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> ®n-wceWe onickhßtntintl ' WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, ISBO. , Von. 11l No. 111. T.IK CHUOMCLK AND SENTINEL PUBLISHED, D ILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. mu: Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advanca. Tri VVeekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance *r Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at the end of year. m' iin—i -I ■ i i i i 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. r [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! r B 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,