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AilopatJiy’s estimate of herself.
The learned Dr. liallie who hud
practiced medicine forty years said upon’
litS death I)ed, “1 have no faith in
Physic, I wish I 06uld bo sure l have
Vi»t killed tnbre subjects than I have
cured. 1 '
Dr. WaterhOitee Who held a pro
fe&orship in Harvard University twen
ty yeai)*, retired, Saying; "After 3
“have so long and so zealously engaged i
in teaching, I am tired of learned
quackery.''
Our want of success in the ordinary
fneans of
injg disease) proves that those means
are inadequate; that we follow an
erroneous course in our investigations,
and that we must resort to some new
■modes if we desire to be successful.
[Prof. Lognl, 1811.
Thousands are annually slaughter
ed in the quiet sick room. Govern
ments should at once cither banish
Medical men and proscribe their blun
dering art, or they should adopt some
lHitter means to protect the lives ot
the people than at present prevail, and
rf&HV'e more the practice of this dan
gerbli-? profession, and the murders
committed in it, than after the lowest
trades.—Dr. Frank.
Tire medical practice of our day is
at best a most uncertain and unsatis
factory ay stem j it has neither philoso
phy nor common sense to commend it
t 6 confidence. —Dr. Evans. f
Our actual information or knowl
edge of diseases, does not increase in
proportion to our exj erimental practice.
Kvery dose of med cme given by allo
pathy is a blind experiment upon the
vitality of the patient. —Dr. Bostick.
“I wish not to detract froni the ex
alted profession to which I may have
the honor to belong, and which in
cludes many of my wannest and most
valued frieftds—yet 1 eai’itiot answer
it to my conscience to withhold the
acknowledgement of my firm belief,
that ifie medical profession with its
prevailing mode of practice is produc
tive of vastly move evil thaii good ;
and were it absolutely abolished, man
kind would be infinitely the gainer.
Since graduating, my experience has
been such as to enable me to form a
a just estimate of the common treat
ment, ami abundantly to satisfy me
that it is utterly unsound in root , trunk,
and brunch. It is emphatically a
guessing system, and the chance of the
patient being radically cured bv it, is
.about as great ns the chance of draw
ing a prize from among a hundred
blanks. It is to be regretted that so
iety is so enslaved to fashion and cus
ydttt, that nine in ten would sooner
die fashionably, under the hand of a
fashionable practitioner, than consult
an unpopular one, oven though he
knew he would restore them to health.
But then it is better to die respecta
bly, and in good taste, than to live and
be reproached by one’s friends.
[Dr. Coggswell of Boston.
Assuredly the uncertain and most
unsatisfactory art we call medical
science, is no science at all , but a jum
ble of inconsistent opinions, of con
clusions hastily and often incorrectly
drawn, of facts misunderstood or per
verted, of comparisons without anal
ogy, of hypothesis without reason, and
of theories not only tisele s, but dan •
gerous.—-Dublin Medical Journ
al, 1842.
Gentlemen-, ninety-nine'bul of every
•hundred medical facts, are medical lies ,
: nnd medical doctrines arc, for’the
most part, stark, staring nonsense.
fProf. Gregory,
■While tl ic other sciences have been ;
carried forward %virhin our own time,
and almost under our own eyes, to a
degree of unprecedented advancement,
medicine in regard to some of its pro
fessed and important objects, (the cure
of disease,) is still an ineffectual spec
ulation. —Prbf. Bigelow, Harvard Un
iversity,
The science of medicine is a bar
barous, jargon, and tl>e effects of our
medicines on the human system are in
the highest degree uncertain, except,
’indeed, that they have already de
stroyed more lives than war, pesti
lence, and famine combined.
[Dr. Good.
The present practice of medicine is
a, burning reproach to the name of
science, while its professors give evi
dence of an almost total want of the
true knowledge of the nature ami pro
treatment of disease. In most
d&efc mere symptoms receives the at
tention of the Physician, and from
this 6ause his remedies are seldom of
benefit to the patient. I may go
farther, and sa>vthat nine times out of
't6n our mi&Mted remedies are absolute
ly injurious to 'our patients suffering
winder diseases of whose real character
atid cause we are almost culpably ig
norant. —Dr. Jamison of Kdinbnrgh.
sltogeA - .{tv*.
I declare, inv conscientious opinion.
i founded on long experience and re*
! flection, that if there was not a single
physician, surgeon, apothecary, naan*
mid wifi 1 , chemist, druggist, or drug
ron the face of the earth, there would
U'e less sickness, and less mortality
than nbW prevail.*- —Dr. Johnson of
I.ondbm
t)ur want ttf silecess is occasioned
by the following onuses: Ist, our ig
norance of the disease; 2d, our ig
uorauco of a suitable remedy; 3d,
want of efficacy in the remedy.
Dissections daily convince us of our
iguoraneo of the seats of disease, and
cause us to blush at our prescriptions.
What mischief have we done under
the belief of false facts, and false the
ories? We have assisted iu multi
plying diseases; we have done moro
—we have increased their mortality.
[Dr. Rush of Philadelphia.
Were it necessary we could extend
these quotations to an almost Unlimited
extent. However, we desist, and
merely request that each reader will
determine for himself why these learn
ed medical men have sd little confi
dence in their own system of physic.
S.
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The “"Four Points. ”
The “Four Points” of which so much
is said in the accounts from abroad,
are set forth in the following proposi
tions. Tlfc “ Three Powers ” men
tioned are France, Great Britain and
Austria:
“ The three powers are equally of
opinion that the relations of the-Su
blime Porte with the Imperial Court
of Russia could not be re-established
upon solid and durable bases :
Ist. Unless the protectorate hither*
to exercised by the Imperial Court of
Russia over the Principalities of Wab
lochia, Moldavia and Servia, ceases
henceforth ; and unless the privileges
accorded by the Sultan to these de
pendent provinces of their empire be
placed under the collective guarantee
of the powers, by virtue of an arrange*
raent to be concluded with the Sublime
Porte, the dispositions,of which should
regulate at the same tiniC all questions
of detail.
2d. Unless the navigation of the
Danube to its mouth be delivered
from all embarrassment, and subject
ed to the application of the princi
ples recognised (consacres) by the acts
of the Congress of Vienna.
Bd. Unless the treaty of the 13 tli
July, 1841, be revised "in concert by
the" high contracting parties witJi a
view to secure the European equili*
brium.
4th. Unless Russia ceases to claim
the right of exercising an official pro
tectorate over the subjects of the Su
blime Porte, no matter to wliat relig
ious rite they may belong, and unless
France, Austria, Great Britain, Prus
sia and Russia lend their mutual co
operation to obtain from the initiative
of the Ottoman Government the for
mal recognition (la consecration') and
observance of the religious privileges
of the various communities, and to
carry into effect, for the common ben
efit of their eo-rcligionists, the gener
ous intentions manifested by his Ma
jesty the Sultan, taking case that there
r:sult therefrom no violation of the
dignity and independence of his
Crown.
The intelligence brought by tlie Pa
cific is to the effect, that the Czar ac
cepts these four points as a basis of set
tlement, and the interpretation given
to them by the allies.
The Right Rind of a Judge,
Tn passing sentence upon a criminal
at the late session of the Superior Court
of Muscogee county, Judge Worrell
uttered the following, which deserves
to be engraved in letters of gold, and
written upon the walls of every Court
room throughout the land:
“ The object of the law is not re
venge, but to deter others from the
commission of crime, Until the ad*
ministration of my immediate prede-
the practice of the Court in
this Circuit has been to administer the
law, as far as practicable, in favor of
the guilty. This practice is at an end.
I am determined that for the next four
years the law shall be a terror to evil
doers. Hitherto 1 ife and property have
been insecure. It is now time that hon
est men should be protected in their
rights.” ; . •
In this day when, the assassin and
felon stalk abroad in the land, un*
whipt of justice, no man could utter a
nobler or more patriotic purpose than
this of Judge Worrell, and we most
cordially wish him God speed iu his no
ble design. If the Bench in Georgia
could be filled with such men, it would
be among' the greatest blessings that
could be conferred upon the people;
and wc sincerely trust that they will
wake up to the necessity of protecting
their lives arid property-, by the ele
vation of such men. It would give a
ten-fold greater protection to life and
property than ten thousand armed sol
diers eould-. Chron. Jc Sem
At the Printer’s festival recently
held at Manchester, N. 11., the
Uig seutiments were offered:
Woman —The fairest work of nature;
the edition being large, let no man be
without a copy.
Babies —Miniature edition-, issued
periodically, and displayed in small
caps.
The Principal ' Pdwefo-*'- Printing
Presses, Pulpits and Petticoats.
The Press —The electric battery of
thought, by which Frank lift directed
the lightnings of popular indignation
against the might, of oppression and
destroyed it; —while it exists lAn fetter
ed ana 'fearless-, a free people have no
enemy to fear-.
The Way id Serve a Bench War
rant.
Sfhrie years ago, when Campbell was
Solicitor General Os this Circuit; he had
un Irishman deputised as bailin’ for his
own special Use; during the session of
Court in this county. Pat was an at
tentive, aeti vejftnd energetic fellow, who
was always l'eddy at the bidding of
Campell to go any where, at any time,
and to do any thing, for lie considered
Campbell’s word the higher law of the
land. If Campbell wanted a law book
from any office in the city; nil he bad
to do was to write the name of the book
ou ft slip of paper, hand it to Fat, and
tell him where to go for it; and with
telegraphic despatch ho Would have
the book.
If he wanted a witness ill a care
about to be called for trial, he had on
ly, to tell Pat to bring him, and if he
was to be found in the city, Put would
have him forthcoming in half the time
that the witness would have come of
his own accord. If a witness was
wanting for the morrow, he had only
to give Pat the subpoena, and he would
serve it forthwith, and in the morning
would hunt him up and remind him
that he was expected at the Court
House at the opening of the Court.
Pat’s connection with written docu
ments h;td been confined to serving
subpoenas, but it happened one day that
the Grand Jury had returned a true
bill for some bifewtej against a fellow
who was equally notorious for his dis
regard of the law and his adroitness
in escaping it ; thoOgh numerous Bench
Warrants had been issued against him
they always returned “non est invent
us,” and as the indictments against
him were far offences of a petty char
acter, he would, after keeping out of
the way for a while, generally manage
to get them nol pros’d, without ev
er getting into the court house.
Campbell had determined that he
should no longer escape a taste of the
law—he knew the fellow was in the
city, and had no doubt that he would
be missing as soon as he should hear
that there was a true bill against him.
So when the jury returned tDo bill,
instead of reading out the finding, lie
merely handed it to the Clerk, with
directions to record it, and sat down
and made out a Bench Warrant for
his arrest.
Tins was handed to the indefatiga
be, never-failing Pat, with instructions
to “serve it immediately.” Pat start*
ed upon his mission, and Campbell
went into the trial of a ease which
occupied several hours; at the end of
which, seeing Pat in his usual stand,
he approached him and said, “ Well,
Pat, did you find that fellow ?”
“ Ye*:, your Honor, but a devil of a
chase I had of it. I hunted all over
town lor him, but I never stopped till
I come up with him.”
“ Well, where is he? Have you got
him in Court?”
“ No, }-our Honor, but he’ll be here
in the morning, for I give him the pa*
per with ray own hands, and told him
if lie wasn’t here in the morning he
would be lined.”
To those who knew Campbell, vf*
need not tell how ho looked, or what
he said to his Bailiff. The culprit
was on the other side of the river in
ten minutes after he was served with
the Bench Warrant. —Corner Stone.
Hot Ash Heaps.
Messrs. Editors— Having often
heard of houses being burned which
Were sup-posed to have taken fire from
ash barrels; ftnd ash houses-, and also
hearing Os many Muses being btirned;,
and no cause for the same assigned, I
am led to believe that there is a phe
nomenon produced from bulks of
ashes, that is not generally known by
our people (I for one.) In the year
1852 I was engag and in removing a
pile of ashes about 4 feet in diameter
from an ash house; they had been de
posited there in small quantities during
one or more years, and great care was
taken not to have any fire in them
when they were stowed away. On
coming to the center of the heap I was
surprised to find them almost as hot
as they were when they were taken
out of the center of the fire place
during the time of a hot fire being
over them. The hot ashes occupi
ed a space in the Center of about
two feet in circumference. Now
the question arises, what caused this
heat, anu what kept it up for so long
a time, and if this kind of a chemical ac
tion has not taken place in many
places, and at different times, and to
such an extent as to cause ignition and
set houses on-fire.
Yours, &c., F. Stinson.
HebardsSrilic, Ky, Jan. 19th, 1855.
[More than one question arises from
the facts presented. Hot ash heaps
will set houses on fire if kept in
contact with wood. The non-conduc
ting quality of dry-wood ashes, is well
known. Some red-hot cinders are al
ways thrown into ash pits ; it is scarce
ly possible to prevent this, and as a
number of charred chips are left mix
ed with the ashes, these are often ig
nited in the ash pit, and burn slowly
fora long time, producing a low com
bustion. The ashes on the outside
being a good non-conductor, prevent
the heat from radiating into space,
and thus the heat of ash heaps is
maintained for a long time. Heaps
of grain that have been burned in
stores, have in some instances retained
a great heat for a number of years.
[Scientific A'nerican.
There has been something of ah
oyster war at Stamford, Conn. Some
body has been staking out beds and
planting oysters in the harbor, and
somebody else has been fishing them
up and selling them. The former some 4
bodies claim that they had a right thus
to plant oysters, and the latter some
bodies say they have put their oysters
on natural beds, contrary to a vote of
the tow in The result is, the oyster
1 catchers have been arrested by the oys-
I ter planters, 'and the lawyers are going
Ito make moricy out of both parties!
P *** lConMUnHonah'sK
A Run Upon an Indiana Bank.
“ Can ytfu giye me specie for this ?”
‘‘ No.”'
‘1 Sight, or short time,- eastern ex
changes ?”
V 4‘ 3N0.”
“ What can yoti giVe nte ?”
“ Nothing.”
“ Why r
“ You are making a run on ouf in
stitution. This species of presenta
tion we are bound to resist. Ybu are
trying to break us, sir—to make us
stop pay meat, sir. You can’t do it,
sir.”
“ But. havn’t you stopped payment,
when you refuse to redeem ?”
“No sir. Ours is a stock institm
tiom There’s your ultimate security,
sir, deposited with the auditor. \Ve
can’t break, sir ; we ean’t stop pay
ment. Look at Mr. John P. Dunn’s
circular !”
“ But have you uo specie on hand ?”
“ Yes, sir ; and we are bound to
keep it. The law obliges us to keep
twelve and a half per cent of specie
on hand. If we pay out every time
one of you fellows calls, how can we
keep it on hand ?”
“ Then I shall proceed to have the
note protested.”
“ Very well, sir. You will find a
notary public at Indianapolis, provi
ded he is at home, which is only one
hundred and forty miles from here.—
But, sir, you had better go home, and
rely upon your ultimate security.-
We can’t pay specie—find it won’t do;
but you are ultimately secure ; you
can’t lose your mouey, though you
never get it. Remember that.”
We will suppose our gentleman so
unreasonable as not to be satisfied with
the representation of the paying teller,
or the great principle of ultimate securi l
ty. He finds his way to Indianapolis,
makes his protest in due form, and,
note in hand, proceeds to the office of
the lion. John P. Dunn, auditor of the
state, when another dialogue ensues :
“ Sir, I have a note of the Squash
Bank, at Lost Prairie, with certificate
of protest, which I want to deposite in
your hands, with a request that you
make collection as speedily as possi
ble.”
"Certainly sir.”
“ How long before I can expect to
realize upon the ultimate securities of
the institution ? Thirty dayS; is it
not?”
“ Not, quite as soon as that, sir. I
shall forthwith give notice to the offi
cers of the Squash Bunk. If they
pay no attention to it, I shall offer its
securities in my hands for sale ; but in
discharging my duty to all the credi
tors of the institution, I shall not pro
ceed to offer any of its asserts in this
market until after at least 60 days no
tice in New York, London and Paris,
so as to ensure the largest and best
prices for the securities, and not then,
if, in my opinion, the ultimate inter
ests of all concerned will be promoted
by a further extension ! Hem 1”
“But, my dear sir, how long will it
lie before I shall be able t© realize up
on my demand 1”
“ Oau’t sayy s ; r . stocks are down
just now —may rise in a year or two —
depends somewhat upon the fate of the
war in Europe. But never fear, your
ultimate security is undoubted. If
you should never get it, yon will nev
er lose it, remerner that. Rely upon
vour ultimate security, and you are
safe.”
“ Ultimate security! I want, my
money.”
“ Well, sir, if that’s your game,
when von get it, please give us the in
formation-,”— Yankee Blade-.
Distributing Scientific Documents.
Congressional printing w[iicli, until
very recently, was disgraceful to the na
tion, and to the typographical art, has
been reformed in some degree; but the
system, or want of system, which gov
erns the distribution of scientific docu
ments, is stili wretched in the extreme.
“ Men of science,” says Si! liman’s Jour
nal, “to whom particular reports
would be of direct practical use, are
often entirely unable to procure copies
of them, while many men of more po
litical importance, but who will never
even look into them, have these same
reports profusely lavished upon them.
Valuable documents which are re
ported to applicants as nil exhausted,
do wholesale duty as wrapping paper
for Washington" grocers and market
men, at a standard price of four cents a
pound, maps and plates concluded.
Distributing Owen’s Geological Report
to a dry goods importer and the Treas
ury report on commerce to a geologist,
would seem too great an absurdity to
exist if we did not know that hundreds
of truly valuable volumes are annually
thus wasted.”
The remedy for this ridiculous waste
of the public "money seems to us ex*
treniely simple. sell copies of the
documents referred to, to all who de*
sire them, at the cost of production.—
This plan has been adopted in Eng*
land, and has been found to answer the
purpose perfectly. We are opposed
to the deadhead system, root and
branch, and shall go strongly for its
eradication front all departments of af
fairs, public and private. Abolish the
franking privilege, and sell the docu*
ments \-~(life Illustrated.
Like and Not Like.—A lawyer at
Poughkeepsie was applied to, one time
by an indigent neighbor, for his opim
ion on a point of lftw in which the in
terests of the latter were materially in*
volved. The lawyer gave his advice,
and Charged the poor fellow $3 for
it.
" There is the money,” said his cli
ent “ it is all the money I have in the
world and my family has been a long
time without pork.”
“ Thank God,” replied the lawyer,
“my wife never knew the want of
pork since we iverc married.”
“ Nor she neVer will,” rejoined the
countryman tartly, ** so long as she has
such a hog as you are.”
The lawyer was so pleased with the
smartness of the repartee, that he for
gave the poor fellow and immdiately
returned him, his money.
I We believe all but the last part.
- ■ ■;>' •»” '*rn n 1 m>w m t. ■ '
Fatal Combat Between an Alligator
ami a Gai'i
In Clarke county, nedr Choctaw
Bluff, on the Alabama river, there is a
beautiful and quiet little lake of clear
water, which has been the theme ol
praise since the first settlement of the
country. It is fed by two creeks emp
tying into it, equally pclucidj and at
all times it presents it scefid ol loveli
ness that a poet or a painter would
dwell upon with rapture. In length
it is about a mile and a halfj hemmed
in on one side by high and gracefully*
curving banks, and on the other fring
ed by the drooping foliage of overhang
ing trees. (Tpon the Whole, it is a
most beautiful and pictUrestihe sheet
of water, small as it is, and in the
Spring and summer is a place of great
resort from miles aroUful for fishing—
perch, trout, cat, and other fresh wa
ter fish existing there ill great abun
dance. It is, too, a favorite haunt of
alligators. Many have been “ the fish
fries” there, whole families frequently
•going to make a pleasant day of it.
On one occasion two or three ne
groes were quietly angling there, rel
ishing the sport as keenly as old Isaac
Walton could have done had he been
present, when all of a sudden, a great
commotion was observed in the mid
dle of the lake. Upon closer obser
vation, it was observed .that an alliga
tor and a gnr, both of large size, were
engaged in deadly conflict* At times
they Would rise to the surface and by
their fearful Btrife pro luce a great
noise and violently Agitate a large por
tion of the surface of the lake. Then
the combatants would suddenly sink,
and for a moment all Was tranquil.—
But this was only for a brief space;
for they would again rise, the gar fast
hold of the fore leg of his adversary-,
cheWihg and “ mounding” equal to the
feat of the real biting and gouging
bully. The alligator tried the same
game, but the skin of the gar was too
hard and smooth for his blunt teeth to
hold on.
He then resorted to his tail, and the
way he slashed hisgarship was a cau*
tion and fairly made the lake boil.—
The contest became more and more
exciting s tlie darkies dropping their
fishing-rods and looking on in rapt
wonder. “ Look dar Sambo, ‘ fore
God all de fish and gar, and alligator
arc dar barring witness to dis awful
fight.” And sure enough, the sur
face, for a wide space around was cov
ered with every species of fish and a
large number of alligators all seeming
ly attracted by the noise made by tiie
combatants and spell bound in contem
plating the conflict. Suddenly the
belligerents plunged beneath the sur
face, and within a few moments the
late scene of strife was hushed and qui
et —they and the vast concourse of the
finny tribe having sunk from obser
vation, and night rapidly closed over
the dreadful strife.
Early next morning, a party of gen
tlemen, accompanied by the negroes,
visited the lake to ascertain the result
of the battle. Mr. Gar was no where
to be found, but after a little while
dragging with hooks the alligator was
brought up from t he bottom, “ dead as a
mackrel I”—his throat completely cut,
and the fore feet terribly “chawed.”
Tlies facts are vouched for by some of
the most respectable pentiefnen in
Clarke. Those who have seen the
alligator-gar can readily understand
how, he with his long jaws and sharp
teeth, could cut the throat of an alli
gator, and with other peculiarities,
make a very ugly customer for the
most powerful alligator. —Mobile Tri
bune.
From New York.
In the literary way nothing is exci
ting profound interest. Mr. Henry
Wikon's newly published adventures
with Miss Gamble, the heiress, is a spicy
bit of fashionable scandal, and will
probably bring the author more profit
than reputation. He has gone through
a regular “ course of sprouts,” and is
well known in all directions. He ran
through a large fortune in Philadel
phia, figured with Fanny Elfsler, edi
ted the fiepithlfc, was conspicuous in
the Forrest trial, and finally landed in
a Neapolitan jail. His own book
proves him a conceited ape and mean
spirited fortune lmnter. No other liter
ary occurrence except a great row
among the young clerks who compose
the Mercantile Library Associat’on, in
which Bibles and liyrnn books were us
ed as weapons, offensive and defensive.
The election of presiding officers divi
ded the Society into factions, and the
muss which followed was very exci
ting.—Exchange.
Foreign Convicts. —We publish
in another part of to-day’s paper a
letter from Mr. G. F. Secchi dc Casali
and several translations from Italian
papers on the forcible transportation to
this country of come seventy emigrants
by the Sardinian government. The
articles will be read with interest at
the present moment, when the fact is
becoming more and more apparent to
the American public that certain Eu
ropean governments are making the
United States a place of exile for their
most intractable criminals. The ex
tracts which we give from Italian pa
pers—some, of them official organs
—go far to strengthen the position we
have taken in relation to the shipment
of emigrants in the Sardinian frigate
l)es‘Geneys. The Cbrriere Mercan-
of Genoa, says that when these
individuals reached that city, repre
sentations were made in their behalf;
but the authorities answered that tney
were not transported for political of
fences. That criminals are among their
number, we think, is clearly proved.
Enough at least is shown in the pa
pers to which we refer to place our
own authorities on their guard, and. re
quire a strict investigation to be made
when the vessel arrives.— Herald .
The Rumsuackles Triumphant !
—At the Municipal Fleet ion in Atlan
ta, on Monday last, for Mayor and Al
dermen, the “ Know Nothings” were
be*ten 10 votes, Oapt. Allison Nelson
being elected Mayor by that majority
oVer J. 0 McDaniel. At which result
the “ rumshackle ” prints exultingly cry.
“ Know-Nothings horse, foot and
draprins," ‘'Democracy triumphant j ihH)
Well* #ll we have to say is, “ another
such victory and they are ruined. A
reliable correspondent writes us that
there were over 100 illegal votes pol
led at that election, by the foreign par
ty, Irishmen from Macon, Augusta,
Dalton, find other points on the State
Road being concentrated there, for the
occasion, who were not legally qualified
to vote, but who did, nevertheless. —
And it is tlife intention of the American
party to probe the matter to the bot
touij and prosecute every mother’s son
of them that is known to have commit
ted this fraud upon the ballot-box!
[ Georgia Citizen.
One of the Dark Spots of London.
The London Daily News , in allu
ding to the lower parts of St. Cle
ment’s Lane, as a London fever hole,
thus depicts the abode of men and wo
men in “merry England
“A track through the heart of the
Black Forest, or a pass through the
bowels of a mountaiu in Arabia Pe
trea could not be more close and drea
ry. You might walk here in a good
stifF hurricane and hardly know it;
a summer shower might pass and leave
you dry, You are in the region of
perpetual shadow, and the women and
children who sit and sprawl upon the
door-steps arc scarcely less in doors
than when languishing in their dark
and foetid rooms; and no wonder,
for according to actual measurement,
the courts vary in breadth from six to
twelve feet, Here are the holes where
our human tel low-creatures swarm like
vermin. According to a report pub
lished in the Daily News of May Ist,
no less than fifty inmates were found
to reside in one of the houses of Mid
dle Serle’s Place, (formerly Little
Shi relane*) and in Shipyard, many of
the houses are built back to back, en
tirely preventing thorough ventilation.
The gentleman who made the examin
ation states that water-butts are kept
in underground cellars, the walls and
flooring of which are continually
damp to the touch, and where the wa
ter, imbibing the filthy exhalation of
the place, aquires a dreadful odor ;
that the ceilings of some of these cel
lars are actually below the level of
the railways, so that the inhabitants
are obliged to burn candles through
the whole day with the exception of a
few hours, and that terrier dogs are
kept in many of the houses as a pro
tection against the rats. Yet out of
these hideous tenements considerable
sums of money are drawn every year
by letting and subletting. Hideous
women, foul and slatternly, 101 l out of
windows or lean against door-posts,
overcome with terrible lassitude and
indolence, which cannot fail to arise
from the influences by which they are
surrounded; not impudent and bra
zen, but impressed with the hopless
burden of their lives. The children,
sullen, dirty and fierce—young tigers
without their beauty or their health—
play or light in the railroad amidst the
cabbage stalks, potato peelings, oys
ter shells and standing puddles. Men ,
are very seldom seen. And over the
young and older tower the melancholy
house fronts, shutting out the sky
and the breeze, black and saturated
with the pestilent vapors, which, rising
unseen around them,
“ Hang their poisons in the sick air.”
Judge Edmonds’ New Book.
During the week, we have been fa
vored with the proof sheets of the in
troduction to the second volume of
the Judge's forthcoming work on
Spiritualism. The explanations given
by the Judge in this article and the
letters introduced, outlining the views
of others, can not fail of doing good
to Spiritualism and theological reform.
There is a calm, candid positiveness
manifested in the Spirit of the article
that must speak to the better sense
and Spiritual intuitions of every trutlp
loving mind. Believing this, we
shall give most of the introduction in
our next issue. In addition to the
general review of Spiritualism, which
the reader will find in the article, there
are some remarks on the phases and
(levelopernent of the Judge’s medium
ship, which cannot fail of iuterest to
those seeking for knowledge on that
subject. These explanations may be
of benefit to the “ critics,” since the
Judge has been rejudged by some of
them with more than critical severity.
We regret to add that on Tuesday
of this Week, the Judge was sick
affied, having -suffered some days from
a severe attack of neuralgia. —Christian
Spiritualist.
That’S So. — A New York journal
is of the opinion that there are other
fools besides those who live in the fifth
avenue. Listen to it:
“Thin k not, 1 abo re r, extra vega nce
is confined to the laces, silks, and sat
ins, of rich alone. When a target
company of fifteen or twenty working
men waste their money on a band
of music twenty or thirty strong, to
parade the streets, that is extrava
gance. When one day in the week is
tooled away, and only five are made
work days, that is extravagance. It
was the very height of extravagance
for a poor man, in prosperous times,
to be spending all his means—those
means which if possible, should have
been saved for such a day as this.—
Thus, it is not the fault alone of the
rich, but of the poor, too, that we are
now as we are. There is a good deal
of truth in these remrks. They may
be unpalatable, but they are ‘ founa
ed on facts.’ ”
m
A woman was robbed in the earn of
the Central Rail Road a few miles east
of Rochester, on Saturday last. Chlo
roform was administered to her by
another female, and while under its
influence the robbery was effected 4
Seven Days Later from Europe.
arrival of tiie
m; azz .w „
COTTON ADVANCED.
* . , New York, Jan. 9.
The British steamship Africa, with
Liverpool dates to the 20th inst., l lUs
arrived at Halifax, with seven davs
later dates from Liverpool.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Cotton in the Liverpool market l lJls
advanced one-eighth (l-Bd.) of a t„. u
ny, chiefly, however on the Middling
qualities. The sales for the Week com
prise 50,000 bales, including 10,000 to
speculators.
Provisions.—Flour has advanced
six pence. Corn has also advanced
six nence.
London Money Market.—Con
sols closed at 91 7-8.
Political Intelligence.
The Africa brings very little news
relative to the progress of the siege of
Sebastopol, or the negotiations for
peace, of which we were advised by
the last accounts from Vienna.
The French and English plenipoten
tiaries at Vienna have received orders
to re-open diplomacy upon the basis of
the four points, but as hostilities are
not suspended, it is probable that ne
gotiations will be protracted until some
thing decisive transpires in the Crimea.
Austria seems to act in concert with
the Allies, while the conduct of Prus
sia is still very doubtful.
Sardinia has sent fifteen thousand
troops to the Crimea.
Hamburg, Lubee, and other German
States have forbidden the enlistment
of troops in these States to serve in
the armies of the Allies.
Private letters from Vienna state
that Gortschakoff has been instructed
by the Czar to accept any terms of
peace, except such as require the re
duction of the Russian tfeet on the
Black Sea, and the occupancy of the
Russian territory by the Allies.
Nothing further has been received
relative to the invasion of the Dobrud
scha. The Russians, after the affair at
Tultscha, re-crossed the Danube.
Vienna dispatches state that Count
Buol had demanded an explanation of
this affair from Gortschakoff.
Important from Spain—New Con
stitution Proposed by the Cor
tes.
In the Spanish Cortes anew Consti
tution has been submitted, the main
features of which are as follows ; Tim
sovereignty is declared to emanate
from the nation; the recognised reli
gion to be Roman Catholic, but toler
ation of other religions is guaranteed.
The Press to be free ; confiscation of
property and death, for political offen
ces, are abolished; a National Guard
is to be established; thy national leg
islature is to consist of two chambers,
Senators to be elected tor life, with a
property qualification —in the lower
house the people will be represented
with one member for every fitly thou
sand population. The Cortes, which
will meet annually, reserve to them
selves the power to regulate the
strength of the army, to give assent to
royal marriages, and to appoint a Re
gency when occasion requires.
From California.
The steamship Star of the West has
arrived at New York with latter ac
counts from San Francisco.
From Washington— Row in the
House.
Baltimore, Jan. 31.
The House debated the Pacific Rail
road bill yesterday. In the course of
the debate a misunderstanding occur
red between Mr. Lane of Oregon, and
Mr. Farley of Maine. The lie was
given, but by the interference of mem
bers a fight on the floor of the House
was prevented.
The Senate occupied the day in de
bating the army bill.
Capt. Hunter Dissmisskd.
It is reported in Washington that
Secretary Marey has dismissed Lieut.
Hunter, for leaving the Brazil squad
ron without permission of the comman
der of that station,
Caution to Parents. —The Char
leston papers record a most painful
event, which occurred in that city, on
Sunday last, by which a little boy,
only fourteen months old, was hurri
ed into eternity. The particulars am
as follows : The father of the child!
Mr. Joseph Stewart, had been unwelL
for some time, and he had some med
icine, among which was a bottle of
laudanum, on a table, in his sleeping
apartment. The child, in going about
the room, accide .tally got hold of the
laudanum bottle and drank its con
tents. The effects were immediately
visible, and the medical aid called in*
was too late to render the little suffer-'
er assistance.
Unhealthy Plastering. —A com
munication in the New York Jour
nal of Commerce asserts that the hair
used in plaster for new houses is, very
frequently, so dirty as to emit un
pleasant effluvia, and calculated to
keep a room unhealthy for years af
terwards. The writer says :
“ Hair used for mixing in mortar
should be thoroughly washed—re
washed, and dried and thus deprived
of the putrid matter that often ad
heres to it. The dime in mortar is not,
sufficient to cleanse the hair. It will
generate &n unpleasant sickly effluvia
whenever the room is heated, until af
ter a long time, the mortar is conver
ted into nitrate of lime, or so much of
it as is mixed-with the animal matter
incorporated in the mortar.”
Mr. Howe, of Milwaukie, has invent
ed a rifle that will carry a ball a mile
and a half. This beats the Mini®.