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COSAKENIIR BART LETT-EDITOR rf&n mz&K&itixstv? Is PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK, IN COLOini’S. GA. BY C. E. BARTLETT 8t R. BLATTER, at Tlireo Dollars per annum if paid in advance or Four Dollars at the end of the year It is expected that all application for subscription from a distance will be accompanied with the money, Advertisements will b"inserted at reasonable rates. Sales of land and negroes by adminis trators, executors -.r c arrlir ns. H'e required by law to be he’d on the firtt tocsdav in the month between tiie hours of 10 o clock in the forenoon 3 in the afternoon, at the court house of the county in which the property is situated. Notice ofthese sales must he given in a public Gazette sixty days previous to the day of sale. Notice of the sale of personal property musj be givei in a like manner forty days previous to the day of sale Notice to debtors A- creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Notie ■ that all application will lie made to the Court of ordinary for leave to sell laud must be pmdi-hedfour months. HTLexers on business must be Post paid to insure attention J r'We are authorised to announce JOHN M P \Tft ICK as a candidate for lax Collector of Mo cogee county, at the ensuing January elec tion Feb 13. tde aae authorised to announce G. VV . DILI.I ARD as a candidate for Clerk of the Sup erior Court of Muscogee countv, at the next Jan uary election. Feb 12. tde. OHIO REFOKHKIT iiUhtcal ColU&c WO RT HINtiTO N. I>Y, and with the consent of the Reformed Vledical Society, of the United States, the lew Roformed Medical Institution has been lo •ated in Worthington, an interesting und flour ishing town on the Whetstone River, 8 miles north of Columbus, on the Nor'hern Turnpike This cile lias been chosen because it presents the greatest advantages to facilitate there eaiches of the Rotanical s udent; the country around it a bo inding with every variety of oedical plants ; and the situation being the most healthy de lightful in Ihe Western country—and because the occupancy of the large College Edifice, to gether with ground i fevery variety of soil for an extensive botantual gurden. has been presented tons by the board of trustees of Worthington College. There will bo attached to the institution, a Dispensary for analyzing and preparing Verita ble Medcines ; and an Infiimary, where persons from the neighbourhood, or a distance la boring under levers, 'onsuoitisions, dispepsia, iiver complaints, gravel, ulcers, fistulas, cancers, &c will be successfully treated, without bleeding, mercury or the knife, and from which the student will acquire a correct knowledge of the nature, operation and uoeiior eilicaey of ve getable agents in removing disease The necessity for an institution of this kind in the jvest, to be under t he direction of competent Pro lessors is strikiugly evident. It is institu tion that is designe to concentrate, A dissem inate all the knowledge of Doctors of Medicine and empvrics, sages and savages ; and that will demonstrate to the student and the sick that ve getables alone afford the only rational, safe and effectual means of removing diseases without impairing the constitution, or endangering life or Irmb. The present system of practice which treats diseases of every form with me'aiic min erals, ihe lancet or knife is dangerous inefficient the lamentable facts which eveiv day presents ton fully illustrate Nor is this truth more clearly exhibited than the fact that vegitahle substances aionc, are void of danger, aud powerfufly efli cientwhen administered; a rcfeience to the suc cess of >ur New-Yerk Infiiriuiry. and the success of ignorant botanical phiysicians, proves this fact The Gollcgc a» and Infirmary will be opened the fast week in December, where students from all parts mav enter and complete their Medical Ed ucation, & where persons laboring under every species or disease shall receivo prompt Jk faith ful attention. The course of study to be pursued, and which wiil be taught according to the OLDand RE FORM ED sy terns by Lectures, Recitations, Examinations and suitable text books, is. Ist A- Dalmny and Phisiology. 2d. Old and Reformed Burgerv. 3d. Theory & Practice of Medicine. 4tli The old A" improved system of Midwifery, with ihe diseases of women and children, nth Materia Yledica with practical and general Bo tanv tith Medical and Rotanical Chemistry and Fparnmcy* 7. Btated Lectores on collateral Sci ence— Moral Mental Philosophy—Phrenol ogy-Medical Jurisprudence—Comparative A liatfimy—Medical History, .Vc I?v amending this Institution, the student will acquire a correct knowelcdge of present prac tice of physicians—a knowledge of the use and abuse of minerals, the Lancet, Obsterical For ceps and the knife, and a knowledge ofthe new and improved system, that supercedes their use, with tenfold more safety aud succs.-s. There will be no specified time to complete a course of study; whenever the s'udent is qulifled he may graduate and receive a Diploma—some will pass in o: e year, others will require more. Requisitions fo* .idmi s sum 1 ji certi'ica e <*f good moral character. 2 Good English education Terms —The price of qualifying a person ot practice, including a Diploma, and access to all the advantages of the institution will be $l5O in advance, or !jj!7s in advance, A SIOO at the close of his studies. Everv advantage given, and some allowance made o th se in the indigent oircuni stances, Board will be had at. $1 per week, and books at the Western city prices hvery student on entering YV'orthington Col lege will become an honorary member ofthe re termed .Nodical Society of the United States from whom he will receive a diploma, and annu al Report of all the doings and discoveries of its different members, <Jfc be entitled to all its con fclitulioiml privilege and benefits. Those wishing further information will please address a 'Otter (post paid) to Col G. H Grisweld or the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt attention. Students and others had better beware ofthe slanders of thn present physicians, who know no more about our institution, than they do about Botanical medicine J J BIEELE, President. Worthington, O Oct. 2830 .Vide.— Editors publishing the above Circular ■->- times, shall receive as compensation a cer tificate entitling the bearer to tuition gratis, or un cquivale.it to that sum ($150) in medicine advice or attendance from us or anv members of our society. Those publishing it 2d limes, to half that compensation. January 20 17 Asob=43r(nt(ug, Executed with neatness sit tltis Office THIS DBMOCBAT. COLiUtIBUS, OBOIIGIA, FB3I) VV, 4PSBJL 2S>, 1831. 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The votary of fashion and litera ture —the epienrinn and the Musician, will each find in it something amusing and instructing In short, in every respect our highest expectations respecting it have been fully realized— Hit Set tler, Towannda, Pa. New (woods and CHEAP GOODS. r fA[JE subscriber has recently received, and is IL now opening on Broad Street, a geuer il as sortment of Groceries, Hard Ware Cutlery, Looking Glasses, Combs, Shoes, Boots, Hats, ' and ready made Clothing- All ot which he ot j tors at low price# for Casl) by the wholesale and retail,. _ ! March 13 -E. FEATHERSTON. AN ADDRI'^ Delivered before the WASHINGTON CITY TEMPER ANCE SOCIETY. November 15, I'tMO. ( Continued.) The following case came under my no tice, a few winters since. A large athlet ic man, long accustomed to the use of ar dent spirit, on drinking a glass of raw whiskey, dropped instantly dead. On carefully dissecting the hod)', no ade quate cause of the sudden cessation of life could lie found in anv part, except the heart.—This organ was free from blood, was hard and firmly contracted, as if aif c ted by spasm. lam convinced that ma ny of those cases of sudden death which take place with intemperate persons is the result of a spasmodic action of the heart, from sympathy with the stomach, or some other part ofthe system. The use of ar dent spirit, no doubt, promotes also the ossification of the valves of the heart, as well as the developement of other organ ic affections. S. The Lungs and their functions. Resoirat on in the inebriate is general ly oppressed and laborious, and especial ly after eating or violent exercise; and lie is teased with a cough, attended with co pious expectoration, and especially after his recovery from a fit of intoxication; & these symptoms go on increasing, and un less arrested in their progress, often ter minate in consumption. This affection of the lungs is produced in two wavs: first, by the immediate ac tion of the alcoholic principle upon the highly sensible membrane which lines the trachea bronchial vessels, and air cells of tlie lungs as poured out by the exlv.il i tions; and secondly, by the sympathy which is called into action between the lungs and other organs, already in a state of disease, and more especially, that of the stomach and liver. I have met with cases in the course of my practice, of cough and difficult brea thing, which could he relieved only by regulating the functions of the stomach, and which soon yielded, on the patient ceasing to irritate this organ with ardent spirit. I have found the liver still more frequently the source of this affection, and on restoring the organ to its healthy condition, by mi rig aside the use of ar dent spirits, all the pulmonary s) mptorns have subsided. <in examining the lungs of the drunk ard after death, they are frequently found adhering to the walls ofthe chest; liepa tized, or affected w ith tubercles. But time would fail me, w’ere I to at tempt an account of half the pailuilogy of drunkenness.— Dyspepsy, Jaundice, /> maciation, Corpulence, Dropsy, Ulcers, Rheumatism, (tout, Tremors, Palpitation, Hysteria , Epilepsy, Palsy, Lethargy, Apoplt ny, Melancholy, Madness, Deliri um tremens, and Premature eld age, com pose but a small part of the catalogue of diseases produced by ardent spirit. In deed there is scarcely a morbid affection to which the human liody is lieble, that has not, in one way or another, been produ ced by it; there is not a disetse hut it has aggravated, nor a predisposition to dis ease, which it has not called into action; and although its effects are in some de gree modified by age and temperament, by habit and occupation, by climate and season of the year, aud even by the in toxicating agent itself: yet, the general and ultimate consequences are the same. But I pass on to notice one state ofthe system, produced by ardent spirit; too im portant and interesting to leave unexam ined. It is that predisposition to disease and death which so strongly characteri ses the drunkard in every situation in life. It is unquestionably true, that many of the surrounding objects in nature, are con stantly tending to man’s destruction. The excess of heat and cold, humidity and drvness, the vicissitudes of the season, noxious exhalations from the earth, the floating atoms in the atmosphere, the poi sonous vapors from decomposed animal and vegetable matter, with many other invisible agents, are exerting their deadly influence; and were it not that every part of his system is endowed with a self-pre serving power, q principle of excitability, or, in other words, a vital principle, the operations of the economy would cease, and a dissolution of his organic structure take place. But this principle being im planted in the system, reaction takes place, and thereby a vigorous contest is maintained with the warring elements without, as well as with the principle of decay within. It is thus that man is enabled to endure from year to year the toils and fatigues of life, the variation «f heat and cold, and the vicissitudes of the season—that he is enabled to traverse every region of the globe, and to live with almost equal ease under the equator, and in the frozen re gions of the north. It is by this power that all his functions are [a rformed, from the commencement to the close of life. The principle of excitability exists in the highest degree in the infant, and di minishes at every succeeding period of life; and if man is not cut down by dis ease or violence, he struggles on, and fi nally dies a datura! deatli; a death occa sioned by the exhaustion of the principle of excitability. In order to prevent the too rapid exhaustion of this principle, na ture has especially provided for its resto ration by establishing a period of sleep. After Sung awake for sixteen or eighteen hours, a sensation ol fatigue ensues, and all the functions are performed with di minished energy and precision. Locom otion becomes feeble and tottering, the voice harsh, the intellect obtuse and pow erless, ami all the senses blunted. In this state the individual anxiously retires from the light and from the noise and bustle of business, seeks that position which re quires the least effort to sustain it, and a bandons himself to rest. The will ceases to act, and he loses in succession all the senses. The muscles unbend themselves, and permit the limbs to fall into the most easy and natural position. Digestion, respiration, circulation, secretion, and the other functions go on with diminished power aud activity; and consequently the wasted excitability is gradually restored. After a repose of six or eight hours, this principle becomes accumulated to its full measure, and the individual awakes and finds himself invigorated and refreshed. His muscular power is augmented, his senses are acute and discriminating, his intellect active and eager for labor, and all his functions move on w ith renewed en ergy. But if the stomach be oppressed by food, or the system excited by stimu lating drinks, sleep, though it may be pro found, is never tranquil and refreshing. —The system being raised to a state of feverish excitement, and its healthy bal ance disturbed, its exhausted excitability is not restored. The individual awakes, hut finds himself fatigued rather than in vigorated. His muscles are relaxed, his senses obtuse, his intellect impaired, and all his functions disordered; and it is not until he is again under the influence of food and stimulus, that he is fit lor the occupations of life.—Aud thus he loses the benefits of this wise provision of repose, designed for Ins preservation.—Nothing, probably, tends more powerfully to pro duce premature old age, than midnight revels or disturbed aud unrefreshing sleep. It is also true, that artificial stimulus in whatever w y applied, tends constant ly to exhaust the principle of excitability of the system, and this « proportion to its intensity, aud the freedom with which it is applied. But there is still another principle on which tiie use of ardent spirit predisposes the drunkard to disease and death. It acts on the blood, impairs its vitality, de prives it of its re ! colour, and thereby renders it unfit to stimulate the heart and other organs through w hich it circulates; unfit, also, to supply materials for the dis ferent secretions, and to renovate the dif ferent tissues of the body, as well as to sustain the energy of the brain; offices which it can perform only, while it retains its vermilion colour and other arterial properties. The blood of the drunkard is several shades darker in its colour, than that of teinparate persons, and also coag ulates less readily and firmly, and is loa ded with serum; apperances wuich indi cate that it has exchanged its arterial properties for those of venous blood. This is the cause ofthe livid complexion ofthe inebriate, which so strongly marks him in the advanced stage of intemperance.— Hence, too, all the functions of his body are sluggish, irregular, and the whole system loses its tone and its energy. If ardent spirits, when taken into the sys tem, exhausts the vital principle of the solids, it destoys the vital principle of the blood also; and if taken in large quanti ties, produces sudden death; in which case the blood, as in death produced by lightning, by opium, or by violent and long continued exertion, does not coagulate. The principles laid down are plain, and of easy application to the case before us The inebriate, having by the habitual use of ardent spirits, exhausted to a grea ter or less extent, the principle of excita bility in the solids, the power of reaction; and the blood having become incapable of performing its office also, he is alike predisposed to every diseas, and rendered liable to the inroads of every invading foe. So far, therefore, from protecting ’he system against disease, intemperance ever constitutes one of its strongest pre disposing causes. Superadded to this, whenever disease does lay its grasp upon the drunkard, the powers of life being already enfeebled by the stimulus of ardent spirits, he unex pectedly sinks in the contest, and but too frequently to the mortification of his phy sician, and surprise ami grief of his fiiends. Indeed, inebriation so enfeebles the powers of life, so modifies the char acter of disease, and so changes the op eration of medical ageuts, that unless the young physician has studied thoroughly the constitution of the drunkard he has hut partially learned his profession, and is not fit for a practitioner of the present age. . These are the true reasons why the drunkard dies so easily, and from such slight causes. A sudden cold, a pleurisy, a fever, a fractured limb, or a slight wound of the skin, is often more than his shattered jiowers can endure.—Even a little excess of exertion, an exjiosure to heat or cold, a hearty repast, or a glass of cold water, not (infrequently extinguishes the vital principle. In the season that hits just closed upon us, we have had a melancholy exhibition of the effects of intemperance in the tra- VOL,. 1.-\o* gical death of some dozens of our iellow citizens; ami had the extreme heat w Inch prevailed for several days, continued tor as many weeks, we should hardly have had a confirmed ilrunkard loft among us. Matty of those deaths which came un der my notice seemed almost spontani ous, and some of tin m took place in less than one hour from the first symptom of indisposition. Some died apparently from a slight excess of fatigue, some from a few hours exposure to the sun, and some from a small draught of cold w ater; causes quite inadequate to the production of such effects in temperate persons. Thus, fellow citzcns, I have endeavored *o delimute the effects of ardent spirits upon man, and more especially to jiortlay its influence on Ins moral, intellectual, and physical powi rs.—The sketch I have given is a brief one, but the occasion would not permit me to sav more, and my feelings would not allow me to say less. But we are not assembled to brood o ver the evils of intemperance, and to spend our time in inourninig the ravages it has made in our land, to weep over the broken-hearted fathers and mothtrs —the deserted w ives and childr* —the suffering widows and orphans it has cre ated. We are assembled not merely to paint its horrors, and to deplore its deso lations ; we are convened to take counsel together, to learn the success ofthe soci ety during the last year; the progress the cause of temperance is mulling through the land, and to devise measures to pro mote its advancement: and not to devise only—we are called upon to execute as well as design. There is a work to be performed, and we are pledged not to draw hack from its hardships, nor shrink from its responsibilities; and what can be done! Permit me to suggest a few things which may be done, and which must be done, before the evils we deplore wtfl he eradicated. 1. Let us keep in view the ojects of this society:— “To produce united, vig ouroits, and systematic exertions for the suppression of intemperam e; to diff use information, and give circulation to pub lications which exhibit the nils of intem perance, and the best means of chcc ing its progress .” Let us hear in mind, also, the obliga tion imposed on us— “to use all proper measures la discourage the use of ardent spirits in thi social circle , at public meet ings, on the farm, in the mechanic shop , and in all other places." These are the objects of the Society, and this the obligation resting upon its members.—lt is not a mere matter of for mality that we have put our names to its constitutou; we have pledged our selves to he bold, active, and persevering in the cause; to proclaim the dangers ofi ntem peranee to our fellow citizens, and to do what we can to arrest its progress. In view of these objects and of this piedge, then, let us, if indeed we have not alrea dy done it, banish ardent spirits from our houses at once, and forever, and then we can act with decision and energy, and speak in a tone of authority; and our v oices will lie heard, if precept be sanc tioned by example. 2. Let us use our utmost endeavors to lessen the number, and, if possible, ut terly exterminate from among us those estalishments which are the chief agents in propagating the evils of intemperance I refer to those shops which are licensed for retailing ardent spirits. Here is the sourse of the evil. These are the agents that are sowing among us the seeds of vice, and poverty and wretchedness. How preposterous! an enlightened community, professing the highest re gard for morality and religion, making laws for the suppression and punishment of vice, and the promotion of v irtue and good order, instituting societies to en courage industry, enlighten the ignorant, reclaim the vicious, bring back the wan derer, protect the orphan, feed the hun gry, clothe the naked, bind up the bro ken-hearted, and restore domestic peace; —at the same time to create and foster those very means that cary idleness and ignorance, and vice and nakedness, and starvation and discord into all ranks of society; that make widow sand or phans, that sow the seeds of disease and deatli among us; —that strike, indeed, at the foundation of all that is good aud great. You create paupers, and lodge them in your almshouses; orphans, and give them a residence in your asylum; con victs, und send them to tiny penitentiary. You seduce men to crime, and then ar raign them at the bar of justice—immure them in prison. AVith one hand you thrust the dagger to the heart—AYith the other attempt to assuage the pain it causes. We all remember to have heard from the lips of our parents, the liarution of the fact, that in the early history of our country, the tomahawk and scalping knife were put into the hands of our sav* age neighbors, by our enemies at war, and that a bounty was awarded for the de predations they committed on the liv'd! of our defenceless fellow citizens. Out feelings were shocked at the recital, and a prejudice was created, as w ell to these poor wandering savages, as to the nation that prompted them to the work, which neither tune nor education has eradicated-