaction is produc
ed in the deep-seated slomhcring blood vessels, so
ns to supply the place of that abstracted from tho
general circulation, the pulse, the unerring men
tor of a good Physician, will sink at once, and
disappointment and death will, blast his hopes.—
There is no fact in morbid Physiology, so well
authenticated os the above medical aphorism, I
may say axiom. Secondly. Were I a mere
mercurials!, I should have raked tho liver anew
with n broadside of Calomel and Aloes—and in
stead of building up, I should have demolished
the citadel of life—whoso collapsed and fallen
columns already lay in ruins-before us!
Thirdly. Were I a Brunonian, without first
rectifying the subcurrents of that noble cistern of
Nature, I should have propelled a spurious tide
of plethora to a “Fair Mount” reservoir already
full to the brim—causing stagnation and putrifac
tion ; from the over ills of which act of cnipyri
cism, tho concentrated wisdom of ages could not
redeem the victim.
Fourthly. For a Homeopathic speculator to
attempt to destroy such a malady with his mole
cular and atomic doses, is to assert that a flying
fish could chase down and devour any one of the
mighty Leviathans ofthe vasty deep. He might
as well assert that ono sixtieth part of a single
ray of light possesses as much caloric and. efful
gence as one of tho sun’s magnificent beams.— 1
“Thus much for Buckingham.” “Iter in medio,
tulissiums csl,” says Horace.
My opinion is, that the science of medicine
consists not, in any one system of theory and
practice, but in many grand and complicated sys- I
terns, of which mind, is the soul and centre ;
standing in the same relation to them, the sun
holds in tho midst of the planetary world ; and
our beloved Washington sustained in the politi
cal universe, swaying all, by its superior attrac
tions, in the most perfect subjection ; and like
him enjoying the high prerogative of genius, to
wield and cull, from each, only its hypenan
fruits, and dispense them to the human family
according to their several physical emergencies
and afflictions, in the purest spirit of benevolence
ever exercised by man !
I shall now proceed to the defence of my own
treatment, which success so happily consumatcd,
The case was desperate, and then was the crisis
of its fate! 'Flic least error on my part would
have killed him, whilst a scientific combination
of remedies from the vast resources of our glorious
art, acting in concert like the divisions of an
Austerlilz army, would soothe his anguish and
save him from a horrid death. It was a dark
hour both for the patient and his physician, who
felt and witnessed on either hand for the first
time the most appalling symptoms of the Savan
nah Autumnal Fevers. The absolute conscious
ness of being the arbiter of another’s hfc, wheth
er in the jury box or at the bed side, inflicts a
weight of mental responsibility which none can
appreciate but him who lias realized the unwel
come moral altitude ! Hut standing now as Ido
upon (lie Isthmus which divides the conflicting
theories extant, I cut the gordions knot ofouthor
■ ity ami fashion and dared to think for myself and
prescribe for my patient according to the dictates
of my own judgment and the nature and facts of
the case, and as the Biaziliun Lapidary selects
from his cabinet of polished minerals, the jewels
and diamonds suited to the demands of his various
customers, so did 1 with the eye of an independ
-1 ant medical intellect, survey with coolness the nu
merous systems of Therapeutics, handed down to
us from time immemorial, since commingled with
the new, now popular with illustrious cotempura
rics, and choose from the mighty store house of
nature and of art, and blend together in salutary
harmony, the only efficient antidotes of each,
adapted to the cure of my unfortunate patient.
Were I a general as I am a physician, I should
adopt tlie Roman maxim, “divide and conquer
the enemy !” and were I a statesman, my motto
in politics, as in Medicine, should be freedom’s
watch word, “save the Constitution !” Man’s
Constitution, is like his moral character—once
blasted, it can never regain its original purity and
stamina ! Now the grand principles, and indi
cations ofeure to he fulfilled in this case, were
first to sustain the decaying system as one would
a falling edifice, by substantial braces; to lull the
nerves so as to bear without pain the mechanical
pressure of blood accumulated in their ncurilema
or shcutlis ; gently correct the morbid irritation
and excessive excretion of bile in the liver, super
induced by drastic medicines, (for calomel over 4
grain doses repeated oftener than every six hours
deserve that harsh appellation, according to wri
ters on mercury, such as Hamilton, Blackall,
Aliernelhy, Carlisle, asserting that it often produ
ces black vomit ,- next, to invigorate the heart
so as to diffuse an agreeable warmth over the
surface and infuse by moderate stimulation that
natural quantity of blood in tho vascular tissues
and substance of the brain, absolutely essential
to the perfection of rationality, of sight and vital
ity itself! Because he was delirious from gen
eral debility ; —from a deficiency of blood in the
sensorium ! Hence, reason collapsed upon her
native throne, because her tide of empire was
about to leave her upon the strand of an eternal
ebb ! As no doubt any other Quern would do,
whose scrcplre was sacriligioqsly wrested from
her!
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That “a change however came over the spirit of j
her dream,” and every chord of life vibrated to I
the nicest symphony, like a well strung harp, at
the touch of the masters hand, the exordcum has
clearly shown ! Because, nausea, vomiting, gas
trodynia, and restiveness subsided at once ; the
liver resumed its healthful functions ; reason and
vision, returned in all their wonted supremacy;
and thus quieted and lulled into conscioustecu-
_ ' *5
rity, by the soundest embrace of “Nature’s sweet
restorer balmy sleep," the recuperative energies
of the constitution, on recovering their tone, pa
ved the way for the admission of Quinine and Oil
ol Piper Nigrum, those great specifics in all ma
larious and periodical maladies. And as the
Bengal Lion in rising from his lair, shakes from
his mane the morning dew, so did he throw off
all febrile disabilities which hound him like an
“incubus” to his couch. Should this communi
cation he fie humble means of rescuing another
one of th( sovereign people from Mori douleurct
premature—the writer will he amply rewarded
for his labours. To the Physicians of Savannah
I would say, that I would not supplant one of
you in the ailections and confidence of your
friends and patrons, only by such honorable
course as ability would warrant; nor would I
pluck one laurel from the well earned chaplet
which enlwituts your brows ; but would rather
add another ftowret to the idready brilliant wreath;
therefore I ask them to remember, that this dis
sertation is presented to the world in the genuine
spirit of fraternal concord without jealousy ; of
rivalry without animosity ; ns another splendid
memorial of the Divine Origin of the art we pro
fess. Whose blessings are the equal boon of the
poor as the riclk An nit which has floated down
to us in all its purity from the dark ages »f anti
quity on the waves of literature and science as
Heavens richest legacy ever bequeathed to her
afflicted children, through uuenil'ss catalogue
of eminent physicians, hath of mnient and mod
ern limes; whose names’ with those of our Phys
ic, a Hosack, a Chapman, a Push, a Daniel, a
Waring, a Scnvcn, a Kollock, a Richardson, a
F ort, a Burroughs, an A mold, a Caruthcrs, a
Habersham, and others, and Georgias own lamen
ted Anthony, will adorn the temple of medical
philanthropy, till 1 “this great globe we inhabit
with all its domes and gorgeous palaces shall van
ish like the baseless fabric of u vision, and leave
not a rack behind.”
Prosperity of Ilnmburg, S. C.
Mh. Kioto a—ln accordance with nature, men
will speak about matters promoting their intcrcat
and gratify their feelings—l lake pleasure in say
ing to you that on Thursday, tlie 31st October,
1539, there was received in the town of Hamburg
one thousand and twenty four (1024) bales cot
ton, besides flour, Bacon, &c. 'Phis is the larg
* est number of hales received in.any one day sinca
Hamburg has been built. This may not be con
sidered groat in a town on the sea-shore, where
steamboats and ships bring and carry from 1 to
2000 bales at a time, hut we call it great where
this number of bales is brought by wagons, say
6' or T hides to a load.
Although our streets arc 100 feet wide, yet
they were literally blocked up with wagons. It
is a shipping trade that supports a sca-port town
1 —but it is a wagon, trade (hat sustains an inla M ,t
town,
No. of bales received in each Ware-House.
Henderson W. Sullivan, 359 hales.
Sihly dr, Usher, 351 “
Wra. P. Delph, 314 “
Total, 1024
Very respectfully yours.
HENRY SHULTZ,
Founder of Hamburg, S. V.
Hamburg, November 6, 1839.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Charleston, Nov. 14.
Arrived yesterday —Line ship Sutton, Hankman,
i New York; ship Washington, Adams, Liverpool;
ship Fruiterer, Rowe, Havana.
Went to tea yesterday —Sc hr. Ostrich, Kills Nas
sau,(N. I’.;) schr. Scituatc, Haker, Mobile.
Below —Three schooners, coasters.
In the offing. —A barque, unknown.
DISSOLUTION. —The copartnership business
heretofore transacted in this city, under the
firm of Hopkins, Jennings & Co., expired by limi
tation on Ist inst. L. Hopkins is alone authorized
to settle the affairs of the firm. The name of the
firm will be used only in matters relating to its set
tlement. LAMBETH HOPKINS,
THOMAS J. JENNINGS,
EGBERT U. BEALL.
Augusta, Oct. 25, 1 S 3!). wCt
I WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A TEACHER to take < barge of the Kiokee Se
minary, loom this thime until the first of Jan
uary next, and for the ensuing year, if agreed on.
None need apply unless they can come well recom
, mended, and. can teach the Latin and Greek lan
guages. Apply to Isaac Ramsey, or any of the
Trustees.
Columbia county, fia,, f „
Oct. Ist, 183!). S 1
FINHE subscriber continues business, on his own
account, at the stand formerly occupied by
tho late firm of Hopkins, Jennings & Co. in this
city, and has on hand a well assorted stock of
OBOCKHIKS. Also, heavy domestic goods, viz*
Cotton Osnaburgs,Shirtings, Linseys, Blankets, &c.
&c., and will attend in person to the sale of Cotton
and other produce that may be consigned to him by
liis friends in the country. L HOPKINS.
Augusta, Oct. 20,1839. w6t
Georgia, Jefferson county:
MOSES THOMPSON tolls before me two like
ly Mules; both in good order, cadi four feet
six inches high, supposed to be eight or ten years
old. One an iron grey, with a long tail, has a dark
streak along its back and shoulders. The other a
yellow bay, also has a long tail, and has the dark
mule stripe across Us shoulders and along its back.
, No brands perceivable on either. Appraised each
to one hundred dollars, by Jonathan Huff and Wil
lis Howard. 'The said Thompson resides on Reedy
Creek, near Reedy Creek Meeting House, in Jeffer
son county. September 26, 183 9.
JAMES STAPLETON, J. P.
A true extract Horn the cstray book of Jefferson
county, October 3, HS! I .
oct 25 EBENK/.ER BOTHWELL, Clerk.
CENTRAL HOTEL.
aiKaaß This splendid and spacious new Brick
_ JjSJSJL Hotel, situated on Front Street, imme
diately over the Rail Road Bank, in Athens, will
be opened in a few weeks for the reception of
Boarders and Visitors. To those who have hereto
fore favored the proprietor with their patronage, he
deems it only necessary to announce his return to
Athens, and his intention to keep the Central Hotel
in connexion with that pleasant and fashionable
watering place the Helicon Springs, which has un
dergone considerable improvement since the last
I season; by this arrangement visitors can spend
their time either in Town, or at the quiet retreat
which the Springs always affords to the invalid or
visitor of pleasure. To this important advantage
which his establishment presents over any other
cither in Town or country, lie w ill add bis personal
exertions to render his Hotel and Watering place
all that his friends can desire. The Hotel is new,
commodious, and situated in a central position in
Athens,and when furnished in handsome style, will
possess decided advantages over any other similar
establishment in the place.
Athens, Ga. Way 3 ts JOHN J VCKSON,